skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia.

Gah. Please, no. (I am a Wikipedian, and I can see that it is going to take YEARS to clean out all the ideological and commercial point-of-view-pushing crap in Wikipedia today.[1] I try to do what clean-up I can, but I am just one guy doing Wikipedia editing in my recreational time.) Most of the comments I see about Wikipedia here on Hacker News from people who have actually edited Wikipedia relate various complaints about its editorial policies.

The practical problem for people trying to rebuild civilization from Wikipedia would be finding the structure of its internal organization to get to the most needed information rapidly. (Wikipedia is not organized around building civilization--not in its editing culture, and not in any other respect.) And here on Hacker News where we often see our fellow participants desiring a tl;dr summary of a blog post, why not go for conciseness and use a reference tool much shorter than Wikipedia to rebuild civilization? That's what the book under review in the submission here is all about: a short book focused on rebuilding civilization with the most essential information in an organized format. Have you actually looked up how to rebuild civilization on Wikipedia? What would be the first article to read?

I do like the idea of the book under review in the submission here, as the author is thinking deeply about the issue of preserving the essential knowledge to rebuild civilization, and he is curating his book with that purpose in mind. The review here looks favorable, and I think I should read the book for enjoyment--I don't actually expect to need to rebuild civilization. I do expect to need to improve Wikipedia for years. Have you joined in on that project recently?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:WeijiBaikeBianji#Pre...
Please, drop me a line so I can ping you when we'll come up with one.
> They know that at bottom, there is something deeply primitive and instinctual about the ability to make 70 people breathe, move and feel as one.

This is absolutely true. The rest of the article is random observation that explains very little.
I'd fight with all my soul to prove that's utterly wrong, at least regarding the issues I've mentioned above. If the data is not 100% open it's impossible for it to be so reliable. And even if it is, that doesn't mean it's good data at all.
I know several engineers at Facebook. None of them went to an ivy league school
There seems to be a chinese decree that all maps must be skewed so that in the case of being attacked, an attacker can presumably not find its way around the chinese capital.

Bike maps are likely created directly from GPS paths, which are unskewed. When you look at Bejing, you can easily see that difference.
I had a hard time reading this post as well. Having a company fail when you are in charge is a difficult for anyone. Yet the "lessons" about needing to find yourself came off as self centered. What about your team who needs to get paid. What about talking to investors about losing their money. I can understand the need to get away, but with all the crap hitting the fan, it's time to step up and not run.
Similar background, only got hooked on the commodore BBS scene... I'd ride my bmx bike holding a box of floppies to a friends to hack on, with the warm smell of manure rising up through the air. (Turlock)
That was an uncommonly good techcrunch article - good insight, domain knowledge, mostly a balanced look at some of the challenges startups in the "commoditized technology" space might be facing. I was entertained, I learned something, it was a pleasant reading experience (techcrunch has really improved their layout).

All in all it makes me more likely to read the next techcrunch article (and some of Danny Crichton back material.)
If you want to see the success of Square, go look at any new food truck or coffee shop or streetside vendor. It seems to be the new solution for that sort of thing.
"and she used to tell me lots of stories like this about places she had worked at previously. Vice presidents calling her to their room and offering her promotions if only she would give them weekly blowjobs, prospective customers turning away from million-dollar deals at the last minute after she refused to sleep with them,"

When you can use your mobile as a universal recording device and you carry it everywhere I find stories like this incredibly hard to believe.

Is it that hard to download a recording app, like the aclu police recording app, and have the most water tight sexual harassment suit ever? I mean you don't need to know that's happening before hand, when things start to get weird just say you got a text message and start recording.

At the end of the day remember that stories are just that, and people, both men and women, lie. Without evidence believing anyone because they are a woman is just as sexist as the people who supposedly made those passes on her.
Well the online consequences are a lot less serious. The possibility of some downvotes is not dissuading either one of us from carrying on saying what we think. I said what I did mainly to point out that this whole thread is indeed mob behavior, because the phenomenon seems have gotten really bad in this community lately. But even if I do get greyed out, it doesn't really matter because a few people will still read nuance and see that there are indeed people who don't agree but aren't just part of a rival mob. In meatspace, my voice would have been drowned out by the jeers of the day ("faggot" (1995), "traitor" (2005), "privileged" (2015), etc), so that's some incremental improvement to be thankful for.

I don't really think it's a thought of "why don't you take pleasure joining in", but a very base judgment of whether someone is with-us or against-us. Since you're not outraged at this very important subject, you must not share my values. And since you have different values, you must be a contributor to the problem.
I was purposely trying to avoid the comedy element, as although it was written as such, I recall at the time it was a very enlightening point for me. How little most of humanity could rebuild things from first principles.
I was going to back @yid on his comment, but then I saw the "First batch of app designs are complete"... OMG, this is a complete rip-off.

