skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>were promised a protected business environment

Protecting a business environment always comes at a cost to the consumers, whether it is through tariffs, regulations, licences, restrictions or whatever.

I don't feel sorry for the existing businesses, because they constructed a legal framework to protect themselves instead of trying to keep up with the competition. At any point the natural will of people to come up with something better will route around the regulatory framework they hid themselves behind.

Incumbents have been playing by the rules all right - rules that they have successfully lobbied for, that protect them at a cost to everyone else.

The stranded capital has to remain stranded, and sucks to be them. Otherwise you open a can of worms, and extreme economic stagnation will follow, because doing business becomes a case of who can construct the best regulatory fences, not who can deliver the best products and services.

It's not called risk capital for nothing. You risk losing it.

TLDR; cry me a river, taxi companies, and next time innovate instead of regulate.
This post doesn't really say anything about why 'Smart People are Particularly Vulnerable to Propaganda'. It alludes to Fox news using brainwashing techniques and theoretically shady use of 'experts' to alter a persons beliefs.

Many 'documentaries' (left and right) use brainwashing techniques with different levels of success. Look at Zeitgeist as an example. They use a process similar to how the Koreans brainwashed American POWs in the late 1950s.

This article doesn't expand on that, and just targets Fox (though a well deserved target I believe, I don't get Fox here in Australia) and right-wing conservatives, who at this point are a fairly easy target I think.
Go to more rural areas and villages, such as north east thailand (Issan, etc).
One of my japanese colleagues told me not so long ago: "In the 80s people in Japan were putting Sony stickers on their cars and motorbikes, because it was such a cool Brand. Now nobody would even think about doing it".

That's how low Sony has fallen. Take this as a valuable lesson that all successful companies have to learn from: you have to keep fighting, and fight hard, to stay at the Top.
Because cities limit the number of taxi drivers through the use of medallions or similar.

https://www.google.com/search?q=taxi+medallion
Study Finds More Than 10,000 ID Fraud Rings In the U.S.
f(n) = O(g(n)) irritates me, but I know that people like to express Big-O that way for convenience.
O Reilly may be pimping the term to developers, but that's nothing compared to how Cloudera has pimped "Big Data" to enterprise.
A Tiny iOS Feature Request
And they lost me as an online service customer (and probably others, too) with the password-and-PI-stored-in-plain-text scandal a little while ago.

Gaining one customer is hard, but losing them is very, very easy.
Technically it'd be an oligopoly.
His name is Johnny Tables!
How else can you explain the fact that they STILL insist on using insane proprietary standards like ATRAC and even new Sony devices like the Vita use custom storage instead of standard (far less expensive) storage formats like SD cards?

I don't know anything about the corporate culture at Sony, but I had assumed that their relentless, senseless pursuit of proprietary formats and interfaces (among other customer-hostile stupidity like the CD rootkit scandal) was a sign that wacky Sony marketers were running the show, not engineers.

Because pursuing a proprietary format is generally a terrible engineering decision. If your product has to touch the outside world in some way, and there's already a de-facto standard way of doing that touching, you'll generally get your product done sooner and cheaper by using the de-facto standard. And the product will work better for the user, too. That is to say, it will be cheaper to make and it will also be worth a higher price. What engineer could say no to that?

If those decisions were driven by engineers, they must come from a very different engineering culture than anything I'm familiar with. Even if this really is the fault of engineering amok, blaming "arrogant corporate culture" might communicate the situation more clearly than blaming "engineers."
I guess we're all on the edge of our seats.

...Anyone else in South Florida?
OK. I bet you use a WebKit browser.
>society has made an explicit deal with a group of providers within an industry.

>not upholding society's end of the trade I describe above.

The deal - as it was, has been, or whatever, was simply some type of legislative barrier passed using the threat of imprisonment and/or fines as the stick. While you could argue that 'society' passed and agreed to these rules through the democratic legislative process, in reality it's far more arcane than that (don't watch sausages or laws getting made).

