skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Odds are the orgs in question were using Jira long before they were using GitHub. Pretty sure it's Atlassian feeling the pressure here and not GitHub; given the existence of Stash.
Where are the figures for government-caused deaths by guns?

Here's an idea. If we want less guns, perhaps we should stop manufacturing them to sell to government.
I found the installation process to be well described and installation went flawless. It seems like a long process but in the end, it's just because every little step from user creation to ruby installation is described in detail.
> Less guns means less deaths from guns

(groan) s/less/fewer/

Use "less" for continuous quantities. Less water.

Use "fewer" for enumerable things. Fewer gallons of water.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_vs._less
The SMB guys hold the Linux/FOSS community in pretty low regard: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/g072l/super_meat_boy_... [1]

So, I would take their current claim with a large grain of salt.

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[1] What's even sadder is Tommy (the programmer of the SMB team) clearly shows he knows nothing of Linux, the community, licensing, or even good programming for that matter. Here's a couple of examples:

1. There's a screenshot above of the lack of security with the high-score servers

2. Complete lack of portability. Humble Bundle of SMB (Linux port) doesn't even run.

3. Bugs. On Windows, you start the game and for some odd reason the game mutes itself.

The games great, but for such a buggy product, I'd keep programming opinions to myself.
For a look at more data (and different conclusions) see: http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_Kate...
This would only be scientifically defensible if there was another Australia, identical in every respect, with only one thing changed -- the thing being measured.
Monads in Python (with nice syntax)
>Why switch the router off? Just leave it running, it's not like it uses much power...

I'm eccentric. I switch off the electricity, gas and water when leaving the house for longer than an overnight stay.

I'm also dubious: I've had this connection running for 4 years with the same use pattern and this 'profiling' thing has only been happening for the last couple of months. I'm also not clear why if it is software controlled rate limiting, someone can't just go and click a button somewhere!

It is surprising what I can do on 0.24Mbit/s/40mS latency. It makes fat Web pages slow, and YouTube silly. RDP is the killer, my work Windows 7 desktop is just painful to use. I pop down-town to a coffee shop.
Well, "pro free market" is usually (and silently) taken to mean "whatever benefit me as an employeer and screw the workers".

As in: "if I want to have people working 20 hours per day, with no overtime for less than minimum wage, I should be FREE to do so, and people are FREE not to work for me".

That's the kind of "FREE" the free market stands for usually.

Of course, when all employers follow the same idea, or when people are desperate to find any work to survive (e.g because of a lack of jobs in their city), the latter point about "choice" becomes moot.
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This is a well-trod point, but one that's always good to be reminded of. A similar argument is made in The Design of Everyday Things - if your interface needs an instruction manual, even if it's only one word (for instance the word "pull" on a door) then the interface is not doing its job.

I'd highly recommend DOET for anyone interested in this sort of thing.
Consider voting for this functionality at http://gitlab.uservoice.com/forums/176466-general/suggestion...
How much power do these scary bureaucratic agencies FBI, CIA, NSA actually yield in comparison to our elected politicians, anyway? Do they have any real accountability?
The code looks fine, but when do you need such a function? I can't think of a use case.
IP assignment is the only thing I really negotiate when I take on a new position. I had one company back-pedal as they were trying to change their terms from nothing to we own anything you make, any time. I had the CEO/CTO of another company write in plain English that anything done in my free time and without using company-owned facilities/hardware was my own IP (their legal bla-bla was unclear).

In the first case, the corrected terms got applied to everybody in the company but in the second, I believe I'm the only one who is protected thank to that written note.

I always use the analogy of an English teacher writing a book on his spare time. How he would actually be encouraged to do so, weighting how this would reflect nicely on the school he works at etc..
I've thought that too. The difference seems to be that in general, an entire workforce in a company is either 'union' or 'non-union'. In places I've worked in that had unions, you didn't have a choice as to whether you wanted to join or not - you want the job, you join the union. At the macro-level, perhaps 'the market' for labor has said "union", but the choice is not there for the individual to join or not.

I took at job in a grocery store where the union was on strike - the only reason I didn't have to join the union was because they were striking and I was working directly for the corporate HQ. Pay wasn't bad, though I suspect they were having to pay more to get us scabs to come in through the picket lines :)

I'd prefer union places where you could elect to join the union or not. If they actually lobbied for better conditions for union members, and got those, there'd be more incentive to join - you'd be making the union mgrs work for their jobs, essentially.
IANAL , but I believe in this case the offence would be in the creation and distribution of this content not necessarily in owning the IP.

Otherwise you could technically make the same argument about instagram for example.
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>Pass a law forbidding anybody from talking about what they did at work that day including to their family or friends?

