skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading the news.arc source code

https://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc

will show what the trade-offs are for how Hacker News is currently designed. Meanwhile, the Show Full Domain on Hacker News posts user script

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/121512

works fine on Chrome (and I think on Firefox too) for showing all the full domain names that might otherwise be confusing here. I read that some users are reading HN mostly on mobile devices that don't allow mousing over the submission titles for the full URL, but that is also an option for any user who is reading HN at a desktop computer.
It would be even better if it displayed as much information as HN knows about the site. Instead of "plus.google.com", "Jonathan Rockway's Google+" would be even more useful. It would also be good if it could correlate these sites with usernames on HN. (Making it "jrockway's Google+" in that case.)
Just out of curiosity, do you work in the tech industry? I notice that 90% of your posts have to do with copyright, usually from a perspective that is very corporation-sympathetic.

Anyhow, to address your point: I would argue that the computer software field is light years ahead of any other enterprise in human history, in terms of free, open, and shared contributions toward the betterment of mankind. That's not to say that we're without flaws or total fuckups, but a lot of us have been practicing what we've been preaching for decades. Would you disagree? Given that the music and movie industries still operate like it's 1930, what's to say they would follow suit if we "went first"? Because I would argue that we already did, 30 years ago.
This is something that I think we've all joked about at some point or another. It's strange seeing that it is real now.
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A minor nit pick: a 10Sv whole body dose is very likely fatal.

Routine cancer treatments are in the 20-80Sv range delivered in fractions of 2Sv.

During stereotactic radiosurgery (e.g. for a brain tumour) a patient can receive in the neighbourhood of 50Sv in a single fraction.
The implicit assumption is that you shouldn't have the legislator's ear because you have a fat check in hand. Chance are that the check will win over a petition.

If we are to have freedom of speech, then Beck should be able to have his show. That's the easy part.

Beck converts money into public opinion. Arguably, SuperPACs do the same. Hence the Citizens United decision. In practice, SuperPAC donors just tell the legislator why the check was written, or in which case it will be. Nothing wrong with the premise (free speech), plenty wrong with the outcome (money = voice, or rather money = ear?)

Now that I ran this circle, I can see how publicly financed campaigns might be the only answer. Thank you for asking a difficult question to answer. I'll definitely think about this more.
Ooh! I like that a lot, but then HN would have to rework their code to be parse Google+, but no other site, for the person's name. If only Google+ would enable vanity URLs already...
After reading the article, I am not sure if I should agree or not because sometimes I think the people who are specialists are the one more successful. But then, as I evaluate myself, I found out that I am a generalist because aside from my offline job, I have my online job. Then I am pursuing my masteral degree. Then, I am a wedding coordinator and a travel specialist. Thank you for this article. It gives me time to reflect. I know generalist can be successful also, not only in one field but in all aspect.
Well, this might sound selfish, but I would think about how you could keep getting free flights after you change jobs.

I have some other ideas too:

- You could become an absolute expert in something and get a free pass to see how any culture in the world experiences it. Me, I'd do something with cooking.

- Charge for placing Geocaches. My dad flies for work to Washington DC every week and several of his friends have asked him to plant geocaches in other places. I bet you could charge for that, and it would be fun for you to have a different story each time.

- Help people going through long distance relationships somehow.

I might come up with more later.
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You're picking at today's targets without looking at the root of the problem. As long as you're thinking big, how about disrupting politics? Build a system which can't be affected by lobbying.
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Very neat. I work at a cancer center and I've noticed a very similar effect on the CCTV at the operator console of the linear accelerators (the camera is inside the bunker).
To some extent, but I think they just need to win 1 or 2 seats. So it can be a local effort. Funding lets them be more national.
That's why this study was done by physicists who tend to not have that particular issue with not completely understanding the system and interactions or reducing things down to "toy" models to as a starting point to build up that understanding.

Yes, they are starting with a simple and straightforward model and limiting the parameters they vary. But they can produce what looks to be emergent cartel behavior.

That's the important takeaway: a simple model is unexpectedly able to do that. AKA you don't need a complicated model with any number of variable parameters.

