skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I respect and admire Stallman personally. Likewise, I respect and admire his contribution to the world. The problem he set out to tackle was and is very real.

> I question whether it remains a primary issue in regard to the future impact of computing on the world.

There are more threats to freedom now than ever. Look at UEFI on new laptops, graphics cards or wifi hardware that only work with closed-source drivers, and the whole world of smartphones that do not run without closed-source binary blobs.

A proprietary BIOS has always been a thorn of contention, but with UEFI you can't boot your own OS at all unless it is blessed by Microsoft.

In the "olden days" things moved a lot slower, and some companies - like Intel - even released drivers under the GPL. Now when a new phone comes out, its SoC is 99% powered by closed source binary blobs. The Nexus 4 is a disaster - look at this list of proprietary blobs https://android.googlesource.com/device/lge/mako/+/77f8e6b51... - how can you say there's no issue here? Almost all the interesting stuff this phone can do is powered by non-free software.

In addition most phones ship with proprietary bootloaders that don't let you change the operating system. I'd say that freedom-wise, today is much worse than the situation with computers from 5-6 years ago, especially if you expand computers to include phones and tablets.
To me, your post could be pretty easily translated to another industry & time as follows:

"Got a problem with slavery? Stop complaining about it! And just buy cotton from the Yankees or from the Dutch, ya bunch of whiners."

Drawing maximum attention to the problem is the most important step in solving it. Even stoking seemingly unproductive conversations like this HackerNews thread is an important step, if only because it helps those of us who are on the side of justice practice our arguments.
That is exactly my point. People started jumping all over HyperMac, and HyperMac dismissed the twitter pile-on as an uninformed mob.
I'm guessing the number will be closer to 2 than 2%.

What is the overlap of "people with enough money and interest to go to the super bowl", and "people who know how to sniff open wifi, and actually bother to", and "people who would bother to at this event"?

I mean, I know how to sniff wifi, putting me I suspect in a already small portion of the general population. Even so, I haven't bothered in years; I have better things to do. Sure, some people may sit in coffee shops and do it for monetary gain, but will those people be buying superbowl tickets?
When you measure by these metrics, you end up getting the law school scam, where schools employ unemployed graduates for juuust long enough to count them as long term employed, and only make an effort to collect the salary of highly paid graduates (and use "reported salaries" as their denominator, not total grads)
Hosting an admin-friendly git server with git-shell
You're conflating use of hardware with a restriction on software. They are not the same. If you can find a way to load Linux on an iPhone, Apple won't even bother to try and stop you.

I agree that we should have better laws protecting consumers from abuse, but I'm not sure what to make of "I do not require a license to use software". If I create something that I do not want to give away, I expect to be able to define some restrictions on its use. You may have a different expectation, but I don't think you have majority support on that.
Admins changing the titles of submitted links. There have been a few cases where it happened and the "fixed" title was worse than the one provided by the submitter to a pretty ridiculous degree. I said something about that on one such story, my comment was the most upvoted comment by far, and sparked a huge thread on the subject. Hence the "nastygram" from pg.

No biggie, I understand that they don't want link titles full of gratuitous spin and editorializing, but sometimes the original title just isn't useful. But what can ya do... pg's site, pg's rules. :-)
There are many blocked IP's when it comes to submissions. PG commented on within the past several months. Having a link immediately go dead isn't related to one's karma - or at least that's my impression.

In any event, such links don't really disappear. If "Show Dead" is selected as a preference they can still be seen.
Thanks for clarification. Lua is a lovely name, I'm sure she will appreciate that when she grows bigger, :)
Ask HN: Would more money solve the "series A crunch"?
There has been a lot in the press recently about the "series A crunch" - how it's getting harder for many startups to get funding after their seed round runs out. I'm curious what the feeling from VC's is... Are there lots of startups they wish they could invest in, if only they had more money? Or is the supply of money adequate to invest in the worthy startups, and simply more startups are applying for series A rounds than every before? Your insight and article links are much appreciated.
I'm comfortable with nakedness and sexiness. I doubt the booth would have hit my radar at all if they'd included male models too. Honestly, this wouldn't be a blog post if the CEO had responded in a thoughtful way. It's his response that is most offensive.
The Quake-Catcher Network (http://qcn.stanford.edu/) has been doing this for years with laptops and USB motion detection modules. They say that laptops are less than ideal because in larger earthquake laptops bounce around and give less accurate results. Mobile phones would suffer even more from this.

