skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
60fps here (3.4ghz Core 2 Quad/GTX 470/Firefox/fullscreen 1920x1200). CPU usage is 9%, GPU usage is 22%.
actually, capitalism is an idealised philosophy which is easy to follow. its not especially natural as the development of society up until the popularisation of capitalist philosophy will show.

some of what we do now under capitalism is quite considerably worse than anything that came before... specifically around the treatment of unemployed, homeless and 'bottom end of the spectrum' type people where we actively harass them and stop them from surviving because... well i don't really understand that particular desire for blind law and order to the letter, so i don't know.

unemployment was never a real problem until capitalist economy became the norm. a lot of the thinkers of the time foresaw that particular change as well...
This is always an interesting question; I definitely do not think though, that the answer is "without a question".

http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/jul/fritzh...
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emacs org mode converted to html using org-publish.
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-publish-html-tutor...
>>There is no such thing as a "free enterprise" without a "free market", and vice versa.

Your understanding of what is meant by "free enterprise" is false. Source: I have a degree in Economics and wrote my senior's thesis on this subject.

"Free enterprise" in this context means the enterprise has internal freedom - i.e. it is owned and controlled by non-state actors, as in people like you and me. These non-state actors can do whatever they want. Yes, there are still rules and regulations they operate under, but this does not mean that they are not free.

The language "free enterprise" is specifically used to distinguish capitalism from communism, where the state controls the means of production, i.e. the enterprises (e.g. factories) are owned by the government, which typically exerts authoritarian control over them and determines what should be produced and how. The enterprises in communism have no internal freedom: they follow the government's orders. If the government says the factory should produce computers, that's what the factory produces. If the governments says it should produce tanks, that's what it produces. Whereas in capitalism, enterprises can produce whatever they want as long as they do it legally. They are still free.
These are good points, and I stand corrected. The laws have changed on this substantially over the past 10 years or so. There is a brief summary of the changes here:

http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-%26-Self-Empl...

It turns out there is also, this:

Beginning January 1, 2011, estates of decedents survived by a spouse may elect to pass any of the decedent’s unused exemption to the surviving spouse
I wonder if this person is enormously rich now from BTC, considering how early he got in. Not that it's any of our business...
Many posts along the lines of "my first Go program" are just forays into blogging. Many will never get past that, but eventually an author will be able to solve difficult problems and then blog about those. For example, Joyent's blog post from a few months ago about building video analysis for Mario Kart was great. It summarized the steps and methodologies used to find the solution, and demonstrated how a reader could do the same. Additionally (since it was a company blog post), also worked in an advertisement for a service they provide. Search for "joyent kartlytics" to find the blog post I'm referencing.

Crappy blog posts are crappy, but some are stepping stones into better ones.
> The market seems to agree, since these people are getting hired.

Not to take away from most of the rest of your statement, but remembering 1999, I'd like to point out that the market is dumb as a bag of hammers. The only thing it excels in is short-term profit maximization.

Nothing wrong with that, if that's your goal. But if you plan on a business that lasts a bit longer, you might want to ignore "the market" in determining if people add value.
Too obvious.

Backwards that's "I hso tasto nmai" which is phonetic late R'lyehian for "Up yours Bernanke".

C'mon Dustin.
"9 to 5" refers to a salaried position, i.e. regular W-2 work. I'm not totally clear on your connotation, but I don't think it's common.

This seems really presumptuous to me, though. Many people just don't consider anything but regular work like this as an option, as they just haven't been exposed to other things; this doesn't say anything about how much or little they love their work or wish to excel at it.

Some people are just lazy do-as-little-as-possible drones, sure. But assuming everyone who isn't an entrepreneur is like that is more than a little bit nasty and quite baseless.
It's the problem with anyone dealing with domains outside of their experience. It's really hard the first time through to even know the right questions to ask. And, sure, you can buy a pizza for a friend who has some experience with the domain and that helps to a degree. But, as you say, I'm not sure there's a good answer (other than just assuming it will cost 2x your estimate and 2x your time estimate).

The last part is only semi-kidding. Back when I was a project manager (where I DID have some domain experience), that was my rule of thumb and it was more accurate than I like to admit. In another former life in a different role, we had these 95% schedules which were really 95% confidence assuming nothing significant goes wrong schedules--which were about as accurate as you would imagine.
> Person B dies, company/idea dies, world loses something.

Well, actually, world loses nothing. It doesn't care. Humans care, maybe, but you only think they matter because you are one.
The problem isn't that Google integrated Youtube's comments into a unified social layer. Integrating Youtube comments, Blogger comments, Picasaweb comments, a Facebook-like social network into a single system?

That's a great idea.

The problem is that they screwed the pooch on it in every way I can imagine. They soft-pedaled the rollout which made it into a million tiny pain-points and broken promises instead of one big one.

