skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "wars" and the militarism is essentially just a tool to extract ever more money from the government, the economy, and tax payers in order to funnel them to wards the power brokers.

It's a kind of scam similar to a multilevel marketing scheme, which is quite similar to a run of the mill ponzi scam and quite similar to a simple protection racket. In case you don't know what a con job is, it is shorthand for "confidence trick", a type of scam where fostered confidence is manipulated in order to gain unfettered access to the direct target of the scheme, which is usually money.

In the case of war, the multilevel marketing scheme con job is all about fostering confidence in the military protecting us and our children from all kinds of bad guys. The problem though, as the military services sector and America quickly realized after the fall of the Soviet Union, is that you cannot justify your target handing over their earnings and writing over their assets if there is nothing to be scared and the bad guy just keeled over. If you remember or were paying attention during the 90s, you will recall that beyond the almost desperate nature of agitation to attack Iraq and Saddam (which also has its own illustrious history of lies and false flag type incidents), there was serious angst about how our military would justify unjustifiable expenditure into the foreseeable future. There was serious identity crisis in the late 90s military services sector. 9/11 was the like a huge birthday cake with all the icing already on top of it they could have ever wished for and the Al Qaeda colluding buffoons in the White House at the time were just the stripper jumping out of the cake.

The scary thing about it is that our government and our wealthy and out military services sector essentially dropped a gasoline bladder on a camp fire, instead of covering it with dirt and water; but will they be able to tame the demons they have let out and even if they can, will it not have contributed to draining our attention and resources from developing and building our own society to compete in the future instead of being mired in battles with primitive mindsets.

Personally, I think it will once be written that the USA was a short lived power that succumbed to internal saboteurs that drove the USA off a cliff for selfish greed and allowed it to be overtaken by the more focused and deliberate China. We have always been our own worst enemy.
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Does it? I don't see where he's making the claim that the reason you should listen to him is because he is a better designer than the folks at Medium. In fact, he says "[m]edium’s ho­mo­ge­neous de­sign works and reads well." The claim he's actually making seems to be about issues of openness, ownership, and authorial compensation, specifically that users are trading those things away for the fit and polish of medium's platform.

Unrelated, maybe it's a platform-specific problem? I found his site to be quite readable. Things like line-height and line-length appear to have been chosen with care, and he takes great pains to get all the typographical details right. The use of a "◇" to indicate links is...eccentric, but whatever.
Futuristic British Space Plane Engine to Get Flight Test in 2020
I never said Debian comes out on top. In fact, I went out of my way to say "use the right tool for the job." There are cases where FreeBSD is better and cases where Debian is better. To take something as complex as a modern operating system and say one or the other is always better would be foolish.

But, to address the questions: suspend does work out of the box for many laptops on Debian, including suspend on lid close, and has for years.

ZFS as a volume manager - I specifically addressed this. ZFS is not a suitable volume manager for everyone because it is fairly rigid once a zpool is set up. You cannot expand a raidz1 nearly as easily as a RAID-5 in Linux. (You have a stripe the data across another storage group.) You can't shrink a zpool at all. These are limitations that matter in some, but not all, setups.

Support of alien filesystems may be irrelevant for many servers, but it is not for all. But anyhow, people use an OS for more than just servers.

Virtualization -- believe it or not, there are people that need ways to run Windows. Sometimes a whole lot of Windows.

Dropbox -- lacking something that can to instant auto-syncs is a feature? That's pretty presumptious.

There is a big difference on desktop environments and configuration. Install Debian and with a simple selection of "desktop environment", it boots up into a working DE. FreeBSD -- not so much. Install a bunch of packages, exit some polkit and hal files, and then you'll get there. Well, if you thought to run pkg inside typescript so you see what pkla files to edit.
Bingo. Only a wide-eyed statist would ask "why do we fight all these wars we can't win". Uh, we're winning them alright.

The point, as you said, is to destabilize some key regions so that a certain chosen territory can live off an oil monopoly and control pipelines across continents.
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Well, has he sat down and done the math on what he nets in the long run? If he feels that it's worth it in the long run, he's not being exploited, but if he sits down and does the math and he determines that driving for Uber costs him money, then yes he's being exploited.
FIRST, this is BLOG SPAM which posts false information to try to get gullable people to purchase one of their books (banner ad at bottom of that blog linking to http://products.techswarm.com/teslasecrets.html).

This thing was built in the 70s and is nothing more than a very dangerous Marx Generator. It's purpose was to test aircraft against lightning, not solve the world's energy needs.

I think people are getting it confused with the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower and two random Russians attempt to get an Indiegogo project funded ($40k out of $800k at the end).

