skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also assuming that they choose to follow said rules, considering they would be painfully self aware.

In regards to the other commenter about not being able to have fun with ants, we actually do have ways. We create setups to study them, have them as pets, not to mention many people build hamster like ecosystems with intricate tubes, temperature to control queen egg output and much, much more.

Perhaps we are already within a said ecosystem built for us. Perhaps we would simply stay there.

Back to the original poster, not the one above but it's parent:

Everything considered is of science fiction since it does not yet exist, using science fiction as a counter-argument seems dismissive, as though you are unable to properly argue a point without creating a sense of absurdity in my words or person.

If you truly believe that it can only be of a science fiction trope, explain why. I disagree, it makes logical sense.

As far as the "email thread" analogy is simple, I can easily tone down my verbage, word count, and speed of word for those who can't keep up. However, given the chance to move away from doing such, and constantly be around those who instantly understand, with zero lag, would I choose to put myself in that position? Perhaps for a moment, but after a certain amount of time, it would be time consuming and I would leave it behind.

Thus logically, it makes sense to believe they would leave and join with each other to create their own sense of a society.
So, I can't answer about solving big problems, but I did genetic engineering research in grad school on bacteria. One could very easily conduct serious genetic engineering in one's bedroom for less that $500 or so. Of course this is fairly basic stuff, but still, you'd be amazed what is possible with very little equipment.

For example, there is a yearly competition called iGEM, which is synthetic biology competition for undergrads. Some of the stuff they do with limited resources is quite impressive.

http://igem.org/Main_Page
Check out my site https://IndieHackers.com and sort by highest revenue. The "simplest" apps on there (from a technical perspective) making the most money are probably Semantria ($150k/mo), ConferenceBadge.com ($45k/mo), Nomad List ($33k/mo), Storemapper ($21k/mo), and FormCraft ($13.4k/mo).

Of course, if the app is simple to build and makes a ton of money, that invariably means that the other components (marketing, sales, distribution, etc) are tougher to crack.
I didn't realize this needed to be said here, but... you do understand how evolution and natural selection work, right? Beyond that, you understand the death penalty? We don't hunt down your progeny and kill them too. There is no "eugenic" benefit whatsoever, even if the scale were right, which it isn't. Even if eugenic control of violent tendencies were possible, which it isn't.
NixOps?
I think it's safe to say that literally thousands of people have moved to the Bay Area for work for IBM.
> I don't really get the opposition to it (other than the religious objection).

Read some history of how national ID was used and abused by Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia to find reasons other than (but also including) religion as the basis for objection.
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In a place like Japan of course, where the odds of being caught are higher, and the social consequences of stealing a bike are devastating, you do see less of that kind of crime. Emphasis on "See".
Sorry, should've been more explicit!
An economist would answer your question by pointing to the theory of "comparative advantage." Here's dry formal description of it:

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

and a somewhat friendlier description:

http://www.econlib.org/library/Topics/Details/comparativeadv...
> If he was under duress he probably didn't have time to filter through the documents. Even if he had a bit of time, it's difficult to know what would be relevant as events unfolded after the release.

The dude planned this for years, he said it himself. He had plenty of time to simply take evidence of what he was going to blow the whistle on. I don't understand your argument.

> impossible to expose the information in any other way

Except for the many oversight channels that exists which there has yet to be any evidence he used.

> For example, there may have been evidence of other crimes, and there would be no way he could sift through the documents while still working.

If I understand your argument correctly, it's: "it's possible something here is illegal so let's just take all of it." I shouldn't have to explain why that doesn't jive.

> Also, he recognized that he needed to leak slowly in order to keep the story afloat, or else he would get buried under propaganda and forgotten, as has happened to other whistleblowers that released all at once.

None of this addresses the fact that it seems he did a recursive pull of supersecretnsadomain.gov and deuced out to China under the pretenses of whistleblowing.
I'm struggling to think of some examples. Perhaps you could tell us what you have deemed to be "unacceptable".
Just a current curiosity: how did you choose a minimum password length of 8 characters? Was there any insight into the decision or did it 'feel right'?
Whatsapp was not simple.

Angry Birds?
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I've been doing this for a while. I agree it's the most natural map for a multi-lingual ({en-US, zh-CN, ja-JP} here).

AutoHotkey on Windows 10:

CapsLock::#Space
+CapsLock::+#Space
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USE A FOOT PEDAL.
First it's really awesome that human judgement and the sentiment analysis tools agree with each other so well. Maybe this was common knowledge, but I was always skeptical of it when I saw it used.

