skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're going to quit because you lost a ship, you're not the sort of player to make it into a Super-Cap fleet for a big coalition. We're talking about people who do things like month-long marathon spawn camps or week-long fleets of shooting at towers. Everybody with a Titan in this fight has at least one other character they play most of the time.

Also I think you dramatically over-estimate the impact of this loss. All sides have dozens of other systems and income and funding that are relatively safe. PL/N3 lost a key forward base and a weapons cache, but it's not a crushing territory loss, and they still have one of the largest super-cap fleets in the game - they may have been set back weeks but they've been in this war for 3 months already and fighting these kinds of wars for years. In 2009, PL lost all their territory and their super-caps (coincidentally while allied to GoonSwarm) and then turned around and re-built into a major player again.

Similarly, while it's a nice feather in CFC's cap it's not like this is them winning the final boss battle. Heck, relative to GoonSwarm's 2006-2009 campaign against BoB and half of EVE or the time in 2010 when they forgot to pay a bill and lost the richest 3 regions of the map (and all of their territory), this is barely a footnote in their history.
That does very little to exclude him from the list of candidates potentially responsible for the Satoshi Nakamoto alter-ego.
And moreover,

describe 'syntax after upgrading', ->
it 'should be even meatier', ->
expect parentheses.required
.toBe false

Very tidy.
This seems to be lacking some historical perspective ("Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it"). This happened before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age
Lighttest — a clear unit-testing environment with a flow control
It's very nice in the context of an open-source project to be able to fix formatting and such in people's bug reports, and to be able to update the original report with a more accurate summary of the problem when needed.
Everything you just wrote was ignorant and fairly abhorrent, but provides a pretty great caricature of the arrogance of Silicon Valley, so for that I applaud you.

They don't want to do these jobs anymore. They are lazy
and feel entitled to better jobs (though they aren't
qualified for them). People would rather go an permanent
disability or welfare. There are literally thousands of
labor and manufacturing jobs sitting unfilled in the US
today. Jobs that US citizens used to do.

The US has lost 40% of its manufacturing jobs since 1980 (http://research.stlouisfed.org/fredgraph.png?g=rrN). Even still, there are 245,000 manufacturing jobs currently open. However, over 11 million Americans are still unemployed (http://research.stlouisfed.org/fredgraph.png?g=rrQ).

Couple this with the lost jobs that illegal Mexicans do
today (jobs that "American's won't do"), and we have found
3/4 of these mysteriously disappearing jobs.

Over 1 million illegal immigrants left the US in the aftermath of the financial crisis (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/us/31immig.html?partner=rs...) and the number hasn't markedly increased in the last 6 years (http://www.pewhispanic.org/files/2013/09/PH-unauthorized-imm...), yet we have persistently high unemployment and low labor-force participation in concert with baby boomers retiring. Why does the job market still have 8 million more unemployed than openings (http://research.stlouisfed.org/fredgraph.png?g=rrT)?

Because the true unemployment today (by more traditional
US counting) is currently at 30%.

There's no measure whatsoever that shows unemployment at 30%. The most inclusive rate (U6 - http://research.stlouisfed.org/fredgraph.png?g=rrS) shows us at about 13%.
Enjoy your hellban, oh self-referential one.
For Stripe's webhooks, we currently use the mechanism described in this post (resolve the IP address, munge the URL we're connecting to, and manually add a Host header), but we've run into a lot of problems.

If your client library supports SNI, you're likely going to send the wrong SNI hostname (we had to disable Ruby's SNI feature because sending an IP address in the SNI field broke a handful of sites), and cert verification generally becomes quite tricky.

We're in the process now of switching to a simple go-based HTTP proxy, which tries to pass through connections as faithfully as possible, but rejects connections to internal IP addresses. Here's the current implementation (though I'm still playing with it): https://gist.github.com/ebroder/ae9299e0078094211bde

This turns out to be way simpler - all HTTP client libraries have good support for proxies, and it doesn't interfere with anything about the SSL handshake (since HTTPS connections go through a CONNECT-based proxy).

We also looked at using Squid or Apache, but concluded that they were much heavier weight than we needed and it was difficult to make them behave as transparently as we wanted (e.g. they always want to add headers and such).
Age of Wushu is a Chinese-developed MMO where you take the role of a hero from wuxia fiction. Think of it sorta like Street Fighter meets WoW. PvP fights are very lively, you need to counter the moves your opponent is using. PvP is a huge aspect; in fact, every time you log in it reminds you that the game is Open PvP and asks if you want to continue :)

It's poorly translated but that only adds to the charm. And, as with Eve, goons are among the best players.
It is useful to have around @tptacek when the topic is not NSA-related, he speaks wonders. Good!
I think the San Francisco average price of $5MM is quite a bit inflated. It's closer to $850K (http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/San_Francisco-California/m...).
In otherwords slightly less than an Omega Seamaster? Which is 111g as per: http://www.pmwf.com/Watches/ARTICLES/TwoOmegaSeamaster/A%20r...
I can see where you're coming from and kind of agree, but I'm cool with all the new altcoins popping up. I think it helps to legitimise the whole concept and shift it from a fringe movement to a more mainstream idea.

