skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3 different versions of the report are available here:
http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2011/12/27/amoco-oil-company-...
It is naive to think that money is the only conflict of interest. Wikipedia is rife with ideological conflicts of interest now, and much of the growing edit bureaucracy is designed to protect these conflicts of interest.
"Second, you are in your rights to do those things. You can't discriminate based on race, age, gender or religion; tats, piercings and ugliness are fair game."

Really, when you think about it, not being a christian is a choice (which is why I didn't mention race, age, or gender). Just like this guy being an asshole.

It's not much different. Someone is getting excluded from business because another group doesn't like them.
I was pleasantly surprise to see it. It would be interesting to see if you title all your work with it. Very nice, indeed.
I think there's a lesson for startup founders: Choose your PR agency carefully. Or if you're representing yourself, watch what you're saying. "Rough around the edges" would be a very nice way to refer to some programmer/engineer/entrepreneur personalities, too.
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While I think that anyone should be allowed to discriminate against anyone they want to in private forums (i.e. restaurants or businesses), laws prevent you from discriminating on the basis of sex although not appearance (with the exception of a few states) or if the position is covered under the Bona Fide Occupational Qualification exception. That being said, "being an asshole" isn't a covered category under anti-discrimination law, so they're perfectly allowed to discriminate all they want.
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He says:

"Stanford “free” classes aren’t free. Stanford students have to pay for them. The fact that I’m paying for them doesn’t bother me, the fact that people who aren’t paying for them have changed the class more than the ones who have, does."

which does seem to be a forceful point. However, checking the FAQ (http://see.stanford.edu/see/faq.aspx#aboutq2) we find that they are funded completely from outside sources. So this guy didn't even bother to do some basic Google checking.
Speaking only for myself, there's only a certain amount of opportunism that I'm comfortable with in piling on when a competitor stumbles, especially when it is rooted in politics.

For example, Tucows does a ton of great work to support various causes and we've always (at least as long as I can remember) supported the development of the Open Internet but we've never had a huge animal rights component to our activism, so we didn't feel right adopting an elephant rescue charity for our giving. A few other registrars did, but it just felt weird for us to change our stripes for PR & marketing purposes.

Same dynamics at work with this issue (and it is much more of an issue than it is an opportunity). We do a lot of work with a lot of organizations that oppose SOPA and PIPA and similarly stupid bits of law that might destroy or inappropriately restrain the Internet commons and we're going to continue to do that, but to buddy up to the EFF and promise donations based on business volumes just isn't something we're comfortable with. We think our activism can be expressed much more productively.

We're continuing to talk about what works best for us and our customers while staying true to our values and we may or may not stay our current course - it is always a live issue, but as one of the largest registrars, I can definitely say that it isn't a case of being too small or not wanting to rock the boat. :-)
If you want to save the world from existential threats you might also consider donating to the B612 Foundation. It's a group ex-astronauts working to fly a spacecraft to find and deflect asteroids on a collision course with earth. http://b612foundation.org/
There is a certain intangible that makes social networks tick, and places like Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter found it. Google+ is more like a place that ticks cause there is a team of doctors heavily monitoring a pacemaker more than anything.

Great analogy. You notice this especially because the aforementioned predecessors evolved around their communities, feeling them out over time and catering to them and their interests as the community broadened. G+ is akin to a social network android built from scratch to be superior, and even though it might be, people can still see the wires sticking out.
I thought Google doesn't like censorship and the do not evil thing.
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I'm not sure there's anything in the criminal code about gross incompetence, but it's obviously not acceptable behavior.

When you're being paid as a mouthpiece, what you're thinking has absolutely no bearing on what you should be saying. What you should be saying is the company line, with all the accountability and courtesy that implies. You don't get to blow off steam on the same people whose money helps pay your rent.

> Him telling them how it is doesn't change anything.

On the contrary - him "telling how it is" has changed the company's fortunes dramatically, taking an unreleased product and bombing it with one-star Amazon reviews, for just one toll of the damage, here.
I haven't looked into the details of what they do, but with respect to your concern about blog entries (on your SO post), I'm immediately put in mind of MediaWiki (the engine behind Wikipedia).
hmmm... so the author is using today's understanding of technology to substantiate future outcomes. No can do - I say!
> The vendors are not the customer. They're important, but secondary to the gamers by a wide margin.

Actually no, unless PAX has a very unusual business model (which I've seen attempted by one event organiser once, and it didn't go well) the vendors are more important than customers.

