skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Others can do it because they don't have a monopoly. Windows still must be distributed without its media player in Europe.

And Apple already tried to abuse its position with the Kindle app by forcing a distribution commission for books it didn't sell. Also a guaranteed lowest sales price. They've hardly been kind to competition on their platform.
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The mortgage interest and charity reductions could easily be left in.

But shouldn't be. Especially mortgage interest; it should be painfully clear by now that blindly encouraging people to buy houses is not a good plan.
Sounds like you didn't build an 'MVP' according to the article then. If you read it, it complains about the same things that you do. An 'MVP' is not merely a landing page (although it sometimes might be). It is the minimal thing that you need to build to test some set of assumptions and continue learning. If you weren't satisfied with the outcome of the test, then build something else and test again. Which is exactly what you are doing.

Seems like you and the author would agree on a lot of points, including the definition of an MVP:

"A MVP is not a minimal product, it is a strategy and process directed toward making and selling a product to customers. It is an iterative process of idea generation, prototyping, presentation, data collection, analysis and learning. One seeks to minimize the total time spent on an iteration. The process is iterated until a desirable product-market fit is obtained, or until the product is deemed to be non-viable."
Anyone else unable to see the video?
Normally it's not a bad thing to have a discussion if the subject is too tangential to the main item being discussed. But this is close enough that the discussion probably ought to have happened directly within the thread.

Similar to this is when the same event is reported by different sites, each of which gets submitted. We end up with essentially the same discussion happening in multiple places.

Ideally there would be some magical way to have all these posts direct to a canonical discussion, but in practice it seems this requires human intervention.

In the meantime perhaps the best action is to flag the late-comer posts and post a discussion link to an existing thread.
I think this is what David Hornik wants to be true. The article in no way states that it is.
You can have an arbitrary number of hidden volumes.
The problem is that people in support of SOPA/PIPA don't understand the issue of piracy. They have no insight or intel. As I have said earlier, It's like giving machine guns to monkeys.
The population of players of video games is dominated by teenager males because the developers of video games have teenager males in mind.

I would not be so sure. We all played games like pac-man, goonies, super mario and such. I remember when we were kids that we had tons of somewhat gender neutral games, but boys were the ones mostly interested in playing. Looking back, I'm more convinced today that it was a cultural issue. Girls were simply conditioned to do "girl things". Eventually, game developers skewed their production toward their dominant market. This conditioning still exists today, but is slowly disappearing and game developers will, in time, adjust accordingly.
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I can see why it might be confusing, the Ruby event is directly after the "Launch Party" event. Someone might assume that was the first event if they didn't scroll further down.
So I'm an engineer for a living which means I'm probably about as politically (un)knowledgeable as most people here, but do all of our "calls to action" seem hopelessly naive to anyone else?

I mean take the first example: elimination of software patents. This is great and I would like this to happen, too. A pretty significant problem, however, is that some of the most successful and most powerful American companies are built around these laws and prop up these laws, help write these laws, etc.

Does anyone believe our legal system is going to say: "Sorry, Microsoft (Apple, IBM, whoever), all the billions you spent on software patents and legal fees and all the money you earn from them is gone. We've decided software patents are unfair so that massive part of your business is now invalid."

We can sit around all day outlining what we think would be the most fair policies. It is all irrelevant if we can't define a path to get there.
It is actually.

The algorithm is soo brain dead simple too.
Don't forget puppy dogs and summer breezes and good feelings!

Take that science!
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Again - please read the article. This lady is writing about how free food was offered to her in exchange for a lower wage and was then gradually eliminated (which is different from completely eliminated). So yes, from what that lady writes, free food is still there, but less so than when she accepted it in exchange for a lower wage.

I never claimed to add any original research - just that the person I replied to hadn't read the article.
There's less of a feedback loop there - people don't know if their submissions have been flagged or not.
You can disable the plugin if Disqus goes down long enough to matter and resync later.
I never understood how bad boys/aggressive business people succeed. I always go out of my way to help people that are genuinely nice and caring, and not so much for the jerks.
Not necessarily. Google's news aggregation has gotten pretty good at grouping numerous stories on the same subject together. It doesn't always get things right, but helps to reduce the clutter.
This is off the cuff and without reading through the article: I'm increasingly persuaded, in my own mind, to be a generalist while marketing oneself as a specialist.

Most specialists I've met aren't all that special. I suppose my comment is targeted at relatively high performers, but within that context I don't see maintaining such a commercial specialty as demanding all of one's available work effort (where one defines what is "available" versus other/personal endeavors including family, hobbies, rest and relaxation, etc.).

