skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your analysis prompts a bunch of knee-jerk reactions from me which I'm going to attempt to squelch. :)

First, property as a result of superstition? Really? This is the first I've ever heard of this. In fact, most primitive societies have no concept of property -- this is why they are primitive. "Culture Cult" does a great job expanding on this argument.

Second, a dichotomy between energy and property? Really? So you can't be somebody who has a lot of energy and wants to smash doors down and also somebody who likes to own stuff? Sounds like a conclusion you'd draw from various discussions on MPAA and BitTorrent, but not one that would work for much besides that.

Let's say it's fifty thousand years ago and I live in the forest with my clan. I take a flint and make a wood carving. At this point I own nothing -- so if it's nice, the alpha male or one of his females takes it from me. So I stop making carvings.

Somewhere down the line, at least in Western Civilization, I make the same carving and get to keep it. This is the beginning of civilization, the basis for all progress: both the naming of property as the product of somebody's energy and the common belief that they get to keep it. Property is stored energy (in your terms). Once it's stored we can trade it or pass it around without having to expend energy again. So progress begins to accumulate. Energy can either create property or not.

Of course I can't keep everything I make; the clan needs extra arrowheads or whatever in order to fight off another clan. So I share -- or I'm taxed. However you put it, I give up some of my property, some of my "stored energy" in order to benefit the greater good.

There is a tension here, and it's a good tension. Where you come down on most political issues boils down to whether you're a "sharer" or a "creator/trader" You can be both, of course, but your answer to this tension defines your sensibilities. Not some kind of energy/property thing.

I love ad-hoc analysis. Your comment strikes me as an informed comment of somebody who has kind of floated along in the various property discussions we tech heads have without taking much time at all to dive deeper (apologies if that sounds condescending.) Might want to up your game a bit. Using your terms, energy without persistent property is a fool's game. Yes, you can trade MP3 tunes all day on the net and it doesn't hurt the economy much. You can participate in the FOSS movement, providing somebody else a bigger piece of property down the road for less effort -- a great cause indeed. But the reason you can act in such an idealized manner is that you're resting on other more fundamental principles of property. They don't come and take your house or computer any more, and the things you create you get to either choose to share or not. Because we rest so solidly on the foundations of property, we begin to forget they are there.

Seriously, this property rights equals don't-change-things and religious superstition is way whacked.
"When Verizon finally picked up the Pre Plus the next year, the carrier ordered millions of devices and then flippantly refused shipment and decided to focus on the Motorola Droid, leaving Palm sitting on millions of unsold units that couldn't be used on any other carrier in the world."

Was this breach of contract, or not? If Verizon's "flippant" refusal of shipment was permitted by the contract, then this is Palm's mismanagement. They should have negotiated terms that would have mitigated this risk, or insisted on "NO DEAL" precisely because of this risk.

Palm was a large company. They had lawyers - what were they doing and saying about this?
The Constitution and its worshippers.
I need a face detection API ASAP but I hope add facial recognition soon.
This project is free and open to everyone who wants contribute it.
Not surprising at all - kaggle (as currently implemented) is a fundamentally broken model. On top of the rather unpleasant "everybody pays auction" or "winner take all" system, they have a severe problem with metrics - the majority of the datasets are not anywhere near large enough to give stable out of sample error estimates, which means that in many cases the "winners" are barely better than random.

Perhaps they might be onto something with "kaggle prospect", but unless they pivot in some creative new direction, it's hard to see the service being very useful.
The problem, as RubyMotion and Monotouch have both demonstrated, is that no matter how much you change the language your code is still dominated by calls into the Cocoa APIs, and that's where a lot of the verbosity and ugliness lies (IMO).
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This is a scandal. All the web developers that have been screaming about IE for years are now too lazy to add the moz-, ms-, o-, and the general version of CSS properties.

And I do not think it is an excuse that one browser does not support an property, put in the prefix or at the very least the general version, feature versions will probably support it.
"to drive down the price of capital?"

But that's exactly what we do see. Interest rates are absurdly low. Interest rates are the price of capital.

The fact that you can select a sample of outliers who won big on risky investments doesn't change the overall statistical situation. Most capital is still getting low returns.
His show was on a few years back and got cancelled (which was part of the reason I was interested in the new show - because I used to watch the other one) so I imagine he understands that, while things are good, they can flip in an instant. I can't imagine if his show did get cancelled that he wouldn't make an attempt to bring it back.
Given that the tax structure massively prefers capital gains to other forms of income, it is unreliable to look at the reported tax percentages as a measure of where the money is actually coming from. For example, many of the uber-rich structure payments for their labor such that they are taxed as capital gains.
Face detection for cats. Kittydar.
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Another problem with the existing worker model is related to limited support for embedded scripting. For one, with the standard nginx distribution, only embedding Perl scripts is supported.

