skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so...you went to one theater in a foreign country and couldn't complain about it and now all movies in all theaters have terrible quality?

I see a new movie at least once/month and have had little issues with the audio or the screen.
I am not specifically invoking the labor theory of value in the above: this is how absentee property works.

The analysis of this problem is what leads to the labor theory of value, so there is a relationship, though.

I would agree with your comment, except with one modification: any rent is exploitation, because it's an extraction of surplus value.
Please add some tag filtering tools on the left of the user page. A little tag cloud would be nice, for example.
I'm not sure what you are looking to find out about without further elaboration. There are all the usual tech roles you'd expect in any other industry as well as some specialist roles.
bradley did not use the word "arguably" as far as I can see.
Fair enough Michael. Sounded like you had some plans you were unable to work on, based on that one sentence in your post.

trumanshow.. I just created a throw-away gmail account:

hnproject2013@gmail.com

drop a line there and I'll email a link to the HN post once its fleshed out and posted.
yes, you should be fine. AFAIK most distros set up cronjobs for this automatically (for example, Debian/Ubuntu runs that once a month).
TLDR: "What if, instead of imploring people to vote on Facebook’s privacy policies, we were pushing Florida lawmakers into fixing the state’s broken voting system? ... Why can’t we, the tech community, figure out how to harness our talent and influence to fundamentally change the way our democracy works — not just for us, when it suits our interests, but for everyone?"
Interesting that 'one page' design is one of the Top 5 Trends, but when looking for examples, it's nearly impossible to find anything but sites for web developers and designers, and/or marketers using the technique. Is no one using this for commerce sites?
Counterpoint: The New York Times Paywall Is Working Better Than Anyone Had Guessed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4970846
That's one movie really worth watching :)
> I don’t know anyone who consistently wakes up before 6am and isn’t doing something interesting with their life

Is this true? I'm in trouble then. I absolutely hate everything about mornings. My ideal schedule is going to bed about 2:00 AM and waking up naturally between 10:00 and 11:00 AM.

Surely there's some successful start-up founders who do this?
I'd love someone with a knowledge of cycling/retail/apparel to guide me with CycleLove (http://www.cyclelove.net/) in 2013

My primary skillset is graphic design/ux, and to a lesser extent, photography.
He meant "(possibly?)"
This mom gave her son an 18-point contract with his iPhone. Would you?
Using Jekyll For Blazing Fast Websites
A simple interface for OpenPGP email security
Another solution I like is adding fail2ban. It adds a rule to iptables to block the IP after a set number of incorrect attempts and you can set when to unblock it.
Online payments systems in South America.
no it's not , it is through regulation, which is not done by the people supposed to do it. Piracy is illegal , it would be like saying , since i cant afford these shoes i must fight "monopoly" by stealing them ... uber stupid. There are a lot of independant filmakers out here , that sell their films for less than the itunes prices , why dont you support them if big hollywood studios are so evil ? Same thing for music, people download the last PSY or lady gaga , but cant support emerging artists that are ready to sell their art for far less than any itunes download...
I should have been clearer: I'm not advocating anarcho-capitalism, just having an academic discussion. My point was that a state isn't necessary to enforce contracts, although the competing entities that would theoretically replace the state are quite state-like in many ways as you point out. The Icelandic Commonwealth was anarcho-capitalistic though, wasn't it (anarchy + property rights)? Worked okay for a few hundred years.

I do see your point that anarcho-capitalism isn't really anarchism, though. The societies they envision are radically different.
I agree.

I "rent" 3-4 movies using Amazon Instant Video every month at ~$5 per pop. Every time I do, I think "do I really want to spend $5 on this?" and I'll often just go watch whatever is recommended on Netflix (or if it's just me, SportsCenter) instead. $2 is definitely the "instant rental" price point for me.

And please none of this "Rent for $3.99 or rent for $4.99 in HD". Just give me one price and the best quality version that you can.

