skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually the scarcity economy which prevents us from determining which is which. Because we need to work to get the basic resources needed for living, there is a huge incentive to do whatever sells rather than actually makes things better.

I am neither advocating nor rejecting a basic income as a solution, but you can use it as a thought experiment to consider this. If people didn't need to work, why would they do things that consume resources and make us less happy?
Or use the re-arm mechanism (for XP, it gives a total of 120 days). The desktop background after install of those VMs is a text wall of how to do that :)
Yeah, I think you're right. A bunch of popular terms have precipitous, unexplained drops in Q3. Still, even if you ignore Q3, there's still been a drastic drop.
P.S. Ask everyone who like CppCat to leave a review here: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/8edc3425-8e8e-...
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http://annualletter.gatesfoundation.org/#section=myth-three
When's the last time you bought a cremation urn?
Spanish is not a language with "relatively few speakers". According to http://www.ethnologue.com/statistics/size and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_..., it is #2, ahead of English.

German and French (#11 and #17, at worst) aren't small, either, and have the benefit of having lots of rich speakers.
In some previous sales their servers got overloaded and people ended up being unable to grab the game, and forgot to come back.

I guess that's why they now make it this way
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That's a completely unsupported assertion. Why does that undermine his claim? Why does seeking further evidence of wrongdoing mean he's not a whistleblower?
Google and Apple are paying for the stops now.
As a game developer, I make games that I want to play; I make them for myself. It's nice that sometimes other people want to play them too.
That might be a too-generous interpretation. They could also be bad at business, which is pretty common. With some people it's more, "Hey, there's a pile of money in this account. I like money! Why don't I take some."

The separation of accounts is very much a learned set of disciplines. Some never learned it, and some just don't get it.
The median programmers it attracts to write it.
The circumstances are now better than they were ten years ago. Software has improved.
There's some bands like
wilderness survival(http://www.wildernesssurvivalmusic.com)
that have always given away their music. Perhaps, this is how things will work going forward.
I think the fact he was contacting journalists in December about information he had yet to take (he said he started taking documents in April) shows he had a single purpose to take documents illegally to expose what the NSA was doing. That's borderline spying if you ask me. It's not like he got hired and after several months realizes something wasn't right. He had a specific purpose in mind before even getting there.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/edward...

"By last December, Snowden was contacting reporters, although he had not yet passed along any classified information. He continued to give his colleagues the “front-page test,” he said, until April."

"Asked about those conversations, NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines sent a prepared statement to The Post: “After extensive investigation, including interviews with his former NSA supervisors and co-workers, we have not found any evidence to support Mr. Snowden’s contention that he brought these matters to anyone’s attention."

I will always contend what he did was reckless and subverted the job the intelligence community was doing at the time. Unless you were living under a rock, you already knew the NSA was getting out of control. Wired's article in Feb of 2013 highlighted the new NSA facility and its growing capabilities:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
> Edward Snowden, July 2013

That's hardly evidence those governments are running him as an intelligence asset.

> It's also nice that Snowden, a guy who seems to be pretty forthcoming with his opinions, has not made a single comment about any of the well documented cases of civil rights abuses in Russia.

There's something to be said for not wanting to get kicked out of the one country to grant asylum. Again, hardly makes him a spy for them.
HOLY COW THAT IS SO FUN.
Probably not much. If ubuntu didn't exist, most of those installations would just be some other free distribution.
The similarities between how people act within a firm (where a 'firm' is basically any sort of corporation, partnership, or similar economic entity) and within an ideal communist society are not a coincidence: a communist society is essentially just one very large firm.

(Aside: The core problem with communism is that a nation much larger than the optimal firm size. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socially_optimal_firm_size)

But I think it shows a gross misunderstanding of both capitalism and communism to say something like "Our economy is firmly based on communist actions and the capitalists exploit this". It's not. Both concepts are very modern inventions, and the psychology of how people act within a firm (regardless of its size) is based on how people act within family units and bands: based on working towards shared goals and loose sense of reciprocity.

It's not a coincidence that money is not normally used between family members: people don't normally buy things off their family, but receive them as gifts/favours and then are expected to give similar value gifts/favours in the future (a gift economy). That's the psychology that the firm re-uses, and it predates both capitalism and communism.
Then perhaps it is time to start looking for an alternative economic system. I've been developing a framework to explore new economic systems for several years. http://babblingbrook.net

There are two pressures in society. One pushing in the direction you say and another pushing towards a post scarcity economy. Which will prevail is difficult to say, but I suspect that in the short term the status-quo definitely have an advantage, but in the long term they will most likely lose.

