skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that in the US, protections are broad and being funny doesn't matter. Legal precedent clearly states that "First Amendment protections do not apply only to those who speak clearly, whose jokes are funny, and whose parodies succeed" [1]

We have 2 Live Crew to thank for firmly establishing this majority opinion in US Supreme Court 20 years ago.

[1] http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/campbell.h...
That's helpful. I agree that engaging content works no matter your aptitude.

And I now see that you're saying that teacher "touch" time was 20 hours. Which seems doable if they're able to teach themselves with proper tools.

> "with the help of the compiler, they were able to ace those questions. (i know you don't get a compiler on test day, but it seems silly to cripple them when learning.)"

Oh. This is where we're going to have to agree to disagree. For the AP exam students must write code on paper with a pencil, with no computer in sight. It's been my experience that students that don't have quite a bit of practice doing that without any training wheels crash and burn on the exam.
NonCommercial interpretation – Creative Commons wiki
A Woman Who Walked 10,000 Miles in Three Years
I facepalm your facepalm.

Is it possible that the author knows about Isaac Asimov, but that she also knows that Asimov is also the name of a character from Halo? And that it fits in a pattern in the Halo context and not in the Sci-fi-author context, and she therefore reports it as such?

What if there were a Halo character called Sinatra, and the Windows feature would be code-named Sinatra, would you call the author out (sigh! facepalm!) for being too stupid to know about the actor?

EDIT: personal pronoun gender. thanks cwyers.
Wiesmann's "Treatise on Tinfoil hats", volume one through three.
Lots of inaccuracies in regards to what Asimov is anyway.

Not sure that I should go out of my way to correct it though.
I was hoping this article was going to provide some insight into the "private" rich -- people who are rich but don't report their income publicly -- which would have been far more interesting.
SF landlords are greedy – hard for startups
Are San Francisco landlords greedy? Compared to any other high tech center, San Francisco rents are too high. Trying to hire someone for a frugal startup in San Francisco is hurt by these greedy landlords here.

$1600 rent for a single room. $900 or more for a couch to couch-surf on.

Supply and Demand is the problem. There's a lot of demand. Supply must be too low.

OR IS IT?

In 2011, there were 31,000 rental units in San Francisco purposely taken off the market.
http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2011/05/because-of-rent-control-sf-has-31000.html

When the city leaders REDUCE THE SUPPLY OF LANDLORDS, with a correspondingly amplified reduction of available units, rents MUST go up, because too many people want that rare apartment that's come available in SF, and City Leaders have unwittingly (or purposely?) reduced the supply of Landlords.

We looked at that dynamic. When you're a business person, you MUST understand Supply and Demand.

It's been much easier to hire in San Jose for that reason.

NOTE: We're all for affordable housing. If there are 10,000 rent controlled apartments in San Francisco (for example) -- and the first person to get that apartment knows his rent cannot be raised much, for YEARS -- that person is NOT MOVING OUT.

And that's what happened in San Francisco. All those rent controlled apartments got taken very quickly. And very few give them up.

So the supply of rent control units dropped precipitously when rent control was introduced.

Paradoxically, rent control
- cut the supply of Landlords and their units
- reduced the supply of cheap (rent controlled) apartments to near zero.

"Do you know the way to San Jose?"

With today's emphasis on "the Frugal Startup", we had no choice but to locate our stealth-mode startup in the South Bay.
Mint doesn't ask for your CC number. Seems reckless and dangerous, not to mention daunting for the user.

By giving credentials AND cc numbers to a 3rd party (something credit card issuers say never to do), I'm in-effect condoning any actions that happen even if I don't make those actions.

Isn't it like handing the CC issuer a signed letter stating they need not worry about fraud protection, as I'm authorizing all transactions and will agree to cover them?

From an attack angle, now I have to trust that Datacoup will remain secure in all its interactions and that they will never suffer intrusions or decide to change their stance in the future (acquisition?).

