skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Work in Progress' is a key form of muda or waste in lean philosophy. The key is to eliminate waste coming into the system. Employees need to be empowered to, send straight back incomplete paperwork and to update the forms & instructions coming into the system that are contributing to the waste.

Considering the gravitational mass of all these processes I would work on bringing lean manufacturing approaches in first before deriving a computer based solution.

As per all these things its going to take a lot of leadership to drive any type of real change.

Ref: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing
I think you should read what I wrote again and perhaps you will realize that i did not make any claims about zero disincentive.

What I said was that it always will pay off to work and therefore incentives people to work.

Thats a very different argument than the one you are arguing against.
Nope, recruiting doesn't just move employees around, it drives up developer salaries.
What if there was a way to tag bitcoins as stolen and declare them null and void? Would this not disincentivize thieves? Could we prevent abuse of such a system?
Conditioning for one. Plus, being in close agreement with "the Man" advances ones career.
Although heavy subsidization is a major enabler of the problem, it is not the only factor. Affordable education is out there. The problem is that people have been conditioned to believe that cheap education is bad education.

The problem is the students have been fed the lie that more "prestigious" schools yield better outcomes. Although this might be true in an extreme minority of situations (investment banking is one example where prestige matters), for the most part, the ranking and cost of the college don't matter at all.

Everyone simply ignores selection bias and assumes that getting into the "best," most expensive school possible will improve their life. In reality, if you control for selection bias, there is no difference between the outcomes one gets from Harvard and the outcomes one gets from Suffolk. In fact, the people who make the most money out of college are community college graduates. (Obviously, this is influenced by a lot of factors, but the blanket assumption that a high-end four-year school is automatically better is clearly false.)

For some reason, no one bothers to actually evaluate the value of their education critically. Instead, everyone simply buys into the collegiate cult of prestige.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/10/who-need...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/03/community-college-g...
Indeed, I am even more confused about this now that there's email evidence. The agreement is about active recruiting not blowing off applicants.
> Most students take 12 credit hours per semester and only attend Fall and Spring semester. That’s 24 credit hours per year.

24 credits a year?! I am curious, is this really the norm in the US? At the universitiy I attended in mainland Europe you were excpected to do 30 credits each semester, so 60 CP a year.
987 – a Fibonacci sequence 2048 clone
I found myself thinking the game mechanics of terabytest's 2048 would be great for other mathematical sequences... Here's a clone using the Fibonacci sequence. I found it far too entertaining to keep it for myself.
I believe there were settlements with the Justice Department, there's also a pending class action lawsuit. The class is all of the employees of the relevant companies during the relevant time period. (I.e. Apple, Intel, Google, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and Adobe technical employees from 2005 through 2009.)

Unfortunately, the US class action system is somewhat corrupt and in many cases the suing attorneys get the lion's share of the money, while the class members get injunctive relief, a coupon, or a nominal payment. Or sometimes they get nothing at all, and a charity gets the money (this is called a cy pres award).

More information about the class action lawsuit:

https://www.hightechemployeelawsuit.com
Every building has a large, recurring maintenance and services cost.
Ah... So it was always "Be Evil" and fuck over your employees. It always amazes me that these people love free markets, until it's expensive and then they break the law deliberately to pay slightly less than the fair market price to the best and brightest.

Effectively stealing from their employees to give to their shareholders just blows my mind.
> he's spending his time stressing about losing a few engineers to Google?

That is the amusing part! The agreement explicitly excludes engineers.

From the article:

"3. Additionally there are _no_ restrictions at _any_ level for engineering candidates."

(emphasis theirs)

This was about sales and management.
Both of those links (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117118 [actually 117171 for the pg comment], https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658683) appear to be simply pg saying people do downvote when they disagree rather than him endorsing that activity.

Indeed the first link says in part:

>"I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement."

Which reads to me as having an implicit "also to express agreement" especially in the context of the thread. The thread consensus appears to favour not downvoting for mere disagreement (but I would say that !).

In the past when we had votes visible we'd have been able to tell better the general consensus from that information.

So, I upvoted you for making your point well; presumably you downvoted me as you disagreed.
i would argue that we can't accurately infer any likelihood without knowing what the entire probability space is. in the dressing-room example, we are assuming there are not many, many dressing rooms that look similar, and many, many people that look just like us, and many different sets of the same clothes. but that is just an assumption. we have no idea about the probability space of different material universes and how qualia is embedded in them.
Link Bubble won't throw out those resources, so the page(s) will still be there.
I can't believe they're still running this crap - I it's been a year and a half now? My opinion of Microsoft took a complete nosedive after seeing this campaign.
HN Books
Would it disincentivize exchange developers to have sane security architectures?

