skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Switzerland is often portrayed as this political paradise of neutrality and civil liberty, but the truth is nowhere near as rosy. There's plenty of dark spots and inefficiencies in Switzerland's history that can potentially put the idea of pure direct democracy into question. I can list some if you'd desire and are unaware.
> The government wasn't involved

About that, when somebody threatens to sue a person and that is a credible threat, it's because the government is involved.

The minimum guarantee of a democratic legal system is that for an innocent that phrase isn't a threat. If there is no guarantee, it's not a democratic system.
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it says for beginners in the title.
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It looked to me like he had his feet up, playing Quake :)
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I'm talking about the early life of the program. Some people start private, get a feel for what people want, make changes and then go public.

Some people start public and go private (Netflix, LinkedIn)
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Data. We can use them to store data. Not your average cat picture storage but maybe DNA data of plant seeds and such.
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related to this, I was the engine architect and programmer of a Leisure Suit Larry game homage named The Adventures of Khaki Pants Pete. it was an iOS app done to indirectly promote the Klondike Bar.

bonus: I also worked for Cendant! later era, back when they bought Cheaptickets and Orbitz
What is the point of the pepper. This is a serious question. Is it to go quickly through the presentation? to just keep the presenter from being boring? or something else?
> I know that sucks, but if you want something more open,

Raspberry Pi isn't all that "open", either, but I suppose at least it doesn't have an NDA. See the Issues section here:

https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi
These are not engineers being “added”. They are being allowed to cross borders.

What it does is equalize wages. They (outside the border) make more, and we (inside the border) make less.
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Like I said: inferiority complex.
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Update: Looks like it fixes itself after a little bit. I'm wondering if Hover Zoom is to blame as it was on in incognito for me but I can't reproduce now so I don't know...

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OS X 10.10

Chrome 41.0.2272.89 (64-bit)

It's happening to me as well. I thought it may be Privacy Badger blocking some JS or something stupid like that but after trying in incognito mode I can confirm it's probably not a plugin causing it (The plugins still being loading in incognito mode are: 1Pass, EditThisCookie, HoverZoom, JsonView, and RES). In Chrome Canary (43.0.2330.4 and 43.0.2331.0 tested) scrolling seems to work fine. It also works fine in FF (34.0.5 and 36.0.1).
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't every single early access or developer agreement from Apple just as restrictive in wording?

Two wrongs don't make a right.
If Rahm is to be believed, tardigrades can survive even higher temperatures.

If there is a question about this, one would have expected 90 years to be enough time for someone to arrange a follow-up study.
I believe the doctrine is called Promissory Estoppel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel#Promissory_estoppel
TLS uses several algorithms, almost always both asymmetric and symmetric algorithms, in every session. For example, my current connection to HN is TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256. And that does mean that our underlying session key is 128 bits, independent of the size of HN's public key (which turns out to be 2048 bits).

There is a possible argument that a 128-bit AES key and a 2048-bit RSA key are mismatched, but a 1024-bit RSA key is clearly known to be dangerous now, while the same is not at all true for a 128-bit AES key.
It's more than ironic. I'm actually concerned about this guy. It appears he might be in the cross-hairs of some individuals who are willing to leverage whatever they have at their disposal to shut him up and maybe make an example out of him.
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I think I heard this in a Unix fortune 15 years ago :

When engineers implement base-4 logic, will they call it quits?
"At which point does it become bad intrusion?"

When it starts.

"Is sharing ideas bad? Money? Offering, rather than being asked?"

Ideas? Probably not. Money? Very yes. And before you try, there is a huge difference between ideas and monetary support, and money is not speech.

"What about something like the concept of democracy."

You're not a member of that democracy. It's like Israel donating to political campaigns here in the US.

"I'm very confused. This is a very gray area with a fantastically slippery slope."

No, it really isn't.
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Do you leave your own review on those books to counteract the unearned rating?
What these guys are doing, is simply an idea for which the time has come / is coming. There have been a number of similar attempts in Europe, in countries where US influence is not a factor (or rather is given for granted). I am very critical of US foreign policy and influence, and tbh, funding a "net democracy" party would be way too honest and "good" compared to their usual modus operandi; they have much more effective and risk-proof methods they use to effect change. For once, they don't back players who struggle to reach 3%; they only back horses with a realistic chance to get in power relatively quickly (see for example Ukraine).

> you have a very strong case to support the theories that the US government is actively trying to get Kirchner and her allies out of power

That being true has little to do with experiments in direct democracy which are being attempted all over the world. YC is not (yet) a CIA cover, as far as we know.
Definitely the former, not interested in attacking the hypervisor or AWS itself at all.

