skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to modify your industrial complexes descriptions a bit: it is more like the education-employer-banking and real-estate-municipality-banking industrial complexes. The more financially successful I get, the more perspective I get and see these complexes feed off of what can be many times ruinously-expensive pursuits by middle class families to hew to normative expectations if they live anywhere near the top-10 metro areas in the US, maybe even the top-20.

The "disruption" we're talking about at HN has currently mostly served capital interests and concentration of power/wealth. Even the example you cite of fractional stock ownership plays into that concentrating trend (most poor to middle class families simply do not have the financial stability and acumen to weather what are to them volatile equities or even indexes, which plays into the pockets of better-capitalized participants). I suspect we'll see some unexpected socioeconomic reactions from families in response to these pressures, and disruptions if any will organically arise from these demographics' reactions. One possible unintended consequence for example, might be the rise of line/group marriage, poly and extended families simply from the economic pressure of shouldering the massive debt burdens being placed upon families, with simultaneous wage depression and and inflationary pressures on goods and services this demographic primarily uses (current inflation measures only serve the interests of the capital class; good for me, but steadily disastrous over the long haul for poor and middle class families).

The heteronormative nuclear family with the original two biological parents is already a minority within the US, less than 25% as of 2000. But consider the vast waste that the household formation of a nuclear family entails: expensive capital is tied up into "white goods" that are used a fraction of the time throughout the week, just for starters. When due to combined wage and debt pressure people start organically forming non-traditional households (the nucleus of which has already started: the vast majority of households are non-traditional though as yet very small-scale) out of necessity and self-preservation, major industries would be impacted (both positively and negatively).

Now imagine just the political repercussions if this came to pass: if the "Moral Majority" is blowing a gasket over gay marriage now, what invective would we see when gays are included into group marriages and helping raise children in that context? Into this cauldron of change is where we will find the next disruptive moves.

I don't know what form the change is going to come from (I have some guesses), but I suspect something interesting will arise from the pressures our civilization is exerting upon these demographics.
Fully agree -- no one else has (or rather very few have) the power to get in on this kind of agreement. That will encourage significantly higher barriers to entry, and discourage real systemic patent reform.

Does anyone actually think that Google and Samsung won't enforce the shared patents? They'll have immensely more enforcement power, so why wouldn't they? If anything, software patent wars are going to get worse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole

Fact remains: feminism is a dying movement. For good reason, and good riddance.

>Quotes from privileged, mostly white women

Does exceeding a certain number of privilege points negate the existence of your vagina? Aren't all women supposed to be helpless victims of The Patriarchy (TM)?
Sure, I never claimed it was new, I just happened to try it only recently. Plus, it was still being updated with features as a open source project until recently, so it does not hurt to give it another try.
Here's a talk the founder gave in 2010 for Singularity U about combining neuroscience and machine learning.

http://vimeo.com/17513841
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I can't believe that they would pay $400M for a company without getting something more than just talent. They must have created something very impressive that will be able to plug into the Borg.
These people have 0 perspective whatsoever. I would kill to have, say, encountering a chemistry website called "cispages" be the worst thing I have to deal with in life.
It seems like the very same thing repackaged to make money off of it with a premium plan, by adding a few features.
I actually read this paper a couple weeks ago as part of a deep learning reading group that I co-run. While several of these authors are household names in the RL community, this paper was not actually that impressive to me.

The only real "deep" learning here is that they used a GPU library and stochastic gradient descent to perform Q-learning updates on a network with 3 large hidden layers. It was an interesting application paper, but I suspect that the Google acquisition is for something more novel than this work.
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I was thinking about this for other reasons (it is beneficial for the auto-car to know about road closures), but a reasonable implementation has the vehicle interpreting rules data provided by the governments where it is operating, so you can do certification by making sure the vehicle 'correctly' interprets a given data set.

Having the rules data provided by the government is a fairly straightforward way for the vehicles to work even after the builder repudiates maintenance (maybe that is better said as 'to continue to work longer after', but whatever).

(I'm not worried about the cloud, hand-wringing and paranoia are going to make these things at least function independently or keep them off the road altogether)
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Yes, this was in context to unemployment levels in Denmark. This branch is about Denmark, after all.

When McDonald's entered Denmark, they tried to be non-union. That didn't work out for them, and by 1989 they entered agreements to work with the union. See http://www.remappingdebate.org/article/high-road-high-wages-... for some of that history.

