skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there's a strong possibility that kids are beaten or otherwise abused if they decline to participate in such activity, which is one reason to undermine the market and make it unprofitable. Also, you're overlooking the possibility of significant psychological damage. Being a stripper doesn't seem like a healthy occupation for a ten year old.
There's a lot of luck, and a lot of factors beyond your control that is true. But it's based on Market Forces which drives value rather than 100% random (or corrupt) forces.

However to say people should be payed based on the percent yield. Most people consider only physical value in looking at labor. I imagine you would believe that someone working for a corporation carving blocks into a statue should be payed a percentage of that sale of the statue.

Yet it's obvious that that line of thinking (physical value only) is incorrect. How much would you pay doctors? Doctors don't create anything, but they generate value by instructing surgeons, nurses, etc on what they should do. By physical value only, coal miners would make hundreds, doctors 0.

Okay, so we concede that intellectual value should be also considered in the percentage yield owed to an individual.

Then that brings us a really good CEO. Per product, a good CEO might only cost a fraction of a cent. You can calculate finding a number of sales of a product and dividing into it the CEOs billion $ salery. A bad CEO might make an OK on a failed product that costs the company 5 cents a product. This costs him billions of dollars of his own money. A really good CEO might one day decide to test a method of production, or a new mass production strategy that decreases cost of making each good by 10 cents. He is payed hundreds of Billions. You might agree that based on this, it would make sense to pay CEOs based on output, but once you realize that the good CEO and bad CEO are the often same person, and once you charge a person hundreds of billion of dollars for their 5 cent mistake, they would have make the risk needed to gain the the 10c discovery, you might begin to understand that CEOs simply cannot be payed based on this method of value.

Okay so we try the opposite approach. It's based on luck so we should pay everyone the same. No one would want to take on the stress for a low-power, high risk, boring job like supervising a reactor core. Especially since that job pays the same as a fun job like stopping crime, or something more interesting and easy to get into. There would be a constant problem of not enough people in some jobs and too many in others. Redistributing people would be completely random and people would be placed in to jobs they hate, and paid the same amount as people doing jobs they would love. So here, much more people are unhappy, and incompetence is all around. (Then some guy says he's going to fix it and everyone rallies around him and soon dictatorship).
Carbon-Negative Energy Device Makes Clean Energy and Fertilizer
Nope, I thought the same!

Spoiler
Good thing we weren't around to poison the Earth back then or these would be sprouting toxins like no one's business.
The difference is that because we're using Rainforest in our build process we cannot deploy if Rainforest itself doesn't work... so it's a bit more 'extreme' than regular dogfooding.
Why Our First Full-Time Hire Was A Designer
Articles like these always talk about how huge the child pornography business is, but the language always strikes me as similar to the scare stories from the 80s about satanist cults, etc.

I guess I could be wrong, I don't know if there are reliable sources for that kind of information
could be a powerful tool with hints of what's most popular on twitter atm. then people can track real time events
The quote from their director was "Our worst scenario is that the same thing will happen with this as has happened with child pornography that is now a multibillion dollar industry in the hands of criminal gangs."

Also there was an article about cam girls the other day showing some/many are poorly paid in studios in 3rd world countries.

Where there is demand, there is always someone there to make money – in this case it's clear that attempting to curtail demand will stop commercialisation of this sort of thing.
>Are we all turned to geese?

no, unfortunately we're humans:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
The article mentions that the "webcam sex" involves people paying to watch, via webcam, actual sex. Very different situation.
Exactly, I dont believe that it was THE foundation for our economy. The Industrial Revolution may be THE foundation for our MODERN economy, I dont find agriculture as our foundation anymore. We can literally watch China go through it now.

>But there are dozens of other ways to understand that cross-section of history.

This.
I guess I was trying to gramtically incorrectly say that I wasn't some "MBA without insight into engineering" stating the opinion.
But even if that were granted for the sake of argument, it's not much of a win for Haskell. The ability to create pure functions is a feature of every language that has been invented during the lifetime of probably every person reading this post, and therefore not really a differentiating feature of Haskell.

I already dealt with this three posts above:

And no, it's not the case that Haskell is the only language which allows you to write pure functions. People who try to claim that are being silly and dishonest. Haskell's advantage is that its type system allows you to know at a glance whether or not a function is pure.

Nor is lack of ability to create impure functions a feature that can be claimed of Haskell, because that simply isn't true. Haskell's real differentiator in that department is just that you've got to jump through hoops to do it. And if your business rules are inherently impure, then it's not clear to me how a language that tries to ghettoize impurity makes them easier to implement.

