skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your last paragraph is a point that is genuinely worth having a serious debate about. You are probably familiar with the Prisoners' Dilemma, right?

More abstractly, there are situations where it is in the individuals' self interests to behave in a certain way that will lead everybody to end up in a place where they are worse off than if everybody coordinated to achieve an outcome that is not a Nash equilibrium.

If you define "efficiency" as being "the outcome that you get when there is no cooperation between actors", then you're basically saying "efficiency = Nash equilibria with no cooperation". Then government action (which is simply one possible form of cooperation between actors) is inefficient by definition. But then that's simply a tautology, and a useless one at that. After all, whether the outcome is a Nash equilibrium or not is not a moral category.

If you define "efficiency" as being "the outcome is optimal according to some welfare function" (e.g. social optimality, Pareto optimal, sum of logs, or whatever), then Nash equilibria and efficient outcomes are not the same thing, unless you can somehow exclude the possibility of Prisoner Dilemma-type situations.

Do you have an argument against the existence of Prisoner Dilemmas when it comes to price-setting dynamics?

Edit: And to answer your question about a "morally right wage", I think there was simply a misunderstanding between us. There is a moral argument that human labour should be given some appropriate value. This is similar to more general arguments for human dignity and human rights. This is a question of morality and ethics, and it can be the basis upon which a society decides to introduce a minimum wage law. My personal understanding of morality is in line with such a view, but I am not trying to persuade you to change your system of values, if it happens to be different.
I'm just curious. What's wrong with Fox News?
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Your boss made that claim. In public, on HN. Graham responded, literally to that comment, by unbanning Nodejitsu.

Can we stop talking about this now?
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Definitely think it's good to get yourself clear on this so you can be as upfront as possible with potential partners.

Kids are one area where you do have to go all-in... The last thing the world needs is kids who are screwed up because their parents "sorta" wanted kids (the way I sorta want an rc helicopter) and discover their personal pain/gain is over 1.0, and check out and let the tv raise them.
pg, I think most of us support you hellbanning these overly-entitled spammers. Ignore their propaganda.
Thx! I thought about that a bit, but am not comfortable with sharing it yet.
> how they handle stress, their gut reactions, their deepest feelings, their expression of opinion - all very similar to the parent.

Do you really think that this is true often enough to present it as a blanket rule like that? It seems like a fantastic oversimplification to me.
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I swear by it. Costs about $50 but it's some of the best money I've ever spent. Saves me probably 10-20 minutes per day. Every day.

Bonus hack = use Dropbox to store the password file so it's in the cloud and works across your devices.

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Interesting. But how do I run tests with t.createWindow locally? Do I need a publicly-accessible IP? We are currently looking at Sauce because we can write tests against Selenium and run them locally or in the cloud, plus they make it easy to tunnel in and run against things in our internal network.
I always tell people: if you knew you wouldn't get a ticket in a car for running a red light safely, you would do it. As soon as the police start ticketing for running red lights and stop signs on a bike, I'll stop.

I ride in Philadelphia and I try to be somewhat considerate to drivers. I slow down for every stoplight and stop sign, but if nobody's coming, I'm going to go through it, because I'm not going to get in trouble.
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>And you suggest he should be transparent with his sources. If you seriously believe that, you're clearly not in favour of this movement.

No, I don't believe that Wikileaks should be transparent with the whilstlebowers who give them information. I do believe that Wikileaks should provide the information that they give as close to the originals as possible(with limits on whether or not the leak could directly endanger people), and not attempt to editorialize at all. There is a huge need for a place to view these primary sources. There are way too many places that editorialize the sources for their own purposes. It doesn't help transparency if Wikileaks refuses to release information in order to get "more press". Just release it, and let the public decide.
>But he could've had the same result AND acknowledged the fact that millions of people have equally important life-threatening afflictions,

He should do nothing to save himself until he's helped cure Cancer; TB; Malaria; HIV/AIDs; Starvation; Poor Sanitation; War; Earthquake prediction; etc etc?

>that his is no more important

I'm guessing (I don't know him) that it's more important to him and his loved ones.
> It seems many people hold a negative view without having good arguments, almost religiously.

I tried discussing the benefits of cycling with a friend. "Bikes actually use as much energy to produce as cars, since they're made of high-tech materials which use a lot of energy in manufacture."

"Whenever I'm stuck in traffic, it's usually down to a cyclist somewhere."

"Having several cars is very environmentally friendly, since you can select the one most suited to your requirements at the time."

