skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may want to check the prices on some of those. The game is still quite popular, and has keep the market prices high as newer players become interested in some of the older stuff like Arabian Nights.

Due to some of the current decks like "dredge", for example, has sent the price of "Bazaar of Baghdad" into the $250-$450 range, and "Library of Alexandria" has always been in the >$200 range.

As for Antiquities... a "Mishra's Workshop" is likely more useful than the traditional power-9 right now, and is /easily/ worth >$400.

Given how little a single card weighs, some of those might just be worth their weight in gold. Even without those very-high-price cards, though, there's a lot of newer players that just want stuff from those older sets in general. It's pretty rare to see <$1 cards like you do with the newer sets, and /many/ are in the $15/25 range, so a couple boxes of cards could easily be worht a decent amount.

Re: this article - like any investment based on fads and nostalgia like comix, MTG cards, tulips... it's only the people that got in at the beginning that get much profit out of it. Jumping on the bandwagon later on when it's now known to a lot of people is never going to work - there's obviously a lot of others people doing the same thing, and saturating the market.

Those of you luck enough to have bought in before it was big, though... can get really lucky some times.

I think all the beta dual-lands a good friend of mine likes to play with make any deack their in >$20k O.O

/i only found out about the game during The Dark, which is just barely on th eline of "too recent", unfortunately.
This is probably the coolest site I have seen in terms of reactiveness. They even had the insight to have the backgrounds of the videos the same color as the site background. Awesome!
If you're 20, you can't yet speak to the potential long-term downsides of being seen as an opportunistic job-hopper.
The operative word in cs705's comment is incentive. The patent system is broken in such a way that not only does it makes possible to get away with this behavior, it encourages and rewards it. That's very different than merely "making it possible".
From the original article:

There were people announcing that our software will work
just fine on top of their technical stack, others posted
videos showing our software working somewhat on top of
an (IMHO idiotic) hack. It was decided on a mailinglist
I'm not subscribed to that I would walk people through
the KWin code base in a telco for adjusting KWin for
their technical stack. All of that without ever asking
whether we are interested at all. In case of the telco I
was not even asked whether I would want to participate
and whether I have time for that. I experienced this as
a constant pressure and a disrespect to our own
decisions.

It sounds an awful lot like Canonical expecting Gräßlin to spend his time on this project despite the fact that he's not interested in it at all.

Isn't Mir supposed to have XMir as a compatibility layer
anyway? Wouldn't this mean that KDE should work on top of
it without extra porting work?

I believe the XMir compatibility is supposed to be at the application level, not the window manager/compositor level.

KWin is a window manager and compositor, which is fairly specific to the precise graphics stack underneath it.
I also recall Mark Shuttleworth saying so: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/...
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About 3 hours of exercises out of an upper division CS textbook interspersed with not-so-subtle references to alcohol and cocaine.
Only the first video played for me on Linux/Firefox nightly, and Readability choked on it.
Essential tips to work through spells of depression
Do you know how it does with high concurrent loads these days?
Hack this; disrupt that; look down at your smartphone when the 22 rolls by.
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And while I don't think you were addressing this, millions will lose their now outlawed plans on January 1.

I see this as a huge impending disaster that could turn public sentiment against ACA to the point that it does get repealed. If people get their old plans cancelled and it is very difficult to use healthcare.gov to sign up for a new plan, a lot of people are going to be left in the lurch.

Unfortunately the horse is already out of the barn and into the next county. Maybe by a stroke of luck healthcare.gov will be functioning smoothly at the end of November like Obama and company have said it would. But I'd be willing to bet this will not be the case, given all the problems that project has to deal with.

Even if a massive effort were put underway to stand up call centers so people could navigate the healthcare exchanges over the phone, it would still need to be administered via a computer system, there's little chance a wide-scale paper process could be put in place quickly at this point.
For what it's worth, this makes my video-just-released-yesterday talk from the Wicked Good Ruby Conference outdated!

If you'd like a better understanding of what's going on with #eval, though, it might still be of some use: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edVIJ60kIrQ
Motorola Skip
Can't these people learn to code?
It's a mostly tacit agreement between a relatively small group of career rabble rousers and carpet-bagging politicians, building 'issues' to root their respective industries in.
the guys at fightthetroll.com are also doing something along these lines
I agree...except that if you select any text it prompts you to tweet it. For readers that compulsively select text as they read (like me), it's infuriating.
Hey, it seems to work now. The problem is that it relies on the HNSearch API (https://www.hnsearch.com/api) which seems to lag behind the official site by a few hours or more. I'd be interested in a Jekyll plugin that actually fixes this issue, ...or does everybody just roll their own?

If you're curious how it works, check out the JavaScript below the link, which swaps out the href if the page is found on HNSearch.
Suspect shot, in custody at LAX after TSA agent fired upon
Yeah, the insurance business is so sensible and orderly, adding that to the mix would surely make everything ok.
It's a really disturbing craze to install server software MS-DOS style and not use package managers! At the end of the day, building native packages with FPM, let's say, isn't such a big deal. At least, do an installer package.
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First off, that includes running the current winding-down war today (thanks obama), many years after its peak. Those wars cost us 2t already and 4t when you consider our long term committments of taking care of our veterans.

