skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone is arguing that an employer has a legal obligation to give employees a share in profits, or to continue employing them at their existing salary when times are difficult, or indeed to do anything beyond what they are contractually obliged to do.

What I'm hearing is a different argument, to which your analogies with bonds and call options and forward contracts and whatnot are (I think) completely nonresponsive.

The argument goes something like this:

1. The success of a company is due to the work of its "ordinary" employees at least as much as to the genius or hard work of its executives or the generosity of its shareholders.

2. Ordinary employees are not adequately compensated for the work they do and the risk they bear. (This is primarily a claim in the realm of ethics, not economics.)

3. In particular, they share in the downside (via the likelihood of losing their jobs or taking substantial paycuts, if times are difficult) without getting much of the upside (via any sort of profit-sharing, or substantial pay rises, if times are good).

4. Yes, in principle, any employee is free to go elsewhere in search of better compensation (or other improvements) but in practice other jobs are often in short enough supply that there is little prospect of this.

5. You might argue that this means that they can't possibly be being underpaid because they're getting what The Market gives them, and The Market is the sole arbiter of what constitutes fair compensation -- but (a) if that's meant to be some kind of moral axiom then it isn't very plausible as such, and (b) if it's meant to be some kind of consequence of market efficiency, economists' optimality theorems, etc., then there are a whole lot of missing steps that look like they make desperately overoptimistic assumptions about what markets do.

6. The fact that employees are treated in this way means that in difficult economic times they are liable to find themselves in desperate situations. This is a bad thing. If employers were more generous then their employees would be at less risk of (e.g.) losing their homes, and society as a whole would be more stable and happier. (This is one sense in which it is possible for someone to be underpaid despite getting the salary The Market gives them: it may be that a higher salary would still leave the employer with a substantial gain from employing them, while making society as a whole better off.)
Or "The Cleaner" http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/I-Love-the-Smell-of-Popcorn-...
Your analogy is good, but an even better one would be no one should be able to start a magazine who's title is "Bitcoin Fortune", your guide to financial news in the new online economy, or something like that. You could even imagine the front cover of the infringing magazine, a tiny little BTC at the very top and the standard "FORTUNE" right underneath along the top of the magazine, just like the real magazine.
I never used TorMail, but people who emailed me did. So they have private email from me even though I never used the service.
Reversing course, Google rejects Adobe Web publishing tech
Hacker Typer Alternatives
Does anyone know of some hackertyper.net alternatives?
A boilerplate for Node.js would be less confusing.
To be clear, the goal is not for the group to launch a product, it's to discuss mutually beneficial topics having to do with launching your own project.

I've owned a business, and Ive worked 9-5s, it's not an odd demographic at all, unless you buy into the macho bullshit about sleeping at your desk etc, by 20 year olds, who have never made a dollar themselves.
Protestors weren't taking over government buildings during G8 conferences.
The trick is to program the AI in the way that it thinks it's in our best interest for it to be friendly. Read up on utility functions.
There are more realistic borders along which the United States might reorganize:

http://rocs.hu-berlin.de/projects/borders
Cree beats LED efficiency benchmark
You should be thankful, they could copy your images too!
Tips On How To Be The Best Exhibitor At A Tradeshow For Attendees And Media
I don't expect it to look like anything else. I think this violence is terrible, and counterproductive to any non-anarchist cause, such as joining EU. I want these people to go home...
To add to your anecdotal tally, I'm against federal ID cards AND what the NSA has done.

I know who you're talking about though, the vast majority of the Republican party is high on talk of limited government, but short on implementation, especially in the name of security.

To be clear, I really like what they've done in Estonia. But let's not kid ourselves, our government has only themselves in mind to benefit from the use of federal IDs.
What is really happening in Ukraine is that both sides of this conflict (pro-Euro and against) are absolutely corrupt and the people know it. The tragedy of this is that no one from the government or opposition represents the will of the people. The population of Ukraine really just wants an end to corruption and a better national identity, euro-integration was just the last straw, but not fundamental to this crisis (as much as we in the west would like to believe that).
I've read from http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc that low-cost computers are cheaper from ready-made vendors. Not sure if you can buy a cheap ready-made PC with 300 cuda cores, though.
Bizarre. I didn't think anyone would so completely miss the point. There isn't a single insurance company in the world that makes business decisions on the premise that climate change is fake.

