skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In practice, it seems people who know how to maintain wealth would never keep a large sum in cash around, but quickly turn it into net income generating assets"

Warren Buffet famously holds large sums of cash or cash equivalents from time to time. Dumping your cash into overpriced assets just to keep your cash balance low is no smarter than hording cash.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/sharding/2013/09/20/has-warren-b...
My apologies on the confusion -- the price is on the About page, but it could well be missed. That said, your email is only stored if you complete a purchase, so no worries there.
I'm not sure I asked my question clearly enough:

How easy is it to withdraw BTC from MtGox?
Following the logic of this post, you can't redistribute wealth, only money. ” The People” don't want to own companies, they want enough money to feed their families. The problem isn't that Bill Gates has a lot of money, it's that wealth is a system of exponential growth. It is somewhat unfair that his money allows him to make more money at such an outsized rate.

Taxes are a way to put wealth on an logarithmic scale instead of an exponential one. We don't want to forcibly take money from rich people, we want to make it harder for them to make more of it. The point of the post its that wealth is related to having something that can be traded for value. Higher taxes (potentially to support a Basic Income) would leave the rich with their ”wealth” while taking only money from them, hopefully leveling the playing field for everyone else.
It's arbitrary who owns it, it just has to be owned. On a very superficial level, it's supply and demand. Increase supply without increasing demand causes price to fall.
Your Device Needs an API
The Raspberry Pi requires a binary blob to function whatsoever, so it doesn't really make sense to use for the purpose of an open source laptop.
I would say hockey probably only does for the big hockey schools in the US. In other places, especially high school, hockey is a club sport so the players pay for everything. Which is the complete opposite of football.
Facebook wants you on Facebook as often as possible. They are taking the opposite path to monetizing the same data. I'm noticing now that their FBX retargeting has gone beyond just sites I visit to sites similar to those that I have recently visited. I'm also noticing really improved cross-device consistency, as they are using my UID to link my devices when I am logged in to Facebook (across the web, as you said).
Why did the Java developer need glasses?

Because he couldn't C#.
They got themselves into some shit when they announced their plans to continue tracking vehicles that were capable of OnStar even if the owner wasn't a subscriber. Since making this announcement, they backtracked on this plan ... but makes you wonder whether they really did since it's clearly possible for them to continue collecting vehicle data unless you disable with with the correct jumpers.

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/onstar-backtracks...
Simple rules for the care and feeding of scientific data
Agreed. I'm so much more into the hiccup style tree building. This looks like something I can get into tonight. David is great but he prefers his code a little mysterious.
You're exactly right, although if I recall correctly, no-one likes "gatekeepers" ;-)
Which will drastically cut into many municipalities revenue. How will they replace that revenue?
Paul McKenney's Free Ebook on Parallel Programming
And I actually think that furthers the idea that "money == wealth" isn't a helpful way to look at the world. Why are food stamps so effective? Because when you're hungry, food stamps are astonishing wealth to the recipient, far more than the societal costs of providing it.

Unfortunately for people who read this as a strong endorsement for general redistribution, it is indeed the "biggest bang" and once you have filled someone's belly (and generally filled in the lower Maslow levels), you no longer have such simple options to take a bit of wealth from one and give a lot of wealth to another. At the margins that's not the choice we face; usually it looks more like my original post.

I am a libertarian, but I greatly value the social safety net. It is an incredible, incredible source of societal wealth. The problem is that there's no way to scale the safety net up beyond being a safety net, because again let me emphasize that would be awesome, but it just doesn't work.
Which brings up another point. If the players are responsible for bringing in so much revenue why not just make it legal to pay them?
It also has unfortunate connections. Look up jazz, but with the vowel you use inbstead of the "a".
I don't think today's prices are excellent from them. North sea oil is much more expensive to produce than in Middle East so Norway's income is lower than Kuwait's. The amount of cheaply accessible oil is diminishing so it's inevitable that prices will go up with rising production costs and limited supply. There are no alternatives to oil in current world's economy, so I think we'll burn all of it before we are forced to build a new economy.
I'm a PM at GoDaddy and can verify that the number of Ruby sites we host is extremely low. There are a lot of great Ruby offerings (Heroku kicks ass) so we are focusing resources to be really great at fewer things.
Fast interactive prototypes using Sketch and d3
My attempt:

