skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you propose fighting a state apparatus that operates mostly in secret, with the cover of secret laws and a secret court?

Anyone that stands up to that in the open would be a fool because they would face a certainty worse than death: they'd be discredited and then ignored. Massacring wouldn't be necessary, because they'd probably do themselves in.
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tablets and smart phones usually are a lot more distracting. I infact find it annoying when i try to make a point and find someone fiddling with their gadgets, even though they probably are trying to find some facts for the conversation and are not generally yak shaving. But may be again its just me.
The app icon is irresistible.
It's not really increasing the size of the pie: consumers only have so much time and mental energy. The growth of marketing just represents capital helping itself to a bigger share. As the number of consumer choices grows, the amount of effort demanded of them as utility-maximisers increases exponentially, as do the stakes.
>It irks me, we’ve been listening to this for the last many decades and still continue to look at it as a dream. Why is your office not a paperless one yet? Where did it go wrong? Does it not seem absurd when we have been able to get our ride on Mars and yet we’ve no effective solution to make our offices paperless?

Not sure what he means. My office, as most I know nowadays, are already 99% paperless. The only paper around is some scratchpad I like to scribble ideas on.

Now if you work in accounting (with all receipts and stuff) or in law this might be different, but for the regular office, and especially IT? We're there.
While not doing anything might be immoral, doing something else is most likely in violation of the contract and the work done would (again, most likely) be owned by the employer. Along with the income.
50€/month with adsense and amazon affiliates. It demands from me 5 minutes each day (or 4-5 hours each month, so it is not exactly passive...). It's a niche blog about architectural models: http://archimodels.info that I started as a hobby to learn about web development. I know that i'm near the bottom in the hierarchy of passive income but anyway I'm leaving my 2 cents.

Tips:

- I agree with cdaven. Good content is better than SEO, but you only take the fruits 1-2 years later. Use your expertise. It is much easier/faster/more rewarding if you blog about something you are an expert.

- Adsense is ugly but is the fastest way to monetise a blog. I was making 15€/month before adsense and now I have slightly less traffic. Text ads or images ads? If you have an text intensive blog go for image ads and for an image intensive blog go for text ads.
Few bitcoin Antminers. They are paying as much as I'll be earning at my new job I'm starting with the beginning of the February. I basically cloned myself in terms of income by buying them. They should pay for themselves in 3-4 months. I'm not sure if that's passive income or capital gain though.
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You mean something like this: http://brunch.io/skeletons.html ?
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^Exactly this.

The are different, agreed, not disputing. But expecting someone who knows what they did will be met with torture, or absolute solitary for the rest of their life, for exposing actual wrongs against the public is ridiculous in the extreme.

You have to be tortured to prove your intent was for the good of the people? Since when?
Bought the app Sleep Cycle Calculator from its previous owner. Completely redid the interface for iOS 7, and I'm now finishing up a version with a custom UIView.

I paid a designer to completely redo the interface, but then iOS 7 happened. Lost a lot of customers with the transition, because I had to throw away the new design and start again.

http://appstore.com/sleepcyclecalculatorwakinguprefreshed
I guess they could do that, and trust that customers will always be reasonable to not sue them when in those situtations that they wanted to avoid. Besides, it's not 2009 anymore: if they want to maintain their arch on the market against ARM founders, they should probably help AMD out as much as possible (though I remember reading somewhere once that AMD considered including ARM cores in their APUs - or maybe it was just a journalist's speculation).

> This sounds a lot more like Intel [...]

Just a thought here: should Intel do things to avoid sounding like bad competitors, or to give their customers the best product they can offer? We're engineers, we should also know not to fall for appearances, shouldn't we? I know, I supported my own reasoning with the legal aspect of things, which sometimes is not very reasonable in what it must handle. There goes my original point.
That's a doubly false dichotomy. Terrorism is a threat, yes, but the NSA spying isn't preventing terrorism and making us safer. On the other hand, most people (AFAIK) are not concerned by NSA or somebody else exploiting un-patched vulnerabilities, but by NSA and the US government monitoring and controlling free speech and the resulting chilling effect this has.
So, cars are starting to be licensed, not sold?

(Okay, the hardware is still sold, but it's relatively useless without software.)
> And yet, who else in modern history has driven as many companies to such such success, and lead the creation of so many great products?

On the former, it's a fairly modern phenomenon for anyone to start multiple companies that succeed and grow to a large size (unless you look at historical periods now recognised as having been infamously financially unstable, like the Dutch tulip boom years). Those who were equally if not more successful than Jobs just didn't bounce from company to company, but invested their efforts in one place.

