skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
systemd generally has a wider array of options for manipulating the execution environment than daemontools or most of its derivatives do, possibly barring nosh. Though, one could use tools from packages such as util-linux to make up for plenty of it.

Using an init system means you get a more complete framework for managing system state, as the process of booting, configuring early minutiae like TTY and environment setup, shutting down and maintaining service groups in the form of runlevels/milestones/targets are handled.

systemd is a rather exceptional case as it's a project which aims to enforce standard policies and tools for just about the entire layer of low-level userspace. So you will be incurring significant workflow changes beyond supervising processes.

Depends on how far your needs go.
Totally sanitizes the role of military power and research in explaining why the U.S. is economically dominant. This is like looking at the British Empire and saying it happened because Britain had some smart, hardworking entrepreneurs.

Countries like China are emerging in part because they have strong governments that just take money from the public and put it into industry. It's more more direct than having to come up with some military justification for it like we do in the U.S., like we have to invent lasers to shoot down Russian missiles, and then maybe later we can find some health care applications. It's quite inefficient. But figuring out a more efficient way runs directly counter to the self-congratulatory mythology of the Silicon Valley private sector.

Sam pins it all on "an environment that encourages investment, welcomes immigrants, rewards risk-taking, hard work, and radical thinking, and minimizes impediments to doing new things." This is a very rose-colored, sanitized view of American power.

There's also the little matter of winning WWII while our chief competitors had their economies wrecked, then using that hegemony to maintain effective control of the primary energy reserves of the world, keeping major military competitors in check and keeping Third World nations from breaking out of their subservient role through massive applications of violence and political intervention.

Turning to Silicon Valley, our meritocracy of innovation, Sam completely omits the massive sustained and critical military subsidy of Silicon Valley and the startup sector via government research and procurement to the tune of many billions per year, which has been the genesis of everything from the Internet to GPS to Siri.[1] This is to be expected coming from the private sector which loves to congratulate itself and claim it's all because of smart, hardworking entrepreneurs -- and therefore entitled to the full profits of the commercialization of government-funded research.

But if we are to rethink how to keep America economically dominant, it should start with a sober and clear understanding that it has always come from massive state intervention in the economy, starting with the very nurturing, protectionist policies we forbid the Third World from adopting, and continuing today with high-tech taxpayer-funded research via agencies such as DARPA and government procurement of early-stage products.

"It's-all-because-of-smart-innovators-in-the-private-sector" is a tenant that investors must hold to justify taking all the profits without returning the lion's share to taxpayers -- and more generally to justify funneling taxpayer money to industry without taxpayer control of industry. That is the function that the military-industrial system has served for the past century or so: public investment without public control. Because if the public did more directory control funds we'd probably steer a bit more towards education, health, public welfare, etc.

Let's have more real talk about how our system works.

[1] https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/technology/report/20...
I just recently got a heating pad just for this purpose.

Its freezing here up in the NE. To save money (apartment has terrible insulation) I got
a heating pad with a 'stay on' feature.

Actually I had to get another one because my cat got the idea first and now its hers.

http://www.amazon.com/Sunbeam-2013-912-XpressHeat-Heating-Ex...

Turned the apartment heat down to about 55 (it stays around 60 for some reason), and I move the heating pad back and forth with from my office chair to my lazy boy multiple times a day.

Feels great, and I'm very very comfortable. It must cost almost nothing to run it all day, at least a lot less than heating a 3 bedroom apartment another 10 degrees.
Well, you've said that "The back-end learns", so based upon that, this involves machines and 'learning', so yes.
You might want to describe the problem domain some more if you want anything meaningful in response to this post.
The article is nice. But the point about bartering is wrong. The argument seems to go like this:

- Each thing has a different value based on the person judging it.
- Therefore, we cannot barter.

This is unfounded: The subjectivity of value does not make bartering impossible. Bartering is possible if one judges their own work to have less value or equal value to some other work that they are willing to exchange it for; and vice-versa.

However, I agree with the article that bartering may be undesirable; but the value argument is incorrect.
You are happy with insurance because you see it as reasonable to prefer the risk profile it offers over that of forgoing it. But one might just as well also prefer the risk profile offered by a lottery ticket over that of forgoing it. Why not prefer a slim chance of a tremendous windfall and large chance of negligible loss to a guaranteed status quo? People can prefer whatever they want.
Of course that's correct. But the other pronunciation is not incorrect; it's just less correct, because it elides over the root boundary between the archaeo- for "ancient" and -pteryx for "winged one".