For those looking for full featured and robust embedded scripting support in nginx, Yichun Zhang's lua-nginx-module is highly recomended. https://github.com/chaoslawful/lua-nginx-module
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But typically this is only possible by being a part-owner (and an owner of a significant part) of a business with defined shares.
Odd design choice by Inc. This is what you get if your window width is 1166 or less: http://i.imgur.com/vbXWY.png
Well, I have more respect for Apple now, and still none for Greenpeace.
facebook is really desperate to find a business model...seems like they are throwing the kitchen sink at the wall and seeing what sticks.

that's fine for a startup...but for a company that has IPOed it's just plain sad.
It's a newer domain because we used to be called 32ar (32ar.com registered 2012-03-23), I've been working on this full time since March.
Yes, eventually. The service might not be open-sourced, developing the algorithm as FOSS is something I've had in mind.
Rivets.js - Binding data to views
Courgette is very cool, but all it does is make updates smaller, which is only one part of making updates less annoying. Also, Google was sued in 2009 for patent infringement for the algorithm, which likely makes other people nervous about using it. I'm not sure if or how that was resolved.
There's some special treatment of job ads for YC companies. Maybe this post was done using the same back door.
Microsoft sponsored Android “security” report flawed
From Spam Folder to SF: One Startup's Adventure at 48 Hours in the Valley
Japan mulls buying disputed islands in East China Sea
Buy the cheap safe, put nothing inside and then hide everything valuable on the top shelf of your wardrobe.
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It's going to be a freemium model--unlike Face.com which didn't even have a paid option. I think there could be some advantages to having an openly developed algorithm in the background, mainly so you could embed the project where a REST API would be unwieldy (low bandwidth / low connectivity environments).
When I was at AirWave, which was an IdeaLab company, we had door desks made of hollow-core doors set on top of two cheap steel filing cabinets. Maybe other IdeaLab companies did the same thing.

These worked fine as long as you didn't poke holes in them, but at first they were a little unstable, since the doors would slide around no top of the filing cabinets. At some point, somebody had the idea of putting some of the Thinking Putty we had sitting around the office on top of the filing cabinets, and that kept the doors from sliding.

This is considerably more frugal, in my view, than the solid-core doors with metal brackets to attach the legs. Lightweight, easy to move, easy to disassemble (the Thinking Putty stained the wood with its oil but didn't get stuck itself), lots of storage space in the drawers, etc.
Parent: "shouldn't supply and demand equilibrate things to drive down the price of capital?"

You: "Interest rates are absurdly low."

Interest rates are low because of government policy.
Why would I choose Rivets over competing options, such as Knockout?
Oh, but yes, yes! :)
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Are you friggin' serious right now?

I'm starting to get really pissed by all the nonsense.
We're not assuming anything; they're actually doing it. For instance:

http://joris.kluivers.nl/blog/2012/03/13/new-objectivec-lite...

The language may be decades old, but clearly Apple is continuing to advance the compiler to improve the language's syntax and verbosity without breaking the runtime.
One issue I have with VPC is that instances don't get public IPs by default like public cloud instances do. Instead you have to attach EIPs, which has extra complexity (esp. taking care to deallocate them if you don't care about persistence), and you're limited to only 5 EIPs by default. I know you can request to increase the limit, but I have no idea what the approval process is like, and it seems completely silly when you can get as many public IPs as you want by launching multiple public cloud instances.

(If you're curious, my architecture requires hosts outside of AWS to connect directly to EC2 instances. Using a NAT box inside VPC would likely introduce a bottleneck. I don't need multiple IPs per instance, but I just wanted to provide some feedback as to why VPC with an Internet Gateway feels inferior to public cloud EC2 for me. Thanks!)
If the capital markets were efficient, shouldn't supply and demand equilibrate things to drive down the price of capital?

Yes, that was called the Global Financial Crisis. Then the capital-owners (dare I call them the capitalist class?) bought control over major governments and propped themselves up using public bail-out money, shifting their red ink into the public ledger.

And now we have a "public debt crisis". Who knows where that came from?
I can sort of second this. I paid for a sub and let it lapse shortly afterwards. The akwardness of trying to do things, the ugliness of the world and the fact that my nieghbour made a huge sky-reaching tower covered in pornography and pictures of borat unimpressed me.

It was about 25% as cool as the hype.
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You're comparing apples and oranges, Knockout is a lib for structuring your app while this is a small lib that doesn't do anything more than data binds.

