skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Link: https://intelligence.org/rationality-ai-zombies/. The ebook collection has a suggested price of $5.00, and a minimum price of $0.00.
The reason I accused you of hating Japan is you seem to idealize American business while focusing on Japan's weak points.

From what I've seen and experienced 60+ hour weeks and not knowing your family are common if you're trying to climb the corporate ladder in America. Forced overtime and working yourself into a heart-attack happen here, too. And here the company has no loyalty to you beyond what's forced by the threat of lawsuit.

No offense but maybe RTFA? A lot of it's about how through NUMMI GM learned from Toyota how to treat its employees better. Ctrl-f for I saw a guy fall in the pit, and they didn't stop the line. So much of the article is about how the Japanese auto workers received more respect and how that translated into better cars.

If you want to be an activist why focus on the metrics you're focusing on? In Japan 72% of suicides are men, in America it's 78%. You mention maternity harassment but the alarming gender disparity in suicide is left out, and it's worse in America.

Japan's judicial system may be flawed, but we have 12 times their incarceration rate. In America about 1 in 100 men is in prison, in Japan it's less than 1 in 1000.

We can cherry-pick numbers all day, but I think it's safe to say Japan's engineering excellence is not simply a product of worker exploitation. They're doing some things better than us and we should learn from them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra...
Did Wikipedia upload all the entries of Encyclopedia Britannica? I wasn't aware.
Would a "cannot use for commercial purposes" clause have nipped this one in the bud? I'm still on the fence with this one. I think Craigslist could have played it a lot better but I find it hard to believe no-one here can empathise with the founder.
Damning if true. I hope the NYTimes responds this time around.

I bet if the NYTimes issues a retraction the mayor issued license requirement won't be lifted.
General intelligence, to me, is defined as the ability to create a greater intelligence.

Define "greater". And since your definition is recursive, define your base case.

I'll suggest that "intelligence" is about how much information you can extract from a given set of data. And since information theory says any given set of data only has a limited amount of information in it, this would imply that "intelligence" is not potentially unbounded but is on a scale of 0%-100%.
How often do police kill people who are obviously armed? Many of the police killings I've heard of were perpetrated on unarmed people. It seems disingenuous to dismiss concerns about police violence because the civilian could have been a gun owner. What matters is whether the killing could have been avoided if the police had reacted differently.
These have been good folks to my students in the past (however it's been awhile): http://seattlelanguages.com/private.php

call them up. talk to them (perhaps in your native language). see if you like what they say. however i've no idea what anyone might accomplish in just two weeks. furthermore, if the text of your question is a sample of your own english abilities, i'd say you might be wasting your concern relative to the average english capabilities in the technical world in general.
This is a ridiculously simple yet funny game. I got 30 points.
Often not reporting on a problem would be exactly the right thing to do.

This is a discussion we as a society are not having, and I believe we should. We had free mass media for long enough already to know that the general population can - and far too often does - go batshit insane thanks to news stories[0]. It's not enough that the reporting itself screws availability heuristic badly, the standard practice of journalism now consists of twisting the story (sometimes even outright lying) to maximize readers' outrage.

And no, one can't say it's the responsibility of the reader to not be fooled; news-induced dysrationalia is systemic, it is predictable.

Reminds me of a thing I read today, a reply on Quora about child soldiers posted by an ex-Marine[1]. Apparently, the primary military value of children is pissing off westerners. Military groups using them let journalists photograph kids with guns, maybe even some dead ones (doesn't really matter who killed them), and wait for the outraged civilians to push against their own countries' war efforts.

[0] - why are we having this "War on Terror" again?

[1] - http://www.quora.com/Why-do-Western-militaries-not-want-to-k...
For tipped workers I thought minimum wage (at the time of the article) ranged from $4.90 to $5.65 in New York. The original Times author (if i remember right) claimed rampant tip-withholding, but you are claiming the ad itself demonstrates wage theft, and it doesn't mention tip withholding.

The author points out the part about illegals, and claimed that at key parts where it talked about workers as a whole, it drew from a sample of only unlicensed workers, which likely includes a larger proportion of illegals. He said the Times should have tried to estimate the size of this pool amongst the total work force.
I really appreciate everything you've said, and I think you've deconstructed it much better than I did.

The first point about asking advice on the matter was meant to be a rhetorical question. I had the same abhorrent reaction you did to the advice of underpaying, hiring with the plan to dismiss someone, devaluing them as a co-founder, etc. I want to make that clear that I would never run a company that way, or work with people who did.

When you look at a play like that on paper, the numbers look good. But what are you forgetting? You're forgetting that you're building a BUSINESS, and businesses are built around people and relationships.