[Also, what they've done here is study the statistical properties of the system. You're not going to be able to "predict" or replicate the exact behavior/configuration of one particular instance unless you do know its starting parameters in detail. But looking at the statistical properties should smooth that out.]
If the Chrome plugin works fine, can't HN just expose a toggle in the user preferences for injecting that same Javascript code? A bit of a hack, yes, but it'd probably do for the time being.
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If you're not selling it, not making it available yourself, you shouldn't be controlling it.

It'd be nice if copyright law were amended to properly capture its justification as a tool to promote the progress of science and useful arts -- it should be illegal to use copyright without attempting to reach those ends.
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While I'll agree there is something absurd to the idea of citizens paying for the attention of congress, it's also a recognition of how our system currently - and unfortunately - works. Lobbying firms are congress' sole source of education on subjects they often aren't knowledgeable on, such as the internet and piracy.

I'll also agree that serious campaign finance reform needs to happen. That's why We The Lobby is also raising money to support Bernie Sander's proposed amendment (S.J.Res.33) which prohibits corporate spending in all elections, essentially reverses Citizens United, and more. Check it out -> http://www.wethelobby.com/causes/2
Yeah, I haven't looked at the source but there isn't an algorithmic way to remove subdomains without a huge lookup list to cover all the edge cases.
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Interesting concept. I've actually always envisioned a method of having a representative government that is actually representative of it's constituents by use of social networking and technology (making it easier to communicate ideas, values and put the results together to bring to the floor). Since we're not near a world that will accept that type of system as those in power are not those leading in the technology and communication revolution, having a method that bridges the old way and a future way isn't a bad idea.

With that said, I think there are some pitfalls that will need to be addressed. The idea of getting a lobbying group and using them to represent those funding a program gives me the feeling that there's a good chance that many actions won't go further than a first round. The money goes in, it gets a lobbyist group up and going and then.....what? It takes on going funding to fight for legislation, I think the model has to work in a manner that is closer to subscriptions so that it can be pushed for to an end.

Which brings me to point 2. if you're going to go to a subscription based model, there has to be information shared to everyone, not just those willing to pledge the upper limits. If you're creating a group to fight for a cause then they need to continually be updated on said cause and given the chance to help further. Otherwise we run into point 1. Additionally, shouldn't the sharing of information be part of this goal? Why is it that only those that can pay the upper amounts get to hear back?

I think ideally what happens is a team works behind the scenes on this project to review cases, put together the information and once a project reaches the 'open the case level', a subsite is setup for the cause, donors are placed on a mailing list, and the lobbyist group is searched for. A project plan is then put in place to estimate costs and effort so that on going funds can be added to help.

Additionally, since lobbyists without any actual ties beyond a pay check aren't really fighting for a cause, individuals funding the group are put in place to help head the 'project'. This means reviews, putting together updates, and helping with decision making.

In the end, the ability for a program like this to raise capital time and time over is only going to be by showing successful efforts. I think that in it's current form it doesn't have the ability to maintain a fight to that level of success- but I think that with some modifications it could.

Interested in seeing how this develops.
> Literal guillotines are unnecessary. Just take away their money

I agree with your ends but surely you don't think this is a simple thing to accomplish. I think that assumption is why people are downvoting you.
"Your funds will be contributed to have a lobbying group talk to Congress."

That's a pretty vague commitment. Why should I believe the money will be used effectively? What makes this a better use of my funds than writing a check to the EFF?
We must also reign in the power of the few, because as long as money and power are highly centralized, no matter whose hands its in or what type of oganization it is, they will be, by definition, in power and our society wont be equitable, fair or democratic.
That endgame supposes there is a finite space of possible things to do which machines will eventually have an absolute advantage over.

My belief is that it is more likely that as we leverage human ingenuity more with machines, that ingenuity, alongside artificial intelligence, will be freed to pursue greater things. Simply projecting time is correlated with mechanization with is further correlated with job supply decay to Pluto may not be valid.

I do not, at the same time, see a future for un-skilled or semi-skilled labour.
>Attacking the incentive structure of the system by not having campaigns financed by corporations and interest groups is probably a better place to invest our effort.

