skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many "hackers" fall on the conservative right-wing side of the political spectrum, but this sort of personality doesn't tend to self-identify one's self as a "hacker" even if they share similar technical interests.

For years, Slashdot has tended to attract the more straight-laced conformist breed of hacker, and (at the risk of stereotyping) they tend to have steady, reliable engineering jobs at large established companies that do a steady business. This is not to say that Slashdot doesn't attract a broad readership, just that, in particular, that subset of hacker does seem to be present there and missing here. Mostly, because you'll find stories there, that they can comment on, with first-hand experience, which, for whatever reason, don't seem to catch on here on HN.

A good example might be a story about nuclear engineering, and you'll see comments from experienced nuclear engineers with military backgrounds and security clearances comment on nuclear engineering articles on Slashdot, that you wouldn't see here on HN, because in many ways that field has absolutely nothing to do with the startup scene. I'd still regard those people as "hackers" though.
To get behind the paywall, simply Google the title.

I still don't get how Google doesn't nuke the websites that do this into oblivion...
Actually, he doesn't even write that much about it. Apparently his decision to go to Berlin was made after asking 'his well-traveled friends' what they would suggest.

The rest his him praising himself...
You might also find something useful at http://bit.ly/webrtcwebaudio. PeerJS is a library oriented to data exchange: http://peerjs.com.
And political aspirations tend to wither away when one starts working with the occult.

You realize how significant and how insignificant one is. And as well, you focus on the betterment of oneself and your environment. Political energy and fervor seems at best tertiary. There are much more important things, like finding oneself.
I've heard that carbon fibre is meant to be stronger than steel, so if you crash it does it break? What's deal with carbon fibre objects
I'm an IT pro and avid reader of HN and would consider myself a conservative libertarian (basically an Orthodox Christian whose views are more dictated by that than any political party). I'm pro-2nd amendment (actually pro all amendments), anti-abortion (will qualify here in almost all cases), both of which are considered right-wing, but I am also anti-capital punishment (again to qualify in almost all cases), and support the legalization of all drugs (even though I don't personally believe in inebriation as a moral standpoint), both of which are considered left-wing. I think we should lesssen the size of government, the mass of laws we've accumulated, and generally keep the government out of our daily lives. I think our tax code needs reforming and may even be in favor of a flat tax (although I'm not sure on this one). I believe in capitalism over socialism, but still recognize that it's flawed and am keenly interested in learning/exploring other economic systems, just so long as their underpinnings are based in freedom. Hope that helps to shed light of at least one reader's politics!
Nice try, Jeff Bezos. Do your own research ;-)
This article is a vacuous, patronising, self-aggrandising ego-wank.
Once this exploit has a logo and a GUI then it becomes serious.
Samsung Launches Industry’s First Tizen Smartphone – the Samsung Z
Dude, where's my car? New leccy BMWs have flimsy password security – researcher
Google's users don't see the paywall, so why would Google care?
A lot of subcultures have a certain amount of perceived homogeneity but it doesn't necessarily mean that internally their views are homogenous.

Since there are particular talking points that we are biased to signalling on in a technology/startup culture, we're more likely to being perceived on political axises linked to these talking points: surveillance, regulation, capitalism, freedom, anarchism, etc.

However, this doesn't mean that we don't also belong to our respective local communities and have views which we do not disclose to each other (for reasons of lack of interest and not just self-censorship - though yes, some groups have membership rules which involve affording others the perception of seeing members hold particular political positions.)

A completely subjective point that I'd like to make is that for various reasons those of us that identify with hacker culture are prone to disliking social/organisational structures and norms we perceive to be stupid, and also many of us enjoy intellectual exercises/displays. This probably gives us some deconstructive and fringe tendencies with the kinds of politics we associate ourselves with.

I personally find a few of the views expoused in the neoreactionary movement insightful/useful/evil/good and I enjoy reading their deconstructions. I think this is a reaction to my previous leftism. It's not something I necessarily agree with, it's just my need to deconstruct and elevate myself over everything I once believed in. I'm not trying to denigrate myself here, I see something similar in everybody and as I write this don't really feel the need to seek a holier posture.

