skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tent works like email-- some users run their own servers, but most sign up for a service that handles it for them (like https://tent.is)
Are the input constraints (e.g. all robots move the same way at once with the same force) entirely in the presentation of interface to the user, or are there technical constraints that mean the robots all have to behave the same way?

Water can flow, or it can crash. To push the polygon to the right you want to flow past it to the left, then crash against it to the right. If there were a 'move without pushing' it would make the flowing stage a whole lot simpler.
Most of the times I ordered physical gifts, it worked great. But... Myself, and two other friends I've talked to have all had the experience of ordering a Facebook gift, and no order was placed with the supplier, or it took days for the supplier to receive the order. Of course, there's no number at Facebook to call.

It took me 3 days to get a response from Facebook through their help system.

Meanwhile, Facebook had already told my grandmother flowers were on the way. They even provided a tracking number that did not exist.

I wonder how much the lack of customer support played a role in the 20% physical goods number. IMHO physical gifts was a poorly executed feature.
The meaning of the "don’t be evil" motto is "We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served — as shareholders and in all other ways — by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains."

How changing an undocumented function, that was used to circumvent an SDK that is clearly marked as beta and "could change significantly" can be classified as evil is beyond me.

The problem is that people are using the "don't be evil" whenever they see something that simply bothers them.

Damn, they closed a bug in android that allows me to remove advertisement from apps! Google don't be evil!

They shut down a product that was offered for free for almost a decade! Google don't be evil!

So what adjective will people use if Google starts charging if you search more than 10 times a day, or obscuring the maps a few miles from the destination asking for a fee to see the rest, or blackmailing people based on data extracted from the mail? Google don't be.... evillest maybe?
The service was weird. I got a gift on my birthday... or more correctly... I got an email on my birthday asking me to pick which box of chocolates I wanted. I didn't actually get the gift for like a week. My birthday was over at that point. It didn't seem like a good model to me.
The long tail of startups will rarely need something other than a relational database because they won't get to a scale anywhere near Reddit's. It's not that others don't "feel" the same way; there's a reason all those technologies exist. If you want to know, go work for Google, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.
Quick FYI, there might be a problem if one tries to run Firefox concurrently:

https://github.com/dgorissen/coursera-dl/issues/81
"The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in "Metcalfe's law"–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's."

Paul Krugman, 1998
I don't really get the joke. Generally functional languages will share more data than imperative languages, and therefore will copy less data. In an imperative language, it makes sense to copy whatever data you are working on, so your modifications don't inadvertently affect other parts of the program. In Haskell it doesn't.

Explain?
Trying to avoid tracking probably is not a legitimate use case.
Apple's own iPhone Trade-In program?
Eventually they might probably encounter a person, a "troll-terrorist", who's demands would be not money, drugs or "release of brethren from prisons", but "introduction of even stricter TSA procedures". The authorities would be in a loose-loose situation, because if they tighten the measures, that would be the fulfillment of terrorist's demands, while if they won't that would be the ignorance of the terrorist threat. ))
I switched from making simple games on iOS to making simple utilities, it is so much quicker. Games require a lot, good graphics, unique gameplay, lots of testing.
Here comes my throwaway account for opinions that I suspect sway _WAY OUT_ of HN's comfort zone but needs to be said. I think the term "black culture" is in itself a problem because it blames the victim. The term "culture" makes people think it's something that a group of people chose for themselves. "black culture" isn't the same as "asian culture" or "irish culture". This thing we're all calling "black culture" is the result of slavery and continued racism in America. These are people who had their identity(African culture) ripped from them and left in a world of suffering and oppression. The result is what you see today.
If I had a magicwand that could go back in time and remove the whole slavery thing and today's casual & institutionalized racism, you wouldn't be seeing the problems black communities have today. At least it wouldn't be anymore than any other group.
Ah yes, such courage. No white southern male has ever had the daring to cobble together soundbite-derived factoids and unabashed generalizations into a complete theory about how everything could be fixed if The Blacks would just stop blaming everyone else and hiding from The Facts. This is certainly the first time I've seen it.
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> skilled laborers paid more than unskilled, and supervisors paid more than workers. Men were paid slightly more than women, but female supervisors were paid more than the men working under them. Young women received maternity leave and were paid money for each child they had."

It makes sense, people were paid for their ability to add to society. Men paid more possibly due to their greater strength; carry more, build more faster and women for having children.
I've been working a little bit on cryptography education issues and so have a number of people I know, but now I'm reminded of Lancelot Hogben's books "Mathematics for the Million" and "Science for the Citizen". Maybe someone will create their equivalents for cryptography!

