skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a containerized standard for moving data around. It's called TCP/IP.

What you're developing is a containerized standard for moving understanding around, manipulating data in a relatively standard way while still maintaining its context.
The conviction can get notoriety in the security field, but as any criminal, black hat hacker, or just coder will tell you....it's ALL trial and error. Where a conviction may benefit someone is if they are doing their own business...as far as employment.

An employer may be hesitant to hire a criminal simply for the liability they presume over their employee. I can get a job fairly easy in coding since I have no restrictions on computer usage and some employers are amazed by my crime (google my name Michael Largent), but I'm a little different than maybe this individual (I get anxiety attacks sometimes).

As for me and employment, I've been through interviews some employers in the field will offer me a position, but coding is more of a hobby to me than a profession. I run my own business, because my conviction affects my self-esteem though...so I can't speak for others. I'm an awesome coder, but am afraid of rejection, so sometimes I won't apply for a job or I'll pass on a job offer.
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> I have a bit of a strong reaction whenever societal problems are linked to racial differences.

Except that I'm not talking about problems at all. I'm talking about the original question, which was "Why are Scandinavian countries doing so well?" Or put differently, "Why the hell aren't they having our problems?"

Or, the most actionable, "Should we copy their policies? Will those policies work for us?" And as Obamacare has helpfully demonstrated, the attempt to do so provides fuel for the fires of divisiveness. "Sweden did it" isn't a sufficient argument; we need to know why Sweden did it successfully. (For healthcare in particular, it's probably more helpful to look at the UK, since there are fewer differences.)

> I don't follow your arguments about the relation between democracy and populations of ethnical minorities at all. All countries that participated in the Colonial Age built strong democratic structures.

Denmark and other Scandinavian countries are generally accepted to be the strongest bastions of democracy internationally (when you ignore American patriotic "we were first and best" arguments, anyways). We, in this discussion, haven't come up with a useful measure for saying "strong versus weak democracy"; I suspect that I'm more strict than you are, but I also suspect that my notions are inconsistent, since the whole point of this is that I'm saying "strong but fragile", which smells contradictory.

Here's the thing: democracies are really, really hard when you have highly heterogeneous groups. As soon as that heterogeneity becomes a point of contention, your democracy is going to face some severe trauma. The last hundred years of American domestic politics have literally been a struggle with the fallout from the Civil War. For a different example, see Sudan. Or rather, Sudan and South Sudan.

> Because Denmark lacks this large muslim population a national paper actually dared show the images, with backlash from the islamic world as a result.

And this is my point. Denmark's democratic structures are held up as a guiding light for other nations. But if we actually look at how they got there, it's not because they successfully navigated the traumas that resulted from heterogeneity; it's because they never had to.
Possibly you should work harder to understand the world rather than expect the world to conform to your ignorance.
How do you like the program? I tried Nova Southeastern Online masters just for one course and it was horrible quality. Do you think the program was worth your time?
> And then the big company, having run out of market segments to expand into, dies rapidly. Happened to IBM in the early 90s [...]

Um. IBM has a $230B market cap. Apple is at $400B, Google is at $300B. Is that really the example you want to give for a "disrupted" dead company?
"Pixelated bukkake?!? Sooooooooo random XD"
A little bit of an issue on that one. He reversed his position a little while later and said that it was just about that one word. In that same statement, he advocated the use of a drone to kill someone who robbed a liquor store of $50. I shit you not.

See http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/23/1204296/-Rand-Paul-...

(article is biased liberally; I'm more of a moderate but it's where I saw the information.)

I'm happy that he actually used the spoken filibuster instead of hiding behind rules-based filibusters (which have been the cause of some of the worst obstruction in our country's history), but I no longer hold the belief (as I did right after his filibuster) that it was some sort of principled stand.
You can still get a lot of bullying mileage out of a law nobody is even intended to follow.
Thank you so much for this absolutely awesome reply. The thing is: I totally agree with what you say, also definitely on what should be done next, e.g. defining structure.

