skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome concepts from Digital Telepathy, ranging from blood pressure monitor to an app for creating collaborative art. Which idea do you wish existed?
Currently I'm trudging through GEB[1]. Last month I read:

- The Dip (super short read and has a few good points but overall I didn't really like it)[2]

- Going Clear (great book, terrible formatting, but a great book)[3]

- The Martian (short read, very entertaining and well researched)[4]

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

2. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/the_dip/

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Clear

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_%28Weir_novel%29
This has been a boon to the mountain lion population in California :-) Although I was a bit dismayed when the news covered the attack of a deer by a mountain lion[1] as though it was a "bad" thing. I've pointed out before that if you don't let people hunt these animals other predators will fill the gap. wolves, coyotes, lions, and the occasional bear have all been active in California.

[1] http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/San-Mateo-Residents-Wit...
The One Thing Apple Must Do to Launch a Self-Driving Car
Playing with the CPython Interpreter – Protecting a Python Codebase – Part 3
>In European countries for example you only become a tax resident if you spend more than 183 days there.

Pity Thais cannot easily come to Spain and work illegally. Despite what you've said it's blatant public abuse of the tourist visa system in Thailand.

Honestly when I see blog posts like this my opinion of the author and company goes down considerably. Breaking the rules and publishing the fact that you are makes me question what other grey areas you'd operate in.
I'm having a hard time understanding whether this is an intentional backdoor or just an accident.
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) - incredibly clear ideas probably clear-up 80% of issues you have with everyday life

The Bible (& The Gnostic Gospels) - I love the idea that Jesus was a real guy who (literally) petrified his childhood playmates because they "vexed" him by dispersing his anti-gravity water :)

Atlas Shrugged - no excuses

Self and Others - personal pyschology

Seth Speaks - a lady channels an interdimensional being

The Road Less Travelled - a psychoanalyst's memoirs

Letters to a Young Artist - encouragement for going your own way, a series of letters

The Alchemist - help you read the signs from the heart of the World for your own path

An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, et al (T. Suzuki) - really interesting, non-duality, higher third unification of opposites

Hear the Wind Sing (Murakami) - really bizarre and pure, his first one written late nights at kitchen table after working in a bar, before he became famous

Rich Dad Poor Dad - solid advice

Discrete Maths (Rosen) - interesting and very learnable, a great reference

An Imaginary Life (Malouf) - great clarity of writing

The Solid Mandala (Patrick White) - amazing observation of people
There were some quotes from videos that were pretty bad, but I did try and pick the worst I could find in about an hour of reading reviews. The truth is, there just isn't much negativity around anything Apple.

> [..] realized the company isn’t just selling some wrist-worn computer, it’s selling good looks and coolness [..] this Apple product works to help you look—and feel—good. [..] Even when the watch face is off, the black sapphire-crystal screen looks elegant.
- Joanna Stern, WSJ

What kind of ridiculous praise is this? You certainly won't find writing like that on any other consumer product.

Edit: I am very pro smart watch, and hope Apple succeeds. I only wanted to bring some of the real criticisms to the forefront.
There is no way to view the data on the HN website. Please add a link to a source, or at least
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring
or to abandon your product
replacing class-conscious workers and human soldiers—who could choose not to fight for the bourgeoisie—with obedient robots.

The correctness of politics aside and in regard to labor economics, that wasn't a particularly inaccurate prediction of the computing technology's arc under the pressure of capitalism's logic.
"How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie

A classic, but it has really helped change the way I deal with people.
Then treat a self signed HTTPS cert as equivalent to an unsecured HTTP connection and be done with it.

There's absolutely no reason that the most common failure modes (expiration, bare domain vs www., self signed) presents warnings that Something Fishy Is Going On®, when 9999/10000 times, there is not.

