skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However I am a bit concerned for the man's security. Since he can't be corrupted, assassination would be an option for a powerful group that sees him as an obstacle.

The biggest risk to South American leaders has tended to be agents of the US government. No security detail is going to achieve much against another illegally-financed Contra campaign, a Grenada invasion, or a replay of Chile.
Supposedly, during WWII and before, the military had a problem: only about 50% of the guys with a gun in their hand, were shooting to kill the enemy. That is, about half of their troops felt morally bad about shooting at another human.

I think that it quite possible that a side effect of CoD et al, would be that those who played it who later did join the military, would have much less reluctance in shooting at others. Whether this is deliberate on the part of the military or just an unplanned outcome, I don't know.
Money can be inconsistent

I agree w/the advice given, but learning to save and limit expenses is just half the battle. Learning to get better at generating revenue is the other. All too often I hear the former advised without mention of the latter.
just guessing but if all statements are terminated with a ; instead of a newline it allows statements to be split up into multiple lines?
Ha! I was approached by an in-house recruiter for a startup who advised me to revise my resume. He said that my resume reflected someone with a scientific programming background (the position I was aiming for) as opposed to the dev ops background needed for the low-paid dev ops position they were looking to fill.
From wikipedia: " Groping in crowded commuter trains has been a problem in Japan; according to a survey conducted by Tokyo Metropolitan Police and East Japan Railway Company, two-thirds of female passengers in their twenties and thirties reported that they had been groped on trains, and the majority had been victimized frequently."

can't check the source as it's behind a mobile paywall.
Thanks, especially for the link to a paper that doesn't need payment. I'm looking forward to reading it over lunch!
Career plans are wonderful for those whose career goes according to plan. ;-)
Really a better title for this article would be "Simulation backs up theory that universe is a simulation".

I find them very curious, the "TheUniverseIsAComputer" people.

Suppose there is an experiment proving that the Universe is indeed a particle simulation whose discoverable elements are being actuated by unspecified interactions of presumably very different elements in some other, underlying "universe", say a substrate of Rule 110, and consciousness can be marked out as a computable pattern in such, and that the simulation process works well enough for a group of researchers (presumably "us") to feel as if "we" are really here. Okay great.

But for this to qualify as a simulation, surely the experiment (and the conscious experimenters) would have to be reproduced exactly, right down to the consciousnesses apprehending the results that establish scientific consensus that the UniverseIsAComputer, in precisely the consciousness-simulating way that these people fantasize about?

We are to understand that the scientists in the "real" universe presumably would not reach the same consensus, because theirs is the actually Real Universe, not the simulated one, and so the Reality Detection Experiment fails in some way.

So if this alleged difference appears---then why does the "simulation" even qualify as a simulation? For that matter, why does the author's own computer simulation qualify as having something to say about the real Universe?

I suppose the simulation is "good enough" for consciousness to be reproduced more or less exactly, except for just recently the aspect of scientists becoming conscious of the fact that TheUniverseIsASimulation.

I guess I could accept that everything is perfectly simulated except for... the evidence for the simulation?

Meh.
So as per your reasoning I take low-end products with happy customers are immediately promoted by the magic of Amazon ratings to premium high-end products.

Good to know as next time I plan to buy a car I can go for an Honda Fit ( btw, no offense intended to any owner, just took it from a list of decent affordable US cars ) as everyone knows it will the same as a Tesla S but without the 1000x margin on top. As heck, Honda Fit's got 5-stars reviews on Amazon!!!

And yes, my car knowledge is rubbish to tell people that Honda Fit is low-end.
The NSA is Coming to Town
The rate of veteran unemployment is very high. You'd be amazed what you'll do for money, especially when you have a wife and kids, which a lot of veterans do.
I wanted to appreciate for writing this reply. Thank you.
Cute.. that's about it. Good design execution and a concept idea.

also it would be great if they are chewable.. looks like pack of juicy fruit gum
I got it running under Virtualbox fairly easily. It's not that exciting, just Gnome 3 with a few extra desktop icons. You can choose to login to big picture mode directly from Gdm.
While a satirical repo doesn't necessarily belong on GitHub, I think the general trend of large internet companies to pull material that is considered offensive, usually by progressives, is worrying.

In fact, if GitHub were an American shopping mall, they would not be allowed to stop people from wearing T-shirts that mocked feminism, because of they way the first amendment is interpreted.