If a denier is so sure, there's a huge and ridiculously obvious opportunity to either get blindingly rich or else lie on financial reports as the business fails.
Not another piece of news that makes the protesters seem like pure white knights that peacefully protest... Can we have some news about Ukraine that isn't totally biased, please?
Maybe a 'wasteland' is a better term. Mile upon mile of cookie-cutter cityscape. A prison for the soul.
Ubuntu and Windows 8 have the same amount of "orange" and "green", but because the latter is grouped with Windows 7 it disappears from the table.
I have screen grabs that prove it, though they probably contain other sensitive information. Not sure of a good way round that....
Moon dust probably destroyed the bearings. That stuff is brutal on seals.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/11/the-m...
You say that, as if "beeing historically close to Russia" is a good thing. Let's review: systematic prohibition of Ukrainian literature and theatre during Tsarist Russia, the famine genocide in the early 20th century, Ukraine bearing the bulk of the damage during the Nazi occupation, just to name a few. Oh, THANK YOU, Russia! Could we please have some more exploitation?
Customize & Repurposed YouTrack from tracking bugs to tracking anything
With the rise of x86 Androids, is it really wise to start focusing on the NDK now?

http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2013...

I assume the Samsung Galaxy 3 Tablet is a big "x86-Android" platform, which would obviously be incompatible with ARM-Android.
Totally. There is one tool missing:

A simple way to create own (database depended) dashboards.
Most of the OSS tools (eg http://fnordmetric.io/ etc) focus on time-based graphs.
Cool stuff.

But personally i would rather look for a OSS tool that distributes also report files/recipes that startups can share. Eg. Retention Cohort, AARRR etc.

If it would also have a simple way to add graphs even better.

I was actually working on this kind of tool but stepped above my personal developer (skill) comfort-zone. If you want more feedback feel free to ping me andreas%klinger.io
Unfortunately, it is only/nearly only web metrics (he mentions accounting somewhat down the page).

No discussion of productivity metrics, burn rates, etc.
Funny that their own site appears unreachable.
Great read, thank you! Extremely relevant to me. I'm a 17 y/o high school student struggling to work on my side-project, so it must be 10x times harder for those of you where parents...
These things always suggest cutting down on your TV.

Yeah, I stopped watching it like 10 years ago. Need more ideas.
no worries. You seem to be better with titles than me anyway :)
I just don't know where to even start with King, their games, and whatever "Riccardo" thinks he's saying in this horribly written thing.
Yes, thank you!. You have the correct link.
I did look into django-socketio when doing research, but never actually used it. django-websocket-request is way more simple, because it does way less and doesn't cover as much as django-socketio. For example, django-socketio is bound to only using socket.io, but it also includes a whole channel subscription and broadcast system so you can send messages from the server to specific channels. django-websocket-request only enables you to add a WebSocket layer over your already existing REST API / Views. I'll eventually have to look into doing things that django-socketio does.
In fairness, I still haven't figured out what switches do what in the panel in my lab, but that's because there are multiple sets of switches in different areas of the lab that change thbe behavoir of the bank of switches I would use
The connection should have been spelled out. Enron chose not to provide power just as this bankrupt insurance company would not provide protection from risk. Both organizations only prosper due to fabrications.

I was arguing that someone who is so sure about climate change being a hoax would likely be drawn to fabricate forward looking statements and lie about financial results. Otherwise, the entire investment thesis fails.

Investors generally have to have a reason to believe that the company has some sort of potential.
Print version to avoid pagination and ads:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02...
San Francisco is the new center of start up activity
Get your nails done
http://randomstreetview.com/us#oy6fz_-1g72mp_363_a_-a
Fine, let's see your 'syntactically valid' LISP smilie .. and also one for 'tin ears' while you're at it. TIA!
Cool work, but like others say, the title here is confusing.
Guards and administration are also responsible for some portion of inmate-on-inmate sex assaults.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donny_the_Punk#Washington_jail...

"On August 14 Donaldson was one of 66 demonstrators (including Daniel Berrigan) who took part in a CCNV-sponsored pray-in at the White House protesting the bombing of Cambodia, where he was again arrested. Donaldson again refused to post bail. In a 1974 account under the pseudonym Donald Tucker, he explained:

"'I also was protesting against the bail system, under which the privileged, the white, the middle class escape the pre-trial confinements which go automatically to the poor and black. In good conscience I could not take advantage of the privileges available to me.

"'Even in jail, however, I could not escape those privileges. I was sent directly to cell block four, third floor — the privileged area where I could and did play chess with Gordon Liddy, where one-man rooms for 45 respectable prisoners were never locked.'

"Liddy wrote in his autobiography that he heard that Donaldson worked for The Washington Post and, suspected him of being in prison 'to try to steal a march[(?)]' on Woodward and Bernstein by getting a first hand story", and expressed the wish that he be transferred elsewhere.

"However, Donaldson himself in 'The Punk Who Wouldn't Shut Up', states that guard captain Clinton Cobb had him moved to the most dangerous cell-block in the prison and his subsequent rapes arranged as he believed him to be writing a piece on prison corruption for The Washington Post.

