skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The whole point of inflation is to reflect the natural rate of economic growth and to discourage economically inefficient hoarding. Runaway inflation is of course a bad thing, but no inflation at all, or deflation, is just as bad in economic terms.

Consider where that initial cash came from. You worked your ass off between 18 and 60 and you got a bunch of cash in exchange. Some you spent on consumption, some you saved for use later. In fact, cash is just 'tokens for exchange later' where later is a time window that varies from 1 hour (hand-to-mouth) to 50+ years (surplus productive capacity people).

Wouldn't it be great if you could use your tokens for their promised exchange-value through your retirement and see those years of hard work payoff? In fact, multiply, because as you said the population grows, more goods are produced, and your cash tokens buy more and more of those goods.

It's a great way to retire. Unfortunately for the retired, they are on fixed incomes (pensions) in an inflationary world: those people get SCREWED to the extent where they can't afford heating in some US States.

These are people who worked hard all their lives and just wanted to live off the proceeds, the surplus they had generated.

Think of the chi^H^H^H grandparents!
"And you know what, on $10 a day you probably don't have an iPhone or an Android handset."

Most people I know who earn ~10$ a day have smartphones with Android or WP.
From the guidelines "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
News coverage tends to be topical, sensational, and lazy.

There's tons of detailed information about this case on this website: http://transformnowplowshares.wordpress.com/

That website includes PDFs of all the legal motions, memos, declarations and arguments made in the case: http://transformnowplowshares.wordpress.com/legal-arguments/

Reviewing these documents, we see that the 3 defendants were initially indicted for "malicious mischief" on 7-Aug-2012, under 18 U.S. Code § 1363. But a superceding indictment filed on 4-Dec-2012 upgraded the charges to "sabotage" under 18 U.S. Code § 2155.
A closed timelike loop under quantum mechanics is essentially an automatic fixed-point solver, in the same way that a stable quantum state in space is a coherent superposition. So yes, the story is kind of off, but in spirit it's also kind of dead on.
Erlang anyone?

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920021452.do
A comment [1] I made 829 days ago on Whatsapp

Its biggest plus is that it is cross platform. They have apps for Blackberry, Android, iOS and Symbian. So you can talk with almost anybody out there. At least in my home country, most people have Blackberry/Symbian. Imagine having a group conversation with people on different platforms and in different countries.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3231053
Far better:

git commit -a -m 'Work in progress'

Switch to other branch, do work on it. When you come back to the branch,

git reset --soft HEAD^

It's far less volatile than stash, and far better at keeping WIP in the right place when things get so hectic that you have abandoned work on more than one branch.

Stash is only really safe to use for very short-lived uses, such as "stash/pull/unstash"
Way to abuse the word "hacking".
but many of them were stunt pilots

Lincoln Beachey thought it was a dream
to go up to heaven in a flying machine
The machine broke down and down he fell
thought he'd go to heaven but he went to
Lincoln Beachey thought it was a dream
...

RIP Lincoln Beachey, drowned in SF Bay 1915

[0] http://www.radiolab.org/story/159748-loop-loop/
This might be up your alley: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7254884
It surprises me that there people still using WhatsApp given its bad security, and having to pay for it after a year?
What keeps people from switching to other alternatives? Doesn't Telegram/Textsecure etc. offer the same, while being completely free?

But I guess Facebook acquiring them explains it: I don't use Facebook either, so now I'm even less inclined to use WhatsApp.
Is it really vulgar to desire money and take it as indicator of success, or are you holding people here to rather high standards?
Seems like hacker news becomes a news feed about tech and things that interest people. Not totally hacking but after some time, I just got hooked up to the trends that they post here.
Yep, that'd probably be it. You could listen out for SMS (on particular port), TCP and UDP connections if I remember correctly.
"is not unheard of" vs "probably"?
My company pays for the trip. This makes it even more unfortunate if you don't get a ticket: It not only costs you a good conference, but also a free trip to san francisco. ;)
Getting into a car which may or may not be well-maintained[1] with a driver whose competence I know nothing about is disturbing enough. Getting into a plane (where the failure mode on shoddy maintenance is falling out of the sky) with an unknown pilot seems like a very courageous move.

