skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I know people don't have problems which these virtues would solve

I can identify plenty of situations in my own life which would be improved via pursuit of Franklin's virtues. I'd be awfully surprised if few or no others did as well.

> Openly committing to a policy such as this is only really useful for putting yourself on a moral pedestal above others

Really? Perhaps if the key word there is 'openly', you may have a point, at least within a certain constrained context; but actually committing oneself to the pursuit of these virtues, or similar ones, can certainly serve a useful and valid purpose, and if it does so for you, then you may feel motivated to discuss the relevant ideas with others 'openly', without having any of the vain intentions you list.
Could the US Dollar really lose its status as the world's Reserve Currency?
I love all the outrage and concern. All your information is for sale in the walled garden, outside the walled garden, everywhere! You don't deserve to expect anonymity and privacy because you offer up all your secrets willingly.

Rabble all you want over this traitor business, even clamor for new laws to protect us (although that just makes things worse and poisons the waters). In my humble opinion, you breathless bloggers are all just wasting energy.
Until we techies start designing networks and storage systems for anonymity and privacy, all your dirty laundry is money in the bank to these service providers and easily searchable by big brother.
Beyond The Matrix
If you look at a project, it will say "Funded! This project successfully raised its funding goal on MMMM DD."

And again, saying just 'successful' is accurate, because a kickstarter is a fundraiser for a project that has independent life outside of that website. Some projects that take money through kickstarter will fail, but some that fail to raise money will find other funding sources and succeed.
>In the second edition Dexter added an extra page which consisted of 13 lines of punctuation marks. Dexter instructed readers to "peper and solt it as they plese".

...zero f*cks given.
Well, a bug report would have been nice then :)

Of course this one could have some advantages, I was just pointing out my bookmarklet that also provides that "collapse whole thread" feature.

That Chrome extension also has a neat "new postings" feature.
You posted this earlier, didn't you?

(rummage rummage)

Yes, here it is:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4473942
"Yes it’s painful, but the trick is to make that mental shift. To realize that the pain isn’t something awful to be postponed and avoided, but a signal that you’re getting stronger — something to savor and enjoy. It’s what makes you better."

In my experience with startups and cycling there are different levels of pain. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index)

Once you realize what level you are experiencing you can get to know your body and learn to push it through the pain.

This summer I did a 150 bike ride that ended on a climb, it was intensely painful mentally and physically, but I was able to push my pain because I knew from previous rides that it was a false boundary. My body still had fuel and strength to do the last 15 miles even though I was exhausted.

The same goes for startups, the mostly mental pain is a signal that we are pushing our limits. If we do it gently we can expand our understanding and knowledge of the subject. It is in the quitting when we hit the pain wall where we fail, push through it and the downhill on the other side will be joyous!
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If someone took your money on kickstarter with no intention of working on the project, I'm sure the government would be happy to investigate that as fraud.
It struck me as well-written but highly in-jokey, and targeted at a very specific audience. If they were writing for the general reader, this would be terrible. But I took it as addressing other members of the hacker scene, hoping to prompt them into similar politically-focused action.
OK, then you have some kind of shell script to do the downloads, or you do them all manually each time. These are not better alternatives
My takeaway from this is that brains are superfluous in business and may even be a hindrance. Actually a bimodal distribution with Dexter on one end and Bezos on the other is more likely to be beneficial.
I found it fascinating, and I have a randomly sorted bag of nearly identical black socks at the moment as I find it easier than bothering with the whole draw and sorting thing.
It is am ambigious project but not very good in any way. I owned one and it was awkward and annoying even for me as hacky linux distro user. They have my utmost respect for the idea and persistence, but the execution is nothing to glorify.
It's a little know fact, but all telcos here in Croatia monotor and store all torrent traffic info of their customers. They have massive rooms with monotors dediated to showing which customer in which building is currently using torrents.

And all of this data is stored for once the Gov decides to "crack-down" on illegal file downloads, they will have massive amounts of evidence.
Having programmed in Turbo Pascal back in the early 90s a lot, i agree that the abstraction level was an issue with low resource machines BUT you could also, do assembler and pascal in the same files easily, so i disagree with your 2nd reason.

3 its the same as 1

4 its the same as 1

5 Disagree, Turbo Pascal had one of the best Help i ever used back then and there were a couple of really good books back then.
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Funky Times...analysis of VC funding data from last quarter
Game maker Valve Software recruits hardware experts
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Fortunately, that isn't the only revenue source. More information coming in the weeks/months ahead.
Actually, many routers have easily predicable WPA2 passwords. Based on the MAC address or the access point name, it is often possible to deduce the default key (which many/most people don't change).
That's the wrong way to do this: you're basically asking him to go through your skills, then go through his business and find where they intersect so you can help him. It's take away one of his most important resources, time.

