skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the "distressed babies" comment is par for the course from Mr. Armstrong. He is not doing any other tech companies CEO any favors. He does remind me of the one psycho that attends a peaceful protest, but gets all of the press coverage to show the protest in a bad light. He says foolish things so he is the representative of all tech CEOs in an unfriendly, as of late, press.

As to the health insurance, yes, its going to go up for most and with higher deductible and premiums. All the rhetoric now meets the pavement.
We're in violent agreement. I am preaching that you should code to the standard, not implementations. See my reply to 'signa11'.
I know full well what the question was, and you responded to it by saying that some forms of slavery are OK. Not sure what forms those would be, while still being 'slavery' for every reasonable definition of it, but still.

I can't read what you say in another way than 'same-sex couples are a drag on society, therefore we need to suppress them'? (And preferably 'convert' them, too? Your argument doesn't make sense unless you force a gay person to live a heterosexual life, or at least to make them have children?)

And you're defending this based on 'equality', because only people who have children can be equal in society - i.e. everybody needs to pull his weight and have children?

"There is no other way around it because of the power dynamics across generations will always favor heterosexual couples in such an environment."

What does that even mean? Heterosexual people have the evolutionary edge, because they are the only ones procreating; therefore we need to stomp out everything else?

(I can't believe I'm actually replying to this, it's like arguing on stormfront.org)
Fair enough to make this argument, but I wouldn't call a fine for violating privacy laws as an example of "laws so hideous and offensive to human dignity, that they should never be obeyed." by any means...
jcloud recently became part of apache: https://jclouds.apache.org/
What if that is the sole country you do business in and you are legally forbidden from closing your business (as can happen to a business that produces essential war materials)?

The problem that is that companies are not above the law, but they are even less above ethics. The primary reason that we argue that companies should follow the law is ethics and when ethics and the law are in conflict ethics always trumps the law.
Is this the same AOL that still gets a good chunk of money each year from people that never cancelled their 56k internet subscription when they got ADSL?

I think AOL is one large moral-free zone.
Interesting comment on Reddit:

"I had a job interview with MtGox a couple of weeks ago for a frontend developer position. After talking about their technical environment I declined the position. Contemplated publicizing my story, but I have zero proof that the interview took place. But fuck me is their environment fucked up.
Either way, I have been recommending to my friends to move any BTC away from Gox as soon as possible, and regret not bringing this advice into the open. I'm a Tokyoite, so if you want to talk to me about the job Interview, or just drink a beer, send me a DM."

"I was told that up until a few weeks [at time of the interview] ago, there was hardly any development environment to test changes. Most changes were done straight on the production environment. Typing this made me throw up in my mouth.
The guy who interviewed me was very friendly, but I felt like a psychiatrist more than a job candidate. The dude went on about how shitty the atmosphere is at the offices, and what he told me about Mark seems to be spot on from what OP has said.
Interview guy, if you read this, sorry yo."
There's probably a Monad joke here somewhere.
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Done! Added the intro to the home page.
"You gave goods or services to someone, and in return, they give you a choice of payment in two currencies: one with an increasing supply and one with a fixed supply. Which would you choose?"

Other things being equal you choose the fixed supply, but other things are rarely equal. For one thing, why aren't they going to price in the expected future change in value?
Yes, I was thinking the same. Clearly in a company, everyone will eventually find out who these women are, so although he didnt break any laws by revealing their names, these women are probably feeling pretty targeted right now.
This seems to draw a lot of influence from Snow Crash, judging by the quick look, which is exciting for me. We don't see nearly enough absurdist narrative.
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Can someone please explain what a "distressed baby" is in this context? And why did AOL foot a million dollar bill for each and then blame the mothers?
It's a bigger problem then that. Laws are not exactly straight white strings which you know everything about when you set foot on some country to begin operations. If some country takes you to task on some ridiculous convoluted third world laws ( may be I am exaggerating here ) , a company has every right to present its views in court rather then just suck it up for the sake of abiding by the law. Also, once you have set up operation in a country it is very hard to move out since it risks putting your millions of users off who have got used to your product.
I get the feeling our government would be a bit more responsive if individuals and agencies could be sued for libel.
Which is true -- just like the idealistic interpretations here of the reason laws and governments exist -- but neither are really based in reality.

Since "just stop doing business there" often isn't a realistic option for most businesses, big or small, you do what you can to work within the law while attempting to retain what seems to you a reasonable standard of ethics. That's a very gray position, but that's how the world is.

