skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why were we the ones to build this? We were just students. We had way fewer resources than big companies. If they had focused on this problem, they could have done it.

What does "this" refer to? ;)

Exclusion by school email address, that's a resource. Big companies didn't have that, so they couldn't start "this" the same way, so they got to a different "it" and so on... Caring is important, but every social phenomena is unique by origin when you connect the dots backwards.
It can get even lower than that. Living in Eastern Europe as well. Paying less than 10 USD for a 50Mb connection.
Million Dollar Twitter Accounts Contest Hijacked by Scammers
An individual that considers gender to be private information , and that uses different genders in different situations is very unlikely to be using a name that can be classified with a high degree of confidence as one gender.

A person using the name "Jack" is unlikely to be assumed to be a woman, even if that person selected "female" from a drop down somewhere. If the same person uses Jack/M and Cindy/F in different contexts, no fuzzy algorithm is going to resolve them as the same person (bar some other, stronger ID, such as a SSN).

EDIT: I initially used "William" as an example. Ironically, it turns out that name is only 57.6% male. Both Jack and Cindy are 90% male/female.
I still can't download it to my 5th gen iPod Touch for some reason. So can't my colleague. Anyone know why? The App Store says it's compatible.
Maybe someone know name of that kind of software?
Thanks. Thoroughly enjoyed that article. :)
Packing the Instruction Pipeline
I expect that where only 14% of the rural population of India has access to a latrine (http://water.org/country/india/), washing machine effluent is not a significant concern.
The innovation subsidies (WBSO) require 1225 hours/year, I believe. Pretty hard to get (lots of red tape) but worth it though, very happy with them.
Remember that people also go to work & find out who they need to kill this week, a lot of people.

I don't think that fundamentally unsavory jobs have a particularly hard time recruiting. Corporate lawyers playing zero sum games, abusing the law (their own chosen profession) and doing other mean nasty ugly looking things have people lining up for the job while more ethical lawyering jobs have shortages
Bugs are often sorted according to priority. It's clear that Apple doesn't care enough to prioritize this problem.
The author, Dean Baker, has a very narrow view of what libertarianism is and isn't. I'm a left-libertarian. I take a great deal of inspiration from the libertarian activist Karl Hess, who developed the language of the 1% versus the 99% in his 1975 manifesto, Dear America:

"1.6 percent of the adult population owns 82 percent of all stock, and thus actually owns American business and industry. In a very real sense, that tiny 1 percent of the population faces the other 99 percent across a barrier of very real self-interest. That tiny 1 percent has been accumulating more as the years go on, not less. The key to that accumulation is assuring that the people who make up the other 99 percent are sharply restricted in what power and privilege they accumulate."

Again, that was written by an American libertarian.

Libertarianism is a family of philosophical viewpoints, that runs the gamut from the "Libertarian socialism" of Noam Chomsky to the "Geolibertarianism" of Henry George to the craziness of the "Tea Party."

It's noteworthy that Ayn Rand denounced libertarianism. I was excommunicated from the Objectivist club in college for espousing libertarian anarchist views.

It's also noteworthy that Tea Party founder Karl Denninger renounced the Tea Party, saying it was co-opted by the Republican Party, which shifted its focus to "Guns, gays, God." He sums up his feelings toward the Tea Party, saying:

"Tea Party my ass. This was nothing other than The Republican Party stealing the anger of a population that was fed up with The Republican Party's own theft of their tax money at gunpoint to bail out the robbers of Wall Street and fraudulently redirecting it back toward electing the very people who stole all the f---ing money!" Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/20/karl-denninger-tea-...

