skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, kind of a dubious move on your friend's part - how was the potential employee supposed to guess that the customer would feel embarrassed, in a bad way (as opposed to 'oh that picture was so embarrassing, haha')? Seems to me as it does you that it's the customer's reponsibility to own whatever s/he posts publicly.

I guess some people think that their followers on social media must all be personal acquaintances/relatives and are then weirded out to discover that some complete strangers may take an interest in them, but that's their problem Obviously there are exceptions to this, it wouldn't be cool to start an argument with someone over old Twitter comments or to say 'oh hey, I say you on the revenge porn subreddit.' It's sad that I even need to delineate such boundaries, but there you go.
sorry, but your comment is trolling! You just claim RS isn't "right" and name others who aren't "right" either - in your unfounded oppionion.

RS lists examples of FB malpractice, abuse of power and in contrast to your trash talk he is linking proof to each claim.
The now deleted comment above, (not by __david___ but the context for this thread), claimed that Stallman wrote all of the software that all of us use. That's not strictly true, for ls nor for diff.
Since this seems to just be a braindump, I might as well add Veritasium's comments on the matter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ZqXlHl65g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag

I found them pretty interesting listening from a content-distribution and -consumption side of things, rather than from a social-network perspective.
http://kazerad.tumblr.com/post/99022123468/shepherd-of-the-m... This post goes further into the shame idea and explores how communities use shame to self-censor and censor others from doing any supposedly-shameful activities, and on top of that explains some of the importances of anonymity in a way that I think most people on HN haven't considered before.
> It's not that difficult.

It is bloody difficult.

Last time I tried using the VMs, the license expired after 3 months, and the VMs didn't work well under VirtualBox/Linux.

Touch support in particular is completely crappy. MSPointer events in IE10, with horrid corner case bugs. Changed to pointer events (no prefix) in IE11, with different bugs. Windows Phone 8.1 update to IE11 supports iOS style ontouchstart events.

Pinch zoom is different from page zoom, and pinch zoom doesn't act the same as iOS/android.

I hate Microsoft's bullshit touch support.

Oh, and about 0.1% (measured) of our users are using IE with touch... What a waste of my time.
If you don't let people use two factor auth, they bitch about your lack of security. If you let people use two factor auth, they bitch that you're collecting phone numbers. Can't win.
What resource would you suggest to a person new to programming?

Sorry if this place is inappropirate
The shape it makes when electricity passes through it reminds me more of Lichtenberg figures: http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Lichtenberg_figure
We are still far away from this short story reflecting reality. Do you have a better example?
Here's a funny one: Stallman came to my uni to give a speech to CompSci alumni 10 years ago, and he told the audience that he didn't own a cellphone, cos phones were being used to track people. He also talked about the backdoors in several OS's. Everybody was laughing at his words. We're talking 10 years ago.

Few months ago remembering this speech with old uni mates we talked about how damn right that excentric man was. He saw it coming, and tried to warn everybody... Maybe he's a bit of an "extremist", but he certainly has a point.
Žižek's first hand experience of communism and being (somewhat) punsihed for being a dissident (by being unable to get employment for several years despite his strong academic credentials) are quite insightful, although he does take the scenic route when it comes to articulating his points. That's OK though, I find his talking pleasant to listen to even though I've heard most of his jokes many times now.
Is there any chance that the full code base (not just the API and supporting projects) will be open sourced ?
My dentist has advised me not to brush after a sugary meal or drink for at least an hour, otherwise you are effectively brushing the sugar into your teeth. Perhaps this also applies (but with a lesser timeframe) for meals that aren't so sugary.
One of the things I like about BBQ is that it does not lend itself to chain stores in malls and stuff like that. The US doesn't need any more of those things.
Much of the code you don't think was ever built on a modern system was being built. Either because they enabled the workaround everywhere on purpose, or because the preprocessor test was borked and the modern code never enabled.
the zuckerberg variation might be even more totalitarian like the ones before! The STASI would have loved facebook for what it is.
The problem I have with these rants is I just don't recognise this characterisation of a facebook user at all. I have an account. I check it on my phone a couple of times a day, never post anything apart from the occasional baby photo to a family group, comment on a post maybe once a month, never 'like' anything other than birthdays or weddings. I've been doing that for about 4 years now and never felt any urge to expand my use. My wife is the same. So too my younger sister. I don't know anyone who spends so much time on it that it affects their life, and whatever mundane information facebook has on me isn't going to give me sleepless nights.
Oh definitely, that's what I'd expect when you just pump electrons in it with DC. But alternating current should lead to interference patterns of some sort.
Well, to some it is a bad thing. Then again, we do all have our own opinions. And we, as a society, have not yet achieved consensus/agreement on whether socialism is good/bad.
It would be cheaper, easier, and quicker to just do away with security theater completely. Pesto, no wait time at all!
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why not make a list of good things FB has done for you and compare?

