skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>people who who attempted a safe boring white collar job, tried to run a local service business, or planned to save aggressively over decade, but did not achieve $1mm net worth.

In most cases, discounting unexpected health disasters or other such life events that befall a person. Most people's definition of 'savings' is very different. And that leads to very different ends.

But you will be hard pressed to find people who did the right stuff over the years and didn't come out better.

Frugality is pretty much a gradient and not a flat plain recipe. Based on how far you can squeeze and invest, that much mileage comes out. Everybody is different, based on how much you can endure YMMV.
We are in the same boat. I wish I've had taken my math classes more seriously.
That's not true at all though. Smart Contracts are being used in a wide variety of great projects.

In my opinion what's really missing is a fiat currency token, that can be legally recognised as actual money for a lot of business to be able to go massive.
You seem to critically misunderstand democratic governance. In a union, as a member, you have a vote. In a corporation, as an employee, have no vote.

That is not to say there hauven't been corrupt unions. But generally speaking, as the OP said, a union is better than no union for employees.
It's funny what you remember from the grade school days. In hindsight, one of the most influential stories I had to read was "Harrison Bergeron"[0], which I always come back to whenever I see people talk about equality. Danilov's last lines in "Enemy at the Gates"[1] have stuck with me as well.

"Equality" is a bit of a fraught term - it can mean lots of things in lots of different contexts. But "Harrison Bergeron" depicted an equal society, and it wasn't pretty.

Perhaps fights against inequality that cut down tall poppies are just inherently more difficult to sell. Debates about racial inequality have arguably made better headway over time in US politics because they tend to focus on elevating an oppressed group; granting them rights they lacked to make them equals with those who already had those rights. With income inequality, however, the solutions are often perceived (rightly or wrongly) as bringing people down; beating up on those who have had success.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

[1]: "Man will always be a man. There is no new man. We tried so hard to create a society that was equal, where there'd be nothing to envy your neighbour. But there's always something to envy. A smile, a friendship, something you don't have and want to appropriate. In this world, even a Soviet one, there will always be rich and poor. Rich in gifts, poor in gifts. Rich in love, poor in love."
Those choices are apples and oranges. Particularly HDFS as you can't really use it as a native fs.
What a disaster in that region last few weeks... Let's review:
SK impeached its president; NK tested more missiles;
US bungled the messaging of the armada,
reversed position on China's currency manipulation, then "realized it's not so easy"; then
China spins PR against SK for deploying a defense, then they add on some passive aggressive internet hacking.

Maybe things aren't so bad elsewhere.
It will affect the market. The weekly volume is irrelevant because that is gross sum of all trades taken place. What you are proposing is that he occupies nearly 23% of all "asks" on these exchanges which will be difficult to achieve.

And again off exchange block/bulk sales tend to go for lower than market price. They are rarely, if ever, executed at market price. So most probably he will have to offer 100k ETH, 4.8mil, for a ~4 mil mansion.
A major point of the comment was that being technically correct isn't useful if all you've done is ignore the actual problem in lieu of a small subset of it that doesn't actually help in any way.

You then proceeded to call out a small subset of the comment and yes, you were technically correct. You also ignored the actual point of the comment and didn't really contribute anything to because of it, thus doing exactly what the comment was referring to.

> The person I replied to basically said (paraphrasing) "compilers which optimize based on undefined behavior and follow the standards are written by idiots"

That's not what was said. What was said is that if someone continues to hide behind technicalities rather than addressing the problem problem, then that person is not worth talking to. If you view your original reply in that light...
I also like how they are adopting existing standards (planned interoperability with uPort) instead of a NIH syndrome.
OP here. For those interested, the journalists who compiled all this data also wrote extensively about their findings: https://theintercept.com/series/trial-and-terror/
I think we can safely say that Santa Claus the children's character is almost completely divorced from the guy who punched Arius at the Council of Nicea.
> That differs greatly in my experience -- in the time I've been using ubuntu I've lost gnome 2 and been forced onto Unity, and had to learn systemd.

That's only true if you're wedded to a distribution, though. There's always the option to switch to one that doesn't use systemd, and recreate your favored experience there.

Also, was it possible to install Gnome on Ubuntu if you didn't want to use Unity? I never used that distribution myself.
Talent, or money?
Even if they do know, what do they have to do with it? Does google have a legal claim to their user-agent string exclusively?
We are using Caddy as a simple reverse proxy in Docker environments. The configuration is a bit simpler than nginx and we love the tiny Docker images we can create (not sure how large an nginx-full installation is).

That being said, we did run into a few issues that forced us to go back to older Caddy versions, like broken websocket support or the timeout issue in 0.9.5. Also, sometimes the documentation is a bit lacking and unclear. DNS resolution seems to be flaky sometimes (we're using alpine-based containers and sometimes Caddy just won't resolve names of other containers, even though a curl inside the container can resolve the names just fine).

