skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No corporate job is going to let you become a DBA and a Frontend Developer and a Backend Developer and a Product Manager all at once, in a production environment, with no safety net. There is no other place where you can learn at that depth, and there is no other place you can learn at that rate.

You mean breadth, not depth.

> Good luck whichever way you decide to go!

Wow that was disingenuous. There are non-startup jobs that do not suck, and at any rate, the goal of a startup is to become a big company. You just have a personal preference for working at early-stage, high-growth companies, which is fine.
What is far more interesting about this story is what he used the printer for: printing utensils.

It is easy to overlook something like that in the industrialized world. Who would think to print out a fork or a spoon? And so, people here tend to have this big blind spot when it comes to 3D printers: that it is essentially a toy for hobbyists; that it will never replaced mass-produced parts; that it can't print out everything.

What it really is, is breaking apart the power aggregated in centralized, mass-production industrial economy. These are our first-generation microfabs, and while they cannot compete in efficiency with a modern factory, that is not the point.

The "internet of things" won't be gadgets that talk to each other, it will be in the decentrialization and open-sourcing of the global manufacturing base, and it will likely to take root first in the poorest, most impoverish parts of the world.
New Report Finds Obama’s Policies Threaten an Independent Press
> including Snowden's since he did break the law

As far as I know, Edward Snowden has not been tried and convicted in any US jurisdiction that I am aware of. I typically do not like being pedantic, but I can say if I was on that jury I would be hard-pressed not to push for jury nullification (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification).
Would this work? I think Facebook might not discard your old name, and might still let people search by all the names you've ever entered.
"So the argument "Oh Apple and Microsoft are just gonna profit off EME" is moot, they're gonna pull their vendor-lock in and non-standard web fraud anyway, but now they get to say "waaaat? we're not evil! see, it's a standard!!!""
If the advantages of using Haskell (or any other language) are so clear cut, wouldn't the market automatically switch to Haskell?

That's a specious argument, you're assuming that "the market" is infallible, which is far from evident. I'm not going to say that Haskell is great for all or even half of all applications out there, but market acceptance is not a valid argument against it.
It should be since all the coin-drop signaling is in-band.
Who says everyone has the right to a private apartment in a high cost-of-living area?

There's no shame in having roommates, and there's no shame in living in Nebraska. My goals are (a) to make sure no one lacks the necessities of life and (b) to make us a richer society. Making it so that everyone can afford a studio in the Bay Area would be very low on my list of priorities, if it were even possible.
Come on, he is doing one of the best jobs in the world educating him about security. No, he probably wont risk his security for the benefit of others but he is a positive force. So please stop holding him to the absurd standards.
I wish all customer service were like this.
Not to mention that we are living in an age of rapid innovation, including standing desks.
If it was only YouTube... I recently got the prompt on GMail after a login, it was a mini-tab inside GMail for quite some time, it's a recurring question or even requirement on any new Google service, but the closest I've come to converting my old-style Google account into one with a G+ profile is certainly when adding your account on Android. One touch-sensitive button to start the process directly next to the one for skipping it..

Quite the obstacle course.
Great questions.

Every morning I wake up, exercise, take a shower, brush my teeth, and floss without shampoo/soap/toothpaste. Soapy substances have never seemed necessary for me.

I consulted my dentist about my decision not to use toothpaste. She said that if it works for me (which it currently is, according to her) then I'm fine.

I'm 99% sure I'm not smelly. Whenever I make a lifestyle choice that causes me to smell bad, my parents inform me of my foul odor. I've found that by keeping my hair short, eating healthy, and showering daily, I can avoid smelling bad. I did go a few days without showering once. I smelled bad after that, so the daily shower seems to play an important role in my smelling ok. I also shave my armpits to reduce the risk of smell even further. When they're clean-shaven, they pretty much don't sweat if I'm not exercising, so they don't produce much of a smell.
Exactly. Trusting people is hard enough, when there is money on the line take trust out of the equation with an explicit agreement. When dealing with friends and family an explicit agreement is even more important because the implicit assumptions are higher.
It's not "I want to give away half my money", it's, "I want to live in a society where all people give away half of their money, and of course I am willing to be subject to that rule myself."

The purpose of government, if it can be said to have a purpose at all, is to cover those items where we're better off doing them but they wouldn't happen on their own due to various game theory considerations or just plain transaction costs.
A business is not like a baby. It's more like Weekend at Bernies.
Noom Runs on Motivation and Encouragement
He's complaining that the sky is falling when it really isn't. His argument gets circular, but this is a decent microcosm:

>I also don't understand the claim of discovery that Spotify makes; the actual moment of discovery in most cases happens at the moment when someone else tells you about an artist or you read about them – not when you're on the streaming service listening to what you have read about...Why would you click and go elsewhere and pay when the free version is sitting right in front of you?

