skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m scared of our government and I’m disgusted by what little Silicon Valley has done to fight it.

No! This is so, so wrong. I totally get the sentiment, but the reaction is misdirected and might do more harm than good. A (centralized) government is a major power base in society, but it is not the only one. What democracy has done is try and take power away from disparate parties, and concentrate much of it in the hands of an elected body. This doesn't always work well, but this main idea is a good one. Government, like any large human undertaking, is an ongoing endeavor that has to be constantly maintained and reformed. But fighting it rather than fixing it is a terrible notion.

I know Americans are inherently distrustful of government – this has to do with America's peculiar history – and in itself, a healthy skepticism towards government is healthy for a democracy. But a general "anti-government" stand will take us back to a much less free, less just, form of organization: feudalism. In feudalism, power is held by private individuals (lords) or organizations (noble families, the church, and I guess in modern times - corporations) that accrue it by amassing money and/or other forms of influence. These power bases form alliances that suit them, with the implicit goal of maintaining their power and withholding it from others. And one thing is certain: these powers are hardly accountable to the public; not even like the most sinister of democratic governments.

The author's particular grievance is mass aggregation of personal information; (almost) everyone agrees that's really bad. But is government the only guilty party? Is it even the biggest offender? I'm pretty sure Google collects and analyzes more personal information than the US government, and it's far less accountable. It doesn't even have secret courts. It's also far more dangerous as a power because of something I've mentioned before: Power is far more dangerous when it manipulates people into surrendering it voluntarily; a truly dangerous power inspires love, not suspicion (as is the case of Big Brother: he is loved, not feared and hated).

To fight things like personal data gathering we should work with the government to fix it rather than fight it, because the universe hates a vacuum, and by trying to fight the government and take away its monopoly on some forms of power, we may find that we've simply put it in far worse hands.
Let's see, I want a Windows or Mac App for my desktop.

Whoops! Looks like someone bought a domain name for nothing!
The article states that it will remain a separate product.
I can't stand the k, it looks confusing to me at a glance for some reason...
Do not do this. The Austrian school of economics is neither scientific nor respected in the wider economic sphere.

If you want a good introduction to economics that is 1) amenable to the perspective of an engineer (i.e., mathematical theory and significant amounts of modeling and game theory) and 2) close to how actual professional economists approach economic problems, the best free textbook is one originally authored by an economist at CalTech who is also Yahooo!'s head of an economic research team.

http://www.mcafee.cc/Introecon/IEA.pdf
You say that you have seen very little on this subject yet somehow you are able to judge what is a step in the right direction?

What is baffling is how many HNers who are apparently eager to downvote anyone in disagreement with the basic income argument and ask for counter-arguments yet fail to prove it in details (or even links) that the idea will work.
this is cool, will check it out tonight
As has been mentioned already in this thread, jerks are in every profession. But after being a software developer for many years and being exposed to other industries both directly and from hearing about it from third parties, the jerkiness in software development is much more palatable to me (though I'm a software developer, so go figure).

In a lot of fields people will be very polite to your face while stabbing you in the back and turning the knife. In software the jerks are generally very upfront, showing far less "people skills" but at least showing you their cards. And while I like to think I've never been a jerk (you'd have to ask people who worked with me to be sure), I've noticed there tend to be two classes of jerks in software development and it may be important for you to try to recognize the distinction.

The first kind of jerk is the grumpy old coder who shoots down your idea to use the latest wiz-bang tech to rewrite your entire project for the next release. This guy has very little people skills and may not do a great job of explaining his position, so he seems to just be shooting you down for no reason. THIS GUY IS PROBABLY RIGHT, though. And his jerkiness comes from years of battle scars.

