skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not prescribing what the duration should be, surely there is some middle ground between zero and a year.

Where I am currently living (NL) it is a few months (three I believe), happily paid for by the taxpayers. Where I lived before (US-CA) it was a few weeks of partially paid leave, paid by the employer.

I'm also not completely convinced that the weeks surrounding a childbirth are the most productive working weeks.
At first chronological for the first few hundred, and then when server bills (and SaaS monitoring, backups etc.) stopped been insignificant, we switched to:

1) only honouring the promotions we had out there
2) the paid priority access people (Paying $19, then $29, to get access)
3) people from startups who could offer us a good PR boost by association on launch
Their "rock" site is a total joke. Searched for my favorite band, nothing at all. I'll stick with plyrics.com.
There's not just the energy production and storage side of the equation. Technologies that increase engery efficiency are advancing pretty rapidly right now, in spite of the fact that energy cost is a much smaller share of GDP than it used to be.

I am confident that peak consumption will outrun peak production and that we have a lot of leeway to reduce consumption even more quickly without making major changes to our way of life.
> and leaving his kids squat

His children's charities are getting billions of dollars as well.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103759/not-a-big-deal
That's some sweet loading time. Thank you for the tips and pointers in the article, having a go at page load optimizations is what I'm going to do next.
Those two statements don't really connect.

Money has value because people think it does, but also because it represents economic value. Once you can buy enough economic output to sit at the top of maslow's triangle then you're free to pursue whatever arbitrary things you please.

It's not an abstract concept, it's a cold hard fact that's held true for centuries.
An Oscar hardly seems like a fitting British commendation for someone that isn't an actor or director.
The author is from India. Based on that fact, there is a 95% chance that he lived most of his life in poverty comparable to the bottom 5% of Americans.

See figure 7: http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServ...

It's also worth noting that he's writing this from the perspective of a far more materialistic and status-based society than the US.
A recent example of where the UK was, in my opinion, quite right in paying out to victims was to people who had been tortured by British colonial forces during the Mau Mau revolt in the 1950s:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22790037

I would also support compensation for anyone who was a victim of extraordinary rendition through the UK and criminal prosecution of anyone who aided this ghastly practice.
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Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing receives royal pardon
The naming of this is unfortunate [1].

[1]: https://moonpig.com
Time, Magic, and the Self
>the investments needed in building it and replacing existing infrastructure would be enough to shake economies.

What do you mean by "shake"? Doing all that replacement work would boost GDP growth and employment, would it not?
A few years ago, after spending most of my adult life in voluntary-ish poverty I decided to spend a few years earning proper money. By which I mean, significantly more than my first world country's average salary but still peanuts in HN terms. The main differences it's made to me are:

1) I can afford to buy a home, which I expect to remove a large amount of bullshit from my life and makes me feel more secure about my future.

2) When my computer / bicycle / phone / printer / washing machine etc fails I can get the problem fixed without significant disruption to my life. This is probably a much bigger deal than anybody who's always been able to find money for these things realises.

4) It feels good to know I have earning ability if I put the effort in.

5) It's nice to be able to buy stuff, occasionally.
Well IMO it's kind of silly to care about the government snooping through my data when huge corporations are the ones who actually own the fiber and can siphon all the traffic they want -- then sell it. You're basically choosing between the US government or a combination of Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and Deutsche Telekom.
I have grown up in a typical middle-class household where one is rightly nurtured into not being extravagant. I was taught to value money (which I thoroughly appreciate). Even though, in my childhood, I always got whatever I wanted, the truth is that I never wanted big, expensive toys.

The author did not grow up in poverty.
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The problem is that without prosecutions and serious jail time, nothing is going to change. If the government has a precedent where it can violate the highest laws of the land and do whatever it wants in the name of national security, and create its own secret readings of laws that contradict other laws, there is nothing stopping them from carrying out new secret programs while they pretend to end the ones that were exposed. They will say they stopped mass wiretapping and just create a new ultra-secret designated program that does the same thing because there was no consequences for the previous law breaking.
They've already prepared for this by offering every single Saudi citizen free overseas education. That's why places like Vancouver and London are swamped in Saudi foreign students right now.
Everybody just loves the word "freedom," like it's some magical super-juice which is the be-all and end-all of the American experience.

We will all be free of obligation, pain, responsibility, and any other positive or negative thing soon enough. Instead of the pursuit of freedom, we should dedicate ourselves to obligations that honor ourselves and others.

You don't really want "freedom," you want an obligation that you're excited about, you want a responsibility you're eager to take on, you want a job you love doing, you want a relationship that resonates with your values.