While I understand your frustration with Dogecoin, I think it's power (other than not taking itself too seriously) is that it's extremely liquid. It means you see it move around a lot more and can be generally used in place of karma/upvotes (which aren't really worth anything).

Ultimately I encourage all of this experimentation. I feel that entirely new economic paradigms will emerge from all of this if we let it.

Who knows where it's all going to end up, hopefully somewhere none of us can predict.
I don't have any advice to offer, but it's the best story/post that I've read about startups. I think is exactly what you have to read, before jumping into the startup wagon. Then, you're ready to go, if your gut can take it
Keen seems awesome, except I have a high volume startup with no funding and no revenue right now. We'd blow past the 50k event/month within the first few days for sure.

I really wish there was a more affordable way to do this. Though, I guess you get what you pay for.

It actually reminds me of Mixpanel. Both are too expensive for my liking :(
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Keep pouring money into that hole!
The other thing I'd like to see is context on emails in a conversation thread. So if I reply to a comment you've made, it would be great to see the comment I'm replying to IN the email itself (or at the very least, the last comment on that line, if there are multiple comments).

A lot of times I'll get an email comment and have no idea what they're talking about till I click through to go back to the conversation thread
>The largest single occupation in 1900 was "domestic servant" - by the 1950s, it no longer existed, because home appliances had completely replaced the job.

So my neighbor's domestic servant must be imaginary then right?

I think it just changed names. It is now called "domestic worker". U.S. Census suggests that the number has only declined about 21% from 1900(927,402) to 2012 (726,437). It is suspected though that current statistics are off by about half (because of unreported undocumented workers) so the actual numbers likely have grown, (even per household).

You think a vacuum, dishwasher, mixer, blender, washer/dryer and microwave reduces the work that much? Be sure to express this to your significant other.
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The thesis of the article seems to be that wealth inequality, even if accompanied by a total wealth increase (and perhaps even if accompanied by a wealth increase for every single person, although that's not made explicit), is still "unfair" and therefore worth combating.

But I'm confused when the article shifts between talking about what "is really unfair" and what "feels really unfair" (i.e. normative vs. descriptive fairness). I would have preferred a more consistent foundation for the thesis. Either argue why the normative view is valid, or demonstrate that a large portion of people do think wealth inequality is unfair. I think the latter is a more potent argument, especially paired with the claim that "the traditional endings to extreme wealth inequality in a society are never good."
Suas forever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfv1QtZDirY
oops--fixed. i changed from an extreme specific example to averages, but forgot to update the text. thanks!
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Let's all take a moment to reflect on the elegance of the grammar.coffee file [0]. Notice how the function named 'o' provides simplicity as it plays well paren-less function calls.

[0] - https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/blob/master/src/g...
Now also includes the Google Analytics and Disqus platform without a line of code!
If you are interested in systems programming, Green Hills Software (where I work) is currently hiring new graduates. We develop tools for embedded programming, including our own compiler, real-time operating system, hardware probe, and development environment. There are lots of opportunities here.

http://www.ghs.com/jobs_usa.html#sw_eng
This chart (standardized to 1973 peak = 100) shows what you're saying:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fredgraph.png?g=rrU

We're doing 2.5x the manufacturing with 40% fewer employees.
I'm a CTO and a serial entrepreneur, and i'm into this business since i was a kid. 6 years ago after a very intense splash in a huge famous company in US, I've decided to take a break, and fly to the Caribbean to open a sushi restaurant. My girlfriend is a successful F&B manager so i took all the suggestions I can handled from her, and opened it. After 12 months, was a complete failure. The first of my life. I was really scared to lose everything but just the time to close and open my eyes, solutions were there. Time and focus are very helpful. I didn't drop. I've found a re-start partner, took my girlfriend with me in business to advice and manage, changed style, and finally sold it to at least break even all the debts and have some vacation, ready to go back to the Internet. The break lasted 4 years at the end, and was the most important time of my life, looking at it from here now. The major growth of your soul. Keep the energy and focus, be sincere, and for sure something good is going to happen. And your second time is going to be ridiculous easier, trust me. Good luck.
I think that you're painting "the public" with a very broad brush. A more accurate model might be that people are happy when new options become available to them, ambivalent when stuff goes on that doesn't impact them, annoyed when people speak negatively about what's important to them, and angry when what is important to them is taken away from them. This is a pretty universal model, but the specifics differ depending on what is important to a person.