They completely screwed up their automoderation algorithm. It's a failure. Whatever Youtube used before is obviously better.

They made the system far too opinionated, not giving the page owner any moderation tools or filters or anything - the page owners can't allow/deny pseudonymous accounts (and even the existence of pseudonymous accounts is unclear).

They didn't offer any anonymous approach, and the pseudonymous system is bizarre and unclear.

If you're building a single social tool like Facebook, being opinionated helps. But if you're building a whole social platform that you're bolting onto every form of content your users run? Every video, every blogpost, every picture? You need to let the users have the tools to run their comment-sections.
We actually have links to all of our employee's LinkedIns on our site. I personally have no problem with it. Hell, in the long run it will probably help me get another job at some point at best, or do nothing at worst. But I will refuse to use it as a marketing thing or do any other social networking linked to the company, since LI is the only professional network I'm a part of.
Ask HN: Development involve for secure SaaS product?
My first time building a SaaS product for enterprise. Is there a Box-like database that you can hook up to ensure secure data storage?

Currently using PHP - Ajax, whats the most secure way to do a login/signup? (session + cookies + ip)
Oh… how I miss that show :(
You can probably find something if you are flexible on salary. It's unlikely a solid shop will hire you for anything above junior level. I have a MS in Engineering and can relate. As a suggestion, don't jump into SE just yet. Use your still-fresh STEM skills to make a lateral jump within Academia. In the 10 years since school, I have lost many of my skills in Math and Statistics. I traded them in for applied engineering skills. In retrospect, my Math and Stats background, when combined with programming (different from Software Engineering) would have been much more interesting work. The field of big-data and analytics is growing and your PhD equips you well for it. Consider looking for a short-term opportunity (1-2years), where you can keep your math sharp. It should be something where you are proximal to good developers and expected to be learning SE practices while working as a subject matter expert (SME) to developers. In a position like this, depending on location, you might even enjoy a higher standard of living, than you would as a junior engineer. Do that for a few years, and when you're ready, you can jump from there.
If your PID 1 is screwed, the ordering of syslogd/nginx restarts is the least of your worries.
This is great and all, but when Heroku relies on the main npm registry to be up (when it's not) you're screwed.
I guess it's too late if you've already merged your professional and personal online identities, but one way to work this is to create a sanitized professional account for this purpose, and change the name on your "real" personal account to something different.
I prefer ConsoleZ: https://github.com/cbucher/console

Currently maintained, works better with Windows 7, and used my old Console2 configuration.
"which he could probably be free from if he can prove she lied"

While I agree with you on everything else you've said, this one is untrue in the US. Even if a woman lies about being on the pill or infertile or whatever, if she has a child and you are the father, you are on the hook for child support. Doesn't matter if she lied. The law looks out for the child, first and foremost, and the child did not lie to you.

So, if you're really not wanting to have a child with someone and not wanting the responsibility of paying child support, use protection or don't have sex with her.
...or come up with a better way to download and install software, oh wait a minute Apple did that and made a billion dollar industry downloading apps.
On the topic of flamewars causing removal of articles, the difficulty, IMO, is that an entry on HN is composed of both an article and comments. Flamewars have terrible comment quality, so even if the article is upvote-worthy, it can mean the spot on HN is better occupied by something with a less interesting story but better comments.

As to flagging, I think a bigger problem is activism-upvoting, in other words upvoting so others see a story and not because it's interesting.

If you don't trust the average user with flagging powers because of how they affect the front page, why do you trust them to upvote good articles onto the front page? Clearly only select users should be able to upvote articles.
Interested in blogspam, do you have some overall stats, akismet style? http://akismet.com/about/
So Fring is more of an angel investor? Nah, the level of control he exerts more correctly reflects a VC (or maybe a buyout).
What is the Difference Between a Sweetpotato and a Yam?
Arduino compatible $39 SBC runs Linux on x86
It's an interesting topic to me. I've worked places where the whole team happily liked, upvoted, and retweeted company posts, as we were all rather excited about the posts ourselves. Messages might get sent out like "Hey, everyone like our new FB page!". Especially in a startup, I don't generally have a problem with being asked to help promote things.

On the other hand, at one place an email went out saying everyone was required to make a tweet or fb post about our new promotion. I immediately went to my manager and said there was no way that was happening by me, and as many of us in the company had overlapping social networks, it would be very transparent and spammy looking to outsiders. The language was changed to "highly suggested" and I was never bothered about it again, but it left a bad taste.

Gently asking for a like or upvote is one thing, but I'm not writing or posting anything on my personal accounts on behalf of the company.
At the end of the day, real people have to choose which objective metrics to look at, and real people then have to look at those metrics and make the actual call.
No.

