skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes sense for so many people; I (continue to) feel it's really only a matter of time.
questions about scaling seem entirely on topic and fair

there is a middle ground between celebrating and deriding, which is where I think most people hope discussions of new startups wind up
They should move to Manhattan, where I live. Google already owns the third largest building with 2,800,000 sq feet. With our fantastic subway system, whatever they would rent/build would be a far, far, greener and environmental solution than have 20,000 employees commute by car (or the controversial Google Bus).

BTW, the old World Trace Center Towers 1 and 2 held 50,000 employees.

The reason for the increasing price of housing has to do with overly restrictive zoning codes and not the demand. The zoning creates artificial scarcity and it is the scarcity and the increasing costs of land that results that is the cause for increasing home prices. Using politics to create artificial scarcity through this "rent seeking" is a means of taking wealth from others as opposed to wealth creation which benefits all.

In an efficient market, there would not be the zoning code restrictions that limit housing density (see Harvard Economist Edward Glaeser's writings for more info).
What you may not get is that you're likely doing manually what a package manager does automatically. A program should do the work,not the programmer. Imagine there is a bug in the current package.Well a package manager can invite you to download a recent version of the lib that has no breaking changes automatically just with a few metadatas. Why would you not want to automate that kind of stuff?
Right into the heart of meta engines. Ouch.
Likewise. I mainly use "proctor" for that purpose.
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Seems good, but it is difficult to know what service you are providing.
>> Everyone in the US gets unlimited data via WiFi.

And yet they still make you pay for a "data plan" just because you have a "smart phone".
That's very interesting to me. Either they're getting data from the same place and marking the price up differently or they're getting data from separate places that are marking the prices up differently.
One thing that this article doesn't mention is that Mountain View is soul-crushingly boring. It would be one thing if it was a place of character and interest that was being eroded (I can sympathize with some elements of the SF community on that front), but it is not and it never was. It's a boring suburb with no identifiable features. Palo Alto, Los Gatos and Santa Cruz and other towns have something to them. I don't understand what the "residentialists" are trying to protect.

I'd love to live nearer the Googleplex, but I wouldn't move into Mountain View.

Disclaimer: I work for Google, but I had this opinion of MTV far before joining them, and I have no voting rights in MTV politics. I live in Santa Cruz and much prefer it.
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Idiomatic means "using expressions that are natural to a native speaker." It's very possible, but not idiomatic, to write functional Java (pre-8). It's often more verbose and difficult to follow because there is no real notion of higher level functions or composition, let alone immutable data structures. The guava wiki has a good example of this: https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/wiki/FunctionalExp....

That doesn't mean that idiomatic practices are always virtuous, but non-idiomatic code is only virtuous because it overcomes an inherent mismatch between what the user wants and what the language provides. With many languages (certainly js, java, c++) we see non-idiomatic practices guide changes to the language and then be replaced. Java gained functions to avoid the abuse of anonymous inner classes. ES6 is stealing from transpiled javascript languages left and right.

Making idiomatic code virtuous is the goal of creators and maintainers. Writing idiomatic code means that you have chosen languages, frameworks, and libraries that are closely aligned with the code you need to write and the style you want to write it in.
Would you have a link to this story? I'd love to listen to it!
you'd lose the case, on the left it says "stable when pushing"
I would rather not agree with this "Break up the NSA" thing. I do follow the public opinion that its surveillance is wrong, but this is not the fix.

NSA is a organization, a empty shell without its people. If the people are not going to change their mindset in short-term (social change in mentality), it means that law has to be changed in short-term, so that very mentality gets more time to change.

But this is where I must contradict myself, does these people who are benefiting from such "Its abuse, not use of power" deserve such a delay? Given that for every second the situation remains the same, countless bottom-of-pyramid-people across the globe would keep suffering? Or have we become TOO used to looking away?

Also, a very important question is, that 'has NSA's Information Collection System become such a tool, where bulk of Americans are used to collect data on Bulk of Americans, and put that in the hands of Few, who then abuse it?' Or NSA has more to it than just the empty shell called: "Interest".

As Voltaire said: "You must ask, whether it is 'Just Interest' or 'National Interest'. "

A supporting question is, who is the Nation anyway? A few or all? Abraham Lincoln ought to be right here. But, fast forward 200 years, It is also important to question, whether "Nations" especially the idea of "America" stands as it is, given the fact that it is America itself that pushed for a "Globalized World" and still does.
Why do you think you are automatically entitled to a good job straight out of college?

