skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is because your economic patron saint is still Jean Baptiste Colbert, whereas ours is Adam Smith. In spite of a few recent reforms, your governments largely still dominate your economies, so you have much greater difficulty than we in innovating, encouraging labor mobility, reducing costs, attracting capital to fast-moving young businesses and adapting quickly to changing economic circumstances. You'd rather not go through the hassle of moving toward less dirigisme.

vs.

"What has been created by this half century of massive corporate propaganda is what's called "anti-politics". So that anything that goes wrong, you blame the government. Well okay, there's plenty to blame the government about, but the government is the one institution that people can change... the one institution that you can affect without institutional change. That's exactly why all the anger and fear has been directed at the government. The government has a defect - it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no* defect - they're pure tyrannies. So therefore you want to keep corporations invisible, and focus all anger on the government. So if you don't like something, you know, your wages are going down, you blame the government. Not blame the guys in the Fortune 500, because you don't read the Fortune 500. You just read what they tell you in the newspapers... so you don't read about the dazzling profits and the stupendous dizz, and the wages going down and so on, all you know is that the bad government is doing something, so let's get mad at the government."* -- Noam Chomsky

= nice try, but no. That's not less dirigisme, that's more. Why, even you say it yourself without knowing, when you talk about adapting to circumstances, many of which exactly this rat race creates.

Even if someone has an otherwise good point - if this crap is mixed in, this propaganda against government and by extension against the people having at least a theoretical defense which might one day become a real one, I find it hard to ignore that. Because a little sugar makes medicine go down, but also rat poison. Democracy is not the problem, its subversion by all sorts of groups including the people itself is. If we're not good enough to deserve it, then let's be good enough, instead of just giving up and going along with blind greed, and/or following people who have no idea where the fuck they're even going.
Those percentages don't add up to 100%. Seems disingenious to count the white space in the display just to make a point.
Would you hire this person?
Whenever I see job descriptions popup here on HN, I feel like the requirements are usually too specific and that I don't have enough of the "right" experience for the jobs I see, (though I don't lack for ability to learn and become adept in a short amount of time) and so I'd like to find out, given my qualifications and experiences below, if any folks on HN would consider hiring a person like myself based on what you'll be reading next.

I'd also love to hear about what kind of opportunities I could have to make an impact on your organization if I could become a part of your team. (In case anyone's wondering...the eBay position was acquired through knowing someone within the company who graciously provided me the opportunity to come work on his team, and it was a lot easier to get hired this way than just trying to apply to a company you like when they have a listing on HN or Craig's List).

So here goes...(couldn't fit it all here...click on my quick Neocities link above to read the whole thing).

This is partly in response to the large thread here I'm currently reading through, but it's also in response to others I've seen in the past:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5970187

Thank you for your comments!
This is the graphic that the local news had up repeatedly today: https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/p480x480/1010571...
I think you deeply over value the USA military initiatives, and under values one's of other countries.
How to make your app smarter?
According to http://www.thelocal.se/19102/20090427/
Sweden has ~5k reported rape cases per year.

I don't know how many of these cases are closed per year, but I think it's fair to assume that not all of them are closed within year.

(I'm not arguing for/against the Assange case here.)
> and very bad at messaging (which I suspect is the /real/ reason he's going).

Was not he the guy who pushed for Kinect? I am not aware much about MS's internal politics but the timeline seems to match.

If so, then the real reason, in my humble opinion, is this:
Microsoft is now about to fight for the 8th generation with an underpowered yet $100 more expensive console.
You should. The license plate cameras, the elaborately stealthy cars, the motorcycles that look as though they came from Tron, the smart car parking enforcement cars festooned with electronics... All of it seems a bit exquisite given what I perceive to be a low risk environment. But, then, I am just guessing and I do understand how much better and effective a job can be done with good equipment.
It is simple cognitive dissonance.

Parents work hard at being parents, and then naturally take pride in being good parents. Once you take pride in it, you naturally tend to reject any information out of hand which could cause you to question your certainty that you're a good parent. This in turn means that any evidence that your child's behavior is in any way out of line is rejected, excuses are made, and you quickly convince yourself that your child's behavior is normal and does not indicate that any intervention is required from his or her wonderful parents.

Humans go through the same phenomena with anything that we become proud of ourselves about. For example a developer can conclude that a bug must lie with the operating system, the compiler, the test environment, the stupid QA person not testing right, etc until the bug is found. At which point said developer will quickly conclude it was a minor typo, forget about it, and keep the evidence from indicating that there might be a problem with the developer's skills.
I don't have a Disable option. I looked this up online when I got the phone, and at that time, you literally could not disable it. I have a fairly old version of Android, because Verizon decided to stop pushing out updates for my device a long time ago.
> I'd really like to see Wikileaks devoting more of its time, energy, and fund-raising into breaking news about government-operated surveillance programs in the last two countries where Edward Snowden has been located, namely China and Russia.