Everyone shorthands this to "freedom," and sooner or later that becomes the goal instead of the individual obligations you're now able to pursue.
Our first voice controlled game on android
Clojure vs. Scala
Agreed 100% on the diesel longevity and overall lower maintenance. I'd happily buy a 25k or 40k mile 2 year-old diesel for 20% off vs a new one for MSRP. Even moreso if 6+ months of factory warranty was left. That way, you can get anything broken fixed by the dealer, and you're only only the hook for wear items.

Even though it seems small, that $5K saving is real and would pay me for all the maintenance the car would need for the next 100k+ miles. Even if one went to an Indy mechanic, that would cover all the maintenance for a long time.
He actually mentioned in the article that he grew up "middle class". I am aware that middle class in India may be different than in the US, but it is clear that he was never poor - going to bed hungry etc.
A multi-letter variable name.
So where has the investigation reached ?
The linkbait title is pixie dust.

Docker is unfinished.

How do you handle permanent data storage? Particularly, this scenario: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18496940/how-to-deal-with...

It's a very active project. Can anyone else think of other gaps Docker has yet to fill for common scenarios you'd use it for?
Keevoice
Hello,

My name is Ilarion Khapin and I know that you are interested in new projects.
That's why I would like to present you my Start-Up
"Voice sharing mobile application"

The whole information, including screenshots, you can find on our website
Looking forward to your feedback

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"we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services" - Mark Zuckerberg in his letter to shareholders.
"I don't intend to build in order to have more clients; I intend to have more clients in order to build" - Howard Roark in Fountainhead
I went to a lecture a while ago by Geoffrey Landis, one of the people behind the moon lander. He suggested that Venus was actually easier than Mars if you imagine a floating capsule a kilometer above the surface. The atmosphere at that level is room temperature, and the pressure is about 1 bar. The only problem is sulfuric acid, and as he put it, "space has lots of things more deadly than sulfuric acid, which is something we've had a lot of experience dealing with."

Imagine springing a leak on Mars. You'd be rushing to fix it before everyone dies. In the Venusian clouds, the pressure would be the same, inside and out, and you'd simply patch it then clean up the mess.
>> "You're basically choosing between the US government or a combination of Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and Deutsche Telekom."

Honestly I'd be more happy with the telecom companies doing it. They can do much less harm with any data they get.
This is probably an improvement over the simplest idea I can think of:

<?php exec("grep $terms *html", $results);
Turing often seems to get most of the credit for ending the war early (probably due to the injustice he suffered), but we shouldn't forget others suffered in different ways.

Tommy Flowers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers), who arguably created the first electronic computer to decrypt the Lorenz cypher was just as important and his work was not acknowledged until the 1970s.

Flowers wanted to create a computer after the war but the Bank of England wouldn't lend him the money because they didn't believe it was possible and he couldn't disclose he'd already done it due to official secrets act.
Snowden says whatever keeps Putin happy, so that he doesn't sell his ass back to Americans.
Actually you're thinking of a single speed here.

A fixie is one that runs with a fixed gearing (without a freehub [0]. When the wheels turn the pedals must turn. many hipsters also run them without brakes which requires them to use their legs to slow the bike. these are most commonly seen on velodromes and anywhere with lots of coffee shops.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freehub
In Russia, a leading internet search provider rolled out an aggregator app, it's pretty good. There're multiple others as far as I remember.
A 4 year degree is only valuable if you actually had the mental maturity to take advantage of it at the time (I didn't). Unfortunately, that doesn't seem true with the majority of the kids graduating from high school. They see it as just another hoop to jump through.

If someone told me now that I can spend 4 years just learning things, have access to intelligent people, and great resources/facilities without worrying about a gap in my cv, I would jump at that chance.

I am going to hacker school in Feb, so hopefully it will be kind of like that. Albeit for a much shorter amount of time (3 months).
> Eventually even smart phones will behave like supercomputers.

I just had a vision of a Paralella board as the main CPU for a mobile phone... wow, that would be neat.
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I went a similar road (from $50 a month in an underground windowless garage with no utilities whatsoever, to a 200m2 penthouse).

I'd put an accent on your point #2 - it really makes a huge difference to just shoot up some money into trivialities and mundane annoyances in your life just to make them magically go away. Because there's so many of them, most cannot afford that.

I'd like to add a point though, maybe the most important in my list.

6) increased appeal to other sex.