That's only the case for beginners who don't understand monads and their associated libraries. For an experienced programmer, Haskell offers much more powerful and expressive (not to mention safe) means of combining effectful computations than typical imperative languages.
Maybe some kind of AV scanning as files are uploaded.
Agreed. Everyone sees the term pixel and thinks it will match a device pixel. This isn't true. The CSS pixel is sized to take up a certain amount of the visual field due to that diagram with a reference screen, distance, and density. The person writing about angular stuff is dead on target explaining to people the difference.

The author of the linked article is just nit picking word choice and confusing the issue. No one was applying this past that to then come to the claim the pixel size changed at different degrees, which is the implication that the author of this article seems so upset about. Everyone knows the CSS pixel stays the same size across the entire screen, we don't need to discuss that. We certainly don't need enormous articles like this written to correct a problem no one had.

Although overall the spec is really the offender since they never should have called this a pixel.
I think you overestimate the intelligence of 99% of people.
Does Apple profit from ads embedded in Siri?
QML Creator for Android: Develop QML components anywhere you like
I'd like to introduce QML Creator, my latest side project. I wrote this program for Android in just 2 weeks, in after-work hours. It is a Qt Quick 2.1 app based on ApplicationWindow with a few C++ fragments injected. This program is intended to help develop QML components right on your mobile device.

Really, this app is not designed to be used for serious development. Rather, it is a fan project for Qt lovers like myself. I often found the need, in the absence of a desktop computer, to show QML's advantages to programers who haven't yet had a chance to appreciate declarative programming. Or, alternatively, if you want to develop QML components and just don't have a desktop around, now you can do it anywhere you like on your mobile device.

The first release includes 5 examples and all the functionality of Qt Quick 2.1. In the near future, I'm going to finish the code highlighting (it's not really working right now, sorry) and also build in some editor skins. Naturally, I'll give you some more examples. And upgrade to 5.2:)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wearyinside.qmlcreator
Also Scala (just because):

val a = 4 to 100 by 2
val b = a drop 5
In my experience GSD is just an excuse to avoid the organization and planning work that's not particularly interesting compared to banging out some code.

I've seen a lot of startups just failing utterly because their primary philosophy is this one, and it tells them that it's ok to skip the hard/boring parts of your duties.

On the plus side those who are thinking through their experiments and still failing fast but intelligently choosing what they are trying rather than just skipping the planning and hammering out some code can really out-compete their GSD'ing competition. I have some good friends doing exactly this and doing it very consciously right now (just yesterday I told them they should call it Hammock Driven Biz Dez since we are all Rich Hickey fans). It is working very well, and that's measured in revenue.
At This Spa, Watch 3-D Printers Create a City While You Soak in the Tub
It's not all of project management, but it's part of it: projects do not exist for their own merits, but because they are delivering something of merit.

A lot of shops spend months talking about how cool the new architecture is going to be, how cool its features will be, how cool its scalability will be, how cool the future is going to be…and never end up supporting the business with something, now.

At some point, you gotta Get Something Done.
Auto-assignment of nicknames seems a particularly nifty feature -- a warm welcome for first-time users.

Overall seems a well-balanced crossover of IRC and message board. (Almost) Everything Google Wave wanted to be, but never had a chance to become.

How do I rent a private channel for company-wide use? ;-)
Why is canonical on that list? Well Apple seems to have hit their limit and are experiencing gravity.

I'm heavily vested in microsoft and just wish they'll stop trying to commit suicide.
Was there really a lot of cellulose to consume that early? Remember, no trees so no dead wood to consume.
I thought that this was just a virtual face for a human researcher who was conducting the actual conversation - at least that was how the demonstration in the article was done. If they were entirely virtual I'm not sure they'd need 10 weeks to accumulate sufficient hits.
Most people don't do it to the extent it stops deploys working. We wanted to as if it's painful for us, it would be painful for our customers.
I had one installed but it wasn't working for some reason. I replaced it with W3Edge now and it's working great. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Lawyers here in The Netherlands are saying that those sex predators cannot be prosecuted because no actual girl was harmed. Furthermore this could be seen as incitement, which lowers chances of prosecution even more.

So while this surely raises attention for the issue, I'm not at all sure if it's a lot more useful than that.
New Developments Provide More Flexibility Out Of HDMI Matrix Routers
There are examples of people actually killing themselves after webcam sex. Some of those people are blackmailed and asked to pay money in order to prevent release if the images. Some people just have the images released anyway, and are bullied to death.
Redis Monitoring and Inspection Tool in Django Admin
Kirk only got a commendation for that. He had to work for a long time after the Kobayashi Maru incident to get the Enterprise.

You're begging the question. Achieving the same goals with different rules is a different game. Using stilts and a machine gun to get a ball in a hoop is not basketball.
Brave new world. An online world full of agent provocateurs that detect all crimes before they are actually committed.
Sorry about that, should be better now, replaced the broken caching plugin with w3edge.
I Hate Buzzfeed
Diabetes myths? True or False read below we will tell you
This is silly for a few reasons. The main reason I see is that HealthCare.Gov does a lot more than search for the plans. It also calculates an adjustment that depends on how much you make a year.

