skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, fair enough: I can see how my pithy phrasing of that part of my comment could be interpreted to mean that I saw myself as the only one who cared about poverty and how the world was cruel and nobody else understood </angsty teenager>.

What I actually meant by "fashionable" was that, in the couple decades preceding the financial crisis, it was far, far from the mainstream to be concerned about or even acknowledge some of the structural economic issues that had been growing since the 80s or so in the US (for example, dropping social mobility, which is more or less agreed to be a bad thing pretty much across the political spectrum). There were obviously plenty of people who cared in the same period, but that's not really what "fashionable" means.

So no, I'm not particularly old, but caring about those issues in particular for a couple of decades gives me something like a 15-year head-start on the epoch we're currently in, when suddenly even the most ignorant and apathetic person in the country can quote factoids from a Robert Reich book or whatever.

At any rate, it was a throwaway remark to point out that I'm not just pretending to care about the deeper issues underlying how "sad" Internet economics are because I think it's the "in" thing to do (I know plenty of people who are like this for any social issue that's currently in vogue).
"You get what you measure."
I would hope that my autonomous vehicle comes with a "don't run red lights" option
Tangentially related I would recommend everyone to check out some Speed runs of the mario games. It is astonishing what people pull of, hacking in it's purest sense.

https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/ is a good source for it, but every mario game ever has been speedrun and it's easy found on youtube.
Sounds like autonomous cars are for you!
No. 2 is not right. For fingerprintable service with known exploits, dragnet type attacks are very common. If the GP is right about OwnCloud having a poorly written code base then you have a very high chance of getting hacked unless you can stay on top of updates, which is unlikely for most people.

If your data is important enough that it needs to stay on self hosted machine, you should look at commercial solutions. Otherwise use dropbox/gdrive/s3 with self encrypted files.
Heavy burden (and power) given to the Fed knowing that with every rise or decrease in the interest rate, even the slightest, can economically impacts every corner of the world.
Timeline – Historystack
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How about comparing it to reading HN on the road?
Face-Blind: Why are some of us terrible at recognizing faces? (2010)
> Well, I suppose that if you don't have a theory to make sense of the data, you can say that about everything.

Even more general: You can't say "X is false because it didn't happen until now" because it can still happen.

You're right, technically they can't default if they issue their debt in their own currency.

But practically I doubt the creditor had payment in a devalued currency in mind when he bought the bond. I myself for sure wouldn't like it (which is why I don't buy bonds) but I'm aware that I generalize here.

I guess it's a matter of definition, in the contract is probably written that the principal + interest must be repaid (so devaluation is ok) but the creditor probably wanted principal + interest @ comparable purchasing power.

Unfortunately, today's creditors often work with other people's money (think pension funds) and just pass on the devaluations. So the pension fund itself doesn't care and the common guy should but doesn't.
Old beats dead :) Until it doesn't, anyway ;)
PUZZLE – The Fabulously Fair Feast
Does this site get you quite a few consulting clients, or is it more word of mouth?
Angular Material 1.0 Released
Can you click hide element to show what's underneath?
I ran into the same issue on one of our apps too. Nice to see it written down so thoroughly!
Why your language sucks
nice writeup.. it strikes a good balance between tech details and narrative.
I don't see why not - but then, IANAL and I don't know what legal considerations there might be for something so unusual like this. From a technical point of view, it seems realistic, assuming operational/logistical factors can be overcome (it would almost certainly have to be in transit whilst in operation, rather than stationary).
Church of Flying Spaghetti Monster approved to perform marriages
This article about the Japanese workplace culture through the lens of an anglo-saxon person working there somehow echoes my experience as a Frenchman living and working in North America.

Long hours, not necessarily done efficiently, a culture of pride in the long hours you're putting in and a total disregard for the fact that the human brain needs rest to go full speed without burning out.

Balancing personal life, rest, family and physical activity just becomes unfeasible past 40 hours a week, ain't it?
DSA-3417-1 bouncycastle – security update
Upgrading from JPEGTran to MozJPEG
fixing this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10232282
I click on a link because I might find it interesting. I risk my time and data going to that link because the content might be worth it. If I would somehow be forced to see ads in order to view the content, then it would not be worth my time or data, and I would not go to the link.
The advertisers/website take a risk by placing ads. They know people hate ads. They know people might use adblockers. They know most people that don't ignore the ads anyway.

People who run botnets that spam the living fuck out of millions of email addresses have the exact same business model. Send lots of unwanted advertising to masses of people hoping for that one idiot who will take the bait.
Is using a spam filter obstructing their business model? No, because one of the main risks that the business model accounts for is the fuckload of spam filtering that is used.

