skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a third explanation: c) you're capturing some of the value put in by a lot of dead and some not-quite-dead people.

The value of a computer running your software is tremendous. The delta in value between a computer that runs your software and one that doesn't is pretty miniscule in comparison. The value you're delivering is due in part to people like Archimedes through Von Neumann and Linus Torvalds and millions of others. Does that mean you owe part of your salary to Archimedes' descendants? We're all Archimedes descendants.

"We stand on the shoulders of giants" -- Chartres

This is partly a different way of expressing your (b), but I prefer this framing.
Remote productivity
Well he did inherit a great deal of influential connections, education, benefits, and (not as much) money. Given that his Father was a successful politician.

Not to say he didn't also work his ass off and have a great deal of luck. Buffett doesn't seem like a bad guy at all. Seems like a very 'grandfatherly' type.
There's no such thing as easy money, and I think most people will tell you that going from $0 to $1K MRR (and sustaining it) are a hell of a lot harder than the journey from $1K to $2K.
It looks a little late to start the lab on this round. You have to order equipment, which takes a while to arrive. And you have to use Matlab, and they give you a license which only lasts until the course ends. They say Octave won't work.
That's a good point. On the other hand, 0 corporate taxes would lead to more investment by foreigners, and some of that investment would make its way into the local economy.

As to which effect is stronger, I have no idea!
I'm not averse to working hard to make my app reach 1,000 MRR.

There's a big difference between having an MVP done in 3 or 4 months vs. in a year when you're the only person designing, developing, marketing and supporting it. When I take too long to ship something, I get discouraged and bored of the project.

A better way to put it: I'm having trouble thinking of anything I could ship a v1 in 4 months.

Not complaining, just sharing my experience as I think other HNrs may be in a similar situation.
If your interested this is roughly how much I'd charge for the Brooklyn Bridge, maybe if you throw in some of those potatoes.
The `-p` flag in general is very useful.

With `git add`, sure it allows you to stage part of a file. That not all, when you're in edit mode (pressed "e" upon the prompt) you just edit a patch. So you can actually put in your patch lines that are not in the source file. This can be very convenient e.g. if the 2 sets of change you want to commit separately are entangled. For example I used it yesterday to correct the level of indentation.

With `git stash show`, instead of having a short description of files changed in the stash, you get the patch itself.

etc.

Git man pages are well-written, and I always enjoy reading it. Most of the time I have one question but end up wiser (at least git-wise).
Revolutionary New Algorithm Succeeds In Prolonging Life
Normally I'd downvote the doge on HN, but this is particularly apt.

The article abuses the word "derp" to sound hip, makes weak shots at people and ideas left and right (without ever arriving at an argument), and generally rambles on for a whole page.

What a waste, how did this make HN top 20?
Jesus, now I have to feel guilty about being white, bering a male, and being a developer? Someone stop me!
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Come on, stop the French whining, and then maybe the French bashing will stop.

I wont even comment the 71%, because any educated reader will understand that theses taxes do not add up like that.

And even if it was true, a French engineer is still way cheaper than a SF one, especially once you want to provide health care and 401k. Added that since they whine all the time, French startups pay almost no taxes the first years.

The only reason why France do not have an important startup scene, is because French entrepreneur and investors are afraid of risk, and prefer to fund their companies with government subsidies.
Read "The Design of Everyday Things". A touch LCD screen in a car is a demonstrably worse solution to car controls than old fashioned knobs and buttons that you can use while keeping your eyes on the road. I also see in that picture that the Tesla has a full color speedometer, which is a bad idea because it adds flair around the only thing you really care (current speed/rpm/is something broken?) and unless it has a night mode (which I have every reason to believe it does) it would be very bad for your night vision.

It sure looks slicker, futuristic and trendy, but it's nothing but a gimmick. Also, who needs to browse the web on a car? But I digress.
If they are inconvenienced by having to upgrade from Windows XP to continue support, why the heck are they migrating to a different legacy Windows version (non-current)

With all the headache and expense of this, I don't feel sorry for them if they didn't (yet) learn their lesson! I hoped/wished that banking would have the sense to use a customized *nix server for this sort of thing that can be supported in-house as long as there are computers and people who work on them (where you don't have that kind of access to self-patch windows)
DPR espoused and was embraced by Libertarians.

Turned out to be a contract-killing, drug-dealing, law breaking psychopath.

Seems to me there's a couple of avenues to turn onto here. One is to defend Libertarianism against its critics by badmouthing those who point out that Ulbricht really wasn't a particularly nice guy or a close adherent to the nonviolent principles screed on his LinkedIn page.

The other would be to disavow Ulbricht and make clear that his views have no place within the Libertarian camp, and that he's a false representative of the goals of the philosophy. Not that I'm any defender of Libertarianism (it's an infantile philosophy based on fabricated principles coopted by psychopathic timocrats, but that's a longer rant).

