skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to be clear that all this only makes sense if we assume that intellectual property is a sham.

> This forgets a basic freedom principle however: ones's freedom must stop at other's.

Ahh, but there is no action which is self-contained. Everything we do will affect others and somehow restrict someone's freedom in some way. For example if I take an apple, you can no longer take that same apple. It only becomes fair when everyone mutually agrees on the terms. Murder is an obvious one we can all agree on, intellectual property is hazier.

So with the BSD you are guaranteed your software stays free, but other's can stay within practical limits while still benefitting from free software. And if enough of this natural, unforced benefitting happens, more people will learn and move to free by choice, not by force.

In case you compare it to slavery: These are two different things, because for unfree software, we all have the right to make our own software. It simply restricts our right to utilize others' creations. But since this is a uniform restriction, it's not unfair. Slavery is not a uniform restriction. It only applies to the group being enslaved and affects the same fundamental thing we're talking about with software: people, but in a different way.
Bad Memory - reasons?
Hello,

Recently (in the last 5-6 months) I noticed that my memory is getting worse and I'm not sure why.

Sometimes it happens that I forget simple daily words in a conversation. I can't remember stuff that I used to remember very good (house&telephone numbers, etc.).

For example I go to the grocery store with the idea to buy bread. When I get home, I realize that I bought 3 other things but forgot the bread. It sounds funny, but this has never happened to me before this often.

Another problem is that I'm sometimes not able to build complete sentences or put my ideas into sentences, I stutter and I need 2-3 tries before getting the sentence right. Although I think that this is due to my less reading in this language (I'm native Swiss, but read almost every day in English [hacker news, books, papers, etc.], so I'm going to up the German reading to test whether this was the problem.

My sleep habits haven't changed (6-8 hours, depending on the day) a lot. I have a stressful daily life (startup work, studying EE, girlfriend) and even there I tend to forget simple tasks and to-do's, which annoys me really bad. I exercise 3-4 times a week (weight training) and eat a balanced diet with a lot of protein (which I supplement also). I do take an omega-3 supplement and drink mostly water and green tea. I haven't used any drugs at all in my life. I was always good in memorizing and remembering faces, etc.

This problem also keeps me from focusing on important tasks. For example when I pack my bag in the morning, I go to the kitchen to get my meal ready. I then enter the kitchen see an apple and think "oh I should take an apple, too." - wash it, bag it and leave the kitchen, without my meal.

I have two possible reasons (I know they are stupid...) for it, but I can't back them scientifically:

1. too much screen time (working, watching movies, surfing)

2. the fillers in my supplements don't do me any good.

Is learning/studying somewhat connected to the short-term memory? Because when I look back, I haven't studied "real material" for a long time (after HS -> military -> EE exams in summer).

I'm not sure but I believe that only my short-term memory is affected so far. Do these brain trainer apps help?

I really appreciate any help and ideas,

Thanks.
I dunno. It's ok I guess. Too much of a trac clone though. Lighthouseapp has been pretty nice to work with I think.
I had never used thesixtyone until the redesign made waves here. That discussion made me finally try the site. Now I use it a lot.

Not sure if that helps answer your question, though.
Indeed, seems like a single cloud.call will not give you any parallelism, you need many calls. So the whole parallelization challenge is left completely up to you. Still, this is a nice approach, and I'd like to see more companies in this space.
Damn. Dunno why it would matter all that much, but I'd like it if they used github for core ruby dev.
More control means more crime. Youth, even more than adults, deal very poorly with being treated like animals.
You make Apple force the issue with public outcry. It seems to be working; did you read the article?
I was a semi-regular user before the redesign, didn't particularly like the new look and have pretty much stopped using the site.
If you want to have a seemingly-psychic look into the future of Britain, read up on the Stanford Prison Experiments and scale them up.
According to the article, they launched this audit and have already pressed the issue to the point that the three factories in question are no longer employing 15 year-olds.

Apple enjoys high margins because of a very effective marketing strategy, excellent product design, and an extremely loyal customer base. It has nothing to do with the fact that their subcontractors were employing a few underage workers.
Inflation has two effects; across the board pay cuts and it reduces the value of dollar denominated assets. Pay cuts hit everyone with an income equally.

The poor/middle class tend to have a larger fraction of their wealth in property. The typical middle class family owns either a home or a call option/mortgage on a home which comprises the bulk of their wealth.

The rich also own property, but it's not as large a fraction of their wealth as it is for the poor. The typical rich person owns both a home and an investment portfolio, the latter of which will suffer with inflation.
Did you work sixty hours a week when you were fifteen?

