skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just 5% of people are employed in agriculture precisely because "those in position of wealth and power" DID allocate resources in a way that does not require most people to waste their lives toiling in fields. Without such high-profit motivation to invest in advanced research & infrastructure projects, we'd still be stuck with most people working in agriculture the hard way.

Glorify employment? The socioeconomic world is as good as it is because most people are employed, doing something which contributes to maintenance and advancement of society & technology. By glorifying unemployment, you're proposing removing the efforts which maintain our socioeconomic position & direction, soon leaving us with insufficient effort to even maintain a status quo.

"Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else — if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing."
"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" - Alice In Wonderland

The resources of which you speak are, on the whole, perishable consumables. Remember: any society is 3 food-sparse days from violent breakdown. We have to work hard to keep things as they are, and twice as hard to get to where we want to go. Cutting workforce in half means the remaining workers must work twice as hard just to keep everyone as they are, and four times harder if any real progress is desired. Universal basic income means those not earning it are supported by those who do - reducing the incentive to work at all. You say "*it must be possible to allocate resources..." - it isn't, short of incentivising tremendous work times high risk with expectations of huge payoff.
As another commenter noted, your site doesn't really give much away, I too would need to see screenshots or a product video.

Also when I click on the Pricing link at the top it's not immediately obvious I just jumped past your product feature blurb to a #anchor. It says "All this for only $10 a month. Checkmate." and I thought, "All what?", then realised I needed to scroll up.
I trained my local spam filter to do this years ago. Yes, I want confirmations about train and plane tickets; no, I do not want some clothing store's email about the latest sale on bathing suits. I only had to mark a dozen or so unwanted messages as spam, and a handful as not spam, and things just started working.

I am also a bit concerned about this sort of statement:

"MailChimp last month found the percentage of emails that were opened by its 3 million customers fell by about 1 percentage point"

Why does GMail actually allow that sort of tracking to happen? This is exactly why we do not follow external references in HTML mail (or just not allow HTML mail, though some places fail to even bother providing plaintext messages).
This was discussed the last time this site came up on HN. It didn't help that the article was basically about how he laughs at users complaints. I'd take everything he says about people with a grain of salt.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6120475
As a story it was good, but as a game the backlash it received was fully justified.

It reused the same areas and assets to the extreme. You literally spent all your time running around the same 5 or 6 dungeon maps with different entrances and exits. The combat was repetitive and the constant waves of enemies appearing out of thin air removed any tactical positioning or clever conservation of abilities.
You can't see a single use for auto-complete in your terminal so you'll stick to your key invoking auto-complete in your terminal?
Maybe they can't see the video to begin with because of excessive web advertising ploys. That might explain why they are not commenting on the video. Just a guess.
Very glad to see Debian hit 20! Pretty awesome.

Though, I have to admit, I downloaded Wheezy and gave it a go. Holy cow, I'm soooooo glad Ubuntu exists. It's amazing all the small touches that Ubuntu does to make Debian unbelievably usable.

That being said, Ubuntu wouldn't exist without Debian. Way to go, Debian!
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For recent examples I was thinking specifically about the Windows.Networking.NetworkOperators APIs and such. These APIs are 'private' to network operators. If you try to use them from a regular app then you'll be kicked out of the store.

Or search msdn for "This API is not intended to be used directly from your code" for examples of other APIs that are 'private' to Microsoft and will similarly get you booted.

Going back in time, there were (still are) a great many dlls and services in Windows with unnamed exports and not available to the general public (eg win32k, csrss, milcore etc).

Go back to the dark ages and as others have already mentioned there's the famous AARD example that used undocumented DOS data structures to distinguish MS-DOS from other variants.

Like I said, nothing new.
I disabled the promotions tab as soon as I realized that not having a promotions tab kept Google from injecting more ads into the experience.

I use Google Apps and I hated that they were putting ads front-and-center in paid-for product.
"America" doesn't not hold anything.

There are actual individuals out there. Some of them believe they live in a magical part of the globe with some values within its geography. Others use abstractions like "liberty", "democracy", "national borders" etc to justify bullying some people at expense of other people (and never at their own expense - which is important!).

"America", "Russia", "government", "police", "justice", "court", "nation" - all are made-up words used to justify kicking everyone's ass. People can agree on more peaceful ways to define property rights and protect each other and their environment, then simply believe that existing mafia has a mandate to solve all these problems under "public watch".

If you compare modern pro-government rhetoric with theology of 13th century, you'll find a lot of parallels. Simply replace "god" with "society".

