skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to hijack your actual point, but I think the financial investment model of company control does leave something to be desired. In particular, people invest time as well as money into their economic ventures, but this is rarely reflected in the level of control they have. The common retort is that you get paid for your time - but then a lot of people get paid for their money too, often quite handsomely (that's the whole point of investment).

What would be interesting (albeit awkward, perhaps to the point of being unworkable) is if an individual's level of control was equal to the weighted sum of the time and money (or money equivalent) that they had put in. This would mean that early investors would start with a large controlling stake, but it would diminish over time as the effects of the time people spent working at the company started to kick in.

I await the rubbishing of my ideas with moderately bated breath! ;-)
The Global Learning Crisis
Same here. I think the same phenomenon is observable in middle class and below: a person's main concern becomes surviving, leaving less/little time for introspection and learning.
NSA collecting email and messaging contacts worldwide
Well of course. We're going to make new and different mistakes.
Thank you - will get our front end programmer to take care of this.
Even more so across eastern Europe. But then, if you only offer CC payments, there's no point in having a trial for users that can never become paying customers, is there?
Here's why Radeon graphics are faster on Linux 3.12
An internal corporate blog: Where to start from?
This is the reason why my own blog is static files of Markdown for the content, combined with a tiny blog engine, all in the same git repo - I just don't want to deal with the pain of some upgrade suddenly breaking stuff I've come to depend on.
The naming of this could have a negative effect on it's discover-ability, given how popular the physical hyperloop concept (by Elon Musk) can be on HN.
The Paradox of Wealth and the End of History Illusion
Or, similarly, they don't have a credit card for corporate use.

There's no way I'm going to enter my debit card details for a trial of a product for my employer.

And if we do like the product then the Procurement department will contact you; they don't use credit cards either...
I like NewsBlur's training feature that lets me block things I hate. This poll has convinced me to give Digg a go, though. Thanks guise.
God willing. It would be pretty freakish and embarrassing to get old and find that nobody has improved on any of our stupidity.
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Tweet stream analysis with AngularJS, ElasticSearch and Play Framework
Surely you can disable the garbage collector for particular segments of code?
<alarmism>oh by the way the stock android browser up to version 4.2 and maybe beyond LEAKS ANYTHING YOU TYPE IN THE ADDRESS BOX IN CLEARTEXT OVER THE NET.
</alarmism>
>Of course, an important class of potential energy holders use it to seek out ever more potential energy - these are the sorts of people who, finding a magic lamp with a genie in it, would almost certainly wish for infinite wishes.

Implying that politicians and capitalists are legal and social Munchkins ;-)?
Brazil to try shielding itself from NSA with national secure e-mail
1. It's Australia. It doesn't snow here. 2. Almost all apartments have balconies. Good luck landing on the 10th floor during storm season though.
Thanks, due to this post I have switched from ABP on chrome to Adblock. Had no idea the ABP people were acting in this way, will try to spread the word.
The man who lives without money » Banoosh
RE your update: Would you like to argue for the closure of ISRO, or the expansion? You make a case for both, and it seems the argument should start from one premise or the other.

It should be expanded, because many basic (as in, not first-order profit driven) science exploration fields will never get attention from industrial interests. These are advanced by government and academic actors.

A more robust ISRO also jump-starts opening India as a consumer of incredibly complex technology solutions. And, per the Indian imperative, these solutions may look very, very different from Amero-European parallels. It feels obvious that this then fosters new demand for STEM work and manufacturing in India.

There is no reason ISRO cannot be grown in the shape of, and compete with, private space exploration. NASA can't easily shift like that because it is so entrenched and intertwined in US legislative interests, but ISRO is an upstart still.
New botox super-toxin has its details censored
The favicon is a lynx head (as in VentureLynx). I guess that wasn't obvious? Our logo is a bunch of dots, which looks really silly at favicon size.

The competition is a chance to be introduced to investors, run in partnership with the country's top VC and a major legal and accounting firm. It's front-and-center because we're trying to drive traffic to it ... and point taken. I guess it is distracting to non-Canadians. Hmmm. Thanks!
Could you explain the reference? Cultural gap obscures meaning.
Pizza, Starbucks, mail? Really? What worthless examples.

I'm guessing most mail can be eliminated, tomorrow. Make snail mail marketing illegal, you take out probably 90% or more of all mail. You also take out 90% of the income for the post office, making the rest more expensive, driving people to digitize what bits they haven't already done. Convenience win, environmental win.

