skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you can't do anything useful with money themselves. they are just junk pieces of paper.

People created money as a way of remembering favours they did to each other. So basically your income reflects your worth for society (how much society values things you can produce). That worked pretty well as long as money were somenthing physical and rare, as gold. Once money became "state made", as you called it, government won an opportunity to manipulate them. And that manipulation, creating money without creating actual goods that you can buy in exchange for them, is in fact the reason for the crisis. Banks created derivates from risky mortgages, do some mathematic voo-doo to convince everyone that they are safe and profitable.

>Did you miss the part where I mention land

No, but what's the point of keeping the land unused? it's much more profitable for a billionaire to build some houses, apartments, offices there and then rent them. And by renting apartments to poor people you're making them a favour, because they have not enough money to build their own place to stay.

>You don't have a clue what you're talking about. This is the case for billionaires that you see on HN because that's what we're interested in. There are plenty of billionaires who don't work and don't have businesses. "Old money" families.

How much money can you spend on your own needs? House (or houses)? $200M? private jet? another $100M Collection of sport cars (Ferrari, Bugatti, etc.)? Let's give it $30M Travel around the world? that's hardly $10$ So you see that spending BILLIONS of dollars just for your own good is not an easy thing. That's why sooner or later every billionare engages in a some big project which is supposed to be his legacy for the mankind.

Your problem is that you see people that earn more than you as inherently evil and want to punish them.
Predictive Intelligence as a service
"nobody alive today in the US killed any native americans or owned any slaves."

Actually there are many people held as slaves in the U.S.

Examples I can speak of are generally women held as slaves in circumstances in which men pay another man (the "slaveholder") for his permission to rape said slaves. I wouldn't be surprised if there were other kinds of slavery too.
A prominent and - present company notwithstanding - quite famous actor has "come out of the closet", so to speak, regarding an issue that is very rarely discussed in a public light by celebrity figures. Very few people in a position such as his will admit to feeling depressed, for the very reasons he's listed in his article. They'll feel all the more guilty for their affliction because by all appearances they should have no right to feel what they feel.

Think of all of the other celebrities who have been in his shoes, many of whom succumbed to the suicidal thoughts they battled alone. Might things have been different, had they known that they were not alone? That the burden they bear is not so shameful in light of their outward success? Stephen says in his blog that since his condition came into light, he has fared far better. Maybe if others in his position were not so frightened of what the public would think of them, they could safely seek the support of their fans and family and avoid letting it consume them.

This is indeed very newsworthy, though it will likely not appear on any newscasts outside of the UK and neighboring regions. It is also an article of interest about an emergent phenomenon, specifically concerning the treatment of depression as a disease (and by that I do not mean treatment in the medical term, rather the manner in which it is thought by the public).
> Personally, I'm more of an Absurdist or Nihlist, and I don't really see much of a point to life. I continue because I'm seeking some kind of meaningful death. In that journey, I've picked up many people as acquaintances, lovers, family, etc, and if I can at least make some of them happier or better off, then maybe it was worth it.

What is a "meaningful death"?

People around you are happy because of stuff in their head; you are merely an external event. E.g. I have a friend who hates dogs, she gets unhappy at the sight of one. I like dogs. The external event is the same, only the belief system changes. Does that inherently render the object (the dog here) worthy or unworthy?
Snowden is acting like he did something wrong.

You're projecting, and plenty of people don't see it this way, which is exactly the problem Obama has on his hands and why the mainstream focus (that you appear to adopt as your own) is on Snowden. One facet of this is decrying him for not throwing himself on the sword of butthurt intelligence agencies, instead of the revelations themselves. Do you contend that killing the messenger is sometimes justified?
YouTube And a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack
most dev-ops and sysadmins don't know ruby

I beg to differ—if you call yourself a devops person and you don't know Ruby, you're somewhat rare. Yes, yes, python, blah blah. But most of us do Ruby, partly because that's what the most popular, widely used tools are written in (Chef, Puppet), and partly because it's an elegent and easy-to-understand language.

If you say you're devops and you don't do anything besides Bash: you're not devops.
It's not that big corporations and job security are inherently bad... it's that they're bad if you are young and ambitious. Which is perfectly true.
HP All in one Slate 21 AIO, 21.5-inch android Tablet
New Zealand has spent a lot of time agonising over its past treatment of the native Maori and is slowly paying for land taken and righting some of the historic wrongs. It had been politically difficult, with the right wing parties very much against this, but it has gone on a while now. Repairing the damage that nearly destroyed a race may not be possible, but the state that did it should at a minimum try.
At MadEye, we want to make it easier to start coding on open source projects (no downloading, installing dependencies, etc). We chose impress.js, because it's an amazing framework, and is entirely static resources, but we plan to target other projects soon.
White House announces new innovation efforts in materials science
Feedbin.me – so far so good. A little slow to sync but only $2/month to test your opml feeds with them.
There's words written about "automatic configuration" in that link but I don't see any guidance or information on what those configuration tools are. The focus is certainly not on automatic configuration: the focus is on use and re-use of images, on taking images, doing something to them, and getting new images.