"Without religion and church there's no morality" => "without government we'll have anarchic apocalypses"

"You must trust pope because he's set here by God" => "You must trust mr. president because there is society that elected him"

"If god does not exist, who created everything?" => "Without government how would we build roads and fly to the moon?"

"The Bible says what's good and what's bad" => "The constitution defines our rights."

Etc.
What I would love would be a no latency audio chat for jamming, which also would record each channel.

I'm not sure how to solve the no latency issue. One solution maybe to force people to use looping, and then delay the other participants by a cycle. (This wouldn't really work for most song structures, but would for the target market of Blend.io).
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SV technorati pretentiousness is indeed awful sometimes, and stereotypical MBAs do not have a monopoly on brain-dead business ideas.

But last I checked SV and California in general pumped out more innovation than the rest of the country combined, and is preparing to colonize another planet and electrify transport.

There is obviously something fundamental in the "California mindset" that differs starkly from the majority of the rest of the world, and that ought to be understood. I think it has something to do with reasoning from first principles, and with an expansive risk-tolerant business culture.

That risk tolerance and general liberal thinking is going to generate a fair amount of silly stuff, but it's also going to permit genius.

I forget who said this, but I recall reading it somewhere: "the further West you go, the further into the future you go." I'd say it's not true literally but certainly philosophically.
Muphry's law?
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I sure hope this isn't the same type of hardware failure as the last one: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/09/05/recurly-suffers-hardwa...

We've actually started using redundant billing providers to handle this case. I'd hoped we'd never have to actually need it again though: http://www.fancyhands.com/blog/redundant-billing-information...
I've always wondered if one day a week was the optimum use of 20% time, given the need for extended concentration and flow to do really good work in software development.

Google has had some success with it obviously, but I wonder how it would have worked had they done it by Quarter or semi-annually instead.

Say, you meet a certain threshold in your performance review, you get a lump sum of ~20% of the time period that the review covers.

Say for a quarterly review, if you meet the threshold, you get 2.6 weeks. Or semi-annually you get 5.2 weeks, straight. You have to be at the office, but you can work on your own project during that time.

5.2 weeks is some serious hacking time, enabling a great deal of extended focus. Highly productive Google engineers could probably bootstrap a startup MVP in that time, except of course Google would own it.
Thats an interesting point. I would have liked if Google allowed me create custom tabs using filters.
All marketing, at it's root, is about satisfying the two human motivators: sex & death.
I think you may be right with the idea that lot's of negative feedback may be good in a way, interesting observation.

I think one of the main reasons why projects like Arc or NaCl started is that the web is that the web is not a very good platform. It was created as a platform for documents, not for apps. I wish there was a platform having advantages of both web and native platforms (Windows, Linux, Android, etc.).
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Just bought one. :)
Same here, adops are the sysadmins of advertising.
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I think blizzard has the right approach: You don't get to post unless you post from your account which is linked to a credit card by which you pay for the game.

If you post something like this, it's easy peasy to get your ass arrested.
Positive rights vs. negative rights. I reject the notion of "positive rights" on the grounds that forcing other people to do things for you at gunpoint (actual or implied) is morally wrong. I support your right to not get killed; I do not support your "right" to threaten the life of another to compel him to improve your situation.
Same here. Pretty much anything sent via AWeber went into promotions, though I don't consider many newsletters to be a promotion.

It seems like the tabs idea is geared more towards individuals that don't manage their email subscriptions (does no one unsubscribe anymore?). All I really know is that I am not the target audience for the feature.
If I see one, I'll let you know.
Given that the errors and ability to reproduce are so erratic (to the extent that people with the very same browser versions on the same platform are seeing different behavior), I have a feeling the issue may be something like this: https://github.com/eternicode/bootstrap-datepicker/issues/95...
"Or to put it another way: "You can't cost cut your way to a growing company"."

"For the engine which drives Enterprise is not Thrift, but Profit." - John Maynard Keynes
> A "six figure salary" today is nothing like what it was when that term was coined.

Exhibit A is whenever a story about public employees makes the front page of HN (for example, the Detroit bankruptcy or the BART strike) and people start freaking out about train operators making $100K: "They don't even have college degrees, for godsakes!"
From http://www.polygon.com/2013/8/15/4622252/plague-of-game-dev-... :

Jennifer Hepler left BioWare this week to begin work on a book about narrative design and do some freelance work. Her most recent job title was senior writer on Dragon Age: Inquisition. But it was Dragon Age 2 that led to the death threats, the threats against her family and children and the harassment.

