skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that any kind of micro-management of peoples' livelihoods create poverty traps. This isn't just a matter of current first-world political systems: it's also observable in developing-world charitable activities as well. Check out the evidence from GiveDirectly[1] to see how an Unconditional Basic Income works better in environments that are entirely unlike our first-world political environments.

Basically, I think that people are really good at finding their own paths. It's what people naturally do, providing that they aren't structurally prevented or disincentivised from doing so.

And yes, I've seen the miserable rich-kid phenomena first-hand, and agree with you that too much privilege can be a real handicap. That's why I think it's quite important that an unconditional basic income be genuinely basic: enough to survive on without any privation, but not enough to be decadent on.

I've found a neat mechanism for appropriately setting the level of a basic income: 50% of the mean individual income. Here in the UK, that would produce a basic income of roughly £12k/year -- a bit less than working a full-time job at minimum wage. Enough to live a fairly decent life in a (now) impoverished Welsh ex-mining village, or enough to barely scrape by with a bunch of flatmates in London. But not enough to be extravagant on, in either case.

The nice thing about pegging the amount of Unconditional Basic Income to the mean earned income is that it builds in an automatic self-correction mechanism. If too many people exit the workforce, the mean earned income would fall, and the UBI would fall exactly in sync with it. As the UBI falls, people would be increasingly incentivised to re-enter the workforce. As people re-enter the workforce and the mean income rises, UBI would increase along with the inevitable increases in inflation.

1: http://www.givedirectly.org/evidence.php
Someone definitely had the telescreen in mind over there. Scary.
Java script trend
Come on! You can't seriously try and connect "Korean culture" with the douchebag slacker CEO you are describing.
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tech...

Though that specifically obviously requires hardware.
>So how were they forced?

Well, we can't really know (they won't answer FOIA requests!). We can only make guesses.

Could be they were just asked. Western Union gave telegrams to the NSA just for the asking.

Some people would argue that Microsoft has enjoyed favorable treatment by the courts. Maybe there was a quid pro quo somewhere along the way.

NSA has strategically placed employees/agents in other companies. Why not Microsoft?
Not to mention that C# is a fantastic language to use.
But the same comparison could be made about Chrome and Chromium, no?
> I get that Chrome added a JIT javascript compiler, but hasn't Firefox since added that in response?

In addition to what @ergo14 said, Firefox had a JIT compiler called SpiderMonkey before Chrome was even released [1]. With that said, I'm sure there's cross-pollination both ways between OdinMonkey (Firefox's current JIT compiler) and Chrome's JIT compiler in V8.

[1]: http://ejohn.org/blog/tracemonkey/
That said, including JVM startup time is a very odd way to benchmark HTTP libraries. Is it a common enough use case to make Java apps that just start up and download a single file?
The source is clearly open. I'm looking at it right now.

That it doesn't match Stallmans definition of "free" doesn't mean that it's not open source.
Quadcopter view of NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab
How? It is pretty clear that this website is only interesting to "hackers", and there are already a lot of people who visit the site. I think what makes HN different than Reddit or any other similar website is the rules on posting and the subsequent consequences for not following those rules. That is what encourages interesting, useful comments and prevents stupid comments like "you suck, kill yourself". As far as I can tell, the Google ranking has little to do with it.
Snowden wants asylum in Russia, ready to meet condition not to damage US
Pick one or more:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android#Navigating_featur...

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IOS#Navigating_features

OSM is data. Don't judge the data by the official website. It's power is in the freedom of the data and all the services/applications other people can build with it.
learndit.com is a good one
Aren't you asking the OP to disprove a negative? Understandably, the OP has a bone to pick with Asian stereotypes, but it seems more effective to evaluate his critique on its own merits: does it properly represent - and refute - Gladwell's assertions?

There's nothing wrong with looking for cultural explanations, but as the OP points out, there could be perfectly valid non-cultural reasons, such as the economic and technological history of Korean industry.