The second kind of jerk is the cocky (usually younger) developer who is sure he is right about every decision despite having limited real world experience. At first blush he looks like the other kind of jerk (except that he's probably younger). THIS GUY IS PROBABLY WRONG. And his jerkiness comes from a lack of real-world experience combined with an over-inflated sense of confidence coming out of the school years where he was the smartest guy in his school, but mixed with unacknowledged self doubt. Sometimes this kind of jerk grows up to be the first kind of jerk, but sometimes they remain the second kind of jerk.
There was something on people going on disability in a recent This American Life. People were going on disability because they just weren't useful in today's working world. They didn't know how to use computers. They had suffered some sort of injury and were no longer suited for manual labor. For these people the idea of working behind a desk never even entered their mind.
Is this 3+2+2 time new or something? My dad got 2 separate L1's (separate companies different years) and first one was always 1 year. My uncle just got his 2 or 3 years ago, and was also granted a 1 year L1.
PyCUDA lets you define new kernels by plopping CUDA source as a triple-quoted string in the middle of your Python code. It's not the most elegant thing in the world but you quickly get used to it. It seems on the surface that Continuum's CUDA is essentially the same thing sans-quotations. The semantic level of the "Python" code you're compiling doesn't look significantly more abstract than what you would find in a .cu file. But, it's not fair to judge from a few blog posts, which is why I'm wondering what peoples' actual experiences have been.
Thanks for the answer. I think I might write the neutral blog post and redirect people to it instead of explaining every time, thanks for the tip. It's not me in the video, but the editing makes it look like it is. I didn't really do anything wrong... if anything, I only try to help people, even if via misunderstood ways.

My friends are all saying this is nothing (both personally and professionally), but I know people do care about this, especially older / conservative people. If people get to know me, they understand I am very good professionally and also as a person.

I'm doing my best to focus on working, as I always do.
Respect.

All that said, this font looks pretty good to me as a programmer, (12 point version, at least), and I'm going to try it out when it's available. I've been looking for a good font to use in emacs on OS X and have never found one that I liked. (On Linux, my preference is 9x15.)
Everyone already knows by now. And no one cares.

They do care about secret courts, ... rightfully so.
I'm not being facetious when I say this: that question is a bit like asking why Ruby on Rails got all the hype when Ruby had been in development since the 1990's.
Fuck social media,

Do you have feet?
Do you have a phone?
Do you have an email client?

If so you can use all three of these things to establish real relationships with people and sell a product.

With feet you can go directly to your customers and talk to them.
A phone can be used to directly call your customers.
An email client can be used to contact your customers.

The best part of all of these mediums is that people will usually tell you exactly why they don't want to buy your product, the next best thing is that everyone is wasting their time on social media waiting for their viral post that will make them millions, rather than closing real deals.
> raising income taxes in all brackets

With basic income you wouldn't have that many - motivation to work at the lower bracket would suddenly decrease.
Arduino code + electronics simulator in the browser
Health and Human Services - 921.61B USD, important and interesting.
"Imagine an environment where basic accommodation and sustenance was available to everyone"

It is; it's just most of humanity is confused about needs vs. wants.
Have you provided ANY links or details to provide a counter-argument too?
Show HN: Mouseover "I'm Feeling Lucky"
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I don't think you're really supposed to scroll down on this site. There's nothing interesting down there.
Why you should be nice to technical recruiters
> You appear to have chosen to create a 5 month gap in your work history. Can you imagine how this looks to an employer?

Are you by any chance trolling? I am a middling .NET developer with a self-chosen 4 month gap in my work history ("personal projects to grow Python experience") and it took me something around four weeks of not particularly intensive search to get a signed contract in not particularly software-heavy Vancouver.

You'd rather have someone lie about what they do with their time than tell you they do something other than pump out code?

This sort of "you must have a job" selectivity isn't a factor for halfway decent software developers.
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With IE11, Internet Explorer finally joins the big boys.
Can someone explain, briefly, how Docker works? It seems to be getting an increasing amount of buzz lately and I'd like to understand what's going on. All I hear is how you can wrap software in a container that will run anywhere -- not a very helpful explanation. Docker's own website is surprisingly light on specifics... all I know after reading it is that it will, indeed, run almost anywhere! (but how?)
Discovered in 1998, and explained in 2008 using generally accepted equations, at http://finbot.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/dark-energy-obviated/

In short, if you launch a unpowered projectile upward at close to the speed of light, Einstein's prediction of gravitational time dilation (experimentally confirmed) in turn predicts that the projectile accelerates away from you, for as long as its velocity relative to you is close to the speed of light.

(The ivory tower no longer considers ideas that source outside the tower, which explains why this idea is in a blog.)
you should see the kinds of things Mathematica notebooks can do
Editorially - a simple web-based collaborative Markdown editor, now open
I'll jump on the respect train. Michael Arrington is an ideal person to influence people here. We all may have similar convictions, but he isn't just influencing software development, he's influencing software that is at a seminal stage, making it more likely that version 1 of the next Facebook clone will take security into account.

