skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely not, at least for us, $150 to introduce them to tech early on and get them familiar with everything that is now common place is a great move.

Sure, they may break it, but they also almost break everything everyday.

It additionally has the benefit of replacing all the poorly made, single function Leap/Step devices and toys. We gave our 3 year old a Fire and it's been fantastic for development and writing. Slap a sturdy case on it and we've been good so far.
> So what would the newly minted quadrillionaire have done with the cash? "I probably would have paid down the national debt," he said.

Good citizen, thinks about his country first. As a matter of fact, he would own 11000 times more money than there are US dollars in existence [1].

I also wonder where this specific number came from. It doesn't look like anything familiar (like INT_MAX).

[1] http://money.howstuffworks.com/how-much-money-is-in-the-worl...
The fact that you think that your student budget is applicable to single parents is laughable. $600 is really low for rent in a lot of places.

And before you say that someone making so little should move to a rural area where their minimum wage will amount to a higher standard of living, let me point out that NYC has McDonald's too.

7.25/hr is not a living wage. http://www.fastfoodforward.org/en/
In Thomas Pynchon's novel V, there is a lazy type who uses a switch on his skin to control the television. The resistance of his skin varies depending on whether he is asleep or awake, so he automatically starts the TV when he wakes and turns if off when he falls asleep.
The most minimal government possible is reduced to just the scary parts. That's the thing. A smaller government is no less scary in a police/military sense, unless you actually make the military and police smaller.

The irony is that everyone who goes on about a marginal tax increase, social security or some land-use regulations being tyranny, all of those same exact people are the biggest cheerleaders for a less restrained military.
1. Computer tech seems to move in a ~20 year cycle, so after that amount of time you will have "seen it all" to a certain extent, and you can apply your early experience to the new wave of technologies. For example, centralized mainframes -> personal desktops -> centralized web servers -> personal portable devices.

2. At 20 I was an arrogant know-it-all, 30 I had solid experience in certain things, by 40 the experience broadens and you find you can take a higher level view of things.

3. A 30yo offers knowledge of a certain specific technology (what to build). A 40yo offers experience (especially what NOT to build), which makes them more valuable.
When you add "Windows" there it completely dillutes the argument because Windows on the desktop is far from a walled garden as a proprietary platform can be.
It is always interesting to see how people from other cultures view my culture. I am afraid that your english grammar is getting in the way of your comment.

Did you mean to point out that "drinking vodka in public is always appropriate" or that "anytime the top soviet commander drank vodka it was a public event"? Or something else entirely?
The Last Stand of Walter White
Here's the problem with encrypting via the account password, directly or indirectly:

Google gets subpoena'd for your data. At next logon they capture your password and grab the key. There goes your data, including your wifi password or whatever else.

Of course I don't think that this would ever happen, and even OP's complaint is a bit unnecessarily paranoid in my opinion. But there's your answer.

EDIT: However this might be plausible if the stored key was also encrypted with some sort of passphrase or PIN that was not known to Google, which I believe is how Chrome does it currently.
OK so incorporated in US but paying taxes wherever in the world?
This reply "This report applies to a mobile Google application or service, and the issue tracker where you reported it specializes in issues within the Open Source source code of the Android platform." is a bit off, IMO.

The developer reported a bug found on Android to the Android forum. The reply he gets sounds like a dismissal, which is quite strange given that the problem is not only related to Android but also with a Google product.

A few days ago I submitted an Android bug verified on a Samsung phone. The reply was something in the line of "that's Samsung's problem, talk to them".

I'd say this isn't the right way for Google to handle a severe issue such as this, i.e. simply rejecting accountability. It's like having a team say "go talk to some other team" when they're actually all aboard the same ship. Is big company bureaucracy / turf wars getting to Google? Hope not...
Here's whit537 explaining the name at PyCon 2012.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iv7...
patio11 is right: this is a question for your attorney.

