skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other point, yes, it's an old old idea that you should give power to those that are refusing it the most.

This is an adage to be said over a few beers, but doesn't really work in real life. Plenty of folks would heartily refuse to govern while also being incapable of governing. Refusal of power doesn't equate to proficiency in governance.

Your first point is the real goal - checks and balances. Just today in the paper here in Aus, there are reports of a freshly retired politician who had his wife on payroll for quite a nice amount, but the staff in the office report never having seen her for three years. All up it'll be a couple of hundred thousand worth in fraud, but will he actually get anything more than a slap on the wrist? How different would be the treatment if it was welfare fraud instead?

a transparent government... will fear its people

The idea of a government being scared of its constituents is a peculiarly American viewpoint; that things should be kept in place by fear of putting a foot wrong. Checks and balances should obviously be there, but the semantics of philosophically starting out from a place of fear is just bizarre.

The US is very much into polarising anything political into two groups (government vs people in this case) - very odd given that it's got one of the greatest varieties of cultures on the planet.
Privacy related comments and jokes are what I've seen everywhere about it.

Google has definitely lost control of their image.
I use that and remapping control to caps lock, for all my custom bindings in terminal.
That's sort of irrelevant, the creepy part is that the behavioural prediction models exist at all, and are controlled by an entity whose only responsibility or duty is to generate profit
Programming ability is not determined by biology, try again.
> Your post makes some weird assumptions and errors.

No it doesn't.

> The UK system has competition. For example: an NHS trust might provide drug and alcohol services. When the contract is renewed a charity might win that contract.

The competition is a sham. The contract goes to whoever is the chummiest with the right people in power.

> Your post also makes the weird assumption that supplies (medication, medical devices, dressings etc, beds and sheets and food and everything) is all also owned and provided by the government.

His post did contain the word "socialist", but that doesn't mean he's assuming what you described there. I believe he just wanted to make a point about "socialist" policies, like public healthcare. Sure, the word can be defined in various ways, but healthcare is what we were talking about. The lesson here is that it's just inevitably going to be worse run than a business would be. The Mises quote wasn't directly related, but it's a good idea to read whatever Mises had to say. You might learn something about how economies really work.
"I can tell you I don't have money... but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you."

-Liam Neeson
The Future of NEST
Agreed. That's where it feels dissonant to me: Google addresses mega-mass markets rather than luxury, to the point it degrades their products. Look at email: Yahoo! has practically delivered "Gmail without the inconveniences"...
"Yeah, it's completely fucked. Finland's system is similar in the waiting sense, at least."

Finland has UHC don't they? My point is basically that the funding mechanism doesn't (at this moment) seem to have anything to do with what service you receive.

"Exactly."

I would pay ridiculous amounts of money for an Uber for healthcare. As long as I didn't have to be put on hold while I was trying to do so.

I don't take nearly advantage of what I should in the healthcare realm because I have to make a phone call, take time off work, make transportation arrangements, and then know I'm going to be subject to something annoying somewhere in the process. If I could press a button, see what appointments are available, and then know it would be annoyance-free once I arrived, I'd probably use my available healthcare a much more appropriate amount.

"They say that the difference between a Libertarian and an Anarchist is roughly six months (paraphrased)."

Yeah, I think that's about right. I think I passed that mark maybe four years ago?
A.K.A. UI poorly solved usability challenges.

In a way, the fundamentals of Self is the future of programming but we need to get designers helping with the UI/UX

Smalltalk has a similar challenge
accept our TOS or prepare to freeze/burn up.
I dropped out in the 90's and never went to college. I applied for a linux admin job and got it. I was 18 and earning more than my father.

Interviewers have usually been impressed when I mention self-taught high school dropout. I've held positions at fortune 100 companies making 6 figure salaries until I dropped out of that too and started my company.

Credentials are a distraction. Follow your passion and build something you love.
This is exactly why I mention Baldurs Gate, because dozens of smart people took thousands of hours to reverse engineer what would have taken the legal team hours and one coder 15 minutes to relicense and release publicly.

Also, the Infinity Engine was used in half a dozen titles, and while it is detrimental that pretty much nobody releases game assets under permissive terms, my point is that games are lost to obscurity because their engines don't work. For better or worse, the game data is just as compatible with its engine as it ever was.
Maybe Google will push Nest to comply with the GPL terms? They're currently missing the (required by GPLv2) build/install stuff from their source code releases... I've been unable to get root on mine so far :(
> What if your motivation is to care for other people and to provide the best service you know how to?

