skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you care?

Seriously, I don't get it. At least in the US, card holders have zero liability in these instances.

If your card number got leaked and is used to make a fraudulent purchase, simply report it to your card issuer. They will reverse the charge and issue you a new card number.

The paranoia around card numbers for consumers is crazy. There's literally no risk. It makes sense for merchants because they bear risk, but I don't understand why cardholders get upset.
A truly excellent reply, refuting all of the GP's argument with a simple, and effective, ad hominem! I applaud you, non-sarcastically.
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"13. Say one thing and do another. (Mission Statement = A, What We Really Do = B)"

This, a thousand times over.

Mission statements are uniquely infuriating when their values are in blatant contradiction to how the business is being operated. I'd rather a company not have a mission statement at all than have a hypocritically practiced one.

A hypocritical mission statement turns into a cruel joke, and it serves only to reinforce employees' disenchantment with the firm -- especially when it's being touted in the press, or waved in employees' faces.
I'm thinking of creating a startup, but I'm a busy guy. Can I pay someone else to make it for me? I'd still collect the profits of course.
GS probably resells it to unsuspecting investors as a "AAA" database engine. :)
You maybe right that I can make up this $60 somehow. But the question isn't about the cost (sorry if my post was misleading). The question was about the ownership.

For example, assume, depending on where you live, your favorite manufacturer, who is also a monopoly, Volkswagen if you're in Europe, Ford/Chevy if you're in the States sells you cars for a fixed price and you're very happy.

So let's say the price of each car they sell you is $25,000. You pay once and forget and you own the car. Forever. Assume this car is very solid and you plan to own it for a good 5-7 years. For a span of 5 years, that translates to $5000 a year.

Now, suddenly, Volkswagen/Ford/Chevy decide that one time payments suck and you need to pay monthly, say $1000.

Their argument is that for $1000/mo for 2 years you spend $24,000 in total and that is less than what you would pay one time. Well, if you were the kind of person who would upgrade once in every two years, that is fine. It is really a $1000 cheaper. But for the average dude who upgrades his car once in 4-5 years, it's a disaster.

His current car's value reduces drastically because of this monthly scheme. And to access any sort of updates to his car, he needs to pay monthly, and this monthly payment includes a penalty as well, if you decide to cancel sometime in between.

That sucks right? I know people who are still on CS3, CS4, CS5 because it just works for them and fits their needs.Now these manufacturers tell you that you can still buy an older model from their store and make it extremely difficult and dodgy to buy one. That's cheated right? Especially considering the fact that there are a lot of car robbers who rob cars from their factory (but by cloning the car and leaving the original copy behind) and get away without paying anything. Now, how bad would you feel for paying for such a nasty corporation?

That's exactly how I feel right now.
Agreed. I'd love to read more about the Zappos case study. I'd love to see how they've solved some of the finer challenges of attempting a work environment like this.

I can definitely see why it would work though.
This. But if one still does it 'off the books' sort, it should still work (though there is risk of breaching the terms in employment contract with the gubment)
This isn't really true anymore. Most major tokenization providers also provide a way to transfer data from one provider to the next.

I'm sure they aren't happy about the idea, but most of them recognize that lock-in is a reason people don't use their services.
seem to be an interesting thing. Yes the article is of somewhat lesser quality than the MIT own, but Thank you for post it never-the-less. I'd hope they will try to open a bit their project, so technically like minded people will be able to contribute. :)
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I absolutely agree with you, Docker is where the community seems to be converging for standardisation around linux containers. This is a great first step towards application portability from physical, virtual and PaaS. Now it will be interesting to see who/what will win when it comes to the cartridge/buildpack side of things.
Somewhat relatedly how does unemployment insurance work for the furloughed? Can they collect it? If they get back pay later do they have to return the unemployment payments? Could they actually come out ahead?
"Furloughed" sounds like a word used in 1820.
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I've never worked anywhere where I had to do time recording - but even in a 2 person startup I've always done "formal" expense claims to avoid the potential wrath of tax authorities.
No I haven't seen it before. Thanks for the reference!
Another fan of that blog.

I imagine you could re-caption the "Simon Peyton-Jones adding the IO Monad to Haskell" GIF [1] to serve this topic, too.

[1]: http://this-plt-life.tumblr.com/post/44462204757/simon-peyto...
Western culture, generally, tends towards a "you can think what you like about morality, but don't you dare measure other people up to that standard" mindset. What you have noted is a good example of where such a mindset tends to snap.

