skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been saying for years now that Star Trek forms the best commonly-known model for what future "economics" will be like. It's really awesome to read a well-thought-out treatment of that idea.

Some points in no particular order:

* In the limit of nanotechnology and fusion power we can produce anything (physical.) This forces us to confront our essential challenge which is the development of good character. All forms of government are attempts to manage human wickedness. Corollary: it very nearly doesn't matter what form of government obtains if the people in that government are virtuous.

* Permaculture (modelling agricultural systems on natural ecologies) is a non-technological mode of abundance.

* Communism: The Smurfs.

* It seems to me that the "natural" economic system varies with personal "distance". Broadly: immediate family/friends -> communistic; (Are the Amish commies? No.) neighbors -> barter / reciprocal gift-giving; strangers -> capitalism.

* If there is something to that last point then as the Internet shrinks personal distance we should expect a general trend from impersonal capitalistic forms to more personal "altruistic" forms (Gittip, etc...)

* As technology advances we are forced to become unwilling to "solve problems with bullets". If you are willing (for any reason) to commit violence you will perforce be kept from the really potent weapons. Already so-called "psych-ops" have become the cutting edge (no pun intended) of warfare: eliminate the enemy's desire to fight. It is only a matter of time before hippy-dippy shit becomes the obvious counter to hostilities by the intrinsic logic of warfare itself. ("Men Who Stare at Goats" is a documentary.)
These are indeed improvements, but I don't think they qualify as true AI. Software is still nowhere near being able to pass the Turing Test. We still don't have any idea how the human mind works, or how to emulate one digitally.
The more subtle response is to feed them bad data until they can't trust you.
Thank you for not making a parallax scrolling website. I first thought as soon as I started scrolling the image will be covered with some text, and then some other image starts showing up in the background
I do not speak for GitHub, but anonymous sources inform me that the feature only works with prose formats that have a built-in renderer. So basically, if you can preview the file, you can get a rendered diff for it.

This seems to confirm your suggestion :-)
You, sir, win.
Why Jelly is my new Jam
Whales Counted From Space?
people might have thought it to be malicious so i simple posted the link
Strong type checking in Python? What the hell is this ??
Exemptions and regulations add to the administrative overheads. Monitoring and enforcing quality of volunteer work is a large overhead, too. The efficiency of basic income lies in its extreme simplicity.

However, the details of basic income-like schemes may be irrelevant. Basic income and its mutations are possible when most household products are basically done by robots. It is possible basic income will grow at 25-50% YoY rate and that growth indicator is only thing that matters.
Uh... they are fighting back. By voting more money away from the minority. How kind of us to vote for someone else to pay the bill. Ain't democracy grand?
Actually, you do. You've loaded it, and you can lock it down privately to your library or app with _.noConflict().

You can have ten different versions of Underscore loaded on the page, living in peace and harmony, in ten different third-party modules. Not that you should. But that you could.
Phaser does some nice things that Trello doesn't do that are specifically related to software. For example you can group Stories into "Arcs", which are like feature sets. This way you can filter stories by Arc and quickly see the progress of each individual Arc.

Additionally, Phaser allows you to quickly create many stories in a single text box, which is great for when you need quickly add a new feature set.

There are more examples which I'm sure you'll see if you actually try the product.
Since the faker's requests don't have a User-Agent, you could block all requests lacking a valid User-Agent HTTP header.
Q docs show both. Either way: .waterfall() is still simpler.
No, and beyond being inaccurate I'm beginning to think you are being intentionally misleading.

He wants the doomsday scenario of choosing between (a) and (b) NOT to occur. By making it clear how bad it would be.
The headline made me think he was going to talk about losing the desktop and mobile wars!
no love for my mac
:-(

[Fri Feb 14 14:35:37]
-bash:~$ curl -s valentines.digitalocean.com | bash

bash: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'

bash: line 1: `<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">'
Why could't this just be a text file with curses escapes available via netcat? At least then it's limited only to known terminal exploits, rather than running whatever the hell it wants as you.
I dealt with a somewhat similar situation a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4291454

I issued a DMCA takedown notice to their host and it was taken care of in a couple of days. I suggest doing the same.
If you care about embedded systems, go with C++.
I agree, this may be a more effective approach than trying to block the IP and the whole whack-a-mole issue.

Essentially, they trust the data you're providing and are trying to make a buck off that info. But if they lose that trust because they don't know whether the data is legit or not, you win!

I would also try to mask the fact that the data is not accurate, if they immediately see everything as simply zeroed out, it would be a huge red flag you're on to them. If you provide them ALMOST correct data, it would be harder for them to determine what's going on and their users will see realize the disparity and (hopefully) get burned and never come back.

Essentially, the trick is to destroy the site's credibility so there's no financial benefit to continue to steal from you.

