skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This is a Seldon crisis we're facing, Sutt, and Seldon crises are not solved by individuals but by historic forces. Hari Seldon, when he planned our course of future history, did not count on brilliant heroics but on the broad sweeps of economics and sociology. So the solutions to the various crises must be achieved by the forces that become available to us at the time.

"In this case, -trade!"

Sutt raised his eyebrows skeptically and took advantage of the pause, "I hope I am not of subnormal intelligence, but the fact is that your vague lecture isn't very illuminating."

"It will become so," said Mallow. "Consider that until now the power of trade has been underestimated. It has been thought that it took a priesthood under our control to make it a powerful weapon. That is not so, and this is my contribution to the Galactic situation. Trade without priests! Trade alone! It is strong enough. Let us become very simple and specific. Korell is now at war with us. Consequently our trade with her has stopped. But, -notice that I am making this as simple as a problem in addition, -in the past three years she has based her economy more and more upon the nuclear techniques which we have introduced and which only we can continue to supply. Now what do you suppose will happen once the tiny nuclear generators begin failing, and one gadget after another goes out of commission?

"The small household appliances go first. After a half a year of this stalemate that you abhor, a woman's nuclear knife won't work any more. Her stove begins failing. Her washer doesn't do a good job. The temperature-humidity control in her house dies on a hot summer day. What happens?"

He paused for an answer, and Sutt said calmly, "Nothing. People endure a good deal in war."

"Very true. They do. They'll send their sons out in unlimited numbers to die horribly on broken spaceships. They'll bear up under enemy bombardment, if it means they have to live on stale bread and foul water in caves half a mile deep. But it's very hard to bear up under little things when the patriotic uplift of imminent danger is not present. It's going to, be a stalemate. There will be no casualties, no bombardments, no battles.

"There will just be a knife that won't cut, and a stove that won't cook, and a house that freezes in the winter. It will be annoying, and people will grumble."

Sutt said slowly, wonderingly, "Is that what you're setting your hopes on, man? What do you expect? A housewives' rebellion? A Jacquerie? A sudden uprising of butchers and grocers with their cleavers and bread-knives shouting 'Give us back our Automatic Super-Kleeno Nuclear Washing Machines.'"
The ad I've seen for it on Hulu focuses entirely on a variety of industry professionals using it for work, so I think they're starting to get the right idea.
I asked specifically to address his point.
Perhaps a better way to think of this is that journalism will cut its dependence on, and allegiance to, a nation state.

Yeah, like Edward Snowden ... except wait, he depended on the willingness of Russia and China to host (which I am glad for even if I understand them pretty egregiously oppressive in other ways).

So no, no we won't live in some cyberpunk utopia. Your whole argument reminds me of the 1990's soft-focus view of the "Internet future". Journalists are if anything more dependent on some nation state today than previously (RT, Al-jazeera, Glen Greenwald and fricken US-state-sponsored Democracy Now, all are dependent some on some state, some more directly than others). That is because if Snowden stuff says anything, it says that anyone with a (information) "pipe" running through their "yard" had start tapping that pipe for their benefit because that's what the largest actors are doing).

It's not that I wouldn't want a lovely world but
> A lot of would be Drew Houston's end up discouraged by naysayers.

I think this is one of the more troubling aspects of entrepreneurship. Most of today's really big, wildly successful tech companies sounded like really dumb ideas when they were first launched. I wonder how many Googles/Facebooks were never founded because their founders were discouraged by naysayers??
It means that if some overly-controlling group tries to enslave the world, they will likely fail - because their very nature weakens them.

You see, the unspoken assumption of many bad-guys throughout history as well as just about all of the annoying jerks on the Internet is the same. It's the assumption that one is somehow special, ultimate, or "exceptional." It's really the unacknowledged blasphemous assumption of nearly every human being -- that we are all some kind of significant shard of God.

Well, we're all significant as valued individuals, but in the grand scheme of things, we are just one iteration and point of view amongst billions. To be unaware of this and rampage about the world is to use the confidence our species had to evolve to survive in a rough and uncertain world. To be open to the possibility of our being wrong is to be enlightened.

Ethics is power.

The ethical codes of behavior we inherited from our cultural traditions are a lousy approximation of the way a superior intellect would behave. That said, it's still a lot better for most people than no ethical code. Any ethical code that could fit into a human mind is probably such a lousy, static approximation. However, to rampage about the world without one is a good way of becoming another of history's villains -- especially if you think of yourself as one of the good guys. Almost all of history's villains thought of themselves as the "good guys."

