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No, I have a shit job. Started great went downhill after a year.

I loved it the first year, getting requirements, designing and building the database, and web front end for a sequencing centre. Learning a new language, web framework, some JavaScript, using my existing database and coding skills and pushing them further.

Three and a half years on all I seem to do is fix the same excel upload errors (it was a temporary quick fix solution that has always been bottom priority for replacement), go to dumb meetings where they spend half an hour discuss the acronyms used in the menus, and change colour of items. I never get a chance to focus on anything that takes more than half a days coding, so basically all the interesting work is now replaced by trivial fixes usually where the users seem incapable of reading the error message (though with Excel it impossible to guess what the problem will be).

I was promised a promotion last year, but that hasn't happened yet (I work in Spain, and government cuts mean it not allowed until we merge with another institute). I have realised recently, that it is making me frustrated and deeply unhappy, so I am willing to take a pay hit (on my future wage) to do something that I actually enjoy again.

Ideally I want to go freelance, but there isn't such a big market here in Spain, and the common advice is to build up your portfolio (tricky when your work is in house).

Anyway, as I realised recently, do something you enjoy, and don't get sucked into the management style thing if you that isn't what you want to do. If management are not listening to your suggestions, it is time to get out. The promise of more money has kept me hanging on far too long.
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The "global CA" model is bust. How it was ever considered usable is beyond me, but we now have more than a decade of experience seeing just how bad it is. It is utterly, fundamentally broken and easily subverted by state actors.

For now, the only reasonably usable secure key exchange method seems to be what WhisperSystems are doing on their phone app (safe against MITM if the parties know each other, and very hard to MITM even if not - especially not automatically).
My first thought was, can I use this on a computer. My second thought was, how I'm going to get others in my office to use it that maybe don't want another account.

I really like the idea, because nobody takes meeting minutes besides me and I'm the only one who follows up on them.
It's too bad the Google+ team never saw this document.
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I'd love to hear more about your actual story, how you came to realize you were burning out and what kind of changes you made in your life to fight it. Did you leave your job to develop this app?
I'd love to see a Windows Phone version too! Definitely needed to see this link today. Thanks.
> It's entirely unclear how to use Flynn

I'll go a step further: it's unclear _what_ Flynn is. I read the homepage and was still confused.
as with most real world situations, the problem (in my estimation) is that statistics and the experimental model are not yet sophisticated enough to sort out the effect, so it's hard to distinguish from random. the statistical model would likely need many more variables, be non-linear, and measure things (like emotional positivity) more dynamically and/or accurately than possible today.

for example, my shooting shoulder is chronically injured. if i warm up properly, i seem to shoot better. is this a psychological effect? a physiological effect? something else? in game situations, it's hard to isolate the effect from all the confounding variables. even if you could, you'd need to measure all the confounding variables to negate them in the analysis.

i suspect a non-logic based "math" will have to be developed (quantum computing?) before we can understand these kinds of situations.
The article is describing a form of quarantine much more severe than keeping people in their hotels. They're talking about cordoning off the entire affected area - basically, the area around all infection sites becomes one big border with armed guards that only allow food, water, and medical supplies in, and nobody out.

The reason this is controversial is because there are close to 2 million people in the affected districts, and only about 500 of them currently have Ebola. At best, you're severely inconveniencing 99.975% of the population, and at worst, you're leaving them to die. It'd be like cutting San Francisco off from the outside world, with armed guards on the bridges and San Bruno Mountain, because measles was found on BART.

I don't know what the situation in Gabon was like, but as I understand it they depended upon local quarantines of villages, and didn't close the border of the whole country, right?
The product is sure awesome, but since you're discussing the design of the homepage, I think the typography might need some more work.
And if you look on [this page](http://www.opp.io/About), the color palette as well :/
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I'll be flying in from Toronto.

If you're going just for the talks, then I agree, just watch the videos. If you're going for the networking and/or to visit the area, then it's worthwhile.

I'm taking a week, maybe 2, to visit old friends, explore, and network. Maybe some work too.
I was down the road in Basingstoke for two and a half years. That makes Reading seem like a good place. To be fair I liked the job, but the location was hell.
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Yeah I found that loading indicator bizarre. What am I waiting for? Is it circumventing the browser's rendering engine and doing it all in canvas or something? (I mean, I know it's not, that would be silly. It's more likely having to make multiple network requests to fetch the rest of the content.)

