skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Things like this make me wonder about how we even define drugs.

Organizations like the FDA might not approve of people buying their way onto trials for pills that can induce a specific mental state in someone, but if one is in a research lab now working on something similar but with a device, there doesn't appear to be an FDA like organization (yet) that would shut PI's (or current corporations make and sell said devices commercially) down if some wealthy individual decides to fly up every couple of weeks so they can "play", despite the non-zero probability of inducing negative side effects from the states one is potentially trying to induce.

Kind of reminds me of in the late 1940's where x-rays machines were used fit shoes… only nearly 2 decades later the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was formed, where its predecessor was more in the business of enabling such endeavors.

It seems like people who have access to enough resources and are looking for ways to exchange resources for something they want will find a way if the perceived possibilities are in their field of awareness… no matter any ones understanding of such things.

tangent: If we're facing the lag "problem" with purely human behaviors and their externalities, humans approaching the endeavor for AI and AI augmented humans evokes the imagery of pounding ones fists in sand.
There are far too many signals of bad practice, arrogance and refusal to cooperate to just leave them alone.

Of course if there was success people wouldn't be looking into this (as much), but that's par for the course.

When bad practices are involved, you either (a) succeed so all is OK, or (b) face the consequences when you fail.

The third option, (c) have bad practices and be left alone after you fail is not really productive or helpful for the industry.
> Vim is a Linux/Unix text editor used via the terminal.

Vim in specific actually has a rather nice GUI called gVim. It's what I used when I used vi-style editors, which overlaps with the last time I used Windows seriously. So, yeah, gVim works on Windows and has for well over a decade now.
Other devices (e.g. iOS) will warn you if you try to start an update with low battery power, so you can't make this mistake in the first place. Besides, the device itself can spot a low battery (and act on it to ensure the system stays consistent), so why does there need to be a user option to put the device to sleep during the upgrade?

My guess is that Microsoft didn't think about this at all, leading to the rubbish user experience.
The research that comes from this particular UC Berkeley group is frankly terrible. One of the studies to see if rich people break the law was done by seeing if BMW drivers follow traffic laws less frequently than other cars. It completely ignores that many rich people don't get BMWs and that many are just middle class "car" people.

Their experiments are essentially an extension of their preconceived notions and the fact that their many flaws don't keep it from being published is a black mark on that entire field of "research".
> Compared to modern IDEs like VisualStudio or IntelliJ products, however - not so much.

Those IDEs only work on some languages, and force you into their workflow. Emacs and vi are both more all-encompassing and less restrictive.
Yes, exactly:

> our descendants will also have tri-citizenship in perpetuity

is probably wrong. If the descendants never reside in the US, they won't be able to pass on the citizenship to their own children unless they traveled to the US just to give birth.
Dollars stockpiled in an account will be lent by the bank at a low interest rate (since they have to be invested with little risk). Dollars saved under a mattress actually lead to deflation while they aren't being used, which can mess things up even more.
Aaah sorry I didn't notice :)

Sorry, my knowledge of the microprocessor internals have been going down these past years (and they are becoming more complex)
>How to Fix- Labor laws would need to change, making it clear to companies how they can hire contractors without becoming liable to be held as employers.

Except that the entire reason these laws exist is because tech companies have been caught using people as contractors permanently, "laying them off" on a consistent seasonable basis, and then "rehiring" them again as "contractors". A permanently-employed worker needs to legally be considered a full-time employee and be taxed/benefited as such.
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> vi users tout the rapid text editing features, but you can generate and navigate code just as fast with an IDE - out of the box - no configuration incantations or third party packages required.

You can navigate code and you benefit from powerful autocompletion (well, depending on your language, because it may quickly degrade to "laughable" with something a bit dynamic). However, the pure text editing experience with vanilla Eclipse/VS is rubbish compared to Vim. In addition, there are languages for which IDE-based code generation/autocompletion is not that interesting due to the language being a lot more compact. And with something like syntastic + the right language plugin, a strongly-typed language gets syntax checking, a description of the type of a variable, and possibly autocompletion. I use both Eclipse (with a Vim plugin) and the real Vim, and it feels much nicer not have to deal with the resource and mental overhead of a full-blown IDE. I think the only feature I really miss when working OCaml/Merlin in Vim is being able to get a list of call sites of a given function in the current project.
It's not necessarily lucrative at all. Many managers confuse personal power with collective profit, and are crafting their departments to be lord over a fiefdom rather than to contribute maximally to the business.

People are not rational market actors, especially not deep within organizations.
> It's unfortunate that this kind of innovative idea seems to illicit a knee-jerk negative response in terms of ethics.

