skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I try to click this link, Google comes up and says it is detecting unusual traffic from my computer. Previously I searched google for images of owls and foxes for my daughter. Very strange. I didn't enter this from Google, and I tried copying and pasting into the address bar, but I still get this from Google. Why is Google blocking an address I did not use Google to search for? I'm going to try to change my default browser to DDG and see what happens. Also, I tried this link from a Tor browser, and it works fine.

Here is what showed on my screen:

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IP address: 206.126.211.7
Time: 2013-08-31T15:22:53Z
URL: http://www.chokepoint.net/2013/08/create-your-own-fish-bowl-...
The second graph is a perfect example for a shiny but utterly useless graph. I get that he doesn't want to share the exact figures, but without at least putting a zero point somewhere there is no sense of proportion at all.
Well, technically you have no right to or expectation of free speech on Zazzle. I'm sure it's in Zazzle's terms of service that they can reject any product submitted to the site for any reason. I don't like, but it's their site, they can do that if they want.

They're probably just being overly risk averse to try and avoid lawsuits.
Worth comparing: https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki
>Almost all were ideas that "seemed cool" and lacked obvious usefulness.

This is just plain wrong. I can't think of a single major consumer app that lacked obvious usefulness. There was absolutely nothing cool about Facebook aside from it's ability to solve a problem more effectively than it's predecessors.
The right to determine where children do or do not travel lies with their legal guardians, which in this case are no longer their parents. The actual legal guardian is in possession of the passports.
Absolutely. I'm glad you wrote it, seems like an unexpected way to approach the subject, and I can see where e.g. this comment[1] comes from. But I think it's quite valuable and inspires me (lacking any CS degree) to pursue further study.

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1isawq/understa...
I think your view of history is just as myopic. The NSA has been around since the 50s and the original FISA of 1978 was written specifically because it was revealed that the NSA was spying on domestic targets at the request of Nixon.

Everything old is new again.
Just because things are worse in India, that shouldn't mean we should ignore everything else until it's fixed there first. Because for one, it's much easier for US citizens to fix problems in the US, for both legal and practical reasons. Hopefully something like this right in America's fabled land of idea-makers and disruptors will compel some real action to resolve it.
the claim is that 'weakened medical regulation' made it difficult to remove this guy. But don't get things wrong - he WAS removed, after three years. Do we have any evidence to show that 'more robust medical regulation' would have removed him sooner? For example, the Anil Potti case (4 years of practice before removal) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil_Potti
Tuition from schools that don't really teach?
I had never read that! Charming. The punchline is, it's actually Heinlein's razor. Which makes perfect sense.

(yes the wiki refers to a Robert Hanlon of Scranton, PA. This is probably only amusing if you're from America and know that Scranton is the archetypal funny place to be from)
I respect your argument about how what you said is different from the example I gave. I am not going to comment on this person or the lectures. I am skeptical about any "cool" theory that can't be traced back to a peer reviewed study. People need to realize that really knowing something is very hard. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
I have a relative in Europe that has COPD and eventually won't be able to fly, even with oxygen. Something with the pressurization I've been told.

In any case, I've been researching trans-Atlantic passage and the QM2 seems to be the only way to get from the USA to Europe and back via water on a semi-regular schedule and not making a dozen party stops on the way.
"Peeping While You're Sleeping" ? The text puts it firmly in the realm of parody.
He was talking about "those kids".

You might have "pushed the envelope" unpaid, but a lot of those go the extra mile for the Red Bull pay/fame, including trying BS stunts that don't end well.
I wonder about their site's conversion rate. They don't show much, at least not visually, before a credit card trial gate.
These are our problems. Those are India's problems. We don't have to commute for an hour every morning through an Indian slum. We do have to commute every morning through the slums in our country.
There is something very important that you do not understand about people. I don't know why some people can't understand this easily. Maybe someday you'll have that moment when it clicks, and when you do, I think you may find yourself with lots of regret for your past ignorance. In the meantime maybe learn to see things from other people's perspectives instead of thinking what individuals who are different from you should act like.
From the FAQ: "There are no down arrows on submissions."

