skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are missing the link between rights and duties.

I just default to the definition of "right" that's more like "something you can do without needing anyone's permission." I don't accept that anyone is ever obligated to do something (provide me with a gun, for example) because of someone else's rights.

in the negative sense, I have the duty not to stop you bearing arms

No, you could try if you feel justified. But at that point there's no more reasoning from first principles or anything... you just have two sovereign individuals with a dispute over something. The dispute can be settled through diplomacy, force, or whatever. I'd hope it was the former not the latter, of course.

One way to protect oneself is to ensure no one has the means to do harm to each other

Any living human being has the means to do harm to another, including killing them. Killing another human with your bare hands isn't terribly difficult, especially if you catch them unaware (e.g., slap on a rear-naked-choke and simply choke them to death). So by your standard, living itself can't be a fundamental right, since we all have a right to commit genocide (since that's one way to make sure no human can harm another human).
"Instead of mass-produced textbooks, the more than 3,100 sophomores in the state's largest district are learning from an online curriculum developed by their teachers over the summer with free software distributed over the web.

Engelhaupt, 31, was one of three district math teachers who spent about 100 hours each developing the lessons, which cost the district about $175,000 less than buying new textbooks."

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/index.ssf/story/anoka-hennepin...

here's the link to the book:
http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/book/8561
BitTorrent takes on Dropbox with personal file sharing
NHL Game Center is even worse—there is NO online cancellation process and don't let you cancel your subscription partway through the season. I live in Canada an pretty much any game that is aired on TSN or TSN2 is blacked out for me.

Watching sports online could be such a great experience, but most sports leagues seem to have their hands tied by their traditional broadcasting contracts unfortunately.
Local cost of living,
Current saturation of the market,
Negotiating prowess during salary talks
If Twilio come close to killing AT&T, I'll bet legislation comes up in congress making Twilio illegal.
It sounds like they're trying to roll their own streaming solution, instead of trying to rely on Netflix.

And hell, it might even work. Isn't this what we've been asking for? A la carte cable channel selection?
It's always football that holds me back, which is silly because I'd probably have more fun watching it with a group of friends at a bar.
I can't say that I've seen that myself, I've got a 27" viewsonic monitor that only has HDMI, but it only does 1920x1080 so it wouldn't need a dual link dvi anyway. My laptop is the same way with a built in hdmi connector rather than a dvi.
Offer HN: Top-level design
Based on Jacques post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840143

I have some time on my hands so I would like to spend that helping startup comunity. If you are startup, company or developer that need design
for your project or software feel free to contact me. I have done some job for top-level companies and contributed to opensource projects (I will
send you link to the page that has some work I have done for OSS - you could read on HN about that project) where I worked on design together with
developers.
I will send links to my work on request and provide you with all info you need. If you are stealth mode startup you can contact me too and I will
respect your privacy, I have already worked with companies (antivirus and software security companies) on their products that were in stealth mode and I would never(NEVER) share any details.
This is not "building portfolio" or karma offer, if someone really need designer and need something to be finished so their product could be
done on time I would be glad to help, from iphone/ipad/android apps to websites.As I said design quality will be at top level.

My email: des1atlantic@gmail.com

- include link to you HN profile or provide some info

Thanks
I'm not sure if this was by design for if there is a bug but on multiple monitors, at times, the window would shift completely to the other screen. So far, that, and sometimes the window seems to move out of alignment from the edge are the only issues I've encountered. But otherwise an awesome tool.
Couchbase 2.0 is Membase Server (http://www.couchbase.com/products-and-services/membase-serve...) merged with CouchDB, and as I understand it, Couchbase 2.0 more closely resembles Membase Server at the moment (http://www.couchbase.org/get/couchbase/2.0.0).
This is true in some organizations, but in other places the difference between "technician" and "engineer" literally is an engineering degree. I currently work at such an organization: you can't have the title "engineer" unless you have an engineering degree, technicians cannot rise above a certain level in the organization (which effectively puts a ceiling on their pay, as well), and technicians cannot be placed in positions of authority over engineers. A lot of this is stupid and makes no sense: I know "technicians" who are doing the same work as "engineers," better than many of the engineers they work with, but they are paid less and work under less experienced team leads, all because they lack a degree. Unfortunately, I'm sure there are plenty of other places that do things the same way.
Thanks for the link. Great to read about others' experiences.
I agree. This is getting overly complicated.
While I'm a huge fan of Twilio as a service there are certain use-cases that they do not fit. It would be ill-advised to build a call-center operation based on Twilio, but it would be less so to use AT&T for the same. Twilio are a reseller based on networks larger than themselves, one of which I would assume is AT&T. I don't see them killing AT&T off in the near future.
Take a cooking class. Or buy a bunch of ingredients and just start playing. For me, this works well because its an alternate way to be creative and lets me work with my hands. Nice way to step back from coding all the time.
"They don't realize that, in addition to engineering, I actually..."