My girlfriend and I love AirBnB. It's allowed us to visit some pretty remote locations on very short notice at very reasonable prices. I have a friend who is surviving off the income from AirBnBing out her apartment. Probably, her neighbors don't like it. The hotel industry certainly doesn't like it.

I have friends in SF who similarly love having Uber available, because it's got them home late at night after a night at a few bars. As part of the yuppie tech demographic in the Mission, they are also hated by some of their neighbors.

What's changed isn't what's going on in the world, it's who is now angry enough to speak to the media. Somebody who finds a great weekend getaway on AirBnB isn't going to write a story about it or talk to a TechCrunch reporter; they will write a review on the site so that other people can have a similarly great experience. Somebody who loses their job because their hotel can't compete against AirBnB is both plenty angry and now has plenty of time to complain to the media.

I'm reminded here of reading Foucault in college, and specifically the role of the discourse in society. Foucault's central theory was that control of what can be said in the public sphere reflects power dynamics in a society. When public mindspace like the media starts leaning in a certain direction, it doesn't necessarily mean that reality has changed underneath. Rather, it means that certain interests have organized and care deeply enough about a certain issue that they're willing to spend time making sure that public belief swings a certain way on that issue.
People currently spend about 9% of disposable income on food as compared to 24% in the 60's -- so what you suggest is happening to some degree: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Uz4mKJv2dWQ/T_B-DGnY34I/AAAAAAAATt...
My deficit for being European: How the hell are expecting the investors to make money out of this?!?!?!
Partially because real wages for people making minimum wage are down (I touched on some of the reasons why in the post). It's worse in concentrated rich areas like San Francisco.

However, I do think costs have come down in a lot of areas.
Why I hate the phrase "You must have a lot of free time on your hands"
1. Use what correlates best with the outcomes. Look in to feature selection and principal component analysis for this. This will cause less noise due to smaller feature vectors. It also allows more digestable outcomes. I would also highly reccomend visualization. Weka is great if you want plug and play; otherwise there's the more traditional R/matlab. It really depends on what you're comfortable with.

2 . Depends what kind of learning you're doing. I would look in to multinomial logistic regression for most applications (more than one class) for supervised classification. Then there's also k means if you're looking to understand trends in your data. Keep in mind this is my off the shelf/simple recommendation.

I would love input on a plug and play machine learning CLI. I planned on building out my current project in to a full blown command line app. Since it can handle most features including automatic visualization/debugging via matplolib I figure with some documentation it might be a neat tool for people who don't want to deal with feature selection but still want things simple. It's definitely a problem that there's really no clear way to build simple models. Domain knowledge is also an expensive problem.
I follow and am already bought into every kickstarted/crowd-funded space game likely to come out for the next 2-3 years.

Star Citizen is promising but not the kind of space game I am talking about.
If you are running your code via 'coffee' or if you are compiling your code to JS this won't affect you.
so I am dyslexic sue me :-)

BTW was hand coding sites back in 94 :-)
Another great post. I love this guy.

I think a lot of our discussion about this topic is limited because we're still a capitalist society that largely views social trends through the lens of economics. At some point in time, things like "GDP" and income distribution where fairly good proxies for notions like "overall well being" and "aspirational stability" (more thought is required on this second term).

I think as technology progresses, we're going to see the use of money as a proxy for social measurement drift further and further away from actual reality. Any new social paradigm is going to have to start with fundamentals of human nature -- human competitiveness, equal opportunity, etc.

In short, I think our failure to respond to these changes is mostly a failure of us to think clearly about what actually going on in the day-to-day lives of actors in this new technological world. I don't know where we start, but existential philosophy seems like a good jumping board.

My thoughts are jumbled. I'd flush them out, but I need to get back to work.
Technically I love new plans in this space.

However, it seems that this requires a lot of people using it to be useful (network effect)? Is there a plan for getting this used by people?
Sorry, I misunderstood you post. Thought you were talking ironically.
The video was quick and to the point.

I am glad that some take this into account, they want to produce the best, and keep a high reputation for trustworthy people.

To me, it is kinda scary that someone can find out (and verify) so much information. Where does this information come from? Aren't there things like FERPA in place to prevent academic records getting out to anonymous Joe Blow?
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In the Types Of Economies That Work wars of the early 1900s, Marx kept pointing out the end result of capitalism will be the rich few controlling most of the wealth. It's only natural after all, the profit flows to the owners, not the workers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_stratification#Karl_Marx

We do the same thing today. Everybody knows you're a rube if you're just working—that's why there's Founder Mania around here. Get your fake 60% ownership, hire people to create value under you, capture most of the profit/exit yourself.

Congrats on including actual charts (and some infographics too). Much nicer than just another "X is happening. Oh noes!" perspective.
I've played since 2003 and done the big alliance stuff, have mroe fun in smaller gangs/fights personaly and whilst I have a over 200SP PVP char who can fly capitals I never wished to go beyond dreads or carriers as being stuck in a boring big ship just did not seem fun to me and most have dedicated super-cap/Titan accounts/chars for that aspect alone.

