skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and 4) he offered an enormous amount of liberal populist rhetoric, maybe the most since Roosevelt, and people were sick of the last 30 years of post-Reagan corporate centrist/triangulationist bullshit.

>she believes that prioritization of healthcare is what has sidelined civil rights in this administration

I think healthcare was more important for this administration to deal with than civil rights, which aren't rapidly declining except due to the disaster that both healthcare spending and lack of health care has done to this country. It's affecting black people a lot more than others mainly because of our relatively tenuous hold on the middle class.

Problem is that he used up all of his goodwill on the healthcare fight, using rhetoric to push it as if he was conjuring up a new utopia, but just managed to entrench insurers and corporate rent-seekers more into the process, and to only mildly increase the footprint of coverage. The main benefit of what he passed is that it will slow the growth of healthcare spending just enough to make it difficult for conservative-libertarian scum to paint Social Security as an immanent danger anymore.

To celebrate this exceedingly minor victory, he's been trying his level best to cut Social Security by raising the retirement age, changing the inflation indexing, and acknowledging dopey schemes like means-testing. The worst part is IMO, he thinks that cutting ("saving," in centrist rhetoric) Social Security is going to be his legacy, and that history is going to view him as a hero for it.
Who was the first Catholic president? Sure JFK did several other important things, and there were other events that transpired that made him famous.

Still, I think it's pretty important that Obama was at least partly black - it showed that it could be done, and I'm sure he inspired millions of people (black and otherwise).
Why should he have special privileges? I got none in the several times I've been banned. If you don't like the game, go somewhere else (reddit) to play.

There has been actual well known engineers who have been hellbanned from HN. They didn't get special treatment either. If you want a nepotistic forum, make one yourself and see how well it does...
I disagree. The wealthy and politically powerful would fight tooth and nail FOR this to consolidate their position of power, by grabbing subsidies for whatever products they provide, which they will fight to classify as "basic needs" and overbill the government for it, or bail them out when their product goes into downturn.

For example: In such a future, farmers might claim that food is a "basic need" and fight to get subsidies, and when their food crop goes out of style, they may get the politicians to subsidize their land to go fallow. Or even to the point where their unhealthy crop would be overproduced relative to demand and sold to the public as a a part of a "healthy diet", leading to obesity and widespread medical problem.

In such a future, doctors may claim that all of their medical procedures are a "basic need", and fight for a billing system that bills by procedure - to the point of requiring people to purchase coverage for procedures they will likely not need, and leading to unnecessary and risky medical procedures being performed on patients, with an untransparent pricing structure, leading to cost overruns that are an albatross on society.

In such a future, bankers may claim that access to financial systems is a "basic need", and when their malfeasance results in systemic economic collapse, they fight for a rescue package that soaks them in money forcibly taken from the public.

And in this future, sadly, the truly needy will always find a way to be unhelped by the wealthy and politically powerful (even some who are well-intentioned) who have captured the machinery and redefined "basic need" to their benefit.
Actually the MTA can use opportunistic TLS to transfer the mail. And in a lot of cases my mail server actually does.

So it's only not encrypted in 20% of the time (depending on who you communicate with).
I'd say this is exactly what the article is arguing against. A product CEO is not necessarily going to be any good at hiring people or coaching leadership. The product CEO letting go is often the very worst thing that can happen, since the product CEO is the one who provided the framework that all of the products are succeeding on.
Yeah, I should really try that, to force myself to just one or two cups a day and fill up the rest with decaf or tea. I switched over to chai with soy milk for some time, but somehow that didn't last. I also tried some substitutes like more soy milk, but nothing in that area really felt as satisfactory as a good old cup of joe.
XAML is very well designed, not for the web though. It was designed from the ground up to be consistent with only one implementation, as opposed to CSS, which evolved over the years on multiple implementations. It can get quite verbose since it's XML-based, but at least what you code is what you get.
> "There's stuff that I can't share with my own lawyer. This is going to be a long fight."

Wow. I didn't know you could be gagged from talking to a lawyer.
Since I can't edit this anymore, I'm replying to correct my above comment from "Jabber" to "Pidgin".
> different agents will likely respond in different ways.

That's the worrying thing. One guy might just go "OK", and that's it. Another guy might pistol-whip you, claim you assaulted him, and haul you in for "enhanced interrogation".

Stanford prison experiment tells you just about everything you need to know about the mindset of LE.
Well, imagine that in a very public place, perhaps at half-time during the Superbowl, an announcement is made on how to get free gas from a local gas station. It destroys sales for that small business. How would you feel as the owner? Would you "wish" for the organizers to do "something" to stop such information?

