skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Governments all believe that the supply of money must be managed for the sake of the economy. This might be true, but any currency built on this belief will be valued lower than a fixed-supply currency.

It's hard to create and distribute a new currency, and convince people that it's worth something. Bitcoin has done that, and it will be hard for even governments to convince people that there's a better option.
The Illustrated Guide to Law is doing a section on this right now: misconceptions of how memory works, how it really works, and how we fill in gaps in memory without realizing it or intending to. http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=3032

As an aside, I don't think the expert they quoted could have had a better paired name to go with their statement than: "Said Dr. Strange, 'It is surprising to the average person how quickly memories can be distorted.'" Read it in your best super villain voice.
A definition of free speech that excludes 'hate speech' is faulty.

"Hate speech is not free speech" is a remarkably inane statement.

If you are against hate speech, you are against free speech. Opposing free speech is not an unacceptable position however.
Ask HN: Copyright infringement or fair/nominative use
I'm funding a board game on Kickstarter. The game is about innovation, and uses a "historical" scenario to be more concrete. Players choose Friendster, Myspace, Facebook or Twitter as their company and fight for dominance over the social media industry.

I'm making the game in Norway, and feel safe with regards to local copyright law. Someone, however, made the point that games could be held and or destroyed by US customs. I have done a little research and wonder whether this does not fall under fair and/or nominative use?

Here's a link to a picture of the game cards that mention the companies:

https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/003/712/821/bba8377999ac5c8a86910de76c7c93d2_original.jpg?v=1430490587&w=700&h=&fit=max&auto=format&q=92&s=fbaee50cf2f30f83829a98f102b241b9

The Kickstarter (for context): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/44846941/playing-lean-relaunch-play-leaner

Any input would be appreciated!
Lobbying is like any other organization of man: government, organized religion, corporations, unions, non-profits, etc. Once they get to a certain size, once people are supported solely by the organization and thus put their need for it to exist and grow and flourish above even its stated purpose, it can (and seemingly inevitably does) become corrupt.

Lobbying on Net Neutrality, done by a bunch of technology workers passionate about the issue is fine. Lobbying on Net Neutrality by professional lobbyists (selling their rolodex) and corporate lawyers, who donate, wine/dine, hire nephews, host fundraisers, etc is not.

It's pretty clear which version people are talking about when they complain about lobbying. (Hint: less to do with reddit, more to do with K Street) And professional lobbying is pretty much inherently corrupt.
Things are different in third-world countries, but at least in the US, the rich person with 24/7 security is a rare beast. Go look for yourself and drive through some wealthy neighborhoods. They have alarm systems like us plebians, not bodyguards.

There are certainly exceptions, for the super-rich and some kinds of celebrities, but it's not very common.
I don't mean to assert this is an optimal scenario, but it is the one we've all been placed in. What choice do we really have but to try and live according to the circumstances we were born into?
this is free speech - as long as no one gets arrested for expressing an opinion. Free speech doesn't mean no one gets to disagree with you in a public forum.

https://xkcd.com/1357/
The user should be ultimately be in control of how pinned a particular key is. My bank should be able to mail me a USB drive with their certificate on it and I should be able to make the use of that certificate mandatory for any host from their domain.
I would say the original statements and your version of the statements are the same thing. If they were not they should read as:

Embrace some viewpoints.
Allow some freedom of expression.

With whatever variation on the language as necessary. If the statement doesn't originally place a restriction on the idea, then it isn't necessary to specifically state there is no restriction.

Therefore, I would say that technically:

Embrace viewpoints.
Embrace all viewpoints.

Are, in fact, the same thing.

As for maintaining decorum, that where the restrictions come into play and have to be specifically stated:

Embrace diversity of viewpoints by permitting all
statements that follow community guidelines on language
pertaining to harassment, crudeness, personal attacks,
etc. Any statements may be censored for not following
community guidelines.
Oh no, this could ruin death. Steve Jobs: '... because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent.'.

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/oct/06/steve-jobs...
Aristocratic hamburgers? I wonder if they could recreate this menu today, the way it was prepared then.
MIT deep-learning system autonomously learns to identify objects
My opinion, for what it's worth:

The manager at the big company wants you. You want the money. Working at the big company doesn't seem so bad that you're unwilling to consider it.

Your current employer forces you to demand raises raises rather than just paying you what you're worth. This is basically an adversarial relationship and your demands only have teeth if you are willing to walk out the door.

Assuming that both companies are more or less equally acceptable as places to work, the choice is:

Big company: guaranteed 50% pay bump on the table.
same sort of work you are doing now.
more room for growth.
clearly sees value in the work you do.

Current company: maybe a pay bump, maybe not.
paying below market rate.
makes salary increases confrontational.

