skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you can make that argument reasonably. Everything is a priority for everyone on the planet, always. Demand is infinite and supply is finite. The world's been like that for as long as people have been around. Monkeys exhibit behaviors that you could argue have to do with some kind of understanding of "fairness"

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57497280/video-monkey-an...

If you have free time to watch TV it's because you're choosing TV as a priority over the extra money that a second job would bring you. That second job would also put a dent in the amount of free time you have to watch TV and be sold a story that you need to buy things in order to be happy. That's all advertising does.

Are there people working two jobs and still perpetually living paycheck to paycheck? Absolutely. Hell there are people working 80 hours a week making over $100k a year living paycheck to paycheck.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/26645137

It seems to me that "poverty" is a combination of where you start out in life and the trajectory that your decisions cause. What I mean is that someone who is born with a $10mm trust fund could easily whittle it down to nothing by the time they're 40 years old. And that a person who starts out with nothing, plus some malnutrition due to growing up in poverty can still get ahead if they make choices to consume less than they earn (no matter how little) and to invest their savings in things that can bring a return.

How does someone who makes only $20k per year manage to save money and invest it? I don't know the specifics to be honest. I'm having a hard time finding good investments myself and I make substantially more than that.

But I don't think it's right to say that people are 100%, unequivocally victims of circumstance and that once in poverty it's impossible to escape is correct. We as human being don't have any control over where we're born or who our parents are, but we do have some control over the choices we make.
Me too. It's like looking at an alternate universe comic strip, where instead of becoming a recluse Watterson started afresh with a new title and new characters.
I should have clarified the payment delay thing. I also bill Net 30. So 7-10 days after the 30 days period not the invoice.
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It's an interesting contrast to Jim Davis's Garfield, which was created primarily for commercial licensing.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2013/03/26/is_garfield_supp...
Can't speak for other carriers, but Verizon prohibited me from using a smart phone on a non-data plan. I assume some technological breakthroughs are required to permit that pairing.
VrAse: Wearable Virtual Reality Smartphone case
It's nice to have extra checks, but that changes nothing about what I said. If you are making designs that lives depend on, it is not HP's responsibility, it is YOURS and you should be using the techniques I outlined.

I'm sorry to be so blunt about this, but I feel strongly about it. I too often run into engineers that either argue that they can design a perfect system that is not subject to human error, or they try to shift responsibility onto other people or organizations.
There's a beautiful boxed set available if you don't have it.
AWS and Microsoft Release Dueling Mobile Notification Services
Most bootstrappers spend a lot of time in customer development. If you build something without spending time talking to customers, your likelihood of success goes way down. You can only go so far in email-only discussions. Eventually you'll need to talk to potential users.

VC-based companies: obvious need for verbal communication.
Herb Sutter wrote a good article on this a few years ago. It was written in 2005 and centered mostly on multi-threading and parallel programming, but definitely worth a read.
http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm
The article talks about the difficulty in that. With the TI-8x series you could work directly on the device. With today's tablets you need a computer and developer licenses.
I'm criticizing the people claiming that PG is xenophobic. I'm on your side on this one. I hate argument by insult - it shrinks the range of acceptable thought, thereby enstupidating the public mind.

It's straight out of the 1984 playbook. Language becomes vaguer and mushier, less communicative. We can no longer tell founders that "thick foreign accents will hurt your startup", instead we must say "have good communication skills", which is a far less useful statement. It is like the substitution of "ungood" for "bad" and "plusgood" for anything more extreme than "good".

Why should we talk to each other anymore, when a tiny handbook can contain all the thoughts we are allowed to express?
People always doing whatever they think is right works until someone's sense of what is "right" is actually wrong, or harmful to their employer. For example, consider all the people who thought their particular brand of humor or affection was ok, but it triggered a harassment suit.

Loose cannons can destroy more value than they create, even if they are brilliant in certain skills.
BTW, I think every engineer should watch the series on the Smithsonian channel "Air Disasters". Each episode chronicles a particular disaster, and then painstakingly goes through what went wrong and how the problems were fixed. One can learn a lot about systems design from these case studies on how and why things go wrong.
Not to mention trying to read the directions while the screen goes to sleep every 30 seconds.
I don't think you're interpreting the claim correctly.

Someone can be a millionaire and sacrifice the opportunity to earn ADDITIONAL millions. That's what watterson did.

Merchabdising, in context, meant making a line of merchandise based on the comic street. This is a standard meaning in the comic world.
Unfortunately, it's so easy to print whatever the heck you want on a t shirt or a cup or sticker, so there's plenty of cheap C&H merchandise out there.
I'd rather have the lowest price. Cost-based pricing doesn't necessarily achieve that on the medium to long term, because it leaves no margin for cost-cutting innovation.

