skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I up-voted you because I like you directly teasing out this point.

This is what I meant by flipping the script. It's just a matter of perception, and that itself can be changed. It shifts with culture. If you think work is a chore then it will be a chore. If you think it is fun then it will be that, at least some of the time. If innovations come around that make it more fun regardless, culture will shift where less will think of it as a chore. These things build upon themselves.

Keep in mind play is not responsibility-free - it has an associated time/opportunity cost. Taking a trip around Europe for a couple weeks, I'd say that's great. The experience can be life-changing... it can bring alot of value for the time spent. Being locked in a room playing some online game for a few weeks... not so great. It might be fun to some degree, but it can be deleterious for one's health, personal relationships, work life, etc. It can actually be harmful.

As a working engineer for the past dozen years I can agree that many times work is a chore. But, and this is a big but, every once in awhile I get a project that is so challenging, so meaty, so impactful that it is far more fun than anything else I can imagine doing. Those projects are the kinds of things I stay at work late for, when I get home even VPN to the office to continue working until I pass out, then get in early to the office because I can't wait to get back to it. YMMV, but I think quite a few HN folk can relate. Some people this might describe their job entirely. The gamification is implicit in the work itself.

I think there's a huge industry waiting to be tapped here, and once it finds its footing human productivity will go up a few notches. The biggest problem is what we currently have is a bit cheesy and too obvious, perhaps to the point where it makes the user feel foolish/duped. That needs to be overcome.
In the US anonymous individuals, groups or corporations can spend unlimited amounts of money on political advertising. Super PACs and (c)4's makes the current US political system more like the political system the founding fathers created. A system where only wealthy white men could vote.

So yeah, the US is a _real_ democracy _if_ you happen to be a rich white man. Not unlike Russia.

US politicians are passing voter repression laws in states with the specific aim of making it harder for voters to vote. Not to mention the gerrymandering of districts.

In the US people are assassinated and jailed for being against the government. Anwar Al-Awlaki and Tarek Mehanna.
> they leave their SDK installed on the user's device after they've deleted your application

How does this work? I come from the iOS universe and statements like this scare me out of ever installing anything from the Play Store. Is installing an app not clearly reversible? I can't find anything useful for "uninstall sellaring" or "remove sellaring" either.

Is there a golden rule to keeping Android 4 clean?
There will be a middle-left coalition of the social democrates and the green party. The liberal party was able to recover after beeing down to 2% several weeks ago.

The Pirates once again get the chance to work on their profile from the opposition. This is a very good constellation for the Pirate Party.
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I love this game. Not sure that the rotation is necessary though. The fun beings when multiple state names start popping up. Great way to learn the US map.
That's largest as in most popoulos. 18 million of 82 million people. Federal elections are next year, the party is currently polling well above 5% nationwide, that's the required threshold for entering the parliament.
> It also provides a strong incentive to upsell to the paid version of the application that loses the advertising as well.

It provides a much stronger incentive to immediately remove the app and leave a 1-star review.
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A drawn but unfired gun can be very effective in convincing someone to stop what they're doing. It would be useful to know how many times their guns were drawn.

It may be (I dont' know) that German police are trained to minimize firing, and American police training may put relatively more emphasis on how to fire guns to resolve situations.
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> I consider my job not only not to be bad, but GOOD for society.

Really now? Wow. Wasn't expecting that. Tell me, again, how exactly is it good for society?

> My job helps making a level field and removes the need of extra people working in trying to scalp away from market fluctuations.

This smells like a rationalization of HFT. Is that what you do? It is quite popular among the HN folks after all.

> I consider my job to be good in the sense that the alternative to be worse.

That's quite an achievement in the art of Rationalization. In a similar vein, I guess shooting someone in the head is better than torturing them to death.

> Quite like a free market I consider it to be good, because it's the MUCH better alternative to a CAPTIVE market.

Umm.. so your job's goodness is comparable to a free market being good by way of being better than a captive one? Care to elaborate?

> Because that's in fact the only alternative.

A captive market is the only alternative to a free market.. or your job? What's the point here?

> The freest market is not the least nor the most regulated, it's the best regulated.

This seems to make sense, but how is it related to what you do?

> You've very conveniently cherry-picked my criticism about them.

Well, your only criticism of those sites was that they're "rather juvenile", which didn't leave much room for cherry-picking. But of course, "cherry-picking" is a common accusation on HN.

> That's the way they're redacted, the public they cater to the most and very likely the personality of the main contributors.

