jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Because they're not yanking yet and the equity growth is still attractive enough to keep unvested "low performers" from leaving. Google don't have to cut costs to make Wall Street happy. They need to grow and increase the top-line, and for that, they need people.

Once they reach the point of "maturity" where they need to minimize operating costs to increase net margins and continue to justify their P/E, they'll be like Cisco, Microsoft, Intel, and others, disgorging 5-30% of their workforce in a single massive push.
> And I'm no apologist for the NSA, I just think intellectual honesty is good for our side of the argument.

Pretty much. Every fanciful tale we tell ourselves is another story that can be spun as reinforcement for why we're dismissable.

I tell myself that this kind of tactical thinking isn't the right way to motivate people to actually care about truth, but at this point, I've completely lost faith that hackers are capable of caring about the truth.
Yes, but that doesn't give you a great way to deal with attaching and canceling multiple callbacks simultaneously. If you want to perform several independent asynchronous actions after some other operation finishes, you have to collect them into a single giant callback in one location. And as you mention, the function has to keep track of some piece of mutable state in order to decide whether it's cancelled or not before firing off those operations. So why not give the function a mutable array of asynchronous operations to perform to begin with, which you can then add to at any time? And at that point, you already have a something very close to a promise.
The biggest example is Texas, as they have laws that prohibit direct manufacturer-to-customer car sales. I think that Tesla has had some problems in New York and New Jersey as well.

As for California being the "best place," my guess is that it has nothing to do with being the best - it just happens to be be the spot where Musk said, "Well, we need to sell cars in states that won't allow us to sell things. Let's collect all of the infrastructure to serve these people in a place that's already selling a lot of cars. Let's choose California!"
I've been told the big thing a CEO does is bring in the right people, starting with the other three-letter titles and possible also a level below that. You can see how the CEO's influence would then spread from there.
Producing apartments or food or water remains a competitive industry. If the people purchasing them gain more income, I could in theory see the existing suppliers deciding "we will just increase prices," but a new supplier could enter the market using the old players' old model and steal all their market share.

(If the basic income is done just by giving everyone a check, then I could see costs rising, because people refuse to work for current wages. The more sensible way to implement a BI is with a wage subsidy so people still work.)
Here's a simple analysis, which shows 75% waste:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/over-60000-welfare-spent...
The next step is to compile it all to JS and just serve static files that boot in the browser! :) Something like http://bellard.org/jslinux/
No, that would have taken a lot more work. The algorithm was really primitive, find rectangles, look for letters and numbers which were > 50% the height of the rectangle.
Alex,
The idea is very cool and I am glad that the developments are going to be contributed to an open source version.

As a developer while we can try VM setup and as well as Amazon instance, can you also host it on one of your server and provide a demo access to developers to get acquainted with system and architecture before they can try on VM or Amazon AMI?
Closely related are Judy Arrays (aka Judy Trees):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_array
moot is never capitalized. I guess we'll see but I mainly read it as he was stepping down as an administrator.
Not to undermine this development, but so far, no surprise, AI depends on vast quantities of human-generated data. This leads us to a loop: if AI replaces human creativity, who will create novel content for new generation of AI? Will AI also learn to break through conventions, to shock and rewrite the rules of the game?

It’s like efficient market hypothesis: markets are efficient because arbitrage, which is highly profitable, makes them so. But if they are efficient, how can arbitrageurs afford to stay in business? In practice, we are stuck in a half-way house, where markets are very, but not perfectly, efficient.

I guess in practice, the pie for humans will keep on shrinking, but won’t disappear too soon. Same as horse maintenance industry, farming and manufacturing, domestic work etc. Humans are still needed there, just a lot less of them.
I think there is a difference between “I like the extra hour of sunlight after work” and “there are serious health issues related to the predicted sleep deprivation of permanent DST”.

One is a pet argument, and the other is a health concern. And this could be resolved simply by asking public health experts to do the relevant studies.

My concern is that is not going to happen, or—more likely—public health experts will issue a recommendation which will be ignored by the the politicians. The reasoning is that people’s pet argument of extra daylight hour is convincing enough.

Also note that this pet argument ignores the majority of the working class who will most likely be working this extra hour in the service industry.
i tend to think that the approach here described as "incompetent" isn't necessarily bad as long as you maintain honesty about it.

for instance, it might be more effective to just donate money but there's nothing wrong with wanting to volunteer hands on, as long as you don't fool yourself.

of course from a very, very strict utilitarian perspective, making a somewhat less effective choice is in fact morally evil. but I don't think that viewpoint actually holds up to scrutiny -- few people would agree that volunteering at a food bank rather than donating money is morally equivalent to taking food away from hungry children.
No, fines aren't deductible.
> and despite tax cuts for the wealthy wages haven't gone up.

