skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The following is my point of view. I understand some people have a different point of view, and I don't have a problem if they make it known, and their families and health care providers respect their wishes.

But from where I sit, the dying doctors' point of view, as presented in this article, struck me as irrational.

Axiom: Being dead is better than being alive. Under all circumstances.

I personally believe this axiom, very strongly. I'd rather spit in the eye of death with my last breath than go quietly into the night.

It logically follows, then, that a treatment that has a 1% chance of working is better than doing nothing, if the latter has a 0% chance of working, no matter how extreme the treatment is.

Living longer, even in a state of constant extreme pain, is better than dying. Well, maybe dying peacefully would be less painful for my relatives, but again, I personally place a much higher value on my own life than my family's feelings of sadness or whatever.

The only question which remains is the validity of the Axiom. If this world is all there is, if when you die there isn't an afterlife or reincarnation or whatever...then the Axiom is clearly true.

If you have strong religious belief, then perhaps your afterlife is better. But only a perfect belief that you are headed to a better place makes it rational to give up. If you have a little bit of doubt -- if you're 99% sure you're going to Heaven but 1% of you whispers that maybe there's nothing and you'll turn into dust instead -- you still want to put off rolling that die as long as you can. Ditto if you're 100% sure there's an afterlife and 99% sure you've been good enough to get into Heaven, but 1% of you says that maybe Hell is where you're headed.

If your religion forbids suicide, and there's a chance that the Judge who will weigh your life will interpret not opting for the best available medical treatment as equivalent to suicide, then that affects your decision too. Although, to be fair, this cuts both ways: The suffering you cause your family by lingering beyond your time on Earth might count against you too. Literally "Damned if you do, damned if you don't." It's unclear enough that there should really be a few more commandments or something, to address all the corner cases.
Google Transparency Report - we need to reform online privacy laws
oh, thanks. that looks very good. simpler than this one, i think (at least, i can understand arrow immediately from that page).
When a vulnerability/exploit is discovered, there's a difference between dealing with it responsibly and using it to troll people "for the lulz". Don't paint this guy as a white hat trying to help AT&T patch their poor security.

The very idea that this dude is trying to compare himself to Swartz is laughable at best and in very, very poor taste.

edit:
to clarify, in no way do i think the punishment he might get fits the crime. the feds are being completely overzealous here. i just don't like that a guy who gets busted doing something completely self-interested tries to jump on the coattails of a genuine tragedy to stir up public support.
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Hello HN,
I am a UI designer/front-end developer, I worked for many high profile startups and fortune 500s, but for some reason in the past couple of months I lost my job, and all my side gigs.
To add to this I was working on couple of startups before the job I recently had, those startups made me lose every last penny I had saved up.
I don't have immediate family to help me out, grew up without my parents in boarding schools.
I really need someone's help here in finding a job ASAP so I can pay for a place to stay at.
I will give you a serious discount for the first month or 2 of working together.
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and I will give you all my personal info and portfolio.

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Edit: I am located in Los Angeles
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Once again, $ money is the factor here:

FOSS for consumers = Stalled.

FOSS for businesses = Strong & Growing.

And why? Because of the faulty anti-money philosophy that so many open source developers have. They're afraid of making money, afraid of being rich, afraid of selling out, subconsciously loath rich people, are blindly following ideology over results, and think that they can create software in their free time while working a full time job with a baby on the way. SourceForget.net is littered with dead open source projects that died for these exact reasons. We've all seen awesome abandoned software that we were willing to pay for but the developer never charged for and left to rot when he settled down and had a kid.

Meanwhile their FOSS2Business counterparts have found ways to have a constant stream of income, have profitable parent companies, pay developers, progress the software, pay for usability studies, and provide professional consultation. They're growing their kingdom using money. While FOSS2Consumers is still mumbling "don't be like Microsoft" to themselves. It's aggravating to watch.

Stop being afraid of money. It doesn't make you a sell out. It's just hurting the whole community. That's why each year Ubuntu changes it's whole UI and color scheme and at the end of the year no one cares. It's not the UI. It's not Ubuntu. It's the end software that the average user sees and uses, it's the terminal, it's finding "sudo apt get" advice in the forums, and other user-unfriendly bullshit that's dragging down open source software.

Businesses want "free", consumers want "easy".
True -- although in that hypothetical situation, there'd be a lot of pressure to raise the dividend. Investors don't want to have money in such a cash-heavy company, because it's like investing in a mutual fund that takes half your money and sticks it under a mattress. Even if they do good things with the other half of your money (like Apple does) you're halving your potential return right off the bat. Cash in the bank is useful when you need liquidity (unprofitable, danger of recession, potential acquisitions, etc) but $500B is still too high for any of those needs.
The Rockefeller claim is always dubious to me. I've read a lot of books on the man, and by every account I've seen his wealth peaked at between $1 and $2 billion before the great depression. Even a generous multiplier based on dollar devaluation, of say 30 fold, only gets you into Gates territory.