Second the amount of human hours put into generating all this data must have been insane. That could have a lot of value to researchers if he'd be willing to share it.

Third it's really awesome that the average sentiment changes so much throughout books, making these nice visualizations of the plot. Sentiment is just a fairly crude measure. Emotion and tone has many dimensions. I wonder if it would be possible to use similar tools to discover them, and get even more detailed statistics on the emotion and tone changes between and within works.
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Yeah, I think they were importing them as passenger vans, then de-optioning at port in Baltimore.
"Humans are so slow... exactly..."- Elon Musk

Pretty sure Elon is a creature from outside of our simulation who has injected himself into our reality to teach us how to play the game better.
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OK, thanks for the clarification. I agree they have nothing to do with the right of Israel to exist. And of course it has a right to exist, like any state. In order to be taken seriously as a modern state it does of course need to change its ways and acknowledge that as a state it is for all people of all religions and of none, and that it is not in any sense a state "for" people of any particular religion.

You do however still need to apologize for accusing me of criticizing Israel out of antisemitism. You did it implicitly ("...reasons other...hard look in the mirror..") but it was clear enough that one other commenter has independently criticized you for it. It is for that reason that I have used the rather impolite adjective "deluded" in reference to you -- it's of course extremely common for supporters of Israel to accuse their critics of antisemitism, aiming that accusation at young western liberals who don't even remember the times when antisemitism was an issue in their societies. Those accusations are delusional, or just cynical deliberate inaccuracy; one or the other.
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I have a (journalist) friend who did this, but only because they didn't properly understand the shift key - she thought it only was used to access the alternate symbols on the number keys.
How much does this domain worth?
They get one at a young age at and are unaware of it for various reasons.

Remember that there are 320M US citizens with all sorts of improbable stories. You have people born abroad, native americans on isolated reservations, people born at home or with irregular birth certificates, people with scummy parents committing fraud in their child's name, etc.

When New York implemented facial recognition on IDs, over 100 people were arrested for having multiple driver's licenses. Stuff happens!
Weird, i thought its 5500/year. That's what you can do with betterment at least....
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'n' has always worked perfectly for me. Takes all of twenty seconds to get up to date, and switching between versions is stupid simple.
Speaking of multilinguals - note that Swiss people actually need capslock to type things like 'Ö' because if you press SHIFT + 'ö' then you get 'é' on a Swiss layout (well, I guess you could type '¨' first and then 'O', that also assembles to 'Ö'). Gotta accomodate for both German and French. Just a bit of trivia you might not have known.
I mean kids will typically end up laughing if you tell them to smile.
...make the world a better place.

Just what the hell does anyone even mean by "make the world a better place"?!

I am willing to bet that if we held a forum to settle what a "better world" means, we'd have to adjourn it with no resolution. The questions of better world for whom, and on what terms, by what definition, what expense and, oh yeah, who pays the bill and why would never find one conclusion.

What you really mean to say is that Capitalist market rewarded choices does make the world a better place according to your definition of it. But don't lay claim to speak for the world when for many Capitalism market rewards are making the world a better place.
> No wonder France has about 1/3rd the car exports the US does or about 1/7th exports of Germany.

Who cares which country has more exports or GDP? I care about quality of life, not which shareholders are reaping the most benefits.
+1 for storytelling. This article is pretty much my life story, and I constantly tell that story to other people, because my own painful personal experience suggests our educational system does not do a good job of delivering the same message. Maybe tucaz doesn't need to hear it. But there are a lot, a lot, of people that do. How many times have you heard someone say "I'm just not good at math" or "I'll never be able to draw" or "I have two left feet, I can't dance"? It's just because they never learned how to learn.
He asked a general question regarding authorities to OGC. What's the bar of "availing" himself to a channel? If he sent an email to OGC asking how their weekend was, he would have technically "consulted with OGC", would he not?

As it stands, there is zero evidence (from either side) that Snowden complained to the proper channels.

And why would he when his plan was to leave the country with 1.5 million classified documents?
Do you have a source of him using Adderall?
They started this move almost a decade ago, gradually, and just recently the accumulated effort got so relevant, that is evident even for an outsider like me, that they changed their strategy, that is why it seems now it's "visible".