The reason is due to a little known theory called non equilibrium thermodynamics, which essentially states that if the reconfiguring of a system (an atom, a cell, a solar system, a hurricane, society etc...) can produce more entropy in the universe, then given the opportunity, it will do that.

A moribund restrictive society that inhibits innovation creates less entropy than one where everyone is free to innovate, investigate and have fun in ways that expend energy. This doesn't mean that this will automatically happen, in the same way that biological evolution uses chance to produce more adapted species, so do all forms emergent complexity due to non equilibrium thermodynamics (evolution is just one organising principle). Also, it needs to be possible for the system to organise in this way. Societies organising principle is its socio-economic system. We have had several in the past, such as a monarchic command economy, but today the most successful is free market democracy. There is no reason to presume that this is the best one. Free market democracy became possible due to several inventions and innovations, such as coins, the printing press and debt. Recently we have invented the internet and this makes many new systems possible.

I've written a lot more on my theory page. http://babblingbrook.net/page/theory.

Sorry if this is poorly written. I have just bashed it out and would like to write more, but I have to go and get my daughter from grandmas so I don't have time...
I'm on a campus network that reverse proxies all HTTP traffic. The service shows my internal 10.x.x.x IP. Just a heads-up that you might want to fix your handling of X-Forwarded-For headers.
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Except death. Don't kill yourselves kids...
I wouldn't trust Mt Gox to be competent to run a bank. But their Magic the Gathering background makes me trust their honesty more. What scam artist is going to start out there?
I don't think that will ever happen. Anything more than primitive enhancement is extremely complicated and difficult. We will likely get strong AI and have a singularity first. Then AI will either kill us all or solve all our problems for us.
`wit/datetime` does parse both absolute dates like "17th Feb", "feb 27" or "13/02", and relative dates like "tomorrow". If you find a date that is not parsed that's a bug.
It seems to have balanced out.

The first comment was better off downvoted -- it seemed like you expressly came into the discussion just to insult the artist, which is just irritating.

The second comment doesn't seem to have negative karma at this point (it's not terribly insightful -- you don't back anything up, but it's not otherwise bad).

And this comment here is rightly trending a bit negative -- "why did you downvote my comment" threads aren't worth much.
That's a normal / forward proxy (transparent most likely)
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One capitalist hybrid which does not distort the market is a free market with a basic income

Yes, it does distort. Why work on a manufacturing line producing required and high-demand materials and equipment when instead you can be creating arts and crafts that very few people would want and adds little to the productive capacity of the economy?

People need to realize that prices are not just a pain in the butt, but they are useful pieces of economic information.
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I think it is when that most-used software is notoriously insecure. Certainly when used as a standalone argument. But hey, minor point :-)
Not sure if that's the route they'll want to go, seeing as how this is supposed to be limited to 25 Hours.
Yes it is! (to me)

Why the buses are the symbols and not the limousines or private planes that executives take to work; and are probably also provided by their respective companies.

It's so strange to me that in this situation the "haves" are such (relative to the aforementioned executives) modestly compensated tech workers.
Have you ever worked or operated a restaurant? Does anybody in your team have experience in the industry?
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I have never heard of this one before but you seem to target US/Canada users (at least for the free part) which is not my case (European).

Also multiplying the apps make everything harder, already teaching most of my family to use/update/check Viber was a long process especially remotely so I prefer to stay on what works fine for now!
Hey, I have a Skype interview for entry-level engineer position with Rakuten on Tuesday next week. If you could send any tips that would be great. So far I have been learning the shugi and the concepts and have been reading up on Mikis vision and watching him speak at various conferences on Youtube.

Other than technical ability and experience is there anything important I might have missed?
awesome! what technology do you use?
How long until they're tagged/useless?

You could say that about most of the subway infrastructure, but the vast majority of the system remains clean. As per the article: "the kiosks can be power-washed".

Also, most public transport riders don't want to touch anything. Wonder how often those screens will be disinfected/cleaned?

I think there are a noisy minority that care about this. The vast majority of people I see are happy to hold onto rails as the train moves. I'm sure the touchscreens work with gloves.
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Can you actually do that? Up-convert from a lossy source so that the file reads that it's 320kbps or whatever, but sounds like its coming out of an old telephone?
Hey, fuck your invisible auto playing video/audio!
"She turned to me and abruptly said that I was not needed as a witness and should leave immediately." -- Police ask you to leave the scene. You don't. You wind up in jail. I've read a lot of these "brutality" stories. The one common ingredient: not doing what the cop says. Police are just trying to do their jobs. If they ask you to leave, just leave. The less gawkers and people meandering around the easier it is for them to do their job. Generally speaking, I'd say that after an accident in which an officer has asked you to move along that it is not a good time to "exercise your rights." Sure you probably have the "right" to stick around and get in the way, but why?
To certain values of 'gracious.' I think part of graciousness as a winner is not to ask the loser to humiliate themselves for you.

