skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>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.

Then you are making very inefficient use of an extremely scarce resource. Economically speaking, you should get out of the way and let someone more productive have that property.

Morally that might be wrong, but I think you should be able to argue for why we should adopt policies that sound morally right but have nasty economic consequences.

>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.

Why not a simple land-value tax?
+1 for PDF as well.

I actually do make bit of things in LaTeX through Org-mode at the office, and sending things in PDF actually makes it clear what kind of handling I'm looking for. If I'm actually expecting someone to revise my writing, then I'll just send them plaintext.

Now considering even Adobe Reader allows commenting, I don't think there are many of issues any more...
Samsung Slowing Development Of Tizen OS, Postponing Launch Of Smartphone
"When you take money away from someone who was saving to build a factory, so his factory is not built, then the factory doesn't produce anything, so wealth is lost."

Unless he can find investors...
Without being too trite, it would seem like the alternative to figuring out how to get pigs to work for you is to create an environment for people who don't like working with pigs.

I know life isn't always so simple.
redis is single master so all non-local web servers will be extra slow. It is a poor solution for multi datacenter.
"Just labor and materials"? To read such a bold statement on HN. Human intellect and bravery are important to wealth creation. Or do we still plough the fields with a horse?
>> everyone who plays with Bitcoin is a scientist

Bitcoin is neat, but this is not correct.

"Try something and see how it goes", while worthwhile, is not science. Science requires controls and repeatable experiments.

The reason that macroeconomics is at least 50% palm reading is that there is no way to, say, take 2,000 identical universes, bail out the banks in half of them, and compare.

(Science is not the only way to determine truth; for example, you can't do repeatable experiments to identify a murderer.)
Show HN: Proof-of-concept Node.JS-like interface with iOS 7 JavaScriptCore
You're the first person i've heard of who falls back to C++, if that data point is of any value.

AIUI exceptions and RAII are mutually exclusive in C++. I don't know enough about C++ so i wouldn't be surprised to find out this is wrong.
This is very rough and no IO is supported yet. However, I think it serves well as a proof-of-concept that a lightweight node-compatible interface can be done for mobile apps using javascript.

Tell me what you think! :)
I kind of like the way how Zed does the error handling:

http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ex20.html
How is that even legal? It's a direct violation of several European and human rights laws. Are these laws being challenged in court?
Misleading. It's not a problem of CookieStore or Rails, it's the problem of HTTP. Changing session store to a database or memory store won't fix it: a session id is still required on the client side, then your session is still hijacked because the attacker still gets the session id. You may want to make the session id change after each request, then you are re-inventing TCP and ruining user experience. If the attacker can steal CookieStore, that means the attacker can also see everything else in the page, just securing the session does little help -- please stop worrying and use HTTPS (and add "secure" option for the cookie entry).

CookieStore does its own job correctly: it has an "httponly" option which prevents being stolen by injected javascript, and it checks signature which prevents content being modified or forged. But it's not CookieStore's job to prevent sensitive content being watched. It's HTTPS's job.
Human intellect is labor. "Bravery", well, that's essentially a claim that you need Moral Virtue in order to make goods and services, which seems pretty freaking stupid.
I don't think it's satire, I think it's a hack job.

A lot of people were born into a similar situation as Gates. Very few achieved what he did.

This was written in the time of Microsoft invincibility, where everyone was afraid that Microsoft would enter their market with a free offering. Now it's the opposite - Mircosoft's stock has been flat since then, and they're the ones more concerned about cheaper competitors. It takes a little of the hating edge off of Gates.
Day 1 was eight years ago. Care to tell which popular web frameworks did that then?
IANAP but it might very well be the way overly jealous people try to cope with their jealousy.
You don't really need priors to understand other people, because other people feel exactly the same emotions as you do. The problem is that we are often in a narcissistic frame of mind, where we care more about our own problems and worries, then paying attention to people around us. Both reading and meditation, can help to get you out of that frame of mind. At least that is my understanding.
One of the wonderful properties of bullion is that it's nearly impossible to make more of it. Due to zoning laws, housing has the same property.
> Well, that or banning usury.

Or banning maturity transformation, http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.in/2008/01/straight...
So the story is software gets ugly when it gets less modular? This is a truism, no?
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In the case of Rails, the force_ssl option enables HSTS.

