skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I fail to see the point why a Drone is somehow less appropriate than killing with a rifle or dropping a bomb from a manned cockpit? Is there anyone in the world that actually thinks one is somehow worse than the other?

"To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder." - Albert Einstein

Agreed, Albert. Drones included.
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Time sensitivity is becoming an issue for SO, but I would think that's a reason to leave time sensitive questions open rather closed - so they can be continually updated.
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> Not to mention that they've yelled tyranny! at every minor administrative tweak, regulatory change or appointment for the last 6 years...

More like 4.5 than 6, but also for an 8 year period starting about 8 years before that, too.
It relates to some patches for openstack.
Right. Because by doing that he is sure to greatly increase the value of his organization.

As I understand Hacker News (... this is just my opinion ...) it is a forum for people who want to found companies based on technology and grow them big, and the people who want to work for them or with them on those ventures.

If your mindset (as a founder or as an employee) is that the CEO's job is to "destroy career aspirations" or otherwise exhibit PHB-like qualities, then that's not an attitude worth keeping. Why? Because if that's how you feel about CEO's and bosses in general then you'll end up being a bad CEO/boss or working for bad CEOs/bosses.

The job of a CEO is to build a great team, secure them the appropriate resources to do great things, and make sure they are motivated and focused on a shared set of goals.

In other words: the main job of a CEO is to advance the career aspirations of his most talented employees--because that will create value for the organization in the long-run.
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And who exactly was responsible for making that huge change?
a) District 9 was a great movie both as entertainment and as something to think about

b) having grown up in South Africa, Blomkamp may have some unique insights about human nature.

it's certainly interesting to contemplate what's going to happen.
Probably a good candidate for a debate on whether the slippery slope is real or imagined.
Solid advice here. I'm going to address numbers 2, 6 and 7 with an alternative:

A really good recruiter can help with all of these things, except 'really good recruiter' seems like an oxymoron 99% of the time.

I'm a former recruiter turned tech entrepreneur, and my company, Mighty Spring (https://www.mightyspring.com) launched in private beta a few months ago to solve this problem.

We're a web app that let's you control the recruiting process. You spend <5 minutes setting up a profile, and then see a job board that is matched specifically to your background afterwards. With one click, you can indicate if you're interested in being contacted about a specific job. If you do, someone from Mighty Spring will reach out via email to schedule a call at your convenience.

We help coach you through the rest of the process with the company - including assistance with negotiation - without you ever having to formally 'apply'.

The other side of this is that we'll also create for you an anonymized pitch of your background that companies browse. Companies request to interview candidates based on these pitches. If they’re interested, they can request to interview you through the site. This means that if you're only passively looking - aka, ‘would consider the perfect opportunity if it happened to come along’ - you can field incoming requests without employers ever knowing your identity unless you choose to accept the interview request and speak with them.

All in all, it’s similar to what recruiters do today, except you manage the relationship, not the other way around.

As I mentioned, we’re in closed beta, but would be happy to expedite invites to the HN crowd. Feel free to email me with question as well (email in HN profile).
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These drills do have a nasty habit of going live sometimes.
Part of their strategy is also to conclude that almost any murder is a suicide, which artificially inflates those statistics quite a bit.
I stumbled across this the other night, it's very much worth the watch, especially when they talk about how big the factory they bought is, and their future expansion plans
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I'm not sure it would be valid. At a million g's, I'm a liquid. But most people would broadly speaking classify me as a solid (albeit one containing a lot of liquid).
These are all really good ways to increase value in your business relationships. I feel like I've learned them somewhere also, but I couldn't say where -- maybe TV?
Google Maps just annihilated an entire 141-square-mile island
I get "Edward Snowden" as the first suggestion after typing as little as "edw".

edit:
I'm in the US; My browsers aren't configured to use google for address bar/search box searching.
I may have explicitly searched for Snowden via Google at some point, but I don't really use Google for search anymore, so that feels unlikely.

Searching directly from www.google.com, I get the suggestion at "edw".

Though searching from news.google.com, I don't get an auto-suggestion, even if I type out "Edward Snowden" in its entirety.

Amusingly, at "ns" I get "NSA warrantless surveillance controversy" as the first suggestion.
I don't know why you got defensive, I'm far from saying apple is perfect, no system is, you just need to know what YOU want, I'm all for variety.
Drill baby, drill?

Oil may be cheaper in terms of immediate dollar costs, but by using it you sell our future down the river.
> What happens if the valets find illegal items? Do they then call police? Isn't this the kind of thing that US defense lawyers love?