With a more general interest and experience, one is often able to conceive of and introduce solutions that lie in part or entirely outside of the typical domain knowledge of the specialty. One can solve problems that others can't, or solve them in a better fashion.

Just ascribe this, in appropriate marketing contexts, to your mastery of the specialty. That one "won the game" by being a generalist, one keeps to oneself when that is the favorable choice.

Plus, it's just more interesting -- for me, at least -- at a personal level.

I've been a generalist who excelled in specialist roles. But when I was seen as a generalist, this tended to mean I got the short end of the stick, despite that success. (Amongst other things, bureaucracies love labels and categories; if you don't fit into the right one, you face enormous cognitive dissonance.)
But if it started, at this point, how would we stop it? That's the problem. All it takes now is the wrong person to get power.
Even if nice guys do "win-out" eventually, how exactly would this happen in a start-up? If a Jerk-Aggressive-Dominant team builds a great product and becomes the top of the pyramid by acting like assholes, when is it that they get replaced by nice guys?

I just don't think business works like that.
Can anyone explain to me why I see a yellow or red checkered pattern when my computer or browser is struggling to render a page? I tried to take a screenshot, but this usually happens super fast and I can't react in time.

I'm on a MacBook Pro and running Chrome (although I get the checkered yellow pattern in other applications like iTunes as well).
`troll' would be the unkind/weak, and `leader' would be the kind/dominant, right?
Anecdotes are intellectually dishonest. Statistics show that social mobility in the USA is low and in sharp decline.

Your selection of 13 out of 50 indicates that 75% of even your sample inherited their privilege. So my statement about the "majority" stands.

In addition, the list you select from includes only public wealth. Inherited wealth is usually private, and the privilege associated with private wealth is rarely public. Privilege itself is a private phenomenon.

The top 50 is a paltry analysis. The top 400 is even too paltry, though it is instructive. Look at real statistics that include the entire population not cherry picked media darlings who are used as anecdotes to distort the real statistics.

"Census data show that 81.6 percent of those families who were in the bottom quintile of the income distribution in 1985 were still in that bottom quintile the next year; for the top quintile the fraction was 76.3 percent."

The media promotes visibility of that minority who worked their way up. They don't report on statistics though.

As the social safety net and human rights are further eroded, social mobility will decline more quickly.

Don't let a few cherry picked anecdotes fool you.

" A 2007 study (by Kopczuk, Saez and Song) found social/economic mobility in America at top income levels "very stable" and "not mitigated the dramatic increase in annual earnings concentration since the 1970s."[17]
Economist Paul Krugman, argues that despite their "great ferocity in presenting its case and attacking its opponents", conservatives have resorted to "extraordinary series of attempts at statistical distortion". While in any given year, some of the people with low incomes will be "workers on temporary layoff, small businessmen taking writeoffs, farmers hit by bad weather" -- the rise in their income in succeeding years is not the same 'mobility' as poor people rising to middle class or middle income rising to wealth. It's the mobility of "the guy who works in the college bookstore and has a real job by his early thirties."

How is social mobility among inner city blacks? It's a disgrace. The attitude of libertarians toward inner city blacks is deeply immoral and racist. "Just let them rot! No talented Ted Turners could ever come from the ghetto!"

The most meritocratic individuals in our society are not entrepreneur billionaires like the shallow and selfish Larry Ellison. They are unsung intellectuals in ivory towers whose genius is not recognized by CNN because CNN is junk TV for idiots.

We don't live in a meritocracy. People like Larry Ellison are not meritorious. If the superich had any caring for the unfortunate the wealth gap would not be trending the way it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socio-economic_mobility_in_the_...
Disqus creeps me out anyway. I don't like any site that tracks you where ever you go.
pwg's point is that the road to any sort of catastrophic illiberal state-sponsored action is paved slowly and incrementally. Not that we are living in mini 1930s Germany. The situations in their substance or scale are not comparable.

Saying that "government policies in many Western countries today that are every bit as evil as the kind of thing that was going on in Germany at that time" is very ignorant. Who are our Jews and Gypsies? Where is our Kristallnacht? Where is our Triumph of the Will? Where is our 'Der Ewige Jew'? Where are our massive crowds doing what is our sieg heil?

