skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good questions. This is really just a demo, but if there is more interest I'll happily create a production version!

But it's definitely not just for businesses. You could create a Huddle around pretty much any interesting topic/metric.

What would be an important metric that matters to you?
It seems not to be available anymore :(
The Reddit link seems much less objective than Pete Hunt's overview (e.g. the last point about React not providing code modularity is flat out wrong)

I wrote a frontend framework comparison essay here ( http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/comparison.html ). It's focused heavily on Mithril.js, but might be useful for someone evaluating frameworks.

FWIW, I've used Angular extensively for the past few years and some of the reasons I wrote Mithril (which has a virtual-dom based engine like React) were because 1) Angular performance issues are really hard to fix, 2) I feel some of the design decisions in Angular are fundamentally flawed.
Many of those people would actually like jobs, but the gap between where they are, and what is required to even work at McDonald's is huge. That is why the job needs to be community provided, guaranteed, and tailored for that person. Even most people with problems can start by doing something. If they really are far gone than supportive housing or an institution might be required. The dorm living shouldn't be the only option, case workers need to have good judgement about what is realistic for a particular person.
I think he was just pointing out that a person choosing to do drugs is different than a business breaking the law for profit.

Some businesses will engage in ethical and lawful behaviors because they are run by people of high moral standard that will not allow themselves to be comprised.

Other businesses will model the risk/reward in terms of profits and see if acting ethically or unethically yields the most profit. They will then do whatever yields the most profit, given an acceptable level of risk, whether that involves unlawful and unethical behaviors or not.

My original post is pretty oversimplified, but it gets to the heart of the problem. If a business truly errs and breaks the law unknowingly and is acting in an ethical manner then they should correct the action and make right the situation. In this case no additional penalty, or a minimal fine would seem to be in accordance with the behavior.

If the business is on the other hand deliberately breaking the law and/or acting unethically then the penalty needs to be high enough that it offsets the potential profits/rewards so as to keep unethical businesses in check.

The problem is determining when is it an unintentional mistake, and when was it calculated?

In this case EFI is claiming it was an oversight/mistake, but that seems unlikely. Proving that it was deliberate and unethical can be more difficult.

So how do we separate the wheat from the chaff?
That's not what's being said.
If you reduce them to singular acts, that is feeding a hungry person and smoking in a restaurant, arguably one is actively doing specific harm (carcinogens) while in the other case it's hard to deduce a specific harm from the act. In the case of feeding a person, I have heard arguments about _general_, long-term, associated harm to property values and averaged crime rates. Conservatively, when looking at a principle cause, there isn't a good reason to ban feeding the homeless.
What would be the good or service sold in order to generate the wealth to be distributed to all humans as basic wage?

And who would be the generous folks doing all the work to produce those goods and services, while being OK with sharing, with everyone, the goods (i.e. money) that they trade their goods for?

I'm just trying to understand your suggestion.
The web, it's for everyone
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What do you mean? The website works for me, and links to the iOS app store.
It has been a very long time since I last read BNW, but at the time I read it I felt that that was a very conspicuous tension in the novel. Specifically that our expectations of 20th/21st century people, and our veneration of individualism, were at odds with a society that ostensibly delivered what hoped for in terms of poverty, crime, happiness. Even the rebellious that couldn't live in such a stifling society were shipped off (it was to Iceland right?) to live with other intellectuals and iconoclasts where they would likely be much happier than if they had stayed among the happy masses.
What are they going to do? Arrest me for helping a starving guy?
I agree with the below comments. These types of papers are always emphasizing rigor over actual experience.

Many types of "100%" security fail because of this disconnect. Forced rotating passwords or long ones with required symbols and number? Most people choose to have easy to remember ones (e.g. pass1, pass2, pass3,) Or it's so difficult to memorize that they'll write it down somewhere nearby.

The points are important, but they're directed at consumer products. I wonder how the same person would look at bike-locks...which even with the most expensive locks are only a deterrent given the right tools.
I'd say the main moral difference in that comparison is that people don't get ill and die from not smoking enough cigarettes, but they can from not getting enough food.
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> small EU countries full of semi-corrupt conservatives

Which ones would those be? From an American perspective, they all look like they're full of semi-corrupt liberals ..
> Cities are very dense and, in the scheme of human existence, unnatural places.

I think that this kind of statement must be qualified very carefully. I believe (though I don't know) that cities are unnatural in the sense that they don't arise in nature among other animals than humans; but I'd be reluctant to call them unnatural for humans, in the sense that it seems to me that a large part of what makes us human is the ability to live together and function (well or poorly!) in large groups.
This is your third message saying essentially the same thing, but you still didn't address the key factor here: how will VCs recoup their $5.5M investment? Running a profitable privately held business doesn't return enough multiple to the VCs. Therefore the VCs will need to sell their stock eventually, one way or another (IPO, acquisition).

