skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a sloppy, ignorant brush with which to paint such a complex subject as abolition. Religion was, and is, used to justify slavery every bit as much as abolition. In the U.S. for example, every major southern church organization was founded explicitly for the purpose of supporting slavery; the Southern Baptist Convention didn't officially renounce this support until 1995.

To this day, religion continues to be a powerful driver of racism, classism, and slavery. In case you need examples, may I point you to the Hindu caste system and the Muslim doctrine of Dhimmitude.
Of course, the pace of loss is not that important - if there's sustained net loss, sooner or later, we will reach zero.

Also, I'd argue the biggest leap is computer technology, and it's having a lot of impact still. My guess is bio-engineering is next. If that happens (and it's a big if, in my book), there will be even more impact.

So, going back to the point, my original assertion was we're slowly running out of low-skills jobs. That's backed up by pretty much any look at employment figures. Manual labor has been wiped out to an insane extent (agriculture is what, 3% of the labor force now?). And the service industry is next, IMHO. Retail is slowly bleeding to death, for example.
I think it's the fact that children can't legally form contracts therefore can't be bound by the ToS which is in question here.

That inability to form contracts below a certain age actually protects children and is in their benefit, no-one should want it removed. Yes there are situations where it seems overkill but on balance it's a good thing.

So given that the law is reasonable it has not, as with most things with kids, fall back on the parents.

(Note: My understanding of the law is based on English law rather the US law but I'm guessing that something similar applies)
> Business owners who take a loss are defined by the government as living in poverty.

The poverty line sets a minimum level of consumption. These people are consuming above that threshold, so i don't think the government counts them as poor.

> If it weren't, consumption would be equal to income + change in net worth.

You're forgetting change in asset prices. If i own a house, and consume all my income, my net worth can still change if the price of the house changes.
I'm up for it. Drop me an email
As a market approaches being perfectly competitive, risk-adjusted profits approach zero. If I understand correctly, that's basic economics, and it's not limited to just Bitcoin. If you want to make money in a market, you either need a sustainable competitive advantage or non-average risk tolerance.

What could amount to a sustainable competitive advantage in Ⓑ? Reputation isn't it: the whole point of Ⓑ is that Ⓑ100 is computationally infeasible to counterfeit and equivalent to any other Ⓑ100. If you developed an especially money-efficient SHA-256 chip, or for that matter a pure Ⓑ-mining chip, you could perhaps remain profitable mining with it for a while, until the market caught up with you. (Does that depend on whether you use the chip yourself or sell it into the mining market where people compete with each other?)
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Hack Hardware with inPulse (YC W11) - Fall intern
www.getinPulse.com

We design and build hackable, wearable electronics. Our first product is inPulse, a $149 connected smartwatch. We usually have about 2-3 interns (or 'coops' as they're known in Canada) and we're looking for a few talented hackers to join us in September 2011.

Location: Mountain View, CA

Almost everything is done in-house: architecture design, schematic/PCB layout, embedded drivers/firmware, Android and Blackberry app dev, industrial design...
We push updates out over the air, so your code could be running on someones wrist tomorrow.

Experienced in the hardware dark arts? Put them to work:

- Embedded firmware development (C)

- Microcontroller knowledge (ARM, MSP430, Arduino)

- Bluetooth stack

- SPI, I2C, UART experience

Benefits:

- Competitive salary

- Flexible scheduling (work when you're most productive)

- As many watches as you can wear

- $400/month rent subsidy (it's too $$ here)

If you have any questions or would like to apply, flip us a list of projects (hard/soft) that you've worked on: jobs@getinPulse.com. If you're looking to hack hardware full-time...you'd better ping us as well.
I wish you luck, but also I hope that good employers don't closure on the people which they know already, simply because it would mean I cannot come to your place and find a good job straight away, like I always did when I moved across my country first and then into a foreign country.
Also http://www.philwhln.com/zero-copy-transfer-data-faster-in-ru...
So, that totally looked like it was going to work.

But after I "logged in" to google plus it just redirected me to the same old "We've temporarily exceeded our capacity. Please try again soon." page.
Google plus: After one week
How google plus stands after one week? :)
I bet there's a codepath in the magic google algorithm that says, "all things being equal, favor the page that has adsense." Except normally, things arent quite this equal.
a person who has their laundry done for them by their company seems important and valuable; a person who pays for it just seems lazy / inept.

"Oh your company cleans your clothes? My maid cleans mine"
I don't think the author is to blame at all. I do stuff like this all the time - I'm working on something, google for it, download and keep on moving. I use google constantly throughout the day, and trust the top result to be authentic. As it turns out, that trust may be unwarranted.
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A while back, when the site was rather bogging down, pg made some changes to memory management (as I vaguely recall from one of his comments posted at the time). I believe part of this is more aggressive discarding of memory, and that part of the result was to succeed, or fail, more quickly without progressively tying up the server.