I can understand the other javascript-ey bits as forgoing some amount of UX/usability in exchange for flashier visuals. But the loading indicator on initial page load just doesn't make sense to me.
Reading the comments here suggests that it would be cool to use both of the chips together. If it is true that spiking does well with unsupervised learning, then you could feed a bunch of input to a spiker, then scan it for components that could be mostly mimicked with a convolutional chip and reroute the inputs/outputs. (Yeah, the interconnect would suck.) The point is not to come up with some magic better-performing hybrid, but rather to explore an intermediate point in the design space of augmenting/replacing actual neurons with silicon. The IBM chip isn't that close to biology, but it's closer than a convolutional network, and a convolutional network is a much smaller step than a general purpose processor. We might learn about some simple augmentations that are likely to work in practice.

Also, the whole "airplanes don't flap their wings" analogy can be taken too far. Little flying things are qualitatively different from big flying things. You'll notice that a lot of small artificial flying things are flapping, and the biggest natural fliers tend to glide a lot. There are other reasons why nature didn't evolve large fliers. (Although I'm willing to believe some large fliers may occasionally have hot gases shooting out of their back ends, I do not believe propulsion is their purpose.)
I've used Codassium for about two dozen phone screens starting from when you posted the prototype last year, and I think it's great. Here are a few thoughts/issues I've had using the prototype and Lite version (I've not yet tried the full version):

I can't select C/C++ from the language drop down.

About half of the time, I don't use the video chat functionality for one reason or another. I'd love in those cases if I could simply close the video conferencing panel to have the editor full screen.

Even if you don't allow me to disable video conferencing for the Codassium session, I would recommend different messaging on the right hand side panel. I've had a few candidates say that it isn't working because the right hand side just says, "Loading..." when we don't use the video conferencing.

There's a typo on the Tour page: "Schedule an interview via Codassium is easy," should be, "Scheduling an interview an interview via Codassium is easy."

I'm not a fan of the pricing plans. I'm unsure of the idea of limiting the number of uses per month in general, but the current limits are very unattractive. It's all basically oriented around each user only doing 3 interviews per month. I would prefer a limit on number of hours per day or number of uses per day over the total number of phone screens. As it is, everyone that I've turned on to Codassium would have to get a Custom Plan.

It'd be nice if the things I type versus the things they type were differentiated in some way. Maybe just a subtly different background color?
I just hope that however google and yahoo implement PGP into their mail offerings, they do it in a way that cannot be intercepted by governments/bad guys.
The statement of the year:

The more alcohol a society consumes, the fewer alcohol-related problems and alcohol-related deaths (including cirrhosis) it has, since these societies, such as those in Southern Europe, integrate drinking with social life. And alcohol conveys health benefits.

Because sober, not drunk people cause problems to others, and alcohol apparently doesn't have any bad effect on health. //sarcasm

---

Alcohol is among the largest preventable causes of deaths, and is connected to half of all violent crimes.
Here's a handy guide which addresses a couple of these problems:

https://help.riseup.net/en/security/message-security/openpgp...
I didn't leave my job, but I just worked on the design on th train ride to work.

Building something you think might help other people is good for your sanity.
I went last year, and had a great time. I didn't find the talks particularly useful (although they were often fun and I would call Chase Adam's Watsi talk legitimately inspiring), but I think the real value in an event like this is chatting with the other attendees.

Almost everybody I met was doing something interesting, and I had a bunch of great conversations about the realities of startups that weekend. It's a part of the reason that I left my job several months later and joined a small startup.
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How does this improve the conversation?
I don't know why you are in gray. Lobster is overused for "startup" logotypes to the point of being a cliche choice.
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Applied

My job isn't awesome but I certainly don't hate it. I would much rather be working for a law enforcement agency. But I'm at a solid point in my current career, and I was going to work for the FBI but I would have to take a pay cut and it would take 2 years to get back to the pay I currently make. So add that in with a house and family and I just don't think I'm going to make a career move. So I just try and volunteer places to do criminal analysis and may pursue my PhD.
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Only relevant if the function isn't pure.
I would freaking love it if some good designer with technical knowledge, or help from technical colleagues, would create simple flowcharts of "How to use Encryption".

Each chart would be one page. It would walk a user through one step of using a PGP / GPG. It would include links to in-depth reading.

The final sheet would be walking through common mistakes that users make.

This is one of the things I'd pay for if I had FU money. I'm sort of tempted to kickstart the idea.
Hi, the reason ADD applies a `chown 0:0` is to avoid applying the uid/gid of the files on the source system, which could be anything and would introduce a side effect in your application's build.

There is a pull request for letting you set a the destination uid/gid determinastically, which is the right way to do it.

