skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazingly depressing.

May the way of the hero lead to the triforce, my friend.

Thread theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgKAFK5djSk
Agreed -- as someone living semi-rural (rural, but not middle-of-nowhere) I've often wondered about the economics of a fibre rollout, our only choices at the moment are very pricey wireless (for the level of service)

But not in a position to move to Montana!
I feel so sorry to hear this. I have been a long time fan of Nintendo. RIP Iwata san. We will miss you so much. The rest of crew at the company will continue to carry the torch.
This topic roughly reminds me of Jeff Schmidt's book "Disciplined Minds"[1], where he argues that professionals are likely to be more conservative and trusting of the government that other people, in part due to the process of professional education. Here is an excerpt from the first chapter:

> Evidence that professionals are not independent thinkers has been around for a long time but has generally been ignored, in part because people don't know how to make sense of it. The Vietnam War produced some revealing examples, which are worth looking back at.

> On 12 January 1971, the federal government indicted Philip Berrigan and other East Coast antiwar activists on felony charges of plotting to impede the Vietnam War through violent action. The activists' agenda supposedly included blowing up underground heating pipes in Washington to shut down government buildings, kidnapping presidential advisor Henry Kissinger to ransom him for concessions in the war and raiding drafting boards to destroy records and slow down the draft.

> The Justice Department prosecutors chose to hold the conspiracy trial in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a conservative area where a randomly chosen jury would be heavily against the defendants. However, before the jury was selected at what came to be known as the Harrisburg-7 trial, a group of left-leaning social scientists supporting the defendants interviewed a large number of registered voters in the area to try to figure out how to get a sympathetic jury there. They discovered, amongst other things, that college-educated people were more likely than others to be conservative and trust the government. Thus, in court, during the three weeks that it took to examine 465 potential jurors and pick a panel of 12, lawyers for the defense quietly favoured skilled blue-collar workers and white-collar workers without a lot of formal education -- nonprofessionals, although the sociologists and lawyers never used that term.

> The lawyers were uneasy about doing this, however, because it went against their intuition. The notion of closed-minded hard hats and open-minded intellectuals is widespread and is reinforced by mass-media characters like dock-loading worker Archie Bunker and his college-student son-in-law, "pinko" Mike. In fact, All in the Family made its television debut the very day of the Harrisburg indictments, 12 January 1971; by the time the trial and jury selection started, it had been on air for over a year.

> Ignoring these false stereotypes paid off. The government put on a month long, $2 million extravaganza featuring 64 witnesses, including 21 FBI agents and 9 police officers. The defense called no one to the witness stand. After seven days of deliberation, the jury was not able to reach a unanimous decision, and the judge declared a mistrial; but with 10 of the 12 carefully selected jurors arguing for a not-guilty verdict, the government dropped the case.

It is a book worth reading.

[1] http://disciplinedminds.tripod.com/
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/elio-motors-judicial...

This plus the fact that 45+ states have already passed helmet exemptions for the Ello and other three-wheeled vehicles with non-removable roofs/windshields.

http://www.technologytell.com/in-car-tech/5760/elio-motors-m...
Ask HN: What tools do sales reps use?
If you are in sales, what are your favorite tools that you use daily?
MIT researchers engineer programmable gut bacteria
Your comment is so ironic that this long time lurker needed to create an account and reply.

I'm not sure if your typos are "dumb" or ignoring "autocorrect". See how we can both be pompous dicks?

The worst part about SO is pretending like you are trying to help people learn, when, as other commenters have called out, the answers are spread across multiple replies. If a person asks how to do X, and your answer fails to do that, you are part of the problem.
Exactly. If the startup fails after a year (which is a high probability for any startup), you're going to have to pay for an expensive relocation back to where the jobs are. Other risks (of any job) include: they can fire you at any time, it could end up being a shitty place to work, etc. So being able to find another job is very important.

A business in an isolated location like that might have more luck hiring remote employees.
As if the powers that be don't want such things. LOL.
Actually, that depends on the original motivations of the project. As a developer, I'll frequently code up something that amounts to a small "project" with the potential for re-use, and I might release the source of the program, because why not?

Whether it becomes popular, or achieves continuity isn't really a motive of that sort of stand-alone utility project. On the other hand, a number of wildly popular open source software projects have started out that way, as small, independent side-projects.
At a party I met an artist at residence at MIT who claimed to have a Eukaryote sized hook stepping force up to a man sized fly fishing rod.

But, I think at small scales sound is closer to buffeting (like how water is the consistency of gelatin for microscopic organisms, waves can't propagate)
Yes, Montana is a beautiful state and I am getting a little tired of paying out the nose for a small apartment with no land. I imagine I'm not the only one.
> Yet, we view Nazi soldiers as not only dishonorable, but downright evil.

