skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this may reek of "ad hominem", I believe it's important to know that the Wall Street Journal is for conservative audiences by conservative authors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal#Politic....

As such, the editorial pages normally present the truth if and only if that truth conveniently intersects with their ideology. Not saying that liberal outlets don't have the same bias, more so that its opinion pages are not a good source for reasonable, effective analysis of, or solutions for, United States policy shortcomings.
That was my observation as well, the two incidents were completely different, loss of one engine at take off, and loss of both engines a little further into flight. IMO the author commits a disservice to the Asian pilot for not making this explicit.
that's (Edit: exactly he opposite) of how it is in several European countries (consuming/possession of some drugs / quantities is legal, it's illegal to sell)
Yeah, that's what I call executives who are isolated in their walnut paneled office complex, too removed from the manufacturing floor. Too many layers of management, and too much reliance on MBA business models; not enough walking the floor, paying attention.
I don't believe that's a cultural mesh that would work.
I'm starting to work from home some days, so I just started reading Remote, office not required

http://37signals.com/remote/
Uber and Lyft drivers now have insurance options
>You are comparing apples to oranges. There is a difference between "prohibition of a substance" and "prohibition of an activity that exploits human beings".

Is there that big of a difference between prohibition of drugs and prohibition of prostitution?

Also, where does prohibition of a substance produced by an activity that exploits human beings fall?

>Addiction isn't "coercion" in this sense when you are the one that voluntary took the substance with knowledge of the risks in the first place.

I wonder how many of those addicted fully understood the risks? Especially if they first became addicted while underage and thus unable to partake voluntarily.

As to what type of prostitution I'm talking about, I'm including adults because there are many places it is still illegal.

>as long as no coercion is involved

What counts as coercion? Does "If I don't have sex with this John, my children won't eat tonight" count? (Of course, one may also ask the same for other jobs; is "If I don't produce garments for the next 12 hours, my children won't eat tonight," slavery?)
The Evolution of Mining Pools
I'm not sure how that was supposed to be helpful.

I also don't think it's strictly true. For sure the underlying networking came from Unix. But as for the web itself, once we got to real dynamic content, it seems to me that Microsoft were the ones that got things moving.

While the Unix world was mired in the awful world of CGI, Microsoft gave us high-performance ISAPI, and then Cold Fusion (also on the Windows platform) and Microsoft's ASP made programming a little more sane. While the Unix world tried to deal with JSP (which IMHO wasn't a very good solution), the Microsoft platform seems to have been the innovators for several years, until Ruby on Rails and then node.js and stuff started coming out.

Today, the Apache server powers far more sites than any other, it's true. But IIS shares the 2nd-place spot [1]. When you say "There's a reason 80% of internet traffic does not use Windows", that's pretty much true for the servers, but far off the mark when counting clients. And the reason for that is that Microsoft's strength hasn't historically been radical advances, but in figuring out ways to take the bleeding edge tech that doesn't really work quite right yet, and packaging it into commodity software that may not be as sexy as envisioned by those with the original ideas, but actually useful to the average guy.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/web-servers-microsoft-iis-and-n...

EDIT - missing word "world" in 3rd para
4) If you're investing any "small" amount, don't invest it in a hedge fund. Invest it in a passively managed (index) fund. I pay .3% a year on my assets and get market returns.
The article on thestack.com did link to the Business Insider article, but you're right, this is content marketing (previously known as press release regurgitation) by Workday.
25 years of age.
Snail-mail them a dead-tree cover letter and resume on good-quality, high cotton content paper.

Google's jobs site provides the postal addresses of many of their local offices. I don't know about Australia but many of their addresses are there. Also, they ran Want Ads in the San Jose Mercury News - scads of them.

I expect this is because Google doesn't work through third-party recruiters. That would cost billions, maybe tens of billions in commissions.

in you cover letter, maybe in your own handwriting on the back of the envelope, point out that you really do want to live in Australia, and hope to do so by working for the likes of Google.
Take a ride on a human powered roller coaster
I have that same toothbrush. When I have to use a regular toothbrush, I feel very self-conscious that I'm probably not brushing as long as I would be if I were using the electric one.

I like to make a game of seeing whether I can do other tasks in the time it takes me to brush my teeth. Can I make cinnamon toast while brushing my teeth in under two minutes?
ISIS hackers belonging Cyber Caliphate team overtake French TV5Monde
> keeping Kevin Mitnick out

That has less to do with technology and more to do with psychology.
Gotta give credit to splurging for a .io domain for a joke. ;-)
Those were already the best they had available on the island ;-)
ahmedali972
I am reading "Autobiography of a Yogi" (after reading the steve jobs book, I got to know about this book. It was the only book in Steve jobs iPad)
I would think that different EULAs from different companies may say different things.
Great read with lots of sane advice. My only wish was that they talked more about "junior" folks and the whole mentoring aspect - steps to make that effective remotely (for both parties!)
Is this live? It says it's coming 'mid 2015', and the standard (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, I believe) repos don't seem to have any mention of it.