Your reply vis-a-vis a Mercedes vs lifetime earnings seems to imply that you are willing to sell your integrity for some value x: $(Benz - Toyota) < x <= ~$2,000,000 (spread out over a lifetime). I'm a bit incredulous that your reply was basically that the only reason you would act ethically in my hypothetical situation was because you required a higher bribe.
Exactly. Right now the NSA can escape all legal oversight because it has historically operated physically outside the US and under military governance. Since 9-11 and the Patriot Acts, BSA operations have moved inside the US. And in concert with the sharing of intel across military and civilian, the NSA now operates freely across all spaces. This was never intended by statute, and virtually no oversight is in place to ensure 1) intel is gathered lawfully or 2) info is shared lawfully. Unlike the NSA, the FBI must operate wholly within the US and state civilian court system, so its gathering and disbursing of info is much more closely overseen and regulated.

It's also become very clear from their response to Snowden's revelations that NSA is not going to get any closer oversight any time soon. The FBI and its partners cannot hope to maintain a comparable cloak of invulnerability. To Bruce's suggestion, I vote yea.
> After I paid $50 to jump 178 spots in line, I got a VIP number and texted again. By now I was hungry, so I ordered a dozen chocolate chip cookies. Five minutes and $26 later, they were supposedly on their way—but they never arrived, and I never heard why. I never got my money back, either.

> I’ve never once actually gotten what I wanted from Magic.

So we should be celebrating a "company" that takes almost a hundred bucks from this guy but doesn't deliver him anything at all. That's not a company or a service it's a walking disaster.

The people that are having sour grapes (if they exist at all) presumably have them because they work on startups that actually do things or solve problems and have some small measure of success but don't get Wired articles because they don't happen to be connected to YC dinners.

What about all the "ideas are worth nothing" dogma that permeates all of the startup literature? What about it's the execution that matters? Doesn't "product-market fit" require an actual product?
Don't forget, if you had set your sights on getting an internship with Google/Microsoft there was a significant chance you'd have failed to get the internship there too if they preferred others' cover letters or had met their quota by the time they saw your application. Just as with paid work, they're not short of applicants.

Good news is, they need the full time employees more, they won't care at all about internships when you've got valuable real-life experience, and you get a lot of opportunities to reapply to companies that size in future.
The State of Global Connectivity
Regarding NSA and CIA, what do they have to do to get shut down completely? Do we wait until genocide? It doesn't seem like a re-org is the proper response to institutionalized torture, semi-automated assassination campaigns, and creation of a panopticon.
I find that ranting about a company's hiring procedures is a quick way for their HR department to quickly strike your name from the "Future Followup" file.

Apple is the richest company on Earth. Criticize their means and methods when they're in Chapter 11.
That's not what I'm saying. Amazon, Facebook, Google and Netflix would be victims of this. People would still use their services, but they'd use their services through the dedicated iOS app, not through a browser. Then Apple will have become a necessary middle man for the consumption of the content that those companies distribute. And who knows what Apple would be able to get away with at that point. Charge Facebook $100mm whenever the push out an updated version of their app? All Amazon purchases must be made with ApplePay? Who knows.
Personally I was inspired by her story. At 11 she didn't exactly decide to break the law herself. Do you all expect her to move to a place she doesn't even know after graduating from a great U.S. school? To me her story is of one who astutely overcame an insane amount of obstacles to achieve tremendous success.

Also for those veiled "illegal alien" racist I hope your smug attempt to caste a group of people as beneath you gives you the complacency you so crave.
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Everything About the Edward Snowden / 'Citizenfour' Lawsuit Is Batshit Crazy
I've got an idea. In the faux name of net neutrality, let's give one of the most abusive governments when it comes to privacy, vast control over regulating the domestic Internet, and let's allow them pass those new regulations without anyone external being allowed to review them ahead of time. What could possibly go wrong? It's not like the government will massively expand their direct control of the Internet, and use that to chill free speech. And it's not like we'll be sitting here in ten years, listening to pro net neutrality campaigners making excuses about how those weren't the laws they had in mind; after all, who knew the government would abuse their new powers, nobody could have guessed such a thing.

Whoops, too late:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/dear-fcc-rethink-those...
> Uber was similar at the start... you just fire up the app and ask for a car.

That doesn't sound similar at all. The substantive difference is that when you asked for a car, a car showed up. Unlike Magic, where you order things and pay for them and nothing happens.
I've had the same exact issue on AA.com as well. I gave up and booked it on Expedia.
I think you're searching for reasons to disagree based on semantics and technicalities and evading the very cogent points made by the author. While there is room for disagreement about some of the nuances of what is meant by "Capitalism" or "democracy", do you think that there is really any comprehension problem w.r.t Stross' use of those terms? It seemed perfectly clear to me. His usage is quite conventional.