Obviously, both are technically customers, as both pay money and if you lose 100% of either group your event is dead. But generally speaking vendors are considered more valuable - largely because each single vendor is worth X visitors in revenue (where X > 1).

This is still a good move by PAX though, because a.) PR, they got to be part of this story, b.) The exhibitor they banned (for all we know they weren't even going to have a booth - PAX might have just banned someone who wouldn't have been giving them any money anyway) was small enough that the lost revenue was small, and I imagine very replaceable with another exhibitor; meanwhile the upside in PR and what consumers think of them is greater, as a small move shows people that they can trust PAX events to only host "good" companies.
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Buyers have different motives. As do sellers. Mismatches are common, and when people make a trip to someone's residence to look at product in question (as thru CL), the deal, typically goes through, leaving mismatched feelings about the deal.
Not saying it is, but this could be ingenious way to harvest valid email addresses. Social engineering at its finest.
There is no reason that there could not be a graduated difficulty for these classes.

Example: The 'level 1' or 'core' videos and assignments can be a base and offered for free and be of a similar duration and difficulty as the class now...

'Level 2' would either replace or augment the 'level 1' and would be more advanced and require some knowledge of pre-requisites and more 'synthesis' or 'critical' style assignments and less hand holding. Maybe they could charge for access to this level...

'Level 3 etc' could go deeper into the topic and perhaps offer more mathematical rigor or dive into more advanced topics or expose students to related current research etc.
The assignments could also be tougher and more free form. Depending on how much human interaction is needed on the assignments and whatnot, they could justify a much higher price...

I would be very interested in a program that had this kind of format.

It would allow for exploration without too much commitment but a deep dive on topics that are interesting and perhaps a window into a community of people exploring the same topics...

If I were paying Stanford level tuition for the class as it stands now, I'd be a bit disappointed too.
That's clearly the middle of a terribly offensive Italian gesture. I demand an immediate apology.
nice work!
I see you're running nginx as your web server. Anymore details on the dev stack you used?
I think a lot of the commenters here are missing the point:

Siegler is a Google+ user expressing his dissatisfaction with one of their policies on his public blog, in the hope that Google will change their policy.

So I don't understand the criticisms against him and calls of "don't like it? build your own website". While it's perfectly within Google's right to police Google+ however they want, it's also within Siegler's right to criticize such policies.
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NPR makes most of its money from private foundations and corporate sponsors, both of whom it acknowledges by name on the air. That is a type of ad. Wikimedia Foundation could raise a ton of money if they just did something like this.
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As far as I know, the Stanford online courses are NOT the same as the ones listed on the SEE page.

They seem to be two different initiatives. I know for sure that the ones on the SEE page are recorded video lectures from the actual live classes.
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Nonsense.

> Yes, I remember the Godaddy witch hunt

I get the feeling you don't know what "witch hunt" means. Usually there's no consideration for the guilt or innocence of the subject. In GoDaddy's case they stated their support for SOPA, and received backlash from SOPA's detractors.

> I just wish more people would do the right thing, even if
> it is against their ideals.

What's wrong with standing up for ideals you believe in? I claim that it is not wrong for a person to publicly announce that they will not do business with a person or company they find distasteful.
Or like a more intelligent non-POSIX compliant filesystem accessible via HTTP/HTTPS.
The value isn't in the entertainment, it makes the point that you should be careful if you outsource any aspect of customer relationship or this could happen. A lot of technical business owners aren't comfortable handling customers themselves, so it's especially important that we remember what the downside of farming it out can be.
It's wild to me that people are giving you trouble for "can't" when "ponderousnessly" is clearly the more compelling target. (An odd choice even if rendered as "ponderously". "Clumsily unlikely?" Eh, okay, I guess you can have it.)

> To put it more plainly: picking apart a small typo here is gratuitous.

Yes, that's true, but when dropping the following, Caesar's wife must be above reproach to avoid comedic side effects:

> [4] The man can't even spell, much less formulate a vaguely grammatically correct sentence.
Irascible human being is not fit for PR/Marketing. Whether he's a christian or has earrings does not come into factor.

Its called judging a man by the content of his character and/or skills. Its not discrimination. Someone with Parkinson's is unfit for a bomb disposal unit. Someone with arts degree is useless as Rocket scientist and useless at a NASA convention.
> Well, here's some honesty for you: Nobody gives a shit.

