skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. When you have more capital, you have more opportunities to invest.

I remember a good friend of mine who's quite wealthy was talking to my brother-in-law and I at lunch. My brother-in-law had recently closed on a house he was intending to flip. My friend then said to my brother-in-law, "Next time you see an offer like that come through, call me. I can get you that money within 24 hours." Somewhat stunned at with my friend's offer, I then realized that the more capital you have, the more investments routes you have to your disposal.
I have to say, I lost a bit of respect for the author when he says

>"polygraph tests measuring blood pressure, perspiration, pulse and skin conductivity can pinpoint a lie with tremendous accuracy."

I'm sure polygraphs aren't useless, but to say that they have "tremendous accuracy" seems exaggerated.

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph#Validity
Keep in mind that many people who believe they're hitting the limits of their means simply don't have the personal will(not that it's their fault) to pick up that book which would tell them they could save enough and invest pretty well with some basic knowledge. And typically they wouldn't need to sacrifice quality of life.

I know lots of young people here in Canada at least work paycheck-to-paycheck but instead of buying stocks or at least saving, they will spend their unaccounted money on booze and video games(if they have any at all), it wouldn't take much for them to save up a couple thousand bucks and invest in something better for themselves. They just don't want to, or don't know how to make that sort of decision.

Then of course there are people who are ACTUALLY poor, that's where my empathy starts. I recently helped a homeless man work the computers at the local library(not that I consider that a significant act in itself), and I know just how hard it is to work with people who are seriously SOL; they're even resistant to help. That said, I don't think being harder on billionaires is going to help people down on their luck, it's only going to serve the egos of those who have no idea what it means to be in either of those positions.

EDIT: It seems people misunderstood what I meant by investment. I include in this investing in things like transportation, raw materials, and (if applicable) time off to pursue greater potential, and not just playing markets and buying shares.
Ah, got it. I suppose they wouldn't need Dropbox at all if they were SaaS-based.
And today offers more opportunities for rapid scaling of successful investments (key word: rapid) than ever before - which is why the rich are getting richer faster.
Didn't some of the Transmeta people end up at PA Semi too?
I'm afraid you've missed the point. Based on the data 1% is NOT "offenders" as you put it. That iss what's interesting.
Take another look at the last graph. The share of wealth for the 1% except the 0.1% has NOT changed in the last 50 years (~11%). Yet during same time period share of wealth for the 0.1% has quadrupled.
I agree, and Eagle is utter crap compared to Altium. If the project isn't aiming to eat Altium's lunch, it isn't going to get where it needs to be. And you'd want to have relentless focus on usability. I've followed the KiCad development a bit, but I wasn't inspired. I'd love to work on such a project. I just don't know how to fund it.
Why does it need to be restarted ? It seems that when I save a file, the changes reflect on the site automatically
The ONLY reason HFT companies invest money to shave milliseconds is to have quicker access to orders that come into the system (this article elaborates: http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2012/09/20/collocation-the-r...)

It absolutely has nothing to do with reacting to real-world events. So if all activity were to take place at 1 second intervals (kind of like microprocessor clock) - their main advantage would go away.
On an N95 I remember it running even better than that. That port was actually amazing, and it even supported a full KB & Mouse via Bluetooth.
I would like to learn a different framework, but:
Is it really recommended to learn git in the end?
I love this. If you want any art to start off with, CodeCombat has a bunch of vector stuff that's open source and are always adding more: http://codecombat.com/editor/thang

We also have a few music tracks we've commissioned that are Creative Commons if you're interested, like http://codecombat.com/file/music/music_level_5.mp3
See http://learn.agilebits.com/1Password4/Security/keychain-desi... for more information on the keychain design, in particular:

'Some metadata remains unencrypted: Which folder an item is in; what category (Login, Credit Card, …) an item belongs to; creation time; modify time; and last sync time.

The item UUIDs are fully available, which can be used to determine how many attachments, if any, an item has associated with it. The UUID of any folder an item belongs to is unencrypted, and thus an attacker can determine which items are in the same folder.'
You should check out Zoneminder: https://github.com/ZoneMinder/ZoneMinder The development has been re-started and the project seems to be shaping up very well, I'm using it as well as many others.
If your 1Password usage is limited to Apple devices, iCloud is another alternative. But since the 1Password keychain is encrypted, it should not matter where you store it in the end.
You don't have to go that far back to find an editor who's willing to pay the symbolic price when it comes to influencing customers and advertisers by modifying press coverage.

Just last week, Ben Richardson, Bloomberg News' editor-at-large for Asia, resigned his post over Bloomberg management's pressure on their journalists to refrain from producing articles critical of China.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/09/world/asia/bloomberg-news-...
Looking at the name, at first I thought ffmpeg author and general programming god Fabrice Bellard had come up with it.
That's awesome! Bookmarked
But this analysis doesn't explain the change in the share of income the %1 has accumulated to itself in the last 30 years.