So, overall the server works better. When there's load, part of this include bailing sooner on your troublesome request. ;-)

In your case, this may include no longer having memory/context for stale pagination links. I deal with this by using a browser extension to load several pages of links at once. (Without a browser extension, one can achieve the same results by opening those links manually in new tabs and then working one's way through those tabs at one's leisure. I'd advise not overdoing this, though; no need to burden the server with requests you will seldom/never use.)

(I may be wrong as to the memory management. Again, this is just my vague understanding/recollection.)
They can profit from .NET more if companies are forced to use Windows and Windows Server to run their .NET applications.
Hm -- can't seem to post to anayasq in either Safari 5 or Firefox 5. So thought I'd post one here:

I love and appreciate how transparent you've been about your recipe and process for the book. That's super cool and it's totally inspired a few ideas of my own. You shared some revenue figures after the first week, but would you be willing to update on revenue to date since then?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2732839
What about icecream which also has been around for ages?

http://en.opensuse.org/Icecream
Lists are not available on the Android app (not sure about iOS).

I think the reason it isn't prominent is because it's not the direction the company wants to go. Every since Twitter became popular Facebook moved to become more like Twitter; more public and less private. They stuck the list feature in to placate those complaining about the removal of privacy but they never really wanted people to use it. Now with Google+ taking over the area of private social networking it would be interesting to see if Facebook does an about face and goes back in this direction.
No. They will read only things you post to Public, and not to a specific circle. You will not read any of their posts.
Oh, it does - visit any Hollywood party :)

The point is, for a large class of servants, you need both immense wealth disparity and a large class of insanely rich people. We've increased a) and in the process, b) has gotten smaller.

Don't get me wrong, many people are rich - but only a few are rich enough that they can afford servants. This might change if the job situation gets worse, increasing the disparity so that more rich people now qualify as insanely rich.
Ask HN: Goolge +1 on product sites
Obviously, a ton of content sites are putting google's +1 button on their sites, but my question is about putting the button on a product site. In looking at Webmaster tools, Google is now showing the impact of the +1 buttons. So my question is, is it worth it to work the button into a product site?
The processing fee is if you don't get a gift certificate. I usually get an Amazon gift certificate for 100% of my coins value.
Spotify coming to the U.S. soon. For real this time?
The “Cloud” and “Privacy”
In this example, the fundamental problem with the original set of statements is that they are not true.

The problem is that the copywriter works at an organization that has contemptible business practices. Given that state of affairs she could either:

1) Tell the truth and produce a highly cynical document that would cost her job plus blowback.

2) Tell lies (the original version), causing blowback and probably costing her and several others their jobs.

3) Write a bunch of pleasant-sounding meaningless nothings (the final version) which fulfills her assignment of writing a value statement free of both lies and brutal honesty. Interestingly, on a meta level, this is actually a very honest document, as it ends up reading "We have no values."
While we're on the topic, I'm just going to say that those "anonymous" job postings here on YC drive me nuts

"YCW11 company hiring front end dev! New office space! We <3 Django! Fridge stocked w/beer! "

There are a only couple YC companies I wouldn't want to work for, period. Mainly from the recent crop, but those bad seeds kinda ruin the whole "work for a random anonymous YC company!" recruitment tool.
Ask HN: Barebones Phone?
Some time ago - a few months, maybe, someone had posted about their barebones "just a phone" phone. It had a paper notepad on the back and a slot for a pencil.
I can't seem to find the post when searching Hacker News, Google or Duck Duck Go. Does anyone else recall and happen to have the info handy?
How is the "Official Site" authentication done?
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Crudely, I think it's time to put code where your mouth is

Ah, you have me there. Actually, I am interested in this space and would appreciate a good academic overview. Maybe some links to these papers you mention?
Same, and somehow, apparently, I still remember that the slang for it is 'le mini'. I really need to call realloc() on that.
Algorithmically, how would you tell the difference between a site and its illegitimate clone? It seems like it becomes a problem when it fools enough people that they create natural links to it...
Thanks for the reply. Very much in line with what I'm thinking.

The Web Dev degree is supposed to be more design-focused clearly, but it feels like they just stuck some space-fillers in there too.
Make sense. Noted.

Two reasons: 1)It took me a whole month to produce the issue. 2)MagCloud needed more time to process the large group order we placed.

