skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Becky Stern is a hacker with some knitting projects. You can use a knitting machine to iterate your patterns faster :) http://sternlab.org/2010/11/hacking-the-brother-kh-930e-knit...
T-Mobile is on its last legs anyways. Deutsch Telekom has made their desire known for a long time to get out of the US market. The ATT buyout falling through will keep them alive a bit longer, but honestly I'd be wary of signing up with them just because of the chance of them being bought out by a larger corp is very real.
Given the (sizeable) advertising contracts Pinterest has already landed, people are posting and clicking on pictures of awesome clothes they like and might want to own, and other luxury stuff like cooking utensils; movies and books also seem to be pretty popular, and I've seen a lot of character diagrams from TV shows and fantasy series.

Yeah, there are certainly random things like ketchup and cleaning products and life insurance policies that don't lend themselves well to selling via images on the internet. But that has nothing to do with Pinterest; and given some time, somebody will probably figure out the angles for life insurance and ketchup.
Although, having grown up with keyboard-controlled games and the IJKL pattern, I was expecting the K to scroll down, not the J.
Here's some wonderful interviews by Studs Terkel done in the 60's that provide a nice audio complement to these pictures:

http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_051512.mp3/view

I particularly enjoyed the interviews with R. Buckminster Fuller (18:50) and Mahalia Jackson (24:40). If you have just 5 minutes, listen to the one with Jackson which is about the racism of the time.

Sorry, there doesn't appear to be a transcript. The first interview starts at 13:30.
I think your second sentence answered your first.
'Just get it out there, it'll be used or not.' I love this point: there's no need to try and hit perfection, just put it out there and if it's useful people will help you. That's the beauty of open source.
Dead-Tree Luddites
"Of course, we get the results from these so late that it doesn't give us the ability to make on-the-fly judgements."

And isn't that a bit bizarre? At least the multiple choice portion could be in your email in three days, if these were seriously intended to be used for any sort of guidance.
Proof by contradiction: You'll never read the blogs of people who failed to make a passive income by having a blog about making a passive income by having a blog about passive income, because you reading such a failed blog would imply that blog had a readership and would therefore make money off advertising so it wouldn't be a failed blog. QED.

It's sort of the Anthropic principle: you could only notice that if such blogs existed, and such blogs could only exist if you read them, so you've answered your own question.
>Should they be allowed to organize and plan peaceful actions without police officers continually derailing their discussions by trying to incite violence?

This is what's called harassment, and it's illegal. Furthermore, I challenge you to find a record of any such ongoing such actions.
Perhaps he simply misread, it happens. To assume he doesn't know the difference and then suggest he "buy a dictionary" is a tad bit rude, which may account for the downvotes.
The initial feature set is that you'll be able to create/destroy/tag/reboot and send arbitrary ssh commands to your VMs from your phone, tablet or laptop at no cost. Monitoring and sms/email alerting will be available for a small fee.

We're still working on the user interface so we're not quite ready to publish screenshots yet. Check back soon!
Unfortunately, most users of the Internet, will happily click through 50 slides to view the latest top 10 list. Damn the masses.
I don't tend to read biz books, but recently I've read a ton of great Russian texts.

The Master & Margarita

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_Margarita

Goethe's Faust & the story of Pontius Pilate retold in 1930s Russia. Really, I mean really damn good. Very readable.

Books 1 & 2 of The Gulag Archipelago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago

An expansive history of the Soviet prison camp system, almost a folk history.

Petersburg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petersburg_(novel)

Think Joyce writing about a revolutionary plot in the Petersburg of 1910-something, involving patricide and a time-bomb set for 24 hours from now. Yeah.

That and slowly working through Proust (book 5). I'm not sure if I really recommend it, but I'd be interested to hear thoughts from other smarty-pants HN people.
They look like a cool team of developers!! congrats to them! Glad to see some amazing projects and awesome team back in my old continent!
I thought that too, but nope, just a pointless list of links that have already passed my eyes numerous times lately..
I believe the purpose of the article is to get readers to step back and realize the absurdity of comparison between having a job versus having passive income.