A Chinese spy stole the last 48MB of the Abram's targeting system. To our good fortunes this was only the closing parentheses.
Disclaimer - I've never played Starcraft or Magic: The Gathering.

But I expect that in both of them, just like in real life, there is some value to having unspent liquid assets, in that they give you optionality. Unspent liquid assets can be converted at a later time into marines/computing hardware/other 'real' assets, depending on what is most needed at the time. If you turn all of your liquid assets into illiquid assets as soon as you get them, you lose that optionality.
Monster sculpting video
my vido i make on how i make creatures.check it out
Your (Belated) SaaS New Year’s Resolution: Add a Layer
Wow this looks like an awesome little lib. I love stuff like this.
UAW Looks to Unionize Tesla Motors
Free DNS service from InterServer
He always talks about how he wants to be "free". And he's not "free" yet. Even though he makes money, he still has debt (school loans, mortgage, car payments, daycare, etc etc)..
Mine too! I scored 44.
Coming from someone who started doing self-taught web development myself...knowing algorithms and data structures doesn't stunt creativity anymore than knowing perspective would for a painter.

They are tools that let you get a job done efficiently and a great deal of creativity can be used in figuring out how to apply and combine them. It further allows more opportunity for creativity because they allow you to operate on a higher level. Most algorithm and data structure knowledge in web development isn't so much, "now I have to implement algorithm x" but is instead, "Algorithm x would be helpful, oh look, there's a library for that."

In all honesty though, in web development enough of these things are baked into the language that your code probably won't actually change very much. The languages and libraries are suited to the problem and all of the typical tasks are taken care of, in that regard. In my experience the day to day is not very changed in practice (though you do think of things differently), but occasionally you run into a problem that in the past would have seemed intractable or just not worth the trouble and realize it's actually not too bad. If you want to be a master in your field it is necessary, but like most aspects of true mastery, isn't needed for the most common utility work.
Can you make the login popup on your website compatible with chrome password autofill? It used to be, but the new popup login thing broke it.
How are they discouraging buying likes if they tell you the number of likes you will get when you want to promote your Facebook page?
> It causes the speed limit on a majority of roads to be set to a level that is well below a safe speed to drive, instead of setting reasonable limits in most places and then carving out exceptions in places that are more dangerous.

OK, I'll bite.

I'm assuming you're talking about the US. Do you really think that a "majority" are set to a level "well below" a "safe speed"?

You think 25 mph on a residential street is too low? There's a British video of how even low-speed collisions can be fatal for pedestrians.

I've personally found the speeds in the USA to be eminently reasonable. 25 mph: residental, 30 mph on undivided business streets, 40/45 for multilane main streets. 50 mph for minor highways, and 65+ for interstates and major highways.
Your counter case of reckless teenagers is a strawman -- traffic deaths have dropped over the last few decades. Previous Poster didn't say there shouldn't be speed limits, but was arguing against imagining that lowering a speed limit would generally do anything meaningful in reducing traffic speeds.

Speed limits, when using the textbook, are set by running a study of car speeds on a particular stretch of road, then setting the limit where something like 80% of drivers are at or under it. This survey is done with either cameras or those nearly invisible pressure strips they glue to the road surface, and most people drive through without noticing at their normal speeds.

If it's set slower for political reasons, obviously then many more people are going to naturally be driving faster than the limit. The primary function for this is to increase ticket revenues, not make people safer. Indeed, adding things to the road to make it feel like you need to slow down, and not just a speed sign, do more to control traffic speeds.

