skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So seems unlikely to be true, and just be the guy from Van Halen telling a fun story.

Either that or the no brown M&M's clause became so well known later on that it wasn't useful as a litmus test anymore.
Because everyone needs help at some point in their lives and oftentimes a kind gesture from someone is all they need to get started turning things around.
The fact is that Google is only deploying fiber in cities that give massive regulatory concessions: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/how-kansas-city-t....

It's very legitimate to ask whether Google would invest in fiber were it regulated under Title II, because to date they have expressed the distinct unwillingness to enter municipal markets with heavy telecom regulation. They won't even agree to build-out requirements, which are pretty much standard for cable franchises.
In this context we are talking about a merchant selling a product through a marketplace platform, not a purchase. Signing up as a merchant with a just a debit card is potentially a lower barrier to entry, especially for one-off, occasional situations. The alternative isn't your credit-card, it is your bank routing and account number.
puts glasses on ah. :-$
Cheers for the link! (But that is Diamond Dave telling the story!)
Is he a particularly noted person? Maybe just in the emacs community? I don't know who he is and that resume is pretty skimpy.

It seems that his biggest need right now is self-presentation and that's a pretty tough thing to acquire on short notice.

I'd also say there would likely be way more opportunities for someone of his skillset outside of the valley, where the skimpy resume probably looks even skimpier by comparison.

I realize leaving is tough when you don't have a car, but he also won't have a home soon. Some relocation may be in order. Best of luck to him either way.
Could you provide a link to the source for the sandbox implementation?
Well clearly to do it from the UI you would open the previous version of the source that you want to deploy and then click Publish again.
Honestly curious: has it ever been a practical problem to you or somebody you know?
Not cool at all if this is true. They gave you no obvious credit.
If you are procrastinating that much, to the point you are on the verge of literally dying or starving, there is probably an underlying issue like social anxiety, depression, etc that is triggering the procrastination reaction as an avoidance mechanism. I am not sure he is really "enjoying" it, despite what he said. (I am not a psychologist but I play one on Internet.)
Xah's website has been an amazing resource for emacs users, me included. I really hope someone can help him out a bit.
There's a lot more to car use than simply pollution. Read Illich or Kunstler on the sorts of cultural changes that rapid transportation has produced.

I think when Postman speaks of caution, he is arguing against a technocratic perspective that sees any and all technology as ultimately good because it is the primary means of fixing a problem. I think Postman (and others like him) would argue that technology can be good and useful, but it becomes dangerous when we perceive every issue facing humanity as simply a technical problem.

Regarding ads on TV, what constitutes a "public" station in France? Public stations in the U.S. do not have commercials, but I suspect the average American is watching a private station, which has commercials every ten minutes.
How do you stay informed on economics? Any tips or recommendations?
Right, but you are left with an extra 800 posters, which have already been printed and just have to be shipped. Had you just done a printing run to fulfill the commitment to the backers, you'd be left with more profit from the project at this point, but instead you've been paid less, with the potential for more revenue with higher margins. More risk, (potentially) more reward.
Sounds like a case for bitcoin.
This is a post-facto rationalization. It's no wonder you lost.
Yes, it is. The perceived authority here is society. Everyone should call their mom, right? Wrong.
Lee is a noted Internet crank, very sure he's completely brilliant and everyone else is a moron. I remember his flaming about the quality of the Python documentation, e.g. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-April/310...
I know that's his point.

I just think that history has proven his point wrong.

None of his examples - Zuckerberg, Gates, Brin or Page got rich out of creating a whole new concept - social media, OSs and search engines existed and were fairly successful things before any of those came along. They all got rich by a combination of building a better mousetrap, smart business moves and luck.

And if someone else comes along and does any of those things (or any other existing business concept) far better than any of these people, or come up with a success enough differentiator in the the same general industry sector - like Jack Dorsey et al did with Twitter for example - they may well become wildly rich as well.