The problem with cultural/ethnic explanations, in general, is that they are so strongly rooted in our psychology...a big part of that is influenced, of course, by our culture. Ask anyone who works in casting for ad campaigns.
For me, it is not just that web apps feel slow. It is that they feel clunky. I can often see the UI elements being drawn one by one, the animations are rarely smooth, and the gestures (if I'm on mobile) never register as well as they do in native apps. The seams are showing.

Even when native apps are slow, they can have a feeling of cohesiveness and polish that web apps lack.
The law may have been followed but the perception may be different. People often (always?) reason in the perception world, then act (in the real world) based on the results of that reasoning.
I agree with you that it's a false choice.

But the part about never sharing anything private with anyone, regardless of the media used... maybe I'm misunderstanding it. That sounds like a terrible way to live. By living that way, you are not retaining your privacy... you've already lost it.

You could die when get on plane, but you still do it, because the reward is worth the risk. Someone could wire tap my house, but I don't let that stop me from having private conversations with my family. There's a risk/reward balance that each of us have to set with respect to our privacy and our ability to share and interact with other people. To say the risk always outweighs the reward seems a little extreme.
Hmm, I didn't know that. It seems you may be right:

http://www.frameloss.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Lion-Mem...

Though apparently there was a company offering a commercial solution for getting FileVault passwords using this method so...

http://privacycast.com/filevault-vulnerability-how-to-protec...

There's also a really interesting pdf from Apple containing more details on FileVault 2:

http://training.apple.com/pdf/WP_FileVault2.pdf

which suggests turning on firmware passwords to prevent DMA.
> That is the standard argument, but countries have been taxing property a lot longer than they have been taxing income.

That countries have been taxing selected forms of property longer than they have been taxing income is in no way inconsistent with taxes on net worth being harder to administer than taxes on income (and even if they had been taxing net worth longer than income, it wouldn't be), so that's not even a counterargument.
It was, targeted advertising, or at least that's the excuse.

http://consumerist.com/2013/07/08/the-xbox-one-will-use-kine...

http://bgr.com/2012/06/12/microsoft-xbox-kinect-targeted-adv...
Thanks! I don't why they don't limit Google, Bing crawlers to the homepage via robots.txt. Then crawling should not overload an already busy website. Honestly, it seems like an overreaction to me.
My skill set consists mainly of lots of iOS (worked on over 2 dozen apps in the store, including major brands), Mac development, Ruby + Rails (more experience in the backend side of things than the HTML/CSS/JS portion), but I've dabbled in a lot of things over the years.
So it really will all be over when the fat lady sings, huh. ;)
What happens when there's a big decision that heavily affects media interests? They start using their sway on public opinion to make the decision important, and a disproportionate number of people become "passionate" about an issue they don't really know more than they were fed.

There are probably other problems, but I don't think this one is small.
Startups can do their own PR
I'd find this advice a lot more credible if it were accompanied by examples of it actually working. If someone spent a long time on some irrelevant GPS drawing of a logo it would creep me out.
> what does?

(1) A clear mechanism. Data. My car
won't run. Cause. The universal joint
at the differential for the rear wheels
failed leaving the rear end of the drive shaft on the
ground.

(2) A solid scientific theory. Data.
I let go of the 2 x 4, and it
hit my foot and hurt. Cause. Newton's
law of gravity.