I see nothing good coming of this request.
This ignores second order effects - increasing the minimum wage increases the amount of disposable income people have superlinearly, which leads to more trade, which creates more employment opportunities.
Agreed. I would be more skeptical of a company that claims to go against its own interests by using testnet.
You'd be preventing your local credentials from being phished / stolen, keyloggers installed, your machine from being in a botnet...
> this flies in the face of econ 101

So we must never question our reading of "econ 101", because it surely reflects some immutable eternal truths, and everything that contradicts it must therefore be wrong.

/s
I was excited for Windows RT thinking we would see a truly new Windows system from the ground up. They didn't quite go that far, and unfortunately with the intense hate spewed across the Internet for years afterwards, I'm not sure they'll have the stomach to try again. Imagine if they went back to Windows 98 after Windows XP came out (since XP got just as much hatred from the Internet back before it was so fondly remembered).

Time will tell.
Last Mover Advantage (2012)
>> "Apple really got off super easy on the iCloud thing"

I think you're confusing two separate issues here. There was a flaw in iCloud but the photo hacking incident which some seem to be alluding to ("break-in") was, from what I've read, done through phasing attacks, password/secret question guessing, and general social engineering rather than through a hole in iCloud. The two things were unrelated.
That's true, but nowadays it's a little more like, "Well, we want a self-improving program with enough intelligence and moral fiber to radically improve human life on a scale not usually conceived of outside the Book of Isaiah."

This may be absurdly ambitious, to the point of ridicule, but it's a concretely-defined target.
Xapian is excellent. It's an embedded C++ library, and there are bindings for most languages.

It's well-designed but fairly basic. Since it's a library, you'll have to write the server part yourself. (It has a server called Omega, but I've never used it.)

Indexing is slower than Lucene, though, but it's not too bad. The only significant problem I found with it the last time I was using it (which was 5+ years ago) was that writers occasionally would cause queries to abort, and you had to restart them, a cycle which could lead to long query times if you had lots of write churn.
It's important to remember that if someone's taking home a billion dollars in pay - and they're not on the public payroll or run a monopoly/oligopoly enabled by legislation (like, ooh, banking?) - then said person has almost certainly contributed a staggering amount to a nation's GDP. These rich people aren't the enemy, they're national treasures.
No, I'm not him, but stuff like fixing a sample size in advance and not stopping tests early without careful analysis are things I learned in my stat classes. This stuff should be stressed in any good intro stats class covering hypothesis testing. (I was a math major in college, so I had all of 2 courses in mathematical statistics and 0 in experimental design. I didn't go to the best school, but my stats teacher was a former industry statistician focusing on quality control.)
"Hedge fund managers now are no better than the managers of 10-20 years ago, the system has evolved to favor them more."

Don't hedge funds now have better technology and bots etc that boost the productivity of each trader?
Because he and NYTimes do not wish to actually discuss the issues. To wit, yesterday's Sunday Times had a full court press vilification spread on Putin and his friends. Do not recall seeing the same treatment for related matter in this USA. Same with front page treatment of protests in Cairo vs. complete silence Washington DC (post 2001).

So the reasonable question is why do you expect consistency from an apparatus of the power elite beyond consistently covering their own dirty tracks?
Then, I got this entire thing wrong, which is a good thing.
Could you demonstrate a simple example of the intra-path transformation? I am not sure that I see exactly how it should be implemented, but so long as it isn't a lens law violation I think you can do it in Haskell's lens system at least.
Windows CE was done from the ground up. But unfortunately not by OS Engineers. SO it was pretty bush-league with not a lot of innovation.

I'd like to see an OS (not just a shell) from the ground up to include actually useful things like support for distributed persistent assets, P2P networking and so on.
I want to be your neuroscience experiment
So FWIW, the thing about the state of Kentucky isn't true. It's listed in 'The Repository of Lost Legends' on Snopes, which is their section of made up stuff.

