skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my friends back at university had his satae allowance reduced after his father retired and earned less than before. The reason was that now he fell into a higher category of a lower income bracket instead of the lower one of the higher bracket. Nice logic.

Another one had to fight off fraud charges after she declared a bank account her grandmother had created in her name over a decade ago she didn't know about before. That, and she lost a huge chunk of the allowance, too.
Even Russians get it... Why don't more Americans get it?

Get what?

A large group of the American people are upset that the NSA was spying on its own citizens. There's a healthy, and sometimes rancorous discussion going on over here. Lawmakers are trying to tighten up laws, the cabinet is defensive, and the populace is arguing amongst its self.

betraying the principles it was once built on...

No, "the country" is not. There seems to be this mythical belief that varies from country to country as to what it "means" to be the United States; even within the United States no one can agree as to what those principles actually are -- so how can someone outside of it be so sure? What have we learned in 200+ years of representative democracy? It hurts, it's hard, we can't always agree, we can't always make up our mind, we struggle to find balance, and when groups of people can make rules sometimes they make absolutely atrocious ones just like individuals do. Along the way, it will look terrible and horrible to outsiders who think they "see the obvious that no one inside of the system sees." Sorry, as an outsider you're not miraculously the only one aware of the truth - you're like that annoying other programmer who is always full of great ideas about how your code should be written, but always seems to gloss over the hard parts.

So, for those countries that romanticized about how utopian the United States must be for decades and decades of some other type of rule, and very recently have been given some semblance of democracy, it must be jarring to see there is no magic pill for the corruption and tyranny they may occasionally live under. But to think that "America has lost its way," it to act like a partisan here. I hear that every day from someone who is griping about some thing they don't like. It's trite at best.

The person who made the statement clearly has no idea as to what the principles of the United States actually are, and instead has idolized them into some inner picture of perfection that never existed.
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Bill Gates says Google's Internet balloons are 'not going to uplift the poor'
I'm not sure what it's like in America but in England the retirement situation is absolutely criminal. I went through high school and was never once taught about retirement (and specifically pensions), my knowledge of pensions was limited to "they pay for old people" and until last year when a pension adviser came into the company office and explained them to me I did not consider ever setting up a pension. Thanks to that adviser I now have a pension that will (assuming I continue contributing to it) give me a fantastic retirement that I would not have otherwise had because starting a pension at 20 provides massive benefits over starting at 30 or 40. I've found myself preaching the value of pensions to dozens of people also in their early 20s in the last 12 months, not one person I've spoken to has understood the value of starting a pension now until it was demonstrated to them, it's crazy.
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Read this comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6178526
Kickstarter requires hardware projects to have a working prototype, which Ubuntu does not have.
It's a summary I took from president Obama himself when - asked by a reporter what he would do to catch Snowden - he replied:

"No, I’m not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker".

1 minute, 26 seconds in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwFyDYh9a5o
This is one of the best articles I have read on this subject yet.
Pet peeve: It's not the singularity, it's a singularity. Source: black holes.
Buildings of similar height all look the same. I guess adding some variation like 2 or 3 different building textures would make it look like a real city.
I see your point, but I would say that if the general population sees it that way, then your "optics" truly do matter. Speculation can be extremely damaging, and that's why the president has an entire press corps to manage that image.
If exposing information to public is being a traitor, what is public to US then?
I think you have pasted the same link twice...
Here's a couple of fairly complete ones: http://batchgeo.com/map/21737d8f2b05adc3ab1b1869979f2695

http://www.techcitymap.com/index.html
Can you lead a secure and private online life maybe not but you cantry
Only one reason was named explicitly, unless you consider the phrase "progress in our bilateral agenda" to be anything other than generic place-holder text.

"Following a careful review begun in July, we have reached the conclusion that there is not enough recent progress in our bilateral agenda with Russia to hold a U.S.-Russia Summit in early September, Russia’s disappointing decision to grant Edward Snowden temporary asylum was also a factor that we considered in assessing the current state of our bilateral relationship."
Thanks for showing up to respond! Since your website says almost nothing about what Prismatic is, would you mind answering a couple of questions?

Is it just an iPhone App? I'm about to replace my iPhone with an Android phone, so if that's the only way to use Prismatic I'm excluded.

Why do you need to see my contact list? That seems bizarre.

Why does the website say nothing about what Prismatic is or how it works? Is that a marketing strategy?
Don't forget Kent State University, 1970: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
Typically when being run as a desktop, it would be plugged in. Maybe not always, but I don't see people expecting to regularly use a desktop computer off of battery power.

