skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a bit of a chicken-and-the-egg problem with startup here in Australia. Without a viable investor infrastructure founders won’t create the sort of businesses that will generate returns for investors (i.e they will create bootstrapped lifestyle businesses) and without the right type of businesses being created investors will avoid putting their money into start-ups since the type on offer are the lifestyle businesses that they can’t get the money out of. Someone needs to break this cycle and they only side that can do it is the investors - they need to start putting money into really early startup and supporting the types of companies that will generate returns for investors.
Do you have any evidence that there are less artists that can make a living in the current environment vs the old one? Is it possible there are more artists making a living in the current environment ?
What it really sounds like is that a lot of shit work is being done all over the place. If everyone needs to be on-call 24/7 and most of their time is spent applying fixes to problems that are continually happening, something is probably broken in your organization.
Seconded. I've used Slack at two companies, both with a small, single-purpose team (< 10 people). In each case I and the other users were quite happy with the features available, and the overall design of the app. It isn't for everyone, but I whole-heartedly advocate teams examine Slack for their communication needs.
This is an awesome educational tool: the large size makes it really easy to see and understand how combination locks work.
Monads and Breakthroughs
Subscribe to the right mailing lists; once in a while there are job postings for things like this.

(e.g. this one: http://listserv.uni-heidelberg.de/science-jobs-de/sjd-e.html , and subscribe for IT and biology/medicine - I'm sure there are tons more of these lists out there.)
JavaScript/Node.js/modules are essentials now since Node is pretty popular. For example, many Bitcoin modules like Copay are written in JavaScript and not available in other programming languages.
Even more "HN applicable", a wooden calculator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcDshWmhF4A
"Swift gets her fans, and instead of keeping to herself she builds a relationship with her audience through Twitter and Instagram. She acts as her fans best friend as opposed to their untouchable celeb crush. And she does it all herself, no assistant at hand."[1]

I get why you think that way, because most celebrities do indeed hire PR firms and assistants to handle their fan relationships. Ms. Swift is unique in the fact that she doesn't, and it's documented well enough that even a non-fan like me knows about it. I wouldn't have said what I did above if I didn't know it to be true.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/taylor-swift-is-a-business-ge...
Why the Hell should such a contract be able to exist?
Which is a perfect example of the fact that 'most commonly arrived at conclusion' doesn't always mean [other adjective] (best, safest, fastest, most efficient) conclusion.
The pursuit of novelty in research drives me crazy. You don't get published as easily with replications and tiny iterative developments. I wish they'd incentivize those kinds of research...
Even if ads could cover the costs+, they might not want to have a lot of people to get the mindset of Slack==Ads. For many of those users, the ad-laden version of Slack might be their first impression of Slack.
The reason deals like those you've mentioned exist is because photographers who want to use images to profit commercially often need the people pictured to sign a photo release.

This is different to the linked article... how? The author wants to profit commercially from the person in the (theoretical) photo.

both are very much about a big entity acting to control and profit from the works of smaller artists.

A fundamental difference is that Swift's music is independent of Apple. A photo of Swift could not exist without Swift herself. Apple can't resell Swift's music without her permission, why should a photographer, usually given preferential access with these agreements, not have similar restrictions if not in a public place? If photographing Swift is that much more profitable than photographing the local no-name band, then part of that is due to Swift's own work; the photographer is working from the success of the subject matter; in literature this would be akin to a derivative work.

I do agree that there are a lot of different perspectives, but I just didn't like the 'smell' of the linked article. It gave a pretty one-eyed view.
you're almost certainly wrong about the advertising, viz stackoverflow's issues monetizing that way

forum/chat advertising is just not particularly valuable
I reminds me USB dead drop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_dead_drop

A digital bottle thrown in the sea.
Sapolsky is also a very entertaining writer! An excerpt from one of his books ("A Primate's Memoir") is here: http://www.npr.org/books/titles/138066966/a-primates-memoir#... , but my favorite excerpt from the book is that where he talks about tranquillizing baboons with a blow dart gun.
Isn't it a 'natural' issue everywhere ? systems are against their own death. Rare are systems (businesses, artisans) that will keep focusing on evolving toward better solutions rather than building a nest.

So far is there a solution which is not to let nature/market decide what is available ?

Doctors are in a weird position. They're rightly reluctant to change (like aerospace) because they can't risk death. They're a black box, no patient can contradict, they're saviors. Their word is often final. I'd love to trust them fully, but I've seen too many errors (innocent or greedy) to not think about how we could avoid the problem (similar to self-driven cars, manufacturers and injuries).

ps: non invasive surgery is trendy though now, this is becoming a public idea, in these economically troubled days, cheaper and safer medical options will be loved.
Check out this answer by RobotRollCall - a very nice fabula of a kind written by a physicist:

http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/f1lgu/what_would...
Two companies. It's more duopoly rather than monopoly but they track each others prices to ensure they aren't offering anything cheaper than the other.
Also, do people really expect to pay sticker price for 8k users? I mean, I have no idea what slack might have offered, but a quick email would have found out.
Hey you have a typo on your webpage: http://woodgears.ca/

"Send me email: (Frequencly asked questions)"

By the way is this your full time job? I imagine making one high quality article a week is pretty intense. The stuff you do is very cool!

