skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO - which doesn't mean much, it's really a combination of industry and geography. And of course, I fully realize that what I'm writing below is based on generalizations that I've witnessed/experienced.

For example, here in Canada there's very little risk tolerance, regardless of what people tell you. You see it in the ways companies raise funds, are valued, and even the execution points. Being 'self-employed' can be a hindrance, especially in marketing. On the other side 'Founding X company - building the overall business to over $YY in revenue' is a positive spin on the same result.

On the other hand, discussing a project-based approach looks VERY good. At that point you're a consultant, rather than a contractor or freelancer. Here, that resonates better, in that people go 'ah, well paid expert'. This in turn means that you can pivot the discussion around to project successes, the values you've learned working on multiple projects, etc.

But most importantly, don't underestimate the value of the cover letter - which I used to believe no one reads. If you can explain your passion to join organization X (for some specific reason), then effectively you're priming your resume reader. That helps you positively change the conversation - a brilliant technique from behavioral economics.

Good luck!
AFAIK it's more about signalling - demonstrating commitment to your peers and superiors.

Not in that industry, but working at a startup founded by two ex banking (albeit software) guys. A little bit of the culture has come along for the ride.
oh sure, this is about moderate drinkers, not about people abusing alcohol as a drug. The side effects of moderate use of pretty much every controlled substance are pretty much insignificant as long as you use a pure, unadultered drug (let's forget about croc or battery acid etc). But once you get into heavy use, alcohol starts looking pretty bad: destroys liver and brain among other things, compared to e.g. opium where the worst side effect is constipation. Overdoses obviously kill in both cases, so let's keep that out of the picture here.
Google Images bug: Car crash images
Building Interactive HTML5 Videos with JavaScript
Well, probably not the bit about the weather - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/experimenta...
Ack: grep optimised for programmers (short introduction)
Running a a drug friendly "festival" and a state (as in the United States) are two completely different realities. I'm welcome your anecdotal evidence but don't find it at all relevant to the topic of how a state should handle the legal and health consequences of heroin abuse. A bunch of party-goers doing recreational drugs couldn't be farther from the realities of heroin addiction in a rural population.
The Woods That Time Forgot
Absolutely - finance uses hours the same way software uses open-source projects created in your spare time. "Passion", "culture fit", etc
I suspect sleep, and routine, is more the determining factor. I imagine most people should be capable of maintaining high levels of productivity for 77+ hour weeks if they could get 9+ hours of solid sleep every night. That leaves enough time for an 11 work day, 1 one hour workout, 30 minutes of commute, and 2.5 hours of misc time. As a single persons game.

However, that's a big SHOULD/COULD/WOULD. Real world statistics probably reflect that most people either aren't capable or simply wouldn't maintain this kind of routine.
Hopefully, such a study would include a study on how often the promise of only one week of overtime turns into multi-week slogs.
Very funny

You don't know what you are talking about.

EDIT: yes, please, go ahead and explain how you're going to get phone's location geographically. Hint: not everybody has data turned on always. Or GPS.

This is not a Batman movie you know
And not a single one of them has spoken up about being coerced into compromising their employer (a big one, with lots of lawyers) by the government?
Clojure at a Post Office – EuroClojure 2014
Yeah, I totally understand why there's a place for uint8 and int64, but wonder why I have to write x := uint64(a)+b // b is uint64 and x also will be instead just x := a+b, because type of x is still clear and casting could be done invisibly.

But after rethinking the issue I agree with you that's good idea, just hadn't meet place for this in my pet projects.
Confide meets Bubbly
Could also be phrased "the rise of under-employment" rather than loss of skill. Hundreds of years ago my direct ancestors were making coo coo clocks in the black forest, and on paper that carpentry skillset is completely lost after a couple generations of job titles, although I am actually a modestly skilled wood butcher, I am beyond your average handyman or roofer or maybe even average rougher, but I am good enough to know I'm at least one step, maybe two, beneath the true masters of the craft. I might be a higher skilled carpenter than some of my less competent ancestors, despite it merely being a hobby.

As a close to the heart analogy, everyone here knows that if you graduated with a BSCS and didn't do the IT/accounting or the graphics arts/web design track then the student probably did the stereotypical academic track with all manner of highly skilled senior year classes like automata theory, compiler design, maybe some control theory (although thats more EE). I did well in those classes and like many (most?) people I'm highly underemployed. I would guess that well over half, maybe 90 percent, of my fellow students in automata class and compiler class are just doing CRUD web apps or mobile apps, which hardly require those skill levels / skill sets.

I'd be slightly interested in sociological commentary on societies where underemployment increases. Does it always increase infinitely, or crash after awhile, or just not matter much?

A better proxy for carpentry skill level of a society might be the total sales of tools and supplies. I think the total economic size of the "at least somewhat skilled woodworker" is larger today than in the olden days.

