skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CC Network - https://creativecommons.net - http://code.creativecommons.org/viewgit/commoner.git
I agree that the language of "fair" and "ethical" seems a bit over-entitled (although I admit, my emotional reaction is one of unfairness and unethicalness).

But I'd like to try to reframe this, to focus on what is lost, and who pays the price.

I value transparency and predictability in (most) transactions; I want shopping to be easy, and so I'd rather pay a non-negotiable $100 for something, versus see a pricetag of $200 that I know is negotiable in the range of 30%-70%. (Admittedly, if we're talking about $100,000, I start being interested in the $200,000 plus haggling).

As such, if I learn that a certain business has a non-transparent cost structure, including this tipping-oriented one, I'm disinclined to shop there. So if I witness you bribing the staff, the business owner loses some of my goodwill (even more if you bribe the staff to cut ahead of me in line), which is a Real Loss for them. I'll acknowledge that perhaps the business owner would rather have the business of the bribing type, for whatever reason (perhaps they're bigger spenders).

I guess my conclusion here is that it is unethical for an employee to accept bribes, if and only if they have been given (explicit or implicit) work direction to not do so.

I don't have much to say about whether it's ethical to bribe them, except of course bribing them for unethical gain (e.g. bypassing safety inspections) would be unethical, and maybe it's unethical to incent someone to behave unethically?
I read the esquire articles and the chow.com, and neither of these authors really perfected the art. Although the self-titled $20 millionaire occassionally got serviced, he was often punked because he had no style, no swagger.

And when he DID get service, he did it openly & brazenly without the required discretion. Publicly announcing in a first class airplane section that he wanted to trade seats?! Tacky. Cutting the line at a cab stand, only to end up having to pay not only the front customer, but also the 2 cab stand guys? Buddy, that just cost you sixty bucks and a half cup of coffee thrown at your cab.

The demeanor and style in which you execute the handoff matters just as much, if not more than the actual note you've got in your hand.
I applaud mission creep. When most problems are labeled mental illnesses, we can unstigmatized psychiatry and easily get everyone the help they need.
>I read somewhere that the typical Westerner, or someone not used to squatting for extended periods, will squat on the balls of their feet.

My calf muscles don't allow my thighs to press against my calves along their length as in images of people squatting full footed. The lever created means a huge amount of pressure on my knees like when you use a bar under a claw-hammer to increase upward force. I've tried squatting flat footed and holding onto something - it's very painful on the front of my legs and my thighs don't go closer than about 15deg from my calves.

I crouch down a lot as I spend a lot of time next to tables talking to people sitting.

I also can't sit cross-legged comfortable, never could. It made school assemblies hard for me I have to hold my legs crossed in an elevated position (knees away from the floor) which then adds pressure on the buttocks.

Perhaps it's just me. I don't consider myself to appear obviously anatomically dissimilar to those around me.
One thing that's being overlooked:

What kind of apps can Apple tout (and we write) when the remote is the only input device?

People said they didn't want another computer, so forget wireless keyboards and mice. Maybe a touch interface with the iPad mirroring the TV? You touch the iPad and the results display on both the iPad and the TV, but that would require you to own another device just to use it to its fullest potential.

When these problems can be reasonably solved, we'll probably have an app store for the TV.
making org-mode the standard mode for a new buffer/file. a custom word-count util, another one for switching frame-dimensions. color-themes, session management, a few custom key-bindings.
My point was that nothing about it sounded new. Most of it sounded mostly old. And from what little I've seen of the execution of their idea so far, it looked downright amateur and old skool. There are already lots of places online where people can independently publish, find and pay for media content, including having user profiles, badges and social networking elements. It's been/being done to death already.
Not a fan of these strangelove references. First time was good, but it has become cliché
Bumped??
We're animals. We're diverse. We're wired radically different to all other species - our civilization demonstrates that. The wild viewpoints and ideas that come out of different mental states pull our species to a net positive.

