skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be stretching it, I think. If you read the context of the sentence "because I couldn't find the food I liked" you'll find it's not about desperation but about fame. The hunger artist says he has finally learned that he should not receive admiration for what he does as his artistry is simply a consequence of his never having run into food he wanted to eat. His fasting is not a skill but a circumstance.

This interpretation is consistent with the rest of the story, which mostly talks about fame (well, and the artist's loneliness amidst all the admiration, of course). Nowhere in this story does Kafka mention "quiet desperation" or "ratcheting down [....] expectations." An interpretation that tries to read that into this story is therefore, I think, invalid, as there is nothing in the text to support it.
I hardly ever use external libraries so luckily don't have that problem, but I don't think it's a widespread issue :/ If you really want access to a private I'm sure you could work out a way.

>> "It can call any code any time it likes, but it shouldn't"

Sure but it's nice to have a lock on the door that says "I can say with 100% certainty that this code will not be called from anywhere else". That's a pretty useful feature to have.
I'm pretty libertarian, but...all economic systems are at their core ethical statements about how limited resources should be distributed. free markets don't escpae from this.
But you agree that you are compromising flexibility to make Java less painful.
They are paying for national defense and the social spending that allows the state to exist in a stable fashion. The wealth of a society can only exist with the aid of rule of law and relatively social stability. Someone has to pay for that stability. Why not tax people based on how much they benefit from it?
idk. I could rant about how perl is error prone due to ease of typos and reliance on special characters, but I don't think it'd be news to anyone.
Google (and Lauren) Meet NSA
hiwai
No, I disagree. If I need to add a getter/setter so that it does something other than just access a field, I'll add that code at the point I need it.

It's not efficient to always use setters/getters, even if the language provides them.

The only sorts of things I find painful in Java is writing a class to do Comparator etc, but the number of times you need to do that can be counted on one hand.

Some people who write Java astonish me with their churning out of toString, equals, hashcode, getters, setters. Checkout a few open source projects and you'll see a whole set of files defining interfaces, then a whole mirror set of source files defining the implementation of that. Which is just ridiculous when there is only 1 implementation of everything. Makes the mind boggle, but often it's an IDE churning out autogenerated code (Does that still count as Java? ;) )
The legal definition of rape hangs on the detail of lack of consent, not on how violent it was. It's kind of a myth that rape is "extreme sexual violence". In the majority of cases, it isn't all that physically violent, but it is still a violation of the person due to lack of consent. In that sense, "rape" makes a good metaphor for what Buzz did here.
I just assumed that he lives in Manhattan :-)
Nice for you, but not nice for anyone else.
Actually, no. What are they getting in return for that?

Actually, yes, I think it is reasonable. The top 1% earners typically are CEOs of large corporations, celebrities, or professional athletes. In any event, their brands put more strain on the overall infrastructure than a little janitor who is in the bottom one percent of income earners.

The CEO of Wal-Mart has, at any given time, thousands of delivery trucks on the roads, trucks that contribute to traffic congestion, increase the risk of accidents, cause potholes, and spit out harmful emissions into the atmosphere. The negative externalities born by society can be assigned a cost, and (even though it's by far from a perfect system), it does make sense for those who use/abuse the system for personal profit to be taxed more.
As I said, it's a debatable point; my argument is with those who accept redistribution without question.

Although you're still not entirely arguing the point. Beyond a certain amount, how much does a rich person benefit from a stable state vs. their own efforts?

To recast it, in an unstable state the rich have vastly more options than the less well off. I'd argue that the less well off benefit the most from the rule of law and social stability.
Done. You can get it at http://www.hercules-390.org/lmg-test.zip .
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The problem is that explaining something by invoking a "god" is not an explanation at all. There is no piece of evidence which points to a god and excludes other hypotheses.
You make some good points. I won't repeat, or argue, as I agree with most of what you said. My main contention is that there was a lot of reactionaries proclaiming things that simply weren't true and were making grand assumptions. It made for an environment that was difficult to question. At some point, I was told that readers of Hacker News essentially could not be wrong, and that I was wrong for asking questions or disagreeing.

Thank you for providing more information. =)
Huh? Isn't the iPad running iPhone OS? I've got a Nexus 1 and I've used my friends iPhone a few times. They seem pretty damn similar. Certainly more similar to each other than either are to Windows or OSX.
I'm sorry, but your concrete argument doesn't work unless you're suggesting that the CEO of Wal-Mart gains the entire benefit of its actions, with none benefiting its shareholders, customers, or low rank employees.