One thing to consider is that if you get the 50% raise at your current company, how long will it be before you resent the fact that they were underpaying you before you played hardball? My experience tells my gut that once someone has to threaten to leave in order to get a raise, everyone is usually better off if the person just takes the other job.

Finally, in any large company, it is likely that a manager in a position to offer you a job has already worked through any contractual obligations in regard to hiring you away from your current firm. Such contracts typically acknowledge the possibility ways that are reasonable on both sides. But, it is important to ask the manager offering you the job, what the process is.

Good luck and congratulations on the offer if nothing else.
I realize that's who made it and initially adopted it and currently uses it. But lots of BitCoin fans talk about it being adopted more universally. Which is what I was referring to being unlikely.
You probably heard it mentioned as shadowbanning. That is when a person can comment but no one will see their comments.
no it isn't, that's exactly the concern the initiator of this thread of conversation had.

It doesn't matter if it's reasonable or not as long as it isn't ultimately harmful to the person.

If you dox someone or follow them around for a length of time attacking them, you should be banned for it as it creates a hostile environment.

But that is a far cry from telling someone in no uncertain terms that you think their opinion is ridiculous.

Personally, I've been wanting a reddit alternative for a while, but everything out there sucks in some manner (don't get me started on hubski...). I would love for this to push enough people onto the other platforms for the content to be there. I doubt it will, but that doesn't stop me from wishing it would happen.
To me, as a channer, those values are "iffy".

What to you mean by "Create a safe space to encourage participation".

Define a safe space. I can't physically hurt anyone, so that's a given. But are they considering a "safe space" a place where I can't say anything potentially insulting, offending or hurtful? In that case, I don't have freedom of expression and neither is Reddit encouraging (my) participation.
I usually don't respond to trolls but this time I will.

I'm less concerned about my employer - after all we have the post-slaughter Charlie Hebdo cover framed on the wall - and thinking more of female coworkers. In case you haven't noticed, there is a huge "women are oppressed!" theme being pushed.

True or not, something like this is likely to set them off and result in negative consequences for you.
I have to grapple with Blackboard every day, it's just awful. We had Moodle at school - it wasn't great either.
Well, if we are including all millionaires, I doubt the majority of them have a security detail, as that would eat into a million fairly quickly unless you underpay them, in which case you are probably increasing your risk.
Can someone explain to me in laymen's terms what stoicism means in this context? I've googled it and have a general idea, but am curious what it means to everyone here, and why it and mindfulness seem to be having a minor fad/resurgence recently.
This sounds much more involved than GiveDirectly's simple cash drops. It would be nice to see a comparative analysis of the two.

I'm also curious how this scales. Give one family in an area money/support and they can escape extreme poverty. If you give the same boost to every family in an area, do you get a bigger impact, or smaller? And is there a point where having n% of the people in an area boosting out of poverty leads to the other (100-n)% being _worse_ off? Or are they all better off?

At any rate, this is really exciting. Both that they did RCTs to test it, and that it worked really well.
Do you know what a shadowban is? It's not just a page that says "you were banned for being abusive"

It's actually an anti-spam measure, because when you post while being shadowbanned you see your posts, but nobody else does. That means you could be posting for a long time and not even know all of your posts are actually invisible.

That's not just telling someone to fuck off the site. That's actually erasing them from the site because they won't even make a new account - they'll keep posting and not even know they're invisible.
> I really hope this doesn't kill the site

All things must end. Reddit had its day in the sun and maybe it's time for something new to take its place.
What Is Material Design?
The original is one of my most used Mac apps: being able to pick any colour from any program with one keystroke and a click, then to paste the hex into my text editor with one more keystroke has been invaluable. No idea whether version 2 is worth paying for again, but a quick scan of the site makes it look good.
Please add Ask HN: if you are intention is to "ask HN".

I clicked the link a couple of times before i released what you have done.
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‘Magnonic’ holographic memory device could improve speech and image recognition
It doesn't matter if it's reasonable or not as long as it isn't ultimately harmful to the person.

That's your opinion on it. Reddit, it would appear, has a different opinion. As, I believe, would the admins of Hacker News.
That's a good thought, but you'd probably need to know the problem domain in advance to do that. The reason we use Turing complete languages is because you can't predict what solutions need to be expressed, so you err on the side of allowing them all.
Wit – Natural language for Developers
I don't have figures but I guess growing forest are mainly replacing perpetual meadow
Follow the posting etiquette. Prepend 'Ask HN:' to your question.
I failed to see the Read More. Thanks.
‘Big Win’ for Big Brother: NSA Celebrates the Bill That’s Designed to Cuff Them
I said it in another thread, I visit a subreddit with very strict moderation. Very strict. The place is wonderful for regulars and newcomers. It is healty and strong. One of the rules is:

>If we find that you are active in any subreddits that promote hatred toward any particular group of individuals, your participation rights in this sub will be revoked.

