skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's extremely simple.

When you start something like Minecraft, you initially do the work without being paid. That may mean you don't draw a salary for months or years depending.

When you take a job, you get paid to do the work. If you're Markus, you kept working despite the lack of a paycheck. If you're an employee, and the business stops paying you, you're almost always going to quit.

Beyond the straight-forward legal basis, it is precisely that initial risk that gives morally credibility to the ownership held by the founder.

What I've personally been building for the last six months, I draw no income from. Are you going to attempt to claim that a typical employee would take that risk? That they'd forgo a paycheck for six months to keep building the product to get it to launch? No, exceptionally few employees would be willing to do that. They'd all quit when the paychecks stopped. I'm willing to suffer and absorb risk in ways a standard employee never will, to get what I'm building to completion, and I morally deserve the ownership accordingly.

What you seem to have a problem with are the concepts of ownership in general.

I can in fact reasonably argue that employee contributions after the founding do not and should not automatically entitle someone to shares based on proportional effort. That is all decided by the employee, and what terms they're willing to accept to part with their labor/time. Don't take a job where you don't get equity, if you want equity. That's a matter of taking personal responsibility for your own life and well-being.
Sure. They have the advantage in some areas and it's closer to equality, though men still have most positions of power. The article didn't try to say that women had taken over.
Highrise 2.0 for the iPhone
That solution is secure, but I used the word "smarter" to describe the use of a VPN intentionally. You are introducing nonstandard practices (everybody knows what a VPN is and everybody's already able to deal with them) with nonstandard behavior (ever tried to debug fwknop? because I have) and creating an obscure way for your stuff to fail (and it will, at 3AM, and you will not be able to Google your way out of it).

And you're also manually creating SSH tunnels to do anything else inside that network, so you've got that going for you, too.

It's 2015. A VPN is the settled method for accessing sensitive services inside a private network. Doing otherwise may create great nerd cred but doesn't make you do your job better.
[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_stare
Think of the children.

I would imagine a good example of this is when my ten-year old decided to try Minecraft, I only had to show her the basics before she was off and running on her own. She's now up there with mods and console commands with no input from me. She then taught her five-year old sister to play without my involvement at all.

I can't imagine the two of them playing Dwarf Fortress.
Fuel Book – Turn your car into a smart car
Windows became more usable when it started supplanting the underlying OS, however.
> recently on HN, where trolls derailed the conversation so badly

We found no evidence of trolling (in the sense of subversive shilling) in that thread. As far as I can tell, one commenter was who he said he was—an individual who felt passionately—and other commenters accused him because they didn't like what he said. His passion didn't help his cause, but he didn't deserve that.

Groundless accusations of astroturfing and shillage are not allowed on Hacker News. If the only evidence one has is "these comments seem so wrong to me", that's groundless. Accusations based merely on the strength of one's own opinions cost this community considerable health points, and we're not going to let it become a thing. If it gets worse, we'll make a top post about this, explicitly ban it, and add a rule about it to the guidelines. In the meantime, please flag such comments.

HN has users with many divergent views. The community spreads across countries where perspectives and politics are different from one's own [1]. It's common for X to seem obvious to one user while ~X seems obvious to another. Occam has no trouble accounting for most of what people call trolling, astroturfing, and shilling in controversial threads.

When any of you have concerns about astroturfing, you're welcome to send them to hn@ycombinator.com. We'll take them seriously. We'll also be careful and stick to what we can find evidence for.

1. This cross-cultural aspect of HN is a big deal. We see it all the time; I think it's underappreciated.
The Case for Test Driven Development
Linux, the kernel, is also pretty bad, though.
ProductHunt for Fashion
Ah, maybe it isn't, fair point.
The safety study (http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/432410/documents/peerJ.pdf?t=1...) ran over a six-week period.

