skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How old are you? Have you ever been hospitalized? Have you ever had a family member hospitalized?

It's easy to sit back and pontificate that you'd choose heroic medical treatment over whatever the alternative might be if you've never actually seen what that entails. It's a lot harder when you see that for most people, especially older people, it's an experience akin to being imprisoned and then tortured to death. A hospital is an awful place to spend the last moments of your life.
No. But what if I was the consultant who wrote that file and I picked it particularly because it shared the hash of one of a family of malicious auto-generated files I had already created?

That'd still be hard but much more likely.

This has implications for people who use tools like tripwire. If you didn't create the original file it might be the benign half of a set, if the details of your hashing are known to the attacker.
Rob did two great things:
1) He did not trust the source, and questioned the authenticity.
2) He actually called him out on BS when he continued

The first false message from Joe is interesting, but once Rob replies, and Joe continues trying to push the lie, that's a little dick'ish. The second Rob replied, with his first, and extremely professional response, I would have apologized/congratulated him, and explained what I was doing.

Continuing the charade invites deserved anger. I don't like being lied to either, especially when I know the person was lying and keeps pushing the lie.
I've agreed with this sentiment for a while now. I think the actual $10 billion number is not important/up for debate, but the point is that at some point, a very wealthy person obtaining more wealth is almost definitely bad for society.

It's possible that in an economy, when the billionaires win, we all win, if the productivity gains are enjoyed by all. But as we're seeing in the US now, after some point in massive wealth, the wealthy inevitably use their economic power to buy political power, in order to influence laws that give them more economic power.

Not to mention if someone has $10 billion, it's much more likely they've done immoral or illegal acts to obtain that wealth than someone with $10,000. Money attracts power, and power corrupts.
I find it more difficult to sleep if I try straight after finishing up gaming compared to if I read my kindle for 30 minutes first, but I thought there was a fair amount of evidence that TV/Computer usage directly before bed had that effect?
Well I personally trust markets to accurately appreciate security talent (and accurately evaluate the damages of a hacking case) but not government legislators.
Krugman says precisely what you have said:

"Ah, you ask, but what about the people? Very good question. Smart machines may make higher GDP possible, but also reduce the demand for people — including smart people. So we could be looking at a society that grows ever richer, but in which all the gains in wealth accrue to whoever owns the robots."

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/is-growth-over/
Just to be clear, by "script" here do we mean "Dude, check this out, you can just change /accounts?id=12345 to /accounts?id=12346"?
So, first of all: Does that look like recruiting to you? Looks more like a personal vendetta to me. If you're trying to recruit someone, you're most likely not going to do it by saying "oi, look. I'm gonna be the next chancelor, don't you wanna work for me?". Not even ironically.
"ACTUALLY making money on stuff" is great, probably more people should do that. But making money out of something and then selling out your customers (if you can call them customers) is not at all the right way to do it. And that's exactly what happend with Dotcom and his BBS stuff, where he was actually selling warez and denouncing his customers to the authorities, afterwards working for von Gravenreuth.

The funny thing is: In the mid 90s he was making money out of surveiling other people's messages and posts on his own BBS.[1] By the way, that whole story makes me nervous when I think about people hosting their sensitive data with him. That can't be good.

Now, back to the recruiting thing: Would you like to be recruited by that kind of guy? I for one completely understand the CCC people.

What is it with him that people seem to trust him and his businesses? I mean, it's not that any of them have prevailed and not been closed down by authorities after some time.

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[1] Again, German. Maybe I should translate that. :-) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Schmitz#Auftreten
Apple stock down 10% after hours
If you pass along your info to me, I'll be happy to ask around to some of my prospective/current clients. See profile - good luck!
Indeed. The Koch brothers inherited a substantial business from their father... IIRC >$10m in inflation adjusted revenue today.
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I thought it was fun that this showed up in Datamation. That is a brand that has been through a lot, DASD anyone?

Seems to be mostly to draw rageviews. For each of their 'forbidden' topics I've seen a flame war or two in other venues. Perhaps they are trying to kindle those sparks.
Ah, no, you are right. I was generalizing from "Arkansas and not Bentonville", but I didn't realize how close it was. (I think this was based on an IRC discussion a few years before weev's arrest when people were wondering wtf everyone was moving to Fayetteville).

Although court funding is state level, so Arkansas being poor overall would increase the desire to push stuff up to the feds. And I think states always do that anyway.
What happened to the person?
The argument made is that lawyers don't spend money on software, that's hugely different from saying "solo founder without a domain background" can't sell to lawyers.
I'm talking about paying off a credit card with the same credit card.

And the leveraged buyout, yes, the board could pretty much raise the cash to buy control -- but, and this is the point, they couldn't do it with Apple's cash pile, which is what the OP was suggesting.
RoboVM
Man, if there was any doubt that Steve Jobs was evil (in the Google business sense), it has been put to rest with this.
Capitalism doesn't write people off as "undeserving." Politics does that.