Good Luck!
Which jurisdiction are you targeting? The laws are very different depending on what country you are hosted in.
"All materials submitted in connection with this Contest will not be returned. By participating, you agree to be bound by these Rules including all eligibility requirements. Participants acknowledge and agree that all entry materials submitted in connection with this competition are submitted on a non-confidential basis and may be used by Coinbase, its agents, subsidiaries, and related companies, for advertising and promotional purposes. Coinbase reserves all rights, including the right to edit, publish, use, adapt, and modify proper names, likenesses, and photographs for advertising and promotional purposes in all media (including, but not limited to, the internet) without additional compensation, expect where prohibited by law." -http://bithackathon.com/terms.html

This seems like a pretty brilliant way to get tons of apps for only 18k
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Actually it's where I first read that insight ;). Though I'm never able to find the link when I need it.
The Science Behind 'Brain Training'
This is gorgeous stuff. I can't get the PDF to render the way it looks on the USGS site, though. Lots of layers and outlines. Looks the same in Foxit and Sumatra.
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Nice work! Keep hustling guys.
putting following on your website and thus "notifying" 4coin users is such a clover move!!! I am just wondering what 4coin's next move may be.

"2014-02-14
A site has been found that is stealing the content in real-time: 4co.in. If you are viewing this from 4co.in please go to http://goo.gl/w1f6Sq to view the correct site. I am not responsible for any malicious content or malware on 4co.in."
I can install pretty much anything from npm at this point and put money on it being a single callback, err first.
Question answered. Topic closed.
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Lot of good suggestions already. I am not sure if you are interested in contacting the perpetrator directly and asking them to stop this but I did a little research for you.

looking up the whois info, it says that the registrant's email was bgrf@ymail.com

When I put this email in google, I came across another spammy site called baklinks.blogspot.com. This site asks you to swap back links. At the bottom of the blog post, I found the name of the person "Naveen K R"

I then looked up google with "Naveen K R + bgrf". I was able to find a site he (probably) runs called www.zokali.com

More googling combos, I finally found his linkedin profile and his name "Naveen K Ramanand"

https://www.linkedin.com/in/krnaveen.

May be you can contact this guy directly. Seems like he is the one doing this or at least he knows who.
This won't work as it seems they're replacing any mention of "altexplorer" with "4coin"
The choice of login provider is one of a few consequential things - for most tech services, it's extremely important to minimise friction and get people to use your service.

If you've decided on Google+ as your login provider, your bounce-out rate is going to be particularly high, for several reasons including the parent poster's point.
That could still be the right decision for you, but it's worth worrying about.
Doo was free. It's great in that it indexes and OCRs everything wherever it is located: you don't have to move the documents into the database like Evernote requires.

Here's the problem: the only revenue source was people who want to store their docs in the cloud. Keep in mind, that would be ALL your documents. That's a tough sell for me.
Why do that to people who probably don't know 4coin is being a thief?
There is nothing wrong with Q, but Bluebird is a bit more node-oriented and also has really, really low CPU/memory overhead (lower than caolan's async). Also it provides the best debugging experience, period - because of its long stack traces spanning multiple previous async events.

I didn't quite understand the comment about data being a scope down. What do you mean?

Yes, promises do have quite a steep learning curve :/ However they're a lot more flexible than a utility grab-bag of functions that never quite fit the problem you're having. By that I mean I often had to massage my functions (by creating new closures or using bind etc) to make them fit the signature that async requires.

I wrote a bunch of examples for common tasks here - http://promise-nuggets.github.io/
That might be interesting. I wonder what the market price of being President would be? Would you be mandated to take the position if you were the richest person, or would it be an auction where anyone can bid?
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You need to see this

Amazing !
I think Pandora is just going to push a bunch of potential customers away if they start delivering political ads. Most people have lost trust in both parties and don't want to hear it.

Well I just heard a Keystone pipeline ad that asked me to call a Congressman or the President or something. Guess it's already going on.
For small screens, it preserves a lot of real estate. When most notebooks are limited to 1366x768 screens, it's an excellent choice.
People do tend to think this way, but when applied to the topic that the forum is built around, this line of thinking is probably accurate.

People on HN are probably more tech-savvy than the general population. People on DefensiveCarry are probably more CCW-savvy than the general population. People on /r/Seinfeld probably tend to be some of the show's/comedian's biggest fans.

I understand and agree that the claim that we have more "complex personalities" is a little suspect, but a lot of these sorts of claims probably have something to them.
What the fuck. Where do you live?
In earlier times, I might have agreed with you.