That being said, I'm not too concerned in that particular case, I don't see Ello going anywhere anyway.
Yeah. The person above is seriously out of touch.

There's a reason why ex-military are disproportionately homeless. These aren't lazy people or people who don't know the meaning of hard work. These are people who have sometimes serious mental health issues (e.g. PTSD, depression, alcohol addiction, etc) which make holding a job difficult or impossible.

20 hours of work might be difficult for many. Also who is going to live in a dorm with addicts, people with other assorted mental health issues, and people with various criminal records? There's a reason a lot of homeless people avoid "shelters," those places are sometimes MORE dangerous than prison (wanna get stabbed? Because going to a homeless shelter is a good way to get stabbed).

Honestly there isn't a "one size fits all" solution to homelessness. All homeless people are homeless for different reasons. All we as a society can do is start dealing with SOME of those problems one at a time.

If you do want to do the dorm thing then security has to be priority number one. For homeless people the streets can actually be safer than living with some of their peers.
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Absolutely not, I simply believe that forcing people to work against their will, and likely their capabilities given the issues many homeless people face, is a form of slavery. It may not perfectly match the model of slavery from US history but that doesn't make it not slavery.

What harm does homelessness cause the general public? Does it negatively impact their everyday life?
Do you have problems with localization of your mobile apps?
what is the difference between this and groups or pages? arrrrrrrrgh
If I was more conspiracy-minded than I am then I'd say that the confusion is presumably intended to make military drones more acceptable.
I agree. But making it illegal to feed the homeless, or feed them in some locations seems heavy handed and wrong.

If you want to encourage feeding the homeless in places close to where they can get other types of assistance, you should take positive steps to encourage that:

Provide assistance (financial or logistical) to organizations doing the feeding in proper locations.

Provide transportation to help the homeless get to the proper locations.

Or most simply:
Ask the organizations or people what you can do to get them to start feeding the homeless in proper locations.
I love the term 'animal smell.' Having experience on both sides of the table as an entrepreneur and a VC, I can say that there's something to the notion of "smelling like a winner." It's hard to pinpoint, but the blog nicely highlights some of the signals for it.
"trying to get wi-fi setup on my beagle bone or raspberry pi were hell"

Can I ask which wifi card/chipset you chose? Was it one that you researched and found out was 100% Linux compatible? Assuming you did do that and didn't find something that was barely hacked to together to have partial support did you actually find editing /etc/network/interfaces with the text below difficult?

auto wlan0

iface wlan0 inet dhcp

wpa-ssid GUESS_WHAT_GOES_HERE

wpa-psk PSK_MEANS_PASSWORD

I'm going to assume you chose a wifi solution that was not 100% linux compatible. One that had a weird firmware blob or something else. My point is that I watched someone spend a week trying to get a wifi card working on Linux. He called me up for help so I looked up his Laptop and wifi card. I went on Ebay and spent $7(with shipping) for a card that was 100% compatible, swapped it out and it just worked.
White collar crimes like these have been show to be disincentivized by punishment. These crimes are not carried out by impulse--the calculation of reward/punishment/probability has a high deterrent effect.

Drugs, violence, etc. are not in the same class. They are carried out generally on impulse and, as such, punishment has very little deterrent effect.
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I guess I was lucky in that installing Ubuntu on my Acer mostly just worked. I had some problems, which were not easy to figure out as a Linux rookie, but some help from forums and installation of some proprietary drivers were enough to give as good of an experience for casual use as I was having on Windows.

Since I installed Ubuntu initially out of necessity, I never really had the time to consider whether my hardware would be supported or not.
Seems like a bandaid approach to fixing a severed artery. The real problem is the lack of desire to read documentation. This also has the problem of sending someone down the wrong path when the wrong "solution" is suggested. Read more documentation and pay attention while you're programming.
Yeah, I have to agree with this. I used GNU/Linux on my laptop exclusively when I was in grad school, and every "sudo apt-get update && upgrade" felt like taking a turn in Russian roulette. The generic device drivers were almost always a nightmare. Power management was abysmal. And this was on a Lenovo machine that is generally considered to be pretty Linux friendly.

While I never did have a problem that wasn't eventually solvable, I finally came to accept that I really don't like playing sysadmin, and would much rather know that I can pick up my machine, perform library updates, and actually go work on something at a moments notice.

