skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in favor of paying one's debts, have a credit record which would do a Lannister proud, and would not incur any obligation which I did not have the good faith intention to repay as agreed. It's just that I feel an extra special obligation to employees, on account of their unique relationship to their employer, their (presumed) degree of dependence on that relationship, and a heritage as both a Catholic and a Japanese salaryman which suggests that not paying an employee their due wages is a crime which cries out to heaven for vengeance. (For those folks in the peanut gallery who aren't Catholic or Japanese salarymen: that's a thing for both, and it is a thing called exactly that by Catholics. I'm aware many HNers don't necessarily believe in it, but that doesn't make me believe in it less.)

Vendors do not enjoy this status, although I'd make all reasonable efforts to have a business which I control pay them as agreed. Reasonable efforts includes things like cash flow juggling, taking out debts in the name of the business, or reducing the size of my distributions. They do not include my family experiencing hardship on your business' account.

Vendors are not assumed to be as vulnerable as employees. They typically have far less concentration of income and far higher savvy with regards to the necessity of, e.g., keeping a cushion against the risk of receivables going sour.

I run a small company. I work with lots of other ones. Of the entire set of them, nobody is one invoice from death. If we were, we'd be dead, because we're well aware that individual invoices go missing all the damn time. That's baked into running a business with businesses as clients.

That's also part of the reason why, when I do business with companies as a vendor and not as an employee, I charge a significant premium to what I'd earn as an employee. The possibility of your business going belly up prior to paying my invoice exists. I already priced it into my weekly rate (or your monthly rate for services or whatever). If one of my clients was unable to pay due to their business ceasing to be a going concern, as a responsible businessman, when apprised of that I'd say "Wow, sorry. OK." and write off the debt. It happens. My accountant could probably tell you how much it cost us last year.

If the business owner said "I'd really feel better paying you out of my own pocket for this." I'd literally refuse their money. It's not their family's responsibility to backstop my business' cash flow management. That's my job, and part of the reason why I "earn the big bucks", for values of big which are pretty modest.

(Prudentially speaking I'd probably treat a solo freelancer on a long term contract as an employee for the purpose of "Should I reimburse this guy out of my own pocket?", but as a former consultant, I'd advise any of my freelancing friends to structure their affairs such that they don't depend on payment of every invoice.)
It's been hauled out a thousand times, but here it is again:

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

Now, not every issue has to be everyone's fight, and for some things for some people, maybe skirting the issue is the best bet. We all owe a debt of gratitude to those who stand and fight, though.
Kvazaar HEVC/H.265 encoder released under GPLv2
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That's a great article - thanks for posting.
A Quest for Simplicity: AnsibleWorks is now Ansible
German citizen here.. we kinda "got lucky" the whole cold war thing started right out of the ashes after 45, otherwise Germany would probably have remained a barren wasteland or become merely a major agricultural Allied asset. Instead with the cold war emerging, both sides pushed many resources into propping up their respective "showcase" of their respective system. The official narrative was also along the lines of "tough vengeance didn't help us the last time (WW1) with regards to Germany so let's try something different and more fundamental this time", doubtlessly a common and widespread belief at the time too.

Blue jeans and chewing gum only entered the picture after the war, after all, not during ;)
Girls play chess??? News to me. Never saw a girl at chess club in high school or college. Never saw a girl playing chess in the park. Never saw a girl at my local library's weekly chess night either.
You mean there are people whose machine learning homework in college/grad-school didn't threaten a zero for failing to cross-validate?

Well damn. What did I spend all those late nights in front of a bleak MATLAB environment for, some kind of best practices?! </tongue in cheek>
If we skip central banks and let the big banks fail we will have real market economy. As it now private banks make new debt money from thin air and are being saved again and again by central banks. The big banks pay them selfes big bonuses during good years, the people pay for this by inflation by the new debt money the central bank creates too save the too big to fail banks.

The middle class is being bleeped since 1975. Checkout the graph on gdp per capita vs median income.
http://www.quora.com/Economics/Why-is-there-a-divergence-bet...
http://lanekenworthy.net/2008/09/03/slow-income-growth-for-m...
We're winning that fight, though it's not yet over: http://annualletter.gatesfoundation.org/#section=myth-three

A quick summary is that lowering child mortality actually reduces the fertility rate, causing population growth to slow. Longer lifespans mean fewer people.
Great work Jen.

One question. How do I set my default location? I've signed in and it has my location as "Newcastle, New South Wales" but the homepage still goes to San Francisco, CA.

I see that I can share my location, but that only seems to run a single search query.

