skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Branson writes on http://virg.in/on :

"We are fortunate enough to live on Necker, the most beautiful place in the world, because it is our home where we can live life to the full. I have not left Britain for tax reasons but for my love of the beautiful British Virgin Islands and in particular Necker Island, which I bought when I was 29 years old, 34 years ago, as an uninhabited island on the edges of the BVI. Over that time, we have built our home there, a place where my family and I are able to truly relax.

Seven years ago we decided to move permanently to Necker as we feel it gives me and my wife Joan the best chance to live another productive few decades. We can also look after our health (Joan is approaching 70 and I'm not far behind). I still work day and night, now focusing on not-for-profit ventures with Virgin Unite, but on Necker I can also look after my health. There is no better place to stay active and I can kitesurf, surf, play tennis, swim, do Pilates and just play. Over three decades Necker and nearby Moskito Island have become the places where my family gathers together, where my friends come to visit and where my father chose to have his ashes scattered last year. In 2011 the main house on Necker burnt down. We're incredibly thankful for the overwhelming support we received from thousands of people both in person and online as we spent the past two years rebuilding our home, work which is now completed."

Via https://twitter.com/richardbranson/status/389353700587618304

The only question is that health is a primary concern when aging gracefully, what are the plans for getting to major medical in a timely manner from an island at the NE tip of BVI? Is there a large city with a modern hospital within helicopter range and flight time?

UPDATE: a hospital (no telling how good) is 90 minutes away subject to weather conditions, which maybe much too long in a critical emergency.

p. 3, column 3:
http://www.neckerisland.virgin.com/resources/pdfs/necker_isl...

Does anyone have experience with hospitals in BVI?
Where can I start learning math on my own? I always thought math books are arcane in the sense that perquisites math knowledge for one book are so vast that I couldn't wrap my head around one.
I've never seen it here, and based on a limited search [1] it appears that the story hasn't made it to the front page (i.e. gotten a non-zero amount of comments) in three years.

[1] https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=cargo+...
Nah, renaming during a reprovision is fine. You gotta stuff that information somewhere, and it might as well be in the name of the thing. Also remember that a machine / IP address can have as many alternate names as you want in the DNS system.
It's amazing what top-shelf reputation is worth in almost any industry.
Actually, Sprint and T-Mobile are both on-record as planning on merging. They aren't planning to do so in the immediate future, but they both see the long-term end game being just three carriers in the entire US.

All they are waiting for is the DOJ to make a mistake and let it slip through.

"T-Mobile exeutives say Sprint merger the 'logical conclusion'"
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/25/4769794/t-mobile-executive...

"Sprint executives echo T-Mobile merger message"
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/09/26/4509601/sprint-executiv...
Sunday Conversation with Matt Ocko, Data Collective
We built a chrome plugin to make it easy for you to actually get a task on your calendar from anywhere without stopping your train of thought: http://get.spoton.it

Using all day events for things you want to check off also totally works.
Patriotism by Yukio Mishima
Microwave some butter. There's your liquid popcorn.
Seems like an odd thing to say. He was an applied materials scientist, you don't have to work on fundamental theories to be a scientist.
I'm not sure why people with a libertarian bent have to keep bringing guns into arguments. The Rule of Law is one of modern societies great inventions, as long as all parties agree to abide by it. When they don't, organised opposition (eg. protests) and negotiation are usually far better at instigating change than randomly shooting back.

It's very much an i-win-you-lose mindset, I don't think it's really based much in reality and I'd rather not live anywhere near a society based on those principles.
This analysis is fine as far as it goes, but Riseup is a really optimistically best-case choice for a U.S. provider to use in the comparison. It's not a general-purpose or commercial provider, but rather a political organization. It's an anarcho-socialist activist group that provides accounts to its members, and to allied groups/individuals who request assistance. New accounts must either be vouched for by a current member, or submit an application that will be reviewed. Accounts are denied to people who do not align with the group's general goals. For example, they do not wish to provide accounts to capitalists ("anarcho-" or otherwise), to vanguardists/Leninists, or to other people whose aims are incompatible with libertarian socialism.