In the Yes, Prime Minister sense.

[1] I once had a boss that picked up $200 cars. He asked me to move it out of the company car park for him once, warning that the brakes didn't work and I'd need to use the handbrake to stop.
I managed to get replacement motherboards for both under warranty, including engineer call out.

You'd almost think the virus shipped with the computer, the way they responded.
Funny, I've been doing the same thing. The hardest (well, most tedious) part has been figuring out the exact distributions used for the various random parameters.
From the makers of X-Plane: http://www.x-plane.com/x-world/hardware/seeker-avionics/

(I don't fly and know nothing about this but it sounds pretty cool)
what makes whatsapp so attractive already ?

I don't understand how it really avoid the SMS cost... I mean you can't have a data plan across the entire world...
How Brightpod increased visitor to trial conversion from 5% to 9.7%?
You are confusing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28programmer_subcultur... with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28computer_security%29
The problem with low orbit satellites is the backbone connection speed. The way I understand it, the individual connections to each subscriber isn't really a problem. But say you have a satellite serving 10k clients at one time. If you have a service with any scale, that's realistic. To provide a good quality service to those users you need to get at least a 200 gigabit connection to an Internet backbone. Getting that over fiber isn't difficult, but over air, not sure if the technology is there yet.

I am so looking foreword to satellite Internet, mainly because my new home is off the grid, and I have no Internet at all there. The best option I found so far gives me 25 gigs per month for $70. I would gladly pay $140 for 50+ gb but that's not even an option. Unlimited, fast, and ubiquitous Internet would be amazing, but in my research I have yet to see any company that's even close to offering that.

If any one can recommend a satellite Internet company with high or now bandwidth caps, I am all ears. My budget is something under $200/m for unlimited or 200+gb/m.
Thinking about thinking but not finding empirical evidence to validate that thinking. There's no science regarding the mind. Nor is there science distinguishing between consciousness and unconscious thought.
It will be some time tomorrow, we disabled for the launch to reduce the number of moving pieces changing at once.
The Hacker in Hacker News refers to the subculture, not specifically to security. See http://hack.org/faq-hacker.html.
With $16B WhatsApp acquisition, jankoum becomes 2nd w00w00 billionaire.
At this time accounts are only for site administrators.
Pretty sure it's a typo (speaking as a Brit).

In the mother of all pedantic pull requests, I've created https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/pull/77
Has it made any revenue at all? Let alone 1B?

Are they even getting more users?
Yes, there are autopilots. They vary in complexity from just keeping the wings level, to altitude, vertical speed, and heading holds, to fully-programmable routes.
Didn't knew that... And i use SQL Server for a long time (mostly GUID's though). Thx
I've been reading this site for over four years now and it was never good, maybe with the exception of the odd Erlang day.
What to use instead of WhatsApp, Viber, Line, et al. [0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP
I'm an American that lives and works in Europe for the last 5 years or so. I'm a programmer, founded a couple of start-ups, etc. There's a few things that I've learned:
1) Europeans respect and value American experience and perspectives in business.
2) American companies do not value overseas experience.
3) California is very isolated. Here in Europe we have a lot of interaction with consultants/etc from the East Coast of the u.s., but California feels very far away and isolated.
4) The VC industry is still pretty primitive here, but the start-up talent is immense. Especially Berlin and Switzerland.
Other than cost of housing are there very big differences with Sedona in say, grocery or {furnishings, restaurants, car, gas} prices?
Equipment to move the control surfaces automatically, I'm guessing. (I think the most common setup is to have a motor move the trim controls, and I'm not sure ultralights even have trim.)
You could use also Apollo, ActiveMQ's successor, which comes with an MQTT adapter and runs on the JVM. Has the added benefit of supporting other messaging protocols as well. I'm not sure how well mosquitto would hold up, do you have any experience with it?

