skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Very rarely did I see him become completely unglued — it happened, but mostly he just looked at you and very directly said in a very loud and stern voice, ‘You are [expletive] up my company,’ or, ‘If we fail, it will be because of you.’ He was just very intense. And you would always feel an inch tall."

"Compounding all the technical challenges, Jobs’s obsession with secrecy meant that even as they were exhausted by 80-hour workweeks, the few hundred engineers and designers working on the iPhone couldn’t talk about it to anyone else. If Apple found out you’d told a friend in a bar, or even your spouse, you could be fired."

Christ, what an asshole.
People always want more

Based on the reading I've done on the subject, in places where a minimum basic income well into the poverty range was given, people actually just cut back on everything until it covered their expenses, i.e. people preferred poverty to working low-wage jobs. That makes sense to me.

That said...I'm still in favor of a universal minimum basic income, because I always expect social regressions whenever people have little to no experience and culture to mitigate the most harmful effects (c.f. the Internet, Facebook, Reddit, 4chan, etc.).

My sense is that the first generation after a UBI was established would be lazy as hell, but the children would be less so, because work, art, etc. do produce meaningful life benefits for those that participate. By the third or fourth generation, life everywhere would be much, much better for—literally—everyone.

Anyway...my $0.02.
> Concurrent and distributed applications aren't the future anymore, they are the present. They are vital to business success. The many talented developers that are passing over Ruby for Erlang, Go, Clojure and Node are draining Ruby of talent and vitality.

As someone who has been working with MRI since 2006-ish, I feel this statement is accurate. MRI is stagnating around the GIL. Rails last lost some of it's edge and this is in part responsible. Since about 2011, I've invested into Erlang (elixir), and mostly NodeJS. They're truly communities that are evolving well, they are applying themselves well to new problems inherit to changes in application building demands.
I stated a 100% true fact that is a direct comparison to the article in question. It's sad people would try to silence facts by dismissing them as 'political slogans'
"roe v wade, where they managed to invoke the 3rd amendment to defend a woman's right to an abortion..."

This is gross caricature of the actual argument. Roe uses the 14th amendment as the basis of the right to privacy (and abortion). Additionally it had to comment on the lower courts ruling. The lower court had ruled to overturn the law (thus making abortion legal) but the basis had been the 9th amendment and "penumbral" privacy rights. It did not reject this argument but made it secondary to the 14th amendment.
Get a job there first, it's not hard to get a sponsored working visa and Swiss has a high amount of foreign workers. Work there for 10 years then have the canton vote for your citizenship, if it's a big canton it might just be a committee; they'll inspect your house to make sure you are Swiss enough. You should master one Swiss language quickly (whatever canton you are in), and should probably brush up on another.

Edit: it might not be the canton that votes for you, but the commune. I get these confused all the time.
The other day I actually got to see inside one of those big green boxes on the intersection corners in SF that control the street lights. I was shocked at how much equipment was needed to operate one of those. It's as if there has been no progress in the industry with respect to minimization because it's not a selling point, only price and functionality are.
It's pretty easy to embed tweets nearly everywhere
This raises another interesting question. Will there be a population explosion in Switzerland in the medium term?
The GP is not a "political slogan", it's a statement of fact. If you'd like to rebut, which seems fairly unlikely, please provide both evidence of sloganhood (slogan, of course, means something specific: in part, that the aforementioned phrase has been used verbatim as a form of promotion. Cite the promotion) and additionally an actual rebuttal to the GP.

That would actually be what this is an appropriate venue for, not your contentless dismissal.
What I get confused about and fail to understand, is why people get excited about hearing that others are being furloughed. What's so good about people not being able to support their family, or possibly default on debt and even worse allow city and state budgets to shrink? We all lose together.
Notifo was around two or so years ago, and I believe it was a startup that went through ycombinator, designed to be a "central notification center". It worked quite well for the short while I was using it.

They didn't take off though, and after saying they couldn't afford to keep servers running much longer, became silent. Any decent message notification system would require integration, so there is definitely an area left open.
I've regularly used three roundabouts in my life in the US for different daily commutes, two of which were very busy: I've never seen anyone try to drive clockwise. They do cause confusion for the drivers, who are unlikely to regularly encounter them and are never sure who believes who has right of way, but not clueless to that degree. Right of way on single-lane traffic circles is something people can figure out through driving slow and common sense.

I am not a fan of 2-3 lane roundabout / traffic circles which try to use signal-less operation, because right of way becomes intractable and lane changes difficult.
An article from the past(1990) worth reading: "The Perils of Presidentialism"[0] by Juan Linz, who died Tuesday. It notes that the United States is exceptional in having a long-lasting presidential system, and also in having political parties which are not disciplined and ideologically cohesive. We're now experiencing the kind of conflict that many Latin American countries have faced in the past.

