skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pro-MOOC, but I think he's attacking the wrong straw man. Because the costs are so low, a high drop out rate is fine.

If you want to experiment on a subject in a 30 person live class, the financial and opportunity cost (taking someone else's seat) is high. In a MOOC it's a non issue.

I also think that it's not the current $2700/course teachers that have to be afraid. MOOCs still will require some aspect of human intervention for grading, and there will still be some in-person coursework needed. The people who should be nervous are the current Phd students who want to be tenure track. Future tenure track spots will disappear for everyone who isn't a rock star researcher.

I view the future model as "Anything with an existing body of knowledge will go the way of MOOCs, and live discussion classes will be smaller and focused on subjects that require more debate." This is actually good for the humanities.
U.S. Tells Russia It Won’t Torture or Kill Snowden
Really? Your entire argument is "..because Russia. Who's with me?"
What is a passive income hacker. All I really understand is someone reading the 4-hour work week, and then writing a fifty-dollar pdf on how to feed blue canaries a vegetarian diet with really long sales letters.

I would quite like five figures a month working from starbucks, so if I am missing a trick let me know
2010-2012 may well have been "peak internet".

Three years ago, or so, I was thinking about[1] the idea that we may have been witnessing something akin to peak oil, or peak credit.

At that time I was discussing it in terms of network fragmentation and net neutrality ... but a collection of different censorship regimes around the world degrades it[2] just as well...

[1] http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2010/12/peak-internet.h...
[2] "it" being the "homogenous, globally routed Internet as we have known it."
Coding skills help geeks get top tables
This is tangental, but while we're talking about SPF...

I've noticed lately that it's getting trickier for businesses to stay within the 10 DNS lookups per SPF record limit. For example, Google's official SPF record is _spf.google.com which in turn includes _netblocks.google.com, _netblocks2.google.com and _netblocks3.google.com. That's 4 DNS lookups. Use Salesforce? They include Google's SPF record in theirs. Use Zendesk? Their previously published SPF records are support.zendesk.com and smtp.zendesk.com. Both those record include mail.zendesk.com which includes _spf.zdsys.com which includes _netblocks.zdsys.com. The number of includes/DNS lookups is a growing problem as these businesses continue adding more IPs.

If you're allowing several external services to send email on your behalf, you might want to double check your SPF record to see how many DNS requests you're making.
As a former passive income hustler turned startup guy - this is so true. What's most important is to be comfortable with what you do regardless of others opinions. That's the one thing I could do without in start up land. The prosthelytizing.
"Anytime one makes a differentiation between two things, beauty and ugliness, skill and stupidity, light and dark...."

a continuation of the quoted part above
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYhmATD8hLk
haha, nice! Although wouldn't computers be way better than humans at this?
I'm using the Startup Engineering course on Coursera as an excuse to become a better programmer. My idea is to create a personal dashboard that you can display on a TV or an extra monitor with your Pi or the new Google Chromecast.

I'm using the Dashing gem that was done by the Shopify guys. It is my first time using Ruby and it seems like a good language to get things done quickly.

I'm open to any suggestions anybody has!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5647310
The ouch to me is how much this that's written relates to what's happening today, I just imagine the shame he ought to feel if he reread this today, or someone read this to him...

Obama is great at keeping a straight face(he's a lawyer, after all), but sometimes it makes me wonder how far can he handle since there's so much dirt with all that stuff... I mean, the "The programs are transparent" is a Bush-like statement from 'the great talker', and really, he is, but he's now completely demoralized in many eyes, people from the world rooted for him, I watched the fucking debate and shared a pic of 'debate drinking game' with my friends, we all wanted that seemingly enlighted dude at this position... it's just a very ugly story, even considering that arriving there it was inevitable that he would have to give in to a shit or two or three, but it went overboard, this is a disaster in my 'very-far-away' eyes... what will it be of his name in history? What will this do for future 'enlighted-hopeful' candidates? What about the next black person running for it?

