skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The individuals in the tribe should ideally be allowed to do the same. (I know that’s not easy. Said tribe would be forever changed if we explained to them what they could do in such a way that they can make an informed decision.)

The whole question of whether we should in principle allow access seems easy to me but I also think that many massively underestimate the enormity of that task. I fit the culture I’m living in because my parents invested massive amounts of energy, time and money over two decades to make me part of that culture. I would guess that a similar effort would be required for the individuals in that tribe and they have no parents to help them along.

Much can go wrong. Individuals of the tribe might end up much more miserable or, indeed, dead. This is one of those problems that seems to me to be in principle easy but in practice extremely hard to actually solve.
Yeah, I think for me this is a case of I'll wait for the retina display version.
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In Europe, a right to be forgotten
What happens when the person who received the poke indicates three guesses? Do the two people left out receive emails too?

If so, I think this could quickly spiral into a pyramid scheme.
I really hate writing this, so if this comes off as needlessly harsh I sincerely apologize, but I see a lot wrong with this site.

The first problem is that it's nothing new. I remember sites like this when I was in high school, and I graduated in 2003. Maybe you've built a better mousetrap, and maybe the world is just ready for this sort of thing now, but I'd bet there's a reason there isn't already a dominant site in this area given how long the idea has been around.

I remember from the high school version of this that it was horribly abused. It's a great attack vector for certain types of bullies and misguided prankster friends, and it will be used as such.

I should also point out that people can have multiple email addresses, and not all of your friends and acquaintances will know you by multiple addresses. What if I send the message from the wrong address, and my crush only knows me by something else? If she does like me, she'll have to send her own "first message" to my other address. If I suddenly receive another "someone's crushin' on you" message, wouldn't I first assume that it's someone else, since if it was my crush was mutual, I would have got a confirmation, not a request, right?

So let's assume that the crush is mutual. The only way the crushee to find out who I am is to put herself out there as well. It's sort of a large jump to ask someone, especially a shy someone, to make. Also, what if the crushee knows you by a couple email addresses? Which should she send a request/confirmation to? She could send it to both, but then she's using at least two out of her three freebies. If she likes two people, and knows both of them by two emails, then one of those two people can't receive a confirmation on both accounts unless the crushee decides to shell out two Euros (Around $2.70 in American/Canadian currencies). I sincerely doubt someone would do that.

One major problem is what I'll call "balls." Do women really want a guy who's too fucking timid to just come right out and say they like them? No.

I'll give you an example:

My hotmail address (used for likely-to-spam signups and as an MSN moniker) was created solely to send a "crush" email to a girl I liked in high school. This was back when hotmail had a directory you could use to email people you didn't have a proper address for.

So, I sent her a message saying basically, "hey, we've got a couple classes together and I noticed you, etc. etc." When I got a response back, is was just "You've piqued my interest. Spill, who are you?" with instructions to just man up and approach her in class. Women tend to like confident men, and men who hide behind internet filters tend not to be the confident type.

Finally, I just want to note that there's also a question of legality here. I can't cite a source off the top of my head, but I know there is legislation in Canada and possibly in the States that classifies "Tell-a-Friend" type email functionality as spam. These emails are therefore subject to fines. I don't know if they enforce it for things like this, but it's definitely something to consider.
It makes you wonder what they were thinking when they saw the plane flying around over their heads. In almost every shot of the tribe, they were all standing and staring. I doubt it is the first time they have seen some sort of modern technology, but it certainly isn't common.

Modern man is taking away their land to oil drilling and logging. Personally, I think we should treat it as tribal leaders once did. We are the enemy. If we want to preserve them, then we should not study them as subjects either. That is their land, their home. Let them be.
Yeah, I expect thats how it would be handled here (although "granting an exception" to the Constitution could get tricky, depending on the timeline in this hypothetical).

What I really meant (and I wasn't very clear on this) was more of how could we ethically reconcile our laws with our desire, if we have one, to preserve such tribes. For the most part it seems like if you have to special-case something you're doing something wrong to begin with. So either allowing such tribes to exist without interference should run counter to what we're trying to accomplish with our laws, or our laws don't actually say what we intend them to.
I've got to agree with the parent to yours, it's still a different scale. Ethnic cleansing seeks to destroy that which is different. Ethno-centric superiority complexes (like this, not necessarily all) seek to improve that which is different. They are capable of causing the similar outcomes, but I know of no examples (they didn't kill the children), and the motivations are almost total opposites. Both are essentially insulting to the other group though, absolutely, but in different ways.
I don't really get it. 'Creating' jobs isn't a responsibility of the gov't. I completely fail to understand political movements for 'creating' jobs.