Additionally, the person making the statement "I don't think you should measure other people up to your own standard of morality" is actually doing exactly what they purport to rail against.
Mainly in-house made no-sql databases.
Yeah, and if you had any idea of who you were criticizing, you might be willing to overlook a spelling mistake. Mike Eisen is a world-class evolutionary biologist, professor at UC Berkeley, founder of PLoS, and an HHMI investigator.
Actually, I think the cat & mouse metaphor is fairly apt. The cat actually has a powerful set of advantages... but the mice have numbers, persistence, and in violation of the metaphor, a lot of learning capability. This will not be the first market the feds will manage to destroy, but it will get harder each time.

I am neither applauding nor deploring this; just predicting it.

(One of the things the mice may learn is that the slightest identity leak can give them away. One mis-click on a Facebook login or something and that could well be that. If I were a mouse, I would be working on building something like an encrypted VM image that only contains "safe" software on it, like browsers configured with TOR or whatever, and make sure to do all my business in that VM, and only my business in that VM, while maintaining a "normal" identity on the outside of the VM. The best way to prevent identity leakage is not to share it at all. And I would not install clipboard sharing between VM and host, and I would not enable shared windows; I would deliberately leave the VM console up, and distinctly less than full screen, so it is very visibly obvious that I am either in or not in the VM. I would not use any of the conveniences designed to blur that line.)
The fact that they're still making huge profits is also consistent with that being the result of the momentum of a slowly-dying behemoth.

I'm actually not trying to argue that this definitely is the case, I'm just saying those profits don't automatically support the case you're making.
These clones never have any discussion. :(
Then I need to investigate if our payment provider provides this service :)
Why? DPR was a much bigger criminal threat than most of the users that went on the SR. You don't let the head of the cabal get away to nab the underlings, that's just plain stupid.
The standard monitor of the Xerox Alto was in portrait: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto
Do you know if they've tested the drivers recently? Apparently it's been possible to run FreeBSD on Hyper-V for a while now; these drivers are fairly new (they were only committed to the FreeBSD source tree a few months ago), so if your friend is interested in using FreeBSD on Azure, you might ask him/her to try testing again using FreeBSD 10-ALPHA4 or newer. If they do try again and get the same results, post something in the thread I linked above with details so someone can look into it (either the Microsoft dev or a FreeBSD kernel dev).
"To view this website please download our plugin that enables DRM-protected content in your browser."
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So does "filibustered". We could definitely do without the use of the two in politics. :)

"Furloughed" is actually older than 1820, if you go here (https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3Afurloug...) and click the drop-down box to see its history.
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Maybe they did for a little while, but that seems hard to do unless they target some users specifically.

Tor hides the source IP of people connecting to the server and tracking bitcoin transactions is pretty difficult as well.
The company I work for has been going through the metamorphosis of startup to medium sized over the last few years.

I firmly believe that there needs to be more structure (policies, procedures, documentation) as you get bigger and add employees. If those are lacking, you'll get a lot of uninformed employees making poor decisions and a product that looks and feels disjointed.
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It seems to be down for me at the moment. But cool concept.
I think a common answer would be "text files." And of course, grep and awk.
Why doesn't it work the other way around. That Adobe send your bank account a signed money request (with a verification code retained on the Adobe end so even if private keys were taken the abusers would need to currently own the server in order to maintain the pretense of having issued a request).

Then you go through the requests in your account and allow those you wish.

Like a sort of reverse Direct Debit/ Standing Order.
A community for solo workers? About time. Will it work?
Please implement this. The faster we lull these stupid media companies into a false sense of security, the faster we can get rid of Silverlight.
I assume the title will get fixed. I think the interesting thing is it's located in Sweden due to power reasons.
what are the data type problems?
> or we are stuck with Silverlight and Flash video forever

This proposal simply trades one insecure, binary blob for another. It doesn't really solve the problem.

> rather than getting and updating 2-3 different insecure plugins all the time for doing the same thing?

IIRC each site can provide its own module, so it'll be many more than 2-3 plugins

> Is this just a crusade agains DRM as a whole (good luck with that) from the free software movement, or do they have problems with this exact proposal from the w3c?

Why good luck with that? DRM simply makes honest users jump through hoops and allow themselves to be controlled. Also, the proposal itself doesn't really solve any of the problems that flash and silverlight do. And those binary blobs will still probably not run in linux...
It got mine wrong...

"That makes about as much sense as a whale and a dolphin getting it on."

Keep working on it guys... I wish I understood sentiment trees well enough to be able to train it properly for this statement... Is a sentiment tree able to properly represent sarcasm and innuendo? <--- Honest question
If the original article had contained something like what you just wrote, it would have been an interesting and worthwhile article.
The whole idea of bringing people together for more interaction can easily be abused. As a dev at a startup, we just sit at a big table (well, technically 6 desks pushed together). While we have had some great discussions that improved our workflow and even the direction of the company, we also had many, many discussions about football, Verge articles, and Youtube videos. Being motivated, (generally) hard-working developers, we actually got a bit frustrated with how easy it was to interact with each other.