Smoke coming from my neighbor's yard in the summer might be a fire, but in all likelihood, they're running a barbecue grill. The SSL equivalent would be calling the fire department every time someone puts some steaks on.
Question , is there a plugin for any text editor like ACE to generate autocomplete based on jison rules?
Let me rephrase. I don't understand why union members feel comfortable trusting a large portion of their employment benefits to the whims of the legislatures or much more rarely now, private companies, that "garauntee" them, nor to the capabilities of the pension manager. The downside of lack of mobility, lack of choice, and poor performance all seem like they would be deal breakers to me, but again, I've never worked in a pension system.

Defined benefit plans can of course be had without using a pension so that seems a red herring.
+1 for Blindsight. I recently read through the sequel and all of the Behemoth series. So great.
> VWAP means volume weighted average price. Admittedly in this case I am using the phrase in very very broad terms; to spell it out, very very few managed funds can consistently buy at a lower price than the market as a whole and consistently sell at a higher price than the market (and hence consistently out perform the market). Once you factor in fees and an outlook of 10+ years the number of funds essentially drops to zero, and most often they give returns below the market average; better to get a return that matches the market, indexed funds, and with very low fees, a mutual index fund.

Unless you are a market maker that isn't how investing works: You are trying to sell higher than you bought in at, not higher than the currently quoted price.
Show HN: Storytime 2.0 – A Combined Rails CMS, Blog, and Admin Engine
Economic simulation is probably just below weather prediction... not really possible.
Good ideas. Though, you can only raise taxes so much before going via the black market becomes viable again. (That limit is pretty high, though.)
Apache Thrift (https://thrift.apache.org/) or Protocol Buffers (https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/).
I just finished "How to Fly a Horse" by Kevin Ashton. It was a fun and inspiring read on the history of creativity and innovation. The book continually makes the point that creation is the product of effort and persistence, rather than random flashes of genius or inspiration. Though I mostly bought it for the historical anecdotes and stories within it, I love those sorts of things. The author posted this excerpt on HN before it was released, and this is what made me buy the book. [0]

[0] http://www.howtoflyahorse.com/what-coke-contains/

Now I'm starting "The Naked Sun" by Isaac Asimov, having read "Caves of Steel" a few months ago. I don't know why I've never read Asimov before, but wow, the worlds and characters he creates are amazing.

As far as technical books go, I'm working on "Build Your Own AngularJS" by Tero Parviainen. I'm only a few chapters in, but enjoying it.
I thought events all were handled were through libuv.
"The Ultimate Secret to Getting Absolutely Everything You Want" by Mike Hernacki

The title sounds hokey, but it's one of the few self-help books that ever made much difference for me.

The secret is simple but for most people, elusive. We talk about it all the time here on HN.

http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Secret-Getting-Absolutely-Eve...

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"I am willing to do whatever it takes to get what I want."

(My spoiler doesn't do it justice. Take an hour and read the book.
"Guns of August", Barbara Tuchman

I am particularly interest in rereading it and paying particular attention to the question of judgement and how poor judgements were formed. World War 1 is notable for its poor judgements. This interest is sparked by my recently listening to [1], which was very enlightening.

The essential question in our field often is not how fast we work, but if we're working on tasks worthy of attention - in other words, we have to judge the systems and features and determine what brings us the best outcomes. I've had some number of technically successful projects that were nulls when released. Avoiding that is part of significant improvement for me going forward.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFcHX0Menno , "Stranger than Fiction Case Studies in Software Engineering Judgment" Steve McConnell
> Okay, so the systemsetup binary simply checks if we are running as the root user?

>Philip tried patching that function (replacing sete with setne), with success:

How do you patch the binary without root or the admin user password anyway?
"What better way to encourage people to upgrade."

The majority of their user base doesn't know and wouldn't care about this type of thing even if they did.
Hey thanks for reading! Check us out at rebil.co for a bit more information on how we plan to instill value in digital art. We are just getting started, but keep watching and I think you'll like what you see!
Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco.
The key problem is that cartels need money, and have moved on to what is more profitable to them, and more violent:
crimes affecting the general population:

Kidnapping people,
Organ trafficking,
etc
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Yes, they did. Then the Brazilians invented it again and it became modern day MMA.
Believing you'll get rich on options in 2015 or beyond is impressively naïve.
The Masks of the Illuminati, by Robert Anton Wilson
Let's be real; most kids who graduate from a top CS program end up at Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. They will make great money ($100k+) and many will eventually leave to go to a startup.