And as far as buying stuff goes, all my wordly posessions fit in one box less than in this picture https://www.dropbox.com/s/us8bavsdjldd029/2013-08-16%2005.42...
Ask HN: How to find a business partner to bootstrap a startup in France
Hi guys, I have just resigned my role as a Data analyst/Growth hacker at SecretEscapes.com to bootstrap a startup copying a well know UK service in France. This particular company is doing very well in the UK atm and just raised money to expand in the US.
Through my mother Job, I have easy access to a sample of the customer segment targeted to test an MVP and verify if there is indeed a potential opportunity in France for that particular service. The idea is then to test and document from the findings if it is really possible to bootstrap a startup with a proven idea and a group of early adopters using "The Step-by-Step Guide for building a great company" from Steve Blank and Bob Dorf and "The Lean Startup" from Eric Ries. I am thus looking for a business partner (not obviously tech) to help me designing the product, sourcing it, testing it and market it. In short I am looking for an entrepreneur that "doesn't mind getting his hands dirty" who is data driven and understand the lean startup movement. Any help would be really appreciated.
> Only briefly - it looks pretty straight forward. Could you explain what's wrong with it?

I think this link says it all: http://download.java.net/jdk8/docs/api/java/util/function/pa...

The amount of times they managed to back themselves into a corner is just horrifying.

> Also they pushed a number of features that were going to land in Java 7 back to Java 8 because there wasn't enough time to finish them. So that doesn't seem to be true.

And to Java 9. Any actual improvement would assume that a considerable amount of people would have kept working on those things in the meantime. First delaying the feature and then reallocating the people to extinguish fires somewhere else (security, applets, ...) doesn't help.

Anyway, they recently started from scratch again on modularization, so pretty much all the work done on Jigsaw before that is lost anyway. Let's at least hope that they documented the experience they gained, so that they don't repeat all the mistakes again.
that's pretty clever!
The first time that I heard an annoying advert for the card company "moonpig.com" I pretty much heard it as "all_the_good_domain_names_are_taken.com" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEBy67ZUrxQ

But apparently "moonpig" is not just a totally random name, if two different groups can come up with it.
What, you think Tucci cares? lol!
Quite! I and any others from the UK are likely to assume it's something to do with an annoying virtual/printing greetings card company.
If you finance a car, you can often get a much better rate on a new car than on a used car, which may be a factor toward getting a new car.
Blockbuster did that price with brick and mortar stores and a limited number of my physical copies of a movie. Netflix has lower operating costs and an unlimited number of downloads it can make available to customers, so they don't need to buy in 100 copies of a film which will be next to useless after 2 weeks.
"Middle class" in India does not mean what you seem to think. The vast majority of middle class Indians are poorer than most Americans living in poverty.

Read my link - 95% of Indians are poorer than the bottom 5% of Americans. Unless the author defines "middle class" as "top 2%", the fact that he grew up "middle class" is meaningless when comparing his lifestyle to an American one.

A stat to illustrate the point - 1.8% of India (circa 2009) owns a car, likely one that would be too dangerous to sell in the US. For comparison, 25% of American households below the poverty line own 2 cars and 75% own one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_p...

http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/h150-07.pdf

The bottom 50% of America you described, or even the bottom 5%, also does not go to bed hungry.
A primer on using ES6 generators for clean async code in Koa.js
Science != engineering.

Engineers take what scientists discover and create and design solutions based on that. Computer science is not about engineering a large software solution. Rather it's about discovering and creating algorithms and techniques that engineers can use to design solutions.

Much of the comments to this article seem to be happy to mix the roles of "technician", "engineer", and "scientist" when they are in fact very, very different.
One thing I discovered last week is OpenID Connect [1]. It layers an authentication standard upon oAuth2, without any of the cruft of 'legacy' OpenID it seems. Does anybody here have practical experience with OpenID connect?

[1] http://openid.net/connect/
I came to similar conclusions as the OP a few years ago but called it "flexibility" instead of "freedom".

Or you might call it "the freedom to choose", which I think is quite different from vanilla overarching "freedom"
And people don't understand what makes Christianity appealing.
Interactive IPython graphs at Montreal Python Meetup
There needs to be more shunning of NSA collaborators in the tech community. The NSA has only been able to achieve this Orwellian level of surveillance through the cooperation of big tech companies and considers them crucial to their operations. If caving to the NSA has social consequences among the tech community, there will be a lot more resistance against their future demands.
"... how much you learn in college depends a lot more on you than the college. A determined party animal can get through the best school without learning anything. And someone with a real thirst for knowledge will be able to find a few smart people to learn from at a school that isn't prestigious at all." - PG

Have to agree with this. How good you are at coding is more related to the number of hours you put in than grades or school. People who enjoy coding have the advantage of being able to spend more hours before getting tired/bored, and thus become better coders than top CS graduates who are just trying to pass college.
Game Development Engines for Mobile Platforms: Unity3D
You're not going to homebrew a more secure solution than the paid professors. It's a hard problem even to them.
Once you have had your freedom forcefully removed, maintaining it becomes a major source of happiness.