In any case, the problem here wasn't the price, but the cost itself; even if they were doing it at-cost, no telco would just send a guy with an antenna, a 2W amplifier and a computer, that can only support a few dozen calls simultaneously. They just work at a much bigger scale.
I love this guy. I can't vouch for his moral character, but I do know that reading his book launched me into a running frenzy that changed my life. I've been running 2-3x/week since, and don't plan on stopping.
Okay, but this seems to make the same mistake as the French education system, who talks about foreign "languages" in general.

But most non-English-speaking people don't want to learn "languageS" as if those were all equivalent and there was some general quality to be gained by speaking different tongues. They want to learn English, as the only international language.

I want my kids to speak English not because they'll have a better mind if they do, like I try to have them learn music, but because not speaking English in today's world is like missing an eye (or more probably both).

As for why English-speaking people want to learn a foreign language, I have no idea, but I suspect their motivations are wholly different. It's interesting to speak Spanish, it's mind-opening to learn Chinese, but it's not vital.

So what I'm looking for is a "system" aimed at young / very young kids, specialized in teaching English (and only English).

To succeed it needs to be playful, maybe addictive, not require one to already know how to read -- and in general not look or sound like anything "school-y".

Somebody (was it John Holt?) said "if we taught kids how to speak, they would never learn". Yet that's exactly what we're doing with foreign languages.
Dear Paul Graham, Your Priorities Are So Far Out of Whack
That is a bad example of a bad example. It is clearly labeled and shows what it wants to show: The previously hottest years and the large jump of that record in 2012. How would you have done it better? What is it misinterpreting?
For tech books, it's all Kindle for me. But reading for pleasure I still like the pulp. Some of my most favorite books I've ever read were found in some indie bookstore, antique store or garage sale. Hard to replace that.
"Der Spiegel" is down
Yeah, I don't think he's right on this one, and I think Elon Musk, or someone will prove him wrong.

Earlier this year, the opportunity was made available to make a ONE WAY trip to mars. Thousands upon thousands of people signed up, essentially willing to give their lives.

I don't know how much risk there is to the business if people are willing to go to extremes to be a part of what you're trying to do. Nevermind their progress on rocket propulsion.

There are (crazy?) people willing to stay in an enclosed space for 2 years (? Don't know how much time it takes to mars on a space shuttle) for a trip to a place they can't come back from. Elon just has to give them the chance. I think he can do that at least, in <10 years
Some Thoughts Re: Online Marketplaces
It's about time someone made a shell for the 90s. That was a great decade. Heyyy, Macarena!

If it is a replacement for bash, then I'm afraid I'm too attached to bash to give it up.
Upvoted for the humor.
Linky: http://www.amazon.com/LG-Unlocked-International-Version-Warr...
Personally, this message speaks to me. I wish I could stay at home, write great software and be more active in the raising of my daughters. But when you're the primary breadwinner and benefits provider, it gets a lot more difficult.
Nothing wrong with an umbrella approach - I'd argue it's likely that Meetup cares a lot more about retention and engagement, and cross-selling other high-quality events, than any type of acquisition at this point. Users bring in other users through word of mouth is a pretty compelling approach.

That being said, if they wanted to open up their new user acquisition efforts on mobile they could let users brand and launch their own applications in addition to their main app.

They could do it in the same way you're becoming more able to customize a meetup landing page now, and tuck promotion of other similar events, or even the main meetup app in the background.

This type of approach could appeal to organizer who really cares about their own brand. Think large conferences and related topics, who'd love to use a Meetup backend, but need to differentiate their brand.

On the search point would you agree that someone searching for "soccer" in the iOS store would be interested in an app dedicated to doing soccer in person?
I'm sorry if I'm rude, but the more I think of if it, the less I see the point.

The initial described problem (organising ideas in a hierarchical way) has already been solved efficiently years ago with visual mind maps. They have been used successfully to not only create the hierarchy, but also to realise that sometimes, the tree is more like a graph.

As a reader, it's infuriating to have to click all the time (or use keyboard) and have this page scrolling all around. I just want to READ, not being distracted by some kind of useless parallax effect.

As a writer, moving ideas around to get them properly organised is really painful. There is no distraction-free interface neither.

If you really want to make tool for writers, I would strongly suggest you that you take a look at tools like Ulysses or Scrivener and try to understand the rationale behind the UI choice they made.
The Ocean around Fukushima is steaming from radiation
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This makes perfect sense. If you're all stressed out trying to figure out if you'll have next month's rent or how you're gonna eat this week, you won't have the mindset to read a good book, consider how to improve your life in the long term or just relax your mind with some smooth jazz.

A sorta near-topic question.