So if you've got a working nginx setup, I'd say stick with it. For new projects it is worth to check out Caddy. The issues we ran into occured early in our development process, they didn't just suddenly happen in production, so once you've tested everything, Caddy just works.
You don't understand how the law works. You are a criminal. In the u.s., for example, that shining city on a hill, it is estimated that a typical adult commits three felonies on an average day.
Keep in mind that Hacker News is more than just side projects and startups. Posting something intellectually interesting is probably the way to go. Still requires luck because a lot of stuff gets posted everyday and some fraction is intellectually interesting.

A good approach might be if the author writes something that they find intellectually interesting rather than writing marketing copy from a recipe. I mean, who wants to read something that the author does not care about rather than something that is good?

Good luck.
Nginx can proxy to a server specified in a variable. All you have to do is define that variable though perl or lua to get port dynamically from somewhere, like a file.
Only 100 years ago? A lot? It appears the federal government has been involved in public education nearly from the start. Article I Section 8 of the constitution provides impetus; "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;". From the very start the federal government has provided land grants for public schools, and States have been happily applying funds received from the federal government to the costs of education.
Having lived in the area, I will attest that a significant number of locals definitely have a blind spot about oil's contribution to AGW. However, AGW is not their primary problem, nor is it something they can do much about (yes, there are things they can do, and some do them). But they, and only they, can move their local dirt around, so they're doing what they the can do.

Interesting tidbit: check out Wikipedia's timeline of party strength in Louisiana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_Lo...
Just because it's possible to fail doesn't mean that it isn't easier to succeed. Consider the case of Eric Couch, who stole two cases of beer, drove 70 mp/h (30 miles per hour over the speed limit) and crashed, killing four people. Two hours after the crash, his BAC was .24%. He was 18.

His lawyer argued that he suffered from 'affluenza', and he was sentenced to probation and therapy; note that Eric was a repeat offender (having been previously cited for Minor in Possession and Minor in Consumption of Alcohol.

Eric Couch wasn't sentenced to a jail term until he violated the terms of his probation and fled to Mexico.

Success isn't guaranteed, but does everybody get the same leeway as Eric Couch?
It might be that photos that are sent to Google get saved with decent compression (0.5 byte per pixel instead of 0.05) in DCIM/PhotoScan. Yet what if I want to keep ridiculous old haircuts private? There's no explicit "save locally" feature. :-/
It's nice to see a country as large as Brazil having 24% of its domains with DNSSEC records (973k out of 3.9m domains). I expected it to be close to zero.

This is very interesting work. I wish there was an easy way to see DNSSEC statistics for each ccTLD side-by-side with the fingerprint report.
isn't this because there were very few males left after WWII (because they all died) to enter the workforce, so women had to step up to fill in the gaps?

I think I remember reading that there were so few males left that the soviets literally bussed males around the country to impregnate women so they could rebuild their population.
They don't deserve to take someone else's money by force, in order to pay for those things. I don't think opposing forced income redistribution puts me on the side of history.
There are also ways out of med school that are less than critical failures. Did someone who failed to become a doctor but became a Nurse fail? Pick a path with many options allows one to be flexible in the future.
Off the top of my head: containerd, runc, swarmkit, infrakit, linuxkit, hyperkit, vpnkit, distribution, registry, for-mac, for-win, libnetwork.
Good link, just flagged the article

To me it's good news that Uber is selective

Edit: (the link provided is subscription only)
I even remember that I installed software in the late nighties that showed a banner while you were online. The promise was that you would earn money by allowing this ad to float on your screen. I don't think I ever got payed, and, probably related, I think I removed the software shortly after installing.
You are right: not everyone can do the same thing, some ideas are limited. But usually, those are the Jobs, Gates, Zuck's type of ideas. There are many more ideas beyond those. Especially those that don't scale, because many don't want to do them.

But if you decide to start a plumbing company in the US, and if you have the brains, put the hard work, talent and discipline to run it very very well even just in a local area, I would not be surprised that you can reasonably become a millionaire over time. Because it's always hard to find a good plumber and electrician. But many people yawn at plumbing, and you'll never be a billionaire. And it will take more than 3 years, and it won't be flip and repeat.
Why Poverty Is Like a Disease
Use of the legal system is restricted to corporations and HNW individuals (who typically have multiple corporations, so....)
I'd argue that Society is literally the business of using force to align incentives towards global optima.

In the same way that society taxes you to pay for goods and services that others use, others are taxed to pay for services that you use. Society does this because it has been historically more adaptive to make everyone pay for roads, fire departments, and strategic bombers regardless of whether or not they actually want them.