Of course, the more established an industry sector is, the harder and harder it becomes to do something that is differentiating enough to allow you to become wildly rich from it. But there's countless examples across countless industries that show it's far from impossible. People still become hugely rich from innovations in banking, in retail and transport. And none of those are new industries.
> while in the US or France, it is almost immediate.

You seem to operate under the assumption that healthcare in France is private. It isn't. It's underfunded and has had a gaping deficit for as long as I can remember, but it still sort of works.

> The government doesn't have a profit motive, thus they have no incentives.

The government doesn't have a "profit motive". They have what is called a "mandate to deliver a public service". Which means that they're not going to deliberately screw over non-profitable areas. Not to say that everything is rosy (see, eg, the absolutely shameful state of the French penal system), but they're trying. As a bonus, you can compare the (privatized) UK railroad system and the (still public) French railroad system, and run a customer satisfaction survey.
Like most things with OS X, the built-in tools and behaviors are horrible and broken and is fixed by installing any one of a few dozen community built fixes (there seems to be a category of roughly equivalent utilities like this for virtually every single piece of the OS).

Apple simply refuses to fix this basic stuff and I avoid interacting with the GUI bits of OS X as much as possible. At least you can finally resize windows from more than just the bottom right corner, that's a win I guess.
Dokku is awesome (as is Docker which it builds on). The guy that wrote it (Jeff Lindsay) has been working on Flynn for the past 6 months - https://flynn.io/ - think of Flynn like a 'multi host dokku'
> Who would hire a 45 year old programmer? Certainly good as dead. Have fun at the laundry.

That's... age discrimination.

This is illegal in California.

He could get hire if he can past interviews or have notable projects.
Totally OT, but when I was a kid, raw oatmeal and brown sugar was one of my favorite treats.I hated it cooked. Even now, I still like raw oats right off the stalk, though it's a lot of work for such small reward.
It is possible to do. He just needs to hire enough people. And presumably he should pass along the cost.
Hey plam - I think it is a good idea. I like the project based approach of getting mentors to help interns learn while working on useful projects.

There are many challenges: finding mentors, finding good projects, managing the projects, etc. But I think they can be addressed.

There are some other people that would be interested in your idea at P2PU. If you'd like, share your idea on thepeople.p2pu.org
> Turing-complete and thus capable of mischief.

because something is "Turing-complete", does not imply it is capable of mischief.

something can be capable of mischief, yet not "Turing-complete."
Terrible but self-inflicted?
I think the litmus test being suggested is to include the joke RFC in the reference section of a different technical specification as a way to verify the specification is being reviewed in detail.
Pragmatism over integrity, in my view.
It's obvious the guy needs some help to help him "pull out". Whether it's a friend, a psychologist, a psychiatrist or a "mystical" experience, he needs something.

There's no point criticizing him, it's obvious nobody would hire him until he "pulls himself out of the hole". But if you live near him and have some spare time / expertise / willingness to help, be a decent human being and help him get to someone that could help or hire him.

Most of are are not as "autonomous" as we think we are, and in unfavorable circumstances, we can all fall off the tracks. And get over the "but don't know the value of maintaining a basic financial safety net"... it's obvious that he already lost the "social safety net" of friends that could have told him this and probably a "psychological balance safety net" too, so it's a bit too late to be any point in telling him this...
He could start by rewriting his resume. This in particular stands out -

Accomplishment highlights:
* Autodidact. High school dropout. No degree.

To almost any employer, that is not an accomplishment, much less a highlight! If you're a high school dropout who is very accomplished since then, just silently drop any mention of your education from your resume. Everyone will assume that you left it off because it's irrelevant given all your experience since then.

