skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% agree, but I can't help but make note: if a company the size of Twitter ever had the audacity to talk about "feeding families" I would go ballistic.

Who is your family---the entire state of Nevada? If your family is eating that much, you don't need targeted ads but a doctor.

Twitter just wants to maximize profits. Fine, but if you're gonna be honest: be honest.
What a strange thing to force the payout due to the lawsuit to commence right away, and not after all the legal avenues were exhausted (appeals and such). E.g. they were basically denied of appeal because of being forced into bankruptcy...

I cannot imagine the feeling of the employees either: those who were fired are the ones who walked away with money + take away everyone else's job.

I'm really conflicted about labour laws. On one hand, having gone through some (IMHO) very unfair treatment at a previous job I'd like those laws to have some effect. On the other hand, I don't think many current forms have unintended, serious consequences, which favour the wrong people/wrong outcomes... No wonder that I hear from entrepreneurs these days, that don't hire people until really really positively absolutely have to.
Yes, a good reply by Flipkart.
Oh, boy, those days in the early 2000s when iTunes was a usable piece of software. I was able to resurrect a couple of badly scratched Hendrix CDs with it.

Can't remember the last time I allowed iTunes on one of my machines. Somewhere I think I have an iPod kicking around in one of the culch drawers in my desk... With Pandora, I haven't even thought about buying a CD in half a decade. Well, except for the copy of Master of Puppets that I found for a dollar at Marden's.
As a computer scientist you probably know that implementation details are actually more than just details. The right for a pal state has been accepted by pretty much everyone, including israel, since the beginning. The problem is the borders and the guarantees that it won't become a terrorist state for the whole region right from the first minute.

It probably seems a bit abstract for americans or europeans, but it's fundamental to the people risking their lives on it.
Very interesting, but personally I would look for some kind of aesthetic beauty in an algorithm, not just a notorious history, before I would consider it "art".

Take this one for example: it is an implementation of the Quicksort algorithm in a programming language called Joy:

DEFINE qsort ==
[small]
[]
[uncons [>] split]
[enconcat]
binrec.

For me, it has all the qualities of a programming haiku, poetry in code.
Reviews on PLAYMOBIL Police Special Forces Unit
This has made me feel so incredibly sad. Came to HN just to read the comments, I feel so much for him, I wish I could help him.

I hope we can change the way our society punishes it's members.
There was a time when Google was a likeable company creating good search engines. Now it is all about battles over the ads. In what sense is that still beneficial to an ordinary web surfer? Is this an inevitable progression or is it a matter of wrong priorities?
Is it very safe to drink your urine? As far as I know, urine contains toxic chemicals excreted by your body.

If I had to give him advice, it would be to change his diet and try to eat as much vegetables as possible while at the same time reducing protein and carb intake.
New IPhone leaked
Have you tried the FP Haskell Center IDE[1]? It's completely web based, and should make it very easy to set up projects, bring in stable libraries and do builds. I would imagine this would be very useful for beginners.

There's more information in the linked Communities Report.

[1] https://www.fpcomplete.com/business/haskell-center/overview/
Hey, this may be weird, but I've got this football field where the goalposts were installed in the wrong place, and I need them moved. After checking out your comment history I think you'd be a good fit for the job; let me know if you'd be interested.
There won't be a sudden replacement that can do everything. It will be like gathering food. The majority of the population used to be involved with gathering food. Then people started to farm. Then instead of human powered ploughs they started to use horse powered ploughs. Then came the engine powered ploughs. Then came automatic seeding machines. Machines that can separate corn from the plants. Etc. Nowadays only a tiny fraction of the population is involved with food production. There are still farmers, but just a couple. We are now in the horse powered plough stage. We have full text search that can go through tons of documents that doctors and lawyers would previously have to search by hand. An assistant to do legal research is essentially just a really good full text search engine, it's a continuum from dumb search engine to smart search engine. We have email. We have electronic systems to keep track of patients and clients. Soon we will have systems that can suggest a diagnosis based on symptoms, and systems that can suggest medical tests to narrow down a list of diagnoses. Systems that can assist clients to write their own standard legal documents. It won't be that suddenly all doctors and lawyers are out of a job, it will be like farming. We still have farmers, but only a couple because they are so efficient.
Simple rule: if you don't have the permission of the company to mess with their system, don't do it. Why would you anyway? You don't get paid and you spoil your integrity.
Is there one program which can create such archives? Or do I need one for generating, one for encryption and one for compression?
>> "Rather than someone creatively disrupting that industry and replacing it with something native to and facilitating the advantages of this miraculous medium"

What is the viable alternative in which artists still receive the necessary support to create and distribute their work? People seem to think that the record industry is trying to force an old business model. We seem to think these people are idiots. But I disagree. I can't see how they won't have spent the last 10 years considering alternatives and finding none that make sense. What would you suggest?
Simple rule: if you find a bug in a companies system, don't tell them without Tor.
I've been on the opposite side of the fence; I was a founder of a (~20 person at the time) startup when one of the engineers told me they had cancer.

