skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making around 500$/month from a carbon ad on my http://bootsnipp.com (free Bootstrap snippets), plus a couple hundred from affiliate income that I link to from the site... Time spent originally was 4 days.

Released a new improved version of the site two weeks ago (the rewrite took about 60-80 hours total but has bigger potential for the site). Now thinking of selling templates or skins on the site too - that would be a whole lot more $ than the ad...
From a mallard? A duck?
> Even if Silicon Valley comes out as arrogant to the outside world, it is quite justified. That's not hard to see. Just look at the appreciation rates of stocks by category in the past 5 years, for instance.

Were you around in 1999? People said the same stuff then too and look how that turned out.

> "code" becomes the de facto law in many contexts.

"It's the New Economy! Everything is different now."
A brief video of GNOME Shell 3.10 on Arch Linux
you're broken.
the actual beer is called "Mephistopheles' Stout" if you typed that in, it will offer congratulations and offer to fuck your face. and even if you were to just type in "Mephistopheles" it would want to hang the fuck out with you.

if on the other hand you typed in "Mephistopheles Stout" you would of course not have entered the name of the beer, and you would be rightly told that you are an inspiration for birth control (or other such wonderful life lessons)

or at the end of it, you can be like the others who get it and realize, it's vulgar insults and vulgar encouragements that helps suggest craft beers to drink after you're done drinking the one you're currently on. either way, thanks for looking and taking the time to type in your beer to see if a shitty website approves of your (mostly) shitty life choices :)
Sure, now look at buying a house and you will come to the exact opposite conclusion.
One important thing to know is that in islamic banking, interest or anything that exploits time value of money is considered usury, and is haraam (sinful). There exists a whole institution of islamic banking compliant with shariah law.

From gift giving for usage of money such as hibah to good will repayment of debt such as qardul hassan where the debtor may repay more than the principal amount, islamic banking seeks to avoid interest (riba).
If you're interested in PLATO, stay tuned. I have been working for many years on a book that tells the story of the PLATO system. It's what I am working on full-time at the moment, 7 days a week.

Three years ago I put on a 2-day conference at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the creation of the PLATO system. Videos of all the sessions are available on YouTube at YouTube.com/platohistory.

If you want to know more about the book and what it covers, go to http://friendlyorangeglow.com
This is actually why I posted this. It seems PLATO has never gotten its due for the truly revolutionary concepts it introduced. I remember - in the early eighties - playing networked games and participating in tournaments, sending "personal notes" which were emails, participating in discussion forums with people from universities all over the world, taking lessons to augment my schoolwork...There was even instant messaging. All from a PLATO terminal which was made out of wood and metal and connected to the university mainframes at 1200baud.
the site is called "should i drink this fucking beer ?" not "should i drink this fucking beer by this brewery?" ;)

typing "Dale's Pale Ale" brings forth the lovely foamy compliments i so desire in a green, hoppy, insulting website. go give it a shot and you'll feel warm and fuzzy (from the website, not just the beer)

so tonight, i raise my bottle of pliny to you and tomorrow i shall raise my can of heady topper to you. for you will have checked out a site about beer. and typed your shit correctly.
I've always thought that Microsoft tools are priced accordingly to the region, I assume that it's adjusted depending on the purchasing power of the consumers?

e.g. Visual Studio costs $500 in the US, but it's at least twice that here in Australia.
haha, good catch! thanks.
What? Are you comparing idle blogging emmissions starting with "If you are like me" or "I have always been a huge fan of" or "What I will say has been said already here, there and there but I will repeat it anyway" with pg essays? Are you comparing playdoh "shapes" produced by an army of monkeys monkeying each other with the few and rare carefully carved gemstones we can read under pg's hand? Must be kidding...
A network analysis of the ownership relations among transnational corporations shows that 147 corporations (mostly banks) control the bulk of the other ~43,000 transnational corporations: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

