skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would all the formalities after landing the first contract.

It takes like 15 minutes online to establish limited company.

And when you buy insurance - how do you know which one? My current contract requires me to have 10 million employer liability insurance (I don't hire anyone) but I have to have it anyway.

I guess I'll add some comments in this thread... (if time allows)
Navy Civilian Engineer Pleads Guilty to Attempted Espionage
> Startup idea?

I tried this. The problem is the HUGE amount of cash you have to put up up-front to just get devboards and datasheets. Also, while BT/WiFi licensing is pretty straight-forward, GSM licensing is not - and don't forget the licensing costs for the chips...

Furthermore, the more functionality you want to embed on your board (I intended on a ethernet+poe and a powerline/power supply board, linked via MII to the CPU), the more layers you will need on the board.

And RF engineering competence is a must both for functionality and for EM radiation compliance, and this is not cheap too.

Altogether a too small market.
I'm in the UK for 4.5 years and one of my biggest dreams is move to the US...

Main advantage of being contractor? Much better pay... They say - "no job security" - but there is no such term anyway.
https://github.com/atom/autosave disabled by default.
Haha as might be clear from my myriad other posts on this topic, inasmuch as I am a fan of anything baseball-related, I am a Cardinals fan, as generations of my family have been. Because I've lived in Los Angeles, I have especially enjoyed their regular poundings of the Dodgers. I'm not saying that the Dodgers should get the pennant by default. (Would they even want it?) Rather, it should simply not exist.

Fanhood notwithstanding, this is really bad. Unless the FBI finds that someone planted a device on the network of the house that originated the ill-advised logins, someone has to burn for this. (I guarantee that Mike Matheny feels the same way.) It's not quite at the level of Pete Rose (who really ought to be forgiven by now) or the Black Sox, but like those cases it completely undermines the integrity of the sport. I used to be impressed by the Cardinals' great farm system, and I felt it indicated something about Midwestern thrift, practicality, and eccentricity. I don't feel that way anymore.
There are some really interesting mastering techniques that are needed because of this, too - for instance, bass content (< 200ish Hz) on vinyl usually gets summed to mono to prevent a loud bass note on one of the stereo channels from making the needle jump out of the groove. With the loud bass content in mono, the needle jumps vertically and stays in the correct groove.
This is why for work at least, I've kept to a spreadsheet on my workstation, the workstation uses full disk encryption, so I feel this is reasonably secure. For home, I'm nearly 100% apple, so I'm using keychain.
GitHub Auto-Deploy Setup Guide
If there was a password storage tool designed from the jump by a full-time cryptographic engineer, that'd be the one I'd talk about. Let me know if you find one?
the needle isn't moving here

That was my big problem with the video. I'd like to see real-time dynamic behavior of a needle and record. A static image every 10 seconds is not the same thing.

Edit: here's[1] an example of what I mean. It's a slow-motion video of a topfuel dragster. Just positioning that dragster statically down a dragstrip and taking a picture every few feet won't show you the essence of what's happening. Look at the tires. Look at the vibration. Look at the flames.

I dunno. Maybe my unease is not as relevant with something simpler such as a needle and record.

[1] https://youtu.be/Lt6iltuxD48?t=120
I cut some holes in the box it came in and am using that as a case. It's not pretty but it sits at the back of a shelf so no one sees it anyway.

I feel it embodies the hacker mentality of the pi.
The actual formula for determining BMI only squares the height component.[0] Healthy humans should not even approach being cube shaped!

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index
It's an area where European laws fall extremely short
> a retinal model in conjunction with retinal scanning via webcam

You probably mean iris. The retina is the back of the eye, very few if any real biometric systems use this. The iris is the colored area of the eye that surrounds the pupil. It's very texture rich and less invasive to obtain.
Building Gift Cards 2.0 on the block chain
Blog post doesn't have much information not found in http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/06/App-Engine-f...
> I strongly doubt it. Singapore has interesting leadership that isn't afraid to be controversial, but engineer salaries there are terrible. A senior engineer in Singapore makes $47,000 according to Glassdoor (compare: $95k Chicago, $113k NYC, $38k Budapest, $67k Berlin, and $124k San Francisco).

Singaporean here.

I know of junior engineer peers with salaries ranging from $36k USD (the minimum for a graduate to get a work visa) to $58k USD. Salaries tend to be benchmarked against the public sector, where graduates can expect to start from $36k USD or less, before bonuses. [1] They're also arguably depressed by strong competition from Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

While salaries aren't great, the Asian family tradition remains strong — people live with their parents until they're either married, or hit 35 and become eligible to purchase a public apartment.

One advantage of working in Singapore is that income tax rates are low. [2] Most peers I know pay between 5–10% of their income in tax.