- less chain mails
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"Just fix the bug, learn whatever you can from it so hopefully you won't do it again"

The baggage associated with bugs is so prevalent that we can't talk about them without a real sense of shame. "Hopefully you won't do it again".

Bugs are just part of the cycle. I completely agree with your assessment that people who can realize that are happier and more productive because they can plan for the probable case.
"Calling all of the protestors in Ferguson "thugs" seems pretty off base"

Well, if he's referring to peaceful protestors, sure no one can agree that it's okay to call them "thugs". Because there is absolutely nothing wrong with peaceful protesting.

Now, on the other hand, if he's referring to violent protestors that damage property, loot, incite violence, and hurt innocent people. Then yeah, he's well in the green to refer to them as "thugs" because he's describing what some would consider "thuggish" behavior.
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I've also noticed a stark reduction in content from friends. Perhaps we're all growing up and posting less, perhaps Facebook's algorithms are hiding all their posts for some arbitrary reason, I don't know.

All I know, is that if it weren't for the few vocal friends and pages that keep things mildly interesting, I would have no reason to be on Facebook at all.
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> It should be expected that a subreddit would get high ratings for bigotry and for being under siege when it is explicitly dedicated to singling out and insulting other people on the same site.

The fact you think TwoX is "dedicated to insulting other people on the site" says a lot more about you than it does about that subreddit. None of it especially complimentary.
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> virility of his license

Ah, that was a typo for "virality". I was scratching me head there for a minute.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virility
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_phenomenon
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Many people here already acknowledged that this text misses some details, but I'll put it even harsher: even though it's interesting to read, in fact it's just completely wrong and somewhat misleading.

Author starts by mentioning huge, complicated and ambitious projects and pointing out how seemingly insignificant mistake makes all difference between "it works!" and "it doesn't work!", which sure will sound familiar to what we experience every day, but on different scale. With this impression he moves on to talking about modern software in the industry and at home, and how we fail to write correct code and why.

But in reality, nobody (except the programmer himself, maybe, if he fails to see the bigger picture) gives a fuck about correct code. Glitches and errors are ok, if they don't make software unusable and prevent us from achieving some global business-goal. It's ok for landing-site to have a CSS bug, that makes some button look weird in certain situation, unless it really annoys the customer and we lose sale — the chances are that nobody even notices, and it may be fixed next week or even never. It's ok to put your business-critical back-office software on production and find out that it contains some really nasty bug, which you'll fix in a hurry in the next 20 minutes. It's ok for Ubisoft to spend millions of dollars on production and then ship game with bugs, which will be fixed with the next patch-release. It's ok to have stupid over-complicated networking protocol, that might have been 5 times more efficient, but still is usable and allows people to do something they couldn't have done before.