Once this issue is resolved I will suggest it to my friends, so you can get some more users down-under :)
Wait, you're saying Medium is the new http://adequacy.org/ ? Finally, I understand!
I guess it's that "security researcher god complex" many security people show. They come around, fuck up your daily routine and expect you to be thankful for making your day hell.
As I said, it blocks anyone coming from Iran. I think it does not solely rely on IP address, because I can't access it with my normal VPN service, even though it gives me a Canadian IP.
Lets reinvent everything badly in javascript.
You are not the first to note this about the team. Uniquely nice ppl.
Now there needs to be a browser plugin, which warns you when you are about to create an account on such a website.
While this seems to be targeted for small low power web servers, I really want low powered, cool and low temperature laptops. Laptops with hot intel processors are cooking my body if I actually keep my laptop on my lap.
Wow, I've never been, but Japan sounds like a miserable place based on this.
This is the important point: 'It's where the customers went, UK customers. Freely."

If you go to a foreign bank for tax, interest or other benefits you are exercising a high degree of financial autonomy, choosing a banking system to be a part of. It's not a default decision by someone who needed somewhere to deposit their £438 per week salary. I really don't think you can make the same argument about guaranteeing deposits in these cases, especially without a (low) cap of £10,000 or so.

The Bank of England bailout transferred money from future middle class workers in the UK to wealthy and upper-middle class people, maybe 2 generations apart. I think it was immoral.
There are no "paying only" courses on Coursers.
The reason why the US government prevents export even of a cultural kind to countries like Cuba and Iran is to reinforce and foster the believe in americans that people from Cuba and Iran are enemies.
I was excited when I seen the headline about Chrome apps, thinking mobile was getting the same kind of in-browser apps that are available on the desktop Chrome Store. Mainly because that would give us the ability to write apps without an Apple Developer Account and we could publish outside of the App Store to users who aren't jailbroken. Seems like that's never going to happen.
This is the worst possible measure to deal with those sanctioned countries.

As we've seen in the Arab Spring or currently in Ukraine, extremist regimes have to replaced by bottom-up grassroot movements, by the will of the people.

Having said that, what could be a stronger weapon than access to education?
No, it's not Icelands debt paid by other states, it is a debt of Icelandic private bank that is paid out by other states. Why do you think that Iceland has more obligation to pay up a debt of icelandic _private_ bank than, say, Romania or Zimbabwe?

Iceland never claimed any kind of insurance of foreign deposits, so was not in any way obliged to pay them up.
Because everything today is about the heat generated by computation. In a phone, it wastes the battery and is unpleasant for the user. In the datacentre, heat determines how much computation you can do in the volume of space you have, and how much you have to spend on cooling systems (the running of which is expensive too). So datacentre operators that already have a building are facing a choice: get a new building, or make better use of the one they have.

ARM cores are typically slower in absolute terms than Intel cores, but at a given level of power, you can run more of them.
Try Gandi:

http://wiki.gandi.net/en/contacts/login/2-factor-activation

(note to self: activate 2FA)
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An Open Letter to Hobbyists — Bill Gates (1976)
had massive buy in from local supporters/collaborators

Government control by foreign invaders is not conducive to massive buy-in from local supporters before "blue jeans diplomacy" has already worked. It's complete ahistorical fantasy to think otherwise.
http://www.change.org/petitions/united-states-government-lif...
What sucks/rocks about being an Open Source community manager
yes they do. recently started.
ah, Dylan! I remember from far 2005 a team called "Dylan Hackers" who earned both the judges' prize and the second prize at the ICFP Contest (cop & robbers), http://icfpc.plt-scheme.org/.

Here the blog post describing their entry: http://www.hoult.org/bruce/icfp2005/
From 2010!!! I had the barest feeling that I read this before!
Make sure your DNS lookups are also routed through the VPN.
In war, identity is a defined "negatively". That is, not by describing positive attributes to you, but by describing negative attributes to the enemy. "We are the opposite of x", hence we fight. If you neutralize the ability of the enemy to define you (because he is like you) he can't define himself, and so he cannot fight you. Thus, there is no enemy, and hence no war.
Please recommend your RPG acquaintance the following mooc platforms that won't have those absurd regulations:

Open2Study - Australian universities alliance MOOC platform.

Futurelearn - UK universities alliance MOOC platform.

Iversity - European coursers.

Content is still limited as these platforms are younger, but they are getting more courses and polishing their platforms.
You don't understand: whoever gets Big Data, beats Google. Period. Google's main business is web text search -- but the best text search doesn't stand a chance against good data search. All those pages will happily become data as soon as someone makes that breakthrough to make it feasible and compelling.

Text search is "horse-and-carriage" and Google is certainly its king. But data is the coming "automobile", and all bets in that space are off.
I agree- there's no need to get people to choose the type of card however for 2), that's not always the case.

Pretty much all cards can be validated with the Luhn algorithm in js. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20725761/validate-credit-...
Firstly GDP is not a measure of what an economy "makes", it is a measure of its throughput. Remember that every dollar the US government "borrows" out of thin air and spends on military hardware adds to that total, so I wouldn't regard a high GDP as necessarily a sign of economic health.