As an aside, MQTT has a constrained device optimized sibling MQTT-SN, which works over UDP and supports sleepy nodes, etc. Unfortunately that one's stuck in licensing hell and does not yet have good tooling, at least last time I checked.
> This requires you to be a commercial pilot flying under part 135 of the FARs as opposed to the more relaxed part 91 (general aviation).

This is something I plan to do if/when I burn out on programming. Though I guess there is always the saying: "how do you become a millionaire?" "become a billionaire and start an airline."
Confirmation bias.

Apple did plenty of 'standing still' back when Steve Jobs was around.
Is it even real money that those companies are exchanging? I can't believe it's same stuff I use to buy bread.
Same technical measure was used by an online PVR company in Australia four years ago. Alas I can't remember the name. It didn't work out well for them.
How to check if this is the first run for the android app
That's the key of Firefox OS. Use well known technology and try to go into these markets.
Making Constructors of a class Protected in Java
I can't find the link now, but I remember some discussion of cheap Chinese-made Android phones selling for single-digit numbers of dollars. At the end of the day, it's just like any other piece of electronics. It's not like Android phones are made out of more expensive raw materials than dumbphones. They're just newer. So I think that eventually the third world will be swimming in smartphones-- probably a lot sooner than you think.

Whether or not that impacts your business model depends on what the business model is, of course. I'm sure a few more Symbian apps will be cranked out as retailers blow out their stock of old inventory. Very poor people will probably hold on to old phones for years, as well. But phones do break, and batteries die after a few years, so a decade from now Symbian will be just an obscure memory, like the Acorn Archimedes or the ZX Spectrum.
I would assume the actuators to actually control the plane. I doubt ultralights are fly by wire.
Since the content is promoted by the users, Hacker News is what the majority of its readers wants it to be.

People that are interested in pure hacking stuff already found better sources, like good subreddits.
That won't make people change that hard bought handsets.
Git VS SVN.... Bash It out
I am setting up a new project. So what are the pro's and con's. What should I use?
I don't really see a difference between now and a year ago. Between nowadays and four years ago yes, maybe. But I don't recall HN being more tech-oriented one year ago than it is now.

Actually, this same complaint pops up like every two months at max and if it were true each time HN would be TechCrunch by now.
I love RMS's chopsticks anecdote about hacking. It further drives the point that a hack doesn't always have to be on computer software.

http://www.stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html
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Low end Android phones are approaching feature phones in price.
I've been using it also for more than a year, it's a really nice and clean/simple app.

The downside is of course that none of my friends used this app yet because it's not as widespread as Whatsapp. So, i simply installed Threema myself on the phones of the people i communicate with 90% of the time, my best friend and some family.

The problem with free products like Whatsapp is that 'you' are the product being sold. I'd rather pay 2€ for some privacy.
I found it interesting that he is an older founder (37, from the article)and so a bit of a counterweight to "you have to be in your teens/early twenties to get funded/build a winning product" myth.
Oh gosh this dude never got it in the first place. I wonder what he thinks YC is.
I live in Germany and must be a very poor soul as I only know one person with WhatsApp and dozens with Viber.
Use stash for easier rebasing and/or pull --merge.

git stash
git pull --rebase origin master
git stash pop
I've been lurking on HN now for more than 2years, and the change OP is referring about is totally true...

I don't care about boring news coming from TC/Mashable/... Now HN is only about:

-Facebook
-blogging shit
-why no women in IT ? bouhouhou we are all macho jerk.. common grow a pair white knights, smells like virgins over here.
-"How Xcompany raised x$$, and why you should definitively not listen to these advices..."
-"Hey guys i'm a rich mofos working in IT AMA..."