It just makes you go 'ouch'.
I think that's the point. The author sees himself as PIH. He doesn't care about changing the world and sees SG as silly. The article is a satire of Startup Guy.
$ killall mysqld
$ while pgrep mysqld; do sleep 5; done
# waiting for mysql to shut down
$ echo s >/proc/sysrq-trigger
$ watch dmesg
# wait for "sync complete" msg
$ echo b >/proc/sysrq-trigger
# or if you can force-reboot remotely
$ echo o >/proc/sysrq-trigger
# /proc will no longer be mounted after this
Did you try their "Migrate IMAP Mailbox" which grabs directly from your GMail? It pulled across 3GB in about 30 minutes and worked well.
SupplyFrame buys Hack A Day
Great article. Despite thinking I knew a lot about Pixar's life and times, for me the surprises were:

* Pixar pioneered ray-tracing, but it just wasn't fast enough for production use.

* The Pixar hardware (a) started out as a frame store (not a 3d workstation), (b) was based on transputers, and (c) renderman was named after hardware (i.e. like a Discman or Walkman).

* Luxo Jr. was not created with Renderman -- Tin Toy was the first Renderman film.
It was a great read, until the end where in the last sentence it was really ambiguous whether he was being sarcastic about "He's basically exploiting a narrow arbitrage opportunity and is probably either unethical or lazy."

Everything was so obviously tongue in cheek until that point.

But, the ambiguity was actually welcome because it forces the reader to wonder and in turn choose their position.

It's a fun read.
Aeson is built on the Show and Generic type classes. Anything that supports those also basically supports the FromJSON/ToJSON classes that Aeson needs. Lists already support it (for types that also support aeson), as do Map/HashMap for various text types mapping to something that supports aeson.

So, complex nested structures are a matter of defining Show and Generic instances for any types that don't already have them. From there you can trivially make those types aeson-compatible. Since so many common types are already supported, adding support for your own nested types isn't too difficult. The example use automatic derivation of Generic instances, which may result in some performance problems but is the easiest way to get off the ground.
"It would mean coordinating updates of the digest to all referencing sites though, which might make it practically impossible."

You just put the version number in the name somewhere and make deployments immutable. Otherwise you have everything you need for that already, technically, though you might want to add a fallback to a local clone of the resource or something so it isn't just a failure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concept_of_Mind
I think reality is more like the startup world: there exist a people who pull it off, but there are a lot of people who also end up with a living room full of half-finished crummy web apps.

What most of these Passive Income blogs and podcasts seem to be selling is really a process: whereupon you start with analyzing a market with google's search insight tools, build a simple utility for that market, purchase adwords for it, and then ab test it.

While a process like this might work some of the time, it still doesn't guarantee anything.

I love the idea of being a Passive Income Hacker, mostly because I love the idea of "financial freedom" to pursue interests independent of a stable job and stable income. But the two things that make me wary of it are: (1) isn't it still a lot of work up front? work that you could be putting into something with much bigger impact on society into? (2) I wonder how stable the income is over time without maintenance.
The RenderMan Companion was my first programming book. My parents bought it for me at the Barnes and Noble bookstore where we used to go on Saturdays (this was pre-internet days for us; AOL was just arriving and would be a long-distance call for another couple of years.)

I was too young at the time to really understand the C listings in the book, but I re-read it about a dozen times and a well-worn copy sits behind me on my shelf as I'm typing this.

The thing that did stand out, that Upstill really communicated, was the concept of an API, and why standards are valuable.

Anyway, RenderMan is without a doubt the single reason I became a programmer.
Can you cite an example of the NSA killing someone?
Tell HN: You can now donate freely to Flynn, the open heroku based on docker
Can I suggest a new wording

Google, Lotus, Dos profited from an already changing world.

Technological and social-economic forces are shaping our world, mere companies, especially a few guys in a garage, don't touch the sides.

Want to change the world - invent a new technology, do basic science. Einstein changed the world for hundreds of years hence.

