skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. By axiomatic, I mean viewed as a base level on which abstractions are built up from (primitive-based might be a better term). By universal qualifications, I mean applicable to situations based on their shape, rather than what abstractions they are built upon. "The content of speech shall not be considered when discriminating between members of the public" (or something like that, more formality is clearly needed).

For example, the primitive-based view of the right to free speech defends my ability to discuss whatever topic I'd like while in a public park (with the usual caveats about speech that incites actions). But if that public commons is sold to a private entity, those protections magically vanish and
I can be kicked out arbitrarily based on the contents of what I am saying, even though society continues to have the same relationship with the park. The internet is one such privately owned public commons; should an ISP be able to cancel my service based on what I posted on a message board?

The standard ways of addressing the above problems are private contracts or additional laws. Both create unbounded complexity that isn't understandable by the common person and thus contrary to the very idea of 'rights'.

PS It's funny that you call me out for hating on institutions, because I think am starting to come around to seeing the importance of them as a concept. I just think many 'respected' institutions are calcified and bankrupt, with their actual behavior very different from what they purport. (Hm. I wonder if this is why people cling to process ('democracy') as an institution - there's little else left.)
That seems similar. However, for Emacs, you don't have to install anything on the remote computer--it uses scp by default, I think. It also supports different protocols; for example, you can use it to edit files, browse directories or run shells with sudo.
What?

"And I never met a "freak" who wouldn't throw over a decent wage to work somewhere lousy if they felt they belonged. These were people who wanted to be a part of something. They wanted to be valued for who they were, rather than what they produced. I often wondered if what Bezos really figured out was that if you gave freaks a home, they would give you everything they had-their best ideas, their longest days, and their rights on the job.

And that's what they did. "
Private RFID Authentication Protocol Supporting Ownership Transfer#papers
Abstract: Radio Frequency IDentification based systems, which are the most famous example of ubiquitous networks, are getting pervasively deployed in many daily life applications where privacy sensitivity is entrusted to tag or server. In some applications, ownership transfer of RFID labels is another significant requirement. Specifically, the owner of RFID tags could be required to change several times during its lifetime. During the transfer, new owner first obtains necessary private information from the old owner, with these information he then takes over tag identification and authorization so as to have secure communication with tags. Security and privacy are major issue in the presence of malicious adversary.
I agree it's a supply and demand issue. But for comparison: We couldn't find people to hire in Y2K either after having raised $20M.

Throwing equity around does not solve the fundamental issue, it just is a competitive tactic.
Thanks. Yeah, "Forgot Password" link was the first thing I tried and it worked perfectly, but I thought you'd like to know about the bug anyway. Silly little things like that can be hell on your bounce rate.
Q&A: Shigeru Miyamoto Looks Into Nintendo’s Future
Shunning Facebook and Living to Tell About it
Building a Massive Log Collector with Fluent on Heroku
Apple Hires UI Designer Who Helped Mock Up Leaked Siri Design
It's also a possibility that those that pay below average amounts are likely to signal their contribution being made under Windows. Alternatively, high payers have a higher likelihood of marking Linux.
Very cool. Just found out about a few concerts I hadn't heard of in the area.

I would use this much more if 1. it were mobile and 2. it really emphasized the events.
At first I didn't know whether to start putting in something to do or put my city in. I got confused when I started to put in "Watch a movie" and it didn't come up with any autocomplete results. It might be good to mention in the search bar, maybe as a placeholder "New York City, NY" or maybe even have your city retrieved through the HTML5 Location API.

Also, jQuery UI's Autocomplete by default looks really bad. While yeah, usability comes before shinyness, it's something worth fixing when there's time.
I see a lot of positive comments for this post but I'd like to chime in and suggest that upping the equity is not going to solve the problem.

In once sense the engineer is making the same kind of bet as the VC. They don't know the founders too well, not sure if the idea is any good, its a big gamble. Buy unlike a VC, the company will be the engineers whole life until the idea proves itself or fails.

A few extra percentage points of a deal that will probably never happen is not really all that attractive.

The only solution is to raise more money and pay them more.
What do you tell to someone who's decided that it's really quite pointless to continue working and living because the inevitable fate of the Universe coupled with the seeming inability to achieve sustained happiness?

To them living to make a difference is pointless because practically nothing survives Solar death, and nothing survives a maximizing of Universal entropy.

To them living for themselves is pointless because nothing brings sustained happiness. Solving problems, building things, etc. are just as much drugs as heroin. Once you've solved the problem you start seeking a new one. You can't be happy and satisfied with solving an important problem once.
Charles Simonyi on Paul Allen’s Spaceship: I’ll Go, if the Price is Right
Suicide does not correlate with Christmas holiday, quite the opposite, since suicide rate actually drops [1].