For everyone else, this is a perfect example of an irony many entrepreneurs face today: some investors won't consider investing in a startup with only one founder, but co-founder relationships can create all sorts of problems that sour (or even kill) deals.

Mark Suster had some great advice about co-founders at a Startup Grind talk last month. http://youtu.be/oAHgGUFjK3c
It sounds like you guys are doing all the right things. Keep it up and you'll have many paying customers.
In that case "white people" and/or "black people" must drive you nuts.
Verbal irony rarely works well on HN
I don't think anyone is saying it is "ok", but if you increase the minimum wage to something "livable", eventually it will be profitable for employers to start automating those jobs out of existence (for example, with automated burger making machines at MCD). What is the solution to that? Lower living costs so that minimum wage is livable? Forbid automation?
The number comes from a singed long long integer ( 64 bits )

2^63 = 9223372036854775808

bill === 9223372036854780000

difference is 4192, last two digits are used for cents.
That explanation doesn't pass the sniff test, as what budget lumps groceries, fuel, clothing and entertainment into 'spending money'?

Those are the sorts of things that get an explicit line-item, and don't get blurred into discretionary spending, lest you establish a 'budget' that completely collapses the moment the ostensible subject of the budget fails at living as a monk.

Further, the intent of the outline is rather orthogonal to the stark math that it illuminates. Even with the most ridiculously optimistic assumptions[1], the budget throws a spotlight on the fact that one person effectively can't live on a full-time minimum-wage job.

The closest they could aspire to, is to have a bunch of roommates and tread water until an unexpected expense throws them into debt.

[1] two jobs, single person (making low rent plausible), a car from 'somewhere' that's only costing $150 a month in combined payments/repairs/maintenance, farcical insurance costs, etc.

Does anyone expect there's a family/kid/own vs rent answer that results in a more-plausibly-livable budget for a full-time, minimum-wage worker? Absent "live with parents" at which point the job is, as stated elsewhere, essentially an unpaid internship.
The goal was to make it NOT look as Coke, which was a well-known symbol of USA.

The idea it should look like vodka is just ridiculous.

In the conditions when it is OK to drink vodka, Russians drink vodka, not Coke.

In the conditions when it is NOT OK to drink vodka, Russians (generally) do not drink vodka.
Firefox does it by asking you to enter a code displayed on a device that already has the key. My guess is that the displayed key is used to decrypt the actual key on the device, and that the key is never seen in clear on the network.
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Two other options are the OpenStreetMap Geocoder (it's called Nominatim) and the FourSquare API.
> Very few people view them as permanent, that's for sure.

Oh? They often end up being quite permanent, so I'm not sure how you're drawing that conclusion.

> Many of my friends started out in fast food as teenagers.

So did mine, but that's apples and oranges. The adult workforce is more relevant to this discussion. This is one particular area where geographic distribution is important. The average age of minimum wage establishments does tend to rise in lower income areas.

>staying at the same minimum wage job is the exception for most

Yet, remaining stuck in minimum wage is more common than we seem to be willing to accept.
I fail to see where in the original article it mentioned any costs relative to parenting. So turning this to talk about the costs of single parenting seems a non sequitur.

also, when you say 7.25/hr is not a living wage, I think you have to take into account the location. In NYC you are right. However in many parts of the world this would be considered a very good wage. Cities generally deal with this by raising the minimum wage within the city, something I think is a very good policy.

Btw, in my original example I wasn't living in a rural area.
ESott,

Thanks, I completely misread the article. I thought it was suggesting that FoundersClub would pay an investor who brings in another investor. I didn't understand that FoundersClub would pay an investor who brings in a company.
We've been using Twitter auth for all of our apps at @makeshiftHQ just out of convenience; some rely on it for core functionality more than others.

In the case of HireMyFriend we put in Twitter auth as a precursor to building a 'secretly DM your friends' feature that hasn't shipped yet.

