skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've come to the conclusion that there are two essential commodities in any society. One is Property-- land, financial capital, social connections, reputation. The other is Energy-- talent, ambition, willingness to work hard, vision. Most social and class tensions are centered on the exchange rate between these two, which has historically favored Property except in times of crisis.

The reason societies have typically been pro-Property comes from religious superstition; consider that the concept of private land ownership emerged out of a perversion of ancestor veneration; "<dead chieftain> will rape your shit for breakfast in the afterlife if you don't honor his descendant's claim to this land". Eventually, these ancestors became legends or gods and those who claimed ancestry became the priests, and the rest (literally) is history. [Note: I'm not saying that all religion was born this way, but only that the desire to corrupt or abuse the religious impulse is as old as dirt.]

If you take a person's percentile-ranking on Property vs. Energy and compare the two, it determines what that person's politics will be-- not in a left/right sense, but in terms of how they view certain social justice questions. People who are Property-heavy (i.e. have a lot of connections and capital but low talent) tend to resist change and want to keep doors closed. People who have more Energy than Property want to shatter barriers and dynamite the doors keeping them out.

The reason it doesn't map easily to left/right politics is that both corporations and government can be corrupted to protect the entrenched (i.e. undeserving, Property-heavy people) so there are a lot of pro-Property types who are superficially liberal. Most HN-types and entrepreneurs, even the libertarians, tend to be pro-Energy. A source of our continuing frustration is that the world is still run (look at who actually makes major funding decisions, a few top incubators aside) by extremely connected people who have lots of Proprety and little Energy/talent.

There's another way to view this, which is more fundamental and equally correct. Property equals Past. Energy equals Future. Sadly, people tend to have more faith in an established (but rapidly becoming irrelevant) past than in an uncertain future.
This is great! I didn't know that volume II has been published...

Also be sure to read the chapter about LLVM compiler family (written by LLVM creator, who is an Apple employee now): http://www.aosabook.org/en/llvm.html

It's great. A learnt a lot from that chapter.

This book (The Architecture of Open Source Application) is a treasure trove. Just look at the index here: http://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html and tell me you don't want to skip work (or school, or whatever else is you're doing) for a week to read it all :D
Your use of plethora was completely right. For some reason giardini thinks it is a very obscure and "intellectual" word but I disagree. In Google's English corpus it is used about 1/3 as often as the word "neuron". http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=plethora%2Cneur...
are you planning on doing just face detection or actual facial recognition?
Its more like lets try to keep our 30B valuation because if we don't grow up to that level then we go to $5 dollars a share. Everyone on board is motivated to do this.
this could be monetized by sharing cpc revenue and cpa revenue from the different boards. could easily generate $100M in revenue in 1 year for them.

This figure is total guesswork btw before you start asking where i came up with it. it is "FMA" (reference to House of Lies)
Bill Gates also came from a millionaire-or-richer family, so that'd make 4, if that's the cutoff you're using. (He inherited several million from his grandfather, in a generation-skipping trust fund, although I don't believe he yet had access to that money at the time of founding Microsoft.)
On OS X, your best bet for a newsgroup reader is Unison (http://panic.com/unison/), which quite honestly beat the snot out of Thunderbird for that purpose a long time ago.

I don't have good recommendations for the other two systems, though, sadly.
In my opinion your best bet is the MacBook Pro (with a SSD). It gives you a ton of the *nix commands + the ability to easily run Windows or Linux natively or via a VM. Plus the hardware quality is top notch.
I read that link and I'm wondering what I'm missing?

This looks like some attempt by Microsoft to compete with low-end shared hosting, right? Amazon has never been in that market, and has never shown any interest in heading that way.

Additionally, it isn't clear why anyone would choose Azure for that if they were building a website from scratch.

The only compelling use-case seems to be people who have a .NET website they need hosting for (.NET hosting doesn't seem as competitive as other environments). Yes, Azure does support other environments, but there isn't anything particularly compelling about Microsoft's offering for anything except .NET. If you add in a reserved instance even the pricing isn't very good.
My only quibble with Nginx so far is the magical order in which it evaluates location directives. http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#location

On more than one occasion, you have to unintuitively try to figure out whether a rule at the bottom is getting matched before a rule at the top. The matching algo is quite intricate and easy to to trip up on. It tries to help novices by matching literal strings first for them rather than simply making a note of the performance benefits of putting literal locations at the top, but ends up failing to reveal the true matching order at a glance - you need to check the verbose logs, yuck.
You would run into the same situation with contractors who used apache, if they didn't know apache very well.

