skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
""a move that it hopes will create peer pressure to nudge more people to add their names to the rolls of registered organ donors.

It is a rare foray by Facebook into social engineering from social networking, and one with a potentially profound effect, according to experts in the field of organ donation.""

You say social engineering. I say manipulating people to do something you think they should. I seriously wonder why I still use facebook.
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There was a controller mod that addressed this exactly [1].

[1] http://youtu.be/XkiyxzvsAYo
"For example, the idea of a minimum viable product doesn't really work too well with Hardware."

Actually, it does, if you make your MVP a little more minimal. Put up a sales page for the product, attract traffic with Google AdWords, and see who clicks "buy".

You know those infomercial products that required 6-8 weeks for delivery? That was the time it took to actually get the products manufactured, which didn't happen until a sufficient quantity of orders had been reached. Tim Ferris has a bunch of similar examples in 4HWW.
http://176.9.156.37/big_17-00.mp4?start=190&radius=0.695...

You might need to change the parameters to sync it to your time.
An article showing photographs of some of the hardware and explaining how they did it: http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N22/tetris.html
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Thanks, yeah I'll have to check that out. It seems like people sure can be nuts about their money.
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Have anyone thought of having NativeClient (Nacl) running on the server side, interfacing with node.js? I thought this would be really cool, mirroring some advantages of node.js. Suppose Nacl is supported on the server side (and let's call it nacl.js?), I could write high-performance code that runs on the client side AND deploy on the server side. This would also make it easy to deploy non-trivial C/C++ code on commodity server (assuming vendors support it, which I think they will thanking to Nacl's sandboxing model).

Your opinion? Flaw in my logic? Is someone already working on this? I think this would be a cool project.
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Removing the repository URL is a terrible thing. That is a key piece of information that anyone trying to get started with a project needs to know. Maybe it could be hidden after you've pulled but it needs to be there in the beginning, at least.
There is a downside to this - and one which could cause Intel to fall off a wall.

Their tick-tock method of introducing a new product and then half-way through it's life switching it to a small design rule to get a speed and cost benefit as you introduce the next bigger chip is really great - so long as you can make the design rules smaller AND the world wants bigger more powerful versions of the same chip

But it prevented them stepping back and designing a crude little 30K transistor RISC processor from a blank sheet - which later goes onto rule the world.
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Of all the things Facebook does that are sleazy, encouraging the saving of lives in a way that has zero downside is the thing that gets you up in arms?
Maybe it's not that they pay more that makes them more likely to work with you, but rather there's something about people who have more money to spend (ex Enterprise-level customers) that changes their awareness of the realities of the solutions they buy.
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Even IE6 did it.
How do you propose Google or Facebook would profit from knowing you're an organ donor, beyond simply "our employees might need an organ someday"?
Under that light every popular behaviour is manipulation

"Oh, everyone is using black t-shirts in my classroom, I don't know why but I better start wearing one"
famousactress:

Congrats on the donation. I'm working through the evaluation process myself. Do you have any advice to share?

RE: License sticker, it can't be overridden by family in a first-person consent state; it's the driver's decision to be a donor, and her wishes can't be overruled.

RE: Facebook organ donor status, it's a fantastic way to spread the word about your willingness to be an organ donor, and when no driver's license registration exists, it can help families exercise more accurate substituted judgment.

In general agreement that there's "no better plan than for your family to understand and be on board with your decision." Designating yourself as an organ donor at your nearest BMV makes your decision legally binding.
Actual quote: [..] says Apple will soon begin to offer wireless service directly to iPhone and iPad users.

In the last years Apple focused on innovation. Moving against the carriers (voice service) doesn't look too good (going against partners, very mature business == little potential & high costs)

Going in the wireless data service (internet) would however bring value: less latency, more speed, better Siri service.
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funny post..as I sit here in class staring at my rockstar '2x the crack'. My teacher keeps looking at me like he wants to ask me a question. I'm a non-techie trying to launch a startup, I bet you can guess why I went to bed at 3am.
What I'm saying is that C is ubiquitous because it has strong syntax, and Haskell is not because it doesn't.

