skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is partially true ... but still promoting a b2b service on FB is always tough ... I see many of our customers with b2c products getting crazy conversion rates and spending more and more.
Before this I could at least pretend they didn't play ball with the NSA, I knew it was self deception but I'm also very lazy. Now they might as well hang a "Friend of NSA" sign in front of their building.
I downgraded my Pro account.
This guy's company helps people tweak their facebook advertising is rallying to promote facebook ad effectivenes. Not exactly an impartial voice.

And yeah, why not hop on the thread and get some SEO links of your own.

This guy is no better than the people he is slandering.
The internet outrage machine is highly inefficient and produces considerable less energy than put into it.
yeah, i clicked the link, took one look, and left
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This is exactly what top parent comment was talking about.

If someone from ideological group A dislikes something from group B and calls that out, then it's "discrimination against private views", and wrong and evil and "an ideological thing".

But if someone from group B calls out group A, then it's "documented actions" which are the cause and suddenly it's absolutely okay to lock group A out of polite society on those grounds.

Lucky for group B they have this absolutely objective, unquestionable standard for discrimination and intolerance, be it "documented actions", or whatever else is convenient at the moment. Groups A' and B' over a different issue can disagree all they want, and both of those views are acceptable in polite society, but if you're in group A then, by god, that's just not okay; that's objectively wrong!

It starts simple. "Racism is objectively wrong, and holding racist views absolutely means you should be locked out of polite society." Ohkaaay.... I can't disagree with that per se (which just goes to show how deep this problem goes). Then "sexism is objectively wrong, and holding sexist views means no CEO position for you!" Well.... I suppose that's a good thing, right? "Believing in God is objectively unacceptable." Uh, guys? "Voting Republican just shouldn't be allowed." And there you go.

I'm not saying it's a slippery slope we should never step on, because I've been brainwashed by society to absolutely agree with the first step—I've been raised to think racism is objectively wrong. Society is wearing away at my views on the second position; eventually I'll have to agree with that or go the way of the dinosaurs, and I know I will go with society, because that's what people do, whether we want it or not. But this is exactly how things like "Jews just aren't human" get started. Sure, it doesn't look like that now; surely discrimination against LGBT is something we should get rid of any way we can, right?

No. Intolerance will never achieve tolerance; discrimination will never achieve non-discrimination; punishing thoughtcrime will never achieve freethinking. To think otherwise is just, well... objectively wrong.
Mathematica[0] and The Wolfram Language[1] are two different things. The Wolfram Language is a sort of extension of their Wolfram Alpha service, which Wolfram itself describes as "Knowledge Based." Mathematica is still just Mathematica.

[0]http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/

[1]https://www.wolfram.com/language/
Well, withholding useful information from an employee can weaken the business as much, or more, than the employee. Given that business advantages are relative, that could potentially balance out. Conversely, the employees ability to work at will is an out-right advantage, so I'd argue that the employee still comes out ahead.

Additionally, these non-competes are often used in business where no meaningful additional data is shared, such as in the Dental field (e.g. they can't not share their clients with Dentists they hire, regardless of non-compete status). You may argue they would choose not to hire an associate in the first place, but then that leaves clients on the table for a new practice anyways. (empiric data would be a god-send)
They stopped using de-duplication some time ago.
Validity:

Issued On: 2/25/2013

Expires On: 2/26/2015

As its certification was issued before (well basically) yesterday, it is vulnerable by MITM attacks from having its CA key lifted from HeartBleed.
Thanks for that Tordvalds' gem.

As I can see now here in HN, a lot of people idealize the idea of Open Source to mean the stereotype of the current zeitgeist good side, when it does not.
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When I worked at Thoughworks there were several people who were terrible for this. Many of them senior. It significantly reduced my respect for the company and I left as soon as I found a good replacement.

What made it particularly irksome was that they heavily market themselves both internally and externally as being above such things. The cognitive dissonance really grated on me.
non-mobile link:
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They've always said they are aiming to target cheaper less powerful phones. Right now the bulk of the world is using cheap phones probably running Symbian or something similar. Whether they actually will be able to target that group is up for debate, but that's been their (stated) plan.
... But surely they prepared a lot of information to give to the WHO.

I agree that those materials were not glossy brochures and adverts with smiling mother and happy children, but those information packs are very definitely marketing and not just a dump of all the data they have.

That's partly why Cochrane had to struggle for so long to get the full data.
Thank you, I was trying to figure out how to say this. For far too long politicians have ignored ethical considerations when mapping out how to maximize opportunities in the private sector.
I'm excited by this too. I really hope Firefox OS gains traction. And the new screenshots look quite attractive. I just hope the Firefox OS team can deliver a unique OS with it's own distinctive design and interaction behaviour. One that doesn't clone behaviour from the existing (dominant) mobile OSes. Obviously there will be similarities with the other mobile OSes, but I think there is still scope for new ideas or even just simpler, easier implementations of common tasks.
"You can always just refuse to run any function compile time that has not yet passed termination check."

