skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stefan Persson, #20 on that list, payed around 127 million USD in taxes in Sweden two years ago and his family all together (him included) payed around 200 million USD in taxes that same year. He has payed about 1 billion USD in total in taxes over the last 10 years. I would say that he and his family contribute a lot to the Swedish society at least.
Grindr already exists...
Vagrant VMware Fusion Provider Preview
I had interpreted the last part of the blog post as evidence for the possibility that the anonymous blogger was Rob Crossley.
Too much of the tech press isn't journalism -- it's typing.
I'm suggesting that for amounts of wealth past some (admittedly arbitrary) point, there is such a high concentration of power that it raises ethical questions, regardless of how the funds was obtained. Just thinking along the lines of Dr. McCoy in Xmen:

"And I worry about how democracy survives when one man can move cities with his mind."

A billionare may not be able to move a city with his mind, but he could outright buy one! Just a thought. :)
I have no clue, and it's bothering me.

MDN says:
>> If the argument of eval() is not a string, eval() returns the argument unchanged.

I copied the code and tried it both ways, saw no apparent difference. I don't think it does anything.. I could be wrong...
Finally, a way to find single gay dudes who dig MongoDB... ;-)
Yeah, IIRC 5-8 years ago Apache used to return 500 when PHP scripts timed out... hence association with "busy."
To quote Clint Eastwood: "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it."
They just had the opportunity to make all that wealth, and acted on it (regardless whether the actions they took were legal/illegal, easy and fast or required an insane amount of hard work).
Yeah, there are some pretty significant differences here. Among other things, weev more or less stated that he intended to harm AT&T by leaking their customer data and driving down their stock price, and that he was, at one point, considering selling the leaked data for profit.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/01/goatse-security-trolls-...
But wasn’t the current quarter one week (so seven percent) shorter than the year ago quarter? Does that matter?
I thought what had happened was they used his (pretty benign) hacking to justify a raid on his place then nailed him on drug charges? Or did they also pin hacking charges on his as well?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20007827-245.html
2 processor cores and 2G of memory is all mine needs to perform well. Perhaps my level of "fast enough" is much slower than yours, but my VM doesn't feel any slower than the host.
Looks like a use case for MutationObserver:

var evt = document.createEvent("MouseEvent");
evt.initMouseEvent("mouseover", true, true, window,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0, null);

function isALemming(node) {
return node.nodeName === 'IMG';
}
function fakeMouseover(node) {
node.dispatchEvent(evt);
}

function saveLemmings(possibleLemmings) {
possibleLemmings.filter(isALemming).forEach(fakeMouseover);
}

var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {
mutations.forEach(function(record) {
saveLemmings(Array.prototype.slice.call(record.addedNodes || []));
});
});
saveLemmings(Array.prototype.slice.call(document.getElementsByTagName('img')));
observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true });
Tagged by how they made their money - first mover advantage, hard work and insight, theft, unfair practices, cheating, destroying the environment, war profiteering, rackets, bribery, political corruption, pure luck, ovarian lottery, etc, would be a much more interesting read.
"There is no ethical argument for taking money from billionaires in higher share than anyone else that doesn't come down to envy. "

What about diminishing marginal utility? The ethical argument would be that tax burden should be greater on those with a larger capacity to pay. (Usual caveats about taxing income vs. taxing wealth, etc. etc. etc.)
Same here now if only transferring from GD to NC was cheaper!
It's a $458.00 as I'm typing. I don't necessarily think 420 is more right, I'm just explaining the situation. Many commentators were confused by the price movement. Don't shoot the messenger.

But to justify a higher price today you would have to believe that apple is more competitive in the overall market this year than it was last year and I don't think it is.
The timezone is not a "presentational property". Imagine you're billing for a service and its charge varies by the local time of day that the service is provided. You can't use GMT because customers don't think and don't expect to be charged in those terms. You can't just record a bare number, because then your reporting (and much else) doesn't add up correctly. You need a timezone in this case, and not just for presentation.
Windows Phone has a lot problems as well. I open the Photos Enhancer app for example and it's impossible to know what is clickable or not. You effectively have to keep tapping on text/images until something happens.

