skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has travel something around the world I would say yes, they control what you see and hear, and doing so they control what you feel and think.

If I want to make you angry or terrorize I could display on TV some images and you will feel like I desire(Boston Marathon killed less people than the number of dead people in Irak or traffic accidents in any city in a week).

Do you believe that North Koreans think they are not free?
or Chinese by the way?

Most of US media is controlled by a few, and people (specially in the States) watch TV more than talk with their friends.

In Europe you see the same but within each country with dominant language(German, Spanish, French, Russian...).

They all believe they live in the best country in the world, while they actually don't know other countries.
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Maybe not the trappings, but the security is a function of how many enemies the politician in question and its country have.

The downside of "liberating" countries by invading them (or funding revolutions) and installing puppet governments is that some part of the population gets really annoyed with that.

I'd love to live in a world where every president could live without a human shield around them, not because they would be more accessible to their people (which would be a nice plus) but because it would be a symptom the world has become a safe place.
While all "isms" are ideas, the interesting ones are shared by enough people to enhance communication. Inventing new "isms" to market fringe ideas should be discouraged on this basis; it makes things harder to understand.
This one has English commentary: http://english.cntv.cn/live/
Ouch!

The last company I worked for closed our division (and laid all of us off) solely because of politics. The irony was that we had had the highest return on investment of any division in the company for more than a decade.

I'm now stuck in a dead-end job at a small company. Our CEO has an absolutely toxic managerial style and I need to get out. Unfortunately, I'm in one of those complicated situations where it's really hard to find another job (e.g., over 40, specialized field, geographically-bound).

The CEO's toxic management style means, among other things, we're all expected to work absurdly long hours. So, I don't have a lot of time to put in to job hunting or retraining, and I have vacillated between how I should be using my precious time.

One of the things I've considered was developing an app (that scratches an itch of mine; but I've heard others complaining about similar problems here on HN, so I know I'm not alone). While your experience certainly doesn't mean that I will get an offer, it supports the premise that a single app can lead down the right road.
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Maybe they fixed it, but it works fine on Chrome and Safari for me.
All of them? What about "Der Speigel", "Al Jazeera", or "The Guardian"
He may look silly and be uninformed but he gets a lot of easy up votes.
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I can't wait until we have realtime streaming video feeds from other vehicles documenting other landings in progress.

Edit: Spelling and words.
I'm sure they could, but it's not really relevant. It's more about the 2-3 Dropbox, AirBnB, Heroku like companies.

Think of it this way with Heroku:

YC gets 6-7% initially and probably ends up with close to 3% after Series A and B. That's $6.2M on the $212M exit price.

A single exit like Heroku returns them enough to run YC for at least a couple years and returned >10x for other investors.

So while you could show that, it doesn't really matter to YC or to investors, because they have those 2-3 huge wins.
What about Citizens United? The US Supreme Court Jesters declared corporations ARE people expressly so they could make unlimited political contributions, saying it is "free speech". We live in a super fucking corrupt nation.
What? We do all those things and have hardly a problem. What ci / build server do you use?
It really depends. Generally, once big money is involved (500k ), you should both be full time.

I totally understand where you're coming from. Full-time co-founder here with my counterpart having a full time job (a resident physician at that!). It's tough but it works somehow especially since we are at the seed stage. But once we start raising real money (1M ) there's no way he'll be able to continue IMO. It can work but it's best if everyone is full-time.

I do know of a company with a co-founder who is also a resident physician and they just raised $3M. So there's a real-world example of it working out. And being a resident physician at a top-2 school is a much more difficult position to drop out of - there's no going back.

Most investors will ask for 100% time commitments but if you spread responsibility it can work (like the above scenario).

What matters most is: are you guys getting shit done? Are you making forward progress? Things can always be better and more efficient but if you're moving forward - keep moving.

You'll know when you need to propose the ultimatum to your co-founder. If there's money on the table and he has to quit, it's easier vs. the assumption (risk) of money being there.

Finally - add a few more players to your team. Offset the work to great people. It will not only make you more efficient but will show investors that people want to work with you. And they're committed to your product without having real cash flow. As a CEO, one of the most exciting things is getting great people to work with you. It's a great feeling and proves leadership. And some good 'ole fashion convincing. Good luck.
sounds like the USA.
from the page) the text: http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/

which has a computational LA companion, which is great:

http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~vandenbe/103/reader.pdf

Eijkhout and Demmel's books would also be good reading

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/~eijkhout/Articles/EijkhoutIntroT...
I do not think the resumes I submitted were junk.

Not all rejected resumes are junk, but there's a flood of resumes from unqualified people who send out 100 per day.

