skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is difficult to imagine the plight. Is there a way, some of us could join hands and create a fund to help the needy.Perhaps create a micro financing system,that can help some of them who could get a job and pay back or if they are entrepreneurial and they could attempt and succeed.

There are jobs outside the US,I have met youngsters from the UK and US who work here in India in the IT and Financial companies for reasons such as this. perhaps the qualified can temporarily get a reprieve until the economy becomes better, make sure there is a predictable job and earnings.

Some or many of us could join hands to explore how we could help and if there is a possibility act on it.

All these may be wild thoughts, but a lot of things are possible if we could try .Even a small up-liftment may be of significant help.

Let me know your thoughts.
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BUZZWORD ALARM - Basics of effective presentations, distribution, platform gimmicks and marketing are nowadays called Growth Hacking. It is great that they have discovered HACKS like:

4. ~Let people know where to get more information

7. ~Stuff on the internet can be searched with search engines - have you thought about how your particular stuff pops out in searches?

11. ~Tell people that you have made a presentation about something

(I'm sorry to be an ass)
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Im not sure about the law in the USA, but in Germany I would beg to differ. Here, if you run a service, you do NOT have the right to arbitrarily reject users. The bigger your userbase is, the less you have that right. So as long as the developer acts within the law, he could demand access to Facebook.
I think you missed the point entirely. Facebook have just become his marketing department.
I thought it was clear, then I just wasn't sure.
Right, because Area 51 is just a decoy.
I stand by my point.

I'll have done net more positive things by sitting on my arse doing nothing, which I haven't been.
Haha, this is ridiculous.
The subheadings should be closer to the paragraph underneath it. Otherwise it looks freely floating between two paragraphs.
I'm out of my element here, but isn't the stagnation in wages counterbalanced by the availability of cheap goods and services? Sure, wages may not have gone up over the past 50 years, but your dollar can buy a heck of a lot more now than it could 50 years ago, thanks to cheap overseas labor, automation, technological innovations, etc.

It makes sense that wages would reflect this, too. People agree to work for a wage that will let them afford the quality of life they are comfortable with. If you can live as comfortably as you could 50 years ago at roughly the same wages, then there's no reason they would need to rise.

The final point is that the labor pool has roughly doubled since 1950 because women entered the work force. It's now more common to have two incomes per home than one, and it's only natural that wages would decrease accordingly. Again, it's because workers set a bar for themselves in terms of quality of life, and they simply want to reach that bar. If it can be done with two salaries buying cheap goods and services, then wages don't need to rise.
CM has already been updated with the fix
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Yup. When it described SlideShare as a "social content destination site" I knew this post would take me deep into Bat Country.
If you pull up a Nintendo 64 emulator or a Playstation 1 emulator and run it at 1080P, it will look far worse than you remember it, because where the low resolution of the old CRT screens used to cover over a lot of flaws, the high fidelity will stick them in your face.

Likewise with a lot of console/PC hybrids. What looks pretty decent on your TV at what is actually 720P or even 640P upscaled and blurry is revealed to be somewhat lower detail than you thought on a crisp 2560x1440 screen.

On the other hand, if you get something meant to be played there... wow.
You got the "luck" part right. The rest, the "other half" you spoke of first, is solid gold bullshit.

We can talk about hard work and smarts all you want. You can even bring up outliers—cases where people have pulled themselves up from hardship and succeeded anyway. But they are not statistically supported. The truth is that the better upbringing you've had, the more opportunities you have had to improve yourself and your abilities, and the larger support network you have, the more likely it is you will succeed.

It really is that simple. It is situational. Purge your mind of the bullshit, because it is incorrect flawed logic.
Agreed. I'm going to fix this in an update.
You may be confusing film with game rendering? If you shoot a movie with a camera that keeps the shutter open for a little while, you will get some motion blur. This lets the motion in the film look smooth. But if you render a game at only 24 fps, each frame will have no motion blur and it will look choppy. (Some games try to add motion blur as well, which helps a little.) In film, if you increase the frame rate, you will get less motion blur and I guess it might look less smooth. But if you increase the fps of a game, it will look smoother. (If the game adds motion blur separately, you could still have huge amounts of motion blur even with a high frame rate, because it's a fake effect.)
Do they have any legal ground for this? A browser extension doesn't interact with the service directly, and is explicitly enabled by the user, therefore it should not be subject to the service's terms. What about extensions that affect every website? God forbid we end up with a 'no-extend' tag that disallows them.
AFAIK, Facebook is legally entitled to being as inconsistent as they want to be, allowing companies they like to use 'FB', while suing companies they don't like. They are entitled to single out developers that encroach on their territory.