I don't understand this sentence.
I flagged it, as I flagged this. I imagine others did likewise.
Capitalism is an adversarial system. People forget that.
fwiw, i upvoted your comment as I thought it was a well written response that didn't include flaming or anything of the sort. The fact that it is negative shows a sad reality.
I'm interested in reading this article, but simply can't because of the insane nested format. Is this supposed to be an improvement upon a page of text?
</oldmangripes>
Throughout your comment you refer to "politics" as if we're talking about which cable tv host we find less annoying.

Rice was one of the architects of one of the largest human atrocities in the past 50 years.

It stopped being politics around the time that the first concentration camp was built in Iraq after the US invaded.
I've submitted code to both. I don't feel that there's a huge difference. (Although NSS has Wan-Teh reviewing, who is a great code reviewer.)
Never claimed to be better :)

But if you like to bash something based on data, at least let's do it with some reasonable data set
"Your comment and the fact that it's the top-voted"

I wonder if it is really top-voted.
Was it? How? I can't read into your head. I don't know how you got to that conclusion.

Is qualifying the present situation as a slippery slope central to my argument? What if the present situation is not a slippery slope. Is my argument false? It isn't:

One comment takes a long term analysis and tries to determine if we are in a slippery slope. The reply ignores the long term view and looks at the particular situation.

Looking at the particular, short term situation is ineffective for determining if we are in a slippery slope. (this sentence is the crux of my argument)
Or pull the dynamic parts in via ajax - I find that works quite well.
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The Dropbox threads are actually well reasoned and collegial. The 'flamewar index' is failing spectacularly.
For one, the wild recognition it has in the editor space. People have been raving about it, left and right.

Second, the fact that since ST2 he was able to hire a second person to help him with the business side.
Code Search is a better way to do Declarative Programming for non-optimized solutions. I've been obsessing over this topic for the last few months. Right now there's limited versions in a few places: Python's howdoi and Visual Studio's Code Search.

A true Code Search would work like this:
1. Type in your search term in your code in a comment line. i.e. "Bubble sort StampArray by name"
2. Google/Bing/StackOverflow searches for your string. Replaces your terms with generics. Searches for "Bubble sort [an array of objects] by [string variable]"
3. Takes code results and shows them to you. Replaces all instances of [string variable] with getName() and all instances of [Object[]] with StampArray.
4. You pick your favorite.
5. Your IDE adds the code to a "code search module" which you can edit.
6. Your edits get added to the search database.

The best part? You could even put your Declarative Programming engine -inside- of the Search just by populating initial search results.
What about better code coming to exist in the future, you say? Well, you don't necessarily have to keep the same result forever. If it's been deprecated, you can re-do the search.
I'm not touching this one with a ten foot stick. For me this is the perfect pairing of the Eich madness with the Bush years.

It would be funny if top brass at the NSA noticed this and decided to use it in the future as a tool to sow discord in the tech community. September 2014: Dick Cheney to advise Apple board...
It's an excellent term!

It does capture why I am surprised that content distributors have lobbied against ISP favoritism. I want to believe that Netflix wants an entrepreneurial environment like the one that enabled their initial growth, but I can't help wonder if their greatest threat isn't some new upstart, and why they wouldn't be in favor of a large barrier to entry, even if it costs a nontrivial portion of their revenues.
There is a rumor in the company I work for currently that an employee went to go work for a vendor of ours. That vendor was informed that if they wanted to stay a vender, they wouldn't hire that former employee. The former employee wasn't hired. This was all kept in phone conversations and voice calls, so it was hard to legally track.

Since that time, anytime someone leaves, no one...and I mean no one... finds out about where someone is going until long down the road.
Agreed that there are some UX rough edges here. Most importantly to me it wasn't immediately clear that the article commentary boxes could scroll.

Cool concept though, and I'm a sucker for discussions about autonomous cars.
> Luckily we elected the polar opposite to Bush, who turned out to do things pretty much the same as Bush.