Outside of my own signalling subcultures, my politics is actually one of diplomacy. I have a couple of principles relating to empathy, sociology/economics, long-term thinking and the acceptance and good treatment of others positions, emotions, characters, and roles. I will side strongly on the side of anybody that I believe is towing the line on these principles, but otherwise prefer to acquiesce to whatever configuration social reality is enacting.
The goal of Facebook for users is building a social network and on the corporate side leveraging that social network for monetary gains. Mutual friends lowers the barrier to connecting the social graph.
I should watch that movie, could be amusing. However I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I don't think the study reached a conclusion as to how many children someone might have, merely that the sperm quality was higher/lower.
Even though I know it's a dupe, I'll upvote it every time.
> Examples of things you don't want to do if you want to keep your data intact include using non-ECC RAM

I'm planning to build a (Linux) development workstation soon and was intending to run ZFS on at least a proportion of the disks in the system, if not the whole thing. But building a workstation that supports ECC appears to be ridiculously hard and expensive - most of the Haswell CPUs don't support ECC. Can anyone point me at a sensible CPU/motherboard combo that's comparable to something like an i7-4770k/Gigabyte GA-Z87MX-D3H?

(As an indication of the state of the component market, pcpartpicker.com doesn't support searching CPUs or motherboards by ECC support, but it does allow you to search by what colour the motherboard is!)
two conflicting rules - one dealing with the importing of flowers, and the other dealing with navigating riverways

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_%28Factortame_Ltd%29_v_Secret...

The 'normal' resolution of later legislation with earlier legislation would be that the later wins. However in this case, the House of Lords (at that time the UK's supreme court) ruled that Parliament had not intended that making fisheries rules should eject the UK from the EU and that the earlier European Communities Act had priority in this case and all future similar cases.

(Law also spends a lot of time and effort working out what category a particular "thing" actually is - businesses,goods,property - so it can be determined which law applies)
And connect their robots to Viki.
are you sure you even get how a PC works? If if it can't browse the web, its junk.
You can make a btrfs NAS; then you can eject and add disks as you like, irregardless of their size.
DevOps in Telecoms – is it even possible?
I've personally had the opposite experience. I'm far more productive in a team environment. In video games my most product times are when an artist and/or designer and I sit together and work together. Even when we are not directly interacting with each other seeing stuff on each other's screens lets us see what each other is working on and communicate early and often.

I understand that some people in certain roles would do much better with no interruptions in a private office but it's not a one size fits all solution. If your work consists of something you can mostly do on your own that's certainly one case where private offices might be a win. If your work consists of lots of collaboration it seems less clear. At least to me.

I'll also note that at least for me I'm much happier around other people than isolated in a private office. I'm not saying I want to be an a 1960 bullpen but a room/area with 2 or 3 other coworkers I'm working on stuff with is my personal ideal.
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Wrong.
https://www.facebook.com/apps/site_scraping_tos_terms.php
What's funny is that I actually have no idea what a non-open office would look like. I've worked for 15 years and have never even walked in an office that wasn't open. How do you give each person an office without using like 5x the space as a cubicle farm? That's the real reason that companies like open offices - because they can jam a lot more people in the same space. Someone who is ok with a 6x6 cubicle would feel trapped in a 6x6 office.
Plan9 can probably gain traction in something completely different than workstations or even servers, more like embedded or highly specialized devices. Just like a lot of people say, often one needs single killer app.
Of course, I understand that perfectly well.

What I have a problem with is that they gave users a tool to manage and hide certain connections, even though anyone could potentially circumvent that.

My position is that the service should work as expected.

Either you give your users the means to hide connections, and consequently prevent hacks like this, or you remove that feature and every user will know that this information is public to all your friends.

Everything in between is just wrong, because it breaks your users expectations, you've got to be clear about what your service does.

Also, I want to be clear that I don't think that Facebook is intentionally doing something evil, it's just a big corporation with lots of different people making decisions. That could happen anywhere.
This is harsh. I read the comments here before reading the article and so found the article much less narcissistic than I was expecting. Fair enough, he does toot his own horn a bit but then it sounds like he's very much justified in doing so!

Those who went in expecting an exposé of the Berlin startup scene have misinterpreted the title of the article. It's clearly a personal piece written about a personal experience.
The UK is currently building out it's broadband network to provide 2MBps [0] to everyone by next year, and "Superfast" broadband to most people with the next couple of years. There is a local bidding process for who the funding goes to, but in most cases it is BT meaning people will get up to 24Mbps. There is a bit of controversy though as local initiatives like this are being shunned in favour of BT due to red tape [1].