The notion is deeply flawed to me: using an image as a precondition for making an image, over time, becomes an intractable mess and requires very careful supporting documentation to prevent the scheme from devolving into a bunch of "buckets of bits" with no transparency into what work has gone on to make it that way.

The #1 thing that I enjoy about automated tooling is that I can take a bare OS and spin up a complete new system in a matter of minutes, and I get to watch that entire process happen before my eyes. There's no mystery, no external dependencies, no existing work I'm riding off of: everything that happens is visible to me in an immediate way.

There's a value & use to immutable images, but please decouple your image making from past images made: no one wants to root around to figure out what twelve horrible things you did to install Java 9 image instances back whenever, nor are they going to have any fun reproducing it on the twenty nine active variants of that ancestor image when there's a security fix to be done.
yes, actually I have. And the app was more complicated than this beach app.
Not a single drop (that I've seen, and I'm a sucker for clicking on all the Skype-fud-bait links)
> the position you're arguing for is literally the opposite of innovation.

So what? I dont see any innovation here. It is haute couture like change for changes sake masqueraded as innovation.

Computers have become too important tools to allow a few key players to enforce a crazy planned obsolescence cycle.

> Imagine if, after Apple unveiled the iPhone

I was not talking about toys.
Does anybody know of any resources for Android? I've watched some Google IO presentations but all of the intro level ones are ancient at this point.
Podcast: Adobe Security Chief Brad Arkin on Defending the Vault at Adobe
Sounds strange to me. I put alot of my own money and some of my parents into my startup, got seed financing and failed 2 years later. I am now 30 and still have to pay back my parents and havent saved a dime in my life while being a pretty decent software developer (not in the US).
I learned a ton, but financially it has been a disaster.

So a Big-Co job ist still not too bad when starting out imo, you probably wont learn as much but startups are high-risk if you take it seriously.
My sites aren't particularly high traffic, but I'm interested.
I'm 19, and just started as a software engineer at a startup in NYC. It's been absolutely incredible - I never thought I'd be here a year ago.

I'll admit that my situation isn't universal - luckily, I could get my foot in the door with many startups by being in the last batch of Hacker School - but if you, like me, hate academia and want to get to work, don't let your age stop you. Sure, there's companies that care about your schooling - the Googles, Twitters, Facebooks, and Palantirs of the world - but there are so many more that just want great hackers with awesome GitHub profiles and real-world chops.

(and, of course, make sure to never stop learning on your own time! You will, inevitably, have gaps in your knowledge you missed from school, but between Coursera, the availability of free textbooks and lectures, and other resources, it's not hard to remedy that on your own)
Obama's lobbyists admit to wanting webcam spying access (ctrl-f for "camera")
I just posted the first chapter of my graphic novel. I'm interested to see how they react to this.
> No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

I'm 19, and this rings true for me. I put off my admission to MIT to take a "gap year" and work at a tech startup in SF. The most interesting and enjoyable moments have come from building with and learning from my co-workers, all of whom are brilliant. Other young people reading this: I've found taking a gap year to be a good hedge between "I want to start my own company", "I want to go to university", and "I want to work in the real world and see what that's like."
Microsoft puts its spin on JavaScript with TypeScript
FWIW, news.ycombinator.com provides perfect forward secrecy with ECDHE_RSA. Thanks, Nick!
Maybe by some definition of ambitious - but clearly not Sam's
That's a little different from the tricks described in the article, though: Not a last-minute hack, but a deliberate space compromise of the kind that these games absolutely were built around.

Ever notice that a lot of old games have very repetitive worlds? Most of them are built around what some call a "room sprite": a prefabricated room that can be placed anywhere in the world. The world, then, is not much more than a big array of of indices into an array of expensive room sprites.

That's relatively straightforward, but it gets interesting when you store some information about an instance of a room separately from the "sprite" itself. Simplest example: If you store the hardware color palette and/or tilemap information separately, you can use the same basic room in different dungeons and make it look significantly different each time.

If a game has a generic "item room" (like the ones in Metroid or Zelda), you can bet that each instance of that room only needs to specify a single byte representing the item to be found in it.

A more interesting application are the doors in Zelda: They're not a part of the "room sprite" itself. Instead, for each possible north, south, east, and west door, there's a simple bitflag that enumerates a few possibilities: "no door on this wall, there is an open door, there is a locked door, there is a door that you must trigger an event to open, etc."