(For reference, I use a Roku)
How do I deal with a co-founder who hasn't contributed?
I'm also very interested in this...with a degree in Chemical Engineering and a huge interest in programming, I'd love to hear about any opportunities.
Ignorance may certainly be bliss but dismissing something because it presumably didn't happen in America takes that idea a bit too far.
Also, if your email box goes down and is unreachable then the sending server should retry later when it can't get a response. If that box is also your DNS server, and the sending email server is unable to lookup the MX record it will automatically bounce. Having a slave/secondary email server should mitigate this to some extent though.

Many applications do plan for unreachable services, but throwing the fault down the stack screws up how the error is handled. You can still use a primary application server box as a DNS server, but I would be certain that it's a secondary/slave server, not the primary server.
I haven't used the Linux version in a while, but as it's not a first class citizen of the kernel, I don't think it will ever be the same as a BSD implementation. In my opinion, if you're doing anything with storage, you'd be crazy not to use ZFS, even if that means learning a new OS/kernel.
Facebook was restricted to colleges until 2005, so the story probably took place around that time.
All credibility is destroyed at the word "detox", which is always total bullshit. There is no such thing as "detox".

If the text in the linked page is any indication this program was not made by someone with basic understanding of human physiology and nutrition. For example "organic" foods will NOT remove any "dangerous toxic waste" from your body and "5 foods that will cause maximum weight loss" do not exist.
The thing is even though diamonds are price-fixed and overpriced, this happens at the source and not the end-dealer mostly. So, it's difficult for you to negotiate with the dealer who has a low margin to begin with anyway.
My first thought was actually X-Men, which very happily conflated the police with the military.
Or fail2ban which puts in iptables rules to ban IPs that fail to login. The ssh scrapers try a variety of user accounts, and it is pretty easy to spot them (for example root can't login on my system from anywhere except the physical console, so trying to login as root,bin,games,demo,Etc from ssh is an instant ban.

Of course you need to not run an open DNS resolver which means 'don't do recursive lookups for anything except your trusted addresses'. I saw one setup that worked really well which was to only do recursive lookups from loopback, then client would create a vpn tunnel to the dns server, get their dns service that way. Seemed a bit extreme but it allows off site DNS service.
What is "sigma talent"?
Oh, that moment of frisson when a piece of the future arrives. This is so excellent, thank you!
Small sample size, but of the 2 startup CEOs I know well, it's 2 for 2. There are others who seem fine, but I don't know them well enough to judge their true character.

If we start with a Beta(2, 2) prior on the percentage of CEOs who are insufferable, egotistical fucks, we get a Beta(4, 2) posterior. So the 95% confidence interval on the percentage who are insufferable, egotistical fucks is [28.4%, 94.7%].
> I don’t know anyone who...

Ah, useless anecdotes virtually always follow that opening. Could have stopped reading there.
This One Time, I Biked to Omaha
> Would you prefer it if instead workers were paid in equity, and needed to use the public markets if they want to convert equity to cash?

No, I would not.

> The difference between this scenario and the current status quo is only $8/trade and a few mouse clicks,

No, it is not. Again, not all companies are publicly owned.

> so I'd love to hear why you think this distinction matters.

Cash does not equal control. Equity equals control. Seriously, we're on Hacker News: how much discussion goes into equity splits between founders? Why do you never give your initial employees very much equity? Why do we discuss term sheets so much?

You're being silly, you comment here way too much not to know this.

(oh, and for an answer: I prefer that the workers are paid however the workers want to be paid. For me, personally, cash as well as an equity stake of some kind. As one real-life example, please see http://www.redandblackcafe.com/the-red-black-cafe-is-hiring/ which lays out one possible situation and has been going for the last 12 years. Also, of course, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation which has 14b euro in revenue and employs 84,000 people.)
I'm using CloudFlare (without the proxy/CDN feature) just because of their awesome DNS management. Haven't had any issues and it's got a really neat interface.
Sony stops making PlayStation 2
40 years old here...

