skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a straightforward way to tax people who have homes that are worth a lot of money. Not entirely the same as being rich.

What if you live in one of the leafier parts of the east end, where only 30 years ago you could buy a house on a blue-collar wage. Now your house is worth more than £1m. But you're retired and on a basic state pension. You don't want to move to a cheaper area because your friends and family live close to you and are able to support you.

High property taxes based on the value of your assets would force you to move away or re-mortgage. Not ideal when it comes to maintaining a sense of community or caring for the elderly.

I assume by 'proper' property taxes you mean 'the way the US does things'. I'm not sure that it would work in the UK with our different economics, system of government and geography.
So the chairman was found guilty of financial wrongdoing and tax evasion.

Tax evasion is indeed serious business, but murder? I guess I would like to see several large business CEO's charged with facilitating murder by tax evasion. Would make for some interesting times, and likely tax cuts for the general public.
Github.com is down again...
You have the same problem with software.
Red Plenty was such a good book. Highly recommended.
Wood fire? There is nothing worse for the environment

Although the carbon you release by burning wood was recently sequestered by the tree, rather than Ga ago, as with petrochemicals, so the net carbon shift is relatively neutral.

Point taken re: nanoparticulates, but wood is nowhere near as bad as fossil fuels.
Yes, I think you are right. Additionally the cookie could have a creation timestamp and in the db the last login time is stored. So when the cookie timestamp is older than the last login the cookie is actually outdated and ignored. But again maybe it's simpler to just use serverside session storage ...
Because thats how they are recorded by HR for reporting purposes and in the US to make them exempt grades.

99.99% of HN readers who work in tech will be considered management/professional grades even if you dont formally "manage" anyone
But it's not like the market punished them at all. They are still selling lots of them.

Apple is the only that held them accountable in court, at least a little it. These b*stards are shameless http://cdn.mactrast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Samsung-A...
The problem is these are your pictures, or rather pictures of your baby and now you have no control over them what-so-ever. Facebook owns your baby pictures. Period. If you're fine with that and happy about it - good luck. But it is good that someone is doing just that - stating that your baby pictures posted on Facebook are owned by Facebook and you have absolutely no control over them in the future no matter what.
The solution I use in my own application is for each cookie that gets set to be a distinct, random shared secret that is mirrored in a database table.

The shared secret is the combination of a near-random string of bytes generated by a hash of numerous things, plus a unique ID generated upon insert into the database table. The secret survives in the table until the user chooses to sign out, or until the cookie expires. Once the secret is expired, the cookie is useless.

This also means users can go into their account page to see on which devices their account has been remembered, but also to log out any/all other sessions.
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> I am now back to NY and I can feed myself around $5

$5 means eating street meat -- which is fine, but not sure that I'd recommend doing it every day. Unless, of course, you're comparing eating out in the Castro versus buying ingredients at C-Town or Key Foods in NYC?
I could see this being very useful for such applications as synthesizers, mixing apps, DJ consoles, and the like .. heck, any situation where you want the user experience to be channeled in some way. It is often true that swiping a blank-feeling screen, even with pretty lights under it, reduces ones feeling of accuracy. Being able to 'lean on the edges' with your fingertips might make it easier to dodge, bump, scan, and so on, with better accuracy. I'm willing to wager we'll see more of this sort of overlay business soon.
It's on the list - https://github.com/rossjones/alternative-internet#retroshare
The CPU/GPUs keep getting faster but this idiotic PPI race is forcing manufactures to cheat so they can appear faster than the previous generation. On a 5" display anything over 720p is overkill.
I can look them up. Drunk Polish guy laughing at you ;-) Enjoying it yet?
Logical skips can do a lot.
A lot of modern medicine are based on traditional medicine. In a lot of cases working substances in the plant are isolated and then synthesized to minimize side effects caused by other substances in the plant.

Don't forget that a lot of traditional medicine have been around for thousands of years and kept us alive and growing in population ever since.
Oh, thank you, sir! Didn't expect to get a reply from the cofounder of Beeminder.

I don't think it's possible for to fully explain how big of a difference Beeminder has made in my life. I was much like some of the folks in this thread (as in, starting projects but not finishing them; struggling to get stuff done), but since implementing Beeminder in my life, my productivity has gone through the roof. It's also given me a lot of self confidence in my abilities, which is pushing me to take on more ambitious projects and ambitious tasks.

The focus on averages is definitely what I like most about Beeminder.

On more than one occasion, I've fallen asleep without writing my daily 750 words, only to wake up 20 minutes later in a cold sweat, rushing to my laptop so that I can quickly write my words so I can get back to bed.

With Beeminder, that's not a problem. I usually have reserves built up, or, alternatively, I can simply put in some extra time the next day.

