skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just finished setting up my raspberry pi as a personal router / firewall, to redirect my internet traffic over a VPN to a server i set up in europe. I'm building a chrome extension, and matching node.js app to allow to me toggle the routing on the raspberry pi from within my browser.

I got sick of fighting my isp's throttling rules, which kicked in at the most frustrating and inopportune times, like halfway through downloading linux ISO's to play with on my raspberry pi.
oh, yeah i guess i didn't include the porsche people like DHH and his le mans prototypes.
Who's equating or defending anything?

I just think that saying "I've never done drugs" while at the same time admitting drinking alcohol is kinda silly.
Trusting the word of a politician in one thing, trusting Putin is quite another. Calling Putin a politician is an insult to both politicians and dictators. And don't forget Putins past life, he is well versed in the spy versus spy game.
Idealists are weak in a democracy because their devotion to ideological purity makes them unable to form the coalitions, which are necessary to have any political impact in a majoritarian system.

Its silly to claim that "makers" are idealists by nature. Most of the "makers" I know are engineers, and if anything engineering as a profession has a distinctly conservative, "don't rock the boat" mentality. E.g. I wouldn't call any of the civil engineers I know high-minded idealists, but rather intensely pragmatic and carefully conservative (which is kind of what you want in your bridge-builders...).

The "American Dream" bears little resemblance to the founding principles of the republic. Much of what he perceive as the "American Dream" is populist rhetoric added to the American narrative by Andrew Jackson and FDR, along with nationalist rhetoric added during the Cold War.

The country was founded by lawyers, another profession not exactly known for its idealism. The American "revolution" was a deeply conservative one, mostly seeking a return to the status quo as it was before the British, drained by wars with France, started hitting up the colonies for money. Indeed, much of the American polity viewed the radicalism of the French Revolution with skepticism and distaste (at one point Thomas Paine was arrested in France and scheduled to be executed).
5 significant figures? I think you need to provide extensive documentation for your claims.
No. why do I need to?
I haven't heard great things about modern smaller-capacity direct injection turbocharged petrol engines either, though the economy figures always sound excellent.

As for the problems I describe, I am merely relaying issues I have heard people complain about! If people take their car to a non-franchised garage, or do things themselves, ECU errors tend to get them going to the official garage because only they have the appropriate equipment. But this always seems to be a bit hit or miss, requiring multiple visits.

People's suggestions that diesel engines are extra-reliable seem to be somewhat wide of the mark. Ye olde diesel engine of yore was simple, slow, noisy, dirty, and would run forever; thanks to modern technology, that all seems to have changed...
I remember the first time I used AltaVista, in 1995 or so. I had previously used Yahoo (which was a directory back then) and was pretty astounded at what AltaVista could do. I remember a similar feeling the first time I used Google years later.
> Wine and beer in moderation is actually perfectly healthy.

The idea that moderate consumption of alcohol is "perfectly healthy" is actually quite debatable. Taking red wine as a an example because of the popular belief that it has notable health benefits when consumed in moderation, a few points:

1. Many of the studies on the supposed health benefits of red wine are inconclusive. For instance, we still can't explain the French Paradox.

2. Last year, it came to light that a researcher who was behind some of the studies on the benefits of resveratrol falsified data. A decent amount of the hype around red wine in recent years was centered on resveratrol and it's important to note that even if there are benefits, the actual relationship between compounds like this and human health are in most cases not yet clearly established.

3. Red wine contains known carcinogens.

4. Even moderate consumption can add significant calories to one's diet. For example, if you're a male and drink two glasses (which is considered a moderate, "healthy" amount) three days a week, you're adding nearly 3,000 calories to your monthly caloric intake. Depending on when and how you drink your wine, you might also consume more food because of wine's impact on hormones associated with appetite. By the way, this is even worse in most cases for beer, where with some major brands, a single can or bottle a day can easily add 4,000+ calories over the course of a month.

5. Many of the potentially beneficial compounds in wine are available through other food sources that come with fewer drawbacks. In other words, you don't need to drink a glass or two of red wine every day to get your antioxidants.

The bottom line: if you're going to enjoy a glass or two of wine (or beer) with a meal, you shouldn't justify it on the belief that it's "perfectly healthy".
Google will lend you its 42lb, 15-camera backpack for an adventure
I think if that was really the case then IC would still want to know, I wasn't kidding about them being one of the most prestigious institutions in the UK.
An implementation that uses image maps without scripts:

http://www.strchr.com/share_buttons
His analogies are apt. His point is that in all those cases the signal itself is meaningless and inconsequential to the end.

The victim, in his examples, is the achievement of the end goal, which becomes a casualty of focusing only on the signal.

It probably applies to stimulant drugs more than it does to drugs like LSD. But like the original essay suggests, there's probably an evolutionary reason why we don't constantly experience life like we do on LSD, because we'd be excited and fascinated by everything.