I used to have QCN on my laptop (old MacBook) and the sensors were quite sensitive, to the point where it could detect footsteps a couple of feet away.
At least 20 years ago, Penn State was in the top 4 for geography. It has definitely never been in the middle of the pack when it comes to Earth Sciences.
It's good because it's less risky to hire people. In Spain it's hard to fire people and the youth unemployment rate there was more than 50% last time I checked.

edit: And the ethical answer is because employers and employees should have the freedom to voluntarily agree on the terms of employment.
Let me suggest, after reading this post and the one on reasons not to use Oracle, that readership (and upvotes) may follow if you improve your grammar. It's not terrible, but it lacks 'quality.' If English is not your primary language, it shouldn't be difficult to get someone you know to help you proofread and edit your work.

Also, while I'm here, I also suggest spending a bit more time reflecting on your blog post before publishing. Is the message clear? Does the post flow well? Just a little extra polish can make your articles much more appealing.
And if someone is in the US on a 6 month tourist visa working for a Japanese company (no US presence, paid by invoice) remotely, is their legal status in the US in jeopardy?
Crap. I Like Scheduling Meetings.
The US is not on the front run. At least in term of happiness, which is basically the only relevant factor. I think that on average, it's slightly better to live in a country like Gernamany, Denmark, Canada, etc than in the US.
US corporate tax is 35%.
It's like a mix between Quirky.com and Kickstarter if I'm correct?
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I think Kinvey does it really well: http://www.kinvey.com/how-to-make-an-app-android
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There is one thing that worries me about graphene. Its structure resembles me a lot the structure of cyclic aromatic hydrocarbons such as benzene.

Now, we know that these compounds are extremely stable and resistant to heat, such as graphene. But we also know that, because of this, these compounds are extremely carcinogenic.

Therefore my worries: wouldn't graphene also be a powerful carcinogenic?

We had the same problem with asbestos and recently with nano-tubes, right? It was discovered they are carcinogenic precisely because they are extremely stable.
he forgot pie chart. I found that no matter how rational one can be about visualization, single pie chart can make world of a difference to a client.

edit: thanks for downvotes, I really appreciate how people can't recognize sarcasm. I'm very big on Tufte but it's easier to just give client damn pie chart than re-educate him on all aspects of data visualization.
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Disney Interactive, we work on http://disney.com

We're hiring developers across our whole stack and at all levels of experience. We use a mix of Ruby on Rails, heavy client side javascript with backbone, and Java for our search a data needs (solr, hadoop, etc).

If interested email me at jay.donnell@disney.com
IB has an API that supports tick-by-tick historical data and real-time quotes. You might be able to sign up for a demo account and pull from their historical database. You'll have to roll your own backtester though when you build your own historical DB.

But to save you the time, applying regular ML to historical tick-data will only make you into a smarter market-maker. In usual trending or sideways equities, you'll make small amounts of money followed by a catastrophic loss due to catalyst events, earnings etc that wipes out months of money.

Perhaps the most important part of algo-design is not the ML, but tweaking draw-down and risk management.
The saved section makes me more selective in terms of what merits an upvote. I will confess/admit/proclaim that the position of an article within the stack also influences my upvoting. In other words, my standard for upvoting is lower on the New page than the front page.
> Norway could pull it off.

Until the oil runs out. Our economy is so definitely not self-sustainable as things are now if you take away the oil, and we have a government-sector which (depending on who you ask) is around 10x bigger than it needs to be.

I'm a Norwegian, I'm having a good life now, but looking at how utterly mismanaged and inefficient everything governmental is in this country, I'm seriously wondering how this will end up by the time I get old.
In 2009, 16% of Finland's exports were from Nokia, and they employed a good percentage of the population of the entire country. Would you say Finland is corrupt? Or do you think you are simply biased against the US?
I've heard ideas for flying robots that would hook themselves onto power-lines like birds (or maybe more like bats I guess) and charge themselves with induction from the line.

Probably several kinds of illegal, but it would be pretty neat.
Are you under the impression that Vanderbilt is a liberal arts school without a school of engineering? That's not the case.

I dont think it even has liberal arts major, heck they don't even have an undergrad business degree because they want you to actually pick something to major in.

Disclosure- I'm a Vandy Engineering School grad
It is 2D the same way your drawings on a whiteboard with a white-erase marker are 2D. The ink left by your pen has 3 dimensions, yes, but the drawing is for all intents and purposes 2D.

It's the same with graphene. The sheets are composed of 3D atoms, but the structure of a sheet is for all intents and purposes 2D.
I think the majority of people will be absorbed in the game and entertainment. When I go to a sports game it has to be a poor match for me to start laying with my phone. I might check it while waiting in line for a hot dog or something, but the number of people wandering around << the number of people in their seats.
Which was exactly the wrong way to go about things. You don't dismiss a large demographic's concerns by trying to throw it back at them.
Better not use that microwave in your luxury box, the Mercedes-benz-superdome-FCC will be on your ass in a hot second.....
I wouldn't submit anything of mine to HN out of fear that the traffic might bring down my site (Webfaction hosted Django/Nginx blog)... and also because at the moment I wouldn't have anything to gain from the traffic besides a temporary ego boost.