The built-in Amazon ads are enough for me to not use it, however.
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This isn't even really "spiritual thinking". And if it was, it would be available for free, or at a very low cost. Not $297.
Shouldn't it be charging when you are using it as a desktop?
This is what's keeping me from buying into it, I just cannot in good conscience support Canonical's approach to Ubuntu. They're authoritarian and secretive in their feature development, and that runs directly contrary to any notion of hacker ethics or FLOSS philosophy.

I used to subscribe to the linux sub-reddit but left because of all the Canonical apologists, "But they're nowhere near as bad as Microsoft/Apple/Google" and "They've got to make money somehow, what's wrong with anonymous search statistics being sent to Amazon?" etc etc.
CLI is an interface too, though.
Solid improvements to 'window.onerror' in Blink.
"If I ran a company like Pepsi or McDonalds, I’d be depressed. Exactly what benefit would I be providing to the world other than a marketing machine that is making high-fructose corn syrup and junk food seem cool and tasty?"

Pepsi tastes great and is a cheap coffee subsitute and McDonalds is the cheapest food you can buy fast - a decent couple of sandwiches + a salad & dressing go for $3 from their dollar menu. Those were useful to me many times when I was bootstrapping.
There are significant fixed costs in building a smart phone, for example in design, certifications and tooling. Building something like 50K of them is already on the low end.

It would be a disaster for them if they got into a position were they had costs of $1500 per phone and had to choose between bailing out or eat the losses.
This is by far the best performing web app I've ever used, nothing comes remotely close - it really and truly is amazing. Huge congrats to the creator of this.
And he was right. He waited till after his birthday.
How about instead of stumbling about intellectually like a mob intent on hating the NSA, we set a few things straight:

* This is not indicative of Russia as a collective endorsing or supporting Snowden. One man residing in Russia, a Russian national, offered Snowden a job relevant to his experience. This article says nothing about the public perception of Snowden in Russia. Anything else is supposition. All he has is asylum and a job. Both things can be granted by a huge minority of people in government, of which we do not yet understand their obscured motivations and agendas.

* I don't think we should be praising Russia for this - let's remember Russia is the place where homosexuality is almost scathingly rejected, human rights violations are normal, and freedom of the press is in effect...except when it's not. Yes, they gave Snowden asylum. I wonder what they could gain from that aside from just being a bunch of good guys...come on. This says nothing about the Russian people understanding America's problems, and they are certainly not an ideal to strive towards (nothing against Russians as a people, but a lot of their laws are deplorable by modern standards).

* I wouldn't trust the job, and I wouldn't take it. I wouldn't want any solid association with anyone, high-roller or not, who could be leveraged against me. This is paranoid, but whatever is uncertain about the NSA scandal, it's certain the government (or members thereof) is probably desperate to retrieve Snowden.

* Again, as I have said repeatedly since this all came out - don't let your outrage at the (vastly exaggerated) NSA scandal prevent you from seeing the truth - as a government agency, the NSA is largely beneficial to our country, and we shouldn't seek to disband it. Rather, we should correct its abuses and continue forward. I clearly see the black and white "us and them" mentality being tosses around with the NSA, Russia, Snowden and the U.S. government in the comment threads here and it's misinformed.
I can't immediately see what return figure they are assuming on investments, but it seems to be based on historic long term average levels that may well not apply, given how low interest rates are...
Adding simple post deploy checks with wercker
Reasonable posts? I dont even have the power to downvote, but I would if I could, Why?
Because first its patronizing,
>I really don't get how people can be so naive on HN. Let's talk about Snowden all day and wish we were more like Russia, where it's perfectly ok to say anything you want.

No one said or implied this, simply that russian people were understanding there was something deeply wrong about the situation.

>Sorry guys, but not every one really believes the NSA should be disbanded. They have a real job to do. Certainly there needs to be limits, which we could of course discuss for years on end, but I don't see the point of doing it in a forum that really isn't suitable for the topic.

Nobody said this besides extreme and unthinking people and to suggest it is simply a strawman. Secondly, "I dont feel like talking about it", well then dont click the article and dont submit a comment.

>Ok, back to the echo chamber. 4 downvotes and this message disappears. Well, I do need to try occasionally. HN used to be a great site.

Asking for it.

I hope you can see where people would think this post adds very little to the discussion and in fact is inflammatory in some respects.
then there are those of us who would prefer those extra years for something other than work. If anything, its best to save all you reasonably can. If not for what you plan for then for what you don't. That not planned for category doesn't always have to mean bad things
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It looks like the asynchronous interface to debasishg/scala-redis is synchronous under the hood, using a pool of blocking connections. This means that there is no pipelining. Each of these blocking connections must wait for a request to travel over the wire, be handled by redis, and travel back before it can be reused. An asynchronous client allows full pipelining automatically, which is a much more efficient use of a single connection.

