skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How to monetize ignorance?

You're arriving late to the party. Most of the structure of modern society is built around telling the less intelligent that they're actually sheep and they should silently obey their betters. Religion is an active participant in this system -- they actually describe their followers as "the flock", without any blowback from the obedient masses.

Marx got it right -- religion is the opiate of the masses. And were it not for "the flock", we wouldn't have cheap manufactured goods.

Imagine if opium were the opiate of the masses. Then we could create widespread drug rehabilitation programs. But we can't do that for religion -- it's too addictive to treat.
I'm a right-wing-leaning centrist, and I do not believe in the trickle down theory that you are implying. Making rich people richer, and allowing poorer people to feed off of the morsels and crumbs leftover does not create a balanced society. There will always be rich people, and there will always be poor people, but thinking that if you bias towards the rich people society will somehow get better is a horrible delusion.
How could NAT work for an entire country of people behind one IP? My understanding was that NAT allows communication over separate ports, so for example a router with ip 123.45.67.89 can run three clients by sending their data over ports 50000, 50001 and 50002. How does this work when more than 65k people are trying to connect? There don't seem to be enough ports for that to be possible.
Google was clearly in the market for a phone OS. If they hadn't purchased Android they would've likely purchased something else. Android was likely not the only phone OS they looked at and may not have even been their first choice. That's just the way it goes sometimes, semi-random chance.
Malicious apps? Fair enough. This is not news, though. I'm pretty sure most of those apps are not malicious. They're just very similar to Flappy Bird.
The megastructures documentary provides a pretty captivating look at construction:

http://www.youtube.com/user/megadocumentary1
Dropbox returns to china
No, but im guessing you grew up in or near Boston?
Qatar has a huge allocation of unused IP addresses. It's a matter of choice that their censorship proxy only exposes one IP address on the internet side.
Inequality can not be corrected by charities. It is just a band-aid for the conscience.

When Roosevelt launched the New Deal in the 30s, he prepared the country for new chances for many (if not to say most) of the people and thus for a decades of wealth for all. Reagan and his successors on the other hand dumped the country into an era of greed and misfortune for the 99%.
Emacs User at Work:

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/029/8/3/emacs_user_at...
When Screens Get in the Way
For the economists here, could someone explain why wealth hoarding is a bad thing? It seems to me that it would just cause the hoarded currency to deflate in value. We understand this and accept this as normal in bitcoin for instance - if I burn a disk with lots of BTC on it, I've lost value, but the market will shed no tears. Why is hoarding wealth different from just removing it from the system?
"pretty" as an adverb to mean "to a moderately high degree" is pretty standard for English speakers. "It's pretty hot" means it's more than warm, but not hot".

Interestingly, the forms that you liken to "beautiful" actually parse to a native English speaker as "attractive but not quite beautiful".

So, on a scale of 1-10 (10 being the top), "pretty" has the connotation of maybe a 7 or 8 on any scale, beauty or otherwise. And that's basically how it always parses out in English. Just consider it as a 7-8 whatever on a 1-10 scale.

note if the scale is inverse, it's the same. Suppose 1-10 was a scale of ugliness (with 10 being most ugly) "pretty ugly" is still a 7-8 on that scale. Same with "pretty cold" if the 10 means "coldest possible".

"very" is used to emphasize something. "She's very pretty." Means she's somewhere between pretty and outright beautiful, but more on the beautiful side ("she's almost beautiful" has a bad connotation that there's something wrong with her).

"It's very hot" would mean not only is it hot, but it's a little extra hot.

It's like adding a .5 to anything on that 10 point scale.

So if "hot" is 10, very hot is a 10.5.

You rarely use it with words that have a moderate intention, except for specific effect, "it's very lukewarm" is not something you'd probably regularly hear. But "it's very cold" is.
This is probably the address in question:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:82.148.97.69/header
URX (YC S13) is hiring the founding members of its mobile team
And having HTML files on the filesystem doesn't mean you can't have an admin panel to update them with.
This is a dramatic simplification, but TCP uses the quadruplet of source IP/source port/dest IP/dest port as a session identifier, so you can potentially get 2 billion people using one outgoing port to 2 billion different servers with different IPs in the absolute best case (which wouldn't happen, of course).
I think the trick is that they are using the Bob Ross method. They don't make mistakes, they make happy accidents.

There's this program for rapid sketching called alchemy http://al.chemy.org/features/ it specifically has no undo button, for that reason.

