skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So can the guy with the shovel.

Ultimately, the concept of "actual value" can be defined as one of two things: money (for things that have value for an individual) and laws (for things that have value for the society, e.g. externalities). Simply said, the society values certain things (short-term profit, growth, cars, cheap food, human lives) more than others (long-term stability, the environment, clean air, rainforest, empty space). These sentiments change, but they change slowly, because we live in a democracy (and because people value social/cultural stability and safety).

As far as the financial crisis is concerned, it's easy to say after the fact. Was Einstein's research net-negatively-valuable, because it resulted in the atomic bomb, or was it net-negatively-valuable, because it ended the war? Whenever there is innovation, there is a risk of the innovation resulting in something "bad". That doesn't mean that the value of research is negative. People are simply short-sighted and/or not smart enough to foresee bad consequences. Btw, I'm sure you're doing the same thing - consuming cheap electronic devices produced using non-recyclable rare resources by workers whose raising wages will (1) significantly increase pollution and (2) significantly increase their quality of life. Is that "good" or "bad"?
Completely the opposite for me. Now that I am used to all the pleasantries of OS X, it is painful to try and get anything done on a linux computer. I end up ignoring whatever disaster of a desktop environment is installed and living in the terminal.
For a deeper look into the topic, see A Geography Of Time: The Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist, by Robert Levine (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0465026427/).
"Dear media, please stop using a word your readers understand, instead say a racial epithet that's been used for the last 140 years."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(pejorative)
tl;dr: Rape culture is human nature. To counter rape culture we need to get a religion.
Uber Drivers Earning $90K/year? More Evidence Needed
Here is a little bit more context to it [1]:

Match fixing analysis:

There are frequent concerns about the phenomenon. Match fixing threatens the credibility of the entire sports system. Attempts to rig games cause serious damage and above all affect consumers. Despite the fact that the topic has become public knowledge, match fixing is not decreasing. In fact, due to a strange effect, the more we talk about it the more the corruption spreads and it seems acceptable.

The police are the only hope, but because of obsolete legislation or attempted cover-up by the same sports federations, they move with limited powers and with little chance of eradicating a phenomenon that has now reached substantial proportions. From our analysis, we estimate that the number of disguised fixing now exceeds 1000 matches per years.

Attempts at match fixing, whether bland or full are really easy to discover. The pure and simple analysis of numbers always brings out the truth, this applied to sports betting leads to discover wired betting trends and possible fixing.

How does it work?

The betting market is like the stock market where instead of the shares, odds are traded. Like with the “shares”, odds are subject to movement, whether physical or dictated by other changes, and as long as these changes remain within a range defined as “acceptable” there is no suspicion. However, when the changes in prices lead to violent shocks and are not justifiable by the event in question, then without doubt we are witnessing an attempt at fixing. The checks on fixing are easily achievable via cooperation of bookmakers, whom by joining FederBet, have the right channel to interact and provide valuable match data (ex: matched bets).

We had experience with Italian team, Novara, which willingly decided to undergo the Federbet checks. In the end Novara, received an important reward in sports justice and it is now satisfied that any attempt at corruption attempted by its members will be reported promptly and putting the club in an advantageous position when it comes to liability…

[1] http://federbet.com/match-fixing/
Thanks for checking it out - what browser were you using?
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I always saw hacker as a computer security term (so did popular culture) and not a term for tinkering/making.

This community is using the wrong term not the media.
Forgot about the recent (mp) proposal. Maybe there will be a new debate on the length of a work day/week in time for the election then.
It is very unlikely someone would opt in by accident if the box was unticked by default.
And so does everyone else over 30. You can't just take a word to mean something new and petition to have the old meaning 'removed'.
Interesting viewpoint. Can you provide any examples of 2008 sites that you think were "worse for usability" than their 2014 counterparts?

I cannot think of any myself, but I'm happy to be proved wrong.
This tweet really expresses one fundamental problem of sites like this:

https://twitter.com/ziobrando/status/289635060758507521

"The bullshit asymmetry: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."
Fair enough. This is how I meant it:

> Why can't I create multiple accounts? I want this feature.

> Because we made the decision to make iOS single user because $BENEFITS

Multi-user is, in fact, a very difficult problem to solve from a variety of perspectives: UX, security, app development ...
Ignorant comment, trying to apply one's own bias or perspective of government work in his country to that in a completely different (social/cultural/economic) entity..
Imagine if your Stanford grads picked government work to better their local society rather then a profit-driven startup then you begin to see another viewpoint
> Generation X. They were less susceptible to advertising.

Hah!
The word cloud is a crock and i'm not going to get into that.

But the general point of people providing online service based applications is that from many front ends they have one back end. Having it locked down to a platform is utterly utterly pointless and pathetically purposefully divisive.