What about the quoted passage do you actually think is ambiguous?
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Yes, we would likely be better off with a Pigouvian tax on antibiotics - that's the economist solution. Unfortunately, neither the capitalistic system nor the democratic process has any real way to get us there.
Celebration can be just as unhelpful, if not even more (e.g. echo chamber effect of positive reinforcement). Ignoring legitimate faults in with a product/startup with a "they tried" excuse is the last thing a startup should do.

The MVP culture for startups is not a one-size-fits-all idiom.
I think so. This article somewhat shows that there's no real control over the drones and it still takes manual labor to track and identify the owners. Right now there are only a few drones, and it's taking days to get them out. If these were weaponized it would be far too late. That's only with a few of them. All it would take is a small military/ops budget to launch like 50 drones and then there's no chance.

This + the whitehouse drone incident = impending crackdown on drones...
Oops sorry! Fixed the links.

This is Slats, the robot waiter, roaming the streets of Berkeley:

http://www.donhopkins.com/home/RobotMovies/Slats1.jpg

http://www.donhopkins.com/home/RobotMovies/Slats2.jpg

http://www.donhopkins.com/home/RobotMovies/Slats3.jpg

After a short and unsuccessful career as a waiter, Slats eventually decided that his one true goal in life was to reproduce himself.

So we took him out in public around Berkeley, and shot some video of Slats attempting to seduce men and women off the street.

It was kind of like Speed Dating meets Demon Seed: he tried to talk people into giving him their eggs and sperm, because he needed their genetic material to reproduce himself.

The results of our research: It turns out to be a lot easier for a robot to talk a man out of his sperm, than to talk a woman out of her eggs.
It's hard to make an analogy of what Magic is right now, other than to say it's sort of like "Siri with humans." But at scale, I envision it would basically be a dynamically-allocated pool of secretaries, in the same way that AWS is a dynamically-allocated pool of computer hardware.

And we already have "dynamically-allocated pools of secretaries!" Magic is effectively a recreation of the concierge service attached to (some) credit cards, which does exactly that.

This is not to poo-poo the business model—far from it, it's something people want—but I'm guessing the true outcome of this battle will just be A. the credit card companies opening up their concierge services to lower cardholder levels; and B. AWS building a concierge-pool service to go along with (and possibly run atop of) their Mechanical Turk labor-pool service.
Developer here, I would be happy to answer any question that you have. If you have any suggestions/criticism, I would gladly hear it!
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One could argue that this article was about those people, or at least about how right they were. :)
I just checked and it seems to work fine (tried Chrome, Firefox and IE11).

Did you see any error message or broken markup? Maybe the heroku instance was waking up (takes under 1 min, though)
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> apps can replace all but some long-tail usages

Yeah some long-tail usages like everything those 90% of phone and tablet users do that are not on iOS. And 100% of what desktop users do. And 100% of what laptop users do.
>> You don't even really need a data plan with them as long as you've got Wifi coverage.

Yeah, last I checked they had a $5 per month plan that's wifi only. You can still make calls and texts but you have to be on wifi. Not my thing, but they have it.
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Security, in terms of the NSA, refers to their COMSEC work.
> NSA already minimizes American information

While this is the PR, in practice it's categorically untrue.
The videos don't work (firefox on linux)
I don't have a ton of experience with go, just some one off internal tools development, only a few dependencies. That said, I chose to manage my dependencies manually by making a fork of the relevant repositories. Yeah, it would have been nice if the higher order dependencies were automatically resolved, but the whole thing went smoothly, and felt familiar since it had nothing to do with Go at all. Maybe the take away is that a language agnostic dependency manager is what would best benefit Go?
It's a virtual assistant service. There are lots of those.

The business model of such a service is they sell the labor of someone who solves problems for you, and charge you slightly more than it costs them to compensate the labor.

Or in the case of this specific virtual assistant service called Magic, they have people who don't in fact solve problems for you, and charge some unspecified opaque amount of money.
Scholarly markdown (with R) for fun and (non-monetary) profit
I believe it's Act Two of episode:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/501/t...
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I think that is a excellent example of how information might get abused.
> She should be ashamed: she appears to have violated immigration, pension and tax laws.

She is an illegal immigrant, and a shameless criminal, but why should she be ashamed? Braking a law does not necessarily imply anything shameful, and sometimes it is shameful to obey unjust laws. I hope everyone can think of some laws (at least from history) that you'd be proud to break.
I really wish mobile makers tried to deviate from the current mobile design norm.
I am not against touch interfaces, but i sure miss some more physical buttons.
Right. All these stories fail to mention that you don't really need any special reason other than the perfectly obvious (Paris at night!!!) to want to fly a drone there. Plus once it makes the news, you better get your pics quickly, before it's too late.
What do GOPATH, the project folder structure, package management, and package versioning all have in common? The go command. Not the linker, not the compiler -- the `make` replacement.