The only way you get to the notion that he was the richest ever, would be to speculate on what his empire would be worth today rather than just the dollar figure inflation adjusted.

Most likely, Bill Gates had the greatest private fortune in history at the peak of the Nasdaq bubble. Inflation adjusted it would be worth upwards of $150 +/- billion today.
I've said it before, but: What's the deal with 404 pages?

If the content has moved, I should get a 30x redirect. If the server has a way of guessing what I wanted, I should get 300 Multiple Choices. If the server knows that what I'm looking for isn't anywhere, I should get 410 Gone. 404 is supposed to mean that the server has no idea what I'm looking for, no idea how to find it, no idea where to look.

In that case, I don't want a page to load. I don't want a tab to open. I definitely don't want to download a Flash game, or a 500kb JPEG, or infinity many Lemming images. I just want my browser to mark that link as dead and let me know in as unobtrusive a way as possible, "Hey, you clicked on some bullshit!" Let me either search the domain or click something else.

Not to rag on creative 404s, and I know it's a bit of a pipe dream. Just a peeve of mine.
http://blog.sfgate.com/ontheblock/2011/03/30/why-so-many-vac...

Seems like we have a problem with rent control there. Many landlords won't rent in SF because of rent control. They want tenants who leave regularly to take advantage of the rising prices. Not sure whether it's cause or effect, but I just think there's clearly more influential factors than Airbnb here.
It's not unreasonable, but it's still obscure. Calling a time utility Delorean isn't unreasonable, despite also being obscure.
I'm guessing this is the most likely contributor. They moved a ton of iPad minis it seems like.
From what I can tell, this is a top 100 list. She's a billionaire, but below the ranking threshold.
Having been denied insurance because of a procedure that I underwent to make me considerably more healthy, I call bullshit. How do you "not cover" the result of a procedure that impacted every aspect of my life while covering everything else?

Naked capitalism and healthcare can't work together (and this coming from somebody who strongly believes the government has way too many fingers in way too many pies). The priorities are too far out of whack; but that doesn't mean capitalism shouldn't have a significant role to play.

I do think government regulation (in particular, the tax benefit for companies providing insurance) have made the situation far worse than it needs to be. I talked to an insurance broker after the Obamacare vote. He told me every insurance company in my state was dropping policies for 19 year olds, since they had no say who they covered. Talk about incentivizing good behavior...

In the end, it's an incredibly complex problem that should not be handled in at the Federal level, if for no other reason than there are too many competing needs.
Many Core 2's also have VT-x, including the GP's Q6600. [1]

Probably the biggest difference in performance is in using up-to-date VM software and giving the guest machine sufficient memory.

1. http://ark.intel.com/products/29765/Intel-Core2-Quad-Process...
How are you supposed to turn on nudity without a browser?
rapelled? (still sounds terrifying - presumably they were stationary?)
What would you say if I told you I saved 396 - manually?
If any harm could come to AT&T's customers over this, then their stock price should fall.

Also, as facts those email addresses aren't copyrightable. Taking them and selling them for profit is what all direct mail companies legally do with phone numbers and email addresses they find.

Websites without passwords are like postcards. Don't try to mandate restrictions on reading postcards, just use envelopes where needed.
I believe someone is working on writing up a more detailed post about this, but I'll throw the sanetime library out there. It's pretty slick and even has built in Django support.

https://github.com/HubSpot/sanetime
https://sanetime.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
I think it is actually exponential. The longer the blade the heavier it is, so the stronger it has to be, which means more material, which makes it heavier, so you need even more material for strength.

A feedback loop like that means exponential.

The volume goes up as length^3, but the strength has to go up faster than that, since the end of the blade must hold the entire weight plus the weight of the piece next to it, which also got heavier as it got longer.
1) This page in no way is related to page missing (404). My response that it is not a 404 page is correct. This page has nothing to do with 404 error.

2) I made an assumption, based on the context, that this page was serving a role that is used when the server is overloaded or otherwise unavailable. In that case, this page should not be serving a 200 status, it should be serving a 50X response.

Now, it's possible that this page is just a demonstration of the error that would normally be produced when the website is unavailable. In that case, sure, 200 status is proper since it's not meant to actually be the literal error page which is served when the site has gone down. It's also possible the page has logic in it to serve 200 error when requested directly and 50X when the server is down.

