skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know however I suddenly have the urge to make a few asbestos grinding machines to plant them in the ventilation system of these big asbestos companies and their disinformation allies as an "experiment".

On a more serious note if I were any of the people affected by this I would actually make it as one of my goals before i die.

There's no better revenge then killing you with your own poison especially when it take years for the effects to be noticed.

Hey if they are right nothing will happen to them right?
I want to add something to what sibling poster said (though I agree wholeheartedly).

Paying workers for their time and not hiring them works well when said worker is very highly skilled and you will not need them for a very long time: a lawyer, a chef for an event… If you plan on hiring someone for a whole season or longer I believe the right thing to do to protect both parties is to agree on a flat rate for the season.

On one hand a contractor can leave you whenever they please, but in practice (and this is the case) the employer will have the upper hand. This is why we need laws to regulate this type of work relations (I know this might get me downvoted here). I know this probably will not happen to the typical HN crowd working as contractors, but think of a housekeeper; I believe it's very important that regulation is in place to prevent this kind of exploitation.
My point is that even applying the word "buy" to something like an episode in todays context feels artificial. It's built around rules which state that everyone must pretend that Game of Thrones is being recorded onto video cassettes and you are walking over to the video store to borrow them.

I'm not trying to make a normative or ideological point. Overall, the shows themselves and the system of selling and delivering them to us is way better than 10 years ago. I'm not claiming some unalienable right (though ironically there is an inalienable ability, via pirating) to see anything, anytime at a price of my choosing.

I'm not making suggestions for an alternative economy where Game of Thrones gets produced. I'm just saying that this system is ugly and feels fragile. It's a kludge.
In the same way that writing a unit test for something proves your logic is correct? This is not intended as a snark or something. Just stating the obvious that your unit tests are no silver bullet to a working correct piece of software.

My 2 cents: Combine static(ish) typing with tests and a number of (semi-manual) test scenario's and you get a few steps closer to a correctly working piece of software.
Most people seem to focus on the Machine stopping

I think the more miserable dystopian part of it is that the people inside the machine don't seem to do much, have no purpose, no future, even if the machine works perfectly.

That seems to reflect my experience of the present day, in a much more unsettling way than the idea that "someday it might all fall apart".

And interestingly, "the horror of direct experience" and the references to the interaction with the air stewardess - the sort of things you might have a therapist or self-help guru to work on today - there's no mention that those are even recognized as problems, not things The Machine can help with or is trying to help with. While Vashti is having ideas and lecturing on music, she's blunt and cruel to people, even her son, she's preoccupied with keeping up appearances ("that's not mechanical, you can't say/do that") and afraid of being seen taking comfort from the instruction manual, something presumably a large number of people also do.

Do these sort of things automatically follow from the idea of "setting a story in a technological future", and why?
I read a year ago that the Netherlands were about to pass big reforms to shrink the welfare state. Did that ever happen?
This article may not seem relevant to most on HN (especially non Indians), but this is an outstanding case study that shows hacking, marketing & bootstrapping in an altogether different realm.
The political party founded by Arvind Kejriwal (an IIT graduate & an activist) - Aam Aadmi Party (common man's party) went from zero to near majority in a year in the capital of India. It was fully funded by a transparent donation campaign. Arvind served as the chief minister of Delhi for a little less than 2 months. Within a few months, they have gone national - fighting the world's biggest election from almost 80% of the constituencies (I guess that's more than any standalone existing party). Time will tell if they've moved too fast or will people embrace them.

However what's worth admiring is the tenacity of Arvind Kejriwal with which he's fighting against crony capitalism & corruption & bootstrapping for an election where the total budget could be in billions of dollars (double digit).

P.S. Obligatory thanks to twitter that has been a source of unbiased news when all local media has blacked out the fight against corruption.
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"We are now going to build our next project, a mobile social network."

The chances of becoming a serious Whatsapp competitor have just vanished. Focus is everything, spread too thin and you're done for good.
Funny, I chose my DigitalOcean VPS to be located in the Netherlands rather than the UK.
Freedom comes in various levels.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KHwFmQZFzw
Translation:

The Geodata Agency's data is now free, and we have inserted them into Minecraft.

That means that the whole of Denmark proper is now available as a virtual world
in 1:1 in Minecraft itself, so you can freely move around in Denmark, find
our own neighbourhood, construct and deconstruct like in any other Minecraft world.

On this page, you can read more about the free data in the Minecraft world, and
how you get started playing or download the free data.