It's a shame that autocomplete can still elicit laughs.

I like to think about it in another way: If poor people were given preference in terms of going on drug trials, would the same groups be up in arms about the poor being used as guinea pigs for the rich?
Sorry, getting our app and website mixed up.

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App: https://secure.moneysoft.com.au/
> screw the very people that work for them so badly

Actually, it is something they probably strive for if they would also do other highly illegal/unethical practices: http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/technology/silicon-valley-po...

The 'unbelievable shitload of cash' tends to make little power hungry kings.
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The incentive is very simple. - http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/ldc/llog/DilbertEvilHR....
I think this is going to continue in some shape, even if it doesn't necessarily look like this, because these companies are going to India to pay less money, bottom line. Add in a large pool of people wanting to make the move, and someone will always be willing to do it for the types of contracts we're talking about here.

As has been pointed out many times here on HN, there is no shortage of qualified dev/it talent in the US. There is a surplus of companies with bad jobs that don't want to pay market rate, and look at these brokers as risk mitigation strategies to fill the head count someone said they needed.

When cutting costs is your motivation, people have a strong tendency to get hurt.
Do we really need to use so many words to describe so obvious situation?..
I run S3stat and Twiddla on the .net stack and my BizSpark term has passed. It was in no way a big deal.

Yeah, servers cost money to provision. But then servers always cost money to provision regardless of your stack. Even with license fees, the MS stack wins for me because my entire server farm fits on three boxes instead of the twelve I'd need to get the same firepower on a typical rails stack. The extra few thousand in full price server licenses is just noise because really, we're talking about a business here, not a hobby.

The bottom line is that if your business is going to fail because of a single $5,000 invoice, it's debatable whether it was ever a business to start with. The whole reason we all build SaaS businesses in the first place is the 95%+ profit margins. Fretting about what happens within that 5% that makes up the expense column seems a bit silly.

Even without BizSpark, I bet I'll build the next product on the same stack. The math just plain works out.
I think you misunderstood - by the "expansive" interpretation, forcing you to divulge any password, be it a confession or not, would violate your 5th amendment right against self-incrimination.
If it is so easy to attack, then you already lost the game unless you've pinned the fedoraproject certs. The CA model has been demonstrated broken long ago.

So would you rather trust that model, or just obtain the OpenBSD key for yourself via multiple different channels, from multiple sources? The key, by the way, is all over the place. You start with the official site, but you can cross-check against all the CVS mirrors, and you can check all mailing list archives which contain the key in the release announcement.

I would dare say that is heck of a lot better than simply trusting your CAs, if you are indeed so easily attacked.
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I've taken a few courses, but "failed" all of them. I don't understand why the courses are designed from the constraints of college life and not the possibilities of Internet?
You can enable that in pretty much any wm.
I hate it when people reply as I am about to, but:

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Whay would happen is the snake oil industry would get huge, and all accountability will be lost. The drug industry after all WAS unregulated in the past.

This
Ah, yes, stereotyping. It's OK When We Do It, right?

Here's an idea: I'll use whatever words I want, and so will you, and we won't even ask about each others' race or gender. Because it just shouldn't matter.
Just get the tablet replaced or call Microsoft support.
Just to provide some diversity (I've never heard of Pocket Casts before), I use Podcast Addict on Android and I love it.

Auto-download + auto-add to playlist for certain podcasts makes it really easy to fire up the playlist without having to think about anything - I use the playlist widget so I jump right into the relevant screen.

It allows Android intents to trigger the downloads, so you can use Tasker/Llama to check for new episodes every time you connect to your car, or every time you get to a Wi-Fi network and start charging, or whatever.

It also has customizable skip buttons, so you can skip forward 15 seconds and back 10 even from the lock screen, for example, depending on your preferences.

It also has streaming and a multitude of other features, but the above are the ones that made me stick with it and stop looking for alternatives.

Also, it's free. 4.5 on the Play store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bambuna.po...
The last Civil War veteran died in 1956; the last to have seen combat died in 1953.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Woolson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hard

And the last Revolutionary War veteran died in 1866. (The year after our Civil War ended, in case you don't know much American history.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuel_Cook
I have Surface Pro 3, and I absolutely love it ... but it's not without issues.

For starters, the price. Although having had it for a while now, and feeling that this is the best tech I've bought in a while, it is pricey. Between the tablet itself, plus warranty, plus the keyboard cover (a must. I love pen and touch, but too many things I use the keyboard for still), it gets pricey quickly.