Case in point, last Friday, I went to the doctors for a routine asthma checkup and they gave me a flu shot that completely knocked me out. It effectively ruined my plans for the day. Instead of worrying, I went home, rested, and put in some extra time on Saturday instead. It's simply not possible to do this with the Seinfeld method.

One thing I forgot to mention in my earlier post is that I heard about Beeminder through Nick Winter's book 'The Motivation Hacker'. http://www.amazon.com/The-Motivation-Hacker-Nick-Winter-eboo...

It's cheap, it's a quick read, and it's got some great information inside. I made some notes while I was reading the book - I've uploaded them here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9f6xofet38ka1x2/Nick%20Winter%20-%...

If anyone's on the fence about buying it, it's definitely worth picking up, in my opinion. There's a lot of great stuff in there that I didn't cover in the notes.

Cheers again, man.
You're preaching to the quire. I'm from Scandinavia. We're generally not like the more ... well, talkative cultures.

Point was, I'm so "lapp-sjuk" ("Same disease", lack of human seeing humans) daily, I seem extrovert to people when I don't have my nose in a screen/book with headphones on.

I'm still not the life of the party, but maybe the life of the coffee table. :-)
In short the situation in many European countries is "the ISP doesn't need to inform you that they handed over your data for an investigation, it's the police's job to do so".
Exercise is spot on. It's amazing what exercise will do to your mood.

Unfortunately, when you become stressed exercise is often one of the first things to be neglected. Over the last few years I've learned that having a routine and sticking to it, no matter the circumstances, will do incredible things for your mood and energy.
Oh dear.

> my final year of a business and economics degree [ ... ] capitalism is fundamentally flawed, requiring infinite growth on a finite planet

I'd ask for a refund on that degree if you never learned that growth requires no resources.

Economic growth is simply a measure of human work and promises of future work – the former can grow indefinitely while the sun shines and the latter is entirely abstract.
The problem is not CookieStore itself but the fact that you need to know the caveats if you expect to use it properly. That alone makes it a bad default setting for a framework that favors convention over configuration.
They do, and they are signed, but they still have issues like this which are so easily mitigated by just using a goddamn server.
Interesting. About 20 minutes ago I just finished cloning down linux kernel to my new vm, which was almost 900MB.

I was able to get roughly 1.3MB/s and the connection seen stable. I supposed I was lucky to be serve from a stable server at that time.

EDIT

I thought about contributing after watching this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4

Gonna fine some low hanging fruit like style fixing and then move my way up!
I am not for theft. I am for a more fair taxation system. Banks aren't even being properly taxed at all anyway, for example.
Amen. I followed the link, saw that "watch the videos" was the only option, and bailed immediately.
If that's the case then Gladwell isn't at fault – the reader is.
> To start the discussion on a better platform (starting from which framework/language/DB to use)

The tech stack is probably one of the last items that should be discussed. Communities do not die because of the tech stack they use, but because of problems at higher levels.

IMHO a good starting point would be to identify features/processes that will ensure your new community does not suffer from the same problems you have identified with couchsurfing.com.
It's rather sad that DDoS attacks seem to just be the norm at this point.
9 in 10 Americans don't know at all how is wealth distributed in their country
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Wow, this churns out surprisingly good looking models.
I've integrated reportr into my small counter app over the weekend: https://github.com/janhancic/CigaretteCounter

Really love the thing and hopefully I'll contribute some more in the future.
One could substitute Manhattan too. This seems to be true of many high culture cities, perhaps as a result of the global investment environment.
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I'm pretty sure timthorn means he's living (not in Cambridge, but) somewhere in Suffolk, and can go to Cambridge for shopping, cultural events, etc., in the same sort of way as someone nearer London might go to London.

Cambridge itself has really expensive housing, not as bad as London but still very bad; think San Francisco as opposed to New York. But there are plenty of places within reasonable reach of Cambridge that are much more affordable. I live in a nice village about 7 miles from the centre of Cambridge, and prices there are 2-3 times cheaper than in the centre; move further out to somewhere that's not so much "one of the villages around Cambridge" and prices go down by another 1.5-2x.
The same is happening in Berlin, still at an early stage compared to Paris or London, but the trend is clear.
To be fair, the tech stack can break a service (though it can't make it) - whether by slowing down iteration or crashing constantly. Putting out fires is not a positive thing.
Cool, that's certainly important. I probably disagree that 1 or 2 decisions a year counts as "real jobs that do real work", though.
You don't pay stamp duty if you structure it correctly. The trick is to not buy the title, but instead buy the holding company that holds the title. Buying a company also incurs stamp duty, but it's readily dodged by declaring the purchased holding company an investment and being domiciled offshore, at which point no stamp duty is due, and any capital gains can be deferred until the point of sale/realisation.