In the absence of the friction that corruption and rent-seeking create, the wealth curve would look much closer to a standard distribution, and the people on the right side of the hump would be much more likely to "deserve" their fortunes, in the sense of having earned them by contributing value.
Is the ch in technology different from the ch in Bach? I thought both were pronounced as a k.
But no-one suggested "lay-tech" or whatever.

Interesting that they gave it a nonsense string of characters(mixed alphabets) as a place-holder rather than choosing a word. Wonder if this is what inspired the performer [the artist formerly known as] Prince.

To me it's like Knuth thought - I know what's missing from my type-setting program .. some crappy nonsense marketingese, I'll give it a Greek name because well, to belittle people, then I'll render the characters offset so it's not even Greek, but we won't use an English transliteration because that's not awkward enough.

Bah.

>Lamport isn't as fussy about such things as Knuth, and the "X" in "LaTeX" is commonly pronounced more like a "k". //

See that sentence is entirely wrong, based on Wikipedia (!). It should instead say the \chi symbol in the \latex logo is commonly given an utterance akin to "k". Something like that.

Perhaps we should just optimise, give the system an English name rather than referring to it as \logo. Right it's called Laytext.

I mean clothing manufacturer Kappa don't get everyone fawning over them rendering their name with an actual kappa.

Don't know why but this annoys me intensely, can you tell.

/rant
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That word doesn't mean what you think it means. My initial post is sincere wisdom.

And your initial brusqueness didn't bother me, FWIW. The determined obstinance does a bit, but no worries.
Agreed. In software there are costs to using niche tools, so typically everybody tries to use the most popular choices available that fit their problem space. This is true of all software, closed or open.

FOSS is always going to be more 'monocultural' in terms of what software is used. There are fewer costs to switching, and you get enormous benefits in FOSS from using a tool that everyone else uses.
All the discussion here seems to revolve around AirBnb in particular and neglect all of the other sharing services mentioned in the article.

My first thoughts on this relate to those other services. In particular, car and equipment sharing. Sure it's a great idea to rent out stuff you're not currently using, but if everyone starts to rely on the availability of whatever they need, whenever they need it, what is the incentive to actually buy anything for yourself? Further down the road, when an increasingly large portion of the population just assumes they can borrow/rent whatever they need and have decided to never buy anything for themselves, there will eventually be a shortage in goods to be borrowed/rented. So to me, this seems like a market with a very low cap on growth. Namely, when that threshold of borrowers vs owners is reached.
That's right. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/01/23Apple-Reports-Reco...
Historically, rich people from countries with socialized medicine would fly to the United States for medical treatment.

We could stand to improve the quality of care for the poor in the US, but there's lots of room to do that in the existing system. For people who have health insurance benefits from their work, I think having a little bit more paperwork is better than waiting for months for surgery.
How NASA might build its first warp drive
Why don't you contact them? I can't imagine it'd be hard for them to unsubscribe you from that (I did easily, but I'm still a customer so I could log in and do it).
Save them all! (firefox only)

MutationObserver(function(event) {
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The problem is that there is a large overhead associated with writing a plugin. Sometimes the things you need to do are as small as copying a file from one directory or another. Having to write a plugin to do something so small is overkill.
First, crime has been falling in American cities almost monotonically since the 1980's, aside from a slight uptick in the last several years as a result of the recession.

Second, nobody thinks that Section 8 doesn't increase crime in nicer neighborhoods. The rationale is that spreading out the poor families via Section 8 reduces overall crime in the city versus concentrating them into the projects.

I used to live in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in Chicago, and many of the surrounding high-rises took Section 8 residents. While I'm sure they raised property crime slightly in the area, I think most people preferred that state of affairs to having the Cabrini-Green projects next door.
some - many - albeit not all - of the points are actually spot on.

I'm sure many will not want to hear or read them. There are alot of misconceptions, specially from the programmers & admins & other interested folks who started to use and figure out open source a few years ago.

I still see people using, indeed, Ubuntu, claiming its good for "Open Source" and "Freedom", and, what not. That's the distro the community has little control of (while we have full control of, say, Debian), and which ships non-free stuff and even tries it best to make _you_ buy non-free stuff (that means proprietary, mind you), and capture your data.

Also it's important to note that the article is focused on the "GNU spirit of open source", not the "BSD spirit of open source". Ie with enforced freedom.
Where are you located and why can't you post the link right here for your LinkedIn/Github?
"any such seemingly trivial detail will be good for countless hours of scuba-diving around the ancient shipwreck of a language that is LaTeX"

Or you could just ask how to do it on #latex on freenode. For something really obscure, you might not get an answer immediately. But many times the channel can be quite helpful. Of course, there are forums, newsgroups, and mailing lists too.