At least on a laptop. On a desktop machine, I'm willing to be much more patient.
I visited the website twice and still don't really have an idea what this app does.

Localised Pinterest is my current guess? :\
Many small businesses like that have issues with homeless people camping directly outside their business, harassing their customers asking for food. When people buy food for them, it encourages them to stick around and keep it up.

As you might imagine, having homeless people standing around outside harassing your customers is not great for business.
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Pretty disappointed only one answer involved a time machine.
I'd say: clock symbol till it left the phone, one checkmark for delivered, another one for read.
My thoughts on ways to balance the needs of a growing startup with the needs of a growing family. Would love to know what others in similar situations have tried. What's worked? What hasn't?
Good idea, we'll probably do this!
"ZFC is consistent with …" must, of course, be replaced by "If ZFC is consistent, then so are …".

In fact, singling out ZFC gives you another example of this kind of result: if ZF is consistent, then so are ZF+C and ZF-C.
See, I'm just the opposite. With as hedonistic as human nature seems to be, it makes perfect sense that the pursuit of happiness leads to nothing but; in other words, A Brave New World.

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.

A Brave New World? That's simply distraction taken to the nth degree. Perfectly plausible.

I read Huxley's book when I was a teenager, and as you said, it shaped how I see things. Moderation and critical thinking are key in everything (moderation, even in moderation).
Just for my own curiosity, did you intentionally chose a Laptop that you knew was 100% compatible to begin with?

Edit to the downvoter who can't use their words: The above comment said "Lenovo machine that is generally considered to be pretty Linux friendly". Seems like a relevant question as to whether that meant 100% compatible via Lenovo's declaration or online research and an educated guess. It was a sincere question as Lenovo does provide specific information about Linux compatibility.

http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/pd031426

Mind explaining to me what I did wrong there?
whoa, for one, I just understood that it's standalone, no connection to fb. Interesting. And/or external waste of service
This is the bees knees of chat tools, but what's up with the gratuitous use of Twitter Bootstrap everywhere?
Well, it's hard to find exact numbers now, but with a daily price limit of 0.03 on a contract of 40000, that's $1200. Figure double for initial margin.

I mean, even if you were to take delivery (!!!), pork bellies traded for less than $1 per pound, so you could buy it outright for less than many real estate deals.

Oh, here, found a number: $1620 for CME. http://www.investopedia.com/university/commodities/commoditi...
It's possibly only available in the US. It's not available in Canadian App Store :(
The Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (federal privacy law) is, as the name says, federal law. I have not heard of states imposing their own data privacy laws on businesses. It may however be true that the administrations of each state have slightly differing privacy requirements for their own systems.
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The argument is that just handing out food harms the homeless by enabling him to avoid places where (s)he could be further helped.
Having looked up this iPad theft, they didn't rip his finger off - the drawstring of his bag got tightly wrapped around his little finger and the force of their grabbing the bag stripped it. An awful thing to happen, sure, but not at all "had his finger ripped off by a thief" - it was a pure accident.
You'd ban all public advertising? If so, you've got my vote.

edit: https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/73/Sao_Paulo_A_City_Witho...
Do you really mean the number of factors, or just the number of prime factors? If the former, that's always even except for squares, so one reasonably fast approach would seem to be (square-root computation) + (test for integrality).
So, I had a similar thought and I think there is more here than just hating on people who supposedly have access to resources. It goes more into the question about why people support Kickstarter projects that are more business than art. When you contribute money to a business venture, it is reasonable to expect either ownership in the company or interest payments plus your original principal down the road. In this case you get neither. While a $75 t-shirt is nice, it's probably not going to turn into a $100 t-shirt.

That being said, it looks like people have pledged over $100K so far, so as they say, "the market has spoken."
How is now not what you describe? Maybe there are no clear puppet-masters driving it, but vast swaths of people in the US live like this and fervently support it right now.
To those who read this, this statement is completely incorrect. It's actually very interesting how (in general) Britain's degrees are far more specialised from far earlier (than the US), and this is no different for either Oxford or Cambridge. I won't comment on the fanboyism :)
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Guy flies drone over volcano, camera melts
Actually, in the US [0] it's the default that you can be sued for injury or wrongful death if you attempt to assist. Some jurisdictions have Good Samaritan laws [1] to fix this very issue, though even then it sometimes only extends to trained personnel like emergency responders and doctors.

[0] And possibly other places, but I'm not familiar enough to say.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Samaritan_law
> It doesn't use any Chrome specific features and it will work on FF

Does "will work on FF" mean "FF will eventually be supported"? Because today we see: "Inbox only works in Google Chrome. More browsers coming soon. Download Google Chrome."
I don't know about food, but I'd say giving money to beggars certainly enables them. In fact, there's a big Roma community that goes to France and other countries to beg there, because they know they will make "good money" begging.