It's pretty fun to screw around with.
How Facebook Knows What You Looked at on Amazon
I don't think anyone figures it makes the most balanced society, they just see it as the most realistic way to help the people at the bottom of the structure. Basically applying "Rising tide lifts all boats" in the opposite direction as the liberals, tops-down instead of bottoms-up.
A hyena can be fierce. And lions can be ferocious. But honey badgers are always very ferocious.
very cold != freezing

be careful not to overuse hyperboles.
LOL -- wise words my friend.
Using Arel to Compose SQL Queries in Rails
I understood that as a temporary constraint, not as a rule. More like "you used this style a lot during the last assignment, this time, try something different". Working under temporary constraints does promote learning different aspects of a skill.
Thanks. That's my thought as well, and my priority right now is to get a working proof-of-concept and see if anyone actually uses it.
What relevance does the credit crisis have?

Pointing out that markets require liquidity has nothing to do with the fact that there needs to be some sort of real economic value to sustain jobs.

It's not just rich people handing out jobs and deciding whether or not we should keep factories or companies open or not.

Capital is part of markets (granted a vital part). It's not the only, nor the most important part.
Having a spatial orientation relative to the universe is of practical value to conscious individuals. People with minds have a frame of reference. Updating that is important, since our reality is bounded by our mental frame as much by that, if not more by that, than by our knowledge.

I get what you mean, if this were still a boat-based world. I am saying we are not in a boat-based world now. Our consciousness can re-orient.

Since we don't live in a boat-based world for the most part, it'd be more helpful to tend toward an orientation to a place where people have minds more often than people have ships. Part of why the world is the way it is, is because we don't allow our minds and the mental framework of the masses follow forward to an overall update to what in the world is actually worth orienting to.

So it's not change for change's sake. It's updating to be true to what we know, giving our minds the benefit of advancing onto a better framework.

Digital maps don't distort for curves. They just keep going with the surface of the planet. Remaining true to a boat-based world is a disservice to mind-having individuals.
In what kind of mental darkness are you living?

The US Government is crippling the idea of "democracy", we have total surveillance, SECRET COURTS and Wallstreet Banksters killing your freedom for money and this $MOFOBADWORD is thinking about mouse pointers.

Your children will live in a dark age of dictatorship, for sure, with "Hackers" who think this kind of BS is worth being on top of "news".
This is interesting, but designing the distributed planner is really hard. I think that'll likely be an offline machine learning task - fitting an algorithm that will handle the variances in the construction in a no communication, totally distributed fashion.
> So explain the credit crisis?

A bunch of bankers conspired to defraud credulous investors by selling them worthless mortgages as A-rated investments. This massive influx of capital into a non-productive sector of the economy nearly caused the entire system to collapse. These bankers then used the political influence bought with the money they made in order to shift the cost of their fraud onto the taxpayer.

Really, it's not that hard to understand. The only thing that is hard to understand is what this question has to do with the matter at hand.
The problem of 1:1 messaging is slightly different to Twitter, which is more m:n. 1:1 messaging can be handled reasonably easily with a mailbox per user, and there is no shared state. Messaging with m:n has different optimal patterns depending on the relative ratios of m and n. Twitter has many users with millions of followers; if Twitter used a 1:1 mailbox approach like a chat app, these users would be whole countries worth of load on their own.

That's not to say that Twitter's scaling issues where wholly forgivable. They weren't fatal to the service, but I don't think they were necessary with good design from the start. High popularity is a good problem to have though.
The design/layout/idea reminds me of http://goodui.org. It would be cool to have a little picture/diagram for each hack.
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/a...
Five trends reshaping the global economy
That would be one way, yes. Thanks.
Oh I know my MVP is going to be hideous, and I'll probably have to throw it away quickly. I guess I was curious about whether or not marketing spice mattered on the front end of the product lifecycle as well... I feel like it's a balance, but given my target audience, it may be more important in this case than in most.
Musk actually seems like a pretty good example of a wealthy guy creating jobs that probably wouldn't have existed, if Musk didn't have the money to risk on his vision.
Micro-Apartments: Boston’s Housing Solution Or Developers’ Cash Cow?
Being from Germany, I want to add that in some (good and bad) ways, Germany is more like Europe than France.

1. Decentralized. Germany is 16 states yelling at each other, while France jumps when Paris calls.

2. Lots of high-tech, no Silicon Valley. There are _a lot_ of successful software companies in Germany, but most are set up like traditional companies, not startups. Also, they mostly serve pre-existing niches, such as the financial industry around Frankfurt. The same holds for Europe.

3. Unsexy. Yeah. While I don't actually care much about the public image of Germany, I am saddened that the European idea has lost its appeal and continues losing it. I mean, what could _possibly_ go wrong?

All in all, I'd say the hodge-podge muddle-through way of things you see in Europe comes more natural to Germany than France.
Using some aliases you can have pushd automatically. What then ends up useful with that is you can use ~1 ~2 ~3 ... to refer to old directories. That will change your life :)

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4290/aliasing-cd-to-...
Okay, I guess I should speak about this..

I am in the USA, state of Indiana, and the state government got together with a non-profit to set aside some $40 million of tax money to grow the Indiana startup community.