Someone who's really interested in the variety of libertarianism ought to start with the Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism
Nice article, I submitted it here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7176576

I also added a comment on this thread that might interest you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7176553
Bah I much rather use this app as it's much faster: http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/gndr/a062944e-744e-495...
As of ES6 I would limit myself to only three styles of writing array for-loops:

1. Crockford's C style with cached array length (fast and flexible, but verbose):

for (let index = 0, length = array.length; index < length; index += 1) {
console.log(index, array[index]);
}

2. Functional style (terse and flexible, but slow):

array.forEach((value, index) => console.log(index, value));

3. Python style (fast and terse, but not flexible):

for (let value of array) {
console.log(value);
}

By "flexible" I mean being able to e.g. iterate over items with odd indexes or in reverse direction.
Somewhat related question:

Which is the recommended tracker to use when creating private torrents nowadays?
>Corporations aren't really immoral, just amoral.

>Most corporations only care about their bottom line. Even if the individuals within them are moral, the structure tends to cancel that out.

It's ridiculous (and disastrous) that we grant this idea of corporate personhood, bestowing to companies the rights of people, but not the responsibility. It is a dangerous mindset which cooly accepts that corporations are amoral vs. immoral.

At the end of the day, there are people who are making these decisions and people who are benefitting from them. If the decisions are immoral, then the corporation is immoral. If the corporation is engaged in immoral behavior, then the people are immoral.

>What Hollywood gets wrong is that corporations aren't intentionally evil. There's no CEO sitting in his office laughing maniacally about how his new project is going to kill widows and orphans.

I don't think I've ever seen a Hollywood movie wherein the CEO of a corporation laughed maniacally about doing something evil for its own sake. Instead, corporations and their leadership are always characterized as being driven by greed.

>Hollywood always wants a villain, but in this case there isn't one.

Sure, there is a villain. Those people who do evil things for the sake of greed, whether in Hollywood or IRL, are still villains and are rightly portrayed as such.

To imply that evil deeds are not villainous if a person is driven by greed vs. sadism/insanity plays into the culture of corporate absolution and tacitly endorses the behavior.
I don't want to be offensive, but what's the news in this post? Why is it no 1 on HN right now?
There was a porn version called "Pirates", but porn versions are satire, not mockbusters. And yes, there were a few confused purchases, but it was much higher budget than most mockbuster. I think there actually mockbuster versions of Pirates (cheap porn, posing as expensive porn, which was itself a "satire" of a Disney movie).

Most mockbusters are made by 1-5 young animators, and they do the scripts and voice acting themselves. Pirates was notable for being one of the most expensive pieces of porn ever made (since it a real boat).
WOW, I am subscribing to the New Yorker, this kind of journalism is refreshing.
The first thing this made me think of was the countless old/broken washing machines ending up on the dump, with perfectly intact, shiny stainless steel drums that could've been used in this.
My Purr[1] watch face is available on there too. It replicates the functionality of the Durr[2] watch.

[1] https://github.com/jbrooksuk/Purr

[2] http://skreksto.re/products/durr
In this case Kindle users who buy their books from Amazon shouldn't be affected by this Adobe format change. Amazon decided (smartly in this case) to keep the keys to their own walled garden.

As to your other question, I still use a Kindle. I buy books from various places, but I always put it in Calibre and create a non-DRMed mobi file from the DRMed version. I would not buy a book where I could not strip the DRM.
Yes. Its not really official though, just a few hang out there.

#hackernews on freenode.
I've done this a few times with XPath from an ipython shell, using the lxml module to parse the XML and handle the XPath queries.

30-second XPath pitch:

//foo/bar

This gets the 'bar' children from every 'foo', regardless of where it occurs in the hierarchy.

