skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
KISS Trust is a company that offers revocable trusts for people. Someone on the MMM forum said that this company was a scam and warned others to stay away. That post made the first page of Google for a search for KISS Trust, and the company noticed. They sent a cease and desist to the blog owner demanding that he take the post down. He refused. Now the company is getting more bad press because of the legal fight than from the original post. It might have been better to create an account and respond to the original poster directly to resolve the issue.
I don't have time for philosophical debates, but did want to correct your spelling: Segway is the thing with two wheels that is going to revolutionize human transportation. "Segue" is the word you are looking for.
According to the blog post, they have restored the thread, however their database appears to be overloaded at the moment.
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/forum/investor-alley/kiss-tru...
This article is incredibly badly written and lacks any real thought about the matter. So he had one interview with some douche CEO and now jumps to the conclusion that:

>"Sadly, sexism is alive and well in my industry. "

>"Now I really empathized with all the women who were victims of assault or rape."

Fucking really?

I've been a developer for now over 11 years and must have met thousands of other devs from countless conferences and meetups. Only once, ONCE, have I ever met someone who made a women-bashing comment similar to what he is talking about. This is both infront of women and behind their backs.

The only real sexism prevalent in the tech industry are the groups of militant feminists setting up endless, patronizing, segregated "coding for girls" meetups.
Being ready for games doesn't mean games will come, just as U3 games haven't come (except for the one that hasn't shipped yet). Would be nice if Epic shipped one of their games; why haven't they?
Slight difference. Catholics & the Pope believe that once your born you need to be redeemed. But Marxists, in theory, claim once the oppressive economic system is gone you don't need redeption.
Well said. But I believe what you said validates my criticism. Marx didn't plan to take away everyone's everything.
The word shit is particularly poignant in that comment!
I highly suggest going the "Something Awful" route, and simply just making fun of the lawyer(s) in question until they stop.

People like this should be treated the way they act. Like children.
Without actual example of what he does wrong and how it should be done, your post has very little value to a reader like me
"The only real sexism prevalent in the tech industry are the groups of militant feminists setting up endless, patronizing, segregated "coding for girls" meetups."

ahahahahaha no try again
And, y'know, a lot of the "building stuff" was based on there being a legal underclass who had less rights....
The difference is not intent but use. This is the same with real estate: if I own a building to live in it, that's personal property, but if I own a building to rent it out or run a business in it then it becomes private property.
Can you describe a partition of two actors within the same thread? I'd guess this would be in some sort of logic failure state, where either the consuming actor doesn't correctly receive its messages, or the producing actor doesn't correctly transmit.
>I'm sorry, but that's just nuts unless you can point to a society - of any sort anywhere - that contains no anxious people.

Lots of them. Of course not all anxiety can be eliminated (e.g "I'm sick, what will happen to me?" etc), but there are societies with much lower levels of anxiety than others.

That's true both in the present (for example in studies were societies self-access their anxiety levels) and in the past (e.g in societies studies by ethnologists). Some tribal societies ethnologists studied could not give less fucks about anything.
reminds me of this game http://www.avalanchegame.org/
Where are you reading all that? The article says:

> at its best, labour offers us a chance to externalise what's good inside us (let's say, our creativity, our rigour, our logic), and to give it a stable, enduring form in some sort of object or service independent of us.

Note "object or service".
Also, Spreeder(http://www.spreeder.com/) has been doing this for quite some time.
Cats don't kill eagles, hawks, and geese.
Breathtaking UX for new Project Management app
Doesn't seem very innovative.
Only if you are just interested in texting. The sound support is outdated, unmaintained (and therefore, buggy) and has been for a while now.
Got a few interesting nibbles after posting on the who's hiring posts, but specific hiring submission didn't get far. We're based in Cape Town, so perhaps reader geography plays some part.

If you're in our part of the world, have skills in frontend development, java, or python, and you want to work at a fast growing mobile payments company, send me a mail (email on profile)
(full disclaimer: I work at Spark, and am personally responsible for the local cloud)

We will definitely be releasing this, we consider it a promise we made to our Kickstarter backers.
1. You should have confronted the CEO.

2. Since you did not do that, you should have at least posted the names involved.

As it is, I don't see the point of your post.
You make some good points, but games are a special case. Making something fun is not really that different from making it addictive. There's a huge grey area and lots of room for cognitive dissonance / rationalization among game creators. We've learned a lot about addiction, and people are not nearly as rational as they want to believe.

My thinking is that many of the people who are really passionate about making games have somewhat addictive personalities. I.e. there are some people who would just never stay up 'till 3 am playing a game when there's something more "important" to do, whereas game creators have turned this flaw into a virtue (and a career).

