skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rushkoff writes: "What we lack is not employment, but a way of fairly distributing the bounty we have generated through our technologies, and a way of creating meaning in a world that has already produced far too much stuff."

To wit, the discovered it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. With the lofty assumption the idle will, lacking want, pursue productive meaningful occupation, he fails to observe London-like riots are the more likely outcome.
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If it's libertarian in control, Congress won't be there to fix the postal stamp price.

The Post Office is between a rock and a hard place. Congress prevents it from raising price and Congress wants it to massively fund future expenditure. The huge loss is artificial.

For the services it provides, USPS is damn efficient.
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Well I think you answered the question about how they hang around when you said, and I'm paraphrasing....

"I don't use any of their products, except for this one, this one, this one occasionally and oh these other two."

If most of the internet population is like you then yahoo will end up being one of the most trafficked sites on the internet, which it is.

The unfortunate thing for them is that little of this traffic monitizes, which is what advertisers have mostly figured out.
It depends mostly on the habits from where you live, I personally leave things unlocked at home half the time because I only have 5 neighbors in a few mile radius but when I go to the city you can bet my car doors are locked but it is likely that I would leave a camera or laptop in my car for a while.

It also depends on where you are at, I wouldn't do it in a city I don't know or a part of town I don't like but some things are familiar and generally safe.
Alas the buggywhip-making laborers...
Git is very powerful and I do like it more than SVN, but I felt like I had more trouble switching to it from SVN than if I had learned git from a clean slate. Switching my mindset from SVN-style centralized repos to decentralized git was the hardest part, as certain things in SVN didn't translate to git. Git is simple, but switching is not.
Your 1,000,000 seconds should be in there (unless you have past it already, in which case it is hidden behind the link at the top).

Would you prefer different copy? Maybe I just emphasized that too much putting it as the title on HN.
Given that Prey is free, open source, and has been around for quite a while, I think that it's fairly unlikely that this is a hoax.
Congress is building up the piggybank to be raided. Where would the USPS' retirement fund being parked? In the US Treasury of course.
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I'll give you the answer child me would say: presents and cake.

In other words, we celebrate because we get something desirable out of the celebration or the act of celebrating.
Or you use the base styling to create whatever custom widgets you happen to need. The kind of themes I'd use in this situation give you reusable UI components and basic layouts that you can modify to your specific needs while still retaining consistency across the app.

My experience has been that a bootstrapping startup cannot afford to keep a designer on staff, and as a developer I'd much rather work with template components that are designed to be reused and moved around than a fixed design delivered by a contract designer that's not as flexible.
I'm not sure if I agree, but he does link to this PDF as corroboration: http://columbialawreview.org/assets/pdfs/106/1/Molot-Web.pdf
You can still write pure functions even if they aren't enforced by static typing, right? What do you mean by "IO effects hidden behind seemingly innocuous evalation"?

Clojure's data structures are immutable, and I don't think you're supposed to use STM with any mutable objects or data. You pass pure functions to the STM system that take an old (immutable) value and return a new (immutable) value. They are pure though, so they can be called multiple times in a transaction.

I'm sure I'm making a muddle of it explaining it though, and I'm not sure what you concerns are specifically. So I highly recommend reading the ants.clj demo and watching the accompanying video with a detailed explanation by Rich Hickey, it helped me understand how STM works specifically in Clojure better than any other source, including two books on Clojure. I don't have experience with Haskell's or any other STM though, and I'm really just a novice with Clojure, so YMMV, etc.

http://blip.tv/clojure/clojure-concurrency-819147
There is a few other planetary orbital periods in there if you prefer another arbitrary unit.

And other bases too incase you weren't born with 10 digits.
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Link to referenced SDK: http://aws.amazon.com/sdkforios/
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Using (input channel, output channel, title) to summarize Recipes makes code search a breeze.

Traditionally, code search is done via fulltext indexing of verbose textual function descriptions. ifttt succeeds in using a channel-signature model, not unlike Hoogle's type-signature search, to provide code search without asking authors to write any description at all. Very nice!

http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=%28a+-%3E+b%29+-%3E+a+...
Can I get xxx.xxx and then subdomain it out to my heart's content to anyone that wants to pay?

Martha Stewart can pay under Sunrise B to stop marthastewart.xxx, but can she stop marthastewart.xxx.xxx?
Good advice. I would add the following use case:

# Oh no! Those changes should have been on their own branch, not dev...
git stash
git checkout -b changes_on_their_own_branch
git stash apply
git commit -a
Typing in the text box should just work. I'll try to make that more discoverable.