Social security isn't discretionary spending or an entitlement. Its a fucking national retirenment buy-in program thats helped eliminate much senior poverty. Medicare is the healthcare end of this. I pay in so I get something back in the future.

We'd have less interest debt if we could pay for our wars, but can't thus that huge interest debt, or at least a large part of it. Bush walked in with little debt and left us a shit-pile of war debt.

Wars and all these wargames are discretionary and massive. Its the obvious cut for a sane society. Problem is, this isn't a sane society.
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There are polite and impolite ways to express skepticism, and I'd encourage anyone to give Ruiu the benefit of the doubt as far as his motivations are concerned, even if you can think of an uncharitable explanation. "Here's some odd behavior I've seen and a possible explanation" is far from a hostile or irresponsible thing to say, especially when there are long histories of state-level and non-state level bad actors engaging in behavior to warp the target's perception relative to observers' of what's going on. [1][2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi#Zersetzung

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting
or it's reaching the end of life so they can let this one go public so they can keep its successor quiet - Or Snowden leaked it so they might as well go public
25 years ago this week, the Morris Worm brought the Internet to its knees
> People still buy LPs

Effectively, they don’t. It just looks like they do, because compared to CDs, LPs do sell. But, nobody buys CDs or any physical media with music anymore.
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Waterloo is a sleepy, postindustrial city of 100,000, a little less than 200 miles northeast of Detroit.
Ummm ... Waterloo-Kitchener-Cambridge form the K-W region (these 3 blend together with indistinguishable border) of ~ 1/2 Million peoople. Hardly "sleepy" the region is know as Canada's Tech Triangle and has a vibrant corporate and startup economy. While it is 200 miles northeast of Detroit, it may as well be 2000 ... Detroit has no influence whatsoever. More accurate would be to say it is ~50 miles from Toronto.
Totally aside from the content, this is a really good example of effective design of long-form exposition in the medium of a web browser. Designed for the affordances of the screen, without sacrificing in-depth textual content.
Responsive Web Design: Relying Too Much on Screen Size
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Just to build homes for the homeless. Provide food, water, soap, security. It can't be much more expensive then the millions the government wastes on other things.
Very interesting, I only took time to skim the developer page and I missed this.

But if Google opens up for even more premium advertisements like the web banners, and what the author muses, I also hope I get a way to avoid these kind of things as well.

I am just not ever interested in a service that caters to the money if I can help it, and I'll gladly pay for relevance over product placement.
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I imaging there are some of you out there like myself who are a step past freelancing and have a team to tackle entire projects or augmenting another team.

Please lead with either SEEKING PROJECTS or SEEKING TEAM, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.
Worked perfectly for me. Chrome
If you take the bad aspects of pay pal and the bad aspects of the US government, there would be much crossover.
Looks fine to me: https://news.ycombinator.com/favicon.ico
It's perfectly possible that they know exactly what it would take to run a remote team, and have decided that the additional overhead isn't worth it for their current stage.
You don't use "private browsing"? BTW, Chrome supports multiple profiles now.
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Same in Russia, where Yandex presents a very viable alternative. Their maps, for instance, are better.
I really think a lot of this has to do with the abundance of digital availability.

When I was a kid, we were forced to buy the rare commodity to enjoy the story. We'd even pool our money to do so. (I have a friend that had every IronMan up until about 1998, for example). Now, you can find out about backstory by reading Wikipedia. And you can either buy legitimate digital copies, or download illegal versions...
Yeah I do the same with the USB stick as its easier than CD media. I have a vbox VM ready to roll for such occasions.

I have had numerous problems on older Dell/HP machines with USB booting anything so it's reasonable. I buy the official media even though I rarely use it.
Introducing ART – A new Android runtime being introduced experimentally in 4.4
Ask HN: Moving up from engineering to management
I'm a senior dev at my company (70 employees in the SF office). I've lead a bunch of projects and while I haven't had any direct reports, I've been in charge of those projects and managed/led other engineers who worked on those projects. I reached a realization awhile back that I really enjoyed that kind of role. However, there appears to be little upward mobility in this company. The best I can do is hope that another project opens up and that I can get the lead engineer position on that project.

But I also think such responsibility involves promotions/raises/whatever, which doesn't happen currently.

So my question is: how does a senior/lead dev move up into a management-level position?

I have a few options as I see it:

* Stay where I am, work hard, and hope someone notices (Problem: I've talked to my boss about it, and he doesn't know of any positions opening soon)

* Find another large company that's trying to fill a management role (Problem: I have no previous management experience, so probably wouldn't get hired. Additionally, most startups in SF have very flat structures where everyone reports to CEO or CTO, which means no management opportunities.)