Just want to generate stuff to investigate in the honeypot.
But it's not immigration. H-1B visas are nonimmigrant guest worker visas, with dual intent. That just means H-1B guest workers are allowed to apply for permanent residency with an I-140 while working in the US.

It doesn't take a rocket senator to figure out that if people are entering on an H-1B and then applying for a green card at the earliest opportunity, it is because the US isn't issuing nearly enough immigrant visas.

Am I the only one that thinks America should be encouraging smart people with valuable skills to stay as long as they like, without sponsorship? I don't think I am.

I also think that the vast numbers of foreign students attending American universities is a great opportunity. Why not slide up to graduates of certain degree programs and say, "Hey, buddy, you like America? Since you have a degree in X, I could convert that student visa to an immigrant worker visa right now, if you want. Actually, how about I do it anyway, and if you really don't want it, just tell me to stop? Hey! Wait! Where are you going? Do you want to live under your parents' thumbs? If you get on that plane now, you will regret it! Our taxes are really very reasonable! Come baaaaaack!"
Fantastic. Evil. I love how this idea forces the speaker to be brief with the milk within reach.
Yeah, it looks like that's the theory.
"My view has always been that to perform an interview with him at the Ecuadorean embassy in London would lower the quality of the interview," Marianne Ny said in a statement.

Can anyone explain to me why they couldn't simply question him over a teleconferencing connection? Are they seriously claiming that this has gone on as long as it has simply because they couldn't figure out a way to talk to him?

This seems ludicrous.
There should be very obvious ways to identify "review bots" - especially given that reviews are tied to an amazon accounts purchase and browsing history.

That they don't have an efficient algorithm for this sounds more like they don't really care and never bothered with it.
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>It shouldn't. Truth can't be found by forcing others to believe in your version of it. The acceptance of any given fact will naturally follow a normal distribution, and those on one side or the other of that curve aren't defective. They're actually necessary for intelligent and critical discourse.

I'm rather partial to imposing a tax on self-delusion and refusing to update beliefs in face of overwhelming evidence.

Also, the normal distribution part is plainly unjustified. The scientific consensus on various climate change topics is widely accepted to a high confidence by many, and widely denied with even higher confidence by many others. Bayesian belief networks are better models for individuals, and if we were to put belief in a given generic climate-change-related claim on a curve with 1:1 confidence in the middle and "certain true/false" at the extremes, you'd have a valley, not a normal. An asymmetrical valley, to boot.
Some scifi (e.g. Simmons's Hyperion series) posits that the way for humans to survive near-light-speed travel is for the body to be basically destroyed by acceleration, and then rebuilt on arrival. If that ever happens, perhaps tardigrades will inspire the techniques used in the process.
This can also be used for object recognition against invariant 3D representations, potentially with more accuracy than traditional convolutional neural net architectures.

Consider: their proof-of-concept face-recognition model achieves performance comparable to traditional convnets on faces with varying degree of pose, lighting, shape and texture, even though it was trained completely unsupervised. I would expect this type of model to beat the state of the art in face recognition and other similar tasks when fined-tuned with supervised training in the not-too-distant future.
"for those who come into the JavaScript world for the first time
but already have some experiences in another languages"
This is more just the modular synthesizer scene; modular stuff isn't necessarily analog and analog stuff isn't necessarily modular.
I bet if someone did an economic impact study of H1B visas and looked beyond pure salary numbers, you would find a very positive economic impact.

America was built by immigrants. Lest you forget.

Borders are a remnant of the old world. Companies need to stay competitive and tapping the international workforce is part of that competitiveness.
Did you mean to post this comment on the "Fake Amazon Book Reviews" story instead?
Battery is replaceable obviously. Why would you doubt that?
I'm simultaneously embarrassed and proud to say that the only time I've seen a subway map like this of a Solar system, it was of Kerbal.
>that seems wrong, to base the law on technical limitations

Why? The point is to ensure that the defendant can receive a fair trial. With video and DNA evidence, shouldn't there be a longer limit than if there is only a single witness testimony?
Some regional registrars (like CIRA) only publish whois infomation for business and governmentally owned domains.

Personal ones don't even list email contacts! :)
They already have a system for this: "Amazon Verified Purchase" will appear below the title of a review from someone who bought the book. Of course, they had to have purchased it from Amazon. They could default to only showing verified reviews by default or weighting verified reviews higher than unverified ones. It's too easy to create accounts and reviews to keep letting this just slide.
Given how fast things tend to move in the industry, and how a person can be doing very different things now than they were a few short years ago, I think one can forgive the author for perceiving the peak Zynga years as longer than it actually may be.