The lowest paying union job in Denmark is just under US$20/hour. Figure 1550 hours per year (the Danish average) gives US$31,000. The article I referenced uses "full-time equivalent", which is likely a 2000 hour measure, or US$40,000.

My estimate sets the baseline, but the actual wages might be higher. The article I mentioned quotes $45K/year, and links to a McDonald's document .. which is in Danish, and I don't know Danish.
Better deal than $3 billion for a company that makes thermostats.
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Just ignore Google's recruitment advances and move on

If I thought I was the only person being annoyed by them, I would probably do this. But I've spoken to lots of other developers who get similarly annoyed by Google recruiters despite their attempts to tell Google Recruiting to stop contacting them -- so I figured it was worth writing a "ha ha only serious" public piece in the interest of getting Google's attention and maybe saving a lot of developers that same occasional irritation.
I like being contacted by Google. I'm not really interested in interviewing with them ( long process, doubt I'd pass, would have to move ) but it makes me feel good that the top tech company (YMMV) in the world is interested in hiring me.
I don't mean to denigrate with my opening comments, so much as observe this particular rant is not exactly dignified. There is a graceful way to present this point of view, and this isn't it.

I agree that he's clear that the PARC view won, but he (and this is the critical Raskin similiarity) is deluded about why they won, and that is because the PARC type ideas are what people want. Additionally I would argue his view is "merely" an application layer you could build with the PARC derived structure, while the opposite is not the case, assuming it could be implemented at all.

The main lesson I get from this kind of thing is a life spent pontificating without delivering products, even in the form of research products, is basically a waste. Even if those products are in some sense misguided it's better to have something concrete to argue about that can be built upon, stolen from, or discarded than a lot of ideas which never get done. I guess with that I go back to my other windows and get back to work as it's a trap that is very tempting for me to fall into.
This is why I'm starting to put money into Crypto. If there is some exploit and the whole thing drops to zero overnight then at least it affects everyone more or less equally, which seems better than Obama and his Goldman Sachs buddies deciding how much our dollars are worth on any given day.
This question gets asked all the time, but there's no one source for freelance work. There's tons. Weworkremotely, authentic jobs, craigslist, stackoverflow, are good places to start... those can get time consuming because there's literally thousands of listings to go through constantly.

I created a service for freelancers called Workshop; http://letsworkshop.com, which is basically me going through these and qualifying them for you and only sending you the most awesome leads. Check it out!
> (I'm looking to extract audio clips from video files by using the subtitles and timing information, to create listening flashcards. Since Anki doesn't really do this, not reusing their code isn't really a big deal.)

Just fyi, I recently hacked something up that did exactly this, using a bit of csv parsing in python and ffmpeg to extract the clips. It wasn't too hard to write, though I can see it becoming more difficult if you want more sophistication.
The I-would-have-liked-that lack of features in pgAdmin3 was the main driver behind my product, PGXplorer. I use it everyday to pivot, window, group tables without touching any editor.
It's like you're bringing feminism into this just to troll. He said absolutely nothing about feminism.
It's very difficult to get past his tone in this video -- he seems angry and disgruntled.

I'm not saying he doesn't have valid criticisms, but he's not making it very easy to sympathize with him.
So, what exactly is wrong with Anki's interface? The basics seem pretty simple - load a deck, and if you know the answer, click the green button, and if you don't, the red button. I can't imagine why you'd need to delve into the complex features daily.

I think for 99% of usage, there are only a few buttons in Anki. But this may be a case where any sufficiently "simple" interface is insufficiently rich, and any sufficiently rich program will have some interface complexity somewhere.
Why didn't you just apply? I imagine that a recommendation from a current employee would boost your chances, but I don't think a recruiter contacting you changes anything over just a resume submission, at least not at most companies.
Exactly. This is why many people in tech weren't that surprised by Snowden's leaks and were slightly relieved just to see all the suspicions verified. But most people seem to need a powerpoint explicitly stating what's going on before they believe it. Prior leaks from NSA defectors without hard proof had almost no recognition by the public. Even full in-depth exclusives from Washington Post didn't seem to affect people.
Zero World Problem?

