skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The software market, the Internet market, the entire ecosystem, it's working because the price of entering is lower. This isn't because of lesser regulation or a lack of standards and oversight, it's because over the past decade it has become so easy for anyone with an Internet connection to contribute. Not necessarily make the next best software business, but contribute to open-source (a decidedly un-capitalistic idea), provide opinions and give insight, and share.

This ability for anyone to connect and share with thousands of other people exactly as we are now is exclusive to this internet platform. That is the driver of success, of innovation, of technology and future. Every other media, every other market, is prohibitive to newcomers. There's a reason that disrupting a market is so praised, because it is something most everyone who tries, fails.

On the Internet, in software, disruption is the name of the game. It's a brand new sandbox that anyone can play in.
Startups often evolve as a clearing of multiple hurdles of "optimism" in succession before they fail.
There is also a related and thoughtful discussion on Aeon's own website: https://aeon.co/conversations/is-it-wrong-to-watch-pornograp...
With Crohn's in particular, where one looks forward to potentially losing one's _entire_ gut (not just the large intestine)... The bottom of the list is populated with surgeries and colostomy bags.

Not the end of the world, but the calculated risk of certain parasitic infections vs the risk of all the other insanely expensive and much more side-effect-laden drugs isn't so illogical.
It seemed to me that there is some bottleneck for mongo on aws with Ubuntu. Hardware did not matter, mongo was slow for whatever reason. Why don't you run some perf tools?
> >and then search the Internet for "model jury instructions [that-crime]", and come back with the one that would invalidate this contract?

> Have a look at this Yale Law Review article: Validity of Contracts Which Violate Regulatory Statutes.[1]

You're making a circular argument there. You're assuming the contract violates some statute and reasoning from there. But the question at hand is whether someone using the contract and following its exact terms has committed a crime of any kind, or has simply executed a transaction allowed by the system.
The 'pro' comments are overwhelming. If you guys think it's so acceptable, why don't you get your 18 year old sisters and daughters in the 'biz'. I know a bunch of losers that would line up for that.
I think I had made an assumption between countries like Venezuela and Soviet era Russia that had large black markets for a lot of goods and them being the opposite of capitalism.
I don't think they are trying to sell to developers (even if developers are their users).
The Infinity Puzzle
>The question is what sort of contract is "unconscionable"

For those that don't know an unconscionable contract is a term of art, and basically means an otherwise lawful contract that the court will not enforce, because it is so unfair usually as a result of an unlevel playing field between the parties entering the contract. This is very good, and a legal theory I had not considered.

>So I think how legal a contract that says "btw, there's a strong chance your money will wind-up with a stranger" depends on how well the investment literature really conveys that risk.

Say for example the party who wrote the contract wrote it in a language they knew the majority of investors did not read because they could not read the language. Further, the contract drafter induced the majority of investors based on marketing materials in different language than the contract that the investors could read, but were ultimately were inconsistent with the underlying contract.

Another general rule of contract law where a promise, agreement or term is ambiguous, the court will enforce the meaning that works against the interests of the party who drafted to contract.
It's more likely both. They want good subservient people.
Maybe you should have made a video of this?
Apple ordered to stop selling two iPhone models in China [Updated]
http://patents.stackexchange.com/ helps with this
Please don't react to someone making HN worse by making HN even worse yourself.
Mildly scarring but very interesting in a morbid way.
I worked in television for a number of years in a technical behind-the-scenes capacity where I would have to flick switches and hit buttons on audio/scripted cues. Sometimes this would take me from the script for what I felt was a long time and I would always struggle to get back to where we were in the script.

'Surely we must have gone through two pages of this double spaced script that only uses one half of the page in a large font?'

No

Invariably my guess on 'script progress' would be considerably greater than actual progress made. Even under ideal conditions where this was the nth retake and I knew what was coming up I would still find myself over-estimating how many words had been presented to the cameras. Years of experience did not change this, I always over-estimated how much had been read, trying to take into account the 'slow baud rate' didn't help.

If you do ever have a transcript of a video play the video and start reading. See how far you get through the video when you have finished reading. Don't make it a race, read as you normally might, taking time out to Google stuff etc. and you will be amazed at how much quicker the printed word is.
I actually just finished watching The Great Mouse Detective with my wife - first time for her and the first time for me reliving that element of my childhood in more than twenty years – I was terrified it wouldn't live up to my memory, but was surprised at how good it was. I'm pretty sure it was my first exposure to the world of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes (and I do recommend it heartily to anyone who hasn't watched it!).

Of Doyle's non-Sherlock works, The Lost World is the first that comes to my mind. Great fast read, also highly recommend! (Though nothing beats the full and complete collection of Sherlock Holmes, see [1] for the PDF and [2] for the actual book).