It's remarkable to look at where I was 8 years ago compared to now, regardless of age really.
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some may also like to read about single-cell wasps:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/11/3...
It's just you. Most people would agree 6-7 years counts as "many" in this industry.
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Unless you've read Arthur C. Clarke's Odyssey series; in which case you are mostly infuriated by it.
>This might sound funny, but considering Moore's law and where we currently are on that exponential curve,

In case you haven't noticed, the exponential curve has already started to level off. Moore's Law is done. Every incremental improvement from Intel offers smaller and smaller improvements, as transistor sizes run into fundamental physical limitations imposed by quantum mechanics and thermal and battery-life constraints impose limitations on the amount of power a chip can use. Combine that with fact that RAM speed stopped scaling about a decade ago, and the conclusion is clear. Moore's Law isn't ending. It's already gone. As far as desktop application developers are concerned, Moore's Law ended about a decade ago when single-thread performance plateaued.

Yes, we have more and more cores, and more and more cache. But the cache is only there to make up (poorly) for the fact that RAM speeds haven't scaled. And more cores don't help, because most desktop applications don't parallelize easily beyond ~2 threads. Yes, the user is able to run more applications at the same time, but each individual application is still running at about the same speed.
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The passengers tell them when to pick up. They can drive any route they want. Few driver's use Uber's directions and Lyft/Sidecar don't even offer turn-by-turn directions. Of course they can deviate from any route (passengers frequently request specific routes). Yes, the companies reward for maintaining a low decline rate (sensible).

The contractors you describe frequently have less control. Many have to show up to the office, attend meetings, produce deliverables continuously, complete projects under specific terms and timeframes, etc.
> Why can I only sign in with Twitter? Twitter hosts some of the most established Tech Founders & Startups in the world. Wouldn't you want to be on the right platform?

Like Product Hunt itself, this does not help disprove the belief that Silicon Valley is an echo chamber of "thought leaders."
This might have to do with the accelerating human perception of time. Can't 5 years really feel like eons? If the author were 25, that would be a significant chunk of life, and I'm hoping you're not intending to imply that all 25 year olds should be dismissed out of hand.

But it's interesting -- people who have worked in tech during M$FT's heyday probably do want to dismiss this argument without consideration. Is the real story here that peoples' unconscious attitudinal memory is long enough that some companies' prior actions can never be forgiven?
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The Beagle 2 and Mars Climate Orbiter are not the same thing. It is unknown why Beagle 2 failed and there is no reason to believe it was due to any unit mismatch. It may be that two of the solar panels failed to deploy.
I hate to answer on political threads because I'm always downvoted into oblivion, but there we go...

I'm writing from Brazil but lived for a while in Argentina and do business with people from other places in the subcontinent.

I grew up during the iron years, where the military dictatorships here tortured and killed hundreds of dissidents, so most parents educated us to fear the police and avoid talking about politics at all costs. I guess this is why people don't like to participate in the civic life (hell, in Brazil people avoid even condo meetings because "I don't like controversy").

I think lobbying is frowned upon here because most people equate it with public bribing (not too far from the truth), which leaves us we with traditional bribing only.

Go figure.
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I'm looking forward to hearing your experiences with extension/plugin based products.

What were the biggest challenges when trying to make people download your extension? Could you give me an idea of how your funnels looked like, and how they improved?
And NullPointerException while we're at it - if we're going to mix random stuff in CSS properties, why not go all the way ?
I saw some students prove that water can be an effective radiation barrier. The only problem is that it's heavy. If we were already going somewhere with a lot of water...
Sourceforge has inserted adware into projects' downloads in the past. It's also a ghost town and I wonder what sort of resources (if any) they have working on the site to keep it secure. This is a big concern when the software they're hosting is as security-sensitive as a VPN package.
Polanski's situation is a bit different - he was charged, pleaded guilty, then fled the country before he was sentenced. The statute of limitations only sets a time limit for when a case can be initiated, not for when it must be completed, and Polanski's case from 1977 is still pending.
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Again, Morrowind is the third game. Arena is still very "iffy" setting wise. And bland. Stuff only started getting interesting (i.e. weird :) ) in Daggerfall.

And don't forget that The elder scrolls is known for it's "flexible" and uncertain lore (Who/what is really Talos?) and big retcons (Cyrodill's forests).

But I agree with what you say about Mass Effect. I just think that they are different things for different tastes.
On the Mass Effect side you have highly developed characters and character interactions and a high focus on emotional and memorable setpieces. There is a great effort to provide an emotional story, and making the player experience it in the best way possible.