To take your even more specific example of delivery trucks, someone has got to deliver the food that everyone eats. You can't arbitrarily assign the total resultant negative externalities to whichever companies own and operate them.
How simple must you make your design?
Android does not come with a file browser, although there are third party file browsers available in the Android Market. By default, all access to files on the SD card are through the individual that manage those types of files. For example, there's a built in service that index's all media files (mp3s, AAC's, etc) and presents them, with metadata, to any app that wants them. Same goes for pictures.
Would anyone familiar with ASP.NET MVC & ROR care to tell me how portable this would be to ASP.NET MVC?
"ease of typos"? Give me some concrete examples.
So basically, all Java is bad except yours, and I can't see yours.
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1120598
Exactly, it seems very likely that he could be acquitted in higher court on the basis that the comics serve 'serious artistic value,' but again, it is easy to see that a 40 year old man will not risk 15 years in prison when he can be out in one, guaranteed.
You can donate lower-priced titles to your local library.
Two corporations dominate US beer market
The Fear is Paralyzing (Translated)
(translated from http://blog.shemesh.biz/?p=743 , with permission)

A few days ago a customer who needed GPL-related advising. Of course I'm not going to mention the name of the customer, the type of product or the details of the issue, but, in general terms, I can explain what their situation is.

The company (let's call it "Yehuda Moving Ltd." or "Yehuda" for short), sells a hardware product. The product, like every product these days, has firmware that's stored on internal flash memory. It connects to the computer via USB and is operated by a driver Yehuda wrote for Windows. Someone reverse engineered the driver and wrote a driver for the Linux kernel for the hardware. As far as I can understand, this driver is part of the vanilla kernel.

Yehuda decided to write fixes for the free driver (bugfixes, things that weren't understood right during the reverse engineering process, etc.) so that the Linux driver will be better. This is where their problem is. The company is completely willing to release the fixes they made to the driver under the GPL (in fact, they prefer that), but they don't want the license to apply to their firmware.

From a legal and practical standpoint, it's clear that what the company wants to do is so deep in the real of the allowed that the question is almost nonexistent. Because the firmware wasn't written to communicate with Linux but with Windows, and becasue the Linux driver wasn't even written by them, it's pretty clear that nobody has a reason to complain to them. Moreover, because everything they are doing there is basically to improve a GPL program, nobody with an interest will complain to them.

Still, it's interesting to see how the perception about the width of the net that the GPL casts is preventing companies from releasing things. It seems we need, either actively or by letting information propogate, to show these companiess that we won't hurt them just because they decide to be part of the community.

A point for thought,

Sachar.
What analysis?
Implementing Ripple using OpenTransact
I will happily compare it favorably vs the iPad for two simple reasons. 1. Better screen for what I'll be using it for and 2. more open and thus easier to make it work the way I want a tablet to work.

Will it outsell the iPad? No. To want this device more than an iPad? Very much so.
3. Michael T. Duke, President, CEO, and Director, Wal-Mart
$12,238,209 total compensation

6. Eduardo Castro-Wright, Vice Chairman; President and CEO, Wal-Mart Stores U.S. Division $9,987,493 total compensation

8. Thomas M. Schoewe, EVP and CFO, Wal-Mart
$9,477,584 total compensation

16. C. Douglas McMillon, EVP; President and CEO, Wal-Mart International Division
$8,191,857 total compensation

Four out of the 20 "Highest Paid Retail Executives" are Wal-Mart executives.

Source: http://www.risnews.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=...
I wonder if this got submitted now because of my submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1124086 on "The Possessions Exercise:" http://jseliger.com/2010/02/13/the-possessions-exercise-acco... .

(For those of you who don't want to click the second link, here's the money shot:

List the ten most expensive things (products, services, or experiences) that you have ever paid for (including houses, cars, university degrees, marriage ceremonies, divorce settlements, and taxes). Then, list the ten items that you have ever bought that gave you the most happiness. Count how many items appear on both lists. )
And your point is?
Speak for yourself.
And yet half of this thread is people whining because 'use Moose' isn't part of their default usage of perl.
Or maybe they'd just take the plea agreement, because they actually do have a few comic books on their bookshelf.
Dunno about you, but I'm just as interested in Hacker Olds as Hacker News :) For me, marking dates in the titles doesn't really add to the discussion.
Can we prevent crime using technology?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impermanence
You can join the 100 things challenge:
http://www.guynameddave.com/100-thing-challenge.html

One problem I've found with it is that people buy me worthless gifts (gifts I don't derive value from because I don't use them).

I've created an online list of things I want at kaboodle.com, or more exactly, a list of things I wouldn't mind possessing, but my family refuses buying anything on the list because that's "spoiling the surprise". I would prefer they stop giving me gifts altogether, but they won't no matter what.