I personally applied for - and received - state disability payments when I was diagnosed with cancer. I was barely an adult and had no financial means to speak of.
Why you should add live chat to your business
Solid evidence that real-name policies do not necessarily improve behavior. The world has many jerks, and they're already jerks in real life with their name and face attached. Why should the internet be any different?
I think last time I checked SNR was close to perfect, with nothing interesting going on in the cable modem logs (I will definitely double check tonight). I got SB6141, so DOCSIS 3 is a go.
Yes, and had you read my GP post you'd know that everyone in the topic agrees that BoA should be litigated against for damages by the affected homeowners and the people ordering the bogus foreclosures charged criminally.
People Who Stay Up Late At Night Are More Intelligent?
Paper describes two experiment conducted on ecat prototypes. It should be read by anyone interested in the subject.
No, Satoshi would not say anything...
Black Friday death count
> If you honestly think the current Silicon Valley looks anything like 1999, you don't understand what happened in 1999.

When you chew gum, you don't blow the exact same bubble every time, do you? Some are bigger, some are smaller. Some pop sooner, some last longer. Some make more of a mess when they pop, some make less of a mess when they pop.

I participated in the tail end of the first bubble, and while there are absolutely differences, some meaningful, I think it takes some effort to ignore the many meaningful similarities.
Saying capitalism has a moral component is like saying thermodynamics has a moral component.

Sadly, confusing beauty with morality has been a failing of Western thought since at least Aristotle. Just because capitalism is elegant doesn't mean it's "good" in a moral sense (or "evil" in a moral sense either).
Person A decides to do his own thing and becomes a "creator." Person B fails to replace him and his business fails. Oops.

Sorry, but this is crap. Without people who "just break even," in your estimation, the only people involved in any venture would be the founders, and as soon as someone got good enough to do their own thing, they would. If doing the work a founder can't do -- the tasks outside of his field, the work when the company gets too big for a person or two to wear every hat at the same time, etc. -- nothing gets done.

People who work for pay make possible the things "creators" want to do but can't by ourselves. If that's not contributing, I don't know what is.
oh ok. Thanks
Cross-Region Read Replicas for Amazon RDS for MySQL
Here's a scathing breakdown of the paper in question from /r/bitcoin: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1reuwq/vigorous_deb...
Good (and clarifying) rebuttal, and now I see what you were saying in your original comment re: tech companies undermining the creation of a such a norm for the Supreme Court to use.

I do think that unlike Roe there is some room in the Fourth Amendment for finding that bulk storage of all electronic communications, regardless if they are being investigated for content or not, results in an unreasonable search. The Fourth Amendment has been found since Katz to cover more than just physical searches.
I took money from friends and family. I would not do it again.

Most of my investors were well meaning. And, their expectations were often set by what they read in the media. I had one investor dream that he was a millionaire, and was initially very upset when we sold for a lower valuation than his investment valuation, and did not understand why he was not receiving all of the purchase funds rather than an amount based on his ownership share. There was a generally poor understanding of investment and this was hard to explain to a friend. Angels, supposedly, know that they will probably lose their entire investment, while F&F almost never think that, nor can they afford to.

Of course there are pros and cons of each type of investor.

The thing that would have me hold off from taking investment from friends & family would be that they often cannot to bring anything other than money to the table. If you read about Ron Conway, for example, you'll see he brings money and his whole being (connections, advocacy, etc.) when he invests. This is a big deal. F&F investors intend to do this, but they are as different in this way from "real" investors as growth hackers are from government workers. They don't know how to build businesses, and don't have much other than more opinions, generally.

And, if you have a family member that does not fit this bill, then by all means, take them as an investor.
If you are semi-new to this stuff, which it seems like you are, stick to pre-baked, well tested libraries, and ORMs.
1) PHP allows you to go wild and embed PHP inside HTML code. This causes your code to be unreadable and unstructured when it grows. Other languages just can't do it, so you're forced to use MVC, which is nicer by design.
2) As a language, it is not that advanced. It has a single namespace, and most of the functions used commonly in PHP are not object oriented. It also does not have advanced structures such as iterators, coroutines, etc.
3) There's $ signs everywhere.
Cool, thanks for the clarification, this makes sense!
What's the new hottness? EmberJS, AngularJS, BackboneJS, or something else?
I'm looking to learn an easy yet powerful front-end framework. I'm coming from a background in Rails, JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Thoughts?
Sorry, what? I can tell you're trolling, but the thread is discussing FDA oversight of sales of medical products. Are you suggesting that the USA was founded on the premise of snake oil sales? This has nothing to do with a medical market website. You seem to have conflated a number of issues and generated quite a bit of confusion for yourself. Sorry I can't be of more help.
The other one has a trailing "/" in the URL so clearly the dupe detector is fairly [dumb|simple|easily defeated].
That would be suspicious, especially in light of such weak paper. Possibly paper is bait for Satoshi?
(I work at Backblaze.) We buy our drives once per month right now. This is an improvement over the early days where we were so strapped for cash we bought twice a month. :-)

We're building and deploying 17 pods this month, each pod has 45 drives, so we purchased 765 drives this month (plus replacements for failed drives that are out of warranty, etc). So if we would buy 13 months of drives all in one purchase, we might be able to go direct.