Putting ads on your website as a business model, is using a business model based on risk. The risk that many people will have no response to an advert.
People who use adblockers are built into that risk. So I am not obstructing it.
So I don't see how it is hypocrisy at all.

To me personally spam and ads on a website are exactly the same thing. In fact all advertising (radio, TV, posters, door to door sales, cold calls) is spam by my definition.
I don't want to be told what I need/want. I know what I need/want and I will go find the products/services to satisfy that need/want by myself. No advertising necessary.

Why are you a little bit mad? What would you suggest everyone should do?
I fully agree that advertising will grow worse and worse. And I also agree that adblockers are accelerating this process. And I'm glad about that.
I can't wait for the whole advertising industry to become so evil and abhorrent to the human civilization that it becomes illegal on a global scale.
In the mean time, let the arms race continue. I don't see how the advertising industry will ever win.

And no, I don't run adblock to "Stick it to the man". I run adblock because I hate adverts.
But if by "the man" you mean the advertising industry, then yes. Congratulations to me. Fuck them. I hope I make their lives difficult. I can't wait until their whole industry implodes.
Even if it takes another 200 years, then I'll be glad I contributed in a small way to their downfall.
> My opinion on the intent of the post was to highlight the reality of an "internet famous" person. There is this notion floating around that if you get enough subscribers / fans you can make enough money to quit your job and sign autographs. While many people have gone on to do this, this is not the norm whatsoever. It takes hard work, a head for marketing, production experience, photography, videography...or just a really good idea and/or personality.

Perhaps I'm underestimating the naivete of the average person, but I didn't realize that people thought this was a thing. Hell, the concept that Internet fame isn't necessarily lucrative is so well-understood that even freaking South Park got around to satirizing it almost 8 YEARS ago (and South Park doesn't have a tendency to satirize super-niche concepts).

Even if I'm wrong about that and it is somehow novel and interesting to write a long article about how subscriber counts don't turn into dollars, I still find the article's premise and insistent emphasis that the economics of these distribution channels are somehow sad to be completely wrongheaded.
Security Culture Framework
Software Has Diseconomies of Scale
If you have a genuine problem with Islam, my suggestion would be to not "accuse" it of stuff that Christianity does or did. It's just rhetorically weak. Even if you yourself are athiest or Hindu or whatever, its just plain odd to single out a religion for having a concept of hell to which unbelievers are sent, for being aimed explicitly at a "chosen people" or for praying, which the western leaders who wage war in the middle east from the crusades up till now talk about quite a lot.

In context of the article it would be like a Sith accusing the Jedis of believing in the force, and it would be rank hypocrisy.

And yet you seem surprised that this way of talking about Islam might be viewed negatively. That everyone is protecting Islam due to some politically-correct conspiracy rather than a basic sense of treating people with respect and equality.
Every time you draw a tree with a PC you make Don Knuth happy
What's wrong with serving table and being "Youtube famous", as long as people recognizing you doesn't disturb the service ?

Should a channel with videos of roughly 250k views (with bad directing and average acting) allows its creator to live a rich or middle-class live ? I don't know, maybe but a TV show with these ratings in the US alone would get canceled quickly I guess.

I liked the candid honesty but the focus on subscribers numbers or Instragram likes felt delusional or disconnected from real life, (but I didn't know you could live of Instragram sponsored content so I'm clearly not an export in the field).

Also I think if you rely on the general public and especially the youths to live you should have a plan B because it's a fickle group, ask any celebrities of reality TV.
You may want to follow how self published author of Wool, Hugh Howey has sold his books on amazon.

He broke each novel into a four or five book series and sold each book for a dollar. He also made sure to schedule the releases every two to three months. (agile-writing?)

He makes six figures a month on most months [1]

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/07/tech/mobile/kindle-direct-...
And this post is so empty of content that one questions whether it actually ever existed: like a fart in a hurricane.

Alright I agree, obfuscating lack of anything interesting to say with attempts at being poetic is pretty fun. That being said, I gather from the fact that you felt you had to post a comment that somewhere in the fog you somehow disagree with some part of my comment. I'd be interested in seeing your second try at expressing what your actual disagreement is.
I guess the management finally realized that deleting codes without breaking existing functionalities is more difficult than adding :)
The low interest rates will stick around until the dollar stops being the world's reserve currency in about 25 years, taking the US economy down with it.
> Once you have one human level AI you can make more replacing each human in the production of the human level AI - you basically start at the end point and working backwards replacing each job performed by a human with an AI.

Again, I don't see how that follows. Once you know how to build something, you can do it again. Of course. But what if building a functioning AI that can replace a human costs $100 bn?

Certainly it's not going to be economically viable to replace tasks that do not produce high ROI, even if you assume AIs are paired with indestructible robot bodies made out of unobtainium that are as versatile as the human body (have we even built one of those ever?).

