skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has the concept really changed since then?

https://ripple.com/how-ripple-works/

As far as I know, Ripple still works the same way as it did then.
My take is that it depends how you define working, or a job.

If its something you do because you have to for the money, a means to an end, then I agree with you. 80hrs is near slavery, even the standard 40 ish hrs is my idea of pure living hell. But, 80 hrs of that? No.

If, however, you are doing something you would literally be doing anyway because its "you", then the number of hours "working" is no longer relevant. Even if the job is 40hrs pw most people, who sort of are their job, will be working one way or another regardless of being in a place of work or not. When I have been in this situation, even if Im doing the family or social thing, my head is still on the project. All I want to do is leave, and keep "working". But its not "working", it is simply what I want to be doing. I just happen to be being paid. To me, that is not "work", or a "job".
The Powershell interpreter is made for the Powershell ISE. They just can't touch the CMD interpreter for the same reasons you found, Someone depends on that awful for console apps and god knows what.

So all the work went into the ISE instead of fixing CMD. Powershell console and cmd run powershell are just compatibility layers to make it more familiar.
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Just clicking on the last few posts, Cuban didn't blog from March to October.
That's very optimistic and idealistic but the harsh truth is we treat people as resources and if we replace them with cheaper robots that make the company richer but at the same time leaves that person unemployed.

This transfer of wealth that make the rich richer and the poor desperate for food on the table is not healthy for the political stability of the country.

If we leave this unchecked it's just a matter of time before we will see the masses declare a war on technology out of desperation.
Just because of tough Schedule!
Yum Brands owns the A&W Restaurant chain, Dr. Pepper owns the drink line. I remember eating at an A&W Restaurant in Santa Cruz, California as a kid in the 90s. I've lived in SoCal most of my life and haven't seen one down here.

Similarly, when I looked at the chart, I noticed 7-Up was listed next to Pepsi rather than next to Dr. Pepper. Googling around I found that's because it's only distributed by Dr. Pepper in the US. For the rest of the world it's a Pepsi Product[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_Up
Bitcoin is most certainly not zero sum. Zero Sum implies that for every winner, there must be a loser. It is quite possible for everyone to lose money on Bitcoin, with no winner.

If tomorrow the USA gets together with China and Russia and persuades the entire world to outlaw Bitcoin, with the threat of a heavy punishment for anyone trading in Bitcoin, the value of Bitcoin will crash, probably very close to 0. In this scenario (which is not all that far-fetched) absolutely everyone loses, hence not a zero sum market.
This idea is way older than Buckminster Fuller. A key aspect of the rise of socialist ideologies from the mid 1800's was the view that technology would eventually render poverty "obsolete" by making production so efficient that redistribution would leave everyone able to do largely what they want.

E.g. in the German Ideology (1845), Marx wrote: "
In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.
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But this was not to my knowledge an idea that originated with Marx, but was a general driver behind a range of socialist and proto-socialist ideologies dating back to well before the term socialism came into use.

Though to Marx it was one of the reasons for why he saw the fall of capitalism as inevitable: It will, according to him, chase efficiencies due to competition to the point where it will eventually saturate markets at the same time as it seeks to minimize labour and minimize labour costs. Since capitalism is geared towards continuous expansion, he believed this would lead simultaneously to eventual increases in poverty and overproduction as society tries to reconcile a situation where labour becomes less and less necessary while capitalist companies depends on more and more spending.

So to Marx, the crisis of increasing economic output coupled with reduced need for labour is what eventually pushes society to a tipping point where Marx argued socialist revolutions becomes not only viable, but necessary (you'll note that noe of the countries where people tried to force through revolutions in the name of socialism have been anywhere near this level of development; starting with Lenin, a number of people went through any number of contortions to try to make excuses for how socialist revolutions would be viable in countries that did not meet the criteria set out by Marx, and every one of them have been proven wrong; though of course that does not prove Marx right), and that they will eventually happen with or without help.

Marx tacitly admitted that capitalism would be more efficient at growing manufacturing etc., for the very reason that capitalism diverts far fewer resources to welfare. And this is one of the reasons why a well developed capitalist society according to Marx is a pre-requisite for socialism.
because that adds capital cost. You're paying for the bitcoin mining unit and for the solar panels.