And another:

"Mod abuse will not be tolerated"

Those rules have worked for years.
> It's hard to create and distribute a new currency, and convince people that it's worth something.

I don't buy this premise. Lots of online games have also done this. They do this by finding a target audience and hooking them in, and then saying "If you want more you have to pay."

BitCoin just targeted libertarians. People have made other BitCoin forks for other audiences. Granted none of them took off like BitCoin, but that's because they were all pretty much jokes targeted at a small niche.
We had Moodle at school and it was bad, but it's nothing on Blackboard. Not even close.
> To think that something that even bacteria and molds won't be able to eat and break down is going to enter my body as sustenance...that's a little unsettling.

Do you eat salt? Dried pasta? Rice? Honey? None of these things really go off, either.

http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/11/the-burger-lab-r...

> It means that there's nothing that strange about a McDonald's burger not rotting. Any burger of the same shape will act the same way. The real question is, why?

TL;DR: moisture content is the issue. If you get a thin, dry piece of supermarket bread it'll sit there forever too.
Some popular subreddits have pretty petty mods and there is no real recourse to being banned from the sub even if you explain your position and why it didn't violate any posted rules; if anything challenging their decision seems to send most in to a tizzy.

the real challenge will be users attempting to use the system to shut down other subs or posters within. there are some seriously hate filled subs that people do try to get shut down with false claims of reddit rules violations; namely vote manipulation

given they also freely allow multiple accounts will they shut down all accounts they can prove are related? how do they handle multiple accounts on one IP where the users truly are distinct
Google’s self-driving cars will hit the road this summer
Pan Ams draw more hosts than renters to Airbnb
I thought, for a moment, the article was about startups moving into the Tsukiji area and threatening the fish market. Then I remembered that there's been talk about moving the fish market for years. I lived in Tokyo for 3 years and never woke up early enough to go see it—ate the fish, but never saw the market.
Half the price per hour but takes twice as long.... You can pay me now or you can pay me later...
Growth Hacking: Best Blog Topics to Increase Page Views
I'm checking this out right now. Looks interesting!
> Those millionaires and billionaires by and large do not have large piles of untraceable money sitting around.

Neither does Szabo. What Bitcoins he has are traceable and they are not just sitting around. The usual imagination is that someone would threat/torture and kill him and his family to get his keys, but that's extremely high profile and risky and works just as well for normally wealthy people. (Send your wife to take out one million dollars cash from the bank or I'll kill your children!)

> Satoshi, whoever he is, does have a large pile of what may be untraceable money though.

How would it be untraceable? Bitcoin, unlike cash, is very traceable.

Szabo's situation is not at all different from anybody else who is wealthy.
Bitcoin is hardly untraceable. The blockchain is a public ledger.
Try http://voat.co/. It is very small right now, but growing.
You can learn to be better. You can practice being the person you want to be, and so more reliably be that person even when it's hard.

Some things you can control. Some you can't. Your response to the things you can't control is one of the things you can control.
This sort of thing is cool to read about. Now I have to go back to my web developer job and continue working on a site that won't need to scale . I guess this goes for the 99% of the planets web developers as well.
Voat gained a lot of its members when it was hailed as reddit without as much admin intervention. A few months ago there was a concern among some reddit users that admins were deleting posts that criticized reddit's CEO; there are also some conspiracy-theory level accusations that admins were deleting posts in line with "SJW" ideal (when I say SJW, I mean the conception of SJWs held by the people who frequently complain about them).

As a result, many of the members of voat are the types of people who seem to have a chip on their shoulder when it comes to things like being civil on the internet. They are the types of people who obsess over reddit's current CEO Ellen Pao, or who hold opinions which they defend with "free speech" in the way described by this comic[1]. Honestly, in my opinion they're just assholes.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/1357/
I am aware of what it means, yes - though I'm not really sure why the nature of shadowbanning is relevant in whether someone deserves to be banned or not. As you suggest, if someone is outright banned they'll likely just make a new account. Shadowbanning is, if anything, a far more sensible type of ban.

And it's something that - at the risk of repeating myself - Hacker News also does.
besides the condition listed below it is not permitted for users on one sub to cast votes on another sub by request/suggestion/etc. There is leeway if the user voting is subbed to both but it is not supposed to happen
idealistically, yes. practically, there has to be a limit on speech. Shouting fire in a crowded theater is the canonical example of this.
If you want a free color picker for OS X see Sip:
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/sip/id507257563?mt=12
It depends if we are talking local or outsourced.

From a coworker, he says what you save in money up front you will lose in time trying to communicate what you want with them, getting the result, smacking yourself in the head while finding it makes zero logical sense, having to send it back, get the results, find more problems, etc, all with massive delays due to time zones.