Although not everyone likes them I do recommend shelling $$$ for an Herman Miller (or similar) chair.

The Mira seems to be great for the back. Me, I can't live without the "pellicle mesh" of the Aeron so the Mira is a no go for me. Hence I bought an Aeron with the adjustable posture fit (the new one, with the adjustable stuff that gently "pushes" the low-end of your back).

I realize HN is filled with negativity and a lot of people are going to criticize the Aeron (dot com symbol, not that ergonomic, bad for your health, bla bla bla) but honestly if you know how to adjust it it's a great chair. You hardly sweat in it and (when adjusted correctly), by pulling your arms behind your head the chair gently falls in "relax-mode".

The 12-year warranty is great too. I use that and a HHKB Pro 2 as my keyboard.
Very clean, and I like the content. What platform did you build it on?
The Linux answer to ZFS is btrfs, and it's almost ready to go.
Counterpoints to your counterpoint: The New York Times is a) doing ok for now but not great [1] b) most importantly, the NYT is an American institution that is in a league of their own. Few newspapers have the prestige, quality and history of the NYT.

[1] Stock price for NYT has gone down 80% in the last 10 years:
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ANYT&ei=g9XhUJiAJ6...
How we judge talent is actually one of the biggest problems, and a bias that I've been trying very hard to solve.

Intellectually, I know there's a huge difference between a programmer who has 99th percentile programming skills and one who has 90th percentile programming skills. Being a non-programmer, I don't have the tools to easily tell the difference.

This means my base instincts will tell me to work with the person who is a good programmer and speaks confidently and clearly, vs. the exceptional programmer who's shy and mumbles. That's because as far as my brain can tell, they both have the same degree of programming ability.

I work very hard to solve this bias. I make sure to focus on people's strengths and ignore weaknesses that aren't obvious dealbreakers. I try to maintain wide social circles and ask my most successful friends what standards I can use to judge skill in different areas. I pay a lot of attention to how other people in their industry judge them, vs. people in general.

What I've found is that there are two kinds of people who are really diamonds in the rough. One is people who are generally smart and have shown the ability to excel in a lot of fields, but haven't had a lot of experience in the field you're talking about. Think about a recent graduate who has an exceptional understanding of History and Psychology and is an excellent tennis player. This kind of person will usually learn very quickly and excel at jobs that demand a high ratio of problem-solving ability to knowledge.

Another kind of diamond-in-the-rough is someone who is admired by people in their field but somewhat disparaged by others. A good example would be a Salesman who always exceeds his quota but struggles with basic math. People who find math easy will typically think of this fellow as stupid, even if he's a genius at what he does.

Pay attention to people like these. It's all too easy to make a mistake like "If someone can't do math/can't speak coherently/failed high school/doesn't understand technology/uses Internet Explorer, then they must be stupid." In my experience this is almost never true-having a weakness doesn't mean that someone doesn't have a certain strength. Focus on the strengths and you'll end up working with (and hanging around) much more interesting, much more diversified people.
and I see the self-righteous attitude

@piracy
is not right but we all can afford and tolerate it. The above statement strikes me as fundamentalistic, it seems to disregard the arbitrary character of content-pricing, it's virtual nature and insinuates that copying is stealing. We don't live in an ideal world and pretending everyone can "do it" and who doesn't is lazy, is propaganda.

piracy is more than downloading apps, it's movies, tv-series and so on, ppl with low income who can't, don't deserve it then?

@terminal emulators
the most used app on my iphone2G was erika sadun's utilities, I didn't pirate any app.

Lets look to slovakia. With under 1000$ average income you would invest in PS6 for 800€ esp. if you start your own project? - The alternative would be gimp?

@iMacs
haven't talked about conspiracy, just showing that framesets are different.
I think she has a point about bubble that Silicon Valley and SF lives in.

Where I think she misses the boat is that the solution isn't to lobby government. Rather people need to remember the world outside the bubble so they can see real problems to work on, rather than the latest cool X-sharing (yes it's a cliche but still true) app to brag about in front of their friends in the coffee shop.

