skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To your first paragraph your point only holds if there is absolutely no competition for workers (which may be the case). And yes, it still is voluntary. I once bought a phone off craigslist. It was a decent phone, worth probably $50 but I got it for $35 because the seller needed cash right away. Just because he was illiquid does not mean it was wrong of me to buy the phone from him. Or was that immoral of me and should I have been required to give him $50?

I agree moving is difficult - but so is creating efficiencies like Bezos has done. If your social views include the view that life should be easy for everyone, no matter their contribution, then we have a fundamental difference in what is realistic. If that is your view though maybe a better solution would be for those with money who share your view to support those without jobs or working with Amazon (or pay them to not work for Amazon). It is very easy to ask Amazon to change their policies, but that's because it isn't your money. (It's also worth noting that Amazon is not even profitable and runs in incredibly competitive industries. And, for every dollar they have to raise in costs they need to raise in profits.)

Your solution might work but has some concerns. Although the market for unskilled work is very heavily weighted towards companies the market for skilled leadership is very competitive. There is a reason top executives at Apple, Google and Amazon are paid well. Paying 10,000 workers $1 an hour more means $20,000,000 less yearly to spend on upper level talent in a highly competitive marketplace for that talent.

I am pointing out the human respecting nature of the market exchange - that it respects human choice (no matter how bad or good an individuals choice may be) rather than implying the idea that someone else knows what is best. Coercion is "the practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats". I have never heard a story of Amazon threatening someone to work for them or using physical force to entice them to take a job. Taxes, military drafts and certain types of crime are coercion - posting on a job board is not.
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It doesn't require coherent, self-identification to exist.

It doesn't need to make more profits during wartime than in peacetime to exist.

It only needs to have multiple actors whose interests align to produce more military funding and hardware than is needed to defend the nation.
That doesn't explain anything except that people will be influenced because you pointed to another star.
No, if it's anything like the Cold War, everybody is spying on everybody else, and everybody knows they are being spied on. They just kick up a fuss in the news when they happen upon a piece of proof, to use in the PR battle.
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send some antarctic lichens

I know what novel you read - and I recommend the series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy
I can't see how your generalization of the problem to more doors is correct.

In the classical problem with 3 doors, if you pick a door with a car, the host will only open 1 other door.

In your demo, if I use 40 doors and pick one, the host opens all other doors but one. Why?

If the one of those 40 I pick has a car, will the host open all remaining doors? That doesn't seem to be the case for the 3-door variant.
Searching for "bootstrap" returned zero results. How about some examples?
Let me be more clear. My point wasn't "don't wear a helmet", my point was the state doesn't need to pass a law to make helmet wearing compulsory. If the government was serious about making cycling safer it would provide better cycling facilities such as protected bike lanes and bike boulevards. People should be able to make the helmet decision themselves.

With that said, I'm really sorry about your accident. I'm glad the helmet protected you and hopefully your fall didn't dissuade you from future cycling. As you get more comfortable riding, your chances of having a freak accident like that will become less and less.
I should have said "not as much progress as I would have liked." Also, you have no more idea the reasons for the make up of the current board than I, or anyone else, does. I'm happy you are hopeful.
To get people thinking I generally have them agree there are 9 possible games to play, so the final win-chance cannot be 50%
I was thinking about investments the other day (I'm also trying to wrap my brain around this topic). I think it comes down to this:

An investment happens when the investor thinks the company will be worth more to another investor in the future.

That's basically it (and it's basically what you said). The second investor in the sentence above could be another VC, a buyer (M&A), or the stock market (IPO).
Yeah I grew up in New Zealand as well, and the article doesn't relate to any experience I've ever seen. Its a case of correlation doesn't equal causation.

People don't ride bicycles in New Zealand because they have to wear helmets, they don't ride them (or stop there kids from riding them), because the roads and drivers are absolutely terrible. The drivers literally just push on through like you aren't there.

If you say to anyone you ride to work, the first question you usually get is "is it dangerous? do you have a good route?". Thats how people feel about cycling, if you do it, then you might get seriously hurt.