//baz[@name='Alice']

Gets everything like: <baz name="Alice">

There's lots of more complicated things you can do, but these are the most frequent types of things I've had to do.
Urban Living Startup Launches Real Estate Mobile App
I'm not even sure of that. I have seen much better results from US Census data with very different %'s of prob e.g. http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/gndr/a062944e-744e-495...
Where on earth did you get that idea? I've never owned a smartphone with a button like that.
Depends by what you mean by "count to". Can you "count to" infinity, when infinity is never-ending?
Node.js Development Workflow in WebStorm with Adron Hall
This things proposes to be a new rage in green revolution.
"[...] is why you end up with legislation written by lobbyists"
no, it is not.
Stating "uh the details of this are complicated, lets not do this" gets us nowhere. Following that logic you cannot have any laws at all.
" Say that one of the rules is [...]" Strawman.
I know. But it's not even released yet, and it takes a lot of time for such massive changes to ripple through until you can expect them to be useful for the general public: Developers need to be trained, documentation, tools and libraries updated and hyper conservative tech leads persuaded or dethroned.
Except Google's version seems to be missing all of the new roads they've built for the Olympics.

That's why you use OSM, not because it's prettier, but because it has more detail, and it's more up to date.
Ever used Google Refine?
Technically it should, but in practice the police only targets torrent-hosting sites, never seeders.
Hi, what is "new" for you? Have you read the Mozilla "Persona" approach? Or are you familiar with OpenID?

Greets,

Chris
What's the training set?
You could be coding in Java...
I use them interchangeably as some of the FireFox tools are better than Chrome's and vice versa (it's also handy for impromptu functional testing to switch around as I catch stuff before proper testing does).
Crockford gives us a definition of truthy in Javascript as anything other than one of the six values such as 0 and NaN which evaluate to false. This maybe closer to your parent's intended meaning.
Well... if walmart was by vast majority the only store present in any town and the vast majority of people are only able to shop there, it would of course be a problem too and would need regulation just the same.
The latest trend in education to prepare American youth
That's a very important thing to say. In any such case a risks/returns analysis must be made.

I think it's too simple to just blame the ban on DDT for 20 million malaria deaths, the reasons for dying of malaria are plenty, some within the control of the western world.

But within the context of the article, directly banning azantine could have some negative effects as well, it's not clear why those farmers who use it don't use the Monsanto product instead.

That also raises an interesting question. If Monsanto really does have a directly competing product, why didn't Monsanto come to the aid of Hayes? Not that I'm super liberal or something, but that would be proper capitalism wouldn't it?
I was doing this with MS Query and the CSV ODBC driver 15+ years ago.
I spend a lot of time choosing gender neutral names for story based scenarios in proposals (the joys of corporate work).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisex_name has been mentioned elsewhere, but I've found it pretty useful.

Unlike a lot of people here, I don't think there is anything wrong with an API like this. It's true that it isn't culturally neutral, but there are times when any piece of information is useful.
>I don't know how to describe the ludicrousness of describing not cold calling someone as "psychological violence".

Cold calling is not necessary, a worker has networks of his own. Given a situation where the worker is trying to improve his condition by getting fairer compensation for his work, and is forced to renounce by a localised cartel of employers exploiting his conditions (i.e. that he can't leave the area), I'd say that's psychological violence alright... but I guess we'll never agree on the exact degree of intensity of such force.

>At least with startups in the valley, they most certainly don't [own original capital].

We are talking about Apple, Intel, Google etc; they are not startups anymore. Startups are not the ones who colluded, they already cannot pay market wages in most cases. It's the companies who could and should pay full wages, the ones who tried to scrimp on salaries.

I agree that the fundamental asymmetry in labor relationship is mitigated by factors such as business size and investor's own history, but it's still there (how often do we get stories on HN about startup workers being screwed out of rewards for successful business outcomes), and anyway these factors simply do not apply to Google, Apple et al.

>Assuming there is demand from other employers

That's a big assumption. It might be true for Silicon Valley as of 2014, but in most years and in most areas that's simply not the case.

> Refusing to consider the fundamental imbalance of labor relationships is disingenuous at best.
>> Refusing to consider the full impact of distortions on labor relationships is disingenuous at best.