All that said, I know of senior engineers earning >$130k salaries (as compared to the $47k on Glassdoor). There's a huge variance in the market.

[1] http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/education/story/h...

[2] http://www.guidemesingapore.com/taxation/personal-tax/singap...
Not saying your advice is bad, but someone who is confident and charismatic will speak in a way that the steps he takes are obvious. For example, if I told you "I wrote this code and it's completely bug free.", you might question it with stuff like "even part X? It's generally the weak point in this kind of systems." but a really good talker will say it in a tone that makes people think that his code is really bug free.

It's something I have noticed, sometimes someone told me something in such a confident tone that I couldn't think of doubting it.
The alarm sound for those curious:

http://info.ahs.kitasato-u.ac.jp/tkweb/alarm/NPB-290-high.wa...

Strange that it's linking to a remote website (a university in Japan no less) just for the sound instead of using a locally hosted copy.
you are right - this is more of an idea that someone like Dell / Samsung / HTC could test in a small beta market and push if they see results. Hell most of them probably are sitting on stock of a few 10k of year old boards anyway.
JavaScript is eating the world, this time in video
"Unlike Wordpress, we allow XSS..."
What about a built-in mechanism to let you inspect what plugins are causing the most delay e.g. During a measuring period? Is that already a thing?
? Why do you think people are discussing this, might it be because, gasp, the source code is being audited?
The Entrepreneur's Dilemma: First Learn or Create?
There's a nice market for a sturdy hackable device. I don't care for uber thin phablets. But a semi old school design with IO, less heat, more battery.
Ceylon: A little more about type functions
Do you think that hormonal birth control makes it impossible to maintain a healthy bodyweight? The article very clearly points to an increase in daily caloric intake.
The Underhanded HN Contest.
I am a bit surprised that the Human Rights Court is so unenlightened. Between this and the right to supress history, I worry where Europe is headed.
Very well. Stop posting completely on HN because HN is now liable even if it takes down hate speech within 24 hours of notification if it was run by an Estonian and/or had connections to Estonia [say via e-Residency].

Its cute how people are ready to sell other groups of people down the river without accepting the broader implications.
All I remember about that is this music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksw2UqTyhhc
PowerPC Based IoT Gateway COM Ships with Linux BSP
You should post back tomorrow how high you climb based on this post. I never heard of Ghostnote, but I just bought it after watching your video online.
You guys need to learn some accounting. Don't be afraid of book-keeping and be keen on any rule that helps you save on taxes.
Overall, a limited company can save you around 20% on taxes over a salaried worker. That alone makes it difficult to go back to full-time employment.
> What is the reason for the hostility?

Depression is a pretty touchy topic. People use their own beliefs about depression either as a buffer that helps them feel that they can handle their problems, or as an excuse for not being able to handle them. I can forgive people for being sensitive to disagreement on this topic. Also, it's easy to damage people if you convince them of a wrong view of depression. I'm concerned about that.

> I've certainly seen a lot of negativity and mispaced arrogance in the past on HN, and a number of times it has made me reconsider whether or not I want to be part of this community. This time I'm getting closer to that decision.

I've had that feeling sometimes. I've just changed my behavior to not get into debates when it isn't worth it. I find that people tend to appreciate my comments... some get upvoted a moderate amount, some get downvoted a moderate amount, but it comes out in the positive territory.

> Perhaps the excessive negativity in HN is what is causing/exacerbating some people's depression?

Well, people need to diagnose that and then stop participating in HN if that's the case. I think that can be a completely reasonable course of action. Ultimately, you can't blame HN for it; you have to blame the person's choice to stay or leave.
All of this to build 'like' buttons. #cynicism
Detecting Service Application Pauses
If anyone has a very opinionated conclusion about this I'd love to hear it.
I guess it's a little too simple.
> What userspace programs interpret the quiet parameter?
> Genuine question. AFAIK, quiet does (or should do) nothing other than disable some of the kernel logging.

At least plymouth and probably every init system out there.

Linus said that "we very much expose /proc/cmdline for a reason. System services
are supposed to parse it, because it gives a unified way for people
to pass in various flags. [...] And yes, that does include "quiet" and "debug". Parsing them and doing something sane with them is not a bug, it's a feature."

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1404.0/01488.html

> The bug report makes it immediately clear that this is not really about a technical problem that ought to be solved - no, the dirty user-space programmers should get their stinking paws off of our good kernel command line flags, how dare they!

You're right that Kay was wrong to close the bug immediately instead of trying to help finding the real cause, and you're wrong when you say that userspace should not parse the kernel command line, see Linus' remark above.

> There's no reason to even assume procfs will always be there

To the contrary, dropping it would be an ABI break so it's really safe to assume that it will be always be there.

