skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree completely. There's a great set of posts on lesswrong about that.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/i0/are_your_enemies_innately_evil/

"Realistically, most people don't construct their life stories with themselves as the villains. Everyone is the hero of their own story."
I write lengthy spec documents on that 22 inch screen ;)

I use a logitech m500 with the inertial scrollwheel, so scrolling through long documents is easy. Also, word's navigation pane makes it easy to jump from point to point. The 22 inch screen is just large enough to see the full page width and the nav pane side by side.

When implementing long spec documents, i print them out and mark off the parts i've completed. There would be no added value from having a second screen where i do that digitally for me personally. (I did try it once.)
Cosmos is wonderful. But I'd mostly rather read to learn, it's faster.

I'm a huge fan of documentaries that aren't mind-expanding and focus on quirky subcultures:

King of Kong - Never cared about professional video gamers, but this film made me care deeply for 90 minutes.

Spellbound - The incredible varied backstories behind the kids in the national spelling bee

Grizzly Man - Don't even know how to describe this one. See Alaska through the eyes of a crazy person.

Monster Camp - About people into live-action roleplaying. The culture clash with the couple on a leisurely stroll through the park that has no idea what's going on around them is one of the all-time great moments in documentaries.

American Movie - Couldn't tell if this was real or Christopher Guest at first. It's real. It's awesome.
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Buildings are often payed for by donations, and they can't use the donations to pay for the basic upkeep.
I guess it depends on how many candidates you interview in a day. I suspect that there is a point where taking the time to be the bearer of bad news just doesn't seem to be worth it anymore. But I guess at that point one should stop promising to call or email candidates.
Oh, right, it's the upper-middle salariat who are overpaid, and not the capitalist class itself.
I'm with you regarding the importance of careful reasoning. I'll just say that I'm skeptical of the usefulness in the development of that faculty of classes where the quality of your "reasoning" is considered commensurate with your apparent support of the teacher's political agenda. Compared to classes where the quality of your reasoning is judged by whether the things you design actually work or your opinions are confirmed or refuted by voltmeter, critical thinking as a synonym for compliance with authority is not my idea of the kind of critical reasoning that matters.

I'm more impressed by the critical thinking in the physics department than the philosophy department, but departments like philosophy and law are way ahead of the pure activist studies departments, because they tend to genuinely reason about issues from multiple perspectives, not just proselytize the approved one.
BMW also need to work on their indicator fluid systems. So many of their cars seem to have run out, which leads to other drivers being unable to see the indicators the BMW drivers so conscientiously use.
Indeed, such a lousy article. The stock is still net up almost 50% in THREE MONTHS and yet somehow he is writing some doomsday scenario article about it.

It reminds me of the crappy articles talking about how TSLA was down and doing terrible, when the price was around 25, months after it IPO'd at 17.

I wish I could downvote this article.
I have been using the Seiki 39" for about 4 months now and I agree with a lot of what @bhauer has to say.

There are a couple of things as a developer.
1. You end up developing really long lines of code that might upset other developers
2. I'm on my second Seiki, my first one died and it took 1 mo. to receive a replacement.
They read like just sarcasm to me.
This looks really cool, and of all the "personalized product recommendations" sites I've seen, this seems like possibly the most useful one yet. I could actually see using this. Except for one thing... I logged in with Reddit, and after that it just sat there spinning for about 6 minutes before I got bored and closed the tab. I never actually got any recommendations. :-(
I thought the same thing but now that I have the Seiki it is very similar to having 4 x 20" 1080p monitors. The view angle is decent as long as you place the monitor about 2-3 feet away.
Just kidding. How much Khash/s this dude can?
Solution claimed for Navier-Stokes equations, one of the millennium problems
I'd like to chime in as another Seiki user. I've been working on projects for 3-4 month with the Seiki and I end up using it 12-14 hrs on many days. I run it at full 2160p but have increased my Win8 res to 120%.
Although I'm sure you mean well this comment comes across as out of touch with reality.

- Most investment bankers aren't self-taught kids from impoverished neighborhoods who got where they are today through a combination of pluck and determination.

- Good libraries are in good neighborhoods. Poor neighborhoods often don't have a library at all.

- Bosses want people who have abilities, but depending on your circumstances at birth it may take a lot more effort to acquire those abilities.