Or if you have another date input widget I'm all ears.
The downside for with GA is the non-realtime status. Sometimes takes more then 12 hours for the hits to come through in the dashboard. Other then that I really like it. I think Mixpanel does do realtime, but that single feature alone is not enough to justify paying for analytics while we are still not making money.
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Since this seems to be "my most/least favorite name service company" I recommend DynDNS. They're expensive, but they work very well in my experience. You can set very short TTLs, which obviates the need for static IPs.
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Jobs becoming obsolete?

Yes surely just as we have never recovered from the loss of shoe cobbling jobs or manual labor farming jobs due to the industrial revolution the internet and technology will be the death of us all!
I change n to 1 in the default_bucket_props[0] when I just want a quick instance to test against.

[0] http://wiki.basho.com/Configuration-Files.html#app.config
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Inflationary currency does absolutely nothing to discourage saving value, it merely discourages saving value in currency by stuffing it under a pillow, where it does no one any good.

Save your value in assets.
I'd like to know my xE6-iversaries, but this site only does 10^6,10^7,...
Scrolling down is kind of depressing.
Because no one knows the second they were born? I actually know the minute (0:21 EDT) but I suspect even that is unusual to know.
By the time I graduated, I went from being a top 10 student to being in the bottom quartile. I didn't get dumber, or party or do drugs, I just kind of stopped caring and lost complete interest.

I was even going to skip my graduation, when one of my friends convinced me to just go. There, we had an honorary speaker, the CEO of some gold company. And although I thought I wouldn't be interested, he was an eloquent speaker, and he changed my life. He talked about his struggles, and how he eventually overcame them all and became very, very successful, and he said something to the effect of "being successful is fun."

I'm not sure what exactly about his speech motivated me, but after that speech, I felt the urge to be successful, so I got my shit together. I basically taught myself everything about programming, computers, hardware, networking, etc. I persevered until I got a job in Silicon Valley, one of my goals. And although I'm not fabulously wealthy, I'm doing better than my classmates and peers back home, and I'm doing what I love. More importantly, I still have more motivation to do better.

So, from personal experience I would have to disagree, but I guess peoples' mileages may vary.
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InQuicker was a bootstrapped, single-founder, YC 07 reject, healthcare-based startup that sold primarily to the enterprise, and somehow we've been ok in spite of getting all those things "wrong". We're blogging about our experience to illustrate some of the unconventional ways startups can succeed; if you'd like to hear more, ask a question here and we'll try to answer or write it up as a post! :)
You're assuming the government turns on the printing press and then spends some money on some social programs? That really doesn't happen anymore (if it ever did).

Various operations by the Treasury and Fed affect the banks. Then you get a shiny new credit card in the mail. I wouldn't call that wealth redistribution.
Also, how long should we celebrate it for? 1 second?
Total cost? Health benefit, Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment insurance, etc?
Next on CNN:

Food: Why you probably don't need it

Exercise: Less of it could mean more healthcare jobs

Transportation: Could rising oil prices make it impossible to go anywhere?

Safety: Could banning non-Christians from entering the country make us safer?

9/11: What about the bright side?

Culture: Is Lil Wayne the music genius of the decade?
This changed a lot recently in master. I believe they wait until the new node has all of the data until sending it requests. I'm sure it will be part of 1.0.
I can think of a ton of great domains, but at $250 or so a pop (including taxes) that's probably not going to happen.

Nobody I know in the adult industry is rushing to register anything either (except a few who are doing it purely as a defensive measure and don't plan to actually use it).
I am currently trying to decide between a 15" Macbook Pro or a 13" Macbook Air. The price point on the Air seems really good for what you get. Though I don't travel that much.
All true. Certainly nothing is "messed up".

That said, reading through a bunch of fine-grained and uninformative merge commits when looking at a log is really annoying. Serious projects expect submissions to be in the form of clean patch sets that apply in series and "look like" an instantaneous change. No one cares about per-developer histories.

If you look at the kernel history, for example, the only merge commits you see are Linus's and the subsystem maintainers'.
I am still reeling from this "strategy" - namely, WTF happened to all the infrastructure they previously had for search?

Where are the machines, the staff, the datacenters that were in place for this?
I hate when FAT people call me skinny (Comedian Damnyou22times).
And woe be to the adult company who registers a .xxx domain and redirects it to their .com site.
Likes fine on Chrome for Linux, maybe it's a Windows setting.
> "In 2010 the Haier brand had the world's largest market share in white goods, with 6.1 per cent" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haier

When talking about brand strength, it's not market share that counts, it's profit share. Sometimes (often) it's coincident (read: Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, etc)... sometimes it's not (BMW, etc).
living in an age where a burglar can successfully sue for hurting themselves on your furniture while rummaging through your belongings

Do you have a source for that? Frankly, I don't believe it.

wherein an unwitting supply teacher bought a stolen laptop

She bought a two year-old laptop from a student at an 'Alternative' school for $60. It had its serial number removed. Good luck to her in convincing any jury that she didn't knowingly receive stolen goods.