I'm familiar with the idea that AIs could make better AIs and lead to some intelligence singularity, etc. Again, I think there's a lot of handwaving behind those ideas. We have no idea what the complexity of building more complex intelligence is, or what it even means.
video games codebases are sometimes this large
I think the best "defensive" piece of advice you left out that everyone abuses is never pipe `find` results to `xargs.` One should always do `find ... -print0` to a read-while loop because of filenames with whitespace.
He must be, I would peg the start date of "finding poverty and lack of economic opportunity to be very sad" at some time around the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.

Maybe earlier, I don't know, since similar sentiments were apparently expressed in the Roman province of Judea, circa 30AD.
Looking for a good custom stationery supplier?
Not strictly tech-related, but people here have copious side projects so I figured I'd ask just in case.

I had an idea for a small over-the-holidays business with customers ordering a type of joke letter online (along the lines of a diploma or other fancy institutional-looking document) for their friends, but the important bit is it gets printed on thick, high-quality stationary and put in high-quality envelopes.

I could build a nice website to take potential orders, but I would want to be able to forward orders to a third-party supplier and have them create and ship the product after I give them a template, but I'm really not sure where to find something like that, or even whether it exists, as I've never done anything like this before.

Any suggestions?
Show HN: LEManager – Simple web-admin for managing Let's encrypt certificates
It's said that all the example was missing quoting variables. It made all others defensive things useless.
Time to write yourself a private jet.
Yes, just the guy who "happens" to have been born there (or to be accepted as a national), "happens" to share the culture, "happens" to speak the language, "happens" to have relatives there and "happens" not to be from an adversary country...

You know, like people giving their inheritance first and foremost to the children that "happen" to be theirs instead of random people.
This man that all the papers fear, and enthusiastically cite his adversaries is actually a great historian. He's one of the few that selflessly became a politician without self-interest. And that's something more fearsome, as he can't be bought. He will replace important positions with people that can't be bought. And overrule those who have been.
The supposed progress of Poland is a facade, despite EU money raining on it from all sides (fact) somehow got soaked up like sponge by bodies along the way. If you're sceptic, then look up the ratio between money investment into highways, and their amount in kilometres. That's just the tip of te iceberg.
And you also want to prevent `while` loop in shell script. See http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/169716/38906 for more details.
The one column at the link with that has "medium" and "low" values is "complexity" which means CVSS's "access complexity". So having many rows like this means there are many vulnerabilities that are easy to exploit!

Also CVE-2015-2213 is marked as NOT requiring authentication (along with about 7 other straight remote code execution CVEs).
ClojureScript performance revisited
I think Google also faced a similar controversy over this. To be honest, it might be easier said than done.
I like the author's writing style. However, it's misleading to make such sweeping generalizations about Japan. I lived in Kyoto for six years. My children went to the local school, and I knew many of the fathers. Nobody I knew was in the situation described here.

The subway at 5-6pm was crowded with salarymen returning from their jobs.

The life of a salaryman lawyer in downtown Tokyo does not extend to the entire country. The author himself, to his credit, might not fully realize this yet.

I also concur with the comments I've read here from other residents of Japan.
It was a Quake 1 / QuakeWorld mod... I remember playing it via GLQuake, only time I ever played a game more than two days in a row... played so much over that first weekend-week, my muscle memory reset, at work my hands didn't go to the home-row keys on the keyboard for a week.
10 Hacks to Have a Discussion with Almost Anyone
All these recommendation are excellent (except omitting the necessary obsessive quoting of all variables everywhere (just in case they contain a space).

I've been enjoying BATS [0] for my bash testing.

[1] https://github.com/sstephenson/bats
As an aside, but I think relevant to Hacker News, the author of this blog post also wrote the classic mid-1990s text adventure game Christminster http://garethrees.org/1995/08/08/christminster/
Emile the Duke – The Business
"- End employee perks, such as free food, which cost the company $450 million over the past four years."

...thus driving off the remaining talent.
"but the creditor probably wanted principal + interest @ comparable purchasing power."

When you are buying a bond, you know exactly what you will get in return. Bonds are a govern liability expressed in a govern unit of account. In a sense they are money:
https://petermartin2001.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/3320/

You are not entitle to anything else that a return in the government unit of account.

In fact, this is the reason that bonds are considered safe assets, because they can always be payed.

If you consider money as a claim over the real economy, a bond grant you that you will have a claim in the future about a percentage of the real economy. How big is this claim depends on what the real economy did in the time to maturity.

The responsibility of a government should be with the real economy (physical capital, knowledge, etc.. ) not with the return of rentiers.
Ball control in KO is harder, and overall game speed is faster than in SS. I think KO delivers more "adrenaline" than SS, but that's just me.