If you can't figure out how to remove over qualifications for flipping burgers I just don't know what to say.

An Engineer friend of mine was in a similar position, he kept getting rejected for basic jobs because he was 'overqualified' I told him to remove the engineering jobs from his resume and his Engineering degree. After that he got the shipper/reciever job he wanted.
OUR way of life is better?

No, dude, YOUR way of life is better.

If these people are brought in to our culture they're fucked. Plain and simple.

What do you think they're going to do, move to the Bay Area and start a social media company?

They're on the bottom rung. They've got some red body paint, some banana trees, and some thatch roofed huts. They're wealth exists solely in their own way of life. As soon as they're faced with our way of life, they're fucking worthless.
This was actually posted yesterday by someone else, but under the headline 'why several countries want to allow people to censor personal data on the web.' I thought this was a very misleading characterization of the article, which sank quickly without comment, even though it contains much that is of interest to HN.
I'm from UT as well (CS major). Are you graduate/undergrad, and what degree?
It's absurd to say they are "uncontacted". They are humans after all. How can such a smart crowd fall for that headline stuff?

Concerns about their public health and inability to defend their property rights (our interpretation of those rights, at least) may be well founded. However, this whole episode says more about how Brazil tries to control loggers than it does about indigenous people. They are finally starting to slow down deforestation, using any tool they can.
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He always specified they don't use the click streams for the rankings. They may use them for crawling, to build test sets and many other things.
Dell has been seriously underwhelming. They put zero effort into software, and their hardware has been...mediocre. I'm not quite sure what they're going for, but they're failing absolutely miserably.

Dell literally is bringing the whole Android platform down a notch. You heard about some great new Android device, and then Dell comes along and takes a piss in the water with some junk.

Dell needs to clean some house. They are too big of a company to be failing like this.
It is antisocial to forsake speaking with your friends. Speaking directly is a medium of communication, as is Facebook. You can argue about the cost/benefits of each, and claim your way is the better one, and this would constitute a lack of empathy, a lack of sympathy, or both.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't claim to have been much better.

And FWIW, I've observed the same effect for quitting WoW. Once I did, a whole class of friends stopped talking to me.
Some of these tribes are even cannibals, they kill people and eat them. Should we turn a blind eye to that too? I don't know. It's a hard question.
You're talking about human trafficking/sex slaves?

It's already illegal. I leave that up to the cops.
Perhaps you'd be good enough to explain to us all exactly what an "uncivilized lifestyle" is, what is "backward" about them, and exactly which "uncivilized" and "dark age" cultures you feel currently live lives which are "uncomfortable, short, and brutal." Exactly what characterizes "our way of life?" Technology? How does technology make our way of life "better?" Science? I'd advance that many of these "backwards cultures" are probably successful in large part because they are more scientific and experienced and thoughtful about the worlds they inhabit, than oh, say, the average conservative Republican in the "civilized" U.S...who denies global warming, thinks education is dangerous, wants to halt stem-cell research, believes in the efficacy of prayer in health care, etc etc.

Maybe we could continue our discussion with a glance at the now classic 1990 New England Journal of Medicine article indicating that African American men in the middle of one of our modern and "civilized" cities and countries in the late twentieth century have a lower life expectancy than their counterparts in Bangladesh. "Dark ages quality?" "Myths and prejudices" You mean racism? Nationalism? "In God We Trust?"

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199001183220306

Maybe we could move on to a thesis dozens of historians share, that the "primitive" Native Americans gave us MORE in the way of transfer of technology and culture than we provided. The agricultural knowledge passed on, the result of generations of careful observation and experimentation by Native Americans, was immense. Beyond agricultural technology and an enlightened, observational ecology, it's not even clear that the average European knew you could take a damned bath with water regularly as a healthful practice before immigrants gaped at Native Americans doing just that. More importantly, as Ian Frazier notes in the first chapter of "On the Rez" which I invite all the cultural imperialists here to read, at the time of Columbus there were probably about "eleven people in all of Europe who could do what they wanted." Amerigo Vespucci had brought back news that in the New World, "every one is his own master." Frazier goes on to show the profound impact Native American thought had on the idea of personal freedom among European immigrants still steeped in monarchy, and what that brought forth in America.
Graduated from the IU MBA program, lived there for a few years after I graduated while I started my first company. Feel free to contact me anytime.
Close, but not 100%. Have a look at the RC1 release blog:

http://jruby.org/2011/01/10/jruby-1-6-0-rc1.html
Something to remember:

working tree --[add]--> index --[commit]--> HEAD
index <--[reset]--- HEAD
^----[diff]----^ ^-[diff --cached]-^