And he gets very pissy if I mention I've just completed a 20 mile ride or whatever, seems to think I'm bragging (which I am, sometimes ;) and it makes him a bit insecure. So yes, emotion trumps reason for some people.
Are you aware of any other solutions for the JVM? Preferably open source.
... except I know way too many people who voluntarily subscribe to 50-60 minute commutes in a car instead of simply living closer to work.

Optimizing for less time spent in transportation is nice, but there's a balance - both for yourself and society. A bunch of gas-guzzling one-ton hunks of steel squeezing their way down a packed freeway, with only a single passenger inside each... hardly seems beneficial to the economy, society, or the environment.
A new breakthrough vehicle that runs on facetiousness, maybe.
No problem. Glad you commented. If anything, I interpreted it as less about where to look as a source for media, but more as what the mindset of an Entrepreneur should be.

You have to admit...TC has an interesting habit of glorifying the funding round, and as Gary Vee would tend to agree (see the first link in the article), what should be glorified is the bootstrapped startup that manages to attain profitability on its own.

There's a local startup we recently interviewed (article coming soon to the site) that bootstrapped it's way to roughly 3.5mm in annualized revenue in just a few short years.
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The branding you describe is orthogonal to what acangiano is trying to do here. When launching a minimum viable product, it's best to go with a logo from 99designs and a Wordpress/WooThemes/whatever template. Essentially a minimum level of professionalism while focusing on building the core product. Lest you think I'm alone in this recommendation, Patrick wrote a bit about this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1697558. Attempting to brand like Time magazine right out of the gate for a small project like this is absolutely the wrong choice.
"Quite often there is not physical possibility of legal parking."

By the same token, quite often there is not physical possibility of legal cycling OR driving. Courtesy is the solution indeed, yet the rhetoric on the issue seems to point the finger at cyclist more than other parties involved.

The problem with the delivery truck/bus blocking the lane is that its easy and much more safe for a car to take half of the extra lane without obstructing the flow. This is a much more challenging a maneuver on a bike. Finally, these vehicles block the bike lane and then half of the right lane. Imagine if a truck was wide enough to block the entire two-lane roadway and force motor vehicle traffic to precariously dodge traffic going in the opposite direction. Not a bulletproof analogy, but worth considering...
Here's one of many:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2809827

Apparently this is Marak Squires using multiple accounts (barracks and changelog) in the same comment thread. I learned about this when the guys who run the changelog wrote to me to complain about it.
What is the other company you funded that's focused specifically on Node? Was it no.de, Nodester, nodesocket, bejes.us? If you don't mind, what makes that solution worth funding?
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You can turn blue in the face sifting through all the wonderful labels people have constructed over the years. Let's keep things simple.

Either you're for a direct command and control structure, you want a mix, or you want free markets. It doesn't matter why you want that, in the end, it boils down to those 3 options.

Self-organizing cooperatives are not anathema to free markets. As long as some jackass somewhere isn't making them mandatory, I think they're fantastic and I'm a Capitalist with a big C. Open source software is a perfect example.
I hear you and thank you for your feedback. I truly appreciate the value of branding and design, but this wasn't a random choice.

The reason why I went with 99designs, is that I'd like to avoid making a big investment upfront. Instead I'd like to build a minimum viable product (MVP) and use a "placeholder logo".

If the site manages to demonstrate its value and take off (perhaps despite its logo), then I'll be certainty more willing to invest in its branding and design by assigning the redesign to a professional firm.

It's a compromise, and not an uncommon one at that. But I fully understand if you consider it a mistake.
Bicycles can promote emotional attachment. I take pride in my bicycles. There are personalizations that I've made that make my bikes unique in my eyes. One of my bikes would be difficult to replace if it were totalled. I know many other cyclists (athletes and otherwise) who are attached to their bikes.

Likewise, I know many people who could care less what kind of car they drive so long as it is clean and runs well.

Some people care about what they use, some people don't.
Emacs can be pretty graphical depending on the mode (see Latex preview for AUCTex mode for example) but you're also right: I don't think Markdown mode supports the more advanced features you just mentioned.

(I wouldn't use Markdown for the advanced features I like it for its simplicity.)
The whole idea of capitalism is to make it possible for people like you to experiment with different ways to organize and sell your work. If one method works really well for you - thats great. So I would say you are a capitalist enjoying the freedom in the free market. That includes the freedom to play small "s" socialist.
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The only way to "scale" is to form a company of similarly-skilled artists. Even if this happens, it is unlikely that they'd ever be able to keep up with demand.

It's obviously not something you can send off to China and press the button on an assembly line. Some things just can't be mass produced, and we should be grateful for that.
Methinks you need to meet more cyclists.

