skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't compassion for others and the desire to end others' suffering enough of a reason without any other incentive?

If in a hypothetical conversation, someone said to me "They contribute nothing; they should all just die & starve or just get out of the way." ... my response would be that it's us, the people with wealth(or at least not living paycheck2paycheck) who have the most power to change society and allow it to support them somehow. I don't really know how exactly, but the first experiment I'd vote for is basic-income and see how that pans out.
I totally see a build up to 'Occupy Silicon Valley' around the next bust. Unlike bankers, techies would gladly join and even encourage the movement if it has any merit.
Hacker News is open source, it's likely running the same code.
Smart cryptominers don't mine Litecoins. They mine the most profitable coin at the moment, then sell it and convert it to LTC (assuming they believe in LTC).
Yes, some of these incidents even get national coverage (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/11/naked-subway-man-vi...).

I can't speak to whether these sort of incidents get an exaggerated or unfair amount of coverage, or if these really are common problems. Of course either way, these sort of incidents/articles surely shape public perception; I don't think we can make this as simple as "Techies are nouveau riche who like to kick 'em when they're down".
I see so many comments on HN, especially as of late, basically to the effect of "the poor deserve to be poor" and usually with a "they could work hard like I do" tacked on. It's been leaving a really bad taste in my mouth. I've been both rich and poor and never forget where I've been in life.

A lot of people forget how much support they've had to get where they are. When you really take a good hard look at why many poor people are in the situations they're in, you see a total absence of a support network around them.

Working hard to get somewhere without any support around me is the single most frustrating thing I've had to deal with. It's easy to fail and often I have.

I have cousins with trust funds and millions of dollars to back up the pursuit of their dreams. I'm not really envious, but I know that I would be much further along towards my goals if I didn't have to work my ass off to get to somewhere in life where I can even afford to take a risk. Then it can take years to recover from failure.

Phrases I never expected to become part of my vocabulary like "class struggle" are starting to. I grew up in a poor, but conservative family!

At least not all of us think in the way you described, but a significant number sure do.
With respect to the line that was removed, if anyone is curious, it had said something like "I suspect this is why it didn't get many upvotes". Or similar iirc.

But to my actual point.

Upvotes or downvotes on HN vary from the time of day to the way the headline is written (which will attract different groups of "techies" or whatever) and possibly the age group of the people who decide to take notice. Not to mention that there are non techies who read HN and so forth.

I don't think you can make a statement, as is often done, trying to characterize a typical HN reader or poster. Because nobody is taking a poll of the entire group only the group at a snapshot in time and only then based on something that attracted that particular group to make comments and/or vote.
Cities that don't care for their homeless tend not to have a homeless problem.

SF actually has relatively great care for homeless people compared to the majority of the US. Therefore a lot more homeless end up there.

The homeless problem is striking because it's almost entirely artificial. If SF didn't care for it's homeless, and didn't rent control areas to allow affordable housing it would probably be like midtown manhattan. That's boring to a lot of residents and unfortunate for the homeless, but where's the tax money coming from to allow the status quo to continue?

No one seems to be debating the value of social programs, but what's the advantage of the tenderloin? It's been a decaying mess for generations when it could be a profitable, vibrant part of the city which would be beneficial for wealthy and poor alike.
Funny! Try skipping to the concluding sentence or paragraph. Or just reading the first sentence out of each paragraph. That's how I skim the long, boring stuff.
Could AMD be using a significant amount of capacity for the new Mac Pro GPU's?
Must be reading HN
Comments like this are a bit snobbish[1], but they're hardly puritanical.

America doesn't need "new puritans", it is already full of religious extremists who think that their personal moral code must be implemented in law for everyone to follow. The Puritans founded pre-USA America, and they haven't gone anywhere.

[1] I'm not saying what they said wasn't wrong; it was. I'm just saying it isn't "puritanism".
Fantastic... Now I just need to find this guy on ham radio and complement him on his generator :)
Tracking images in emails are uncacheable specifically because they need to be traceable. For a set of users, you'd send out the same email, but use a different image for each:

www.example.com/banner.png?userid=1
www.example.com/banner.png?userid=2
www.example.com/banner.png?userid=3

and so on. How would you propose caching that? You can't simply ignore the GET parameters since many web services use those to distinguish between different files. And anyways you could even get around that by using URLs like

www.example.com/userid/1/banner.png
www.example.com/userid/2/banner.png
www.example.com/userid/3/banner.png

While I do applaud the decision to route all images through Google servers to hide the user's location, I'm disappointed that images are enabled by default.
It’s Time to Write the Rules of Cyberwar
How about: Ask your political representatives for their position on surveillance of citizens and vote accordingly.
And lets not forget the large black monolith.
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Hassle your political representatives, educate the public as to why so many of them are in effect turkeys voting for Christmas, go digging and expose the ways the small citizen is relentlessly screwed over by the rich and powerful (and then publicise it, in a way Joe Shmoe can get on board with), volunteer with local homeless charities, turn up at regional council meetings and loudly ask them again and again and again what they're doing to help these people rather than just move then on, interrupt when you hear people being dismissive or stating glibly "they should just learn to code".
Okay then someone starts up some other crypto coin. It doesn't ever have to end. Boom, bust, and hopefully cash out before the bust. GPU shortages and breathing in extra coal emissions continues.
no RSS?
Having to dodge shit and vomit in the alleys of San Francisco is disgusting. It is as simple as that.