If he didn't think that Upstart was a better choice yet still argued for it, that would mean that he had been wasting all of our time.
Some new rules are supposed to take action in Europe and end roaming charges and has been discussed before [1][2] so this might help a lot when it is in place

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5892957
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6339434
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Recording the police doing their job in public in generally legal and is a protected First Amendment activity. Courts keep ruling in favor of recording police. Laws prohibiting it are not constitutional.

>Openly recording the police is prohibited in two states - Illinois and Massachusetts

No, not really.

http://reason.com/archives/2012/04/05/7-rules-for-recording-...

Last week the City of Boston agreed to pay Simon Glik $170,000 in damages and legal fees to settle a civil rights lawsuit stemming from his 2007 felony arrest for videotaping police roughing up a suspect. Prior to the settlement, the First Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that Glik had a “constitutionally protected right to videotape police carrying out their duties in public.” The Boston Police Department now explicitly instructs its officers not to arrest citizens openly recording them in public.

The law in 38 states plainly allows citizens to record police, as long as you don’t physically interfere with their work. Police might still unfairly harass you, detain you, or confiscate your camera. They might even arrest you for some catchall misdemeanor such as obstruction of justice or disorderly conduct. But you will not be charged for illegally recording police.

Twelve states—California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Washington—require the consent of all parties for you to record a conversation.

However, all but 2 of these states—Massachusetts and Illinois—have an “expectation of privacy provision” to their all-party laws that courts have ruled does not apply to on-duty police (or anyone in public). In other words, it’s technically legal in those 48 states to openly record on-duty police.

....

Fortunately, judges and juries are soundly rejecting these [anti-police recording] laws. Illinois, the state with the most notorious anti-recording laws in the land, expressly forbids you from recording on-duty police. Early last month an Illinois judge declared that law unconstitutional, ruling in favor of Chris Drew, a Chicago artist charged with felony eavesdropping for secretly recording his own arrest. Last August a jury acquitted Tiawanda Moore of secretly recording two Chicago Police Internal Affairs investigators who encouraged her to drop a sexual harassment complaint against another officer. (A juror described the case to a reporter as “a waste of time.”) In September, an Illinois state judge dropped felony charges against Michael Allison. After running afoul of local zoning ordinances, he faced up to 75 years in prison for secretly recording police and attempting to tape his own trial.
necenzurat you've been hellbanned for quite a while
It works on WINE, but I didn't install it through WINE but through dual boot, but I can play it in Ubuntu 13.10.

Just open a terminal, type "wine", hit space and drag and drop the DKII.exe after it and hit ENTER. That at least works here.

The top system bar of Ubuntu stays showing (with the date and speaker icons etc), but that doesn't bother me that much, and can possibly be hidden I think (but my wine-fu is lacking).
Dipshit article from someone who clearly has just installed osx.
I feel like this article is just another aspect of the bubble. We have people on the sidelines-- intelligent people, but unaware of what the "tech" industry is actually doing-- cheering on something they hardly understand.

Look, Google is a closed-allocation company. So, I believe, are Apple and Amazon and probably Facebook. Socially, we're stuck in the 1980s. If people at the 99th percentile of technical literacy are still stuck mindlessly churning tickets in closed-allocation environments-- note that basic research funding has fallen off a cliff in the past 30 years-- and raising VC is still more about playing a feudal reputation economy than anything remotely approaching excellence, then what are most of the world's 7.1 billion people going to be able to contribute to this brave new world? Nothing. They'll have no leverage, nor the resources to learn what they need to learn because they'll have to spend all their time on basic survival. The only thing that seems to await the majority, barring some unforeseen social or economic right angle (the long-term odds of which are quite high) is joblessness.

We can't even deliver basic healthcare to middle-class Americans anymore, and here we have the gall to say that humanity's approaching some technotopia?
> You dont need to do any of this. Walking away from a problem and doing something else ends up in faster more elegant solutions every time than avoiding distractions on the machine.

I am not talking about what I do when I take breaks, I'm talking about keeping those breaks from turning from "a short 5 minute break" to "oh shit I just spent four hours in a wikipedia rabbit hole about nuclear energy and now the day is over and I'm tired and my work isn't done".
Good to know! brb, telling this to my friends. All of them. Which is 3.
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I came here to say "you're only as strong as your weakest link", but I have to admit this is plausible as well. However, from a hacker perspective, what difference does it make?

