skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Power-grabs are the abuse. There need not be any imoral motive behind the desire for this power, nor any plan to use them "for evil". We have already seen (UMG) that, given such power, there will be "accidental" abuse that has a major, negative effect on small players and citizens.

Even if you believe that these were genuine "accidents", do you believe that it is acceptable to allow these interests to have such power? Do you think it is just about "unimportant" things like copying music?

The US is still the worlds largest superpower, but compared to 20 years ago it has vastly less power. Its power has declined and continues to do so. Any student of history will tell you that this is exactly when states transform from free nations to fascist states.
i'm pretty sure that the spammers are personally against spam too, as in they would not like to receive it. my point is that people are more than willing to implement something they would not like personally applied to them, for money, the challenge, job security or whatever.
1% CTR is a high estimate for Adsense on a site like Stackexchange. 3% is downright fantasy.

SE is basically a forum, and forums are notoriously difficult to monetize with general ads. I think it'd be better to hire a sales person and get ads from companies that want to advertise to the coder-demographic directly. They'll be able to command higher prices, and do so based on CPM instead of clicks.
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I like Citizens United and I dislike SOPA. That's just one data point, but strong free speech advocates do exist.
I think you may be accidentally commenting on the wrong post. I don't see any video or audio on this post's link.
This is a really good starting point. Questions can obviously go deeper, relative to the particular industry, to learn more about a company. The main point is not only the information you get, but gauging responses to those questions.

If you're being interviewed, turn yourself into the interviewer at this stage. Be prepared -- take notes, bring materials from the website or other content to reference during the conversation, and have your questions planned out thoughtfully ahead of time.

Generally, a recruiter is not the best person to ask questions, though. Try to ask questions to the hiring manager. Strive to learn the organizational/corporate pain points. Ask questions to gain information, but also to get beyond understanding "culture" to understanding biases and preferences. Rarely do interviewers make that clear, in spite of the intentions of their communication.

Last, one general comment about questions: if they can't be answered to your satisfaction, mark it as a red flag. If you, the candidate, can think about something in the short term and a business that's focused on that thing can't or won't respond in a way that's clear, that should be a clear indication of a problem.
This is rather misleading. First, it sums over his entire career. Second, it doesn't mention the large amount he's received from industries that oppose things like SOPA. Third, it doesn't mention that the TV/movie/music industry has donated large amount to those who are currently opposing SOPA.
Four Attitudes Defining World 2.0
This. Still, as long as Obama hasn't signed NDAA yet there should be one for that too.
I can't decide if I'm more offended that it's so corrupt or that the price is so cheap.
"""Technically this is true, but it would cause a revolt that would just end up destroying ICANN."""

Yes, because American's are so rebellious that any attempt to suppress their liberties coughpatriotactcough results in a revolt...

Actually, 99% of American rebelliousness is in merely quoting the constitution and the 4 amendments in a world and a political and law system that has render most of those obsolete in practice...

For example, the "right to bear arms" meant something WHEN people could use those to overturn their government --now, it's just an excuse for people to get guns to "protect their property" against robberies and such.
I didn't realize that anyone could create petitions on WhiteHouse.gov. Were it not for the casual writing style, I might have thought this was an official petition from the White House.

Neat.
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions
"Dictatorship" is not strictly accurate.

The downside to Singapore is that they are authoritarians. Confucian capitalists, you might say. William Gibson famously called it "Disneyland with the Death Penalty" in a Wired article of that title.
That's because Power7s are more aggressively pipelined than Intel chips. Intel usually has around 20 FO4s of gate logic between clock latches, while IBM tries to keep it down to around 12 FO4s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FO4
True but you can compare the Express benchmarks to those mentioned on the Synchrony site.
"The nature of law is to maintain justice. This is so much the case that, in the minds of the people, law and justice are one and the same thing. There is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are 'just' because law makes them so." -Fredric Bastiat
In the UK at least, a company is required by law to provide you with feedback. I would definitely agree with the article here, exercise that right, and gain some insight into how you've been perceived.

Clearly, whether this feedback is useful or not totally depends on the employer, but more often that not, it will be helpful.
There has been a horrifying advance in the last few years, but online networking has also been advancing in leaps and bounds (that is, power to individual citizens banding together that didn't exist in 2001), and combined with the way this latest specific threat has awoken people, I think we have a shot at this one. It's just one, but it beats none. Maybe we can begin to turn the tide.
It would depend on the size of the company.