While depressed people have higher risk of suicide, it's generally believed that most depression patients are more at risk when they are recovering from it, as their motivation returns[2].

[1] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1734474...

[2] http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?Volume=60&pa...
Taking the Leap. Any tips?
I'm finally doing it. Starting in January I am taking a non-paid indefinite leave of absence from a consulting job that I've gotten too comfortable with over the last 7-8 years. I haven't yet decided what exactly I'm going to do but I have some ideas for web/mobile apps that I'm planning to pursue.

I used to think that I wanted to build the next great startup but in reading the first couple of chapters of Rob Walling's "Start Small, Stay Small", I'm starting to rethink what my goals are.

Being an out of practice developer with minimal experience in web/mobile apps means that I'll need to decide and ramp up on a language. I have some very basic skills with PHP and mySQL so was planning to stick with those.

Any tips or ideas for pursuing such an endeavor?
I might be missing it, but I see a way to narrow results to a specific category, how about an option to exclude categories? For instance, excluding food? Sometimes I'm just looking for something to do, not to eat.

The shade of blue isn't pleasing to my eyes, or maybe that there's just so much of it is what's hurting? I'm not a color or design specialist, so this is just my opinion and might just be preference.

Very neat site though, I could see myself using it.
Fullscreen? mode?
JSP, I never knew. That certainly explains a lot, particularly how it meshes with my sense of anything-JSP being a couple of years behind, featurewise. I don't know why this is, if it's a language non-feature, or a benefit of open-source libs, Java coding culture, or what, but I've thought that LinkedIn was making some silly site decisions and being inexplicably behind the times for some time now.
I cant name and shame the companies but I was surprised about the offers. EDIT: fwiw - for the purposes of the original post I am not including offers that I got where I was offered a higher stake but where I did not have a high conviction about the startup.
> good timing, few alternatives (C and Perl basically) at a key point in the growth of the internet and web developers.

Two web language competitors to add here: MS .ASP and ColdFusion. PHP broke out by being both free and Free (the REPL helped too).
If they exhibit serious catatonic symptoms, you take them to the doctor immediately. Otherwise, you explain to them that whoever promised them that life has a meaning on its own was lying to them in the first place, and that people have to make life meaningful by themselves, and then to read some existentialists, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer or Camus.
A bit off-topic, but if you like the game of efficiency, try vimgolf.com!
Startup Radically Reinvents The Disposable Coffee Cup, Eliminating Plastic Lids
My second paragraph wasn't trying to be philosophical, just what I see as the practical outcomes. If developed for the end user before becoming de facto mandated, there's a much better chance that it would be a system with some notion of privacy between independent actors. A court would have to request the relevant records of the accident rather than getting weeks worth of data ripe with circumstantial evidence. (Whether a defendant can refuse this request is irrelevant, eventually withholding the data while the other party's data shows reasonable actions would be viewed in a negative light)

What would such a system look like if developed by insurance companies? I'm guessing it would contain a cell modem that would continually upload as much data as possible to the insurance company. They'd then datamine that looking for 'dangerous' drivers and charge them more, even if they have less accidents.

Who would you rather have in your insurance pool going forward - someone who speeds everywhere with no accidents, or someone who drives under the speed limit yet has managed to total their car twice in the past year? There's no answer to that - my point is that we just don't really know who the bigger risk is a priori despite much effort, so the game-changing goal should be better analysis after the fact.
"""That will never happen because of the various differences between clients."""

That has happened already. I can install, say, Evernote on my Desktop Mac and my iOS phone with a few clicks (as fast as typing: evernote [ENTER] on the location bar of a browser).

"""The web is great because of its extreme simplicity. Trying to replicate that would get you yet another browser-like technology, that's broken in new ways nonetheless, or it will make you deal with even greater complexity - I don't know about you but it was extremely painful for me to even get a Hello World installed on my own iPhone."""

Hundreds of millions of people don't seem to have problem downloading and using around a billion apps on their iPhones. Same for Android from what I hear.

(And who said anything about developing for the platform? The "Hello world" thing you had trouble with is not about installing/using a ready made app from the store).

"""The benefit you mention isn't even the main benefit of the web. The main benefit is that the web is available everywhere for everybody, with no discrimination."""

Yeah. In a future where most people carry mobile devices/tablets etc, that could well change, in the same way where now you can't take Gopher access for granted like you once could among internet users.

"""When you send a link to a friend, you don't ask him whether he has access to your App Store or not. The web's availability is implied (after all, that's probably how your friend received the link in the first place)."""