Is it possible to attack an incentive structure so firmly ingrained in to our system? There's always some form of duplicity between governments and their people so I wouldn't expect a way to 100% defeat a poor incentive system. I think crowdsourcing is a good way to compete with big-time corporate lobbyists, not to mention it fits well with the whole "democratic" model politicians act like they support.
iTunes isn't in a cabal with RIAA, Apple just needs to use the RIAA to make iTunes usable. Actually it's partly because of iTunes that RIAA is so vulnerable; iTunes cuts out the marketing and distribution part of the business.
Edited: I stupidly forgot to clarify that this would be most appreciated on mobile. With 3G speeds and most mobile browsers not offering any sort of plugin or user script ability to auto-show the entire url or subdomain, it is a minor inconvenience.
I've been seeing a lot of talk about distributed DNS or just writing down site's IP addresses (paper DNS if you will) as a solution to SOPA and PIPA. I forget which site it was, but one of the sites that was blacked out listed their IP and suggested writing it down as a way to beat the system should sites be blocked someday down the road. How does this really solve the problem though? If ISPs block the actual IP then knowing their IP won't matter. Or is assumed that ISPs wouldn't block the actual IP's since the servers can move around which would result in an already limited number of IP address becoming even more limited despite the fact that the "bad" site once at that IP has already moved one?
Sorry for stealing any thunder.

Thought the idea was worth sharing, so I did.
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Or to put another way ..

reducing a holy book to logic analysis of text still produces something not reliable..
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Great question. We're waiting until we can confirm which group we will partner with on any given cause.

And in the case of organizations, we are looking into partnering with advocacy groups such as the EFF as well as traditional lobbying firms.

Once we know who we are partnering with, we can and intend to be fully transparent about how the money is being used. Stay tuned to the site for updates on this!
I think it's better this way. :)

Thanks for sharing!
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OK. Economic pressure is something I can agree with. If you don't like it, don't buy it.

The rest of the world (and those of us who deal with it) begs you not to start any more wars.
> In fact, total compensation for labor is up considerably

Over 40 years, you'd hope for a little more than "considerably". Especially since a lot of growth is in worker productivity - people doing real work (i.e. those on minimum wage) work harder than ever.
Recently, in 2010, before the last presidential election (2011) here in Argentina, we had by decree a 'political reform'. It would have been far better to do it by law, but there was such a short time before campaigns started.

Some of the most important changes introduced by the new system are:

- Inability to be a candidate, to people condemned for crimes against humanity (in our case, mainly former members of the dictatorial government from 1976-1983).

- A party needs to have at least 0.4% of the electoral roll as its members, to be able to participate in the electoral process.

- Only physical persons can donate to the campaign. Donations from companies are prohibited.

- The government will give money to the parties to develop their respective campaigns in this way: 50% of the total to be divided equally between all parties. The other 50% based on the amount of votes from the last election.

- Contracting advertisement in audiovisual media and radio by political groups is prohibited.

- Publicity in audiovisual media will be paid by the government, and the function of distributing spaces that can be up to 10 percent of broadcast time among all the contending groups in all media for the purpose of developing their political campaigns is assigned to the National Electoral Directorate; the NED will assign 50% equally between all parties. The other 50% based on the amount of votes from the last election.

The end result: Lots of ugly TV spots in the months previous to the election day. But everyone had the chance to speak in prime time TV spots and deliver their message. Some of the spots were really bad (mostly, the smaller parties... they lacked of the experience I guess).

I can't tell for sure, but I bet that corporations, being prohibited to donate money directly, stimulated their top management to donate (and their families), and then gave them bonuses (so, repaying the money). So, its all the same game. It's very hard to change how politics work.
Wow I was going to write exactly the same thing earlier today. So funny how people think the same thing at the same moment. I agree it's really annoying. I still can't familiarize myself with links with google.com domain. Nowadays it's mostly some guy's google+ post but it's really misleading. First thing that comes up to mind when you see a link from google.com is "is this an announcement from Google, inc.?", when it's mostly some dude's rant on Google+
> That's why this study was done by physicists who tend to not have that particular issue with not completely understanding the system and interactions ... That's the important takeaway: a simple model is unexpectedly able to do that.

Yes, I know. That's why my criticism was directed at the Tech Review article that totally misinterprets the paper, and indirectly at all of the comments in this thread that make the same mistake. The paper does not describe how gas-pump prices change; it does not describe how any actual market actually works. It does not identify time to react to price signals as the key to well-functioning markets; that is an artifact of the highly stylized model employed.

