skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is awesome, though I want to hear more about how the properties field is used.
I'd like to see the stats for Ruby Enterprise Edition too.
For what it's worth, I dropped off facebook a bit over two years ago, and didn't notice any impact on my social life.
I was 25K in credit card debt when I got out of school. I moved back in with my parents and pretty much didn't do anything outside of working and sleeping for a year, and paid it off I am still debt free (this was 5 years ago).

It takes self control and discipline, which most people don't have.
And on a side note, Thinkpads are the reason I started this thread. I'd never buy another brand of PC laptop, and I realized that's entirely because of a $.10 middle buttton and a $.50 Trackpoint. Seems insane that PC laptop manufacturers aren't differentiating themselves with extra buttons, scroll wheels, etc... they all use the exact same tiny touchpads and 2 smooth, shitty buttons.
If you read the source linked to in that article, the hoax wasn't that the tribe was uncontacted; it was that it was only just discovered. However, the fact that it's been known of for so long certainly does suggest that there has been at least some contact.
Hypothetically what would you do if these tribes had a system of slavery?
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see twitter's Rainbird for what a production scale solution looks like. 100k writes per second, with a huge skew in which rows get hit.
I tried doing the "Hide" thing for a while, but there are two problems:

1) It's a pain in the ass to hunt down and hide various people and apps, and you have to keep up with it. Consequently, your friends who are likely to say interesting things but not spend a ton of time tweaking their FB settings tend to drift off, driving your signal down.

2) Hiding people is a blunt instrument -- you hide someone who's 98% noisy but 2% interesting, and you've hidden more signal you wanted to see. Then, when they ask you about why you didn't see their baby photos, you have to tell them that the answer is because you were sick of "Which Twilight Character Are You?" and hid them.

In the end, it's easier just to quit and go back to using the regular internet.
I readily acknowledge we may agree more than it first appears given the particular emphasis we each chose. But I do think there is substantive disagreement here within the realm of non-violent (and, dare I say it: civilized) ways to approach the matter.

The very idea of having a way that "we" deal with "uncontacted tribes" is collectivist on both ends.

Individuals should do whatever they want without violating anyone's rights.

Your way of phrasing the situation has systematic collectivist bias that implies things like withholding access to some individuals in their tribe if a tribal leader doesn't want us. And it implies central planning/organization (what "we" do).

When you don't let any individual who wants to interact with them, without violating their rights, do as he pleases, then you are restricting access.

When you divide the world into different countries, tribes, etc, and restrict the free flow of people, information, trade, etc, worldwide across all borders, then you are restricting access. When you draw a sharp distinction between aliens and human, that is species prejudice. Making a big deal out of what collective group people are from is the real nationalism, xenophobia, racism, or whatever. I see all people as individual people and that's it.
I couldn't believe the iPad didn't come with digital ink native to the OS. If it did I think it would have been a killer educational device. I would have been one of the first to buy it had it come with digital ink.

This product has me excited too. I hope it doesn't get canceled like the Courier.
Our way of life is not better.

Yes, it is. Would you trade places with them? Would you want your children to?

We have huge wealth and health disparity

Which we could certainly eliminate by destroying all our wealth and abandoning medicine. The only thing that should tell you is that "inequality" is a poor metric.

And none of this implies that it would be acceptable to forcibly impose our civilization on anyone. It does imply that we should offer them the choice.
As far as the argument of contact or no contact, I don't have an answer but I think the issue is that contact often destroys the culture rather than helps it grow and evolve.

I have read some things that indicated native americans lost in part because they adopted guns and abandoned bows. They lacked the means to make or money to buy the type of oil that would work in cold weather and used lard instead, which firms up in the cold. They would keep their guns under their blankets with them to keep the lard warm enough for the guns to work. Just adopting one piece of technology did not resolve their problems and it was a technology they were ill equipped to adequately maintain.

I am reminded of a scene in "Lawrence of Arabia" where he tells the Arabs "If you take English engineers, you take English rule."

Where you have a large, "evolved" culture with a density of people, material goods, information and so on, contact with a culture that is less "dense" (in terms of numbers of people, amount of material goods, etc) tends to simply wipe it out, sometimes literally killing all members (because microbes in large communities evolve rapidly and become more virulent -- Americans who move to Europe, which is more densely populated, routinely wind up with a horrific flu shortly after moving there, far worse than the flu bugs typically caught in the U.S. This is common knowledge in the military community/among military families who have ever lived over there.).

I wish a knew a means to gently make contact and offer options. I think that would be the ideal. I have no idea if it is achievable.
My previous reply was a bit terse - sorry.

