skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
these hold true in all european countries, most south/central american ones and probably most asiab countries as well (although I don't know that side of the world firsthand, unfortunately. So much for a pedantic ufanist reply...
Thanks, didn't know that
Don't worry, I'll come next.
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can't say this for most of the +50 I know.
Did you ever wonder if maybe he wasn't just regurgitating Calculated Risk? I jumped to the beginning of Denninger's blog archives (April 2007) to find him breathlessly explaining Alt-A mortgages --- a beat Calculated Risk and Tanta had been covering extensively before April 2007.
Who says there aren't.

Not everybody wants to expose what they're doing, specially if they're billionaires looking to build something that could make them even more powerful.

If I were a billionaire I'd be building my own fusion reactor and I wouldn't let anybody know about it, fuck you all.
A poorly-known characteristic of bell curves is that despite the bulk of the curve being fairly "normal", the extremes can be very extreme, and at the top end the spacing between #1 and #2 can be surprisingly large. Outliers can really be outliers. But you'll never have very many of them.
An even shorter, and more glib, summary can be:

"Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

The more control you give one entity over anything at all related to your livelihood, the more likely that something going wrong (through malice, ignorance, or just "bad luck") with that one entity is going to have catastrophic circumstances.
Putting a single document.write(""); in one of your script files should solve this pretty quickly...
I feel the complete opposite, actually. The more I know, the more I don't want to have to keep going through the same setup on every single project. It's important to understand what's going on under the hood, for sure, but to setup each project by hand every time is a big waste of time.
I think it's important to keep in mind that Elon Musk got to where he is today (especially financially) because of a consumer web service he helped found. I'm sure (perhaps on the more optimistic end) that more entrepreneurs would jump on his bandwagon if they had ready/easier access to the amount of capital Musk had at his disposal to invest in his "cool sci-fi shit" ventures.
No. Speculators like looking at that value.

Merchants want the opposite. Merchants right now are pissed off because they just finished setting their prices at 1BTC per widget four months ago, but today they're only getting 0.1BTC per transaction.

Merchants are receiving less and less bitcoins everytime the price goes up. Merchants want BTC to go down, so that they can sell the same stock for more BTC.

Its like the whole thing that happened to the Japanese Yen between 2008 and today. As the Yen strengthened, Nintendo lost money. Even though the Wii was selling in record numbers, Nintendo lost revenue as the Yen grew stronger.

Similarly, a Merchant based on BTC today is making 10x less bitcoins per transaction. That is BAD for business. Furthermore, merchants are now forced to consider the highly fluctuating exchange rate as part of their business.
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I'll take your one Elon Musk and raise you one Richard Branson:

http://www.virgingalactic.com/
http://www.virginearth.com/
http://www.virgingreenfund.com/

+ Massive, continued, success in countless other markets (+ set a few personal world records)
A few others who come quickly to mind:

- John Carmack - id software and Armadillo Aerospace

- Jeff Bezos - AWS, Kindle, Blue Origin, and the Long Now Clock

- Larry and Sergei - Google, Android, Google Glass, self-driving cars, etc.

I'm sure we can think of others.
Great software engineer quote that I've read 
Many of my non-CS friends think that if I like to code - I am insane. Here, what I've read today.
"I do spend about 50% of my time writing code. I really need to have a few solid hours each day hacking in order to stay sane."
- Matt Welsh,
Google Tech Lead Manager/Software Engineer
you should send a mail to department of abuse to hosting company where they copycat monkey have host their site.

i have experience with a image copy and here is a solution we made ;-

if their is too many people have stole or hotlinking the image from your server then change the image to 'this image is stolen and something lorem ipsum'. change the image to another name and update it on pages where you have used them.

this way you can show on the people site that they hosted something illegal. tough but solid way.
Sorry to be "that guy", but there's a typo in your subheading: "Never ever loose your favorite Hacker News stories"
Ahem... Ray Kurzweil? Dean Kamen? and one if one stretches way back, Thomas Edison or Nikola Tesla, both who were prolific inventors and creators throughout their lifespan? There's no demonstrable evidence that innovative thinking, inventive proclivity, or capacity to innovate decreases with age.
Just for clarity's sake, I use F5 to flip bits. Your suggestion in 1) makes sense to me, although I've not read of somebody trying this - if you have any more data on it I'd love to see it.