"That night, Donaldson was lured into a cell by a prisoner who claimed that he and his friends wanted to 'discuss pacifism' with him in their cells. He was then anally and orally raped dozens of times by an estimated 45 male inmates. He suffered additional abuse a second night before he escaped from his tormentors (two of whom were pimping him to the others for cigarettes) and collapsed, sobbing, at the cell block gate where guards retrieved him. After a midnight examination at D.C. General Hospital (during which he remained handcuffed) he was returned to the jail hospital, untreated either for physical injury or emotional trauma.

"Donaldson later claimed that the guards told him he'd been deliberately set up by Captain Cobb. The following morning, Lucy Witt, one of the White House Seven, posted his bond and took him to a doctor."
What would be the alternative in this case? Leaving the country on its own with lots of angry people outside and with embargoes on most trade as a punishment? If that country was going to fail and start an upraising, someone would move in quickly to take it over completely.

Sure, it sucked for the east part. West part was doing quite well and still is.
Let's not pretend that HTTP 1.1 was simple.
Text formats break down whenever they need to contain arbitrary (possible non-text) data.

You get one of:

* complex escaping rules (and assorted inefficiencies)

* non-text portions embedded within the text protocol (ever tried to parse HTTP with a Java InputStreamReader? you can't properly switch back to binary mode at the end of the headers...)

* variable end-of-content markers that cannot occur in the content

Of course, HTTP 1.x uses ALL of the above (see possible values for Transfer-Encoding). It's a horribly complicated mess that is only surpassed by MIME email.

Binary protocols usually just specify the length of the data, followed by a binary blob with the data. MUCH simpler!
The article, and its original title, are structured and "theoretic" (not quite the word I want, but fairly close): it is very similar to college-level reading material. The replacement title honestly sounds more like "silly blog post from someone who hasn't thought much about the problem yet". I thereby clicked this link because I was interested in seeing the comments, not the article; it was only after I saw the author say the title was modified that I bothered looking over the article. I guess a comment to make is that the original author also likely wanted to share his content with everybody, and probably already attempted to choose a title that he felt portrayed his content in a light that would make that possible. Sometimes, titles should be more context-specific, but the kind of audience this post was targeting is probably itself similar to Hacker News. Meanwhile, due to Hacker News having an official policy against the modification of titles (for better or for worse), if it isn't clear that the title was re-targetted (maybe pointing to a specific paragraph or idea), the reader will expect the title of the actual post to be equivalent to the one submitted, and make judgements accordingly.
Start a Node.js app with Forever and Ansible
I am a bioinformatician and I regularly align sequences against large databases. I wonder how much faster/cheaper will this be compared to renting out an ec2 instance for a couple of hours and crunching through data.
-- Why don't you guys split Ukraine into two parts?

It won't blend then.
Iconically the blog post about Github being down is now down:

Forbidden: You don't have permission to access /2014/01/27/github_reliability/ on this server. Apache Server at thoughts.wallproductions.com Port 80

Here's the content even though it's not worth reading IMHO:

I have been using Github for work for the last couple of years. I have noticed that their service has been getting less and less reliable throughout the years. They are the leader when it comes to Git hosting. So it’s hard just to turn them off completely at this point. Plus I am using it at work so I don’t have much say in moving off of it. It’s sad to see it as overall their feature set is really good. They have been very innovative throughout the years. I have been very impressed by their pull request feature and many more. I have also been impressed by how easy they make Git. Saying that they have their own set of issues you have to deal with on a monthly basis. I have noticed more and more that they go down often.
It seems that at least once a month Github will go down for a small time period. This can range from a couple of minutes up to ten or so minutes. It’s never hours of downtime. They seem to respond to the issue fast and get it fixed. I feel that most downtime can be avoidable or should be worked at so it is avoidable. We don’t see Google services go down once a month. In the last couple of years I haven’t seen any Google services I use to down at all even. Yes in the technology world unexpected things happen from time to time but it shouldn’t be every month. I think Github has forced us to at least think about other hosting providers.
One name that comes to mind is bitbucket. It seems that their feature set is also very rich but they may not have as many downtime issues as Github. I really hope to see Github be able to get it together but if not companies are going to have to start thinking of other Git hosting solutions. It’s also possible to roll your own Git server but of course you won’t get all the rich features of these service platforms.
This is not correct. I don't know any influential Ukrainian nationalists who want ethnic purity to rule them all. Even Stepan Bandera welcomed Russians and Jews (!) who aren't enemies of Ukrainian state.