If the first paragraph of your resume calls attention to the fact that you didn't even graduate high school, it sets a bad tone for the rest. Many people will throw your resume away without reading further.
20 bytes is the limit for what you can stuff into a transaction.
A -1 is often used to see if someone isn't sanitizing input correctly, as under certain circumstances it generates a numerical underflow. I see people looking for vulnerabilities feeding -1 to the HTML content-length header all the time. If it's generating errors in your app, perhaps you need to look at you're handling that field.
Apple reportedly acknowledges hijacked text message problem
Exactly...and then those are interesting in _how_ they became the dominant player. Did they offer something the predecessor didn't, etc. Why MS succeeded can be argued around various points re: digital (re: CP/M), the boom of compatibility issues with the 808x machines (back in the DOS days and the proliferation of white box machines (aka IBM compatibles)), and the failure of OS/2 (I'm sure it's more complex than this, but.... Google succeeded as it was (imo) largely faster and more complete than the akebono preliminary as well as the adoption/evolution of the goto.com advertising paradigm. As to how facebook beat out myspace? I haven't heard convincing arguments that are definitive; however, they appear to have placed more of a focus on social aspects than myspace did (and they were less "geocities-like").
What should happen due to this outage:

Adobe Management: Oh no, our users cannot work. Let's remove the requirement for our software to phone home just to open/work.

What will probably happen:

Adobe Management: Hmm, maybe let's try to make our servers more available?
Researcher creates 'holodeck' with Oculus and Kinect
Well, handicap also destroys Go's standard opening theory, which is very extensive. (Start with 4-volume Dictionary of Basic Fuseki: while far from comprehensive, it covers basics well.)

But! Handicap is common enough in Go that there is opening theory for handicapped games! This may not apply to Chess directly, but my point is that if handicap is a normal part of the game, you will have opening theory for handicapped games. This is kind of obvious if you think about it.
Wow... I don't even have words. I get that your comment is supposed to be dark humour but that's pretty heartless, this guys got actual troubles.
I am completely affected by this. Apple needs to compensate users and fix immediately. Ruined a recent vacation this by not getting peoples texts.
You should have a look at https://www.catchafire.org/. They help match up interns and non-profits (for a fee that is).
Could be one of many reasons, anxiety or other mental illnesses comes to mind.
It seems like you are ignoring the context in which this is happening. People aren't going for the CS2 or cracked CS6 because they want to, they are going for it because the service they have paid for is gone.
> I'm quite curious what would happen if DRM got banned and everything had to be open.

While I personally support many copyright reforms, chief among them is that any work that is DRMed should be exempt from copyright protection.

They should be forced to choose which they want, and not be allowed both. When they DRM a work, they're stealing from the future public domain... this has already happened, and the problem will only grow bigger.

Right now, there exists media that cannot be recovered because of DRM. It's the Divx optical disc format from about 1999. Everything released on that format was released on others as well, so thankfully all of it is recoverable. But if there were works that could only be found on that (which is very plausible, considering that many older works exist only on some surviving piece of a single format)... then the crypto keys to recover them are already gone.

Since the entire point of copyright is that you only get this protection so that the work may eventually enter the public domain, and since DRM will someday serve to make that impossible, no work that employs it should enjoy copyright protection.
I got my gamecube with two controllers for $20 at Electronic Boutique... recommend+++ :D

$20 folks! There is no arguing there. I play my OUYA more than the GC but they are the two consoles I like the most and I have a ps3....
Reading his name brought back memories of him trolling on comp.lang.perl.misc - that's gotta be 15+ years ago now...
That's a pretty heavy statement to only spend 6 words on.
Websites Throttle FCC Staffers to Protest Gutting of Net Neutrality
Believe it or not you will be 45 some day.
Hi all,
Following up on all your comments here. Thanks for the replies and comments.

> Yes, Liftmaster/Sears/Craftsman have similar products. I propose mine as an add-on to existing systems in a more universal way. Plus, nothing wrong with a little competition (although the tech world these days hates it).

> Opening or closing your door could be useful if you left the house and forgot, or a friend is coming over, or a contractor to do some work. This is noted below as well.

