skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) What you describe is clearly psychological aversion. Please don't call it anything else. You notice it, others don't and it makes you sick. That's called aversion and has zero cause outside of your own mind. It means you got sick after eating pork a long time ago. Nothing more. Nothing bad about it, most people have at least one aversion. Explaining it through "corpse smell" is stupid though.

2) a lot of Indian households are indeed "vegetarian", in the sense that they can't afford any meat (not even poultry). They replace it by eating animal fat on bread. Pig fat mostly. Europeans do the same thing, and today you can get it as a delicacy. It's a very original taste, but let me tell you. If you dislike the smell of bacon, this is unlikely to agree with you.

3) "There are many cultures around the world who abstain from meat for religious reasons, eg Buddhists and Hindus". Hindus abstain from eating cow meat (though not milk). I'm not aware of Buddhist attitudes, but the first line on wikipedia directly contradicts what you're saying [1]. Clearly it's only monks (which have been eating meat for -at least- 14 years as part of the general population). There are zero cultures around the world that abstain from meat alltogether. For obvious reasons : if you do, people die, without fishoil and pig fat ("food supplements", guess what they're made of ?).

4) how do you talk yourself out of the -many- cases of food deficiency caused by vegetarianism and/or veganism ? Not just the ones today, but the many documented attempts, for seafaring and other travels of vegetarian diets that resulted in death on a large scale. Large enough to alter outcomes of battles, kill entire crews and so on.

5) Also the tons of instances of babies dying from food deficiency where it was blamed -by medical professionals- directly on the diet of their parents ? I hope you're not planning on having kids - ever (although a kid will be fine with a vegetarian father, it's the mother that causes problems early on. Afterwards, not feeding the kid meat or fish is bad). Hell I checked in the supermarket here and the apple + banana baby feed mentions that infants can't survive on fruit alone, and you really should also provide meat and fish products, ideally both.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_vegetarianism
Superpacs are far more dangerous.

Not just out of state but out of country sources can pour millions into any campaign, no matter how big or small, and there will be zero paper trail.

Yet no-one seems to care. It's mind-boggling.
Well it has the brainy colonel Carl Jenkins, to show how smart people are can be oblivious of their society failings and participate to the "massacre". Also, there is little point insisting on this part given the recent history (nazism, war agains terrorism, etc).
Even though I've been working on and off with Plone lately, this one snuck in under my radar.
I've been searching for something like this, great timing!
As I explained earlier, I haven't decided whether I support the TPP yet because I don't know what's in it, so I don't know where you're getting the idea of a'ringing endorsement.' What I'm defending is the idea that it can get negotiated and then offered for an up or down vote. I actually think this is a better approach for judging the proposal as a whole. Yes, it's less democratic, which is not an altogether bad thing in my view; it's faster; it forces an assessment of priorities, and makes it easier for multiple countries with different cultures and political systems to negotiate.

Oh mysterious duplicity!

I have a different and probably more cynical worldview than you do. Apparently you find this so impossible to imagine that you think I must be lying about something. I don't really care whether you find my views unsatisfactory or not, any more than you care for my approval.
You're right in that we can't be certain without additional evidence that he was targeted primarily because of who he was. I've edited my comment. But it is certain that the investigation into Gov. Spitzer's activities began as a result of bank employees examining his accounts, specifically, and that there were no other clients of the madam who were publicly exposed.

Regarding "PEP" surveillance, I would say that transparency is good, but there is nothing transparent about a process whereby people's activities are reported to data collection centers in secret, and then through some unknown and mysterious process culled and sorted.

Public scrutiny is good. But selective secret scrutiny, scrutiny only of politicians who threaten powerful constituencies, is a disaster for democracy.
I agree about his genius. He went completely outside the box in numerous ways to arrive at his unbelievably simple solution.

His attitude is just as unique as his thought process.
> Force yourself
to just sit there on the command line.

That's good advice in general but instead of using the bare CLI I'd suggest that you learn about screen and tmux early on. It'll make you miss the windowing system less.
As well as recharging these things with solar, hotels could hook their gym treadmills into the system and turn their guests into power-generating hamsters: http://www.californiafitness.com/sg/en/node/587
Ask HN: If I was to build bitcoingamblinggame.com would you play it?
I am super excited about this. I love the fun visuals, extensive documentation, transparency and honesty about issues with email clients. I think there is huge potential here and I can't wait to see where they go with it. A huge use case that no one is talking about is transactional emails from your web or mobile app. Now you can have great looking emails that increase engagement that look great on mobile email and look (both in design and the underlying code) much like foundation based rails apps.
I don't know what you do or don't understand, but your post isn't entirely accurate. VCs invest in early-stage companies with strong potential for high growth. That means companies like SnapChat, yes, as well as companies like Amaranth Medical [1].

