skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Austerity doesn't seem to be solving the problem. Stimulus sort of helped, but was applied at the top. Trickle-down is known to not work very well...

Major governments will either find something that works, or we are likely to see repeats of the French Revolution translated to modern times and idioms.
I'd say this is spot on, but the question is that of whether paying off the vast majority of the debt is even possible. In the USA especially, I've long since concluded it simply cannot happen.

Look at how much bickering the Republicans and Democrats have over even relatively minor issues. $10^9 is one 15-thousandth of the national debt and there's fights about such amounts.
The Economics of Bank Robbery
Same thing with the sounds used in spoken language, which varies between groups of people.
Interviewers favor those seen first
>* Offer virtual items to make money: max 5 years *

Depending on the way it is done, it can be like gambling. That's what is happening in Japan, where children would spent enormous amount of money to get (artificially) rare virtual items, and the government had to pass laws to restrict these kind of games. I don't know if it's better or worse than prostitution, but it can have a clear negative impact on the society for sure.

http://kotaku.com/5908147/japans-youngest-self+made-billiona...
The author, Liz Henry, conflates Hacking with Anonymous.

At a couple of conferences lately, Hackmeet and She’s Geeky, as well as at the feminist science fiction convention WisCon, I hosted a discussion of feminist hackers and feminist hacking. I wanted to put the idea out into the world and see what other women had to say about it. Though women are involved with Anonymous and other instances of hacker activism, they aren’t part of the story, of the myth of the hacker. If there were a particularly feminist or womanist Anonymous, women working together, what would they be doing? What or who would their targets be? What social justice or mischief making aims would they have? What would our griefing and trolling look like or what does it currently look like? What do hacker feminists do for lulz?

But to many people Hacking and Anonymous have only the barest of intersections.
The article mainly seems to focus on how to get back at the man, and the author expresses surprise and anger that in a different nation and a different cultural context others were not sympathetic to her message.

The answers the author relays are mainly focused at getting back at the man, a series of mostly negative societal inputs and few positive society building inputs.

Few of the answers are about what most people at Hacker News would consider to be Hacking, even as the author's post is titled "Feminist Hacker News" and is supposedly about Feminist Hacking.

A better title for Mz. Henry's post might be Feminist MonkeyWrenching or Feminist Anonymous.

What might feminist hackers do?

- create code
- teach coding
- support STEM education through code, outreach, ....
- websites that discuss issues of discrimination similar to "name your rapist" but that adhere to fair/just rules of law
- create APIs into gov't databases / sources of gender/wage information
- create websites that discuss negotiation of salaries
- how to ensure your salary is competitive
- how to ensure your rights are protected
- how to hire and behired
- create awesome websites regarding feminist issues: sexuality, rights, domestic violence, changing roles of marriage, etc.
- create websites that create dialogue around these issues and are inclusive, not exclusive
Integrity is more than soundness of moral character; it also refers to someone's honesty.

When you say something like, "Now I am not sure whether I should trust the results"... I think you're implicitly questioning the author's honesty.

Same goes for this: "It's just when you have been around on the net as many of us have for so long you just realize that normally if something is too good to be true it probably is."

Anyway, don't mean to debate you on any of this. You had asked where you were wrong, so I just thought I'd share how your comments came across to this outside observer.
As a non-programmer who works in a field that 99% of programmers aren't aware even exists, I would like to point out that there are a lot of simple software programs to be made for specialized purposes in various fields. They don't exist because nobody who can build them knows they're necessary, and the people who need them don't know they're possible.
The effect is very well established in hearing, where we learn to hear phonemes of our language and lose our ability to recognize phonemes not in our native language.
Carnegie thought he was talking about sales, but he was really talking about tools for social engineering, which is a skill that hackers have been interested in for decades.
> Is it not the case that having a Facebook account, even a sparsely populated one, is incompatible with maintaining any semblance of control over your online identity, PII, privacy?

> People don't object because providing Facebook with personal data is voluntary

Yes, it's incompatible, because providing the data to Facebook can be involuntary. The existence of an account (even a shadow) means that your friends can inject data without your approval. A tag in any picture, a mention by name at any kind of event or location, or even the existence of the friend link are all pieces of data that contribute towards profiling your behavior and determining advertisements that you might respond to. This all occurs even if you yourself didn't provide any of it. (Good luck telling your friends to never tag or mention you on Facebook.)

Facebook lets you think that you can delete or undo any of the above, but you still rely solely on Facebook's ethics as to whether they actually cease using the "deleted" data. The only force that can restrict Facebook from keeping and using such data is legislation, and that and its implications would probably be a greater evil.
The advantage of smarts is that they quote Saint-Exupéry correctly, or not quote it at all.
The Dot Dash (ICANN and Top Level Domains)
Ditto this. When I was 15/16 and considering a pump (I got one when I was 17), I was seriously concerned about social implications. That was an extra year or two spent injecting when I should've been on the pump.

