skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Capitalism is part of the progression to communism. You have to have generated capital in order to distribute it. Marx saw communism as a progression from capitalism, not a genesis form of government in and of itself.

China had the unfortunate luck of being left in ruins when it becoming "Communist". Deng rebooted the whole thing, it remains to be seen whether they will continue communism into the future. To call it "capitalism" is a bit rich (no pun), given all major industries are owned by the government (the people).

The 50s they also brought health care to vast majority of the population. The 60s they increased literacy across the country by simplifying the language, and standardising education.

Should we both just keep cherry picking information to paint our own narrative, or admit this isn't a black and white subject?
Oh yay, this again.

People use this tired old argument on us too - "what? Why is IT building the website again? Don't we already have one? Welp, guess they have to justify their paychecks somehow...", it's tiresome, reductionist, grossly ignorant, and textbook HN: everyone is useless except me.

Fashion isn't a simple cause and effect - it isn't designers dictating taste to an unwilling public. The influence is circular - design influences public aesthetic influences more design. The fashion industry steals plenty of ideas right off the streets, it's far, far from a one-way relationship. "Fashion" is just an endless cycle of the public influencing products and vice versa. Sometimes it will retread familiar territory, other times it'll do something new.

And thank god we have it. I for one am glad we're rid of animated GIFs and fluorescent green text, or do you think that evolution is also bored designers justifying their paychecks?

But nah, none of the above can be true, everyone's a useless parasite except the vaunted Hackers, hallowed be their names!
It's amazing how easily one can translate something these days instead of complain about having to read Chinese (http://translate.google.com/):

People [edit] The People's Republic of China since the founding of the ruling Communist Party of China, early through art, propaganda's "no new China without the Communist Party," "stability overrides everything" and other slogans, considered by some to be "brainwashed" behavior. Chinese Communist Party controls the media, civil society without freedom of opinion, but also through education, partial rendering methods such as modern history "positive ideological propaganda" has also been considered to be brainwashed behavior. Some have commented that the PRC during the Cultural Revolution massive and continuous education communist propaganda campaign, obviously brainwashing behavior; when opponents of the CPC will be treated as people designated as "class enemies," these people forcibly impose "Labour transformation "(labor camps)," thought reform ", power and violence, so that the whole community lost almost everyone free will to think independently. [12]

People's Republic of China Central Television, the official television media, is accused of playing the part of the existence of "brainwashing" refers to a Chinese young scholars CCTV braids play through indoctrination autocracy, to create personality I was poisoned the atmosphere of freedom and democracy to China, there brainwashing significance, and CCTV "News Network" selective "glossy", such as "propaganda network." [13] [14] However, the Chinese Communist Party and its supporters do not agree with these criticisms.

English "brainwash" means "brainwashed" by the Chinese "brainwashing" translated from the word; in the late 1950s along the Korean War, American soldiers were captured after the People's Liberation Army, day and night to accept the idea of ​​transformation of the Chinese Communist Party, were rescued after back to the U.S., even speak good words to help the Chinese Communist Party, then the U.S. correspondent Edward Hunter to use the term to describe the matter brainwash.
NSA doesn't want to spy. They Want To Help Kids With Math Homework
This was staged by the german pirate party.
They wanted to "take pictures" / draw attention to the surveillance issue.

The incident wasn't discussed in terms of being a threat in german media. Merkel was photographed smiling as the drone crashed down in front of her.

See also: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/merkel-campaign-...
And then there would be an industry for it, which would create perverse incentives to create slave humans in other countries or employ thousands of animals living out their lives in cages just to produce an "odd" beer that people are willing to pay top dollar for to get wasted.
Kind of surprised that marketing cost them more than development ($115m vs $150m).
>implying /v/ is macho
No more than TFA was advocating "One C64 Per Child" :-)

All joking aside, I think the advent of very accessible, low-cost SBCs, coupled with languages like Python, is a Good Thing. Our local hackerspace, Splatspace, also helped sponsor the Teen Tech Camp event, and we do a lot of stuff that's geared towards working with kids (teaching Scratch, doing "Squishy Circuits" demos, helping with "math and science night" at a local school, etc), and I'd like to see us do even more of that sort of thing.

One of my biggest regrets right now is that I'm so damn busy with Fogbeam Labs, that I don't have as much time as I'd like, to personally teach some classes and what-not. But I keep telling myself that things will stabilize eventually, and I'll be able to do more of that stuff...
If Battlefield 3 has taught me anything, someone is going to strap a brick of C4 to one soon enough.
At the time of the Korean war, China was still in the Mao period. From any sane point of view at that time, communism was horrible for China.