(Also, I'm not religious.)
You don't need to be sorry for your thoughts. "Maybe I'm missing the point", "I don't mean to...", and other similar phrases can be avoided. You don't need to use phrases such as these. Just say what you think, and if you find yourself unable to post without using those phrases, then that means your comment/argument is flawed and you shouldn't be posting such a comment.
I've removed it again, sorry; this is not the way to fix the problem. Mostly all you're going to do is stir up bad feeling (especially with that attitude) and end up getting the article title protected from recreation.

Unpleasant.

The Wikipedia community has agreed a set of rules for creating articles. In this case the community review noted that no independent sourcing covered this language. If a deleted article is recreated substantially the same, it is removed.

So, there are correct options... (I appreciate from outside the community it is not always clear what they are - so a list!)

* Find those sorts of sources

* Ask for a review of the deletion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DRV

* Work to clarify Wikipedia's specific notability rules for Software (here's a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOFTWARE)

* Fork Wikipedia and write about programming languages (I'm a big proponent of this, but no one seems willing to make the effort).

I see no reason in time, and there is plenty of time, that Nimrod won't obtain the sort of coverage that merits coverage in a general encyclopaedia.
Probably less than the felony she may have gotten.
This looks to me like a not so subtle form of age discrimination. The pictures on their job page do nothing to dispel that impression. E.g. http://www.weebly.com/uploads/1/_/1/167522_orig.jpg
No you're not unproductive, you're inactive, which I think is worse. You might as well be asleep according to this level of micromanaging.
Google now letting Glass users invite others to buy device
Using the Dropbox Datastore HTTP API
Show HN: Manage 100's of servers easily (YC W14 application)
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The question to ask here is why these 'sources' are talking about a rejected request. The Japanese press is at least as subservient as the American press (the newspaper in question belongs to its fair share of kisha clubs), and this information is being leaked to it. Why?

The cynical explanation is that they are leaking for domestic consumption about one rejected request in order to make themselves look better, and it's entirely possible that there is otherwise deeply extensive cooperation which they are not mentioning. (What, the NSA waited until 2011 to ask for some wiretapping capability? What about all the decades before 2011? What about since 2011?)
Ran into same issues with nodejs. If one of your dependencies use libxy 1.2 and your app depends on libxy 1.4, you have to be careful which one gets loaded first and hope one is compatiblew with the ohter. Good luck if the APIs are different. NPM seems to solve the problem but it really doesn't.
Good luck. Replacing toilets is surprisingly straightforward, just need the $2 wax ring.
My Surface Pro (1st gen) runs StarCraft 2 on medium settings pretty well. I'd love to get a Pro 2 and try SC2 on that.
I agree with you regarding Windows 7, but having a go at Microsoft for handing out devices for review is non-sensical.

Microsoft would send out free devices to all kinds of reviewers - including tech news sites that may or may not review it favourably. Just like Apple does, just like Samsung does, just like Google does.

> so they're more likely to review positively their future products, too, knowing that they will probably be "rewarded" afterwards, again.

That's a fairly big assumption you're making there - bribing future reviews. As if no one who has written a poor review has been gifted the next generation with the hopes of redeeming themselves.
Works in Waterfox with no issue...
AH trading is volatile and bollocks as a consistent market sentiment.
Facebook Lockdown
10 minutes ago everyone at my house got their facebook account locked. And now I'm looking at trending tweets and apparently it's all over.
Any idea what's happening?

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23facebookdown&src=rela
Like others have said, if you want to implement such a program, then that's the way to do it. Now whether it would be good to see this as a trend for the industry is not clear cut. Say you have only 3 weeks of vacation a year, then you can only interview with 3 companies. And that's assuming that you are willing to burn ALL of you vacation time.
> It hasn't been switched on since the Surface arrived last week

How's the handwriting recognition? Evernote integration? What do you use for diagrams? Drawing? Will Inkscape and Gimp run and work with the pen? How does handwriting work when there's no network connectivity?
Correction: animals are jerks.
Thanks for the link.

"They also guessed that the West's low population density might play a role in its high suicide rates, but the findings did not bear that out."

For others who don't read the article, residential instability is their suggestion leading to lessened social integration.
See my comment. Figured this was this case. It's obvious - but it's empirically proven that this structure, tournament structure, rads it cheating and sabotage.
With this many people saying the documentation could be improved, is there a reason holding everyone back from contributing or improving it?
2 phone/skype fizzbuzz interviews and a week trial. Alternatively, a project which is a simple tool or Open Source contribution. The later maybe be more appealing for students since they would like to have some github portfolio.
While I have no problem with an evenings/weekend work sample, I'd only agree to a trial week if I was currently unemployed and desperate. I also choose not to do contract-to-hire, which is the other 'trial period' approach I've seen. Anecdotally, the two places I've worked at that mostly did contract-to-hire for their other employees, the quality of my coworkers seemed a fair bit lower than at other jobs. Good contractors didn't care for the for-hire part, and folks who just wanted salary didn't care for the contract part, so you were left with people who couldn't find a position without agreeing to something they didn't care for.
I think it is probably not the money but the hassle. If you're not in the USA or have no credit card or fear using it on internet, creating five fake accounts might just be simpler.
I'm not sure what you mean about setting variables and export, because here's how I do it:

set foo bar # sets foo to bar
set -x foo bar # sets foo to bar and exports it to the environment
This is awful bordering on offensive. Not only does it assume that "productivity" is an easy to quantify set of ticks on a scale, but it completely ignores any other work besides that which can be tied into the service.

What a horrid idea.
It should say influenza and pneumonia for that label. I just realized that error. That number sounds more appropriate that label. Adjusting now.

Update: Fixed.
A better way to phrase this is that natural law (of rivalrous goods) is based on possession, not ownership. "Ownership" or property is a human invention.

When a lion possesses a carcass, the hyena's don't respect it's property rights, they respect it's possession (unless they can over take the possessor), but the lion cannot leave dozens of killed carcasses stored around for future use.

Our notions of capitalism are based on concepts of property rights which are human inventions. One could reasonably be expected to defend one's own immediate possessions, home, or farm, but the invention of property allows an individual to control a vast amount of possessions, backed up by the power of the state.

When free marketers say "capitalism is natural", I think what they're really saying, is that market forces are natural, and by that they mean, individuals have demands, and are willing to trade possessions for them, and do not need a state or other framework for this 'bottom up' system to work. But that's a gross simplification, by taking a huge mental leap from a barter economy on the small scale to a modern capitalist economy. The modern market of trade bears little resemblance to the small scale microcosm thought experiments.

Reality is, our modern system is based of hundreds of years of evolved civil institutions, common law, political structures. It's the reason why a 'free market' in some countries is a "failed state" of misery, and not a paradise.
Its similar to wordweb's free version licence [1], after the trial it prompts a question about how many flights you took in the past year and based on the answer you qualify for free indefinite use.

[1] http://wordweb.info/free/licence.html
For a readable popularization of the "cooperation trumps competition -- sometimes" view, see Robert Wright's Non-Zero: The Logic of Human Destiny at http://www.amazon.com/Nonzero-The-Logic-Human-Destiny/dp/067... (not an affiliate link).

From the publisher's summary at Amazon: "In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Wright asserts that, ever since the primordial ooze, life has followed a basic pattern. Organisms and human societies alike have grown more complex by mastering the challenges of internal cooperation. Wright's narrative ranges from fossilized bacteria to vampire bats, from stone-age villages to the World Trade Organization, uncovering such surprises as the benefits of barbarian hordes and the useful stability of feudalism. Here is history endowed with moral significance–a way of looking at our biological and cultural evolution that suggests, refreshingly, that human morality has improved over time, and that our instinct to discover meaning may itself serve a higher purpose. Insightful, witty, profound, Nonzero offers breathtaking implications for what we believe and how we adapt to technology's ongoing transformation of the world."
The Angular docs are a ghetto. They really need to get rid of the Disqus comments section. Also, I don't think it really helps that their docs are an Angular application. I would really prefer a static html manual and an offline version in pdf or info format.
His usage of "powered" is a very common english colloquialism. For example the phrase “powered by wordpress” doesn’t indicate that someone is obtaining energy from the wordpress software product.

Some more examples: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22powered+by%22
I think data scientist is a sexed up term for a statistician.

fuck-yeah
Is this some kind of April Fools joke but very, very late?

What a horrible product. As a team leader, I've always sought to do the opposite this product promotes: care not about what each person is doing but rather the total of each individual's contributions and what the team as a whole was producing.
Openstack Operations Guide
Maybe I don't understand your business model correctly but why not just take the first $20 of royalties from users that steal?
This is a cute application that ties many services together and even looks nice. Standing alone, it's almost like having a timeline for the tangible things in your work; I'd actually love to have this summarized, but for no particular reason.

And that's the problem. It's not clear at all what problem this fun application solves. It clearly doesn't capture the flow of work in a team or any individual, simply because it only captures the tangible/digital artifacts of work. You can imagine adding self-reporting or something (ala Yammer), but it's still an incomplete record.

And as other commenters point out, an incomplete dataset is prone to faulty reasoning. An overzealous user might micromanage based only on these tangible artifacts...

In any case, I'd encourage the developers here to think about what specific problem is being solved, and whether this app communicates that well. The information captured might be useful, but I'm unconvinced a timeline presents it properly.

