skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assets are really weird. To make money you have to go to work. To save lots of money ($886k) you have to really push hard: Have a high-end job (at Google or a Big.Co.), have a university degree (better with a phD) and spend 20 years or more of your life to make that amount.

But somehow this guy made the same amount without putting really any effort or taking any risks. It's like inheritance when you are suddenly rich and collected all these years efforts.

What I'm trying to convey is that living without any assets is pretty darn hard in today life. As many (the majority) of people are inheriting wealth from their grand-parents and countries, they find life much easier.

I guess this also made life more expensive. Since they have the assets, this group can raise the prices (virtually) infinitely. They can exchange assets between each other, but people who are new to the game will be screwed.

I think the same thing is happening to Bitcoins. It's becoming too expensive that we'll see the 0.01% and the remaining of the 100%. It'll be probably as worse or much worse than real life.
Has anyone mentioned free media?

In the US you rise to the top of the media pile by dishing the dirt.

Naming and shaming does amazing things.
I'm not sure what you mean.
As far as I can remember, Firefox has had HTML 5 forms since Firefox 4 (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Form...).

What exactly are you talking about?
C could have meant a different syntax. Dylan is pretty well known for having macros without having s-expressions. And some pretty low level code can be written in Dylan. There's been some low level networking code by some Germans, as well as large parts of the Dylan runtime, including byte-level layout of method dispatch data. Looking through what he has so far in his repo (a quick look), a lot of it is similar to what we have in subject matter.
I will give you my reason to upvote the article: i value food for thought submissions more than the latest electronic gadget / somebody's opinion about a js framework.
> at least not enough to pay whatever Apple was asking to use it.

And I think that's the key issue – not just Apple's licensing fees, but the cost of the cables too. They'd either have to include a Lightning cable themselves or handle complaints from customers who need to buy an extra one. Either way, it's a bad deal.

The fact that it's a closed standard and requires licensing fees (both of which are clearly ridiculous) are separate issues from whether the design itself is technically better than USB or not.
You are welcome to live in the wilderness and call yourself whatever you want. If you want to live in a society you have to abide by rules to facilitate living together.

Never has a legal name been an only name. Chinese names ,nicknames, Jewish names all exist.
I don't know one person, who is not "happy enough" with Gmail as it is. I think therefore it would be better if title and starting screen of the website show what is the problem.
> Sorry but no. I doubt it will ever go further
> than prototype and wouldn't be surprised if it
> never reaches working prototype stage.

People said Phonebloks would never be more than a weak concept but here we are.

> How?

I meant that users complaining about battery life can be a considered a more general complaint about not being able to upgrade their hardware. If manufacturers start adding better batteries, users will gripe about another component. They could keep plugging leaks like that. Or they can introduce modularity and build a new dam.
Can someone please explain what is Docker exactly? I've read this page, http://www.docker.com/about_docker/docker/, and didn't understand. What exactly does it encapsulate? What does the application see when it queries its environment?
No, but that thread is golden, and certainly captures the essence of the agent-sniffer. That is, if YHWH had ever heard of agent sniffing, he would do it all the time and complain bitterly whenever it breaks, which is also all the time. Like any skilled troll, YHWH kept me guessing as to whether he was actually trolling or not. Those mozilla folks have the patience of ages. Best response was:

For future reference: look into externalizing your scripts/css into a separate file and referencing that instead of copying and pasting to every page.

I also liked the find | xargs and sed one-liners. They might as well have been speaking Aramaic.
I doubt Lightning is that much bigger than USB that it helps handling it.

And I didn't say anything about whether Lightning is better or worse than USB, or more versatile or what ever. Just that can we please stop with the "But it's reversible" thing? It just sounds like something to say when people can't come up with better reasons.
I very much agree. Now, I only touch raw JavaScript when I absolutely have to.
I try to keep a normal 9-5 work schedule since keeping such a schedule is overall more productive for me. Sometimes I work on the weekend but usually just one day unless there is some big deadline. I sometimes go in early like 7am too (I am a morning person).
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I would have preferred they do that, but I have to admit, whenever I plug in my girlfriend's iPhone 5S, I have to drool at the connector that cannot be put in upside down. Apple just made a better connector, period, and it is in their best interests to use it whenever possible and just provide an adapter to use worse ones. For micro-USB I usually have to squint at the device and the cable tip for a bit before I connect anything and Apple's experience is just plain better for something that happens multiple times a day, often in bed with the lights dim in the morning or evening.
It's funny to see this here today. I've been on the phone and in store with Apple and my carrier today trying to get a faulty lock button sorted. Here's what I've learnt so far:

It's the second time it's happened in 10 months but unfortunately the phone is 1 month out of the Apple 12 month warranty. Even with a cracked screen (glass not LCD and working fine) Apple was willing to replace it to fix the lock button until they noticed it was 13 months old (out of 12 month contract). At this point the EU warranty comes in (6 years in the UK - Apple actually informed me of this but I was already aware). It is the seller who has to cover it though and as I bought it from the carrier Apple pointed me to them.