I really am quite sure the future of modern global interpersonal communications is utterly disastrous given the state of rival networks fighting it out instead of working towards inter-operable-fault-tolerant-distributed-vendor-agnostic solutions.

Email is still the best way of doing this but as Instant Messaging has shown for the past 20 years (no standard ever caught on) without that we end up unable to communicate reliably and one logical place with everyone. The only thing even close has been SMS.
OS X Yosemite to offer DuckDuckGo in Safari
That left me reasonably speechless. Thanks Jacob!
The problem is, you never know how much people will pay in this model. I wonder what are the factors that would increase average price.
This irritates the hell out of me. You want a reference? Before snarkily replying with 'Reference?', fucking search for it; http://lmgtfy.com/?q=facetime+patent+issue
Under US law they were probably correct. CAN-SPAM Act does not require consent. (Though it does require more than just a working unsubscribe)
Thanks. Just read up on messaging and now I like it even less :(

In Smalltalk and Objective-C, the target of a message is resolved at runtime, with the receiving object itself interpreting the message. ... A consequence of this is that the message-passing system has no type checking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective_c#Messages
Middle east cultures : Multi-active and relationship oriented perception of time. They are more relationship oriented, both Israeli and Palestine people. Also Afganistan or Beduin types consider relationships to be the most important thing in the world. Middle easterns like to live in the moment.

Indian cultures: As far as my understanding goes, it's a mixture of compartmentalized time and cyclic time. The ritual or traditions or religions kind of show a cyclic view of time, specially with the karma viewpoint, but the offices and businesses are laid by british, hence more compartmentalized way of thinking is done there. Basically with Indians you can expect sudden no communication, or the office things might take huge amount of time too.

I'm Bangladeshi and both are my view point, and I've indian and Middle eastern friends, but I've not exactly visited the countries.
The people who quit for real usually don't start with a statement. I think making a big deal out of it is a way of telling oneself why one should quit. Contrast this with someone asking the question "Why did you quit?"and replying with why one did quit.
Because right now people have access to GPG and can send information reasonably securely to journalists.

But don't worry, a 3 [or 4] letter agency near you is working real hard on that.

The stuff about terrorists can wait as that's not quite as important as stopping you knowing about what the agency is up to. The supposed masters in charge of limiting them - government ministers - are willfully compliant in the manipulation and deceit.

[edit:spelling; I wish english was my first language.]
For a legally binding contract to be in place don't you need an offer and acceptance - and silence generally isn't consider acceptance?
For tech job seekers, it’s all about the city
I usually take accusations of reverse racism with a pinch of salt, but there was recently a discussion on Twitter where a popular ex-radio host (Kay Sexwale, @kaysexwale), stated that whites cannot be Africans, nor can they lead political parties in Africa. Ordinarily someone like that would be regarded as a kook, but she in the last week, almost got a job as Chief of Staff to the Premier of Gauteng province. Also her assertions were not really questioned by black Africans on Twitter, if I recall correctly (some whites were, rightfully, quite offended).

There is a strong degree of vigilance required. However, it should also be admitted that many white South Africans don't make much of an effort to integrate, or to be constructive, instead resorting to constant belittlement, obstructionism and moaning. This combination of white intransigence, and nascent black African supremacism doesn't bode well for the future.
http://book.swiftlang.eu
I think it will take a while. Right now I can StackOverflow my entire project, and it will be a little while before I can do that with Swift.

Seriously though, a lot of developers will try and keep it around as long as possible because of existing codebases. I bet that even includes developers at Apple.
rvm (an open source tool for managing your Ruby environment) had a crowd-funding campaign: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/rvm/fundraiser
They collected all the cash they needed, the maintainer took a break for some time, and now they're working on the next major release.
I agree with most of his points. I stopped reading Slashdot because I didn't like how the voting affected my interaction with the site, and I went cold turkey on Reddit and haven't been back (or even missed it) for maybe a year now. Maybe I should ditch my HN account too. Other than as an experiment in how to craft an inoffensive comment that will be accepted by the tiny subset of humanity who lurk here, it doesn't really have much benefit.

What a shame there's no "delete account" option. Should I do something unutterably awful to get pg's attention (accuse him of murdering kittens or raping puppies or writing software in Visual C++?) or shall I just do as the OP did and change my password to something unmemorable? If I change my email to a random mailinator account, that will make password recovery impossible too, I suspect.
there should be some additional mechanism, if you pay more than average than you get X
This is why you set up a email address at your own domain, and give any company asking for your email <company.domain>@<your.domain>

(And possibly complain publicly when unsubscribe links don't work)

Some email providers ignore '+' signs and periods in email addresses, but more and more companies have gotten wise to that.
I like the choice of emotion: "relieving". It signifies some form of acceptance that "things spill over and nothing could be done about it".
It would be pretty weird to base language switching decision on syntax similarity.
I agree with the "lack of downvotes" and "disagree downvotes" and am neutral or disagree with the rest.