2) This general idea is a good one and the way it is used in steganography is Wet Paper Codes. These effectively provide options for how to encode short messages so you can select that which best matches the coefficients which already exist. A simple example:

Encode 00 as either 0000, 0001, 0010 or 0011
Encode 01 as either 0100, 0101, 0110 or 0111
And so on

Hence when we wish to send a 2-bit message we often only need to change a single bit in the coefficients to get to a correct code word.

Hence Wet Paper Codes are able to achieve a high ratio of bits transferred to bits flipped.

I'm sure a keyed shuffle is the right way to go, certainly also encrypting is helpful but I see no downside of more evenly spreading changes across an image using a shuffle.
Others are disagreeing with you, but I actually agree. Yeoman isn't attractive to me at all. It's a lot of boilerplate and the return just isn't enough. It's much easier to directly set things up, and create custom boilerplates for my needs.
There are plenty of people/organizations that are researching cool new technologies that don't have the publicity of Elon Musk, either from them actively avoiding the spotlight or the media has just decided that they aren't "cool" enough to be covered. DARPA is doing some cool stuff even though they are a government organization, Mars One has set the lofty goal of sending people to Mars, James Cameron has a pretty sweet submarine, and the list goes on and on.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is that the author has overlooked a lot of cool stuff to make his point. While I agree that there needs to be more billionaires doing cool s#!t, don't overlook the people and organizations that are already doing it.

edit: In the time it took me to write this comment, a whole bunch of other examples popped up in the comments, further reinforcing my point that there are already a lot of people doing cool s#!t.
He also specifically mentions 'cloud'. Just saying.
Exactly. Another thing is that with regards to this "is starting to crack" the more crappy stuff you buy that needs to be replaced, the more times you are back in the store looking for a replacement and starting the cycle again.
The only difference between over 50 and under is that young people have more time ahead of them to delude themselves that they will eventually act on their big ideas. In terms of actually doing things, young and old people have very similar moment to moment potential.
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James Gosling: Liquid Robotics http://www.liquidr.com/news_events/press/2011/2011-08-30-gos...

John D. Carmack: Armadillo Aerospace http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home

I'm tempted to throw in Google's Sergey Brin (Larry Page too?) for Google Glass.

And I'm sure there are a few others. Elon Musk just shows up more in the news due to his success.

Also, not all billionaires are technically inclined geeks.
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What he was working on is a financial service, not just a consumer web app. He changed the world by making payment and ecommerce easier. It may not be sci-fi or anything like, but what he was doing was of importance.
> the programs people typically run and write

How do you know what programs people typically run and write?

Assumption? Guess? Data?
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Databen.ch - Persistence Benchmark for the JVM
The first result of the databen.ch project is available. It uses a simple financial system model to test persistence frameworks scalability and consistency. The project core is implemented in Scala.

An Amazon EC2 hi1.4xlarge instance is used for the execution and the AMI (Amazon Image) is published with the results.

There are implementations for the Java frameworks: BatooJpa, Db4o, Ebean, EcliseLink, Hibernate and Prevayler. Also for the Scala frameworks: Activate, Slick and Squeryl.

The project is open to receive pull requests and suggestions to enhance the current implementations.

http://databen.ch
git branch gives you a nice asterisk too:
$git branch
* MyBranch
NotMyBranch

It prints the branch as the first line of git status:
$git status
# On branch Foo
...

It also ships with a 'bash-competion' file which gives you a very simple way to disply the current branch (among other things) rather simply.

And of course you can also create your own alias if it is something you wish to do often.
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Bitcoin Pizza Index = $2,091,789.81

Wow.
The author is making a decent point, that out of the 1,000+ billionaires, almost none of them are trying to change the world in a majorly significant way. The vast majority are busy running the businesses that made them billionaires.

Take Mark Cuban. After he sold broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5 billion, why didn't HE start a space company? Instead he started another TV channel - we already have a bunch of those.

I think Richard Branson is the counter point. There are actually two Tony Starks - Branson and Musk.

I think the problem is legacy. People like that are trying to create the businesses that will define their legacy after they are gone. If you've worked 30-40 years to build a company from scratch and become a billionaire off that (like Walmart or Fedex), that is your legacy. You work til your dying breath trying to make Walmart successful. You don't go try starting robotic or advanced tech businesses.
yeah, but most of the +50 crowd grew up in a time where computers (and more specifically, programming computers) wasn't exactly commonplace. My son (9) plays minecraft everyday where he "programs" traps into his buildings with a combination of redstone and switches. There's a whole generation of kids (ie. just about all his friends) that will grow up speaking software as a second language. Of course, they will still be in the minority against the population at large ... but I'm really truly excited to see what they come up with, if I can live long enough to see it ;)
IIRC, the current version of IE is two major versions higher (i.e., 10) as of April 2013, and it's slightly different from IE8. (The box in question is a sandboxed VM anyway, but it bothers me that I must pay the MS tax again, just to have their current browser for development.)
>The emerging printing technology poses a heretical idea: Rather than squeezing more transistors into the same small space, why not smear the transistors across a much larger surface?