I don't know if Zelda does this, but it would be pretty easy to allow rooms to be flipped horizontally or vertically as well.

Just these few techniques, a dozen rooms, and thoughtful game design would probably be enough to get a few decent dungeons that would take hours to beat, out of a modicum of kilobytes.

My favorite example of this idea: If you really explore the original Metroid, you'll find a lot of hidden bombable paths that don't always lead anywhere. For instance, all item rooms have a pipe underneath them that can be entered by bombing a nearby block, but in most of the rooms, the pipe doesn't lead anywhere. If you don't know any better, it seems like the designers are just playing with your curiosity. In hindsight, it's totally obvious that this was a trick to let the game designers choose whether or not to put a secret passageway behind a particular item room just by lining up a different room next to it!

Once you get this, you see it everywhere in the world. You start recognizing different room sprites, and memorize the where their hidden paths are located. With that and the realization that the game only ever scrolls along one axis at a time, the seemingly impossible task of mapping out the entire world ("do they really expect me to shoot every single wall?") quickly becomes a simple effort of pattern memorization. Sadly, most people who try the original Metroid today get tired of climbing up those long vertical shafts and starting with only 30 health and quit before they even get a chance to discover this metagame.
Well, okay. Give my regards to Saint Peter and all the angels!
Don't forget leaky buildings made with bad materials, poor design and with no one liable. New Zealand followed Canada off that cliff.
nothing , c'est juste parler pour ne rien dire ;)
People like John Gruber have long been talking about unreleased software from Apple under the assumption that any information that is public is fair game (i.e. if you talk about something that you could have read on Macrumors there is no problem).

I’m not sure whether that would actually hold up legally – but that’s the theory.

(Also, Apple doesn’t seem to be very interested in actually stopping sites like Macrumors – which are filled to the brim with every tiny detail about the iOS and OS X DP – from actually publishing that. So I guess they are even less interested in going after people who do not even show videos or screenshots.)
Appealing to the "engineers versus lawyers" dichotomy is a predictable play, but not really one rooted in reality. To use copyright law as an example, it wasn't the copyright trolls that created the modern "copyright infringement is a crime!" regime--it was Adobe and Microsoft and all the engineering companies that lobbied to get software pirates treated like arms traffickers. Similarly, it wasn't patent trolls and patent lawyers that created the modern patent regime--it was the IBMs and GEs and Mercks of the world.

I do agree about your general point, which is that the new generation of engineering companies should lobby for reforms that they think necessary. Though I'd be interested to see if they have the same sort of principled objections to the trademark regime that is the bedrock of the advertising industry that is now their lifeblood.
I haven't read the whole post yet, but is the author saying that a WSGI+Gevent is better at real-time than Tornado alone?
They won't have access to the temporary keypair that the server generates, and which lives only on the server.
You might be interested in Salt's requisite statements: http://docs.saltstack.com/ref/states/ordering.html#requisite...

In combination with service.running you can require that, for example, package x is installed, and its service is running, before service y is started.
Well, yes. You know: he could not do it from the US, so he decides to break a lesser important law for the greater good.
A patent is technically also required to teach to a person skilled in the prior art on how to build the invention.

Here is an excerpt from [1]: "Second, if the inventor did possess a best mode, it must be determined whether the written description disclosed the best mode such that a person skilled in the art could practice it."

I have heard that the recent changes to the US patent laws have weakened this [2], though I have never read the details.

[1] http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2165.html

[2] http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2013/05/best-mode-only-mostl...
These properties seem undervalued. We're talking about absolute beachfront property a half hour from the #2 population center of the largest economy in the world in a beautiful area (that's on the US coast that faces Asia) with one of the best and rarest climates in the world. $10 million is chump change to a billionaire; consider the number of billionaires in the world and that the number rises yearly as more and more economies around the world develop and emerge. There are only 70 homes on Carbon Beach. Considering new Manhattan penthouses are selling for $90 million cash, it seems Ellison has spotted a bargain and dived straight in.
This is a great thread. What happens when there is a problem with a manufactured home? I'd bin the iPad, do you build a new house?! Working with proprietary systems is hard and expensive.
0. No prima donnas.

1. Ask yourself: Can the prospective team member 'do it'?

2. Have an open planning process and get buy in from team members.
I really hate the name "Perfect Forward Secrecy". There's no guarantee in ECDHE that the connections cannot be decrypted at some future time. All that's being implied is that the key changes per connection.