(3) Other. Data. There is a correlation
between smoking and lung cancer.
Cause. Guess that there are some
chemicals in cigarette smoke
that cause lung cancer. Without actually
finding the chemicals, basically test
the heck out of the connection, i.e.,
look for and reject (statistically as
in an hypothesis test) other candidate causes,
see if cigarette smoke does
cause mutations (causing mutations are easier
to test for than causing cancer,
and nearly every chemical that causes
cancer also causes mutations;
so, if a chemical doesn't cause
mutations, then it likely doesn't cause
cancer; if the chemicals in cigarette
smoke do cause mutations, then can't
reject that they cause cancer and
have to keep entertaining that the
chemicals might cause cancer and have
to keep testing),
reject spurious correlations,
do some more tests that might reject
causality and observe that they do not reject,
look for other causes, work hard,
get tired, give up,
and finally conclude that
have done enough work and time to
stop smoking.
I have opentim.es and budj.it - but I'm still convinced I'll get round to building them eventually...
Thief steals iPhones, leaves Samsung Galaxy
Check out egghead.io if you haven't yet.
Java Enterprise Edition is the name of an Oracle product. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaee/overview/index... It's "enterprise" literally by definition.
Snowden Is Said to Renew Plea for Asylum in Russia
Along a simliar vein I've heard it proposed you could store information in a diamond using different isotopes of carbon as binary 1 and 0's. That would last a tremendously long time and I believe have a huge storage capacity.
You're missing the point completely. You would at least know when someone is "poking around your data".

By law they would have to get a warrant... ie: actually obtain some real proof that you are up to no good. A lot better than this current blanket case scenario.
rate limiting != censorship
They already started "fixing" books: http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/01/06/huck-finn-censorship... ... (it will be so much easier/faster once everything is digital and remotely controlled)
I'm in Europe, so I save 50%.
I found what appears to be a PGP key of his a few weeks ago:

http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&se...

I thought about signing it and sending it back to the keyserver but didn't feel like having a discussion with the feds.
Yeah I guess I glossed over that. Certainly a lot of people, particularly older people don't really understand tech and the magnitude of spying that is possible through Google, Facebook, et al. That's pretty much a moot point though, when you consider what this surveillance apparatus enables. The vast majority of people use some tech (eg. telephone) that will enable inappropriate data to be collected and stored, and even if they are hermits living off the grid, they can still be implicated as a subject of interest simply by being named in a third-party email exchange. Getting all up in arms about the government snooping our Facebook data seems to be almost completely missing the point.
Of course. If you are a legitimate suspect, any local police department can get a warrant to go inside your house and put your underpants in plastic bags and take them away. For that matter, they can cuff you and put you in jail. The question is what is the NSA doing without a warrant or rubber-stamped, secret, blanket warrants.
I used to believe this, but I now realise it's insufficient when building large apps. Upgrading the version of Django (or indeed Rails) you depend on requires a comprehensive testsuite and involves changes to your code. Upgrading the version of Wicket you depend on is easy because the framework is able to enforce that you only access the attributes you're meant to, only subclass things that are designed to be extended, etc.
Sure, but you can't store the contents of an arbitrary volume, which is what people generally mean when they talk about storage capacity.
Shows you what I know. :-) I assumed because Schneier created it ...
At least for developers freelancing i dont think even marketing is all that hard. With the number of recruiters and such around its actually quite easy to get calls out and start working within a few weeks. I started out with old co-workers and such but found that the easiest way is to post your resume on one of the career sites (monster, indeed, linkedin, etc..) and you will get a flood of calls. 99% of them will be crap...but if your a 1 man show all you need is 1.
When you turn off computer through OS motherboard still stays powered. Later it can wake up itself by bios alarm or wake-on-LAN or this VNC thing.
I read a paper on one that allowed up to a randomly selected 50% of votes to be audited and still preserve the secret ballot, but it was so complicated that I barely followed and I definitely don't think I could convince a room full of people it was safe.
Chrome performs a lot better, even now, which was its stated goal and what it was advertised as being about. The Ubuntu team has consistently failed to articulate what Mir is supposed to give us over Wayland.
What do they mean by bypass encryption? If I use outlook.com (or gmail.com or whatever) over https, then it's encrypted over the wire, but it's obviously decrypted on their servers. It's the only way that search could work. I assume if you are PGP encrypting your messages or something equivalent, it's still unbreakable.
Keep in mind there won't be a perfectly clean boundary between the light and dark sides -- there will be a border area between the "night side" and "day side" that is always in partial sun. Not that I think similar-to-Earth life is likely here (for other reasons), but theoretically you could find it on other planets with synchronous rotation, if you looked in that border area.
Indeed, and so it's uncool and crappier than Python? How is that related? The OP clearly used the term "enterprise" with a negative connotation. I doubt he was referring to a brand name.
Yes, that all may be true, but white space has semantic meaning in Python. I just can't get past that. ;-)
Anyone have advice on how to handle health insurance for a family?