* Start my own company (Problem: lots of them)

Anyway, any thoughts?
Inner Workings of an STM
Yeah, it's definitely on the list. Sadly, life often gets in the way when I should have time to spend time on HN. I guess I have too many hobbies..
People grossly underestimate time it takes to figure out what to build, how to design UX, which APIs to use, how the workflow works. And all the inspiration that goes into coming up with something new.

Sure, if you are given a working website, and you were to replicate exact copy of it, you can do it far faster

(still not sure about 1 hour estimate-- show us if you really mean it).
pg has 147,000+ karma https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg and the top of the leaderboard is tptacek with 159,000+ https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
Amen. The whole concept of collectibility is highly dubious, and most "collectibles" are declared such by marketing departments trying to push completionists' buttons. But the collection will never be complete while there is still a supplier making money from every sale!

This happened in the UK to stamp collectors who took pride in owning every first day cover. Royal Mail realised they could increase revenue by massively increasing the number of new stamp designs issued, and collectors railed against the escalating cost of keeping their collections complete.

See also Warhammer, Disney Inifinity, and a bunch of other pay-to-play endeavours.

Unwise indeed.
Insanely Realistic Green Army Man Costume... I think they just won Halloween
-Recommendation by the Windows Azure team.
-Scalability.
-After I got my head around CouchDB in a weekend it was so easy I didn't need to look any further.
plus drug and alcohol rehab, plus mental health treatment.
It doesn't say anything about her backtracking. It says she defends the program and that her "reform" bill maintains the status quo.
On a similar note, my friend's toddler is currently enjoying her "retirement account", a large tupperware container of Beanie Babies, several with the tags still attached.
So yes, this is gimmicky - that said, it may work for them anyways. It certainly gets their name out there - it got them to the front page of HN, and it got me to read their jobs page (and be tempted by their perks) - which I probably would've never done under other circumstances.

Anecdote - my significant other found his current job when he heard a startup was raffling off a netbook at their info session. He had no interest in the company - he just showed up to try and win the netbook (which, as it happens, he did) - next thing he knew, they sold him on their pitch, he became engineer #4, and four years later, he's still there.
Oddly once upon a time (back in '94) we were a feeder for Canadian high-tech and Microsoft, but very few students ended up in the Valley, at least not fresh out of school. In the intervening 20 years Canadian high-tech has stayed flat at best while the US has taken on more and more Waterloo grads every year. The increases in UW engineering & CS enrollment over the past 20 years are basically all going to the US (in my anecdotal opinion).
Multiple shots heard at LAX; reports that ex-NSA chief shot deemed a hoax
I used the documentation on the Cloudant site over that weekend so that definitely played a large part too.
Possibly, but in the real world not a chance.

Most of the formally homeless people I know are now in the food industry. That is because at the shelter I worked at they would rotate who cooks the meal, so all homeless 'in the program' learned to cook, and now they all work at the cheesecake factory.

Which pays enough to live comfortably in my hometown. Don't know how viable it is here in the valley, though, with both higher expenses and more competition.
> If you can make it stealthy enough

Unless it flies at a very high altitude with engines off, making it stealthy is next to impossible. The thermal output of the engines is enough to make it stand out from the background from half a planet away.
My theory is that, with all the low hanging fruit already picked, technology gathering bigger crowds, innovation slowing down, the community is increasingly guided by politics. Maybe developers are tomorrow's lawyers.
A lot has to do with the stability of your society; as long as your government and talent is relatively intact, you can rebuild quite quickly even from extreme catastrophes. Its only when you start "liquidating" the intelligentsia (Cambodia, Soviet purges) where you begin to take steps back, or maybe a prolonged multi-decade war or colonial occupation (Afghanistan, India).
Patents are a good idea for rewarding people with original ideas. If they were required to stay with the original owner and weren't transferrable, this would be a different (and similarly problematic issue), but as patents have value and are transferrable, they will be bought and sold as investments by various people/corporations/whatever.

In theory patents are maybe a good idea because it provides exclusive rights to "own" an idea for enough time to extract value out of it by selling a product or service around it (if you so choose). You could argue that software patents lasting 20 years is "too long" for technology. You could also argue that patents aren't worldwide enforceable so, you need to get one everywhere, or basically you can't enforce it.

I don't really know that you can "fix" patents without throwing them away and rethinking them, but on a system as large and impactful as patents, the repercussions might be a lot worse than the problems we have now.
"I think the short of it is that Mark Shuttleworth, leader of Ubuntu, wrote an article in which he ad hominem attacks criticizers of the Mir project."

As someone who read that blog post for the first time today and with no context - all I can say is that it didn't come across that way to me. What I got was grousing about political motivations for a paragraph - nobody was named or called out and it was only a few sentences worth of commentary.

Now I understand that there was subtext there that I - as someone not involved in that community - undoubtedly missed. But when I read the OP then read the Shuttleworth post, I could only see it in the most oblique fashion.
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