What if you're not actually the people who run the system? Your question about some random, individual good doctors is not related to how the whole healthcare system is run and what can be expected based on it.
Small classes are actually worse GC-wise. Because they will fill up the GC graph with many small nodes as opposed to fewer large nodes, which are released in bulk with little fragmentation. Small and large nodes have the same GC overhead essentially. In general you want your objects to be large. When they are small, once the GC realizes what's going on (usually at some high threshold 90% or so), it will have to run a some O(n^x) graph reduction algorithm or defragmenataion. Special tuning is required for such cases. Beefy hardware doesn't help in many cases due to locks. There are very few production-ready lock-less GCs.
Nest has great hardware designers (which Google lacks) and engineers. Nest first built a hardware/ software platform that enables them to in the future build other smart appliances and home automation tools. The thermostat was simply the first product.
Google+ accounts for all Nest owners. On a serious note I wonder what will founders do next. I thought they had a great chance to build next great company, like Apple. This is strange situation, Google and other big players have so much money they seem to be able to convince anyone.
Most people I know, including older persons, are annoyed by Google+. So, it's not just an HN thing. Google lost its image.
And don't forget the occasional incredible intellectual flakiness - Newton has his Biblical theology & dating the apocalypse, we have fad diets...
That's the spirit!

It would be greatly appreciated
I'm ok with that. My issue with Google isn't Single-Sign-On, it's forcing every product into a social-network mold.

Although I'm a happy user of Facebook and Twitter, I think SV's social obsession has largely been fruitless. Social does not improve most products and can actually harm them.

And now I'm worrying about how "social" is going to be slapped on to my fire alarm.
No, some of them just collect your data to serve ads elsewhere
This study is looking at modern recreational alcohol consumption. It's perfectly believable that its effect would be minor.

This an entirely different scenario from entirely replacing water with alcohol and being at least slightly drunk all the time. Not "all the time" as in "every weekend" but every hour of the day, including work.
In addition to what stusmall's said about "it depends what you mean by embedded":

Go compiles to native code, not bytecode. Your post makes it seem like you might be missing this fact.

Go has good cross-compile support so from say a Windows box I can compile a Go program using just the standard library that will run on Windows, or I can compile one that runs on MacOS, or I can compile one that runs on Linux, and I can even compile one that runs on a different processor arch (like I can be running Windows/x86 and compile a binary for Linux/ARM, for example).

But(!) you have to compile a separate binary for each of those platforms, you can't compile just one single executable that runs on all of those systems. The output of the Go compiler is native machine language code for a specific architecture and OS.

eg. I want to compile an http server and run it on either a Windows/x64 box or a chumby Linux device and I'm currently on a Linux/x86 system:

cd mygoprogram

export GOARCH=arm

export GOARM=5

export GOOS=linux

go build

I now have an executable in the current working directory named "mygoprogram" that will run on a Linux system with an ARMv5 processor (say, an old chumby device)

export GOARCH=amd64

export GOOS=windows

go build

I now have an executable in the current working directory named mygoprogram.exe that will run on a Windows/x64 system, but it is completely separate from the binary that will run on the Linux/ARM device despite being built from the same source code.

mygoprogram.exe will not run on the Linux system, and vice versa. Go is like C/C++ in this regard as opposed to say Java where a common bytecode format will make the compiled code still platform independent.
OSX also features a lot of neat trackpad multitouch commands that some might not be aware of (my Windows trackpad doesn't understand multitouch.)

Two fingers: up/down: scroll up/down, left/right: forward/back in some browsers (such as Chrome)

Three fingers: up/down: show/hide a list of applications/desktops; left/right: switch desktops one at a time.

Five fingers together/apart: show/hide desktop

Before I discovered these, I was confused why I would occasionally see the forward/back arrow in the browser for a short period of time, not realizing that it showed because I happened to use a couple of fingers to move the mouse cursor.
Alright, maybe I was talking about something different.

> Yeah, I think that's about right. I think I passed that mark maybe four years ago?

"Libertarian" tends to refer to Minarchists, these days. But alright. You're there already, good :p
Yes it gives you traction, when otherwise people might not have heard of you, but you also lose your identity more than ever. In the past when Google acquired something it was like "Yay! Google!" now it is like "Yay that company! And sorry." Actually the top comment in this thread nailed my immediate feelings pretty well.

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The Consensus is a world at the cusp of technological singularity
Right, that's such a weasel statement. It jumps right out at me- there's just about nothing they couldn't justify under terms like that with a little visit to the Spin Doctor's office.
Okay so, you're a troll. And one who doesn't understand what "value proposition" means.
Court rules negative commenters on Yelp to use their real names
That's what they did to fix it.
This is the most overlooked aspect of this acquisition.

My brother works in HVAC, and I've seen some of the automation available - - the trouble is that the systems aren't intuitive to the user and do very little to think on their own outside of if statements from the sensors.
I disagree. People upset with something will always be loudest. That doesn't mean the majority of people agree with the vocal portion of the community.
> is harvest and aggregate your personal data in order to sell it to advertisers and the NSA

Not sure if serious or a parody of a hater
"In my humble opinion..." Ha!

