skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're misinterpreting my comment.

The statement was that "We like the idea of letting everyone transact freely, but we are uncomfortable with the "winner take all" implication of that policy"

But this is not true. We are not uncomfortable with free transactions resulting in winning - we are uncomfortable with "free" being the state of the system whereby the winner is able to do so because there is no oversight over the WAY in which these winnings are achieved.

namely, that one side of the transaction is exploiting their position of data/information superiority for their benefit and as a result, those who are under the delusion that they have a chance of making out well in the transaction suffer the reality of being the victim of having less data/information/sophistication.

We all want "FREE" transactions - but we want them on a level playing field.

THe fact is that there is no level playing field when it comes to the pinnacle of the monetary system.

The system is DESIGNED to not be in anyone's favor but wall street.

Further, they have worked very very hard at tremendous expense to ensure that the regulatory system, bodies and laws are all skewed in their favor!

Ignorance has so badly corrupted the minds of the world that even the understanding of the term Free is lost on most.

There can be an hour long rant on how exactly unfree every one truly is due to debt-slavery.
This reminds me of a conversation I had about "Hunger Games". My friend mentioned how implausible it was that people in the future would want to watch people fight to the death for entertainment. To which I responded 'What do you think we are doing now? We are watching a movie about people fighting to the death for our entertainment.'
Edit: Holy shit, the exchange rate dropped to ~74 from, what, like 250 yesterday/day before?
It looks like pretty good progress! Are you going to be implementing the Quake Virtual Machine (QVM) architecture so that your engine can run the Quake 3 game and its mods?
But not GitHUB. The site itself is not on par with Google in terms of influence, and neither does it's services influence nearly all Internet users.
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So do you think you'll feel this way in a year? 2 years? 5 years?
IMO it's more like "negotiating with terrorists" than outright support (which is bad enough).

The psychology/poli-sci experts have agreed on "don't negotiate terrorists" for a reason, and I think that attitude applies perfectly in this patent troll situation.
This is very cool, but I wonder why people are already inventing different indentation styles for Rust already. Guys, we have the canonical way all Rust code should look from the Rust compiler itself. Let's not all start using disparate styles just because we can like C/C++.
As someone who is highly social and has two ASD sons, I just want to note that verbal communication (aka "language") takes two. It annoys the fool out of me when people fail to communicate with someone with some mild challenges and then just blame them for it. I always want to say "If you are so fucking socially adept, then surely you can bridge this small gap for the other person."

/rant
The problem with getting rid of patents also has a biological analogue, unfortunately. Particularly beyond a certain age/career rank, patents are used to "signal" one's merit as an engineer. Obviously it's a false signal from a technical perspective but the social aspect is ironclad. There is a pecking order among old-school engineers, and the first number they pull out in any discussion from a polite professional argument to a Usenet dick-waving contest is the number of patents they hold.

Put bluntly, a lot of old farts are going to have to retire and/or die before we come to our senses and stop granting monopolies on ideas.
It doesn't make sense to fold in the owner's time when the machine is printing on its own. The real cross over point is when it takes less time to find the part online (not trivial) and get the printer started than it does to drive to the store and find it (if it exists). Then, the cost of the owner's time cancels out.

If you live outside a major urban zone, this driving and finding time can be substantial.
Ah, okay. I thought you were implying there was a polynomial attack on ECSDA, SHA-256, or RIPE-MD.
Well, the phones and tablets get less underpowered and restrictive each day.

Current phones are way more powerfull than PCs were when Napster was launched. They could easily run something like it today. As they are also powerfull enough to decide what to do with meta tags (or the more modern semantic ones) and to keep several dictionaries of data in place. They just don't do that for marketing reasons.

I also think that things CAN change, but I doubt that change is that inevitable as you say.
Cloud storage for real stuff. Resupply for location-independent workers.
I just don't get it. Not that 3D printing is bad, just that these examples seem mostly silly for being billed as practical. Nearly every post about 3D printers reads like straight up satire.

I'm acquainted with two families that own machine shops, and my father was very into handyman-ism. Another friend's dad works at the dump (or affectionately, "dump mart").

If we wanted something like a bicycle accessory or camera mount we just made one. Out of wood and wire and paracord. We just hammered and sawed stuff together. Welders can't be that uncommon, and they're a few hundred bucks if you can't find a used one.

Fixing things with plastic? That's called a glue gun and they're ten dollars and existed since way back when Saturday Night Live was funny.

To be fair to the article though, we couldn't make our own LEGOs. We could make our own boats and swords and (hairspray-powered) cannons, but not LEGOs.

Is my experience growing up really that uncommon? Or is having a 3D printer just an expensive substitute for having friends that are in to making and fixing stuff?