The whole flat design approach still needs a lot more thought.
Maybe you didn't mean it that way, but defining an action as immoral based on a risk evaluation from lawyers seems to miss the point of the word entirely.
Cold-boot attacks are overrated
Well it kinda does make sense but I don't understand why you would go through this trouble with sending salts around. If the goal is what you describe couldn't you just derive a salt from the username at the client side? (I was assuming that they were already doing this, but apparently they are not?)
Facebook releases PHP mocking framework
You know, there is a reason why "nitpicking" at wording is important: it frames the debate in favour of the one who impose one's wording. http://lesswrong.com/lw/ng/words_as_hidden_inferences/

That said, "Open Source" became polluted too. I have seen comments here say "Open Source vs commercial software". Oops. Anyway, in my language, we don't have this issue: we have two very distinct words to distinguish freedom from gratis, so the issue didn't come up in the first place (at least when we avoid English).
Even the people the most angry with MIT right now have almost universally said that they hold Dr Abelson in high regard.
This shouldn't be happening, I double checked and I can access it from incognito now.
Ask HN: Who's Hiring Interns for Summer 2013?
Information is scattered on the internet. If your company, start-up or not, is hiring interns for this summer, why not let HN know?
Google's profits were nearly flat since this time last year, yet they're up 25%.
This. Quora is probably the single most invasive site I have ever visited, short of something engineered with literally malicious intent. I will probably never significantly engage with it for this very reason.

I am incredibly wary of even clicking a Quora link, and when I do it's typically from within the context of an incognito browsing session.

edited : It's a shame, because the content itself can be quite good. I have simply lost confidence in the site, as I do not believe they respect my privacy one iota.
J.K. Rowling would have been on the list but she gave away a lot of her money taking away her billionaire status.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/15/forbes-billionaire-...
Using em instead of px for media queries is definitely a bit of a mindmelter at first. However, if you're truly interested in building a responsive site, not just hitting a few target devices(1), I definitely recommend spending a little bit of time getting comfortable with the idea.

Mostly, it forces you to consider the context of your media queries, not just specific resolutions or device capabilities. This helps to future-proof your code for new devices and build for difficult-to-test for contexts, like users who always have a browser zoom level set higher than you expect.

This article really helped sell me on the idea and show me the way:

http://blog.cloudfour.com/the-ems-have-it-proportional-media...

(1)I realize this sounds judgmental, I don't mean for it to be. There are plenty of perfectly valid reasons to "just hit a few target devices" using responsive design techniques instead of building a "truly responsive site".
Money is power and a person yielding large amounts of power which wasn't granted democratically can easily be seen as unethical as any other non democratic source of power.

One can argue that a free market is kind of like democracy, but how money and politics mix is contentious exactly because money in politics is seen by many as a degradation to a 'good' and fair representative democracy.
I was surprised to see him include ant with maven. I always thought of ant as more a set of composable tools than a maven-like context, and for that reason I preferred it.

That said, I recently had to use ant after many years doing Ruby, and I was surprised to find how many old annoyances were still there, like scarce/painful support for conditional execution. I wanted a task to `cp` in development and `scp/rsync` in production, and I wound up having to duplicate a lot of code. Also I'd have thought that someone would have added the copy task's filter support to scp by now. (If anyone knows a clean way to do any of this, I'd love to hear it.)
I see what you're saying, but if your work is entirely dependent on others working with you and vice versa, then I don't think that mentality works. If what you're doing depends on Bob's work, and Bob's work depends on what you're doing, then the best solution is to have you and Bob work together at the same time. The easiest way for that to happen is for both you and Bob to have a schedule with a little bit of flex in it, that overlaps for a significant portion of each other's schedule.
By that broad a definition of "a well defined polymorphic type", so does every function in every language, at least those that can say "everything's an object/function/data/etc!"
> Apple's overwrought, realism aesthetic

