skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I had a free second at any point in the day I would end up checking Facebook or reddit. I just couldn't stop myself so I deleted them. I deleted the Facebook and reddit app from my phone and iPad. This helped a lot. I still checked both in the browser so I ended up deactivating my fb account. I also use Stay Focused which is a chrome extension that blocks sites after a set time. I put reddit and a few other sites on the list. I still check HN. I see this site as educational and I don't regret reading the articles.
"Victim shaming", "Privilege", "Tone argument", "Derailment".

Hope you're enjoying all that kool aid, bro. :)
ALWAYS have a backup plan when using any 3rd party's product. With a startup, there is a possibility of a given product disappearing within a not too long timeframe due to either (1) selling to another company and shutdown immediately aka aqui-hire, (2) selling to another company and being absorbed into that companies competing product, (3) running out of money and shutting down, (4) pivoting to another vision that is more financially viable but doesn't suit your personal business needs anymore, etc.

And if it's a free product, double or triple (at a minimum) the likelihood of any of the above happening.
Sadly many homeowners in the US look down upon renters. I have personally encountered this at least a couple times in my life. Generally it comes with situations where a neighborhood sees a mix of homeowners and renters, which is generally things like town-home or condominium developments.

I even once had a shouting match with an 'owner' which ended with them saying I didn't deserve to live their because they were an owner and I was 'just a renter' (Note: I was in the right in this argument).
Yeah, but when attacking a symptom becomes directing your hatred at a group of people, you have a problem.
Webmin still works and is actively maintained. There even are good-looking themes nowadays. It would be a huge endeavour to re-implement all that came into webmin in the past ten years.
There are legitimate reasons for having certain infrastructure priced differently to corporations and private citizens, most especially in situations where costs scale super-linearly. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to make the argument from extremes here.

For example, roads. Say there's only one road in and out of town. It can sustain V volume of traffic, where V was initially sized for its population of size P. Now, corporation sets up a factory in town, employing say 0.05P (does not change the overall population). Factory drives traffic volume to 2V. However, the corporation itself doesn't do so hot, so the increase in revenue from corporate taxes are not enough to pay for the infrastructure changes required. In this position, I think it would be fair and sensible to somehow directly levy a charge on the corporation - with all the possible negative side effects that that would entail.
I wonder if they're ever tried that one before.
If you are not a superstar, making outlier money is not in the cards for you. Focus on becoming a superstar before focusing on the money. This might require an apprenticeship, either at a big company or a successful startup. Not even most YC companies are successful, so choose carefully.
No, not in the same way at all. GPLv2 was strictly a distribution agreement. If you want to distribute a GPLv2-derived work, you must offer its source to anybody who gets the binary. That's using copyright law; you would normally have no right at all to distribute something copyrighted by somebody else, but they've given you permission to distribute so long as you agree to their distribution terms. AGPL/GPLv3 are usage licenses: it's not a simple matter of agreeing to a license when you're distributing the derived work, but instead you must follow the license whenever you're using the work. AGPL and GPLv3 are completely different beasts from GPLv2; they may fit your needs better, but they aren't the same thing at all.
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Let's say, conservatively, that doing the research to know how to build this, having never built a pc before, takes 20 hours. I bill at 100-160 an hour, so let's take the low end and cut it in half, and say my opportunity cost is $50/hour.

The cost of building one of these is (20 * 50) + 700 = 1700. If someone can build one for me at $1000 I'm money ahead.

It's easy to forget that knowledge acquisition isnt free when you already poses the knowledge.
Cool. Lets all disable password protection on our machines and leave them unlocked. Apparently if you have physical access, it's game over so there's no point in even trying.
Why do chocolate chip cookies have 37% (1/e) chocolate in them?
I liked how they reacted to the guy asking questions about Mac Writer. It showed both what the mentality and expectations of software at the time were and what a step forward compared to those Macintosh was.

He first asked if it is possible to center only part of the document instead of the whole document as demoed and then he asked whether select-and-replace worked only for replacing equally lengthy text. Both of those questions were followed by laughter at – what I assume – was the demo that both of that was no problem on the screen.
It's very basic, it doesn't even indicate which users are evil doers.
Building a Simple Reddit API Webapp using jQuery
In order to enable the enormous societal changes that you suggest Stallman should focus on (in what way? revolution?), you first have to secure freedom. With proprietary software, you never know what happens, whether you are being watched, if someone has access to your system. Eventually, governments can just require software companies to implement censorship and surveillance. In Stallman's vision, the only way out of this is to have complete control over your software. This means no nonfree software whatsoever.

