skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Nonsense" indeed.

This reminds me of the time when Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" was popular advice for entrepreneurs.

BTW, quoting Wikipedia: Under the bushidō ideal, if a samurai failed to uphold his honor he could only regain it by performing seppuku (ritual suicide).

I don't think I want to do this should my company fail the code of honor.

Also, samurai were beholden to a master or lord. I don't want a boss. That's why I started my own company. Yes, there are the rōnin, but those were undesirable.

Picking out the things one likes from a philosophy doesn't mean that one embraces the philosophy.
I think the issue isn't family farms, most small farmers take their job seriously. The issue is big conglomerate farms that don't want their industrial processes to be aired and criticized, much less have people discover practices that produce tainted and diseased products that might kill people. It's easier to control the fallout when things go bad when there are no pictures, such as in lawsuits.
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Are you saying a cow in heat does not imply consent? If so, what standard should we hold bulls to when they "immorally" act on that signal? Or are you suggesting that rape is okay, so long as it does not involve humans?
I just watched two BBC programs about the Great War (WWI) [1] and the similarities between that episode in history and this one are chilling.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think we will have WWIII but the way the pieces are moving on the set (at least so far) is eerily familiar.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-r...

EDIT: in case people as for details, the most obvious is the treaty that Belgium and UK had entered into which became the casus belli for the UK once Germany invaded Belgium.

Today there's the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances [2] between Russia, the USA, and the UK and Ukraine of course.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Security...
"I lost money with Mt. Gox"
I didn't mean to belittle the parent. "My house" was his example. His argument obviously wasn't that he is living at a farm specifically, but that private property should be protected in general, which i whole-heartedly agree with, but doesn't really support his stance on privacy laws that concern farms only.
They have no chance of winning. Putin will not stop until he gets what he's after, he's a power dictator. When you play by the rules you get beaten by someone who cares little for nice rules.
> Freedom of movement and capital has been a giant leap, and something no other region in the world has achieved.

I agree that it is a giant leap, but disagree that no other region of the world has achieved this. India and China have larger populations than the EU. And, the USA has built itself on having decent freedom of movement between the 50 states, and has far fewer barriers to that movement.

I take it that your comment refers to border patrol overreach and note that even Schengen (EU border agreement) allows border patrol up to 50km past the border.
It may sound like a rhetoric question but it is not.

Why is the gov. banning filming? What's in it for the gov.?
Text of law: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2014/S1337.pdf
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I don't understand what you mean by "thuggery" here. Can you explain?
Mediabattl
Mediabattl is a fun way to share the media (videos, images, sounds) you like and to organize battles around them.
Battles are fun competitions where people can vote for one of the two opponents of a battle and can comment the battle.
What rules? Is there a rule that says if you have enough guns and people and can storm the parliament you can usurp a democratically elected president?
I consider myself a far left liberal and I certainly don't condone abusing farm animals. However, taking a paying job under falsified pretenses with a made up resume and then spending your working hours secretly filming internal operations for future public release with the sole goal of harming your employer, that is just sketchy. If you believe in the cause so much that you call it war - well understood. But protected behavior? Bullshit. This behavior should have risk of consequences.
Isn't it a bit hypocritical that the US should tell Russia not to get involved? We had no right to go into Iraq, for example.

If an entity is able to exercise political power, and there's an advantage to do so, then it seems inevitable that the entity will always do so.
You can cherry pick all of you want (i.e. your own business). How about Spotify? Why did people in Germany and the UK have to wait years after Sweden already had it (when the technology already existed)? Whereas Rdio in the US was able to tap into 350 million people right off the bat.
They didn't win Georgia, what makes you think they will be able to conquer Ukraine, a much larger country? At best for Russia, they'll manage to turn Ukraine into another Syria. But they'll never conquer it.

The question is, what are Russians going to do with a Syria-like Ukraine? This whole action seems rather pointless and like a very emotional decision, rather than a rational one.
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Comparing 25+ countries vs 1 country makes the point.
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It is not protected behavior. Laws like this bother me because there are already ways to go after these people (fraud, falsifying documents, etc...)
Nothing will happen. Ukraine now is even deeper stalemate than it was two weeks ago.

If they enter open confrontation with Russia, they can kiss their chances of EU integration good bye. The last thing EU needs now is to take side of a country in an open war conflict against Russia.

If they stay clear of a military conflict, but try to get into the EU, Russia will just hike gas prices, tax or close their imports and Ukraine will be a deepest financial butt of its entire existence. Again, would EU be even slightly interested in getting Ukraine on board? Rhetorical question.

