skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wanting more is a fundamental human trait. Capitalism is built upon companies wanting more and competing against each other to get more profit. Doesn't that motivation hold true for people too?

Basic income proposals offer a very minimal income. Most people will want more. Do they want to visit far away places, or drive a nicer than minimal car, or live in a larger home. There are many motivations to continue to work even if one has access to a basic income.
I'm still waiting for a Firefox version, especially to avoid Adblocks's overhead. I currently have Privoxy installed as a replacement, but it's too cumbersome.
Fair point.

It's possible when they said "efficient", they did not mean "hardware efficient, runs fast, doesn't use a lot of resources" but "developer efficient, faster to write and easier to understand". But that entire phrase as is doesn't make sense, I agree with that.

It's also possible to be a simple mistake. Maybe they went overboard with marketing phrases and claimed something that isn't quite true.
> > "You would shoot the guy going through your trash? Or the guy stealing your bike?"
> Where the hell did those suppositions come from?

Actually, he is not far from what I'd do. I'd just keep the bastard at gunpoint until the cops come. Not the first time I had to resort to this with my gas revolver.

Lesson learned (for the two fools): never go to a shooting with a knife (the fact that one had a knife actually yielded him a bigger sentence for the attempted theft; it's called "Diebstahl mit einer Waffe").
It's clearly supposed to mean "more than we could conceivably need." It's not a scientific paper.
With Google Sync, the servers have access to your plaintext data. This means that Google Inc, the engineers at Google with access to the servers, any attackers that compromise Google's sync servers, or any governments that compel Google to provide them access to the servers, all have access to everything (photos, contacts, calendar entries, documents, etc.) that you sync.

With Flock, the data is encrypted with a key that only the user knows before being transmitted to the server. This means that nobody with access to the Flock servers can see your data.
I'm excited by this. I think that moving to Github will help the image problem Typescript has and make it a little more accessible, and it's actually a very useful + powerful technology. Compiler errors on refactors are great :)
Once they got rid of Mulder I didn't see the point.
Razr is largely inspired by the Razor view engine for ASP.NET. Twig is nice and looks to be inspired by Ruby syntax, something I'm a little more familiar with in using Octopress. Perhaps they wanted to introduce a templating engine that was a little more familiar with someone coming from ASP.NET? I can only really speculate as no definitive reason was given.

Writing their own templating engine is definitely an interesting choice and one that follows the razor syntax makes it even more interesting indeed.
>It's possible to store Bitcoin on sheets of paper

The process for making a secure paper wallet is far from convenient and brain wallets are about the worst possible way to store bitcoin and are far from safe and secure. If you're going to get some please do not use a brain wallet.
True - but remember, there's a bunch of teams building stuff. Most of Open Tech's and Azure's open code bases are on GitHub. TypeScript isn't the biggest MS project on GitHub and I just want to make sure that nobody is using this as a "CodePlex is dead!" data point.

https://github.com/MSOpenTech
https://github.com/Azure/
I believe you are philosophically right about the idea of bitcoin. The cat is out of the bag: there is a distributed alternative to the global banking system. BTC might be corrupted, but the idea is not. Another spin on the POW and on the mass distribution mechanism, and the regulators might have a serious problem on their hands. Lots of ifs.
True, but there's a good reason to think the CJEU will give the right answer: Oracle v Usedsoft[1] was only a couple of years ago, which upheld that first sale doctrine for software (i.e. that even a supposedly non-transferable software licence still counted as a sale for the purposes of that doctrine).

I think that ruling was under the software directive rather than the IS directive, but the logic seems like it'd apply just as well to ebooks (and I doubt the two directives differ much on first sale, though I haven't checked), so I'd be surprised if we don't get a similar result here. IANAL, though.

