skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the morally superior one should be relatively obvious.

Except that it isn't. Hence why many smart people disagree on the issue.

The difference is meta-ethical. The TBTF argument is fundamentally a utilitarian one - it's saying, "This is distasteful, but we're going to do it anyway because we believe it will result in a better final outcome." The Libertarian take on the issue frames it in a fundamentally deontological light, as you have. It's concerned with the actions themselves, and doesn't even attempt to speculate on long-term practical consequences of any particular choice of action because they aren't relevant to the argument under that particular framing.

Which is fine, both are legitimate approaches to ethics. What bothers me is when the two camps start just talking past each other. Which is what seems to be happening when one makes a statement such as "the morally superior one should be relatively obvious" in this context. In terms of persuasiveness, it's reminiscent of the Verizon "Which one is bigger?" ad campaign - there's an attempt to get at something legitimate there, but it's overshadowed by a rhetorical approach that could make even the best argument in the world feel unpersuasive.
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For your first thought; that's one of the reasons as to why we love our FIOS connection, we can have multiple streams going at the same time and doesn't disrupt normal web surfing as well. It's a must with a large family.

As for the rest, I would say that it's hard for us to imagine the might single killer app with a gigabit connection because so few have it. Once a certain level of market penetration has happened, whatever that may be, there's no telling what things will come along once bandwidth is no longer a concern.
> Cost-effectiveness of open floor plans

Office space is expensive, labor is cheap. That's the conclusion. It's the economy, stupid.
> It takes but a trip to Normandy to see german bunkers getting swallowed by nature.

Or, especially for the SF Bay Area crowd, you could go to the Marin headlands and see US bunkers from the same era -- intended to defend against Japanese attack -- doing the same thing. Shorter trip.
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My hunch is that they use some internal server and don't want to expose it to the world. They could copy it somewhere, but if you're not going to take contributions then why bother?

Also, their code explorer is far and away better than trying to spelunk through a Git repository looking for that one file you want to read. So I think it's actually an improvement for when you just want to look at a few files rather than download everything.
That sounds fascinating. Mind writing it up so others can do the same?
Cover of Pharrell's "Happy" actually made me happy.
You went from "a monument to human achievement surpassing X" to "the first human achievement surpassing X". Fairly silly you said? ;)
How big is that dataset? Can you share it somehow?
Another way to look at it is the time spent already is a sunk cost.

Figure out how much time it will take you to finish, and your effective hourly rate to get the remaining $10k. If it's a reasonable hourly rate, go ahead and finish. Otherwise, walk away.

Also, that's why it's better to work hourly rather than fixed-price. That way you avoid arguments when the client increases the scope.

You don't need to always have an airtight contract. What I do is make a limit on how much I'm willing to risk, and once that limit is reached I stop working until I get paid.
> not "natural monopolies" (which have never existed).

Tell that to Standard Oil or The American Tobacco Company.
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I think there's something more to the open floor plan beyond collaboration and cost saving. It goes back to a post I saw here a few months ago about building unity [1] with the team. I don't know the answer, but I think there is something to be gained by fostering the feeling of "We're all in this together".

I'm a software engineer who has only worked in open plan offices, so maybe I don't know the joy of working in an office, but there is definitely a different feel from the one office where the managers/partners had their own offices and everyone else was open plan vs everyone in the same couple rows of desks.

[1] http://jasonlefkowitz.net/2013/03/how-winners-win-john-boyd-...
I love how this was pushed to the bottom.
Laboratory fusion is a rather delicate process, once described as 'containing a blob of jello with rubber bands'. The typical Tokamak fusion plasma is orders of magnitude less dense than air, and if it hits the wall of the containment chamber, it rapidly loses heat and stops fusion-ing. The challenge is really to keep it going long enough and strong enough for it to be useful; there is no runaway mechanism.
Very excited for the iOS version! Will install immediately
I'm more interested in the visual aesthetic, but I've built a few sculptures[1] visualizing algorithms. It's something I'm hoping to expand on when I have more time and resources. I'd write a bit more about them, but I'm on my phone getting ready for work.

[1] http://wollw.github.io/Cellular-Polymaton

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N_smOznDDJs

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vbtvAQLDcrs
I see no problem with minimum viable product. That's exactly what Segment.io had, a minimum viable product. The minimum amount needed to test if your product could be viable and is worth testing out and building out further. Seems like we're just arguing semantics here, and the definition of MVP will change based on your goal (e.g. social network viability could be engagement or user growth and a SaaS product could be whether someone pulls out their credit card to pay for something).
Doesn't it iterate over IPv6 addresses a few lines down? [1]. Sure, it iterates through IPv4 first, but does it make sense to prefer IPv6 given that IPv4 is still the most popular?

