skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relevant: http://goo.gl/8lwsVL
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>It meshes with my personal experiences quite well. Unless someone takes a swing at me, I don't fight. I get by well with this principle.

Oh? And what would you do if you came across someone beating a child to death? Just watch and wait for him/her to take a swing at you before intervening?
People make that argument, but if you see how they act, they do not treat it like slavery outside of their arguments.

To bring up another hot topic to show a comparison (because I am more familiar making this point with the other topic), look at a group of pro-life people who call abortion murder, yet do not react the same as if it were. They do not treat those who participate in abortion as child murderers, they do not go through the same extremes that people go through to stop child murder, they do not even fully support rhetoric to treat it like murder (those who seek to outlaw abortions almost never support it being treated as murder with the same penalties, including the doctor being charged similar to a hitman and the mother similar to someone who paid a hitman for a hit). Look how they will treat individuals who had abortions but then changed their view to pro-life compared to how they treat those who have committed acts such as legally murdering a child (or things of near the same nature).

Yes, they say it is murder, but the vast majority do not actually act as if it is.

In the same way, those who say economic coercion is slavery do not act as if they were slaves.
No one is forcing openness here. You are not in "follow it or else" situation. You can just ignore as if nothing has happened. Where is force applied? It is imaginary.

In many cases, people act without consensus based on their decisions. Did you take consensus before posting above message? Just like you did what you thought as right, some one else make other decisions w.r.t wikileaks. Always, there will be initiative and later on consensus comes into picture.
Is this the first crack in the Hoover Dam that is Bloomberg Terminals? Probably not - but the widespread reliance on the $10k+ per year terminal in the financial services industry means that this thing is ripe for disruption. The key isn't to build a terminal replacement though. fintech startups need to chip away at little bits and pieces - and need to inter-operate as much as possible. Only then will the bbg dominance be reined in.
I've been programming in Scala for around a year and a half. I hate one thing about Scala, which is the community.

It's split into two, the people who wish Scala is Haskell (shapeless, scalaz &c) and the people who want Scala to be Enterprise Quality™

It causes lots of issues, as their goals for the language are completely different and Scala devs are usually in one camp or another.

As an aside, I always think that if your problems are much better expressed in Haskell, why are these developers not using Haskell?
> My own personal experience in the few European countries is the opposite, that being in the military was great for picking up girls.

As the popular proverb in Poland goes, "za mundurem panny sznurem" - "girls queue up behind an uniform[ed guy; follow him]".
Plenty of cars have been made without a three-point seat-belt.

I write plenty of Go in my time off but professionally I write C# in Visual Studio and the debugger is amazing. It's saved me thousands of hours cumulatively over the years.
I like Go a lot, but lack of a proper debugger can definitely be seen as an argument against it by someone considering the language.
Every few months I go back and read this thread to help center me again on expectations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7473787

I have about 10 threads bookmarked, but this one gets the most views over time.
The real story seems to be ItaliaCamp since they seemed to be the ones who gave the idea traction. But their website is only Italian.

Can the author or anyone else explain a bit more about ItaliaCamp and how they manage to successfully lobby for change?
How Kidz Bop took over the music industry
This is happening all over the nation. Here in small Durham, NC, we've seen biking more than double over the last 6 years. Most of the increase is young creative workers who've come for Durham's growing tech and advertising scene. It's also causing some growing pains -- we had three cyclists killed last year by cars.
First one I deployed I used martini but now I'd just use the net/http lib and pull in a few gorilla libs as needed.
the google captcha just says click to confirm you are not a robot. https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html
Maybe the second best.
Certainly some email does (expose political corruption and influence peddling), for sure. And if we published all email of every person everywhere, then we'd uncover a whole lot more.

Do you think we should do that? Where is the line?
For a nation that issues citizenship based on race and origin [2]

That's quite a leap you make there. Where exactly in the referenced article does it say that citizenship is based on race and origin?

and "categorizes" them

I do agree the categories are clumsy at best but how else is it possible to describe aggregated information without some form of categorization?
What's "JAI"? I've never heard of it, and Google/Wikipedia aren't showing any plausible candidates.
This might be worth a read:

http://codahale.com/the-rest-of-the-story/

http://codahale.com/downloads/email-to-donald.txt

Having worked with Scala; I'd say I love it.

Having worked with Scala; I'd say don't use it for most projects.

It is not the best language to start learning FP. Wrap your head around a dedicated FP language and if you still feel the need for a hybrid FP/OO language Scala is definitely worth a look.

However as it is a hybrid I've felt it made my code just too complex. Compared to Java there are a dozen more ways in Scala to fix something; and often you struggle to find the best way. This takes a lot of learning and it just isn't worth it. It's a great and elegant language in many ways, but I've come to dislike a lot of features of it.