I don't think GitHub should remove material just because it differs from their political viewpoint, or from the viewpoint of people who are able to cause the most trouble for them. Of course people are always free to criticize the repo and its authors if they don't like it.
Use mkisofs to create an iso from the unzipped contents and use the iso like any other install media.
You can run a port of SmoothLife in Chrome (via PNaCl) here:
http://gonativeclient.appspot.com/demo/smoothlife
Will the agreement be legally tenable? Also, it is NZ centric, can we adjust country settings?
I can't find the original paper, unfortunately. With that said, it's interesting to compare the OP with the BBC's reporting of the same story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25269698
>Please tell me where Kyle signed a confidentiality agreement with Tom. If you point it out, I would agree that releasing the email is inappropriate.

Statements of this category are not going to persuade anyone to your side in a debate over social tact.
>confidentiality agreement

It's not about legality, it's about the expectation of privacy. Email is by default private. Here's how I see this: Tom emails Kyle about a job. Kyle turns it down because of his discomfort with the firm. Tom asks what he's talking about. He says "that one joke you once made" and immediately posts the whole thing on the internet to get internet points from his internet friends for fighting the man or some other misguided emotion.

>I fail to see how you can be ignorant about rape in the same way that I fail to see how you can be ignorant about murder or genocide.

I'm not talking about rape. I'm talking about the cultural import and context of rape jokes. That it's a topic that can potentially trigger rape victims and cause more hurt than intended is a function of our current social circumstances, and that kind of sensitivity comes with education. Some people don't have that education, and it's okay. They aren't bad people necessarily. Again, you don't know any good people who make bad jokes? I can't believe that.

>More generally, if they didn't think it was offensive in the first place, why did they delete the joke?

But that's the point! It is offensive, and they did the right thing by deleting it and apologizing. What's the beef now? I don't expect mental erasure, but the other extreme of making a blacklist of everyone who ever made a joke that made you uncomfortable isn't right either. Give people a chance to better themselves and you will have a better world. If you just keep shaming offenders till the end of time how do you ever expect them to see the light?
QR code stickers would be disposable.

And can do the same thing, associate data. Generate unique urls that go to a web service that allows "mapping".
Why do you care that the registered address is a home address? Most freelancers/consultants work from home.

>whether the filing date is during a time of your unemployment, etc?

Why does this mater? Isn't the most likely time to start a consulting company during a time of unemployment?
Note: I'm not much of a rap fan, but rapgenius has more than rap on it.

>Why? For what exactly?

It's interesting to see what other people think some of your favorite songs mean and you can look at music in different ways. The same reason I'll talk about good albums with friends.

> How do you put up with that UI?

I can read the content and while I'd appreciate a better design I'm not an elitist.
Dogfooding?
Aha, Boston Dynamics has such wild repertoire of robots. Well done. Forget Big Dog, I like this robot a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b4ZZQkcNEo

Maps, Self-Driving car, robots and a high quality analytics team. On top of that, robotic team comprises of various reputed groups with talented well regarded individuals. I look forward to the future. Also, how much disparity will arise in quality of living between North America and various Asian countries, or even Europe.
Lean startup preaches finding customers or at least users first. doing some customer reseach. also equity should probably be vested. over the next year I'm going to do this and this I get x equity.
As someone who only games casually, and has Intel Integrated graphics in all his Linux machines, I'm really happy that Valve decided to stick with one graphics platform and make that experience really good for their initial release. It means getting the code out to as many people ASAP.

Early releases of Canonical's Unity also initially were nVidia-only, IIRC, so I would consider this par for the course. (There's also the difficulty in finding ATI/AMD chips with all the people mining scrypt cryptocurrencies...)
Do you have a link to a live stream?
This is the bad for the consumer scenario I'm concerned about. It could waste millions of hours of mental consumer math to save a few tens of hours of retailer pricing math.
So is google going to start supplying the DoD when the DARPA projects graduate?
Good thing they have that first law that prevents them from doing evil.
As a requirement, no, but basically every new machine (Macbooks \w Mac OS X, Chromebooks \w Chrome OS, Windows RT tablets, Windows 8 machines) ships booting off of UEFI.
Reading the headline the first words out my mouth were "holy shit"

Not only does this bring some serious engineering talent to Google's robotics initiative, this acquisition should create some interesting new interactions between Google and the government moving forward.
Asimov added a 4th law:

A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

Is it just me, or is, "don't be evil" a little too close for comfort?
I don't think that's necessarily a negative thing, just because it's Google. Think about how many university professors receive grants from DoD. How many of them are actually purely for science? They are all practical.
I feel like the "casual 15 mins gaming" is predominantly going to be iPad and cell phones in the future, whereas I see SteamOS fitting the "I'm going to spend two hours in my man cave" scenario. If it's a box in your living room, presumably you could trigger an installation remotely from your computer or cell phone, and when it's done downloading an hour later you can just walk over to it and start using it.
His point is to not have an overly specific plan, rather have a system where you are constantly learning things and meeting people that will be helpful to you in the future. He's also a former computer programmer and has a startup for easily sharing schedules among groups.

