skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computers are easy, and those weird bearded guys in the basement create all the problems. If it weren't for them, it'd all just work. We should fire those guys, because I only ever see them in the context of problems, which means all the problems are their fault.

Also, today I saw a bunch of guys in suits next to a burning building spraying it with water. Idiots! They wouldn't have to spray it with water if they hadn't set it on fire! We should automate fire protection and get rid of all the firefighters, as you only ever see fires when they're about, so they must be the cause.
Seedcamp Releases Its Data For The Last 6 Years
strawman based on the concept that people proposing BI haven't considered the list of objections a random person can come up with in 30 seconds.
I was thinking in WOZ's case the innovative design of the disk II which was much more old school analog design
Hello Hacker News! This is my first blog post ever, so please give me feedback if you see anything wrong or that I can improve on. :)

Also, if anyone knows more about FERPA than I do, can you comment on if Piazza's use of student email addresses is illegal? What about its access to the classes students are taking and the use of that information in the email campaign?
It occurs to me that (per the second argument) these have Schläfli symbol {s,m} = {6,3}, {3,6} and {4,4} ...

for each of these, working out

1/s + 1/m - 1/2 = 1/E

gives

1/E = 0

... which makes sense (kind of) since those
three cases are infinite regular tilings instead of regular polyhedra ...

(EDIT: Just noticed jonsen's comment here too, "infinihedron" suddenly makes sense to me :-) )
Grounded Pointers
Commercial enclosure: Whatever happened to open access?
Presume you are referring to Visual Studio. It has a vi emulation plugin if that's what you are into.

Given that one of RMS's baby is Emacs, i find it strange you choose to vote for the fire while hating the frying pan.
I know this is off topic, but is anyone else annoyed that JavaScript is required for this page, or that the text is too small, or that the color scheme clashes, or that it requires Facebook connect, or any other surface level detail that provides a soap box for me to rant about the personal axe I have to grind?
That tiger-repelling rock might be attracting TSA? (Rock repels tigers & terrorists, TSA repels terrorists, maybe TSA like the rock).

Throw it away (the attitude) and you'll do just fine at the airports.
>America is awash with money.

>

>Yet poverty continues to grow.

After this statement I stopped reading, and I would like to take some time to address a common issue that I see repeating itself.

There are some incredible minds here on hacker news. Fast and efficient problem solvers. However, the issue is that you trust too much. You trust the general opinion, and the science that was laid before you.

This isn't an issue in and of itself, however it makes you sometimes start with an assumption and try to solve a problem that isn't there. Never forget that the majority of the knowledge the mankind has always thought of to be exact, has been completed or even disproved by newer science.

Solving the problem: "America has lots of moneyz, but people are getting poorer" is a fool's errand. The author acknowledges the fact that the economy is failing, but still starts with that assumption. That statement is so deeply nested inside his psyche that even though he acknowledges the exact opposite as truth, he still seeks out to solve that problem like a Don Quixote charging the windmills.

Don't be a Don Quixote. Double and triple check your assumptions about reality. Try to disprove your own assumptions. Only then you will be completely certain and self confident about what you do.
They idea is interesting, but only if you take healthcare out of the equation. Healthcare expenses are close to nothing when you're in good health, but can get incredibly high - at market rates - when you're not. And no, private insurance is not the answer.
Ah, the old "God works through doctors" rationale. Occam's Razor, 5 yard penalty.
If its between harassment vs not returning home, I'd choose the former.
>I think the argument about "hobbies" is a long term one, not one that applies to people who just got laid off.

I think that's the reality, but I am not sure that people like White from the article really acknowledge this. That is, he trivializes it by kind of offhandedly suggesting that it is good for people to have these new options open up as a result of losing their jobs.

But, in fact, what is required is a radical restructuring of our economy and society at large (including our ideas about work) in order to arrive at what he suggests. This is not a point that can simply be glossed over or assumed if he is being earnest or even remotely serious about addressing the automation issue.

Reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO5sxLapAts. Step one is the automation of workers. Step three is this perfect utopian society, wherein we all just pursue our "hobbies".
"Shrug. Most of the "citation needed" posts I've seen are in response to comments like "almost all recipients of welfare spend it on smokes and alcohol."

[citation needed]

Personally, I don't feel that you need to back your assertion up with facts. If I wish to take issue with it, the onus is on me to go and scrape HN to produce the definitive validation or refutation of your claim. Which was Saurik's point, I think.
Assemblino.js - Modeling and Simulation for Robots and Mechanisms
Newborn online tool for building simple models of robots and simulate them, with JavaScript, and some drag and drops.

Requires WebGL, Chrome recommended.