His company laid off a lot of good staff and outsourced with him as the manager. He said it has not been worth it and makes his life dealing very unhappy. Like herding cats.

I don't deal with Indian programmers but I deal with DBAs and others that look after data centre infrastructure. They are more than worthless - they are dangerously incompetent. The massive company I work for has spent a lot of money insourcing to get away from these idiots after years of letting all their infrastructure decay and rolling outages. When you scale up all those incidental costs add up (but the contractual SLAs are rarely enforced because you're afraid to anger the people who are running your whole business).

That's not to say Indians as people are stupid. Far from it. Actually our company has a lot of Indian staff who are integrated locally and are excellent and intelligent, I consider them good friends. And some of them plain suck.

Most also recognise these outsourced people as scum. Though I feel that's a little unfair except for how they make dealing with them a living hell. Every part of the model is broken from their parent company contracts, managers, processes on both sides, communication and cultural differences (Indians as a rule always say yes whether they will do it or not because it's considered polite; they also won't action anything or even respond unless a higher manager is included in the mail). Technical work becomes impossible when you can't clearly get an answer about what is going on.

We don't outsourced to China but have a very multicultural staff. I would hesitate to say any race was "better" than the others. I only know outsourcing to India will eventually kill your business.

So that's our experience.
Same reason Mother Theresa build modest homes for the lepers. If you do more others resent it, make noise and the donation chain dries up.
You replace them with new intuitions about what kinds of transformations are allowed. (Like unitarity.)
Is D-Wave a Quantum Computer?
Libertarian junkie here; government don't need a bitcoin clone because if they want to control it then all inventive tech in bitcoin is unnecessary and if they don't want to control it they can just use bitcoin.
> I really hope this doesn't kill the site, but it looks bad.

The issue with Reddit is why would anyone spend a couple hours writing thoughtful comments when there is some algorithm that just deletes them at random? The obvious answer is they wouldn't. And so by and large the people who used to contribute good content have already left.

I doubt this change will push the site into a death spiral, but in general when rules like this are created then it certainly signals that there probably weren't many obviously better options.
I noticed that about Japan as well, there was a line out the door for McDonald's when I was in Osaka a few years ago.

Part of the difference is experience: your typical American major-city McDonald's is ill-maintained and staffed by unpleasant people, the food being terribad is just the icing on the shitcake and given how few fucks seem to be given about service quality or cleanliness, the chances it'll give you salmonella are probably much higher. Quite different from the magical wonderland where hamburgers grow on trees we were sold on by the 1980s television commercials.

In Japan, cute 20-something girls take your order and serve your food with a little Handi-Wipe to clean up with after you're done. The restaurant is spotless and though a Japanese Big Mac tastes identical to an American Big Mac, you don't feel like it will give you food poisoning. From my limited experience with Australian McD's it's much the same and they turn into trendy little hangout spots.
I'm really interested in knowing what subreddit that is.
/r/iama/ one of their main revenue sources, is all about self-promotion.
It probably didn't when electronic spreadsheets came out originally, either.
kind of windows equivalent: http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.php

If there's a Linux one, I'd be interested
PyCharm 4.5
jQuery's bad api naming shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who followed JavaScript in the past 10 years. They used bind for event handling, proxy for binding, grep as some kind of filtering, keys and indexes are flipped in the looping construct, etc. etc. It really mirrors PHP's interfaces in a lot of ways.
OK OK - I did not mean to stress you or anything :)
You'll easily get banned from a subreddit dedicated to North Korea, as a joke. Create another account from the same IP and try to post something else on that subreddit and now you're hellbanned on the whole site for that IP because of some hidden rule.
Never mind, found gpick
I actually spend more time on reddit than on HN. HN is great as a tech news source and the comments are usually top notch and offer even greater insight than the original article posted.

That said, reddit, once you ignore all the immense levels of hatred, bigotry, and memes, has quite a few great groups of people. I've had an account on reddit for going on 5 or 6 years now, and I've filtered my feed down to the very specific subreddits that fit my needs. I've met a great community of other players of some rather low population games, which has led to countless weekends of fun.

Getting to your question, as a developer, the only thing relevant for me is /r/ProgrammerHumor. Reddit really is (for me, at least) only a source of entertainment, not education or serious discussion.
I like this, I had an instinct about making a file format similar to this, except pushing the path onto a stack.

<foo bar="zot"><baz>quux</baz></foo>

[foo]
@bar="zoot"

[baz]
"quux"

[]
[]

I figured you would save a little in the serialization. In practice I rarely need such a thing, and just serialize a structure to whatever I'm working with (s expressions, or in java xstream etc since those xml files are read somewhere...)
One thing when it is done at the consumers expense, another when the company has to cover it.