Your post takes the example of two startups in the consumer photo industry and generalizes it to startups and VCs operating across an entire spectrum of industries. That alone suggests a limited understanding of VC funding.

I won't suggest taking VC funding in all (or even most) cases. But it is the right thing to do when your company's interests are aligned with the VCs.

[1] http://www.mddionline.com/article/bioresorbable-stent-startu...
Thank you for your response.
I am attending a college in U.S. on F-1, and I can legally authorized to work during the semester or vacation using CPT or OPT.
I am considering flying to Silicon Valley this winter, but I am not sure if this is worth the cost. I don't think I can meet many people there if I do not have a network.

I have been waiting for almost 2 weeks, but I am not getting any email or phone call. This is exhausting and dismal...
Brilliant! But where's the algebra of complex numbers. :-)
Google: No, honestly, you MUST host your Chrome extensions in OUR store
I agree that it's relevant in aggregate. If you're looking to compare "total capital interest" it would probably be better to compare the total market for utilities vs tech stocks.

My only point was that comparing the valuation of a single utility company against a tech outlier doesnt really make any sense.
How does Ms Gill know that all those masks are made in the same factory and that all of them pay royalties?

It would have been fair to mention that in the west at least 3d printers are becoming more and more common and anyone can download a Fawkes mask model and 3dprint it at home.
http://tf3dm.com/3d-model/v-for-vendetta-guy-fawkes-mask-481...

Or if you're feeling environmentally friendly, out of recycled cardboard. It's no rocket science really.
Or how about this one as an origami?
http://www.instructables.com/id/Guy-Fawkes-Mask-in-Origami/

It took me 5 seconds to find these on Google.
Ms Gill comes across as particularly lazy and not very well intentioned.
Why would you spend your time at work looking at information you cannot and will not act on?
Thank you so much for that link. Obviously I recalled incorrectly, I thought I'd read Haldeman make that claim. And as you say, it's interesting to read his views on ST.
I've been hearing this since the late 80s and the sky still hasn't fallen. If you don't like it by all means call your senator, donate to opponents of the trade deal, fight against it/ I'm not trying to get you to support the TPP (not least because I don't know what's in it either, so far); my reason for jumping into this thread is to point out that the EFF is making flat-out false arguments, which strikes me as an absolutely stupid way to gin up opposition about it.

If they had written an article saying 'TPP negotiations should be public' I wouldn't object in the least - that's a perfectly reasonable view, even though I am not very exercised about it. Indeed, I linked to a letter from a group articulating exactly that position up thread. But saying 'NYT endorsed secret trade treaty' is simply a falsehood.
I've read the book, and seen the movie. Let me tell you, I can't say that anything more than a skimming of that book is necessary. It's about as one dimensional as sci-fi gets. Worse even than Scott Cards work, and I don't say that lightly. Both Enders Game and Starship Troopers replace that tedious work of actually figuring out what sort of character development you want to be in your story with "young naive guy matures as he learns the value of war."

The movie, for all of its self-aware cheese, has much more to offer.
Don't know why but I read "be a shit umbrella..." as "don't be a good umbrella" and really had to do a double take on that sentence before I realised what he actually meant.
Hell no.

● You do absolutely nothing to differentiate yourself from the crowd.

● What is a 'gambling game'?

● Why would I waste money on something as zero-effort as this question?

● Are you legally registered as a gaming operator?
Only in the age of degenerate democracy would people imagine that the only alternative to mob rule is dictatorship, and fantasize that the two are opposites.
-Cardinal Richelieu

King Louis XIII's chief minister

Hopefully that saves someone ten precious seconds; I'll never get them back!
It's the comparison between two individual companies in different field that is irrelevant.

My point is that the valuation comparison OP posted has nothing to do with "life without utility companies and imagine life without FB".
If that were true, wouldn't the utilities just buy the batteries themselves?
That doesn't explain why investors wouldn't support everpix, because they did have a free product.
The following quote is relevant here:

“WOULD ANY SANE PERSON think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday, or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons, or that dancing naked around a fire would have helped put in place the Voting Rights Act of 1957 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Then why now, with all the world at stake, do so many people retreat into these entirely personal “solutions”?
Part of the problem is that we’ve been victims of a campaign of systematic misdirection. Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organized political resistance. An Inconvenient Truth helped raise consciousness about global warming. But did you notice that all of the solutions presented had to do with personal consumption—changing light bulbs, inflating tires, driving half as much—and had nothing to do with shifting power away from corporations, or stopping the growth economy that is destroying the planet? Even if every person in the United States did everything the movie suggested, U.S. carbon emissions would fall by only 22 percent. Scientific consensus is that emissions must be reduced by at least 75 percent worldwide.