His interview on Tavis Smiley's show was awesome-
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365115829/
Did GNOME just make it onto a lot of desktops all of a sudden?
How long does it take you to copy its folder to the ramdisk? Is this longer than it would take for e.g. the Linux kernel to figure out it should cache that folder in memory by itself?
Back up in yo ass like that FB stock,
I'm crazy like the Ballmer put my nuts in yo mouth.
But the gameplay was bad even for modern console shooter. And that says a lot. I loved the cutscenes but the other parts were terrible. It was - slaughter these people in gameplay - watch the cutscene how bad war is. They failed to relay their message with the gameplay.
Let's be inclusive -- except let's exclude those people with a niche (though with the popularity of rap, maybe not so niche) sense of humor that we don't approve of and sternly declare to be not funny at best and completely evil at worst.
When taping a link, couldn't the browser start to load the page in the background even though the gesture may turn out to be a double-tap.
I must have missed the memo that everyone must have gotten about taurine. I have no idea what you're referring to and Google isn't really helping. Care to share?
Feedly WAS (is) Hijacking Shared Links And Cutting Out Original Publishers
I feel like robotics in a few years is what big data is today. So what is it that one should be doing to get ready to jump into robotics in a few years?
But not preventing them from introducing "bugs". I wonder when will we see first robot genocide? In 10 years? 20?
His sock puppets seem to care a lot about what he has to say about all forms of douchbaggery.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/06/17/the-saga-o...

Scott Adams is up to his old obliviously obtuse act again. You may recall that the creator of Dilbert is an apologist for creationism, a pathetic anti-atheist wanker, and a narcissistic sock puppeteer, but did you know he’s also an obnoxist sexist pig?
Oh, right, you did already know that.
OK, but now he’s revising his personal history and making up stories about being a poor oppressed man, crushed by the matriarchy.

http://comicsalliance.com/scott-adams-plannedchaos-sockpuppe...

http://amptoons.com/blog/2011/06/16/scott-adams-still-a-douc...

http://www.rickworley.com/2012/06/20/scott-adams-douchebags-...

http://bitchmagazine.org/post/douchebag-decree-scott-adams-d...

http://bbs.boingboing.net/t/incredibly-interesting-authors-0...

http://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/gqzgx/dilbert_creato...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/21/987473/-Scott-Adams...

http://www.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/04/18/the-guy-...

...and so on...
I love my job. It's interesting, difficult at times for various reasons, pays well enough that I can live a good life, and has ideals that I can agree with. People always looking for the next larger paycheck bother me sometimes and I think that's at the core of what Scott Adams is saying.

Too many times we get caught up in our jobs because its something we feel we should do or because it pays more and more money but loving what you do is the real meaning behind his message.
First post on HN. I'm not entirely sure how the PayPal Node vs. Java message has been packaged, but I think there is a lot of confusion. From my understanding (via blogs and conferences), Node was used to replace Java on the front-end. Meaning, the Node front-end is still calling Java + other stacks upstream -- which likely explains the performance benchmarks (the front-end wasn't the bottle neck). That said, even with similar performance benchmarks, I can see how Node might result in higher developer productivity for the front-end components of PayPal -- hence the enthusiasm they are showing. Lot's of negativity and blame on this thread, but I think it's because people are making assumptions.
What's a good 16gb stick or do you use 8 8gb sticks?
Yes, more identifying data for anyone supporting politically incorrect views, please.

[0]: http://imgur.com/MqxipLU
Another vote for Cal King from a tall guy!

Also, what frame do you show the bed with? It looks good together.
HR looks for reasons to reject people. They have to, because they get so many junk resumes.

I'm a good developer at a good job and not that old. A few years ago I was in transition between a several-year volunteering engagement and work in the private sector, and the job search took a while. I got very few interviews at the time. I would have been an asset to any decent employer that hired me. I do not think the resumes I submitted were junk.

There appear to be structural changes underway that are making the job market volatile for a range of people, especially the long-term unemployed. I am not sure where it is all heading.
This seems like a stretch. I am a big fan of robotics, and I get the Hard Problem appeal but it doesn't seem like a good use of Google's funds. It does make for some interesting speculation though.
While you're taking feedback about product integration, here's what I really want: a murphy bed that when collapsed has a floor to ceiling whiteboard.