According to this page[0] the map is divided into three regions, each which has their own server:

* Northern Jutland: server1.gstcraft.dk
* Southwestern Denmark: server2.gstcraft.dk
* Eastern Denmark: server3.gstcraft.dk

[0] http://www.gst.dk/emner/frie-data/minecraft/spil-her/
Everything about your customer acquisition channel
Himalayan Experience, the company mentioned in the article, publishes a nice newsletter during summit seasons, and delivered to your inbox if you subscribe, spam free. I find it very interesting to follow their weekly-ish reports on all the preparation, acclimatization and summit for Everest and other mountains during the season. This is the newsletter page where you can read and subscribe:

http://himalayanexperience.com/newsletters

This is what Russ published regarding the event in the article:

"Sorry for the late news, I have been a bit busy these last few days.

On the day of the avalanche we had 19 Sherpas carrying loads to C2. On their descent they established our rescue tent at C1 with oxygen, sleeping bags and other rescue equipment. The fact that they were busy doing this meant that none of our staff were actually in the ice fall at the time of the accident, so all are safe. As each Sherpa has a radio we were very quickly able to ascertain where everyone was. Our Sherpas also all have avalanche transceivers so they were able to do a transceiver search as they descended back to BC, but as very few people actually use transceivers on Everest they never found any signals.

At that time all our members were at Lobuche BC or acclimatising on the slopes of Lobuche, and only now are they returning to Everest BC.

At this stage we do not know if we will be continuing with our expedition or not.

Russ"
This is standard excuse trotted out. Of course it is incomplete at best and grossly misleading at worst.

Deflation is the opposite of inflation. One is an increasing value of currency, and the other is a decreasing value of currency.

People deal with deflation every day - both in their own national economies and internationally - when your currency is rising (gaining value) why would you purchase something today when it is going to be worth more tomorrow? The answer is because the value of having the thing today is worth more than having the money tomorrow - which is how we base all our purchasing decisions.

It's true that deflation will have effects that are not good - but mild deflation is no horrific thing. Most people have been told deflation is a scary monster in the same way that they have been told marijuana is a scary drug. There are circumstances and reasons when that is true, but it's not generally true and generally overblown. Both high deflation and high inflation are runinous to an economy, but mild deflation and mild inflation just produce different classes of winners - savers vs creditors.
any sign of this transition happening at Google?
While it is certainly true that valuing a business with an ongoing (and somewhat predictable) revenue stream, the typical yield approach is earnings / purchase price, this is not as applicable in situations where there is either no revenue (such as in the case of Oculus Rift) or little predictable revenue (WhatsApp). What exactly is the yield rate on the Oculus Rift acquisition when earnings are near zero?

Much of the acquisition activity that is driving exits, which is in turn driving VC activity (exits motivate investment), is coming from land grabs in expectation of FUTURE potential significant markets. Facebook grabs OR because it believes that the $2B purchase price now will be far outweighed by the potential for VR in the future, same for WhatsApp.

It would be simplistic to say that valuations that drive acquisition activity comes simply from comparing yield levels.

That being said, where does Facebook get the money to make the acquisitions they do? From the public market. The public market is mostly driven not by individual investors, but by major market movers, which are few in number compared to the "retail" investor market, but significant in influence. And Goldman Sachs and the like might be motivated to keep pushing money into Facebook because the alternatives are weak, given the current low yield environment.

If yields improve, then GS and the other market movers might shift from equities to other asset classes (fixed income, equities, maybe even CDOs again), and then as the money stream starts to taper for folks like Facebook, their acquisition activity will slow, and then valuations will start to decrease, and then Venture Capital activities in those sectors will also dampen, because the exits will be seen as less lucrative.

It would seem to me that exit activity drives valuation more so than current yields, but current yields might impact the money flow that drives those acquisitions.
Here's an interesting thought: What are the most fundamental inventions in the history of computers that could have been patented? Turing machines? Programing languages? User interfaces?
You mean restrict who can vote? The public wouldn't go for it. Which is good, because if people were okay with having their right to vote taken away, we'd be in a much bigger mess.
YC’s new deal
>They have flooded the market with cheap money in an attempt to heal the wounds (losses) of the financial crisis and incent business owners to invest and grow their businesses. That has not worked particularly well but it has worked a bit.

I would argue that it hasn't worked at all, given all the bad things that are yet to come from it.
Boycott systemd
I love these silly little fantasy worlds that we busy ourselves with, hell even television shows, because it gives people something else to share in common.

When all we did was find food, eat, sleep we all had everything in common.