Well it's not like you've helped the issue with misleading, blanket statements like this. The problem with iOS/OSX is specific apps e.g. Game Center, Podcasts. The core OS itself is pretty neutral:

http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/ios-6-gui-psd-iphone-5/
Umm, so what is behavioral accounting? I did google it, and it suggests that Steve Jobs (when he was alive) was a major asset of Apple and should be priced into the company's stock value.
Esto es Dubalu y por eso me encanta
Author who threatened Science Fraud corrects a paper the site criticized
Think Locally, Act Globally: Growing A Startup Ecosystem
It partly because calculating time differences can depend on the timezone. If I ask "How many hours are between noon on March 9th and noon on March 11th?" the answer depends on the time zone because 2 a.m. March 10th is DST in some places.
I'm going to have to transfer from godaddy->namecheap, this is the kind of thing I love to see ISP's do.
There are all sorts of situations. As noted a loan is an alternative to a partial buyout.

Supposing that in your scenario, one founder puts in $10,000 and gets 10% of the other founder's stock. Assuming two founders and a fifty-fifty split, that means the company is now valued at $100,000 and the selling founder (that's the one without cash) has realized capital gains of $4950 upon which he will owe taxes.

He may also be pissed off because the real equity, his sweat doesn't fall into the equation. Maybe 45-55 isn't so bad. But each time this happens, the broke founder has less potential upside. And he's been forced to sell. And to sell cheap.

As his equity is reduced, his incentive to walk away is greater. In other words, reducing his equity reduces the alignment between his interests and that of the other founder.

Conversely, if the loan is unlikely to be repaid, then the additional equity probably isn't worth anything anyway.

An advantage of a loan over partial buyout becomes more apparent if the company is liquidated - let's suppose for $4000. In the partial buyout, the 55% stakeholder would receive $2200 and the other stakeholder $1800. In the loan scenario, the lending party would recover $4000 and the other founder nothing.
A Better Year-End Bonus
While I agree with you and point #3 of the article. Semantic arguments typically interfere with discussing the fundamental issue, but since the article spent much of it's time speaking to the goals and expectations of the FOSS community, I think the distinction between FOSS and open-source is an important one, as the goals of the FOSS communtity are unique within the broad scope of open-source software.
Sure. SOMEBODY is making money off them. Can you, as a solo founder, not a lawyer, though? That's the question.

SOMEBODY will win the lottery. That doesn't actually increase your chances.

Everything I write, all the advice I give, is increasing the chance that the person I'm talking to will experience success. Some people get rich off consumer products. Some people get rich selling sex, or cool, or experiences. Some people do manage to sell into very tough (but lucrative) industries. But those are all a lot harder than taking the easy path of creating tools for people like you, who have problems you can solve, and who pay money.

Me, I don't like risk. I also never tell people that my way is the only way. It's simply the way with the highest likelihood of returns.

EDIT: By the by, I recently sold back my 12% share in a VERY promising, disruptive startup in the legal space… WITH insider knowledge and connections. The major cofounders worked their tails off for years doing everything right and for their troubles? They got almost zero buy-in. Then they clawed back shares for one last do-or-die thrust (which imo is more likely to be die than do). Unlike many people, I'm speaking from experience.
I am also really surprised by number of russians. If you consider it with other BRIC countries (Brazil 3,India 2, China 1) then you have to believe something really strange is going on in russia
Sorry for the delay. I was at work so couldn't respond right away.

All the userscript does is proxy the advanced search results page, so the search you tried hits this page:

https://github.com/search?type=Code&q=users+%3C%3C+User....

If you only search for voter1@example.com, results are shown:

https://github.com/search?type=Code&q=voter1%40example.c...

Anyways, you did find a "0 results" bug which should now be fixed. Thanks for that!
No C compiler?