:-)
I'd safely assume it hasn't yet been broken. There are hundreds of smart mathematicians all over the world and in case such thing happens, we'll get to know about it really fast because it will bring instant fame to anyone revealing the weakness.
The NSA is more than happy at the thought of people giving up for a t-shirt and becoming completely complacent with the idea of them listening and watching everything you are doing.

If a t-shirt is your idea of protesting, well it's no wonder we have the TSA and the NSA.
Im just getting settled into Rails and will intro myself to a js framework in a few weeks. For employment purposes: Ember or Angular?
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> That said, the platforms that choose not to cash in on this tend to not be as successful. Couchsurfing wasn't.

By what metric? The people I know who use couchsurfing.org seem very enthusiastic about it, which is obviously anecdotal but it's odd to be reading that it's a failure.
Not sure how you measure the qualitative value of empowering your whole company, and allowing a collaborative decision to occur. It would be interesting to see all the other dots though - and how much communication between people there was before voting.
I think it's a fair point that these companies aren't building a sharing economy.

That's the point. They're directly manipulating gullible people into thinking they're "sharing" and "doing good" when in reality the entire mission is to sign up more people so sites can take their 30% cut of actual work happening (then, if reported properly, taxes take 50% of the 70% paid out to the user, so the user is left with... not much).
Wait, so every employee at the company makes exactly the same salary?
Video Games Are The Perfect Way To Teach Math, Says Stanford Mathematician
You are right, that is a rather weak claim in an otherwise very well written article. I especially don't see how higher pain-and-suffering damages would have helped stopping this criminal sooner.
Git grep is better!
Exactly this. When a fucking router half-breaks at the colo and takes down our sites instead of failing over, we do use such language.
I don't understand comments and attitudes like this. "On a global scale, we have much bigger problems." People starving down the block are no less a problem than people starving on the other side of the world. It's atrocious that human beings have to live in squalor anywhere. There are people who need help everywhere and I do not get why people feel the need to measure one form of suffering against another.

You say "I don't want to downplay this" but then follow with: "we have bigger problems." How much more could you downplay it?

I hypothesize that folks (not necessarily OP) do this, consciously or unconsiously, so they can more easily justify inaction for themselves. "Well I could volunteer on Sunday at the Soup Kitchen but India has it so much worse. How could I/we be so selfish?"
I felt the same. To me it looked like his original idea was way off from what they voted because of the lack of scale.
There are charities and NGOs that can do the "fixing," and a dollar spent alleviating the problem in India may be an order of magnitude more effective than in the states.
It definitely sounds like something they would authorise. Just not something they would advertise ;)
Craigslist is an enormous benefit to people in general. The economy is only valuable in its benefits to people.

If any other business can figure out a way to provide a better value service, they're free to start at any time.

Man, saying craigslist does a disservice to the economy sure rankles. I feel like a similar argument might be that peace does a disservice to the economy, too. And imagine what a lack of disease would do to the healthcare economy.
Thanks for the reply.

I have not seen unbridled moral outrage. Certainly not from me or the original article. I did not see anybody say that they were ruining this guy's life. Including the guy. After long and deep experience he feels that Tumblr has contempt for their users, and he is now returning the favor.

I think the easy way to resolve the apparent distance between our opinions ("they are acting like dicks" vs "I would expect this") is that current corporate culture often sees it as ok to be dickish towards customers.

I also think the, "Who cares? If Tumblr is being stupid they're being stupid and will pay for it by losing users and brand equity," bit is self-contradictory. I think whole let-the-marketplace-decide thing is morally vacuous; it implies that anything profitable is good. But if you use that as a moral standard, you have to approve of discussions like this because discussing products and companies is how the market decides.

Also, I feel you on Facebook. I practically fell to my knees at a conference begging one of their platform honchos to start some sort of "trusted app" program so we could distinguish an actually useful product from all the viral horseshit. Ah well; now I have another kind of business that is on the "never do that again" list: big bets on other people's platforms.
It's triage -- solving the biggest fixable problem first.
In a world where this: http://i.imgur.com/aUOAv.jpg is not parody, it has become increasingly harder to get confuse

Hell, if you would take somebody from 1985 and transplant them to now, they would probably think the mainstream news was pure satire.
Quibble:

"The ship the shirt is delivered on won't be owned by a bunch of middle-class income earners but an incredibly rich corporation who can afford to finance and purchase massive ships, the crews that run them and the fuel that powers them."

