skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ha! that reminds me of my Economy class in high school. We used to do a weekly game, where in the beginning of the year we'd have a certain amount of money, and we'd have to buy stock. The teacher would every week update us with the latest stock information, and based on that we'd have to make decisions. The person with the biggest amount of money at the end of the year won.

So I picked stock of a company which was basically bankrupt already, but was still on the stock market (why I don't know, I'm not an expert.) I think the stock was £0.02. So I waited a few weeks, and it happened to be at £0.05. I sold everything, didn't do anything for the rest of the year, and won. Didn't make the game very exciting, but at 15 years old I mainly cared for winning :)
Both rights are fully in tact. A company or individual has a right to enter into and terminate contracts with anyone it wishes at any time. An individual has a right to say anything he wants. No one stopped him from saying anything or from posting a video to his blog for example. You seem to infer some other right that doesn't exist - the right to never be fired. But a law forcing such a measure would decrease the freedom of individuals to freely enter into and terminate contracts with each other. If both parties enter into a contract by their own free will, why should there be some law restricting their freedom to structure that contract in a manner that both parties agree to?
The two are very different....

He said it perfectly when he said it "slaps you in the face" with this idea.

It's like all your input filters and mechanisms for categorizing things are stripped away, and your mind just gets raw input - filters you normally don't even realize are there.
This makes a speck of dirt on the floor just as interesting as the hot chick standing next to you - and it can make it difficult to impossible to utter a coherent sentence, let alone put together a coherent thought - it's more like raw, pure sensation, unfiltered.

Of course, there's the psychedelic part, with visual disturbances and sensory weirdness too.....

There is no guarantee of good feelings or euphoria like you get with E.... it can best be described as simply "an experience"
> My point is the electronic system does keep things in order, so why the color?

So that humans can also read the badges without a machine. The same reason they put a picture and your name on the badge, even though the machines don't need them.

Why would they make a badge that only the computer could understand?
there is also this talk from pycon 2011:

Fun with Python's Newer Tools: http://blip.tv/file/4883247
Well then he doesn't seem to understand that contracts vary from one employer to another and that temp/contract workers are there to be fired and be hired again by someone else, it's the nature of the job.
You should watch it. It sounds like a 9-11 conspiracy video.
The track record for Apple turning third party apps into features (as opposed to their own apps ala iTunes), has been pretty pathetic: usually what happens is that its so poorly done by Apple that the feature just stops being used and the functionality just flat out dies. Examples:

1. Quicksilver <-> Spotlight. Spotlight is terrible. Everyone I know who used quicksilver just uses nothing now. They certainly haven't "switched" to Spotlight because spotlight doesn't do anything half as well as quicksilver did, not even launching apps for god's sake.

2. Kaleidoscope <-> Dashboard. Another disaster. Dashboard seems to exist solely to be accidentally opened, or I guess for some people it serves as their dedicated weather "space". Apple does not hype up widgets at all anymore.

3. Safari RSS. Does anyone actually use this? Or how about Mail.app RSS? At least here the third party RSS apps didn't die (although I see less people using RSS than ever, but I don't attribute this to OS RSS integration).
Hello competitor! My startup is solving the same problem with a different approach. We're in private beta (this is my first post about it on HN), but here's a secret link that gets you in (and viewing an example micro-review): http://tattl.in/ied9gj
There are lots of kinds of data that are illegal to possess. Classified documents, insider information, copyrighted music, etc.

And remember certain US agencies have huge power outside the US. The DEA and the IRS come to mind.

I don't know which US agency will flip out when bitcoin becomes popular, but I'm quite certain one of them will, once it becomes widespread to exchange for illegal items, and used for money laundering.
Any of them ever end up with a bad amphetamine habit after that?

That's mighty addictive stuff, for someone with the wrong combination of genetics and psychology, this could be really bad.

The drug war is full of nonsense - but amphetamines are regulated for a good reason.
"It's a small world" hardly qualifies as classical music,either.
>it's not a "class system" it's company hierarchy

Well, I don't agree that those things are that different.

But I will agree with you that having a company hierarchy is pretty normal.

>What disturbs me is that you keep pointing to the fact that they are mostly minorities as if Google deliberately chose minority workers for these jobs, the sad fact is that these low end jobs are typically occupied by minorities.