• git add moves things from the working tree into the index

• git commit creates a new commit from the index and makes it your new tip commit, typically updating whatever branch is indicated by HEAD. (HEAD literally is just .git/HEAD and is normally the name of a branch, take a look)

• git diff shows you the difference between the index and the working tree, i.e. unstaged work

• git diff --cached shows you the difference between the index and HEAD, i.e., staged but uncommitted work

• git add /path/to/file will stage an entire file

• git add -p /path/to/file lets you stage individual hunks from a file

• git reset unstages everything

• git reset /path/to/file unstages that file

• git reset -p /path/to/file lets you unstage individual hunks from a file

Now you know how to stage/unstage individual bits of work, either a whole file at a time, or bit by bit. You also know how to commit what you've staged, and how to view what you're about to commit.

So if you've started to stage some work and you're ready to stage a different commit, just commit the stuff you've already staged. e.g., let's say (for simplicity) you've edited foo and bar and want to make those changes separate commits:

$ git add foo
$ git diff --cached (confirm it's what you expect to commit)
$ git commit -m "add fn() to foo"
$ git add bar
$ git diff --cached (confirm it's what you expect to commit)
$ git commit -m "fix bug in x()"

In between making those two commits, you may wish to test the first commit. You could do that like this:

$ git add foo
$ git diff --cached (confirm it's what you expect to commit)
$ git commit -m "add fn() to foo"
$ git stash save "temporarily set aside work so I can test foo"

At this point, your unstaged/uncommitted work has been set aside and your working tree matches (with respect to the files git is tracking) the commit you just made. Here's where you can perform testing, potentially amending foo (git add, git commit --amend). Okay, you're ready to continue:

$ git stash pop
$ git add bar
$ git diff --cached (confirm it's what you expect to commit)
$ git commit -m "fix bug in x()"

I hope this helps. The key thing (IMO) is really to understand what git is doing under-the-hood. The git UI and (especially the) documentation are all over the place. Don't be afraid to start with a test repo and peek inside .git to see what it's doing as you execute commands.

Good luck!
Developers need control of their tools in the 0.1% case. When you are dealing with complex systems, you will start running into that 0.1%. Either due to a poorly designed scheme, legacy cruft, or unexpected growth.

When things get hairy in other languages, sometimes it make sense to bypass the built in controls. Go around the system libraries, implement your own, or even drop into assembly. The same should be true of a query plan. Yes, your query planner (compiler) is going to get things right 99.9% of the time, but man when it gets it wrong, it's worth it to have tools to deal with the other 0.1%.
Love with food is truly one of a kind. I love everything about it!!!
Twitter is clearly brilliant and creating a viral and useful product. I admire everything they've achieved in terms of user adoption and usefulness.

They're proven without a doubt that technology is only one ingredient and it doesn't have to work well for a web or mobile business to grow.

They're the last company I'll look to for technology to use in my business or as an example on how to run operations. I have no interest in any of their open sourced products or in any advice from them on how to run my data center.
Enforce Minimum Advertised Prices Comrade!
Solid ground was gained rapidly up until philosophy had sired all the major disciplines. What remains are the most ethereal and intractable problems, and while certain possibilities have been ruled out and others have gained popularity, they are not the sort of thing that regularly admits to being outright solidified.
You cant make excuses for a lack of evidence. Like if you're caught copying someone's homework, you can't say "but nobody can prove he didn't also copy from me earlier". It's ultimately irrelevant; you can't conclude anything out of ignorance.
There are much less invasive options for contact than colonialism. Nobody said we have to move ourselves into some indigenous peoples' lands in order to offer them the chance to accept or reject a modern life.
Spork = love. My fav app so far this year!
In my opinion they would have left their forrest a long time ago if they where really curious to seek out what was beyond it. The fact that they stay, indicates to me that they are happy with the way life is.
"nokia pupples"
>online “friends”, most of whom I’d never met in person.

well there's your problem.
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This was posted on HN not terribly long ago. (Probably 18 days ago by the dating on my posterous account.) I didn't keep the link to the HN post, so there probably was no discussion on it at that time. A search of HN did not turn it up but I thought I had sent it to myself to keep as a resource and I had. (If you are better at searching HN than I am, maybe you can find it and maybe it has discussion.)

HTH.
> We should give them access to technology and to our
> way of life. Our way of life is better.

So, we should like emulate Canada over the mid-20th century, and kidnap children from tribal lands and force them into orphanages/boarding school where most of them will be abused physically and sexually in the process of trying to 'train the savage' out of them?

edit: Missed raganwald's post and Wikipedia link
Spam link. Seems designed to sell magic kits.
I'm not trying to say that you've been programmed by someone, or that you're being mindless.

