skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should also be careful to distinguish an exchange in a positive-currency, vs one in a debt-currency, which by definition is a trade of indebtedness. Can you really have a "voluntary" exchange of indebtedness?

No, no, no. We do not agree intuitively on what property is. What about a factory that you built with your own hands that becomes a utility for a community? At some point, your private property and private creations become integral to a community, and that's where things become muddy.

I want to add, lastly, that if we have a true competition of non-debt currency, we may have part of a solution. I have some thoughts written on my blog post, but it's not well thought out and perhaps somebody can build upon it.

http://jaekwon.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/the-supernova-theory...
They kind of do, because if you've been unemployed for some amount of time you have to take every job they offer you, otherwise you don't get any unemployment money at all, then you can't pay your rent and have to start stealing food, etc.

Not everybody is fortune enough to be born into such an environment where he/she is able to get a reasonable education so he/she can chose where he/she would like to work.
I don't agree with rdtsc's either, and I am not "conspiracy-minded" just because I point out that your einstein-clown argument is fallacious.

Therefore I would not like to draw that line. I would however say it's a division between our views. I do believe that a government can be considered a single entity. Care to explain why you disagree?
I'm a bit late to the party, but https://github.com/hraberg/deuce
I don't understand why this surprises people. Facebook is in the business of collecting every bit of information it can about every one if its users. I think its reasonable to assume that every click, scroll, and keypress is being captured and used for analytics.
I'm not familiar with LaTeX beyond seeing it mentioned occasionally, but based on the discussion it sounds like XML would be the best way to hold the document, then use XSLT and XSL-FO technologies to convert this data/content to LaTeX and/or HTML* documents as required.

*and related technologies such as CSS
Independent evidence is clearly going to be thin on the ground if he was doing work for the NSA. As mentioned before, it's the opinion of his co-worker. Now that co-worker may have been an incompetent and saw everything that Snowden did as 'genius'. Or, it may be the case that he really was one. Who knows, but at least it's a slightly different viewpoint on the thing.
Absolutely. However, be mindful that along with a degree comes a certain amount of potential networking/professional relationships that you may need to push to replicate as well outside of the university environment.

Demonstrate you are a creative and tenacious problem solver and you will be valuable, degree or no degree.
That's further than I managed to get, but still seems to be a language spec rather than a tutorial.
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And not all "tech" relates to computers traditional "engineering" has non degree entrance options.
I agree with what you say, but whAt if amazon treated employees as customers instead of servants? Maybe the pay wouldn't be better, but the could listen to employe grievances better.

Do they go out of there way to foster relationships among employees? Encourage out of work get togethers like Friday happy hour, light team sports? Groups to visit the local zoo or Japanese Gardens, group outings to a new movie, organize a hobbit marathon, a real marathon or maybe just a 5k? Groups for board game enthusiasts? Clans on WoW?

The work may be mndane and shitty, but slogging through with friends makes it a million times better.
I'm a strong believer in the idea that a society can be judged by how it treats those weakest and least able to defend themselves. I do agree that encouraging alternative employment is necessary, but if you read the article you will see that often the reality is that there is no other option. Therefore these people at the bottom of the employment pole are taken advantage of because they can be. I do not think this is a state of affairs that we should encourage, or that needs to exist, and companies like Costco show otherwise. I hope that those of us with the means will spend our money in as conscionable a way as we can (ie. not at companies encouraging this).
Fresh Direct brazenly gouges residents in wealthier neighborhoods
Choosing Costco over Amazon seems like a rather pointless moral stand to make. What about the people who work in the logging, fishing, and mining industries? You probably use their products every day and they risk life and limb for similar salaries. What about everything made in a factory in a third world country? I bet Amazon's working conditions are far better than those of every factory in China.
>> I think the government should use retaliatory force, never initiatory force

Therein lies the problem. Governments are based on initiatory force - extortion, to be accurate. We all pay taxes because we know we'll be forcibly hauled to jail if we don't, and our property will be seized from us. Taxation itself is immoral, and since all governments are based on taxation, all governments are immoral.

>> The fundamental cause is the natural threat of those that would violate rights

So I guess I'm allowed to initiate erm.. retaliatory force against you, because you might want to violate my rights, or.. how does this work? :P

There is no threat before someone threatens you. Otherwise everyone is a threat all the time, and that's just not a rational idea, is it? You're aware that taxation is based on (initiatory) force, and thus immoral. But you rationalize it with that neat little trick that actually falls on its face right away, upon closer inspection.
The year developers and designers collided
Seems like the source for this article was male.
Scrum is what good developers seem to do naturally anyway. They plan a little, and talk.