Google, from my vantage point, is the enabler.
As someone who has sold software online and seen license cracks for my product: it is hard to know the impact of cracks on your profit.

Would the pirates have bought your software if the crack was not available? How many customers used a cracked version at one point before becoming a customer? How much profit do you lose by investing in making your licensing scheme harder to crack?

We ended up deciding that our license keys were there to keep honest people honest, not to thwart people intent on abusing our licensing terms. Whether or not that was the most profitable choice is anyone's guess, but it certainly was nice to look at cracks as lead-gen and a bit of a compliment, rather than trying to wage a distracting war against people who were probably not going to pay us anything anyways.
By that do you mean that you try to conserve your energy expenditure over the course of the day, so you don't burn out too quickly?
Am I correct that part of the reason you don't "communicate direction" in informal settings like ad hoc conversations is to make sure you've thought everything through? I just imagine talking with someone and suddenly having a cool idea that would necessitate a significant change in direction, and not being able to talk about. So I've suddenly clammed up because I need to think and can't do it out loud, and meanwhile my people might be working on the wrong thing.

Would it be consistent with this article's philosophy to discuss it in that context as "maybe it would be a good idea to..." rather than "this is what we're doing"? I haven't actually run a company myself so there could be all kinds of subtleties I'm clueless about... Actually, the question is not whether there are any but which ones are relevant.
There is better option.

You can have different email/name in <RepoRoot>/.git/config file.

For example:

#cat /home/test/project1/.git/config

[user]

name = First Name

email = firstemailid@mailserver.com

#cat /home/test/project2/.git/config

[user]

name = Second Name

email = secondemailid@mailserver.com

Ref: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-First-Time-Git-Se...

I hope it is clear. Let me know if it needs further explanation.
“Tell it to the jusdge.”
A quick google search shows the details of Homes for Hackers covered in the likes of Forbes, Wired, CNN and so on.

Traveling Nuker's site links to coverage on Yahoo Finance and SPN. A Google search points to numerous videos where the founders outline what they're working on.

It's not like these guys were trying to stay under the radar. Spending 10 minutes searching on Google would have made it obvious they aren't terrorist.
It's hard to believe, but caffeine withdrawal is classified as a mental illness in the recently updated DSM, the bible of psychiatry.

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/blogs/daily-dose/2013...
Are you planning something for people not on twitter?
It reminds me a lot of Kurt Vonnegut.

"All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental."

and

"We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different."
I don't think that's the reason.

It's more along the lines of: if a friendly law enforcement officer comes up to you and politely asks you some questions, many people have no problem being polite in return and answering them. Often the officer(s) will say something like "I just want to ask a few things, then I'll leave."

So 1) you'll think that the more you cooperate, the sooner you will be free from their presence, 2) you may fear that if you don't cooperate at all, they may harass you more, and finally 3) they may act like they are "doing you a favor" and so you may feel a bit compelled to do them a favor in return.

Federal agents in particular (FBI etc.) typically go this route. They'll try to build a rapport, "you-help-me, I-help-you", and may or may not subtly imply that if you don't respond they'll return for further questioning. They may even use classic interrogation tactics to make you more likely to answer them.

By simply not being accusatory or impolite, they have a much greater chance of getting the information they want.
Haha! That's possible.

I was wearing an AC/DC cannon t-shirt (loved that thing) so this was before my Marilyn Manson phase. I'm South Asian by descent.
You are quite likely still being monitored.
I think people have gone too far with this mindset. I develop pages using a mostly semantically structured approach, but I'm not afraid to sprinkle layout-only elements where they make sense, especially when using grids.
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Right. Snowden's path was a brave one, but that kind of martyrdom can't reasonably be expected of anyone.
Many Americans (and recent immigrants) are so spoiled, they don't even know what a lack of freedom looks like.
+1 this research being done. When I bootstrapped Parse.ly by doing consulting in 2009/2010, my biggest costs were rent and healthcare. I wrote about this in my blog post, "Startups: not for the faint of heart". http://www.pixelmonkey.org/2011/04/02/not-for-the-faint-of-h...

To get a good "sole proprietorship" plan for me cost >$1,100 a month. My healthcare cost nearly as much as my rent in Astoria, NYC.

I've spoken to many budding entrepreneurs in NYC, and they have told tell that the loss of an employer-provided healthcare plan is a major factor that stops people from quitting their jobs to start a company.
How does this affect cloud providers using SSDs? Are they using the reliable and expensive version? Do they use consumer ones and then swap them periodically?
Just wondering. Why did you decided to become a web developer after so many years?

