skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived in the Mission (24th and Potrero) for years during the dotcom bubble, when I was a grad student. Gentrification was just as controversial then as it is now. As for mean-spirited auras, look at the "Mission Yuppie Eradication Project" poster in [1] that begins "Over the past several years the Mission has been colonized by pigs with money" (sounds like a michaelochurch post to me!) and ends by calling for vandalizing their cars.

People were upset about different things—instead of Google buses, lofts being converted into luxury condos and so on—but the emotions and the discourse were much the same. I remember a startup called Bigstep that got into hot water because they took over office space from a community org or something that couldn't afford the rent any more [2]. There was a lot of talk about the Latino community being displaced by dotcom types, about Marina yuppies taking over the nightlife—at places like Blowfish Sushi, plus a somehow slightly creepy experiment called Circadia [3] that Starbucks ran at Bryant and Mariposa, which was an emblem of dotcom excess. It's just an ordinary Starbucks now.

I haven't noticed any change in how "average" people feel about tech, except perhaps that its status has gone up.

One thing that actually has changed from the dotcom bubble to now is the massive shift of power away from VCs and MBAs towards founders and engineers. (Which is kind of ironic since it contradicts almost everything you say about the industry.) Investors have lost power relative to founders and managers have lost power relative to programmers. Both of those trends have been going on for a long time, but have been accelerating. They seem to me to be good trends, arguably even for the investors and managers.

Curiously, this shift is visible in the cultural ripples around the dotcoms then vs. the startups now. The dotcom bubble produced a lot of ersatz culture that matched its mostly ersatz startups. The parts of it that I saw were douchey and suity; a place like Circadia, which I mentioned above, was an expression of that. It was full of people who weren't actually working on anything. The decor was lavish, but the coffee and food (not that I could afford the food) were mediocre. Compare that to a place like Sightglass now, where the coffee is excellent and most people are working on stuff. Sure they're hipsters, but it's still a crowd I'd rather be around than the one that used to make me squirm back then; and I'm a dyed-in-the-wool programmer type who hasn't much changed.

[1] http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Mission_Yuppie_Eradicatio.... Also http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/macchron.htm and http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2000/03/35154, and there's lots more where those came from.

[2] Googling this turned up http://blog.doubledutch.me/2012/03/the-rise-of-the-mission-s... which includes some details about anti-dotcom protests in from 1999-2000.

[3] https://www.salon.com/1999/01/21/feature_238/. I sometimes worked on my thesis there because they had internet. Most of their tech-oriented image was silly, though. The place was all pretense.
They must only have started doing that recently. This project has been out in the wild for at least a year.
Debian (and Ubuntu etc.) has a tool available that unifies all the many different commands required for administrating and querying the package system. It's called "wajig". I don't believe it's installed by default, though. I rarely see it suggested, probably because whenever people complain about the complexity of the command-line tools, the answer they get is "use the GUI tools".
I just updated it for Mavericks, for the heck of it. The code got simpler.
Criminals don't care how much money they're costing their victims, only how much money they'll make from their crime. This is no different than someone smashing your car's window ($100+) and destroying its dashboard ($1000+) to remove a stereo head unit that they'll flip for $50.
could you briefly describe the benefits of each?
The money for basic income must come from somewhere, right? I can think of two choices:

1. Creating money from air, thus driving price inflation.
2. Redistributing income, where the top earners would have to pay for
the ones which choose to just enjoy their basic income.

I haven't really dug into basic income proponents' argument and the article misses the point (which IMHO is the real important point, of course basic income would be awesome). How does it hold economically? Inflation or punishing top performers seem like a really bad idea.

And sociologically... how does it handle the race to the bottom after everyone realizes work sucks? Where does wealth come from if nobody works?
Psychedelics seem indicated for perhaps gaining a different viewpoint on technical designs. I believe one of the senior engineers at Cisco promoted LSD for coming up with networking equipment ideas. I'm far from convinced that psychedelics are good for actually working. Even the Beatles said they never actually recorded while on LSD.
I said care, not incarceration.

I want to treat them, give them access to professional help - you know, care for them.
I was responding to:

>Leaving aside the fact that the author assumes that Republicans harbor the most sinister motives possible, while Democrats are purely altruistic; income is not a good predictor of party affiliation, (and vice-versa,) and the same is true for race

From the link:

"Democrats continue to have a wide advantage among those with incomes in the lowest quintile (under $20,000 in 2009 dollars). In 2009, 42% of lower income Americans consider themselves Democrats – virtually unchanged in recent years – while just 15% are Republicans, down slightly from 19% four years ago. But in the next income level up (those earning between $20,000 and $40,000 in 2009 dollars) the GOP’s decline has been particularly sharp. In 2004, the Democrats held a 13-point edge within this income group (38% vs. 25% Republican). Today, that has opened up to a 24-point lead (40% vs. 16%) as Republican identification has dropped off by 9 points."