I don't know about Russia, but in China it's pretty well known by everyone that the PRC is watching you; China doesn't claim to be a democratic republic either. It's not a secret or revelation to even people in the West. The only people who aren't really familiar with it in Western countries, are people who only stick to reading mainstream consumer news.
The rich and their employees both.
A Milestone: The New York Tech Meetup Hits 30
I'm so jealous! My parents homeschooled me for nine years, but put me in public high school because they weren't sure how to teach language classes and science labs effectively, and they wanted me to have more opportunities for social development. I was miserable and ignored the opportunities for gaining social confidence until college (when I finally put effort into making friends and realized what I'd been missing out on).

I wish I could have gone your route; it seems like you got the best of both worlds! Oh well, I know what to look into for my own kids : )
This creates an interesting point of failure. What happens when the private key is stolen or hacked? Because the ETF holders are holding cash with the expectations of assurances and insurances that cash comes with. But uh, that's not how Bitcoins work.
> There were always political or economic agendas hidden under any wars

Which is why the US was reluctant to get involved in the World Wars. You can't have it both ways.
This piece is so awful, no wonder it's a Wall Street Journal op-ed...the WSJ is a good paper, but its editorial page was always screwy, even before Rupert Murdoch bought the Journal.

Woolsey of course does what you'd expect - when caught in government/corporate espionage, he throws up whatever dirt was found out to change the subject. His examples are a laugh. Bribing Brazilian officials? Woolsey and his cronies had been working to keep Brazil a dictatorship until 15 years before he wrote this piece. Saudi corruption? Woolsey had worked it along with his companions so that the US had its army occupying Saudi Arabia in 2000 against the will of most Saudis, who lived and still live under a US-backed dictatorship. It took a plane through the Pentagon and two through the WTC to get the US occupation out of Saudi Arabia.

Then he has contempt for the "statist" Airbus. How is Airbus more statist than Boeing, which is completely dependent on the government dole, to manufacture aircraft which most strategic planners say are not of much use in the modern type guerrilla wars the US is now working to counter?

Europe has always been a laboratory for innovative technology - Linux, MySQL, SuSE, QT, Rovio, SAP, Siemens, CERN and the world wide web. Eastern Europe is a treasure trove of technical talent, if not established technical companies. It's possible the Bay Area is the ultimate destination for much tech monetization - even US cities bemoan this. But plenty of technology gets invented in Europe.
What kind of place is the present?
I didnt understand the point of your website until I read the comments section. Perhaps post something describing what your site does in clear detail.
[Note: I'm an American; hi NSA!]

> I'd really like to see Wikileaks devoting more of its time, energy, and
> fund-raising into breaking news about government-operated surveillance
> programs in the last two countries where Edward Snowden has been located

The big deal is that the US is no longer the shining beacon of hope-/change-y-ness or freedom that it claimed to be. We, the US, need to keep that beacon BRIGHTLY LIT. Those states which don't follow the lead will be pressed by the press or dissenters to follow or will repress freedom. [Yes, I acknowledge that the beacon-lit thing is dramatic and too-large, but that's the US for you.]

Lose that and we join a race to the freedom-bottom the US founders would be shocked to learn we have undertaken.
Paradigms, Perceptions, Reactions and Motivations
Student Loan Rates Double; What Are Long-Term Solutions for High College Debt?
Thanks for the feedback! Did you mean, post on the website, or post it on HN in another post?
Timeline shows only popular posts you make. If you delete the posts on timeline then only a subset of your posts are deleted AND they will get replaced by other less popular posts you made in the past. You'd need to go into user settings and delete items directly from the activity log. This clearly isn't a huge usecase (1 by 1 item deletion).

This is just another case of user misunderstanding/error which gets blamed on facebook.
Here's an example: digital music for prisoners.

http://www.spin.com/articles/prison-jail-music-mp3s-access-j...
Good, we've acquitted the guy with children's chalk.

Now can we please jail those responsible for the illegal foreclosures?
-This article strikes a chord with me. I remember I was placed a year ahead in math, in Algebra I Honors, and the class was so easy that I would bring little toys into class and play with them while still getting A's. The teacher, a female, sent me back to Pre-algebra as a result. In hindsight, that reaction was so patently absurd. If anything, she should have tested whether I should have advanced to Geometry Honors.

-I don't think anyone is surprised that the article claims that boys perform better under conditions which simulate actual adult workplace conditions.

