skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have a hobby? Something that you like to do for fun? Hobbies that you can share with other people are a great way to make and keep friends. You might even find a girl friend through a hobby.

Your hobby can be anything. For me, it's dancing. For other people, it might be video games. Take your pick. There are a lot of cool things to do out there in the world. Go out there and explore, meet people.

For example, Polaris is a YouTube network of people who generally like to play video games: https://www.youtube.com/user/Polaris. It's a bunch of friends (and business partners) who all share a love of video games and games in general. So even something like video games can be a vehicle for making friends (and meeting girls), if that's your thing.
The Liberals are actually the ones who got us into the JSF program.

Every opposition government ever opposes whatever large military procurement is proposed: It's easy to find negatives, and there is no real downside to be negative. Occasionally the rhetoric can get so over the top that it needs action (see the Liberals cancelling the EH-101, and then having to effective re-order it at a much higher price tag for less hardware), but generally it just quietly continues.

And the overwhelming reason Canada wants the F-35 has little to do with the aircraft, and everything to do with manufacturing partnership agreements that would see many billions of that order going to facilities in Canada, invigorating the aerospace industry.

Not saying it's a good purchase, because it isn't, but I wouldn't pin it on the Conservatives.
Always always always go for the role that offers more challenge. Life is always about the risk not taken.
Url changed from http://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/scientists-finally-unloc..., which points to this.
Which version? I'm only seeing Enemy Unknown and something called "Aliens versus Humans" which looks like a direct clone, but which the reviews say is sort of a shallow imitation of the original. Is there another I should be looking for? (XCOM is one of my top 5 of all time, would love a direct copy of the original with a graphical update)
I love this! Looks like HN might be slowing your server down (around 800ms to grab matches). You should try puma or unicorn instead of webrick.
In what way has neoliberalism been a failure? Most prosperous countries are the ones that practice it the most (Switzerland, Hong Kong) and EU countries who have gotten better lately have been the ones taking neoliberals measures by cutting state spending (UK) and in South America the best economies have freed their ecomonies the most. There is nothing that can beat a free market economy, sure you can regulated to some extend if you want and it is all around the world, but a healthy free market economy with as few regulations as possible is still the best way to go as reality has shown, call that neoliberalism or mixed economy with as few regulations as possible or whatever you want, but it's not a failure and it's not going away.
Of course, you should take that Graeber article with a few grains of salt, given that he also wrote this:

Apple Computers is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly Republican) computer engineers who broke from IBM in Silicon Valley in the 1980s, forming little democratic circles of twenty to forty people with their laptops in each other's garages
Eek. I used Filepicker at my last start-up and loved it. In fact, the website's still using it right now. I integrated it before it was called Ink, went through a rebrand, and now I'm left wondering if the old code I wrote is still going to work.

I wish there was more context here and explained if the product was going away or not. On a personal note: I had talked with Brett and Anand repeatedly in the past, it would've been nice to get more details.
Wow, that store sounds awesome. I'll have to check it out. Where/what is it?
As an aside, it's kind of humbling to think how different the scope and the impact that these design decisions make versus the impact that most of us work on can make.

Very few of us can say that a design mistake on our part is the difference between life and death.
rayiner could be right. I noticed a few times when one district builds a road and they fail to cooperate with another , so the road ends in the middle of nowhere. Local governments, due to corruption and political reasons cannot cooperate effectively.

I do believe in free markets and little regulations, but in this case central government should act.
Sadly, David Sullivan, the subject of the article, died of chronic lymphoma just around the time it was published.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/12/remember...

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/David-Sullivan-PI-who-...
You can quickly display the data using the online JSON editor: http://cdn.rawgit.com/jdorn/json-editor/master/demo.html

This is "small data", you can always say that you watched all the matches and collected the information yourself ;-)

And, depending where you live this license can/cannot be legal.
Correction -- all of the atheists you know who vocally express their beliefs have Star-Trek-like beliefs, or other generally optimistic beliefs about the future. The atheists who think that there's a significant chance that we'll manage to wipe ourselves out in the next century generally aren't going to vocalize those beliefs, unless there's something actionable that can be done about it (though I don't think I actually know anyone who thinks that ecological overshoot is a real threat to civilization, much less humanity).

I think you see the pessimists on both sides of the secular / religious divide. The difference is that pessimism is generally low-status and frowned upon in secular groups, meaning that pessimists in those groups are generally not very vocal about their pessimism.
I guess if people are attempting to make their own apps they should stick to the APIs shared on the other thread (I really like the Kimono one). However, it's really interesting to see how the "official API" is structured, as some users have pointed out here.
Did you know: as pointed out here, "mana" is used in New Zealand (not just by Māori) and means something like "status" or "honour" (to drastically simplify a nuanced and powerful word[1]). Its also the name of a left wing party that Kim Dotcom has allied his Internet Party with for the upcoming election. The joint party is called "Internet Mana Party"[2] and is likely to achieve at least two seats on the new parliament.