We did everything we could to help him. He didn't want to just sit at home and feel sick, so with a few modifications to his normal schedule/workload he could be productive.

It didn't really have any negative impact on the company, and years later even I definitely don't regret that he joined and don't feel that he "burdened" us with his problem.

I would think that most startups would feel this way. So 1) don't quit 2) get them to help you and 3) stay positive :-)
The project Jacquard site describes some output:

"We developed innovative techniques to attach the conductive yarns to connectors and tiny circuits, no larger than the button on a jacket... LEDs, haptics, and other embedded outputs provide feedback to the user, seamlessly connecting them to the digital world."

https://www.google.com/atap/project-jacquard/
If you look at inflation adjusted after tax income, it looks more like income is stagnant for the bottom 50%, not 90%. There are some great graphs in this New York Times article about the stagnation of the US middle class.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/the-american-middle...
Mysterious Cities of Gold? Damn, twp, you just hit me hard in the nostalgia :)
I didn't know he ordered ordered 5 hits before writing this post, but i'm going to leave it up. I guess he got desperate and crazy towards the end

Just to throw out an observation: the idea that being in this business kicked off a spiral of actions which led to him being "crazy and desperate" to the point of trying to have people killed is precisely the argument that's been made by people who support the drug war, about the slippery slope of consequences that follow from getting involved with drugs.

I am not sure why someone who so perfectly embodies the other side's narrative is being held up as a shining heroic example by supporters of legalization.
What is generics?
Save the EU copyright reform
You're still depending on the ISP's archives.
"Sasha and a number of his fellow Google employees asked to be referred to by their first names, saying they were concerned for their safety”

"The rapport between original team members and their new peers was apparent as the crew gathered at the Craft Beer Co., a homey London pub"

and they show a picture of some of the team.

Not too worried then.
And that's why you can expect less investment in some countries and more in others.

But to be fair, this was merely the straw that broke the camel's back, it was not the main reason while Mandriva went under (which has been a long and drawn process)
Thank you for taking the time to respond to my comments :)

There's a few more concerns I have:

1) The whole point of git is versioning, having a model like this breaks makes versioning several orders of magnitude harder.

2) If I'm pulling from repositories to install on servers, I'd rather grab them from known trusted sources rather than "the anonymous ether"

I'm normally really receptive to new distribution models, so I don't mean to be negative for negatives sake. But I'm struggling to see the practical upsides of this.
Jim Lewis, an advisor to the U.S. government on
cybersecurity issues and a senior fellow at the
Center for Strategic and International Studies,
said there are limitations to cyber offense.

A cyber attack "is not something you can release
and be sure of the results," Lewis said.

Which is exactly why they should be banned. The U.S. is putting the security of my computer at risk for the sake of their diplomatic pissing contests.
The hard/soft boundary is indeed very difficult, especially when you have bundles of leads in all directions!

I did some work with stick-on stretch conductive textiles, both silver and polymer-based (Eeonyx), and something I always wished I'd had was a high bit-depth A/D converter so that I could work with a ton of headroom to account for the inevitable swings due to environmental changes, degradation, etc. in software.

I'd love to see someone produce a 16bit+ A/D converter front-end for Arduino or something. I actually purchased all the parts for wiring up one of these, but didn't have time to finish: http://www.linear.com/product/LTC2444. Looks like some people have been working on it: http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/07/02/interfacing-the-lt....
I don't even understand what types of escalation you're talking about. Israel has peace aggreements with all its neighbourhood countries, and Israel being a nuclear power hasn't changed a thing for terrorist organisation which have attacked israel for the last 30 years.

All the trouble in the region comes from non-national entities, or state-sponsored terrorist organisations ( with daesh being a weird hybrid of the two). Letting iran have the nuclear bomb will only push conflicts toward even more terrorism, especially between shiite and sunnites.
Yes, but he can still be convicted for that in Maryland, right? So massively inflating this sentence due to the murder-for-hire allegations sounds like potentially convicting him twice for the same crime.
I can't really help you with the legal issues as I'm not from the US, but, as others have mentioned bear in mind these days many cancerous lumps can be removed with non-that-intrusive local surgery. So, be positive! If that's the case then the positive is that you've found about it while you're very young and doesn't have expanded!

Moreover, if that's the case and there is a good outcome, then you've been blessed with something that many others like me discover on their late thirties, fourties or fifties. To appreciate life and enjoy every minute of it.