If PG and a few others joined with him, there would be momentum, just like that.
Security theater. sigh If the government was actually serious about protecting women and children from people with malicious intent, terrorists would be toward the bottom of the list, just above school shooters. Domestic abuse far outstrips any news-worthy outrages, but you don't get many votes talking about that.
Works yes, like a charm, not quite, still no support for pgpmime and APG hasn't really had any development in a few years.

On the positive side the guardian project is working on a full port of gpg, and see to be making good progress, https://guardianproject.info/code/gnupg/.
How about showing it overlaid with a topographical map?
Get Out, Network, and Add Your Influence to the Boston Tech Community
Hm, IV-A and VI-A is the same?
Jeff Schiller rebuts Gilmore's accusations re: IPSEC and the NSA
Whilst I agree you should always try and see things from the other person's perspective, and that this method often works well, I do think some people - some select individuals are beyond reaching.

Like an old manager of mine who told one of my team members in her review, "I'm not giving you a pay rise, but it's not because you're black." I mean, what can you say to that? She was in tears. The guy was so self-centered he didn't even realise that the things he said might cause offence.
World Mobile Device Map
God likes bears and elephants.

This is disturbing:

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

Teenage males go off on their own. They fight. Thank God they do not gore each other with tusks. God is not a cruel God.

None-the-less males are quite expendable. When you think about it, World War I was no big deal.

I wonder about polygamy. That means lots of lone males.

----

My ego is hilariously large -- only I know God exists. Everybody is a huge retard.

God says...
negligence Poland shared Monad deed this_might_end_badly
sparrows relaxing Bangladesh cruelty believing talketh
ancient churches wrought therefore *Portions ehheh_thats_all_folks
energy manifested bickering healthful Ghana gaining
Oh god! If this "modern" turns out to be just a passing trend, I'd hate to see the advent of post-modernism in UI design :)
I resist making any changes to my fonts/themes. I can spend hours sitting there tweaking them instead of just sticking with something I know (Menlo + Monokai for instance) and then just getting to work.
The l has a serif, but other characters do not.
> Is there any context in which it would make sense to set up circular replication?

It depends on if each node in the loop knows that it's already seen the replication data before and thus logs and ignores it. That's basically how MySQL (multi-master) replication loops work.
Microsoft Launches X-Box Music on Web For Free
Thanks for the follow up. I just added the url to the profile.

You bring up the crux of the problem - Getting that email list or phone list. Beyond a few beta signups, I don't have one.

I've contact places for reviews, even offering them a chance to provide their readers with free codes, but I guess I haven't contacted the right places, since I get no response.

I've contact places that I think the service would be a good fit and said they can provide these free codes to their users no strings attached, again no response.

So, right now my only trickles of traffic is adwords to even get some little validation. I will be adding more blog entries for SEO purposes, that much I know. Beyond that, I'm not sure how to find places/bloggers that will review it, as I'm just not big enough or have the funds to pay for reviews (which seems to be a lot more common these days).
My bottle of Aspirin says, I should take 2 pills after meals. My cough syrup says, I should take one tablespoon before bed.

But something that will, potentially, save me from myself cannot be delivered with tact, compassion and restraint with no delicacy whatsoever with regard to my sensibilities?

If the advice someone gives me is not in the form I can ingest, then what they have done is pleasure themselves publicly at my expense.

This was advice. I hope what I wrote falls into a form that you found ingestible.
I appreciate your positive attitude toward expanding one's skillset, and I agree that he should remove "I am not a designer". But I believe the creator when he says that he is not a designer, and I don't think it would be appropriate for us to say that he is a designer at this point.

I like cooking, and I can make some tasty meals, but I am not a chef.

I like drawing things in my notebook here and there, but I am not an artist.

I enjoy the occasional minor home improvement/repair project (renter) and woodworking challenge, but I am not a contractor nor a woodworker.

I've been making web sites and apps for a decade now, and I am a developer. I've been taking photos for a good part of that decade as well and I am a photographer (mostly amateur, though I have made some money from it).

Declaring yourself "a ______" in this way implies that you have achieved some level of experience, or at least that you are devoting or have devoted a significant chunk of time to the pursuit. I just don't know if the creator has put in this time, or considers it a significant enough pursuit to call himself a designer.
Mostly by converting them to dollars when I need.
This is interesting, but on my browser, the map cuts out much of the southern section of SF. Is it included in the numbers? This area may present a particularly interesting section to study elevation changes.

http://wikitravel.org/en/San_Francisco/Southeast
I'm not a massive fan of the PGP WOT. The way people sign each others keys and then push the signatures to the keyservers. It's kind of like publishing your contact list for everyone to see.