That said - with an app based around your anonymity but the social presence of your friends & professional contacts I think this would work well for a developer without a social media presence. We'll consider adding email/password sign up in the coming weeks — I'm sure you appreciate how busy launches are :)
Worst Design Failures
It's a little bit more than 2⁶³ in cents.
I think this lends heavily into the reasons why development on OSX has become so popular. Devs were dying for a functionally attractive alternative to Linux, but Windows didn't offer the proper environment.

Heck, as a primary Windows user I've been contemplating switching to OSX for development.

P.S. While Cygwin is nice, I've always felt like it was a clunky alternative that was shoe-horned into Windows.
[Edit] Updated it for better clarity. Sorry for imperfect English.
Just a word of warning for you - there is a threshold of flagging that, if you flag too many stories in too short of a time period, you will lose your flagging privileges permanently. It's an odd implementation, frankly, so be aware. It often rears its ugly head whenever there is a popular story here (most recently: NSA/Snowden) in which there are lots of dupes reported.
That's a really great idea, thanks :)

This has been a crazy rush to get the product launched as-is (and there's a whole bunch of hypotheses we want to validate right now anyway), but working more on the employer side is definitely something that we're excited to explore in the very near future :)
> To me this seems like some sort of culture clash and in my opinion staying silent is the wrong way to go about this.

I'm perfectly capable of expressing everything I might express with profanity, without profanity. I'm now conscious of the fact that I'm a lot more persuasive if I take half a second to edit myself. The whole thing was a valuable learning experience.

> I think 'catcalling' is very nuanced

Interesting. I'd only ever use the word to describe the kind of rude behavior that happens between strangers on the street.

> the one unlucky guy who represents the 'final straw' to that girl then gets kicked out.

I wonder. The implication is that the guy said something which in isolation would have been completely within the bounds of good taste and then got kicked out. I bet this never, ever happens.

> But in general I think pretty much everything I said here can be succinctly shortened to "Be merry, have fun and if you feel there's a problem - talk about it - just don't do it behind someone's back."

That seems well-intentioned but entirely utopian to me.
The other bit that is glossed over in the article: the reason why these artificial prices and wages are what they are. Why are McDonalds' margins so low? Employees are triple taxed (corporate, income, and then sales tax). Why is the price of real estate so high? Bernanke is printing $85 billion per month to drive up housing prices, and zoning and housing regulations drive up the price of building and make it impossible to build highrises (a key reason for high costs in the Bay Area). Why do these jobs even exist in high cost areas? Indirect government subsidies in the form of food stamps and other transfer payments. Why is McDonald's paying directly for health insurance rather than giving that in salary to the employee and having them buy on the free market? A massive web of healthcare regulations, including the tax advantage of employer-provided healthcare.

People only look at the output, the wage or the price, and they blame that on the businessman. It's surprising to see that on Hacker News. Start a business, especially in the physical world like retail, and you will immediately see the one hundred different ways in which government hamstrings you, taxes away the money you would have preferred to pay as compensation, and then saddles you with the blame as the mustache-twirling top hat.

Ask yourself this: is there any business which has ever taken anywhere as much of your paycheck as the US government? Where is all the money going, after all?

Or as proof, simply go to the breakdown of each line item and ask what it would be without tax, regulation, or "monetary policy". For example: does 60% of a post-IRS/tax paycheck going to rent sound like the fault of McDonald's or the Bernanke? A runup in real estate (rental and purchase prices) is the desired and intentional effect of Fed policy.

http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-19/bernanke-faith-i...

Bernanke said that “one important difference now is that
people are more optimistic about housing” and surveys show
they expect prices to climb further.

“And that, you know, compensates to some extent for a
slightly higher mortgage rate,” he said.