If you don't think people should be forced to pay for things that others use, I challenge you to find a society where this doesn't happen.
Prime(s) and chill
My dad is 70. Growing up, he'd show me all the places he used to fish with his dad where they could fill their ice chests in a couple of hours. These were canals on the side of the road, mind you. Now, you're lucky to get a bite at any of them, and unless the wind is blowing just right and the tides are perfect, you aren't filling your limit, much less your ice chest, at any of the prime fishing spots in the area. And if you ask him, he'd say "I guess we caught too many fish," completely ignoring the ecological and climate impact we've had on the area.
Absolutely use it for side projects! I have used it for a lot of small throw-away sites and loved every minute.

It's up to you whether you trust it for large products, but so far it has been fairly magical for me.
This is something I think gets lost, poor people in low-paying jobs have a pretty tenuous existence. They'll set aside their $10 a month for savings (and end up with $120 at the end of a year) and the first emergency wipes out their savings. So they start saving again--$10 a month or whatever--and a few more years, another emergency wipes it out.

It always gets me how people talk about how you can just live frugally, on poverty wages, and you'll slowly be less poor. That might work, if you have no emergencies in life, literally never make a mistake or display bad judgment in any way (remember, one emergency will wipe out years of saving and mistake-free life choices), and don't even think of having a family or raising children.

But positing that as "the way things ought to be for everyone" in the richest country on earth? That's fucked up.
Let me know if you have any questions - I'm happy to share more learnings and help early stage startups setting up their infrastructure. Comment below or drop me an email with your thoughts.
Your wife is being paid to go to school and she'll make better money as a teacher when she completes?

Brilliant, welcome to the middle class.

If you're unambitious and living on 20k a year (like your friend in foodservice), you can get a roommate, a beater car, and still have a fun life. That's not exploitation, that's her choice.

If she wants the responsibility of providing for a family, she should probably take on more responsibility in her career, and make way for our unemployed youths who need their first jobs so future employers will take them seriously for real ones.
It has a smaller metro population than Shenzen, LA, etc. It's a big city, but a small gigacity.
Some people have done sorta ok with this as a fallback position when their business model failed. I think it's a pretty dicey proposition. Foursquare did it after failing at everything else, and while they're ostensibly 'profitable' they're deeply in the red with little hope of a return to their investors.

Sounds like they are deeply in the red because they were chasing something else? What if they realized this much sooner and didn't get so deeply into the red? Then they'd just have a solid and profitable business. I wouldn't discount this kind of business model. That kind of "sorta ok" is only a disappointment if you were hoping to be the next Facebook. Isn't that just greed clouding people's vision? A goose that lays copper eggs is still pretty darn nifty.
They fired their android guy. They gave android to their chrome guy and made him the CEO.
I can tell you that I'm building a proof-of-concept medical provider registry on ethereum right now for a US state in my free time and the entire registry with a rather deep security model and tons of functionality is a total of 230 lines of smart contract code (this represents the "server side" of the registry) It'll probably be around 500 lines if it reaches production.

I bet you the next smallest state-level medical provider registry right now is probably 50,000 lines of server-side code.

How does this make ethereum too complex to be useful?
Probably wouldn’t be terribly hard to generate that data.
The BBC article agrees. The $18,000 a year is based on PPP, so for equality of _effective_ income, that's possibly a better number to use.
> Business people can organize for the sake of their shared interests but workers doing it is propagandistic?

No I didn't say that what the business was saying wasn't propaganda. I said that what the union was saying was propaganda as well.

> make people feel they are giving up something by asking for things together

I don't think you have to go up something by asking for things together, but it does seem likely in practice doesn't it? A large group of people are unlikely to all agree on exactly what they wanted without any compromise amongst themselves are they? Any some of the compromises might mean individual workers actually have their interests damaged.
> The truth is, you can't buy things with Bitcoin at CVS because the technology isn't there yet ... In a couple of years, the addition of the lightning network on top of the Bitcoin network will enable you to buy things at CVS.

That's awfully optimistic. Occasionally I drop in on Bitcoin forums/subreddits to amuse myself, and what I've seen for the last year+ is a deadlocked stalemate with the Segwit/BU/LN/no change people all screaming at each other with no progress made whatsoever. Amazingly, Bitcoin has ended up in a place where there's actually less innovation velocity than the world of fiat currency, because it's impossible to form the needed consensus on moving it forward.

My prediction for the future of Bitcoin is that it won't die per se, but it will continue spinning its wheels forever with arguments like this.
"strongly imply" - exactly. It certainly implies. It certainly seems the more likely explanation. What I'm saying is that there's a big leap from "strong imply not X" to "X not possibly correct".
I was trying to say, if for example, you were creating a competitive search engine to Google, but using Google's name to build that service, you'd be in trouble.