Re: council tax - again, you don't pay this if you declare the property unoccupied, or have the property zoned such that it's not applicable. This is often achieved by having the holding company be owned by a charitable trust, who operate the home as "offices", which would have business rates applicable, but as a charity they're reduced by a minimum of 80% and with an appropriate backhander, to 100%. The other option commonly followed is to make the chain of ownership/domicile so insanely complex that the authorities don't bother/can't follow the trail. Property owned by a trust owned by a charity owned by a holding company owned by a trust owned by... you get the picture.

In reality, plutarchs who manage property portfolios in the UK pay no tax whatsoever more often than not, so the $3k per year is a bit of a misnomer.
I think most people would prefer this, even regular people. The problem is that, at least right now, doing that yourself is an _awful_ lot of work. And it's definitely too much work for your average Joe.

I believe the majority of people would rather "own" their data because the idea of a company owning it makes them uncomfortable, however they don't care enough to learn to run their own and they aren't aware that alternatives are even possible.

To me, the key to a decentralized web is ease of use.
On top of that, the big flaw of his liestyle is that he has needed money up until now to buy all the tools and utilities he uses everyday now that he is moneyless.

And he profits of the fact that people around him live in a world where they produce and exhange goods that he can use for himself as well.

Another modern Bobo (french word for Bourgeois Boheme).And yeah capitalism is super flawed obviously since the whole world is getting out of poverty as a whole. Indeed we are doomed!
Remember kids, if you're just building there's no need to clone the whole history, a shallow clone of remote HEAD with --depth=1 should suffice.
If Apple moves to a 5" screen or something close next year, I'm sure they'll double up the resolution again to 2272x1280. That could force Android OEM's to think they need to go to 2560x1440 now, to be higher than Apple, but I agree that would be silly.

It could help devices like Oculus Rift, though, and it could also lead to 4k displays on 10-12" tablets and notebooks faster than otherwise ("only" 2x the pixels from the current resolutions for 10" tablets).
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Hi Matthew,

I am a 2nd year computer scientist at UCL and am interested in this job (part time). I will not list my programming languages (Haskell), as you demand, but what draws me to write is your focus on fun problem solving.

Regards,

Vera Gangeskar Johne
vera@gangeskar.com
I don't think requiring that your user(s) be compromised before this becoming an issue is a valid defence. Especially when cookies are easily stolen using something like Firesheep or as simple as forgetting to logout of a public terminal. You should ultimately be putting in systems that, if in the event of a compromise, you can mitigate the cost to the user.
"push everything further" - what does "everything" mean in this context? We've done pretty well in terms of technological, scientific advances - but we've done poorly when it comes to health, happiness, spirituality, environment etc. More people are unhappy/depressed, more people are obese, most of us are addicted to technology/cheap entertainment, most of us consume way more than we produce etc.

As a species, it would be nice if we stopped for a second and ask ourselves what is it that we value the most?
Why not? You can pay people to intercept. Or you can negotiate with the government in the foreign country. Actually intel agency from different countries have a few collaborations as they continue on with their operations. Sneaking into someone's secret file is not always welcoming and can backfire so they do trade information as necessary.

For example, watch a documentary on Iraq war you will find that the US, French, British and German intels were exchanging information.
Op wat moet je letten bij de functionele inrichting van je keuken?
1000" long by 0.00001" wide. Length 1000" (ish). Area 0.01 sq in.
In Web 2.0 the turnover rate wasn't too high and most "services" were toys made in the spare time as a mashup of other services. To think it was a bubble, even at the time, is nonsense.

Today I see a different case: shady accounting practices, lots of companies going from zero to public with little market validation, high customer acquisition costs, and high employee turnover rates (at some companies).

Today I think we're in a bubble, but nobody can say for sure until we see it pop. But if you're smart, it doesn't really matter whether we're in a bubble or not.

Just don't be an idiot and get solid funding now so you have money to float above the failures.
So can we expect intel to pull the same stunts that they did in the consumer marked to prevent the buyers from extracting additional value out of their processors?
I get what he's trying to say, but the rant is far too sophomoric.

> These relatives are probably the ones whose kids would have done “nothing” in their lives

The point could have been made without insulting their kids.

> One of my ex girlfriend had started talking about marriage barely when we had graduated ... Of course, she’s happily married and I, having failed 2 startups in the past, am still building another startup! (I hope this post reaches you, lady!)

> In another relationship, [my girlfriend] asked “Abhinav, hum ghar kab lenge?” [Abhinav, when will we buy a home?] That day itself I knew – she wasn’t the one! No wonder that relationship didn’t last long.(I am quite sure you’re reading this!)

Nothing classier than getting on an internet soapbox to tell your exes they were wrong.

> one such highly respected family member told me to look for a career in animation, back in 2007-08. Recently, I met him at another family gathering a few months back and he said “tum animation me kuch kyu nahi try karte?” [Why don't you try something in animation?] I was like…dude? You are still the same! Your thoughts are still stuck where they were 4-5 years back!

