skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole story brings on such a lugubrious feeling. I mean, I guess we can chalk it up to human nature, but, patent system aside:

How did we ever arrive at the place where we believe that everyone else must lose in order for someone to win? How did we get to a point where we believe that we have to take from someone else's plate when there's more than enough to go around? How did we lose the vision that bringing the highest performance, service, features and functionality is "The Right Way" to deliver and compete, instead of destroying ourselves? How did we become so misguided that, even with a broken patent system, we are not intelligent enough and civil enough to simply do "The Right Thing?"

None of this activity is in the spirit of the Hacker Ethos, regardless of the broken system. At what point did we lose our bearing?

I'm reminded of Joshua's observation from WarGames:

"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."

Sigh...
He proably means from a position of someone developing/working with guys from Ubuntu.
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Martin refers to http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1295, I think. He wrote about it in http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/10/thoughts-about.... It is about the Mir-Support of KWin/KDE (Martin is the current KWin developer) - while KDE doesn't want to support Mir right now, and says it is about technical reasons, Shuttleworth suggested it is a political thing, which Martin didn't like at all.
Seems like after his post there were some not so nice reactions. Though the comments on his blog seem to be nice enough, at first glance.
Do you really want to know why rapgenius needs IPO money or are you just using it as a rhetorical vessel to justify use of such inflamatory lexis as "retarded" and "classic"?

I have no hopes on influencing your opinion but want to provide my version of the explanation. Surely it is only an opinion, I have no authority on the subject.

Rapgenius needs to IPO to massively scale in text annotation business providing context and meaning to texts that are far away from rap. Immense value can be gained if RapGenius or NewsGenius will provide a platform to annonate, verify and explain complicated news articles, scientific studies, techical documentation, anything that requires metadata for better understanding. This feat was tried by many and all of them failed, including Google, remember Sidewiki?

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Assuming that the PHP frameworks are not just all terribly written (which seems unlikely), what this shows us is that the PHP interpreter is very slow, but the libraries that PHP uses are fast. The raw PHP benchmark doesn't actually have very much PHP code, so the slowness of the interpreter doesn't matter much, while the PHP frameworks (other than Yaf) all have a great deal of PHP code.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6645469
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US ends food stamp benefits as Congress debates more cuts
Your answer is a little unclear. If you're essentially printing money (i.e. "credits") and then guaranteeing to buy them back at the same rate, it seems like you would net nothing. Unless you're counting on credits never getting cashed back in or making interest on the deposits.

From your FAQ, it seems like the profit comes in the form of a $1 buyback transaction fee. Am I mistaken?
Rich people throwing their money away on hare-brained schemes to make more money by paying software engineers - insane, maybe, but this is borderline criminal now? What are we, the Bolsheviks? :P
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Ask HN: What do you think of job hopping?
How is it considered by hiring managers? How long one should stay at one place to not be classified as a hopper? Is it a big deal to hop in our (the tech) industry for engineers/PMs? Does it makes a difference whether the hopper apply at a startup or at a big company?

(also I consider a hopper who's efficient and who's seeking challenges, who unwilling to settle rather the underperformer who keeps leaving before getting fired...)
Well it is more for spying. And with advances in gigapixel digital sensors, satellites and drones, a mach 6 manned plane is probably pointless for spying in comparison.

Let's fund things that can break earth orbit and inspire the world.
True and it takes what? 1 minute of typing? Do we really need to go faster than that? Of course, companies are all in favour, but it's not in our interest.
>Posessing money makes it easy to aquire things

Flat out wrong. There are three ways to acquire things:

- Trade (with money or goods of value)

- Beg

- Steal

I ordered that list in order of HARDEST to EASIEST way to acquire things.
If by "nailed" you mean "reduced a probability of rational discourse by trolling" then sure, he nailed it.
I'm working on putting the source on github but you'll just have to take my word for it at the moment.

However even with the source, there's no guarantee that the site is running the same code, so it's a bit of an empty gesture on my part. Bear in mind that the DB is now starting to do the rounds publicly so if people want to phish you with fake password reset emails, they will whether my site exists or not.

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This is the same organization that at the same time supported and prompted G. H. W. Bush's "assault rifle" import ban (which we are still living with, BTW). Whatever they might be today (I stopped paying attention to them back then), that has no bearing on what they were a quarter century ago.
This one: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1295

Mir is really important work. When lots of competitors
attack a project on purely political grounds, you have
to wonder what THEIR agenda is. At least we know now who
belongs to the Open Source Tea Party And to put all
the hue and cry into context: Mir is relevant for
approximately 1% of all developers, just those who think
about shell development. Every app developer will
consume Mir through their toolkit. By contrast, those
same outraged individuals have NIH’d just about every
important piece of the stack they can get their hands
on… most notably SystemD, which is hugely invasive and
hardly justified. What closely to see how competitors to
Canonical torture the English language in their efforts
to justify how those toolkits should support Windows but
not Mir. But we’ll get it done, and it will be amazing.

In context, this was written shortly after Martin Gräßlin had said that he would not support Mir in KWin. KWin is the KDE window manager/shell; he is one of those "1% of all developers" for whom the display server really matters. And unlike what Mark claims, KWin does not support Windows (other parts of the Qt and KDE stack do, but not KWin).

