skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume I have a limited knowledge of WWII history on that front, but from what I was taught in history class, the biggest deterrent of the Nazi invasion of the USSR was the weather. What we learned was that the Russians were invading Germany more than the Germans could invade Russia. Basically the Russians weren't fighting to keep the Nazis from invading, but were focused on a counter-invasion.

I could very well be wrong, as I took WWII history in the US (which tends not to focus on European involvement in WWII).
Just to be clear, corroborate which figures?
Ask HN: Does anyone know who or what wvsessionid is?
I've noticed in our logs that someone/thin is making requests passing in a wvsessionid={value} in the querystring. Naturally, my first attempt to find an answer was to google "wvsessionid". Unfortunately, all I found was a whole bunch of "random" webpages that had wvsessionid={value} in the URL (they somehow got crawled with an URL with the wvsessionid key/value). Anyone?
I believe most large employers in the US do offer it, but much like the 401k it is opt-in, not opt-out, so I assume most people don't have it or if there employer offers it as opt-out, they may not be aware of it.

60% of your income, even if it is tax-free may not be enough to cover everything, the best solution is to take the employer sponsored, which is dollars (i.e. <$10) a month and adding a small one on top.
However I shared the paper's central question which was the complete lack of existence of a trading class. In other cultures there were always traders and markets and points of exchange. Perhaps as a mono-culture the Incans never had to develop such systems (or the need was small enough, as pointed out in the paper, that they did so on a case by case basis).
"As for Bing - it's still losing billions of dollars a year last I checked."

Allowing the successful divisions to survive and the leeches to die seems like a win for MS. Why is throwing away billions on products that produce no return a good thing?
The actual implementation of the laws depend on the countries, but they are based on the same EU directive.

AFAIK this applies to companies registered in those countries, or with an office there or targeting the market in those countries.

So, to make things more difficult, the German law implementation might be different from the Spanis implementation. If you are targeting both markets, you'd need to pay close attention to both.
"Separation of the races is coded into our genes"
What? How so?

"Physical attributes influence us as well"
But which physical attributes matter and which don't is cultural. I'm tall. I don't only or even mostly hang around other tall people. I'm left handed. I don't hang out with left handed people.

"but has also extremely skewed gender distributions in professions such as engineering and nursing; with almost only men in engineering, and women in nursing, despite massive attempts to balance the situation. This could be easily misinterpreted and claimed as evidence that Norway does not respect gender equality, but in fact it's more likely evidence of the opposite! People in Norway are more free to pursue what makes them happy."

Or gender stereotypes which predated attempts at gender equality still persist and encourage people to think that certain jobs will make them happier than others even though this may not be true.
It seems so, but I guess it'll be difficult to fine businesses without presence in Spain.
That's such a strawman! No one wants a depressed, exhausted, sick worker, and no one has ever suggested such a worker would be better to have than a 9-5 happy and healthy person.

Your presupposition the sick guy is how everyone will become if they work an hour over 40 with any regularity is just plain not true. There are people who are at a point in their careers and lives which allow them the ability to invest more time and energy into work in a regular and patterned way than others. It's frankly naive to think there aren't people out there who want to be at work, and can be at work for more than the 9-5 grind each week.

Do the sickly people exist? Yes. Can you be happy, healthy, and work 60 hour weeks while still loving your job? Yes.
This is one area where health care insurance costs are pretty affordable. We are a web design company in the sunny state of Florida, so these are our rates based on 10 to 20 employees.

From my understanding the larger you are, the cheaper the rates. Since the article /comments asked for typical rates, here is where we are at to compare. Not sure how many employees 42floors.com has, but $2,500 per year would probably be around 5 to 10 employees if they were all male.

STD/LTD Group Policies - Our rates are typically $21 to $60 per male employee and $71 to $150 per female employee per month. So it could add about $250 to $1,800 per employee depending on their salary and gender.

Maternity Leave - The good news is that this covers maternity leave of 3 months for our lady employees. This is a nice benefit to offer. It also explains the higher rates based on gender.

Health Care Coverage - Most group health insurance policies are super high in monthly premiums ($200 to $600 per month for individuals and $1,000 to $1,500 for family coverage). We cover this in full right now for individuals. But it is a huge ongoing cost, especially as everyone gets older and starts families. STD/LTD policies are very cheap by comparison (obviously geared towards a different life event).

Other options - It would probably be cheaper if you just bought long-term, if the concern is catastrophic coverage. But we cover short term too and that increases the rates.
That sounds OK, but seems like it's getting pretty distant from what I identify as "principles".
"To me, Microsoft seems like the former Soviet Union—Politburo, five-year plans, and all."