I've found out about new artists through Spotify's radio service. I 'Discover' new music by clicking around on Youtube or Spotify; I don't read music magazines (amusingly also becoming archaic).

Now, where this is actually kind of cool, is that the artist gets paid when I listen.(1) I didn't go out and pirate it.*(2) I didn't give revenue to a Youtube user that uploaded against copyright. I didn't go with the 'free version.' As a paid subscriber, I pay to keeping Spotify running. As a user of the 'free' Spotify version, I pay by consuming marketing, which in turn generates money to keep Spotify running. Spotify in turn gives money to the label, who are responsible for paying the artists.

If you buy a nice dinner and the restaurant doesn't pay the busboy, you don't kick the waiter. That doesn't make any sense.

Talkies (or records or CDs or eBooks or DVDs or internet or drive-ins) will suck all creative content out of the world.

(1) The artist _does_ get paid. If the contract between an artist or group and his/her/their record label isn't lucrative for the musician(s), it's hardly fair to blame the streaming service, isn't it?

(2)I wouldn't have even known the song/artist existed

disclaimer: I really like Spotify.
Swiss citizen here...

A few answers :

- Strikes are mostly illegal in Switzerland and are very rare
- Apart from a standard 3 months notice it's easy to lay off people in Switzerland (unless they are pregnant or sick)
- There are no standard minimal wage but there have been discussion recently of introducing one
- We do have quite a few "program" in our welfare system a GBI would simplify a lot of things
- There have been no mention of a possibility to opt-out
As Richelieu said "Give me six lines written by the most honourable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him."

I pay US taxes and the US government kills people around the world. They also subsidise farmers which puts others around the world at a disadvantage contributing to poorer economic circumstances for them. The US incarcerates a large number of people. If the project benefited me or anyone else paying US taxes, then hasn't it benefited the US government, and hence evil?
Right.

The government had a specific and particular warrant to a single account on the Lavabit service. Lavabit denied them access to that account. So the government requested broader access.
You didn't fix anything; my phrasing and your phrasing are mutually compatible.
So does everyone else. Ruby users don't advocate for ruby because they think ruby sucks. Replace ruby with any other language and the statement holds true.

I think thinkpad20 is referring to the notion of Haskellers as similar to the idea of Smug Lisp Weenies [1]. Justified or not, it's a perception that has been built up around the language and its users. Unfortunately, perception is important. D came up earlier today, does anyone else recall its terrible reception on /. from about 10 years back when it's creator was pushing for it there?

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SmugLispWeenie
looks really cool, but it seems very slow?
Happened to me too. I got an email from their lawyer making vague threats and I thought about it, and replied that they could sue me if they so wished. They had no case (obviously) and I've the time and money so I was kind of curious to explore the legal system in that light.
It seems there's a lot of "free money" and easy attention flowing through kickstarters that I also find troubling.

Especially with anything video game related that kind of comes off as just "online begging." You have companies like "River West Brands" that "acquires, redevelops, and monetizes iconic brand intellectual property" and has put out a kickstarter to remake the Colecovision http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rantmediagames/colecovis...
The way I've heard it explained is that Japanese has too many homonyms and simply writing things by sound would be too ambiguous.

On the other hand, a friend who spent a year in Japan remarked that, e.g. policemen carry dictionaries with them. When you need to carry around a book on how to write your own language because it has way too many complicated glyphs for everyday people to learn to 100%, maybe it's time for an orthographic reform.
I don't think many people buying bikes on craigslist want to get a stolen bike.

Bikes are stolen because they're easy to sell - check out the link someone posted here earlier:
http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/30393216796/what-happens-t...

Rather than try to make bike theft profitable - you'd prefer to just say it won't work and give up?
These Guys Are Teaching Computers How to Think Like People
Ask HN: how would you write your Term and Conditions?
If you were to launch a startup, how would you define and write your T&C?

Do you hire a specialist to do this? Where can I find such person? A marketplace for lawyer like upcounsel.com? What would be an ongoing rate to have a well written T&C?

Thanks.
> The contrast with Facebook couldn't be more stark.

Wouldn't it be more stark if Google didn't do this at all?
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When Batman isn’t available: Crowdfund
Congrats! Pinterest is a great place filled with great people.
lol speaking of this, one day I was looking for hotel reviews on the interwebs. At the top of the list were 4 and 5-star hotels. Toward the middle, 3-star ones I might consider, then down lower a bunch of sleazy-sounding ones with hourly rates implied.

Some service, I doubt it was google, as this was about two months ago, was connecting facebook profiles to some of the reviews and it added something like this to the descriptions, "Jane Doe, a friend of $my_education_professor" stayed here and rated it good.