GitHub repository: https://github.com/nrox/assemblino.js

Consult docs:
https://assemblino.com/docs.html

Check the database (ongoing work):
https://assemblino.com/explorer.html

Examples:
Neural Network and Robotic Arm: https://assemblino.com/show/public20123372.html

Servo with brackets test:
https://assemblino.com/show/public18979576.html

Multiple servos:
https://assemblino.com/show/public19060338.html
You are mistaking Adobe for MS. MS is going down hard on pirates reselling their stuff to individuals or making it available online.

Also you seem to imply MS let every software be torrented intentionnaly. But MS doesn't publish every software in the world and they aren't responsible, nor should they fight, for other software makers's piracy problems.

It's certainly not part of their strategy. More like a pirate post-fact rationalisation line of thinking.
Regexes are very readable, so long as you know what the symbols mean

/[a-z0-9]+/ means "match one or more characters in the range a-z or 0-9"
Transition effects for off-canvas views
>there are military people now who are anonymously posting that they "didn't sign up to bomb syria"

That's not what they are posting. They're posting that they didn't sign up to help al-Qaida achieve one of its military objectives.
they are already in his list :)
Newborn online tool for building simple models of robots and simulate them, with JavaScript, and some drag and drops.

Requires WebGL, Chrome recommended.

GitHub repository: https://github.com/nrox/assemblino.js

Consult docs:
https://assemblino.com/docs.html

Check the database (ongoing work):
https://assemblino.com/explorer.html

Examples:
Neural Network and Robotic Arm: https://assemblino.com/show/public20123372.html

Servo with brackets test:
https://assemblino.com/show/public18979576.html

Multiple servos:
https://assemblino.com/show/public19060338.html
The smartwatch paving the way for a wearable future?
What motivation would anyone other than the comment author have to upvote it?

Well, I suppose they could set up a voting ring, but that seems a lot of trouble to go to.
Microsoft's IllumiRoom Xbox projector costs too much to release
It's funny that some parts of this are exactly the opposite to the culture here in the Netherlands. Everyone's expected to be happy with who they are, and ambition is often looked more or less looked down upon unless you can explain how much happier you are for it even if you don't reach the top.

Ironically, with the peer pressure to seem happy, in a collective definition, the result is more or less the same: few people are brave enough to break out of expectations and live according to their personal values.
Is it security to prevent people to be able to discuss what is being done by the government?

Most people who have that freedom do not feel insecure.

Most people who have the freedom to critique their government feel insecure at the idea of having that ability limited in any way.

It would be interesting to hear the argument, why is this law a good thing for the Vietnamese people?
Great cartoon.. message given through comic is also very nice.. :)
At this point "follow your dreams", "live a satisfying life" and other variations thereof are cached wisdom. When you go to a high school class and hear people who admit they didn't go where they wanted in college telling you the same thing, you'll notice something like an epistemic code smell. Unless the proportion of people working for "the man" has changed significantly in the last...whenever this meme became popular, I can only conclude that the sort of "creative work" which seems to have become something of a holy grail to young job seekers is possibly:

1. Unattainable or unsustainable for the vast majority of people.

2. Not as good as it sounds on paper.

3. Economically infeasible.

Otherwise we would all be cartoonists.

EDIT: Maybe I'm not 'getting it'. Considering that other HN thread on the front page where everyone complains about contrarianism, I have to wonder if theres something fundamental here that I'm not seeing.
I think you miss the point. They are talking about people who live in the US and must sell their work primarily in English.
Given the fact that he was going to vote for RMS due to Visual Studio's poor editing qualities, one would assume that this user prefers editing with emacs, no?
It was working 4 days ago, at least their email to me .
It seems that they didn't renew their domain "This domain name expired on Sep 02 2013 01:42AM"

Feel free to ask the CEO on twitter https://twitter.com/tedcooke
A lot of arguments are repeated endlessly on the Internet, and elsewhere. I've often thought that someone should build a graph database for this. Then maybe we could move past the basic argument and go a little deeper.
I like Bill Watterson's sentiment. It puts into words that I wasn't able to find why I've made the decision I have. That decision: to keep my software company a one-person operation. I don't _want_ the company to be bigger. I don't _want_ to have lots of employees. I don't _want_ to make a quadzillion dollars. I want the joy of running a tiny firm, where I can choose how to run every aspect of it. And have lots of free time for my other pursuits.
Is it ethical to use Google Analytics on an 'anonymous' crime reporting site?
dont treehouse do that?
http://ryancarson.com/post/21708810513/4-day-week
Someone mentioned using git - which has noted problems as a general purpose backup tool with large files. bup is the tool developed to solve those (git big-file is another, and technically git-annex could work that way but its not really a backup tool).
Snapchat which is an app that lets you send a time limited picture deletes it when you view it. You can't view the message without their client.