As for Pizza, what socially worthless tradeoff. Noise pollution, total surveillance by corporations, crashed drones and trash in your backyard, for what? So that we can get fatter with even less effort?

Rescue services, organ transplants, air pollution monitoring, emergency communications, OK. But making it easier for someone to get a Frappachino? Do we still need to solve that problem?
> Airports are location monopolies so companies that operate at them have no incentive to provide cheaper services. They can operate at a healthy (for them) margin and the customers will still come. There is a reason those airport sandwiches are expensive!

Yeah, airports are going to only get busier right so they'd be a good bet for startups (and more monopolies) in this regard.
Sorry, I didn't understand this comment. I don't know what bs3 refers to.
It also depends on your body's details. For example, my hair gets so oily if I go 2 days without a shower. I need to shower every day just to feel like my hair feels clean. If I'm going to do my hair, might as well do the whole body. If I'm in a rush though, I won't necessarily soap up the whole body every day.
No country is stupid enough to use nuclear weapons, and it wouldn't make humans extinct in any case. And global warming couldn't even get as far as destroying civilization.

We only have to make it 30 or 40 more years anyways.
The alternative would be to prioritize academics over profits. In civilized countries, tuition is usually free, and college entrance standards are much higher.

I know an english major who graduated still unable to distinguish between "your" and "you're." Who would you rather have in college, her or me?
Besides the fact that it only work in the US nothing. It doesn't even have an option for GBP.
Like they say about academia: The politics are so intense because the stakes are so low.
Great question and thanks for the feedback. For the most part, platforms like SEEK assume you know what you want to do. The rationale is that many graduate opportunities hire from a variety of degree disciplines which are not necessarily listed in job descriptions and go undiscovered by a lot of candidates who have never considered a particular option.

We only want one search result per industry or role in the primary search, not 20 "Engineering" and 2 others.

Keep the comments coming it's great feedback for us and we're taking it all on board.

Do you think job boards meet your needs currently or would you prefer to see something different on them?
'According to the latest information, Softbank put in 80% of the funding, or $1.2 billion while GungHo put in the remaining $300 000.'

They are missing some zeros there.
So it's come to this: Unpaid Post-doc position for Biologist, La Jolla
Drones have been used for drug deliveries since 2009, at least. It's an obvious technology to get small things across borders. The unmanned submarines are how it scales to larger shipments.

Source: "And just last year, criminals piloted a $600 remote-controlled quadcopter over a Brazilian prison fence to deliver cell phones to the incarcerated, as was also done in a 2009 attempt involving a drone to deliver drugs to prisoners in the U.K."

http://ideas.time.com/2013/01/31/criminals-and-terrorists-ca...
Lgbt don't count as "minorities" for scholarships. Believe me, I've looked. It's all race based stuff, for the most part. I have a physical disability too, but it falls into that same abyss of not being pc attention worthy enough to get tons of free money.
At the very least, it's a personal preference that generally accords with other people's personal preferences when actually implemented. Highly egalitarian, highly productive societies are effective at sustaining themselves, defending themselves, and keeping their citizens happy -- in fact, more so compared to highly inegalitarian societies. So why the hell not?
> What they did not tell you is that gypsy settlements look the same in France, Germany and other industrialized countries

Exactly. I'm Romanian and when I saw the photo with the young gypsy couple I said to myself: "Hey! These people look exactly like the gipsies I used to grow up with". At least I learned that there are gipsies in Russia, also.
I can't tell if this is a joke/experiment, or the situation has gotten so bad that people with decades of education/experience and highly specialized skills no longer have any leverage. Or possibly, that the funding situation is so bad that some organization is desperate enough to post this.
I was flippant and dismissive yes, but I think that comment I originally replied to - "Capitalists can't do this? Because other capitalists will drive them out of business? My my, isn't the system really fucked! Time for some radical architectural changes." - was unlikely to be worth engaging with.
Back home, I used to live in an area that had the occasional jet fighter flying over from the nearby military airbase. Yeah.

Noise pollution isn't a new problem, and I'm pretty sure drones like this will be the least contributor, especially if they're electric, especially if they fly high enough.
FWIW, I measured the very same 0.6% conversion rate for upfront CC on https://www.wisecashhq.com.

I will instead to a test for a week or two, without CC info, but with an in-person onboard when possible (unless overloaded), and most likely share that back on HN.
Hi CookWithMe. On your first point, 100% correct. The broad search is the whole idea. We've got a lot of work to go and it's very early days at present (we also look forward to our second iteration :))

Do you happen to know the name of this book? Would love to have a look at it.