Only problem, or one of them, is their ignoring the out-flows in that at least for Indiana we have a large outflow of graduating STEM. And of course those that do not leave are saddled with debts.

Of course you can get around these obstacles by analyzing what 'small' startups can be done via hackathons etc by creating a communit/workspace environment where those things are exchanged.

Compared to say Chicago:

Chicago
$1 Billion invested in new startups 2013
$2 billion in M&A in startups 2013

Indiana
Not even $100 Million in either category

In other years Indiana was spearheading biomedical startups centered around IU and Purdue ot keep their Medical grads with STEM home based.

Can anyplace really do the duplication of Silicon Valley as piecemeal?
I'd be happier if your weekly subscription field overlay didn't take 1/3 of my iPhones screen.
I've been casually exploring Godot Engine for the last few days, and I have to say it's got everything I personally need in a 2d engine as a beginner game developer. I feel like someone with more experience/knowledge may find it limiting, but for me it's actually allowed me to do more with less, whereas frameworks like XNA always left me trying to figure a lot out for myself and write a lot of code that seemed unnecessary/redundant.

Sure, GDScript is poorly documented and isn't really python, but it's not that hard to find the undocumented features (search the github code), and the fact that it compiles to pretty much any platform means it's a rather small mental investment for a large gain in deployability.
Microsoft Launches Smart Visual Studio Add-On For Code Snippet Search
The Economist Style Guide disagrees:

http://www.economist.com/style-guide/unnecessary-words
Just a reminder that the text-based browser lynx is still available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
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Indeed! For years I had a custom cursor, it was a mouse point with additional rays on the -x and +y axes. Hard to describe, if you picture the 'crosshatch' style cursor with an ordinary mouse pointer instead of two of the lines, you've got it.

I still feel it combines the precision of a crosshatch with the visibility of an ordinary mouse arrow. Perhaps I should recreate it for the Mac...
What he is saying is that advertisements manipulate you (likely without your knowledge) and that this is a net cost the the consumer (not to mention even dirtier ads for scams and malware, that's a different subject.) The other kinds of advertisement, the ones that actually inform you of something that is useful to you, do exist. But how much of a benefit are they? I don't think I've ever clicked on an internet ad or bought something because of one.
A few large areas:

Data storage

The SQLite API is a mess (you end up with SQL polluting a frightening amount of code once you start using it), along with associated content providers and the way this stuff attaches to views. This is particularly noticeable around the MediaStore, which is one of the truly horrendously fragmented areas of the system. If I had more faith in the future of the platform this is what I'd attack first as the potential for improvement for developers and end users is immense.

UI framework

The very core of the layout algorithm (where it traverses the views for information) is about as wrong as it can be while still appearing to function. Using styling or animations results in a horrifying explosion of xml files edited by the slowest xml editor in existence. They need a decent MVC UI system (the Cocoa killer feature), not this hacked together mess. Whoever came up with Fragments does deserve a medal though.

General API cleanup

The API has inconsistent naming and code style throughout. A lot of it is clearly the work of people more comfortable in C or C++ writing Java for the first time, but there are packages where NIH syndrome seems to have occurred between different groups of the Android core team. One of the NS* API features is even thoughTheNamesAreSoLongJavaCantCompete at least they understand the benefit of consistency, whereas in Android every package feels unique. J2ME was superior to Android in this respect, and the people designing it also knew when to use primitives and when to use objects. Android uses too many objects for things like touch events, resulting in far too big a load on the eternally inadequate garbage collector.

Permissions

They need to actually launch the feature whereby you can install an app but deny it permission for particular operations. I suspect once they proxy ad stuff through Play Services they'll try to switch this on, as if they did it right now 90% of the noise would be ad supported app devs complaining users are disabling their network connections.

Finally, relatedly, the documentation is horrific. It's quite common to find references in examples to methods that don't exist (and the examples written in yet another bizarre coding style), or magic details are referred to but not demonstrated or explained. I have got more useful info by reading the source for the system itself. If you go and read the source for a project like DashClock any reasonable developer goes and cries in a corner. That's PHP4 style development, not the way you preserve sanity over a long period of time.

At least the storage and UI could be added in a compatibility library, so the fragmentation argument wouldn't apply. Kitkat has added superficial improvements for some areas, but again it's just enough to allow users to not notice the gaps with iOS, while leaving many Android devs spending a disproportionate amount of time adding stupid hacks to paper over the inadequacies of the platform.
that limit only happens when 65k people try to use the same remote ip, otherwise the distinction can still be made for tcp streams.
Since you seem to know what "ss" is, mind if I ask for a link? It's rather hard to search for :/
I've also made several purchases based on that show and recommend everyone give them a watch.

