skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll admit that I don't make all of my decisions scientifically. I had chicken pox, all of my siblings and cousins had chicken pox, and I personally don't know anyone who had a bad enough case to be hospitalized.

If 100 people die out of 10000 that are hospitalized, the danger of death from people who have an unusually bad infection is only 1%, meaning the risk for the general public is significantly less.

But I'll admit my grandparents lived in a time where they knew large numbers of people suffered through measles, mumps or reubela. If they had the same "I lived through it" attitude I have, those diseases would be much more common today.

But, still, I have a hard time telling my kids that they have to get this specific vaccine so they can avoid the horrors of spending a week or two covering themselves with calamine lotion, with a small risk of something worse happening.
I do not understand how anyone can be excused from this requirement short of a valid medical reason. How in this day is it allowed?
Is your community a one-sided community, two-sided community, or marketplace?

If it is the second or third, you ought to read HBS Professor Andrei Hagiu's case and article about this dynamic: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=24044

Platform Thinking also has a pretty comprehensive article on this: http://platformed.info/seeding-two-sided-businesses-strategy...

My two cents here is that the best place to start in disrupting the chicken and egg problem is to reduce the number of users you need to get off the ground. Scope to as small a group as possible to demonstrate that the app provides the value you are hoping to provide, and then grow from there. If you're making an app for teenagers, start in one high school. If it works, grow to two, then four, then eight, and so on. You can scope geographically or by affiliation or in any of a number of other ways.

Good luck.
> What would the world be like if contract/freelance/part time/short term work were the default?

It appears to be what we are moving towards, and so far it ain't looking pretty. Sure, "our kind of people" profit from it, but mostly workers are being ruthlessly exploited on a massive scale without the protection offered to employees in most civilized countries outside the US.
That's really interesting!

I think this is the case whenever something gets simpler + more gratifying. We can remember the inconvenience of the old way of doing things, but we don't quite remember the experience- because the new experience becomes our default reality. I remember reading Francis Bacon's A New Atlantic, and thinking "This isn't really that revolutionary... it's just people doing things in a rigorous, scientific sort of manner."

(A product corollary– Consider how Google and Facebook often seem like they've always been around!)
Hipchat and Skype were two popular applications that I used today that don't run on OpenBSD. I ran them on my laptop with an nvidia GPU, which isn't wonderfully supported by linux, but it's even less supported by OpenBSD. Nvidia is a pretty damn common brand. Flash, for all it's sins, is still popular and not supported properly. Steam is another popular application that doesn't work on OpenBSD. Admittedly you said open source, but frankly, I didn't. I said 'applications people use'. It's utter bullshit to move the goalposts and then chide me for inaccuracy.

Then there's virtualisation software in general, which is increasingly popular and widespread, which OpenBSD doesn't support well, if at all (kvm, xen, vmware, virtualbox, and friends. qemu by itself is s.l.o.w.). Docker and other containers are really taking off at the moment and have a lot of mindspace, though admittedly these are linux-specific. Openstack is another significant emerging bit of software that doesn't support BSD as a host.

Then there's plenty of stuff like this http://blog.lxde.org/?p=1111 where OpenBSD could be better supported but is a broken experience. Legitimate reason, sure (not enough eyes), but it's still a broken experience.
In the long run, the sky going dark is not such an unlikely scenario. Big asteroid impact or a large volcanic eruption would be enough. Or some big war, sadly we tend to have them quite frequently. I forgot that was the background story to The Matrix... :-)

I agree that fusion power would also be great for travelling into deep space. In the reeeally long run, there is no other choice for mankind.
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I believe the difference is that in one instance a child was harmed in the creation of the image. Less about morality policing and more about actual victims.

I don't know if it reduces the amount of child pornography created in practice (presumably the type of person that goes as far as creating evidence of such a heinous crime has already leapt off the deep end) but I can certainly see why someone would want to enact those laws. If it reduces the demand in any way and that reduces the possibility of a child being victimized I think it's worth it.
> To repeat what was said earlier: because it's not about the viewer. It's about the child actually being molested.

You would not get (much) child molestation if there was no public for these images in the first place.

So on one side, it's forbidden to share pics of real children (for the reasons you mentioned), but it's fine to check/sell drawings of children being molested. It just seems very counter productive to go both ways at the same time. You can imagine that people who already enjoy drawings would also enjoy pictures and therefore actively look for them.
> I dont see much difference between a drawing a kid being raped and an actual picture...

