skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mainstream media with its uncorroborated sources, strategic, timed, unsubstantiated and anonymous "leaks", often serving the interests of lobby groups policy makers, think tanks and intelligence agencies is hard to be believed. Even if the writer as good at the art of writing.
I think its would be a great experiment! I can see this working with a XI3, some solar panels, a large pack of Li Ion/Li Polymer Batteries, and the software to have a 3D landscape for 3D desktop. Last how the hell you program? invent keyboard that require only 5 fingers in a single space... (Ender's game)
In mice:

"SirT3 is essential across short-term sleep loss to maintain metabolic homeostasis, but in extended wakefulness, the SirT3 response is missing. After several days of shift worker sleep patterns, LC neurons in the mice began to display reduced SirT3, increased cell death, and the mice lost 25 percent of these neurons."
The web is not a secure medium for this kind of application.*

This is because all the encryption features they tout depend implicitly on content (HTML and JavaScript) the server sends you every time you use the application. Because you receive this content anew on every usage, there's no way to verify what you're getting. Today it might be fine, but tomorrow it might contain a key logger or subtle cryptographic flaws.

You also can't depend on the community for help verifying this content, because it can be distributed selectively. The mass of users might get benign content while interesting targets get backdoored software.

* It might be safe to distribute something like this as an installable sandboxed web application. I'm actually not 100% certain. But the no-install-just-browse-to-this-url model is definitely insecure.
Bullshit. I haven't seen one supposed startup hacker put up a fight once the "grownups", investors, and lawyers start telling them they have to patent something.

The only Silicon Valley moral is making money.
Look up the demoscene. http://shadertoy.com is a good start.
I have built a simplified inbound marketing product called inBoundio and had written a post about this too http://www.inboundio.com/blog/51-inbound-marketing-ways-to-m..., this should be able to help you take off.

Feel free to mail me at "pushkar (at) inboundio(dot)com" too, will be more than happy to help you
The US funds or gives aid to the Pakistani State. The Pakistani state diverts its own money to fund the ISI. So the US does bankroll ISI.

Pakistan is not really one of the most paranoid and aggressive in the world. And that is coming from an Indian here. It is much more civilized than many nations and has much of the institutions that make a modern nation. Just that the military and religious extremism( which incidentally was helped along the way by a desperate general who wanted to hold on to power) has destroyed the idea of the state.

The longstanding conflict with us, is fueled by the United States, who in their quest to have an ally in the region against perceived Russian expansion to the Persian Gulf supported successive military regimes against a presumed 'communist' but democratic India.
The United States, replaced a reformist and yes a repressive government, with the most regressive government anywhere in the world in Afghanistan in 1991. And didn't care about it till 9/11. The hindsight of history tells us that maybe communist totalitarianism is what the country needed to break hundreds of years of warlordism.

Maybe what US does on the whole balances out their excesses here. Maybe stopping the spread of communism and totalitarianism required this. But looking at it at a theatre level, US policy in the region has been short sighted and should have been directed at promoting democracy in Pakistan. Not in helping the military. Along with being short sighted it has also been hypocritical. And that is what makes it sad.
Abstractly, I think the benefit email has over the above are nearly-immediate decentralization. All the other above mediums (generally) are either (A) centralized services or (b) require some sort of polling mechanism to poll a distribution point. I think it is harder to redact from an email list than any of these. Also, twitter's conversation layout in the web portal annoys the F* out of me.
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Feasible to cross dev with glass? Hmmm... I think I have a new project to work on!
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I have always said no matter whether I am rich or poor the thing I will enjoy most in life is hanging with friends and drink a glass of wine. The only thing that will vary is the price of the wine.

But there is a very big difference between this being a choice or a realization you make at one point in your life vs having to accept the situation you are in.

For people like Sivers, me and I guess most other fairly successful people this kind of insight and choice is a luxury we have.

I am always reminded that Dalai Lama is only capable of doing what he does and sound so insightful as he does because he doesn't have to worry about day to day things.

Try getting married, earn a living and have a couple of kids.

Lifes complicated and for most people a struggle.
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From the link: Anyone can ship a commercial product with UE4 by paying 5% of gross revenue resulting from sales to users. If your game makes $1,000,000, then we make $50,000.

$20/mo for access to the source code. 5% of revenue to sell something using it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec
Decent music doesn't need a big budget.