> As for security, the backbone communication system is designed to communicate device <-> server via https. So there is some security there. We are working very hard on this to implement something very strong.

> Schedules will work regardless if the network is up or down. These are synced anytime the network is up, but the device runs them as needed. No internet needed.

> If something is below the door, than you would have the same issue as if someone pushed a remote button. The laser sensor may or may not be tripped, and the door-load (how much force to close) may or may not be tripped. Nothing Portal can do here.

> In regards to the setup. No, it is not "zero"...fixed the website. As for 5 minutes, absolutely. The trigger is simply another wired remote, two wires. The sensor is prewired and just needs to be placed. No soldering, building circuit boards, etc.

> Yes, if the Portal service/servers or the internet connection is down in between, Portal will not work. It is meant to be an add on to RF remotes. However, we do provide a default website on the device with a PIN code for activating the door. Currently, its not so polished as it isn't the main focus. But needless to say, it works.

> If someone gains access to your phone, than yes they could open/close your garage. Just like losing your car remote. You could always log out of the app.

> Portal is a product and a service. Nest like model: buy the hardware, the software does not have a monthly fee.
I honestly cant tell if your statement is a joke, if youre a confused person, or if this statement reflects a sign of our current culture
Currently work at both a nonprofit and a startup, so this is fairly interesting.

I think for something like this to work, you'd have to get approval for a project and the scope/timeline before anyone is on-boarded. I'm fairly fortunate where I work, but a lot of times, getting buy-in can take long and be a rather painful process.

Also, do you have a scope of what type of things can be built? It would be beneficial to work out of a common Github/etc. so that future projects can build off of previous, and updates can be rolled out this way. For example, I know an organization I used to work with wanted a simple reception app - schedule an appointment, and it sends out reminders via text and/or email on the timing, and then it can also be used to check in. This would be simple using Twilio/Tropo and could be super easy to save in a state for other orgs to plug in and start using.

Great idea by the way - excited to see where this goes :)
Well, poor you. You don't own yourself, Lords own you. Why blame Soros? Praise him that he didn't help Lords sell you for organs.

For alternatives, see Ukraine with its Maidan.
Xah, if you're reading this: Based on the comments on your page it is not clear whether you can or can't accept money via Paypal. Your Emacs resources have always been very helpful to me. I'd be willing to send you some money. Do you happen to have a Bitcoin address that I could send something to?
Looking for great RoR front-end developers/designers. 
I've got a few contracts on the table that I could use your help with (I'm a back-end developer). Send a message if you fit the bill! :-)

pblogsltd@gmail.com
if you go with an amazon solution, it should absolutely be mechanical turk!

https://aws.amazon.com/mturk/
I don't think anyone should judge him based on the small amount of information available. I understand that his situation is mostly his fault, but there may be other things at play. Why be so fast to condemn someone when an unfortunate sequence of events could've put some of us into a similar situation? I'm not defending Xah Lee's irresponsibility nor I am defending people who condemn him, I just want to say that we are all imperfect, after all, and these kinds of things can and do happen because of that fact.
> 8 thousand visitors per day. 240 thousand visitors per month

Could he set up Google Ads on there - automatic, passive income that just goes straight into his account?
More Games Added To Steam In 2014 Than All Of 2013
Patent 08308664 - Tremor stabilizing system for handheld devices United States

Assignees: The regents of the University of Michigan.

Company research? Private investors? Where?
I don't know if he updated the page since you read it, but it says he would prefer a check sent to him or 2 professor associates of his. I'm sure he will be able to use the money on paypal too and he is open to donations using it.
I have a deep and lingering suspicion that humans are a "weak hive mind" species. If we use the metaphor that the human brain is a computer, and that human communication is networking... this means that the "you" is software.

In such circumstances, why would we expect that software to run on one and only one computer node in the network? Do you know of many software applications that do that?

