skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem isn't you, it's human nature.

I've worked for many companies, large and small, and it's the same. You can be the nice person, but eventually someone will come along and use politics against you (or give you unfair work loads, etc). You also won't get nearly as many raises (because nice people generally don't ask for raises), which means less for yourself and your family.

I run a few meetup groups. I was out of the country for a few months during the summer and the co-organizer (who is very nice) ran one of the groups. More aggressive people basically took over the group and nearly ruined it.

It's human nature. When you are nice, a more aggressive person will try to control you, your actions, or your situation because they see it as a weakness. If this doesn't happen, it's by pure luck.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not talking about being unethical. I'm just saying that fair and nice are mutually exclusive over any given amount of time. The reason is because someone will disagree with you at some point and perceive you as an "asshole" and sometimes you need to be an asshole to not get trampled over.
>Github can render org-mode files to HTML directly if checked into a repo

They also support ASCIIDoc, ReST, MediaWiki markup, Creole, etc.

See: https://github.com/github/markup
Does anyone else prefer txt2tags [1]? It also works.

[1] http://txt2tags.org/features.html
Isn't the point of a lab that for science reality is the touchstone? So doesn't a simulation entirely miss that mark?
They didn't hold back the Internet 6-7 years. IE was far, far beyond whatever competitors offered, it might be more fair to say that Microsoft released IE6 years too early. AJAX, CSS, JS, all the cool technologies that make the web today were part of IE 6 (but not quite at the level they are today of course), and in addition to that there were some DirectX accelerated graphics, an advanced plugin system while other browsers only supported NSAPI, etc.

After that there was little innovation from Microsoft, but there was little need for innovation either, most developers looking for advanced capabilities used Flash instead of addressing the web browser natively, because that was the trend back then and Flash works on other brands of browsers as well, and for a while because a lot of people still used older browsers. For those reasons there was no developer demand for more advanced features, the features that were offered were hardly used for a long time

For example AJAX was publicly introduced in IE5 in 1999, while other non-beta versions of competitors appeared from 2002 to 2005. Websites using AJAX thus were rare until about 2004-2005. There was no need for Microsoft to add more technology until the competitors caught up. Unfortunately for Microsoft, the competitors didn't just catch up, they overtook them and implemented some features differently than in IE, those missing and different features in IE have caused plenty of grief for web developers ever since.
There seems to be a widespread bias in thinking the mean/uncaring/strong individual dominates over the weak. Thus people are more likely to believe these types of stories or at least let it shape their idea of somebody.

Personally I think in any situation where a company strategically outmaneuvers another company it is going to come off somewhat as mean (e.g. Microsoft in the 90s protecting their turf). The idea that a company/person succeeds because they are mean, however, is far too simplistic.
Um, what?

Brutal dictators use 'meanness' to remain in power for decades. Pimps, drug dealers, gang leaders, etc. Violence and intimidation is an excellent tool for success.

Going down a rung, you get political bosses, union leaders, etc. Powerful people are often mean in their dealings; they have to be. Being cold and calculating and using information to your advantage is one of the best ways to win a deal without using violence or intimidation.

Down another rung you have CEOs and other multi-millionaires/billionaires. Does the name Rupert Murdoch ring a bell? Or how about the Koch Brothers? (sorry, I have a liberal bias; i'm sure there's plenty of liberal millionares who work the same way) There's even a paper that describes a tendency for higher-paid CEOs to treat regular employees worse: http://www.cps-news.com/wp-content/misc_pdfs/When_Executives...

Let's face it: capitalism is a cutthroat way of doing business. Competition is good for individual people, but the true purpose of a capitalist entity is to effectively crush its competition in a way that doesn't bring it negative attention. Even so, often corporations treat people like shit, covering up widespread abuse and getting away with it because it can afford to. Being mean is practically a requirement of any successful multinational corporation.

As a final example: Wall Street. Tank a global economy, put people out of their homes, screw over businesses, all the while knowing what you're doing. You don't even have to serve jail time! Being mean pays. The better you are at it, the less consequences there are, too.

Finally, being mean doesn't make you stupid. Being angry makes you stupid; that's been effectively proven. The heightened emotional state changes the way you think and reduces the ability to reason. But being mean doesn't mean you have a heightened emotional state; it basically just means you lack empathy or compassion. And you can still reason pretty well with a lack of empathy.

Mean people don't fail. Stupid people fail.
Try to improve the situation. Software development is all about team work, and skills and experience in developing the development are appreciated. If you can tell in your CV that I made this and that improvement, I would consider it a great plus. CS degree also sounds like a good idea (I'm in Finland, don't know about scene there).

If it does not work out, you can always look for a new place.
Is the copyright notice supposed to apply to the empty program?
If you're interested in fighting spam, and looking at JS-code, then https://github.com/skx/blogspam.js might be worth a glance.

