skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bullshit jobs are central to how our economy works, and their history goes way back. Most "work projects," unless they are to build infrastructure, are bullshit jobs. I'm convinced that a significant proportion of the military activity in the world is one big exercise in very pompous and important-seeming bullshit jobs in the defense sector. Whole sectors of the economy are bullshit.

The more I see, especially since 2008, the more I think Keynes was really onto something re: monetary velocity. Our biggest problem is excessive pessimism and a zero-sum mentality, manifesting as various paradoxes of thrift. Without monumental efforts at hand-waving to keep the money flowing, our tendency is to deflate all the way back to the dark ages.

Bullshit jobs are a semi-conscious hack to keep this from happening-- to keep people "working" so they get paid so the money flows.

The other crazy hack around this problem is inflation, and fiat currency in general.

The Austrian types who preach how all this nonsense is a result of these things are precisely wrong. Don't blame the hack for the thing it's fixing.

If we can find a more permanent solution to the problems that we're hacking around, maybe we can dispense with the bullshit. Maybe that's a guaranteed minimum income.
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First of all, thanks for the comment. Down-votes don't add too much to the conversation.

I agree with you, but I remember reading that argument backing the CLA (defense in court, to increase the value of the company in case they want to sell it and to be able to close the code); I can't find a link though.
I've been using PyCharm which is apparently just a Python-optimized version of IntelliJ. First introduction to Jetbrains software and love it
This is why started to build web projects on the side. I have one these white collar jobs and I don't get to create things. I work closely with construction workers and get to see how satisfying it is for them to build something real.

Now I come home form 8 hours of work and spend 4 hours building things. Pretty bizarre.
The point of steganoraphy is that no realizes there's a message.
"One day, in the middle of a meeting on motivation, I dared to say that the only reason I came to work was to put food on the table. There were 15 seconds of absolute silence, and everyone seemed uncomfortable. Even though the French word for work, ‘travail,’ etymologically derives from an instrument of torture, it’s imperative to let it be known, no matter the circumstance, that you are working because you are interested in your work"

I would be coding and making software anyway, most likely. I often play with it in spare time anyway. But if you weren't going to pay me, I sure as hell wouldn't be doing it for you. And I'd be a liar if I said otherwise. Even if what you have me doing the exact same thing I'd be doing at home for nothing, sure as hell the only reason I come to work is because you pay me.

I don't see why we can't be honest about this.

This is also one of the reasons I'm a contractor/freelancer these days. So I don't have to pretend to care about your business, or pretend to be committed body and soul to the project. That's beyond the scope of my contract.
I think you mean "desperate" rather than "serious." This idea may work with modest results in a down market, or a market where employees expect to be treated like supplicants to the almighty.
Not much, probably. It would be largely wasted effort to tune OCR algorithms to avoid (falsely) recognizing letters in artificially synthetized datasets that don't occur in practice.
Django-compat
https://github.com/arteria/django-compat is the initial version of a for- and backwards compatibility layer for Django 1.4.+ to 1.7.+ .
Consider django-compat as an experiment based on the discussion on [this reddit thread](http://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/2jrr4l/whats_the_best_practice_to_provide/). Let's see where it goes.
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I don't think whatsapp will change their protocol too much, as they'll break millions of clients installed in old phones.

The benefit for the company looks obvious to me: save money on call centre / community management. Deliver a service to millions of mobile users without requiring them to download your app (just adding a phone number to the agenda).

The benefit for the end-user: having a conversational interface with a system is probably the lowest barrier entry to that system for a human. Everybody knows how to chat using whatsapp, but not everybody knows (nor is willing to learn) how to use your "user-friendly" GUI.
People Want Swiss Army Knives
Thanks for your comment. This not like IMDB where everything has to be reviewed first. Here, Video owner (channel owner) is responsible for giving credit to other youtubers for his/her video. Here is a sample: http://www.rshiv.org/title.php?v=oFMsqrG9RWg
Do you still believe in Santa Claus ? :)

EDIT: The point is: The data from the Car is very valuable for lot's of parties including the Manufacturer and suppliers.
This is very similar to my experience.

I'm from a south american country so I get the "do you feel safe?" and the "what was like to grow up in poverty?" - not to mention the 'la raza' type of comments.

These stereotypes are annoying but it's whatever, you shrug it off and find something to make fun of the people saying those things - 'Do you go through withdraws if you don't eat your frosted flakes every morning?'

Do I feel like I belong in a group of people from my country? Well, maybe? If I know them and I'm friends with them. If I do, it sure as hell isn't because they're from my country but because they're good people. My primary group of friends is all WASP (white anglo-saxon protestant), and I don't feel like an outcast.