Did they forget about the speed of light?
In that case, don't forget Da Vinci. ;-)
One Elon Musk? There are probably more of them than we can count. They just can't rise to the top due to one thing or another. Where would Jobs have been without Wozniak? There are many factors. And I see some people have cited some names. Well there are probably many Musks outside the U.S. who we have never heard of because they don't do something as world-changing as his publicly-stated aspirations. Plus, not everyone wants a spotlight on them.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5506030
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Except with Gentoo, you have to install all the header files for every library you use, which easily outweighs any benefit you get from not having to install certain locales, etc. When I saw that my 2GB install of Gentoo was equivalent to a 500MB install of Ubuntu I abandoned it.

Also, if you are a developer, do you really want to be a one man/woman IT show just to get your laptop up and running? Gentoo is a great learning distro that is slightly more abstracted away than Linux From Scratch, but that's where its usefulness ends. Doing a proper "compile newer version of GCC, then recompile GCC with it, then recompile GCC again" voodoo is just tiresome after the first time. Yes you may lose some performance, but chances are your time is worth way more than what the setup takes.
If I read it correctly, essentially, tiny circuit boards full of components that can be printed. It seems like it would make the manufacture of electrical devices easier, and perhaps even more accessible to hobbyists, if the production machines and "chiplets" are affordable.
There are certainly grave concerns about oversight, abuse, privacy, etc, here. However, I find it interesting that the FBI had to have the card reprogrammed to conduct their surveillance. Similar to Google and others revealing government requests for data, these incidents imply that the government at least doesn't quite have complete unfettered access to all of our online communications, as I often hear some claiming (NSA super data center!!). Not that it's still not prudent to assume otherwise and work towards greater privacy and all that. But sometimes I find it a useful perspective to keep in mind even as we seem to slide further toward such a state.
Thanks. Deleting this one now.
There's a real time ticker you can watch it on: http://www.ounce.me/

Currently: Bitcoin Pizza Index = $2,091,789.81
I've tried to convince him to hire a salesperson, but unsuccessfully. We have to agree because of the 50/50 partnership.
Jeff Bezos: http://www.blueorigin.com/

In addition to glass, the google guys get credit for http://www.planetaryresources.com/ and the driverless cars ;)
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Did you read that EULA then?
Well, the Passenger rubygem does sort of "wrap" nginx too, since it will compile and install nginx with Passenger enabled into a gem path and provides a command to start/stop that specific app server without needing to configure nginx.
Charles Simonyi proposed doing this with human bots in his thesis back in 1976: http://www.parc.com/content/attachments/meta-programming-csl...

Seldom have I encountered a book that made me want to throw it at the wall. Wrong, wrong, wrong, but everybody should read it.
Richard Branson with Virgin Galactic which predates SpaceX in the space race.
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From my unresearched perspective, the difference is that Musk (admittedly) is pursuing crazy ventures because he's passionate about them -- and oftentimes for no other reason. He apparently originally expected that SpaceX would be broke by the time he had managed to get to Mars.

Branson seems to be deeply rooted in a business-first approach to creative innovation. "Yeah, we'll do it, but if the market accepts it."
I don't know man. I'm not sure about me. I'm 30 and I notice that I start to get into the 'old fart' attitude. I'm more skeptical about new tech and in my head this skepticism is logical. Until I step aside and take a look.

Most of the time I even don't bother taking a detailed look at the new stuff and just discount it as "stupid hipster crap".

I try to combat that behaviour but it gets harder. And I don't know how I will act in 20 years. (God, I'm old.)
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Yes, there's still the idea of tempdb, what's the issue though one DB eating it all up?
All my infrastructure build materials are run against a VM built from Debian netinst. The benefit of this is that I won't be dependent upon some happy default in the Debian full install that may disappear or change at a later date. The dependency stack is fully exposed all the way down to the bare OS.