Please stop this crazy Nazi bias and fear mongering. Yes, there were some parts of nationalist movements during WWII who tried to use Nazi force to establish Independent Ukraine, but this union was situational, tense and fragile (and I am not proud of it).
https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/devguide#jquer...
Wait, aren't the people fighting in the streets?
Interested in learning more about the plugins. Maybe use for filters to support interceptor pattern?
How many what?

My employer has to nag me every year to use up my leave days. If they don't, I forget! I'm on the autistic spectrum and easily get caught up in routine.

Generally I use holiday time strictly for relaxation and enjoying being at home.
You can also try conda's environments which are a system-level concept and is an even lighter-weight approach to some of the problems people are using Docker to solve. If you just need an independent software environment, conda gives you that while sharing files that can be shared. http://conda.pydata.org
People being kidnapped from hospital beds and tortured by their own government. It's hard to imagine a more depraved situation.
No, it's really not that easy, sorry.

Looking at the code, you're not actually doing anything with websockets here. There's no handshake parsing, there's no open socket object to pass data back and forth on, there's nothing actually websockety about this.

Instead, you seem to have a simple ajax endpoint.

Or am I missing something?

[EDIT] Clarifying why I said it's not that easy, since that seems snarky as I read it again. To properly do websockets in Django, you have to write your own runserver, which allows processes up the stack to capture the raw socket, perform the websocket handshake methods, and do proper parsing of the incoming data to break the messages on the sentinel values.

I recently tried to do this, and the one package that did this wouldn't work with Django 1.6, and we would have to give up our flup runfcgi, which I wasn't ready to do.
Exact same thing happened during protests in Canada. Government-hired people were caught trying to incite violence several times.
I wake up at 5am, put 60-90 minutes into my project, then get ready for work. It works out really well.

My favorite part is my evening is wide open for relaxing. I often find it hard to truly relax as my brain nags me saying I should be working on something. But with this system, the guilt goes away.

It's not sustainable though. I tend to do it in chunks and what's going on at my day job also influences whether I'm doing it. I also need to go to bed early to pull this off, which doesn't bother me but might others. The key is to listen to your body and brain and recognize when you need to back off.

I've blogged about this a couple times:
http://mattgreer.org/articles/waking-up-at-5am-to-code/
http://mattgreer.org/articles/still-waking-up-at-5am/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_National_Assembly_%E2...
Nazis are all over the barricades.
Ukrainian riot police is more than capable of doing European G8 style riot control but is ordered not to do so because of the huge pressure from EU and USA.
Finally, imagine Ukrainian or Russian officials going into crowds of Occupy Wall Street or Paris protests urging to overthrow the government and giving their support to protests.
How is he qualified to judge ML talent?
DeepMind wasn't just a 3 man team, Yann Lecun posted on G+ that 3 of his PhD students were on the team and I've heard that they were recruiting more people.
A copyright license is not a case of balancing rights between two people.

The GPL can be described in pure terms of personal rights provided to the recipient of the software. It declare that a user has the right to be left alone when they run, modify or share the program. That naturally include not being harassed by legal or technical measures by whoever provided them with a copy, be that version modified or not.

There is no trade offs between different parties. The right to be left alone, or negative rights as its called by philosophers and political scientists[1], has a long history. It is also not a balancing act. It is simply Classical liberalism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights
What do we have governments for again?
Ahhh! See, we didn't realise that at that moment. Thank you :-)
Great idea. You might want people to include their timezone so that you can segment groups in to when people are available
Then buy a netfilter. They're about £20.
Has there ever been a war that wasn't predominantly fought with energetic young people?
So does the criminal president. What a coincedence!
Look at the channel this comes from: https://www.youtube.com/user/dzgmvs?feature=watch

It looks like a ministry or something is releasing these videos.

I live in Quebec and in August 2007 one branch of our police force did a false flag operation to discredit protesters and legitimize the use of force on civilians. They got caught by pacifist protesters who noticed the boots of the undercover cops were wearing the same boots as the police force: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1-WTc1kow

The police force then mistranslated the events by saying that the president we see in here asking the cops to "drop the rocks" saying that the president and others were asking them to "throw the rocks". I have no trust in anything coming from my government anymore.

You know who got reprimanded for using provocateurs? No one!

Similar techniques were used at the G20 and the media is playing right into the government's hands.
As a Rails developer, naturally I appreciate the thought that testing is good and upgrading is nice. But it seems a bit odd to advocate a completely context-insensitive heuristic for deciding whether upgrading frameworks is a good idea. Surely there are cases where the costs exceed the benefits, for any number of unpredictable organizational reasons. For instance, the application is on life support and slated to be replaced, and there are other ways of mitigating new security risks in the meantime...
Before you dive in & do consulting full time, make sure you have a few PAYING customers. The biggest issue with consulting is the recurring revenue issue. You want to have paying customers already then get referrals from them to keep business coming in.