Post-Mao, well... Hua was a disaster and Deng was never a good communist. Mao himself accused Deng of being a capitalist and banished him to the countryside in the 60s. Once he finally gained power and brought back mild capitalism (really, market socialism), it still took 20 years for China to really get going.
This has only ever been true for MMS received from Sprint users. Google Voice & Sprint's current FAQ indicates that MMS no longer works, even on Sprint [1].

[1] https://support.google.com/voice/answer/1205636?hl=en
Okay, I'd say you're both off here. I think you're right that Bsullivan should take Google more seriously - I think he's going to have to eat his hat with the way Google is heading. But you shouldn't dismiss Mercedes - the German car companies are very smart, and have the potential to be top players over the coming decades.
The Opera store looks incredibly similar to the Chrome Web Store, even down to the effect used to show more information when you hover over a tile.

https://addons.opera.com/en-gb/extensions/
compared with
https://chrome.google.com/webstore
We moved our startup to Berkeley from San Francisco (others will too)
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> Open offices can work, but only if you go out of your way to make them work. Just throwing a few dozen devs in a warehouse is a recipe for dissatisfaction. I think that that happens more often than not, resulting in things like this study.

No, they're universally bad. No door, no privacy and a constant stream of chatter from other people. Yuck.
glad to see main stream articles discussing the Rockstar's industry feat vs. content controversy
Are you daft?

http://stackexchange.com/about/hiring
The study in Peopleware was individual coders working on well-defined toy projects. Whatever evidence taken from that may or may not translate to your real-world development organization.
Hear my kind tone of voice encouraging you to engage.

If you feel that hypocrisy gives you a free pass to avoid engaging with a very deep belief system with a philosophical head start on you of no less than centuries, and your capsule summary of the Roman Catholic church is "medieval" and "moralizing"...

I would say you actually need more exposure to Catholicism, not less.

Hypocrisy is a universal... so it is actually a horrible signal if you are trying to figure out what to believe. And Christianity at least has a history of facing this issue head on.

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness."

-- Jesus, in Matthew
> note that infiniband isn't a high speed interconnect. it's a cheap commodity interconnect- in fact, per port, it can be cheaper than 10GB.

Why do you think that an interconnect can't be both cheap and high-speed? As you said, there has been a lot of work to make MPI efficient on infiniband, but that has been possible because inifiniband offers much lower (~10 times) latency than 10GbE, not because no one has optimized MPI for ethernet. In fact, standards like RoCE and iWarp have been devised by Ethernet working group to compete with infiniband on this particular metric.
Same, but I'm ok with it. I haven't been on 4chan in years, but I still love it and everything that it built/made in internet culture (well - maybe not EVERYTHING). It's good that the community would be sure to vote up the very most important posts IRT it, because I wouldn't find them any other way.
Because moot runs one of the largest, most active, and longest-lived anonymous social networks and discussion boards on the 'net?
The main difference between then and now is that back then you stumbled upon it, and now you need to make a concerted effort to find out where to start.
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Hah it sounds like you guys had a lot of fun working on Trello Gold, building the feature that everyone seems to mock just for the fun of it.
$115 million? Wow. How many developers/artists/QA/management folks (or man-hours) does that buy you?
Did you notice who wrote that comment?
I happened to read this right after the article on Simpson's Paradox, and you put your finger on exactly what I was thinking - it's almost certain that there are many hidden variables that predict whether or not you work in an open office, and many of these likely correlate very strongly with job satisfaction, potentially inverting the relationship just based on relative employment rates in different areas. Just knowing that satisfaction correlates with open floorplans doesn't tell us anything solid about whether you should choose one or not.
I bet I'm not the only one who sometimes puts headphones on with no music, solely to broadcast that don't-bother-me signal.
New iPhone Fingerprint Reader Increases Security but Misses Point
This part shocked me:

> They also collaborated. “When an escape did occur,” wrote one of the investigators, “the Chinese usually recovered the man easily by offering a bag of rice to anyone offering to turn him in.” This was extremely rare in German and Japanese prison camps.

It seems they achieved something more than just moulding the PoWs' political views: they broke their esprit de corps.

Still, I dislike words like "brainwash" and "mind control". It significantly understates the complicated dynamic between the washer and the washed. It would be interesting to learn how the Chinese were affected by their contacted with the Americans.
150 programs and 1 that's right for you
Oh great, a lot of fear-mongering about to happen.

We honestly can't defend against all of these things--might as well simply try to structure society to be resilient in the face of inevitable attacks, and try not to make such things desirable to anybody even remotely sane.
I agree. It's extremely annoying how IEEE carefully segment their library access to maximise revenue instead of member value.
Decade-Old StumbleUpon Finds Profits in the Mobile Era
That official gameplay video is really impressive if you haven't looked at the state of the art in video games lately. It looks like a wish list of gaming features put together by hardcore fans with no limits on budget or creativity.