The author has, as of that moment, been involved in two failed startups and is working on the third. The other guy, doubting the author's ability to win the startup lottery, helpfully suggests a career in a rapidly-growing industry.

Author's response: Make fun of him for suggesting the same industry twice. Wat.
In fact, I also think that Web 2.0 is a bubble in that time and I still think it was.
But luckily, iPhone launched and changed the world.
Yes, very immature.

"Of course, she’s happily married and I, having failed 2 startups in the past, am still building another startup! (I hope this post reaches you, lady!)"

erm, what?
In fragmentation, there is not always a winner. Sometimes they just all survive.
Well, I am contributing to the kernel. But thanks.
> the former can grow indefinitely

Explain, because for all I know that isn't true and it looks like you need to get an economics degree to believe otherwise. Physicists disagree and guess whose word I trust more.
Back in the old days one had to bring camera films to a store to get the photographs. Facebook employees are similar to store clerks here - both have too much volume of photos going through their business to care about any one in particular.
> So inflation does reduce wealth, overall.

i totally agree with all your points, except inflation doesn't reduce wealth (the same amount of goods and services are produced regardless of inflation), it redistributes wealth from those who cannot hedge against inflation (usually those who don't have lots of money), to those who can.

While nominal interest rates _might_ somewhat match inflation, in practicality, having an account with a bank that you need for day to day means you don't get much interest (often there are rules like "withdraw once, and lose the monthly interest"). Sure, when you are rich and have an investment account paying 10% pa, then it somewhat balances inflation.

I want to know what the major cause of inflation is - i suspect it is a result of fractional reserve banking.
Not only that, pretty much every power plant in operation is a steam engine. The exceptions are solar, wind and river dams.
This is me too. I wouldn't be surprised if it's mostly a case of being praised for ability rather than effort. Apparently this creates an environment of fear of failure and a sort of "if I don't try it doesn't matter" attitude. I make sure to always tray and praise my kids for trying hard rather than being smart now.
$5 street food, $5 restaurant order. But when I paid $9 on Castro, I was getting nearly a double serve. I would eat half and save the other half.

That was how I lived back in MV. I would make my own food but I didn't have time.
Your proof that "Samsung are bastards" is because they have a connector that is either a PDMI connector, or something that looks suspiciously similar?
Yeah. Last I heard, there were new-build tower blocks full of apartments that sold out rapidly but have remained almost entirely unoccupied because they were bought by foreigners as a safe way of storing their wealth.

(Normally this would cause problems with squatters but the government changed the law to make it a criminal offense to squat in empty buildings and allow the police to forcibly remove them. They were helped with this by a sob story in the Daily Mail about someone who'd gone on holiday and found his house full of squatters; what the Daily Mail didn't mention is that it was a buy to let property and he didn't actually live there.)
The CookieStore isn't broken but you do need to add code to fix the issue?
I have no experience with Rails but I really hadn't expected that sessions would be client-side only.
Hm.. Taxi driver I was speaking to, was on the list for social housing for 20 years before getting one. For years, the amount being sold has been much higher than being built (since Thatcher brought in right to buy).

Although most housing developments have to build "affordable housing", in most of london you need to be earning £40-£60 to afford them (IE in the top 10% already).
Before there was minimum wage established in the US there was this job of pump attendant. Pump attendant was someone who would pump your gas into your car. These were jobs that paid next to nothing. These jobs disappeared almost immediately after the minimal wage law was enacted.

Now, think about it. A 16-year old would come to the gas station after school and pump gas for (let's say) 2usd/hour. But he would also learn other skills. At that time there were also body shops/car mechanics at the gas station. Because they could use cheap 2usd/hr labor of this kid. And the kid could learn car mechanics. After finishing school the kid could be actually pretty good mechanic. Go there on the job market nad having this real-life experience demand 7usd/hr job of a car mechanic. That was also a time that unemployment rate among the young was the lowest out of all the age groups. Soon after the minimal wage law was enacted the unemployment rate among the young started to be the highest among all ages group. Not only that, but also there is no one to help you at the gas pump today in the US. There are no car mechanics at the gas stations too. These people are permanently unemployed. Because 16 year old after school isn't worth the current minimal wage. He's worth half of it. He could be worth the minimal wage enacted by the Government after 6 months experience while he would be paid market rate as gas pump attendant. But that's illegal now. It's illegal to hire him, pay him and let him grow to better position. He is permanently unemployed now. Maybe for years. Again, the unemployment rate among the young is the highest among all group ages. Before the minimal wage law it was the lowest. But socialism isn't about letting people who want to work, work. About letting them grow and prosper in their future. It is about permanent ruin. 60% of people below the age of 30 in Spain are unemployed. The country is doomed because of socialism. And doesn't even get it.