Usability issues, there is this nasty driver bug with it's wifi card, where you get BSOD after waking up from sleep. Don't know if it happens to everyone, but when it happened to me, I searched and found PLENTY people with the issue. The fix is 'easy enough'.

Turn off a setting to not keep wifi on while sleeping. This however means, when waking up, I have disconnect and reconnect to my wifi. The fix was very easy to google for too, but not sure if someone non-tech savy would even know what to google for.

Also, my first surface had it's touch screen die out on the top half within a month. Apparently also common, but one support ticket to Microsoft and I got a brand new one.

Having said that, I will never buy any other laptop other than surface laptops. I am extremely happy with it. I am usually a Linux user, but haven't really missed it much (although I still have it on my desktop for any Linux specific stuff). I use it for developing, occasional drawings, writing notes, diagrams, reading ebooks, browsing in bed. It really is an all in one device, and worth every penny.
What's wrong with that? Lots of people love working seasonally. Teachers, fishermen, hospitality workers, and forest rangers can work seasonally. Why should programmers be denied the privilege by law?
I believe these laws were first put in place to prevent factory owners from exploiting poorly paid workers- and weren't really meant for highly paid tech workers. The problem with requiring companies to hire everyone as employees is exactly the reason companies try to find ways to dodge it in my opinion. If the Govt has a problem collecting taxes from contractors that is a different problem and should be addressed separately.
> "For fresh grad though, if they quit earlier than 18 months, they have to pay almost a year of their salary, which seems reasonable when there are trainings when they joined the company."

Even by Malaysian standards this is just ridiculous. The tech scene in Malaysia is growing - people really shouldn't have to put up with this nonsense.
Yeah, just thinking about that fee graph. I have no idea of the transaction size it is based on and without that it is pretty useless.
DigitalOcean: 4th largest hosting company in under 2 years
Well, This American Life and Serial are done by the same people, so that's not surprising. The "StartUp guy" was a producer for TAL for many years so that's where that connection comes from.
These little power hungry kings are the monsters we made. These kings have one job and just one job, keep raising the stock price.

One of the quickest way to get liquid, meet your projections and so on, is to liquidate jobs. Get all that $$ back on the books. 10 ppl isn't just (assuming they make 100k each) 1m, its also the training and benefits, and social security, health 401k..etc.

A few dips in the stock price == dethronement, possibly disinterest and the looming specter of irrelevance/demise.

All corporations are about profit. All stockholders want them to be. All people, who often are also stockholders, find this at odds with being a reasonable, nurturing workplace
Sure. But authentication and authorization of users isn't like showing a static (or dynamic) web page (ie: simpler httpd vs more full-featured nginx).

I'd say moving it out of base is a pretty strong signal to OpenBSD users. (Now, granted, kerberos have and have had perhaps more than its share of issues ... so the signal could just be: you probably shouldn't have been depending on this to be secure enough to grant access to the server in the first place).

I'm more curious if this means OpenBSD (base) doesn't have any form of secure(ish) federated auth(z) story (other than ssh certs) any more.
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This is de rigor in India. Keep a job for less than a year, you pay the company. Its the most bizarre thing I've heard. Sure, many companies here will ask for their signing bonus back if you quit early into this job, but this is literally garnishing one's wages.
Is common in games, what has happened to people I know is they get a job and then build the mechanics of a game, they then get fired while the art is discussed and worked on, then rehired to finish the work as nobody else knows how it fits together anyway.
Your complaints in the first paragraph, while valid, come from trying to use VS and/or other text input tools with touch - (correct me if I'm wrong).
I'd be interested to also hear about your experiences with using it 'normally'. I.e. if you just put the surface+keyboard on a desk or your lap and treat it as a laptop without using touch, how usable is it for VS and the likes?
The value of everything is determined by markets. Money is no different than other assets in this regard.
It's hardly misleading. The article itself explains why these bonds were paid off now and not earlier.
I'm working at a company in India and our bond period is upto 3 years long. Imagine that.
I know what you mean, although in the last year I've strongly felt the same thing with people I've subscribed to on YouTube as well. It requires persistence and honest personality from the creator though (such as vlogs), any sort of scripted or slick experience is hard to connect to, maybe that's why podcasts work better at this.
At Lelala (https://www.lelala.de), the MS stack with the typical layers is used:
- IIS + ASP MVC
- MSSQL (via ORM layer)
- bunch of .NET/C# tools & stuff to support the main system

Since it was asked what happens if the BizSpark period is over, let me state on detail about the model:
In BizSpark, its true that you go vendor lock in as long as you are building strict dependency on their platform, lets say if you use EF for accessing SQL, you may have a problem in the long run.
But:
Even if you've left BizSpark, a MS Server License is to be paid once? (not per year, not every two years etc.)
I do not understand where the myth comes from that one has to pay every year or continuously to use MS licenses?
The math is simple:
A W2K12 Standard server license costs around 850 USD (~ 700 EUR) - once - even if Opensource would is cheaper in term of license costs, a software running 24/7 for a one-time payment of 700 EUR isn't that expensive.