In fact a fundamental difference between America 2012 and Germany 1938 (among many) is that we have massive amounts of people vocally and publicly against the laws our politicians are pushing and the state of the country. In 1938 Germany you had the exact opposite.
It's growing movement

http://sfrubyworkshops.com/
Roman Polanski is one. Also a lot of the movie industry initially supported him despite him being guilty.
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cool, thx!
I think the Jerk-Aggressive-Dominant team ends up making a big PR goof causing customers to jump ship.
What is a speed reading program? Are you referring to the types of software listed here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_reading
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Doesn't take a hacker to watch through a webcam. Lets not forget the 2010 story of school spying on students at home: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_... They even disciplined the student for breaking some school regulation while he was being observed...
As an erstwhile wannabe literary scholar, I would be much more excited about ebooks if they were generally available in non-DRMed formats amenable to processing and analysis with arbitrary software tools. For example, I can't generate a concordance of a Kindle ebook by any means, and I certainly can't use one with the NLP Toolkit.

As a general reader, I'm unimpressed by the OCR errors, poor typography, and formatting mistakes of backlist ebooks. As for reading devices, I'm unimpressed with the cumbersome library management UI and generally poor fit and finish of my Kindle 3. I'm very impressed, however, by the light weight of the thing; I was reminded of this recently while reading a 700-page hardbound novel – I would have gladly traded it for an ebook.

As for TFA, I'm disappointed to see the author accused of an appeal to nostalgia when he clearly was arguing on the basis of practical advantages and disadvantages. Shifts in communications forms bring changes in artistic and intellectual production as well as shifts in the culture at large – investigating and critiquing these changes strikes me as inherently worthwhile. There's certainly a rich body of work along these lines that pre-dates the ebook; c.f. Marshall McLuhan, Eric Havelock, Walter J. Ong, and Hugh Kenner, for example. (Thank goodness that the secondhand paper book market exists, since so many of their books are out of print.)
The problem isn't that it costs a lot to win an election. It will always be expensive to get people's attention regardless of the medium.

The problem is that the government is too powerful and it's worth so much to win an election. But that's even harder to fix.
I'd fear you'd end up like Reddit where there is a large fraction of the submitters who downvote all other posts in a misguided effort to make their own reach the front page.
> A MVP [minimal viable product] is not a minimal product....

While I agree with the general sentiment of the post, the insistence that an MVP doesn't actually have do be something useful has something wiffy about it. Am I the only one who thinks that a landing page is not a viable product?

A lot of the time people don't know what they want/need until they actually have something to use, so simply pitching an idea and seeing if they get it is not, in my mind, sufficient for gathering hard data.

But maybe I just like to call a spade a spade.
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We do have similar groups, the EFF is one of the bigger ones. However, they have to compete with the millions of dollars the American recording & media industries have.

It's great to hear La Quadrature du Net does well with so little. We're sure We The Lobby cannot match special interests in terms of money, but we are hoping the causes can resonate given the donations represent the actual voting constituency.
4% of the population commits the far majority of atrocities. That 4% is made up of the psychopaths - people genetically endowed with no conscience.

Psychologists and sociologists studying sociopathy have estimated that there are huge numbers of sociopaths in decision making positions who make the calls in favor of greed and brutality. Conscience bound people find it very hard to cause the deaths of innocent children in Nigeria though oil corporation policy.

Conscience bound people often will quit their job rather than make a decision for greed when that decision will harm people.

This is precisely how sociopaths rise to power - they will do the job and take pleasure in it. Now American institutions and corporations are run by sociopaths and we are surprised that evil is so prevalent.
Heck, non-citizens labelled uncooperative are liable to be refused entry, and blacklisted.
I know you guys are in startup mode, but I hope you have retained a lawyer to advise and, if necessary, defend you. Lobbying is highly regulated and violations can result in federal prosecution. Just by paying a lobbying firm you will have to register with various federal agencies and report on the activities you fund.
Despite the early appeal of the jerks, however, in the end the girls realised that they were better off marrying the nice guys.

I really hate this analogy: Once the girls have had their fun, and are old, they settle with those who can provide for them And, although it has no direct relation, it always reminds me of Buffet and "saving sex for old age"[1].

But even then, it's not even always true. I'd wager the majority of these women end up in a cycle of jerks. You just selectively hear about the ones who give up, and settle. This isn't a matter of fate - it's a matter of perception.

[1]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/3073746/Buffett-on-Goldma...
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It's not about punishing the user's, but about keeping yourself out of jail.

Why should the operators of a site risk getting extradited to the US, when what they are doing is perfectly legal in their home countries and lots of other countries?

If you are a user and want to access this site just buy VPN access in the free world and enjoy uncensored browsing.
We The Lobby's main idea thus far is to rally for lobbying money while legislation is being discussed in the House or Senate - just like SOPA / PIPA are being discussed now after the vote has been cancelled.

