skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point isn't that D&D stayed small. The entire US roll playing milieu is fairly large. My point is that the size of this milieu wasn't very likely to effected by how well the owners of D&D managed a supposed budding empire (the original quote compared the Games' growth to Facebook's, remember).

Just as much, you're exaggerating a bit the size of Games Workshop. It's just a game store that also publishes some games [1]. It's got the size of both things but that's about it - it's hard the ups and downs appropriate to those two uncertain businesses. Everyone in the table top game business faces the challenge that once they successful sell a package, their customers can play for years and never pay another penny. This makes game-selling a labor of love rather than empire building, as anyone in business should be able to sell you.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_Workshop
Perhaps Airbnb should post a warning to hosts allowing tenants to rent more than X days if its going to give those tenants renter's rights in their jurisdiction.
Does submitting a FOIA request make any of that information public?

Would I have to submit a FOIA request to all agencies to get a comprehensive list of my information?

I personally think that this should be required for private businesses as well. I would like to see all information Google, Amazon, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc has about me, I think I should have the right to know that information too.
Does this apply even to people I would allow to stay in my home for free? Or does this only kick in when money changes hands?
Thanks! How about the text? Would be good to know the text changes as well.
California didn't legalize marijuana (in fact it was voted against in 2010). The 2 US states are Colorado and Washington. Many other states have decriminalized or provide medical access, though: http://norml.org/states
It would be interesting to see how much traffic localhost.com gets too :)
Firstly, I hugely disagree with your comment on civility. This is because "pisses me off" expresses my feelings in a way that just could not be captured using other words. If you knew me, which of course you can not, you would understand it really means something when I swear on the internet. At present I can not think of another time when I have done so.

Secondly I would disagree that the "best solution" is to email them as a single entity. Emailing the powers that be could only be the best course of action (about topics such as this) if somebody organised a mass email campaign. Seeing as the site is a medium for news and communication, I feel having this thread in full view of all eyes may not be the "best" but it is still a good solution.
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Ycombinator and all users and people who accessed this page will be getting their front doors kicked in.
I hope all of the talks are put on Youtube or somewhere soon. I want to watch all of them.
Be it right or wrong it would be nearly impossible to buy many products if you only bought ones that are made in the United States.

I don't think that many people would argue for restricting open source software.....except for some risk averse enterprise types.

"Won't artificially high salaries affect startups, where a few thousand bucks can easily kill a promising startup that needs time to grow?"

Keep in mind that this would not just affect an engineers salary with a startup, but also their equity grant which will probably equal a lower ownership in the company.

With offshoring, if it was going to actually have an effect on salaries it would, but more jobs are still kept in US and/or same time-zone.
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8057315
Is it also true that some organisations also pay their employees if they publish papers, I've heard this happens in the security field.
Interesting, but I would of assumed most countries in the ME to have such a high young % due to the ongoing wars/invasions/attacks in that region. It'd be interesting to correlate this with the female % of population, may be similar.
I didn't say that there was a legitimate democracy in the OPT- I said they won elections.

By the 4th Geneva Conventions the security of Palestinian civilians rests with the occupying power. Gaza is similar to Area A - the PA has policing powers but the Israeli military retains ultimate control, as evidenced by control of borders, airspace, and shipping routes. By international law Gaza is still occupied, so the occupying power has at least as much responsibility for protection of civilians as any other entity.

The PA has little if any practical influence over areas B and none over area C. So in very real terms the OPT is occupied, and I wouldn't call any occupied state a free democracy, because occupying militaries aren't elected by their subjects.

I mention the elections because they do represent a poll if not a census of popular opinion in the OPT. If you want to maintain legitimacy and support for any accord, it makes sense to include them. Otherwise you're just gearing up for an agreement between the occupying power and their puppets, which is pretty meaningless.
Thanks for posting this the links to the Greg Kroah-Hartman
workspace were not on the original link.
The historical solution to this (illegal tenant in an illegal short-term sublet doesn't want to move out) would be to have some vowel-suffixed friends encourage them to move out. Which isn't exactly "nice", but at least has the virtue of being nicely economically efficient.
I seem to remember that companies may be required to show you their data about you under European privacy laws (which are much stricter than in the US). There was a story a while ago of someone submitting such a request to Facebook and getting back a PDF file containing hundreds of pages.
Daniela, goTenna cofounder here. Yes, to all of the above :)
Laws restrict freedom, that's their entire point. Whether a society, political ideology etc deems those limitations in freedom necessary is a different story.