[0] http://www1.american.edu/ia/cdem/pdfs/linz_perils_presidenci...
I think it's worth explaining how swiss legislation works. There are several ways to propose a new law, one of which is for enough citizens to petition, which leads to a referendum style vote.

The basic income vote followed this process, and though it gathered enough interest to warrant people voting on it, it has little chance of passing.

Interestingly a similar vote recently passed which limited the income in a company to a factor of 12 (i.e: the CEO can not make more than 12 times the lowest salary of his company) which wasn't expected of switzerland (a rather liberal and conservative country)
This is really core research, not product development. BD and Darpa spin it a bit to keep the funding going, but having worked in this field my guess is we are at least 15-20 years away from serious deployment of legged robotics in the field.

That said, it's amazingly impressive what they have achieved.

I am curious as to why the robot's front legs are so close together in some clips -- maybe approximating a 3-legged device was somehow algorithmically simpler?
I'm from Australia and I am only seeing the message: "Detecting your Government..." I am seeing a request to the WIPmania API failing in Chrome on Windows 7: "http://api.wipmania.com/jsonp?" perhaps you've git your API limit I presume.
The fact is that for almost any "dangerous environment" one might suggest using robots for, there is a human who will do the same job for a few dollars extra per hour.
A country that values science, education, peace AND cares about the poor! Have I stepped into another dimension?
Yeah, memory-mapped files and journaling are standard OS primitives. I would say auto-sharding, replication, indexing, and complex schema-less querying are not.

In my experience, MongoDB arrived with NoSQL/BigTable to fill a different set of needs than RDBMS's. Relational databases are great but not all applications need full ACID or transactions. Sometimes applications require greater data modeling flexibility. Other times, pain-free scaling/distribution are important.

MySQL is great when those features are required, but even when you put SSDs under MySQL, it's still MySQL.
Why are people on HN so keen on defending Tesla at all cost?
That appears to be a traffic circle. Entry to roundabouts is controlled entirely by yield signs.
One thing to consider is that today in Switzerland if you don't work you can already get around 2000CHF/mo in social programs and health insurance subsidies. (Most) people work nevertheless, if only because working brings you much more than a wage.
Any petition getting enough signatures can place something on the ballot in Switzerland.

They've even voted on whether to abolish the military.
PORTAL: Run Tor on isolated hardware to protect yourself from the NSA
(wheels are fine)

I disagree with this. Try constraining yourself to a wheelchair for a week or so, and then tell me nothing can be gained from a good set of legs.
DIY X-ray CT scanner
Yeah, I've stayed in Bern a few times in the 90s and I got a sentiment for it so I take a glance now and then what's going on, and the referendal results are often ridiculously surprising. The weed situation IMO for years has been the weirdest ever, since Swiss have the most liberal and practical drug treatment policies I know of, and AFAIK a high percentage of citizens admits to smoking joints. It looked like people just don't gave a crap enough to legalize it and after a few tries just gave up pushing it. How does it look like on the ground from a Swiss' perspective?
You forgot democracy. Note that this bill was introduced by the people, not the government. In Switzerland, as long as you can get 100'000 to sign a referendum, you can get a bill to be voted on. We also vote 4 times a year on bills, that is we the people, not we the politicians.
My side project is Visioneer, an app for making apps.

http://visioneer.joftware.com
I don't have a link to the article, but I recall reading that having people slow down and be more cautious because of the ambiguity helps safety.
Well at least no-one tries wrapping an artichoke in a condom and swallowing it to get past customs.

Not even the Swiss German speakers ;-)
Poor Americans receive a wide range of subsidies, which have broad popular support. Obamacare is being fought because it is a byzantine bureaucratic tar pit written in secrecy by industries lobbyists and passed by the worst sort of political manipulations. If someone could manage to put forward a sensible national health system, including the necessary constitutional amendment, it would get a landslide victory.
I think it's political because it reduces the debate over healthcare policy to a caricature. I lean left (hell, I voted for the Green Party in the last presidential election) but even I don't believe that every Republican is twirling their moustache and cackling "bwah ha ha, I love oppressing the poor."
The 1:12 project is at the same stage as the basic income one: up for referendum. Latest polls showed people were still undecided (vote is at the end of November).
Sure, still got hacked by Russian usb's though.

It seems unlikely that similar systems in any country would have remained unpenetrated in the face of that attack.

Just because one entity in a country got hacked, it doesn't mean other entities in the same country can't hack others. At the moment attack seems much easier than defence.

We don't know if the NSA has been penetrated, but given that Google's law enforcement search system was penetrated by unknown parties originating from China it would surprise me if the NSA has remained free from breaches.
It's interesting that you call a roundabout a rotary, they are two different things actually - http://www.cityofbrooklyncenter.org/DocumentCenter/Home/View...
If Apple could it would simply license all the content

Sure, but that won't work: the content is paid for by the cable companies.