I was referring to two (apparent) opposite points of view, and it seemed like you were using semantics to disagree. I read the last part of that sentence as you personally stating that the OP had a moral obligation, which I now realise might have been incorrect.

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I understand that people form their own moral compass, and that views differ - but sometimes, I think there are issues which are so universally felt that the whole of society has to learn how to deal with them in a united way.

There are so many examples of self-proclaimed 'superior' societies dominating and assimilating smaller cultures which aren't able to defend themselves.

Many of these examples are well documented and - now that we have the benefit of hindsight, we can see exactly what kind of effect was left behind.

I think most people can agree that gross injustices took place.

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Would you voice any objection to a holocaust denier?
The tough situation I was talking about is that the net result of investing all this engineering effort to keep up with Duck Duck Go and Blekko still is likely to wind up as a revenue loss for Google.

In terms of AdSense revenue influencing search results, it would be great if Google published their ranking algorithms and implementations so that people could verify it for themselves. [Ditto for Microsoft of course.] But okay, I'll take your word for it that it's not factored explicitly into the ranking calculations and that you've done the analysis to make sure that it doesn't indirectly influence calculations. Even so, it may have affected resource decisions. At the organizational level, did the specter of losing tens of millions in ad revenue had something to do with why Google waited so long to start to address the problem?
Awesome domain! Aggregated job listings looks helpful also.
You can get into the first floor of the convention center with no badge; SXSW is on the second floor.
A better strategy for a balanced digital life is to
pragmatically audit your useage on an ongoing basis.

That sounds interesting. Can you be more specific?
When we invented cars we lost our own culture’s tradition of riding horses. It used to be the case that everyone knew how to ride a horse, now only a select few decide to preserve that tradition. Even they ride only for sport and fun, a cheap imitation of what it meant to ride a horse 200 years ago.

Cars viciously destroyed the role horses play in our society, that part of our culture is forever lost.

(I’m not sad.)
"If not this is so typical of the american way of thinking. Yes, we are so superior lets convert them all to our [insert culture, religion etc...]. "

Why is this the typical american way of thinking? Surely every culture believes theirs is superior, otherwise they wouldn't have adopted it.
I'd really like to, but there seem like too many things I don't know about.. accounting, taxes, opening a bank account if I'm not in the state... If someone could just take care of it for $500 and do it right, it seems like it would avoid any future problems
>> The entire Television industry is being supported by ad revenue for decades. Why can't the same model work for the web? <<

Well-said. As a matter of fact, it can; and it is, today.

(Those who are not convinced, just look at Google's IRS filings for the past 2-3 years.)
Yep. "Don't be evil" doesn't scale with company size and success: the bigger you get, the more likely you are to be in situations where others are less evil than you.

Conversely, "Do good (and minimize evil)" scales positively with company size and success. But it's nowhere near as catchy.
I say it's time to send them their Hogwarts letters.
Don't forget that technology is in itself a drug and nearly impossible for a "simple" mind to resist. To them technology appears as "tools of the Gods"... how could they reject it?

After all that, you have to think... do they really have the self-driven choice to accept it?
Your examples don't follow your template -- they're just links to news coverage of the service.

A startup's worst fear is dying due to anonymity.

If this page makes these people's deaths seem more tangible, and make the Egyptian situation less abstract, I don't see how that could possibly be bad.
Digital ink doesn't work well with Apple's capacitive touch screen. You can buy a "stylus" for the iPad though it is really too fat/big to be worth calling it that. It's about the size of your finger, and you have better control just using your finger to touch the screen.
There are several American law firms with branches in China. Ask your existing lawyer for a referral. If you don't have a lawyer, call your state bar association for a referral. You might also find some resources at trade.gov, but I imagine the information there is targeted at larger companies.

Sorry to say so, but this sounds like a classic case of 'a stitch in time saves nine.' I appreciate that you were nervous, but you should have brought in outside help/advice when you first realized you had a cash flow problem. They may have been scamming you, but then again you may have caused them a major cash flow problem; manufacturing margins are relatively slim, and $50,000 is a lot of money by Chinese standards. Suppose the factory has had difficulty paying its workers or your broker has been prosecuted over unpaid bills? At the very least, your broker has suffered a major loss of face, and serious damage to her commercial reputation. Meanwhile, you have not just lost $50,000, you appear to have lost your entire supply chain - and it's possible that you now have a reputation as a buyer who doesn't pay on time, and will have difficulty negotiating terms with alternative suppliers in addition to the more generic problem. Although you might have had to spend a few thousand for legal assistance a few months ago, look how much more it has wound up costing you.