I like C's syntax, but I also like Lisp's and Scala's and SQL's.

> Would you be happier if C was the only language, and everyone just had to use C?

If C were as powerful as a modern programming language (JavaScript) and had the standardization of a libraries that Perl or PHP has, then I'd be okay with writing C. The only reason I don't is because C has been improved upon. Haskell is a step back.

> This is completely non sequitur.

Of course it isn't. Popularity has a huge amount to do with the advantages offered by a language. If a language was crap, no one would use it.

At one time, C was not very popular, but in the last 20 years almost all of the most popular languages, year after year, have been C or its descendants.
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Totally. I think it's way more public and visible... That said, this is a decision that family has to make at an incredibly stressful, confusing, and emotional time. It may be something that you've thought a lot about, but if family members haven't had a chance to think through this scenario it can be a really disarming and terrifying decision to be presented with... especially if it's not one that they'd ever make for themselves.

Some of the folks I talked to touched on anecdotes where even though the family was 'aware', there's still a lot of potential for hesitation if they're not absolutely sure that it's something you've thought about and have conviction behind.

I think stickers and Fb flags are great, but these conversations are really the best way to ensure your decision is carried out.. and they have the added benefit of really making people internalize and think about organ donation very seriously.
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Some people argue that whatever you get back from the request should be the exact json/xml/whatever object representation.
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Did Instagram v1 had this feature?

They added high-res photos in v2 and the early upload seems like maybe an attempt not to have the app start feeling much much slower.
I'm not quite sure what you're trying to argue for. You seem to want an integrated way of accessing remote resources (a la SMB but for extremely remote resources), but then you seem to be arguing in favour of hiding the directory hierarchy entirely (forgive me if I'm mistaken here).

In regards to remote resources, currently there are various FUSE plugins which can present remote resources in the filesystem (e.g. flickrfs). These are of course issues with the abstraction (how do we represent tags in a hierarchy?), but the use of these plugins is mostly transparent to the user (ignoring performance). It's certainly possible to build a layer atop of these that would integrate better with the system (e.g. add a Facebook selection to the open dialog).

You also seem to want to conflate applications with the data they manage. For a large number of users this is fine (iTunes is already their music, IE is the internet, etc), but for many others this is problematic (how do you manage moving data between these applications without a common intermediary. consider scanning an image, touching it up, then including it in a document - where do the original and altered versions live, how are they accessed by applications?).
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It's important to mention that when you install the Google+ app one of the configuration steps asks if you want to auto-upload your photos. You have three options: "Upload over wifi only", "Upload over wifi and mobile", and "Don't automatically upload". I believe the default is wifi-only.

You can turn it off later in the settings quite easily.
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it's not so much that. It's the stigmatizing that they're doing -- as if you're somehow 'bad' by not being an organ donor.

Yes it's admirable, but it's the principle that gets me more than the details of this. While organ donation is a good thing, where does it stop after this?

edit: for example, why doesn't he do some social engineering to help all the starving children in third world countries? I don't have figures, but I'd like to see the numbers of people who die because there was no organ available to them compared to the number of children who die because they don't have food.
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I'm not sure Apple should play that game unless they are ready to handle the extra regulatory and infrastructure management loads.
How complex is your app? Is it entertainment or productivity?
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Disagree. Haskell is one of the only truly next-gen languages there is, primarily due to its ambitious design goal of software assurance - basically, it was designed from the ground up to better enable programmers to write error-free code.

The Haskell designers identified the main sources of errors in code as mutable state and side effects (network communication, writing to disk, etc), and then constructed a language that enforced isolation of that code into specific containers, monads.

All code outside monads is guaranteed to be purely functional, referentially transparent, immutable, and side-effect free. It's an idea that seems simple in hindsight, but is rather brilliant.