[1] http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=124... , summary at http://www.linklaters.com/Publications/Publication1403Newsle... , HN discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4193413
Ask HN: How to design and prototype a flexible 3D shape
I would like to create a 3D shape out of a flexible material. For example, imagine creating a form fitting plastic covering for your vehicle or lawnmower. What tools or process could I use to design the shape and how could I go about prototyping the design?
I agree that artisan work can't replace an entire economy. But I also don't think that artisan work will be the only viable means of earning a living in that world.

Notably, I don't think the corner store (in terms of local services) is going very far. Sure, retail has an enormous battle to fight. But that's just one front.

People will always depend on each another for one thing or another. Beyond retail, whether it's local products like food or local services like domestic contracting or professional services, I think the community will play an even more significant role than it does now in spite of a burgeoning global scene.

I've been deeply influenced by Charles Hugh Smith's writings on community. It's a term we tend to devalue, but it's one Smith thinks is a fundamental building block for the future. He's a bit extreme, as he tends to expect a large macro-disturbance, but his ideas are sound. Here's one piece:

http://www.oftwominds.com/blogsept13/community-economy9-13.h...
The only thing I found more disturbing than the story are the comments below it. Airbnb really does need to overhaul their responses to things like these. As for the host, it's never a good idea to ignore your gut instincts and 30 days for a shady guest is not a good idea. Of course, hindsight is 20/20, but always heed the mantra, when in doubt bail-out.
do any of these new school CMS's give a relatively uncluttered/user definable REST api for free for mobile clients? Preferably something self hosted
First, Bitcoin resembles MLM / network marketing more than any one traditional financial instrument.

Second, that the State would want to allow a free market currency of fixed supply to compete with their own digital currency that can be whimsically inflated and used to fund endless warfare and welfare just doesn't fit the historical record.

Never, in the past hundred some odd years, has any competing currency been adopted by the banking system because of innovative features.

Bitcoin is innovative because it gives people control over a form of globally accepted currency which cannot be debased or manipulated. Bitcoin can be sent and received by any person in the world, in any amount, at any time, for any reason. That's why Bitcoin is important. Bitcoin is _not_ important if it just compliments the existing banking system's functions, or makes it cheaper. It's important because it frees humanity from the arbitrary clutches of the State. It gives power back to the individual at least in matters of money and finance, and everything else can follow from that.
-1 on double underscore. Very off-putting.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8058247.
Sounds like you don't disagree then.
The Ferengi operated on an uber-capitalist society, so he pays for his own staff out of his own pockets. In one episode, the Grand Nagus mentions firing his staff because they were too expensive and he wanted to use the money to buy something.
I'm not the one saying that.
Also the funding they got ($111.5 million) was from the DOE under the auspices of building out a "Smart Grid" [1]. Doubtful that a full fiber connection to the home is required for these applications.

[1] https://www.epb.net/news/news-archive/epb-chattanooga-awarde...
Taxis were one of my favourite parts of Seoul. Cheap and easy.

Their argument is for a 'Sharing economy' including features like swarm pricing.
When the army and police forces get robotic weapons, I can only imagine criminals won't be far behind.
PHP 6 or PHP 7?
Prediction: As with most everything people want to give away, the ridiculous "internet is a right" argument is about to blow up. It's the quickest path to deride those who disagree with you and elicit guilt, no matter whether it makes sense. It's been misused for many, many things already; no reason for them to stop now.
Hackathon aims to harness Silicon Valley smarts on North Korea
1. You can replace your Google sync account with Flock if you choose. You can import data from a Google account into your Flock account without destroying or altering the data in your Google account.

2. The Flock encryption is used for transmitting data to/from the server. On the device, we let the Android permission system take over from there, so you don't have to enter a password in order to see your contact or calendar items. Your workflow remains the same as before.
I didn't see the post, but maybe it was about TiddlyWiki?
On the DOM reuse: could you help me out? I'm sure if I watch all the videos I may be able to figure it out, but I'd be interested in a trivial example. Let's assume I have the following structure (additional cells and rows are omitted for cleaner display, please assume we have 1000 rows and 20 cols):

<div class="row">
<div class="cell">
<div class="align-left">
Value.
</div>
</div>
</div>

I want to reach the following:

<div class="row">
<div class="cell">
<div class="align-center">
Value B.
</div>
</div>
</div>

What do I need to do in React that on updating the underlying data, only the innermost Element's class attribute and innerText would change, and the rest of the DOM will be kept intact?
I thought I was proving that local governance works, whereas federal governance does not as much. Its much easier to effect change at the local level than the federal, hence "municipal broadband" and not "federal broadband".
> There's no inherent problem with publicly funded services, but they're only as good as the public body that runs them.