> You don't really want "freedom," you want an obligation that you're excited about, you want a responsibility you're eager to take on, you want a job you love doing, you want a relationship that resonates with your values.

Absolutely this. "Freedom" encapsulates the state where you are able to pursue those smaller goals without other people or circumstances preventing you. That is something worth seeking. But it's always worth keeping in mind what you want the freedom for.
Was #6 because of how you dressed, or because you could host events at your new place, or some other factors?

I'm curious since I have some acquaintances who are morbidly afraid of having members of the opposite sex approach them for their substantial wealth. They go out of their way to mask their material status.
Something looks a bit off with that photo [1]. The screen size is wrong. It has the aspect ratio of a pre-5 iPhone (notice the extra-large gap between the bottom of the screen and the home button compared to [2]). It also appears to be running iOS 6, which I'm pretty sure isn't possible on a 5s.

[1]: http://geohot.com/mt.jpg
[2]: http://images.apple.com/iphone/compare/images/compare_iphone...
> Define "threat to the world". Can Iran destroy the whole world? Fortunately, not. Can Iran destabilize, hurt and incite violence? Not only can, it is doing it right now.

So strictly speaking, the US is the bigger evil because it is doing all those things right now, and has the capability of destroying the world through nuclear holocaust.

> Again, depends on the people. If Al-Qaida kills 3000 Americans in 9/11, and then Americans kill 10000 Al-Qaida fighters after that, I'd say good job, they only should have done it earlier, so we would have 3000 less victims.

This line of reasoning. This here. That is evil.

"Depends on the people", oh my god.

By the way the US has already killed far more than 10,000 in response to the WTC attacks. And not just "fighters" either.

And if you still somehow can say this was warranted--I have no (nice) words if you do--ask yourself why they hijacked those planes in the first place. It wasn't because "mwuahaha let's do something evil against those unfaithful white men dogs" (the hijackers themselves maybe were told something like this, a variation on your "it depends on the people"), but the actual cause was the US' meddling in the Middle East in earlier decades (during the Gulf Wars and before) that ended up killing their guys. Which made them decide that a mission like this was a completely reasonable response. Someone might have even claimed something ridiculous like "we should have done a 9/11-type attack much earlier, and save all those victims" (which makes about as much sense as your claim that killing 10,000 AQ fighters sooner would somehow have prevented 9/11).

They have about as much claim of being the "good guys" as the US. Which is, none whatsoever.
>>A life spent mostly hoarding money and possessions is a wasted life

Having seen the kind of advantage some of my friends born in rich families enjoy, I would love to hoard and posses tons of wealth even if its purely to give away in inheritance.

Rich kids enjoy privileges and advantage poor kids can't even dream of. The biggest of which is attitude of course. Rich kids are born with an assumption they are supposed to remain rich forever, become leaders and are free to act as unfair as they want given the their 'natural selection' in becoming rich.

No matter how hard you work, you will never be able to truly compete with a rich kid. He will get all the resources, tutions, fee and expenses taken care of to establish a more deeply entrenched position of advantage.

The only real way is for you to exactly do what their parents did, and hope your kids will be better off.

>>Then why do we run after money?

Which brings me to the point, why did you start a company?

Speaking purely from a philosophical point. There have been people in India, especially wandering monks who shown you can find all the bliss in life even on bare minimal survival gear. And there is no way you can match their freedom.
I do know one heir to millions who lives on the streets and dumpster dives, thinking that it is morally wrong for him to make use of his monetary advantages in any way.

Obviously not the norm.
Ask HN: Which Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey scripts do you use?
I looked on userscripts.org to see what other scripts are popular, but no single one of the ranking options (# downloads, date last updated etc.) helps me get a list of the top 100 from which I can choose the ones I want.
India’s Central Bank Cautions Users Against Bitcoin & Virtual Currency
It depends what you call 'peak oil'. That there will be a point in time where we consume the maximum amount of oil ever is inevitable - we will run out, and the usage curve will have a maximum somewhere. But 'peak oil' is being used as some sort of scientific-sounding synonym for a precursor to a Mad Max style society. It's this part that is absurd and highly unlikely - much more unlikely than the alternative in which we more or less gradually transition into a society based on other energy sources and modes of energy transport.
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