What is not ok is to spend millions of dollars on development and then never ship the product. It is not ok to let your client to find a solution which works for him, but is cheaper. In a word, whatever actually hurts your business is not ok. And the truth is that cheap solution that is "somewhat ok" is usually better, than the expensive "good solution".
Same take, different personalities? I know and have known for a long time (in fact that was a small epiphany back then:) there will always be bugs no matter how much better I'll be in the future. And I do learn from them and fix them as they come by. But unfortunately that does not, and likely will never, stop me from feeling somewhat bad/stupid about creating one. Maybe I make it sound worse than it is though - it's not like bugs affect me more than is healthy or keep me up at night. After all: in the end the bug is fixed anyway so nothing to worry about anymore :P
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I tried implementing the same paper's algorithm in the past and somewhat succeeded - but gave up in the end.
Precumputing the automatons was slow as hell, I came to a similar conclusion as the authors (N > 2 isn't really feasible, but was something I was interested in) and my plumbing sucked.

I'm really not experienced reading papers and this was the only one I ever tried, so I cannot compare it to others. It certainly was quite hard to follow for me and took some month of nightly dabbling before I reached the point above.
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and still you talk about him like a pariah.
I really don't get the resentiment here about RS. What has he done to you americans? Bursting the bubble of harmless tech? I say americans cause I am sure, if we would make a poll, those who disregard RS points, without even try to proof the opposite, seem to be US.

What if Peter Thiel or Paul Graham would have compiled such a list. Cheering waves of agreement I figure.
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I get annoyed by this because Stallman wasn't exactly predicting a hurricane, here. It's like making a conclusion about Ukraine. Nobody can prove it, but most people infer. Certainly since 641A and other even older signals those who pay attention received, the possibility of total surveillance was plainly apparent. The people who laughed it off were merely banking on the morality of government, but it was not a surprise at all that such things were technically possible. Those who paid attention already knew. Just no proof.

He was not some oracle of technical insight that nobody else had or shared. Many people made such claims long before he did. His free software ideals put him in a very good position to be retroactively proven right about surveillance, because the people who are super into free software and the people who practice real opsec end up looking fairly similar.

I'm not minimizing that he was right, just countering that we all were. And we failed to deliver the message and/or trusted in our government a bit too much. 641A should have been the catalyst. The EFF continues on it to this day. It took Snowden and the proof to get there, and we are still not there. I don't think we even know where the hell "there" is.

Another important thing to remember is had we listened, nothing would have changed. Us heeding Stallman and others wasn't the problem, it was a state actor perpetrating while making it nearly impossible to know about it. It makes us kumbaya a bit, maybe democracy could have fixed it, but all of us were (and are) almost entirely powerless in representative government. Even Joe Biden said as much on VICE the other night, just about a different topic.

Surveillance was going to happen. It was a done deal. The terrorists beat us the second those aircraft hit, because terror has driven us every minute since.
I'm pretty sure there is some fundamental queueing theory to back this up, as it's the main takeaway I had from a queuing theory course I took in college. Can't remember the details though, so I'm not sure it would still apply if a single queue entailed long walks from the head of the queue to the nearest available 'processor'.
EDIT: more background here
https://possiblywrong.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/why-multiple-...
It appears you might be right in practice.
> most people cannot afford psychologically to not have kids.

Wait, really?
Stallman predicted the rise of e-readers and the problems that would arise from DRM protected e-books.
You should invest in some washing bags if you haven't already. We have the same problem with our chinese washing machine.
If you're starting out in Scala I'd recommend you try use the Scala IDE (Eclipse) first until you're reasonably comfortable in the language. Reason being, that Eclipse provides much better feedback regarding types, syntax errors, logic errors and so on. Which is immensely helpful when you start writing not-so-simple FP expressions.

After a month or two in Eclipse then switch to IntelliJ for a much faster, smoother, and intuitive GUI and user experience.

That's the path I followed, imho I can't imagine learning Scala in IntelliJ.