In reality, no law in a democracy can be promised to exist past the next election period. Sure, mostly it doesn't happen that way, but laws passed some time ago in a different technological state of progress are not inviolate, never-to-be-repealed things cast in stone.

There are no moral consequences at all. People win and lose every day, in every industry, for millions of reasons. It would be immoral to try and stop this creative destruction process and try to freeze life at a certain point. Because that would deny the future winners from winning, and permanently cast the losers in the 'loser' role.

The underlying beauty and strength of democracy is that it can change and destroy old concepts, old rules and old leaders peacefully. This is the killer feature that makes up for it's otherwise many flaws.
This saddens me on some aspects:

1. As a fellow game developer that published a game (and didn’t hit the jackpot). (We’re a small startup at the time launching our little game and it didn’t go well at all after a 2 hard-working year, about the same time when Glitch launched).

2. It’s the Flickr’s founding dream to create this, and if you read the backstory of Flickr, you’ll notice that the founder initially wanted to create this startup before Flickr, but found out it is not feasbible, and took out a main component from the game (sharing photo) and built Flickr. And so now, the founder has sold her company to Yahoo!, and decided to use every penny to make her dream come true, and it appears reality hits where it hurts the most, and the game didn’t fly. I tried the game, it’s really polished, but it just didn’t have the target market pool as big as Zynga in Facebook. Really sad its under-appreciated.

3. There is an unseen s*load amount of hard work placed in Glitch, but it just all went boom to their face.

What is the problem? Does this mean hard work != successful? Or did they not have enough marketing budget to make Glitch fly?
This is a fair point, but I think its also fair for the parent to point the potential for bias out, given that some people may have perused the article quickly without realizing that its posted to the blog of a company with a large stake in the issue at hand.
Also of interest is this:

The Ghosts of Sony
http://www.japansubculture.com/the-ghosts-of-sony/

And if you want to see some past glory:

This Was Sony
http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/this-was-sony/
Same here. When we submitted for S12 they viewed few times and got reject. We came along much better this time yet none.
I know people eat with their hands in south/central Asia (including Burma), as well as in Muslim areas (Malaysia/Indonesia), I just never saw that in Tai areas of SE Asia. Well, you learn something everyday I guess.
This "somewhere" sounds like a highly reliable source.
If you're ordering online anyway, you might want to give adagio.com a look. I've been ordering from them for a few years and have always been pretty happy.

Even for people not interested in tea, it's worth taking a look at their site. They have one of the nicest, most user-friendly e-commerce designs I've ever come across. It's full of little things like making the tracking information for your orders available directly from the top navigation bar, and it's all presented in a visually pleasing way.
I'm guessing that taxis are a protected industry, as a result from lobbying, and that you can't just register as a taxi provider. I'm guessing that, like most cities, they have found taxi licensing to be a nice little earner for the city, and intentionally limit supply in order to keep the prices high.
I agree. It's hard for me to believe that certain directions that Sony took were engineer driven, as opposed to mandated by, say, the entertainment division. Early to mid 2000s was essentially one boneheaded move after another, from music players that didn't play mp3s, to cd rootkits, to UMD movies priced higher than DVDs. I wish I could say hindsight is 20/20 but you could literally see the train wreck happening in realtime, no hindsight needed.
>> "proprietary standards"

Well, I agree with you but look at Apple. They have been using proprietary connectors for most of their existence (mid 80s everything had to be made for Apple computers) and now the do the same silly thing with their iPads and iPhone connectors. Even their monitors do not have HDMI connectors! Sony certainly think of themselves as being competitors with Apple, and they see, I believe, no issue to take the same stance as them and make proprietary stuff all the way.
Thank you very much for all the comments and suggestions!
Me too.

I know when I compare electronics I skip right over Sony it's just second nature at this point.
It was more of a corollary to the previous point, not the sole reason per se.
Oversimplified summaries of 'Y said "X is unfair"' are quite popular on the Internet. :)
Dunno, perhaps the brand makes a difference. Ours is Brondell. You need just a couple of pieces of toilet paper after the warm air dryer if any.

Also, the warm seat, warm water, warm air changes the whole thing, especially in winter.

