skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be an ideological definition. I'm really curious where you obtained it. It is the perspective of leftists-- an ideological perspective-- that "fascism" is "right-wing".

For instance, the Nationalist Socialist Workers Party, also known as the Nazis, were a pro-union, pro-socialism, pro-farmer, party. It seems that the accusation of "right wing" comes from using the term as a synonym for "authoritarian".

The dictionary.com definition is better:

fas·cism   [fash-iz-uhm]
noun
1.( sometimes initial capital letter ) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
2.( sometimes initial capital letter ) the philosophy, principles, or methods of fascism.
3.( initial capital letter ) a fascist movement, especially the one established by Mussolini in Italy 1922–43.

Note the elements:
A. regimenting all industry, commerce, etc.
B. complete power
C. forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism.

(I think the inclusion of "nationalism and often racism" is an editorial lapse here. Mussolini wasn't racist the way the Nazis were, and the role the jews played for the Nazis was an emotional one used to manipulate the country, not one intrinsic to the economic system of fascism.)

A. We have this to a great degree. For every industry there's some government agency that regulates it, and those regulations seem to be unlimited in their potential scope. They may not be completely regimented at this point, but I'm not aware of the supreme court striking down the theoretical power to do so, even when this "Regulation" includes completely shutting down the industry (say marijuana).

B. We've seen a sharp move towards complete power in the US in the past 20 years, accelerating under Bush and Obama. Many laws are passed giving the president more and more dictatorial power, and both presidents have exercised powers they don't have under the law and gotten away with it.

C. I argue that we've seen this with the regulation of the media, preventing anti-government views from getting into the mainstream media, with the "free speech zones" eliminating the idea of free speech by default, and with the censorship of websites.

This shutting down of websites being the initial action that brought us to this discussion, its worth noting that it is a key element of fascism.

While its true the websites being shut down now are not anti-government ones, this is always how they do it. They find some reviled group like "terrorists" or "drug kingpins" (the same role the "jews" played in germany) and then go after them. Nobody's going to defend pedophiles, right? How much internet regulation has been passed with the excuse that its to protect children from pedophiles.

And eventually it becomes fully regulated such that the perspectives are completely censored like they are on the nightly news.
It's worth looking at the PPL project

http://ppl.stanford.edu/main/publications.html

example, this scala DSL:

http://liszt.stanford.edu/liszt_sc2011.pdf
You can't out-google Google, even if you see the future. Or so they learned.
Yes. Now what doctors need is an effective, compassionate way to communicate the simple fact that we need to let old people die. Here's one way:

A family brings an elderly patient suffering from stroke, diabetes, etc. into the ER. The patient is in a coma. Before asking them what they want to do, take the family into the NICU and tell them: we have limited resources, and we can either save a baby in here, giving him a chance for a healthy productive life, or we can perform heroic measures on your loved one, almost certainly doing nothing but prolonging his suffering. What is your choice?
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Awesome, another framework comparing different languages and different approaches to frameworks.
I was muzzled for arguing that Craigslist middlemen are bad. Then again I did say some things so out-of-bounds they should not be heard:

"Do buyers and sellers go to this man the way people go to real estate agents for their services? What would Craigslist buyers and sellers think of what he does if they knew about it? Respectfully, I think they would strongly prefer he weren't interfering."
http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3515735

... and:

"I doubt very much that sellers would appreciate this liquidity 'service' if it were spelled out for them. They would feel cheated, as would the buyers."
http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3515689

Pretty outrageous, in retrospect.
Interesting article - but I don't think the writer gets it.

"We should focus on minimizing the downside of losing so that startup roulette feels less risky. After all, startups shouldn't just be for rich kids who can afford to take a chance on a big idea."

If more risk averse people began starting companies - would the ratio of success to failure change? My guess is that it would. Who knows in which direction.

