skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My grandparents worked quite hard. Harder than my (Silent Generation ) Dad, harder than I do. Paternal g-pa was in oilfield, then a carpenter. At his age, you worked til you wore out, then after ten years... Maternal g-pa was an entrepreneur of some sort, kinds hazy what really.

Paternal Grandpa as it turns out was in some labor unrest in the Mid-Continent oil labor-strike ( with actual Wobblies! ) and that is why he went into carpentry. Violent business; gunfire, explosives. Wow. Grandpa? Really?

I was in gummint contracting from 2004-2009. It's not good in there. A few contracts are really large but it's not a good business any more. healthcare.gov is sadly probably more typical than not.

I think we're somewhat frog-boiled in luxury myself. Really look at what was the style in 1960; it was pretty spare - about what you'd have now if you were quite poor. I got new clothes basically once a year - from Sears, and they came on a train six weeks later. From Sears to Amazon in three decades...

The... uh .. Vietnam War made young men have more options then, but we don't wanna go there...

I think the higher returns constitute "winner take all" - and that means competition is actually less. Each option is much like the other, so the winner can leverage out the losers - winner take all. Of those, some fraction will persist. If innovation is heat to Schumpeterian change, then the heat is up. The rest is just endless laying off of risk through contracts/contracting.

But the basic thing is - you'd just expect more growth at the right of the curve.
@whodaman, you've been hellbanned. Neither of your comments seems to deserve it, so it's not clear why.

Assuming you see this (can't reply to you directly), I think the usual advice is to email pg.
Component.io - client-side Javascript components
akislev: I think you paint with too broad a brush - I've worked as a chip designer, embedded systems programmer, kernel hack - it really depends on the team - also most chip teams I've worked with have been relatively young (most in their 20s)- most big silicon projects depend on good version control software because you are doing continual integrations and practice tapeouts through the last half of a project - you may have 2-3 different versions of the code you're working on passing through different portions of the process at any one time

As the guy on the chip team who understood software well (or the guy on the software team who understood the gates) I do think there's a somewhat different issue that has to do with schedules: as a chip designer you get to do maybe 1 month a year of creative design and 11 months meeting timing and making damn sure that silicon will really work the first time - by the time you tape out you're really looking forward to that creative bit and about the time you've up to your armpits in it the silicon comes back and the firmware guys are doing bringup - you don't have a lot of time for the firmware guys because they're getting in the way of the cool part of your job, and besides you are sooo done with that chip you slaved over last year

I don't know what the answer is other than making sure you have firmware running on your logic simulator long before tapeout (you should be doing that anyway)
According to a document published by the government where Rob lives [1], electricity rates are around 0.08 USD/kWh. We can assume Rob uses a computer at home anyway, and would have his DSL modem on anyway, so the extra electricity should be computed based on a single desktop being on for the extra hours per day that it might otherwise be put to sleep. Typical power consumption for a desktop box is around 90W if it is somewhat active vs. sleeping. There are about 730 hours in a month, but his computer would be on say 30% of the time anyway, so that's 511 extra hours per month. That comes to 46 kWh per month of extra electricity, which in his area costs about 3.68 USD per month.

So the price is slightly less, but the value for money isn't good with the home solution. Then again, unemployed people are sometimes known to make suboptimal economic decisions in terms of expected value, because they're optimizing for other things (e.g. being able to switch off a cost mid-month).

[1] http://www.oca.state.pa.us/Industry/Electric/elecomp/Archive...
When Google Maps 'invents' a railway
Clickbait. Next.
> And [0] and [1] are almost as good as the real thing.

> 1: https://github.com/grundprinzip/sublemacspro

I'm sure ST is a nice editor, it's great that there are some Emacs-like bindings for it, but .... You've got to be kidding...
Hence the "Vitriol gets you nowhere. This is something I've learned the hard way.".
I'm trying to get at how the issue has been in the media for months, and the most recent technological solutions are to put sticky tape over the camera.
I'm surprised there hasn't been at least some protocol/algorithm proposed wherein it's compartmentalized structure is amenable to judicial/democratic process or whatever. Somebody's also gotta come up with something better than VChip/Trusted Computing, and I don't see how media is going to lead to a solution for that issue either.
Ghost Dog much? :)

0: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKgTdEYDlKg
The Peculiar Decimal System and the Naming Question [pdf]
The smallest font I've ever seen on a web page, period.
That won't work. The money isn't going to line the pockets of (most) of the researchers. It's going to fund the actual science costs itself, which is millions per project.