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I don't mean to knock the technology itself. 3D printers are really cool, but I think titling an article "Ten Practical Things..." and coming up with the list they did just feels very shoehorned.
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AppGratis might indeed be shady, but I don't understand the strategy of banning this entire app category from the store.

It is, after all, how they obtained their new App Store (Chomp acquisition). Why not sit back and let people create better app stores, and when you see the next revolutionary one, acquire it?
Yes, it is also an indicator to me that if I am a RackSpace customer, and other issues come up (could be patents, could be government surveillance, or something else) that will affect me as a developer, Rackspace is more likely to be on my side than against me.

Obviously, I expect Rackspace to pursue its own business self-interest, but often there are multiple ways to do that, and not all of them are win-win for both the hosting company and for its customers.
Reddit, Something Awful and 4chan all have quite a bit of slivers of pure poetry within them. This forum was meant to be something different; and I think that's what pg is thinking about when he said that.

This site will still have plenty of good discussion, just like those places, but the amount of bad discussion/trolling/useless information will be increasing
This is more like a renderer for the BSP map format. Still awesome stuff though, interesting to see how it progresses
While cash securities markets (i.e. stocks and bonds) are not a zero sum game, derivatives markets (i.e. futures, options and all kinds of swaps) are zero or negative sum by definition. Also, derivatives markets are far larger in size [1]. There are always 2 parties to each transaction and one makes the money that the other one loses. The additional transaction fees that go to the banks and various other operations providers make it negative sum.

[1] http://www.isda.org/statistics/recent.html#2010mid

Also see:

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/03/worldwide-derivatives...
In the first corner: 12 million users who voluntarily installed an app and can voluntarily uninstall it at any time if they don't like it.

In the second corner: One blowhard with a blog.

It seems pretty obvious who has credibility in this fight.
The reaction to SOX by Wall Street was fairly mixed, some liked it because it meant the could put more trust in corporate financial statements. Some did not support the bill because of the usual straw man argument that 'regulation makes us less competitive'. Regardless, the passage of the bill does not say anything about the lobbying power of Wall Street, because WS was fairly mixed on it to begin with.

Regarding Dodd-Frank, many people, myself included, believe that that bill was watered down considerably, largely due to the pressure of Wall Street lobbyists. In fact, in the end, a number of Wall Street groups ended up supporting the legislation, largely because they were concerned that if Dodd-Frank didn't pass, then new, more strict regulations would be proposed in the future.

Wall Street contributes gobs of money to campaigns and has some of the most powerful lobbyists in Washington. Considering how unpopular they were in the recession fallout, the fact that the only major retribution was Dodd-Frank is a testament to how much influence the wield.
And the erosion of privacy protection in the name of "security" continues unabated.

The problem with CISPA is we don't need it. I'm not a libertarian (I want single payer universal health care, for example), but I am fully against the PATRIOT Act, FISA abuse and the numerous other things done in the name of security since 9/11.

The reason 9/11 happened was not a lack of security or intelligence; we had those. It was failure to act on the information we had.

We shouldn't be putting more power in the hands of intelligence agencies which have no public oversight. I understand the need for those agencies, but I think they should be as small as possible. Things like CISPA seem to be based on an opposite view; giving them as much power as possible.

EDIT:

Also the notion that you can learn everything you need to know about these bills by reading the bill itself is so myopic as to be comical.
It's vastly testable, there are thousands of different markets with different sets of regulations.

But your talking about two different issues, the liquidity issue mainly applies to exchange traded assets while more complex instruments tend to be OTC (i.e. custom agreements).

With liquidity you can be a sophisticated buyer and still be willing to pay for it. For example look at when MtGox was lagging by 600 seconds when bitcoin was in freefall, many buyers would happily have paid a hefty fee to be able to trade out of their position instantly without having to worry about what the price would be when the transaction was finally able to get through.
>Patent trolls then follow each filing with a settlement demand “at a price far lower than the cost to defend the litigation.” (Id. at 1326.) This allows trolls to use the high cost of litigation as a club against operating companies.

This smells like another ugly practice by "rightsholders". Namely, the RIAA/MPAA litigation against individuals.
Rumor has it that Butterfly has been sitting on their preorders and using it to build a massive ASIC fleet. Whether or not these are true, as you suggest, building a 51% fleet is not out of reason if you take the right path and keep your mouth shut. There has already been forks of the blockchain due to powerful miners.

http://mineforeman.com/2013/03/14/what-the-fork-was-that-a-f...
Right now social media is probably not generating real revenue for the vast majority of companies. But the decision makers in those companies are probably like me: in their 40s, distaste for social media even if they are generally tech savvy.