Or let’s talk water. We so often hear that the world is running out of water. People are dying from lack of water. Rivers are dewatered from lack of water. Because of this we need to take shorter showers. See the disconnect? Because I take showers, I’m responsible for drawing down aquifers? Well, no. More than 90 percent of the water used by humans is used by agriculture and industry. The remaining 10 percent is split between municipalities and actual living breathing individual humans. Collectively, municipal golf courses use as much water as municipal human beings. People (both human people and fish people) aren’t dying because the world is running out of water. They’re dying because the water is being stolen.

…Personal change doesn’t equal social change.”
— Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Changes Does Not Equal Political Change

Even if every Guy Fawkes mask were made at Foxconn itself, a boycott wouldn't do anything to the working conditions. Teens would still purchase them based on the movie (or, heaven forbid, the actual comic book). What is necessary is restructuring the world to make Foxconn impossible.

[1] http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/4801...
every day that the office is closed down is a day they could have been scanning a document, eg.
Well I guess I never mentioned it in my post as that would make it very easy for my old employer to be named, but there are around ~50 people in the company, although they tout themselves as a startup (and pay like one too).
AWS isn't the issue. It's poorly engineered software. Probably using some fashionable backend, instead of tried and tested battle worn efficient software.

Another example would be Reddit's mammoth hosting bill.
>>“I’m not saying you should be working 80 hours a week, but 70 is not ridiculous to ask, and if you were committed you would do more”.

From when did working 30+ additional extra hours just became a sign of being merely committed? The way I see these are just mind games played to extract tons of work for free.

I see this pretty standard these days. The Google 20% time policy is a standard in many companies to get free innovation out, while your grinding your bones to dust(sold to you as 'chasing your passion' , 'developers like to code during late night and weekends', 'world changing problems' etc) working whole nights to get some thing done, a VP some where is sleeping through his job. What happens at the end of it is the VP gets a fat bonus and a promotion for 'driving the innovation' while you are at the very best known to be just 'committed' and given a certification, which isn't even worth the paper its printed on.

Almost any time you hear some senior guy glorifying long working hours, demanding free innovation and depicting heroic contribution as just doing bare minimum job. Know one thing for sure, this guy is going to leech you till the last drop of blood in your body.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/08/net-us-usa-securit...
I could almost have written this myself. ;)

I've been waiting for this release for about 2 weeks, since my laptop died and I had to replace it, and the installation of Slackware 14 didn't transfer too well (no networking) so I decided to wait out 14.1, since the changelogs were saying there were so close to release time anyway.

Lots of people are sceptical of Slackware and I can understand those sentiments fine. Slackware is simply my personal preference for two super simple reasons (and a lot of other minor reasons).

1: It makes me feel at home. I never fear I won't be able to do something, or find something. The whole thing is made to be configurable and it is.

2: It's never in my way when I want to do something. I never cussed at Slackware for doing something stupid. I have to do everything myself anyway! :D

Packages; I love the package management. Not that Debian's package manager doesn't absolutely rock imho, because I think it does, but Debian is like the neighbor: the house is almost the same, but it still feels more foreign than my own house, which I decorated myself and all that. I get my packages from SlackBuilds most of the time. I love SlackBuilds, too. I think that there's almost nothing missing between Slackware's fairly broad software library and SlackBuilds for almost everything else.

I did run Ubuntu on my laptop for years. I tried every new release of Ubuntu for 5 or 6 years and I was always genuinely excited. But then they started making mistakes. PulseAudio didn't work the first time they included it. One time, an update broke X. The video driver (Nvidia) was updated too and they decided that my videocard was suddenly no longer supported. That was plain stupid. And then they moved to Unity, which I didn't really care for.
I've been back on Slackware since 13, I think, and I will not let go of it. It's just my OS of choice, even if there are other beautiful Linux distributions out there. :)

Patrick, my hat is off to you and your team, for keeping this beautiful operating system going. May it have many, many years of life left in it. I'll be there to see it and use it. :)
If profit figures were available we wouldn't be having this discussion, because the answer would be obvious. But they're not. Nintendo's figures are the most available (since gaming is the majority of their business and they are a public company), but the least relevant because we know they've been struggling. Sony has had reduced profitability and losses over the last few years. The interesting thing is how difficult it is to get numbers out of Microsoft. They fold the Xbox and console gaming part of the company in with web-based gaming and the windows phone (and formerly zune) part of the company, which muddies the waters considerably. Overall though there are many indications that console gaming has been profitable for Microsoft. For example, in 2012 alone xbox live made $1.2 billion in revenue. This is a very high-margin business for MS and that represents about 10% of the entire worldwide video game revenue.