Yes, your summary is correct, but short sided in that many need this sort of realization to remind those of us who are going to work for a boss everyday what other (and better) options are available.
Thanks, that was an awesome read. I'm going to get the book. While this post was short & to the point, I felt there was a lot of generalizing going on... I mean, what the heck is "smart" and "stupid" anyways? Don't we all define that in our own minds? Asymmetric insight; now that's some serious stuff to reflect on...
I have been thinking hard about passive income lately. The more I think, the more I realize that there is no such thing. Yes, there is something called "actively working hard on your own thing using your own resources/time that helps you being able to generate the most important thing in life :Time for yourself and your family/friends". And that for me means to bootstrap something and make it profitable enough that it takes care of your needs (whatever that is in your definition). Of course, that could take years of active/hard work.
don't forget Clojure
Wolfram announces its finance platform.
Are you saying that without piracy, people would be more easily tricked into buying tickets to bad movies? And how is that a good thing?
Profit margin != Screwing.
Need to Donate? Need Donations? Easy (Zealous Good)
Old Man's War - John Scalzi
It reminds me a lot of impress.js[1], however, impress.js's execution is a lot smoother.

[1] http://bartaz.github.com/impress.js
Validation or How I Stopped Worrying About the Cool Kids
I had problems with these too, better check them again
Added back button support. Wasn't a bug, just was never implemented.
What About Piffle? Been waiting far too long now keep checking every day.
San Francisco Bars to Install Facial Detection Cameras Inside Venues
Exactly. Drumming this news as somehow - Executive arm of our constitution took power in its hands and decided to block websites unilaterally is false. I still lament the lack of knowledge judiciary has, when it comes to passing judgement on such things but I don't see Central or State Govt. at fault here.
Теперь польский Седльце почти как Житомир – там тоже есть улица Бердичевская
Code For America opens its Git Basics skillshare
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The Imagination Engine: Why Next-Gen Video Games Will Rock Your World
First thing is PayPal fees, after which we are left with $6895. We are switching from PayPal to accepting credit cards directly through WireCard + Recurly, but that will likely just raise our costs a bit (but will hopefully improve conversions).

This interests me the most. Could you shad some light as of why you switching knowing the cost will go up. You say it will improve conversions, but #1 isnt PayPal still the most well known payment system over the web, and #2 dont they offer payment via regular credit cards?

What you trying to do here, is replace better option with narrower one for all customers. If anything, you should add Google Checkout, as I got used to using it over PayPal (and sometimes wont convert) because PayPal got me real mad couple times in the past.
Going from paid to free in hopes of luring in users
44: It's 5th and Virginia http://preview.tinyurl.com/ccrtsph
"any number" means that you must be able to produce two triangles if asked for two, three if asked for three, four if asked for four, 7 trillion if asked for 7 trillion, etc. Effectively, you have to be able to generate infinitely many (technically: aleph-0) Pythagorean triangles.

Aside: I do not think that is a the nice problem, as there are way easier ways to generate aleph-0 such triangles (I think most mathematicians would agree the simplest is 3x,4x,5x for x in {1,2,...}) But that is not what this question is hinting at.
It might be worthwhile educating them. It shouldn't be that much harder to show them how to setup Postgres than MySQL :-)

If it's only a simple blogging platform, it might well be that MySQL will do the job just fine though.
I wish they did (for FF, too), and leave Flash as fallback for everyone else. It might push other sites to adopt WebM.