-A bigger issue is really the education system targeting the median student. That means those students with the highest potential have to fight against the system to reach it -- if they ever reach it at all. And holding back the brightest people, when the economy is advanced by that small percent of bright people, sounds horribly ineffective.

This educational system is an artificial structure imposed on people with disparate learning capabilities, trying to fit every peg under the sun into a square hole, and I think we've missed out on a lot of value because of that.

Hopefully, as automation increases, this is something we'll be able to improve upon.
In all of the bad news about the system, this makes me feel pretty good
> If he came to the States, he would no doubt be tried in the legal system.

How can you be so sure? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning
I must be getting old. I had to look up Animaniacs.
Not at all. Two quick examples -

Microsoft hit a billion in sales in roughly 12 years (inflation adjusted). They took no outside money, and ran Microsoft out of low cost areas for the first four years.

Gateway 2000 was founded on a farm in Iowa. They hit a billion in sales in 7 years (in 1992 dollars). Their outside money consisted of a $10,000 loan from Ted Waitt's grandma.
I'm going to say a couple of things about algorithmic trading and the knee jerk reactionaries.

First--there is an industry that makes pretty good money from practicing algorithmic trading. I work with some of them. Some of them do well. However, on the average, returns in that business are subpar. Then again, on the average, most people are idiots. On the average, most startups fail. "On the average" is usually not taken as a reason to not do something by this community (HN), at least allegedly.

Second--there are plenty of reasonable issues to raise whenever this comes up. For instance--your average investor is going to have a tough time of this--for starters due to transaction costs, taxes, etc. Then again, your average investor is going to have a tough time of the stock market in general. Again, the average, by definition, is not impressive and can never do any better than--well--average. But we don't want to be in the average. That's the whole point of much of what we do here. Except when it comes to exploiting financial markets, in which case the average is all that matters?

Point being--is it possible to have a reasonable discussion about statistical analysis of markets and what, if anything, might be done to exploit any regularities found? Is it really so difficult to believe that regularities in relative price movements exist? And yeah, I get it--there's something generally slimy about the whole industry, and there have been plenty of hucksters over the years (and in the present). Then again... isn't this true for the entire tech industry, more or less?

So, you don't have to take part in it, you don't have to learn about it, but can we PLEASE have a better response than "oh, backtesting, that doesn't work, dur"? I mean, yes, there's a fair amount of "lead into gold" type stuff there--but I really don't think it's an unbelievable stretch of the mind to say that regularities exist in markets. No doubt those regularities change, but wouldn't it be interesting to see how quickly and why? And maybe some people can be better at it than others (that doesn't happen anywhere else right?)

So yeah, don't get too excited, but then again, don't be so damned pessimistic. Markets are a system like any other, probably some of the most interesting systems around because they are so hard (some say impossible) to grasp.
"We’ve heard plenty about activist shareholders, but a bitcoin activist would take the concept to a whole new level. Essentially, some investor or coalition of computers could potentially amass a collection of bitcoins so large that it could change the source code bitcoin uses to operate. This would render the whole currency pretty much useless overnight."

Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. And this article seemed like it was going somewhere...
Interesting attempt at an explanation, but pretty far off the mark.

Start with, everybody spies on everybody. Do you think Russia spies on the United States?[1] You bet it does. Or tries to.

The US just has gotten very good at spying. Better than any other nation right now. They have unlimited resources to spy with, while most European countries don't spend their money on that.

Every few years (as this year 2000 article shows), the US gets caught spying on its friends, and has to scale that back a bit and apologize. But almost every country has a foreign intelligence unit, and they're not very good.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Chapman
The Jonathan Safran Foer fallacy
We Were The (1000+). Goodbye, Google Reader
Allegedly (ie, according to Wikipedia) the details are on pages 475 & 476 of a book called "The KGB in Europe" by former KGB officer Vasili Mitrokhin.

I don't know if that device was nuclear or not - I suspect not.

Edit: some details about other caches:

A former Soviet spy testified at a congressional hearing in Los Angeles on Monday that Russian intelligence operatives placed weapons and communications caches--perhaps even small nuclear devices--in California and other states as part of a plan to destabilize the United States through sabotage

http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jan/25/local/me-57346
Once you've reached input number 10^8 or whatever, you've got all sorts of chances to have arithmetic overflow and/or the weirdness of that many pseudo-random operations screw you.

Why? Double floats don't overflow until 10^-300 or so, and RNG's give uniform numbers from 0 to 1 just fine...
Zynga Hires Xbox Boss to Initiate Turnaround
> ie. single service on a single VM on a single cloud provider.

Vagrant allows you to specify groups of VMs that spin up together.

