skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that being employed gives your day-to-day life structure and meaning is hardly a new one, and the rest of the post just came across as a bit smug.

Also noted that after clicking through the Amazon affiliate link the top review on the book also used the Nietzsche quote seen later in the article.

I think there's a lot to be said (socially, psychologically) on the subject of millennials having trouble finding work, but there's plenty of better journalistic pieces that appear on HN already.
This is also why the accomplished and well known film makers tend to always work with the same crew. Check out IMDB crews of our major film makers, and its the same teams over and over again. They develop their own pipeline and repeat as long as they are successful and able to continue making films. It's too complex otherwise. It's this way for any collaborative, complex system. We're not making products, folks, we are making teams that make products, hoping to build the right team we can build and release successful products with over and over again for the rest of our lives.
I'd be happy to test with you. If you write to contact at infinit dot io with an email address or username you would like to use, we can give it a go :)
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Why does Wikileaks get to skip your filter? And who is talking about submission to corruption?
The massive dragnet surveillance is used for:

Spying on political activists and leaders, foreign as well as US citizens.

Spying on diplomats and trade negotiators.

Spying on international commerce.

Doing industry espionage, for the benefit of US companies.

Protecting embarrassing information from being leaked, including covering up crimes.

Targeting political important targets, even those with no significant threat to national security. Megaupload might be an example.

Lastly, the cold war showed NSA the importance of good spy network, and might be maintained for the purpose of maintaining one.
Read that again: you couldn't even trust people with good intentions because economy isn't something you can control or predict.

You can't even trust people with good intentions AND knowledge (why do economists miss their predictions SO much?)

And especially you can't trust people when they're not risking their own money. They're just not going to put the same effort, even subconsciously, because... well, it's not their money.
>Ecigs look to be getting the kiss of death in the UK from the MHRA because of a lack of long-term studies

Doesn't look that way to me. It just looks like the MHRA has decided to regulate them.
OK, this makes sense. I'm slightly disappointed though, I was hoping to learn a secret new python feature :)
Hard to find names that haven't been used before, but Sputnik is the name of a Wiki/CMS for Lua.

https://github.com/yuri/sputnik
Yeap, November 22, 2010

Good catch!
I would say they have a duty to spy on Indonesia. Out of all the countries in the region that Australia has to contend with (a huge land mass, sparsely populated, full of mineral wealth), Indonesia is probably the least predictable. Indonesia is very close to the western side of Australia and has a population of 246 million(!).
Just guessing, but maybe Sleipnir? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir_%28web_browser%29
'Digital Content Producer and Online Marketer.'
Right.
it supports user created rooms, and anyone can delete anything. it's basic but it works.
I don't think we disagree that much then. I'm opposing the idea that we would effect change by electing better politicians or otherwise "getting involved in the political process", or that a prospective politician announces that he wants to be elected so he can change things, or people organising to protest or petition the government for change.

Yes, all of these activities can help tipping the scale at the moment of decision, but gay rights and gay marriage wasn't brought through by politicians, it was brought through by a social change (that politicians - or technology, for that matter - however much they'd love to, can't take credit for) that helped the broad masses realise that they know several gay persons and that they are perfectly normal people. Once THAT happened, and opposition to gay rights became the untenable position, the scale tipped "fairly easily". My point is, the political bit of the process was "fairly easy", the rest absolutely wasn't.
Not better, just easier to verify.
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Is BitCoin as secure as conventional currencies?

I've seen a good number of articles about wallets being stolen or exchanges being compromised but I don't know enough to tell if it's negligent behavior by the user/owner.
The differential factor of an conspiracy theory, and a plausible event is the matter of indicating clues. In this case, there is not a single indicating factor to point towards the conspiracy theory of parallel construction, so why should it be considered?

An other equally plausible would be that the silk road was a false flag operation, run by a undercover unit. Nothing points in that direction either, but hey, it "could be" right?
You mention religion, and I think not by accident. I find Google's founders' involvement with the Burning Man festival to be a guiding principle of how they perceive work and society. Burning Man adopts many religious ideas and practices, most of all the power of religious ecstatic experiences. Max Weber tried to tie the rise of protestant christianity to the rise of capitalism. He postulated that the ascetic ideals of protestant christianity urged people to adopt hard work as a central tenant of life. I think that Burning Man helps take this idea further. It turns work from an ascetic endeavor to an ecstatic one. Burning Man is the religion that underlies Google's view of work.
As usual, any post about China is accompanied by a post saying "the US is even worse". One would think that the only difference between China and the US is that the US is even worse.
I think it would be interesting to compare BitTorrent Sync. They're performance must be quite impressive as well. The processes we've compared across all of these services is only for sending. With Dropbox, you send a link, WeTransfer an automated email, etc. Nevertheless the comparison with BitTorrent Sync would be interesting.
Thanks. This helps. Can you give a specific example of when someone would use this calculation, and where it would go wrong? Or what kind of problem requires the draws to be a function of all the data?
I don't see how banks lending out my savings at fairly low risk in order to earn me a small sum of interest means my savings are being "manipulated".