EDIT: Speaking of which, is there a service out there that can test how much load your site can handle at one time?
The writing has been on the wall for a while about the end of XNA development by MS - none of the development tools for XNA have been updated to work in Visual Studio 2012. Fortunately, there's an open source replacement that run on a much broader range of platforms: https://github.com/mono/MonoGame
Ahh. Then you are mistaken Mr. McGreal. I give no credit at all to the production of academic sausage :-)

Yes, it's cheaper to produce an archive-ready article and I think it should have moved into the category of solved problems long ago. It just hasn't.

Like you said, the industry is ripe for disruption. It has been for over a decade.

Anyway, I think we are generally on the same side.

If you haven't already read the following you should:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic...

He also makes the "rentier capitalism" analogy.
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Yes, thanks! Sounds excellent!

Any ETA on Android support?
Well, of course the citizens played a key role. But it doesn't mean they weren't fleeced or foolishly lent to by sleazy, greedy bankers just like everyone else in the Western world.

Even if you hold these citizens fully accountable, at least in Iceland the people who so irresponsibly led themselves to financial ruin were bailed out, rather than the banks who so irresponsibly led themselves to financial ruin.

"The analysis suggests that the share
of indebted households in distress grew from 12½ per cent in early 2007 to 23½ per cent on the
eve of the banking collapse in the autumn of 2008, when the lion’s share of the balance sheet
shocks had already taken place. The extent of acute distress nearly quadrupled over the same
period. Forbearance efforts provided temporary breathing space, but the share in distress is
estimated to have peaked at 27½ per cent in autumn 2009, before declining to 20 per cent at yearend 2010 due to policy and legal interventions. Financial distress is found to be inversely related to
income and age, as well as being higher among families with children and those with foreigndenominated debt than among childless couples and those with ISK-denominated loans only.
Parents of every fifth child in Iceland were in distress at year-end 2010. The incidence of negative
housing equity increased dramatically, from roughly 6 to 37 per cent of indebted homeowners,
over the four-year period. Negative housing equity is more widespread among high-income than
low-income households. The share of homeowners simultaneously in distress and negative equity
rose from roughly 1 to 14 per cent but declined to 10 per cent by the end of the period. Middleincome families with children, most of which had foreign-denominated loans, and low-income
singles seem especially vulnerable. Some of the seeds of households’ financial difficulties were
sown by imprudent lending in 2007 and 2008, when 16 per cent of the total amount of new loans
was granted to households already in distress. Up to 34 per cent of households in distress at yearend 2010 were granted loans in 2007-2008, when they were already financially distressed."
http://www.cb.is/library/Skr%C3%A1arsafn---EN/Working-Papers...
We do have UK presence now. :) I don't know how these things worked out with other people before that, but I can speak about myself.

I'm one of the community managers at SE and I work from my home in Canada where Stack Exchange does not (yet?) have an office. My arrangement is basically that I send in an invoice every month like any contractor would and it is up to me to take care of my own taxes and so on.
Hadn't heard of this, I'm checking it out now, Thank you!

This may get me the rest way into Minecraft... I've been wanting to write an L-system generator for large-scale objects and this sounds like it may be just the ticket.
One could argue that since every call goes through a runtime messaging framework, Objective C is really just an interpreted language with pre-JITed function bodies.
> Many phone will jump onto an open network if at all possible, won't they?

I've never seen a phone that will do that by default. You have to manually join a network at least once before it'll be added to the list to auto-reconnect.
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I'm in the same boat : Just because I like an article doesn't mean I want it saved to my permanent list. I would be very interested if there is a way to change this behavior as I would then upvote far more articles.
https://class.coursera.org/proglang-2012-001/wiki/view?page=... is going to cover Racket (the first part, now in progress, uses ML).