Nothing wrong with good implementation and profit. Just its worth recognising were the real drivers are so we keep on funding them.
Even so, there are a lot of flaws within it unless some people are considered 3/5ths of persons on the basis of their skin.

The idea is to transcend, not regress…
They actually make their money off of the ebooks, seminars, boot camps and other how-to materials about how to have passive income.
I really like Stephen's writing style: no frills, concise, but he still spends time explaining the hard things. Plus he usually writes about things I don't understand so I come away having learned something.
Worst sense of humor ever?
Politicos Behaving Badly Cartoon
How I read a research paper
The dark side of Startup City
Square, for one.
No sarcasm, I think it's true. I'm talking about the original search engine, not what they've done to it since. They've done amazing things to it since and it's obviously turned into an arms race, but we all build much more complex software today than we did 20 years ago.

Better tools, better practices, better understanding of what works and what doesn't, better resources online.

Even simple things like most people these days understand how HTTP actually works, back then you'd be lucky to find people who even understood basic HTML.

Did you use Google back then? It wasn't actually that great, you might have to do a bunch of searches, try excluding words, just to get some vaguely good results. It was a lot better than the rest though.
Worse, by working on a trivial startup that will eventually fail, they'll usually be changing the world for the worse, as the opportunity cost could be going into medical research, or fundamental science, or creating other great works that move society forward.
the problem is that my satisfying activity would be beach sitting, margarita drinking, and orgy-having with hot women. Unfortunately, this life is far from income generating (quite the opposite)
What will the end of Moore's Law mean for consumers? Not much
Once. Al Awlaki.

As far as we know.

Remember, we are now in an age where we do not know what our government is doing. In fact, we're not allowed to know what it's doing, or even why we're not allowed to know.

Smart money shouldn't bet that this is the only actual occurrence.
U.S. Government proposes new privacy ‘rules’ for apps
I agree with you. It was somewhat reasonable basic stuff - asking for requirements (because they were intentionally ambiguous), working in sprints (rather than you have to do this, come back in 4 months), etc. I just believe it is hard to totally 'get' it in university and when your biggest previous application was ~3 days of coding lab :)
If we want to get down to nitty gritty, technically what the bankers did was not illegal. No matter how much we don't like it...the same goes for the NSA. They aren't breaking the law. That's what needs to be fixed.
You can write maintainable code in any language, but certain languages, frameworks, and libraries lend themselves to certain patterns. It's very easy to do the wrong thing with jQuery.
Android has exponential backoff for retries, which would foil this attack, no?
The Fox News story is not true. The plan at issue [1] is not mandatory, it is individual worker opt-out. [2]

[1] http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?...
[2] http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/07/26/fox-falsely-claims-c...
doesnt this mean that as long as terrorists use software to make their emails like spam the prism is useless?
There's a free mixer each month in central Lisboa where you can meet a bunch of people from the local tech community: http://floridaafterseven.com/
That's not to imply it wasn't helpful. Just that once we knocked out all of the low-hanging fruit the map turned into an indication of where people played. Remaining crashes weren't related to location or content.

The first pass actually had a nice grid pattern on the map that was where ambient audio emitters happened to overlap. Something about the transition between two ambients emitters was falling over.
The source is the reddit comment. It was a reply to an askreddit thread.
Don't believe that conspiracy-debunking-nonsense!!

The truth is that the myth is true. However they have already censored all of the boiling frog videos from the internets.
Actors are just a part of Quasar. There's a lot more you can do with true lightweight threads. Stay tuned for more posts.
All those promising companies they bought have been swallowed by the beast and now die in its belly.

Like Dextrose with their Aves engine.. that looked truly impressive then they sell out to Zynga and who knows what crapware their innovation is now powering.

Hopefully some of that sees the light of day again.
It should be noted that the Pi is really, really slow. Too slow for this sort of application, IMHO.

An actual Time Capsule can be annoyingly slow sometimes, and I would expect it to be about five to ten times as fast as a Pi-based solution.

