skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is all well and good. But is there a real world example of an economic and social system that works that is not based on capitalism? And by works here I don't mean just GDP, maybe also life expectancy, crime, health stats, education level, general happiness if available.

Basically if I get a free pass and resource to move anywhere, I where do I go find this "better" place that moved beyond Capitalism and is free of these contradictions.

I hear North European countries are a pretty good place to be? I've never been there. What makes that better and how far are they both from the current Capitalist system that US has and also how far are they from Marx's ideal?
Well now you've jumped off the boat into the frothy water, just like you said you wouldn't ;). Let me get us back in the boat.

I agree that the definition of the concept of emergence is that there is no objective. No one even vaguely familiar with the concept could possibly disagree with that. My questions before were not disbelief, just making sure you had some passing familiarity with the concepts before I engaged you.

This is the heart of the matter: you still have not named me one deliberately designed system that has purposes and objectives, like you said you could here:

>>>Deliberately designed systems can absolutely have purposes and objectives.

Your inability to name one thing that is not emergent makes me think this:

1-You believe that everything is emergent. From the hamstring to society, banks and currency and economics and bartering, and everything in between. If everything is emergent then obviously nothing has objectives, since that is in the definition of the concept of emergence.
Yes, I realize that was what the institute said. My point was showing that the argument they (the girl and her supporters) were making was not about RFID but about freedom of religion.
Personnalité préférée des Français : Omar Sy détrône le roi Yannick Noah 
Hommes et femmes sont unanimes, Omar Sy est devenu la personnalité préférée des Français. Yannick Noah clôt un joli quinquennat, tout en restant parmi les trois premiers de ce palmarès bon enfant.
I agree pretty much completely, even though the ultimate message is just fine. I found the claim that budget apartments are "designed to make you sick and impotent" particularly silly.

The author brings up ROI several times, but the ROI on subtly harming someone's health by (somehow) dictating housing design is laughably negligible. It's such a preposterously long con that any expected profit is lost in the entropy.

But if we take conspiracy theories as a constant, I do like this positive take on them.
> Does Zuckerberg manage product at github now?
I liked it.. No I loved it :D

I feel they're trying to address the general audience. It's good to configure the number of popular projects. but he popularity must be calculated automatically based on the user's contribution. But it's pretty good deal at least the for the sake of showing it at LinkedIn :)
Liberal western-style democracy with open markets has certainly seen its failures. And it has also seen its successes.

Pray tell, what successes has communism and radical socialism achieved?
"And posts must be translated to English, a process which boosted author identification from 66 to around 80 per cent but was imperfect using freely available tools like Google and Bing."

I find that more than a little surprising. I would think machine translation would detract from the signal and/or normalize the text, rather than boost the differences.
You mean JRuby and Rubinius, but yes...it's as flawed as every other blacklisting security mechanism. We mostly don't implement it because, well, "here, add these security checks and tainting propagation to EVERY METHOD IN THE SYSTEM and if you don't do it right, you're totally effed." Sounds great.
For reference, here is the previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5021841
You certainly can do that. You can also add more and more locks to your doors while leaving your windows open.
How about "You're late and we started without you."?
NTLM Challenge Response is 100% Broken (Yes, this is still relevant)
Ex convicts must be the perfect test subjects for technology usability. Are there any companies hiring them for user testing?
It's an interesting argument that I've heard many times in different ways. I'm inclined to think there's some truth to it.

But when you look at trends, income is stagnant, wages are stagnant AND measures of social mobility are low as well as studies that show a lack of evidence for second and third generation immigrants being significantly better off.

That plus the (admittedly anecdotal) evidence that single earner lower middle class families who own their homes and cars are much rarer seems to indicate that the shrinking middle class is a reality (measured mostly by some vague "quality of life" metric.)

So it's complicated. The most compelling argument I've heard is that necessities are getting more expensive relative to general inflation (gas, food, housing) On the other hand, what you get for your money is much more advanced now technologically. So it's not like we're strictly speaking worse off even if our relative purchasing power has decreased.
Wow, that actually gives me more confidence because we have people doing it because they feel passionate about it. Thanks for your hard work....

I've been busy with some other small OS projects (and stuff that pays the bills) but personally feel like I need to try to carve out some time this year to do something to contribute back to Rails.....
"I've wondered what it would take to write an anonymizing tool that would strip identifying patterns from the sentences."

Peter Wayner came up with a technique called "Mimic Functions" [1] that could (at least in principle) change a file so that it assumes some statistical properties of a different file.

