skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your working time is spent doing something you don't really enjoy that sucks, obviously. It'd be great if we could all spend our lives doing creative, enjoyable things. Realistically though, if your work facilitates a happy life outside of your job then it could still be well be worth it - my parents have led full, happy lives (or so they tell me) raising their kids, doing their hobbies, seeing their friends, and yet they worked jobs that weren't that they both claim weren't much fun, and I'm certain that neither of them look back with any regrets.

The expectation that you can carve out a lifestyle where everything is worthwhile is unrealistic, and while a few outliers might actually achieve it, most people aren't going manage to get anything like that. Don't tell people that they're wasting their life because they fail to pass a ludicrously high bar. A life spent doing fulfilling things is not a waste even if it also includes lots of things that suck.

tl;dr Grow up, take responsibility for yourself, and make sure that on balance, after you're dead, you've done more good stuff than bad, even if your job falls in to the 'bad' category.
In the Defense of Spaghetti Code
This system was spread out among other files, including a review system and such. The commit where Satoshi has removed it provides a nice overview:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/5253d1ab77fab1995e...
Show HN: OpenSit is an open source meditation community
I mostly see the universal selector used for resets (like removing all padding and margins), but it's definitely not frequently used.
4-time MLM business owner? Have your actually read the book? For one thing MJ is against MLM's because it fails the commandment of control and entry (read the book to find out).

For those of you curious about the book, just read the sample chapters given in his forum, or listen to the audio book sample. Make your own conclusions.

For one thing this is the book venture capitalists don't want you to read.
I presume that the tool at least uses TLS to talk to the server.
Adobe turns marketing cloud up to 11, massive update, SAP deal, new mobile tools
But if the identity is not connected to a real world identity, there is no legal recourse if that identity cheats you. Most who advocate a pure free market still accept the need for a legal system (not necessarily a State-based one), such that for instance people who take your money without delivering the good may be sued.

An anonymous market means that there's no legal recourse if someone cheats you or steals from you.
The Functional Final Frontier: client-side programming
It is an interesting move. Rick Levin seems the right person to help Coursera with his experience and his network.

It would have been nice though to have a blog article directly written by him to know what he wants to do as the CEO.
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> That's because the 24-year-old carries a $50 flip phone — the Samsung Gusto 2. There's no touch screen or apps. No Web browsing capabilities. No collection of music to enjoy through earbuds.

I'd like to point out that that phone [1] can browse the web (using Opera Mini Brew), can install apps and games (using the Samsung Brew store) and can be used to listen to music via a common 3.5mm jack (even though it only has 128MB of storage). It even has A-GPS.

"Dumbphones" have not been dumb for at least 10 years.

[1] http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=3614
Also, they didn't survive at all, they're all dead.
Writing cross-platform Node.js
I thought the same when entered the website, but note that features not filled in are unavailable (see Radio FM)
About your two first paragraphs: Over time that market-mechanic would also have as an effect that all engineers have capped wages, because the cause for wage increases - negotiations - would significantly decline; Everybody, almost by definition, accepts the same wage-ranges.

It also introduces systemic risk for engineers, because then the wages could only go down over time. Because any attempt to look for a wage increase would be stopped short by the don't-share-employees-agreement. I also want to note that the companies in the best position to offer you a wage increase are the top-tech companies like Google and Apple.

And yes, compared to other people engineers have little reason to complain. But I still think this incident is a valid reason for complaint.
This is all very well for retail customers, but it's much harder in enterprise.

Fortunately, there's Windows POSReady 2009 which is essentially Windows XP under the hood as an absolute fallback as it's supported until 2019.

Although I agree with Microsoft's approach and using POSReady is not the best option, it does bridge the gap for those businesses who are waiting on third parties to make decisions on which options are to be supported or indeed find a suitable option.
I've built an XP Countdown clock to erm, celebrate?
http://www.10zig.eu/static/xp/
And certificate pinning means that they store whatever public key was reported for maria the last time, and complain if they're different? I see that that would help.
That's nothing, I know a company that uses a 16-bit DOS program from like 1985 or so to do their pricing. Mind boggling, since it even gives the prices in the wrong currency (as in not Euros but a currency that went out of use in 2001)... You would also think inflation changes the prices...
Yeah, I'm gonna be 48 this year. Windows users have been proudly using XP for a quarter of my life. Hope I never get so set in my ways. I've been fighting the "it does everything I want it to do" attitude since the c64.
> Black boxes are not made to be latest generation hardware and top class storage equipments, they are made to resist and survive and air crash as their first priority.

You could say the same about, say, the body of the airplane or the engines. But we have innovation in those fields (composite materials, exotic metals, etc.).

