skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on every single piece of study, this is categorically false. The only people that have benefited, most recently since the credit crisis, was the rich. That means that the "rising tide" barely lifts poor peoples' boats, while it raises rich people's boats significantly. If that were the case, then do you still think that trickle down economics is worthwhile? Or is there a more efficient allocation scheme where poor people benefit just as much as rich people?
Or it might be useful to do te exact opposite: analyze your writing to determine where you are using obscure words when there are common words which mean the exact same thing.
Having used literally ever alternative, Broccoli has been a joy to use so far, can wait to port all my projects to it.

It manages complexity really well.
I have thrown many known failure scenarios at it, and it handled them all without a hitch.
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column: create columns from text input
tr: translate/substitute/delete input
join: like a database join but for text
comm: file comparison like a db join
paste: put lines in a file next to each other
rs: reshape arrays
jot: generate data
expand: replace spaces and/or tabs
time: track how long a task takes to run
watch: execute something on a schedule in realtime
xargs: execute something on all inputs
iftop: visually show network traffic
htop: show system stats more powerfully
xxd: manipulate files in hex
mtr: powerful traceroute replacement
mdfind: osx find replacement that uses spotlight
brew: osx package manager
df: disk usage
du: disk usage
dig: dns queries
host: dns queries
man ascii: lookup your ascii
sshfs: mount a directory through ssh
wget: get w’s
tmux: a better screen
pushd: push your pwd to a stack
popd: pop pwd off your stack
lsof: godlike
ncat: use this instead of nc
fuser: kills locking processes
vim: attack yourself
tac: cat in reverse
rename: change spaces to underscores in names
open .: in osx, open finder in the current dir
lsmod: show kernel modules
printf: change the format of output
timeout: execute something and kill it soon after
disown: protect a job from disconnect
fc: edit your last command in your editor and execute it
sudo !!: repeat last command with sudo
tee: send output to stdout as well
pgrep: greps through processes
pkill: kills processes based on search
fmt: text formatter
bc: an interactive calculator language
apropos: info on commands
strace: the uber debug tool
man units: interesting
pstree: shows processes in a…well…tree
ddate: wtf
zgrep: grep within compressed files
zless: look at compressed files
readlink: read values of links
atop: another top
split: break a file into pieces
dd: disk writing
ndiff: show differences in mmap scans
ss: show apps using the internet
A smaller and increasingly skilled group of organized criminals. Not that good IMHO.
IMO "informational" ads are few and far between. Most ads are for manipulating people in some way. Not to mention ads for complete garbage like scams and malware.
I believe App Engine actually has specific handling for files you identify as being static. This bypasses much of the dynamic overhead.
I don't know much about light pens, but it seems from the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pen that they are primarily intended for use with CRT monitors, which limits their utility nowadays.

Touch screens are obviously very much modern devices, and, though they're far from ideal as the only input device, I can buy that, when used in conjunction with a keyboard, they are a good replacement for a mouse or trackpad; but don't they suck up power in a way that mice and trackpads don't?
Both of those are modifiers as well, and could fall victim to the same overuse. The only surefire remedy is picking more words that describe a variety of degrees of tiredness.

Tired, exhausted, washed up, worn out, fatigued, beat, weary, run down, depleted...
But the 'superior solution' is... well, 'sort of', from the economic point of view in this case: it has costs that are, for some people, higher than those of the alternative.
I also noticed this in my undergrad. In my second semester gen English, a 5 page minimally researched paper was enough to get people pretty upset, while in my hard science courses, it wasn't uncommon to turn in 20-30 pages every couple weeks.
Ask: Augment freelancing with offshore help?
Two part question. First, any freelancers out there had success passing overflow work (QA/Dev) offshore? Second, how have you made this visible to the client, and how did they react?
"The biggest problem we encountered in both games was the "spoiler": The player who was not in a position to win, but was in a position to determine the winner."

I guess you are not a fan of Diplomacy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_(game)), either.