I find it bizarre that 23% of people could not be considered to have any sort of mental disorder. Everyone I've known personally has either dealt with one of OCD, anxiety, depression, narcissism, paranoia, or low self esteem, at different stages of life. One of mine and my wife's injokes is that we can't think of any close personal friends who haven't ever been on antidepressants except ourselves.
I use emacs mostly for LaTeX editing, so most of my .emacs sets up macros to make it easy to insert greek letters with a keystroke. (For some reason, I really hate using LaTeX macros to write shortcuts for these.)
This is not correct, the eye is optimized for side to side motion, and does it really really fast.

Up down motion takes longer.

Additionally the visual span is sufficient for someone to read the label, and see the box at the same time.

Another issue is context switches. With top to bottom motion there are a lot of context switches (to borrow a computing term), you switch from label, to entry.

If they are in columns it's much faster - the left side is all labels, the right is all entries. It's organized and faster.
Does anyone know how this would differ from jslint? I couldn't find anything immediately obvious.
At the very least, if I'm told that there are 50 questions spread over 10 pages and that 10 will require free-text answers, I'll be more mentally prepared for the onslaught. I hate getting to page 'x' only to find out that I have to start writing essays (and there's no way to look ahead either).

Most forms I come across are terrible and frequently lose my info. Only Wufoo and GoogleDocs have been tolerable (and actually quite friendly at times).
The installation instructions tell you to run "easy_install http://closure-linter.googlecode.com/files/closure_linter-la.... All well and good, but install instructions that don't reference specific version numbers freak me out. I might have gotten a little too much reproducibility religion, with all that that entails, but it seems better than being so cavalier when setting up environments.
I really hope it will be a serious competitor.
One is half the price of the other, and will be on sale on every other streetcorner. The other is twice as expensive, doesn't have Apple's sexiness (at least in mindshare), and will be on sale in way less places (or only online). And it won't integrate as seamless with your other iDevices.
As much as I like boxee, this will be a tough battle for them.
Avoiding reboots in definitely preferred. I've heard very good things about Mac's sleep speeds, but I have a home built PC and Lenovo ThinkPad that do ok. They take around 5-10 seconds to go from in or out of sleep which is fast enough that I don't think about it and I usually only reboot to install Microsoft Updates, which is a different story.
I've been involved in a few consumer-oriented file synchronization projects, and I can assure you that the client technology is not at all simple or easy. Consider that all existing applications have no idea that you're changing the semantics of the filesystem, but you have to make them act in a way that makes sense to the end user (not a filesystem expert). Not to mention all the little issues of conflicts, deletion, renaming, crazy stuff that apps do for "atomic save", and on and on.

It's a combination of having to understand app-filesystem interactions as well as user expectations, both of which are largely undocumented and unspoken -- but if you mess with either in the slightest way, somebody will freak out.
By this argument, Netflix apps should also play Flash because Netflix "does streaming." How the hell do you expect them to deal with the controls on flash movies that explicitly expect a point/click device rather than a remote control?

There is no good reason to arbitrarily add Flash support to a set top box that doesn't even have a web browser in the first place. The Apple TV has nothing to do with Flash or any anti-Flash stance.
Really? I came to know Opera as the browser that runs best on older hardware with constrained resources; seems like they are abandoning the principles from whence they sprouted.
I think that this comes down to pirating and p0rn. It is very easy for me to download a TV show automatically using TED, have them automatically identified and queued up in Boxee to watch on my TV. I have an old computer connected to my TV via HDMI and a Harmony 880 remote to control it.

Beyond television and movie downloads, what about mature content? Apple has gone to great lengths to ensure that the content they offer is free of adult content. I like that but I know that a TV and Internet connected device like this will do a lot better if it's easy to put p0rn on.

The problem with the existing Apple TV was the content - short of a price reduction, I didn't see Steve announce any real content changes.

