skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, it is too facile to conflate the two, that is why I tried to distance the real Stasi from the trends that I'm seeing by calling it "Stasi-lite".

However, I'm seeing disturbing accretions of power over time enabled by the social networks' data harvesting, and the concomitant gold rush to gather any data, anywhere and plug it into everywhere it fits into a coherent "data narrative". I don't want to concern-troll; I'm young enough to still hold out hope, but old enough to understand human nature has not changed for millennia. Counter-examples to your points, with the full awareness that we are nowhere near the overtly oppressive levels of the Stasi.

* We already have police cruisers harvesting license plates passing by. It is not long before surveillance camera feeds are hooked up to facial recognition engines ostensibly for highly-targeted in-store ads using new hyper-local delivery platforms (video screens beckoning you with a product pitch predicted to appeal to you, hyper-local audio only you can hear delivering the pitch). How long before simply walking around yields a minutely-detailed, fully-automated diary of your daily goings about that even in the glory days of the Stasi took punishing levels of manpower?

* The consumers of the data might not be centralized, but as many have observed, tech is usually a winner-take-all game and the harvesting and collation of the data will more likely than not be another Google (or Google itself). The data will be sold in a highly-segmented manner to extract the maximum profit from the data, but the concentration of power enabled by pulling all that data together in 1-3 entities, not to speak of the Palantir-like statistical associative inferencing, will be unprecedented. Imagine human nature around that kind of data corpus.

* People regularly air dirty laundry I would have never imagined in such a public setting. Alias doxxing only need happen once, and then everything negative ever said comes crashing home to roost out of never-erased archives.

These are tools, with no intrinsic moral compass; how we use them is subject to moral evaluation. I observe that the output of these tools will be too expensive for individuals to access and use themselves, and it is only in the remit of very wealthy individuals and the larger commercial and governmental entities. These are to me the new, much more powerful suasion tools than newspapers and TV could ever hope to aspire to, for they can shape opinions using individualized social circles and will "feel more genuine/authentic". This might seem benign, until say, someone buys out massive, long-term campaigns designed to say, sway public opinion "at the grassroots level" to go against vaccinations.

We live in a fascinating era.
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GM's current mktcap is about $53B. A $500m investment represents putting almost 1% of their company into Lyft. Tesla's mktcap is about half of GM's, so this investment represents 2% of Tesla. Uber's last valuation put them above both GM and Ford, so what GM is looking at is a Lyft competitor "worth" more than they are and they want in.

I don't really care about talk of tech bubbles, but seeing older institutions invest so aggressively in startups is gnarly. Both Fidelity and Blackrock went into Uber and now GM owns a huge piece of Lyft.

I don't really have a point. Just thinking out loud because I'm not sure what to think...
"The text starts with a question... "does every node need a direct Internet connection?""

I do not see the word "direct" in any part of the rant. Am I missing something? Are you sure that is what he meant? The text reads "do these computers really need to be on the Internet?"

Indeed an internetwork like any other network should be symmetric but I am not sure adpoting IPv6 is the only way to achieve that. Nor that adoption of IPv6 would be used for that purpose.

Instead I see asymmetric, data collection motivated ideas like "Internet of Things" being put forth as "the way of the future". Such ill advised ideas would more likley be the justification for using IPv6.

Do all these "things" (computers) need to be on the Internet?
I did the same, and have nothing to show for it. I wonder if there's some personality trait, some sprt of drive that helps people succeed in any environment?
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You are absolutely right!

The range check would be "`5` is less than `a` and `a` is less than `30`". Meaning that `a` is between 5 and 30.

It's fixed now. Thanks martin-adams!
The "short-term car rental hubs... where people who do not own cars can pick up a vehicle and drive for Lyft to earn money" is a nice idea in the short-term. I still think Uber has the right idea long-term with a completely autonomous fleet, but once those hit the market, there will still be a pretty large demand for NON-autonomous vehicles -- take my parents, for instance, who refuse to get into a car not driven by a human.
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> As a 'West German' I can assure you that this was not the case. Germans after WWII were fascist like before.

That is what I was trying to say; I'm sorry if I did not manage to express that properly by crossing the line to cynicism. I wholeheartedly agree with your summary of post-WW2 Germany - parts of my family later claimed they never liked Hitler but that they had been fighting in WW2 for Kaiser Wilhelm!