That said, my experience has been that if you're doing something non-standard, it can take work to get a document to look just the way you want it. But once you do, typesetting other, similar documents becomes a breeze. And the results are fantastic.

As for "something from this century", I'd like to hear what you have in mind.
I didn't want to be rude and waste their live chat peoples' time when I didn't actually care about the domain.

it says that it is for the word hacker in my scrot.
"Does playing video games at night affect your sleep?"

I'd say it depends on what they mean. On one hand it's obvious that you can't sleep at night if you're busy playing video games, but on the other hand it could help you relax if you play some monotonous game before you go to bed (such as solitaire). Or you could be immune to any possible side effects from games that are related to sleep.
Here's one:
http://www.mindmixer.com/

Love to hear about others!
Satire: "22 year old get job at website"
> "...basically equating hackers with criminals..."

Let's not get carried away.

I have accidentalhacker.com registered with Namecheap. I recall having to have a quick phone call with support to make sure I was legit. Really, it's not that big a hurdle.

I was able to pay with my credit card and I've been extremely happy with their service and support.
Time to look for a normal people job.

I heard wal-mart is hiring.
What you're talking about is a classic negative externality problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality#Negative.

> The law is a terrible tool, way worse than just talking to your neighbors, but when you have a new neighbor every three days,it may be all you've got.

On the contrary. The law is the tool of choice for dealing with externalities. Much of the law occupies itself with either preventing negative externalities (e.g. environmental regulation), or addressing free-riding on positive externalities (e.g. private property). Situations involving externalities are actually the strongest case for invoking the law, because in these situations individual rational self interest is inconsistent with the behavior that optimizes overall social well-being.
1. Problem solved. Thanks.
Every platform has things about it which are not perfect and every startup makes mistakes. Many on HN seem to be either completely unaware of or purposely ignore all of the other amazing things about Quora, and that's a shame.
Wait, so #1 is basically "A lot of people don't like Unity, so I don't consider Ubuntu to be pushing open source forward anymore"? And why, exactly, is Canonical being criticized here for building a new (open source and GPL) shell rather than contributing to GNOME?
Raising Startup Capital From Anywhere, USA
Someone have checked the "map" part? It shows a world map with a slider of the last year net worth changes. Something happens at April 18 and August 2.
I see it as true because it's a repeatable experiment. I haven't argued that my ideas are bold or radical, merely fact - and nor have I argued that this differs from common liturgy. Neophytes are indeed more creative than seasoned veterans, as they haven't condemned their minds to a single, myopic track of thought, as many, and in fact most, do. "PL/SQL is the only structured query language compliant with the PL/SQL specification and is therefore superior" "MUMPS can achieve anything" "Fortran '77 is good enough".

I've worked both in orgs with "greybeards" and in the org I've founded along with many clients. There's plenty to be said for veteran levels of experience, but this is something that's only really needed in a leader, as this experience can be communicated and demonstrated to others. A fool learns by his own mistakes, a wise man by those of others. I suppose this makes me a fool, but a fool who's decided to help others be wise, and to harness those several decades of experience in such a fashion that it benefits all involved.

So yes, you have a point in that years of experience are indeed valuable, but I would argue that this is not a prerequisite to be an exceptional engineer, and that in fact truly exceptional engineers arise through memetic experience, and a thirst for knowledge.

It's true that I speak from personal experience, but then again, so does every scientist who finds a repeatable experiment. I'd be happy to be disproven, but until then, I'm equally happy to treat what I find to be a valid theory as fact.

Young, passionate individuals make the world go round. You only have to look to the great leaps and bounds of science to witness this in visceral actuality.
> I've met more than a couple of programmers who are otherwise so computer illiterate

I have not witnessed this myself but I have heard countless stories from friends/colleagues in the same vein - there seems to be indeed a big gap between one's coding abilities and the overall computing knowledge.
Aren't you worried that someone, somewhere might actually still own the rights to that trademark, and might, one day, come to you and ask for money? After all, you're clearly exploiting the original trademark for your own gain.

I know, I know, we all love an '80s inside-joke, but I think this is just a bit too far.

(great lib btw, datetime has always been a bloody pain, for no good reason.)
wnight never said that Andrew was white hat, just that not all the blame should be placed on him.
Apple broke records for quarterly sales and profit with $54.5 billion in sales and $13.1 billion in profit in the quarter ended Dec. 29.
It's probably technically incorrect, but the page title is "404 Doodoo error".
Well I do think that "404" should be more visible but everything else is just part of design. It's like complaining that blogs should be just text or that CSS3 is pointless. It's design, it's interesting, I like it.
That creates a event handler for all images on mouseover, even images that haven't been created yet.