I may be a unique person for saying that, but a Murphy+whiteboard would turn a small bedroom office into urban bliss.
Ivy league education
And it's their duty to know that your game works?
Robotics is multifaceted and difficult in all of them. Boston Dynamics is probably the best place in the world for motion dynamics, gaits, and walking mechanics.

I'm amazed, but I suppose I shouldn't be - Google made a great choice.
HN gets a lot of post about acquisitions and whatnot, but I feel this is probably one of the most important in recent memory.

The implications of taking this talent into consumer robotics (or augmenting their presence in the defense community) will ripple through the tech world.
The "remove redirects" bookmarklet is handy for this

https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html

But it's not automatic.
If you use Firefox in a corporate environment that requires you to change an LDAP password every couple months, the "Mass Password Reset" add-on lets you change multiple saved passwords at the same time:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mass-password...
Wikipedia:

Eating your own dog food, also called dogfooding, is a slang term used to reference a scenario in which a company (usually, a computer software company) uses its own product to demonstrate the quality and capabilities of the product.
Google is building one hell of a robotics patent portfolio.
Algorithms.io has been acquired by Lumen Data
My first thoughts were along: "Nope" and "This is how the robopocalypse starts".

Google & BD are both researching machine learning, it only makes sense for Google to buy them.
Yup. Absolutely agreed. I really didn't expect this.
Wouldn't you say they're looking for their "next business"?

Why not robots? Higher barrier to entry, untapped market. It is a place where a ton of capital can really shine.
Google eats brains!
If you're still interested: https://gist.github.com/voltagex/7955961
Nothing wrong with that now, no? My computer, my rules.
Great job on chosen market, website and pricing. Definitely looking at this for our next bed.
Whenever it happens I am sure it will be fully democratic and completely lawful.
Foolish stuff like posing as his biggest fan on message boards to say how brilliant he is and how stupid everyone else is for not seeing that? "If an idiot and a genius disagree, the idiot generally thinks the genius is wrong. He also has lots of idiot reasons to back his idiot belief. That's how the idiot mind is wired. It's fair to say you disagree with Adams. But you can't rule out the hypothesis that you're too dumb to understand what he's saying. And he's a certified genius. Just sayin'."

Foolish stuff like saying things like "Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. It’s just easier this way for everyone"?

Should I go on? I could go on and on and on, quoting him making a total douchbag of himself. He never stops, he just keeps digging deeper.
Having just watched this video[0] of some of their work this stuff is just amazing. I can't wait to see what Google does with it. Also this is what makes Google such an awesome company from a computer science perspective IMO.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZPRsrwumQ&feature=youtu.be...
In NZ, yes.

Given how different contract and company law varies between countries, I doubt it's portable. Someone could adapt the idea though.
I know it's been said, and at this point it's kind of cliche, but I feel like I'm living in a sci-fi movie more SNF more with each passing day. This is all very exciting stuff.
How do you resolve the cognitive dissonance between the content on the RapGenius site and the words by the RG founders?

Is the content on the site itself just as offensive? If so, how do you feel about the MCs and the large numbers of album sales etc. that they attract?
> The whole idea behing LD is to improve and motivate yourself. There are no rewards. If you're cheating, you are not cheating anyone else but yourself.

Yeah, maybe some nasty setup like that is not necessary at all. Just a big timer on some web site. I think I'll contact the LD folks about this whole idea, maybe they're up for it. I doubt a game jam I start would gain traction TBH, I've never even released a game (despite having made about 13 in 10 years).
I remember people saying the same thing about the YouTube acquisition. At the time, it was very difficult to see how YouTube could possibly be valuable to Google. Everyone knew that videos were a solved problem: use Ares to download them, and DivX to watch them. And the purchase price was something like 800 million. 800 million?! What a sucker Google was!

What a bargain 800 million was in hindsight. And what a monumental effect the acquisition had.

It's hard to predict whether this acquisition could be on the same scale. But considering the space, it may very well be.
I can't believe no one has challenged you on this remark for 5+ hours.
Google acquired something else? Shocking!
We're in Washington state, but it's the same story here. Our monthly premium is going up about 50% for a similar deductible but lesser coverage overall. Just wait until next year when larger employer plans are no longer exempted.
>> "Dynamically revoking permissions breaks that contract."

While I'm no expert in native app dev, it's interesting to see so many people are so confident the apps will break under those circumstances, without actually any first hand experience.

I would likewise caution anyone putting forward this idea, that unless you've seen the effect revoking permissions has had on your app, or another app, then anything you put forward in this discussion is hearsay.

I'm not jumping on the meme train about millions of apps crashing due to permission revoking. Google should just include the feature, and have it default to off, with appropriate warnings about tripping some apps when switched on. It doesn't need to be a complicated thing.