Which, in a slightly different context, is pretty much exactly the same sort of point that's been made with regards to extremest violence carried out in the name of Christian or Muslim traditions. Or corporate violence against individuals or groups. Or nationalist violence carried out by the any of a number of countries: Argentina, Syria, Egypt, the US, UK, Belgium, Japan, Germany, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, the USSR, South Africa, .... I'm not singling anyone out here, there's plenty of outrage to go around.

Yours, however, is misplaced.
Because Communism is bad mmmkay? Remember what happened to Russia? Remember what they forced McCarthy to do to our own people? /s

The gray scale between political extremes is really so often ignored that it is almost scary. The real issue comes down to concentration of power in one subsection of the population. Be it a communist/facist/what have you dictator, plutocracy, or even entrenched political elite backed by corporate lobbying.
1) Even if you are correct about eg, metadata, they are also snooping your internet requests, emails, etc, simply because they pass through infrastructure not belonging to you.

Do you think the Founders would have said "if you send a message via Pony Express, you authorize the government to read it"?

2) "If I write down every time my neighbor enters and leaves his house, that's mine, not his." True, but one person writing down what one other person does is hardly scalable or powerful. Computers recording everything everybody does creates much larger potential for analysis and abuse. We don't know what the Founders would have said about this, but I oppose it on the grounds that the risks for tyranny are enormous.
If you analyze it thru startup glasses, its interesting to see various assumptions about what percentage of the target "customers" will sign up.
This. Every libertarian has some anecdote about a lazy poor person driving a lincoln navigator on food stamps and every democrat has an anecdote about some old lady shivering at a bus stop with starving kids.

What we need here is science! We're in the stone ages stil.
This is a peculiar article - maybe it should be written in French to show French people that they can do it?

'Cause there's a ton of great companies with French founders: Dassault, Parrot, Genostar, Mandriva, Digimind, and more...
I've been using this for quite some time now, but only because GitX[1] has nice GUI support for this. (I'm too lazy to learn using this with git's CLI.)

[1]: http://rowanj.github.io/gitx/
Yes, extensions can have full access to pages you browse and they could potentially read any data from pages you have access to and perform actions as you.
The problem that Leftists don't see is obvious: In Communism or Socialism the Party Leader (i.e. Stalin) is one of these 85! Forget rhetoric there have always been powerful, rich people and there always will be! Socialism/Communism is just exploitation by the party vs. exploitation by the private person.
Fair?

No, of course not, but good luck finding a way to change that. Seriously, good luck.
Somebody answered this elsewhere, there is a vent that directs steam past the strip. So it isn't heated directly by the water in the kettle, but by the steam that is given off after it boils.
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I don't think you're quite reading those numbers right.

> But from 2004 to 2008 the portion of the population who received less than half of the median income has risen from 17% to 21% and the absolute levels of poverty have risen considerably from 2006 to 2010, with a rise in persons living in extreme or moderate poverty rising from 35 to 46% (52 million persons).

21% receive less than half the median income. That means that 29% receive between half the median and the median, because the median is defined as the level where half the population makes more than and the other half makes less.

This is a really ugly distribution. Yet the percentage of people living in extreme or moderate poverty is 46%. Since poverty is defined by income, what that means is that the median income level is somewhere around the moderate poverty level. This also implies that there's a 'light poverty' level whose income level is somewhere north of the median.

These two figures add up to a lot of poor people.
there is like 3 orders of magnitude difference of what I would be willing to pay for a feature and what a feature costs to develop.

Sure, but remember that the perception of money is relative. Would paying your salary seem unreasonable to a billionaire who wanted that feature? Do you spend money on restaurant meals that you're perfectly able to cook yourself just to save a bit of time?

We live in a world where my Dad almost single-handedly can grow enough food to feed 10,000 people. (Of course, he has lots of help from the much maligned agro-industrial complex). This really distorts the value of money, for the reasons that you have pointed out.
the US protections were created by the Fair Credit Billing Act in 1975.

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

It would be interesting to hear what sort of protection Visa/etc offers in other countries.
The effect of today’s technology on tomorrow’s jobs
Sounds a bit buggy, but the minimal API is very appealing.
And what about keeping rates at 0% for longest time allows people with access to cheap credit (i.e. bankers) to get uber wealthy while poor and middle class are left with the bill (inflation, paying taxes to the banks).

Inflation if measured as the US Government measured it last time during Reagan years is at 10% per annum in the US at the moment. And have been for a few years now. This is the reason for growing gap not the technology. Sound monetary policy - i.e. let banks go bankrupt - would make sure there are no excesses.
The only thing he has ever fought for is his own bank account. He doesn't have a "dark past", but an ongoing history of scamming. You can be assured that he will find the optimal way to scam both you and the artists out of as much money as possible.
> The population of San Francisco, and this includes the techies, loudly opposes dense developments.

