skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having a competent crew helps too.

I'm in the Royal Navy. We practice a man overboard every time we sail and we critique each one. We even restrict movement on the upper deck after dark. We're professional sailors who live at sea - if you take a yacht out with a friend and you haven't been to sea since last summer you need to practice your man overboard drills.
:D Thankyou
There's actually many government programs in India that are expressly designed to provide guaranteed employment for laborers for a set number of days each year.
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Megaupload also ran a monetary incentive scheme that ranked rewards for users based on the value of the content; discovery during the prosecution turned up emails from Megaupload employees overtly acknowledging copyrighted content and rewarding it with enhanced payouts.
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What does useful mean in this case?
They could do anything they want.
>>While I doubt this would happen to me as a software engineer, I would certainly rather work and have my dignity than sit on my ass, collect basic income, and feel worthless.

Actually, you say that because you are a software engineer: it's quite a dignified job. Digging ditches out in the desert is not.
Care to share your rebuttals to the counterpoints that have been made to your argument?

Is this just faith or opinion to you? Some folks in this world are concerned with what's better for people; should we just take your opinion or should we discuss arguments?
Hopefully the article doesn't fall prey to exactly what it discusses.
Hey there, I have been at this consulting gig for a long time now. I have to say managing client expectations and finding good customers is a full time job.

Keeping your small team of awesome colleagues happy is equally as hard.

I think you should use young age and low cost (hopefully) to build out some awesome products to showcase your skills. Build a portfolio, become a pro at some technology stack and write a blog about it.

Once you have a following of people on your portfolio and blog, you'll have more work than you can do and you'll be turning down the lame stuff.

If you want to talk to me, look us up at www.neosavvy.com
What's the reason for IOD still using Boost Regex?
That is very true, but at least the article has links to the previous tutorials that fill out the background of the topic.
Sure, we could wait until such a thing is invented before we start worrying about it. But by then it's far, far too late.

It's not the same as worrying about a giant space goat appearing and sneezing us all to death. A lot of very smart, very well-funded people are actively trying to make better, more general AI, capable of learning. Evidence of progress in that effort are all around us. You seem remarkably confident that they'll all run into an as-yet-invisible brick wall before reaching the goal of superintelligence.

Superintelligence doesn't have to be malicious to be worrying; concepts like "malice" are very unlikely to be applicable to it at all. The worry is that as things stand we have no frickin' idea what it'll do; the first challenge for policy is to come up with a robust, practical consensus on what we'd want it to do.
I thought it was cooking.
They are less concerned with fake accounts with fake names than they are with real accounts with fake names. Real accounts with fake names are potentially good data that they can sell, but with reduced quality because of the fake name.

The "real name" policy is entirely about raising the perceived value of their dataset.
A simulation of a human brain is a human being, and human experiments are generally considered unethical. To say nothing of the possibilities if they succeed.
Well, let's assume I can wave a magic wand and predict the next PRNG output.

These are the hypothetical next steps to abuse this capability:

1. Create password resets for a non-admin user account whose inbox I can read.
2. Predict the next token that will be issued.
3. Request a password reset for the blog owner.
4. Use predicted token to change the admin password.

The solution is to use a true CSPRNG with access to high-quality entropy (i.e. /dev/urandom) rather than relying on a userspace RNG based on mt_rand(), uniqid(), and fast cryptographic hash functions.

The lion's share of criticism I've received is that the userspace CSPRNG is good enough to stop this attack. I subscribe to the "use urandom" school of thought that even the most paranoid yet well-informed crypto experts subscribe to.

The rest of the criticism I've received was in the realm of "why bother, just SQLi one of the horribly written WordPress plugins they'll inevitably install?"
> Designing new viruses or bacteria for a neo-plauge is less likely

Humankind has been genetically engineering organisms for most of our existence. Corn originally looked like grass. Chickens were lean, tough, and could fly. Dogs have been transformed from generalist survivors into purpose-built machines breed for beauty, farm work, and everything in between. The avocado, of all things, is a fantastic example of how capable we are at creating something which shouldn't really exist.

Doing the same with bacteria isn't that much harder, if you've got time and a few basic tools. Our manipulation of the genes directly only makes the process faster.
I doubt it. My mom's family was one of the first to get a washing machine in Sweden. As the story goes, my great-grandmother just stared at it while it was running and cried. Not to be out of a job, but out of joy for all those wasted hours that she had spent hand washing, and she had now regained.