"How I can notice this change of strategy?" may you ask, It's because they always said things like this, per example, that Linux was not good because something open source could never be better than a closed and proprietary system with a company protecting their code.
My work Mac boots into windows, while my home Mac uses iOS. The keyboard change wasn't immediate, but it was done. If these people want to try something harder than caps lock and have their minds blown, they should learn to use VIM.
We are also asking people about their programming level to make sure we don't have anyone who knows nothing about programming. Our purpose with this project is precisely to explore peer-to-peer learning, so we want to force those types of interactions.
I'm not sure how this algorithm is serial. The neural net layers still involve huge convolutions that can all be done in parallel.
I also believe that this is one of the reasons. Open source is "cool" and motivating to work for.
This is where automation and proper process management come into play and sadly this is where many companies fall down. It's not that development productivity cannot be tracked it is that management generally does not understand the problem domain that they manage, well enough to put the proper measures and controls in place to identify inefficiencies.

Something as simple as a software review board, which places time estimates on a problem agreed on by a panel of at least 2 developers and then a process to check those estimations against actual results to find how far their estimation deviate from actuality across all developers, gives a fairly accurate picture of how long something should take and becomes more accurate over time. Further automation like linking the ticketing system to the SCM, so that when a branch is created for the issue the clock starts ticking and stops at checkin/smoke test, gives a pretty accurate picture of time spent on a task. Any developer that is deviating far below the low threshold is potentially wasting time and his/her work should be reviewed, as it is only an indicator that there may be a problem not conclusive proof.

I have worked remote for over 7 years, and currently reside in a very remote area for developers (Key West) and have no issue with remote development. Either a company has these process in place or I quickly put them in place. That or find other remote work as my only bad experiences have been with companies that do not have such measured in place. It's not a hard problem to solve one just needs to know the problem domain, most managers don't, so they just resort to the butts in seats management style and honestly without similar controls the same kind of time wasting can be employed, it just manifests itself differently but incompetent managers figure well they are here so work must be getting done.
Piqued my interest. Would have been nice to be able to get a sample of just one of these entries as part of the article.
I am surprised that YC would make this page so remarkably mobile-unfriendly. I don't have the time to listen to the interview, I just want to read the transcript. They could have just pasted it in a reader-friendly format, but instead it's in an annoying Scribd applet. I don't want to sign up for their service or download the app, not to mention that it's a terrible mobile reader anyway. This was very disappointing.
> Its been a few years since I left but when I was there all hardwired devices had a public IP address.

Which is, of course, how it's supposed to be. I used to host a website from my dorm room.

Every device on the Internet should have a public IP address!
Yeah I was there last month, and had fresh sashimi and fish tacos sitting on the the deck at Point Loma Seafoods, where it was still 70 degrees and glorious at 6pm. And then I flew home to a cold, gray SF ;)
After living in Colorado for several years (not in Denver) every city I visit seems very dirty. And I grew up in NYC.
Yeah, kudos to Scribd for perhaps the maximum LOC codebase for "how to make plain text completely fucking unusable".

There's real irony there in it being an article about delivering value to society through making useful technology.
> If it's just a big ball of mud: not much you can do. It's pretty much a physical job, like counting grains of sand on the beach.

You can refactor as you go. It doesn't save you from sifting through the entire ball of mud, but at least it means you won't have to do it again in quite such a bad way.
Like many others I didn't originally learn typing in a structured manner. It used to be that I only ever used the left shift key. This works adequately, but means that when holding shift the finger positions for the left hand change. In short, it's a bad habit that hampers accuracy and speed, and may increase the risk of RSI.

A couple of years back I made a concerted effort to learn the dvorak layout and have since become a fairly proficient touch-typist. Consequently, when I use a shift key I always use the hand on the opposite side to the one hitting the letter. My coordination is now good enough that I can type a sequence of capitals quickly and accurately using just the shift keys -- alternating to each side as required -- but that would be silly. I don't even think about using Caps Lock, now, it's just part of my muscle memory for when I type a sequence of capitals.

I suspect that most people who don't see the use of Caps Lock always use just one of the shift keys and hold it down when typing a sequence of capitals.
I'm not a web programmer at all, not sure why I come off that way. Also, since we're on HN, I assume most readers are familiar with PG's term 'Blub programmer', which more ore less means 'java' these days. shrug
tl;dr: University of New Hampshire decides that the best use of a million dollars of a librarian's bequest is a video scoreboard for its new $25 million football stadium.
You're not entitled to seed funding. However the government does offer SBIR grants of ~225k, from all branches of the government, DOJ, NIH, NSF etc. Odds of getting the grant range from 1/5 to 1/12 depending on the year. With solicitations twice a year.
Can I come along and note that I was in that thread supporting that guy? Because that would be valuable for my self-esteem.
I'm 27 now. My biggest fear is to not succeed in my career by the time I turn 40.