Real median personal income went up almost 8% from the year before the tax cuts (2017) and 2019.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
> We will replace jobs that require creativity

Frankly, I think the "AI will replace jobs that require X" angle of automation is borderline apocalyptic conspiracy porn. It's always phrased as if the automation simply stops at making certain jobs redundant. It's never phrased as if the automation lowers the bar to entry from X to Y for /everyone/, which floods the market with crap and makes people crave the good stuff made by the top 20%. Why isn't it considered as likely that this kind of technology will simply make the best 20% of creators exponentially more creatively prolific in quantity and quality?
1) In this case the laptop was taken to Iran, so that's what we are talking about here.

2) I can assure you there's policies at Microsoft that include performing work abroad and accessing any company resources from abroad. Obviously nobody will be approved to access any company resources from Iran, especially not source code.

3) I can say there is policies at MS this with a very high degree of confidence because I personally have done work with Microsoft involving code and data that is export restricted.

4) Companies should have policies in place in order to avoid situations like this. Taking your company laptop to, say, Germany probably isn't a big deal for most companies, but any "exporting" company assets should at least be pre-approved/documented.
Who on earth would be foolish enough to ever give those involved another dollar/transaction?

They are going to try to use this to peddle security devices? Seriously?
Popularity has no bearing on validity, that's a common logical fallacy.
Doesn't claiming that Adblock is "malicious" come under the remit of libel laws?
I believe that's true but you're verging on going too far in the direction of cultural relativism. Regardless of culture it's still the case that intelligent people should see the value of answering "do you understand" as a straight question.
Which is 'in beta' and never had anything else on that home page.

It's just a placeholder text.
Why wouldn't it be detectable? Ad blockers do their job by removing elements from the page, blocking requests to URLs that match those used to serve advertisements, or a combination both, and either one of those are easily detectable by client-side JavaScript.
Not if the startup fails ;)
I'm currently developing a multiplayer game and use this (although with additional arguments to include variation/jitter and packet loss) to simulate somewhat more realistic network conditions. I find it's great for exposing bugs in the networking protocol that would otherwise only arise under poorer network conditions.
I didn't expect that comment, but it's so true. If it was a vote for the most influential person (is it?) basically people would be voting for themselves.

I still don't get why people give Zuck all the credit. And I'm not talking about the creation myth about the company. I'm just saying that for a long time his company has probably not been steered by a 20 year-old. These days he's likely been coached just to not come off as a robot. But business-wise I don't get the impression it's all him either.
Related:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003942 - readwriteweb.com - no comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2001882 - time.com - no comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1990612 - time.com - 1 comment

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1975517 - time.com - no comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1968958 - time.com - no comments

Edited to add comment count in response to replies below.
The project is early in development, so we were not able to put up a better video to show what the product will be. I will definitely push to have it ready ASAP.
"Hard" is just an opportunity to learn something. Are you saying you're not a hacker?
This is at least some precedent to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG

Don't discount the (admittedly unlikely) possibility that there was some cooperation in making sure that any /possible/ backdoors were done by people with REAL knowledge of how to get it done.

I'm still not convinced that the original Pentium Floating Point Bug wasn't a (mishandled) intentional corruption for crypto-backdoor purposes. Anyone who has heard the rumors about the POPCNT instruction would understand that the government is capable of making all sorts of deals with equipment and software vendors. Very few companies will decline such requests when received with "critical to National Security" assurances.
Your theory is sound, but I think for the wrong reasons. The only way to kill a network effect product is with network effect. You cannot bribe 30M users. You cannot offer a marginally better product (e.g.: better privacy controls). You have to offer a different product that will not directly compete with Facebook, but will take eyeballs away from them. Think Farmville. Farmville is genious: it uses Facebook itself to get into people's brains and then they spend hours on it. Imagine if Farmville became just slightly more fun to play than to stalk your ex and her new boyfriend, etc.

If you must create a social network to compete with Facebook, make it be a part of Facebook at first too. Integrate it. Make sure that it takes me zero effort to jump between Facebook and your Smashbook. Then start improving your Smashbook in ways that Facebook cannot or will not. Add those better privacy controls. Implement a better social model. Remove annoying ads. Basically, do what Gmail did to Hotmail: it uses the same system and I am not cut off from my friends if I switch, but I get to use better tools. But there is no way in hell that you can start a social network about collecting stamps and gradually outgrow Facebook. You may make a decent chunk of change on this, so it may be worthwhile, but it will not kill Facebook.
Bohemian Rhapsody on a zoo of old hardware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht96HJ01SE4
Ok. But they are doing it over a 1km fiber optic cable. Which is relatively close to the speed of light if you use it as intended. So I remain confused :)
Right, we're of course aware of that audience, which is why I posted that comment. The way the NEWS file gets written is just that each individual commit that makes a change that needs end user attention will add an entry in the relevant section. This is quite hand as people can just 'git blame' the file and automatically find a link to the relevant commit (or they can click through the linked issue). What's missing is a more high level narrative structure of changes in the release, but such a thing would have to be written once the release is done. Usually we do that in the form of a blog post announcing the release. However, invariably, these things end up on HN the second somebody thinks the release is done (or even just for early RCs).
I'm a bit confused here.