I think that larger projects need more planning than Scrum, but if you look at Scrum's successes you'll see they are largely on projects where a lot of similar prior work had been done. In a sense, the design and up-front thiking came "for free". You usually can't get away with that on something that hasn't been done before.
It's sad that keeping a copy of the constitution is seen as a sign of eccentricity.
Yes, but I've seen cases where companies use said fact to their advantage and dock the employee's pay compared to those who did have a degree. At least in the US, there are many places where having a degree not only helps in finding a job but provides a salary baseline.
That's a pretty extreme step.

Given that there have been stories saying that the NSA have not been able to work out exactly what he took from them, this implies that they are afraid of what he has yet to reveal.

We know that he deliberately didn't release material that was specifically going to endanger individuals or operations and that newspapers have been even more careful to only reveal generalities. This suggests that there is no need for the NSA to worry about stuff that is not suitable for publication. Which implies that there are other stories which are a really big deal, which both he and newspapers would be happy to publish, but which they have not published yet.

But what? I can't imagine what else they could've been up to on top of what we've learnt. Maybe I just have incredulity burnout.
Jimmy Carter's Costly Patent Mistake
You'll love this!

http://wikitravel.org/en/South_Pole

Rocks, water ice, and a thick atmosphere with oxygen. For only 0.00001% the price of a Mars vacation.
I believe you can use Rust traits to the same effect, although I haven't tried so you might hit stuff.
Rates for PHP start around £250 per day up to around £350 per day. Good Javascript developers (and I mean good - client and server side with decent framework backgrounds) can earn upwards of £450 per day.

However your best bet is to look here http://www.jobstats.co.uk/ and do some searches.

From a return on investment point of view you are probably better focusing on Java and .Net, however if you are creative then focus more on CSS jobs.

The most important thing is to stick with technologies that are popular and to ALWAYS be learning.

Good luck!
He doesn't work for the NSA, he could work for an NSA contractor but I wouldn't know.

That's the thing. Like most liberals he doesn't have a problem with this administration and spying. We'd be on the same side if this was a republican administration but because he is a democrat and canvases for the DNC he sees nothing wrong with what this administration is doing. To me it's really frustrating. It's like trying to argue with Diane Feinstein over the intelligence bill.
The fact that the NSA needed help to setup Sharepoint fills me with confidence that they have no idea what they're doing. I'm guessing the password to the call log metadata is on a post-it note somewhere.
> NASA's space program has nothing to do with profit, it has to do with knowledge. And that can never be replaced by private companies.

Why not?
>I bet Amazon's working conditions are far better than those of every factory in China.

Are we to drag ourselves down to the lowest common denominator for our citizens, in countries that have already fought the hard fight for worker rights?
"Let us hit you with this stick, because if we start hitting you with the bigger stick, all the other ants will come teaming out of the woodwork and then there will be a real war going on".

This kind of argument just makes me want to violently throw up. There is absolutely no honor in using a remote drone to kill people from a distance. It is among the most despicable things a human being can do to another human being.

How about we make America take a really honorable position and say this to our American military friends: you are not allowed to kill anyone unless you've attempted, directly, to communicate with them - in their language - and discussed the reasons for their hostility directly, person to person. Only after this has occurred, and all other efforts to resolve the persons aggression, is the right to kill granted.

I'm sure we'd see all those fascist US military personnel take another look at their chosen career path if they did, indeed, have to use the mighty power of American technology, to communicate and make direct peace with the targetted individuals instead of decapitate them, fill them with lead, murder their children, injure and maim their relatives, disfigure the strangers who were simply in the area, at the wrong time ..
r/sexy

its a subreddit
seconded, take Red Hat, Basecamp, Salesforce or CiviCRM as varying examples.
Thankfully I do not label it with my name ;)
I stuffed up my education for one reason and another and never got a degree. When I eventually had to do work I started out de-stapling things so that they could be scanned in. I did this for about 9 months - after 3 months my boss actually got me a destapler so I didn't have to use my fingers.

BUT, I saw that he had an Issues list in Excel that he would spend hours fiddling with. I wrote a bunch of VBA for him to make it easier to deal with and he was ecstatic. I managed to use this as a sort of portfolio and got a job that was all Excel and MS Access.

I convinced those guys to let me do their website, and used that as my next portfolio to get into an actual software shop. I worked my way up the ranks there until I was the highest paid guy, before moving to where I am now as head of development.

All you need to do is:

- work hard, which is easy if you're actually interested in it.