Now the morality of this behavior is an entirely different discussion...
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Don't get me wrong, my statement wasn't directed at Bado specifically. It was more of a general point aimed at those who feel they have little to learn from others.

But then again; you shouldn't take everyone's advice either.

You're right but again, that wasn't my point. My point is you should always listen. Sometimes you can learn more from other peoples mistakes (even if they don't consider it a mistake) than their successes.
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JavaScript cannot be ignored. It is the best investment you can make for your career. In the near future, JavaScript will be an essential tool in virtually every developer’s toolbox.
Somewhere, Barbara Streisand is shaking her head.
Script uses Chrome Extension and Tumblr new blog to hijack Facebook invites
The service seems to expect a "Host" header, and if 'host' is used, it will return a 301 redirect. Please accept 'host' (lowercase) or be case insensitive as per http spec.
I got it here, so I would assume so, or there's some A/B testing going on! :)
> If people are annoyed at ads they should stop visiting the site serving those ads..

If people are annoyed at ads they should stop visiting ad servers. Hence, AdBlock and Ghostery.
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Terribly biased article = Zero Credibility.

Example? "painfully awful reviews of a product no one wants".

A quick Google and it's clear this is nonsense.

That said I won't be buying a Surface, because I'm perfectly happy with the iPad and iPhone and iMac set-up I have. A few years ago I would never have said I would have all Apple products, but seeing Windows 8 on the desktop convinced me to make the switch.
HSAs are a great choice for someone without ongoing medical costs. I'm currently earning 2% in mine. Best part about it is that contributions stay in the account & continue earning interest, unlike an FSA where it's use-it or lose-it each year.
Chiming in here, I'd never let my brother or any family member or friend sleep on the street or in a shelter. I think there are so many people in the US who agree with you.

Part of it true, there is a broken culture here where the wrong things are valued. But there are islands of virtue we cling to.
You've just lost any credibility by saying this.
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Ok, ok, congrats on a very clever response, but you're missing the point. The key thing (and why I prefer the related tool, linked above) is whether or not the result looks good.

Is the article pseudo-intellectual and kind of wanky? Of course it is. It's the internet.

Does the resulting typography look good?
Somebody or FaceBook with it's infinite resources? What's the best he can hope for? Get his old account back and continue building a free product, all the while relying on the popularity of social network? If he becomes really big they'll turn it into a cat-and-mouse game like Apple did with other music players tapping in their iTunes. I was not thinking about courage, but rather about focus and choosing your battles.
That's step 2. Step 1 is using contrived examples with clear differences in structure. You need to start small like this because in order to answer the basic questions, you need to eliminate experimental variables. That way, you can establish basic principles for how people tend to build up an understanding of code.

Then you can move on to what we're really interested in: how do people build an understanding of complex applications with many interacting parts? But you can't go there first; if you do, you won't be able to interpret your results because there will be just as many fundamental questions as experimental variables.
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One question I get asked frequently is whether or not vitamins are actually dissolving when you take them. No one wants to imagine a pill passing untouched through the entire digestive system.
well, in Firefox the access to apps on Firefox OS will be open. Still vendors need to implement some integrated system to do it, but any method to constrain the access would not fly with the consumers. At least vendors have the choice, which means consumers have a choice.
I don't think there is any good reason to have a copyright term longer than 30 years.
You can write documentation all day long, you can't avoid the fact that someone who's spent 10 years working on a project will have so much intricate knowledge about it that they are close to irreplacable. It takes months for a new recruit to get even close to productive if they haven't experienced that technology before. If you required all your team members to document so much that they could walk out the door and not be missed, you'd never get anything done.
The problem that you are missing here is one of history. The phone company you so quickly push people to use has a long history of monopoly and abuse (at least where I'm from, where the telephone was invented). For the longest time you could only connect blessed telephone company equipment to your line, nothing else was allowed by law. It wasn't until people fought back that we could even use acoustic couplers. The telephone company was government sanctioned, but it was still a private company just like Facebook is.

So instead of telling people to take it, do like or predecessors and fight back. I'm pretty sure if this was back in the Ma Bell days, you'd be telling the crowd that 'Real Friends' send letters via post!
People see to want to know why others have downvoted them. Here you go - here's why I downvoted your comment:

You have rushed to make assumptions and judgments here and then insulted the OP. I don't understand why you felt the need to make a personal attack. It's unwarranted. The OP had some nice, encouraging words for the FB Purity guy and then here you go making disparaging remarks.