If you look at the systems which recent advances have allowed humans to produce, you can easily see that the most valuable and desirable goods require highly integrated sub-assemblies and components, and the end products have high part counts. Your cellphone or computer alone is made up of hundreds or thousands of components, each requiring highly complex R&D and production, your car has 10k parts, an airplane 500k parts, and a space shuttle has 2000k parts. As a result, creating modern goods requires an ever-increasing number of 'steps', which in turn requires ever-increasing capital investment in R&D and production. We should be encouraging this investment if we want to continue to make more advanced and complex products available to everyone (including consumers).
Death Do Us Part
Total Madness !!
I know hip hop is treated as a disposable commodity by society, but kids who are really into hip hop as an art form will definitely learn who De La Soul is sooner or later.
but 4coin can add some simple code (e.g. use regex) just to remove that line from scrapped content before sending it to the user though.
I used 0.0005 BTC (~5kb), but you're absolutely right that a simple transaction is substantially cheaper. My assumption here is that as the economy grows, due to the underlying technology of Bitcoin, more BTC will need to be 'gathered' together in a wallet before being sent out. This results in a larger transaction size and a higher fee to exceed the priority threshold.

I suspect that in the future, this will be a fairly common case. I suppose I might liken the theory here to defragging a hard drive. An unused hard drive stays in a nice neat, contiguous state. But use it a whole bunch and things get messy. And in BTC's case, you have to pay a bit extra for the miners to come along and tidy everything up.

I could be totally wrong on whether that will ever become common, and the developers could just as easily reduce fees over time as well, but such is the nature of taking guesses at the future.
+1 examples.

For me, nearly everything .waterfall(), .each(), or .parallel(), and has been for two years now.
Exactly. There's no way in hell anyone should ever do that, even (thanks to DNS hijacking etc.) if they thought the file was something they wrote themselves.
The problem is, of course, knowing both options are roughly equivalent. That may take a lot of work to find out.
there are companies offering services to deal with this, just depends on how much your time is worth. Here is one option. www.distilnetworks.com ... in case you tire of whack-a-mole
Seems like a painfully small niche of people who will use this, but good luck!
Visual Studio 2013 has a static analyzer.

A "good enough" solution that comes free kills all possibility that a second company can make a living by selling an cheap solution.
Hotels are a form of progressive taxation: rich out of town travelers pay more for housing than permanent residents. Generally travelers are richer than non travelers because traveling is usually a discretionary expense or paid for by a corporation.

AirBnb eliminates the progressive taxation, thereby raising living expenses for poorer residents. Rich people love it, poor people hate it. Sure, you can make some money in the short term by renting out your spare room, but in the long term, as rents rise, this process involuntarily turns your two bedroom apartment into a one bedroom + strangers' room apartment.

Just wait until San Francisco "Google bus activists" get a whiff of AirBnb.
This sounds like the situation to use torrents. I wish there was a web torrent standard for large content delivery, and browsers implemented clients, which only seeded for a preset amount or only during the download. The checksumming would also help immensely.
> I think we probably are headed towards a post-scarcity (or low-scarcity) economy.

I think this prediction is naive, irresponsible, and dangerous.

We are headed toward one of the most tragic shortages in human history: energy. It is possible that within some of our lifetimes, we will see the breakdown of industrialization itself unless we do something about it, right now and in a very big way.
i think its neat. i use vim religiously and can't type/navigate without hjkl anymore, so even though this is for a small niche, its cool
I wouldn't be surprised if he is intentionally being provocative, taking an extreme position so that the actual reality of tech workers driving up rents seems more moderate. It's like he's trying to get ahead of the controversy by acting as a lightning rod for criticism, so that rather than it snowballing, everybody gets mad at him and forgets about what they were mad at originally.

I've known several old-school Silicon Valley managers that do this frequently - they toss out a strawman that's way more extreme than anything anybody would want to do, which anchors your outrage so that whatever the actual goal is seems perfectly reasonable. It's basic behavioral economics - people do it in negotiations all the time.
Greens calls for clear-out of 'climate change deniers'
Apple: Getting Manufacturing back to US, one step at a time
They could host it and sell it on Legitmix.
There is a perfectly good reason why document-organizing software needs to be in "the cloud." We live in the cloud. I want access to my stuff from my desktop, my laptop, my phone, from work, from a coffee shop, everywhere.

I want to be able to read a document, write a document, edit a document, share a document whenever I have the time to do so, and I want more software that does this, not less.

The idea of personal clouds is compelling, if we can only make configuration easy, and figure out how to pay the application developers.
De La Soul situation is a little more complicated. Many of their albums used uncleared samples and some of the rights are still unclear. That's also why their stuff isn't on iTunes..
>>There are more examples which I'm sure you'll see if you actually try the product.

I think he's pointing out that Trello is designed for software development as well. This is a problem with the pitch that will prevent people from trying your product.
And here I thought "copying is not theft"
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Most of their back catalog can't be sold anyway since it contains a bunch of uncleared samples.
I think what they are doing is repeatedly stinging, but the stingers are very small and you can't see them.