Simplicity is one of those things that make a beautiful codebase. See also (recently featured on HN);

http://kotaku.com/5975610/the-exceptional-beauty-of-doom-3s-...
AMD has a fascinating history in relationship to Intel. Intel effectively propped them up in the early 1980s because IBM insisted on having multiple manufacturers available for x86 chips and not be reliant on a sole supplier. Intel handed AMD that business, then slowly chipped away at them.
There is a case study out on the web about this.
This isn't the exact one, but worth reading as well. http://davidamerland.com/seo-blog/676-amd-business-failings-...
I have been bankrupted once. $ < 1, people coming home to claiming money, the shame of going back living to my parents at 36.

It was hard.

I was my boss, I did stuff right. I just did not expected customers to lie about the idea of paying me.

I lived in a corrupted country where there was «legal way» of claiming back your money, but only if the company did not bankrupted, and justice was given by «peer» justice where my customers were the «judges».

This country is called France, the «arbitration» system is inherited from middle age and has never been reformed.

After personnal bankrupcy you are just down. You can rebound if you have family support, and you will need it.

I left my country. I am now a stranger in a stranger land with all the side effect it has (I am being paid less than the authorized minimum for stranger, preventing me from asking permanent residency). I still have no money, 5 years later I am still vulnerable and fearing the final blow that will definitly take me down. But, I am also resolved, pissed of, and people call me a troll.

It won't kill you, it won't make you better or stronger.

You might have insomnia, and trust issues, and maybe some doubt about justice.

However you will discover that having rich parents is the real way to get rich. And that poor people are always sided from society.

Of course I was blamed for everything that happened to me by all kind of «nice persons».

I am stil alive and kicking and resolved. But it was, and it is still hard. And if I am a troll, it might be because I feel I am less of a troll than the society we are living in.

I have no regrets or remorses. But I don't believe in the BullShits about being smart and a hard worker for succeeding in business.

You have all my support dear superpi.

Surprisingly it won't kill you, and you are young. You still have a life to live, and you may discover it is wonderful.

Actually, I am happily married even if fleas and bedbugs are preventing me from sleeping in my north american flat, even if I am broke, I enjoy life with my scratches from all the bugs bites...

If you can find a job in a government administration: get it in order to rebuild your savings and stabilize your situation.

PS: there are a lot of «nice persons» on HN. Your only crime is you were born poor, that is the reason of your failure.
"The Galaxy S6 is the phone to beat right now"
I don't feel the same. When the lines between corporations and government are as blurred as they are today, I don't think they deserve the same privacy as individuals inside their homes. Organizations aren't people.

EULAs, DRM, Super PACs - corporations are our rulers and we should not lay down and quietly submit.
I used to do that, then I released how many pieces of software I have installed, and tweaked and adjusted to my preferences. Usually there is little benefit to an upgrade so I just leave as is (or use a rolling release Linux distro).
Stoicism and Buddhism have some interesting parallels. They are very different in techniques and belief systems, but similar outlooks.
Yes!! Thank you! That was doing my head in.
Gender and Academia Redux: Researcher Bias Is a Big Deal
This right here is one of the driving forces behind American corporatism. While these cases are always launched claiming to be on the side of the angels, they ultimately ignore that all that extra legal overhead is not free, and only the currently large companies will be able to manage it, essentially barring any smaller competitors from entering the market. If a court rules that Uber drivers must be employees, then Uber can easily sue any competitors that try to enter the market unless they do the same. Uber will be able to prevent competitors from receiving the same advantages they did.

Also, look at:

> Deep-pocketed companies like Uber, which has raised nearly $5 billion in venture capital since launching, could surely afford the additional expense of putting drivers on its payroll.

The implications of this are decidedly harmful to both consumers and drivers. Once you set this precedent, it will only be the deep-pocketed companies that can afford to put drivers on their payroll. This is especially problematic in the States, where in spite of a substantial amount of their federal budget being for healthcare, lacks a comprehensive public healthcare system, so employee benefits can be quite expensive.

I've recently incorporated in Ontario, and working as/hiring people on contract is very easy. A big part of that is because, apart from issues relating to workplace safety, we're not responsible for paying for healthcare services for people who do work for us. It was also very easy to leave my cushy corporate job for a startup, because I didn't have to worry I'd be made destitute if I had to pay for a few nights in a hospital were I to contract a really bad flu or get hit crossing the street.

More and more I see the US turning into a country where you _must_ work for a large, established corporation. Lawyers like this are just helping those already on top stay there, at the expense of those in the middle or bottom.
Being 100% honest, the first thing it came to my mind after reading the title was "Why?".

And now I still don't know why.