I dont' believe in "the battle of armchairs". I would rather do philosophy in the same way we develop software: iteratively, MVP, POC…. That's why I put up a couple of ideas as an experiment. And your answer already proves that in a small way I was right! Thank you. – I will do as you advised and develop these thoughts in a iterative way.

Regarding the domains: I personally think that Metaethics is among the most important intellectual subjects of the future. If you understand why and under what condition people consider stuff good or evil, you can predict how people behave in minor and major scale, what makes them go to war or buy products. Metaethics is too important to leave it to philosophers who mostly are clueless about math, software or the scientific method. And that is why I a) reach out to hackers, and b) have reserved the domains.

Again, thank you. Your answer alone has made this little experiment a success. :-)
They offer best perks, rewards, and customer protection (at the cost of the merchant who accepts them).
There are some really great rewards for using it, moreso than other cards.
It's better to just use an autoformatter like clang-format. The miniscule time you'll save reading the code with clever formatting is going to be wasted in arguments with fellow contributors about how clever the formatting is and whether it's appropriate.
They charge more in fees, and also pass on more as cashback/bonuses/prizes to customers.

For example, a visa/mastercard might be able to kick back 1~2% for cashback. American Express might be able to go 2~3%.

This is also why a lot of places don't accept Amex, the fees are higher and from the vendor's perspective they offer nothing in return.

PS - The whole credit card system is too expensive, and inefficient, but that's what happens when three or four companies run the whole game.
No — my boyfriend of 4 years is also an entrepreneur and we both understand the demands of the business. My startup is stronger due to his support and help as well!
For me, who has also pushed through hundreds of thousands of business dollars, it is all about the rewards program.

It was not uncommon for me to receive several thousand dollars of Home Depot and other gift cards per year.
That's okay. Beautiful drawing. :-) BTW: what do you mean by "should"?
Would there, in fact, be as much harm in crossing it?

What I mean is.. if societal norms change such that, say, nude photos are no longer considered important - because everyone has nude photos online, after all - is it still as much of a problem?

Most of the psychological issues here are highly cultural.
It's funny how title has changed to be a flame bait now. Glass is one of the new things that Google is introducing and at the Google IO where you expect Google enthusiasts, why is it surprising to see a lot of Glass wearers?

Glass of course has privacy issues and I will not be comfortable speaking to anybody who is wearing one. It's at least 100 times more nerdy as the Bluetooth headset but those issues aside, you should totally expect to see these at Google conference.
WebRTC without a signaling server
I don't recall if the paper specifies the frequency ranges used but my implementation was bound to audible frequencies. I was going to use hill climbing search to find optimal frequency ranges but came to the conclusion my implementation was too flawed regardless. If I looked at the two graphs side by side(compressed vs uncompressed) they looked nothing alike. For example, the peak might be in the same region but it would be shifted.
Pushing them away seems reasonable. Punching them in the face both escalates and doesn't actually get them further away from you.

And if you are seriously worried about someone solely because of peeking then you need to learn how to handle that worry.
Here's a great link that talks about data from these seismometers: http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/home/15mar_moonquakes_prt.ht...

Some relevant quotes:

'There are at least four different kinds of moonquakes: (1) deep moonquakes about 700 km below the surface, probably caused by tides; (2) vibrations from the impact of meteorites; (3) thermal quakes caused by the expansion of the frigid crust when first illuminated by the morning sun after two weeks of deep-freeze lunar night; and (4) shallow moonquakes only 20 or 30 kilometers below the surface.'

...

'Furthermore, shallow moonquakes lasted a remarkably long time. Once they got going, all continued more than 10 minutes. "The moon was ringing like a bell," Neal says.

