skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Financial institutions provide value. not sure how you buy a house without a mortgage. Not sure how you come back from your house burning down without insurance.
> pretty unambitious like thin wrappers around CURL

That (specific example) sounds incredibly intelligent to me.
This is ridiculous. How can you trademark yellow color? America is crazy.

All these patents, copyrights, trademarks and other form of memes monopolization are only slowing down cultural evolution to the disadvantage for all of us. The cultural evolution work similarly as biological. If yellow color is good for users, let is spread. Then some company will most likely add small tweak that will turn into yet another benefit and better product. The society benefits. Whereas in current system only one company benefits. That is wrong because patents etc were made to benefit the society, not some greedy companies.
Question about PHP, is it the BASIC of the web dev languages? Easy to write terrible code, possible to write good code, derided by many, loved by many of the same (secretly).
^Lift gave us a really reasonable rate based on the number of people, the amount of time spent, and the number of weeks that they'd be poking at stuff.

They were extremely easy to work with, and very fast about getting stuff to us and verifying when it was fixed, and I felt like we definitely got more than our money's worth.

A+, would recommend, will hire again.
My bad, @zafka_studios The Musician from China beat me to Zafka.
> These all suggest that unit testing/TDD doesn't really add much to security protection.

I find it hard to believe that anyone would find that surprising. Security is a thing you either have in mind when you are working or not.
Laughing at the word sexchange is a little insensitive to people who have had a sexchange.

Transgender people have it tough. Give them a break.
No, zip codes are irrelevant. Whites and Asians dominate elite schools because they are wealthier and/or more focused on money. Black in general are not seen as "attractive" socially (if you look at the data from dating sites, for example), whereas whites and asians are disporportionately so (at least for the females). So, if you combine the social dis-advantages and the educational disparity, you get a very strong anti-black bias. Pretty simple to understand, but hard to fix.
You're not asking for a search warrant, you're asking to be allowed ('compelled') to look at a specific business record that groupA made but isn't accessible to groupB without permission of record_creater, UserX, or court order. Basically you're asking the court to say its OK to go around privacy or contractual obligations in order to investigate something.
I am well aware of the risks, and it was some hyperbole. Why would a small business adopt a new revenue stream that is riskier than credit cards?
I found it:

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/49797/web-application-...

I don't expect that it is illegal, since it is a religious organization. As others have said, it is legal for churches to refuse employment and services to non-members. It's offensive I suppose, and perhaps closed-minded, but not illegal.

Honestly, if your personal values are directly at odds with your employer's entire purpose for existing, how would that ever work out positively?
But it was informing enough for others (like me) less informed than you. Actually I knew about faster perception of time on insects and probably many other sparse details, but this article does its share to provide information in an accessible an attractive way. Give it credit for that (along with your criticism).
I think you're being overly sensitive. It's funny because it says sex, not because it's making fun of transgenderedness. People are easily amused by cis hetero sex too. Sex is funny no matter who is doing it.
Well it's not clear where such high level functions come from, but it's certainly progress. Making an AI as smart as an animal would be an incredible advancement btw.
Nice disclosure, and can't fault the npmjs team given that they commissioned a security audit as soon as they possibly could.

I wonder if the npm, Inc. team told ^Lift about the disclosed vulns before ^Lift's own audit completed. I can imagine being tempted to see whether they'd discover it themselves, to gain more evidence on how comprehensive the audit was.
They are more likely to have foreign accents, surely
C comes to mind.
I think his mind started from the common example of a weight sitting on a table. There is a force of gravity one direction and an opposing force of the table pressing up against the weight keeping it where it is. For a coaster that isn't inverted you can say the same, gravity pulls one way then the track is pushing the other way. He just forgot it is reversed once the coaster is upside down.
The only problem with your solution is that you are implicitly condoning and encouraging the behaviour.

Who cares if the OP is Atheist or not. What if the offended person is a Sikh or Muslim or Hindu? Does that change your attitude?

Saying I wouldn't want to associate with them is just as discriminatory. I have nothing personally against highly religious people. I am tolerant and would gladly work with them and have in fact done exactly that.
Doesn't 'financial institution' cover a pretty wide gamut? There are small institutions that exist in only a small town, to government owned entities, to giant businesses that span the entire world. Are they all categorically bad? What can be done to make them less bad?
The key here is to find out what the relation is between his "corrupted young" (ie. his students) and the thirty tyrants.
Thanks for the verification. But even a bit of syntactic convention won't be enough if python create a unnecessary binding.
Why is curing all diseases a good thing?
And yet he never addresses the "Why?" did this happen to bowling?