1. https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/src/cares_wrap.cc...
A lot of those numbers are deceptive because carriers are starting to use IPv6 for an outer trunking protocol but the users IPv4 flow is encapsulated within.
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Julia,

I compiled this gist from your blog post when you first posted it. Can you throw it up on your Github account if you have one? I don't want to take credit for your work, but I did think it would be awesome to make it a versioned doc that people could contribute to.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/be647549b757259e4732
Explain to me, a European citizen, sitting in Europe how I am protected against any of the same measures in the US? Forget GCHQ for a second, lets pick say... the Swedish FRA law, the Swedish Titan Traffic Database, the Denmark/Sweden DNS filter (some of the systems I mention have had little or delayed scrutiny from the outside). So how does any European court prevent that from happening in practise? How do these systems throw a spanner in the works?

It seems to me, perhaps I am a pessimist, that these EU systems mean about as much as the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in principle it should mean everything but in practise it means sweet fuck all. Trade treaties might have more weight but I think the US holds more cards than we do as far as that is concerned.
As far as visibility to the end user:
For those of us using something like Resharper, there won't be any digression between errors reported by Resharper and errors being reported by the compiler.

This also means that the general bar for building code analysis tools has been lowered by quite a bit
Interestingly, I just migrated my Sorting Visualizer off of GAE this weekend. Its kind of similar - more customizable, much less attractive: http://aarondufour.com/
I know someone who used to work as a programmer in finance. One of his coworkers liked to use creative placeholders in his email templates. One day something went wrong with the placeholder substitution, and a bunch of their clients received emails starting, "Dear ${rich_fat_bastard}". That guy's career in finance didn't last too long.
We agree that localization is super important. TextSecure is localized into 30 languages already. We use Transifex to crowdsource it: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/textsecure-official/
Telegram got 6+ million downloads in the first week: https://twitter.com/telegram/status/437743435395514368

While TextSecure still only has 100k+ installs on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcri...

Despite Telegrams known crypto failures: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1yrv46/after_gettin...

Hopefully iOS and Desktop clients help TextSecure take off and beat out the weak crypto apps. Multi-platform is critical these days for messaging apps.
Much easier to measure cost of floor space than developer productivity.
What are the specs on your dell server? If it's a p4 era xeon then gesman is right and you ought to put it back on ebay since it'll get smoked by even a mid end VPS.
This a million.

Is a desktop version in the cards?

EDIT: Yes, yes I can't read :D
I'm reading PeopleWare right now which deals with this issue at length and their conclusion is quite similar to yours.

In retrospect it's as simple as it's obvious: people should be allowed to setup their offices in a way that works for them.

Interestingly enough this all comes from the original patterns book, the one which concerned itself with actual architecture.

It essentially states that people should create their own space and that structure and order should only be imposed through adherence to shared general principles.

Many of these principles seem so simple and obvious yet are so often forgotten in practice, such as that the wall should be far away enough to give your eyes a chance to relax.

Another one was that the sounds you heard had to be similar to that of your own, which seems strikingly true in my own experience.
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Programmers are also expensive. If open offices are lowering their productivity, every manager in tech is penny wise and pound foolish.
Then you have sites returning 404s to Google spiders for illegitimate links once they've expired their use.
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Cryptographic hashes and signatures, I presume?
Seriously, this e-peen contest has gone on far enough. If you think this makes for an impressive portfolio project, think again. Copy cats are anything but flattering.
The biggest weakness of this kind of app is it still exposes lots of interesting data for traffic analysis. It's a huge improvement over what we have today, but I'd really like something where you can't see who is talking with whom (when, how frequently, etc.), as well as can't read the content.

Unfortunately doing this with mobile is really hard, due to bandwidth and power. agl's Pond is probably the best effort in the space so far.
Yep, all the source code is in the page.

view-source:http://luk3thomas.com/labs/gmail-archive-for-2013-20140224.h...

The hard part is parsing your gmail.mbox file from google takeout. You can use `egrep '^From [0-9]|X-Gmail-Labels' gmail.mbox` as a good starting place for finding the labels and dates for each email. Personally, once I had the data I stored that data in a SQL database and ran an aggregate query to count the emails for each label every month.

