skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read portions of the manifesto, like the one you mentioned, and I'm not claiming that I have a full understanding of all of Kaczynski's arguments, but I don't think I deserve such a vacuous and condescending response. I'd like to hear what you think is wrong with what I said.

I do know that he specifically focuses on how technologies gradually advance so that we're forced to use them. He refers to this as "control" and describes how technologies don't seem harmful independently, but as each technology forces itself upon us, the combination becomes more and more controlling, until we're completely controlled by the whole. It's as if technology is slowly chipping away at the foundation of freedom through compromise, or something like that.

Now, what I said was that he focuses on the controlling aspect of what were at first seemingly innocent technologies that were absolutely beneficial, but he doesn't see the increase in freedom that the same technologies provide over the long term. Yes, there are stop lights, roads, licenses, and jobs are further away from home, forcing us to own cars—but at the same time, you can go anywhere you want within hours instead of days. Is it controlled? Yes. But even with the control, the total amount of freedom the individual has is now increased, because one is no longer confined to a small area.

Kaczynski uses the neighbor scenario—there are two neighbors, and one is more powerful than the other. This more powerful neighbor asks the other to give him land, to which the weak one says "no." So the powerful one offers a compromise where he only gets half of the land he had asked for. The weak neighbor can't refuse. This goes on and on until the powerful neighbor has all the land. My argument here is that while the powerful neighbor might be taking away land, the big picture is that the powerful neighbor is also offering the weak neighbor lots more land somewhere else. Yes, technology takes our traditional freedom (the already established plots of land), but simultaneously extends our freedom in new directions (new plots of land). Kaczynski only views freedom as something that can be subtracted but not added to.

Perhaps I understand his arguments incorrectly, but this is what I've gotten out of what I've read. If you don't agree, go ahead and explain what's wrong, but don't just make an empty claim like that.
It's true, but I don't know what the norms of that community are, so I wouldn't want to criticize.
The chrome extension is pretty useful, the auto page scroll reduces the annoyance.
Wait till it threatens trucking unions
Highly Interested!
Murder almost always is defined to include premeditation (malice aforethought). So you're in the clear, along with most every government employee in the world.
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Bill: http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1251-1300/sb_129...

Overview: http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/legislation/2230

As for why it passed 37-0, it's almost all upside; all the data indicate that it can only reduce the externalities of vehicle usage (pollution, accidents), which externalities are already very well documented and understood. Even where the technology breaks down, a single point of failure (autonomous driving system) is far easier to analyze, budget for, and litigate from a product liability point of view. Google is much more likely to be a rational actor than an aggregated population of vehicle users, and risk premium can be very easily calculated for the number of vehicles that are deployed. As adoption increases, the roads are likely to get safer and faster; my only real worry would be about whether manual driving would be restricted and penalized. Then again, since I don't have a car that's largely an academic concern to me. I used to enjoy riding a motorcycle but I feel fairly confident that an automated driver would do a better job than I would over the long haul.

The other big reason is economic; with all the data pointing towards automated driving as the wave of the future and the leading commercial innovator being here in California, and California facing a $16 billion deficit, the prospect of Mountain View becoming Detroit 2.0 for a global market is a no-brainer. California has also been quietly stepping towards building an electric car infrastructure: Gov. Brown used his powers to take a windfall legal settlement related to the CA power crisis a decade ago (think Enron) and apply it to the construction of charging infrastructure without needing to get legislative approval. http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=17463

I'm thinking that automated clean vehicle swarms are the increasingly-credible strategic alternative to high-speed rail in California. I really like trains, but the HSR project looks like a fiscal, bureaucratic, and legal disaster. If we can slash the costs of driving then we could probably cut down the cost of vehicle construction, not to mention creating an entirely new set of goods for manufacture. With reliable automated vehicles, you don't necessarily need people to drive them, so pickup and delivery could essentially be done by autonomous large wheelbarrows instead of needing to have cabs on the front for humans to sit in.

Also, Johnny cabs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjRXyWFLkEY
This looks like the next iteration of Moxie Marlinspike's Convergence[1] project.

For anyone who doesn't understand why SSL for browsers as deployed is broken, a quick exercise is to look at how many CA certificates come trusted with your favourite browser. For example, Firefox trusts the "Hongkong Post Root CA". This means that anyone who has access to the signing key can claim to be any SSL site. So they could issue a certificate for www.gmail.com which would allow someone to transparently intercept all your traffic.

Certificate Pinning is a very good start to somewhat mitigate this.