If someone puts out legislation illustrating what you said, and there is enough popular opinion behind it, we will try and list it on our site.

I'd also encourage you to check out the second cause currently listen on We The Lobby, entitled "Corporations are not people." It is in support of S.J.Res.33, a proposed Amendment by Bernie Sanders which contains verbiage to restrict corporation's influence on congress via campaign donations. Check it out and make a pledge! http://www.wethelobby.com/causes/2
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Let me just point out that, according to the research done by Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics, money does not win elections, so if you agree with Levitt's conclusions, financing Smith's opponents is not the best way to proceed.
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I first heard it from Hunter S. Thompson in "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72", so I would take it with a grain of salt... (and it was a pig not a donkey.)
First sentence:

"The magazine I also work for, is rebuilding our website in WordPress."

I couldn't find anything valuable in the first few paragraphs. Can anyone post a quick summary of any specific facts from the article that were surprising, or are going to affect the reader's behavior in the future?
Bingo. You own the content you give Author, Apple gets exclusive distribution rights to the output of the software they provide free for the sole purpose of creating proprietary files for Apple's distribution service. There is nothing in the agreement claiming exclusivity to the content you put INTO the software, only what comes out of it.
Unfortunately I succumbed to several dozen of these mass business books before realizing how utterly insipid this industry is... Just learn to write a business plan and get busy already. Great free articles (& some paid) on both hbr.org and score.org.
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There is a danger with internal lists and rants, they are subject to discovery on lawsuits afaik (IANAL), so things have a tendency to not stay internal over time. Google may not have been bitten by this yet, but I imagine it is only a matter of time.
if you are aggressive type of person your goals are probably more... aggressive. nice guys tend to be more satisfied with what they achieved already. compare jobs - wozniak duo.

(generalizing like that is not the best way of thinking about people - people are more complex that "nice/bad" dichotomy)
A person with a 6 figure income supporting a wife and children and the bills that come with supporting a household vs a single person is very different. Also the rent adjusted difference in places where you can make 6 figures can add 30'000 in before tax income needed to just break even between two regions.
Rick Perry: cruel, dominant.

Newt Gingrich: cruel, weak.

Mitt Romney: kind, weak.

Ron Paul: kind, dominant.

(Actually, I'm probably trying to fit square pegs in round holes here. Ignore.)
I'd encourage you to look into www.popvox.com and www.votizen.com - they are not exactly the idea you've talked about but are similar in vein of organizing data to present to congress.

However, the problem is getting congress to recognize these systems are better. Currently, lobbying groups do the education of topics, and donate to campaigns of candidates. This system needs to be changed first, and We The Lobby believes a fundamental positive change would be to alter where the money comes from; and thus whose influence (special interests vs. the general population) is being made on Congress.
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I'm guessing he's referring to Roman Polanski (sex with a 13 year old girl) and Victor Salva (sex with a 12 year old boy). I wouldn't say that '2' is 'so many Hollywood directors'.

Media are quick to call those acts 'pedophilia', which is a psychological term, not a legal one. In reality, 'pedophilia' refers to "a sexual preference for children, boys or girls or both, usually of prepubertal or early pubertal age". It has little to do with acting on those preferences. In the US, the legal terms for the act would be 'statutory rape' (pubertal before the age of consent) or 'child molestation' (prepubertal). The age of consent varies between states (16-18), and even more so between countries (from less than 12 to 21+) [1].

Just to illustrate that this is culturally defined and that the raising of the age of consent is a fairly recent development:

"In the United States, by the 1880s, most states set the age of consent at 10-12, and in one state, Delaware, the age of consent was only 7. A New York Times article states that it was still aged 7 in Delaware in 1895" [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Age_of_Consent_-_Global.sv...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent#History_and_soci...
> I can't comment on instant runoff voting, but my impression from following politics in Europe is that proportional representation creates a situation where all legislators toe the party line, as opposed to still having some degree of independence, as in Britain or the US. This gives an undue amount of influence to a small number of party bigwigs, and the inevitable mess results.

You know, if you'd said that fifty years ago, I think you'd be right. But have you paid much attention to US politics over the last ten years? The Republicans have engaged in strong campaign against "Republicans In Name Only", and have enjoyed enormous party discipline as a result, even when it seems like they shouldn't.

I suspect the future of congressional politics in America looks like European-style parties only with no European-style party diversity.
We're aware of the revolving door concept, and if we gain traction on a few issues and are about to provide continual funding with them - it's definitely a concept we are looking into exploiting.

As for the death threats - 0 so far, but it's been 6 days since launching. If I get shot I'm looking at you to cry foul!
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