This seems to be a key idea in his argument, given that it is, as he says, the "simplest, most extreme case". However, I'm not so sure that this is true. Do most people view Nazi soldiers—that is, boots-on-the-ground troops, not leaders—as evil? I've always understood the historical consensus, to which I am sympathetic, to be that they were subject to a misguided ideology, but not evil.

Further, even this assumes that people are willingly fighting for the country in whose military they serve. This was not at all true in Germany, and has failed to be true in the US, as well. In fact, arguably, even when no-one has been drafted, many people have joined in the military under the assumption that they will never serve—in some cases, a factual error, but surely not one to which honour or dishonour can attach. Two non-rhetorical questions: is it dishonourable to serve in the military only to avoid legal repercussions? What about more severe repercussions—say, bodily harm? What if those repercussions are to be visited on others—say, one's family?
Aye - seems very "eggs in one basket"-e.

I could see folks that are starting a new business with relatively few employees and no immediate plans for explosive non-remote worker growth being interested though.

As for me, I don't have a reason to move to a small city without many non-related work activities to engage in. I like the city life. I understand that others would embrace the slower-paced outdoor Montana life style. However, for me it is not a selling point :(
We can amplify very quiet sounds. But I'm not sure why you want to "hear DNA's sound" and considering that biological processes occurring at the organ level will be much louder, it would be difficult.
Thanks for elaborating. The interpretations you're using are not what came across in the talk. The notes are just notes, so some of the nuance is lost. I'm told there will be videos in two weeks.

Design by consensus is different than design by committee. In the latter, there is horse-trading and the like, so that basically everyone's ideas go in. In contrast, design by consensus means that nothing went into Go until all three - Rob, Robert, and Ken - agreed it was right. That's actually a higher bar than design by just one person.

The Go spec came before the Go implementation. That's actually important too - it's not an implementation-defined language - and the prime sieve was written as a complete example program for the spec. It's still a decent example of what you can do with just plain Go, without any libraries. Go was meant for networked servers, but a complete HTTP server would have been way too large (remember, there were no libraries yet!).

Go certainly had a target: the kinds of networked servers that Google builds. The first real Go programs were exactly those servers. But it takes a lot of code to build up to that. For much the same reason, you can bet that UNIX was not the very first C program; something like hello world (or maybe just 'exit 0') probably was. Judging Go by the prime sieve is like judging C by "hello world". Obviously greeting the world was not the number one problem the C creators had.

In the context of the talk, "serious" does not mean what you are saying. Around July 2008 the first draft of the current compiler and runtime started working on both Linux and OS X, but nearly all of the standard library, many key language features, and much reworking of the existing things were yet to come. Serious does not mean frozen here. It means that Go started being a focus of active development for more than just the original three authors. (In particular, Ian Taylor and I joined the team, and development accelerated quite a bit.)

Stepping back, the focus of Andrew's talk was how changes to Go were proposed and made, and how that process has changed over time. For more about the actual design, see Robert's talk, the Evolution of Go (https://sourcegraph.com/blog/live/gophercon2015/123645585015). And again the video will contain more nuance than the notes.
yes there is, but not to DNA level. ive heard recordings of amplified ants feet :)
True. RIP.
Depends on what you are doing in the Military.
No. I've recently driven through on my way to Seattle and while the countryside was beautiful I don't think I could handle the local culture or lack thereof.
Redux makes a lot of sense to me actually; I'll dig into it again when they've finished the great 1.0 renaming.

Thanks for the reply, much appreciated.
Poor sleeping habits are filling our brains with neurotoxins?
A soldier is honorable IF:

1. He fights for a cause which will not reward him personally.
> For example, an ISIS fighter stands to gain more money, more fame, and more women than he could expect through any other means. Thus it is dis-honorable by modern standards.

2. The second is the means of accomplishing the mission.
> The Iraq conflict has and remains a sectarian civil war. The war crimes of both Sunni and Shia outclass and outnumber any Coalition acts. Arough figure: 10-1 civilian casualty figures of internal violence vs American.

Would you hate Great Britain if she had sent troops to fight for the Union in the American Civil war? Even if it resulted in some civilian casualties?
GPG is awesome; GPG is terrible
oh my mistake it has been done http://viewingspace.com/genetics_culture/pages_genetics_cult...
LNG quickly becomes a gas when leaked -- you won't see dramatic environmental disasters like with crude oil.

It's also not flammable or explosive in its liquid form, so I suspect you won't see a dramatic explosive failure either.

Of course, it could start leaking and burn when mixed with enough air, but I can't help but wonder how sustainable a fire that would be: The air/fuel mix would not be controlled at all, and would probably quickly burn and stop.
I rather disagree with this, least of all the conclusion that there do not exist honorable soldiers. There are several other parts to this which, taken alone, also fail to ring true.