"Cryptography for the 2⁶⁴"?
You mean Calepin.co?
Laugh as you might, but this is the interface of Datomic, the database system by Rich Hickey, the creator of Clojure.

To perform a query, you connect to a database and request the present state of the database. This is an immutable representation of the database at that point in time, and you can query it however you like, or even hold on to it forever. Of course, the database isn't actually fully copied.
i think it's the opposite

readable code is more likely to be correct, but correct matters a whole lot more than readable. How many times have you had to hack on JSON serializer internals or HTTP layer implementation details or database drivers or filesystem I/O. Probably never, and if you did take a peek, you would not be thrilled, because a lot of that stuff was written 15+ years ago.

readable code is a tool that good engineers use to arrive at correct code, especially in cases where we haven't iterated with the product owners enough to know what the correct logic is, or domains where the requirements are not well defined. But correct code is the goal.

This can also explain why some of the very best programmers insist on using category theory and monads even though it is infamously difficult for untrained programmers to read.

FWIW my perspective is large enterprise webapps implementing complex and poorly-defined business rules. Not like I'm doing linear algebra or device drivers.
Proven success in the past, a unique idea, and lots of progress on the game.
Risk has this same dynamic. Going head to head on main choke does nothing but let the other players come in and mop the floor with you and your opponent.
I am also flummoxed. Private short term disability insurance seems very common, but I'm not sure I've ever heard of private long term disability insurance.
Could it be that the tendency to preserve the coherence of one's views goes beyond self-worth? E.g., most people, I think, would try to avoid holding in their minds ideas which don't agree with each other. So, if your previously acquired ideas are already leaning this way, they may tend to oppose new ideas that are leaning that way.
> This is the first I'm hearing of it

Here in Germany it's pretty common.

I'm living in an apartment building where it is impossible to get a credit card. It's not only me - all neighbors I asked have the same problem.

Looks like one of our neighbors has a catastrophic credit rating and is pulling down the rest of us.

I heard similar stories from friends who were able to get a loan only after moving.
Thanks for the response; still a helpful answer.
Is there any good book about the history of Google? All the tech stuff like this seem really interesting!
You mean feudalists.

It's been a long time since I've read any pre-Columbian history, but I seem to remember that in addition to infectious disease, a lot of the South American empires were easy to conquer because the subjects generally hated their rulers, and the Spanish had no trouble finding indigenous allies.
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No laws whatsoever? So someone can buy childporn.com and charge people for access?

I know issues like child safety are often used for over-reaching legislation that's bad for everybody, but that doesn't mean there aren't also valid reasons for governments to be involved here.

Just because the current implementation is often shitty, it doesn't mean we should go the exact opposite way. The same way that disliking things like anti-terrorism legislation don't make most of us think "we need to get rid of all laws".
After upgrading to latest version of script, I was able to download this one, too.
the last thing any startup needs is 4chan's wrath.
Well, it isn't yet an end-stage Weimer Republic. I'm just saying that it could forseeably, possibly get there.

And while the US could implement many aspects of fascism (particularly government control of industry that is nomially help privately, which is alredy the case for telecom), a war for global domination is not likely one of them.
Well, I think the commonly held meaning is nonsense, and that it's commonly held doesn't really change that.

"almost every implementation of Marxism in recent history involved totalitarianism and ignored the part about decentralization of power post-revolution"

Then how are any of these an actual implementation of Marxism? There have been implementations of totalitarianism claiming the label of Marxism, sure. You might also said it got co-opted real quick, and that that still reaches into today, when people equate, say, Stalinism with Marxism. I wouldn't even want to guess the ratio of people having a negative opinion about Marx' ideas, and the people who read Marx.
In my country it's mandatory, but it's an extra paid for by the employer (much like mandatory social security, etc..).
And it's not just that. The Kindle competes with the Nook and Surface RT.
We've had a long time to prove that using automatic updates to remove features is a recipe for disaster. In fact, I seem to remember a certain company using forced updates specifically to remove users' ability to install other OSes on their devices...

Just because you can install another OS on your chromebook today doesn't mean you will be able to in the future. Get out now, or you are making a gamble.
It doesn't matter what you use it for. Encrypted passwords are simply not a strong enough single factor to prevent a successful attack. If you use FDE you should also be using a keyfob, thumb drive, etc. There's too many attacks on passwords alone, for example the most effective one, where the police compel you to reveal it. (Compelling you to reveal the location of a keyfob is arguably more difficult for them to do)

To be honest, I find it completely useless to hypothesize about why someone would attack a system, much less for something as silly as shared passwords. It's much less work to just attack the one account on the one system than to attack two completely different systems on the hope that the password is shared. And botherding/phishing to compromise accounts is much more simple & effective than trying to compromise a password database.
It's a sad place where someone has to create a sock puppet to say "I think slavery had complicated, long-term cultural effects which are often dismissed without a second look, and I think they bear closer inspection."
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Yes.