1. http://www.maoridictionary.co.nz/search?idiom=&phrase=&prove...

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mana_Party#Internet_Mana_Party....
> not bloated with a glut of unnecessary bureaucrats and administrators

In America, Education is about standardizing thought & systematically removing novelty from the students. That requires bureaucrats & administrators to ensure that the novelty is systematically removed on schedule.
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A whole book's worth of examples is hardly fair use. But I looked at a few of the array examples in the forked repo and I don't see them in the book. E.g., the shoppingList has different elements and I didn't see fiblist in the book. But I don't have time to do an exhaustive analysis. I would guess (or at least hope) Apple ran a program to do a comparison.
> I feel like if something were done to prevent Pd from being wiped off the map we could have had an open source community by now rather than Cycling 74.

But we got another repeat of the scenario: the OSS project was unable to muster decent UI while the commercial variant was able to both fund the staff and draw out the needs from its user community to make continual UI improvements. (Speaking specifically to the vast improvements over time culminating in Max 6.) If I sound a bit testy here, it's because I've seen too many promising OSS projects killed by this same problem: terrible user experience.

> I realize the biggest reason Max is thriving is because of marketing

I strenuously disagree. It's because PD absolutely failed to deliver a sane user experience, period. Sure, marketing is important, but Cycling '74's work is what makes Max at all relevant today. About all that PD ever had going for it versus Max was being open source.

As someone who used Max/FTS back on the ISPW[1], even that old UI was vastly better than PD's. I enthusiastically gave PD a go when it first came out, even going back from time to time to check in on it. Every time I found it nigh unusable due to huge UI issues. Especially for what amounts to a visual programming language, this is the death knell. For comparison, it's not like early ISPW Max didn't have its pain points.

Max users owe Miller Puckette a substantial debt for his contributions to this excellent visual signal/event programming environment, so it's unfortunate that PD was never able to pull it together.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISPW
Automatic 2.0 redesigned with low-fuel warnings, adjustable speed feedback
anyone using rethinkdb in production? Hows the experience like?
Your second possibility covers not only executives who partake in high-risk gambles but also executives who deliberately bankrupt their company for personal profit. A canny executive doesn't rob the firm by dipping his fingers in the till but by, for instance, loading the firm with gold-plated rubbish and extracting a personal profit in the form of compensation, stock-options etc, before the sheen wears off.
My feeling is "Don't hamper technological progress but provide a robust safety net to take care of those left behind" is itself a straw man. No one is hampering technological progress. Instead a lot of people are (correctly imho) not willing to blindly succumb to it on a promise from those at the top that it will all work out in the end. Everyone is a stake holder in society and entitled to their own fears, hopes and beliefs. pmarca has his, the guy about to be replaced by a robot does too. A responsible society listens to both and figures out an equitable compromise. The problem is pmarca has billions of dollars available to bolster his position in the debate. The guy on the factory flaw does not. A second problem (for me at least) is that what pmarca says and what pmarca does often appear to be two different things.
That wouldn't be the last sixty years of explosive innovation and social growth, would it? You mean the most inventive and creative sixty years in all of human history?

The sixty years prior were pretty explosive too - we got the car, airplane, nitrogen fixation, radios, etc.

In my observation, you maximize returns to education when a) 90+% of people are literate in terms of both words and math b) ~20% of your population has a good trade education and/or apprenticeship c) 5-10% of your population has a good technical education (engineering, accounting, medicine, etc.). Beyond that, there are diminishing returns. The benefit of giving 50% of your population a "business and communications" "education" at State U is pretty low. Especially when that "education" is really just a four year party.

The U.S. was probably at maximal educational efficiency in the 1950's. And we are getting a lot of benefit from the small percentage of education that is actually technical. But the marginal, additional, dollars spent since then, IMO, have had little impact.
What I learned from launching ProtoJolt (part 2)
Thanks guys! Jason from Filepicker here. You’re right—Ink on mobile was too far ahead of its time. I’m still frustrated I don’t have a filesystem on my iDevices… that said, the core business of handling files for uploading no matter where they live couldn’t be more exciting for us. We’ve a huge roadmap and if you check out the blog you’ll see we’re starting to announce our updates already. Everything from new client libraries, iPhone iOS8 support, Metadata APIs to new transformations, data sources and much, much more coming. We’ll give a deeper update on the business once the dust settles but feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions about our service!
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What motivates people in a society where all their needs are met? Competition for resources has long been and will continue to be large aspect of humanity as a species, but I imagine we could reach for a truly golden age once a large group of people have the luxury of thinking about things like we're talking about now. It'd be amazing what we could build if more people had time to experiment - possibly bewildering and dangerous!
A lot of the comments here are from the employee "I hate being bothered by recruiters" side, which I totally get. But as a (newly promoted) Director of Engineering in SF I'm struggling to make any headway building my team without using contingency recruiters. I'm new to being on the hiring side and my manager is frustrated that my only resource for candidates is to use recruiters (primarily because of the cost). What other things can / should I be doing?