This is an opportunity to say what bugs me about HN:

1. A very minor and subjective issue is that I dislike the culture. Not sure how to describe it, but compared to reddir or other sites I visit, it feels academic, humourless, scripted, robotic. The hillarious trolling that Yishan Wong does on Quora would feel completely out of place here.

2. But the #1 problem is the lack of development of the site. There are so many things that could improve the HN experience. Perhaps it's because it's written in some obscure dialect of Lisp. If so, they should rewrite it from scratch.
In an ideal community people would up-vote arguments
for adding value to the conversation and down-vote only
for detracting. I’d much rather see something well-reasoned
and well-stated that I disagree with than just another
guy confirming my own opinion about something. That puts me
square in the minority on Hacker News and, to be fair, probably
just about any site with voting.

Yet it seems that stating that you wish people would vote on merit puts you in the majority of people who comment on voting systems.

If fewer people said that they wanted voting to work this way, and instead actually voted this way... we'd all have the kind of site we wanted.
I find obj-c super readable, other people don't? I mean, take two hours to get used to the bracket syntax for message sending and it's super readable although a bit verbose?
It is not the duty of the lawmaker but of the contracting parties (= employer and employee) to define the amount of work hours per day.

There are many variables in the process:

- Demand for money of the employee (poor father of five vs. rich single)

- Demand for work of the employer (company needs a helping hand vs company needs to recruit a new team)

- Scale effect of product (does one additional hour or man lead to one additional unit produced?, compare laying bricks vs programming)

These variables are unknown to the lawmaker for each specific instance, so any a-priori determination of the amount of work hours per week cannot be optimal.
That's the point - they weren't silent. They continued to send emails.
Perhaps people who rely upon centralised political power to protect them from competition in the supply of their chosen labour services should seek to differentiate themselves by developing more valuable skills. Yes, I know, it's a terribly radical idea, not blaming evil businesses and all.
You are being downvoted because your point is pretty much irrelevant for most people.

Clearly this is about comparing the editors. Analytics is orthogonal to that. If you want to talk about the costs and benefits of Google Analytics them I'm sure there's another thread where it is more relevant.

Igglyboo's comment is probably downvoted because they don't "seem similar" at all beyond the idea that they both work with code.
So it's Humble Bundle style, right? It could work if you have more than 1 item. https://www.humblebundle.com/
>Microsoft invested in platform features and then didn't sell users on what it could do with Vista.

I think you are focusing on features that are unimportant to most users. People hated Vista because it was so slow, clunky and crashed. I remain amazed that between clicking a folder an seeing a file within it can take about a minute on my friends old Vista machine. I'm also pleasantly surprised on my MacBook that it pretty much never freezes and resumes from sleep in about 2 secs with going wrong unlike any windows machine. What counts for users is how the machine works, not whether the underlying implementation is trendy, I think.
I still can't downvote after more than a year of commenting. I guess not enough people agreed with my comments so I don't have this power.
Cloudera acquires big data encryption company Gazzang
On the other hand, John Lewis is employee-owned and regularly pays out at least one additional monthly paycheck in profits per year. I shop mostly in Waitrose (a subsidiary), and as long as their service is excellent and their food real (e.g. they had the least problems of all UK retailers (with the possible exception of Whole Foods) in the horse-meat scandal), I will gladly pay their higher-than-normal margins (though it's not much more expensive than Tesco).
My solution would be that if you are a multi-national then you pay no corporation tax, but you pay a new local sales tax.

For example you pay an extra 20% over what a domestic company would pay in sales tax.

This would stem the flow of cash out of the local economy and give smaller companies leverage.
Oh dear... I was looking through the comments of the top trending thread in HN now (6 hour workday) and this comment reminded me of your post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7839210
Yes absolutely, especially on a Windows system: no post-boot lag, no lag due to paging, bitlocker overhead can be eliminated depending on configuration, etc.
What does the "Fixed" column mean? I don't understand the notation.
We all have good days and bad days. On some days I write stuff that is marginal, on others downright nonsense. HN is an excellent critic and I take my lumps. It upset me in the beginning but over time I've come to appreciate the downvotes. On subjects where your view goes against the majority / accepted dogma be prepared to get yourself voted straight into the ground just because the supporters of the dogma outnumber those that are critical of it in some way. Remember HN is young, US centric and rich. If you take a position that is likely to offend young, wealthy Americans then you're likely going to find yourself in negative vote territory. Don't let that stop you from speaking your mind, don't attach too much value to the points.