A few months ago, we let go of most of our scheduling structure, and now we have virtually no obligation to be in the office if we don't want to. Now we just work from home if we absolutely need a highly productive day. I like the structure we've come up with (plus we distract each other a lot less these days), and we are much more productive. There's a balance to be struck, and encouraging interaction can have unintended side effects if you aren't careful.
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How does anyone downvote "What are you, the metaphor compiler?", regardless of context?
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Hydrogen: The car fuel of the future?
The technolibertarian generation is still looking for its utopia apparently. Sometimes people forget that democracy is about the majority oppressing the rest.
One of the saddest parts of this whole saga is how the carbon dioxide alarmists have hijacked research budgets and public interest which could be spent dealing with legitimate environmental concerns.
If they can figure out how to wirelessly power the cubes, or allow connected cubes to power each other via conductivity (perhaps at the cube edges), then the self-assembly of the bridge at the scale they're aiming for makes much more sense.

Hitting on the flywheel as the core mechanism for locomotion was amazing.
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Judging from spending a year in a US high-school when I was 16 this is as a character trait that's woven deeply into the American psyche though.
This won't work. Most video cards now have an HDMI output and their are numerous ways to bypass HDCP.
They spent a lot of resources going after the big fish. You generally don't go deep see fishing, catch a marlin, and then trawl of minnows on the way back to port.
"What the Tortoise Said to Achilles" (Lewis Carroll 1895; on logic)
Do those phones have Google services with them?
I was mostly talking about the desktop, other people already commented on the 'forced' Webkit market share on mobile devices.

Firefox around me: From technical people to guys that use mostly Excel, everyone here uses FF (apart from the IE10+ guys at work). Heck, I learned about some of these strange 'take FF, compile it for amd64 and call it "optimized"' FF derived browsers through people that .. are average not-into-computers-really joes.

The only people that DO install Chrome around here (I know, I know, nothing but anecdotes to back this) are elderly family members that click that annoying huge 'You should really download our browser, it's teh best thing ever' button on Google - and get back to launch IE again the next day, because they didn't understand the whole thing, really.

I don't want to take Chrome away from anyone, I just dislike the 'Meh, FF OS is useless anyway, their browser is becoming obsolete and they just meddle with politics' dismissal in the original comment. A 'desperate effort to become relevant again'? Why (and in what world) would they be irrelevant in the first place?
"Hell is the Absence of Good" (Ted Chiang)
Google dying
This seems so obvious and straightforward, but it bears repeating:

If you value someone as an employee, show them.

Whether this is through salary increases, promotions, or even just pulling someone aside for five minutes and saying "Hey, you're doing a great job." ....show them. Especially on younger employees, its amazing how powerful a moment of unsolicited praise from a manager or senior level employee can be.

Obviously a bigger salary and promotions help as well, but companies often act surprised when someone they considered their "best employee" walks out, but how would this so called "best employee" even know they were highly valued in the first place when they cant get a raise that keeps up with inflation, or their manager can't even take five minutes every now and then to congratulate him/her on a job well done?
I'll just leave this here.

http://rapgenius.com/Macklemore-and-ryan-lewis-wing-lyrics
I would think this would be one of the easiest to get right... bad=negative Not=negative ... two negatives=positive
Well they've not got $1.2bn, they've got $150 million. There is nothing to say that they will be able to float or get bought at a similar valuation.
I can't see any of the investing arguments for MongoDB that even Facebook had. The whole space is full of competition for starters.
Your dissection is totally out of context. The author is expressing support for the nature of anonymity, in which Silk Road was an almost perfect example. It's not concerned with the legalities - as far as the US is concerned, anyway - of what Silk Route was facilitating, but the fact that anonymous pockets of people have a right to exist and now the very belief that such a thing is possible on the internet is under threat.

EDIT: Changed 'Silk Route' to 'Silk Road'; the former is actually an Indian restaurant near me!
If I and others want to get together and communicate without divulging our identities, to each other or to third parties, that is our right in a free society. It's not anyone elses business. Not yours, not the NSA's and not the FBI's

Certainly you can gainsay that, as you do. So if that's what you mean by it can be debated, point taken.