It's like dating. The more damaged people engage in more activity, so you encounter a biased sample. If the good people send out 5 resumes per job search, targeted toward specific employers fitting their skills, while the unqualified send out 200 (in the hope of getting lucky) then you'll have a 40:1 overrepresentation of the bad.

You were probably a victim of the junk, because when there are so many junk resumes flying around, good people get lost in the shuffle.

There appear to be structural changes underway that are making the job market volatile for a range of people, especially the long-term unemployed. I am not sure where it is all heading.

Yes, that is very true. I don't know, either. In the next 30 years, society will need to establish a basic income just to be marginally stable, because there's no other way to pay for the periodic retraining people need as one job ends and another begins.
I've taken less money for positions at what I thought were worthy organizations, and was rewarded by being treated like shit into the bargain.

If you're a professional, your rate is market or pro bono. Anything in-between just gets horrible. Your salary is what it costs the company for management to waste your time. If your salary's low, your time will be wasted.
I haven't installed SteamOS yet. But if you're comfortable use btrfs (or zfs) and grow the root pool when you need more drives. Its pretty simple.
Pan and zoom can be brilliant. Just brilliant.

That is to say that it usually isn't the best when paired with pages made for desktop browsers. But it is the best we've got.

Your blog is very simple, and that's great, but it hardly represents the difficulties that people have to address when creating a mobile site.

Also, having to press "Who" requires a new page to be loaded as compared to it being there in the first place (conditional loading is most definitely not ideal).

But, why is your mobile version better than the desktop version when on a phone? Honestly?

The desktop version gives me an overview, I can get a better glimpse of the topics (and you on your sidebar) and I quickly and literally dive in on the content I'm after without having to load a new page (which is expensive). And I bet that the desktop version would be just as readable and fast as your mobile version. But I can't test it out because your page does not respect the "request desktop site" option on the latest Chrome on android (4.4.2). That is really bad.

Your page is so simplistic that I would assume, only being served a mobile page, that if I didn't find what I was looking for I'd wonder if it were present on the "real" site. That is reason alone not to have a mobile version at all for a simple site. Yes, that's only a consequence of the pathetic state of affairs that is mobile web pages but it is the reality.

So, you agree that a mobile site with endless scrolling is bad. How have you imagined to solve that when your blog count increases? With pagination every 10 posts? That is bad enough on a workstation but traversing pages on a phone is a nightmare. Just give me the whole list in the desktop version and with a flip of a finger I can scroll through the content with breeze.
I don't think there's anything misleading here, but there's still something irritating about it. These people spend loads of time and money designing futuristic stuff and giving each other awards for it. In the meantime, we mere mortal engineers are wallowing in the pits of reality, solving actual problems like the plebs we were born to be. I know it sounds horribly bitter, but I really do sympathise with the negative responses to things like this.
Well, yes. Australia has no such thing as fair use, for a start.
Interesting how in the USA it is completely unreported.
I use SQL Workbench for bulk loading data from a legacy database into postgres, inserting or updating about 600,000 rows nightly. (It'll work with any database via JDBC.) A good starting point is to run some imports interactively using the "data pumper" section of the GUI, and then there's a button which shows you the equivalent script. Support is via a google group, and is excellent.

http://www.sql-workbench.net/
"Nationalism is all we've got to push forward space exploration"

What about the Google X-Prize for the moon lander? Several teams are competing. There are certainly other ways to push technologies forward. X-Prizes help. Finding other ways to tap into the $15 trillion US economy would help too.
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Do you know of any shops that use Uncle Bob's approach (besides 8th Light, of course)? I don't; I wish I did. I agree that isn't something you'd use every time, but I feel there isn't a whole lot of data out there when people have used it. All I see online are devs whining about the extra work.

I don't know what it is about the web, but it's as if we decided all of software architecture didn't mean anything and threw it out. My theory: it's harder to feel coupling in a dynamic language, thus it's just an academic concern!
“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.” Winston Churchill
Interesting. I'd question the "totalizing dynamics" part. In my view Wolin couples two arguments unnecessarily tightly:

* Today's govt. marketing makes it seem more legitimate than it is. Democracy is vulnerable to a panem-et-circenses strategy.

* If citizens' needs are not satisfied by a welfare state, they are rendered helpless enough to be managed by a veiled totalitarian regime.

The former is an interesting problem, expressed well. The latter is more concerning. Are opinions (votes) really worthless just because voters are exposed to economic realities?

I don't think democracy rests on voters being "secure" (in the welfare state sense) when they make their decision.