For the older GPU bitcoin mining farms you'd need a substantial solar array to cover costs! That's at least one good thing about fpgas and asics - lower running costs.
Is there no way of preventing your browser supplying enough information to uniquely identify your machine?
Adobe leaked credentials checker
We Don't Care About Your Features (Create Value Instead)
This made me to switch to DDG (for the second time) as default search engine. I'll give it more time now, I didn't know about all these "goodies". For instance, I just searched for a youtube link and it offered me a box with a link to the wanted video and also the possibility to play it right from there. This is so cool :)
For anyone behind a proxy try:

$s=new-object net.webclient;$s.proxy.credentials=[system.net.credentialcache]::defaultnetworkcredentials;$s.downloadstring('https://get.scoop.sh')|iex
This comment should be on top, it confirmed my suspicions.
This article reads like an advertisement, reminds me of this essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Nine Patterns Among Virtuoso UX Teams
What I said was "still more a wishful thinking and placebo than a proved method" and cited "a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized, double-blind and sham-controlled trials" which concludes "The clinical utility of tDCS as a treatment for MD remains unclear when clinically relevant outcomes such as response and remission rates are considered."

That means that I don't doubt that you can let the DC flow through your brain but that I believe that even 200 years after the first of such experiments it's still more wishful thinking and placebo than factually "double-blind and sham-controlled" proved that such treatments have some positive lasting effects. On another side, I wouldn't be surprised that some kind of short-term effects can be observed (although I must admit I'm unfamiliar with such, what I know is that yesterday I saw the article writing about the benefits of such treatments in the kind of magazine which also writes about chemtrails(!)). Can you please tell me which controlled studies you consider important?
It is so fascinating to me that advertising a job as "not 80 hour work week" is a major selling point. I mean, kudos to you, you will probably attract a lot of skilled developers with this attitude. You will also get almost as much done as someone who does 80-hour weeks.

Where I live, by law you're not allowed to work more than 40 hours a week. If a company violates this, you can literally go to court and get a summary judgement to get paid for every hour beyond this you worked, plus a 40% bonus for every hour beyond 40 each week. Most companies here don't do a lot of overtime, yet we're still at the very top of the list of productivity by country.
If you want to play around with the F18A instruction set, I wrote an emulator for it[1]. This also comes with a system to synthesize F18A code with MCMC, using the basic technique from the Stochastic Superoptimization[2] paper.

Additionally, there is an interesting project I worked on with several other people to make writing code for GreenArrays more accessible[3]. This includes a system for synthesizing and verifying F18A code using two different solvers (Z3 and Sketch[4]) as well as a system for automatically partitioning and laying out code over the different cores. It's a work in progress, but well worth a look.

[1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/array-forth, https://github.com/TikhonJelvis/array-forth

[2]: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/eschkufz/research/asplos291-sc...

[3]: http://www.forth.org/svfig/kk/11-2012-Bodik.pdf

[4]: https://github.com/TikhonJelvis/array-forth-sketch, https://bitbucket.org/gatoatigrado/sketch-frontend/wiki/Home
Ah, so my appraisal of the situation from the image caption was entirely correct.
Yes but I've never seen it done smoothly through a browser. It's OK, but not something I'd want my Mum to have to do to log into her emails.
so you knew where an alternative source of the same post is, but chose to make that completely unnecessary post about how you don't read articles on LinkedIn, while pretending you haven't read it?
It is quite amusing to see attempts at discounting the welfare systems impact on her ability to attain her wealth, when she herself has frequently described it as important, and one of the reasons why she has happily continued to pay substantial amount of taxes on her earnings.

Noone is to my knowledge saying she did not also have a substantial impact on it herself - after all, we're not swimming in people who have achieved the same. But there can very well be more than one contributing factor.

To grasp onto your last statement: Try writing a book when you're an unemployed, uneducated mum if she did not have a working welfare system to "break my fall" as she herself put it.

It was her effort, but the welfare system made it possible for her to put in that effort.

EDIT: Though just for the record, as rich people go she is definitively one of the most sympathetic, not least for the way she has made it exceedingly clear that she believes it is fair for her to pay her taxes in the UK without complaint, given what she believes she owes to the system in the first place - and to the extent that she explicitly hit out at the conservatives for wanting to cut taxes for the rich.
I thought it was a rather limited HUD. It was great for having an instant look at your emails, but beyond that it seemed limited - all I remember doing is adding little games to it.

It may be interesting with the growth in social websites (fb, twitter etc) to try an experiment to see if a page like iGoogle could work again.
That's not salt.