Never having done anything non-trivial in a Lisp or Scheme, I'm looking forward to filling in a tiny bit of this huge gap in my knowledge. But like some other posters, I'll be surprised if I end up liking it better than Haskell.
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It's still a bummer, though. What part of my account history means I shouldn't be able to submit anymore?
Likewise if someone is a Japanese citizen, with official residency in Japan, and is in the US as a tourist or a student, and works remotely for a German company, a Canadian company, and a Guatemalan company, and gets paid by wire transfer to his bank account in Japan from his three clients... is he breaking the law in one or more countries? Perhaps there will be a telecommute country, with laws designed to let telecommuters live easily. Like incorporating in Delaware for companies.
That's really cool! I especially like the Google bar component.
If only the government would give me a free grant of $1m!
Thanks for pointing this out. I will definitely check them out.
The problem is that the effect of being in a pocket is not zero-biased when it comes to temperature (and possibly also humidity). You'd see temperatures being pulled towards normal body temperature on average.
I suspect power would be an issue. You probably want to dedicate as much battery power as possible to the motors.
At first I was worried this was more research in graphene transistors. Graphene transistors would be awesome, don't get me wrong, but building phones out of graphene seems both much more achievable, and a much more appropriate area of research for a company like Nokia!
Agreed. pie chart is best when the total set will not change in size such as something that totals to 100% will always total 100%.
My next-to-last submission turned up [dead] the moment I submitted it even though the linked site wasn as far as I know neither spammy nor off-topic. Maybe some of the HN spam prevention knobs were/are turned too far towards eleven.
I think that if every NATO country reduced their army by half, no one would really notice, even in the long run.
How to land an airplane if you are not a pilot
....Riiiight. That is probably why I said the headline that specifies HyperMac would have been a better choice...
If you've ever traveled across the country, you'd realize people in Seattle are much different than people in Phoenix who are much different than people in St Louis who are much different than people in Boston who are much different than people in Atlanta who are much different than people in Honolulu. You could easily the population of Kansas is as different from the population of California as Colombia is different than the population of Argentina, so I don't think "foreign-born" is a good metric for heterogeneity in the context of this question.
If you want to convey an honest impression of the data then pie charts are regarded as a bad idea as humans are less adept at comparing areas as they are lengths - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart#Use.2C_effectiveness_...]
Yes, if you use the Terminal and cd to /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer, you'll see

drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 25 14:52 Documentation
drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 238 Jan 29 13:33 Library
drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 238 Jan 29 13:11 Makefiles
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Jan 25 14:53 Platforms
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 25 14:54 Toolchains
drwxr-xr-x 22 root wheel 748 Jan 29 13:12 Tools
drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 238 Jan 25 14:54 usr

Inside ./usr/bin is gcc, git, etc.

Basically the developer tools used to live by default in /Developer at the root of the filesystem, now the Developer directory is inside Xcode.
& only seems to work if drawn with the top loop broken.
boring.
Omg, you must have learned mindfulness meditation!
I work for Stack Exchange in Germany (where they have no presence except for me), and I'm a regular employee with all German taxes, social security etc. that entails. These things can be made to work.
I just want an ipad with a file system and the ability to move data easily in and out. The lack of easy workflow destroys the iPad as a serious device for me.
I think I see a Pareto law of data visualisation: most of the data visualisation needs of a field can be satisfied by a small number (hypothesis: N = 3) of visualisations.

Lines for time series, histograms for frequencies, and panels for everything else is a good heuristic for web analytics. E.g. in quantitative finance a scatter plot is my go-to visualisation.
By default, my Nexus S will notify me when an open network is available but it will not connect automatically unless the wifi SSID matches an SSID I've previously connected to. I would be surprised if any device would be set up to just connect to any available open network, it would be terribly insecure.

As it is, I'm disappointed that I can't configure my device to only automatically connect to SSIDs with certain matching MAC addresses. I consider it fairly insecure that it will simply assume that "linksys" is trustworthy anywhere in the world just because my ex girlfriend lived out on a farm where wifi security wasn't worth the hassle.
I'm really loving this 2-4 minute video format. Small pieces like this are much easier to consume and remember.
The correlations between grandiosity and depression (among other disorders) are broadly discussed in scientific literature but are not well known in popular culture.

The lack of public knowledge about the mental-health dangers of grandiosity is not surprising, considering that most of the people who pull the levers of pop-culture suffer from grandiosity themselves.
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OK, I'm not advocating that those metrics must be used, and must be collected in a certain way. What I am doing is being critical of rankings that aren't at least related in some way to the reasons most people seek higher education.

If anything, I am most critical of a single ranking that is supposed to tell me how good something is crafted from within the community that is being ranked.
You're putting words in OP's mouth he never said. He wrote these articles because he thought they'd be useful, submitted them to HN, and was happy to learn later that, even with zero upvotes, they'd been read by dozens of people.

He explains this in the second sentence (!) of the post: "I try to write some useful info like How to land an airplane if you are not a pilot or This is why you should never use Oracle DB those are not very interesting topics but, anyway, I always submit my post to Hacker News hoping at least 10 individuals would read it."

There's a world of difference between writing something to get attention versus writing something you truly believe and being heartened when it gets attention. He never suggests people should engage in the former, he just says to submit to HN when you do the latter.