Which is, probably, scarier than that other graph, though harder to understand intuitively.
An interesting property of art is that is doesn't enforce anything. You have to be willing to accept its message. War is pretty much the exact opposite end of the same line of distributing power.
Ghost is still under beta. It is growing gradually and many features like plugins and comment systems are being planned.
For now you can create a new Ghost blog on some hosting and create a new subdomain
so http://blog.mysite/ will work...
You'd be setting up a straw man that presumably you don't want with this caveat. There is already some evidence that sexual orientation is not fully genetic in all cases. The real position, that I take, is who cares if it's genetic. 'Genetcism' has become the modern day naturalism, and like it's fore barer gives no insight to morality.
I don't see how this is so different than our usual Western banking system, except that it's less regulated and more customer-friendly.
Freshman year at UofI I enrolled in a Philosophy course, 108 I think. Mostly liberal arts majors, another engineer and I were in the same study session. The philosophy graduate student TA gets us together for our first study session of the year and walks us through the syllabus.

TA: This semester, we'll be talking about Aristotle, Descartes and Plato.
Engineer: We'll we be taking our tests on PLATO?
TA: Yes, we will have two midterms and a final and we will cover Plato.
Engineer: No, I mean will we be taking all our tests on the PLATO system.
TA: I don't know what you mean, but yes, you will be tested on Plato.
Engineer: No, I mean.
Me: The TA is talking about the philosopher Plato while Mr. Engineer is talking about an online testing computer called PLATO.
Rest of class, befuddled, me rolling my eyes.
Discrimination imposes an extra cost on the discriminator. In a free market, firms that engage in irrational discrimination will be driven out of business. This is a central thesis of "Capitalism and Freedom" by Milton Friedman.
No you are making the classical mistake of thinking the combination of Marxism and human nature can play out any other way. The Sovs even knew this themselves, hence their trying to create New Soviet Man (and predictably failing).
Because not everybody can compile my TeX documents on their machine.

In all seriousness, the only reason you should be using PDFs is if the exact presentation must be preserves. Basically, this means any documents which contain maths or figures or tables would be best constructed in TeX and turned into PDFs, so that you can control the exact presentation.

For anything else I strongly recommend people just use HTML! (Or something which can be turned into HTML.)
Thanks, but it hardly takes a genius to point it out (probably should have patented it though..).

It's pretty clear that the "bitcoin<->local currency" market is a big one, but dangerous to get into because of regulatory risk. Any players who can avoid that risk somehow have a big advantage.

OTOH, if you actually want your mind blown then watch [1]. That's a video of Brad Fitzpatrick pointing out that the Bitcoin protocol allows things like implementing Kickstarter in the Bitcoin protocol itself, or - more relevant to this discussion - things like "Party A pays Party B, but only if Party C vouches for it, and Party C cannot receive the money".

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYukPc0y_Ro#t=970
> The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a club of mostly rich countries, reckons that labour captured just 62% of all income in the 2000s, down from over 66% in the early 1990s. That sort of decline is not supposed to happen.

Has the fraction of people supported by capital as opposed to labor stayed constant over that time period? I know OECD countries have been aging, it wouldn't take that much of a demographic shift towards retirees and other non-laborers to account for the change.
Hmm, there's a lot unsaid in the thread and details that cloud the discussion if we dug in. The example I was thinking of was in Hollywood, but I don't know how many of the negative commenters were actually residents.

While Hollywood does have the metro and is largely walkable, other vast areas of it are used solely as surface parking lots that look like urban blight to most folks. Expanding to the rest of LA, I see the same complaints over and over, as if turning asphalt jungle into homes and businesses were a bad thing.

The point of that paragraph was that if a person wants to live in suburbia they should not reside in the center of a mega-city.
Demystifying SaaS conversions: pragmatic approach to improving your website
Yep, in the '90s we called that "dot-communism".
Flag and move on, please.
Too much brand consolidation could have a negative market appeal.