When politics and legislation are ideal and unchanging, then you can expect corporations to consistently comply with all laws in all places. Until then, it's unreasonable to make statements like this. It is, of course, your right to do so; just don't make the mistake of believing it reflects how business and government actually work.
I should point out however, that this 401K match at the end of year practice is already a standard at IBM, which is probably the worst place to work at in the Silicon Valley today.
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Let's just wait for the time when US will sue a number of french companies for some sort of privacy violations and force french to drop their lawsuit against Google.
To be clear, I'm not saying that Google should break the law. Instead, I'm saying that it's clearly the case that there are some bad laws in the world, and that its perfectly reasonable for companies to engage in advocacy to have those laws changed, rather than just rolling over and accepting them, for example the way that American tech companies have been releasing reports on the requests for data that they receive from the government in order to raise awareness of the issue.

I'm not even saying this necessarily applies to this exact situation - maybe the laws in France that Google was in violation of are good laws, in which case hopefully Google loses its appeal.

It's just ridiculous to say that companies should always just do whatever government tells them to do without question.
More likely a laziness joke.
Even still, phrasing the advice as a reference rather than a moral imperative can be productive. (Avoiding the word 'should', for example...)
This is probably why speakers at YC tell stories based on their experiences - and thus do not just give blanket advice.
Adzerk ? Seriously!
As far I remember they did self-censor for a while, then pulled services over to Hong Kong to get around the laws instead.
It's confusing that you don't understand the difference of a blog that you have to click on and choose to read vs a personal interaction or meeting where you can't leave.
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Well being that you're the only one in this thread that seems to be referring to permanent colonization, no. Manned spaceflight to date has been more about displaying national superiority. How noble.
On my MBP 13" non retina book pages do not fit the screen, so you must go up + down at every page, which is frustrating. You should reflow text so that it fits a screen without scrolling
The interesting thing about bitcoin is that you can just trade your friends for some p2p, you don't need a central exchange. You don't need a bank account to send someone bitcoins or to get some. You can just hand someone $20 and your address and they can send it to you p2p. No banking infrastructure involved.

That boggles the mind. It is impossible for bitcoin to become fully illiquid as long as people believe it has value, because there is no infrastructure to approve transactions. The approval happens p2p.
> Le Conseil d'État is a French institution whose decisions can be broken (sadly) by European courts.

It's not as simple as that. From what I have understood, there is a precise hierarchy of courts and the Conseil d'État is at the top of the administrative courts hierarchy. The only way to appeal their decision is to go one step higher which would be the European Court of Human Rights, and I don't see how Google could find a valid reason to get there with this issue.
Why would the agent hate you for labeling the printer with its IP address? I'm confused.
Link to GitHub https://github.com/jclouds

jclouds is good for Java and Clojure projects.
We use Circle at my Rails consultancy. They make us more productive, which in turn helps us work from wherever we want—a coffeeshop near home or anywhere in the world.

Also, we're using Circle to help with a project for monthly life skills training workshops. Not only will this project save the workshop staff 180 hours a month, but will also make it far easier for trainees to register for the workshop. Circle is, indirectly, working to make thousands of people's lives better each year.

Congratulations Circle, we're really happy for you guys!
"And Android is outpacing Apple in the cheaper markets that are gaining importance, so there’s a sort of intuitive sense in the move, if you’re willing to twist the logic into uncomfortable directions."

s/Android/Windows/, move it back ten years, and then count how many PC OEMs are still in the business today.

Did I miss the part where "Businessweek" became a "how to light your money on fire" journal?
Because he's an asshole with a long and illustrious history of doing shit like this?

I'm just really sad that we, the programmers and engineers, keep letting people like him climb up the ladder.
Intention doesn't make a damn difference. Birds don't chose the notes in their songs, but they still sound beautiful. You can have a computer pick notes at random, and as long as someone listening finds beauty in it, it's good music.
> ...its sorrows in a bottle of beaujolais...

You'll have more sorrows after drinking some Beaujolais. It's incredible that this is one of the best known wine regions in France. At most barely-drinkable, Beaujolais is inferior to most French wine.
There are plenty of talented people who believe in BTC enough that they would work to get in on the ground floor of an exchange. Who do you think are designing custom ASICs for mining?
> If I wanted to hear what I'm doing wrong, I'd call my parents or talk to the wife.