(just curious since you seem to have a software background and I am interested to know how you managed to transition to doing a hobby full time =P)
Research has shown that making a selection between a limited set of options a large number of times is very exhausting for the brain. So I don't think this is really a good solution to any problem. But it is interesting, nonetheless.

A better idea could be to present these options while the subject's brain is being scanned using some neuro-imaging technique, and based on these signals let the system evolve.
Polish aeroplanes grounded by computer hack
Ruby or Python is more important than strong JavaScript, and everyone who knows Ruby or Python has at least weak JavaScript. If you specialize in JavaScript security, you need it, but you can say the same thing about Intercal.
LtU and /r/programming.

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/

I do my best to avoid controversies (generate or feed).

HN is the coolest and safest place I know. I tried other sites but they are more violent. Too much struggles.

Peace!
New York slams Verizon, calls city-wide FiOS rollout “an egregious failure”
Yet again, both sources exhibit the same problem. They are cooking the data.

I've worked with voter data a lot over the years, both on the registration/turnout side and the contributions side. The "occupation" field is just a self-assigned 35 character text field, lacking a discrete set of predefined titles to choose from.

The data referred to here represent the authors pooling a semi-random assortment of descriptions into specific buckets of their definition (for example, very few FEC entries actually say "Beer wholesaler", since people performing that role would use any of 5-10 different terms in preference, given that such wholesalers almost never limit themselves to just beer... and I doubt that a statistically significant population actually records its occupation as, literally, "cattle feeder").

Point being, trying to make general inferences from unattributed, cooked data is more parody than news.

By the say, can anybody get that search box on the WP page to do anything? It does nothing for me on either IE or Chrome.
You mentioned a ratio, can you explain the basis to compare "effort" of a software engineer vs a photographer?
Great to see follow-ups like this.

I was involved in the old PSP homebrew scene; good to see people keeping it alive for more than just playing ripped games.
Did you do any writing on woodworking safety?
Just don't use anything federal to try and imitate.. that ends badly pretty much every time.
$1.29? Luxury!

Seriously though, here in Australia the regular price for a track is $2.19 -- which is absolutely ludicrous to be honest. As of today, that's the equivalent of $1.70USD
I think you have the opposite opinion of most of the researchers I know. They go nuts that you can't do anything really out of the box until you have tenure. We agree on replication though. No one cares until there's a crisis, then the Karl Popper quotes never stop.
Your question effectively answers my question.
If you don't know about it, check out the unix command 'script'. You can use it to stream or record terminal sessions.
Well, the shopping carts do not contain data which must be correct so your example does not contradict Pamar.
Tangetially, this website, Norman Yarvin's archive, is chock full of gems. I highly recommend browsing it, especially its computer section: http://yarchive.net/comp/index.html
This appears to be about a language that compiles to js (asm.js it seems?), not wasm (WebAssembly) which is mean to be more like an IR (think of llvm ir) but for the web. Am I misunderstanding something?
> There is nothing to gain for the creators of music in getting more people to use Apple streaming service instead of Spotify or Google

Are you sure? Because Apple are promising to pay higher royalties. That sure seems like not nothing to me. Now, I pass no judgement on whether the financial calculus works out for 3 months of free usage, but to be honest saying there's "nothing to gain" is being dishonest.
provide an example to see how would it work. even better add a video
I'd approach this article very carefully:

The fibres didn't match any of the 85,000 organic substances they had on their files. "I was both shocked and not shocked," recalls Wymore. "I already thought these fibres were kind of unusual, and this just validated it."

Wymore has now been working on the DNA of the fibres for five years. So far, none of the samples he has sent into the laboratory has proved to be anything mysterious. Results have included nylon, cotton, a human hair, a fungal fibre and a rodent hair.

The author moves on to another "expert" without pressing Wymore for either the status of the non-matches or an explanation of why human hair was not part of their 85,000-large library.
> very hands-on with her image

As compared with whom? Ariana Grande? Metallica? Madonna? Jello Biafra? Efrim Menuck? Nicki Minaj?

Sure, she's probably market-positioned as "more authentic" than Paris Hilton. You shouldn't be blinded by the marketing any more than you should believe Iron Maiden to be devil-worshippers.

> intelligent and articulate.