1. Go back on reddit
2. Why so many Commercial/marketing bullshitters ?
http://openwhatsapp.org - One example of how powerful the community around WhatsApp has been. Certainly loved it when I was on my Nokia N9.
Really? The viral growth & popularity of Whatsapp is due to early J2ME versions rather than the widespread adoption of Android.
I think it's the latter but maybe I'm mistaken.
High Confidence vs High Accuracy Software Estimates
I'm curious: how do you know that they're removed?
AWS Practical Security: Resource management using IAM Roles
Rest in peace. Thanks for Rake and everything. :(
J2ME is not Nokia specific.
Ukraine protests: Before and after photos from Kiev's battle zone
This post is like 6 months early

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

>On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

>If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

On the other hand, I think there is at least 10% chance that this is a troll/joke though..
To be fair, it was found that the rest of Silicon Valley (Google, Adobe, Microsoft etc) were doing the same thing.
I think there is some merit to this observation.
The hacker definition have been stretched more and more, while the posts here still fall within the sites definition of news, there seems to have been a shift to a higher focus on hacking your startup X's round A|B|C|... and less about hacking the technology.

tl;dr: I think there have been a shift from hacking the technology to hacking the finance.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes
Maybe because these things simply don't matter.

Worse than that, they distract from things that do.

Bike shed?
It's worth remembering that this board was originally called Startup News. Acquisitions, fundraising is still relevant to that intent at least.
How are you playing on an iOS device? Bluetooth keyboard?
You appear to be uninformed about WhatsApp: http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/06/why-we-dont-sell-...
Android killed J2ME, this is where all Java developers moved to.

Oracle still tries to push J2ME, but the opportunity is gone.
Depends what you're deploying. I use a lot of puppet to deploy openstack, which means interacting heavily with community modules for things like mysql and rabbitmq. The situation will be identical for Chef (but replace 'module' with 'recipe)'. If you are primarily deploying software for which there are mature modules or recipes, I think choosing salt or ansible is more likely to result in you having to patch the upstream modules than puppet or chef.

If you elect to go with puppet or chef, be prepared to use something as an orchestration tool compliment the configuration management. Ansible and Salt can both be used as orchestrators to compliment a puppet or chef based configuration.

Of course, if you're deploying something simple, it makes no difference what you use. They will all handle package installs, config file templating and service management. In this case, Ansible/Salt are probably better as they will contain the orchestration features.
Whatsapp got acquired by an insane amount.  Still safe to use whatsapp for work?
>Is it really vulgar to desire money and take it as indicator of success

Yes? It is not only vulgar, it is utterly clueless.
You could start your own. Call it “Hacker Hacker News: Hacker News for Hackers”
My problem with Firefox OS is that they don't add any value over what is already possible in modern mobile OS. All of them have a web browser of some sort.
The same '-Facebook -blogging shit -why no women in IT' was definitely a prominent part of HN 2 years ago..
"White knights"? "Smells like virgins"? Are you 14 years old?

If you are over 14, maybe the reason people care about misogyny in technology is folks such as yourself providing a good object lesson.
HN content driven by users. It's always evolving. There is no 1-person pushing the content, it's there because people want to read it. In 6 months whats popular maybe different again. Silly post!
After acquiring Viber, Rakuten announces new European R&D center in Paris
While we are there, if you want to manipulate JS not just JSON:

http://graspjs.com/
> admittedly Whatsapp app was generating revenue although I doubt it was much

I imagine they made ~$100m last year (400m active users, I'm guessing 100m of which using for more than a year), which is almost guaranteed to go up. For a company with ~50 employees how is that not sustainable?
Hi, would love an invite too. I've been lurking lobsters occasionally till now.
I agree - real complaint being made is that this feed has become more and more focused on bullshit business strategy and entrepreneurial tips.

This site is less about technology and more about how to make money from technology.