I'm sure there is a better way to do it.
There is a followup from the OP that is even more interesting: http://alexshvartsman.com/2014/02/13/fair-and-square/
> Now that the new TextSecure for Android is out, Christine and Fred assure us that TextSecure for iOS will be available in short order. The protocol includes support for users to have multiple devices, and Matt is working on a desktop client.
Third to last paragraph in the article state they are (or rather Matt) is working on a desktop client.
We are just talking about scrambling the password. You would still be using e.g. SSL/TLS or TLS-SRP for the transport. There's nothing "useless" about it.
Yeah, but to really honor him, the jokes should be funny.
It should be noted Textsecure is the default messaging app on Cyanogen which reaches 10 million devices.

We really need to encourage folks to use these genuinely secure messaging apps rather encryption fairy dust like Telegram
Damn. I wish this was native on the blackberry. I could emulate it, but SMS support wouldn't work - and I am not sure if emulating a secure system really is the way to go.
The only method not to be paid with?
That doesn't discount the fact that laying cable costs lots of money is a natural monopoly.
The chat is referring to the padlock icons on messages, which are closed.

The open padlock in the notification bar means that your passphrase is currently cached and anyone that picks up your phone can read your text secure messages. How frequently your phassphrase gets flushed and must be re-entered is a user setting.
Why are we so afraid of conflict in PR? It is just good storytelling.
That's the perception that was heavily pushed by the media, yes. From personal experience with three separate Occupy encampments in different parts of the country, I saw dedicated efforts in all of them to set up things like food distribution to the homeless, shelters, free legal advice and other amenities. Of course no one ever hears about that because it's easier and more enjoyable to trash subcultures instead.

This is not to mention the larger scale efforts to provide debt relief and outreach.
Which brings up the interesting question: What happens if someone is bold enough to blow up a US submarine that's spying?
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Based on my own non-expert personal musings on the subject, I would say that natural monopolies can and do exist in capitalism. It's just that under normal circumstances they would be difficult to sustain over a certain period of time based on several factors. Without some mechanic (often political) in place to prevent a new form of competition or technological progression from developing in the market, then a natural monopoly would likely be reduced by natural market forces.

If you look throughout just American history you can various examples of this. Big, strong companies that eventually fade away to disappear because of failure, lack of vision, or whatever other decisions that held the company back.

It's just that there is very few examples of a true free market, except for maybe on a local level, so that we'll likely never know for sure.
Lest people get the impression the C64 does not have 64K of RAM, I am here to assert that it does in fact have a full 64K of RAM.
Sounds like a shortcoming they're trying to rationalize away. Major warning sign, there.
"What has been your career path to this point?" - tells you their professional history, their startup background, let's you know what their comfertable talking about wrt the end of their previous companies.

I also use this question for larger companies, to get a feel of the calibur of potential peers.
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I think you have your wires crossed, I am just someone confirming the whole "you should dress down" advice - neither my london-based colleagues nor me (I don't even live in the UK) were living with the protesters during the occupy movement.
Also: I know my dissent in pointing out that gigabit internet for $30/month everywhere in the USA isn't going to magically happen isn't popular around here, but you shouldn't down vote something you disagree with.
Poll: Anonymous HN 
One of the biggest breakthroughs in social media is the concept of sharing something that does not add to your social footprint. Ephemerality is just one example, but DMs and anonymous posts also enable this. I can imagine that users might share something that they would not want associated with their personal brand especially in a community like HN (which can be at the very least judgmental). Do you think that allowing non-socially binding sharing can add to the value of the HN network?
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They didn't turn a blind eye, that is disingenuous in the extreme. The police in the US and the UK detained and incarcerated thousands of people over the course of the Occupy movement, often with disproportionately violent methods. In addition, thousands of dollars worth of communal property were confiscated or destroyed in the course of their raids against camps.
It wouldn't break the global economy at all. It would definitely have catastrophic consequences on the US economy though.
How does one, after a couple of startups, move to a hedge fund? What skills are they looking for? Any good reading out there?
GFY format bridges the gap between animated GIF and HTML5 video
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Well, there's not really any practical alternative. And I do think it being open source is much better than it being closed source, as long as people are aware that ultimately unless you build it yourself you can never be sure of the security inside (and even if you do build it yourself, you have to be sure there are no subtle bugs either intentionally or unintentionally introduced).
I'm not so much striking down the "regulated" part, as I'm striking down the competitive one. In most places around the US coax and twisted pair lines (that were funded by the public purse in the first place) were sold to private companies at hilariously low rates to then milk the market in perpetuity while you are required to get permits to tear up roads and run your own network cable. And of course in most places that could happen, the cable company lobbies to prevent it.