Which usually translates to "White, non-Southern American accent". ("British" also applies, but usually to men.)
> more like an IR

Actually, it's more like a compressed abstract syntax tree. Subtle difference, but there's no stack machine you're targeting in wasm, which I think is quite interesting!
I never thought I could be happy about hearing loss as I got older until I realized that I could no longer hear CRTs. A muted TV in a quiet room was incredibly annoying for me.
In what sense is getting paid for copies of a creative product any more of a free ride than app builders getting paid for downloads or web app builders getting paid for adsense impressions?
I suppose, but my point is that what the OP posted appears to be completely unrelated to wasm…
I actually think we don’t need to change that much as we have nearly all the things in place for creating a great startup environment. Since it is a bit long for just a post here I think will make it a blog post on personal website.

I had forgotten that the ASIN patent was even on the Nucleics website. It was being used for an old SEO experiment. I have fixed it up so at least you can read it now :)
From that very page: "Loosely based on BoxCar2D, but written from scratch, only using the same physics engine"
Are concert venues public places?
It all seems a bit wishy-washy to me. I was born in 1985 I turned 30 this year. I have enough trouble identifying with my sister (who is six years younger than me) let alone someone I have 15 years on.
I work for a supercomputer company. There is almost no way you'll get anywhere near the performance you need on EC2.

Supercomputers today are built to transfer data between nodes using locality of the node as well as its physical location. Ok EC2 could do the same thing or similar sure, but, it won't have fibre optic links that allow direct DMA of memory from one node to another.

The interconnects and the overall use of a supercomputer is drastically different than what you have on EC2. Additionally, your process is just that, another process running on a bare metal system. No hypervisor to get in the way.

Keep in mind that some compiled code can care about if an avx instruction is used or not. A tiny detail like that means things like a 5% reduction in cpu cost. When your job/process overall takes months to run, this is a significant reduction.

Supercomputers exist because they're more economical than regular hardware. No really, it is true. These things can generate terabytes of data a second and shunt it around efficiently. Until you can demonstrate the same on EC2 you might want to read up on the architectures of modern supercomputers.

As a fun note, today cpu power is mostly a gimme, now most simulations care more about memory. For the memory you need you effectively get the cpu for free.
Heachaches caused by fluorescent lights are an entirely separate issue, considering they produce flickery light at odd color temperatures with weird peaks across the spectrum. Never mind that lots of establishments have things way too bright, and probably failing sockets causing extra fluctuations as well. I don't think it's disputed that anyone can see visible light.
I'm from the area, a little town about 35 miles away, but living in the Bay Area. The article doesn't really tell a good story about the folks living there. Just the ecentric people that have started showing up relatively recently.

Maybe growing up there, but I actually prefer the solitude. The interesting thing about those few small houses is that you end up getting to know the people in your area and around you pretty well. Nearly everyone. So I wouldn't make the assumption that "it must suck".

I could make the same assumption about any over populated area, like the Bay Area, because it's nearly impossible to really know your community and traffic is horrible. Ugh, it must suck to be an engineer working on some startup and living there.
Support the slaughter and get rid of those annoying Mosquitoes
I wonder if this is an argument against IRC, or just against EFNet.
I don't think you can fairly compare JavaScript with Intercal in this context. JS is very popular now and you can see a lot of job posts that give you a hint about the market size for security reviewing Node applications.

Additionally, Node modules are a fertile ground for bug searching.
Very fun. Is there any reason the basic design can't extend to more than 3 numbers?
OK, that's funny. I don't know Chad, but I did some work for IMVU a couple years ago, and yes, their backend services spit out a LOT of JSON.

Some of the other things I do have in other languages: JavaScript, Go, and Lua give me first class functions, including the ability to curry.

Sum types looks nice, but also looks functionally equivalent to enum type in C++; pattern matching is a nice feature if you ever need it, but in the kinds of programs I usually write, I don't.

The value of type classes is less clear to me. Duck typing gets you a lot of reuse leverage without the mental masturbation of the quick reference I found online to the concept.

Monomorphization is a generics implementation detail. Yes. What of it? If you're in C++ and using templates, then they're useful. I'm guessing its use in Haskell is related to the Haskell pattern matching feature, which again I don't end up needing very often (I'm not saying it wouldn't be convenient, just that it doesn't make a compelling argument to change languages)?

Terse and actually dynamic code is pretty awesome as well. Right now I'm restricted to code that can run in the browser, so I'm stuck with JavaScript for the most part, but when I get to use Lua and Go, I get a lot of the power (the parts relevant to my typical code) along with a lot of speed.
I asked because I have a "Get flashplayer" icon on boxcar2d.com. I'm on Debian.
They also had some quite significant costs involved in making you realise that their software existed, though.
I believe comments here that programming isn't a necessity aren't really correct. A strong programming knowledge to the point of expertise is what you should aspire towards in a security-related career.