I see what you did there... which is, you jumped from the particular restrictions of the H1-B visa to the generality of "laws". The point the parent ultimately points to is that creating a situation where your visa ends when a particular company says it ends makes you beholden to that company in a fashion which would be different than if, say, you visa ended at a fixed time.

All law may to an extend restrict people's freedom of actions but a law which facilitates indentured servitude would create a situation of greater concrete unfreedom than a law restricting a person from going to some fraction of the globe.
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Daniela, goTenna cofounder here. We're actually operating at the 151-154 MHz range :)
It's been pointed out in other threads that 12,000 of Microsoft's 18,000 cuts are going to be outside the U.S. (primarily former Nokia employees), and the U.S. cuts likely include H-1B workers.

If they don't, it's probably because Microsoft selected the most talented of the most talented for H-1B and EB-2/EB-3 sponsorship. Microsoft is known to concurrently apply for an EB-based green card along with an H-1B, and most employees simply remain on H-1B status while waiting for their EB-based green card (which for certain nationalities, can take a decade to procure).

On the other hard, Microsoft having to cut jobs today, doesn't mean that all its arguments in the past decade have suddenly been undermined. A sudden bout of misfortune doesn't mean that its and Bill Gates statements on the utter brokenness of the U.S. immigration system was a lie, and in bad faith. If you remember, Bill Gates first testified in Congress about the problems with U.S. immigration system back in 2007, before the recession.
> So, why don't we hear this? Because H1-B's aren't about filling jobs, they're about downward pressure on wages.

Instead of posing a question, answering it yourself, and then attacking the answer I am proposing to do something which I think will lead to better results for almost everyone involved.

When some corporation proposes increasing the H-1B quota, tell them that you agree with them but ask them to include the stipulations your outlined above.
Very true.

The majority of H1B workers I have come across in my own career were paid less than the Americans, or were working in a business that was notorious for being either a bad place to work and/or not one that paid well. Yes there are exceptions, and yes this is anecdotal, but I have yet to see solid data to refute this observation.
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Agreed. Substantially better. Our first goTenna prototypes worked at 900 MHz band and we could barely get 0.5 km (NOT MILES) line of sight. With the goTennas that are now out for pre-order, we've gotten anywhere from 0.5 miles to 3.5 miles in NYC (where we're based), to give you an idea -- and there's little that is as non-ideal for RF propagation than a metropolitan city.
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HN, I have very much appreciated your feedback on variety of issues. Whether it's bitcoin or flappy bird, I have always come back to HN to gain insightful knowledge from comments. Me and my buddy have been working on a project for a while now. It's 1milejobs. Our primary audience is people for whom distance to a job location is the deal breaker. These might be either because of commuting costs or young people for whom it's safer to work close to home. Granted, one would be very lucky to find a 60K job within a couple of miles radius, it boils down to mostly low-paying jobs. On the good side, these are commodity jobs that can be produced and consumed by anyone. The website address is http://1milejobs.com and the app's URL is http://1milejobs.com:8080. I appreciate any input I can get. also put up a screenshot video http://youtu.be/rCCb-DwhLPE if you don't have time to signup. Thx.
Yes, we've built everything from scratch! It's been fun/impossible. :)
We have an open SDK coming out soon -- you can sign up for developer updates at our website
I was thinking something similar, the AirBnb host however doesn't think of themselves as doing anything illegal so they constrain their thinking in that way. I have certainly met people over the years who exploit this in others.
Congestion is definitely the main reason. What we've done at goTenna's networking layer though, is we've made it listen-before-talk. That, added to the fact that we're only doing short-burst transmissions, makes it highly unlikely goTenna will ever "step on other tranmissions' feet."
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Yep, even free.
goTenna's transmission rate goes up to 19,200 baud
I want to keep everything local. So I backup my important stuff to a usb drive that is inside a waterproof/fireproof case with a usb connector designed just for such a thing.
> I sure wouldn't buy any stock in anything connected to them.

This sounds like a good reason to buy stock in them.
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This post is great.. but its from April 2013. I wonder how their architecture has changed since then?
Is anyone else having issues with this stopping every 30 seconds or so? I can't get a continual stream going at all w/ VLC. The site flash players load nothing for me either.
VERY interesting...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/11/17/facebook-clenches...

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/12/in-europe-thousands...