I suspect it is socioeconomics. Bowling is kind of viewed as a lower-middle class sport, and the economy has wiped the lower-middle class out.
I think most of you guys are missing a crucial thing here -- how decisions get made. Facebook had two options:
1.) Rewrite all the PHP code in Java/Ruby/C++/whatever
2.) Write HHVM/Hack/etc to transparently convert the existing PHP code.

Option #2 ended up getting a lot of publicity for the engineers. If they chose option #1, not only is it a lot of hard boring and possibly error prone work, there is no chance for any of the engineers to get the type of publicity they are currently getting.
All in all, engineers tend to work on whatever will make them get noticed, not necessarily the better technical choice nor what is in the best interest of the company... this is especially true in companies like Facebook and Google where there are a lot of very smart engineers doing relatively mundane work.
So there you have it Hack/HHVM are all just publicity stunts, the more you feed it, the happier their PR gets.
My burnout and me
I no longer work at that company. I often told people very honestly things like "I have respiratory problems and allergies" without naming my condition. I did that kind of thing quite a lot.

No, I am not overreacting. There is still more to the story and I plan on writing more in the future. If my point of view is not your cup of tea, it isn't exactly required reading. If it helps other people, good. I write in some sense for myself.

Thank you.
I think there's a flaw here in your assumption.
You're assuming that because a society is in the future, that they will be more correct than where we currently are.
However, there are societies that had atrocious human rights violations that linearly came after ones with comparatively less human rights issues.
Secondly, I think you're assuming a moral/ethical high-ground in those statements, but I don't think those are necessarily proven.
Pretty much anything saying THE CLOUD isn't the one true way of the world, and thanking the STARS Amazon Cloud and all of its features exist regardless of price (or any Cloud provider). I've done this a few times, even backed with financial data. Got down voted to hell.
I would assume it offends the OP like a job post for a White Heterosexual Male would make many people implode with rage regardless of interest in the job itself.
Jim Gaffigan has some interesting insights on bowling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5fm7QPA9zY
I think it's not "sex change Urgh weird and gross" but "sex change haha wow unpexpected".

A bit like PenIsland - or PenisLand. They get a lot of traffic from it.

I agree it is problematic if people are uncomfortable with the idea of gender reassignment and using that for humour. But then maybe that's a way those people use to get over those feelings of awkwardness and move to a place of acceptance?
Hello!, I have a few suggestions:

* This is linked to Twitter ID/Profile right? then why not add some ratio of following/followers to avoid spammy Snips?

* Add a "flag" for reporting unapropiated Snips.

I like the idea, it's devilishly clever.

EDIT: format.
Blog Post: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/82/dropbox-2048-save...
Against people who actually need sex changes.

I don't agree that it's bigotry though.
I once passed a microsoft store. It is a place of silent contemplation, where every once in a while a lone shopper will be stranded and forced to lay hands on a thousand surfaces before finding their way back from where they came.
I would think the most direct approach to exploring other animals' "experience of vision", would be to use the machine-learning algorithms we've trained to extract sense data from the human optic-nerve/neocortex, run them on recordings of other animal-brains, and see what we get.
It's a good thing from the point of view of the present. We may decide in another two hundred years that it was better the old way after all.
I can say those things only because the audience is HN and I don't plan to become a politician. The idea was to get people to think about what future societies would condemn us for, possibly even reconsidering their own views in the process.

I didn't say the things I can't say. I even said so. HN users would probably flag a comment containing what I didn't say.
Heh, you state the problem more concisely than I did, though we have the same objection. I haven't read that - it looks interesting! Saving for later, thanks for the link. Although the footnote notation seems superfluous given its location in your comment...
What is inane about the statement regarding corporations? Generally speaking, unless there is a significant level of government backing or subsidy for the research, corporations just don't engage in it. There are of course exceptions here and there, but most of even that research is hardly bleeding edge. It's mostly very conservative iterations on the original research done by the government (or with government backing). This is true in medicine, space, computer, and just about any other human endeavor one can think of.

Aside from that, your statement about a fully-reusable rocket may technically be true (I suspect that NASA actually has investigated a 100%-reusable rocket, but don't know for sure), but it is trivial and unsupportive of your point, since the concept isn't ground-breaking (the shuttle was completely reusable, even if the delivery system was only partially reusable) or even very risky, given the decades of research and engineering that the government has put into space rocket technology. That was, in fact my point. "Being conservative and risk-averse" is not synonymous with "never does anything new."
You're correct; the show did offer Ford Mustangs as a prize (in addition to cash), but not until 1964. Fixed! Thank you sir.
Not in the same way. I know the chairman of the Calguns Foundation (hoffmang on Twitter), who's also for HN purposes the chairman and CEO of a ~200-employee Silicon Valley recurring billing/subscription management startup. My understanding of his position, and I may of course have it wrong or be misremembering, is that he's okay with some form of background checks, perhaps via proof of backgroundcheckness, for ownership as long as you can actually own the firearm you want. He's okay with regulations on open or concealed carry as long as you can have some form of reasonable carry.

