skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a long history of Company Towns in the United States. At their peak in the first half of the 1900's, about 3% of the population lived in one.

At the time, it was seen by the industrialists as a way to raise their workers into the middle class. "Paternalism was considered by many nineteenth-century businessmen as a moral responsibility, or often a religious obligation, which would advance society whilst furthering their own business interests. Accordingly, the company town offered a unique opportunity to achieve such ends."

"Although economically successful, company towns sometimes failed politically due to a lack of elected officials and municipally owned services. Accordingly, workers often had no say in local affairs and therefore, felt dictated. Ultimately, this political climate caused resentment amongst workers and resulted in many residents eventually losing long-term affection for their towns."

Perhaps it is time for a new company town concept being pushed by one of the big tech firms. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, or Google might be able to pull it off. It could also be a test bed for their new technologies.

[*] Quoted paragraphs lifted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
I think the origin of the word might lie in country and western. An iron is slang for a handgun, and a big iron is a big handgun.
133 Years Later, Gaudí’s Cathedral Nears Completion
Christianity is afraid of Islam
It's important to distinguish political rights from mere consumer choices, http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/7/stop-treating-c..., "The consumer-citizen pops up all over the place, like a cardboard stand-in for democratic citizens who have no other political concerns beyond self-interested consumption .. the public is hung out to dry with effectively no defense or recourse since our political rights have evaporated into market choices."
Next you'll be claiming to be the Queen of England and expecting us to accept that at face value as well.

Citations please.
Also you're 100% correct about the D3 data structures thing. The reason I did it was I fear as a self taught guy people will have certain assumptions about me. And about the working for free, I agree that it opens me up for exploitation. But id rather be exploited and have a company profit off me if it means I can start working. Spending hours writing out cover letters to only get ignored completely destroys my self confidence. Anyways my email is MKwenhua101@gmail.com
Awesome article. Great clear and concise points!!!
Double accounting for personal budgets is too much overhead, which is why ledger is a nice middle ground. I doubt many ppl reading this use double accounting for their personal finances - by the time you need that, you'll have someone else do it for you, and they won't be dicking around with ledger...
I did. For about three months.

The place was a nightmare.

And, yes, not only were you encouraged to give them high marks, they actually built a front-end to the survey system used to track who had and had not submitted a response and setup HR conversations with anyone that gave them less than a top score.

I actively avoid companies on those kinds of lists.
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Does it use any native controls, so that you can build an app that looks and feels native? Could you build, say, something like the Spotify desktop app with it?
Securelevel in linux has never had a good time.. its also not working so well with kexec at the moment, I think its fix in the 4.x series though.
Go to abebooks.com. Often the same sellers sell the exact same books there but with 2.50 shipping instead of 3.99. I almost never shop at amazon anymore for the simple reason that their used book base shipping rate is too high. But that's me; I'm addicted to used books.
> As of November 4, we have identified 2,846 iOS apps containing the potentially backdoored versions of mobiSage SDK. Among these, we observed more than 900 attempts to contact an ad adSage server capable of delivering JavaScript code to control the backdoors. We notified Apple of the complete list of affected apps and technical details on October 21, 2015

When will the list of apps be public?
Are you referring to row-store, hard-disk DBs (especially data warehouses) or column-store, in-memory DBs?
The restore is only as-needed, but full system image backups are made every night.
I work for a best place to work company and hr really go all out to address any concern that may hurt the survey. That said, best place to work doesn't mean your job is automatically awesome.
Baidu, the 'Chinese Google,' Is Teaching AI to Spot Malware
Yes, GP's view seems extremely naive. Unless you are using a pirate radio network, your ISP can simply turn off all your encrypted traffic .
The SPDK libraries are mostly storage-specific components (the I/OAT DMA engine can be used for generic copy offload, but it is particularly useful for copying between network and storage buffers). SPDK itself does not provide any network functionality.

I am not familiar enough with the Xeon Phi or GPU programming model to say for sure, but they could possibly be used to offload tasks like hashing/dedup or other storage-related functions.
It's amazing that we can grant revokable, read-only and audited access to our social accounts, but not our bank accounts. Even though the largest aggregators operate under some level of federal supervision (via FFIEC and the OCC), there is an obviously better way. TxPush (http://txpush.org) looks like an initiative in this direction. There will likely be an ongoing need for aggregators to maintain access to laggard financial institutions and possibly to buffer load on the bank servers as consumers use more and more financially connected apps.
check out abebooks.com. They have the best search engine for books when it comes to facts about the specific book, such as: is it a first edition? If its a hard cover, does it come with a dust jacket, and if so what condition are both in? Cheers
I posted this because I feel like this might be one of the last few multi-generational efforts under a single project umbrella that I might see during my lifetime. As an American I'm in awe of many of the old Cathedrals and Basilicas in Europe that took hundreds of years to complete.