Home prices in 20 metropolitan areas soared 10.9 percent
in the 12 months through March, the biggest gain in seven
years, as residential real estate is also bolstered by an
influx of institutional buyers, limited supply and an
improving job market, according to S&P/Case-Shiller index
data released May 28.
EU Commission wants to give up the equal treatment of citizens on the Internet
A New Design after A Century for Camel Cigarettes
R J Reynolds the second largest Cigarette Company has restored its Camel brand package approximately a century gone after it was initiated, in an effort to drive vending in a covering cigarette promotion.
great idea, just bookmarked it ! thanks
Huge assets are at stake in large organizations, and experienced leaders are crucial for their continued success. If I had a lot of money at stake in a company, I would divest as fast as I could if someone were to suddenly replace its CEO with a 20-year-old McDonald's cashier.

I also don't think that the outcome would necessarily be the same if the 20-year-old cashier and a 20-year-old Romney were to somehow change places. In life, we constantly face choices, and while unchosen circumstances play some role in who we are (I will never be a professional basketball player or a ballerina), we are not predetermined. Ahead of each of us, at every moment, is a forking path. The future does not exist yet.
This attitude reeks of privileged condescension.
Having more information would be useful regardless of which side of the debate you are on. Knowing that video evidence will be available can also act as a deterrent. The point is technology might help prevent some tragedy's from occurring.
I'm amused that the article thinks it's censorship.

That would be amusing, if they actually thought that. But the article doesn't call it censorship.

The EFF representative says that its unsurprising that such a censorious company also happens to sweep objectionable words under the rug.
Yep, I've been advocating running a headless nix VM on Windows for a while now, where you can easily 'shoosh' in (as Hanselman likes to call it - never heard this before myself).

The problem comes when you want the *nix tooling to interact with the Windows environment. Personally I like the clear separation between the host and guest environments, but YMMV. At the very least you can mount some share the Windows host provides inside the guest OS.
Ask HN: Would I be of value to a startup... remotely?
After a few bad freelancing experiences I find myself flat broke and reconsidering a lot of things in my life. I'm not quite at the stage of giving up yet, but I was wondering if there is room for someone like me to work for one of these up & coming startups. I guess it would have to be remotely as I'm in the UK.

The outside impression I get is that $TYPICAL_STARTUP goes for 20-something superstar college graduates - of which I am clearly not! I know that' a generalisation but how true is it? I'm sure I could of value to a company but would that matter in the end?

As for me, I'm one of those 'unicorns' apparently. I can knock out a swish design, code up all the HTML, CSS, Javascript and make everything work backend too. My experience covers everything from Wordpress to custom e-commerce stores, CRM, MRP, vehcile tracking, intranet work and iOS apps. I'm even quite handy at SEO. You could say I'm a generalist, but I do have some depth in these areas too!

I don't claim to the best or some rockstar but I do think I am pretty good and my breadth of experience gives me some advantages. I'm also a quick learner.

I can code HTML 5, CSS 3, Javascript (jQuery or not!), I've used SASS and the likes, AngularJS etc, PHP - I use mainly Codeigniter lately but also have experience in Zend, Cake etc. Wordpress is a given. I've also worked in Perl for a couple of years (with something called Interchange www.icdevgroup.org). More recently I'm building apps for iOS and Android.

As I mentioned, I'm totally broke now and I'm also in my early 30's. This is possibly a red flag to some people out there, as surely I should've made it by now?! However, it is what it is.

To be clear, I'm not looking for untold riches, I'd just like to be able to enjoy life and not dread a knock at the door!

So, TL;DR: Could a startup use someone like me?
Kindle Worlds Is a Mixed Blessing for Both Authors and Readers
It passes the "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" test for me.
> but I don't see why it makes his point less valid.

>>Socialism/capitalism primarily deals with the question of how to distribute scarce resources - which, by definition, is irrelevant in a post-scarcity society.

If (by his point) you mean his assertion that socialism and capitalism are irrelevant in a "post-scarcity society", do not forget he is asserting that there is no scarcity. Either goods and services are abundant and meeting "market" aggregate needs (post-scarcity), or they are not.