My favorite quote from PG's article:

What I didn't understand was that the value of some new acquisition wasn't the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it. It was the value I derived from it.
Shouldn't that be "2 corporations control the beer that 300 million Americans choose"?
I don't see your point tbh. Emission is dealt with by using congestion taxes. Accidents risk by insurance and we can expect it to be ~ to the number of cars. Not sure how the car owner -> pothole connection is solved in US, but some other countries add the "road tax" to fuel prices.

Those are all (cause -> problem -> money for solution) dependencies. I don't see why you want to get money from a company owner to solve any of them....
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It sounds to me like you might be taking the wrong lesson away from this. Try finding the five things most precious to you and throwing away everything else.

Being affected by the loss of a spoon shouldn't make you want to never love a spoon again (that way lies crappy romantic comedies). The idea here is to concentrate our attachment to objects, not eliminate it.
You assume the rich of a stable state to be the same people who are rich in an unstable state. That's unlikely.

Example: In an unstable sociaty, many less well off people are likely to spend more of their income for guns and other means for protection. Therefore, they spend less for other goods, such as software. Consequently, people being rich due to selling software own quite a bit of their wealth to social stabiliy.
Sorry if this is off topic, but: the speed that Google changed Buzz is the reason why I love the web as a deployment platform. Except for local software development tools, Latex, and video editing software, I want everything I do to be web based.
> The CEO of Wal-Mart has, at any given time, thousands of delivery trucks on the roads, trucks that contribute to traffic congestion, increase the risk of accidents, cause potholes, and spit out harmful emissions into the atmosphere.

Doesn't the USA have corporate tax? Shouldn't corporate tax (and things such as fuel levies and business levies) pay for the cost of roads?
Google-T-Mobile speculation spreads over Web
"hiwai" works, but the "waisetsu" is used more in the legal context.
Japan did a trial regarding a publisher few years back, called "Matsubunkan trial".
Some details in the middle of page:
http://comipress.com/article/2007/07/17/2307
Beyond a certain point the rich rely on their employees and workers to be healthy, educated, easily available (ie. have access to public and private transportation) and reliable. It may be true that the rich have greater options in poorer nations, but the rich in poor nations are substantially less wealthy than those of richer nations with more progressive taxation rates.

Let's not even mention the fact that wealthier people can access a range of benefits that facilitates their acquisition of wealth even more, such as paying good salaries to accountants and qualified staff, or that they in fact have much greater influence on the system than the poor through the actions of lobbies and networking.

Let's now talk about the fact that for a poor person a significant percentage of income is for subsistence; a minimum-wage or low-income person will devote most of his/her income to rent and food, with little to spare by months's end, and with fewer opportunities and savings to recover from an economic or health crisis. A wealthy person has his basic needs covered, and can afford to spend his money to make more and can take greater risks which give him/her access to overall greater returns on investment.

So no, it doesn't seem debatable to me at all. Redistribution is necessary if you want upwards social mobility in society.
Or find an awesome partner who shares the belief that Hallmark holidays are on the very bottom of the list of important days to celebrate.

We do special things from each other when we feel like it.
We aren't really trying to get YCNews embroiled in environmental politics are we?

Come now. I'd rather read about A/B testing on Erlang.
No. Your finger is fat and lacks buttons.
Big Blog Theory
Box of chocolates is a bad advice, unless you want to it them yourself ("why did you buy it? you know I'm on a diet...")
I have thousands of books and would love to get rid of them. I would need a future-proof platform that allows annotations, and that lets me migrate between devices (so I can keep my books for at least my lifetime). I guess I would also need a convenient book scanner, for those books that are no longer in print.
One's own efforts are a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for creating wealth. In an unstable state people who are already rich benefit; people who might become rich are likely to have a different experience.

So yes, I suppose that paying taxes doesn't really benefit people who inherited a fortune. Governmental systems designed to benefit inherited wealth do have a long tradition, but aren't as fashionable today.
The majority of taxes don't actually go to anything a top 1% of income earners need. Take a look at the budget, the majority of the spending is SS, Medicare & Medicaid.
Microsoft can innovate, and dare I say better than Google?

Most of these things were brought on-line later than their Google equivalents.

I hope that this kind of innovative process keeps bleeding throughout Microsoft.

what's really interesting is seeing Blaise at a major product Architect level rather than being stuck in R&D
For the purposes of the CBO report, corporate taxes are counted towards the total tax burden on households, proportionate to their capital holdings, based on interest, dividend, capital gains and rent income.
This is a good technique for libraries. Decoupling interface and implementation makes flexibility the default. If components only speak an interface to each other, it is easy to substitute them in the future.

The problem with Java is that the interfaces are usually useless. Imagine you have a build backend talking to a stoplight (red/green widget). The logical interface is for the builder to emit success or failure, and for the stoplight to internally change that to red or green. But of course, many people decide that the build backend should emit red or green, and that the stoplight widget should display that color. So while the build backend isn't coupled to an implementation in theory ("it just uses the RedOrGreenShowable interface!"), it actually is.