As such it's more of a political association than a telecom company, which at least in theory ought to give it the highest degree of protection under US law.
Ask HN: Is there a need for a Bay Area Housing Guide
Finding housing really sucks, so I'm working on a guide that's currently hosted on Github [1].

Requests:

- What's missing
- What are your tips

[1]: https://github.com/cjbarber/BayAreaHousing
This story has been particularly sccessful on HN recently partly because of this year's Burning Man festival's theme being "cargo cult". Quite happy to see this pop up again. Feynman never goes out of style.
I'm referring to the tacit social contract between the state and its citizens, in this case, the idea that the state supports the entrepreneur in the beginning, so that later the entrepreneur can support the state, if they can.

I'm probably butchering the term, so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
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I love it. This is like the Sci Fi novel (Heinlein I think, Lazarus Long) where I learnt that for the bank which issues the money, money really is just paper.
I've never heard specifically, but I always assumed that you are less rational when handling your own problems than someone else's, and these fields both require pretty clear thinking.
avc.com is the blog of a well-known venture capitalist, Fred Wilson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Wilson_(financier)
Colbert is trying to get some Banksy art on his studio http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/42957...
Did you read the article? It isn't anti-open-access at all.
If you divide everyone by 10, wouldn't that keep the 10x guy still 10x better/bigger/stronger/faster?

Also, "bad codebase" is a terrible excuse. There is always a way out.
Agreed, I can't watch football and this video at the same time. I can read and listen to football though. How dare you try to consume all of my bandwidth?
On a similar note, there is the story of Joshua Bell (a famous violinist) playing in a subway station and virtually everyone walked by.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Bell#Washington_Post_exp...
If political associations have greater protection under US law, would it be possible to create a network of political organisations similar to Riseup, but for every section of the political spectrum that would provide email accounts to everyone who applies? By having multiple providers you could cover 99% of the people who care about their privacy.
I really do find it difficult to believe that an assassination-for-hire marketplace would be mostly utilized by reasonable people anyway.
One small correction: even with a piece of paper saying so, you can only prove your level of knowledge through successful actions.
As someone looking to get into developing around Quickbooks (Desktop & Online), this terrifies the hell out of me.
This is a trite and strawman attack on sociology. Gladwell is a journalist, not a sociologist, for starters, and never claims siciology expertise.

Incidentally, Gladwell popularises psychology, sociology and other human action theories, adding in his own hypotheses (untested, but plausible) for good measure. He ought to differentiate more between his hypotheses and the things he gleans from others, but his work at least raises awareness in the wider public that there is a lot of useful work done in studying humans. It's useful journalism, if taken as such.

Don't confuse Gladwell's journalism with sociology, which has a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods. As in many academic arenas, there are good, mediocre and bad practitioners. Only the most naive of epistemologists assumes that a whole academic discipline-set is bad because not all of it requires mathematical assistance.
These aren't just a few percent. Defense spending itself is a fifth of the budget [1]. Regardless of how much of the budget each of these items are, the point is that these are paid through taxes. Corporate taxes are just another one of the many forms of taxation we have, so while you can make an argument to simplify these, or to cut some spending, it's silly to characterize taxation itself as some sort of robbery. Your western standards of living would not exist if not for the things that society has deemed appropriate for government to do.

1. http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=1258
This is a great piece of writing, but before you take too much of a lesson in human nature realize this was also in a commuter station at 8am on a work day. Even if people had wanted to stop, they had somewhere to be.