This has contributed to my belief that our current political system has failed we the people, even though it is operating exactly as intended. I was fooled by Obama's first campaign but quickly realized he's no different. I don't know what the answer is but inaction is too boring. I'm trying to reduce the amount of money I send to Wall St believing that they are behind many of the gov's ills. I'm also trying to reduce general consumption as much as possible believing that the taxes we send and lobbying by corporations pumped into the federal government are also at fault. My goal is to see a drastically reduced Wall St and federal gov without blaming R or D.
The word is protest. It's a valid and useful form of speech. Not everyone wanted him out of a job. I don't even think that was the majority opinion. I only wanted to know that the new CEO's values lined up with the values of the company if I was going to continue using and supporting the company's products.
There are a couple of statements that have been proven to be unprovable in the standard axiom set (ZF). The provability of the unprovability of unprovable statements is not guaranteed, but happens to be true for many of the more useful axioms.

The most common is the Axiom of Choice, which if true is incredibly convenient. For example, the Axiom of Choice implies that all Vector Spaces have a basis, which makes linear algebra tractable. Mathematicians generally accept it as true because it's useful and intuitively true, but it does have some consequences that are intuitively false, like the Banach-Tarski paradox. We even have a saying: "The Axiom of Choice is obviously true, the Well-Ordering Principle is obviously false, and Zorn's Lemma no one even knows." The implicit punchline being, these three things are logically equivalent because each implies the other.

Other axioms that are independent of ZF include the Continuum Hypothesis and the Axiom of Foundation. The Continuum Hypothesis says that there is no type of infinity that is larger than the cardinality of the Rationals and also smaller than the cardinality of the Reals. It doesn't make a damn lick of sense for such a type of infinity to exist, but it's not technically possible to disprove it. The Axiom of Foundation, in very simple terms, disallows objects like "the set that contains itself." Such sets are not constructable in ZF, and are logically impossible, but they are not technically disallowed.

Using "stronger" axiom sets to investigate the properties and consequences of these unprovable statements is common. Additionally, many automated theorem-provers include several of the more convenient axioms that aren't included in "regular" mathematics.

More reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statements_undecidable_...

(Note: ZFC is ZF plus the Axiom of Choice; Choice is so damn convenient that the mathematics establishment usually accepts it by default, although proving that you don't need Choice to prove something is often seen as a worthwhile accomplishment.)
>I love that light gray text on a light gray background. Can't get enough of it. Super readable.

Well, it is to me. I can't stand too much contrast, it hurts my eyes.
The power of being challenged.
Why do we have to be amoral money-chasers if we don't want politics on HN? Personally, I come here for tech and code discussions, and elsewhere for politics and current events. I don't feel politics is particularly interesting and is most often off-topic per the guidelines, so I flag all of those.
Fine, but don't complain about people getting SEO marks when you are doing the same.
Is there more to the site than the five small PostIt-like paragraphs on a green background? Perhaps I'm missing something.
We're around if anyone has any questions
Oh, and for our friendly HN militants, who are coming out in droves to support the Iraq war:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/sep/17/iraq.oil

Occam's razor is your friend.
City streets will become safer, quieter, and more available to people walking, riding bikes, and enjoying green spaces.

New York's High Line park and San Francisco's parklets are good examples of what can happen when we can repurpose transportation spaces.
Out of curiosity, who is your VPS provider?
exactly. I dun even understand the love affair ppl have with DropBox. It's just a cute GUI over FTP.
Sorry that what the post remember you of. Was not the intention.

I'm the first to say that Facebook Ads don't work for everyone. And in advertising you should immediately stop spending on anything that don't have a positive ROI.

Still before stopping you should learn a bit how to use the platform and give it a fair try.

Then if it does not work ... stop it immediately and move on testing another channel :)
Clearly that hasn't been the case. All of the major tech companies leaders supported Obama (Google, Apple, Yahoo, etc). He extended the wars and significantly extended the spying on US citizens which is at least as bad if not worse than anything Rice did.

I think it provides incentive to not be a part of the bizarrely hated Bush administration. Since he's unlikely to be president again, it won't have any effect at all.
It's hard to believe that you say this with a straight face. Dropbox is an absurdly relevant company to the HN community. It is a tech company, and HN alum, highly competitive, and indeed a key example that people here look up to.

How Dropbox deals with ethics and political issues as it grows is clearly relevant to HN.
They didn't need an event. It's pretty well known that they had planned to invade Iraq for quite a while prior to 9/11. The reasons we invaded Iraq had little to do with 9/11.
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It's really surprising to me that no one has so far mentioned the EIR program for international students. While details are vague, it seems like Massachusettes is trying to set up an alternative for international students that want to start startups instead of being slaved in an H1B position. Really looking forward to this one
I don't, I've written in the post I envy them for the great outcome they had out of $50 spent in Fb Ads ... that's what marketing is all about, getting the most out of your time/money :)
Our company (Ambition, YC'w14) has thrived with this logic. Its really part of our culture & our philosophy for being a "cockroach" startup (aka stay alive long enough to build a great business).