My brother is a (very) avid cyclist - he even names all of his bikes. Hell, he builds them from scratch, hand-picking components, and is meticulous about keeping all of them in tip-top condition constantly.

I don't think one can claim he isn't "attached" to his bike - and I've met his cyclist friends who are similarly reverent about their vehicles of choice. Their attachment to their bikes is about equal to what I see from avid drivers and their meticulously maintained cars.
IntelliJ vs Textmate for Java development. The advantage of IntelliJ is pretty obvious, refactoring tools are probably #1. However that is not to say that TM will fall short.

Also I would like to be able to use the power of TM + Vim all in one shot. Clearly not everyone wants to write plugins in vimscript only.
What's the saddest thing, is that companies actually accept to pay without testing Microsoft's theory in Court. And the more they accept, the worse is becomes for others, too. Microsoft is even being sneaky about it. I'm pretty sure Samsung wasn't at a loss financially when they accepted the deal. But it was still a big win for Microsoft, because they could then go around and tell others "Look, even Samsung paid!".

Sorry, but Microsoft is pathetic. License actual products and services like ActiveSync. Stop licensing BS patents that are useless to those companies once they pay up. What's wrong with the patent system is that companies have to pay to not get sued, not to license the technology. And why would they, when there are such BS patents.

If Microsoft has such awesome "technology" and patents, then why aren't they disclosing them so others don't have to "infringe" on them later? Yeah, because they know the patents are BS and they wouldn't stand to scrutiny even for a day.
If you have customer and credit card model, I'd implement the checkout process inside Order and OrderItem model classes. It would probably use an AASM state machine to represent the progress through the purchase etc.
Looking at the linked article:

'The specific attack involves creating a virus and using it to
infect such vulnerable systems in a laboratory environment, and
thus decrypting traffic passing through them again via an unknown,
unmentioned mechanism. Finally, traffic is redirected towards
infected nodes by essentially performing a denial of service on
clean systems.

Researchers showed that one third of the nodes are vulnerable,
"sufficient in all cases so that we can easily infect and obtain
system privileges," says the director.'

While the theory of the network is pretty good, you still have to execute your normal bread & butter security practices. Sadly, the anonymization depends on others doing the same.
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Things change daily in a start up. People come and go in the market all the time. That's expected and YC is not going to accept or deny you based on a new competitor. In fact, it will look good that competitors are coming into your market. Besides, YC is more concerned about the team over the actual product.
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Cambridge (where the blog is hosted) has been a staunch defender of sane academic freedom of speech for hundreds of years.

I say "sane" because Cambridge groks individual responsibility, and generally stays out of the way.

Why should researchers be forced to publish in closed-access journals? There are many of us that feel the same, and would publish openly if we could.
You can't patent this meta-idea of a "clean design". The idea of portable rectangular displays with pen and touch input since the old sci fi shows. Apple simply didn't invent this.

From what I read, the mere aggregation of existing things is not of itself considered patentable. It doesn't make sense to me that anyone would consider the removal of knobs or buttons to be worthy of patent protection. (But then again, almost nothing about the patent system makes sense to me.)
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If South Asians are severely under-represented in the US bone marrow donor registry, can't we just buy bone marrow from donors in (say) India?
This is why I think of myself as a “local” socialist. Of course, the whole idea of capitalism is also for other people to experiment with different ways to accumulate capital, and one of those ways is to hinder and restrict my ability to be a libertarian socialist on a small scale, e.g. patent trolling.

I’m not saying capitalism doesn’t work, just that as practiced today it’s a mixed bag.
> I really have no affection for children at all, I dont find babies cute, i dont think kids are darling

Have you spent much time around them? I have a 16 month old, and before he was born, I felt exactly the same as you. In fact, I went out of my way to avoid having to interact with children of most any age. Once I spent some time around my son, I began to find other babies cute and fun and now I really enjoy hanging out with kids (well, most of them). Maybe it's an acquired taste?
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He seems to advocate voluntary socialism. I'm an anarcho-capitalist, but I have sympathy for this view. The view that we all ought to interact voluntarily, without aggression or coercion, is called voluntaryism. I believe the only realistic way voluntaryism is going to work is anarcho-capitalism, but so long as you are in favor of voluntary interactions, we are on the same page.

But state-run socialism? No thanks.
I think he's saying that when you borrow money, it stimulates the economy and increases people's incomes. That allows people to borrow even more money. Which stimulates the economy and increases people's incomes even more. It's a feedback loop and we saw it break in 2008.

