skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There have been, historically and presently, power and wealth grabs by the already powerful, and manipulation of political and social structures to suit their needs.

Sure. But that does not conflict with "emergent structure": There's no need for a cabal at the top consciously arranging the structure of society. Just a bunch of people who are often trying to manipulate things in specific directions, and where a lot of them will have overlapping motivations. From the outside, that can look very much the same.

A lot of the time people are not necessarily even trying to steer things a certain way, but merely looking after their own interests.

E.g. a central idea in marxism is that the capitalist is not really at fault: He's "caught up" in the system just as much as the worker. He is exploiting people working for him, but he does not necessarily intentionally want to oppress. He is merely playing his role, protecting what he sees as his own interests, just like the workers.

And so you get "nice" capitalists, who try to do better, but they can still largely only act within the confines of their role: The only way the capitalist can top oppressing, is by ceasing to be a capitalist. But that is not in his interest, and it is unreasonable to expect the capitalist to willingly do so - he will find every excuse for not giving up his privilege (and many might be good; e.g. it is perfectly possible an individual capitalist might be doing more net good with his profit than it would have if he shared everything equally with his workers). Ultimately, marxism is cynical about human nature: We are all looking out for our own interests; to the extent we do not, it is because we lack awareness of our real interests or position.
> SlideShare plus an audio file is just perfect.

Although slideshare is not as bad as infoq by a long shot, it's not very useable (or fast) either. I much prefer speakerdeck.
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It's a bit more meta than that. I'm basing my evaluation on China on how wrong/overblown the prevailing narrative about Japan was at the time.
Thanks, no, I wasn't aware of that oddity.
Sorry worker coops are all about making money but distributing it in a more equitable way with the workers controlling the company.

John Lewis makes a profit and the "partners" got 17% of salary as a bonus in FY12/13
>its not anticompetitive to not allow a third party to release your product on their platform without following your rules (reasonable or not).

That is actually the definition of being anti-competitive. Google is gaining an unfair advantage w.r.t. Android vs WP by manipulating terms of their extremely popular video service to make it not work on their competitors product.
I think 9K lines of code using framework which is meant to be "high-level" is a pretty big code base.
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Can anyone comment from experience on the testability of Angular.js, that is mentioned in the article? Was it a reason to chose Angular.js over some other framework (if so, which framework)?
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If rust could do that (someone hacked and remove GC), I'm sure go authors will figure something out. Well, guess it all depends on interest on that topic.
Edward Snowden and Gen Y: a sign of leaks to come?
Debian has forums? I never knew that. I always use debian-users or #debian. To be honest one of my favorite things about debian is using bts from the commandline or just plain email to submit/query/track bug reports and never having to use forums for bug reporting.
FYI there is a Feynman movie. I haven't seen it so I can't comment on the quality.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116635/
Steve should kick a puppy at some point in the movie to drive home how irredeemably evil he was. Maybe they could have him wear a black hat the whole time so small children will understand he's the bad guy.
Or they are too lazy to wait for the decryption to finish...
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This guy is keeping the story on the news agenda loud and clear. I'm sure he doesn't care about the opinion of some Aspieish idiots on a discussion group. What's your credibility?
I didn't say it is impossible, it just sucks compared to other platforms/languages.
There is a lot of political support for "amnesty" or legalizing those who came over illegally. They want to give them citizenship eventually.

As the reform law looms, and people really think hard about what it means to keep millions of people "illegal" and then not allow them to become citizens, they really start to think about the consequences, which aren't pretty. It would lead to a two-status society, and when they think about people they know or work with stuck in second-class status, they don't like it.

The fight is between the politicians who want to extract more money or favors from the legislative process, or want to prevent adding more Democrat voters to the rolls in ten years.

So they bring up this border fence and security plan. It's an expensive boondoggle that won't stop half of the illegal immigration, because many "illegal" immigrants had legal visas when they arrived here. They had a passport and a travel visa, and overstayed the visa intentionally.

And, guess what - the government knows it, but they don't do much about it. The reason is because the opposition to these people is minimal. The small businesses employ them. So, there's your support base right there. If they really enforced the law, a lot of relatively wealthy Republicans and Democrats would be upset.
They get the power to change it something else.. something that could work or not failing ... in the end It wasn't a failed project anymore.