I'm only mentioning this as I didn't realise for a very long time that the T.R.O.L.L. (now it should make sense) was all made up and I had a tendency to quote that section a lot.

I hope you haven't spent as many years believing that section as I did :)
Tor executive director hints at Firefox integration
Nothing in this discussion indicates that anyone knows what streaming technology they're using. However of course there are better and worse technology. Streaming RDP from a Windows box a thousand miles away, for instance, is a world more enjoyable and usable than VNCing to the Mac box connected via a 1Gbps twisted pair. App level virtualization through the same, interacting and engaging with the rest of your desktop, is close to magical.
Is Uber now ripping off their customers?
On Saturday night we ordered an UberX car to pick us up from a New Jersey and to take us back to our apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. When I received the receipt I noticed a $20 toll charge for the George Washington Bridge.... The only problem is, is that this is only supposed to be a $11.00 toll. When I asked UBER about this discrepancy, they responded:

The $20 surcharge is not only to compensate for the toll, but also the vacant ride back to NJ. NJ partner drivers are not licensed to pick up riders in NYC, so they will need to travel back empty to get their next fare.

Okay, that makes sense. Except that our driver told us he was from White Plains, New York and that he was hoping to catch a fare back to Manhattan so he didn't have to pay for the return toll.

So not only do they overcharge me, they try to cover it up by suggesting that the driver was from New Jersey and that he'd have to deadhead it back.
Not to mention that their name is DataCOUP. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
> When I rent a safe deposit box from a bank, and store my valuables in it, my valuables do not become the property of the bank.

Depends on the T&C [1]. Two things here, (1) you agreed to the FB terms and (2) took no steps to ensure your privacy despite these ever changing terms. More applicable digital lockbox hypo: when you put a gig of encrypted data on S3, AWS doesn't scan it and try to sell it to advertisers because you didn't agree to that. Further, they'd have to crack your encryption (i.e. PGP) as well if they wanted to violate those terms.

With AWS you get what you paid for. With FB, advertisers get what they paid for you.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms
try this then:

$ env X="() { :;} ; echo busted" /bin/bash -c "echo wow"

that'll pop out of usr, so you'll fail.
What basis does any economic justification rest on if not at bottom a moral one?
The author is a female. And she adds additional information about the origin of the program inside the Xbox team; it's not that she doesn't know who Asimov is, it's more likely that someone involved in it TOLD HER that they took the name from Halo, which in turn used the name of the writer.
Oh, sorry, I was thinking of nickb. :) Thank you for checking the Wayback Machine. I must have been aware of pg's karma totals by looking at his individual profile.
Why? Using "real" net a manufacturer can test their equipment and make some money at the same time. That on it's own doesn't seem unethical or shady to me. The potentially shady part is using the machines for straight mining before shipping them to customers.
> A lot of people have a lot of built-up aggression by the ever-declining Bitcoin price and want you to pay for their loss in some sick weird way!

Just shut up. It's so obviously you butt hurt losers projecting.
When I moved to the Bay Area, I was amazed at how bad cabbies were. They were expensive, took a long time to show up, often flaked out on even showing up and often refused to take me where I wanted to go.

Über was a breath of fresh air. I rationalized their competitive gaffs with Lyft as "they're just competing" and their syncretic religion of Ayn Rand books and Clayton Christensen as objectionable but tolerable. But I don't use them anymore. I started to use Uber constantly, refer friends and some OSS I've written even powers Uber's node.js components today.

But their support of Urban Shield is the straw that broke the camel's back. And I do not want to line the pockets of anyone accelerating the militarization of the police in the US. Like the author, I can't see myself trusting them to do what's right.
Furthering on that, by placing the civil burden on those with less income reduces the amount of taxes areas have to deal with, so like any industry, they need to find other sources. Those sources then seem to target the ones in the worst position to be able to afford it. Example: Heavy fines for speeding and other traffic violations in poorer neighborhoods. Look at the state of Ferguson, MO which was just analyzed in great details. Something like an average of 2.7 warrants per person because they don't appear in court to be able to afford fines.

