skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I wasn't a fan of the article because it used an attention grabbing title which had nothing to do with the article. I get it, she decided that there was an alternative path to self fulfilment, more power to her. This could have been a great read if set in the correct context, but what on earth does this article have to do with Google?
Maybe for engineers. I don't know if it has that rep for account managers.
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Perhaps you're firing so many people up front because your policies only attract weird people willing to put up with them?
If I may float a counter argument (that I personally don't happen to support but fully appreciate): As we move towards socialized medicine, your body becomes less "yours" and more part of the collective. If society pays for the results of how you use your body, it seems logical that they should have some say in that use.
Apart from the other excellent answers, there just isn't that much fissile material there. The amount required to fuel a bomb is significantly less than the amount required to fuel a power reactor - it simply wouldn't be economical to recover the fissile material, purify and downblend it.

Note that there is a separate program that takes excess weapons HEU from Russian stockpiles and downblends it for sale as nuclear fuel. This is the "Megatons to Megawatts" program, and it has downblended almost 500 tons of HEU since 1995.
Those arrests cause broken families and drive away potential employers. The arrests are absolutely key.

If anything, keeping other drugs illegal while legalizing marijuana would provide a transition period for those impoverished drug dealers, a transition period that would be unavailable if the whole deal fell with one blow as he seems to desire.
What are you talking about? The article explains why she left Google, the company she was working for, to do something else. It's pretty accurate as titles go.
A counter view http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.in/2009/01/gentle-i...
Okay, stupid questions.
- To what extent are mechanical engineers using these sorts of things?
- Are there texts discussing the design / selection / integration of movements to perform particular tasks?
- Are there are texts like that targeting application to Arduino driven robotics? Mindstorms?
This is how I know I am old I create a symlinks in my home directory to oft used locations and get there with
cd ~/linkname
Has the added bonus of making my short path be ~/linkname rather than ~/some/very/deep/pocket/in/some/git/repo
Thanks! I'm a big admirer of your work, so it means a lot to me to hear that. I wrote up a little bit about this if you are still interested: http://blog.rzimmerman.me/how-kal-compiles-itself/
Surely that person is in trouble, or will be once the relevant bureaucracy gets back on Monday morning. This is just a huge embarassment, and exactly the opposite of proper security analysis. But no one is going to admit that externally until all the internal work has been done.
Who are you to judge? Nowhere in this article did the author say 1) he's not enjoying life, 2) he considers it an actual crisis, 3) he doesn't appreciate what he has. He had a realization and decided to share it with others.

So people aren't allowed to think critically of their lives if they pass a certain income threshold? Who gets to make that decision? While I agree that we should be happy if our only problems are "first-world", we can still strive to improve ourselves. This article in particular made me realize maybe I should turn my AC off more often. I (or a charity) can do a lot with an extra $50 a month.
An Open Reply to Zooko and Jon
I appreciate your well-thought out reply, but I was simply referring to the tree of comments responding to my own original comment. Asserting that further discussion was (and is) moot was neither a non-sequitur nor based on inconsistent evidence.
Within the context of the article, it's pretty clear that it could have been _any_ company of size, and she would have had the same response. When you title something 'Why I left Google' but your actually point has nothing to do with Google (or any large well known brand) the most reasonable term is 'Link Bait'.
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Also, I hope 'Emrakul' has learnt a lesson to take all security reports more seriously and is working on improving his/her communication skills[1]?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6230027
The impression I had from the article is that they're soliciting new projects that make use of the broken Kepler. It's not completely cactus, it just can't fulfil its original mission anymore.

This strikes me as an excellent thing to do - if they can find a project that can fund the ongoing costs of Kepler, then it makes sense to reuse it.
> In us there is a shared language of representation that encodes experience.

What you express in the quote above is a very "computationalist" view to AI. FWIW, in contrast, I'm more of a "connectionist" [1]. This means that when I look at the same incredible "general intelligence" of humans -- this almost "synesthetic" ability to abstract and connect ideas -- I do not see a powerful translation and symbolic reasoning machine with some seemingly magical universal language buried deep within. In fact, I believe there can be no such language without severely compromising the reasoning system's generality.

Instead, I see a powerful "connection machine", where concepts, thoughts, language, etc. are all the result of some incredibly versatile connective learning/creativity process. Of particular importance, I see this connection machine thrive and prosper within systems where there are no axioms, no ground truth, no single agreed-upon notion of what separates "this" from "that" (you'll see this in humans when studying philosophy). The analogy to this notion from a computationalist perspective would be a machine whose instruction set, or core reasoning language, is always in a state of flux.