But let's address your statement from your most recent comment:

>If you are in the top income quintile, you are almost equally likely to be independent, republican or democratic; how is income predictive of party affiliation?

If you are in the bottom quintile, you are not quite three times as likely to be a democrat than a republican, and the next quintile up, again, you are more than twice as likely to be a democrat than a republican.

That's still saying that someone who is very rich is much more likely to be a republican (even if they still only have a 50% chance) than someone who is very poor.
Have you been? What's your firs hand experience?

I spent over 2 years in Central and South America, many months in a few countries. I didn't get to spend very long in Uruguay, but it seemed great to me.
Personally have no interest in the product (not a smoker), but I am curious about a few things:

1. how long does a refill last? how do you quantify it? in # of normal cigarettes? minutes?
2. time between battery charges?
3. does the second-hand vapour smell similar to the flavour names?

Also, there's some kind of disconnect between your "how it all started", the name of your product, your front-page advertising (ok, the pretty girls), and the scary bottom-of-page warnings. I think you need to make your messaging a little bit more congruent.
> the U.S. military is built to fight just 1.5-2 wars

While technically true, I think WWII showed that the U.S. economy can ramp up very quickly to military sizes that far outpace the current military composition and makeup. If you count the European and Pacific theaters of WWII as "2 wars" then compare the numbers involved to say, the Iraq and Afghan wars...I think the comparison will explain itself.
How do most companies in California avoid getting caught Under federal law most salaried jobs are exempt from paying overtime, I didn't know that California had changed that.

What sort of overtime pay do programmers at Google and Apple get these days?
It's only wasteful if you consider that bitcoin is of no value.
If you only look at bitcoin as a money transfer system, requiring computationally difficult proofs is at the heart of what makes the system trustworthy.

Do we think the same when we talk about all the vast amounts of energy and money spent trying to secure bank transactions? It's only a waste of money and energy if you consider that these things have no value.

Even if we only consider the protection of physical money and valuables: how much energy is spent in making these vaults? How much money does it cost to protect them?
It's only worth it if you consider that what they protect is more valuable than the cost of protecting them. In the end, whatever is in that vault is just made of bits of metal and dead tree pulp.
I meant in the context of interviewing prospective employees or meeting clients. It wouldn't inspire confidence if you are in an apartment vs an office.
I don't understand what is surprising or funny about that. It's pure Unix philosophy, different commands within a coherent management system.

The opposite would be the surprising thing, this is not Windows. There are managers that do the whole thing in one single executable that calls others, even with GUIs etc, for dumb people.
SF actually sort of attempts to do that, and spends more than enough money to do that, but is ineffective to the point where the homeless are either disincented to participate, or are stuck in a weird limbo where the city/state/fed/charity give them enough to survive indefinitely, but not to actually improve.

In fairness, well over half of the SF homeless population are mentally ill or drug addicted, which would probably be covered by other programs elsewhere; some of which (on the mental health front) is missing because the US had a lot of issues with horribly run institutions until the 1970s, so they shut most of them down, but didn't provide an alternative.
Correct, but for the same crime and effort, (so just as easy) the criminal could have made a bigger profit. They took the stereo and left behind the laptop. Criminals however are not always the brightest bulbs.
A trial in abstentia may be better for the person being targeted, but preserving a bright line distinction between military actions abroad and judicial process at home preserves the integrity of the courts. Jurisdictional boundaries exist not just to respect the constitutional separation between the executive and the judiciary, they exist to protect to autonomy of the judiciary. It undermines American courts to water down the constitutional protections applicable to trials in order to be able to give a trial to foreign nationals hiding out in foreign countries engaging and planning acts of war.
Creating smaller or larger denominations of an existing currency is fairly simple. That's not the fundamental problem with deflation or a currency irrevocably committed to it.
Show HN: PublishSoSimply
I'm in favor of free ponies and ice cream. Maybe I should blog about it.
The thermal imaging part (think of the FLIR systems used on Predator Drones) means it will be used to pick up heat signatures, the optical part will be used to check whether it's something you're looking for.

Now that could be used to check heat distribution on a motherboard, so up that that point, it's benign, but the optical flow calculator nudges it into other territory.

An optical flow calculator means it'll be used in some kind of mobile system. That instantly cuts out most industrial processes, most consumer applications, and most scientific applications. It simply wouldn't be necessary there.

The relatively high resolution of it also points towards it being used in highly specialized applications. For comparison, consumer priced thermal imaging chips usually come at 16x16 pixel resolutions.

The last thing sealing the deal would be the CerDIP package. CerDIP stands for Ceramic Dual-inline Package, instead of the usual Epoxy that holds the world of electronics together. I haven't worked with them, but I wager they're only used in critical applications, stuff that shouldn't fail even if it's screaming along with 300mph through the sky, right next to a plane engine.