[1] http://convergence.io/details.html
Configuring a rails application server (stack install to ssl)
They're all inspired by Agile, and the way it avoids large specs in favour of lighter processes like ... index cards, and moving them around on a board.
Thanks for the feedback. We (Heroku) have been wondering if people would prefer that.
Sure - I wasn't intending to imply any "false advertising" (and apologies if I did). I just saw a real parallel with local (Australian) school taught history of the gold rushes in the late 1800s - a few people got rich mining gold, but a lot _more_ people got rich selling shovels and camping gear to all the people who _didn't_ get rich looking for gold.

Another notable modern example is Apple and the App Store - sure Rovio "struck it rich" with Angry Birds, which Apple "only" skimmed 30%off the top, but how much _more_ money do you suppose Apple has made as a result of Rovio's success spurring on many many imitators? (all of whom pay Apple $100/yr + 30% of whatever success they manage)
How long before certain tolled roads mandate autonomous cars, citing safety reasons.
if it is, did you report it to Ename,their registar?. That's where you have to post it. Not here! Everybody knows these sites are phishing.
Soylent green?
That can't be it, for obvious reasons.

[edit] though I do suspect they might be instances of SIRI unintentionally using Apple's idle clock cycles to troll online messageboards. Which may also explain 90% of youtube.
Why Javascript? It's a picture.
The thing is, your method is NOT a good heuristic.
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Love it. Especially the companion article about the proecess to set up thetoolbox.cc

Well done!
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Totally understand :)

I'd say I'd like to help, but it's been 5 years since I've used any Java. My only decent languages are scripting ones - python and php as well as JavaScript (mediocre).
Somehow, this just makes it not a ketchup experience for me any longer. I want the ketchup not to flow and to use my super powers to make them flow.

Makes me wonder if some things are meant to slow us down to enjoy them more, whether it's getting ketchup out of the water, eating more purposefully with chopsticks than wolfing down food, or thinking through a design before hacking.
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Americans were never excited about space exploration.
How would a startup measure the effectiveness of an interview practice or calibrate off of candidates' responses if they don't put it into practice based on the experience of other companies/people?
Yeah when I read "personal Heroku" I was thinking something along this line: https://my.cloudfoundry.com/micro
The harassment incidents to me honestly don't seem to be the most relevant part of the lawsuit. HR ignores your complaint, yes it is wrong; people make mistakes occasionally, it isn't a lawsuit situation, it's a "send another complaint" situation (or "contact the director"). HR repeatedly or even systematically ignores complaints and you start to have to do something about it.

But the unequal pay, promotions, projects, and participation? That is a rather unequivocal situation.
Here's a link to the non-mobile version:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/ff_counterfeiter/al...
I'm available to write the Android version. Email [redacted] if you would like to see some of my work.
From your profile ;-)

"Curiously, I'm always looking for a way to slay pain points, get more done with less effort for everyone, and build great experiences."
Now go read the hardware compatibility list: http://www.menuetos.net/hwc.txt. It only apparently supports 4 network cards, 2 audio cards and a handful of video cards, and all of them are very old tech.

It's essentially a niche operating system, and isn't going to do 1/10th of the stuff that one written with "bloatware" is going to be capable of. I mean, look at what it has for a browser: http://www.menuetos.net/098b3.png
Had the same experience in Australia, you could buy your lunch but it was more a once in a while or emergency thing. Quality was fine as the low amount of orders were all done by hand.

Once thing looking back I think we should have had, access to a fridge and microwave, would have allowed for more options and given kids a bit more responsibility.
I'm saying "better" does not equal "successful".

AMD lived for years in Intel's shadow and barely scraped by, surviving only because they were willing to price their chips lower than Intel wanted to. Their success came only when Intel fumbled and, to their credit, the Athlon series of chips was in its prime. I'd argue they were only successful at that point because they were better and cheaper than the Intel chips at the time which were unusually under-performing and over-priced. They were only cheaper because they had years of experience in surviving at the bottom end of the market. They also marketed like their life depended on it.

ARM is something of an anomaly. They were as much as left for dead, with conventional wisdom thinking one of Motorola, IBM or even Intel would run them over like a bug on the road. That didn't come to pass because none of those companies ever seriously committed to building a modern but very low power CPU. They squeaked through a hole.

To credit NVidia with the success of 3Dfx is misleading. It was the Voodoo card that was marketed aggressively to consumers which, at the time, cared little for 3D performance. NVidia picked them up at a yard sale when they were run out of the market by more successful companies like ATI and, at the time, Matrox. It was NVidia's acquisition of 3Dfx that showed they were serious about the consumer market and not just ultra high-end applications. Making one GPU for both consumer and professional markets gave them the edge to remain competitive.