The point is: 2 hours is simply not enough. The BB should be able to hold the entire flight's data; and our current technology (in terms of processing power and storage capacity) is more than enough to do that. Plus, given that the BB is a modular, independent unit it would be easy to swap out an older BB with a newer, better BB.
But how often do you read stdin in Java? It's a language that is used heavily to build web apps and (though less so) desktop GUI apps. I also programmed in Java for nearly a decade in the late nineties till about 2004 and have never used System.in for anything.
Wow, you have big pockets!
Really nice job - I like the vibrating items to give you feedback on what your attempt selected.

I'm not sure if a beginner will retain much by going through each selector for each level - would be nice to throw in some levels that require you to think back to previous selectors. However, it's a good review for someone who's been exposed to them before.
Get Productive with Basecamp, Really.
GNU sed 4.2.0 and up also support -E for compatibility with BSD sed (though this is undocumented).
Well, sure, there was a benefit to the startups' founders and funders.
Perfect application for a cryptographic one way accumulator.

See section 5.2 of http://www.cs.stevens.edu/~mdemare/pubs/owa.pdf
Lisp is the original functional language. Functional language traditionally meant a language that emphasised functions as values, in particular supporting higher-order functions. Hence the word "functional".

More recently, people have confused "functional" with other features of languages like Haskell (sometimes called "purely functional"), leading to some confusion about what defines functional programming.

Here's an interesting post about the more recent changes in the phrase's meaning:

http://wcook.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/day-functional-programmi...
Probably so they don't have to update the site once Windows 9 comes out.
You're a brave mammal, taspeotis, risking the wrath of Microsoft's remaining fans with that comment. Never mind; I laughed at least.
Windows 8.1 isn't that bad. I actually never really see Metro if thats your biggest problem with it.

Everything else (boot time, responsiveness etc.) feels like a direct upgrade from 7 and it works great for me. Did you try it once?
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Nice, thanks.
What about magsafe2? same deal?
DELL also uses serial connection with the charger, with chip inside the charger. Kinda surprising Apple didnt lock it down like they are used to do.
Link to the Coursera blog post where it was announced: http://blog.coursera.org/
The interesting part here is that it uses the new USB "Power Delivery" standard, that can switch to 20V instead of the normal 5V. This allows up to 100W of power from one USB port. It could power laptops and other somewhat power hungry devices, once they have USB power input.
The number of people who go the apprenticeship route in CA is very miniscule. There are lots of law schools that are certified by the CA Bar and not the ABA, but you'd be a fool to go to one, unless you like being an unemployable lawyer with 200K+ in debt.
Obama to propose ending NSA bulk collection of phone records: official
In this sense, the XP will go into the "extended period". You will be able to download existing updates for it and read online documentation. Which is basically what the RHEL extended period is.
I think a big win from apps is that the system default software has to compete with something (and I guess it lowers the bar for trying new ideas).

Cheap time waster games are also nice, and there seem to be niche apps where people that need them really benefit.
At least you didn't grow up in Ennigerloh and Beckum. T_T
Kind of interesting - that page implies ("Step 3" illustration) that their recommended solution for Windows XP upgrade involves buying a new computer...
What do a pair of grimacing women have to do with anything? Are they trying to pack explosives into an old Gateway desktop?
Redesigning airbnb's search
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Do airline booking agencies still use that weird mainframe-like program for all their bookings? I heard it was impossible to replace because you'd need to switch the old one off, and there's never a moment when there's not thousands of planes in the air.
Soros juggles the facts in his favour -that's for sure, but the general geopolitical picture is given about right. Like Germany being the dominant player in Europe and Russia helping out with Middle East chemical weapon. These are well-known facts, what would be really great to find out is what bonus the leader of the country brings to the table of his own nation and at what cost. Not sure, we'll ever find out.
Google Glass may get more stylish with help from Oakley and Ray-Ban
Pros and Cons: iOS Freelance
You're making ad hominem attacks. Yes comparatively it is ridiculous to portray this as a major issue, but just because other people are less-off doesn't mean you should let yourself get screwed over. It's also worth considering that is a discussion on a tech-oriented website, so here it is important.

And you're basically right, it was a cost-benefit analyses. And it was illegal to act upon it the way they did, which is the whole point.
Well, since they're still offering paid support to some enterprise customers, then there will be security fixes to XP; the only question is how/if they will be distributed to the general public.
Yes. You are right. At the moment there's no exposed functions for altering that binary data structure.

