skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not sure I understand what's going on here, why are they being threatened legally and who is doing it?
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> He thought we should abolish private property. People should not be allowed to own things.

Marx had very little interest in discussing property or things. He called focus on property and things "commodity fetishism". Marx talked about relations of production - relations between people.

> It's going to war with human behaviour.

All humans lived communistically from the time of cave paintings, Venus figurines, advanced tools etc. of 50,000 years ago, to 10,000 years ago.

Go back to the time of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE - Japan, Australia, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa etc. are all still communistic hunter-gatherer tribes. People in New Guinea were living in a more "advanced" mode of production then people living 200 kilometers north of modern Stockholm.

If there was some genetic component of humans which made the recognition of rented property, interest-lended money, profit-extracting capital etc. some innate human feature, then we wouldn't have to be repeatedly told that how production and relations of production organized themselves in the past two centuries is normal, and any changes to that are "against human nature". Unquestionable, repeated, "accepted wisdom" of man's nature has been part of propaganda models for millennia - centuries ago priests and reverends would be telling us it is obvious man is depraved, man is sinful, only saved by the grace of god etc. When considered, it's obviously nonsense.
Scenario: I use my own laptop to do work for someone else. Personal or private?
I can't get through level 2.
Marc Randazza or Popehat would make quick work of this fool.
It's not necessarily a fetish for manufacturing as much as it is an aversion towards the service economy which we didn't need so much in the past but now have to work in because we don't have much choice. It's either that or unemployment. If you feel we have the means to produce all the tangible things we need, but don't feel the need for all these services... it feels very artificial and forced.

EDIT: To elaborate on my point, the article mentions the desire for meaningful work. I would guess in the past most physical objects are created to serve a very concrete, real human need. But many services seem to be about coming up with ways to convince people to part with their money, often just creating and then "servicing random desires." So such work might not feel very meaningful at all. Hence, having to work such a job in order to get money for the things we actually need (and are already capable of producing for everyone) feels very artificial.

Of course this is not strictly a property of services. Today we also produce lots of gadgets and widgets and nonsense that aren't in any way relevant to our needs.
I just downloaded PopcornTime. Take a look at the view I get when loading for the first time:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wbp576ynkmnlnlj/Screenshot%202014-...

There is a world of difference between the torrent protocol and this.
I've tried a few games where I do those exact moves with no human judgement and the score ends up quite a bit lower than when I 'generally' follow those moves and consolidate using my best judgement.

Another interesting test was to always play a clockwise or counter-clockwise pattern. The consolidation happens in the middle of the board. This method seemed to result in higher scores than the right/down/right/down pattern.
Light pollution affects bats' tropical seed dispersal
Cats kill more birds every year than wind turbines: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-06/u-s-eases-turbine-b...
First of all, the Christian theological vision of redemption incorporates a much broader view of humanity than one individual's salvation from damnation, it shares much in common with the Marxist view of the end of history in that it also puts hope on a stable everlasting peace and prosperity, where the "lion will lay down with the lamb".

I'm not advocating for Christian theology at all, but it would be foolish not to see the Universalist connections between Marxism and Christianity, they both have a vision for the "end of history".

So even if the Pope weren't engaging Marx on his own terms here, speaking plainly of a Materialist redemption, which it appears he is doing, his Christian theology would presuppose a good deal of shared understanding in Marx's hope for Utopia. The Church has a love-hate relationship with Communism that needs to be understood before their analysis of it can be cast by the wayside so easily.
APIs for everything.
Night Sky Panorama-Bonneville Salt Flats-3D Panorama
Google is encrypting search globally
67% native speed == 1.0/0.67 native processor requirement == 149% CPU compared to native solution.
That's a straw man. I see how you made it up for a joke, but it's still confusing. "Don't overengineer" is not the same as "stuff all your code into button click handlers".
Finally solved the damn thing!
> Tibet

Wrong. Everyone has been anxious about something sometime. Everyone.
I was speaking with a friend the other day about the hypothesis of a bubble. He was interested in my take on the matter. I said "Think about the big picture. I'm not talking about macro economics or anything like that. Think about where we are in the history of the world and civilization." The point here is that even if there will be dips in the market due to immediate forces, there is no doubt in my mind, and should be no doubt in anyone's mind that we are headed to a place where technology touches every aspect of our lives. When historians look back in 100-200 years they will laugh at the prospect that folks were worried that we're investing too much money into technology.
google cache of relevant MMM forum thread (removed):

