skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an excellent point, though I'm not sure you'll be in agreement with why I feel that way. The issue comes down to how you define "suffering".

One of the reasons income inequality is such a silly measurement of overall economic well-being is because people often believe it must be correlated with suffering. In other words, those at the poorer end of the spectrum must be suffering relative to those at the rich end (and usually because of those at the rich end). But this doesn't appear to be true in modern society at all.

In reality, those at the poor end of the spectrum have never experienced less (physical) suffering. Food, clean water, and basic shelter have never been cheaper. On a minimum wage salary, you can live a life without what I would call suffering, though it will look nothing like the typical portrayal of "middle class" life we see on TV. If you're sick, you can get extremely advanced medical care without cost (even in the US, there are free clinics in all major cities, and if you visit the emergency room, though you may be billed preposterous sums, you'll still get care).

What constitutes "suffering" is probably one of the biggest disconnects that plague liberals and conservatives.
Amazon's Warehouse this Morning
Correct. I had this issue a few weeks ago, and managed to undo this in settings.
Really? What if society consisted of 10 people on an island, and only one of them was great at catching fish. Would the others have the right to take his fish and redistribute them?
Los programadores... ¿sabemos programar?
Is £6/month a lot in Romania? Does it buy less than the $70 I spend for 50mbs?
MSFT's market cap at the moment is 313.5B. IBM's is 193.4. Microsoft turning into an IBM would be a major win (and I mean in structure, not a literal 50% drop in market cap), not some sort of worst-case scenario. It's arguably even the best case scenario. IBM has been sustainably doing their thing for a long time now.
"It's a shame that modern desktop Linux has no decent manpages for most of this stuff."

I completely agree and double so for things that destroy a running system because of lack of documentation. In some ways Unity has really jumped the shark on the good aspects that ubuntu was bringing. I wonder if anyone from the debian project has considered rolling their own Unity version with all the crapola ripped out. Now that's a DE I would start using in a heartbeat.
Surprisingly, cutting the (progressive) income tax rates and raising the (flat-to-regressive) payroll tax rates made the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Who could have guessed?
> “You are not 100% committed.”

I can't remember quite how I responded to that the first time I got it but it went something very much along these lines:

"To gain big you have to gamble big, if big gains were simple everyone would be doing them. There is always the possibility of failure, of losing everything you bring to the table, and being a hundred percent committed to anything, bringing everything you have to the table, is a bad gambling strategy. We can work together for our mutual benefit, but if you expect me to throw my entire life, and potentially all my future options, behind something that may or may not work out... well, I can see how that's to your benefit but I don't see how it's to my likely long-term good. The average lifespan of a company is thirty years, and significantly less in the startup space. I'm afraid that if you want me to sacrifice my interests for yours you either need to be paying me a lot more to justify the added risk you're asking me to take on, or we've reached a parting of the ways."

People like that are, I feel, just looking to take advantage of you. Loyalty is won by laying the best hearth, not demanded.
This is great. Having a free Datomic version that matches Datomic Pro's architecture and supports all of its external storage engines certainly simplifies the scale path and makes design decisions easier.

BTW: The pricing page has more details (http://www.datomic.com/pricing.html) -- scroll down to see a comparison.
Docker-friendly Vagrant boxes
Google airport in San Jose to break ground in January
I guess it depends on the degree of need. If I were starving and had no choice but to take up drawing as a career, I guess I would try. But if technology were still something you could make $40k/yr doing, I'd probably stick with it, because it's more interesting to me. I'm in technology for the technology more than for the money. In some ways I kind of wonder if it'd like it more: what would technology as a field be like if the $100k+ jobs and big exits were gone, and the people who were here primarily for the money therefore lost interest and went elsewhere?

I think that's reasonably common. I can't think of people I'd consider "highly meritorious" technologists who have no strong like of technology, and picked the field just because it was a good career. In fact may of them picked the field in a previous era, when it wasn't as lucrative of a career. I think many people who are good at and interested in something have fairly high "stickiness" to it, so salaries tend to track the rise and fall of the fields, more than the merit of individual people, who don't switch fields that easily or quickly. It's in that sense I'm skeptical that salaries are a good indication of "merit". They're just an indication of what they literally are: the current relationship between market supply and demand for a specific skill. This may even related to all kinds of structural issues, e.g. quick spikes in demand coupled with slowly responding training pipelines may cause high salaries in an area to persist for a decade or two, but this has more to do with the training pipeline's slow response than the existing workers' high merit. (And similarly in reverse.)
The final QR code was fantastic :D
Apple's weakness: customer loyalty has its limits
I actually used Vista on one machine for years. I never saw the usability problems that UAC caused, but I appreciated the security aspect of it so I didn't mind being bugged when trying to change my IP.
The comment wasn't seeking any type of solution. The response pointed out a flaw in the original, unedited comment.
Is It OK to Yell at Your Employees?
Even if that's true, 90% of the population did not stay out of work, and the average person today has far more material comforts and leisure time than they did before the tractor.