I've always been worried that once you stray from the protections offered in a group plan, the insurance will just dump you if you have any major issues. And then once you're dumped it's a "pre-existing condition" and now no one will cover it but a group plan - forcing you to join a company again.
Taking your annual salary and dividing by 1000 could be a sure fire way to sell yourself short and pick up terrible clients.

I would suggest instead to look at what the better freelancers charge (in the US, somewhere in the 50-100 USD range) and figure out where you fit in that based on your skills, experience, portfolio and available work.
No idea why you were downvoted, there's nothing outrageous in your comment.

Every time I watch RT, I can't help getting the impression that it's on a mission to criticize and attack the US at every opportunity. All this, while ignoring far more egregious crimes within Russia itself. It's blatant, unashamed hypocrisy.
Would likely be a Chicago pile moment [for a warp drive]
It's too bad folks at the NSA will be high-fiving each other over the cool new mascot someone made for them.
I'd love to go freelance.

Luckily here in the UK there is a thriving(ish) market in contract work. Short time, usually project-based, better paying than perm work. So far it's been quite fun.
OR, develop your skills such that you pass through their interview with no problem.
License says "no derivatives"
No. Google supports Chromium, and Chrome has proprietary additions.

I do wish Chrome didn't exist, but I'm not convinced that this comparison works.
> ultra-fast

Does it say how fast the read/write speed is?
CanaryPW: Anonymous Text Service Search Engine
http://canarypw.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/announcing-canarypw/
> Also, you will have to pay taxes quarterly

If you're in the US. In other countries, different tax regulations apply.
How to disable Visual Editor in Wikipedia
I guess it's one or the other.
Problem: Screenshots of online payment receipts
Fastmail is nice. I'd love to host my email on my home server, but from what I can tell, to send SMTP I either need to get a static IP (costly / impossible) or use some smpt routing service, in which case not that much is gained from self-hosting.

I wrote about how I use Google-alternatives here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5718126
An addendum to that, since the article mentioned Music and OwnCloud: I use Subsonic to stream my music collection, the Android app is very nice in how it caches so I always feel like I have full access to my complete collection without getting huge mobile data bills; I don't think OwnCloud's music app can match Subsonic quite yet.
It's almost impossible to avoid a decline in quality as the quantity of users increases. Reddit being a prime example.

Every now and again there are threads posted here discussing the apparent 'HN decline' as the userbase grows.
Slot machines will also happily record a timestamped log of every interaction with the system and the outcome. Which is exactly what you don't want in a voting machine.
I think typically "Rich Text Editing" includes controls for presentational aspects: fonts, colors, weights, etc. Contenteditable only lets you change the text itself.
It seems that only protects against "pre-launch software" and BIOS level stuff. The scenario in question is for a live system where the disk is mounted and decrypted, with the OS running.
This isn't a war of attrition, or asymmetric warfare, this is playing the exact game the NSA is meant to fight. It's like building MIG-21s to take on our F-22. A loser's fight.

I don't think there's any harm in pursuing this as long as expectations are realistic.
I kind of think of backbone.js as a set of patterns to write your code in, but then someone went in and abstracted the common pieces out so you don't have to reinvent the wheel.

A simple example is the Backbone Events module. Sure, you could wire up your own event handling code, but why would you want to? Using a common library like backbone means that all of the bugs are fixed in a common place and you don't have to worry about it.
Indeed: https://twitter.com/KooyJan/status/355693261291151360/photo/...
Yes you could - it would be the object itself.
Fire quickly and compassionately
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir
Germany: Competitors May Send Cease/Desist for Privacy Policy Omission
> In inbjudningsbreven to Edward Snowden according to the Guardian have written that the United States is leading a campaign against him, trying to block his right to seek and obtain asylum in other countries.

