skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, didn't know that there's a deer ultraoverpopulation.

Very interesting reading, thanks a lot!
"Herbal" is a complete misdirection word that tells you nothing about the toxicity of a substance.
Show HN: Where is “Who is hiring?” hiring?
Can the Military Make a Prediction Machine?
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I had to read it back in high as part of my AP Lit course. It's not a very long book but it is very well written and teaches you to enjoy life and live out your dreams.
"On becoming a person" by Carl R. Rogers.

He defines Psychotherapy as merely a special case of any relationship, where the relationship will help you grow by allowing you to overcome built up incongruence. Many technical books made me change my perspective, but few were as valuable as this. Although it is easy to read, it can be quite hard to understand. It comes along as non-scientific, but many of his ideas and findings have been substantiated by empirical studies in the past.
They should've used Vanguard. ;)
Oh, stopping chemical reaction somehow? Sure, you can do that today with beta blockers. On the other hand that adrenaline injection is a good thing, imo its better to learn to cope with it than fight it.
Research low-cost index funds. They're better than managed funds and much, much cheaper. In this day and age, the only person who you can trust managing your money is yourself - and turns out, if you're smart about it, it's not hard at all to do well.

But that doesn't change the fact that there is a large segment of the population who are not educated or disciplined enough to avoid learning about that, and they have to live their whole lives with the anxiety of mismanaged funds.
If not Google, who are the tier-1 employers?
Threat Spotlight: SSHPsychos
I hate him because he spends approximately 5,500 words of this 6,000 word review framing how awesome Apple and all their wonderful products are and how terrible the rest of the world is for not being Apple before giving a tiny set of heavily qualified problems.

With Gruber the answer to the question "did Gruber like this Apple product?" is one of two answers

1) Yes, with a 2-5 sentence blog post

2) Yes, with a multi-thousand line blog post he buries issues inside of

And to "did Gruber like this non-Apple product?" the answer is

1) No, it obviously sucks

2) No, because Apple does whatever it is better

These days he at least provides some useful information in his long form posts, so I don't autoflag them like I used to. But he's often virtually information free.
If you're paranoid enough to think someone you don't trust can have physical access to your Mac, it is possible to prevent this by setting up firmware password though.

See https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204455
It's one of those things where the "highly risky" is more or less true, but mainly because it is illegal, and not the opposite. Make any medication illegal long enough and people will do stupid shit with it because they can't go to the doctor and ask them how to use it safely. Then they'll injure themselves, reinforcing the illegality of the medication, and keep the circle going.

The documentary "Bigger, Stronger, Faster" by Chris Bell is an excellent starting point to learn about the supplement/anabolics industry.
Linkedin will do well pushing computer courses because "getting into tech" looks attractive to the 90% of people stuck in lousy jobs. They're looking to cash in on a webified version of the "bootcamp" movement. They have a great audience - people make Linkedin profiles because they are job hunting.

And anyone who takes an HTML class makes the list of profiles returned from a recruiter's search longer. And for the spam recruiters LinkedIn tends to serve, a longer list is more valuable.
Public unions like pensions because they are defined benefit plans and are guaranteed a specific monthly benefit. The risk is passed to the tax payers because they need to cover any poor investments.
Yes, I would think so. AS some people say, and I agree with this, to enjoy a job it has to be fulfilling. If you are an amazing compsci guy that's stuck making highschool-grade java programs, it's going to be a bit soul-sucking I'd think. Sure, you're getting paid to do simple stuff, but if I was working at google I'd hope I would get to do cutting edge algorithms and the like.
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On Software Craftsmanship: The Apprentice and the Journeyman
Hence the reason I'd only get a rescue.
> To prevent further such abuse all testing should be done by accredited third party groups.

How do those groups earn money? By charging for their testing? So groups that produce better results are selected for, which risks groups that have easier tests or more relaxed scoring being selected for by schools.

This has happened in some parts of England for GCSE exams. (These exams are taken by schoolchildren aged 16. )
Don't let the article confuse you. It's 100% illegal to work in Thailand on a tourist visa despite the comments of the Chiang Mai immigration office.

http://ashleyconnor.co.uk/blog/2014/09/07/working-in-thailan...
I think this is a bit of an unfair comparison. Sullenberger had 3000 feet at time of engine loss and Transasia had a max altitude of 1050 feet, and lost the first engine at around 3-500 feet. Yes it was their own fault but no engines at 1000 feet is a different story than 3000, and you could even argue that single engine failure just after takeoff requires more taxing immediate action - possibly especially in a turboprop where I think you have to feather.

Also, as the article mentions, the river is much less suitable for ditching than the Hudson.