Kenji has explained the difference above:

> literally nobody was harmed in the process [of drawing pictures].

Admittedly, you add at the end:

> I dont see much difference..., for the end viewer.

but this just indicates you're missing the point: It's not at all about enforcing virtue of the end viewer. It's about preventing child abuse.
There has been past events of inflation without climbing out of stagnation. It's called stagflation [0] which occurred in late 70s in the US.

I don't believe the macro economy is random. But I don't believe it can be understood to any certainty worthy of the quantitative methods ascribed to it by modern economists. If you look at empirical evidence (regression) for what most consider economic truths, you'll see a shockingly low R^2.

That being said, I think some economic truths can be discovered through logic. For instance, all else being equal, an increase in money supply will result in higher prices. As Milton Friedman said: "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output".

I can't think of an example of destructive inflation without the increase of money supply by a central authority. So certainly there must be some link. So maybe we can say inflation is (almost) always associated with an increase in money supply but an increase in money supply is not always followed by inflation.

I don't know why it hasn't happened in this case.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagflation
Go for it! I've been using NixOS personally since February 2014 and in production since September, and it's been fantastic.
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Do you expect a revealing answer to that question?

I don't think I'm suggesting something that wastes part of your life. What I suggest directly restores usefulness to the phone, and it likely forces the call center companies to report unsuccessful calls instead of no answers to their customers (and if done in large numbers it should have an impact).
If economic exploitation of Antarctica, which is only a few hours away from "civilization", has water literally everywhere, and where the air is perfectly breathable is currently not viable, I can't imagine what it would take to make Mars, or mining asteroids, viable.
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The tone of the article sounded like a marketing blog post for Nomorobo (or whatever his company is called).
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I don't get any "legitimate" calls because I'm on the State and US National Do Not Call Registry.

All I get is illegitimate calls and have therefore resorted to calling my friends and colleagues: "I do not answer phone calls. Period. Ever. If you need me, arrange a Skype/Hangout/Facetime or even voice call in advance."
> it seems UK and US are in the top 5 countries with highest child abuse rates:

Though, what that actually means is that UK and US have mechanisms to report, investigate and prosecute child abuse cases that would be perfectly legal and normal in other places.

In other news, there are about 30 times as many rapes per capita in Sweden as there are in India, or 80 times as many rapes as in Yemen or Syria. That is, rapes that are recorded in statistics. [0]

It should be obvious that this relates to how things are processed, not what actually happens to people.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics - numbers obviously need to be consumed with larger amounts of NaCl.
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It depends a lot on your goals. If you want to work at a large corporation, many of them screen resumes based on whether you have a CS degree. On the flip side, I work at a startup where out of 7 excellent engineers only 3 have CS degrees and 2 have no college degree at all.

A CS degree will help you get your foot in the door for your first job regardless. Once you have a few years of experience your degree matters much less - with a few exceptions (including the large corps mentioned above). If you want to work on "hard" problems, a CS degree (or at least a minor plus a math major) will be valuable for the work as well as the hiring. (A math major or - if you want to work with hardware - an electrical engineering major plus CS coursework are nearly equivalent to a CS degree for many employers in general, but HR departments too often use software to filter by too-narrow requirements.)

On the flip side, if you just want to build basic web and mobile apps, you can get started in a career with not much more than basic practical knowledge of a scripting language, one database, and HTTP. (But the more you know and can demonstrate you know, the better!) For entry level jobs in this part of the field, big corporations still tend to care more about credentials but startups care more about demonstrated experience.

If you want to go into programming in any shape or form, and if you do have the opportunity to take CS classes alongside other coursework, I'd particularly recommend taking classes on algorithms and data structures (including the infamous big-O notation), a bit about encryption, and if possible the underlying lower-level underpinnings of programming (from logic gates to assembly, bits, bytes, pointers, and machine language). And the problem solving part mostly comes from experience!
You mean website that need user generated content? Even a big sites like reddit/digg/twitter started with just the founders and friends being very active, sometimes creating multiple accounts (I'm just reporting what I've read, not suggesting you should to that).

Classifieds sites are often seeded with crawled data or offline data or manual data entry.

Airbnb and uber I think started with approaching sellers and drivers directly. That means cold calling, offline ads or meeting them in person. And probably it started months before the launch and included some kind of incentive like "no listing fees for you in the first year". It's like a waiting list: people sign up, but they can't see the product yet. Only after there are 100s of users you show them the product.
Sounds like he had lived an amazing, rich, full life. May we all be half as fortunate (and hardworking!)
> but this just indicates you're missing the point: It's not at all about enforcing virtue of the end viewer. It's about preventing child abuse.