How can we be sure it was you who designed those mockups? Sorry, but it just seems unbelievably strange that a company like Foursquare would act in this way.
That's not legal as evidence in many states. Both people must be aware that they are being recorded or the recording is illegal.
The use of 'girl' to refer to women often bothers me as well, but in this case, it's a reference to a song title: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_Different_for_Girls
I recently learned this has a name. The Gell-Mann effect.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2011/08/the-murray-ge...
Agreed. Frankly, the hands on the crotch moved well past shouldn't-be-tolerated and to should-have-been-prosecuted.

I know it is a hassle dealing with the police and the legal system, but good god until a few of these assholes get publicly shamed and thrown in jail for a while, I'm not sure we're ever going to be rid of them.
Why shaming? Isn't this shit outright illegal? There is time to worry about shaming after the lawsuits.
If it's literal bits etched into stone, wouldn't it still be digital (the way sections of a disk platter having a particular polarity is digital)? Analog would be etching the resultant data in graphical form into the rock. I'm not sure what to call ASCII art carved into rock, tho.
The best Flappy48 on the App Store
Not all of them are using Square. There a lots of merchant companies that offer card swipe phone adapters, including PayPal and Quicken.
If this is in California, would a tape recorded by one party without consent of both parties be admissible in court? I was under the impression that California was two party consent.
And DRM-locked. Hopefully, after the apocalypse, Calibre still exists.
Is it a network effect if it's only within a company? For example, because there isn't any (good) data model that allows for resource reservations, calendar systems within a company are always on the same platform so there aren't conflicts in booking meeting rooms (which, even when calendar programs were on the same platform, was a big problem from around 1995-2000). But that doesn't mean people outside the company can't use a different calendar program and send .ics invitations.
This reminds me of a physics & engineering teacher I had in high school. He insisted that we use calculus to derive all of the kinematic equations. I think that rebooting society should function in a similar manner. We should remember the key laws, discoveries and methods and then rebuild society better than it was before.
On the one hand, it seems clear that the cultural association of darkness as bad has nothing do to with racism. But does anyone know if cultures whose people have dark skin do not have the same connotations?
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"Square is in a market where once you have a customer, you have the customer. "

Square has to compete on precisely three factors - First, and by far most importantly, cost. Next, ease of signing up, and third, Ease of use.

Any company that comes up with a cheaper system will almost instantly start winning away square consumers. That, to me, pretty much defines, "commodity"
Sorry. I never realized thet email field is invisible. Please send me mail to raghuram@encameo.com
My favorite graph paper: http://whitelines.se/function/
Ah, I'm really just getting used to the autotools conventions, where I don't think any wildcard rules are used. (And, even then, I'm still just a learner.)

I see what you are saying with B, but I don't have quite enough experience to know exactly how expensive that is. I also don't know enough about the kernel build to know what it is doing.

Also, I'm curious why the -M flag can't output the inexistance stuff. I guess it would be purely heuristic?
Right, I think the GP described a way that they might have "staying power" and be entrenched within their customer organizations, similar to how a poster described that Square might have that same quality.
And there are states, such as Liberia, where sexual harassment laws aren't applicable. Just because you live in a medieval jurisdiction doesn't mean the rest of us are.
Thanks, that looks really awesome, starting to watch now.

Some really cool music in it too, featuring Edgard Varese!
How many containers would you fit on a similar server?
SSDs you say? ok, here: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/px120ss... same config with SSDs instead, only +10 EUR/month...
@CmonDev We [URX] definitely have looked into support for Windows Phone deeplinking, but found it difficult to find any examples of websites using Windows Store meta markup properly, which would be a prerequisite for us to support such apps. Can you point us in the direction of any good examples?
It's people trying to be polite. If someone has a great time at a restaurant, do I really want to stop and tell them about my poor experience there? If we're openly discussing restaurants, then yes, I'll offer my story, but if someone is talking about their date last night, or lunch they took their coworkers too, etc, I don't want to insult their choice in restaurants, especially in front of others.