Unfortunately, haven't you implicitly agreed to the search by choosing valet therefore it is a legal search? I thought anything the TSA (legally) finds is useful in criminal prosecutions.
Rick Falkvinge Schools Pirate After Botched Leak of Swarmwise Book
Looks like he was an #ifihadglass winner: http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=1047&...
Oftentimes where I've seen duplicated content marked, the question suggested doesn't adequately or fully answer the new question, which may have an advanced or updated (or just different but valuable) slant.

Keeping only the first iteration of a question is seriously detrimental to SE.
Another note on #3 - if you want the interview to remain positive, asking the interviewer what they like about working there and why they joined the company will pretty much guarantee that things will take a positive turn (unless the person shows signs of regretting their decision). It should also provide some insight into environment, as most in tech have that as a high priority and will immediately talk about their environment if it is positive.
I always liked this quote from Carter on his legacy:

"We kept our country at peace. We never went to war. We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a bullet. But still we achieved our international goals. We brought peace to other people, including Egypt and Israel. We normalised relations with China, which had been non-existent for 30-something years. We brought peace between US and most of the countries in Latin America because of the Panama Canal Treaty. We formed a working relationship with the Soviet Union."
Google News search box, or browser search bar? I am finding that the former is behaving like the parent comment said, the latter like you say.
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The TOS probitis reselling, loaning or transferring.
"Excellent question!" to any experienced interviewer means, "I have no clue, but I won't admit it!" I immediately dislike any candidate who does it, and vastly prefer the two seconds of silence. If silence is intolerable, "Hmm" is better and pretty natural for engineers.

Further good points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6063790
I wasn't aware of that. Sounds cool - I always like to play with the available options in the software ;-)
What are you talking about? The only thing I can think of is British racing green, and that's a bit of a stretch.
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You must have previously searched it, or maybe aren't in the US? I get the same result as the parent comment though. Very odd.
Where is the Tesla Coil?...
It must be nice to get Pando to give your company a big sloppy wet French kiss like this. If you're the company, that is. If you're Pando it's just embarrassing. (But then you're Pando, you're probably used to embarrassment by now.)

> Maddock claims his employees get paid “above average” salaries in the Philippines for business process outsourcing (known as BPO in the Philippines) work, but he didn’t want to reveal exact numbers. He’s concerned TaskUs employees might get disgruntled to see where their salary fits in the pecking order.

This is a weirdly written paragraph. I can't tell if he means that TaskUs doesn't want to reveal salary figures because he's afraid his employees would be mad if they found out what they were paid relative to each other, or relative to other workers in BPO in the Philippines. But either way, it's not encouraging -- if he was paying fair wages, you'd expect him to be trumpeting that fact, not hiding it. So he probably isn't...

> Without the numbers there’s no way to fact-check how these outsourced employees’ paychecks compare to cost of living. But the success of TaskUs seems to require that its employees are happy and fulfilled enough to do good work.

...Oh! So it turns out the numbers don't matter after all -- we can just assume from the fact the company exists that it pays its employees well.

I guess that's Journalism 2.0™.
I think you missed pdog's sarcasm.
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ah, it's actually a competitor..
"Further, no intelligence service - not even our own - has the capacity to compromise the secrets I continue to protect."

I currently suspect this to be false or a straight up lie:

=================

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/snowden-dead-mans-s...

"Snowden, a former systems administrator for the National Security Agency in Hawaii, took thousands of documents from the agency’s networks before fleeing to Hong Kong in late May, where he passed them to Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald and documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras. The journalists have handled them with great caution. A story in the German publication Der Spiegal, co-bylined by Poitras, claims the documents include information “that could endanger the lives of NSA workers,” and an Associated Press interview with Greenwald this last weekend asserts that they include blueprints for the NSA’s surveillance systems that “would allow somebody who read them to know exactly how the NSA does what it does, which would in turn allow them to evade that surveillance or replicate it.”

But Snowden also reportedly passed encrypted copies of his cache to a number of third parties who have a non-journalistic mission: If Snowden should suffer a mysterious, fatal accident, these parties will find themselves in possession of the decryption key, and they can publish the documents to the world."