I'd also factor in modern medicine into people's happiness. It is tough on families when you often have infant deaths and you often have horrible diseases like polio and MMR.
I have no doubt stuff like this happens but it's kept pretty well under wraps. The other day, a female salesperson was moved across the office, some kind of conflict with a male salesperson. No one who knows will say why, but the guy has a reputation as a lech, so one can only imagine. No jobs appear to be at risk either.

That said, I also recently read about Joe Lonsdale, and the crazy episode he's being put through. It's worth keeping in mind people do make stuff up, particularly when there is an incentive do so so.
Oh I dunno, learn to read, find out what modern work they find interesting, get an education, &c. Just because somebody is only qualified to do manual labor now doesn't mean they don't have other talents/abilities.

I did manual labor for a long time before I made the gamble to jump into software development. I had the luck to see it work out, but society can provide resources to help people move into more fulfilling and less physically-taxing careers.

I'll be honest, I love a good day of manual labor, but it isn't physically sustainable. Robots are a much better fit.
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Well, I do have around 100k years of evidence that the ending of human life is not so easy, vs. no evidence at all that we're capable of building something that can completely wipe us out. That's not a bad foundation to build an assertion on. I do think, by the way, that we can make something that is able to kill absolutely all of us, but I think it is far more likely to come from tinkering with biology than with software.
Absestos was a particularly unfortunate case. The negative effects of it would not been seen for decades after it was put into good use.

Then again, coal dust and cigarette smoke were also not particularly known to be a problem until about the same part of the 20th century, so maybe it was a focus on diseases of a cardiopulmonary nature as people were living longer that contributed awareness on all such issues...

The more we know, the more fragile our lives seem, and the more dangerous the world looks.
@Zerobrainwash - agreed a proven track record and real results will win every time.
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It's busywork if a machine could do it faster, cheaper, and at comparable quality.
"Sure, we could do it better and faster with machines, but it is better for society to provide employment to those who would otherwise be unemployed."

They could have employed even more people if they gave them spoons instead of shovels.
While I appreciate your humour I want to clarify for anyone genuinely confused. Yield is being used in the legal sense regarding fault not the programming shared resource sense.

What this means, as far as I understand, is that in the event of an accident between a manned and unmanned aircraft the unmanned will be at fault. However, between two unmanned aircraft both will be at fault.
I often use the vids as information fodder for listening while i work. If something strikes me as more salient, or potentially useful for my future needs then I'll make a note to set aside time outside of work to really pay attention to the course.
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This was a fun read, though I am unsure of what the conclusion really is. Even Knuth ended by going on about how he probably wouldn't use goto statements. He just likes building a foundation of really fast/efficient techniques.

So sure, many of these things are mythical in scope and lore. But... the gist of many of them are not so misunderstood as to be wrong.
Microsoft a forerunner on global privacy. .NET open sourced and (soon) running on Linux and Mac. Things certainly do change.
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I'll repeat for a third time: I stand by my characterization of Dickinson as a person who hasn't even been accused of sexual harassment, harming gender parity or anything else at all besides disagreeing with our politically correct elites.

You are right that it wasn't you who mentioned that particular quote. We were thinking of the same discussion, though it was someone else who brought that one up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8169903

Both there and here, you seem to have this unwavering belief that Pax Dickinson has done something horribly wrong, yet you seem unwilling to state what that is. It's a bit confusing. I have absolutely no idea what argument you are trying to make.
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Yeah, I don't really understand how that idea is "leftist." If anything it's... not that.
Then it should be no wonder why they, as a nation, have so much trouble catching up economically.
I don't think the alternative is to sit around and do nothing. Economies are much more dynamic than that, and while it's true some may suffer in the short-run, it's wouldn't be like that forever.

At one point the US was primarily an agrarian society, and more than 90% of labor worked on a farm. Imagine telling someone from that society that some day, tech would allow less than 2% of the workforce to produce many times more food than the current total output. I'm sure they would express a similar concern, though we know they'd be wrong.
I'm not from the field, but is it that hard, for a reasonably well funded organization, to build a safe lab ?
This is really racist though. Like... imagine the insult of being told, "Please use your real name..." when you already are. Motive on the policy aside, Facebook devs were REALLY racist when they coded this check and flagged people who have "descriptive names" -- they clearly don't have any native friends and couldn't care less about how their 2 lines of code would make someone feel that day. Some form of formal apology is probably in order.
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Marketing spam that is using a name that the recipient invented for use on facebook will immediately be discarded, since using the pseudonym outs it as not legitimate.

It is in the interest of spammers to use the most official name for a person that is possible, since mail that is addressed in such a way is read (unless it has another "tell").
So they were digging holes and filling them back up!

Dignity!