So yeah, either you're building a drone with it, or you're building a drone with it. It'd be too expensive for any other application.

Still, there'd be future consumer applications for the technology. The technology the new Kinect uses for example used to be reserved for spotting tanks in underbrush (I assume that's where tanks live and raise their young).
Fully agreed. What's sadder is that Congress doesn't seem to have demanded anything be done to punish him.
Mining the Abyss
Sorry no. A service like this isn't something that passes my "can I do it myself" benchmark. Don't get me wrong, if I think a service provides some value that I either can't implement myself or would cost me too much (financially and/or time) to implement myself then I would signup. Sadly I think I could build something like this into whatever product I was developing quite easily.

Here's an idea: instead of targeting developers (e.g. B2B) why not setup your service to be consumer facing. Imagine a service where individuals can upload their photos or files and then have a shed-load of partners they can share those photos/files with (like photo printing services, social networks, community sites, forums). Just an idea.
It's by a friend of mine. They're just starting so I'm helping'em out.
PyDev 3.1.0 released
They don't actually "have" a carrier until they have an air wing on it AND enough of the right kinds of ships, supplied with the right armaments, to escort it so it isn't defenseless.

What they have is an incomplete project that's militarily useless for, at least, several more years, maybe a couple decades, if ever.
Where do open source programs come from if nobody is paid for them?
And sociologically... how does it handle the race to the bottom after everyone realizes work sucks? Where does wealth come from if nobody works?

Robots, and higher wages for those who works.
I assumed that flip phones and old laptops were eliminated because companies were stealth-marketing their (new) products by "encouraging" TV shows to have their characters use them. I'm pretty sure I've seen at least a few clear-cut "product demo" moments in some shows, where the camera spent a little longer than was really necessary showing the device and the character's interaction with it. See also the transition from "Action Movie OS" to real life operating systems.
You are supposed to run those commands every day, not just with a point release.

When the newbie installed debian in the first place they were (should have been) told to do that.

(And yes there is a tool that will do it automatically and email you if there are updates - apticron.)
Jonathan Franzen: what's wrong with the modern world
Some packages will be held back by apt-get until you "dist-upgrade" them and apt-get will notify you of the held back packages when you apt get "upgrade".
But when do you do that? Say you're in the apartment during YC. Do you get office space with the $80,000 afterwards? Or when you get $1 million in a series A?
Not only that, LTC has been one of the lesser profitable scrypt-coins to mine for a while.

See https://www.multipool.us/ for reference. Although it fluctuates a lot, LTC has been around 4th-5th in profitability among scrypt coins. Often 5th. And wait for Doge to feature in these pools :-)
"He was taking a technical examination for potential employment at NSA; he used his system administrator privileges to go into the account of the NSA employee who was administering that test, and he took both questions and the answers, and used them to pass the test."

WHAT? He was a potential employee at the NSA but was already a system administrator, guys. That's the only reason this all happened - because he's a liar, cheater and thief! Down with Snowden!
Altruism?

Many open source projects have paid contributors anyways.
Interview with Keith Rabois
From the article: "These findings, published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology in September, echo previous work that showed milk composition varying with infant gender in gray seals and red deer and with infant gender and the mother's condition in rhesus macaques."
What if Microsoft decides they won't implement a given popular proposed enhancement?
You did notice the byline, right? I think this guy takes Doctorows work pretty seriously.
The author is an economic idiot.

Socialism and Communism fail every time they are tried. Every time.

http://www.FreeRepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3095028/posts

Read Bradford’s description (in the article linked above) about what socialism did to the Pilgrims: it created poverty, envy, and slothfulness. Many of them died as a result. Prosperity only returned when they re-introduced private property.

I suspect the author is well meaning, but he is ignorant. His "solution" will create misery. I hope he educates himself, then changes his mind.
To further fan the embers of your fear, please enjoy:

[edit: title of link
"Logo of New NRO Spy Satellite: An Octopus Engulfing the World with the Words “Nothing is Beyond Our Reach” Underneath"]
http://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/new-u-s-spy-satellite-...

and:

["Top 10 Most Sinister PSYOPS Mission Patches"]
http://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantreport/top-10-most-sinist...

I find it interesting (and sad) how the last few months have shifted my perspective on Bruce Sterling's "Zenith Angle" from leaning more towards satire, to leaning more towards hard sci-fi/telling the "truth" with fiction.
That's why I personally feel that companies shouldn't be allowed to use the word "buy" for this kind of thing. It should say "license media" or something like that. I also feel there should be some kind of legal requirement for companies to provide continued access for at least 10 to 15 years (or barring that, require the company to provide a way the unlock the item permanently).