Alternatively, it's the one case where I'd consider arguments for speed cameras. Yes, they too only affect local traffic speeds (just before them and a little after). But if the concern is speed in a particular corner of a road, put one up. People will know they're there, slow down, and be safer.
Does anyone know any drawbacks using this?
I'm glad that things are better than they seem.

I had a bad experience years ago with the Genesis3D engine, which was similar to Moai -- open source, really easy to get productive with, an enthusiastic community. Then the company changed its strategy, abandoned the open source version, and the whole thing just collapsed. I wouldn't want to see the same thing happen with Moai.
Valid point -- I suppose the functions of Google and FB are different. But even then, still seems like a great revenue stream
Based on your post it appears you're not profiting at all from your assets - presumably then you're currently selling up?

Is this more "first world problems" and in fact you're making a reasonable return given your investment of time and money?

I've several friends who're small time landlords - ie own a second residence they let out - they all make a tidy profit and none of them appear to have been exposed any more than a regular home-buyer to fluctuations in the housing market. It all comes across a bit like complaining that your Cristal is warm and your maid keeps coming in late.
He doesn't understand how to be happy or satisfied. He needs a therapist. I think most people do, they underestimate the value of having an independent sounding board to help work through these kinds of feelings.

His expectations are either unrealistic, or he's surrounded by people who are always doing better, despite him doing well, which makes him seem like a failure. He has the luxury of those feelings.

Silicon Valley can be a totally distorted place where there is always someone doing better. It's important to look inwards for satisfaction, and not externally, or some arbitrary barometer of success.

Plus, the people around him who appear to be winners, are often chock full of their own problems.
Although not as deep as Zed's books/tutoriuals. I have created several screencasts about the topic. Basically, I show you what a UNIX-like filesystem looks like, some common commands, and then show you man pages by example. This should be enough to get someone going and teach them how to learn for themselves.

Crash Course on Common Commands @ http://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/13-crash-course-on-common-...

Crash Course on the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard @ http://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/12-crash-course-on-the-fil...

Crash Course on Man Pages @ http://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/19-crash-course-on-man-pag...

ps. there are many great HN threads about UNIX commands, here are just a few:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6360320

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6046682

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5022457

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4985393
Give me 85,000 people who have been victims of workplace harassment (of any gender), 15,000 more random people, and I've found a group who has suffered more workplace harassment than women. Why do you assign this arbitrary group no moral/political weight?

(Again: there are orders of magnitude more such subgroups of Britain than there are cells in the human body. I don't understand how you pick one to the exclusion of all others.)

However, why are you arguing against...

I'm arguing nothing - I merely asked why CJefferson found a lack of non-royal women on money unacceptable. Then I asked drcongo (and later you and aaren) about your underlying political/moral philosophy. But everyone seems to be ducking the fundamental question.

So I'll ask one more time before I give up. Consider a statistical reference class X, which suffers disproportionately from one or more harms. How do I determine whether X deserves moral/political consideration of the sort you are advocating for? (E.g., we should make sure more of X has their picture printed on money.)
I think you basically just get the lowest common denominator when it comes to sports fans. Kind of like when you walk into any walmart in the US.
Quarter-life crisis. He's asking "is this all there is?"

Not everybody feels compelled to a higher calling. In fact, I'd say most people don't. That doesn't mean life isn't worth living, it just means he hasn't found something that he can pour all of his extra energy in to.

Edited to add: Trevor Blackwell used to have something on his web site about founder's stories. I can't find it now. Basically, he was saying that people want to hear inspiring stories from founders about their "a ha" moments and how they were driven to a single goal. This is not how it works for most people. Most innovators, through hard work or happenstance, stumble upon something they have a knack for, and pursue it until they slowly, gradually push the boundaries of the possible. But that doesn't make for a good story.
as a bonus, you can turn it into a pr0n site if this fails.
As far as I know there are no proposals to redistribute wealth by seizing assets from wealthy people. They mostly revolve around increasing taxation.