MS has dumped a lot of money into console gaming, but they've built a business that is now generating a lot of revenue in a lot of high margin areas.
Forget Shorter Showers: Why personal change does not equal political change
Oh wow this article is only a few hours old. My bad. Nice find!
You underestimate the costs associated with hardware. Multiple locations, redundant tier 1 pipes, 1-2 new hires per location, etc. While you can save some money, it isn't as much as you'd think.
What is actually "unfortunate" in my opinion is that so many people are using the v/guyfawkes mask without any knowledge of its origin (efg, /b/) and its meaning (a joke)
Communication is the writer's job, not the reader's. If a creator sets out to convey a message and 99% of the audience does not receive the message, it's not the audience that has failed.
I saw it when it came out and loved it. Much more than the book which was depressingly fascist apologetic.

Maybe people were projecting the book onto the movie?
Some managers are unable to assess employees efficiency, so they measure working time and are only happy when everyone is working 70 + hours per week.
They also measure commitment by how hard you laugh at their jokes.
Even though it is infinitely more precious to have someone productive working around 40 hrs a week (i.e. with around 30 extra potential hours to work when there is a rush) who finds critical software vulnerabilities like you did.
Their loss.
"...said a source close to several U.S. government investigations into the damage caused by the leaks"

This isn't the kind of stenographic journalism that Glenn Greenwald has been railing against at all!
I don't use "All Mail", I just use the "Inbox" at the top of the sidebar.
Have you seen the movie? Did you see Neil Patrick Harris's outfit in the movie? You would have to be clinically braindead to not pick up on the satire.
You're assuming their business plan included only the one round of funding. I'm assuming they were planning extra rounds or the VCs believed they would need extra rounds.

If they went up to, say, a Series B at 10M and a Series C at 20M, which are reasonably conservative multiples, they are at ~36.5M, so looking for a ~400M exit. It's not hard to need that ~1B exit if your business plan is "everyone in the world using my product," and it appears this is what Everpix were aiming for.
I don't get it. Very much at the beginning of the movie a paraplegic army recruiter proudly proclaims: "Mobile infantry made me the man I am today."

How can anyone take that at face value?
Abouth the `backfill': you can also ask about length of average stay at the company.
IIRC Harmony was scuttled primarily because of OpenJDK — Harmony's major corporate sponsor switched its support to OpenJDK, and shortly thereafter the Harmony committee unanimously agreed to put the project in the attic. I don't think Oracle ever actually went after Apache.
Kudos for that

A good contract and a good professional attitude does wonders
> Instead of paying employees half market rates, those employees can go and work on creating a VR app that could be used by millions of people, or some other opportunity. And they could receive full pay.

Yes, you're right. But does a photo sharing service really need those kind of employees? Is there a need to be located at a technology cluster like the SV where developers are expensive and a scarce resource?

Services like Everpix are - in terms of technology - pretty trivial. They can be built anywhere in the world by average developers. No need to hire expensive Stanford PHDs to do a job a kid from the local community college in Kentucky could do.
Can we please stop with all this Anonymous BS? The point of the 'movement' is that it's decentralised. 'Anonymous' can't write 'open letters'. This is just pathetic.
That should be n^m where n is the number of packages and m is the number of distributions (for software that's common to all distributions).

And anyhow, perhaps it would easier get support this way since you could get each software package to run in the distro where it's the easiest and then set them up to interact over IP like they would in containers.
Love this idea, but will it be plagued with problems stemming from the gratis-ness of the initiative? Building a wikipediafs that stores (optionally encrypted) binary data in uuencoded wikipedia articles?

Because read-only access won't be nearly as useful as allowing people to commit. I suppose setting a reasonable limit to uploads might help a lot (say 10mb a day -- that's a lot of text, after all).
In addition to worms and viruses, consider the risk of good old fashioned data loss. Everyone knows they should back up their hard-drive but many (if not most) users do a piss-poor job of it. Storing your bitcoins online somewhere increases the risk they'll be compromised by an online attacker, but it reduces the risk that you'll lose everything in a fire.
Odd that it costs more than a Tesla but holds less energy.
While not disagreeing that Facebook et al. pose a problem, the real problem is that you can't evade surveillance as you lay a digital trail of almost everything you do in your live. Your phone is location-tracked, every non-cash payment is tracked, the sites you surf onto are tracked (by your provider at least), your medical dossiers are electronic and pass eventually through public parts of the net, automatic face recognition is about to become ubiquitous,...

So no, leaving Facebook or Google solves only a tiny part of the problem.
Gnu Coding Standards
That's fine, but I'd much rather not have to deal with defamation claims and burn too many bridges. After all, Vancouver isn't so big, and neither is the tech industry in general.