skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to say the physical. I'm a reasonably dedicated outdoor climber with 5+ years of practice. Place me at any typical section of a 5.12c climb and I might be able to hold myself in place (not ascending) for a minute or so. The hardest thing I've ever climbed rates 5.11b (actually 23 here in Australia where we use the Exbank scale which is actually, y'know, comprehensible :P)

The kind of dedication that allows a person to train up to 5.13/5.14 climbs is, to me, just mind-blowing.
Would love someone's take on this game as it stands.
The «immediate» experience is pretty awesome. You just open the web page and you're playing.

It takes longer to download, probably the size of the engine and the assets, but I've been very much impressed with the Unity3D WebGL export of this FPS:

http://beta.unity3d.com/jonas/DT2/
Bullshit. Sorry but this is rhetoric and you clearly never went through the amazing experience of bootstrapping a company in Italy.

Italy is just entrepreneurs hell on earth, and it's a very practical statement.

1) Open a company: minimum of 4k spent on papers (of course, thanks to notars and accountants)
2) First year: face insane taxes. Pay for your pension, pay for your IRAP/IRPEF. Anticipate 50% of what is dued next year due to "projections" the gov do on how much you'll make.
3) iterate first year

On a 30k eurs revenue, with the "Young entrepreneurs formula" (where you are supposed to pay much less than usual limited companies) you'll end up paying up to 17k in taxes. I let you doing the math. And this happened to ME, not to some random friend of a friend.
I am italian, running a start up in italy. Its a beautiful country, fascinating, great art, food, weather. IMHO definitely and unfortunately not a good eco system for a start up to grow in.
A residence permit in a Schengen country only allows you to live in that country (although you can visit the rest for 90 days out of every 180).
For example, in recent years a stupid regulation called "sector studies" have been introduced. Basically, they look at the average you should be earning in a specific field. If you report less than that amount in a tax declaration, you are assumed to be evading taxes. Practically you are assumed guilty until proven innocent, which is not as easy to do as you think.

This is without adding other systemic diseases. Having a tax check is not a desirable outcome in Italy. One anecdote from a friend: he got a tax inspection in his company (in the construction sector). After two days of checks, nothing was found. But instead of being left alone, the inspectors told him this: "we haven't found anything, but since we have been checking for two days, we have to find something". In the end they agreed on faking some irregularities on the heating system and a 500€ fine.

Yes, this is just one episode, but not really an uncommon one, unfortunately.

I left my country 5 years ago and never looked back. There are so many better places in Europe, I strongly advice not to start a company in Italy.
This is a very valid concern, but what if a private small business provides me an encrypted broadband connection over municipal fiber, which saddles the city / county with the _physical_ problems, and sacrifices a little bit of latency and total bandwidth to keep my relationship with my transit provider separate from my municipal interconnect provider.

Obviously there are continued risks with the crypto arms race, but if Google is being beam-split by the NSA, why would we choose a solution that uses more power, provides less overall individual freedom, costs more, and is slower, to guard against a bogeyman that's getting in anyway.

We must always assume we are being wiretapped.

Let's get a discount on being wiretapped, eh? ;)
There's a lot more people than 1% that sometimes have javascript disabled:

EVERYONE has javascript disabled until the js payload is downloaded. Which is extremely important on high-latency or slow network connections.
There is a distinction to be made here between brute utility and morality. If a person commits a crime and serves the time for it and lives beyond the point where that crime has to be reported when applying for a job - should that previous conviction alter their likelihood of getting hired? Society as a whole may decide that it should not, yet the processes which determine the chances of hiring will not reflect the decision made by society as a whole. There will be a very large number of conflicts of this type, on the one hand businesses want to maximise profits and on the other society as a whole wants to impose certain moral and economic values upon those businesses. This is part of a more general tension between different structures within a society. The difference here is that before the conflict was less obvious because the agents involved could hide their motivation, when we are using machine agents for decision making we can easily query them and observe their bias objectively. So rather than creating discord between the various motives of society, it is really only making them more visible. Which I would say is a good thing.
No it isn't a solved problem, as long C or any other language with manual memory management is used.

It isn't possible to control all the code, specially if a lot of third party libraries or contractors are involved in the project.

As for leak checkers, not all compilers support them (there is more out there than just gcc, clang, msvc, icc), or even when they do, memory constraints might prevent their use.
The one that's for custom images, not just kernels, is actually even higher up at over 3k votes and second highest on the list currently: https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea...
didn't switzerland clamp down on commuters some months ago?
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I'll reply with a metaphor:

- taxes or regulations in Germany are like OS x

- taxes or regulations in Italy are machine code written by monkeys in the 50s based on 2000 years old Roman code and the last monkey who knew how to read it died 10 years ago.
Now there's more monkeys writing on top of it not even pretending to make it work retroactively.

