skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then he bought two old Soviet dairy farms.

This sentence is the key to understanding why many Russians feel little or no sympathy for "victims" like him.

Soviet dairy farms once belonged to the Soviet people - in much the same way that, say, the Washington Monument, the US National Parks, or the US Army belong to the people of the United States. How would you feel if the most hardened violent criminals came to power in the US, and arranged to have these properties turned over to private owners, to run for their benefit (or to pillage and destroy, as was the fate of most Soviet industry) ?

One can debate the practical merits of planned economies all day long but this does not change the fact that privatization is theft. The former owners of Soviet facilities - the Soviet people - were not adequately compensated for their loss. It is highly doubtful that fair compensation for the privatization of public property is possible even in principle. Do you dole out homeopathic-sized shares of stock? (Criminals buy them back for pennies-on-the-dollar from the masses in lean times - or at gunpoint...) What do you issue to the not-yet-born citizens who will no longer be heir to the means of production? (Answer in practice: zilch.)

Privatization is "what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine" writ large, plain and simple.

Russians who are not in some way aligned with the thieves' guild which has been running that country since the Soviet collapse by and large quietly recognize this fact. This is why sympathy and political support for the so-called "entrepreneurs" is and will continue to be thin.
Not revolution, but indignation. make your voices be heard by everyone. Make the politicians see that the people are not blind anymore, that they cannot simply run over the people's rights.

It is not about revolution but about re-enforcing basic rights and freedom, like getting into an airplane without automatically be assumed a terrorist, and without hands touching every inch of your body.

The stand that needs to be made is with voice and action, not blood. If suddenly everyone follows Texas' example (or maybe find out a more effective way of punching the TSA on the face) things would change. It's all about who has the strongest influence, and in a democracy, it is always the people.
the hard part is convincing people that they need to care about this stuff.

It seems like you might want to go directly to projects
that might find it interesting and you can guide them through the process (Indymedia, et al.)

I guess i would have preferred to see this
as an addon to appleseed, diaspora or crabgrass (Crabgrass was built specifically for activists in the first place) instead of a standalone project. There's no way i could convince most people ( about 50) who use our crabgrass instance to run/use/install something else.
Chinese Prisoners Allegedly Forced to Play 'World of Warcraft'
> Further, this book will not explore persistence.

To me this is one of the more important parts of a web framework. Otherwise, they all provide similar features for organizing code: you link some sort of a "view" to some sort of a URL. They may add a template language, or an admin system or a caching framework. They may be event-loop based, or process based or thread based or some mixture of all of the above, but if you have no state, your code will look awesome in all of them. The big issue is "how do you deal with state?"
Wait... So if someone reads it voluntarily but skeptically it is somehow a hostile reading by the definition you cite? It seems to me you are selectively ignoring the part where he explicitly declares voluntary reading not hostile.
Was will das Postdoc? (What does a postdoc want?)
Actually, I think matwood brought up an excellent point about California. Their laws on marijuana are the only example I'm aware of where the state very clearly made laws that contradicted federal laws, and the federal authorities have just let it slide. If the federal government wanted to, they could make an issue out it. But they have not.
last.fm is great, but it generates a lot of noise (bands that I don't like that last.fm thinks I should like) and it doesn't allow me to instantly listen to what my friends are listening to.

When my friends post links to youtube or soundcloud it's usually only for tracks they really like. Newness is a good criteria for posting, as is good stuff you may not have listened to in a years.

You can do all this with last.fm, but for whatever reason no one I know uses it as such. Facebook, irc and message boards seem to be the best places for me to learn about new music.
I did this a while ago with node.js: http://blago.dachev.com/wikidrill
On Building for More than Just Ad Clicks
This seems to be a list of cities that order the most books. This might not be the same as reading the books. It might mean aspiring to read the books.
These are the intro Aerospace Engineering classes - if I remember right (I didn't take it, but several of my friends did) - it really is a bunch of individual classes combined for convenience/scheduling. They're not being taught everything at once - there will be some classes on how things fit together - but they tend to focus on a single subject (or two - since it's two classes you take at once) at a time.
From what I've seen Ashton Kutcher tends to invest in companies that make tech that he really wants use. I don't think profit is really the number one thing on his mind - he already has money. And since it was revealed that he was involved in the Skype deal I bet his portfolio isn't hurting anyway.
I don't understand why this reasoning is inappropriate for the application (HPC). If they were suggesting this as a way to develop massive enterprise applications with vast compatibility requirements and rapid application development needs that would be one thing, but for specialized supercomputing applications do you disagree with this approach?
AKA - another bubble :P
I understand that this is an experimental project, but it would seem that to target high-performance computing, they should allow Fortran as one of the languages also.
No problem ceejayoz, i saw this on Reddit too so i took the chance to point out that behavior.

