skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit of background may be in order: the main point of this story (aside from just being a good story) is to get readers to think about how one ought to go about interacting with other intelligent agents whose value system is radically different from one's own. See, e.g., http://lesswrong.com/lw/tn/the_true_prisoners_dilemma/ for an explanation of why those radically different values make a difference.

And a bit of background to that bit of background: Yudkowsky is interested in the question "Suppose it turns out, in the not-outrageously-distant future, to make machines whose general-purpose intelligence matches or exceeds our own; and suppose it turns out that once you've got that, ordinary technological progress plus the ability of those machines to do their own machine-designing leads rapidly to machines vastly smarter and more powerful than we are. How do we avoid this scenario playing out in a way that we don't find abhorrent?" (Sample, over-simple failure mode: we try to make sure that our superintelligent machines work for the benefit of the human race by teaching them what happy and unhappy people look like and telling them to make there be more happy people and fewer unhappy ones; they slaughter the entire human race and fill the universe with lots of little dolls that look just like really happy people.)

Well, that's at least partly a question about how to deal with clashes of values between very different sorts of intelligent agent: in this case, human beings and superintelligent AI machines.
I think the patent count is a bit inflated due to many of the patents being the same thing patented in different countries.

I also don't get what's bad about the pool having a large number of patents. If you want to use H.264, don't you want all the relevant patents in the pool, so you can buy just one license to cover them all?
This seems to paint the world in overly broad brush strokes.

There are good teams, and there are bad teams, and there's bound to be a bunch of both in any organization. You have the same problem with startups: there are good ones and bad ones, and it's usually not possible to tell one from the other until you join them.

Why not just try, see what you get, and then you can transfer or quit if you end up on a bad team? Hell, it's a lot easier than joining a bad startup, where you have to get a whole different job to escape from it.
You don't like the direction Digg is going. If you were the one making the decisions what would you do?
My understanding is that KR is now back in charge, with more control then he's had in some time.
I assume the April 1st 2011 reddit site redesign has been decided then.
Here's Joel's essay about looking for people who are "Smart and get things done"

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing...
I don't have a dog in this race and I actually agree with Alexis (I don't like the new product direction - it does seem very derivative as opposed to innovative)

But if you look at where Pownce was going it looks like Kevin has liked some of these ideas for some time now.
Digg still crushes reddit in traffic. I'm not saying traffic is an indicator of profitablity, but it's apparent they are either marketing it better, or more people prefer it. Either way, it's tough to argue "with the people" based on the author's indication of importance.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com+digg.com/
I think human trafficking is a lot more diverse and complex than the one-dimensional narrative you're describing. From one of the MetaFilter threads, http://articles.sfgate.com/2006-10-10/news/17314668_1_massag... is the last in an excellent series of articles on a young woman who was tricked into a year of prostitution in the US by human traffickers. She didn't give up her passport, she did see actual money (in fact, she paid off tens of thousands of dollars in credit card debt she had accrued in Korea, before working prostitution for a bit longer to make some money she could keep), and she's living with one of her former clients.

She's apparently very ashamed of what she did, and there was one occasion on which a violent client put her in fear of her life (and got away with it), so this is not some kind of Happy Hooker outcome. But she also didn't end up "never seeing actual money" or "an ugly, crack-addicted woman," nor is it reported that the other prostitutes handled by the same trafficking ring ended up in such a situation.
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It's about time. There's nothing like a fiscal crisis to get a few tax loopholes closed.
She ostensibly raised his kids, and made a lot of sacrifices for "his" work. I don't know, but I would guess there were a lot of nights alone with the kids. That's work too. She could've married someone who would work 9 to 5 and come up and help with the household. She didn't, she took on that extra burden, just as he took on the extra burden of his startups. They both took on a burden to make that possible.
It's not a "type of website", but instead "location of website", identifying the network that the website lives on. Let's say there's an intranet, internet and extranet available. Identifying the specific network that a resource lives on is important to distinguish if it's publicly accessible and what handling procedures are used when working with it as dictated by the policies of the particular network it resides on.
Having worked at Blizzard until recently, I think my response to this rhetorical question is predictable.