Good luck.
“Why Do I go to School?” by a confused teenager
What about all the people who made great contributions that go unrecognized? Is it not more of a shame that the project was not named after one of them?
My mind meta-boils your question down to: "can't I demand some results from the way my taxes are invested?"

Is what we're discussing, floating the jobless/low earner-producer, 'investment' at all?

I'd personally like to understand the doublethink and mental laziness that led sedachv to make that passive-aggressive rhetorical crack about yummyfajitas hating all the poor souls who choose not to work.

The hard questions regarding govt spending for me are:

* Is it healthy (societally, fiscally, spiritually) long term to consider government to be the charity that can only grow - the ultimate backstop for all bad things that can happen to its people? A charity with unquestionable power to implement its shifting, sometimes controversial/immoral/amoral, agenda?

* Is it okay for the government to prioritize everything and therefore have no priorities at all? Should infrastructure be prioritized over military? What's the proper role of federal involvement in local schools? Should we cap or continue the folly of "non-discretionary" funding of entitlements that dwarf and crowd out all other federal spending? Ultimately, our allowing perpetual deficit spending is what makes this priorities-free dream that we are all living in possible.

* how much of a service delivery role should government have given its track record? The perennial VA healthcare debacles spring to mind. And the raided soc security trust fund that should have been invested and grown, but has been busted since Johnson. Student loans and the skyrocketing college tuitions. Unintended consequences! At least [my favorite congresscritter] meant well.

It fascinates me how smart people whose arguments in favor of government as 'the answer' to X can instantly shift their argument for X from a learned basis like statistical evidence/quoting an expert to a faith-driven, eye-squinting, chasm-leaping abstraction, or worse, emotional outbursts (frequently rude) - and sometimes ALL IN THE SAME BREATH.

I find such people, like sedachv, troublesome and no fun at parties. We might be doomed.
Learning a conlang seems like fun. But should I start with Lojban or Esperanto?

My impression is that Lojban is meant to be as logically unambiguous (in terms of grammar) as possible, while Esperanto seeks to be more of an international/universal language. I think Esperanto is more widely spoken?

Both are apparently somewhat easier to learn than other languages.

So which one?
Definitely, checkout their example on how to host git on ipfs[0]

[0] http://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmTkzDwWqPbnAh5YiV5VwcTLnGdwSNsN...
I can't seem to find a Meteor-built IRC client but maybe I'm not looking hard enough. Is there one? Why not combine the strengths of Meteor with IRC?
A logic expert eh?

May I suggest that concluding that there is significant difference between wine based on the price, despite scientific evidence to contrary, because another class of items does show a value/price relationship is a nice example of:

* Appeal to probability

* Argument from (personal) incredulity

* False equivalence

And I'm sure a few others.
I was there in 2008. I went there because I'm a fan of the Silent Hill series and read somewhere that the town in the game was inspired by it. The place smells like sulphur, kinda like what you find near volcanoes. Roads are cracked, bark on trees has turned white and yes, you can sometimes light a match if you leave it on the ground. It's a very isolated place too. I wouldn't recommend going alone.
US defense chief Ash Carter says China's island-building erodes security
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betamax
Decentralized search can be done; Tribler has implemented it for the torrent network, in fact: https://www.tribler.org/ContentSearch/
Probably depends on your goals. Since you already know the most popular language in the world, it doesn't seem like there's much point in learning either of them just to extend the number of people you can communicate with. For that reason it would make sense to learn Chinese or Spanish.

To me the appeal of Lojban is in "expanding your mind" and using different tools for thinking.

Also, I've recently read somewhere people recommending to learn a sign language, so that is a thing you might want to consider. They say that it is easy to learn and is very different from English(hence - interesting).
This is disheartening. I had Google Calendar's number whitelisted so I'd get notifications (ie event reminders) from Google Calendar (and important people) when I was in meetings and whatnot. Now that I can't simplistically use iOS's contact whitelist to trump Do Not Disturb, do I have to get more involved about which apps have permission to send me notifications? Do I even have that fine-grained control in iOS?
But it's fun!
Odd article, only giving one side of the story. What exactly were the employee law suits about? It doesn't say, and the effect is just to implicitly smear France's worker laws. Because while some laws are rubbish and cause problems, lets be clear, sometimes companies are shit, we have laws to protect workers for a reason and lawsuits are very justified and deserve to win.
Well you could create a new wallet for each transaction that is still controlled by the owner right ?
The Story of My First Product Launch
My theory is that the media tells people what they want to hear, in order to sell the most papers, page impressions etc. If they told stuff that the general public disagreed with, then they would probably lose readers/viewers.