The judge did't rule that her privacy was violated, only that "a reasonable jury could find that they crossed an impermissible boundary."
ha, thanks -- here's a beta code for the first 10 HN readers -- "hacker" (no quotes)
Wouldn't that actually not make it worthless? Wouldn't you just have to encase it in lead?
Thank you for being so clear (and open) about it, makes me want to try it and maybe transfer everything there.

I have a quick repair only. If you see your site with Chrome on Windows 7, there's something about the text that doesn't feel right, it looks too thin to be readable at some sizes. For example, the navigation on the bottom left or (even worse) the text inside the inputs of the login form. It's because of Myriad Pro, not sure if you feel like changing it for some more usual typeface like Arial.
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The same panel also has stats like "max number of hosts simultaneously receiving a deployment (3000)". Depending on how you run the numbers those 3000 hosts could all take nine hours to receive a single deployment and average out to 11.6 deploys / second / host.

Unless their systems are heavily modularized, I have a bit of a hard time believing that something new at Amazon goes live every 11.6 seconds. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'd love to have a better grasp on the context involved here.
when prey first started they also posted a link to their service on hn as well and if you donated anything to them they gave you a lifetime premium subscription.

prey is pretty damn helpful, and i install it on everything i've got.

btw i dont work for them, and i've never seen them advertise anywhere, but this would be good advertisement...
> Inflation encourages the savers to put their money to work.

And deflation encourages the sellers to sell today.

So, in theory, don't deflation and inflation both encourage economic activity?
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Agree re: cash grab.

The counterpart "safe" TLD is part of a much bigger content curation problem that is evolving in the Internet. Some parents out there are not at all OK with Disney content, even, some will want to leave boobs in but head-crushing out, etc, etc. Properly tailoring to people's many shades of content filtering seems like a job for dedicated browser-recognized crypto certificate chains.

This way, different consumers can directly delegate trust to a custom choice of entities that already are engaged in this space (e.g. all the "family focus" agencies), instead of fighting over a centralized TLD committee.
Question: why use ifttt rather than Twitter's SMS support?
with the mac you should check out the hacker at defcon who had his mac stolen and see the techniques he used to retrieve it.
I think comparing Google and Facebook's profits as the author does is kind of a misnomer. Google is incredibly more dynamic and has way more depth than facebook, which is well just facebook. Their list of acquisitions, while impressive, doesn't show a very big willingness to step outside of their comfort zone and try new things where as Google has done everything from a search engine, to a browser, cellphones, and even high speed broadband networks.
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Well, not that many people are on HN before their 1,000,000th second. (1000000 seconds = 11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes, 40 seconds)
I made something similar a while ago ( http://www.addedbytes.com/blog/mathematical-anniversaries/ ). I never did work out why these things aren't more popular. Might I suggest adding ical?
Is there a recording of the talk associated with this?
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Marcelo presented this at the HN Seattle Meeup last night. It was primarily a backdrop for his talk. The most interesting point, IMO, was the cyclical trend he observed in the number of startups registered on the site.
I'm 39. My birth year is not even selectable in the drop-down. I had to go to 1974, then scroll back 2 years. Not exactly a positive experience.
great point. I'll edit it to 3 more orders of magnitude.
XRDS is pretty cool. It's the ACM's "crazy stuff grad students have done lately" magazine.

http://xrds.acm.org/
I am glad somebody posted this article. I found it very thought-provoking.

Some background:

The original paper by the Jesuit priest was discussed on HN a few months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2421107 (includes a link to the abstract of the article, in Italian)

Here's the website of the Catholic open source advocacy group mentioned: http://www.eleutheros.org/en/

One of its cofounders pops up in the comments at the Economist to defend accusations that the Catholic Church is jumping on a bandwagon ("if you can't beat em, join em" is the accusation).

Here's the Eric Raymond post mentioned: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3094

"The Cathedral and the Bazaar" is available on his website: http://catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
So far as I know, the Google Car has not displaced any taxi drivers yet, though the author of the post puts it in the same sentence as EZ Pass.
I don't think you can dismiss money as incentive so easily. There is evidence that paying kids does in fact work (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1978758-1,0...). The point in starting the kids off as young as possible is that it will develop in them good habits. Not to mention the effect that an external incentive for kids in an entire region can have on the culture itself.