Been using Feedly (though tried a number of like products, but none were able to accommodate my large list of subscriptions or they were plagued with bugs, glitches and responsiveness issues). Even just plunked down $45 for a year "subscription" solely for Search but thus far, their implementation of "Search" leaves much to be desired -- it's not responsive ("incremental" searches can take 10 seconds or more, sometimes timing out) and search results don't go back any further than ~30 days.
So? Why shouldn't someone be able to use public information to publish their own ratings of your credit worthiness?

Nobody has to trust the popular credit rating agencies, and people are free to make their own ratings/certifications or start their own companies that do so (unless the government prevents that... which if so, is a problem with government not the rating agencies.)
Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks To Shape Our Lives
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1500 miles of driving with Glass: ‘Google Glass will save lives’
> Is taking a train a privilege, not a right? Driving? A bus?

Yes to all. If you're not quite sure how to determine if something is a privilege, just see if it's mentioned in the Constitution. For example, the "pursuit of happiness" is a US right. Driving a car is not (you need to get a license and that license can be revoked).

Just because you grew up with such conveniences doesn't make them a privilege, although they have the effect of giving a sense of entitlement to people who've lost sight of what's important.
Correct:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/18/facebook-acquires-karma/

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/27/facebook-gifts/

The latter article is very funny in retrospect.
Additionally, without X, employer faces a decent chance of being forced to choose between firing a newly-disabled employee, or continuing to pay their salary even though they can't produce enough value to justify it. With X, you avoid being forced to choose between two bad outcomes.
No, typically functional languages end up copying more, not less, since typical algorithms will e.g. return a fresh copy of the modified structure - the purists detest mutation. The benefits of data sharing, are, imo, overstated outside of a few niche, datastore-y type areas.
In Quebec, there is a maximum insured by the state and it start 180 days after the event. So if you hand up breaking your ribs/hands and stop working for 4 months, you never get this. My private insurances cover from 60 days up to the 180 days at 80% and then goes down to 60%. The effect of the state insurances is to lower the cost of the private insurances.
What technologies did you use to make this?
So, for real-world applications, we have to deal with some constraints, right?

An obvious physical analogue would be iron-filings suspended in a fluid, with magnetic fields "commanding" all of them to move left, right, etc. In that case, we obviously can't just have the filings move through each other or the workpiece being manipulated.

Two extensions to our control schemes are having alternating implode/explode movement (move to center of flock, move away), and also exert a torque (which is simple to do; if every robot in the swarm has an orientation and knows whether the swarm center is to its left or right, we can have them move forward or backward, and then we get torsion).

It's a really exciting field--email us!
It's an easy way to get burned out. If the employee is good enough, he or she should be able to accomplish what they need to in a 40 hour week. If it takes 1.5x as long then they aren't cut out for it, or the employer is over working them. Occasionally it's OK to work more then 40 hours for milestones but every week is ridiculous.

One of the biggest reasons you don't want this as an employer is the employee has no time to grow personally and pursue things on his own time.
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A variant of Linux for CPUs without MMUs lives on as http://www.uclinux.org/.
> I saw the same thing, but that's not exactly the same thing as seeing ads, they're not (AFAIK) only showing AdBlock ads... they're informing you of something they are implementing in a hidden way.

I think it counts as an advertisement, and I'm not complaining, only observing. I just thought there was more than a touch of irony in AdBlock showing an ad within the AdBlock app.

> We're not living under a totally facist regime just yet...

Interesting comparison. A regime that forced us to watch ads could be described as Fascist, as could one that blocked all ads regardless of people's tastes. Anything that prevented free choice.
If they agreed that they would delete everything they know about you at your request, sure. But most of them don't, which means you can't do anything.

Companies should not be forced to implement ways to delete data about users. That's just silly.

Why do you want them to delete the data anyway? To me, it sounds silly and looks like some kind of censorship. Embrace transparency and live with the fact that what is public remains public.
Fact 1: If you don’t keep several thousands of dollars in your checking account, overdrafting is near the only way your bank makes money on your account.

I thought the bank could make money by lending out a multiple of all the money deposited, such that if I deposit 1000 dollars, they can now lend out on the order of 30000 (i.e. thirty times) that. If they lend that out at, say, 10% interest, they can make 3000 a year because I have 1000 in my account.