The link you posted has some good advice though. Like not using HFS+. Apart from HFS+ arguably being an antiquated filesystem, the Linux driver is in a horrible state and will cause corruption when used in rw mode. ext4 is the sensible choice.
Why do you think a language that "really is ugly" and " is hard to parse" must be a "brilliant language"? Maybe the emperor has no clothes? Maybe Haskell is just what you see: suitable for academic discourse, unusable for real-wold programming.
I am not sure that is their department. They probably have to submit a form.
these "how to read _" posts are helpful mini- style guide/naming convention roadmaps

http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/11/how-to-read-haskell/

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/How_to_read_Haskell#What_...
Certainly it could have been. However, I asked the hiring manager for 5 days and he said that isn't a problem. If he had second thoughts about this, he could have communicated this to me.
Again, its not worth dragging out, just a warning to others, as you said: it aint a done deal till its signed.
If you see this on a slide, you'll know: "Sprint 0: Envisioning and Planning"
>placed there for your safety

"No"

If the lawyer wants to be an ass then he can enjoy some excessively pedantic replies.
Unfortunately, I think many/most people are already pre-boiled, as it were.
Really compared to the comments about Obama on many sites all that people have commented hear is you cant trust Huawei not to do what MSS says.
reminds me of the js1k/2010 #2 winner: http://js1k.com/2010-first/demo/750

This one is playable.
True. Maybe he/she mentors a child in his/her spare time.
There are no good/bad people, good/bad countries, etc. Just people who do good or bad things.
The Telnet Song from CACM, April 1984: http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1040000/1035691/p347-steele....
Plain text at http://alcor.concordia.ca/~smw/home/telnet_song.html and no doubt elsewhere.

(This does not refer to the Unix version of telnet, which defaults to ^] as the default escape character.)
In free governments, the government is the servant of the people. It's activities are transparent and public by default, though the people may allow some defined areas where some secrecy is temporarily allowed. The people's liberty and privacy are assumed by default - it may be violated only by specific, well-defined legal processes.

In a despotism these roles are reversed, in government, secrecy is assumed. For the people, there is no privacy. Government is not longer the servant but the master.
I agree with you to a point. I do think that society is obsessed over "growth" and "progress." If you are happy where you are, then stay.

The trouble is that I am one of those people who feels a drive to keep "moving forward," whatever that means. I have had a job that was by most measures great, but after 5 years, I was still doing exactly the same thing. I was very good at it, and could do it in my sleep, but that meant the challenge had gone out of it. I needed something new. Sadly, I expect that I will spend most of my life like that. As soon as I master one challenge, I will be seeking a new one.
The ones that interface with the real world.

Uber - fixing taxis.

Airbnb - fixing hotels.

etc

Yeah, another app - big deal. But an app that makes your real world (physical space) life tangibly better? That's a big deal!
OP and Followgen founder here. As someone below points out, the article is a satire of SG - I absolutely realize that Followgen isn't changing the world!

ps: Followgen isn't a startup ;-)
Forget I asked - I simply cannot imagine going off to learn enough in the grey-area to make it worthwhile. I will write decent software for a niche here or there and see where we go.
However, if you want to use it to know where to focus efforts to save the most lives it is useful. It's the correct representation for some uses, just not for all uses.
I think what he's saying is that all seven billion of us benefited from the PC revolution, where the bottom one billion may benefit (or may not) from Gates' efforts.

It's an interesting ethical question. As with most questions, I don't know the answer to it.
The level of discourse here is shockingly low.

Ever since the Snowden leaks HN has seen a massive increase in skepticism, which is healthy, but along with that has come rampant cynicism, unfounded assertions of insidious malign actions that solely cite the fact "we don't know" as evidence. There is a point at which "assuming the worst" goes too far and becomes an echo chamber for conspiracy theory. It did for Michael Hastings, and it does here -- at the very least until we know more.

A man has just died, for crying out loud, and I'm sorry to hear it. Let us use wisdom and reason to assess this, not snarky, dismissive comments.
>Do I still need a graduate degree in category theory to write to a file?

No.

> Will I need a graduate degree in category theory to parse the next paragraph in this article?