Given your feedback is very considered, it would be fantastic if you could sign up to our page or shoot us an email on our contact page so we can keep in touch and hear more of your thoughts as we develop the platform.

Thanks again and keep the insightful comments coming!
Thanks for sharing Thibaut :-)

What do you mean by "in-person onboard"? Chat assistance? Welcome call?
Many a times I used to be stuck behind an ISRO bus while driving to office. Their bus can be described as more suitable to transfer prisoners than the best minds in the country. Then they will go off to work on rocket science as I inched my way towards building a web application for GM. Feels kind of weird. I guess it is about time that their funding is increased to be more in line with the quality of people they have and their contribution to the country.

Hats off to the whole lot at ISRO, BARC, TIFR and myriad other such institutes...
Hi kops, thanks for your comment. The LinkedIn algorithm suggests my software engineering friend to be the head of legal at an investment bank, not ideal.

What kinds of things would you be looking for on a job platform (which can hopefully read your mind and dreams?)
I feel this is one of the most important articles I've read in the wake of Snowden's patriotic disclosure. Thank you Libertatea for sharing it.
A Spark Of An Idea
That was exactly my thought. This article is just plain text. It feels like something is missing.
I wonder if he addressed the issue of groups. People don't always go to coffeeshops alone. If someone in a group thinks the price is too high and refuses to shop there, the entire group will drink elsewhere. Starbucks need to price their coffee to maximise their revenue - which is almost certainly lower than the average "happiest" price if you account for sets.

Fascinating area of research.
Nice to see a company deal with a security flaw with such grace.

It also shows that there isn't a blame culture inside the team, otherwise people would be looking to cover up this kind of report.
drive by comment: I don't know what you mean to imply by Oakland (!?!?), but... I took the amtrak south from Oakland, and I was shocked by the level of poverty thats visible from the train.
Whilst not necessarily relevant to the main thread: I absolutely agree with you on the point of understanding that you aren't going to be the best at everything, or even anything, necessarily.

The earlier people have that realisation that its not necessarily about being the best, so much as it is about trying to be the best, the sooner they overcome any sense of impostor syndrome.
>I only care about this one.

That is the whole misconception I am trying to get rid of. There is no "this one". It would be like if you are a program running on a computer, and you move the entire program from one spot of the memory in RAM, to another. You could also save it to disk and then put it back later. It makes no difference to the user or the program or anything. The concept of "this" doesn't even make sense in terms of information like a computer program. A copy of some information is the same information.

You could also move your head around in space. And yet you are still the same person, are you not? How would it make any difference if you deleted all the atoms in your head and moved them a slight amount to the left. Or deleted all the bits in RAM and moved them to a different place.
I currently offer a "one-hour free cash flow coaching session" via ScreenHero or Skype etc.

What I do in that hour largely depends on the newcomer: sometimes it will be more on the features themselves (when the user is already cash flow proficient), most of the time I underline the benefits that are not necessarily obvious and require "education" (eg: mastering cash flow translates into ability to reduce your work load, make time to build a saas product, reduce pressure, schedule purchases, take holidays, realize that you could work less - or more etc).

I can also finetune depending on the country of the new user, understand their real underlying needs etc.

I've also started a newsletter/blog to "educate" people (I don't like that world too much) https://www.wisecashhq.com/blog and it works decently, because some mention the blog during the coaching session.

So this is what I do so far :-)

I'm working more at "optimizing the funnel" than looking for coverage, because I'm in the learning phase.

It turns out that those "coaching sessions" bring a lot of value not only to the new WiseCash user, but as well for me, in terms of customer development, understanding the needs, and figuring out what I will say on my homepage later.
I went to a theatre conservatory in NYC and was constantly assaulted by the drumbeat of "50% attrition rate!" and "If you don't need to be here as much as you need to breath, drop out now" and on and on.

So when, in my 3rd semester review with my technique instructor, he asked me why I came to the school, I was frustrated enough to tell him the truth.

"I couldn't get in to college."

He very nearly spat his water in surprise. This broke the ice and we had one of the most encouraging, pleasant conversations I had while at that school. He told me I was good at this, and I told him that I enjoyed it. We both agreed that even though I wasn't as crazed as the rest of the students and staff, there was no good reason not to take my shot.

So, I stayed at the school and started auditioning not long after. I landed my first off-broadway gig a couple months later, then a film, then I co-founded a theatre company that turned a profit on our first off-off-broadway show. While I am living a different life now, I am so thankful for that small moment of encouragement in the midst of all the angst I was exposed to every day. I genuinely believe that short meeting with my instructor inspired the early risks I took, and it certainly kept me going when I wanted to walk away.

