skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's against this fantastic success of social norms that we should be extraordinary careful before we let market norms corrupt the ecosystem.

I consider myself a reasonable person. This quote makes me angry. This comment seems willfully obtuse in my opinion. Not noticing the immense institutional support and money behind Rails is truly silly. I don't want to come off as mean spirited, but he is very silly for saying this.

The open source projects that are popular like Linux, nginx, and other system ops stuff are obviously popular and have benefited immensely from indirect money (in terms of institutional support). They are vastly superior compared to anything a company could built closed source. We often cling to the idea that open source software is superior to closed source software, but a quick survey of the landscape of open source software will show that this is patently false. Where there is obvious demand for a software product that lots of interested parties need just to maintain operability, the open source solution will usually be vastly superior if not mildly better.

But, take a look at the vast amount of software that is created on github that is open source and you will see a lot of (self-admitted) crap (I have made a lot of self-admitted crap). This crap might have the kernel of a good idea in it, but it never got the time it needed. I'd actually like someone to name an open source software project that we all know and love that hasn't benefited from immense institutional support.

David, not all of us get to be part of incredibly profitable companies that can afford to fund our adventures in coding. Suggesting that Rails hasn't benefited from institutional support and money is just deceptive and something I can't stomach. It's something we can't measure, but that doesn't mean it's not there.
When was the last time DHH was worth less than a million dollars?
I don't think an ounce of carbon tetrachloride is going to turn anyone's back yard into a Superfund site.

And if you understand what he's trying to do here, you'd understand that for other people to duplicate his effort would be seen as success.
As someone who worked on an Open Source project for years with no compensation, adding sustainable funding to it was very motivating. Money is a very weird thing, but getting money for the continued existence of your work is fantastic validation and support.

It's easy to work on things for free, but how do you know that people value them if they simply use them for free. Attaching money to a pursuit that was previously free can also act to greatly encourage the continued existence of the project in the face of burnout and uncertainty.
Your disks are going fine, do you feel the urge to report about it in the reviews on amazon or newegg or where you bought it from?

There is an inherent bias in the reviews. Which makes the backblaze report so interesting, they have less of a bias though they do not report actual disk vendors and models to really draw direct inference only the general trend.
Ghost Blog Setup and Installation for Beginners
Did you even read the article? Literally the next sentence after the one you so nicely cherry picked says:

"But capitalism alone can’t address the needs of the very poor. This means market-driven innovation can actually widen the gap between rich and poor."

Your next assertions are even more ludicrous. You honestly believe a guy who was at the head of a multi-billion dollar global corporation and now the head of a multi-billion dollar global aid/research/activist/whatever organization doesn't understand world and intergovernmental politics? I mean come on..
The genius of the game is that it's really about deep strategy and tactical optimization, despite the appearance of random chance as a hugely deterministic factor. The more you play -- and it took me hundreds of failed runs through to grok this point -- the more you realize that chance has something to do with it, but not all that much. As in poker, you get the hands you're dealt -- but how you play them makes all the difference.

I recommend reading up on the prevailing FAQs for the game. They go into great detail about how to optimize your runs through the first few sectors to gather the resources and items you'll need to survive the last half. For the life of me, I've never been able to beat the boss at the end of the game. I've come close, but personal circumstances forced me to stop playing for awhile, so I never climbed all the way up the learning curve. Even still, it's remarkable how different a player I was at that point from what I was when I started.

(I still enjoyed "fucking-around" runs, where I just sort of let stuff happen and bounced around from adventure to adventure. But that's a very different style from the min-maxing one needs to do to win.)
It's actually more like linkedin+4sq but for dogs.. So you're fine but I'd need a video of your dog barking a response to the NBA I would need him/her to read.
Americans should read this.
The visibility thing is an excellent point: I've been told before that I need to work on more visible projects. But when I work on very visible projects I get feedback like "provide more leadership".

This reminds me very much of the article the other day, "You're only getting the nice feedback":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6712289
Pivotal CF World's First Multi-Cloud Enterprise PAAS
http://gigaom.com/2013/11/12/pivotal-releases-commercial-cloud-foundry/#!
I think the flaw here is that I won't use Google to import data for the email. But would want to connect Basecamp for example. Now I first need to connect Google (for which I have no purpose other than accessing the service) and then connect Basecamp. Doesn't make much sense.
Why would unemployment be any bigger of an issue in the next 10 years than it has over the last 150 years? We've had incredible increases in efficiency in both manufacturing and agriculture in the early 1900s alone, yet unemployment has rarely broken 10%.
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

A few ideas:

"End-to-End JavaScript" - popular but not exactly what you mean but close

"Run Anywhere JavaScript"

"Write Once JavaScript"

"Two Sided JavaScript" - server-side and browser-side

"Browse-N-Serve Javascript"
Dozens executed in North Korea 'for watching foreign films'
There's something fundamental I'm missing about this proposal: how will this not cause inflation on consumer products? People who earn above the basic income level will be hit with a double whammy:
(1) They have to fund the basic income with higher taxes
(2) They have to pay higher prices for consumer products due to the inflated supply of money being spent on consumer products

I just don't see the point, but I would be interested in seeing the practical consequences if another nation tried it.
>More people living doesn't necessarily mean people living better lives.