A rising tide lifts all boats, even if some are temporarily waterlogged.
Petty as all heck on the part of Canonical, I agree.
Interesting project, which might help serve to mute my Twitter feed the same way Tweetbot does.

Unfortunately, its filters make a really obvious mistake, which is to include very normal queries; I mean, c'mon, I hate baseball and everything, but does it seriously make sense to filter tweets with the words "yankees, tigers, indians(!), pirates, and giants"?

I'd really love a way to save and export filters, so I could use them in, say Tweetbot. Maybe you could set up a platform that allows user-created filters.
OK, but globally inequality isn't growing, by many measures. Hans Rosling illustrated that this week[1].

World income now fits a more continuous curve compared to the rich- and poor- of the past. World equality has presumably been helped by out-sourcing: it's just that some of the 'equality' is no longer owned by the West.

[1]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24835822
How does Travis CI stack up against the builtin continuous integration new to Xcode 5?
But the programmers will have encoded preferential treatment for their class into the AI.

Checkmate unmeritants.
Sure, if companies could do without paying programmers, they would and should.

That doesn't change the fact that they continue doing so (at least for now) because they see it as a good deal. Programmers are responsible for continuing to have skills that are marketable if the economy changes.

>> "right up until it's eliminated"

This phrase implies an Evil Power is deciding who gets to live or something. In reality, a job is "the opportunity to meet a demand by selling labor." It's not unjust to stop demanding something.

When people stopped wanting top hats, that wasn't unjust, even though it meant hat-makers needed new jobs. If people stop wanting software, it won't be unjust, even though it will mean programmers need new jobs.

I'd love for my house to produce its own electricity so that I could fire the power company, but until that seems easy and cost-effective enough, I pay for power because I think the money I spend gives me outsize benefits. Same with my employer paying me.
And that's fine - options are good!
So basically Elop has just publicly ruled himself out of contention with these ridiculous opinions.

Casting off Xbox at this critical point would be a disaster and massively weaken Microsoft's position. The post-PC era is dictating very clearly that Xbox may be the last "full PC" device remaining in the modern home... and he wants to cast it off?

Bing... it's better than defaulting their products to use Google.

Microsoft Office is a fine product but it is a legacy one.

I wonder what Elop's "opinion" is of Azure? That ridiculously high productivity and highly agile team that's been pumping out releases on a 2-3 weekly cycle for the past 2 years?

Wait. What? Why is Elop even in the running at all for the CEO position? That itself is fucking insane. Look what he did to Nokia!
Yeah that's frustrating. I worked around it by using Chrome profiles. I have a personal profile and a work profile and they are each logged into the respective accounts. In truth, I actually really like it and would continue to do so even if Google fixed that PITA linking thing.
Show HN: From SF to Tokyo - My App Went Worldwide in 1 Week
> The OOP part is rather coherent; I'm not sure what's bolted on - any examples? In fact, things like object expressions do parts of OOP even better than Java/C#. Overall the syntax for OOP is rather concise and neat.

I'm saying I'm not sure why the OOP exists at all. Someone else pointed at that OCaml has those elements as well, and maybe that's the reason. Just in my own use, I never felt the inclination to use the OOP at all, and their existence felt like this part of the language that I didn't understand, didn't want to understand, but was there nonetheless.
I never could focus. Now I can whenever I want.
Ask HN: Which book are you reading?
I just finished The mating season by PG wodehouse. I will probably start Right ho Jeeves next.
To quote U$@u

> Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning 'humanity to others'.

Issuing take down notices? Stay classy Mark Shuttleworth
There are 6,000 collision related car fires in the US every year, out of 250M vehicles. There have been 3 collision related Tesla fires out of ten thousand vehicles in roughly six months of total drive time. That works out a 25x higher fire risk for the Teslas.
Of course, Toyota failed to make sure they didn't blow up the stack as well as using a ridiculous number of global variables and poorly organised code.
I'm going to have to add this one to my list of things Munroe has built through comics: http://euri.ca/2013/xkcd-is-the-new-donald-duck
That's the first time I've ever had a website involuntarily redirect me to the Play Store app. Didn't advertisers learn their popup lesson ages ago? I will no longer visit sfgate on my phone until I have an ad blocker.
Australia’s surfing capital may soon teem with tiny, lethal jellyfish.
Was at a hackathon at a university a while ago, and took a few minutes to unwind by fragging some nightmare bots in Q3. I ended up with a few students looking over my shoulder, asking what game I was playing.