"All generalisations are false, including this one."
-- Mark Twain
More than a few native English speakers stand a fair chance of flunking the TOEFL ;)

Speaking for myself, I couldn't answer the following question off the top of my head :

"True or False : Intensive Pronouns contain the same words as Reflexive Pronouns – they just have different terms of usage and function."
So it's like Google Authenticator with qr codes?
Tesla is building the drivetrain and batteries for Toyota's new all-electric Rav4.
Perhaps I would understand better what you're trying to say if you were to give me an example of a controversial feature.
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He should make his own website regardless of whether there is another place he can contract his services out. Anyone interested will check for a website prior to committing contract work with him.

I would recommend gamedev classifieds that was pointed out earlier, good ol' craigslist, or Gamasutra's contractors section if he has some money to use to get his name out.
Career-ending disaster, or brilliant viral marketing campaign for the Avenger controller? The world may never know ;)
"""I used this argument for Java, but it's the same with C++. If I can deliver a first version 2 months before the C++ version gets ready, I'll have two months to optimize market-tested algorithms before you hit the market. I may even have time to rewrite the sensitive parts in C."""

Yeah, the only problem with that logic is that it never happens.

(Except in the server space, where it doesn't matter what language you're using to make your web app, and you can throw more server boxes at it to make it go faster).

1) Very few commercial programs are made with some dynamic language as opposed to C/C++, and none in the fields where performance matters (games, video, multimedia) etc.

2) Some do incorporate a scripting language, but for non critical layers (Lightroom for example uses Lua for its UI scripting, but all image crunching is in C/C++).

3) It's not like time to market matters that much. You're not building Facebook, you're building a desktop app. Chances are a lot more exist in the same section of the market.

4) """For many things the world really moved on.""" --care to give some examples of successful desktop apps not written in C/C++?

I'm sure you'll find 10.

I doubt you'll find 20.
My problem is that if you did this in any other sort of setting, there would be lawsuits about discrimination.

Really? Penny Arcade is kicking him out for being an asshat, not because he's black, gay or Muslim. Don't businesses have the right to refuse service? If Penny Arcade is breaking a contract then a suit over breach of contract is fine, but I doubt that occurred & Penny Arcade can revoke vendors from PAX as they please per contract/TOS.

As far as your Facebook example, if an employer was to contact a person who looked drunk on their Facebook & said "This doesn't seem to be a very professional image you're putting out for yourself." and the person replied back saying "Fuck you asshole cunt faces, suck my balls". I think the business has every right to not hire that person.
Even better,

I'm going to run a software convention and exclude anyone associated with the GNU or how about anyone that is homosexual?

I know there have been cases that have come up on HN where people have been legally excluded and because it was against the ideals of the majority of the community, it was "discrimination". I don't like this guy either, but if you allow this sort of behavior, don't complain when there are other groups excluded in the future.

and btw, it's not how you run a business. If he was an asshole when he's there, then just kick him out. It's very unprofessional and childish to exclude someone from your show based on feelings and emotions.
He's pretty explicit that the idea is: consciousnesses is a strange loop, and since it's sometimes impossible to understand a system from within that system, we may never be able to understand the human mind because we are trapped within human minds.
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That could work until everyone is on the same room.
The flip side is that now a lot of prospective customers know about the product and will consider purchasing it. The reality is that if you need something and all the negative press you find isn't about the product itself, but is instead about someone at the company (or it's reps) being rude, most people won't be discouraged from buying it. So yeah, in the end it's probably worth it.

That said, I think you're right. This wasn't a carefully orchestrated campaign to get press; it was just one guy caught being a douche.
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One congressman's opposition to SOPA worth noting
> He took the graveyard shift at a local Marriott, and managed to support his wife and two special-needs children WHILE working out of our office during the day.

He is undoubtedly a hustler, but above all he sounds like a great man.
> More to the point if you’re starting a new company you have to plan for success.

PHP scales for Facebook-like success. It will handled whatever this guy wants to do with his MVP and beyond.

> Success means hiring more programmers and picking a language that’s fallen out of favor will inhibit every programmer who comes after your co-founders.

This sounds a lot like the "cool enough" argument in disguise ("fallen out of favour"?). Remember the founding coders can write garbage it any language. Code quality and the choice of language are not related, and code quality of a legacy code base is much more important for new developers coming on board.