Let the current 20-somethings become decision makers and my kids become consumers and it'll be a whole different story. And I'll be cursing from my rocking chair in the retirement home, maybe I'll even be sending incendiary tweets at that point.
Well, yeah ... that's one of the reasons why there's so much attention to bitcoin lately - volatility is through the roof, and a 70% drop in a day is a big deal.
I use mutt's built-in IMAP, POP3 and SMTP. It works flawlessly for me (Mutt 1.5.21).
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I think a lot of people would agree with you on the developers with coding, but would argue that it's more of an issue of money versus art. "In the old days," they'd say, "artists earned basically nothing and did art because they cared about the art," or something like that. It's also a very Western phenomenon to make art closed-code. We think of "canon" StarWars or "canon" literature, but in Japanese literature, it was actually common practice for writers to "add on" to the works they liked the best. That work then became passed on to the next generation. There wasn't this idea of "canonicity."

In the same way, some game developers are moving away from the idea of closed-code gaming--but we're talking indie games here. Minecraft is the best example ever. The download software actually includes folders for you to put in all your mods. And, in the end, that formula makes money. People like being able to add their creativity to your product, so why not let them?

So fear not, my friend, not all developers are as tightfisted as those COD folks. And, even when they do, for the technologically savvy, where there's a will, there's always a way. = )
There's small problem on how browsers respond, when we change the hash#parameter in the URL and hit ENTER in the sites where DOM is manipulated using AJAX depending on hash-value, like in this site. It doesn't get updated until we hit ENTER for second time in Chrome, reload in Firefox.

I also have a similar site that manipulates DOM depending on hash value. If you are on instamovi.com/#bourne with bourne movies listed...and you change it to instamovi.com/#bond and hit ENTER, there's no change in the DOM. You have to hit ENTER again, then the movie listing changes to Bond movies.

Similar thing happens here on starlogs.net/#repo1 to starlogs.net/#repo2

Any idea how to fix this?
When do we blame the pension fund managers for taking on risks they don't understand?
Couldn't have said it better! ^_^
Wow, that's quite a fortune they'd be raking in if people are actually paying $100,000 per day for promotion.

I agree with most people that paid app promotions are almost universally bad, but the selective enforcement of trivial guidelines by Apple is still disturbing.

There's no better way to enact complete control over a population than to make sure they're all in violation of at least one of your obscure rules at any given time. Then you can ruin any of them just for looking at you funny, all while hiding behind the guise of "regulations".
The 20% discount was just discontinued for new users. Accounts that previously received the discount will continue to do so, including OP as long as the original account is used.
That's a reasonable point. Obviously it's hard to talk about a term as broad as "investment" without running into exceptions.
Here are the slides from a talk that Dan Kaminsky gave about Bitcoin at Toorcon Seattle a couple years ago: http://www.slideshare.net/dakami/bitcoin-8776098

I like his "Security Inversion" slide:

> Normal Code:

> * Looks like it might be OK up front

> * Scratch the surface, it's actually really bad

> Bitcoin:

> * Looks really bad up front

> * Scratch the surface, it's actually surprisingly good

> * We aren't used to systems with these characteristics

> * This code has the mark of having been audited by People Like Us
Use Pandoc! It takes normal Markdown and can create a beamer or fancy HTML presentation from it automatically. Or, if the HTML presentation frameworks it supports aren't to your liking, just create a quick template that spits out something compatible with your favorite framework.
I'm just shocked, shocked! that you would insult our centennial user base by suggesting they're lying about their age!
The important ingredients, so often overlooked, include mixed-use zoning and public spaces. If all you have are a bunch of condo towers abutting each other, you're almost guaranteed a dead high-density area.

Once you start mixing things up, though, it gets much better. Add some restaurants and shops and other businesses on the ground floors of the condo towers (even better, mix in a few two-to-three-story retail centers), and some small parks, squares, and other public areas, and the density can be leveraged to create a thriving street-level area.
Good point. Need a rustfmt like gofmt in go.
a congestion charge would lower density. People wouldnt cram in, most would just leave. Obviously we have different goals in mind for the city.
If your pension fund doesn't day-trade, you never pay those fees for liquidity.

Liquidity isn't free, and no one is forced to buy liquidity (unless your money is managed by an incompetent/corrupt manager due layers and layers of your employer-sponsored pension contracted to a bank....)
His point on trace-ability is true, and one that lots of Bitcoin supporters don't fully appreciate. The system is not anonymous. It is pseudonymous, which is not nearly the same thing.

Here's some interesting work on getting to real anonymity:

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/04/zerocoin-mak...
On one hand urban planners tells us density is the future and inevitable for American cities to not fall behind and .

On the other hand the fastest growing cities in the US are the low density type: Houston, Raleigh, Phoenix, etc. Cheap housing and easy growth, and new vehicle technologies (hybrid, electric) are challenging the transit energy advantage. Most cities have a hard time building new housing and becoming more dense after a certain stage (SF) and a large proportion of the lower-class workers starts to commute as they are priced out of their workplace.

http://www.newgeography.com/content/003629-houston-rising-wh...