Edit: Seen your update... yes, obviously. What i was referring to is, instead, similar to the practice discussed a while ago of "bot-posting" stuff from popular sources. I'm happy to see you are not one of them.
Computer de-evolution: Awesome tech features modern computers have lost
Unified is one of the few classes known around MIT by name rather than number. Such a distinction is reserved only for classes with a reputation for being especially difficult and time consuming.

The three that come to mind immediately are

- Unified (occasionally, "unifried")

- Junior Lab (8.13/8.14), a physics course in which, among other things, you essentially replicate the most famous physics experiments (Millikan's oil drop experiment, for example). This course is such a bitch that the Physics department offers a version of the major that is mostly the same save that you don't have to take Junior Lab (8B, aka weaksauce, aka I double majored in physics and something else). This is a good candidate for hardest undergrad class at the Institute.

- Integrated Chemical Engineering, aka "Ice". While it's spoken about in hushed terms by those few who take it, my suspicion is that it's not actually as difficult as junior lab.

To give you some context regarding how much work something has to be to qualify, there are classes in EE/CS that take up, by student reports in the "underground guide" course evals, >40 hours a week of lab time, and those are generally not known by their name. In other words, full time job type time consumption (from one of your probably four or five classes) doesn't qualify for call-by-name status. Yowza.
Simple query parameter to blank pages with Facebook comments
There's probably little need for the overhead associated with other filesystems (security, multi-user support, crash recovery, etc.).

Personally I would have preferred a custom filesystem designed for the application but I can see the convenience of being FAT-compatible. I wouldn't expect these nodes to keep much data locally (if any).
a Vaio X and Vim, Chromium and Xmonad is a perfect dev box.

I have never used a Vaio, but I would question how much one contributes to being a perfect dev box. You can install Vim, Chromium and Xmonad on any other machine.

im still using some video monitor of theirs from the late 70s to catch up on youtubes.

Again, I haven't used Sony stuff from the 70s, it may well be fantastic. However, that was over 3 decades ago, and irrelevant when evaluating their behaviour in recent times. I certainly won't be buying anything from Sony anytime soon - I simply don't trust the brand.
Are the Rubygems folks also looking at Rubygems effect on performance related to require 'foo'? It sounds in this ticket like it may be a ruby problem, but in other places I have seen, it seemed like the IO/file lookups didn't scale well with lots of gems performance-wise.

http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/3924
Lucent Heart Launches New Facebook Zodiac Matchmaker App
Not EC2, but is this what you are thinking about?… http://openfoo.org/blog/redis-native-xen.html
Corkscrew-Drive Robot Spirals Over Rough Terrain
Interestingly, I was discussing this with some people while in India two years ago.

It turns out that a lot of houses don't really have addresses. A lot of alleys don't have street names. A lot of buildings just get built, and there's not always an official address for them. So it would definitely be interesting, yes.
SAMBA and Share Configuration Through YaST
Chips will never run java/vb/C++ natively. Chips execute instructions, and those languages contain constructs which are not instructions.

See a great discussion at http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/14527/any-pro...

(The Java demo you saw was probably Jazelle, which is a processor module on ARM chips that runs (some) Java assembly language instructions natively, instead of using a virtualized processor. That's possible for a lot of VM-based languages, but it's not running Java.
Hacking for humanity in Silicon Valley and around the globe
After using modern smartphones and tablet computers I'm starting to think that the last thing we need is more innovation in how to manage lots of little windows on a medium sized screen.

I don't want another window manager, even if it auto-tiles for me or has a really gosh-darn nifty way of hiding and revealing them. I want innovation in devices and apps that are designed to operate full-screen on all of them. It's as if I want a "tear off" function for windows that literally tears it right off the desktop monitor so I can put it in my pocket or shoulder-bag, or hang it on a wall, or prop it up next to a book. This is what the iPad and the iPhone have done to me.

Tabs, windows, task-bars, Expose, Spaces, ribbons and others are now making me feel like geeks are congratulating themselves on discovering a really nifty new way to organize their sock drawers and lunch-boxes.