If you find a bug you must guess what to do and hope for the best.
You can ask for a monkey machine code expert to decipher it for you but not even he knows how to do. He's just better at guessing.
If you make a mistakes due to the bugs they send the Gorillas.

[edit: formatting]
(1) Not on-site

(2) I'm in France and yes, in another year I can get a French passport and work there without hassle.
They are much better marksmen, it's true. But police have waaaaaay more experience dealing with drunk idiots, mentally ill people, people doped up to their eyeballs on speed and so on. Deciding whether someone is one of these or a serious security threat is not as easy as it might sound, hence my curiousity vis-a-vis the rules of engagement...

The Australian military is generally lauded as being excellent at peace-keeping operations, yet during officer training, it was hammered into us that policing was a much harder operation, and that our hierarchy would never accept policing missions.
> ...coming at me faster than I can put it all on paper

So don't. :-)

I don't know if 'paper' was a figure-of-speech to mean 'some recorded format', but if it was, get yourself a cheap Chromebook. I (and I expect most) can type a lot faster than they can write, so that's step one.

Step two is to just work on making your notes as brief and concise whilst still being intelligible to you. Unless whatever somebody is saying is extremely densely packed with critical information, there is a lot of filler you easily can cut out.

For example, if someone read your post to me, all I would write is:

- Tips for efficient/effective notes?
As an American living in Italy, here's my perspective:

Italy is a wonderful place, but not a very well run country. Food, geography, history... it's fractally beautiful in that the big, amazing things are worth seeing, but you can also go to some small town and find something fascinating. It's just bursting with great places. The people are mostly a plus too, I have good friends here, and know a lot of smart hackers. When I moved here from San Francisco a number of years ago, I still had plenty of people to talk tech with. Here in northern Italy, people work fairly hard (and I'm sure there are people in the south who do as well), and don't command high salaries for their efforts. In some parts of Italy, corruption is a big problem, but it's not something I have seen much of on a day-to-day level. Of course I don't work in a field where I would, either.

The down side: bureaucracy is a nightmare, taxes are high, and a lot of people are leaving, because they can get more money elsewhere. It's no longer as cheap to live here as it once was, either. The long and the short of it is: no, I would not really consider opening a business here a good idea, although I would consider opening an R&D center to benefit from high quality workers at relatively cheap prices.

Italy is ranked quite badly here for a reason: http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings

Italians: it is possible to change, if you work at it. I was able to help accomplish a small change myself, despite not being from here, and not having money or connections: http://www.governo.it/Notizie/Presidenza/dettaglio.asp?d=690... . So, things are not good, but if you're willing to invest some time and effort, they can be improved, a little bit at a time.

Part of the problem, IMO, is the idea that the government should 'guide' things. "Startups are good!" right? So they create a government definition of what an "innovative startup" is, and give those companies some benefits. This means more public employees to look after it, more hoops to jump through, more people trying to make a company that the bureaucrats have incentivized, rather than a company that simply does what it does. Even my own small contribution got watered down in that way: rather than simplifying SRL's (the Italian equivalent of an LLC) for everyone, they created a new category.

That's the wrong approach: what they absolutely need to do is simplify the bureaucracy, and secondly, lower taxes. First and foremost, the number and complexity of them. Paying a lot of taxes is not so bad if it's simple, straightforward, and does not take a lot of time, and you receive something for them. But all the little one-off taxes and the complexity of dealing with others is terrible.

This is all stuff economists and others have been saying for years.

As I mentioned elsewhere: Italy doesn't need to be the best place to do business. It's got lots of good things going for it. It just has to start sucking less.

If you're interested in more of 'my take on things', I write about life in Italy here: http://blog.therealitaly.com/
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I'm another Italian and I second this comment. I already run away and things in the UK are much much better. There might not be the same sun or or food. But at least things are more fair and the rules of the game are pretty clear, not just made up on the stop when it's convenient like it would happen in Italy.

Italy has currently a huge problem of smart, young people leaving the country because of this situation. Before trying to attract foreign they should be able to keep their own people.
Comparing the machine learning grading of essays with _just_ two human graders is plain stupidity[1].

By coincidence, all three might be same. And the probability of that coincidence is way too high.

[1]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_bias
For me it was sixdegrees.com (1997)
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Unfortunately it is...
I really appreciate the Italia Startup Visa effort, but here's the facts...

THE CONS:

Italy environment is toxic for a startup.

Italy is a MandarinCracy.