I _really_ didn't need that mental image of $my_education_professor's friends enjoying themselves in sleazy-sounding hotels. I don't know that it reflects on him directly - it shouldn't, and I think more power to him, but damnit if that software didn't facilitate that image to be briefly projected on my brainpan. :) Next time I see him, I sure hope I don't get overcome with urges to ask, "SO HOW OFTEN DOES JANE DOE ENJOY THOSE SLEAZY HOTELS. DO YOU EVER GO THERE WITH HER?" icky, icky icky :)

This is exactly why we shouldn't have software generating images of other's lives for us, false or otherwise.
I do not think javajosh would disagree with you on that. I think he was suggesting treating bugs as opportunities for learning, in fact I think this feeds into your point.
I'd imagine advertiser's will request that bad reviews not show, so pretty much it will only be useful if you endorse something.
I think it's a complex issue but finding ways to extract value from products and services always is.

I think that if you want to mirror the "old" status quo, services like Pandora or Shoutcast stations should be treated similarly to radio: the company doing the streaming pays a license for the music (ASCAP, BMI, etc) but not per-song-per-listener royalties. That's how radio always worked and it was kind of like publicity for recording artists.

There are two big differences now. Streaming services offer much more variety in terms of artists and songs so it's harder for content creators (and their funding companies, the music labels) to focus on the most profitable acts to push. Also, streaming has become very convenient so it is replacing the purchase of "hard copy" encoded material (CDs, etc) for many listeners.

When it comes to on-demand services like Spotify, it's harder to claim that it's the same as radio. With radio, no matter how many independent and college stations you have, you can't just pick any song you want to hear and have it play immediately.

At the same time, it's not the same as a CD. With a CD you pay $10 or $15 and that covers hundreds and hundreds of "listens". I have some albums that I've probably listened to a thousand times or more over the course of my life. If Spotify is equivalent to a CD, then how do you determine the cost of one listen? $15 for a 15-song CD I play 100 times works out to $1 per song or a penny per song per listen.

Even with CDs, artists might only get pennies on the dollar for every CD sold with the label taking the rest to (supposedly) recoup the cost of production and marketing. If I'm essentially paying a penny per song per listen then the artist is getting a fraction of a cent per listen in this increasingly hypothetical situation, it seems to line up roughly with what they are making from Spotify.

I'm not even suggesting that the radio/CD model is the best solution out there. It just seems like more of the same. The selling of recorded music has never really been all that profitable for label-backed artists and the ones who have made a good living that way are an anomaly in the history of the musical profession.

Musicians historically made their money by either charging for live performances or being hired by some sort of benefactor to improve their status. Sounds a lot like selling concert tickets or licensing music for movies, TV shows, and commercials these days.

I don't think it's ever been very profitable to be a professional musician and for better or worse, it seems that is not going to change anytime soon.
I kind of disagree. OP needs to start by reading. Read the classics of the genre. Read trashy pulp. Read what gets published online and in magazines. Definitely read things that aren't SF. Consume ideas, themes, thoughts, motifs, tropes, find out what's been done, whose style you like, whose style you don't, and what's been done to death.

Then write, but don't write in a vacuum. Maybe join a writers' group. Maybe take some classes. I might not necessarily start thinking about 'book' right now. Books are hideously difficult to do properly, and publishing is a competitive field, and editors have wastebaskets and know how to use them (for putting almost everything they receive into). Start thinking about short stories, and if you can manage to get published in the short form, then worry about the long form.

Also be careful about rights. If you put a story online, technically it's published. Doesn't matter where - facebook, livejournal, your personal site. That can affect whether a market is willing to pick it up afterwards.
0.5.6 is out now:

quote:

##0.5.6

* FIX: handle massive numbers of messages from nrepl without blocking
* ADDED: Clojure prints can now stream, allowing you to (print) and see the result without flushing.

(print ..) now does what you'd expect :)

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/light-table-discussion/ye29s...
Unfortunately, precedent holds that intercepting stuff broadcast over the wires is not a search.

"In Smith v. Maryland, the Supreme Court held that a pen register is not a search because the "petitioner voluntarily conveyed numerical information to the telephone company." Since the defendant had disclosed the dialed numbers to the telephone company so they could connect his call, he did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the numbers he dialed. The court did not distinguish between disclosing the numbers to a human operator or just the automatic equipment used by the telephone company."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_v._Maryland
Google Sunsets Google TV Brand
> Wow that was disingenuous.

Sarcastic.
Only if you take the first step. YC S14 applications are still open.
> - Union strikes for non-safety related issues have to be made illegal. You don't get to strike for higher wages when there's a GBI.

>- Hire/fire policies need to be made completely at-will, with pretty much no exceptions.

