skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to argue with your friend through you, but I just don't understand how anarcho-capitalists even exist. The theory behind any anarchistic system, by nature, is the abolishment of any hierarchy. Capitalism, by nature is completely hierarchical, and without some sort of third-party governing it, even more so. I know the ideal form of capitalism is small companies exchanging freely without government intrusion, but the reality is that capitalism, mixed with human nature, eventually leads to one corporation that rules everything. This has been shown to happen even with government intervention, which is where anti-trust laws and worker's rights came from.

So if you piss off "the corporation", you have their private militia come after you. Then their courts sentence you to death, or slave labor. How is this anarchistic? Seems pretty top-down to me. Just because a company is running things doesn't mean it's not a government.

I just don't really understand libertarianism, I guess. It makes sense if you're filthy rich, but otherwise you'd just go from being middle class to a peasant with no rights almost instantly. Are all libertarians filthy rich and just very vocal (there seem to be a lot of them), delusional, misinformed, or am I missing some large part of the theory behind it?

The only way I could ever see the phasing of government out working successfully is in a shared economy (anarcho-communism). Not that I think human nature would ever permit a system like this until tens of thousands of years of psychological/spiritual evolution take place, but I think at the time humans are able to self-organize in every sense there will no longer be the need for personal possessions. Oddly enough, we would be a lot like ants.
they get paid with money already laundered.
> But the user has no access to file symlinks without escalating to admin every time they want to make one.

By default.

This is a security restriction, like UAC. And so you can turn it off, just like you can turn off UAC.
Yes, almost nobody. Certainly, everybody CAN get a VPS from Digital Ocean. But should I tell my friends that have never touched a commandline and really struggled with just uploading Wordpress.org (and running the installer) to their shared hosting to start administering a VPS running Linux.

The abysmal HN crowd, no problem. But I bet most people running a WP installation on their shared hosting are not as proficient as you believe.
If you have some time and opportunity to work on a Glassware project, contact me - you can find me on http://qbix.com/about

I have some ideas I'd like to implement together if any fellow developers are interested.
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I would imagine that the price/kW of coal will become easier to beat as we run out of it.
How to boot Windows 8 to Safe Mode using F8
Yep, our Maven project routinely fails to build on Windows as there are some paths which are just too long.
The point is that "UI nativity" means things like "checkmarks in checkboxes should appear in the same way across all applications". It's pretty easy to distinguish a checkmark in a checkbox no matter what platform you're on, and real users don't care if it matches the rest of the platform exactly or not.

"UI nativity" is basically a way for design snobs to feel like they're making a contribution by whining about something trivial and irrelevant. A normal person can still recognize the meaning and doesn't care if the checkbox is beveled differently from app to app, and anyone who discards an application on such minor inconsistencies is not doing serious work anyway, and should be disregarded.
The showers continue. Budget pressures have NIF down to shooting three days a week. To make matters worse, DoE has decided to cut funding for high energy density physics, ie the field covering the physics needed to make NIF ignite and turn laser fusion into a viable electricity source.
I just googled \\?\ and got no results because google just is that way. Can you explain more about that please.
A good read on age and genius: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/genius_pr.html
Not thrilled about that part, but the "Soon after" refers to events past, not the success this article is about.

However, the latest experiments...

So, at least the fusion research is still funded and still moving.
Too bad shovel ready money wasn't spent on more long lasting impact projects like this. Where has all that money gone from the drawn down of the wars? Where is the investments going in alternative energy?

Well that last is easy, groups who contribute politically, hence solar and wind. They receive far too much in ways of support whereas hard science projects like this with incredible payoffs are pushed off because they don't payback in political contributions.

There are a myriad of ways to finance such an ambitious project through clean energy taxes but unfortunately they suffer the changing whims and needs of politicians. Yeah certain industries would go by the way side with this type of power available but many of them have big money invested in energy creation and distribution many would simply shift some columns in their spreadsheets and still balance out.

Considering the deficits the US runs, just in a day or two of deficit spending is more than what this facility budgets for this research.
> Should we stop promoting Tor when this inevitably becomes illegal?

It depends.

Is your goal to never work with the state, or do you intend to reconcile with it at some point?

If you never intend to obey laws, then yes. You should stop promoting Tor if Tor becomes illegal.

If you intend to get the law changed back in your favor, then you should continue promoting Tor if Tor becomes illegal.