Probably would have been better to give them the money, and tell them not to base their identity on their employment status. If one in a thousand invented something new, that's a net benefit for society.
DSC (digital selective calling), which that radio uses to transmit distress signals with coordinates, is an excellent but sadly under-used technology. Everyone should be equipped with it and be familiar with all the menus and options on their transceivers, and regularly test that the equipment is working by making routine calls. The problem with DSC is that the transceivers are really badly designed and downright user-hostile. The receiver usually gets a loud horn going of in their ears which only trains a reflex to reach for the silence button. It's pretty much only used for tests, and before anyone dares initiate a DSC call they call the receiving ship in advance the old-fashioned way, or they will get yelled at. When the whole point of DSC is that you merely enter the recipient's MMSI number, open a channel and just speak, without cluttering up channel 16 which is should be left for distress traffic only. Think Uhura in Star Trek. This is a huge risk to safety of life at sea that the industry urgently needs to deal with. But yes, do carry the equipment and do use it in an emergency, because it does work and it frees up yours and your rescuers' workload to worry about more important things than trying to get your coordinates across by voice.

I would also suggest getting a SART and an EPIRB. A SART is a radar beacon, which shows up as a distinctive pattern on surrounding ships' radar displays, and requires no special receiving equipment. An EPIRB is a beacon that is locatable by satellite, so that's the fastest and most reliable way to get the attention of a rescue control centre. These three technologies are part of the GMDSS (Global Maritime Distress and Safety System), which means commercial ships and emergency services are by law required to carry and use equipment to receive their signals.
This is a typical greedy algorithm train of thought. Ignoring long term issues in favor of immediate short term feel-good solutions. How you can bring up Indian road maintenance methods as a standard bearer for good / positive policy is beyond me. This just leads to roads not getting fixed and the laborers stretching out the repair "job" as long as possible, which in most cases, is a very long time. By using these terrible and inefficient methods, the nation as a whole suffers, including the laborers. Of course, that loss is not immediately observable, and hence gets brushed under the carpet. If instead, the resources that are wasted on inefficiencies ends up channeled better, maybe not this exact generation, but hopefully the next generation of the same economic class could have a better shot at education and/or a better life.

Your line "I hear these objections, but I still stand by my assertion" reminds me of the saying (translated to English) - "100 out of 80 (sic) people are cheats, yet my India is great"
References to the sunglasses brands and the style of objects with which Ive surrounds himself are part of the message the reporter is trying to get across about the relationship between Apple and luxury brands - a story which, as Apple positions themselves to try to replace Cartier and Rolex on celebrity wrists (because those endorsements are critical to Apple avoiding creating a 'geek watch'), places Ive's role in intriguing light. The question, for me, is how much of that is the reporter emphasizing that because they themselves find the relationship interesting - and how much is that Apple's spin to try to reassure the bling-centric part of the watch market that Ive really does understand luxury brands.

As someone who finds all the airport-mall-style silk, perfume and diamond brands completely baffling, Apple's move in that direction - from design to designer - is a little concerning.
If people knew of him at all, I'm afraid the Solaris films really damaged people's perceptions of Lem's work.

I've been reading his stuff since 1986 and he can be as innovative and experimental as Philip K Dick, JG Ballard, or Thomas Pynchon while still being fun and readable.
From my vantage point, I don't see much of a problem here. Offering investment is a beneficial act. So is offering romantic or sexual options. It's hard to see why offering both together suddenly becomes a bad thing - worst case the recipient can decline and is exactly as well off as before.

I'm not sure where to start with this. Is it the idea that you find the act of a stranger putting their hand on a bodily location that would trip the statutes in several US states governing sexual assault "an offer of romantic or sexual options"? The idea that such an "offer" of "options", were we to stipulate that there was any optionality involved, would have been benign? Your statement that the "worst case" is the recipient declines and is "exactly" as well off as before?

But then I reread your second graph, where you cordially invite me to litigate the meaning of the term "power dynamic", and I realize you're just going to draw me into a fake debate where you play the nerd trump card of discrediting a straw man notion of social science instead of engaging the actual issue. And it's not like I'd lose that argument, just that it would be an enervating experience for both of us.
Could we know why this post has been banned from the frontpage?

Thanks,

Matt
I'm curious at what point ones property line ends vertically both above and beneath ground level. People are able to build structures in both directions at great depths and elevations in the cases of mines and skyscrapers.

Perhaps in the case of airplanes flying or building a subway system there is just some sort of easement or eminent domain ruling applied?

If anyone has some resources on this topic, I'd be interested in reading them.
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Definitely not factor of 10, though the timeframe isn't specified.