The more things there are in the world, the fewer things we can have in common - Let's share our thoughts in more than a quick comment, or more than skim-reading a blog post? - "We don't have the time".
I guess it is the same as programming. You can get your friends teenage kid to write something in PHP that will work, but if you want quality, you are better off with an experienced professional.
I wish i wanted anything else to happen. Yesterday i thought, if anything about mesothelioma would be on top news in hn ever, as my mother diagnosed with mesothelioma stage 1 last month, however no cure exists for now unlike other cancer types with the same stage. Everyday i'm searching google if any curative treatments/clinical trials started in the last 24h. We think she has exposed to aspestos from paintings of the house wall in her village, as it was spread to use "white lime" for that purpose.
High living costs.

There are lots of nice places in Eastern Europe where the living costs are low, the weather nice and the scenery beautiful.

And in quite a few (e.g. Romania) the government is too busy stealing stuff to bother about oppressing freedoms, except maybe about elections...
>You were made promises, not by politicians, but by a powerless counterculture

No. The promises were made by the technology and its potential. But, you're reading my statement out of context anyway.

>We have the Internet now. There is no such need anymore.

Wait. So, you're now a representative of the powerless counterculture? You just said "there is nothing democratizing about the Internet. Now, you're hailing it as the solution to what is arguably the single biggest threat to democracy in U.S. politics today: money.

Make up your mind, man.

>what is a public office for?

Direct democracy has its place, but you're not seriously suggesting rule by referendum, right? I mean, I'm having trouble seeing any implied alternatives in your question that don't lead to utter silliness, so please feel free to make your point.

>If you don't subscribe to Rootstrikers, you are seriously out of touch

Says who? But, hey, color me seriously out of touch. If you put any stock in third party traffic analysis, I'm in good company (unfortunately). But, thanks for the pointer.

>Unlike you, Lessig has actually been doing things along this line, and unlike you, he has some notion of how to build political capital.

Awesome that you know me so well. I feel like we're old pals from way back. But, of course, your opinions of my capabilities in this area--even if accurate--have nothing to do with the merit of the statements to which you are responding. In fact, I'm trying to name all of the fallacies there: Appeal to authority? Red herring? False dilemma? Am I missing any?
One of the later episodes of the a16z podcast featured Marc Andreessen and Benedict Evans. They were discussing technology valuations and made some good points. Though I disagreed with their "no bubble" consensus, they were right in mentioning the classic "Russian oil money" and "new players" argument. Previously, most tech investing was done by U.S. venture capitalists. (One of the reasons why non-U.S. start-ups find it hard to fund themselves.)

However with multi-billion dollar technology floats like Facebook taking place - many, many people are taking notice and bringing lots of money with them. This, obviously, increases demand which in-turn increases prices. That's all. If, or indeed when, the bubble pops and people realise that these businesses aren't worth the price paid, I suspect it won't lead to the type of crisis that occurred in 00/08 - just lots of rich people with less money.
I realize we need a new country, a new "Wild West". How is that seasteading country doing?
All Illumina here. Yes, of course we have wet lab people, but excluding admin staff, I think the wet lab staff make up less than half of the workforce.
CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired
After firing a person for no good reason, CEO (Inge Geerdens) expects person to be oncall 24-7 after having told him he's fired. This, of course, despite there being no mention of any oncall in the contract she signed with this person.
I knew of laminar-flow [1] from my old competitive sailing days, never knew the same principle was used for clean room tech. An amazing invention, RIP Mr. Whitfield.

[1] http://www.nauticed.org/freesailingcourse-m1-33
Other than banking secrecy, what other advantages does switzerland have? Most markets and research areas are just as regulated as in the rest of europe (i.e. heavily).
Peer review is not perfect, but its still better than the way the mainstream media reports the news.
The OSGB in the UK did something similar last year: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/innovate/developers/minecraf...

Apparently it was built by an intern, it took him two weeks to create the 22 Billion blocks: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/news/2013/minecraft-ma...
More or less. One thing that is happening in the near future is moving the responsibilities for long-term care from the national government to local municipalities, that will probably get less money for it as well.
I find it quite ironic that the 'machine' has failed dismally to reproduce this text correctly, by making the usual pigs ear of character encodings and rendering Ælfrid as �lfrid in my browser, the latter being corrupted beyond trivial machine recovery.

We (or at least speakers of languages that don't fit into ASCII) are doomed.
Switzerland is fairly expensive though [0]. Might not be a problem for Pavel Durov, but maybe for his engineers?