But in this case it does, as quality of life over the entire earth has improved over the past 100 years and continues to improve.
Google App Engine integration features in ItelliJ IDEA and Pycharm
US-Israeli computer super-worm hit Russian nuclear plant
>What kind of brute force are you talking about?

Guns, thugs, police, arrests. That kind[1].

>If people want to unionize they are free to do so.

Well they're not[2].

[1] -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goon_squad
[2] -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union-busting

Oh, and then there's the issue that property in the means of production is itself a relation created by the capitalist state, as are the modes of its organization (ie: joint-stock companies instead of commons trusts or workers' cooperatives).
What did you expect it would do? Genuinely curious.

It really sucks when this happens. It makes you look bad, possibly heralds others to the site at fault, AND most likely retains your contacts info. It really sucks when someone else gives your information away, even if it is only your name, email, replies, and received messages from the offender's account...
The danger is more subtle than that. There is also the danger that productivity decreases enough that the Swiss GDP cannot support the entitlement at acceptable levels, even without blatant pandering to political factions.

I wonder if some sort of regressive payout as a function of income (as in a logarithmic curve) doesn't make more sense. With a guaranteed base income, this would actually encourage working- and middle-class productivity. The entitlement would then be a multiplier of work, not a substitute for it.
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Wikipedia's citation in that section[1] says that Swedes are more likely to report crimes, but have a similar actual amount of crimes.

"Sweden stands out within the entire area of crimes against the person in particular, because the registration of crime is more extensive than in the majority of other countries in Europe. This forms the background to, for example, the fact that ten times as many cases of assault are registered in Sweden as in Greece."

"But in the victim survey that exists that permits basic comparison between levels of exposure to sex crimes in ten European countries, Sweden does not top the list, as in the reporting statistics. Instead, Sweden is around the average mark, which is also the case for assaults and threats, despite the fact that compared to other countries, we have many such crimes reported. However, the fact that we are not any worse than many other countries does not mean that the situation is good. If any rape is committed, the level is too high."

[1] http://www.bra.se/bra/bra-in-english/home/news-from-bra/arch...
MonoDevelop != Mono. MonoDevelop is a standalone application, the default Unity code IDE. No doubt an improvement (at least for folks who don't switch Unity to another editor entirely), but not a change in the Unity C# runtime.
Sure - did we discredit him? Is sharing credit with one guy discrediting another?
This was never supposed to be a personal attack or pointed commentary. The question is not some rhetorical device. It's just a question: If the majority of people in a country want their money to go to the poor, why would they force themselves into the agreement? What's the advantage to being coerced by a government, over voluntary action?

Edit: changed "each other" to "themselves" since that's closer to what's confusing me.
I mostly handle server appliances and the read-only boot disk is bread-and-butter for anything I do. Bonus points for using initramfs and never hitting the boot disk after the initial boot is completed.

But if you stick to boot SSDs that are read and written to using different makes sounds like a good strategy.
I don't have vision insurance, but my health insurance will cover the eye exam.
That's a bit like asking whether or not there is a human population of any size that doesn't have STDs.

Sure, that's plenty true, but it's one thing to have a small incidence of herpes and another thing entirely to have a pandemic of HIV or syphilis.
I recently went through all my old 3.5" floppies I could find and most of them were still quite readable. This seems like a bit of hysteria to me. I didn't preserve as many of my 5.25" floppies, but I also don't have a drive for them. My 3.5" drive is an old USB one that came from a Toshiba laptop circa 2000. It was in a drive bay that was replaceable with a cdrom drive.
Perhaps you're right, it's an edge case. But for other open source projects it can be interesting to use or at least try.

What I'm not sure about is, how do people try the library. Buying a library without testing it might be a big step. In my experience developers like to try something in their apps and then pay for it when they have commercial use for it.
To reduce technology to gadgets (even if just hyperbolically) is just wrong and condescending.

Good luck solving the political problems of our day without technology to help.