So, get help immediately. A lawyer is like a doctor for your business in this situation, and your business has developed a serious problem. As well as the legal costs, you may have to pay compensation to your Chinese broker or supplier, and possibly go there in person to demonstrate your sincerity and restore their reputation as well as yours. You should also be exploring alternative avenues of supply, commercial credit, and how less flexible payment terms might impact your cash flow. It's going to be a lot of work. Good luck, and I hope it all works out for you and your firm.
What if I like the content Google tunes its algorithms to rank badly? It's the same issue ...
Can we call this "the last notebook you'll ever need"?

Just brilliant. This is one of those things you kick yourself for not thinking of. Ridiculously simple, yet infinitely useful. I wish the price was just a bit lower, because for the same price (maybe slightly more) you can have a low-end Android tablet with similar functionality and more bang for your buck.
If you're dealing with somebody new, you shouldn't assume they're out to get you. If you're dealing with everybody, you should assume somebody's trying to get you.
From an outsiders perspective of the US --- If you have a $200K medical emergency -- I'm not sure how you prepare yourself for that...
I don't see what's left wing about it.

The basic premise of conservatism is that government should be limited, and that its primary role should be to protect people's rights from other people, the government, and other governments.

Obviously, these people have a right to their property. It is being encroached upon. The issue is not, should we go through the jungle and make conversation? The issue is if Peru should allow the destruction of this group of people's property by farmers. There is nothing liberal about saying that the government should be protecting the property of these people.

We have already in essence made contact. They have seen an airplane or helicopter taking a picture of them. They are all clearly looking at the camera. They know there is a world out there that they aren't a part of because they certaintly can't fly and other people can. That could make them do things they would not have done if they had not seen the airplane, so we have shattered their world view already.

What I'm more interested in is if they want to keep their land or not. There are plenty of tribes in the world who know about the real world, and choose to stay in their own way of life. There was an entire American TV series about this, they brought people from tropical islands to the US and showed them everything, and most of them chose to go back. I think these people should have a choice as well, but that choice will not be there for them if their forest is destroyed.
meh.

They could have used the time to publish the older videos with the good resolution of the new ones
I suspect we still agree on the principles. The only thing I am advocating is thinking things through. For example, it is very difficult to interact with them without violating their right to life because it is easy to infect them with a disease. What do we do? Nothing, and let people figure it out for themselves? Put up signs? Or restrict the area to anthropologists who have training in the matter?

I don't personally know what to do about that. I said I'd like to treat them as I'd like to be treated. Personally, I'm glad I have access to the Internet.
That's nice but when are we going to get the deep search that will go back more than a week, which they promised over a year ago.
Imagine a company/government says we'll go into heavy debt because we want to give our shareholders/citizens a good shot - is that not irresponsible?

Those are two different questions.

When it comes to a company, the answer is very often Yes. The purpose of most companies (there are some exceptions) is to maximize profits using all ethical and legal means. If the expected payoff of the capital investment the loan would finance is greater than the interest of the loan, then taking it very often makes sense even if it would risk bankruptcy if something goes wrong.

When asking about the government, it matters a lot about what you think the purpose of government is, and that is a philosophical question I will leave alone for now.
This is exactly correct. Security teams at our clients routinely "flunk" applications because they fail to set the "Secure" flag on cookies; this flaw is even worse than that one.
Bujinkan (japanese budo, similar to jujitsu )
I've been in more than one school and the most recent puts a big emphasis on fitness, with fitness tests every few months.
Depends on the teacher/dojo more than the art, I reckon.
I've rarely seen more assumptions and projections made in a few paragraphs.

On the one hand, you judge these cultures as "primitive" and "caveman". Then in the next breath you decry pomposity and paternalism.

Yeah, we've found over and over again that contact with "primitive" cultures destroys the cultures. Tell that to Native Americans in both South and North America. Their "primitive" culture could have taught our "modernity" plenty...that is, if we'd taken a few minutes to listen to these "primitives" before we practiced a policy of systematic genocide.

Don't arrogantly assume there is anything wonderful about your "modern" life with carcinogens and pollution all around, man made global destruction of the environment, and nuclear destruction of the whole fucking planet just a half hour away. Talk about arrogance...and ignorance.
You're probably right, I'm an amateur at this. My current solution works pretty well, but I should really drill into what may be wrong here.

If you don't mind me asking, what in your estimation would be an ideal query plan for a join of the type I've described? A hash join? Also, I've left statistics to their defaults and run ANALYZE after bulk data uploads (the only time data is written), but I'll try bumping statistics collection up and running VACUUM ANALYZE again. I don't know what server configuration could be messed up to cause something like this; I have my memory settings (shared_buffers, effective_cache_size) set up fine, and cost parameters have been left alone. Other configuration settings I've changed shouldn't be affecting read queries.
That's nice to know, since I'm hoping to get an NS One Of These Days.

