skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sick to death of hearing about salary in connection to the middle class. How much money you have put away in the bank is of far greater consequence than how much you made last year.

I have two friends, one is a Public Defender and one is a Software Engineer. The Public Defender comes from money and has no problem going to nice restaurants, she drives a nice car, etc; her father pays for her to go home for visits (she's a sweet girl, but she's rich). The Software Engineer is paying off his loans from an Ivy League school and has to pay for all of his flights back home.

Edit:
What I was trying to say is that salary is a poor indicator of wealth.
Use Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme [0] to store your master password and distribute pieces of the key to several relatives and close friends.

[0] http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/
I would not recommend Windows to someone who wants a "just works" solution. I'm told that I (and every Windows user I know) just have bad luck, but Windows 7+ still regularly BSOD on HP and Dell laptops, and they seem to be much more prone to viruses, etc.

And I know, Windows is beyond reproach, and BSODs are really the fault of OEMs, but I've never seen Linux kernel panic--not even on the same hardware Windows couldn't handle.

Not trying to start a flame war, but I really think it's misleading to say Windows "just works".
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> That is, there are many millions of creative works in existence throughout all time.

Yes, but creators will typically only be aware of a few thousand. And the Disney staff had indeed watched the original.
including a large set of domain-specific libraries

Exactly.

And even with things like Octave, SciPy, they still outperform them in ease of use, turn-key solutions in a lot of areas.
Don't try to enter a profession dominated by trustafarians. (I have not heard of PD as such a profession, BTW, and you may not have been saying it was.) Life is hard enough without fighting uphill on Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Nearly all fuel in Fukushima No. 1 reactor has melted, says TEPCO
I agree, I think there are real problems in modern web development, but they aren't in replacing javascript; they should be focusing on ideas like the shadow Dom that make things that weren't possible possible iMO, and leave these kinds of improvements to userspace frameworks built on their new features.
Apple doesn't allow replacement keyboards AFAIK considering that what was the post about.

I use Keepass with an eToken on my PC, found too many things about the Android version if it that i don't like :)

As for the PIN part, most people will setup a 4 or 5 digit pin, you would be surprised how many PIN locks can be broken with using the 10 most common PIN's avoiding most lockouts.
If you have the device it self then avoiding the PIN lockout is a trivial thing to begin with. IF you talk about the Keepass2Android then it has many issues including not encrypting the the DEK in memory while being active, caching way too much shit on disk, and overall having quite questionable other implementations so there's a good chance you won't have to brute force anything.
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Both, I guess. An item can be produced in a mass-production manner even if only a few ever end up coming off the line. This also applies to items that are produced on assembly lines but sufficiently customizable that no two are identical.

Similarly, you can hire 10,000 people in china or Bangladesh to use hand crafting techniques to produce millions of essentially indistinguishable items in bulk, working out of their own homes. Those items are still mass produced IMO. I think part of the issue here is that the seller is a middleman -- Etsy is about buying something from the person who created it with their own hands.
I've always heard that the style of making money is what separates lower-upper-class from the rest of the upper-class.
Really? Isn't data you give to a 3rd party their data, so they can give it away without penalty? With colo you can have monitoring and pick a friendly jurisdiction. (Market opportunity for a full featured Office 365 competitor that operates entirely in say, Switzerland, Iceland (?) or maybe Russia for a certain demographic.
How to ditch Google for more privacy and fewer ads
It's close enough that arguing over the definition without explanation isn't useful. For those curious, Elixir's AST is represented by its own datastructures. Based on where you look up the definition, this is or isn't enough to classify as homoiconic, but the point Drew is making is the same. A programmable AST is hugely powerful for metaprogramming.
A lot of Shakespeare plays have contemporary precursors or are retellings of old stories - IIRC some of Shakespeare's work might be considered 'best of breed' type refinements on common storylines and themes of the time. Ironic to consider the possibility that Shakespeare's work is of such acclaim now, but may have been produced in ways that modern IP law would inhibit or bar.
Except BSD find is not the same as GNU find, which is insanely frustrating :p. One day I will learn BSD find.
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Yep. This guy takes "get rich quick" to the next level.