I'm willing to take some of that blame for being shallow, but not all of it. I know I wasn't the last teen diabetic w/ similar thoughts.
> If the window you are going to is covered it takes some work to drop what you are dragging.

cmnd-tab and cmnd-` work during drag and drop in all but the most poorly written applications. And most of those poorly written apps are broken in Lion anyway.

> With the Path Bar in Finder you have a similar mechanism but you have to drag-and-drop, which is, well, a pain in the ass.

Oh, I agree, but that's a problem with NSOpenPanel, not the Finder. Subtle distinction, but it's there.

> The closest I've gotten is a right-click->Get Info and then you can copy the "where" plain-text path.

Copy (cmnd-c) the folder or file puts the whole path on the clipboard (along with a file: URL and file promise - which gets used is determined by where the paste takes place).
Microsoft to unveil tablet with Barnes & Noble
Show HN: collection of gags, please comment
Janus MacVim distribution - editor

VLC - video player

iTunes - music

Alfred - launcher

Divvy - window management (can create hotkeys for resizing/positioning windows)

Kaleidoscope - great diff tool

I use the default Mail and Calendar apps
A Gray Beard Explores F#
These could be the underwater equivalent of the sound of wind in a cave.

Powered by volcanic emissions instead of wind. Depending on the shape of the orifice and the size/shape of the chamber, it could make any kind of sound.
That bullet pointed list for some reason doesn't render properly in the comments, but is brilliant and far more insightful than the article itself. This is precisely the sort of positive constructive feminism that we need in the hacker community, instead of destructive anger-fuelled negativity.
Why do I need to build an investor page?
I just bought a late 2011 15" MBP - stuck 16GB of RAM in it and it is so much smoother.
This was an earlier conversation on the related subject of using a CMS for a big site:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2764850
Things I haven't seen here yet:

1. Backblaze for off-site backups: http://backblaze.com
2. Dash for access docs: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dash-docs-snippets/id45803487...
3. Solarized and ir_black themes for Terminal and all editors: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized / http://blog.toddwerth.com/entries/13 (I use ir_black w/ Terminal.app, terminal Vim and the sidebar fork of Macvim: https://github.com/alloy/macvim/wiki/Screenshots)
4. This fork of GitX: http://gitx.laullon.com/
5. DTerm (pop-up terminal emulator for the occasional 'less README'): http://decimus.net/DTerm
6. XScope (rulers and stuff for UI design): http://xscopeapp.com/
7. LittleSnapper (tried everything, this is the fastest and cleanest way to collect UI inspiration – Skitch + Evernote would be my second choice): http://www.realmacsoftware.com/littlesnapper/
8. Found (don't use this much, but it's awesome. Indexes Gmal, Dropbox and Google Drive and lets you search and launch files – a bit like Alfred): https://www.foundapp.com/
9. DaisyDisk (essential harddrive file visualization): http://www.daisydiskapp.com/

And, another shoutout for Quicksilver – more powerful than Alfred.
A design critique of Svbtle
Always sounds like http://ia600500.us.archive.org/12/items/ird059/tcp_d1_01_the...

(give it some time...)

and http://www.lostcosmonauts.com/firstman.ra
managed to scare the hell out of me...

shiver

I wonder how fear and sounds like these are wired in our brains...
Given Krugman's little rant on Sweden http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/sweden-sweden-as... which spawned responses like http://www.tomwoods.com/blog/sweden-no-longer-the-free-marke... and his attitude towards Estonia and the US stimuli, I think there is some doubt as to his work.
Why are we still taking advice from Dale Carnegie in 2012?

because the way people work hasn't changed much since he wrote the book in 1936, and it's points still stand. I believe "how to win friends and influence people" is actually one of the books that Ycombinator recommends to it's companies.
I'm not sure we disagree.

I'd phrase my core logic as this. Historically, most really big things, great or terrible, have been done by centralized states. Central to state-building, though, is the concept of legibility: making information about the world understandable to the State and making it so that the State can efficiently use and act on that information to enact its will on the world. And technology--particularly telecommunications, including spoken language, counting, writing, roads, the printing press, arithmetic, ship building, radio, all the way up to computer programming--is all about legibility. Every advance in technology extends the State's power, and that continues today.

That's why Lenin could hop on a train in 1917 and drop straight into absolutist Russia without anyone in charge noticing. Then in the 1980s the apartheid government had the ability to effectively track the movements and contacts of dissidents and activists. And today the US federal government can call up a couple contacts and know everything about you, from how many times a week you get a coffee from the store at the corner to what you were thinking and searching for online on January 4, 2010, after lunch.