Many of the real ground breaking startups are not coming from the bay area nowadays for exactly these reasons.
I recommend starting with one task and adding to it as the year goes on. Learning the man pages could potentially make you a better programmer without reading K&R. Set K&R aside until February and achieve your first goal. It's important to change one behavior at a time and expect and plan for failure. Shoot for 5-6 days a week with 1 day review, or 3 with 2 days review, and just do what you feel with the extra day. Review or move forward.

Good luck. New Years Resolutions are great, stay motivated.
I know there are a lot of people who are very successful in those late quiet hours, rather than the early morning quiet hours. Tim Ferriss is a key person who comes to mind. However, the point I'm trying to make here is that in the case of the early morning risers, I find they are much more consistently doing incredible work in their lives.

To observe that early risers are consistently successful, it doesn't mean that late night workers aren't successful. I've just found anecdotally that if you were to take a sample of early risers vs late night workers, the first group seems to have a higher percentage of successful people.
Those "machines" seem huge for what they're doing (DNS services for 32 zones). They add up to more resources than all of my machines put together from just a few years ago.

I guess this is progress. It just seems strange to me.
What is that strategy, by the way, if you can share?
Timezones in javascript. We ended up stitching together 3 libraries into something that sort of looks like 10% of joda-time. Definitely not a solved problem.
Any tips/insight into selling direct?
Well I've poked around through some different listings, roles, etc, and I'm a bit surprised that there are so few data mining roles at various oil and gas firms. One would think seismic data mining would be a huge area. I'm quite interested in data mining and software dev.

I've found quite a number of SCADA roles but, this isn't unique to the industry, and I don't know exactly how interesting the role would be.
He went back and edited his post.
Hackulous is dead, and that’s a good thing
Ask HN: What's the best technical interview you've ever had?
Anyone here use Thinkpads?
I was wondering if these still exist among entrepreneurs as I notice everyone from their mother use macs these days.
Of course you'll get bored if your primary source of tech news delivers you only pinterests and instagrams.
"When the RIAA and MPAA claim that their profits suffer from piracy, one should be skeptical. People have been sharing files on the Internet for decades at this point -- what kind of company can lose money for decades without going bankrupt?"

Both are not one company. They are multiple companies working together. They didn't go out of business because they mostly changed with the new trends (Songs can now be purchased for 99 cents and streamed, etc).

"The MPAA is just greedy"

Isn't that the pot calling the kettle black. The MPAA may be greedy, but the hordes of people taking music and giving excuse after excuse as to why they shouldn't have to pay for it is pure greed (and entitlement).

"they are the ones stealing from artists:"

Sigh. I'm tired of hearing this. Artists have many ways to promote their stuff online. They don't have to sign a contract, but they choose to.

It's never been easy to make money as an artist...and piracy makes it even more difficult (especially when you don't have the backing of a major label).

I guess they don't deserve to make a living...and instead entertain you to your exact specifications.
>Why do you feel you know better about how I should handle my finances and working arrangements?

I don't say that I know better objectively. I'm merely stating my preference, which might, or might not be better than your preference.

And it could even be better than letting everyone have it his own way (just as it could also be worse). I guess it remains to be proved.

Sometimes, you see, one specific idea is better overall than just letting each person decide. For example, with respect to theft we don't let each person have their preference about it: we deem it illegal, and that's it.

So, this "the individual above everything else" thing. I don't care much for it. And a lot of societies don't, e.g in Europe. Some people, and some societies prefer the "benefit of society above all".