Ukraine is a strategic buffer between Russia and EU. Russia won't let Ukraine go. Period. Therefore, Ukraine has exactly two options - stick with Russia or split into Western (Ukrainian) and Easter (Russian) parts. But then, if they split, then most of the industry and resources is in the East, so Western Ukraine will again come out free, liberated and utterly broke. Its chances of getting into EU? Slim to none. Whichever way you slice it, they just can't get into EU.
One side will say that what's in it for the gov is millions of dollars in campaign contributions from big agriculture.

The other side will say that bad publicity for their dairy industry will hurt the state's economy and cost jobs and tax revenue.
From Wikipedia [1] , in the 60 years prior to WWI (1854-1914), the following wars were fought within and between the Great Powers in Europe:

1. The 1863-4 Polish Rebellion (in the Russian Empire).
2. The 1866 Austro-Prussian War.
3. The 1870-1 Franco-Prussian War.

And this is not counting assorted wars between Great Powers and smaller countries (e.g. Prussia against Denmark) or civil wars in smaller countries (like Spain).

Seriously, Europe's come a long way. There have basically only been the Soviet suppression of uprisings in Eastern Bloc countries during the Cold War, and the assorted Yugoslav Wars. Not perfect, but not too shabby.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe#19t...
Answers to questions they won't answer:

Will you get your Bitcoins back?

Most of the time when a company has "unfulfilled orders" as they enter bankruptcy what happens is that what ever is left is divvied up. A company rarely has Zero Assets. In the case of MT. Gox they likely have about $4M in assets that will be sold to cover those who are owed something. Depending on who you ask that could be a few billion to a few hundred million. So let's make the napkin math easy and say they owe $500 Million and they have $5M in assets, every bitcoin you had would be paid at a penny on the dollar.

Will anyone go to jail?

Most likely not. Mt. Gox claims they were wronged, not that they stole your money. If that is true, or a bug caused them to lose your money it would be the same as if a bank was robbed prior to FDIC insurance (if they were robbed) or if the bank just invested poorly. They didn't do anything criminal. They were just stupid. Prior to FDIC putting your money in a bank meant if the bank failed your money was gone. (FDIC insures you up to $100k in a bank, but does nothing for Cryptocurrency). If Mt. Gox was a Ponzi scheme that would change this answer, but I don't hear people saying that.

What should you do if you want to get your money back?

Make sure that you are named at the bankruptcy hearing. Yes, that may mean going to Japan. If you lost $100k or more it may be worth going. There will be tiers of payback, and those who were most injured will get the most back. Someone who lost $29 is likely going to get nothing, ever. But if you lost $1m you may be able to get 10% of that back. If you lost more than $100k you may want to sue Karpeles out side of bankruptcy. While the Bankruptcy protects him from being sued for losses, it doesn't fully protect against negligence. He has personal assets. You need to talk to a lawyer about this, as the rules are complex, and your losses would have to be near catastrophic, because this would be a punitive reward, not something based on debt.

Can you sue the VC's?

Only if you think you can prove that they knew Mt. Gox was doing something illegal, that the public didn't know. Bankrolling Silk Road wouldn't count for example.
Not saying you're wrong but there are many issues with "democracy" in states under Russian control. Yanukovych's main opponent during his first stint as a presidential candidate was "miraculously" poisoned. Federal units within Russia that are clearly against Russian rule regularly give 100% of all their votes to Putin during "democratic" elections (with turnouts reaching above 100%), and so on and so on.
A little off topic, but I wonder if Hum was developed using Meteor.js?
> We had no right to go into Iraq, for example.

And look at our great respect for sovereignty of the governments of Libya and Syria, neither of which was any more democratic than the current one in Ukraine....
If it's in the public interest and exposes crimes and fraud then it's not as bad.
Of course it's hypocritical, but it's also US news, which is the point of view of US. What's bad for Russia is good for US.
Argh, should have been GHW Bush.
You know you can make things warm again with a microwave oven, right? ;)

Seriously though, there are people who will gladly eat pizza every day. Just because you don't like it (or maybe you just don't have any quality pizza restaurants nearby), doesn't mean it's a bad idea.
I'm pretty sure that most countries, when invaded by a foreign power, would mobilize their armed forces regardless of what the odds appear to be. Defending a nation's frontiers is what armed forces are for.
> All these women do is shake their butt or breasts all over and try to sell sex.