In that same time period he could have founded real startups with real products. Instead, he got 10 years of putting his blood, sweat, and tears into bullshit money making schemes.
Much of this was terrible. Some of it was little different from Epcot Center - a cross-cultural experience arranged for mutual benefit.
This makes me wonder- Why did Dropbox guys started building Pyston [1] ? Why not get behind pypy team and support them ?

[1] https://github.com/dropbox/pyston
Yup, I have a huge sweet tooth but I try to stick to a keto diet because it has helped me keep my weight down without having to be hungry. I have personally experienced the intense regret of eating an entire package of maltitol chocolates/gummy bears on multiple occasions. It's a good way to train yourself not to each so much freaking candy in one sitting.
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The worst site I saw in 2015, it's broken in IE11 and Firefox.

Or are all the double and triple scrollbars intentional? And the code, the "Editor-In-Chief" seem to be stuck the 1990s, with all CAPS HTML tags and HTML 2 style code.
How about the 2015 Camry fully loaded?
The use pass phrases for all passwords? use word/story association to remember them, if additional complexity is needed use common substitution camel casing etc.

Sorry but if you are trying to make a point that having all your passwords stored in 1 place is better than memorizing good passwords it's wrong.
Frankly, this stuff was really shady and sketchtastic. I guess I suggest finding a pastor-type and talking about right behaviors.

How come you never tried to make something people wanted?
One thing a Bay area friend of mine pointed out is that Amazon charges the same price regardless of your cost of living (modulo sales tax, in some cases). Stuff just doesn't seem as expensive making $100,000 in SF as it does making $60,000 in Ann Arbor.

House? Yes. Bar of soap at a Sacramento St. boutique? Yes. LEGOs on Amazon? Not so much.
Also my favorite PC game by far, but I really hope it doesn't happen... It seems the devs are going for yet another 'monetized'/pay-to-win travesty à la Dungeon Keeper redux, sadly. Thanks but no thanks.
Try Googling the acronym "OTT" for even more fun :)
Who would have thought bicycles predated the automobile.
It is known that the umlaut makes everything cööler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut
Yes, I don't think you can take that quote too literally, or the intent is lost.

Figuratively, of course, it means people will pay handsomely and hurriedly for you to take their pain away, but it is difficult to get them to pay for potential small improvements.
Even later still was Rollercoaster Tycoon; Both one and two were primarily in assembly, with a little bit of C to interact with windows [1]

[1] http://www.chrissawyergames.com/faq3.htm
I like the end. Create a product that people want. I feel the same way. I've hit the SEO lottery before, earning $20-100k/month, and it didn't last long enough. Being an affiliate site is a hard gig and I have a lot of respect for people who can keep it up year after year.
I'm not sure I'd regard making 100's of thousands of dollars complete failure. Now, it's obvious that he made money in ways that aren't overly useful to society, and promoted products that were less than stellar in spammy ways, but just having the goal of "Making Money Online" I'd consider that money to be pretty dang successful.

The fact that he blew it all after the fact just makes him bad with money. It doesn't mean that the attempts to make money online were failures, just that his personal finances were.

P.S. Not in any way condoning the things he did, and you can definitely argue it's a failure in that it didn't build a sustainable business. I don't feel like I'd call it complete failure though. Lots of people try to do the same thing and make dozens of dollars :-)
US Congress publishes press release made of copyright-violating animated GIFs
Likely https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~bornholt/post/performance-e... (*"Even more terrifying than linking order is a result in this paper that shows how the size of your UNIX environment variables biases performance")
Diet Coke is sweeter? To me it tastes like overly-carbonated ashtray. One of the few diet drinks I don't like, because I find it not sweet enough. ;) I knew that Diet Coke was its own formula and Coke Zero was meant to taste like Coke, but to me Coke Zero/Coke taste sweeter than Diet Coke.
> Descent’s frenetic and pulse-pounding action were
> light-years ahead of its 1995 release date.