A good watch for people interested in post-WW2 Germany's way of coping with recent history is "We Cellar Children"[1] (boy hides communist during WW2 in basement, then his fascist father just after WW2 and then he is finally arrested later on for painting a swastika on a wall after a journalist asked him to do so for a report...)

I don't agree with your implication that "fascist thinking" is a thing of the past in Germany - but that's yet another topic.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054479/
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Yeah, this post reminded me of the semi-regular /r/legaladvice posts along the lines of "my ex-GF got a restraining order against me so I drove to her house to ask her why and then the police arrested me" where the poster just can't seem to grasp that they violated the restraining order. Even his own description of the events have him clearly violating his agreement with HR several times and possibly violating it many more, so of course he's going to end up getting fired.
Yes, it's very telling that Lyft offers a suboptimal experience.
And they thought it was a good idea to go to the holiday party after being fired and escorted out...
personally I'd like to see startups help to move us away from a tipping economy, kind of bummed when they added that
Author's other article https://medium.com/@tossayo/suicidal-an-exploration-on-my-me...
Your parents will be irrelevant in 2 or 3 generations from now. At some point, fully autonomous will be a norm without the fear.
Access to resources would be one - web apps dont have access to much resources beyond what's provided in the browser, where native languages can take better advantage of a computers hardware and peripherals.
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While I know there's a big problem in American discourse with overlabelling everything from single-payer healthcare to duck hunting permits as "communism", I think if you can't call Marxism-Leninism or Bolshevism "Communism" then we're deep into no-true-Scotsman territory.

The inherent problem with framing everything in terms of class struggle is there's no room for human rights, which leaves the individual vulnerable to being crushed by the system. The few remaining people on the left who really do derive ideologically from Marxism-Leninism really need to notice this and advance their thinking a bit.
I'm about your age, then. (Born 1964, was 25 when the Berlin Wall came down: where I grew up, lived, went to school, and attended university was never more than 10km from a WarPac strategic nuclear target.)
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"Variable announcing" solves that issue, please see the example in the following link:

http://yosbelms.github.io/cor/docs/playground/index.html#lin...
This kind of post can not help for finding a new job.
Actually a huge chunk of the US ISP market has IPv6 in production. Comcast, Time Warner Cable, AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, Sprint, Google Fiber. Ironically, it is their huge monopolistic size that actually makes them great candidates for IPv6. They are getting too large to use IPv4. It will be the small consumer friendly shoestring ISP operations that will take the longest.
If you're language agnostic when it comes to programming the "nordic" conferences are pretty damn awesome. Meaning:

GOTO conferences (Copenhagen, but also London, Berlin, Chicago and Amsterdam nowadays) - http://gotocon.com/
Recorded talks: https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences

NDC (Originally Oslo, now also in London and "somewhere in Australia") - http://ndcoslo.com/, http://ndc-london.com/
Recorded talks: https://vimeo.com/ndcconferences

OreDev (Malmo, Sweden) - http://oredev.org/
Also has links to recorded talks
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> IPv6 to IPv4 NAT exists but is stateful.

Actually... RFC6145

This document describes the Stateless IP/ICMP Translation Algorithm
(SIIT), which translates between IPv4 and IPv6 packet headers
(including ICMP headers). This document obsoletes RFC 2765.
Brave of you to share that experience. Thank you
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moblock is still at an early stage and we are looking to hire a CTO with great game development experience, to build our product and help us turn modblock’s vision into reality. More than experience, we’re looking to bring on board a true gaming passionate that wants to have a positive impact on the industry!

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None of the solutions you suggest exist today, to my knowledge. Am I wrong?

For example, a single IP address per application would be fine, but there is no protocol that allows me to allocate addresses per application on a central home router such that I can then identify them to permit them individually.

And applications punching holes via APIs does exist in uPnP and NAT-PMP, but isn't that the same thing as what you dismissed above as a hack?
I was thinking "Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time."

It fits. With both Murdock and Naur, both of them were names I was familiar with but hadn't heard anything about for quite a while... until I heard they both died.
It's not commercial interest as much as very high cost.

It's a huge amount of work to convert to IPv6, which includes:

- almost all networking hardware in facilities, pops, switching centers, and on customer premises (basically every device in every home.)
- almost all related software stacks like kernels, network control stacks, etc.
- redesign and planning of addressing topologies, ranges, configuration, etc.
- updates to all support systems: inventory databases, monitoring systems, provisioning systems, security systems, etc.
- updates to tooling, documentation, UIs used by engineers, customer service, field techs.