Men sell sex just as much.

> You think men are pigs for ignoring the fact that you have a good brain in that head and just staring at your chest.

Women stare at mens bodies as well, you know.

> amount of respect that you get will be far greater than today.

I think most people respect those who deserve it. Never in my life I did respect women just because she is women and never did I respect men just because he's men.
When you can only build a small number of apartments you make the most money building luxury ones. But:

(1) If we allow more building we end up with as many luxury apartments as there's demand for and developers switch to building more affordable ones.

(2) When a rich person moves from wherever they're living now into a luxury apartment that opens up their previous apartment somewhere else.
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Surely trust is an insurance issue rather than a technical one? However secure an organisation may seem on the outside things can always go wrong.
After they deported the original ethnic group, the Crimean Tatars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tat...
> If you don't watch the video yourself, how can you trust a description to be accurate, and then form your own opinion on whether such acts (and undercover filming of such acts) should be illegal?

What are you talking about? I explicitly said the description is too vague to make meaningful conclusions about.
You assume they will come out. More likely everything will be sold. The value of the sale will be put in a pot, and that will be dished out to those owed money. Those most harmed will be paid first.

It is very unlikely Mt. Gox will ever reopen. It is unlikely anyone with less than $1000 in losses will ever see more than $20.
The oldest rule in the world:

http://www.dict.cc/german-english/Faustrecht.html

Doesn't make it right, but we're about to see it in action.
> dumb suggestion .. defeats the entire point of having JSON in the first place

No. Json's mission is to be a wire protocol. You're suggesting using it for other purposes, and in a way that compromises its role here as a wire protocol. It's not intended to be a multi-purpose serialisation format.
If the majority of the people agree that they no longer want the elected president to be their president and he does not follow this request, they definitely have the right to remove him. What I don't know is if their was actually a majority in the Ukraine.
Disgusting. For those that thought Comedy Central brought you alternative news (which I actually did during the Bush years) in the form of The Colbert Report and The Daily Show should now know if not already that they're both just talking heads paid for by the mainstream media apparatus.
> They didn't win Georgia

Hahaha... so cute. Your TV simply forgot to tell you that Georgian president was replaced shortly after that farce of a war and Georgia is now again Russia's best friend and ally. They won big time. They will do the same in Ukraine, just give it time.
Sure, there are these problems with Chechen region (not Ukrain). But the last presidential elections of Yanukovich, because of the 2004 fiasco, were extremely closely watched by very many groups and were internationally acknowledged as legitimate.
I think what's alarming to me is that these actions by private citizens are necessary in the first place.

If the problem is as widespread as the article seems to imply, then I think the industry should be more proactive and formally implement measures (such as allowing third-party but sanctioned "undercover" inspectors) to identify and address these abuses.

But the cynic in me already suspects why the industry would never go for something like this voluntarily.
I wonder if there's regret in Ukraine now that they removed their deterrence capability[1]? Can there be any doubt that this wouldn't be happening if Ukraine could use nuclear weapons as a last resort?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Ukraine
It's beyond sketchy. As the "producer" of such a video, you can edit and cut it any way you want. You're effectively using the trust given to you from somebody to make a political propaganda video damaging their interests.

EDIT: I've massively changed my comment because, after thinking this through a bit, the real problem here is that this is a political stunt masquerading as some kind of news story.

Husband beats wife, it's a crime. He should be punished. Neighbor sneaks into house, taping husband beating wife, then publishes it online as part of taking apart husband's run at mayor, it's still a crime, but it's also a political stunt. The two are not mutually exclusive.

So my response here is complex: bad workers get trained, dairy industry gets punished, activists get supported for First Amendment rights to publish -- then punished for invading private property and fraud. It's definitely a mixed bag, and not the good-guy-versus-bad-guy story AJ seems to want to make it out to be.

And yes, there's no doubt the state legislature is protecting the dairy industry, but if this surprises you, you haven't taken a close look at the regulatory state we've been happily creating over the past 50 years. Most politicians would argue, either on or off the record, that this is exactly the kind of thing they get elected to do. This is their job.
As reprehensible as the abuse was, this not a First Amendment issue: farms are private property.

It's the same way you can throw someone out of your house for saying things you don't like and they can't claim their First Amendment rights are being violated.
Funnily enough, the PLT group is working on a new language for education called Pyret http://www.pyret.org/. It's not very similar to Scheme, it is very similar to Python.
Here's a command to download from zippyshare without using the website.