The idea of having to give up working on my startup goals after 20 years of continuous failure is in itself terrifying enough - But combine that with the fact that I might be penniless; forced to join a mega-corporation to become corporate cattle.

... In a company filled with arrogant lucky people in their 20s bossing me around. I couldn't take it.

I fear the next generation. I think MY generation is already so arrogant - We severely underestimate the value of experience.

I was one of the few people lucky enough to learn that lesson early though.

I once worked with a lady (a software engineer) who was in her early 40s and she always said that she never really cared much about her work. She always left work on the dot.

I was 21 at the time and I had been working like crazy since I was 14 but even back then it was clear that she was a much better software engineer than I was. For me, my career was the center of my life; for her, it was just a way to pay the mortgage.

In spite of what the media tries to tell us; 7 years of obsessive, passionate labour is not more valuable 22 years of 'bare minimum' labour. That's how valuable time is.
I had read a lot about the Cat, but never saw it in action, so I decided to look for a video. This is a fascinating view into Raskin's user interface concepts. The world might have been a very different place if Jobs hadn't interfered with the Macintosh project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_TlE_U_X3c
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If WSL were truly Linux compatible, then why would anyone need to adapt Linux software to run under it?

This is the first step: embrace. The next step: extend. Apparently it's already happening, as people scurry to adapt shit so that it works with WSL. Next you'll have companies requesting that all Linux software be "adapted" to work under WSL, and if it isn't, they won't buy it.

Once this happens, Microsoft can proceed to step 3: Extinguish. How? Easy - by adding incompatible shit to WSL. If companies succeed in forcing Linux software vendors to provide a WSL-specific version, they will have to be compatible with these WSL extension. Voila - now they are supporting a new Microsoft platform that Microsoft controls.

Back before many of you were born, Microsoft killed entire product categories and companies by providing free versions of Office when it was first introduced, and making it compatible with competitors' file formats. Is it free now? Hell no, it's their main source of revenue!

Can they repeat the same hat trick with Linux? Who knows, but they damn sure are gonna try. Anyone who thinks "Microsoft loves Linux" needs to take a history lesson. The only Linux Microsoft would love would have a dead penguin for a logo.
Precisely, I won't name names but there are a few "drains" on family that I know that didn't start spaceX or tesla, yet they are not utilitarian positive contributors, I'd say.
> I thought it was interested that only a couple of years ago paying for IPs was very much against policy and now they even have pointers to brokers on the APNIC website.

Selling things for what the market will bear is the only way we've managed to figure out to fairly provide resources to those who want them the most.
I think that's just the medium, nothing unique to HN. Any sort of online forum where people post comments is going to be overwhelmingly biased towards negative comments- either people going on about how much they hate whatever the subject is (be it Elon Musk or Python or whatever), or people being contrarian about some aspect of the article, or people being negative or contrarian about other posters.

People are just much more likely to comment if they hate something than if they love something. Also if they disagree with something than if they agree. Comments in any online forum are not a uniform sampling of the views of the readers.

HN's saving grace is that many of the articles linked to are on subjects that are just obscure enough to avoid being overwhelmed by "this sucks/this rules" sorts of bikeshedding comments. Also most of the topics are complicated or obscure enough as to make them difficult targets for kneejerk nitpickery.
That's pretty spot on. I once made an abbreviated flowchart of the above for my microservices article:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/microservices-cargo-cult/

I urge everyone to use it to decide whether they really need microservices or not.
Apologies. What I mean is the interview's context is technology (what you would expect from YC and Elon Musk).

Hence, his answer to the questions would naturally be about technology rather than other important aspects of human civilization.
To be fair, postmodernism is totally opposed to ideas like progress or "perfecting" or any sort of fundamentalism at all. In fact, the best criticism of postmodernism is that, when they're done deconstructing, they leave nothing at all behind.
Docker have been copping some flack recently for releasing things that seem rushed and incomplete (the routing mesh being a good example) - doesn't it worry you that you're using a Release Candidate in Production? It seems risky considering their official releases are still pretty buggy.