All three of these companies got lucky. They say you can engineer your own luck, and with that I can't disagree, but they never had a "better" product until the other guy dropped the ball or they could crack open a new market.
Yes, I meant the linked article.
Yeah I’ve seen him devise recipes to fit within budgetary constraints. He found it very challenging because the budget is like 40p per meal or something ridiculous like that. So he’s well aware of the problem. I think one of the things he campaigns for is more funding.
Yes but can you request 'all internal emails for the last 3 months' or something as broad as that?
while the "spyglass" idea is nice, i'd prefer having at least some kind of client encryption in order to avoid the trust issue mentioned by ChuckMcM.

ZeroBin (http://sebsauvage.net/paste/) did an excellent job regarding that topic imo.
Last I checked, Google has a strong history of only using its patents defensively. I believe that's a good sign :-)
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TACK benefits from Convergence, but isn't based on it. It also doesn't require it. Convergence could be used as a source of information on existing pins it has seen, but TACK is still useful even if it's just supplied by the website itself.

Think of it like ssh known-hosts, but with the added feature that the server side (sshd) can securely tell you to stop using an old entry in known-hosts and use a new one instead when its server key changes.

Also, TACK is not certificate pinning. It's public-key pinning (the thing inside the cert). You can change certs all you want without changing the public key, and the same TACK pin will be valid for all of them. This is better than cert pinning since you can change CAs without having to redo all your cert pins.
At the same price point and power consumption? Then it'd be worth recompiling, for sure.
Makey Makey; Make an input device out of anything
All of the things in that post use HTTP. (Though SOAP doesn't require HTTP). Did you mean REST? Even then, people often don't get it right, and it's still not as nice a language specific API. (er, application specific api)
That is only 430 gigabytes or so.
It's a great idea but I would be very open and transparent about the deletion policy for the notes.
Awesome work Hong! Get it get it!
But wouldn't IQ, education, etc. be factors in whether someone would even make it into the YC class?

If investors are not concerned with these factors, should they be relevant in the YC (or any incubator) application process?

(I realize asking this may be stirring a hornet's nest, and to anyone reading who is offended I apologize, but I am sincerely interested in the mind of the investor and their evaluation process.)
Heh, I just looked on your site. The plight of having your domain as your email. :)
>a small C module that would call Python code

Seems strange to me. Seems like for a lot of this, where it's often HTTP based anyway, you could implement much of it in C without it being a complete nightmare.
No, the major benefit of virtual memory is simplicity for applications.

Instead of having to be aware of everything else in memory, and carefully allocating around other things and taking care not to step on each other, it can just assume that nothing else exists, and it has the whole addressable range to put things where it likes.

This isn't really true of course, it's a bit like being given a magical chest-of-drawers in which both you and your friends can use the same drawer, but every time you open it, it only has your own things inside. And behind the scenes, there's a little imp shifting stuff in and out depending on who's pulling the handle.

The virtual addressing part is the sharing of those drawers, the swapping part is if, instead of having only 4 drawers, there are now 8, or 16, or any number. If you open one of these drawers that doesn't actually exist, the imp rummages around in a bigger box in the next room, finds it, and fills whatever is meant to be there.
He also sedates you if this happens, so the change appears 'instant' to you.

Because going into the other room is slow for him (and also you, but you might not necessarily notice because you're unconscious) he keeps a bunch of the most recent or most common things around close to hand on his side of the drawers so he can swap them quickly. Every time you need something that isn't nearby, he has to take something out with him to make space, and come back with the new thing.

There's a reasonable argument that this latter part (swapping) can be optional - you don't really have infinite memory like you're pretending, it's still limited to either the amount you can address, or the amount you can store in your secondary storage. And, comparatively, the secondary storage is really damn slow. But, for those occasional times when you just pass the limit, being able to handle that without crashing or the kernel arbitrarily nuking something to make space, it's useful.
Ok, perhaps I wasn't clear, perhaps as you say because "thick skin" is relatively ill-defined.

To sum up my point, if you don't tolerate abuse and everyone knows this, then saying "What so-and-so said wasn't really out of line. Please be more professional when taking criticism" is credible. When you personal attacks and trolling, it isn't.
Working link: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4102695045342.2181...
The context is on line #2: * All the files in this repository are copyrighted by Airbnb and not in the public domain. This individual has posted them without our consent. (It is an interview programming problem we use and we don't want people searching for a solution online).*

(I had to read the notice a couple of times to err... notice line #2)
Just... sick! Wow. Speechless.
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I wonder if companies will embrace this as a boon to consumers or if they can actually quantify how much money they would lose because people can get all the product out. Also the article has no information on how much the coating costs, or what kind of changes to the manufacturing process you'd have to make (like having to store the bottles somewhere post-spray to 'dry' or something). I also wonder if, in the case of the open mouth ketchup bottle, it actually makes the experience worse for a full bottle by pouring out too fast?