With a 4 year vesting schedule, $200k in stock is fairly normal and $400k is not unusual for a senior hire.
>> "I'm sure they would express a similar concern, though we know they'd be wrong."

I'm not so sure. The work they did contributed to society. There are plenty of people now being paid high amounts of money for made up, bullshit jobs that provide no benefit to society and create little to nothing.
The left prefers inefficient redistribution

That's not quite true; just they want the main beneficiaries of redistribution to be the bureaucratic class rather than the working class. What you see as inefficiency (in terms of money reaching the end recipients) is in fact, the actual design doing what it was intended to do. Ideally (for them) ALL the money would go on civil servant salaries.
Dude you need a break from unit testing. Also stipulate doesn't mean what you think it means. Lastly I'll never accept "painful conclusions" on "good faith" because of "incomplete information."
I was wondering where it went and had to google to find it again.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/lives-the-brain/201001/...

(that lays out one theory, not sure if it's the same one from the footnote, but it probably is.)
I started when I was 17 or 18, full time, self employed for the past 18 years. I decided my 20's gaining 20 years of business/consulting experience in 10 years of effort to kick ass in my 30, 40's and 50's, when many have to give up and walk away.

First, don't be above learning or above solving problems that take a small amount of time that save someone a lot of time. I am never above fixing someone's spreadsheet or access. In fact, both of these things start conversations of trying to solve problems with software that ends up in.. you guessed it, building software.

Single most important habit: Solving problems single handedly leads to getting long term relationships because you are more of a problem solver than just a freelancer with one or two tasks. Being known as someone who can learn and solve problems quickly and well earns you the trust and being the first call for people who value it.

About skills: If you look back a year, your skills were probably not as good as this year. Remember it will look the same in a year looking back to today. In a way, you do the worst work of your life each day, and that regular, and constant improvement is the only true pursuit.

The languages, frameworks, and technologies will come and go.

Value: Know what value you are adding. Truly. Not the sense of being special from growing up. Value in my books is saving or making someone money that is measurable in a way that I can help deliver. Freelancing more than startups is about the exchange of money.

Customers/Pricing: If you ask your customers "If I can save or make you $2000/month, would you pay me $1000?". Those who say yes to this without a single idea of what to do are often value focused. A lot of places can't afford a full time person, but many, can afford a $500-1000/month relationship with a freelancer for ongoing work. As long as you can identify, compile and line up similar work, you will be able to deliver. The consultant who helped me get my start me told me when I was starting out, find 10 customers to pay you $1000 a month.. and you have a business that isn't volatile.

Learning: In the beginning there will be putting in a lot of time learning how to measure and deliver value. This will take up more of your time than just doing the work or learning some tech (which will be ongoing). I'd put about booking your available time to be about 50% in the beginning while you get the rest of your process flowing.
In your case, while being a student, I did items that got me time and didn't interfere too much with my studies and left me a lot of time to play and learn.

PG has a great essay for students and startups that applies to freelancing -- just solve problems people need solved and you'll find the money making kind of businesses very quickly compared to others your age.

Just remember you're not alone, or the first to do this and you can get ahead much quicker if you stay open to not wanting to think your situation is special and you have to figure out everything on your own. I did that a bit too much and it was not as necessary.
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Personally I have had significantly better results with oDesk.com instead of freelancer.com. I don't know exactly what it is, but it feels like they have better values, and thus better clients.

A key point, that was a breakthrough in my career, was when I launched my new cool and modern website explaining services and portfolio. Then I started to receive random clients interested in my values.

What I am sure is that you need to build a portfolio. If you don't like freelancer.com for that, try with little personal side projects, open source projects, or doing work for friends for free/low prices.
All I get is a black screen with an intro logo, and an endless loop of ocean sounds.

Won't play in a reasonably secured Firefox 35 on Linux.
"This operation is insecure" - main.js:6
Because a huge function is on one line, it's hard to diagnose the problem.
I do not think Pax Dickinson did something "horribly wrong". I think he was fired for cause, and that firing was legitimate: as a public-facing officer of a relatively PR-dependent company, he exhibited gross incompetence. Being fired is not the end of the world.

Which is, of course, my point: your best example of someone railroaded by outrage is someone fired for incompetence. The point is that you don't have much evidence for there being any kind of moral panic, because there isn't much evidence of any kind of panic.
I don't think the two are mutually exclusive. You need both variety and focus to excel. The key is to know when to shift gear between the two modes. Why don't you just do whatever that you find fun and challenging? That's usually the best indicator of what you should do.