The problem is (and Apple actually warned me about this) the local carrier store manager. He's actually asked the local Apple store to stop informing people of their 6 year warranty rights and refused to help me.

On the phone they have been just as useless failing to acknowledge any EU warranty laws. At this point I'm waiting to hear back from some higher up at the carrier.

Fortunately I contacted Apple via phone and they were much more helpful. I'm still waiting to hear back (the person on the phone had to speak to someone more senior) but as it's just out of warranty and the second time I've had the fault it sounds like they might replace it.

tl;dr The EU warranty laws apply to the seller not the manufacturer. Don't buy from a carrier (they are assholes), buy from Apple. If Apple sets up your contract with the carrier they become the seller and will be more helpful.
Sure, hypothetically, but there is a lot that can go wrong.

Scalability is an issue. In the future we will probably have to rely on thin clients making bitcoin less attractive.

Governments won't peacefully accept bitcoin. Why would we let people make under the table payments, enabling tax evasion and laundering? They've ignored it so far but as it becomes more popular we could see action taken against it. You may object that bitcoin is decentralized and on the internet and therefore invincible. But if exchanges were shut down that would be devastating.

A better cryptocurrency could take its place.
I think it's mostly a tactic to mitigate, prevent, defend against denial of service, since the Mozilla user base is absolutely gigantic.

My suspicion is that it's essentially a "security through obscurity" tactic, so that the majority of users are left with no choice but the "smart" installer, which offers greater control for load balancing heavy duty traffic during peak download periods.

See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5613152
Thank you! It went splendidly!

Off topic: They actually advertise the toilet as being unclogable and demonstrate it by flushing a bucket of golf balls down it. Brilliant.
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Record user sessions into videos on your apps
Ask HN: How do you get in the flow?
Do you start your routine with reading HN? Deep breathing exercises? A particular playlist?

Asking because I get distracted a lot and am wondering what other coders do to "get in the zone".
The problem is that the free market and freedom of choice aren't appropriate solutions to all problems, one of them is standardization.

For the EU, the whole Micro USB thing isn't just about defining a connector that is somehow superior to all existing solutions. It is about standardization and about reducing waste from old phone chargers.

And I think Apple, with their shift to the Lightning Connector proofed this point for the EU better than anyone else could have. Just think about the enormous amount of chargers and other products with a dock connector that will hit the landfills sooner rather than later for no good reason at all, except Apples vanity and some marginal improvements.
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Hey everyone, dotCloud/Docker founder here. I just wanted to thank the HN community for your support. Your feedback - both positive and negative - has shaped Docker more than you know.

I also want to confirm that, yes, the trust and satisfaction of our customers matters more to us than any amount of money. You can always make more money later, but once trust is gone, it's gone. So expect us to work ourselves to exhaustion to continue to earn the trust of our paas customers, no matter how crazy things get with Docker (and I can tell you it's only going to get crazier!)
Elcuervo/airplay · Airplay bindings to Ruby
Alternatively, you could help us improve the responsiveness of Firefox: https://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2013/10/0...

I am willing to help you get started, if you are interested.
"For thousands of qualifying books, your past, present, and future print-edition purchases now allows you to buy the Kindle edition for $2.99, $1.99, $0.99, or free."

There is a verb agreement error lurking in there.

s/allows/allow/
Mencius Moldbug expands on this concept http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.in/2011/04/on-monet...
Yeah but the US and India, which the OP is comparing were both part of the British Empire.

Indeed former British holdings span all extremes of corruption from the Sudan to New Zealand and every flavor in between.
It's never going to happen on XP.
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Looking closely at the top photo it looks like they have differently shaped Exo's as well. One appears to be much wider, where the other is more iPhone 5 shaped.
Wouldn't it be appropriate to generalize to Anglo-Saxon countries rather than only the US?
For context, the Mercury Theatre on the Air site has a full recording of Orson Welles's staging of The War of the Worlds available at [1][mp3]. It doesn't sound to me like the cast were trying to make it particularly realistic. Commercial radio broadcasting was still relatively novel in 1938, but its hard to understand now how anyone thought it was real.