The kids who are going to be successful doing startups with no work experience likely dropped out to join an accelerator before they graduated.
sure?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9348322
We were concerned when.Google bought them and we had many meetings with them about this, I do not believe that will happen, but if that is still an issue for you, use signalFX.
I live in france, I've been interested in the XPS laptop lately, so I tried to check it out on the dell.com website, but I can't access it. I think I have being trying for 3 months now.

dell.com resolves to 143.166.135.105, but I can't ping it. I don't think it's because I'm behind a proxy. (I'm not sure I'm behind one though).

I can access dell.fr though, but all the links forwards to dell.com.

I just tried a tracepath

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:~$ tracepath dell.com
1: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 0.121ms pmtu 1500
1: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 0.630ms
1: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 0.632ms
2: XXXXXXXXX.herault-networks.fr.XXXXXXXX.in-addr.arpa 1.482ms
3: XXXXXXXXXXXXX 2.469ms
4: herault-network-gw1.ter1.neodc.mpl.cust.as8218.eu 2.704ms
5: ge-1-0-3.ter1.neodc.mpl.core.as8218.eu 2.215ms
6: xe-2-1-0.tcr1.sfr.mrs.core.as8218.eu 4.301ms asymm 7
7: xe-1-1-0.tcr2.itx.fra.core.as8218.eu 20.003ms asymm 8
8: xe-0-1-0.tcr2.itx.fra.core.as8218.eu 22.672ms
9: ae1.tcr1.itx.fra.core.as8218.eu 25.386ms asymm 10
10: ae10.mpr1.fra4.de.zip.zayo.com 25.465ms
11: ae4.cr1.ams5.nl.zip.zayo.com 27.698ms asymm 13
12: ae4.cr1.ams5.nl.zip.zayo.com 30.321ms asymm 13
13: ae5.er2.lga5.us.zip.zayo.com 99.236ms asymm 14
14: ae5.er2.lga5.us.zip.zayo.com 101.956ms
15: 192.205.36.105 109.648ms
16: cr2.wswdc.ip.att.net 152.169ms asymm 20
17: cr2.wswdc.ip.att.net 179.170ms asymm 20
18: cr1.wswdc.ip.att.net 154.098ms asymm 19
19: cr2.dlstx.ip.att.net 155.156ms asymm 18
20: 12.249.214.14 152.337ms asymm 18
21: 12.249.214.14 155.039ms asymm 18
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Too many hops: pmtu 1500
Resume: pmtu 1500
So, take more photos! It's not like you're being charged by the roll like in the days of film cameras.
Well, this is the point. If we do things because we have added in a "game" feature, then will we stop doing those things if/when the game is removed from it?

Gamifying good behavior is just the latest form of "Nudge theory" which applies positive feedback or design elements to guide users toward a specific action. I think in an of itself is not a bad thing but has had some criticisms [1].

[1] www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2011/11/does_nudge_policy_work_a_critique_of_sunstein_and_thaler_.html
Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
For turboprop aircraft, if the engine is producing power (eg. oil leak) then keep it running until at a safe altitude. If the engine isn't producing power, then the prop may need to be feathered to keep the aircraft climbing.

Certified passenger turboprop aircraft (ATR-72 included) should be able to maintain altitude, without feathering the failed engine.

I was thinking of British Midlands flight 92, where an experienced crew that were new to the 737-400 misread the vibration instruments, and shut down the wrong engine, at altitude. Poor training on the -400 differences was a major factor.

Experienced pilots do screw up occasionally, but good CRM usually avoids a mistake snowballing into a fatal crash.