In my mind, the biggest thing standing in Boxee's way is their relationship with DLink to price ($200 - $250) and provide the Boxee boxes. I get that they view the boxes as a way to get their primary product (software) in-front of more people, but I think that they'd be wise to diversify with a number of manufacturers making open hardware that comes with Boxee pre-installed.
This business about added is wrong. Maybe they could be, but they aren't. They are there naturally.
My way:

#1, pick a supervisor who's going to be absent the entire first year and who decides to change your research topic significantly from its proposal to fit in with her own research (yes, I know this is common)

then

#2, decide the real world is more exciting and start working on a startup idea. Whoops. Still, dropping out to do the startup makes me cool like Larry and Sergey, so I'm down with that.
I don't live in the US. Our company isn't based in the US. While I'm somewhat familiar with US legislation by reading HN, I certainly don't feel comfortable to upload my code to US based servers of a US company as I plainly don't know their laws well enough to trust them with my companies intellectual property.

Of course, I could always trust them for now and instantly remove my stuff when there are signs of trouble, but I asked them (a year ago) whether deletions are instant and irreversible and they told me the usual thing: repositories are not instantly deleted so they could restore them in case of accidental deletions. In addition they stay around in backups for an indefinite time.

Legislation not known well enough and no control over the removal of my code from their machines - call me paranoid, but these are good reasons not to upload my code to them.
I _used_ to be super hardcore minarchist Libertarian.

Yeah, me too. And I think you're still making the same mistake I used to, in a different sense--you're picking nice-sounding, moralistic idealism over pragmatism.

Of the systems so far tested, some sort of Stateful mixed economy seems the best.[1] Of the parameters you can adjust in that system, we have observed various effects. The way to find whatever political truths we can is the same as the way to find other truths--empiricism. Empiricism is hard, especially with political systems, but it's better than moralistic or idealistic handwaving of any variety. It's not terribly convincing to philosophize about a political ideal. Why not take what we've got and find evidence-based ways of improving it?

[1] Of the systems so far untested, we have no data. They might turn out to be complete disasters, impossible to implement, or so strange almost no one outside a few logically-minded dogmatists would possibly agree to them. I would actually support voluntary social experiments in setting up different political systems, but you would have to make them compatible in some way with the status quo without hurting the validity of the experiment. Large scale nature preserves with small numbers of primitivists, protected by an existing State from redevelopment of the land or hostile violence from anti-primitivists, would be one example of this. Another is similar to something interestingly adopted by China: the "special economic zone".
I got the impression that the intended preferred way to interact with Ping will be from one's iPad/iPhone/iPod, not from desktop iTunes.
Slightly misleading title. He was offered the spot if he would agree to not present his work at Quakecon. However, Quakecon being an important conference for id, he declined.

Apple's position is understandable. If he's not showing off something original at the Apple event, then Apple can fill his slot with something with more press potential.
Women 2.0 Labs pre-incubator program applications close Sept 4th
'My friend runs a bar and this is a huge problem for him that he calls a "bribe back". The only solution he found is hiring good people, as monitoring the bartenders makes him look like he doesn't trust or respect them.'

Back in my bar-hopping days I learned about buy-backs. I was surprised the first time it happened, but it was explained that this was common thing (at least if you drink enough).

Given that it was apparently common knowledge in the bar culture, I'd have to believe that anyone running a bar knows this is happening and either makes some educated guesses on the amount, or simply has the bartenders do some tracking. It seems like just part of doing business and sales, nothing underhanded.