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/reddit-users-overwhelm-fa...

http://www.geek.com/news/facebook-stores-up-to-800-pages-of-...

We need more of this. People have the right to know. I'm sure much of this data comes from them purchasing it from other sources (companies that go out of business, LexisNexis, other "partners"). Actually I think people should also have the right to request that companies delete this data permanently, but good luck getting that bill passed.

I wonder what if the percentage of people who closed their Facebook account spiked after receiving this information.

I've built data-mining / warehousing systems for companies before, if I didn't do it they would fire me and someone else would build it. Consumer protection and privacy laws are important and lacking, just my opinion of course.
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Yes, the device needs to be unlocked to pair it, otherwise it doesn't access to the keys needed to create the pairing record. The pairing record (stored on your desktop) helps avoid needing to unlock the device for subsequent access.

I believe the device still needs an AfterFirstUnlock key to decrypt the escrow keys, so a cold-booted device wouldn't be accessible even if it was paired.
Their streaming is real bad, if you're on wireless you're somewhat SOL. It would stop a ton on wireless I had to plug in to get a good stream.
This is the case with WPA2/EAP. You have to accept the cert (the first time) before entering your Active Directory/RADIUS credentials.
Well there was the time when the country was mislabelled and the army invaded accidentally. (http://searchengineland.com/nicaragua-raids-costa-rica-blame...)
That's correct, except that an Irmin client could choose not to reconcile if it would conflict, and just continue on with two active branches (presumably hoping for a future event that would help reconciliation). Bayou's a big inspiration for this system -- there's a filesystem under development that exposes some POSIX semantics using Irmin as a base. It should be possible to build rather interesting datastructures that go beyond conventional filesystems as well, though.

BTW, would be much appreciated if you could point to related work on the subject (papers, other projects, blogs, etc).

That'll certainly happen when we complete the research papers on the subject. It's a little out of scope for a blog post series that primarily focuses on trying to explain the stuff we're building.
I don't see any evidence in the article, just links to some dubious papers, partially paid by the world bank.

It might be, that some money goes to third world countries (specially China and India) but I just doubt, that many people are really rising out of poverty. The "wandring labourers" of China are not. They work just to survive. Also those that are sewing our jeans in Malaysia and other countries ... at the verge of living wage. When the big corporations move along, to even cheaper countries, nothing is left to them.

I know by own experience, that with statistics, you can prove just anything, even lies.

I think, reading also the comments posted to the article is helpful. Some insights are also there.
A lot of us are not against immigration. The problem is that the current system is broken and the H1B is not the solution. It can be used to benefit everybody, but the current solutions are not.
The app comes with a vector map of the entire world. You can then download specific areas to get complete detail (i.e. down to hiking trails and city blocks) before you head out -- depending which maps you want you'll download via small country (e.g. France) or state (e.g. California). All goTenna maps are free!
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The situation globally and the situation in first world countries, particularly the USA, is quite different. Income inequality is falling in places like Brazil, India, and China but is rising in the developed world.
If you removed the downward pressure incentive on wages you would have few people that would be against the H1B's. The trick is how.
Where did you work? I can't speak for the body shopping places. In my case, I was hired straight out of college and I compared offers with a few American friends. Also, I had a few close American Frieds I trust.
Our first prototypes worked over the audio jack (à la Square) but from both performance and form factor perspectives, having it work wirelessly over BLE worked better. That being said we can work audio and other data interfaces into later products for sure, we're just going MVP route ;)
that's true, I guess a lot of underground markets, black markets operate under the hand of physical enforcement or intimidation, I guess the more unregulated a market is, even lead to death. ex. drugs, prostitution etc.
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Aaaaand this is where folks that have an MBA joke about engineers ineptitude.
"Before" and "After" are fine.

"Behind" is not incorrect in the original text, but it can be terribly, frustratingly ambiguous. As you've noted, "I'm running behind" means "I'm running late," i.e. I will arrive after the correct time. But "My clock is running behind" means "My clock is running slow," meaning it shows a time before the correct time.

Similarly, when projects are behind schedule (i.e. likely to complete after the correct time), we sometimes solve this by pushing the schedule back... Meaning by pushing the correct time into the future, as opposed to most contexts where "pushing something back" would mean "pushing it further behind." So we push schedules back to move deadlines forward.

Personally, I usually use "into the future" and "into the past" to be precise. Treating time with spatial-positional-relative language is fraught with inaccuracies.