Improved: According to the Guardian, Snowden wrote in his invitation letter to the organizations that the United States is leading a campaign against him, trying to block his right to seek and obtain asylum in other countries.
> In fact, the existing Earned Income Tax Credit is already much like a basic income for a certain segment of the population.

It is impossible for something to be for a certain segment (defined in large part by income) of the population and for it also to be meaningfully like Basic Income.

EITC is a fairly standard limited-eligibility social welfare program, which is what BI is offered in opposition to.

> One often needs a revolution to make a constitutional amendment. I don't think we want to go there.

I don't think the facts justify that that is often the case, unless you mean "revolution" in some very loose sense that doesn't justify the "I don't think we want to go there" comment.

I mean, there are 17 amendments to the Constitution that weren't passed fairly contemporaneously with the original document: can you point to the "revolutions" which were necessary for these?
That would be funny if it weren't true. :(
The Internet is destroying work
FileVault 2 is supposed to be secure against this* when the machine is powered on and locked or sleeping.

* Source http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/18720/how-secure...
Weird. I'm on the latest stable FF; I only knew it was Flash in the first place because it triggered my Flashblock.
It was an easy install as long as you didn't mind wiping your whole hard disk. Many people tried Linux first because they could do that without having to blow away Windows, and then stayed there.
Secret.li: A Snapchat clone or an online privacy “prophylactic?”
Bill Weavers SR-71 Blackbird Breakup at Mach 3
Isn't the convention to only use the phrase o'clock when using a 12 hour notation?
Don't do this (PyCon AU 2013)
I thought they fixed all these problems too then SFO happens, which is yet another training mistake no other pilots would make even on a flight simulator.
Don't worry, there is a single study on literally this that confirms that everything is actually okay. Just blink for 10,000 hours and it will solve all your problems.

I agree with Merlin Mann's thoughts on Gladwell:

http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/205874392/surprise-surprise
Perhaps the author feels that a short op-ed in a popular newspaper is not the place for highly technical discussions. Whether choosing to write at a surface level is optimal or not, it's a bit of a stretch to accuse a professor from a highly respected university of being "horribly horribly ignorant" on the basis of what's not in a single page article.
I believe the article mentioned femtosecond laser writing. I don't know how much data gets written in each pulse though.
correct. i'm just having a hard time with the point (or lack there of) in this post.. as far as i can tell it's something like: NSA = PRISM, therefore any company doing work for NSA = evil.
Related question...all other things considered, do Europeans (well, anywhere with strong universal healthcare) find it easier to do freelance/contract work because of the healthcare guarantees?
Does IE11 support TLS 1.2?
you will have to pay taxes quarterly

Have you ever tried not paying your taxes quarterly? The penalty is only a few hundred dollars. As in, one or two billable hours. As in, not enough to justify taking time off from paying work to do them those extra three times a year.

In years where my memory is especially good and I remember that I'm supposed to do quarterly taxes, I'll send off an enormous check at some point over the summer for about what I paid in taxes the year previous, with my SSN scribbled on it. That's actually surprisingly effective.

Most years, I let it slide and simply tack on an extra 0.4% to my total tax bill in April.
Curl is the default on most systems I've used. The only place wget seems to be a default is on Ubuntu (and probably some other flavors of Linux).

But most places where I need such a tool: My desktop (Mac), the load-balancers (OpenBSD), the database servers (FreeBSD), the hypervisors (SmartOS), the NFS servers (FreeBSD), basically all the infrastructurey stuff, curl is the default. I wouldn't swear to it, but I don't think wget is installed on most of those systems.
He means "how". Open-source protects against software backdoors (though obviously not against key-sharing et alii)
Haven't you experienced it? My HDDs all wear out eventually... there's only so many times a thing can spin 7200rpm just nanometers off the ground before something gives.