As to the latter question, I think you'll find that there are quite a few people who could lay equal claim to (a) producing that many great products, and (b) having created the products Jobs is credited with.

Personally, I think you're all overlooking something. The people who work in our industry are by and large professionals. And a professional does what the boss says because that's what the salary is for. It's not like we get the salary anyway and then do what the boss says if we feel like doing it or think he's inspiring enough!

So, to give an anecdotal example, when the iPad prototype comes to Jobs and he does that fish tank routine and says "aha- air bubbles, therefore you can still squash it down more", that's just being an arsehole to people who work for you. What, you think they had a dozen prototypes just so the boss could dunk one in water, destroying it? They're paid so that if he says "squash it more please", they go do it. That's what engineers do. The teenage drama queen nonsense isn't required.

And if you believe the arsehole-ness is a necessary thing to be a genius and get things done, you have been watching far too much House for your own good.

Honestly, the more you learn about Jobs, the less you see that you'd hold up to your kids as a role model; whereas the more you learn about Wozniak, the more you see that you'd hold up.

And we're still only talking about the technical work; nobody's commented yet on the moral issues surrounding the actual manufacture of products like the iPhone. Lovely device; but is that worth the human abuse it takes to manufacture it?
Of course, part of the reason convenient charging options are so few and far between is that, because charging is slow, any public charging station is going to (a) be occupied for long periods of time and (b) will require you to leave your phone there for an annoyingly long period of time, meaning you're either stuck there or risk having your phone stolen whilst you're gone.
...digitizing is a boon, make your smart move and switch to Google Drive or Dropbox. Now the good part about this is, you can have all of your gazzlion files on the cloud and access them from anywhere. The better part is you can have all of them indexed!

For ephemeral stuff this is fine, but I'd be really wary of this "digitization solution" for data that matters and what you might want to find some years down the road. This kind of ad-hoc digitization has caused a lot of problems, from documents that simply don't exist anymore, to documents that might exist somewhere but not anywhere anyone can find them. Paper isn't a great solution, but most of the stuff I've actually lost has been digitized stuff on some server or service that disappeared. If you're a bigger company in particular, I'd treat it as an archival problem worth having a proper solution for (perhaps even an in-house archivist whose actual job is managing it).

Vaguely relevant, a cautionary tale that was making the rounds a few years ago: http://wrttn.in/04af1a
I worked for a company that develop fault tolerant processor ip and radiation hardened system on chips.
Page has a graphic of a cloud of smoke with the word "Puff!" superimposed.

So this looks legit...
Im currently building a client proposal service specially for designers: http://nusii.com

Not getting much passive income yet but I hope 2014 will be our year :-)
Can you give an example of a Whistleblower who exposed corruption who wasn't hailed as a hero after being vilified by those he exposed?

Just curious if you have an example to the contrary of the clear pattern so far in history.
But will you use 1TB on the 16GB ram plan? If yes then you just saved 40% of the bill.

They will also make it later so all your nodes'bandwidth is cumulative.(like linode has)
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This website will not load with ghostery on. I have played with the settings a little bit and it seems that the blocking script is google analytics. I hope this thing does not become a trend.
> Plagiarism checking software exists. Universities use it all the time.

From what my university professor told me (and some student friends of mine, who had their works checked by such software on regular basis), plagiarism checking software is mostly a joke (or a scam, depending on how you look at it), and is bought so that the university can tell that they are "employing best available methods of plagiarism-protection" when applying for government money. At least, this is how it works in Poland.
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"The dumber the app..." works almost everytime. I launched a conceptually great app which was a complete failure:
https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/gravity-byte/id504372023?mt=...

Then launched a card game which is a decent success..
"everyone looks at their laptops or tablets in meetings."

Trust me when I say most of the people pretending to stare at old fashioned paper are spacing out, thinking about the weekend, shopping lists, daydreaming, etc.

Its not more distracted, its more honest. This is a prime opportunity to improve business procedures and make more money. If its possible to be honest that most meetings are a waste of time, abolish them.

I've spent a lot of time at primate dominance rituals, at slow verbal readings of a previously distributed email/powerpoint, at what amounts to a dramatic presentation with poor stagecraft that should have been done by distributing a professionally edited video, the worlds least efficient way to distribute work material, a very inefficient and expensive way to ensure boring forms are filled out (too beta/lazy to enforce your workers actually work? make them work in a conference room and call it a meeting). I've been to a couple real meetings in my life, mostly brainstorming sessions, but the rest have been a waste of time.