> Overall: if everybody could stop being so sensetive. Grow up. People are different. Some people aren't nice. Learn to deal with it.

YEP. That's it. The world will be a better place once people stop hating other people based on their physical characteristics and start hating them unconditionally.
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Could be used for automated printing of doctors' prescriptions ;)
On Firefox for Android Beta, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fi... the feature has yet to go to release.
This is similar to the project where images of clouds were fed to face recognition software: http://ssbkyh.com/works/cloud_face/
My SO has recently been on a kick about basic income, and I admit I have been skeptical. Could you elaborate on the pros/cons of basic income as you understand it please?
what a bunch ob crap, only large super corporations can keep "bullshit" jobs. Otherwise the market corrects this.

Funny to see all the hn readers advocating for more welfare and central planning. Typical neckbeard communism.
It's renewable as long as you're a student
This is pretty cool, although it makes me wonder what the real world applications could be. It does, at the very least, tantalise my curiosity and gets me thinking.
This isn't quite what you were looking for, but I'd say just go for it. If you still want a safety net, then don't quit your day job right away, just freelance on the side until you're more comfortable with it.

I do occasional side jobs, mostly through elance. They take about 8-10% of your income in fees, but they do a couple of things to make up for it:

* They have a good pool of work ready for you to bid on.

* They automatically charge your client's credit card each week if you've recorded hours. (And you can set up https://github.com/nfriedly/elance-withdrawal to automatically transfer it from elance to your bank.)

* You can differentiate yourself even without much experience by taking their skill tests.

Start your rates around $75 an hour and raise it up to $100 after you have 2-3 good jobs under your belt.

Don't get distracted by the folks charging ridiculously low rates - they are not competing with you, they're competing with each other for the clients who either don't need quality work or don't understand that you get what you pay for.

Oh, and put about 50% of your income into savings. Depending on your country, you might end up owing a good portion of that in taxes, and regardless, whatever's left makes for a nice emergency/rainy day/ vacation/retirement fund.

Feel free to email me if you want to go down that route and have more questions. (Or just post them here ;)
The current Congress could simply crush it, no need to wait for the next Congress to start.
I REALLY like this idea. There are a number of times that I've wished something like this was out there (but not so meetup-esque). Is this planned to be a global/national/local type deal or what?

Also, just FYI, I had to resize my screen to make the submit clickable.
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It's been a fun and strange ride with this editor. I've been using it for a while now, I think before the Sprint 20 build. It still has some things to work out and new features it needs, but it's a solid editor for front-end coding.

It's been really fun writing extensions for it, gets me out of my comfort zone of working on websites all day. Really great that once I realize I want the editor to offer something I can just open it and create the feature myself using my current skill sets.
Actually, I don't believe this is correct. The weak form EMH claims that any information provided by the price history of a security should already be incorporated into the current price. You can claim that Technical Analysis (construed as patterns in charts and the like) isn't valid and that weak form EMH doesn't hold, if you believe that charting fails to correctly incorporate the relevant information from the price history.
Purely for the sake of pedantry, Home Depot is actually under 40 years old, so it didn't even exist before software, yet alone after.
Are you using React.js directly through JS interop, or something like Om or Reagent to wrap it? What is your opinion of the various options available for React.js in ClojureScript?
Whenever the automatic update picks it up. So, basically all the time--every week or two, anyway.
If you sign into the Jawbone website you can download .csv files for each year you had the device.
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I'm also intrigued by the cat vs human face recognition results!
No. Already discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8487142
What I find disturbing about this is that lean concepts, from Deming to Toyota to software dev and so forth, is meant to benefit both the company and the customer — reduce waste, increase flow, make products and services that people want and that make companies money.

"Lean recruitment" is a bastardization of the term, as it's basically a cool-sounding way for companies to exploit job-seekers in a way that doesn't make things better for the job seeker but certainly advantages the company.

Company gets some free (which may be illegal in some jurisdictions) or paid-but-still-illegal (just saying "independent contractor" isn't a magic word) labor and a low-cost way to vet candidates. Job-seekers get ... an opportunity to work in a diminished capacity in the hopes of getting a job. And no, calling someone an "independent contractor" doesn't necessarily make it so, if the person is doing work in the office, under your direction, with your equipment — companies get in trouble calling people independent contractors when they're actually employees. The description from the original post certainly sounds like it fits this pretty well.

I don't think the current interview process is working as well as it could, and it's ripe for some rebooting. But I don't see that labelling "worker exploitation" as "lean" gets us there.
In tech almost everyone are employee (for someone or themselves). They can take vacation time, PTO or make some extra hours everyday (moonlighting).
I expect it to get a lot of play in the media. In addition to being the seat of government, DC is the first place to vote for legalization on the East Coast.