You want to trigger the mouseover event, not bind to it. And you want to trigger it after the image has been inserted. Unfortunately there's no jquery event for dom insertions. But on firefox you can use a MutationObserver:

MutationObserver(function(event) {
$(event[0].addedNodes[0]).mouseover();
}).observe($('body')[0], {childList: true});
When governments go away, there is always money to be made.

I strongly suspect that maneuvering of this nature is the most likely reason for Cuba's undersea cable only being turned on for one way traffic. In lofty debates on political world views, we can often overlook the greedy. I'd imagine the same sorts of things were going on when the Soviet Union dissolved.
When I read things like this, it makes me so glad I live in the UK and don't have to endure any of this free market bullshit when it comes to health. The system you describe is just so chillingly brutal and callous.
Your brain already has the ability to judge relevance too.
There are more options besides a completely rigid build system and cobbled together build system. There is room for something in between. I think the build tool should encourage you to use common structure but allow you deviate from that if necessary. Sometimes, Maven makes it very difficult to accomplish small tasks without writing an entire plugin.
I don't find it unfair at all that a single person is more "wealthy" than the GDP of communist countries ; )

I have read that before the fall of communism in Hungary, the inventor of the Rubik's Cube made more foreign exchange income for the Hungarian state than all the state-owned enterprises combined.
I would love for someone to explain how Amazon's P/E is justified. It seems like insanity when you see how Amazon's core business model does not revolve around profits (or so it seems).
Oh ugh. When is an alias not an alias? When it's Ruby, I guess.
Sorry I feel uncomfortable about this situation and didn't want to show who I was publicly.
if you email me at the above email I will gladly give you more info about me.
Probably doesn't matter a ton. What seems to be driving the modest sell of Apple right now are:

1. Revenue slightly below estimates. Analysts knew that this quarter was a week short and built that into the estimates.

2. Profit MARGIN way down from year-ago-quarter. It doesn't matter that this quarter is short, it's the ratio of profit to revenue, not the gross amount of profits. Also, profits short of expectations, and, again, the short quarter was built into expectations.
> EA just is not what it used to be and all my favorite classic franchises (Command and Conquer, C&C Red Alert, Sim City, Syndicate, etc) are just a shadow of what they once were.

The games you quoted were not FROM EA per se, they were mostly from studios acquired by EA which were dissolved soon after they released something worthy of publishing. Sim City was from Maxix, SYndicate from Bullfrog, CC from Westwood. Do not assume developer=publisher.
By that I meant, he didn't make it when he was alive.
I agree with the principle you've used as a framing device, namely exploring some of the underlying assumptions while tabooing words that would bias towards particular conclusions. However, your entire argument seems to treat maximizing value to society as the only goal, which itself makes a major assumption that many people will disagree with.

In short, there's the "they deserve it because they'll use it optimally" argument, but there's also the "they won't necessarily use it optimally but it's still theirs to use as they wish" argument. You've very effectively deconstructed the first, but you've made no attempt to address the second.
"You will receive a bad surprise someday when you find out that the employer has no such notions of loyalty to you."

This is a very important point. I've seen lots of people who have worked for years at a company laid off with no notice. One day they come into work and hear: "Pack your personal stuff in this box, hand over your company ID, and your manager will escort you out of the building."
Was Homeworld 2 any good, by the way ?
My company is hiring UI/UX Designers. Feel free to send me a link to your info. See my profile.
Namecheap is so awesome, sopa, eff, great customer service- I wouldn't be surprised if their next move was to start accepting bitcoin as a payment method.

Talk about a tech-savvy business!
Human life is sacred. It is a noble statement. I don't think there is anything wrong with your belief (about spitting in death's eye), except life isn't measured well as a binary option (dead or alive). (dead better than life)

In many circumstances death is by far better than life.

You need to factor in the quality of life. Its really what's important.

Take diseases like Alzheimers and neurodegenerative diseases. If I can't take care of my activities of daily living, and do not mentate - why on earth would I want to spend another day on this earth.

We can keep people alive for a terminally long time with tube feedings, rectal tubes and catheters and IV medications. Doesn't make living better than death. It also doesn't not mean that one decided to go quietly into the night.

Suffering is suffering, sometimes its better to stop suffering.
You can write code blocks using the [code] tag.

E.g.

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OR

This is some inline code: [code] /usr/bin/xyz [/code]
It's ENTIRELY an indication of future performance expectation.
Storing 700 terabytes of data in 1 gram of DNA
Time for the real hard truths.

Almost all major open source success are the product of subsidized development, either by a commercial arm (Linux via Red Hat et al., gcc by Google et al., Java by Sun et al., etc.) or a research arm (OCaml by Inria, Haskell by MSR, etc.).

Open source by hobbyists doesn't work (at scale).
My favorite: searching for typos.

https://github.com/search?q=legnth&p=1&ref=searchbar...