The blanket assertion that humans aren't meant to kill other humans is pretty well debunked by thousands of years of bloody history--our current trends and wants notwithstanding.

The characterization of people willingly submitting themselves into the hierarchy of the military as weak-willed is somewhat poor as well: that same critique basically is admissible against anyone serving in government or a corporation (indeed, the entire notion of a company derives from the compaignie of European history).

I think David Drake had perhaps the most useful thing to say about the men and women serving on the sharp end: basically, whenever you deploy a soldier with a weapon someplace, you create a policymaker--and if you are concerned about what sort of policies they'll be making, the time to do something about it is before you send them out.
Copy of my reply to his question:

As a German, and a worker in the tech industry, Schäuble has proven only one thing in the past, that he is an ignorant and stubborn man, who completely lacks a broader view of the consequences of the things he tries to put in motion, but insists of pushing horrible things that he thinks help germany. (Previously: Trying to allow German army activities within the borders of Germany, trying to implement and make legal a government-sponsored trojan that he claimed would be able to infiltrate every computer.)

As far as i am concerned he is only continuing his plan of trying to put Germany over everything, regardless what kind of damage he does or even of whether he even does any good in the process.

--

I don't know if Yanis will be able to effect any positive change anymore at this point, but if even a few people learn that this is a horribly nationalist plan by a horribly nationalist man, then i praise his efforts.

Edit:

Just to make it clear how horrible Schäuble as a human is:

- committed tax fraud on 100_000 DM by a gun trader
- tried to make it legal for the german army to operate
in german borders in case terrorists try to attack
ports with ships as bombs
- tried to make it legal for the german army to shoot
down passenger planes in case of terrorists
- tried to make legal a government trojan that would
breach all privacy rights, but is also impossible

Now he's minister of finance and seems to be successfully throwing a country out of the EU.
Jeff Atwood on Moderation, StackExchange, and Discourse (2015)
Women in Tech: The Struggle to Stay Technical
Love this site. I saw it pop up somewhere a few months ago and bought the big poster for my room. Looks fantastic.
Yes, especially if you invest in my startup. The low cost of living is compelling coupled with possibilities of a remote team.
The only state taxes are property taxes -- so as long as you don't buy a house you're good.
I like to fantasize about alien life playing the gold record and hearing Chuck Berry's classic, Johnny B. Goode. That guitar riff is so great.
This is incredibly depressing. Nobody should ever have to die that young. May he rest in peace.
They have access to the games we played but that doesn’t mean they actually will. Many of these have “not aged well” and it’s really hard for the newer generation to look past the graphics, sound and gameplay and have fun with them compared to what you can play today.
> Don't do your medical consultations over insecure channels.

It's not any more insecure as the last dentist office I went to (and no longer go to). They had the username and password for the system written on a sticky note next to the computer. Let's just say I'm more concerned about doctors who have real offices leaking my data than some guy on skype.

The sad part after working in IT for a couple of years - I would not be surprised at all if I could audit some medical offices and find the credentials-on-sticky-note or computers-never-locked security issues.
Perhaps post this as a poll?
http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
possibly interesting in the posted company details:

Status

Active - Dissolution Pending (Non-compliance)
Cool, reminds me of EGATrek an old dos space sim based on the Star Trek text game. Was really into it as a kid. Thanks for this and the nostalgia.
Why is that absurd? If your skill/focus is X and nobody needs X, that doesn't entitle you to a job anyways. If somebody is a nuclear engineer flipping burgers, I think the real question is why haven't they refocused themselves to work on something which is more in-demand and likewise would take advantage of their obvious aptitude for mentally challenging subjects.
Every piece of software you use is on a constant month-to-month patch train. Chrome, Windows, Firefox, Quicktime, Adium, hell even OpenSSL updates for security-critical bugs about once a month now. Flash is nothing special. All your software is insecure.
http://www.sofi.com has an office in Helena and is hiring. There are state positions, and with access to high-speed Internet, remote jobs.
It was pretty frustrating to see the allusion to the German army of the second world war.

There was, if my understanding is correct, a large difference between the rank-and-file and officer corps of the Germany army, and the more political SS/SD personnel. Indeed, the former tended to have older aristocratic connections and didn't particularly care for the party.

Had the author made that distinction it would've been helpful, or had they perhaps instead used some of the Japanese or Soviet forces as an example it would've been better.
"Games back then were much harder and more unforgiving"? Man, most modern blockbuster games require marksmanship skills way beyond what '80s games ever demanded. Open world, nonlinear plots... You just can't compare recent stuff with side-scrolling shoot-em-ups or roguelikes.