Consolidating logistics would be another matter.
interesting! i can clearly understand what each means, but i think the average person might get confused. how about just the key and the open padlock? signed/encrypted content can have the icon on the side (kind of like the shortcut indicator in windows)?
If the male candidate got several job offers and the female got none, would you consider this evidence of gender discrimination? Bayes' Law says you cannot rationally hold both beliefs simultaneously.
I agree. Life is a bit simpler for me being single and not having big recurring expenses (my only monthly bills are rent, phone, car insurance - and I'm getting rid of the car).

I think a tool to show behavior patterns in spending would be immensely helpful. I typically spent very differently when money was tight vs when my credit balances were at $0. It took me a few cycles before realizing that as soon as I had a couple grand in my pocket I'd make some big ticket purchase that wasn't always necessary. In fact, I'm fighting off the urge to buy a new rMBP right now! hah.

I think what you're talking about is a problem that nobody has even attempted to solve yet. I normally spend about $75 /yr on "financial tools" (usually credit reports, fico scores, etc), so yes, I would be willing to spend money on something like that if it were good and could learn & show my patterns over time.

Heck, if it sat watching my browser history and would ask me if I really wanted to buy X when I'm spending too much time looking at it on Amazon, that'd be killer! lol
I was actually talking about clones of closed-source applications.
A letter to the boys
Checking accounts shouldn't really be used for sums of money like $20k; they're intended for payments-out, so should be restricted to the buffer needed for one or two months' payments.

They are equivalent to DMZ servers; hold only what is necessary for the service and be prepared to drop them quickly if problems occur.

The real money ( such as received salary and savings ) should be in firewalled deposit-only accounts ( like servers in the secure internal network ). Push from the salary receiving account to checking when necessary. Don't accept any requests from the DMZ.
I think people want a quicken like tool that will track all their finances...budgeting, tracking and stocks. mint never did that and users were spammed with too many ads.

It's a hard thing to do. Intuit should had never bought mint and kept working on its online offering of quicken. Now the only thing that's any good is the desktop version of quicken.
Most of the comments here try to spin this story as anti-TSA, which is laughable. Fact is, a man with an assault rifle targeted a vulnerable spot at an airport. That man was batshit insane, which means that while today that man targets TSA agents, tomorrow that man could be suckered in by some other random propaganda pamphlet or web site.

If TSA didn't exist, Mr. Violent Crazy Man simply takes up another cause and chooses another target, and without the TSA, he could could have taken down a plane in-flight, causing 300 deaths rather than one, and incalculable economic damage. Thank you, TSA, for limiting what such men can do. You are the front line of the crazy filter.
He did a better job of aping doge than you did, and not everyone needs to love it.
This is fantastic!

To save the most lives, select Against Malaria Foundation as your charity. It's the current top recommendation from Givewell (http://www.givewell.org), an excellent charity evaluation organization. They focus on proven cost-effectiveness and transparency.

AMF can save lives at a rate of $2500 or so per life saved, which vastly outperforms most other giving opportunities, at least if you require a high standard of evidence. Givewell's evaluation of AMF is here: http://www.givewell.org/international/top-charities/AMF
It showed up, on Reddit, 6 hours ago as a meme, using the Actual Advice Mallard image.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1pu5wh/a_simp...

http://i.imgur.com/SRIGLBb.jpg
I tried DDG for a week, but I found it much slower than Google which is what ultimately led me to switch back.
I believe this was in reference to the girls duped by guys into giving up sex. Where girls think that now that they have had sex, they are bound together. Like that comment about the secretary hoping for the boss to leave his wife
Unrelated side note: I posted this but my Android app gave an error so I thought it didn't. I only found this by the @newsyc50 account on Twitter.
This suggestion was recently posted an "Actual Advice Mallard" meme on Reddit.
This makes sense, out of curiosity however and only for the sake of research and free legal advice I have one more question ;)

If said C-Corp denies knowledge that the LLC was infringing and then ceases to "license" the technology at the time of the C&D could it free the C-corp from liability?
Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter and all of the other successful companies would have succeeded despite all of this shit.

