skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

"Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

"But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

"This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.” - Terry Pratchett, Men At Arms: The Play http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72745-the-reason-that-the-ri...
Probably because he's good at writing code, not writing business plans and raising money.
That quote is from a comment, which was speculation. I'm not sure it has enough support to be used as counter-evidence to what I said.
Looks like quite a few donations are coming through!

https://blockchain.info/address/12LKeo24XCzgz6ASSxcUa8BvUfzk...
In fact I became a customer of EasyPost's soon after reading that HN post.
Burn Victim Sam Brown Treated with Virtual-Reality Video Game (2012)
That makes complete sense, especially since you are not going to get in to YC as a hardware startup without a functioning prototype.
> In your scenario, what will happen to GPG? The world just loses this essential asset?

It won't suddenly erase itself from all the world's computers. It'll still be there. It'll still work the same way it worked the day before.

Perhaps someone else will pick it up?
There's a reason that I have always loved reading TTAC and will always continue to read it. These guys are thoughtful and interesting to a degree that is only rivalled by how insular and myopic most car people are. They taught teenaged me a lot of lessons about critical thinking by laying it on top of one of my favourite topics - cars.

Enough of a love letter - I agree with the point. There's a similar thing that happens with house owners: owning a whole bunch of tools and being able to fix your own stuff is a privilege that middle class people enjoy, but poor people do not. You have to pay for the ability to plan for contingencies, and if you can barely afford to pay for your living expenses, you definitely can't afford to pay for the $50 battery charger, or the $30 socket set, or the time and energy required to learn all this stuff in the first place and put it into action when you need it done.
I think it is cruel, heartless and selfish to expect a poor man to work for the benefit of the world without benefit to himself. If it's done by free will it is awesome, but is astoundingly arrogant to expect someone to do it by default.
What? We're not talking about sexual attraction. What do you think beauty means?
Thanks for the comprehensive feedback!
Mummified 200-year-old monk found in Mongolia in 'very deep meditation'
This lead me to:

http://www.fancyparking.com/
Procedural was talking about their client (SourceTree), not the server software.
> Inflation is nothing but the increase of money supply without an equivalent increase in production

Wouldn't that mean that inflation would also be caused by a decrease in production without an equivalent decrease in the money supply?
I'll let zaphar tell his side of it (he's my brother), but the way I remember mom telling it, the school was disinterested in dealing with certain issues he was having in class.

The problem was, zaphar knew everything he needed to know in 1st grade before he showed up the first day. He got excessively bored in class as a result and developed a daydreaming habit his teachers didn't want to take the time address. By the time he was in 2nd grade, he was learning nothing and fell behind. The teachers met with my mom as they usually do and told her that they were just going to pass him to the next class instead of keeping him back. Mom thought that was "unacceptable" and that was part of what prompted my parents to pull him out and homeschool us.

It took her a couple years to break him of the habit (and a lot of one on one interaction).

There are probably other things zaphar might know, but that's how I remember it.

As a result, I never went to public schools at all (with the exception of drivers ed in highschool). Kindergarten was 30 mins a day for a summer. I would run up to mom and say "let have school!" and then when i got bored we would stop.

For the record, I was socially awkward. I'm naturally shy and that didn't help. I eventually overcame that (though it does come out when i'm more fatigued) and would like to think I can hold my own socially. But I doubt public school would have been good for me. If it was anything like college was, I would have done far worse academically. I hate lectures, they make me sleepy and bored and I retain very little. I need to read and work the problems to understand them. Mostly, I marvel at the waste of time. I could typically do all my homework in ~4 hours (or less if i was being diligent) and be done with school by lunch. Sitting for nearly 8 hours a day (given my aggressively active nature as a child) would have been torture.
Show HN: Sticky headers and footers for UICollectionView
This was a fun read and I can relate, I own a Toyota with over 300k km's on the clock. At 160k the timing belt snapped and bent the valves. Luckily I could afford to take a week off, buy a second hand imported enjin, have a dad who is a mechanical engineer, and learn swap the enjin myself. Then take a second week off work because the new enjin had timing issues which I finally pinpointed to a pirated camshaft pulley where the outer ring of the part would slip.