I'd agree that it was unrealistic for me to say we can direct how technology will end up being used. It's obviously true that you can't really direct it, nor can you really avoid it by ignoring it and hoping it goes away. What's now important for being proactive is building technology that will make human actions less legible and less subject to control by external forces.
I suppose you're right. He reduces human emotions to a manipulatable format surrounded by rules that hackers can appreciate.

I was commenting too literally about the traditional sales process he established.
More interviews with Kubrick:

http://genius.cat-v.org/stanley-kubrick/interviews/
Aggregating data is difficult. Of course it is. But to say "oh well, not worth the effort" and leave your users to download a new app (not before deciding which one is best) and deal with a new UI for every city they visit is just insane.
The problem is that if these drugs end up entering the grey market in the developed world, it disincentives investment in the next generation of drugs.

Huge amounts of money have to be raised to make a new drug. The cost of bringing a new drug to market is typically $800m-$1.2bn (i.e more than exit value of Instagram or Yammer is required just to get to launch).

With treatments for viruses it gets even more problematic, in developing countries where regulations and medical practices are lax, a large number of people taking drugs in an uncontrolled manner can allow viruses to mutate making the drugs ineffective for everyone.

The issue isn't as simple as good vs evil as the article makes out. There are complex ethical, economical and medical issues here and this article completely ignores that.
Well it's entirely possible for a sufficiently reckless administration to pay off the debt tomorrow if they felt like it. The mint is allowed to make arbitrary denomination currency, they could mint a X-trillion dollar coin and pay off the debt with it if they felt like it.

But they'd probably get shot for doing it.

That said no, the article is not spot on. In any state where the government is a significant part of the employment/economy the government cutting spending is just going to keep money and jobs out of the economy.
For the uninitiated, like myself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
Are you kidding? Practically every web page has a JavaScript program for them to look at.

There are thousands or maybe millions of open source programs for them to experiment with. There are dozens of online editors from online Processing in CoffeeScript http://pcsedit.appspot.com/#edit/mbarkhau/example.coffee to tryruby.org and a ton of other things.

So I don't think there is any barrier for making a code edit, but on the point about it happening without any intention of learning how to program, that is a good point. Because you really don't need to learn how to program to make the computer do interesting things. When you have only a small number of really simple computer games to play with you are more inclined to start making code edits.
Don't confuse IP addresses (which are finite and especially in the early days could only be handed out it big chunks) with DNS names (which are infinite and as hierarchical and granular as necessary).
Yes, you said that already, and even though you haven't provided a shred of evidence I'll let it go, because even then there still must be a payoff for them to do it. Someone went to the engineers and said "Do this differently," and they didn't do it for laughs.
For perspective: the author of this piece is a right-wing ideologue who has called for eliminating Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and all income taxes on the rich.

Not sure what this piece has to do with Hacker News either.
Wait ...I think I've almost gotten it decoded now ... wait ... it's a cookbook!!
I don't know if many people agree with this, but I would also recommend you to give Apple's built-in OSX apps a try before installing replacements. I've used Mail, Calendar, Address Book and Terminal for many years without feeling a compelling need for alternatives. They usually work well if you're happy with the way they've been designed and don't try to bend them too much to your old habits.

Other apps that I always install on new Macs are Homebrew, VLC, Adium, MacIrssi and then the usual stuff that's on any PC (Spotify, Skype, Dropbox, Minecraft, F.lux).

And yeah it's important to install Xcode, otherwise your system doesn't have a C compiler so you can't do much. I think Git is also included with it.
Microsoft's decision of removing Aero from Windows 8 is a blunder (editorial)
>>If young Americans knew what was good for them, they would all be in the Tea Party.

Hahaha.
Agreed. I rarely use Cathode. I played with it for a weekend, but the vintage floss is quite distracting and sensationalist. Depending on the settings you use, it can run the GPU like a mad horse. So you're right on that.

Electric Sheep is graphics intensive for sure. One can regulate Electric Sheep by many means, and the app allows for the prevention of downloads. It usually does 40MB/day after downloading the first flock.
Phone number style email addresses are quite common in China.

I assume it's because you can't have unicode email address? (can you?) And there are only a hundred or so different names (in pinyin without tone marks)...
I've heard of the lost cosmonauts before. But what is the first sound? I haven't listened to all of it yet, mainly because you grouped it with the lost cosmonauts, and those recordings scare the hell out of me as well, even though I believe they are mostly hoaxes.

It's certainly not hard to guess why unknown sounds would trigger fear in humans from an evolutionary standpoint. Biologically I wouldn't care to speculate.
Is there some sort of update on how things have progressed in the two years since this was written?
Your response reads as if you didn't fully grasp the article, and instead attempted to extrapolate what it might say based on the first paragraph alone.