=================

From the sound of it, you can compromise him by expedient of killing him.
It's hard to say how much of US defense/aerospace costs are due to..."overcharging" though. Also, it looks like the US had a hand in engine development for the initial experimental versions (P.1127). Costs were shared with West Germany as well (from harrier.org.uk). From the wiki:

By the end of 1958, barely eighteen months after the start of the project, all the main features of the P.1127 were developed with one exception, the reaction control system - this was resolved by April 1959.[6] As the P.1127 had been developed at a time of deep UK defense cuts; Hawker had to seek commercial funding, significant engine development funding came from the U.S.[4][7] Wind tunnel tests conducted by NASA Langley Research Center using a sub-scale model showed acceptable flight characteristics.[4][8]

I'm not sure how nimble and less wasteful NASA is, or even if it would be considered "cheap", but their X43A project costs were about 27 million 1958 British pounds ($230M US in 1997).
Your perspective is just as naive as this guy's, just in the other direction.

If your employees are so happy and you are so confident that they won't leave, might as well publish their resumes and contact info on your website.

If you're afraid of 'poaching' you should just... you know... treat your employees with respect and make sure they are happy with their job

Even if you have happy employees and you are treating them with respect, you should be afraid of them being poached.
This is terrible but honestly the majority of Americans will not know much less care that this happened. Most could not even name their mayor. If you asked most American's what Yemen was they would probably think it was some sort of fish or something.

We need a leader. Like a MLK that can rally us to fight for stuff like this. Though I appreciate all the efforts that Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and the rest of the black leaders do. If stuff like this continue we will all have bigger problems then overzealous neighborhood wanabe cops
Playing chess with his Dad's lieutenants then :-)
Always ask intelligent questions! It is worth it to explore the company in the news/on LinkedIn/etc in advance, to be able to ask smart questions.

Here are some generic questions you can always ask:

- What technology stack/environments do you use?

- Do you use any methodologies, like Agile?

- Do you do any code reviews, mentoring, training, lunch & learns, etc?

- How flat or deep is the organization? What is the org chart/hierarchy like?

- Who would I report to? Would I be part of a team? How big?

- Would I be mostly working on internal projects, or customer-facing? New, or maintenance?

- Will I have lots of freedom to choose projects or do we mostly work from the backlog?

The general theme here is to act like you already have the job and are going through orientation so that you can be the best employee ever. This shows that you ar einvested, interested, and proactive.
Can't you create a feedback loop with sensors, an android app and the mirror api? I know it's a kludge, but if your mobile app posted data to your web server, your glass could poll it that way. Of course, the data and battery life concerns only get worse...
It was interesting that here the robot that installs the seats also installs the windshield. It has changeable adapters for working with objects.
You clearly have something against Osborne.

The UK government are investing the money. Osborne is the Chancellor of the Exchequer, why is it strange that he would be mentioned in the article as having a look at it?

He's only getting political flak from socialists and welfare claimants really - no surprise there.
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https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/357802100224294912

A guy quit for his own reasons, no regrets.
But we were able to see the true motivation of GitHub.

https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/357803844790530048

Sites like GitHub allow to index, make the stats,
the actions of the dev community

NB: the second one is not in proper French so I translated literally do not make much sense in any language...
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He should run for President or something.
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Still looking forward to the movie.
Well, if A/C was invented to get away from other people, it failed miserably. How many times have I gone to the movies, or an ice cream shop, or an indoor mall, to enjoy their A/C? I am not the only one either.
I love Jimmy Carter
Nope, assuming they designed it for scientific rigour. Without observation, it would be impossible to say, for instance, that some external force (vibration, wind, mischievous students) hadn't caused the drip to form or fall/break off. The experiment didn't reach a firm conclusion (to some level of certainty) without observation.
Just because it's lawful under the Constitution doesn't mean that it's not threatening rights: the US Constitution isn't perfectly complete, nor indeed even perfect in what it does cover.

The term 'rights' is also a vague one, and can be split fairly easily into those which should be considered universal and those which only apply locally -- for example, I have the right to walk across the road even where there's no designated crossing point, while in the US that would be jaywalking. That's not a universal right and certainly not a constitutionally protected one, but it's a right that's been removed from US citizens (and for good reason too, in some places). On the other hand, I would say that the right to life should be universal. The US is still largely happy with the death penalty and (per an earlier story on HN) the US Government seems to think that extra-judicial killings are fine too. They are apparently lawful under the constitution, and also threaten American citizen's rights.
Your comment makes it quite clear you haven't actually _read_ the article.