There's a certain elegance and efficiency of movement the old arena shooters give you that's missing in many of the CoD clones these days--Painkiller has come closest to matching it, along with the Serious Sam tomfoolery.
Was the choice of the word "last" as opposed to "latest" deliberate? :)
I always thought 3D content creation would be perfect for a web/cloud approach.
Use the client software anywhere on any HTML5 enabled device (even tablets), hit Render and the cloud renders the scene and you have immediate results.
If Unity is the problem, Ubuntu has the Gnome Shell already in its repo. Its quick and easy.

$ sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

You keep the benefits of the Ubuntu package repo, kernel patches, etc.
He destroyed Nokia and he'll destroy Microsoft if he's given the power. He just can't run a company. I'd vote for Tony Bates.
Canonical has monetization models that don't turn a Linux desktop experience into a billboard for Amazon. I use Amazon often and like it. I understand they mine the hell out of my interactions with Amazon, and that's fine.

But it is a mistake for Canonical to hook Amazon, which can be very intrusive, into practically every interaction with an Ubuntu desktop. It's jarring and objectionable to find a vendor who would aggressively data mine you wired in to an OS you used to be able to count on to be security-oriented and non-intrusive.

It isn't even right for Ubuntu Touch devices. When I use a Google-logo Android device, I make a knowing bargain, trading information for convenience and capabilities. The only thing Ubuntu does better than Android is to leave me alone.
RIP, Homestar Runner.
Thanks. I'm not a fan of the whole Unity Amazon integration deal myself, but I think there's a clear difference between a site critical of Ubuntu using their name in the domain and their logo in the header image versus a passing remark in documentation or code.

Mind you, I think the original case was a clear attempt at abuse of trademark law against legitimate criticism. I do feel, however, that the distro-that-can't-be-named remark sounds petty. If they want to avoid mentioning Ubuntu they could just say something like "Debian derivatives."
May it be said that humanitytoothers is also unpronounceable?

Can I use it in my homepage?

The domain humanitytoothers.com is available! What does that mean?
Telekom in Germany recently tried to introduce a similar data cap system on their flatrates ([1], with severe throttling to 384kbps after reaching the limit (between 75GB for their 16 MBit and 400GB for their 200MBit plans)).

Fortunately, a district court ruled that to be unlawful last month ([2], German). I fear, however, that a similar development in the US is more than unlikely.

[1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130425/02255122829/deutsc...

[2] http://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gericht-telekom-drosselung10...
>> ISPs don't profit from their consumers downloading more data

They would, if it helped them compete. Oh yeah, this is all just a symptom of abuse of monopolies.
" I wanted to update/install my nvidia drivers, so I opened the dash and typed "drivers". IT DISPLAYED GOLF CLUBS on sale at Amazon!"

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/bikeshed/vtXkVdALoJ8/N...

Of course, 14.04 will increase the usability level by automatically charging your credit card, with next day delivery of the golf clubs guaranteed.
I sent this to someone who complained on Facebook about not being able to block Buzzfeed posts. I then made a joke that I now am seriously disappointed in the Buzzfeed/Bleacher Report SEO team about: How is there not a Buzzfeed about blocking Buzzfeed? Even if it's just something like "1500 Reasons Blocking Buzzfeed Won't Make Your Facebook Better."
There needs to be a clear guideline for how to use Show HN in submissions: should it be used to showcase a cool project, or should it be used as a form of Hacker News-friendly SEO for veiled product announcements?

After all, OP submitted a link without the Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6686207
I said that there is no privacy violation. None of your arguments demonstrate otherwise.

> 1) [profit motive]

The Mozilla Foundation's main source of income is making money through Google searches. If you accept Mozilla in the GNU/Linux world, then you accept this motive on your own terms.

> 2) Real users may not realize they have a choice, or that sending searches to 3rd parties is NOT normal in the GNU/Linux world.

This is a philosophical argument about foisting your own beliefs onto new Ubuntu users. Ubuntu has always been the pragmatic distribution. It gained popularity by making non-free codecs and proprietary drivers easily available. This pragmatism has not changed.

And this still doesn't have anything to do with a claimed privacy violation.

> 2b) EULA's are no excuse.

Which is why I had my point 2: that it is plainly obvious that the search is a global search, and that the query was sent out to the Internet. You don't need to read any notice to see this.

> [spyware]

You have not shown that there is any spyware present. That would require some kind of privacy violation.
Here's a simple way to improve YouTube. Turn off comments.

I have never once, as far as I can remember, read a YouTube comment that was in any way, insightful or provided meaningful information that wasn't better obtained elsewhere. It is a cesspool, and the people who are complaining about needing to login to G+ to leave a comment frankly largely intersect with the set of people who are the problem.

