skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I go to places, I just tell people I'm a garbage man or "waste disposal engineer." That's usually a super quick conversation.

But to your point, engineering is just persistent and consistent effort. Most people don't want to put the time and effort to really learn the science.
Steam Box and VR is interesting, but only if it actually happens. So far we've seen next to nothing from the Steam Box idea except a ton of companies releasing small form-factor PCs that were originally slated to run Steam OS but then switched to Windows when Valve decided to back out.
I don't have time to fully inform myself of every issue that the government must deal with.

Like hiring management we put someone in place that we trust to handle the minutiae and if they screw up we replace them with someone else.

That being said, I'd be all for a 'representative tracking app'. Basically, continuous polling of a constituency on issues with 'friends of the people' briefs from experts or interested parties. Then a comparison with how the representative actually responds to and reflects their constituency be it from direct comparison to voting records, to legislation introduced to advocacy on behalf of constituency. It'd be tricky because the people interested in responding to polls wouldn't necessarily reflect the will of the whole being a self selecting group and brigading problems but there could be some sort of meta analysis of respondents as well so people could know how seriously to take the results.
Unfiltered First impressions:

Your medium article is 50X better than your website. Your website is useless for promoting your product. I don't like the headline font for your site, the lack of screenshots, basically the lack of focus on a product that will live or die on its usability and interface. I'm not a fan of the Z in openloopz. Combined with the comic sansy looking headline font it doesn't feel polished.

The inventing of a new words ("loops") is to be avoided unless absolutely necessary. You are now not only trying to tell a (very) mildly interested reader about your product you need them to learn a new language in order to understand it. This is an unrealistic cognitive burden for a sales pitch for a todo app. I strongly suggest that you use the simplest possible terms in plain language to describe the focus of your product, how it fits into the users life, and what problems it solves for them.

Your post here is more focused on your personal suffering than on your product. We are all eating shit to try to launch our companies, but too much focus on that makes for a downer intro to your product. I'd try to separate your moments of sharing the struggle and the moments of sharing the product. Do you want people to be genuinely excited about it, or pity you? Which emotion do you want to be a stronger first response?

Scanning further over your medium article (It's longer than a casual browser will give it time, ie 5 seconds) I suggest you take whatever the salient feature of your product is, maybe the hashtagging to create inline tasks and put that front and center in a huge picture and font. I'm still not sure what problem you are solving or who you are competing with, is it todo lists, slack, what? Where does this tool fit in my life? I suggest you take a look at the way that slack conveys information https://slack.com/is/team-communication (notice even the url hammers home their function).

I think that honest feedback is very imporant and that your main problem here, which is something that affects us all, is that you are too close to the product. You already understand it, you speak its language (invented words and all), and you are now longer able to communicate it to the passing man in the street. I suggest workshoping your pitch and language with fresh ears constantly until you are able to get someone to understand the basics of what it is and how it helps them in 10 seconds or less. All that said, I'm rooting for you, best of luck!
I was very amused to see whitehouse.gov in the list of vulnerable sites.
Staytus – a new open source status site app
My first thought about the enslavement is that the threat of killing their family would be a powerful disincentive to turn on the cartel. Either way this is tragic, I feel for all those affected by this.
Obviously you've never had an issue with your adwords account.

I've spoken to someone who's adword budget was 20K a month and even he couldn't get someone to talk to when they suspended his account.
>A PhD is not so much an apprenticeship though, its goal should be to bring a novel contribution to the state of the art in the field.

I think here we have a disagreement over goals. I've always thought of a PhD as being the period in which you prove you can compose and carry out a "Minimum Viable Sustained Research Project." But it's intentionally minimal: you're supposed to get it done and start your real career as a qualified scientist.
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No joke. Someone called the cops on my friend for having his 8 year old kid outside, playing in the cul-de-sac of a safe suburban neighborhood.
what I mean in my paragraph is that C has all these (nasty) details that are necessary due to C's position as being almost assembly language (but not quite) AND being cross-platform. Macro assembles like MASM and TASM use ISA-specific assembly languages, so you can't write cross platform code. I suppose one could image a sortof cross-platform LLVM IR structured macro assembler might be an example of something lower than C that is still architecture-independent that you would then pass to an machine-specific optimizing compiler.

Algol is higher level than C.
That's a good argument for changing the law. However, it is not a defense against Clinton breaking the current law. The President and other executive branch members can claim executive privilege which is the actual legal defense you describe.

Clinton did not claim executive privilege. She set up a secret email account in order to avoid disclosure laws. This criminal and corrupt action should disqualify her for presidential office.
That's fine on paper, but the reality is that none of their "beta" products come with any real user risk.