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tMinWjW...
I don't know specific numbers, but the companies we've funded say they get good people from them.
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The code is super awkward, I'm pretty sure buggy, and unfortunately illustrates that the author has only a superficial understanding of Go idioms :(
Note: Ruby and Python have pretty nearly identical performance for most workloads these days. Other than that, it's an illustrative point - if what you really care about is execution speed, you should pick a language that focuses on it more. It's interesting that increased developer productivity is the classic trade-off for decreased execution speed, but that all these "my tests are slow" issues are basically decreased execution speed impacting developer productivity.
git-subtree can flatten the other tree into a single commit while preserving the ability to use all its other functionality, which is actually probably a space-saving measure compared to submodules when you consider that anyone who uses your repo probably needs to get the submodule anyway, and that means downloading that other giant repo in its entirety vs. downloading a flattened copy of it.
Mini-lives: How to see the world without taking a day of vacation
You're certainly correct, he invents ideas, puts them in Marx's mouth, then knocks them down.
I just bought Titanfall yesterday. I run this on a watercooled PC, dual GPU setup. I wouldn't have bought such a PC setup just to run at 60% of system performance.

I think Mozilla is marketing this wrong. Triple-AAA titles go for squeezing every last ounce of system performance. I don't think there is anything to be gained to putting a game like Titanfall, which has 5 gigabytes of assets (some UE titles are much bigger and need blu-ray distribution) inside of a browser. Long downloads, long startup, half performance.

But there is enormous value of running casual games with asm.js. Something like Clash of Clans, or Flappy Bird will run just fine. Pitching that asm.js is going to scale games from mobile up through desktop performance I think is overselling things and bound to lead to disappointment.

Rather than believe we're going to get Call of Duty running acceptably on Firefox OS. Let's first settle for CSR Racing, or HayDay.
ps. I'm all for free-lancers working 24/7 if they choose too. But for things housing/food/clothes/energy/internet/etc. 3 hours per 5 days a week should be enough all over our planet.

At my market wage rate, I absolutely could get housing/food/clothes/energy/internet working 15 hours a week. But:

- What I could get would not be nearly as nice as what I get for working anywhere between 2-4x that per week, which is a tradeoff I am happy to make.

- If culture or law made it impossible for me to work more than 15 hours a week, my contributions to society would be immensely curtailed. I do what I do because I'm damned good at it, and what I produce is of value to others (who pay a fair price for it). If I started writing poetry or running more marathons, I might produce some things for society I would not have produced otherwise, but in the aggregate society would lose out.

If a 15 hour work week became mandatory, unemployment might drop, and wages for those limited hours would likely rise, but the overall size of the productive economy would be horrifyingly reduced.
Red Hat gets serious about supporting container-style virtualization
Well, for now at least, they're not charging the extra 2% that snapCard takes.
It's clear that being anxious had survival value at some point of our evolutionary history. This is not necessarily the case anymore. In fact, I predict that the drawbacks of anxiety will put negative selective pressure on it, completely eliminating it from our genepool in a mere 300'000 years or thereabouts, if we're still around so long, of course ;)
What consists of a 'day'? Coming home from work or school and working on it until 10pm? Spending an entire Saturday pounding away at it?
Do we actually know anything about social structures in prehistory or is it just an assumption that people behaved like modern-day isolated tribes?
I was wondering the same thing. Is it just Twitter? The only thing mentioned is "the Internet".
I regularly (twice a month?) check https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs just to see what's out there. I'm not even looking for a job, just more interested in what startups are doing and what kind of employees they're looking for.
Hmmm, remove the :8080 it should be on the standard port 80
Mastering the scope of the directives in AngularJS
it's to avoid people having to go back in the level to get coins they thought were 'good' but optional.
Ken Popehat (http://www.popehat.com/) might be worth contacting. Even if he can't help directly, he might know someone who can. He's about the closest thing the internet has to a folk superhero in law; he has a "Popehat signal" (http://www.popehat.com/tag/popehat-signal/) he uses for a "call for pro bono help for online folks who get threatened with bogus censorious lawsuits" (http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1aokls/iama_federal_cr...) and he got involved, at least twice, with a university-area bus company that has tried to silence criticism on Reddit (http://beta.slashdot.org/story/185659).
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Uncrate redesign
Do you not think that there is clearly something wrong with humanity. A quick glance around the world shows that we are positively evil to each other. I think we are also good, but there is immense suffering in the world. You can be an atheist and think that there is something wrong with human beings. Non Christian folk for millennia have a rich tradition of seeing something wrong with human beings:

Oh, the torment bred in the race,

the grinding scream of death

and the stroke that hits the vein,

the hemorrhage none can staunch, the grief,

the curse no man can bear.

