skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"long time weight lifters"

Who?

I was into lifting when I was younger. The gossip and locker room wisdom I heard was is if I screwed up a ligament or muscle or joint by doing something really stupid at age 18 I'd heal perhaps three to ten times faster than the old retired guys. Quite a few of the old lifters were damaged goods; because their OT told them to start lifting or get used to being permanently bedridden in the future; they were damaged goods before they started not because of lifting which was medically therapeutic.

So ... doing something stupid has a higher cost for older folks. One interesting solution to that problem, which most HN readers think applies to them, is to apply a high IQ to not doing something stupid. And/or identifying coworkers who are idiots and avoiding working with them.

Anecdotes about individual extreme roid users are not terribly useful unless you're suggesting everyone who gets involved much inherently become an extreme roid user. Amongst the clean rank and file, general health levels were much higher than the general population.
How do you know what color other people on an open source project are? Is this a feature of GIT that I am not familiar with?
FWIW you can run AmigaOS on pre-intel based macs:

http://www.morphos-team.net/intro
We began valuing gold because it's shiny, doesn't degrade over time, and it's rare.

We still value gold because we always have.
Actually, that pricing behavior sounds a lot like bitcoin. The evidence is adding up that deflationary crypto-currency can behave a lot like bullion currency, and perhaps help us usher in a new sort of Bretton-Woods system to finally get the financial sector back under control.
The name is "HaXXXor Volume 1: No Longer Floppy" for anyone searching through the page.

It is on archive.org too: https://archive.org/details/haxxxor_volume_1_dvd
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How so ? Gold isn't just a currency/exchange medium, it's a valuable material on its own in many ways. Neither bitcoins nor dollars are, they're not commodities turned currencies, they were always meant to be currencies and nothing else.
in this day and age of bigger monitors with larger and larger screen real estate, any and all "map overlay apps" need to be full-screenable...
So what you are saying is that all it takes to be a terrorist is to choose the right kind of name for your chess club..
> A currency only has value because we, as a society, decide that it does.

For some reason, many people believe that this is true. I believe that it is not.

Technically, yes, if people all decide the currency has value, then it will have value. But this is a ridiculous argument! How much is this currency supposed to be worth? According to this argument, any number is potentially valid! This means that there is absolutely nothing that should hold the value of the currency fixed, and with a few "no free lunch" arguments (anyone can claim any random thing has value and try to trade with it), we see that things with no intrinsic value should NOT have value.

So why does the US Dollar have value? It's just paper (cotton), right? Not true! If the exchange rate of the dollar decreases, you'll see the Federal Reserve will start trading some of its goodies from Fort Knox (gold, etc.) for US Dollars, in order to maintain the dollar's exchange rate/value.

So in reality, the US Dollar is backed by holdings that have intrinsic value.

EDIT: As pointed out, I should mention that another important backing of the USD is taxation.

Also, what I said about the Federal Reserve isn't technically true. What's important is that they have a mission to moderate the rate of inflation of the USD (i.e., maintain its value), and their asset holdings are critical in allowing them to do this.
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Ok let's make intermediate challenges, maybe not current tech, just enough to survive comfortably. Function of some context (different paths whether you start in Africa or Russia because of material, climate and such)

- math/physics knowledge to assemble tools
- having regular heat sources
- building a small shelter
- regular nutrient sources

then there's room for

- increasingly precise and versatile tools
- finding ways to generate and store electricity (wind, water)
- light
- optics
- radiowaves/communication

</daydream>
By that logic the whole computer industry is worthless because it's comprised of worthless ones and zeros.
I use the devil's advocate approach to gathering software requirements. I argue against what I feel are good ideas and argue for what are seemingly not so good ideas. As long as you don't get too far off track the discussion is often very enlightening about what your customers actually want to build. The downside is that you either end up feeling like or looking like an idiot because you're seemingly on the wrong side of idea (BTW I'm not claiming that I'm not an idiot). Letting everyone know that this is your approach doesn't have much, if any, downside and alleviates this problem. Having another person to tag team with makes it less exhausting. It works for the same reason that Stern's approach works - people love to tell you how you are wrong.
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By own material value do you mean for electronics, and thus for us now ? But what about centuries ago ?

Someone suggested me that gold doesn't rust and that stability was interesting as a long time token. But I don't find any usage beside the social status gem.
I pay T-mobile $100 for 1000 minutes that last 365 days (in U.S.).

The minutes are expensive and no data, but for light usage it's great. AT&T Go phone has the same $100 for 1000 minutes that last a year.
> Nixon made his decision for the simple reason that the US was running out of the necessary gold to back all the dollars it had printed.