(1) If they don't realize those things, then you've written your resume and cover letter all wrong, and you're selling yourself in interviews all wrong. Even if you spent most of your time writing code, de-emphasize that aspect of your accomplishments and sell the other aspects.

(2) Perhaps you're talking to the wrong "They", i.e. you're applying for the wrong jobs.

(3) If you're looking to work for a company larger than your startup (which is likely), then think about the parts of your work at the startup that you enjoyed the most and want to do more of. In larger companies, people tend to have roles that are more specialized instead of being jack-of-all-trades. Pursue opportunities and market yourself around the specialty you want to do more of. Tell people "I enjoyed doing X and was successful at it, and I really want to develop my skills in that area."
That's true. I think the shipping on Amazon is pretty good without Prime so maybe it doesn't stand out as much for me. You do get free movies and a few other perks that I never use.
Enough whitespace already
I feel the concept of "leaky abstractions" is being abused way too much as an argument against all abstraction.

Except in the well known cases, like trying to abstract away SQL to give it an OO interface, the leakiness of abstractions is rarely a big issue if those abstractions are decently designed. Not even beautiful and perfectly clean, just good enough for their purpose.

Yeah, it sucks in those rare cases where the abstraction makes it hard to figure out what the hell is actually happening, but the extra effort is nothing compared to the amount of pain saved by having that abstraction throughout the rest of the development process.

All plumbing will spring a leak some time (and sometimes with pretty costly consequences), but that in itself is no argument against plumbing.
Reddit is the new Digg. Groupthink on an epic scale, linkbait headlines, and hordes of people that want to feel angry about things so they can at least feel something. (Just like old media!) Now, there is some good content on there, but there's way too much crap to wade through in order to find it.
Is being a high earner really relevant?

My cable package is less per day than the cost of a latte at Starbucks. I could have gotten this at any point after I started working at 16, when I was nowhere close to being one of the top 10% of earners in the country.

I'd argue that even the most expensive cable/satellite package is a "non-issue" to everyone but the bottom quintile .
Protests work quite well when they have:
1) A clear call to some action
2) That most voters already support, or would if they though about it a bit.

In general protests do decrease popular support for their cause a bit if the protests are disruptive, but they can make up for it by making an issue the focus of wider debate. In authoritarian countries they also let people in the majority figure out that they are in the majority, which is very important when you're trying to figure out if you want to commit to helping to overthrow a regime.
"I spent a fair amount of time running network traces of the Kindle Fire, and I honestly don’t know quite what they’re doing yet."

That's a problem with binary protocols. How does Spdy help the 'open web' when you can't even tell what's even going on at the network layer even after spending lots of time trying?

This blog also like every other advocating Spdy ignores that HTTP tunneling in practice provides the same benefits. And the last graph is the same as for an HTTP proxy, nothing to see there.
Was money the problem before for hiring or the lack of support from the parent company (Conde Nast)? I don't know if they suddenly made more money and as a result were able to hire.

Edit: http://blog.reddit.com/2010/11/thank-you-mr-nast-may-we-have...
"Defeated" as in - no politician would want to be seen anywhere near that bill. It'll get buried, as it should.
Is there anything like this for Mac apps?
Are these employment rates based on actually being employed in their field of study, or are we including arts majors who work full-time as baristas as "employed" people?
> I'm not your mother and I'm not going to do the equivalent of cleaning your room just to find out if you might be worth a phone call.

And you shouldn't. But, what you say conflicts, in some way, with your stated goal:

> I should be able to create a guess as to who the person is, what they're looking for, and (generally) why they might be a good fit.

And guess what? That 15-page resume is looking for a place where a 15-page resume will fit in.

My point was that every person who has ever talked about the hiring process and how to put together a resume with the "I read resumes every day" credential is giving you advice on how to get the interview with them: nothing more.

With that in mind, why should I customize my resume for you? Rather, I should write a resume that represents me. If you don't like the resume, you won't interview with me. And that, hopefully, means I wouldn't fit in.

Listen, I've had interviews canceled on me because I play board games (at a company that promotes the fact that they have XBox 360s).

So, I'm not saying you are wrong. I'm just saying that your advice is, at least in my opinion, advice on what you look for. You have no need to defend what your criteria is, I wasn't attacking it. I apologize if you think I was.

In some ways, you should thank the 15-page resumes coming in. They make your decision much easier (I'd assume). If that person adjusted their resume merely to get the interview, are they really the type of person you want to hire?
potentially divide the community. Couchbase vs CouchDB

Actually that would be a step up from the current situation, which is "Apache CouchDB" vs "BigCouch" vs "CouchBase".
Beyond Paperless: The Paperless Bathroom
"Get a doctor and some nurses, put them in a clean building, and give them a few million to buy machines and stocks. Even the government can do it, and the government does it at a lower price, because they aren't looking to rip off desperate people."

