skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dad keeps saying things like "there's nothing better than being employed" when I hint about my plans. I think his reaction would be very negative if I took the leap.

I once had a fairly successful side-project and when I showed him our first big customer invoice (~$20,000) he got terrified and thought it was something I had to pay. When I told him it was actually money people had to pay us he still didn't get it. It was like he refused to accept the fact that you could make money without having a "real" job.
I actually don't think so. I believe the wide spread belief about us Germans being so efficient came about only after the second world war and was later retrospectively added to Prussia and the Third-Reich. Considering that, Germany did have an obsession about rules and "officialdom" for lack of a better word, which was beneficial over all that time.
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Reminds me of an old joke:

You know the easiest way to make a small fortune doing a startup?

Start with a large fortune, then create a startup.
The biggest change I think could be made would be to lock the display order of comments based on submission time alone.

Hacker News never really has so many comments that you can't read through them all in a minute, and if a discussion would grow too large, because it's a threaded discussion system, you might as well give up discussing the story anyway. Just look at "scandal stories" like those related to Heroku and such.

Because Hacker News is karma-based as any other comment CMS, I would be more inclined to write my comment as a reply to the top-ranking comment instead of posting a top-level comment myself, since I'm likely to gain more karma from this. This completely destroys the flow of discussion.

Comment CMSes will always be gamed by people, but this would probably be the most significant improvement to the quality and linearity of discussions.

Options for viewing a discussion differently don't work very well, because then people start discussing in wildly different ways, which makes for a huge mess. That's why, again, a linear/forum CMSes are superior when it comes to discussions, although they don't lend themselves perfectly to a link/self-oriented submission system.
Gründlichkeit can lead to efficiency, but it is not efficiency; it is being thorough. That led them to spend ages to design and build their tanks in zillions of variants, while the Russians sent ten times as many to the front without a paint job.

Similarly, I guess it would have been more efficient for them to keep building V1's instead of spending time to build V2's.
"I'm much more interested in how this does or doesn't reflect the reality of VCs."

There is a good documentary film called "Tales of the Script" (relates to a similar things in Hollywood)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1045642/

...that deals with the issue of screen writers vs. who they are trying to get to accept their ideas. Forgetting that this is a cartoon and that is an actual documentary (with quotes from screen writers) the common theme (it's a really good watch btw) is that those in charge simply "don't get it" and are somehow oppressive and total dicks to the screenwriters and have martini lunches everyday.

As if the people in charge, "Hollywood", don't have their ass on the line and were somehow chosen by lottery to decide who succeeds and who fails. And that they have absolutely no clue at all about what they are doing in their jobs.

Yet, people have managed to get beyond that in Hollywood and succeed in that business. Why is that? Perhaps because they are able to work harder and work within the system (no matter how they personally feel about it) or perhaps because their ideas really are better. (Or maybe they slept with the right person?) Who cares? That's the way the world works. You only need one VC (or angel) to get you funded (if that is what you want that is). Very simple system out there which is the golden rule. "he who has the gold rules". Stop complaining (not saying you) about VC's. That's the system and they have the power if what you want is what they have.
Kudos to this very, very good article. Let me add a couple of facets.

- Walter Euckens 'ordoliberalism' which laid the foundation for the postwar German 'economic miracle' was a direct response to the chaos and
ineptitude of Hitler's bureaucracy. I believe Eucken worked within Hitlers economic planning bureaucracy.

- Albert Speer, Hitler's 'Minister of Armaments', removed the tangle of agencies and ministries by centralizing power over economic planning and by
giving factories 'self responsiblity' allowing the german war economy to reach peak output in 1944. (see wikipedia)

- The production of the V2 'wunderwaffe' actually cost more lives of forced labor (see Speer) than its deployment.

- After the end of the war, german productivity leapfroged with the introduction of american machinery, like producing a Beatle car got faster by the order of ten times (I believe, if readers have precises figures, please share them).

What is the moral of all this? Ethics and hard-nosed productivity are really not separate at all.
I had a good laugh over the terrible design that Designer News has. It helps to reinforce the appearance that many who call themselves designers have no idea what they're doing.

Reasons: the light gray on white info font is impossible to read on some screens. The dark blue on blue top bar is one of the worst I've seen for legibility. The icon for 'login' is a smiley face. The random circle icons to the left of some posts are entirely meaningless for casual observation.
The Soviet Union was never very industrial about the whole thing. They had camps and all but you can hardly compare a Gulag and a Nazi extermination camp. Gulags were prisons, basically. Extermination camps were... well, extermination camps.
China and the DPRK are, to my knowledge, more akin to the Soviet model. People were (and are, in the case of China and the DPRK) dying but it's hardly the arrival-stripping-death sequence of a Nazi camp. In some camps you'd be dead within an hour of arrival. That's crazy efficient and isn't a characteristic of the Soviet, Chinese or Korean camps (to the best of my knowledge)
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You're off by one decimal place.
Also, I do use adap.tv for the video ads and companion ads.
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The moral of this story is "Do not try to be like Nikola Tesla, because it will not help you in any way."
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Please re-examine your close-mindedness; Drupal has an amazing community when it comes to welcoming new contributors.
Anyone remember http://www.halfbakery.com? I guess it's still going.
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Eh. You are the one missing the point.