> we have noticed performance issues as redis serves only 1 req every time there was too much time spending in thread-join

Performance should be better with an asynchronous client. When I've benchmarked e.g. jedis vs various async clients, that's been the case.
Do you have a CEO mindset?
Unboxing Xbox One
Every Major's Terrible
That's decent, it fits a little awkwardly in to the middle of sentences though. Just something I kept noticing when I was typing that. out.
Good stuff - just added Makeshift :)

Such an exciting time to be in London; the scene here is kicking ass right now!
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I agree that American exceptionalism was there from the very beginning, but I think that concept was used to justify a narrower set of long-term goals. Those goals changed as some were achieved and the original message being adapted in the face of new challenges.

The idea seems related to start-up culture as well (think "two guys in a garage", and "we're different" as well as "war stories from back in the day" during shareholder meetings).

Time will tell if setting ourselves apart sets us up for failure in the long-term.
This is why this is not considered "buying a new cool phone" but "supporting a new cool idea". However, I personally find the 700$ too much to put into that idea, even if the phone itself is worth something around this.
Am I the only one that sees this as some kind of lean startup applied to industry?
I mean. With nothing but a few renders, they have reached more than 8 millions in backup.
This is a HUGE point in terms of marketing, and more than a lot of free advertisment.
All of that for free.
Tell me about it. I just got my financial package last week and my aid went from 46k to 2k, so I'll have to take out over $50,000 to pay for one year of tuition.
One doesn't have to be blind to the massive abuses that the US has committed to still come out in its favour regarding a comparison to Russia.

One wonders why you cherry-picked then, instead of presenting a more balanced view.
>promise of a more open mobile platform

In light of JBQ's quitting AOSP[1], how open is open enough? Will we be happy if we get "free check" license to use the binary blobs? Will we be happy if we can see the code but not be able to copy it? Do we require them to publish drivers and their source code in a permissive license? Many people will think it is a "shades of gray" issue. I kind of want more convenience than rms promises but on the surface it seems silly to think we can have the freedom and openness from Canonical where a bigger (financially) Google has so miserably failed. Perhaps our interests are more aligned with Canonical than with Google? Thoughts?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6174514
Pirate Party Reports IT Minister to the Police for Copyright Infringement
TaskOne Features A Toolkit In An iPhone Case
Senator: "You expect to watch TV, but you don't want the TV watching you"
He didn't say the OP was stupid, just the comparison. I would say a variation of that, but might actually say 'stupid', depending on how amiable the group/person is, and how well I could inflect my voice to my funny instead of mean.
> Either way I also don't believe this is in any way really connected to lower component price deals

You don't have to believe it, but it is true.
How about starting by not commenting on posts you aren't interested in.
It's really sad to see how the role of Mike Reining is being diminished here. He was one of the founding partners and quite important to the company, especially on the business (making money) side.

He dropped a really successful career to team up with Vishen to build the company up, so it's not very fair to leave him out of the picture, or suggest that he was a "mistake".

Knowing quite a lot of people from the company, I can also say their turnover rates are crazy - most of the best guys are gone, and not many people stay in the company more than 1-2 years. That's quite weird for a company boasting about a great corporate culture, don't you think?

It's funny to see Yanik Silver mentioned there at the top of Vishen's networks. Perhaps this very thorough article on The Verge, will shed some light on how people like Yanik work: http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/10/2984893/scamworld-get-rich...
Watch it performed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRexBMPeRTo
I tried to use this before, but eventually I reached a paywall, can anyone confirm if this is still the case?

EDIT: My apoligies, that was http://www.yourfonts.com/ . I'll have to try this one out I've always wanted to.
For the mere mortals that don't follow this every day: what was the previous price?
I backed the project at $600. Here are some thoughts:

1. It's getting wishy-washy. I don't know any campaigns that have changed around rewards this much (both pricing and what you get) and for many people that may be a turn off. Why would someone get the phone at $695 when it could go down more? Obviously the said the price won't go down but they had said that previously when they were above $700.

2. $695 immediately withdrawn from your PayPal account prior to tha campaign succeeding is a hard pill to swallow for many even if you are refunded 100% if (when?) the goal is not reached.

3. May 2014 is a pretty long time from now and I bet the wait will end up being longer (I waited almost 1.25 years for my Leap Motion and they had significant VC backing). Too many people may not be able to think this far ahead.

Why did I back the project? Well, I liked the idea of making a custom hardware device and thought crowdfunding the creation was interesting. I've never actually used Ubuntu (or Android for that matter) but the scale of the goal and the precedent it could set for people doing very capital-intensive projects with crowdfunding was what motivated me to back it.
Well, come on:

a.) he didn't scramble jets

b.) he didn't get him
Amazing plug-in for live bi-directional CSS editing
Assuming that the world is the same today as 100 years ago is a terrible bet. Corporations and the stock market behave very differently today than they did 100 years ago. The speed of market changes and their impact on companies and share prices is very different.