I will freely admit though that one view does not necessarily have any more explanatory power than the other; they both rely on some "magic" unknown assumptions. For a connectionist, the "magic" is the connective learning algorithm. For a computationalist, the "magic" is in this universal language/symbolic system.

Disclaimer: I'm by no means an AI expert (still have a lot more to learn!), but I always enjoy thinking/discussing these topics and the surrounding philosophy.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectionism
I thought tortious interference only applied to contracts?
Given a choice between winning anything for free, and not winning, the choice most people would take is obvious.

The point is that "doing better" comes at a cost, and unless you live in a society that taught you to value that above other things, it's pretty hard to understand.
just pay the guy, it's $4k.

the language barriers are enough to justify any mistakes made in conforming precisely with the t&cs. he didn't abuse the hack. he reported it to you. pay him tbh.
The government runs propaganda campaigns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Youth_Anti-Drug_Media_...) to convince people like your mother that drugs are the worse thing imaginable. Those people then turn around and support the government in its opposition to drugs.

So why do they want to convince the public that drugs need to be pursued in the first place? If they were merely responding to pressure from the public, then that would be one thing, but they are fueling that sentiment. They want the public to think that way.

Do they want to sway the public because they are themselves 'true believers'? Or are there less noble motivations?

I suspect it is a combination of both.
I've never seen any airline be that gentle with loading / unloading luggage. Every glimpse I've seen has made me glad I never pack anything fragile.
Ok, so trolling around I've not found specs for reaction wheels. Lots of descriptions of what they are, how they work, etc but no specifics on building one. Given that this type of product is so critical to space operations (The ISS has replaced several, so has Hubble, its like the oil-filter of space or something) Seems like either a more durable item or some sort of cartridge system where you can have like 20 spares ready to go, eject one and slot in a new one or something.
It seems they would have a lot less incentive to do so if they were planning on attacking first. But thinking about it, that logic seems flawed since if they were planning to attack, they couldn't be 100% sure to destroy the ability for a retaliatory attack, so second strike ability was needed anyway. Ok, never mind then, you are right.
...now off to get software some Pepto
I've visited SV a few times and the impression I got is that a lot of it is all of the worst parts of suburbia turned up to 11. Lots of strip-malls, largely unwalkable and concrete as far as the eye can see.

That's not all of SV, but quite a bit of it.
The floor is more like 370k$.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Distribution_of_Annual_Hou...

http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/20/news/economy/top-1-percent/i...
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If you're using `ci` as just a semaphore, you should use a struct, since those use even less memory than an int in go.
I honestly hoped it was something about leaving Google as a customer. For example, in the past week, there was an article about Google stating that email stored on Google's servers isn't "private". I hoped there would be other, relatively technical, reasons behind a "break-up" with Google.

That's why I clicked the link. I still think it belongs on HN because it's something readers here would probably be interested in (not me though).
the war on drugs has worked great--for the big corporations that make money off the drug war (security, prison industrial complex etc) and the booze and pharma industries whose profits are being protected.

Just like all our wars, the drug war has been fought for the benefit of corporations and their rich investors.

The USA has always been operated in this way. It was never meant to benefit the people. Just investors. That principle is outlined in the federalist papers and other seminal documents associated with the formation of the USA.

Same as it ever was.
I like the idea, but doing so still adds a great deal of complexity to a supposedly simple design and adds a large amount to the size of the printer if one accounts for the use of legal paper.
While I wouldn't mind settling on a standard paper size, the design still leaves a great deal to be desired. It appears to be more of a gimmick than anything.
Interestingly, popping open a new Firefox private window showed my tracked data, but after closing the window it was all reset (even though I had the tab open in a normal window the whole time). I'm guessing closing the private window erases any 'dirtied' cached files?
I understand you don't trust the NSA, but the viability of what it takes to make a bomb is just basic well understood physics. There's no conspiracy there. You either have enough mass, at a higher enough level of enrichment and you can force them to go critical or you can't. For Uranium you need over 100lbs to build a basic gun type bomd, what's terrifying is how little Plutonium you need. The Fat Man bomb needed just over 6 kg of Pu. So a little less than 14 pounds, and that was with 1940s grade material. The USSR got pretty good at making good quality Pu.

The trick to keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of someone is the security of the material, its hard to enrich. Its not hard to build the bomb. Enrichment is really really really hard. And its currently impossible to hide that your enriching. So you basically secure the material, and look out for people trying to make it. Thats how all non-proliferation works.

Nothings hard about the know how, everything you need to know is in the public domain. And dont forget, pure fission bomds are 1940s tech.