I agree, it's a complex matter, but you cannot take as fundamental principles for economic doctrine some localised, exceptional and very limited situation: you take the common scenario and build principles from it, then you tweak it for outliers. "Engineers in Silicon Valley" is the outlier, not the common scenario, and people trying to use that as the basis for "new" theories are, in most cases, just rehashing old excuses for exploiting the workforce.
This argument is moot when you're streaming some blockbuster movie, there will not be any rare chunks to speak of. The client could implement a threshold where sequential downloading is only switched on when there are x number of seeders.
5 mins with Shaq
The “Diesel” was a pre-IPO investor in Google, Twitter's first verified user, and has equity in Vitamin Water and Muscle Milk. The self-titled “Big Aristotle” owns a string of 24-Hour Fitness clubs, Five Guys restaurants, a jewelry line, a clothing line, nightclubs, and a real estate group.
https://www.lettingcheck.com - This started life as a 'profit share arrangement'. I know, you always hear this is a bad idea but it actually turned out quite well for us.

We were approached to provide a quote, which turned out to be too expensive for them. We liked the idea so offered to do this for a 3 way split (two developers) with the understanding he would take care of sales (his background was sales and marketing). The situation changed after this but that's another story.

He originally came up with the idea from his parents who owned a couple of franchise letting agents and used to do this process with paper, pen and a digital camera.
Your first sentence doesn't make any sense -- There is so much more that you can do with a $20/mo internet connection than a $20 DVD. I would go as far as to say that today, in the developed world, an internet connection is a necessity; DVDs on the other hand are not.
Also, it's not just big companies who "could have done it". About a million different teenagers (including me) made virtual pet sites in the early 2000s. Virtual pet sites have profiles, friends lists and social features. If you get rid of the virtual pets, you have a social network. But that probably seemed too simple to us.
Yes, it is OK to "exploit" the fact that somebody wants to sell something cheap, but it's not OK to take it by force. If you think it is hypocritical, next time you buy something at a discounted sale instead of stealing it you're a hypocrite.

>>> The penalty for employers (losing some profit if all workers quit or get fired) is virtually nonexistent:

Because in your world running a business carries no risk as businesses never go bust. I see. Must be nice.

>>> limited-liability companies are set up with the explicit aim of exonerating capital owners from responsibility beyond the invested capital.

And losing invested capital (for small business/startup - likely all one has and also a lot of borrowed money) is nothing. Again, must be nice to be a man for whom losing all investment is nothing.

>>> The penalty for them is much higher

You mean, they have to go to work to another place now? If they possess marketable skills of decent quality, it won't be long before they'd be paid for them. If not, now we know why the business went bust - they shouldn't have hired workers which are incompetent.

>>> Refusing to consider the fundamental imbalance of labor relationships is disingenuous at best.

Here we considered it and found you fundamentally misunderstand both nature of business and nature of employment, suggesting business carries no risk and employment only possible with single employer and if that goes bust the worker can not work anymore. Yes, it does sound a bit sad.
>> "There simply is no Netflix in most parts of the world that gives you reliable access to a huge movie library for peanuts."

True but you can still get movies via DVD or VHS is those places. e.g. If I don't have access to Spotify it does't give me a valid excuse to pirate. I can still purchase through iTunes or buy CD's.
That in itself is the sole reason why I'm out. Put.io in general looks interesting however.
FMA? Have you seen the date of the post? He would have been writing for PowerPC and IA-64 users, all six of them, if he had based his post on FMA.
What if my automation tool uses SSH (ie, Ansible)?
That's a moot point. Science isn't about banning dangerous chemicals. It is about providing politicians the facts they need to make an educated decision regarding whether a chemical should be banned or not.

This is simply another another example of a long tradition of standing behind scientists when their findings agree with you, only to shun, ignore and discredit them when their findings are inconvenient. Tobacco, DDT, asbestos, deep sea diving, global warming.

