skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the problem is that you did not base any of your arguments on actual facts. you just said "if you would have invested 5 months ago, your investment would have grown by a factor of 10." when that is the logic presented, the analogy holds. if you were to give specific reasons why you believe bitcoins grew at that rate AND why the will continue to grow, then it would be a different argument [not that it would necessarily be correct]. however, my point is that when you do not have any sound logic underlying your "investment" it is truly the same as gambling.
I would also download a car, especially if I had a printer big enough to make use of it.
I left a major software company to join 9slides - it's the totally awesome place!
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Might has always made right, always. From the American Revolutionary War to the Arab Spring.

In modern society, the laws of the land are enforced under physical duress by the police (and sometimes military). If you break a law, the might of the nation will physically detain you and lock you in a room for years, or even kill you outright, depending on the conditions of the violation.

The question is, who's might makes right - does 'society', in control of the police and the 'might' side with 'culture' or 'business' in these cases?
That's really helpful actually. Sounds like fun too, I have a few ideas already. Thanks!
The MVP is not always right
Generally governments are more apt to seek and promote innovation within the law. There is, in fact, more to innovation than violating municipal etc. codes.
Such people, if they exist, are heretics and kulaks, enemies of responsible software development, and should be liquidated as a class.
I did some experimenting with this.

According to the UK's NHS website, adults need 7-9 hours a day, and it depends on the individual.

I started with 9 hours, every single night, going to bed and getting up at the same time. After less than a week, I started waking up 30-60 mins before my alarm. So I cut it to 8.5 hours, and then 8 hours etc.

With some refinement, I found somewhere just over 8 works. I really don't think it's any more complicated than that for most people.

The big problem is sleeping well and socialising a lot. The best approach I've found to that is to bank an extra bit of sleep when you can, although this is controversial.

My Dad always reminds me when I'm working hard: "the secret to stamina is sleep." It's a pain, but it's essential if you want to do good work and stay focused.
You're saying that because most people make more money later in their career that the US doesn't have an issue with upward social mobility.

No, that's not what I'm saying at all. But you seem determined to intentionally misinterpret what I'm saying, and this conversation isn't doing anything to benefit me, so I'm bowing out.
Googling for the term "hyperfocus" confirms your description. Thanks, I learned something!
OP Here: I am not much of a designer, so forgive the un-polished UI.

Any, and all feedback, is welcome :)
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Cool, thanks. I guess I tried to use shift. Might also be nice to let me drag an album name and include all the songs if I do so.
> Because if we're going to pick off every phone manufacturer for every misdeed they've done, there won't be any left to actually buy a phone from

Which illustrates why it's typically not practical to live your life like Stallman does.
Not buying a phone at all would be the RMS-compliant option.

"I refuse to have a cell phone because they are tracking and surveillance devices." -- http://stallman.org/rms-lifestyle.html
I was absolutely with you until

but it is a hirers' market

which, even if it is (and that's debatable), is not the correct reason for anyone to behave differently. In this case, applicants should not be reading the actual postings because it's a hirers' market and hirers are now somehow considered royalty. Instead, applicants should be reading them because it's basic curtesy and not doing it ends up wasting everybody's time. If it became an employees' market over night that rule would still apply.

Having the upper hand (imaginary or real) should not play a role here. This is a bad place for expectations of entitlement.
I was vaguely aware of some of this but had no idea of the extent of it and which products are affected. A bit of searching turns up the Agricultural Marketing Service website [1] and some of the markets affected:

Fruit and Vegetables

Almonds
Apricots
Avocados
Cherries [Sweet] [Tart]
Citrus [Florida] [Texas]
Cranberries
Dates
Grapes
Hazelnuts
Kiwifruit
Nectarines
Olives
Onions [Idaho-E. Oregon] [S. Texas] [Vidalia] [Walla Walla]
Peaches
Pears [Oregon-Washington]
Pistachios
Plums/Prunes [California] [Washington]
Potatoes [Idaho-E. Oregon] [Washington] [Oregon-California] [Colorado] [Virginia-North Carolina]
Raisins
Spearmint Oil
Tomatoes
Walnuts

Dairy - a cursory search didn't turn up a comprehensive list but market reports include milk, butter and cheese.

Livestock Poultry and Seed Program Rulemaking includes the following:

Beef
Lamb
Pork
Poultry and Eggs
Sorghum
Soybean

Other sections include tobacco, cotton, and even organic products.

Note that at least some of these programs are involved in grading food products, standardizing marketing claims, and food safety instead of purely market stabilization.

One article [2] paints a fairly positive view of these practices and points out how cherry growers decided to go without the regulation and reserve provided and within 10 years prices had plummeted to the point where they decided to reinstate the Cherry Industry Administrative Board.