Instead, research everything about 37Signals and Starter League (example: http://charliehoehn.com/2009/01/08/how-to-hack-someones-mind...), come up 3 ideas that benefit them, and pitch them as someone who will get it done and they won't have to manage. When contacting busy people, you'll get far better returns with this approach.

I'd go into more detail, but Charlie already wrote the roadmap for doing this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5qUR3tpEdA
What do you mean by an "accurate valuation"?

They have a responsibility to provide accurate information about their business, but the valuation is ultimately set by the market, not them.
Hey thanks! I will definitely redo the website now that I have some time! I'll get to work on a hi-res trailer too.
That's what the S1/prospectus was for. They're not being sued because there's nothing coming to light that they didn't cover. It's just the exuberance is fading as reality is setting in.
Go doesn't have classes. I agree that it'd make sense to talk about them in a book aimed at C# or Java programmers, but this book is written for people who are new to programming.
It really is just a great story... but deep down I think there's some good business lessons here.

Luck matters, but deep down I think his luckiest break was having a great boat captain. The guy found profit in the most unlikeliest of places by improvising.
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Why Tarsnap doesn't use Glacier
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I find it disturbing that you equate quality gaming to graphics.
I think this article is interesting because of Gruber's role in the conversation as an Apple fan[atic]. Samsung has been criticized from the Apple side (and by Gruber in particular) for copying Apple's innovations -- the implication being that he thinks it's good that Apple won. But Gruber is acknowledging here that a healthy marketplace includes both innovation and copying of the best innovations, and that it's at least possible that the world is better with Samsung's copying than without it. So it's directly addressing the lawsuit by acknowledging that there's a downside to Apple winning. That's no big deal for me to admit, but kind of a big deal coming from him.
Do you mind sharing your spotify name? I'd like to check out some of your playlists.
Thanks Rob! I figured it is growing, and should grow quicker if I am working on it fulltime. If I kept at a job, that growth would be slower, a competitor might emerge- who knows. Only thing that is certain is the data- site is cranking so time to kick it into the next gear
Because they didn't win a game, they took advantage of a rigged deck. Also they're being sued for exceeding the betting limits. "The gamblers unlawfully took advantage of the Golden Nugget when they caught on to the pattern and increased their bets from as little as $10 to $5,000 and by passing money to fellow gamblers in order to place bets in excess of posted betting limits."
Not really. The UDID itself is not a "horrible, insecure system", it's just a unique identifier. It's the app developers who came up with the horrible, insecure systems due to how they used the UDID.

The problem is that the developers do not understand how to engineer secure systems. Take away the UDID and their systems will still be broken, just in a different way.
Hmm.

The address wasn't understood

Firefox doesn't know how to open this address,
because the protocol (itms) isn't associated
with any program.

You might need to install other software to open
this address.

itms://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voyager-the-game/id553336542?ls=1&mt=8&ign-msr=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2Fitem%3Fid%3D4475013
I like how they work with shadows in the poster. I wonder what is the direction of the light to create that shadow.
You're right. It very well could be a MITM attack. But I guess you could see the source code for yourself after you've downloaded it right?

Anyhow, I agree that using --no-check-certificate is usually a bad idea.
PYBBM

The sellers handle shipping so that is something I do not need to worry about (fortunately because shipping is a massive headache)
On the todo! Thanks for the reminder!
I'm reminded of those stories that seem to come up every so often about the casinos denying slots players jackpots [1][2][3].

On a semi-related note...

I've been wondering with more and more Casino games going digital, is there anything requiring the systems to use realistic odds?

The last time I was in a Casino I had great success (15x return in 90 minutes) essentially betting against the field of players on a large video roulette machine. I was curious and simply bet opposite whenever the board became particularly "unbalanced". The idea being that the machine had some kind of of average return to maintain and that it would avoid big bets (relative to what it was earning) in light of that.

1: http://gizmodo.com/5867314/57-million-winner-loses-prize-aft...

2: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14795166

3: http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3772215&page=1#.UE...
I am wondering, are there any studies with regard to how successful developers who "couldn’t learn from books" are? Or who need encouragement to "make a definitive commitment to learn"?