In other words if this analysis were complete, we would expect to see straight line growth.
Fake job listings to get users?
Hi guys,

I'm a first-time poster but long-time start-up fan.

Recently I started looking for some work to help me through college. I found a job on my school internship page and applied, but a few things made me suspicious.

First, the job was for a "content selector", who must find good content and "push it through" to the site. But on this site, that is exactly what the users are supposed to do. Why hire someone to do the users job?

Second, they ask the applicant to sign up on the site and post a certain number of items, then include their username as proof. I have never seen that as a requirement before.

When I applied, I mentioned I found a large bug. But their response to my application was very canned-sounding and they did not ask about the bug. Instead, they asked me to give feedback on the invite-a-friend feature.

I responded that I would give my feedback during the interview instead. After sending a follow up a few days later, I still haven't heard a non-cut-and-paste response.

I noticed that the job is not posted on my city's de-facto job boards. It's only on my college internship page and their Twitter, from what I see.

Also, it's "to be done remotely", and I see a few users on the site who have about the same amount of activity as I do, from different areas.

Does this sound like a ploy to get users to anyone else? Is there a way it could be proven, if it is? Is this illegal? Is this common in startups? Who can I report this to?

Thanks a for reading.
I've only been glacing here and there, but I keep seeing discussion of uploading ones private key to keybase being an actual mechanism that is supported / encouraged / extant ?

Surely not...
Mt. Gox CEO allegedly used customer funds to cover exchange’s expenses
Wouldn't an emulator actually be faster on high-end hardware? Then you can run native tools at much faster than Pi execution speed, right?
If the 1% don't churn into the 0.01% when it loses 75% of its members, then where do the replacements come from?

I agree though, longitudinal studies are the most interesting.
True, true... But I think (some|most|a lot) of us see it as something of a microcosm of real life, and base some our (hopes|expectations|whatever) in terms of real life "things".
Ruler and compass construction of a pentagon, visualized.
A proof of concept: visually describe the construction of a pentagon with the only use of ruler and compass.
I see a lot of complaints that employers want X years of experience in a framework that has been out only X years or even less than X years.

Also see complaints about having to keep up with too many new frameworks/libraries etc.

Hopefully both good developers and good employers/clients will realize that frameworks are like cars.

You might be a mechanic who specializes in Corvettes but that doesn't mean you can't change the tires, do the brakes, or diagnose the oxygen sensor on a another make or model.

The really valuable skills, in developers or mechanics are knowing your tools and how to choose the best one for the job, knowing the diagnostic/troubleshooting process and knowing the underlying systems that make a program/vehicle run.

Sure there will be little gotchas or time-savers that a specialist will have developed but those are usually mitigated by joining a team that can point them out to you or just by working with the new framework/library for a while. They certainly don't prevent you from being productive.
What this really shows is an increase in the frequency of 1-time events such as IPOs or sales. There is no value, one way or the other, in using cross-sectional data (this article) to describe longitudinal shifts (the rich get richer). It's just irrelevant.
BTW, what happened to Dropbox becoming an iCloud alternative?

I rarely use Dropbox to sync app data because it's always fully visible in Dropbox and messes up my directory structure. (Although chflags hidden usually helps …)
Social Engineering and Unintentional Insider Threat
You've got to be joking. You don't see how a comic about a character denying the increasing heat surrounding her relates to people in the real world denying global warming exists?
Contact AWS Support, I saw a case of this where a user bought RIs a few days ago and they offered a refund for the RIs, at which point they can decide to buy it again using the new lower price or just stick with on-demand.
Yeah, that could be it too.

I'm really just responding to the idea that "a mole" is farfetched. There's a reason that Apple is known for being incredibly paranoid about people leaking business secrets: it happens, often.
yes, trademarks do not need to be registered and can be used before filing for it.
I don't get why they restrict the programming languages that can be used. Why can't I just use whatever programming language I please?
Ask HN: Recommend tools to manipulate massive (5 million line) csv files.
Hi HN,

I've been tasked with analyzing a massive dataset and checking for inconsistencies. The data set contains over 5 million lines which makes traditional tools (excel, OOspreadsheet) utterly useless and brings more specialized tools (CSVed) to their knees.