There's always some BS stat in these articles about the percentage of entrepreneurs that succeed. Without a definition for what a successful entrepreneur is. How is that defined?
The database tests are meaningless, I think, since they're comparing e.g. ORM in Django and Rails to a single, non-abstracted SQL query in Bottle. It's very apples and oranges.
I'd be more interested in node.js (with V8) and mongodb on ARM.
Very important feature that. I usually choose my language based on such important considerations. Busy deleting my Scala code as I write this and rewriting it into Java code 5-10 times the size so I don't have to suffer from being confused between null and None. Something in the back of my head tells me it has something to do with the infamous null pointer exception...
Japanese American entrepreneur launches MEGUMI-O sunglasses made for Asian faces
Ridiculous article by a ridiculous blog. They acknowledge that the DMCA protects them and then proceed to explore whether what Pinterest is doing qualifies as fair use, concluding that they are probably not covered by fair use and therefore probably illegal.
"This why you can't judge the world by reading pamphlets. It is really sad to see normally intelligent people go batshit crazy and start spewing nonsense. White Rose should know better than to throw around the word "evil." I am so sick of whining White Rose that I would almost support stalling the German economy just to drive the White Rose into a ditch."
Data Structures and Algorithms in Java by Adam Drozdek has a lot of actual code that works. I think the code is online, but the book is worth buying because things are explained well (http://www.amazon.com/Data-Structures-Algorithms-Java-Drozde... ) to be fair, there's quite a bit of math supporting Drozdek's book.
Stay away from Sedwick, in my experience his examples are incomplete/don't compile and are abstract.
Now, while, CLRSS is the gold standard (Joshua Bloch cites it in his Java Collections code) be aware it's math heavy and lacking on implementation details. Rumor was that there was a CD of CLRSS examples somewhere...
As one of the original authors of the Unlicense, always nice to see yet more people opt out of the copyright racket.

The growing visibility of unlicensing is a good thing what with the copyright industry increasingly running amok. Sometimes things have to get worse before they can get better.

The project list at http://unlicense.org/ could probably use an update sometime soon. Link suggestions are welcome via the mailing list as usual.
How to scare off female developers
The voting system is quite.... Completely broken :)
While the marker disappears, you can still keep clicking, voting as much as you'd like
Don't be ridiculous. Everyone knows that it's 'ten' years away, along with AGI and cold fusion.
Or, when we introduce an actual application, these tests are entirely meaningless.
It's a feature! ¬_¬
Kohana is slower than CodeIgniter?! My life is a lie :(
> Why must it be fear of death rather than simply wanting more of life

The only thing you are capable of is converting time into something else. Time is always the scarcity factor.

So what if we had unlimited time? Would you pursue greatness and projects that take hundreds of years to complete?

Unlikely.

Let's take a look at something that is also scarce and that everybody is familiar with. Money. Would you say that the overwhelming majority of people who have lots of money engage in long-term projects to do interesting things ... or do they spend it on vain things like mansions, expensive cars, yachts, planes, etc?

If you had an infinite amount of time, the first thing you would do is re-watch every episode of Star Trek, not embark on the discovery of warp drive. That's the truth nobody wants to face. The overwhelming majority of humanity is unbelievably vain and the part that isn't, is primarily motivated by scarcity. They understand they have a very limited amount of time to live and they want to get something amazing done within that time. Removing that scarcity factor will make them just as vain as you and me.

EDIT: Fixed my inability to use the English language.
Hitler had son with French woman?
This is a vast oversimplification of quantum computing. Also, I think its pretty optimistic on the timeline of quantum computing. If you want to read more detailed content see Scott Aaronson's blog http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/
Friends Status - Sample iframe base Facebook Application using PHP-SDK v3.1.1
> I would prioritize existing lives over the yet to be born.

From an evolutionary point of view that makes very little sense.
Not cold fusion, hot fusion.
The data are what they are - these are the rates people are charging by listed skill

Right - and what about the rates for people paying for each listed skills? That's what I'm more interested in ;-)
Facebook Store Failures? Blame the Retailers, Not Facebook.
I think i've fixed that now!

Fingers crossed.
I think this has more to do with Apple's "we want everyone to have a perfect experience" philosophy than it does with trying to force people to upgrade to squeeze more money out of them. Most people who just have to be on the latest Mac OS will also be using a pretty new Mac if they can afford it.
It's not a lack of horsepower. It's an infuriating artificial restriction against running 64-bit Darwin kernels on 32-bit EFI. There's no technical reason why a 64-bit kernel can't be launched by a 32-bit EFI, but for some reason Apple has decided that 64-bit kernels will only boot from 64-bit EFI, and Mountain Lion will ship with a 64-bit kernel.

See http://netkas.org/?p=830 for more.

edit: Oh, and as to your whitelist/blacklist point - yes, Mac OS X checks what systems it can be installed on by Board IDs stored in "InstallableMachines.plist," not by enumerating the hardware.
Judging by the number of people who contacted me about Python work when I accidentally implied I had Python experience, I'd say that's a pretty hot market right now. Certainly compared to PHP at least ;-)
I think one of the things he mentions, people not living with their elderly parents, is responsible for a lot of our bizarre attitudes towards old age and death. How much of the "just a couple of more years" attitude is to help assuage the guilt of ignoring the person for the last 10-20 years of their lives?
Researchers turn an iPhone into a Braille writer
From a business standpoint, they will start losing users. For myself, I upgraded to Lion exclusively for some of the under the hood changes. However, every time I open iCal or AddressBook, I regret the upgrade. I updated my fathers computer to Lion as well, and he also despises some aspects of it. Neither of us will be upgrading to Mountain Lion as it is, and obsoleting working hardware makes these sorts of decisions even easier. Of the people I know with macs (about 5), nobody has upgraded to Lion, and one person explicitly upgraded to Snow Leopard to avoid Lion.