The site [2] also has a brief recording of a conversation [3][mp3] between Orson Welles and H. G. Wells (which I haven't listened to). I hadn't realised that their adult lives overlapped.

[1] http://sounds.mercurytheatre.info/mercury/381030.mp3

[2] http://www.mercurytheatre.info/

[3] http://sounds.mercurytheatre.info/mercury/401028.mp3
My favorite bug report. The reporter of the bug runs quite a few over the top early 2000s looking religious websites. I won't post them here because they give me a ton of security warnings on FF but the more adventurous reader may want to take a look. Lack of -moz-opacity:0.7 should really be at the bottom of the reporters problems.
For example, let's say you want to load it up in a VM

You've just excluded >95% of Firefox users. Those that do use a VM will know how to get hold of the full installer.

If they'd stop making full installs, I would be annoyed. But they're just optimising for the most common use cases.
> without putting really any effort or taking any risks

He sunk $27 into an investment that (from his knowledge at the time) had a high chance of ending up completely worthless, and a low chance of exploding in value (if bitcoin took off).

That isn't "without taking any risk". On the contrary, it was a very high-risk investment. In this case, it paid off. (It was a low value investment, but that doesn't change the relative risk: making lots of (un- or anti-correlated) low-value, high-risk investments, instead of one big one, is a way to reduce your total risk).
Wow. I was asking honestly, as a user of CentOS.
Site is unviewable on Chrome for iPad (ios7).
We use Papertrail (http://papertrailapp.com) and it's been invaluable.
> a designer and a front-end developer

Could that be because you subconsciously make your designs using knowledge of the technical limitations of the web?
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If you're going to do serious video editing, it's well worth learning avisynth.
There's no security in the rental market in the UK. You can be out of your home or have large rent increases with very little notice.

In contrast with Germany which has strong rights for tenants including gasp rent control which seems to be hated here on HN.
Historically it was a cultural thing. Many of the institutions in US government are designed around neighbors being part of the system on an elected basis. If you have a sense of community, you look out for your neighbors. So if someone is breaking into your neighbor's house you might call the police, similarly if you've been elected to a local council and someone is taking bribes which is making your neighbors lives less "good" then you prosecute that.

Unfortunately, as the sense of community has worn thin, corruption has become more common. Politically fostering a 'us' (people) and 'them' (government) attitude seems to correlate with increased incidence of government malfeasance. And the number of incidents has risen according to statistics published by the FBI.

I believe the only counter agent we have is for wider participation by the population which is intolerant of corruption.
Not sure how much it meets your needs (I know it does on 1 and 5, but probably not on 2) but have you considered Windows Azure? They have managed Linux instances with git deployment and a great web interface.
Northern Ireland. I've yet to meet anyone using Talk (of course this is just my personal experience, maybe it's big and just the people I know don't use it). Most messaging occurs through SMS, Facebook and now 3rd party apps (Viber is pretty big).
What's so special about Google's AngularJS?
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Its not, but you are talking to someone for whom the dead of winter was a low 40 for a few nights prior to moving out here. The snow and ice I actually like, mainly because it is infrequent.
One correction, or whatever.

The fines did not force more doctors to look at EHRs, it forced many like my Doctor and those in his office complex to sell their practices to big Medical conglomerates. So from a complex of multiple independent practices, many decades old, they all sold. Now they are employees of these conglomerates and there is now staff who deals with EHR, they just ask for print outs and fill out forms.

As for Doctors suddenly becoming responsible for managing their customers care, well that will lead to less individual practices as they won't be able to afford those patients who cannot be managed.

Your now a number to be managed. Fortunately for me my Doctor remembers his long term patients. He will be here till they finally force him out.
Super annoying, yes! I completely agree with you. It's not just Firefox being the culprit here though... .NET is the same, and so is Chrome, and the list can grow like a mayor's coat-tails!

Also, here's a genuine usecase for a truly offline installer... What if you are the "resident software/pc maintainer" of your extended family.... In such a case, would it not make better sense to have one complete download, then copy it into a pen drive, and install it on every machine, without spending 30 mins to an hour on every machine, doing a download+install for every single one!

The rationale of an online installer might be justified as some of the replies indeed seem to do, but, I think that there is something fundamentally flawed/wrong with having to first "download an installer", only to have it "download the application" again! I mean, what the hell!?