Returning status codes from nginx is easy. Adding headers is easy. Perhaps you could elaborate about "certain things handled easily by Apache's large ecosystem of modules".

Apache's large ecosystem of modules is built around doing everything in the webserver. More often these days, that stuff is handled by a dynamic application. Nginx talks to those via fastcgi, scgi, uwsgi, or plain http proxying. Nginx does not need to know anything about how the apps do whatever it is they do.
My face.com app was simply a side project not something to make money on or even sell.

They provided a good service for free, and made it way easier then other way of doing CV.

If you were actually interested in this project space I'mnot sure why you would use anything other than face.com's API
It certainly a good place for you to poll. I was wondering why it was upvoted to the front page.

Ask HN is generally used to engage in discussion and get answers in the forums, from which everyone benefits, not to post external, private surveys.

(BTW, you labeled it Ask NH, not Ask HN)
it's a performance thing. i forgot the details, but if you change the `(1,eval)` to `eval`, it's all much slower. something with the scope of the code that's being eval'ed, if i recall correctly.
Not that novice, but your explanation was exquisite, thanks!
Really?

If you gave Jobs the choice between making a better product or having a government issued Green certification - you think he'd pick the certification...

If anything this is incredibly Jobs-ian as it's obvious that Cook isn't cow-towing to big business and Government organizations that now won't be able to buy their products.

From a strategic standpoint I see more recycling incentives coming for users over the next few months. They're having trouble keeping the "Apple Refurbished" shelves stocked - I can definitely see their high end refurbished line becoming their version of a "budget" line for low-end consumers.
I'm curious what you issues you ran into as well. I've used it in production environments for the past few years after moving away form Apache. It was a near seamless transition for my team, myself included. We use it behind some heavy iron load balancers and in front of a dozen web servers and it's been a generally pleasant experience.
This is a great question. I personally think that the answer is 'we really don't know', but that is a cop out answer, combined with my own ignorance of deep economics.

However I do know that when this question is posed (in various forms), the answers seem to all be rooted in a combination of ideology and differing priorities, some of the arguments are circular, some are based on a set of assumptions, and in various combinations. For a sampling of things i've seen[1]:

* The capital disbursement problem is hard, and that it naturally evolves into this pattern, similar to hubs in a scale-free network. It may look inefficient, but really is the result of maximizing efficiency

* A truly free market would not have this problem, but government regulations create it by favoring some over others.

* Government isn't strict enough, allowing some bad players to accumulate enough money and power to get away with anything and becoming these power nodes.

* Modern economic theory is just not capable of describing reality, because much like early undergrad physics, the theory is simple and nice, but when getting to real issues, actual issues (akin to friction, thermodynamics etc) cause inefficiencies that are hard to fully account for.

* Individual greed and shortsightedness cause people with lots of capital to act in a manner counter to efficient capital investment.

* People with all the capital are morally superior and deserve their position, (various morals at play - from religious to it is earned via hard work)

* It doesn't actually matter, because the high end pulls the bottom up with it, e.g. those pools of capital create jobs directly and indirectly (the latter being such things as creating early demand for products allowing for production to be figured out, eventually lowering price, allowing more production research to lower price more).

I certainly hope people jump in here and expand on all of these, because almost certainly someone here knows more than me about all of them. I think it would be useful for all involved to state their base assumptions, because for some reason, discussions of this topic don't ever seem to examine those, and it would be neat to get to that level once in a while.

[1] Please note, I am not taking a side on any of these, just presenting various arguments as I understand them.
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My pessimistic self sees a future where some jobs will only be available if you:

- Have facebook a account.

- Allow your potential employer to see everything in your personal profile.

Don't have a facebook account or don't want to share intimate details not related to the job? Well too bad, because there are plenty of desperate people that will.
Since this is based on a social network platform, it seems to me that it would exacerbate cronyism...
I'd go for a 13" MBA over a 13" MB Pro. Way more portable and you'll be surprised how fast the MBA is with its SSD.
Look at LinkedIns stock price. Now look back at Facebook's. Now look at what LinkedIns tries to do. Back to Facebook.