Video of it running: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDPRqzHS0xU

7 years ago: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread319602/pg1

http://rt.com/news/170704-tesla-tower-lightning-russia/

This part is very interesting though: "Though the dome crumbled because of mistakes in its construction, the collapse had unintended historical consequences. The high-ranking Soviet Communist Party official in Moscow supervising the construction of the Istra dome was fired from his job and sent to a remote posting as punishment. He was replaced with fellow Communist apparatchik Boris Yeltsin, who was invited to work in Moscow and eventually became Russia’s first president."

Tesla Tower != Marx Generator != Tesla Coil != Van de Graff Generator

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_Pulsed_Power_Facility (cool looking)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Lab... and https://lasers.llnl.gov/ (where near-unlimited energy might actually happen)

http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.htm... (another fusion team)

I'm curious as to whether the Tesla Tower was a hoax or just a miscalculation by Nikola Tesla.
I posted to the forum right now, same nick as here.
Check out Snapchat Discover. It really doesn't have anything to do with instant messaging. It's more like headlines that you can dive into or move on from.
> The United States of America is not at "War" unless there is a Declaration of War from the Congress.

The Constitution gives the Congress the power to declare war, but the extension of that to "war doesn't exist unless Congress declares it" is reading something into the Constitution which is not expressly there, and which there is a fairly good historical argument (which every Supreme Court case to take up the issue, starting fairly early on in the Republic, also sided with) is not at all intended.

> The Congress of the United States of America has not declared war in over 70 years.

This is not true; just as Congress doesn't have to use magic words when it invokes, say, its interstate commerce power, or its taxation power, neither does it when it choses to exercise its power to declare war; acts of Congress like the 2001 "9/11 AUMF" and the 2003 "Iraq AUMF" are both examples of exercises of the power to declare war (in both cases, declarations made conditional on executive acts.)

> Declaring war is like flipping a switch on our Constitutional and economic systems.

Declaring war is not like flipping a switch on the Constitution. Nor the economic system, really, though separate radical acts in the economic arena may be premised on the existence of a state of war.
This is nothing like a Ponzi scheme, which is where new investments are used to pay off old investments, and investors are kept in the dark. Old investors get nothing additional from this kind of deal besides maybe a chance to liquidate a small portion of their shares at each round.

It also doesn't actually mean the company is worth $19B if you say, compare it to a public corporation. There's a huge difference. It's still a highly speculative investment, which is why they're not public. If Snapchat was to go public today, Wall Street would likely eat them alive. This just means that some venture capitalists can be convinced to buy something like 2.5% of the company for something like $475M.
This is not really news, this was already discovered by Nadia Heninger and others in a paper in 2012. From their faq about their research:
"We found significant numbers of insecure RSA and DSA public keys in use on the Internet: we found that 5% of HTTPS hosts and nearly 10% of SSH hosts shared keys for reasons we considered a vulnerability."
See here: https://factorable.net/faq.html
Mostly embedded devices that auto-generate their key on bootup. There was a pretty interesting talk at ccc where part of this research is mentioned:
http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2012/29c3-5275-en-factha...
Researchers Find ‘Astonishing’ Malware Linked to NSA Spying
> That is, it doesn't attempt to do any work, and instead just throws back a HTTP 5xx error

I'm surprised the OP doesn't suggest having your load balancer pay attention to returned error codes.

If the load balancer knows what average amount of 500 or non-200 responses is, and one unit is returning way more than an average rate of non-succesful responses, it would make sense for the load balancer to back off sending to that machine. But maybe still send an occasional request there, so it can notice when/if it's error rate returns to normal.

Do any load balancers work like this?
Of course there is a bubble. The interest rate has been at zero for years.
Americans want rich guys like Elon Musk to pay for space travel – not taxpayers
LaTeX is indeed fearsomely powerful but I think it depends on what type of document you are writing. Lots of math, complicated symbols, graphs etc? LaTeX.

Blogging? There are a approximately a billion choices, but lately I have been playing around with Scrivener. It is a little overkill for a blog entry, but it is one of the few programs to not treat a computer as just a typewritter with more fancy font, spellcheck and better correction - instead it allows your to sorta weave your story together, piece by piece.
Has anyone seen these guys on streets? They're totally killing it
Mostly, yes.

But there's part of it that goes back to the economy. Think the Internet, GPS, early Silicon Valley and early Texas tech hubs. Of course, that was privatized and state sponsored research turned into cash cows for the private sector. Even some big names like Google and Facebook had seed money from state-related groups.
It does seem the invitations are for the profile section but you can still register normally.

In any case, thanks!! Seems like an interesting way to create a profile. Wonder how 'valuable' this is compared to LinkedIn or a simple webpage.
You seem to be trying to resolve 2 different pains at once: email overload and privacy. Regarding the former, Google seems to be doing a lot of the same stuff already (categorization, calendar event extraction, ...). Do you have your unique edge? Or is the differentiation mainly in not being tied to Gmail?
OPL – High-level syntax for linear programming
Agree. Even the spoken form (at least in the languages I know) is formated this way: You say "ten euros" and not "euros ten". I'd be curious to know why it was decided to write it the other way around.
SnapChat is starting to sell ad space. So I'm sure they'll generate hundreds of millions of dollars and end up being fine. A company that large doesn't just fail over night. Founders and early employees are set for life.