*edit apart from the comparison, I think it's a pretty good article.
No, somebody who buries those 2 negative points in 6,000 words of rhetorical framing devices is. Have you ever even seen the content of Daringfireball?
Just started reading Ubik and liking it so far. Before that I reread To Kill a Mockingbird. I really enjoy hacking on side projects in my free time but sometimes it's nice to step away. I've found getting deep into a book is a good way for me to do that.
R.A. Lafferty's literary sci-fi has many historical and non-fiction elements. Out of print but there's a complete collection online called "Talled Tales". Some stories can be read on the web, http://www.ralafferty.org/works/collections/online-stories/
I like coding from a Mac, but running on a remote Linux box, as it's usually the deployment target.

Recently I've been doing a lot of Unity, for which I _greatly_ prefer OS X (to Windows, there is no Linux version even though it can build for it).
Some certs mean nothing, but some of the MOOCs do apparently earn you some credence.

I know the NSA, for instance, regards completing Coursera's Data Science specialization [0] as at least noteworthy enough to mention it in their Data Science job listings.

[0] https://www.coursera.org/specialization/jhudatascience/1
> FTFA: "The project consisted of four modules: an economic simulator [...]"

We have sophisticated physics simulators nowadays but no economic simulator to be found. It's almost as if all those economic formulae are a giant pretense and can't really provide a concrete explanation of how things work as required by algorithms (and people, but you can always fool people - you just can't fool computers).
Opinion lets your record and publish a podcast on your iPhone or iPad
Neither source you give is reliable, both are heavily biased.

I prefer actual charts from counties that pay, given 190 days of work http://www.dekalb.k12.ga.us/human-resources/teacher-salary-s... in a respectable county in Georgia this isn't what I would called underpaid. This is before benefits. Its not hard to find these charts for most counties.

The areas that need attention is all the money spent on administrative people other than teachers. The US has spent increasing amounts of money on education with near zero results.
>No one goes around arguing we have to prohibit shoes because of sweat shops.

But shoes from sweatshops, I know many who say we should prohibit those.

>If they are an adult and didn't understand the risks beforehand, that is on them.

What does turn 18 (or what ever age you set adulthood to) magically remove the need of informed consent?

>Its commonly understood addictive substances are risky.

At least in the US, growing up the risks of drugs were vastly blown out of proportion (as was the risks of premarital sex). If those who told you that K was dangerous cried wolf on A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, and J, why would you believe them about K?
Thanks, this is fascinating and exactly what I was looking for.
Yes! Thank you for mentioning, I am floored at how little attention this gets...
Assuming the PhD was not in something related to software testing and is not entirely worthless, you're either overpaying for irrelevant skills or paying someone less than they could get elsewhere. Neither are a good thing.
I find it pretty interesting that the only real concern was "can this team solve my technical problem using the best tools in the shortest amount of time" but did not seem to consider things like, "What happens when this team moves on". One of the biggest assumptions that I've made is that when choosing tools, choosing the most popular ones gives you the highest chance of bringing someone on board who already groks them, finding learning material, etc.

I seem to be noticing more often now that "the best tool for the job, for the person, at the time" is completely acceptable. I feel as though this didn't used to be the case, and I know a lot of more "established" engineers who believe it's naive to choose tools based on an inclination or personal/team preference. While in this case, we're getting less code in the dependency, I'm highly suspicious of how their working knowledge, method of code organization, etc... can be transferred over time.

Ultimately though, knowing what actually happened over time with this project would be the most interesting. Does he eventually find new team members who convince him to switch back to a framework that is more widely understood and practiced?
Business purposes is things like signing contracts and participating in meetings. Not doing actual work.
The Feds Want a Back Door into Your Computer. Again
"Who Moved My Cheese" by Spencer Johnson.

It's only a short tale, but it changed my approach to more or less everything. I am eternally grateful to my good friend who showed it to me in about 2000/2001 ish.
But the effort is what is makes it this low. The alternative is complacency, and the associated slide backwards.
The student mentions that Google's pay is "average" and the housing stipend is taxed more than wages, bringing the overall compensation down to on par with other employers in the valley. Fair enough.

He then says that other more prestigious startups are paying more and allow employees to be on the ground floor and have a bigger impact - I'm curious to see a list of these companies.

I also wonder if "fresh out of grad school" versus "worked at Google for 2 years + grad school" gets you into these startups. I still believe seeing Google on your resume gets you a second look.
"Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman.

Review in The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/books/review/thinking-fast...
This looks, regrettably, similar to my own bookshelf.
Look up "Tsundoku" -- it is what we suffer from.
I now have a "Field Notes" planner that here I plan out what tech book I need to finish for the month, before I move on to fiction or other tech books.

The LPI is June-July.

