skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you know Edward Murphy, the one who came up with the laws, was a highly successful engineer ? He won a number of awards, he wasn't some kind of loser as the laws might lead you to believe.

"""Edward Aloysius Murphy, Jr. (January 11, 1918 – July 17, 1990[1]) was an American aerospace engineer who worked on safety-critical systems. He is best known for Murphy's law, which is said to state, "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."

(...)

Following the end of hostilities, in 1947 Murphy attended the United States Air Force Institute of Technology, becoming R&D Officer at the Wright Air Development Center of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. It was while here that he became involved in the high-speed rocket sled experiments (USAF project MX981, 1949) which led to the coining of Murphy's law.[3] Murphy himself was reportedly unhappy with the commonplace interpretation of his law, which is seen as capturing the essential "cussedness" of inanimate objects.[citation needed] Murphy regarded the law as crystallizing a key principle of defensive design, in which one should always assume worst-case scenarios. Murphy was said by his son to have regarded the many jocular versions of the law as "ridiculous, trivial and erroneous." His attempts to have the law taken more seriously were unsuccessful."""
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That's what the up vote arrow is for.
I don't disagree with your thesis that earned income is a reasonable basis for taxation, it is certainly better than 'value added.'

But wonder if you are arguing that earning money through non-manual labor is 'effortless' ?

This could use some clarification:

" By simply having a lot of money, I can invest this and make a solid profit...and be taxed in a lower bracket."

Is there some magic money pool somewhere that I can put a million dollars into and count on it to make a "solid profit" ? What is a 'solid profit' ? Is it inflation + 4%? 5%? 10%?

People have told me that programming takes no effort, they say "Oh yeah, you just go in there and type in some stuff and make a word processor or something and then sell that again and again for $100, its like printing your own money!" I realize that they don't understand what programming involves in terms of making a living at it.

For the last 15 years or so I've had the opportunity to manage the funds that I rolled over from a 401K as a 'self managed IRA'. I haven't found making that money 'grow' either easy or effortless. Rather it has been very much a challenge.

During the dot-com frenzy I knew people who mortgaged their houses to raise capital that they were going to 'make money hand over fist' with. But I don't know any of them where that turned out to be the best use of that capital. Not definitive I know but it made me cautious.
Any producer has the right to determine the terms by which the purchase will be made. What you're saying is that if you don't give me what I want in the way I want, then I will get it for free. Well, you have another option: just don't buy it.
Thanks. I knew I had some issues with data (artists and albums) so that's going to be a future development area if this takes off.
This article, I'm sorry to be negative, is kind of woolly. It ends with this quote from Steve Jobs: Remembering that you are going to die is the best way that I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Which is an example of ... "positive thinking", embracing risk taking.
visiting the link yields:

Parse error at (line 1, column 1):
unexpected end of input
expecting reserved word 'module', reserved word 'import' or at least one datatype or variable definition
No, Clojure, for example, has nothing to do with JavaScript. There just happens to be a compiler that translates a large subset (ClojureScript) to JavaScript, so it can use the web browser as a platform.
This is actually already a thing. Rather than lottery pools, companies have a collection where people can contribute every week, and at regular intervals it 'pays out' to one person in the pool. Everyone wins in turn, it's effectively gamifying saving money, combined with the pooling aspect of corporate lottery buying. It's much more profitable than buying lotto tickets on average, because there's no outflow. In addition, the money can be stored in a short-term security, like a monthly rotation of one-year GICs. This requires more overhead to get started, but then you actually turn a small profit.

That said, I don't know if you could start a company around it. Most of the point is the social aspect of collecting the money and deciding who 'wins' for a given week ( I suppose you'd do a lottery from a pool where winners aren't re-entered)
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For those who showed interest in learning more about our infrastructure/automated testing process, if you could drop me an email? gp at our corp domain fb.com.

I don't work on the team anymore, but I can probably start off a thread with the right people involved from Facebook's side.
the link seems to have an extra slash at the end, http://elm-lang.org/ works for me.
The "double index stock fund" - The stock market doesn't sleep it just closes. It opens the next day at a different value than what it closed based on any new information.

"Lock your savings into the housing market, so you don't get priced out!" - REIT
Ah, thanks! I glanced through and only saw AV1, AV2, etc. The paragraph above puts names to them, and at least some of those are indeed in VirusTotal.