I think it's more of a "test drive" scenario for google. It's fully baked but they want to see how it changes behavior on a wider scale where people make choices independent of the organization.
> incentivise people to take the time to read

That, technically, is not what I'm proposing.

I suggest a burden on businesses or other parties that want to require a contract, in the form of a forced delay roughly proportional to the length/complexity of the contract they wish to use.

In practice, I expect businesses will find this unacceptable[1]. They would therefor work to find some alternative solution.

It might be that there wasn't a need for contracts in some situations, or that the contract language could be made much simpler/shorter. Alternatively, maybe a handful of "well known" standard contracts could become popular, similar in style to the Creative Commons licenses.

We cannot (and should not) avoid complex contracts entirely, but we might be able to fix a lot of common "simple" situations that shouldn't use a complex contract that few people read. By setting up the time burden, I expect complex contract (that might already have a "cooling off" period) wouldn't be significantly affected, but everyday small-time stuff will be incentivised to move away from the current practice of throwing usually-one-sided legalease at everything.

[1] I have often heard that the reason our current credit card system hasn't been updated to something with actual security (chip+pin, one time numbers, some sort of callback system, etc) is that any of these better methods would slow down transactions, resulting in less sales. Regardless of this being true or not, I'm attempting to utilize the perception.
The people red-flagging for domain redirection are the Ads Quality Raters who are contractors not FTEs. They work remotely, rarely collaborate, and follow whatever's written in the rulebook for good/bad ratings.

Running ads to a landing page with little content other than a redirect to another domain is forbidden and rightly receives poor ratings. As stated in the article, this was not the case. The rulebook was pretty specific about this, so I don't know how this got so badly interpreted. The AQRs do have a forum they can appeal edge cases on, so I'm surprised this got past a supervisor. I got in so many online arguments with the other AQRs who were not able to interpret the intention behind some of the rules.
You forgot nearly the entire Bush Jr. administration.
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Good point, but I can't edit it back.
> One of them is Arrow's Theorem, which proves there is no such thing as a "public interest" in which the preferences of a multiplicity of people can be aggregated.

Arrow's Theorem doesn't prove that, it proves that (for a particular formalization of on intuition of what is
"perfect") there is no perfect way of taking rank-order-preference inputs from a group and producing a rank-order-preference output that is the aggregated preference.

That's not the same as proving the non-existence of a public interest, or even of one that can be assessed as a mathematical aggregate of some measure of individual interest. It just proves that any public interest that exists cannot (given the theorem's particular standard of perfection) be perfectly assessed with only the information provided in ranked-preference-order ballots (or, consequently, less information-rich mechanisms like choose-only-one-option ballots).
I keep forgetting that exists. Everyone's talking about hats, and I have no idea what's going on.
gotta live how the ONLY reply that agrees with the article it's full of borderline-trolling replies doing exactly what the article call out. gotta love HN hive mind!

it's basically:

> > I'm using that and it satisfies all my needs.

> but if you join the hive mind you can do all those much more complicated and futile work around steps and get the exact same result.
Indeed, there's no way the screen is going to look that bright in real life, even IF they put all the battery output behind it.

And that's a big reason why smart watches will never look as good as a real watch - the screen is just a big dumb surface with some vague electronic light. Compare with intricate mechanics, colors and materials of a proper watch.

I'll still switch to a smart watch, once they nail power consumption and features (it needs to substitute a phone, including phone calls), but good looking it ain't.
The story seems a bit more complicated on how it was setup.

It was unclear whom Clinton hired to set up or maintain her private email server, which the AP traced to a mysterious identity, Eric Hoteham. That name does not appear in public records databases, campaign contribution records or Internet background searches. Hoteham was listed as the customer at Clinton's $1.7 million home on Old House Lane in Chappaqua in records registering the Internet address for her email server since August 2010.

The Hoteham personality also is associated with a separate email server, presidentclinton.com, and a non-functioning website, wjcoffice.com, all linked to the same residential Internet account as Mrs. Clinton's email server. The former president's full name is William Jefferson Clinton.

In November 2012, without explanation, Clinton's private email account was reconfigured to use Google's servers as a backup in case her own personal email server failed, according to Internet records. That is significant because Clinton publicly supported Google's accusations in June 2011 that China's government had tried to break into the Google mail accounts of senior U.S. government officials. It was one of the first instances of a major American corporation openly accusing a foreign government of hacking.