So employers should have all power, and employees should have none? Why should employers have the right to fire at will, but employees should not have the right to stop working at will?
JavaScript remake of MacPaint
I co-founded a web startup and live in a house with my co-founders. We pay our bills through revenues and investment.

My goal is to survive on Soylent when it comes out. I've already pre-ordered a month supply. Until then, I survive primarily on Orgain, a drink similar to Soylent. I also frequently eat out with my friends.
I'd try it out if I weren't a Mac guy these days. Looks decent, and nicely minimalist.
I'm not a big fan of condescension and being spoken to like a half-wit. I'm sure you're much smarter than me. You've certainly demonstrated all of my favorite characteristics of Haskellers. Like I said, I love Haskell, have written a good amount of it, and am excited to keep learning more. Unfortunately, one of the big downsides of Haskell is having to learn it from people like you.
This link is.crashing my dolphin mini browser on android 2.3. I wonder why...
Damn good job. Genuinely happy for you, I think more so because I can relate so closely.

I've made the very tough decision to not pursue a residency after medical school and to finally commit to jumping into the startup world. It's both really frightening and exciting to go in a completely different direction after dedicating 4 years of my life to rigorous education. I graduate in May, so I've been trying to absorb as much information and to develop as many skills as possible in preparation for the leap. I'm hoping to perhaps find some good opportunities during Startup School weekend.

So I really commend you for making the jump. And thanks for writing about it. It's encouraging and reassuring, especially since I've been told I'll end up homeless if I take this risk.
That's really nice of you to say that. Thanks!
Why is it that any time anyone mentions 'engineer', some Canadian finds it neccessary to mention this? Yes yes we get it already, but the rest of the world isn't so hung up about it.
I think a big issue with the TI graphing calculator replacement is that hacking community always tries to put in a lot of features and things, whereas the TI calculators are representative of a lot of compromise to run on AA batteries for so long.
I did the same thing - I moved from international business into technology on transportation systems overnight actually - I learned on the job in big enterprise. Now I'm a full on scala/akka developer and don't regret the change one bit.

To me the greatest joy is actually working on my own projects.
The power of one: Single photons illuminate quantum technology
Anonymous coward fivethree says Nobel price Friedman and best sellers Ayn Rand are hacks. Hey people, pay attention, we should ignore these two starting today!
I think it was during my video interview at OSCON? Who knows...someone should create a website that helps people find things.
> I can't understand what parallel you're trying to draw here. The IE 6 monopoly did not arise because of a DRM standard; it arose because Microsoft killed its competition by giving its browser away for free with Windows.

That's correct on the cause. But the cause of why a monopoly comes into being doesn't matter. The effect is what matters, those years spent with the web standing still technology wise.

Just like microsoft managed to kill other browsers because they bundled it with their OS, they're now trying to kill other browsers by bundling them with the one and only DRM that will make Netflix work.
In California the protected term is "Professional Engineer" - you have to pass accreditation to call yourself that. No civil engineer can find work without it but no one cares whether software engineers get it.

By the way, as part of a cost-cutting measure many years ago, the state government standardized on a single certificate form for all professional certifications, which means the PE certificate looks exactly like the "Certified Hair Technician" certificate the barbers at Great Clips are required to display at their work area.
> Opt out. Any person who doesn't want to take the money (because they already have plenty) should be able to refuse it.

Why is this necessary or useful? It adds administrative complexity to the system and doesn't serve any apparent useful purpose.
I doubt there's many Googlers who downvote positive Apple stories, I don't know where people get this assumption that Googlers hate Apple. I don't even downvote negative Google stories. The only time I ever downvote anything is when the person in question is being an obvious douchebag or abusive.
If you're offering encryption as a service, you need to consider technological and legal best practices[1]. If, at any point, you have the technological ability to see a client's plaintext, that's something you need to strongly address.

The most secure technological option is not always the most secure option. If you don't trust the government, then you have to choose one of 3 options:

1. Consider a system that's resilient against rubber-hose techniques (aka warrants and contempt of court). You'll probably want one where you are technologically incapable of seeing the plaintext. Perhaps offer your paying customers the option of using an open-source program or browser extension.

2. Consider a less technologically secure system where you have access to private keys so that you can fold on one client but not every one.

3. Consider never visiting that country again.

I'm not sure what other choices you really have. Obviously, we can all campaign for better privacy. We can support the EFF and the ACLU, as I do. But we have to work within the laws of our countries, or they'll come down very hard on us.

[1]After this incident, the only way I see Encryption as a Service as being sustainable is an open-source suite with consultation contracts.
Sites like stolenbikeregistry.com and chicago.stolenbike.org have been amazingly successful at recovering bikes - their biggest problem is that people don't have good records of their bikes after they are stolen, and that people take too long to list their bikes after they are stolen - which are both problems that we address. And why we're working on providing a universal search so that all sites can access data together.