We are making criminals out of vast oceans of people because a few people at the top don't feel much like paying a fair share of the taxes.
> Besides the fact that you arguably can't dismiss morality out of hand

I've always thought that libertarians and free-market extremists are some sort of outliers on the morality spectrum - probably sitting near the extreme low end of the axis. That's just how their brains are wired. Then the rational mind starts spinning reasons, trying to justify the givens of their intuition.
You can install the Xcode CL tools without installing Xcode. The two were separated a couple years ago.
That's nice really nice!
yeah, no.

We've offered SSL for 4 years now. This is entirely different. Cloudfront, for example, doesn't give you SSL for free.
Cities and the Knowledge Gap
11 Tips for Reducing Food Waste – CUESA
You beg the question.
I like his response regarding strong AI. The idea that it is a moving target might have been expressed before, but I thought he formulated it very well:

"The funny thing about AI is that it’s a moving target. In the seventies, someone might ask “what are the goals of AI?” And you might say, “Oh, we want a computer who can beat a chess master, or who can understand actual language speech, or who can search a whole database very quickly.” We do all that now, like face recognition. All these things that we thought were AI, we can do them. But once you do them, you don’t think of them as AI."
Oops missed that completely; thanks for the clarification! For purchasers, the short-term value-add would be: a) another verified channel of specific user-preferences; b) potential for high-touch permissive advertising (e.g. let me pay you $0.10 so I can spam you because you have a potentially higher conversion rate due to all the extra details you let me access).

Data vaults like DataCoup are in essence trying to appeal to purchasers by initially demonstrating large reach (similar to newspaper/magazine/website exposure to raw number of eyeballs), and up-sell the ability to more quickly and more accurately zone in on attractive demographics, down to the individual level, than a competing 3rd party ad-broker harvesting browser fingerprints + cookie combinations or Amazon/Google.

Form example, individuals may eventually sell a list of companies they: "have bought from; may buy in the future; commit $X to buying within 90 days."

Also, individuals can be made aware that prices for their information tuple assets may devalue if they specify faulty or inaccurate information (e.g. selling information stating that they would buy $X from a company in category Y within 90 days, but failing to actually follow-through). This is rather similar to a credit score, except a "purchaser" or "consumer" score may be a more accurate description.

This isn't to say that everybody would choose to participate in such a program or give up such information willingly, but at least this level of hyper-personalization and ad-bidding would become available (in theory!) to both the data purchaser and the end-customer, eventually.

EDIT: Data vaults all aim to become canonical ad-broker exchanges as the next step in the evolution of agency ad & media trading desks[1]. If this sounds like trading in the financial sense, it absolutely is. No coincidence that the founder of DataCoup is an ex-bond trader[2].

[1] http://www.adexchanger.com/Agency_Trading_White_Paper.pdf

[2] https://datacoup.com/docs#about
I'm not big on buzzwords or vague subjective terms like "disruption," "innovative," or "cool." I also won't deny that Uber and other ridesharing services clearly violate laws (at least in some jurisdictions). But I don't believe that the fact that they violate laws means that they're not providing a valuable product. That's mostly because I don't believe that all laws which ostensibly protect consumers actually do.

> What the fuck is innovative about facilitating unlicensed taxi drivers in private cars?

Again, I'm not really concerned about the term "innovative." But what is good for me, the consumer of these services is that I can get a ride more conveniently, reliably, and inexpensively than I could from a traditional taxi or other commercial car service. And of course ridesharing apps are newer than taxis. If you define "innovative" as "newer and better," then I guess ridesharing services are "innovative."

Other consumers surely have different preferences, which is fine, but I do not care about licenses or who owns the cars. I care about the actual product I get, and I invariably (so far) get a better experience with ridesharing services than with traditional taxis. Now granted, I use Lyft and Sidecar over Uber, mostly just because of UI preferences with their iPhone apps. I'm speaking about the ridesharing industry as a whole rather than Uber specifically.