Broadly speaking, it seems a businesses will have trouble keeping customers if the owner or manage does not give the line people authority (within some bounds) to give stuff away. I've mainly seen this in the hotel business. You can keep a customer, and make them want to come back, by smoothing over a complaint with a comp'ed night or free meal, and the win to the hotel is terrific (it's expensive to get new customers vs. keeping them). But if the restaurant manager or front desk staff has to first get the OK from the head of F&B or the Front Office manager it tends to just not happen because people are afraid they'll get in trouble for doing what is arguably right and in the long-term interest of the business.
>nor any scaling issues with downtime

So it used to be down a lot then? I've found it down, overloaded several times and seen apologies for the downtime on the site too. I've only been there about 1½ years though so perhaps it was worse before?
The oldest study I remember about labels is http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2006/07/label-placement...
And replaced with the other legendary game programmer, Tim Sweeney (Epic Games founder).
Perhaps they mean small as a business - I don't recall Digg begging it's readers for handouts?
Apologies for submitting an article with the W-word, but these folk are particularly after more engineer applications (and it's not just women, most teams from the first batch had 1 or 2 blokes too).

It looks like an interesting cross between Startup Weekend and YC, both in content and time, though with more focus on getting an idea validated and customers waiting than on hacking up something cool quickly.
It gives you a different set of ridiculous warnings about things that have nothing to do with your code's correctness.

Ha ha, only serious

But for real there are many warnings that pretty plainly seem to be about enforcing somebody's preferences -- gjslint wants you to write "function()" but jslint wants you to write "function ()", for example. Enforcing conventions is good, but I'm pretty sure it's orthogonal to flagging real, common problems (in javascript land, things such missing "var" or ";")

Using both and suppressing the stupid warnings doesn't seem like a bad idea, if you can take the time to get it right.
Get more out of calling in Gmail
When I worked at a steakhouse the smart servers would never charge for sodas or extras like baked potatoes, rice etc. Because as soon as the person got the bill, whatever amount was discounted almost always was directly added onto the tip amount. It might be bad for the restaurant for their soda/potatoes/rice, but that stuff costs as close to nothing as you're going to get.
Read Rise and Decline of Nations by Mancur Olson.
http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Decline-Nations-Stagflation-Rigid...

It explains this phenomenon. Basically, for a group of size n, members only get 1/n of the value they contribute towards any collective goal, so noone bothers, unless coerced, like with unions.
I find even articles interesting, hope you get your site up again
Those bars are even more irritating on a mobile device. The fixed height and position means they obscure half of the actual content and you can't scroll away from them. Do not want.
I know why I'm not crazy about them: they don't make you much money. At least, in my case, Adsense and Adbrite haven't done much for me.
Building a Standing Workstation
Funny, about an hour ago I finally broke down and remapped Ctrl+w to backward-kill-word[1] after re-reading Yegge's Effective Emacs, and you've just reminded me to push the commit to my fork of emacs-starter-kit, which is a great way to get a core set of functionality. Works best if you're tyrannical about keeping it up to date, which I mostly am.

http://github.com/daemianmack/emacs-starter-kit/

Favorite two most recent additions: pyflakes/pylint for Python, and rainbow-mode for CSS.

[1] Having backward-kill-word a two-finger-stroke, instead of the two-handed alt+Backspace, is great! On the other hand, it turns out I kill-region a lot more than I thought I did, so that's a little weird.
then, why is it done under the table?
As someone on TC put it, a mid-range dev at Google could easily be a superstar dev elsewhere. Ignoring that, if you factor in vesting stock and the annual bonus, 150k doesn't seem that insane to me.
The switching from Gmail to your phone thing looks really awesome. The only thing I don't understand is why they use they keypad for that (and for recording) instead of buttons.

For one, it's way easier to remember "click the button that says 'Transfer to Another Phone'" than to remember "click *". Also, I have no idea what would happen if one were to try to call an automated system that uses the keypad for navigation. "Press 4 to <do what you want>." "Ok, I guess I'm recording the call then. Until the next time I need to hit 4."
You're on the right lines, but it's not time itself that's important ;)

I'm a British student taking my PhD in the US. The core difference is publication record: in the UK, publications while doing your PhD are simply nice to have. In the US, they are essential. This is one of the key time-stretchers (alongside having to take classes and being able to change your thesis at any time).