What I was wondering was whether or not founders really did see that sort of unscrupulous play as an option in their business. Do people actively operate that way? When presented with those facts in such an emotionless narrative, would people buy in? Has humanity sunk so far in the desire to achieve wealth, that we're willing to sacrifice the well being of others? To ignore hardworking people who are helping us build our dream?

I've heard so many stories of engineers getting screwed, and I wondered if people truly operate that way?
SET v6.5 – The Social-Engineer Toolkit “Mr Robot”
Everytime I've ever just yelled "BLOCKCHAIN" as a suggested solution has been exactly half sarcastic. It's comical how often that comes up (in startup circles especially) but also so often has a somewhat plausible application.
I'm a lousy swimmer, but when I was an active duty Marine I had to swim qual every year.

One year during swim qual I was doing the last bit, basically get from point A to point B in helmet, camies, and boots. Since it didn't matter how we got from point A to point B, I always did a sad approximation of a backstroke.

This particular year, as I was approaching point B, a safety swimmer started yelling at me to hurry. As I crossed point B, I felt his arms go under my armpits and he rapidly pulled me toward the side of the pool, where he and a corpsman (e.g. Navy nurse) pulled me up on the side of the pool, such that I was sitting with my feet in the pool. At which point the corpsman started giving me the Heimlich maneuver, and a rather significant amount of water started coming out of me.

I had been struggling slightly more than normal, and to a point, I knew I was gradually sinking, but I was so focused on finishing that I genuinely didn't even realize I was taking in water. It was only as I was on the side of the pool and watched as water came out, with each of the corpsman's compressions that I realized what had happened. Thankfully the safety swimmer and corpsman realized!
> Rhoads defended the procedure, calling the officers’ actions “on point.” It’s not standard to conduct investigations beforehand because that delays the apprehension of suspects, he told me.

> I noted that the officers could have sought information from the apartment complex’s security guard that would have resolved the matter without violence. But he played down the importance of such information: “It doesn’t matter whatsoever what was said or not said at the security booth.”

It sounds far, far worse than:

> I, for one, get tired of the constant refrain of hero worship while these guys say that there number one job is to get home safely.

It honestly sounds like they are so self-centered that they only care about their arrest stats/job performance + personal safety. They care nothing for anyone else's safety if it gets in the way of their job performance numbers. That is a horrific concept, honestly.
Probably a Black-chinned Hummingbird, though several less numerous species may show up in the area as well.

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black-chinned_Hummingbird...

> When newly built, the nest is a compact, deep cup constructed of plant down, spider silk and cocoon fibers. As the nestlings grow, the nest stretches into a wider, shallower cup. Nests from cooler areas are thicker-walled than nests from warmer areas.

> Most Black-chinned Hummingbird nests have been found an average of 6 feet and at most 12 feet above the ground, but this may be because nests at this height are easier for observers to find. The nest is often on an exposed small horizontal dead branch well below the canopy.
it's used by Rex: http://www.theplatform.net/2015/07/22/supercomputer-chip-sta...
Steam password reset vulnerability
I agree. I had this advice from more than one person, which was literally shocking to me.

The ratio of people offering me this advice was on a 3/10 scale, but it really made me wonder? Do we need to be horrible people to succeed? I don't agree with that.
As design patterns go, optimizing your code library so that it makes a more visually appealing virtual city seems like a bad one.
The real WTF: a hummingbird has a better internet connection to its house than I have.
the same statute that led to the demise of Aaron Swartz

For fuck's sake.

CFAA criminal sentencing guidelines may very well have contributed to Swartz's suicide. They incentivized prosecutors to create complex, showy indictments cross-linking multiple felony charges (because exploiting unauthorized access in furtherance of other felonies is an accelerator in the CFAA). CFAA may be broken in several ways.

But CFAA is also the sole federal statute governing unauthorized access. In civil litigation, CFAA is the only statute that provides a civil cause of action relating to unauthorized access to computers of any sort.

People like to write about civil CFAA as if it was some sort of nuclear option. But civil and criminal cases are worlds apart. If you're going to sue someone for misusing your computer systems, or even just violating your terms of use, CFAA is merely the statute that enables that. That has nothing whatsoever to do with overzealous prosecution.

Invoking Aaron Swartz in an argument over who's allowed to show apartment ads where is manipulative and grotesque.
Ask people from central Florida how well things went for those with no cash when the last Hurricane came through and wiped out all electricity for a few weeks.
Tips may count as part of pay, but they can't lower net hourly wages below minimum wages when including tips. As the quoted rates are minimum after tips the salon that's already factored into the calculation to reach 70$/Day.