While the article makes a good point about retirement, the numbers are likely to be incredibly different from the reality we will face.
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A cynical viewpoint: the acceptable curricula for most schools is set through an accreditation process heavily influenced by the government. The government has an interest in maintaining a supply of voters dependent on the dole. The curricula stays abstract and while the procedures to calculate retirement savings may be taught, the concrete examples stick to keeping the trains running on time.
Iron Man 3 Comic Review - Can Stark teach us anything about anonymity?
Probably not, but it doesn't mean he wont' try

In case the comic leaves you wondering, there will also be explosions.
Source codes available (no license though) so you could just rebrand it for another city. I've also seen similar for SF and NYC on HN.

https://github.com/rosario/digitalmap
Might be worth proofreading your site or, if English isn't your first language, having someone look over it for you.

Good luck with the site!
Edopter Manifesto
Your PDF really should have your URL prominently. That way every poster hung up spreads awareness about your site (and dog owners who don't know about it).
They sure are getting a lot of attention by having time sensitive prices and changing prices. To some degree eyeballs equals cash. What they need is a lot of orders, though, to make the funding goal and get any money at all. They really need to drop that price down to be competitive with Google's Nexus 4, Nexus 7, etc.. I know OEMs that dropped device projects at the Edge's price point when those came out and it was smart.
You're ridiculous. This comment is a spectacular example of the faulty politicizing and black and white mentality being tossed about willy-nilly since the NSA scandal.

First of all - this is not indicative of Russia. This is just one Russian national giving him a job, and his stated reasons in the press may not be the real reasons why.

Second, Russia gave him asylum yes, but instead of echo chambering your preconceived beliefs about the NSA, why don't you apply the same critical skepticism to news coming out of Russia? Why don't you examine why Russia might want to grant asylum to an American refugee like Snowden instead of just saying, "Oh, they just get it man. They get it."

Third, there isn't anything concrete to get - the NSA isn't an evil, demonic institution sent here as a harbinger of the apocalypse. It's an institution whose abuses were wildly exaggerated and need to be corrected, not something to be burned to the ground. The country would not be better off without the agency in its entirety.

You're just applying this naive sense of cops and robbers to the entire dilemma and not critically examining all the evidence/stories. Your bias allows you to over-criticize one side and over-praise the other.
If that "larger argument" is your point, how does it relate to the present issue specifically? How is he ruling here -- that bitcoin is "money" as that term is relevant to the Exchange Act of 1934 and thus sales of investments for bitcoins are subject to the Act, an "assertion of power" that erodes rights?
There are significant downsides to saving for a pension as well, as I will try to illustrate:

The advantage of putting money into a pension (rather than regular savings) is presumably that you get to save the money in a relatively tax-efficient way.

In the UK, you can presently take a percentage as a tax-free lump sum, and an annuity allows you take advantage of an assumed lower tax liability at retirement. That's all very nice. However, if you have 40 (or even 50?) years until retirement, you'll be relying on several governments not to pull those rules and pinch from your pension pot, and you're relying on the financial industry to kindly look after your money for that long.

More urgently, putting money into a pension means that you don't have it for what you need now: if you need to pay off (or simply avoid) expensive debt, or if you need to save for housing rather than paying extortionate rent/mortgage costs, those should likely be higher priority.

There are not many young people who can put those concerns to one side and start saving earnestly for retirement.
Have you seen my handwriting?
I had a professor who unwittingly encouraged this kind of rote study. His questions were word questions that required you to describe in details certain concepts from the course material.

All of that is good (in theory), but his grading approach was to mark off a point or two for minor discrepancies. In theory, this meant that if you had the concept, without memorization you would get points.

In reality if you didn't include all keywords from the lessons, you would be docked points. People who memorized extremely well and parroted back his words almost verbatim would do well. People who worked to understand the material and write back their understanding often wouldn't.

Sigh. The sad thing was is that from a classroom learning standpoint, he was one of the best professors there. But I would often end up avoiding his classes (my memory is often terrible at rote learning).
So what do we DO about things like this? What IS there to do? I fear our freedom as Americans is eroding away and our elected officials are not going to stop it.
Very cool and very fast. One small request is that (on the iPhone) the app's window sizes to the viewport and so you can't scroll the address bar up out of view. On < iPhone5 this means that with both the app's nav bar and the browser's nav bar in play there's very little real estate left.

However... having added it as a desktop icon it's phenomenal (no browser chrome). Very impressed. Would be great if it told you at the start that this was the outcome from adding it :)