Your point would have been better made without the schadenfreude, self promotion and condescending tone.
The "Anything but Google" market is alive and well at my local Home Depot. I'd like to see them try to datalog my $20 bimetal mechanical thermostat :)
I really appreciate that you released the underlying data. It is one of the best gifts you could give to the community. I think you and I would greatly enjoy chatting at a bar about this crazy startup world.

We just have different opinions and philosophies about building businesses: For me it's important to sell products at a marginal profit generally. I don't think whether the business is VC-backed or bootstrapped makes one difference: I look at both of those are tools to finance fixed costs, not to subsidize ongoing variable operations. The underlying economic principles are the same to me. But, that's this man's humble opinion.

I'm not sure I buy that the "marginal loss" [was] "easily" fixable through infrastructure [changes]. If it were easy you would have done it that way from the beginning or sooner in 2013. I buy that the infrastructure changes required more investment or planning, but in general in software "easy" things are the things you've already done. Otherwise we'd be experts at planning and estimating :)

Best of luck in the next venture, and again thank you so much for releasing the data!
How our startup delivered $6.5 million in revenue in one year
So how long till a nest starts collecting my neighbors ssid's or location info and phoning Home?
I get a bit miffed when people confuse my faith for irrationality.

By definition it is. Religion contradicts rationalism. What you're doing is compartmentalizing. You're applying certain thought processes and methods of reasoning to everything besides your religion.

Regardless, this is not an attack on your belief and I never intended to come off as hostile. What I had in mind were the fundamentalists and fanatics who insist that lack of faith leads to decadence.
That is an interesting position. My reasoning is that more and more people are becoming "developers" of a sort, certainly being exposed to this stuff earlier, and that makes them more discriminating consumers. Nothing quite takes me out of my suspended disbelief like a botched 'tech' reference. So as the pool of moderately computer literate people expands, the impact of 'bad tech' in the movies will hit more audiences negatively.

To use a classic example, the computer "interfaces" of Star Trek the original series were perfectly serviceable for people who had never seen an actual computer, but trying to use them on an audience that got their first laptop in grade school just doesn't work.

My speculation is that as people become more sensitive to 'bogus' code standing in for some prop, they will become more put off by it and set designers are going to have to work harder. If you're a shop that can amortize the cost of developing the tools to create 'realistic code inserts' across a number of customers, you can achieve ramen profitability or better.
I read this with great sadness. In the culture of grift, the highest form of con is when you induce someone to do something they know is wrong, like a 419 scam where you convince the mark to impersonate a dead person in exchange for a fee that never materializes.

The rationalization is that whatever happens to the mark is their responsibility, as they decided to knowingly break the law.

Playing on someone's false feelings of betrayal is nowhere near this, and exposing them to the very real possibility of execution, just so you can make a few bucks?

I call that psychopathic. This woman is entirely without scruples, she does this and boasts of it when interviewed.
Command-K also does the trick
the thing is, there is a very strong awareness of race in us society, and it factors into a host of conscious and unconscious decisions. the net effect is that the "tilt" of the field you play on is sharply affected by your race. also, since society is in many ways fairly segregated along racial lines, your background and environment are often a factor of your race too.

officially ignoring that fact does not level the field; it just lets the people favoured by the inequities in the current setup continue to have the luxury of ignorance, while everyone else struggles along with no help from the system.

tl;dr: calling it an "obsession with race" does the people actually trying to help by compiling this data a signal disservice
I don't mind sarcasm as long it's marked "<sarcasm>...</sarcasm>" at the least.
No, my first thought was "wow, good for the Nest guys" followed by "too bad, I really don't want Google Analytics hanging on my wall."
You missed my point. If apple controlled nest, you'd almost certainly only get notifications if you were using an idevice of some sort. Apple's terrible about working with others to create industry standards; the AppleTV for example would be a lot more useful if it used DLNA for streaming instead of Apple's proprietary format.
"I don’t want young black kids to aspire to be rappers or ballers."
“Coding is a beautiful thing,” he says. “If there is a God, he definitely codes. There are fail-safes in the world. That’s code. I don’t want young black kids to aspire to be rappers or ballers. Even lawyers and doctors—those are service positions. I want them to be coders. They can make their own worlds then. They don’t need anybody else. I love hearing those kids’ ideas, all these kids on the Internet. The excitement of making something, that’s the spark of God.”
Definitely brings more sense to the 3.2b price tag.

On top of that, think of what those guys still have under the hood. Google wants to be the everything of your life. Smartphones fill a part of that but smart devices are another big chunk; and Nest was the company that is undoubtely leading a revolution on the field.

