skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Residential real estate is decidedly unprestigious, a business that hurts people-- just look at what house prices and rents have done over the past 20 years-- and the major benefit of working in it, as the OP argues, is that it lacks hard technical problems. There will still be hard problems to solve, but they'll be people problems: dealing with incompetent but powerful management companies, blowback from very rich entrenched interests, etc.

Smart competition isn't that scary. I'd rather have smart competitors and learn a lot even if I lose, than work in a world where stupid people have all the power. If you go into the dark recesses of residential real estate, you'll find that it's not smart-people-friendly. Residential RE might be one area where average-to-stupid people have an edge, because they're closer to the animalistic instincts (i.e. the 86th floor being twice as valuable than the functionally equivalent 85th because it's "the top") that drive it.

It might be attractive to business co-founders looking to build something boring and flip it, but it's not going to get class-A technical co-founders.

This space has the lack-of-upside that would cause VCs to deride it as a "lifestyle business", but because of all the un-fun shit that humans throw up when it comes to land and housing (people get really ugly when that stuff is at stake) it wouldn't have the subjective benefits.
It would be nice to have a clear list of assumed capabilities (for example, I am familiar with basic programming and have built a few websites, but I haven't taken a math class since senior year of high school, and don't think I remember enough about Calculus to do anything that assumes knowledge of it). Just a simple list of what level math, stats, and programming fluency this starts from would be great.
So Theo would rather shutdown instead?

Change is hard, but I think it's worth a shot. And you never know maybe spending more time focused on real needs will create a better product from all the extra attention given to things that are work worthy.
Respect! I feel like firing up mIRC but I don't have windows nor the patience to fire up my vm :P
There is no oversight except on paper.

You can't have oversight unless you have expertise in the area you oversee.

You can't have oversight unless the overseers can impose immediate consequences upon the overseen.

Without these you are nothing but a spectator.
This article is from 2006.

Perl's unicode support is excellent now. In 2006 5.10 wasn't out yet, and anything before 5.8.5 had all sorts of odd unicode bugs.

Or: Tcl got there significantly before we did.
I'm glad database technology with its deep (and provable) mathematical foundation like SQL is free from these distractions. I mean what if there was this huge push of Object-Relational Databases in the 1990s and 2000s, including XML-native databases? I mean what if there was this massive claim that normalization is just an old man's fetish, and a bunch of geniuses figured out you could store things in memory and flat files like the punch card days? And then they created this huge buzz on hash tables, and key value stores with some magic serialized JSON could be ankle deep in linked key/values stores and scalability and all such things were claimed but seldom proved. And then mathematics of normalization hit them in the face, so they have to invent a new buzz word for normalization while still pretending SQL is an old man's fetish. More acronyms I say!
According to this report, NK's 3G network is about to hit 2M subscribers (almost 10% of the population): http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/04/26/koryolink-nears-2-m...

It mentions offering (NK-only) web browsing and most people have dumbphones, but there is a network there. I think it'd be pretty suicidal to conspire using that though as I'm sure it's monitored.

I think there's probably a lot more dissent than you're assuming, but agin, it'd be suicidal to express it if one of your neighbors would just rat you out.

Apparently, smuggling in Chinese and increasingly South Korean smart phones is already quite common:
http://newfocusintl.com/chinese-mobile-phone-dominates-north...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/smartphones-1114201318...

I posted earlier about this, but it seems that these phones would be pretty valuable as media playing devices - preload kiwix w/ KR wikipedia etc - it'd allow you to much more easily/discretely distribute/exchange microSD cards.

Some sort of mesh protocol could be incredibly effective in allow communication while maintaining anonymity. But any sort of message passing/communication would have to be designed under the assumption that it's being monitored.
The way companies work in real life, having an offer in hand gives your manager more motivation and leverage (to get more money for you) than he has to help an employee who is not seen as "in play." In other words, to improve your situation at a good but not perfect job, you sometimes need to get an external offer. Maybe that's not how it should be, but it's demonstrably how it is.

You have ongoing relationships with people, including your managers and co-workers - don't burn those. But your "relationship" with your employer [company], at least in Silicon Valley, is transactional.
If you're not in Phoenix, stop by Hackendo::Integrate for the San Francisco Wearables + Externals Expo and Hackathon (http://hackendo.techendo.co/)

Full Disclosure: I'm the dude throwing it, and I love this stuff.
And a throwaway was used. It's a pity the real account wasn't.
I think it has got to the point, all revelations considered, where we can't hope or assume any encryption is safe.

