skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference between the USSR in the 1990s and the U.S. today is that the U.S. has cultural and governmental norms that accept and manage change.

I know that's not necessarily going to be universally accepted here on HN, where it's somewhat popular to assert that all politicians are the same, all the strings are pulled by a small group of global elites, etc.

We have contentious national elections frequently, and tolerate a high level of conflict and dissent in public discourse. This is not to say that everything is objective and equitable--it's not. But each viewpoint has a lot more leeway to pursue its own goals than in the USSR in the 1990s.

In terms of secret crazy stuff that turned out to be true, that does happen. The Snowden leaks are a recent example.
it kind of was: http://lowendmac.com/2013/apples-bigmac-project-failed-precu...
And one has to be mindful of that time you ran:
export AWS_CREDENTIAL=xpXfLVsY/77Nr+m1mKmys719h0m2z2BCYSv9d5r

That is then an increased risk of breach because it is kept around for a long time. YMMV. Defense in depth, don't use production secrets in development, etc, etc.
In case somebody thinks the title is misleading, here's text from the article that is important:

>The court argued that composers should be able to create work without financial risks or restrictions. Sampling is therefore allowed, as long as the new work does not directly compete with the sampled work and does not financially harm the patent holders, the court ruled.

That's a pretty clear change to the notion of Copyright and compensation.
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" --Upton Sinclair
I agree with any responses that say disconnect from everything in order to gain focus. Best for me, in my experience, has been meditation in a chair in the morning for 20 minutes before touching any device. I found the book Mindfulness in Plain English to be a good guide. It's freely available online in ebook format
Just so you know, in the past I used to actually bother to jump through the hoops like a trained circus performer for the apparent gift of employment from some place that actually needed me a lot more than I needed them. Then I would get all the way to the end of the interview and then tell them I would never take the position because of it. I used to hope this might stop the silliness.

Then I just stopped taking interviews with that nonsense altogether and found places to work that I actually wanted to be and that, more importantly, had mutual respect for one another as opposed to being treated like someone who was supposed to be grateful for working at some run of the mill office job. One where we were all supposed to pretend we were given some great gift of fixing someones crappy log file code that broke production. Or adding some api endpoints for a new model.

These jobs aren't all that great and all this nonsense is I'm sure keeping a lot of capable people out of the industry making slightly less money while being treated like human beings and equals.
Do these count as American companies? If so, is there not some violation of the First Amendment?

> The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble, or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.
Yes, Gibson's writing style requires some getting used to. Once it all "clicks" though it is usually a fun ride. That being said, these days I prefer writers who write in a much more straightforward style. For instance I'm reading Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon and despite the fact that the book is large and the content rather technical it is an effortless read.
Reminds me of the Leap (https://www.leapmotion.com/)
If you're into ORMs, then you can do that, use SQLite in dev and switch to PostgreSQL when in prod on heroku.

You're basically bashing the Smartcar because it can't pull your 5th wheel heavy trailer.
Very good point that you rarely hear mentioned, supporting all of this stuff is going to be an absolute nightmare. Companies thought supporting end-user created Access database apps were bad, wait until it's time to deal with these rube goldberg web apps people have created using hundreds of different toolsets.
I have many shells open at once, sometimes dozens. Only one of them "wins" when saving history. If Bash has out-of-the-box support for merging multiple shell history, it's not obvious in the man page. And I have them open precisely because they're different contexts and I don't really want them sharing history. If you want a log of everything you run, you need to make it some other way.

So, basically, in combination with sp332's and raldi's points, the answer is that it is completely not the same.
Marketo Acquired for $1.79B by Visa Equity Partners PE Firm
Who gets to define what hate speech is?
Why you don´t need an MBA to launch a Startup today
Well, ... your technical review was ad hominem in the first place.
Want to swap jobs?
I'd like to point out that this is but a single data point.
I just wanted to say, that's way cool. Best of luck.
Reminds me a bit of an experience I had at an event around 2000 or so. Most of the folks there were heavily academic, but at lunch I found myself sitting with one of the organizers who was clearly cut from different cloth, so I asked what he did the rest of the year. After a couple of rounds of vague responses about how he helped companies use email to get in touch with potential customers, it finally dawned on me that I was sitting at the table with a SPAMMER. Pretty much lost my appetite at that point.