'On Earth, vibrations from quakes usually die away in only half a minute. The reason has to do with chemical weathering, Neal explains: "Water weakens stone, expanding the structure of different minerals. When energy propagates across such a compressible structure, it acts like a foam sponge--it deadens the vibrations." Even the biggest earthquakes stop shaking in less than 2 minutes.

'The moon, however, is dry, cool and mostly rigid, like a chunk of stone or iron. So moonquakes set it vibrating like a tuning fork. Even if a moonquake isn't intense, "it just keeps going and going," Neal says. And for a lunar habitat, that persistence could be more significant than a moonquake's magnitude.'

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Edit: Aha! I wonder if it was Werner Von Braun who first said the moon "rang like a bell." That was the search phrase I used to find the above. Here's a really cool article by him in Popular Science from 1970, talking specifically about the impact from Apollo 12's Lunar Module [2].

"The object of the deliberate crash was to see what the instrument would report to earth, and the result astounded scientists. The moon rang like a bell!"

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/home/15mar_moonquakes_prt.ht...

[2] http://books.google.com/books?id=VQEAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA62&#...
Show HN: Forward your email to check into Southwest flights
> This actually sounds rational and not hysterical - well done!

Nice choice of words: http://etymonline.com/?term=hysterical
Printable A3-Sized Solar Cells
You are more than your job title
I always have to root for Texas, but aren't there quite a few VC-funded companies in Austin?
Certainly, social-psycology isn't as certain as hard sciences. One problem, is that in some ways, they are much more complex than the hard sciences. So, to reach the kind of conclusion and laws that you get in hard sciences, they need much more data. Certainly, we can't draw any firm conclusions from this one study, but doing a bunch of similar studies, over several centuries (note that this study took 75 years), might lead to the start of social science becoming a hard science.
Sometimes it's the technologists who are the most resistant to technological change. I sometimes get annoyed when Google displays results other than the 10 blue links, and tries to correct my searches when I'm searching for info on APIs, but I recognize that I'm in a minority and most people would benefit from more hand-holding.

Put another way, you may be comfortable enough with computers to remember what directory your files are in, and handling backups manually, and all that. But my mother, despite decades of my attempts to the contrary, is not and never will be. And far more people are like her than me (and, I suspect, you). I think this is what Larry Page is in part talking about when he invokes the idea of the 1-percent-of-what-we-could-be-doing.

Take a look at my colleague Sharon Vaknin's test of Google Now vs. Siri. They're both remarkably capable by the standards of even three years ago, but unlike Siri, Google understands context. "How tall is President Obama?" <answer> "By what margin was he reelected?" <answer>
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57584898-285/google-now-...

I'm echoing what ender7 wrote above, I think, but you can't have a useful conversation with 10 blue links.
Tim Cook is "Charisma-Challenged"
"I worry that it could be a waste of time"

It's education. If you want to stay 20 years in this industry, you have to invest in your education. Don't worry, just do it. Solving the problems would make you a better problem solver.

"I feel that most prospective employers don't really care about that, though."

That's right. Most prospective employers don't care. Don't work for them. If you have to, read my last answer.

"In otherwords, is SICP worthy of a CV bullet point."

Yes, really good developers would appreciate the effort. Employers won't care but the senior developer taking your technical interview may appreciate it.

"I should be focusing on more practical projects before looking for a first job."
Yes, you must do that. Nothing beats showing a perfectly operational website. And depending on the profile you are targeting it can be a Android game or Web game or scraper or anything. Don't worry your github profile yet. Once you start building stuff it will come alive.

You can also check out https://www.udacity.com/ for some practical courses. They are taught by awesome people and are free. All these courses focus on a project to teach you basics of computer science. And you get real world skills.

1. Building a Search Engine - Introduction to Computer Science - https://www.udacity.com/course/cs101

2. Building a HTML5 game - HTML5 Game Development - https://www.udacity.com/course/cs255

3. Building a Blog - Web Development - https://www.udacity.com/course/cs253

4. Building a Browser - Programming Languages - https://www.udacity.com/course/cs262

5. Building blocks of any non - trivial software project - Design of Computer Programs - https://www.udacity.com/course/cs212 .