Honestly, if logging into G+ bothers you, you probably are the kind of person who "shoots from the hip" and doesn't put a lot of thought into your comments anyway.

I don't believe the G+ comments on YouTube are about the idea of real identity being a check against racists, assholes, douchebags, and other comment archetypes. That has failed for Facebook comments and so has up/downvoting on YT. Instead, I think it's about filtering based on social network sharing.

Simply put, if someone shares a link to your video somewhere with their circle of followers, the external thread that develops outside of YT, within that community is likely to be more coherent and cogent, and that will be surfaced in the YT comments especially if you have social affinity with that person.

Think about it as a kind of comment federation. What if every YT video that has been linked from HackerNews stories surfaced the HN comments directly under the video on YT if you were in fact, a HackerNews user (had a login). Don't you think the HN comment thread would be higher quality than the general YT audience comments? That kind of federation is technically not possible today, because we don't have a standard spec for comment upstreaming, but because Google owns G+ and YT, they can do this kind of integration.

The reality is, comments from video reshares from people you know, who have small circles of followers, will be higher quality. Someone with 10,000 or 100,000 followers however probably will exhibit the same problems because the probability of bad actors rises with quantity. However, at least you can control this by filtering who you follow.

There's a general purpose derangement going on with respect to G+ that I just don't get. I don't like Facebook, never have, I barely ever log into it. I don't like social networks in general, I like _interest networks_. But I don't throw a hissy fit when most of the sites on the web force me to either create an account, or login with Facebook. I just login with Facebook and go about my business, denying most of the permissions it wants from me. It's really not that big of a deal. I don't use FB, but it is not a burden on me personally to use it as a single sign on service.

The reason why I use G+ is similar to the reason why I use HN or Reddit -- the communities. Simply put, there are more interesting, tightly knit, communities with less annoying, disruptive people on G+ than there is on FB. Maybe that's elitist, but that's the way it is. Perhaps it's the advantage of having less users, less adoption than Facebook. There's merit in being a so-called "Ghost Town", in that anyone willing to live there is more dedicated to the town, and less willing to take a shit on it.
As an experiment I used this D3 geo stuff to visualize my last year or so across the globe:

http://dalyons.github.io/where-is-dave/index.html?use_cached...

Works much better on chrome than FF unfortunately.

I thought it turned out pretty cool, as a practical example of what you can use this stuff for. It was super fun to build, D3 is pretty awesome.

You can also load your own photos from FB if you want to see your own track, its just static html/js, i dont store anything anywhere.
Even so, is it really advantageous to have "foo --help" send usage info to stdout, but for "foo -?" to send "Invalid switch '-?'" followed by usage info to stderr?

More importantly, usage information doesn't conform to the structure of ordinary program output, and can therefore be annoying or even dangerous if inadvertently treated as such, so it really, really does belong on stderr for any program whose stdout might reasonably be used as input to another program.
I think part of the 1X-10X-100X thing comes from knowledge acquired. It's really difficult to nail down what the industry values more: depth or breadth of knowledge, but I'm pretty sure there are jobs for both.

To me, a 10x has always been someone who's studied a ton of material and has solved a lot of problems. It'd be a bit strange if you couldn't be 10 times as productive as a junior guy if you had depth and breadth knowledge of, say, an entire web stack.

If technology gets to the point where it's a very large multiplier, then the human involved would basically be a constant in the face of a large value and multiplier -- almost irrelevant. That might mean that hiring can disregard any requirements (which would be nice for some of us!), but I think that's going to be a far cry since the industry seems to be going in the opposite direction (more languages/projects/knowledge required for an entry level position than 10 years prior)
Until this post, I thought this was just someone making a little tool to fix their own problem.
I acutally thought this was a cool project, the map and layout that is, but maybe that's just me
Is there a reason why something so fundamental as throttle control/braking ought to be governed by a computer, instead of by foolproof old-fashioned hardware?
The team page is enjoyable.
I rarely browse social media on browsers, but if I did I'd use this to help block spoilers. I turned my phone off the night of the Breaking Bad finale because I wasn't able to watch it live.
At this point (as you know), quakejs is a fairly ironed out port of ioquake3.

I've just never released it due to assets. I wanted to finish cross-compiling quake3 QVM-based mods to JS in order to enable playing some of the popular mods (with their own assets), but that just never happened.

I really wish some permission could be granted to use the original quake3 demo assets - it'd be great to have such a demanding gaming project for browsers to work on improving.
I'd like to see something that makes people more comfortable with the idea of unfriending folks that overpost annoying things, rather than covering up and hiding content over and over.

That said, the technology behind this looks like it could have a lot of practical uses. I especially like the example with TV show spoilers.