Useful link: http://jamescrisp.org/2013/08/04/moving-to-https-rails-force...
"Something has gone wrong with capitalism if it makes more sense to invest in property than to invest in the bank (low risk) or the stock market (some risk)."

This macroeconomic observation is probably the most important observation in the whole discussion. When the best thing a people can do with $1M is very expensively (high transactional costs) trade non-productive real estate with each other, that implies an economic collapse in the future, or at least an anticipated one.

In a part of the world with (rightly?) more optimism, $1M would be dropped on something productive. Small business. Going in as part of a medium business. Stock in large businesses. Bonds in huge businesses. Productive assets of some sort not a depreciating liability like property.

Now what happens to prices when that collapse occurs, and what is the demographic characteristics of the bagholders being set up to be holding the asset when it's price collapses?
I've done so little C++ so long ago that I may as well fall in the category of a C programmer who doesn't know C++. If I had spare time over the next 8 weeks I'd definitely do this as a refresher course.
Exceptions and RAII match well, actually. Managing resources via RAII means that when an exception is thrown, the destructors of local objects are invoked so they'll release resources they've acquired.

In fact, I'd argue that you very often have to use RAII with exceptions, since there's no 'finally' block on a try-catch statement and hence it's the easiest way to ensure stuff gets cleaned up (well, except for catch(...) and rethrowing, but that's kinda ugly).
Hayek literally wrote the book on the "sentiment that I expressed", it's called The Road to Serfdom. Hayek's views on the "economic calculation problem" were more subtle than 'it doesn't work' and they needed to be because by the time he wrote the book, communism was a real economic power and it was getting more powerful. I'm not sure how you think Russia went from backwards feudalism to nuclear superpower by "not growing at all".
Forget about the stories. I have quite some experience with both C and C++, started with C. There's horror in both of them, if you do it wrong enough. Oh yes there's more horror in C++, there are more ways to do it wrong. But in the end it comes down to the same: learning curve. If you know it well enough there's no horror anymore, just joy.
Here's my preferred way of handling errors: https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode...
On another note: people claiming "C/C++" skills usually have neither.
This was a list of companies provided by Anandtech in its reporting. I just found it amusing that it happened to be a pattern in this set of data. Apologies!!
Link to Chapter 22 ("Algebra") online:
http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_22.html
"Fly, you fools"
I'm aware of BM's POW but it's in no way related to Bitcoin's use of it.

Bitmessage's POW is not a way to reach consensus about a chain of events. POW as a means to limit email spam messages was already proposed with Hashcash in 1997. BM just added a P2P distributed message database to provide decentralization.

The POW was no breakthrough from Bitcoin either: IMO Bitcoin's core concept (and the real genius) is the distributed agreement protocol, which is nowhere found in Bitmessage.

That's what I meant with "POW as an agreement protocol", not just "POW", and why I think Bitmessage does not really benefit from Bitcoin's protocol.
Nope, my Oyster travelcard (zones 1-2) is £116/m, the season ticket is £164/m. Just the drop in car/home insurance and council tax makes that up, let alone the £500+ drop in rent!
Elaine Wherry lives in Bay Area. Is gender discrimination a huge common problem there?

All she has is a guy refusing a job offer. After that she talks to some radical feminist who decided it was because of her gender, and she, for some strange reason, accepts that explanation as truth and shifts all the blame to the guy.

WTF?
The article isn't intended to name and shame a particular individual. It's meant to warn women about how gender discrimination can affect their career even if they are very careful to work in a meritocratic team of people who treat them fairly. The claim of the article isn't "this man was sexist" - we have no idea who this man was, and we don't get anything close to the full story. The main point of the article is "this is a thing that happens". I don't think that claim requires extraordinary evidence. It's just an attempt to bring attention to a plausible mechanism by which gender discrimination can negatively affect women, which they might not have been aware of otherwise.

Given that, I don't think we are in a situation where we should bias in favour of innocent until proven guilty. We can just make our own best guess based on what we know.

Your evidence 2 and 3 are weak. Being in a high pressure job often means being in a position where you (and the company) can't afford a big disaster. Lots of people are hard on themselves, it doesn't mean she was on shaky ground because of her competence (her colleagues wanted her around for another year at least). She insisted on leaving to make this guy happy because his stated reason for rejecting the job was her. Her colleagues wanted the guy to join them and they didn't have any reason to refuse her resignation. That doesn't shed any light on why the man was unhappy with her in the first place.