The future of "the desktop" are cheap, wireless, mobile displays. Window managers should be replaced with pockets, wall hooks and stands.
And you can treat it as an image to other canvases. Which is the whole point.
The popularity of virtualization technology and the new trend of selling instances could make operating system development interesting again.

The requirements for an operating system have changed drastically with this new way of thinking about what it means to run an operating system. The requirements can be as low as supporting a single process that can talk tcp and (maybe) to disk. Look at Haskell Network Stack, it provides network support to an application and you don't need an OS proper, just Xen.

I'm very excited to see where highly lightweight OSes end up.
Apparently some kid was having fun vandalizing the page to break this. The page is semi-protected now, so it should be ok from now on.
On the other side of the coin, there was little guaranty that most state run businesses would survive any way. Yes, some were bought up by by shady characters, dismantled and sold of by parts for profit. However, others were bought by the likes of the protagonist of the story who invested in them and made them profitable businesses. The alternative would have been for those companies to become abandoned, which means they would have been picked apart by the locals anyway.
Internet Explorer vulnerable to Cookie-jacking
There's definitely interest -- on my part anyway. I'd be especially interested to see the scripts you used. I'd love to be doing this sort of thing, and more specifically what others have done would be helpful.
Those "tri-cycles" that the articles mentions are called "autos" in India. They are usually used as taxis. It's interesting how Google chose to use them rather than a car! A good example of localization!
Newly Found Species of Bacteria Lives On Pure Caffeine
Despite people likely being able to break this 50 years in the future, I am willing to bet that ICE couldn't sieze a .bit domain right now.
"what would have happened if Childs had been hit by a bus?"

I call for the EFF, the ACLU and the FSF to create a "Programmer's Hit By A Bus" fund. We would all contribute, according to the degree of bus-danger we put ourselves in to. For instance, I actually ride Denver RTD buses, so I would contribute the maximum amount. Some programmer living in a municipality without buses would pay only a nominal amount.

We could build up a large fund to take care of the estates, widows and orphans left behind by the heinous plague of Programmers getting Hit By A Bus.
Mobile apps and the quiet handling of data
modern_philosophy -> western_europe

Looks like "philosophy" is the first link on the "Modern philosophy" page (and was last week when I first tried this).

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Modern_philosophy&...
Pfft - rather skewed definition of interesting there. Enterprise stuff is everything I get stuff done with, wheareas my phone/tablet is purely recreational.
Without wanting to sound condescending, I'm not sure that the average Mac user is sophisticated enough (in terms of technical expertise) to detect interaction that has been initiated by malware.

So many years of being told that there's no such thing as malware for OSX (and so no need for anti-malware) may have produced fertile ground for it. Of all the people with Macs I know, just one has an anti-virus installed.
VBulletin 4.X Security SQL Injection & CSRF/XSRF Exploits available
Modern community building
> If they make most of their cash from enterprise, is it reasonable to criticise him for missing the phone/tablet revolution? I mean, we don't criticise jobs for missing the enterprise software market.

Apple is a very focused company that competes in a few select markets (rare for tech giants). Enterprise is not one of them. You can't criticize Steve Jobs for not succeeding in the enterprise market any more than you can criticize him for not succeeding in the search engine/online advertising market. Enterprise has never been a core part of their business.

Microsoft has been trying, and failing, for 10 years to create a market for their tablets. Another company created that market. It's been 18 months since the iPad was announced. Google, RIM, and HP all have operating systems appropriate to compete in the tablet market. Microsoft still has nothing.

Ballmer mocked the iPhone when it was introduced. Apparently he genuinely believed what he was saying, because instead of mocking the iPhone publicly but scrambling to bring Windows Mobile up to what would clearly be the new standard for smartphones, he let three years pass before Microsoft released a credible competitor. Meanwhile the smartphone industry exploded and as of now is dominated by other companies.

In these two crucial markets that are part of Microsoft's core business, Microsoft has been incompetent. At what point is it appropriate for the board to hold the leadership accountable?
Very cool!

A bug that I noticed: if you reload the page or re-navigate to the editing, mockup (right panel) shows the same content, however central panel becomes empty. Usability suggestion: in creation of a list it would be handy if I could "Add item on pressing Enter". List items cannot be linked to lead to other pages, but I guess this feature is on the top of your list ;-)
Amended, but still bad: California's social networking privacy law
How does that work? How many hours a week do you need to spend for 4 courses? Or is one supposed to focus in 1 or 2 courses if studying one of these?