It's, what, $30 billion per year going to content creators straight from the cable companies, up front? The content creators absolutely need the cable companies today, there's no other way for them to operate. They don't self-fund, period.

So Apple would need to pony up. If they came to the content creators and said look, we want to do this thing, here's $100 billion for the first three year, up front—it'd happen. Money talks in Hollywood. It might be the only thing that does.

Sadly, there's no way in hell Tim Cook could (or would) make that happen. He's way too conservative. Hell, he couldn't even handle Scott Forstall.

Apple certainly has the money and doesn't know what to do with it other than buy their own stock. Well, that's what they could do with it. $100 billion and you own cable television.
BeerBacks - Smartphone Bottle Opener
Despite a lot of chatter in the industry that BB should dump their OS and go Android, they persisted in pushing their own OS and app store. Had they went Android 2-3 years ago and leveraged their messaging strengths, they might be in a much different position today. Ironically, if Google were to snatch them up, I'd venture that scenario would unfold anyways.
Yes. It's as if companies don't waste money on R&D when there's no competition.

That's how most of industrial America (and the world) works. Competition breeds innovation, or something like that.
No fire. Gasoline all over the place but no ignition at all. He hit the first car, fused into it and the "ball" formed by the two cars proceeded to destroy the other six. Absolutely amazing display of how much kinetic energy was dissipated.

Fuel tanks/lines and related systems cause only ~2% of Automotive fires in the US (excluding intentional ones).
Most robots would be confined to one store/space. Especially considering legs double the cost, likelihood of failing, complexity, etc.
Welfare through military spending.
Meh, it's your view. There are plenty of people who oppose PPACA for reasons besides trying to stop poor people from receiving subsidies on their health insurance.
Finally, i thought it would be another Duke Nukem Release. Glad to see it out.

Now, Rubinius 2.0, Ruby 2.1, Topaz, JRuby.

Exciting time for Ruby implementation.
Cost of living is indeed bad but nowhere nearly as bad as you portray it. While food and rent is really expensive compared to the surrounding countries other things (e.g. Gasoline, Electronics) are cheaper.

Also the high prices often also have a quality bias with the Swiss normally buying higher quality. An example of this is discounters such as Aldi or Lidl having a small market share even though they offer fresh products (which they do to a much lesser extent in other countries).
Wouldn't basic income just lead to higher prices and inflation?
What part of what I said is hyperbole? If you work for a defense contractor that is what you do for a living. Make shit to kill people over seas.
It's a post heavily implying that motives for opposing the PPACA–also known as Obamacare–have to do with wanting to harm poor people.

That's highly political, quite partisan, and well-beneath the standard to which we should hold each other, regardless of whether or not we agree or disagree with his stated politics.
Some of the random moderators, especially those who vote on military R&D and procurement, must be chosen from a list of citizens pre-screened with Top Secret clearance. The list will leak to the military-industrial complex within hours.
Just keep in mind you may get a fine for taking a shower late in the evening. And that you most friendly neighbor will turn into a snitch after any violation of yours, especially since you're an auslander. I mean, Switzerland is a lovely country, but some laws regarding cohabitation around there are really anal. On the flipside, whenever my neighbor starts mowning his damn lawn when I'm healing my hangover on sunday, I wish I was there. Grass is greener on the other side. In general, it's a gorgeous country.
The machine in the video you linked to is neat but it actually serves to illustrate my point. Move the ingredient dispensers a few centimeters in any direction, change the cooking plate temperature and watch what happens. This machine is simply playing back a programmed set of motions. The fact that it looks complex and anthropomorphic does not make it intelligent. Any FIRST Robotics League team in the US could build a machine to do this for a lot less money.

When I had my own electronics manufacturing operations in house I always looked for opportunities to add robotics to improve the process. In almost every instance it was far more efficient to add a custom or semi-custom single-purpose tool than to even attempt to use a programmed manipulator of any kind. The combination of a person with a set of custom tools can be very efficient. Now, of course, I never did mass production. That's an entirely different game. Even then, you'll see programmed machines do tasks like dispense adhesives or gasket material. In nearly all cases an indexing fixture carefully aligns the workpiece and the robot/machine executes a canned motion cycle. These machines are not intelligent at all. They might appear to be, but they are not.
And in 1990 women could even vote!
I'm guessing they didn't. (Has the statute of limitations passed or something?)

Now obviously they could claim they shielded the Moscone center and only operated on channel 14 indoors. (The US bans channel 14 due to the frequency being used by satellite.)