It is a country, not ruled by politicians, but by self serving high level officials. They oversee 4 million strong public workforce, and have created the most complex set of rules & regulations and to justify they own existence along with the highest taxation (80%) on the world to pay for them.

THE PROS

Italy Freelance workforce is great for a startup.

They have a huge freelancers Workforce, (designers and Developers) with the same talent found in the Silicon Valley at the fraction of the cost. ($28K to $40K year salary). They are called "popolo delle partite iva" and are de facto a second level citizen. They do not have the same privileges as the rest of the 50+ workforce. Still.. they will work hard and passion for any project with great critical thinking.

My final advice:

Create a business somewhere else (UK or US) and setup a small R&D development team in Italy
Article is from 1998 and very much out of date. Read: http://blogs.perl.org/users/aristotle/2011/04/stop-using-mak...
how do you make money if it is free ?
> "we haven't found anything, but since we have been checking for two days, we have to find something"

as crazy as it may sound, this is true and happens all the time. I've got countless similar stories from friends who went through it.
I guess you never experienced a stop-the-world caused by cascading destructors.
..because you'd have to pay 3x to get swiss to work for you, while italians might jump the border for a lot less than what they'd deserve.

Don't forget you need to pay 4x (or more) for rent of any office space (or housing space) in Switzerland compared to the other side of the border.

This explains why lots of businesses that migrated from italy to switzerland in search of an "el dorado" closed shop after a short timespan, realizing business is hard everywhere.
It sounds strange in english. Saying "c'est perfectible" in french is correct and usual. It is translated by google translate into "This is perfectible". As usual, google translate is very poor.
I think the problem is that our civilization is built in the idea of comfort and economic specialization.

Agree. But in order to change that, we have to change our value system.

Worst thing, I'm almost sure that this accumulation of stress can slow down productivity.

That's the worst thing? As you can see, productivity is still our highest value. Health and well-being are not worthy goals on their own, but they are pursued to get more productive.
You can select the kernel your droplet uses via their admin interface. Just remember to update the VM first.
Why has Google has banned paid Helpouts in the UK / EU?
If you are doing less things than you used too is typically a sign of growing company... hopefully you will have your efforts payup in a big way... best of luck!

I have always felt that working in startup is like giving a kid 10 toys to play with and taking one toy away every year. It's very normal not liking and feeling of giving up something you own but it is as important for a company to get away from generalized to specialized resources with the growth.

a senior management leader once told, his goal every year is to find, train and pass on the baton of some of his existing responsibilities to next person until he has nothing else left...

Nash,
http://joday.com
This may be a tortious (sueable) offense under the Intrusion Upon Seclusion principle. Possibly as a class action:

“It is unnecessary to determine the extent to which the right of privacy is protected as a constitutional matter without the benefit of statute.” Beaney, The Constitutional Right to Privacy in the Supreme Court in 1962 The Supreme Court Review 212 (Kurland ed. 1962); Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 478, 48 S.Ct. 564, 72 L.Ed. 944 (1928) (dissenting opinion of Brandeis, J.); “Dykstra, The Right Most Valued by Civilized Man”, 6 Utah L.Rev. 305 (1959); Pound, The Fourteenth Amendment and the Right of Privacy, 13 W.Res.L.Rev. 34 (1961). '[I]t is sufficient to hold that the invasion of the plaintiffs' solitude or seclusion, as alleged in the pleadings, was a violation of their right of privacy and constituted a tort for which the plaintiffs may recover damages to the extent that they can prove them. ‘Certainly, no right deserves greater protection…’' Ezer, Intrusion on Solitude: Herein of Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs, 21 Law in Transition 63, 75 (1961).

To make an intrusion on seclusion claim, a plaintiff must generally establish 4 elements:

First, that the defendant, without authorization, must have intentionally invaded the private affairs of the plaintiff;

Second, the invasion must be offensive to a reasonable person;

Third, the matter that the defendant intruded upon must involve a private matter; and

Finally, the intrusion must have caused mental anguish or suffering to the plaintiff.﻿

h/t Lisa Borel on G+

https://plus.google.com/113175636916099066477/posts/PBi3NECR...

More at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_laws_of_the_United_Stat...

Intrusion of solitude occurs where one person intrudes upon the private affairs of another.

Intrusion upon seclusion occurs when a perpetrator intentionally intrudes, physically, electronically, or otherwise, upon the private space, solitude, or seclusion of a person, or the private affairs or concerns of a person, by use of the perpetrator's physical senses or by electronic device or devices to oversee or overhear the person's private affairs, or by some other form of investigation, examination, or observation intrude upon a person's private matters if the intrusion would be highly offensive to a reasonable person.

h/t paul beard on G+

https://plus.google.com/u/0/104092656004159577193/posts/5XKX...