You're right, and I don't mean to imply that Google somehow caused this situation. Like any employer, Google tries to get the most value for its money, and that entails selection of people from particular backgrounds.
More plausible theory:

1 digit is to simple. 3 is too many. 2 is about right. Something non-prime of course, but with three prime factors. 42 is nice. Rolls off the tongue, and ends in "ooo".
What if Apple pulls Instapaper from the iPad/iPhone app store claiming it duplicates capabilities?
As to the persont earlier in this thread that said the consitiution "shouldn't" be black and white....wow u must be smoking crack. Law HAS to be black and white! otherwise what good is it? for instance, lets take something simple like traffic law in CA. The written law states that on a 2 lane divided highway the max speed limit is 55 MPH and on a 4 lane divided highway its 65 MPH (although counties can bump it up to 70 if they desire). So, most streets in decent sized towns you can legally drive 65 on if it is safe to do so. This is where the prima facia speed laws come into effect (like when the limit is set at 40 MPH in town). how they come up with this is the "85 percentile". 100 cars have their speed measured and what ever the avg speed of the 85% are going, thats what the limit is set at. So back to the written law, it stats that you can go faster than the posted limit if it is safe to do so. HERE'S WHERE THE BULLSH*T COMES INTO PLAY.... and whats
I love this kind of articles for the fact that they are all ignoring all the background work you have to do in Linux in order to bring your system at a state in which you can work and get what it has to offer. The story is pretty straight yet a lot of people ignore it: Non tech savvy people just wouldn't be able to work with Linux.
It's a different settlement. You can be fired more easily, but on the other hand it's easier to be an entrepreneur. Also, because it's easier to fire people, it's easier to hire people, because you know if they don't work out you have options. France is an example of a country where it doesn't work like that.
I have that book on my shelf! Loved it, was a great resource when trying to figure out XMPP and Strophe.js.
I've always pronounced it like "pie pie". (But then again, maybe that's because I already knew the "py" was the first syllable of the word "python"?)
Every item on your list is you projecting your personal opinions onto everyone else. Just because you and your Quicksilver-using buddies don't use Spotlight, Dashboard, or Safari RSS doesn't mean other people don't.

The features Apple adds are intended to add value and convenience for the average user. If you have RSS needs so great that you require a dedicated third-party application, you're more than welcome to use one.
I can certainly believe this - LSD is screwy like this.

On one of the very few occasions I used it, I had what I thought was a profound understanding of how everything in the universe was connected together. I couldn't recall what the big idea was afterwards (or to this day), but I'm quite certain it was just my brain making up nonsense.
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Book develops my thinking on a business model for high growth companies. Concepts are illustrated in part by my experience building a billion dollar company.
It's hardly a scandal.
A problem solver needs enough money (have the means) in order to pursue solutions. I don't think a great scientific discovery has ever been made because the discoverer wanted to get rich. Capitalism provides an allocation mechanism so that money (the means of discovery) makes its way to enough problem solvers. Capitalism might even be the best mechanism for doing this to ever be practiced.

We agree on these points (so it seems to me from what you've written).

Where we appear to have divergence is in my belief that

1. Capitalism does not do an adequate job of dealing with negative externalities.

2. The general mind altering, world view altering aspect of money acquisition makes dealing with the negative externalities difficult. The "I've got mine, fuck you" attitude that is prevalent amongst the monied class in the U.S. makes me think that it is especially difficult in the U.S. for things to change for the better.

3. The rate of resource destruction, pollution, etc., along with 1) and 2) makes me think that world will become one big, giant toxic shit hole before adequate steps are taken to deal with the negative externalities and by that time it will be too late.

My personal belief is that it is highly unlikely the human race will survive the next 200 years in anywhere near the numbers it has today.

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As to defense spending. It is true that Silicon Valley exists because of defense spending. I don't believe it is true that it would not exist (somewhere else perhaps) without defense spending. I think progress would still have occurred in computing and technology without defense spending.

Thanks for the discussion.
Meh, too much back-and-forth for me to jump in.

There may be a perfectly good reason for Google to exclude contractors from the "Googly perks": the Microsoft lawsuit.

If Google treats the contractors just like its employees, then the contractors can turn around and sue Google. Google needs to maintain a distinction between contractors and FTEs. Recall the Microsoft lawsuit filed by contractors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permatemp
I'd argue that apple is largely responsible for android's success - normal, everyday people knew they wanted a touchscreen smartphone only after apple made it possible to own one, but more importantly, made it popular to own one with the iPhone. As long as there is enough of a difference between them to choose one over the other, I think he's right to bet on it being a net-win for him.
Why couldn't you use other distributed in-memory stores like Redis or Memcached?
What are the best current resources for self-publishing and the epub maze?
I don't care if you believe me. I cannot prove it, so I won't lose sleep if you think I made it up. For me, its enough that I witnessed it.