Still, however many such fights are very much a lag-fest whoever you spell it out (bullet time or not) and the live stream I saw of this engagement was like watching a animated GIF downloading on a 300buad dial-up modem effect.

So sympathy allround to those involved in what should of been epic fun.
Wealth is almost always Pareto distributed -- not normally (Gaussian) distributed as you claim: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution
This article supports many of the common fallacies that accompany most discussions of "wealth inequality" - and as usual believes it should be rectified... (by whom?) For a refreshing point of view on this topic, read http://cafehayek.com/2014/01/wealth-is-not-a-glob-of-homogen... . It may not change your mind but it is certainly another way to think about the issue.
I was a bit shocked that I got invited to Svbtle back in September of last year after not being 'worthy' of being in the early limited exclusive access. ;-)

http://callthejury.com/so-many-blogs-so-little-impact

TLDR: If I was invited to Svbtle then it isn't a good sign.
Most implementations of basic income actually taper off as your income increases so the cost doesn't have to be adults_in_us*basic_income, but actually significantly less.

It would probably be possible to support a basic income system just by getting rid of existing entitlements (although that is a big 'just')
Ooh, is there a story behind this one?
Opera is ded.

Better set sail for other browsers guys.
Wow that is insanely beautiful to my eyes — thanks for pointing this out! Only thing that might make it better would be a litcoffee version :)
People who don't care about other people's opinions aren't that common and aren't called extroverts. They're generally called sociopaths :-)
Here's a follow-up article by the same author on Network Communication and Serialization in Rust: http://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2014/01/28/network-communi...
I'm pretty sure that was fake.
I like the initiative to tackle against what the NSA is doing, but I'm seeing many projects that just seem to overdo it.

You will have better results by going out and educating people about how technology works than inventing a internet-obscurity-security sort of thing.

On top of it, if the NSA can detect who encrypts its traffic the most, who use what OS, what browser, if that person has used PGP, etc, it just needs to monitor this person a little bit more.

I don't want to sound cynical, but I wish I could see programmers work on solving real problems, like economical ones: you'll be surprised how miscommunication and lack of information spreading can worsen situations.

Many people seems to criticize facebook, why am I not seeing anyone reinventing the social network ? I'm not talking a website like diaspora or google+, but anything which is designed for making the economy work better. Like a craiglist for masses, but more efficient and relevant.
I can here to make that exact comment. It always irks me that a lot of people don't realize 'quantum' == 'small'.
I think health care and education should absorb the misplaced workers. The demand for those services is infinite and there should (in theory) always be incremental value created by additional workers (assume their salaries were 0; they would be paid for by the government instead of the employing institution).
One reason is that as technology improves, the value of a person's time ("productivity") also increases. Thus although manufactured goods get cheaper, services get more expensive (due to opportunity cost).
Most of the day to day innovations you use are owned by minimum wage earners. Cellular phones, TVs, cars and internet are nearly ubiquitous items.
It's not that innovation did not reach the needy, it's just that there are some problems that are outside the influence of technology. For example, making neighborhoods safer or promoting better family planning.

Aren't unsafe neighborhoods so because of, first and foremost, their inhabitants?
Author here. Time for new hosting... a good problem to have I guess.
I dislike not being able to leave a comment. Yes, I'm outspoken, strong-opinionated and I want to express myself. I liked the HN community before realizing that YCombinator is an incubator, etc. I am/were/came here for the community.
Most likely acquisition.
That depends on what you mean by accurate, and even then they pretty much suck. Clocks are "inaccurate" in a few ways. One of these ways is very short-term: variations in exactly when the clock edges arrive at frequencies near the clock frequency. Others of these are long-term: how far the clock is from it's target rate over decades. Between these there's a whole spectrum of different noise frequencies.

The oscillators on your motherboard, with very basic temperature correction, very basic calibration and only very basic quality control don't tend to do very well on any of these measures. They tend to do better on the high-frequency measures of clock badness, and worse on low-frequency measures, but they aren't stellar in any area. The end-to-end time system, including NTP and software-level drift correction, does an OK job in some circumstances. It does a horrible job in others.

If you go through life assuming your computer's local clock isn't literally out to get you, you're going to be disappointed.
It happens. Tell your wife. Inform the board. Hire a lawyer to deal with the debts. Inform the employees, giving them some idea of severance and resources to transition elsewhere . Figure out how money you have left and do an orderly wind down. Send out rfps to see if anyone will buy all or part of the company. Then get a new job.
I think the answer is more or less that transportation costs aren't going down. We produce more than enough food to feed the entire world population, but the poor can't afford to buy it because of the cost of transporting it to them.