Interesting because I think generally the experience is quite the opposite. Parents & spouses (never had one) tend to be over encouraging and much less critical. So I can see how you found that redundant since the critiquing was coming from another source in your life.
It's pretty distressing to me that these people are like "eh, I'll just cut a few million in benefits for ALL MY EMPLOYEES, blame obamacare and pocket it myself." Because we need to get people angry at the idea that their fellow man is getting adequate healthcare!
Assuming coin gets out the door.
Hi tigroferoce, this Bubblin is iPad first. Works really well when you read a book on iPad2+.

We're yet to optimize for laptops and big-screen iMacs, but this one is on top of our task-list!
Don't assume. They are French taxes, after all. It's entirely possible that Google could owe them more than the net worth of the planet.
The video did not include any comments about million dollar babies. It did show him saying a 3% match on 401k is a great deal... which it isn't.
Well I am not sure what the result would be. The problem is that Americans see EU Directives as if they were Federal US law. They're not.

The EU can issue Directive, that laws that represent the strict minimum to comply. Then the individual state has to actually pass a national law that implements the directive.

Three options here. The state does not want to implement the law and get fined. The state implements the law following closely the Directive. Or it can go further than the directive, like, in the case of the French privacy law, add more requirements.

Our system as flaws but I'm not to kind on Google messing around it. It could very well set an unfortunate precedent. EU Directive are sometimes quite weak so it would be a problem to me that instead of representing the min they end up representing the max requirement.

Google is suing because they want EU to invalidate the French law. But I don't see how it could happen since AFAIK the French privacy laws predate the Directive by a quite large amount. Right now I think EU can only overrule a state law if it does not offer minimal citizen protection or if there are contradictions with the Directive. Not if they offer more protection.

As for a treaty allowing US corps to invalid EU Directives ... well, good for you but we still have national laws. I don't see how the invalidation of a Directive would invalidate automatically national law.

I might be wrong though. Would love input from someone more knowledgeable on the matter.
Can you post the link?
Ask HN: Why am I a terrible software engineer?
It seems like my biggest problem is that I can't read large amounts of code. I don't get to participate in interesting work. I forget everything, even stuff I write down.

Now days I work in sustaining engineering and I'm fairly bad at it (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7188437)

I've been allegedly been doing this for years but it really feels like I have the experience of someone who's recently out of school.

I setup a github and try writing out stuff on my own but no one cares about it. It's mostly private repos anyways. I spend 10-20 hours after hours working on extra stuff. That may be too much as I have other (serious, very real) commitments

Some of you will say 'get good'. That's technically true but it's also what I'm trying to do.

I'm wondering if I've just made serious career errors or maybe I am just permanently screwed. If I never give up and never quit, maybe I'm at my limits?

Maybe I'm a leech like another askHN post talked about (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7196455) and don't know it or how to fix it?
I came here hoping to encounter a rousing debate on why we should use the firing squad for all executions, but this is much more interesting.
> People that want an iPhone want it for the hardware software combination.

I'm not so certain that's case. Today the iPhone is at least feature comparative to Android (turn by turn navigation, LTE, decent google integration and hangouts) - but Android still doesn't have as nice hardware as Apple.

I really wanted Nokia to start making Android devices because they do make beautiful hardware, but unfortunately they went to Windows phone. I'd imagine many android users would switch to apple made hardware if it was available.

Then apple would likely dominate the hardware market for both operating systems - which would be interesting.
If I recall the events correctly, the majority of the civilians that were in the conflict zones ran-to the Russian side - instead of the other way around.

That should tell you who the transgressors were that were attacking those same civilians.

Again, if I recall correctly, a good number of those civilians in the "conflict zones" had dual citizenship or at least a Russian passport.

So when Georgia started shelling them, Russia responded.
Oh, thank you. I hadn't heard of QUIC. It's tunneled through UDP...does that mean it's NAT-friendly? Presumably so.
that's exactly what they do in the WTO court about the GMO crop ban.
Health insurance has been increasing by ~9% a year since the late 1990s. Obamacare is predicted by the CBO to bend the cost curve in the right direction but it's not going to 0% or sub-inflation anytime soon. Anybody blaming their cost structure on Obamacare is just being opportunistic, although I guess I can't blame them. Getting a multi-billion dollar media machine pushing a message makes it persuasive.
We have had similar discussions in our own company, which is much much smaller than AOL. It's definitely not directly caused by Obamacare, but we've watched healthcare costs significantly rise over the last few years. And it's mostly these "catastrophic" cases - major surgeries, expensive pregnancies etc. We are try to figure out how we can continue offering great benefits but we'll probably have to make a change. Not to save our billion dollar profits (I wish), but so we can continue to function as a company and employ some great people...
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x9gue/my_protest_a...
from the author: thanks for valid criticism, I'll keep it in mind for my next post.
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Why would the price drop when there are other exchanges open?
With this new website, the libcloud community has done a great job of better documenting. The list of supported providers has also increased.
we are glad to be part of the adventure with exoscale: https://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2014/01/27/libcloud-0-14-an...
Are you seriously going to claim that electronic payments are just as anonymous as cash?