Good luck, my friend.
I think the article is about the difficulties in capturing said Value, especially given cheap digital copying, and it contains a vague promise that the author's company might help, without telling how. Did I miss something?
Great, back to the 90s and java & oracle certification style shit being demanded by employers
I used to work for an Australian astronomer. I've never been to australia itself, but I think the Australian people are quite cool.

Dr. Mould looked and spoke just like Crocodile Dundee.
Yes, but that's not really a concern. Physical access with no disk encryption is always 'vulnerable'.

What's pretty bad here is that any user now has a backdoor to obtaining root privileges. That's an awful security flaw.
i guess it's an individual preference, but if i were off working on a lark the last thing i would want is to be surrounded by people who do the same thing as me. i can get plenty of that anywhere on both ends of california.
I've been reading Pynchon's Against The Day for the better part of a decade now. I'm hoping to finish it within the next three or four years.
Yep, physical access is total access. However, this trick falls under cool-at-school-tech-labs, I'd hope enterprise systems would do something to prevent this kind of low-level shenanigans.
I'm sure it is more difficult, but you should be able to measure significant non-fatal events.

For instance hospitals (and some industries) measure sentinel events [1][2]. Sentinel events cause death or serious permanent injury, or events that could cause death or serious permanent injury.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel_event

2: I couldn't find a reference for industry, but I know they are recorded because I went through the training.
That is one of the best books I've read in 2014.
I suspect there is a large scale factor difference in dose between whatever common food use there is (preservative or whatever) and the body hacking use.
That was a very inspiring book. She was a pioneer in the field of web design and it's great to see their success. I'm a long time Lynda.com member and I hope they continue to produce the same quality courses going forward.
I agree with this. I've heard him give talks on a few occasions and found them far superior in content and delivery than his writing. Which is hard to believe because Gruber honestly is a very good writer.
> At the end of the day, it's their own fault for cutting lousy deals.

Victim blaming. Well done.
There's a certain irreduceable complexity to all interesting problems, so at some point, you're not solving complexity, but merely pushing it from one place to another.

Right, but I'm not about to believe we're even close to that limit. Every day we have people writing bugs which, from a state of the art perspective, are already solved problems. It's like people are out there riding horses while others are driving past in their cars.

I think it's a little better to say that a lot of the problems we face in software engineering are cultural, not technical. So many people adopt these tribalistic mindsets when discussing their preferred technologies rather than allowing themselves to be open to better ideas.
I am somewhat new to programming (<1.5yr, age 17). Recently read the book Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. It was a very sweet read. Have read some HP books and skimmed through rest (1, 2 and 6 were my favorite reads). I will give some more time to read books soon though :)
Anathem and Cryptonomicon are both must-reads by Stephenson too.
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 (on any given day, VWAP, as opposed to the opening or closing price which is what is normally published) 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.
In some countries in Scandinavia, buying sex is illegal, but selling is legal. That combats this exact problem somewhat.
Apple's model customer is one who upgrades often. If you want solid support for old products, stick with Microsoft, and accept that their products can be clunkier because of deliberate choices to maintain backwards-compatibility.
I believe that you cannot criminalize half of a transaction. Further, you cannot criminalize any necessary step in a chain of commerce that ends in a legal transaction.

If it is okay to use a drug, it is okay to buy it. If it is okay to buy it, it is okay to sell it. If it is okay to sell it, it is okay to produce it. If it is okay to produce it, it is okay to acquire the raw materials and precursors (i.e. grow cannabis, grow mycelium, grow ergot, buy pseudoephedrine).

If there is a possible malicious use or purpose, you can only criminalize that chain as far back as the last link in an innocent use or purpose. If you criminalize methamphetamine, you cannot also criminalize pseudoephedrine, because it is still a decongestant cold remedy, which is an innocent purpose.

In my view, you cannot separate links from the web of commerce by outlawing an intermediate activity and pretend that the orphaned innocent activities are not affected by it.

I think those laws previously mentioned are thus aimed more at influencing policing activity. Left to their own devices, a cop would prefer to arrest a prostitute than 10 johns, and would prefer to arrest a pimp than 10 prostitutes, and would prefer to arrest an organized crime captain than 10 pimps, and would prefer to arrest a kingpin than 10 captains. Interrupting that walk to the root of the crime tree at the prostitute level forces them to fight the crime where it occurs rather than seize the money.
As I was reading the article a voice in my head was shouting "TIME KILLS DEALS! GET IT CLOSED".

Clearly the difference in approach here in the UK versus our cousins in the US caused delays that even a large self-sustaining business would seriously consider before undertaking.

Sorry it didn't work out but very important lessons learned I'm sure.
The average 401k plan is a bag of crap, with lots of high cost, low performing investment options.
Flytenow (YC S14) v. FAA entering final phase
Even easier is running 'resetpassword' from Terminal in Recovery mode (boot with ⌘-R). This gets you a nice GUI tool where you can reset any account passwords.