The problem is that science nowadays is expensive. We've past the days where scientits can preform chemistry experiments in their garage, most science requires heavily specialized equipment, years of preparation, and/or lots of people.

I don't see a clear way to fix this problem. The projects that have the clearest ROI will continue to get funded first.
Actually Francis Bacon mentions it 400 years ago in his book titled "New Atlantis". I am glad that MIT is catching up
> I'm glad we've started to move away from node.js and started to use Java.

I'm not sure you get how threading works, but this thread originated from the above quote. And comparing npm with Maven given the above statement is relevant, given it is the primary "Package management" system for Java, much like npm.
Chui is supposed to be wired into your doorbell which would render that impossible. And if you're using it for monitoring then you've set to be triggered by motion and it would notify you prior to such action.
Armored Car Used to Potentially Block Minuteman-Missile Launch (1987)
Don't think so. The interview is long winded, but right around the mid-point the author get's to the point. The title isn't misleading.
Hi! CTO of npm here. I haven't been reading HN today because we were trying to fix the SSL thing, so I was genuinely taken aback to see this article.

We didn't censor any comments; we did no moderation of any kind today. I have no idea what happened to his comment, but nobody at npm did anything to it.
I dont know anyone using VIM or EMACS switching back to an IDE.
Well, looks like I'm deleting imo right now. I have absolutely no need for their own chat network.
You're harping on a completely different subject from what I was talking about, and while I also have a strong opinion on it, you're attempting to muddle the two into one general ball of "ownership is the only option" without looking at the details of each one.

Alas, I directly answered your question in my last paragraph, by telling you how to figure out how to distribute exotic-bit-combination "generation costs":

> You accept that any information can be freely propagated, and that is just a new rule of the game, and you move on... Things about this model aren't ideal, but it's just how it is going to be.

In Adobe's case, they can strongarm prominent obviously-using businesses with some reduced notion of commercial copyright (as every software vendor has basically been doing for the past decade), set up support contracts that give access to prerelease features (currently works well for smaller, more expensive niches), or (as they're starting to do) further lock down their software by moving to a server-side model and buy time until a Free competitor gets good enough to overrule their inconvenience. If they were just starting off, asking for donations would also work, but clearly at this point they have way too much overhead for that.

Also note that if their product is deprecated by something else, then under the current regime it is considered appropriate that their costs are never recovered. Conversely, at some point their costs have been completely recovered yet they keep right on seeking rent.
Can someone explain WhatsApp’s valuation to me?
If you read the blog post Techcrunch is summarising, you will find out:

1) The man is an anarchism/zero-government advocate.
2) He was wearing a provocative t-shirt featuring B52s and a slogan "Bitcoin not bombs."
3) He was nervous, difficult and antagonistic throughout the entire security process.
4) His backpack was full of metal lapel pins emblazoned with the Bitcoin logo.

This could be titled instead as: "TSA scrutinises erratic, apparently mentally-unstable anarchism activist to ensure he is not going to blow up a plane." The bitcoin thing is just a red herring, they suspected him and were casting around for different leads to see if they could get something out of him.

Honestly, there's no point in getting so upset and hostile going through airport security. Fixating on how your freedom is being desecrated or something like that is just going to get your back up and make everything worse.
Hi! As I said in the comment's on Rob's own post: we didn't censor any comments. We did no moderation of any kind on any comments today; we were way too busy trying to fix the problem. I don't know what happened to Rob's comment, but it was nothing anyone at npm did.
> I'm glad we've started to move away from node.js and started to use Java.

That is what I was responding to directly. The implication from the statement was that npm flaws (i.e certificate changes that break everything) is a good reason to switch to Java.

It isn't at all a good reason to switch to java, as java's equivalent would easily waste more time than even this rather embarrassing certificate problem with npm.

> unrelated-yet-similar technologies

It is related, and similar, it is a like-for-like comparison between nodejs package management and java package management.
> It also offers a portrait of Silicon Valley engineers that differs sharply from their current caricature as well-paid villains who are driving up the price of real estate in San Francisco and making the city unbearable for others.

What? "unbearable"? That seems a little out of place. Would most NYTimes readers have any idea what he's talking about?

From the author's recent articles list:

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In little more than a decade, Google has become essential and omnipresent. Now the question is whether people will start to resent and oppose it.

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As entrepreneurs invade regulated industries and evade traditional watchdogs, the question of who is responsible when something goes wrong looms large.

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Airbnb likes to say that it gives more people the money they need to pay their bills. But new research suggests that as the sharing industry spreads, more people are going to need that money, because they’ll be unemployed.