Just a reminder that we accept bug reports and patches :)
I was originally thinking of the ship class and had never heard of Panamax the power conditioner. However at the end of http://www.panamax.com/PDF/Datasheets/M5400EX_L550A.pdf it states that Panamax is their registered trademark.
I've always felt it was more of a consortium of people as well.

It makes a lot of sense if you start to think about it. With a small group of people working on it, it spreads the knowledge out, decentralizes any authorship or specific authority for credit and makes it easy for the team to simply vanish without a trace since most people are looking for one person, instead of many. Sounds a lot like BTC itself, doesn't it? I wouldn't doubt this was part of the design from the very beginning.

It then leaves the by-product behind for others to pick up and push forward - which is essentially what's happened.
You can read more about this project on its about page or here: http://www.danvk.org/wp/2014-08-13/introducing-comparea/
This is a good idea and I'd like to use it, but it needs presentational work for adoption, I suspect.

In particular, I don't think that people without a software background are going to be comfortable with the abundance of syntactic sigils. Even in the twitter-native world, I think it will makes the product seem intimidating and un-natural (at least at first).

This is especially a concern because the value of using them is not immediately clear (excepting @person).
I'd assume so because the 1.75% is available for a limited-time only. The fine print mentions that the standard rates (after the promotional period) are 2.5% and 2.75%.
Well, this is probably as good as it get for someone of my mathematical maturity. Thanks.
Can you name a significant number of instances where Amazon has not lowered prices over a medium to long term period?

Amazon has consistently made things inexpensive for the consumer. Sometimes even taking losses to ensure that customers get a lower price.
My opinion is that you should never try to obviously and directly manage your manager like this, but I am a strong advocate of "managing up".

It's much more subtle, and it can work wonders for your career.
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> Although I contend that the two really aren't that different as government spending is just the aggregate of individual spending on government itself.

America has a progressive tax system, so this sort of aggregation argument is over-simplistic.

> You are suggesting that subsidizing something can make the sum total of all spending on that thing go down?

Yes, absolutely. Even operating from your premises, spending more can decrease costs.

In the case of no/low-interest loans, as long as the cost of defaults doesn't exceed the amount saved in interest paid to banks, everyone is spending less money on education.

Combining no/low-interest loans with increased state funding for education significantly decreases the risk of default.

So the "right answer" to minimizing spending is just a matter of simply arithmetic:

C_f = Cost of state Funding

C_d = Cost of Defaults

B_i = Total money saved on interest payments (let's assume 5% rate with 20k load, probably higher if the entire market is unsubsidized)

Then we want to maximize B_i - C_d + C_f.

Since we have some amount of state funding and some subsidized loans, it's entirely plausible that increasing C_f could decrease C_d, because the loans are smaller and therefore risk of default is lower. Furthermore, decreasing C_d increases B_i since higher-interest unsubsidized loans will meet the new demand.

Of course, there's a degenerate optimization: you can always just have zero subsidies. Most first world countries rightly give a shit about educating the non-independently-wealthy.

But also:

* I don't think "minimize cost" is a wise philosophy wrt education. Nations that do this tend to be sucky places to live/work.
* America has a progressive tax system, so the aggregate reasoning of your first response is at least disingenuous.
Oops sorry, I managed to miss it, though it looks like it was in your original post.
Yes, usability is the problem. But none of these proposed solutions manage to actually solve the usability problem without throwing out the security.

We really do need to let users manage trust, because trust is a rich concept. And humans are actually really good at trust, because we've been thriving and competing with each other in complex social situations for a long time.

The trick is finding ways to recruit people's evolved trust behaviors into an electronic context. That is, can we build meaningful webs of trust through repeated social interactions, just like in real life?

So it's not the mail client vendors who are best positioned to solve the problem, it's the social networks.

(Whether they want to solve the problem is a separate question.)
Excellent advice. Many of the points work for all presentations, not just pitches.

(But then, some would argue that all presentations are pitches - you want the audience to buy what you're selling, whether it be because they share your values, they see the value, or they value the approach.)
That's a great idea and good looking app. I had kind of a similar idea: an app that would preserve nice things said about you by others to counteract all the negativity.
Sorry, it was linked and discussed in the comments there. Source is http://gainesville-florida.yourlocalnews.us/index.php?zfcate...
Actually, for example the mathematical relationship between prime numbers and hash functions is unclear. Designing good hash functions seems to be an art relying largely on trial and error. This link has some details: http://www.partow.net/programming/hashfunctions/index.html
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I'm really impressed by all these polished launch pages that Show HN folks design. Lack of such is an admittedly lame reason why I refrain from posting projects on HN.
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A simple survey of how much HN users are paying to connect to the Internet over a mobile phone.