Redacted how?

> But you're missing the point that it's not ONLY about that.

Actually, I didn't miss that detail in what you said. I just wanted to see if you'd "go there". You didn't disappoint.

You see, a job not being only about money is just as blindingly obvious as the fact that not every single goddamn black guy is a better dancer than your average white guy.

> This point is related to the post because I'd actually take this job over most other jobs taking a significant pay cut.

Glad you cleared that up, I was starting to wonder. But what else would you say, especially at this point? Of course you're going to make that claim, because for you, this has been all about rationalizing what you do right from the start.

> My sister is a doctor, I think my job is more positive for society than even that, it affects way more people.

That's quite an audacious load of bullshit right there.

Yes, your job has far-reaching potential consequences, including - but not limited to - collapsing economies and countries along with them, causing massive loss of wealth for us little folks, social unrest, chaos on the streets, people killing each other for food, power-grabs by totalitarian forces, and so on.

Before you start foaming at the mouth, note the word "potential" there.

Here's a first-hand account of the consequences of hyperinflation in Argentina: http://ferfal.blogspot.com/2008/10/thoughts-on-urban-surviva...

Hyperinflation is certainly one of the potential consequences for what the financial industry is doing, and you are helping them.
I think that's definitely part of it, but I think there may be a bit of deliberate amnesia as well, out of a desire to portray something as totally new, and perhaps to avoid any unwanted historical baggage.

You also see this in "serious games" and its variants. Even Al Gore was recently talking about how the future of videogames is that maybe they'll be used for things like education, too, not just entertainment. Sure, I even buy that. But that's what everyone was saying in the Apple ][ era also! It's not just about credit, but I think we lose something from the amnesia: some of the Apple ][ games were actually better uses of game mechanics for education than much of the fairly shallow stuff being promoted more recently, and we can even learn something from the examples that were more mixed successes (though admittedly there was a lot of bad "edutainment", too).
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I wonder what impact this will have on the lawsuit war against Facebook. This was one of Scott Thompson's priorities while he was CEO, perhaps we will see a softening now that he is out?
Crockford speaking about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C-JoyNuQJs&t=39m45s
"Doug, opinions vary on the necessity or value of tools like JSLint. Consult your team's technical lead for guidance on whether your team chooses to enforce JSLint's strict guidelines."
Sounds like network traffic intefering to me. Which is illegal at least in Finland.
Don't you also need to know the sequence number? That's why those "TCP killers" work as a MITM attack. The 5-tuple is probably guessable, since the peers talk to each other and the tracker.
In the other corner are people who feel entitled to consume an arbitrary amount of music/movies without paying the creators anything

They're probably less than you think. Many "pirates" pay, and in fact pay more than the average person.

some of these are wishful thinking ("they can make money in other ways")

In the UK, and despite the lower income from album sales, the total income for artists has grown: http://www.hypebot.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2012875f077e8970c...

Likewise, despite whining about piracy, the MPAA has had five years of record profits from 2005 to 2010.

Maybe it's not so wishful thinking?
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Such programmers have actually worked in neither.
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You said that you're leaving to pursue opportunities where you can "...build products that save people time, money and headaches."

Why not make it easier for people to use bitcoins in day to day transactions? It feels to me like more effort in the bit coin community is going into making financial products for finance people than financial products for normal people doing normal things. Solutions such as those that make bitcoin transactions from one cell phone to another cell phone would be a valuable addition to the community.
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Yep, sounds great to me!
Discovering each others interests and performing an intersection of the two sets is also a conversation ... :)
Microsoft to make Windows 8 Pro SKU upgrade offer
Three non-technical founders and one of them is the "CTO"?

What could possibly go wrong?
:) They're working on it:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/with-new-hardware-s...
>I mean sure, if people wanted to watch the latest episode of Game of Thrones but couldn't because it wasn't available to them (or they were unhappy with the terms) and someone else then said "I have a series like Game of Thrones and it's free!" THAT would be "somebody else" providing what the market want, but it isn't.

Here's what I'm saying: If HBO is offering Game of Thrones on HBO.com to anyone willing to pay $10 (or whatever) for it, and The Pirate Bay is offering it for $0, probably some people are still going to go to The Pirate Bay and get it for $0 instead of paying $10 for it. And that sucks; it would be nice if we could wave a magic wand and make it stop without impacting millions of innocent people, but we can't.