The various corporate movements of big tech companies is not 'Hacker subculture' and never was.
The biggest change I've found is that, more and more, HN resembles Slashdot's YRO (Your Rights Online) section: http://yro.slashdot.org/
Well, even with misunderstanding of hacking, still there is barely anything programming related on front page. HN looks like a "tech world news, and some other interesting stuff". Can't say if it was that different last year, wasn't following HN then. But currently it is reddit front page with lest cats and a little more tech news
> To be clear, loading data from disk takes milliseconds and re-computing addresses takes nanoseconds.

I think the literature surrounding prelink pretty strongly contradicts this assertion. See:

http://people.redhat.com/jakub/prelink/prelink.pdf

http://lwn.net/Articles/341305/

http://lwn.net/Articles/341309/
Why was it changed to Hacker News ?
Cant agree. The thing I unlinke most is links related to politics getting included a lot.
There's nothing stopping the OP (or anyone) submitting and voting new topics that they like. Looking at his/her profile I see he's only submitted 3 threads & 0 comments. The community here is an active thing, and if you want to it to change, you really have to contribute to it.
Indeed, many of the posts in Hacker news are not related to hacking in any way. How about to call it Hipster News?
It's all about startups and "Investors" and VCs and all kinds of stuff (which IMHO kinda sucks).
>I've been reading this site for over four years now and it was never good...

Yet it was good enough to keep you coming back for four years?
On termination, is the instruction counter odd or even?
How Brightpod increased visitor to trial conversion in two months
Sorry for the off-topic comment, but this reminds me of a discussion I had on Slashdot where one old timer said something to the effect of "the editors were never good" and we were looking at the past through rose coloured glasses.
No. It's not $1/yr. it's $1. That's it. There is no recurring revenue stream. That's what makes this even more insane.
This site has never been good in the four years you have been reading it...

Yet you are still here, reading and commenting...

Why?
Jim was a phenomenal teacher, speaker, hacker, and all-around good guy. He probably attended more programming conferences than anyone I know, and he was always more than happy to stop in the hallway, during lunch, or whenever to talk. If you have a moment today, maybe take some time to watch one of his talks: http://www.confreaks.com/presenters/24-jim-weirich (there's more than enough to choose from!)
I use angular/bootstrap/parse.com. use yeoman angular to get everything in place.

I'll then use a s3 bucket as a website when I want to 'go live'. The backend as a service can be a huge time saver for quick projects - immediately you have your datasource+authentication taken care of and can worry about other things.
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Graylog2 v0.20.0 released
Yeah because we have to talk about this every single day, and promote every single post about it...

Last months they were at least more than 2 post per day about this subject on HN frontpage.

This is not relevant anymore, and coming saying to us "IT guys" that we are all macho ass*, every single day is totally counter productive. And i don't know if you guys in the US are total douches but here in Europe we respect Womens @work
Well, I used to drive my Land Rover LR3 4.4 V8 on the german autobahn regularly and I would say 13MPG is exactly what I was getting while cruising at 120mph.
you know what it's actually the outside of tech related topics and the great discussions coming from the tech crowd is what makes this place so much more interesting.
Feedsme – doing to BI what Ford did to cars
Alchemy and AI are both a bit more culturally specific. I agree that seeing life on earth would not logically be inconsistent with extr-terrestial life existing. But that is not to say AI=ET.
Exactly right. When you first start using Git "stash" is a revelation, but over time you use it less and less. A good rule of thumb is "When in doubt, commit.". And embrace "rebase".
I’d love an invite if you’re still sending them out.

Thanks!
I completely disagree with this, I joined HN nearly 4 years ago, and even back then it was a mix of security, programming, start up, and general tech news.

The main change I've noticed in the last year or so is the rise of altcoin and NSA news - but having said that, when I joined there was a lot of TSA articles.

I think the OP is making the classic mistake of only remembering the good bits - "Summers were always hotter when I young", "4chan used to be good", etc
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