EDIT> I love games, and I have a great job making games, but I'm 38 and I now realize that I spent way too much time playing games in my 20's. While it is a matter of self-control, I do have some guilt that some kid is going to fail their Compilers exam because they'd rather play computer games instead of studying, like me circa 1995.
I'm also seeing this issue. Example, I died right after taking this screenshot: http://imgur.com/Egy49Kv
Live the way you want the world to look, and then it has begun to look that way.
I say if you work as a programmer using a laptop, then that laptop is a means of production. The usual formulation is that workers should own/control their means of production, so if you work as a programmer and own your own laptop, you are living in a small slice of communist utopia.

This probably is very related to how much nicer programming jobs are than most other jobs--as a programmer you are much less affected by capitalism than workers in capital-intensive industries are. I remember reading a pamphlet about the micro-computer revolution published by some British communist organization in the early 1980s. They analyzed programming as belonging to Marx' category of pre-industrial "craft" production, and predicted that there would be a push from employers to gain more control (by reducing programming to a less personalized, more commoditized activity).

I think several trends can be fruitfully analyzed from this point of view, e.g. UML-style software engineering methodologies, cloud computing, DRM, and app stores.
I'm positive that I didn't read at least once. As I get it, he means anxious of the time not twice in a lifetime.
Most fly with 8-bit Arduinos actually. Their power consumption is nil compared to the brushless motors.
Approximately 2296 days ago I started reflexively down voting anyone that starts a comment with 'I stopped reading this when X ...'.

If you didn't finish the article, then I don't think you are qualified to judge whether or not the author has a point.
Reminds me of Heidegger's concept of the "they self" as an inauthentic way of being.
"Rodriguez’s sentence clearly demonstrates the seriousness of his actions."

This awkward moment when the seriousness of the crime is judged by the length of the sentence. Reminds me of a typical Soviet (and modern Russian) "public process" comments like "He wouldn't has been sentenced if he hadn't committed anything criminal", "Our court doesn't just sentence for nothing" etc.
Only once, ONCE, have I ever met someone who made a women-bashing comment similar to what he is talking about.

I'm guessing you're not a woman. Now, I'm not trying to make judgement on the article either way, but I don't think you can really say "I've only ever seen sexism in tech once" when you aren't someone that actually experiences it.
"The only real sexism prevalent in the tech industry are the groups of militant feminists setting up endless, patronizing, segregated "coding for girls" meetups."

It's easy for this kind of thing to be completely invisible when this is your attitude. Sexism in the tech industry is alive and well, and there are a lot of good reasons to have meet-ups for both girls and women.

When you immediately start lashing out about "militant feminists" the second someone suggests that sexism exists, you're saying that our experiences are invalid and that you know better than us how welcome we are in the industry. It should be completely unsurprising that this does not make us feel welcome.
I say name some names. If this really happened at a company that sells products to women, I say it's time for a boycott.
But, the end product belongs to the person I was working for. It's still personal property?

>once you abolish private property, most versions of 'working for someone else' go too

How so?
Inbox zero is meaningless. It doesn't matter how many emails you have in your inbox; what really matters is to get to the important stuff first! So prioritisation is the key!
I'm sure this article will spark a serious, reasoned, and very civil discussion on sexism, which will include verifiable citations for all claims and absolutely no hearsay or strawmen.
The service economy is not safe from automation either. Self-driving cars and trucks, burger machines, automatic cappuccino machines, retail self-checkout lanes... The demand for labour is plummeting rapidly and it's all thanks to software.

Oh, and not even programming is safe. Programmers spend ridiculous amounts of time working on new tools and languages to automate the repetitive parts of their jobs and increase their expressive power and code reuse.
Slack's Growth – pmarca
Firefox - searching for opponent for over 30 minutes.

Chrome - finds opponent in seconds. Loses connection after 30 seconds - 1 minute. Buggy as all hell.

Your multiplayer code needs work.
It's also sort of wrong to talk about private property in Marx's end game. It simply doesn't exist. There's personal property (your residence, clothing, non-scarce items that may, coincidentally, be used in production like a laptop or hammer). And then there's the rest. The mainframe I mentioned, in a 1960s tech level communist society, would be a means of production. It's scarce, many people need access to it to enable their work, time will have to be coordinated on it. Your laptop, even if loaned to someone else, in a world with abundant laptops/computers is still your laptop.

If it helps, software in that world is not scarce either. It's freely shared because there's no copyright or license agreements. They'd be antithetical to that world's view.
Exactly. So much of the article is about capabilities with little context for how broadly it is applied. Even the "millions" in the title is just about the server capacity for managing the infected computers, and later they admit that the actual number of computers is an order of magnitude less.
While I don't agree with the CEOs statement, I think people should be allowed to hire whoever they want.

The trouble with this is that a set of biases can become near-universal.

