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Bill Gates shouldn't be listed as someone who inherited his wealth: he did not inherit it.

The $100 billion he'll give away was of his own creation, spurred from effort of his own mind, from a company born of his own fingers and imagination.

We're having this conversation thanks to the Internet, probably via relatively inexpensive tools/gadgets. Which means we've all inherited an extraordinary privilege - courtesy of the immense efforts of countless others and countless invested wealth - that I would argue is drastically beyond anything Gates had the benefit of despite his family. What have you done with it? (rhetorical)

The privilege we're all enjoying right now - all of this easily accessible, relatively cheap, amazing technology - is beyond anything being born to a successful Seattle lawyer is worth. Why aren't we all millionaires N times over? If you understand that point, then you understand why Gates deserves credit for his wealth.

His mother didn't make the deal with IBM (in fact Ballmer was arguably most instrumental in the nuanced legal structure that gave Microsoft its position), and his mother didn't execute and build software for 30 years against tremendous odds and competition either. Is your theory that Bill Gates should be penalized for being born into a family and situation that was not of his own choosing? Such that you pretend his wealth wasn't of his own creation and is null and void, because his father was a lawyer (remind me again what making $100k a year as a lawyer in 1970 has to do with your son generating a $100 billion fortune in 2000, seems to me there are a lot of extraordinary steps required to get from one to the other no matter how good your first step is, whether you're Steve Jobs or Bill Gates).

There are 9 million millionaires in the US currently, and this country has been rich for a long time now. Why aren't we drowning in Bill Gates clones? The answer is obvious.

Any idea how many successful lawyer sons didn't generate $100 billion in wealth the last 40 years? All of them but one. Gates is one in a million even by that narrow-down.

I'd counter argue that Buffett would have been successful regardless of his father being a Congressman (it's absurd to think that a one term trip to DC is what made Buffett what he is). Indeed, using Buffett as an example is the absolute worst thing you could do: the market doesn't care if your daddy was a Congressman, it was his massive results that spoke volumes, got people to invest with him over time, and made him rich. Some of his shareholders held for decades. It was his understanding of how to make money, and his ability to sell that vision, that scored his first investments. Even doctors don't like to lose $100k to some idiot kid, no matter who their father is (his father wasn't that important, and his grandfather's stores weren't that wildly successful).

Or did you think people were buying Berkshire at $100 because his daddy was a a borderline irrelevant Congressman for one term?
This was the poster's fault. They failed to secure their box and then neglected to take responsibility when it was compromised.
That was Turing, not Gödel.

And they didn't apologise for Turing's death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del#Later_years_an...

> In later life, Gödel suffered periods of mental instability and illness. He had an obsessive fear of being poisoned; he would eat only food that his wife, Adele, prepared for him. Late in 1977, Adele was hospitalized for six months and could no longer prepare Gödel's food. In her absence, he refused to eat, eventually starving to death.[19] He weighed 65 pounds (approximately 30 kg) when he died. His death certificate reported that he died of "malnutrition and inanition caused by personality disturbance" in Princeton Hospital on January 14, 1978.[20] Adele's death followed in 1981.
I think you misunderstand dark pattern here. If you sit and think about it for a while, then yes, it makes perfect sense. But the point of a dark pattern is to give quick, hurried users a misconception of what the choice is.

The non-dark pattern here is to say "Ad Tracking - On/Off".

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/29/4640308/dark-patterns-insi...

BTW, Google lets you opt out of Interest Based Advertising: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en
Show HN: Docker for Ghost
Hi everyone, I made a Docker for Ghost (www.ghost.org), wanted to share that with everyone as a first contribution!
It's certainly valid address, but why would you want to input that as an email address into public-facing service that you do not operate?
It's not that he inherited his wealth, it's that he grew up in a privileged environment that gave him opportunities most other people didn't have.
A noble concept. I first read this in the original J2EE documents which imagined a future where you just connected EJB's together to build apps. Didn't work out that well. It's not as easy to build tiny pieces of apps as people thought.
> The economic story of the past decades is supposed to be the death of the American Dream. Income inequality has risen, the wealth of the middle class stagnated, and stories of the poor working their way to prosperity became just stories.

I think the article doesn't really do a good job to change that view. The inequality has risen and the wealth of the middle class has stagnated. This is absolutely true.

Things like raises are no longer the norm, bonuses in many jobs have disappeared, prices and debt have risen much faster than the rise in income. At the same time, wealthy people continue to grow their wealth.

The fact the top 0.0001% gained their wealth not by inheriting it doesn't change what is happening to the poor, middle class, etc. as a result.
> only those with unstable or shitty home-lives like the travel a majority of the time.