It's not just Roma, though. There are underground networks of beggars, where the people running the network get most of the money, and so on.
Most cattle are relatively happy, have their medicine, their wild versions, conditioning of their young and forced sex (orgy-porgies without the orgy. . . ).

Do the social structure and outlook of cattle appeal to you?

Edit: because that's what the dystopia presented in A Brave New World is similar to.
1) Isn't slavery by itself, but adding in 2) and 3) in there and you get to the point where there is no choice BUT to live in a dormitory and work 20hrs a week. That lack of choice makes it pretty similar to slavery.
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For most of the duration of the evolution of the human race, humans were living in groups of < 50 people. Cities of tens of thousands of people are a very recent phenomena. That said, evolution did not halt 5,000 years ago, and there probably are even more recent genetic selective pressure that has made it easier for people to live together in cities. But still, my broader point stands, a lot of rules and conditioning are needed for people to live together without driving each other crazy. Some of this conditioning we are not even conscious of, because the conditioning occurred when we are so young. But when you watch the parents of young children, you see how much effort it takes to do well.
Seriously, if the only punishment is covering back pay when you get caught, where is the incentive to not pull these shenanigans?
Yes. See what happened with Food Not Bombs in Orlando a couple of years back.
Regarding the author:

"

Eugene Gholz is an Associate Professor who works primarily at the intersection of national security and economic policy. From 2010-2012, he served in the Pentagon as Senior Advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy, where he led initiatives to better understand the complex defense supply chain and to apply that understanding in the budget process. He also focused on policy regarding reimbursement of industry's Independent Research and Development (IR&D) expenditures. Before working in the Pentagon, he directed the LBJ School's master’s program in global policy studies from 2007–10.

Dr. Gholz works on innovation, defense management, and U.S. foreign policy. He is the coauthor of two books: Buying Military Transformation: Technological Innovation and the Defense Industry, and U.S. Defense Politics: The Origins of Security Policy. His recent scholarship focuses on energy security. He previously taught at the University of Kentucky's Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce. He is also a research affiliate of MIT's Security Studies Program, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and associate editor of the journal Security Studies. His PhD is from MIT."

So he seems to be the pretty standard international power academic.

As for the Council, what you can always expect is a globalized view biased towards big business interests. That's who started it, and that's who have run it ever since. It's essentially the non K-Street American government "mind lobbying" program for the international elite.

If you are still curious I would highly recommend research along the following lines. Paris Peace Conference, Woodrow Wilson and Edward House, and the Reece Committee.
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What about all those anti-anxiety, anti-depressant and ADHD drugs ?

Many students I know were on ADHD drugs even though they didn't really need it.

Many professionals are on anti-anxiety and anti-depressants now too...
I'm not convinced by the thesis that sexual freedom is inversely related to political and economic freedom, but if you were to chart virtually any of indicator "sexual freedom" over the same time period as that graph of prison population the trend line would certainly be moving in the same direction.[1] Same goes for "level of alarm at the apparent 'decadence' of modern society expressed by economically poorer and religiously strict cultures" which is a pretty major theme in the book.

For all Brave New World's glib exaggeration for comic effect, I'd argue that anticipating sexual liberation (and mass consumerism and distraction-based mass media strategy) was a far more perceptive view of the future than Orwell's ideological slavery. Whatever the intended or actual psychological effects of the "War on Drugs" may be, those prison sentences certainly aren't an Orwellian attempt to unite the population in support of the executive.
Then again, Huxley was satirising what he perceived as relatively novel trends emerging in the United States whereas Orwell directed his ire at the Soviet Union, fascism and highlighted tendencies present in virtually every other authoritarian state that had gone before.
Verizon is great other than whatever transit provider is providing Netflix (L3 or cogent). Even that is rapidly being fixed.

You can rag on Verizon for being anti net neutrality, but they are the only significant deployment of fiber to the home in the USA.
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It's a pretty well solved problem, you look around the world find out which justice systems produce low recidivism rates and implement those policies.

You'll find that there's little correlation between recidivism rate and length of sentence / amount of fine.

Or you can do what they do in America where they have the worlds largest prison population, which is hand out excessively harsh fines and prison sentences for relatively minor issues.

Protip: If you want people to act like the law is any different than separating the wheat from the chaff it would behoove one to stop referring to people in that manner. Instead you might want to say something like "How can we persuade people to my way of thinking?"