If I didn't know the game was released and well received, I'd say there's no way in hell it would be possible to put it all together on time, on budget, and without major flaws. Damn impressive.
I can't relate to this at all. I'd argue that the quality of life is actually much higher here. Even with longer work hours.

Sure rental prices suck, but to name a few things:

* Weather is amazing.
* Wages are higher than anywhere else for my profession.
* The quality of food/produce is better than anywhere else I've lived, year-round.
* Within a 4-hour driving radius, I can be skiing, surfing, hiking or tasting world-class wine.
* Easy to meet up with like-minded people.
I live in China, it is the most capatalistic country I have lived in. If there is any socialism left, it is quite hidden to me.
Have a few copies of my WordPress book, in e-book form, to give away
Back in the C64 days everything was absolutely fresh. Everything was exciting. No one was an "expert". Everyone was just really enjoying experimenting. THAT'S why it was exciting. It was undiscovered country. To kids, it's boring now. There's nothing to discover. Deep down, kids want adventure. It seems computer science is being relegated to the same box mathematics is stored in.
Well, it sounds like you've been doing a great job. I guess the challenge is figuring out how to scale what you've been doing to allow other volunteers to replicate your success!
I suspect there's more of a userbase overlap than you'd think.
Automated translation of East Asian languages into English is typically a source of much unintended hilarity. People therefore don't trust it.

Aside from that, Google Translate can be downright odd sometimes. Like what it did to Lorem Ipsum:

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2010/10/google-tra...

http://www.zagg.com/community/blog/lorem-ipsum-text-translat...
If you're a US citizen with an invention, and the US government wants to take your invention for their own exclusive purposes, they are explicitly allowed to do so. Even though the patent is still yours, you cannot reveal any details surrounding it due to the secrecy order, which means that you effectively cannot actually implement or build the invention described within the patent, because if anyone other than you were to somehow possess or observe it, you would be in violation of the patent secrecy order. The one exception to this is if you assist in building the invention for a person or entity explicitly authorized by the US government. Essentially, if you want to profit from an invention in such a situation, you would have to be hired by the US government.
I've heard a lot of stuff about 4chan, and this sure sounds important. But this post is literally the first thing I've ever read on the site.

Should I even try to understand this?
Would have to disagree on everyone being focused on the stock option lottery. 1st its not a lottery. You can do analysis that shows that working for large entrenched dominate company, think Apple, Google or such over 5 years will beat a engineer joining a series B,C company that makes it. For startups there is often a trade of salary for ownership. If you calculate it over many years and payrises, bonus's etc... the numbers may play even.

Many many people in the Bay Area are not in startups at all and not playing the option lottery, they are married with children. Some play the management ranks and others contract, etc... I met a woman once in the dot com boom that confided in me that she made $1mill in 2000 over a short time. It got me thinking about the real equations at work. You need to do math, simple math but you need the data which you may not have.

Anyhow, that said, it is true I think that engineers do not get their fair share of equity many times in companies even with dozens of people. So this is when ownership or foundership or close to starting is a stock option play. Options are a contract to own at a price set on the contract. If the price rises dramatically you have a massive amount of capital. Stock options are very risky, compared to straight risk adverse salary jobs. For risk there is reward. It has not much to do with lottery, manly with risk and reward and statistics. You need to crunch the numbers and consider risk and then decide on your career paths.
Well, you are a startup founder, and arguably a household name on big swaths of the internet nowadays. It certainly fits the criteria.
No fear mongering going on here.
As i wrote earlier, the incident wasn't discussed in terms of being a threat in the german media.

Also, the pilot of the drone was only briefly arrested for disturbing the rally and released hours later by the police.
After conducting an examination of the drone, the police concluded that it posed no threat. case closed.
Roughly 1000 person years at 115k/person/year?
You're right software engineering literature is not as strong as, say, physics -- where you can relatively easily strip out confounding factors. Or medicine, where you can get funding for very large samples. We have to work with the limits of the subject and the research funding.

However it seems that there is a growing body of supporting literature coming from other fields that open-plan is usually a decision with unseen costs. The linked article is an example.
You're replying to the owner of 4chan right now, if you're unaware.
It's like how car engines used to be completely exposed under the hood, now it's all hidden under plastic panels.
I notice the original comment was amended to say Google Translate needs work (obviously), but I think it adds value, so here's a full comparison:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwashing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_reform_in_the_People%27...

Chinese translated to English:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...
Seems to open emails in "editing" mode by default. I filed an issue on Github.
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I am not an iOS developer, but my friends' two 11-year-olds have produced a few apps, without any formal training. Not polished, but they work. I don't have any other evidence that these two are extraordinary geniuses.