(sorry for the late comment)
Kind of nice. Does it have OpenGL support though?
Capitalism is as man made as theory of evolution. It's been discovered. Or it's just the way the societies always worked. Most efficient. Capitalism as an ideology is just noting the fact. Not inventing, just realization of how brutally nature is and how brutally it works. Socialism is invention from the realization that capitalism is morally bad. It's exactly like vegetarians agenda: killing animals is morally wrong. Yeah, but you know what we still need to eat. It's the same way with socialism: exploiting people is morally bad. Yeah, but you know the work still needs to be done.
Downvoted for challenging the credibility of a political dissident without providing evidence. I'm perfectly willing to hear a case if you want to make one (links are fine), but simply asserting that his "credibility was shot down pretty well" is a sloppy debate tactic. In a case like this, I think it's important for people to actually examine the evidence on their own.

Otherwise we become too susceptible to propaganda (on one side) and mistaken outrage (on the other).
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Your Issue Tracker is Sabotaging your Startup
Amazon Payments now works in some countries outside the US. I don't know since when though.
FWIW, Europe is larger than the US (10.1m vs 9.2m km^2).
Alas! A no-go in fish:

~ !!
fish: Unknown command “!!”
How a metal spoon is saving young Britons from forced marriages - The National
If you are worried about dash compatibility I hihly recommend checkbashisms:

http://packages.debian.org/sid/devscripts
I hope you're not sarcastic. According to the CIA Factbook the US doesn't even make it to the top 50 countries in the world in life expectancy. And there are only 19 developed countries in the world, this makes us worse than 31 developing nations in life expectancy. Used to be number 1 in 1960s.

I'm a dual Polish/US citizen. Poland has better life expectancy according to the CIA Factbook than the US does. Poland had an average income of 240usd per year as recently as 1989. It's about $20k today. Still can provide better life expectancy than the US. Shame.
There is more than just a few typo. There are myriad grammatical errors. I don't know how well grammar checkers have improved in the past 5-10 years, but I don't recall MS Office being all too good at catching grammatical errors or being able to recommend correct solutions.
How a metal spoon is saving young Britons from forced marriages
Can't edit: It seems I just completely misremembered the previous part of that scene. I thought he was already in vacuum and pulling on the door to get in.
I recall when I worked for a big UK company we took our teams industrial placement students out to dinner at the end of their time with us (around 15 people)

The restaurant refused the company amex card of the team manager and one of the better off senior members of the team had to put it on his debit card and claim it back.
well someone has got to do it. Like Rosa Parks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks

"On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled... NAACP organizers believed that Parks was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for civil disobedience in violating Alabama segregation laws though eventually her case became bogged down in the state courts.Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery Bus Boycott became important symbols of the modern Civil Rights Movement. She became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. "
I think that immigrants face more barriers. Some of these startup folks, I think, probably faced some barriers into entering the elite societies in the US. For example, if you attend college at any of the top 20 colleges in the country, you're going to meet the elite, but an upper-middle class person, especially an immigrant, is going to face difficulties marrying into, or being accepted by these elites.

However, to use the language of the typical undocumented immigrant, of having "nothing to lose", doesn't accurately convey the truth. It's just going to confuse things. There are poor immigrants who start businesses, but by and large, they aren't venture backed startups; more like mom-and-pop stores, food trucks, or swap-meet businesses.
"... A few, presumably not Californian patriots, have even suggested that somewhere like Texas—where the bureaucracy is less stifling—might be a more feasible place to try the idea out..."

This is a great idea. Texas has vast spaces between its cities, plenty of cheaper land, and a willingness to try grand new ideas. Four or five hyperloop routes connecting the various corners of Texas would be a monumental achievement.
Being a slave he has no choice. He has to live there where the jobs are. And where the jobs are, the rent is high.
In case of problems, 10-14 seconds is a lot of time.
We specifically looked at CanJS, Backbone and EmberJS. None of which have testability as a core feature. CanJS and Backbone barely mention how to do it, EmberJS has one tiny page on integration testing. Which practically means there isn't a established right way to do testing. And you as a developer need to figure it all out.

Ember are improving this however, with the ember-testing package: https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/tree/master/packages/emb...
Backbone has countless tutorials on how to test, but it's not built into the framework.
I'm not sure what you're comparing this to but 9,000 lines of well-written code in a powerful MVC framework is a very significant size.

Because there is so little boiler-plate code that is being written, the utility-density of such a codebase can be extraordinarily high. 9,000 lines of PHP could amount to very little utility but when well-architected, there is a crazy amount that can be done with even 2,000 lines of a framework such as Angular or Rails.

[EDIT]

The point I'm making is that a good developer working in harmony with a framework can do in 4 very readable lines what a less experienced developer might easily expand to 60 lines. As such dismissing a 15k codebase as "small" is somewhat naive. A 15k Angular app can do a vast amount.