Having said that, I obviously simplified the story and I have a pretty good theory of how he came up with the solution (since I now know the guy a lot better). I actually think he has a very very slight case of autism (never diagnosed, but over the years, there have been some hints that it may be the case). I of course don't believe that a woman actually told him the solution, I think the autism is what helped him come up with it (since properly autistic people are able to do some amazing things) and the drug made him trip out and believe a woman spoke to him.

As for not believing that somebody could do things on Salvia, I disagree. Normally I don't like to admit to drug use on the internet (since its easy to figure out who I am), but what the hell. Maybe I'll come to regret it later... While I haven't taken any in a few years, I have taken Salvia many times over the past ten-ish years (and I took it that night with my friend too). I have taken it in the middle of the day, in the sun. I have taken it at night, in a dark room. I have taken it at a party (despite people saying its not a party drug). Each time the experience was very very different. It depends on your surroundings and on your mood. Yes, salvia is extremely intense and gives a very disconnected experience, but I think the actual extent depends on the factors I mentioned above. For example, every time I took it at night, it was a very weird and "heavy" experience, but when I took it in the sun, it was a bright and happy (almost mdma-like) experience.

I don't know if you get this on Salvia, but most people I have spoken to about it have said they experienced something similar. When on Salvia, theres this feeling of "pressure" pulling you into the experience (often its a feeling of something pushing or pulling you some direction, perhaps spinning around, falling or weightlessness). I've got this every time (that I remember, there may have been times when I didn't that I don't remember). Every time I've tried to resist it and go against it, I broke out in heavy sweats. When we did the programming problem, it took a LOT of effort to resist it to write in the notepad. After a few minutes, I gave in and forgot about the notepad (skin soaked with sweat). I guess my friend was able to resist it more than I was. But. honestly, I don't remember the exact details, nor do I remember anything about the trip I had or what I wrote in my own notepad, since my friends was much more interesting and this happened maybe five or six years ago.

My point is that it is hard to resist it, but its not impossible (at least, for a while) and while resisting it, you can be tripping and still do things (well, kind of). But, at the end of the day, if you don't believe me, thats fine. Maybe you can try it for yourself? Just be aware that (in my experience) there will be an intense "pressure" pulling you away from what you're trying to do and you may have to try pretty hard to resist it.
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I co-authored a chapter in "Beautiful Teams" at the urging of a friend, who was coordinating the project.

Writing a chapter is quite a bit of work, so a book must be quite an undertaking. I feel that it's worth doing, though. Writing anything -- a design spec, an email, a story from your past, etc -- forces you to coalesce and clarify thoughts that have floating around your brain. I gained new perspective on events that I thought I had a complete handle on years earlier.

BT: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596518028
I wonder why they decided to make it 21 million BTC total instead of a larger number. It seems like you'd run into a situation like when I bought a shirt in Bahrain for some low-ish number of Dinar, not realizing that it was much higher in USD. Spending 0.1 BTC doesn't seem like it should be a lot, even though it could eventually be worth quite a bit.
Actually, I think this is what Vertica is for (VoltDB was a Vertica spin-off). Volt is intended for OLTP workloads whereas Vertica is designed for OLAP, especially giant star-schema workloads like the post described.
I've always felt that Starbucks was a boon to all coffee shops because they promoted coffee culture.

I remember hanging out at coffee houses when I was a kid, but we didn't spend much, it was just a hang-out spot. Then I didn't go into a coffee shop until I was introduced to Starbucks. Though I drank at Starbucks for years, it took me a bit to realize that there is better coffee out there, but they did a GREAT job of educating the public.

I find it limiting when coffee shops target Starbucks as 'the enemy', as I wonder how many of their customers would be drinking specialty coffees if Starbucks didn't exist.

Furthermore, though I try to support local coffee shops, the concept that Starbucks coffee isn't as good, is plain wrong. I've been to a few independent coffee shops where the coffee is so bad I've thrown it out and gone to Starbucks. I've been to many more where the coffee is just on par with Starbucks, and a few standouts where the coffee is better than Starbucks.

Competition can be a good thing for customers and businesses.
You should hyperlink to Freatery with an email form (using http://launchrock.com/ or http://www.wufoo.com).
I write books for a living. Mostly fiction:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...