An example is people "using their homes as ATMs" during the housing boom. Easy credit drove up the prices of homes, people used the increase in net wroth to take home equity loans, other general debts, or buy investment properties, which in turn drove up the price of homes even more.
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AFIK, their prices are pretty standard across the world excluding import tariffs, sales taxes and other state-imposed costs. I live in China, where imports are taxed heavily and as a result Apple computers cost nearly 25% more than in the US. In Hong Kong, however, there are no such import taxes and the prices are the same as in the US.

I sincerely doubt Apple is the culprit here.
The real problem Hazlett ignores is the existence of market failures in the actual world. The labor market in particular is rife with failures, in areas from search costs to market power, to the point where many labor economists model the labor market as a monopsony, i.e. a single-buyer market, which is one of the classic situations where government intervention to raise prices can increase total surplus. There's a whole discipline of labor economics that deals with the fact that the labor market is imperfect in excitingly complex ways.

In general a real market is imperfect in any case where firms make profit above their cost of capital -- i.e. most of it -- since perfect competition is supposed to drive profits to zero everywhere. The employees of a firm making profits certainly can be paid more without imperiling production, since the profits could simply be reduced.

Almost throughout, Hazlett makes exactly this (very common, for those with a political axe to grind) fallacy, supposing implicitly everywhere that no company is profitable despite the fact that we are manifestly not living in that world.
Obviously the series of "tubes" he refers to is the internet.
A functioning democracy requires transparency. We shouldn't have to justify why we want to see government documents. That is the default position. Rather, they should justify why they want to keep them secret. Of course, in practice, if they want to keep something secret, they can't tell us why either. This little loophole allows them to abuse secret-keeping to suppress anything that is embarrassing or paints them in a negative light, and that is extremely dangerous.
Right now, you do need a public IP for t.createWindow(). We have ssh tunnels in browserling already but they don't work with testling just yet. Stay tuned.

I think one of the biggest benefits of testling right now is that you don't have to install anything outside of curl to start using it.
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Branding is a lot like software development in this respect. You can go cut-rate and get something that fits the requirements, nothing more. What you end up missing is insight into aspects of the project you might not have considered, optimizations that, while not strictly necessary, can greatly improve the user experience, and the attention to scalability and future iteration you only get with a longer-term business relationship.
It's more to keep the cables from everyone else. They were intended as context-sensitive commentary from diplomats to the US. They were not intended for general release, and as such, contain information and observations that were intended to give the US an advantage over their counterparts at a later time.

That is why they're "secret". They're not supposed to be viewed by any other country. If they are freely available to citizens, there is nothing stopping them from being freely available to everyone.

This is the shell game that has been played by all diplomats since the beginning of time. There wasn't really anything all that interesting about the cables, and all it really gave was a good look at how our diplomatic services work.
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If other companies with these two-bit patents managed to extort as large amounts of money from the phone manufacturers, it'd become impossible to make Android phones at competitive prices. There isn't much difference between that and outright banning.
As an aside, the tunnel scenario is currently something that has been solved by a few other startups including:

* Browserling - http://www.catonmat.net/blog/announcing-ssh-tunnels-for-browserling/
* BrowserStack - http://www.browserstack.com

Clickable:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/announcing-ssh-tunnels-for-brow...

http://www.browserstack.com

IMO if you're going to be publishing some form of cloud SaaS for testing, this feature is a must.

I personally don't like my broken code leaving the confines of the office (or opening up any outside ports).
If you want car drivers to respect bikers, stop running red lights and stop signs. Since you want to be reckless and ignore safety rules, others would have less regard for your safety. The conserving momentum is just a BS excuse; stopping is for safety overall for everyone involved, not just you. A car can also run through stop sign to conserve momentum and save on gas but for overall safety sake it stops.
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Erm, the problem is that all these editors are implementing something amazing, and something shitty. So there needs to be a way to give people the hammer they like without sacrificing the rest of the toolbox.

This is why people like command-line tools, they are useful anywhere in any editor, but not everything is for that, or maybe it should be.... Maybe we need some service that runs on a java/ruby/python project and feeds you autocomplete info that any editor can access... HMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!
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I believe you (along with many commentators) assume that my primary mode of transport is driving, since nowhere in my comment I refer to drivers. I was commenting on sharing sidewalks and streets with bikers as a pedestrian. There were many times for me when, at a stop sign, a car stops, I start to cross, and nearly run into a biker who ignored the sign, this is what I was referring to in teh part about stop signs.
They can already hide information despite the freedom-of-information act.

The way they do it is to charge an absolute fortune for the records.

Happens all the time:

http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2011/10/gsa-wants-113k-to-t...
Is it possible to correct the typo in the title?