- Aeschylus, from The Libation Bearers
You might like to try httpie in place of curl:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/httpie/

For example:

http --body https://news.ycombinator.com/news | hxnormalize ...
There isn't that much substance in most blog posts / articles I read online. Of course, I wouldn't use this to read "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach".
It doesn't matter if you're likely to win if you can't afford to litigate.

> it shouldn't be that hard to find competent lawyers willing to work on contingency to take meaningful patent case

Yeah, that's why it happens all the time. (hint, it doesn't).
Agreement needed prior to approaching potential partner for side project?
I have an idea for a small SaaS product. I've done some initial market research and the field looks promising (in Midwest terms, maybe not in Silicon Valley terms). I've created some mock-ups and wire frames and I think it could be a great side project that -may- have the opportunity to make money some day.

I have a friend who I would like to invite to partner up and share the coding work. Since the project is merely thoughts and sketches right now, there isn't anything to really protect (ideas are a dime a dozen, execution is what matters) but since this project has the -potential- to be profitable some day, is there any type of agreement or paperwork I should have both of us agree to before bringing it up to him?

I have read so many stories of founders getting burned by not having the right paperwork in place and things getting ugly when the stuff hits the fan. Does the fact that we wouldn't be actively seeking to make money initially mean there is no worries?

Just want to get my ducks in a row before I end up being the next cautionary tale.
Leaving aside the question of redemption, which you have to expect from a Christian, the insight about the error of discounting the human nature is very profound. It is the bane and doom of many government policies, not just Marxist, but regulators which have nothing to do with Marxism and probably just want to make some things better. Unfortunately, they frequently forget about the human nature and incentives they create, and all their designs invariably unravel and lead to unintended consequences, sometimes just burdensome and sometimes disastrous. Christians treat it as freedom for evil, from which humans need to be redeemed, but however you take it you can not fail to recognize humans are free to behave in ways that you don't want them to and can not predict. Failure to recognize if goes way beyond Marxism, unfortunately.
Jerks exist in the world. Frankly I don't see the big deal. It's clearly not a company he (or many other people) would like to work for. That happens a lot. Interviewing is a two sided process - the company has to like the candidate, and the candidate has to like the company. So it's a case of the candidate not liking the company. Surprisingly, even among men, not every man likes every other man.

While I don't agree with the CEOs statement, I think people should be allowed to hire whoever they want. If somebody doesn't want to hire women, so be it. There are companies that don't want to hire men, too.
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This kind of silly shit is much easier to say when you're a member of that racial or gender group that more people want to hire.
> the modern, deep-specialization economy means it's impossible to hire if you limit your search to people who made the life decision at 12 that they wanted to be an packaging technology specialist.

Cherry-picking that example, no, but I can cherry-pick counterexamples that at least practically require early specialization: professional athlete, medical doctor, admiral, and politician. Many of these specialized professions are not coincidentally highly compensated.

Without getting caught up in details, I think it's fair to say some career paths are also lifestyles and the result of years (or decades even) of goal-oriented career choices.

But you're right that there's more choice than the article lets on. If career variety is important to you, there are career paths that allow a lot of it (like entrepreneurship, software engineering, and business management).
in principle yes, right now I use xlib to capture key presses, which is probably not available there, but it should be easy to replace that.
Nice, I've been trying a bunch of these things recently (my bookmarks bar now has OpenSpritz, RSVP and squirt along with 2 chrome extensions) and your extensions the nicest implementatiion I've found so far. (partly due to https errors with the other bookmarklet approaches and partly due to nicer design). Thanks.
MMM is in Colorado, which does have statutory protections against SLAPP [1]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publi...
As a mainly backend developer, I just signed up for the book, realised it didn't contain too much, but links to the tutorials. I had a quick read. and I would say it would be more accurate to call the title "One Javascript game per week". I got a bit excited thinking you could produce that sort of game using just HTML5.

Hope I don't sound overly critical, as its a cool game and I appreciate you posting it.
ROFL, yes - "hide the sausage" has quite a different meaning. Though you could argue that rebasing is, um, hiding the sausage with history.
I do not know, who ever came up with the idea, that voluntary CSR could replace social taxes and regulations, but in my opinion, that is nothing else as neo-capitalistic bullshit, again!

Those that believe in it should go to the worst areas of England and into the slums of the US and see what the results are. England once was one of the wealthiest and best to live in countries of the world. Now, after Thatcher, it is just a hollow carcass, cankered by neo-capitalism. What is left is the reign of the bankers, leaving some tips on the desk for the underdogs.
Apologies for contributing to this going even further afield of the bounds of HN-ish discussion, but I can't help but point out the relevance of one of the big points from the Council of Trent. The Church argued in favor of the idea that original sin is passed on through "propagation, not imitation." [1] That is, original sin is passed on from generation to generation rather like a disease, instead of from children simply imitating their parents.