It's not really a Linux distro without a C compiler.
This article, while making many valid points, seems to focus on open source software for consumers - FOSS2C if you will. However, the last decade has shown an incredibly rise of open source solutions for developers, and I think most people here can readily name five or more open source tools without which their daily work would be absolutely unthinkable.

And in these areas, points 7, 8 and 9 (regarding lack of innovation, monocultures and lack of goals) are simply not valid, 4 (meritocracy) is not as bad as in projects that have been running for several decades (who would have thought?), and 1 and 3 simply don't matter.
Scientists ready to re-start bird flu experiments
I hope Homefront 2 ends up being good. Homefront is a ton of fun to play.
Right. Isn't stock also an indication of future performance expectation (at least in some part)?
Please don't make it too much like dateutil; using that module requires too much doc study. I usually end up just building a few functions from scratch that do precisely what I want with datetime alone.
Luckily karma doesn't mean anything :D
None died on my watch:

var saveTheirSouls = function() {
$('img').trigger('mouseover');
setTimeout( function() {
if ($('img').length > 1) {
return saveTheirSouls()
}
else {
return false;
}
}, 1000);
};
saveTheirSouls();
Using something like cytochrome c reductase to turn hydrocarbons (bio- or geo-) into electricity and then into motion would be a big efficiency improvement over our current heat engines.

Still, it's only half the problem. We also want an efficient and compact way to turn electricity into energy-dense chemicals. AFAIK, that doesn't exist in nature; we'd have to start from scratch.
The fucking weather
Just registered a .me domain to use along with github pages.

Honestly I'm glad somebody else got the .com domain, having "myname.me" is pretty cool
The fact he calls out a guy by name and then remains anonymous is pathetic.
The fifteenth vs the nineteenth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amendments_to_the_Unite...
The leech credits crap you are talking about died out when torrent sites began getting new pres under 2 minutes after pre.
I honestly don't care about how egalitarian a society is. I care about a society's aggregate quality of life. If one person has a quality of life 100,000 times greater than everyone else, yet everyone else has a quality of life 100 times greater than today, I would choose that society. You can argue that the overall quality of life for our society now is lower than in 1950, but I strongly disagree with you. It doesn't matter if real wages have increased since 1970 if material goods have gotten cheaper. I would still argue that the overall quality of life has increased since 1970. And you're painting an incomplete picture about 1950:

>1950 was "better" in that it was both more egalitarian (for whom) and also more secure (which, I should note, made it inherently more egalitarian).

If you were white.

>Things like the GI Bill and post-war reconstruction made Major Life Purchases like housing, infrastructure, and education very affordable for large masses of the population.

If you were white.

>Employer-sponsored pension plans made retirement a real possibility and Social Security a fall-back.

65 was around the median age of death in 1950. "Retirement" was a hell of a lot shorter if you work almost until your death age. I can't call that better than now.

>One spouse was expected to work, and the other spouse's labor was held in reserve for emergencies.

If you were white. And both spouses working was an emergency situation because maintaining a household took a lot more effort in 1950 than it does today.

I just can't imagine things being better for people in 1950 than now.

>someone who has bare-minimum health insurance, and has to pay health premiums, taxes, ever-rising housing rent, and student-debt service on a salary in the range of $20k-$30k per year (assuming you live in the USA) simply cannot afford to consume that many Playstation 3 games.

I don't think I could afford to consume that many Playstation 3 games in 1950, either. In fact, I don't think anyone could afford to consume any. In fact, there would be a good chance that I wouldn't even own a television in 1950.
Native Client (NaCl) on ARM
Not until they build enough traction.
Diminishing marginal utility? Well, it's not like billionaires spend most of their money on personal consumption. Many ways of spending money also generate utility for others. The real choice is whether to let the billionaire keep the marginal million dollars (which he might choose to invest or donate to charity), or give that million to the government to do as it sees fit (e.g. distribute it among poor people). Which choice yields greater expected total utility? Are there any numbers on that?
> * So, if you're new to development, it's probably best to build small products (wp plugins, niche sites etc.) to build your portfolio, earn a little cash and more importantly increase your knowledge and experience. Amy, I'm not sure you would agree with this but I'd love to hear your views.*

Oh, of course I agree. One of the things I harp on over & over is the idea of stacking the bricks:

http://unicornfree.com/2012/9-years-ago-37signals-had-no-pro...