Most of the cathedrals in the U.S. were "tossed up" after a few years of construction. (One of the rare counter examples is the National Cathedral in Washington D.C., however it's not Catholic.)

If we start any current projects in the world that we know will take generations to finish:

* I won't see the end of them

* I'm not sure there's the will to do it

The idea of something like a generation ship, or interstellar colony ships is something far away from what we seem to be able to do today, but I like to think that projects like cathedrals are about as close to what those kinds of things might be like.
And one of the best articles I've read on the topic of racism.
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This comment made a lot more sense after I realized it wasn't talking about one laptop per child, but for a while that interpretation was almost working.
> And I was commenting on the general nature of Firefox, not this particular button.

Then we have no argument there. I thought you were commenting on the general nature of the Pocket feature, which is also probably complicated given it's its own separate thing, and my reply was just echoing that you only need to understand and audit the layer that talks to the black box. In this case, a button response handler.

I found https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/browser/comp... within 5 minutes of looking. It's very readable, I spent another 5-10 minutes reading it. This is the first time in memory I've looked at Firefox's code, so I didn't even know where to find it, though I'm sure I've browsed bits of the codebase before for some reason. I first browsed to their files, went to 'browser', and since we're talking about the button I thought 'components' was a good next choice, and hey, a pocket directory. Lucky? Maybe. Reading through the component tells me the initial claim of nothing important happening until you click the button seems accurate, except that functions are exposed publicly so other bits of Firefox could probably get at them without user interaction, and when you do click on it (L165) it'll prompt you to sign up at about:pocket-signup before doing anything. If I wanted to get rid of this, googling seems to say you can override default components with some extra effort. I build Firefox from source (Gentoo) so it would be simpler to just add a patch to the build process that removes the whole directory and deletes the dir line from moz.build.

This is just static human analysis, it didn't take much time or skill. But static analysis isn't the only thing you can do, as I initially said "verify". Active verification by monitoring and alerting works great, and if you can do rebuilds like you can with Firefox then you have even greater control. If I were particularly concerned about something happening without my knowledge (with or without the button) I'd use what I learned from reading the code to monitor my network for outreaches to pocket's website. Of course I can't be fully certain some other code doesn't send all my visited sites to some other IP (or maybe an IRC server) that is then harvested by pocket asynchronously... But as you say, it's very unlikely for such malicious and underhanded code to be there.
I personally couldn't succeed with this approach. It's only suitable for polygamists.
I'm more of a one codebase kind of guy. I know how to treat my codebase right.
Ok, let me rephrase that.

Only YC companies are available on the "jobs" tab at the top of this, and every, HN page. Only YC companies can be the original post, instead of a comment. YC job postings are the only links that are not subject to comments/criticism.

The original point is that HN serves a very useful purpose for YC companies that it doesn't serve for non-YC companies.
Maybe to save VW, the new management will switch to all-electric or hydrogen vehicles. It would be a huge change, but maybe necessary to save their brand. And it would be a huge win for customers, the industry as a whole, and the environment.
I work from home. What do I do..?
Both have problems. Base vintage layout is too dull and doesn't correspond to the kind of project presented. Having guix at the same level as `less` is wrong IMO. I'd allow an exception for a whole OS/distribution. It's a major thing, and a recent one at that. So a bit of 'appeal' couldn't hurt, now it's not proper as done now, but guix is still growing, the fact that it has a page is already amazing in itself :)
It wouldn't have the cool art, but it wouldn't be too difficult to produce a first approximation of a similar website using existing frameworks like Bootstrap.
I'm not so sure about the high volume low cost part, considering that iPhones, Macs and all kinds of modern consumer electronics we love to use are imported from China.
Even though I don't work with photo realistic images and thus have to ensure accurate color, I still enjoy my NEC 2490WUXi2 monitor bought back in the day when I was an image editor. I was targeting sRGB for a webzine I was a part of.

As applications break out of the grayness that once defined them and become HTML5 based, designers would do well to understand how their colors will be displayed. Eventually, all displays will probably be IPS or some similar tech and be calibrated at the factory. The new Microsoft Surface Book has good and accurate colors from what I understand.
Every time I read something like this, I wonder "what the hell are you people doing to your Apple cables?" Now, I'm not saying you abuse your cables or anything. Maybe it was bad luck, maybe it's me just being extra careful with cables (doubt it, they're disposable in my book). But I've got a whole box of white cables. I finally threw an old 30-pin away that was so old it had the latches on the side that you had to squeeze to get the cable out. 30-pin connector was cracked, but it still worked. Threw it away only because we only have one 30-pin device left in the house, and the cable was sort of broken.