Now, it comes down to scale up or scale out:
- in the one scenario, because of no costs you can scale massivley out, going from one machine to n machines
- but if you ever tried to administrate your machine park lonely(!!) if it counts 5+ machines (while you have to develop/maintain & run the app itself, too!), some may consider to hire a network admin (which is a fixed salary per year which usually outweighs the costs of your MS Server license)

The reason why C# is used, is simple (and was stated above):
- C# and .NET are very convenient and mature environments to write apps in
- C# is considered by me as a beautiful language, i really like it (coming from x years of "C-styled-syntax-languages" could make me somehwat biased ;-)

Instead of the licensing costs of MS products, i see much more important difficulties in the mid- to long-run future if someone built on it:
MS maybe not survive the upcoming decade because of huge market shifts; then, in 10 years, it may be a problem if you will not get any support because the company maybe no more existing.
God thanks, the next version of ASP MVC has a VM for *nix-derivatives, so you could solve this issue by running your app on a Linux-box.
(And if you then have built your app additionally on a top of an ORM, you won't have any issues)
The question reminded me of this classic:
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/05/18/ruby-on-rails-...
The author seems to have completely overlooked that a "young white American man with a bachelor’s degree and a full-time job" can generally afford more time for continued education than those who may benefit most from MOOCs. Also, those without personal experience may not fully grasp how mentally exhausting poverty with no fallback options can be. MOOCs alone probably won't maximize the positive effects of high quality, affordable, and easily accessible education. However, they are an extremely important first step so that other disruptions can help those who need MOOCs take advantage of them.

Advancements in AI and automation are going to replace a lot more jobs, and MOOCs are a great way to quickly/affordably retrain for a new profession. The end goal of my current project is to reach a point where we can actually pay people a livable wage to educate themselves with MOOCs as they pursue their desired professions. MOOCs have already been incredibly helpful for me personally, and I believe that they'll be considered one of the most important innovations in the future.
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I am NOT a strong developer in any language/technology.

I've cofounded several digital marketing agencies and consulted various local(Ukrainian) startups on business and marketing strategy.

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I am mostly interested in combining my skills and working with the business strategy/marketing side of the services and/or products who are targeting developers as their primary customer segment. I would also love to work with non-profits and companies that generate social good.
I feel a similar fate befell on me.

I wanted to gain things from working hard at the startups I was employed at, but it turned into dead-ends. I even tried being a bit entrepreneurial myself with a startup founder, but that fell flat. In part, I think I was around the wrong people and in the other way, I was not being more critical enough.

I've come to the point that if a company wants me to work more, that a) I am fairly compensated for my value or b) give me partial ownership immediately and the dignity of my position. Otherwise, I am not interested.
How do they get them to pay a years worth of salary if they quit? I doubt this ever happens. Though I don't doubt fresh grads believing them and sticking it out.
I teach a Behavioural Economics (BE) module of an Economics Bachelors degree. BE is not awfully radical: it tends to build on and refine standard theory. If BE is 'the past' I suspect it's only because its key parts have been absorbed into the mainstream — leaving us without a sub-discipline, but with a general Economics that's rather more Behavioural than before.
They don't want job-seekers cherry picking or getting confused between full-time jobs and contract jobs (You can sometimes get a higher pay-rate contracting than as a full-time at the same company). I think, they also fear it reduces their recruiting brand. They want to make it appear that getting a job at X is really hard, which is why they boast about their low acceptance rate, etc. If people discovered there are hundred or thousands of contract jobs at the company, it reduces the allure. Use of contractors is also often not deemed as a 'good' workforce practice - similar to outsourcing, mainly because of stories of exploitation, etc. It also leads to complications- think customers buying some sophisticated or sensitive equipment or service from you discovering that you had a bunch of contractors building it.
You might not vote them into part, but the people you do appoint them into power, since Alan Greenspan has argued for zero inflation has the best policy in the long run.

I'm not saying that it isn't a misguided theory - I'm far too ignorant to honestly argue macroeconomics - but I disagree with your representation of it as a settled argument, disputed only by cranks.