I wonder whether it would be better to instead invest in 4G services in rural areas. Here I can't even get 2G (yeah this place is a bit remote), but most rural areas have that or 3G in the UK.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/broadband-delivery-uk

[1] http://northdorsetbroadband.co.uk/
Please provide the link. I haven't heard of the story and it sounds really interesting.
My company's first Android app. Thoughts?
If it is possible, you would be severely limited by the WiFi signal radius. I'd highly recommmend a normal 2.4 Ghz TX since they're designed for this stuff. The phantom comes with TX, but if you go the DIY route I can really recommend the Turnigy 9X from HobbyKing. It's only $60, has 9 channels, comes with receiver and people won't laugh at you because you're holding an iPad or a toy-like transmitter.
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True, however they should be very well compressible by 'deflate' too, the main concern is the initial parsing grok by the JIT.
Yet, on runtime the scripts will be good as any.
Just curious: why don't they play in shielded rooms instead? I'm quite sure they are not cheap, but they would be far more reliable.

This method will work only until cheaters up their game (pun intended).
It is a nice trick, and the footage seems pretty solid. Will the quality match a real brushless gimbal with a good camera attached? I don't know, but for the majority of people this will do just fine I guess.
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Lets deconstruct this...

The leftist/anticapitalist/crypto thing sound like an amalgamation of HN rather than spotting the diversity of opinion that tends to mash together to form a 'superorganism'. HN by user is probably left/crypto via comments, however, it would be a good idea to look at the highly upvoted posts from the leaderboard to find the 'silent majority' who support the top ranked posters via votes rather than comments.

(I may be misreading your question as it was not worded clearly, what does 'like that' mean, I assume )

Being a founder virtually requires one to be a capitalist... Yes, you need to be a 'capitalist' to receive Venture 'Capital', if you weren't a capitalist then you wouldn't own the venture, and would hence not be in a position to be funded.

The use of money to fund non-private / profit ventures is generally known as charity. Yes, many VCs fund charities... however it would be inappropriate to call a charitable donation venture capital.

Most economies are mixed economies and not purely capitalist or socialist. A great example is Tesla/SpaceX which would both be dead with out government funding AND venture capital.

It's also important to note the narratives in the culture, which fall far more along party lines rather than a left/right or capitalist/socialist analysis, and obviously try to paint things in a light that will be receptive to the audience.

(eg. GM can't survive with out government 'bailouts', but Tesla is an innovative private company receiving government 'loans' for it's work.)

Fundamentally people like the things they like and then come up with reasons to justify it.
Do MegaPixels really matter?
Misleading title, I don't see a list of Mark's friends. So it is still unexposed
Can we still use it outside of rails? We've had success in the past using CanCan in sinatra apps.
Same as the sibling poster, I'm also pretty disappointed. Working at SoundCloud or a similar product-focussed internet company has been a dream of mine, but the article comes from the mindset of someone who's obviously well recognised globally in tech going on his own adventure— it's really nothing to do with Berlin specifically. It would be great to hear about people's perspectives working from the ground up in the startup scene of an unfamiliar city, but this is not that article.
Blade Runner-style 'empathy workout' could make you more altruistic
Communicating Sequential Processes (Hoare/Davies 2004)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_mis...
Scraping facebook is against the TOS.
yeah heaven forbid if a European should have the idea for the next Facebook and skills to start coding it, he could see it through to reality.
I wonder how much of the difference in pictures with lots of people is down to things like shadows rather than people obscuring the view. You might get a 'good enough' result by approaching the problem using averages of the pixel values after applying a high pass filter - take a few hundred pictures, build an array of all the same pixels in each image (eg 0,0), sort them by some factor such as luminescence, and take an average of the most common within a small tolerance.
Personally, I wouldn't be offering any 'unless' for that type of behavior.
You could say that about any article about one's own experiences. This one is different.
You clearly did not watch the POC video at the end of the post.
An Idea Whose Time Has Come pt. 1
You can strike for social good. (bank tellers – call-in sick until debt absolution)
We will ALL support you. (gittip, couchsurf, craigslist – just show a pay stub or work selfie to verify)
Hack the Scabs. (spoof interviews, get hired and don't show up. waste their time. do nothing.)

This is a Persistent Threat.
We can make MODEST demands, and if they back out, we walk-out again.
EXTREME proposals will be fought and ignored – ask for 'just the tip'... over and over. :)

1st Modest Demand: STRIKE DEBT! (bank tellers)
The big banks (top 5) must buy all STUDENT LOAN, FORECLOSED MORTGAGE, and MEDICAL BILL debt, and absolve the debtor of the first $100,000, provided that their debt is greater than 6mo. Income. (How to implement: find out who owns your debt, tell these banks, show them your pay stubs to prove that your debt is more than 6mo. income, they buy it and absolve the first $100,000. They can buy your debt for pennies on the dollar, and they have the cash. Be nice to those who act first, and who do the most. Thank them in writing!)