- continually think, "how does this benefit me in getting my next job / further my career?" This is a constant exercise.
Show HN: depl - deploying should be easy
I don't know how I left that bit out. Edited.
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South Korea's New Internet Trend? Dinner Porn.
If it helps, I do have a degree in mechanical engineering but am working in software. For all its problems, a Github portfolio is a very good way to show what you know.
Sure. I believe it was a wedding too. Thats what the other side always says to obtain sympathy.
"In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century’s end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Great Britain or the United States would have achieved a 15-hour work week." ...

http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
"World's cheapest tablet" goes on sale for £30 in UK
Cash, aka currency, is part of the asset class.
Ten open sourcey interviews: Linux, Chris DiBona, project management, more
I seem to recall that the Obama Administration was going to restore America's image with the rest of the world -- the image that was presumably destroyed by W.
Facebook has been doing this for a while. About a year or so ago I noticed ajax request being sent during every keystroke.
Mandating a 30-hour-limit on the work-week with firm controls on overtime would get a lot of people back into the workforce and would give a lot of people some work-life balance back.

But it would also be politically unpalateable to the conservative/libertarian wings of just about every country.
It's the same thing as Google instant automatically recording your microphone. It is creepy.
Or maybe we'll give a Basic Income Guarantee a more serious look, when > 50% of the population is unemployed and they take to the streets.
Yes, everybody has the right to be an asshole to people.

I fail to see the relevance to what I asked of him.
Pedantic, but I think far more HN people are developers working in R&D rather than administrators working in IT. I wouldn't be surprised to see there are more people working in product marketing than IT too for that matter.
I understand the down voting because it was essentially devoid of meaty content, but considering the GP's point of view is unpopular in HN, I thought sharing my agreement was enough reason to post. In that way it is deeper than the normal "me too" or +1 post.
More and more, like this. In the bad old days, it was more of the latter.
I have no position on that, I just wanted to point out that antibiotics are not totally safe.
It's time for another browser fork. The new browser will disable invasive javascript methods (mouse tracking, reading every key press, over-zealous XHR partial-entry saving) on known-bad sites and on any site including javascript from known-bad actors.

We shouldn't really let our interfaces to the world be run by advertising interests.
I got a graduate position earlier this year in an ad-tech company, coming from 10 years in a completely unrelated industry and without a degree (I'm 33 and in the UK).

I worked through some Codecademy courses, developed my own site and blog and got to grips with things like Ad-Sense to get a feel for the ad-tech side of things. I pushed my self-taught achievements and motivation in my CV as well as my 10 years prior in a stable corporate environment.

I had to take a pay cut to get my foot in the door, but within 6 months I was picked for another team and was back up to my old salary. I'm now in tech support, but not IT specific (it's more APIs, datafeeds, SQL and site debugging). I get plenty of exposure to the underlying company tech and there are a lot of avenues for advancement in the future so I'm really happy I made the career jump.
Don’t Wrap Your MacBook's Cable Around the Power Brick
These posts are equivalent to email drafts and I would hope they would be as private.

On an ad-supported, web-based service? Why?

If they have an algorithm that parses my drafts and uses the gathered information to make more money to pay more engineers to build better products, I have no problem with that assuming that the data is handled responsibly.

For critically sensitive data that needs to be locked down, of course this is unacceptable. But so is using an ad-supported web service for critically sensitive data.
I think one important point is that Germany currently doesn't have a minimum wage. It is the job of the union to negotiate a reasonable salary for the workers in a given field.

In many European countries unions and employers have historically been able to work together and reach agreements that have been better for both parties, compared having a law impossed by the government. Amazon is ruining that, and I don't believe that the rules that will follow from the governments will be as good as an agreement reach between an employers and the people who work for him.
I know two people who are excellent programmers and have stable jobs. One of them started a Math degree, but dropped out after the first semester. The other one has a degree, but in Philosophy.
Yes. I actually spoke about that recently http://blainsmith.com/articles/tedxalbany-the-master-of-my-f...
I'm a self-taught programmer, started aged 10. Didn't go to university because by the time I'd finished school I'd had enough with education and I'd already started getting freelance work.

That was nearly 20 years ago now (I'm 38), and in that time I've worked as a developer on 3D graphics engines, real time physics engines and core tech in the games industry (for about 10 years, one project with Shigeru Miyamoto!), and then left that to start my own medical software company (8 years ago).

I now employ developers. And whilst I don't ignore the 'qualifications' section of a CV/resume, I really don't see it as remotely vital. I'm far more interested in whether you have a passion for the job, past projects etc.