Yes. Pass a law forbidding anybody from talking about what they did at work, including to their family or friends, if they are warned by the company that their work is confidential.

Then let a jury decide if they violated that.

If you work at a McDonalds, they need not tell you to keep confidential about anything. If you work at Apple, they can tell you: "no telling to anyone outside of what we do here".

No silly clauses about "all IP you create" and stuff.
I love the articles and commentary comparing US gun laws to other countries in the world. There is no comparision and the US will never have gun laws similar to other nations. Any discussion on banning weapons is moot considering that the 2nd amendment exists and has been upheld by the Supreme Court numerous times in numerous ways. Given the high requirements to repeal a portion of the constitution that will never happen.

I even wonder if another "assault weapon" ban would hold up if challenged considering the Supreme Court overturned both DC's and Chicago's handgun bans?

The previous assault weapons ban was a joke anyway just labeling certain features as evil and banning them if you had too many evil features on a gun.

Maybe limiting magazine size could do some "good" but I find it hard to believe changing magazines takes any significant amount of time if the shooter has any experience with the weapon.
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Is anyone surprised at all by this? It's not like this is new or something. Despite the various documented incidents of physical violence and intimidation inflicted by law enforcement officers on Occupy protesters, it comes nowhere near the sorts of horrors suffered by protesters during the Civil Rights Movement, for example. Especially in the South, where protesters were often being attacked by the police.
>Negotiate for the removal of these clauses from your contract and don't sign it if they won't remove them. Sometimes this may mean passing on a job but if everyone did this then employers wouldn't try to get away with it.

The problem is that the effectiveness of this relies on the bargaining power of the employees, which, in a "buyer's market" is not that much.

Better to get the law to change to forbid such abuses for everyone.
Well, maybe a 2/10.

It's 2012. A US-only service when there are TONS of international alternatives?
Of course they did. Let's ignore for a moment that protest groups (like PETA) are usually considered some of the highest risks for terrorism; it would be irresponsible of the bureau to take the protest at face value and assume they have completely peaceful intentions.
I agree with the raising taxes part...but corporate taxes are a terrible vehicle to do so. Aside from the terrible distorted incentives that corporations face due to corporate taxation (Hey dumb shareholders....buy me this jet! Otherwise you'll just spend the money on taxes!), inference studies have shown that increases in corporate taxes disproportionately affect those at the bottom of the corporate tax structure.

Since corporate earnings exist for the benefit of the shareholder, it makes far more sense to raise taxes on shareholders than on corporations. Shareholders don't get to benefit with trying to justify their personal spending as a tax deductible business cost.
Do typical BigCorps require re-signing your contract during the review process? Neither of the ~300 person tech companies I've worked for have had me sign anything past the first day.
> In May 1974 he was hired as an electronics [sic] by Atari.

> He was felt rough [sic], they disapproved his lack of hygiene and bizarre way of eating. He was used to mock others [sic] ...

> He gets a job as an electronics [sic] without knowing anything about it

Is this article translated from another language without anyone bothering to read the translation?

> A reporter from The Wall Street Journal, Brent Schlender, recorded many interview of Steve Jobs [sic].

Apparently so.
>and allowing a call to originate from a C program, which neither currently do.

That one is also under consideration by the Rust developers.
BTW: This was already submitted to HN.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Monads+in+P...

But that doesn't make it less interesting ;)
academia hell, huh?
The best interface is hiding all the steps of a complex process and saying you did away with the interface.

No steps = easy to debug when it goes wrong. You just point at it and loudly whine: "It's not working!" then nobody fixes it because all the back end is "magic".
I'm sure you are exploring this, but would some NGOs be prepared to fund a server/bandwidth for a period of time in return for having health advice/business advice/information on the front page? Just thinking of the African page views he was getting...
Do you know of an easy way to simulate latency?

I have bash aliases for various levels of ipfw throttling, but I've ended up using other programs because 768k/s with no latency seems to load some kinds of sites disturbingly close to the speed they load if I let the bandwidth back up to its 18mbit/s normal speed, which I think has to do with latency. Lots of the Mac OS standalone programs that do this kind of thing, like Link Conditioner or Speed Limit, add configurable latency to requests as well.
The article is not about using C libs, is about C programs using you (your D code, that is).

That said, the problem with D: not enough marketing plus the two compilers / 2 libraries issue.

And it's close to C++ complexity enough to not let the scripting guys feel welcome (like they do in Go).
nothing said about distributing it, although I see your point on the creation of it. But I'm not sure I'd be able to make that distinction about anything else valuable - "well, company x, you might 'own' this, but I created it and can do whatever I want with it". They want the benefits without any risks - ain't gonna happen.