Google, as guardian of Android, should look hard at ensuring user protections from this sort of behavior. Ubiquitous HTTPS might be an option (I haven't looked yet to see if the UIDH header can be defeated via that).
Hey, good luck finding a decent internet connection outside of the main cities. My parents live an hour from Milan and they get 3G at best.
Except it is informative rather than preventing copying. So people can freely copy but won't have the certified 'original'.
I don't understand why people like to bash on their own country.
80%? Not certainly for everyone.

As a freelance I pay 5% until I reach an higher level of income and I'll be able to pay more taxes. On top of this there's 21% for retirement contributions.

Is there any other country where a lower amount of taxes is paid?
> If that's the worst thing, then productivity is still our highest value, and health comes second.

But wouldn't better mental health increase productivity ? I mean a healthy horse might be more productive. Of course at some point, maybe better health doesn't increase productivity so much. But I tend to think that cerebral workers would work much better if they have less stress or better mental health.
"In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color." - Eric S. Raymond

This hearkens back to the worst days of "scientific evidence" that Africans are inferior to Anglo-Saxons or whatever European race suited the people making the argument.

Study history and you'll see that we, as a society, have already dealt with these fucking nutjobs and there's no reason a sane, educated adult should be spouting this utter, reprehensible bullshit. It doesn't matter if he "thinks he's citing some statistic". Saying that African-descended people are dumber, and therefore more violent, than European-descended people is completely repugnant.

How could you even defend something like that? Ignorance or misinterpretation is not an excuse on his part.
> Is there any other country where a lower amount of taxes is paid?

There are plenty of them.
A meditation on pain
I would say a 630 calorie donut is pretty huge. After looking at the calorie info for a bunch of Tim Hortons donuts, the average seems to be around 250 calories.
The "Google Translate" app has supported offline translation for "pinned" languages for a while now.
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That is so, so awesome.
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A little subtle than in the 90s, but for sure it's still present.
> Before, when a company provided Xen or Kvm, you generally would get to have low-level access such as the ability to virtually connect to a serial port or vnc session of your box as it booted. You also, typically, could provide your own ISO images.

It's remarkable that you start your sentence with "before". As a prgmr.com user, I can still get an out-of-the-band console and run my own kernel without any fanfare. (no affiliation at all, just a happy user)
On a more positive note, the State will probably kill the company way before it's noticed by criminals.
Are you a data hoarder? I'd like to hear from you.
You just described Spain.
If people are fine with college records from 20+ years ago influencing the likelihood of getting hired but want companies to ignore criminal convictions, or ban IQ test, I'd rather go with a machine making the decisions.

Current process seems purely political with massive rents extraction ($100k for a degree, loan guarantees), almost naked votes buying (subsidies, "free" plan for whatever). And moral arguments are used mostly for cover (non-dischargeable debts?).

Perhaps we can sidestep those problems, or at least escape from them for a while.
I live 3 miles from office. It takes anywhere from 7-10 minutes to get to work.

I once used to commute about 40 miles one way, used to take 70-90 minutes one way. It was very tiring and used to take all my energy end of the day...

I have since kept, 5 miles or 15 minute principle for my commute.

With my free time I can work on projects like, http://joday.com

BTW, The average travel time to work in the United States is 25.4 minutes, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
http://project.wnyc.org/commute-times-us/embed.html

But if you are in bay area, 32 miles can take upto an hour or more depending upon which direction you are flowing... like living in east bay and commuting to peninsula is easy hour one way.

Nash, http://joday.com
Neomedieval eh? Personally i have taken to consider the modern corporate world as neofeudal. This in the sense that corporations are fiefdoms, and CEOs acting as custodians for absentee lords.
> Switzerland is lovely but their population recently voted to restrict free movement of workers with the EU so maybe not ideal.

No we haven't :) What was voted on was that the gov. should be able to cap the number of immigrants per year if necessary.
That has neither been done yet, nor will anything change in practice because the EU puts too much pressure on this.
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FreeBSD often has better performance than Linux when both are properly hosted. I think the lesson is more like "when a provider is new to a particular system, there will be problems; for production systems use a provider that's experienced at supporting the kind of system you want to use".
If you read the article, you can leave a comment here too :-)
>I don't think our bodies are prepared

That may be true, but they will be soon enough thanks to evolution.

I am not advocating inactivity, in fact I enjoy walking every day very much.
Z is not a space, nor is N. That's all I've got for you, buddy. I can think of some code that would help, but I don't have time to write it.

Were you told that this is a traditional cipher, where characters are substituted 1:1?

Generally speaking, thinking really hard about this (and possibly failing) is going to be better for you than having someone on HN tell you the answer.