But yes, this is not possible with a firmware password or with disk encryption (FileVault) enabled.
Nope, I cared because I was a consultant and was trying to make sure things got done.

I care because when you're working as a team and people are gone, it kills productivity across the team.

Not everyone works in silos.
the hard thing about hard things, horowitz.

it gave me a significant confidence boost about the startup i'm doing.
I don't believe that. Most prostitutes in the countries you mention render their services voluntarily. Could you please give credible references for your claim?

In the context of prostitution, the term "human trafficing" itself us primarily used for shaming purpose where prostitution is no longer illegal. For this reason it should be avoided like the plague.
I've started The Prince of Niccolo Machiavelli, but I wasn't in the best mood for that kind of book :)
I have to try that one again
Where Movie Ticket Income Goes
The second half of the article is the interesting one. Skip/skim past the "do you have a ceiling" bit. The meat is the idea that if you go too long with a missing bit of understanding, the workarounds and coping strategies you form to keep progressing can create a barrier which is not remedied by filling in the original missing bit.
"Letting Go: The Pathway To Surrender" by David R. Hawkins

A well written pragmatic guide to spirituality.
TIL that even students from top CS program have no idea about taxes if they think that housing stipend is taxed higher than ordinary income.

He is not alone though - compensation director at Box tried to convince me that higher salary is significantly better than lower salary + bonus because of higher taxes on bonus.
Why are Snowden's supporters so eager to give government more Internet control?
Encrypt all the email data in your account at the click of a button
This was a joke, the only out of stock item on the list is the Hammock at the bottom. This is a reference to Rich's talk "Hammock Driven Development": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
I interviewed for a few finance firms there. They were the last fucking places I'd ever work. They want to pay 1/2 to 2/3 the going rate and enforce the shitty hours and schedule you're referring to.
> The people in charge of deploying this money should negotiate better terms

Indeed. Yet even those people are making good incomes for horrible decisions. As the author said, even his kid's 529 outperforms this nonsense. Making money when the market is up (over the period under discussion) should be a given. That it's not means everyone involved should be fired.
What better way to encourage people to upgrade.
Being Geek by Michael Lopp

Rands does a great job at giving a broad range of career advice for software engineers. I also recommend his blog: http://randsinrepose.com/
Lets take a look at the jet example from another perspective.

The jet is self assembled by proxy of humans being self-assembled. A 747 is the result of a trillion step chemical reaction that stretches across the history of life on earth itself. The chances of this reaction self-assembling on another planet under the same conditions and in the same manner are impossibly low.

What we don't know is whether or not the chemical reactions forming the first life form on earth happened in the same improbable way. Did it happen over eons? did it require a billion steps? I dunno. Nobody knows. It is not unrealistic to say that the chemical reactions necessary to form life are so rare that earth is the only planet in the universe with life.
DMCA: How an Anti-Piracy Law Became a Tool for Online Censorship
Your list of primary sources ends at 2001 :)

No classics beyond that date?
12 Apple Watch Apps That Could Change Your Life
full disk encryption only protects you from passive snooping. If someone has physical access between two of your subsequent uses, no amount of any type of encryption will save you. Except maybe some entangled quantum bit collapsing mechanism. Maybe.

Think hardware keyloggers, fake MBRs, &c.

OP's trick won't work, but that's an "implementation detail;" there are plenty others that will.

EDIT: to clarify; that's not what you said, it's just a common enough misconception that it's worth being explicit about, here.
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Apparently not in the most recent case in South Carolina where the officer's dash cam was running and didn't stop him from shooting a man eight times in the back, did it?

Sure, it's no panacea.

But in San Diego:

Complaints have fallen 40.5% and use of "personal body" force by officers has been reduced by 46.5% and use of pepper spray by 30.5%, according to the report developed by the Police Department for the City Council's Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee.[1]

And the ACLU tends to think they are on the balance, positive[2].

I think Brin's argument would be that we've tried policing without cameras, maybe it is worth trying it with lots more cameras.

It's worth noting in that case you mentioned above it was mobile phone footage that led to him being charged, not a dash cam[3]. That's an argument for more cameras, controlled by civilians.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-body-cameras-201...

[2] https://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/police-body-moun...

[3] "the video, which was taken by a bystander" http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/us/south-carolina-officer-...
If I understood the article correctly, this can be exploited remotely by anybody who has managed to get a shell on the system.
Vagabonding by Rolf Potts.

Talks about minimalistic long term travel.
Helpful Hackers vs. College Regulators
"How to Win Friends and Influence People", Dale Carnegie

"The Black Swan", Taleb

"How To Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto", Tom Hodgkinson

"The Tao Is Not Silent", Raymond Smullyan

In that order.