However, if you go to HBO.com and there is no reasonable way for you to insert cash and watch video, far more people are going to end up at The Pirate Bay than would if the show was available on the official website. And that is something we can easily do something about. So isn't it better to adopt the solutions that actually reduce the problem than to sit around complaining how unfair it is while unnecessarily losing a bunch of would-be customers?
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I never got it working. I switched to the twitter bootstrap progress bars instead.
There's nothing wrong with giving non-apologies in some circumstances. All it does is indicate in a diplomatic way that you weren't really sorry for what you did. If there was actually a really good reason for you to be sorry (ie. inviting an outspoken sexist radical to moderate at your event), that's a good reason for others to be pissed at your unapologetic response though!
It's rather difficult to make money these days without notifying a shitload of institutionalized entities. I'm not saying that I disagree with taxpaying, but things got to a ridiculous level where everything is set up to make sure you have very little opportunities to make money with your work, and if you succeed after all, you're only entitle to a rather small slice.

About the original post, I couldn't agree more.
> they leave their SDK installed on the user's device after they've deleted your application

I have worked on an Android app extensively. I am pretty sure that's not possible.
The problem with that analysis: "US media isn't perfect" ==> "Any media outlet that isn't perfect is as good as the US media". The key indictment of US media is that they all disagreed with him on the Iraq war, at least in the beginning.

What's missing from the analysis is degrees of imperfection. RT will tout the Kremlin line even to the point of being comical. Even if Assange's show doesn't contribute to this, he still serves to legitimise the rest of the channel. He is extremely naive if he doesn't think he's going to be a cog in RT and Putin spinning itself and Russia as a home to disenfranchised and persecuted western intellectuals - while conveniently not mentioning the fact that disenfranchised Russian intellectuals, especially of the journalist variety, have a nasty habit of dying young - which is very unlike their western counterparts.
No, I'm not going to support your tax evasion.
Downvoted for flamebait, by erroneously calling people thieves.

By the way: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/21/study-finds-pira...
I suspect not, but I'd be happy to hear otherwise. Certification is as much about process and traceability as it is about the code itself. Open source naturally tends to give visibility into the development process, but there's usually no business driver to spend the money on certification. Think multiple thousands of dollars per line of code.
Just a followup: the read(2)-related sorting bug has been fixed and will be part of the next update.
Change "black" into "non jew" and see how it works. This is definitely racist stuff, no question about it, disgusting (intelligence is also a matter of "taste").
Aging also kills. So we'll be living longer life and healthier life if we find a cure for aging.
Thanks for posting, Tong, good luck with next.

Might I suggest a post-mortem on the various security problems you dealt with, for those of us who weren't following closely? I'm sure you learned a lot, even if what not to do.

I don't think many programmers, especially web developers in the consumer startup scene, are faced with such security pressures as Bitcoinica was, so it would probably be very useful for many to read a behind-the-scenes accounting of that.
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Square actually approached the NYC tlc about replacing current systems. That experiment will be happening some time in the next year. Likewise there will be several other services enterIng the market this fall, some of which have some very interesting ideas for the market and are currently in quasi stealth mode
The first hit in bing for “Vysotsky. Thanks to God, I’m alive" is a link to http://www.visotsky-film.ru/ which seems relevant. Its probably google personalizing your search result to exclude a russian film
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Thanks, these are some interesting links.
Not necessarily, it's easier for the average person to keep specialized networks separate by using separate apps than by trying to organize the myriad of tools for creating groups, circles or whatever people want to call them these days.

The easiest way for people to know for certain what they are sharing with who is to know that they haven't shared anything with a particular network so there is no risk of messing up and inadvertently sharing something with someone which you did not mean to share.
True, but a bullet falling at terminal velocity may still kill:

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-12-20/news/30540094_1_a...

Edit: this particular bullet would have been on a ballistic trajectory and would have retained a significant amount of its original velocity.
Yahoo CEO Thompson to step down
I know about that; I'm not contesting that, I'm contesting the notion that the military deliberately screens in favor of psychopaths. They don't, and it's absolute bullshit to say that they do.
Right, lol.
it's always some natural right to have everything for nothing

No. It's my natural right to accept what people are voluntarily sharing with me, and to share what I've bought.
Being consistently pro-America is not, by a long shot, the same as being an uncritical vehicle for government propaganda.
Downvoted for flamebait, by erroneously calling people thieves.

Oh right...piracy isn't theft, right? Physical goods and all. Groan.