I recall hearing or seeing the less-correct pronunciation near the relevant fossil or fossil reproduction at the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History, but I can't remember if it was actually printed on the display card or not. I did have to explain to my kids why the correct pronunciation of root-combining words is important for effective communication. The exaggerated roll of the eyeballs means you're teaching it effectively! (Or at least that's what I keep telling myself.)
THIS. IS. AWESOME.
haha no takers?
citation: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, authorized by Steve Jobs. What political agenda? I run a company and work a lot, but I think working is only one aspect of human existence and we should try to strike some semblance of balance.
That is a fascinating story. I hope she writes a memoir some day.
This is cool, but combined with this solar powered sand-using 3D printing project, I think this could be really amazing! Its an idea I day dream about a lot - it would be so awesome to have structures automatically built out of sand, without having to pay for energy.

http://vimeo.com/25401444
goodbye OpenTable...
Perhaps Hacker News is more diverse than you suspect.
> It seems commonly accepted that all VC investment comes with (at least) a 1x liquidation preference. Is there logic as to why this is commonly accepted and prevalent?

Liquidation preference in effect makes VC investment a hybrid between standard equity investment and a loan (it has an almost-guaranteed repayment feature, like a loan, but trades interest for potential upside.) Its better for the other stockholders (and for the success of the company) than VCs holding debt instruments, and its better for the VCs than common stock.

> On the surface, it seems wrong that employees get "worse" equity, i.e. common equity, than the investors and founders.

As long as the features of the type of equity they are receiving are taking into account when employees decide to accept an equity + salary compensation offer, I don't see the problem. Liquidation preference is a guarantee against losing money. The employees' guarantee against losing value for the time invested is the salary + benefits part of the salary + benefits + equity pay deal.
"nature does not produce on the one hand owners of money or commodities, and on the other hand men possessing nothing but their own labour-power...[this] is clearly the result of a past historical development..."
Knowledgeable about what, though?

I'm sure there are a lot of things that were widely known then that people don't generally know now.

Also, I'm fairly sure a lot of the common knowledge of our time will seem absurd to people in the future.
There's a middle road, though: pay for a service that uses open protocols. That way a) you're not the product, b) you can interop with other open services, and c) you can migrate in the case of failures.

That's why I'm with Fastmail :)
I tend to agree. An analogous article title might be, "Why deep-ocean submersibles will never be as safe as cruise lines."
"Beware of bugs in the above code. I have only proved it correct, not tried it."

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/faq.html
Yes, that's a documentary.
I hope they are going to cover London ASAP
This sure stuck a stick in this hive of libertarianism! A better-argued, and far less earnestly argued position is Ellerman's, from "The Libertarian Case for Slavery."
You need to factor in ticket price, odds of winning, cash payout, taxes. Powerball is $2 a ticket. The cash payout is around $338 million. The odds of winning with a ticket is about 1 in 175. Assume taxes will take half. You shouldn't buy a powerball ticket using reason unless the cash payout is at least $700 million. Problem then is so many people are playing there's likely more than one winning ticket which would mean the numbers don't work.

Edit: the payout tonight is $338m
I am talking about Uzbekistan, which has more population than Kyrgyztan (30M vs 5M). Financially, Uzbekistan is growing in every aspect, except mind share of people for internet services. Yes, I am junior in web development, mostly programmed for systems and embedded, I can invest my own time 3-6month of working.

We have payment system via sms (takes from credit card) or offline (go and pay service, lots of them almost in any corner). But it is difficult to make people to pay for web service. they may pay in the future but currently people immediately look for free alternatives or they don't have trust in web service and they don't pay.

Ride sharing service failed (I guess 2-3 years ago)

The biggest problem with internet services here is mind share of people. When they have need for buying or finding, people usually don't use internet for this, pick up the phone and call to friend to find out whether they have people who do this kind of service in their contacts.
I realize this does not meet the implied requirement of not having to relearn a bunch of stuff, but PowerShell certainly qualifies as a real terminal, just different.
> Even the Stoics

You say this like we'd expect the Stoics to be especially unlikely to regard something as a form of slavery. I don't know that to be true. Is it?
Milwaukee Tool came out with a line of heated jackets, powered by the same batteries that power their drills and other tools. I believe the red ones were the first ones out, then they saw a market in the hunting crowd and came out with the camouflage version.

http://www.milwaukeetool.ca/heated-gear
Chrome for Android builds are now dependent on the Google Play Services
The origin is definitely further back. I recall hearing "it takes longer to get it compiling, but when it compiles it works" about OCaml more than a decade ago. When I mentioned this to my father at that point, he remarked that the sentiment goes back further.
on HN trends up to 2012 it was about the same as python or sometimes higher now Ruby is way below. The general trendline of up is the result of HN's Who is hiring thread popularity and increasing number of job posts in absolute numbers. Here it's more evident, Ruby was the most popular language 3 years ago
http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/2015/...
Airbnb and Gentrification
There is a very simple rule for the size of the A series pages. Markus Kuhn covers it here:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html

Basically, in metres the An page dimensions are pow(2, (plus or minus)1/4 - n/2)
and always round down to the nearest mm.
A Procedurally-Generated Adventure Game
Is the IOS CLI firmware official? If it is, do you need a support contract to upgrade?
Is Tox secure ? Compared to tinfoil chat
In Rarotonga in the winter months you can buy puffer jackets with copper wiring sewn to the inside with a 9V battery.
The penalty is rather low though, and in my experience no one particularly ever cares to exercise credits unless it's something egregious, so provided you're not consistently below 99.9% every single month (which is pretty bad even for a startup), it's generally pretty safe to assume a little bit of a risk if you only miss it occasionally.