But I'd agree with the author that it can't be debated - if you are referring to a free society. Unless we adopt an Orwellian New speak version of the word free.
Please use this money to buy the TokuTek fork. I always expected the storage layer to have made much greater progress by now.
Did I just start Chrome?
I think aragot was using 'you' to mean 'the user'. While you may be motivated to find uncrippled versions of the content, you can rest assured that the vast majority of users will not, and will just switch browser.
For every developer you hear that has problems with Mongo, there are probably 5 that are fine with certain downsides.
Not convincing enough. This has been posted for the second time. Thanks whoever flagged this.
they gather feeds from around the world. Use node.js to process and show the data. (They are from Portugal)
Cialdini has a different take on it in his analysis, which hangs this on a much lower level tendency that cannot be easily overcome by education - consistency pressure. The idea is that the prospect of being perceived as wishy-washy is so devastating socially, that we have evolved to actually change our self-image and our beliefs to reflect our actions and words. There's a scary amount of evidence for this effect.

The worst part, when applied to how we reason, is that being smarter can actually make it worse. I've sometimes found myself arguing for some downright idiotic positions because I made an uninformed declaration early in the conversation, and then found myself compelled to defend it. If I were dumber, I might run out of things to say and stop talking in those situations. Instead, I have from time to time actually convinced people - or at least convinced them that my ignorant position was worth considering.
Well, some of us have been asking for a native high-resolution time type for three years: https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-1460
"Are federal workers eligible for unemployment benefits? Yes. Federal employees who are laid off, including those furloughed this week, are eligible to receive unemployment benefits. In general, for workers to be eligible they must have lost their job through no fault of their own, not quit or have been fired, and must have been employed long enough to meet state qualifications.

If Congress votes to reimburse federal employees, will they have to repay their unemployment benefits? Most likely, yes. States say they’ll attempt to recoup benefits paid to federal employees if the workers receive back pay once they’re back on the job. (Congress will decide that when it ends the shutdown.) States would notify workers that they owe the money back. Officials in several states said that if workers don’t voluntarily repay, the state would garnish wages, tax refunds and deny future unemployment benefits to recoup the money."

Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/10/03/what-furloughed-wo...
Yes, the problem: the only way the content owners will stream tonights game to my computer is if it is protected somehow.
If there is a way to make a transparent & open platform that allows content to my computer in a way that makes the content providers happy, then I'm all for doing that instead of having the system of insecure binary blobs. But is that possible? If it is possible, wht isn't the W3C pushing for that instead of the "plug your own binary"-platform? Is security through obscurity inherent in DRM?
It's a shame they didn't think about the name a bit longer. In the UK "Mongo" is a fairly disparaging term and I find it hard to pitch MongoDB to customers because of this.
Good, now they only need to deliver a database :)
Content providers want to be on the web, because that's where the audience is. If they're made to feel unwelcome on the web, they certainly will take their content away. This makes the web less useful and harms users.
phousphourous?

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Phosphorous#Spelling_and_e...)

> According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the correct spelling of the element is phosphorus. The word phosphorous is the adjectival form of the P3+ valence: so, just as sulfur forms sulfurous and sulfuric compounds, phosphorus forms phosphorous compounds (e.g., phosphorous acid) and P5+ valence phosphoric compounds (e.g., phosphoric acids and phosphates).
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Seems kind of mean to pick on this kid. It looks like he spend a lot of time on this site.
Something really wrong if you can't work just because Github is inaccessible.
It appears that federal employees are not generally restricted from outside employment, and only need a waiver to engage in certain official acts which would affect the financial interest of an outside employer or entity with which they are in employment negotiations.

http://www.justice.gov/jmd/ethics/generalf.htm
Support for arbitrary-precision decimal. Known as numeric/decimal in Postgres. This can be a problem for financial and scientific applications.
I doubt it. Google is even getting stronger.
A thousand times, this.
> having been drugged

... reading the other wikipedia article, Dahmer had also performed an experiment on him that would've also impared his cognition pretty severely. I'm not going to write the details since it was NSFL, but I'm surprised people didn't notice it.
I've worked at firms in suburban office parks, and I've worked at firms in downtown urban areas. I like the latter more, simply because you can walk to lunch and interact with people (sometimes they're the homeless, which is how I learned about Blue Leapers being a global threat to mankind...)

With the suburban offices, either I'm bringing my lunch, or I'm driving somewhere to go eat. In both cases I'm in a sensory bubble, and that's bad. So I think Tony's idea has a lot of validity.
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That's what I meant - I was congratulating them on getting the $1.2bn valuation. Agreed that there is a lot of competition and little certainty out there, though.
Anger over Pakistan Sindh instant message ban proposal
Being a CEO requires you to sell two products: What your company offers, and what you offer those that produce those offerings.

Achieving greatness can only come with an obsessive self-awareness to always be trying to improve both.
I also never switched, for ideological reasons. I've been hooked by the Mozilla Foundation's consistent messaging on freedom.