Secondly, of your haphazard list, only Boeing does any manufacturing. Maybe instead of knee-jerking with "America is great" you should read a bit more carefully?
I in many ways agree with RMS's work and motives. I still think he's a dick. Ain't nuance grand?
I've got it setup on facebook and google, didn't know GitHub has it.
Automatic’s (YC S11) Smart Driving Assistant Turning Your Car Into An iBeacon
There is no "one right way", but when thinking about code organization and architecture I find inspiration from the "clean architecture"[1] and similar approaches. The dependency rule can really turn your world upside down!

[1] http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2012/08/13/the-clean-arch...
Thanks. They do not use DNS-based blocking. I will try using the HEAD method if I find a way to do it anonymously.
What a stupid thing to do. I'm hoping (but not holding my breath) that the USG will change the export laws to accommodate businesses like Coursera. I don't really agree with the US export bans at all but banning an educational service just seems really dumb. If you want people in a country to agree with your ideals what better way than to allow them to access educational resources for free!
Pingjam was a monetization solution for Android app developers
...
Google Play kicked out over 1,000 apps that worked with us from their app store

this whole article paints Google in the usual HN-friendly light of 'big bad unapproachable Google being evil', without giving any detail on what this 'monetization solution' actually was, and why Google wasn't being entirely reasonable to kick it to the kerb.

edit: yeah, thought so. they push contextual ads based on who you're calling. no surprises that got killed.
ahh. Was gonna email you telling you to offer ad spaces on your rockets (and/or classes) as reqards for the bigger contributions. Would attract corporate ppl.

(Not sre what kickstarter's ToS have to say about this though)
Having burned its fingers in China, Amazon is carrying a torch for India
Sorry I should have been more clear, I meant, why are you singling out Google Code over the other ones?
I think the LSB bits of arrival time is actually a really good distribution long-term (remember: we want the distribution to be uneven in the short term, but even in the long term) Maybe you could improve it a little bit by making each bin a prime number of seconds so automated messages sent at the same time every day can hit each bucket eventually. i.e. instead of 8 second granularity, use 7 or 11.
Awesome! Github setup! Thanks.
> To this date, I don’t know what made Google suddenly not like us. I don’t know whether we got kicked out because 24 hours before banning our apps Google launched an almost identical feature in Android 4.4 or if it’s something else

Google has been accused of being "evil" in recent years, but I find it strange that they'd pull 1,000 apps with no forewarning and no explanation as to why. Surely they must have given you advance notice, perhaps a chance to change your service? Either that or your service was doing something unethical or clearly against Google's terms, and it was just a matter of time until they killed it.

Something doesn't add up here...

Edit: after looking at the site (http://pingjam.com/), I have no idea what kind of advertising service this is, but it looks pretty nasty (in call popup ads?). Site itself is also very, very vague, providing little information on the service itself, and lots of fluff.

tl;dr - we made a shitty service and Google killed it.
Great to hear you're working on fixing on this!
You are missing the point (though I share your criticism of things as they are).

No country in recent history has been so thorroughly defeated both in military terms and in ideology as Germany. It would have been _incredibly_ easy to dole out severe punishment on Germany after WW2 (let's say, massive economic reparations, a ban on heavy industry, exclusion from public office/certain professions for any past member of the NSDAP). Some things like that were on the table.

Google Morgenthau plan.

Had that happened, I can assure you that either, we'd have had another big war within Europe by now, or (West-)Germany would have drifted towards the Soviet Union, or both.

Instead there was economic upswing and americanization. We became rich, we became fat, and we became disinterested in German nationalism and revenge (for injustices real and even moreso imagined).

That is the success story.
I would just work with Braintree.

I was implementing payment system for https://appenlight.com from paypal to some other solution that would not require paypal account. We've evaluated Braintree and Paymill - as App Enlight is european company, so our options were limited. Before Paymill took its time to reply to me (~22 days), I already managed to validate, sign all the papers and actually implement Braintree solution to our application.

One more thing at first Braintree support told me they might not be able to work with us because of some restrictions on company legal form by processor bank, but after I have sent them all the documents, everything went fine and got approved. Maybe you can try with them.
Their website is still up http://pingjam.com if you want to see what it was.
Generally, I would say they crossed the line from Crackpot to Legitimate when they switched from:

"We are the only people on this planet who have ANY understanding of THE MOST IMPORTANT PROBLEM EVER and the only way you puny humans can catch up is to indoctrinate yourselves by archive-diving our blog, and the only way to SAVE THE WORLD is to send us all your money before the monster can eat you."

to the new message, which is:

"This is a serious problem which could have dire consequences. We believe we have a plan for dealing with it, but have stopped claiming to be the only people on the planet who can deal with it. We are going to be publishing various portions of our plan as peer-reviewed papers and broad discussions with the informed public of mathematicians, which means we are admitting to being mere mortals who in fact have peers. We are also collaborating with this other organization, who are part of one of the world's premier universities. While we still take donations, we're going to stop demanding you send us all your money."