So, he sees this as his time essentially being volunteered for him by Mark, to support a display server with an architecture he doesn't agree with, after he's already put the effort in to support the display server that pretty much everyone else in the desktop Linux ecosystem have been targeting. And if you don't agree with Mark, or the technical decisions made leading to Mir, you get branded as "the Open Source Tea Party", "purely political", an "outraged individual" who has "NIH'd just about every piece of the stack."
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That Kaiser calculator is great. I get the sense that this would have all worked so much better if the law had been structured such that HHS approved plans, insurers sold those plans on their own sites (or through private clearinghouses), while the IRS provided a quick calculator like this and a longer process to get a certification of your last year's income you could present to an insurer to get a subsidized rate.
I'm extremely surprised no one's mentioned the timing of the whole thing -- right before the Innovation Act.
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Kamprad in on par with Buffet if you belive Bloomberg.

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Canonical and the Ubuntu legion have alienated the rest of the FOSS community. It's a shame to see the distro that introduced many of us to GNU/Linux fall so far. Martin has made the right move for his personal sanity.
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"Skunk Works has revealed exclusively to AW&ST details of long-running plans for what it describes as an affordable hypersonic intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and strike platform that could enter development in demonstrator form as soon as 2018."

Here's a translation in line with your suspicion:

"Lockheed-Martin really wants a new contract. High-technology projects can only be purchased by the government, so political pressure on (and rewards to) members of Congress is an effective tool. Nobody bought the super-sensor-blimp project, the heavily-armed-and-armored blimp project, or the flying jeep project, so maybe we can get traction for something sexy. Speed sells, and everybody has good memories of the Blackbird... let's make some pretty drawings and get our name mentioned a lot. Since it's only a drawing right now, we can propose it as a recon plane and a strike bomber and an interceptor and an anti-satellite launcher and a dessert and a floor wax, too!"
They definitely have excessive cash to spend.
It's not like they had any particular interest in Norway, either. It was only about preventing the Brits from setting up shop, which they were in fact poised to do.
Resolving git “pseudo conflicts”
First, let me say I love the idea and the site. My question: Why bother with the credits? Is it a legal workaround for currency? Why not make credits equivalent to dollars?
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The US needs to retire daylight savings and just have 2 time zones 1 hour apart
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This is worthy of discussion because it brings up a point that's been true for a long time: the economy the way it actually exists and the economy the way it exists in many people's minds are two completely different things. So when politicians talk about doing things to get "jobs" -- I have no idea what that term even means. Most politicians think it all boils down to a bunch of cronyism that ends up with a defense or environmental contractor located in their district. Maybe some kind of ribbon-cutting ceremony that can hit the evening TV News.

The article has some pretty big flaws, however, the biggest of which is that it doesn't even truly understand the degree of dissonance in terms involved. Instead, we get some marketing blurb thrown out, the "sharing economy" and then the entire problem is viewed in terms of that.

Bad analysis always leads to bad advice, then bad solutions. This isn't any kind of new concept that has to do with AirBnB or Uber. This is the way the economy actually works From gin joints to smuggling to gun running to "working under the table" -- the real economy is messy and fuzzy. It's full of people sharing and trading all kinds of things under the radar. Technology is just multiplying our ability to hook up and help each other out. That's a great thing. I just wish the writer could see the forest instead of just a couple of trees.

But heck, can't have everything.
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This is Lockheed Martin we are talking about.

The same Lockheed Martin that pretty much built (and is) the NSA, the same Lockheed Martin that processes the census, the same Lockheed Martin that processes the tax returns, the same Lockheed Martin that can test your DNA, the same Lockheed Martin that makes the Trident nukes, the same Lockheed Martin that builds the spy satellites, the same Lockheed Martin that can supply 'interrogators' to Guantanamo, the same Lockheed Martin that supplied the planes that went in first in Iraq, the same Lockheed Martin that owns Afghanistan (to all intents and purposes) and the same Lockheed Martin that owns all the politicians in Washington.

If they want this then they can get you to pay for it.
I mean. SaaS is pretty cool but all of these stupid services are just a waste.
It did happen to me on Chrome, but Chrome also gives you hints that it will do auto-filling should you select the value from that list.
This definitely feels like the 21st century gold rush where everyone's just rushing in before it's too late just in case that hot tech startup becomes the next Google. I don't know if wisdom can overpower the greed that people have.
It's apparently been a much longer journey, starting in the 1800's as detailed by http://www.libertarianism.org/publications/essays/how-laisse...
The part about John Hierta is especially interesting; he's the obvious entrepreneur who managed to change politics.
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Sorry, hope this clarifies. Not every credit that's sold ends up getting cashed out (it's a limited program as far as how many sales worth of currency you can get in cash). That $1 difference helps, but in the end the currency sold is still the main revenue. The buyback is merely a way of ensuring that if you sell games but can't find anything to get back for them, you can get cash. That's limited to 5 games/month.
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His wife said it was an accident, this makes it a fact, case closed.
Is there a standard answer when someone complains about the "war machine" and incorrect priorities? It's kind of common in this crowd, and probably not the proper way to look at it. To me, it's a Frequently Mentioned Complaint.

Certainly many of us here wish there was more money spent on big science. For example, if the US built Super Collider 20 years ago, what we are discovering in physics today, would have been discovered almost 2 decades ago:

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

Anyway, the US spends a fortune on its military. The cost was something like 20 billion for air conditioning in the Iraq war? (that's one supercollider). Until we have that ever elusive world peace, we're probably going to continue to spend a fortune. Having the military spend some of its money on new SR71's, robotic vehicles, the Internet, drones, etc isn't going to be cheapest research but fewer people question it, and the research does get done.

Consider that if we didn't need national defense, people would probably just want lower taxes and you still couldn't convince them to go to the moon. There's nothing there, after all.
You can also look at their driver's license. That should tell you a thing or two about seniority.
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