This roughly means that a PhD that has just graduated in the US is immediately hirable all over the world, whereas a European will not be able to take a job in the US until they've spent time building a publication portfolio after graduation.
Indeed. I guess that thing will get jail broken fairly soon, and then things get interesting.
Emacs Emulation extension now available for Visual Studio 2010
I wonder what the percentage is among the psychiatrists who established the relevant diagnosis criteria. I suspect it's close to zero.
There are companies that audit bartenders by very carefully inventorying the liquor. I found out from this article in my college's newspaper: http://www.michigandaily.com/content/2008-09-24/bar-audits-m... .

The company is Bevinco (www.bevinco.com), and I'm sure there are others.
One of the most interesting bugs I've seen was in a small Arm single board computer powered Lego robot. The robot would work fine for minutes at a time and then suddenly die. When used outside of the arena area it was designed for the problem went away.

We eventually traced the problem to the metallic tape used to define features in the arena. When the metal roller at the back of the robot touched this after a few minutes of operating it caused a static discharge which stopped the computer!
It will be difficult to be accepted in YC without a proper co-founder, one that you know for longer than 1 month.
You can take a look at the app here: http://taskforceapp.com/register

Thanks
Agreed. I think that's the common ground between marcusbooster's sentiment and michael_nielsen's experience with individual officers.

To expound just a little, I think it's likely that there both exist police departments where careerists do well, and others where responsible officers do. I think we can also all agree that we ought to encourage a legal structure where officers can't advance their careers by falsifying evidence/extracting confessions from innocents/etc.
Copyleft was conceived as a hack of the copyright system, a necessary evil because placing a work in the public domain allows other people to profit from the work. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft:

As Stallman deemed it impractical in the short term to eliminate current copyright law and the wrongs he perceived it perpetuated, he decided to work within the framework of existing law; he created his own copyright license, the Emacs General Public License,[8] the first copyleft license.

There is nothing that keeps an open source developer from profiting from their labor. Some are employed by a company explicitly to work on OSS, or contract with a company to implement a desired feature. In fact, an open source developer can _only_ profit from their labor, and not at all from their "capital".
I definitely know about some bartenders at a similar establishment that lost their jobs for that type of behavior. The bartender's basically stealing from the establishment.
What is Boxee and how does it improve upon the media streamers that are out there already?

My year old $100 Asus O!Play is awesome.. It handles all my dvd rips and anything I download. There is soo much that could be done with it, Asus just forgot about it or dropped the ball.
A Modest Proposal (PHP like templates for Clojure)
Studying Islam has made me an atheist
You can also put your horizontally-aligned labels closer to the fields to which they correspond.
;; don't sleep emacs accidentally
(global-set-key [(control z)] nil)

;; shortcut buffer navigation
(global-set-key [f5] 'previous-buffer)
(global-set-key [f8] 'next-buffer)

;; show columns by default
(column-number-mode)

;; stop the blinking
(blink-cursor-mode nil)

and reams of macros
When they finally figure out that there's only a single sane person in the world, I hope he changes his name to Wonko.
I try to keep it simple. I set my color theme, switch the font to Consolas, register some major modes (CMake, SLIME, haskell, org, etc), enable some of the disabled-by-default commands, and have some useful key bindings:

; I type this by mistake 80% of the time
(global-unset-key (kbd "C-x C-c"))

; One of my favorite commands
(global-set-key "\C-x\C-j" 'join-line)

; I haven't seen a keyboard with "copy" and "paste" buttons since 2008
; Honestly, Emacs' defaults, WTF
(global-set-key (kbd "<f2>") 'clipboard-kill-ring-save)
(global-set-key (kbd "<f3>") 'clipboard-yank)
The FCC Is Probably Bowing Down to Verizon and Google on Wireless Net Neutrality
i don't use facebook or have an ipad, but what does the iphone app do that their mobile website can't/doesn't?