Bigger customers will absolutely look for 99.9%, and anything less will be a huge red flag during procurement.
My Sprint iPhone 4S worked fine on CDMA networks in the US, and it worked fine while traveling internationally on GSM / non-CDMA networks.

There's something going on in the baseband firmware that rejects domestic carrier SIM cards, but still allows international carriers when an international unlock is granted.
Meaningful might be a finite resource.
Some of these TVs take so long to register a button press you have to wonder if they aren't using a 6502 inside to power the thing.

Amusingly enough, my completely dumb pair of computer monitors (also made by Samsung, but before they started making things "smart") has a 6502-based SoC driving the OSD, and there is no perceptible lag at all.

These "smart" TVs seem to be based on ARM SoCs running at few hundred MHz to 1GHz+ and probably have more processing power than a high-end desktop PC in the mid 2000s.

I think it's all because of the software - tons of bloat.
Looking at the source-code sent to the browser, I'm afraid there's scant evidence of that. I take it the idea was that the snippet in the body (as mentioned above) was to be rendered on the server?

If you figure it out, please let us know/write it up -- being able to use react and have it work without javascript would be a very nice feature.
Upvoted and really appreciate your comment.
I completely forgot about RapidShare till I saw this, I'm probably not the only one...
These fusion.net articles are just awful...
The people working for those entrepreneurs are perhaps less keen on those virtues.
Can we please just get rid of carrier locking altogether? It is clearly anti-consumer and dangerous in the oligopoly ruled wireless market. So just outlaw the practice and be done with it.
Is anyone actually using this (or something like it)?

If so, I'm curious about the details like context and experience.
You can't make this comment when you work for the startup being mentioned.
I've been running Arch on my work box for the past several years, but I'm thinking I might move to something a bit less demanding of my time the next time I upgrade hardware. I've never been a fan of the way Ubuntu does their admin stuff (which I'm guessing Elementary inherits), but I might give it a look.
If some people do, in fact, prefer situations in which there is a slim chance of tremendous windfall and large chance of small loss to guaranteed status quo, who is the economist to tell them "No, no, this is incompatible with the theory of diminishing marginal vNM-utility. Your preferences are misguided!".

Utility is just a construct for describing people's preferences; to turn around and demand that people's preferences ought change to match some textbook model of utility is to put the cart before the horse.

People can reasonably have all kinds of different personal preferences, right? If your theory doesn't account for that, that may not be an example of muddled thinking on your subjects' part; it could just as well be a problem with your theory. I mean, what is actually factually misinformed about preferring the risk profile afforded by a lottery ticket to the alternative?
The article is by the curator of that website, as mentioned in the first two sentences of the author bio.
There was load of blog sites which kept posting up new stuff with links back to Rapidshare in the footer, but older page just ended up have dead links as the content got deleted.
I assumed a $1 ticket in the example. The point is that even if the expected value is high, buying a ticket means that you are likely overbetting by several orders of magnitude.
In my experience a lot of entrepreneurs/entrepreneur literature preaches Stoic philosophies:

[1]: http://fourhourworkweek.com/2009/04/13/stoicism-101-a-practi...

[2]: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/238146

[3]: http://mfishbein.com/stoicism-entrepreneurship/
Google used to be able to index Rapidshare so you could just search for files on via Google
Zapier (YC S12) is hiring remote full-stack and API engineers
Zach Holman: move fast and break nothing
Where There Are More Single Men Than Women
This reminds me of projects from 10 years ago where people made small robots out of Palmpilots. http://hiqnews.megafoundation.org/News_of_the_Ultranet-Summe...

I’ve been stockpiling old iPhones in hopes that something like this would come along.
The term is not controversial, but taking it seriously is, unless you're an anarchist and already assume that all societal constructs are attempts at coercion or slavery to begin with.
The Enemies of Data Security: Convenience and Collaboration
A woman tried to hide her pregnancy from “Big Data”
From your link:

"...I actually had no idea how the function worked. I simply wrote a function that matched the required type."