Same thing in London by the way, I used to ride to work there. I got the same style of response "Jeez, you're brave", "Roads are to dangerous for me to try that". I felt way safer in London than I ever did in New Zealand though. Something about constant traffic jams that lets you slip right through :)
Good luck with the business Pete. Had no idea you were on HN!

- Besto
In practice today, Rethink's sharding is very similar to Mongo's sharding. This won't remain the case for long -- you'll soon be able to add and remove shards live if that's a requirement in your application. The architecture's already in place, but there are some loose ends we have to tie up to expose this functionality to users.
That sounds extremely unlikely. Most research projects don't get hundreds of millions of dollars of funding, while a single F-22 costs upwards of $150 million.
as if that doesn't just make him more qualified for the job

Maybe. Maybe not. Do we want the NSA to be rule-breaking cowboys that get the job done, or do we want them to have a rigid code of ethics?

I honestly don't know. Rigid ethics impair their effectiveness; cowboyism gives us what we have now.
I'm doing the same thing, launching a service built on RethinkDB and Flask within the next week. I recommend giving Rethink a go if you're contemplating an easy to setup and easy to deploy (AWS supports them) database solution. It also helps that the community behind Rethink are a friendly bunch and the documentation is steadily growing.

I've barely scratched the surface of Rethink in terms of functionality and features; but I definitely see a market for it as a competent and approachable database for people who want something that 'just works'.
Ha, interesting. Yes, well, back when the problem was invented it was assumed that everyone was aware of the TV show "Let's Make a Deal" and how the scenario worked. The host/offeree (a man named Monty Hall) _never_ picked a door that had the prize behind it, implying that he _always_ knew where the prize was.
B2B, really. We did have quite a few conversations with enterprise customers and the B2B conversations were so much better.

We haven't ruled out enterprise but I hope and imagine that our sweet spot is B2B.

As you said it has much of the benefits of consumers (little friction to get in the door) and enterprise (willing to pay).
To those considering donating to Watsi - the best part is when they send you an update on the patient's condition after surgery. The transparency is admirable.
My gut instinct was "this is perfect". However, sferik says it's made maintaining his repo much, much harder:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6882374

(SFErik had nothing to do with the bitcoin stuff; someone else put up the money and started it for his repo.)
This should really be made illegal. Some poor soul is going to think they are serious and actually put money into it. The Winklevoss are barely a step above Madoff here.
looks like the next few hours will be interesting
Dream It. Code It. Win It. competition launches
Let's assume that both of these game shows are showing on different channels and you were invited to participate in one of them. But once you get to the studio you have a case of nerves and forget which show you are on. Should that change how you make your decision?
Frankly, someone who knows how to wield Sharepoint qualifies more as a Marquis de Sade to me.
Back when I did a lot more web stuff, soft launches were the default way we released features. But I wonder if soft launches are possible or even desirable in the mobile apps world where a lot of press is devoted to "new" (app store sections and even blogs with a recurring "new this week" sections).

Do any mobile startups do soft launches?
Not that I necessarily buy in to the idea of "a coherent Military-Industrial Complex", but this doesn't really debunk much. It seems to me that peacetime profits for military contractors are dependent on the assumption that there's going to be wartime usage of the research they're doing in the short- to medium-term. Surely if we went a significant period without any military engagements, there would be far less of a push to fund the research of military contractors (I know that military research tends to make it into the consumer sphere and make us all better off, but that's definitely not what motivates the funding).
Execution matters and when you're the official crowdfunding platform for reddit , I'm sure that helps.

http://blog.reddit.com/2012/08/new-fundraising-options-desig...
Folks have lost clearances and jobs. I don't know about prison time. But I do know the fear of these things happening is a motivating factor not to cross the line. But I'm just some guy...
But nobody (other than die-hard fans) will use it unless there's a personal benefit. You have to offer at least enough of a discount over the credit card price to cover the lost credit card rewards.
I would not associate wearing helmets with the increased injury rate. Was there an increase in the number of cars on the road?
Yep, this can also bite you in Erlang.
This is not a question of whether some specific person is a bad person. It's a question of whether the current incentive scheme leads to certain aggregate behavior.
The “Dream it. Code it. Win it.” competition has been launched by the MIT Club of NY, MIT EF NY, and TradingScreen to celebrate and reward the creative aspects of computer science in New York City.