On the other hand you have The Elder Scrolls, where the story and character are not so interesting (or what makes them interesting is not thrown in your face) and the story is just a pretext to make you experience the world. The world is what is important, so it's what is developed.

There is also a different purpose in the different "levels" of the game. While in ME a design goal may be "The player should fight an old friend, after discovering his betrayal", in TES may be "The player should fight a dragon near a boiling volcano using a dwarven ballista". In the first one the writer have to focus on the emotion to be conveyed by the dialog and environment, while in the second the writers just have to justify the environment (i.e. "Why is there a dwarven ballista?").

I also belive that writers in TES are given the reedom to write what they want and if it's cool it goes into the game. That's how I believe all that trippy stuff[0] got into Morrowind.

[0] https://fallingawkwardly.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/the-metaph... (not the best explanation, but an interesting read)
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Just to clarify, java.util.ArrayList.add() grows the backing array by 50%, not just by length()+1.
This is an excellent example of why censorship resistant name resolution and hosting are so necessary. With projects like Namecoin and Freenet, this wouldn't be a problem.
Why the downvotes? This is free, and I just posted it as an alternative. You can also take our open source script and run it on a box of your choice, if you don't want to trust us with your keys (which we never store).

Our script: https://github.com/tinfoil/openvpn_autoconfig/blob/master/bi...
Here's the cited article where that line comes from, with 33 other predictions from Futurist Thomas Frey

http://www.wfs.org/blogs/thomas-frey/33-dramatic-predictions...

My favorite: By 2030, the world’s largest Internet company will be in the education business, and it will be a company we have not heard of yet.
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Set your alarm for 3/14/15, 9.26:53 am :-)
Usually yes, but always. I wish Amazon let you just give a star rating, instead of requiring you to add a real comment.
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Thanks for pointing those out. I never noticed them before.
The phrase "once bitten, twice shy" comes to mind, except instead of "once", more like "a million bazillion times".
This is pretty good, although I am always a bit worried that it is difficult for people to internalize this stuff without a real drive to get into abstract algebra.

As a side note, I think a really nice way to go (dovetailing off of the ending group actions section) is to use group actions and this lemma (https://qchu.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/the-p-group-fixed-poin...) to prove a bunch of cool stuff.

It really unifies all of the basic stuff and makes it clear that finite group theory is really entirely about symmetries/actions.
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I hate you guys sometimes.
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That's awful. Has no one automated the process of checking for bogus reviews and reporting them?
My approach is fine. I'm not having trouble finding work. Your approach sounds fine, too.

That doesn't help the huge middle who only seek work every few years. Nor does it help those employers who are just trying to find someone who's good at their job.

I'm trying to change (oh so slightly) the system. Plenty of employers and hiring managers read HN.

In the best of systems, there eventually has to be some trust between the principles. The current system begins by establishing _distrust_ from the outset.

I'd think there would be plenty of people who would be interested in doing something about that.

Or maybe everyone is happy with the status quo except me.
Much better to simply donate than waste earth's resources on
discs and packaging. There's enough pollution in this world.
Our oceans are filling with garbage.

http://compactdiscrecyclingcenter.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch
> Ruby people discovering algorithms ducks

This was not a good comment to post to HN. When you toss a Molotov cocktail into an HN thread and "duck", here is what we are going to get:

web programming people aren't familiar with even basic CS

I stand before you as a counterpoint to your foolish generalisation

Oh cute, a web dev. You've just reinvented 1975 [...]
Would you like a pat on the head?

Stop whining

your comment is bullshit

you deserve a slap

For any large group like "Ruby people" or "web programming people", HN has many users who either identify with being part of that group or identify with not being part of it. Given the numbers, there will always be a few who are having a bad day or feeling defensive or what have you, enough to respond angrily when someone posts a slur. Then their counterparts feel attacked, and down the whole thing goes.

Social padding prevents disputes like this from turning ugly, but we don't have that on HN. Even when you know another user from their comment history, that's not much information. Imagination fills in the gaps and then we imagine the other in the worst light. That's why the community here is fragile.

To be a good community member, please don't post things that could easily set the thread on fire. If after editing them out, your comment has nothing substantive left, please don't post it.
This is useful if your target audience is exactly the kind of person who reads PH and other .co/.io sites. If your target audience is anything else, this is a waste of time.
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I've taken to looking at reviewer's "other" reviews when I see a slew of 1 or 5-star reviews for anything... It becomes pretty obvious which ones are real, or fake.

I've come to trust those items with all 4-5 star reviews far less than I used to.
Their assessment of risk is motivated by money, though.
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