THE TRADEOFF (Gamble?) is that drive prices drop every month, so stockpiling a year worth of drives (even at a 10 percent discount) would lose us money. Before the Thailand drive crisis we had a rule of thumb that drive prices dropped 4 percent each month. But this is just a judgement call, your guess is as good as mine whether this makes sense. We're figuring this out like everybody else.
Speaking of immutable languages, there are actually tricks in Haskell by which it can actually generate circular references because of its laziness (ML, on the other hand, is immutable and strict, so it cannot, by default anyway).

In regards to reference counting vs. garbage collection, one advantage to reference counting is that it can be more memory efficient, since objects do not unnecessarily accumulate in memory. It can be advantageous in embedded systems for this reason. GC can provide a speed boost at a memory usage cost, because `malloc` and `free` are relatively expensive, and using a garbage collector can reduce the number of these calls needed.
I would hope the readership of TIME is still infinitely more interested in what Snowden does than what Miley Cyrus does.
i just started using stack overflow recently & i've found it's mainly a bunch of people asking very simple questions or fixes to very nuanced quirks.

When faced with similar situations, i've always followed my own judgement through research. I can see how this kind of a resource is useful in certain cases, but a ton of the site is just silly gamification.

Time spent on these sites is time that I could have spent watching a video lecture about Scala, or trying a new library.

I guess github is better in this respect since it's about active coding and understanding distributed projects. But I see a ton of forked repos in users' projects with few (if any) of their own code in them. It makes me realize that many cutting edge devs are just filling out the "digital resume" of a programmer. Yet there are obviously some who are driving the industry mixed into the same sources.

signal to noise is difficult to determine in all systems and being current can be a bad indicator in programming. There are tons of badass devs who just learn design patterns and language nuances for "older" languages who can write much more modular/reusable code than those who learn MVC framework after MVC framework. I think..... a lot of them work for Netflix.
Aim to astonish.
How to give BDD a chance
Sure, for varying values of "works" and "different" and "no install step".

You could say the same thing about anything related to web browsers. What's your point?

I'm going to go out on a limb here and state that a DOS executable from the 90's will run on more machines in the world than this demo

Right... except a user has to trust you enough to download and execute your DOS binary rather than just execute a javascript file in a browser sandbox.
But what's the harm in asking?

That comment (at the time of this post) is greyed out. So for some reason people are downvoting him for asking.
The numbers are completely different from this afternoon, seems like some people are hacking the votes for fun:
http://www.dailydot.com/news/time-person-of-the-year-miley-c...
So if something is intentionally misleading by the Robber Barons of Silicon Valley ("it's a meritocracy" is the 21th Century version of "there's gold in them thar' hills" - the only people getting rich are the ones selling office space/furniture or developer tools now, or the big companies that swallow up competitors they have screwed for pennies on the dollar) it shouldn't be criticized because "it's a negative feeling"?

Part of the reason that this line of bullshit needs to be criticized is so that nobody else falls for it. Only be criticizing it can we start to look for alternatives.
Though Jeff came out of a hedge fund (DE Shaw) and doesn't seem to have been struggling :)
Meteor has little competition. It's essentially an all-in-one package (server & client side JS) built on top of Node.js. Check out http://meteor.com
I bet if we piled a bunch of rocks up on his chest, he would admit to being Satoshi.
i can't actually find the source code, it seems the only thing there is a ruby that downloads binaries? can someone enlighten me?
I don't know about the rest of G+, but since the integration, I've been unable to comment on YouTube videos with my G+ account, something that worked fine before. I'd certainly call that "not usable".
What did you expect them to do ? Of course they are going to position themselves as a RDBMS solution. They want people to switch in order to make money. It doesn't mean as a developer you're going to be stupid or incompetent enough to ignore every piece of technical documentation and just focus on the marketing lines.
since you put it that way, I agree also.
Ask HN: Is Apple going downhill?
Recently, I've been noticing my friends and I have frequent discussions about how bad iTunes is or all the problems we have with our iPhones after upgrading to iOS 7.

I've been an ardent Apple supporter since the first iPod came out and I've always loved Apple. But recently, it just seems like things are not getting better, the quality is really slipping.

Maybe you do need a Steve Jobs around after all to yell at people so that the software is any good.