Most, if not all, games of more than two players where players have some free choice eventually boil down to "you can't win it alone. You need help or a blooper from your enemy"

And that is true in sports, too. In any distance running, starting at 800m, athletes collectively make a choice whether to run a fast race or a slow race with a very fast finish. A fast sprinter will not win a fast race, so runners with lower top speed will try to make a fast race. Still, they won't want to be running in the front, they rather have another runner with lower top speed burn energy doing that.

This gets more evident the longer the distance and the larger the advantage of running in the slipstream of an opponent. Road races in cycling are perhaps the ultimate example. If "the peloton" doesn't want you to win, you have to be extremely good _and_ lucky to win.
Only if bets are placed as charitable giving :)
Honestly, I'd probably believe this is just a method for validating sanity of DNS for debugging/troubleshooting, as there are far better ways of going about doing almost anything you could think of as a malicious use of this.
Hmm. Is \w still an extension, not universally supported?
yes, and it's something quite easy to fix.
> "Wealth. Lots of wealth. Yet money wasn't the drive. The drive is simply the desire to achieve great things" ... "make an exit, ...)."

"Money. Lots of money. But it's not about the money. Making great things, like selling a company for money. But it's not about the money."

Who are you/they trying to convince? Nothing wrong with wanting money. But let's be honest, as all your examples are about the money:

* friends around me who made it big

* Stock options have been good for them the day Broadcom was worth $12bn.

* They now enjoy 40 employees working for them and have the good life.

* And the exit they made selling to a big software company.
http://linux.die.net/man/8/ss
Thanks for your answer!
Do you know about any real life application for that problem?
No such thing as wealth hoarding in practical terms. You'd have to keep cash under your mattress to actually be wealth hoarding.

What is popularly perceived to be wealth hoarding (people worth millions/billions) are really doing no such thing. Virtually all of that wealth is invested in one way or another. Stocks, bonds and even savings accounts result in economic value being moved to those who can use it most effectively (i.e., VCs, cities building bridges, companies expanding, etc.).
I wonder what Orwell would think. As mentioned in an article on writing by Orwell, posted here some time ago, didn't he prefer simple constructions such as "very poor" to "destitute"? I wonder if he would think most of the recommendations are actually snobbish and more complex to understand.

Not saying Orwell is right and the article wrong. Just that this kind of recommendations is very subjective (quick, someone find me a replacement for "very subjective"!). A matter of taste, actually, and not all accomplished writers agree on this.
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There is no need to avoid useful words, even if they are used often. The problem is with words that don't change what you say while making it longer.
Because wealth that someone possesses can not be possessed by another person. If one person has 99% of all money in the world, everybody else will have to less to live on. The one person will be able to buy anything else on the world -- thus depleting the others. Or another scenario: Because money is hoarded in few hands, the value of the money goes down ... thus everybody else will loose their wealth.

Things are of course more complicated. But it is a fact, that the resources of the world are limited. Thus if few people hoard things, the others have less ... this effect might come sooner or later, but it will come.
I love that 'painless' is in quotes.
John K's blog [1] is full of great insight on drawing and cartoons. Especially the early posts. This is the John K who gave us Ren and Stimpy
1. http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com
IOS leads
Hey HN iOS devs, launching a new lead gen service specifically for iOS indies. Please give it a look.
9 things I had to think about on my latest data visualisation project
Doge is invading the web (and he's 100% open source JavaScript)
I am impressed they have a distributed CAD/CAM system which lets them share the schematics of the planes construction with all the partners. "Source Code Control" in the 3D CAD space was abysmal, got better in the 3D digital feature space as studios created systems for asset management, and it seems to be solidly implemented by Airbus here : (video link: http://videos.airbus.com/video/dc6bd25e7f3s.html)
We're getting pretty abstract.

I think germany lent the eu its regulatory approach so its definitely got that in common. France's chaotic mix of abstract ideas (egality..), arsenal of widely divergent interpretations of them and populism is closer to the eu's politics.