I don't mean that as an argument for or against taking it without the permission of the copyright holder, I mean that destruction of the current music production industry isn't going to take music away from society.
That's more of a management issue. If you decide to be (or are assigned to be) the "box guy" then it may be mind numbing. However, reasonable management would shift you around to different projects to keep work stimulating.
This post is a bit off.

Money is a tool, a form of power. You can desire power in order to accomplish things, or simply for the love of power.

Attention is something most people crave, and while it can provide a positive feedback loop of activity, it is not an end in and of itself.

But that's not all there is to life. There is experience, exploration & discovery, the act of creation, enrichment of the mind and body (knowledge and skill), service. Power can be used in order to accomplish these feats, and attention may result, but please keep them in their place lest they take ownership of you! A life spent pursuing them will soon leave you feeling empty.
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This seems like an attempt to cash-in on the next Minecraft more than anything else. They want to come along for the ride when someone hits the jackpot. That's the whole point.
If they say they want that, they probably also mean they want 40+ hours a week. If your goal is to work below 40 hours, then such clients aren't for you. In that case it's not a question of them "getting it." You genuinely don't offer the service they want to buy.
Remember that there is no such thing as 'the media industry'.

The Internet killed the music industry because the music industry was literally in the disc-and-tape business. They were all about distribution, only doing production as necessary to ensure there was something to distribute. The only chance the RIAA had was to whine and fight because there was no place for them in post-CD world.

Movies, on the other hand, are actually in the content production industry. The Internet and desktop software make movie production and distribution cheaper, but not by that much. It still takes thousands of people and millions to hundreds of millions of dollars to make a movie. This isn't likely to change in the next few decades. This incredible cost of production and large fixed overhead, combined with vast demand for the product, mean there will always be opportunities for movie producers to make money, even if the entire way we distribute and consume movies is turned on its head.

As for the emotional impact disruption: most of the disruption is happening on the financial side; the alleged reason these people are trusted with billions of dollars is because they can put on their big boy pants and adapt to changing business circumstances, because business circumstances are always changing. For the people in the trenches, stuff isn't changing that much. The percentage of revenue from PPV vs DVD sales vs Licensing only matters to a grip if they have a really bizarre contract.
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Then I'd be in shape, out enjoying my bicycle in the local hills, have a lot more time for my kids and wife, and computer time would probably just be "fooling around with open source stuff" - I do enjoy programming so I would not want to give it up. Sounds nice, I'd like to sign up.
https://sites.google.com/site/livingwithoutmoney/Home/19--wh...
>It is much more civilized than many nations and has much of the institutions that make a modern nation. Just that the military and religious extremism

Given that the Pakistani military and ISI control so much of Pakistan's government, is this a worthwhile distinction?
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Going to see a movie in a theater on Friday night for $10/person I think would be considered a luxury by many also.

I think the point I'm making is that the movies and music you want to be available day one for $CHEAP is not going to happen just because price discrimination makes sense for entertainment which isn't a necessity.
If you want a friendlier introduction to the topic with some basic patterns to optimize for it, I wrote a chapter in my book on game programming about caching:

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/data-locality.html

While the book is ostensibly about games, there's relatively little game-specific about it.
MOTHER OF GOD.

...so it has come to this.
Oculus, pah!

http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/02/technical-illusions-aims-f...
My life would be more like a star trek character beamed to an undeveloped planet.

Picard - "People are no longer obsessed with the accumulation of 'things'. We have eliminated hunger, want, the need for possessions."
I am working under H1B right now. My understanding is if I lose my job or quit, I lose my H1B Status automatically.

I do not understand how could he quit his job and search for another job for 3 months using the same H1B.

I might be missing something here.
I go for Walk, specially late night after 10:30 pm.

I actually try to go for 3 walks every day, one in the noon, one the evening and one in the night, as I see people (I am in India so there are people everywhere!) and as I talk to them, it makes me feel good and often relaxes.