Technology can't prevent this, we must change laws. Which at present, seems almost as unlikely.
1. Box offers WebDAV.
2. Zotero can store files in a WebDAV server.
Hehehe, she lives 1/3 of the way around the world, and I'm not rich so that's def. not my objective. Plus how can you hit on someone you've never even seen? Personally, I don't want to go much more down the rabbit-hole of a conversation that involves "caste systems" in a public forum, but this is the sort of thing I talk about with my friends. That and I've been randomly making friends with people on the Internet since I was a little kid! (Probably explains everything about me really.) :)
maybe it's because I'm not a native english speaker and don't understand the financial side very well, but I thought they had really pocketed the profits and devalued the company in the way. The fact that they killed one of the products kinda reinforced that notion.
Try the links- they work for me.
Exactly what I was thinking, in terms of population size, price-point per data-device, at least in that I see it as inevitable that they will saturate a critical amount of the population soon, if just through luxury smuggling. It's only a matter of time as the devices are getting cheaper and they are already entering at an exponential rate. Cellular service is extremely powerful on its own, data service is... "liberating".

I think it needs little prompting at this point it is bound to happen organically.
I need more people to upvote me so I can get to the threshold to downvote you.
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What about Skydrive and SugarSync?
do they have plans for International support ?
This is fantastic. Addresses my concern about not being quite up to par in my math education. Combining the two of these is exactly what I'm looking for.
Yes and sadly:

Seymour Cray, the supercomputer architect, died of head and neck injuries suffered in a traffic collision in 1996. His vehicle — a Jeep Cherokee — was designed using a Cray supercomputer.

[source: "The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer" book]
Then why does PayPal persist in offering P2P?
Are you perfectly sure that it will represent the same quality then?
Indeed. I'm a Gentoo user and contributor since late 2002 :) I suspect I should've surrounded my post in <JOKE> </JOKE> tags, I wasn't actually suggesting one is anyway descendant from the other.

It is fascinating to see how far back the methodology goes though, I wasn't aware of this.
A public company's only goal is to create value for its share holders.

While I personally believe things should be different, they aren't. A company that doesn't make money is useless to it's shareholders, and typically shareholders vote to make sure a company makes as much money as possible. There is no natural pressure on a company to care about other things, which is why we have laws to try to get them to care a little bit.
For a little over $200 I can get a 50GiB USB flash drive. If I can pay more and buy one five times as large, I can get below $1 per GiB. Why would I need cloud storage for these sizes?
I don't think so. The foundation probably doesn't have anyone anywhere in Asia with a bank account that can receive Paypal donations. The idea is to save transaction costs, not limit donations to certain parts of the world.
Is the best approach to just go straight down the list? Or should I do the first required course in each before moving on to the next?
I guess that's great. With Rdio I've just stopped collecting music. I'll check out the occasional independen" artist once in a while, but usually they'll be up on Rdio in no time.

I think Rdio was a game changer for me. It's the first time I've spent real money on a subscription for anything.
Which is the point exactly. People DO have confidence in the nonprofits they donate to. It might not be warranted at all, but the nonprofit has actively built confidence for their audience.
The AC instructions note made me smile.

It reminded me of a post-it I left in the company lab with a diagram for how to do proper gigabit cross-overs. I could still find it there five years later after they rearranged the lab several times.
But what about Ray Catsweil?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HSFWWZQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UT...
> Can they brief Congress on what they're doing? All 535 publicity-seeking chatterboxes? No way. That's the same as issuing a press release.

Absolutely not. Keeping your (nominal) overseers appraised of your activities is not the same thing at all as informing the whole world in front of cameras. Your implicit argument is that Congress couldn't be trusted with the secrets the NSA would reveal. But this is countered by opinting out that the NSA can't be trusted with the secrets it has.
You could specify it as a means to restore the password, but it is not necessary. Other options include secret question, or alternative email address.
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Balanced is a great service. We use them at Wefunder and are very happy with their product and customer support. They're worth checking out, especially if you want to do ACH.
> "The note warns analysts they must be careful to make sure they use the form’s toggle before searching, as otherwise the database will return the content of the UK messages – which would, without a warrant, cause the analyst to “unlawfully be seeing the content of the SMS”."
Is there no one at OpenBSD who can't not be a dick? The situation is more dire than I thought.
It did. I considered it for freelance billing at one time. In fact, I signed up, but for life getting in the way never finished setting it up. Guess I can cross that one off my to-dos!
$20k is not inherently unreasonable, but I won't donate if I don't have a better idea of what is going on "behind the curtain", which is why I'm idly musing.
Ok, here's an experiment for you. Why don't you broadcast every single detail of your life, every minute of it, even the parts you don't want others to see? If you don't, you must be hiding something and be committing crimes against humanity. This is how your argument reads.
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a question; on all the platforms you cited, you may switch to the right browser to see open video formats. i'm curious on ios, can you do it? (i mean chrome and other browsers on ios can they run non-h264 codecs?)
I use WePay's invoices for a non-profit that I help run. While they weren't perfect (what is?) they did the job and let me focus on other things. I'm now on the lookout for a simple invoicing platform that supports single and multi-payment invoices and some basic branding capabilities. I might even look at building something on their API or Stripe (would lean towards Stripe as I've used them before but IIRC their fees are a touch higher).