I have the right to associate (or not) with whoever I choose. But if everyone (or nearly everyone) choose not to associate with people from a particular group, that is harmful to society[1].

So, there are exceptions made to your freedom of association. IIRC these exceptions only apply to companies with more than 50 employees, which seems a decent balance between "we're all friends here" small/family businesses (individual rights win) vs "you are a cog in a wheel" megacorps (the good of society wins).

[1] For example, I understand that people refusing to hire ex-convicts is a significant contributor to recidivism.
Or performing some useful function that can't trivially be replaced by menial robotic labor?
I think what is missing from the discussion so far is german work ethic. I am in awe of it. During work hours, people work. That's it. But when they are off, they are off. This strikes me as balance.

There is a BBC documentary called "How to make a German". I highly recommend watching it. After I watched it, I changed my own personal working style to be more efficient. It shocked me how much a difference it made. Since I am posting on HN during work hours, I can't say I'm doing it perfectly :p
How is it a crime on OSX and not on Windows or Linux. I'm not understanding your point.
Show HN: Tools, not rules for measuring browser runtime performance
That's a major point of the article. In his work you have a part in which he identifies the problems (eg Das Kapital) and another part which proposes a solution (eg The Communist Manifesto). In medical terms Marx made a good diagnosis, but a bad prognosis (as demonstrated by history).

I think it's important to differentiate them. Marx wasn't a religious prophet, you can take the good stuff and leave out the bad. Even he said in his later life that his goals could be achieved by democratic means.
How? I'm corrupt, and their are scavengers rummaging through the alley that runs behind the office. How do I leverage this poverty to make some sweet green? I've watched them dig through the trash, and they don't have anything, and they are just collecting bottles and cans for recycling. How do I profit from this?
> I'm sorry, but that's just nuts unless you can point to a society - of any sort anywhere - that contains no anxious people.

When we analyze the statements of others, we more or less always have to interpret their meanings before we begin the analysis. If we're careless about the interpretive step, as you have been, we can convince ourselves that we're responding to what they've said, when we're actually responding to what we think they've meant.

The author has actually asked, "Why are we all so anxious...?" Not just "anxious," but "so anxious." While the author took the extra step to call out the extremity of the anxiety to which s/he was pointing, your analysis would be superficial even if that were omitted. That is to say, you have committed two errors: 1) You have omitted the author's intensifier, and 2) You have equivocated on the term "anxious."

This is a very basic error, and one for which you should be personally ashamed to have made; Your entire analysis is predicated on ignoring the Principle of Charity, a rule of thumb which is in place to ensure that we all participate at least minimally well in conversations by ensuring that we at least have a shot at understanding those to whom we respond, and those statements about which we are alleging we have knowledge and something of import to say. In short, you have not done your homework. (Not to mention the compounding error of asserting a false dichotomy.)

A final explanation and exhortation to caution: While words have definitions, it is their meanings upon which useful discussion operates. "Anxious," in isolation, might be defined as "nervous about possible adverse outcomes," but the word was not used in isolation. It was contextualized in an utterance about the particular anxiety about the loss of livelihood--predicated on the very real perception of profound expendability--of people in a capitalist system. If you would still care to play, still care to participate in the discussion in a meaningful way, you will take another crack at your analysis that actually addresses whether or not systems that are arranged for the benefit of capital, rather than for human beings, actually create more existential anxiety than systems that are arranged for the benefit of people.

I hope this helps. Cheers.
Well, it would exist to the extent that DRM could enforce it.
Dijon: JSON wrangling using Scala's Dynamic dispatch
Without more details, this comment is not of much use than "random developer on the internet insults another's code".
This is something I would like to discuss a bit more.(not the job opportunity, but the responses) no email on profile. :) Please share if you don't mind me asking a few follow-up questions.
I've used Lua extensively.

I wrote a tool at work to do packet analysis in Wireshark which has a Lua API. I've written a couple of simple games using the Love2D framework. I once wrote an IRC bot using luasocket. I started to write a debugger which was an amalgam of C and Lua, but I've since abandoned that project (not because of Lua, but because I lacked the free time and the patience to support more than one object file format).

I also experimented with using Lua as a target for a Clojure-like Lisp dialect. The compiler is itself written in Lisp and compiles itself to Lua. I've written an Asteroids clone and some toys in Lisp and compiled them into Lua.

It's a very fun language to program in. The reference implementation is also small enough that you can reasonably expect to know its ins and outs in about a week. The C API is really nice; it makes embedding in C a breeze. LuaJIT itself has the best FFI I've ever seen: you can practically #include a C header file in your Lua and it just works.
It was a full Saturday and Sunday of work--about 12-15 hours total. A large portion of that was adapting to C# and reading up on Unity documentation.
The 35,000 accounts number was merely the total no. of accounts found from a sample of just 33 tweets. The real total number of bots would be a multiple of 35,000: http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-fighting-a-massive-bo...
Ehh - this is just my two cents with working on Kafka. When they say it's high performance, they really really mean. I have gotten very high throughputs on just 2 medium machines.