In a Cessna 150, I had the window come open on takeoff. Same aircraft, same instructor, same thing happened to my dad years before. He told my dad to "Fly the plane".. I knew not to close the window until at a safe altitude. He just smirked a little.
I'd love to see your source about the "average" on 401k plans. I've worked under so many 401k regimes I can't count them any more and have seen some bad ones. That said, there is normally at least 1 passive fund/etf in the mix even in the worst plans.

Further, 401k plans are easy to change. Make your displeasure with them known to HR (who frequently don't understand that the plan they have put together is bad) or discount the benefit accordingly when evaluating your compensation and invest outside of the plan in the ways you want.
Yeah it's absolutely amazing. Because there's so few accidents now, and so few that need serious professional NTSB analysis on, I've heard the FAA is trying to turn to self-reporting on accidents to help build out the picture of aircraft failure modes. They've apparently established a complex system of self-reporting combined with deidentification in order to encourage people to provide data.

http://www.asias.faa.gov/pls/apex/f?p=100:43:0::NO::P43_REGI...
When you did your Thailand experiment, did any employees take their families with them?

Also, I presume from the article that not every employee was in Thailand, and some chose to remain at home, correct? Did the remote team ever feel left out of the conversation as most of the team was speaking in person in Thailand?

Thank you, and nice article.
I just want a toothbrush that doesn't break Very Soon after warranty ends. No games, thank you.
not so sure, gangs are becoming MORE violent, affecting the general population:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9348322
I read remote almost two years ago shortly before starting my first remote job. I'm a huge 37signals fan but the book just didn't do it for me. I found the advice to be mostly obvious. That doesn't necessarily make it a bad book but I was really looking for more well tested industry specific advice. It would have been great to also hear of any remote working failures they endured during their 16 years in business.
While cringing at the cliche: monads were the key ingredient.

Let's not turn this into a cliche! Monads are powerful. I find do notation much easier to read in many cases:

do subscribe
assertSubSucceeded
startRoundtripTimer
assertRecievedWebHook "channel_occupied"
stopRoundtripTimer
unsubscribe
assertRecievedWebHook "channel_vacated"

If you haven’t come across monads before, don’t worry, you can think of the monad we are using as “code that does IO”.

On top of this, once you have a basic intuition for how monads work, you start gaining the ability to describe what your program does at the type level. For example, This block of code requires a read-only environment (Reader), has logging output (Writer), and accesses websockets (WebSocketT).

Also, the fact that Haskell is a less mainstream language led to a few obvious disadvantages: less documentation, not quite as many libraries, poorer tooling (although having on the fly type errors show up with mod-ghc is already a massive win over Ruby).

Yes, you essentially need to be prepared to do any or all of the following if you want to use Haskell commercially:

1) Patch libraries and tooling.

2) Engage communities and maintainers (bug reports, mailing list, etc).

3) Implement functionality (from scratch) which "should be there".

If you can't, or won't, do these things, Haskell will be much more painful to use in the real world.
Diaspora and Permutation City put totally new questions in my head.

If consciousness is only a series of states in your brain, does it matter what the order of running that sequence is? In Permutation City there is an experiment where brain states are played back backwards or in a random order, but to the person perceiving it, it seems like just business as usual.

I always assumed that after my brain is destroyed there would be just nothingness. But maybe if the "next state" will again exist some time in the future (or past?) from my perspective it will still be a totally continuous experience. Death might seem like just a bad dream.

He plays a lot with this stuff. In Diaspora consciousness is just a piece of software. Since this software can be run at a much higher speed than wetware can, each moment of real time seems much longer to the uploaded. But when they want to, for example when waiting for an interstellar trip to complete, they can "skip forward" and let the brain emulator run them at a much slower pace to make the trips more bareable.

I thought running a consciousness backwards or in random order would be as far as he goes, but in Diaspora they even go a step further, having every state be a completely separate structure in a completely separate universe. The book assumes that to the participants even that would seem like a continuous experience.

It really makes me question what I really am, how malleable is this "me"?
- Losing my Virginity, by Richard Branson and Edward Whitley. It made me realize I've never really hustled in my life. Reading it was a humbling experience. When I finished the book I was on the verge of tears, an odd mix of shame and wonder.

