skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where is that exception that appearing "fair" or "cheap" helps you? If there's another candidate equally qualified and liked by the company, they company will hire the cheaper one - but as a candidate, you shouldn't bank on this situation happening. If you were hired as a "cheap" employee, when a new position or opportunity comes up, you would have to negotiate yourself up to your fair-market value and then some in order to get that better offer. Better to start high and work higher than come-from-behind with a low price anchoring your value.
Anyone who commits double speak is not worthy of trust.
There is a counter argument which is also called out in the article: "[David Povenelli] has come to believe that a chimp doesn’t need to have an integrated sense of self in order to pass the mirror test. Instead, it needs only to notice that the body in the mirror looks and moves the same as its own body, and then make the connection that if there’s a spot on the body in the mirror, there could also be a spot on its own body."

So the question of "Does the chimp see a reflection as another chimp or a chimp on this side of the mirror?" is the fundamental question. A two chimp experiment might resolve that question, which is can the Chimp distinguish between a visual of a chimp and the actual chimp when both are present.
Using Psychedelics for Rational Work
Get kids. Problem solved.
The problem with exhibition style is that the judges and the participants end up completely exhausted because they're presenting/pitching a few hundred times at the larger events... and some people just can't take a hint that it's time to move on to the next table or something like that. At least that's what I've experienced.

And from a judging perspective it's important that judges give equal consideration to all the ranges of numbers... statistics can be a cruel mistress as youtubers like CPG Grey frequently point out.
To those interested in really using Vim to make music, SuperCollider is a great option, you can use it with SCVim (https://github.com/sbl/scvim). I've used a lot in my own music, I normally mix live coding and a piano, one guy recorded one of my presentations here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrPjgX60EA0

(Warning: Experimental stuff)

Case anyone's interested, here's my bandcamp: http://lucasnemeth.bandcamp.com/
I don't think you're actually arguing with any points I'm making. I agree with everything in your second paragraph.

But you started this conversation talking about the data facebook holds that locks you in. Relationship data is trivially rebuildable (and often benefits from periodic culling anyways), so that leaves the more concrete data like pictures and posts. Those are important, but most people seem to treat them pretty much as ephemeral in practice.

So at this point I don't really know what you're arguing or why you're arguing with me. Yes, the people are the important thing in a social network. Where they go you go. If your friends all go somewhere else, you will follow them. Where this differs from films or television is that, unlike films and televisions, your friends can two-time another network that offers a different value proposition until the network effects catch up. I've seen this happen personally, and that was my original point.

And just to clarify on this:

> ou say the original provider was "dominant demographically and regionally", but that basically translates to "not as dominant as Facebook"

When I talk about facebook coming on to the open market, I mean literally in the 6 months or so after people who didn't go to an accredited university could use it. At the beginning of that we were, within that region, absolutely more dominant than facebook (obviously). We were much more dominant than myspace (less obvious, and we were very proud of it) even. We were the #1 social network in that region hands down.

At the end of that 6 month period the network effect had completely shifted to them and people were visiting our site once a month who previously visited several times a day. When we changed things up, they just stopped coming rather than bother learning how to use the new stuff.
CONPLAN 8888-11 "Counter-Zombie Dominance"
never noticed that. the option keystrokes are so ingrained, I'll probably keep using them.
Just want to be devil's advocate with a couple questions:

Do you think Zuck could have made a business plan which correctly predicted Facebook's growth curve?

If he had put together a more modest, defendable one, do you think it might have slowed down the company or made them focus on the wrong things to hit key milestones?
I have the same approach. I don't buy media with DRM ever and only use devices and systems free of DRM (Windows for example has inherent DRM so those who avoid it shouldn't use it either). The only exception are DVDs, because DRM there is so obsolete that it's not relevant. On any Linux distro one needs to use libdvdcss to play them anyway.
A container should make it easier to install and move to another host--assuming the app isn't tied into AWS services.
Texas gets new tiny solar plant
He does not say it is bad per se.

What he criticizes is using any of these "laws" and "principles" as if they were truths, as if the argument was based on an axiom or had the strength of science.

They are "inferred" from experience statistically speaking, but in each individual case you need to gauge and check yourself whether those three dots make or not make sense.