Germans build roads to have road. The French build roads as an expression of some confusingly abstract political idea.
The key is to learn to write well before becoming a staff writer at the Economist. These guidelines are fine, but all of these nonos have good uses when used appropriately. Some of these guidelines even create imprecision or run counter to general usage.

My father (an ex-English teacher) used to always say something like "concision is rarely wrong, unless it ruins precision."
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It's a pretty big issue because you don't really know what working with them will be like. Weebly does a trial week, which is a good balance of time and commitment.
http://www.sequoiacap.com/grove/posts/akzj/trial-week-our-hi...
> repair teeth

This is not reparing. Repairing would assume that afterwards you've got the same features as before, but replacing nerves and blood vessels with plastic (or in this case, regular tissue) doesn't really provide the same features as before.

I'd like to see much more the possibility to replace teeth with ones you've generated from your own stem cells.
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Agree. But with all the consequences.
If I and you have a work contract and after some months I come to you and say "Well, I am raising my vacation days of a +60" it is obvious that you won't accept without changing also my pay or some other benefits (if not just firing me)

So, if Swiss want to change the part about immigration, it is obvious UE will have to change also the other parts (if not just trashing the whole treat)
I personally would like, and would pay a premium for, a redacted/curated app store experience that would hide all apps that were:

-Shamelessly derivative garbage (flappy birds)

-Manipulative Free-To-Play garbage (candy crush saga)

-Immature garbage (fart apps)

-Misleading Parasitic garbage (e.g. Microsoft Word "Tutorials")

I've come to terms with the fact that Apple and Google can't really keep garbage out of the app store, but I would really love an alternative app store that was garbage free.
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It's not the funding that is the problem.

Europeans have no need for Silicon Valley. Most of Europe is technologically conservative and averse to trying out new stuff, in a way that other audiences are not. Governments will go at great lengths to make sure that the law forbids any entrepreneurial action that threatens the status quo in just about anything. In other words, severe and chronic risk aversion from both the entrepreneurs, their audience and the regulatory environment.

Would companies like Airbnb, Uber, Facebook, Snapchat be ever able to grow if they had targeted Europeans?

How many of you european entrepreneurs here actually target primarily the European market or expect to grow in it?
> might be as anonymous as Tor

Way to set the bar high, bro.

This article appears to be written by someone who feels threatened that his Tor speed will drop if uProxy becomes popular, or by someone who is completely unfamiliar with all of Tor's many pitfalls. As for uproxy, it's still in closed beta and something tells me the author didn't get an invite (or try to get one) before producing his analysis. Nice mobile theme though.
Etymology Online has an interesting description for the word north:

"...possibly ultimately from PIE ner- "left," also "below," as north is to the left when one faces the rising sun..."*

It's pretty much arguing over our ancestors saying "to the left" in reference to the rising sun.
US push to mandate V2V radios – is it a good choice?
/usr/bin/time is really useful, because it has the-v flag which tells you memory and processor usage.
Did you really parse the sentence as "The service has nothing but its own advantages or disadvantages over ???other" with no need to backtrack?

I'm sure that if the author of that sentence doesn't master English yet, (s)he's pretty aware of it, and knowing that no matter what people can more or less understand really helps ensuring that (s)he will try again.
i also tried to use pop/pushd ...tried hard. and never got it integrated into the work flow. however this guy's method has saved me a lot of keystrokes (very handy if one has a few, frequently visited, yet deeply nested, directories): http://jeroenjanssens.com/2013/08/16/quickly-navigate-your-f...
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Your understanding of my point is deeply flawed.

1) Saving in itself does not create jobs, but savers allow for jobs to be created.

2) Not my fundamental statement at all.. My point was that the supply of credit (significantly shrunk due to reasons beyond a few paragraphs) can kill jobs.
You've made this point before and it seems like a good one, but it raises a question. If you don't have a trial period, does that not make it harder to correct mistakes? The barrier to quickly firing someone who (perhaps through no fault of their own) turns out to have been a bad choice is surely higher than allowing a trial to expire or whatnot.