That's the whole problem right there. The ~~counterfeiting~~ quantitive easing is simply too attractive to the congresscritters to allow a little honesty to get in the way.
Actually, do we have a list of good computer movies?

I liked the movie hackers when I was a kid and first came out with Jolie and everything but it's kinda ridiculous and the approach is very hollywood-esque.

I found Sneakers to be a great movie.

War Games was kinda old to get me involved when I first saw it. Tr0n is unwatchable (at least the latest version).

I like the matrix (imho best karate one-on-one fighting scenes ever made to date) for a variety of reasons and of course for the ssh root exploit and nmap.

Any other movies we should know of? Is this one any good actually?
"we updated Chrome’s certificate revocation metadata immediately to block that intermediate CA"

Dumb question, why then does Chrome on my computer show "Google Chrome is up to date."? Shouldn't there be an update ready? Or is there a different (silent) way to update certificates?
I am white, but my father watched TV most of his time and never worked on anything and growing up in such environment so did I. If you grow up in an short-term gratification environment it's much harder to stay with problems long enough to solve them and thus you end up giving up on many hobbies sooner. My father was probably just lazy or resigned due to constant worrying about economic situation but I can imagine that as an immigrant parent with lower job opportunities, language skills and no existing parents to support you, you're less likely to end up with a job you love and you worry about other things than hobbies in spare time. This affects the environment your kids grow up. I am not from US but I can imagine the parents of majority of those kids were in much different situation to others, because (I live abroad) I know that when I was in my home country I would aways had a place to go (my parents) and a support from them and thus more time to look out for a job I like and more support with the kids from them so I could raise kids in much different environment.
I think they will find it to be as close a meritocracy and "color-blind" environment as they will find in America today

In this thread: Lies open source developers tell themselves.

It's a sad joke Rubyconf attendees yearly confuse @bryanl and @daksis with each other, but it's happened at every Rubyconf i've been too (which is granted 3 but it's there).

Open Source is a community, and communities are about who you know, and how you interact with them. Open Source communities do nothing to fix or address the structural or cultural elements of racism.

Success in open source is like success in anything else. It's about building something that other people care about, and promoting yourself and your work to others (or having someone else promote it for you). That last component is entirely socio-cultural. There is no meritocratic component to it.

It's again worth noting that the modern etymology of the term 'meritocracy' was satire against the concept we identify it with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Etymology

Being good at what you do and working hard is necessary but not sufficient to being recognized and successful.
Fair enough... I thought it would be more difficult/inefficient to check for cyclic hierarchies, but it wasn't.

Fixed! Thanks.
If I understand the question correctly, a shell for regular ruby, that's within a RubyMotion app.
An interesting, mildly related tidbit is that certain types of seashells were used as currency in large parts of the world until about 150 years ago. [0] Probably occupying a similar sweet-spot: rare but not too rare and robust. An additional feature (or bug) would have been the inherent quantization.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_money
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I suspect most of your questions would be answered when the book is done; And probably in the "Next Steps" Appendix.

Mean while, I personally suggest you should only implement the performance driven parts in C functions while gluing most of your program logic to it using whatever language you feel comfortable with. If you want to "bring C into 2013", learn Go.
The argument for why a medium of exchange (a currency) needs to be transportable and relatively nondestructible goes all the way back to Aristotle, in the West. (Similar arguments about silver surely must have appeared in Chinese culture, long ago.) I'm sorry not to follow my usual practice of providing references here, but I guess I think it is drop-dead obvious that not all features that give something value necessarily make that thing a convenient medium of exchange for trade.

The particular argument in the article kindly submitted here (well worth a read, even if you have read all the comments here) takes a good look at the properties of gold as contrasted with other chemical elements, and points out what features gold (and silver) have that most other elements do not share.
You could use LD_PRELOAD to load a library that does the replacement[1].
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/10008252
Startup (2001) (also named "Antitrust")

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/

it has some C, Java and HTML code. It also explains "open source" and is a pretty good movie. Miguel de Icaza helped them, so you see GNU/Linux desktops and GNOME shell and bash.
Here's some of my code in a french TV drama:

http://youtu.be/V7P4j2kpuoc?t=20m6s

I guess they just picked it randomly from sourceforge. It's for an audio effect that a viewer recognized the name of and let me know!
Currently I'm studying accountancy, so the concept of monetary value has suddenly become important to me. I had pondered it in the past, but not to a great extent.