I guess everybody have done that. But releasing it without testing... I'm just impressed, in both a good and a bad way.
I think their backend is built in F#: http://vimeo.com/104896802
Unhappy, unhappy, Apple makes me very very unhappy
That's what transition groups do. When you wrap something I a transition group, it will generate events when a child is removed or added, allowing you to add required transition effects.

The CSS transition group is pretty useful: When a child is removed, it is kept in the DOM, with a CSS "exit" class added (here you could have a CSS transition for opacity, for example), and then finally removed when React determines that the animation is done. Conversely, added nodes get an "enter" class.

Transition groups are explicit -- you have to wrap your components in them -- and that's a good thing, as it allows you to control what kinds of transitions are used in different contexts.
Russell, Bostrom and the Risk of AI
This letter exposes an eternal struggle that man always had; a fight between individual morality and group conformity. Morals are usually sought on an individual basis, while groups tend to be more immoral to outsiders, or at best, seek to maintain the status quo.
Same thing in Belgium. Simlocked phones are illegal, even subsidized phones are unlocked. Of course, the phone subsidy is much lower than in countries that allow simlocking.
Ask and I shall deliver. Fixed. :P

I'll upload our build setup right about when I write a blog response to the OP's post. :)

The chief point to note is that the components need to render as you want non-JS viewers to see them when they're passed the default props/state.
Rainloop Webmail – Simple, modern and fast web-based email client
Personally I don't think they should be locked to begin with. We've already signed an agreement in which i've agreed to terms which include making payments until the cost of the device is paid. Given that contract there should be no reason why I can't use the device as I please so long as I haven't violated those terms.

People who travel with a locked phone know how useless it is. No one is stupid enough to want pay the ridiculous roaming rates. Locked phone prevents you from using a local service during your stay! #thisNeedsToChange
I bricked my Samsung GS3 (SPH crappy one) doing just that. 8 hours off-and-on of random binary / flashing and on the 9th hour, bricked. Horrible, horrible experience.
What happened to teenagers paid to drop out of university?
Preference orderings have very little to do with "meaning in life" or "meaningful things in life".

"Meaning in life" is a vague, ill-defined phrase whose referent is not a real thing.
Seems like a recipe for disaster.

Why not prove something simple out with a few million before dumping $140 million into it? Does what they're building really require that much software to be written before we know if it will work? I get that the founder has been successful, but wow.

I'm usually pretty wary when people say "OMG It's 1999/a bubble all over again!" But that is a pretty damn frothy raise, even if you're optimistic.
pretty sure the big win here is:

1) low individual component cost (which is great when you need 100's of them for a datacenter build out)
2) no frills, high throughput non-blocking backplane which are normally only available from the enterprise grade network vendors at top dollar per individual component, and come with a mountain of features and bugs you DONT NEED
3) software defined networking stack: if you can imagine a scenario/feature that would improve your life, nothing but development costs will get in your way. contrast with enterprise vendors, which requires explaining the problem to begin with, and dangling a wad of money explaining how it will be worth their while to develop it
Show HN: Faux-jax, Intercept and respond to Ajax requests
What happened to the entrepreneurs whom Peter Thiel paid to forgo college
A counter argument would be that this is moot. You should secure your systems from these kinds of attacks. To assume that the Iranians or anyone else would not have developed them independently from the Western intelligence agencies is security through obscurity.

In some ways, perhaps Stuxnet did the world a favor, but showing the vulnerability of airgapped infrastructure that people assume is safe from attack. Stuxnet may have accelerated the capabilities of adversaries, but sooner or later, it would have been developed anyway.
Tox is DHT/P2P based which means it does not rely on any type of centralized authority, and all traffic is encrypted using the sodium crypto library (https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium).

Full disclosure: Tox has not yet been professionally audited.
As a European, I would also like to point that the U.S. doesn't use the Letter format exclusively. Bills, in particular, come in all sorts of weird formats. Things like electricity bills sometimes come in long, narrow formats that don't fit in any kind of binder!
This is an attempt to generate a self fulfilling prophecy. A new internet marketplace, almost by definition, cannot become viable unless people think it either is already or is a sure bet to become so. Only by trying to persuade us that it's succeeded before launching do they even have a shot.
> Actually in China today there is a 70-year land-use right. You can own a piece of land for 70-year...

Very few outside of China know about this and it will actually be very interesting in the future.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_property_law#Obtaining_...
The "Official Ruby on Rails Hosting Provider", that they had back in the day, before it went to Engine Yard.
I am. I do assume that.

What else would they be?

How do you have a societal construct that isn't coerced?

Voluntary participation of 100% of participants ....
>This is basically just communism re-wrapped as "changing work."

You say that like it's a bad thing. Anarchism historically has always been libertarian communism. It was Marx who paired authoritarianism and communism into the ideology that drove almost all the worst despots of the 20th century.
If work (in a capitalist system) isn't slavery, couldn't you just choose to not do it?