Classically the line is drawn at secret/anonymous voting. OP suggests voters also need to have their economy guaranteed, if their votes are to give the government any legitimacy. That's very different.
Doesn't sound like frige ideas to me.
Funny enough, the best keyboard on an Android device that I ever used wasn't even an Android device. I had an HTC Touch Pro 2 (Windows Mobile 6.5) that could be cajoled into running Android, and typing on it was a _joyous_ experience. Sadly it finally died, and besides that it was getting to be ludicrously out of date.
Isn't Dart an easier language to work with than JavaScript. Notch is probably being practical and thinking long term. At 100,000 lines of code, you want the "cleaner" language.
How do you filter a search in flickr to only search this library?
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Ask HN: Which passion i have to choose: entrepreneurship or Web development?
Hello HN friends, I am Gaurav Sharma, a blogger, Online marketer or web developer. I have a very big problem in my life right now which is I have two passions in my life and I don't know which way I have to choose?
I am good in Leadership, communicating with others and making money. But I also have a great feeling of learning web development, designing and online marketing. But, due to my business, now I don't have a little time for my other passion which is learning web development.
I know that entrepreneurship is a very trending option for my life. But, I also want to remain creative as well. In business, everything I do, first thought comes in my mind as entrepreneur perspective that Is this technique makes money fast for my company or not?. For that, sometimes i have to kill my creativity to nurture my business.
But, it does not mean that I do not like Business. When first I create this company, then the first aim of my life to create a monopoly in Online Development. But, now slowly-slowly to reach my goal in a fast pace, I am giving up my creative stuffs which also make happy to do things better in my life and help me to become a great learner. i don't know what I have to do now? so. kindly help me to solve this problem and give me a right direction to pursue...
What about competition? Does anyone else think that so much power in one hands is not good for us?
thank you... but did you try that in practice?
For my system it still ocntinues to leak into a new created writable version of that file!

calling truecrypt will results in this:

(truecrypt:29720): Gtk-WARNING : Attempting to store changes into `/home/tverrbjelke/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to rename file '/home/tverrbjelke/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.I2I27W' to '/home/tverrbjelke/.local/share/recently-used.xbel': g_rename() failed: The operation is not permitted

(truecrypt:29720): Gtk-WARNING : Attempting to set the permissions of `/home/tverrbjelke/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: The operation is not permitted

(truecrypt:29720): Gtk-WARNING : Attempting to store changes into `/home/tverrbjelke/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to rename file '/home/tverrbjelke/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.QVH27W' to '/home/tverrbjelke/.local/share/recently-used.xbel': g_rename() failed: The operation is not permitted

(truecrypt:29720): Gtk-WARNING : Attempting to set the permissions of `/home/tverrbjelke/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: The operation is not permitted

tverrbjelke@espen:~/.local/share$ ls -l recently-used.xbel

-rw------- 1 tverrbjelke tverrbjelke 0 Dez 14 14:38 recently-used.xbel

please more help!!!
There are probably better examples, but I love the Australian Snowy Mountains Hydro Scheme as an example of huge pipes used for penstock.

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4061/4391493249_8332c6f014_o.j...
Sensors. All robots need sensors and your math background will serve you well.
Thanks. So I guess it can be done under the right circumstances.

>What matters most is: are you guys getting shit done?

Shit is most definitely getting done. A fully functioning MVP will be up and running in January and my co-founder is ready to quit his job and join immediately if we get a seed round in place.

I've also got a third guy who's great at what he does and is ready to be our first hire (again, once we have some seed money available).

Also, in terms of the size of the seed round we'd seek, it's going to be a lot closer to $150K than $500K.
Yes the same problems that effect older workers apply to the freelance /contract market - I was up for a 2 month gig with John Lewis but they didn't even give me an interview.
Wikimedia Commons could quite easily download them and store them on their servers.
share what? do i need to signup to find out??
it is a full os. it is just a gaming-focused linux distro. So presumably anything that works on linux can work on steamos.
No. Citizen's United merely allowed corporations to air "electioneering communications" independently of the candidate close to the election. It did not do anything regarding direct financial contributions [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Elec... (third paragraph)
And when the stickiness wears out, you're just out of luck?
Sure there is! Monads generate liftM, so if you live in a place so bereft of explicit semantics as to call major parts of your standard library "monadic" without specifying which monadic context to which you refer... Then you may as well drag functor and Applicative along with you.

The weakening of the concept is inevitable now that everyone has been taught to not be afraid of it even if they have no clue why it exists.
And there are MUCH better causes for YOU to devote yourself to than the Sysiphian task of carrying Scott Adam's douchebag water.

Nobody had mentioned what a douchebag he is yet, so it's a valid and relevant point to raise. And posting a few links is a lot less effort than the all the time and energy Scott Adams puts into his sock puppetry, so why not?