Oh. Um wait, define web developer for me again?
Marc Andreessen & Dave McClure: The Future of Startups, VC's, and Technology
If he's working on something that he enjoys and can get paid enough to enjoy his life, that's a better world than one where people can only make a living off watching life fade away while sitting in a cubicle without time to family, friends, non-profit work, etc.
Yet it's oddly responsive.
Simple API with Nginx and PostgreSQL
Never mind Mint, if your bank accounts are in the US your financial data is already available for inspection by the IRS, DHS, and probably many other three letter agencies. I'd wager that Mint, not being a bank, has far less an obligation to hand over your financial data than the banks you have accounts with.
Two-Click Reminder 2013 Release 1
Cry every time
if (window.location.origin !== "http://beta.whatispolymath.com/"){
window.location = "http://beta.whatispolymath.com/";
}
Too many? How many have turned up dead?
Of course the set of things that generate passive income is not restricted to the affiliate element only. It includes things like writing an eBook, developing an App for desktop/mobile/web, etc., that one doesn't intend to maintain, or the ratio of time spent in maintenance or working on the product(s) to free time is very small (which is, of course, subjective). Dividend paying stocks or investments in other funds are truly passive--they require zero effort that could be called "work".

As soon as one begins to maintain or attempt to expand these things, however, it's no longer really passive. In fact, "building a business" necessarily implies direct action.
> " The whole premise of this article is that if you are not eager to make it big and shoot for the starts in your chosen profession, there's something flawed inside you and you should take immediate action to fix it."

It seems a reasonable premise, given the audience of that site.

Though they might want to have considered prioritization. E.g. If you're constantly networking, job-hunting, and proving yourself at new firms, that's necessarily less time for you to 'hack' other areas of your life.

A 'good' dead-end job is a pretty great place to be if your spare time is focused on writing a book, building a house, training for a triathlon, etc.
My RabbitMQ setup for notifications
All sysadmins!!! indulge yourself and break your chains by getting

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/active-directory-assist/id52...

/shamelessplug
This would reboot it but might not achieve much-

$ killall mysqld
/usr/bin/killall - file not found
$ while pgrep mysqld; do sleep 5; done
/usr/bin/pgrep - file not found
$ echo s >/proc/sysrq-trigger
$ watch dmesg
/usr/bin/watch - file not found
$ echo b >/proc/sysrq-trigger

Unfortunately in this situation only the bash builtins seem to work. I even had an old system drive mounted under /altroot, but it wouldn't execute any of the commands in /altroot/bin or /altroot/usr/bin either (can't find
something it needs to execute stuff. ld? libc? unknown).

So really only the 'b' seems to help. (edit: 's' is probably useful, even if you can't kill everything)

Of course the long term solution is to stop using a USB stick on an unreliable/badly supported USB3 add-on card for the root drive :)
We're talking about foreign spies conducting industrial espionage and gathering state intelligence data. That's much less likely to happen from the USA than China.
Update: I am pulling the blog posting down, after consideration to what blisterpeanuts advised. Thanks to those of you who gave constructive feedback.
Hacker News, a real person with real friends and a real family has died. Can you please not make this about your paranoid NSA delusions for at least one day?
Better to have an MVP and a few customers (paid or expressed paid interest) first. That's what I did + the cushion.
Does opt-in vs opt-out make a difference, though, once they have enough data? If oppression or data misuse is the goal, it seems like reversing the set selection criteria would be a trivial way of getting the list of people who like their ${badstuff}, even if they did not opt out of a filter":

# obviously not real sql
select * from citizens where (citizen.id not in opt_in_list)

What am I missing?
Just out of curiosity, what app is it?
This post reminds me of http://www.startupbook.net/, which I see patio11 whole heartily endorses. I'm a PIH wannabe, currently.

And similarly, http://www.micropreneur.com/ which is run by the author, I believe.
Harder since you need to install unpack (it's not installed by default on many installations). Also, "tar xf" has literally the same number of characters, so no hard at all.