Not the techies I know. In my experience, the vast majority of SF techies want high-density housing near excellent transit.
The strange connection between the NSA and an Ontario tech firm
Winston Churchill =) http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/300099-churchill-madam-would...
Taste is quite subjective. I like the design of the Leaf but not the Fiat. Too bad both aren't yet available in every city!
I am not trying to finding a way.

I am simply putting my doubts on the table. Nothing else.
This is a good innumaracy test. The level to which it pisses you off is a good indicator of how well (or rather, poorly) you understand how money works.

It's along the same lines as telling somebody that it costs more than $0.01 to make a penny.
One of my friends wants to learn how to code, and asks me where to start, and what language (PHP? ).
I always tell them; well think of something you want to solve first, smaller problem the better.
Then google how to work out that problem. If they can't do that; (i.e. they do not make any attempt! ) , I won't invest anymore of my time because they clearly lack the mentality to do it.

I started with PHP (3 back then) because I had built (copy paste amalgamation) a website, and I didn't want to maintain all these html files, so probably altavista'd something in the lines of "how to include other page into page html" .
I know back then I was also messing with Newsdesk, which was CGI/Perl, and remember adding some fields to the whole thing so my buddy's could post their Warez uploads on there.

I actually ended up with one of the biggest Warez sites in the scene at that time. I actually had mostly no idea what I was doing. And there was no Google back then. Altavista ruled the market.

Anyway what I'm going to is: If you do not have this mindset, you will probably not make it as a programmer. And that's ok, because maybe you have different goals. Just make sure you understand what you want to do.

There are a huge amount of musicians who probably never imagined being great or a rockstar, they just liked playing music and figured out how.

Last note: if you're picking between for example "PHP" , "Python" , "Ruby" I would definitely start working with a framework, because it will help you start off the right way; using a design pattern and command line tools.
If this is how you feel about the world, how do you live? Do you simply just not use services you feel have been corrupt? If that's the case the only place you should really be located is the woods without internet.
Why is that a problem though?

If there wasn't a downstream speculative market in shares then the value they would get when sold initially would presumably be far less so the companies or individuals getting the money at that stage would be worse off.
For the sake of the previous argument, however, this hardly matters. If the fraction is 100%, then 30 models of kettles can be supported at 100k/year. This is an order of magnitude argument, not a precise census.
...and? Am I missing your point, or there simply isn't one?
I love -p, but it still falls short of darcs interactive commit (which it is definitely inspired by).

darcs interactive commit allows you:

- to add files in the same process (in two steps: intent-to-add and then the file itself)
- revert of hunks, file additions, etc.

Yes, you can do both through separate steps (git checkout -p for example), but darcs interactive was a quick way of incrementally building full patches in one workflow.
Jquery Mobile for android UI design?
Hey guys,
What you think about using jquery mobile framework for android UI designing? Will it be too slow for a medium scale droid devices? I already made few apps using the framework but I'm open to better alternatives
The GitHub App for Mac[1] and Windows[2] as well as msysgit[3] (and probably others) have this feature as well. I always resort to these GUIs when only commiting parts of a file, because it's a very visual process and I believe a GUI is the right tool in this case.

[1] http://mac.github.com/

[2] http://windows.github.com/

[3] http://msysgit.github.io/
It's easy to create alarm over inequality. Compare the people who has built up wealth to the people who has no wealth because what they earn gets spent every month. This way even most of the middle class looks dirt poor.
But they're making money by making the market.

That's ... an unsubtantiated assertion. Lots of evidence to suggest the situation's otherwise, at least in large part.

There was an excellent ACM paper posted to HN a few weeks back:

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=2536492
Google's Three Ps
Yeah, and this is why I'm still trading the precious hours of my life for a few dollars to write code nobody is ever going to use, look at, or benefit from, while he is bathing in money.

The scummy shit he did is negligible.
Please, enlighten me. Because I have no idea of what you're talking about. Give me some proof.

All I've seen and heard is that the super fiasco on the megaupload case but that's not a fiasco for him, the users or anyone else but the governments involved.

For now, I am still a fan of Kim.com.
I think there are solutions in between. Basic income could be one way to deal with it.
Here are some primary sources:
http://micsymposium.org/mics_2011_proceedings/mics11_olson.p...

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Munster/Industrial/chap17.htm

http://www.danzpage.com/Construction-Management-Resources/Ca...

https://www.construction-institute.org/scriptcontent/more/sd...

http://classes.engineering.wustl.edu/2009/spring/jme4900/Art...

http://cmdept.unl.edu/drb/Reading/overtime2.htm
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> When did we have the double-blind controlled study showing that the mortgage interest tax deduction wouldn’t be abused by the upper middle class "en masse" as a tax-protected store of wealth, contributing to a wildly over-inflated housing market?
> Perhaps you can point me to the literature showing that carried interest being taxed as capital gains wouldn’t lead to wealthy fund managers being able to claim zero “income”?