I wouldn't go that far. If you're single, the travel is a hell of a lot of fun. You usually have expense accounts and get to see parts of the world on someone else's dime. I traveled 48 of 52 weeks a year for 6 years and loved it. But my personality loves constant change. I liked being able to change most of the people I worked with every month or so and solve new organizational problems.
Astonishing for me from a cross cultural perspective.

-Here in the Netherlands mechanics would never come as close to senior management as at BART. The highest ranking mechanics / technical staff are in the $/2 range of senior management? I would venture the same ratio would be >10 here.

-You can actually get 100K$ in overtime! Too bad their hours aren't included.

-And: all salaries are public including names. No privacy there.

-I don't see much evidence of explicit union favouratism? Much of the management is non-represented, but white collar versus blue collar could account for that?
Wow, when it comes time to validate user input, don't! What a clever solution!
Perhaps if the cities to the south of SF weren't so stultifyingly boring, people wouldn't feel so compelled to live in the city. Imagine you're 25 and single, do you really want to live in low density single-family housing? Hellholes like Fremont? Unfortunately zoning laws and nimbys prevent the construction of livable, high density housing in favor of more suburban prisons.
For that matter, most apps written for Tiger should work on Mountain Lion, with the important exception of PowerPC apps - but that was a matter of maintaining library support for an entire architecture, and anything written for the Intel release of Tiger is fine.

The other way around is different, of course, as as a huge number of new APIs have been added since then.
Sure, but Gates frequently admits he won the so-called “ovarian lottery.”
There is plenty of innovative thought out there. The problem is the lack of efficiency in requiring that every individual find and consume the best innovative thought on her own.

Also, I agree that modern manners insist on a a very peurile fear of conflict, which leads to strong segregation of viewpoints, groupthink, a lack of empathy, and even an ignorance of alternate viewpoints.

What we need, among other things, is a new set of manners that encourage conflicting opinions (or even debate) while providing ground rules for avoiding harm to feelings, reputations, and relationships. The fact is, if people become hurt, angry, or withdrawn when someone simply disagrees (let alone argues) with their viewpoint, there is not really any hope for breaking everyone out of their echo chambers. It's simply not worth it to antagonize people for the sake of calling Scientology bogus or homeopathy a waste of money.

And as long as that is the case, I don't see news aggregators (including all forms of journalism) promoting against-the-grain or otherwise uncomfortable information within their respective echo chambers.
I'd personally love some subsidized beach front property with a private beach.
Microsoft products receive 5 years mainstream support and 10 years extended support. XP is currently supported for organisations who purchased extended support, but only because there was extraordinary demand for it. It ends in just under 6 months from now.

Unless you're a large organisation paying a lot of money, you aren't likely to get 5 years of support for a particular version of most products.

http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-gb&C2=1173
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/endofsupport.aspx
Taking 2800mg of fish oil and then parting while smelling like an aquarium. Tell me more about your success with women...
Surest way is real estate. Just buy real estate and rent it. Repeat over 3 or 4 generations. Congratulations. You created a rich family. All other ways involve luck.
You seem to only be able to see the world for the way it is now, and has been over the recent past. Getting stuck on these thinking patterns is self-limiting, much like getting stuck on a programming language like PHP-- both are one-trick-ponies. We thankfully live in a world that, long term, is driven by imagination and possibility. And not always are the "leaders" complete and massive assholes (which is our main immediate problem at this moment in time).
Yes. GnuTLS does: http://www.gnutls.org/manual/gnutls.html#Encryption-algorith...

Anyway, TLS is in a tough spot. It's such a widely adopted standard, with so many implementations, that making radical changes is exceptionally difficult. AES-NI leaves the standard mostly alone but requires new(ish) hardware, but on the other hand, implementing newer, faster primitives (like Salsa20) requires essentially turning the massive boat that is TLS.

There are no easy solutions, at least as far as I can see.
Point cloud data is (relatively) cheap and easy to collect.
However turning point clouds into 3D surfaces is computationally Very Hard and even the very best tools still require a lot human intervention to give acceptable results. Having good tools that are able to work with point clouds directly dramatically speeds up the time from data collection to data visualization and being able to actually use the data.
PyMongo 2.6.3 Released
Just curious, what were you actually trying to do that made them think you were launching a DOS attack?
s/is_int/intable/ ;-)
Yeah, it can be very good, but there's a limit.

There's a very interesting project in Finland to build a pumped storage facility that uses a 1400m deep abandoned gold mine as the storage location. The idea is to use a relatively small amount of water but at very high pressure provided by the depth of the mine -- the high potential difference makes generation more efficient and reduces capital costs. If this thing turns out to be profitable, this will probably be done to all sufficiently deep mine shafts and other deep enough holes.