The National Agricultural Law Center has quite a bit more if you're interested in case law, Congressional research, and a number of other resources.

[1] http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/
[2] http://fruitgrowersnews.com/index.php/50th-anniversary/entry...
[3] http://nationalaglawcenter.org/readingrooms/marketing/
Because X might do something bad, it doesn't matter if Y actually does something bad.

Do you apply this logic to all aspects of your life, or just Apple?
I feel like, with a few word replacements, this post and all the replies could come from /r/OkCupid.
I think that Stallman is always interesting to listen to. So is ESR.

But he says: "Apple left a security hole in iTunes unfixed for 3 years after being informed about the problem. During that time, governments used that security hole to invade people's computers."

This is really take out of context rather than concrete proof. The original article is pretty vague even.
Got a couple emails asking me questions, this is the company I always used in the US for prototyping. They are a little expensive but fast. They also have great resources that will answer all your questions:

http://www.protomold.com/Resources.aspx
Yeah, it's pretty much the best possible demo of the Rift's abilities. The Tuscany demo in the SDK is IMO not great for showing the full promise of the technology - everything is static and the level geometry means you never really get close to anything for the depth perception to punch you in the face.

TF2 has all of that and more. My score has taken a punishment, but it's just so damn enjoyable.

I'm also that ass on your team that's walking around looking at stuff in amazement instead of shooting the enemy...
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Today marks the launch of Google Treasure Maps...
New York, NY -- IT consultant for managed services provider

We're a fast-growing company providing IT consulting and helpdesk services for small businesses in the NYC and north NJ area. It's a "level 3" engineer job- you'd be taking escalations from the 1st and 2nd tier techs when they weren't able to solve problems themselves; mentoring them on skills they should know; advising clients on the best ways to improve their infrastructure, and implementing solutions to some fun projects (getting those 8 dusty old DL 320's out of someone's rack and onto their very first VMware deployment!)

The right candidate will need 3+ years of experience in a helpdesk or service delivery environment; proven skills with Windows servers from 03-08, including Active Directory, Exchange, DNS, DFS, WDS would be cool.. and experience with multiple server environments. Know what a firewall is too- Sonicwall experience would be great!

Be a good communicator, superior troubleshooter, able to work under pressure, and really want to be part of a team.
I'd love to talk to you more about it if you're interested! Send your resume to ndespres@cmitsolutions.com and let's chat.

www.cmitsolutions.com/grandcentral
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Looks alright, a bit off putting the picture of Bonno at the start, but heh ho.
they do a great job at explaining injection molding:

http://www.protomold.com/Resources.aspx
As a non-lawyer the whole affair just makes me completely lose respect for the law and want to fire up bittorrent.

If you will: "No offence guys, go right ahead and argue about how many angels can dance on that particular pin-head, I'll be over here watching Game of Thrones on "AllMyVideos.net".

It feels like they're making game out of it instead of rationally addressing the issue.
I constantly hear people complain about how few applications they get a response on. Yet, I've always had a pretty great response rate when I start applying.

This advice/note/rant just clarified a potential reason for the differential.
I don't think it's even meaningful enough to be false. Buyer's Market/Seller's Market is a phenomenon of markets with easy substitution and very sticky prices, like houses or street vendor hotdogs.

Both the jobs on offer and the people applying are quite specialized and mostly just looking for a very good match given the massive up-front costs of hiring or taking a new job.
The law, almost by definition, cannot be written to foresee all innovation. So it is a given that by definition many, if not most, innovations will fall outside laws. This is why laws have to be rewritten.

Historically, the process has often worked like this:

- Innovation violates existing law because the law couldn't foresee it.
- Authorities send cease and desist notice to innovators
- Negotiations, public outcry etc result in compromise

If the final goal is compromise, why not start with a positive outlook?

By the way this applies to startups as much as regulators. A lot of startups take the attitude that regulators are evil, corrupt and should be completely ignored. At least one startup in our industry currently comes to mind.

I (and we at InstantCab) disagree with this outlook. Obviously regulators have a job to do, and generally it is for good reason. Disagreements are bound to happen, but discussion should happen in an agreeable fashion.
Apple.

At least they are in it for the money (and some proud in their products), not some ideology.
That is certainly the default position.

I use an iPhone as well, because I like it, and I could make that same statement, but it would be with significant self-deprecation, and the "currently" would be loaded with subtext.