This is a great idea. So far FB has been doing an awesome job. Even with a rocky start, shares dropping before $30, they have proven that they know what they are doing; share prices are all back on the up and up.
I think the configuration language will eventually have to be reworked to address some of the issues with magical ordering and unintuitive behavior. Making the configuration language lua, for instance, would be a huge step forward, because many complex configs already use the lua 3rd party module.

In addition to "location" eval order, "If" statements are another common gotcha.
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I had the opposite reaction.

I was initially thinking "another overly syntactic language", and then I went to the website and thought "Wow! This looks very nice!".
Not in this book, but worth taking a look at if you're into reading source code for large open source projects, is Redis and Mongrel2. Both are really well written C code-bases.
Agreed. Much nicer on my eyeballs.
There's risk and there's also inflation embodied in the capital gains. If you invest for 20 years, inflation can be a big percentage of a gain. It gets taxed as capital gains, which is one of the stronger arguments for a lower rate for capital gains than annual income.

(of course, sometimes annual income is ALSO the result of deferred compensation. Say a doctor spends 8 years making $30k/yr when she could have been making $120k, and then starting in year 9 makes $300k/yr for 8 years, then has children and leaves the workforce for 20 years (fairly common for female doctors in pediatrics, which is why there is an undersupply...). That doctor is paying way more total tax than someone with a more stable income.)
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how can you be certain of the many claims you've made here?

It says most of this in the article. e.g. "It turns out that social behavior in the worm is controlled by a pair of neurons called RMG. The two RMG neurons receive input from various sensory neurons that detect the several environmental cues that make worms aggregate. RMG integrates this information and sends signals to the worm’s muscles." You have to understand genetics, smells, sensors, neurons, and muscles before you can explain why worms in nature tend to be together, but worms in the lab stay by themselves.
Actually, all of the Apple employees working on MacRuby have since left. Apple will not be moving to Ruby in the near future unless something drastic happens. That said, so long as the Obj-C runtime is documented and well designed (and it is!), then anyone that cares to can interoperate with Obj-C with a bit of work, a la RubyMotion.
1) Buying capital is much, much riskier than earning wages.

Not really. I hate this argument.

A person with $20 million who puts $500,000 into a new business is not taking that much risk. He's putting 2.5% of his net worth into it; if it tanks, he'll have other opportunities to do it again.

A person who puts 2000 of his ~3000 effective working hours per year into a job is taking on a lot more risk. He's putting about 67% of his working time in, and if that job tanks (company goes out of business, he gets fired) he can be seriously screwed.

Both deserve to be rewarded, for sure, but this mentality in which monetary investors deserve prima facie higher status than time investors is utterly fucking sickening. It reminds me that some people haven't got that we stopped having royalty more than 2 centuries ago.
> capital. We apparently have more of it than we know what to do with (see, e.g., the real estate bubble, the tech bubble

That tends to happen when the central bank dumps false signals (ie, low interest rates) on the market.
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I wanted to build something that would let me consume news fast and avoid post of cats. It combines duplicates and I was thinking of adding local news / events according to your location.
I don't understand why the article talks about Secondlife in the past tense like it's dead. It looks like it's chugging along about as strong as ever
I'm thinking about the MBP because of the larger HDD. I'm going to install an extra SSD anyway, and I don't need it to be all that portable (as I've mentioned above.)
Exactly. It also tells us most of those winners didn't win last year and won't will next year.

The 16% capital gain figure isn't saying that rich people consistently earn that much from capital gains every year, but rather the 400 highest earners had capital gains windfalls this year. Next year different people will have windfalls and different people will be on the list.
Gah, not every product on the planet needs to be open source.
I'd even be fine with a flat consumption tax, with a personal exemption of $50k or so. Generally the investments made by the rich have more social benefit than their consumption, so it's ok that a billionaire only spends 30% of his annual income, while a well-paid engineer might spend 80%.

Maybe combine it with a wealth tax, particularly on non-productive assets. Raising the cost of certain kinds of goods should actually make them MORE coveted by the rich (Veblen goods) -- a tax on owning or acquiring conspicuous luxury items could then benefit everyone.
yes, but that's called socialism. Obviously the most efficient equilibrium is where all workers own capital. Which is precisely what socialism is. Democratization of the economy. The secret that capitalists don't want people to know is that they despise markets deeply. While under socialism markets would probably be of the cooperative type.
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"the list"

The title to the article is "How the Rich got Rich". But "the list" doesn't deal with "the rich". It deals with "400 Individual Income Tax Returns Reporting the Largest Adjusted Gross Incomes".

