skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brave New World is already here to some extent largely due to the work of Freud and his nephew Edward Bernays. The excellent documentary "The Century of the Self" explains this better than I ever could: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self.

Overview from Wikipedia:
"This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." —Adam Curtis'

Edward Bernays also wrote a book titled Propaganda and he invented the term Public Relations.

From wikipedia:

Edward Louis Bernays was an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations". He combined the ideas of Gustave Le Bon and Wilfred Trotter on crowd psychology with the psychoanalytical ideas of his uncle, Sigmund Freud. He felt this manipulation was necessary in society, which he regarded as irrational and dangerous as a result of the "herd instinct" that Trotter had described.

In Propaganda he wrote:

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are moulded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind."

You don't need to look far to see how hedonism, particularly through television programs like American Idol and ESPN*, have supplanted the laymans need for government involvement. I see no better example of hedonism than the fact that the word 'Selfie' was awarded 'Word of the Year' by the Oxford dictionary last year: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-24992393. I work at Disney and when I look to the television monitors I see ‘inspirational’ quotes that tell me that selfishness is desirable. In particular, I have learned that ’mephobia’ is defined as the 'Fear of becoming so awesome that the human race can't handle it and everyone dies.' Disgusting…
>1984 felt just too dystopian. It just tasted wrong; like someone would have stood up and said, "No thank you" well before the point the book stepped into.

Where exactly is that inflection point? So far, we've complained a lot, yet we slide more into it every day, and statistically, no one is leaving.
I think you should be. Whether or not people in India want to work for $1/hr doesn't matter.
A big reason the minimum wage exists to prevent the lowest wage occupations in the united states from falling into a prisoner's dilemma-style trap where the equilibrium is at or just below the amount needed to not starve.
That said, I am sympathetic to the plight of those in developing countries.
This topic tends to generate polarizing and conflicted views, as we can clearly see from the comments here. One side thinks it's cruel and heartless to prevent someone from giving food to a hungry human. The other side thinks that we shouldn't reward bad behavior. The core of the matter is that helping people is hard. I don't mean just token help. I mean really helping in a meaningful way that makes a lasting difference.

An example: consider back in the 80s - 90s where there was a charity trend in at least parts of the United States of sending clothes to Africa. Seems like a good thing, right? How could giving clothes be bad. Clothing is a basic need (in many places), just like food. But what really happened when Americans started sending clothes to Africa? People who have actually spent time in Africa can tell you that the flood of free clothes totally destroyed the local textile industries. People who were making a productive living found themselves unable to compete and out of work/income.

So we see that with free clothes there were significant unintended negative consequences. Why would we expect it would be any different with free food? I totally get the desire to empathize with another human being and genuinely want to help people who found themselves in a very difficult situation with no obvious way to break the cycle. But we need to be aware that our supposed help may actually end up causing more difficulty in the long run. In that case, one could argue that charity becomes a selfish act--the real reason the giver does it is because it makes them feel better about themselves. I'm not making this point in an attempt to justify heartless inaction. I just think that we should put serious thought into examining whether our efforts at charity really make a meaningful difference in the lives of the people we're trying to help.
You need Chrome to use Chrome extensions? Oh, the humanity!

That said, it's time to call bullshit on Google's whole 'do no evil' shtick, considering how so many of their web apps only work on Chrome.
Think. Pause. Push. Talk
I really appreciate this article and the way you've handled some of these comments.

My wife is expecting our first child soon and one thing it has really done is change my perspective. I've actually become a more dedicated employee and have also realized the glass and rubber ball metaphors.

There's bugs that have to be fixed right now and projects that have to be completed on time -- but there's also a personal life.

I'm no longer killing myself because of some minor bug that can wait, but at the same time I'm finding that when I am "on," I'm actually "on" instead of the half-on all the time.

It's been a life changing experience and it's very hard to describe in an understandable way to people who haven't gone through it, but this article is coming close.
I did essentially the same thing before leaving CBS/CNET earlier this year to found http://recent.io/ -- saving salary over multiple years, buying a smaller house on the SF peninsula rather than a bigger one with a larger mortgage, etc. That gave me the luxury of being able to work-full time on creating this recommendation/prediction engine and accompanying app without worrying about income for now.

It's not an easy process, but it is possible!
"just happen"

In what universe can them doing a preimage attack on the checksum "just happen"?
I've never had this problem at any company I've worked at as a w-2.

I just don't get why people join these companies I suppose.
It's not just firing them or taking back their options. The incentives change such that the company doesn't really have to put any effort in retaining them anymore. Bonuses/raises/soft perks/etc that the company might normally provide would be less likely. They don't necessarily have to worry about keeping you happy with what you're working on which is not something you normally think about when considering the value of equity.