I'm curious about what you think Stallman's purpose is here? Assuming you're as unapologetic as taking your statement at face value would imply.
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"Apple lures people into the business of developing apps with visions of the great wealth that a few of them get"

I wonder if developing FOSS software is proven best in this area... (for individuals, not just companies)
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There is no "actually-open" OS that runs on handsets. The military use is obvious.
It's not entirely spin. The free software movement was largely a reactionary movement to various attempts of that era to take the "academic sharing of ideas" back in to the proprietary fold. It (and the later open source movement) was very much trying to defend/establish/whatever the environment under which Unix evolved.

So it is not so much retroactively claiming it as open source as it is acknowledge open source's heritage.
how to get more subscribers: don't let people watch your videos. #GENIOUS
Not all is fault of the Great Depression legislation, take for example one that came to the forefront during the "Fiscal Cliff" negotiations. Read about the 1949 Agricultural Act on Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Act_of_1949

Remember that seven or eight dollar a gallon milk scare? That is the source of that mess. Follow the links at the bottom of the article for all sorts of farm bills.

Its pretty damn scary how much the government meddles in the industry because we have 400 plus experts.
It's hard to gesticulate wildly and throw digital instructions at your opponent while disagreeing on the rules.
I've talked to some people who have tried, and the ultimate conclusion was that adverse selection works against you: the people you think are really bright on HN don't end up applying, and the people who reply usually have some problem that makes them unappealing. This is true of all places you could look to hire people, though, so you shouldn't have any higher expectations.
I hope this post hits the front page. It will give GitHub a chance to publicly correct the oversight and do the right thing.
I don't think it is true. Sure there are more people than jobs all together but not when you're talking about those over a certian standard in a specific area applying for a specific role, otherwise those employers probably wouldn't be searching via anything but normal channels.

Personally I think it's mostly silly too. If we cut the BS we're talking about a trade of money for skills. If the linkedin has relevant information which you can see, I think it does the job. If it doesn't, then that's a good reason you can probably skip that candidate.

Also I'm sure I won't get any fans here for saying it but I rarely apply for jobs that don't talk remuneration in the ad. Sure I want an employer that fits and I'd rather be working on something I find interesting but ultimately if I wasn't after making money, I wouldn't be working for other people.
> I don't want to work with any company that will, at the least, exchange a couple of emails with me.

You like it when they play hard to get, eh?
They are about to push an update that lets you run larger dynos, which reduces the risk of having all the requests to a dyno stuck doing something long-lived.
It sounds like you need to travel more... :)
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It is absolutely a hirers' market if the market is for a low-level coder. Many people, especially coming from an engineering background, have the requisite programming and computer science experience to do what you need.

It's a hirees' market at the rockstar level, as always.
Software has a habit of becoming exponentially complex as the featureset increases, so I am not that impressed by small code if you cut features aggressively.

To prove a point, I wrote a minecraft clone in about 60 lines of code (10x less than the Python version). It cuts a few more corners (no textures, no gravity), but has the basics of world generation, rendering, and most importantly, adding and removing blocks in front of the crosshairs to build (see the little arch I made in the middle):

http://i.imgur.com/ZZWFkXn.jpg

It's written in Lobster in about 1.5hrs, which is quite similar in features to Python + pyglet. Yes it uses a few high level calls like simplex() and camera_FPS_view(), but these have been part of the Lobster standard library for a while, so I believe that's fair. All code I created for this demo are in that screenshot.
And while you (the hirers) are at it you might as well put in your listing if J-1 interns are welcome ;)

I lost a couple of hours (yes, I bother to write an proper answer) writing mails only to find out that interns from overseas are not welcome.
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Stone, chisels, maybe horsehair brushes.
This isn't something you should do for every video. That would definitely stunt your growth.

Boost is something you should use once and a while with the specific purpose of converting your existing fans on other social networks to subscribers on YouTube.
RMS is a smart man, but I can never seem to take him seriously. He has the tact of a sixteen year old who's looking to start a flame war. Between his iThings, his Micro$ofts, iBads, and "quotes" all over, I half expect him to end his statements in lol. The cause that he's fighting for is good, but the way he fights just doesn't attract anyone to his side.
So Keynesian economics forces everyone to invest in order to avoid the inflation tax while Austrian economics encourages saving allowing savers to reap the benefits of deflation. Both serve as proxies for the economy, so tell me again the downside of saving and prices going down over time?
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I emailed (info@graphicproducts.com) about 2 weeks ago regarding the possibility of an internship and never received a response. Is there a better company email address to write to?
In case people haven't noticed - from the footer: "Copyright (c) 2012 Richard Stallman"

This isn't new writing, and the title should really have "(2012)" in it.
I'm sorry to be the one to pull on the yarn and unravel your sweater, but the belief that the pursuit of wealth is in some way meritorious or beneficial is in itself an ideology.