None of those successful companies make a profit; they are all in the process of burning through someone else's money. Whether they can convert that to a money-making situation is still an open question, but given their huge valuations, that might be tough. They have certainly been a success for their founders, initial investors, and free users, but as companies (which are formed to make a profit), they are not currently successful.

If you are so hostile to big money, then you should not be promoting companies as successes which have relied heavily on raising huge amounts of money to fund loss-making operations for years. Other companies like linode, slicehost or 37signals might be better examples of success you could aspire to.
It's not Comcast's service that's the problem anymore--their service has actually improved a lot over the past few years.

It's their prices and the fact that they have no direct competition to force them to charge a rate any closer to what the service actually costs to provide.

It costs hundreds of dollars per user, per month to consume data over cable only because the cable provider has a monopoly.
So what you're saying is that most people who valorize the 1950's are assuming they'll be Don Draper and not some nameless black daughter with no economic or educational prospects whose dad was just lynched?
It's a good day for me and many others who are suffering from bug https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59841 , black screen after GRUB.
Indeed. Geneticism dumbs down the discourse to a paternalistic "but they can't help it!".

This is both trivializing and infantilizing. The central premise of geneticism is that these things are wrong, and the only reason we shouldn't discriminate against these people is because they can't help but be wrong.

The argument then becomes that we shouldn't discriminate against people for something they can't change - the chief implication that, if it could be changed, it should.

That whole line of argumentation is horseshit and concedes the most important point of all to the fundamentalists: that one's sexual orientation or gender identity can be morally reprehensible.
Don't you mean dogema?
>a lot of men that think that niceness at work is a way into a hot girl's pants.

I am tempted to ask, if niceness isn't, what is?
Amazon may be making more profit on these purchases, rather than less--utilizing the potent marketing skills of non-profit organizations to direct more dollars to Amazon without Amazon having to pay higher affiliate fees. I'm not an expert, but I think Amazon's affiliate fees can be as high as 10% of the purchase price. 0.5% is a 20x cheaper customer acquisition cost.
Well, we've already had glimpses of this, with varying degrees of disruptions. CGI generated still pictures don't seem to have any real success except in some very niche communities. Video games are certainly successful with it although still dominated by human level design. Partially generated photo effects and CGI are enormously popular, but suffer much blow back and derision from many.
A parallel statement could be said about Wikipedia. I bet if you're a world-class expert at something, probably the last thing you want to do when you get home after a hard days work is log to Wikipedia and edit articles and deal with mods.

Still, Wikipedia manages to maintain a not-bad-for-a-first-try quality level on most science-y topics.
Twitter is widely used by many people, but still for many people (investors included), it hasn't shaken the prevailing notion that it is useless. I think he's talking about TV which people understand better to suggest that Twitter is becoming as ubiquitous as TV.
This is great news! Keep it up!
Here's the original talk for anyone that prefers original content to the "journalist telephone" game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOubCHLXT6A
WSJ: Silicon Valley Has an Arrogance Problem

SV: Also, I personally think the WSJ article is pointless and whiny. Even if Silicon Valley comes out as arrogant to the outside world, it is quite justified. That's not hard to see. Just look at the appreciation rates of stocks by category in the past 5 years, for instance.

QED
There's a catch... It only works if you go to http://smile.amazon.com, using the regular amazon won't do anything.
Technology and design firms in Washington favor opening on the ground floor
do you think that's because once they get really big (especially if they become publically traded) what they can say gets restricted by the SEC?
Wireheading
> People are trusting and want to help others. How do you solve a problem like overly friendly, helpful employees?