Has anyone seen studies that examine the longer-term effects or lack thereof? I'm not touching this stuff until someone has studied the long-term effects.
I don't think you're allowed to sell a device with a USB jack that won't work with USB, because the consortium has a trademark on it. Or perhaps you just can't advertise it as USB?
I don't really have occasion to press the ctrl key in the course of normal typing in vim, so it's much easier for me to hit jj. In particular, jj is right under my right index finger which makes it one of the easiest key-combos to hit without too much travel or thought.
Between stuff like this and the juggernaught that is Amazon, it's hard for me to see how traditional retailers are going to survive outside of certain small niche markets.
"average wage" != "well paid in a large city".
Hahaha this is amazing, great job!
Science and the Unconditional Basic Income
They do have some scientific publications here

http://www.thync.com/resources/scientific-publications
Developing using twitter open source and api is essentially asking to to robbed by them if anything you make is successful.
> I used the Philips Hue bulbs and a NUC to build a smart home lighting system that behaves much more like daylight

Neat. Did you try to coordinate room lighting color changes with computer screen colors controlled by fl.ux?
Tock a new ticketing solution launched for Next
The "FIFA is corrupt to the core" argument misunderstands the nature of FIFA's corruption.

It's only the few decision makers that are relevant, it isn't like a government where there is something to be gained by bribery on each level, even the lowest civil servant. Unlike corruption in a nation, we are not talking about a culture of corruption that involves millions. There's no point in bribing just a lowly FIFA official or bureaucrat, most you can buy that way is easier access to the big boys.

That small group of corrupt decision makers is now rapidly diminishing, and there is not a long line of eager replacements, especially now that the feds are looking over their shoulders.
I honestly think most companies don't care about longevity anymore? I look at all the appliances in my home, and just plan on throwing them out when they break down. I remember years ago, a car manufacturer did a study on what consumers care about when buying a vechicle. It wasn't engine size, or the stuff they were advertising; it was cup holders. I don't think we have evolved that much? (vechicles were forced to last longer because it was such a huge expenditure, and even the most thoughtless buyer was forced to look for longevity.) I literally think durable good manufacturers(with the exception of most automobile companies) design products to fail within three years? I can hear the CEO now, "Get the name in their head, and we have them for life--my life as a CEO?". Worst case senerio, the product becomes a joke like Fiat did in the 70's; the CEO is long gone, but on his rein, the books looked good?

The appliances in my house were bought because of all the bells and whistles. I didn't buy them, but am forced to work on them when a sensor fails. They have gotten so complicated, parts so expensive, service manuals hard to get; I just throw them away when they fail. I don't like it.

I think, if consumers start demanding it, we will go back to buying a based on longevity, and not on the newest feature?
Every time my dryer's alarm goes off, I am reminded it's a durable good. It's almost reminding me to save up?
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Skeptical on this implementation, but it raises an interesting question. How close are we to having wireheads/current addicts walking around with drouds attached to their heads at all times? At what point does current addiction become consumer-grade? I guess the bonus with this implementation is that it doesn't involve dropping a wire into your brain.
MutohAmerica Inc. Launches the ValueJet 1938WX 74 inch dye-sublimation printer [pdf]
HidrateMe Smart Water Bottle
Neat. I didn't do that on purpose... I misspelled it, but I'll leave it since you have a neat point.
Chairo, a hapi.js Microservices Plugin
Interesting to see how Heron compares up to Spark wrt to performance. I keep hearing Storm is slower than Spark, does Heron now catch up and exceed in terms of performance?
This makes sense. My client owns the code by the conditions of our agreement.

Your recomendation about advising them seems very reasonable and I'll probably do it. I'll also tell them about properly licensing their software.

Seems like a good way to not burn bridges and at the same time subtlety show my concerns. It also feels the right thing to do.

Thanks.
> And hopefully you made a USB install stick first, since they don't ship with install media anymore.

As if anybody actually does that any more? I just bought a new ThinkPad and it didn't even come with a manual, just a little sheet of paper telling me where to find the PDFs.
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I Was a Test Subject for Brain Experiments
"Judge dredd looking things" not only sounds derogatory it's not entirely true.

Seoul is a sprawling mega-metropolis, similar to cities like Tokyo. But it's not only places around Seoul that enjoys fast internet speeds. In fact, cities like Daejeon and Daegu has ISPs with the fastest top speeds. [1]

We've had government subsidies for wider coverage and faster speeds. Perhaps by making our infrastructure less competitive and being lax in our enforcement of contracts we've created this problem for ourselves. High-speed internet isn't something that should be unique to mega-metropolises.

[1] http://au.pcmag.com/networking/30145/feature/fastest-isps-20...