So it isn't competitive at all. Though it is honestly hard to be competitive with infrastructure - how would you go about having multiple redundant private highways going to the same place just to maintain competition so that one road doesn't milk toll rates and let the quality degrade because they have a monopoly? Honestly, the latter is happening even now with public roads because without any competition or monetary motivation states just let their infrastructure crumble.
Java/JVM developers still prefer programming using desktop-based IDEs
That is good point. We are in the process of refining the user experience and especially making that much more transparent. Initially we thought that having a stream of tasks would be more efficient. If we have paid tasks we always put that upfront.
"give out /64s to your clients (probably not one per VPS, but one per client)" - no, a /64 per VPS and a /48 per client is probably about right.
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Dropbox raises $325MM – SEC FORM D
Certainly. Right now you can use the order form and get your blog translated, but soon we will have more seamless integrations. Ideas welcomed.
How to teach entrepreneurial lessons to children
going through a bunch of articles hoping to glean some ideas as to how to pass on entrepreneurship to our youngest generation.

perhaps it's obvious, but i think teaching our children that failure is okay as long as a lesson is learned and applied next time is possibly the greatest lesson of them all.

would love to get additional thoughts on this.
> Is there any way to extract movie ratings vs time from your data-set? I've subjectively noticed a few patterns in movie ratings, and would love to see quantitative confirmation.

I'm not the OP, but I'm familiar with the data IMDb provides. The short answer to your question is: not easily.

IMDb provides a plain text dump of a subset of their data here: ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/misc/movies/database/ --- it's updated (usually) once a week. So to get temporal data, I guess you'd have to track it yourself.

However, diffs are provided for each data update: ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/misc/movies/database/diffs/

It looks like this could give you temporal data at the granularity of once per week.
Yeah, many GNU/Linux users tend to think UNIX == GNU/Linux, which couldn't be further from the truth.

Beyond the basic POSIX compatibility, there are lots of differences across UNIX systems, each has their plus and minus points.
It all comes down to the idea that if you the user have concerns with the app, you the user can take the approrpriate measures to verify, given enough time.
This is a difference of semantics. A significant amount of people understand that an MVP is the bare minimum to meet the specs of your project idea without investing significant time in maturing aspects of it that are not core to the functionality of the project.
Thanks! We hope so too :)
Almost lost me with the word clouds, but I'm glad I soldiered on. An interesting look at the patterns behind HN.
Looks very similar to Amazon's "Betas", even down to the first character.

http://www.amazon.com/Pilot-HD/dp/B00CDBX1PA
Coinpunk desperately needs more funding
> Granted, a large chunk of spammers know exactly what they are doing when they blast 1000s of links into a site, but what about the average webmaster? Or the small business owner who knows nothing about SEO and relies on a cheap "SEO firm"?

There was a cheesy TV show several years back about a group of con artists, I don't remember the name but they had a sort of motto that applies here: "you can't con an honest man."

What exactly is our poor innocent small business owner trying to do by hiring a cheap SEO firm? He's trying to manipulate the google rankings in his favor, and away from what's objectively best for the searchers. Maybe he doesn't know google has rules about or how exactly the SEO firm is going to go about, but he's not an innocent victim.
It appears that the news articles (Google News now reports 149 hits for the term "polio-like") are due to the following:

https://www.aan.com/PressRoom/Home/PressRelease/1246 (EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL 4 PM ET, February 23, 2014)

> PHILADELPHIA – UPDATE: The research study authors related that there are now between 20 and 25 reported, suspected cases of this polio-like syndrome. Researchers have identified a polio-like syndrome in a cluster of children from California over a one-year period, according to a case report released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 66th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, April 26 to May 3, 2014.

There's no reason to have a physical presence in California. For example, the writer might be on a mailing list for announcements from the AAN, and perhaps even access to the embargoed information. Make a few phone calls (including to the researchers in California) and the article is done.
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Yes, but they mentioned the option of letting people run their own servers.
They aren't developed in the open (they're opened up in certain releases), but the protocols themselves are open. The server software is proprietary, but the servers don't see any plain-text data.
Seconded. People are talking about a complete port of all the many messy pedestrian contracts of all day life, while missing out on the more practical opportunities programmable wealth has on offer in the networked digital ecosystem.

Bounty hunts.

Say, I am an activist, a revolutionary, or simply someone who wants the competition to go out of business. I want this website down, set up a cryptocontract that implements my bounty. People can join in and assign some more wealth to the contract’s escrow. The bounty will be transferred to whomever publishes his identifying key on the domain I want to see go down. Maybe I’ll include a clause that specifies an expiry date. Or I set a clause that such and such content should be published on the target domain. And so forth. Crowdfunded hacking attacks can become very soon very cheaply accessible, and consequently disrupt some very real-life existing social contracts…