skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"[O]therwise you can kiss anything but the most trite (read: cheap to produce) pop music and plotless explosion-fest movies goodbye."

I'm not sure pop music is cheap to produce (compare the tech work and marketing and all involved in a band playing at your local venue with that at a ... um... Taylor Swift? is she still a pop star? concert), and "plotless explosion-fest movies" tend to be the most expensive movies - "2012" and "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" each cost 13 times as much as "The King's Speech".

"If people can't get paid to pursue their dreams, they have to shelve their dreams in order to get paid. Then you have one less author, one less musician, one less movie being made."

Most authors and musicians already do something else in order to get paid.

'Nuclear power plants "want" to melt down, dams "want" to break, influenza "wants" to spread, etc.'

When those things happen, hundreds or thousands or millions of people are harmed. When information spreads, hundreds or thousands or millions of people are enriched. We should find another way of rewarding artists than fighting an uphill battle to constrain value.
I was surprised to see their site is still up. Making the internet mad at you, doesn't typically end well.
... and Wikipedia is fine with it:

"This article appears to be written like an advertisement. Please help improve it ..."

WTF?
It got here, so I think the effect is already well under way :)
I've thought this for a long time. Ultimately I think it's that private enterprises must have a low appetite for risk. The only time you see private enterprises investing in fundamental R&D or otherwise really exploring, it's when they are either so huge that they have immense cash hoards (e.g. Google) or they are monopolies with guaranteed cash cow income streams (e.g. the old Bell Labs). The vast majority of private enterprises cannot risk investing in anything without a very high probability of return, and that means being conservative and doing things that have already been proven to work. (Or that are only a slight deviation from things that work, or that build on already proven tech, etc.)

Governments have immense disadvantages too. They are slow and inefficient and are absolutely horrible at taking things the "last mile" from lab prototype to product. Governments flat out suck at "shipping." Yet they have the ultimate guaranteed income stream -- taxes -- and so can afford to invest in "high risk, high payoff" R&D and basic science that might never produce direct payoff (but may produce large indirect payoffs later).

The optimum seems to be, as with many things in nature, a balance. There may also be third options that have yet to be discovered, such as innovations in finance that enable risk to be spread more intelligently.
Copyright, along with patents and trademarks, is not a capitalist invention. It's a privilege granted by the government. Without the government close by, individuals or businesses would not have the power to enforce whatever it is they're trying to protect. In a truly free market, copyright would not exist.
Someone made a song using Jeff Goldblum's weird laugh from Jurassic Park
Cloudflare uses it quite a bit with nginx:

http://blog.cloudflare.com/pushing-nginx-to-its-limit-with-l...

https://github.com/cloudflare/
Did you notice the one with the passport on top of the open macbook at left? What an odd and obviously staged element...

...Almost as odd as the dual-monitor Emma Watson workstation.
When (say) people explaining Parecon are in a fairly precise mood, they say things like "scarce means of production", and make examples that explain that you're not talking about laptops or pencils, if they're sufficiently commonplace. (So under Parecon, no one "owns" the scarce means of production — or you could say it's commonly owned — but you can own your laptop/pencil.)

[Edit: the intuition is capacity to oppress — the state or capitalists controlling means of production, in Soviet communism and capitalism, respectively. This is the motivating factor behind any such definition, given the context.]
"The biggest crime the 60's and 70's European socialist movement, was the failure to severely limit the average working hours" - TechieChan

I know most people, especially in a neo-liberal western society, would never give this a chance, but IMHO it's really life-changing. As scarcity is a virtue and many people still believe that worker's productivity in the secondary and primary economy sector is still of importance.

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.
Its a cop-out. If SV wanted to tackle the big problems, the legal costs of playing in D.C. wouldn't hold them back. Lobbying revenues for the top 10 firms in DC combined are probably $250m per year. Facebook could buy all the top players in DC for a few decades with what it spent on WhatsApp. Citing legal challenges is just cover for the fact that there is more money in sexting than curing cancer.
The cloud is the part of the network you don't have to care about. It started out meaning the Internet. You would draw a local network diagram, then a little cloud, then the remote network. You didn't care about who owned all the links in between, where they were, how many there were etc. People have been thinking about moving things "into the cloud" well before it became a buzzword. Moving storage into the cloud was easy enough, just make a network request to send or retrieve data. You don't have to care where the data is, or even who owns the servers. This is more than "the internet" because it includes servers and storage, not just the network. Moving computation to the cloud has been trickier - Amazon EC2 gives you a lot of flexibility but it's not very "cloudy". Wolfram Alpha or Google Drive spreadsheets might be a better example.
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But one of them doesn't say it's required. I can finish a level in Sonic without collecting all the rings, even though rings are a good thing.
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Individuals can infringe on patents too.
I just realized how much dirt my screen has.

