skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Tom Perkin's neo-Feudalistic utopia, do I get votes for all the payroll taxes, sales taxes, excise taxes, property taxes, and government fees (e.g., car registration) I pay? ("Fees" are taxes too. They're called "fees" by politicians who want to lie about not raising taxes.) Or does Perkins only count income taxes? Nearly 1/2 of gov't revenue comes from individual income taxes. But 1/3 comes from payroll taxes. Estate taxes are only about 1%, half of excise taxes.

I suppose "corporations" will get the vote too; about 10% of gov't revenue comes from them. Not sure what they get out of it, since the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will put multi-national corporations above the law, and allow them to impose new taxes on nations to recoup lost profits from laws that violate their "rights" to pollute and defraud: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/how-can-nytimes-endors...

Will votes be commodified? Can I buy and sell votes on a crappy website built by CGI Federal? Won't Wall St find a way to securitize and infinitely re-hypothecate the vote?

If I bring a big sack of money to the polls, can I purchase additional votes on election day? Will they only take US dollars, or can I pay with Bitcoin?

Can I borrow money to buy more votes?

Can Ben Bernake simply print $15T to buy votes for The Fed? He could choose the next government and monetize the entire public debt--killing two birds with one stone!
Agreed. I think the best way to really understand the value of a technology is to first experience the pain that the technology is trying to solve.
Plugin source code is on Github.

https://github.com/socketubs/Sublimall

Thank you for testing!
having gone through many hipaa audits/reviews both as customer and as vendor, in my experience when contracts are being signed/renewed it is much more about the people and processes involved.

never had any customer ask specifics about encryption algorithms, apis, dev stack, tooling, or key managment. ("do you encrypt data at rest?" "ok, check.") i wish they would. we spend a lot of time and effort on those decisions.

had lots of requests about hr policies and procedures, ongoing perimeter scanning and network intrusion detection, data loss prevention, patching process, hids, data destruction logs, physical security, breach notification plans, disaster recovery SOPs, and other stuff you would find in various NIST and FISMA specs.

but maybe that's how it should be...smart, experienced people will more often than not make good decisions and use the right tools for the job (whether easy or hard) and be vigilant and introspective. give inexperienced folks the best/easiest tools in the world that dont require them to understand the details underneath, and they can find clever ways to create huge gaping holes. and if they are looking for the easiest path, they are probably not well equipped to handle all the unknown unknowns that invariably pop up (usually friday late afternoon!)

honestly, i prefer to know my stack(s) intimately from the kernel sources up, and know how to evaluate and react to potential problems at all layers, than simply outsource all responsibility for these issues to someone. (ok I outsource some pieces, but only when it makes the solution better, not just easier.) ymmv.

also, fwiw, never had a breach from outside ... but had numerous incidents of employees who have lost or stolen laptops which just happened to have a sql dump of "test data". human error/laziness gets you every time.

still, good to see options evolving in the market! the more educated buyers become, the better questions they will ask! and the more rigorous vendors will get...we hope :)
When I was a teen, I visited my older sister at work one day. I ended up doing stuff like stuffing envelopes for her. After I left, the department hired some assistants to do more of that kind of thing for people in her position so they weren't doing so much admin type tasks.

When I had a corporate job, I did an hour of job shadowing here and there for specific purposes. When in another department, I just watched as they did typical work so I could better understand what they did in a department that supported ours. In my own department, there was more explaining because I was shadowing someone faster and better than me with the express purpose of improving my speed and general process.

At age 14, I was introduced to computers by a friend of my sister's. My sister was in college and I was visiting her. The friend was surprised at how much I was able to grasp given that I had no computer background (this was in the dark ages, when I had a yellow rotary phone and pet dinosaur).

So I think:
A) Just letting him watch is perfectly fine.
B) If he asks questions or has a specific purpose, you can tailor it some at that time.
What worries me more is people who believe the world is going to end in their lifetimes. How can we plan for the long-term future, as a species, with that kind of worldview?
The President doesn't have to use normal airplanes, and almost undoubtedly does not get his goods from Amazon mailed to "Barack Obama, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue".
The difference between the high quality math guys and the high quality distributed jocks at that level is much larger than I think most people think. I come from the engineer side, and it's really bizarre to hear people w/ Ph.D.s in machine learning or physics give talks where they will mess up what is really a junior level distributed programming concept. Happened twice at Strata that I saw. Mind you, that's for BASIC things, not someone trying to right a highly concurrent computational system across hundreds of nodes. No lie, I had a conversation with a machine learn jock that asked me point blank when we couldn't make Matlab go faster.