In parallel, he's very aware of the problem of user adoption, but accepting nonfree software in FOSS environments destroys the purpose. Therefore, the only way to achieve total freedom is to turn to the users. And this is done the following way: (1) make excellent FOSS alternatives, and (2) tell everyone the benefits of FOSS and point them to the excellent free software that was made.
Hating techies (and the target of hate, make no mistake, is all tech workers) is easy, convenient, misguided and counterproductive. it is easy, because hatred is a simple, attractive emotion. It is convenient, because it requires no thought about policy changes, urban planning, zoning, transportation, density, parking or anything else that makes a city. It is misguided because it fails to take into account the lack of development in this city that lead to this crisis -- essentially, SF's residents forced SF to be an exclusive enclave, and are now surprised it's becoming an exclusive enclave for someone else. Finally, it is counterproductive because the tech population is not going to leave the city, and the more hate you lob in their direction, the less willing they will be to cooperate in making the city affordable -- why collaborate with the people who actively vilify us?
http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/physical-memory-attacks-via-f...
A while ago, someone compiled a list of Web and Mobile Revenue Models: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647.

I put the list on GitHub and updated it with new concepts I found interesting every now and then: https://gist.github.com/ndarville/4295324.

There should be something there to pique your interest.
Also of interest is that the people (Googlers, a writer) that were mentioned as being harassed sounded more like "the 10%" to me than "the 1 %".

Deliberate misdirection of identity???
I'm sure Texas would be more than happy to have Google offices in any of the major cities, and there's plenty of space.
No, for each new startup, there are two more startups that can be built on top of it. The funny thing is that rhere are not fewer ideas down the road, idea generation is exponential.
Having read through all the answers here, I really think that HN is possibly not the best place to ask such a question.

Solve a problem

Seems to be the largest response. Solving problems is hard. If you want to earn $100k this year, don't solve a problem, don't do a startup[1].

Startups deal with problems, are capital intensive, risky, and high reward. If you want to potentially make a lot more than $100k in the next few years then, sure, go find a problem.

If you simply want to make $100k this year, then my choice would be to start a simple service business. No need to build anything new or solve a complex problem. The majority of SME businesses fit this mould really, everything from software agencies to recruitment companies.

Pick an area you have some knowledge in, start on your own, and execute to the best of your abilities. The main challenges are usually managing cash flow and the day to day realities of running a small business. But if you end up with 4-5 employees and stable cash flow, you now have your own earning power plus around 20% of the people below you typically.

That or review your CV, and plan the most aggressive route towards a position in a financial / high yield company, adding $100k to your salary as an employee could be feasible depending on your background.

Either way, the people who just stumble upon money are outliers. So the really short answer is just work harder and accept more risk in you decisions.

[1]http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
McCarthysism involved persecution.

I think what the OP is saying is that people who oppose Google are also opposing the rights of landlords and other renters to get into free agreements. The fair market price of apartments in SF has been kept artificially low via legislation and gradually this is changing.
I am on the computer a lot at work, but at home it is different because I am using the computer to pursue my own interests. I don't consider pursuing my interests a waste of time.
I have two safety rules for myself:

- No HackerNews/Reddit/... after 21:00.

- No computers/tablets/... after 22:00.

Other than that, other hobbies decrease computer time: watching series/news with my wife, running, cycling, Geocaching (a great outdoor hobby for the inner geek :)), and reading (generally newspapers).

Besides that, we are expecting our first baby next month. So, there will be no time for computers outside work ;).
So if other firms can decide to resolve conflicts among themselves peacefully, then they can also decide to band together into a federation that serves their interests. Monopolies form because they're efficient.

If you say that regular people will prevent that, then you're just back to having violent revolutions, except against monopolies, instead of governments.
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I have been on Ambien (Zolpidem here in the UK) for 5 years now after being diagnosed with insomnia due to PTSD (actually diagnosed by three doctors at a psychiatric hospital where I had to spend 4 months in 2009 not some self-diagnosis) and I am not too sure on this evidence. I know a lot of people who suffer true insomnia (as in doing several days with perhaps 15 minutes sleep) and thinking you got good sleep does not make up for the fact that you are actually going several days with awful sleep. I am sure there is some kind of psychosomatic side that makes you perform better because you think you will but suffering real lack of sleep cannot be "tricked" better with positive thinking just like how depression cannot be fixed by just "thinking happy".
Go to startup and tech meetups and Let people know you're looking for clients doing x. If anyone follows up, tell them your minimum project size of $y upfront.
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We did a few clothing drive parties and had folks send us old startup swag to give to goodwill (and a Jamaican orphanage). Can definitely contribute to this also!
Sample size too small.
HBO already has HBO Go so they would only have to scale it out.
I've got plenty of compassion and understanding, thanks.