#25 in particular makes my head hurt, and comments are most welcome.
But it's only commercial in the sense that it permits commercial use, but it also explicitly leave the creator out of any compensation beyond attribution.
It's one of the few major societal problems that can completely fund itself to the full extent current science permits. Unfortunately, many states, such as Colorado, are already blowing it by using the tax revenue from marijuana sales as supplementary income. Looking at state lotteries shows us that this path leads straight to hell as government becomes reliable and dependent on this money so much so that they actively push, and twist to appear noble, clearly destructive activites.

Washington, on the other hand, appears to at least be funneling revenue soley into the health department.
Forcing the creation of a new contest rule is a tradition in the IOCCC.
I know someone in Ontario who actually works with this software and I had her explain the requirements. Yes it is extremely hard problem to solve with software.

They are trying to quantify qualitative data, but each case is so varied that the software had thousands of options and checkboxes.

They needed the checkboxes to track metrics for specific trends in cases and detecting problem areas. So the state can detect say a rise in poverty in x neighbourhood do to y circumstances etc.

Data tracking at this level is incredibly complex. And I'm sure IBM, or any gov enterprise software team doesnt have many good designers leading the projects. Designed in comitee rooms.

UBI takes these people out of the equation and the software is simply, here is everyones address/bank -> pay them.
Your question is too vague to apply the rule. Let me give a concrete example:

I had a business relationship (he was an investor in my company) with Henry Burkhardt III [1]. He was, by anyone's definition, a serial entrepreneur. Very rich. Very successful. The following example comes from watching him.

The setup: you and other shareholders control the board. Do you: 1) use your position to dramatically dilute less powerful founders and employees, or 2) be fair and keep their relative percentages commensurate with their contribution and value?

Henry famously did #2 repeatedly. I don't have the stomach for it, so I've chosen #2. If my company is acquired, it will mean quite a lot less for me (and some other people). Is that stupid? Henry would've said yes.

To give you an idea of his ethics, see [2].

And, let me be clear: the people that Henry diluted were key to his success, it's just that he didn't need them anymore. Once the invention was made or code was written, their importance could be minimized without doing harm to the business.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Burkhardt_III
[2] https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr14895.txt
For CC BY, CC BY-SA, and CC BY-ND, Creative Commons itself explicitly mentions the word "commercial" in its summaries: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Of course, if your description is correct, Yahoo/Flickr may have an interest in downplaying that important detail.
He might have summarized the whole Node.js concept as SOA - Service Oriented Architecture
> It almost seems like he is jealous of those that may travel and then post their experiences on their social media

The author is a travel writer - you may not agree with what he wrote, but it's unlikely it was written out of jealousy.
I was once talking to a psychologist I know about corporate CEOs

You've spun a pretty broad claim out of a conversation you had. Yet you can find countless studies on the personality traits of leadership. This isn't just people projecting their inadequacies, but instead is educated people trying to figure out what makes the social hierarchy of our society work.

Knowing how people rise in the ranks, and how cult of personality figures gain their powers, is of obvious importance. And a pretty consistent finding is that negative personality traits -- primarily the willingness to use and discard others -- is highly advantageous in such situations.

And it's obvious certain personality traits benefit both the striving for leadership, and entrepreneurial efforts. For instance a pretty common startup thing is claiming broad innovations when there is, really, none -- when you shamelessly claim wizardry, it gets you press and mentions and from that success, even if the root of your accomplishment is absolutely banal. Most of us have an internal voice that says "eh...sure most people will fall for it, but other people might look down on us" and will add disclaimers on our claims. No one wants to talk about that.
I never really thought of it from this perspective but turkeys do indeed look very strange and exotic:

http://my.kingscamo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/top10-tur...

We had wild turkeys on a family property in north ontario and what amazed me was how extremely fast they could run. Well out pacing my dogs. You'd hear their strange sounds they make then the next second they were gone.

They must have been quite interesting to colonists.
Download here: http://www.ioccc.org/1994/smr.c
Imagine you're a homeless person without clean clothes or credit. Do you think people would want to rent to you? Take the silver spoon out of your mouth and think about it, even for a moment.

Also consider that scheduling and making the appointments without a smartphone or transportation would make it incredibly difficult work.
My apologies, I misread what you wrote as a statement rather than a question (I swapped the words "you" and "are". Maybe I'm developing late-onset dyslexia.)

So let me try this again: no, I am not saying that "successful people don't cling to beliefs that have a lot of evidence against them". I am saying that a society that considers it virtuous to maintain beliefs in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary is going to be less effective at solving problems than a society that does not consider it a virtue, and so problems will tend to go unsolved more than if the society did not consider this a virtue.