People say Music also relaxes but honestly, you should leave your desk and room if you really want to get out of work mode.
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OK, that line makes more sense now, thanks.
You could also find yourself on a totally unexpected path where years of development experience comes in handy and makes you a very fast learner.

http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/16/homeless-to-hacker-how-the...
You may want to look in to what happened when Hyderabad was annexed to India in 1948.
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Would you care to point out some of the inconsistencies/falsehoods in the article?
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I sort of hope someday to be in an interview where they ask that question. I'm pretty sure I could go an hour straight on it. Possibly two. Obviously, they won't let me. But still, it ought to be fun... I'll probably get stopped somewhere around the CPU trying to figure out which layer of cache the kernel's event handler is in, if not before....
> for $1.99 or some other trivial amount, until then they are just being ignorant.

How did you get to this number? Its pretty bold to call them ignorant for pricing it this way if you don't have the economics to back this up. Fact of the matter is, content isn't cheap to produce and at some point either the cost to produce a Breaking Bad goes down, or there is a model that can keep the lights on for these studios.

Those long tail prices ($1.99/ep on iTunes and the like) are heavily subsidized by advertising during the airing of the show. Cable networks make almost more than half of their yearly revenue from advertising. The true price of each episode may be much more than $1.99 once you factor in how much is being paid by advertiser. A day one $1.99/ep may not even be economically feasible. The fact that television media costs so much more upfront has nothing to do with (consumer) price discrimination.
I've joked that the ultimate tech hipsters need to use the Rift + Glass at the same time to look at a virtual Pebble watch on their arm...
C'mon dude, if you're going to flex, you gotta mention Let Over Lambda!
"And access to source code for this price? Damn"

That's pretty standard. I spoke to a guy working with the Cryengine, and he said that it was so full of unfinished features and bugs that you were absolutely forced to work on the engine's codebase.
We cannot enact change that affects billions of lives and then say “fend for yourself, figure out the new rules”.

Not only can we, but we did.

It's very natural to feel horrified with the events as they unfold, but there's really nothing that will stop it. Hacker culture is hardwired to prevent ostracization of the kinds of people who build Popcorn Time. In fact, they're considered noble.

What we should focus on is how to find new revenues to fund media creation. It's not a good idea to try to change the culture.
Umm yes you are. The genocidal violence was not a one sided affair. Numerous sources say that it was instigated by the Muslim League to further their case for a separate nation.

In any case, the 15 odd percent Muslims in India are proof enough that the word genocidal is not appropriate here.
I'd do what Tom does http://instagram.com/myspacetom
5% of Minecraft, LoL, Candy Crush is pretty good moneymaker. If you catch early the next indie breakout hit ... you could look at millions down the road. You also make sure that any indie is well acquainted in the engine - so if the studios get aquihired ... you have your own free sale force on the inside.

Although I would really like Unity or Carmack to make an engine that is potent enough to threaten UE. The unreal homogenization is probably not that good in the long term. Healthy competition is a must.
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It's who you talk to, where and how. Probably no bank in Palo Alto will invest, but they may consider a loan with collateral.
I don't think I could ever succeed at this.
Bleh. Most media right now is available digitally.

Don't equate the entire box office at the theater not being available right now on Netflix for $7/month as them being a dinosaur, it is because doing so would be terrible for their bottom line. No one would be paying $20 for a BluRay or $7-12 for a movie ticket if everything was available right now in HD at your house for a flat fee.
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https://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/listings/
"Sure, it looks like I created a useful app that numerous people use, and debugged numerous API problems that popped up and impeded its successful operation, but the reality is I was just aimlessly groping through life, and people don't realize that every once of enjoyment or efficiency they got from the app was entirely fake."

... Er, no. There's only so much complex, useful stuff one can produce, before you have to conclude, "okay, that person understands something."
>suppression of culture they don't control

What example are you thinking of?
> Curious about the real-world results, I quickly grabbed a link to an artist I know, Andy Zipf, and put his song through Chordify. I played along with the results for most of the song, but wanted to see if the chords were right, directly from the source. I sent Zipf a message on Twitter asking and he responded, “Looks correct.”

> http://t.co/aMUnHJiQcP

Perhaps I'm foolish to question the artist about the chords of his own song, but it certainly doesn't look quite right to me. Each phrase in the verse starts on an A, and the algorithm misses that a few times. When the whole band starts, a lot more chord changes get missed, which seems odd to me based on the description of the algorithm.