All the best learning CS, building things and contributing to the world.
> The US consumes a lot of resources because it still produces so much of the world's GDP.

80% of US GDP is "services", not a real production.
NUODB 1.1 RELEASE FOR MICROSOFT .NET AND AZURE
Lemonad: a functional JavaScript library
+1 for Minneapolis. I pay pretty close attention to the start up scene here and things are starting to move. The Minne* Organization (http://minnestar.org/) does some nice events.
Which major Web companies help safeguard your data?
It appears Google, LinkedIn and, especially Twitter, take their user's right to privacy seriously...at least when it comes to providing it to government officials :)
Peer grading.
For classes that can be tested for correctness automatically I don't see any issues. But when your class is on writing, and you get peer reviewed and graded ... you risk getting random grades+feedback.
> I don't think anyone would seriously advocate using awk for complex projects these days,

Never underestimate the power of intellectual inertia, and the lengths people will go to in order to continue using their favorite tool - no matter how poorly suited to a task it might be. ):
I use my Amex personally for both the rewards as well as extra consumer protection. Example: I recently had to re-purchase a plane ticket three times due to extenuating circumstances that the normal travel insurance would not have covered. American Express refunded both tickets from a five minute phone call. Buying the tickets with Amex saved me $1k.
Open Knowledge Graph from Google
ever talked with open-mic stand-ups about why some jokes are funny?

love it when a business professor analyzes why something like this game is so successful
I’m sorry, but your comment is quite confusing. Would you mind clarifying your points?
I'm not being facetious. I don't know anything about the implementation of the JVM or its byte-code, and was hoping to learn a bit. But...

1. How was I supposed to know 0x19 was the relevant byte to look at? I know there should be a load opcode somewhere, how do I know it was that 0x19?

2. What's going on between the load opcode, and the actual string data about 120 bytes apart?

3. Is looking up the definition of an opcode from a list really a mnemonic device?

Maybe that last bit was a bit facetious.
This is GREAT. Any way that it could be purchased for download? I am headed to the Congo and won't have internet. Thanks!
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WorkerJS: Making it easier to write concurrent, clustered Javascript
Sure. But if it did, it could sell more ads.

Everything Google does is about ad sales. Self driving cars? What are you going to do when your car does the driving for you? Consume media of course, with ads all over it! Etc, etc. Which is not a good or a bad thing in and of itself, it's what they do, like McDonald's sell hamburgers. The question you must ask yourself is do you want Big Mac and Fries for every meal?
It seems like I may have missed the point or that this struck a sensitive nerve for a few people but I just found it mildly funny. I'm not sure if the piece was supposed to be anything more than a bit of satire and a friendly jab at Google.
I'm just ducking in to take a leak; removing the glasses would double the time it takes, and the dev pair I tried didn't seem to fold up like regular glasses to slip in a pocket, so what, I'm expected to carry around a Glass purse to stash them in? I'd rather they implemented something to make it very clear when Glass is recording--make the big plastic bit that holds the lens glow red, something like that--so everyone would take the signal that I am not recording them, just happen to be wearing it.

Also, we already have a social convention in place for this. You don't look at, speak to, or otherwise acknowledge other people in the bathroom, except so as to give them appropriate space. Everyone in there is taking care of private functions; if everyone follows the convention, we all get a maximally private experience.

Convention already dictates that you shouldn't be rubbernecking at the other urinals; even talking to someone else while at the urinal gets you labeled as "that guy" among the people I know.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/3002
28 USC § 3002
(15) “United States” means—
(A) a Federal corporation;

Yes, they're enemies of many corporations.
"We still support Eclipse" Android Dev Alex Ruiz
EAT Your HEART OUT CIA
I see what you did here. I had the same idea, but you beat me to it.
Austin has traditionally been home to "lifestyle" firms. But there are increasingly firms which have VC funding (from Austin Ventures, etc)
Google has done just that:

1. When DOJ sent Google a subpoena for search logs, Google fought it in court, while Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL did not: http://news.cnet.com/FAQ-What-does-the-Google-subpoena-mean/...