> The problem you have is you, as an outsider, can see their problem but you don’t have the knowledge or experience to suggest a solution ("cooler than php" is not a good argument). If I were you I’d seek out PHP programmers who made the switch to either Rails or Python. Invite them to a lunch with your co-founders and let them talk through the issues. PHP has some significant advantages over Ruby and Python yet people are still gravitating away from it. Getting them in the room with people who are part of that movement is your best bet at convincing them

If the reasons for switching from PHP to Ruby or Python were so clear-cut that they could be explained over a coffee, then everyone would have made the switch. But the fact is they're not: it's largely a matter of opinion and personal preference. So if their preference is to use PHP, why try to convince them they're wrong when there is no definitive right?
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brilliant thought!
I think there's the typical case here of other 'communities' on the internet going all out vigilante and trying to dig up as much dirt as they possibly can.

The PR guy has been or will be held accountable for his actions, in the form of losing his job or his business, so to go even further than that feels somewhat like mob justice. I don't think that's a particularly good thing, and no one directly involved (ie. PR guy, Penny Arcade guy, and irate customer) comes out of it very well.
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> There is no reason that there could not be a graduated difficulty for these classes.

Of course there is. These classes are provided for free, yet require time and money and effort. You've likely more than tripled the required resources to produce the class.
C is a beautiful language. I agree that with the assertion that it doesn't do abstraction. It only does two things:

* group code into functions
* group primitives into structures.

However, it's simplicity is it's strength. You can write clean, standardised code in it. It's clean and simple. It's obvious. It's far too easy to make mistakes in C++ from bad type conversion or bad inheritance models (e.g. forgetting to virtualise something) to confusing subtly broken operator overloading that's counter-intutative.

C++ does render a C a little bit redundant. The abstractions it provides not only make programs more maintainable, but that additional intent allows compilers to potentially generate faster and more portable multithreaded code. We hit a point where C programs compile to faster/better assembly than a human can write. I expect that soon we'll hit a second wall where the C++ compilers can write faster/better multithreaded code than a C programmer could write or optimise and a C compiler couldn't support that directly "intent" as the language doesn't facilitate describing it.

However that point hasn't come yet. C still benefits from being clean, easy to interpret (from a human perspective) and is a demonstration of how to design a new language.

C++ is a federation of languages but writing pure C with gcc is better than g++ with all warnings enabled IMHO.
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It's an ASP.NET MVC 3 app running under Mono on Linux. The main components of the stack are:

- nginx

- Mono

- ASP.NET MVC 3

- FastCGI Mono Server

- MongoDB
In my case, it's more a matter of praticality. My nook is lighter than a book and contains many books, so if I don't feel like reading one type of book I can switch easily.

Less importantly, I can hold the nook with one hand and still be able to turn pages. I travel by bus, so this is useful to me - my other hand can hold a coffee ;)
But why not templetize the power into an open source system like Cloud Foundry, do it once and then forget about it? Why not design it once, use forever? You still get the power, you just have the time to think about other things, like actually getting shit done.
I know I've gone on a bit about this, here on HN. I've tried to stay politically neutral in those comments, outside of this particular issue.

I hope that, with however small or large a wedge initially driven into support, we can keep up the momentum.

It's not just a matter of the sum total of your argument -- it's how you make it. With one significant supporter beaten back and (however superficially) cowed, and with others -- including all those law firms -- seeking to have themselves removed from the list of support, now is the time to demonstrate to Smith et al., and to his counterparts in the Senate, that this is not going to stop.

And, with enough oomph, that they will be out of a job. And, to the extent we can manage, cut off from the lobbyist trough as well. (Tar them enough, and their value as salesmen -- that's what lobbyists (formally registered or not) are -- declines.)

I don't know that "we" have the moxie -- but if we do, now's the time to find it.
Would appending the scripts current location to PATH be a better idea?
I think he means he went to the same school as hofstadter.
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Thank you!
lots of folks certainly agree with you!
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Worst Customer Service I've ever experienced. The thread started in September and there's been no official announcement yet.
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Yes, but as stated above Gandi is just a reseller of .COM & .NET gTLD's from Verisign which is still US based.
Just to add some more. Some examples of Soviet era infographics (in Russian):

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Was referring to a "web site" akin to Facebook. A social network. Not merely a "content site." So, that point is moot.

> It's not just because they are idiots and don't get it

Didn't suggest otherwise. But your reasoning is flawed, I'd imagine. Your suggesting that they don't go native because smaller platforms have limited penetration? If so, that seems silly. Why not support the platforms with large penetration natively, and support the platforms with smaller penetration with a web app?

I'm not suggesting going native for every platform, but going native for none because you can't do them all is even more silly.
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