It's just that sometimes views are so strongly held that discussion is very drawn out - I was being a bit flippant.

Thanks for the invite to the group. I will take you up on your offer, I'll also have a read through your site - it looks very interesting.

EDIT: I should point out, if I had to choose a school of philosophy, it would be existentialism - we might be a bit like oil and water.
It's not black and white, but somewhere to reveal the very real suffering going on in Egypt right now I'd say is a plus. The major media rarely seem to actually give the people, just a number which is easier to dismiss - makes their sites easier to read without crying, but fails to impact upon you the reality of what's going on.
Tough crowd
tutorm states:

"They did it because they overextended themselves to get a house in a good school district "

That cannot be true. Furthermore you are taking her too literally and/or misunderstanding her intent. What she actually said was ( http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/1485/generation_gap/ ):

“Families with children are tightening the belt one more notch,” she says, “are working extra hours, are sending both people into the workforce, to try to get into the best possible school district for their children.” But she adds one key, and very humane, caveat: “Families are in financial trouble, not because they’re irresponsible but because they’re too responsible.”

Warren is of course sympathetic, but she is obviously using the "search for a good school district" as only one example of how families are "too responsible".

Not that I believe Warren's last sentence is correct: my simpler and less charitable framing of the facts is that people simply bought homes that they could not afford.
Seriously, what? Why can't I get a 512 MB vhost for $20/mo? Is the convenience of not having to type apt-get install redis-server worth the extra $90/mo?
There is only one class of medicine in the world, and is scientific.

what is considered scientific is very often defined by culture though.

I bet those tribes consider their shamans scientists, even though they won't pass our western scientific criteria.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_medicine
I wonder if, since I believe the little e-ink bubbles are magnetized, you could use a magnetic tip stylus to "override" the current state. Ostensibly you could use the same tech that turns he bubbles to read their state. That would give you zero lag, pixel perfect line recognition.

Anyone know if this has been tried?
They have been there for quite a while, and humans are great at adaptation.

If we couldn't be reasonably healthy at such conditions, humanity would have been extinct long ago.
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It should look this perhaps:

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I wonder if anyone is seriuosly advocating forcing anyone to do anything. Yes, civilization was once murderously expansionist, then it was culturally imperialist, but I'd like to think we've got better.

Remember, there are ways to make contact that don't involve oppression and/or bloodshed. Shockingly, some of them have even been tried successfully. It befuddles the hell out of me that many people here--allegedly accurate thinkers--not only can't see this, but actively dislike anyone who can.

To the entire thread: ye who hate thoughtful discussion, go away.
“If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.” -- Stephen Hawking

The truth, in both theory and practice, is that there is no pure, fair sharing of technology. It always, in nearly every single situation throughout world history, has ended in blood, subjugation, and/or slavery. And, it likely always will.

Cultures don't just switch over to a "more superior" one; they're almost always forced to.

Think of how many people died or were conquered through history just so that we could all be able to flush a toilet and it actually go somewhere. Absurd, but apropos.
there was an xkcd comic with the same premise a couple of years back
How expensive is Blackboard?
From the article:

"Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is now available online at http://bit.ly/KCairo.

I can't believe someone at Kenneth Cole thought that tweet was appropriate... Wow.
never thought about using a checkbox as a javascript-free stateful mechanism. great idea.
education: it depends on the subject- many of the people under discussion are probably expert trackers/hunters and have a more intimate knowledge of their surroundings than even our modern biologists. Most of civilization's education is not very useful in this context.

I doubt there is a single part of our culture that is "better in an easily measurable way". This includes life expectancy, which of course cannot be "literally thousands of years ahead".
I truely don't buy into the whole "good school" thing as being overwealmingly important for a child's future happiness and success. Though this is based on my own personal experience rather than solid data.

Certainly in my childhood and young adult life there were a number of factors to my success or lack of it that had nothing to do with which school I attended. I think the main factors to my economic success was being taught to enjoy reading at a young age by my parents. I have always devoured information and through that have made a career without any qualifications.

The emotional/social success and general happiness I experience is a little harder to point to a source but certainly didn't come from the shit hole high school I attended. I generally attribute it to my parents teaching me what to value and growing up in an emotionally secure environment.

This security and parenting happened even though my parents fought each other constantly and divorced in my early teens. The were both dedicated parents who presented a consistent set of rules and values.

Of course I could just be on the further end of the bell curve?
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Expandable memory via SD + PDF viewer + hierarchical folder structure + E-ink in a form/fit as shown would be perfect for my academic needs of reading through journal papers.
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there is medicine you know, we don't live in XV century?

it's the thought that kills indigenous tribes, not disease.