Right now, when Bill Gates wants to use some of his wealth that is tied up in Microsoft stock, he has to sell it. When he sells it, he pays a capital gains tax of 15%. If we increase that tax, Bill gets less money and more of it goes to the government to be redistributed according to the wishes of the people (in theory!). There's no question of what the government is going to do with a bunch of stock.
the airstrip was built by my friend martijn (https://github.com/MartijnR) when he worked as a construction expert with the Red Cross in Darfur. He had to "hire somebody to chase away goats before plane landing".
You can use Hiccup style with Om via sablono if you like via http://github.com/r0man/sablono. Om will never dictate nor provide an alternate syntax layer as everyone will want something different. I personally don't care for Hiccup.

More importantly, Cloact is much closer to the React model while Om diverges quite a bit because we're interested in enabling patterns that are more difficult otherwise, trivial complete UI state rewind on exceptions/errors, trivial undo, and more powerful operations on the applicate state history oriented at interactive debugging and development.

Of course these values might not interest you and you just want a simple direct mapping onto React. Then Cloact looks awesome! :)
To me, the big WTF is that Facebook has recently effectively said "If you don't pay to promote your updates, they're going to be seen by a lot less people in the future - including those who already "Like" your page.

So the decision of whether to purchase "Likes" on Facebook is now much more of a no-brainer. You're not going to see the same ROI on ad spend as you once did (and even then, the ROI was tentative at best).
That's not the design I remember -like I said, it has changed- but it does look like a similar vehicle. Maybe they got a new license plate?
So if you e.g. want to abandon the conflict-fixing, and do some things on your branch to make merging easier first, you've got to use a special command, and it's different depending on whether you were merging or rebasing (which is still a great improvement over a year or so ago, when you had to do an incantation like git reset --hard HEAD^). Contrast with svn where abandoning a merge is just a "svn revert" like any other.
Record Label Cartoon
I assume this doesn't affect MediaTemple accounts at all?
The Chemistry of Cyborgs—Interfacing Technical Devices with Organisms
Video archive from linux.conf.au 2014
What on Earth does "unpick" mean and where does that term come from?
IScroll 5
If there is a revolution, then all financial assets are worthless overnight, stocks, bonds, whatever. Even physical assets lose a lot of their value - a factory that can't get raw materials and can't get their product to retailers is worth a great deal less than an identical factory with identical workers that is a going concern.
It was really there because it generated a lot of wealth, eg: Windows 8 (if you think it has any value heheh). In the hands of the poor, the company got destroyed and it won't produce any more windows.
I prefer "There are 3 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things."
I'm glad to see someone advocating sensible retirement planning here. Though the post had a few good points about how to perceive wealth vs. money, I cringed at the notion that most stocks are "buy and pray" investments. Stocks have a better risk/return profile than just about any other asset class with a given 10+ year time window over the last century, assuming proper diversification. I should also point out that stocks, by definition, are ownership.

That being said, it is important to further diversify within a stock portfolio by having a good mix US, European, Emerging Market, small/mid/large cap, etc. As one nears retirement, risk can be reduced along with return by shifting into bonds. Again diversification is useful here. Have a good mix of both corporate and government, high quality, high yield, floating rate, inflation protected, etc.

Of course, developing a skill is a way to increase your wealth, as defined by the article, but diversified equity and fixed income holdings are a way to protect that wealth for a time when those skills are no longer relevant, whether it is by the slow erosion of time or a sudden unfortunate event.
An Open Letter to HN from EFF, Demand Progress, and Cory Doctorow
Dear HN,

Two years ago you joined in fighting back against dangerous Internet censorship legislation during the SOPA protests. You blacked out your websites, lobbied your employers to do the same, and started creative campaigns to defeat a threat to freedom on the Internet.