Usually developers try to find a way to solve the problem because they are engineers and that is what engineers should do. HTML, CSS and JS wasn't invented to what it has become today. It has evolved thanks to people like you and me who has find ways to use to our advantage. Example AJAX was existed since dark ages (IE5+) but no one used/knew about it. Google used that in google maps in 2004. Now, pirates are using it in usenet/torrent applications (utorrent, sabnzbd, sickbeard etc), or 3d rendering in the cloud (http://home.lagoa.com/).

If you are waiting for something better to be found, i think you will have to wait long time. There is nothing on horizon that is as simple as HTML.

For me, hardest part is in the web development is to deal with designers and product managers.
Then you let them cuff you and drive you away, and refuse to answer any questions without a lawyer. No matter what they do, they can't make you talk.
Cheating according to who? Surely not your website's users?

It's the standards makers' fault. Needing to center something on either the x or y axis relative to the parent is as common a scenario as you can get.
Peace through victory? Maybe they should have a separate Nobel Peace Through Victory prize that you get for killing the most civilians that year in order to create a lasting peace.

At least I'd know where to aim my spit. The mixed-up nature of the current prize is for the birds.
To Censor: to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable.

So this is censoring speech. They have the right to do it as they're a private entity. But don't confuse their right to censor with the definition of censorship. I see that happen a lot.
I also believe that the NSA intended to strenghten DES. However, it was later discovered that the changed they made to the s-boxes also made it weak against a different form of cryptanalysis.
Werner Herzog Directs Heartbreaking Anti-Texting and Driving Documentary
"At one point, one of the guys asked to use the bathroom. I showed him where it was and went back outside the house. I remember thinking he had been in there longer than was normal."

Congratulations, you are now the proud owner of an FBI-bugged hacker house.
And if you say it out loud, and later realize it was a bad idea... You're going to go back to them and tell them to change direction again?

Not every thought needs to be immediately vocalized
Life is a vapour, and accounting* 9 - 5 is the best distraction you can come up with?

* Insert career choice here.
quitting caffeine was way harder than i thought it was going to be. i still have doubts if i'll ever be as productive
I don't agree. Design is design, development is split into front- and back-end specialisations. Some developers straddle both, but there are few people who are both (good) designers and developers. I don't know of anybody within the industry who would refer to a front-end developer as a "designer."
Thanks! You should put this on your site :)
Actually, the "contact" and "terms" links seemed also to come back to the same page - you might want to check all your links thoroughly.
Yes, and duh. Corp provided health insurance means the employer controls the labor liquidity, not the employees. The hypocrite Republicans should have loved to offload the cost of health insurance onto the taxpayer, not the corp. But the power of employee control even trumps direct bottom line profits.

Wal-Mart gets it, that is why it encourages employees to seek public assistance and pays them so little that they still qualify.
Yes. It's a hindrance to most life paths that don't involve full-time employment. As someone with a chronic auto-immune condition I'm effectively tethered to an employer or a spouse if I want health coverage.

Should I choose pursue an art as my vocation or start a company I'd have to be willing to endure a lag in my insurance until whatever I was pursuing became successful enough that I was eligible to be covered by a trade group or had enough revenue to buy health insurance.

Guaranteed, affordable health coverage not tied to an employer or a spouse would remove a incredible burden from my life.
I think it'd be hilarious to see what happens to the "open web" if Google changes the vendor prefix in chrome to -blink- instead of -webkit-
Ask HN: Find a PR person for our press release
We're a European bootstrapped start-up and we'll announce big news on August 22. How do I find a PR agency or a freelancer that will help us reach out beforehand. The budget is a few thousand dollars.
Google is the first one using tables for layout, since they started until today.
I respect people with well formed and rationally expounded opinions more, whether or not they align with mine.

I do not respect people with opinions held out of dogma, with an unwillingness to explore other viewpoints.

Then again, my personal proclivities cannot possibly be taken as representative of the entirety of HN, so I take your point.
Politics isn't a linear continuum from right to left, and the position between two extremes isn't necessarily more rational, even if the positions at the two extremes that you have chosen to represent right and left are both wrong.
One is a person being an asshole. It's like the person who went and abused that shared Starbucks pre-paid card to prove it could be abused and ruined it for everyone.

The other is a company collecting and making available publicly accessible information. These two situations are completely unlike each other.