Poor black and hispanic kids are the same as everyone else in that they have no internal motivation to work hard at something unpleasant. The difference with white and asians is that they have the external incentive of a culture that supports working (reasonably) hard at school and becoming successful. Money is simply a hack to create this external incentive.
Well, I was thinking specifically about food. Food production in the US is highly automated and subsidized in a dozen different ways. So why is food in the US more expensive than food in Vietnam? Regulatory overhead? Distribution costs?
To checkout an existing branch, you need only do 'git checkout new_branch_name' - if the branch exists on the remote, git will automatically create a local version and set it to track the upstream version.
A tip for Kindle owners: you can make an ifttt pipeline that sends RSS entries to Instapaper. Then on Instapaper's end, set up automated Kindle delivery. Presto, new posts from your favorite bloggers are now on your Kindle, entirely automatically.
That is overly verbose. Try this:

git checkout -b changes_on_their_own_branch
git commit -a

You can always create a new branch at HEAD (where you are currently) and switch to it without having to stash.

On the other hand, stashing may be required if you wanted your branch to start elsewhere:

git checkout -b changes_branch start_point
"unless you have past it already"

This happens within the first fortnight of your life. Of course you've past it already.

~11-day old babies don't generally read sites like this.
It seems to be bitten by a 2038 bug. I asked for a reminder for my 100th birthday and got an error.
No, I think I am correct. Currency exchange rates are prices and in that sense a currency is a good. The typical use of a currency is as a medium of exchange, but people use goods for different reasons. That was my point originally.
I've found Twitter SMS notifications to have spotty performance to my Canadian numbers.
Yeah, this date widget has issues. Have you seen a better one anywhere else? You can always just fall back to the text box, but that is less good.
Google: "thief wins suit against homeowner"

Edit: actually, doing some more reading, it seems like the first case that I read was actually a freak incident. Other laws protect you. Now I'm curious about what case this person is talking about.
This site is super great, been using for a little bit to automatically add anything I tag 'read' on delicious to my instapaper queue.

It would be awesome if there was an output to GET/POST to an arbitrary URL. Although, I suppose it sort of opens up a bigger issue, as to make it really useful for integrating with a lot of other arbitrary APIs, you'd probably need a way to support oauth from arbitrary services as well.
Well, you expect the b-school to cost more than other departments, don't you :-).
I think the lighting is more impressive than the skin. Still, a cool tech demo!
Writer, philosopher Alain de Botton: "We should cite our age not by how many years we've lived, but by how many we statistically have left: a 70 yr old UK male as 8 etc."

http://twitter.com/#!/alaindebotton/status/95809899929407488
That isn't just in the Valley. It's all over. I don't know if it is simply more prevalent there versus other places, but when I was actively interviewing just before I graduated from college, I could count on one hand the companies that I had more than 1-2 technical interviews with and didn't take longer than 45 days from start to finish to give me a decision. It was very routine for companies to wait a full month before supplying me with a final answer.

There were plenty of companies (I'm guessing around 50%) that simply never responded back to me, even if I sent them an inquiry about where I stood in the interview process.

I think the worst one was a company that:
- did an initial HR interview with me, then asked to me come back 3 weeks later.
- sat me down for a 3 hour long "Skills Examination and Aptitude Test" (think SATs mixed with the ASVAB, "If you turn gear A, which direction will gear D turn" kind of stuff)
- never called me in for an actual Technical Skills test
- gave me an offer for a position that I didn't apply for, was not relevant to my skill set, was 15k lower than I expected for the position offered, and that I wasn't interested in.

Some of the companies I've talked to were dreadfully slow and got to the point that I simply didn't even remember talking to them when they finally responded. When they finally responded, I'd look up the last time they contacted me in a spreadsheet I kept and ask them why it took them X months to respond. The usual answers were, "we had so many applicants"/"The previous HR employee left"/"That position is no longer open but we wanted to consider you for another"/etc.
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Part of my original point was that currencies don't have "missions", people do. A person may or may not wish to own a bitcoin in order to facilitate transactions. A person might also wish to own one as a speculative investment. Neither "mission" is necessarily better than the other. Krugman just assumes otherwise.
> The problems in the USPS did not begin with email. They began with a highly questionable requirement that the USPS fund a plan to fully cover the estimated future health care costs of all current employees. They are the only government institution required to do this, and it has crippled their ability to remain profitable:

"fully cover estimated future costs" means that they're the only govt institution that isn't a timebomb of future obligations. When they can't keep up, we know that there's trouble down the line, which is far better than the status quo, which is to wait until all of the assets are gone, leaving nothing but obligations.

In other words

> They began with a highly questionable requirement

this isn't a questionable requirement, it's a sane one. The insanity is that it's unique instead of being universal.

> They have overpaid this fund by billions of dollars, but they are not able to use this money to address their current financial shortcomings.

Yes, current projections say that they're overpaid, but these projections have a way of going horribly wrong.