Since bad hires are one of the worst things that can happen and no one is perfect at hiring, I'm curious what you do about this problem. Do you just work harder at getting closer to perfect?

It seems to me that there's always an implicit trial period anyway—the question is how you encode it. The best people, who have many options, won't want to stick around if they made a mistake either, right?
Not often I see tools announced with such a thoroughly researched article. Great stuff!

I guess the problem these build tools are facing is the amount that people have invested in Grunt. There are just /so/ many grunt tasks at this point.
I can't agree with her article. These are legitimate words with their own distinct connotations. Saying "very old" conveys a different idea than saying "ancient".

She's encouraging sensationalist writing where down-to-earth content would often be easier to understand and convey the author's meaning clearer and more accurately.
Off topic: Captain America's throwing form is atrocious. See this for good form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0dXR6EiReY
That is cool and all, but let me explain why I still prefer OTR.

OTR is a library that works with many different clients (pidgin, miranda, irssi etc.). While as far as I know your stuff is pretty much baked in your products. Correct me if i'm wrong please.

And I think that is exactly the problem. I've heard of TextSecure and looked at it, but I never bothered to try it. Because it only seems to work with SMS and MMS (at least that's what it advertizes). Now in Switzerland we have the situation that a single SMS costs still about 10 cents (in USD and CHF).
But since I've got a traffic flat obviously I'd prefer to send messages over the internet. I've used WhatsApp in the past, and it really was a great replacement for SMS. But I've uninstalled it over privacy concerns.

I realize I'm kinda going off-topic, but I will take this chance to tell the people who could fix this mess where my problems are.

- TextSecure is still bound by phone number. So you can't use TOR to hide your identity. Since it's using SMS you can't deny you ever talked to someone. Your ISP can disprove that.

- Again - there is no library to just leverage your protocol, even if it's better than OTR.

Why can't we just have federated XMPP servers that use whispersystems crypto protocol and maybe some XMPP extensions or a custom protocol to push from the XMPP server to cellphones without battery drain.

If I could, I would fix this. But I don't trust my crypto skills. I could never design a secure protocol from scratch. So PLEASE create libraries regular devs can use to make the world a better place. (OTR does this! At least I would think I do have enough knowledge to use libotr correctly.)

Edit: Looking at the TextSecure code there is Push Notification stuff. So does this use SMS or a messaging server on the interwebs? I'm actually confused now.
The great thing about static sites is that it's really easy to put them behind a CDN. Amazon Cloudfront is pay-what-you-use and seems pretty reasonable especially for smallish sites.
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I am a current high school senior who intends to go into the software industry. I'm trying to decide between enrolling in college to pursue a BS in Computer Science or entering directly into the workforce.

My conundrum is this: I intend to seek a front-end engineering job, and am already very competent in front-end technologies. I have a fair number of items on my resume, mostly from personal projects and internships. I anticipate being able to acquire a moderately well-paying ($60,000 to $80,000+) development job after leaving high school. However, I'm also worried that not pursuing a degree will exclude me from certain well-paying jobs, especially later in my career.

I'm also quite worried about the debt load that a degree would require. I anticipate having to take out between $50,000 and $100,000 in loans to finance a degree.

On balance, do you think pursuing a degree will be more lucrative in the long run?
In this case, the rule is just not to use the word "very." I can't think of a single context where "very" doesn't degrade from the semantics and syntax of a sentence. I think this rule is appropriate to any and every style.
Apple and Google shouldn't want a bunch of crap that won't get fifty downloads on their stores.
Never said it was the only part. My point was that when credit dries up, jobs are lost.... i.e., supply causing problems.