> The director finds it unfortunate that observers are already drawing parallels between Elysium and the Occupy movement, a phenomenon that he says wasn’t even a consideration. Blomkamp identifies as neither liberal nor conservative, which doesn’t stop people from ascribing all sorts of agendas to him and his films.

and

> But Blomkamp insists Elysium isn’t some sort of filmic Paul Krugman op-ed piece. It’s important for him that his movies grapple with things that matter, in this case economic disparity, immigration, health care, corporate greed. But he disdains prescription-happy “message” movies—that’s what documentaries are for, he says—and intends Elysium to be first and foremost a mass-appeal, summer popcorn flick. Allegory, satire, and dark humor interest him; providing pat answers to society’s woes does not. “Anybody who thinks they can change the world by making films,” he says, “is sorely mistaken.”
There are a lot of weaknesses in the design that haven't been worked out regardless of the technical merit of the engine. Reusable vehicles are tremendously expensive and Sabre has to peform perfectly not only on the engine but the vehicle as well to get any return on its investment.

Although the sabre is more efficient operating in the atmosphere than a conventional rocket engine the vehicle itself will have to spend the cost of having wings, strengthening the vehicle to operate in several orientations on ascent, operating in the atmosphere for longer than a conventional rocket(which costs fuel and requires the vehicle to be shaped in a way that just isn't as efficient as a conventional rocket), and being able to withstand reentry temperatures(more weight) not to mention not being able to get rid of dead weight on ascent. The reusable components of the engine also weigh a lot more as well. If you go through everything it doesn't look like that great a win; and that is if everything works perfectly.

The space shuttle never came close to its projections and this vehicle is far more technically ambitious in every possible way. I just don't think that their projections of even $10-15 billion in development costs are even remotely realistic. Last time I checked their business plan suggested they could break even if satellite launch costs didn't come down and the volume of launches of large satellites increase.
The only goal of the TSA is to prevent attacks and find busy work related to this. With such a goal, they try to find as many ways to search as possible.
That's a pretty sweet expression. I may have to borrow it for myself. Do you know who said it originally?
really useful!!
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Yes, and excellently stated. In any organization, power will be captured by those who are most interested in capturing power. Wikipedia and Stack Overflow are no exceptions.
Your version of me is detestable, but it isn't what I'm really saying. I think you should be able to appreciate the nuances of my point. When a person in a particular line of work says they're going to work on different projects, you interpret that differently than if they say they're going to retire. If someone is not retiring but simply choosing not to exercise their talents, they're being selfish. I am not saying he's an asshole for not doing C&H anymore. I'm saying he's a hypocrite. That's fine, we all are to some extent, but there's no need to promote him to sainthood or work over everything he's ever said with laser precision to exonerate it. Sure, people run out. But sometimes people just get selfish and lazy, and just as creating something great once doesn't mean you necessarily have other great things in you, it also doesn't exempt you from having to live in the world, work like the rest of us, and deal with negative opinions.
I have heard that if you can get the interviewer to talk about themself for most of the interview, they will remember the interview going great, because everyone loves talking about themselves. I have not managed this myself though. ;)
Well, because of this tweet he takes a lot of backfire from other stories. eg IIRC a few years ago it was forbidden to host an IRC server on OVH.
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You called it. I don't normally react the way I did but that statement was just plain wrong in so many ways. Had OP said "I got a few back" that would be one thing. But "all of them" combined with the price (7 figures) made me react like that.
I often see quotes by Peter T. King in these articles saying things like that, or like - "no American Muslim leaders are cooperating in the war on terror,", or "80-85 percent of mosques in this country are controlled by Islamic fundamentalists .... This is an enemy living amongst us."

It's interesting to note that he was an actual terrorist financier:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._King#Support_for_the_I...
Richard Marcinko (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Marcinko) got into some trouble pulling this off in a physical security situation.
Before I rant, I LOVE reddit -- it provides me a ridiculously valuable service as well as some good chuckles and occasional deep thoughts.

After discovering reddit, one of the first things I realized was that signing up gave me a way to unsubscribe from the defaulted subs, most of which get really old, really fast; and this is when the smaller communities really shine.

As a new home owner, I routinely ask questions on /r/homeimprovement and /r/diy that get answered in a timely manner and normally by people with some level of expertise. I live in Seattle so I regularly browse /r/Seattle for the local happenings, etc. You get the point...

Getting defaulted is certainly more of a curse than a blessing for these communities. Sure, your audience skyrockets, but for anyone who spends anytime in an online community, one of the worst things that can happen is exponential growth past a certain point. I suspect the one that will quickly fall to this fate is ELI5, one of my current favorite subs. As much as I want to hold onto faith for it, I just suspect there is no way it will survive the 200 new members a minute they've seen since yesterday.
So true. As often as it's used, I'm not sure that there's a real consensus on what it means.
'spend more time talking than coding' - I always tell people who I interview to do that before starting to bang out code.
I am testing for 'problem solving ability' not raw coding skills.