I understand this is well within db territory. In the chance that there are tools out there that can sort and visualize large datasets, I would greatly appreciate your recommendations.
For now, the best way is to just create an account on the site. Our weekly newsletter will tell you when new stuff becomes available.
I've always considered this to be the "killer app" for AR, when it's actually ready. Seeing people pull over their car during their morning commute to catch a Pokemon that caught their eye would be hilarious.
Has anyone seen a tool or website that shows which technologies were used for which website or web app? I'm aware of BuiltWith but wondering if there is anything more framework-choosing oriented. How should I decide whether to use Angular, Meteor, Node, Backbone, Vanilla, Rails, etc
Not just fraud: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil#Fac...
Pithos: "a robust, scalable object store compatible with the S3 API."
https://keybase.io/
"Keybase.io is also a Keybase client, however certain crypto actions (signing and decrypting) are limited to users who store client-encrypted copies of their private keys on the server, an optional feature we didn't mention above.

On the website, all crypto is performed in JavaScript, in your browser. Some people have strong feelings about this, for good reason."
How can they say they're the fastest growing when Popcorn Time nearly doubled the unique contributors (95-ish to 40ish) in nearly the same time? Seems rather disingenuous to include PopcornTime clearly showing it's much younger than CodeCombat, showing at the same age of being open-source it has nearly double the unique contributors, then claiming it's growing slower than CodeCombat. Don't get me wrong, what CodeCombat is doing is great and all the well wishes to them, but I don't think they're interpreting the data very fairly.
For the domain analogy, if they have a mini mart then they are actually using the address in a non-squatting way and nobody has to rename. (and an enormous under-construction mall is clearly not squatting either)

A future project will go a good way toward keeping a domain, probably not indefinitely, isn't usually relevant to the squatting case.

TLDs don't actually signify location so getting company.xyz is not squatting.
LTS releases should probably stick to a kernel that will have long-term stable support. One example is GKH's (Greg Kroah-Hartman's) stability kernels: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2013/...

Understandably launching ubuntu 14.04 with and older kernel is less than ideal, but launching on a kernel that will lose support in 6 months is probably a worse idea.
Why did Microsoft port Office to Apple's iOS iPad before Android?
Curious: Why do people choose JavaScript/node.js to write command line apps over traditional languages for that task like python or ruby?
Have you heard of OpenRefine, formerly Google Refine? https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine
Cool idea, but as someone who as actually taken the courses in this list, the order is all out of whack. There is no way someone completely new to programming could jump into Udacity's CS253 and have any idea what is going on. Even from CS101, there is a significant gap that you have to make up for on your own.
Heroku runs on AWS (as do other competing PaaS offerings). They'll probably pass savings on to their customers, but they have to cover costs.
It is interesting that in the 'chip wars' everyone went to Intel for their chips (or Motorola) and that allowed a lot of R&D to be re-couped. But as Apple is baking their own chips, what is the market for Nvidia's Denver? It has to compete with Broadcom, Samsung, and others for a fraction of the Android device pool? Challenging to justify the levels of R&D that Apple is applying without a predictable return.

That said, I'm going to be watching for the Denver chip, it will be an interesting counter point to the A7.
Why do people choose python or ruby to write command line apps over traditional languages like BASH, PERL, and C?
There's little benefit in going substantially wider than Cyclone, but there's still a ton of room to improve performance.

Didn't AMD, and Intel more or less say the same thing about 3 wide? No real benefit from going wider. Is that because of the differences in micro architecture or is it more about getting a little more performance without having to ramp the clock speed? What makes 6 wide good for ARM but not x86 or x64?
How long had Bell been around before the Labs came to be a force to reckon with? How about Xerox with PARC?

Facebook has been around very little time by those standards, and Google only slightly longer.

Time will tell if Facebook, Google and Microsoft can live up to their contemporaries.
Why Alto?
Two Little Ducks
Upvoting the News: Reddit’s potential role in breaking news coverage
Thanks, I'll give them a read.
Jobs claimed that Apple maintained a secret x86 port of OS X for five years before the public release. A small cost.
I took the course more recently (August - Oct 2013) and the forums had most of my questions already answered in the areas where more depth was needed for me to understand a concept.
I use Dokku (self hosted Heroku) for this purpose:

https://github.com/progrium/dokku
I would highly recommend that you contact the banks for whatever accounts the money went to. If you are able to prove fraud, you may be able to work with them to freeze the accounts and then recover enough funds to cover the chargebacks. You can use the routing numbers to figure out which banks to talk to.

When I was at WePay, we used this to help recover fraud losses. It's not 100% effective (because often the account has already been drained/closed), but it's better than nothing.

In the future, I would also recommend using a PSP like WePay, Stripe, or PayPal that will handle KYC and fraud detection for you. https://www.wepay.com/api/payments-101/preventing-losses-fig...
I don't think that Apple will completely get away from x86 for a long time. Attempting to emulate the x86 on an Arm would be terribly slow.