What observations of the world have you made that contradict this?
How speakers make sound
In the case of vaccines, phase one trials tell you if there's an immune response to the antigen being used. This is a good first approximation of effectiveness.

The level of response could still be too low, but at least there's something happening.
I wanted to oppose PG's view on what constitutes a startup to "normal" business practices, which involve fighting competition, networking with important people, hiring the cheapest workforce etc. In this kind of game being nice doesn't help. And you have to play this kind of a game when you are either not a startup (ie. not innovative) or big (because then you have competition and you also become a corporation in structure). And I think the companies from the parent comment succeeded because of these "normal" business practices.

In PG's view startups succeed because they actually create some real value, something that other people want. And to build something like this it helps to be nice.

Maybe I'm naive, but it's hard to say that PG doesn't know what he is talking about when he talks about startups :).
The Makefile is the most interesting part: http://www.ioccc.org/1994/Makefile

smr: smr.c
@${RM} -rf smr
${CP} smr.c smr
${CHMOD} +x smr

Apparently, an empty file marked as executable will execute!
That will probably never work the way you expect, if it does happen. While containers are awesome, and I love docker, it doesn't magically solve the difference between operating systems. Linux ELFs will not work in BSD, so if it does end up happening, it'll be with docker containers built for BSD.
That was my point – syntax highlighting is suited for code. whitespace for readability is more suited for books.
You are literally proving OP's point about rushing to uncover the negative. Claiming the connection between the OP's post and racism is just plain ignorant. And if you actually read the article you also know that the article is entirely an opinion piece. There no references, it is not a study, it is just the author's experience. So maybe you should aim your ignorance at the author rather than OP in this case?
Pretty cool but I don't feel like I am actually learning regex. I think the explanations/definitions need to be more clear and probably the answers less easy to guess.
Also I never thought I'd be quoting scripture, but this is a fitting passage!

"Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them" ... "So when you give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be honored by men."

Another saying about players...(this one's not scripture)

"Real players don't say they're players; they just are"
Yep, Yahoo has said they will honor user choices and allow folks to opt-out by changing CC licenses. The November 20 announcement says:

"Flickr members who don't want their CC-BY or CC-BY-SA photos to be eligible for sale as part of Flickr Wall Art can change the license (e.g. CC-BY-NC, etc.) and the images will be removed from the selection." https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157649323144986/pa...

What's interesting is that CC licenses are irrevocable. So if a hypothetical GreatPhotoPrints.com bulk-downloaded CC-BY- and CC-BY-SA-licensed photos, they could continue to sell coffee mugs, t-shirts, posters, canvas prints, etc. -- even if the Flickr user changed the license later. (And of course if Yahoo ever became desperate for cash, they could reverse the current policy decision that currently permits opting out.)
Meh. Empty program doesn't replicate itself. It's similar to recent rule-nitpick discussion about selling for 0$. Selling for 0$ isn't selling and nothing isn't replicating itself.

Definition of replicate is:
to repeat or copy (something) exactly

Empty program doesn't copy or repeat anything.
Entry rejected.

EDIT:
It's not reddit, downvotes doesn't go here for disagreeing.
The problem is posed in natural language and it has its own rules. In natural language (at least in English) doing nothing isn't copying or replicating. You may check the dictionaries.

Next time someone will claim claim 1 million sales: million nothings for 0 dollars to nobodies.

EDIT (to other child)

Yes, empty set is subset of other sets but that's because the definition of subset. Copy or replicate in natural language (in which the problem is posed) mean something entirely different.
I think there is strong evidence (based strictly on personal experience / insights) that "good" is a far more powerful force than "evil". I think "evil" can and does manifest itself in pockets of the globe, but overall in general if you re-ran the entire history of human civilization 1 million times, you would probably end up with a genuinely "good" outcome 80-90% of the time.

And although it probably sounds like hocus-pocus to most people to be making this claim, I think there are intrinsic properties in what it means to be "good" that may even allow this hypothesis to be scientifically proven one day (that "good" is a more powerful force than "evil").

Some of the far more disturbing human behaviors to me are complacency and selfishness.
Consult your local lawyer, which I am not. That said, see The Supreme Court case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Steelworkers_v._Weber

It lays out requirements for a legal quota system.
I just want to say that Samuel has made the Elixir emacs experience fantastic. I recently switched to Emacs evil-mode from vim, and expected to find a lack of Elixir tooling in emacs. I've been pleasantly surprised by Alchemist and it blows away what I had in vim land. Thanks Samuel!
smr: smr.c
@${RM} -rf smr
${CP} smr.c smr
${CHMOD} +x smr

this is bullshit if you ask me..
That's not what I asked. Do you think they will find the bugs just because of rereading a standard algorithm?