Don't you think encouraging the behavior to view drawings of child rape expands the market for actual pictures of child rape? I don't think it's too much of a stretch of imagination.
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Here is a great talk given by Éric Chahi at GDC 2011 --- Postmortem of Another World

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014630/Classic-Game-Postmortem...
Oh, fair enough. But I think that's a poor metric, since it's much more "virtual" than metrics that actually affect the economy, like turnover. I prefer Forbes average of four metrics: http://www.forbes.com/sites/liyanchen/2014/05/07/the-worlds-...
> that AR game that Google made

You mean ingress? They ported that to iOS a couple months ago
That's really interesting. The pictures still worked when I posted the link.
> Thank good nobody cares

I don't know if this was a typo or intentional, but I like it very much as an unobtrusive and religion-neutral substitute for "Thank God". I will probably use it in future (maybe even without attribution :-) ).
TWC also has upgrades planned under their maxx program. My plan was 20/2 and is now 100/10.
Oh, sorry I wasn't precise- yes, absolutely!

I'm particularly curious about the nature of that 'expectation evolution', and how exactly that works- and how, for example, people not exposed to the earlier work might interact with it.

I'm reminded of an interesting story of a father walking his son through all of video game history: https://medium.com/message/playing-with-my-son-e5226ff0a7c3
It's easy to blame an upstream bug, but in most cases, it's usually an implementation error on your part.
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At least under U.S. law, drawing child porn is seen as being as bad or worse as actually raping a kid.
But clearly, people who take a stricter stance regarding "intellectual property" want to use the most common definition of "to steal", of taking someone's physical object away. A weasel word, or a little dishonest, since we are dealing with a completely different type of situation:

- When someone copies your content, you keep it. A loss happens on an abstract level of potential lost profit etc.
- Someone else just might have had the same thought process as you and distilled some widely available piece of information into the same joke as the official joke author. Who owns it?
- The joke author has probably processed a vast amount of humor, and information in general and inevitably, unconsciously builds his joke on this foundation without being able to "attribute" anything.

I'd say if you have a good case you can do fine without using the s-word.
Companies that have a relationship with you, charities, and political groups are all still allowed to call you (at least under national rules).

My suggestion will stop the companies and charities. I don't think anything will stop the political groups. 3 bad calls a week isn't perfect, but it makes the phone useful (this is about what I get here). If you want to argue about what legitimate means and pay for a useless phone, that's your prerogative.
Religion is for morality. Your point is fair, but we are talking about prohibition. That is (ideally) not done on the basis of morality alone.

A good reason for a law to exist is to protect people from each other. Hence laws against real murder, and real child abuse. Photos of child abuse are clearly illegal because they mean actual child abuse has taken place. Not because they are immoral, per se. They may be, but that's not as clear an argument.

For the same reason, the discussion about the legality of drawings / enactments of illegal acts centers not around morality, but around whether or not it will lead to more of those acts actually happening.

You're getting downvoted because you stick to making the morality argument, implying that is reason enough for prohibition. HN is a crowd where many people feel it's not.

In the spirit of "Live and let live", I tend to feel the same way.
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There isn't a hard and fast rule.
Great story. I remember him, a little, from my childhood (my Dad was in the physics department at Berkeley with him, and a friend). He was an amazing inventor, including an idea for a contact lens vending machine. Really a creative guy.
>touching women in crowded areas (subway, trains) is so commonplace in Japan they made laws to criminalize it. That says enough, I think.

I don't know how far you need to look into that. It's not like if you tried that here in Australia, the officer would have to let you go because he didn't have anything to charge you with...
Absolutely. There's seems to always be this interesting duality to achieving anything difficult.

You have to have faith that you can do well, but you also have to acknowedge the hard facts of reality.

You have to be kind, but you also have to be firm and not a pushover.

You have to help people, but you can't be taken advantage of.

You have to get out of your comfort zone, but you have to avoid burnout.

So on and so forth.
Afaik, it's viable but there is a global ban on Antarctica exploitation till 2048.
I never answer my phone unless it's from a family member or close friend, or I'm expecting a specific call.

If it's somewhat important, they can email me later and schedule a call.
Okay, that's a more nuanced and better argument.

We are now entering the "do video games cause violence" discussion hall. We take a number. It's ZY412787A331992. The 90s LED display mounted on the south wall says "unmoderated caucus".