My takeaway is that spammers, malware authors, even identity thieves, are among us. They can seem like perfectly nice people. They might even be perfectly nice people except for this one bad habit, this one ethical blind spot, that enables them to do things from which the rest of us would recoil in disgust. The company in this story might be an extreme case, but I'll bet a lot of people asking "how could they not know" have themselves worked at companies that made at least some of their money in less savory ways. Sometimes it might be why that company survived while contemporaries faded away. Silicon Valley from its earliest days has been full of people who benefited from carefully redacted history, whether they knew it or not.
Negotiation Skills: Have Them Before Starting a Business
William Gibson is always relevant on HN. He single-handedly made hackers and hacking cool in the early-to-mid 80s. A pity that he was never technically proficient, but perhaps that would have compromised his art somewhat.
Of course the US and UK have different interests. The UK has as a very high
priority abstract objective the question of "how can we exist as something
other than a US client state?" Given the other priority of "how can we avoid
getting on the wrong side of the US as at Suez?" this often produces
incoherent policy: the ""independent"" nuclear deterrent that may not be, the
aircraft carrier with no aircraft.

Al-Yamamah is simply about money. The arms industry is corrupt everywhere
because such large amounts of money are involved. It's a real scandal and
a tragedy that this should override the rule of law in the UK, but there we go.
The UK is rather bad at state accountability; the central secret state is too
big. The US of course prefers to federalise its unaccountability and distribute
the abuse of power to random local police departments.

I'm curious as to why you think Americans are far more likely to "go native"
than Brits? Is this perhaps a question of people "going native" in the other
direction, like the Jordanian Royal family? Something about your writing
suggests you're an "insider" of some sort.

(This feels odd to write, as a UK critic of UK domestic intelligence defending
UK foreign intelligence, but hey)
And there’s nothing like that excruciating feeling when you watch it disappear, never to be seen again.

True honesty here, that has never elicited that response in me unless I held a sexual and/or romantic interest in the person on the other end. Other times, it's usually annoyance and or ambivalence.
I don't know what effect that would have. I do know that some countries have very, very high capital gains taxes (30% or more) and no income tax.

The goal is that people who work and provide value are not taxed, and the wealthy are taxed while their money is doing the work for them (rent-seeking).

That's a great solution to the problem in theory, but it doesn't work very well in a modern economy. If capital gains taxes are too high, the wealthy will find ways to shelter their income from them.
SQLite 4 supports multiple engines. So hopefully sometime in the future it will be possible to start a project with the awesome default configuration-less, serverless SQLite, and then if & when you run into scaling problems, swap in a beefier engine.
I got the impression he wasn't working directly on the ad injection software at all. He was working either on different software or in a different division of the company. It sounds like 5oonRed has a culture of not talking about the ad injection and that their internal jargon was designed to disguise it.

He wasn't shocked to find that he personally had been writing an ad injector. He was shocked to find that the company he was working for made such software without his realizing it and that it derived most of its revenue from said software.
To read network requests? Charles proxy is great!
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This is how it should be. Profiting from placing advertisements next to hate speech is pretty ethically dubious.
Short answer: no.

The phrase in italics is bounded by the phrase "making of any law". The bill of rights operates only against the Federal government, except those rights incorporated against the States by the 14th amendment, and things which were applied to private action by the 13th amendment.
> A picture is worth a thousand words

A famous writer from my country had a good quote about that: "A picture is worth a thousand words. Now say that with a picture."
Not American but I'm pretty sure the 1st amendment doesn't apply to private companies. You can go out in the street and yell hate speech if you want, you don't have a right to force them to allow it on their platform.
In broad strokes, no – the First Amendment only prohibits the government from abridging speech. Companies have no obligation to protect your speech, but many act with the spirit of free speech.

Brief overview: http://lifehacker.com/5953755/what-exactly-is-freedom-of-spe...
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Really sucks man. Most times companies are looking for people with experience, most self-taught programmers like myself built up that experience over the year(regardless of what language)s through side projects in college and stupid stuff for fun. It pays to build up your portfolio while doing your 9-5. One can't just take tutorials within a year, build a test app and get a job, am not sure if the tech industry works that way.
I mean NeXTSTEP could have been developed at Apple, and launched as a Macintosh operating system. I'm not well versed in the exact history, but a UNIX-based, object-oriented, multitasking OS released under Apple's marketing may have gotten a lot more exposure + press, and being released several years before Windows 95 it would have stolen some of Microsoft's thunder.
...prohibits the making of any law...

Facebook and Twitter have no ability to make laws.
You can say that any time anyone says anything (and on HN someone usually does), but if you think about it for more than half a second, actually it is more than a single data point if multiple content producers are optimizing video for silent viewing.
If Blondie or the Talking Heads broke up after the first year we would have never heard of them.