Sad to see these services go, but I can imagine that the support burden of a consumer-facing service is something they'll be glad to be rid of if nothing else.
That's a bummer. I thought WePay was trying to be something like a more modern version of PayPal's "add to cart" and "donate" buttons, with additional API features for more advanced setups.

So what's a good way to get an "add to cart" button that you can paste into some html and have customers check out without registering for accounts or seeing too much confusing 3rd party branding?
(Author here) I'm a biker myself and I was thinking about creating something to that effect. Turn signals and better lights would go a long way towards making me feel safer without having to take a hand off my handlebars. I definitely have something brewing.
So instead the people who make our laws should be blind to the results of those laws or anything that is happening outside of the laws they have written.
The problem is that "pocket" can also mean to steal or embezzle.
One thing that we seem to constantly need to be reminded of, is the fact that the world gets a new set of human minds, every year, looking at the scene. Children are among us. While some of us may have had decades to dissect the polity of the world, yet new minds are today discovering the basics. Thus, there really isn't any 'news' as such - just 'data relevant to those available to view it'. The consumerist ideal of 'the new new' is a fallacy; in fact things need to be at least 6 months old before they become 'the new thing', in most realms of human cultural interaction.

This fact of 'where new comes from' (sex, basically) is true of developers, as it is true of any other human responsibility that can be taken. Developers, new to the scene, who do not know what was there when they arrived (for various reasons), end up building new things. Those new things do in fact represent progress to the human species; in that they can be as-broken or as-brilliant as anything else, but won't - likely - be exactly the same as anything else out there. Difference drives us forward.

But calling people out specifically and associating them with animals is, alas, not a new thing. It has been going on forever, it seems. Is it not tiresome to a developer to be instantiating fallacies like 'magpie disorder' on other human beings so easily?

Not that I agree with the position that the 'always-new widget must be used' specifically; more that 'new ways to discriminate' isn't something this hacker, personally, wants to read about ..
This could be almost hilarious if it wasn't so sad. The Congress has to be briefed by someone with access to leaked documents to get an idea what a government agency is doing, because the later "is not forthcoming".....
PayPal uses P2P as a way to get users to link their bank accounts. Then later, when those users are checking out at a merchant, PayPal tries to trick/strongly encourage those users to pay with that linked bank account, instead of a credit card.

The economics are dramatically different - PayPal makes about 3% of the transaction on a bank account funded payment, they make much less than 0.5% on a credit card funded payment.

So P2P is a loss leader to drive funding mix.
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Sad about this. Quite a lot of non-profits and activist organizations use WePay for their campaigns and organizing. It was one of the backbones of local Occupy fundraising in many cities.
Actually, this is something else. Those foreigner-only, hard-currency-only ones are sad enough, but this is much worse. There is no store. It's just playacting.
> So not telling Congress everything is (in principle) necessary.

No, its not. At least, not in any principle grounded in the Constitution and the rule of law.
Yes, did too. We need things like this to counter the evil clowns that try to take over our internet.
Isn't this kinda missing the point? First of all this was free, but Box is like Dropbox, so it syncs files between computers and you can access them in your phone.
I'm not quite sure what your needs are, but as a consultant, I've used Wave (http://www.waveapps.com/) for invoicing and basic bookkeeping, and it's worked out pretty well.
I was trying to think of a good way to say exactly this, but he says it better (and more authoritatively) than I ever could. Broad platform support is a significant factor contributing to overall quality in products like *BSD, and it's apparent in looking at the source.
Bill from WePay here

You might want check out our partner invoiceASAP: www.invoiceASAP.com

Just to be clear, our fees are the same as stripe's - we're not any cheaper. Although I would still encourage you to check out our API for this usecase, as it's right up our alley.
I know OpenBSD's reputation is primarily security, but I use it for a different reason. It's simple, stable, and doesn't break.

Back when I was in high school and I had a lot of free time and all that, the various incarnations of Linux were a delight. Even after that, I still went with it out of inertia and spent many evenings tweaking Gentoo.