I've seen musicians on the level of a talented high schooler draw a big crowd and rake in cash at chinatown a few stops away. If Bell had done that experiment in Dupont Circle at 6pm on a Saturday night he'd have probably started a riot =).
Listen I’ve learned JavaScript the wrong way and then the right way [by reading JavaSript: the good parts] and i say hands down - Angular.js --- even thought it's in it's "premature" stage it's simply AMAZING! [easy to learn to compared to Backbone.js or Can.js]
It looks like Ovishinsky's corporation did make a profit, at least while he was running it. So I don't think your implied dichotomy--you can make a profit, or you can improve human welfare, but not both--holds water.
yup, newsflash to all the idiots in the world: google and facebook aren't doing anything for free. blue_beetle is still right:

“If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product
being sold.”
I assume you're making a point; if I'm correct, you're making my point.
I reiterate: I am not arguing against Jungian psychology. I am arguing against the well-known MBTI instrument that is promoted, and sold by the Myers-Brigg Foundation (http://www.myersbriggs.org/) as a tool to support therapists, employers, teachers, parents, and so on in their decision making.

Yes, I'm bayonetting a strawman. But that's because the Myers-Brigg Foundation set this strawman on an altar and made themselves high-priests, and they promise miracles to those who pay the entrance fee.

You're quite right that I know very little about Jungian psychology. That's why I focus on intro- / extraversion; because that's something I do know about and is well recognised in other schools of psychology. I also explained that the non-dichotomous nature of intro- / extraversion makes the MTBI I/E distinction almost useless.

But you tell me that the other psychologists have got it wrong. That the I/E distinction really is dichotomous, like left- / right-handedness. In that case, the MTBI test is even more useless, because it can't reliably distinguish them!
Really interesting. Thanks for the link!
My small amount of research discovered that you can live in a serviced hotel room for between 15,000 and 30,000 THB per month, which is $500 - $1000 USD. This was in Chiang Mai. I explored a couple of different hotels.

You can get serious discounts for booking a room for 3, 6 months. Combine that with eating out for every meal (instead of grocery shopping and cooking for yourself) and it's an incredibly cheap option. Meals are as cheap as $1 each.
Blogging with Nanoc: Easy workflow for embedding images
Report: Nation's Gentrified Neighborhoods Threatened By Aristocratization: http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-nations-gentrified-n... (2008)

"When you have a bejeweled, buckle-shoed duke willing to pay 11 or 12 times the asking price for a block of renovated brownstones—and usually up front with satchels of solid gold guineas..."
I would say their enterprise health isn't terrible and might even be growing.

But they're getting trounced in the consumer market so handily, and by so many other competitors, that it seems impossible they'll see ever see meaningful growth there. A lot of that is because of the legacy freight they're forced to carry wrt their PC and enterprise concerns...and because of the memories of everyone who had to deal with crappy MS systems in the 90's and early 00's.

I've often said it wouldn't be a terrible thing for MS to spin off a consumer division. It could integrate fully into MS's current services, but it would be free of the psychic burden of the "Microsoft" brand, with all of the stodgy uncoolness that that entails. Not to mention a separate company would be free to move more quickly in the face of the rapidly changing consumer market. However, the board would probably consider this to be a "hail mary" play.

I will be very interested in seeing how the new CEO handles the consumer side.
Slides 85-95.
http://www.pharo-project.org/about/success-stories
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

I've been using Ubuntu for 3 years and just never bothered to switch away to another distro. Before I started using Ubuntu, I had a Windows Vista laptop, and I just wanted to migrate to some Linux away from Windows. Chose the most popular option.

Since I began, I've had two major issues. A failed upgrade from 11.10 to 12-something put me between a rock and a hard place. I couldn't find a way to fix the upgrade or restore to a clean state without reinstalling the OS. Eventually, I just installed 12.04 LTS because I could install it from Windows. The other major issue was my wireless not working (Realtek on a Dell Vostro from 2009). I had to install the wireless drivers from source code (Ubuntu installation tools didn't help at all) and then reboot a few times to get it working.