Solution: I could try shorten the time to produce it and will work with the MagCloud team to see how do we ship it in time.
Wonder how Pandora feels about this?
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People are bored of Facebook
I agree with most of what you're saying. Add To Homescreen is a great feature for regular users of a mobile web app. Your application needs to support both modes however (browser-mode, and app-mode). The easy answer is to say: "Use back button in browser, and use navigation bar in app-mode" - Which is certainly possible from a technical perspective, but jarring from a UX perspective. You have to essentially re-learn how to use the application when you click that button. Not only that, but if you add a navigation bar in app-mode, then your navigation is on the top (where it would've been on the bottom in browser mode), and that has other fallout in relation to other elements that you may have placed on the top of the page in browser-mode.

I hope that made sense.
A couple of questions to Spotify users:

What advantages does Spotify have over Rdio?
Can Spotify be used as a streaming service and a digital locker for tracks they don't have?
There are so many reasons why a company might not be good at recruiting employees. They run from not having enough time, to opening an office in a new city, or simply being willing to outsource networking so they can do stuff they like.

If you're looking for a job as a place to make friends and work with interesting people, fine, that's good stuff. But, many places of work are simply businesses, trying to make money for their owners. Recruiters want to find competent and experienced workers who can come in and get stuff done. It's not all lowballing and keyword bingo.
The implicit assumption is:

Vx [x thinks > x exists].

You also seem to think that Descartes needs to provide an accont of what it means to exist. Why think that? You speak English. 'Exists' is a perfectly intelligible English word. And so we can understand the conclusion and the explicit assumption.

Of course, it is an interesting philosophical question as to what existence amounts to. Quite a hard one. But it's a different philosophical question.

You seem to be criticising Descartes for not answering that question, but that's just to conflate distinct issues.

It's also a little incoherent to say that philosophy is useless because it ignores certain questions, which then turn out on inspection to be further philosophical questions.

And philosophers do grapple with what existence amounts to. Go read some Quine if you're actually interested.

In fact, Quine provides an account of existence which vindicates teh implicit premise I've outlined above. But Quine is writing 400 years after Descartes, after the great philosophical revolution brought about by the logical developmenets of the philosopher Frege (which incidentially had an impact on computing and so on). So we might say that Descartes doesn't answer the questions you raise fully. But only someone a little up their own arse would criticise Descartes for failing to deal with questions it took 400 years of philosophical, logical and mathematical development to make substantive progress on.
It wouldn't make millions of dollars to actually get the patent details, they'd need to be in the first court filing against you which you could see without even having a lawyer.

If the judge then found out that they'd not revealed the patent details to you before coming to court, he'd almost certainly kick the thing out for being frivolous (you're obliged to try to settle before coming to court and that would include actually telling someone what they'd done wrong).
I think the rediculous thing is more that he spent that much time making a blog post because he made a mistake whilst obviously trying to do something quickly without thinking.
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Well, it would work for a while since I doubt the owner of the fake site is actively monitoring it. He probably has a bunch of similar scraped sites running on autopilot. Even when(if?) he notices it, he'd have to change the operation of the bot to rewrite the links. At that point the SEO would be quite damaged by the canonical tags.

If the canonical tags were added stealthily he probably wouldn't notice at all until his SEO was completely destroyed.
How long was the transition period? A single day? What size userbase was migrated (if you can say)?

Also, thanks for writing this up - lots of good writing as usual. Having gone through a rewrite recently, and being asked to consult on another, you've identified a lot of good issues for me to revisit.
> Is extremetech's audience really so unfamiliar with the basics of technology that they needed an article to point out that this remote code exploit demonstrates that users are vulnerable to a remote code exploit?

I think you hugely overestimate both people's understanding of technology and the average reader of that site. (Here's a hint: this is who owns extremetech: http://www.ziffdavis.com/)

Sufficiently advanced technology turns into a black box. Jailbreaking is presented to the user as an installation process, the only difference is it's done on your phone. It isn't presented as something that could happen automatically and without your consent. Before they can understand the implications of an exploit themselves, they have to understand:

1) it can be activated merely by following a link, not by following some benign 'install procedure'

2) it has unrestricted access to your phone, it is not merely flipping a 'install whatever apps I like' switch

3) the bad guys can do it too

Not all of which are obvious to a user who has been wrapped in wool by Apple's walled garden.

In contrast, the facts of an unlocked door are so incredibly obvious and simple that they don't require more than a sentence to understand. Your analogy is better put as "Leaving your door unlocked saves time spent looking for your keys, and prevents you ever getting locked out if you forget them! However, this means anybody else can go into your house, and even take your stuff. That's why it's important to lock your door." And if extremedoorlocks is aimed at the same kind of person who would visit extremetech, yes, they probably do.
So you're saying that if one handset manufacturer had had a legal ruling against them for patent violations relating to Android that wouldn't create a legal precedent?
Do you mean specific versions of browsers? That would be interesting to see, especially FF.
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Who your DNS provider is counts.