Because of the way how Postgres works though, the row will always have to be rewritten in the future (all updates to a row will cause a new copy to be written - rows are immutable in Postgres). What we might gain in the future is a way to skip the parsing process, but the document will always have to be rewritten.
You may already know about this, but HN Notify is worth looking into. I'm sure it's what a lot of people on here use to make sure they get notifications.

http://hnnotify.com/
(the mobile phone could talk to the cloud but a year is still expensive)

i wonder how quickly you could solve that problem, cracking the wpa2 key, if you had $$$ resources to scale up. could it be usable? would make for a great android app :) i'd buy it!
> Bootstrapping such a marketplace is obviously difficult, since it's never safe to buy from someone without reputation but everybody starts without reputation - it might be possible to demand some proof-of-work-money to establish a marketplace identity, but I'm not sure where the money would go.

I think this is a sensible approach. The money (bitcoins) could simply be destroyed in a transaction associating an identity with the "burn". It would act as the equivalent of a fidelity bond, except the funds would not be recoverable. Perhaps it would make sense to only require this for new vendors, since the cost of a single "burn" for a vendor would be small compared to future revenue, but large for a potential customer, who might not know if they will ever use the service again.
Yahoo Labs datasets
Given that the target audience is still using XP and presumably happy with it, I'd say it is poorly designed and risks looking smug and unhelpful. "We’re here to help" is woefully unhelpful - they are actually here to get you to pay for an upgrade.

XP has had a really good run by software standards and there is no shame in dropping support. From outside the ecosystem this page doesn't sell an update at all.
Do you still provide official support for that dos version ?

Microsoft is not saying you can't use XP anymore, they say they don't support it.
My thought (as a developer) is that it's just lazier (and worse for the product) to ask for everything. The more permissions you ask for, the less users you'll get.

For example, Facebook blatantly recommends that app developers ask for only the bare minimum of permissions on the initial app engagement. They cite numbers showing that click-through rate falls off precipitously once users see more than a few permissions required. They say that you should only ask for more permissions as the user explicitly tries to do something that requires them, for instance, ask for sharing rights only when they click 'Share', not before.

Lots of people are turned off by the number of permissions. Be surprised.
Awww. I was really hoping it would be a nuclear reactor that I could buy and use to power my electrical devices forever. I've got to say I was quite disappointed to find it was just a large battery.
I can't tell if this is facetious or if someone out there really thinks that "The new X" is a unique marketing formula that Apple pioneered.
Content Objects: My Formula for Information Architecture
The problem is that my mom does not need to use git or github or even know what they are. I would not mind it if my mom encrypted her emails though, or at least knew how. Offhand, keybase.io looks nice but still a far ways away from a "mom friendly" system.
Biggest Eyewear Company Signs On With Google Glass
A few examples of Fastlane projects: write a book (lots of work, but then it makes money forever without you having to put in more work), make an invention (lots of work, but then you get royalties for a long time).

The median average annual earnings for an author in the UK is about £12,330 ($20,300). With the ease of self-publishing platforms like Kindle and the proliferation of promotions and sales at traditional booksellers (bookshops, supermarkets, etc) that figure is falling. If you want to be financially wealthy writing a book is a really bad way to go about it.
I can understand this stance, but I'd point out the section that makes the issue cross the line of "appropriate collusion" (god that's a terrible phrase) for me, that being the "We do not hire from these people even if approached in the normal application process" groupings

Focusing recruiting, sure. But pre-filtering on the basis of factors "not relevant" to the person performing the job starts to get into a very grey territory in terms of discrimination. (I realize on the surface this seems silly since where you are working is totally relevant to a new job, but not in the context in which it was being utilized.) I really don't intend to draw a strawman with this, but that I see a big difference between their limiting their effort, and their prohibiting your effort.
Does this account how often people search for each hashtag? Do people really discover tweets with generic hashtags like #Guide?
I can understand why they are doing this but it is a bit concerning from a security perspective. Vulnerable machines affect all of us. They can be infected with DDoS bots and other things that aren't just damaging to the owner of the given machine.

I guess the upside might be that this could actually be one of the few things that will get some people to upgrade who would otherwise never have done so.
We're using the latest tech to support Haller and sustainable farming in Africa
Traveling with the speed of light seems nice enough, yet I don't understand how the results would help with any kind of teleportation.
You tried to make them move to openoffice/libreoffice w/ thunderbird but apparently you failed. Could you share what was the experience like?
> It's not important for me to know that an anonymous person tipped an anonymous vendor. That doesn't add much value.

Allow me to disagree (with the last sentence). If you can see that a certain vendor has spent a total of, say, 100 BTC on fees, to build up a reputation, then it doesn't make financial sense for that person to try to scam you in a 1 BTC transaction.
Have you read the actual paper or just the news article? I ask because I am thinking of buying the paper, but if it isn't any good then I won't.
> While there was his nuclear fuel to 90 per cent of thorium, but this was holds less than 30 percent of its energy.