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Uber and a Child's Death

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Hard-hit by recession, many in Europe have questioned whether jobs at Amazon’s warehouses there are good for the economy or dehumanizing.

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seems to exclusively write negative stories about bay area tech
> Am I missing something here?

A sense of arrogance that precludes understanding x509 infrastructure before you roll out a world-breaking change.
We didn't moderate away anything. I am literally the only person who CAN moderate those comments, and I was at a conference all day. 100% of my online time was spent working with my team to figure out the fastest path to a fix. We didn't realize the extent until way too late, and that's bad on us. I apologize.

I didn't delete your comment. I'll look at the moderation queue and see if maybe disqus is set to auto-hide after some time or something. I'm sorry for the confusion there.
A bit of a read, but couldn't agree more, although I believe something of a similar title was on HN within the last 6 months that made the exact same points. If I didn't know better I'd bet that professor is an HN subscriber!
rPi is probably the most aggressively priced, but you talk about it like that market didn't exist. The BeagleBoard is probably the closest, though that was designed more as a dev-board for ARM processors and not a mini-computer like the Pi.
> It isn't at all a good reason to switch to java, as java's equivalent would easily waste more time than even this rather embarrassing certificate problem with npm.

Works fine for me. Has a healthy ecosystem of 3rd-party artifact repository implementations.
I really love that ASCII butterfly... more console tools should have ASCII art.
I'm not a big fan of infinite scrolling, and when it breaks standard desktop functionality like CMD + Up Arrow, as in the case of Google image search, I could really do without it.
Another aspect, I think, is that someone who is very productive both gains influence and become hard to replace. Neither of the things is desirable for someone managing many people.
I agree with you. I think the most useful subreddits by far are heavily moderated subreddits like /r/AskHistorians or /r/Standup.

I think the subreddit idea is brilliant. If reddit is going to survive, it will need to increase transparency for mods, and decrease the emphasis on the default subreddits. The problem is not that there's too much moderation, the problem is that the default subreddits have such a wide audience because so many users never bother to subscribe to anything else. If a reddit competitor offered the democracy of subreddits without the gatekeepers of the default subreddits I would switch in a second.

If my memory serves, there were quite a few controversies that led to a bunch of people coming to reddit from Digg. There were quite a few influxes of Digg refugees. redditors complained about quality drops every time. This is before subreddits, of course.

The challenge, I think, is combining democracy with with some kind of editorial function. I think what it comes down to is what happens when you click the comments button.

Edit: Hey, I just found this and felt it was appropriate.
http://www.laughspin.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/nathan...
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Signs that Buttercoin is probably a scam:

1) Buttercoin does not appear to be a registered money transmitter. They've known about this requirement for months, they've had the financial capabilities to do this for months...and yet they haven't bothered so far. See http://www.fincen.gov/financial_institutions/msb/msbstatesel....

2) They started off as open source, took a bunch of free code, and then ended the open source aspects of the project.

3) They took a substantial amount of BTC donations (even more substantial now with the higher F/X rate) and never returned those donations when the project pivoted from an open source software project to a V/C funded business.

One of these red flags is bad enough, but 3 together is a big, red, flashing "STAY AWAY".

They clearly don't have the professionalism or the wherewithal to handle the basic foundational aspects of their professed industry. I recommend staying away from them before they become the next MtGox.
The last time I used it, the styling had some flaws. Trying to set an element's top and bottom border to one colour, with the left and right borders set to another was impossible, as you couldn't address individual sides, only the whole element's border.

The 'fix' was to create two line elements over the borders you wanted coloured differently.
At least in the US, non-profits may make a profit, it's just that they can't have owners who receive the profits (or managers/insiders who receive undue compensation). Any profits must remain within the organization and dedicated to its mission.

(Although "non-profit" is the common name, in this sense it's better to think of it as shorthand for "not for profit", meaning that achieving financial profits for its owners/insiders is not its legal purpose.)

See also: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/taxes-nonprofit-corp...
> Then I update to the latest EAP because it's supposed to fix this particular issue... and then other appear. Hmm, annoying...

1) Report bugs, they get fixed pretty quick
2) EAPs are not guaranteed stable
3) It's early days yet, it'll get better.
I've worked at a local NBC station that was exactly like this. Nice people, but there's absolutely no incentive at all for anything in depth. Local stations sometimes redeem themselves when shitty weather hits the fan though.
Tough to give benefit of the doubt, but we're talking about Disqus here and I've had this sort of thing happen to me in the past. Willing to believe it could be an honest mistake. At least you know now to tread lightly if you were ever thinking of doing something like this.
If I cut the power, wouldn't it defeat to have the most intelligent doorbell?
Koding- cloud collaborative coding
"Dangerously Ambitious" really? Fuck their rhetoric.
I'd highly recommend checking out httpie as a replacement for curl. I find the interface much more intuitive.
Apology here:

http://blog.npmjs.org/post/78165272245/more-help-with-self-s...