This could be used with backbone or any other lib that doesn't have data binds.
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I've never used a door desk, but in addition to the other negatives already mentioned, I have to imagine that they must be rather wobbly, like the Ikea desks we had at a startup I was at several years ago.

If anyone wants a great cheap desk (around $250 delivered), I recommend the Hon AM3060:

https://www.google.com/search?q=hon+am3060

These things are extremely sturdy with no sideways wobble at all. They are adjustable height and have adjustable feet for uneven floors. I've had a couple of them for years and think they're great.

Unfortunately, Hon seems to have discontinued them. The only model I see in stock anywhere is the AM3060ZZP with a mahogany colored top. I have the AM3060ML with a light oak color top, and there was also one with a gray top. (All the tops are a laminate.)

There also used to be an AM3048 and an AM3072, but I don't see those anywhere. (The model numbers indicate the top size: 30x48, 30x60, 30x72.)
I think if your goal / all you want to do is make a lot of money you have a pretty sad life. However it's not very hard. I don't know in what context the Citizen Kane quote was used. A lot of money varies a lot from where you are and what kind of insane thoughts you picked up from the internet.

A lot of money can be $1 million in a lot of countries, $10 million in most countries, $100 million in all countries, $1 billion in silicon valley.

Your first million is the hardest they sometimes say but if you have that, you SHOULD not ever have to work ever again if you are smart. That smart part messes most of those cases up.

If you have $10 million you are done unless you are a complete idiot. Again, this idiot part messes most of those cases up.

So currently most blahblah about getting rich is focused on $100 million or above. I read with much amusement how people in Monaco who have 'only $10 million' feel poor and unhappy. What a sad moron you are. Even in Monaco you can easily live a super nice life, the rest of your life, with $10 million, but apparently people IN Monaco are so insane they consider this poor.

Anyway; I believe Citizen Kane was right if he means 'a lot of money' in the sense of being rich/never having to work again in your life. If he means $100 million or over, he is wrong IMHO. Nor did I ever met anyone who had as only goal to make money while I know a lot of rich people (who are rich in the sense they never have to work); even 2 with the magical 'over $100 million and they didn't even ever think about money much, they did what they did best and it shot to the top. That's the best way IMHO, but then again, I don't live in SV.
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I see, thanks. And that's a really nice tool, this n-gram viewer. Thanks for the link!
Live Programming in Smalltalk
> Because it would seem to me that your company _invented_ a tradition like that, it's just that you didn't like that it wasn't invented from the guy sitting
> next to you.

No, the company didn't "invent" a tradition. Here's two scenarios:

1) Your boss goes around and hands everyone a plastic action figure and says "okay let's all take pictures of him doing funny things!" Nobody's going to do it. It's going to feel forced, and it's going to have the opposite effect.

2) You come in one morning and find your boss taking a picture of an action figure bent over and peering into the guts of a server. Then you see a few coworkers doing it the next day. Pretty soon you're trying to top them.

Management can demand that people have fun, but the only way it works is if you observe it in action.
No, I mean for new users they are doing away with the public folders. You can now get a public link to any folder in your dropbox, it's just it goes to a splash page where they let you view the pic, or download the html. Basically new users won't be able to use their dropbox public folder as a webserver because of that anymore, no hotlinking images with dropbox links.
Programmers "liked" Java because they were told to by Sun. Programmers "liked" C# because they were told to by Microsoft. Now, programmers "like" Obj-C because they are told to by Apple. In that regard, this seems like a step in the right direction...

But it's only a half step. If you look at what's happened to the other two languages mentioned above, they have evolved such that their runtimes are now more important than the languages they originally hosted.

What really needs to happen to Obj-C is for people to wake up and realize that the runtime is actually really nice. Combined with LLVM, one could make the case that the Obj-C runtime could compete with the JVM or the CLR.

(Of course, the one huge, massive, glaring omission is any sort of managed memory... Well, at least there was a garbage collector at one point.)
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"Property" is quirky word, and I now wish I could think of a better word to represent what I'm talking about, because the points you've raised are valid. Property rights are a great thing in moderation. There's a social need for people to have the right to own the products of their own labor. Where property becomes a systemic disease when property relations persist for longer (and allowing larger concentrations than are reasonable) than serve any purpose. If a person who works hard gets rich, great. If his moronic, undeserving, spoiled great-grandchildren are rich and powerful and still call the shots in society, not great.

There needs to be a way of storing Energy, as you said, but it needs to be limited and kept reasonable. Infinite transferability of property rights is a demonstrated disaster.