Some people succeed even though the deck is completely stacked against them. This has always been the case. And yes, the individual should do what they can to make the best of an unfair situation. However, I'm arguing that the deck shouldn't be stacked against people based on gender and race in the first place. And before there can be meaningful change people have to acknowledge that this unfairness has to be addressed.
History is usually not made up. The guy is a huckster.
With this argument, why even bother with the façade of classes and grades? Why not just have college be a four year cruise? It would be just as isolating, just as incubating, probably more fun. Students would get to see the world as they cruised around the globe. Those who wanted to learn, write, or discourse could absolutely do it, and those that just want to party wouldn't have to have grades or 9am classes to bother them. I've have been thinking of this for a while now. This idea reminds me of the grade schools that have stopped having classes and tests; the kids just study or do what they want, and come out just as prepared (according to the tests) as those from a public school.
From one of the linked blogs containing details:

> There were lots of dynamic allocations

This surprises me; a lot of codecs are specified in such as way as to not require dynamic allocation at all.

I hypothesise that if it was written in another language, we would just see bugs appear in a different form.
Obviously this isn't granular enough to draw any conclusions from, but my alma mater (University of Virginia) has an annual opex of about $2b. This covers about 12,000 undergrads and 8,000 grad/professional students.
Why is the main focus on Aws costs when in comparison the HR costs are multiple of the Aws costs? Is it because were too technically minded here? Is it cause the charts in the article only showed the Aws costs whereas including the HR costs would have changed that perception. I don't know but i just keep seeing people focus on the Aws cost which was not the real problem in comparison.

It makes me think of bad pre-optimizations ;)
> I wonder if it's because of the sheer numbers that died in the camps or the power of the jewish lobby post world war II.

I think it's both, though the Jewish community has indeed been very vocal in popularizing the Nazi atrocities and establishing the term "Holocaust" to mean specifically the genocide of Jews in WW2. It is a crime to deny it in many countries.

It may seem as if the Jews were the focal point of the Nazi Aryan doctrine, however, the other sub-humans on the bottom of the racial ladder were the Slavic people and people of color. Russian death toll in the WW2 was more than 20 million people. Although, I never heard of the "Russian Holocaust".
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The key difference, though, is that arts & humanities classes force students to cultivate written and [hopefully] verbal communications skills in addition to critical thinking... not to mention reading. I think you vastly overestimate the amount of sway personal politics has over students, or how much faculty discuss/care about politics in the context of their teaching.
Tldr: bitcoin is bad because it is inherently deflational and inhibits fractional reserve banking by virtue of its seamless operation.
Keen On 2014: Apple, Apple & Apple
If you are only interested in the hard facts, sure, but then most popular science books and even some textbooks are not much better either, in some sense I wish I could unread some of the stuff I read as a youngster about complex numbers, zeno's paradox, goedels theorem, various probability puzzles, physics etc. because in the shallowness of the description (and often the authors understanding) it was actively detrimental to understanding the topics. Full comprehension of complex topics requires years of sustained effort.

Yet one still wants to get some sense of what is happening in different places of the world, to people in different disciplines or cultures, and you specifically do not want to get into too much detail, because nobody simply has the mental capacity to study every discipline out there, and this is mostly a form of reasonably intelligent entertainment, at its best an inspiration to get deeper in and read books etc.
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You realize you would need a counter party for those, right? I'm not in finance, but maybe somebody who is can guesstimate the size of the long term options market for tech companies? I'd say it must be minuscule, how can you build a profitable strategy off something with that volatility without devolving into straight gambling?
Just check glass door to get some kinda intuition about salaries based on location. Generally they seem to pay market rates.
You will enjoy these then:

Confessions of a Superhero - wannabe actors working on Hollywood streets as costumed superheroes for tips.

The Great Happiness Space - Japanese male prostitutes entertaining girls in pubs. Suprising twist in the end.

Indie Game The Movie, Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope - titles say it all. I guess these two are well known around here, like King of Kong you mentioned.
Not only this, they are throwing mud at Russavia and Odder who called her out, while their evidence against her is pretty much undeniable. Wikipedia community is extremely toxic. Russavia and Odder are admins, OTRS-members and prolific contributors in Wikimedia Commons, but are nobodies in English Wikipedia (Russavia is permablocked from WP, so he is even worse than nobody), so people just support Sarah Stierch, because she as WMF-member has much higher social status inside of English Wikipedia community.
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I was under the impression that deer freeze whenever they feel threatened by anything. Freezing when spotlighted is just a particular case of how deer always react to threats.
The elephant in the room that nobody is talking about here is
they gave away too much. They could have adjusted their freemium model. Why not contact people using a lot of resources ? Let them know the best way to keep the services up at the current clip is for them to start paying.
The point of the flashing brake light is to get your attention, apparently it's legal at least in the EU.
CyanogenMod: from bedroom Android hack to million dollar mobile OS
Something tells me there will be no meeting 50 years after the torture in US secret prisons -- especially none with any insight into the wrongness of it.
tl;dr; gold standard was abandoned a long time ago, we survived, and therefore it was a good choice to do so.