Overall, I am still waiting for them to get even less cultish before I'm willing to donate any more than the price of a Harry Potter novel, but I still find LessWrongians to be one of the most downright fun bunches of nerds to hang with on the entire internet.
Don't these bans typically have to do with things like exporting cryptographic softer or techniques? This is the first thing that popped into my head.
You mean their actions like having a living will that says to let them die in some circumstances, or outright filing "right to die" lawsuits? Or their attempts at suicide, which come at a rate well above those of the general population?

Those actions?
Cigarette companies don't get those kind of super-sized judgements against them, gun manufacturers don't. Why the hell should Google?

My favourite part is just how good the Microsoft lawyers are - "we will pay 5% of whatever Google pays" is an incredibly good deal and shafts Google quite nicely at the same time.

And anyway, isn't this really obvious - to anyone? I have scanned the patents referenced and frankly I don't see any algorithm that is not "return information relevant to the search term presented, and mark the users profile if they liked it"

No implementation details, which frankly seems to be the whole difference in software vs hardware.

Edit: my calculation ignored US only
Yeah, we've got a client who still uses IE for Mac, and refuses to consider using Safari, or anything else, as his feeling is that the internet should conform to him and his browser, not the other way around.
most of these were driven by governments and empires, not people. as an ndividual you have everything to lose to go to war.
I've experienced enough about Google to believe that their experience could be exactly what was described.

On the other hand looking at links like https://angel.co/pingjam I have to admit that they were doing something that was going to feel a lot like privacy invasion. Knowing who you were calling, and using that to target relevant ads?
This export rule nonsense can be bypassed, as demonstrated successfully by Phil Zimmerman[1], who ended up getting crypto legislation changed. Also in a similar case about European laws that prohibited bypassing DRM, the developers of CloneCD moved their development to Antigua[2] (and named the new company Slysoft).

Coursera, please investigate such avenues of bypassing this nonsense.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_in...
[2] http://www.myce.com/news/Elby-announces-that-CloneCD-emigrat...
“Honey Encryption” Will Bamboozle Attackers with Fake Secrets
> Later that day, you find out Icelandi completely refunded Thor, Bjork's little brother, for all the money he had lost, but every other child at school also lost all their money.

It's important to note that Icelandi didn't refund Thor out of her own (Icelandi's) own pocket. Instead, she took the money to reimburse Thor from what remained of the pool of money that Bjork had collected from everyone.

In effect, Thor was reimbursed in full at everyone else's expense.

If you look at a graph of Iceland's GDP, you can see a gently upwardly-curving trend from 1960 thru today, with a massive, abberrant spike sticking up from the trendline from 2004-2008. That's how Icelandi bought her shiny new car.
It's a crying shame that Dylan did not become the systems language of Apple's new era — it's really quite lovely. Much nicer than Objective C, though undoubtedly trickier to compile efficiently.
Sure. Previous to the 20th century, most wars were
fought over control over resources, land, and
prestige.

Or over spurious differences like incompatible
belief systems and divinities.

Spurious differences but holding a great deal of emotional charge.

edit: added quote.
It's like it's the first time some of you hear about these sanctions. Shows how much you cared about these countries until now.
They restored full access for Syria.
5 ways Washington DC is very different than Silicon Valley
Then you buy a different chip if they're not cost effective.

As an entry into the server market, this sounds awesome; for things like storage aggregation and vm migration, gigabit ethernet is becoming a real bottleneck for many applications as the core counts has gone up.
I don't know man, it worked pretty well for the Romans and everywhere they speak Arabic now they didn't in the 600s A.D.

Also, Communist Romania. The first five-ishyears of that were pretty relaxed because there were, for practical purposes, no Romanian Communists to be put in power;they needed to make some first. And Romania only fell because the Soviets did.
The return of the firing squad? US states reconsider execution methods
If you would like me to, I can set up a Tor bridge for you. Unfortunately, YCombinator doesn't have a private messaging system, so we'll have to figure out a way to communicate the details securely. Cryptocat is blocked. If you're familiar with GPG, we could use that right here. IRC is possible too. Email is not safe.

I would not recommend you to do a mass censorship scan from your own IP. It's a given that one or more of the top 100,000 sites triggers some kind of flag, apart from the fact that such activity itself may mark you as a person of interest.

Another thing to consider is that the government can likely link your YCombinator account to you because there are few YCombinator users in Iran, and from that subset, only a small number (maybe 1) matches your posting timestamps. I'm of course assuming that they keep such traffic logs. Syria's surveillance system did/does.
Maybe they've got petrol, then they are your enemy.