Up to you.
$100s have plenty of commercial value. Any time you're exchanging physical things of high value, cash is key. Cashiers checks, etc., can and are forged. Also, gamblers regularly walk around with 10s of thousands of dollars on them.
Producing net-energy is a different story than collecting net-energy. NIF just blows up a canister with a pellet and takes forever to reload a shot. On the other hand, an at-least-as-promising technology like Dense Plasma Focus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dense_plasma_focus) is still receiving minuscule funding. I'm hoping to be able to meaningfully support DPF and other fusion technologies soon. DPF has my attention so far because of its scaling characteristics.
Ferriss openly advocates falsely claiming to be an expert on a subject, and pretty blatantly acquired fake 5-star reviews on amazon when launching his books. He also talks about e.g. gaming the weigh-in for a kickboxing tournament to compete in a category two below his natural one, and then pushing all the other competitors off the platform to abuse the TKO rule rather than doing any actual kickboxing. He does not come across as a nice guy.
Pick your favorite energy technology (oil, wind, solar), it still applies.
Do I understand correctly, the point here being to allow perl5 and perl6 code to interoperate? The page is bit low on details how this will affect endusers.
Since it'll take over 20 years to go from perl 5 to perl 6, I'm sure they're safe using 11.
that's reasonable analysis, and my initila argument was deliberately simplisitc just to make a point, rather than to complexify Italian taxation systems. You and your interlocutors among you seem to have covered this nicely for anyone who was interested in the details (which I didn't have time for).
For estimation, I like to carefully calculate exactly how long I think it will take, add some padding, then double it (for all the unknown unknowns). Then add some padding, and double it (to cover overhead and communication and documentation). Then add some padding, and double it (to cover changing customer requirements, and the fact that the last 10% usually takes longer than the first 90%). Then add some padding.

Also, here are some additional cons of an hourly rate:

* The better/more efficient you get, the less you earn for a project of fixed size.

* You are incentivized to drag your feet, while your customer is incentivized to expect superhuman feats of coding in a given time.

* People don't like being charged for phone calls, meetings, email, specs, documentation, testing, "small" changes, etc.

* Some customers are inclined to nitpick itemized time sheets.

A different approach I like is to break the project up into features of manageable size. This forces you to spec it out enough so that you can break it into chunks easy enough to estimate. Then you can put a price tag on each, loosely based on effort but also based on value to the customer. And then the customer can play "feature bingo" to decide exactly what they want, instead of haggling about your rate or the project's scope.
> Interesting that the most popular site in Kazakhstan is a russian site. (Mail.ru)

Most Kazakhs speak Russian (perhaps more than those who speak Kazakh?), according to Wikipedia anyway.
Billion pound brain project under way
It would make it a little faster since electric trains can accelerate out of stations a little faster. It's not a major difference at Caltrain's station spacing though.

The other issues you mention have little to do with diesel/electric Caltrain/BART differences. Caltrain could easily run late trains if its funding allowed, and in fact might be able to run later than BART, which begins shutting down at midnight to do maintenance on its raised and tunnelled track. Mid-day and weekend frequency is again a function of funding/chosen service level - more is clearly possible since there's 5 trains an hour during weekday rush hours.

One difference that might arise from electrification is support for electric multiple unit rolling stock. This is a setup where rather than being pulled/pushed by one big locomotive, each passenger car has smaller motors and propels itself. (BART cars are like this, but this can also be done with more commuter-level service.) This way the costs for three shorter trains an hour vs one long train an hour are closer than in diesel, which has the big fixed cost of the heavy locomotive, and it becomes more feasible to operate same capacity but more frequent service during times of less demand.

But again, this is also possible with diesel (diesel multiple unit) and has more to do with type of service Caltrain chooses/is asked to operate rather than electrification or dedicated right of way.

The real difference stems from funding models and goals of the service. BART is treated as near-metro (and in the central parts, is a metro) where moving people fast and conveniently is a goal. Minimum service is kept at 20 minutes even in outlying areas at 11 pm on a Sunday, not because there's many people taking it, but because that's the standard. Caltrain is primarily a commuter service through wealthy areas to make fairly rich people's commutes a little easier. People taking trains at 9 pm are not a particular priority.
tl;dr - Another article about the US nuclear weapons research facility at Lawrence Livermore, AKA NIF, and its sideshow 57th priority.

On a related note. It's been really sad to see the US slowly lose its edge in plasma based fusion tech, specifically tokamaks, which seem to be the only credible long-term method of sustaining a fusion reaction for power-plant purposes.
NgProgressLite.js: slim progress bars for Angular.js apps
This is way way off topic but it has been really bothering me lately: Why do so many people misspell "losing"? In the wrap up of the OP:

>The federated distributed marketplace will be much more difficult to shut down. And even in the case of shut down, no one is loosing their money.