It's hard to predict exactly what will happen, but the broken incentives are clear. A better model would have them aligned much better.
"only works in Chrome". Sorry, not interested.
>2. Should GMail really only be able to work offline in Chrome?

Does anyone but me remember offline email clients (hello Thunderbird!)? You can take Gmail offline already.
All great points, but you are also missing the context. Altman and PG and Andreesen aren't talking about starting businesses that are generally sustainable or considered "lifestyle." They are specifically and narrowly focused on trying to build $1BN+ dollar companies that have insane growth rates in competitive markets.

You can't "miss things" in that context - especially strategic investments - because they will be picked up by competitors who will "out hustle" you.

I feel like the YC folks either haven't done a good enough job clarifying that they don't speak for "all businesses generally" or the community is assuming that they are.
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Do you mean like this?
http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd

"implicit expectation that any OS should work on any machine" Really? I don't think that And OSX can run on many Windows machines http://www.hackintosh.com/#hackintosh_compatible

You are talking about 6 years ago.

Also: "What are you going to do if your distro "isn't certified"?" Buy something that is.
They disabled normal local / offline installation of CRX packages a while ago due to "security" concerns.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2811969
It seems to mean "sucking up". And I think it stands for "Dick Sucking Technique", coined by this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz7TWpRXyRY
That system is ripe for abuse as well. You would have to outlaw a landlord from being to ask what their financial status is, doing credit checks, proof of employment. Otherwise homes for the homeless will have rents with disproportionate high rents for poor quality slum homes.

Also without rent control, you will suddenly find cities suddenly very empty of people able to do things like get you your coffee. And shipping them in every day from 100 miles away is a dystopian nightmare.
Perhaps, but I feel that anyone sophisticated enough to replicate my fingerprint perfectly before it reverts to password only, and to do so before I'm able to make a remote wipe, and able to even find my fingerprints (lost phone) and to be lucky enough that the fingerprint is the one I used to secure the device, makes this a sufficiently low risk to the average user in my opinion.

If you're at odds with an American TLA, your 4 digit pin isn't going to slow them down at all.

Besides, the entropy on the average 4 digit pin is really low, it has a greater chance of using 5, 6, 8, and 9 for righties, and 4, 5, 7, 8 for lefties. Combine this with repeated finger grease blobs, and I don't feel anyone can logically argue that a pin is a sufficiently more secure option compared to a fingerprint.
As someone who also enjoys building rich interactions as well, I find that it's just a matter of understanding the trade-offs.

Requiring Javascript support is sort of like relying heavily on the latest HTML or CSS features (a recent example: WebRTC). I have to consider what happens in browsers where the feature is unsupported or disabled, and if I'm okay with narrowing those visitors out of my userbase, then I move forward. Otherwise I make sure that something is in place for them to fall-back on.

Javascript is a bit tricker than, say, the fancier CSS selectors, because I often rely on Javascript for polyfills/webshims, etc, and you can't polyfill a lack of Javascript. But when I can I still make use of that old "progressive enhancement" idea by starting with the basic HTML/CSS elements required to make a feature work, and then enhancing it with Javascript and more modern styling. It doesn't work everywhere, and certainly not in cases where most of the work is done client-side, but I still get plenty of miles out of that technique.
It's launched only for US now.
Many US companies own large parts of Canada's economy too. Not a big deal.
A big part of Apple's Playgrounds is how it shows you the value produced by every line of code, shows how many times loops were executed, and allows you to view a complete history of the values any particular variable took on during a loop. This is hard to accomplish, as it requires modifying the compiler to output instrumented code (and it's also why Swift playgrounds don't execute very fast). This Objective-C version doesn't appear to do any of that. It looks great and that's not meant as criticism in any way, but it's not reasonable to take this and turn it into some Apple bashing.
That's a valid concern, but unrelated to JavaScript being required. Making a JavaScript web application screen reader accessible is no problem.
> GMail does work with any browser when accessed via 'the web'.

But last I checked Offline Gmail does not. Which I think is the point this Tumblr is trying to make.
This is honestly an issue I don't experience, if I have a typo my test fails and the compiler tells me the line and method call that failed. I correct it, carry on. I can't think of a scenario where you would get stuck with this type of problem.
> SML has stagnated for almost 20 years

I'm still waiting for OCaml to get decent multicore support, decent Windows support and an FFI that doesn't suck donkey brains through a straw (which is why so many OCaml libraries, like OpenGL bindings, suck beyond belief). Multicore became ubiquitous 10 years ago. Last I looked the vestigial OCaml community still hadn't noticed.
And Docker bought Fig, so it is likely it will continue to be supported and eventually even do multi-host container orchestration.
The full blown node running on the JVM is called http://vertx.io/
> I'm not sure the Vatican's revenue but I suppose a lot comes from the Vatican Bank and returns on their massive assets.