Well... I say that, but I think everyone might have their price. I've got mine, and yes, sure, would I sign away all my IP created during employment for $x? yes, but no one has yet come close to that $x in job offers I get.
I think providing a Vagrantfile that would automate the building of an entire vm with all the dependencies installed and software configured would be a good idea, ESP since a typical git user is familiar with Vms and vagrant..
One thing that mustn't be over-looked with interfaces that 'learn about your behavior' is they can lock into a 'local maxima' and can be difficult to retrain without resetting to factory defaults. - If your lifestyle changes, can the interface keep up?
In the FWI we have another drink with water, salt and suger to prevent dehydration. It's also prescribed to kind who have Pedialyte, because it tastes great.

It's called Coke.

Seriously, it has everything needed and is carefully dosed. Electrolytes, sugar, water, packaged in can to prevent contamination by bacterias.
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So presumably your employer decides which parts of your work are and are not confidential. They then provide this information to you in writing and the implication is that by working for them you agree to abide by these rules.

In other words basically the definition of a contract.

The only difference I can see in this case is that your approach would actually make it a criminal offence (presumably involving a possible prison sentence) to violate your employers terms.
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.. because Google acquired ITA Software - http://googleblog.blogspot.nl/2011/04/ita-software-acquisiti...
Prior discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4616945
Http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=azmirza
That's a great story and congrats to him on building something like that under those conditions.

There's a good reason why "we are all chasing the billions doled out by Apple on the App Store and the newest, sexiest SaaS app idea": money. He's making no money and it will be very hard to monetize. How do you get someone on another contentent, who earns very little money, using old technology, to pay you and pay enough to turn a profit?

It's great that he's helping people but if it has no business model it's not sustainable unless he can turn it into a non-profit with donors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess_paradox

Thanks for link, your url has one too many s characters on the end
Is LaunchRock best for finding beta participants for a new trivia game?
We're launching a beta for a new on-line trivia game next year. Is LaunchRock the best way to find beta participants?
Employment contracts are almost always written to supply as many benefits to the employer and mitigate as many risks as possible.

The worst case scenario for them is that they find out that certain clauses are not enforceable. In reality I imagine it is often known that some may be unenforceable but they are added anyway on the basis that the employee doesn't know this.
Every successful founder-CEO I know of is a generalist who's especially good at one of these 3, and their cofounders or early hires make up for their weaknesses in the other two areas.

That said, at large companies the dynamic is different. I know of one excellent CEO at a 5000 person company who spent almost no time on product, market, or operations. Instead, he spent all his time on the human element. Making sure that there were strong training programs, making sure that it was easy to transfer from one department to another (and instituting policies that managers had to transfer star employees every two years or less), cutting through a lot of bureaucracy to make sure that star players could get promoted commensurate to their talents, etc. The company's performance and stock price skyrocketed during his tenure, and he was considered one of the best CEOs the company ever had.
Cool idea, I like that they didn't choose a random product to try an market, but an actual real world application. As a driver more than a walking pedestrian, I think these light-ups would be awesome on the road. Even during the day. I consider myself to be a good driver, but this would definitely help out.

I have to add that generally a 10 year old is not going to give you the next big app idea. 10 year olds will have no more creative ideas than you or me. But just like the lottery, it could happen.
Tommy Refenes has stated in an interview[1] that he said "it's fine" just because at the time he couldn't do anything about it. The level editor was programmed in a rush and he didn't think that anyone would exploit something offered to them for free.

In the end, the guy who warned him that an "evil hacker" could compromise the system, turned out to be that evil hacker himself.

For us web devs it pretty obvious that anything that can be exploited will be exploited. Tommy was naive about it. Imho, his "it's fine" comment made it worse - what he should have said is "thanks, but I can't fix it right now".

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
Well, my point was that I can't commit from my phone. At least I don't know how, but it may be easier than I think.
Matrix hasn't gone anywhere (http://matrix.itasoftware.com/).
And it still does things that Google Flights doesn't (such as working outside North America).
One of the few things I've learned over the last 10 years or so is to be much bolder in work/job relationships. If I see something in a contract that is too one-sided, I strike it out and bring it up and say "I'm not agreeing to that". Will I sign a contract with, say, a 5 year non-compete (even assuming the non-compete is enforceable)? Generally no, unless there's a huge compensation package tied to make up for the time when I can't use my knowledge in the market. Would I sign one with a 3-6 month non-compete? Probably.

15 years ago I'd sign anything. Today, not so much.
I think the title is backwards, it should be, "Chris Zacharias is right, but Paul Graham is righter".
In don't think the nuance here is about underdogs.