1: https://maggiemcneill.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/the-comple...

2: http://amzn.to/1UBvHwJ
Not OP you're replying to, but exponentially more expensive drugs with often scary side effects (one drug I was on intentionally weakens the immune system—and bad things can happen if you get sick), ultimately leading to the nuclear option of removing more and more of your gut to try to cut out affected areas.
Statistical Learning Theory – A Tutorial [pdf]
For the allegedly best employers only. Your run of the mill company or consultancy can't pull a Google.
As much money as Valve and HTC have put into the Vive it makes sense. The more VR games and content available = more Vive's sold. You have to spend money to make money.
Or just manually specify which keyset to use with the SSH "-i" identity option for the specific thing you're connecting to. I could have a hundred different public/private key sets stored in my ~/.ssh/ if necessary.
If you have no employees and don't consider your own salary an expense, you're not comparable as a business.
I read this as a single researcher (Prause) in a university with an agenda to push.

Sometimes conventional wisdom is conventional for a good reason.
> By law, you cannot buy or sell stock on someone else's behalf unless you check with all major US stock exchanges first to verify that you are getting your client the best price.

The side-effects of this law and because of it not being able to achieve a 'fair' price was why IEX was created.

Edit: This is neither a pro nor anti comment. It is a factual comment, of the motivation to create IEX.
But it's also a common name, so not really a reason for a double take.
We're going to add the Principle of Charity (http://philosophy.lander.edu/oriental/charity.html) to the HN guidelines as a way of emphasizing how badly comments like this break them.

If you assume that other people are stupid, nothing is easier than to conclude that they're stupid as well. This is good for attracting upvotes from others who feel the same way you do in the first place. But it's deeply bad for thoughtful discussion.
There are several services like that. They all scrape Google: think tons of distributes proxies all over the world, regular IP/proxy rotation, etc.
After having a swordfight with a skeleton warrior in VR, moving around the room, dodging, swinging, parrying...it may not be the future but it's part of the future and I want it badly.

Being able to merge exercise and escapist fantasy is a big win for me.
Open source is a very capitalist idea. It thrives because people have discovered that more money can be made with open source than with closed source. (The notion that it is un-capitalistic may stem from it not being very intuitive how it can make money.)
AFAIK, with data.table it's all in-memory; whereas dplyr has the option of working with a database backend.

On the other hand, data.table has robust support for modify and update ops by reference, which can be a big performance saver.
Servers are cheap. Engineers and sales people are not.
"More than 36% of the internet content is porn". Is this in terms of bandwidth, size of files, or some other metric? If it's size of files then of course porn in going to be a large percentage of files because video files are large.
See www.theworkshop.com for a good place in Malaga.
I'm not sure that I want FB to die totally...I'd prefer they shrink and shrivel up, but not go away totally...I want the decentralized interweb platforms of the future to have something to look at...and for them to remember what they should not be doing. (Can you tell that I'm absolutely in favor of a non-centralized webternet world!?! ;-)
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> This isn't because of lesser regulation or a lack of standards and oversight, it's because over the past decade it has become so easy for anyone with an Internet connection to contribute.

If the government required anyone writing software to have a license, and a permit, and have the result be approved by an agency before it was distributed, there'd be orders of magnitude less people entering the business.
Ask HN: Make money through remote iOS development?
I've recently been thinking freelance development could be a great way to generate income while still doing interesting work for the lifestyle I'd like to pursue at the moment. I'm looking to be in a situation where I can generate enough revenue to pay for basic living expenses, nothing too extraordinary. I'm a recent college graduate with numerous successful iOS and Android projects under my belt and I have experience working with clients to satisfy their needs and ship successful software, usually in departments in my college. My question is, how can I find opportunities to continue this type of work? I've tried sites like freelancer.com but haven't had much luck getting any gigs. I think living the digital nomad lifestyle developing applications with my experience would be ideal for perhaps a year or two but I don't have a great idea of how to start. Any tips?
I'm pretty sure we're just the confused ones here. left, liberal, democrat, republican, right, libertarian, socialist, conservative.

Those words are giant tents. I have a book that argues that Hitler was a "liberal" and another that says free-market military-backed imperialism is "liberal democracy". I have another that argues the state-communism of China and the USSR are "conservative".

So I have no idea what people mean when they use those words.
The referenced Newton episode is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PeQG61W4i0

The Scandinavian approach to sexual education goes a long way to ensuring children's confidence about their body and their feelings.
So would some sort of animated ascii art be considered video or text?
How YouTubers discovered a tingling sensation nobody knew existed
Well, for those wondering what tanned human skin looks and feels like, I guess it's pretty much identical to sheepskin.
I just read most of the comments, but I didn't read the article. I was much more interested in the comments.