They may not be looking to "rip off desperate people", but they sure don't know how to efficiently spend money (example: every single government-run system in the history of humanity). If the government ran anything like an efficient business, I might agree to more government-run services. The problem is that over time, almost all end up hemorrhaging money and I can't trust my life to a system like this.

"You won't lose much if the government replaces pretty private lobbys with Stalinist admissions rooms, and tells doctors to look after the patients rather than con them into expensive, unnecessary, and sometimes risky procedures."

Except freedom of choice. Once you have a government system in place, nearly all private care will be put out of business because the government is allowed to play by their own rules. Look at the UK: private care is so expensive, unless you are in the top 1%, you can't afford it.

Nobody likes monopolies, yet those same people are fine with the government running one. The same exact rules apply. A monopoly on health care means the government doesn't have to compete, innovate, or have any incentive to give us better care.

"or you think that the management of hospitals needs innovative techniques, then there's no reason not to have public health."

Nobody that is pro-universal health will ever discuss the problems with it. I mean nobody. I can't believe a system is perfect. No system is. If we can't have intelligent discussions about the pros and cons of a system, I won't ever support it.
That's a US case; we don't know what the Swedish system does.
The Secret to Career Success
I am not sure what you mean by "single-process mode", but I am guessing that you are referring to the ability to serve more than one request at a time. If this is the issue, then BaseHTTPServer works just fine in production environments if a thread pool is used or if multiple instances of the application are run behind a reverse proxy.
Make Chef make CFEngine make Puppet make Chef
Unfortunately the degradation of community and content is one of the issues that is associated with scale. I personally think reddit has done a much better job at staying off the decline than digg did. I'll be interested to see how things progress as their traffic numbers continue (presumably) to rise.
>they're just cleared from RAM

Don't various sockets, file descriptors, and related buffers get freed as well?
Do you not root for your home team? If you do, you'll be able to get most of your teams' Football games OTA, on FOX, CBS or NBC. You'll just miss out on the odd NFLN or ESPN game. I mean, if you live out of market, you'll have to get a similar package anyway...

Otherwise, can I suggest going to a bar to watch games (if you root for your home team)? I thought I wouldn't be able to live without live sports when I cut my cable, but I was always able to go to a friend's house, a bar or somewhere else to catch a game.
No one says ATT doesn't still get some money. But wouldn't you rather be the one sending the final customer a bill for 50/mo?

There's a reason wireless companies have been fighting vigorously to avoid becoming dumb pipes.
On linear programming formulations for the TSP polytope
Unless they are lying, the impression I got was that the issue was money, and that things like Gold Members directly impacted their ability to hire.
I was basically almost in the same spot as you're in now. I was doing a lot of coding for stuff that, to say the least, did not inspire me. I quit.

Quitting is not easy if you don't have backup. I had backup so it was a bit easier.

I would suggest you spend your evenings learning other code or even do freelance stuff. Freelance stuff forces you to learn other things and also gives you extra income to get you a step closer to quitting.
What you need to design a Timeline Cover without crummy 3rd party apps
"America has one of the best health care facilities and best doctors in the world, NOT the system."

and why is that? because the doctors go where the money is. Doctors in all NHS systems have limited salaries.

"Fortunately, there are lot of better models elsewhere to follow and America is not a shining beacon of health care system in the world."

Compared to who? There is so much FUD (especially in the HN community) about NHS, I can't really believe anything until I see some cold, hard, stats.
Technically you could, but you'd need lots and lots of money.
The right way

That is the ultimate cliche of programming rigidity, so it's ironic that an article against rigidity would resort to it.

There is no "the right way". Every time I catch myself or someone I work with using the phrase, I make a point of changing it to "a right way".
HP Envy blatantly rips off Apple MacBook Pro [video]
I read it and enjoyed it. And I'd consider it a proper book. Just cause it hasn't been published by a big publishing house doesn't mean it's not a proper book
The Revenge of the Paperback Book
I use strace all the time (and ltrace too)... I honestly don't know how people get by without it...

BTW, the Windows equivalent is called "Process Monitor" from the SysInternals guy...
Vote for the Pirate Party in the next elections to the EU parliament, then? We already got two members in, we can get more.
Linux Marketshare rising?
Link Bait... and I got Baited.
It'll happen someday. Those companies will fight tooth and nail along the way, but it'll happen eventually. (or so I tell myself to feel better)
You're reading it. :)
Show HN: The site I built to learn to code - LinePunch (hilariously offensive)
Hey, lovelyLaney - I noticed that your HN account is probably tightly linked to Golem Technologies in some way (given that you've only submitted twice, both articles from this domain). There are over 100 comments on this article, and not a single one is from you.
If you wrote this post, I think I speak for a large portion of HN when I say - we'd love to hear from you. Yes, seriously.