Agreed. This is solved with complete transparency and independent oversight.
"I started my career at Microsoft, a little software company outside of Seattle, where I was a program manager on the Excel team. My area was “programmability” and most of what I worked on in those days was replacing the Excel macro language (XLMs) with Excel Basic, and providing an object-oriented interface to Excel. Excel Basic became Visual Basic for Applications and the OO interface is what you know as OLE Automation, a.k.a. IDispatch."

-- http://www.joelonsoftware.com/AboutMe.html
Numerous wallets make it dead simple to create a paper wallet. With Electrum, you just open the program and it automatically generates 12 words which you can write down on paper or learn by heart. It doesn't get much easier than that, and it's perfectly safe and secure to do.
Great stuff. This is important work to get everything end-to-end encrypted. Any updates on how the integrated messaging up is coming along, and whether we're still getting a desktop app/extension soon, too?

I'd love for nothing else than to give up using Hangouts, but I use it a lot to talk to people from my computer to their phones, and right now apps like Whatsapp or TextSecure are no go for that. Hopefully there will be a solution for it soon.
This beta product for a firebase security compiler is written in typescript (by me) for node.js

https://github.com/firebase/blaze_compiler

Typescript has been a joy to develop in. The codebase is a mix of typescript and plain JS for some of the parsing.

There are a few interesting architectures patterns like a work around for no subclassing of Error by wrapping an error with a backwards chained decorator

https://github.com/firebase/blaze_compiler/blob/master/src/e...

(thanks to mindplay for that idea here https://typescript.codeplex.com/discussions/465345)

That product is still in it's infancy so gradually being refactored towards full modularisation, so its still a work in progress.

FYI: I use pycharm with the node.js plugin, and typescript compiles in the background without intervention, and I can step debug the program, and the line at the top off all the files transparent changes the stack traces back into TS.
> If you try to build someone else's idea the passion will be hard to find.

Having been hired by a few entrepreneurs as "the business guy", and having brought on a few true technical co-founders, I've experienced this nearly every time...it's hard to find passion for someone else's idea.

That said, I'm not convinced it's a bad thing. Just something to be aware of.

Even though my technical co-founders weren't truly passionate about the space(s) we were in, they quickly got passionate about some of the technical problems we were solving. And even though I was never as passionate about the space as the domain-expert founders I was working with, I love getting ideas off the ground and in the hands of paying customers.

To further @keithwarren passion-exploration post, if money was no object, what would you spend your time doing?

That's probably the best question I ever heard from a mentor and the reason I'm in the space I'm in today (using technology to democratize philanthropy).
The almost forgotten story of the Amiga 2000
Gold has experienced rapid growth since 2008, but historically the growth curve has been flat. I have never
heard a competent Financial Advisor recommend gold.

But this boom is weird? I wonder if HFT's will be to blame,
when we have the crash?
TrueCrypt GUI is designed to be invokable by non-root users.I can not say "meant" because only TrueCrypt developers know what they actually mean with anything.

Start TrueCrypt GUI from a normal user account and TrueCrypt will attempt to self elevate internally using a functional sudo setup.This shows a deliberate attempt by TrueCrypt to be usable by normal users.It just leave it up to the user to setup sudo for it.

Setup sudo to require a password and TrueCrypt will get stuck on its password prompt(bug) and hence passwordless sudo setup will be the only way to go when setting up TrueCrypt to be used by normal users or,alternatively,starting up TrueCrypt from root's account for normal users(not very practical/convenient).