To me, that part is a lote more important than a search-by-zip website. Not to defend HealthCare.Gov. It was horribly launched.
I am glad that they said the current laws are enough. It always seems like people use these issues to get more power. I want to say something about how that probably works for their cause but I can only imagine most people[1] 'thinking of the children' and adding as many laws as they can.

[1]the public that elects officials
There's a lot of lag for a few people in a chatroom. Looks fun apart from that though.
This is the YouTube campaign page. Obviously NSFW in subject matter, though not explicit. https://www.youtube.com/sweetie

One good thing is that they've started with the perception that pedophiliac behavior is a mental rather than solely moral problem. It's quite interesting, if you can put up with the awful 'dramatic' music.
So, if you had a daughter, it would be ok if she made a little extra money on the side?

It's kind of strange that anyone would have to explain why this is a problem. Wonder what just happened to your Google, Facebook, and NSA social graph profile? :-)
It never ceases to amaze me how immature people can be when unleashed with this type of product!
The Wholeness of Quantum Reality: An Interview with Physicist Basil Hiley
> If all pools are acting this way, then there's really no incentive for miners to go to any specific pool (avoiding centralization). So it will just be like regular mining again.

Are you sure? It seems like it might be skewed towards the larger pools.

For instance, right now, a pool with 25% of the computation will get 25% of the mining revenue. If everyone is selfish, though, perhaps the 25% pool gets more share of the revenue, at the expense of the other selfish pools?
Code can certainly be ambiguous. We call it unspecified behavior, undefined behavior, or race conditions, depending.
Modular Backbone
Why The Attack on Buffer Was A Serious Wake-Up Call For The Web
Recently exposed to http://0xdata.com/ at Strata NYC and was very impressed. Just another to add to the list of great open source modeling and prediction tools.
I assume the target is the double-spend they could do. They would transmit transactions to the public blockchain, but put different transactions in their private blockchain.

Let's make it simple. Take Y = I order 100k USD from some bank, pay with bitcoin. Y' = I pay 100k USD equivalent in bitcoin to myself. Suppose I discover a block significantly ahead of the public mining pool

Public: X + Y
Mine: X + Y'

Now I reveal the X + Y' chain to part of the network, but not the part where the "target" of the Y transaction is located. And suppose I can get 50% hashrate working on my chain that way. Evolution

Public X + Y + Z1 + Z2 + Z3 (bank confirms transaction after 3 blocks, pays out my 100k USD)
Mine X + Y' + Z1 + Z2 + Z2

At this point I put all my spare chips in. I suddenly "discover" 2 blocks. Result

Public X + Y + Z1 + Z2 + Z3
Mine X + Y' + Z1 + Z2 + Z3 + Z4 + Z5

And I re-unify the network at this point. All miners accept the "mine" blockchain, and I was able to confirm one transaction, get the payout, and undo the payment.

(obviously in reality, you'd use many tiny transactions, not one big one, and Z1 + Z2 + Z3 + Z4 + Z5 would only be able to contain transactions from the traitor network + whatever miners joined it after it was X + Y', and and and and and ... But I don't see a good reason it couldn't work)

Maybe you could make this work if you had an internet partition. (happens all the time, but you'd need a pretty big one)
It is a war crime.

Does your superior officer make a direct order to do it? That's no excuse whatsoever, you're still guilty.

Is it required for national security? Still no excuse, the ends don't justify the means. If 'terrorists would win' otherwise, well, then they'd 'win' but not indemnify you.

Has your nation passed laws making it explicitly legal? Still no excuse, it's still illegal and you can and should be prosecuted for that.

If the current world order is unwilling to pursue it in practice, then our children and grandchildren will do it - there's no statute of limitations, and people involved in these USA actions can expect the same "retirement" as the elderly Nazis who were prosecuted in recent years.
This is my concern, too: there was no crime outside of thoughtcrime, and I'd rather we didn't start prosecuting that. That these men intended to engage in child exploitation doesn't alter the fact that they didn't.
That sounds exactly like dogfooding to me.

What is regular dogfooding?
I might have a bit more of a play about with it, oh and here's the svg as a gist if anyone wants it - https://gist.github.com/anonymous/7308250
Evgeny Morozov on Why Our Privacy Problem is a Democracy Problem in Disguise
This seems pretty interesting, but even after reading through your docs, I'm left with a few questions.

How long am I going to wait to get a tester? Does this change over the course of a day? Do you use more than one tester to consider something a 'fail'?
We could theoretically harvest the solar wind for alpha radiation. It will be much more efficient near mercury and you could use all that energy to vaporize rock and climb the gravity well with the cargo.
As someone who loves the N9, I still feel compelled to point out that it is simply false that the N9 had more apps at the time than Windows Phone has today.