Who would declare them null and void? What's to stop any movement from declaring non-stolen bitcoin as null and void?
From 2006

> he was sure we were building a browser and were trying to get the Safari team

Well he wasn't wrong...

When did work start on Chrome? First release was in 2008.
Question 1: Who would have the power to do that?
The vast majority of people have no aspiration towards being an academic administrator, and academic administrators aren't exactly a powerful voting block.
The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis [pdf]
That would be centralizing the system, no?
Thanks. I'm doing something similar with Gollum [0].

[0] https://github.com/gollum/gollum
Since there is a fixed number of bitcoins, there would still be incentive by causing faster deflation by removing coins from the pool.
Interesting choice of subjects in the headline. I see that Saint Steven's reputation is still off-limits. My reading of the first two emails is that Jobs was a raging asshole in every facet of life and business.
I think that would require an authority deciding whether bitcoins were truly stolen. Otherwise, couldn't anyone could just claim a transaction was a theft?
I wonder if this will effect their "gmail man" marketing? you know, the one where they blast goog for probing in your email...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMbQCom7VTY
> If what you're using it for is HTTP traffic, HAproxy seems to be the most mature tool out there for HTTP load balancing and failover.

HAproxy is a reverse proxy, it can do load balancing, but it's not useful if you need a HA cluster, as HAproxy becomes the single point of failure in your architecture. You still need something like wackamole, vippy or ucarp to activate the switch from a failed machine to a standby box.
This seems a bit silly. Why is this made public? If this was a private conversation then they could set a trap. Now whoever is making these transactions will simply stop and wait for a new opportunity.
The problem with the tagging approach, is how would you verify the tag was genuine? You would have to add some sort of central authority which every peer could implicitly trust and that would undermine the whole concept of bitcoin...
Here's my experience in building HA in Linux. There are two key pieces: storage replication and failure detection. Replication is so that there's a standby system with the same persistent state ready to go, and failure detection, well, the whole point of HA is to ensure ongoing operation to continue in case of failure.

For storage replication, Linux has the excellent DRBD (http://www.drbd.org/) software to replicate disk at the block device level. This is great because any kind of disk based systems can be supported, such as database server, mail server, file server, DNS server, etc.

For failure detection, Linux has the Linux HA Heartbeat (
http://www.linux-ha.org/wiki/Heartbeat). This would detect failure at machine level and ensure proper failover.

Within a machine, there are other tools to monitor process level failure and propagate the failure to Linux HA Heartbeat.

BTW, STONITH is a super simple way to avoid the partition problem.
Perhaps the difference of opinion between your peers and your parents is mostly due to general opinions of authority and the status quo that comes with aging.
Indeed. State, Local, Tribal or Federal Governments, or 501(c)3s, IIRC.

The program has some great incentives for drawing qualified people in medicine, law, etc. into Federal jobs.
"Now what is the message there? The message is that there are no "knowns." There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know." -Donald Rumsfeld

Some philosophers of epistemology get things so terribly wrong that they follow incorrect hypotheses for so many years and actually take the country to war based on fabricated intelligence that they knew was in fact provably wrong, which they manufactured for purely political reasons to justify their hidden agenda, yet they still won't admit that they were wrong.
What else is he going to say? That it's not zero sum and he and the other executives pursued this course of action to suppress wages for their producing employess while increasing their own compensation? THAT would be shocking.
Node.js Hello Framework
Any evidence to back up the claim "No they can't."?

Their opinions seem to carry weight in courts. I'm not saying that is evidence, but that could be an indicator that psychiatrists might know what they're talking about (and its not just voodoo science).
As I said in my post, I definitely thought long and hard about the implications of applying for such a patent. Your points were definitely at the forefront of my thinking.

In the end, I concluded that Loren Brichter's pull to refresh patent proved rather valuable, so I might as well not close the door on such an opportunity myself.
It's a very interesting development as it shows that stolen bitcoins can be tracked indefinitely unlike FIAT.

Now, what you propose though, is against the freedom bitcoins is assumed to stand for (on the ethics side).

On the technical side that's very possible, as of today, if everyone plays along and I mean literally everyone, especially mixers.

How could one track down bitcoins flushed into public mixers? I guess they could do this as well, if the BTC were tagged and thus refused by the mixers or even worst hold captives and resend them to original issuer. However, you only need 1 TOR hosted mixer to lose track of the wallets.

On the other side imagine the practical chaos: I make a huge transaction of non-tangible goods in a situation where you can't prove that the service/product was delivered. Then I just tag these bitcoin that once belonged to my wallet as stolen if the other party doesn't give them back :-) you see where this is going right? :-)
Mt. Gox finds 200,000 missing Bitcoins in old wallet
I don't know and I doubt that can be done for a large tech company. I only mentioned averages.
Money not given to the employees doesn't vanish, it's allocated to the owners.