I eventually just goddamn gave up. I got sick of every upgrade breaking something in my system and then especially got sick of deciding between figuring out how to use wpa_supplicant and installing NetworkManager which screws up my network settings as soon as I plug in the Ethernet cable while I'm still on my wireless. In a flight of rage I thought ok, I've had enough of this crap, and went the OpenBSD route.

Seriously, it has all the nice parts of Plan 9 while still actually being able to run all the tools I need. I still have Linux and Windows boxes for the odd tools that don't work on anything else (I do embedded systems for a living, and there's a lot of vendor lockdown there), but for my day-to-day workstation, I found nothing better.
You've cut out an important bit: I am not governing anyone, nor do I hold the right to murder other human beings without repercussion.
And why do you assume that is what I meant by "improve"?
They might also be able to sell access to publications like repair manuals and technical service bulletins. There are other sites that sell these already (like http://www.alldata.com), but combining this with your car's maintenance records on a single site could be a plus.
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Great point! Given the current state of affairs in quantum physics (again, AFAIK), it can then be argued that there is no real determinism, but randomness and "chaos". (entropy increases in the universe, etc)

I can live with that :)
Or wickr, "snapchat for adults".
https://www.mywickr.com/
That doesn't strike me as a very worthwhile criticism of code.
I pay for Dropbox too because they have the best app/ui. However with all of these other companies catching up I am continually saddened Dropbox pricing hasn't come in line.

For 100GB

Drive is $60

SKyDrive is $50

Box is $60 (I think, confused on their free plan pricing)
Then there's Mega with $10/month and 500GB

So yes, $99 is expensive in comparison. Eventually (if not already, I honestly havent looked) these other services and their apps will catch up.
True, but that doesn't mean we aren't finally seeing the reality pan out.

If you want to call all jobs "jobs" then fine: Another way of looking at it is: 150 years ago people didn't have jobs the way we do today at all. It was completely different.

So we can expect the "jobs" of the future, e.g. the life experiences of the future, to be completely different.

That difference will have major unavoidable ramifications for government, taxation, freedom, democracy, everything.
How data like that are gathered? Amazing.
Coding tip: Leave your code in a broken state
The Amiga port isn't live. It hasn't been maintained for a while IIRC.

There are two important points that shouldn't be forgotten about aggressively pushing cross-platform: it retains developers and exposes bugs. There's a great deal of usefulness behind it, beyond simply making it obvious that the workstations we get today are shit.
Congress is supposed to be the system of oversight.
The Occupy Movement were some of our earliest customers. Our hope is to continue to serve them through our donation partners (like GoFundMe, Fundly, GiveForward, etc) now.

WePay will still be the same backend, but you'll benefit from our partners' software, which is far better for donations than ours is.
IE-reland? Silly politicians, managing to crack me up and scare the shit out of me at the same time!
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I have been using a Seiki 50" 4K as a monitor for about four months. It's so awesome.

I only do coding though. No graphics/video work.

The only thing I don't like is I can't watch Youtube videos or pretty much any other videos at full screen. This is probably because my video card is not the greatest. If I took one of the high end cards out of my mining rigs and used it full screen video would probably work fine.
Time to turn the tools on these traitors.
If Congress demands it? Yes, they can brief Congress on what they're doing. They were created by Congress and the career positions continue to exist at the pleasure of the Congress.

Further, there are procedures that exist to do so. Sealed sessions have been and are used for sensitive subjects to avoid inadvertent disclosures.

"All 535 publicity-seeking chatterboxes" are what we have. Their existence, their ability to speak freely without fear of prosecution, their diversity of opinions & constituencies, and their power to change things, function as a crucial check on the power of the executive branch. As representatives of the people it IS THEIR JOB to ensure that large secret programs that the public would never approve of, or which violate their oath to abide by the Constitution, are either reformed adequately or leaked, neutralized in some way, cancelled, or never funded in the first place. If they fail to do that for long enough because they've decided they're not able to, or because they don't want to know, then this all falls apart and becomes tyrannical the first time we get a President that wants power.

Notably, it ceases to be an option for Congress if the objectionable business is objectionable because it's a spy program that been turning Congressmen into blackmailed sycophants. That is hardly out of the scope of the technical power we have granted the NSA.

If they have created these programs and they've started to take on a life of their own, to the point that Congressional oversight and regulation is not adequate to control their activities (and yes, it appears that is what happened), then we have one option: Kill the tumor with radiation and a clean scalpel before it metastasizes further. Defund, publicize, interrogate, leak the objectionable programs, and end them. Maybe catch some loyal civil servants who were just following orders in the crossfire; But that's how it goes - they became an enemy, foreign or domestic, of the people and their Constitution. Too bad.

Sure, we might lose some tissue, but it's a damn sight better than letting a malignant cancer of our democratic system run wild.