Social engineering tactics are widely known to be very effective in a lot of cases, and the NSA is no different. Snowden was accused in the past of trying to do this [1], although from his perspective (as well as mine, for that matter) he was probably just trying to explore the limits/boundaries of the systems he worked with [2].

I agree regarding the lack of details, and that this is probably a false report. That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if Snowden actually gave it a shot - if you can find someone actually willing to just hand you their credentials, why wouldn't you? Although I understand they're trying to make Snowden look worse with this, I don't see that it does - if anything, it highlights his strengths as a security researcher, while simultaneously showing that the NSA is susceptible to the same social engineering flaws as have been demonstrated elsewhere.

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[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/us/cia-warning-on-snowden-...

[2] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131017/15530424921/snowde...
I've heard that Mandarin is the only language many people regret having learned.
Both you and the person you are replying to have taken personal anecdotes and expanded them out to decide that America has either too few or too many cops.
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My 7yo daughter captured the essence of programming
"the CPU/GPU latency cost is going to be close to the original CPU evaluation time."

Have you looked into HSA architecture that helps to remove this latency? I think this is the direction Intel will move to in a few years.
Thank you. It's difficult to get your point across when somebody takes your words, twists them, and forces you into a whole separate argument based on those misconstrued words.
The most plausible candidate I heard is actually called Mike.
Could move them to less sensitive positions, even in that case. Although it occurs to me that traffic duty might be such a position.
I'm curious where most HNers would draw the line between Doom's "Get 3 levels for free, pay us $50 for the rest" and something like Candy Crush's "Play the whole game for free, pay us $x for any x to get more out of it."

I'm playing a bit of devil's advocate here, because I am very much against in-app purchases. But, when you think about it, you can play Dungeon Keeper Mobile for free, or you can pay something like $20 (or $10, or $5, maybe even $1) to get more out of it (boosts, etc).

So where does the issue lie? I here a lot of people saying "Well they reel you in with a free app and then make you pay for it!" but isn't that exactly how shareware works?
Given my biased and prejudicial opinion of EA, I haven't ruled that out as a possibility.

On the other hand, EA is very large, so I also cannot rule out the possibility that its left hand is facepalming even while its right hand is giving all gamers everywhere the longest, fattest middle finger yet seen in the world of microtransaction-driven gaming.
> 87% of Airbnb hosts in New York share only the home in which they live

Does this mean they're admitting that 13% of Airbnb hosts in New York are sharing other properties?

I was under the impression that Airbnb strongly denied such people existed.
Guys/gals,

I posted this for a friend: https://twitter.com/coderholic

He's the guy behind Lighbox.com which Facebook acquired, really awesome guy!

I guess he'll be wondering where all the sudden traffic is coming in from!
I don't hate cars. I hate when people buy unnecessarily large, unsafe, and environmentally irresponsible cars as a status symbol.
I would agree with that. The problem I have is that I fear that hyperbole promotes an attitude that causes people to act as though the extreme exists. I hope you understand my meaning.
We're getting a little off topic here, but where Libertarianism ended up has always made me a little sad. When I ran across some Libertarians manning a table on my college campus in the late 80s, they were such reasonable and sincere people. Now, most of what I see is either the political equivalent of a 14-year-old shouting, "You're not my DAD" or oligarch-fluffers who seem to be perfectly ok with stepping over the bodies of the elderly in the street as long as the Koch brothers get what they want.

It's definitely not the Libertarian movement I dreamed of in college.
> dynamic languages evolve faster

It has nothing to do with dynamic vs static, all with process. Go is statically typed yet evolving fast. Javascript is weak and dynamic yet evolving quite slowly.
Totally agree, but if the person who has an issue with your service, their first move is to blog and submit the post to HN, then likely they are going to be a shitty customer to deal with.

As for cherry picking that quote from the comments, that is fair. I did not read his sexist diatribe, i just read his opening statement and concurred.
It is ridiculous. Do you realize that "regulation" is not really a solution? If the problem is "I cannot trust these guys", then "trust instead those guys (who are even more opaque and more powerful)" is a joke. If we cannot trust some random competing companies with our money, then the last thing we want is to trust one gigantic monopoly with the thickest walls and all the guns in the world.

Real solution: spreading the trust. Either store your coins on your devices, or spread them in multisignature scripts (M-of-N) between your own trusted friends. Even if some of your friends defect or lose their keys, you are still safe. That's the real security solution, regardless of your political outlook. Just saying "lets vote for some cops to enforce stuff" is only making initial problem of trust bigger, not smaller.
I don't see a "DSL" here. Do you mean "interface"?
I assume it's the use of all capital letters in your title.