I think the FCC might still fine them, if there was a clear-cut case with hard evidence.
Someone posted something on Nimrod a while back with something totally related [0], and I think it is interesting it keeps getting passed over. I am not a lang expert, but I have become very curious about the multiple alternatives in the systems programming niche, and others. It has been developed at least since 2008 (with 0.6 branch in 2008)[1] and the Go language's first public debut in 2009 (I do not know how stable it was at the time and I gave up after going through the first pages of the whole commit history to get a better answer).[2] At the very least, they were developed in the same time frame, are nominally similar languages, and addressing a lot of the same use cases as Rust I suppose. Yet, unfortunately few bench marks include them.

I guess they will always be writing an indie language, but I wish more would check it out. As I continue to learn, maybe I can contribute code to his project. We will see if I ever get that far.

[0] http://nimrod-code.org/

[1] http://nimrod-code.org/news.html

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_programming_language
> There should be zero exceptions

In particular, congress shouldn't be paid.
Its cost controls are weak, at best. There's no way the country will come out the other side of this with cheaper healthcare.

There will be, of course, (truly) great stories about people who were suffering because of the evil practice of dropping customers from coverage when they get sick, and their finally getting the treatment their agreement with the insurance company should have entitled them to, but the total costs, and the costs for nearly everyone, will increase considerably, and some nice examples aside, it's unlikely to improve the quality of care, either.

It's a bad bill. We didn't have a good bill on the table, either–the whole system is fundamentally flawed–but it's a bad bill, functionally speaking. Whether it's really Romneycare, Obamacare, Heritagecare, etc., is irrelevant–it's a horrible system, and people who spend a good amount of their day trying to optimize things really surprise me when they don't acknowledge its numerous and deep flaws.
IRL less than 2% of auto fires involve fuel lines/tanks etc. Your scenario tends to play out better for intentional fires, tho. So, yeah if you molotov cocktail a car it will ignite...but it does not do so under typical use hardly ever.

source: the same one Musk quoted.
I'm from Australia too, and it says:

"It's just you. The Australian government is still up!"
Ok, but I doubt PG still hand-codes every update to the site himself, and such small features don't seem like they would require a high ranking staff member to implement them either, which was kinda my point.
This account makes me want to become a republican.
4 million AND oil-rich.
Wow that is must be some good Kool Aid. Obamacare is basically HeritageCare, the 90's conservative response to "a sensible national health system" (single payer) that died without even getting a vote much less a landslide victory. If there was a chance to pass a less byzantine bill, someone should have told the democrats and Obama because I'm sure they would have been all for it.
Show HN: Interactive Minard-Chart (Napoleon's Russian Campaign, 1812-1813)
This entire thread is political. That much is clear from the get-go.

It will come down to the usual polarizing arguments that you see here every day.
The VLM's been ported, but manually setting it up Sid by far and large the same amount of pain simply amortized over time: the guides extant say you'll have to set up NTP, allow for a TUN from a hard coded IP to be granted an NFS export to the entirety of your disk, and - well, that's where I've ended up and I've still got an inscrutable "No protocol specified" to bang my head against. Perhaps serendipity'll be better to you.
That seems like a bit of a sideshow, considering they'd get exactly the same (combined) amount of money if they weren't living together.

What makes it any different from a bunch of working adults living in a large house and splitting the rent?
Most of the money on Youtube is from content providers who are paid by Google. (Like me)

Twitter doesn't have revenue to share. Without revenue to share people (like me) aren't going to move to Twitter for video.

Vevo isn't moving. iJustine isn't moving. ShayTards isn't moving. BBC isn't moving. Jenna Marbles isn't moving.

That's a lot of Youtube that won't move.

The people who make random commentaries and upload to be famous aren't Ad/Brand safe and might be happier on Twitter, but they won't make money and they won't bring money.
I don't think so, not as a discussion site participant. None of the sites I use allow it.

But the real point is people don't do it that often even when they can. Twitter is rarely a direct source of content. From what I've seen Vimeo and Soundcloud have a better shot at this than Twitter, even though YouTube has them both both beat on embedding frequency for their respective content.
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=internet+censorship+india
I like to think I am progressive but this minimum income idea is a horrible idea in my eyes.

It is like student loans in the USA, everything will rise to the maximum price that people can obtain money.
I'm using TOR, and it's stuck on "Detecting your Government..."

Sounds good to me.
Interacting with other people in a positive way.
I'm not an American, so this question may be rather uninformed: why doesn't this "furloughing" lead to a rash of "fsck you, pay me"? I know labor protection isn't that strong, but contracts still mean something and plenty of these workers are sufficiently unionized that they can't just be fired.
Isnt that whole shutdown about spending ? well this is where money could be saved, by aborting all these expensive and useless weapon deals, instead of cutting food stamps for the poor. US society dont need new tanks, drones or missiles. Let's cut defense spending.