Which might, or might not, coincide with the maximum benefit of a specific individual. That's what politics is about.
There is so much amazing creation happening right now. Unfortunately for TechCrunch, it doesn't have, nor aspire to, $5 million seed funding, so TC won't hear about it.
Obama Signs FISA Warrantless Wiretapping Program Extension Into Law
Yeah they're way too beefy for what I'm using them for at the moment. My ongoing plan is to move various services onto these machines but it's been slow going.
I use fail2ban as well. I honestly don't get why people get so worked up about SSH. As long as you have a long, secure password, how is it a security vulnerability?
Another idea for you - vote for Pirates :)
Sigma is usually used to represent the standard deviation.
+4 sigma would mean four standard deviations from the mean. So in this case he is saying his talent is higher than 99.9966% of people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation
It's less about his politics and more about his intelligence. This post - that he tried to to introduce such a sweeping and dangerous law without a single thought about the consequences - is a perfect example of that.
>The argument that "many signals add up to catastrophe" is a load of bunk.

No, it is not. See the earlier note about Dayton.

1) RF emissions of unintentional transmitters is measured in labs all the time. Every such device, say for example, a desktop computer, has an FCC id number, certifying that it complies with a level of radiation.

2) You are completely neglecting the fact that signal strength is proportional to the inverse of the square of the distance. As the airplane is flying, the distance to cell towers is changing. The distance between the cockpit and avionics to the passenger compartment is not changing, unless the plane has broken apart.

3) Everything else: yes, but the signals from the PEDs are In The House. Lightening strikes will affect avionics.
That's why I am now here.

I'm starting with bringing dyslexic fonts to peoples' awareness (my blog is always rendered in Eulexia), and then moving on to building dragons ( http://nerdfiles.net/rattelyr-dragon/ ).
I think s/he means "Which fork is most up-to-date?"
The static website part is nice, unfortunately working with Jekyll isn't. Such a painful process to update docs.
I'm guessing the author has limited social circles.

Do they know many cleaners; road sweepers; 'binmen' (garbage truck workers)? etc.

These people are just people - maybe some of them are doing interesting things with their life but I doubt it's just because they're waking early.

The comment feels a bit like cargo-cultism.

I'm fighting my own biases here, because I feel much better if I wake early and I feel like my early mornings are much more productive.
I should have clarified, "to many that view bikes as a toy, a 700 bike is an expensive bike." It is not that I disagree with what you are saying. I just realize there is a majority that does not want to spend more than 200 on a bike. And that isn't "before accessories."

Myself... I just wish I biked more. I don't have the courage to bike the full 14 miles to work, and the 3 miles each way using the train just feels sorta "meh."

I am highly tempted by the bike lights at revolights.com. If anyone has experience with those, I'm all ears.
Countdown to a 13 year old taking the road to programming and rooting in 18..17..16..

If someday my own offspring are not able to circumvent, bypass, hack, crack or otherwise render useless all of the monitoring and limitations I could possibly think of to control them online in their teen years I will know that I have failed to make them technology literate :)
It happened to me on chrome on Windows on the front page. Kinda freaked me out as it started downloading a strange file immediately.
> it would be like saying , since i cant afford these shoes i must fight "monopoly" by stealing them

more like "these shoes are overpriced so I'm going get the pattern and start making my own copies of them and share them with my friends". you aren't affecting someone else's possession of something when you pirate it, you are just not paying the owner for a copy.

the argument is around how many of those pirated copies actually represent lost sales (and most people who've looked at the issue and aren't in some way employed by the entertainment industry think it's probably a slim percentage)

as for supporting independents, while what you're saying is probably true for music, independent TV and film as a whole just haven't reached anywhere near the quality. the instances in those mediums of high quality content produced independently are still very much the exception. in music, independents have been producing as good or better than the major labels for a long time.
If each congressman got enough letters, we could see some response. I don't know if we can get that many, but we can try . . . Snarfy wrote that "even all of hacker news combined" wouldn't do it; I'll post this on Reddit, too.
Why go halfway? $25 seems like a decent price for this.
This sounds neat!

> Typically it is not easy to answer questions like "What is the most popular jQuery Instagram library?" or "What Ruby gems are similar to Devise but newer?".

>

> This is where Gitrep aims to help.

But, then, I totally failed to discover how to do that sort of search. The search dialog seems to be tag based. Is the copy aspirational or am I missing something?