"In its report, Apple revealed the sweatshop conditions inside the factories it uses. Apple admitted that at least 55 of the 102 factories that produce its goods were ignoring Apple's rule that staff cannot work more than 60 hours a week."
How can you be so certain that the conditions are benign in the factories under question?
"Apple admits using child labour"

"Apple has admitted that child labour was used at the factories that build its computers, iPods and mobile phones."

There's a world of difference between those two statements. The first being the headline, the second being the quick summary.

Talk about link bait.
What? Is someone claiming power over objective definitions of right and wrong? I hope you understand that just because right and wrong are subjective doesn't render the model useless. What if it just so happens that a lot of this marvelous "utility" that you mention comes about through a reasonable consensus on morality, brought about through persuasion?
To me that seems like making the case that if there is offensive content broadcasted on tv, people will blame the television, not the broadcaster. That makes no sense.
There are even discounts listed for some of the services :)

http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/information-gathering-a-roundup-...
At least they don't let iPhone apps show boobs. They wouldn't want to "sully" their image.
Moreover, Brad DeLong writes of this blog entry, "I endorse almost everything Alex Tabarrok Says Here" http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/02/i-endorse-almost-every...
In what universe is nationalized health coverage efficient?

The one where Medicare's overhead costs are in the single-digit percentages (like 3%), while private insurers have overhead rates well into the double digits.

You can measure the efficiency of an insurance company by dividing the claims paid out by the premiums (e.g. what's the expected payout of taking the policy?). In most insurance industries, it's common to score above 100 (because the premiums are invested and accrue interest, this does not contradict profit for the insurer). Health insurers are closer to 70-85.

Insurance companies, not because they're evil (although they are), have to cherry-pick and screen if they want to stay alive. It's the nature of the business-- adverse selection happens otherwise. However, this is a time-consuming process. Government, which is not driven by the profit motive, doesn't have to cherry pick and can insure all citizens (at a cost).

Also, government-run health care and the elimination of the fee-for-service model will reduce the amount of unnecessary testing and make health care cheaper in the long run.
Seeing as how there is no not-Nothing ("Just") data constructor, it seems that it is more like ⊥ ("undefined").

But like most specifications for unimplemented software, he could have just forgotten to add this, and will realize he needs the other half when he starts implementing.
Somehow, the social element is gone now and the interface lost its appeal for me. As for the game is gone! From daily logins I am now to about once/twice a week. I only login to listen to my favorite artists. I hate the redesign, I like to look at lists and choose, scrolling is so 90's. (Karma 28000 Lvl 14). Hope for the sake of the owners and artists of the site it works for them, but certainly does not work for me anymore.

I understand your frustration.
So there were 7 15 year olds at a factory in China. Most of the employees were adults here, but a few weren't. Perhaps this isn't an example of forced child labour, but rather some 15 year old being the primary bread winner for their family?

Social safety nets aren't the same everywhere.
I thought he lived in buenos aires, argentina?
Isn't there already a "lisp OS" called emacs?

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What portion of the law limits the use of 'ideas?' HARO can't copyright the 'idea' of connecting sources with reporters, nor can they trademark it. The only thing they might have is an overly broad patent, but seeing as that wasn't in the C&D letter then I have to assume not.

On what legal grounds does HARO even have a case?
http://twitter.com/AndrewWarner/status/9743991570
Silver Needle in the Skype
Video feed of the news down there: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hitsunami

I just came home to LA to visit family from Honolulu, all my friends back in HI are saying "wow you picked the best time to leave".
>> " is leading to continuous PR problems for Apple"

Is there any evidence to show consumers care? Sure, PR types geeks etc like moaning about app store rejections, but ask the average person on the street, and they couldn't care less.
I'm only just getting into my first nosql (Cassandra), so I've got no real-world data on it, but I think it would perform in the "well enough" category in performance. Just implement the tables with two columns: a key and a value, and index the crap out of them.

It would also have the benefit of better tools and the option to use a JOIN or a transaction where it made sense. Of course, you could do the same with MySql, too.
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Long-term, what I think will end up being a bigger issue is the apps that aren't even written for the iPhone out of fear of rejection.

That's a nice fairy tale. Anyone who wants to make money will make an iPhone app, because the other phones do not have marketplaces of the same magnitude. And there are very few people who have been rejected. Most rejections seem to be non-final for the sake of fixing trademark issues, inappropriate ratings, or serious bugs.