My experience with Rails (and my limited experience with Angular suggests it's similar) is that working harmoniously with the framework gives you massive amounts of utility with very, very few lines of code. I've personally refactored 100 line controllers from junior developers down to 12 lines. It might feel macho to compare codebase sizes but there's no strong coupling to utility (arguably perhaps the reverse).

You can certainly write 60k apps in Rails, Angular or Django but dismissing a 15k app as "small" doesn't do justice to the utility that even such a "small" codebase can deliver.

...sorry this comment was so long I didn't have time to write a short one ;)
http://forums.debian.net/ is one forum.

I'm not sure if it is actually a part of the Debian project or just something that grew alongside. Can be useful sometimes, but if your present channels work for you then I'd suggest you might want to do without the 'noise'[1]

[1] http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=106389

PS: never ceases to amaze me that you can download an iso, boot a computer, install an operating system and application software, and do stuff just when you want to without upfront cost (other than time). Debian is a large part of that history isn't it?
Um.. transparently spinning up a VM is not a hack. Its the actual design !

>Chrome's sandbox is well-audited and (overall) is sound.

So why does it fail during the annual Pwn2Own competition? You and I have different definitions of 'sound'.

Also coming back to NaCL.. NaCl's code verifier has never undergone large scale deployment/testing/real world use from millions of users/apps.
the misrepresentation is your post is the word 'buy'. You don't buy when a bank owns it and expects you to pay monthly payments. You buy when you own. Is it a big deal to loose job at 45 when you own house and a car or two? It is, but not as much because you don't have the obligation to spend half your previous salary monthly on payments. Which takes us directly to this where the problem really is: debt.
Yes .. only sh and bash ...in zsh, the series does grow but not so explosively
This is probably the only worst thing I've encountered since switching my desktop to fish. Can you write a fish function and name it !!?
Which GC, from the multiple configurable ones?

Not to mention that you are forgetting all the other JVMs that are also available out there.

Also it the set of tuning options is pretty thin compared with what most JVMs, Haskell and other GC environments offer for tuning.

Note that this is not a Java vs .NET rant, I work on both environments. Each has plus and minus.
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I would find it incredibly strange if reddit is never able to make money. I don't think they are really trying at the moment.

Reddit is an incredibly valuable service. Maybe a lot of people on Hacker News don't see this, but reddit has basically become the Geocities of online discussion communities. The subreddit system has eliminated the "eternal september" problem, since all non-casual users will trickle into the communities that match their interests. Even if reddit loses 90% of its users, it will still be a highly relevant online community. I am certain that they can turn a (modest) profit if they really try.

Reddit will probably never become a massive money machine. But regardless, it is a very influential community. Even community is arguably an understatement at this point, it is really closer to infrastructure. As I have said here before, I would be willing to bet that it is still around in 10 years, with a significant (millions) amount of users.
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Software is a career requiring a much higher level of personal commitment

Except it really doesn't. Most of us chose to put in the personal commitment because we love it and then convince ourselves it's because we have to.

I know several people who code 9-5 Monday to Friday on whatever their boss tells them to code on and that is it. Sure non of them will ever be offered a top job at Google, Facebook or awesome SV startup of the week, and sure most of what they do sounds frightfully dull, but they still have a successful if unassuming career in software.
If those outdated figures of ~$50k/month are true, I wonder if they could move to their own infrastructure or dedicated and turn some of those savings into getting from red to black.
Poll: do you live in the country you were born in?
Dependencies are another huge issue if you want to be cross-platform. A Ruby script (for example) relies on the Ruby interpreter, which works the same cross-platform. If it has other dependencies, there's an established way to declare and install them.

In contrast, a bash program calls out to lots of little programs: sed, awk, grep, etc. Different platforms have different implementations which take different flags, etc.

My friend and I just spent a couple of days getting some bash scripts that ran fine under Cygwin to also run on OSX. It was painful.
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“One must lie low, no matter how much it went against the grain, and try to understand that this great organization remained, so to speak, in a state of delicate balance, and that if someone took it upon himself to alter the dispositions of things around him, he ran the risk of losing his footing and falling to destruction, while the organization would simply right itself by some compensating reaction in another part of its machinery – since everything interlocked – and remain unchanged, unless, indeed, which was very probable, it became still more rigid, more vigilant, severer, and more ruthless.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial
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It's not exactly what you're looking for, but the ErgoDox is selling on MassDrop right now and is a pretty neat little thing (pricy though). It's a hackable two piece with nice switches.

See: http://ergodox.org/
Happy Birthday, Debian! Operating System of my choice on my desktop and server-side. To another 20 succesful years! :)
He was lying. Watched the press conference. The insane degree of hesitation and very-careful-word-picking he did are not the hallmarks of a man speaking sooth.
yes !!!
Bellard's work on computing Pi is possibly even more impressive.