Or, in the words of the author:
"no plans for its return have emerged across a large number of economical cycles"

First of all - it's a weasel-talk. What is that large number of cycles he's talking about? Why is this number sufficient enough to come to the conclusion?
Also, the plans to get back to the gold standard come up all the time, they are just unsuccessful.

(even if I agree with the claim of the article, the argumentation is lousy)
2014: year of the skeptic?
Rhino hunting permit up for grabs at auction
Thank you, very good advice. I actually had success in a similar way, by tying engineering work in the form of prototyping and proof of concepts to my management consultancy projects. I am just trying to increase the engineering side of it all :)
i know right
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We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world.

This should not actually be a complicated inquiry.

http://snowdenandthefuture.info/events.html

http://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ciscosystemsrouteratcern....

Why would dead links help?
Ah jebus another blogger who misunderstands bitcoin ecosystem, technology and its users.
Who is looking for attention for his blog since its good linkbait. Well he/she got it.

Economists (including the armchair variety like this blogger) should be delighted bitcoin exists, it gives them something to compare and measure and write about for their dismal "science"

In meantime some of us continue to build for bitcoin and have profited nicely out of it (not the rise in price but saving on fees and no chargebacks)

If I hoarded all those coins over last few years instead of using bitcoin as a means of exchange, i be a bitcoin millionaire now (personally i am happy bitcoin is where it is now and where its headed), if everyone did that bitcoin be useless, the fact that its not useless now shows that whole "deflationary" argument is flawed here in the real world.

p.s: There is no lack of alternate cryptocurrencies, if you want inflation, go make your own "inflate-a-coin"TM

p.s #2: I bet in next decade we would have some central bank(s) creating their own cryptocurrencies, for example the Fed could create a "Bit-dolla" and set an inflation rate of 2% and they could control all the mining, if they get IRS to agree to accept it for taxation purpose we overnight have a state sanctioned crypt-ocurrency. Actually whats scary about this scenario is the state knowing everything you buy/sell (if your wallet is tied to SSN for example). I could definitely see governments embracing bitcoinlike techonlogies in order to get more power and control.
You're either very principled in that you're willing to get seriously injured over a minor cause, or you haven't really thought this through methinks...
> In mathematics, when you write a paper, you are always standing firmly on the shoulders of generations of common knowledge that you don't need to prove yourself - you can safely assume your readers agree with you on the matter. In the same way, I will assume that we agree on the following statement: Implementing gold standard in the modern economy will have no beneficial effect for the mankind, but may have very dire consequences.

You might as well postulate the existence of God.
I like how he ignores recent past of almost the whole global economy imploding due to debt based fiat system, and only being "resolved" by issuing even more debt and printing more dollars
Now do you still believe in "learning by failure"?
The "About me" part really distracted and made the article sour for me.

We always tell others not to attack someone's character but rather focus on their argument, in a way this is the reverse.

It's like you're setting up your credibility to make your argument stronger. I suggest remove that part completely.
Ask HN: What programming challenges would you kill for a chance to solve?
Suppose you could assemble a team of your choosing, and had infinite funding. What is the most challenging, complicated problem you could go about solving?
The short and easy answer is because wages/wealth has no necessary connection to how hard you work.

The tying of the notion of the cost of something to how much work goes into it is more or less the "labour theory of value", a notion traditionally tied to Karl Marx (these days) and classical economics. About the only place you'll see it brought up these days is either with die-hard marxists, or, ironically, people trying to justify their wage/wealth. The later do this because it seems almost ingrained in humans to assume that reward is tied to work somehow. We hate shirkers.

Economists of course know this theory is bullshit, but it seems it won't die, either from marxists, or as folk-economics among the general populace.

Wages are the cost to hire labour to someone with money. In that case, how much they want something (their demand) depends upon, more or less, the marginal value of that good (or the thing derived from it in the case of labour) and how much money they've actually got to pay for it. No money = no one really gives a hoot for your preferences/say.

On the side of labour, you've got few barriers to doing the job. Just about everyone can labour in the fields, work on the industry line, sweep the hall. There's not much of a barrier to getting such a skill. So supply is huge, and the relative productivity of most units are comparable to each other. Most people clean, work the field, etc, at about the same rate as each other, so the output of individuals is quite comparable.

Put them together in the simplest cases and you've got your answer: the marginal value of the field worker/janitor/industrial worker is worth very little to the people with the money on the demand side, and on the supply side, practically everyone (including most of the third world) can basically do it. And most of the third world are desperate to do it, so they'll bargain down quite low.