There is a feedback cycle, where the media both manipulates and responds to public opinion.
The "anonymous ether" isn't dangerous if you have some way of verifying what they're sending you, and with bittorrent, you do, since you request the content using its hash.
Just get started. It doesn't matter. Whichever will be more reasonable will be what you end up with. And if you spend energy learning 50% of the other one first, then it's not really a loss. Every little step you learn of a language also improves your global understanding and therefore wasn't wasted.
Are you able to think in lojban, then?

The idea behind lojban appeals to me, but (according the the times article currently on the front page of HN), there's an active community of Esperanto speakers in NYC.

I'm not really interested in extending the number of people I can communicate with, but if I learn a new language, I would like to be able to actually speak it out loud with other people.
I've dealt with unfair employers as well... but labor laws don't really help you. The cost of taking someone to court far exceeds the likely result if you win the case... so the risk reward, even when you've really been wronged, is bad.

This is why transparency (check glass door reviews, and post them!) is important... so the market can work.
I believe that these technologies are bound to wither not because of technical problems but because of "political" problems. These technologies are a huge problem with the regard to how intellectual property is managed today and how it is monetized.

Every IP owner will try to slow down the progress of these technologies, mainly by not adopting them. I think these technologies won't be adopted until the IP monetization problem is solved.

To me, this means that if the media are to be easily decentralized and shared, the monetization (how you get money for your work and how you give money when you benefit from it) must become equally easily decentralized and shared (between the publishers, authors, etc.).
I've also heard the idea of glass was about demoing AND getting the public conversation started about wearables so that when they have a product ready, the dialogue has been running.
If a judgement has been made, especially one that requires an immediate payment, then some documentation should be available publicly surely?

Anyone from France able to comment?
Fascinating. It's hard to even comprehend an underground coal fire that could burn for 250 years - though apparently the oldest known coal seam fire has been burning in Australia for 6000 years! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Mountain

Centralia on Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8006547,-76.3428604,287m/dat...
bittorrent hashes as susceptible to collision attacks.
I recommend both, but not at the same time of course. I would like to throw in another language too. It's called angos and I'm really enjoying it.

Site: http://angoslanguage.wikispaces.com/

Book: http://angoslanguage.wikispaces.com/Angos+Grammar
The forced upfront payout is probably a good thing in most cases - large companies can play games with the court system for years, purposely drawing out proceedings for no valid reason. Most companies can afford to pay up front, they just don't want to. To force a company into bankruptcy is tough, but then again it's a warning to companies not to make such major mistakes with their employees. The strange aspect is this: what happens if the appeals result in a change of outcome? Would the employees be required to pay back the money?

I'm also curious as to what exactly the lawsuit claims were. Surely it's not just "he didn't need to lay people off because he had money" - if that's the case, I believe the outcome was too harsh. I am wondering if what really happened is something I've seen over and over again: the company lays people off, and then starts massive rehires only months later. This is illegal in many places, but companies often get away with it anyway. They just want to improve the bottom line for the current quarter to appease shareholders, and then go back to hiring at the beginning of the next quarter after shareholders are no longer looking at expense reports.
"Mandriva offered a Linux operating system for PCs that was doing well in some developing nations."

Anyone know which developing nations? And why Mandriva was especially appealing in those countries?
He specifically mentioned offline programming.
> Firewalls at the enterprise level are FULLY required for business to operate in a relatively secure manner today.

They're also completely unsustainable, because "firewall traversal" will always be a thing. The result is a tit-for-tat arms race between firewalls and applications, with application protocols being encapsulated deeper and deeper, and firewalls trying to inspect packets deeper and deeper. The overall system complexity skyrockets, and we all know that complexity is antethetical to security.

I predict that within the next few years, we'll see attackers successfully targeting vulnerabilities in firewalls and antivirus software directly. Add BYOD to that and the entire mess will collapse in a decade or two---probably much sooner.

Firewalls are a temporary workaround for poor application security, nothing more. They are pollution---they hurt everyone by turning connectivity into a hard problem. Once we have good appsec (which we already know how to do; we just haven't done it), the cost of firewalls will vastly outweigh their benefits, and they'll quickly disappear.
If you want good search engines without having to pay to use them, then those search engines need to run ads...
Yeah I agree with this. From a standpoint of access to the minds of more human beings you can’t justify Esperanto when there are things like Spanish and Mandarin you could learn.

Lojban is for thinking unambiguously and more logically. It's good for programmers but also exactly the kind of language that an artist or poet wouldn't want to learn.
May I reccomend http://www.reddit.com/r/iamverysmart/top/ to you?

Also you're assuming some sort of strong correlation between IQ or some other measure of intelligence and good political judgement.
The only reason I haven't started learning Lojban is because the only other people I could practice speaking with are people who have learned Lojban.
I fat-finger downvoted you. I'm so sorry!