A currency only has value because we, as a society, decide that it does. As we've seen, it also needs to be stable, portable and non-toxic. The second sentence contradicts the first. Portability is very important to the effectiveness of a currency, especially in times past when our modern communication methods did not exist. Currency represents an agreement as well as a quantitative value. The ten pound note currently in my wallet is a liability that the Bank of England owes to me when demanded. This is far more convenient than having to call up the Bank of England and demand a portion of their liability every time I go and buy a pack of ciggies (another viable currency, if you are presently incarcerated).

A similar argument applies to another whole class of elements, the radioactive ones: you don't want your cash to give you cancer. Regarding Uranium 238, this has a very long half life (roughly the same as the age of the Earth) and it is an alpha-emitter. Radioactive effects of alpha-emitters are usually only toxic if ingested or inhaled, whereas a strong beta-emitter can burn your skin in sufficient amounts. The chemical toxicity of Uranium is a far more serious issue. If the potential radio-currency is highly radioactive, it would lose its value very quickly. Of the four main decay series, three result in lead.
These are interesting but in my opinion (please take it with a pinch of salt, I am no expert) touch icons needn't have the 'hand' to indicate that they're touch. Hand feels redundant and heavy.

For example, the double-finger-double-tap a coalesced double-ring is good enough, there is no need of hand on the icon. Similarly for triple-tap three rings coalesced together is enough, drop the hand.

'Press and hold' could be done with the icon you've for 'hold timer' -- without the hand of course. For left, right, up and down swipes something else is required. Hand is terrible while arrows alone won't cut it. We also need icons to suggest typing(keyboard) mode or doodling(free hand) mode on touch screens.
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God is perfectly just. Joseph in the Bible went to prison for 7 years on false rape. Then, he ruled Egypt. Highs and lows balance. Jesus knew He would rise again because He did the math.

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\BIBLE.TXT

heir
brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah; 15:18 And with them their
brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and
Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah,
and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel,
the porters.

15:19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound
with cymbals of brass; 15:20 And Zechariah, and Aziel, and
Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and
Benaiah, with psalteries on Alam

----

Kush was ASU coach. Pee Wee Hermin and Heman are contemporaries.

Little drummer boy ? Cymbals

-----

cheerful let's_roll what_would_Jesus_do no_more I'm_not_sure
I'm_feeling_nice_today you_owe_me after_a_break I'm_impressed
Revocations can be checked via OCSP. [1] Chrome probably has an alternative system as well.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Certificate_Status_Proto...
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There is no gold in Ft Knox, right? Our currency hasn't been back in 40 years.

Currency has a value because the goods we trade it for have value. Inertia?
NPR 's Planet Money did a good episode (<20 minutes) on this topic:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/07/131363098/the-tues...
It works particularly well as a social status gem, because it's at the same time malleable (ie. easy to work with), shiny-looking, and not easily corroded. It's relatively easy to authenticate (compared to a bitcoin for example), and seriously hard to fake (unlike, say, a dollar).

Anyway the point wasn't the merits of gold over currencies, just pointing out the fact that it has a real status as a useful commodity, in a way that purpose-built currency doesn't. That means, among other things, that demand for jwelery in India for example, or changes in electronics manufacturing processes are bound to affect its price.

That makes it quite different from other currencies.
23 is the best hacker film I know of. It's German and based on the Karl Koch story. It's not exclusively about hacking, necessarily, but it is far more realistic than any other I've seen.

Reboot from 2012 is a short film that features a whole lot of real world penetration testing tools and security lingo, but was overall poorly executed and nonsensical. Still worth a look just to spot all the references.

Antitrust is a programmer film. It's somewhat slow-paced and mediocre, but it has a nice scene with the Unix shell and overall tries to mimic the work environment at Microsoft.

Takedown, which although not that good, is a watchable telling of the Kevin Mitnick saga.

Travelling Salesman is based on computer scientists solving P = NP and creating a crypto weapon for use by the U.S. government. Actually quite intellectual, much like Primer.

That's all I can think of right now.
I imagine some day we will have 'currency' backed in real things - Terabytes maybe, or Petahertz. Something fungible you could use and trade.
Sure, because people don't buy and sell things with gold, they buy and sell things with modern currencies. They do so because well-established legal frameworks ensure future demand for the currency to pay taxes and meet debt obligations, and also keep the supply in line with demand.

Sure, Bitcoins are similar to gold in being relatively, rare, but so are tulip bulbs. What matters isn't the restriction in the supply, but the sustainability of the demand.