The gist of your argument seems to be one of two things. Either you dislike companies which violate any regulations, or you dislike companies which violate regulations that you approve of (with taxi regulations being one example). I disagree with both premises.
The page referenced says that POTATOES implements a broad range of operating system concepts and features, e.g. multitasking, paging, an extensive I/O subsystem as well as a custom file system, and runs on x86 hardware.
Show HN: Odin – A Tool for Building Command Line Interfaces in Go
We strongly believe that you should remain in control of your data. We currently support HTML, JSON and plain text exports with plans to support OPML. If there's another format you're interested in let us know.

We also support direct imports from Wunderlist, Google Tasks, Workflowy, Trello and Todoist. When you first run the app options to import your data will be there.

You can also access your data directly using the Google Realtime API. Your data is stored on your own Google Drive - you're not going to lose access to it.
Furthermore, most of Krugman's argument seems to be an appeal to envy. Without envy, what reason should anyone have to begrudge Steve Jobs or Bill Gates their enormous financial success. Wealth is not a zero sum game, and these men have contributed untold amounts of wealth to society, in several important forms:

* Iphones in the hands of welfare moms

* Lavish consumption habits which distribute cash throughout the goods and services economy

* Massive amounts of investment yielding better technology and higher productivity and efficiency

* Charitable giving and other altruistic endeavors

It is not at all obvious, even if 90% would vote to do so, that taking resources from those who have earned them and putting them under government control and distribution would put them to better use. Leaving aside the moral concerns of taking justly acquired property from individuals, and the undermining of private property as an institution, there is great reason to believe that government distribution puts resources to lower use rather than higher. Positive sum games are always to be preferred over zero or negative sum games.
I don't really understand the point of this. Aren't there already simple tools that take a list of server credentials and run the same command on all of them? (I could understand if it was made for fun but the FAQ says it's "out of necessity" and patching multiple distros can be a "nightmare". How? Just attempt to execute apt and yum everywhere.)

Though maybe I'm just disappointed that it doesn't log in via shellshock as I hoped from the title.
Online fashion giant Zalando's IPO price values it at $6.2B
Thanks for posting something reasonable. Most of the rest of this thread is people assuming they are qualified economists. I think that people assumed I was asking the original question in bad faith. I'm actually curious about this question.
Classic landing page experiment :)
Is the software demoed in the video the "TeachAPCS" thing? The site is currently down, but it looks like it is based on the github? I'd say it looks pretty spectacular!
Mura... solid? I think not. More like convenient. It's one of two free CMS built on CFML. The second one being ContentBox.
It would interesting to see what happens when people start to load the server. Rendering images, and any other form of image processing, can be really heavy. On my desktop workstation it can take large amounts of processing time when working with large files.

IMO, this is where cloud based solutions don't work well. It would be cheaper to have your own workstation which you can count on always having access to the GPU.
Squirrel, an install + auto-update framework for Windows apps
If you've ever used a service like Mint then you've already given similar access to these accounts.

I doubt if Datacoup would drain your accounts. More like a bad actor breaking into Datacoup's DB would drain your accounts.
Here's the whole playlist of the rest of the talk recordings from this year's RacketCon:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXr4KViVC0qI9t3liziti...

(Michael Fogus gave the keynote and there are other cool talks about games, grahics, and other stuff)
This is really cool. Have you thought about ways to scale this and make it available to others (not just students, but tutors / TAs as well)?
Pagerduty-angular: Adds search and filter capabilities to PagerDuty
Tibco Software to Be Taken Private for $4B
Yes, Amazon's ELB has always been a potential attack target for people who want to get to unencrypted data.
Even in Econ 201, my teacher was quick to point out "this assumes perfectly rational actors in working within ideal situations". Which doesn't exist ever.
The people I know who donate significant sums lean libertarian.
Radiant – a Datascript sandbox