I have been seeing this everywhere lately and someone even tried to argue with me that I was misspelling it. Why is this such a common screw up? Lose only has one o as does lost. I see no plausible explanation.
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Yes, but, in most langauges, this doesn't work

<?php
$a = 0;
$b = 'x';
var_dump(FALSE == $a);
var_dump($a == $b);
var_dump($b == TRUE);
?>

This results in

bool(true)
bool(true)
bool(true)
I mostly agree, but one thing I saw was multiple 7 year olds in my kids' kindergarten classes. They were "red shirted" by their parents because after reading Outliers they thought it would give them an advantage. I think it ended up hurting those kids because they were bored. It also hurt the youngest kids (some nearly two years younger) who were physically and mentally outmatched. And it hurt the class because the teacher had to split attention between kids who were very different in maturity and ability.
How does this have anything to do with Bitcoin, on a fundamental level? Companies like Tinypass (http://www.tinypass.com/) do a pretty good job of this already with more traditional currencies.
I'm thinking of moving to India to do IT development for my company [1]

> There are some brilliant Indian programmers too. You probably wont ever outsource to them because they are expensive.

I would love to know: What is approximate salary of a brilliant programmer in India with, say, 10 years experience? What about the cost of hiring a brilliant graduate? What would these salaries be as a percentage of the corresponding United States programmer?

> Working at a small firm is very low prestige, unlike here. You want to have a big name you can tell to your prospective father-in-law.

How much extra would a small startup have to pay to attract brilliant programmers, compared to a Google or Microsoft?

[1] More info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6308482)
That founder should be very careful, if he doesn't want his company mired in a bunch of lawsuits: http://jobsearch.about.com/od/interviewsnetworking/a/illegal...

(not suggestion people should just start suing, but this is up there with not wanting to hire someone because of the color of her skin).
Let us know if you have any question!
Good on you for making an effort and thanks for the tip about Apple Mail. If only this was more widely known and/or available on iOS.

A viable text/plain part is extremely important - it means my MUA (http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ is fantastic, btw) doesn't have to try and mangle down HTML in to something readable.

I would suggest just turning off the HTML part though, it's superfluous once you have a working text/plain 8^)
It's a really beautiful and easy to understand and genius algorithm, and it perfectly meets its design goals. It works very analogously to the following:

Pretend your secret is an integer. You want to distribute clues as to your secret integer to N of your friends such that any K of them can collude to figure it out, but K-1 of them can't figure out anything about it at all.

So you construct a (K-1)-degree polynomial of one variable, f(x). All of the coefficients of the terms of f(x) are random, except choose the y-intercept (i.e. the constant co-efficient) to be your secret. Then calculate and distribute the numbers f(1), f(2), ..., f(N) to your N friends.

K points on the 2D co-ordinate plane uniquely identify your single (K-1)-degree polynomial, which will have your specific secret y-intercept. However (K-1) points will pick out an entire family of potential (K-1)-degree polynomials. And, in fact, for every single possible secret you could have chosen, there's a (K-1)-degree polynomial that goes through (K-1) points and the possible secret value. So, (K-1) of your friends colluding really don't have any additional information at all about your secret.

Shamir's secret sharing works just like that, but done with integers modulo a prime. (And the prime has to be larger than your secret.)
That's nice, but the problem is that "selling out" has strong pejorative connotations, while being completely vague.

Does Bill Gates have a positive moral duty to all those "stakeholders" employed at MS, until the day he is carted onto his deathbed? Obviously not. What would that duty actually mean in concrete terms? I have no idea. In fact, at some point, trying to hold on and control the company is in the disinterest of stakeholders, as Gates' personal interest and abilities wane.

TFA is pretty vague too. I do not sell anything particularly wrong with selling a company at 10% of what you could have gotten several years later. A "measly" 2-3 million dollars in a bank account buys you a lot of freedom. Diminishing marginal returns means that another 10 or 20 or even 30 million buys you less happiness than you might think.
Hey OP, I'm working on a similar service and would love to get in touch about possibly joining forces. Drop me a line, email's in my profile.
Might be an unfortunate assumption.
Reposting what I posted two weeks ago when this was posted the first time (and promptly ripped to shreds and then deleted)

Where this utterly falls apart is that it doesn't consider that the major barrier is NOT the price. It's overcoming the friction of getting the user to pay anything, at all. If you can do that, conversion rates are similar at $0.10 and $10.00. That is why micropayments are dumb. They're leaving money on the table.

NB: I work in the industry and this is coming from direct professional experience. I'm not really at liberty to go much more in depth than I did, but I have strong real world data that says micropayments are a disaster, plain and simple.
This "problem" can pretty easily be fixed with a more flexible frame and a slim carrying case.

It's prototype hardware that you are critiquing. Google Glass is more than just the hardware, it's the software and combination of technology involved.

The Glass "explorers" are for finding these types of MINOR issues and reporting them to the Glass development team. Creating a lengthy blog post (WITH THE SOLE PURPOSE OF DRIVING TRAFFIC TO YOUR BLOG) is basically useless to the improvement of the product.
Sounds to me like you're being intentionally daft. It's pretty easy to see that the /uː/ sound is associated with "oo" way more commonly than "o".
Honestly, whatever the best tools for the job are.