"Since DES only encrypts in blocks of 64 bits (8 bytes) then encrypting and keeping the length of blocks means that you actually get a very good idea of the length of the password - that is, anything with only one block is a password length between 1 and 8 characters, with two blocks between 9 and 16 characters etc. In addition a password of "1234567812345678" would encrypt into two identical blocks."

http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1286
The passwords don't have a salt: that extra block that some of them have is the second block of the password (each block of 8 bytes is encrypted separately).
He missed a group of people: any designer who did not entrust their entire professional workflow to a single, for-profit company whose best interests are in moving your workflow in ways that benefit the company over the user. Being dependent on something like Photoshop for your only income is a terrible position to be in, yet it is how I'd describe most designers today.
Smarter Than It Sounds: This Router Has a Fern Growing From It
What's the problem with picking the low hanging fruit first?
Ok, I guess at least 5 bloggers felt wounded by my comment, which was a bit leaking.

Edit: but maybe, if one in hundreds will think twice before writing again something like "If you are like me" in their post...
In 1980 there was a PLATO installation at our local University (UWC) in South Africa when I was in high school.

It was used by first year students for some tut work and by high school students from the surrounding area for maths courseware.

It was an interesting experiment and novelty but I don't think it fundamentally changed how the varsity did or approached it's teaching.
Good idea, could you also show the high scores(all time or daily)?
Working 9-5 is pretty sucky. I work from 07:00 - 15:30, so much better. The early morning hours are wasted being completely unproductive sleeping. I much rather get up early and get the work day out of the way. Your point still stands though, for most people full-time gainful employment is an enabler not a hinderance.
https://github.com/apsk/hlisp Another lisp in haskell
GO for it. Go is much better and easier.
Doesn't this more or less imply that you have to save and invest in order to take part in economic growth? I agree that this is a problem which should be attacked with political means, but that doesn't mean it is impossible for someone to live within their means and save.

Obviously this doesn't apply to every demographic group in the world, but a large amount of people can get an account with a cheap online stockbroker and buy ETFs with the surplus of their paycheck.
Have you tried https://google.com/ncr ?
The lack of a digitizer hasn't stopped people from creating amazing artwork on the iPad. Maybe the constraint forces a new approach.
> Hell, try and buy a non-sous-vide steak these days.

Obviously you do not live in the UK, where finding places that serves steak that has not been chargrilled to to the point where it tastes of lighter fluid and coal is an extreme sport (it is getting slightly better, but you can go into almost any low end steak house in the US and find steaks that are better than most high end UK restaurants still; the UK is the only place in the world where I've had to explain to a waiter what "rare" meant)
From a purely FOSS POV, Google never tried to build a community around Android. They develop it privately, and code-drop it when there is a release. Not even their partners (generally) get to see it before the public release. Without a public roadmap, the only kind of significant user contribution to the project is bugfixes (which are still welcome of course).

But notice that the problem is not "the rate of free updates", but rather the fact that Google is moving more and more development into the closed-source part of the operating system, while still trying to maintain the market line that the "operating system is free". But
which operating system is free? If you install AOSP on your phone (assuming you can and manage to go through the hurdles) you end up with a phone which is completely different from stock Android. That is my complaint: the difference between AOSP and the so-called "pure Android experience" (as on a Nexus) is widening more and more.

You say Android is available for free to "competitors". But as a matter of fact, AOSP (not Android) is available to competitors, and only those that are not part of the OHA. If you are a member of the OHA (so if you are an Android vendor of any significance), your contract says that you cannot fork Android; not only that, but you cannot even produce/manufacture a forked Android device as a supplier for an unrelated company outside the OHA (which is why Amazon has problems producing Kindle Fires, since all major manufacturers are also trying to sell consumer devices based on Android).

Moreover, if you fork AOSP, not only you don't have access to the Play Store, but many (most?) .apk won't even work on your device, since they rely on the proprietary Google APIs which are not part of AOSP. And this, again, is a widening ongoing process, so more and more (rather than less and less) existing .apk found on Play Store are incompatible with AOSP.

I think the way Google cleverly designed the whole "AOSP vs Android" licensing is way more than a standard freemium model; it's a model in which nobody pays, a part is open-source, and still it's close to impossible to create a forked consumer device that uses AOSP and benefits from the existing ecosystem.

The markets in which AOSP is really making a different (in my experience) is the B2B embedded device market, which is not in direct competition with Android devices, and where AOSP is quickly moving to become the de-facto Linux embedded distro. I work in that field, and I'm grateful to Google for AOSP, as it's really making the whole market progress faster than ever.
NoScript can prevent most information from being gathered, but unfortunately "no information" is actually pretty unique.

Using Chrome on Windows with Flash and Java installed is probably the best way to blend in the crowd and make yourself less unique.
This is definitely one of those "everyone is different" situations.