Gold sustained its demand over millenia not just because it was rare, but because people needed gold to meet future tax and debt-repayment obligations, or to purchase things from foreign lands. The number of people needing to receive BTC-denominated income in future, on the other hand, is negligible; virtually anyone [considering] providing real goods or services in BTC can cease to transact in BTC at any point they have doubts about its future value or liquidity.
I've been a fan of David Braben's since playing Elite and Virus as a kid. I'd never seen him speak and The Procedural Generation video gave me a whole new appreciation of his intellect. I hope he gets a knighthood for his work on Raspberry-Pi. Much greatness in him and I wonder what he would have achieved if he had started off in California rather than Essex and Cambridge.
Sites for crowdsourcing app ideas might work. if people like your idea, they develop it and you get a share of profits. For example:

http://applits.com/
These are great but I got a little lost at the numbers, pointing, handshake and thumbs up/down... How are these touch gestures?
By the time something becomes popular its been around for awhile. As far as I'm concerned the time to start taking advantage or at least learning is well before everyone starts saying its "production ready". I agree that we can't learn every new awesome technology. But I think that people have the tendency to find reasons to excuse learning the new technologies, like saying its not production ready or something. Just because you don't have time to learn and carefully evaluate a new technology doesn't mean you need to dismiss it. Just say "looks like it might be great but I can't say for sure because I don't have time to learn how to use it and then evaluate it.". Its just impossible to try every new thing. You don't need an excuse.

If you wait until most people are saying its production ready, that's because most people are already using it in production. If you wait until that point to start learning it then you will be behind.
The more important backing of the USD is the fact that the US federal and state governments demand that you pay your taxes in USD.

The (exchange) value of anything depends on supply and demand. Demand for USD comes from many places, but most of those are based on circular reasoning: Employees want to be paid in USD because they need USD for their shopping, the shops want to be paid in USD because they need USD to pay their employees.

Taxations is the only entirely non-circular source of demand.

(Bank loans are a secondary somewhat non-circular source of demand for USD, and that explains why bank loans can increase the amount of money in circulation without increasing inflation.)
Well personally, I enjoy the non-industry links the most, such as curiosities from wikipedia, youtube or elsewhere. I also appreciate the political dialogues, such as when Snowden's press release from Hong Kong was linked here before any real news agency picked up on it. So I think a segment spotlighting how the datum shared here goes well and beyond tips for hacking life would be nicely representative.
"more than 8 in 10 open source developers are white"

According to Wikipedia 72% of the population of the USA are white, so maybe 8 in 10 is not really that much of an indication of discrimination or disadvantage. (72% boils down to "more than 7 in 10").
Taxation is a non-circular source for demand for fiat currency. The value of fiat currency is backed by taxation.
I've read somewhere that most open source contributors started their own projects, rather than joining existing ones.
+1 for Antitrust. It's one of my favourites.
Take a look to «building machine learning systems with python». It's a great read. If you are interested I reviewed it at O'Reilly's site.
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Correction: The price volatility of gold has a lot to say about contemporary belief in the stability of fiat currencies.
For voice, my T-mobile prepaid roams on at least some of AT&T.
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I stream music and browse the web (including FB) almost every day of the week and I've never hit my 2GB data cap. My 16 GB hard drive is more than enough.
Chrome uses CRLsets:

https://twitter.com/agl__/status/409687123659214851
http://dev.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/crlsets
I've done this gathering requirements, getting acceptance (PR, release notes, tech docs, UI designs), problem solving, etc. Make up something plausible, but wrong, and label it "final proof" with a deadline two days away. This technique works a little bit like adding a duck (Battle Chess reference).

Works for me because I care more about winning than being right, so I'm not embarrassed to be wrong.

Lot's of reasons people withhold information for whatever reason. Most geeks are introverts, so are reluctant to speak up. Some people don't want to be embarrassed. Many, many aren't aware of what they know. It's easier to criticize than to create. And, yes, some people are gate keepers, hoarding information.
It's not clear to me that there's overt racism in any FOSS communities (e.g. racial slurs on email lists, active rejection of visible minorities at conferences). Perhaps I miss that kind of thing because I'm white, but I've certainly never met any overt bigots. Or maybe the bigots save that kind of thing for one-on-one so as to have plausible deniability? (For what it's worth, no one confided in me, as a white man, assuming that I might share their racist attitudes.)

So if not overt, the racism must be passive and environmental. But the relative abundance of Asian (Indo/Pakistani and/or Oriental) members in IT and FOSS software suggest that there's not an obvious or passive "White Power" conspiracy going on there.

Economic issues, education, and free time make some sense as barriers, and these are disproportionately shared among the different races (in the USA at least).
Purely for the sake of stability, I think it's a lot more useful to look at the classical economic indicators like the Consumer Price Index. Curiously enough, there is no gold found in any of the standard market baskets ... and since we are only looking at stability on a scale of 20-30 years, maybe there are some products that just happen to have a near-constant production effort. Cue the "cheapest possible child labor T-Shirt" global price index with derived currency.