When asked if the harassment led to her depature, Hepler told Polygon "No, leaving Bioware was for family reasons. I am going to be working on a text book on narrative design among other game-related freelance projects."
sure there must be some wall street guys betting on a college-loan bubble like they did for the housing-loans.
What's the patent status of exFAT?
$ brew install ssh-copy-id
It can also be an anxiety thing, if one has generalized anxiety disorder. The anxiety of doing something hard or with higher uncertainty (a challenging software problem) is high, and it takes the even greater anxiety of the high pressure environment to overrule it.

Worth investigating, because it seems like ADD, but it is not. ADHD drugs in this case can be counter-productive as they tend to increase anxiety.

There are techniques to cope with this that can be quite effective.
Wow, I had no idea you could do that. Amusingly, you need to click the '+' tab button to remove the tabs. But it is wonderful to get rid of them.

I, too, have had very important ticketing and banking emails filtered into the "Promotions" tab. Good riddance! And thank you.
I am actually a little embarassed by the extent of my Debian fanboyness. So even though I would like to shower apt with platitudes I think stellar hardware support is most likely the result of a kernel package that provides almost every kernel module turned on.[1]

[1] And to a lesser extent xserver-xorg-{input-all|video-all}
Laws concerning marriage equality and use of deadly force are not "stupid" issues.
The issue might be locality dependent, we have several people where who are running the exact same version and platform that cannot reproduce - could be an issue like this: https://github.com/eternicode/bootstrap-datepicker/issues/95...
Why does GMail allow users to see images in email? I assume it's because their users want to see images in email.

I believe loading images is turned off by default and users have to enable it on a case-by-case basis, though.
My example involved deleting two lines, which you can accomplish with '2dd', 'dj', 'dddd', etc. When my hands are on my keyboard 'dj' is my personal preference. The parent poster was using arrow keys so naturally I'm wondering if for something like 'dj' he/she would use 'd + down arrow' since that seems like waste of time. It's a somewhat contrived example to see how far some users take the use of the arrow keys, which you quickly realize are not necessary in vim.
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It's certainly a useful question. But a more focused offer of help on a specific issue seems to be a more useful approach, one that moves the conversation forward rather than stopping it in its tracks.

If someone asked me that question cold when I first met them, I'd probably blink, and then ask if they have about $500,000 they'd like to invest for a seed round. Then I'd go right into my elevator pitch and see if I could get a genuinely useful level of interest and potential help.

Here's what's bugging me about this approach, I think... it's about initiative (in the gaming sense, not the motivation sense) and control over the conversation. A straight-up "How can I help you?" from a stranger, without context, throws the conversational balance off severely. My first thought would be either "Yeah, right", or "What's the catch?" I certainly don't give open-ended help to people, and I don't expect them to do it for me. Heck, I don't give my wife or children open-ended help! Generosity and paying forward are virtues, but failure to establish boundaries is not.

Keep the end goal in mind - a mutually beneficial business exchange, and the groundwork for future exchanges. Questions are just a means to this end. Laying groundwork is a matter of learning trust, boundaries, and capabilities. When seeking help, we should try to understand what someone can do for us, what they will do for us, how likely they are to do it, and what their expectations are in return. So the conversation should be about groundwork.
function askPlayers(players, fn) {
if (!players.length) return fn();

var player = players[0];

ask("What's your name", function(name) {
if (isValidName(name)) {
player.name = name;
players.shift();
}

askPlayers(players, fn);
});
}
This guy is a major poseur.

The analogy makes no sense and his writing skills are crap (not even referring to the all-lowercase thing).
Don't forget fear of choking on your mother's penis or whatever it is.

To really understand Freud I think you probably need a comparably boundless supply of 19th century viennese cocaine.
It's back: https://twitter.com/recurlystatus/status/368411341947547648
we're just about to relaunch my product, http://www.serpIQ.com, with a full Angular rebuild. It's not necessarily massive, but it's a full web app.
I'd suggest dropping the requirement for payment info in order to start the free trial.

I was going to try it out on my calendar - with a colleague in mind. I don't schedule enough appointments to make it worth it to me, and I'm not really interested in giving you my CC details just to test it for someone else.

At the very least, you should make the demo link easier to find.
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Sigh. Sorry to be rude, but I'm not sure if you properly read my post - it really wasn't a "diatribe[s] about a shadowy conspiracy of a 1% elite spanning centuries".

That referred to the post which started this thread.

In both cases I was speaking about the opinions I encounter in this debate more generally.

Ok, I'm not sure there's much point in debating general opinion; it makes it very confusing if you attempt to debate interlocutors of your own invention.