So yeah, it's possible to get a tech job without a degree. Some places will insist on it. But they're not the places you want to work.
Highly recommended.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELVNmxCFP8I

A handheld device beeps at you, tells you where to go to get the next item in the cart, you have 15 seconds... and then it repeats all over again... and if you're slow it starts flashing, beeping and you get warnings about not hitting your targets. It's like trying to work but with someone over your shoulder all the time. Terrible.
Hm. Yeah, I guess that's a good point. The idea of property can be thought of as "obligations between people", but it's not the same as the idea of the social contract. For starters, it's between individual people, not some collective entity and a given individual, and second, it involves no force as long as no one aggresses against anyone.

Another difference is that the "system of property" actually works to everyone's favour - quite the opposite of "the social contract", and imposes no other obligations on you than to not aggress against anyone else's property. If "aggress" sounds out of place, let's say "interfere with someone's (exclusive) control of their property". There's lots of room for pointless bickering in moral issues, etc.

There are various sensible ways to view the concept of property. One is Murray Rothbard's idea of something becoming your property by "mixing your labour" with it. For example, if you build a house, or plow a corn field, they're your property.
Dear non USA hackers: We in USA are trying to vote out NSA voting congress
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This was discussed and censored before. I was stupid enough to believe it. Previous conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6907401
> Using the same logic, nothing should ever get better because those who benefit from "bad things" will never allow them to be stopped.

Thats not true because it ignores existing structures of power.

A common thief benefits from the bad things they do, but has no power to influence those that might seek to stop him, and so is convicted.

A banker who committed fraud (read: stole) during the recent financial crisis has the power of capital and lobby behind them, and walks.

The existing structures of power in place are actually designed to stop many of the bad things you describe, however there is nothing intrinsically moral about them so they can be corrupted by capital and lobbyists.
How does this compare with Wickr?
I think the fact that he leaked a lot of details about NSA surveillance of foreign governments diminishes his moral high ground. That is the stated mission of the NSA and while the details are highly classified, everyone knows that they're doing it and agrees it should be done as a matter of policy. Embedding himself in the NSA specifically to find the details regarding these activities and release them looks more like espionage than it does whistleblowing.

I'm all for whistleblowing on how the NSA is abusing its powers to spy on US citizens, and I think it's extremely important that he did so. I really wish he'd constrained himself to that. Releasing everything he did hurts his credibility in everyone's eyes and prevents any part of the government from acknowledging him as a legitimate whistleblower, which would have been the best outcome to this whole scenario.
> "This is analogous to a hostage taker taking 50 people hostage, shooting 10, and then say, 'if you give me full amnesty, I'll let the other 40 go'."

No. This is analogous to YOU taking 50 people hostage, shooting 10 of them, and then someone coming to you and telling you to stop shooting people or they are going to tell on you if you don't release the rest of the hostages.

> What do you do?

You let your hostages go.
I'm technically a high school dropout (one gym class shy; they required 4y and I didn't have a chance to get third-party credit for those, unlike other classes,...), as well as an MIT dropout. (I dropped out of HS to go to MIT early, then ran out of money and couldn't pay for MIT, and also had a chance to do an anon ecash startup if I dropped out, so rather than doing ROTC, I did the startup, and never submitted any paperwork to the HS on the degree.

It's never really been an issue. I variously say "some high school", "some college", and "some grad school" (due to later classes...) on demographics forms, depending on context.

I still vaguely want to get something purely for immigration-points reasons in various countries. There are European programs at ICL and LBS to get an MBA without reference to undergrad; there are exceptional cases where one can get into a PhD program without reference to undergrad. To finish undergrad itself would have a high time cost (since it's been so long, potentially 2-3y, especially if I wanted to do aero or nuclear eng, and would need to refresh heavily on calc/physics), but maybe.

Startups generally don't care for any individual role, but it might influence the overall arc of your career.
NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy Our Economy
During Sunday's 60 Minutes white-wash of the NSA, Debora Plunkett, director of cyber defense for the NSA, claims they "stopped" a nation-state cyber attack that would brick computers across the country through a fake BIOS update. She claims the NSA "stopped" this attack by "working with computer manufacturers to close the vulnerability." Sounds like FUD to me.
That's a protection against attacks until it grows big enough, so no it's not missing the point, the checkpoints are to be removed once it's safe to do so. Yes that makes it risky for now, but it will be decentralized completely soon.
With the conclusion being more government involvement rather than less (and less taken from the taxpayers).
> I bet Amazon's working conditions are far better than those of every factory in China.

"Better than those of every factory in China" does not necessarily mean "Acceptable for the civilized world". Whenever I have the choice to not buy from a company where the working conditions are not acceptable for the civilized world, I try to make that choice.

Yes, sadly, it's not always possible. This isn't a reason to just not care.