Your outrage seems rather misplaced. They screwed up their certificates, which caused a problem for people running the non-latest-stable nodejs.

They then posted how to fix this, and apologised for the problem.

Note to the wary: if you are running software that is version 0.10.25 in production, and complaining that things aren't "Ready for enterprise" then all I have to say is "no shit, look at the version number!"

If you aren't ready/willing to deal with a fast moving deploy target, then stick to Ruby/Python or better still JVM/.Net!
Any recommendations for an Android messaging app that allows you to be connected to mutliple Google accounts at once? I loved imo.im for this, and it was way better than any others I tried.
Lol, yeah, it's more like Smartly Ambitious...
Flooding, evacuations as Pacific Storm pounds Southern California
They likely want to become a standalone messaging app in the hopes of an acquisition as messaging apps seem to be mimicking the Search Engine wars of 1999.

Does anyone have recommendations for a good multi chat app replacement besides trillian?
For those still at university, don't feel afraid to help as well! We over at Tox are part of Google Summer of Code and provide a great opportunity to work on Tox under a knowledgeable mentor.

Check out http://wiki.tox.im/Google_Summer_of_Code for more information.
Huh, weird. Thanks for the heads up, though I also have no clue what the reasoning behind that is.
I know you don't know me, but if you ever meet anyone who does, you can ask them about my personal attitude towards censorship of any kind. The idea that I would stoop to censorship for something as petty as somebody voicing legitimate complaints about a technical screwup of mine is laughable.

(Update: I remembered I wrote http://seldo.com/weblog/2013/09/04/why_i_am_a_web_developer a while ago, which should give some indication about how I feel about censoring the web)
Hard to speculate, but it probably gave them a lot of leverage.
The efficiency thing is more about heat engines. When we're just dissipating heat, the relevant relationship is that the rate of heat transfer is proportional to the temperature difference. This is why a hot object that isn't producing heat will cool exponentially. In the case of a steady-state source of heat, the temperature difference will be inversely proportional to the thermal conductivity of the connection between hot and cold reservoirs. Heatsinks and fans are used to increase that thermal conductivity so that the temperature difference stays small enough that the absolute temperature is safe. If you can double the tolerable temperature difference, then you can cut your fan speeds by more than half, or even get by with passive convection.

Or, approaching things differently, if you're only going to keep your graphics card for two or three years, there's no reason to let the fans spin up to an audible level until the chip reaches at least 80 degrees C.

Addressing a common misconception: fan speed/noise is not directly related to how much the graphics card is heating up the room by. Whether you run the fans at full tilt or you let the chip almost melt, the heat output will depend only on the workload.
Should readers get a refund when they pay to access seriously flawed papers?
> Tough to give benefit of the doubt

Why?
Still requires having previously dropped the dough to get a smarklock. Given that Lokitron lets you remotely unlock/lock, it saves you the ~$200 this costs and only takes a simple SMS if the person doesn't have a smartphone
I was thrown off by the SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN error; I expected some error about an untrusted root CA if the problem was that npm clients didn't trust digicert, but apparently SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN is what OpenSSL returns when the root CA isn't loaded.

All root CAs are self-signed, that's what makes them root. What overrides the self-signing being an error is it being listed in the CA list available to the client which is updated out of band.
I think I'll just stick with pressing alt-tab to Terminal.app.
What a load of shit. Just because he's an anarchist does not mean he's a threat to anybody - nor do any of the other facts you point out. And nothing about any of those facts justifies calling him "mentally unstable". You may not agree with his politics, but that hardly justifies character assassination, if not outright libel.

"Oh noes, fear the lapel pins!!!!!"
Since the blockchain is a consesus of a majority of miners, could we not roll the blockchain back to before Mtgox screwed the pooch?
The point is not Skytrain, but Filiponos who work on low-tomiddle-wage jobs.
There are many options, my favorite: https://www.factoryfive.com/kits/project-818/ Go ahead and put whatever you like in there from there if you like. In person I've seen custom instruments built on Tegra and QNX in someone's project even. Sky's the limit!
it's what people are talking about right now. after a while the conversation will move on to something else, and there'll be a bunch of posts about that, and a bunch of people complaining that it's taking up their front page. attention moves in waves across the net; it doesn't need a hype machine to stir it.
So glad someone remembers the good old days.