I do however, think that they will eventually include both arm and x86 processors in the Macbook Air. That way, backwards compatibility is preserved and low power apps can run on the arm. In the current Macbook Pros they have dynamic switching of GPUs, there's no reason they couldn't use the arm as a coprocessor or even run the full OS.

Here a few technical points:

* LLVM - You can compile once for both both architecture and then the JIT will take over compiling for the specific architecture (Take a look at llvm for the OpenGL pipe line in OSX)

Full screen app- When an app is full screen (if it's a low power app) then the x86 could sleep and the arm could switch to running the app.

App nap - If all x86 apps are a sleep, switch over the running the arm processor exclusively

*Saving State - It's possible to save the state of apps in OSX, a similar mechanism could be used to seamlessly migrated between processors.

This is pure speculation, but it is feasible. There would be many technical challenges that Apple would have to solve but the a capable. The advantage Apple has is that they have absolute control over both platforms.
No R?

This list is a list of tools for pretty charts as opposed to informative charts, and the latter is much more important.
Meanwhile ARM is just a couple of (thousand) guys in Cambridge, drinking tea and talking about the weather.
The Tangled Web of the Chinese Internet
It really seems like Apple is ahead of the curve on mobile R&D. I wonder if they'll ever consider reselling some of these chips. It's unlikely Steve Jobs would've ever done it, but I'm not so sure about Tim Cook.
* Overriding almost necessarily means tight coupling - you need to understand at some level how the internal state of the superclass works to replace calls (even those that the superclass itself makes!) to methods of the superclass.*

Your problem seems more with badly constructed public apis rather than overriding itself. The only public methods of a class that should be overridable are those with a simple and well-defined expected behavior. Overriding doesn't have to imply tight coupling. So long as it adheres to some expected contract (e.g., input/output ranges and exception handling), an overridable method should be just as much a black box to the parent class as the subclass. An overridable method with no side-effects is equivalent to an initialization parameter to an encapsulated object.

* Protected methods suffer from a similar problem - what kind of api is public enough to allow access by a subclass but not public enough to allow access by a wrapper?*

You have to think of the consumers of the class. Consumers that only need to use the class and are satisfied with the publicly available interfaces only need access to the public methods. Consumers that want to change the behavior of the class (often for the benefit of other consumers) will override the protected methods. Protected methods offer a set of extension points to consumers while providing useful default behavior for those that do not need them.
Forgive me for my density, but I'm still uncertain as to what "this country" means. Does this mean that at least one member of the team must be from Finland?

Can a team of 100% Americans compete?
Interorbital satellite launched into space carrying John Frusciante’s new album
Sat-JF14 is an Interorbital satellite launched into space carrying John Frusciante’s new album ENCLOSURE.
I made another toy like this: http://wry.me/hacking/powersp.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllotaxis#Phyllotaxis_and_ma... for links to more of the math.
http://www.linux.com/news/hardware/peripherals/8211-five-fun...

http://infectedproject.wordpress.com/2007/06/26/set-up-a-web...

If anything requires ActiveX then don't use it because it's old / junk / what kind of developer creates a requirement for ActiveX these days?
There was a time at Xerox PARC when you couldn't throw a book without hitting someone who was or would become an important pioneer.

I'm not trying to discredit what Facebook is doing, or the people there, but it'll take time to build up to that level of talent. Having a few remarkable individuals is a great start. Having an entire department filled with them is going to be hard work.
> but no effective tool of censorship is. For it to survive as an effective tool, it has to provide some value in other ways.

There are laws and tools built exclusively to censor web content all around the world. That's what OP is referring to as "hard, plain sight censorship." How are tools & laws like the ones used by N. Korea, Iran, and a variety of other autocratic regimes[1] not "effective tools"? What value does something like China's "Great Firewall"[2] provide other than censorship?

Seems to be a big difference between those and the DMCA.

[1] http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/special-reports/what-next...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Shield_Project
Diceware passwords now need six random words to thwart hackers
No, the financial sense of the word "investment" isn't the only meaning that matters here, because here we're discussing the behaviour and attitudes of contributors. Its unreasonable for anyone to expect them to ignore their emotional investment and only think of things financially. If they did that, they wouldn't have contributed in the first place, and Oculus would not have gone anywhere.

Oculus benefited greatly from selling itself as the future of VR gaming. That was the image they cultivated, that is why their Kickstarter was so successful. That is why people contributed. The Facebook deal most likely means a big shift of focus to social VR. There's a big difference between hoping a company will share your personal values when it gets successful, and being sold a particular plan which is then abandoned in favour of a big payoff.
If you're mentioning open source game assets (and your site looks really good - bookmarked, too), it's also worth mentioning http://opengameart.org. Tons of good stuff there that can come in handy!