Yeah. But I don't go to most web apps because of links send by friends. Why would I be expected to install apps because of links send by friends?

You know something else that is also ubiquitous besides Google Docs? A program able to read .doc files. Almost all computers have one installed --and that's of a desktop proprietary format, a rather expensive program, and pre-app store convenience for native apps and sandboxed models. Actually MORE people have Office installed than have ever used Google Docs. Imagine how easier it will be in the future, with application repositories and on demand native app installation.

"""Seriously? Ever attempted developing for iOS, Android, Symbian, WinMo 6, WinMo 7, Samsung Bada, Blackberry, OS X, Windows, Linux?"""

You said about developing? I said you can HAVE the same app. Somebody else will have to go to the pain of developing. Have you tried developing your own Google Docs? It's just as difficult.

Also, most of those platforms don't matter, only iOS, Android, Windows and OS X do, market wise. Consider a future where native app repositories cover those with ease and ample apps (some of the platforms are already covered).

You really think that browser apps will win because they also cater for Linux, Symbian and Bada?
> I don't think we should be protecting people from themselves as much as we do as a society

That much I do agree with you. This is definitely a case of the government protecting people from themselves. Just the same, I'm still not sure it's a good idea because it will give entrepreneurs a bad name, so in a sense, it is protecting that reputation too.
So what's the answer when jobs like this need to get done?

It may not have to be J2EE, but there are plenty of corporate jobs that have to get done to help build big company infrastructure, and if much of the talent that was available now has more attractive options, is the only answer to escalate salaries? Or to hire in shorter-term contract developers?
Teenage Programmer Backed By Hong Kong Billionaire Li Ka Shing
An Ode to a 'Poor Black Kid' I Never Knew: How Forbes Gets Poverty Wrong
Is there an equivalent in Ruby?
The casual in his tone of dismissal. I might be misreading, no being a native speaker.
I think that both humble bundle and indie royale are providing high quality games. I think humble bundle is doing a little better, but I still think both companies will succeed. I don't think that they need to directly compete with steam, I prefer getting my games from them. But it would be nice to add accounts to both sites. I've bought enough bundles that I would prefer to have my keys all in one spot.
Google Recruiting - A False Bill Of Goods
It's not like the flexibility to export you data in some format or the freedom to modify the code means anything to people --or like it should mean.

How about the freedom from baby-sitting your OS install and the flexibility to just use a nice, polished app and go on with your REAL work?
Looks like there was an Xcode 3/4 confusion that crept in. I imagine you were compiling in Xcode 3--I've fixed the issue now and pushed the change to the repository, though you may need to do a clean after pulling. If you're still having issues you can try removing the files in Divvy's application support directory. Thanks again for bringing this to my attention.
Sorry, but there is no true enlightenment, in any text editor.

Other than vim off course ;-)
Hah, you do have a point though--even if there are great games for Linux, most of the popular ones (at least for my demographic ;) are Windows-only, and gaming is as much about playing with friends as it is about the quality of the games.

However, my roommate, like a bunch of my other friends, is entirely an XBox person, so the games aren't the issue.
Paul Allen's airborne orbital rocket launcher
Republic Wireless Got Its Own Country Code To Make International Calling Free
I just finished reading his biography, so it's interesting to see the young Steve. For historical context, their main products at the time were the Apple II and Apple III, so this was before the GUI / Lisa / Mac.
Apostrophe's.
I feel terribly sorry that you feel this way. I don't want to mess with this kind of stuff on something this important but, speaking from my own experience, and I do understand this feeling very well, I'd say that this is evidence that the sadness and ideation comes from inside and that the road to resolving it comes from working on that rather than outside things.

I've come to realise this quite strongly myself over the years as various things succeeded/failed, that what I thought would help it didn't, and that all that helps is to face the depression and actively find ways to fight it. I've found schema-based therapy very effective, for example.

I really hope you find a way to resolve these issues, or at least ways of making it better.

If you want to talk (hope this doesn't sound awfully patronising) you can find my email address in my profile.
5 good reasons to start a business ASAP
We didn't think there was anywhere for the traffic to go either. -- AOL, 1989-2001
I think part of the gist of the article was that abused CoffeeScript is more bad than abused JavaScript. So, yes, of course, you can do everything differently. But the point is, in the moment when writing it, it's not confusing, and doesn't stand out as a bad thing. Later, when you look at it, it IS confusing.
I lose my passwords periodically and it's easy to get a new account. I post semi-anonymously anyway.
Well you can do that with a standard unix filter. This does all of stderr.
Is there a solution whereby this common "monitor on the wall" could be logged in via some common account instead of with a particular individual's account?