It's going to be different in Eastern Europe because there's more tradition. Compare it to older generations in America. I know my grandparents would never sugar coat a story, and if I said I had a great time at a restaurant, they would have no trouble interrupting to talk about that time they got food poisoning there, or saw a mouse on the floor.
> yearly dividend of roughly 350M USD

Wow, didn't think about that!
Do it. You have second mover advantage :)

Make sure to take some from:
The Engines of Our Ingenuity
http://www.uh.edu/engines/

An example excerpt:
That cottage had stood for five hundred years. Thatch is the thick woven straw that makes the roof. The walls are a mixture of clay and straw called cob, or sometimes tabby. The material varies, as well as the name. Cob, or tabby, is a poor man's masonry. To make it, you mix a structural material -- like straw, corn stubble, or oyster shells -- with clay or earth. It makes a solid building material. In one form, we daub mud onto it. Wattles, by the way, are twigs woven together.
I wonder how much would cost to have the actual card reader that's seen in shops around

Oh by the way, Square's market is limited. The USA still uses primarily the unsafe magnetic stripe for payments, and even Canada is phasing out its use (in Interac at least)
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Really, really sloppy benchmarking work here -- only four machines were tested, and every one of them had a drive from a different manufacturer. They weren't even all the same size! It's already well-known that Apple sources SSDs (as well as other parts) from a variety of suppliers, and not all of them perform identically. Concluding that the 2014 model is "slower" than the 2013 models from a sample this small is totally inappropriate, though.
This is a spot where the market Square is in contrasts with the market Box is in. Online storage has had big price drops recently. Payment processing is much more stable, and I don't think it's even possible for another company to price gouge. They'd have to cut an amazing deal with the banks, which sounds unlikely seeing as the incumbent behemoths haven't been able to negotiate better deals either.

The price is pretty efficient in this industry, what's really inefficient is the experience for both the businesses and consumers.
A small telescope is actually not the first choice for amateur astronomy. Pick up a pair of relatively cheap 7x50 or 10x50 binoculars (sizable but not enormous), and a good blanket. Do not try to hold the binoculars in your hand - lie on your back with your head firmly against the ground and rest them on your eye sockets (binocular hand-shake is the main reason people dislike them).

These are more portable, more user-friendly, more comfortable than any telescope. They're much better put together than the sparse selection of cheap telescopes at this price level. $50-$100

After this, I would consider an 8" dobsonian manual telescope, or a motorized alt-az goto scope with mount in the 4.5-6" range. $500-1000

A serious (but still amateur-level) 8" astrophotography setup (mount, sensor, telescope, filters) that will take the kind of nebula pictures people see coming from the HST, iTelescope, or Slooh, is going to run $5000-$10000.
Anonymous functions in ML, possibly.
Actually that's not entirely true. Arc inserts the calls first, but then does an elimination phase that can identify lifetimes beyond method boundaries and remove unnecessary calls.

It's not particularly complex, but the architecture is there for further enhancement of this phase as they build out the static analyzer.
It's really not "that guy might stop me". It's "they're probably a couple, what's the point". The default assumption is that a mixed-gender pair of people around the same age is a couple. I've been out wandering with female platonic friends plenty of times, only to have people assume we're a romantic pair.
And it's still faster than PCs. :)
I once thought that everyone knew not to ask things like this, but people don't.

Story: at a friend's place of employment, they were having an interview for a secretary, as the previous two secretaries had both left after their maternity leaves. During a group interview, one guy asks a candidate "hey, you're not planning on getting pregnant, are you?"

Did I mention this was at a law firm, and that the guy asking this was a lawyer? Yeah.

The poo instantly hit the fan from about a billion different directions. Everyone in the room, not just the guy who asked the question, got a very very long talk with HR. It entered company lore as "really stupid and expensive mistake this one guy did."

Whenever I'm on the questioning side, I always go over this with my coworkers.
It has nothing to do with them being Macs vs. PCs, it just depends on who they buy the SSDs from.
http://gridzzly.com/getGrid.php?bunka=sit1&rozestup=3&width=... seems to crash any browser I throw at it. Granted you are trying to load a very large image, but still was surprised. It may 500 Internal Server Error I'm guessing if server runs out of memory while trying to make these large images.
A bit unfair that this was down voted. Why does the hive mind think collectively that this is OK state for LibreSSL/OpenSSL - a critical component of internet security - to be in?

What does "testing" mean in the LibreSSL/OpenSSL situation anyway? It compiles? A regression suite passes? Manual verification?
Or go in circles.

A: Ok, you didn't steal it, but where were you last night?

B: I went out after I had dinner to meet my friend Bob for a drink.

Fast forward 20 minutes...

A: So let me confirm this one more time, you were busy last night, had dinner with your friend Bob, then went out for a drink?