Although you might not agree with his point, there's no need to say "Not true" and then insult him.
you describe old fashioned ads pics, but the next generation of ads could be very different. maybe some marketing finally discovered that repeating 100 times the same glamour expensive pic is boring and not efficient. display an amateur pic that is new every f5 can work much better to attract attention, with a good algorithm, and the coke can is not necessary, a vague similarity with someone you know would be enough.

I regret not having instagram account I could wipe right now.
If it's 100% open what are they doing to prevent fragmentation?

Also what has been done to make sure they can update any handset running Firefox OS independent of the manufactures and service providers?
What adventure? Leaving one place and going to another, with so ho-hum episodes in between?
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"but I can't believe a big company shipping crap"

I definitely can. The bigger the company the more layers of management, analysts, architects, etc. you will find. The more diluted the product becomes and the more the end users suffer.

I still get Google Maps showing in some strange crazy language even though I go the .co.uk homepage. I still get random stories popping up on my mobile facebook feed even though they first appeared many weeks ago. But these are tech companies - the problem at traditional companies e.g. Banks, is a zillion times more than this.

"Big" companies who manage to not ship crap would be unbelievable for me.
Simply had to add my name to this praise, this article in particular hits home so well it should be required reading for many
Time to switch browsers. Gone are the days when anyone could write one, they are now very complex products and a company would need the resources of google, Microsoft etc to build one. Opera was once ok, but there's just no way it can keep up and hasn't for a long time been a viable browser.
Yeah, I didn't even interpret your statement as to mean that. Edited and hopefully clarified my post now.
Very nice, I am just missing some references to some of your claims, for example that 65-90 characters is the perfect width .
I can of course google it and find it but I think it would still be good to include it on the site.
I freelance dealing with these kinds of problems, and I wanted to correct one thing.

The article states that the message "The site may be compromised" appears in Google result pages when "the site has been hacked and complete control is taken by some third party without any owner’s permission. Anyone can contact the webmaster and help them to resolve this issue."

That's not true. It means that Google has seen content on the site that doesn't meet Google's standards - in other words, there's spam on the site. Usually this means the site is hacked and spam content has been added through various means:

- obfuscated code added in legitimated script files, which only displays when the visitor's user-agent string is a search engine bot

- a script that generates tons of static files with keywords it receives from a distributed spam network

- links and text in invisible page elements added directly to a database (like Joomla or Wordpress)

I've also seen the occasional instance of this warning when there was simply a lot of spam on a site (e.g. in forum posts). Once you clean it up, you do have to use Webmaster Tools to get Google to reconsider and revoke the warning. It usually takes one to two weeks.

By contrast the "This site may harm your computer" warning refers to pages with content that attempts the installation of malware. You can also use GWT to clear this warning and it's much faster - within a day, generally.
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Odd move. While the Swedish Pirate Party actually supply the site itself with bandwidth, one would think the UK side would dare to maintain a proxy.

Will be interesting to see more details on the more precise details of the threats.
chrome does a good job of finding other sites that are mis-typed- it switches to search mode. Not for this one, though.
This seems a bit naive - perhaps it would be better targeted as "technical founders need less capital".

For instance, you still have legal liability risks, which may vary depending on the problems your startup / business is trying to solve. Especially in the early stage, even if you have a corporate entity wrapped around your startup, mounting a legal defense can be financially crushing. This is doubly true if you are augmenting your cash stream by consulting / contracting.

This may not be very likely, depending on the startup - but to say technical founders have nothing to lose seems a bit naive.
You can't "vote out" an ideology that is shared by every single candidate presented to voters. Copyright isn't on the minds of voters because it has never been presented to them as something they could vote to change by the election media.

Also, the parent poster used the word "democratic" in its literal sense, not as a euphemism for "elected republic." No literal democratic process has ever been applied to US copyright law.
I have to remind myself how to read it every time I encounter it, and C and C++ are my dominant languages.
Did you really just set the IPO price as your baseline for wealth? I have news for you, the IPO wasn't 0, it was $104bil. Still quite a bit of wealth.
In this case, the weight of the bombs is larger than the rest of the ship: 50K tons for the ship structure, 300K for the weight of the bombs [1]. Twice as many bombs essentially doubles launch mass.

Orion is a great concept for tooling around the solar system easily, but what it buys us over interstellar distances is that it makes macroscopic payloads and reasonable travel times possible; they're still not easy.