On a more serious note, isn't this awesome? This is what the Internet is all about.
So then we should ban the torrent protocol, too?

Out of curiosity, do you support banning all guns, too? Because clearly people are dying because of them.
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It's right there with the "trickle-down" myth. The whole idea that that CSR[1] somehow frees companies from paying their share in social taxes and exempts them from regulations[2]; that the government controlled social sector and welfare could be privatized (at least in Germany there's something left) and social taxes and regulations could be replaced by voluntary CSR measures. It might work for a few PR-exploitable areas, but not everything yields a ROI high enough to please the investors.

If a company want's to do something good they should show it first through their products, trough the resources they are made with and how well they treat their employees.[3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_responsibility...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/business/media/comcasts-we...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7176028
I think you misspelled "circus."
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I was hoping this would be a payment gateway that accepts bitcoin.
You are right that this can be a major problem with the JVM and working around it can be a lot of work. But you need to consider what kind of system we're talking about in this particular case.

This is a persistent message queue for log messages. Messages are coming in sequentially and subscribers read them sequentially. It makes zero sense to keep tons of messages in memory inside complex data structures as they are not indexed or searched or analyzed.

So in this particular case it's not actually a workaround. It's just sensible design and I wouldn't do it any differently in C++ either.
I agree. These stories are very entertaining. There should a site for this type of stuff.
My favorite is still DejaVu (I mostly use the Bistream Vera portion) that strangely the article doesn't even mention. I like it enough and hate the way that most websites use fonts enough that I just use it for everything (I use it under urxvt also). I also set a minimum font size wich breaks a lot of things but is still a net benefit IMO. http://dejavu-fonts.org
> Curios how many people here actually use Lua?

I use it in games: http://infon.dividuum.de/

As a backend language in a geo game service: http://geolua.com/

And as the controlling language for a raspberry PI software: http://info-beamer.org/

Lua is pretty awesome. Fast, simple to include and expressive enough for my needs.
Will the original thread about KISS Trust be restored?
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Your sarcastic reply is actually the world today, and it's terrific.

I can use my phone to unlock a large number of cars within a few blocks of me and drive wherever I want.
New ringtone!
Ridiculing the parts of Marxism that are thought ridiculous by people who only know the popular view of Marxism was a very purposeful technique the author used to convince such people that the author is just as skeptical as they are, so that they could get people to read their (really great, I think) article about the parts of Marx' ideas that fewer people (at least Americans) are aware of.

It worked really well on me!
When an aircraft decompresses, the total pressure drops, so pressure sensors are just as useful as oxygen partial pressure sensors. There are pressure sensors in the cabin -- they are used to control the pressurization system, sound low pressure alarms and deploy passenger air masks.
Sorry, I got locked out of HN by NOPROCRAST shortly after you posted. Sorry I misread you. Cheers.
How am I using it incorrectly? I even quoted the dictionary meaning I was using.

There are other definitions as well. Do you mean one of them?

If you want everyone to have a 99% chance of finding free parking, because you like driving better than walking, then why can't I say that you're making a frivolous argument?
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Can we not be intentionally dense for a second? Obviously Marx wasn't talking about you personally as in whatever identity you (delusionally) think constitutes you. He thought there was some fundamental characteristic common to all human beings, so speaking of you as a generality makes sense within the framework, since as a human you'd have that characteristic.

But I'm pretty sure you knew that, and were just being difficult.
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I got a great job through the the Who's Hiring thread. The company that hired me said the signal:noise ratio from HN was about 50:50, much higher than any other method.
Looks like they might also need help scaling a website.
It's not about getting things done, it's about reliability and repeatability. When you deploy large numbers of nodes in a system you don't want little bits of state causing random failures. You want everything to be as homogeneous and clean as possible.
http://www.chillingeffects.org/
You can also use it to make fast web apps with OpenResty using this: http://leafo.net/lapis/
I really find problem that its hard to find where my friends eat. Good Job! BTW: what's your username OP? I want to add you.
I spent a couple of minutes scanning through their content, and I think the theme of the site is pretty clear: they analyze popular culture (people, media, consumption, and so on) in order to tease out philosophical questions and theories.

The reference to the Daily Mail is relatively simple. This website obsesses over the same culture, but for an entirely different purpose. As far as I can tell, it's not supposed to be an ironic publication, like the Onion or something. And I don't think they are making fun of the daily mail necessarily
Nice, Platoo said basically the same: A perfect society should be one where everyone can vote, hence everyone is a philosopher. Philosopher should own no property, the state should take care of their needs.