"If you want privacy, you need laws to prevent data collection and use"

No. You need to create a situation where it's exceedingly hard to track things you want privacy about. 'Laws' can't stop a societal tidal wave.

"and you need that law to come from an alternative power from governments."

Then it's not a law, is it? I'm not even sure what direction you're thinking in, what sort of power could enforce something like that? Are you saying the checks and balances in the trias politica aren't strong enough?
This write up is something that I've been looking for. Some folks at the local Rails meetups have also told me about Dokku, which facilitates deployment for sure, but I'm left wondering what the ramifications/disadvantages of an automated process (like Dokku and I guess Heroku) vs a "proper" setup like this one described.
The distressed babies thing is bizarre since when does a company have to pay extra out of pocket for something like that like Armstrong is claiming? Isn't that the whole point of Insurance, in case something bad happens insurance pays?
Can you please elaborate? The East India Company never recovered from its episode of near-bankruptcy
Health insurance costs rose by 131% from 1999-2009[1], which comes out to just under 9% inflation. That's in comparison to an average 2.5% inflation for all goods including healthcare since 2000[2]. 2.5% inflation turns $100 into $128.01 over 10 years. Instead, we got 231.

About 10 years ago I was in local government, we laid off teachers every single year in order to keep paying health insurance premiums for the rest of them. More money for less bodies.

[1]http://business.time.com/2009/09/16/health-insurance-premium...

[2]http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/Long_Term_...

(edit: fixed my numbers thanks to twoodfin)
Nah, it's a thousand million, a milliard in other words. It's confusing.

https://www.google.com/search?q=google+france+milliard+impot...

The anglosphere uses short scale billions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Current_...
Am I right that it only supports github repos? Because however awesome github is, I just prefer not to count how many repos I have.
In other words, does it support any git repo? Can't find it anywhere on their pages.

Would make me sad not to be able to use circleci, which has straight forward use and value prop.
I would imagine that similar things happened in the early days of online equities brokerages.
The Media and Bitcoin Community Respond to Apple
Very cool idea. Not sure I could tell exactly what it was when I landed though.

Interface wise the expand to full screen was so small it ended up looking like an X (aka close). So I clicked it and it annoyingly went full screen. Not bad just something that I noticed.

good job.
Working on an online music notation editor that is guitar oriented, a bit like guitar pro but online. It will allow people to share their work. Started this to play with angularjs and kineticJS, having fun !
I'm sure it had nothing to do with the fact that he labeled the printer and everything to do with how he did it.
Some people don't like other people fixing their stuff/problems. It hurts their pride.
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Why is it a moral failing for AOL to leave it up to its customers to be responsible for the decision of what services they do or don't need?
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More like the cost of that company's plan goes up, but I somehow doubt a company as large as AOL has significant cost increases due to a baby or two that had some special surgeries.
Compared to the amount they owe from tax evasion (the 1 billion € mentioned in the thread), 150k is almost a drop in the bucket.
He, I didn't know that, thanks for sharing.
What happens if they don't pay and have no physical business in France? France to sue them in Ireland? French police to ask Ireland police for seizure? Are they really in a position of power to do that, and can they really recover a billion just by seizing an office?
I really like my iPad a lot for second screen viewing. I think there is still a ton of untapped potential there (sports in particular could have all kinds of cool things built for tablets involving motion tracking). I really don't use it for anything else but movies when travelling.
> Right there, you violated a human right, freedom of religion

I did no such thing. Your rights end where mine begin. No matter how core it is to your religion, you may not injure or kill me.

> A while ago there was news about a couple in Germany who had sex on a parking lot near a supermarket, and who were arrested for that. Was that "repression"

Nobody is arguing for that, nobody wants to see you have sex. Maybe some day we'll be perfectly accepting of sex in public, but I feel you are trying to conflate different arguments.

I want the right for informed, consenting adults to be able to have sex in the privacy of their own homes should they so desire, and to not be cast as demons in the society they live in - this talk of corrupting youth is archaic garbage. Sure, your culture loves it, but that's because it has some growing up to do.
The title is "How I learned to...", so I think he's following his own advice here.
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Damn this firewall blocks stuff fast: http://i.imgur.com/HGoQN8f.png
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