One thing I forgot to mention before:

using hashes to identify malware is just not effective in the least

Absolutely true, but VirusTotal is only using hashing to determine if it's already scanned a particular file (and even if it has, you can still force a re-scan). Most of the individual AV engines have at least basic heuristics, so, for example, you can detonate a piece of malware in a VM, dump the memory, carve out the offending module[1], upload it to VirusTotal, and still get a positive hit.

1. It may need to be remapped to virtual address order and PE-formatted. I've never tried it with raw pages.
Technically you can absolutely implement most of them (the most problematic are probably weakmaps, as weakref require GC cooperation, and "true generators"), since you can implement all of them on e.g. C.

However implementing them means a more complex compiler, more low-level resulting JS, and potentially a runtime within the JS runtime (essentially coding a VM in javascript, within which your language runs).
Muddy waters. What if (when) they fire a false positive?
I'm in exactly that boat. I was planning on buying the iPhone 5 but when I heard about the maps problem it stopped me cold. I depend on Google Maps now for a lot of things like finding metro stops not to mention that I also use it when traveling abroad.

I'm at the point where I'm seriously considering going the Android route, especially since I think Google's OS and services are improving much more rapidly than Apple's.
I always take critism constructively, regardless of how it's presented. Comments like this help from getting me down though, thanks.
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I don't know if that's universally true in the US. Most labor laws such as these are set on a state (and sometimes local) level, so it's kind of a hodge-podge. For example, in Louisiana it's still legal to discriminate on the basis of sexuality, but not age, race, gender, or disability. But then in Orleans Parish (parishes are counties in Louisiana) it's not legal to discriminate on the basis of sexuality.

I'm not a lawyer though, and I have no idea what the federal law says regarding arrest vs conviction records. I do know that I've filled out numerous employment applications in many states that required me to disclose convictions of misdemeanor or worse crimes, but never any that have asked about an arrest record.
If I have an EC2 server that is off most of the time the problem isn't that I have unused cpu cycles that could subsidize the cost a little bit, the value there is terrible and fiercely competitive - why you vs. spinning up a normal instance for an hour, or heroku, phpfog, appharbor etc, or every other hourly-billed provider.

What would be interesting is if you could turn the model around so people lease reserved instances off you without the upfront payment, I don't know how viable that is though.
http://partners.netapp.com/go/techontap/matl/sample/0206tot_...
So it is a giftlist creator - but done in a neat way (I think). We make money by using skimlinks and turning links into affiliate links. It's a way of finding neat gift ideas and also bookmarking gifts on the web and saving them to a giftlist.

I think if we had users we could make money - from the affiliate links. But it is not clear to me how I attract users to the site, how I get the site out there..
A lightweight RVDS compiler-compatible (ARM) rest client.
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Someone may as well close this thread. People can't resist bringing politics into this startup discussion because it happens to involve Isreal.
Nice, these copycats now took the next step: instead of copying Steve's stuff, they copied Steve himself. Kinda cool.
I agree generally with what you said, but:

> Even $6 premium games like Infinity Blade. Compare that to $60 games like Halo 4

There is a huge gulf between Infinity Blade and Halo 4. What iOS developers do best is beautiful, simple games – games with easy gameplay that've been polished to hell. There's still nothing resembling the top platform titles from recent eras – hell, I haven't seen an iPad game as good as Halo One, let alone the more recent games to come along.
It isn't saying damaging the electrical infrastructure would kill anyone. It seems to be saying that cutting power to a few million people for a few weeks would be more heinous than killing a few thousand, which if you will excuse me is bullshit. If we lose electricity, we'll still live on.
In the USA (at least) specific laws (copyright) had to be passed to make these inherently and naturally free things a protected monopoly.
It's an Office Space reference.
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True, but that is mainly because steam has better usability.

If pirate sites weren't so dispersed and worried about being shut down all the time someone would have probably developed a system that searches a game database, downloads a torrent and auto installs it with the crack in a single click.

It's lucky I guess that pirates don't seem to care about usability that much.

Legit games on Steam also have the advantage that the multiplayer is more likely than a pirate game where the crack breaks as soon as an update is put out and the game dev actively tries to lock pirates out.
I largely agree. It is a low margin business and the current competition is better than it was in the phone market before the iPhone and the divide and conquer probably won't work in the TV market.

Better controls using iPhone/iPad as the control device (with most of the UI on the small screen and just the content on the big screen) will help but I don't think that Apple could sustain the combination of margin and volume that they are use to though they probably can squeeze retailer margins.