Of course you can take a screenshot of the image, but they have figured out how to capture that event and it alerts the sender.
One way to interpret it as passive aggressive is if its merely an attempt to steer the argument in the direction of the fallacy of appeal toward authority. (abortion is wrong) (citation needed?) (my bible) (I'm not Christian) (holy way begins)

Another way is just a psuedo-politeness. (... and applying ohms law aka power = voltage / current ...) (citation needed?) (quick google search results in ...whoops)

It does make perfect sense for situations where the literature is lacking. Yesterdays discussion of ultra minimal RISC architectures is a good example. So, seriously, the linked to paper only has three references? And I've read two and don't have access to the third? In the grand history of bored programmers daydreaming about turing tarpits I'm somehow familiar with 2/3 of all written articles yet never heard of the remaining 1/3 until yesterday? Citation needed. There's got to be more academic articles than listed. Just looking at the turing tarpit section along of various esolang sites...
>>Your kids won't thank you if they don't even know who you are and have never spent time with you.

Most kids, the moment they grow up will rather like you pay for their college fees, take care of them while they are settling down and you leave them a good inheritance.

May be small kids would like you spend time with them, but even teenagers are smart enough to understand the importance of financial priorities in life.

>>I live an ultra-frugal lifestyle and am already planning an exit from my day job in the next decade, to retire before 40.

I don't know how you propose to come back home so early, practically do nothing on the side. Don't start a business on your own. And yet save your way to becoming a millionaire(Which I can tell you as a some one saves and invests very often, that's just not possible).

Have you planned for medical emergencies, rising house rents, inflation and many other routine problems which come regularly in ones life etc?

>>People like Bill Watterson, Cory Doctorow, and Richard Stallman are on to something. They are actually enjoying life now - Are you?

There are two kinds of enjoyment a human being can experience. The pure philosophical kind of enjoyment of sitting on grass and sleeping under a tree. The other one is partying on a yacht.

Both have their own fun.
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No offence to the author, but they obviously have never developed a website with custom fonts and viewed it in Chrome before... I wrote about this issue in 2010: http://ilikekillnerds.com/2010/12/a-solution-to-stop-font-fa... — Case in point. The company I work for who designed the new Myspace and we did some early HTML prototyping of the site designs and the sad reality is you need to use this font-smoothing fix or Chrome butchers the fonts. Go and inspect the Myspace website and you'll see this very fix is being used and you want to know why? Because it's required and works. As are many other sites that use this fix.

It's definitely a Chrome issue, this isn't just some property designers are playing with for the heck of it. Want to see another issue in another browser? Put light text on a dark background and view it in Firefox. Fonts like Helvetica Neue especially have the problem, but any chunky font will show extra faux bold. There is no fix for this in Firefox at present.
Finding the cheapest airfare from point A to point B is unsolvable. [2002]
They should hire him in the Android team.
As someone who dodged the corporate world and everything a person is 'supposed to do', I'm now in my early 30s. And while I did do the things I thought important during my 20s, I wish more than ever I had adhered more to the things one is supposed to do in order to 'get ahead'. I liked saying I was living more than everyone else I knew back home who stayed in the same place, with the same people, doing the same things...but I now know I was merely living differently, not necessarily more. My main comparison with all those people now is they are financially sound due to jumping through the hoops, and I deal with near poverty for having vagabonded around the world, learning about cultures and languages, while doing this and that to make ends meet. There's worth in what I did, sure, but that time spent on learning for learning's sake came at a cost.

The recent research by Princeton, et al. on the effects of poverty on the mind nailed what I go through daily. Now I'm learning to program in hopes to fix the problem (later, when I've spent a year learning to code) that most affects me day in, day out.
A video of TempleOS (formerly known as losethos):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0MsDl39UL0

That's really weird stuff.
if you can't decide if you want deck.js, reveal.js plain html or bootstrap you can check out my project that is restructured text to html5 with pluggable post processors that allow you to generate any kind of presentations (you can switch to a new one when they become available ;)

http://marianoguerra.github.io/rst2html5/

here are some examples:

http://marianoguerra.github.com/rst2html5/output/reveal.html

http://marianoguerra.github.com/rst2html5/output/deck.html

http://marianoguerra.github.com/rst2html5/outpu/impress.html

http://marianoguerra.github.com/rst2html5/output/bootstrap.h...
Most people can't downvote.
I think play.com will be quite a powerful player over time, but I do miss the days where they just focused on selling media at a very, very good price. Shame the regulations caught up eventually.
>I believe societies who don't [provide for basic needs] are of this opinion because they are blind to the benefits, not because they are evil.