Ah, I'm so glad I don't work in security. In the library field, you seldom hear people say "Our employees are decent human beings. How can we fix this?" with a straight face.
Maybe I am very sheltered in my online media consumption, but if 6 companies own 90% of traditional media, it is shocking how little presence they have online.

Neither Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumbler, reddit or more traditional blogging sites like Medium, quartz.com, or the Huffington Post are (currently) owned by these 'big 6'.
User agent headers always uneasily remind me of this: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Does [Toronto Mayor] Rob Ford Smoke Crack?
Thanks! Let me know if you have any issues with it.
Apart from its use of ST rather than IO, I'm curious how else Wisp compares to Husk. As far as I can tell, despite the name, Wisp appears to be a Lisp-1 (single namespace for functions and variables, no need to call "apply" or similar on variables referencing functions to call them).
There are startups everywhere. As an European, I think it's a sad, but the truth that there isn't a single "leading tech company" in Europe, where just in as in SV area there are several. It's very different than having few startups working on their websites in a startup cafe.

Soundcloud is cool but not exactly a technology platform. Successful in in it's own niche, but a dwarfs beside Youtube or iTunes volume.

I don't think there isn't any reason why there can't be (like Nokia was at some point), but just now there isn't any left.

(I said "leading" in quotes, because someone might comment that there are Siemens, SAP and whatever, but I really can't think of that many hardware/digital/services products that I would regularly use or to build on for work or for other purposes.)
No, knowledge of infringement is not required to be liable. Proof of "willful infringement" will result in higher damages, but even without willfulness or knowledge of the patent, you could still face some pretty hefty damages.

Part of why patent trolls are so unpopular is precisely because they go after folks who have no reason to suspect they might be infringing. The scanner trolls are a good example of this. [1]

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/patent-trolls-wan...
Dragon Fantasy's Unlikely Hero
Also totally useless...so far. However I think Capitol Hill to Pioneer Square will be nice for me. Big, important difference is that the SLUT cost $50mm. No reason to expect future lines will be much different in price. I'd much rather have a half dozen 50mm projects than a single billion dollar boondoggle.

http://www.seattlestreetcar.org/about/docs/faqCosts.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludic_fallacy
I was offered the choice between three teams, all of which sounded interesting and only one of which worked on open source. I chose pagespeed mostly because I was interested in working on the A/B testing framework, which needed a new owner.

I wasn't a fresh grad; four years and two jobs out of school at that point.
I maybe misunderstanding your use of "teather" here but most laptops already have a port for sim chips under the battery.
How StatusPage.io Built Their MVP
He expressed this on twitter, which can be characterized as a microblog. I'd hazard a guess that fewer people blog and instead address the kinds of comments in shorter form mediums.

This seems like a general trend, and "CEOs and entrepreneurs" are probably just following that general trend.
So it's pretty much like Ripple.

http://ripple.com
Living in China - Astrill, they have a variety of different protocols and endpoints, some working better than others on any given day.
The nation owes debt in USD, but controls the supply of USD and can always print more. This causes inflation as a side effect, which is not a problem, or you would have noticed it.

I don't see why you should care about city debt either, unless you live somewhere near bankrupt. Interest rates are incredibly low meaning there is no better time to be in debt, and you probably have some crumbling public infrastructure in the area.
Show HN: A Better Facebook Mobile App
It's not that it's uninteresting. It's that it's posted without context or commentary.
We have a nominee for the useless use of cat award.
Show HN: One File, Completely Secure, Access Anywhere.
Errr, out of 1 million eligible 501c's how many are "controversial"? as in political shills or fronts for religious nut jobs?

I wonder how Amazon plans to deal with the inevitable "why did you donate to a charity supporting / opposing $ISSUE?

Edit: well kids that's what happens if you comment before coffee - a negative take on something that has a decent potential to up the level of giving USA wide by a huge margin. Visit givewell.org and choose your favourite.

may as well make that prime account count - let me know when the UK can join in too.