Although the change has already been passed (overwhelmingly) by referendum, the city council still has to submit the changes to Congress, which will have 60 days to veto them. Further, at any point in the future they can restrict what DC can do via amendments to must-pass spending bills.
I made one with a few of the usernames on his must follow list: https://hn-follow.desh.es/?user=tptacek-must-read
Deutsche Bank (http://blog.malcolmsparks.com/?p=134)

CitiGroup as well, someone who worked there told at euroclojure they have 150 Clojure developers.
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I see. Maybe they mean "implicit private set"? Otherwise, one of the sibling comments has a good point about the binary compatibility issues with fields vs properties.
I just wanted to let you know that your comment put a smile on my face. Thank you!
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Not a lot of businesses had more than a mechanical calculator in 1975
Can you provide any useful information other than a cool sound bite? Is there a better way to analyze equities? There is a lot of computer trading. Must be some analysis happening. I'm sure a lot of us here would like to be pointed in the right direction.
I think the real issue is with the shrinking percentage of a tuition that actually goes towards you know, education. When college administrators makes millions while the instructors are often part-timers making minimum wage it's pretty apparent that students are not getting a good value.
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The only important indicator on a chart is price, and volume in some cases to confirm price. But all decisions need to be based on price action. Chart analysis is just a tool to read the emotions of other traders, that’s it.

Think about it, you see a 3 day rally with wide range bars and on day 4 you get a narrow range bar where the open and close are the same (or very close). What does that tell you? Momentum has stopped and people are undecided. There’s nothing subjective about that. After this the stock can move either way, but you are getting an indicator that something’s going to happen and you have to monitor closely. You can tighten the stops or exit completely. The decision is up to you. But you are using the chart to make an educated decision.

Another example, after a 3 day pullback on day 4 you see a narrow range bar with a very long tail. This is called a Hammer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_(candlestick_pattern)]. This tells you that at some point during the day the sellers were in control but something happened and buyers took control and raised the price. This was a war and the buyers won. This usually changes momentum and leads to a rally. An explanation for this could be that at some point during the day many stop loss orders from long term investors were triggered and short-term buyers see it as an opportunity to buy and raise the price.

I just gave you two examples where Technical Analysis can be effective. Does it work all the time? Of course not. But you have a better picture of what’s happening, therefore your odds are higher and you can use this information to lower your risk.

Finally, you have to remember that for every buyer there’s also a seller and vice versa. When you buy a stock (long) you have to ask yourself. Is the person selling me the stock profiting or taking a loss? Is the other person a beginner, professional trader or institution? You have to find scenarios where you buy the stock from the beginners taking a loss (even if it sounds cruel). Given enough time and hard work you can develop experience necessary to spot where all these people buy and sell and use this information to your advantage.

Does it work all the time? NO

Will you have losses? YES

Can you still make money? YES
It seems that the answer should be, at least in the shot term, for good managers to recognize the 40 hours "available" concept and provide more flexible schedules. No one gains from having an office full of workers surfing Facebook on friday afternoon. Let people be someplace else if it their queue is empty.

From the outside, it seems like startups do this better than most.
>2. Bring in remaining candidates over the next 2-3 days and have them go through the job that they will be performing if they were to be hired.

>...

>4. Bring in final candidates (select few) based on multiple days of feedback, have them perform the same job again for one day and make the final decision.

So if I'm doing arithmetic correctly, you're asking candidates to participate in a trial run for a total of 3 to 4 full working days so you can evaluate them.

I wonder if the writer of the article considered that it will skew the candidate pool towards recent college grads trying to land their first job, and/or unemployed people who can't quickly find a replacement job (because they are undesirable.)

The ones who won't apply are the valuable stars already employed. It's very likely they only have 10 PTO days. The writer needs a reality check if he thinks desirable candidates would be willing to burn up 4 vacation days for a trial work period.

No job recruiting strategy is perfect and most have unintentional side effects (e.g. distorting the candidate pool) that are not explicitly discussed by articles extolling whatever method they're proposing.
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Cool! I've been working on a little Chrome extension that does something similar (and has a quite similar name ;) ): https://github.com/napoleond/follow-hn

Have been meaning to polish it a bit more, but I suppose now is as good a time as any to share it. One outstanding feature that I think will be pretty useful is caching user comments--right now it re-constructs the comment feed on every page load, which isn't ideal.
I love threads like this - so inspiring. At the same time, reminds me how much of a lazy ass I am. I have like 10 side projects that I have about 0.005% complete right now. Any advice for a guy like me? (besides, "stop being a lazy ass", I already know that...haha)
- I decided to throw a pile of my stalled projects together and build a forum framework for PHP. Almost all current forums in PHP are pretty terrible, bloated, and non-modular, so I thought why not have a framework which is designed for building forums, imageboards, comment systems, etc?

stats: none, technology: currently Slim Framework and Composer, and that's about it. history: started it about a week ago.