My preference? Rails, Ember, Mongo, Haml/Sass
Thanks for the detailed thoughts. I am not sure though that Kanban or an other agile tool can solve the problem when it is one of leadership or direction. Strategy and management do not rise out of the incremental planning bits.
My particular favorite is "unicornfarts.com". :-)
> You're wrong that the interests of the state are significantly misaligned from the interests of the people

You should read the news more often: Government shutdown for no valid reason, Wall Street corruption going unpunished and ongoing (those weren't the last financial scandals), the approval rate of Congress nearing the bottom, one could write a book about how the government has stopped representing the People...
They forgot mine!
http://www.doerhub.com/of/dzink

D3 based profile visualization of interests and stages of needs in each field.

More about what it means here: http://www.doerhub.com
It seems to me that the more plausible explanation is something like "Solar and wind power are proven to work, whereas fusion research is still trying to find something that even looks like it might work." Even after this "milestone," fusion still requires more energy from us than it gives back.

Basically, the funding is going toward practical technologies, in the sense that you can actually put them into practice today and reap rewards.
I am of the generation and arguably the attitude of many of my contemporaries and I have no interest in, and have in fact actively avoided and denied, opportunities to relocate to those areas. It's hard to argue with California's geography but the rest of the package makes it easy to pass. The other major locales mentioned have no allure for me. Please don't be so myopic.

The subject of the article obviously was at least semi-content living in SF, as he definitely had the means to depart if he wanted to do so. My list is meant more as a general reply to "why wouldn't someone want to live in one of those places?" It may just be my background of living in several different places, but personally I have a difficult time grasping why people assume that LA, SF, NY, or Chicago are the only reasonable places to live.

And, places do not have to be dirty, crowded, or high-traffic just because a lot of people want to live there. If things are designed reasonably and the populous behaves reasonably, traffic should continue to flow, there should be adequate personal space, and thoroughfares and public places should be clean and satisfactory.
> The truth is, while there may be laws which are unjust, unfair, or plain silly, most of them were created to meet a need or solve a problem.

The intention of the law to "meet a need or solve a problem" doesn't necessarily reflect the actual behavior of the law. Adopting this mindset can also bring the attitude of "we need a law to protect children" while packing the "Protect Children Act" full of special interest material.

I would personally disagree with the assertion that the majority of laws solve a problem or result in a net meeting of needs.
My own opinion on things like diet, weight, exercise, is pretty simple.

1) Eat relative to your activity level. If you're sedentary, eat less. If you're active or an athlete, eat more.

2) Eat good food. If you don't recognize it as something that comes out of the ground or directly from an animal, don't eat it. There are a few exceptions (oils, vinegar, fermented products). Either way, you should know where it's coming from and how it's handled.

If you do these two things, you should be alright. And IMO, the only things you should be drinking are: water (lots), beer (slightly less), wine (even less), milk (a little), juice (a little less).

Any time I see people drinking pop as a 'beverage' and not a treat I just shake my head...
Is Perl 4 + Perl 4 a way to achieve threading/parallel code execution?
Can you give an example of something in Ruby that makes your head hurt because you don't know what's going on under the hood?
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There is a very good MOOC on ADHD from coursera, the videos should still be up. I don't think anyone who has a low to medium understanding of the topic can claim that ADHD does not exist. The evidence for the existence is compelling and overwhelming.

A short non-exhaustive summary: visible symptoms, effects on specific cognitive tests, reversal of symptoms under treatment, significant changes in neuroanatomy and brain activity in MRI, differences in EEG spectra and severe consequences like lower Income, higher propensity for violence and addictive behavior plus a markedly worse social life.
I sold my first company in 1999. We had a rapidly growing online catalog of business phone systems and related products and service (PhoneZone).

In late 1998, we got a term sheet from a well known VC. The terms were ok, except it was clear they wanted to replace me with a "seasoned" CEO, who I expected would push us aside and build a top heavy organization. At the same time, I had a chance meeting with the founder of Hello Direct, a successful and public catalog retailer of similar products. We got an offer to sell in the low millions.

Chump change right? It was pretty clear by then the dot com bubble was out of control and that things were going to end badly. I decided it was better to take some money off the table and join HD, since they'd probably do just fine.

Turned out to be a good decision. I was able to buy a house, and got through the crash just fine. If we had tried to go all the way, I am 99% sure we'd have burned through our funding and crashed and burned in 2000, and ended up with nothing.

Like anything in life, whether to sell or not depends on the situation. In retrospect, I wish I could have kept PhoneZone as an independent company. It would have been a great business long term, but I don't think it was in the cards due to forces beyond our control. So no regrets.