skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I'd say that that Capitalism is the practice of the owners of capital and providers of labor (which might be overlapping sets) getting together to sell items for a profit, with said profits apportioned between labor and capital somehow. Which is clearly not how open source software works.

Capitalism is entirely compatible with free markets and since it seems to be the best way to produce rivalrous, excludable goods I'd expect to see it in any free market unless humans someday invent something better. On the other hand you can easily imagine a non-free market capitalist system, say where the state grants a monopoly on every good to some company or other, or maybe just auctions the monopolies off. I'm not sure how you can call capitalism a political system, since it's existed under a wide variety of political systems ever since it's time coexisting with feudalism.
Once upon a time, when &gt; was faster than &lt; ... Wait, what?
good luck with your investment.
Elon Musk said they use C++ on Linux a few days ago on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/elonmusk/status/198579161382649857
82 million trades for FB in the first 30 seconds.

I have no idea if that's a lot or not, but it's pretty impressive to build a system capable of doing that.
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That's not cronyism, that's getting a recommendation from someone who knows you. That's valuable information from for someone making a hiring decision.

Cronyism would be getting the job despite a lack of qualifications but due to your relationship with someone at the company.

Most of the jobs I've had have come from people knowing me, knowing my skill set, and keeping me apprised of openings.
Why would one assume that?

Aside from the millennia of oppression of women, you mean, keeping them out of every professional field? And aside from endemic gender stereotyping that pushes women strongly away from "hard" professions and toward "soft" ones? Oh, and aside from the dozens of conversations I've had with women in tech talking about how they've been mistreated?

Aside from all that, mainly because I'm really suspicious of unprovable arguments for a status quo that's very convenient for the speaker.
Pray, not prey :)
I think that's pretty typical for a conference the speaker would have attended anyhow. I've certainly spoken at conferences like that and been quite happy about it.
Maybe it's not "hate" of Zuckerberg. Maybe it's just looking at a person's actions and disapproving. "Hating the game." And every person with the skills has a choice whether they want to play it. Zuckerberg can do the right thing. He's just not doing it. And there's no reason we should expect everyone to celebrate this choice, no matter how much money is being poured in.

Are you attributing the "boon" to one web developer when it really is a result of the inevitable growth of the web, mobile computing, internet connectivity, dropping costs for hardware, etc.? Or maybe it's the amazing feat of acquiring a billion users? Maybe you think that was heretofor impossible?

If it wasn't the Facebook site, it would have been another site. Do you disagree? To think that Facebook made something possible that would not have been possible without one web developer seems irrational. It could have been anyone.

People can connect. Not because of one person and his website, but because of technology.

If a billion people choose to sign up and use your website as a hub for personal communication, I think that places some responsibility on you.

Whether you become a billionaire or not should not affect that responsibility.
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This is why you do not play the IPO game unless you are an insider (underwriter or early investor of the company in question). You will lose. They will see to it. And you will have no recourse, as they are in bed with the regulators.
I subscribe to your hypothesis that people were trading Zynga as a proxy for Facebook. The fortunes of Zynga are highly dependent on Facebook, and when big daddy was going down today so was Zynga.

As for making money on this, no dealers had shares available to sell short this morning or the past few days I believe.
The fact that you can't find a used Elise says loads.

I'm more of a motorcycles guy though.
Doesn't stuff like Google Analytics do this? At least that's what we use for our websites to track conversions. Don't know if you can do the same for mobile apps...

http://www.google.com/analytics/features/mobile.html
The Pry editor feature can do a few things that are impossible in IRB (but correct me if i'm wrong) --- you can call up an editor in the MIDDLE of an incomplete expression, this is only possible because Pry commands are not methods - see here:
https://github.com/pry/pry/wiki/User-Input#wiki-Edit_input_b...

Other things the Pry editor feature can do that i haven't seen elsewhere: it can edit methods (`edit-method MyClass#my_method`), it can open up an editor directly on the file/line that caused the last exception (`edit --ex`), it can edit previous expressions (`edit -i EXPR`).

Your interactive_editor gem was inspiration for this though, a very nice little gem :)
I think in this case it's because it's a strictly financial site. Many strictly-political sites are also banned. Due to being too off-topic.
Doesn't look like that: http://www.apple.com/iphone/business/docs/iOS_Security_Mar12...
Two interesting aspects of your argument here. One, you've quietly dismissed any possible sexism. And two, after accurately pointing out a problem, your solution is basically, "well fuck them, then." Nice.