How often do people check their bank account balance? I've been told I'm odd for not checking at least once a week. Do people who have more money not bother checking it? I only check once a month, when I'm about to pay my mortgage. Sometimes not even then, which means I don't know what my balance is for 2 months.
The API uses (optional) optimistic concurrency. So when you write a file, you can specify the expected parent revision, and if the revisions don't match, the operation will fail. If you want, you can have Dropbox instead just overwrite whatever file is present on the server or write the new file but rename it in the process (e.g. "myfile (1).txt").

This is pretty much all that's possible to do generally for files, since their structure is opaque. One of the ideas behind the Datastore API is to support developers structuring their data in such a way that changes can be merged automatically.
For three levels deep, no we don't need a new standard. Larger trees, linked together will probably need something new.
"Bombes not bombs!" (or Bombs not Bombes, I guess). RKB Bombes? Ban the Bombe?

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe)
Truecrypt allows "hidden volumes" to reside inside the same encrypted volume. So maybe they had one password which allowed access to the first 20 GB, but the rest is still encrypted?
Free with data contract, mind you. That's a big price bump, and it's ongoing.
> And book volumes are certainly merchandising

Certainly not. Merchandising refers to income from products outside of the presentation of the art itself. Movies have box office receipts, television payments for rebroadcasting, and merchandising rights (figurines, happy meals, use of likeness in unrelated advertising, etc.). Under your novel definition, television payments would be merchandising. You'd be alone in that definition.
Maybe I can offer a viewpoint that'll really drive this message home.

I work at a hospital full of the most brilliant foreign doctors, but many of them have accents too, too thick to accurately relay and discuss very complex and critical medical information. That is not in any way a reflection of their intelligence or work ethic in the least. They are smart, and they've proven that with numerous tests and years of training. But when effective communication is hindered, there is damage to confidence, mutual understanding, and progress. Confusion amongst doctors and nurses hurt patient management. Families who don't understand what they're being told feel less confident in the physician caring for their loved one because no clear direction or assessment is articulated.

And PG here is saying no different. Communication is just as essential in running a startup as it is in managing a patient. Your investors rely on your communication abilities to accurately assess the state of your company. Cofounders need to understand you for decisions to be made. Employees need to feel confident in their leader and the direction they're moving in.

This isn't xenophobic at all. Foreign accents, here in America, probably make up the majority of communication issues. I'm sure PG would've mentioned stammering and stuttering if it were significant in his data, but it likely wasn't. How many people do you know with thick foreign accents and how many with other communication hindrances?
Federal judge in Portland gives partial win to people challenging no-fly list
This is surprising. And unfortunate if true and unable to disable. Agree that the proprietary nature of the OS is a concern. An android or OSS OS would be preferred here.
My favourite ultrarunner is Yiannis Kouros. Look him up. He uses Greek epics to motivate him when he's running. His attitude boils down to: mind over matter. No genetic freak or such bullshit. Willpower and love.
I think most Americans would regard different regions of the US "not foreign" and British or Australian accents as "foreign". This is entirely justified. Those of us who grew up in areas with nonstandard American accents grow up with enough American media to know what Americans are "supposed to" sound like. While there is still some regional variation, there is no place I know of in the US where it's socially acceptable for an educated person to speak in a way that educated Americans from other regions would have any trouble understanding them. In fact, it's quite the opposite; the strongest American accents tend to mark you as a member of one of the lower classes.

As a result most of us either eliminate our accent as much as possible or learn how to switch as needed (as philwelch below pointed out). The bar to get past the prejudices of other educated Americans is so high that we get past the point of comprehensibility by default.

Someone from another country doesn't have the same influences. An adult from an outside English-speaking country may not be able to sound American simply because they've never tried. That's not going to be the case for someone who grew up here, even for an unusual value of "here".

People who are focusing on the "non-United-States" sense of "foreign" are reading the statement as it was meant.
It's very possible that both statements are true.

1) We know that the UK can imprison people who refuse to disclose encryption keys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_Kingd...

2) Miranda could have been carrying a valid password written on a piece of paper so he would not be jailed simply for failing to remember a complex password.

3) That password might decrypt one or more TrueCrypt containers, with 20GB of unimportant decoy documents.

4) In addition to the 20GB of decoy documents, the TrueCrypt containers could contain hidden volumes for plausible deniability, encrypted with different keys that Miranda did not know.

http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/hidden-volume

http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/plausible-deniability

5) If the UK authorities didn't discover the hidden volumes until after Miranda had been released, they're left with a bunch of decoys and 40GB they can't decrypt.
That makes no sense. If you can decrypt 20 gigabytes of a TC volume you can access the other 40 too.

There are few explanations

1. The 20 gigabytes in question were not encrypted (which coincidentally is the size of a windows installation)

2. The 75 files were temp files

3. They managed to open 60 gig container but could not access the hidden volume

The third option makes sense with the decryping passphrase being in possession of Miranda - the first 20 GB are a warning.
Thank you for writing Apple Writer.