Here is the essence of a horseshit analogy. Microsoft is compared to an oligarchy - the Politburo [1]. And then by magic transformed into the entire Soviet Union. This allows the advancement of an argument for breakup based on shortcomings in the delivery of consumer goods.

"That’s why Steve Ballmer’s replacement should not be one executive but should be a number of people who have experience in different domains and who can run independent operating companies."

Mr. Wadhwa, how did that work for ATT? The article is utterly bereft of intellectual coherence. Microsoft is far more tightly focused than Samsung or Siemens and more profitable to boot.

[1]and what corporation couldn't be?
Some of them would have bought it. I know this is super tough but if I go out to a street corner and hand out free hot dogs the guy selling hot dogs next to me is going to lose business.
I appreciate that the CTO took the time to answer the question. I know it is good for promotion, etc. Nonetheless, it is nice that the effort was put forth.
If only it were bilateral.

"Dear insurance companies, I'm shopping for a policy. Please fill out this bid form so I can verify your business history, tax compliance, carbon footprint, employee demographics, political contributions..."
I'd love that, but I just want to settle down somewhere isolated and cold for a long time.
Google cache: http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:functionaltalks.org/2013...

The article is essentially just a link to the fourth part of his keynote at Quakecon ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PhArSujR_A )
My thoughts on this topic have also followed this same line of reasoning. My conclusion was to use the existing standard we already accepted for legal death. There is an established standard for when a doctor can declare someone 'legally dead' (absence of heartbeat and brainwaves). We should use the inverse for a legal definition of life. If a doctor can detect a heartbeat and certain brainwaves, then a second is involved and all laws applying to humans are in effect.
The alpha channel in PNG/APNG is nice.
Isn't this provided by the national health coverage in countries with a welfare state? AFAIK there are a lot of people on disability checks in the US as well, I'm not sure it pays well though.
I think the key point is that they didn't have money at all.
iframes... iframes everywhere....
Please read https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.htm...
My memory of 1990s Linux development is hazy (I was a young kid at the time), but my recollection is ~5 years after this post they paid a huge cost in effort to get it to work on Alpha, and after that the required effort to port to other stuff went down. So maybe it's more like "simple initial implementation, massive rewrite later".

Edit: Also worth noting that the 386 was the first "modern" Intel CPU in terms of instruction set and interfaces provided to kernel developers, so requiring 32-bit CPU with an MMU excludes a lot of machines in 1991 but not so many machines in the years that followed. What he's saying is he won't port to 286 which is a very obvious decision but maybe not so much if your frame of reference was Minix.

(Later on I do seem to remember there used to be a port of Linux to MMU-less varieties of 68K in the late 90s, like some of the other replies are asking for. Not sure how well it ever worked.)
How Snowden did it
I'm not clear on what the argument is here other than "X is good, therefore X should be provided by one's employer."
> What would you do if injured your hands and could never type again?

I don't disagree with your general point, but the truth is, there are a lot of adaptations and assistive input devices people use for computer input all the time. There are lots of ways a techie with a functional brain can continue to work even after quite severe injuries.
This is your friendly reminder that jlgreco's is not a deductive argument and that most of the logic we base our everyday decisions on would be called logical fallacies. It's time for a Fallacy Fallacy, I think.

This is also your friendly reminder that jlgreco wasn't even employing "slippery slope" logic. He wasn't arguing that employing a cost comparison will lead inevitably to employing further cost comparisons. He simply pointed out that one cherry-picks the level that best makes one's argument.

This is your friendly reminder that your post makes no sense.
Looking at the actual code, it looks a lot like a random hack thrown into beta code to disable a feature that isn't ready for use yet. It doesn't look like those 3 lines of code are a long term solution to anything. It is hard to attribute a motive to code, but I don't think the motive of that snippet is less openness.
Exclusive : Google Palestine domain hacked and defaced
Good points, I hadn't realized how involved the Guardian's editors had been in Greenwald's recent stories, especially since he retained sole editorial control over his publications in the past.

The way my friends in the journalistic world have explained it me was in terms of "breaking unwritten rules." The anti-leaker reaction seems very extreme for simple sour grapes, although I suppose it isn't wise to underestimate the reactionary posturing of an industry in decline. I have heard pretty detailed confirmation that the recent events at the Guardian have really altered the US press's attitude thus far.

It's odd to me they didn't redact the program codenames. Since the codenames are legal to know, as long as you don't say the underlying program to which they refer, they're commonly plastered all over unclassified presentations. Once you know the underlying technology, the combination of codename and context gives away a lot of information.

I've seen people spidering based upon the program names that were leaked so far. With a little bit of googling and clustering of results, they can figure out which programs relate to e.g. upstream collection.