For something that you will use every day, if you appreciate the advantages, I think $500 is an acceptable price.
I'm the same way. The best tea i've had is from little shops in chinatown and Samovar, which only has a few locations.
"If you have a great concept but a weak execution, you will fail."
Dailymotion CEO Eric Tournay on innovation + advice to students enrolled in the School of Communication at Sciences Po Paris (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris). You don't always hear much about the CEO/chairman of the the third-largest video website in the world.<p>(Disclosure: I'm the author. Of the bits that aren't quotes, mostly).
Ah yes. The real world. Where people with pointless skills get hired by Google, even though the ability to design and implement clever algorithms is an irrelevant programmer skill.
Very interested in the MongoDB and MySql issue, and trade-offs you've perceived with each.
Tried the Dyson ones? They're amazing.
Be persuasive. Be brave. Be arrested (if necessary)
Rails views with themes
Weird, it works from my location. (Colombia)
If you don't take Uber's word for it, don't use Uber. Given that there are alternatives available, I don't see the need for regulation here.
Solr's docs also leave a lot to be desired. The wikis are a mess and knowing what is still relevant (e.g. not deprecated) is frequently a crap shoot.

It'd be great if their docs had versioning (like the Apache HTTP Server Project), but I suspect that isn't on anyone's roadmap.
Free VMs of Windows to test older versions of IE
Thanks for this! However, I'm unable to get this working, let me know if you'd rather I post this as a github issue:

MacBook Pro 13" with 10.7.5
Droid Razr with Android 4.0.4
Verizon with mobile hotspot and I believe I had tethering working on a Windows laptop before.

Steps:
I have installed HoRNDIS and rebooted (tried install/reboot again just to be sure)
Plugged in my phone via USB
Enabled USB tethering and it says tethering error
There are no changes in the Network preferences on the Mac

Saw it wasn't loaded so I manually loaded it:

sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/HoRNDIS.kext

Tried to tether again and noticed these errors in kernel.log:

Nov 14 19:05:28 Robs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: 0 1 AppleUSBCDCACMData: start - Find CDC driver for ACM data interface failed
Nov 14 19:05:28 Robs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: 0 1 AppleUSBCDCECMData: start - Find CDC driver for ECM data interface failed
Careers that died since the 1970s?

Typesetter. Fax machine repairman. AOL technician. Watchmaker. Punch card processor. Film developer. Switchboard operator. Typewriter repairman. Encyclopedia salesman. Paperboy. Tinker, tailor, candlestick maker.

(Ok, the last three were older.)

But it's hardly an exhaustive list. Neither was pizza delivery boy for new jobs. We also have oncologists, data scientists, app developers, and (modern) industrial engineers.

(If you want more, type into google "careers that didn't exist" and it will offer suggestions... 20, 10, even 5 years ago. simplyhired shows 72,000 "social media" jobs right now. Even though probably half of them are spam, it's thousands, for a phrase that we just made up a few years ago.)

In the 90s, manufacturing dropped like a rock, but overall, employment ticked up. So did median household income. The shift was primarily due to trade liberalization. The recent recession decimated jobs across many fields, as you'd expect from a drop of jobs due to flagging demand (driven by pressure towards deleveraging, not unexpected given high personal debt to GDP ratios).

So automation isn't displacing workers yet, other factors are. If the automation dystopia hasn't even begun, how do we know it's starting? We go on a hunch, and say technology will probably displace all jobs at some point in the future, maybe five years from now on no evidence, because it feels right?

Will new jobs and new sectors always replace the old? All of economic history suggests yes. Armchair speculation suggests no.

Go with whatever your gut tells you, and forgive me for opting for a more conservative reliance on metrics. Sometimes metrics are wrong, but that's where I hang my hat. I will have your back if we reach 35% unemployment in a few years (or ever). I hope you'll pledge to ditch linear economic forecasting if we hit sub-6% unemployment by 2017.
Then don't do it. Pick the tools you like and proficient in and go wild with them. But please don't preach it day in day out on how horrible it is to the rest of us. This is what is happening here. We actually found OOP very useful.
People do post things besides SQL dumps there. It provides a really convenient and valuable service.