What we need is a meetingless office not a paperless office. Its trivial to waste $10000 worth of aggregate labor and travel budget for a meeting, but really hard to blow $10000 worth of paper in an hour unless you've got a printing press instead of a stereotypical laser printer.
> They will also make it later so all your nodes'bandwidth is cumulative.(like linode has)

Source? I've been told that that isn't the case by their support.
I'm almost certain that while DO currently offer 1TB for $5, they actually can't offer that in the long term. Or rather, they are relying on less usage than this, and if all of their customers were actually utilising it, they'd have to jack up prices.
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Also eliminate the FAX. I haven't had access to one for a couple years but my VOIP provider needs it to make account changes (pure WTF there) and my legacy insurer accepts claims over FAX (which are then expensively data entered by hand... somebody should tell them about that new fangled "CGI webform" thing from the 90s)

(edited to add my wife had some stock brokerage thing that needed faxing, and we discovered the hard way there's predatory faxing "services" out there which will send your fax... for $1 a page, and of course the idiot form is 20 pages long, so there goes $10 vs a couple cents if we mailed it)
"Now who is going to go put in $350 million to get that drug candidate through PhI/II/III and beyond, with little guarantee of success, if they have no IP protection to stand on?"

You, as the final stage of your research, using government money.
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What in the world are they doing with scroll behaviour? Stop it.
I wrote a book titled "Expert PHP Deployments" on how to deploy any PHP application using Vagrant, Capistrano, and Phing.

http://growingsoftware.org/expert-php-deployments/

It hasn't made me rich, but it usually sells about a copy a day. I love that it's entirely passive. I wrote it, published it, and it just sits there on my website making money.

It's also been a good way to build a list of people who would be interested in other things I make.

PS. Use coupon code "hn" for $2 off if you're interested.
Of course, although I find it hard to imagine a modern corporation funding something like the Apollo landings.
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If we limit the analysis to video games, I would feel comfortable saying yes. (Because video games are generally not limited to a certain geographic area). As a countr example (I think it is Pizza Hut) there was a small mom and pop brick and mortar resturant in a small town that predates the multinational corporation, The mom and pop do not need to change their name but they can not expand.

*it is best not to answer legal questions generally, the answer will always be: maybe. A legal analysis must be done with specific facts
They become enforceable when the Chinese company exports them back to the US, though.

I wonder if the US government could offer free licensing to all national companies, which would seem to be the best of both worlds?
The scrolling is fully muxed on my end too. It's amazing how over-coolifying your site can turn it into a garbage patch.

On the bright side, I don't see a custom cursor. Thats 90s style ;-)
What difference does that make? Everyone benefits from the results of research.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/bandwidth-p...

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/bandwidth-p...

Some say yes, some say no.
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I know OpenBSD sells books and install media, but could they possibly sell other "swag" to help bring in stable money? I'm sure they could partner with one of the dozens of nerd shops (This is why i'm broke, thinkgeek, etc.) and sell $7 shirts with an OpenBSD logo on it for $12 + shipping. The partner shop takes $1 for overhead, OpenBSD takes $4.

In fact, I wonder if this could be a feasible startup? Selling FOSS swag with the principal of ~90% of all proceeds given directly to the defined organization... I'm sure it's been tried, but how unsuccessful have they been?
We've been paperless since the start.

This doesn't mean we do not keep paper, but every receipt, bank statement, and contract gets scanned ( http://www.amazon.com/Fujitsu-ScanSnap-Instant-Sheet-Fed-Sca... ) and goes into Google Drive.

When scanned we enable the OCR feature so that every item is searchable in Google Drive.

We use the permissions management of Drive to ensure that our accountants can see our bank statements, that our lawyers can see our contracts, and that our staff can each see their HR folder.

The only paper we keep physical copies of are bank statements, receipts and contracts. But as these never need to be accessed unless a dispute or audit requires it, and as they can be found far easier in GDrive, we archive chronologically for storage efficiency and security rather than retrieval efficiency and convenience. Basically... it takes very little space and is stored off-site.

I can't actually imagine running a business any other way.

Now if we can just find something as efficient as a pad on the desk for making temporary notes we'd deal with that last 1%.

Our next goal: Reduce email usage and find collaboration tools that offer better workflow and increased intra-company transparency.
I liked it so much i copied the JS for my own site :)
Not really, he's trying to show that in the context of HN and startups kimble was doing what a lot of people do here, just using a different medium
A few years ago, I wanted to build an oscilloscope in my pocket, so I went ahead and did it. Then I wanted a spectrum analyzer, and then an equalizer.

1) oScope — an oscilloscope in your pocket. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oscope/id344345859?mt=8

2) Octave — a real-time audio analyzer. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/octave-an-rta-for-the-iphone...