Another interesting aspect is expansion of titles. Everyone in a skilled craft no matter if its programming or carpentry knows some are more equal that others, in carpentry no matter if you all have the same job title, or hobby name, some guys can barely be trusted with material handling and rough carcasses while other guys can be trusted to trim the finest kitchen cabinets, despite all having the same title. And obvious IT/CS analogies.
Short bursts of overtime is not crunch. Crunch is by definition long term.

Anyway, I recall that you can actually raise short term productivity for up to four weeks or so, but expect lower output following weeks. The productivity falls if crunch runs longer then six weeks. Not sure about in between. That was just one study, so take it or leave it.

Last note: if you have 60-80 hour work weeks before every major release, then there is something wrong with your planning or process. In any case, it does not sounds like the release will be much tested before shipment.
I've no idea. I'm also not sure any news outlet is unbiased. The Guardian relentlessly spins its news in order to be palatable to its rich, middle class and liberal audience. If you're interested in rational, objective reporting then the Guardian is definitely not that ... especially in its cultural/society related opinion pieces. The Guardian is as much skewed to the left as the The Daily Mail is to the right, and once you realise this The Guardian's output can start to look at once absurd and genuinely terrifying. I don't know what the answer is, although I personally try and gather my news from a large range of sources from across the political spectrum in an attempt to gain a heuristic understanding of what might really be going on.
Swing Copters, clones and the dismal failure of the 'open' app store
I felt paranoid, installed Glasswire, and got hacked!
“Everybody, Remember Where We Parked”: Choosing a Landing Site on a Comet
Just as a note, Cloudflare is not alone in struggling with this. I'm very surprised that the status quo has been maintained for so long. I suggest that Cloudflare should look under the process of transit becoming 'Declared', within the Australian Trade Practices Act. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_and_Consumer_Act_20...
DotHIV Launching with a Social Purpose | GTLD.club
How Google Has Changed Management, 10 Years After Its IPO
Nope just Vermont being ... Vermont. Caring for your neighbor, and not being afraid of them (racially or socioeconomically) is one key to having a view like this. When one group is afraid of another you get insane sentencing laws and all sorts of discrimination.

Vermont is very independent, and doesn't have much of a "big city" influence, or cultural divide seen in even other New England states.
Making an App for Runners: Thoughts and Lessons Learned (Part 1)
>Ada was designed by one man

http://cs.fit.edu/~ryan/ada/ada-hist.html

"The Ada design team was led by Jean D. Ichbiah and has included Berned Krieg-Bruechner, Brain A. Wichmann, Henry F. Ledgard, Jean-Cluade Heliard, Jean-Loup Gailly, Jean-Ryanmond Abrial, John G. P. Barnes, Mike Woodger, Olivier Roubine, Paul N. Hilfinger, and Robert Firth."
Outlook, Hotmail, Live and Yahoo lacked TLS until very recently.
For me, as a programmer, having a (1 employee = me) business / being self-employed alongside my study and some jobs has helped in building my CV.

On one hand it gave me a lot of first-hand experience with a lot of things, and second it shows that i'm not keen on sitting on my hands.
This! Some people love to write a thousand words to give you 10 words of actual information.
Running out of savings just as getting close to traction
In roughly 30 days, I will run out of savings and the ability to bootstrap my app - www.rewardcamp.com

But just as I’m running out of cash, I’m also gaining a bit of traction - inked a deal to onboard 50 new paying customers recently. But I gave big discounts to win the deal and so the revenue is nowhere near enough to pay for expenses.

To earn cash, I’d like to solve your problems in marketing/sales. These are skills I picked up over the last 2 years. Below is a list of issues I can help you with.

Contact me via this form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MG8jdMOcNbKrvPw64hlW40sqged0_JaEJaO9Aa3KOOc/viewform) | 917-942-9499 | rsarcar at gmail dot com | comments below

Problems I can help with -->

Problem: No one knows about your app/website.
Solution: Get the word out via content marketing

- Identify top blogs in your industry
- Create list of content topics likely to be posted on industry blogs
- Develop content
- Post on industry sites
- Bring traffic to your site

Problem: Users visit your site but no one signs up for your app.
Solution: Increase user interest in signing up

- Setup analytics to understand where you are
- Understand core problem being solved
- Rewrite website copy to increase visitor interest
- Implement “call to action” buttons to make it easy to signup

Problem: No systematic way to convert traffic into paying customers that can be scaled.
Solution: Implement automation & processes for conversion and scaling sales

- Implement system to collect email addresses
- Write email sequence for autoresponder to warm up leads
- Implement autoresponder
- Implement CRM to followup with leads via phone call or webinar
- Develop a sales funnel & phone script

Problem: You have sales but they are slow.
Solution: Sell in bulk using partnership marketing

- Identify partners to work with
- Create a targeted marketing campaign to develop relationship and build partnership
- Ink deals with each partner
False idol: The scrooge of ‘digital correctness’
You could always change your title from something like "CEO of XYZ Co.", "Founder at Acme Inc.", or "Chairman of Dog Corp" to something less ambitious like "lead developer", "marketing manager", or even just "web developer".