PS: If you actually look at the picture you see two customers receiving work (back rub and nails) from multiple workers at the same time. Which means tips are going to be shared and likely to make up some of that 70$ minimum. Sure on a good day tip shares likely bump things past 70$ but per day each worker must always end up over 7.25 including tips.
Are you talking about software that provides relevant information for any human making a general decision? Or are you describing another kind of software?
> The cop stops her for a trivial traffic violation (I often forget my turns signals too and I see a lot of people doing that too).

It's worse than that. The cop tailgates her, waiting for an excuse to pull her over. His excuse is that she fails to signal while switching lanes (to create some distance between them.) He was going to pull her over no matter what.

This may have been a trivial situation for the cop, but for black people travelling out of state, it's a nightmare.
I wonder about the viability of a 501(c)(6) trade association providing data storage service to dues-paying member companies.
I'm trying to get the Amulet1 (Async/unclocked ARM from Manchester, back in the day) working as a test project. This, of course, requires Muller C-gate stuff. I'm having a bit of trouble getting it all to work out.

Have you seen any obvious techniques/methods for unclocked circuits that I am probably looking right past?
The NY Times seems to have a serious ongoing credibility problem. Just a couple of days ago they seriously mis-reported the investigation into the Clinton emails[1], and a couple of weeks ago they all but admitted that their Ellen Pao coverage was ideologically biased[2]. And that's just in the past couple of weeks!

[1] http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-new-york-times-email...

[2] http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/sunday-review/did-reddi...
Do you have a citation for that? Not that I dispute it, but I don't know it to be true either.
Thanks for pointing out the typos, I'm surprised I missed them.

Also, I did attach my personal name to this because I'm looking to talk about controversial subjects and not hide from them. I'm disappointed you felt the need to personally attack me, but that's your prerogative.
The ad specifically calls it base pay and says "plus tips and comissions".

QUEENS AREA NAILS
Seeking several large and small work experienced hands.
Base pay $120 plus tips and commissions.
Small work $70, plus tips and commissions.
Seeking part-time small and large work on weekends.
15 minutes two-way transport Flushing to Elmhurst provided.

Responding to your edit: $70/8hr is already $8.75/hr, you did the math wrong.
Is this using some kernel feature or similar? I'm curious why this claims repeatedly that it only works on GNU/Linux: does it have dependencies both to the Linux kernel and GNU userspace tools that can't be replicated on BSDs or other userspaces?

I'm also interested in why this requires root access, though that answer may be related to the first.
requests is by far one of the cleanest and intuitive libraries
This really bothers me, too. Common Good, started by Philip K. Howard, is one of the few organizations focused on the fact we're "drowning in law":

http://www.commongood.org/pages/the-problem

I'm a supporter.
Looking at this, it says a windows port might be possible, so presumably a BSD/OSX port would be even easier.
Most freelance websites have agencies behind the freelancer accounts that do the work for dirt-cheap but not always perfect, the site then may be needed to be cleaned up or not how you wanted it due to a language barrier. However, if you're technically inclined, it's always a good 80/20 rule route.
I don't think I made it very clear that these are not my opinions, but simply advice that I got from other founders that I found shocking, and wanted to discuss.

I've amended the article with what I hope is a clearer representation of my opinion. I found it shocking that some founders operated on this level. It never occurred to me that people actively do something like that.
> make a really enthusiastic effort to put you in jail

The point is that in the USA even for minor things people expect to be shot at more than anything else. If you're going to take a risk and do something really gainful, you take it for guaranteed that the cops will shoot at you and make a point to shoot first.

Read up on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown
The actual lawsuit docket is here:

http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/k5ulex5l/california-norther...
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them (2014) [video]
The best description of traditional sphygmomanometer for general to understand?
I guess the term sphygmomanometer is not very popular. How many people know the difference between a traditional sphygmomanoter and an automatic blood pressure monitor? I am looking for a popular description that is easy to understand on the difference, especially for those who don't have high blood pressure. So, which of the following options is the best?
1. manual blood pressure cuff
2. blood pressure cuff with a stethoscope
3. blood pressure cuff used by doctors
4. blood pressure cuff measuring with auscultatory method
5. Doctor's manual blood pressure kit
6. Any other recommendation?
THANKS
"One example where the U.S. seems to be getting it right is high-speed chases"

If true, that may be because they are usually video recorded by news channels. If a civilian is injured during the chase, there's lots of dramatic footage for the prosecution lawyer to show the jury, before asking the officers in charge to answer under oath why they made the decisions they made.

Sounds like pretty strong evidence in favor of mandatory police body-worn cameras, along with a right of citizens who are on the receiving end of a police encounter to obtain and review the footage. There's always the worry that the camera would be 'accidentally' turned off by the police, or that the footage would be lost if it showed anything embarrassing to the police, so to make them effective, you probably need a change in the law such that any discrepancy between the officer's version of events and the citizens is AUTOMATICALLY decided by judge/ jury in favor of the citizen if the 'mandatory' video footage is for some reason unavailable.