“That Holocaust’s real awful, but the Nazi economic policies kicked ass!” is a common refrain you can hear from many, many people. Those people are not talking about the Holocaust, they are talking about the economy and jobs. It’s an argument that, I would argue, even made it into the mainstream. You won’t just hear Nazis regurgitating it. I would even argue that this, more than any other thing they could say, is the number one argument Nazis use to reel people in.

It isn’t true, of course. The linked article retells some fairly standard stuff which everyone who visited a (a bit more in-depth) class or seminar about German history during the Third Reich will know. Of course, only very few people visit those classes. (I know all this because during my last two years of school I was in a advanced history class in Germany – five hours a week – but even in Germany very few people will go that much into depth and considering how little I learned about, say, US history in school, the rest of the world has probably even less hope of ever learning this.)
I think you're aiming at a rather crowded market.

I think the reverse startup would sell much better. Instead of advertising to the public, act as a spamfilter for the public. Its about the same tech, but a different customer base.

I think $10 week might be pushing it, but I'd spend $10 a month for a social media spamfilter that just passes important stuff on to me. May as well aggregate twitter and FB and G+ and all that into one "relevant" feed for me.

For example I want to know if someone important to me dies, gets married, publishes a new book, major life change or illness, that's pretty much it. I don't want to hear about idiotic memes, cat pix, bible verses, political spam, sports, bragging about vacations, pop culture (perhaps with certain exceptions).

For about six months I tried to track/log what I got out of facebook vs what it cost. Its fairly expensive, roughly between a prime time TV show addiction and a daily soap opera addiction. I didn't get very much out of it, and nothing that improved my life long term, but it was extremely expensive, like 20-30 hours invested per "important" thing. I'd pay for a decent filter. G+ had a better rate of return and higher actual information flow rate, although it depends what you're looking for...

I think you could automate this pretty well. How hard is it to rub posts up against every version of the bible and tag anything that matches 95+ %? How hard is it to rub all the picture up against some stock cat photos and tag 95%+ match as "cat photo". Ditto some other pointless stuff, like any post with sports teams, players, and some random digits is spam. Anything that looks/smells like a news story from any source on news.google.com, tag it I already read it. Here's a OPML of all the RSS feeds I read, you can assume I read everything in that feed, anyone reposting the news I already heard about, just squelch it so I don't have to see the same thing 10 times. Filter all that garbage. On the other hand "I'm getting married next March" well OK pass that one along to me, its probably actually important.

I lived a long time without social media, and "missed posts" already have elaborate social procedures around them, so false positive filtering is probably a (edited: smaller) problem than false negative filtering of spam.

If no one has started selling this as a product, I'm not sure why (maybe the platforms would be furious at the advertising blocking nature of it?).

What happens when two people on social media collide who both use an "agent" or "assistant" service like this is probably a big problem. Two "imposters" trying to carry on like they're both the real deal.
Don't worry. My comment got more upvotes than it deserves.

First point, HN is not academia, it's (mostly) intelligent people discussing interesting subjects. In such discussions, it's perfectly fine to make contributions that you can't immediately source. It's, of course, also fine to contest those, and if someone says you're wrong, and has sources, well, you should be prepared to concede the point. But even in academia, I strongly doubt that you've ever received a request for sources from a perfect stranger that didn't explain exactly which point they were interested in.

Second point, form and style is important. Politeness is important. They are cornerstones of civil discourse. If we don't maintain a civil environment, intelligent people leave, and HN turns into the regular echo chamber that are par for the course on the Internet. Intelligent people interested in real discourse can and should explain their request when asking someone else to elaborate.

Third point - yes, I could guess at a range of possible motivations, but I don't actually know which one it is. The range goes from "I think you're wrong and probably an idiot, but I'm not going to bother explaining why" to "wow, that's a fascinating thought, where I can learn more". Those are vastly different responses - one obviously has no place in civil discourse. My gut feeling is that one word requests for sources are more often towards the former than the latter, but obviously I can't know. Even if my gut feeling is wrong, it still creates grating uncertainly: Is this person a troll who's out to undermine my credibility on the cheap, or is it a genuinely interested person who just want to learn more.
What you fail to see though is that the Holocaust in itself is part of a development process. It started with the Polizei-Bataillone and SD-units behind army lines, moved to widespread incarceration and ultimately to the erection of the first dedicated death camps in 1942 (Bełżec, Sobibor, Treblinka).