I've been involved in selecting conference speakers, and we went out of our way to find geeks who aren't used to speaking up. Quiet people often have the most interesting things to say.
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OK I think I don't know what you're talking about. :) You wondered if men are being pushed into tech instead of other things. But this is clearly not happening because there is a shortage. So men might be more welcome in tech than women, but clearly neither men nor women are being pushed into tech. We know this because there are not enough men (or women) in tech. If they had been pushed, there would not be a shortage. Clearly both men and women should be pushed more :)
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wow... this is how out of touch the wealthy are. No one at all in real life would ever use this idea. I don't want to say like 1%, but honestly this is a tool of a very very small portion of society. The scary part is that a very small portion of society decides if it gets the money to exist.
Looked a little deeper. Seems like it might only work for Android then.

"If you're an Android developer, Analytics also gives you the tools to monitor the success of mobile ads for your app. You can track activity from a click on your ad to the Android Market to app download. It's a simple way to determine what marketing efforts are most effective for you."

Nothing about iOS conversions on their page.
"Obviously this is pure theorycraft for the Space Shuttle. But if anyone has a better number please share!"

A moot point now, since the Shuttle isn't operational. However, when it was running the incremental cost to NASA was around $500 mil per launch, so roughly $20,500 per kg to LEO. Tallying the full cost per Shuttle launch (i.e. the cost to the tax payers over the full history of the program) runs to about $1.5 billion per launch, so adjust those numbers above up by a factor of 3.
...well then give me the hardware or some unique OS feature set to exploit! Right now I'm doing a quickie hello world app which will be a simple multimedia book for a tablet. Just putting the specs of the most recent iPad side-by-side with a Kindle Fire is just depressing.

Or even if the feature sets are pretty much the same focus on ease of use for getting my foot in the door. For example why isn't there something like HyperCard so non-programmers can create apps for Android? Not for nothing Visual Basic had a huge impact on making Windows a standard for inhouse IT dev.
More here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/benheine/sets/72157623723956821...
Your Les Paul story reminded me of this study:

"Wearing a coat thought to be a doctor’s may improve attention."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/science/clothes-and-self-p...
It wasn't... but you made me realize that I had left that out. Thanks!
> I dunno, Win7 runs just fine on 1GB

That's not what I experience with VMs. Unless you restrict yourself to the desktop and Windows Explorer, it doesn't feel good.
Are you aware of dsp.js?

You are welcome to work off of the Haxe code I've been writing for Triad as well: https://github.com/triplefox/triad/tree/master/dev/com/ludam...

Demo: http://www.ludamix.com/apps/triad-synth/index.html
I'm wondering is there a Wikipedia article on this issue, I was interested to get more background on this, especially the status in other countries.
I know it's not fair or logical, but I can't help but think this entire deal feels wrong because Mike embraces the dick role and Dan comes off as a great guy.
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The quality of this memo truly reflects the appropriate attitude of DoJ in regards to First (Speech), Fourth (Search), and Fourteenth (Due Process) Amendment rights.

> E.g. "Officers should be advised not
to threaten, intimidate, or otherwise discourage an individual from recording police officer
enforcement activities or intentionally block or obstruct cameras or recording devices."
Without ADHD meds, our son often can't concentrate long enough to finish a sentence. He starts one, shifts to another, and repeats. Often, in the mornings before his meds kick-in, he lacks sufficient impulse control to avoid hitting his mother (also my wife -- the English language seems to lack a single word which denotes both relationships) or threatening her with physical violence. The differences in behavior are striking in their contrast. While I don't like the idea of "medicating away" a problem which could be solved via better parenting, I don't see how we can possibly be effective parents if we had to spend most of our time with him (1) protecting his little brother from his aggression, (2) protecting physical possessions, or (3) attempting to correct behaviors which himself seems to wish he did not have but can not stop due to lack of impulse control. On meds, we can do what normal parents get to do.
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Windows 8 Metro apps can be written in real C++. How could they sandbox a custom C++ app? There's no virtual machine to do it.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh46504...
Those comparisons aren't even nearly on the same scale. A car doesn't just offer convenience, it offers trips that were previously impossible. It is not possible to walk from Seattle to Portland in any kind of meaningful timeframe.