Almost sounds like a comic book series. OP could be the superhero -- the ability to be contacted by Google, no matter what [bad economy, career goals, whatever].
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Anyone who wants to learn more about OD&D ought to visit the Original D&D Discussion at http://odd74.proboards.com/

Michael Mornard, who was a regular player in Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson's OD&D campaigns is a regular contributor. He posts under the handle "gronanofsimmerya."

Jon Peterson who wrote THE book on the history of D&D also posts there using the handle "increment." Also check out the blog he setup for his book, Playing At The World, at http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/
No, he's saying that anyone who checked their order status shouldn't notice (by design), but maybe that part of the process failed this time.

Also, that failure might be technical or intentional. As I mentioned on another subthread, it's always possible this was "accidentally" exposed by an employee working at the merchant or postal service. The program would require their cooperation. After all, we first learned about the telco spying because telco employees spoke up.

As for whether it's conceivable that NSA would target a Tor developer? A few months they were spying on our close friends and allies simply because they could. If that same mindset were applied to the intercept program, then this isn't impossible to imagine. Just because the NSA and administration has finally recognized their overreach and has started backpedalling doesn't mean these programs change overnight.
Disclaimer: I used to work at Google and have some incidental knowledge of Google's recruitment practices but am not an expert.

Many of Google's recruiters (especially the sourcers who are looking for candidates) are temporary contractors.

These contractors generally have a tenure measured in weeks and they are vying for one of very few full time positions. This high turnover, low institutional knowledge, and desire to distinguish themselves would be my best guess at explaining why the "Do Not Contact" note is not being respected.
Yes. There is a tendency for some to grossly misunderstand the sheer scale of the USA. We have cities with populations of whole countries, able to support extremely high wages, and remote sparsely populated areas completely unable to support any "upward mobility". The South areas being derided suffer relatively higher populations with no ability to support higher wages so there is no mobility other than move to Atlanta or the like, which does nothing for local wage increases. The Northeast has more world class cities to lift the surrounding counties, as does the West coast.
How about a "First Percent Problem"?

While I agree with the sentiment, I also agree that if Colin is repeatedly asking the company not to recruit him, they should respect that (and should have the first time, too).

Perhaps if he puts a time limit on it, that will make things more clear (e.g., "Do not contact me for 100 years").
Growing up it used to be common to hear the refrain that when the USA sneezes, Canada catches a cold. This aphorism was meant to highlight Canada's heavy dependence on the USA back in the 70s and 80s.

I am not in finance and don't appreciate nor understand the full implications or consequences of China's PBOC behaviour citing nationwide system shutdowns, but I feel that we could s/USA/China and then s/Canada/USA to get the same gist and sense of uneasiness.
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ping me on facebook/twitter to grab coffee and get an invite.
False dichotomy. Both are astroturf.
look how much facebook paid for instagram.
Er, nothing has happened yet. Write back when someone actually sues someone?

This doesn't really change anything. It's patent cross-licensing, not some shell company created to house the combined patents. They probably already had a more-limited one for just Android-covering patents.
See, in 1970s this was the stuff of top-notch research labs and expensive computing centers. Same applies to multi-core multi-megaflops CPUs, advanced multi-user OSes that run multiple VMs while networking with computers on the other side of the globe. It was there in 1970s, too. Only today it's something that can run on your laptop, or a smaller device like the Intel Edison, for a few hundred dollars.

Can you notice the difference?

Another area where a massive copy-catting of 1960s and 1970s is happening today is space launch tech. And again, where 1960s had to spend a significant portion of national budgets, today's private firms do pretty well with a fraction of a valuation of a picture-sharing service, and turning a profit in the process.

The goals did not change all that much, but the means are now much more accessible.
AD&D is the proper term. If you want that specific ruleset it was republished by WotC one or two years back, used versions also available. If you're more flexible on the ruleset there's Old School Renaissance [1], set of games which try to recreate the rules/feel of AD&D. RGP Geek [2] might be a forum you're interested in. You can likely find a group in your area if you're in a bigger city or metro area at gaming shops. If you use Reddit [3] is a reasonably active place to find groups or players.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_retro-clon...

[2] http://rpggeek.com

[3] http://www.reddit.com/r/lfg/
I don't understand why it bothers people so much to be contacted by recruiters. I just send a quick reply that says "I appreciate the interest, but I'm not looking for new position right now.". It takes me about 10 seconds to type that sentence and hit send. It takes me such little time that I probably would not remember if they contacted me again a year later.