The selection of semi-finalists will be done over a period of three months through social media voting and a committee of volunteers. The contest will be limited to full-time students who are 18 years or older at the time of submission and enrolled at an accredited institution. At the final, live event in New York City, the selected semi-finalists will present their creations before a panel of successful computer scientists, entrepreneurs and investors who will award the finalists cash and prizes which total over $30,000.
How is SteamOS not a full OS?

It is not a Windows gaming OS, but that's something only Windows can be.
A terror attack would have deliberately targeted the wedding convoy because it's a soft target and because of the fear it would inspire among civilian non-combatants.
> If you think minimum wage laws don't harm anyone you're terribly mistaken.

I think this is not based on evidence. Not all minimun wage laws are bad. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Wage_Act_1998...

I'm sure the minimum wage could be set to a level where it would do damage, but I don't believe that is necessarily so.
I basically do this, but I use "," (comma) as my leader, and I make capslock do double duty as ctrl and esc using KeyRemap4MacBook (https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/). The trick is first remap capslock to Ctrl in keyboard system preferences, then use KR4MB to remap Control_L (the left control key, which is to say, what capslock now signals) to Control_L, but if you type ONLY Ctrl_L it sends esc. so when i need escape, it sends that. when i want to use it for Ctrl-modified combos, it does that. Works fantastically for Vim, i've been doing this for a couple years now. Also nice for emacs keyboard shortcuts in other apps that respond to them.
> lorendsr has far too much confidence that what he was taught about the governing law is correct.

I'm not sure that's a justified assumption. In the quote you present, he explicitly notes that what he was taught is a distinction the Agency makes, not one written into the law, when he says (emphasis added): «I use the term "look" deliberately: the Agency makes the distinction that looking at data is surveillance, while gathering it from locations outside the US is not.»
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I hadn't thought about this... but honestly a simple solution would be to let the repo maintainer decide how much to give for each commit in a scale of importance.

You can't obviously measure it on number of lines changed or something because that doesn't reflect the importance of a change, but maybe just say "okay, I can merge this but you get only 0.0001% because it's just a minor typo" or something like that. And if somebody is trying to abuse the system then just give them 0.

A better way would be to set up issues with bounties (what is already mentioned in the article) so the actual developers can decide the worth of contributions before the contributions are actually made, in order not to do favoritism.
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it's also not conclusive that they harm you at all. this logical fallacy needs to quit being parroted by the willfully ignorant.
These better work conditions would come at a cost. The money has to come from somewhere. You can't just complain that Amazon doesn't treat their employees well enough without explaining where you would get the money to improve their work conditions.
I am guessing here but you are probably suffering from product-market misfit here. Most probably your clients' needs could be served with a Wordpress install, a few plug ins and a shiny theme on top. They would happily pay £300 for that and you can still make a decentish profit.

You are providing a service at a tick higher level than that, which they don't really need. I guess you see where I am going with this; you need to find clients that actually need your skills.
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Google is not violating anyone's privacy unless you've already decided they're guilty. Moreover, no one's forced to use google services. If anyone is violating people's privacy without their consents, it would be the government.
What does the other twin say?
Whatsapp and FB messenger are the two most popular cross platform IMs amongst my non-techy friends. I guess it varies wildly based on your circles, and possibly your region
I'll bite.

I guess that the odd player can always choose 1. In that case he can either win 3 or lose 2. Making that the favorable choice for the odd player.

Even player could always choose 2 in which case he can either win 4 or lose 3. Making this the favorable choice for the even player.
However, if both players play their favorable choice, odd player always wins: 2 + 1 = 3.

I'm not sure if I got this right, but that's my thinking so far...
You know, I've heard a lot of people go this route, and they like it a lot.