I don't think automatically ruling in the civilian's favor is a good idea because as we all know, tech breaks sometimes. I'm quite certain the body cameras exceed the standard definition of durable goods but they, like any other complex electronics, are susceptible to shock, moisture, fatigue, etc. and can break. All it takes is a landmark case of cop vs. civilian where the camera legitimately broke but the cop was in the right yet cannot prove it and then their life is ruined if the case is automatically decided in the civilian's favor.
> Are there governments with garbage collection and simplification of laws built into the legislative process?

Sort of, e.g. see:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30334812
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Encyclop...

Yes. The 1911 Britannica was used to populate many wikipedia articles.
32/64 bit float is the native float type on the cpu you are running on.. hence you can't really claim "native" support for larger types.. if you mean native in terms of being able to write a+b for a numeric type, then that eliminates all languages that don't have operator overloading..
Morph.io – search over 3000 scrapers
yesterday, because of the same hn post, I tried AltspaceVR too. but the video player is very pixelated in vr.
Nope, they carry guns.

https://www.google.de/search?q=polizei+deutschland&tbm=isch

People here don't mind because they know german cops are trained to use them responsibly.
Maybe in some spaces at some point in history, but certainly not in today's hyper-competitive startup scene, wherein showing up is the merest of prerequisites.

Showing up means you have plenty of company.
Yeah, but "forms other than money" mostly means healthcare, which has skyrocketed - despite the fact that other developed nations with longer live expectancies have much lower healthcare costs.

More importantly, though, the Fed graph you show is an average (the real hourly compensation one). With growing inequality, using the average hides the fact the improvement for the median worker is much lower.
5 feet may not be enough for you to shoot more than one person even if you have your weapon already drawn. When fighting opponents at close range you'd probably be more successful with your knife - especially if you know how to handle one. It's easier to hit with a knife than with a bullet in close quarters, and as 'harshreality suggests, you can disable your opponents in ways the gun wouldn't let you, by cutting through their nerves.
why they took on CL instead of, say, FB? Or they think it is better to start with an easy/smaller guy and ramp it up to the bigger fish?
Are Kriegsmarine the submarines? Are U-boats submarines? What's a tonnage? Who's "the rest of them", are they the ships that sank? Sorry I'm not great with history or the navy...
This is true. Why the downvotes?
> These companies are basically hogging it because they were able to build the user base

I am all for liberating data and letting startups drink out of the firehose but I have some cognitive dissonance from reading this news.

I know that OLX spends tens of millions of dollars in India and nearby regions to solve the marketplace problem: get a critical mass of buyers and sellers to achieve escape velocity and enjoy growth through network effects[1]. So it's not just that these companies "happened" to build these user bases, they spent money and took early gambles.

This could very well spell the beginning of the end for much of Craigslist's real estate listings (followed by other categories inevitably) unless they have some grand plan to overhaul their UI/UX entirely. Kijiji, OLX, Gumtree are also vulnerable. Maybe even Twitter since it has a habit of shutting down startups built around its feeds.

What should one do if they are at the helm of CL or one of these other companies?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
You're right! Here we see a case of colliding layouts, colliding image primary colours in those layouts, colliding header image orientations and placement, colliding header hero placements and colliding header hero font colours.

The footers and list styles seem to have had a minor fender bender too.

Quite the birthday these two sites have.
Just because you disagree with the article and I disagree with you doesn't mean that I agree with the article on that specific point.

(I think you're right about WordPress being a primarily Web 2.0 platform. My disagreement with you is that I don't think there's anything wrong with being a Web 2.0 platform.)
Java may have been a stretch.. but think about how many web apps have been written.. and consider that a large %age of user time is spent in the browser who's language IS javascript.. Ive removed java from my systems since oracle ganked it. Java is used in lots of business/banking software, true.. but even the tiobe charts u linked show it declining in popularity.. contrasting w js being language of the year 2014. As for the other DYNAMIC languages.. it's no contest.
Greg Kidd, the founder of 3taps, did not have to keep fighting this fight - AT ALL. He is one of the top execs at Ripple Labs, was in the first round of Twitter (and Square), and doesn't have his net OR self worths tied up in 3taps. He continued this because he believes it was right - and I, for one, thank him for it.
Calling the market monetarists ideological enemies of Krugman seems like an exaggeration. He's linked to and cited them favorably a lot (although he has basic disagreements with them.)

> Various ideological enemies of Krugman predicted the housing bubble, and far more clearly than Krugman; Ron Paul, for example, argued against the creation of a housing bubble in 2001.

Any examples that are economists?