Is Platoo demented too??? And if Platoo is demented, who is not demented? Von Mises, Hayek, Friedman and Thatcher?
"We should find another way of rewarding artists than fighting an uphill battle to constrain value."

Trust me: if such a thing were found, every single artist would be all ears. Solve this problem and you're the next Zuckerberg.

Non-solutions include artists having to rely on charity, "they'll just make money touring," tip jars, DRM, and micro payments (unless they can be made incredibly seamless and low-friction).

But making an app specifically designed and targeted so as to impoverish artists is a dick move.
> Umm...depends on how hard it is to clean. Something we don't know the answer to.

We don't know whether the new curved cell phone screens will harbor more bacteria either. And we don't know if increased close-range tablet usage by doctors will subtlety make them want to focus less closely on patient sores. And of course we can make strong physics argument about why wifi is non-ionizing and so doesn't cause DNA damage....but couldn't the extra heat in the room increase bacterial growth?

> Second, I'm an infectious disease epidemiologist with a particular interest in hospital infection control, especially surface contamination mediated transmission. Asking questions like this is my job.

This isn't a personal attack, I'm explaining why I don't think this is particularly valuable to the thread.
What a well written article. It really brilliantly summarizes why you really would and wouldn’t want to be part of the current tech field. I’ve been trying to go from IT at a University in Canada to working for companies like Apple. So far no luck, I feel like I’m 5 years behind every gold rush. There are so many articles these days stating “California is full, if you want to live here, bring your A game and a million dollars if you want to live someplace."

"A few weeks ago, a programmer friend and I were talking about unhappiness, in particular the kind of unhappiness that arises when you are 21 and lavishly educated with the world at your feet. In the valley, it’s generally brought on by one of two causes: coming to the realization either that your start-up is completely trivial or that there are people your own age so knowledgeable and skilled that you may never catch up.”

This is a great paragraph, again showing the dichotomy of power and impotency. I feel the same way having learned iOS development on my own but not feeling particularly “hireable” without a degree or full-time experience.
Personal property laptop: You use it on your own.

Private property laptop: Someone else uses the laptop to perform work. You retain ownership of the laptop and the product of their labor.

It's a use distinction.
You obviously didn't get the point.
Except if you have a neighborhood full of nice row houses (almost historic by American standards), friendly local businesses, etc., then the "politics of zoning" by the local residents has tended to the status quo, which they seem to like. In that case, where would you be able to increase construction? People want to live in those nice neighborhoods, not some new high rise in a "redeveloped" area. So the newcomers with google salaries buy up and price out the current residents of those pleasant neighborhoods. This creates friction.

Why should all systems be designed for growth?
How is it going to that, serious question?
They seem to have a history of playing fast and loose with the law. See this thread on Bogleheads where forum posters discovered they took a forum member's post, put it on their site as a "review" with no link to the original thread, and had the gall to claim the text was "public domain": http://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=107952
Teams beyond a certain size seem to require some intermediate artifacts. (Bill Joy described an ideal-sized team to be the number of people who can sit comfortably around a dinner table: so 3-6 is fairly perfect for his definition.) It seems like small teams can just keep each other in sync with quick conversations. They seem to be able to keep the design and requirements in mind at all times. Maybe it's the scope of what they're trying to solve or maybe it's some residual overhead that larger teams create due to additional communication "friction". I'm not sure. It's interesting though.
Christian theology on Original Sin[1] varies widely, perhaps more widely than you are aware.

The commonly accepted view in the Catholic West (as opposed to the Catholic/Orthodox East or the Protestant West) is that Original Sin is the privation of sanctifying grace[2] in consequence of the sin of Adam.

In other words, it's not an inherited genetic disturbance; rather, at the moment you were conceived you were lacking in a spiritual quality which God did not gift to you in view of the disobedience of the first parents of the human race.

In any case, this could quickly get far afield from the bounds of an HN-ish discussion, but I did want you to be conscious of the fact that your notion of Original Sin may be unnecessarily limited to what amounts to a caricature.