Science rarely cares about what to do. It's only about finding out what is true. If politicians read Haynes's research and concludes that this is an acceptable tradeoff, there's no problem. If they are unaware of Haynes's research and make a decision on incorrect assumptions, that is a problem.
Google's app store is NOT comparable to "just any other store" because it is a quasi monopoly, which was my point in the first place. Therefore different rules (should) apply. How are you not getting this?
I remember being on Facebook in its infancy. When the user's "wall" was just a <textarea> that was editable by anybody. I used to change the comments left by friends of friends to humorous effect (at least in my mind).

Does anybody else remember this? Or did I dream this up?
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Google told to move barge because of wrong permits
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Cobrança Recorrente, Pagamento Recorrente, Assinaturas.
Forth Methodology Applied to Programming
> The free market has absolutely no position on collusion, except that force may not enter into economic transactions. If two parties choose to collude to set prices, the free market has no opinion on the matter as such; if they set prices incorrectly in the process of judging the market, they will lose. That is basic free market ideology.

I was under the impression that, to be allocatively efficient, market participants have to be 'price takers' (along with a bunch of other assumptions) - anything other than this creates an inefficient market.

I also think it is incorrect to assume (even in theory) that this kind of market failure will always resolve itself by the price makers, i.e. those engaging in collusion, being priced out of the market. The alternative, which seems to me to be more likely (otherwise why would people collude?), is that the price makers capture an inefficiently large proportion of the market's productive output.

In short, market theory absolutely does have a position on collusion - it leads to market failure.
It might be a way to keep out those who care and optimize for that last $5K / $10K and pick a workplace based on that, as opposed to which project they'll be working on for the next five years. If I were Steve Jobs I'd prefer the naive ascetic hacker type who loves the work, and just to make sure I don't get the other type by accident, I'd keep salaries below market.
I still use a Kindle. Convenience trumps that kind of theoretical concern. If a book was wiped by Amazon I'm sure I'd be able to find a pirate copy, but it would take faff.
Next : use a set of rocking chairs connected to a flywheel distributing kinetic energy to whatever appliance needs it, bring your family and enjoy.
LEWE: the opensource biometric wristband
Googling "Tyrone Hayes" now shows an ad titled, Atrazine and Hayes - Academics Question Tyrone Hayes' Work.

The ad links to the "official sounding" http://academicsreview.org/. That domain is privately registered by proxy and there is no information on the site itself regarding ownership.

There are, however, clearly industry-supportive, but unattributed articles on a variety of topics, in addition to Mr. Hayes. Not sure if those were added for "credibility" or actually used in separate campaigns.

This stuff is straight out ouf Hollywood, and it's the reason conspiracy theories thrive. Sometimes, and perhaps more often than we think, there really are people out to mislead us for their own gain.
Collusion is small potatoes. The real "free market" hypocrisy is that Silicon Valley was created by government spending. Still plays a huge role today.

Really disappointed more authors don't take on that topic.

I don't like the author's definition of "classic libertarianism" though. Classic libertarianism is anarcho-socialism. Liberty in all spheres of life: the personal, the political, the economic. Opposition to all forms of tyranny and concentration of power.

What the author is describing in the article is American "Libertarianism" which came about in the mid-20th century. It adopted the term from libertarian socialism but cleansed it of its critique of authoritarianism in the economic sphere (corporations are dictatorships).

It's as though a royal servant came up with a philosophy of "liberty to do whatever you want with your kingdom" and the royals embraced it, along with anyone else who aspired to it. It's a corruption of the term.

But the idea that anyone in Silicon Valley is an honest Libertarian (in the American sense) is ridiculous, given the massive amount of state spending that supports it.
I love when new people sign up and believe the best way to contribute is to troll.
Cool.

I did a similar thing at work, but with virtual tables. Supports zip/gz files and multiple files with glob expansion. Might open source if there's interest. It's based on a sample CSV vtab source. Has type automatic detection. No indexing yet, though.
This article should be manually pinned to the top of the first page.
How we ruin social networks, Facebook specifically
You can do this with external tables in Oracle (and probably other db servers)
Hack: Bitcoin arcade machine
I've not heard of these - is there a site with more info?