And I say this as somebody who uses PGP many times a day.
Is Bryan still working on Copperhead?

Also, do you know if the DPH folks ever managed to iron out a version of higher order flattening which gives a predictable performance gain?
When I read the headline I thought "isn't iOS based on Darwin?" and then I read the article. Good points, but I feel the headline is a bit off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)
I think this is a generational thing. I'm 21 and I've been employed constantly since I was 14 as well (if you stretch your definition of 'employed' to include 'Wordpress monkey and high school helpdesk attendant), and the advantage of that is if I were suddenly fired or laid off, I don't have to live in paralyzing fear since I already have around half a year's worth of living expenses saved up. That doesn't mean I'd spend six months goofing around -- I'm a workaholic and I derive an unhealthy amount of value from my day-to-day work -- but I wouldn't be crushed or anything.
What about the difference in use? Do you know of any work that examines whether there is a difference in the importance of attributes depending on whether it's for programming or reading?

I know different things are important to me when viewing programming text than reading. A simple, somewhat contrived example would be whether 'r' and 'n' together are easily discernible as 'rn' or 'm' (which is mostly a non-problem with mon-spaced fonts). When reading text, I can infer from context what the word most likely should be, but when programming, that's an error waiting to be found at some point.

To expand on this, different programming languages may stress different qualities of a font. From experience, I find when parenthesis look like curly braces in a font, it increases my frustration as it causes ambiguity where there should be none. This may be less of a problem in a language that uses fewer braces.
Are you implying that public transportation causes crime?
That font gives me DOS and Windows 3.11 flashbacks.
I'm not talking about enforcing, I'm talking about having a forum for heated but peaceful discussion and dealmaking. I'm pretty sure US and URSS in the '60s and '70s disagreed on more immediate stuff than a generic right to privacy, and they managed to resolve many such disagreements through the UN at various points in time. For all the corruption that goes on in ITU and similar institutions, these are venues where issues at the intersection of technology and politics can be debated and progressed.
Stuff like the monitoring of Petrobras for economic gain could also be configured as disruption of fair commerce under WTO rules. WTO processes, albeit very slow and clumsy, can have real repercussions on everyday economic activity.
I don't see anyone going to war with the US because of some overzealous spying. There will be stern words, and somebody might see it as a good occasion to do away with the American dominance of stuff like ICANN and IETF, but I don't think anybody wants to deploy tanks to defend their routers -- not yet, at least
Well, yes and a lot of the people in the Tea Party wanted the government to get out of their lives and pocketbooks and this would fit.

but....

Any loosely organized group of people, be it the Tea Party or Occupy has a serious problem these days. Your opponents can define you by your edges and they will. The media loves attacking people that don't fit the politics of their network or newspaper. These media then search for the most misguided hanger-on at the edges and make them the face of your movement. Many incidents are misreported to fit their narrative. It minimizes the damage these groups can do and makes them feel bad when they get home and see totally different reporting than what occurred. My favorite is to show a tight shot of the counter-protest making it out to be the same size when it is only 10 to 20 people or show garbage left from another protest as if it came from the one they don't like.

Not to say they cannot be successful. A number of Tea Party folks got elected, and the fight at the 2012 Republican Convention showed who was actually scarred. In the long term movements do win, but we need short term solutions.

Now, you can demonize the NRA, but it has moneys and knows how to motivate its members. It scares officials during and election and can target races. The funny thing is the money in tech dwarfs the money in guns, but the 2nd is better defended than the 4th or 5th.
Anyone know of a list like this for Node.js, Ruby?
makes a great mousepad.
JDK 8 Developer Preview
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Adobe Generator for Photoshop based on Node.js
Americans use the Internet to abandon children adopted from overseas
Just some more PR.

They would like you to forget that the real question is their collaboration with the NSA.
It neatly highlights some of the difficulties around privacy and anonymity.

WoT does feel a bit like tying all the metadata to a cryptographically strong identity.
Article here:
http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/2013/09/introducing-a...
If the New iPhone Has Fingerprint Authentication, Can It Be Hacked?
https://www.docker.io/gettingstarted/#

Try the tutorial, if it still doesn't make much sense to you, then it's probably not something you need to worry about.
Does this happen every year?
Always happy to get mail from engineers, not so enthusiastic about getting mail from recruiters trying to 'help me with my staffing needs.'
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