Edit for anyone else curious about this: No, the letsencrypt CA isn't ready yet; there are test builds available for all of the software, but any certs you get will not be properly signed, and your users will get nasty browser warnings. Something to keep an eye on in the future, I guess.
Isn't this a good time to recapitulate the things why LinkedIn is not exactly ideal social network? I forgot most of it, other than how they scour through people's address books.
My read is that the fund managers created an additional $2B in exceeded expectation/value, then billed 97% of that created value. In other words, stay home, don't use these guys, don't pay them $2B, get the same returns. That's how I understand the point.
Thanks for being reasonable.
Started Flatland on the train yesterday - lots of fun so far.

I'm looking for more Sci-fi if HN can recommend anything! I've been reading a lot of historical non-fiction over the years, but recently finished Snow Crash and the Diamond Age. Love the genre, but don't know much about it.
It's what has become of capitalism. First there were producers, they sold what they created themselves and made a profit. Then there were merchants who bought and sold and made a profit on the difference. Then investors who invested in merchants and made a profit by collecting interest on lended money. Nowadays, it's the fourth level of capitalists, the fund owners, who takes peoples money and invest it into investors who then invests it into merchants.

A common scam is to email 10000 people betting picks. To half of them you predict that team A will win and to the other half that instead team B will win. Repeat the process with the ones who got the right picks and after a few iterations you have a small group of gullible people who think you have supernatural sport prediction abilities.

Fund managers do the same thing all the time. They have a portfolio of funds, some of which purely due to chance will not beat their market line and will then be folded into those who did. Then new funds are started to fill the void. This way, almost every fund can appear to beat the market average.

That's just one of the many tricks available to fund managers. Another is choosing the right index to compare your fund against and selecting which time period puts it in the most favorable light. Maybe the performance over the last three years were extra strong or maybe it had a dip so let's compare over the last seven years instead?

The worst thing is that you can't abstain from playing the game. Your retirement money is on the stock market and fund managers will take a big slice of it in fees whether you like it or not.
"What I meant is that the moderator was not really optimized for mobile as it was built before smartphones became dominant."

Actually, we had a new mobile UI built in ~2010, and tested it at various conferences and in various other products.

The truth was the product wasn't going to do well outside of some niches, because the large content providers wanted something they could either control, or that was just more popular even if it wasn't a good fit (IE CNN/et al wanted facebook/twitter for their on-air shows, and were okay with hiring full time people to do curation)

So, yeah, mobile didn't really kill moderator, despite your claims.
Getting kids to brush better can be fun and this product seems to hit that point very well. However, from my experience as a parent of an 8yo, phones and tablets around a basin of water for too long spells disaster. I don't want a product that would require me to hover over my kid while he's brushing his teeth.
"Dune" the classic sci-fi novel for the first time and I've just finished the Fountain series. Before that was Snow Crash. On a classic sci-fi reading bender right now.
"ivory tower"
After exhausting anything interesting on Wikipedia about Greek mythology I finally decided to dive into the real stuff.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/hesiod/theogony.htm
Regarding your critique of 1984, try Brave New World if you haven't already. I think it fits your expectations of the dystopian genre much better.
That article just confuses me. It says it is ok and then contradicts it a paragraph later. Eg:

"Digital nomads – people working remotely or running online businesses – in Thailand can legally work there on tourist visas"

But one paragraph down:

"It is unlikely that travellers will be granted a re-entry stamp after two or three visa runs. If your passport is stamped “O-I” (out-in) upon arrival, it is unlikely that you will be able to re-enter the country again should you decide to do a visa run"
> Doesn't explain the statistical violence peaks of the 1970s and 1980s in our society.

The big theory for this is the widespread use of lead paint that was banned in the 70s.
I am not in my 20s and I do have a family, but that's a feeling I get here too! There also appears to be a strong dislike of older proven languages (don't ever mention the word C++) and a faddish obsession with newer younger languages. Perhaps it goes with the crowd?