So when you see one ant touch another with the abdomen you are probably actually seeing the fight.
Funny pic of a computer
A funny cartoon picture of a joke about a computer problem!
I like the ability to slurp in stories from VIM. Thats very slick.
Interesting article. While the title of this submission hooked me and brought me here, it may need a little reworking as well.
I like the general point of this article, but I wanted to point out that I don't think you necessarily learn any more or less from failing than you do from succeeding at something. Successes also require a shit-ton of critical thought because they rarely remain successes forever: There's always the next level of growth, the change in the market, the young competitor, etc. And I've found that oftentimes people don't have time to analyze their failures completely -- they've got to get moving on their next project or gig that will pay the bills. And sometimes it just hurts to think about failures. So people don't...

As for people who don't want to talk about failures because it damages their "personal brand..." First, always be careful around people too interested in their "personal brand." You'll sometimes find quite a bit of bullshit, misdirection, and borderline lies coming out of those people's mouths. Not always. But often enough. Second, if you've honestly learned from your experience, there's no need to be shy about talking about it. I mean, I understand not wanting to broadcast failures at the top of your resume, but being able to say something like: "Four years ago I founded a start-up that focussed on building custom public space games for brands -- we failed to land enough clients to survive the long-run, but I learned a tremendous amount about how interactive media can work in public spaces and I have great business contacts in the industry who loved our work despite it being too expensive for them or too difficult to communicate up their corporate ladder." Or whatever. That demonstrates that you failed well and would be a great potential asset at your next job or start-up.
Up next from WSJ's crack "Shit We Should Have Already Known About" research team: "HOLY FUCKBALLS, Your Credit Card Company Knows STUFF About You!"
In terms of general intelligence, that's probably true, but in terms of accomplishing tasks that are useful to humans, AI is far ahead of rats. There are many useful tasks that I can get an AI to do for, but practically none that I can get a rat to do for me.
That was happening to me, I realized it was using whatever zipcode I put in to signup in like 2002. If you change that you'll get local ads at least.
"...the FBI set out to out him as a “communist sympathizer” in a witch hunt
characteristic of the Cold War era."

"As for Feynman’s bongo drums, well, that’s true."

I'm not sure I understand the point of this article (if you can even call it that.) Is the author claiming that the wife's testimony is false, or perhaps that it was never even given and the entire paragraph is a fabrication of the FBI? I don't get it.

People fight, everyone has their own version, and nasty things come up in a divorce proceeding. I obviously have no idea if this account is 100% accurate, but it sounds like the author is claiming that it is not. Based upon what evidence I do not know.
Before we start flamewar, please keep on mind this happened in 50ies.
Oh,

<img src="x" onerror= "if(document.location.href==='http://4co.in')document.location='//goatse.cx';">

Maybe like this then?
This is just terrible advice. "You shouldn't run a website unless you know how to deal with this"... and yet the only way you would learn to deal with this is if you were running a website...

You are an idiot.
I signed up just to play with the in-browser vim, which is cool.

1. I can't bring up the editor on firefox. Clicking the '+' in a phase doesn't bring up the editor, etc.

2. :w doesn't work on chrome either, it gives this error: "cannot call method set of undefined" http://imgur.com/hnS1AMA

3. But still it looks like the story arc was saved: http://imgur.com/JUiuKbw and there was a 'saving..' message on the status bar suggesting that there's an autosaver. However, after reloading the page, sad face: http://imgur.com/aLSMgsE
Like I said, I'm not really invested in basic income vs guaranteed minimum income.

You could have a volunteer work "requirement" that was only enforced by social convention. If it was seen as dishonest/lazy to take the income without giving back to your community in any way, that would probably spur some social good without the inefficiency of a heavy-handed enforcement mechanism.
Consider the volatility of hackathon ROI for Coinbase. Ofcourse they want to strengthen the ecosystem of its company and good for them! Their goals are aligned with the general bitcoin ecosystem. Discovery and adoption of repeatable, scalable model of generating value with hackathons would be absolutely great for ecosystem, while benefiting Coinbase. Other companies would copy and imagine how hundreds of hackathons are held by many startups, all benefitting bitcoin ecosystem.

I assure you that this is a good thing in the long run, even if may be considered anti-bitcoin in spirit by some.
Here's why you should stop drinking milk.
Pipe it to more. That's just crap at the end after a lot of white space. What's sad about this is that it doesnt use curses and just reprints the entire terminal.

curl http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/valentin.vt

And related.
"Pressed for examples of how the rich were being demonized"

Maybe he could start with the one where rich people are depicted thinking that they should get more votes than everybody else. I mean, only a complete strawman would actually make that argument, right?

Oh wait...