Small company: I think it's not unreasonable to know at least the headlines of the financial state. After all, small businesses are inherently riskier and I may be making financial commitments based on the presumption that I will have a job.

Big company: I can probably just look it up myself.

Medium company: That's where it gets tricky.

> I think your point #2 is valid even if you ask my initial question about "real money in the bank". If they don't know how much burn they have left or can't answer immediately or are reluctant, that is still a problem.

Or if they say "cashflow statement?"
If they were normal they'd eat up your namespace.
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I think there's also a disproportionate media focus on the really big successes, which do seem to have had pretty young founders: Apple (21 & 25), Microsoft (19), Google (24 & 25), Dell (19), Amazon (30), etc.
wait, I thought that was the reason? (the L1-cache misses)
The hardware is there, I guess Ubuntu just doesn't have the drivers for this chip or your friend doesn't have them installed.

In theory, this is cross-platform.
In this context, "dictatorship" is akin to an epithet, and using it risks short-circuiting rational discourse. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with personal rule: Napoleon wasn't Hitler, Queen Elizabeth I wasn't Stalin, and Marcus Aurelius wasn't Chairman Mao.

Singapore is a de facto single-party state with a strong prime minister. Is that good or bad? That depends on whether we're talking Aurelius or Mao. Having spent the better part of a week in Singapore this past summer, I can tell you that it was the only place on my itinerary where I thought, "I'd love to have a place here." (The other destinations were Thailand, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Ireland.) If I were to have a residence or business in Singapore, probably my biggest fear would be not government oppression, but rather the People's Action Party losing control, probably to the quasi-communist Workers' Party—i.e., a triumph of "democracy" over the highly effective government Singapore has today.
They tried Adsense on StackOverflow. It was a "crushing disappointment". See http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/podcast-64/
The biggest issue I see with this article is that, like many people, it attempts to break down the issue of governance into one of more vs less:

We don’t suffer from too much governance, we suffer from too little : no effective climate regulation, no effective nanobio risk regulation.

In particular, the author seems to favor government actions when it protects people from violent or unintentionally dangerous acts of others.

But this isn't the same as "more governance". Most of what existing western governments do is not protecting against the mafia, climate change or rogue nanobots. It's redistribution schemes - from the taxpayer to Blackwater/Solyndra/RIAA, from the young to the old or from private sector workers to public sector workers.

In particular, when Vinay mentions the state going bankrupt, it's the redistribution schemes that comprise the bulk of the problem, not protection against men with guns and nanobots.

One could easily increase the governance Vinay wants while dramatically reducing governance overall, or vice versa.
What I mean is that Google Checkout, PayPal and Authorize.NET offer essentially the same service. Here in Brazil all the major gateways (PagSeguro, MoIP, Pagamento Digital, PayPal) also offer very simple HTML "buy now" buttons with a streamlined payment process. Being a gateway you don't need to signup anywhere else either. If your focus is on improving the UX and sign-up process, that's laudable, but there's a shit ton of competition!
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Lower quality foods are generally cheaper, but its not because cheapness leads to low quality. Its because these foods are cheaper and more convenient that we put with their low quality.

Things cost what they cost because of what's involved in producing them.

A lot of cheap food is cheap because its factory food. It can be grown and processed using machinery, which makes the labor involved per meal very low. Wheat, soy bean oil and corn syrup.

Most vegetables cannot be grown using machinery (yet), but robots that can tend a plant intelligently, that can select and pick vegetables at the right time and assemble them into a meal, will eliminate most of the labor involved.
If ICANN starts breaking non-US domains, I have a feeling it's not Americans who would revolt.
I also think the real problem is that they are so cheap. Whatever I read about lobbying the ROI is huge.
Obviously having politicians make it more expensive to bribe will have some serious problems too... I think the best would be to make all payments anonymous. If you like what a politician does you support him but he should never know who donated to him.
8k votes... that is just sad...
Let's spell this out.

A woman can either have just kids, or just a career.

A man can have just kids, just a career, or a career and kids.

Who has more options?