There are a world of studies available for consideration. When you see the same study (by the reputable Norwegian School of Business, no less) referenced over, and over, and over again, it is kind of telling.
I was in a similar situation in a 2-person startup. My advice, GTFO ASAP. YOu'll find more opportunities, your reputation will be fine. You have now just wasted one irretrievable year of your life. Time is the most valuable commodity which you can NEVEER get back. Don't waste anymore. GTFO now
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> It's been very frustrating because we're well past the point where refactoring-out Boost would be cost effective.

I'm curious: What was the motivation for switching in the first place? And why is staying with the proven tool not the better option?

My own case: It makes no sense to migrate our (relatively small by the sound of it) codebase. It is in production, generating money, and anything that interferes with that is simply not going to be considered. Our largest dependencies are wxWidgets, ffmpeg, libcurl: It has performed well, though not without some hiccups.
It's telling in that nobody pays to show what the industry doesn't want to see.

Oh right...piracy isn't theft, right? Physical goods and all. Groan.

Well, piracy is. "Piracy" isn't, just like rape or murder isn't theft. Good or bad, it's not theft.
I can't speak about RT, but there is definitely a truth to American news simply being bad. Some friends who moved to the US for a period described it as being "a country without news".

A pretty clear example of this was the time leading up to the latest invasion of Iraq. At the time, a majority of Americans seemed to literally believe that Iraq was a threat to the US. I remember a survey at the time saying that the majority of the population in every other country in the world was opposed to the invasion. The US was going to war based on the claim that Iraq was a threat to US, which most commentators in my end of the world doubted. A different picture was apparently presented to US audiences.
Criminals are just not suspected to have a gun. Another example: When German police is trying to stop one on the road they are driving ahead and then decelerate, so you can't escape. American police, at least in the movies I know, are driving behind you so they can see every move of you and you do better the show-your-hands-and-no-quick-moves-thing.
Wouldn't it be wiser to spend time and energy trying to get coverage within your startup's domain rather than technology blogs? Obviously tech coverage would be good for networking, funding negotiations but why is domain specific coverage not even mentioned, surely it is vastly more important?
Reminds me of this excellent read about how our perception of age and dying taints our ability to even consider it a problem we can work on and correct:

http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
and to share what I've bought.

Horseshit. It is your right to refuse to purchase things that include sharing clauses you don't like.

The level of discourse on any discussion involving piracy is the bottom of the septic tank, full of some of the most irrationally, short-term entitled nitwits imaginable.
I'm not a bitcoin user, but I'll have to agree with ewillbefull.

Not trying to take value of our contribution to bitcoin (I don't know much about it to be honest) but, as an outsider, my reaction is: Why does this person feels the need of making such an announcement? Why didn't you took your decision silently?

Also... "leaving BITCOIN"??? Sounds a bit pretentios to me... maybe "leaving BITCONICA" would be a more apropriate title?
Deleting an app doesn’t delete your data from their system
"Digital sales have barely touched lost physical media sales"

Why do they feel entitled for the same amount of money regardless?

What makes them think they'll get the same money even if there would not be a single pirate? People experience less new music, people need even less mainstream music, other entertainment ate the pie. Games, TV shows, they all steal from the same pool.
You'll see them more often in New York or D.C. I've even seen them at SJC once. They come out at one of the color-coded terror alert levels, but I forget which.
In fact, in this scenario he can be completely honest and say that that would not be a good idea because, well, he's the main engineer there and they would not be happy about him leaving. I know for me that'd be a very good sign (assuming I believe the guy is being honest).
Shooting to kill is under no circumstance allowed in Germany or Austria (for police and civilians) and it doesn't matter if it is more practical to aim for center mass and fire 10 times, because it's law over here.

If an aspiring police officer is not willing to submit to those rules, he or she will have to look for a different job.

It's easy for you to say that this is foolish, but in the end much less tragedies occur, because neither the offender, nor the police officer will feel like their lives are threatened in those heated situations. They'll catch the criminal anyways later on.
It's not a question of essentials. It is a question of are we becoming a better society by pirating Game of Thrones? Yes we do.

So you are going to disregard me just like HBO already did.
Why should not I?
Where it could ricochet and kill someone.
Betteridge's Law of Headlines - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headlines

"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'".
Another one I just remembered that's really important:

* Always choose geographic and language settings properly.

The number of accounts we would review where some (eg.) UK-only business was just throwing away money advertising worldwide ...

Again, Google could provide better tools for targeting adverts, or make the location options clearer, but it is absolutely in their interests not to.