Or are my conclusions inaccurate?
Could you please elaborate? I came here to mention that the Soviets built the earliest "balanced Ternary" computers, which is like binary but with a negative digit, which can be much better in high precision arithmetic.
But there are serious known bugs in IE10 and IE11 flexbox implementations. They will never be fixed, so when IE11 market share drops below 5% I will use flexbox. We're talking about perhaps in the year 2020. HTML/CSS is still not suited for app development and due to browser inconsistencies that will remain true for decades to come, perhaps forever. Apps in browsers is doable, but a more cumbersome than one might think.
Metro 2034, the 'sequel' to Metro 2033
I know, wishful thinking. A little scraping might go a long way. If the data were available, I'm certain the networks could be easily identified by clustering the overlap on 5 star reviews of totally unrelated items.

e.g. I noticed a highly unlikely overlap between multiple reviewers of a particular hardware product my wife had mistakenly bought. When reviewing how she could have made this mistake, I discovered the title was misleading and the many 5 star reviews were fake. Looking at 5 star reviewers history showed a bunch who shared reviews of completely different items (in the make-up/food supplement arena) all produced by the same manufacturers.
Selfish Ribosome Theory: Genome as Artifact
That's just the thing, though: Liao had all the time in the world to think about it. There was no imminent danger, until he created it. Losing an engine on takeoff is a bona fide emergency, but the only immediate actions you need to take are to keep the airplane straight and keep your speed up. For everything else, you can take your time and analyze.

Sully, on the other hand, had a minute or two before he was going to run out of altitude, no matter what he did. Every moment counted there, in a way that it definitely didn't count in the Taipei crash (until the pilot made it that way).
I think it's a more familiar pattern than people want to admit.

We (OP3Nvoice at the time, now Clarify) went through Techstars London 2013. As much as the team loved London and the program, they just couldn't raise there. Fast forward a couple months and they've moved to Austin, TX. (I joined then.)

Moving to Austin created some challenges but within a couple months of restructuring the UK company to a US, the dollars started flowing and within 2 months, we ended up raising about $1.4M.

All of that said, we have some great advisors and a couple small investors from London and they've been insightful and asked some hard questions. But despite both groups speaking English, the cultures and risk tolerances are wildly different.

And yes, Kyle is a great guy. :)
Jennifer Lopez is the reason behind Google Images
My experience here is that the community is somewhat schizophrenic on work - anything that smell of old school hierarchical structures, fixed hours, clear preference for onsite over remote work etc are evil - but at the same time, if you work a single minute more than 40 hours a week without overtime pay, you're being exploited. If you have a work laptop or cell-phone, it's a trick to make you work more, for free - not blatantly obvious tools to enable remote work which further enables flexibility. If there's free food or showers, it's a trick to make you work more, for free. If there are social events or people otherwise claim to "enjoy work", it's a trick - they've obviously drunk the Kool-aid. Mandatory beer pong!

I think a lot of people here are very keen on experimenting quite radically with what work itself looks like. Like all experiments, they are not for everyone, and nobody expects any single radical experiment to just stumble upon the final answer to work, but they may learn a thing or two that the rest of us can benefit from.
You're thinking of the security hacker which isn't what this article is about. Good guide for security stuff though.
Haha, are you and walterbell tag-teaming? (see above) That would be ironic.
An example of executive isolation:

Cargill's execs are located in a mansion near the company's HQ:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargill#/media/File:2009-0612-0...

It overlooks the home's original pool, which is a large cement pond. You can walk between it and the company's HQ, but being that it's in Minnesota, it's not always a pleasant walk.

https://goo.gl/maps/FQ9oV
Mobile and mid-tier console developers. Not AAA, but with budgets firmly in the "you spent what, for that?" range.
This is badly misguided. It is true that design is a series of trade offs. At a certain point adding an extra safety check will not be worth the cost, whether that cost is in terms of dollars, complexity of the system, or something else undesirable.

However, there is absolutely no reason to assume that different approaches will arrive at the same trade offs. Of course a software pilot has cost/benefit trade offs, but they could potentially be more favorable trade offs than you get using a human pilot. The entire point of improving technology is that the balance of trade offs gets more favorable.
I remember reading her "creative html design" book back about 20 years ago (it was from 1997); that book was a work of art. The techniques may have changed somewhat but the sites in there would likely be acceptable today I suspect (which either shows how little progress we have made, or how well the book was written!)
That actually sounds terrible :/ Quality of life and all that jazz.
Another point is that after fees almost no funds consistently beat VWAP; and for the ones that do you'll either not be invited to invest in it, or it will turn out to be a Madoff. The take away being if you are investing in "normal" equity investment funds at less than $1B invest in index funds, preferably mutual index funds.
What I'd like to see is some manner of On The Job Training.

I mean anything at all - the tiniest little crumb would make my whole fucking day.

At Knowmed Systems, I was paid to read a book then write practice Smalltalk code for my first week. My second week I was working productively, my third week I was just as good at Smalltalk as most of the other coders there.

For the last fifteen years though I am commonly told that the employer wants "someone who can hit the ground running".

The long-term effect of that has, by now, resulted in NO ONE having the ability to hit the ground running. That is one of the real causes of the perceived yet largely fictitious shortage of software engineers.

It wasn't really until after the Dot-Com Crash happened that anyone ever expected ME to hit the ground running.