Your assumption that women "choose" to always be the stay at home parent is questionable, too. As if the husband, and society in general, have no expectations that women are the best caretakers and should therefore be the ones to stay at home, and no additional influence on her choice.
In the immortal words of Cave Johnson, "Why not?!" :-) Dealing with structured data is easy compared to unstructured data, but there is a vast wealth of unstructured content just waiting to be tapped. I suspect there is so much interest BECAUSE TextMinr seems like a tool to explore a topic most folks find difficult to grasp. I'm a search engine architect and it's not a "solved" issue by any means. I think there is a lot of curiosity and a lot of untapped content that has yet to be leveraged. I'm certainly interested. :)
But VCs are not playing baseball. In baseball, a home run can get you no more than 4 runs, whereas the home runs the VCs are playing for can get you many many multiples of what would be considered a single.
Yep. That's presumably why pdf links on here have that [scribd] link next to them.
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Thanks for the explanation! I'm working on energy storage too, but through electrochemical means (ie. water splitting). It's always interesting to hear how other people are tackling the problem. I look forward to hearing more about LightSail in the future.
Thanks for the thorough write-up!
RIP Firefox
After being a fanatical Netscape/Firefox user for 15 years I was forced to switch to Chrome due to Mozzilla's absolute incompetence. For half a year Firefox has been continually bringing my computer to a halt through utilizing all my CPU and RAM resources. So I finally installed Chrome. As a software engineer and a web developer I thought I would extend Mozilla the courtesy of explaining the departure of a loyal customer. So I went to Mozilla's comment page, but was unable to to leave a comment because I wasn't running the current version of Firefox. So I fired up Firefox and returned to the page and selected the option to express I was unhappy with Firefox, but they only had a 120 character limit to the message. I couldn't submit the message I wrote. I was outraged!!! I went to their Facebook page but it only allows you to "like" Firefox and doesn't allow the posting of messages. I have uninstalled Firefox from my computer. Mozzilla has dug a hole, jumped in and pulled the hole in behind them. And the hole is their grave. RIP Firefox!
Campaign finance isn't illegal, nor is it a sign of evil.

I agree with the first part, but not the second. Otherwise there simply wouldn't be a reason to push these numbers out as if they were a sign of some kind of badness.

In a representational democracy such as ours, Congress is hired to represent the interests of their constituents not the interests of who pays the most money. That the voice of the constituents appears to not be heard or represented at all is the thing that's wrong.

Simply buying your a vote for your interests is not how this is supposed to be working. And the people who can actually change it are the ones who are being bought -- virtually guaranteeing no opportunity for change to occur, despite immense desire from the electorate for exactly that change to occur.
Data Mining with the Maximal Information Coefficient
A new & useful tool for exploratory data analysis.
I don't think so. The effect of DIBL is an increase in leakage current with the drain to source voltage.

The first-order model I was taught in school was that leakage current not considering DIBL used to be proportional to exp(vgs-vt) but thanks to DIBL leakage is now proportional to exp(vgs - vt + eta*vds). The eta here is the DIBL coefficient, which AFAIK is 0.1 or thereabouts.
Ask HN: How do you motivate people in this environment?
Here's a YouTube Video about motivating people that probably most of you guys watched. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
"RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us "

Ok, now to take this to the next level. If you believe everything in this video, how do you do it in an environment that this Slashdot Link says (http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/18/2154224/how-to-thwart-the-high-priests-in-it). Read the comments there.

How can the research on the first video be used in the world the Slashdot people talk about when it's obvious the two groups absolutely do not trust each other?
Well, the thing is that an up-front bio is going to necessarily expose you to these prejudices (which do exist), that's why I ask what the advantage might be (and to who). The article pretty much handwaves this concern with an "it'll be better" type sentiment.
Yes, that's true, and that sucks. I won't deny that, and I feel terrible for any man that happens too, and I wish the courts were truly gender-equal in this respect. But the flipside of always granting women custody of children is immense social pressure for women to give up their careers to raise children, or to at least face huge energy expenditures in balancing both that men don't, and on balance, I think women are still getting the shorter end of the stick. It's within your control to avoid marrying a bitch or to maintain your marriage; it's harder to dodge societal expectations that because you're female, you'll be a poorer employee. Given the choice between two problems, I'll pick tackling the one where I have more control over the outcome. Wouldn't you?