The whole concept says "Don't try to build a SaaS the first time. Build something small. Don't try to build a huge business the first time. Focus on selling SOMETHING." etc. :)
I am more insulted by Android.
Related link:

http://blog.chromium.org/2013/01/native-client-support-on-ar...
Gandi also has a moral code in their TOS. No thanks.
A different kind of use case: attribution.

In my case I used this to correct an improper attribution to me, I searched for my name and came across:

https://github.com/dks/TinyOAuth

Except I didn't write OAuth.php. I wrote a different library.
That's fine and all, but the evidence is pretty clear....
Exactly this! They can essentially start the story for Homefront 2 right where the first one stopped, and with Crytek's track record, it should look amazing as well.

That is, if it's not already deep in development, which I think I remember hearing that it is.
Can you explain this more please? I am under the impression that it's almost entirely the product of a bloated insurance industry and wouldn't mind some evidence set me right.
Presumably there aren't too many passers-by in an offshore installation.

Couldn't the blades be heated using some of the power produced by the turbine?
I think it's interesting that we are defining a kind of person, not a job description or industry.

People buy things… job descriptions and industries don't :)
Thanks - glad the new version is working better. We've squashed a large number of bugs.

1. The map screen will swipe but due to the map extending to the sides of the screen, a bezel swipe is required to switch to tabs adjacent to the map tab. This was recommended to us by Google employees on the Android team, so I imagine it's relatively standard practice.

2. We'll take a look at this. When you look into the different types of contract and pre-paid plans out there the functionality and settings rapidly became very complex. Once we get a bit more feedback from users we'll do some work to simplify them.
Risk pooling is supposed to happen at the insurance company level, not at, e.g., the corporate level. i.e. the insurance company is pooling risk across a lot of individual clients. That this only sort of happens now is an offshoot of the regulatory system. Of course, a large company will always be able to negotiate slightly better rates.

In a free market, whenever it is financially rational to insure someone, it would happen. So, someone probably couldn't get insurace that covers their preexisting condition (which wouldn't be fair to the insurer), but they could get coverage for other things.

And that's the way it should be. Nobody should force someone else to take care of them. People are not owed anything by the universe.
I see, so the conditions for this attack are:

1. You have a whole bunch of encrypted files from different users.
2. The KDF is slow compared to checking if decryption with a given output of the KDF is successful.

With a salt this will take time nm(T + Q) where n is the number of files, m is the number of different passwords and T is the time it takes to execute the KDF and Q is the time it takes to try to decrypt with a derived key. Without a salt you can amortize the KDF executions for a total time of mT + nmQ.

In particular it doesn't help you decrypt one specific file, and the total time is still on the order of n*m, so unless Q is very cheap compared to T this won't help much (obviously still a good idea to do the salting though).
22-Year-Old Gets Job at Website
Evoland, a love letter to 20+ years of RPG history
Namecheap also bans the word 'hacker' from URLs. If you want to register a domain with the word hacker (and a bunch of other words which they won't release), they give you a giant warning basically equating hackers with criminals, and make you submit a request to them before them that they have to okay before you're allowed to register.

Oh, and you can't use a credit card (hackers steal those, you know!), you have to have funds already in your account.

I'm sorry, name cheap, I want to love you, and stuff like donating to the EFF makes me want to love you even more, but please stop this absurdity of hackers == criminals.

(I found this out when registering raspihacker.com -- which is clearly a front for me evil criminal enterprise!)

Here, I just tired to register "potatohacker.com" and got this: http://i.imgur.com/uz4yrBt.png
Open-sourcing trading algorithms
Glad to point out someone else's mistake for a change ;)
The Deadliest Jobs In America, In One Graphic