Through the magic of limited liability corporations (we're supposed to boo the last word) many "middle-class income earners" do own fractions of all these enterprises through their investments for retirement etc. Another magical thing we can do at scale, with electronic data processing, is allow them to spread their risk by making broad bets in sectors of the economy, particular countries, regions or classes of countries, sizes or capitalizations of companies (e.g. S&P 500 index funds), etc. etc. Or debt of different levels and types of governments and companies.
This, Hacker News, is public debate. Don't discount that just because it's not CNN or The New York Times. (Or because pg or his minions can edit/delete content at their whim, which has happened to me before).

As time goes on the less and less reliable I find the media to be when gauging public sentiment. 90% of the people I've talked to about the NSA scandal, all across the political spectrum, have been horrified by the government's behavior. As depressed as I get watching the poor news coverage of the scandal, and the implication that people don't care about it, or are more concerned with "getting Snowden" than what he revealed, just simply talking to people makes me feel a lot better.
I guess the 2013 edition is silent circle...
So, "out of sight, out of mind?"
Social workers can build parks or public housing or feed people, where in each case there is increased traffic through an area creating a boon in income for local business, there are public utiltiies companies that profit off more people in homes, and there are farmers and food distributors who have increased demand from food kitchens, even if the margins are sour.

Likewise, teachers lead to the student often becoming more productive and wealthy by knowledge transfer.

There is value in almost anything you do. We just have a social organization where some things are overvalued and others are undervalued.
Well, I'm from Denmark and we don't have homeless people. (Excluding those who choose to be because of mental issues.) There are many things I admire about the US and SV but please don't get complacent.
NSA asking for it to be taken off the site is probably the best thing that could happen for publicity.

I really want to wear this shirt while going through airport security the next time I visit the US :)
> Public Law 86-36, which states that it is not permitted for “…any person to use the initials ‘NSA,’ the words ‘National Security Agency’.

So does this mean using the acronym 'NSA' and the words ‘National Security Agency’ on the web without their written consent counts as a felony when they pick you up? Will they apply additional 10 years to imprisonment statement? Making room for the scapegoat?
Actually, on second thought, I don't.
" My point was that Tumblr's behavior was not outrageous, IMO."

So, I guess we'll agree to disagree.
The fact that it may be more commonplace today does not make it less outrageous.

Outrageousness does not depend on how common something is, but society's view of it. To paraphrase an example from another ongoing thread as an example: If every airline starting throwing passengers out of the plane randomly, that doesn't make it less outrageous simply because it happens a lot.
Just of curiosity, does no-fly lists apply to private jet passengers? I know that no TSA checks apply for them.
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I knew this sort of comment would be a highly-rated one - it's just a pointless put-down. The author didn't write a kernel, or the net stack, or libc, or v8, or the node libs, or loads of other bits that are used in the process. 200 loc is a valid, honest and interesting metric in this case which you're reading way too literally.
If you solve the biggest problem, or even merely reduces the size, it makes everything else easier to solve.
I once messed up a string size parser in an interview by going len instead of len - 1 in measuring the number of characters displayed.

It is stress. Introverts like myself I imagine collectively are horrible under intense pressure from random strangers who can dictate your future for months or years.
She sounds totally and completely amazing.

The most important thing I've accomplished, other than building the compiler, is
training young people. They come to me, you know, and say, "Do you think we can do
this?" I say, "Try it." And I back 'em up. They need that. I keep track of them as
they get older and I stir 'em up at intervals so they don't forget to take chances."
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> -- basic things like how you do accounting, offices, etc. should be standard,

I fired a company once that was paying me quite well, and where I liked my co-workers and liked my job very well, just because they wouldn't make some changes to these simple things. They were stuck in a very rigid office culture mode where everyone had to dress the part, keep certain hours, park in a certain place, etc. I'm not the only good employee they chased away like that either. Unlike me, some of the others went to work for competitors, or formed companies that competed with them.
I think in this case you have 2 choices. One, you let that employee move on. Or 2, you have to re-enter the group salary discussion. Being dishonest in your transparency would quite probably do irreparable harm to the culture.
Thanks for your comment. I think you make good points about how a larger company has more leverage to take advantage of small gains in efficiency.