There is also a generational factor: the first SS was released after the KO franchise was already mature. Younger players likely went straight to SS.
I've never been into game modding, or development of games in general... I'm curious why more full-replacement mods don't just go with a full engine that's either open source or has a fairly liberal commercial license (unreal engine comes to mind here)?

Is it really that much harder to use a full engine and kit over modding and replacing everything in an existing game?
Thing is, how many viewers would those people have, if their content would be, idk, 1€/$/£ per month? Thats the difference to e.g. Twitch personalities or people famous in gaming. Their crowd is a lot less volatile and rapid-shifting than the beauty/lifestyle-crowd. To stay, you have to have knowledge and/or skill in the game you play.(Or boobs, but that stuff is shunned hard by twitch). Maybe, it would be good if yt would provide the artist with something like the "Subscribe" functionality twitch provides, for allowing fans to provide a basic, monthly income.
> instead of raising the insanely low gas tax

Never been to the States, but wouldn't that be a regressive tax? And regressive taxes are morally bad, as in they hurt the poor more than they hurt the rich. I'm saying this because if you work a McDonald's job in Europe (from where I'm from) you don't probably have a car, you live in the city, and have the benefit of having access to relatively cheaper public transport, but if you have a McDonald's job in the States chances are big that you're going to work by car.
How do you know what the typical salary is?
How virtual reality is going to change our lives
I wasn't talking about callback hell (1) but if you want to do so - the point is that if the "nested callbacks" style is objectively worse (and this seems likely) then this can actually be measured.

Lines of code and cyclomatic complexity (2) is just the start.

You would have to do something like ... e.g. take a group people skilled in some other programming language, give them a basic grounding in Javascript, and have them work with some JS code samples with and without nested callbacks.

If there is clear difference in code comprehension, time to modify the code, lines of new code to accomplish a goal, and resulting bug count then you can have an informed opinion on if this code style is really objectively so bad.

That seems like a costly and time-consuming procedure. But if some academic institution did this I'd be pleased - some scarce data and some actual science is IMHO is worth a thousand opinions in this kind of recurring stylistic debate.

1) http://callbackhell.com/

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity
Most subscribers think the person they ar subscribing too has a lot of money. most consumers in this world have absolutely no idea about anything related to money. No dea how much things cost to make. No idea how little revenue thy generate. Anything that educates even a few consumers is a good thing.
The context was: someone had difficulties to find "tar -xf" equivalent for Windows. I pointed out that it would be nice if Microsoft included tar etc. basic utilities in their OS releases. With out-of-the-box Windows machine, you cannot ssh, you cannot untar, etc. Windows-way of doing things is totally different than *nix culture (OS X, Linux, etc). In that context powershell is not "interoperable" (maybe bad wording from me).
`xargs -0' was designed to properly handle the output of `find -print0' -- no while loop needed.

`find -print0 | xargs -0 grep some_pattern'
They control nominal interest rates, but not real interest rates. In a world without real growth, you won't get significant real interest rates regardless of money supply.
I lived one year or so in Japan and could not stand it, after living in Korea for some time and China for 5 years or so. I am European.

When talking with European friends about Japan, they joke about the religion of Japan not being Shinto, but Shigoto(work).

Being alien in the country, with knowledge they did not have, gave me freedom that locals could not dream but I suffered a lot for them. Working to a certain point and your productivity becomes negative in an objective way.

But you can't change it because you have to fight against society. The worst thing is that in lots of ways the US is increasingly going down the same path.

It used to be that this was common in Soviet Russia, the output of your work did not matter as much as your input. A tank was "two times better" if it required double quantity of materials, or double assembly hours. So "acting like they were doing a good job" was more important that doing a good job.

It looks like the natural consequence of central planning.
I would like to know how the CTO responded to the idea of throwing away the code he'd been slaving on at the very last minute, and replacing it with something that someone cobbled together in two weeks (but worked).
Last crazy night
They all seem to think of their YouTube channel as the content, and the ads as their revenue channel.

But how about upselling?

They could see YouTube as free marketing, teaser content, for whatever they're actually selling. Depending on what they do, it could be a how-to book, a video tutorial on DVD, 1:1 coaching, etc.
And also a pop at Apple; equally unpopular!
I never slept in the Hacker Dojo, I slept in my car
>That is, the cost of insurance for human drivers will be exceedingly high.

right now, in california, you are only required to carry on the order of $35,000 in liability insurance.

Now, personally, I think this is completely crazy, that it defeats the whole point of liability laws, etc, etc, but the point is that unless you change that, even if the rates go way up for human drivers, if the insurance companies can continue to sell plans that are limited to only $35K in liability, people who don't fear bankruptcy will still very likely be able to buy that legally-minimal insurance for not all that much money.