I know some people will probably downvote whatever you post without thinking, no matter what you say - because judging from the comments, you seem to have angered the mob. Indeed, I disagree with this article strongly myself - and would be happy to chat with you about why it doesn't resonate with my personal experience. However, if you have thoughtful answers to what people here have to say, the community only wants to help you, and see its own succeed.

If you want to stand behind your article, please do. If you want to recant or clarify parts of things you've said, you can do that too. You're a one person company - are you hiring right now, and what sorts of positions are you having trouble hiring for? We'd love to hear specifics - and to hear you engage in the community about something it obviously feels passionately about in a deliberate, measured way.
Many may disagree with what you have to say, but no one here should fault you simply for your attempts to say it, for contributing to the discussion around your own ideas. Hope to hear from you.
Yes. Very much so. Between HBO and Showtime, that's pretty much why I subscribe to TV. Their original programming is top notch, and well done.
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Do you actually imagine that founding a new religion and being recognized as such would be easy...? It's one thing to say that this isn't their goal or that they aren't done yet. It's quite another to trash them for not achieving outlandish milestones.
UX(+UI) designer? Come solve hard problems at Ridejoy. Engineers too. (YC S11)
PSA: Refer someone we hire, and get a thousand bucks of collaborative consumption credit! You can pick from among Airbnb, Etsy, Taskrabbit, Grubwithus, Getaround, RelayRides, Tutorspree, Skillshare, and Vayable.

Link: http://www.ridejoy.com/jobs/

Ridejoy is a community marketplace for rides. With over 2 billion long-distance driving trips each year, we have many miles to go and we're accelerating quickly. Come join us now at the start of our journey, and together we'll make it worth your while.

We love well-designed experiences, we have a rapidly growing community that loves us back (and loves telling us so), and we're building a marketplace for everyone who's ever needed to get somewhere.

We've all been employees at early-stage, venture-backed startups. We know what it's like, so we're generous with the benefits and your equity. (Plus full salaries, of course.) We're well-funded by top-tier investors, and we do things like all-you-can-eat free food, and free tickets and transportation to Burning Man.

We have a tight-knit team and we're looking for people who we can develop a deep mutual trust with. Our engineers did go to Stanford, Berkeley, and MIT, but this isn't code for "the same as us"; we want to build a team that's more diverse than your typical startup. We understand that a great company and a great culture depends on far more than technical aptitude.

Details: Located in SF. We will happily pay for and help with relocation for the right candidate.

For designers: As the lead designer, you'll be working closely with two engineers who care deeply about the user experience of our product, and want to let you focus on what you do best.

The product is very early, so you'd be shaping it from the ground floor. The difference between us and everyone else is this: we want someone to help us build a design culture from the very beginning. Like everyone else we work with, we want you to teach, and to be teachable.

For engineers: Our current stack is Ruby, Rails, Postgres, Coffeescript, Sass, and jQuery, and we're looking to expand into mobile. It's not mandatory to know these coming in, but you do you need to have experience engineering top-quality web software, and learn quickly.
Very nice! What deviations do you plan to make from Scheme? And the ever-fearful question: what about debugging?
This paper is making some waves in Operations Research circles:

We solve a 20-year old problem posed by M. Yannakakis and prove
that there exists no polynomial-size linear program (LP) whose
associated polytope projects to the traveling salesman polytope,
even if the LP is not required to be symmetric.

This argument is independent of the P-vs-NP argument, as it doesn't consider the encoding length of the coefficients.
Pinterest is a Categorized Stream
Uhm, Raph? Aren't you closing your second startup in two years? Proust is done, right?

Maybe not the guy to listen to anymore.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3427491
Trying to? HBO GO has been around for a while.

It's not great though.
Former and active NASA engineers hang out in r/space sometimes. r/askscience is full of incredible questions and smart answers. r/science recently started enforcing stricter standards and now has plenty of amazing discussion and knowledge moving around. r/physics is the same.

It all depends on where you go, and I strongly disagree that finding those places is difficult.
The government has too much power to do this, if they threaten another country with sanctions if they don't pass a law. This kind of power should be taken away from the executive and given to Congress. At least then we would see our elected representatives debate it, instead of some commission appointed by the President discussing it behind closed doors.
Rackspace Open Sources Dreadnot
This is where actual innovation is happening. I'm not at all discouraged by the FUD being perpetuated by Katz today. I have a fairly modest BigCouch deployment in production and I am very happy with it. haters gonna hate.