If that sounds like more work, that's because it is, but the next time something breaks, it's more immediately obvious that a an underlying package has changed.
> Unfortunately, according to trusted sources (ex-employees) of Hetzner.de, this is policy and not an exception. They have realized they can save money (by limiting attacks) by redirecting the attacks back at the person reporting them. That way, the hacker/cracker/kiddie using their services will not cancel their contract with Hetzner, and in return Hetzner will remain protected.

I don't think that this has to do with Hetzner needing criminal business but rather with Hetzner not wanting to shut down an entire server if a part of it has been breached.
Forwarding that complaint in it's entirety is definitely not best practice however making such allegations is neither.
+ Possibly the worst train company in existence
I didn't make the connection, but I might have subconsciously, since I still do follow Calculated Risk :)
It's easy to make the argument that you shouldn't have anything installed on a server that you don't specifically need - each additional service/program is just another attack vector.
Notice that, more than a debate about why we should donate to save her or not, I think what's interesting here is that a Kickstarter-like website is used for totally personnal and life-threating purpose for the first time.

Or at least successfully used like this for the first time, I can't recall any other example.
"This has worked very well due to our personal involvement with a lot of said organizations. If we find an abuser on IRC, we try to not only ban him or her, but also to contact the provider so that the problem is handled at the right end, often with the involvement of law enforcement, as was the case with Kevin Mitnick, t0rn and a lot of other well publicized hackers/crackers."

I'm not sure that is something to be proud of.
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I had one of these a number of years ago, and it wouldn't surprise me if something like this was in Verizon's terms of service (I remember giving the device back after canceling the contract).

However, going from there to accepting the hardware as a personal surveillance device is something else entirely.
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This post reminds me of that old joke:

Husband: I am the head of the household! I determine our family's position on all of the major economic, political, and social issues of the day!

Wife: I decide the little things, like where we'll live, what we'll eat, and where the kids go to school.

As much as I admire the dreams and accomplishments of Elon Musk, I have trouble getting past the idea that he failed to maintain his marriage (the biggest promise of them all) and rarely sees his own children.

Maybe the answer to OP's question is, "Because many who could dream and do like Elon Musk would rather focus on the "little things" like life, love, and family.
I live in the Apple universe. The problem with Apple TV is that they lack content. If they ever add the long overdue app store for it, I would gladly move over from Roku's platform. btw Roku 3's UI is much better than Roku2's.
Ouch on the ageism! Actually, in the context of this argument I would say most folks under 50 are more self absorbed and most over 50 become more concerned about their legacy and the broader world for their children. Bill Gates would be the poster child for this.
I don't think I can convince him about being a silent partner, he takes a lot of pride in being an entrepreneur, also I could really use a cofounder who compliments my skill set, not just a silent partner. I like the idea about sending him of on an R&D mission :) however i can't think of any, that would benefit the company.

I'll send you a PM
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Dear Cowardly Anonymous FAL-Dude,

Name yourself or stop with the ad hominem attacks. Thanks.

You know nothing about my situation, nor why I left Google. Please stop speculating. Even I never found out what calibration score I got. My manager promised a 3.4, gave something lower (his boss confirmed) and it was being appealed at the time I left. Call it -6.2 for all I care.

I was in the process of internal transfer and it was going alright; however, I got an offer from another company and left. I figured that a clean start would be better than an HR file that, while it wouldn't affect me in the short term, would have long-term implications come promo time and that it'd take months of grueling, bureaucratic effort (some of dubious ethical character) for me to fix.

It was like this: Option A is that I transfer, stay at Google, but may have an early-term smear of my Perf history and might have to cut bribes to people with HR database access in a few years when I rise to a level where even early, cosmetic, irrelevant stuff counts. Option B is that I get another job. Option A is unethical and unlikely to work. Option B is much easier. So I chose B.

Some time after I left, Google did something about a few horrible managers on the issues that I'd raised, but I don't know how much progress they've made and it makes no damn difference to me at this point.
Edison was more of a prolific thief (of Tesla) and an elephant killer. Also I heard that he liked to touch ferrets.
Paypal was pretty revolutionary for its time. Not quite "cool sci-fi shit", but close, in perspective.
'I don't think you can generalize "the internet" in this way'

At least in the Baio case, there was really a perceptible "internet mob" that formed and attacked Maisel. It was disturbingly vicious, deliberately whipped up by John Gruber[0] and a few others, and actually spilled out into meatspace, with vandalism of Maisel's house.

(Sorry about the two replies to one comment.)

[0]http://lee-phillips.org/music/moreDick.html