It is your judgement in particular code that matters, not the a priori invocation of any "law" or "principle".
Controlling distribution channels is equivalent to "screwing artist by having a monopoly to their audience", not to "helping artists live off their creations"
Your "PagerDuty" link intrigued me, then I got redirected to https://www.jobscore.com/employer_login
Grails 2.4 will support Java8, and RC2 was released today!
Wait, so you're telling me the guy on the other side of the glass portal thingy in my bathroom is ME?
I tried it and visited css-tricks.com and when using the 'Live HTTP Headers' it still makes the request to Google with the referer. However, the Firebug net inspection appears to locally load it (0ms load time).
This guy's book seems to espouse the "paleo" lifestyle but it might not be utter bullshit. If the research quoted is to be believed human beings haven't been steadily getting better. Lifespan is only one measure of human achievement.

http://phys.org/news175332184.html
Nearly every sentence of this post is factually wrong. A wide variety of DRM free video exists on the internet, some of it is even paid material. Louis CK, Jim Gaffigan and Greg Proops have all done DRM-free work.

My iPhone can play any video encoded in the right formats using the Videos app. It can also run VLC. A wide variety of main stream BluRay players support DLNA and media via usb.

Copyright being a killer kind of overlooks why we have copyright to begin with. I make movie, I get some limited powers to determine who can and can not distribute my work and how it's used. If I make a movie, you don't have the right to make a buck off my work with out my say so. Do you have ANY idea why that's kind of inherently unfair?

Also, if I don't want my work used to sell cigarettes or used to stump for some political candidate, then that should be my right.

That's not to say copyright reform isn't needed, or that copyright holders don't have disproportional bipartisan political influence or any number of things. However, as a leading issue of our time, it's somewhere near, "Are there too many Buicks on the road?" Fixing or repealing the DMCA is relatively easy. There are many issues that I can think of that just aren't.
DHH quote: "I think the Law of Demeter is shit and never follow it."

(from http://signalvnoise.com/posts/3112-how-basecamp-next-got-to-...)
Got Sleep? 20 More Minutes Boosts Your Brain Power
I'd bet it probably looks jumpy to a cat, but cats seem to find sudden jumpy movements interesting.
I think I'm most interested in balanced using crowd funding to raise money for implementing new features. Raising $50k to create a product that allows them to charge $1/use. Are there any posts from balanced about this method of getting things done?

I found these two articles:
http://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2014/01/30651-balanced-uses-...
http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/24/balanced-crowdfunding-produ...
My cat also totally ignores mirrors, screens, etc. And she completely flips out when she sees another cat through the window, fifty feet away.

I'm pretty confused by this. I don't think that her sense of smell or hearing is so acute that she can smell or hear the other cat through glass from so far away. She doesn't have binocular vision at that distance, I would assume. Parallax? How does she determine that that's a real cat while cats in mirrors and screens aren't?
one other benefit of this approach is that you can test features without constantly wiping out your reviews and ratings. Because Apple only shows the reviews and ratings for the most recent version in the app store, doing lots of mini-releases can hurt in terms of downloads.
You and I know there is a middle ground, but there is something very appealing about deriding the (hard) work of building abstractions and meditating on design principles in favor of "get shit done" coding.

This article was an interesting little exploration--mostly point out that by not using rails but by conforming to the interfaces you could do some interesting things. It was a harmless little piece, not something you might want to do in production but interesting nonetheless in its own right.

The tone of my comments is in regards to the top-level objections and phrasing these people are using--"wankery", "architecture astronauts", etc.

Look, I get it; most of us at one point or another have dealt with JavaEnterpriseFactoryBridgePatternAdaptorAnnotationAnnotationFlyweights and have had to meander through scores of abstracted calls to finally figure out something that should've been a direct function invocation. The dot-com bubble hurt many programmers, sure. Enterprise Jabba is a bloated king in a crumbling castle; whatever floats your boat.

There are people--in this very thread!--who are arguing against any abstraction. They do so in the name of performance, and in the name of domain modeling, and in the name of a dozen other half-articulated little fears and inconveniences.

I've had to deal with code written by academics that implemented brilliant solutions to some problems, and yet remained impenetrable. If asked, "figure it out yourself". These are the same chucklefucks that don't comment their code, that are uncooperative on projects trying to clean up and make libraries out of their work, and generally are people who think that making it out of a doctorate program with a paper about their tiny slice of new human knowledge somehow grants them any weight whatsoever in discussion about software engineering or working on teams.

It makes sense that they'd be against abstraction--them and the trading folks and game developers and everyone else whose livelihood depends on excruciatingly-specific implementation details which are nothing more than an artifact of their time, a form of technical arbitrage which pays for their miserable existence.

Of course they hate abstraction, because it is very hard to convince somebody of something when their livelihood depends on them not understanding it!
I very quickly lose track of time when engrossed in something, especially if it's a game. Nice how that's a consistent opposite with time slowing with sensory deprivation.
Tremor-cancelling spoon for Parkinson's tremors
Odd that the article mentions Oakland as one of the places you couldn't use a Google car because the New Yorker's article mentions Levandowski driving Berkeley to Mtn. View through Oakland via 880.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/11/25/131125fa_fact_...