The "Vatican Bank" (strictly, the Institute for the Works of Religion) has pretty miniscule assets by the scale of financial institutions, and returns in the high tens of millions annually.

> Most of their charitable work comes from $2+ billion from the US Govt.

Most of the funding for Catholic Charities, a US Catholic organization structured rather specifically to be able to accept government funding to private social charities given the particular regulatory regime in the US regarding church/state relations, comes from the US government, but that organization is not the whole of the charitable work of the Catholic Church in the US, much less the world.
I'm not talking solely about IT. I'm talking about the global ecosystem of capitalism.

There also effects like people who don't dream big because what's more important is ensuring that they can pay the bills; capitalism is also responsible for this, and it has nothing to do with IT.

> I think it's about deciding not capturing all the value you create, i.e. not being too greedy. Some companies do make this choice, and whole world benefits.

The whole world benefits at a cost to the company itself, though. It's not surefire either way, but the company is more likely to survive if it is selfish than if it plays charitably.

Is your company's failure worth the potential benefit to the world? It's easy to say yes from an armchair. It's a lot harder to say yes when the market report is explaining how your competitors are taking advantage of the value you've created to shut you out of the market. Should you still say yes? Probably. Become a Netscape. Fight a losing war against Microsoft and get bought by AOL to become a brand name to fleece the ignorant.
Works for me! Made a subreddit for sharing invites to rooms: http://reddit.com/r/roominvites

Here's one for San Francisco: http://i.imgur.com/qkks5gt.jpg
A poor imitation.
Can we change this link to the actual source? http://www.mss.vatlib.it/guii/scan/link.jsp

Or the Vatican library homepage or this tweet:
https://twitter.com/vaticanlibrary/status/522270002012246016
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I don't understand the Tugfile format.
How does it know that the first line is the local app, and the second a docker image?
Video game music & rearrangements, especially from http://ocremix.org, but most typically metal, especially of the power & progressive variety. I like to constantly engage my brain, especially with overtones of overcoming adversity, so power metal is perfect for that.
One time pads are currently the only provable "unbreakable" encryption. The proof is trivial.
While I agree that a user with JavaScript disabled should not expect all fancy features to work, the site should still be able to present its main content in a non-broken visual environment. A minimal version built only with HTML and CSS, which is then expanded upon with JavaScript.

This does appear to be the case with the first warning published on the blog, where the site is put into a "read-only mode" and I disagree with it being listed there, but I come across many other sites which do not display any form of content at all when JavaScript is disabled.
How is it that giving money to political campaigns is an expression of free speech, but giving food to the homeless isn't? If municipalities couldn't pass a law prohibiting speaking to homeless people, how, in a post-"Citizens United" world, can they pass a law prohibiting giving food to homeless?
What are the low cost (< $200) options for a CNC machine? Or making something from scratch in that price range.
Credit card information may has leaked from Brian Krebs' publisher of choice
"Javascript apps don't work when I turn off Javascript :( :( :( :( :( :("

If you think the things made by jerks like me aren't part of the web or whatever, then fine. You stay on your version of the web and I'll stay on mine, and never the twain shall meet.

.....Until you actually need to do something useful.
System76 [0] has launched its business in this area: taking a hardware, tuning Ubuntu to work out of the box on it, and supporting it. You get the assurance that your system will just work.

I haven't tried them but I hope they have good business doing what seems to be the real solution here.

[0] https://system76.com
You are right. I guess the parent wants to stress the difference between promoting sensible behavior and legislation. Just that. I guess.
>My big problem with forcing homeless into these safe areas by making things outside them illegal, is that you end up with "out of sight, out of mind".

It's a legitimate concern, and an obvious downside. However, things like this should be considered in their aggregate effect - there are pros and cons to both approaches, and the one that should win is not the one that sounds good, but the one that makes the most good experimentally.

Your opponent pdeuchler appears to have substantial first-hand experience with what works and what doesn't, while your retort seems a lot more theoretical. I think both of you should elucidate not just the strength of your convictions, but also basis in facts. That's how we will make progress.
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I really enjoy nmh, with sufficient scripting and aliases.
Gotcha, on load, the table is sorted by columns[0] but it should sort salaries by numerical value when you click on that columns' header and not ASCII (Thank you for the link!)