This is just so drastically different to what learning programming was for me.
The Casino made a mistake and wants its money back. Seems totally reasonable to me. I'm sure if a gambler makes a mistake playing a game, they get any of their losses back from the Casino. Such a gentlemanly society we live in!
Read the entire quote:

"The gamblers unlawfully took advantage of the Golden Nugget when they caught on to the pattern and increased their bets from as little as $10 to $5,000 and by passing money to fellow gamblers in order to place bets in excess of posted betting limits"

Where was the pit boss to shut those players down when the bets were coming in that large? Or did the casino believe these players would eventually lose most of it back and relax the table limits while this much money was in play?
Heh, fair enough. Certainly not trying to avoid the "issue" :) I think like you point out, tilt shift only works for certain shots, the same way I'm not going to use on-camera flash to try and light up a mountain at night :)
I don't think your reply (the tone can be effectively summarized as "Toughen up, nerd") is any more inclusive than the first comment.
I'm sure Samsung making their stuff look very iPhone like contributed to their success, but they have plenty of other advantages. They make most of the internals of their phones (flash, CPUs, screens) themselves which gives them excellent margins compared to anyone buying those things from them. They have a globally known brand that was already doing well in other categories (I bought a Samsung TV 7 years ago). They are really good at the carrier relationships game. They jumped into large sized phones very early on.

Palm were never a contender, sorry. Their UI framework was basically just a tarted up web view, totally unsuited to developing rich native apps. Animations? Rich media framework? Robust data persistence layer? Nothing close to iOS.

Yes, we all know deep down that Google took one look at the iPhone and immediately pivoted Android into as close to a clone as they could get without it being too blatent. Samsung just didn't care about that and went the extra mile, and screw the consequences.

Microsoft's problems are different. They're just way, way too late and still catching up with a still rapidly moving target. It doesn't matter how similar or different their platform is to the iPhone or Android. They just have no mobile developer or consumer mindshare. Where are their premium mobile apps, like Apple have Garage band, Pages, etc? Touch Office looks to be a kludgy half way house hybrid mess. Maybe they can leverage their desktop strengths with Windows 8 Phone 8 (delete one of the 8s, who knows which one?), but they don't seem to be doing anything to actually make that happen.
Sorry, late night comment. My point is that there's nothing magical about infrastructure like roads and bridges.

How do you account for other advanced economies that have invested more than the US (presumably a cumulative number over the past 50 years, excluding WWII rebuilding investments, per capita) and yet fail to produce the same wealth (again per capita) as the US?

Clearly, other factors outside of individual effort are involved, but I'm sorry, I'm not buying that they are roads and bridges.

In fact, I don't think the X factor is anything the US has intentionally invested in. And I don't think government gets the credit, any more than someone who plays "slop" in pool.

Shit, look at all the so-called startup hubs that are trying to recreate SV via infrastructure investments. Can you show me one that's worked?

Or look at startuplandia: startups choose different cloud hosting services, and as far as I can tell, the particular one you choose (or even the choice to use cloud vs. colo) is not predictive of success.

I don't know... maybe on a national level you have evidence (perhaps a scatterplot of cum infrastructure investment per capita against wealth per capita by country) showing the two are causal (or even correlated), but I have yet to see it.
Here's my 2 cents as someone who founded and sold a business for 8 figures:

Businesses succeed or fail because a) founder/exec's intelligence, b) ability to execute, c) luck, d) x-factors-that-government-didn't-build.
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I think a smart burglar would just look at any commonly available database of home sales. Anybody who has moved in the last few years into a more-expensive-than-average house should correlate much better with valuables than iPhones.

However, I'd hope any criminal with brains like that would find something to do that has higher yield and lower risk than housebreaking. I'd suggest working for a private equity company.
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Facebook's New iPhone App: Great Inline Notifications
1 million iOS device IDs leaked after alleged FBI laptop hack
I'd guess that a sufficiently accurate sensor on your wrist could track the motion of your hand and fingers just via muscle/tendon/etc movement, for one thing. (Place a finger on your wrist, and move your fingers around!) Combined with an accelerometer to track the overall motion, and you have a pretty versatile system.
1) I'm sad to find your totally reasonable comment downvoted. Decline in HN standards, etc...

2) An alternative scenario: what if a car dealership simply mis-priced a car? They're holding a rare race car but the owner asked his know-nothing nephew to appraise it, who was busy texting his girlfriend and absent-mindedly wrote down $500. If you buy this car and the owner realizes his mistake the next day, can he ask for the car back?
> No one was actually shipping

Is this a serious statement? The amount of X.js I see here is just crazy.
These are mostly good, but I disagree with two of them:

1. Unless you're working on your own app, the client's needs should come first, not the user's. Ideally, those needs would be similar, but this is not always the case.

2. Progressive enhancement and unobtrusive javascript are ideal, but your client may have more important priorities.
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Seed everything. Initially posted the question of the site on Reddit, then landing page for people to signup, then seed the store with gadgets - before the site was finished. On day 1 I had products for sale. Each step, just seed it and then open it up.
Aaron's a bright guy, and he's done a lot of cool things:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
Working with 1000+ long lists in your mobile app
Apple Announces September 12 Media Event
> A place for more practical, "get rich slowly" types of tech businesses.