This topic came up very often in the last months.
bit.ly is not just a cool name, it is the Lybian official domain and when Gadaffi has a problem with it he can shut it down.

There has been a case where a free-subdomain hoster linked everyone to an advertiser one day.
No several people said that :) I didn't realize the double meaning - see, this is why I need someone far more tech savvy than myself.
To defend against this, social networking sites should simply cache the link that the preview bot sees, and send users there directly instead.
The counterargument, as presented by blendergasket below, comes when the situation is reversed and the government is the target. Consider the recent #antisec releases as a sort of first-amendment freedom of the press, or the attacks on HBGary as people exercising their second amendment right to keep and bear arms.
Oh no :( I think it's up - I just checked it
I would be open to hearing opinions on estimates of the true value of a Bitcoin

Forget it. Nobody knows. It's a function of how big the Bitcoin economy gets, and how many Bitcoins people decide to keep in their wallets. (It's convenient to keep some amount, to save the hassle of doing conversions all the time, but the volatility of the currency may well dissuade most people from keeping large amounts.)
The minute they go into court filings they're public and there would be nothing to stop someone like Amazon publishing or leaking them (you can't bring a case against someone on the condition they don't talk about it).
Interesting about the downplaying of the ID authentication. I suddenly realized what would make me happier with this whole security setup; one of these two things:

1. I would consent to their searches if I did not have to identify myself (and they made no attempt to identify me). This seems practical, as Schneier suggests, because your identity doesn't really matter as long as you've been screened.

2. They adopt rigorous authentication procedures and authorize me to pass without undressing, scanning, swiping, etc. My hunch is that this wouldn't be too effective a preventive tactic, but what do I know...

I'm much more into (1), personally, but I'll take anything that makes travel less cumbersome.
It's not hypocritical at all, registrars/registries are service providers, like ISPs. Domainers are not.

Your 'let's agree to disagree' was combined with a personal attack of me and trying to justify it. Might as well have said 'fuck you and your mother, we'll never agree rice is white.' That's not agreeing to disagree at all.
b.surmanski please!

edit: just noticed this is 5 days old; Sorry for being late to the party... If you can still add me, I would appreciate it.
Quantum memory works now at room temperature
Since we recruit half of our VA's from the Philippines it makes perfect sense to have an office there & a person who takes care of recruiting directly from the Philippines.

We're bringing in a designer in S.F. but for now - since we're bootstrapped I have outsourced the design to a team in Moldova - this is just a temporary thing and I do agree, it would be a problem if it was permanent
Yes, and support for slavery was also strongly tied to the popular Christianity of the day.

The fact that religion so permeated debates in those times makes it easy for us to cherry-pick people and places to support our positions (this applies to me as much as you).
It's not like philosophy is interested in some special notion of 'justified' - philosphy tends to be interested in our ordinary notion of justification.

We normally think that the belief that neurons exist is justified. Philosophy will ask what that amounts to. It may turn out that the belief is unjustified - but most philosophers will reject this. They will argue over different accounts of what that justification consists in.
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You can share with them by making your post "Public". Conversely, there's a wild-west "Incoming" section you can browse which contains posts by everyone that has put you in a circle (whether you put them in a circle or not).

To be clear: it's asymmetric so you don't have to "approve" followers or not. Feel free to put anyone in your circles, and you'll see their posts if they make them public, or if they post them to a circle they've put you in previously.

You get notifications when people add you to a circle, so you have the opportunity to add them to a circle if you want, but it's not required. Whether it's socially expected (as it seems it used to be on Twitter), is something of a debate among G+ users currently.
You think a hardware company has a lot of patents Microsoft are currently breaching?
Here's a link to a RWW story about what msbarnett is talking about: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_illiteracy_how_much...

It surprised me at first, but I really forget what it's like to be tech illiterate.
Manually, I would imagine.
it's not the direction the company wants to go

Nor has it ever been. While lists might appear to work now, I would not at all be surprised if lists are a leaky abstraction with all sorts of holes that would require the codebase rearchitecting that the original story believes.

When you have such a fundamental design decision baked into everything you've ever done, it can't change overnight. Perhaps they've been working on it for months or years, but certainly its only in the last year that anyone has been talking about this problem earnestly.
I work all night, I work from early morning to late, late at night so yes I do expect someone to work with me...
Yes, you can upload tracks they don't have (at least in the paid for version, not sure the free service lets you).

I don't know Rdio.
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I don't think the app needs to support both modes. When you go in a browser, it should just say, click here to install the app to your home screen. That's the easy answer, IMO.
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I'm a programmer with some liquid cash and an interest in doing things exactly like this for fun. Can you recommend any resources for getting started?