It's probably useful to include what country you're in; whether this is a contract or pay-as-you-go deal; whether it's a domestic or commercial contract; if it's 3G or 4G; whether you're allowed tethering or not.

Some quick conversions:

£10 = $16.70
£10 = €12.50
£10 = 1020 INR

$10 = €7.50
$10 = £6
$10 = 611 INR

€10 = £8
€10 = $13.40
€10 = 816 INR
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Either you need a trusted third party or you need to pass something that looks like (at best): 4UpbRAXYMgrESrAwiLPYymNNni1hwyL2JEK7zz2SN52t

You could do that by printing it on a business card or reading it over the phone, and then the other guy is going to have to type it in somewhere.

The reason trusted third party keeps on coming up, despite all the myriad fundamental problems, is exactly because slinging that around is so unattractive.
After all your command-line data munging (possibly in a Unix pipeline), if you want to convert the resulting text to PDF (without leaving the command line :-), check this post:

[xtopdf] PDFWriter can create PDF from standard input:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2013/12/xtopdf-pdfwriter-can-creat...

It needs xtopdf and ReportLab (use v1.17) and Python (use 2.2 or higher).

Online overview of xtopdf: http://slid.es/vasudevram/xtopdf

xtopdf on Bitbucket:

https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf
Yeah, I see how my wording is confusing. I've edited my post to use leaking instead of exposing
See the [GNU Privacy Handbook](https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html).
How about putting it in Show HN?
Glad you were able to find something fulfilling on the side. Ever thought about trying to scale it up? Opening your own music school, teaching online via youtube videos or skype chats, etc?

I don't know how practical that is, but I'd imagine turning awesome secondary jobs and side projects into lifestyle-sustaining businesses can be significantly more desirable. than having a 9-5.
I live in Boston and have visited SF a few times, definitely not connected to the SF rental market like I am to Boston. What I am curious about is how new and how large these 1 bedroom apartments are in SF. My hunch is your dollar probably goes further in SF than it does in Boston.

A 1 bedroom/1 bathroom in the Back Bay (nicer, while not nicest part of the city) will run about $2500/mo. But it'll be 100 years old, 400 sq ft, outdated, no laundry etc.

I wonder how that compares to apartments in SOMA, which appear to be newer buildings at least.
My body weight is normal. I weight 73 kilograms and I am 178 centimeters high. Did heavy weight lifting for 2 years before the injury. No serious injuries prior to that. I was pretty confident I could take any type of physical exercises.

I did not make this post to scare people, but rather to inform them that everybody should give more time to diagnostics and see if they could perform some types of exercises/sports/whatever before they start.
Well, if it makes you feel better, Wesley Snipes did an AMA on Reddit a few days ago, and someone asked him if there would be a Demolition Man sequel.

He responded politely, but basically said "people need to be allowed to forget that movie". So you are good.
£12 per month on GiffGaff in the UK. PAYG. Domestic. This is soon going to rise to £20 per month for unlimited data.

"Unlimited", which used to be unlimited but has some kind of traffic control recently introduced.

No tethering, and this is strictly enforced. (there are separate deals for tethering and for dongles and tablets.)

3G only. They've only just got proper Apple iPhone support.
This looks awesome, another +1 for Android. Definitely an app to be proud of, and a really cool idea.
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I just wanted something with a script feel, for nostalgia.

My bad. I'm not a fan of cliches either, even visual ones.
I don't know but Wal-Mart and Home Depot have tried muscling in on small shops multiple times and failed..meaning, opening mom-and-pop size stores. That doesn't mean Amazon will fail, just mentioning that very few people are aware that this is something the retail giants have been trying to do for some time.

The thing about Amazon is that every company who should be their competitor (Barnes & Noble, Borders, Wal-Mart) constantly botches it. They have the money to fend off Amazon. I guess that's what happens when bloated, dumb corporations get real, nimble competition.

It would be like if Amazon decided to take on Comcast selling cable TV. Comcast is huge, wealthy and established, but, and I don't think I would like this, but my money would be on Amazon because Comcast is rich but dumb.
How is Amazon able to offer such low rates when the VISA/MasterCard/Amex processing charges are themselves higher than that?
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Fidelity Amex offers 2% cashback on everything, and CapitalOne Silver offers 1.5% back on everything. So I'll say that anything under 2% is unsustainable.

But there's another guy who claims to have negotiated for 0.4% processing fee. I don't know how that is even remotely possible.