Long story short, my car, even with all the troubles is by far cheaper than any other option, but just like the article states, you have to have certain "privileges" to make it work.
It's pretty good, but IMO it's too tightly tied to Google Chrome & Node.
I make robots in Chicago and sell them on Tindie. My top two competitors are in Finland and Japan. Yes, I hear Shenzhen is crazy awesome, but try not to let location dominate your world view of what is easy or difficult. Making a good hardware product is difficult, no matter where you make it.
2.9% is fairly standard with Stripe et. al., but fees from things like chargebacks could probably add up to another 1%.
It's not as expensive as you think, if you run the numbers. Most of the money comes from dismantling welfare, social security, food stamps, et cetera. Tax rates on the middle class are increased enough to cancel out the basic income benefit, so that washes out. As long as the poor isn't the majority of your population, it's not a large tax increase on the rich.
A magnetic oddity [video]
You only have to look at any thread here about copyright or piracy to see indignation at the very idea of charging money. People believe that software being free (for every definition of free) is a fundamental human right, and part of the justification made for piracy is that no one has the right to profit from software, and the for-profit distribution models need to be disrupted and undermined.

You can list a couple of exceptions, sure. But I'll see you that and raise you all of The Pirate Bay.
I don't understand why the creator's lifetime ever enters the picture. Nothing else works like that. Most property belongs to you until you explicitly transfer it, and if you die it goes to your heirs. Some things (like patents) expire at a fixed time.

As it stands, the copyright term for a work written by a 20-year-old author will likely be decades more than the copyright term for an identical work written by a 90-year-old author. How does that make any sense? Come up with a sensible fixed term and use that, done, end of story. If the creator outlives the term, so be it. If the creator dies immediately, his heirs can manage the property until it expires just like they would with anything else they inherit.
Show HN: KeepUpdated – Automatically track and monitor your competitors
They'll quickly forget about Title II worries when Google Fiber will actually come to that area and will rush to upgrade their network. They are just a bunch of hypocrites. Alternatively, may be people there can start a community broadband project?
Let's do some back of the envelope math here.

316 million Americans, at a $30k/year money sample works out to be $9 trillion dollars a year.

The budget that Obama just proposed is $4 trillion dollars (and that has no chance of getting implemented in full). Even if we say you can cut half of that out (Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, etc), let's call it $2 trillion dollars.

So we need $11 trillion dollars of tax money to fund this. The total net worth of US private people is $67 trillion or so[1]. The aggregate net worth of the top 400 people in the USA is $2.3 trillion[2]. You could take all of their money, and still not even come close to paying for the program for ONE YEAR.

At that point, you start having to come down hard on the upper middle class. The top 25% owns roughly 73% of the wealth in the country, or ~$48 trillion. If you tax their NET WORTH at 25%, you could fund the program for a year.

Pretty quickly you're going to run into a situation where you're cutting a check to everyone, then collecting the money (and more) back in taxes. And in this case, it's terribly inefficient.

On a small scale, a program like this probably works well. On a large scale, it would be a disaster.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_position_of_the_Unite...
[2] http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/
Yes, I'm sure socialists are the only ones who could ever possibly accept a basic income.

Oh wait http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax
Why not just replace it with an insurance system like Aflac? Aflac is a type of insurance that bridges the game and provides extra money to bring the person back up to whatever level they were accustomed to before.

If minimum income is enough to allow everyone to live comfortably, I don't see why the government would need to provide additional insurance for emergencies.
The problem with such organizations is their donations only go to affiliated projects. Mozilla donates to mozilla projecs, apache donates to apache projects, fsf donates to fsf projects and so on.

Relying donations from occasional news cannot be healthy for the project. I imagine that during the next week the project will be able to amass a significant amount of donations but whenever this article is forgotten, the cash inflow will trickle.

I kinda wish that such organizations could make patreon accounts. Or maybe a non-profit service with the same idea. The point is, it's hard to keep track of all the projects that need money and to manage such donations without blowing your budget.

I can think of a few projects that I rely on a daily basis: firefox, xfce, fsf, freedesktop, python, debian, openbsd, transmission torrent, the gnome foundation, vlc, and there is probably a lot more that I can't remember right now.
Twitter and Google Said to Reach Deal on Search
this is precisely the question I asked here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863782

This is frustrating - a lot of these projects dont get funded just because of one reason: discoverability. People dont know that these projects need funding. OpenSSH was another. No telling how many others.
The graphite pencil might be a finer engineering achievement than today's F-35, in that you can take one out of the package without it setting itself on fire, and you don't have to wait 4 years before actually writing anything with it.
> What is interesting, is that the policy makers have a financial interest in ensuring that the housing market does not crash.

Exactly. Moreover, the housing value is tied into things such as total wealth (which is why after the 2008 crash the wealth of middle-income and low-income Americans crashed, too much of it was tied up into housing equity), which then ties into economic outlook and consumer spending, which then ties into lending and all things finances.

Presidents and parliament members do get voted out when there's a severe contraction in consumer spending and generally depressive feelings about economic outlook.
Meta-question, ideally aimed at Daniel if you're reading this, but not interesting enough to email you plus wondering what community members think:

Normally I'd be against comments like "donated" that add nothing else, and would downvote them for that. But in this case, does seeing lots of other people say they've donated make other readers more likely to donate themselves? If so, does that outweigh the negative of the page filling up with otherwise-pointless comments?