The elephant in the Android room is that Google can't decide if they want an open platform, or their own phone. They started with the platform ("PlaysForSure") play, but soon decided to pursue their own vertical ("Zune"). The problems with the platform play are the lack of at least one strong competitor, and the bane of Java: "write once, test everywhere". The explosion of test environments make it difficult for small shops to ship a quality Android app.

Plus the Android market is mostly people who (a) didn't want to leave Verizon, or (b) want a cheaper phone / plan, or (c) have control issues. The end result has been that the Android app market is a toy, and the AppStore is the winner taking all.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and predictions. I have no intention of changing your mind. But know that your arguments are classic second place arguments: "people will change because they want this feature", "developers are afraid of failure". People do not change until they feel second rate (the complete iPhone experience is extraordinarily better than a less restricted app store). Developers are motivated by possible success, not possible failure.

In short, the iPhone will lose when people start buying something else. Nothing that anyone says in a forum has any bearing on that at all. Apple is working harder than anyone else to win, and they are far ahead.
That's just old-fashioned. Even Real Programmers use FPGAs for the first iteration now.
You are correct I was mistaken it is Buenos Aires.
Amazon's correlations aren't done in real time, and I don't get why it would be an issue using MySql for it. Maybe it is for Amazon which got plenty of data to analyze, but not for a startup.

Personally I don't trust NoSql solutions because they aren't mature enough. I've had little problems using MySql/Postgres and never had loss of data ... and I can always come up with a non-relational scheme latter built on top ... when I really need it.

The other problem I've had with Nosql is that capabilities vary from implementation to implementation, and my software really evolves a lot ... I don't know what my needs are from the start.

I've also used MySql instead of Memcached successfully for a website with tens of millions of hits per day, preferring it because Memcached crashes on me a lot and there are big differences between versions I don't want to worry about ... and yeah, I know async reads are problematic with Mysql/Postgres, but I just threw a web service in front of it, and when using the Memory storage engine it really kicks ass.
Regardless of what the term should mean, if the law says it's illegal to employ a fifteen year old, and fifteen year olds are employed, then the law was broken. Routinely broken age labour laws, where records are purposely falsified, creates an environment where other labour laws, and laws in general, can be seen as obstacles to be subverted rather than protections and responsibilities.

It's not a trivial thing.

P.S I had two paper routes simultaneously when I was fourteen.

P.P.S Can kids even get paper routes in the US these days? My limited observation is that it's now large routes driven by adults who throw papers from car windows.
It does. When the redesign happened my perception was that the attention drove a lot of new traffic/sign-ups, and I'm curious about how many of those users have remained active.

Edit: I probably should have made more effort to clarify this in the original question: I'm curious about the success of the redesign because the interface is quite adventerous, and I want to gather more information about it's acceptance for taking into consideration when designing my own interfaces.
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Ah...the old imperial justification. Apple doesn't directly hire the children to work in the shops so their moral obligation ends there. I'll bet those kids even earn more than would have made if Apple hadn't contracted out to the factory.

I wonder if your working conditions were the same as the Chinese kids' working conditions. Hmmm...I wonder if you would be willing to work under the same conditions as these kids work in.
Exactly. I'm in conflict here. I'm against exploitive child labour, but I can easily imagine the scenario you describe.
Real Programmers dope their own silicon.
Jyte + Reddit = DebateZone
I've never heard of "De Brevitate Vitae", so TFA's blog-mangled version of it still seems useful. It also sparked this discussion on it.
For the vast majority of iPhone users, whatever exists in the store is just fine and dandy, and while not being able to use Google Voice natively etc might be an annoyance, the probability that an average user is

a) aware that an app they might use often has been actively rejected from the store and
b) feel that the functionality provided by said app is important enough to switch phones to have

seems pretty low. The fact that you read a site like HN and know the dramas surrounding rejected apps colors your thoughts on the subject heavily.

And tethering isn't there -- AFAIK -- because of AT&T, not because of Apple.
What I learned about you through 4 redesigns
When a product is new, people do not differentiate content and channel. When an offensive app is available on the AppStore, the iPhone is offensive. When there is an offensive web page which is viewable in Safari on the iPhone, the web page is offensive.

You're making a big leap here. You're saying that people can't tell the difference between a telephone and a store, but they can tell the difference between an application written in HTML and Javascript and an application written in Objective-C? (Remember, Apple doesn't regulate web content, and web content can be launched via an icon on the home screen.)

The reality here, I think, is that Apple just wants some time in the tech press. They hadn't really been doing anything interesting, and people were talking about Windows and Android instead of the iPhone. Now that's changed.