I don't think anyone is arguing that technology alone will solve our most pressing problems, but you seem to take offense in that straw man. Do note that BMG is also focused on education (which to many is a good way to solve many political problems) and talks about influencing political decisions (noting that politicians are often risk averse, so that showing the way and reducing the risk with intelligent investments is another way to help).
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Recalling PG's previous answers to this question: there are several instances of successes that YC didn't accept, but it's not PG's place to disclose who did and didn't apply.
+1. I was going to say this but you said it better. My hackles go up when people say open source is better. That's true sometimes but it most certainly is not always true and I've argued for years that open source is usually a better (or worse) copy of some closed source thing that someone found useful and didn't like that it was closed.
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7 Twitter Gaffes Locking Up Your Engagement
Startup marketing: can you get more customers with only $20 a day?
Yeah that's a good point. Although, we don't make it very clear, you can connect your Google account and then opt to only get changes from your Basecamp account. But yes, you would always need to sign in using your Google account. Thanks a lot for the feedback.
Bryan Braun (other of the post) himself provides some ideas and module suggestions in a presentation:

http://www.slideshare.net/bryanbr4un/empowering-content-crea...
I read the whole "Repercussions" section as from the point-of-view of a government official. The repercussions are that they start mandating and regulating - developers/companies probably don't want this, but that could be a likely fallout from more large-scale, failed, tax payer funded projects.
Target Fills Its Cart With Some of Amazon's Tricks
I assume you mean Start_Stop_Count. A quick check on two servers, each with 4 green drives in RAID6 and RAID5 setups tells me this hasn't been a problem. Both have Start_Stop_Count's below 100 (on the order of the number of boots the servers have had). I don't see any other number that could be the head park.

The number I have been finding to be high is Hardware_ECC_Recovered (values between 1036555546 and 2699460003). Not sure if that's normal. I've also had two 1.5TB drives now end up with unrecoverable sectors. RAID recovers from that just fine but I've been replacing them as it keeps reoccurring and is supposed to be a signal of failing disks. These 1.5TB drives are a 3+´years old and I've been thrashing them a bit lately. I'd have expected them to last longer though.
check this thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6594204
I played around with Dart for a while. It is really great having a debugging console while you are working. The difficulty I had is that the popular frameworks do not target Dart so you'll always be a step behind when using Dart. I don't know if it's possible to port over a javascript framework, but I wonder what the benefit would really be. After all, you would still be using the framework's code structure. That kind of minimizes the benefit of using Dart.

If they can make a nice web framework (like angular, backbone, etc) they'll find the niche that they need to fill.
Thankfully, the situation is much more nuanced than you describe. If you are naive, you might think blanket statements are adequate descriptions of the situation.
Would a freelancer lower their price by 50% if it meant getting 5 new clients?
You only lower your price for the initial five projects, in hopes that those clients become repeat customers.
That is a cool concept (Frameri). Are you going to offer sunglass lenses? I would much rather have 1 frame with 2 lenses (sun + normal).
Wasn't it AirBnB?
A minor point of clarification in regards to the Swiss proposition is that there is no 'eligibility' beyond being a citizen. Not sure how much bureaucratic process is involved in that.
Write a distributed application just like you write a standalone Java app
> I'd need a video of your dog barking a response to the NBA

So the pitch is, "We're like patent trolls, but for breach-of-contract entrapment lawsuits?"

I'd invest! ;)
This looks more like a webservice that provides a feed. Looks like Slack: https://slack.com/
I started buying from Zenni about 5 years ago. It makes me so happy that I can just buy new glasses when they get scratched. I spent my childhood trying to see through $300 scratched lenses for no reason.
Contemporary javascript development without a build step?
Half of the stuff surrounding Inception is thought up by conspirasists.
This assumes that everyone within such a large group would end up ranked accurately.

But the truth is that when you assemble such a large group, you end up comparing apples to oranges. Jane works on a doomed software project and valiantly manages to salvage some of it for other efforts, but management ultimately looks at her project as a failure and has trouble disassociating her work from the result. Meanwhile Bob works on a fairly straightforward hardware project that gets completed on time and within budget, but not necessarily as a result of his actions, and looks like a "team player" who gets rewarded as such.

Assigning a single scalar value ("top $x%") to each of these people necessitates ignoring a huge number of important differences both personal and contextual. Small groups with similar functions allow you to make more meaningful comparisons but only at the cost of ruining the statistical basis for making those comparisons in the first place.

The whole problem with forcing a predetermined model on your organization is that performance appraisals should be an empirical process where the observations peers and management make determine the model that is ultimately adopted (and which will guide future hiring/firing decisions). Forcing a predetermined model onto your organization gives you no data and leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy at best and corruption and politicking at worst.
I do same, but in reverse. I use cloud servers, with versioning backups, but still beam additonal backups back to office. Just to survive total data center destruction disaster.
Rm -rf* = BAD (SysAdmin George's Disaster Recovery)
Hi, creator here (Chris Moody).
Great question. The underlying algorithm, word2vec, (https://code.google.com/p/word2vec/) isn't built for streaming data which means that at the moment it assumes a fixed number of words from the beginning of the calculation. Unfortunately, until the state-of-the-art advances to accepting streaming data, the whole corpus will have to be rescanned to accept dynamic content. Furthermore, word2vec doesn't scale past OpenMP, single node, shared-memory resources. So while I used MapReduce, it's just for cleaning and preprocessing the text, not training the vectors, which is the hard part.