> who's been programming for more than an year

Please, don't lecture others about their job. I'm not assuming you're an incompetent fool, please don't assume I am.

> if a program did that on Windows

And can we try to stay relatively on topic? Windows is definitely unrelated.

(I'm not otherwise replying in detail because you assumed that parsing the kernel command line was not ok, while Linus officially blessed its usage. Also we reached the max thread depth on HN, which should probably suggest something.)
While I certainly see your point, Vim has quite the maturity advantage. I'm not sure if Atom will ever be as fast, being based on a web browser, but they're making progress and you can follow along if you care, or just wait a few years until it's solid / fast enough for you :)
SNI is fine for web browsing, but for end-points that need to be reachable by older versions of python, tomcat, ruby and many proprietary apps, this will not suffice. This becomes a problem on business to business communications, automation, API's, etc. For the general purpose websites, blogs, etc, SNI would be fine.
I completely agree, but one thing to keep in mind is that Minix 3 just relatively recently got it's BSD license, and I think that was it's main limiting factor in the past. As for how it progresses, I can't predict the future, but I think something similar to it could easily get a good boost if it was embraced/pushed in the sector it's best at, eg embedded devices and iot. I work along-side scada systems and am constantly appalled at the state of security on systems.
Acccording to the documentation, OpenCV contrib indicates a retinal model.

http://docs.opencv.org/modules/contrib/doc/retina/index.html
That should be a perfectly usable Singleton, if you just stay on one thread? Is the application using multiple threads? Should it be?

Most UI applications sooner or later need at least some basic background processing but if I was writing a simple password manager, I'd most likely just do everything blocking on the UI thread.

That said: for simple patterns like singleton, there is really no reason not to use the builtin and recommended way which is the Lazy<T>.
I've killed a variety of different species, but outside a self-defense situation (and I would hesitate even then) I could never shoot a bear, for much the same reason. I just can't look at bears and not think they're simply furry people.
In some instances when served with an NSL (or some other mechanism we don't even yet know about), they can be forced through legal policy to cooperate in building something that pwns your box. Google's compelling reason is that they are under the jurisdiction of the American government. Though I share your tentative belief that Chrome/ium isn't necessarily a "pwn vector" per se, I am 100% willing to believe that they are compelled to cooperate in building some kind of vector for the NSA.
That's not universally true (as you seem to indicate already). For example, I included Google's WebRTC libraries in an iOS app and it bloated the binary by several hundred megabytes per architecture. Thinning that would help a lot.

Resources are a big part of it too, of course. A typical iOS app these days has three copies of every image, for 1x, 2x, and 3x resolutions. Dropping that down to one copy on the device is helpful. Of course this doesn't require any of this bitcode stuff, although neither does thinning the executable.
Problem with cellphone boards is that these do not expose GPIOs and are too often too tightly linked with the rest of the phone (once again our good friend RF comes into play, with some phones e.g. using springs to connect antenna pads with the mainboards, others using antenna cables, others using PCB printed antennas)... and never mind about the custom connectors used for PCB connects which cannot be soldered by hand and due to pin changes can't even be re-used...
Switching over from sublime
- I noticed the last session problem, found a plugin for that.
- Searching for files and ordering of files presented is a bit different; in Sublime I'd get more relevant files first (in a Rails app) typically you're wanting your controllers/models/views first. I haven't spent time comparing but logically I think it should be presenting the files closer to the top of the tree first (well at least in a Rails app), maybe this can be another plugin.
- Laziness on my part yet, haven't found the command for vertically selecting all lines at a given position.
- Don't open a large minified JS file... kaboom.

Having said that I'm fully stoked with it in other respects; and I can see the minor annoyances getting fixed.
Money is part of it but having proper audits and publishing financials is more what I was referring to.
The government’s plan to regulate facial recognition tech is falling apart
Who cares if it's easy or not? Consumer/passerby protection rules are not going to stop you, a person with nothing to lose. This is about the use of such technology in a commercial setting.

It's a bit like my pirate radio station. I have it, I broadcast to a very limited distance, whatever, I don't really worry about the white vans. If I put a 400 kW TV transmitter on top of a mountain, that's a very different story.
They way I see it, the downside of LastPass is that it's online, so they could at request of some government or in case of a hack change the code that you execute to capture your master password or do whatever.

This obviously can be done with offline software too, but it's much harder/slower process.

Also I don't quite understand the point of encrypting your database in Dropbox. It's already encrypted. The problem is that someone could monitor how your encrypted file is changing and that way simplify decryption. And that doesn't change even if you encfs. Unless the point of it is to hide that you have password db in Dropbox.
I'm blond, as is my daughter. Me, my daughter and wife are all very (too!) white.