Then, in July 2013, five months after she resigned as secretary of state, Clinton's private email server was reconfigured again to use a Denver-based commercial email provider, MX Logic, which is now owned by McAfee Inc., a top Internet security company.
The thing is, I new it was dangerous/icky before doing any of these things. I was just experiencing it instead of just knowing it.

The only things I improved was my climbing skills. But I was doing a lot of climbing outside of this. My parents were letting me climb trees, and they did sign me up for acrobranch classes (real tree climbing, from bottom to top, not just the parks you explore that are man made), but I was safe, with a harness in these cases.
So effectively, the individual signing must spend 8 minutes doing nothing but looking at the contract (even if they are daydreaming). I can see where this is would be a concrete improvement, even if just a minor one to a much larger problem.
It was more akin to a self signed certificate, but also more complicated depending on domain setup. But also things changed a lot between RDP protocol versions.

It did take me quite a while to reverse engineer the encryption. It was mostly done using IDA Pro and SoftIce. The hardest bit was because I had several crypto books, and whichever Microsoft employee implemented their security kept doing what the books said not to do, so I'd never expect to keep encountering the "wrong" way of doing things.

https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/index.shtml

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftICE
To understand this, you need to understand what our current republic was designed to be a solution for. Read the Federalist papers, #11 is a good place to start. You will discover that the motivation for the establishment of a republic was actually to limit the will of the people and to protect the "opulent minority" ie, the wealthy. The system was explicitly designed, overtly, to preserve the power of the elite and making it extremely difficult for the majority to organize and get anything done. So, our government actually does exactly what is was designed to do, and it does it quite well. Direct Democracy is a solution to a different problem.
yeah...heroku is weird about naked domains. you need to use a DNS provider like DNSimple to set up your domain correctly with Heroku. Then your users will be able to drop the "www". This worked for my side project, konkourse.com.

References: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/apex-domains.
Definitely seems like an interesting idea, I like what you are trying to do here.

One thing you might want to do is update your dns so that your app also answers on openloopz.com.

Currently you receive a heroku message stating "There is no app configured at that hostname.
Perhaps the app owner has renamed it, or you mistyped the URL."
I'll say that getting rid of phone interviews is wrong, unless you are keeping "phone screens" which are just making sure that the person isn't wildly out-of-place for the job.

I've wasted time going to interviews when a phone interview would have revealed to both sides that it wasn't the right job for me.
It happens.

My son threw a conniption fit in public. Leaving the zoo, heading back to the car. I had him under one arm (kicking & screaming) and my "dad bag" under the other.

A thoughtful neighbor yelled down at me "Stop beating your kid! I've called the police!" Okay then. I put my kid the car (leaving door open), sat on the curb, and waited for the cop.

Last thing I want is an AMBER alert and then get pulled over. Then I'd be late for the parent handoff, and then the fur really flies.

Older (experienced) cop shows up. My son's still grumpy. Cop sizes up situation and sends us on our way. The 15 minutes served as a pretty good cool down.

In general, abused kids do not throw tantrums in public, normal parents keep their cool when their kids just need a nap.
This of course should not have been the case, but does seem to be.
All of her predecessors appear to have used their personal emails as well. Kerry is the first one to use an official email. She left office at the beginning of 2013, while the official policy banning personal email went into effect at the end of 2013.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/03/hillary-ema...
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I think non-game development is accustomed to taking tools and giving nothing back, particularly with open source. GPG provided a sharp wakeup call around this recently.

http://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encryptio...

Game development does this but I think less as game architecture can require significantly fewer tools. Rovio were once called out at a GDC convention for giving nothing back to (the port of) the physics engine they use, stuff like that can form the majority of third party code in a game:

http://www.geek.com/games/box2d-creator-asks-rovio-for-angry...
great idea going to leave some feedback
Design wise it looks fine, but I feel the page doesn't do a very good job at explaining what it is and why should I be interested. I got it after reading the blog post, so I would suggest to condense that information and make it glanceable/scanable in the main page (that is to say, the visitor should be able to understand what is it and why is it useful without having to read much).

Take a look for example at the landing page of stripe dedicated to bitcoin: https://stripe.com/bitcoin — in less than 10 seconds I can get what is it about (and even how to integrate it) and I didn't have to read or watch a video. That's more or less what you should aim for so completely new visitors can go "oh, this cool, I could use it, let me signup". As it stands right now, your copy (keep friends in the loop, communicate better and get things done quicker) isn't very compelling to get someone to sign up.

Also, what is your target group? For example, do you expect the product to be used mainly by developers and makers? Because in that case the main page should be tailored to speak to them (the current copy, imo, doesn't, too generic to get a dev excited).