PDF: http://laguna.ethz.ch/indico/getFile.py/access?contribId=2&s...
.info is the 4th most popular root domain in the US
Web designers don't need college degrees
Message from BlackBerry: You can still count on us
But I never said it was indistinguishable. What I'm saying is that the definition in the first sentence of the paper is wrong or, at least, incomplete.
Someone should make this guy King of the Internets.

Swanson: I need you to take a look at address forms. I don't want to enter my city and state any more after I've given my zip code.

PS Yes, I know that not everyone lives in the US.

PPS Yes, I've heard about some places where a single zip code serves two cities. Edge cases, there will always be one or two.
Self-Published Erotica Singled Out For Deletion From Major eBookstores
Thinkpads have been officially Ubuntu certified for years now. They are probably the best laptop you can buy for GNU/Linux that doesn't have it already pre-installed.
There's always a chance of a collision, but for a large enough pool relative to the number of objects the chance may be sufficiently smaller than the chance of hardware failure that it can be legitimately ignored. For something where the entire space must in some way be realized (eg. hashtable) this won't be the case, obviously.
What he's saying is these blanket statements "just use X" is what is broken. Sometime ago it was "just use md5" and we're still suffering through the fallout of that long after md5 has been shown to be broken. Now we're pointing everyone in another direction and at some point that will be broken too. His point is that we need to educate people on the reasons why one algorithm is better than another for certain security concerns rather than relying on blanket catch-all declarations.
I think you'll find bus tickets have gone up to £2.40 in London now ;)
The coloured dots are cute and all, but if the goal is to make visually apparent the relationship between salary and union membership, some more traditional visualisations might have made this clearer. For example boxplots broken down by union.
My intention is not to criticize the paper, which I don't even claim to understand. I just thought the authors definition of a PNRG is wrong (or at least incomplete) and that caught my attention. If I'm wrong, I hope somebody will set me right.
I've been using multi-web-mode for HTML, CSS and JS recently. This simply switches to a nominated mode when you're inside a block of HTML, CSS, JS, etc.

https://github.com/fgallina/multi-web-mode

Quite simple and elegant. But something that can work well with Jinja2 would be welcome. I'll take a look at web-mode.
Remember that the human body is adapted to frequent physical exercise. So the story would really be more accurate to say that lack of exercise impairs brain function due to less release of irisin.

Perhaps a small difference in wording, but I think the change in perspective is important.
>-And: all salaries are public including names. No privacy there.

This is actually true for all Finnish citizens. It's a bit weird since privacy is (supposed) to be respected here.
Though I'm attracted to the idea, inheritance tax was always a concept that I see (probably due to ignorance) as extremely vulnerable to "an extra layer of indirection". You see, I'm not actually transferring the company to my son, I'm transferring it to a trust in Switzerland that is controlled by my daughter-in-law.
Subsidizing is NOT the answer. This will drive up prices for everyone living above subsidies. The problem is demand WAY outstrips housing supply. In my opinion the one thing that could kill the Bay Area economy is the aversion to residential construction.

Housing stock on the Geary corridor could be easily increased, and even a modest improvement to the transit system in that area could make a big difference.

It is absolutely crazy to artificially restrict residential building in areas where there is high employment demand. It is almost like we want to prevent economic growth.

The US is a crazy place. We complain that there isn't enough economic growth, but when it happens, we put in all kinds of restrictions that limit it.
Using ent, and 0's and 1's (instead of 1's and 2's).

(By this I mean a pattern of 0,1,0,1 bits etc. - 4248759 bytes worth in this case)

Below is the output from ent:

----------------------------

Entropy = 0.000000 bits per byte.

Optimum compression would reduce the size of this 4248759 byte file by 100 percent.

Chi square distribution for 4248759 samples is 1083433545.00, and randomly would exceed this value less than 0.01 percent of the times.

Arithmetic mean value of data bytes is 170.0000 (127.5 = random). Monte Carlo value for Pi is 4.000000000 (error 27.32 percent). Serial correlation coefficient is undefined (all values equal!).
>Granted, you don't get the speed and latency of fiber

I get the speed but where do you lose the latency? LoS is the shortest path and fiber is slower than speed of light so I'd actually expect latency to be lower. Wall Street low latency trading is moving to microwave to exploit this:

http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/data-latency/low-latency-ma...
For something like English words, where you will have a lot of common prefixes and suffixes, it seems a legitimate design goal as well (though it may not be a tradeoff worth making, to be sure).
I see your intention now, but you are using the words in the wrong context with the wrong definition. There are plenty of hosted open source products that require little to no setup.
There's always a way around it. Considering that BTC is basically borderless, I can get it transferred into any other currency in any other country I choose.
Guilty until proven otherwise!
The iPod’s Dark UI Pattern
> It is just that "shuttles" are just a bad idea to start with.