My impression is that iOS developer tools (and modern high-level tools generally) provide beginning developers with a much quicker path to producing highly visual applications than I had as beginning C programmer decades ago.

More visual feedback == more fun == more motivation to continue.
> reasonable arguments in support of non-open models (and I'm not saying this is one of them)

Then what the hell are you talking about? I am yet to see a reasonable argument in support of their business practices. Please link me to one if I missed it - because I don't think it exists.

The only thing I seem to see repeated is "some googley company did what we did but offered it for free and we have kids to feed so let us do shady things to keep our dated business model afloat and don't hate on us over it!"
Do you recommend that people go to 4chan?
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That money bought them things like this: http://static.trustedreviews.com/94/000028992/826f/GTA-5-mur...

(That is a massive painting on the side of a building, incase that isn't clear)
Per capita GDP in terms of PPP

US: ~$50000
Taiwan: ~$39000
EU: ~$35000
China: ~$9000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP...
The Web Template Framework is also the explanation for ObjC's high WTF count.
For the record The Manchurian Candidate was a book before it was a movie. I read the book once long ago but don't remember much about it. In contrast the imagery of the movie is very hard to forget.
What is even more impressive about this figure is that it's just XBOX 360 and Playstation 3 sales. GTA V hasn't been announced for PC yet which is a severely underrated market when it comes to games I reckon. If GTA V launched with a PC version I think they would have eclipsed $1 billion in 24 hours, easily, if not 1.1.

I played this yesterday (I don't own a console) at a friends house and what they've been able to achieve on these consoles is impressive considering these consoles aren't next gen and are resource limited.
A good preschool will teach everything you mention, while letting kids play pretty much 100% of the time, with just enough adult interaction to provide structure and guidance. It exists and no one campaigns for it to be longer or stricter. Preschool is not the problem, and I don't think it's the subject of the article. It's ages 4-18.

I don't remember any lesson that adults were to be questioned and authority challenged in my preppy, over-scheduled suburban upbringing. Mostly I just internalized the value of sitting, shutting up, doing what I was told, being smart, getting the right answer, and laboring constantly on meaningless work products.

You've identified the useful 10% or so of school and used it to argue against a straw man of no school and an idle life.
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Bad:

having your back surrounded, creates axiety, as a Ted talk told, generally, the more experienced/dominant will grab the 'more privacy' spots, of course.

Absolute worst:

Sitting at a table trying to do work, and some other dude trying to do the same across the table in front of you, the laptop screens are just high enough for you to be with minimal visual contact with the other and both become tense because you sort of have to lock view INSIDE the damn screen so you're not making eye contact with dude all the time. Still, it will happen tens of times. Impossible to concentrate, feel worn out at the end of the day. Random feelings of hostility and awkwardness.

The constant chit-chat is probably just a way to relieve the anxiety these places build.

Now I was just remembering of another shitty place I worked at: experienced/dominant dude controlled the AC, put it to freezing everyday, underground office, no natural light. When 6pm hit, it felt weirdly pleasant to leave because inside, with the artificial light + cold AC air, it felt like it was way later, my eyelids felt heavy from the ressecation and I felt like it was night because of the cold(sometimes I'd bring a jacket, even), then I went out and it was still day and still somewhat warm. Weird. And it was also somewhat open plan. God, it sucked!
Single element heart animated in pure CSS
Some people are already trying to get into the scoreboard.
This doesn't seem wildly unreasonable to me. If it allows them to perform a better review and check for malicious code before approving it, I'm all for it.

Perhaps Opera can perform the minification after reviewing the code and achieve the performance gains while still being able to prevent malicious code entering the store.
A valid argument against determinism in the universe.

How could the Big Bang have predetermined a pony ban on 4chan?
Yep all the /b/ros are gonna see it that way
It's a bit of a false dichotomy (as I tried to explain earliar).

It isn't capitalism vs communism. Capitalism is a form of economy, communism is form of government. The mix of those, I believe china call it: "Socialism with chinese characteristics".

The fact primary industry and exports are state owned is a big tick for: Communism. That's true, regardless what you see living there.

(People making money and doing business is not anti-communism, it is where the money goes that makes it "communist").

Isn't the famous Deng quote: It doesn't matter what color the cat is, as long as it catches the mouse.
First, some people are introverts. They genuinely do not work well under conditions of heavy social interaction. This does not mean that they are "antisocial" or that they are sad; it means that they are more sensitive to some kinds of stimuli and so are more easily distracted and exhausted by it.

Such people should be understood and given the distance that allows them to work, not browbeaten into keeping up with the extraverts.