3) Fourier — a spectrum analyzer. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fourier/id386084557?mt=8

I built all of these for fun in college, and I've occasionally updated them afterwards. The only thing I do now is answer a few emails a week.
I've since gone back to grad school, but the yearly income has not changed, and approaches my stipend (low 5-digit).

What's been really neat is how people have found unexpected ways to use the apps. Sound engineers for halls and communities use Octave to set up the sound for concerts. Teachers use oScope to help kids understand how sound is composed of moving pressure waves of air, and how pitch is the frequency of these waves. Also, oScope had a tiny cameo in the show Homeland, as a "fancy science-looking analyzer tool for spying on people" (uncredited, unfortunately).
There is a saying: "You can't talk yourself out of being arrested, but you can talk yourself into being arrested."
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"And of course citizens of both countries can live and work in each other for as long as they like. Can't see the USA & Mexico doing that."

We already do that, although its only one direction and technically not legal. Its actually pretty hard for a US dude to work illegally in .mx, like if you wanted to be a web dev in Mex City. Don't confuse a militarized photo op area thats about 500 feet wide with the rest of the thousands of miles of border.
Churchill's an interesting example to bring up in what has become a thread about hero worship. The man was revered during the war and in all the gosh-wasn't-it-a-romantic-age reminiscences since; so much so that they gloss over things like his having proposed the Battle of Gallipoli and being sacked from the cabinet for that; his being the first person to push using gas on the Kurds (beating Saddam to it by quite a few years); and him being the only wartime leader to be ousted by a landslide majority before the war ended (and thus getting himself chucked out of cabinet in both world wars -- I don't think anyone else managed to do that either).

It does rather support the idea that hero worship is a really bad waste of time at best, and downright dangerous at worst...
That one's interesting, but leans more towards the "part-time small business" side than the "passive" side imo. Manning a phone line 4 hours/day M-F in particular makes it at least a part-time job, since you can't do that and also be traveling, holding another job, or studying full-time.
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"If you believe in the Rule of Law"

You do know how loaded that statement is, right? It can not work in isolation. For it to work, you must also believe in the court's ability to fairly apply this rule of law, and in the people who create the laws in the first place. No rational person can believe in the rule of law in isolation.

For example, dictators create laws to protect their own power, worse, to defeat any opposition. Would you ask someone who lives under the rule of a dictator is they believe in the rule of law?
55 external scripts with a plethora of jquery plugins just to show some text content :(
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I thought he looked like a gangster.
That's interesting: could you elaborate on those problems? I was pretty much supporing Intel on the ground that their competitors products were just running a safe path, but your input might change my view entirely.
This article lists similar reasons I've heard around the net to choose Ember over Angular. I'm on board.

I'd love to see some Ember vs. Angular vs. Backbone stats on YC startups. I do a quick cmd+F on every "Who's hiring" post to get a rough estimate, and it seems Angular > Ember > Backbone in requested technology familiarity.
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I stopped going to the cinema some years ago when they started putting threats on screen before the movie. I realized "hey, I'm literally paying people to threaten me; is that a logical, wise or sane thing to do? No. So stop doing it."

So it seems those threats are by no means idle. Think about it if you're considering going to the cinema: it's not like our society doesn't provide a zillion other forms of entertainment where you won't be financing thugs.
If you are looking for new languages, you should check out this list. http://norvig.com/21-days.html

I was finding diminishing returns learning languages that were really just slightly different notations: Java, C#, VB, Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP. Each new notation felt more tedious and less thrilling. Then I started struggling with deep questions like, "these are so similar, why do they all even exist?" (Which is a great way to make new enemies).

Then I found that list and started with lisps. That's kept me fascinated for at least 3 years, learning macros from Let Over Lambda, abstractions and FP/OO from SICP, interpreters from PLAI, and syntax from Clojure Programming.

I just started learning type theory from F# Programming and Real World Haskell. I'm hoping to get bitten by the "Types Bug" just like I've been bitten by the macros bug.

Next after that I'm going to start learning APL/Q, and read the dragon compilers book, but at my current rate that'll be a few years out still.

I think it's entirely possible to keep circling around, learning new notations for the same old Java-like and Perl-like paradigms, and it's good to know what's out there in those domains, but don't stop with just those two!
What I think needs to exist is a similar protection government has, national interest. I think there should be, in all democracies, a defence of national interest. The law should never be allowed to obstruct the truth.
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Of course a major advantage of paper is that it isn't connected to the internet.
That comment was in relation to market share, not performance. Few would argue that Intel has more than a low single-digit percentage market share of the overall compiler market. People should be far, far more concerned about how GCC, llvm and Visual Studio do in vectorizing code to SSE/AVX.
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Thanks so much!
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