Using your logic, why don't we just get rid of the word 'frat' while we're at it, since you've had such a bad experience with people associated with them. Do you see the slippery slope you're on here?

I'm glad we live in a society where everything isn't geared to appease people like you. Those that I do have compassion for are people with real issues, not feigned concern over the name of an application you had nothing to do with being a word that might trigger a panic attack because you got your ass beat in college.

Maybe you should try therapy for that.
Will robots steal our jobs? The humble loom suggests not
Late Steve Jobs Caused The Decreasing Salaries Of Over 100.000 Tech Engineers
This is really, really old. Google bought it and incorporated it into Google Docs.

The best fork is Pirate Pad, because it has pirates of course. : )

http://piratepad.net/front-page/
The price of such a thing made my mind boggle as well. It makes me wonder what equivalent devices exist today in the '10x what is affordable' price bracket which we will all be enjoying and taking for granted in 30 years.

Any guesses?
> Protest?

I'm confused by what they're protesting. I do know what their stated aim is - driving Google and other tech companies out of San Francisco. I just don't think that it's the right thing to be protesting. There's a shortage of housing because of rent control, restrictions on building new housing, and the fact that San Francisco is a really desirable place to live. The first two are pretty easy to solve - just repeal the laws (The second would be much easier to repeal). I wouldn't want to mess with the third.

Yelling at tech companies will not do very much. Even if they leave, other rich people will replace them.

> Because they can't afford to live anymore in a city where they have lived their whole life.

It's difficult for me to say much other than "Shit happens." The city is really expensive. Space is scarce, and people are willing to pay a premium for it. I don't think that "But I've lived here for my whole life" gives people the right to tell other people, "Sorry, you can't live here." If they owned the land, that would be one thing. But they've rented there for their entire lives. If someone else is willing to pay a higher rent than you, that's the way it goes. And that brings us to this:

> Maybe they "chose to buy" but could not afford to. And to phrase your sentence correctly, the landlord has legal right to evict the renters, but that says nothing about the renters' moral right to live there.

I could also "choose to buy" a 70-inch television for every room in my house and a new Mercedes-Benz every two years. Just because I make that choice doesn't make it a good one. And if the price of a new Mercedes-Benz goes out of my price range, I'd be on pretty shady ground trying to say, "But I've bought a new Mercedes-Benz every two years for the last thirty years! I have a moral right to get this car!"

Lastly, on your comment that people don't choose to be poor - this is definitely true. But it just seems so ridiculous that people would defend buying a luxury (in this case, it's living in an expensive city) and then accuse their detractors of infringing on some moral right to that luxury. You'd laugh in my face if I told you that I had a moral right to have that new Mercedes, right? But for some reason we give these people a free pass when they say, "This apartment is worth millions of dollars, and people are willing to pay $1500 a month to live here. I am entitled to live here for less than that."

I can choose not to buy a new Mercedes... which is why I chose instead to drive a shitty Civic. I can also choose not to live in a city where rent is more than half of my salary.
I know little about sewer systems, but if there is a manhole cover, isn't that likely?
Wonderfully small, easy to grok, and put into practice.
Monopolies and cartels don't exist for long unless governments subsidize them or otherwise help by regulating the industry (and not allowing new players to disrupt the market). You will hardly find an example of a monopoly which was not supported by the government in one form or another.

In the free market cartels break down very fast, because one member eventually decides to defect or because another powerful player comes to the market and realizes he can make a lot of money by providing customers with a better and cheaper service than the cartel members.

Generally, if most people agree they don't want rulers, there will be no rulers. The only reason why governments keep their power is because the managed to convince people that the alternative is a complete chaos and destruction, while in reality it is only governments who create chaos and destruction on an unimaginable scale. Even the most oppressive government can't go for a long time using just force, it has to lie and convince people. If it can't, it is brought down.
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^^ This comment is misinformation. You didn't post any proof, so you see, anyone can do that.

According to you, half of the country is involved in the protest and not going to work( >20 million !!), I highly doubt that the whole country is at halt. I have only seen and read about protest in the very center of Kiev. Around of the Independence Square, Hrushevsky Street and its neighboring streets. All I stated was posted in the foreign media and blogs( truthful or not ), unfortunately I don't have the time to backtrack and search to provide the necessary links.

I would love to hear some reliable information to confirm any statements.
"Beelzebub's tales to his grandson" is probably the only book I've found that I really, really, couldn't read. I'd love to know what it means though.
RMS is far more knowledgeable, accurate, and respectful when discussing people he disagrees with, than almost anyone else is.