Byrne has done OK, but couldn't have bankrolled his label without his 80s Heads income.
There are many businesses that are built around exploiting vulnerable customers or users, and it is common for such businesses to have contrived complicated ethical justifications for their conduct. I'm thinking in particular of law and finance.
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This was an oversight by me in a recent update - however -I've resolved it and with any luck made the statement even more visible for the users/anyone who does an update.
I find it amusing that the author asks for an optimal solution that avoids taking up extra space. Then in his example solution he makes two copies of the original string to convert it to lowercase and strip invalid characters.

Using a regex is overkill for the simple rejection of invalid characters. The job could be done in a single loop with worse case runtime n/2. Sure his solution is still linear time but he did ask for optimal.

It just goes to show that you can't win the interview game because everyone looks for different things. There is definitely good advice in this article though.
congrats on the launch, it looks really easy to use
Yeah. After a year in the language, I'm now starting to reach for Iterators much more often to solve problems.

It's taken a while for this practice to register in my head and replace my classic array and stack fallbacks for similar problems.

I've never had so much fun with a language...
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I've learned the hard way that using the klunky English required to be "correct" in an otherwise two-paragraph reply just isn't worth the time. If I were writing a scientific paper I'd be more careful, but HN comments don't benefit from the bloat.

I suppose I could #include<evolution_isnt_anthropomorphic> up front and then carry on.
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When I first moved to New York, I worked at a company that was an Ad Injection toolbar. I had no idea what the company did for six months.

They hired me to make them a website. I worked alongside an art director and a content creator. Everyday, the reoccurring question was, "what exactly do we do". I was disconnected from the sales staff and the marketing side, so I kept working on a basic WordPress site.

Six months in, we heard that the office was going to close. There was little to no warning, then a week later, we heard that the FCC raided the Florida home office for the CEO breaking tons of spam laws.

The overall structure of the company wasn't necessarily designed to keep people unaware of what they were doing. Instead, they had so many things that the company did, but most of the other "things" didnt make any money. When you boiled down the operations, you realized there was a small number of things that was hugely profitable (spam/toolbars), then a ton of other things that were nonsense and unprofitable.
My local comic store is sold out, but they are carrying it, just waiting for more stock.
The Leap Motion uses infrared light. It was hugely disappointing at first. Supposedly it got much better after the Orion SDK release.
http://blog.leapmotion.com/orion/

Here are a few other ideas gesture devices like the Mylo, FingerIO, and Intel Real Sense:

https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes/blob/master/README...
That's actually pretty tame. The CDC Cyber mainframes had 60-bit words, 18-bit addresses and 6-bit characters. And there was not one but 2 C compilers for them.
No, the whole point of sqlite is to be able to use a relational data model instead of a text file.

It sounds like you are needing a Relational Database server. PosgreSQL, DB2 and Oracle aren't that difficult to install on a laptop. I highly recommend using the same product in dev and prod.
I had no idea there is a such a large industry doing this type of stuff until building a Windows 10 machine recently for VR. So many "free", seemingly kosher apps seem to install sneaky adware in the main app installation process these days

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download_Valley

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2015/02/25/israeli-un...
Facebook,Twitter,YouTube and Microsoft agree to remove hate speech across the EU
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Disruption is not something you set out to do, but it can be a result of what you are doing.

Clayton Christensens "innovators dilemma" isn't a book about how to disrupt, but how disruption happens.

The problem with a large part of the newspeak in the startup community is that it has become too formulaic.

10 things, how you, why you, how to.

I avoid these articles like the plague as they have nothing to do with running a startup.
"Not repeating" can trade linearly growing complexity via additional lines of code for potentially polynomial or exponential growth of complexity via dependency graphs. Padleft is an example of butterfly flaps disrupting global commerce even if "Github is down" tweets are the more normal mode of distributed failure via side effects.

There are silver bullets. It's a good idea to dodge them, even for non-werewolves.
The maximum out of pocket costs under the law is $6850 for an individual and $13700 for a family.

Regardless, the law is the law and it's undoubted that the folks who choosing not to do their legally required part and maintain health insurance will immediately jump on a plan if they happen to need care. Bunch of selfish jerks.
Have you tried black-and-white comics, like most Japanese manga? In my own experience, I've had that jarring feeling when reading full color comics, but only rarely for black-and-white (regardless of origin). I think full color makes it too easy to become engrossed in/distracted by the artwork, while black-and-white maintains a better balance so the transition back and forth is smoother. The level of detail in the artwork also seems to make a difference.