Relevant video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UMX-btHwYE
Similar things were said in the U.S. when we outlawed most forms of factory work for children. Our society became better when we did outlaw this.

How about this form of outsourcing? Rather than Apple owning and managing the factory in question they contract it out so they can assuage their guilt when children end up working there.
Yeah, and how often does this occur? How many factories are contracted out to in China by American companies that aren't subjected to public outcry? Apple should face very severe sanctions for allowing this to happen. They are not innocent.
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I think what the parent meant is that there are now tools available to implement the algorithms used by Amazon et al for recommendations. It isn't about having more users, it's about being able to keep track of great deal more data and use that data at great deal more points in the applications. That's what Hadoop, NoSQL et al allow you to do (e.g. Voldemort's and HBase's ability efficiently load and serve data prepared in Hadoop; afaik Cassandra has Hadoop integration now as well).

Now even if you are okay with low throughput (you don't see yourself become a major Internet destination), you can still benefit from non-relational approaches.

Implementing a recommender system or PageRank on top of a relational database is simply painful and requires expertise in that system's SQL dialect (someone who's done this on top of Oracle won't be able to do this -- in the same amount of time -- on top of MySQL or Postgres). With Hadoop
you can start with a Perl or Python script (and make use of libraries like scipy or pysvm) and then gradually re-write the performance critical parts in Java. Even if you aren't and will never get to Facebook's or Amazon's scale, you're now able to build intelligent applications on top of your data.

You can also sleep sound at night (i.e., not in front of a terminal tailing your logs or watching ganglia) knowing that a load spike (which could be start of a new financial quarter, holiday shopping season; something as positive as a NYTimes article or -- much more likely -- as negative as a DDOS attack) won't bring you to an outage.

The algorithms themselves, however, are very difficult and require a background in machine learning; that is even to use an existing implementation of these algorithms (e.g. Apache Mahout). I am not an expert in these topics. I took a graduate course in machine learning, but that only demonstrated to me how little I know and how much more I have left to learn. It's this expertise that coupled with ability to implement a scalable infrastructure with open source/in-house developed software (instead of relying on commercial vendors) that makes your a business idea (you know, the one that the "business guys" think they can hire bunch of MSCEs to build in ASP.NET/J2EE/PHP/RoR) defensible from some "kid" in Harvard dorms (especially if that kid declined a $1mm starting bonus to work for Microsoft instead of going to Harvard).

Don't get me wrong. SQL is an amazingly example of a domain specific language; RDBMs are wonderful works of software engineering. SQL RDBMs are great for many applications (e.g., ERP systems and their functional equivalents like the university registration system patio11 mentioned). Yet they're not made to solve the kinds of problems/create the kind of applications that simply didn't exist when they were created. The fact that they can at times be used for this doesn't mean they should: I can write Russian with Latin instead of Cyrillic Alphabet (or write Lisp in vi instead of emacs), but it's a lot better to use the correct tool.
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I don't think that OP was ok with the working condition. Just that the article throws blame in the wrong direction. You can work as a 15-yo in many countries, but you have special law protection and lower maximum working hours. I don't see anything wrong with children working.

Meanwhile there's a much bigger problem: "The technology company's own guidelines are already in breach of China's widely-ignored labour law, which sets out a maximum 49-hour week for workers." If there were no children, would it be ok? Would the article even be written? This rule affects all the workers. And since the rule is "widely-ignored" I expect many more factories with even worse conditions.

Unfortunately "Apple fails" + "Won't somebody please think of the children?" seems to be more important than specific law being broken on a nation scale.
> In the full paper, the author makes explicit his choice to use the contemporary American sense of the word "liberal."

Really? That's interesting, since the definition given in the article contradicts that. I guess the real question is how he measured "liberalism". E.g., did he ask people who they voted for, or how much they gave to charity, or what?
The social norm is that generally we should avoid inflicting needless suffering on animals, right?

If I set stray cats on fire for entertainment I can expect a visit from the police and/or an angry mob of my neighbors.
Use of violence to further political agenda is hardly a new phenomena. The straw man argument puts forward the "terrorist" as a new kind of threat to society which, alas, forces the good people hired by the internationals to represent the people to throw out the baby and bath water of "Inalienable" Rights, Due Process, Rule of Law, and civilized norms so that (apparently completely incompetent) security apparatus can prevent cave men with box cutters defeating the security envelope of the United States of America (aka the "empire" LOL).

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Dear framers, your posterity does NOT deserve the "Blessings of Liberty". Now, respectfully, why don't you roll over cause that is the only revolution that USA and your posterity can muster at this point.
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