Sure, it's 'better' than RSA with a long lived private key, but there could be advances that would breach ECDH and make none of this 'perfect'. Such as: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securityma... If the NIST supplied curves used by the TLS standard had a backdoor none of this would be perfect.
Why do you assume that the idea wasn't hers?
Probably it should be a rolling standard, based on current best-practices.
>>However, getting nothing done for four of your most productive years is actually pretty risky.

This is how I feel about my post secondary education. I regret being herded into it and wasting all of those years parroting and memorizing so that I could learn "critical thinking"
This is a fairly interesting philosophical question. Personally I view (and use) Math as a set of abstractions to understand the world, and use Mathematical Logic to help make Math more rigorous and proofs more checkable. But if it turned out that Mathematical Logic had some flaws as it is formalized today, I wouldn't throw out Probability Theory or Algebra. Instead I would seek a formalization of Mathematical Logic that made those things useful.

I don't think that there's any formal system you can use as the basis of all Math, though. For example, ZFC can't talk about proper classes, but we'd like to be able to make statements about the class of all sets, and the collection of all classes, etc.
Why bother subjugating people overseas and taking them to your home country when you can conquer entire subcontinents and subjugate them right in their homelands?
OYA Founder
I just hired a talented, ambitious 18 year old graphic designer as my first employee. I've known her for several years as a close friend of my daughter (me, I'm old enough to have 19 year old children), and I thought of her because I felt she has what it takes to be not just a good graphic designer, but a good startup employee. And with her freshly out of school and in no financial position to go to college, she sees the opportunity.

Even if the startup fails, she can probably eke a couple of years of professional experience and a reference out of the deal - enough to get her on the path to a nice career. And if the startup succeeds, she has the career and could make enough in options to pay for art school.

Because she's smart and ambitious, she sees the logic of the situation. I have no doubt I'll get great work from her.
My opinion is government has no place in choosing the exact arrangement of how to pay servers (or anybody else for that matter), and should not enforce one way at the expense of the other because some columnist doesn't like it.

>>>> That was how slavery was abolished.

No it's not. Slavery was abolished when the state refused to recognize that human being can be owned by anybody and so nobody could make a person to work for another person unvoluntarily. Since then, all employment is voluntary. What the article asks for is to ban voluntary employment of some sort because of some stupid ideas of this columnist about how everybody else should behave.

>>> Well, a lot of people seems to not like it, but keeps doing it not to be seen as an asshole.

So to ask for the government coercion to force people to change the whole way their business works - on the way probably putting a lot of people out of business and out of work is not being asshole, but actually standing up for what you believe in - is being asshole? Talk about perverted ethics... That's like saying the only moral way of doing charity is if you hire a thug to mug somebody and then donate the proceeds. Then again, that seems to actually be very common opinion that charity can not be done without being coerced, so I shouldn't be surprised.

>>> Can you offer any counter argument to the actual points in the actual article?

I just did. I can do it again and very briefly: it absolutely does not matter if you don't like how other people pay for their services and how other people earn their money, and how they behave in general, provided these people are happy with the arrangement. If you don't like tipping restaurant - open non-tipping one and have the happiest servers in the universe and put all others out of business. Or eat at the McDonalds - I have never seen anybody tipping McDonalds cashier.
Many people have posted the combined PDF on this thread. However, there is no way to economically print this PDF for self use. Lulu puts the limit at 740 pages and this book weighs in at 790+ pages.

Does anyone know of a cheap online printer that can print at around 2cents/page?
Snowden sought Booz Allen job solely to gather evidence on NSA surveillance
Not all things have to have a reason for existing, in fact not all things can have such reason - the very concept of something having a reason is just a product of our utilitarian view of the world and one that can not be applied infinitely; at the end something has to exist for its own sake.

My goto metaphor for life is making a picture with a paint that evaporates from the canvas immediately after having made the last stroke - it will not produce a dent in the universe but nevertheless you can take pleasure in the process of painting it. Before I die I would like to have the feeling that I expressed everything I am capable of expressing, in terms of emotions, thoughts, writings, inventions, so that there is no reason any more for me to continue living anyway. My capabilities are definitely finite, so it should be attainable.
I was thinking it would be up to the browser vendor to decide how to rate things, but if there were a more formal system that would be great I think.
Functional speech can be regulated. And yes, it should be illegal to put up signs purporting to be official.
People like you make me really feel ashamed of the human race.
Part of this is, I believe, attributed to shiny ball syndrome. We see and hear about these companies being acquired for 1,000,000,000 and think: "Why aren't I doing that?"

Another part is actually wanting to do work that's meaningful. How many companies are doing meaningful work? And of those companies, how many roles within the machine are worthwhile?
Certainly they do, but they don't cover all of them or the people who don't own mobile devices. Again, this is an accessibility issue.