If the goal of life is to increase our experiences... then the only way to maximize that in the long term is to survive. If you tweak the algorithm to give experience/pleasure without any work (drugs), then you'll no longer have an incentive to work to increase survivability. If you tweak it to give no increase in experience and happiness, and focus only on survivability, you'll have no incentive to survive (no reason to live, because we've defined the goal of life to increase experience and happiness). So the most optimal solution, as nature has converged at, is somewhere in the middle, where we get experience and pleasure but only when we work for it by prolonging survivability. Introducing drugs into this method will shifts the balance to the less optimal side of the reward-effort continuum.

The potential victim is yourself and your progeny, and you're actually shooting yourself in the foot in terms of maximizing experiences/happiness as a species by introducing drugs.
If you're going to use the raspberry pi to do file sharing type things, i highly recommend checking out bittorrent sync.

it allows you to turn the pi into your own cloud server.
I just realized what this really does. It just sets up a second callback to Engine.collectIncome. So when you go to set it "back", you end up with 3 income collecting loops. If you try to set it "back" multiple times you end up with more income loops.
Let's assume Snowden is caught and is up for trial.

The article mentions that there is more confidential data to be released and it has been distributed to insure it's eventual release. Do you think WikiLeaks would threaten to release the information if Snowden is convicted of any crimes?

If this threat were to be made, I'd imagine the USA would convict him anyways and WikiLeaks releases all the information. And then all hell breaks loose. Or perhaps the USA negotiates with WikiLeaks & Snowden?

Also, where's Anonymous in all of this? You'd imagine they'd have their hands all over this, right?
On the omni website it says, "Order on Kickstarter", but isn't kickstarter trying to remind people that it isn't necessarily a store? And so if you order one on kickstarter is it a guarantee that you will get one or is there a chance that it won't happen?
This is a pure anecdotal data point, but as someone who travels a lot: American meat is bland. I don't know if it is hormones, climate, food stock, herding conditions, or what, but it's definitely true in my experience.
Unless you can produce evidence that Van Gogh attributed his artistic skill to cutting off his ear, that doesn't follow. You've compared two dissimilar things.

I'm not inclined to give full credence to what someone attributes their own success to, either. I'm not taking a position either way, just observing that your argument is unfounded.
That's a purely strategic move!! I smell green and futures.
http://www.h-online.com/security/features/How-Skype-Co-get-r...

Note the date, things are very different now.
AltaVista has been a front-end for Yahoo search for >10 years... Not a lot of source code left...
It's not reserved for trolls. There's also room there for people who complain about being downvoted.
> So you have never had a cup of coffee or tea?

No, actually. Both smell gross to me; I don't plan on trying either.

... but I do like Monsters.

I see what your point is, but the paragraph I am referring to in the article specifically mentions marijuana. He uses the more conventional use of the word "drug" in that paragraph, and so I am simply continuing that usage than the more general form he was using in the rest of the article. Surely so many HN readers aren't getting caught up on these semantic distinctions throughout the article?
not so much. I have the BB SDK, but it's ugly, because every time there is a new BlackBerry Phone they obsolete the old API. Stupid, stupid move.

Hah, they even have a Certification Program, find them, go to them, do a test, pass, PAY, leave with a paper. What would you expect from a classical business oriented company without vision, innovation and gut.

They should pay YOU to do the test when you pass, they have a much higher need for developers than we need them.
It makes sense to invest in a company where the founders want to control the ownership. That really means the strongly believe in what they are doing. And other thing they should look in for founders is Perseverance.
Yet you still say "I never have" while using the term "drugs", when clearly you have used some drugs.

Just because you've never used recreational, illegal drugs does not mean you've never used drugs. This artificial separation that people make is a major part of the reason we can't have a sensible discussion on the topic.

Beyond this, it's not unreasonable to assume that someone with an inquisitive mind will want to try things. Hell, nearly everyone tries tea and coffee. Nearly everyone tries drink, and nearly everyone tries weed these days. MDMA is having a mass resurgence amongst people in their 30s and 40s at the moment.

Maybe not all people will, but many will, and I get the impression he doesn't want his daughter limited by taboos and social mores but well informed and able to make her own rational choices. And as someone who obviously feels psychedelics to be an important life experience (personally I think they're overrated) he may even encourage his daughter to try them safely, and I don't see a problem with that.
I don't normally downvote comments I read here, but c'mon man. First of all, your comment was off-topic. Second of all, at least with the GM food, yours is a knee-jerk reaction unsupported by science. GM food has the potential to save billions (with a B) of lives, starting with Golden Rice.
Trade openness is one of the strongest predictor of peace [1] (also see: Better Angels of our Nature [2]).