This is the opposite of the extreme near-religious positions of folks who want to ban guns. See Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein (CA) telling 60 Minutes she wanted an "outright ban" on all guns -- "Mr. and Mrs. America turn 'em all in" -- but didn't have enough Senate votes for it.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/01/Reminder-...
Clickjacking Defense Cheat Sheet
One of the big advantages (not really used in this sample) is conflict resolution. With a text file, if you make changes on two different devices while one (or both) is offline, you'd end up with a conflict and two versions of the text file.

With datastores, the changes are automatically merged according to developer-specified conflict resolution rules.
This seems to confuse social stigma and gender bias. Garbage (Bin) men are overwhelmingly male, so too are plumbers, and pest control, sewer-workers and the like. A comment like "good, I didn't want a son that wiped [shit] for a living" would apply to any of these fields, it seems without reference to gender. Quite the opposite, as dealing with such filth actually is something women quite avoid.
Objective Next
NP! it's not really a big deal, I'm just a mustang nerd. Great article.
Having a virtual desktop manager helps a lot, along with keyboard shortcuts to switch between desktops comfortably. For Linux/Mac virtual desktops are built in and for Windows there's VirtaWin.
You should actually be able to use the full Dropbox API from JavaScript. See https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-js and https://www.dropbox.com/developers/datastore/docs/js.
This is why I'm happy with Couchdb.. I can always replicate the dataset into my own BigCouch cluster if Cloudant one day becomes prohibitively expensive. The thing I'd miss most if I moved from couchdb to orchestrate is the ability to query the key/value store with map/reduce functions. I have to admit orchestrate's graph stuff is cool. For me the only way orchestrate would be a win is if it turns out to be an order of magnitude cheaper than a couchdb based solution for the use cases I care about. The pricing model is intriguing I must admit.. more so for write-heavy apps.

I love the concept, good luck orchestrate
OP here, nonplussed that his obscure blog suddenly is near the top of Hacker News.

First, I don't think that corporations are nothing but parasites, and said as much in the article. I did say that finance was parasitical. That was probably too strong. Allocation of capital is a useful function; the problem is that the allocators are helping themselves to a far larger cut of the proceedings than the value they produce (and I don't particularly want to argue that here, just wanted to clarify what I meant).

Second, the more central point about whether the Singularity Institute types are wasting their time and should refocus their thinking. It is true that not many people are thinking about the effects of superhuman AIs, and there's no harm and possibly some good in a few smart weirdos focusing on that, especially since corporations have been around and critiqued for so long.

However, we are so far away from producing anything remotely close to that level of AI, that I fear their work is ungrounded. It strikes me as fun quasi-SF rather than serious engineering.

But I take believe they are seriously interested in world improvement, so my suggestion to them in their work on "benevolent goal architectures" is to study how existing goal architectures work, that is to look at existing economic and social systems where disparate individual goals are coordinated into cooperative or conflicting action, and how the results are related to human goals and human flourishing.

For my part, I am in the process of trying to understand their friendly AI work better so I critique it from a more informed standpoint.
We told them as soon as we found out, because we needed them to go looking for the same hole in all of our code bases :-)

As part of the audit, ^Lift audited a lot of the third-party modules we use, and notified the authors of those packages separately (I'm not aware of the details, but I don't think there was anything major).
Nothing.

I don't moderate my posts without good cause, and even in those cases I tend to append edits instead of changing content--a practice both more honest and respectful of others.

I can count on one hand the number of posts I've deleted, only two of which were in poor enough taste that I felt strongly enough to remove them.

Your karma score, beyond a perhaps ten or so points, is inconsequential--if you write things that are worth reading, you need not fear reprisal. An individual post (or posts, or thread) may lose you a few or a few dozen or a few hundred points of PG Funbucks, but if you generally engage in thoughtful discussion it is only a temporary setback.

I believe it would be very much a loss were everyone here to self-censor because they're afraid of losing points in a token economy.

Think clearly, write carefully, and post fearlessly.
These are some lousy metrics to run a city by. It indicates how much they are doing, but not how effective they are. These metrics are glorifying the work the city does, rather than striving for a better city.