How would Google know? They would start by setting up fictitious websites which would be seemingly unaffiliated to them. If your crawler was to hit the site, you would thus reveal yourself. I wouldn't at all be surprised that Google would have this kind of "honey pot" of sorts sitting out there watching for web crawlers (rogue or otherwise).

Google likely also has business partner relationships with big content producers, which I'm sure they are able to get reports back from regarding their crawling -- to ensure that Google is correctly finding all the content which the site owners want them to.

As an aside, I used to run such a honeypot website. Web crawler behavior is fascinating. I loved being able to find, detect and classify various forms of web crawlers. Some which followed robots.txt, some that didn't, some that went directly to robots.txt and then scraped the pages which were meant to be excluded. I wish I had kept the project going and formalized the results.
I actually thought twice about writing that because it does seem a little unfair. The Eth guys didn't want to do that hard fork and I'm sure they have no intentions of ever having one again.

But that was the case before the first fork. There was no indication that was going to happen then, either. so if it's five years from now, more people are relying on Ethereum and something we can't anticipate requires (truly or not it doesn't matter) another hard fork? Can you convince users that won't happen under any circumstances? We have a precedent.

Seems perfectly fair and not an invalid question if we are talking about people in the real world using Ethereum and not just a bunch of early adopters. Is it not?
> Did something happen early on in that person's life that just kind of made them give up?

That is a retrospective way to address fairness. Another is, "Given where they are, can they start doing better and end up in a better place?"

A systemic problem that can (or used to) shove people down economically could be different than a systemic problem that doesn't allow a (reasonable) way to advance once they're at the bottom.

Point being, maybe people gave up. Maybe it's their fault. Maybe there was nothing they could do about it. But it's imperative that they have credible ways to undo that decision going forward.

Relevant issues (different people will add and/or subtract from the list):

1. permanent felony records and difficulty in getting records expunged after a history of good citizenship

2. hard cut-offs in government benefit programs

2a. getting a raise should not be a personal net loss

2b. getting married should not be a personal net loss

2c. getting more hours should not be a personal net loss, for you or your employer (the ACA really messed up here)

2d. moving to a better situation should not put your benefits at risk

3. Age discrimination needs to be taken more seriously

3a. 50-year-old college grads should have the same shots as anyone else. Otherwise, retraining from failed industries will be prohibitively difficult.

3b. New grads can't afford to wait 5-10 years for their first shot... this causes delayed marriages, delayed savings for retirement, an aging workforce, etc.

4. Home addresses are tied to wealth. Public schools are tied to home addresses. So public educational opportunity for kids is tied to how much wealth their parents have. Something has to be done about this.
Thanks, you summarized my thoughts.
There might be though. There's more to luck then we may think. If the world is truly deterministic, it could be that luck is 100% of it. I can see genetics, parenting, the teachers you had, and a whole of other things playing into even the success of just becoming a doctor.

In my case, I'm just lucky that the art I love to make, code, is also a highly paid job. Nothing felt hard to get here, I did it because of the passion I have for it, and I have this passion out of luck.
You are doing it wrong. Sell the rips and buy the dips.
Agreed.

If I remember correctly, when submitting jobs to run on the network, N numbers of nodes are selected randomly.
RIPE has the biggest concentration of probes in the EU and then US[1].

[1]: https://atlas.ripe.net/results/maps/network-coverage/
theatre defence is seen as espionage lol its not like both China and the USA haven't got massive elint/sigint operations
At one point I was using a tiling WM and tmux. But between the WM, tmux and vim windows.. well, I don't really need 3 layers of tiling, so I got rid of tmux.
The federal department of education was only created in 1980. All government spending on education, as a percentage of GDP, was a tiny fraction of what it is today. And the revenue for the education spending was weighted far more towards local sources, making it less redistributive.
The ancient kingdom no-one knows
Using a blockchain to enforce scarcity and authenticity of digital objects is a cool idea on paper but only actually becomes effective under one of two scenarios:

1. Everyone simply agrees and acts accordingly thereby giving the ledger value. See: US dollars.

or,

2. There are real-world repercussions to violating the rules. This implies some form of hybrid blockchain/real-world-contract with trade via blockchain and enforcement via the real-world law.

There are advantages to trading on a blockchain. To make the claim that a digital item (can be simply copied with a screenshot) is "rare" because it's one-of-a-kind on the blockchain only works if everyone agrees that ownership via blockchain is as important or more important than the pixels that make up the image.

The definition of "works" in my previous statement is up for discussion, considering this idea is silly on its own merits, it might be working just fine as far as the creator intended.
If the name "googlebot" is trademarked, yes they would have a basis for a claim. It would at least be leverage they could use if they believed you were causing them harm in some way.