Before that, while I was generally expected to be qualified, I was regarded as so-qualified because I learned how to write FORTRAN Computational Physics code during my Physics studies. I only had just one CS algorithms and data structures class, however it was quite a good class.

My actual experience is that I really don't need to know a whole lot more than stacks, arrays, linked lists and binary trees, as well as the standard library routines that operate on them.

I think graphs are just dandy but I can't really say I've ever needed to use a graph on the job.

Yes I am very intrigued to study sorting algorithms as well as to puzzle over various ways the I could beat QuickSort - but in my actual workplaces I just call the C Standard Library qsort().
Some people prefer an structured learning path. You can build it yourself, or you can go to sites like Lynda.com.
Glad that you are setting an example ATGATT Salut
I'm actually surprised this wasn't done sooner.
This is my favorite fiction book. I wish I could go back and read it again for the first time. Enjoy it. =)
Also, add some budget to allow your remote team members to fly to meet each other. I mostly work remote, but one of my clients had funds to fly me over every few months and meet their team for a week each time. It's a fantastic way for the team to get to know each other, far better than just Skype interactions.
Second that, reading this right now what a great book!
Nothing fast and loose about it. "Lose all power" is a perfectly normal way to mean all of your engines quit. "Power" in an airplane refers to propulsion by default.

And just to be clear, if you somehow lose all electrical power on a modern airliner you are completely screwed no matter what or who is flying it, because the controls won't work anymore. The pilot, whatever its nature, immediately becomes a passenger.
> We were there on holidays ;-)

No, you stated you were working. From your article's title:
"Working Remotely From A Tropical Island In Thailand"

> what we're doing is technically a gray zone

Did you file a tax statement and did you pay any taxes on income earned while you were residing in Thailand?
"Fail fast, fail often" doesn't mean the company fails but that you're running experiments and testing things. And instead of spending 6 months and tens of thousands of dollars to find out if it works, you figure that out in days or weeks at a fraction of the cost. If it fails, you clean up and move on. If it works, you add fuel to the fire.
I say: would it not be possible to restrict reviews to users having effectively paid for the reviewed item? I know this may make things difficult for recently-released items but it would be a better option for consumers.

What are the drawbacks (apart from much fewer reviews of newer items)?
Reamde of Neil Stephenson
In some breeds you will still find breeders who, although they are breeding AKC registered dogs, are breeding for function rather than form. Retrievers are the obvious example - there are hunters who are using those dogs for their original purpose still and breeders looking to satisfy them. Unfortunately, in some breeds there is a divergence between "show lines" and "working lines", and a lot of judges are looking for traits that aren't really present in the "working lines" or much more exaggerated in the "show lines". This isn't so much a problem in the breed that I'm in - the dogs are bred just as much to excel in the lure coursing field these days (and, in Russia at least, for running down actual rabbits and other small game) as they are for the show ring. It might be that the breed's relative unpopularity is in some ways an asset - it's not found in either the top 10 or the bottom 50 breeds. Probably because keeping these dogs is not for the faint of heart.
I don't think thats true, if that was the case, the price of prostitution would drop with experience/skill/quality.

A quick google leads me to http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-average-prostitution-price...

From this, it looks like the price for prostitutes increases with quality.
I both love this and hate it at the same time.

As a father of three I recognize how hard it is to get kids to do the stuff they are supposed to and that is good for them without hovering over them or just forcing them to do it. Anything that makes good habits easier is a win in my book.

At the same time, if we gamify everything that takes willpower, even the good for us stuff, then we slowly chip away at the ability to be internally motivated when there is no immediate benefit/reward.

I also recognize that minimizing ego depletion [1] across the spectrum throughout the day could make it easier to make better decisions - a big thing for kids behavior actually.

My guess is that this is a net gain overall, but I am concerned slightly that hacking motivation/willpower might have some drawbacks that we don't see yet.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion
Introducing the all new DJI Phantom 3 drone
send your own response with your IP before the real response comes back

Being able to inject traffic is not "passive".
I think the precedent and willingness to spend huge amounts of money to treat self inflicted problems is pretty well established. Lung cancer, liver damage, sleep apnea, auto accidents, etc.

Not to mention one of the main points of approaching this whole situation differently is that treating users and decimalization may actually save money overall.
3 TED Talks to Improve Your Work Performance
Google’s Push for Security Leaves Unprepared Businesses Vulnerable to Attack
I agree with both statements so much, I have seen this. I see it all the time in college, where kids fail a test or get a bad grade and just fall apart. I've had difficult time all throughout my education career, Ive had to bust my ass while others sail through everything, but this really has taught me a lot. If I fail I know its not the end of the world I just keep going and work even harder, but some people just crumble and give up. My roommate does this, he fails a class and instead of working harder at it he just drops the class because he was it to be easy.

OP, you have something a lot of people don't. Just Keep going.