Your general point that it doesn't simulate production perfectly is correct. But this is one case where the perfect is the enemy of the good.
I appreciate the graphic, but it seems like there's a lot of conflicting information being handed around. I'm really not sure what I'm supposed to believe. I'd love to see an uninterested 3rd party gather and verify the facts and what not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5975252

"Did you know that there are currently 3,459 BART retirees, and that the average pension payment per retiree/beneficiary is only $21,﻿049?"

http://www.bartunion.org/
What is this trash doing on HN?
I am surprised the map for 'hipster' and 'pbr' is not almost identical.
Prime Consumer EHR Launch Video
Founder Michael Birch buys back Bebo for $1m
not as many as in midtown or uptown maybe but williamsburg and the LES have plenty of hotels nowadays.
You have me wondering about the feasibility of offering this as a CloudFlare app.

If I was able to throw up a little ajax/client side JS driven app at a domain, throw CloudFlare over it (like I usually do for most smaller domains I own) and then have it all happen without even needing to change that .htaccess file, then your onto something even better.

I also think the pricing model may need some work. Per page seems like it could cut you off from some potential customers. For instance, I'm already thinking of a blog engine I wanted to try out more thoroughly by making it the one i use on my new blog but wasnt prepared to loose "google-ability". I Would like to be able to use a service like this but when I do my mental math it doesn't add up. I wanted to use a blog engine that will produce a large number of pages by pulling in third party service activity into my site. So its not 100% what I want, but damn its tempting.

If your pricing it to cover costs, might I suggest looking to optimize your stack to bring down those costs down?. If you can cut the price and make it more of a 'yeah for $X its easier than doing it myself' you'll get more takers. Right now it feels that your current lowest price per month is too high for a lot of devs to decide the $ is a throwaway expense to save them time. Id hazard, below $25, and probably with an order of magnitude more pages.

All that said... I may still try it out. It looks interesting.
How a high-school prankster became a successful entrepreneur
If the Winklevii own "1% of all Bitcoins," I would hope that they know how to do split key sharing and store their Bitcoins on paper.

I would hope.
Impressjs - a presentation library in pure js
This article does not mention much about how they hit $912 million in sales. However, the title made me furiously click on the article. So they've done their job.
The difference is that the 21-year old tech worker is making $200k because they asked for that and/or that is what the company feels that job/person is worth and is willfully paying it. If the person does not think that is enough, they can ask for more. If they get it, great. If not, they can move on.

The unions force people who are fine with their job to stop working while the reps fight for more money or something. The unions hold entire segments of people hostage when they go on strike. Some are less visible than others. Back in 1989, some Boeing unions went on strike and no one really noticed because regular people aren't out buying airplanes everyday. I only noticed because my step mom had to stop going to work because the union said to. But BART shutting down effects hundreds of thousands of Bay Area people that just want to get to their own job. We noticed this one.
That actually is very insightful. We developers love open sources because of the deep customization and the breeding edge they offer. Ordinary people can't use them since they don't have the know-how. ArcGIS, Microsoft, and folks make a killing catering to these people's needs.
Classic blame-the-victim. It's their fault for not getting out of the way of the bullet---I mean, who is dumb enough to get in front of one?
Hawthorne Police Kill Owner's Dog For Recording Them
Dismayed that this is news. This guy should have never been charged. Now we're surprised he wasn't convicted. SMH.
Good to see at least that. Personally, 11 years is not enough time to see enough things to Black Monday or the tech crash. Hell, it's not enough time to see a REAL bear monster bear market. Also, what else is included in the database? So far, it just seems that prices are the only thing included. I looked through their documentation, and I can't find things like valuations and accounting data.
I am certain (seriously) that is supported by neither the German government nor its people, but it's worth noting that German firms have illegally (according to German law) supplied Iran's nuclear program with embargoed technology. While this understandably gives little comfort to German citizens, I am guessing (given the monetary, administrative, and foreign policy costs of overreach) that the NSA is more interested in this kind of thing than particular details of Green Party politics.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nuclear-technology...
> It's not so fucking difficult to ensure that your car windows are not open enough to let the dog out.

What do you think would have happened if he got into the front seat of his car, put in the keys and turned it on in order to roll the windows up?

I have visions of cops running with guns drawn.
How is this SEO?
I have checked out saltstack (not in too much detail, since I have been busy with puppet). But I wasn't sure if there was an equivalent to exported resources in saltstack (I want to use them for automated monitoring and orchestrating of other services), since that is a pretty useful thing and I was somewhat skeptical about having everything defined in YAML, since there are somethings that I think one wouldn't be able to do... but I have been meaning to look into it!
curious why, though. If it's good, it'll be pushed upwards. If it's not it won't be.

Why does it matter who does the submitting?