I've not downvoted any, but would be interested in any opinions as to whether or not you have/would downvote them and why.
> look into how far you can use appcache to store resources offline

Maybe this question isn't specific to firefox OS, but... what is the benefit of using appcache -- doesn't the browser already cache assets that it has loaded?
Matthew Green, who sits on the CII's advisory board, tweeted:

"CII does what's beneficial to its members. Privacy tools aren't" [https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/56338899320386764...]

...which indicates to me that GnuPG wasn't sold properly. It's not just a "privacy tool" -- it's one of the ways that software (including OpenSSL) is securely distributed. I would guess that quite a few of the CII's members benefit from GnuPG and don't even realize it.
Swift Navigation (San Francisco, CA) - Full Time

Swift Navigation is a 10ish-person, high-accuracy GPS hardware
startup based out of San Francisco. We are venture funded,
recently won the Qualcomm QPrize, and have a fantastic slate of
paying customers.

Swift is currently looking to fill roles in embedded systems
firmware engineering and business development, but are open to
awesome folks more generally.

We have a number of fun projects in-progress: RF/embedded design
for satellite receivers, modeling/algorithm design for GPS
estimation and control problems, functional
programming (Haskell!) for platform infrastructure and
performance-critical embedded code generation, and continuous
testing/integration of complex firmware releases.

In business development, you'll be responsible for driving direct
sales, expanding the availability of high-accuracy GPS into
entirely new markets in machine automation, such as precision
agriculture, UAVs, mining equipment, and other autonomous or
self-driving systems.

If you'd like to apply, send a note to jobs@swiftnav.com. I'll
also be happy to answer any questions at mookerji@swiftnav.com.

More details: http://www.swiftnav.com/jobs.html

http://kickstarter.com/projects/swiftnav/piksi-the-rtk-gps-r...
https://github.com/swift-nav/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyEKakfqNkk (@ defcon20)
Is it easier to give 10 people $10 or to give 100 people $10, then take $900 of it back?

If 100 people is the totality of the population, the cost of bureaucracy for monitoring which of those 10 people actually get the $10 (specifically ensuring a low fraud level) is near or greater than $100, and the social stigma of getting that $10 in the first place is reduced or eliminated, then yes, it could be "easier".

In other words, would it make sense to give everyone the same amount, and take it back from some in taxes, when weighing the cost of the current levels of enforcement and the possible social good done through reduced stigmatization of the poor.
Just think of it as "cloud transporting". One automobile instance goes down, fail back to another. You could start a new business like... maybe EngineYard? :)
Looks like I'm gonna have to ditch React and IO now. I think those are getting outdated. Will be rewriting all apps in Scala.js.
Not to nitpick, but at least some of these arguably haven't gotten far enough along yet that they can reasonably claim to be "successful." Thalmic is just getting early products to market, Helion hasn't yet built a commercial fusion reactor, etc.
Free software means "free as in speech" not "free as in beer".
My response to this consists of a library: http://intercoolerjs.org/

Server-side rendered HTML: an idea so crazy... It. Just. Might. Work.
> try not to let location dominate your world view of what is easy or difficult

Didn't YC move?
Typical "progressive enhancement" calls for creating HTML in templates that have no knowledge of the JavaScript, and then using JavaScript to attach behavior to that HTML.

The approach described in this blog post builds a JavaScript app from the get-go, and uses a server-side technique to extract standalone HTML from the JavaScript application.

The net effect is the same (you get HTML on the client before you executed the JavaScript), but the developer paradigm is sharply different.

Typical progressive enhancement techniques require you to carefully construct a version of your application that works without JavaScript, and then find ways to shim in and bring the page alive. The approach I'm working on provides the HTML as a by-product of running the application normally.

Additionally, progressive enhancement techniques almost always involve server-side rendering, which means you lose the benefits of client-side routing I describe in the post.

The goals of progressive enhancement are wonderful. My complaint has always been that previous techniques hamper developer productivity far too much to be realistic. With FastBoot, I'm hoping we can offer the benefits with far fewer costs.
It's almost like you didn't read the article to discover that his point was only tangentially related to the headline.
This has been around, if you buy the house under LLC, you can divvy up the equity whichever way you want it.