In really, I bet this page is served as-is when the website is unavailable and sends a 200 error. It's difficult to know whether or not this is true until we see a real problem with the server.
I don't really understand what the question is asking. How can I know if it affects my sleep? I know that it's never the last thing I'm doing before I go to bed, but perhaps if I didn't play so much I would find falling asleep easier? It's almost impossible to tell. At any rate, I don't think this link really belongs here.
Technology creates middle-class jobs and wealth by enabling the less skilled to perform tasks they were previously unsuited for. Where did all those factory jobs come from in the first place? The entire idea of assembly line manufacturing was to replace skilled artisans with unskilled repetition. Technology today is no different. The only issue most 'developed countries' have is that it's lifting millions out of poverty worldwide rather than paying union members $70/hr to tighten bolts.
It is entirely possible that this impression comes from survivor bias as its jarring when you run into it, and you don't notice when you don't.
Ever been there? Fayetteville is a nice little college town and part of the booming northwest corner of the state. It's certainly not very poor.
Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, of course, but you would really choose six months in a hospital bed, puking your guts out over three months of a reasonable quality of life? It's one thing if fighting means a 50% or greater chance of making it five years; it's quite another if fighting it means a matter of months.
This article confuses "open source" and "the Linux desktop".

I consider myself an open source person. I spent a good chunk of my day today using open source tools, writing an article that I will give away for free.

And yet, I am typing this on a Mac. I don't care about gnome or KDE. Yes, I used several Linux machines today. But I have not seriously used a Linux desktop in the last 2 years, nor do I care what is going on there. (The last window manager that I liked was fvwm, but many years ago a Debian upgrade added integration with Gnome I did not want or need, and it stopped working in the way I wanted. I have not bothered caring about a window manager since.)

I am far from alone in my views. (Except for liking fvwm. Most people consider that plain weird.)
Lexical binding, higher-order functions, etc are very common in Python, for example. Except for TCO which is not widely supported in Python, and problematic if support is not guaranteed, Python seems to be just as functional as CL. Nobody cites Python as a functional language, yet people mostly cite CL as a functional language.
It's not Maven. It's Java and XML. They both end up involving much more overhead than Ruby/Rake.
This is probably repetitive with some of the other comments, but I'd absolutely be willing to pay $3/mo for a service that will do the following:

1) Most importantly, de-dupe contacts on all devices. Get VERY good at fuzzy matching algorithms, they can't possibly be too hard. I have an iPhone that for no obvious reason to me, has 8 different versions of a single contact, despite having near-exact replicas of the contact's data. I want a 1:1 match of people:contacts. Even a basic flow wherein you say "Here's all the contacts we're merging... uncheck any you think we messed up" would be hugely useful on all devices. But for this, you need to be able to write/delete contacts.. no idea if that's possible in an Apple world. I'm staggered that no one is doing this today (that I know of).

2) Import from all normal places where people store contacts (Facebook, Google, Yahoo, ICQ, Twitter, AOL Messenger, LinkedIn, Myspace, iCloud/Apple, Exchange, Linux datastores, etc... this obviously takes time).

3) Once you've imported, provide re-export / de-duping for all sources (in other words, after you've gone through and classified my contacts, allow me to say "Sync all that information back into Google contacts, Plaxo, etc.").

4) Really ideally, don't store the raw data on your servers, only store it encrypted so that you can't answer government requests. This requirement conflicts with your ability to get raw data to feed those fuzzy algorithms, though, so it'd probably have to get dropped, I'm guessing.

5) If you want to increase your viral coefficient dramatically, start building identity profiles of people based off of publicly-available information on the Net, and offer it to people who already have that person as a contact. Increased stalking capabilities are always popular (if evil).

6) Export not just to services, but to any popular data formats (Sounds like you have CardDav taken care of, but even just raw XML exports, CSV exports, tab-delimited exports, exports of just address data or phone numbers or names, etc.)

7) Allow an option whereby a user can have a personal profile, and when that user's contact info changes, notify anyone connected that their contact info has changed. (Probably not that important until you get to Facebook scale)

8) Allow for groupings, and allow a person to be in multiple groupings (while still understanding that that person is the same person). Start with some basics (Family, Friends, Co-workers), and import say Exchange contacts into Co-workers by default). Also, sync groupings with external services on demand.

There's probably more, but even just solving #1 would be a huge deal.
Gandi's always seemed pretty laid back, and I suspect they don't really care what you do unless you're really a jerk. Having a vague "code of ethics" seems like mostly an escape clause that basically lets them yank your account if you abuse it.
6th graders and their poorly worded surveys.
Trolling is not illegal. Embarrassing a company is not illegal. Talking or joking about blackmailing a company on IRC is not illegal. Taking a security exploit first to a journalist, rather than the parties involved, is not illegal.

I am not a lawyer, but as I understand it, the crime that weev is being charged with is literally that he accessed certain publicly available URLs. For this, he is being charged with "accessing a computer without authorization" and fraud.