This isn't a strategic move to eventually dominate the thermostat market. This is a strategic move to eventually dominate the 'everything you need' market.
I find it annoying to the point of offensive. Actions being actived on mouse-hover is terrible; I did not intend to give "kudos" but was curious what might be linked under it, and suddenly an action is recorded. Now I can't consider any webpage safe and have to watch where my mouse goes; that's wrong.
Donald glover on writing code.

“Coding is a beautiful thing,” he says. “If there is a God, he definitely codes. There are fail-safes in the world. That’s code. I don’t want young black kids to aspire to be rappers or ballers. Even lawyers and doctors—those are service positions. I want them to be coders. They can make their own worlds then. They don’t need anybody else. I love hearing those kids’ ideas, all these kids on the Internet. The excitement of making something, that’s the spark of God.
Business Models for 2014
＞Then why doesn't the CCP just unblock twitter, facebook, g+, and so on?

It seems that you believe China government helped local players succeed. That is not true in general. The private local Internet companies are not the government's child. They are mostly controlled by foreign investors.
Quicksilver nearly died, but the community resuscitated it and it is currently working better than ever (YMMV, I never used half of the crazy stuff Quicksilver can do)
http://www.boastr.net/

you can add tons of additional trackpad shortcuts too, as well as keyboard shortcuts.
You shouldn't limit the audience to HN. A few years ago we probably wouldn't be as concerned about privacy as we are now.
Well, they've definitely shipped over a million, can't speak to what's been sold. Though I expect that they've achieved that as well.
When you talk about "confiscation" and a lack of motivation due to a lack of financial involvement (which is what you're saying), you're not talking about whether or not the current American system is "free market". You're talking about socialized systems like, say, Finland. You are implicitly criticizing them as expensive and not service-oriented, because they use tax money rather than direct payments.

If socialized models provide more expensive and poorer quality healthcare than systems with market forces involved, then it should be directly reflected in the American system being at least marginally better than the socialist systems. It is not. It is demonstrably far, far worse. Therefore, your argument continues to be flawed, despite your attempt to dodge the reality of facts. (I suppose you could argue that the American system of private insurers and private providers is somehow more socialist than any of the European systems. Good luck with that.)

As an aside, I reject your implicit assumption that "customer service" is the only thing that motivates good work. Pride, decency, and enjoyment all motivate better work than money. That's why most people are better at and care more about their hobbies than their careers, and why people are willing to take low-paying jobs that are emotionally rewarding.

Seriously, you're buying a lot of ideology about money and motivation that simply makes no sense in the real world.
While I'm absolutely certain that Snapchat's marginal costs are much lower than Everpix's, Everpix had real revenue. If we're talking about bubbles, surely that has to count for something - a product people actually are willing to pay for?
Anything is more palatable than that spectacular, cosmic-scale, epic failure.
> Google does this stuff for completely altruistic reasons.

But of course. Just like they help the NSA rape people's privacy for purely altruistic reasons? Don't Be Evil and all, right?

Does a country really need Google's help with running elections? Does it help, for example, that vote counts are just values in a database somewhere?
is there an open source, self-hosted version of stack overflow that you can deploy on your own domain?
How many of those bands played for the public? How many made a CD, tape, or record (depending on how old you are)? I'll stop before I ask if any of them produced a commercial album; I bet I know that answer.

"Famous" does not come into the picture, but one thing the Internet has done is make publication possible. It is the difference between no one listening to your band and no one being able to listen. But depending on how you look at it, the difference between 0 and 1 is either tiny or infinite.
Theoretically, Google could now be remotely adjusting your room temperature to maximize (or minimize) the effectiveness of advertising. [1]

[1] http://anzmac.info/conference/2013/bestpapers/anzmac2013-364...
I really, really have a problems with this permission:

- For a very few extensions, I allow it, but it is very clear that it is an open gateway for hackers,

- Most often, I deeply regret I can't even tell Chrome that I allow the extension on a subset of sites... At least not my gmail please...

- So the base rule is, never install something which requires all perms, obviously.

Users have been warned properly. They're at the mercy of untrustable people.
> At least the vinyl has some aesthetic, subjective vintage value.

For some of us so does working with assembly and other low-level quirks and domains. :) The challenges and problems, tools and solutions are very differnt and IMO much more interesting than "getting shit done for real life value". To each their own I guess.
Hrm.. I don't use OSX, in my fingers... home goes to the beginning of the line, and ctrl+home goes to the beginning of the document.. If I want to select to the begining of the document ctrl+shift+home... in OSX does that mean to select to the beginning of the document it'd be something like fn+command+shift+left ?
It's simply a way to populate your feed with more content. They seem to think/know that you will use the service more if there is more content.

I too dislike how much extended network is being utilized these days.