I love Singapore and have visited several times over the past few years, and never once have I had the slightest concern for my/our safety or had even the slightest feeling that we stood out, even when visiting the less visited parts; Singapore is just so culturally and racially diverse I think you'd have to really try to stand out!
Maybe this is just my ignorant American self talking, but the speech laws in Europe seem just plain backwards.. decisions like this, the libel laws...
I would love to see auth token that provide read-only access to select repositories. I find SSH keys much harder to use in a Docker-based deployment.
I agree with you in principle, but not in practice.

Outsource your bookkeeping to Xero or Bench or wherever. As a consultant, accounting is a cost centre. You should be focusing on sales, marketing, or service delivery.

As a consultant, you are now a business. Ring the freaking bell or deliver service. That's your new job.
Within the EU. For example if you have a turnover of £100k all from outside of the EU you don't need to register.
As someone who has used a Mac (vs. Windows) box as a working machine for as long as I've had a choice in the matter, this is abject nonsense. Yes, Windows is still a huge presence in the software industry. But denying that people do serious work on Macs is just plain trolling.

If we're going to throw around anecdata, virtually everyone I know who uses a computer to work on these days uses a Mac. This is a vast turnaround from just a few years back, when Windows was virtually compulsory. For much longer than that, it's been University Student => Mac laptop, only rarely Windows. When I meet with folks from Very Big(tm) software companies, they invariably have Macs.

There are definitely domains that are Windows strongholds. AFAICT, none of the major CAD/CAM suites run on OS X (e.g. Solidworks, Pro/E, Geomagic (nee Alibre) Design, etc.) Stuff like major site planning software (e.g. that keeps big airports running) is virtually all Windows.

For all that, it's easy to miss that Mac has for a very long time been on a user-driven vs. enterprise-mandated upwards trajectory. This seems similar to the forces that pushed acceptance of iOS (and Android) into the enterprise: where user demand ultimately broke the stranglehold that the entrenched, enterprise-friendly solutions had. (I'm looking at you, Blackberry.)
Reed-Solomon is also used in parity files (Parchive [1]) which were especially popular in the newsgroup/usenet days.

> parity files could be created that were then uploaded along with the original data files. If any of the data files were damaged or lost while being propagated between Usenet servers, users could download parity files and use them to reconstruct the damaged or missing files.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
This brings up something I've been wondering about for a while, the legality of masks and other devices for identity protection. Supposedly due to protests and anon activity I have heard of an increasingly push to make publicly wearing masks illegal, but I think it's a slippery slope to go down. If in a few years time I have to assume that if I'm in public my face is being input into recognition systems, why should I not have the right to wear a mask or something similar?

Of course the knee-jerk argument is that wearing masks (both digitally in offline) creates a different personality which is more willing to engage in illegal activity, but for me, a staunch Constitutionalist, that still doesn't justify making it illegal.

This is, at the bottom line, about the reduction of anonymity equally in the real world as in the digital.

One more tool of control in the belt of the oligarchy.
I’ve been thinking about this too. Imagine if a server rack looked like this: https://testazyk.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/iphone5.jpg That would be pretty cool.
Well, I think that instead people should be more accepting towards others' personal imperfections. Political correctness should be avoided at all costs because it's by definition a kind of dishonest manipulation.
That sounds about right. No radical architectural shifts, but bitcode submissions should let Apple optimize apps automatically for whatever latest tweaks are available in issue width or fused instructions.

My most radical speculation is an iPhone A-series chip with an additional low power ARM core especially to support Watch apps without burning too much "host" device battery.
Curiosityflux
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>I don't like working with people who are unpleasant to work with.

How do you know he is unpleasant to work with?
Captain Janeway calls it 'command tone'.
Apple Replaces Lead Contractor on New ‘Spaceship’ Campus
Thanks. Looking forward to reading the reply.
The best tool for that (and any profiling in Atom) is chromium's built-in profiler. See the flame graphs in the blog post.
Amazon Is Developing an Uber-Style Service for Package Delivery
Why you can't parse HTML with regex
Any opinion on Mitro?

https://www.mitro.co/
Addendum: one thing to cope with the confounding factors would be to replicate the test several times (ideally many times like 100+ while varying instance types).
Report: Amazon Is Building an App to Let Normal People Deliver Packages for Pay
If you actually read the page, you'll see it's something different.
Probably because easily deploying PHP to webservers in 2015 is not newsworthy anymore.
Living Longer by Reducing Leucine Intake
Their spaceship look awfully similar to GCHQ's head office. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doughnut#/media/File:GCHQ-...
Yeah, I don't think there's a good way of highlighting part of a code file, what you're looking at depends on everything before and (to some extent) after it. You have to do the whole thing.