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Putin Declares War (On Ukraine)
Of course you can't prove breaking and entering if that is not what was done. "Can't be secured" means only that they want a large space free from scrutiny without paying to properly secure it.

This is like legislating to make URL modification illegal 'hacking' and justifying it by saying programmers are too expensive.

If our society wants people to have stronger protection for large unsecured areas, they it should apply to all such areas.
This is very cool, but could we please stop calling things a tipping point? The tipping point for 'tipping point' was when Groupon stopped being thetippingpoint.com. Since then it's just been shorthand for 'change is happening'.

Could we please get a more interesting metaphor?
I am reminded of Thucydides, writing nearly 2500 years ago.

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/melian.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melian_dialogue
Where does Stata fit into all of this, and why is it never discussed on HN?
They don't. You don't know if they do. The majority of people who voted for Yanukovich are the people in the east, pretty far from Kiev. It is THOSE people, in Crimea, and the rest of the east, who are not acknowledging new Kiev revolutionaries. It is the act of allowing this revolution to transpire, as opposed to a democratic process, that is really inviting war and division.

If they waited a year and then elected a pro-Western president, none of this would have happened.
If I stumbled upon you committing a crime in your rape dungeon, recorded and made videos of it public, I would fully expect negative consequences to come my way. For one, the victim probably doesn't want those images shown to others. It seems to me that the more logical course of action would be to report you to the police and let them deal with it, not try to shame you in public.
It's not obvious to me that what you describe is a better way. The two approaches are not mutually exclusive and what I described is not about charitable contributions. It's about actual business processes and business decisions, which are difficult to argue should be made using votes.
I don't understand IE7 : if you have it, it means you are able to upgrade from IE6, so why not IE8 ?
So, you also spy on your personal best friend then?
The Android browser is the new IE:

http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/android-browser-eternal-dying
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Let's skip 10-20 years ahead, ok? The march of technology cannot be stopped. I've always said that terrorism is a problem of technology. Now we see the surveillance state is as well.

The truth is that vast troves of data on people are any organization's crack, whether that organization is an a corporation, a government agency, or a local law enforcement agency.

Good luck taking the crack away. If you think the war on drugs has been ineffective, wait until you try making organizations quit as others are smoking up.

Look around, Hacker News. Embrace the inexorable march of technology. It is our time to disrupt these products with new ones and turn it for good, but wishing it would all stop is more suited to luddites.
I don't think they want all of Ukraine, just the Crimean peninsula. Socially and geographically, this is a different situation than Georgia, where ethic Russians are a small minority and the borders are large as opposed to a relatively small choke point on the peninsula.

I think they will pull this off unless massive international pressure comes to bear on Russia AND they decide give a damn about how the world feels.
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The FDIC limit is now $250k. It was originally raised as a temporary measure in fall 2008, but the higher limit has now been made permanent.
No, my entire argument is about convincing people that events like these are sexist events and does not belong in an equal society. My experience is not that people have prejudices against females. My experience is that people rely on prejudices to exist in order to make sexist events "ok" or even "good".

Maybe female founders inspire women which is completely fine and maybe almost all the other founders events would qualify for a "male founders" event. But it doesn't change that there probably is a lot people that want to attend and being recognized not welcomed since they have the wrong gender which is kind of the core of sexism.

My absolute main point is that sexist events are not ok whatever you like to dress it up as. My second main point is that I felt the sexism my entire life and every time it happens it disgusts me and if it continues I am afraid that I will become very sexist myself even if I'd like not to. I am seriously afraid for it to come to a point were protecting my interests means being sexist to people that did not have anything to do with the sexism inflicted on me.
My theory is that most of the comedy shows (The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, etc.) make jokes out of showing the opposite end of extreme viewpoints or stories that show up on news. You might be laughing at the absurdity, but you're more informed.
I've read that surprisingly many rape victims experience orgasm during rape (which makes it even worse for them afterwards). Would you claim that this also implies consent?
Also, looks like you have quite a naive picture of how insemination actually works. Usually there is no bull involved only a vet with a shoulder-lenght rubber glove.
Now, does the process of getting bull's semen also count as sexual abuse…
I actually think that the notion of "consent" is stupid when tried to apply to animals. We will just twist it however we think acceptable. Cows don't consent being milked or killed for meat any more than they consent for sex with them. I'd happily accept a simple stance "yep, we do use and kill you, we just try our best not to make you suffer more than needed" over militant stupidity of "animal rights" activists.