EDIT: Also, the speed of these release cycles (not just Mozilla, but other software too!) are getting old and tired to keep up with, TBH...
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Not everything has to be grand. Iterating away small annoyances is a worthy part of design and is often noticeable.
I think this trial week is mostly for hiring fresh out of college candidates. They can spare the week, and it makes sense there. It's not such a good idea for people who already have a job.
My point is that the benefit of Javascript (i.e. being able to run on all consumer computers with (almost) a single code base) isn't a benefit that interests me. I tried to explain why because I know that a lot of people on HN have very different reasons for wanting to develop software -- people don't apply to YC because they are building a small lifestyle business to support their family.

>if you wanted to do that through the web then hey, you would probably use Javascript to accomplish that.

Well personally I wouldn't since as I said I'd rather not develop software at all then use Javascript/CSS/HTML.

Of course the rest of the industry has no obligation to continue supporting the open native platforms that allow me to use the technologies I prefer. However I don't think it is unreasonable to moan when I see those platforms being killed.
Sometimes people need to drive. Sometimes they need a boat. Why not combine two into a boat-car? They both have engines. They both have steering wheels. It's perfect!
wow, that went on forever...just like her books.
>> I want to one day build a clinic run without an EHR. All of the personal health data of a patient will be stored on their phone. Each time they come into the office, they’ll give OAuth access to one of our physicians...

I like this idea, but patients vary wildly in responsibility. You'd have to have a plan for those who can't or won't keep track of anything.
> to buy an apartment in Toyen, one of the Norwegian capital’s wealthier areas.

Most definitely not. It's more like an immigrant ghetto, together with Grønland.
Wrong, the stub is an annoying experience if you are behind a company firewall, or with slow connection. And the point about bandwidth saving doesn't make sense either, since instead of putting Firefox installer in a file share and be done, now I have to put there a stub, instruct everyone how to bypass the proxy, if possible, and then everyone has to download it again and again.
Take it to a data recovery expert?
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Because the publishing industry doesn't believe that we should own the things we own.
Your theory is bad and you should feel bad.
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Companies vary greatly regarding willingness to grant unpaid vacation time on top of the vacation provided. The reason against unpaid vacation is there is work to be done, and theoretically if everyone took some unpaid vacation they'd need to hire more workers, and the cost of hiring and training each worker is significant.

Unpaid vacation, in my experience, is most often given when a job seeker starts a new position and has travel plans in the first few months. If the hire hasn't accrued their vacation time (and doesn't want to burn it all up right away), an unpaid leave is usually a good option.
I have been using Docker for a couple of days now, and am really in love with it! Congratulations on the new direction and wish you all the luck in the world!

I'd like to ask one question though - It seems that it's possible to limit the amount of cpu and memory of each container, but not so with the filesystem. I know this is some issue related to AUFS being used internally. But I would really like to know whether there is _any_ hack that allows us to limit the size of the filesystem, or whether it's in the pipeline?
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I see no reason we would have the technology to terraform alien planets but not to genetically engineer some aliens to talk to or uplift local life forms to our own level of sapience.
So could the $14 mark.
What happens if you are brought in unconscious?

Every so often people come up with this idea of the patients holding their medical information rather than the institutions but they tend to suffer greatly in emergency situations and/or have tortuously complicated hierarchies of trust and security.
It's not just the pure numbers, but geographical and cultural range. 8 million people in an area (16k sqmi) smaller than the US State of West Virginia(24k sqmi) are going to have an easier time understanding and voting on issues affecting everyone than 300+ million people in an area over 9 millon square miles. Direct democracy in the US could end up with even worse tyranny of the majority issues than already experienced. (Example, detonating multiple nuclear weapons in the state of Nevada in the 50s. It might have passed in a national vote, but likely not a vote only in Nevada.)
> (see: homelessness, hospital costs, correlation with violent crimes, impaired drivers hurting others, etc)

Those are consecuences of being outlawed, not of consuming substances. Blame the prohibition and not the substances. The proof of this is simple: just compare. Compare people drinking coffee today and in 19th century Russia (where it was prohibited). Compare people drinking alcohol today and in early 20th century USA. Compare people using opiates today and in the roman empire...
Sounds like the friends you are talking about really don't care about you that much. I wouldn't consider them friends.
The guy is living in a Norwegian country. So $27 is probably the price of a meal in an expensive restaurant. I'm assuming he didn't make any investment but was rather curious how this thing work and wanted to hold some of this digital currency.

If he was making an investment, he'd have probably followed and tracked it. That was not the case. He just found out about it.

Otherwise, my comment wasn't about that particular detail.
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