This hints at the fact that the Holocaust was far from "efficiently" organised and, to a degree, not pre-planned in its final form with the invasion of Poland in 1939. Instead, changing circumstances lead to a change in organisation and thus ultimately to the Wannsee conference and the final stage of the Holocaust.
It might still be worthwhile starting the venture, just to see where demand lies. I bet you'll stumble upon a successful formula that way.
Which is why you haven't seen a successful idea website. It's not a simple problem to solve. But I don't for one second believe it's not possible. My point, however, was to explain why merely posting "ideas" isn't a solution. It just happens to be the easiest to implement.
Probably some debugging feature someone forgot to turn off.
As the actual article points out, the idea of the Star Trek episode was to have the efficient economy minus the genocide, which I think points out that to at least some people the ideas are not inextricably linked. I don't think most people who say that they had a good economy are consciously also thinking "because they were so good at murder".
I like this dad.

I think the OP is right. His dad was a surrogate for his own fears. It's easy to put parents up on a pedestal and see them as the voice from above, but in reality the only difference between parents and children is age. A different life stage might bring a different attitude about security and such, but that doesn't mean forgetting about what it means to be young. The OP's dad himself had the pioneering urge and acted on it. He understands.

I'm in my fifties and recently back to the security of regular employment after quitting my good job 12 years ago to start my own business. It was a long, hard time, without much to show for it, but I don't regret any of it, and my three kids turned out fine.

As another dad to the OP: I wish you the best of luck. I'm sure you'll do great.
I think your comment just about covers this issue. There are very few reasons for a less technical user to disable JavaScript. For those that do need to disable it, the about:config solution is fine.
So, is there gong to be another massive difference between 1.9 and the next version where I'm going to have to relearn everything again?
Your computer virus analogy is a bit off as the virus was created by a superior being. Self-replication is something that was programmed into the virus, the virus did not develop this ability itself.
I'm fine with most of the terms and have come to accept them. The one that bugs the ever-lovin' $#!+ out of me is convo instead of conversation. I don't know if it wide spread and beyond start-ups, but it is the only place I've heard it.
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If this was really well done, sure, I think there is room for this. Something where you really make an effort to understand the company and its market. I'm not sure this is what you are offering though. I mean proper market and company understanding and great content curation.

Anyways, how is this different from the companies that offer up blog posts ala [boilerplate + a mild dose of something special]? (Something which always end up being of little or no value?)

(To turn the idea on its head, I'd love for someone to "find most relevant content from around the world" that I am interested in and filter it to me.)
Sometimes people ask for sources because they are genuinely interested in what you have said and would like to learn more about the topic!
> Or use python which has non-experimental "inner functions"

Or most languages in the ML family (like OCaml or Haskell), where multi-argument functions are actually implemented as a series of nested one-argument functions.
You're being downvoted because your comment was textbook ad hominem.
Which is awesome. Except if you want to hack on the code yourself. Plus there's a cost involved.
i used to work at Creative Artist Agency and agents there used to say that about making movies.
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hmm... i believe that for long distances, tesla planned to use the conductivity of the earth itself, because of it's low impedance, to send AC current to any point on the plannet's surface (http://www.google.com/patents/US1119732?printsec=abstract).

for short distances, air transmission was possible, but there is strong drop-off in efficiency because of air being an insulator (https://www.google.com/patents/US645576?printsec=abstract).

also, people do consider his work "workable:" http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/wireless-power-0409
the rumor is that tesla intentionally left out key details in his patents to keep from dangerous tech being in the wrong hands, while maintaining the rights to the tech. so, we aren't even able to reproduce tesla's levels of efficiency or distance without re-discovering certain aspects... but to say that physicists consider his concepts unworkable is false.

edit: typo
I have come across no book that better explains the how and why off the world than Diplomacy. Its one of the few books I've ever found really worthwhile to read.
Feels just a little entitled. For the longest time hackers would notice an issue on a service they used, and out of respect for the service and concern for their own data, they would report. Threats of legal action would quickly follow, so hackers stopped reporting.

Now a lot of the major players have policies promising no legal action for responsible disclosure, some even have rewards (whether monetary or acknowledgement) for the hackers.

In this case, a response was given, no legal action was threatened, and the bug was quickly fixed. Isn't this the goal? Looks like Yahoo is doing their job here.
"This wouldn't happen if Yahoo had a Vulnerability Reward Program"

As much as I support these kinds of programs (https://nealpoole.com/blog/responsible-disclosure-programs/), that's a false dichotomy. Some companies have responsible disclosure policies or vulnerability reward programs. Some companies don't.