I'm still wary of the notion that we should pretend that no one has an interest in concentrating power and wealth, and maintain the status quo. My reading of history, and the present, is that people do have such interests

Everyone has this interest, whether they have power and wealth presently or not, and whether they admit it or not, and I don't see it as culpable, merely something to be managed. It can even be healthy in small doses, in encouraging competition rather than resignation. I'm not sure many would claim that all progress comes via capitalism, but recent globalisation has resulted in a shift in wealth to countries which are developing due to trade, and I do find the question of how much regulated capitalism has contributed to global levelling an interesting one.
Whenever I turn on a new automated filtering system, I spend time verifying and training it. The tabs have responded very quickly to my recategorizations.
Indeed. Images can be attached to the emails, and the show remote images button (or whatever it's called) simply loads all images. There should be options to display attached images, remote images from sender's domain, etc.
As someone who has done work on ferry boats, I can assure you that there are ships with a front rudder -- it's just kept center-locked most of the time.

Also, larger ships use these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_thruster

OK, nit-pick over.
Do they want to or do they have to? People having the freedom to change jobs is a good thing. People being forced to change jobs against their will is a bad thing. Which factor is more prevalent today?
Note that he links to http://blog.netherlabs.nl/articles/2009/01/18/the-ultimate-s... which more or less explains what's going on.
It wasn't really fraud. The terms of use etc weren't really clear enough or lets face it enforceable.

Was it fraud if you got a dog to play with the mouse, and never looked at the screen? The dog might have still been looking at the adverts!
I think marketers are more irked about the paid ads that surface to the top of the "promotions" tab that now push their emails further down the page. There's also a difference between promotional emails you signed up for via opt-in and targeted email ads that you didn't opt in for and the new design treatment blurs that line.
I'm quite fascinated by what effects on the brain can be achieved with content of this type built for the Oculous Rift.
The first version seemed to be a leak with a very unclear licensing situation. This here is the resolution :)
It reminds me of the aesthetics of "enterprise" and "big serious business". You know: generic stock photos of server rooms, smiling businessmen https://www.google.com/search?q=smiling+businessman+hand&tbm..., smiling telemarketers/help desk operators https://www.google.com/search?q=smiling+telemarketer&tbm=isc...

Most of these companies are selling stuff to developers/designers/people running startups or tech businesses. There's a reason for this aesthetic, even if it's quickly becoming stale.

I don't like it partly because it kind of reinforces a stereotype that software engineering and design is an easy job and the people doing it are somewhat shallow. Working from a coffee shop in no way implies that, but when people dismiss developers/designers as hipsters using their laptops in a coffee shop, there's a baggage in the discourse.
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I think you're making it too complex (or else I am). I think the OP is making a kind of "batteries included" argument (a la Python) -- that is to say, "it's better when the language has everything built in, as opposed to farming things off to external, 3rd party libraries."

All's I'm saying is that that seems to me pretty silly. It can't be about reducing the user's burden, because you're going to burden the user anyway with all kinds of toolchain dependencies. It can't be about the runtime, because the user will, except in rare circumstances, hardly notice; if they have autotools, they have glib.

I can think of million reasons not to use C. But, "Well, I don't know. I'd have to use a third party library. . ." Really?
The default is no images, and users are given a choice to display images for one email only, or for all emails from a sender.
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Google disables Windows Phone YouTube app
Performance tuning never stops. We have one more release coming up that will squash a lion's share of low-hanging performance fruit. After that, we'll be tuning continuously, but it will be slow, incremental improvement.
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Ask HN: Where's our web app database?
Why do we have generic database systems from 20 years ago still knocking around? With their standard types that can be loosely shoe-horned into what we need?

Where is the ideal DBMS for web applications that understands email addresses and URLs natively? That handles versioning and partitioning out of the box? That's realtime, able to speak directly to a fleet of connected clients, not awaiting a proxy server-side programming language?
>"How can I help you?"

Yeah, everyone seems to be asking that question now. Even people who I know couldn't even help themselves in the bathroom. Some weird trend
It's a welcomed change for me. There have been some missteps that needed training, but now it's smooth sailing. I just wish my phone didn't still chirp regardless of tab, but that's what I get for using a standard mail client I guess.
It's disingenuous to say "everybody but Microsoft" when the group size of third-party apps that act as realistic YouTube viewers is something like 2-4.

If you pride yourself and market yourself on openness any rule that flies in the face of said openness is entirely arbitrary, because there shouldn't be any rules limiting your openness.
this is why you never talk to the police

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
>> The client has erred

> The client has not erred... the server understands the request and refuses to fulfill it.

As I see it, the server is not refusing anything. +1 6xx Third-Party Interference.

Let's just agree to disagree.