skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Faux News rants on the HN front page? Oh dear. Time to move on.
100th and Madison
cdecl is a great resource, though I do wish that it knew about the restrict keyword.
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There is also a genetic factor to it as well. 3 of my cousins were all diagnosed with ADD. and one of there children has also struggled with ADD type symptoms.
There is. Or, a variety of ways, really. Two major ones:

Option 1: your passphrase as a salt + the domain name + bcrypt = password. Lots of detailed schemes exist for this, including ones you can do on a piece of paper with a little math so you don't have to trust your computer. Inventing them seems to be a hobby for crypto people, or something - I've seen many dozens.

Option 2: you use random passwords, and store them behind your passphrase somewhere. Password managers.

At no point does your single, secure password enter anyone else's hands, so you don't need to trust them to hash it. If one is compromised, none of the others are.
That makes a surprising amount of sense.
I'm in my 20s and the idea of Bush v. Gore being a watershed moment resonates with me, a loss of innocence occurring at a grand scale while a smaller private individual version happened to me. It's so easy for me to trace recent history back to that moment regardless of actual cause/effect. And I wonder what moment will resonate with the next generation.
They will replicate their old business model from Megaupload.
Pay people to upload and limit user on download.
Like they did before but this time they cant be taken accountable for what a user uploads to their servers.

Last time they printet money this time they will do it again.
Megaupload was the biggest Warez Hub on this planet and Mega will become the same. They dont care about being legal like Dropbox/Google Drive etc.
We don't require a business number of any kind, you can sign up as an individual (the question will be "business type", and individual is one of the options).
Time Warner Cable Claims Netflix Isn't Playing Fair
I'm curious about this too...
Yes, sure you could. Highly unlikely though. You probably have decades left.
Well, there is case-law... which could possibly be overturned if someone decides to push far enough through the court system.
I have seen such info. Dietary changes and nutritional supplements have a better track record than allopathic drugs. I don't have any links at my fingertips. It has been a few years since I hung out in places where that type thing was regularly discussed. But I know it works. I have two ASD sons and diet makes a big difference for them.
This is very cool and may become the norm in the future when 3d printers are abundant.

Instead of purchasing expensive cases, consumers can just go and pick their design and colors and print their cases out.
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Short answer: slums or (tax liens or auctions for slum houses)

These types of returns are certainly possible. I bought my share of $10k to $50k townhouses with $800 to $1500 / mo rent. With sub $100k houses, typically it will be difficult to get conventional financing, so most people buy these properties with cash or money from a HELOC or something along those lines.

There is certainly money to be made when you are purchasing property for less than its construction costs. However, you have to ask yourself what the tenant profile is of someone who can not afford $5k to buy a house.

The government program the commenter is referring to is usually called Section 8. People in financial straits can get on a waiting list to get accepted into the Section 8 program. Participants end up living in better neighborhoods than they could otherwise, and give landlords typically higher than market rate rents. The typical Section 8 profile is single mother with 2-3 kids and on welfare.

Buying properties through tax lien certificates or auction has its own set of problems because you are buying 'as is'. Let's just say you need to do a bunch of research before you go into it, and mistakes can be costly. One of my friends found out he had a leaking underground oil tank in one of the properties, which costed $85k to clean up.

Landlording is a very bimodal process. If you have very clean, responsible tenants, anyone can manage that property. The real issue is when you get one of these trouble tenants. One that knows all the ins and outs of the law and knows how to string out the eviction process (depending on your state laws) for years. You significantly increase your chance of encountering trouble tenants when your properties are in lower income, lower rental areas or dealing with tenants with government subsidized programs.

The commenter linked to Tulsa, OK which has cheaper properties. This is great if you live close by, or have someone trusted to watch your properties. Property managers can be viable, but you really need to vet them throughly.

I am currently out of the property game, but if I were to start over again, I would not touch slums. I'd buy in the cheapest neighborhood that I would feel safe living in. One with a lot of blue collar immigrants where there are signs of gentrification. Look for the type of cars, people caring about their landscaping and house, new construction, new retail / service stores opening. Buying in the right neighborhood drastically limits my exposure to trouble tenants, and buying in cheaper neighborhoods increases the upside opportunity. The reason you might want to value appreciation more than cashflow is because appreciation can be tax deferred. If I were to buy a property now, it would probably be a 4-plex, and renting or airbnb'ing the other spots. This optimizes for acceptable returns with low/no maintenance.
I share your pain.