If this were true though, what would happen when all the other nodes become disconnected? The remaining node is probably going to malfunction...
For those in the UK who can't see it:

http://archive.today/HLzWo
MIT Aims to Solve World Food and Water Shortages
>From the article: > If the Idaho stop were legalized, it'd get cyclists off these faster streets and funnel the bikes on to safer, slower roads. The Idaho stop, if legalized and widely adopted, would also make bikes more predictable.

This is bullshit and speculation. You really think it'd get bicyclists to take the small streets? It won't. They use the "big streets" because they're the most efficient, they don't give a shit about road laws regardless of the size of the street.
45 year old programmers most likely have seen everything come around the block more than a few times in their careers and realize fads / crap ideas when they see them. E.g. Yet another build system

I work with a 42 year old and by far he's the person I've learned the most from even though he "still uses Perl" (I love Perl btw) and I'm trying to convince him to learn Git and abandon CVS.
Help FarmLogs build data driven, autonomous agriculture
He used to be trolling all over Usenet. There's a good chance he's made a very bad impression on just about anyone now in a position to hire him.
What is MyLinux?

Xah Lee seems like a helpful guy and a decent coder, and I was saddened to find out later that he could also be a highly unpleasant troll. Now, I'm saddened to learn that being an unpleasant troll and failing to file taxes has caught up with him. I hate to hear of him washing dishes for a living, but I can't say I'd jump to give him money, and I wouldn't put my reputation on the line by recommending him for a job.
>Since the entire point of copyright is that you only get this protection so that the work may eventually enter the public domain

I've never heard that described as the purpose of copyright law. Why would it be? In the absence of copyright law, all works would effectively be in the public domain.

I believe you're thinking of patent law. To get a patent, you have to release the details of your invention, which you could keep private otherwise. There's nothing equivalent with copyright law.
I fail to see how it weakens the argument that none of the utilities are without viable backup (as opposed to a one-of-a-kind SaaS).
I love Python but I have to admit: the Python regex docs don't let you get stuff done quickly.
Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
-- N N Taleb
> What happens when say a company like Comcast owns a stake in a company like Netflix and conspire to extort a competitor like Hulu (asking for exorbitant amounts of cash for speed).

Comcast actually owns part of Hulu, but its a purely economic ownership interest (See https://www.fcc.gov/transaction/comcast-nbcu for more information)
As soon as a popup like that happens, I just close the tab.
Hey plam, funny that you mention this — I'm currently building something slightly similar (platform-wise).

Background: I help run CoderDojo NYC and we're always looking for technical volunteers to help at our events. After speaking with a few other teach-kids-to-code organizations, we realized that they had the same problem.

Our solution: https://github.com/carlsednaoui/nycio (it's a work in progress). It will look like this: http://www.nyc.io/ Everything is open-sourced — we're also looking for more contributors if anybody wants to help.

How to get volunteers? We're partnering up with NYTM to build the tech volunteer pool and help them connect with organizations. You could imagine doing the same on your end but with different schools and organizations (happy to send intros where relevant).

Let me know what you think. If you want to chat more we can connect via email <username>@gmail...com
Finally, a credible iPhone 6 release date
> If you enable case sensitivity on OSX filesystem

...

why would you do that to yourself!?
Cool article! If you're interested in how to do pathfinding in 3d, there's a very interesting library called Recast that does this [0]. The author also has a blog where he wrote about his progress, but that seems to have gone quiet. [1]

[0] https://github.com/memononen/recastnavigation
[1] http://digestingduck.blogspot.com/
If you haven't seen it, the following video is amazing.
The glacier that's falling apart is about the size of
Manhattan.

"CHASING ICE captures largest glacier calving ever filmed"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC3VTgIPoGU
Islamist Hate Preacher” Abu Hamza Is an MI5 Agent
He spent decades trolling everyone and everything on Usenet and mailing lists. He had it coming.