On the flip side, the distributed engineers might even be worse at the math than the data jocks are at programming. A middling concept for a machine learning guy, like say a Bayes error, is like trying to write concurrent state machine in assembly.

tl;dr - the pool of people that are both elite math jocks and elite system jocks is vanishingly small, as in I would be shocked if that number was out of the triple digits world wide.

Julia has a lot of promise in that it gives the math guys familiar syntax, but appears to have the underlying capability to be very fast on shared memory architecture. It's already got the handles to call out to python / C / Fortran bindings.
Not judging others for the mistakes they did speaks volumes about how we approach mistakes ourselves. Seth Godin's 'Poke the Box' goes over how sometimes it is way better to ship more content, product and whatnot, just in order to avoid this viscous cycle of fear from public exposure in case things go south.

Tilting towards building personal brands is so true, and I can totally relate. Even among friends, within social networks... We are carefully building this image emporium around our story, that it is almost surreal. Ego is a powerful thing, I guess.
They look better in person. You can fault them for the customer-provided images, but the actual translation from image to painting looks good in person.
It incorrectly states my IP is a Tor exit node when in fact it's just a relay.

I'll go ahead and file an issue with the github lib.
Also, most people can learn to code.

It's difficult to love it, even when it things don't work--like spending an hour trying to figure out why something isn't working, only to find you wrote if(isVar = true) (yoda that bish...)
I am interested in working with someone for this hackathon. I don't have an idea myself. I am a developer from NY/NJ. I have experience developing web and mobile apps. email me at archerabi at gmail.com
This is why we need to use decentralized alternatives to our most popular services, in this case Twister (P2P Twitter alternative):

http://twister.net.co/
Even seasoned developers (I have 24 yrs experience), are overwhelmed by the huge number of different frameworks and languages. The guy that wrote this article simply needs to focus on JavaScript, and forget all other languages and frameworks, and sell himself as a front-end web developer doing ONLY JavaScript. You can get a decent paying job just from being a skilled JavaScript guru. This guy just got psyched out by setting out to conquer the world. You have to pick one thing, focus on it (make sure it's marketable, on your resume) and just learn THAT ONLY. At least that's my recommendation on how to "break into" the software industry. Bottom line unfortunately is if you don't LOVE IT, you truly will never be any good. I've seen it before. The only decent developers are always the ones that have a passion for it. If you aren't passionate about it, go do something else, you will definitely fail as a programmer.
> Do you have any evidence for this?

The history of religion? The Inquisition, as just one example among many? Being absolutely sure that God is on your side is a powerful drug.

> There has been plenty of atheistic terrorism in the last hundred years ...

Yes, but it can't compare to the well-established historical connection between religion and war.

One example -- try to imagine recent Indian history without the effect of religion, without Muslims and Hindus killing each other at every opportunity, true to the present day.

Another example -- 9/11 wasn't an attack by have-nots against haves, it was a largely successful effort by religious fanatics to snuff out some infidels.
I am well aware of that. I am also aware that women generally have trouble being taken seriously and often feel the need to justify, etc. In my own case, when I state the facts without embellishment, it is often taken as telling tall tales. If I don't state the facts, gee, no one knows what I have done. So I continue to wrestle with how to prove myself or show credentials...etc.
Drunk? I suppose you refer to the 3 drinks they had in the course of 3 hours. And they probably had eaten not long before. Self-entitled asshole… You mean, working in a startup, and tell the policemen when asked what he does for a living?

And even if he was a drunk self-entitled asshole? Was he a hindrance? Was he dangerous in any way? My probability for both is extremely low. And even if he was a real hindrance or danger? Does that justify stomping on his fingers after having handcuffed him? No way.

I understand you may trust cops. But Officer Korr specifically doesn't look too trustworthy: she got sued.

Unless… the OP is actually lying. Not distorting the facts, or conveniently forgetting some details, and exaggerating others, but plain lying. That is indeed a possibility, but I'd think twice before suggesting it to the OP's face: if he wasn't lying, I'd be insulting a victim.

Apparently, you're not that cautious.
Disco Map/Reduce 0.5 released – features Pipelines
I did Lumosity for some time. It's quite evident you get better at some of the games through learning the game mechanics and optimizing around that. It's not clear why that would necessarily transfer to general cognitive abilities. I had some pretty good scores so it made me feel smarter ;-) (I wonder if everyone has good scores?)

For a software developer, wouldn't it make more sense to practice something closer to home? Learn a new programming language? Solve some programming problem? You'd think that if your cognitive abilities can improve through challenge (the "brain as a muscle theory") this would stimulate that and it would almost certainly also be a benefit because it is more specific (so even if your overall cognitive abilities don't improve your programming skills almost certainly would).
On the one hand, I applaud the creative business model here....

On the other hand, being practically married to a woman who is a classically trained fine artist who already has a difficult enough time making a living from her work, it saddens me that the consequence of this is further diminishing her ability to make that living.