It's only 2-3 days by horse. You could do it in about a week on foot.
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Thanks didn't know about the word "Pax". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana points to Pax_Mongolica (as gus_massa pointed out) among other Paxes.
True enough. Even so, it's in their best interests long term to price themselves a decent amount below the cheapest competition (but not too much below) to make sure they're maintaining a high enough marketshare to maximize their total profit, not just per unit profits.

Also, to some degree as the space tourism market gains traction there will be some amount of competitive pressure on the costs of orbital tourism from the sub-orbital market (Virgin Galactic and others). More so, once SpaceX has proven their business model it will drive a lot of investment capital to their competitors (both old and new) to try to level the playing field.
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Yeah, it amuses me to read the number of people here saying he doesn't get Silicon Valley. He might be wrong, but he certainly isn't ill-informed. You can also read his 10-part history of Silicon Valley on his blog:

http://steveblank.com/category/secret-history-of-silicon-val...
Oh wow, that's actually kind of a clever hack. How quickly can you redirect back to the app? Is there a tutorial on something like this (my Google-fu failed me here)?
I don't.

Just browse HN every few hours. A quick scan. But thats it.
I don't think I said, or linked to anyone saying, that women should get an easier option than men. My links were intended to show the overall feeling that people in tech have, but if you want hard data, here you go: http://narrowthegapp.com/aat39.txt Here is a description of the environment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1965472 and a non-comprehensive list of infamous events http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents . Obviously these incidents do not involve every member of the hacking community; the point is that they form a pattern of harassment that makes an atmosphere that is not welcoming toward women.
Can't think of a catchy name for it, but maybe the StackExch team needs to start a "Programmer Confessions" forum.
Great to see that there are humble people like this out there. I'm not even really in the field but the term 'angel investor' has always struck me as really self-inflating. If there is anyone who is 'angelic' it is the people doing the hard work. Why not just 'seed investor'?
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A friend of mine likes to say: "Don't confuse Sloan with MIT."
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Radley Balko has written extensively on this topic. It is also a frequent topic @ Reason.com. Carlos Miller maintains a blog called "Photography is not a Crime" that deals with this issue. Those sources are good places to start learning about the ongoing issues of photography in public spaces & of police actions.
Apparently someone does. It just got deleted. This stuff is getting really creepy. All I use is throw-aways anymore.
Can't say I have much sympathy for him. He's 29, and despite having reasonable writing skills seems to have expected a Beemer and a blonde upon graduation.

He also seems to signal that he's far more into what a job gives him than what he can bring to a job in terms of skill. This is something that is easily sniffed out, even just through his writing. Oh, he gives the usual "hard work, sacrifice, and a bit of luck," bit, but then goes on to blame HR, the economy, etc instead of applying any rigor to his own skills and experience.

It's never been easy to break into a job. The idea that a college degree is a Golden Wonka ticket to riches and Everlasting Gobstoppers needs to die.

If you don't have the entrepreneurial spirit to create your own job/startup/career, then you're going to be a piece of phytoplankton, carried by the vagaries of the ocean's currents. There are jobs for people lacking this motivation, but they're not the ones with "I wanted the tailored suits, the chance at a high income, the BMW, the prestige, the respect, and the power."

And I have to say that this isn't particularly credible from what I've witnessed:

"due to job-hunt and financial issues, my age group finds it extremely hard to go out and be in social settings, so the usual networking and schmoozing that previous generations indulged in isn't nearly as possible for us"

And finally, playing the blame game with the faceless and apparently evil minions of HR is just ridiculous. In my experience, HR tends to weed out people so as not to waste a hiring manager's time. And in 90% of the people I've seen hired, the manager took their resume to HR to have it vetted after already having received recommendations for the applicant. In other words, if you're trying to get to the hiring manager through HR, you're doing it wrong.
If it's a biography you want, you'd be better off with John Dawson's one (he is, of course, the author of the article linked at the root).
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Just copied this to my smartphone so I have it on hand.

For years I've been in the habit of just hanging around for a bit if I come across cops when they're dealing with citizens. I encourage everybody to try it from time to time. Worst case, you learn something. Best case, you subtly remind the police who they work for: their fellow citizens.
Honestly, YCombinator provides near-zero money. It's a strategic investment because they gain networking, a position in the valley, and access to the best programmers. It will make deployment easier. Now, if they need a lawyer, an accountant, a new staff member, or anything else - the YCombinator backing will make everything smoother so that they can focus on the core product.
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I think that's exactly why it works, because you get to try something different. Before living in Japan I did some holidays here and it was one of my favorite activities to just buy random things from kiosks and vending machines and to be surprised with new tastes.
>So a lot of Zynga shareholders were merely holding Zynga as a proxy for Facebook.