So no matter how you do it, you're quantifying how much some people are worth. Sometimes it's the employee, sometimes it's the owners.
Ask HN: Evaluate Idea: Android/iPhone Poker Game using Real Money
Android/iPhone Poker Game which allows player to play using real cash.

-- There are many poker games available in market but I think, Real money will be driving factor. Player can purchase virtual currency using real money. He can play the game using virtual currency. He can back-sell virtual currency back to us whenever he wants his real money back and we make little margin during buy sell process.I think, the whole business can built only on infrastructure which will allow app owners to payback users for mobile devices. I see google play store/others have facilitated payment process but not the other way.

Please evaluate :)
I assume because they use the t.co link to verify items have been clicked for their ad services, but I can't be sure. Either way, as I user I couldn't stand that wasted time, so I went about trying to fix it.
In theory, this is already possible. Anyone can patch the client to reject transactions containing such coins; the key is getting enough adoption for it to be meaningful. (I imagine starting by forking mining-specific applications like cgminer would be more effective than forking the client apps, since you really want to get 51% of the network to reject these transactions for it to mean anything.)
The term used for this is coloured coins. It's possible to do, and there are forms of coloured coins in use. The question is not of how to do it, but whether it is desirable to have coloured coins.

It's like adding a new rule to how a piece moves in chess. You could easily imagine some of the advantages caused by a change, but not all of the consequences.
Does it matter whether you get the granularity down to a single individual?

If a 10 person team builds a product that delivers $100 million in revenue for a company, and the team members are paid $90k on average...then they're pretty underpaid.
Is there any other reason for wanting to own a gun (in a non combat situation) rather than weird insecurity?
I worked my way through university from 2006-2010. I was able to pay for my freshman year due to a gift from grandparents and random saving (2005-2006). Spring 2006 I got a full time job with the university. I worked for the school because they give great benefits to full time employees. My tuition was cut from ~6k/semester to ~2k.

I was making more than minimum wage, nearly double at the time at $13/hour. This helped, but I kept everything cheap. My apartment was $300/mo, phone, food, and insurance was less than $400. That left me with nearly $1000 left each month.

It wasn't easy and it wasn't glamourous. I worked 8-5 every day and went to class in the evenings until 8 or 9.
You're right I totally misread his question.
Did this guy leave an email, bitmessage address or anything???? How is Nejc suppose to reply?
>There's always someone with a bigger pipe.
I'm speaking here about a small size DDoS (<1GB/s) and not the CloudFlare 40GB/s flood.

>What exactly does that entail, technically? Smells like snake oil to me.
At least the simple SYN flood and UDP flood. The atacker in question couldn't have anything sophisticated.
The video is edited for dramatic effect making it difficult to follow the mechanics of the game.
http://gigaom.com/2011/04/04/lithium-ion-batteries-faulted-f...

"Lithium battery fires are typically difficult or impossible to extinguish. Any such ‘burning metal’ fires on any type of aircraft in flight would be extremely dangerous because they often burn very hot (several thousands of degrees Centigrade) and are able to generate their own oxygen as they progress through combusting battery materials. Unfortunately, depressurization of a cargo hold is a last-ditch but nonetheless futile measure to contain them because such fires create their own oxygen from oxide materials inside batteries"

So you can't have an LI fire and keep flying for hours, unlike a cockpit fire.
>Only to those with fundamental failures in English comprehension, which does not include the Supremes, who in Heller agreed 9-0 that it's an individual right

Or you know, to those that can understand history, and know exactly the context under which it was said, plus they know that when the justification is no longer there, the "right" is not meaningful either.
The connection between the Hostile AI link and the McKenna quote is this: the informational barrier between humans, institutions and technology is highly permeable, and creates a perfect petri dish for natural selection in informational life (you can model them as "memes", although the analogy to genes isn't a perfect one).

Yes, it breeds far less rapidly than a Kurzweilian AGI, and one day we will face that music for better or worse. But what I'm driving at this is that will not come as a singular moment when SkyNet gets the switch flipped; it will be a gradual evolution from the pre-existing emergent intelligence of the "human+institution+technology" informational network. (Even if you had a day where you flipped the switch on an infinitely accelerating AI, that life form would still inherit the legacy data of humans and their institutions, which would inevitably shape its consciousness, infecting it with any memes sticky enough to cross the barrier.)

See also: the coming wave of Distributed Autonomous Corporations. http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2014/01/computer-corp...

> On the other hand, those sharks are all from the same families. Power is still hereditary.

Too true. Just because new evolutionary cycles are happening powerfully at higher layers of abstraction, it doesn't mean the old ones disappear.
This is a really contentious issue. Depending on how late the coins are marked as stolen, some number of legitimate transactions may have been made with them.