But help me understand a little better. I don't see designing more compelling gameplay as being a markedly different goal than more compelling musicianship, more compelling novel-writing or more compelling filmmaking. What's your perspective?
Google hiring is done at a company level, so for most hires, you don't actually know what team you'll be working on during the interview. You are typically given some idea at offer time (I was told my manager's name, my manager's manager's name, and the department), and you can talk to people you might know at the company, but if you're remote or don't know many Googlers it can be tough to get more information.

It's also not unusual for teams to change shortly after you start - I switched managers in my second day there, and then what I ended up working on wasn't exactly what I was assigned to work on.
I think you should allow per-line comments like in Github, so someone could go through and explain what's going on, or ask questions about particular lines, etc. Great idea though!
Great questions, pavs. Thanks so much for putting a lot of thought into this. Really appreciate it.
:) a very good point. Let's ask him the hard question! Thanks.
Thanks, NEPatriot. That's an unusual question. I have never thought of that. Thanks.
These are problems that I wish I had to worry about.
Yet a better group is "Done and Gets things smart".
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/done-and-gets-things...

Go Google!
Google and Microsoft both do a great job shipping certain kinds of products. The teams that work on these products have influence, autonomy and ability (without middle management or PM interference) to ship products.

For Microsoft it's Office tools, development tools and operating systems. We may not like those products, nor wish to work on those teams irrespective (I'm a UNIX hacker, there's no way I'd be happy at Microsoft, lest they bring back Xenix), but I'd imagine those teams are great to work on.

For Google, it's obviously search, infrastructure (incredible competitive advantage for them), advertising system and other things Internet or networking (including Android, Chrome etc...). It's not their office or enterprise offerings (Google docs are useful, but they're popular because they're only game in town so far).

I wouldn't join Microsoft to work on online services or join Google to work on desktop or enterprise products (with exception of Chromium). I would imagine I'd be sidelined by management or technical leadership who is just not used to that particular type of software (e.g., if you make shrink wrap office software you'd be hesitant to adopt methodologies that involve daily pushes of code or see the value of making services highly available and fault tolerant).

Of course, I am open to hear arguments to the contrary (do you work on online services at Microsoft and find that you're able to "get things done" without interference? Ditto for desktop software at Google).
"running sbemail45.swf" - wait... this runs off of the SWF and not source?

Definitely slow with weird audio blips but very impressive so far.
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I would say that interviewing for engineering knowledge (coding, algorithms, software engineering) is pretty straight forward, but interviewing to figure out if a candiate can get 'real' work done is very difficult.

I don't know of any magic way of testing for that. There are some good signals, of course, such as:

1) pre-interview open source reputation and release.
2) References from people you trust and respect.
3) Publications with significant content written by the candidate.

But I've seen each of these fail, even in combination, in predicting the ability to execute. That said, it's better than nothing.

(disclaimer, I work for Google, and am also waiting for the part about Google in the OP)
Wow, I wouldn't have guessed that.
The fact that you know the shortcuts for select all, copy, and paste puts you in the top percentile of users. Most people don't even know that's possible, and certainly not with keyboard shortcuts.

(The point being that for most users the faster approach that requires less thinking is to type it twice. Sometimes I do things the "slow" or "long" way when coding because it doesn't require a mental shift from the task at hand.)
I don't see why an employer would need to ask those kind of questions in the first place. Can't they just check the candidate's Facebook page, Twitter profile, blog, etc.?

Enough people have that kind of information out there on the net nowadays that I'd expect the company to be able to find it for most candidates.
"back when "social media gurus" were simply called "tools.""

Did we stop calling them tools?
This is so cool! Another reason for me to dive into Haskell.
Uhh...what? These are features that seem kindof obvious to me...I think they're awesome. In fact, this is really similar to something that I used to do on my website over a year ago (we stopped doing it because there weren't enough users to make it feasible at that time...some of the ideas still exist though).

Alexis, one of the problems with reddit, at least right now, is that there are just too many freaking people. I don't care about the majority of the users on the site. If there was a way to see reddit as it was 5 years ago when it was you and 10 other people, that would be great, and I think that is what the move digg has made here is trying to accomplish.