My gut says something about summaries and aggregation, looking not at what's in-flight but what has been done so far.
You should also try watching Scourge Done Quick (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSG3JStYMuY), it's funny and done more as a Machinima.
I think the service is already more than generous on that front:

"How much will it cost me? You can upload one song for free."

Add in testimonials, press and word of mouth and prospects can get an indication of how useful DistroKid is likely to be.

When I said chance, I was allowing for lack of followthrough on the part of the artists. When there's a service that can get your material in front of purchasers so cheaply, a huge, huge portion of the responsibility to succeed then relies on you to create a saleable product and then drive some interest.
I've had something of an unusual career path, and I've found out first-hand that a lot of companies don't like people with weak resumes / references, and it's hard to build these up (especially references).

I always try to convince companies I'm interviewing with to do a "try-before-you-buy". Of course, it's a lot easier to do the trial week as an employee if you're starting out from a position of being unemployed, rather than taking vacation to do this.
Forgot to add we built this because we could not find a similar product. Started out from our scripts we used to simplify our daily task
That, or you could learn your US geography. :)
I don't fully dislike this idea-- I think it has some value for both sides-- but it could evolve into backdoor age discrimination (which is what a lot of the startup "culture" is). Weebly seems to be doing it right-- 66% hire rate, not a competition, everything paid-for, etc.-- but I'd be worried if this caught on. What if companies start instituting 2-month trial periods at submarket rates, and what if that becomes the norm? What if hiring rates of 20% (comparable to in-office interviews, but harmful when contiguous periods are required and vacation time, instead of stray sick days for interviews, must be used)? What if companies delay reimbursement for months, exacerbating the disadvantage of a protracted job search? Or, what if companies use the trial week period not to evaluate work, but for unethical purposes such as doing the sketchier reference checks (e.g. back-channel) that savvy job seekers prevent by using (or faking) time pressure from competing offers? Speaking of which, exactly how is this going to interplay with the (presumably ongoing) job search of the candidate, and the likelihood of offers coming in with tight timeframes? Do people get to move around their trial days to take other interviews? They should have that right.

It's an interesting idea, but I can see it going in a really bad direction.
Incidentally, those aren't the most basic can openers; it's possible to make a can opener with no moving parts. Search for "swiss army knife can opener" to see some pictures.

Personally, I first learned to use the simpler design; when I saw the kind with the gears and handle, it seemed over-engineered to me. I find them equally easy to use, but I've seen the handles break on the more complicated kind (they were plastic, not metal) and I've also seen the gears go out of alignment. Yet the simpler design is rarely seen except in swiss army knives and military rations. This seems to support the idea that some added complexity can be worthwhile for most users as long as the product is otherwise well-designed and well-built.
A lot of people are saying this would encourage micromanaging, but I think it has a more valid purpose:

1.) A great way for a CEO of a growing company to check in and see the pulse of their company. Someone who has a head on their shoulders would probably just say "great, things are moving along." An idiot who's primary job is to get in the way would probably do what people are talking about here.

2.) A deterrent for what they say on their site (and was even poked fun at in a comic on the front page earlier today): shoulder tapping. This looks like a great way to pacify the idiot mentioned above in #1 who's sole purpose is to make sure the cog (you) is spinning.

In the right hands this looks like an incredible tool and a great way to keep an eye on your business. In the wrong hands, well, yeah. If you work for a company where someone would use this to incessantly nag you and your fellow team members, it's probably time to pack up instead of saying the tool is bad.
What do Nazis have to do with this topic?

Eugenics. Sloppy reasoning using evolution.

Please don't post this type of comment in the future.

As far as I can tell, you didn't have the background to know what the gp commenter was saying, so you counterfactually knee-jerked a reaction amounting to censorship.

It would be nice if we could rationally talk about the Nazi regime in a historical and cultural context. It's especially instructive, as they sincerely believed they were "the good guys." What was the most used word referencing an emotion at the Nuremberg Rally the year Leni Riefenstahl filmed Triumph of the Will?

"Love."

The Nazis thought they were the good guys, and they were able to convince enough of an entire country to achieve a totalitarian state. What they did afterwards was truly horrible -- which is a glaring indication that we have lots of valuable stuff to learn about how human beings can go horribly wrong by thinking about what happened.

Godwin's law is an anti-rational knee jerk.

The person who originally introduced me to this idea? (Not in specific reference to Godwin's law, but generally.) A young jewish woman I had fallen in love with. Chew on that.
Just guessing; maybe age distribution, income distribution, and climate?

Here's a table showing age distribution by state. This doesn't explain everything, but WV does have the highest percentage (16%) of 65-and-overs. That might explain their poor showing, but LA and MS are unremarkable there: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0016.p...