We definitely need more places like this. I'm really loving that Austin tech scene is holding to this mantra :)
"Most" does not seem to mean much here, while it probably is correct. According to the paper they only used thepiratebay as originating tracker. Right now the homepage lists 30 million peers. what.cd shows 9 million peers. I do not know how many peers Demonoid had, probably a similar or higher number. Some smaller trackers I checked all had around 100k peers. So just think of 60 smaller trackers like that and poof, the "most" is not true anymore.

This also only covers Bittorrent, not "most file-sharers".
Why isn't this implemented on HN natively?
In your world, what constitutes a fair stock trade?
FBI Agent's Laptop 'Hacked' To Grab 12 Million Apple IDs
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Has someone here found his device in the list ?

If you found yours (I don't say mine since I don't own a single apple device), what do ?
Mark's article misses one key point. If it were a win then he wouldn't need to write a post defending it.

A poorly performing stock price matters a great deal. It matters in the leverage you have with partners, retaining senior leadership, hiring new employees and overall day to day morale in the office. So maximizing the short term cash ramp has left FB significantly exposed over the next 24 months. YHOO is a fantastic example of what happens if your company suddenly has the aura of "loser" in the Valley. (Hopefully they'll turn that around but jury's still out)

So rather than absolutely maximize the short term gain FB could have found a middle ground that wouldn't make them the punching bag of the media resulting in long term risks to employee morale and retention.
it's "could not care less" not "could care less"
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I think the NFL and MLB already consider their stats proprietary. I wouldn't be surprised if someone patented something and won a couple years before the league made using that technology illegal in their games. That's a bit different, as the NFL would change the rules to prevent such a monopoly when they saw ratings go down (or not, if they went up, I guess). The whole 'salary cap' issue is already supposed to help address the problem of the wealthiest teams being able to 'buy all the talent' in the NFL, so I suspect they would move quickly.

Apple's patent of fairly obvious technology (slide to unlock, already present elsewhere..rounded courners WTF?) seems a lot more ridiculous, yet the courts cannot act quickly. If it wasn't for Android competition, would iOS advance very fast? Or would you be getting a 'New color of white this year!' option in the Iphone 6G?
This is really cool, and ch00f does quite a few cool projects that pop up on reddit all the time.
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I think that's a little dismissive. What I read in the post was not so much a justification for the war effort as putting trials and tribulations in relative perspective. War could just as easily have been replaced by any other situation that is literally life threatening.
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Here's a more policy-relevant view which isn't good either: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19476608
Ledger: proper accounting software for hackers.
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Was hoping to get an extra inside peek for HNers to differentiate this from a post strictly to promote a book release.
http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-anon....

My personal choice is privateinternetaccess.com: $40/year, unlimited bandwidth (cloak and many others limit bandwidth), multiple platforms (Windows/MAC/*nix/iOS/Android), multiple protocols (PPTP, OpenVPN and IPSEC/L2TP), multiple gateways (US/UK/Switzerland), and most importantly, NO user activity logs.

Also, per http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4474529 you could use any vpn that routes through Switzerland.
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naturally cuban thinks baiting suckers is a winning tactic, it describes his own success at taking yahoo's billion dollars for a company that didn't really exist. but note it also describes his string of tech failures ever since.
Yeah, that's how I found his work. Saw a post of his on /r/cableporn last night and ended up going through a bunch of his blog.
This cheat sheet sucks. Some examples:

> list1.extend(object1): Extends list1 with object1 creating a whole list instead of append which jams a an object inside the list.

Extend takes an iterable and not an object. Not sure I can even comprehend that sentence.

> dictionary1.update(dictionary2): updates dictionary1 with values from identical keys in dictionary2

Identical to what? Update adds all key-value pairs from dictionary2. I guess the text might refer to the fact that update overwrites existing values.

> ‘string1’.strip(): Returns one string with whitespace removed.

Only at the start and end of the string.

> ’string1’.count(object1): Returns the number of times that object1 appears in string1.

This method doesn't exist as far as I can tell and I'm not sure how an object "appears" in a string.
Cuban is right, however I think there might have been some fraudulent (but possibly not illegal) activity of the underwriting bank to prop up the price on IPO day and in the days after...
Actually all you need to do is permit people to enter wildcards and print the results if (say) less than 100 matches are found, so they enter 12346789 and you search for 12346789
What do I do wrong?

$ tar -xvzf decryptedfile.tar.gz
tar: Unrecognized archive format
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
How to correctly multi-home your Internet lines.