With both ways,the discussed problem will be there.
Update: killed flock, restarted flock, pressed sync now, and was still stuck at like 2%progress for syncing contacts. Then rebooted my phone and made coffee. Opened flock, pressed sync now, and almost immediately reported everythinng's good and last sync was a second ago.
For one thing, traffic patterns, and the VPN endpoint would be a clue.
It's funny, the article basically perfectly describes Ripple in its gateway section. It gets a lot of heat for the XRP business but in reality it's a very clever system that opens up a lot of possibility. It just needs more gateways at this point.
Multiple Lovers, Without Jealousy
Agree for the most part, so long as there's sufficient liquidity in the target fiat currency.
Aluminum was more expensive than gold until a cheap way to purify it was developed. Now we wrap our food in it. Gold is only valuable until the first metallic asteroid is placed into high Earth orbit. Not tomorrow, but probably sooner than you think.
reply << Has nothing to do with Bitcoin being back by nothing. Even if gold did lessen in value other forms of metals/currency can take golds place. Gold is specifically a variable for anything however it is "some thing". (the root point).

If gold wasn't used as a store of value its value would be very maybe a hundredth of what it is now: Gold-plated jewelry in our modern era is essentially indistinguishable (even at the level of a physics lab using scales/xrays/etc if need be) from solid gold jewelry.
Gold, for all intents and purposes, is also "backed by nothing". << again has almost nothing to do with Bitcoin being back by nothing. Gold is the item of value it doesn't need to be backed, it is the back'er.
Individual transaction fees are being heavily, heavily subsidized by block rewards currently. Just eyeballing the current numbers:

~400 transactions per block, 25 btc reward, ~500 usd / btc gives a transaction cost of 31 dollars each.

What happens to fees when mining rewards taper off? Just authoritatively stating "it'll be fixed" blindly pushes these problems into the future.
WhisperSystems are working on a web based TextSecure
https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Browser
This may be a good place to ask this: Does anyone have experience using Flurry Analytics and Google Mobile App Analytics in production? We're comparing the two, and would love to get opinion from people, who have used them in production, about the not-so-obvious pros and cons.
If you know what you are doing, brain wallets are very safe. However, if you don't, you might easily make a disastrous mistake. The casual user should not store coins in a brainwallet, but they can be quite useful.
Farbrausch has stood out to me for a long time as one of the strongest demo groups. They consistently produce demos that are not just technically impressive but really beautiful as well. I highly recommend checking out their back catalog if you haven't seen their work.

Another group I highly recommend is Andromeda Software Development. They are less about "check out these cool techniques" and more about putting together a cohesive, music-video-like experience. I've heard different perspectives on whether that's a good thing, but irrespective of where you come down on that they produce some demos that are really enjoyable to watch.
Sounds like he cannot comment for legal reasons.

On the other hand, assuming that you have filed a lawsuit against Coinbase, it sounds like you can no longer pass neutral comment on the matter. Something you seem to have conveniently not mentioned.
As a fire/medic in Western Washington, fire district rates are capped at $1.50 per $1,000 of assessed property value, and are typically less (changes need to be voted but cannot exceed this, regardless).

A semi-rural department with three fire engines, ambulance, brush trucks, serving an area of 7,000 people and approximately ~1,000 calls a year does so with expenditure of ~$1M for those 7,000 residents.
Another awesome one which I've used on a previous project is SqlFu, https://github.com/sapiens/SqlFu
Not to mention, you'd never write code like the second one in a .NET ecosystem, unless you were purposefully trying to write bad, unmaintainable code.
> This is due to Republicans in Congress blocking an increase on the gas tax, currently at ~18 cents/gallon of gas since 1993.

Maybe so, but that's not the point. I'm just challenging the claim that government (which includes Republicans) effectively performs those tasks.
One must wonder, how much better this setup would of scaled had it been a more appropriate webserver stack such as Linux/BSD + Apache/Nginx or similar. Perhaps less boxes would be needed, or with the same number of boxes, more concurrent users.