(Shameless plug for my site, which is embarrassing when compared to places like here, reddit, or digg, but still just as addictive to me: http://newslily.com - the part I'm talking about [show me what my friends are doing] is here: http://newslily.com/lilypad ])
I found it myself just yesterday through a completely unrelated channel. Didn't catch the author at first glance! Seeing Yudkowsky linked to FF.net on HN made me do a double-take. I wonder how long it would have taken me to catch on if I hadn't stopped to finish work. Guess I must go back and finish it now!
I think that one feature that is needed is the ability to edit submissions. I added one of my pieces of code and then realized that I had accidentally introduced a bug while reformatting the code for adding to the site.
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Good idea, it would probably be pretty complex to implement though. I'll have a look into it, definitely keep it in mind.
It's also sometimes important to simply fail a project. I don't know what she worked on, but I suspect that it's just as equally likely that the product should have never reached market.
I know someone who might be interested in chatting with you. Do you mind throwing up your email in your profile?
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A bit long, but very good, and given that this is one of the hardest things to get right (e.g. one of the most important lessons in Walking the High-Tech High Wire) it's worth spilling serious ink on.
I agree with that. I'll look into how it can be done while still allowing anonymous submissions!
Sure thing, email sent.
My account was deactivated today for no apparent reason. It allowed me to reactive it by giving them my phone number. What's good Google?
Sorry, I left out the part where you discussed how much artists should make:

"I like music, and as such would like to see artists remain profitable, even after the demise of the CD."

Separate from that, the logical fallacy to which you refer is true, but equally applies to the business model that has existed for the past 50 years on which the record labels have relied.

To wit: just because it's been the case in our lifetime, doesn't mean it can't or shouldn't change. And no, musicians will not go hungry because of it as you imply, although lawyers might have to find a new line of work.
Good point. When a project is clearly going no where, it's worth it (but not easy) to fail it and move on.

I've personally have had this experience, and although failing a project hurts, it ultimately frees up time to move on to bigger and better things!
My only issue with this is that it assumes my friends use Digg too, and they don't. Kevin speaks a little bit about "tastemakers" (how do I find them? Why do I trust them?) and "publishers" (which sounds a lot like RSS spam... right to you in Digg).

I hope there is a setting for Top News to be the default, and maybe some way of matching people who you are compatible with Digging to set them as your Tastemakers, allowing a transition away from Top News to something more personalized.
'They are not cogs in some big machine that can be automated. Writing web applications requires creativity and intellectual thought. Everyone knows that telling someone "be creative now!" is a ridiculous approach.'

On a number of occasions I've talked with people in the Web development/software business, and they make regular use of the term "creatives". And every single time they use it to distinguish some group of people (designers, ad writers, whatever) from mere software developers. Who, apparently, are not creative, or not doing creative work.

It's probably a lost cause to get people to consider software developers part of that group (at least with those who most often us that term), so I propose we call developers, hackers, engineers, etc. "Inventives."
This makes me incredibly sad.

Once upon a time I wrote a story about a person who didn't use TDD and how he suffered: http://ryanbigg.com/2010/02/congratulations/
:)

I was hoping that "N $somethings$" was part of the list of things to ban.
If the patents aren't essential - that is, you don't actually need them to implement the standard - then requiring companies to license them is just a way of transferring more money from licensees to certain patent holders. And it increases the chance that the pool will be able to block or intimidate any competing standards.
No, but what're you gonna do? Ban technology?
Hrmm....it kind of works. The issue I am having now, is that on the page I tried it only does part of the page.

http://52weeksofux.com/tagged/week_1

I tried to capture that page, and it only captured the bottom story - not the top.

I never checked the source or anything, so it could very well be something about that specific site.

That was just the first site I tried, and that's what I found.

Hope that helps :)
I agree that it is "sad that people think that someone should or ever would run a huge operation without money being a major factor" but if Mark did wrong or not is something else.
Well said. Lack of focus is often more of a danger to a company than lack of good ideas, and that goes double for startups.
I tend to like Front Ahead Design myself -- build the interface first and make sure that's acceptable (which may require faking some parts of the backend), then just fill in back end logic until it actually works.
First, it would mean a lot more to explain why you don't want to work somewhere if that company had actually offered you a job. Anyone can say that they don't want to work at Google, but it doesn't have much force if it could just be a sour grapes rationalization. It would at least be good to disclose whether or not you've talked to them about it.