As I wrote in the first line of my comment, the take-away is that cartel-like behavior is possible without direct coordination, not that it is actually happening, ever has happened, or ever will happen. The rest of my comment was meant to point out why we can't draw those conclusions.

EDIT: And, by the way, there are lots of other ways to show that cartel-like behavior is possible without concerted price-fixing. Several authors have shown this in a game-theoretic framework, and there is a whole literature on indirect communication among economic competitors that has arisen out of law-and-economics analysis of anti-trust regulation.
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I lived in a company-provided mining quarters for a few years. I see no problems with dorms at all. A lot of readers tend to think about slavery because it makes them feel better about America but the reality is that structurally US could no longer execute this way. In particular, the old issues of class warfare that drives union rules as well as management techniques are outmoded and calls for some fresh thinking.
Presently, from an artist getting say a film concept to the first audience seeing it, is a gap of several years. A lot of this is necessary, e.g. time for plot refinement. Other stuff, like negotiating with unions for lighting or going through bureaucratic licensing and distribution hurdles, is not.

Lean Start-up says reducing this cycle time should make the system fitter.
Hey rcavezza, I fixed the bug that you found, now you can no longer upvote your own suggestion. Thank you for pointing that out
I will look for auto url finder thing now

Thanks again!
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Until your manager decides three other programmers from China or India could output a larger quantity of serviceable code for half your wage. And the drop in cost nets him a bonus from his bosses. Until they offshore him, and only need translators to run their company.
* Copyright reform would be great, but seems like a lot of it is international treaty.

-> treaties where the USA is the driving force behind making them ever more onerous. The rest of the world would love it if the wish list came to pass, and it would make a whole lot of other things (e.g. Free trade agreements) a lot more palatable.
The guys at The Automatic Earth[1] explain that after the multi-decade credit run up enabled by cheap oil would come when peak oil is reached. Once there the financial system is not able to sustain itself without cheap credit it will collapse and a sustained credit deflation will ensue. In this deflation all assets will decrease in price but the difficulty to obtain cash will be harder making them effectively very expensive.

This, they explain, will have the effect of making oil cheap to the point that there won’t be enough money to invest in maintaining the current infrastructure and even less to invest in green tech. Once the bad debts are cleared and growth returns the true effects of peak oil will be felt everywhere.

In summary, they say, don’t get your hopes up with clean/green tech. It is too little too late and it simply cannot replace oil. And nuclear energy is no better once you take into account the energy required to build, operate and decommission reactors and also dispose of radioactive waste in a safe manner.

They have in my opinion one of the best analysis available in the intertubes.

[1] http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com
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I have been thinking the same thing for a while now, I hope that someone has a clue on this one.
You are conflating Google's code ten years ago with Google's current codebase.

I think releasing 2002's Google open source would be far less revolutionary than you think. 2002 was, like, really long ago.

C++? C++ was still largely pre-Standard in practice. GCC 3.x (which was the first release line with good C++98 support) was still in its infancy, and most universities still had GCC 2.95 installed until 2004 or 2005. Java? Java 1.4 wasn't released until February 2002. Do you remember Java from those days? Casts. Two, three, four casts per line. Generics wouldn't be introduced until late 2004, at which point Java would become usable. Python 2.2 was all the rage in 2002. I don't know about you, but I cry every time I have to write a Python script which works with 2.4 because of a busted old server. Decorators weren't even a glint in Guido's eye back then. Source control meant CVS. CVS.

How about the Web? Well, IE6 was the new thing back in 2002, so there's that. Phoenix -- later renamed Firebird, later renamed Firefox -- was released late in 2002. Opera's leading feature was that it would reload your old tabs if you restarted it, which was great because it crashed every 15 minutes. Ajax was used by, like, two sites. Webmail meant Yahoo!. MySpace didn't even exist in 2002, let alone Facebook. People still used ICQ, although AIM was still more popular. KaZaA was still spelled with random capital letters in 2002, and people still used it. "Warcraft" meant the hot new game, Warcraft III.

Ten years is a really long time in internet time. I don't think Google or Fogcreek would be hurt in the least by releasing their 10-year-old codebases, because their 10-year-old codebases are damn near useless by modern standards.