It's not a big secret how to build a simple gun type bomb. You don't need much precision for that. You get enough HEU, and it's game on. You get the right shaped Pu and a few other items, and you have an even higher yield bomb than that of the HEU bomb. Again, 1940s technology is all you need.

Fusion bombs, yes much harder. But who needs that when you can build a Nagasaki yield bomb?
I rarely comment on HN or post stuff here and the response to this post is a reminder of exactly why. The negativity is mind boggling. Here is someone with an exceptionally told, brilliantly written, truly moving story of why she left a secure, outwardly perfect life to pursue something she personally found actually fulfilling.For everyone sitting pretty on their comfy couches, know this is not easy. Staring at your bank account and seeing it getting close zero to everyday, while dealing with the all the shit that comes with pursuing your dreams is truly gut wrenching.You know the lights are about to go off, and you are giving up everything for it, and you are desperately trying to keep going. THAT is not easy. It takes guts.

I honestly think HN needs a 'Be Nice' Policy like Quora. I love writing, sharing and commenting on Quora because people are genuinely warm, cordial, friendly and very very constructive in their feedback. On HN however it seems there is a race to see who can post a more Snarky comment. Sad !
What more could she be doing right now to change herself?
We get it - San Francisco is an awesome city, but the mob mentality with which Peter Shih's post has been attacked [1] should be a matter of shame for us San Franciscans.

If our city is truly so great, then we don't need to affirm it with a thousand blog posts. I love this city, but it's in spite of all the issues that Peter mentioned in his blog. Let's recognize that we live in a great city, but let's not turn the city into a religious icon that cannot be criticized.

1. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/16/peter-shih_n_376850...
It's like she made the reader experience the same confusion.
So, this inspired me to collect similar data on my laptop. I'm collecting a few more data points, internal battery temp, individual cell voltage, etc. I'm estimating 30-60 MB/year at 1 minute intervals. My script is available on GitHub here https://github.com/mikegrb/Battery-Logger
I set up a web server with a friend. We had no idea what we were doing and it was wonderful.
Ask HN: What is up with these awful albums in Rdio's heavy rotation section? 
The current number two top album on Rdio is "Jazz for Dogs" by Little Robertson. It's also on iTunes (see here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sniff/id668974536?i=668974736) and other music services. I assume it's on Spotify as well.

The album itself consists of 50 songs each exactly 30 seconds long. The songs consists of what sounds like midi being played without any sound fonts installed overlaid with random sound effects of dogs barking.

Song titles include: 'Woof Woof!', 'I Love Bones' and 'Slap that Liver Treat'.

Jazz for Dogs is the most recent addition in this style. Other albums include 'Where's My Chenny' (seems to be based on the movie Commando), 'Three Magi' and rather amusingly 'A Kim Jong Christmas' (featuring the song, 'Deck the Halls with Capitalists').

I understand theirs a lot of terrible music being self released now, but you've got to understand that all four of these albums are rating higher then say Daft Punks 'Random Access Memories' or Kanye Wests new 'Yesus' album.

I'm guessing that it's some sort of spam (they get paid per play?) does anyone on Hacker News work at Rdio and can explain what's going on? Or if not, I'd love to hear some theories on why these albums are ranked the way they are.
I chose my words carefully.
maybe if your idea of giving expects something in return in which case...

also if you sort of prioritize some social connection to supplying money, or you try to think about it with a strategy

. . . is that giving
That's because she wanted you to get a feel of the process she went through. The frustrations that she felt and how exactly the AHA moment happened. Even the 'Staring at the stars' story you scoffed at has a message. When you are stuck and having trouble figuring things out, stop for a moment, get a change of scenery, that just might do the trick. Clearing out your head like this, as cliched as it sounds, is a remarkably effective way of figuring out the tangled web of choices ahead of you. I guess you just got bored and missed the point entirely. Pity !
The point about Google in particular is that it regularly tops the lists of big companies to work at when it comes to people in our field: workplace perks, project choices, flexibility, quality of engineers, and probably more reasons that have been gone over ad nauseam. There is a lot of status associated with being a Googler, and she talks a bit about that.
bstrand mentioned net worth, not annual income.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/measuring-the-t...

The linked article, states a floor of $8.4 million, which is ~ $9 million.
So what does this guy gets for reporting one of the most relevant bugs that could have exploited the privacy of a billion people? PEANUTS!

When the top guys behave like this about rules, it clearly shows a lack of conscience. Rules are made to keep 99.9% of mess at bay.

This guy invaded the privacy of say 1-2 people that too to when the relevant authorities didn't respond in the correct manner, and saved the invasion of privacy of millions at least.

And what privacy? only a relevant post (not a spam) on profile of the company's biggest authority.