Hint: Maybe there was a reason for that? Like ... that was/is the best way to build a Thorium reactor? But yeah, the engineers were probably all monkeys. That must be the reason.
I should have been more clear. What I meant was that in-place partial updates are not going to happen any time soon. This is mostly a performance issue, updating a value inside a JSON document will never be lightning fast because you need to copy the whole row and clean up the old version after the transaction has committed. JSON patch would avoid transfering the JSON document back and forth over the network, but the local copy will still need to happen.
paper isn't in the public domain :(

anyone know if the techniques here are new? all existing techniques are prohibitive without a lot of time and cycling wifi keys fixes that as far as i'm aware.
It appears to me they are spoofing the mac addresses of authenticated clients during the reauthentication process using a MITM attack.
Yeah I wouldn't call it social in the 'growth hacking' sense... but it's certainly social in that it comes up in conversation nearly as often as Facebook or Twitter (in my non-tech circles).
Oompah.py – Big Brass meets Big Data
Energy densities of common energy storage materials
I tried it a couple of times on my mom's pc; I really hate that phone interface (is it called Metro?) because I use a pc so I want a comfortable pc experience. About the performance point I can't say anything, but I'm fine with Win7, so I don't care
The entire idea is that, while keybase stores the pubkey, you don't have to trust them to deliver the right key. They have basically rolled their own type of digital certificate that's stored within a variety of social services, i.e. Twitter -- you tweet something like "I'm <fingerprint of your key> on keybase.io!". The keybase server says this to the keybase CLI: "Bob's pubkey is <key>, and I'm right because https://twitter.com/bob/tweets/1234 says so". The CLI then verifies that the tweet URL really contains the right fingerprint. This extends the trust root to the twitter user (and your local HTTPS CA store). Repeat for a variety of services similar to Twitter. This extends the trust root to the union of all the social site accounts of the keybase user. Whether you choose to trust those is (as always with trust roots) entirely up to you.

Not the worst idea ever, in my opinion.
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I think the fundamental mistake in brainstorming is thinking that out-there ideas are a good approach. And that comes from underestimating the size of idea-space. Exploring idea-space without a map doesn't break you out of your own limitations, because combinations are infinite but your own mind is not. So you flail generating unworkable ideas within the box rather than hill-climbing towards a workable one that might be out of the box.

What is missing is a heuristic. Like, nobody would expect an AI to generate good ideas by throwing random numbers in the air. They would demand to see some heuristic for iterative improvement.
In this case code review is actually the reviewer trying to boost ego and stamp authority on reviewee
> In all these country, ‘hate speech’ is generally clearly limited to destructive and politically irrelevant things

Not really, see this example of "law stretching": http://boingboing.net/2011/10/05/italys-insane-internet-law-...

> This proposal, which the Italian Parliament is currently debating, provides, among other things, a requirement to all websites to publish, within 48 hours of the request and without any comment, a correction of any content that the applicant deems detrimental to his/her image.

> Unfortunately, the law does not require an evaluation of the claim by an impartial third judge - the opinion of the person allegedly injured is all that is required, in order to impose such correction to any website.

For a longer list of similar cases, have a look at https://opennet.net/research/regions/europe

> Conclusion: Today, Internet content in Europe is controlled by three groups of factors: region-wide organizations (the EU), individual countries, and companies (e.g., ISPs, search engines). While governments have been extremely active in promoting filtering technologies for child pornography and surveillance technologies for copyright infringement, they are increasingly finding that they can achieve their aims through indirect means. Rather than passing explicit regulations, governments have pressured companies to voluntarily self-regulate content, be it pornography, hate speech, or content that infringes upon copyrights. Such pressures show a creeping tendency toward the second- and third-generation controls found elsewhere.
However, it is the de-authentication step in the wireless setup that represents a much more accessible entry point for an intruder with the appropriate hacking tools. As part of their purported security protocols routers using WPA2 must reconnect and re-authenticate devices periodically and share a new key each time. The team points out that the de-authentication step essentially leaves a backdoor unlocked albeit temporarily. Temporarily is long enough for a fast-wireless scanner and a determined intruder. They also point out that while restricting network access to specific devices with a given identifier, their media access control address (MAC address), these can be spoofed.

That doesn't sound like something that would take a year of CPU time, but since no one seems to have actually read and analyzed the paper yet, who knows.
Tell me about it. Front office technology at one of the larger banks here in NYC -- the only reason we still have jobs is because the desk needs someone in technology to yell at when things go wrong.

Your taxes and living observation gels pretty well with my ongoing experience in the city :(
Out of curiosity, why did VC firms not like you in India? What were their real objections?

Thanks for the good post and clearing things up.
Great move, what Google Glass really lacks is a posh sparkle. Ray-Ban and Oakley frames for Glass should make it so much more appealing for people in trend. It's when Fashion helps Technology.
Setting up shop in the originating country would make the foreign talent no longer cheap. They want their cake and they want to eat it too.