This causes a reduced perception of the skill involved in actually creating original works. And it reduces the already small market for original artwork.
Hey, thanks for that great link.

Here's a viewpoint, coming from a different place, but with the same recognition of the one-dimensional quality of commercial rap, from a lover of hip-hop as a verbal art form --

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/09/all...

"I think that mix of vulnerability, confidence and honesty was why our mothers loved [Prince]. I think that was the sort of alchemy we missed in hip-hop. We got close a few times--notably De La Soul on Buddy or Eye Know, or The Roots on Silent Treatment or You Got Me. Also, there are a few Outkast joints. But we never achieved that sort of confidence--that sort of true manhood."

Another viewpoint is from DJ Shadow ("Why Hip Hop Sucks in '96") -- it's the money.
I am interested in participating in this hackathon too. I'm primarily a designer and was looking for a developer to team up with. I'll email you.
Please don't take this wrong way.

1. Stop asking for advice on the internet. You can't solve a sales problem by posting on forums. Figure out your own sales funnel by talking with real live prospects.

2. You need experience in the industry. How can you tell a restaurant owner that your app will make them money when you don't know how a restaurant makes money?

3. Are you sure restaurant owners want to handout discounts to a lot of patrons? I understand handing out discounts to get patrons into the restaurant. Once they are there the focus is on increasing the average check size, not decrease it. Given how overhead in a restaurant is very large.

4. Percentages confuse people. They will always pick a dollar amount over a percentage when dealing with discounts. If something costs $20 and you give them a $5 discount they know how much they will pay without thinking too much. But those examples in your landing page have weird percentages. 18.53%? Few people can calculate that on their head.
Until you start making ActiveRecord calls...
These sorts of arguments all fail the most basic principle of relativity -- that any viewpoint is relative. One can argue that the earth orbits the moon or the reverse, but the best way to think about it is that the earth and moon orbit their common center of mass. And that common center of mass orbits the sun -- or, if you prefer, the earth/moon common center of mass and the sun' center of mass have another common center of mass, around which they mutually orbit.
yup! node does streams horribly wrong
Some images from the protest:

http://imgur.com/a/zj4J9

Dead people in this one:

https://imgur.com/gallery/4GgOL
Thanks for the suggestion. You're right, videos aren't the best way to comprehensively describe how to use this. We're working to put together some deeper documentation (and improving the API editor) so you'll have more control over how things come out.
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Ah, but did they test positive for the sordid quintuple of the major douchebag arcana?
Sure, the Inquisition was bad. But so was the gulag. Seems like the 'tempered by compassion' thing is more important than the left hand side, doesn't it?

There is absolutely no historical connection between religion and war. From http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/08/06/god_and_the...

"Moreover, the chief complaint against religion -- that it is history's prime instigator of intergroup conflict -- does not withstand scrutiny. Religious issues motivate only a small minority of recorded wars. The Encyclopedia of Wars surveyed 1,763 violent conflicts across history; only 123 (7 percent) were religious. A BBC-sponsored "God and War" audit, which evaluated major conflicts over 3,500 years and rated them on a 0-to-5 scale for religious motivation (Punic Wars = 0, Crusades = 5), found that more than 60 percent had no religious motivation. Less than 7 percent earned a rating greater than 3. There was little religious motivation for the internecine Russian and Chinese conflicts or the world wars responsible for history's most lethal century of international bloodshed."
Please read this essay: "I've Got Nothing To Hide" and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy

http://familyrights.us/bin/white_papers-articles/nothing_to_...
Sure, those people worry me too. Even the ones that think a "Singularity" is going to zap them up to techno-heaven.

The people who don't believe in objective right and wrong also worry me.

It's a long list.
NASA solves mystery of jelly doughnut rock on Mars
Tom Perkins Says What the Ultra-Rich Are Secretly Thinking
Not a BIOS, bootloader, OS kernel, hardware driver?
As a former high school teacher in a low-income community, I think that movie only told a small portion of the issues of education. There are certainly teachers that aren't the greatest, but we're doing very little to entice the best teachers to teach in the most difficult places, and even less to make sure it's sustainable. Most of the teachers I knew did what they could at a pace that would allow themselves not to completely burn-out. And a most of the burnouts started as energetic young teachers.
I used Lumosity for about a year. I did it fairly consistently about every other day and my wife did it with me about every third day.

Personally, I thought it helped. I'm obviously a very biased source and a good number of biases come into play if I try to evaluate it's effectiveness on me. But for what it's worth, after doing it consistently I felt like I was a little more mentally alert in areas of life that I had been weaker. And so was my wife. Without going into the details, I think we both boosted some of our weak points a little.