[1] http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Original_Sin

[2] http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Grace#II._SANCTIFYIN...
Oh boy. HN, please stop posting an addictive game a day. This won't end up well. The bubble will burst, of all things, because of a sudden lack of productivity.
Means of production more has to do with scale. Software is extremely unique as an industry in that people can truly "produce" something by themselves - all other cases of self-employment I can think of are pretty much services, which is a whole other can of worms. A tech oriented example of a means of production that Marx would want run by the state would include any cloud service or datacenter. The average person simply can't afford to start one "on their own" without outside capital.
The option then will be simple:

Pitchforks or a Basic Income.
I think you should give the whole article a chance. It's about the dichotomy of tech industry and has more solid point of view if you read it the way through
different from what snapCard offers?
Another thing I was thinking about was if people had as many government recruiting requests come in their inbox/linkedin, if that would factor into more people in tech joining? It just seems like private sector throws more resources into keeping the machine fed with talent.
In original context those words are synonymous, so correction need not apply.
You missed the point.

s/real goods/scarce items/g
That's strange. If ever I tried to build a botnet with millions of nodes I'd surely be thrown in prison for years at least. Probably decades. But if I've learned anything in my short time on this planet, it's to always commit your crimes behind the corporate or government veils. Preferably both.

Edit:

https://prod01-cdn02.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/2014/03/ha...

Mirror: http://i.imgur.com/JbLqxAY.jpg

Fuckin' hell. I think we can consider the internet more than owned. More like bent over and pounded.
But this is exactly what I'm talking about. I've never been able to get a clear answer because so many people in this camp have to take it on a case by case basis.

So if laptops are plentiful, it’s personal property. I feel it’s safe to say that most developers probably have their own laptop. So if I hire a developer to write code on my laptop (which was previously personal property) is it now private property since it’s being used as a means of production?

If so, the true distinction between personal and private property is intent which is far from satisfactory if we're defining property. So many things I own today would constantly be switching between personal and private property based on what I was trying to accomplish at that moment in time.
Copyright is an obsolete concept that is no longer beneficial to society, and needs to be abolished entirely.

I expect this to happen in my lifetime, and people will look back on these days as a dark-ages where information was controlled and entertainment was not on a donation-only basis.

Copyright is like debt-collectors, the system only continues to operate because people keep paying. The sooner we all stop paying for content, the quicker the system will go away.
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You did the right thing, IMO. Silence is tacitly condoning the status quo. Be the change you want to see, and when you're in a relative position of power (like being able to turn down a job), do something.
I started using lua(jit) with nginx over the past year, with more work recently. The work by agentzh[1] with the lua nginx module and the openresty stuff was very useful. Being able to tweak the behavior of nginx with a full-featured programming language is very useful.

I just finished using it to build realtime stat tracking and a websockets server to display that data to web clients[2][3]. Additionally I've done some work with custom processing in a reverse proxy and handing case-insensitive URLs.

Overall I've found it very comfortable to use and fast, but a little more barebones than something like python. In my use cases, the speed and low overhead has been more than worth it.

[1] https://github.com/agentzh

[2] https://sublime.wbond.net

[3] https://github.com/wbond/sublime.wbond.net/tree/master/realt...
You raise a fantastic point, my friend.
Ask HN: What is the most secure way to thwart NSA surveillance?
With the endless wave of NSA surveillance covering just about every type of communication, is there a system that someone could use to communicate securely without dropping all major applications?

For example: use encrypted personal VPN, encrypt all text in Gmail, etc.
I have youtube html5 video on, and it only works on adless videos. This one, for example, doesn't use the html5 player.
Show HN: Haphead, a concept trailer for a web series I produced
Adding a dead link to a three-word sentence does not qualify it as "news"--not even if the sentence is true, which it isn't. I really wish I could downvote newsposts right now.
I was never worried about being a Marxist.
The X% from the link is not about performance of the demo, but about performance of asm.js: "In less than 12 months, optimizations have increased the performance of Web applications using asm.js from 40% to within 67% of native, and we expect it to get even faster". To me such number doesn't mean much, it most likely refers to some micro benchmark that achieved 67% of native performance.
I do the exact same thing. If the email is something I need to address, it stays in the inbox. If I don't need it, it's archived.

My work email usually hovers around 5-10 emails in the inbox.
Cool
But why the autorun can't get a win?
I also strongly disagree with the (white-washing) statement, that the working conditions at Hermes are purely a result of the logistic market!

There are other logistic companies that still have far better working conditions. So it is possible.

The whole construction of Hermes is made this way, that the conditions of the workers are bad and Hermes itself can wash their hands of it.
Even the small companies in between this "chain of irresponsibility" are complaining of bad conditions and many go bankrupt for Otto's billions.
'I'm working on it.Trust me: if such a thing were found, every single artist would be all ears. Solve this problem and you're the next Zuckerberg.

'Non-solutions include artists having to rely on charity, "they'll just make money touring," tip jars, DRM, and micro payments (unless they can be made incredibly seamless and low-friction)."

I'm working on it.

"But making an app specifically designed and targeted so as to impoverish artists is a dick move."

We have a commons for a reason. If I read "A Tale Of Two Cities" instead of "Twilight", I'm impoverishing artists - and artists can fucking suck it up.