(I know it's not the headset, since it's the same one I used to use with my Nokia, and it worked fine. But I could well believe it was a problem with the phone.)
Not for this current project - need to use paypal API, but that's something I'll highly consider for my side project.
The uncontacted tribes are not unknown and they are not ignorant that there is a world outside with airplanes. They are uncontacted because they choose not to make contact with non-tribal outsiders. This is in part due to violent conflicts in the past.

There's a statement by a Yamomani leader on the site that uncontacted tribes should be left alone on their own lands and since governments like Peru were denying their existence, the photos will help.

http://www.survivalinternational.org/material/1157

Yanomami if you recall are a stone age people from this area who only made peaceful contact a few decades ago. They have had contact and familiarity with some of these other tribes.

The tribes in this video are protected somewhat by the Brazilian government which uses aerial visits to check on the condition of tribes and make sure that outsiders have not breeched the perimeter of the reserve.
Ah, nice. Thanks for answering.
Hide Applications.

Add people into lists.
But people can still ride a horse. A contacted tribe can never become uncontacted again. BTW I have no idea whether the right answer is to contact them or not, I am just explaining why it is a moral dilemma.
It's not fair to offer that comparison after we've already been exposed to our own cultures. Of course now that we've had technology, our social traditions and structure, and advances in science and history, that it would be nearly impossible to WANT to trade places with them.

However, we are a stressed out, overworked, sick society who has lost traditions such as appreciation of family, and our idea of relaxation and "living life" is a 2 week vacation once a year. Sure, we've got great tools and Xboxes and the Internet and modern medicine... but at the end of the day, 100+ million Americans are literally sick (defined by the prescribed medications that over 1 in 3 have to treat symptoms of sickness).

If I had grown up in their tribe, and was given an opportunity to completely understand the pros and cons of the new society, I may just want to stay ignorant in my tribe.

It's quite possible that while they're likely less intelligent, less advanced and very primitive, but happy and connected with each other and have a quality of life that comparatively (to them) is better than our way of life.

At the end of the day, to me at least, quality of life is what's really important. To others, it's competition, satisfaction of proving that they are better than others, money, and egocentric activities that make them happy (and that's fine).
I don't know what they're going to do here. The isolated tribe in India live in a protected zone, but the government regularly offers them a chance to make contact, and the tribe drives them off with weapons.

That's a way forward that is neither dragging them into the 21st century nor running a zoo. I'm not advocating for that, of course, just pointing out that contact/isolation is a false dichotomy.
It took me about one week of using facebook + filtering people to get to the point where I enjoyed using facebook again. No adding people to lists, no hunting down people, nothing.
That's what I was hoping.

I'm an Android developer, and it's trivial to extract API keys etc from an application, and for obvious reasons, you don't want to make it easy for applications to pretend to be your application.

Thanks for your reply!
This is quite confusing, I might be daft.

Phrase ''one of'' automatically forces me to think in the terms of ratio 1:xx or fraction 1/xx.

""One of 31million is unemployed in America"" sounds obviously to good. 1/31million, with 310million population, would mean that only 10 people are out of work.

""one of five applicants for a job opening"": so if I look at CV/resume, 20% of them are from unemployed?

Quite misleading, since this doesn't look right.
One of the more interesting books I've read recently - A Farewell to Alms - http://www.amazon.com/Farewell-Alms-Brief-Economic-History/d...

has the basic argument that as a direct result of modern technology, there are people living on the planet now (in sub-saharan Africa), with the lowest standards of living ever present on this planet, significantly worse than that experienced by Paleolithic hunters and gatherers.

Uncivilized lifestyles turned out not to be that brutal, and in fact modern medicine is the primary mechanism by which the poorest countries have significantly lower standards of living than undiscovered tribes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/science/07indu.html

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Divergence
Relevant: "cultural imperialism" -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_imperialism
Good point, but we do have examples of people who choose to ride horses as part of their daily life: Certain Amish and Mennonites.

They know all about technology, they just make certain choices about it and we have found a way to get along with them making those choices.
Microsoft's 2011 Product Roadmap
How compatible is jruby 1.6 to ruby 1.9.2?

I'd also be interested in seeing REE stats.
Nice to see someone has my line of thinking. I'm sure we're not alone. It's probably just not trendy to talk about the valley the way we have.

I like it here, a lot, but I find it very hard to find people who actually have the same product building interests. Plenty of people who like the same tools (RoR, iOS, JS, etc) but much more difficult to find people who are as passionate about X and Y as you are.