The reason Apple might do it could be to hurt Samsung more than they can with lawsuits.
The small team of NPR's Planet Money has two offshore companies. It's not really hard or expensive to setup: it costs less than $800/company to create one in Belize.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/27/157421340/how-to-s...
I'm curious how much of these was simply being primed to be competitive. Were the test subjects competing against actual humans in the nonviolent video games? The violent video games add a form of personal feel to the game, regardless of whether you are playing against the computer or other people it certainly feels like you're fighting other beings. I wonder if that prompts a higher competitive drive.
Previous submission (with discussion): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3322082

(Presumably that submission is why this one (is) was forced to (incorrectly) have an extra /)
I've done the same - I have a Java program that I did for a university course in 2008. It's probably the ugliest thing ever, but it has sentimental value.

https://github.com/sc68cal/Java-Distributed-Hash-Cracker
I'm not sure I understand how those two are equivalent. If you want to tax a company for using public infrastructure...tax them for using the infrastructure (property tax, tolls, etc).

Collecting a portion of their profit just because it's another place to add a tax doesn't seem to make sense. Imagine Google compared to a trucking company. Google makes 100x the profit of this particular trucking company. Does Google add 100x the wear and tear on roads that the trucking company does? Why should they be liable for a larger portion of maintenance on said roads simply because they have a larger profit?
True also. We wrap Amazon S3's client behind our VFS layer.
I have a bias here. I love video games and I've never truly believed they have serious detrimental effects on mental health. I'm also not an expert of psychology, but I know of at least two psychologists that are studying this and coming to the conclusion that video games have positive results.

http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_bavelier_your_brain_on_video...

http://psych.utoronto.ca/users/spence/Research_Games.html

Anyways, I tried to approach this study as objectively as I could. But I have some gripes with their methods and more importantly, their conclusions.

> Students in the study then participated in a competitive reaction time task, which is used to measure aggression. Each student was told that he or she would compete against an unseen opponent in a 25-trial computer game in which the object was to be the first to respond to a visual cue on the computer screen.

The loser of each trial would receive a blast of unpleasant noise through headphones, and the winner would decide how loud and long the blast would be. The noise blasts were a mixture of several sounds that most people find unpleasant (such as fingernails on a chalk board, dentist drills, and sirens). In actuality, there was no opponent and the participants were told they won about half the trials.)

So this study took people playing competitive, violent video games, and then measured their aggression by giving them another competitive, violent game? After three days, they say the students were choosing to deliver harsher and harsher sounds to their "opponents." But after three days, certainly these students had also been given their fair share of harsh sounds, and at that point it's not crazy to think that they were just "playing the game."

Another method they used to measure aggression:

> They were given the beginning of a story, and then asked to list 20 things that the main character will do or say as the story unfolds. For example, in one story another driver crashes into the back of the main character’s car, causing significant damage. The researchers counted how many times the participants listed violent or aggressive actions and words that might occur.

So after they played a violent yet fake video game that they likely found to be fun, you give them a fake story and they pick violent outcomes? They were likely still in the mindset of playing the game that they found fun.

None of this conclusively shows anything about their long term aggression in the real world. It seems to be using fake scenarios (with poor timing) to try and make real-world conclusions.
I am obviously very angry, I don't know what you make, but the reality seems to be that you are claiming ownership of an arrangement of bits. It's in my nature when discovering interesting configurations of bits to show them to others, or to keep them to myself (to maximize my benefit from them), and it's wrong for you to play on both sides of the fence like this.

What specifically are you angry about? Is it my claim that piracy is more about convenience and personal gain than free speech? Would you disagree with that sentiment? Could you explain why?

I'm not sure what to make of the rest of your post but I think you have quite a narrow view of the film industry. I can assure you that vast, vast majority of people you might meet who work in film spend their time thinking about making films, not price fixing.
http://www.reddit.com/r/startupideas/. Nothing is on it though. We can use it.
Interesting way to study.

- As long as they don't use this to make decisions on what games people should be allowed to play that is. I personally think there is a subset of people who would be a lot more productive if they raised their base aggression level a little. Example: Keeping a punching bag might help some people get their aggression out and other people to build enough aggression to plough through boring work :-)
This is a fair point. But why would a company spirit the money away if there wasn't corporate tax? Wouldn't it be wiser to let it sit in country that doesn't tax it?
To be fair, Sandy-related grid repair needed loaner crews because damage was widespread. An electronic attack would only need loaner crews if they could exploit things to the point that equipment was damaged.