Unfortunately, it's easier said than done. One problem is that the sender doesn't know exactly which statistical tests would be used by the attacker, so while mimic functions could be devised to emulate certain statistical properties of a given file, it may be impossible to mimic all the statistical properties of any but the most trivial file -- especially if you want the result to make sense to a human reader. It might fool a machine, though.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimic_function
It's a bit like studying the development of physics and stopping when you get to Newton.
Sort of like saying that the era from 1980 - 2000 was about making computers and computation visible, and now we're trying to make it invisible so that we no longer have to explicitly think about computation, it just is.
Article is wrong. The student didn't lose the lawsuit, she lost the motion for an injunction that would prohibit the school from expelling her for refusing to wear the badge. The lawsuit is allowed to proceed.

IANAL, but the decision still looks crazy to me: It centers around Employment Division v. Smith, which is no longer good law federally or in Texas as the Federal and Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Acts were passed specifically to overturn that decision.

They create a new statutory right that forbids the government from using the powers in Smith. The court interprets the new laws to not forbid anything that would be allowed by Smith, which IMHO is not a credible reading of the law and pretty disrespectful of the Texas State Legislature's right to control the Texas school system.
Bitly Social Data APIs
What an interesting day
Some states require you to identify yourself upon request. This does not, in any state I am aware of, require the use if ID. All that is required in those states is that you tell them your name.
The trend in the US has nothing to do with capitalism per se. We added ten million Central and South American peasants to the bottom end of the job market over the last twenty years or so. I don't know why anyone would be surprised to see a bifurcation of income strata.
If you want to use your own servers, Atlassian (who own Bitbucket) recently released Stash, a competitor to Github Enterprise. Pricing is very good and if you have a commercial license, you also get the source code.
That is hardlinks. Symlinks have one actual location on the filesystem, with small files that point to them. Hardlinks are multiple location on the file system all pointing to the same data.
"It's an interesting argument that I've heard many times in different ways."

I wasn't making an argument; merely asking for numbers and explaining why the existing numbers may be deceptive.

"a lack of evidence for second and third generation immigrants being significantly better off."

Do you have some numbers to back that up? I'd like to see them broken down by country of origin, if possible.
Not just test boards - most motherboards nowadays have at least 12 USB ports in total, just people hardly use all the headers in their machines.
These rules are in place well after elementary school ages. In my highschool they were in place. I had to ask permission to piss, but not to drop out.

Baffling.
We Owe It All To The Hippies (1995)
It's actually a good example of the market working by correcting imbalances in the economy (agreed that the government is mostly responsible for those imbalances). You can either get the pain over with or stumble along zombie-style like the Japanese have been doing.
Show HN: Reality of running a [Bitcoin] hardware startup
I am a long term supporter of Bitcoin, and have ordered a couple of specialized mining devices (ASICs) from a well-known individual of the Bitcoin community. This individual, Tom, is known for founding [BTCFPGA](http://btcfpga.com), which sells Bitcoin FPGAs and was one of the first to provide FPGAs to Bitcoin.

Recently, he started [BitcoinASIC](http://bitcoinasic.com) to launch ASICs to the Bitcoin mining market. There have been a couple companies who have promised to deliver ASICs, but none of them have delivered yet. Competition is fierce, as ASICs provide significant advantages in hashing power compared to GPUs, resulting in greater profits to miners.

Today, I was notified of an announcement of the founder stepping down and selling his equity to an Chinese manufacturer in response to not being able to meet shipping expectations.

I find this announcement relatively depressing, Tom had been very enthusiastic and hopeful attempting to have his company be the first to launch ASICs when he started. However from yesterday's announcement, the stress he had taken can be clearly reflected from his post. I also found [this article](http://pandodaily.com/2012/11/20/the-last-day/) relavent through the hard reality of startups.

Announcement link (also in comments; too long for here): https://www.btcfpga.com/forum/index.php?topic=954.msg2804#msg2804
Sigh. I .... can't believe an elegant solution gets downvoted and .... I have put put up with responses like this. I guess it's true what they say about the PHP community.
Of course not. Time investment is also a factor to consider.
That's tricky, because it's not so much a question of successes relative to the past (which I assume you'd agree are many) but a question of successes relative to alternative worlds where a capitalist system had developed in those countries. And there's also a question of what counts as communism/radical socialism in your book--China, even now, has far more government involvement in the economy than many Western countries, and even more so under Deng. Does it count? What about Congress-style socialism in India?

That said, and emphasizing I have no love of the following countries and think some form of liberal democracy would have worked substantially better...

Cuba started from a fairly good baseline, so we shouldn't read too much into it, but it has superior healthcare and education to much of Latin America.