Having said that, if these comments were an audiobook, or a word for word movie script, I'd probably only be through about 5 of them.

Words rule!

On the other hand, if a picture is worth 1,000 words, a movie must be worth billions! Unfortunately it takes a lot of study of a picture to get 1,000 word out of it. That's a lot of pausing.
I think if you had a time machine and went back 50 years you would quickly realize all the things you're taking for granted that we have now. Right now is the best time ever for humanity.

The thing about capitalism is you need to find a path that lies in the intersection of your abilities and what the world wants.

Unfortunately in the US the default path is getting a college degree in whatever - and we're continuing to funnel young people down that path even though the world no longer wants generic college graduates.

College may still be a good path, but pick your major carefully based on empirical salary data and consider how long it will take you to pay back your tuition.
If they tell you after giving you a ride that you have to go to an ATM and pay the ATM fee, then they are just passing the cost on to you at a net loss - ATM fees are higher than CC fees on purchases the size of a typical cab fare. I'm not convinced that it's better to funnel money to banks rather than CC companies.
A friend of mine is CEO of a medium sized company. His only product is software that helps back end servers run faster. The software is open source, he gives it away to any company that wants it.

His company is doing extremely well. How is that possible? After companies use it for a while, they come back and are happy to buy a support contract rather than manage it themselves.

His business would not exist without open source software that his company developed.
When it's playing a game (e.g. breakout) and it's being fed the pixels on the screen, how is the AI being told what the score/progress is? Does it have access to some numeric metric that is chosen by the researchers for each game?
You should look up Masters and Johnson. The first time any science at all was performed to test conventional wisdom showed conventional wisdom was mostly nonsense. Often nonsense passed down from one person to another with negative effects on people. That was mostly the physical stuff. Now, we need to know the psychological stuff.

As before, people's pre-existing beliefs and social structures make it hard to even test the conventional wisdom. Contradicting it is declared evil or foolish before-hand. Given history of "wisdom" in this area, it's right to test it in ways that might show contradictions. People have always been exceedingly foolish on these things when they cast judgment before collecting data. No reason to believe it will be different this time.
This article is based on research done by 11 universities in 6 countries; Prause's is just one of then.
Your own doubts about the future of this company could negative impact your own performance and thereby kill the company.

If you are feeling that happen, express to CEO and maybe bail.

Its not hard to find the next gig, if you have the "right stuff"
For historical background on this part of the algorithm, called "experience replay", see this paper from Long-Ji Lin in 1992:

Self-Improving Reactive Agents Based on Reinforcement Learning, Planning and Teaching

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1022628806385

as well as his excellent 1993 PhD thesis:

Reinforcement Learning for Robots Using Neural Networks

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a261434.pdf
IANAL, but it seems to me that there are three parties in the case here:
A - the investors
B - DAO creators
C - person who executed the contract and took the money

clearly, A lost money and do have a case against B for negligence or various other items you list above. This is not the interesting question.

The interesting question is - were the actions of C:
- illegal
- can he be sued by either A or B
How about now? The only reason my parents were happy taking me to McDonalds is because I was happy to be at McDonalds. I was the customer, my parents were the employees, and McDonalds was just a facilitator.

I have a kid. She loves going to McDonalds. No matter how miserable a person is at work, interacting with a happy and excited kid usually makes them feel, or at least act, a little better.

The funny thing is she doesn't even eat the food. I would complain and tell her to eat McDonalds food, then I realized what a bad idea that was. She likes the experience, playground, and the happy meal toys.

So, I guess the point is, at McDonalds, when you are a kid, the miserable employees either act or feel less miserable because you're an excited kid. It's kind of a strange exception.

Chuck E. Cheese is another example that is similar. Good God, that place is hell on Earth.
Your ideas would be taken more seriously if you expressed them more thoughtfully.
What are the chances someone interested in researching about porn is going to find that porn is harmful?
Last time I read up on this, I was led to believe that the regulations were only a minor factor, and the main thing driving the subprime explosion was demand in the investment market for misleadingly-rated mortgage-backed securities.

My understanding of the details is almost nonexistent, but I gather that there was some kind of statistical wizardry that let lenders load up a bunch of crappy mortgages into a package that was, in aggregate, supposedly an extremely safe investment with a very attractive return. These securities became the primary product, with the mortgages themselves being the raw material. The market demanded that production increase, so the lenders did the finance equivalent of drilling for tar sands oil. At this point there was no need for the government to mandate subprime mortgages. Lenders weren't just grudgingly implementing policy, they were enthusiastic, shouting from the rooftops for people to apply for mortgages even if they thought they wouldn't qualify. I clearly remember Countrywide's motto: "No one can do what Countrywide can". I guess it turned out that Countrywide couldn't do it either.
For those new to VR drama, be aware that VR has become infested with the kind of dogma, fandom, agenda setting, and selection bias that once was limited to game consoles. At this point, Oculus could give their headsets away for free and certain people would complain that Facebook is using unfair business practices to create a monopoly.