(People he disagrees with in the open source world, like ESR/OSI, who he considers neutral or incompletely free. He isn't respectful of people like Bill Gates who promote actively non-open software)
That entirely fails to even mention the ethnic angle, which is probably the main thing never-mind the current political details. The western part of the country speaks Ukranian, not Russian, and was historically aligned with the Polish empire.
With putting your wife on salary, are you stuck paying towards unemployment insurance since you've technically got an employee? Some places have started to crack-down on that, even when it doesn't truly have relevance.
I use http://www.gifrocket.com/ for Mac.
I think 1% is a ridiculous misnomer. You need to get to the 0.01% before you find people who are what you might call 'disgustingly rich.'

The 1% are doctors, programmers, accountants...
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2. Do you have look thread.com ? What do you think about it?
He wasn't on the Macintosh team.
Hi there,
here's my humble suggestions:

1. It is not easy to add 100,000$ in a year; it is relatively easier to have a long-term strategy to reach that goal over 3-5 years. It's not a sprint, it's a marathon. I say this because if you try and fail after the first year, you should keep doing it until you succeed. To be clear: it's easier if your goals become: +20k in 2014, +50k in 2015, +100k in 2016.

2. It really depends on where you live, how much access to capital you have, and what your skills are.
2.1: where you live influences how much you can earn as a freelancer (of course, you can always freelance online, no barriers), how much you pay in taxes, how much business you can find around you. If we assume that you can work online as a software developer and similar, than this doesn't apply. Taxation does, though.
2.2: If you have access to capital, you can try to start a company, and make it profitable; then, sell it. Hard, but if you succeed, you probably can add 100k or more to your income.
2.3: if you can easily "sell" your skills, consider freelancing or consulting, even though 100k more in a year means a TON of extra work.

3. You might want to build something that you can sell; if that's successful, the sales can eventually surpass 100k. Examples? An ebook (scales better than a physical book), a software.

Problems I'd like to see solved:

1. I'd like to keep my photos and videos backed up, remotely, automatically; and have a much smaller (disk size) version of them on my computer; this way I can always consult my photo archive, but if I need the original photo, I can still get it from my online backup, from within the app/software.

2. I, too (like chegra), would pay to have someone help me buy clothes and dress better, but trust me this is a very hard problem to solve.

3. If I have a free weekend, I'd like a service that, based on my location, budget, and preferences, can suggest me 2-3 things to do with all details (fly to X and do Y, or drive to W and do Z, or drive to X, hike to Y, eat at Z, etc).

Hope it helps.
No one has compared "man-on-the-tracks" to confined space rescue yet. Before you attempt it you must protect yourself or you risk creating more victims or fatalities.

Chemists know all about it because of the risk of poisonous gas. If I saw someone collapsed in front of their fume hood not knowing what was going on I wouldn't even try to pull the fellow out without breathing gear, even if it was a friend or colleague. This is left to trained personnel, that is the fire brigade.

There was this incident about twenty years ago at my old university where they dispensed liquid nitrogen in a basement that had no oxygen sensor (!). The ventilation had failed, and a student who came to fill up his dewar fell unconcious for lack of oxygen and couldn't turn off the tap. A second student tried to pull him out and became unconscious as well. It took number three to pull out numbers 1 and 2. Result: one dead, one disabled.

There is bravery, and there is insane heroics. Pulling a fellow bent on suicide off a train track is the second kind. It takes discipline not to do it.
I agree with you on Dogecoin but I'm interested on where you're drawing this conclusion: "On average one new currency becomes wildly popular every year or so." I'd say BitCoin became popular last year - what new currency became wildly popular in the preceding few years? Maybe I'm just not that knowledgable about the currency space but it seems like a new thing to me.
Couple of caveats. Many Laptops have Firewire ports that are attached via USB for cost reasons. These 1394 ports will do DV, and attached storage but are not DMA.

Thunderbolt on Windows 8 has an option for Allow DMA by Default, or not. This option is so that you can do a bit more prioritizing of your bandwidth.

Windows 8 also has a setting for "install new hardware automatically" which if you disable you can only install hardware if you are logged in and click the install button.

Windows 8 will also not allow you to install a new device if you are not logged in as Admin, or you have the Annoying UAC enabled.

So while Mac and some Linux systems will have this vulnerability because you don't have to be an admin to have new hardware enabled if the drivers are on the system, Windows should be safe unless you changed your rights.

On a corporate network with machines where the users run in least user privilege, Windows 8, and Windows 7 users are safe.
I'm yet to test this, but any idea how it compares against Martini?
>My lawyer had to beg for those tapes.

Why didn't his lawyer bring up the Brady rule?
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