This might be a part of the reason. But the big huge fall, then the huge rise might just be triggered by silly trading algorithms, maybe?

Like you said, Zynga and Facebook are presumed to be highly correlated in terms of value. But, Zynga needs facebook more than the other way round. I think (and this may just be utterly wrong), that the steep fall in facebook's value triggered an even steeper fall in Zynga's share price, which then cascaded to panicked investors selling their shares to lower it even more.

The real funny thing however, is the steep rise again. I am tempted to venture a guess that everyone was watching the trades to see who would make the first move, and then piggyback on them.

Sort of like a room full of people with guns pointed at each other. No one really wants to make the first move, but as soon as someone does, the only chance of surviving would be to start shooting.
contact EFF ? quit your job ?
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I question the accuracy because w3.org actually mentions that cookies work differently on mobile devices vs. web. However, if you're only targeting smart phones with full web browsing capabilities like the iPhone or Android (or Win7???) then it should be ok.

Source: http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/#d0e1925
Thanks though for sharing this solution. I'll stick around to see if anything new pops up.
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It looks like an interesting idea, but the thing that throws up a bit of a flag is that it seems susceptible to becoming SkyMall-ish.

I.E. limited and overpriced selections of mixed quality. I don't know that it gives me the precision and control I want with gift selection...
Why aren't the police equipped with recording devices that are active whenever they are interacting with the public? It seems that anyone with that sort of power should have an audit trail for their actions.
Steve Blank is a respected Valley veteran who has written highly insightful and informative materials about the history and development of the Valley (see http://steveblank.com/secret-history/) and so his opinion is worthy of note.

That said, I have been in the Valley since 1968, have watched its ups and downs professionally since the early 1980s, and can say without question that it is currently bursting at the seams with opportunity from every conceivable angle. Yes, the days when silicon was king are well past their "golden" stage but they have been replaced by an era where founders have decided leverage and power to realize great visions without having to overcome the resource/knowledge barriers that predominated just a decade ago, where innovative investors have more ability than ever to leverage early-stage situations in ways that used to be monopolized by just a few top-tier VCs, and where the disruptive impact of technological change generally is leaving old-guard companies staggering as startups who vigorously challenge them proliferate - all to the great benefit of society at large. Plans are afoot at every top-tier company - Facebook, Google, Apple, etc. - to grab control of the whole process and eventually dictate to others how they might participate in it, but such plans have not yet succeeded even when they once seemed almost inevitable (thinking of 90s Microsoft here). As long as companies remain free to innovate, there likely will be successive stages of greatness in the Valley (and, of course, elsewhere where comparable elements exist) and it is a mistake, in my view, to attempt to label any particular outstanding stage in the past, or any particular mode of growth, as "golden" in some special way. As long as human nature is what it is, enterprise will take many forms, each suitable to its time and no one form more particularly special than the other. The key is to capitalize on the opportunities as they exist, leaving history to play itself out as it will.
eh... the problem is the cost with the degree. Engineers are really expensive. If I could grab an MBA for 55k, sure, in a heartbeat. But for 120k I'm going to grab another engineer and a humanities major for 35k who might turn into an MBA type.
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Tesla is a crony capitalist scam, they are burning though nearly half billion in guaranteed loans from the U.S. government. This car is WORSE for the environment than regular autos (inefficiently powered across the grid by coal power plants, uses toxic hazardous batteries) and there is no market here. Tesla's lobbyists and insider investors (including Mercedes) are already cashed out with the IPO. Taxpayers stand to lose their entire "investment."
A billion dollars is always sexy.
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Don't forget to read the comments; there are some good war stories.
Because people with that sort of power don't want an audit trail of their actions.
You're not alone in this regard.
Anyone here who self-identifies as an ultra-orthodox Jew who can explain concerns about the internet in the context of his own belief system?
Apps can only access files with the same file type association?

What about generic text editors? SSH clients? :/
I think his problem with the GPL is that it allows "open source" project owners to constructively restrict commercial use (by offering a separatel-licensed (non-GPL) version.)

I also openly question the truth of his statement that he was an early reader of the JVM specification.
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