How's liquidity provided when there's no "next investor"?
Nobody wants to pay for infrastructure. Devs expect it all for free, even if it puts you in a Turing tar pit of plugins.
The purpose of a bank is to lend money at a price. They want to hold on to their deposits as much as possible. I bet if willing they would only be open for an hour a day.
We are collecting nominations for our DuckDuckGo yearly FOSS donations at https://duck.co/forum/thread/11753/foss-donation-nominations.... The theme this year is mainstream privacy. This seems to fit well and we'd welcome others. Donations will go out soon.
I was answering parent questions. There are usually good reasons for clustering and big iron.
You gotta love the Orwellian naming on this one. "Ember FastBoot" meaning Ember-we've-been-selling-you-very-slow-booting-for-years-and-now-we're-hoping-to-mitigate-it-slightly-but-it's-still-vaporware.

Meanwhile, the commonsense approach has always been faster and simpler than this model: Use a small JS framework, not a bloated one, and only load the minimal UI and data set that you need to render the initial page at first. Load the rest later. This includes bootstrapping — remembering to put all the data you need to render the page inline as a JSON object in the HTML.

This can often result in less data sent over the wire than a large HTML page with tons of repeated DOM elements. It's also far easier to cache appropriately.
> Legally you can obtain someone's SSN for very little money.

Not legally. You certainly can go onto a website and buy them, if you misrepresent your purposes, and you won't be caught... but it's still illegal.
Appfelstrudel – An App Store Search That Doesn't Suck
Sauce Labs raises $15m
Many people do, e.g. bugs tagged E-easy in rust bug DB

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/labels/E-easy
Historically, SAT is designed to be an aptitude test, so if the SAT people do their jobs right, a school ought not be able to raise their SAT scores.

Obviously no test is perfectly an aptitude test, and the easiest way to raise average SAT scores is to teach strategies specifically for the SAT.
If it's a registered non profit you can donate and 'write it off' too. The idea that a 'big company' should do the donating is short sighted. That big company is made up of individuals. If everyone reading this donated $100, the problem posed by the article would disappear.
> as participation in a transaction is not fully voluntary for all participants

What transaction are you referring to not being voluntary? Transactions in the economic sense are by definition voluntary. Without a monopoly on law, people hire courts of their choosing to settle disputes. They are not compelled by a third party to settle disputes in the third party's court. Most importantly, they are not compelled by a third party to use the third party's law. They may each have their own laws even.

More about polycentric law: http://www.tomwbell.com/writings/JurisPoly.html
The FSF's interpretation of the GPL and LGPL has never made a distinction between static and dynamic linking. A lot of other armchair internet lawyers, make this distinction, though. ;-)

Eben Moglen seems to think, as I understand it, that it depends on how you distribute the thing. If you link dynamically but distribute the whole thing together as if it were a whole, it's a single work and all should be under the GPL. Other situations seem less clear.
I was hoping (sadly) that based on the name, this meant there was a port of node.js to spidermonkey by the Mozilla team. Other posters have mentioned this as well.

This is sort of a "lazy web" request, but does anyone know why node.js needs v8 specifically? Would it really be that hard to support node.js on spidermonkey?
Tom, it's ok to backtrack here. You (and the rest of us) didn't know at the time that progressive enhancement could be possible without making development much more difficult.
Agreed. Giant cover image with pointless mouse-over effect immediately followed by typo on first word. Ugh.
I know what you mean. I make development boards(Tah) out of India.
But I understand that most of what I use comes some way or the other from Shenzhen. A lot many times there are things that I am using which probably are outdated in China.
Relevant article by bunnie :
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297
I like the idea of an exponential increase. $1 for the first year, then double it for each subsequent year. If you don't want to pay a $1 then it probably doesn't deserve protection. If you can't afford $2047 over ten years then maybe you don't need a decade of protection. You don't even need to put in an explicit limit, since the available money on the planet will present a natural one eventually.
I think parent was badly worded/thought out, but points to a real strategy. He said "charge for commercial use", which is definitely illegal, but what a lot of projects do is dual-license open source and proprietary. If you're a non-commercial project, you'll usually just use the open source version; if you're commercial, you'll want to be able to both link the project into a proprietary codebase and get support guarantees, so you pay for the proprietary license.
wow, i bet some of the other prolific 'security researchers' are pissed they arent mentioned. On the other hand, those mentioned are probably rethinking their disclosure and OPSEC practices, and its interesting that at least one of the names on the list isnt even legitimately a researcher. This article, if true, I feel represents a by-product of the collusion between spooks and hackers at conferences, gladhanding, coin-swapping, etc. As a former fighter, I learned that out of battle its respectful etiquette to befriend an opponent, or someone once seen as an adversary. But now I think weve seen that sometimes its better to avoid the neutral ground altogether. I now feel dirty that I originally applauded when gen alexander swapped coins with Dave Kennedy (who is a great human being). I was sucking up to the new order, and I can come clean and admit it.