Most feminists don't focus explicitly on making it easier for men to intrude into traditional female-dominated activities like childrearing, but hopefully, as it becomes more normal for women to enter the same spheres as men, the reverse will hold true too, and the courts will be more likely to see men as equal and not inferior caregivers. So even if feminism isn't explicitly about helping men, I think it's still on their side.
How far food has to travel to get to where its assembled into meals has nothing to do with the human labor that goes into producing a meal.
> I guess by definition this whole forum is 1st world problems

Maybe I am misreading this. But I am not sure why you think so. A lot of what goes by "hacking" is common to the first and third worlds. Often it is even more effective in a third world country where a little bit of appropriate technology can have a serious impact on the lives of a lot of people.
Show HN: My product idea on Quirky
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I had an idea for a power saving product so I decided to use Quirky to see it out as I don't have the funds, experience etc in creating a product. I think this is a good idea that would definitely save people money in the long run. Excited to see what some of you think of the idea, and I will also report on my experiences using Quirky for anyone else with an idea.
Clickable: http://www.quirky.com/ideations/144470
This is the same representative who's former chief of staff / parliamentarian, Allison Halataei, got hired by a lobbying firm to get SOPA passed after helping write it.[1]

If this country ever undergoes a revolution in my lifetime, I sincerely hope that the lobbyists that acted at these levels of scumminess get tried for treason.

[1] http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/10/226238/two-sopa-write...
Remember that all the lobbying money spent in the US is there only to swing public opinion ~10% on an election.

OT, but is it then reasonable to infer that the increasing closeness of Presidential elections over the past couple of decades may have simply been a cost-cutting operation by the lobbying industry?
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"Why not vote that person in instead?"

Who? Nobody I know personally who isn't corrupt is running. I'd vote for them.

But sadly the way things are setup to work guarantees I pretty much get two equally bad choices.

Even when some group gets lots of support and gets themselves stealth elected -- the recent tea party elections are a fantastic example (despite my personal disagreements with their political philosophy), they find their ability to change the broken system reduced to almost nothing.
Seems quite effective to me if it keeps the signers from taking any additional action for 6 months.
Its likely doing exactly what those setting it intended.
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It'll let you in as soon as it's done downloading your email.
The WH petition system is to political activism what Twitter is to people's social commentary... effectively redirect everything to /dev/null and make them think they've made their voices heard (although I think that this particular one is quite clever).
This happens to me in every browser I've tried (Opera, Chrome, FF, and ELinks). Maybe we can start a petition to... oh wait...
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Maybe he was willing to allow some self-sacrifice?

So instead of state agents being outed, or secrets being revealed as Assange would sacrifice for his beliefs, Gupta would allow some self sacrifice for his beliefs.

For me the main take-away was the need for a more refined OWS mission. One focused on solutions rather than one focused on venting frustration and fomenting division.
That won't work at all. There is no way to anonymize the donations. You can always just tell the rep. "That donation you received on such and such a date for such and such an amount was me."
Be sure to read the petition -- unlike most of them, it's actually smart political commentary: It mocks SOPA by having whitehouse.gov itself link to a website that's infringing copyright. The joke is that whitehouse.gov could itself be removed from the DNS system under SOPA.

This is the first use of the White House petitioning system that I think is actually really clever. (Honorable mention: Petition to Please Take Petitions Seriously.)
I've been in Hong Kong for a year and a half. As a city, it's quite nice. Low taxes, extremely safe, vibrant culture. Pollution is really the biggest downside for me (you get used to the # of people quickly, and I'm from a small city and I hate people so...)

However, professionally speaking? Forget about it. It's a horrible place for programmers. In the last couple months I've met with 2 entrepreneurs looking to move to Hong Kong as well as 2 founders already in Hong Kong. I purposefully did not lead, but all four conversations immediately went to the lack of available talent. And, we weren't talking about the lack of talent the way it is in SF or NY (where there's talent, but it's working for someone else), we are talking about the fact that if you could pick a dream team of all programmers living in Hong Kong, it wouldn't be very dreamy.

Most of the senior programmers are long-time bank employees. Their X years of experience is the same year X times. They are risk adverse and creatively challenged. What's really troubling though is that the young programmers (interns, new graduates) have a strong desire to work for the bank. It's culture...working for the bank is what they want to do. Non CS students will take programming internships because "that's what was available at the bank".

Of course you can point to some small communities or some example company, but you really have to realize that hiring is going to be a challenge you might not be able to overcome. You'll almost certainly have to get your "senior" programmers from abroad, and recruiting your talent is going to be unlike anything you've seen state-side.
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Why not Singapore?
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Don't re-invent the wheel.

Package management systems blur the boundaries between operating system and software. Use them, please.

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