That's about 10^16 meters ahead of 1995.
I've had awesome luck with Ubuntu. The last driver problem I had was a missing broadcom driver for my 2009 netbook using Ubuntu 10.04. Since then, I've installed Ubuntu on dozens of laptops and desktops since then with absolutely no problems.

*NOTE: I also had considerable difficulty getting the iSight and touchpad drivers to work on a 2008 MacBook, but Windows fared much worse (no wifi, touchpad, camera, audio, etc).
I'm not sure what your point is. Higher salaries would allow people to save more money regardless of what percent they divert so savings.
PyPy [1] is whole different compiler infrastructure, it is designed to build dynamic languages.

[1] http://www.aosabook.org/en/pypy.html
"A federal court in San Francisco sided with the U.S. Department of Justice, ruling that the plaintiffs could not win a significant portion of the case—a Fourth Amendment challenge to the NSA’s tapping of the Internet backbone—without disclosure of classified information that would harm national security. In other words, Judge Jeffrey White found that “state secrets” can trump the judicial process and held that EFF’s clients could not prove they have standing."

From the linked ruling in the article. This type of ruling is mind boggling - what a giant cop out that the government can just say "oh sorry national security!" to end court cases.
I found it odd that even after some success, you had to borrow money and look for credit limit increases. Or did you have the money and it was just that CC was the method of payment?
Awesome Elixir
Author here. You're right. I removed references to "pure" in the article.
> So while J.S. Bach didn't invent well-tempered tuning, the 48 was his major, if not defining contribution to making it popular, as the 48 was pretty much The Music Theory Bible for generations of composers.

Could someone point me to an explanation for this? How does a newbie such as myself discover the compositional techniques hidden in these?
What is your differentiator from IFTTT?
No, there is definitely something wrong with your config since no one else has this problem.
> How come you never tried to make something people wanted?

When you're making tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars a month in your 20s, why would you want to do something different?
What is it formally missing? Just curious
Community and attention to user interface is definitely one of the more striking aspects of Elixir. I've seen José (the creator) stress over unclear error messages that he has no control over and focus design of even the smallest aspect of an API. Often times changing designs multiple times until its right.

That sort of attention to detail is apparent across the board in the language and the community.
For a second there I thought this was a parody about San Francisco: poor people displaced, privileged people moving in who couldn't care less, pretty looking, empty inside.
To be honest, HN is full of this stuff too

Agreed, and some of it (as you mention) is quite ingeniously marketed as well, e.g. pushing a load of free content that occasionally suggests using a certain SaaS app as part of the success strategy.

It just feels like people spend more time selling their systems than they do using them. It looks like 'snake oil'.

I'm not sure that it's always snake oil exactly, more that it's simply easier for these people to make their money training others, especially compared to making money with the systems they're pushing.
You're thinking of trademark law where you have to be seen to protect your trademark. Copyright law works a little differently as you can pick and choose your fights to some degree (and many artists do operate this way by turning a blind eye to YouTube bootlegs but upholding their claim when their intellectual property is used commercially without permission).
It should stay close to what it is because it's fairly good at its job. To make it more than that would be to generalize it away from its job into some new job. This violates single responsibility. We've already learned our lesson with that and HTML; thus was born CSS.

Making a web standard for single page apps doesn't really seem necessary. Applications are by their nature different than web sites. A web site is a collection of content displayed largely as pages that are designated by a URI. An application is an abstraction over the page model that minimizes the transparent page/resource model with an opaque process flow model. HTML, as it stands, can be the V in MVC in either. Making it take on the M or C gains us little and stands to lose us much.
So that's why after 67 they decided to fund themselves and friends with black drug money? Hmm...
3 lessons why teachers are better investors than pretty much anyone else
Such a stupid article. Nothing but some echo chamber bs.

Basically this article reflects someone who has been only and only reading a certain kind of news sources. Someone who has conditioned his mind to see his own world view as the objective black and white(and his being 'white').