Add to that Haskell's green-thread concurrency and multicore/cpu parallelism is probably one of the best kept secrets in programming these days, and you've got an amazing language and platform for anyone who takes the time to shift to its paradigm.
This is obvious progress due to the lawsuits of recent years. File-sharing will move over to take advantage of IP addresses of countries with relaxed copyright legislation. If all countries implemented strict copyright laws, there's I2P and other similar encrypted anonymous networks. People just have to trade off transfer speed to get what they already used to have in the 90's.

I think that the fact people are willing to pay for a VPN just to get a better, "pirated", product no thanks to MAFIAA aptly underlines the severity of the challenges that content industry is facing.

Money is not the issue why those who have money do pirate content.
It all depends on the elasticity of consumption.
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I'd appreciate other people's input on these choices. I'm currently implementing an API much in the way of these standards, but I'm almost buckling and implementing PATCH since I feel dirty having PUT do so much, so incorrectly.
To an extent. I think tech experts have a tendency to get carried away with consequences, and I think some tech/legal issues are deceptively legal-heavy and tech-light, such as unauthorized access.
They do, but in $20,000 there are 4,000 individual lower thresholds. It's much, much less likely that any one event will cause all of them to quit - all other things being equal, which they never are, so with a grain of salt and all that.
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That is actually likely to be a valuable bit of demographic data. It's one of the rare pieces of information that indicates altruism, along with charitable giving. Many advertisers would like to be able to target organ donors.
Neat, what a pity that real hacker news gets under-appreciated!
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Any recommendations on VPN Providers?

EDIT:
I saw this further down:
https://www.getcloak.com
The problem is that what you want can't be had within an MVCC framework. To get what you want, you really need global, thread-safe mutable data. MVCC instead gives you multiple parallel universes that spring into existence and then disappear, possibly making indelible changes on the next parallel universes to be created in the process.

It boils down to two problems. You can't be sure you're the only transaction in progress, and you also can't "take back" a sequence number. If you could guarantee you were the only transaction, you could just use COUNT. But since you can't, you could have two transactions in progress that both get the same COUNT result and you wind up with two "Chapter 5"s. You can put a UNIQUE constraint on that table, and then one of your transactions fails that constraint. That way you retain integrity and you get (at least for a while) sequential numbering, but there is no in-database way to ensure that a sequence of numbers has no gaps. This is because to do so would be expensive but also not really relate to data integrity.

The purpose of PostgreSQL sequences is to reliably generate surrogate keys. That means every transaction in progress gets a separate ID from that sequence. They all have to be unique because they all might commit. If they rollback instead, it doesn't matter; those become gaps, but nobody is failing the UNIQUE constraint.

What are you going to do to seal the gap when you have two transactions in progress on the same sequence and one of them rolls back? Are you going to pause the other transaction and propagate some kind of decrement to the other transactions? What if I inserted that ID into another table or called a globally-visible stored procedure (sent an email, for example)? I'm not certain it would even be possible, but even if it were, it would clearly be extremely expensive, and therefore, probably not a feature you want on by default.

So I hope that explains why this is not "in scope." :)
That was oddly fun. My best time was .283 seconds.
+1.

Also, consider setting a price that cuts out the vast majority of demanding cheapskates but keeps it salient for the rest. $200 is a good starting place. You can also achieve this by charging for the entire year up front instead of monthly billing.
Markets that require detailed interaction with customers are a minefield.

I can't see Apple wanting to be there.

Consumer telecoms is a brutal, low-margin business. The service providers are doing them a favour by being there, because they shield Apple branding from the nastiness of the domain.

[Edit: I removed some references to Google while I was mulling on it. Can't quite remember what it said, but I expect notatoad's feedback was in-spirit]
Donor status is not a sticker in CA, it's imprinted on the license and IIRC I signed a form affirming donation during the process of getting the license.