One would think that with the enormous resources devoted to the poor, we could at least expect not to have to step on shit. But one would be wrong, due to the incredible inefficiency and corruption of our one party state.
so if facebook can't buy snapchat for 3 billion they'll just make their own
Hi Karan. I am the person hosting DataTau. I completely understand what you're saying.

First, news.arc's style is something that people are used to and comfortable with; it's tried and tested. I decided not to reinvent the wheel.

But perhaps more importantly, I'm not a web developer. If I have to learn how to build a news site from scratch, I might as well wait and see if there is a requirement for it in the first place, right?
I live in Seattle, not San Francisco. This is not my experience whatsoever in Seattle. Perhaps this is the experience in San Francisco, however.

In that case, to what do you ascribe that behavior?

And

What is the appropriate response to it?
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Suggest HN: Please a build a meta-reader for all the new HN for X pages.
There are dozens of new HN for X pages popping up. It tend to forget to read them.
I would be great to have a meta functionality.
No. They would be sued for forcing merchants to let Google and others use their copyrighted material using the threat of banning them from the store. But that is only relevant if they are one of the dominant players.

The reasoning is that they would then be using their market dominance to force merchants to forego their (IP) rights, which is in conflict with EU anti-trust regulations.
> all that lets you do is identify the email address of the user that opened the email. But you already had their email address because you sent them an email

You just have an email address. Once that image is downloaded, you know it's active the sky basically falls down.
> If "stakeholders" are that demanding of peoples' time

Sure, for 1 or 2 stakeholders. What if there are dozens? Big projects have lots of requirements and lots of people to coordinate. This is not a small task that can just be hand-waved away.

> If your culture isn't engineer-driven..

Engineers are important and there are notable examples of companies being engineer driven, however you are dismissing the vast majority of companies with your statement. Considering a good chunk of startups are CRUD apps on top of a UI framework of some variety, I doubt many tech startups even need to be engineer driven these days.
Well... you made my day complete. My brute force approach got me 2364.646, glad to know my math intuition isn't entirely broken.

Thanks for the link!
Except banks hire employees, pay taxes, provide a service, build ATMs, offer lines of credit, provide consumer protections, etc. Thats 100% different than neckbeards going through garbage dumps looking for lost coins and kids buying GPUs with daddy's credit card for bragging points.

Shame this isn't just arbitrary math instead of contributing to something like folding@home.
I'm not sure how the quality of education relates. A large portion of the population is underinformed about technology, sure, but I don't think this is what we're talking about?

Your original post mentioned that we must consciously add humanism to what we do, and non-technologists fear that we have lost our humanity.

My point is that this fear is not unjustified, considering how so many of us (evidently, based on discussions that happen around here) look down upon non-technologists and will readily throw them to the wolves.

Regardless of one's fear of technology (whether for good reason or for lack of it), the fear of technologists is IMO rational based on my own observations of people in the industry.

tl;dr: From watching HN discussions, some of us are fucking scary. I fear them.
However, a Customs official has since told him they were searching everything for objectionable material under the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993.

Yeah right.
If a homeless individual can approach me in an honest, respectful manner, I'd be more inclined to help.

This has not yet been the case. I prefer to reward civility with civility.
Sacramento, California, natch. Where all the cool kids are.
http://archive.is/JDpr9
Am I not seeing the "next page" link? The subhead for this article is:

> Silicon Valley's ugly treatment of homeless people has a long history.

And the only "history" I see is:

> Greg Gopman, who is the CEO of a startup that organizes hackathons, wrote this on his Facebook page

Let's pretend there were a dozen such ugly comments in the past year from people who happen to live in Silicon Valley. What does that say about tech being the new Puritans? Nothing, as far as I can tell.

Don't get me wrong, I think the quoted techie sounds quite disagreeable. And yes, I'm sure there are many more techies who think like him. But I don't see this as a "techie" problem. I see it as a above-average-income mindset that is more impacted by the amount of money and privilege you have rather than what industry you acquired such things in.
"larrys" law states that a comment that "larrys" replies to and all the parent comments get automatic up votes.
"I'm much, much more at risk of getting mugged in Chicago on my way home from the airport than getting held up by Custom"

These are two very different scenarios. It is much easier to control your own actions than the actions of others.