We take a seat, close our eyes, and relax in the echoes of decades of brouhaha.

Do you want a drink?
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Patience and trust.

When others say something will take longer than I would expect, I trust them more. They're the ones who are doing it; they know the details that I don't. And it would take too long to make them explain all the details to me. And as they work on it and realize it will take even longer, I have sympathy because boy have I've been there myself.
A tweet isn't the same as stealing a comedians set and for most comedians ist the "way they tell them" that realy makes it funny - only Woody Allen would be able to realy do justice to say the "moose" sketch or the late Pete Cook the Judge sketch.

And the Full English sketch only works if its an Asian commic doing it.
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I've got a system reporting glibc 2.11, but the test reports 'not vulnerable'.
Would this not be equally useful just triggering the standard iOS camera? Tap to focus, volume buttons and a large shutter button take photos.
change the password next time they do it.
>Stealing a comedians joke is similar to stealing a developers source. I'm surprised at some of the responses here

Source code isn't written to be shared or to entertain others with. Quite the opposite, in fact, as we strive to protect source while still releasing the products built from it.

A bit of an idiotic comparison really.
I can't seem to load the page...

That said while we're on this topic, I've always enjoyed Drew Houston's take on it:http://www.quora.com/How-do-I-find-good-technical-co-founder...

"Unfortunately this is a classic problem. "How do I find a really hot single girl to go out with?"

* Good technical people will have ideas of their own that they're excited about, and working for a non-technical founder who, by the way, doesn't know or appreciate the difficulty or time it takes to make something well-engineered and undervalues you from an ownership standpoint, gets old quickly.

* People who are not hands-on building the product at the very early stage of the startup are usually not terribly useful until later, because building the product is most of the real work early on.

* Good engineers have a wealth of compelling opportunities at any given time, so it gets even worse if the non-technical founder is inexperienced, or hasn't already brought a lot to the table (funding, etc.) See, for example, http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2010-1... one view of how technical people perceive "idea guys" who "just need a programmer."

So, what can you do?

* One is look for a technical cofounder, not just an early employee, and give commensurate equity. Again, bear in mind that frankly he or she will be more valuable than you at this phase.

* Two is learn to code enough to bang out a prototype -- this will also make you a better engineering manager if you can appreciate the technical craft and can empathize with engineers. And there are tools like Balsamiq that can help create reasonable mockups that can convey your idea without writing code.

* Three, search the far corners of the earth for talent -- maybe you'll get lucky and find a CS student who hasn't been jaded by bad experiences with arrangements like this.
Or, if the technology you need developed isn't rocket science, you can try outsourcing, which is its own Pandora's box. Derek Sivers has a good post on managing that: http://sivers.org/how2hire

Good times, but this is what business cofounders bring to the table, right? They figure shit out, and it's hard work. Hiring the early team is just the beginning."
Of course, for that initial period, paying extra would be the way to go. The difference between what I suggest, and an ordinary probation period is thus: with an ordinary probation period, still only one person is hired, but not only do the others not get paid, the one person is still not guaranteed a job at the end of the process. My way's more upfront.
Whaaa... they're putting experimental ES7 features in a transpiler called 6to5? Or am I missing something?
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iOS give the user the ability to block a phone number, which I usually do when an unknown number calls. Like a commenter above, my process is reject and google, with the last step almost always being to block the number. I don't know how much good that does, though, because it's pretty easy for a company to work with a pool of numbers, so if I block one I can't necessarily block them all.
Its is funny seeing one of your college friends on a wired article. Aaron is a good guy.
"Thank goodness" is popular with the people who think "Thank God" is blasphemous.
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Does playing video games encourage kids to go shoot people?

You are thinking it from the wrong side as mentioned. If someone has those urges, they will look for real or drawn pictures, but if one doesn't, it won't immediately make you want to look for it because you saw it in a manga.
>>You would not get (much) child molestation if there was no public for these images in the first place.

You don't know that. Also, your argument sounds very similar to those that blame violent video games for actual acts of violence in society; which is also a very dubious position to hold. Afterall, Japan has some very violent Anime and yet I'm pretty sure incidents of actual violence in Japan is lower than most firstworld countries.
I remember my father saying FIFA 1996 graphics "looks like live TV".
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I'm not asking to prohibit anything. I'm just questioning the logic behind prohibiting one thing and actively encouraging one thing very close to what is being forbidden at the same time.