As you can see, it's a shit load of work for most large organizations and service providers.
As rules of thumb (my grandparents used to have olive trees), I would use: pure olive oil is thicker and gets solid with the cold. The same for honey.
2-3 generations is a long time to make money.
When do you want your return on investment? Within the next 20 years or within the next 60?
I don't know how you pull unrequited love out of such a vauge post. If we are to make that leap of assumption, it's a tiny additional inference to say the root cause was at least one of them was unable to mange the interaction line an adult (pursuer wouldn't take no for an answer and/or perused didn't bother to shut it down properly).

HR conversations basically take the American inability to be direct and multiply it by 100. Are we going to assume that HR of such a large company gave him the 30 seconds of real talk he needed to hear and possibly fix the situation, or run-arounds that assume their inability to communicate can be fixed by using their position of power to wield parent-knows-best control over the people? A state of affairs that feels insulting to people who know they need parental guidance, let alone adults. No wonder it ended like this.

HR's mind was made up in July. They should have fired him in July.
I listened to this earlier today - and had to head directly to their site to see pictures. A little odd, even for planet money, but a good way to start my day.
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Also, sites like NYTimes add different URL parameters based on how you arrived at the article (eg, which menu item you clicked). I strip those out when submitting to HN, but others might not, so HN views it as a different URL.
From my experience in NYC many drivers drive for both Uber and Lyft. In an anecdotal poll I ran with those drivers, they say Uber riders usually like to be left alone while Lyft riders are more chatty.
33 points in 43 minutes and not on the frontpage.. would be nice to get a word from the mods why this post is taken off.
Really we should call liken the post-privacy era not so much to the Stasi as to Hoover's FBI, which busied itself with sending death threats to MLK and suchlike.

Or Guantanamo and its micro-gulag. There's a lot of brutality but it's aimed at an extremely small number of people.
Except that snitching about unpatriotic activities does not happen on a large scale here in America. People are far more interested in their immediate, personal safety and the safety of their property than monitoring their neighbor's patriotic tendencies (or lack thereof). Big difference.
> Uber seems like a company run by pricks

I recently interviewed with Uber in Asia, spoke to a half dozen people there right up to the head of the region and many Americans who have been with the company for years, and I did not get the job (so, clearly not biased towards the company).

Here's my one data point: they were all really nice, professional, competent people I'd actually want to work with. When I say nice, I don't mean polite, but trustworthy and well intentioned.

They are working very hard to cope with the massive growth of their app, trying to figure out how to manage 200 offices in parallel with tiny teams whilst keeping the same quality standards and avoiding unsavoury incidents that come when you hire a large number of people in many locations (imagine what would happen if there was a rape or robbery attempt by an Uber driver). They are under extreme press scrutiny and large amounts of negative PR globally, because they are hitting some of the best organised, most entrenched oligopolies.

Psychologically, it felt like there was a strong sense of family and purpose, that I haven't really seen since I left commodities trading (whose companies are family owned businesses where long careers are common). They were proud of what they were building, genuinely appreciating the value added to the community by their work. The place also felt meritocratic, with people getting expanded responsibility rapidly after proving themselves (based on the career path of the long timers I talked to - could be survivorship bias).

Naturally, I poked a bit towards the "unethical" side of things, suggesting a couple of things as feelers for how they would react. The reaction was overwhelmingly negative - it seems that "dirty tricks" are not looked well in Uber in 2015 at least, fair competition is the name of the game.

So, they impressed me enough as people (after impressing me as a service) that here I am putting up a positive word on HN. I suspect much of the negative press is "black" PR from competitors and threatened interest groups.
You missed the part where he clearly explains what "the event" was:

> The event that prompted this co-worker to go to HR was because of hearsay about me regarding actions claiming I’ve done something, to which I refuted.

Edit: /s :)
I want to know more about this game board patent: http://nsa-patents.silk.co/page/Game-board-id%3A-D637658 I wonder if they developed it into a full game or prototype at some point. Maybe it was supposed to be used for training purposes? Either way imagining a bunch of NSA guys sitting around playing their version of Cones of Dunshire made my morning.
Furthermore, pastures contain plants other than grasses that cows enjoy eating, which have different nutritional qualities than straight grass hay, alfalfa hay, or silage. There is a practice (MIRG) of rotating ruminant herds through different pastures on a schedule that allows plants in the pasture to reach maturity before being eaten, and this supposedly also has an effect on what plants the herd actually eats. I can't remember if the article that I read about it said that it makes them more picky or less picky, though.