Gauge their response, see if they correct you and say no, they met Bob after dinner, sticking to their original facts.
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Sterling? Is this seriously what we're doing now? A corporation removes a staunch racist from a position with hiring authority, and it's a free speech issue?
How is Vic Gundotra perceived internally at Google?
San Francisco’s Google Buses Attacked in Lawsuit
Would using a higher level language (C?) have prevented this problem?
Wait, it's actually not okay to lean on a class of people you oppress to mitigate the oppression. We don't even have to get in to framing; the quote you used to sum Shanley up is self-evidently true.
I've had a 15-year experiment going in relation to this. Some adult females hate being called 'girls', because of the reasons you state. Some adult females hate being called 'women' in a general context, because they feel it brings a whole lot of feminist baggage they don't want to deal with. It didn't matter what word I chose, I'd find someone who was put off by it, and had had clear complaints verbalised about both words (ie: I'm not wrongly picking up on nonverbal cues).

So I started using 'lass' instead (I am not in an area where this is in common use). I haven't yet found anyone who bridles at this, when before I certainly did with 'girl' and 'woman'. No-one seems to particularly care for or against 'lass', with the exception of some elderly women, who seemed to like the suggestion of youth in the word. The experiment part was that I'd stop using 'lass' when someone complained about it, like they did with 'girl' or 'woman', and to see how long that would take.

I'm not particularly suggesting this as a course of action for the general public, it's just a story to relate.
That technique is indeed the best. It creates another reality in the mind of the other person, where they doubt their own mind, solely by refuses to give any ground whatsoever. Quite manipulative, but effective.
>I said what I did mainly to point out that this whole thread is indeed mob behavior, because the phenomenon seems have gotten really bad in this community lately.

Agreed. I figured maybe if I could try to frame the issue in a technical means that might interest people of this community in the context of controversial present uses of technology (trying to expand beyond the mob behaviors in the community towards present asymmetric usage of such) that could benefit us in many spheres if used to study our behaviors if the means were more available/accessible to all.

It's just funny because now people in my position have been pushed towards pursing startups in order to try to address social behaviors using technology because no such freedoms are granted in academia until one is grey haired, and even then you must pander the present status quo in academia which I have friends whine to me about all the time.

At least on HN, I can have a way to even find people trying to do similar things, and I wouldn't know if I didn't state what I was thinking which I think outweighs the fear of being grey out (it still is pretty unpleasant since that affects whether some people who may help pursue such ways of trying to address things may over look, but maybe it attracts those people even more, so maybe not!).

All in all, I'm still pretty hopeful that such interactions here and in derivative spaces like github/twitter can draw me towards people who want to think of/build something to address something like this one day. It's worked form getting me interested in decompiling firmware, network bruteforcing, learning different programming languages, writing code to mine twitter for social information corresponding to crowd sourcing campaigns and their influencers, etc…

> […]but a very base judgment of whether someone is with-us or against-us. Since you're not outraged, you must not share my exact values. Since you don't share my values, you must be part of the problem.

Yeah, I can understand that, but I just stated how such judgements can be construed as (with an intentional mocking touch placed in that train of thought). And this is coming from someone who had an official position at an Ivy League university before I dropped out, as a "Minority Peer Counselor". Funny enough, even there, people who normally initially associate with others (and me) on the basis of their skin (for a multitude of reasons, most predominantly surrounding some internalized fear of rejection/and derivatives from prior experiences or teachings) didn't like when I brought up such phenomena.
On the other hand, the profit margins for Square's customers are generally razor-thin, so it seems like you wouldn't have to undercut them by all that much to steal a lot of their customers.
chip is becoming more popular in the us now too
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Really we should have funded this and a myriad of other technologies esp fusion instead of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. When fusion finally comes online, we need to dump a serious amount of energy into pulling the carbon back out of the seas and the atmosphere. But without the seas, billions will end up starving.
At Oxford, a couple of months ago, he gave his first public talk since retiring as CEO. There he mentioned he's currently not doing much, but he's researching a few problems to do with governance, healthcare and the environment. He said he doesn't want to try to do anything like Microsoft again, because anything like that would inevitably pale in comparison. He seemed more interested in charity/politics/similar.
Since you haven't acknowledged a single substantive point from the Shanley post cited upthread, you should reconsider writing 250+ words about "framing" and Frank Luntz. And by "should", I mean that you should follow the Principle of Charity.

If you'd like, you can wait to start doing that until the principle becomes an HN guideline. You might have a couple of weeks left to ignore it ('dang has more or less said it's coming). But since it's just a good plan regardless of what the site rules say, I think you should start now.

The tendency for people to litigate framing, tone, and decorum instead of substantive points has a name in online feminist circles: "tone policing". I find the application of that term incredibly annoying. Which is why it's especially discomfiting to see someone directly play into the pattern of behavior the term was coined for.