In '97 he developed a new algorithm for calculating Pi 43% faster than the previous best[1].

In 2009 he broke the record for the largest calculated value of Pi (2700 billion digits) using a program he developed on a single desktop computer. Prior to that every previous record since '95 had been calculated on a supercomputer. Notably the immediate previous record used 640 nodes of the T2K Open Supercomputer (Appro Xtreme-X3 Server) at the Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba[2]

It's true that Bellard took around 130 days and the super computer did it in a day - but nevertheless the difference in pure speed is amazing.

Edit: I almost forgot his International Obfuscated C Code Contest winning Obfuscated Tiny C Compiler. A C compiler than can compile itself in 2048 bytes of C source excluding the ';', '{', '}' and space characters.

[1] http://bellard.org/pi/pi_bin/pi_bin.html

[2] http://www.hpcs.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/~daisuke/pi.html
And there is zero effort put into figuring out a better system, since those in position of wealth and power don't have an incentive to change what feeds them.

With less than 5% people employed in agriculture [1], it must be possible to allocate resources in a way that does not require most people to waste their lives in jobs. The universal basic income, for instance, would achieve that without abolishing capitalism.

The only problem are people who glorify employment.

[1] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.AGR.EMPL.ZS?order=wba... (I speak of developed countries only)
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The reviews on one of Snooki's (Nicole Polizzi) books are also hilarious. http://www.amazon.com/Shore-Thing-Nicole-Snooki-Polizzi/prod...
Ah, yeah, of course. That always threw me off, I've been working too much in other languages.
Is the SF Chronicle the beginning of a paywall rollback trend?
Anything short of a very clear revolution (regarding the NSA and the political system in general) won't solve the real basic issues.

I just hope it will be a rational and calm revolution, not a bloody one.
It seems super suspicious the "202" to "20" mistake occurred for more than a single call, and it just so happens your political enemies are in the area code mistaken?
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The difference is Reddit isn't particularly looking for profit. Unless they completely change their business and way of doing things (unlikely to happen), they probably will never make a profit.
He said that because he wanted them to do that
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Something like go's defer makes most uses of goto (failure handling) unnecessary. However, there is still the "code a state machine" use case for goto.
"They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work."

I suspect the author is being intentionally misleading regarding the costs of staying alive. It doesn't take $20,000/year. More like $5,000, and even that is being generous.

Early Retirement Extreme and other books cover this in more detail, of course.

I do agree with the overall sentiment of his article, but the concept that the current state of affairs is some kind of intentional conspiracy is incorrect. People like the security of being indebted and forced to work, it seems. They are not forced into such a life.
He hasn't actually been arrested yet for not cooperating with a secret court order.

I have to suspect that's because he was willing to shut down his company and make a big stink. It he hadn't done that, I think it would have been much easier for the feds to arrest some random guy in a Dallas apartment, suggesting that he's a nefarious hacker in league with Snowden and possibly other nefarious people. With 10k users, I'm sure they could find something to say that there were, say, "suspected drug dealers" using the service.

It was very smart of him to get out front of the story. Now if the Feds go after him, he's the businessman taking a principled stand.
Speakerdeck is actually what I was thinking of, but the gist is slides + audio = happy. A more polished UI would do some good for SlideShare, but I don't have any major issues.
Ctrl+c also works the same way as Escape in most contexts in Vim. So using CapsLock as Control may be a good generic solution.
Tumblr + Storify - VIP Fees = Storytrotter
Happy birthday and big thanks to all Debian developers!
> interception of a “large number” of calls placed from Washington when a programming error confused U.S. area code 202 for 20, the international dialing code for Egypt, according to a “quality assurance” review

Oh please give me a break. This is the worse they could come up with, a typographical error that produced large swaths of unusable data for analysts? Seems like a normal part of any computer systems: a typo will cause unintended consequences.

Sensationalist reporting and blatant exploitation of minor plot twist shouldn't make it to any serious news outlet, let alone HN. Let's keep it serious guys.
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Doing this too many times is really not a great idea. My machine started grinding to a halt _after_ I had killed the bash that was pumping out all the bangs. Reboot didn't fix it. Deleting my 2 gig ~/.bash_history did :)
Love reading the last few paragraphs about immersion in a non-desktop/laptop world, and how he's dealt with data that signals a need for an Android App. Great interview.
I have looked at it, yes. But it seems like it's not very well integrated with Linux. On Linux I usually prefer to use a text editor for editing code. So I would prefer a language which suits being edited in one.