Most file sharing is not for profit. Most file sharing is some kid who couldn't have possibly bought everything downloaded because it would have cost more than his families entire salary. Does that make it right? No. But it's more like street graffiti or petty theft from a convenience store. The judicial system unfairly favors the big content companies in these situations and people face several hundred thousand dollar penalties. The spirit of these laws was to target people selling bootleg copies of DVDs on the street, not the people who bought those DVDs. Megavideo should be facing these types of penalties, not moms.

Megavideo was profiting from piracy so they are more culpable, but the preemptive actions taken were also inappropriate given the crime. Despite it being mostly used for piracy, people did have legitimate files on it and their access was unexpectly lost due to the improper actions. Besides the collateral damage, even guilty people should have a day in court before any punishment occurs, I don't care what the crime is or how obvious some non-judge individual thinks it is.

This case is someone profiting from unauthorized distribution. This is a case where the unjust law is unlikely to be relevant; if the government preemptively raided canonical I think you can safely assume there would be a shit storm of support on canonical's side.

People don't simply react to the original crimes, they are reacting to all of the other moves that happen after the crime comes to light. In this case there is no draconian antipiracy in effect, no individuals committing petty crime so they can watch HBO, instead there is the most visible open source software violating intellectual property law in a way that is unlikely to have any negative effect on the company besides one day of mildly bad PR.
While it's not a position I hold myself, I imagine such people would argue that unions are not the free market because of the legal protections and privileges they enjoy.

I'm no expert, but I know that in at least some jurisdictions a union-endorsed strike carries protections against worker dismissal.
It's more realistically the one where you spent $2mm for a 20% share or where you spent $500k for a 20% share. Most investors seem to target percentage ownership, not amount they're investing.

(I guess you could consider the case where you got one at a huge discount through luck -- getting a $100k product for $10k. Then, I'd basically treat it as a $100k asset for the purposes of how much to help -- the 10x gain on the $10k already happened the moment you made the deal, even if it's unrealized. I'd be happy to buy $100k negotiable assets for $10k, but in general, bargains aren't -- there is a reason you're getting a discount, ranging from the founders being noobs who will equally be likely to get taken advantage of by others later, or the deal has more risk than you thought, etc. There may be some cases where assets are systemically mispriced -- I think Dave McClure thinks non-US startups are one, especially from LatAm and SEA.)

If I were making an investment into a public company (or a really late stage private company, like investing in Facebook the year before the IPO), I wouldn't think I'd have as much to contribute, true, but I'd assume I could help a $2.5mm valuation startup about as much as a $10mm valuation startup.

(Actually, my #1 metric on helping would be "is it fun for me to help" -- I'd probably end up spending all my time helping portfolio companies with security or infrastructure issues, and would avoid helping with design, HR-fiasco, or fundraising issues. And, if I could get Apple, Tesla, etc. to value my advice, I'd almost work for them for free ($50k/yr?) just to make them 10x more secure than they are now. It's just easier to get someone to value your advice when he's paying you $300/hr.)

I don't dispute that some people would behave like you're saying, but I would not, and most of the professional investors (super angels/VCs) probably wouldn't. I think this might be the difference between "professional" investors and angels.
Also, a way to compile without kernel (system) calls, so that it can be use for kernel development. It used to be possible with go, but no more with go1. Then these languages would truly be able to replace C.
"missed the bar by a few centimeters"

May I recall that:

startup => company
company !=> startup (a company isn't necessarily a startup)

Startup meant to be very-fast growing companies and then, in this condition, what an investor should ask himself is only: is this company a startup? If yes, the investor must invest at almost any price because the company will be 10x or even 100x bigger tomorrow. At least, buying 2x for the price of a share is ok.
That is a feature request, not a bug.
Ignore my above comment. I was being a bit stupid :) Its a different audio track for the family friendly
What kind of idiocy is this? This is the FBI's job -- to monitor both foreign and domestic groups of national scope that might present some kind of threat to civil order.

They're not like the fire department, where they sit around waiting for something to happen. They're supposed to get out there and get proactively involved in all kinds of things from white supremacists to greens.

As a libertarian I enjoy a good rant about state security as much as the next guy, but I prefer to do so from an informed position. There's enough real things to worry about without going on about the FBI doing what they're supposed to be doing.
Every part of that process could be automated and reasonable defaults given. If someone made an install script this project would fly. It's incredibly boring to do it on your own and while the wiki is thorough and well-written, very few people want to sit through that just to play with it.

If you have it set in your mind you'll use it, then it's a good installation process as any. But if you're trying to evaluate options you might just end up saying "fuck it, I'll just use github", or something like gitorious.