I use Linux primarily because I wanted a first-class *nix command line: bash, GNU core utils, etc. When this laptop dies, I'll probably switch to a Macbook Air.
No need to get obset, that's where the "formal" in formal qualifications comes from.
Windows 8 :) what else, Ubuntu!
What about concurrent.futures from standard library?
>And I agree, Deutsche Telekom in Germany is awful and incompetent when it comes to customer service. If only their network weren’t so goddamn great … (It feels like a reversal of the situation in the US: Their technology is great and they are very competent at building their infrastructure – but how they treat customers is the exact opposite of that. And when I say technology I mean the network, not the technology they use to interface with customers.

Amusingly, you just described VZW in the United States. Fantastic network, absolutely awful at dealing with their customers.
Your D-Link router may have a backdoor
I logged in just to upvote this sentiment. The original title was very clear. It let me decide whether or not I was interested.

The new title makes no sense. I'd be highly likely to simply pass over it.
Partial blogger says something partial, more news at 11.
Reverse Engineering a D-Link Backdoor - /dev/ttyS0
"Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous." -Confucious
Bolstering a Phone’s Defenses Against Breaches
I'd take the job on for about 5 seconds before I pulled my golden ripcord. This is a job that no one likely can succeed at.
What math do you know, what math do you want to know?
You should be afraid. Everyone uses it differently, there are lots of opaque quirks to development and Intuit does wild things like kill their support forums without leaving the old content up for posterity's sake.

There are 2 or 3 different APIs, with verifying levels of support for various features. At times QB will push a release that breaks everything for all your clients and you're left to deal with it.

Not a fun time. edit(spelling)
There is no evidence that the cancer he got was related to his work on the Manhattan project.
Your 3 month old is a lot happier to be put down and to be with people other than his parents than your 2.5 year old is. And that's because your 2.5 year old slept with you. (happened tonight, despite the person knowing fully well both children co-sleep).

Oh you don't let your kid eat copious amount of candy? That child is deprived! (Happens on a regular basis, as we avoided candy and food high in artificial sugars for the year and a half, and restricted it to a single reasonable serving since).

You co-sleep with your children? That'll suck when they're 18 and still sleeping in your bed.

Your daughter is STILL rear-facing in the car (was until a week ago at which point she went past the height limit even though she has another 7lb before she hits the weight limit). My children rode in the lap! (same person has conveniently ignored our explanation of safety of rear vs. front facing car seats in the past).

Worst part of all the comments is people always picking on something they perceive as negative. The same people never comment the positives, such as the 2.5 consistently eating the same well-balanced meals adults eat, how well behaved and well spoken she is, etc. I'm well used to it by now, but still I take pleasure in shutting them down with smart-ass replies.
FISC Court renews the Permission to collect Telephony Metadata again
Here come the product names that sound like chewing and eating sounds. First up is gmumphroumroum.
Not my project, but it's an interesting one, in that it starts to break down the current hierarchical physical network topology: http://ronja.twibright.com/
I look at http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ and of course the Who's Hiring postings here on HN
Brand Colors
I use all OSes. And it matters _very_ little what OS you use. All that matters is how much resource your adversary is willing to expend to get at what it wants.

And can you back up your claim of Windows being deliberately backdoored? My third statement in this post makes this point moot, too.

RE: Schneier having Snowden documents, I don't know if Schneier's cleared or has access to compartments to view them. If he does not, people would arrive at his doorstep to confiscate them. And since we have not heard Schneier saying MIB have come to his door (which trust me he would since he's a publicity hog) leads me to believe that the US government cares _very_ little for him.
I dumped a lot more than that at Comiccon on people with actual talent (non derivative works). Banksy is a very strange thing that I really don't understand at all however I'm glad for him that he knows how to capitalize. Is the mindless kowtowing to rat stencils really just a tip of the hat to those without talent but a distinct political advantage? I can understand how some people would be into that, given the industry we're in.
The mistake you are making is that you think it'll take you 15 min/day to "restore state" every day. If you end up doing the same thing several times you'll get better at it. It's much harder if you skip days.