So either you mean that you like your ideology of "the invisible hand" more than Stallman's ideology of "freedom," or you have fallen into the trap of thinking that "ideology" is a word that only applies to the other guy's beliefs.
I'd say that that utility is sufficiently valuable enough to allow BitCoin to survive. Just look at the precursors, like Hawala, and the more modern stuff like Western Union. If nothing else, BitCoin will find a niche like them (and possibly replace them).
So much amazing innovation is driven from the valley but in this case it's Kenya showing us the way. Why is that? Worth thinking about.
TL;DR's should go at the top of the text, not the bottom.
There isn't one (yet), but submit an issue request or patch, its definitely a very valid use case.

Thanks!
Are you saying that over-the-air broadcasts were not initially covered by copyright?
Re: 3. The deflationary spiral doesn't end in a whole bunch of people dying of hunger, exactly, it ends with them all starting their own subsistence farms rather than spending on food, and making their own clothing rather than buying pre-made. Basically it retards progress, sends people back into the dark ages where they have to fend for themselves. I can't imagine a country ever allowing that to happen, so you had better believe that they wouldn't allow something as deflationary as bitcoin to become the de-facto currency. When you need a loan, the banks will be giving you something other than bitcoins. So I don't worry too much about this particular dystopia, it will never come about.
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Good argument. Fails in reality.

Derivatives began as insurance contracts that worked fairly well between interested parties that actually wanted to move physical product and reduce risk (say farmers and supermarkets).

However, most of these markets have mutated and are mostly used for speculation by agents who have little to no interest in the actual delivery of said commodities (Glencore) - and are in fact more interested in pricing manipulation and monopolistic/oligopolistic market control than acting as a volatility store. Derivatives work well when the agents in the contract actually care about locking in the price of the commodity (say oil miners and airlines) - but when the people on either side don't care about reducing risk (say speculators and speculators) - things fall apart.

In turn, pricing volatility and rents accrued to speculating market participants increase, harming both supply/demand parts of the physical commodity curve, and doing the exact opposite of what was intended.

A more humorous take on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q...
April fool's joke?
Rockstars are a myth. So are low-level engineers who "know what they're doing." Hire smart people who can learn new things instead of resume bullet points and/or mythological creatures.
Source for your claim about third wave feminists? Considering that you're talking about a massive number of people when you say that, you're probably wrong. The third wave was more just a shift towards a more general awareness of the issues that women face, and the fact that things such as gender are not as binary as the second wave may have presumed.

It's also odd that you think the third wave promotes a well-defined hierarchy of sexes and races when a lot of what it is about is recognising that many people fall outside of society's definitions of gender and sexual identity. But as ever, I imagine much of this is just a semantic argument wrt your definition of third wave postmodern feminists.

As for the Django leadership's definition of sexism and racism? Something tells me they don't have a crazy proportion of people with the beliefs you described, so they'll probably stick with the standard "discrimination/prejudice against a gender/race/ethnicity/group/etc"
This is a great idea. I've actually wanted to do this before. Browser plugins are one fundamental tool in the war against web tyranny. For instance, crawling Craigslist could be accomplished this way in a way that was unblockable.

This needs to exist.
You are not entitled to information just because you think you are, or because they have a tradition of publicizing information.

Lose the sense of entitlement.
To be fair, these are Depression-era programmes which predate modern economics. We did not know, in 1937, why a government-backed authority who guaranteed to buy the overproduction of a discretionary consumer item is a market-distorting waste of resources.
I actually asked him why he uses those terms. He says it's because he refuses to use their marketing terms and he gets to poke fun at the companies as well.
That's fascinating. Congratulations to Tyler for not only sharing this story but also sharing this as a project on GitHub. It's quite a bit of code and a nice peek into the world of Lua game programming for me, since I've had very little contact with this language.
People under feudalism had a choice until they didn't.
I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out this article is the result of repeated iterations of a prose generator.
Im about the same experience/compensation in SF, feel like I'm on the lower end as well. Thankfully I love my job so not looking to jump ship anytime soon :)
I figured I would get this response. I am using the term "underpaid" as a relative figure compared to my peers in the same field and location. I am well aware that I am not "underpaid" in general.
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> I half expect him to end his statements in lol.

There have been a lot of changes to language on the Internet in Stallman's time. Stuff that was cool just a year ago marks you as an undesirable now. "Micro$oft" used to be perfectly socially acceptable on USENET. I wonder who they paid to get that changed?
This show us we still have a long way to go.
The FSF obviously suggest to use Replicant (http://replicant.us/).

Otherwise, Cyanogenmod without the proprietary Google Apps is a less bad alternative (http://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/liberate.en.html)
Government collusion is really immaterial to this just being bad.
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