Edit: formatting
Blatter's strategy was usually too go against the UEFA, the European soccer confederation and the most powerful continental confederation. For example, he championed the South African World Cup bid for 2010. ( After the UEFA managed to get the 2006 cup for Germany.) And he presides over a remarkable increase in the importance of soccer.

So he gets reelected, because he is actually quite successful and has a clearly defined voter base. This base may or may not like the corruption, but that is simply not their main concern.
Show HN: Easily test your socket.io connections
Machine learning as a service
This is appropriate:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/W/wheel-of-reincarnation.htm...
Seems that Windows is adopting more and more * nix stuff. I wonder why one uses Windows in the first place if * nix stuff is what she needs?
I disagree, I believe that every cry of "Wolf!" regarding national disasters benefits the population at large, if only to desensitize them from sensational reports.

An analogy: do you know anyone who still falls for inheritance scam emails? Ten years ago, there were many reports of victims succumbing to fraud emails.
"Zippers are complicated animals to work with, take quite a lot of setting up and require that the document fits in memory."

"xml/parse parses the file into a tree structure like this"

So aren't we fitting the whole document into memory anyway?
Actually where I started the partners were mostly school leavers who'd worked their way up from (literally) running around with bits of paper. Some of those guys are roughly in their late 40s-50s, running some big desks around the City.

But they don't seem to hire anyone without a degree anymore.
> how they are handling Win 10 (Both in versions and cost)

I'm a bit confused by this. It's free for any genuine Windows 7 or 8 user, and $99 to $199 for anyone else. There are two SKUs (Home and Pro), rather than the multitude with XP or Vista. How is this not a reasonable approach? Especially since Windows 10 is supposed to be the last Windows release of this kind.
> I will go out of my way to buy a dumb TV next time.

How? I don't see any dumb TVs for sale.
> On the other hand OS X only truly supports Apple hardware.

I don't care about pendantics. I care if I can plug a monitor into my laptop and have the damned thing work. Guess which one doesn't require me to battle with video drivers and make changes to the bios just to use the displayport?
These Sci-Fi Earbuds Put a Volume Knob on the Real World
Any more info beside "enter your email" about how this will work?

Especially how delivery information is collected? How are refunds handled? how is product information displayed (i am dubious that people would buy anything by just looking at a picture)?
And reframing the question that way shows you don't give a flying fuck about the concerns of the people asking it.

If you're going to display that level of empathy, why should they behave differently?
You can use "set winwidth=79". It'll automatically resize active column to at least 79 characters.

I also use mouse for resizing.
Call me a "deathist" if you like, but dying of natural causes at a ripe old age is not a travesty.
It is a long long time ago that someone taught me something really new about vim and used plugins that are not just fancy (looking at most status line plugins or nerdtree) but actually seem to improve productivity in a vim-ish sense. Kudos!
Their customers are not buying anything illegal either: they're buying software.

It's the customers of their customers that are the problem.

Would you prosecute Ford because a dealership sold a gangster a car?
Visual Studio Code 0.3.0
Flux can actually do that directly! https://justgetflux.com/news/pages/bigupdate/
Instagram Announces Plans to Expand Advertising
The article briefly mentions using them with rechargeable batteries. While I'm sure the boost to 1.5V allows more devices to use the rechargeable batteries, I'd be concerned about over-discharging [1] NiMH batteries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel%E2%80%93metal_hydride_b...
> Here's a solution: Copyright the code, put the copyright on all of the source files.

Uhh with all due respect I don't think you understand the legal concept of copyright. You're talking about a copyright NOTICE, copyright as a legal concept isn't decided by the notice, it is decided within a court of law by a judge (i.e. based on the evidence, of if the OP retained copyright or was hired to produce it on the client's behalf, thus the client would own the copyright).

Adding a notice to the files after the fact is about as meaningful as running onto someone's lawn and planting a flag and claiming you own it. Now, if the notice had historically existed since the code was first given to the client you might be able to argue that the client implicitly accepted that as the agreement. But you cannot slap it on now and expect it to be meaningful.

In general this is a matter of contract law.
Wishlist:

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I agree, it's totally weird. I've been thinking about it ever since I saw the article, and thinking about other pieces of equipment that I have that operate on a similar model.