(Fun fact: did you know "biweekly" means either "twice a week" or "once every other week?" I can't think of any other measurement unit that has a factor-of-four error built into its very definition).
Sounds like the guy might be using the host's electricity to do bitcoin mining.

Super scammy. This kind of thing should be criminal.
> 1) in-browser PDF was much worse than it is now

Why would in-browser PDF support matter, when every platform has out-of-browser PDF viewers readily available?
I was taken into a special investigation room at port of entry at Ohare Airport because I happened to live with 2 muslim roommates( both of them had mohammed in their names) for a mere matter of 2 months. I was shocked to find out that they knew where I lived, with whom ( i was not even on the lease) for past 10 years , my complete travel internaries every time I flew, all my credit cards numbers and who knows what else.

I am glad general public is waking up to this finally.
Our open SDK is coming soon. You can't really mess with signal strength and gain (especially bc of FCC regulations)
sbcl or clisp are good.
Here are a few arguments:
1. 12k out of the 18k employees let go are from Nokia, hence not in US
2. Out of the 6k presumably US employees let go, we don't know their functions: marketing, sales, etc. We just assume in bulk they are IT devs.
3. Nobody put on the table how many H1Bs does MS currently have on its workforce and at which annual rate do they bring in new H1Bs. It looks like MS has somewhere between 2-3k annual H1Bs.
4. Does anybody mention how many are H1Bs out of those 6k employees that were let go?

Unless we discuss this with hard numbers in front of us, it is just arguing from our internal fears/demons.
Not an issue on MURS; you're thinking of GMRS.
Hmm, I'm a rabid technologist, but a 'spectacularly sized display in your own home' doesn't compare with a cinema screen unless you're in a very tiny demographic of ultra-wealthy people. I say that despite having pretty good projection capability at home.

Now admittedly I work in film so I care more than the typical cinemagoer about these things. But there is a vast difference between watching a well-photographed film on even the largest home theater screen and watching it projected full size with appropriate anamorphic lenses and so forth.
A widely used LISP dialect is Common Lisp. So if you want to hack using Common Lisp, Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) is a good compiler to use.

http://www.sbcl.org

Thanks
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“eikipedia.org” redirects to a click-jack phishing site
The main thing is that Airbnb offers a lot of people a way to become a landlord while not telegraphing to them the fact they are now in a business with risks and dangers as well as rewards.
Why does Apple re-enable Bluetooth everytime you update iOS?

"STOP RESISTING, WE WANT TO TRACK YOU" (iBeacon)
14 year age seems fairly arbitrary boundary. I wonder where the biggest changes would be if the limit was at eg. 18 or 25 years old.
Clearly this is not a valid system that we can tolerate.

I think that the internet is key to making the most dominant systems irrelevant which will make way for more compositional, less hierarchical, and more open, structures and systems. Theoretically those dominant systems have already demonstrated their irrelevance, we just need to make that a practical reality.

We need alternative internets in order to do that.

A more diverse information infrastructure may be key to providing not only personal privacy but also security.
> beyond legal status, what factors do you consider affect the morality of ingesting a substance?

Whether ingesting it makes you a danger to others due to intoxication or other loss of reasoning ability and whether ingesting it causes an addition that leads to the loss of ability to support yourself are likely to be two of the biggest concerns. Note in particular that the loss of ability to support oneself, combined with addiction, is known to drive other criminal behavior (muggings, theft, etc.) to support the habit.

This, incidentally, would be why more people are willing to be flexible with pot where there are few such dangers and less flexible with things like meth.
And even that, I doubt. In China is rising a new class of Billionaires, which in place exploit their own people.

I guess (and there is no real data given in the article), that they just counted for the inequality between countries and found that the lowest incomes in China are doing better against medium or low incomes in other countries.

No wonder, since the medium income for example in Germany has dropped .... and of course the medium incomes in countries like China has risen (but the low incomes in those countries are still "poor" compared to Western standards).
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Theaters make their money on food, mostly. The ticket prices are split between rental of the movie and overhead of running the theater.
I'll bite...

Depending on the drug you can

* Become unpredictable and therefore dangerous to your surroundings

* Become aggressive and/or violent

* Decreased cognitive abilities can make you susceptible to bad decisions

* Slurred speech and thinking can make you unable to help friends, family and others should they need you to.

That's just off the top of my head, please note that some of the above also applies to legal drugs.
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