Here are some things I've considered:

- Meetups: Hosting usually gives you a quick pitch to the audience, but there is a real time investment to make a successful meetup that leaves a good impression. I could attend other meetups and try to recruit but I don't want to be "that guy" when everyone else is there to learn

- Craigslist, StackOverflow, LinkedIn, etc... These are all things our recruiters should be covering, but I thought I might get some traction as an engineer trying to hire people. Not much luck so far

- Hiring remotely. This is a little scary but I think that there's a big talent pool outside of the Bay Area that we're not seeing because they don't want to live here. I've read a lot about how to create successful remote teams but I'm wary of building a team that's 95% in-office with one guy in Alabama who's out of the loop.

I'd really love your thoughts or advice on this.

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Have you been to Tokyo? The subway consists of several disjoint systems that don't connect in reasonable ways, each with its own incomprehensibly different payment system, and it stops running at around midnight. New York beats it by a mile.
Careful ... that's a dangerous line of reasoning ...

Pretty soon, some one will ask "how many teachers could we hire" or "how many roads could we fix" for the price of "the war" ...
Eventually it's possible. Building the core first.
web 4.0
Glad you love the product, everything will work as before. I would extend that and say it will be more robust and faster then ever before.
Enemy Unknown is the Xcom game.
I didn't expect it to be quite so popular all of the sudden. :)Looking at switching it over to Unicorn...

EDIT: switched to unicorn. Please keep me updated about speed issues and I can turn it up
Is sweeping streets a way of fulfilling your highest purpose in life?

We live in an age of abundance. Why not allow people to create what they want to create? Art, music, love, good feelings in the community, etc.

Here's a good story on a dystopia & utopia in an age with automated machinery, less jobs, & more overall abundance.

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
This reminds me of the Millennium Challenge 2002, where the adversary won by using a large number of suicide motor boats to wipe out the Navi's sophisticated fleet.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
And FlatBuffers actually uses ByteBuffer as part of its Java implementation.
The crux of the issue seems to be electronic warfare / jamming though, correct?

UAVs are great against opponents with limited electronic warfare capabilities, but wouldn't they lack credibility against China or Russia? They'd simply jam them and that'd be that, yes?
Off topic, but that sticky navigation at the top is ridiculously large / tall. It seemingly takes up 1/3 of the viewable browser area required for reading the actual "content". Crazy. (NOTE: Browser width must be at least 992px wide to see it).
Also subscribers who want to watch those artists. It's a lose-lose-lose situation.
Do you have any experience with people with mental illnesses or disabilities? "Everyone can work, we can find a job for everyone" just seems like something that could only be claimed from a position of ignorance. Further shown by your suggestion of having them pick up trash. People with a lot of mental illnesses aren't incapable of working due to a lack of skills.
I don't like this. I'm a proponent of the "slow web" -- a philosophy that treasures real-life reciprocation over online engagement. It eschews the idea of endorphin-releasing actions with the sole purpose but draining cognitive reservoirs.

The idea of engaging in conversations with no point except "sharing" -- with reduced focus on meaningful dialogue and increased focus on the simplistic pleasure of "getting mail" -- I find this kinda repulsive.

Perhaps this is grandiose, but it strikes me as the lowest common denominator of human interaction.

Not looking forward to stuff like this...

EDIT: And yes, I concede that it's pretty ingenious...! But I still don't like it. It's too much of a psychological hack for my tastes
Interesting question. Yes, but in a very different way then you. I grew up on the outside of small town on the coast and my dad built commercial fishing boats and related equipment. We didn't have anywhere near 3000 acres but we'd certainly fell trees on our property and chop firewood so I do feel I have a realistic view of rural life if not of farming.

I did lived in the city for over 10 years and loved the social and cultural aspects of it but I found myself driving out to the mountains more and more to recreate. I also met someone with similar interests and got married while in the city, I think it would be much harder to make the rural hop and then meet someone.

We also chose a small town (5k) with a research sector (NIH lab, GSK Facility, spin offs) partly because it has elements of culture you would usually find in a bigger city including some good international restaurants, an educated population etc.
I want to write to back you up on this. I've spent most of (not all of) my career in military avionics and aerospace. And this was at small companies. The big companies win the big contracts, but so much is contracted out, and there are plenty of other options. But I digress...