The real tragedy imo is that these companies are idolized by the valley hive mind. Smart, young developers seem to be more interested in building social-mobile-ad-generating-app-number-twomillion than work on something worthwhile.

Worthwhile being healthcare, education, space travel, energy, etc. Not some viral app that sells ads.
Why doesn't it solve that problem?

If the load balancer is monitoring this, it's quite capable of knowing what the average number of 500's returned is (knowing it automatically, via monitoring over time), and noticing that one machine is returning 500's at 10x the rate every other machine is, and then reducing it in the rotation.

No? It would not surprise me if this would lead to yet _other_ undesired side effects in certain conditions though -- I'd expect the same of the solution OP proposes though, or anything automated like this.
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I find it quite lovely its CPU is a direct descendant of the one that powered the Acorn Archimedes, which, in turn, was inspired by the 6502 that powered the BBC Micro, the Apple II, the 8-bit Atari family, the PET, the VIC-20, the C-64 and so many others.

The Pi stands on the shoulders of a giant on top of a pyramid of giants.
Also, consumer headphones in this day and age will be designed specifically around hiding the deficiencies of a phone/music player because that's their most common use case. And they absolutely should be, people want their headphones to sound good. But headphones that make a bad source sound good may not be able to accurately portray what comes through a better player.

I don't know if Pono is it but I think there's absolutely space for a hi-fi music player. Apparently Pono uses high quality DAC's: the ES9018 chip which cost about $65 to just go order.[0] The iPhone 6's chip costs ~$16.[1] That, plus the fact that the Pono uses better quality electronics throughout means there's good reason it should sound better. Ironically the 192k sampling rate is one of the least impressive parts of the player, to me.

[0] - http://ecommerce.ismosys.com/ordering/product_info.php?manuf...
[1] - http://www.aliexpress.com/item/100-Original-New-for-iPhone-6...
Not sure which you mean. I have a 3200x1800 13" display + Firefox and the practicaltypography font looks amazing. I basically had to read the whole article just because of the joy of the typography. Medium looks washed out in comparison.
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The worst of it all, I'm 32 (been working professionally since I was 16, and programming as a hobby since 11). I'm not supposed to be an old timer complaining about 'kids these days' but sure feels like it!

I'm actually working with a very nice team which until today at least, haven't exhibited any of the signs above, but all the other 14 years have been in situations like that.
Looks pretty awesome. Do you have any benchmarks on how fast this is on a mobile?
It's got to lie in creating consequences and re-associating incentives. As long as war makes people rich, it will be perpetuated and we will squander money that could have led us to far better outcomes.

With wealth and income disparity becoming so hugely imbalanced, I expect things to only get worse though. Wealth and income disparity only exasperates the motivation to manipulating the system to thrust us into war and military spending, it's a positive feedback loop. Unfortunately, positive feedback loops are rarely, without deliberate action, halted prior to leading to disaster.
Would be nice, but I can't see any upside for Apple aside from good PR and generosity.
Wonderful, a new, poorly designed and nearly useless feature. Awesome!
Actually no, as Ronald Coase showed, it doesn't matter who the liability falls on initially

- If it falls on the driver, the driver will demand higher wages / fares to compensate for the cost of insuring himself.

- If it falls on the company, the company will demand higher fares to compensate for the cost of insurance

- If it falls on the passenger, the passenger could demand lower fares. However, the company would soon realize that by accepting to take on the liability, they could command a much higher fare. Not only would it relieve the customer of the burden of the liability, but by better aligning incentives, it would also send a credible signal that the cars are safe and the drivers are cautious.

What if the liability is on the drivers and they are uninsured and likely insolvent in case of an accident? This is the same scenario as shifting part of the liability on the customer, it likely wouldn't be very appealing.

You can make an argument that consumers are irrational and are unlikely to really look into whether or not the cars / drivers are insured, but that's a different argument than externalization, and it is by no means obvious. A single accident where the victim isn't properly compensated could be disastrous for a company.
There's virt-sysprep [1] and sys-unconfig [2].

[1] http://libguestfs.org/virt-sysprep.1.html

[2] http://linux.die.net/man/8/sys-unconfig
Interesting, I'll have to test some of the features to see how they stack up.

In ubuntu, main = FOSS supported by Canonical, restricted = non-FOSS supported by Canonical, universe = community FOSS, multiverse = community non-FOSS.