Some games might have felt unforgiving because technological limitations (no saves) or commercial considerations (coin-op first, home later) forced players to repeat procedures over and over again. This is not something to celebrate. I hope my kids will never have to spend the same amount of time and money I wasted on the first 8 levels of WonderBoy II.
“Such an ambitious undertaking”? Not to dismiss the author’s effort at all, but that seems a bit exaggerated.
wow, seriously, what a dramatization of problems. Most spinal issues occur due to lack of exercise, it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, that more exercise would lead to a reduction in spinal problems.

And telling the doctor to learn to show respect when he says you have bad genes? How is that offensive?! hilarious.
This is evidence that:

Investors and VCs are not smart/do not have enough information/experience to make smart decisions generally

The only way to escape working for non-smart people (bosses, VCs) is to bootstrap
They still are, honestly. 'Good ole boy' healthcare companies abound. So, lots of cruft to view if you are looking for a gig. However, there are some excellent software shops in town doing things 'the better way'.

I hated the cruft enough to build my own private company.
A local (Springfield, MA area) entrepreneur started this non-profit http://thetechfoundry.org when he couldn't find enough people to hire (more sysadmin/IT Pro then dev, but still interesting)
> Haskell's perceived as an impractical language because it is one †.

Theoretically maybe ;)

The real world disagrees with you however:

https://www.fpcomplete.com/business/haskell-industry/

https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry

> At the line-by-line level, purely functional code also takes more effort to edit, once written, than imperative code.

How? You can locally reason about purely functional code which makes it much easier to edit then it's imperative counterpart which likely depends on global mutable state.

> Lazy evaluation is a big risk, if you aren't writing programs that start and finish.

Have you written much lazy evaluated code? Have you written much Haskell code?

> and there's a big spooky bit of danger that comes with it.

Can you elaborate on this? It sounds like "Haskell is bad because reasons that are spooky".
Would you mind writing this blog post? I think some examples would be valuable to many people.
if you make too many bets you'll dilute your edge. if you make too few bets then you are exposed to too much idiosyncratic risk. so people have to find the right balance
> See how we can both be pompous dicks?

Please don't do this in HN comments. It's true that upping the ante is common on internet forums, but as you probably know from lurking here, we try not to be that way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Assuming these seats don't recline, this looks like it would make laptop use quite a bit more practical. No more bumping shoulders or armrest hockey? Yes, please.
"Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep

Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap;"
People should really stay away from using acronyms that are not known by the general public. By using the acronym UBI you assume 90% of the HN crowd understands what you're talking about?
I google'd "ubi" and I got "Ubi -The Voice Of The Internet", "Ubi Interactive", "Ubi - The Ubiquitous Computer - Voice-Activated & Always On" and "United Bicycle Institute".
So I have really no idea of what you support.
According to their website, there's no helmet needed[0] in 45 states as of now.

[0] http://www.eliomotors.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/helmetl...
the thing i dont like about this is the misleading way they put a picture of the earth on the car and say 'environmentally friendly!' - its not obviously, it still uses fossil fuels. shouldnt we have already got past those by now, seeing as we are all going to die if we dont ? :) yeah you can vote it down oil loving motherfucker, but you still going to die if we dont get rid of this oil shit.
Sakurai is left, Miyamoto is middle.
"German soldiers" is probably a better description than "Nazi soldiers", because they were serving the state, not the political party.
It's a party like 1999. We were planning on doing an AMA at some point. Any specific burning questions?
> Man, most modern blockbuster games require marksmanship skills way beyond what '80s games ever demanded.

Like, which ones? Triple-A FPS games that actually have players that require marksmanship? I don't know of any.
Techraptor is a known Gamergate-friendly site, so you're not going to get any balanced articles out of them: https://medium.com/@zoequinnzel/lets-talk-about-ethics-in-ga...
I like working at startups for a variety of reasons.

To pull a number out of my hat, let's say that one in twenty random tech startups would be a good fit for me (based on tech used, experience needed, culture, mission, pay, etc).

Say I find a great startup in Helena (where Helena is a stand-in for the many US cities trying to foster a tech scene). It's one of, say, 15 up-and-coming tech startups in the area. I move to Helena and work there.

What happens when that startup goes under (which is more than likely for any early-stage startup anywhere)? What happens when it doesn't go under, but I no longer want to work there for whatever reason, since companies necessarily change significantly as they grow? There are 14 other companies in my target size, and odds are none of them are a good fit. But I've moved here, settled in, made friends, etc, and now I have to deal with either the high social and financial cost of moving, or settle for companies I'm a worse fit for.

That's the main reason I live in SF and not any of the other cities trying to be the next SF. If my startup goes under, I can pick up a similar job at another in a few weeks without having to change apartments.
I built this bot during the winter of 2013/14. Back then I remember being able to find open source bots only for cross-exchange arbitrage. What I needed was something simple and purely for speculation (plus for Bitstamp). Nowadays the bot scene might be very different, and also BTC price is much more stable.
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