You should be more concerned that Adobe was so easy to hack. Especially considering the existence of Creative Cloud, and its overlap with the Business Catalyst service.
a bit funny? Liar. It's hilarious! Who cannot but smile at a cubicle wall rattler, whether your own or someone elses?
Maybe they just want that acknowledgement of yours...? Maybe the feel-good value of this acknowledgement IS the adequate compensation for those special, unique and extraordinary rights...??
I don't mean to be trite, but it would seem like the $5 is the part that's for the lulz.
XtreemFS 1.4 with Paxos-based replication
Many free online courses have associated real-world study groups that form, especially in the larger cities. In fact, "meeting people / networking" is one of the reasons people take free online courses.

Then there are ideas like The Minerva Project, where the students all live together, but the courses are online.
This graphic doesn't take into account the gaming going on. I.e., people from other states wanting Texas to secede.
Agreed. Most companies seem to be oblivious to the reality that they spent money to get people to like them on Facebook and they own nothing as a result.

I believe this is called insanity!

A direct email campaign would have been cheaper (MailChimp quotes <$2500) and more effective. Despite the social media hype, we keep seeing statistics that support direct media when communicating with existing clients.
Can you speak a little bit about how this turns into a business?
Very awesome. I'm assuming the majority of points are gained via GitHub - Curious what your algorithm for that is. I can see you working with CodeAcademy possibly. Looking forward to seeing more.
Ask HN: Who's attending Tufte's lectures in SF in December?
Hello, HN! I'm in San Francisco from Dec 1st to 4th to attend Edward Tufte's lecture on persenting data and information [1]. Will I see anyone else from the startup community there? I'd love to meet up for a coffee or beer, or attend any other interesting events happening that weekend. I'm not terribly familiar with the city, so tips are very welcome.

Also, since I will be working from SF on Tuesday: Any recommendation for a good location to sit with your laptop for a day?

Thanks!

[1] http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/courses
I would argue that Rob Pike is casting bigoted accusations at "OO zealots" (whoever they are).

He says:

OO zealots are afraid of data. They prefer statements or constructors to initialized tables. They won't write table-driven tests.

Who the fuck is Rob Pike talking about? The article he links at the top does not touch on these points. He's created a straw man and is attacking it.

I think Grandpa Rob is getting sick of all the kids on his lawn.
Oh please. Regulation doesn't exist in a vacuum, and acting as if you're exempt from the law in the noble pursuit of lower prices is bollocks.
What's interesting to me about these old sites is how bad the typography is. Why is it that sites started using decent typefaces only relatively recently? Print design was just as well understood back then.
Last month I moved and didn't have an ISP at home for the first 3 weeks or so. I set up tethering on my phone and a 5GB data plan. Yesterday I got a notice that I was over my data limit. I haven't done a whole lot of web surfing in the new house, but I have listened to a ton of podcasts using the Podcast app which I have never done before.

So if I just blew through 5 GB of data in 2ish weeks and the only thing different was using the podcasts app...

(I did watch 3 episodes of walking dead on Netflix which obviously contributed to the data use, but a 45 minute episode can't be that big)
society has made an explicit deal with a group of providers within an industry

Government is often a poor proxy for society. I suspect most people in any given US city would not like to artificially limit the supply of taxi drivers and were not consulted about the decision to do so.
Congrats on introducing the female 'angle' as it were. A group of male engineer types discussing the merits would tend to completely forget that a huge percentage of toilet visits are by females for no 1 purposes only, and perhaps a light wash followed by a quick blow dry are more than sufficient.

I have tried these in Japan and the first time I hit the squirt button I got a shock-inducing surprise at how accurate they are. It's like they are laser guided or something, such is the accuracy of hitting the target.
You were right, the word 'prototype' threw me off. I look forward to seeing what challenges there will be for other languages :)
What worked; Somali pirates. 
Hung, drawn and quartered. Better deterrents are putting the Somali pirates’ business under strain
There's nothing ridiculous about the OO pattern in the article Pike is talking about.