The best metrics are the ones where zero is the goal. Imagine, instead, if the dashboard showed:

* open potholes

* streetlights out of service

* buildings with graffiti

Then, instead of patting themselves on the back for doing so much, they might have an actual goal.
That's a good point, but things withstand the test of time until they don't. Slavery. Racism. Subjugation of women. Torture as entertainment. These practices were once as widespread as smallpox and polio. Now, they're as widespread as smallpox and polio.
I agree. I think that Jesse Jackson is indeed being ridiculous in what he is targeting. We should be investigating the systems that lead to a lack of minority candidates applying to work at these companies.. Namely, systems like the entirety of the criminal justice system with discriminatory policies such as 3 strikes or the war on drugs.
Hmm, I had a nagging feeling that pg's exit would end the golden age of YC and HN, with this comment I updated the probability of this hypothesis.
This is my point. Galileo didn't advance knowledge by his acts, that was already done (within the scientific community if not within the wider world) (And granted, he did advance knowledge at other times on other subjects). He attempted to use it to change the state by agitating large portions of the population using that fact.

I would even say he was not so much looking to change the state, rather to destroy it, becoming a sort of dictator himself, without any thought to what that would do. This he did after a few years of sending out letter that made it very clear he would immediately execute half the nobility and clergy if he did come to power. It didn't help that he had pissed off all of his teachers and environment with those letters. This is what his trial was really about, and of course it mentioned his rallying cries.Those were not the essence of the trial though.

Think about it. Suppose you're an autocratic ruler in the middle ages, in Italy. Everybody's writing letters, a lot of them calling for your throat getting slit. One more of these lunatics starts writing letters. Disturbing letters, lots of them. You ignore him, at this point, there's 100 others like him. Then a few demonstrations happen, led by him, with hundreds of people calling for your throat getting slit on the street. This is unnerving, but happens regularly, most demonstration leaders are never seen again, so, again, you probably ignore this. But if he manages to make the demonstrations grow, you've got to react. That's what happened.

Regardless if you agree with the second paragraph, he was not attacked because he claimed the earth rotated around the sun.
And seems like it is only for Macs.
That was certainly the intention.
World of difference. Eating animals has happened since, well, our first ancestors crawled out of the ocean.

Prisons are a radically modern invention, maybe more so than any other government institution. It's just they and their logic are so pervasive we don't recognize them for what they are.

See: Foucault, Bentham.
Why We Chose Keen IO.
I would recommend a "report bug/suggest" feature. Because when I dragged a Flickr image to the folder all I got was a header text on a white background (I think the picture has some restrictions for sharing...). It would be insightful to get these details from your end users.
PS: I like the intro tutorial.
PPS: I hated that I have to give permissions to post publicly to Facebook, or else the sign up process does not go through
I'm not. Marketing has a purpose like anything else. I'm more surprised and concerned by how few people commented on the fact it is relying on sites being vulnerable to clickjacking to function.

Maybe I'm just overly paranoid?
> Italy as Greece will never get elections if the results are not the ones the EU likes.

Nearly 20 years of Berlusconi says otherwise, along with the large proportion of the vote that Beppe Grillo got during the last election.
Clearly you're not clouded by emotion in any way.

No. I think you're an emotionless, unempathic member of a majority group who never really felt like your career, family, or friendships were in serious jeopardy. I sincerely doubt that you understand what it's like to see a loved one get psychologically attacked from multiple angles by a sociopathic piece of shit who thinks it's fun to break other people.

In a perfect world, weev would reform. In this world, I hope that he chooses you and your loved ones as his next target.

After all, if you're going to lobby for an evil bastard to be part of society, it would be best if the negative influence was limited to you.

Sadly, the worthless sack of shit that is weev will get out. And shitstains like you will support it. Because you know that he attacks people who don't look like you, and because you really don't care that he does so.
Thanks for your suggestions, hoping to get all of these sorted out over the next week or so :)

Trying to find open API's with quality content is a bit tricky though - so that could be the breaking of this project!
Do you have any citations at all or is this just a theory of yours? (not being hostile, would love to see a citation as this is a new theory to me)
If it's well-codified and settled then you'll have absolutely no problem providing a complete, and completely uncontroversial, version of it.
Previous discussion (1789 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=581050

Today's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7443420

Interesting.
Thanks for your suggestions, I wasn't aware of that crash, thanks for the heads up!
> Thinking in absolutes is never a good thing.

Isn't this an absolute though?
Certainly - and the way of showing it with the sliders is nice. I have a habit of pointing out problems instead of the good bits - usually because the good bits have already been acknowledged a few pixels away, you know?

I face this issue a lot too as a writer who has to take on complex science and make it understandable to a broader audience - something like quantum computing, for instance, or solar concentrator efficiency. It's difficult! And sometimes the details have to take a back seat. But with a lot of vision and cognition stuff I feel that fundamental concepts go by the wayside in order to make it more easily digestible. I think many people could stand and might appreciate taking it to the next level.
He does a bit. Bowling is far far easier than it once was due to ball technology.
Why isn't this pre-populated with examples that demonstrate the advantages of IGo?

EDIT: Oh, weird. After refreshing I now see it.