There were a lot of Qt developers (still are) and I definitely agree that the N9 was set up to not succeed, and that had a negative effect on the ecosystem.

Although even before feb 11, when Nokia was all-in with Symbian+Qt+Meego, developer interest was lagging behind iOS, Android, and even Windows Phone which was vaporware at the time. Here's one from mid-2010: http://www.appcelerator.com/assets/appcelerator-mobile-devel...
Style editor needs some work still. For example searching for text there is hard to use. There are no "find next" or "find previous" shortcuts, one has to open a dialog again each time.

And there is no way to search in all style sources at once. Which makes tracking stuff harder if there are many sources provided.
His site's back up now, with all the projects still linked. I'll mirror it.
The reliable sources are the hundreds of thousands of images of child sexual abuse on the hard drives of people arrested and prosecuted for these offences. Checksums of these images are made and distributed (to help find other copies; to help filter these images) and some people attempt to identify the victim in order to arrest and prosecute the offender and to offer help to the victim.

Satanist cults were always wing-nuts and piss-poor media reporting. Unfortunately, there's some awful reporting about images of child sexual abuse, and the perpetrators of child abuse, and the victims of sexual abuse. (Demonising sexual abusers is not helpful.)
1) They often go after someone who is staking multiple targets.
2) Undercover cops act as streetwalkers in many districts and this could act as a precedent
Live in a van, run a Silicon Valley startup
It's not the having a package manager that makes it specific, it's that it's ports-like. It's also a great feature that I'm a huge fan of.

It doesn't do nearly as much patching as other distros (save for Slackware or CRUX) to packages making reporting bugs upstream much more straightforward.

This explains it better than I do: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way
So the Perverted Justice/To Catch a Predator folks are spared from Baumol's Cost Disease? (i.e. the problem in which your costs increase as fast as general economic growth because you have to use a real human on a mission-critical path)
My original comment above was mainly in response to the divergent 2 numbers being clearly bullshit... they're not.

I didn't mean to imply any skepticism over the two numbers being different, though I can see how you got that from what I wrote. I brought up both because here he is making one impossible claim, and previously he made an even more impossible claim along the same lines.
Clojure from the ground up: functions
FYI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6406467
This is the absolute definition of a nitpick, but JSNES is a fairly bad name, seeing as the successor to the NES was the SNES.
I live in Northern California near Chuck Moore. He came and spoke at our office last week and showed off the new GreenArrays architecture. Afterwards we were trying to come up with things to disrupt with a super low power / massively parallel chip like that. The problem he brought up is that in products like smart phones the power usage is in the display and the radio. So there isn't much savings in a lower power processor.

But... After the discussion several of us wondered about electronic ink signage. With the Green Arrays stuff you could definitely be completely solar powered.

It would also make an interesting Personal Area Network central control unit for Quantified Self stuff using harvested energy.

I would support a kickstarter for either of those, but I'm not going to pursue them myself right now.

Green Arrays: http://www.greenarraychips.com/
I've noticed a curious transformation in my habits over the past several Firefox releases.

I debug sites in both Chrome and Firefox, and very frequently when in Firefox my brain misfires and performs the key combo to open Chrome's devtools (Ctrl+Shift+i) instead of launching Firebug, with the effect of opening Firefox's own built-in devtools. Originally this would elicit nothing more than a grunt of frustration as I fumbled for the F12 key; Firefox's own tools were simply far too primitive to bother with (though I couldn't help but notice how much more responsive they were than Firebug). But as the months wore on and features accumulated ("a network panel, finally!"), I found myself bothering to correct my error less and less frequently. Just today, in fact, I realized that I had happily spent all morning in the built-in tools without ever yearning for Firebug.

That said, there are still lots of things that Firebug still does better (more convenient object inspection in the console, for one). But the built-ins launch so much damn faster and keep my general browsing experience so much more responsive that it's starting to get difficult to justify having Firebug installed at all.

Hey Firefox dev tools team: nice work. Keep it up! :)
maybe it doesn't have to, but it does and does a poor job at it
I feel like I reached out and touched the face of the Internet. This is very very cool.
This is a nice, concise overview: http://cs.earlham.edu/~stoneda/cs71/

Why Forth: http://bernd-paysan.de/why-forth.html
I'm making my way through this book now. It's very rough terrain since the book was a PhD thesis, but it's really the best in-depth look at Boyd's work, of which I am a big fan!
Isso - a self-hosted Disqus alternative
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That would make him an incredible liar, not an incredible marketer. But I understand your confusion: Both types of people are successful at marketing.
Ok, I'll bite. Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't chance the entire point of rock-paper-scissors? In that case, how would observing your opponent have any affect on the result?

Though I guess I'm backwards enough to have grown up calling it "Paper Rock Scissors", so I might be oblivious to something here.