Another thing is that 15 min/day is pretty easy and it's main purpose is to lure you in. It's much harder to devote an hour or two or more. But 15 min is easy peesy. Once you are in, you tend to stay in for longer.

As for efficiency about cleaning the house, there is more to it than how much time it takes you. Having a clean home all the time is beneficial in ways that you miss when you only clean it once a week. You may not even be aware of the negative effects of the mess.
I had a similar experience. My accountant had never heard of Xero. I sent her a login and she was quickly using the system without a problem. For me, they've nailed making a system that is easy to use without being an accountant, but powerful enough for an accountant to do their job.
Summary:
Steve Jobs Steve Jobs Steve Jobs
I've lived in Shepherd's Bush and to the south by train. The commute from the 'burbs is grueling, but the cost differential is hard to ignore. (Hotels in London are naked extortion.)

The palpable sentiment is the average person is walking a razor-thin financial tightrope.
Apps that make the most of Apple iOS 7
How to map wealth in Africa using nothing but mobile-phone minutes
Well, email is safer in the U.S. since it's literally the only way it retains any Fourth Amendment protection, and even that is only if you own the hardware that the email is held on. As soon as it crosses international boundaries (even, apparently, virtual boundaries) it's fair game legally for the NSA to grab if they can.

But that was true in 2012 as well. The problem now, as it was then, is that people have chosen and they are quite willing to trade some privacy for cost and convenience.

The rise of mobile is only further accelerating that trend, and the lack of really good open source (or even commercial) PIM is not helping matters either. There's a reason people are switching to GMail instead of sticking with their existing free email through their own ISP, after all.
I've found this to be the case, often because Apple has branded itself so well with the "It just works" campaign, so when something doesn't work, many people assume they are what is broken, rather than the device.
It's okay, I totally just made up "documentation-driven development" too. And yeah, that's the best way I find. Always build a consumer and then build the supplier, you'll usually end up with a great experience.
> I think if I were in my early 20’s, looking for a startup idea and willing to do what the other person isn’t (e.g., move to a different part of the world), I’d spend all my time trying to understand this topic.

I don't understand this final item. Is this because the author thinks the US is or will be hostile toward bitcoin, or because he thinks that it can thrive more quickly in other parts of the world (like M-Pesa)?
I think it's more about more and more nations' economies growing and entering the global economy. When that happens you will get new millionaires and billionaires no matter how little inequality a country has.
It's a poor analysis, using one example. Zero points for research and comparison. Nothing about likely legislation and law enforceent norms for example. Even if the writer's not trying to be exhaustive, there are various factors to consider, and very few are outlined here.
and the best part: he doesn't make any mention of identifying characteristics of the "100% authentic" pieces he was selling. He's just given every banksy rip-off a huge boost in credibility, and destroyed the resale market for his own work.
Who is "they" and what are "those"?

Is "those" referring to zero-day vulnerabilities?

You realize that a zero-day vulnerability means "they" accessed "those," right?
Silicon Valley Elite in High-Tech Coffee War [video]
I really, really hope the Jessie freeze is shorter than Wheezy's. That went on so long it became a problem.
The problem I ran into was that I needed to perform roughly 20 interdependent queries in a short period of time. At most, I could do 5 queries in parallel due to the interdependent nature, but I still ran into trouble with the database being slow.

In the end, I added Redis as a caching layer, which cut time-per-query down a few ms per request, which was significant in this case.

I can only imagine how bad it could've been if I had block for each request instead of using the asynchronicity of node.
I find that much more amazing because you can hear how amazing Joshua Bell is as you walk by. You wouldn't hear it and say "that guy must be faking". It's common for NYC street vendors to sell art that is a copy of a more famous work, and there's no way to tell by looking.