Having to reread code when trying to accomplish something unrelated seems like a terrible way to seek out bugs.
Finally a social network focused on sharing real stock trades
Laboratory exercises serve in part to make students familiar with equipment. In other words: why would schools and universities offer up costly lab classes if there were no point in them?
Agreed!

Forgive me for descending to the trivial: it's 'its methods'.
I learned regex this way about a year ago. First I went through the tutorials on http://regexone.com/, then started working the puzzles to burn it in. Really easy and useful once you understand it!
YouTube hides Easter egg in Gangnam Style's counter
I think it interesting that no one here has brought up the fallout from the dot.com bust and 9/11. Both of these had far more effects on the pace of innovation than anything Microsoft did or didn't do.
What about shallow apathetic people. HN is full of 'em.
> The question is whether the pensioner provided enough benefit during their career to justify their pension.

Hilariously wrong. The question is whether the city entered into a labor contract with the pensioner, and whether they fulfilled their end of the contract. Do you go to a restaurant, eat a seven course dinner, then skip out on the bill because you don't think the price was reasonable?
"The startup founders who end up richest are not the ones driven by money"

I disagree. Money is the lifeblood of any company. You need to be thinking about it at all times..or you will quickly find yourself in bankruptcy with a ton of debt.

Startup founders shouldn't only be driven by money, yes. But money should be one of the main factors driving them to succeed.

All of the ridiculous startup ideas I've seen were created by people that were not driven by money in any way and had no solid path to profitability (besides being purchased by a large company).
He also didn't mention giving him time to go to the bathroom.
At least one counter-example comes to mind. By most accounts, Steve Jobs was a pretty mean guy.
How do you define merit then? It may never be possible to eliminate all the disadvantages, but moving towards equality in outcome is still worthwhile.

Like a blind person can't be made to see, but screen reading software and braille text is still better then not having those things.
UnBox the Chomsky archive
I disagree. You are copying something exactly. Just because that something is empty does not mean it's not being copied. Using cp, by definition of the command, is copying something.
You do know that Lua was developed at a Brazilian university (the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro)?
It was ruined for the people who believed the other side, not for everyone.
There was scifi novel describing something like that in 70ties.

Anyway, I seriously doubt this is possible. Escape velocity from center of star is tiny fraction of speed of light. We might have better luck with neutron start or black hole going at near speed of light.
I have a feeling "narcissism" is code for "the younger generation's status signaling mechanisms"
He also doesn't mention feeding his child. It doesn't mean that he doesn't.

Its sad that you use this father, who seems to be doing a lot of things right, to grind your axe on.
I'd start by actually talking to the people facing the issues. Talking to users is important for product development; I think this is similar to that.
This is really great :) Also, if you're like me, adding `p { text-align: left; }` to the CSS makes this much more readable.
LSD user here. As far as drugs go, LSD is among the safest substances. However, many cheaper-to-produce analogs are much more dangerous. Buying substances illegally means that you don't know what you are getting. It's hard to find tests, and most LSD tests you can do at home can be faked (there are inert compounds that will test positive for LSD).

And yet we love LSD, and we still try to find safe sources of the drug. We don't like playing with fire and would much rather pay even heavily marked up prices to buy LSD from a pharmacy where we can get guarantees about the purity and dose.

The government has aggressively banned all highs, which are clearly a pretty standard part of human behavior. People have been getting high for thousands of years, and many drugs are no more dangerous than alcohol or nicotine. The solution to the drug problem is to provide safe and legal avenues for drug use, and healthy environments for detecting and treating abuse. Legal pot is a good first step, but we've got a long way to go.

People don't need to die trying to get high when the drug they want is safe in the first place.
Pump the brakes, man.

If you reach the point where physical violence is your only resort, let me promise you that, in a business environment, punching somebody is only making your personal situation much, much worse. I have been in enough street fights as an adult to recognize that they are a spectacularly risky behavior with zero upside. And are a strong indicator of something being really off in your brain. If you're really conducting yourself in this fashion, and not just barking on the internet, people will hear about it and you will get permanently crossed off lists you didn't even know existed.

Don't beat people up, or threaten to beat people up, over business deals. Ever.
I think it's fair to include that in the 'plenty of days where he opts to not read and not play video games'. Not sure why you would criticize the omission of an unrelated topic in a great comment about sharing his passion with his kid. I also think it's more helpful to think a bit more charitably about people's intentions. Of course I'm guilty as anyone of hasty conclusions and comments... :)
Public or Private?
Not sure about the copyright, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone patented it in the US.
Independent project so I probably will not submit it to a journal
I use my local hacker space (HackerDojo).
Because it's being interpreted as a shell script, I assume.
I'm on Ubuntu 14.04. This game plays perfectly under wine.

apt-get install wine

wine VXLST3D.exe

If you are using unity you may have to disable the panel

http://askubuntu.com/questions/184841/how-can-unity-panel-se...