On the landing-page you can't see the pagination but if you click through to the demo that's there and maybe that way less confusing. I get it though. The filtering isn't perfect yet and it's good to hear what you're struggling with to understand.
I think no lyrics is key! Instrumental tracks are less intrusive and have a lot of repeating patterns.
We live in an age of disinter-mediation.

Adding a new middle-man into the talent/employer mix sucks value out of that relationship.
You can always assert your rights by employing your talents elsewhere.
Well, people have been unable to settle on a comprehensive definition of happiness in the few thousand years the argument has been documented so I don't think we'll settle it here. But consider that we identify so many kinds of happiness, from the fleeting to the unforgettable: joy, euphoria, satisfaction, ecstasy, etc. I think Brave New World is about excluding all else in life but one of those. If that sounds good to you, go for it! No one can tell you what happiness is — except that's exactly what the authorities in Brave New World are doing, and they are eliminating the option of pursuing other, perhaps greater happinesses than the one they have chosen for you.
Your best bet would be to ask them directly.

I don't know how they could claim copyright on the original works, but they may have a case if you reuse their digitized copy of the original work. Much like a photograph of a piece of art may fall under a different copyright (that of the photographer) vs. the art itself. Also, the Vatican operates under a different set of rules than the rest of Italy, so I don't know if Italian copyright laws apply the same there.
This is an old idea -- the page has been around for YEARS. But I agree. :)
Have you made any changes recently/do you have a changelog?
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Thank you for writing Mithril; it's a breath of fresh air coming from the complexity of Angular. Not to mention the small size (5kb!) - that'll be especially useful when we build our JavaScript embed widget.
I think BNW is tier 1, first line of defense against control resistance, and 1984 is tier 2, for those that are able to resist the controls of the first tier. The Internet in its original form prevented tier 2 from existing, but it is gradually moving toward becoming controlled.
Thanks! I experienced a similar thing the first time around. I enjoy my work. But pre-kid, I found myself spending longer days where I wasn't actually "on."

Post-kid, there's far more meaning to whether you're at work or not. All of the sudden, I was getting done in 8 hours what I used to do in 10 or 12 (or in 12 hour what used to be 16).

Congrats on the upcoming child! Best of luck!
> Surely they can afford to do it themselves.

How do you think they got that way? Institutionalized panhandling.
For what it's worth (and I know this isn't the consensus view here), some of us hold that both prohibiting smoking at a private space and prohibiting direct donations of food to a person are outside the government's legitimate purview.

However, for my part, I also surmise that in both cases the outcome is undesirable, so I suppose I'm still vulnerable to the point you make in your edit.
roel_v for one embraces his new Huxlonian overlords with open arms!
> Problem with two namespaces is, well, need to maintain two namespaces, in all your DSLs. Which in many cases may double the effort.

How so? And why only two namespaces? Common Lisp probably has a dozen: package name, lexical variable, dynamic variable, function (stores either function or macro function), documentation string, property list, type name, class name, slot name, etc.

As long as you have first-class identifiers, you can define arbitrary namespaces without having to worry about conflicts between the namespaces.

> Of course, macros must have their own namespace

That doesn't have to be true, and is not true in Common Lisp: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/03_bba...

Having an identifier denote a function and a macro at the same time like that enables adding partial evaluation and other compile-time optimizations to DSLs without having to dig into the compiler.

> but that's an obvious thing, you cannot mix compile-time and run-time namespaces anyway.

? You have to mix them if you want a compiler in your runtime.
Just a nit-pick - I thought Ferguson, Missouri imposed a no fly area directly above the protests so drone surveillance was not an option.
Was disappointed when they didn't mention how to hide from facial recognition software.

Here is how:
http://cvdazzle.com/
Thanks for the 90's flashback.

It sounds so much better as a verb than Mission Impossibling.
Wow, that CNC guide is awesome. Is there anything like this for metalworking-oriented machining?
Good point. It's an excellent book.

I also thought of Mark Crispin Miller's re-vision of the parallels between Orwell's 1984 and TV advertising culture, in his essay, "Big Brother is You, Watching" [1]. It's a long essay but it is very insightful on the current significance of Orwell's book. Just substitute "internet" for "TV" and you can update it to today.

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=Lhsg1ZZ3hMQC&pg=PA331&lpg=P... (and scroll up to the start of the chapter)
Unfortunately I can't remember where I heard that recently. Knowing my own habits, it wasn't merely hearsay, and may have been from a podcast or other such non-fiction program, and still may have been a rogue opinion. I wish I could think of it. I'll Google around this evening.