With this new approach, Apple will quickly achieve a very fragmented user base making both support and development more difficult. It's hard to argue that their tactic has "worked so far". To date, updates to OSX have been very infrequent, obsolescence of non-iOS hardware has been infrequent, and OS updates have had significant new features, not just a new package of Apple made apps.
Now it is "The Promo Bay".
How many people try to make a difference in the world, fail (because it is hard) and then capitulate into working a salaried job managing database queries for MegaCorp...because it is safe and they have a family to feed.

If you knew you would live until 300 and remained reasonably "young/healthy" during that time you probably wouldn't start a family as soon.
> without the profit motive, the people involved don't have a motivation to do the fit-and-finish work that's necessary for people to pick the product up and actually use it

This is true for most open source projects, but not all. For instance, Linux is of extremely high quality. Largely because there is a profit motive for many people.

However, all is not lost. I can't tell you the number of times I picked up an open source project. Forked it, cleaned it up, added features, and put it into production. That's the real power of open source.
Not quite. Your rate limiting seems to be cookie based, which makes it easy for someone to circumvent just by replaying their initial request (or by deleting the cookie you set).
As well, I'm pretty sure a lot of the "hacks" you see come out of hackathons are actually projects that were well underway before the event.
Asana and Orchestra help regain control of email
It's the top 50 of 1400 skills.
Would you feel different if the cloned body (or body parts) were grown in a fashion such that it was never intelligent or aware? Such as without a full brain or even without a head? Would it then be a soul?
Dad sets up search algorithm to find kidney donors for "chained" transplants
Mountain Lion is not like iOS
From the linked blog post:

Do these results have any real world value?

Probably not. (...)

Kind of sums it up. It's fun to play around with web frameworks and draw some bar charts, but please don't take this seriously. And definitely don't say "X is slower than Y" because of this.

Things like that always remind me of this great quote by Tom Lane (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lane_%28computer_scientist%...):

On idiotic benchmark comparisons "Try to carry 500 people
from Los Angeles to Tokyo in an F-15.
No? Try to win a dogfight in a 747. No? But they both
fly, so it must be useful to compare them... especially
on the basis of the most simplistic test case you can
think of. For extra points, use *only one* test case.
Perhaps this paper can be described as "comparing an F-15
to a 747 on the basis of required runway length".
What would be a good way to make PyPI more reliable?
Well, they're speaking in rigourous terms. Quantum computing will allow us to attack an enlarged set of problems in polynomial time. For example, integer factorization. However, there are still going to be other problems that quantum computers cannot solve in polynomial time (ie, much better than classical computers). For example, it's generally believed that they will not be able to solve NP-Complete (traveling salesman) problems in polynomial time.

For a nice description and diagram, take a look at the wiki page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing#Relation_to_c...
Once this case ends - one way or the other - will Oracle be able to sue Google again by picking up some more patents (from its 500 odd java patents) ? Or is this case the end of suing based on Java related patents...
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Funny websites from the 90s
Except they fucked up the experience for those of us who wanted a desktop OS without stupid distractions and not a phone on our desktop. This is so bad that I have not updated any of my 6 macs to Lion and refuse to buy any more Apple hardware. I'll continue with Snow Leopard for as long as it is viable and leverage my hardware investment, but come time for upgrade Apple won't even be considered.

It's really sad to see what happened to a once nice and open ecosystem. I honestly can't recommend a Mac to any of my friends or family any more. Apple is on a draconian quest to kill general purpose computing and lock everyone in. It's time to fight the evil before it's to late. Unfortunately Apple already has so much power over hardware manufacturers that Microsoft could only dream of in its heyday.
Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom
"Your post is fascist, and your views are mindless, based on an unthinking ideology which has, at its core, the exploitation of the innocent for your own personal gain."

The above sentence is addressing your post, your views and your ideology, in the same way you claim he was addressing my "post" and my "views". (and my ideology).

It is a painfully transparent way to call you "fascist", "mindless", "unthinking", "exploitative" and "evil".

If he were actually addressing my points, he could rebut them. To rebut them, requires several elements. First he has to honestly accept what I'm saying-- thus knocking down a strawman is not actually addressing a point, and thus not rebutting it. Second he has to bring facts, logic or reason to show why the point is in error. Simply calling the point names (as you claim he is doing) is not actually rebuttal. He didn't respond to my point at all, he misrepresented it characterize me and then characterized me, while pretending not to.