Anecdotally, the companies that do have programs don't inherently respond more quickly or handle reports better (ie: https://nealpoole.com/blog/2013/04/experiences-with-the-yand..., https://nealpoole.com/blog/2013/03/csrf-persistent-xss-in-my...). In contrast, companies that don't have programs may still be very responsive and willing to work with researchers; I reported issues to GitHub, Etsy, and Facebook before their respective programs were in place and they always responded quickly and effectively.

It comes down to the people who focus on security at the company and the way in which security is prioritized. If your company doesn't value and prioritize security, a responsible disclosure program won't make anyone's life easier.

In that sense, I do think that companies can and should do a better job of working with security researchers, regardless of whether they have a responsible disclosure program or vulnerability reward program in place. If a company takes security seriously, it should make it easy for researchers to report vulnerabilities. Researchers shouldn't feel that their reports are being sent into a black hole: if they do, they'll be less likely to spend their time reporting issues in the future.
Sure there were larger and more brutal genocides than that of the Nazis, but the Holocaust was uniquely factory-like in its execution. Every single concentration camp inmate was numbered, processed, seen by a doctor, and tracked on a daily basis.
It's actually hard to get humans to kill other humans with intent and close-up, as can be seen in various examples over history. To kill a few million Humans in short time, shooting was no option. The gas chambers were not much more efficient, but the murderers didn't have to look their victims in the eyes. They were not forced to recognize them as Humans.

The story about US and native Americans was completely different. Most deaths occurred from disease and circumstances brought on by settlers and colonists. Many other native Americans were killed while raiding white settlers, or in retribution for raids. It's easier to kill a human being when he is trying to kill you.

A lot of harm has been done to native Americans, but the scale, motives and methods were completely different.
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I don't see any problems here. libc is nothing special, it's just a library that (almost) every piece of software depends upon.

Two different programs may depend on two different versions of it (/nix/libc-2.10-fdsfgs/lib/libc.so.6 and /nix/libc-2.13-fgsfds/lib/libc.so.6 or even /nix/uclibc-0.9.33.1-blahblah/lib/libc.so) just fine. The only requirement is that both libc versions must support running under the current kernel¹, as you can't have two kernels at the same time.

However, it would be problematic if a single program (foo) would depend on a library (libfoo), which depends on another version of libc that foo does. I.e., dependency graph will be like foo->libc-x.xx, foo->libfoo->libc-y.yy. This would cause symbol conflict and AFAIK this can't be solved without either rebuilding either foo or libfoo or introducing some really nasty hacks to the ELF loader (ld-linux).

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¹) Google for "FATAL: kernel too old" error message to see the example of what I mean. There are patches to make newer libcs to run with relatively older kernels, though, it just requires building from source.
No. Sorry, had to work with Drupal 6 for 2 years. Made me quit my job. That's one hell I want to avoid, even when they do switch to symphony. No hard feelings.
> That's quite the straw man you've set up. I don't believe I ever once said anything like that.

Huh? Your post goes on and on accusing HSBC Mexico of malfeasance yet does not contain a single accusation of wrongdoing on the part of any American subsidiary or company.

As far the MtGox issue goes, DHS has shut down an American account belonging to an American company (a subsidiary explicitly created in the US to process USD). It is an entirely different matter.
Luckily we in Buddhism have something better than mere teachings : Meditation. More educational than a billion wise words.
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There are ways to mitigate these issues, not sure if SF has tried. Canada has some timed doors that open after 5 minutes, and there is lighting that prevents intravenous drug use.
This answer demonstrates a very narrow grasp of history. While about 11 million people died in the Holocaust, the Mongols HALVED the population of China from about 120 million to about 60 million. Not to mention completely erasing several races (such as the Persians) from the earth.

This tendency to have a very short term memory when it comes to these types of events does not serve us well when it comes to these types of discussions.
Evolutionary psychology is a collection of these "just-so" stories, they apparently don't have anything else to publish, and no one ~should~ take them seriously.
Haskell and Java are not the only language in the world. The poster might prefer an OO-language without the HelloWorld-overhead as Java. Like, say, Python where hello world is literally

print "Hello World"

And in the case of Java, it is well known that Java is not intended or used for writing one-lines, so it is not really a relevant criticism. And even if it were, it doesn't refute any criticism of Haskell that you are able to point out unrelated shortcomings in an unrelated language.
There were no communist dictators reigning over German territory. The DDR (GDR) was communist, but it was mainly party-driven. They did have a head of state, but while the regime wasn't exactly commendable, a dictatorship of one man it was not.
Cool, exactly what I was hoping to find out. Thanks for the insight!