Sure, occasionally, you might get employers in the valley who (claim) they care a lot about your personal growth, but from my experience outside the tech world, plenty of employers would much rather just have a dull but trustworthy tool who gets the job done without fail to someone incredibly smart, unscrupulous, and motivated. To these people (which I will venture to say is the majority of small-business owners), your ambition is scary to them, so you're better off not coming off as being ambitious.

TL;DR: best way to market self-employment? Don't. Instead market it as regular employment where you had a lot of responsibilities.
What good are large p-values?
Your theory is one would not be devastated going to prison? I think most people don't plan on being caught. Going to prison is a total upheaval in one's life and the fact they may deserve it or should not be surprised is irrelevant.

Now, if this was like his third trip to prison then you would have a point...
http://dfcb.github.io/BigVideo.js/
So? Do you have something (newer) arguing reasonably well that it's wrong?
People I knew that worked that much, used to spend a lot of time blankly staring at screen or chatting about weather after few weeks. The rest and socialization they were missing out of work somehow creeped into work. I do not think they were aware of the effect, it is just that everything took them somewhat longer time.
Any truth in this?

https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/starttls_considered_harmful
GlassWire is on HackerOne. https://hackerone.com/
I'd be really interested in seeing some example resumes in this style, if you have any...
>> although none are as destructive as alcohol.

> Really? Are you really saying that heroin, which is one of the most addictive drugs in the world, is not as destructive as alcohol? While there are more alcoholics than horse heads, that's because there's more people that drink alcohol as a whole. Are there any studies for the ratio of abusers/users for heroin and alcohol?

Your parent poster is right here. Heroin (and opiates in general) are pretty safe substances in pure form. That's one of the reasons that opiates are still among the preferred potent pain killers in hospitals: Little side effects, extremely potent, a very big window between effective dose and overdose. If you're in really bad pain, at least in germany, you'll get a morphine drip.

The "drug" effects you see in documentaries about drug often are no effects of the drug itself, rather than the stuff that the dealers mix the drug with, the use of unclean needles (infections and stuff) and the conditions that the addicts live in. Overdoses are typically either on purpose or most of the time the result of extreme variations in the potency of the drug. There was (or still is) a medical trial that gave clean, controlled heroin to hard addicts in Hamburg, Germany and from what I read that trial was very successful: The people in the trial were basically able to function in a normal day live with a regular job. Obviously no driving, no handling heavy machinery, but otherwise a major step up from living on the street.
Yes, but then the scam business would be less profitable for them since they would have to buy or build those bots to analyze answer. Plus it could create some kind of war on automated conversation bot which would be a net win for the AI in general.
How to Avoid Building Something No One Wants by Solving Known Problems
To simply answer your question, I believe the general rule is 15% or more and they can attend YC.

If you are simply adding him as a cofounder so that you are not listed as a single founder, don't do that. It may seem like you have to have a cofounder to get into YC, but founders who are new to working together are a bigger red flag than a single founder, and there were several single founder companies in the last batch.
I read that as a reminder that this isn't a new article but rather the older one some of it might have read before. It's fair enough to submit it since some might not have read it though.

HN has gotten in the habit of adding year of publication to submission titles for pre-2014 content recently and this one should probably get it as well.
Flight anomaly aborts US Army’s advanced hypersonic weapon testing
Are Digital Cameras Changing the Nature of Movies?
What's up with the doxxing? Has GlassWire done anything wrong?
Facebook down again?
Is facebook down again?
except if the water is too hot you have to put your hand under the stream to adjust the temperature, resulting in burnt hands.

Nice idea, looks cool, but ultimately the problem it solves is not as important as being able to rinse off your hands wthout burning them.
> AC also suggested anonymizing employers

This may not work in certain jobs where they demand your credentials and want to check them by calling/emailing.
Ask HN: How do you pronounce code syntax
For instance, I pronounce list item (li) as lee
How the Other Half Works: An Adventure in the Low Status of Software Engineers
I see where you are going... but I'm also pretty sure you have it backwards.

Demographics aren't the reason for Vermont's soft touch policy... demographics are the reason for the hardline policies in all of the other states.
Well, it 48 hours a week vs 60 jours is the secret of the success of british & USA vs Germany during WWI :

* WWI = death by explosive
* over work == more defaults => more of your soldiers killed less of theirs, more money spent
* so british army edicted a ban on overwork ~ 1917 followed by USA.