Lots of reasons for why credit can dry up, but the idea that jobs are only a function of demand is ludicrous.
If you're freezing to death inside of a computer cluster n-queens will save your life.
> Can anyplace really do the duplication of Silicon Valley as piecemeal?

Categorically the answer is a simple "no". Most of these government sponsored programs are attempts to "inject" life into a system that has basically nothing. AFAIK, there isn't anywhere in the world where this has successfully worked. SV is SV purely because of capitalism.

Interesting discussion on this: http://steveblank.com/2014/01/20/bigger-in-bend-building-a-r...
This is irrelevant. You don't want a lossless format for web video - the size is too excessive.
The point is: take it to the author, not those standing around you on the bus.
But that's a different problem altogether, being able to do my own code in my own language and making things I share properly accessible and usable to everyone.

Also, you should note the recommendation I quote is not about adding the ability to use non latin alphabet, this is about removing that ability. It's been there for over a decade and I don't see that rendering libraries developers brainless, so I would say your point doesn't apply.
I find such tips handy for writing. Don't use "very"; avoid starting a sentence with "I" [1]; don't end words with "ly"; avoid "to be"; etc.

An excellent summary of such tips is Stephen King's On Writing. While the bulk of it is interesting (autobiography), the 16-page section "Toolbox" is a fantastic collection of writing guidance. Highly recommended, to the point that I look for opportunities to mention it.

[1] - I know. Selective breaking of rules has its place too.
Why Free Plans Don't Work
":( what was the last straw?"
"Being told that people should be shamed for suggesting certain ideas."

While not surprising behavior for Hacker News, is there any more context to this?

I'm assuming it's related to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7242845
Did Apple try to buy Tesla? Are they working on something together?
Heroku-style config management with capistrano and chef
over 10 years ago the Israeli gov started to invest in tech research to spurn more VC funding in certain industries. The EU is only starting to do this now.
This is almost ironic, since the people who install this are the ones who are conscientious enough to need it the least.
I know of multiple providers who have gotten allocations in the last month (up to /19) and will be requesting another one myself in the near future. ARIN has plenty of IPs.
They're not as big as the Valley on web brands, PCs, or mobile, but they're as big or bigger in other areas

I think a lot of people don't realize that Silicon Valley doesn't just dominate in a couple tech niches. It dominates software (46% of investments), biotech (32%) cleantech, IT services (43%) and (shockingly) media and entertainment (40% according to PwC, but even I don't understand this one). There is an entire ecosystem of companies outside of tech that tech people don't even know exists (I know multiple friends starting biotech and cleantech startups that basically don't interact with the rest of the tech world).

More venture capital goes to Silicon Valley every year than the rest of the nation combined and VCs are quickly diversifying into other areas simply because tech startups are becoming so cheap and they have money burning a hole in their collective pockets. And it is only getting worse - SV investing is growing faster than the market as a whole - up nearly a $1 billion this year alone.

If the money keeps pouring in, we may come to see SV (or rather, the Bay Area) quickly extend its domination into other areas like say, automotive (well, if Tesla ever gets off the ground).
That might be easy for you to say, but for me (I'm another programmer with zero drawing ability), even being able to copy a simple line drawing (like a cartoon) would be quite satisfying.
But I think there lies the problem. If you leave it to "someone" or to "some entity" then you get a one-sided impartial judgement of what constitutes "good".

Your list is full of big hits. This means that the market responds positively to that. I know people who hates Facebook and would never use any form of Social Media. I respect their view but it doesn't make them "right" as far as the big picture is concerned.
Aside: let's be careful not to pretend that temp-to-perm hiring is any kind of norm. The overwhelming majority of hires are hired conventionally, after an interview, with an immediate full-time offer. That includes "employee #1" hires.
Uncommon? I use 18 of these on a regular basis.
It doesn't proxy all traffic, you can verify it only proxies traffic from Siri that begins with the command "GooglePlex" - Ajay Patel (a developer)
SVG For Fun and Phishing
Leveraging the SVG file format for phishing attacks.
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