But although this "disease model" of sin can sometimes be a useful theological model, as you say, it is most emphatically not a genetic disturbance or a true disease in the medical sense of the word.

[1] http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s2...
A podcasting manifesto
Tim Berners Lee AMA on 25 years of WWW and its future
I occasionally did some game development with it, now I'm writing a toy IRC Bot with hot-pluggable plugins, sandboxing and other fun features: https://code.hackerspace.pl/q3k/mun/ (you can talk to it on #hackerspace-pl on freenode, it's called moodspeak).
small increases in wpm can be easily achieved by beeline[1] it without the drawbacks rsvp has.

[1]>http://www.beelinereader.com/install
You still use it on your own, so personal.

Anyway, once you abolish private property, most versions of 'working for someone else' go too, so this is somewhat academic.
Wait.

You mean the Pope -- the leader of the Roman Catholic church -- believes in the Catholic interpretation of the doctrines of grace and of original sin, and bases his world view on them?

I am shocked, literally SHOCKED, to learn this, anonymous internet person who is playing at not understanding the source of the quote in order to launch nit-picky off-topic jabs about religion.
Author ought to have mentioned the name of the company--otherwise, it's just more vapid hearsay. If we don't know who was supposed to have done this, what does it matter?

Morever, this quote got under my skin:

"Now I really empathized with all the women who were victims of assault or rape. To me, this was equivalent to videoing an assault or rape, doing nothing to stop it and later claiming you didn’t have a part in it."

That sort of comparison cheapens the suffering of those people; it's hyperbole of the worst sort.
If it's a newsletter they are sending you legitimately (ie, you signed up for it) then you should not be marking it as spam; just use the unsubscribe link.

Marking emails as spam can have a negative effect on the company and, if they didn't do anything wrong, you shouldn't be hitting them with that.
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>Few ideas have been more thoroughly discredited and rejected by history than those of Karl Marx.

Actually no. USSR and the "really existing socialism" states had little to do with the theories of Karl Marx (besides the basic lip service paid to it).

If you want to discredit Marx's theories do it based on what HE wrote (that's his theories), not what others did afterwards.

And arguments from economists that work as policy makers (instead of as objective scientists) and whose models and proposed policies have failed historically in every single case they were enforced do not count much.
What is this? Reddit comment section? Is it so hard to understand what that sentence means?
In the medical informatics field, where privacy is a federal mandate with significant penalties attached, a lot of work is being done with trust-based secure email gateways to popular email platforms like gmail & yahoo. One company I know of, and am not affiliated with, is called iMedicor. Hoping this thread gets a lot of great responses, starting off with this small offering.
The more I read about this stuff the more I realize there are a lot of ways to manage things that fall entirely outside of the actual software that does the management. We're going into the muddy waters of "best practices" but it's interesting to read about different implementations.
> If a 15 hour work week became mandatory, unemployment might drop, and wages for those limited hours would likely rise, but the overall size of the productive economy would be horrifyingly reduced.

Nope. It's 3 hours per day, per worker. And when I saw worker I mean the lowest paid salary in an economy. So if you wanna keep an shop open 24/7 you might want to employ more workers or pay the long hours.

I get you are in the IT sector which pays above the lowest established salary.

However, my reasoning above, was about whoever choses to do so. Today you don't get that choice, you're either up or down. I'm with, doesn't cut for me... But I reckon that a society which doesn't give that choice to the 90% of it's population will have to face some level of social unrest. So since, we have the technology, and work equals food, we need to at least make sure that people have food with a minimal effort.

ps. Think about a mother with 2 children that needs only to round up the house income. Three hours per day is good, while the husband could work for more...
Not true:

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2013/11/26/chrome-an...
The reverse exists, too, and I am pretty sure there are enough companies who want to hire women to give all women in IT sufficient choices.

What do you suggest - should the CEO be imprisoned? Disallowed from doing business? Go to brainwashing camp to set his brain right?

It's easy to get angry about such cases, but think about what you want to achieve.

Perhaps he had some bad experiences with women. It's unfortunate, but perhaps it should be respected if he doesn't want to work with women. The opposite way, women not wanting to work with men, is being cheered on by the "good people" all the time.

Also, in recent months I had lots of interviews where I didn't get hired. So what is it to me if certain groups are more likely to be hired? Even assuming it is true - it didn't help me that I am a man, the companies still didn't like me.
Tibet has people so anxious about the state of their society and distance from their spiritual leader they're prepared to pay a middleman several months' income to help smuggle them through mountain passes out of the country, or set themselves alight, not to mention everyday concerns about poverty or the nice girl from the village not paying them much attention.