Thanks for writing your counter-point. Reminded me of an important time in my life.
That was probably The Amp Hour.

http://www.theamphour.com/the-amp-hour-147-absorptive-augmen...
The current government is pretty hostile towards immigration. If you are not an EU citizen or married to one, your chances of getting a work visa from the US is slim. There are strict quotas and companies try to use theirs for top candidates.

You could improve your chances by being in the UK. I know a few people who got their jobs through connection they made when studying, despite needing visas.
At least some fresh air in this in thread.

I suspect that reality is even worse. Exponentially worse.

As one poet said "Умом Россию не понять"
Absolutely, but shouldn't the response to that be "I guess we better offer more payment options" instead of "let's ignore all CC-less people"?

Besides, a free trial might even be incentive enough for someone to get a CC just so they can use your app! I know it was for me when I found something I couldn't pay for otherwise.
Well, but it was a friend who was attacked; not her. We probably would not think it was inconsistent for a man whose female friend was attacked at a conference to remark that he felt comfortable in the tech community. But the writer is not allowed to think that way, which is some of what I think she is complaining about.

> ... the author doesn't mind being demeaned by men---when they dismiss her ideas because she's a woman, she just laughs it off ....

Or perhaps she was feeling superior, not laughing it off. Here was this guy putting down her proposal on the basis of gender, and then she comes back with an implementation. So it could have been an I-showed-him kind of thing.
Poland here. It's exactly the same as you described - if there is someone speaking at the beginning of the year it's mostly in the tone of "We have accepted 300 students for this course this year. Less than 100 makes it to the second year and usually less than 20 finish it. That means you have to work really hard to stay here and you can fail at any moment". This is what is usually said. Does it help? Of course not. Would it be any better if the speech was more cheerful? I believe so - most students are going to experience a reality crash within a first 2 weeks anyway,so a glimmer of hope at the beginning would not hurt.
Ad Astra ISRO! Good luck and Godspeed.

Two men, once looked out of the bars. One saw the sand and the other saw the stars.

(Haters gonna hate and all that ...)
>(factory workers and other lower-class city dwellers were the prime force behind communism while the serfs were mostly an afterthought)

I heard that that was not because the communists did not like or did not trust the serfs, but rather because factory workers knew how to show up at a particular time and place, e.g., the location of a demonstration.
South African banks in massive data breach
Good point. When you mention careers and roles associated with it, do you mean the industry and the sub-roles within that particular industry?

Great feedback again, you're a champion!
Funding and education really IS that impossible. I think you underestimate just how expensive college has become, especially in states that don't value educating smart people. I graduated into a recession, and even finding enough work to pay rent was incredibly difficult, because I was competing for minimum wage jobs against people with college degrees. The area was and is incredibly economically depressed.

I also had health problems that went untreated as a kid that made it hard to work. No college also meant no healthcare. Of course, I had to work anyway because I'd be homeless if I didn't.

It's hard to pay $20,000/year for college when you can't find more than $7,000/year in work. $7,000 is barely enough to keep you fed and housed as it is.

(Even at age 24, you don't start getting pell grant money until you make under about $10,000, incidentally.)
I think the CCP's recent cutback on bribes and conspicuous consumption limits their growth potential for the next few years. Their biggest season in Beijing used to be when the national congress was in session...
What's your reasoning behind using "MM" to denote million (as opposed the fewer keyed and more commonly accepted "m" or "M")? I see it a lot on Hacker News and I just can't figure out why people are doing it.
I get the feeling that your comment is (purposely) so content-free that you could apply it to virtually any transaction by a suitably large company. This suggests to me that it has very little signal for this discussion, since it evinces absolutely no knowledge of either of the companies at issue or any attempt to rectify that.

For example: will Softbank require a $1.2 billion bank loan to make this purchase? That's possible (they do 100% of their borrowing in a country where money is, essentially, free for the asking) but unlikely, because they're sitting on over $14 billion in cash and cash equivalents and they hold the vast majority of it in a country where, as mentioned, money is free for the asking.

See page 106 in their annual report, or some other page at some other link if you would prefer the English version:

http://www.softbank.co.jp/ja/design_set/data/irinfo/library/...

If for some reason they wanted to borrow money, they'd probably finance with bonds, not bank loans. There's a "why" here but I just got told by the flight attendant to turn off my iPad -- ask me later if you care.
The incoming class included at least one student from 49 of the 50 states - every state except Arkansas.