I tried it for a couple of days, maybe not long enough, and I guess a lot of this comes down to feel, which comes down to previous typing experience and personal preference, which seems that it may be highly personal (though I don't have data to back that up).
Really love how it sends me a push if my numbers hit. No need to check my tickets at the bodega scanner which never works.
You should take a look at Devcoin (devcoin.org): A crypto-currency specialized in rewarding open source projects (hardware, software, music, blog posts ...).

The main differentiator here is that 90% of mined coins go directly in rewards.
I think the idea has potential but would this not encourage users to purposely commit sparsely?
The rules of the problem aren't explained very well. most of the contention probably is based on unclear boundaries of the game.
Looks like I totally missed the parallel to the Cold War, could you elaborate?
> this protocol is the result of thougtful and prolonged work of professionals.

Pray tell, why replay protection is done after decryption.
If this works for Google, I imagine I can have a business based in Uruguay that sells weed to the world, and I only have to face court in Uruguay when people claim it's illegal in their country?
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I agree, you can't make blanket generalizations. However, there is just a stark difference that are few consumer apps that the founder ISN'T passionate about and there are few B2B apps that the founder IS passionate about.
I think they justified their assumptions. Maybe you disagree with their justification?
Coffeemug, I remember you on IRC in #weblocks. Good stuff, hope you took some off the table.
If you follow this sort of belief to it's logical conclusion, then why should we have any sort of intelligence agency?
"We have reports that you beat your wife" is not an unfair question to ask someone charged with beating his wife. Just because our legal system presumes innocence doesn't mean you can't question someone until they've been convicted of a crime.
When you have an army shooting at people in a foreign country, there is a war; call it whatever you want.
Not only is this still a thing, but it's something you help with:

http://www.redcross.org.uk/Get-involved/Volunteer/Migration-...

"When families are separated by war or disaster, our volunteers search for lost loved ones and put them back in contact."

Or, outside the UK:

http://www.redcross.org/what-we-do/international-services/re...
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> Rigid ethics impair their effectiveness

Does it? How, specifically?

> cowboyism gives us what we have now.

Which also impairs effectiveness at doing anything that is legitimate role of any component of the US government, which necessary includes adhering to rather than subverting the Constitution of the United States.
People say this all the time but it's not true. There are a bunch of things in JS that just don't work (are compile errors) in CS. Like conditional expressions.
From the author's discussion of Node's "enterprise" popularity:

> The visceral rejection of Node.js that you see from some quarters is often
> the spidey-sense of an experienced enterprise developer zapping them between
> the eyes. JavaScript? No!

The author shouldn't be so quick to chalk this uneasiness up to discomfort with JavaScript itself but rather with the perceived instability of the NPM ecosystem. While NPM is filled with high-quality libraries, each has a bird's nest of dependencies like what you see with CPAN packages. To use Node, you need to use NPM. To trust NPM, you need to trust Open Source. Until the enterprise really trusts open source, Node will never be very popular there, regardless of how heavily it is used elsewhere. PHP overcame this hurdle because you can use PHP productively with no third-party packages.

The second problem for Node to overcome is that its design requires asynchronous I/O for good performance, and you need decent developers to write good asynchronous code. While this is a real problem, I'm not sure that many decision-makers are aware of this (or would care about it) because so much "enterprise" software is dog slow and resource hungry.
I also use KR4MB, but I found that I'm migrating toward a multi-system (more than one keyboard on more than one OS) situation. This introduced some peculiarities to my workflow where it means I can't rely on KR4MB always being available. I originally thought I might use KR4MB a lot more, but I've had to minimize its use to get that cross-platform consistency in my particular case.
> because his helmet restricted his vision

That's impossible with the most common type of bicycle helmets[1]. Full-face helmets that look like those used on motorcycles should be restricted to downhill cycling.

[1]: http://www.bellhelmets.com/cycling/helmets/recreational/
IMO bug bounty payouts are a more effective use of funds for a project. Paying per commit is like paying per line of code. At least with a bug bounty you (the giver) can specify which particular item interests you. If you want to donate money to the project as a whole, then it seems easier to just communicate with the project owner/maintainer and send them funds directly.