I'm always grateful to have skills that are in demand. I have friends in other fields that are not so lucky. No need to be the girl that tries to tell everyone how attractive she is by complaining about the attention she receives from guys.
> I've spoken to lots of other developers who get similarly annoyed by Google recruiters despite their attempts to tell Google Recruiting to stop contacting them

It might have been worth mentioning this in your post.

As it stands, the faux-formal structure, slightly melodramatic tone and repeated references to your cushy career situation make it read like a classic humblebrag.
Yeah. But it caught my imagination enough to cook up a quick way to modulate the effect: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1w76um/coding_i...

:)
I know that he didn't actually say it. But that's how it sounds.
Most definitely not.

Some of the bloatware comes directly from Samsung, but a lot of the rest needs to be customized for each carrier. Samsung probably uses a separate disk image for each carrier, so it would be trivial to add the "bloatware removal" feature only to disk images made for some carriers and not others.
Dear Google... ignore these dilettantes.
I'll bend over as far as you want.
Holla.
This makes a lot of sense to me, I'm going to try something similar, thanks.
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This is what I figure as well. Sourcing and incentive structure Google has in place for recruiting naturally gives "do not hire" note won't be respected. It's a problem that needs a systematic solution, but probably not worth the cost to fix it.
Basically, China props up its banking system just as the USA does..

The problem is they do not do it through normal banking reserve controls..

This is or might be the canary in the coal mine for the China banking system as Banking reserves should not have to be adjusted by removing access to cash as that indicates a bigger problem..

This could be related to some toxic assets on the China Banking system books
It makes sense. We hear about a language, take an initially skeptical approach to it, research it, try it out, and report our findings to others we think might be interested (i.e. HN).
I agree completely. Plus build a supercharger network down the East Coast and from Melbourne to Adelaide. Make driving the Great Ocean Road in an electric vehicle a "thing to do" when you're in Australia.

We don't have quite the population of the US, but the potential for solar here is strong too.

Not to mention that Woomera may align with Elon's SpaceX interests.

And then, if we're still dreaming, a Hyperloop from Sydney to Melbourne, currently one of the most flown travel legs in the world.
How do you solve this for recruiters other than Google? Surely you must be getting a lot of traffic from them too....
on the bright side: enduring the unimaginable suffering which this horrific indignity has obviously caused you, will strengthen your character.
You are not alone, and you're right that it can get very annoying. But I think one day computer programmers will look back and wonder how we ever had it so good.
Ya "how do you think a non-violent revolt can succeed in a society where mercenaries keep the peace?" is a good question and I was never sure either until I watched a show on FSTV called "How to Start a Revolution" about Gene Sharp and his book "From Dictatorship to Democracy":

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/23/world/gene-sharp-revolutionary...

It's hard for me to say what the gist of it is, but if I had to try, it would be that nonviolence is a powerful weapon against totalitarianism because it's covert. If all the people communicate simultaneously online, and there's no leader, and they reach a consensus that they're going to convince the military and police not to stop them (beginning with persuading servicemen in their own families), then nobody stops them on the day they revolt. So the real struggle happens in the weeks and months before the revolution in the hearts and minds of the institutions that prop up those in power. If the revolutionaries find themselves throwing rocks at police on revolt day, then they've probably already lost. Unfortunately we only hear one side of this on mainstream news, specifically to keep us demoralized and in the dark about how nonviolent revolution works.

Of course in the western world, we're all democracies already, so we may never have a revolution like this. I guess I'm most concerned about voiceless democracy, where as you said capital trumps humanity, and they subvert us all into working toward their goals instead of ours. I really worry about people being perceived as a "cost" on society, because it frames any argument for the social welfare in a bad light in people's minds. And I totally agree with you that it's getting progressively worse with machines lowering the value of labor. I hope some clever people meditate on what may end up being the problem of our time and think of a way out of this mess!
Interestingly, a few years back with D&D 4th Edition, there were a lot of new players coming from the video game side of the house. And not just the stereotypical nerds. As a friend lamented once, "You know, I get that you play these games. But why are my frat brothers playing D&D?"

A lot of popular RPG video games are either based directly on a tabletop system or get a tabletop system made for them. In the latter case, it's often an easier game to get into (the Dragon Age RPG is a good example) than some of the more standard tabletop systems. And then there's Cortex and Cortex+ which exists pretty much just to turn movie/tv shows into RPGs.