The guy didn't give convincing examples or well thought out reasons, he seems to have just made a guess that she was incompetent. You think his guess is unbiased and the coach and the author's guesses are biased. Even though it is the coach's job to make objective judgements about these things. In this scenario the man, the author and the coach all make judgements given information we are not privy to. Each of them has their own biases, their own agendas. I think the man's inability to explain his dislike when pressed, and the fact that the coach is supposed to provide negative criticism indicates that the coach's judgement is most likely correct.
So using Devise gets around this issue right?
Your making silly assumpyions about VCs and how they operate, ones that you can't justify. An easy exit that returns 20-45% on a 1-2 year investment is a no-brainer if the only other option is going to zero in a time-wasting pain-in-the-ass situation. That is quite distinct from saying that this "ideal" investment sold to LPs. And its quite distinct from rational "binary bets". While VCs screen based upon threshold potential returns, the probability of being a 10x company <even after passing the screen> is order of magitude <10%. So, its silly to say that all vc exits are large exits. But since exits have more prestige than chapter 7s, disquising your failures as exits has <value>. If you can do this with non-dilutive financial returns, you a strategy that may be better than the alternative/s.
I'm right there with you having lived here for 3 years. It seems like you have to be single to enjoy living in London. I just find it crowded, expensive and rammed with traffic!
>A lot of people were born into a similar situation as Gates. Very few achieved what he did.

The question is: Could Gates have achieved what he did had he not been born into a similar situation?
Changing session store to a database or memory store won't
fix it: a session id is still required on the client side,
then your session is still hijacked because the attacker
still gets the session id.

The bug specifically addresses logging out.

When you store a record of the session on the server side (with the session ID you mention), you clear that session record during logout; the session is now gone, and cookie isn't valid anymore.

(With the cookie-only approach, the server will continue to accept a cookie that you wanted to have cleared.)
If you need C++ for a living then you have no other option.
If you want to enjoy programming then I recommend to stay away from C++. I have written a lot of software in C and C++ in my programming career but C++ is not fun anymore. There are so many (even free) implementations of better languages. For instance C#, Python, Go.

If you want to learn a next generation language right now then you should look at Rust. It seriously has the ability to replace C++ in the long term. C++ will be remembered as the third dino besides Fortran and Cobol.

http://www.rust-lang.org
> Let your kids post their pictures. When they're old enough to decide that for themselves.

Posting all your own childhood photos might also be perceived as weird in the future (isn't it now?).

Personally I believe our children and grandchildren will live in much more transparent times. I think they should feel good with transparency and demand transparency. Hiding them from the world goes in exactly opposite direction.
I don't think that would actually get rid of deflationary financial crises. At least, not under the Hudsonian model I'm using, which is very simple: a financial crisis occurs when the total financial debt exceeds the salable productivity of the nonfinancial economy.
Almost; the core insight is the non-linearity of this truism.
Not just liquid cool the cpu, but the entire server, which would make a better headline.
There are still areas that area (as with any town), but on the whole I think it's increasingly seen as an option for young professionals working in London who don't want to live there.
My team has been working on Seene relentless, so happy it is finally out!
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> the damn hard work, risks, and clever strategies used in growing Microsoft.

Why are these only positive adjectives? You could have included unethical, anticompetitive and illegal just as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Microsoft_litigation
http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2005010107...

Sure, it was "clever" and "risky" and it probably was a lot of "hard work"...
I'm making light of the fact that we repeated the same thing that happened in history. When people started getting attacked, they formed larger groups to defend themselves. and now we're doing that on the internet with things like CloudFlare.
Great article. I think we lose the forrest and trees in math. Similar in computer science. Many times we get hung up on language syntax to miss the beauty underneath. (For example: Godel's incompleteness theorum or the implications of Turing machines)

On one tangents....

I think we mathematicians are a little bit behind the curve. We are not fully aware of the Frankenstein that we may have already created or could create. I think that's another aspect of this responsibility of mathematicians to take a more public role—to educate the public by giving them access to the beauty and power of mathematics.

Interesting tie in to the importance of ethics for mathematics. It's not just a bunch of folks writing proofs about numbers in journals.
Perhaps a better strategy would be to deliver a lot of value to a lot of people for money.
Interesting. I had a very similar initial experience [1]. I got sick from Half Life 2 the first two times playing it, but the third time I managed to do a 40-minute session without feeling any serious nausea. It's definitely something you can train yourself to tolerate.