In the latter scenario, your allegedly democratically elected representatives have (indirectly) asked customs to search you. You are mugging yourself and paying the person who is doing it.
Sounds like you do all (or most so that you always have something light to finish off the day) of your work when your mind is rested, you are energized and focused, then read and participate in online communities like HN for the rest of the time. It should always be about the work that is done, but I think the big challenge most of the time is how do you measure the work that is done in certain businesses/industries.
This is a cool side effect of GPU mining, this is all commodity hardware. In a year or less miners will need to upgrade their GPUs and will be selling their old GPUs. Gamers can then buy them up for cheap. With ASIC Bitcoin miners the hardware is useless once it becomes inefficient to mine on it.
Me too, the cronyism this time is terrible. but I really don't know if it'll be different under labour. I hope that their new membership structure forces them to implement more transparent, citizen-friendly/biased legislation, but who knows.
When a Photo Isn’t Behaving, Bend It to Your Will
You can start by following homeless people on social media, for example twitter's @HomelessDating[1], to better understand their side of the problem (I'm not calling you ignorant; we are all always learning...)

[1] hmm, since I last checked this account has become less active. https://twitter.com/homelessdating
they are common
Non-bricklayers can make relatively accurate comparisons between two wall-building projects. Non-programmers, and even programmers themselves often cannot do the same thing between two software projects. Managers have the awkward job of having to divvy up work and guess that they've given everyone an equivalent workload. And there's really no way to know for sure.
I'm sure they wouldn't feel the same way if the tech industry go to shit and they end up homeless.

Having a degree and/or a job in demand doesn't give them the right to look down upon the unfortunates. I believe there are a huge population of veteran homeless too. It's not like all them chose to be homeless.

They're just assholes that are sitting around bitching. They're not the ones that are going to try to solve the homeless problem they're the ones that try to hide the problem. They're worst, they have no solution to this problem and not willing to do anything.

I find it weird that they used religious allegory but their religious figures such as Jesus would have help those in need not whine about it.
Q+A with BufferBox founder one year after Google acquisition
Or possibly they could use heuristics to detect a newsletter and deliver the first fetched image to every recipient of the same newsletter.
They don't yet. I wouldn't be surprised if they do the same as with 'not provided' where they slowly make the data less reliable until they finally just turn it off altogether.
You can sell them for bitcoins ;)

There are even mining pools such as middlecoin that shift from one scrypt-based alt coin to another depending on what is easiest to mine and sell on exchanges for BTC. As a miner, you don't have to lift a finger, just point cgminer at the pool's address and supply a BTC address for payouts, the pool operator takes care of the rest.

Some smaller altcoins (such as stablecoin) have had to make changes to their difficulty calculations because these pools, with relatively massive amounts of hashing power, come in, push up a coin's difficulty and then leave again once it's no longer profitable. Sitting on the sidelines, it's been really interesting to watch.
To be more nit-picky, both TSA and immigration (CBP) are separate agencies under the DHS organization.
Could you send the FTC after competing "merchants" who are advertising products they not only don't have in stock but have literally never seen? It sounds like a scam, and I wouldn't knowingly give money to an outfit like that.
Thanks! I wanted to wait before I posted it on Hacker News, but sooner the better I guess.
accusations like "...[they] spit, urinate, taunt you, sell drugs, get rowdy..." have a basis in reality.

Sounds like a stereotype of students as much as of the homeless.
gmail already bounces email to nonexistant addresses.
It's going to be an interesting hiccup in bitcoin when we eventually have to migrate off of SHA256 and suddenly existing ASICs become irrelevant.
black-scholes also assumes the ability to dynamically, instantaneously hedge with very low transaction costs I recall. The market-maker has to charge even more to recover costs in this case since they cannot dynamically hedge and bid-offer tight nor is the market deep.
One rationalization is that a 10 year probation means he'll be under police watch for a significant amount of time.

On the other hand if he was given a sentence as a minor, he would be released in 2 years when he's 18. That leads to the question why he wasn't tried as an adult, but IANAL.
Top web hacking techniques 2013
We're finding extremophiles in all sorts of places we didn't expect. Radiation-resistant bacterial spores are hardly outside the realm of possibility - we've already found some.
How has it been like running, starting and hiring a company in Canada? Did the founders have experience in the SFBA?
One complexity I struggle with is developing potential. Say 'B' is really talented, but also spends a ton of time doing seemingly-unrelated stuff. Maybe chatting with friends on IRC, reading fantasy and gaming blogs, watching YouTube, etc. is part of how the they end up getting work done. But I also think about how maybe just a little less of that could result in them becoming a top performer, because they have the talent and could apply it a little more. Though I completely get that people need "down" time in this business, I've also seen people become exceptional with a little coaching about planning/focusing and time management. The topic of how much time is spent on "other" stuff is often very difficult to discuss in a way that doesn't come off as reprimanding.
Alternatively, you could try mining yourself if you're curious and want to learn about cryptocurrencies. I wrote a guide on how to get started with mining in <10 minutes (mostly for friends with gaming PCs), for some of my friends who were interested.

http://edjiang.com/post/69758178501/mining-altcoins-for-fun-...
We programmers tend to be a fairly self-reliant bunch.