I know people who have an expensive unlimited data plan (usually because they got the iDevice for nothing if they signed up for it, not bothering to work out that they could buy the device for 9-months of what the 24 month contract costs) and probably only use a couple of hundred Mb of it because they are on home or public wireless most of the time. They are the sort of people I see benefiting from this unless the price is significantly higher than the standard Apple price for the same device.

I'm on a plan that gives me 1.5Gb. Despite being a fairly heavy user a lot of my use is also over WiFi. Many months I use no more than 0.5Gb, but when I'm out and about more I sometimes get close to the full 1.5.

Conversely I know someone who blows through several Gb every month without fail. To be honest I'm not entirely sure how given his lifestyle (from a technology PoV at least) isn't particularly different to mine, but it shows that one size certainly does not fit all.
The claim was that the crime rate was 50 times lower than today. 156/50 ~= 3.
I have been using the same. I ported an entire ROR application to GO and Angularjs.
You're absolutely right. Rowling has explicitly stated in the past that she hasn't and won't use tax avoidance structures, so she will have paid 40% income tax on most of her income from the books.

Plenty of UK bands from the 60s to the 90s have mentioned unemployment benefits as being an important factor in allowing them to exist before they got famous.
US $1.4 trillion - Indian_black_money
Pure Go embedded SQL database.
So we can play ever bloodier FPS games with ever increasingly real graphics.
How Many Lines Of Code Does It Take To Run Various Programs?
Not sure if this morally ok, because I assume it uses git timestamps to trick the activity graph.
That's fine but you can still install stuff and leave it. It's not hard.

For ref, I'm currently fixing something on a Windows NT4 VM in Visual C++ 6 for a client (they are tied to this configuration before you ask). I've had this VM for 11 years. Haven't set anything up since then apart from apply a couple of hotfixes.

I'm also, whilst the above is compiling which takes a while because it's huge, editing our python VCS hook scripts on a Ubuntu machine in vim.

They're both shit and wonderful at the same time (in similar ways).
Thanks for doing this. Its fantastic.
The Unbearable Narcissism of Edward Snowden
Thanks for the insight.

> this is a country that has been screwed by history in a way that is hard to imagine

Who do you blame for this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Latvia
?

Why did Latvia fail to prosecute war criminals
http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Lack-of-will-t...

?
Ask PG: What is the current state of the "Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund"?
http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html was penned more than 5 years ago. Do you feel that some of these ideas are as applicable now as they were back then? Are there new ideas to add to the list?
As someone with little interest or knowledge in low level hardware, what are the advantages of this? What would you use it for?

edit: Just to clarify, with little interest I mean little interest in acquiring in-depth knowledge about it. I'm still interested in hearing about advances like this and their uses.
The higher fruit are ripe first.
How would you handle time differences in countries that have the same time zone but where the sun rises at slightly different times?

For example, in Italy the sun rises approximately eight minutes later in Rome than in Venice.

See here http://fabrizio.zellini.org/orario-alba-e-tramonto/?lang=en&...
People avoid talking about work on Fridays because for the most part it boring to listen to. That's not to say interesting things don't happen at work but for someone that's not directly involved making or missing say a major project deadline is irrelevant to them. And the specific's of designing a new CPU / Space Probe / Power Supply rarely interests someone in say Marketing.

Sure after a few years you may pick up a few generally interesting story's, but there rare and people only want to listen to those story's once.
It is better than Balsamiq
Just found a pretty cool tool for iPhone UI prototyping.
Maybe he doesn't click linkedin links because they track and report what you've viewed if you're logged in, but once it was on pastebin he was happy to give the original source.
Left Party of Germany wants to force asylum for Snowden
Let me sing half a praise: I learned Prolog at university through three courses and learned to love it for a certain set of problems. Everything with multiple outcomes or things that map well to descriptions trough constraints are very easy in prolog. Conceptually, it is well removed from other languages and therefore worthwhile learning. Prolog naturally teaches you interesting approaches to work with data. Writing parts of my software in Prolog is still an option for me.

Practically, though, it suffers from real world problems: there are quite a few of runtime systems, dropping in and out of maintenance every once in a while. Lots of things are semi-standard, for example each runtime ships with a constraint library with different behavior. (e.g. in one Prolog, applying a constraint to a variable that already has a value is an error, in others, it is allowed if the variable satisfies the constraint). Prolog is really more a family of languages, sharing a similar syntax.
Yeah, I think the paths are blocked. One more reason to use the above options given. I tested a path out and it worked on http://www.websitepulse.com/help/testtools.china-test.html