If you process that much data, Kafka is one of the last things which you'll need to scale out.
Running a Web Service as a Single Developer (Rails/Heroku)
As someone who has been a victim of sexual assault (rape) I would like to up vote your comment about a hundred times. The author apparently hasn't had to deal with the years of healing needed on so many levels. And yeah, it happens to men, too. By women.
Would you consider being a doctor a useful function? IBM's Watson already performs as well as a second year med student [http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2011/05/25/ibms-watso...].

Eventually, all jobs will be replaced by software or robotic labor. What then?

EDIT:

"Your Job Taught to Machines Puts Half U.S. Work at Risk"
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-12/your-job-taught-to-...
There are real applications where the GC limitations aren't a problem, but LuaJIT's addressing limitations are.

The one I've run into is using extremely large strings (hundreds of megabytes per string). I've encountered cases where LuaJIT runs out of memory, but standard Lua works fine (and is quite fast).

So while Mike Pall may correct about the behavior of the GC, the implication that this means LuaJIT's addressing limitations aren't a problem in practice is not correct.

Given LuaJIT's limitations (not just this, but also the more fundamental issue of portability), the defacto forking of the language is worrying...
Spacebars have a lot of "throw" to engage. I prefer not using spacebar for twitchy movements.
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Beyond basic survival, money's a tool that lets you avoid having to do annoying things or to deal with annoying people. What is annoying is deeply personal. So if pursuing the tool to de-annoy your life is more annoying than some threshold, it stops being worth it.
Also, for the kind of employee this is about, "your job is your life" is unlikely to be true, at least not in the meaning that you imply. "Your jobs are your life", in some cases is appropriate, not because they enjoy their job, but because there's so little else.
A box that is 6 units wide and 4 deep.
Piracy and stealing creative work is bad. But please, the Publishing houses, Recording and Motion Picture Industries are hardly saints, and often take advantage of the authors, musicians and film makers. An author gets his book published at the convenience of the publisher to fit retail schedules (and waits for royalties on that schedule), successful books, especially technical books and how-tos are re-written by contract authors. Musicians get terrible royalties, often once they’ve paid back the Studio's loan for studio time and costs. Movie extras, writers and staff often complain about treatment, and movies are released to a schedule consumers find inconvenient to fit old models, I’m thinking of HBO, cinema release dates and the DVD region codes. Much piracy stopped when people were able to buy the music on MP3 format, after years of failed DRM. Prince, George Michael, the drummer from Culture Club, unknown members of The Smiths, and I don’t know who else, but even established international artists struggle to deal with the faults of their own Industry. Actors complain they are not receiving DVD sell-thru royalties, or on-line streaming because their contract specified something different.

The whole lot is a mess of creative work being stolen, but not only by pirates.
> “Women are incapable of making the tough decisions necessary to run a profitable company on low margins.” - CEO of a Women’s Product Retailer

Frankly, I think the CEO was pulling this guys leg and wanted to see how he reacted when his buttons are pushed. That is a situation that frequently occurs in customer meetings and you don't want your rep to blow up in the customer's face.

That said, did you see the recent Swedish study of 125.000 companies that proved women-run companies makes 15% less profit?
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> You should know this about me. I don’t do well around alpha males.

Yeah, so the blogger can't deal with CEOs and other authority figures. Wouldn't hire him/her either.
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Well, HN isn't a scarce item in one sense, namely, anybody with a computer can access it from anywhere on the planet (except perhaps North Korea).

But HN is a scarce item in another sense. If I wanted to make another one, I'd have to not only code it up, but also attract the readers that HN currently has. That would be difficult.
I think he's the one actually offering the jobs: "with people I am offering them jobs" .
What if it's my personal property is valuable as a commodity? As in, what if I want to sell my home? I'm not sure the lines are so distinct. Even if they were theoretically distinct, I doubt that a legal system would fairly make the necessary distinctions.
> "Now I really empathized with all the women who were victims of assault or rape."

You interacted with a bad person or two and suddenly you're able to empathize with victims of assault and rape? What? Exactly how minimal is your understanding of those issues to equate them accordingly?
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True. I didn't think of this. However, DRM is much different than something along the lines of a patent.
Companies with a female CEO has lower profit margins
> isn't lithium more prone to failure on higher temps?

Has not been my experience that this is the case, a low temperatures its storage capacity is reduced though.

Typical props are ABS plastic or Nylon. I suppose you could make them out of a higher performance plastic but I appreciate that they are cheap (I replaced a number of them learning to fly my quad copter)