Besides, if I really want to run the hell away from banks, I can always take all my savings out as cash and either bury it in my backyard that way, or buy its worth in some fixed commodity and bury it in my backyard that way.

Of course, that presumes I have a rather large backyard and a rather large time horizon for savings! When I don't, a bank is very useful, actually.

And of course, let's not forget that bitcoins can be lost forever if my dog eats a scrap of card on which I kept my wallet.
Miraculously I decided nearly a decade ago that it was more risky to graduate college and get full time employment than to drop out and do my own thing.

Each generation has its own share of problems, some more extreme than others. What we are dealing with now is quite mundane compared to those who were in their 20s when the Vietnam draft started. Or, being Jewish when Hitler seized power.

Its still good to understand stupid behavior -- mostly explained by lack of forward thinking.
Lessons learned by the Government Digital Service on government IT
In which case those economists are simply wrong.
Could that be made shorter by saying "I tweet about companies"? (Said tongue-in-cheek)
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Well, sorry, but as I see it, that is kind of the way of things. The things that coexist/compete share ideas so strongly, due to chasing each other's features, that the things they were before cease to be and they usually, eventually, converge, at least in a functional sense which is all that matters to users. That or one is forced into a minority status. Not really dystopia in either scenario.
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> Note: I use the third person because I feel that I've been fortunate enough to have been rather independent and made my own decisions for quite some time. Maybe everyone feels that way?

Not everyone. I'm happily employed but I still don't feel like I'm "grown up" and really up to making my own decisions (though buying (mortgage) a flat felt like it made me grow up, if only because I'm now responsible for this very expensive thing). I think there's a kind of impostor syndrome going on; adult life feels like it should require more skills than I have.
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Well, I've seen some MBA scumbags pull the same stunt in Sweden.
Now we got this Swedish Techcrunch run by an Arrington-like person that post news about startups and what not.

Nothing wrong with that I guess.

Except the people/person behind it have a business as 'startup-consultants' for a fee will do marketing for your startup. Guess where that marketing goes?
Not everything article has to talk about the United States. Stop being so xenocentric.
That's pretty much the reason behind every bubble.
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Kit business has wound down significantly from its heydays. Eg Heath stopped producing its famous Heathkits in the early nineties.
Allan Savory to reverse desertification solve global warming feed worlds poor
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HaxX mode: http://jsfiddle.net/Fq8F4/265/
SurveyMonkey Releases Its First Enterprise-Focused Product
Is there really such a thing as "other people" when we talk about society?

Also, Uber's attempts to battle Taxi drivers is a perfect embodiment of preferring the consumer experience over the worker's dignity. Personally, I find this appalling but realize it's the natural result of American consumerism.
How do you plan on supporting businesses, if that is possible at this point?
Your opponent can argue that your LLC's business and your personal business were not separate, and therefore the LLC's liability protections don't apply ("piercing the corporate veil"). So, the LLC liability protections only matter to the extent you can defend them in court.
What a great idea! I would immediately buy this, I just wish this were an actual product instead of a crowdsourcing kickstarter-type campaign.

After my experience with Lockitron, I have no desire to lock away my money for months while fretting over whether or not I'm going to get ripped off.

The same goes for the Heritage Chemistry set which I would buy for any of my kids (but to be honest, mainly for myself), but I just don't have any faith that I will see my $500-700.
Is there another side to this story? Not about the individual, but Amazon overall?

For instance - could it be that Amazon was historically guilty of passing on a large amount of counterfeit goods via 3rd party resellers, and they are now just being overly strict as a counter-reaction?

Or is this an issue of Amazon being forced to respond this way, similar to Youtube taking down 3rd party videos?

I'm curious, as this is a very damning report against them, and behavior like this could kill them as a preferred supplier for used goods resellers.
I've seen DHH's twitter posts on this, and they're amusing, but I also feel like it misses the point.

Microsoft isn't advocating that you should work 24/7/365, rather, that you can work 24/7/365. It's a pretty big distinction, and frankly, despite being the average marketing rhetoric, not a bad one.