The Soviet Union had a couple decades of breakneck economic growth: many economists, perhaps even the majority, expected it to have outgrown the West by the 1980s. This should be discounted somewhat, though, this time because the UK and the USA also rapidly developed at various points in their history.

The USSR also excelled at generating a large class of engineers, scientists, and mathematicians, who contributed a large body of knowledge to the world. And it made some pretty good chess players, too, when it wasn't cheating like crazy.
Related to this, Showtime is currently airing a rather brilliant set of documentaries narrated by Oliver Stone called the 'Untold History of the United States'.

It basically puts this article into broader context, from the entry to WW2 onward.

Would be interesting to know how much different the reception of those documentaries is for a US-educated citizen. They definitely fit to the overall history being taught over here in Europe, but might conflict heavily with the official narrative in the US.
Never heard of it before. Now coming to think of it, it totally makes sense!
Yours is actually a very misleading comment since Greenberg stepped down as CEO in 2005.
> US has no shortage of zombies who don't think on their won.

A human being is at the most juvenile when he encounters a view contrary to his own and ascribes it to stupidity.

If only everyone was as enlightened, as educated, as brilliant as he ... then everyone would understand.

No. Grow up.

I will never be wealthy and I will still continue to vote for a fair tax system. A flat tax system. Because everyone should pay the same, regardless of status or income.

I won't always be healthy and I will still continue to vote against a socialist healthcare system. Because everyone should pay for what they use, no more and no less. Not just with healthcare, but with everything.

You don't believe what I believe? That's fine. But how dare you ascribe my beliefs to ignorance? That in itself, is ignorance distilled. The refusal to even consider anything but your own stunted views.
Interesting, thank you (haven't read it yet, but the first page looks promising).
Reaching for extreme examples at the outset is a sign that something is amiss with your argument.Observing that capitalism might have structural flaws is not a call for the implementation of soviet-style communism, and your ideological tone is debasing the discussion. Please chill out, and show a little more respect to other participants.
Then there's nothing to worry about (if proper vesting clauses are in place), since you'll have vested (and thus, would keep on your way out) the proper amount of your 35%.
> I think I'm not being out of line to claim that on the average an American's high-school-level education is pretty poor.

The thing is that it's not really that true. Here's a typical article on Huffington Post bemoaning the American education system: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/23/us-students-still-l...

But if you read it carefully, the truth is that we're not getting worse. We're just not getting better as fast as others. We used to be the best. Now we're in the middle. We're not worse than we were 60 years ago. We're better. Other countries have just gotten better much faster. Which is a trend that applies to a lot in America these days.

Education IS improving. So, I think anything that tries to relate an absolute decline to "the failure of our schools" is wrong. Maybe that's not your point though.

The thing is that what you describe at the beginning of your post is actually typically human. Experiments have shown we all have cognitive biases that make us bad at "being skeptical" and "reasoning about potential outcomes" or using past examples to predict future events (even when we're well educated.) Humans are just not good at doing that stuff. We can overcome our biases but that's not really taught in school. You can read about a lot of it at http://lesswrong.com/

So I don't think it's that helpful to bundle up people who struggle with cognitive biases as "Those kinds of people" There's a chance that "our kind of people", aka people who read hacker news, are much better at being rational but it's probably because we've taught ourselves to think like computers! Because that's a big part of what being a hacker is.
So the buildings get paid?
Marx did work under the assumption of the "Labor theory of value" [1], which states that only labor adds value to raw products, and that only humans are paid. So the price of a consumer product may be broken down into labor costs, raw material, R&D, long term investments etc. But each of the non labor points can be broken up further and in the end you end with only labor.

19th century economists did then follow this thought to construct the market backwards, that is some were trying to model markets based not on utility of a product and demand, but purely on labor costs.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value
Top Performers? These are the executives who didn't just grounded their company, but the whole financial system into a hole.
Who cares about freedom when you don't have anything to eat, and hear your children cry because of hunger?

It's day-to-day life for millions of people on this planet.

First-world talk.
Where is our modern day Victor Lebow to set a new paradigm?
That's an annoying aspect of trying to retrofit old roads with new tech. Roads designed for ramp metering (in Australia at least) have much longer ramps, both before and after the signal (enough space after for the car to accelerate to the speed of the motorway from being stopped, and before to stop the queue clogging surface streets).

But, it could also be a problem with the algorithm they use. The more simple algorithms generally don't take queue length into account, but ALINEA/HERO, which we use in Victoria has queue control.
> I work at a scale where this is extremely relevant

Really? You run Facebook or something? Got any figures?

> autoloading is a godsend. Manually including files is not only error-prone, but is tedious and requires development effort [time] that would be best utilized elsewhere.