But in this case they didn't. It's showing Flash for me. Maybe you sign-ed up to HTML5 by mistake.

youtube.com/html5
Hi, Canadian here. There is a bit of leg room when it comes to what school you go to (at least in the region where I went to school). Most high schools in the region have some sort of magnet program that allow for students to attend without living in the school's defined area. Both my sister and I went to different schools than where we were 'supposed' to go. So it's not a hard line, but these magnet programs only accept so many students. So for the most part it is true. Just giving some clarification.
The only problem is, the state attornies/feds don't press criminal charges on the person if they don't want to.
Ok, let's get back to the basics, because everybody looks like they lost it when they start discussing this

"rich people don't create jobs, nor do businesses, large or small."

Ok, where to start

You can have "a job" essentially in two ways:

- Being self-employed (doctor, lawyer, etc), or create your own company. This is usually the minority of people

- Having a job at a company

So, yes, companies create jobs, next

Big companies create more jobs (per 'unit'). Smaller companies create less jobs (per 'unit') but combined they make more jobs in total.

Companies create an opening because of: increased production (or more customers, in case of services), new line of business. This is ignoring regular turnaround where someone quits to go somewhere else and someone is hired to replace.

Hence, new jobs comes from:
- New products / services

- More people consuming existing products

(we could add loss of efficiency as well)

Now, bigger companies have a much easier time hiring new people. HR is set and knows the drill, they usually can accomodate new people with their existing profits (maybe not a lot, still)

Smaller companies have a much harder time hiring another people. Suppose you are a one man company, and you want to hire someone. You have to be HR (this cuts into your time). You may be not sure if adding this person is going to increase the profits enough to cover for the extra costs, etc

So when you cut taxes to all companies, sure, you're helping the big guys, but also the small guys.

The rich have an easier time dodging regulation or sending their profits to Ireland and back, but not the small guy

"And taxing the rich to make investments that grow the middle class" (from the article)

Yadda yadda yadda. You want to grow the middle class? Reduce taxing on them!

But the government won't do it, because the middle class (still) has the most money available (amount of people x taxes payed by each one) and the least resources to avoid them.
If you want a real internet of things, may I suggest a lower power protocol like ZigBee? Mesh networks come free with the spec!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zigbee
I guess I didn't explain myself clearly... if you shortened the url yourself (I'm sure you can find a good implementation of this), why not name the S3 image exactly the same as the short url?

In the example you gave elsewhere, the image would be http://billr.s3.amazonaws.com/J7W5uY instead of http://billr.s3.amazonaws.com/01C03E08-4CFD-4709-87C9-BB60FD... - so bit.ly wouldn't be needed.

The suggestion elsewhere in this discussion to encode the entire bill in the url is probably the optimal solution though. With a bit of caching it's probably the cheapest you could run your system (sans S3).
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I didn't get my previous view of libertarians from mass media. I've seen people who I'm pretty sure are libertarian in this very thread arguing intelligently against extremist views. They usually go unchallenged outside HN, which is how people get a bad impression.

Libertarianism isn't well-served by letting anarchists call themselves libertarian unchallenged. I would like to see more of what I see on HN out in public view.
C++ multithreading tutorial
That's a great article. I have made a similar experience, too. However, there's one thing I strongly disagree with. From the article:

> I have no qualms with walking away from projects, as I expect that if the idea is valuable, someone else will be happy to step up and take my place;

Up to here I agree. However, the article continues with:

> it's more likely that several people will step up and the strongest will survive - which is best for everyone.

To my experience, this is the #1 reason why promising projects die (by slowly converting to crap): The maintainer goes away, quietly, leaving everyone in confusion. I always thought this would happen only by accident (previous maintainer overestimates his/her free time). But I'd never have thought anybody would do this on purpose.

It is really minimal effort to drop a quick note about dropping the project and naming a successor.
I understand everyone's sentiment about Steve's blogs on earning passive income. If you look around his site he does have some interesting blog posts on things like Polyphasic Sleep.

HN readers for the most part are probably not in need of his motivational/inspirational "speeches" and articles. And most understand the desirability of passive income but understand its challenges, obstacles, and reality.