As for Aaron versus weev: our dedication to a principle is tested when it protects people that we don't like.
This is what draws the line between bloggers and reporters.

Sadly, the news industry is trying to be as fast as the bloggers to be hip and cool, and getting just as sloppy as hell in the process.
I read that article too. The possibilites are interesting but i dont think sharing your stuff for cash will be a sustainable career option for most, especially if the cost of that stuff keeps going down.

Another possibility is that inequality and exponential growth in CEO compensation are due to the fact that most companies are not free marketplaces internally. They are run like little communist dictatorships where compensation is allocated by social/political rank, not by value created. If companies had to pay people according to the actual marginal value of their work, perhaps the inequality wouldn't get quite so severe. But human workers would still have to gradually retrain themselves to perform non-automatable tasks en masse, and the transition period is still going to be painful. That part seems unavoidable.
That's the nature of all great fortunes. Generations pass, and over time they're dispersed and taxed away.
Well, it's a list of individuals, after all this time, I imagine that wealth has been split between quite a few of them.

Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family#Conspiracy_th...
Paid internship positions, I hope.
Wow. Looking forward to updates about the response you've gotten and your improved situation (hopefully).
Diversity is a virtue in that (much like in natural systems) it makes the community as a whole less vulnerable to any particular problem. Consider, specifically, software viruses/worms for instance - heard immunity logic should fit just as well as in the biological case; monoculture leads to more epidemics.

It is not with a cost, though - moving between different options and trying to get some measure of interoperation can be hard, which is why you get some concentrations at any given time.
>Unscientific poll being conducted for a 6th grader's very scienctific science project.

So why did you submit it?

Also I can't tell what 'affect' is supposed to mean. Negative affect? Changed hours? Influence on dreams [almost impossible to avoid]?
One problem with this:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">

is 'maximum-scale=1' prevents zooming. This property fixes a mobile Safari zoom bug when orientation is changed, but the cure is worse than the disease. Leave it out and let people zoom.
Financial Crisis Suit Suggests Bad Behavior at Morgan Stanley
what do you mean builtin django support? its just times.
I agree with you. The Programming is Design position was elucidated very nicely by Jack Reeves in his paper "What Is Software Design?" some time ago.

http://www.developerdotstar.com/mag/articles/reeves_design_m...

Not realizing that programming is a design task has led to a lot of problems in many projects.
Frequent use of ASM in a web dev shop? Really?
If you don't count vote action one by one, how do you prevent multiple votes by same user?
Consider a simple model where the "fair value" of a company is the sum of their next 10 years of profit:

If a company made $1m last year and is expected to stay flat for the next decade, it's worth $10 million.

If a company made $1m last year and profits are expected to grow 10% annually, it's worth $16 million.

If a company made $1m last year and profits are expected to grow 100% annually, it's worth $1 billion.

The implicit model for stock pricing is more complicated, but you can see correlations even in a simple model like this.

Nobody knows what will happen several years into the future, so it's mostly bets and speculations. Especially in high-growth companies, where many of the bettors appear to believe that trees grow to heaven, and the company's yearly profits will soon exceed the world GDP.

So the stock of high-growth companies sell at an enormous markup compared to current profits.
By the same token, that markup can evaporate very quickly if a formerly-high-growth company shows any sign of slowdown.

In terms of the simple model above: If traders used to think that the $1m-profit company would grow 60% annually for the next decade, and something happens that makes them believe that it won't be more than 40%, the value of the company would immediately drop by more than 60%.
Never underestimate the value of a disgruntled employee.
One inaccuracy: Ortega (founder & ceo of Zara) doesn't pop up when you choose apparel.
It's a fair point. So is the fact that it's extraordinarily easy to destroy vast amounts of wealth very quickly.

Shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations, is a classic inheritance saying for a reason. Hand someone a large sum of money as inheritance and I would argue they're just as likely to destroy it as preserve it (much less grow it substantially).

It's far easier to destroy $50 million than to multiply it by 1,000 times (which is what the Koch brothers did).
good point; you could well be right. thanks.
My wife is a doctor. For her, seeing people die horrible deaths is not an abstract possibility. It is something that she's seen far more of than she wants, and is likely to see in the future again more than she wants.

Despite having no particular religious views, she would disagree with your "axiom" in the strongest of possible terms. So would I. I am not religious, but my preferences include not suffering horrible pain. I also am against causing severe emotional and/or financial distress for people I care about. Those preferences lead to there being situations where I am literally better off dead than alive, and I have made sure that my wife is aware of what those situations are so that she can make that decision for me if I am incapacitated and it needs to be made.
I know what you mean, but a button is a physical control nonetheless. You are just playing with words :)