My wife did finally kill the Lightning cable in the car that was a few years old. One cable failure in probably ten years. That and $4 will get you a coffee at Starbucks, so take it FWIW. I just wonder why some have better experience with Apple cables than others.
It worked well (and got lots of traffic) the first time they did it. I think they learned the wrong lesson.
Lending to the very poor is a real problem since the interest rates they pay are astronomical. A lot of poor stay poor because they can’t get out of their debt trap.

It is defiantly a hard problem to know how to best compare wealth between groups, but as long as you keep the method the same then the delta does tell you something interesting. There does seem to be a massive increase in wealth concentration at the top, which I don’t think is a good thing.
Running a public data portal our egress is higher than our storage costs. (We now proxy downloads through a direct connect to our university network...)

Remember to account for future reductions in storage costs. S3 has come down from $0.1500/GB month in 2010 to $0.0300/GB month today. And the recently introduced infrequent access storage tier is under half that again at $0.0125/GB month. It's now significantly cheaper to use S3/Azure/Google than running the storage ourselves.
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Designing for iOS 9
1. I searched for "cars" on Baidu. I got search results with cars.

2. I searched for "cats" on Baidu. I got... the musical, a pop group... okay, maybe you're right.
Put up a page about it, let people play with the inputs, throw up some metrics comparing your computation time with more standard methods. Or write it up as a paper and submit it for a conference.
It was totally charming and i scrolled through it with a smile. But you know what - didn't really read it, it's pretty hard to read actually. Not sure that's what you want to be going for as a news organization.
If you think that at a lifestyle business you can just philosophize about 'architecture', write 3 prototypes and hone every last function for aesthetics, you're sadly mistaken. When you're small everyone has to do everything, you need to ship so bills can be paid, and customers are always nr 1, not the software. I like 'small' too, but it's not like working at a lifestyle business is like having tenure. Owning one that has plenty of cash at hand might be, but working for one isn't.
Sure!

Small and simple doesn't have to mean janky and shitty. You reduce scope, not reduce quality.

To carry on with your two examples, I'll make up a security product and a product related to control code for rocket thrusters.

For the security product, let's do a "secure storage on Dropbox" product. Version 1, you do as much as you can with with existing libraries and pieces. Use OpenSSL to handle the crypto bits. The UI has two options: the passphrase for the encrypted storage, and the path to the encrypted directory (and a system tray icon).

Right away, I can think of all kinds of features that would be cool to add to this product, but DON'T build them out for V1. Eventually, you can add PKI so that you can have different keys on different devices and selectively revoke them. And build out the mobile app so that you can access your encrypted stuff on the go. And bake in crypto libraries so that you're not just calling out to openssl.exe. Etc etc. That's V2, V3, V4...

For rocket thruster control code... You're going to need a way to test it. Start with a thruster simulator. You're going to probably need a FEA model and a numeric solver. It's not going to be "simple" as in "I banged it out in a week", but it's way less scope than building and testing thruster control code. Once you've got the simulator built out and working reliably, start selling the simulator while you build out your own control code.

Hell, if you want to keep it super simple, start out by only simulating solid fuel model rocket engines. You can use that to bootstrap the verification process (compare simulation results against measured results for a couple bucks/launch)
As a Caltech alum, I am compelled to point out that Dabiri did 90% of the work on this at his former institution. Way to go Stanford PR team, I'm sure he figured it all out in a year on your dime.
Your ability to repeat your talking points is impressive. But you demonstrate zero engagement with any other views, zero understanding of the lived reality of minorities in tech, and zero understanding of the decades of research and discussion around racism and employment.

The charitable assumption is that's accidental. There's no reason white people end up knowing about this stuff automatically. I sure didn't. But at some level of repetition and entrenched defense of an apparently naive position, it gets pretty hard to say, "Oh Steven2012 just doesn't know."

It begins to look like you don't want to know. Which is also fine, really, as long as you own that and move along in spite of it. Maybe try that? It seems better than being the poster boy for statements like "I don't read HN often. But it can be instructive. You get to read unfiltered sentiment from ppl who don't realize they're misogynist/racist."
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The simple answer is the first word of the title of the book: Shakedown. That word on Wikipedia points to "extortion", which has a lengthy entry.