Someone similar who shares Mr. Pavlina's strong beliefs and desires for everyone to achieve their life's goals and live every day to its fullest is Ramit Sethi (http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/) with his own book and numerous other "programs" like Earn 1K. Ramit recognizes and addresses the reality of passive income and recommends not going after it at first.

Both Ramit and Steve are excellent reminders and motivators to keep working towards your goals similar to 21times.org's daily email newsletters for startups.

UPDATE: I like what someone else said in another comment here. Paraphrasing it: Don't think of it as passive income, think of it as delayed income.

UPDATE: Let's clarify what we all really mean by "passive". It's not really passive as in "you don't have to do anything". What we mean is that we are no longer trading straight time for income. Our income potential is no longer limited to the number of hours we are awake trading our time for money.

UPDATE: The delayed income relies upon a long tail return. Often the amount of energy consumed to setup the long term tail is very similar to the amount of time and energy early (and bootstrapping) startups invest in hopes of recouping their time and money investment at a later date (and in hopes of that return being many times greater than what a hourly rated "job" would pay).
I've always wondered this. Most of the time, the readers of a blog about passive income are people that want to make passive income, and likely have their own blog about how they also make passive income. It's like a snake eating its own tail.
It's not as ridiculous as you think. Yes that person needs to buy stuff, but not enough stuff to support an entire economy.
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Picture 38 - Here's the street in 1978 (http://berlin-wall.org/popup/mur1.html)

Here's the same street, but I need to work harder for a better location.

(http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Sebastian+Strasse+berlin&...)

Lol Google, your urls.
On Craftsmanship
It's a popular narrative with this audience.
I have to say...

hnhg seems correct here your arguments can definitely be 'distilled'. In that distillation process the references to 'Indians', 'Shamrocks' and 'Barbarians' would be the first to go as they add no support to your material point.

Of course, hnhg's comment approaches Ad Hominem. It could also be better worded.

Just trying to be fair.
It looks like just a joke to me, I imagine it came from 'How do we get all these web developers to click on this link and maybe tweet'
To be fair, Pavlina started as a mid-level Indie game developer and moved into the self-help world. I think the first buzz he received was on thirty day trials and (in particular) polyphasic sleep.

He's always been a bit unorthodox, but he wrote a book that I found to have quite a bit of value, and was quite a bit more challenging in its exercises than the standard self-help book.

I still read him, but more for the occasional nuggets now - for where I am in life, I don't receive much value from his current set of posts because it isn't where I am right now in life. That's okay.

As for the passive income bit, I'm hoping the series gets better, but I fear it is going to be a repackaging of what he's said before.
I don't know whose "laziness" that is.

I don't habitually go around blaming individual problems on 'society' or 'the masses'. But ...

It's 'us' that got weak. Our culture. We got lazy, decided that the poisons that eliminated bedbugs were bad, forgot how awful the things were, how much work it was to keep a household free of pestilence, and let them slip back in.

You can see this attitude everywhere from vaccine deniers to the fools who deride public health measures as intrusive on their liberties.
2000 - drop shadows.

2005 - transparent drop shadows.

2012 - realtime drop shadows!
Internet of Things: Got Milk?
Except that I named two areas where they can make mistakes. And Google's success is indeed because of the hard work they've put into building such a smart team of search engineers.
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Doddgy as all fuck any site that has a header dripping with faux iliminati symbols and appears to be punting MLM and make monney fast should not be on hacker news.
The briefcase-sized computer with dials that Mauchly is carrying around is interesting. It's an analog computer for solving scheduling and flow problems, i.e. finding the critical path. The arrows show dependencies, and you turn a knob to set how long a task takes. The computer computes the critical path and the float (slack) time. It's implemented as a corresponding network of voltages sources and diodes, where the voltage at a point indicates time. A plotter creates a time graph as output. The computer is programmed through a plugboard and cables.