When I take my roll of film to the chemist for the. To run through their machine; or I send it off to a lab; or I develop it myself; the copyright for the images still stay with me.

Why does developing the film give them any rights?
I've install Linux (typically Ubuntu) on an x60, x220, t400s, and now t530 and everything (except the fingerprint reader, which I don't care about) worked out of the box. Lenovo even mentions Linux in their material, which means a lot and is worthy of support.
Working at Amazon, I can say that there's always a suspicious uptick in ex-Microsoft hires in late-summmer/early-fall, just after Microsoft gives out their bonuses.

I think you're absolutely right to attribute that to just being a normal cyclical thing. I know that whenever I get wanderlust I look to my RSU vesting schedule.
[Hi from Argentina!]

I agree, but usually the pegs in the other direction are more dangerous.

When the government has too many Dollars (or Euros) they usually have time to find a soft solution and change the conversion rate slowly. It's always easy to burn money.

When the government has too few Dollar (or Euros) the amount of reserved money go down, they exchange the real money for valueless internal bonds, and one day they get up and they don't have any money left in the treasure and they are forced to make an abrupt correction.

So this suddenly change is strange. YMMV.
What kind of problems do you like? There are lots of fun projects that could use some heavy lifting (motion control comes to mind.)
This is something I worry about regardless of the specific storage media type.

I have all my photos on my hard drive backed up onto a two drive mirrored NAS device and uploaded to a third party cloud based backup service. Many of them also have low resolution versions posted on Facebook and Flickr. But I still worry that in 70 years no trace will be left of these photos.

Printed photos sitting in a photo book with each photo in its own plastic sleeve that is stored in a dry location away from light won't last forever, but it will probably last 70 years. My digital photos have to constantly be backed up and copied over time. Cloud backup services and social media websites will go out of business. Both the drives in my NAS will eventually fail, along with the drive in my PC. For these photos to survive, someone has to perpetually do work to keep them around.

Sometimes I wonder if, despite the fact that camera phones means we take an absolutely immense amount of pictures relative to other periods of time, if in 100 years there will be more photos from 1985-1995 than 2005-2015, just because the older photos were printed and stored in photo books.

At some point I should probably print my most important photos.
"Heaven forbid Apple do launch a search engine.." . No they wont and Siri is your search engine for future.
There aren't many things you can do to make people worse off at that scale. It's 50-60k employees and hundred thousands more affected by this to some extent. I mean, if you rob a supermarket or a bank it's like a drop in the ocean damage comparing to what executives at Google and Apple did. Why aren't people involved prosecuted, jailed or at least permanently removed form any positions of power and/or influence ?

Every time I read this emails it's my "I don't want to live in this world any longer moment". I mean some of those "I don't want to leave paper trail we can be sued over" people are still in prominent positions today.
The recently passed Tomas Tranströmer, I love his writing. He can go from personal headspace to outer space in a cherry blossom in a moment during a car crash:

--

After a Death
(translated by Robert Bly)

Once there was a shock
that left behind a long, shimmering comet tail.
It keeps us inside. It makes the TV pictures snowy.
It settles in cold drops on the telephone wires.

One can still go slowly on skis in the winter sun
through brush where a few leaves hang on.
They resemble pages torn from old telephone directories.
Names swallowed by the cold.

It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat
but often the shadow seems more real than the body.
The samurai looks insignificant
beside his armor of black dragon scales.
> Traditionally, we like to think of animals as serving humans, but in a case like this, isn't the opposite true?

You don't consider that animals provide emotional comfort? And make owners exercise, as well, since you need to go walk with your pets on a daily basis?
Don't you expect most pages to be broken when using noscript?
Do you think there should have been a seventh?

No, because we clearly weren't willing to commit the resources to make our efforts pay off in the long run. Who knows what might be possible now, if we had used the money we spent on the Viet Nam war to successfully establish a permanent manned lunar colony?
My dad bought an MSX computer and some programming manuals when I was a young boy. I liked it more than him :) started with just typing over listings from the books and magazines (that was common back then).