When you're trying to demonstrate OO concepts, OO has a disadvantage because it is needlessly complicated for the simple example you're trying to illustrate. The hacker approach is always going to look more sensible than the OO approach.

Once you get into very large enterprise systems the a-ha OO moments really start to pile up.
I assume you're referring to indians. They have a special culture where the best students go into medicine, second is engineering, and only third is computers.
Excuse us if we're disinclined to believe you.
The difference being I anticipate the future interactions of my arm and my butt with the surrounding environment to be quite different.
When degree mills like University of Phoenix have been granted accreditation, who actually still cares about accreditation? It's utterly meaningless.
That's really sad. I have a friend who plays it every day - and found it adorable. I spend about 40-50 hours in it, and was really impressed with the characterization, polish, and originality.
Probably to encourage a court to look to equitable remedies if there is a breach of the agreement. Remedies such as injunctions.
You are obviously a bachelor.
Another example of government regulation keeping us safe from evil taxi drivers.

Thank God regulations like this exist to make sure that everybody pays their protection money.

Anyone who disagrees clearly hates poor people and taxi drivers... or something.
Yeah, there's a huge Javascript bias. When they describe a dev with 7 to 10 years experience as: "Web Hipster; I was using AJAX before it was even called AJAX.", it's a bit like hearing nails on a chalkboard.
Bummer for Stewart Butterfield. But maybe third time's the charm!

This does seem to count as a vote against Big Production Up Front. I have to wonder if they had started smaller, used a more "Lean" strategy, got a product to market quicker, and started working on revenue, if they would've A) discovered the "insurmountable" problems sooner, B) had some revenue to play with, and C) been in a position to pivot when the shit hit the fan.
Well, that's representative democracy for ya. I'm not sure what to say except that I agree with you on the facts, but probably not on their ramifications.
Fantastic to hear that this was resolved so quickly. I'm never left unimpressed by what a simple blog post and it's audience can accomplish.
The CyanogenMod team has shown some amazing gentlemanly honor, mixed with a worthy dash of can-do pragmatism, and I hoist a glass o' the pure in their direction.
You're right that one of the founders of Flickr was behind Glitch, but there were two Flickr founders: Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake. Butterfield was the one behind Glitch. Fake went on to Hunch and then Pinwheel/Findery.
I appreciate that it's got a responsive design. Very clean layout. I'm not so sure I like the PHP mixed with the HTML. A lightweight templating system might have been a nice touch.
When I was learning C++ in school this was the book we used. It's pretty comprehensive but not necessarily a step by step tutorial - the Standard C++ Bilbe

http://www.amazon.com/Standard-C-Bible-Al-Stevens/dp/0764546...

Since C++ has been around a while you might best be served by going to the library and taking home a few books, trying to figure out the best one to start with. Once you get more comfortable you may want to buy the book above. I would have to look around to find a decent online C++ resource.
I have no visits too, maybe we were so convincing the video was not necessary! :)
Not to forget RCS as well.
I've registered ##codernitydb in freenode and will idle in there, if anybody is interested in forming a community in irc
Is the angle of my hat the reason people are posting about brogramming? I'm going to change the photo as I don't desire to be associated with being a "brogrammer" (or how distracting it apparently is to people), but I'm not sure I understand the connection.
The replacement suggestion is only bad because it's too long, and it's still better than what's there. "Torvalds interview on community, kernel development, & more" would be a way better headline.

The quality of a headline has nothing to do with attention-grabbiness; it's a good headline if I can read it and know whether I'm interested in the contents. To optimize for attention-grabbiness over helpfulness is to defect in the HN posting game.
Stomping Cognitive Bias Using Video Games
Now that the main page is just a gravestone, what is glitch?
Earlier today I was getting an application error when adding an agent, and now it is saying "No Agents found" when adding an agent- with email, license number, and name. The agent I am adding is a top producing agent and active on multiple MLS systems as well as a designated Realtor in California. Are you guys aware of this problem?