I just read through your comment history for a bit, my very belated but heartfelt condolences.
There are pretty severe network effects in place, though, as well as obvious imbalance of power (the wage worker is, almost by definition, relatively poor, indebted, etc). Working hours have always been a big part of labor politics. The individual contractual perspective is not the whole story.
Maybe it's my Western bias speaking, but a lot of what is described as "just a different way of viewing time" sounds like "just a greater tolerance for jerks" to me.

When you schedule a meeting and one person takes pains to arrive on time and another person does not care whether they're late and shows up an hour later, that leaves the conscientious person sitting there twiddling their thumbs for an hour, whether they're in the U.S. or Italy or China.

I suppose it's more understandable in areas where transportation is unreliable, in which case it's hard for anybody to be consistently on time, but I have a hard time seeing how a culture in which no one is concerned with punctuality can be said to be merely laid-back, as opposed to plain lazy. It's possible to be both laid-back and punctual, after all.
If it were a true opt-in without a pre-checked input as suggested then it becomes a moot point surely.
Well... this is slightly disingenuous.

The WSJ article specifically mentions that this relates to secured debt (mortgages), not credit card debt. Interest rates are fully tax deductible in the Netherlands, which incentivizes higher mortgage debt than in many other countries. Many people own homes, and the ones that do borrow the majority of the market value when buying.

Housing prices did fall recently (and are now headed back up), but they did not tank as they did in the US. Similarly, the rules on mortgages were on the whole much stricter than in the US; this, combined with the relatively low unemployment rate, resulted in a foreclosure rate which is the lowest in Europe.

The housing market during the crisis, and to some extent now, looks a lot like people stuck in the place where they live. They can make the mortgage payments just fine, but their hopes of swapping that starter house for a larger one have been put on hold until either they build up more equity or the housing market improves.
You're thinking of the Objective-C runtime, which in fact is opensource: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/objc4/objc4-551.1
I've yet to quit or come back. I find it's much more relaxing just to hang out and bitch about things.

HN has a lot of problems, and I'm not one of those who thinks it's all just the same only more bitching. Flagging of stuff you don't like (as opposed to stuff that really should be flagged) is top of my list. Then there's the thing where people vote based on emotional appeal versus actual immediate value to folks. Or where true long-form content should never be able to make it to the front page of HN: if it takes more than 30 minutes or so to read, it's already passed through the new page, things get submitted as soon as they go live, and you can't do resubmissions. (Yet somehow, someway, some long-form content seems to do pretty well anyway) I'm also not a fan of turning the site into a YC PR device, but it's not my site and it's been that way for a long time. Just sometimes you see the "wires" behind the scenes and it's not pretty. I also am not crazy about having the same conversations about the same things over and over again -- one reason why I spend much less time here.

Did I mention I like complaining?
Given that analytics really does let the authors fix problems and inefficiencies that users are having I would imagine people should "be cool" with it.
If the strike is harmful to the employer, then employees are not powerless. Which is the point I'm making.

work in one lousy job or another, or starve.

If we are discussing the US, the choices are enjoy consumption of $20k/year funded by the government or enjoy consumption of $20k/year funded by earned income.

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ce/standard/2009/income.txt
Scientists create running robot inspired by a velociraptor
Libertarianism includes a substantial percentage of anarchists and communists.
That is what journalists do, its a buisness. It does raise important questions about the nature of the deal between Britain and Oman.
48 Core ARM-64 processors from Cavium to challenge Xeons?
I would like to sign a petition not to use 'Hacker' to hype basically anything. Shorter even banks will look for "Hacker" accountants.
Considering that I quit for almost a year in much the same way I disagree. The best customers are the ones that leave and tell you why. I never learned anything as an entrepreneur from the people that just left. But I listened very well to those that left and told me why. Of course HN has no direct commercial incentive to retain Matt or me or anybody else, as long as we're contributing it's fine and when we're not there are 100's like us to take our place.

So forgive me for disagreeing with you but I see it different. Matt was/is an awesome contributor to HN and I definitely noticed him returning, we need more people like him, not less.

And quite a few people who 'quit for real' have stayed away, with or without statements in public. And quite a few 'old timers' have left and have come back (even if not always under their old nick).
Of course not - a well developed capitalism is a pre-requisite for socialism.
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Yeah, 3 day weekends are awesome. I had a 36-hour contract at my previous employer, which meant if I worked 8 hours a day I could take fridays off every two weeks.
> [edit:spelling; I wish english was my first language.]

Don't. Chances are, you'd never be incentivized to learn a foreign language, which stretches your mind and broadens your culture.