This is described in patent 3250902, which is actually pretty clearly written.
Knitting patterns constitute programming—straightforwardly Turing-complete, thanks to conditionals and recursion—but knitting itself, the object produced by knitting, does not. It’s just output, unless of course someone writes a very very clever knitting pattern that lets you simulate Rule 110 by tugging bits of yarn. (I’m not holding my breath.)

But knitting is not the only programming language for string-based objects. There’s weaving, crochet, lace, macramé, and more—ostensibly you could make all the same things with these techniques as you can with knitting, but you will go about many things differently, and different languages are suited to different kinds of problems.

But this shouldn’t be surprising: programming is a craft, and all crafts have parallels.
The racism those photos document is startling. Just 50 years ago?

Though, in my private high school in Indiana, in 1999 I overheard kids more than once telling n*er jokes. I heard less overtly racists at the school saying things like "Yeah, it would be weird to have a black friend." These were the rich kids who parents owned the local businesses. I have a hard time believing the kids weren't getting it from the parents.

It seemed so absurd at the time, but I guess it's less surprising if you remember segregation had only officially ended 37 years ago, then, and that the klan remained active in Indiana for decades after.

That was 12 years ago, but I doubt it's all fixed since then. I know that school is still basically exclusively white despite the town being about 25% African American and 9% Latino. I fear the consequences of treating so many people as less than people will stick with us for a long time. Kind of naive to think they would all go away in just 50 years.
I was looking at this the other day. My other half does a lot of knitting. Some interesting stuff:

Knitting markup language: http://www.knitml.com

Knitting is an acceptable LISP: http://wetpixels.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/knitting-is-acceptab...
Picture 44 is at the corner of Virginia Street and 5th Avenue.

The monorail only goes down 5th Avenue, so I didn't have too much detective work to do :)

http://g.co/maps/y98fa
Maybe, I'm still juggling the options in my head. But when I say enterprise I mean enterprise, with all the pejorative connotations thereof. We are not a nimble startup, we are an enormous, established, very conservative company; I'm just the guy who knows all those newfangled languages. This means that, unless someone can convince me otherwise (and if you can, please, please convince me otherwise), Java seems to possess the correct combination of features: mature platform, wide adoption, familiar syntax, readily-available developers, maintainability by those other than the original authors (Java isn't necessarily great at this, but better than many), and a quality that I'll describe only as hard to really fuck things up too badly. If it wasn't for that last requirement, I'd already be trying to sell Python to my boss; as it stands, if I can't find some really awesome static analysis and verification tools for Python, Java is simply the only choice that my conscience allows me to make.

(Corollary: what about .NET? Mostly I'm incredibly wary of recommending a language with only one "blessed" platform, and a proprietary one at that. My bosses are wary of this too: as a result of historical decisions we're currently locked into IBM hardware, writing million-line codebases in RPG-LE. If someone can allay my fears of vendor lock-in (at the hands of no less than Microsoft), perhaps I'll consider it.)
bigfoot if you are using MS Word 2045 with built-in AI spell-checker and logic-checker, then yeah it should caught it.

I have 2011 and it comes out just fine.
Uptime: A simple HTTP remote monitoring utility using Node.js and MongoDB
Can’t we all just get along? Employees, freelancers, entrepreneurs and coworking
They aren't trying to be neutral : they are hiding behind neutrality. Their paying audience has no interest in hearing that they aren't the ones that make the world go round.
Outcomes not being well defined != unnecessary or worth getting rid of.

You seem to confuse physical existence and idea. Presumably a physical object can be painted but ideas can't. Lot's of things exist that can't be verified by sight, touch, etc. In my opinion being a good teacher is not something that can be reasonably measured. I'm open to the possibility that I'm wrong but have seen no evidence that I am.
The single person owns robots who perform every task he desires at a cost lower than human subsistence wages.

Of course, even at that point the remaining humans can just form an economy among themselves which the rich man doesn't participate in...