Free trade would also be an economic boon to Europe and the U.S. A study by the Bertelsmann Foundation together with the Munich-based Center for Economic Studies found that "if the United States and the European Union are able to come together on a far-reaching free trade agreement, Germany would be one of the greatest beneficiaries. Fully 181,000 new jobs could be expected and per-capita income would spike by 4.68 percent." GDP/capita could rise "by 13.4 percent in the US and by 9.7 percent in the UK. More than a million new jobs would result in America. That number would be 400,000 in Britain." [3]

The benefits of free trade are one of the points economists have found consensus on.

[1] http://www.yale.edu/leitner/resources/docs/HORJune09.pdf "Trade Does Promote Peace:
New Simultaneous Estimates of the Reciprocal Effects of Trade and Conflict" (Hegre, O'Neal, & Russett, 2009)

[2] http://www.amazon.com/The-Better-Angels-Our-Nature/dp/014312... The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker

[3] http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/study-on-trans-...
Germans Loved Obama. Now We Don’t Trust Him
Those networks can still track user habits by clicking the URL. In one acorn, they will know they came from your site, any user agent information, screen size (via JS on the social network site), if they are logged in they will associate them going to your site even if they decide not to share the URL.

The only thing they aren't seeing is additional analytic data they're missing out by not having there JS installed on your site, but its still enough data that they can use on there end for targeting advertisements which is what they are using this data for.
While true, it's quite a stretch to equate powerful hallucinogens with coffee (alcohol is another matter).

I mean, man, LSD is no joke, that will take you places that an ocean of coffee won't help you reach. Of course, ideally we don't reach for anything.
"I think one of the biggest unexploited opportunities in startup investing right now is angel-sized investments made quickly. Few investors understand the cost that raising money from them imposes on startups."

Oh lord yes.

Having been through the fundraising process a few times, it's hard to describe the sheer relief when you find an investor willing to give a quick yes or no. The best I can describe it is like the feeling of getting a Christmas present you really, really wanted but didn't think to ask for.

SV Angel and a16z are two of the best I've ever interacted with in this regard. It's clear both firms deeply respect entrepreneurs' time.
Why not bake augmented reality into your hardware startup?
The Free Software Foundation just made developing a free software replacement to Bittorrent Sync a high priority project:

http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/priority-proj...

LibrePlanet Group:
http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:SyncReplacement
I don't have an opinion on the core of the article, but this bit at the end is not the best advice from a user experience standpoint.

"And I am seriously thinking into serve my own copy of Twitter Bootstrap scripts instead of serving them from the Google Network."

The point of using a CDN for common js/css is to serve it as close to your users as possible as well as increase the change that they already have it in their browser cache. Hosting it yourself just means your users have to make more round-trips to wherever in the world your server lives.

BTW, Google Hosted Libraries doesn't currently include Twitter Bootstrap. You're using NetDNA's BootstrapCDN.
Even the author of this article doesn't make the claim that LSD is "as dangerous as caffeine".
>For example: Civilization A achieved space flight x time units (whatever time units, such as Planck time unit) after Big Bang, and civilization B achieved space flight y time units after Big Bang?

as long as special relativity is applicable, for space-like separated events A and B, there exist frames of reference such that A is at x time units after Big Bang and B is at y in one frame of reference, and A is at y and B is at x in the other frame, ie. in reversed order.
> Notice that I said the first millenium, not the first century.

I would go even further and assert that delineation efforts continue to this day. But I might be wrong, since I don't really know a lot about Christianity beyond what's in the news.

> If you state it is the brain, as I take it to be the default naturalistic/atheist option, than the problem is still not solved. So it's still a problem, something that needs explanation.

I still don't follow what the problem is. I suspect some of these words mean fundamentally different things to each of us, or that there might be a Christian catch phrase in there that I don't know and hence can't respond to. I don't mean this in a derogatory way, I just don't get what the issue is. What problem is not solved?
> If a driver appears to be drunk, how is that a random stop?

They're not stopping drivers who "appear to be drunk" - that's the point. They are allowed (supposedly, IANAL) to set up a checkpoint to stop every car (effectively a random stop) that passes by to see if the driver is intoxicated, or check to see that they are not in the country illegally.

They're not allowed to check for other crimes without probable cause though. They can't set up a check point to say drug possession or tax evasion, though if you are at a DUI checkpoint I believe you may somehow give them probable cause to check for those things.
Could you be a bit more specific about what kind of technology? Technology entrepreneurship? Programming? Security? Electrical Engineering? Etc.
what it really is is a prime example of solipsism.
This seems more demographic oriented.

If this was a how to site for people new to the internet open in a new tab would make sense but because the users on this site are more likely to be power users the control + click is almost second nature. I guess going the other way of ctrl + click opening in same tab could work also.