Blame it on the surfeit of "Balti houses" in UK which have managed to crowbar faux north indian cuisine as the only Indian cuisine into brit pop culture!
No you can't: http://play.golang.org/p/I_pu9oG1uF
This is clever, though it'll probably disillusion me about whether even tinkerers can take a principled stand against walled gardens.
What on earth is this story doing on Hacker News? It's an editorial at Fox News. Flagged.
Using a low-end machine for development to meet your users
JohnsonB's comment[0] draws the same conclusion I did. The article seems to suggest that studies aren't working and we need to start listening to anecdotal evidence. I could have misinterpreted that passage, though.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5080094
The other way to look at it was that Apple saved $73M+ ($160M-87M) at the cost of losing 20+ good employees for a few years.
"This video contains content from Screen Media Ventures, LLC, CD Baby, Diwan Videos and IODA, one or more of whom have blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."
Well structure evolves over time. Probably the structure would move and you would use redis as a memcache layer (to update counts, notifications, etc). What I'm saying is that databases needs evolves over time.

Comparing in-memory storage with SQL and NoSQL isn't a useful and misses the point.
Scientists say that women are easy to get into bed
When Haskell is Faster than C
Magazines like .Net had them every month while I read it.
I don't know how convinced I am that Bush was responsible for all of this (he was clearly a major contributor, but there is plenty of blame to go around). But I think the general point hits the nail on the head. I was just reading something that Aaron wrote (that BenoitEssiambre linked to earlier) here: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/semmelweis

When Oprah started defending fabulist James Frey, she was savaged by the press. So she invited her critics on the show and apologized, saying “You were right, I was wrong.” It didn’t destroy her reputation; it rescued it. When the space shuttle Columbia exploded, launch manager Wayne Hale took full responsibility: “The bottom line is that I failed to understand what I was being told…I am guilty of allowing Columbia to crash.” He was promoted. When JFK admitted the responsibility for the Bay of Pigs fiasco was “mine, and mine alone,” his poll numbers soared.

People, for good reason, like it when other people own their mistakes. But we've built bureaucracies that don't. They have far too rigid accountability rules. Everything you do gets put in your file, and the file is what it takes you get you fired when someone wants to get rid of you for internal political reasons, so everyone has to be sure they never admit they've done anything wrong. "For crying out loud, man, don't improve our ability to detect mistakes, those mistakes go in or records!"

The criminal justice system works the same way. If you admit what you did, you get punished. If you deny it successfully you go free. But we can't have criminals going free, so we make it impractical for "normal criminals" to deny anything successfully. Then your choice becomes to confess and face punishment or assert your innocence and face an even larger punishment -- a choice that doesn't depend on whether you were actually guilty or innocent, or whether you should have been guilty or innocent under a more just set of laws.

So we get where we are: If you get accused of something the penalties are absurd, so if you're a big Wall St. guy with a billion dollars, you spend a fortune on the Big Lie and get out of any real punishment whatsoever, and if you're not a millionaire then you plead guilty regardless of your guilt so that you "only" go to prison for six months instead of six years.

And then we wonder where prosecutors and politicians possibly got the idea that the Big Lie is the way to go.
Google entered it in a big way with Ingress and the http://www.nianticproject.com/
Yep. Just times by three if you live in SF with a family.
yea i think the mindframe is a much huger factor than people realize. people underestimate just how different the world looks to people in different places/times/cultures

sidenote: pg wrote an essay (i forget which one) where he points out that blogs could have been around years earlier than they were. anyone remember which essay it was?
This is what MP3.com offered in 1999. The only difference was the legal agreements so the record companies wouldn't sue on dubious grounds.
That's great for you, nothing wrong with that at all. However, this is pretty anomalous, you know that right. :) Also, from what you describe, do you really think that will let you retire at 35? If so, is that retiring at 35 living, still, very minimally? If you plan to have a long life, which I think you do :) then I don't know if that math works. But it might, just saying ... Anyway, the main point is this wouldn't work for most people.
English isn't my first language and I really have a hard time grasping the meaning, the subtelty, of the end of the article.

Does the author say: "Apple bought some employes for a high price ($80M). Later, those employees left Apple for another venture. But when leaving, those employees also left some kind of shares/bonus or something very valuable they obtained by being acquired earlier. They were acquired again later (color) for a much lesser price so in the end they "lost" some money/shares/opportunity".

Have I got that right ?
The bing Coding Challenge
Link to the actual study, or a real synopsis.
Any Stripe employees want to comment on the idea of integrating this with a native iOS app via a web view? My guess is it will still be too clunky vs building your own, but the benefits of continued improvement may be worth it.
> Not to mention that if everyone stopped spending money tomorrow, then the economy would crash, millions of people would lose their job

This is a poor argument promoted by the media in the last 50 or 60 years.

There is no way in which everyone will stop spending money tomorrow.

If something like this will ever happen (people spending less) it will happen gradually and the economy will have time to change.
You've got the ingredient and there are several companies who sell their own version. There are universities that do the research also.