I would posit that DHH's message and Microsoft's are in total agreement. If you can work whenever, then sure, that means you can work more, but it also means that you can work more flexibly. The implication strikes me as one in which I can pause work to go to my daughter's piano recital, then resume work later -- not one in which I have to work from my daughter's recital.
I liked Balaji's speech but I don't see his example with the diagram of a bunch of people shouting "A" in one box then if you don't like that moving to go shout "B" in another box as really being an exit. What if I don't want to live in a world dominated by legal monopolies who draw arbitrary lines based on military conquest? Bitcoin can be a real exit because it is a paradigm shift. One dimensional views of politics where maybe A or B wins and we define the whole society by that isn't.

I don't think that participating in electoral politics is an effective means in reaching my desired ends. I'm not lazy Mr. Sunde, I'm smart. I know that I have a greater chance of dying in a car wreck on the way to the polling station than my single vote changing an election. I know that once the popularity contest is over, the fundamentally flawed incentive structure of "democratic" systems will take over and the political elite/lobbyists will be in charge again.

I think we need to start viewing law and political ideology as "technologies" themselves rather than something separate and just accepting the status quo. One parliament member who is just going to get outvoted by the majority who tow the line with the IP monopoly lobby is nothing to get excited about. I want to see people demand zones for political/legal/economic experimentation like was suggested recently by Larry Page. Maybe you and I don't agree on the best way to do things, but shouldn't people have a right to innovate and try new systems? True democracy is the ability to secede down to the level of the individual.
It's naive to think either politics or technology, by themselves, will change anything.

Sunde nibbles at the solution when he advocates a fundamental declaration for digital rights. But he fails to mention that fundamental rights emerge from the ashes of the "old order" and require years (or decades or centuries) of commitment and pain.
Translation: it is not popular knowledge which variables in the economy are stiff variables (where changing the variable effects a large change in the economy as a whole) and which ones are sloppy (changing them doesn't affect anything else, really).

Some people might know; certainly, some few people have managed to do better than chance at investing, or at macroeconomic policy. However, it is not popular knowledge.
oh ok I thought the usual MO was:

if (md5(password + salt) == stored value) ..
Or how about "I only believe left-wing news sources"? That would be more honest.

And just because you agree with a news source's bias, that doesn't make it true.
Ask HN: I'm 15, won a grant to develop a suicide prevention app, what next?
Some background:
I'm 15 years old, attend high school, do well in terms of grades and extracurriculars (business clubs/competitions), and also am a pretty good front-end developer experienced with HTML/Jade,CSS/LESS, JS/jQuery/AngularJS, and Phonegap/Cordova. I've worked on several web projects in the past, such as http://teen2geek.com, and my portfolio is at http://krrishd.github.io, just to get an idea of what I can do in web development (not so good at the backend though).

I recently took part in a social entrepreneurship competition to prevent suicide, and I envisioned a specific app, and the idea won a grant. This app is somewhat similar to some social networks you've seen, and is a bit complex to develop for a front-end guy like me. The grant is a "micro-grant", so it isn't anything substantial, and I'm not sure if outsourcing can retain the quality necessary for such an app.

What do you think I should do?
Yeah, I have to say I feel like a bit of a dick right now. Sorry man.

I love what you're trying to do with this page. Helping get people involved in open source projects rocks, so apologies for the spot-on 4chan impression of a typer HN user I am doing!

I think I glossed over it a bit and had a 'cached' reaction the same way I do when I read something overly sentimental that is literally placed in the middle of an unrelated post, which you are clearly not doing.

My hair is not a bird. My argument is invalid.
See: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WorkingRemotelyConsideredDysto...
music sharing ? rampant ? I dont know a single person that actually doesn't download music. Even my grand-mother does it. I live in France, and it may be different in other countries, but music (and other cultural stuff) sharing is not really underground here.
It’s the most important change in the US economy since the Great Recession
So then Microsoft should embrace full-time telecommuting for it's workers, right?
I hate what these slides do to my browser history.
Xiaomi springs to mind, though they're not marketed much outside of China (high end, $500+ Android phones)
Indeed, I was. An apparent false spam positive from my lone submission.
I like definition of grown up from Cracked. You haven't grown up until you are responsible for another's human life.

Note: You don't need to be married with children to grow up. Kids that take care of their mother are just as grown up.
"double spend becomes possible"

s/possible/practical/
This page might be helpful: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Simple_Firefox_buil...
I think both maps are useful, it just depends on what information you are concerned about.

The first map only shows the earth crust, so it's useful if you're only concerned with that. The second map, with the step at 0, raises the perception of a "hidden" feature, which is the ocean level.
I think Amazon's thought process here is that if there's going to be an after market, they might as well get paid for it. This also could grow the total market size if people can easily resell their books, rather than pitch them or give them to goodwill.