Maybe I'm dead wrong but for me this is yet another case of pure tech fashionismo.
Running Android Studio and VS2015 side by side with no hardware problems (development-wise) on my Surface Pro 2. (Being honest, Chrome's significantly more of a resource hog than the two combined).

My only problem was an incompatibility with a specific virtualisation technology in the Surface to reduce boot time and Intel HAXM.

There's also a problem with bluetooth lag/packet loss when maxing out the WiFi.

I'm running an Apple Bluetooth keyboard and generic bluetooth mouse when I work from home, Type cover on the go. The Type cover is terrible for the price, but it's an OK keyboard. The touchpad leaves much to be desired.
Looking back at my blog, this was in 2011. I am not doing much OCaml these days either, actually.
Will Your App Survive a Bug Bash?
It uses client-side rendering, WebGL I think.
Most of the time that's what you'll get. But there are (or at least were when last I was there) two or three people who will respond unpleasantly, and I want to be honest about that.
> Your interpretation of corruption may not be equal to its lawful meaning

Corruption has been legalized thanks to... corruption.

You see the problem ? When the law is written by lobbyists, lawful does not bear anymore any meaning.
Slack is a great product but I do not think it's worth $2.8B. Hipchat has a much bigger company behind it and people switched to Slack pretty quickly because for the most part it is a better product. The reason for that switch is because the cost of switch is relatively minimal. Any competitor can come in and take that away from Slack. They are only worth this much if the tech landscape is static, which we all know it isnt. Just my 2 cents.
We've found the same. Sometimes the notifications come through when they should, sometimes they all come in a flood many hours after they should have.
They didn't necessarily want x86, it just happened that that was the only sensible option available at the time. What they really wanted was an SoC or APU as opposed to a discrete CPU and GPU, as that is a lot cheaper. And as you say, Intel is too expensive and has no good graphics, Nvidia only has ARM which isn't powerful enough, and IBM doesn't do graphics nor SoCs. Which left AMD which has good graphics, ok CPUs and the experience to put them together in an SoC.
As a hypothetical, if you started a one-person side project, or freelanced or something, would you feel it equally appropriate for your work emails to be published, in bulk, unredacted, without your permission or consent, by people who hacked into your computers?

Would it be appropriate for all YC funded companies to have all of their emails published on WikiLeaks tomorrow?

If not, what's the difference, and where do you draw the line?
Ask HN: Growth strategies for bootstrappers
While there's tons of advice and content for growth hacking for funded startups, are the same strategies relevant for bootstrappers?

How did you as a bootstrapping company, grow from 0 to 1,000 customers? I'm already doing customer development and reaching out to my target market but just wondering if there are more ideas that you would be willing to share?
I wanted to link the picture of my Google profile but the permissions you ask are a bit too... permissive. It says it's for retrieving my picture, but it is asking for things like managing my contacts.
Hi,

From the announcement:

> We’ve got all sorts of ideas for making Carnival even better, but the most important features are the ones users want – so please, sign up, try it out, and let us know what you’re looking for.

These all sound like great ideas!
There's a big difference between arguing your case in public on equal terms with your opponents and one side manipulating the politicians behind closed doors.

It's scary that a company in effect can write and pass laws, without the public being involved.
The outage isn't that bad. I've talked to 5 other firms in Canada this morning and haven't heard of a single one that is down.

Bloomberg's tickering plant is still working and their emsx(trading system) is up and running, albeit a bit slow right now.

I think it was on a stackoverflow podcast that Joel or Jeff said that it makes you wonder about people who complain about down time if they've ever built something of their own.

Google's been down, ditto for facebook, twitter and Azure. If you build a big service, something will eventually fail, Bloomberg is no different, if anything they are much better than Reuters or CapIQ for availability.

I saw this quote from another comment here:

> but the widespread reliance on the $10k+ per year terminal in the financial services industry means that this thing is ripe for disruption.

I completely disagree, Bloomberg isn't some slow lethargic big company. They iterate relentlessly, their help desk is the best I've ever had the pleasure of dealing with.

If I've got a problem with the trading system, their first level help will get me to a technical specialist in that area in under 30 seconds. If they can't solve it then I'll talk to a developer in 30 minutes.

Bloomberg is the leader in teh financial space, not only because their tech is the best in teh business, but because they listen to their customer better than their competitors, they release more frequently, and when they want to enter an area( say risk management) they go out and buy someone who is already a leader in that field.

In short they never stop running, if anything they are increasing the distance between them and their "peers".

As one example, they just posted a message to every Bloomberg terminal user telling us that the issue was an internal networking issue that has been solved.

EDIT to answer this question:

> How do they protect the ticker tape thing from attacks, like say, a DDOS?

2 things:

1) This question really doesn't make sense. How do you DDOS a one way line? They send you quotes for the tickers that you request. You can't really DDOS them, unless you do something like request tickers over and over again in a tight loop, in which case their api will rate limit you.