I've got an oscilloscope that I bought as a 50MHz model, knowing that an upgrade to 100MHz could be purchased after the fact. When I bought it, I didn't need the extra bandwidth and it was a decent price. Recently, I started to need the extra bandwidth so I inquired about the upgrade cost. $300. To do the upgrade, they give you a file that you stick on a USB key.

Part of me is grumpy about the fact that the equipment I bought was actually capable of 100MHz out of the box and was just software locked. And part of me is happy that I got to hold on to my extra $300 until I had a compelling reason (read: a client was paying) to do the upgrade.

$X was a decent price for a 50MHz scope, and $X + $300 is a decent price for a 100MHz scope.
They made the initial product, but it sounds like they hadn't done much of the work in a few years.

And 5% of billions would still be a lot.
Well, I guess its time to short Etsy stock?
Well, Win10 is the 'last Windows' according to MS, so this will probably arrive as an update later.
If you're in SF I have a friend who does finance at a medium sized startup.
Not if it isn't connected to your network.
Secret report urges treaty forcing US web firms' cooperation in data sharing
Other way around, actually - there's a little ruby bot that grabs stuff from the site's API. :)
The dating world is complicated.

The fact that she can marry up and divorce with a child, and still be in demand in the dating world is a privilege men do not enjoy. As shown earlier in the article, single man of similar socioeconomic status without all the baggage are not considered serious suitors.

On the other hand, it is more socially acceptable for successful men to have mistress as opposed to successful woman to have, hmm, 'misters'.

In extremely simple words, rich men enjoy more privileges than rich women, average men fair worse than average women, poor men die alone.
Here we go again. Please explain to me how just because women do something that is about as regular and expected as possible like having a baby, that they should somehow be exempt from rules and preventative measures to assure that not everyone is disturbed by what is inherently as psychotic asshole of a human as we get. A baby doesn't care that hundreds of people have paid significant money to attend a presentation by an expert in a field, which is also being recorded and will be distributed around the world in hopes of educating people far less privileged that said baby. It is not unreasonable to not allow any human that cannot be respectful of others around them. Unfortunately, babies are kind of assholes that don't give a shit what you or anyone else around them want.
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> That small group of corrupt decision makers is now rapidly diminishing, and there is not a long line of eager replacements, especially now that the feds are looking over their shoulders.

And not just the (US) Feds -- the Swiss are conducting a separate corruption investigation relating to the 2018 and 2022 world cups, and other governments are interested as well. Essentially, the fact that the World Cup is a big national prestige event and that past corruption has been brought into the light means there is likely going to be intense scrutiny from all sides going forward -- sure, for every beneficiary of corruption there are lots of losers, and when those losers are major nation states, they have a pretty impressive ability, if they turn their will to it, to address any problems, especially if given the convenient excuse provided by actual corruption to prosecute.
Then you should be using TAI and not UTC.
That's entirely your choice, as long as you don't force anyone else to follow you.

Consider, however, whether you'd choose to die if you had an alternative, or whether you've simply accepted something horrific because you don't think you can do anything about it.
A: Fair market rate hasn't been fair for a while, due to non-poaching agreements.

B: Nevertheless, "fair market rate" typically includes gaining equity over time at a company. More equity the younger the company is and the more it is growing while you're working there. If you work for "fair market rate" at Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. you get stock grants, stock options, the whole nine yards. If you work for "fair market rate" at an up and coming startup you'd expect to receive stock as well, and in comparatively larger chunks.
Command line (cmd.exe or something) in Windows 10 is actually decent compared to Win8.1 and earlier (ugh).

Resizing and mouse select & copy works now like terminals in OS X and Linux. It can now be mouse drag-resized horizontally and vertically. Mouse text selection and copy works as it should, it now handles multiple (long) lines correctly and smoothly.
I'm sorry, but you misunderstand what a public key is if you merely think of "public" as a way to distinguish between private.

If your security model relies on public keys not being publicly known, then your security model can't reasonably be expected to work or be honored by GitHub.

Considering a public key as a "shared secret", as you're claiming it is, moves beyond "healthy paranoid" and into just "paranoid".
Aggressively moderated subs like /r/askscience enforce the content rule for top-level comments, not children. It works there because you can collapse a thread very easily, unlike HN.
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