I have the book, and I've read it. Here's an excerpt starting at pg 321:

SHAKING DOWN THE STREET
...
Rainbow/PUSH ((aka Jackson)) had opposed the
proposed merger of AT&T with TCI
...
((AT&T CEO)) Michael Armstrong understood immediately
that Jackson was essentially sticking out his hand,
hoping for a payoff. Rather than hold up the merger,
he obliged. While he was at it, he instructed AT&T to
donate $425,000 to CEF. Jackson immediately dropped
his opposition to the AT&T/TCI merger.

So (if I may speak for the original poster on this thread) the idea is that Jackson will be an irritant to Twitter until and unless he is paid off, aka a donation made to a charity or business that Jackson controls.
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> (and I don't think equivalently?)

I think that's equivalent (assuming there are no efficacy losses of blinding, of course). If you've got the two subsets in question, then they could make a choice with higher expected returns. If they can make a choice with higher expected returns, then there exist the subsets in question. (Let me skip the handwaving about continuity and measurability, please.)

Those definitions are good because they even describe bias in a scenario where VC's are less accurate at identifying the ability of one group versus another, even if both had equal distributions of "true observable ability" and equal-sized applicant pools, and if the VC's decisions still resulted in equal proportions of each group getting funded.
I don't know anything about the company, but you can search for "black company" kyocera (in Japanese) and browse the results. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
> he printed a small book for each staff member on his philosophies, which declared that the company was devoted to their growth

I recall coming across how the share of profits which gets paid out to labour varies across American industries. Finance stuck out. The supposed heart of capitalism anomalously distributes more to labour than to capital.

Life is about making trade-offs. Companies that put customers first will have to make trade-offs in terms of the employees and communities they work with. Companies that put employees first will similarly make sacrifices.
I really like the look of this! Why all the negativity? Just because Bloomberg did it? The simple truth is that positioned text (and, in this case, discretely positioned fixed width text) is a wonderful format for conveying information. The combination of scroll-advance, the way contrast is used to focus - I say, really cool looking.

My only criticism was the boy in the moon animation to the left of the company list. That was distracting and made the UI feel chaotic. I also don't like the (full color) banner ads - they could have at least got one of their sponsors to do an ASCII art version of their ads!
About 2x+ more expensive then a Cortex-M0. Still insist on CISC arch. Why?

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/embedded/products/qua...
I'm sure about the high volume low cost part, even for iPhones, Macs and all kinds of modern consumer electronics. The Chinese companies assembling these are making pennies on the dollar compared to what the companies that design and market them sell them for. For example, it may cost Apple around $30 to manufacture and build an iPhone in China [1]

http://www.asymco.com/2012/02/22/the-iphone-manufacturing-co...
What confuses the hell out of me regarding the TPP - and maybe it's just because I'm in the HN/Reddit echo chamber on this - but if the TPP is so damn important to reigning in China in the 21st century or whatever, then why did they load it up with a bunch of unrelated antagonizing bullshit?

It doesn't seem to me that the intellectual property provisions of the agreement are all that important to the overall stated goals of the TPP. Yet they are so fucking regressive and antagonistic that there is some chance (I guess? Again, echo chamber...) that they will sabotage the rest of the agreement. After SOPA, etc., if it were me and I wanted to be sure that the TPP passed in enough Pacific Rim countries to make it effective, I would keep anything remotely like SOPA as far away from my precious treaty as I possibly could.

Instead, the IP portions of the agreement are basically the language that was in SOPA all over again, which pissed a whole lot of people off last time. It's really hard to take seriously the claim that the TPP is so important, when the people drafting it are including language that is pretty much guaranteed to stoke vigorous opposition, for reasons that are mostly orthogonal to their goals.
Also interested in citations. I am sure this article glorifies the ceo (it's bloomberg), but saying they are slave keepers sort of justifies a bit of substantiation.

edit: ddellacosta posted some Japanese links for our international audience. Also, to be clear it isn't that farfetched of a claim, but certainly contradicts the article.
A good read. Thanks for sharing the information. NJ always seemed like a micromanaging politico's paradise. Ever consider relocating to PA, which seems to have no farm raw milk sale restrictions, or even FL along the Gulf? North of Tampa there is a raw goat milk dairy farm which goes by the name 'Fields Place Goats' and maintains the same breeds as yours.

URL: http://www.fieldsplacegoats.com/lineage.html

Just a few idle thoughts. Good luck with your animal husbandry! (and whip up some gourmet Bleu du Bocage for your friends over the winter, but age for a few months before serving)
try to persuade everyone that it isn't wrong and don't follow it :)

We're a small subset of the population. Remember, people believe that the govt snooping around isn't a big deal because they have nothing to hide