It doesn't matter. Voters don't hate the upper-middle-class, and they don't hate fund managers enough to vote differently. And sure, it would be nice if the electorate were less racist (and I'd support efforts to change that), but in the here and now we want to introduce positive policies, and we have to do that with the electorate we have rather than the electorate we wish we had.
I'm using SourceTree [1] as my main Git UI when I'm not in the terminal, and it makes it very easy to stage only parts of a changed file. Just as the author describes, this feature really improves the quality of the commits. It also makes it easy to remove parts of the changes in a file that were only there for debugging purposes - prior to the commit without having to go back to the editor.

It is a wonderful feature, and the fantastic thing about the SourceTree UI is that it shows it by default making it really easy for everybody who uses the app to only commit the actual, relevant changes.

[1] http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
There's also a ncurses-based interface for git called tig[1]. I find it a bit easier to stage chunks/lines than git add -p as it's interactive. When I'm not on a command line, gitx-dev for OSX [2] also makes it very easy too.

[1] http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/
[2] http://rowanj.github.io/gitx/
The GT-R isn't really an affordable supercar any more, but now even the base model is well over $100k with tax.
Stop feeling guilty! It's stupid and wrong.
Will Steam Machines or PS4/Xbox One take 4K into the mainstream?
Scala turns 10
You have personal responsibility for your actions as a developer.

If you are using your skills in a way which primarily benefits the super-rich and is a net negative to society, you should take this opportunity to reflect on that: yes.
This feature is the reason I can't completely switch to command-line git from Sourcetree — it's much more convenient to quickly glance along code changes in multiple files and decide what to commit with a mouse.
This strikes me as a classic example where its a lot harder to positively identify than to negatively exclude.

What I mean is assign the class/tag of "political commercial" to all commercials. Then subtract any commercial seen more than two days after and less than three years before the next election. If the pool is big enough, I think it would work pretty well.

Or what they're really asking for is a commercial detector not so much a political commercial detector. Once you have a commercial detector, the political part of the task isn't going to be all that difficult.

Redoing the specs might make it easier to accomplish. I think they're not trying to feed an arbitrary video file to a program and have it pass political commercials, they're trying to select out a pile of political commercials given a fixed pile of footage, which is a totally different task than "given a single arbitrary video file in isolation from all others"
Apply 3 times and you get it (disability). The amount of people on disability has exploded in the last 15-20 years.

http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/
... then you will be amazed that Voyager I is still sending us data!

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov
View your Twitter archive (tweets.zip) as a heat map
"we would need essentially complete transparency on spending of the wealthy."

Or complete transparency on the incomes of those with political power?
That's a lot of cherries to pick.
Really cool. I loved it.
News report from 1981 about the Internet [VIDEO]
Brazil World Cup 2014 - Then And Now
Thanks for the heads-up. I always miss something gah :)
There's no in-place migration, so you either need to copy the data somewhere else, or as the sibling comment suggests, unmirror your drives and accept the risk of having your data only on one drive while you do the copy.
Technological unemployment isn't exactly a new thing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_unemployment
Python 201: Properties
Just watched In Time, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/, the other day; it looks at financial inequality through a lens of equating money with time. Quite reminiscent of Logan's Run.

Spoiler: they ultimately initiate a collapse of the system by a violent redistribution of wealth [ie time]. The movie ends at this point without considering the fallout.
When the history of the last 20 years is written, most of what happened in the developed world will be relegated to the footnotes, or compressed into slogans like "technology advanced rapidly."

Here's what really matters: according to the UN, nearly a billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty in the last 20 years. Further gains are feasible and expected.

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21578665-nearly-1-bill...
Sustainable. Secure. Peercoin is here.
git commit -p: The most powerful git feature you're not using yet
Using source tree is a lot easier than git -p . I really like it.
> DPR espoused and was embraced by Libertarians.
Turned out to be a contract-killing, drug-dealing, law breaking psychopath.

Nelson Mandela has been embraced by people and organizations that I would otherwise classify as peace-loving. And they knew the entire time that he was a "terrorist"!

Ideologies are complex. One may agree with parts of a person's work, but not other parts of their means (or vice versa, or any other possible combination).

It's unfair to say that DPR's shady behind-the-scenes actions are somehow characteristic of an entire ideology that happened to agree with some other consequences of his work, and therefore grounds to dismiss them entirely.
A troll just got 50 internet points on HN. Congratulations.
Is it me or does it seem like a lot of people seem to avoid using GUI's for git ? I mean git-cola, gitk, gitx, sourcetree etc are all great ways to manage your git repos and don't need complicated command line operations and make your job much faster/easier.