Those usually don't get updated or messed with except for security. There is also the backports repo for package updates for stable releases.
I'm no Don Juan, but I have one tip: Don't ask "what" or "where" questions as these can usually be answered in a single word or sentence. Ask why. "Why did you move to Austin?" "Why did you become a vet?" "What" will give you a fact, "Why" will give you understanding.
> "I'm sure we can pull together, sir."

> Lord Vetinari raised his eyebrows. "Oh, I do hope not, I really do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions." He smiled. "It's the only way to make progress. That and, of course, moving with the times. Good day to you."

-- "The Truth", by Terry Pratchett
Would ground troops be more reluctant to kill when required if they had more understanding of (and potentially empathy for) their adversary?
Generally speculative investments priced via proxy. Not sure if venture capital is much different but wall street types pay close attention to ratios. One of the important ratios is price to earnings, which is the dollar price you have to pay for a dollar of earnings. If the company doesn't have any earnings, you can look price to revenue. If no revenue, look at price to user acquired.

For instance, Facebook paid $28 per user [0]

The median cost across all the acquisitions was about $92 per user in 2012 [1]

I'm not sure about the number of users Snapchat but the article says that there are 700 MM snapchats sent daily. Assuming 700 MM users (almost certainly overestimated), the cost per user at ~$27. Snapchat is said to be the #3 social app among millennials though [2].

This is probably how they got to this number.

For proxy, Facebook makes about $2.81 revenue per worldwide user (US is higher at $9) with ~30% operating margin [3].

Would love to hear someone working in VC comment as to the rationale used.

[0] http://www.statista.com/statistics/222363/price-per-user-at-...
[1] http://www.wired.com/2012/04/opinion-baio-instagram-trend/
[2] http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/11/snapchat-is-now-the-3-socia...
[3] http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/AMDA-NJ5DZ/3988722759...
"In my opinion it's a really stupid idea, though when you consider the trash many body builders put in their bodies it's probably less scary than a lot of the supplements and prohormones out there."

As someone who has used T, insulin is much more scary. At least with T it's been used for decades, we know how to mitigate the risks and handle side effects. You could easily kill yourself not knowing what you are doing with insulin, or probably make yourself diabetic. These oral prohormones are scary too mostly because of liver toxicity and because people could buy them without really knowing it (when they were/are sold at places like GNC).
Economically, this makes absolutely zero sense.
Why? Snapchat provides utility to hundreds of millions of users. A space shuttle basically only benefits the astronauts on it, and the NASA engineers who get to pat themselves on the back. The so-called "science" they do is generally worthless.
Zillow closes $2.5B acquisition of Trulia, plans to cut 350 staffers
Why Samsung Design Stinks
Extensive discussion a few weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8961518
> All I said was listen to the people that are affected, try to learn about their problems, and be empathetic, and maybe you'll find the answers.

Are you aware that one female will have entirely different experiences and suggestions on how to solve tech's sexism problem than the next? E.g., you implicate Vivek Wadwa as being a problem (probably due to Amelia Greenhall's accusations), and yet there are an overwhelming amount of women who take Vivek's side, not Amelia's. Amelia Greenhall herself, for example, is highly critical of Sheryl Sandberg. But is highly supportive of females whose blogs are banned by hacker news (Nitasha Tiku, for example). So, with all due respect, your suggestions are pretty impractical and will result in a lot of confusion for the person following the advice, not much good results.
virt-sysprep from libguestfs does this.

http://libguestfs.org/virt-sysprep.1.html
I've never played mine craft but my observation came about because when doing paediatrics terms a lot of sick kids will have their parents iPad with mine craft.

I haven't seen the kind of deep social interaction that my brother sister and I had while playing lego though - more the way we all used to stand around while one of us played simcity 2000 (still social, but one driver of activity)
> and solid memory management

What does he mean by this?
This letter - and the revenue numbers in it - are interesting from a strategy perspective. The conventional wisdom I hear is that Android owns the overall market for smartphones, but if you want to make money as an independent developer, you're better off developing for iOS because iPhone users are more likely to pay for things. There's all sorts of crap in the Android ecosystem, a lot of it is free, but the users are largely the sorts of people who will take what kind of freebies they can get and don't want to pay for a premium product. By contrast, Apple actively encourages their developers to pay attention to fit & polish.

Given this, I wonder if relaxing the 30% rev split might actually be in Apple's interests. In order to build that premium ecosystem, they need developers to be able to work full-time on apps. If they strangle that ecosystem, then the only people building iPhone apps will be folks with other day jobs to support them - which means either the quality bar will go down, or their will be many fewer apps in the app store vs. Google Play.

Then again, perhaps that's Apple's plan anyway: focus on the few things that many customers want, make sure the apps for those are really good, and it's okay if there's not an app for the rest.
Frankly I don't think anything else has the robust automation, footnote, reference management, etc. features that Office has either. It's the emacs of word processors (right down to people constantly complaining about its "bloat").