- Impro, by Keith Johnstone. It's about theatre, human flaws and taking back your self-expression. I'd gift it to anyone I know, if I could.

'What's for supper?' a bad improviser will desperately try to think up
something original. Whatever he says he'll be too slow. He'll finally
drag up some idea like 'fried mermaid'. If he'd just said 'fish' the
audience would have been delighted. No two people are exactly alike,
and the more obvious an improviser is, the more himself he appears.
If he wants to impress us with his originality, then he'll search out
ideas that are actually commoner and less interesting. [...]
People trying to be original always arrive at the same boring old
answers. [...]

An artist who is inspired is being obvious. He's not making any
decisions, he's not weighing one idea against another. He's accepting
his first thoughts. [...]

Striving after originality takes you far away from your
true self, and makes your work mediocre.
They need a bonus level for flossing.

Every kid is different, but brushing teeth has never been a huge problem for my kids. However, getting them to floss is pure hell.
There is far too much personification of evolution. It shows up in sloppy science writing, that then shows up in the way people think about it.

"what DNA (or evolution) really wants" "Eventually, some pre-living ribosomes would have associated with bubbles of fatty acids" - as if they have wants and desires, or ability to act with intent.

I think evolution is a kind of alternative religion for many people.
I've been meaning to delete mine, I'll get around to doing that today. LinkedIn, more than any large online service I know, is due for replacement.
What about developers that need to support customers on older systems?
My county recently changed to using a passive investment strategy for pensions and there is a push for the whole state of PA to change to a similar model.

http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/inquirer/20150301_Follo...
>It's what has become of capitalism.

How is this a problem with capitalism? The problem is with centrally controlled public sector employee pensions, which has ALWAYS been rife with fraud and corruption as unions and municipal politicians all want a cut of that pie.

In a more "ownership society" solution, you take your 401k where you want to. You choose your investments, risk level, etc. Its certainly not perfect (sometimes some groups have high fees but you should be able to switch providers), but the larger issue here is how messed up big city pensions are. In Chicago, the city is going to go bankrupt next month if it can't find huge and new levels of funding/taxation. It has promised so much in pensions it can't remotely pay for via politicking and union corruption, that the taxpayers are shocked at how badly everything has been managed.

The larger issue is that the 60's and 70's radical leftist politics have come to roost. We handed unions and public sector workers the keys to the kingdom and now we just can't pay for it as they retire. Its not just fees and its not just Chicago, its going to be a lot of municipalities where pensions are going to do serious damage.
Just a coincidence! I bought the book a few weeks ago but didn't pick it up until I was finished with something else.
Of course keyloggers etc. are a problem. But that is a different story. A bug which can be exploited just by grabbing any device might have a larger impact on the vendors reputation.
A keylogger, fake smc, whatsoever ist much more dangerous for a single person, because the attacker knows what he wants on the specific device.
"Recent Comp-Sci Grads say all sorts of things that vary in cleverness," says recent TA.
I think this is not part of the exploit, it was simply a step to ensure that their intuition about the assembly code was correct.

Hint: the first sentence you quoted ends with a question mark.
Deze superfood smoothie met bijenpollen en avocado helpt tegen hooikoorts
In my experience the first 1K employees at companies prior to going public have a much higher chance of becoming millionaires as a result of their equity holdings in the company. I'll see if I can find a better source.
You mean pre-workout supplements, right?

there was also the pro-h
ormone supplements, which used some form of testosterone precursor that wasn't illegal yet, or something like that.
"Orthodoxy" - GK Chesterton

"The Abolition of Man" - CS Lewis

"The Master and Margarita" - Mikhail Bulgakov

"The Brothers Karamazov" - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ClojureScript 0.0-3190 out
The first Mac I ever got, the IT department forgot to give me admin access, so I couldn't install any software. Having never used a Mac before, it took a grand total of about 15 minutes of Googling to figure out how to boot into single user mode and give myself admin access.