But srsly, 4K resolution is an absolute must.

[1] http://www.colorfulwolf.com/blog/2013/10/02/oculus-rift-dev-...
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It came from vested stock options. For all we know they could have been worth 200K 4 years ago.

But even if it wasn't, why shouldn't the top technical talent at high tech firms make more money that corporate CFOs?

In this case it's easy to see why their value added could have been 10 times the salary.
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Talos: An Iron Man suit for U.S. army soldiers
Show HN: Hish.js - highlight and share text instantly
There's a whole class of applications that can happily serve data that slightly stale, so they can use any kind of replication/cluster to make data available on multiple datacenters, even if that makes for a little lag. Session data however must be instant, so that requires a very fast and stable replication, making the problem much harder. Redis is particularly unsuited to serve such data since it's single-master replication only. It's totally fine in a single datacenter, but fails once you move out. Redis cluster may or may not be a solution, but it's not here yet anyways.
Surely that would be BASIC for C programmers?
You can't control anything that has been released to the public. Lawyers think they can. People who believe in lawyers thing they can. But they really can't.

It's good that people try to raise awareness about the fact that you can't control information you released. I just don't share the 'hide yo kids, hide yo wife' sentiment.

All that said, I personally share very little and don't really get why people post things on Facebook.
I think you're mixing up labour with human capital. E.g. the stock of competencies, knowledge, social and personality attributes, including creativity, embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value.

Instead of bravey we could call it risk-taking if that would make you feel better. You speak of "the actual source of wealth". Risks that can be rewaring or not. They require something for -possibly- nothing. An entrepeneur takes risks, does research and only when he is succesfull will he or she create value, thus wealth.
Greater London is generally quite homogeneous. Good areas and bad areas are often cheek by jowl. One end of a street can be quite nice, while the other end is much poorer. Obviously there are better & worse areas, but even there there's lots of variability.

So just like everywhere else, Croyden has lots of good, lots of bad, and lots and lots of in-between.
Strangely I don't begrudge Bill Gate's wealth. There could have been far better examples for this article.

He did have more than a little entitlement to get him going but he didn't rest on it - when he was in the right time at the right place he worked hard to make it happen.

Plus he is now giving all his wealth to charity and virtually nothing to his kids as inheritance.

How about the Walton children or the Koch children.
"When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires."

– Banksy
A worker also takes risks, on a regular basis. Everyone with a freaking mortgage on their house is taking a risk. The mere fact of having a probability less than 1.0 of getting the desired return doesn't mean you've performed some superheroic act that sets you in a different moral class from everyone else.

>I think you're mixing up labour with human capital. E.g. the stock of competencies, knowledge, social and personality attributes, including creativity, embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value.

I'm not mixing them up; there's just very little difference between potential labor and actual labor.
The article is untitled as far as I can see, but the first comment was from 1998. Those were very different times. It was considered 'normal' to actually, personally hate Bill Gates and the Microsoft he created, and much of the open source movement in those days was about 'we hate Microsoft, we write open source software to destroy it'.

The Slashdot 'borg' icon for Microsoft is only of the few remaining relics reflecting the zeitgeist of then.
Sober Polish adult still doesn't care.
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As many EU countries collaborate closely with the US intelligence, I think it's a matter of how much influence the US can leverage to get its way.

For instance, I'm fairly certain that Sweden will do anything the US demands to not upset the big brother.
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> Why do Indian devs feel compelled to blame their parents,
> families, wives, society for everything?

Some culture thing? Just like "give me codes" mentality which is quite visible on dev forums.
a) There is such a thing as cultural awareness. It is not the same as discrimination. If you travel a bit you find that there are actual differences between cultures. If you use those differences as justification to treat individuals unfairly then that is discrimination. (If you use false stereotypes as justification to treat individuals unfairly then that is also discrimination.) Discrimination is about how you treat individuals, not about being unaware of general trends. In this case, since the author's interaction with this individual is in the past, neither she nor her coach is discriminating.

b) The coach, according to the author, made that call after she recounted the story. Presumably in a lot of detail, and after numerous other coaching sessions in which her coach would have built up a detailed picture of how she worked and where her weaknesses lay.
I've often wondered how that works. Yes, obviously you can avoid stamp duty that way, but then you're in to "living in company property" area - and that's taxed as a benefit in lieu of income, which would be much more than just paying the stamp duty.