Anyways I would have expected more than a simple gmail address from someone developing a crypto messenger. A GPG Public Key too much to ask?

Otherwise Switzerland is indeed quite a nice play for businesses. Founding a company takes about half an hour. So that should count as fairly unbureaucratic. Plus Google etc. have their Europe headquarter here.

[0] Source: I live there.
I'm sorry; I think you meant to suggest we pool our pocket change and hire a lobbying firm. A fax and email campaign is going to do what? waste toner and mailstore space?
Dead simple AngularJS directives for Bootstrap easier to remember
Norvig's Law in action.
For small innovating business-friendly countries I would suggest Estonia or Slovakia. If you like sea and nice weather Slovenia, Croatia or Monte Negro.
Iceland was planning on being the 'Switzerland of data freedom' at a certain point, but i'm not quite sure how they're doing right now:

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/jul/12/iceland-legal-h...
> I'm going to be typesetting it myself with lots of love using InDesign.

Have you perhaps considered LaTeX/XeTeX? Would get you incredibly beautiful typeset foundations, then you can customise it a lot further.
Please help, it looks brilliant, however, only the test page works for me. Can't get any other pages to work. Text simply isn't selectable - cursor remains as a pointer, not an'I' :(

I'm using the latest version of Chrome on a modern Mac and have Naptha properly installed and Chrome has been relaunched.

Any hints would be appreciated.
Presumably not ones assembled with lead-free solder? (not that the plastics are likely much safer by Californian standards, but still)
If you are really motivated, knowledge you gain from Codecademy will suffice for you to be able to build real-life apps.
Have you heard about a non-tech guy (Sam Fellig) who have built one of Time's Top 50 sites of 2013?
Check this out: http://www.codecademy.com/stories/99-how-to-outgrow-the-fear...

As for me, Codecademy helped me to understand Python basics and I've built a web-scraper. Now I'm learning Django.

Codecademy is of great use for developing countries -- it's text-based and light-weight, meaning it's the best choice for mobile-connectivity-only learners:

-- you pay less for data usage. (Mobile data is getting cheaper, but to take Udacity's CS 101 I had to spend something around $100 for data packages).

-- you can go through its lessons using USB-dongle even with EDGE/GPRS (2G) connectivity. In our country 3G is available only to 50% of the population, the other half of it use 2G.

It's interesting, how popular is Codecademy in developing countries? What's the portion of the learners coming from African or exUSSR states?
DogeOS – Very Smart – Many Zones
That's the deluxe paint Venus!
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=deluxe+paint+venus

Andy added an extra eye though...

edit: as did everybody with deluxe paint.
Do anyone have thoughts/feedback on Haraka - a mail server used by craigslist http://haraka.github.io/ ( Runs with Node.js + Javascript based plugin system )?
From my own experience teaching Haskell, monads are incredibly hard to explain in terms that are easy for CS students with a systems programming background to understand.

They are easy to explain to 2nd or 3rd year math students.

The difference is in the audience's cognitive bias.
I hate to speak ill of those that lost their lives, but they made very poor choices that directly resulted in their deaths.

Poor coordination with other teams, leaving 3 hours later than intended, missing or forgetting gear, and dangerous decisions in very dangerous situations.
My auto correction was probably triggered by the adjective "evil" and yours probably by the verb :-)
So its all fine because 3 Android phones had a similar problem?
Credit where it's due (1999)
What about Java?
NetCatAbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean
I've been trying to find which js file has the actual meat of the implementation, but didn't manage to find it. function.js seems the biggest candidate, but didn't contain that much. The rest are all minified other JS libraries or bootstrapping. Any hint on where the actual mapping of names to formulas, and implementation of the formulas, is? Thanks.

As for the unimplemented.js formulas, for Gamma you could use the lanczos approximation, it's easy to convert the C code of it which you can find on the internet, to JS.
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Is it 1:1? It doesn't appear 1:1, given how tiny the A/B-roads are. I am just curious, there are not a lot of screenshots (or information on the scale in fact).
I've just given it a go, I look lush. I tried changing the width and height but it came out the same size, I think I will have to play around with it.
Facebook profit triples on mobile growth
building whole cities and landscapes by putting together small bricks piece by piece? would be surprised if they were not all over it in DK, the land of lego.
Click – Python library for command-line interfaces
Yes indeed! Beautiful countryside and really excellent internet connections.

For example:
"Based on Net Index report at the end of first half of 2013, Timișoara has become the city with the highest download speed in the world. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Romania