They also hinted that the cars drive over the speed limit to match prevailing traffic.
Ask HN: Internal Transfers from Acquired Companies
Im currently doing e-commerce research within a company acquired by Google, but may be better situated in a different department located within the main campus. However I hear a rumor that there is a company policy which states that I would need to sit a coding interview before this would be allowed. Can anyone verify for/against this? I'm thinking it may be a bit hit or miss in terms of whether it routinely happens or not?

Note: This question applies specifically for Google, but Im interested in what other companies' practices are.
Another nice narrative that doesn't fit with experimental data.

In spite of the fact that one would imagine a Texas city to be less regulated than a California city, it isn't really that simple.

In Austin a strong majority of the utility poles are owned by the city. The ones that aren't are largely owned by AT&T, which complains very loudly that it is required to sell access to anyone who wants it at a price dictated by the Federal Communications Commission nationwide.

Meanwhile California (get this) opted out of much of the FCC regulation around utility poles and effectively allows a large private company to own and control the poles. This private company is made up of all the usual suspects like AT&T, Sprint, PG&E, T-Mobile, Verizon, etc., who seem to have formed a holding company to buy utility poles without anyone at the state being concerned about antitrust concerns. I'm not exactly sure what the requirements are to join--if access is "open" (for some definition of open) this may be how they circumvent the Sherman Antitrust Act etc.

California did pass "fair access" laws in 2011 [1] but as far as I can tell they only apply to "local publicly owned electric utilities" which presumably would not include AT&T and its utility pole holding company. There probably is some kind of regulation that in principle regulates competitive access to poles but how it compares to the FCC's jurisdiction in Texas it is difficult to say.

This is a side note, but we should really be having less talk about how we think regulation works and more case studies about how it does or doesn't work in these comment threads. "Less regulation == better internet" is a plausible model but so was the Bohr Model of the atom. "Is it correct?" is the question and that question can only be answered by looking at empirically what happens.

[1] http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xht...
- it would simply stand in front of the mirror for hours on end -

"I'm so alone..."
I believe in testing things. I don't expect it to work since I assume that it's much more likely you fall within the normal range of luck, but I think doing the experiment would be interesting.

The central point is that if you have an unusual source of information about chance outcomes, even if it's negative, there should be a way to use that to gain.

If you think that the universe can make sure you don't gain financially from chance you could try a test that pits some other kind of gain against financial gain and see which way the universe goes. Some people bet against their favourite sports team so that whatever the result, at least some good will come of it.

Sorry to hear you're depressed.
> On sites like reddit and FB, it costs the content providers effectively nothing to manipulate votes.

But that's offset by the sheer volume of people who can freely vote. If you have a system where a vote is a payment, you'll likely have a >95% reduction of legitimate voters, and likely a much higher amount of "gamed" voters as a result. Remember, corporations and governments have more money to spend than the average person. I.e. All governments/corporations can afford to spend money + some individuals can spend money. Compare that with: All governments/corporations can freely upvote + all individuals can freely upvote. Requiring money actually skews voting in the wrong direction.

That's why I think Reddit made a smart decision when they implemented Reddit guilding for top-level comments. They did it in such a way that guilding doesn't affect voting, and guilded comments can't even be seen from the homepage--otherwise it would skew the results.

I do totally agree about other ways to support creators, though. I think it's crucial for sites like StackOverflow to implement direct tipping for users' efforts.
Some Ikea furniture is modular from the get-go. I have a Galant desk setup that I'm incredibly happy with: I mixed-and-matched frame and tabletop parts to get an L-shaped desk that fits my space and needs perfectly, and combined a small half-round tabletop extension, three short furniture legs, and a package of felt pads to make a monitor/speaker stand that I can reposition and store stuff under.
One that doesn't seem to be mentioned: if you want to navigate to an absolute path using the keyboard from within a Finder window or a Save dialog, use ⌘⇧G to open a little "Go to..." panel that lets you type in a path. It has path completion and has tilde expansion.
Show HN: Take It Apart
Kano – A computer anyone, anywhere, can make
In fact, you can use it as 2 1720x1440 5:4 aspect ratio monitors, which is better for some use cases.
Also: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/system-bindings.html
This is incredible. It's crazy to think how far we've come since the Apple I. It's really cool that some of these still exist.
Even just allowing visitors without allowing physical interaction would have to be a vast improvement from total isolation. They've already got a visitor room set up but don't allow it to be used.

Although at this point who is going to visit?
I choose to use nonrational (not irrational or rational, necessarily, but indeterminate) thoughts like "My life has purpose" as sources of motivation since it shortcuts the process of extracting meaning from theories that take a great deal of time to research and internalize.