Recognize the benefits: bank tellers, think of all your friends and family who have debts. Call-in sick as often as you can, over the weeks of JUNE. JUNE IS BANK TELLER VACATION. Your friends and family will thank you. Show folks your pay stub or a work selfie, and they will help you.
Summary of international crypto controls (2013)
I've seen this previously as well, and unfortunately it only seems to make a good story and doesn't seem to be actually measurably true. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re..., Vietnam has 63 fatalities for 100,000 vehicles compared to the US's 13.

When you consider the numbers across countries, they show that traffic lights do work in reducing fatalities - and the developing world has a huge problem with motor related incidents.

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/international/21595031-rich-co...
An Idea Whose Time Has Come pt. 2
We initialize threats by: Publicly Announcing a set of DATES, and a SPECIFIC OCCUPATION. Anyone can make a proposal. Pass the good ones around. Copy the good ones. Make a MODEST PROPOSAL for public good. Call-in sick, get help through social networks.

The THREAT itself is enough to bring them to the bargaining table. :) Everyone on earth can use this. It does NOT require technology. Just spread the word. Once the idea is out, it can't be stopped.

2nd Modest Demand: LIVING WAGE! (retail, teachers, minimum-wage/part-timers)
Immediate wage increase of 20% above local minimum wage.
Track inflation with a basket of BASIC NEEDS, MEDICAL, EDUCATION, HOUSING.

I am here to remind people: WE HAVE POWER. Tyrants don't run the world. We run it for them. Practice non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

“I'm going to call-in sick on Monday.”

Please recognize the value of damping feedback for the systemic stability of a network. Pickett identified a critical instability. The People have the power to counterbalance.
I wish you well, friend. I fight for all of us. :)

"He serves the state best who opposes the state most."
DOJ Plans To Indict State-Sponsored Cyber Attackers http://www.defensenews.com/article/20121218/C4ISR01/31218000...

The above article was published in 2012. They are right on track, all predictions, down to the last detail, have come true in 2014.
You actually don't need that much:

- Frame (F330 clone $8.90)

- Motors x4 (Turnigy 1000kv, $18.20)

- ESC's x4 (Turnigy 30A, $9.99, flash them with SimonK)

- Flight Controller (KK2.1, € 29.99)

- Transmitter + receiver (Turnigy 9x, € 59.99)

- Props (2CW, 2CCW, $2.46 per 2. Do get extras!)

- Battery (2200Mah 3S 25C, $10.57)

- Charger (Turnigy Balance charger, $22.95)

Total cost: a couple cents over $250. You can do even cheaper when shopping around Chinese webshops, but this should give you a pretty good idea. All of these parts are from Hobbyking, by the way.
(Edit: formatting)
I actually run such a USB stick raid setup (using regular linux raid/ext4). Its write-speed is horrible but its really cheap and serves well as my personal vault.
Where are the external links? It just keep me searching. PS. The footer will overlap a long list.
Not even that is necessary for The Economist - just copy the URL and open it in an incognito browser mode.
This raises an interesting problem with respect to what really is 'inventing' things. For instance according to the public record Arthur C Clarke invented the telecommunications satellite. But if that's true then Da Vinci invented the submarine and the helicopter and Jules Verne spaceflight.

To me inventing something means you build a first working version, not just to say what could be done, but that's a definition that is not going to be helpful when an invention requires the cooperation of a large number of people to solve all the nitty gritty little details.

So, maybe whoever wrote the script for that series really did invent the self driving car...

The line between 'inventor' and 'visionary' is quite blurry, especially when the visionaries live in times when realization is still impossible due to limited technological knowledge.
That doesn't mean you don't have political opinions.
Well, don't know about homogeneity - as we're not 'mass market', and it's a semi-specialised field, people on HN seem to be above the average 'smart' (not going to say IQ)

1 - Smart people tend to have differing views, and be capable of expressing them.

2 - Really smart people tend to continually learn, so expect those views to change.

3 - Smart types generally counter an argument without too many obvious logical fallacies, so more gets said here than elsewhere (generally)

I doubt there'll ever be a mass consensus here, and that suits me fine. I've learnt a LOT from you guys!

I will say that I'm more comfortable expressing my true opinions here, than on a site like 'Reddit'.

Emotionally: Reddit feels mass market now, HN feels more genuine and soulful in a sense.

EDIT: I really hang out here for the community, not interested in VC related stuff - perhaps quite a few of us are here for that.
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