It's likely also a side effect of the current structure, which dictates that we must all work. Of course, this mantra is required to encourage people (especially low wage workers) to continue working.
The one comment I truly get tired of seeing, is those that bring back the old flame wars over the definition of the word "free", and if one license is "free'er" than the other. Of all the classic flame wars, this one still lurks around and makes noise once every few months, and is equally boring each time.
I'd like to upvote that comment more than once. Really well put. But that means accepting a complex world and that is pretty hard.
For lack of a translation: "Rampensau" is the german word for that behaviour and does neither imply nor deny charisma.

He is just energetic on stage.
This one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkp7f8IxJNU
I agree with the idea behind the article, most libertarians are shocked at each penny spent subsidizing people in wheelchairs while turning a blind eye to the fact that Forbes 500 gets enormous subsidies from the government and that list would look completely different if not for government regulations favoring them especially and or outright subsidies. This is not only a blind spot for libertarians, this is a blind spot for most lefties as well. They call for higher taxes that will eventually end up in CEO bonuses. Until this blind spot is addressed there's no point in discussing politics.
Studied political philosophy, middle class background, wanted to work as a musician. How did this guy end up being a Libertarian in the first place? Perhaps he was influenced by a group of privileged people around him who were identifying with Libertarianism to justify their own selfishness. I'm only speculating wildly here.

Myself, I'm the guy who dropped out of school to support myself, no family support to fall back on (in fact, I support them now) and I've managed to overcome that and make a success of my life. I started out believing in socialism and my own successes lead me to Libertarianism. The article surprised me, because I also outgrew Libtertarianism, because I know that even though I made most of my luck I am still more fortunate than many others. I believe that with the productivity gains we've made in society, unnecessary toil and suffering should be limited. However, when it comes to how to share around this wealth, I'll still tilt over to the Libertarian side. I don't see it as some kind of utopian system, I see it as a direction. You can go in the direction of more centralised control and power to try to impose fairness, or you can go in the direction of less concentrated power and decentralise it more.
Amazing advice. But just that these kind of things don't workout for majority of the people.

Most people have to get married, have kids, prepare and pay for medical bills, pay rents or loan installments, send their kids to school and live life like other humans around. So you can't really sit the whole day under a tree play lego with your kid. Sooner of later you will run out of money and then the kid will itself want you to go out and work.

Our ancestors didn't write Ant and Cricket stories for nothing.

Working hard, and then savings and investments matter. Looking back the happiest families I see around with their kids doing well are generally kind of ones where parents worked hard and made sound financial decisions in the past. Which now takes care of their health care bills, post retirement expenses and nearly everything else.

So unless, you don't want to run into trouble when you are old you have to earn well enough right now.
Science should be done by computers instead of humans - Thought Infection
The original link isn't titled "Why Libertarianism Doesn't Work", it's called "How I Outgrew Libertarianism". He's just writing a personal anecdote about why he no longer agrees with a political philosophy. Does everything on HN have to be laid out as an academic paper?
They also tend to talk like people who've never had a payment get mislabeled or misfiled by either a company or the government. Harmless when you're ordering a computer and get delayed a week. Devastating when your house is on fire.
I hate it when discussion's turn into a fight over semantics rather than the actual substantive argument. I am interested in how the world actually is rather than someone else's abstraction.
I subscribed 10 minutes ago. Maybe the quota has been reached.
English has been my pain for 15 years
Writing the question you mean to answer or that you mean to explain the arguments for and against into your headline is neither sensationalized or misleading.
Reads more like "How I Outgrew Political Party X" since all the reasons are very undersatandable and mostly correct (at least for me). I only have difficulties to see where any of the points has something to do with the philosophy of Libertariasm. But again, that's maybe just me.
Thank you. Part of the reason I submitted here (with an intentionally emotional title because otherwise it wouldn't have received attention!) was because I wanted to see if anyone knew something else about the story, especially from Swedish-language sources which I don't have the google-fu to initially find. I'm still left with questions, and I'm not sure cavities (were they in baby teeth near to falling out?), physical abuse (is that spanking or punching?), and lack of pre-trip vaccination (shouldn't that be India's problem?) justify the response, but it's a lot better than rocking the boat on homeschooling which is what all the English-language stories I saw on this seemed to say.
I agree with it too, and yes it's insightful. I think the key thing missing though is anything more to explain why you feel that way - as you say, you need to respond to criticism of the content of the quote :)
> Coupon code Kickstart is sold out
They say that the CEO of Rakuten is a really weird and eccentric person. A few years ago he instated a company wide policy that all staff must use English for any and all business within the company. Since most Japanese people can't speak English, he ended up creating a really weird atmosphere where people pretend to use English but really end up secretly (or not so much) conducting business in Japanese.

In short, he's a weirdo, though a successful one.