That seems like a bonanza for hostile intelligence agencies, especially since they can add all of those codenames to KWS, and wait until someone accidentally slips and describes them in an open channel.
Why the "Social CEO" Debate is All Wrong
Automatic patches of vulnerabilities is good. Automatic removal of features is not.
The problem is that every site owner displays a slightly different popup. A few of my friends were trying to build a chrome extension[1], but they soon figured out they are going to need custom Javascript for every site in Slovenia (and others of course, but they were focusing on Slovenia) and they abandoned the project.

Personally I believe EU should target browsers not site owners for this. At least by doing so we would get a standardized UI and the ability to opt-in or out.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/peeshkot/idfkeeahc...
Do not build a game engine unless your goal is to be selling a game engine. If you're going to make a game that requires a game engine, use another engine that's already built.

Lets put this in terms of web development: You wouldn't start building a webapp by building your own web framework first.
In most countries, bribes and abuse of power are illegal (and prosecuted), yet still happen at large scale. The problem is when the same people responsible for oversight (making sure that government doesn't get controlled by small powerful groups) and enforcing the rules are the ones that are most corrupt (in other words, if some corporation bribes a government official, then the latter's buddies help cover it up, is that the corporation's fault or the government's?)
IPhone 5S Release Dates, Specs Keep Pouring In
Perhaps there is a way to make a technically sound platform that governments have a hard time doing mass surveillance?
Apparently there are top GM folks who hang around here. I think we'd all get thrashed.
Finally launched!

can't seem to get it to pause ...should be a keypress..?

when photos are lightboxed, maybe pause background?

set time between pic changes?

Maybe have entire screen change its photos at once, or have the layout behave like a scrolling view (ie movie credits)? see: http://desandro.github.io/imagesloaded/

Would be interesting to link to http://www.photosugar.com/ to see all a user's photos.

Lastly, there was an item recently that laid out different sized photos based on their size so that there was no gap between the images. That'd be awesome.
MS got its initial strength primarily from IBM signing something extremely stupid. I don't see anyone signing anything like that with MS today and there isn't the same monolithic business entrenchment that there was with IBM back then, so I don't see how they are going to get back their leverage.
Details on tech startup simulator for iOS
Actually, this is mostly wrong.

While Windows and Office are still major components, what was formerly called Server Tools & Business (STB) makes a large amount of money (sometimes more than Windows) and has exhibited the most growth of any division over the past couple years.

In addition, what you refer to as Office is really the Business division, which includes Dynamics (a billion dollar business) so Office really doesn't hold all of the sway you lend it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4806787
I have always thought of this as one of the best ways to start off a project. Be humble, ask for feedback, and share your work.
Actually I remember a documentary were it stated that the Persians paid men and women for their skills working on projects. I can't remember the name of the documentary (probably from the discovery channel).

A quick google search
- http://hsc.csu.edu.au/ancient_history/societies/near_east/pe...

And
- "Men, women and children worked in ancient Persia to support a diverse economy. Workers were paid in wine and grain, with 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."

http://www.ehow.com/about_5414474_jobs-did-ancient-persians-...
If there was not hatred (not gonna happen, by the way), would segregation still be a bad thing?

Is there something inherently WRONG with people gravitating toward and feeling most comfortable around people who look like themselves?
In practical terms I don't think the Spanish AEPD (institution for data protection) would actually sue any company not registered in Spain. Too complicated.
It definitely didn't share Marx's original concepts of decentralized states and communal distribution. But almost every implementation of Marxism in recent history involved totalitarianism and ignored the part about decentralization of power post-revolution. So it's a fair statement, if taken as the commonly held meaning.
To cpeterso: (HN has a reply depth limit)
A cheesy build has a couple definitions depending on who you are, but it generally refers to an "all or nothing" style build that usually depends on a gimmick that goes undetected.

For example, one race of Starcraft has early access to a building that can fire upon enemies. If they can build these building strategically near an enemy's base without the enemy noticing, they can effectively box an enemy in, preventing them from expanding or attack until they commit a large enough force to destroy those buildings.

The same race in Starcraft can build permanently cloaked units that can only be detected with an "observer" class unit/building. If you can obtain the requirements for building said cloaked units without your opponent noticing and then build a few, you can send in these invisible units to damage your opponent until they have the proper response.

Basically, it's a strategy that can be overwhelming if it works, but it has a few tells and being discovered committing one of these strategies early enough is basically a loss.
So long it's not a the grass-is-greener effect. While I'm not pleased with a lot of Microsoft's recent developments, and C# seems to be an evolutionary dead-end, it's not like other platforms are beautiful. I'm sure there are lots of shit frameworks like EF on other platforms; it's not like EF is some critical piece of .NET. Personally, F# is the number one reason I'm still on .NET, with VS being a very strong second place.