Why do you place the responsibility on Google? Go send a DMCA takedown to the people providing the cracks. The law provides the tools for you to decide how to protect your creations. It's not the responsibility of Google or any other entity to enforce your copyright or decide how to enforce it. You have the power. Use it.
I’m still agonizing over what to do ... thanks for sharing your experience. My first thought is that if thousands of Google links to keys and cracks did not exist, our sales would increase. As you've noted, it’s a time sink to fight it. That's why I want Google to at least "try" something to help us out. I mean, they want me to purchase ads from them, right?
"You have to have had at least a 3.5 GPA to work here. Oh, you went to CMU? You graduated? That's good enough" - interviewer I had at Goldman Sachs.
ugh, what a mess.
Fair enough, and you're right - I just have my THF on a bit too tight these days.

Although I must have one final jab :)

>In general you should avoid assuming that large, sprawling agencies like the NSA have a single goal.

I don't think they actually have any goals, per se, other than their own perpetuation.
Not terribly comforting to know this. But I can attest that quitting coffee was one of the more painful things I've attempted.

And failed at : http://eksith.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/quitting-coffee-cold-...
Many he greatly expanded and legalized.
Windows does things like swap out applications which are minimised or not recently used to allow more space for disk cache. You're neatly defeating the point of swapping them out by keeping the page file in ram.

You are still shuffling pages in ram in order to "swap" them though. The gp is correct. To achieve your goal, disable the page file. Having it on the ram drive entirely defeats its purpose; The ram backed page file won't help you in the case of memory exhaustion, and it doesn't allow the OS to put the ram to better use where it judges that possible. It's your machine and your perogative, but it is daft, and people are going to point that out.
email is a tool. you can use it for what it works for.

it doesn't have to be used for all communication.

assume a world where all your emails are archived in publicly accessible databases. you've lost privacy, but could it still be a useful tool?

send birthday emails. send your friends funny cat videos.

you don't have to use email for everything you used it for before -- you can just use it in different ways. i would still like to be able to near-instantly communicate with relatives across the world.

i know bacon clogs my arteries and making bacon has a terrible environmental footprint relative to eating only grains, but i love it.
I think when you look at "heroes" in history they stayed to fight for their cause vs runaway. I'm trying to imagine how effective Ghandi, MLK, Nelson Mandela or Rosa Parks would have been from Venezuela.
NSA Reportedly Changing FISA Act To Search US Citizens’ Communications
im completelly aware that this is very subjective matter, and by saying touching language options, a lot of people would get offended..

experimentation is good! it make us have more of the good ideas.. sure! go and create a command line application in node.. nobody will forbid you to do that, its not a sin..

i would do it.. but theres a difference between whats fun and what works.. one thing i take my hat of for all dinamic languages like ruby, javascript and even python, is that they want to make the experience of creating software fun, and more pleaseant.. this is cool

but the answer its in the balance, thats something i respect about go and dart.. the idea to mix fun and pragmatism so we can have both.. maybe better things can come in the future.. and we should all thank dinamic language for that..

javascript did not achieve the nirvana yet.. its like a duck.. it can walk? sure. it can fly? sure. it can swim? yes.. but can do it good any of those things? nop
I read this as I sip my daily coffee.
Show me a presentation language that is as flexible and powerful as CSS. Try styling something in a native gui language, or something like xaml, and I guarantee there will be many more curse words.

A lot of people who are shocked with the complexity of CSS aren't saying this after switching from another better GUI environment, they're getting into visual apps after doing backed work.

CSS is not perfect but I'll take it over previous presentation idioms any day.
When you have an iPhone for long enough and use it as your alarm clock, you even start to develop aversions to some of the ringtones.
I just created a recording using Gate One of the same command (well, I think it is the same) for comparison purposes:

http://riskable.com/files/GateOne_recording-20130810130840.h...

Try resizing your browser while that is playing back (go really small) for a special treat :)
Several Malicious Android apps found on Google Play affects 25,000 devices
Just about any language has an emacs major-mode which does things like syntax highlighting and auto-tab. And the major languages are shipped with emacs.
As a founder, you are an idea, product, execution, sales, or customer service guy. Rarely do you start out good at all of those. You may never have them all. Get good help fast in the areas you fail at.

Founder's fail because they lose (or never really had) empathy for their customers or staff in these areas. If you can't feel what your users/staff feel, you can't properly navigate them out of their pain.
My Intel X?? came as a superslim 2.5 package, but with a plastic bumper as part of the construction making it up to full height. Having to disassemble it first thing to remove the buffer went just fine, but wasn't a great start (warranty voided before I even powered it up?)
chasing, when I was living abroad, I had a Palestinian friend who worked with me. One day he told me his neighbors had disappeared in Gaza because they were vocal against Arafat. I might be spoiled, but I've seen where a lack of freedom leads.

I just thought America was a place where this stuff wouldn't happen, and where the people were protected by the Constitution. Guess I was being naive and idealistic.