If nothing else it was a fun way to warm up my brain in the morning.
Unrelated to pry, related to bugsnag:

Thanks for providing the service. We use it at Acquia for Ruby, PHP and Javascript and are really happy with the product.
We've discovered quite a few small edge cases and hickups in our apps. They happen rarely and mostly with older accounts / random network timeouts / ... and while they don't really bother users, they are still fun to fix :)
That is not how I read the parent post. It said that greed and cheating is serious flaw of capitalism - it reward greed and cheating.

Is every flaw of capitalism implied flaws of socialism and communism and vise verse? Every flaw of communism also a flaw in capitalism?

That is true only if one say that capitalism and communism and socialism is all the exact same ism.
Of the billionaires on Forbes top 100, only 1 has a Ph.D. By contrast, a couple are high school drop-outs and a fair number are college drop-outs. Source: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100505134335AA...

Tuition is rising faster than inflation. After 4 years of college, 5 years of grad school, and another 5 years of post-doc work, a Ph.D. could easily accumulate hundreds of thousands of dollars of student debt.

So if making money is your main goal in life, skip the Ph.D.
HTC Confirms That Windows Phone 8.1 Exists
This is so good, it's scary.
404 not found. I'm guessing it's still a private repo? I'm curious as to why a broken link would be upvoted.
Once I tried to evolve approximations for trig functions with genetic programming. It's surprisingly difficult but eventually I did get something that sort of worked.
Wow, I'd be interested if it wasn't some of the worst syntax I'd ever seen. https://github.com/red/red/blob/master/system/emitter.r
I'm really sad about this. I love Upstart and think it's an elegant init process implementation. Anyone more informed than myself care to summarize the key points in making the decision?
Melbourne/Australia
Only Christ can judge us
I think the first Bitcoin faucet was giving out 5 bitcoin to each person. That was before it had any significant monetary value though. I'm not sure what Bitcoin itself got out of that, but if those people held onto those 5 Bitcoin, they would have the opportunity to exchange them for money several years down the road.
No, idiots really think Hugo Chavez was incapable of dying without the help of Americans
re (i) I kind of feel you missed the point a bit. I recently picked up a google+ profile simply for hangouts which the new nexus makes it tricky to ignore. I don't really want to deal with a google+ profile but I have a feeling the lowest barrier to entry for this kind of group is exactly google hangouts. Seamless and nice to use.

re (ii), I have a feeling this is a very initial implementation that will one day implement automatic matching, but for now, they're doing some "manual backend magic" to match people up with the right timezones, and say for me: I need help with finance, and can give help with ecommerce they can match this much better on their own.

re (iii) You are already speaking to the community you are talking about right now. We don't need another hacker news or #startups on freenode. What we do need is a small (4-5people small) tight knit group of individuals who we get along with and can discuss intricacies of our business plans without the whole world seeing. I imagine the matching process will get a bit more open down the line in regards to matching process.

What I would like to know is how we will deal with people who don't fit right with the group or go dark and what not.
Where on earth do you get the idea that people are scared to buy online? Are you channeling 1999 again?

I still remember the first time I bought something online back in 1995 from a small book publisher that specialized in books about UNIX tools. They accepted my order on the web but asked me to send my credit card details separately by fax fro security. It was O'Reilly books. Back then it was true that people were afraid to buy online but it only took a few years to change that.

The biggest proof that people are NOT afraid to buy online is the size of the Internet fraud industry. They can only steal from a very small percentage of people so their business can only succeed if massive numbers of people are buying online.
This is awesome product. Requests
- add target url to json
- merge a few apis into one e.g. I'm scraping 20 jobs postings. I would like to make one GET that gets me all the jobs.
Neat idea. I already sync using Dropbox, so what advantages does Sublimall have over that method?
This is not how I use the word troll or trolling. What this article describes I would simply call 'bullying' or anonymous bullying or in extreme cases harassment.

True trolling is about, among other things, plausible deniability. The troll identifies a pressure point in the collective unconscious of an online community, and then subtly attacks it. Depending on how skilled the troll is, what follows is a lot of attention and a large degree of over-reaction. The troll can then take the moral highground and pretend to be perplexed at these harsh responses, which of courses only provokes even more enraged responses. The cycle can be quite amusing. It can also generate/provoke lots of debate that a community would otherwise not be inclined to start.

It's not about personal attacks.
The horse buggy drivers felt that way too. I'm sure they managed to retrain and find a new profession.

Historically, artists have always had to have a patron sponsor them in order to pursue their artistic inclinations. While it's hard for male artists to find this today, chances are that your wife already has access to guaranteed patronage if she's not in the mood to learn a more economically relevant skill set.
Thanks, great suggestions! We're working on a more powerful API editor that will let you do just that.