I've had critical telecom services running on Mono for many years; not sure what "ghetto" means there. Xamarin also seems to be doing quite well with their cross-platform initiatives.

I've moved SQL Server apps to Postgres (due to licensing) and back (due to maintenance/replication). On another we're moving to PG again due to licensing. Postgres is great, but holy shit MSSQL provides a huge feature surface that's very accessible (licensing aside). SSMS is a dream compared to the ghetto of PG frontends (in my limited experience).

But if you can easily dump and rewrite, I'll admit, that is fun.
No, the argument is, X is good, but incredibly expensive for individuals. X (interestingly) is cheap for employers. Therefore employers can provide this substantial benefit X to employees in a manner they would not be able to alone.
The only thing mentioned in the article that I agree with them using is penalising people who submit applications in all caps.
A pirated copy isn't a lost sale.

Software/music/movie pirates usually fall into very few categories:

* never willing to pay for it

* willing to pay, not willing to put up with current and known barriers

The first category should never be assumed to be a lost sale, however the second could be assumed a lost sale.
> Maybe the greatest mystery of the Inca empire is that it lasted any length of time at all. The empire collapsed rapidly once a new, tiny group of potential rulers arrived.

Any society would collapse like a house of cards if it wasn't in its prime, but was instead just a bunch of bewildered, shell-shocked survivors of a 90% die-off event triggered by new microbes. Pizarro was dealing with people who were basically living in a post-apocalyptic universe. The gods were angry and all that stuff.
> In this case you're posting an article where the NIMH director wonders aloud whether a diagnostic manual hasn't become the proverbial territory itself.

The director isn't merely "wonder[ing] aloud", has has announced his intention to phase out the DSM entirely, replace it with a more evidence-based approach, one that tries to explain, rather than merely describe. In other words, he's saying what I say in this thread.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/05/the-s...

Quote: "When Thomas Insel, the director of the National Institute of Mental Health, came out swinging with his critiques of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a couple of weeks ago, longtime critics of psychiatry were shocked and gratified. Insel announced that that the D.S.M.’s diagnostic categories lacked validity, that they were not “based on any objective measures,” and that, “unlike our definitions of ischemic heart disease, lymphoma or AIDS,” which are grounded in biology, they were nothing more than constructs put together by committees of experts. America’s psychiatrist-in-chief seemed to be reiterating what many had been saying all along: that psychiatry was a pseudoscience, unworthy of inclusion in the medical kingdom."

In case you're wondering how the current discussion conflates the DSM, a mere book, with psychiatry and psychology, large established fields, it's because the DSM is to psychiatry and psychology what the Standard Model is to physics -- it represents a distillation of research efforts spanning decades. Therefore to reject the DSM is to reject psychiatry and psychology as serious science.

> ... your original claim is that this research posted here today is empty, navel-gazing non-science.

I suggest that you limit yourself to things I've actually said. But, without either producing a new, empirical, testable theory, or comparing the outcome to an existing theory, the article can only describe the sort of instantly forgettable observation that plagues modern psychological research. That's what's wrong with modern psychological research -- it doesn't lead to consensus, to established principles, principles that might turn psychology into a science.
I can certainly appreciate what Reddit has accomplished, but the thought of losing the abilities of a full RDBMS for a key-value store makes my hair stand on end.

I've yet to find schema changes limiting in my ability to code against a DB (and I use MySQL, which is one of the most limiting in this regard). Plus, I appreciate the ability to offload things like data consistancy and relationships to the database. I understand, however, where others might not feel the same way.
Google Palestine got Hacked
Oh, that's a different point. First, I'm not sure you can stop piracy. 2dboy tried releasing games with DRM and without DRM and saw the same rate of piracy with each. Then even if you could stop piracy, it would barely make a difference to revenue. They calculated that they could make 1 sale out of every 1,000 pirates. http://2dboy.com/2008/11/13/90/ And that's for a really good indie game like World of Goo. One thing I don't see anyone mentioning here is whether "Gentlemen!" is any good.
We're "neutering language"? Hyperbolize much?
Thanks for bringing the MIT article to my attention. I wouldn't say I referenced the type of radiation, but was just a little less specific. The only source for the article you pointed to (http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5294) was a model, not an experiment or test.

Given the potential for DNA damage, though, it would be silly of me not to agree that more research should be done to see whether this model theory of "resonant effects" have any significant real-world impact.
I actually had a physical gift given to me (it was a cookie, I think), but I did not feel comfortable with giving my physical address for delivery. For some reason, though Facebook knows a huge amount about me, it seemed like too little reward for too much information. (Note, I am aware that they may only have been passing the data to the vendor, but I still felt uneasy).
Most of the curses are because someone decided to break the userspace. No one had beaked back compatibility at that point.