So there's some exciting work to be done in parallelizing and streaming the word2vec algorithm!
Amazing. I love WebGL. I could never have predicted that Firefox was going to become a better game development platform than the current proprietary solutions. At least for certain trade offs. But how long will that remain true?
If the prices of things like food rise that is a good thing. It means more people are buying them than before, it means more people have access to those things. It's a net benefit.
Who Is Responsible for the Pain-Pill Epidemic?
daft punk - repetitive + lyrics == La Roux

nice work!
Here are my thoughts: Of course, you're talking about an efficient market keeping prices at an optimum. I think at the crux of the matter is the supply elasticity of goods consumed by the least wealthy. The worry goes as follows: basic income guarantee (BIG) would line consumer's pockets, but what if rent (etc.) goes up concomitantly such that people are just as poor off as before BIG. In other words, they receive X dollars per year, but pay X extra in rent (etc.)

I think a good counterargument goes as follows: people have true security to move to a new location with cheaper rent. Thus supply and demand of goods become more efficient as the mobility goes up and people can act more efficiently/rationally.

Thoughts?
FTL is so much better. The story is better, the writing is actually professional, and you have much more autonomy (which leads to very interesting scenarios). The pace is frenetic, and your ship can actually explode (biiiiiiiiiig game-breaking problem with Star Command).

I don't know what happened to Star Command, but it felt like the final product wanted to be this. It was such a tedious game.
Splunky is great, Derek Yu rules, but it's also a very hardcore game, as well...
Convincing the 1% to waste money on labor-intensive services and renewable goods would help with redistribution of wealth. Like $50 hand-carved bamboo chopsticks or $15 servings of organic quinoa. Entertainment catering to the 1% probably qualifies as well.
This is pure HN porn. Entertaining and satisfies curiosity but no significance whatsoever.

Edit: Noting somewhat predictable downvotes so I would ask that someone reply with what the significance of a single data point is other than satisfying curiosity? Note also I didn't say it didn't belong on HN or "hey why is this on the front page" etc.
Singapore arrests man, investigates others over hacker attacks
I felt its magnificence was its ability to evoke emotion. In the case of the supposed convolutions, it was the ability to evoke confusion. The confusion helped promote and maintain the tension, so that the catharsis was stronger, because the key fact in the whole thing is "Cobb is lost". I, for one, was crying by the end of the movie.

The masterpiece of The Dark Knight was the same thing, except that the emotion was horror: each of the Joker's little atrocities kept building up and building up until the last one was so large that he didn't even need to be on screen anymore.

That's Nolan's trade mark. He uses callbacks and repetition to mount emotion.
This article is (probably) posted in response to AngularDart being released recently [1], which was seen by some as an attempt by Google to push fragmented web standards.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6677481
True, but competition among sellers sets the ceiling.
I can't wait to see the rest of their other updates that were preview at Paul Rouget's site.
So go calculate your "fair share" of office trash cans, toilets, and etc., work out how much laborers are being paid to do your "fair share", give them their cut out of your wallet, tell them to enjoy the money while you do the work, and proceed to clean those things yourself unpaid. If you're not actually going to do those things (but they still need doing), then re-hire & pay those laborers to do the work after all on top of the amount you're paying them to not do it.

Remember: they're hired to do that work because your time as a professional thinker is much more valuable than you spending hours doing mundane tasks. Better you spend an hour writing software for $X and paying someone else to empty the trash & clean toilets & etc. for 0.1x$X, than for you to spend that hour doing those mundane tasks for $0 while being compelled to still pay that someone 0.1x$X.

So yeah, because you're not really going to do all those little things you rely on low-wage laborers to do, you're going to DOUBLE their pay (giving them that "minimum" amount for not doing anything, plus giving them that amount to do that work after all) with no increase in output, and a likely decrease in work done because by definition that minimum guaranteed income is enough to live on.
Ask HN: Have you hired a PR agency?
If you did hire an agency, was it a positive experience?

If you did not hire an agency, why not and what did you do instead?

I also setup a 4 question google form to get numerical feedback. (I'll share the results with everyone 24 hours after this posting).

https://docs.google.com/a/pressfriendly.com/forms/d/1PiVS_fY9CjGuUMQp8B-VCnF4GVlrCyMtstpN-xQ8j-Y/viewform