The magic of fractional reserve banking. If I've misunderstood this, I'd very much like to be corrected, please.
Not sure why, but this reminds me of youth work actions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_work_actions
You meant to say, another reason to only make free games.
I actually really rather prefer buying my own insurance, and by that I mean I buy only the minimum required by law. Insurance companies design their policies to get more out of you then you get out of them, and they've gotten very good at figuring out ways to deny benefits to people.

Just give me the money in my paycheck and let me do with it as I see fit. The money I would spend on insurance I put into a personal savings account. I insure myself.

I spent $1200 total on health care costs in the last 3 years. Now that Obamacare requires I buy insurance or else get hit with a penalty, I'm going to be spending a lot more than that every year.

Why should it be cheaper to have group policies through employers? The entire freaking point of the insurance company is that they are pooling money from a bunch of people over time in the form of premiums to be able to distribute to a minority who need it in emergencies. It's already a paramutual arrangement, why do we have to obfuscate it with employer group policies?

Insurance, at least as it is done in the US, is a scam. It is an oligarchy designed to keep medical services prices high so they can justify outlandish premiums as merely just a small percentage margin.
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While I like the idea of atomic upgrades, the idea really should be made to work without requiring a full reboot. The update procedure could be something like:

1) updater makes a private snapshot of the filesystem

2) updater writes its changes to the private snapshot while the rest of the system gets served by unchanged FS

3) updater stops affected services

4) the updated snapshot is swapped in (atomically)

5) services are restarted
It just occurred to me that the more benefits jobs provide, the more dependent on those jobs people become, and the harder they fall when they lose those jobs.

This is NOT an argument against providing benefits, of course. But it does create a weird dynamic.
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I actually really liked the physical gifts thing. I never use FB and recently removed pretty much all of my info, but a friend sent me a birthday present through this service and it was pretty cool! I even got the gift in 2 days.
Steven Levy's "In the Plex" is probably the best one. A lot of the stuff in my comment is mentioned there, and the rest is cobbled together from various presentations, blog posts, and Quora answers on the net.
He's just saying that, in pure functional code, "updating" a data structure means creating a new copy of it with the desired changes instead of actually changing the structure in place. Of course, since the structures are immutable, large parts of them can often be reused. That's not how it's presented to the language user, though.
> Can you be happy, healthy, and work 60 hour weeks while still loving your job? Yes.

No.

I haven't met a single person who works 60 hours a week and is thrilled about it, outside of those who work for themselves. When you work for yourself, yes, it's definitely possible. That's not what we're talking about.

On top of everything, we're primarily talking about young people. A young person needs to invest a lot more time into their non-work life. Relationships, friends, acquiring property, family, hobbies, sports, etc. I can go on. All of those things are important and require time.

There's a reason you see depression threads pop up here on a constant basis. A healthy work/life balance is important!
Our rates are typically $21 to $60 per male employee and
$71 to $150 per female employee per month.

Did they mention why female employees cost so much more?

I thought (from car insurance prices etc) that men are more likely to get into accidents? I was under the impression female-only things like childbirth were fairly safe these days.
>Workers were paid in wine and grain

That's not pay, it's logistics. Even on the worst forced labor projects they're still usually feeding the prisoners.
another example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6277114
Bitcoin Block Eruptor USB - Overclocking/hacking?
Why an FBI background check for residency in Paraguay? Is this Paraguay's version of FBI? Just curious.
Too Link-Baity; Didnt Read

"The one weird HR benefit every startup should add"
It still does, try slrn and nntp.
Actually, mine is currently:

Linux(GPL)/Upstart(GPL)/GNU/X Window(MIT)/Gnome(LGPL)/XFCE(LGPL)/Python(PSFL)/Firefox(MPL)/Thunderbird(MPL)/VLC(LGPL)/*BSD/... say that five times fast. ;)
I like this idea, and the others referenced, very much. I think there is a huge opportunity here for all photos (and eventually video?) that are geo-tagged. What I would like to see, and what would be valuable to journalists or media organizations would be a real-time stream based on geo-location. Simply: a map interface that I can choose a point on to see a real-time stream from (I should be able to select the "nearest" data (which might be best in remote locations) or define data based on a "radius" that I draw or otherwise define (which might be best for urban areas)). Imagine something happening somewhere and being able to see all the photos/videos from RIGHT THERE in real-time. Valuable?
I just bought the ZTE phone for cheap dev thrills when I have time .... I think the built-in FM radio tuner will be going with me to the ballpark though. :)
We really need a Pirates of Silicon Valley 2. Unbeknownst to the film's creators, the movie ended just as things got interesting :)
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