As was often the case, Aaron Swartz said it best: “[We defeated SOPA] because everyone made themselves the hero of their own story.” [1]

In the last 6 months it’s been revealed that government agencies, like the NSA and GCHQ, have twisted laws to create the legal and technical infrastructure for mass surveillance. Surveillance precipitates a dark form of censorship: people become afraid to speak freely. It undermines our security and restricts our ability to communicate privately.

With SOPA we had a clear goal: defeat a specific bill. In this case, we have promising bills (like the USA Freedom Act) and terrible ones (the FISA Improvements Act). But if progress is to be made, we need to send a message to our legislators that we won’t let the Internet be turned into a tool for mass surveillance. We need to push them to have the courage to support comprehensive reform.

Today, on the eve of the anniversary of Aaron’s death, we’d like to ask you to step up once again in defense of a free, open and secure Internet. In memory of Aaron, we’d ask that you to join us in a month of activism, culminating in a day of action on February 11th.

Our organizations—Demand Progress, EFF, and others—will be doing everything we can. We’re creating a banner that sites can add on the day and built a campaign website [2]. But for this to be a real success, each of us must again be the hero of their own story.

Will you join us?

Rainey Reitman, Activism Director, EFF

David Segal, Co-founder, Demand Progress

Cory Doctorow, Co-editor of Boing Boing

[1] http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/14/freedom_to_connect_aaron_swartz_1986

[2] https://thedaywefightback.org
I'm a Rails dev and use GD for all my domains and most of my SSL certs. The service and UI has actually improved drastically in the past months.

But, yeah, I wouldn't use them for hosting anything.
In the NBA, the current rule is a draftee must be 19 years old during the calendar year of the draft and one year out of high school.

There were players in the past who have gone straight from HS before the rule was in place. Most notable, Lebron James.
Does he live in SV? The culture of SV is the rat race with a small but showy percentage breaking free.
"Their overall monetization plan with pages seems terribly short sighted."

The problem here is that promoted posts from your page isn't the best way to use Facebook. Use it occasionally, but Facebook is much more similar to TV or print advertising than search ads. Think about it: Google, you use keywords to judge intent. Facebook, you use demographic information to introduce yourself to those in the demographic you thrive in.
I use a similar workflow and documented it: http://freeseer.github.io/contribute/basics.html#basic-workf...

One difference is that instead of fetching and rebasing changes from origin straight into your topic branch, we recommend checking out master, pulling in changes, checking out your topic branch and rebasing against master. This way master is also up to date.

As for the .gitconfig tip near the end, I don't think changing the behaviour of such a common command like pull is a good idea. Better to be explicit.
Interesting archive. I also found an audio archive for Yiddish dialects:

* by location: http://eydes.de/UsrAA1E0667HF/index/li/li.html

* by words: http://eydes.de/UsrAA1E0667HF/index/wi2/wi2.html

* main page: http://eydes.de/UsrAA1E0667HF/index/
Using bitcoin doesn't give you more rights; If you are doing something that the government wants to stop, then bitcoins gives you more rope to hang yourself.

we have a long history that shows how to change your fate and rock the boat without getting yourself killed/jailed. bitcoin doesn't seem to be capable of doing that.
1. It's a single company where all NSA, FBI, IRS will go.

2. The insurance is fixed in GBP (mostly for financial compliance purposes, rather than malicious intent). So when your holdings rise 10x, you'd have to adjust your contract.

3. "Easy withdrawals" do not sound reassuring on the frontpage. However, somewhere in the FAQ they tell you that there's a 1 BTC limit a day and they get it manually.

We need a personal wallet that locks up your wealth in a multisignature transaction 5-of-9 with 9 of your friends. The key part is to solve privacy issues (I have some ideas) and make UX usable by grandma, even if she forgets her password and loses all backups (I have some ideas). Then, all folks will lock up their funds in a distributed fashion, without any single place becoming too tempting to invade privacy or take funds.