For a very special meaning of "self-reliant". The majority of programmers I know could not produce their own food, make their own clothes, build their own shelter, treat their own illnesses. These are the fundamentals of life; how "self-reliant" can someone claim to be without being able to do these (I can't do these either, but I'm not claiming self-reliance)?

We can play into an illusion of "self-reliance" only because these foundations and so much more have been made so pervasive and efficient.
Just checking, there are only one page worth of articles right now? And it's the website isn't broken?

Cause I can't find the next button...
To be clear, I didn't say it solved the problem :-) I said Google tried to solve it. My experience of it was that it did have a bit of a 'motivating' effect (which is to say you felt bad if your snippet was 'read docs all day and am still confused', and it did have a bit of keeping track of things feel. But being self created, it varied a lot from engineer to engineer how the snippets read. And yes, it did test both social adeptness to some extent.
When the Information Preferences of the Media and the Public Diverge
I also currently live in Seattle. My experience with the homeless in Seattle is characterized best as a lack of experience with the homeless in Seattle. They seem to rarely bother people, I have never been harassed by them.

If there really is a stark difference in behavior, I don't know what to ascribe that to.
Has any of the many "Hacker news for...." sites ever taken off?
Except that your parents' ultra-conservative church tells them what you're doing is wrong. And while your parents don't care if the politicians all go to hell, they definitely care if you do. Which means there's far less annoying family drama if you just keep it quiet.
What if everyone in your world is simply your own soul from a different point of view.
Iceland jails former Kaupthing bank bosses
Sorry about that >:) I saw it on twitter this morning. It looked ready to go and needed some fresh blood in there to get it rolling so I figured why not.
I cannot end my brother's suffering. Only he can do that. The most I can do is offer help, if he'll have it. On that point: Regarding someone as worthless, that is, not only unable to contribute but unable to become able to contribute, strikes me as rather less compassionate than contemptuous. I concede I once thought as you do, but only until, through sheer good fortune, I learned what I could accomplish and, in so doing, earned my own respect -- and found in that the necessary prerequisite to earning the respect of others. Better, I think, to offer my brother the opportunity to do likewise, than simply to presume that he lacks even the hope of ever so doing.
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What a moron, destroying entire ant families just for the sake of “art”…
didn't someone on hn pose this exact analogy (to Puritans) a couple of days ago? sometimes I wonder if editors lurk on hn/reddit for headline ideas (the writers themselves need more turnaround time than 2 days I imagine)
Location still matters simply because of the different networks. Location also matters based on the type of business you are targeting. If you want to target financial services you are much more likely to be successful in New York than in Cleveland.

Also let me chime in with my recommendation. If you dont care about what industry, or type of product you are delivering Washington DC is the best place to build a business. Especially if you are a woman, minority, or veteran (they all get preference in government contracting).
78% of Top 100 apps for iOS and Android have been hacked
> The process of supercooling requires that water be pure and free of nucleation sites

Good luck finding distilled water with no contact with rocks/ice on Europa...
I bet it has but you had no idea they were homeless.

Crazy antisocial people often become homeless and are the visible side of it, but the vast majority of homeless people are not antisocial or crazy.
I assume the target of the blog is Gmail power users moreso than email markers. I highly doubt that the Gmail team didn't think this through before launching. As far the reason for not explaining how this works, who knows?
It was born only this noon (Eastern Time).
Bitcoin mining has already become all but unreachable for normal household resources.

Sure, but the total energy being "wasted" by Bitcoin mining globally may still be increasing.
Buy groceries at Safeway. Drop them off at a soup kitchen or a battered woman's shelter. I donate my old cell phones and any I come across to the local battered woman's shelter shelter. They might not work but they can still call 911 and this is a tremendous help.
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The Golden Rule? My goodness, Citizen, how positively regressionist of you!
OpenHatch brings open source to campus
What part of midtown Manhattan is beneficial for the poor? Also, what makes you think NYC doesn't have a homeless problem? Unless of course your definition of "homeless problem" is: "homeless people are bothering me", and not "homeless people don't have a warm place to sleep".
>>and Vikram Pandit earned $1 in total compensation in 2009-2010

I don't disagree with the rest of what you said, but this is bullshit. Most CEOs are compensated via stock options. So the fact that his salary was $1 doesn't mean anything.