[1] Table 2 in http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109.jvn.spring00/nu...
> What's the best he can hope for?

He can simply continue his project in any way he likes. He doesnt need a facebook account to do so.

If he likes, he could also sue facebook for access. But as I said in another comment, I dont know US law enough to know if he would win.

As I understand it, he has a large userbase. So his project has a purpose. Just because its free, it doesnt mean its no good.
You're right. Thanks.

People like the parent bring out the worst in me -- people who judge others without lifting a finger. I'm not sure what I was trying to accomplish with the name-calling, though.
The Hobbit was just beautiful. I only watched the 2D version and it was incredible.
Except for how the #1 selling game of all time, MW3 is 60hz as are the other games in the series

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/111353
It's small - it's a niche site for programmers, admins. Nothing major.

Leads/traffic has been mostly organic. I've tried various things through the years - some work, most don't. The important thing is to keep trying though.
I see this all the time with scooters. They're motor-vehicles. Riders are supposed to drive in the lane, but here's the rub: they don't. I see it all the time. Scooter drivers hug the edge of the road. They do so at their own peril. The drivers behind them are confused. Does the scooter want them to pass? Is it even legal to pass right now; there's a double-yellow (no passing in the US) line on the road?

Let's accept the argument here and say that drivers of this vehicle do drive in a lane. They are, at that point, putting themselves on equal footing with other drivers. Driving 20 MPH on just about any street where the speed limit is above 25 MPH is a disaster waiting to happen. You can't simply tell other drivers that they're allowed to and expect them not to be frustrated. Frustration leads to aggressive driving, and aggressive driving leads to accidents.

Accidents are highest when vehicles traveling at different speeds encounter each other. That is a statistical reality. Putting a "car" limited to 20 MPH -- with very, very little in the way of crash protection -- on the road with other, much heavier, automobiles is a horrible idea.
Exactly. I hadn't heard of this, but it's wonderful.
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Chomsky is decidedly not a conspiracy theorist. One of the main points in "Manufacturing Consent" is that you can have a healthy production of propoganda without any conspiratorial relationship between the media and government.
Yep, I am referring to the actual partners. http://www.quora.com/Y-Combinator/How-are-YC-partners-compen... is the only data point I know of so far.
My only regret on my dead bed is going to be to have make the world progress faster than I could have.

I've writing technical books helping to share knowledge and that's the one thing I feel the most proud about. I won't regret having brought my contribution to sharing knowledge.

I love my family, but I also love my work. I love R&D. I love trying to create something that shall help people. I'll never ever have any regret about moving to California (not there anymore) and worked there like crazy for someone else's startup.

Then "success" has never been measured only by money: there are very succesful non-profit organization out there. But people are typically working hard to make them work too.

It's not about "making an IPO" or "getting rich". It's about "making a difference".

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
I had the same feeling about 3D until I saw "Life of Pi" in 3D. They managed to provide imagery that wouldn't have been possible in a two-dimensional format. As with all other "tools" 3D can be used poorly, and it can be used well. As the technology matures, I have a feeling we'll see it skew more towards the latter.
The title for The Hobbit (the book) is "The Hobbit or There and Back Again"[1]. It is about the journey.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Hobbit-There-Back-Again/dp/0618150... or see the end of Return of the King where Frodo adds the "Lord of the Rings" title under Bilbo's title.
> the Marxist terminology I know is sloppy and inexact at the intersections of class;

I would say that your definition of 'sloppy and inexact' is sloppy and inexact. ;) But that's slightly trolling. The definitions are pretty simple, I'd argue that you're meaning to say that you don't feel they map to today's class structure cleanly.

> I can not imagine two classes of people who are more different.

There's two things about this: 1, in Marx's time, this was generally much simpler. Things were more clear then. 2, the idea is that your incentives are the same: you'll be upholding bourgeoisie society. The whole point of the 'petite bourgeois' designation refers to the awkwardness of a group of people who _should_ be proletariat, but have juuuust enough incentive to act against that interest, because they're almost bourgeoise.

That said, point #1 is why I prefer to talk about later thinkers who have modified and extended Marxism over the years, rather than stick to Marx's teachings only.
Rock solid logic.
"Qt 5 delivers a step function increase in performance, functionality and ease of use and will be the platform on which full Android and iOS support will be delivered during the coming year."
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The no statements, no explanations, part of the story can have rather large effect on the party. That in itself is enough to kill any smaller political party, especially if the politics they are pushing for is more transparency.