Hang on. How many files are you including? Generally you only need to include one, right. Your framework, maybe an external library. Then you can call in whatever modules you need, as you need them. Right? Or are you using some weird kind of framework without modules?

> > [...] this particular approach ('autoload') costs too much and delivers too little to be generally praiseworthy
> > [...] whilst harming simplcity
> Costs too much? Have you not implemented it? It's not hard at all to implement, even if you have an unorthodox file & class naming convention. The only caveat is that you can only have 1 class per file (which hopefully you'd agree is good practice in the first place).

To clarify, the overheads I was referring to were (1) conceptual; less "WTF" for new developers to deal with (2) complexity; code-flow is both simpler and more explicit.

> Performance increases can be pretty large, too, especially at scale. Consider...

If you can provide some demo code, I'd love to see it. I think you will find largely it's just a result of having a dumb framework or being ultra-contrived in your example to an unrealistic degree. I also think you'll find that second-guessing require_once (a language-level feature) is not going to be faster than simply using it.
"Those kinds of people will never be able to vote in their best interests"

What happened to voting in the interests of the entire population?
It even has a good sense of humor:

$ howdoi kill someone
ps aux

...yeah, first I must find out if "he"'s alive and how can I find "him", so it's a good first step :)

$ howdoi clean up blood stains
No, you cannot achieve that with PHP [...]

...indeed, PHP has never been my fav language :)
I'm not saying education is better or worse than in the past, just that (in general) it's not up to the task of producing an electorate capable of voting rationally. After all, it's often people of retirement age you see holding those anti-Obamacare signs. Their basic education did happen 60-odd years ago and it clearly failed them.
Soon i will publish OAuth bypass in Facebook.com, Cya Next time!

hrm?
rdtsc's not talking about you personally, but about the median voter. Many political arguments are founded in ignorance (in contradiction of available data or in defiance of logic), and observing this fact is not equivalent to a judgment of people who happen to hold the same opinions.

Having said that...
Because everyone should pay the same, regardless of status or income. [...]
Because everyone should pay for what they use, no more and no less.

These are perfectly valid opinions to hold, but to express them as if they were facts is to assume the correctness of your premises. I can see why you hold those positions, but I can also think of compelling arguments for the opposite positions.
Because your views are stupid.
Easy example: a homeless tramp dying of ebola.

(You can substitute a bunch of other diseases naturally occuring in the USA if you like)

You'd normally want to pack that guy into a medical isolation unit pronto. You probably won't save him but at least you'll stop other people from catching it from him.

But no! maratd vetoes this because it's not fair. The hobo should pay for his isolation unit and until he can, he should be kicked out into the streets to act as a plague vector.

Rinse and repeat for all the other issues you haven't thought about properly.
Toyota Unveils Its Semi Autonomous Car At CES
the problem with public transport isn't that its uncool, but that you still ahve the "last mile" problem. Also, you have to plan your life around the transport, where as if you owned your own car, you dont need to do so.

THe best solution isn't better public transport, but self driving cars that you can get ondemand (but don't own).
Plus, an individual worker might create $240 of wealth for the customer, or he might create $160, or he might create -$160. The big driver of the gap between value created and wage paid is the level of risk assumed. You cannot capture all the value you create in the economy without also capturing all the risk. People who try to do this are called "entrepreneurs" and they often end up insolvent.
This is quite possibly the worst infographic I've seen, not for the style but for the content.

Are you saying that ONE PERSON could build 1.3 777 aircraft in 18 weeks? Seriously? Or are there actually a team of 100 people building those 1.3 aircraft? So how long would it take 100 people to build an android app if they were broken into teams to do each part?
Hundreds? As in > 200?

Maybe the list shouldn't be called 'friends' anymore? That list is bigger than my list of Outlook + GMail contacts.

As a prime example for a very different use of social networks: Can you explain to me how adding these people to your account (friends, acquaintances, whatever you name the list) adds, especially if they are muted and don't show up in your feed of social stuff (tm) anyway? Fascinating.
I'm currently watching that series... interesting stuff. Another must, for any who haven't seen it, is the British documentary series "Century of the Self", about American conditioning specifically.
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Nobody knows for certain what the interests of the entire population are; voting is a mechanism for groping towards identifying those interests.
Functional programming strikes me as most useful for software engineering. I'm not sure how that applies to Knuth, but my understanding is that most of the programs he writes are more oriented towards computer science than software engineering.
except when presented with a chance, someone would attempt to disrupt this order in order to get ahead themselves. The pure selfish (or greedy?) method doesn't lead to the optimal result.

As i mentioned in some other comment, self-driving cars taht you "hail" are the best compromise between public transport and private transport.