Pretending that isn't a problem, though -- where does the claim that Google doesn't finish things come from? Google must have one of the highest ratios of number-of-devs-on-a-product to number-of-million-users-using-that-product in the industry! I see no reason to conclude that a Google engineer's work would be likely to be canceled and disused.
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Nintendo's doing pretty well, and the DS and Wii can be considered innovative. I don't think their games aren't software in the way that you mean, but they've broken new ground there many times, too.
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Interesting, I wonder where this was? I'd have expected grad school to be way more theoretical and research-oriented than that.
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Joel's a pretty smart guy, but he's definitely not everyone's nerd idol. He's not even on my list.
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This may have to do with the fact that Kevin Rose was a mini-celebrity in the tech world when Digg was launched.
Nice!

It'd be good to know the license(s) the code is made available under. That way we'd be able to re-use it in our projects.
This thread feels like the twilight zone. How do the actions of the red cross, a non-profit organization, provide any evidence that for-profit companies don't act in a profit-maximizing way?
This article is based on a false premise. Facebook doesn't need you to make your data public to serve you ads -- it already has access to this data. Advertisers tell Facebook which demographics they'd like to target, and /Facebook/ does the targeting and ad serving.
I may get downvotted for this but anyways...

Why give out the source? Why not turn this into a service? I know that there are a few ad agencies out there that would pay to see some of their investments run on the iPhone OS. Or content providers guarantee their sponsors' flash ads get impressions on iPhone/iPad.
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When I first heard about Kickstarter, I thought it was meant for bands to get money from friends and fans to record an album in the studio or for other types of artists. Since disapora, it has been shown to be a way to get funding for a business that others believe in, in exchange for giving something other than equity.
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(Sample, over-simple failure mode: we try to make sure that our superintelligent machines work for the benefit of the human race by teaching them what happy and unhappy people look like and telling them to make there be more happy people and fewer unhappy ones; they slaughter the entire human race and fill the universe with lots of little dolls that look just like really happy people.)

A sample, less simple failure mode, also written by Yudkowsky: http://lesswrong.com/lw/xu/failed_utopia_42/
I'm bingo. Just curious: which half did you see as the humorous half?
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They were mobile software start-ups, and certainly there were plenty of other reasons that I left them behind.

But the pattern he describes maps pretty well to my companies. As a Technician, I started a company focused around building what I loved to build (good software). To a certain point, it's easy for N co-founders to keep juggling all the balls that comprise running a business (rather than just writing code). This is the "Infancy Phase," and all was well, just as he describes.

It was the "Adolescent Phase" of the business where everything fell apart. All the various things we were juggling became too much, and they started to fall by the wayside. In my specific companies, I think a big cause of this was trying to do too much in terms of product.

And so I followed one of the paths he predicts--I threw my hands up, and started small again with a new company. The revelation that did it was pretty much exactly what he writes:

You realize something you've avoided all these years...
You don't own a business--you own a job... the worst job in the world!
You can't close it when you want to... You can't leave it when you want to...
You can't sell it when you want to, because who wants to buy a job?
I wish them luck in getting bought out. Seems like Digg would be a good fit for Yahoo, considering their new content-only direction.
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Loved it :)

Lately I've seen lots of FBP - Faith Based Programming.
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NOT perfect, FAILS to accept valid addresses

Another know-it-all web developer guy who thinks he got his regex right...
These are valid addresses that he rejects:
user@ua (.ua = Ukraine)
user@km (.km = Comoros)
user@ne (.ne = Niger)
Many ccTLDs have MX or A records pointing to real MTAs.
And code in a proprietary language that compiles down to VBScript? No thanks.
This is also my understanding from people in the know. Jay Adelson was removed from the company and most of the codebase for Digg v4, that was supposed to be launching sometime soon, was scrapped and Kevin took over the direction of the company again.
I'm not from the US, so don't know about coverage in specific areas, but with this sentence 'We took the phone to three different locations in San Francisco where AT&T has coverage holes, and in every case, had a 3G data connection', isn't it possible (or even probable) that they could go to other locations where the iPhone would have coverage and the EVO wouldn't?

Also, wouldn't continuously 'driving around town to test the GPS and 3G signals' drive down the battery of any device?

Isn't it like saying they watched video on a phone and the battery didn't last all day? Would it have faired better on a different device?
..back when we were able to game Digg (algorithms were very predictable) for fun and profit.
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