The more likely case is that power would be down until the stations could be disconnected, computers brought back online and the station brought back up in an orderly fashion -- not unlike the situation in 2003, where extra line crews were largely unnecessary.

Though if such an attack could cause physical damage to transmission or generation equipment, I don't think even loaner crews would help much. Downtime would likely be gated by how quickly new equipment could be made and shipped.

If they could damage notably more parts than are annually made for replacement/expansion... it could be much worse than widespread downed lines.
I wonder what the setup for CoD was. Were they playing against each other whether it was public games. I'd say most people would get violent tendencies after playing CoD on public servers.
Interesting the post about google's tax avoidance[0] is the same age, with twice as many points. [88/44 at time of posting]

Yet that has now slipped off the front page, and this is at the top of it!

0: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4899236
Seems to me the same argument to be made on Windows laptops vs. MacBooks. Windows laptops are a commodity business, whereas MacBook owners pay a premium for Apple products. Why is this different?
And who says my boxers have to be worn under my pants? No one said that. But I still wouldn't do it because it just doesn't look right.
The fnid is the ID of a function.

(def morelink (f items label title . args)
(tag (a href
(url-for
(afnid (fn (req)
(prn)
(with (url (url-for it) ; it bound by afnid
user (get-user req))
(newslog req!ip user 'more label)
(longpage user (msec) nil label title url
(apply f user items label title url args))))))
rel 'nofollow)
(pr "More")))

The Hacker News code keeps a table of anonymous functions (see the fn (req) definition there) that can be run later to generate a page. The fnid is the unique ID of that function (which is generated randomly)

(def new-fnid ()
(check (sym (rand-string 10)) ~fns* (new-fnid)))

(def fnid (f)
(atlet key (new-fnid)
(= (fns* key) f)
(push key fnids*)
key))

So, when you hit a URL with a fnid in it the fnid is looked up in the fns* table and the function executed to produce the page. There's a reaper function that deletes fnids that are older than a timeout value (which is how you got the Expired Link error.

(def harvest-fnids ((o n 50000)) ; was 20000
(when (len> fns* n)
(pull (fn ((id created lasts))
(when (> (since created) lasts)
(wipe (fns* id))
t))
timed-fnids*)
(atlet nharvest (trunc (/ n 10))
(let (kill keep) (split (rev fnids*) nharvest)
(= fnids* (rev keep))
(each id kill
(wipe (fns* id)))))))
"Publication bias and low methodological quality inhibit definite conclusions yet the evidence is positive."

The selection bias inherent to meta-analyses also leads to difficulty using any of them to "prove" the existence of homeopathy.

The principles are not science. If you cherry pick studies, you might eventually find some with a positive response.
I agree, there is very little snotty-ism compared to other cities. And one would not feel the 'anti-intellectual' nature of the city if working in certain environments, such as GATech, Emory, CDC, ect. Atlanta is a great city, and for many people may be the best, but to compare it to San Fran and NYC, there is still much room for improvement on many areas. GATech is just awesome though.
Often, the initial distributor of a torrent has purchased it as well. At least one person downloading or uploading a media file has usually paid for it. Your first point seems to not condemn pirating wholesale.

The latter is more interesting: does one need to be capable of suffering a loss of an object in order to share it? Does access have to have a bandwidth limit for sharing to be reasonable? An interesting example are ebooks at libraries. My university offers a number of these. They are not able to be stolen like regular books and they have no limit on simultaneous borrowers. Even if there were some artificially imposed limit, what purpose would it serve? Do extra restrictions on use make a product more valuable? Does it create more profit for content creators?
What is stopping something like the medical wristband thing? Nobody would wear a bracelet like that, but why not an RFID card? That seems like a great idea. What would it take to start something like that?
Very true, also people like Radiohead and Louis CK probably have particular audiences that are more likely to get behind new ideas of distributing content because they care deeply about the content and the artist themselves.
I think this may vary by state. A friend gave 2-weeks notice and was fired immediately (from a non-tech-sector job) and said that, according to the state, he wasn't eligible for unemployment, because he had resigned.

I was unwilling to dig through the laws enough to find out for sure. Until he told me this, my understanding was the same as yours.
Perhaps it will be something like Bang & Olufsen V1 TV (http://www.beoplay.com/Products/BeoplayV1) which have a small compartment where a ATV can be hidden.
That would make more sense to me, let someone else make the TV and then bundle an ATV. Perhaps with a shared remote.