Language is a hard question though, there are a lot of things to consider around what sector you want to focus on. The holy trinity seems to be Python, Ruby and C.

ASM is probably very overlooked in general, but also a lot harder to master. Good luck, hope you get to a point where you can take a few steps forward. This is going to be an enormous area of interest over the next few years (much more so than it already is) so enjoy the challenge and the money ;)
There's a difference between a lack of financial education and "made deliberately so by perverse educational systems."

I don't think there's a massive conspiracy to systematically keep people financially naive. I think there's a legitimate debate to be had over whether formal schooling is the best place to put this sort of education.
A perfect illustration of the "entitled developer complex". Failure to properly research Slack, a bad use-case, complain about pricing, then publicly bash.

I've seen this repeatedly with my own startup (https://commando.io), and honestly this user profile is the worst. They won't pay, or will pay very little, and expect the most. They complain about the underlying codebase and stack (PHP), and fail to solve actual problems. They get stuck on details that don't matter.
We certainly undervalue replication (or refutation) in the pursuit of novelty.

What is more of a problem is that scientists are being pushed by the system to get their results out as fast as possible so they are not doing the hard work of carefully checking their own work before publication. The incentive is to publish if an experiment works once or twice and hand-wave away the other dozen times it didn’t. Combine that with the enormous pressure PostDocs and PhD students are under to generate results it is amazing anything of value comes out of the lab these days.
AFAIK, Mojang didn't take any investor's money. It was just 3 partners and no outside money.
Thank you for this, it was fascinating.
They actually made a version that generated asm.js. Unfortunately that was before asm.js was stable and they haven't updated it since so it no longer generates valid code.

The language and generator were simple enough to use in a browser-only environment so it's a shame there was never more interest in it. It would've been nice to be able to fool around with asm.js without having to set up a dev environment, which isn't possible in some circumstances.
I have Hue lights in my house and can't hear them. But I can hear CFLs and it's piercing.
A single IRC server can trivially handle 8500 users in total, but most ircds would explode horribly on 8500 users in a single channel. There's probably at least one that can support it, but it's not really a use-case they're designed for.
This would really work better implemented in an FPGA. You could construct a circuit that exhaustively searches for all repeats within a maximum distance rather than just checking a relatively small number of random sequences.
>It sounds like you're saying "I can optimize my algorithms better than any machine could, so why would I learn how to write code that a machine could reason about more effectively?"

Actually, that's not at all what I'm saying.

I'm using tools that are known to create code that's faster than the equivalent Haskell.

>Or more accurately, "I don't write code that needs what Haskell offers, so I'm not going to learn it." Which is fine, so long as you keep writing the same kind of code.

I use languages that offer a lot of the tools that Haskell offers, but without as many restrictions. If the restrictions bought me speed (which I thought they did, previously), then they would be valuable.

>But really, nobody is selling you functional programming because it'll make your code faster. They are selling it to you because it inspires them.

I get that. I can see it in the converts who try to evangelize me. But I think that it's like the people who drank the OOP Koolaid: Yes, there are useful things to learn in other paradigms, but going extreme in any paradigm isn't the best way to code.

> It may not be a race horse, but if you ported those improvements into something like C, you'll have a high-performance rocket. Code that could possibly automatically refactor itself into more efficient, more general components.

From what I can tell, this is actually not the case. Unless what you're talking about is Go. In which case, carry on. ;)
Brain–Brain Interface Allows Humans to Control Cockroaches with Their Minds
Perhaps or perhaps in an introductory guide they decided not to muddy the waters any more than necessary in the interests of brevity (as post mentions, 28,000 is seriously pushing it as a word count for a long form article).
Yeah that's true.

I guess I should qualify my comment. I mean "it must suck" being in a technical field, but in a real sense quite cut off from interaction with your peers. It's actually a beautiful area, but I can't help but feel that people could very easily feel out of their milieu there.
You are allowed to be as out of the box as you like, but you have to generate results which if very hard to do if you take risks.

Even once you have tenure you are still forced to still play it safe since if you don’t generate the results you don’t get grants and if you don’t bring in the money your university will find ways to get rid of you. Welcome to your new lab - yes we know it was the old broom closet, but you must understand that since you don’t have any grants right now we need to give your lab to research x who has just brought in a $3 million grant.
How many files can I put in a directory?
It's amazing how much has changed since the time of that article. I can't remember the last time I saw cubicle walls.
The idea of LLJS is quite interesting, similar in ways to asm.js (in fact there was a fork that can compile to it!) but easily human readable and writable. It seems to be a dead project however; I came across it a few weeks ago and it seems abandoned, unfortunately. With wasm, hopefully we'll see more and more languages like this one; I'm imagining a low-level C-like language solely for doing WebGL in a fullscreen canvas.