> Microsoft infrastructure works and is cheap enough

not as cheap as just paying your team to maintain the boxes. I wonder how many times in the past few years SE has needed to call Microsoft for support? Would a RHEL license still be cheaper (probably)? If something like CentOS then there would be no support cost unless you need to bring in an outside contractor (for a particularly nasty issue).
Compiling Rust for the Rasberry Pi
Can't respond to you on react (though my impression is that the entire point of virtual DOM diffing is to do exactly what you're after), but can you justify in some way your HTML markup using <div class="row"> and <div class="cell"> instead of <tr> and <td>?
Show HN: Instachat – A simple chat site built using SignalR and ASP.NET
http://instachat.im

Instachat is my side-project and is just a bit of fun: I am a .NET programmer and decided to learn SignalR so a chat program was the best way.

This is version 2: v1 was done in February and I left it for a while but it was frankly awful with too much interface.

I decided to strip it down to the basics and since I spend lots of time in the command line myself (I am a Windows Infrastructure consultant by day - What can I say? I like the command line!) I thought it might be cool to have a whole site like this.

I kept it simple and secure: I don't store the contents of your chats, your username, email or anything - mainly because I don't want the overhead and it has absolutely no value to me.

You start by creating a username by typing this: Login YourChosenNameWithoutSpaces

If you need help type “help” without the quotes.

I should be getting an SSL cert later this week hopefully.

I have no idea what its future is but it is an enjoyable experiment for me and I will continue to update it.

Anyway, I would appreciate if you give it a go - all comments welcome!

Ta

Mick
In an alternate universe I became a homeless man from playing this game too much. Fortunately this is not that alternate universe.
In the past, we’ve focused on our intern pipeline
by recruiting heavily from schools with high
percentages of female students. We’ve hosted and
sponsored hackathons and events with a focus on women
in tech. We provide continuing education programs for
female employees who want to learn how to code. These
efforts have helped some, but it’s not enough.

This topic has become VERY popular of late and is considered by most people to be such a worthy cause. Can I be a voice of dissent?

If you've tried this hard to hire your fair share of female developers and you still haven't been able to do it, is it possible that trying to force it to happen may be the wrong approach? Perhaps it is the case that there just are not females who want to be developers at Fog Creek.

The problem with equality, even equal opportunity, is that it is not realistic (the world doesn't naturally provide equal opportunity) and it creates as much discrimination as it purports to abolish.
Bitcoin as a store of value is only when people are holding other commodities or speculative fiat. Large caches of early bitcoin holders will likely not crash a market that creates them wealth, so if there are actual commodities that align with bitcoin, and illegal drugs are not that commodity for a multitude of reasons and even just fluctuated with the usd, so bitcoin either needs significant natural resource or "hard assets" backings of bitcoin or it'll ebb and flow with the USD because shops that accept bitcoin still have to pay to do USD conversion and the rate moves dynamically just like there is a broadcasting network for the gas prices for gas stations when the gas price per gallon fluctuates quickly based on futures markets.
How to design for mobile devices, when you don’t have one
With a thief that might be reasonable, but I think that'd be a bit overboard with somebody that was just going through your trash. I definitely wouldn't confront a thief with no gun though.
> Tulips experienced exponential an order of magnitude shift in price during the course of one year in 1637.

Did you fail to notice that your Bitcoin graph shows several occurrences of order-of-magnitude change over less than one year?

Anything can be made to look "steady" if you plot it on a log scale.
This is extremely awesome, I know some of the Sudo folks, great job all around.

I hope the noisebridge reboot can bring them in to this territory of Getting Shit Done.

One side note, there is already 2 wireless ISPs in san francisco. The very-corporate WebPass and the super-hackery monkeybrains.

The latter folk are awesome, overworked but deliver exceptional ISP value!
If you pay through Airbnb, I think they are responsible for any such frauds.
It totally depends on what we are caching (e.g. the community bullettins or hot meta questions get a gazillion hits...)