Our HQ is in Chattanooga, TN. Many of our engineers interned or worked with Oak Ridge Nat'l lab while at university.

The majority of our employees are not from Chattanooga, but ended up choosing the southeast or midwest over SV - we constantly hear from amazing engineers/ designers/ sales people in Nashville or Atlanta (both ~ 90 miles away), as well as Memphis, Knoxville, Birmingham, research triangle (NC), and of course SV, NYC, Chicago, etc.

In our opinion, great people live all over the place for a multitude of great reasons. In our case, Chattanooga had A. excellent quality of life & B. reasonable cost of living. We still spend a lot of time in the Bay Area and have built an incredible network, but not every 10x engineer wants to live in SoMa.
That's growth.

So is cancer.

HN really isn't the place for political discussions. It's even in the guidlines[1].

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon

OK, yeah, they're fun in a way; and I've made the mistake of participating in a few myself (largely NSA stuff). But the thing is, there are plenty of other forums for discussing politics. There's no real reason for discussing politics here unless it has a specifically technical aspect to it.

Personally, I'd like to see HN get back to a focus on technology and business, and the intersection of the two. If the front-page were nothing but stories about Erlang, D, Javascript, acquisition announcements, new tech announcements, and "Show HN: Rate my Startup" posts, that would be a Good Thing, IMO.

[1]: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It'd be interesting if you could post an update about what happened, either here or in a blog post detailing everything. There are also people who might find such an account useful, especially talented developers who get involved with programs and people like this.
Dickish and credibility-burning I'd say. The reason that he's described as controversial and difficult is that some people still can and want to connect with him due to his technical expertise. If that repeatedly becomes subject to his whims, however, he might slip into what lies beyond "controversial and difficult".
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Ask HN: What are the most virtuous companies?
So, in the past few days, this has come to my attention: companies suck. Har, har.

Some companies purposely exploit their customers and clients (banks). Others have shady dealings with government and other interests (Dropbox, most of big tech?). Still others refuse to make money and instead loaf around on investor money (Quora, other startups with no revenue model). Most companies outside of tech treat their employees like crap.

What are some companies for which you can't dig up any dirt? I still hold Mozilla up to this regard, as a company, but I can't think of any others.

I don't want to set a hard minimum for size, so let's try to keep the discussion to relatively significant, notable firms.
Do you think I care about you not caring? Not in the least. Especially if you try to tell me not to express my opinion.
You are correct that this shouldn't be made a R vs D thing, since that completely besides the point. I agree with all other points you
> However, the ones who have good connections are not aware of the peering agreements his provider might or might not have with other networks[2]. Some might be even suffering from bandwidth throttling without even knowing.

In my case, Charter was simply oversubscribed, knew about it, and wasn't addressing the problem. I had a 100Mbps subscription, but the best I ever got (even with their own speed tests) was 65Mbps, and during primetime it averaged 30Mbps. I complained, explained that it consistently slowed during evening hours and bounced back late at night. They insisted on sending out a technician (who informed me that he wasn't allowed to run diagnostics that would bypass my connection and simply test the speed from the node). They replaced every inch of wire from the line to my house, and after they were done the speed was even slower. This was because by evening the traffic in my neighborhood had ramped up. Their techinican told me that they were fully aware they were oversubscribed, but they woudn't address the issue unless there was a complaint. Even then, they wouldn't fix the issue directly but would instead grease the squeaky wheels by offering a partial refund.
Also "free speech" means something specific: It means the government can't make laws limiting your speech.
It does not say I have to do anything to support that "right". As long as I am not violating another law (ie racial prejudice) I can fight or limit your "free speech" as much as I want.
That sounds like a very good reason to move those threads below the fold.

But in this case it would be nice to have transparency. DropBox is arguably the top Y Combinator success story.

Or else people will have suspicions it was flagged by moderators for other reasons. Disclosure and all that.
I've never heard anyone here not using EC2 over it? The tech scenes pitchfork mobs are wildly inconsistent.

You can't fight them all. Choose your battles wisely.

Any fool can criticize, complain, condemn,
and most fools do. Picking your battles
is impressive and fighting them fairly
is essential. —Dale Carnegie

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
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Bug bounties have proven successful in many circumstances.

Funding the bug bounty is one problem, but administrating and adjudicating it is quite another task.

Also at what level is the bug at the standardization level?
I know of at least one company (Microsoft) that goes the extra mile and stipulates in your non-compete that you must show every future employer the non-compete that you signed. It would seem like that is only in there because Microsoft has very intimidating teeth.

I also heard a rumor that when Google takes their talent, they send them down to the bay area for 18 months to dodge WA's non-compete friendly laws. But I'm a bit skeptical of that one unless perhaps it's a VP or something.