This is a really hard, multi-dimensional optimization problem. The engineers at Lockheed Martin, Rockwell, etc., are not dumb. They are the opposite of dumb. They are rocket scientists, in both the colloquial and literal sense. The same holds true for us at the smaller companies. Heavy STEM educations, a lifetime of engineering and research. I've done a lot of work on next-gen battlefield stuff. It's not easy. It's not. It's control theory, filter theory, AI, computer vision, RF design, and so much more. If you can't play in at least 3-4 of those fields at a pretty high level you aren't invited to the party. I've seen far more professional, intelligent, and pragmatic engineers in that work than what I've seen pass for engineering in Silicon Valley.

You really aren't going to sit in an armchair and design up a system that'll work. OTOH, if you make something that does work, the military will beat a path to your door. Look into SBIRs, for example. I've worked on a lot of them. The door is not closed. The door is closed to half-baked schemes, but if you have an idea for putting some low cost hardware and software together, you can do something with it. I'm being more than a bit facile here; it isn't so hard to get through a Phase I and Phase II SBIR; getting your system deployed is quite a bit harder. Still, there are options. Just be prepared for the fact that they are going to take your product, stick it in a field, and shoot (literal) bullets at it. Ohh, failed the projectile test.... Yes, I take the point about swarms, but war is an extremely hostile environment (no pun intended). And as soon as you have tipped the equation towards "disposable", expect the enemy to change their systems to help you 'dispose' of them as soon as possible. Maybe your drone can operate in the theater today; what about 10 years from now? I honestly don't know, the calculus is anything but clear to me.
Also, the value of min wage needs to be mapped on some topography of need. A $15/hr in SF or NYC is paltry due to the geographic localization of other prices--higher cost of living. Meanwhile, hiring 16 year in some middle-america towns probably shouldn't be dictated by "rich people's problems" imported from New York or California. All that being said, I also like the top-posters idea about adding a subsidy to basic negotiated/market wages. Because ultimately everything is simply a negotiation. And the non-work-related subsidy is something people can use to "walk"--so it's effective leverage as a tool of last resort.
I believe these are already in late testing stages.
If you figure it out let me know, because I'm much more interested in making that much money instead of keeping others from making that much money.
> Kinda naive to think that you can just use SV start up philosophies in this application.

Pick your response:

* Welcome to Hacker News, please enjoy your stay!

* If I had a nickel for every time someone tried to shoehorn start up philosophy into an unrelated field, I'd be posting from my yacht!
'Blowing up its business model'? I enjoy hyperbole in prose. Headlines? Not so much.
Unless I'm mistaken RethinkDB changefeeds are more powerful than the couch API. You can perform filters on changefeeds, do joins, transformations, etc., while the Couch API gives you a feed that has to be fully processed on the client.
CloudFlare has a (free) DNS api too. Pretty easy to script something with their system. https://www.cloudflare.com/docs/client-api.html
apple gives out Swift for Dummies for free, and then gets angry when anyone else has snippets of its content hosted online

do they want people to code swift or not?
Sure, a lot of stuff will get cheaper, but how are you gonna pay for that without any income? I speculate that countries in Europe will choose some form of Minimal Activity available for everybody. The transition faze will hurt. A lot.
The blog post won't load for me (dodgy airport wifi!), but I just want to say that Filepicker is one of the few SaaS services that I got instant value from and when they went from freemium to paid recently, I paid up right away.

I really hope the service doesn't disappear!..
..."job of last resort" program...

But why? Why is it so necessary that everyone spend their days working? Why not just allow the structurally unemployed to pursue whatever it is that they want to do? I'm not saying we have to give them all mansions and butlers, but why do we have to make up fake, worthless jobs for them to do? It seems as though overall human happiness would be better optimized by allowing them to stay home or perhaps contribute to society in other ways than clocking in for a 9-to-5. The goal shouldn't be for all of humanity to be employed, the goal should be for all of humanity to have happy lives.
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Funding requires hype
If SF or NYC wants a higher wage, the city could augment the subsidy out of its own tax coffers.

I am however, very much against the idea of taxing a machinist in Alabama to subsidize wages in NYC.

I am also amenable to the idea of having the subsidy only be for those over 18, or people who are supporting families.

But I do think it is reasonable to provide $15 jobs in middle America. Right now, young people feel a compulsion to head to NYC/SF/DC to gain access to these job markets, which feed off the money surplus from winner-take-all-industries. I would rather that the money get spread around more, and that once again a decent middle class life would be easy to obtain in what is now known as the rust belt.
What, no mention of every random game that had the concept of mana?
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Its literally every one of the the large religions.