As an aside, Japanese (and I assume Chinese as well) also has an advantage due to its glyphs being visual by nature - i.e. you can view a panel in its entirety and still pick up meaning from the text without actually reading it word for word.
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It is tough to break out of the instant gratification cycle when everyone you see is in the same cycle. People on facebook spend all of their time looking at other people on facebook. Living differently takes someone or something to shift their perspective, as well as the self-discipline to create change. This expense makes me believe that the lifestyle of instant gratification is the new normal, and I doubt it will be going away any time soon.

That just makes me wonder: How can we manipulate this change for our own advantage?
The New Black Panthers are vastly outnumbered by bigoted and racist readers of right-wing news sources such as the Drudge Report and Fox News. The objective truth is that hateful right-wing views are openly disseminated in the media, and that's going to result in a lot more right-wing hate being spread online. If this bothers you, then take it to the right-wing news sources that push these views and profit from them and make them so prevalent in the first place.
I think you're looking at the wrong layer. SQLite is a specific database implementation, there's no reason to expect it to provide a wrapper around some other implementation too.

One potential problem is that not all databases are created equal. SQLite may support features that other databases don't (or vice versa), or they may both support the same feature but with different syntax, and so code that works with one backend may not work with another.

In any case, it sounds like you're after some sort of wrapper that can provide access to different database backends without your code needing to know or care what the current backend is. Something like ODBC would seem to fit the bill, and there is a SQLite driver for it.
Could you share a gist of that? Would love similar thing in my toolset!
Actually, it would be Huxley rolling in his grave. Orwell was about government/"the system" oppression. Since these are private citizens/companies doing this, it's more inline with Brave New World.
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Is this a joke?

> No extra comments in the body.

Yeay no comments!

> The function body is well indented.

It clearly isn't. There's no whitespace to separate the lines making it hard to read, and the if bodies are on the same line as the if statements which is also hard to read.
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>> You don’t say much about your background or where you are, so it’s hard to answer your question. I think there’s really two parts to your question: “1. How do I become a great software engineer?” and “2. How do I emigrate to a country with higher salaries for engineers?”

I feel like becoming a great engineer is almost orthogonal to getting paid the big bucks. It feels like job hopping, salary negotiation, and most importantly, the opportunity to do great work, all require some deliberate and strategic planning - and that these are the things that actually impact salary levels much, much more than one's raw engineering skills. I could of course be wrong, but would love to hear your thoughts on this.

I studied EE in school, and focussed on statistical signal processing for my Masters. My bachelor was from an okay school in India, and my master was from the top-ranked Asian Uni (National University of Singapore). Most of my professional experience consists of the 6 years that i spent as a research engineer in a research lab, working on various robotics / signal processing / ML type projects. I now work as a Data Scientist for a finance firm in Singapore. I have had no formal CS education, and am a completely self taught programmer. I do enjoy the academic side of CS, and have taught myself many topics in algorithms & data structures, design patterns, computer architecture, etc.
Yes. And they will proceed further along those lines later on by monitoring all his associations.

Nick Denton said as much "The details of your involvement will be gruesome if you continue suing us".

Sounds like a threat to me.

Thiel surely knows this but he's no coward. If I was him I'd have kept everything a secret. He must have weighted the probability of getting his funding discovered and then attacked by the Media Tribe against the (positive) deterrence factor plus being researched by (negative) private investigators i.e. blackmail efforts.

It is ironic that the chilling effects argument would push him into more clandestine arrangements (it's a sinister cabal!). You can't make people happy these days. Far from a billionaire having more rights than the average person, the Media is really arguing they have less rights than the average person i.e. He shouldn't have funded Hogan openly or privately; that is not at all. Presumably if the average person decided to pull together a public fund for their hero Hulk Hogan it wouldn't be a problem.

Nick Denton is not a very astute person. Just like in an ecosystem the foxes can't meaningfully 'win' against the rabbits. Some of the rich and powerful I know of would just have outright killed him for toying with them. Denton is depending on the morality of the people he attacks and that is not a very smart thing to do in the long run. That's not me being bombastic or making weird implicit threat. It is an observation of the reality for journalists around the world, the CPJ knows that very intimately. The irony is that if Thiel wasn't a supporter of the CPJ, didn't have strong convictions, then perhaps he'd be less likely to get attacked by the likes of Gawker.

If Gawker ever went after real targets Denton would be joining something like the Ecuadorian Embassy. That is a fact.

That's why we should be supporting real journalists and not this poser.