It is entirely possible for someone to own an asset (which they could, for example, borrow against) that was passed down to them (or that they themselves bought in 1992) that makes them "rich" by generally accepted "de facto" standards of our society.

The Forbes list tries to come across as a list of the richest americans but it is obvious that there are quite a few people with considerable wealth who for one reason or another don't make that list until they have some kind of liquidity event. (Added: As you mentioned).

"Whereas working an hourly wage is likely never going to do much more than make you upper-middle-class."

While that would seem to be true I don't think it is to the degree you are implying in your statement. (By "hourly wage" I'm assuming you don't mean "hourly wage" you are including "salary" workers as well.) Someone in a nice corporate job making a stable salary that invests in the right assets at the right time can become wealthy. (An example might be a physician making $250,000 per year or an attorney, both in a stable situation (no fear of loss of job) that decides to invest in real estate or be a partner with someone else who manages a project. Or decides to be an angel investor (as if, ok..). The key here is that they make a stable income from a job and that they dedicate a portion of their income to investments. (I've personally seen this happen several times with attorneys and real estate they become the partner with the real estate person providing the legal work needed for projects as well as physicians who do a similar thing).

Here's the key though: stable job. My wife has a very stable job with a predictable income that will rise every year (healthcare). So she can afford to take a portion of her income that exceeds what she needs and invest it in something that could make her rich. Will she make "the list". No she won't. But she could become "rich" by the standards that most people care about.
This is not succeeding:

"The problem — really the only problem, but a big one nonetheless — is they couldn’t ever find a way to make those numbers grow. Nothing they did worked, and Rosedale doubts that even early Facebook integration would have helped."

It has also stagnated technologically, since revenue can't fund a level of development that would open new applications or market segments, nor market such new capabilities.

Second Life is a spectacular and obvious failure. It isn't a game (but it attracted all the trolls and griefers a game would attract). It isn't anything in particular. If you go to the site, there is a question: "What is Second Life?" Follow the link, and play the video. Now tell me if you have an answer.
Apple has actually been best-in-class for a while. The problem with Greenpeace's rating is that it doesn't take into account that Apple uses mostly aluminum and glass in their products, which are both extremely durable and recyclable.
Tech Companies Tackling Electronic Medical Records
With nearly every aspect of life gone digital, it is perhaps odd that the healthcare system has been slow to follow suit. A study by the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that only 1.5 percent of hospitals surveyed had a comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) system in place, suggesting many health care facilities are still heavily relying on paper-based system.
I believe that background updates are coming in Firefox 15.
I'm always a little surprised that release update articles like these don't open with a one sentence description of what the library/package does for those of us who have never come across it before.

edit: here's a great example of someone doing it right:
http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/whatsnew-3.0.html
R comes up in the search results for the statistic methods quite often. There are also quite a few books like "Modern Applied Statistics with S" (4th Ed) [Springer, 2002] that are of a huge help to somebody just learning the applied methods. I have never (not that I'd recall) hit any mention of Octave during my searches.
Is it just me or is firefox's update system completely broken? I am using some firefox 3.x version because the software-updater never finds a new version (and i do not wish to download a new executable). This is on OSX. On ubuntu, because updates are controlled via apt, i'm again forced to use ancient firefox versions.
The last time i had a successful update was during the 1.5 days.
But when we're talking about capital gains income, we would expect the two to be correlated.
The generally accepted solution to that problem is to buy more guns, so as to raise the value protected and thus justify a Graffunder or ISM safe.
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You can put HTML files in public folders. Files in public folders are loaded on a separate domain.
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Ahem, and what about not owning one?

Edit: Nevermind, don't want to launch this debate. But it is so obvious a solution to me...
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No, he is saying that $1B in wealth (about 400 people) generates $77m (threshold to make list of highest earners) in income assuming a 7.7% rate of return (which seems unrealistically high to me).
In C++11 you can push the return type to the right, like this:

auto foo(int x) -> bool;
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Despite the severe economic crisis affecting Europe, the most important market for Samsung, profit for the second quarter reached the house koreana manages to keep in line with forecasts by financial analysts.