Are there any known people who go to these hard courses without spending as much time as supposedly required?
Probably flights on public carriers. I'm guessing some sort of shift to a private charter configuration would be one way to bypass TSA security. But I'm just guessing.
The use of "startup" along Amazon Associate links with very little value-add makes this page seem spammy.
I'm not sure the protocol for posting here but I'm the founder that was told to "start over". Probably won't but I at least wanted to give a mini-pitch, which I was told not to do on stage.

Flytivity is less like Sonar in that frequent flyers will share their travel itinerary before they travel, through the portal or most likely through TripIt. Flytivity pushes profiles of other business people that they might want to connect with in the airport, at the conference or traveling to that city via email the day before you travel; from there they can see how their connected (via linkedin (1st, 2nd 3rd level) or twitter) as well as other commonalities they might have with someone totally unconnected. You will also be able to initiate direct message right from the email.

Within the app the user can build a trip, check out who they might meet on future trips, see who's in town on a current trip as well as post in the city/conference forum about events.

With 460 million business trips on the books for this year, Flytivity was created with the business class traveler in mind. We know status and upgrades are important. We know you don't want to talk to just anyone, which is why you talk to no one. We also know that one face to face meeting can grow your business or career. We want to help make that happen.
So this law was passed without any technical solutions in place what so ever? It seems they completely ignored the tech community on this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13541250
This is more of a job listing than an actual "blog" "post" per se.
When You Buy Apple You Pay For Design
Sometimes there's a point to the snark, which is missed by the downvoters.

There's more to an index than "hey, let's share an index". That's WHY we have multiple search engines: there will be differing views of what should be in that shared index, and how it should be constructed to facilitate varying needs. There are multiple search engines because each one plays off "hey, our index is better than theirs".

My snark makes the point: why not just have a single distributed/copied/shared library system, and do away with pricy competition? Answer: because that single system does not provide everything everyone wants, and people are willing to pay for a different selection & service.

The search engine and index are tightly coupled. They're huge, they're complex, they're expensive - and people think they can make a good buck by somehow doing it different. Create a "universal index", and someone will realize they can make money by making their own, leading right back to what we have today.

The TFA's key issue isn't really that multiple indexes are crawling his website, it's that they're gathering his data thru the most inefficient means possible - polling every page as often as practical. You don't want universal index, because short of banning competing indexes there will always be competing indexes. You want an agreed-on search interface: a means to serve the indexes what they want at a cost lower than what it costs them to poll-mine your site.

Yeah, a universal index is a bad idea. It ignores the fact (you'd think visitors to ycombinator of all sites would get this) that there is money in competition, ergo there will never be a single index. That, and it still doesn't solve the problem: it may reduce the number of crawlers sucking your bandwidth, but it's still polling every page as fast and often as it can.
>A transaction takes 2 willing participants.

That's what makes me the most nervous about Bitcoins -- for me to turn my paycheck into Bitcoins, or turn Bitcoins into something I can give to my mortgage holder, I've got to find a person to trade with. And you're right -- if the value of a Bitcoin is expected to keep trending up, that shouldn't be a problem. But what happens if (or, as I'm guessing, when) the market adjusts, or the bubble pops? That decentralized nature makes me worry that any investment in Bitcoins could turn very illiquid very fast, and given that the market right now seems to be driven almost completely by speculation, I worry about this happening sooner than later.

If, however, more people start accepting Bitcoins in exchange for goods & services, I think the currency might stabilize a bit more. But that's going to require much more widespread adoption. And how many merchants will shy away from a currency whose value can swing 10%-15% in the time it takes a customer to place an order?

The one and only thing I feel certain about re. Bitcoin: Somebody way smarter than me is going to make a ton of money with this.
Web Inspector Remote - a debugger for remote/mobile web applications
Review of XTuple Open Source ERP for Small Businesses
Wait, I thought the tri-cycles were cycle rickshaws. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_rickshaw

Now those babies will get you through all the back-alleys and streets in no time. The only problem would be mounting their camera on it. I think they ve solved harder problems.
While I personally think the bill's policies are smart business practices, I think the bill keeps getting amended to give the "haves" (Facebook, LinkedIn) a competitive advantage over startups.
The Enclosure Problem [Gamification]