Socialism assumes that the problems of production (and presumably service delivery) have been solved, so it is quite happy in a "post-scarcity" world, since it only has to distribute according to need, or to everyone, or something like that. Socialism is only concerned with distribution and doesn't care whether the resources (goods/services, or what-not) are scarce or not. It assumes distribution is irrelevant to production or availability of anything.

Practically speaking, capitalism doesn't categorically solve scarcity or distribution , and only gets involved if there is a measurable expectation of return to be made in a market.
I see how "playing the game" makes it seem that way, but projections are worth about the same in my hand as a fart.
If you have enough VC to keep going and you want to be the next twitter, I wont say you shouldn't, but it seems common sense that you would want to start making money so that you know, you start making money.
What would drive me nuts was if 'The Invisible Man' was instead called 'The White Man'.
Of course my blog post is not taking into account every single possible horrible scenario that could have happened, how could anyone debate all the possibilities? I merely state the case that this new technology should be explored for ways to prevent escalating tensions.
Again, why couldn't you do that with LLVM IR?
Smartphone Upgrades Slow as 'Wow' Factor Fades
Encrypting anything with your Google Accounts password doesn't really make you invulnerable against Google. They can get your clear text Google Accounts password from you any time they want by just reading the password you enter on any of their clients.
This unusually respectful rhetoric from both sides hints on that they already agreed on the case. Russia keeps Snowden quiet, the US doesn't bug them with extradition. A win-win for both presidents. Putin saved a poor NSA contractor from the evil Empire. Obama shut down the leak and as a bonus got a "traitor" who fled to the "Soviets".
Fighting the Culture of Asking with a Culture of Giving
An Ubuntu PPA of daily builds of Percona XtraBackup
“Once you go thug, though, you can’t unthug,” - true dat.
This is how a real charger looks for comparison: http://www.righto.com/2012/05/apple-iphone-charger-teardown-...
> As a freelancer, it is possible that you could stay cooped in your bedroom for days in your pajamas, staring at your laptop screen, trying to finish that oh-so-important project for your irate client. You could go for days without meeting a human soul or even talking to anyone.

> A life of such isolation is detrimental to mental health and well-being, and eventually leads to serious health problems like depression and anxiety.

As an employee, it is possible that you could stay cooped in the office until 11:00 pm every night, staring at your laptop screen, trying to get everything done for that oh-so-important release. You could go for days without meaningful interaction with a human soul or even talking about something other than code.

A life of such isolation would be detrimental to mental health and well-being...if it wasn't for the fully-stocked fridge, ping pong table and knowledge that your stock options will one day be worth millions.
Have you ever wanted to give up marketing, on the internet?
How many good pictures did people see from back then, I wonder. You print something up in a newspaper you're losing a lot of information, and the little palm size prints that shops used to do aren't exactly great either.

And then there's the difficulty of producing good pictures. I remember, when I was younger, my father gave me his old 35-mm. No auto focus, manual settings for everything. Even buying the right film required some knowledge of what you were going to be doing. I can see why people would find good pictures from that long ago surprising, it was harder to do - you had to invest time to get good at it. Even if you knew what you were doing from a technical perspective - You could shoot a roll of film and get three or four good pictures.

Heh. What I find surprising is how good the really old pictures are. Boer war/Victorian kinda things. Considering what they had to work with at the time.... There's some damn nice stuff out there. If you can get yourself a tour of a photographic archive from a newspaper or something, it's well worth doing ^_^ There's stuff there that's never been digitised just because there's so much of it and high resolution scans on something like a drum scanner are so expensive to do.

Edit:

> The resolution of standard 35-mm film was fairly hard to achieve in consumer digital cameras until recently

To be fair, the obsession some people have with resolution, without regard to like noise (goes up hugely when you cram more pixels - so to speak - into a small frame sensor) and colour balance has probably done significant harm to the evolution of digital cameras.

Not that I'm saying you are one of those people, but thought I'd mention it for random readers ^^;