Programmers....
> Let's now talk about the fact that for a poor person a significant percentage of income is for subsistence; a minimum-wage or low-income person will devote most of his/her income to rent and food, with little to spare by months's end, and with fewer opportunities and savings to recover from an economic or health crisis.

The other side of that coin is that the wealthy consume less of a percentage of their income and invest a greater percentage. Redistribution takes money from people who use that money to invest in startups, buy land, build buildings, renovate old buildings, invest in new technologies, sponsor artists and give it to people whose additional spending will be personal/family consumption - some on things like education and medicine, but also a larger apartment, more entertainment, and consumer goods. Poor people invest very little, the vast majority of investment, new technologies, new industries, new innovation that are invested in is by wealthy people.

> So no, it doesn't seem debatable to me at all.

This kind of thinking is no good. You honestly don't see that there's very real theoretical and real world downsides to involuntary redistribution? None? Not enough that it's worth debating?
To take your even more specific example of delivery trucks, someone has got to deliver the food that everyone eats. You can't arbitrarily assign the total resultant negative externalities to whichever companies own and operate them.

Why not? There's a big difference between retail and food, especially in the US. Food can be grown and delivered locally, and agriculture can be optimized for certain climates. Retail products, however, almost always require far more distance had between the producer and the consumer.

Roads are a great example, because even after that cargo hold of plastic GI Joes "Made in China" lands on the coast, Wal-Mart trucks still have to drive hundreds or thousands of miles get the product delivered to its target consumers in rural "agriculture" lands on the interior of the US.

Wal-Mart is the extreme example, but if I remember from my MBA classes, it's fairly simple to point out where the company has exploited almost everything it could legally exploit. It undercuts competitors in almost every one of its new locations; predatory pricing puts mom-and-pop shops out of business. How is this a good thing?
Am I the only one tired of mathematical tests? I'd rather see a test comparing the relative speed and scalability of various web app implementations.

And don't give me that line about scaling not mattering, I have to cope with a cantankerous server and database at work, I know full well what my problem sets are.
http://www.newbelgium.com/

http://www.fortcollinsbrewery.com/

http://odellbrewing.com/

3 Counter examples.... in my one town....

I suppose you can argue that Coors & Bud have close to a monopoly on the light beer category, but that's very different than having a OMG CORPORATE MONOPOLY on beer.
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/technology/0911/gallery....
Wouldn't it make sense to let Wordpress host your blog? Lately there seems to be one too many security updates for Wordpress. Why let the customer distract themselves with Wordpress upgrades etc. Was the cost-benefit of this looked into during this removal?
Iron City. :)
Interesting, but rather silly, since a lot of it flows right through to the prices of their products.
Exactly. No one is forcing you to drink their beer since last time I looked there was a multitude of microbrews available. If those two companies started exhibiting monopolistic practices then something should be done. But why is their success a bad thing?
when have "taxes" become a dirty word. Hell we had 90% taxes in the 50s and supposedly that was the most glorious time in United States history.

In fact if you compare the tax rate for the top earners with the overall American economy, you can see that the lower the taxes for the top brackets, the crappier the economy tends to be. And sure correlation does not mean causation but still.

Honestly I don't think most people would mind getting taxed at a higher rate, as long as the money actually went somewhere positive. To lower the national debt, to fix this country's infrastructure, to do the whole single payer health care(not the abortion that they are currently trying to implement). The shittier the economy, the more necessary it is to have a social net that'll help people get back on their feet.

I mean, seriously, the country is 11 trillion in debt, and because of this taxes = political suicide meme, that number just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

And I'm not proposing raising taxes on everyone...but if you make more than 1 million a year, anything above that can be taxed at 60-70%(with the exception of funding startups...which gets you a tax write off)

Edit: if you are going to downvote, at least have the balls to make a reply.
Not to mention that it establishes a precedent. Your library, your viewing habits, your browser history are all potentially criminal now. Can you declare with certainty that you possess nothing incriminating?

What if the definition of obscene materials were expanded to include depictions of abortion or of darwinism...?
There has been a surge in the microbrew community, which is a good good thing. Looking at the beer section of even my local "big chain" supermarket (Kroger), more than half the beers they stock are not from InBev or SAB. Hardly a monopoly at all.

There's also been a growth in the home brew community. Here in Atlanta, we have stores like Hop City with sections devoted to supplies and equipment for making your own beer (along with a great beer selection). I was up in New Hampshire visiting my parents and hit upon a little shop called Jasper's Home Brew, which is 2/3rds supplies and equipment, and 1/3rd local and regional microbrews. No big name stuff in the store at all.

I think we're doing OK.