- A threaded link aggregator. I posted it in these threads a couple of times, but it's been offline for a while for a complete rewrite. The basic gist is, you post a link, and you can open a 'thread' of outbound links from the page as well, with the idea of easily being able to follow a trail of references to an original source and discover a greater, context-specific set of links for a subject. I've rewritten it completely at least three times. If anyone is interested, the scraper I wrote for it is here: https://github.com/kennethrapp/embedbug. I have no idea when it will be worth showing to anyone.

stats: nobody, technology: Laravel 4, history: been working on it for about a year.

- Rewriting a school project from last semester (a project manager in C#) into something decent.

stats: none, technology: C#, sqlite, history: haven't touched it in a while, because it turns out pasting stuff into a text file in Notepad++ is way easier.
Looks like Oracle is not going to support it out of the box in upcoming JREs, so we're going to do it by ourselves in our custom jdk.
And your car leaks information that can be used to create GUID:
http://www.reddit.com/2kj10q/
GCHQ, terrorists, and the internet: What are the issues?
My understanding is that it doesn't apply to federal lands in the District, which makes for some interesting problems what with all the parks.

I don't think Congress will attempt to shut it down in the city. I don't see that being a winning move politically, for a number of reasons. But I could also see zero tolerance being stepped up on The Mall to keep the tourists from less tolerant states placated.
I think of good applications as a collection of SPAs. There is no benefit to forcing every single feature of an app into only one page. Ajax means we can implement more functionality without a page reload, which is good to a degree, but at a cost of slower initial load, losing URL state, and difficulty tracing UI behavior to underlying code.

I am working on a legacy SPA now and it's horrible. (Our users have learned to refresh frequently due to uncertainty of state.) I am not sure how much to blame on poor implementation as opposed to inherent weaknesses of SPA architecture.
I used to freelance full time, and my main sources of clients were word-of-mouth, elance, and Google (in that order.)

My standard was DIY - I had a short 1-page contract, and I'd ask for 40% up-front for new clients.
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Great use of Founder Dating data.
I've long thought about doing this with arXiv to determine if you could extract results and synthesize answers to questions. Is anything like that part of the goals for The ContentMine?
AltDrive because it is fast, robust, has a private security key option, unobtrusive, open/locked file support, and easy to use. It does not do local backup though. Works on MAc, Windows and Linux.
Unfortunately Keynes didn't take into account human nature as well as Parkinson: http://www.economist.com/node/14116121

TL;DR: Parkinson's law is the adage that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law
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"Welcome to the delightful world of Washington, D.C. realpolitik!"

I don't understand how the people who play these games can motivate themselves to get up in the morning.

Forget morality. I'm just talking about a sense that you're doing something worth doing at all.

I just couldn't do it. No matter how hard I tried, eventually the realization that what I was doing was meaningless backbiting bullshit would sink in and I'd blow my brains out.

Maybe it's the "secret to success in New York" joke. The joke goes that the secret is to be smart enough to play the game but not smart enough to figure the game out. My guess would be that applies to DC far more than NY.
I highly recommend watching talk Darius Kazemi (author of Reverse OCR) gave at this years XOXO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9jxsfGCw
Here's an interesting piece of the Alaska marijuana legal status. We just voted to legalize recreational marijuana use, which includes growing and selling marijuana. I'm happy to see it pass because possession has been legal here for a long time, but sales and distribution has not. That's a murky legal situation, which I'm happy to see cleared up.

But last night an article ran in our local paper stating that the Coast Guard will continue to enforce federal marijuana regulations [0]. In Alaska, that's a huge asterisk next to legalization. You can't carry marijuana on a boat, which includes the ferries in southeast and throughout the Gulf of Alaska. That also impacts all of the villages throughout the state whose main access is by river. And finally, transporting marijuana by air is against federal regulations as well. That means marijuana is essentially legalized on the road system of Alaska, which leaves much of the state in another legal limbo.

I look forward to the day where the entire country has a more reasonable approach to marijuana regulation.

[0] http://juneauempire.com/local/2014-11-03/smoke-water#.VFpFQT...
Ask HN: How do you keep up-to-date on current frameworks/language trends?
I mostly check HN and programming sub-reddit. I feel like there are a bunch of blogs I probably should be checking on a regular basis, but I'm way to lazy to do that.

I'm curious as to how others find out about new programming languages or frameworks?
If this bot can generate scribbles from words. Theoretically, couldn't this bot work to teach an OCR-bot to effectively recognize scribbles as letters?