2. Google is lobbying to change federal law to require search warrants backed by probable cause and signed by a judge for stored cloud email (and Google Drive, Dropbox, Flickr, etc.) files, a privacy protection opposed by the Obama DOJ:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20123710-281/google-facebo...

3. Google began requiring police to obtain search warrants for email after the Warshak decision nationally, even though it was binding only in a few states. So did (from memory) Facebook and Microsoft.

4. Google became the first tech company to disclose information about FBI warrantless data acquisition through NSLs in March, and in April became the first tech company to challenge their legality in court:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57572634-83/google-offers-d...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57577958-38/google-fights-...
One day you'll make a claim on your health insurance, and having bought your search history, your provider will say "pre-existing condition, denied".
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I enjoyed using an earlier version of Linux Mint, but the default gnome-shell UI had a massive memory leak ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/930402 ) which was never fixed and "upgrades" to the next version are wipe-and-reinstall. So, I wiped it and installed Ubuntu 12.10 which I dist-upgrade to 13.04 without incident.

With no support and no upgrade path, I don't see what the draw is.
Thanks for your answers.

Incremental search isn't too bad once I found out about bind and the other key bindings, as the arrow keys are some distance from the home keys.

Lack of Alt+. quickly became annoying. It's so useful; meanwhile, prefix search isn't a significant improvement over incremental search, and I usually know ahead of time whether my command is in the history or not, so being prompted an irrelevance is more annoying than having to type Ctrl+R in readline. I disable auto-completion in browsers, Google etc. for similar reasons.

You're right about not much else. Command substitution is the only thing implemented, not subshells or process substitution. I probably exercise my shell more than average, so I don't think fish is feature-rich enough yet for me.

It's a good thing the design goals have been updated to remove "a large performance decrease [...] is acceptable in order to improve [modularity]". That would have been a total killer. Process forking is often a performance limitation for me in the shell, so I strive, wherever possible, to use the builtins that fish so proudly spurned.
AnyPerk (YC W12) Expands Concept of Employer Driven Discount Clubs
I had the same objection as the op actually - if you wake up at "rest" with just yourself and a bed, and accelerated away from the bed, you can in fact know whether "you are moving" or "the bed is moving". It is because one of the two have only been in 1 reference frame, while the other has been in 2.

Basically the same issue as the twin "paradox". I can appreciate the assumption of a constant velocity on wake though, as a way to simplify the story.
Fly your own flag.

Non-Billionairism's:

Semi-sovereign anchor-out afloat community in the fabulous great Northwest over a century:

http://www.againstthetidemovie.com/

...and we're still here.

Billionairism's:

https://medium.com/weird-future/e6fa8f16f92b
I don't think you can accelerate in an empty universe - no speed, no speed difference.
Most people do not think it through that way. They probably don't think God is a physical being, and they probably don't have a very specific idea about his location, but they definitely think he is viewing the universe, wherever he is.
>>Companies like Samsung, others and etc are managed by idiots.

Spot on!

Been there, seen that, met them and lunched with them.
A religious non profit that I support uses decommissioned shipping containers to build "super kitchens" in poorer countries. They are able to ship an entire self contained kitchen to a site, and get it set up in (relatively) no time thanks to this standardization.

If interested: http://outsidethebowl.org/?page_id=61
Why would Techcrunch write about Vevo in Polish?
I can understand using force to prevent someone from touching you inappropriately. But that has the huge caveat that you must have reasonable evidence they are going to touch you inappropriately. Them standing and staring is not good enough.

Punching someone on the train for standing in your way is not reasonable either.