The question is does it matter more to produce the most defective products, or to produce stuff that works?
I fully agree. Maybe it's just me, but that sounds much more hands-on to me than the typical HN comment.
I use Disco weekly as a much friendlier and more fluid alternative to YouTube playlists or Chrome bookmarks for songs that are so new they aren't on Beats yet. I can't wait for the mobile version, especially if it'll offer continuous background playback. I haven't seen that done for YouTube videos on mobile anywhere yet.
Working for employers you can also put a lot of time and energy into projects that fail too.
Its probably hard to talk about without naming names and violating NDAs. However I can think of at least three areas to search:

1) Hand wavy "who will support this?" arguments. Sometimes with a prefix of "when you leave, who will..." etc.

2) Extreme top down management style "all innovation comes from above, even if that results in none at all". Often closely tied with credentialism. "we pay engineers to innovate, so shut up and do what they say". I interned at a place like that decades ago, now out of business.

3) Empire building / contractual obligation. "We paid a zillion bucks for lotus notes, you will use it, I don't care if it makes things slower than simple manual processes or your new ideas, we will use Lotus Notes anyway"
Why is peering so much lower in the US? Is that a business strategy on the part of ISPs?
Photos and videos can easily become the eyewitness's experience. That's how shaky videos of airplanes and lights become extraterrestrial visitors.
I've lived in Niagara (above the escarpment) for four years, it has the same climate as Toronto. Maybe a bit more snow due to lake effect. Most definitely not as mild as Vancouver.
Secret app hacked to reveal anonymous user identities
14 Startup Postmortems – Startup Postmortems
Google's prototype self-driving car will have a steering wheel after all
I can't comment on context switching, but one thing to keep in mind is that 40 hours is the peak of a bell curve. That implies that some individuals can in fact work 50, 60-hour weeks for months without a significant drop in productivity, and some probably shouldn't work more than 4 days a week. Maybe Elon Musk is the one-in-a-billion guy that can actually stay productive for 100+ hours, but thinking that's reason for you working 50+ hours is like saying you should be able to swim 100m in 70 seconds because they do it in less than 50 in the Olympics.
Apache Ivy is built on Java and could be a starting point for the uber package manager. It is extremely extensible and can resolve depencies against maven style repos, file systems, and really any other storage mechanism. It can resolve against multiple repos simultaneously.

The real problem is that its so powerful and hard to ramp up on... The docs aren't sufficient for its overall complexity. That all aside, if the will were there, it could be the git of package managers.
LinkedIn settles security breach class-action lawsuit for $1.25m
There are Java jars with native binaries, just sayin. Though I do like Maven and Java quite a bit.

https://bitbucket.org/xerial/sqlite-jdbc

https://github.com/twall/jna
You mean be conductive enough to discharge it? Depends on how pure the water is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_resistivity_and_cond...
Infoactive – Interactive infographics and data visualizations made easy
The bigger the burn in, the bigger the burn out. The more often the burn in, the bigger the burn out.

If you think burnn-outs are cool, I can package you all of mine with their consequences in a small box and I can send them to you by mail. I'd be delighted, truly. Such a shame it is not possible.

And crunch are just burnin, the maniacal addictive phase before the depressive one. I am not sure living like unbalanced junkies should be considered a good idea. We are not politicians yet.
A professor told me he went once in a "no sound at all" room, and he ended up hearing his blood flowing through his body.
Exactly, a good friend of mine in college was recommended for a job at the NSA by one of my professors in early 2001. He went to having a heavy online presence and being a constant in our social circles to completely disappearing. His personal site went dormant, he stopped showing up on irc, abruptly dumped his long time girlfriend. My roommate bumped into the guy at a grocery store in Virginia but other than that he doesn't exist to anyone who knew him for years or online.
I'd just play the market. Find dirt on CEOs, short their stock and pass the dirt to the media.
One of my friend had made a similar project around 2 years back.. its called errorception.com.

I think it seems to be doing good now..
Holy crap Australia is expensive. Thanks Telstra, this is why Blizzard and other companies won't come here.
From that article:

Unfortunately, the SMTPS port is only used for the submission of authenticated mail by mail clients. Opportunistic encryption between SMTP servers, which is extremely important for preventing passive eavesdropping of email, requires STARTTLS on port 25

So for the sort of thing that Google are talking about STARTTLS is the only option.

Some of the disadvantages aren't such a big deal for large-scale server-to-server transport. But protocol downgrade attacks should certainly be a worry.
Outsourcing Marketing: How $300/mo on ODesk Boosts Our Traction by 14%
If it was something natural, people (pilots) would be used to it by now. He's describing something "unknown and creepy"
Show HN: Palm Note (A minimal note taking app)
But all those side effects are the direct result of using morphine, right? Splitting hairs to say 'so morphine is safe'. It like 'this knife is safe; its just the cuts that hurt you'.

Still, alcohol is more destructive overall since so many more people abuse it.