Most of the (fairly reasonable) statements Oculus has made about its practices are ignored, dismissed, or called outright lies. Actual developers have tried to explain that Oculus's behavior isn't evil, designed to split the VR community, etc., but they are called liars, accused of doing damage control, or are somehow paid off by Oculus.

The reality is that Oculus has 100% funded the development of certain games, and contributed engineering talent and best practices based on their VR research. These include Chronos, Edge of Nowhere, The Climb, and others - titles at major developers that would not have otherwise existed. In return, those games must be sold through the Oculus store. However, the studio (i.e., Insomniac, Crytek, etc.) maintains ownership of the IP. Any future game built by those studios (including sequels) can be sold anywhere, using the VR expertise they otherwise wouldn't have.

Oculus also offers development grants to independent developers. An indie that is starved for cash and may otherwise need to release a game early to recoup their investment now has the option to spend extra time on the game. In return, the game must be released first on the Oculus Store; afterwards, it can be released on Steam or anywhere else.

Many call this "buying exclusivity" - but thus far, every developer that has taken advantage of this has admitted that they were farther away from release than appeared to the public, were running low on cash, and/or needed the assistance that Oculus could provide.

Also, most people don't seem to realize that Valve's offer of pre-paid royalties is just another kind of store exclusivity. Developer won't host their app outside of Steam until the advance is paid off, as those non-Steam royalties don't count towards the pre-pay.

Accepting the pre-pay also forces them to use the OpenVR SDK, which means they cannot host the game on the Oculus store.

Valve isn't altruistic. They merely have a more sophisticated strategy and a technology (the OpenVR SDK that can wrap the Oculus SDK) that allows them to position themselves as taking the high road while they focus on boxing out a competing software platform.
So the web page now has to contact a lot of servers. That means more round trips and worse security - more endpoints means a bigger surface for attacks. Also you know what data is on what server - you just have to inspect the javascript source code.
Is this a good idea?
One of the things (whether good or bad) that has come out of being able to easily monetize videos on the internet is the discovery of these strange new types of media that I think would have been impossible for companies to discover. Another strange thing is that there are channels that are just kids playing with toys, and the receive millions of views from other kids, I highly doubt children's media companies would have stumbled upon this on their own.
>> How often do adult women actually share clothes?
>I've seen my wife share clothes with her best friend in the last week. (They have similar size/tastes and frequently shop together.)

If they already know each other and are friends, why would they need another entity in the trade?
Or may be the two should work together?
Agree with this second part, it's structured like a tree, where a video is linear unless the scrubber has more detail. With text you can gather the shape and skim the start of topic sentences very quickly.

As well, you can quickly copy paste and remix text in a way we can't with video yet.
Your argument could equally be used to justify criminalizing gay sex as long as it happens in a country where it's illegal and people generally don't like it.

No it can't. It's the notion of consent that is subject to legal interpretation. In a symmetric relationship like homosexuality how would consent apply?

We think it's wrong for employers to advertise "Irish need not apply" but today employers advertise "work permit required" and to get a work permit, you're not allowed to be Irish except for some special cases.

You seem to be missing my point. I'm not saying our categorizations aren't constructed and somewhat arbitrary. They are. What I'm saying is that your comparisons are poorly chosen. It's wise to wonder why we eat cows but not dogs. But a relationship between two consenting adults is not comparable to one between an adult and an animal. If you want to wonder why some farmers prefer sex with goats to sex with sheep, knock yourself out.
https://poste.io
Yes, your value is not based on your intelligence but on your ability to generate economic value.
Generations of macaques used stone tools to open oysters
The Neomonolith(2015)
> it's pretty easy to get management to sign off on purchasing something that will save their developers time, pain, or just plain make them happier.

Managers will also pay to increase the quality of a developers output. This includes testing/QA and code review tools for example.
> does anyone think that could be made better with socialism?

Wasn't it already made better with socialism? Do you not believe that things like ARPANET significantly contributed to the successes we have today?
You can. Simply mark it as "is not useful" and amazon will (in aggregate) not show those reviews.
The only people who might comment on this are those who already know how to program so no longer see the complexity as a problem. However, the level of incidental complexity in programming languages, libraries, frameworks, environments is astonishing. Please keep encouraging others to focus on simplicity even if you don't get much support here.