What burden does this place on users to be certain that they're receiving "legitimate" coins?
Home Computer Show event in Hilversum, The Netherlands
The picture showed: "It's normal to have pain and some swelling after a surgery."

==> Person reads that, feels better. Person has complication like internal bleeding and gets sick. Lawsuit?

The idea sounds noble and useful; I just wonder how to avoid the legal complications.
>The few times where I would have benefited from using such devices I know the other people would have really really hated me using it. //

This is a potential problem. In the OP the officer waits until after the situation to upload. If it's not live streaming then you risk being attacked so that the video footage is prevented from being uploaded.

This issue came up here in the past in relation to apps for recording audio using a smartphone.

>I don't care about breaking surveillance laws. //

This is especially interesting to me as you're effectively gathering evidence that could show you broke the law. I'd assume in the UK such evidence, if found, could be used against you.

Would you need to wear a sign saying "video recording in operation"?
I'm talking about the interface that presents the web to the user, not the underlying method of rendering the web.
a) The exchange virtual-real money WILL get you into a shitload of trouble. Money laundering is the prime issue.

b) Apple and Google are US companies and thus bound by the relatively strict gambling laws in the US - and so your app will not end up in either major app store, only as a sideload for Android.

c) as soon as Real Money is involved, you will attract a massive amount of sharks sucking on the mini fishes, as well as a load of fraudsters, poker-bot users and people trying to game your system (ACH/wire transfer reversals, CC chargebacks, stolen credentials, the list is endless).
"If all the big companies just move each other's employees around, nobody benefits."

The companies may not benefit, but the developers certainly will! Not just the ones being moved around, either --- it'll raise market prices, and so _every_ developer will benefit, even those who don't move.
Bradley laid it out well, but I would go even farther. This million employees had significant wage suppression effects for the _entire_ market, not just the employees that were working at the firms in question.
Spreadsheets and Global Mayhem
The bitcoin community tends to be...greedy. Very, very greedy.
I see Link Bubble as an additional application rather than a complete replacement for your existing browser. Drive the Prius (Link Bubble) around the city during the week, take the truck (Chrome) out on Sundays.
Try an embedded-focused company, like Wind River or Timesys.
Not entirely true. The email at the bottom of the businessinsider article indicates that employees from MS, Novell, Oracle, and Sun cannot be considered for manegerial PSGA roles even if they applied on their own.
This is amazing! What are your plans to roll out in other cities?
The blockchain is public information.
What the world needs now is on demand bread.
The University of California charged NO TUITION until the 1970s.

Think about that for a second. While we bicker and boast on here about bootstraps and how to pay off debt by living like a pauper we have to realize that we are straight up being stolen from.

There is no reason why public universities should cost 10s of thousands of dollars for a 4 year degree. That's the whole reason they exist in the first place.
The Linux HA Heartbeat (http://www.linux-ha.org/wiki/Heartbeat) package supports virtual IP takeover in case of a fail over.

In a two-machine cluster, you configure two network interfaces for each machine. One interface has the real IP of the machine, serving as the private IP. Another interface has the virtual IP, serving as the public IP which all other clients connect to. Configure the second machine the same way with the same virtual IP but has it disabled.

When Heartbeat detects a failure on the primary machine, it would make the standby machine as primary and enable its virtual IP interface. The ARP service on the second machine broadcasts to all machines in the subnet to claim the virtual IP address as its own.

It's a pretty simple process.
I personally don't care if employers agree not to hire each other's employees. People are free to make agreements if they want to, just as employees are free to not work for them. There's nothing immoral about it.

Are you free to use the power of the state to try an boost your salary? I don't think you should be able to do that. But apparently many people do.
Well, this might be working for a team of 10 elite-class programmers... but what about those working to support them?

Like, IT maintenance staff, HR, accounting, marketing etc.

Without either of those, the programmers would not earn a single cent. Now, how do you determine how to pay the support staff? What do you do when one group of HR staff works for a stellar, 100M+$ team and another HR staff group works for a 1M+$ team? Pay the same? Pay different?
SimAntics is a visual artificial intelligence programming language for scripting the behavior of irrational simulated people and intelligent inanimate objects, developed for The Sims at Maxis. ;)

(That's lower case game industry artificial intelligence, not Upper Case Marvin Minsky Artificial Intelligence.)

http://wiki.niotso.org/SimAntics

http://simswiki.info/SimAntics

http://modthesims.info/t/111469

http://niotso.org/2012/12/23/edith-cracked/

http://www.qrg.cs.northwestern.edu/papers/Files/Programming_...

http://donhopkins.com/home/movies/TheSimsPieMenus.mov
Cumulative long-term effort is much reduced when you can turn a signal into a moat. Currently serving supreme course justices come from only 2 schools. Look at the pedigree in investment banking and top consulting firms.