Good luck :)
I think this would be super-interesting to have and use in practice - you'd probably end up with a kind of stream-of-conscious scroll of your daily activities!
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Sounds like you could be a poster child for 1984. In your keenness to try discredit what Stallman is saying you cherry pick a few examples and completely avoid most of the far more serious issues raised here. I can only hope that if the day comes when the authorities come lock up 1 of your family members because of something they did not even post, but started writing then changed their minds and deleted it, you remember your blind support and lack of critical thinking on this occasion.
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Of course this would be the most upvoted comment on HN
Gah, you got my ass there.
I played this game back in the day. It was unique and innovative and pretty fun. However, it was already bargain bin by the time I found it. I remember it being kind of a pain because everyone needed a CD and getting it to work with NAT was a pain.

It is $6 on steam if you want to try it: http://store.steampowered.com/app/254880/ http://www.gog.com/game/moonbase_commander
Any commercial bank that is not totally useless will be able to give you access to payments, transactions and account statements. There are standards for this, for instance ISO 20022 (xml based) or older protocols used in the SWIFT network.

The banks will charge a fair amount for this though, and they will do it only for large customer and financial institutions. One reason is that it's one of the thing that they make money from in transactional banking.

One other reason is that it's technically challenging, both for a customer and the bank to set up a secure message interchange, and there is no standard for authenticating the messages, or the sender.(That I know of, that's reasonably sane.)

One other reason is that it's normally a lot of manual work to set up all this for a customer.

It's also expensive to devlop a solution for this. There are a lot of systems that handles different things - ledgers, payment systems, message brokers, authorisation systems, the actual internet banking system, etc. In any case, it's more than one system and it's complex.
Nice Topic. Actually i'm in the web development field for past three years. The reality of the web development was difficult to understand.
This doesn't match up with my experience at all.

I have easy access to photos people share with others now, so I can see pictures of their kids and the like (and see that they went to Hawaii or something). I've been able to get back into contact with people I met at an event long ago and chat with them. I hear about my friend's projects, which lets me message them.

My friends and I organise events through facebook. We can keep track of location and post pictures of the event afterwards.

The end result is I am in contact with way more people than I could manage with the friction of calling/keeping tabs on everyone all the time. It also results in a lot of real-world interaction. There are people I meet twice, three times a year and _that's totally fine_ because without a tool like fb I would never meet them. My circle of friends would be way smaller without fb.

Of course I keep contact with very close people through other mechanisms as well. But claiming that facebook results in less social interaction doesn't match up with my experiences too well
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All good thoughts, but not specific to web dev! Applies to any career path you're serious about.
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I can see how yelling can be interpreted as caring, but I can also see it as just another poorly way to handle conflicts (kind of like being passive aggressive which I've seen a few examples of Steve Jobs being). I suppose I'd rather work in a place where my boss handle conflicts without yelling nor being passive aggressive.
I am tracking my productivity day-by-day. It's generally sloppy, but there were a few outliers where I got done a lot. All these days had one thing in common: I forgot my smartphone at home.
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We have some, but they are an additional hassle and I'm not sure they help overall. Certainly good for bras and similar stuff.
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Yes. Having kids is the simplest and most natural way to get this sentiment of usefulness and achievement that is much harder to get from a daily job. RMS and other creators get this from their creations, but it is not given to everyone to have enough talent and dedication to make something useful to the others. So when they die they leave something behind. Another option is to believe in God and afterlife, which is just denying that we are mortals, but it requires a very strong self-persuasion skill, which is also not given to everyone. For me, I will just leave my kids behind, and it is enough.

(By the way, leaving a new new Javascript framework does not count, sadly.)
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> This is a strange case. Assange is accused of "non-
> consensual behaviour within consensual sexual
> encounters." This crime/law unique to Sweden

He's accused of rape. There is a good summary:

http://jackofkent.com/2012/06/assange-would-the-rape-allegat...
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"Many people made such claims long before he did." Could you give an example?

I also think it's dangerous to say that we shouldn't act because we are almost entirely powerless in representative government. Same argument could have been made against civil rights and suffrage movements throughout history.
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