They're also organizing the upcoming International TableTop Day at http://www.tabletopday.com/, and are very proud of how they almost got the ISS involved in last year's but that fell through at the last minute.
No, they are just lazy, let the compiler do the checking, a compiler known as HN.
Hit the reset button on gamification
I'm not a CloudFlare expert but my guess is that there are some risks to the "bleeding edge" optimizations. The decision probably comes down to a trade-off of how much you want to minimize risk and support older browsers in exchange for speed.
"It’s when we hired full time employees immediately without that trial period where I’ve really regretted things. You go through so much extra work to figure out insurance and stock plans, only to want to fire the person in a couple months."

It's very very hard to get people to move from one contract to another without some sort of permanence, I'm a contractor now, why would I change to another contract even for slightly more pay? I'm content here, more or less, offer me a fulltime job, sure, I'd move - but not for another contract.
If you're using OS X, instead of using [a-Z], try [a-zA-Z].
Your entire understanding of the credit crisis is deeply flawed.

1) Savers do not create jobs. Spenders create jobs. When you get a situation where people would rather save their money than spend it (ie. Japan) then you get deflation, and the economy contracts leading to lost jobs. This is why Japan is trying desperately to increase inflation through Abenomics.

2) To explain the credit crisis would take a lot more than just a few paragraphs, but your fundamental statement that it was caused because people stopped parking their money in financial instruments is just wrong.
I know my idea solves a real problem, and it's one that I've witnessed myself over and over. Whether or not people would actually use my product I think depends on which avenue I take it down, and that will be an experiment over time, to see which precise solution is the one.

Over time, I will develop two sets of customers hopefully, but the initial set is anyone who cooks at home and is frustrated by sharing and viewing recipes split across Pinterest / cookbooks / work docs / sticky notes / etc.
Thanks for sharing these. The 'hacks' so far seem pretty beneficial and I'm planning on trying them.
But what about "thusly"? I'm pretty sure that should never be used.
Touch screens where tried and rejected by the military early on because people hands would get tired after a very short time interacting with a vertically mounted touch screen. Horizontal touch screens have other usability challenges.
Ideally. But when I took my cross-discipline gen-ed requirements, I was pretty amazed how little & how low-quality writing was expected of at least some of the humanities first & second years. Not much chance for growth when assigning a two-page paper is enough to provoke upset.
My first thought as well, but my knowledge of Boston doesn't extend much farther than Good Will Hunting, so...
> At least one psychopathically cruel person involved in the Holyoke, Mass. public school system thinks it is a good idea to use “data walls” to motivate students.

Love the rhetoric here. Plenty of times and places have displayed scores publicly, without being run by sadists who sup on the tears of children.
> Socialist redistribution schemes

Is Elon a Socialist or Fascist for the ~$500M Tesla got from the DoE or ~$2B from NASA to prop up that welfare space program?
I agree strongly. Contract-to-perm hiring seems like a great way to filter out the best candidates, who will tend to have better options.
Interesting! I really think that there is only one trend, and that is Silicon Valley.
add it to your dotfiles, and use it how exactly?
Great writeup. I really appreciate when people take the time to do this. And also to risk dealing with the jackass criticism that usually comes from putting yourself out there on the internet.

One thing that was underemphasized: They built in response to actual need, which was great. If you click through to the announcement post [1], he explains that he had spent 4 years doing telephony stuff, and was always bothered by the lack of an API.

Good for them for taking their small proof of need and building small. And then using that to get more proof of need as a way to justify further investment. That's in contrast to a classic startup mistake, which is to jump in and build something you just think other people need.

[1] http://www.rdegges.com/im-working-on-a-startup/
I have been using Hemingway App on my medium essays since last week and every time I removed the word "very", the sentence became better.
At a previous day job we used n-queens to benchmark distributed computing, as it is disgustingly parallelizable and produces nice visual results.
This article leaves me wanting more. I suspect the 'why' is much more interesting.

Some thoughts:
-Billionaires primary derive their net worth from stock, which is difficult for them to sell. Paper gains, don't represent increases in cash flow. Sources of cash flow would include dividends and planned stock sales. Given the general plunge in dividend yields (4-5% pre-crisis, ~2% today) it's not hard to imagine that even billionaires have less cash at their disposal. Furthermore, given the market plunge and uncertainty the last few years, it would be hard for owners of major public companies to sell large quantities of their shares without signalling to the markets that they believe their companies are overvalued.

-Tax rates and deductions have changed. Shouldn't be a surprise that given the dramatic increase in marginal tax rates and the new limits on deductions that there would be an impact.

-Perhaps there are exogenous factors at play... maybe after a rush of great new non-profit ideas earlier in the decade, billionaires are seeing fewer ideas that excite them enough to donate significantly despite the obstacles mentioned above.

Article just strikes me as wealth bashing without even attempting to get into the more interesting part of the story.