1. I wrote most of my high school reports on it.

2. I once wrote a set of WPL programs to automate the generation of multiple-choice tests, and sold it for $50 to my uncle who was a physics teacher.

3. Apple Writer was the second program I disassembled from beginning to end (the first was Locksmith Fast Disk Copy), learning a lot in the process.
Yes , that is true , situations are different for everyone.
I can't speak to the articulation of ら &c, but I don't agree with aspects of your description of English articulation.

When pronouncing an 'l' (alveolar lateral), my tongue stays on alveolar ridge of my mouth (the roof, right behind the teeth) for the entire time. When the 'l' sound ends, my tongue leaves the roof of my mouth, but it never "strikes the bottom" of my mouth. If there's a vowel next, it moves to a neutral position for a vowel. If the 'l' was the end of the speech, it just kind of sits in place for a second after the noise stops. If it's followed by another consonant, it moves for that articulation (e.g. when saying "all the sounds", it moves directly from the alveolar ridge to the teeth for the dental fricative).

When pronouncing an 'r' (alveolar approximant), I, and I think most English speakers, roll the tongue backwards to some degree (although not enough that the point of articulation is the bottom of the tongue). I.e. the tongue does not "stay at the bottom". Yes, it is certainly possible to pronounce an English 'r' with the tip of your tongue held down (unlike 'l'), but I think most English speakers would find this "impossible" at first, and then with a minute of practice would realize that it was possible but difficult. In English, these two articulations are perceived as the same phoneme; I assume that some language somewhere differentiates between them. I notice that often when I speak (English) to natives of India (whose first languages I have not identified), I get the sense that they have a richer complex of 'r' noises than I do.

In summary, "l" does not involve "striking the bottom [of the mouth]", and "r" typically does not involve the tongue staying at the bottom of the mouth, although it can.
Yes, absolutely.

Goode said "renders the material extremely difficult to access."

That's government-speak for "resort to brute force." The ability to break RSA would do the government more damage than it would do Miranda. If they have broken RSA they aren't admitting it.

Perhaps Miranda needed to transfer some of his sensitive data to a machine he couldn't supply the password to. (Maybe he thought the machine might be unsafe or keylogged etc.) Or maybe the 20 GB partition was his "plausible deniability" partition and he surrendered that key to avoid getting arrested.

After moving the files to his unencrypted partition, he could access them on any machine by simply plugging in the hard drive. He should have securely erased the data after he was done, yes, but that can be difficult when traveling.

This can be seen as an interesting commentary on the legitimate usability problems with using crypto, even though the crypto itself is doing its job just fine.
I want to look at a map, a suggested route, and make my own decisions on what course to take.

That's what I do with my car gps. Along with snicker wickedly as I disregard its instructions, taxing its little brain.

Also without fumbling around for 20 min just trying to plug in a specific address when all I have is a general idea of the area I'm trying to get to.

They do have a map-only mode. Or at least mine does. You pick a zoom level, and it just shows you where you are on the map.
NASA Tests A Hybrid Plane That Works Like A Toyota Prius
Does this really need to be a web-app?
Storing my Documents in the Cloud is not possible and not even desireable in most of my work environments. Even in my private life i like to be offline to work on the kind of tasks that Gingko would help me with. Just charge me a one-time fee for an Windows App (Win8 Guy here, Mac Apps would be reasonable aswell) and let me handle my data my way.

I've thought about building something like Gingko for a long time, so thanks for providing an alternative option!
Fair enough. I guess I was under the mistaken impression that carrier subsidies were a bigger deal with all smartphones than they really are.
Is there a study to show

A) How many founders of YC's funded companies were native English speakers vs the rest of the population?
B) Does the size of the round correlate to whether they are native English speakers or not?

My theory to test - the more you look like the people judging you, the likelier you are to succeed. It's statistically possible to show this pretty easily.

If there is astringent correlation, get a tall blonde, who can speak well to present to YC next time!
The AARP should be sponsoring this, seriously. My parents would love to own this phone, or rather I would love for my parents to own this phone. They don't want or need a data plan. They don't want to play games or get stock reports. They just want an easy to use phone with big numbers and screen that they can see.

Currently, they are using cheap, plastic phones with tiny little screens and complex OSes. They aren't durable, have poor battery life and have an appalling UI. I wanted them to upgrade to an iPhone just because its easier to use than the no-name phone they are using now. However, the iPhone has way too much capability and would more than likely confuse them.

If this Nokia "dumbphone" can deliver a sturdy phone with a simple, streamlined UI I would get my parents one in a heartbeat. Pair it with a cheap phone only plan from T-Mobile or AT&T and my Christmas shopping is done this year. :)