Yeah someone probably died of laughter from that post/ breach of privacy... So DUMB!
People occasionally scoff at "money doesn't buy happiness", but it's an incredibly true statement.

There are homeless people who are objectively happier (and often, healthier) than some of the richest people in the world.
How to you define absurdly long? How does the size of the cookies compare to the size of the image in an add banner, or even just the *.html file?
The first nuclear bomb ever used in combat, "Little Boy" dropped on Hiroshima, was of a design that was previously not tested, a gun-assembly Uranium bomb. Pretty much anyone with modern off-the-shelf machine tools and enough HEU (which is the tricky part) could make such a bomb fairly easily.
No, you just refuse to think about the larger picture. I went out of my way to say that this person wasn't deliberately harming anyone.

You're acting as if there's no precedent implicated in Facebook learning of someone violating both their normal ToS and the terms of their bug bounty program by compromising someone else's account, and then paying them a reward.

You're wrong about that.
From a government systems point of view, it is a cross section. The White House isn't about demographics, it's about process.
The Chinese can't turn branding into a commodity.
I suppose you're right,
I'm behind a VPN. Is that why it doesn't work in my case? I'm using Chrome (not even incognito).
Bogus article. If you read the actual patent ( http://www.google.com/patents/US8254902 ), the quote about some police activity requiring complete blackout conditions is actually in reference to the screen brightness, not the cameras. One aspect of the idea seems to be that the phones OF THE COPS would be able to go dark in response to a central command. It has nothing to do with turning off the cameras of citizen-journalists.

(jwz nails it here: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/08/oh-noes-apple-has-patented-b... )

Here is the full paragraph from which the misleading sentence was yanked:

> Excessive lighting emanating from wireless devices can also create disruption in dark environments. While it is well known that excessive or bright lighting in a movie theater can spoil the mood of certain movies, excessive lighting can also become a more serious issue in other contexts. For example, darkrooms used to develop film can only tolerate very low amounts of ambient lighting. Some biological labs also require low levels of lighting in certain instances (for example, as in the growth of light-sensitive bacteria). Covert police or government operations may require complete “blackout” conditions. A person's sleep can even be interrupted by a bright flashing or modulating display (such as to indicate an incoming call).
Saw this when it was retweeted by John Carmack.

I've been guilty of future coding before and it can turn out exactly like the OP says. You only want the best for the codebase but it turns out to be wasted effort.
It is. There's been a big program to do just that called "Megatons to Megawatts": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatons_to_Megawatts_Program
The amount of process and rules the White House deals with is not confined to the demographics or where the population is. NYC has a fraction of the overall rules and needs of a state like Arkansas. The absolute number people are not the determining factor.
They do. Decommissioned HEU is downblended to LEU levels for use in power reactors. You dont need that level of enrichment for a power reactor. About 5% enrichment is all commericals reactors use. The program has been in place since the 1990s and is running to this day. It's called Megatons to Megawatts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatons_to_Megawatts_Program
I figured this out yesterday while working on a client's site. Apparently FF private mode still uses existing cache. If you had files from the site cached before opening the site in private mode it will still use them.

This seems like a pretty big issue to me. It defeats private mode.
Your mind is far more powerful than Photoshop
Why making iOS run on unsupported devices is bad
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I disagree. Not every company is Google -- both internally, as an employee, and externally, in people's minds. If your thought process goes, "I am a software engineer; I want to be the best software engineer I can be; Google does the best software engineering on the planet; QED," then it intensely matters that her story involved Google.

Spoken from experience.
" Encumbered, he cannot move and is stuck in this pose. Then an official painter, who paints his portrait, arrives, then a second painter, who paints a portrait of the first painter painting the hero, then a third, and so on. Everyone chatters in the light, the ribbons, the dogs, the easels. With great pageantry, somebody brings the painter a mirror so that he may gaze at himself. "

Beautiful. I've never heard of this one, though I'm a french native speaker and was quite interested in post-ww2 literature during my twenties.
Never "lean in" - In praise of laziness
I feel this needs a ridiculously large citation needed. It is trotted out a ton, but I can't help but hear the lyrics from Everclear's "I will buy you a new life"

I hate those people who love to tell you
Money is the root of all that kills
They have never been poor
They have never had the joy of a welfare christmas
Shouldn't make a difference, unless your VPN does its own caching or strips ETags.
White, middle-class kids might not be targeted as minority kids are, but I don't see how they're helped.
Perfect! I couldn't have even visualized that. I just saw gears and didn't even think about a rod off that.

Another thing that would be interesting is to know when some of these came about (some are older than people might think [1]).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odometer#Ancient_China
But will it bring back hemp? America lost a billion dollar crop when it lost hemp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp#Uses