I hate DRM. My personal rule of thumb is: if you can't resell it, then you didn't really ever own it.
> how does it handle the race to the bottom after everyone realizes work sucks?

What if your work didn't have to suck? What if you could actually work, create something useful and enjoy it?

I don't understand why people think this is such an impossible concept.
If you get a lot of packages that it tries to uninstall. That's basically what dist-upgrade does: tries to uninstall the least number of packages to allow the update through.

It never happens with a point release though - they are careful about that.
>someone who is very rich is much more likely to be a republican (even if they still only have a 50% chance) than someone who is very poor.

This is correct, and I think you would also be correct to say political affiliation varies with income level, but that is still a far cry from income level being predictive of party identification.

If you are interested in more accurate predictors of political affiliation, you may want to read Jonathan Rodden's excellent work on geography and political identification.[1] To be clear, this work addresses the populations of areas, not individuals.

[1] http://www.stanford.edu/~jrodden/wp/shadow.pdf
The quote in your last paragraph is the answer to the OP's question.
4th Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches of persons, houses, papers, and effects.

It has never prohibited the government from doing other searches, otherwise government agencies would not be able to subpoena business records about you from third parties.

Sometimes Congress passes separate laws adding a specific requirement to obtain a warrant before doing a certain type of search, and the Supreme Court has also acted to expand 4th Amendment protections to include 'reasonable expectation of privacy' (concerning a phone booth conversation in an otherwise public place) but even in that case the Supreme Court specifically abrogated the concept of a general "right to privacy".
Why it’s a shame that computer science courses aren’t mandatory
The Chinese leadership has possibly looked the costly Imperial wars like Iraq, Vietnam, Algeria and Afghanistan for both the USSR & USA and decided that power projection is costly and counterproductive.

Also they might be waiting for UAV launches from nuclear subs. Might be cheaper and about as effective.
Fences make great neighbors, and while you don't legally need a copyright notice in the US for most purposes, putting one on there is a cheap investment in preventing accidental casual infringement and lets you skip the "Whoops I didn't realize copying that would be infringing" stage of the "Please knock that off" conversation.
But when we get self-driving cars this avenue will disappear as well. Technology will de-dramatize our lives.
Honestly, I find Aptitude hard to use. Maybe Pacman has spoiled me.
Oh man, mine too. Although part of me thinks this is like saying, "you know, Everest would be way better if moved twenty feet west."
The incentives for wealth redistribution are vary simple. You hand over a fixed percentage of money to the poor and they don't steal from you or end up in prison. The idea being while many poor people will not steal the overhead from those that do is high enough that it's worth a lot.

As to basic income vs. other forms of welfare it's more money directly but far lower overhead. Which means people that are capable of finding productive jobs are adding to the economy vs. varying unemployment information etc. On top of that some people will simply take more risks which has a huge upside vs. unemployment where you can't get the money if your starting up your working for your self so people watch TV vs building an App.

Socially, money is a huge motivator. Most collage educated people could get by working 1/2 what they do but the 20 hour work week or taking 6 months off a year did not take off instead people buy 5$ coffee at Starbucks etc.

PS: And yes the poor can be a lot more disruptive than you might think just look at say the french revolution or any of the communist revolutions.
I'm the lazy guy
Didn't Amazon recently (in the past year or so) remove the ability to download a copy of the video you bought to any device, not only to Kindles?
This. I was defrauded to the tune of $3,500 (run of the mill stolen Paypal account bought a top of the line iMac from me on eBay) and after discovering to my horror that both eBay and Paypal sidestep all fraud for protection... I called the FBI, police, etc.

They listened politely until I said how much it was worth -- one of my favorite quotes was "If you added a zero to the end, we'd knock down their door at 6AM tomorrow. For $3,500 it's simply not worth our time."
You are a computer scientist, not a mathematician. This book is for mathematicians. (Not an insult, the mathematicians deep into homotopy aren't likely to be great at building an actual theorem prover on a computer.)

Basic notions of topology only touch a bit of the corners of HoTT.

Have you seen the Agda code on the HoTT github site? That might be closer to your language.
Or poke around at Andrej Bauer's work, as he leans toward the computerization side a bit.
Yes, among other reasons such as solving a problem for themselves or enjoyment of the process. The point is that financial motivation doesn't even explain all the production in the economy right now, so obviously removing the financial motive won't remove all production. And a basic income doesn't imply no financial motivation anyway, how many investment bankers and programmers quit their job yesterday because they already have enough savings to eat and live in a crappy sharehouse for the rest of their lives?
While we are plugging fun toys I'm going to piggie back on your comment, for those who don't own a soldering iron the Weller WES51 [1] is great! Extremely high quality, great selection of tips, very durable and reliable. You get by far the most for your money with it. The price is low enough for a hobbyist but the quality is high enough for some professional work.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BRC2XU/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=...