Also, it would be nice if the tool attempted to identify a tonal center ("key") of the song, and use that to spell the chords more appropriately. For a lot of pop music, this would be fairly easy and reliable. In this song, the tonal center is clearly E, and it would be nice if the C#m wasn't spelled as Dbm.
Don't know much of anything detailed about "South America", which is a fairly big place, but a bit of time there beyond a vacation would probably do wonders for the kids in any case. My kids, wife and I live in Italy now, but I hope in the future that we'll get to live a bit in the US (where I'm from) so that they get to experience that, too.
This looks helpful for people who are already very code-literate. But it seems like "101" should start with the absolute basics, stuff like classical cyphers, the history of cryptography, and definitions of basic terms. I realize that's not what the HN crowd really needs, but it would be a good place for hundreds of millions who are interested in learning what it really means for something to be secure, encrypted, hashed, etc. Anyone have a favorite resource to this end?
This is a little like arguing that someone else's meaning of life is incorrect. There are different philosophies, and those that argue being able to recognize you have enough is important have been accused of being selfish. I remember a conversation where someone was appalled that that was how Pope John Paul essentially wrote off Buddhism in one of his books.

The author is the real deal in the sense that he did choose to decide he had enough, and set up a foundation to support music education and began advocating for entrepreneurship.[1] Maybe the reality is that Derek Sivers does not believe that he could as effectively manage a larger foundation as he can manage a smaller foundation like the one he set up. You might not make the same decisions as he did. I wouldn't, and I disagree with the extent to which he seems to have taken "mo' money, mo' problems" to heart. However, you could also say that his quality of life is maximized by him being the one who makes those calls, which may be a suitable localized goal, maximizing global benefit more than if he were striving to his limit in supporting more ambitious goals.

[1] https://sivers.org/trust
You seem to think that the MPAA == movies && RIAA == music. That is simply not true. Movies existed long before the MPAA, and music existed before publishing studios of any sort.

We don't need them.

Music has especially made some good strides in the last few years with self-published music. Not only that, but there are some publishers that don't belong to the RIAA. That may or may not make them better; I can't prove they're not lobbying right alongside the RIAA anyway, but I digress.

I'll admit that movies are a bit behind music in this regard. Blockbusters simply cost more to make than music. Still, even if studios are needed for the huge-budget movies, they aren't needed in our goddamned government. Besides, indie films (many of which receive numerous awards every year) are low budget affairs. I enjoy the brainless action movie as much as the next hairy male, but I'd argue society needs less of those and more of the kind that make you think.

That's something we seem to be forgetting how to do.
> Most of our concerns about money are definitely 1st-world. Keeping up with expectations - school, housing, car, travel. Most of the world doesn't have these concerns.

You'd be surprised. In fact, I'd say quite the opposite: poor people in developing countries are even more concerned with appearances and expectations (for example, I have heard a lot of stories about people who can barely afford rent/food, but they drive a BMW or own a smartphone).
Also, some encryption systems integrate compression; like OpenPGP -- it supports ZIP, ZLIB, and BZIP2. So in such case, it may well be just sufficient to encrypt uncompressed data.
I imagine it saves bandwidth.
> What are some ways that such an investment could make sense?

My intuition is that patronage systems lead to undue influence. If Coke will fund your video series, they'll want something in return, usually advertisements. That then leads a subtle (or not) influence on the content.

I think the best way to avoid that ultimately is crowd funding on a more massive scale, i.e. 10s-100s of millions of dollar, but that comes with a whole bag of issues.
What tool do you use to track changes in a project?
Say you area working in a freelance project (design or coding). And the client starts asking for changes. Lots of changes. Which tool do you use to keep track of all the changes? And what happens when things go wrong and you need to show him a history of all the changes and the details?
The Web is eating software
I very much wish the companies creating TV shows, movies and music would publish a rate schedule like a stock photo company. Anyone can licence that content for distribution at the rates published. That way, it would be possible to create tech companies which deliver this content in a way people are interested in consuming it with a full library of content.

I have money, I have a job, I'm willing to pay for what I consume, I just am not willing to wait while low quality video buffers on my TV after struggling to find a source for the content I'm interested in.
Are you referring to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Polo

"After a stalemate in negotiations between the Nizam and India, mass killing and rape of the Hindu population by Razakars, and wary of a hostile independent state in the centre of India, Deputy Prime Minister Sardar Patel decided to annex the state of Hyderabad."

Wow, good thing that genocidal Nizam was forcibly put down...