Also, according to http://support.google.com/plus/bin/static.py?hl=en&topic...
"There's a 90 minute check-in to make sure you're still there."
These games always make me want to make some of my own!
Ask HN: What's that service...?
There's a service I saw once on HN that reminds you to follow up. You send an email (or BCC) an email to something like 3months@theirdomain and they'll send you an email in 3 months reminding you to follow up.

I should have bookmarked it because now I can't remember the name and it's a difficult topic to search on.
Kind of a long way to go to slam Android. :-) (not being snarky per se, but would have preferred the author separate the last bit into a different blog post 'Why Android didn't make the top 10 list'

I pretty much agree with most of what is on this list. I might add Asterisk or Gcc. Not sure what I would delete though.
I made a concept app that uses GameKit to share flashcards between iPads[1]. P2P in iOS is definitely underused, especially in non-gaming apps, but even GameKit requires some sort of connection setup. Having a zero-configuration P2P connection would be quite useful for many apps, such as Bump.

1: https://github.com/neilgupta/NoteBuddy
I'm not planning to do anything for NYE myself. I don't particularly even want to be around my family as that can really be not fun at all, further isolation is actually a better option out of those two.
Parallel map in Javascript
The Mozilla Labs Apps Store Project (Preview)
The debugging complaint is valid, but a) doesn't generally seem that troublesome in practice (especially given the still-crude state of JavaScript debugging tools in general), and b) will be a lot less valid in the near future, as WebKit, Google and Mozilla are all adopting support for alternative languages in their respective JavaScript implementations IIRC.
Rutan, Allen & SpaceX venture building air-launched orbital booster
I'll believe there might be a talent shortage just as soon as one single person, who is not a colleague with whom I have a close personal rapport, approaches me either directly or through my network with an opportunity. That's what I'd expect to see, even if only occasionally, if there was really a shortage. As it stands, it looks much more like accepted hiring / job seeking practices are just grossly inefficient at matching up talent with opportunities. That's inconvenient, for both sides, but it's not the same thing as a shortage.
Nevermind. Found it. http://www.followup.cc
Why override write() when you can just use pipes?

http://distfiles.exherbo.org/distfiles/hilite-1.5.c
Both of those are on our radar, thanks!
What about chromium?
It's interesting to see how many of the same anecdotes he reuses. I think this must be the fourth time I've heard him tell the "bicycle" story.
It's not only that, it's the lack of drivers on Linux also. I just bought an asus x53s (pretty famous laptop) and it ubuntu runs really badly on it.
Given that the cost to the public is much much less than the cost to the non-seatbelt-wearing person, I don't think it's very relevant. You've got to draw the line somewhere, otherwise such everything-affects-something reasoning can be used to justify anything.
I dunno. I think that a lot of that is just a matter of developer maturity and code discipline. If you can't recognize a code smell when you're writing code, the problem is probably that you aren't mature enough as a developer, not that the language is bad for allowing it. I don't think that most seasoned developers would look at that 160-column list comprehension, say "okay, that works!" and move on to the next task. They'd say "okay, that works, but holy crap it's ugly. Quick, to the refactormobile!" I've seen 160+ column nested ternary operations in pure Javascript that make the aforementioned comprehension look positively poetic.

I've seen some genuinely horrible Javascript. Like, stuff that so terribly abuses the language without any comprehension whatsoever of closures or context binding and only works because the author got stupidly lucky and/or abused globals so badly that the code was effectively one giant function. In both cases, bad developers writing bad code are going to produce unmaintainable messes. Doesn't mean that the language should be avoided. Garbage in, garbage out.
Google pulls 22 apps from Android Market to prevent fraudulent charges
Has it ever occurred to you that the next generation technology might harness the advantages of both apps and the web?

That's the way innovation occurs. Incremental improvements. Referring back to past implementations. Standing on the shoulders of giants. Learning from both the good and the bad of technology.

When people bring up the debate of Apps vs. Web, it's equivalent to saying "Facebook vs. Google+ - which one will people use in the future? You either get the Facebook like button or Google circles. One or the other, but not both."
That is an opinion. I like that CoffeeScript allows me to have more choice over how I write my programs. If I want to write a piece of code in a different way, I can. If I don't think it will improve readability, I won't. You don't have to use all features of CoffeeScript all the time.

Plus, if you don't like it at all, just don't use it and quit complaining. :)
I did something similar for a recent project. My backend basically only provides an HTTP API. All rendering is client-side.

It felt natural as a programmer to develop the backend as a "library" that was "called" by the client side.

Immmmmense productivity. All pages require auth and shouldn't be indexed, so I don't worry about excluding search engines etc.
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