2) its a closed system. Only terminal users can access it and only through the bloomberg terminal or their api, so they control all the access points.
Is responsiveness a functional or non-functional requirement?
Fateful Phone Call Spawned Moore’s Law
A great documentary miniseries about this topic is War: A Commentary by Gwynne Dyer. In particular, the episode anyone's son will do:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_%28miniseries%29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DShDaJXK5qo

The episode covers what goes into training young people who enter the marine core. It features candid interviews with drill sergeants and the recruits themselves about their motivations. Well worth a watch.

One of the main points the episode makes is that the job of being a soldier is ultimately about killing and dying, something that doesn’t come naturally to most people. The method for turning young men into soldiers is basic training.

According to Dyer the secret of basic training is that its not really about teaching people, its about changing people.
He claims that if you want to change people quickly and radically, you put them in a place where the only right way to think and behave is the way you want them to. You isolate them and then apply enormous physical and mental pressure. i.e basic training. Essentially he claims that basic training is all about brain washing.

In the linked interview Sebastian Junger talks a lot about what it means to be a man. In particular:

“In that kind of environment,” Junger continues. “If you dare talk about what it means to be a man, what you’re saying is men are different from women.”

and

“We aren’t asking, ‘What does it mean to be a human being?’” he says. “‘What’s it mean to be a man?’ Once you have that conversation you offend a lot of academics.”

and

“Men are clearly wired for [war],” he continues. “The male response to war is an evolutionary adaptation that clearly works for our species.”

He doesn't quite claim that young mens desire to go to war has its roots purely in biology but he comes close. Personally I don't buy it.

I think the concept of going to war as a rite of passage, particularly in the USA, is a social construct that’s largely the result of pervasive propaganda. The US military has an impressive marketing budget and aggressively recruits in schools right across the country. In the US, joining the military is not seen as a weird or embarrassing thing to do. In contrast, in my country (Ireland), joining the military is seen as a somewhat odd choice.

What’s interesting about Dyer’s documentary is that it interviews recruits before they go through basic training. Many of them are poor with few job prospects and no sense of direction. The military gives them a sense of purpose and is socially acceptable thing to do.
SmartOS has been using this exact approach for years [1]. All be it with a more robust, secure, and battle hardened container implementation (Solaris Zones), file system (ZFS), and network virtualization layer (Crossbow) plus all of the introspection goodness of DTrace. What is old is new again.

[1]: https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Home
The GP said between the establishment of the papacy to Napoleon, so he's speaking about events well before there were 50 sovereign states in Europe or an EU.
Can an admin update to this link please (it won't let me change it now):

https://www.google.com/search?q=x*sin(y)
Nowhere in these emails does it say that Sony is reimbursing the execs for their contributions. If anything, the reluctance of having to ask execs to contribute indicates that they are not doing that.
That's kind of an entitled attitude. Society puts certain obligations on businesses, and providing certain benefits to employees is one of them. If you're too small to meet those obligations, then you shouldn't get a free pass on them. That just leaves the workers out in the cold.[1] I'm certainly willing to entertain the notion that we should pay for those benefits with taxes instead of pushing the burden on employers, but that's a separate argument.

[1] Although I'm actually not convinced the premise of Uber drivers being employees is correct.
Last time I checked, employees definately were people.
Spacemacs – Emacs advanced kit focused on Evil
They also talk about switching DBs. In my experience it is rarely the database choice but bad schema and/or poor SQL queries.
My personal motivation for rewriting some of my old PHP projects (albeit hobby projects at best) to Go is A) willingness to maintain PHP (which is almost nil) and B) rewriting programs can help discover bugs and re-understanding your programs.

But that's for small hobby projects, where the developer team is usually just me. For a large project, there should be some serious advantages to Go over PHP in their use cases. Don't get me wrong, I think Go is a better language to write websites in than PHP, but I am also a pragmatist.
Hacker in Trouble with Feds After Tweeting About 'Playing' with Plane Comms
My 7 yo would play minecraft all day
So we all would waste 10 to 20 minutes putting in functions.
Random anecdote: Was told by a trader a few years back that one trading desk had both Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters systems next to one another and once they were able to capitalise on Bloomberg being a few seconds faster to make a net gain.
A Car Game So Realistic That It Has Permadeath
Nginx and net/http has worked wonderfully for me. Nothing fancy is necessary.
There is a saying, I can't remember from where, that old men send young men to war because the old men know what war is. I think I'm telling it wrong. The original I heard implied exploitation.

The article is about young men choosing to go to war, in our all-volunteer military, but there wouldn't be a war to choose to enter if the mostly old, mostly white, mostly men in Congress didn't choose to have one.