Later on I started changing things and trying what would happen. And trying to make games do different things. And wrote quite some programs on my own, like simple games, but soon found what you could do with BASIC was quite limited. But it was kind of the only choice back then, apart from assembly. Somewhat after that I started learning some Z80 assembly from a little book of opcodes.

Much later we got an MSX2, then an Atari ST, then finally a PC (286), man those were crappy compared to the ST :) I learned Pascal using Turbo Pascal, then C using Turbo C (Borland was big back then and everything was Turbo). Learned a lot from other BBS users and TXTfiles.

I get very nostalgic when I think about these things.
I'd love to see cheaper printers that can do page collating and binding. I want to hand my printer the ebook I just bought or a collection of papers I've downloaded and get back a properly bound book. I know such printers exist, but they're hardly priced for the home market.
On any other apple computer I'd agree, but I really want some of that sweet ARM magic.
I suppose it depends where you are. In the United States, if we had this Singapore-style surveillance mechanism, what would we do with the data? How would it be used to save hundreds of thousands? Would we implement arrest and detention for those who had had 30 minutes of contact within 2 meters of a presumed positive case?
But people sell houses based on price, not on the monthly payment. It's possible that high monthly payments reduce the ability to sell a house for a high price, but is this effect that strong?
Are there any good blog posts on selling https everywhere to the business folks? I'm an engineer and would like to see the product I work on have HTTPS everywhere but I'm not sure of the ways in which I could convince people to support it.
Beautifully done.

I've played around with a similar little app in the past, just to get familiar with HTML5 SQL Databases ... long before Backbone ever came about. If you're in a browser that supports 'em, you can take a peek here:

http://internettypewriter.com/

There are a couple little things you might want to steal. The ability to switch the color scheme from light to dark is nice for writing in low-light places. It would be great if there were a way to trash the current page. It would be nice if the URL for "Your Writings" left off the trailing hash mark. And, this is tiny -- but I'd love the option to choose a monospace font that's a bit nicer than Courier, for full typewriter mode; say Monaco, or Menlo.

So, how'd Backbone work out for an app like this? Any trouble spots worth mentioning?
Phones spend 99% of their time idle, and idle power management is actually pretty difficult to do well. Linux people have argued about this extensively, with different algorithms making a multi-hour difference in battery life.
It seems like he is using immigration status as a proxy for parental education level. As he later notes the effect is non existent and in fact opposite in Canada and Australia which he attributes to the skills based immigration system.
Then why didn't they print a story "our source is now running around pumping bull into the echo chamber"?
I write my code and HTML to be read by a human because:

1. I may need to work on that code or page in the future,

2. Someone else may need to work on that page/code,

3. Some of that code may end up as open source,

4. I'm showing off to the 0.01% of people who view the source. I'd like everything I do to be of educational value to someone, somewhere, even if all they learn is how bad I am at writing compact HTML.

If I ever have any high-traffic sites, I'll most likely use a compacting system to shrink properly-indented templates and/or cached output from Ruby on Rails, rather than manually compact the HTML.
Reliable for doctors/dentists
Scrolodex 
https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/scrolodex/id556927123?mt=8
Hey Guys, check out my little project. Let me get your feedback on it.
I like working for awesome start-ups
15 Captivating Product Labels
http://blog.printplace.com/2011/09/26/15-captivating-product-labels/
Product labels are designed to grab our attention and help a product stand out from the crowded shelves full of similar offerings.
Pi approximation using Monte Carlo method
https://curiosity-driven.org/pi-approximation?utm_source=hn
Monte Carlo is an method to solving problems that uses random inputs to examine a problem. This method has a wide variety of applications from problems too complex to solve analytically to estimating amount of time a task will take in FogBugz. Pi approximation is a simple problem that illustrates an idea of how Monte Carlo method works.
Facebook banned in Pakistan Again?
http://naumanlodhi.blogspot.com/2011/09/facebook-banned-in-pakistan-again.html
A mid level court in Pakistan ordered the IT ministry in Pakistan to ban all web sites that are propagating religious hatred.

An interesting point to note here is that the Judge excludes Search Engines from this list.

It has been directed to the authorities to file a compliance report to the court by October 6 2011.

The prime reason why some legal groups, most important to mention Mr. Azhar Siddique the lawyer in favor of putting bans, want social networking site Facebook banned due to the presence of rant/hate speech in the site.

However, it is likely some other legal groups might challenge this decision in higher courts which could delay the implementation of the current orders.
Current world dictators and rulers
http://www.planetrulers.com
Will this site be targeted by Chinese hackers as well if they decide that their current ruler is not a dictator??? we need to protect freedom of speech!!!!