On mobile this seems to be a actual pain point because press and hold then open in a new tab is a hassle.
No, it wouldn't bother people so much if you made an argument instead of handing out judgement. You come across as extremely arrogant and you don't make arguments, you make statements.
Key word: "seem", he even uses it several times.
I think I've become jaded in my old age, but I find questions like this to be a negative indicator of the nature of the company.

I once interviewed at Apple for the quicktime team and they asked me a question about how you could make video start playing quickly, instead of waiting for it to download (this was before youtube so it was a reasonable problem to try to solve.) A directly relevant question to the technologies they were working with, and something applicable on the job.

I wish I'd come up with HTTP Live Streaming on the spot (a tech they announced years later) which seems so obvious now.

When I interview people, I like to ask them business questions (eg: how they might solve a particular business problem with technology) and then from there you can drill down into the issues that it might bring up (technical issues).

Interviewing these days seems to be a lot of trick questions and trivia that tells the interviewer more about how similar you are than how competent you are. For instance, I was once asked what a particular keyboard shortcut did. I didn't know because I used the mouse for that function, but I am certain the interviewer assumed I didn't use the IDE much because I didn't know that particular shortcut. He was projecting his preferred method of working onto me, and then reaching the wrong conclusion from it.

Every startup wants to "hire the best!" but so often they don't seem to understand what "the best" is.

And worse, when you've got a ... marginal person conducting the interview they may pass on candidates who are stronger than them simply because they don't understand what the candidate is describing, or are intimidated. (of course they won't admit this.)
I don't find the trends to be too surprising. After the major bubbles of the dotcom era and the 2008 financial crisis (I wasn't alive for the LBO bubble), a lot of energy is focused in creative pursuits, rather than those simply engaging in wealth transfer. Bootstrapping will become easier as time goes on, with the advent of b2d/open-source toolkits, as well as the perpetual cost-savings of Platform-As-A-Service providers such as Heroku and AppEngine.
That looks interesting, but I need to start with undergraduate studies for now. Thank you nevertheless for your reply.
Sorry, you are right. it is NetDNA's

From the performance point of view is better to use that public CDN. But they have control over the javascript, and they may change it at anytime. Maybe too paranoid, so just thinking about it.
I believe in public education

Based on what evidence?
You mean the next government will be more careful at hiding shaddy deals. The previous won't be reelected ever again.

So better analogy will be a criminal jailed for life, and other criminals perfecting their crimes because of fear.
IANAA (I am not an American) But I agree neo liberalism is what got us into this mess.

However, I think we're diverging on how to tackle fixing it. I mentioned bipartisan because the OP said Wyden/Paul. This would also fragment the center, which would allow the left to take more of a reign.

Where I'm from, the conservatives have a majority due to left vote splitting amongst the liberals, green, and new democrats. But with such right wing fragmentation happening in the states, what really needs to happen is not a fragmentation of the left, but one of the middle IMO.

Personally, I think this would accomplish the goal, as if you had a bipartisan party with good policies, you would then have a very confused and hypocritical left (Democrats) who would then start having to actually pander to its base instead of the imagined center.
> Wikileaks is using him for their own goals

Sadly, it appears Wikileak's own goal is to feed the ego of Assange. They do valuable work, they just need a leader who doesn't want to be a cult leader.
I love how he apologizes for his "limited" English and then drops a line like "[Ruby] 1.8.7 was the last scion of that clan." If that's "limited", then we're all in trouble.
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At least I am trying to do my part. And that is the only thing I can do.
3. Red wine contains known carcinogens.

So do potatoes.

I picked this one point out to rebut with a potato, but I think my potato wields equally devastating attacks against the rest of your points, too. Olive oil, oily fish, grapes, you name it: lots of things that currently do seem very healthy in moderation have a downside if abused.

One thing my potato is very unlikely to do: cause a psychically shattering experience that severs the last link between a troubled mind and the reality it inhabits. Not so much with the warning label requirements, with our trusty potato.
Can you elaborate why do you think so?

Also, http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
You're new here, so I thought I'd let you know: Hacker News is about actual conversation and debate, and not a contest on who can be most negative or contrary. There's not enough to be learned from that, and we might as well not have that conversation at all.

It's not enough to say something is bullshit. Why is it? What part? How do you know?
He uses the more conventional use of the word "drug" in that paragraph

Uhm, he specifically mentions tea, coffee and alcohol, right in the third phrase of that paragraph.
I wouldn't blame it all on middle-aged folks. In my experience, plenty of young people think that all hell would break loose if drugs were legalized or decriminalized.
I'm more skeptical. That there will be "more good startups" seems more like a wish than a prediction. Why will there be more good startups? Based off of what evidence?

I'm not necessarily disagreeing, I just wonder why he thinks so. That there will be more startups in general seems obvious, but "good" startups seem to be increasingly more elusive, at least to me.