Seeing as how you're so devoted to your own cause, why aren't you also criticizing his sock puppets for being so devoted to their cause of praising him and calling everyone who doesn't agree an idiot? Obviously a lot of people here didn't already know what a douchebag he is, and now they do. Do you agree that he's a douchebag, or do you beg to differ, agree with his misogynistic opinions, and do you care to justify and explain his well documented behavior and opinions and blatant narcissistic sockpuppetry?
Perhaps you missed the link that says "Learn more"?
Also, commitment wise, I've already plowed close to USD $70K in to this of my own money and I'll have a fully functioning MVP up and running in January (which will be before I start talking to a seed fund). So I think it's fairly obvious I believe in the project.
Out of curiosity, what does "junior position" mean, exactly?

I'm 30 with 7 years of experience. I wouldn't say I'm a top-1% programmer (probably top 5%, possibly 2%) yet but I'm a really good data scientist and I've seen a lot of different corporate environments. Also, being a Lisper (but also knowing well the virtue of static typing, having worked on production Ocaml systems) I have good taste. There are still some holes in my knowledge (I was a math major, not CS) but I'm filling them pretty quick.

I wouldn't take a job where my day consists of being handed bugs or small features in some large project where the decisions were already made. Someone else can churn tickets, I'm past that point in my career. I'm not a prima donna. In the short term (say, two weeks) I'll do what is required no matter how unglamorous. But in the long term (3+ months) I'm not going to work in a role that's incoherent with my career objectives.

I only work in roles where I get to make some of the technical decisions, because if I'm purely in an implementation role, I won't learn anything. I generate ideas and implement them; if I'm only doing the second of these, then the work is meaningless to me. If the project is big and complicated-- say, 2.1 to 2.3 in difficulty on this scale: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/the-trajector... I'd probably be doing that under light supervision and that's fine, but if I'm not engaging in a learning process and in control of what I work on, then I'm wasting my time at this age.

Is it that you want to be more of an architect and were being offered programming positions?

Senior programming is different from junior programming. As with writing, there are varying forms of it and they have different flavors that might not be obvious to those who don't do it on a daily basis.

A junior programmer fixes bugs and implements features that come downstream from executives, product management, and more senior programmers. There's a lot of value in that experience, if it comes with mentorship, when you're starting out. But when you get to my level, the quickest way to learn is to do things and find out directly what works and what doesn't.

A senior programmer gets to set priorities, generally has a lot of autonomy over what he works on, and has input (and, often, final say) in product and architectural decisions.

It's not about title, as it were. There are plenty of people with "Senior" in their title who are junior in terms of how they work, and there are others without fancy titles who are de facto senior.
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Prorgramming without mutating state is honestly just bizarre to me. Mutating state is all a program does, literally.
Probably in 15 or 20 years.

First of all, not everyone gets a free computer. Only those kids who go to public schools. That is the "poorer" that can't pay a private school, and the relatively rich that live in richer neighborhoods where the public school doesn't suck.

The teachers really don't understand almost nothing about computers and can't teach how to use them properly (from a techie point of view).

Also, as another commenter correctly states, Uruguay isn't a very entrepeneurial country and it is very bureacratic.
Some of the theoretical problems do seem to be quite difficult, but the great thing about implementation is that as long as it works "well enough," no one minds if you cheat. For example, recognizing a sock in a pile is difficult, but what if the robotic arm just tries to pick it up anyway? From there it can weigh it as well as better seeing the size & shape of it in order to determine whether it is a sock. The difficult theoretical problem suddenly gets replaced with acceptable behaviour for the laundry-sorting application.
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> but did you try that in practice?

Not with TrueCrypt. You can just ignore the warnings (if it doesn't cause a crash). "chattr +i" makes a file really read-only (you can undo it with "chattr -i"). GTK library wants to write recently accessed files there, and fails, emits the warnings. It's safe to ignore them.
Agreed about the '.com', but if you're outside the US I think it's worth buying the domain in your own country's TLD too.

My own company I went with Aboxo, as it was a unique Googleable term, and made a short
.com name I could actually get. But having second thoughts as most people's response is 'Ab-what?'
George Broussard (linked above) is streaming from OS X.
"I don't think there's anything misleading here, but there's still something irritating about it. These authors spend loads of time and money writing stories about the future, and giving each other awards for it. In the meantime, we mere mortal engineers are wallowing in the pits of reality, solving actual problems like the plebs we were born to be. I know it sounds horribly bitter, but I really do sympathise with the negative responses to things like this."
> I still feel like there's a ton of misadvertising and misleading in their ads, making it look like it's a full blown OS.

I don't understand. Are you equating OS popularity among game developers with the completeness of an OS?
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