I saw thru it. It seems silly that you'd think that, having seen thru it, I would suddenly think otherwise. I think the motivation of your response is also that you disagree with me, but rather than rebut my points, you're jumping into the flay because he made it personal.

Nothing convinces me of the correctness of my perspective like my opponents fear of it.
VLC 2.0 - UI Designer post
Just to confirm. Are you're saying that, if you don't see it ... it's not really happening?
Different types of creative work may deserve a different treatment. (The same people who want copyright protection reduced to 5 years max probably haven't thought through the GPL implications!)

Imagine you wrote a truly great short story. Straight up copyright might be optimal. It'll get copied around regardless. Encouraging derivative works probably doesn't buy you much. And CC-BY seems as low as you'd want to go. Anything less, and Hollywood just gobbles it up and nobody sees your name on the poster. This goes against your strategy of "getting known by getting copied."

Also, times change. Musicians who license songs CC-BY-NC are free options in the Vimeo music service that offers background tracks to video creators. Meanwhile, old-school artists are one click away from actually getting paid. And public domain music seems deeply buried in the archive.org ghetto. So choose carefully, grasshopper.

License choice is part of modern web marketing. But it's a short-term bump and nobody knows the long-term effects. Also: if the most interesting part of your art is the license, you're doing it wrong.
Actually it is perfectly logical. Since he focused his time on characterizing me, and never got around to actually making a point, he forces me to either guess his position, or not address it. The motive is obvious and thus the logic holds.

Its not ad hominem, it is itself an argument-- I'm pointing out why he chose the technique he did.

You down voted me for ideological reasons.
So if I were a foreigner looking do do a startup,
I'd probably be in the states

And how would you get there, assuming you didn't marry an American (H1-B is for employees, not startup founders, in case that was your answer)?
I agree, although no truly great product is made in one night, hackathons can lay the foundations or the idea for something great to be elaborated on. Very few times do people get together, outside work time to build something, just for the sake of building something. Its important to give this time.
Do you have any support for your claim? The link you gave does not support your claim.

Here's a clue: paid shills generally do not announce that they are being paid by the entity they are allegedly shilling for.

All the linked article is reporting is that an analyst has taken a job to write a report--which is known because the analyst posted about it on his blog, naming the client and what the report is about, and stated that he would post his findings.

Under your ridiculous apparent definition of "shill", EVERYONE who does any research for pay is a shill for whoever is paying them.

edit: wow. Downvoted for calling out an unsupported ad hominem.
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Indeed. But after reading your comment i had to open Firefox to see that, it doesn't blink in Chrome. It seems that "The 'blink' value is not supported in IE, Chrome, or Safari." according to w3schools.
Do you really believe the US is fascist?
Failure implies responsibility.

And I think that's a fair point, actually. Death is a responsibility. Ascribing it solely to medicine is unfair, but it is our responsibility.

Could we extend the average lifespan of adults by 10 years by spending money? Easily. Most people live thoroughly unhealthy lives, many of them because they simply don't know better. Consider the whole "obesity epidemic". A large number of people will die comparatively young because of a complete failure of our society to teach them how to eat decent food.

Beyond simply curing gross mistakes in self-care, what about positives? Could we find ways to get the average healthy person to treat their body even better, and squeeze out some more life expectancy? I'm sure we could. More thorough study of the effects of nutrients and toxins, more efforts to reduce the amount of crap in people's food and other items that they come into daily contact with, etc, those would probably net another few years of improvement.

And that's only looking at western society. If you look at poorer countries, there are countless avoidable deaths there. Some organisations, like the Gates foundation, are trying to address some of the more obvious killers, like Malaria, which have been neglected for decades (if we'd really wanted to get rid of Malaria in the 50s, we would have done so).

Overall, I think it's fair to state that we could raise the life expectancy of almost every human on this earth by 10 years if we really tried. But we choose not to. There are 7 billion humans on this planet, and every day, we, as a society, make a choice, to not bother to create 70 billion man-years of life-expectancy.

It is a choice, or rather a lack of choice, and so yes, it is a responsibility. We all (me included) choose to give up on 70 billion years of human life, every day.
Articles with titles that could've been true (but weren't) for the last decade are much like articles with titles consisting of questions to which the answer is no.
The post has some really nice points. Specifically that you can never know 100% of everything and most probably you won't make the best design decisions every time. The point is to manage to not feel bad when you (or someone else) finds out that something could have been developed in a better way but instead learn from it and use it in the future.
Reminds me of Clients From Hell (www.ClientsFromHell.net). And a text only version of Dilbert. Nice!
This is commonly known as cheating. I'm fairly confident it doesn't happen very much.