I am not a rigorous accountant of truth in my worldview. I choose a worldview that works for me since I don't have the time or energy to truly consider all options.
> The real question is what we can do to fight DRM.

> Of course all this only applies to DRM content, and companies advocating it. Non-DRM offerings like gog.com, independent artists etc. are fine and should be paid for if used

What else? The root of the problem seems to be that major media companies are demanding DRM. For most of media that most people want to consume, there are no DRM-free alternatives, except pirating, which does carry some risks. It's hard to recommend pirating as a solution to the average media consumer, since the legal consequences can be bankrupting, and avoiding those risks ("just set up an anonymous VPN for your torrents!") requires technical know-how that most don't have.

I think we need more thought about the following:

1. How can we convince the producers of popular media to release it without DRM? Many will say it can't happen without a serious change in the structure of the media business; but there might be some room for solutions here, like Mozilla's "watermarking" idea, that give these companies most of what they're looking for (more control over distribution and remedies for infringement) without making the copies of this media basically unusable from a consumer's perspective. Legal remedies were enough for these companies before the rise of digital media and the Internet; could publishers be convinced to abandon DRM if a better legal framework for distribution and infringement was available?

2. How can we get people to like, and pay for, media that is produced and released without DRM by independent publishers? As others have pointed out, these publishers generally already know that DRM is not in their interest. But they have two problems: it's hard for people to find their stuff, and they don't have the capital to compete with large media companies on production value. What can be done to lower the barriers here? New tools that make indexing and searching for DRM-free media easy for consumers? New tools that make producing and marketing high-quality media easy for publishers? What should those look like?
Because he judges a series of dots by themselves, not because any law mandantes anything. He gives a shit about these grandiose names, show me the code and let's discus on that.
"The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning."

"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death — however mutable man may be able to make them — our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light."

– Stanley Kubrick, http://genius.cat-v.org/stanley-kubrick/interviews/playboy-1...
Could the person or persons who downvoted my comment explain why or what you disagree with here?
Google Wallet scrapes transaction memos for "Bitcoin", states violation of ToS
Backstory: A colleague of mine had owned me about $200, and I said he could pay me via paypal, google wallet or (jokingly) bitcoins. A few weeks ago he transferred me money using Google Wallet with the memo "using this since I have no bitcoins".

Fast forward several weeks later; he received the following email from Google:

"It appears that you may be sending transactions that violate our Terms of Service for Send Money with Gmail.

Your Google Wallet account has recently come under review for a Terms of Service violation. Your transaction [redacted] with the memo, “bitcoins”, is in violation of Sections 6 and 7 of the Google Wallet Terms of Service for Send Money with Gmail. We may decline to process such transactions or close your account if we identify in the future that you are using your account for these purposes.

Sincerely,
The Google Wallet Team"

I was kind of baffled that they would actually read through the transaction memos, or flag anything bitcoin-related, but it appears to be the case. Upon some research it looks like Google has been doing this for some time:

http://estrip.org/articles/read/joe/58328/Google_wants_a_cut.html

Not sure what to make of this...just know that if you use a service like Google Wallet to send money to friends they're definitely watching.
The Box S-1, Delayed IPO, and the Genius of Tien Zuo
I inherited tremors ... mine aren't always present and when I have them they're relatively minor. The bad news is that I can see how they progress by watching my mom's tremors. I'm pretty sure I won't be drawing or even writing in another 20-25 years.

So what I'm wondering is whether this "test" can be adapted to become an "exercise". Will practicing with the test for some number of minutes a day condition my hands to stay more tremor free? That might be an interesting body hack.
From the accounts I've read, during that time, Rakudo and Parrot were always run by different teams that had a limited understanding of each others' perspective.

The P6 design team had been having weekly phone calls for years. Patrick (Rakudo pumpking) and Allison (Parrot architect) were both regularly on the calls. As you might expect from any kind of regular meeting, there were occasional disagreements, but the purpose of those conferences was to guide the convergent development of both projects.

I used those calls to figure out what I should work on within Parrot to help Rakudo.

Technically, moving the projects into separate repositories and onto different change schedules seemed to have worked out badly.

From the outside, that probably looks like the point at which the projects really started to diverge, but I think it was a symptom. Near the start of Parrot, a lot of people thought P6 was an ambitious project that'd never amount to anything and they wanted Parrot to succeed with or without P6. At some point, enough people within Rakudo decided that they didn't want to be tied to Parrot forever that they wanted an alternate backend.
I was responding to your claim that "He does not say it is bad per se." Calling it "shit" seems like "[saying] it is bad".
I think you just have a negative view of humanity.