Look, they are doing stuff several miles of stone under any aquifer extract natural gas and oil that would have seeped into the water supply if it could (much like the methane in PA). [deleted section on edit since it was supposed to go on the other thread]
$75k is a decent salary in most of the US, but if you're in NYC or SF, even his 20% variance (bringing it up to $90k) just isn't enough. If you want to save money, buy a house in the future, and have money to do things, then $120k is minimum in Manhattan, and $90-100k in most of the rest of NYC. Yes, you can live very cheaply in NYC, but at the expense of time; I personally don't want to travel for an hour or more to get to an office, myself.

Saying that a salary is "enough" because that's where happiness flattens out is silly. Most people have no idea how to manage their money, stay out of debt, and prepare for retirement, so they're happy once their salary outstrips their immediate ability to spend.
I think this is best evidenced by my joy at payday. When I started out my website (about 13 years ago..), the first $25 payment really thrilled me! Eventually, I had bigger milestones. When I got to $100/month that was awesome! Then, we got even bigger.

Now, even an extra $3000/month gives me a nice feeling but nothing much to be honest.

I think money only goes so far. Once you're comfortable, it's only achievements and breakthroughs that can really make you happy.

Case in point: A blog that I started recently got it's first money (around $120, and I was overjoyed!) :)
Some honest advice- Read up on American political history. You need some perspective that goes back at least a few decades, and ideally throughout at least the entire 20th century. None of what you imagine started with Bush started anywhere near that time. Not one bit of it.

Your stance about government has merit, but it is severely weakened by a lack of understanding of American political history.
At a previous company, we also found it to be a usability issue. Customers were confused when they were looking for a place to put their name, but couldn't find one. Incidentally, we encountered the same problem when we removed the "State" field from the address section (we could glean it from the zip).

Sample size of one company, so take this for what it's worth.
The political consequences of academic paywalls
> The biggest hurdle here is probably getting your boards made--it'll be expensive and slow compared to everything else you're doing.

I guess it's a relative thing but compared to what it used to be I don't think getting PCBs made these days is expensive or particularly slow. (Well, slow is a couple of weeks compared to seconds for a compile cycle I guess...)

A few months ago I got two simple board designs fabricated at a couple of online PCB manufacturers and it cost under $20 per order with around two weeks for delivery from each vendor--for between three and ten copies of each design.

These are my notes on the experience:

http://www.labradoc.com/i/follower/p/notes-seeedstudio-fusio...

http://www.labradoc.com/i/follower/p/notes-osh-park-pcb-kica...
Does Apple allow that, without taking their 30%? I was under the impression that's why Amazon doesn't allow you to purchase books through the Kindle app anymore.
It says "C gibberish ↔ English", but does it really support English to C?
With a goal of "increasing freedom," there is no line to be drawn, and the confrontations you predict are a signal of decreased freedom. One can call it a perverse incentive, but to the point he had reached, the confrontation was way out of proportion to the acts. You can call this unsustainable, but what other choice is there? "Welp, the interests of less-freedom don't want this, so I guess I shouldn't do it."

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

However, that the hammer was brought down so heavily tells me that on the part of the status quo there is a real weakness and a real fear that people might go in the directions he did.

Like the Boston Massacre, we will soon find ourselves in a propaganda battle. Ortiz' husband's mockery of Aaron Swartz's supporters, and her hardening of her stance (while parrying responsibility) is just the first step in circling the wagons.

Sen. John Cornyn is now asking questions of the Attorney General about all this, so now we know the people at the top have heard the call. Prepare for additions to this story.
What is Aaron Swartz's legacy?
Living in Ohio on about that now. If It wasn't for relatively giant student loan payments (stupid private school... yes it was a poor idea), then yea... that's absolutely enough money for most places (not Boston, NYC, SF, DC, etc). The only real reason I'd like a bit more still is to offset those payments and allow a bit more travel.
It's not about the salary, it's about how much you put away and how much you need to live on. I make about $80k after bonuses, not a whole lot in some places like SF or NYC, but I find that in Portland, I'm able to save 40-50% after taxes. I know that would change if I bought a house or had kids, but still.
While Cassandra has some nice characteristics, there are a few things I've run into along the way.

Don't expect to run a 3-node Cassandra cluster and get much out of it in terms of availability, in the way you might run a master/slave failover setup. It's somewhat obvious, but your Cassandra deployment can't just start with a couple of nodes and scale up as you run into bottlenecks. The number of nodes needed starts to add up quickly with a replication factor of > 1 and quorum reads. And while you might say "I'm ok with eventual consistency, let's just read from a single node," if you're not reading from multiple nodes, the data may never become consistent, from what I can tell.

And counters should be marked with a big warning "not for production use". Their performance isn't great, and it nosedives as the dataset grows. (each counter update involves a read + a write) Having a node reboot can sometimes cause counters to double. They seem like basically an afterthought.
The report says the freshmen who take it report less studying, higher ability, and considerably higher grades than cohorts in the past.