The author doesn't claim that readers are the exception to mediocrity. Nor does he claim that they are the exception to failure. The article is targeted at programmers. He's merely saying that programmers possess a unique perspective that makes them literally "exceptionally" cynical to paying for software. He's also pointing out that it's easy to incorrectly project one's own cynism onto others.
Why should anyone welcome a system - be it austerity or extend and pretend where they or their children pay to line the pockets of the 1%?

I understand that the BBC is the voice of the state, but OP, how could you consider anything other than the Iceland solution to be the correct course?
A blunder because 'I don't like it'?
No, they aren't. Working for a government owned company is not working for the government. They can have no affiliation with the CCP (which isn't possible if you work for a government department).
This reminds me of a question someone once asked Miss Manners:

Dear Miss Manners:
Don't you think that nowadays, in modern life,
the old-fashioned custom of the condolence call
is out of date?

Gentle Reader:
Why is that? Is it because people don't die
anymore, or is it because the bereaved no longer
need the comfort of their friends? Miss Manners
is always interested in hearing about how life has
been improved by modern thinking or technology.

Technology changes when and where and how we interact, but it doesn't fundamentally change why we interact and what the interactions mean.
I don't know about this. I'm sure there's a kernel of truth to it, but I think the most lucrative source of billings for corp law have more to do with circumstances than with client selection. Being a deal lawyer for an M&A event just generates more hours than a boring company formation.

And the people involved in those M&A events are very often the same people that would have had trouble paying a $550/hr-billed project just a few years ago.
Is it just me, or does he not actually make a case for austerity here? He makes a case for the government balancing its books, but there are other ways (such as higher taxes and defaults) which are hardly touched on here.

I've seen Niall Ferguson's TV series (the ascent of money etc.) which are quite good, but this article seems dangerously ideological to me.
Interesting idea, and while almost every company does seem to have an Investor page, I would imagine each company's Investor page is very different from the next, making a single solution for all difficult. Everybody has different goals from their Investor page.
Whose work, especially in economics, isn't in "some doubt"? A one paragraph blog post hardly discredits Krugman in general.

I am of no fixed opinion when it comes to economic theory, but Krugman's and Dean Baker's writings on the economy of the last ten years (i.e. housing bubble onwards) are some of the few things I've found that are intended for a general audience, are (at least partly) based on data rather than ideology alone, and seem coherent to me. That doesn't mean they're right, of course. If there's a critique of their view that meets the same criteria – generally accessible, based on evidence, not entirely ideological, and coherent – I'd like to see it. Most of what I've run across in that department is either incomprehensible to me, obviously ideological, or both.

The people who seem lacking in credibility right now are the ones recommending plunging ahead with full-bore austerity when there are both obvious reasons to think it will make matters worse (because it will reduce demand and slow growth) and obvious evidence that it is doing so right now, e.g. in the UK, which has been running this experiment for the last few years. Perhaps this is just my ignorance speaking, but what I noticed is: (1) those austerity measures were greeted by loud cheers by the same people who still think that way today; (2) the Krugman and Baker types predicted that it would make things worse; (3) the UK has gone back into recession.
To be fair, this was written two years ago before Apple updated some of their graphic drivers. It's much better now than when this article was written, but it's still noticeably behind Windows.
Here is some relevant discussion: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2003

Also, codata doesn't solve everything. You still can't filter infinite data. Filtering with \x -> x > 0 won't terminate for all infinite lists of numbers since [0 0 0 0 0 ...] is a potential case.
My wife is Type 1, and was on the pump but went off of it after about a year. Says she feels in more control without it, and that it gave her a false sense of "security." And she has had better results since, and more stable sugars.

I don't know, obviously, not being diabetic myself, but I will say she went on the pump really soon after being diagnosed and didn't really have a chance to establish a routine first, and that probably played a large part in her doing better on shots right now. I've been encouraging her to start thinking about using the pump again, as I do feel that, used correctly, as I believe it is a better method, but she has to do what she feels works best for her.

Being a developer myself, the idea that she has to use a custom cable and custom software to manage the data she has in her meter drives me a bit nuts. But the meter industry is, IMO, full of companies that don't really want to help users, they just want to get rich off of diabetics. I know thats a bit cynical, and I'm sure there are companies that sincerely care as well, but it's how I often feel about the meter industry.
Paul Graham recommends it on Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas[1]"

If you want to learn what people want, read Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. [1] When a friend recommended this book, I couldn't believe he was serious. But he insisted it was good, so I read it, and he was right. It deals with the most difficult problem in human experience: how to see things from other people's point of view, instead of thinking only of yourself.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html#f8n
Military hardware can access encrypted signals that provide greater precision:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Satel...