On a historic note, early American farmers planted pumpkins for their cows to eat, which made the butter darker, from all the carotene. A lot of herds still get the leftover trash from pumpkin farms after Halloween.
You're absolutely right, but it won't let me edit it.

Thanks!
As Italian can confirm. Some of the tastes of my youth disappeared (strawberries are nothing like old locals one you could get) but people take food labelling very, very seriously.
Some site design advice: The Home link didn't tell me anything about what Jasper could do. I clicked About, and it stayed on the same page, jumped down, and also didn't tell me what it could do.

I had to get to Documentation, then Usage, then scroll down to find out what Jasper could do. This is critical information to an assistant, you've gotta make that more available to us.

You also should avoid advertising features not available yet. "Control your home" is mentioned, but no home automation devices are listed as modules. Anything that can control your home should have a list of the hardware it works with readily available.
"Hodl" indeed. I'm more or less in the demographic mentioned in the article. I buy some tech gear from time to time on newegg but then just replenish on one of the exchanges. Other than that I rarely buy things with btc. A donation here and there.

Are folks considering putting coins to work in a tumbler? Experience?
"I've done something" isn't very clear
Make a place for everything, the ATM card goes here (period)

Do that for important stuff and follow the rule to put things back in the places where they belong and you wont have to worry about looking for it.
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" and taking 20%?"
Typical taxi here in the US, company takes 65% unless you rent your car from them, and I don't know how it works after that.

Typical employment interview consists of "Is there a pulse? Yes? You are hired."
I am building an app that helps Canadian homebuyers research and get more information on neighbourhoods. It's still in the early stages but I am looking to overlay more information.

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The new "The Little Prince" movie is about this. Great film
This is why you should party or at least socialize widely in college. To get all that weird socially awkward shit over with before you're in the workplace and it impacts yours or another's career.
VW has Greenwheels (not really that common or popular though) and Quicar (only in Hannover)
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I can't and won't defend all of the things that the West did to win the Cold War. Some were outright wrong. But some were pragmatic choices between two evils. Supporting Pinochet's coup in Chile is the most famous case. Interestingly, and conveniently left out of the narrative by those who want to demonize the West, the Chilean Congress authorized Allende's removal because he was flouting the law, was a totalitarian communist, and was a close ally of Castro. Pinochet then refused to relinquish power back to the congress. He was not a good man, and sent death squads to kill people for being suspected communists, but it probably would have been worse if Allende had his way. People overestimate the amount of power the US and the West had to influence those kinds of events. We could influence things one way or the other, but we didn't have a liberal democracy wand that would magically transform a country's political culture. We tried that in Iraq and it was a failure.

You can draw analogies to the Spanish Civil War. Both sides sucked. Orwell went to fight for the Republicans, but came back completely disillusioned because the Republicans were totally dominated by the Soviet Union. He writes about his experiences in Homage to Catalonia, which I strongly recommend. The Nationalists were not good people either, but Spain would have been much worse off if the Republicans won and turned it into a Soviet satellite.
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I was asking for etymology, not for the meaning (which I know).
I don't think that's true. Did you try googling that? It wouldn't have taken very long.

I can't find a satisfactory answer. Wikipedia doesn't say. [1] says it comes from the print industry, but I can't find any indication that that's true (all the search results seem to be related to online, "hero image print industry" doesn't turn up anything useful). "Hero image etymology" isn't helpful either.

[1] http://line25.com/articles/30-web-designs-that-fully-embrace...
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Brilliant. Concierge drivers consume very new cars, decreasing use of older ones thus driving GM sales.
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Not being pressured to carry cash is a suboptimal experience?

I refuse to carry cash. If I were to take Uber, I'd have drivers one-starring me and giving me a bad reputation for not tipping them. With Lyft, I can tip in the app and avoid all that mess.
Hence he said "short term". 2-3 generation from now certainly isn't the short term
I thought they just made a deal with CMU and then proceeded to recruit everyone to leave.
You know that Google Ventures put $200m+ into Uber right?
My boss is American. When he moved to Italy for a couple month to check the progress, he spent first week eating tomatoes raw out of the supermarket at every chance. Then discovered what burrata is.
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They will still need a chassis/engine before they have a viable car, and there's been no real external indication of them either developing that in house or partnering with/purchasing someone that can provide that expertise.

.. at least I think that's what the question is about.