People think they're good at things who got significantly higher grades without having to study much than people in the past. Who would have thought that would lead a person to believe they could do something and rate their capabilities higher.
Speaking of those who didn't get credit...

I couldn't find it during my lunch break, but I saw a documentary about another code breaker/breaking team at Blechley Park during the same period who worked on another German code (more secret than the Enigma that Turning worked on). One of the fellows made the first electronic computer as I recall. It was all kept secret and the code breaker unheralded until just recently.
I've run (and currently publish) newsletters. They are one of the best converting tools you can use for almost any business. Seriously. If you have not reasearched it you may be throwing away thousands of dollars in sales.

You do have to be very smart about using them. Here are some pointers (note that this is being included in a Marketing Bit (check my profile):

1. Cold newsletters are not for every market. When I mean cold, I refer to those newsletters that get sent out with the permission granted by the terms of service of other services. But do realize that they do work and should be explored by some markets. If you are worried about emailing people cold, then buy your way into another newsletter and have people subscribe. This is still a cold contact, but allows for inclusion into your sales funnel.

2. Newsletters are not emails. They are more close to magazines and newspapers than email. If you publish a newsletter, don't send out a wall of text. Include other media. The amount depends on the market. Test.

3. You don't need to always talk about one general subject. My best converting newsletters have always included subjects not related to the newsletter at all. Note that this varies by market. If you publish a classifieds newsletter then dont drown people with content. Do include a little joke, word of the day, wisdom quote, or similar. Keep it tidy.

4. Design matters a lot. Hire a designer for this one, and test the results. Mail Chimp has a very handy in browser WYSIWYG that you definitely check out. It work beatifully.

5. Keep a 2:1 ratio (at least) of content/advertisements (if you run ads). Or else it will drown the content.

If you want to learn more about newsletters, I'm about to publish a news Marketing Bit about them. Check out my github (github/orangethirty) to read it.
It just seems like people are more willing to accept the higher amounts of downtime for platforms like Heroku and Amazon.

My dedicated server did go down today. I guess that's what I get for starting this comment thread.
Hello newbie12, FDR, LBJ and Nixon are only 'naked' in hindsight. They tried very hard to appear to be as respectable as possible and to hide their power grabs as good as they could. The only person from that era that I could accuse of doing this openly was McCarthy, and ended up censured by the senate. Something has definitely changed.
A similar anecdote from my own experience:

Chesspark had a web and a win32 native client. It kept track of your friends with a roster (the underlying stack was based on XMPP). As a way to make new users feel welcome, I and a few coworkers were added to all new user's roster (like MySpace Tom). It wasn't long before this overwhelmed our clients.

Each client was written by a different developer. One was in JavaScript, and one in C. Due to some poor design choices on the C side, the JavaScript client was substantially faster. I don't remember the exact benchmarks, but I think it was close to 50x faster.

The JavaScript code took less time to develop and less time to fix. The C code did eventually get fixed and outpace the JavaScript on raw speed, but if I were doing it again, I never would have made a native client to begin with.
There's a difference between contributing factors and proximate cause.
Context-Aware Computing
I assume you're just making a pragmatic argument, not a myopic moral fallacy - right? In that case, I'll agree. In general, charging others for your work is a necessary part of creating a business.

Torvalds wasn't very strong on copyright, which was actually necessary for his kernel to become very successful. He just didn't end up with a vault full of money to swim in.
[disclaimer: I'm a member of the Dart project working on the VM]

These two benchmarks are publicly tracked at http://www.dartlang.org/performance/

Dart VM is used to provide smooth developer experience and can operate standalone on the server side (there is dart:io library) which makes its raw performance quite important, from my point of view.
So the current heuristics are no longer valid (e.g. you were in a car wreck so you're hunched from back pain and have a black eye), and you're going to use the current heuristics as a gate to updating the heuristics?

Imagine if the "forgot password" link on a website gave you a form that said "enter your current password and then you can set a new password". This is the scenario you're describing.
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This actually get's back to why a lot of high salary people have issues with retirement. Suppose your salary doubled between 40 and 50, well your retirement savings have not changed but there is a huge temptation to live a little. Soon retiring on your old salary starts looking like a huge hardship and you end up working even longer vs. that ever so tempting early retirement.
Who is saying that the case was the only factor? I've only seen it as a strawman by those arguing it away. I see these people as protecting the prosecution's perspective on the case. "Hey, don't look at us."
One of the most famous (perhaps the most famous) speeches in our televised history...and now come to think of it, I don't think I've ever heard it in its entirety.
I'm all for being educated, if there is a lack of understanding here could you please make it explicit with examples of similar cases in the past?