Which is not to say that I haven't written technical books, back in the day:

http://www.amazon.com/Web-Architects-Handbook-Charles-Stross...

I'm not self-published -- I've got Ace (aka part of Penguin USA), Orbit (aka Hachette) and Tor (aka Holtzbrinck) as my publishers.

Yes, I do this for a day job.
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>"What's a color? What's a country? What's a "week"? What's a leader? What is solid? Which way is up? What's a job? Your brain starts trying to decompose every concept into basic principles, and you realize that for a lot of things in the human world, there are none."

Sounds like a day with a toddler ...

Excepting the fact that mine have never got in to the "why" phase (I blame my need to over describe and analyse everything and constantly ask them why) - breaking down concepts gets complex pretty quickly. Explaining a day off turns in to the complexities of royal [male] succession. Life's fun.
They seem to have settled on a halfway house, pushing more of the control plane functionality down into the EBS clusters and making the remaining shared control plane more robust to the sort of failures that arose this time.
I'm sorry guys I must be missing something here. I figure that this video and transcript must have some deeper meaning than what I'm grokking from it as it is currently the top story with a whopping ~500 points.

To my knowledge, cultural hierarchy is very standard within pretty much all companies regardless of size. Not everyone gets a company car, their own office, the same health benefits, or if you are privileged enough to work at a company that provides them, the same gourmet lunch as has been stated elsewhere in these comments. Furthermore, the existence of sub-hierarchy (contract and temporary) workers is very common in larger companies. To my understanding, these temp and contract workers usually enjoy few if any benefits provided by the company as they are rarely actually employed by the company they are working for but rather an agency.

In addition to this, it is pretty standard procedure to ban all unauthorized taping on company campuses. If anything, to my uninformed mind the fact that an employee got as far as actually taking unauthorized video footage is if anything a credit to Google's openness (or whatever you want to call it).

So, I guess my question is: Where is the interesting aspect of this? Is the popularity of this really just due to the "divulging" that Google employs workers that aren't provided the same benefits as some of its other workers? Is it the existence of a "class system" in Google to show worker's authority/hierarchy level? If it is one of these reasons, there must be something else I'm missing as without having seen this story I would have just assumed that these things existed at Google.

I ask this as a sincere question as obviously this has gained the attention of a large portion of this community which I hold as very intelligent. I am driven to assume that whatever it is that is engaging about this story is simply going over my head.
Common error in programming : differences of self (or this) and super
In programming lenguages the use of super is commonly mistaken. Usually super seems to call the method of the super class of the class where the method is implemented.
Factoid : super mean start the search in the superclass of the receiver.

This is wrong and the post clarifies self and super differences
I used to agree with you, but it's just not that simple. If I compare the amount of time I have spent trying to get some piece of hardware that should "just work" in Windows, to the amount of time I have spent trying to get some open source driver working with a similar piece of hardware on Linux, they are really not all that different.

When Windows 7 x64 came out, the Windows hardware advantage pretty much went away. You may be lucky enough to have your old peripherals just work, but chances are good that something will break.

So no matter what OS you choose, you need to do research, buy the appropriate hardware, etc.

Now, that said, I can almost guarantee that that old scanner in the bottom of the closet which stopped working with Windows 2000, will absolutely work just fine with the most current Linux kernel.
It was like Geek Disneyland - frustrating because there's so much wonderful stuff and not enough time to see even a tenth of it. Man I love MIT.
This is distributed though, which I think makes it quite interesting.
I agree - I'm trying out http://vhx.tv after someone recommended it here, though it is still in the browser at the moment ( I believe they are working on apps). However, there's still a problem I haven't seen any video-instapaper service solve - how to cache videos for offline / multiple device viewing.

I think you run into a lot more issues with copyright enforcement, storage space, and ability to even copy files (different format, might only be served in flash) than text-based services have. We might have to wait until HTML5 video grows enough in popularity before seeing a decent implementation of this feature.
a) There are about a dozen different industries flying in loose formation and termed "publishing" -- academic press is not like mass market fiction press, or newspapers, or magazines, or self-improvement books or textbooks. The web is the latest and most rapidly changing delivery vehicle but it crosses all of these lines. Beware of thinking of "the web" as a publishing sector; rather, it's a mechanism for delivering the content to the reader's eyeballs, much like offset-litho printing.

b) Today's publishing industry runs on the set of business practices that didn't cause someone [else] to go bust at some point over the past 150 years. It may look archaic and weird, but it's that way for a whole bunch of reasons that looked good at some time.

More here: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/common-m...
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