The author has his biases, but offers a different perspective from the mainstream.
I completely agree with what your saying. Unfortunately, I don't think there is a reasonable way to pre-screen dog owners as plenty of people in "high risk" groups are great pet owners and owning a dog can often have rather positive results. At the same time there are some truly horrible people out there.

PS: I never really know what else to call pit bull it's not really a "group" and the definition is rather vague, but repeating pit bull all the time is rather repetitive. Any suggestions?
The answer is actually pretty simple: Pepsi failed at social because Pepsi didn't think socially. It was trying to create new, artificial human behavioral patterns instead of tapping into natural, existing human behavior.

Big companies and brands often lose sight of what social media is really about: namely, sharing things with friends. Grouping with people based on shared affinity for certain topics, things, events, etc. People are there for the friends first; all other considerations -- including content consumption -- are secondary.

It's incredibly hard to convince people to hang out on a soft drink's social page. What's the benefit? Where is the natural, social use case? If I want a Pepsi, I'll go buy one. When I don't, why the heck would I spend time reading about Pepsi, or talking with friends about Pepsi? Who actually does that? I submit that anyone who does is highly abnormal. Maybe even crazy. Regardless, they're the kind of person whose social feed I'll ignore.

As for the Pepsi Refresh campaign, they put the cart before the horse. People care about the cause first and the money second. If I want to raise money to fight breast cancer, for instance, I'll start with the people who care about breast cancer, building out from that passionate early adopter base. I don't just wave a giant paycheck around in front of a highly heterogeneous set of people, asking them to tell me where to spend it. It's a statistically irrational approach to marketing. But more important, there's no heart or soul in that. There's no grassroots need inherent to that. People don't want to vote on a cause. People have causes. Pepsi should have started with a specific cause, and then made waves by offering to match (or even triple) a crowdsourced fundraising campaign.

An example: for all its flaws, that infamous "Kony 2012" video went uberviral. The video didn't start by asking the question, "Hey, who's the most despicable African warlord we should try to depose? Vote here!" It started by informing people about a specific evildoer, educating them about him, and then asking them to do something about it.

Pepsi could have generated a lot more authentic goodwill by offering to match or exceed an existing campaign, hashtagging into it. They could have spared themselves the millions of dollars creating a page for their campaign, branding it, and acquiring fans for it.
It's not about the lawsuits, but it is very much about risk reduction. This applies to all consultancies, not just Oracle.

If you hand-roll your own solution for (almost) free using open source components, you're the one who gets fired when it goes down.

If you buy an enterprise-level solution from Vendor XYZ, with a requisite expensive support contract, they fucked up when it goes down, and you are safe because goodness, who'd have thought an internationally renowned firm like Vendor XYZ would ever break? Besides, thanks to our expensive support contract, they're on top of it.

Microsoft, Oracle, Accenture, they all share one thing in common: their product more CYA for middle managers than anything else.

I have similar thoughts about management consulting - it's CYA for high-level execs. You rubber-stamp a risky move with a respected firm so that if the shit hits the fan the firm (and yourself) are insulated from the backlash.
Hooray, another Bitcoin related story!
Please post more, maybe one more will convince more marks to join this doomed financial farce.
This is inevitable with any language that looks like C. As there are already numerous styles for C/C++/Java that people have strong feelings for and they'll just carry them over to Rust.

My C++ style is identical to the first Draft ANSI C++ book I read. I've carried that style to Java and even to C (I hated pre-ISO K&R though mine looks now nearly identical to 1TBS). Heck, even when playing with Go, I used that style (gofmt be damned).

Now if Rust looked more like Python...
People compare the densities of SF and Manhattan because SF is the 2nd densest city outside of New York.
Dang, just got distracted from my work by looking at this website!
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Same here, but, if you use it with Gmail, let me recommend Abdó Roig-Maranges' fork of offlineimap, which implements labels[1][2]! That way you can sync only [Gmail].All Mail and all the other info (such as /Inbox, /Sent and any other custom labels) come as X-Keywords in the header (no duplicates, and no lost metadata)[3]. And mu4e supports all this[4]!

[1] https://github.com/aroig/offlineimap

[2] The homebrew tap, if that's your thing: https://github.com/jeastman/homebrew-offlineimapwithlabels

[3] [Gmail].Trash and [Gmail].Drafts are also real folders, not just labels. You should sync them too. [Gmail].Sent Mail is just a saved search for /Sent labels. mu4e asks for a "sent" folder but, since you should (setq mu4e-sent-messages-behavior 'delete) anyway with Gmail, it becomes a dummy folder locally, and all is well.

[4] A good config example: https://github.com/pygatea/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs.d/conf...
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