Does the name need to be OpenLoopz? To me the z there makes it sounds like a product for kids and not very professional. Personally I'd consider going for another brand if it's possible at all.

Resolving these issues won't get you users and customers overnight, but I think it'd put the product in a much better position to start.
I actually suspect that it has less to do with your heart and more to do with your fitness. People generally get less fit as time goes on and thus the target heart rates reflect that. I rode with one guy who was in his 50s and could still hit 190ish no problem (while outriding us college kids), mostly because he was monstrously fit.

If your muscles are able to do less as you age (and that I definitely believe!) then it's easy to see that it's harder to produce the same amount of power. As the power requirements on your heart decrease it slows down. So for a younger guy who can make 1000 watts peak his heart rate might be 210 to do so. An older guy might only be able to make 800 watts peak and have a heart rate of 180 for that amount of power.
In any other workplace, this would be called data leakage. This is why many companies use web filtering software to block other email providers.
You are probably right.
I knew I shouldn't jump from high places, but this actually increased the height I thought I could jump from.
Direct democracy: The tyranny of the majority (2009)
Where are you coming from? I've seen two systems for running postgrad degrees, and neither work as you describe.

>They already get a low but liveable salary without having to pay tuition. I don't think many PhDs do TA/RA duties - they're too busy researching.

In most places I've seen, PhD students are the primary source of TA/RA labor. If we're lucky, we get a base stipend and TA/RA adds to it.

>PhD students don't have grades or qualifying exams

I've never seen a PhD program with no coursework, no qualifying exams, and no grade requirements for either. Could you show me where such an arcadian academic track exists?

>and three publishable research papers is what most PhD students achieve anyway

That was my point, yes.
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http://thehill.com/policy/technology/234487-hillarys-emails-...
Huge numbers? If I ever met anyone who said they read the full license for all software they use, I would call them a liar.
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Ditto all this. I haven't read the Medium post, but just looking at the website: I have no idea what it is or what it does for me, and I'm being asked to sign-up first thing. Further reading still doesn't answer any questions.

Honestly, it'd be a miracle for anyone to look at the website and decide they need to sign up. Not because the product isn't amazing. But because I have no idea what it is and I'm not in the habit of signing up for services if I don't know what they are. That's how you get Cat Facts.

EDIT:

Also, you need an Editor really badly. I don't mean to be a dick about it. But this is your family's welfare on the line. Find someone hyper-critical to tear your writing.

ie:

> What is OpenLoopz?
> OpenLoopz makes it easy to manage and share your digital content online, as well as helping you get things done quicker and communicate better!

I've just tuned out. That sentence is as empty and as much bullshit as they come. A very direct question was asked and you disrespected my time. You could be describing Facebook for all I know.

If you want your site to be compelling: Be Brief. Every word needs to tell me something useful and important. Your broadcast is all noise and no signal right now.

Anyone saying the Medium post is good: Don't believe them. It's better. But that'd be difficult not to do. It's still completely useless for moving units. People are just being kind.

Get an editor. If there's one rule you need to follow, it's brevity. Brevity. BREVITY. It's not rocket science. This isn't beyond you. You aren't doomed to failure. Be brief. Be critical. You've failed at communicating your product's worth. Now try again. Not tomorrow. Today.

And don't let perfect be the enemy of good. It's not going to take you a week to fix this. Limit yourself to 400 words, and some screen shots. Fix it today. After that's done, keep iterating. Revise revise revise until you have the perfect 400 words and can't think of how to improve it further. Then find someone who can.

Good luck!
Seriously, I would kill the content on your website and replace it with what is in the Medium post. It's 50x clearer. I read your website copy like 3x and still had no idea what openloop is.
> UX issues

this is exactly what the author is saying. and he covers your post there much more concisely. all use cases you mentioned are used infinitely less used than the time you want things git make more cumbersome. that's the while point and i think you made your reply after reading only the title of the article.

but the trolling succeed. everyone replied. sigh. even me.
I'm sure event loops have their uses in all languages, but I'm not sure why the author rubbishes Python and JS, citing callback hell, and then writes an example that uses callbacks.

Anyway, the article's introduced me to consensus algorithms, so thanks for that.
currently i think we need to ban lawyers and bankers from politics

with these lawyers in power - they make new laws every day and freedoms are actually shrinking

free speech zones, everything is taxed, marriage laws, drinking in public laws, its getting rediculous. poker and bitcoin are moving towards illegality (wtf? poker is actually my favorite hobby)

when did we decide we need someone to make laws every day and pay them with our taxes? this seems absurd to me. any insights? am i wrong here?
I believe this was in reference to not having "Uninstall" instructions on his site.