In any case, it's cool and I'm actually excited for the other applications of it. Seems like an endless stream of cool stuff comes out of MIT.
Is this some sort of revenue stream? Is there a business model? Does it help ANY startup? We can all capitalize on stupid, but come on, why is this posted and upvoted on HN?
Are they sure the girl friend is pregnant... I've been caught out before.
This is amazing. Now when I hit the ketchup bottle really hard forgetting it has a non-stick coating my plate can be covered in a whole bottle of ketchup thus making the ketchup company more money when I have to buy another bottle.

I like hitting the ketchup bottle to get the last bit of sauce out, especially when I do it for my girlfriend. Now what chivalrous activity will I have left to do for my girlfriend? What's next, easy open jars? our manhood is being taken away!
That is one way to control the population in Kalifornia.
Driving mobile app installs with the App Center
Just a question but is School Lunch free in Scotland ? If everything is subsidized you can't seriously complain about the quality of food, imo. If you were paying for it (and I don't mean through other taxes, but paying directly for it) and still got something as poor as this, certainly you could complain.

It's the eternal debate between leaving your responsibility as a parent to feed your child and taking the matters in your hands. In Japan there are still a fairly high percentage of mothers (even working ones) who prepare meals for their kids going to school. That's caring.
Haha, nice.

Ketchup that comes out on it's own is akin to a plastic squeeze bottle; already done.
looked through your comment history long enough to determine that you aren't a troll.

Not everything on HN has to be about startups. (This isn't "Startup news"). HN just is about things that are interesting to hackers.

Seeing that technology is helping to bring a stolen device back to someone is interesting to hackers.
What I would like is a way to do more graphical programming, like this: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=reaktor&ion=1&... or this: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=reaktor&ion=1&... (which latter includes both C-like and assembly code modules, as well as extensive GUI manipulation capabilities).

When I was learning to code, and still sometimes, what annoys me about typing is that I don't know what I don't know. With graphical programming, having predefined modules with discoverable inputs and outputs encourages me to try connecting things together on a what-if basis to a much greater degree than a textual environment. This is what I find very attractive about the way Light Table is going; a lot of the time I want to build things but not necessarily to write code.
Will you be releasing the source code for those of us who are a bit too paranoid to give read only access to our paypal accounts?
"We'll pay you $1,500 per year to drop your LinkedIn account"
"We'll pay you $1,500 per year to drop your LinkedIn account"

Employers pay big money to recruit people. How about they start to pay their employees NOT ot be on LinkedIn to stop the recruiters sniffing around.

Does anyone think we'll start to see employers paying employees to "disappear" from sites like LinkedIn?
If some company was smart, they'll lock in an exclusivity agreement for at least a few years, and advertise the hell out of it. VERY easy to make a TV commercials around the topic of not-wasting food and saving money - two big wins for advertising.
The first half of your first sentence answers the second, doesn't it? You could ask exactly the same questions with regard to John Brown - another classic American figure.

The supposed distinction between the "moderate" and "extremist" left is wildly overblown. There's no social exclusion, etc, in either direction. Nobody cares or is surprised about President Obama's association with Bill Ayers. Or, for that matter, Thoreau's with John Brown. Again, there's really nothing new here.

(I do think it's appropriate that in the nation of John Brown, we all need to walk through metal detectors to get on an airplane. Nothing could be more American than terrorism.)
Oh jeez... I wish I could just assume you were trolling here.

Virtual memory: This is used to give every process a flat and consistent address space. It is not just a synonym for 'swapping', and it will be around forever.

String instructions: Seriously, are you just making it up as you go along?
http://www.strchr.com/strcmp_and_strlen_using_sse_4.2

Custom opcodes: Usually done via API's that have an emulation or compatability function, DirectX, OpenGL for examples.

LOCK existed: The article describes an atomic compare and write, not just a LOCK. In fact, MUTEX is implemented with the compare and exchange instruction in most OS's. http://marc.info/?t=113443157800005&r=1&w=2

I believe the no execute bit is a very recent addition to AMD64, and is not available at all on x86.

Vector operations and such: Have you not heard of MMX, SSE or even graphics cards?

Either I'm feeding a troll here, or you have no clues available to you.
A note regarding the burial of the above because it's inconvenient:

These are the facts, they speak for themselves. The data is the latest from May IDC, and the revenue results are the publicly announced data from the last quarter from both Samsung & Apple.

The only thing you're burying is your head in the sand.
> Moore's law is very much rooted in photolithography which is a 2D process.

I don't see that "root".

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

It states a doubling time. (That page is about number of circuits, but there's another "law" about fab costs.) It doesn't specify a technology or geometry.

That doubling-time changed about 2005. Maybe 3D would change it, maybe it wouldn't.

Note that cubes of active elements are harder to cool than planes.
HTTP Header Security usage in top websites (or lack of)
The 90's called, they want their browser back