If you want to fix the most broken parts of Go -- its ecosystem management tooling -- just replace your `go` command.

I have, and I love working on a project with a proper top-level src folder, with vendor-able packages discoverable in a top-level lib folder pinned to known-good commits.

There are literally dozens of go replacements, but the winning combination for me is using Goop [1], Makefiles, and symlinks to subvert `go get` and the naive way it parses import declarations [2].

[1] https://github.com/nitrous-io/goop

[2] https://golang.org/ref/spec#Import_declarations
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In ES6 there are iterables that one uses `for...of` with. Rauschmayer of 2ality has said that `for...of` should be used instead of forEach and I wonder how that will affect composability in functional programming. I quite like the concept of iteratables and creating data structures that can make use of for of and generators. I just have thought about how that affects functional style programming.
Do blind people really experience complete darkness?
> ...any time they pushed an update that sent data somewhere new...

So you think making the NSA (or any govt agency) the gatekeeper for all data, public and private, would be a good idea? As if there's no way that could be abused? No thanks.
You misunderstand my question. I realize in hindsight how it was ambiguous.

I used the word "object" like it is used in slide 55. Functors map objects to objects and arrows to arrows. I.e. arrow is the (co)domain of the functor, and object is the (co)domain of the (co)domain of the functor.
I like optional videos. It's still possible to view them if one feels like it, but it's not necessary to understand and enjoy the rest.
From my experience there are three reasons these questions are asked:

1. To see what your thought process would be in figuring out the answer.
2. To judge your reaction to such a nonsensical question.
3. To show off (either the interviewer is showing off or the company is showing off).

That said, they have some value depending on the position your being interviewed for.
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That's an unfair characterization. When it comes to Mountain View, there are three sets of people being discussed in the article: former council members, new council members, and the general public.

The new council members (e.g. Lenny Siegel) are _all_ in favor of adding new housing near Google. The City Council is now 6-1 in favor of building new housing, whereas it was 4-3 against prior to the 2014 election. The person who was afraid of a "Google voting bloc", Jac Siegel, is a former council member is no longer on the council and no longer represents the views of the council or the citizens.

As for the people, while there are a certain set of long-time Mountain View residents who don't like change, most seem to accept that change is inevitable (which is why we now have a 6-1 majority in favor of new housing).

(Long-time Mountain View resident, voter and homeowner here, FYI).
Wouldn't that only harm you? Wouldn't you only be cheating yourself?

I don't understand why your professors' interest in your personal learning would impact your own desire to learn.

(Thinking about it a bit more, I can vaguely understand this if it's a required class that you have no actual interest in - an elective you had to take because all others were taken, or if you were retaking a class that you were already very familiar with - but at that point, cheating would be redundant.)
This looks nice! Can anyone recommend other good resources for Scala beginners? I'm checking out Twitter's Scala School[1] but the disclaimer near the start indicates that it's based on an older Scala version. I'm also using Odersky's "Scala by Example"[2]

1: http://twitter.github.io/scala_school
2: http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/ScalaByExample.pdf
There is a simpler failure mode, the guy who decides what numbers to report, and how, decides the outcome, and the data from China is more corrupt than our own data, which in turn is more corrupt than the data from the USSR Pravda era.

On a small scale its fox guarding the henhouse corporate metric evaluations. You pick the winners and losers, and by how much, then you design todays metric to match the conclusion, then you use numerological processes to gather numbers for the metric. Thats the way the real world works.
The idea behind those videos is brilliant, and in 2015, you would no longer need the backing of a major television network to get viewers or revenue. (It would help, though.)

I'd like to see one with an obsolete 2004 model Asimo, panhandling for "spare charge" from passers-by's cell phone batteries.
I asked the founder about returns and how they'll handle customer support issues in his reveal post a few days ago. No reply.
It always struck me that socialism is the economic system that in theory appears to be closest/compatible with democracy. Then again, I think what has actually become obvious is that mixed economies are what seem to work, to which I'd add not just having rules, but changing them often enough to prevent gaming of the system. So maybe in a sense messy is good not just because the real-world requires messy solutions, but because you got to keep people on their toes. Let's face it, laissez-faire or pure socialism, the weak point in either case is people subverting the system.
>"Flying drones over Paris at night is illegal and daytime flights require authorisation from the city."

So there is already an outright ban at night, and significant limits in the day.