I think you omitted one valid priority for many startups, being a great place to work. I think many entrepreneurs are interested in this priority, separately from when it moves the needle in the areas you mentioned which help the business survive.

For many, survival, in business and in life, is not enough.
No, the natural and rational human desire to fix things closer at hand before fixing things farther away. India's people can worry about their fellow Indians. We should worry, first, about our fellow Americans.
Poverty in a place like India, because of its scale and the country's broken social institutions, is a much more uphill battle than poverty in the U.S.
Nice work, and thanks for sharing.

BTW I'm not sure why other posters are attacking you for not including 3rd party library LOC counts in your LOC count. That is not standard practice, and you aren't misleading anyone by not counting 3rd party libs. Some people just have to find something to complain about, I guess.
Dronestream: Every US drone strike
The principle for smaller companies should be to have standard defaults but be willing to override them rather than "set a uniform policy which everyone must follow".

90% of people don't care what healthcare they get (as long as it is good), but 10% probably are really picky. Maybe a lot of people don't care about offices, but I'd take 50% as much money to have a private office (or at least quiet area in a large room without people walking behind me). Maybe some people are really picky about their particular monitor or keyboard. You can override those things for individuals who care but still have a pretty standard default for everyone.
The issue is to separate respect for opinions from respect for human beings.

I don't have to hold you in high regard or accept out your company, but I do have to be civil. You don't get to harass or beat the crap out of someone because "the state should remain neutral."
Well, go on, add something more then.
A wise guy once said "The American Dream, you'd have to be asleep to believe in it".

Is this camp here one example of the "99%-ers' flip side" of the "American Dream"?
Preface: I work at Figure 53, nearing three years. We're an LLC (so he's owner, not CEO), not a startup, not funded, profitable for five years, and we only have five full time employees.

I think the set of principles we've been operating under have been working pretty well and I believe Chris to be a genuine person, but I'm biased by being personally involved with this particular story. It might also be important to note that while he didn't give the numbers in the story, we all who voted got to see the numbers before and after (he's never hidden them from us) and the effect the new salaries have on our bottom line.

I can see how it could go wrong given employees trending towards unhappy/defensive and a boss trending towards dishonest, but that would be an awful situation to be in no matter what kind of gimmicks the bosses introduce.
Great find. I really like this video of her explaining nano- and microseconds in a lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8.
The lead up to the Singularity
I am reminded of CD Baby's employee profit sharing initiative: the summary is that employees asked for a profit sharing program, and the owner said "set it up" and they pretty much took all the money.

I suppose the lesson is that the owner/CEO should be involved and observing these decisions.
When people in conversation say something that is trivially true, they generally mean something deeper.

For example, consider the phrase, "It is what it is": http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/it_is_what_it_is

Logically, it's an obvious tautology. Idiomatically, it means, "This circumstance is simply a fact and must be accepted or dealt with as it exists."

So lightyrs was A) trying to say something substantive about the EFF, or B) making an incredibly obvious statement about the literal meaning "indisputable", which etfb clearly was using hyperbolically for effect. I think the charitable thing to do is to assume A, which is what siddboots did.
Simple. "Kill the niggers" advocates indiscriminate violence, which you are never under any circumstances allowed to do in a school.

A more appropriate analogy would be "The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a violation of states' rights and should be repealed." That was said in one of my classes. No one got suspended.
There are various styles of leadership. He's a leader, but his style leans away from the more authoritative (not authoritarian) style so many of us are accustomed to.
Looks like the OP is not Chris Ashworth.

I would also be curious to see some actual numbers behind this topic. Especially the number of employees + founders, and the skill sets of that combined team.
For how long? When do they burn out? What happens when they burn out? What happens to the team, project, product, company, customers, their families?
Like most democratic systems, checks and balances are probably useful. I would expect the CEO (or relevant manager) to veto a salary that was unhealthy for the company. It was implied as much when the author indicated that he checked the company's numbers before telling the team the average salary would be used. Also, the very transparent nature of the company's finances in this example also helps a democratic process work smoothly.