In a trivial sense, the case of programmers, and then above them, CEO's can be explained in this way as well. Programmers can do things that are relatively valuable to the people with the money. Not everyone can be a programmer. Its actually quite expensive to make a programmer. If you stop paying a certain amount, programmers will just go off and do something else.

In a more complex sense however, things get a bit more hairy. What is it that people with money value? Are they always correct? Why do they value those things? What about in jobs/positions where output/input is impossible to measure? Are they really so rational? Are those without money really powerless? What role do courts/police/judges/democracy/military play in all this?

The earlier provides an understanding of the basic economics. The later questions bring you closer to the truth, but I could barely touch upon them and do them justice in a HN post.
just wait until HN finds out nicotine is (technically) a powerful nootropic
Interestingly enough, I was just documenting my team's workflow in my blog...

http://www.skuunk.com/2014/01/our-git-workflow.html

Very similar to this, but we add a couple of steps to allow a business owner to examine a feature before it gets accepted and also we use an integration branch to deal with merge conflicts before creating a releasable master branch.
They're also planned economies and run by politbyro.
Get confused. Solve problems. Repeat. The universe is waiting for you.
Functions as dance
that's some ugly XML design D:
The College Conspiracy has some interesting 'information', but I wouldn't call it data.

Most colleges are for-profit scams with massive sport programs. The backers of this video are gold-and-silver nuts inflation trolls. Their list of recommended stocks (unbiased they say; worldview is bias I say) are mostly for precious metal mining companies and other bubble industries.

Here's one of the stocks, picked at random and overlaid with DJIA:

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=EXK+Interactive#symbol=ex...

Bubble in 2012 corresponds with a peak in silver, which has been down since.
Don't worry, they're just building your NSA file. Perpare to be guilty by association soon.
I had the same thoughts about this in my head, but wasn't able to express them as well as this guy.
The more you think about it all, the more of a false economy it is - the only people keeping the hype going are the ones who have a vested interest in doing so.

I did buy some BTC about 18 months ago, unfortunately I didn't hang on to them until now - but I didn't expect things to go this far.
I can't speak for tptacek, but I feel like the term "white knight" is incredibly misused, and 9 times out of 10 (including the way it was used in the current comment thread) it needs to die.

The reason is simple: Like all ad hominems it's a way of opting out of engaging with a speaker and their arguments. Rather than saying "Well, you're wrong because of X, Y, and Z" you say "you're just white knighting", and suddenly there's no need to list out any arguments.

Even beyond that, the entire logic framework behind the term is itself toxic; it's rests on the unspoken assumption that arguments are only as valid as the intentions behind them. I know nothing about the WMF's HR policies, nor do I have an opinion on whether Stierch should or should not have been fired. But if I say "she should not have been fired because other employees in the same situation have not been in the past, and this creates a double standard" (which as far as I know is not actually true; this is a hypothetical), it doesn't matter if I'm saying it because I like Steich as a friend, or I want to sleep with her, or I behave like that towards all women, or I got into a fistfight with someone from the WMF in a bar once and have a grudge against the whole group; either my assertion is right or it's wrong. A facile accusation that I'm only saying that because I want to sleep with her (which is what the "white knighting" term means in this context) could be true, and it just wouldn't matter.

In short, the term "white knight" is employed, almost without fail, in an attempt to bully and shut debate down; as the crudest of ad hominems. And it needs to die.

(Edit: For the record, I truly have no opinion on Stierch or the WMF in this case, and I haven't even bothered to look at the comments being discussed. This is nothing to do with this specific case.)
it already exists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflate-a-coin
Ask HN: Working for defense drone startups
Hi HN, I am really interested in working for startups that design and build drones for the defense industry. I'm a college junior in the US with some minimal embedded hardware experience. Are there any particularly interesting startups in this space or are drones made entirely by the big boys (Lockheed, Boeing etc)?

Thanks for your time!
Fractional reserve banking is the root of all evil. It's why the US national debt stands so high and why it can only keep growing.

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrQX4CF6Bxs
I'd take that to the next step where in the future all workstations will be a nice tall igloo shape where the entire roof and walls are the display and you can swivel around you seat (with embedded keyboard).
> were the Slavic people and people of color.

... and the artists, and the gays and the communists and the ...
I had the exact same feeling. Bezos' and Amazon's approach actually made me question how far would I go to build a billion dollar company. The customer experience is bar none the best I've seen at a company, but deep down I'd hope there would be a way to do it that wouldn't require leaving so much collateral damage.

-edit- Wife was talking to me while writing this post, hence, errors. -edit-
CEO salary =  0,5 * board of director salary (No logic at all in Belgium)