It's kind of like companies selling their premium soap under one label, and then selling the excess inventory to private label brands.
Same here. On one screening the guy actually said "it is not like how you imagine it to be". And it did not sound as an encouragement.
As long as you do not care about the originality and quality, CG animation is cheap and fast.

In China, some cartoon production companies have made money out of fast paced 3D animations. They copied the story board from Japanese ancestor anime frame by frame, got the scenes constructed and complete the animation and voices. Finally they got government subsidies counted by not the gross cost but minutes of production!

BTW, 3D animations have been proved to be cheaper than 2D ones in this scenario, as many models get reused times and times again.
Again, context is everything. You're missing the point entirely. OP's point was regarding the hypocrisy of one government, criticising another government, for extremely similar policies/goals/implementation.

That said, I'm sure if we were in Russia, and an anti-US article was published, you'd see a few persons argue that it's nothing special as well, with "stop criticising my country" demagogues coming out of the wood work just like you have.
It's still early, but one of the ideas we're toying with is linking the search mechanism to a company's employee directory so that file transfers are limited to a corporate context on company devices. We're also looking into an admin console for users to be able to explore their file transfer history and pull out statistical data from these exchanges amongst other things.
Regardless of however Microsoft intended its vague marketing, all this is, is 37signals being smug. Just deal with it, and enjoy the tweets.
There's also Vagrantpress: http://vagrantpress.org/
So when do they outlaw simulations of shooting people with guns?
Yeah, obviously statists don't refer to themselves as statists. You leftists hate the term obviously, but his definition was pretty accurate.

And you're wrong about only anarchists using that term. But I find your minarcho-capitalists usage pretty amusing.
I reject the premise entirely. Death does not give life meaning. Life gives life meaning.

Procrastination is a human error. You can choose to live each day to the fullest without embracing deathism.
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/10/22/setup-icloud-keychai...

http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/password...

Looks like this is being done.
Negligent behavior. Bitcoin implement bank-level security, so anything stolen is negligent behavior. The vast majority of articles about wallets being stolen is when bitcoins were held in a third party online wallet, which was hacked. Keeping bitcoins in someone else's wallet defeats the idea of decentralization and owning your own money.

As for whether it's as secure as conventional currency, even more so: no one else has access to your money, unlike a bank account. In other words, no one can withdraw your bitcoins without you explicitly sending them.
> but I also feel like it misses the point.

I think you're missing their point. Their point is that it isn't okay to be on the phone blabbing away about business during your kid's soccer game. It isn't okay to be on your laptop editing work spreadsheets during family movie night, and so on.

Ads are used to shift perceptions to control an audience. In this case, the message is that you should be working more and that it's ok to integrate work into family/personal time.

It just isn't okay. At least in the world I do live and want to live in.
That last image with the guy "passed out face down" with his tablet in his hand is indeed pretty bad.

That's not the kind of life I aspire to.
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Holy crap. That Microsoft 365 campaign is one of the most tone-deaf things I've seen from them...

Please, Microsoft, those "20% of people working while at their kid's event" and "27% working while out to eat" numbers are way too low. Let's build a world where I can never get away from work! You don't have to put off making love to your girlfriend when you can work anywhere! You don't have to put off having that stress-induced stroke when you can work anywhere!
I have a feeling that enough people agree with you on this that regardless of the legal / regulatory situation, a social framework is going to emerge that pretty strongly discourages talking on the phone on a plane.

Even today, if you talk for too long or too loudly on an Amtrak train or a public bus, you'll get some pretty strong death stares from other passengers. Many will come right out and tell you to shut up.

If the rules fail us, peer pressure will step up :)
They do in some cases. Scott Hanselman is a full-time telecommuter for Microsoft:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WorkingRemotelyConsideredDysto...
Rampant price speculation where the price encounters the incredible volatility that BTC has experienced is ALWAYS based on delusion. If you know of any counter examples, I would be interested in learning about them.

And remember, I have no problems with speculation and people making money off of this. And this speculation can go on for years. But in the end BTC will be worthless, because there is no inherent value to a BTC. Even the fundamental promise of Bitcoin being anonymous is inherently flawed! Sure, you can money launder it, but the US government will make quick work of that in due time.

At least with tulip bulbs, you can grown them into flowers, and gold can be turned into jewelery and has industrial uses.

BTC has literally zero inherent or fundamental uses for it.

My guess is that it will keep rising until the US government starts cracking down hard on it, like they did with poker sites, etc. They've already put it on their radar screen, and a lot of these companies that deal with BTC don't understand the ramifications of money transmission. Once the US government starts shutting down in earnest, people will dump their BTC and it will be over.
The idea of working at your kid's soccer game is pretty scary. I guess it's better than not showing up at all, but what about when you miss the big goal?

Hard to argue with "You should be at home eating waffles"