For example, private land ownership (at scale, in non-agrarian settings) is pretty much illegitimate. I'm not saying that it's illegitimate for a person to own a small house in the woods on an acre of land. That's fine. I'm talking about what happens at scale. Private land ownership was necessary at one time because it gave people an incentive to use the land properly, but the senseless wealth transfer we see in, e.g., Manhattan is just perverse. People like me (hard-working, ambitious, energetic, talented) are the fucking reason people want to live (or work, or employ people) here... we fucking make cities... and yet, instead of thanks for making this place great, we get the obligation to pay immense sums of money in rent.

I would actually support a government solution to the urban land problem. Since the total price is going to be high anyway (because of the high demand for housing) I'd rather see it go into taxes that make the place better-- better schools, more and nicer parks-- than into the already bloated coffers of multimillionaire real estate owners.

The religion aspect: private land ownership pretty much emerged out of ancestor veneration. Land "ownership" started at the ability to defend land, which was usually the job of the chieftain or king or alpha male. However, being people, they died. If their descendants weren't strong or persuasive or wily enough to defend the land claim through ordinary means, they started using supernatural claims, based on the idea that the ancestor still existed and could enforce those claims supernaturally. (Over generations, these ancestors became gods.) This was almost certainly not the only religious impulse, and it's far from true that all religion was borne of this desire, but it's a strong and consistent strain of the impulse to corrupt religion toward political aims.
As a sometime developer myself and late-blooming CS student I see things like this and start to feel insecure about my place in the world... if the barrier to entry keeps getting lower so that anybody can build an app, what's the point?

Obviously, I need not feel this way. Why? b/c this trend where eventually 'civilians' w/ no training in info tech or knowledge of conventional programming languages will be in a position to build stuff on the fly implies that the state of the art of software engineering is going to be miles from where we are today, and to me this is a good thing: hardcore software engineers have always been focused on making tools.
This is something I completely agree with. However, at this point, having used things like gofmt, there should already be tools that enforce correct formatting. I don't use python very much... perhaps there already is.
Making things simple is the hard part
Imprudence has the best reputation regarding stability. It has been a while since I tried it though.

On Linux I have had the best luck with Phoenix. I found Firestorm to be unstable on each of my systems. There are some quirks relating to music/media tracks due to library versions the software was compiled against, but solutions are readily found there if you run into them.
Like a "real" language, Perl has dialects -- including the grunts of the lone boy raised in the wild by wolves.

Don't blame the boy.

(And remember, he was raised by wolves. Yeoowww!)
I would like to see an example of an airworthy plane for $20k that has any range (250 miles seems bare minimum). Also, it should cost less than $15k for it's next annual inspection and repair...
There's a lot that's correct about what you wrote, but a lot that isn't.

The fundamental dichotomy is: Property is by nature excludable, Energy by nature must be applied to something (usually either Property or the Commons) to do any work.

Markets run on excludability. If you can't fence something off and appropriate it as your own, you can't trade it, because someone else can just take it from you.

Here's a theorem: the more excludable something is, the more accurately markets value it. This is why Commons Goods and Public Goods are dramatically undervalued in a market system: they're non-excludable. Anyone can breathe the air or attend public schools, but someone has to keep the air clean and provide public schools.

Beyond this, I recommend reading Henry George's Progress and Poverty, as well as Das Kapital by Karl Marx.

But what it comes to is that in the great struggle between Capital and Labor, or Property and Energy, capital is by nature very excludable, while Labor (lacking organization into a guild or union) is not very excludable (workers cannot stop the capitalist from working for himself, even if only temporarily). Capital will thus be valued more on free markets than Labor, in general.

This actually maps exactly onto left-right politics, outside the United States. In most of the world, the Right represents Property/Capital and the Left represents Labor/Energy, and socioeconomic politics consists of trying to form a workable arrangement between the two.
I own a door desk, bought from the Saltaire company in Seattle, the one that made Amazon's desks. I had interviewed at Amazon in 1997 and saw the door-desks everywhere and asked one of the people there where they got them and found out the company info. (Meanwhile, the interview didn't go well: they didn't seem to like me and I really thought the company was creepy -- every interview was unpleasant, every person I met was arrogant and the whole vibe of the place felt wrong.) Anyway, I went to Saltaire and special-ordered one of their door-desks. Cost around $200 plus tax. I still have it 15 years later, it's in use every day.
Interest rates globally have been dropping for a long time. Not that long ago powerful people looked at 20% annual interest rates for capital projects as low.
Well, interest rates and inflation. Inflation is being purposefully kept low (see: ECB, the US Fed).
In this article, Inc Magazine confirms what any follower of Marx or George could have told you long ago: the rich get rich from owning things, preferably productive assets like businesses, rather than from working.
Returns aren't that different: statistically speaking the rate of return off an average college degree is significantly better than the return on capital. However, capital scales without limit, whereas you only have one lifetime of labor to sell to the highest bidder.