Shuttles are a fantastic idea. Just because the implementation wasn't brilliant doesn't make the idea bad. Then again I'd strongly disagree with your claim that the Shuttle program was bad in the first place. It had a very successful and impressive 30 year carrier.

The comparisons of the Shuttle vs. the Soyuz are bad in the first place as the two platforms are vastly different in lifting capability. The correct comparison would be the Shuttle vs. the Proton-M/K, and the Protons are far from reliable (Proton-M has had 8 failed launches since 2001). Without the Space Shuttle we wouldn't have the ISS for example.

> Sounds like historically their design is just better.

Better than what? The Saturn V is the only rocket that has propelled humans to the moon, and the entire Saturn family has zero deaths. And the Saturn V remains to this day the heaviest lifter mankind has created (NASA's SLS and China's Long March 9 are in development to surpass the Saturn V)
I have no real editorial opinions to add, but some cultural context might be useful:

- Management is not supposed to be represented by unions, because, in part, their jobs are to oppose the union's demands. They sit (or are generally expected to sit) on the opposite side of the negotiating table.

- Overtime for public workers in the US is the subject of a lot of grumbling, because the perception is that a lot of it is unnecessary and really just the result of poor policy and management practices.

- That the salaries are public is part of American expectations about transparency, and probably a result of the common American feeling that the unions and leadership are fleecing them. Put another way, we're the ones paying them and we should get to know how much.
>> His mother didn't make the deal with IBM (in fact Ballmer was arguably most instrumental in the nuanced legal structure that gave Microsoft its position)

Just for the sake of discussion: if his mother and her relation to the IBM top executive had a critical part in IBM's biggest business mistake ever - doesn't it make sense that they won't want to share those details ?
Just enter your easy-to-remember latitude/longitude pair into this form field - no more typing your city ever again ;)
Well, I guess since it's one's own project you can do whatever you want with it!

And I think your point is fair: there's certainly merit in training oneself to write "beautiful" code. But I guess then your goal is simply different, your focus would be on improving your architectural skills rather than finishing the project. There's nothing wrong with that. And of course if you can manage to reach both goals at the same time, you win double.
If you're paying cash, why would you pay cash? It's £1.40 with an oyster card or a contactless bank card.
Several times. Then I look at the hardware options available to me, what they cost, how much work I need to get everything working and compare it all to my MBA. After having done that I decide to stick with OS X for a bit longer.
i just did.

(1) an abstract is just a sketch of the entire paper contents.

(2) in section 2 of the paper they give a more precise meaning to indistinguishable which allows you to use any function you can think of to detect non-uniformity (roughly - there are details like it's a limit as you go to large sequences, so that any finite random pattern becomes progressively less likely, etc etc). so you can cover the case you are worried about by using a test that looks for repeated patterns of values.

[more generally, even with hn as it is these days, if you're asking for clarification rather than raising an objection, then you should probably prefix your comment with something like "i don't understand the paper, can someone please understand why...".]
"However, my claim that "the resource & labour cost in making and mining 1 Bitcoin with an ASIC mining is huge" is completely correct - because even it costs $8,000 of resources, to mine $10,000 of BTC, it would still be a profitable enterprise. (In the meantime, you just wasted $8,000 of resources, to make... Nothing that puts bread on the table, a roof over my head, etc.)"

I think you are completely ignoring the potential benefits that a decentralized currency has on society. Therefore you can't say that Bitcoin's proof-of-work is going completely to waste. Bitcoin is already, today, starting to concretely help people in a way similar to "putting a roof over their head":

- it is helping Argentinians escape their government's stupidity who is inflating their currency and limiting access to safer currencies (eg. USD) [1]

- it is helping Iranians working or living abroad to send bitcoins to their families [2]

- it is freeing people from financial censorship, eg. oppressive governments freezing bank accounts or donations to political opposition

- etc

Bottom line, it is too early in Bitcoin's history to tell whether the SHA256 proof-of-work is really a net waste or not. You just cannot make the claim that Bitcoin "produces no value". If I can help reduce financial censorship by spending some computing cycles on Bitcoin, I will do it.

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/07/17/bitcoin-downloads-...

[2] http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-29/dollar-less-...
> The Shuttle was so complicated that every flight was 'experimental'. One can leave testing phase after all fatal bugs are discovered and addressed, this never happened.

So every time you fly in an airplane or drive your car do you call it an experimental vehicle? How about your house? Is it experimental, too?
To me, the "web" is currently as successful as it is, not because of the APIs by which you access data, but by the fact that it is a lot of data. Most of it publicly accessible.

Some of the markup is "semantic," which is certainly nice, but even that which isn't has a way of being figured out by people.
If the transaction went through and they unknowingly delivered the number-plate, would this be illegal? Or would it have to be resolved as a civil matter? [in the UK]