Because of that when the author had some interaction with the world outside his comfort zone, all of them appear to be mindless zombies who are infected by some sort of brain parasite.

Denying your opponent ability to use reason(in any shape or form, right or wrong) is a first step towards the precise 'brain parasite' he is talking about.

Why do people enter towards race realism? Because they see certain things happening in the world along racial lines and decide to question it. The most fundamental idea of race realism is that people of different races have lesser ability to think rationally as people of other races. Unsurprisingly its always the other race who doesn't have the ability to use the reason as the person expressing those views.

The author is going down the same route as the people he is criticizing. His opponents, just can't use reason like he can. Therefore he says: "Memetic parasites cannot be cleansed with logic and facts".

As much as I don't agree with people who claim different races have different ability to use reason, by the same basis, I oppose idiots like this author who wants to pass authority and links to his other posts as opinions.
Have you read The Black Swan yet? If you haven't, it sounds like you might enjoy it.
Recycled space junk! :)
The top bar comment is definitely an opinion, and I'd consider it usable with the current design.

Now that I've tried it on my phone, I'd say the default font size is a too small. (I tried Firefox on Android.) On desktop, I can use browser page zoom, but on mobile I can't.

Non-Helvetica/Arial could be an option rather than default, for people who don't want to load an external font.
Fantastic stuff.

I find the choice of MuseScore and it's somewhat proprietary XML-based format an odd choice for "open" though. For example, I tried to open these scores using the MuseScore binary that comes with the latest ubuntu, and it was unable to open the files due to the fact that they're written using the pre-release 2.0 version of MuseScore.

Personally, I find LilyPond (http://lilypond.org/) a much better choice for these sorts of "open score" type projects. It's editable without a GUI, and produces best-of-class output. Think of MuseScore as "a drawing program for musical scores" and LilyPond as "a language for expressing scores in a human-readable, generic form"

The Mutopia Project (http://www.mutopiaproject.org/) has been hosting and re-engraving public domain scores for a very long time. All the source code including scores is on github via https://github.com/MutopiaProject/MutopiaProject Although MuseScore has a prettier UI, Mutopia and IMSLP have much larger and comprehensive collections.

Anyway, Kudos certainly to the recording and performers, they're great, and I look forward to score engravings that don't rely on the MuseScore software.
The http://hippyvm.com/ site looks really nice and it is impressive they managed 2x Facebook's offering's speed. Too bad it also says it is too incomplete to work for web servers yet. Not sure I would want to compete with Facebook's huge team and resources either, if I was company or an investor.
If you're gonna take the position of being able to value judge anything, then, yeah, life's pretty special. Fair enough that not everyone would agree with my particular words.

As to the rest: I've heard that called "can't get an ought from an is".
Referential transparency.
If you're interested in the goals of the site creators/administrators (as in the Guidelines and FAQ) also have a look at pg's comments on the subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 .
That doesn't mean it was wrong for Disney to do it in the first place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
pg himself has (unfortunately) stated that the downvote button is usable to signal disagreement.

It makes sense, then, that the upvote button be used for agreement.
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For people who are looking for another self-hosted and minimal rss reader there's also miniflux [0]. With Fever sync for the various RSS apps supporting it.

Not affiliated, just a happy user.

[0] http://miniflux.net/
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Either because it is graded on a curve or because graduates are judged based on GPA. If you earned a fair and square 3.5 and a bunch of people cheated their way to a 3.7 you have a devalued 3.5.
How was I at all hypocritical? I stated a fact (Hamlet is not copyrighted) and implied that that may be why there is no outrage over it being copied. I didn't say that was good or bad, and I didn't speak of my own beliefs on the issue. If you're going to point fingers at me, at least know the direction to point.
A million years isn't that long, cosmologically. I would not attempt to guess what computational powers we may figure out in that timespan. And even if we never do get unlimited computation, giving people eons seems like a better state than now.
We downvote despite "good points and arguments".

The community is in many ways already an echo-chamber; that battle was lost a few years ago. Don't let it bug you.
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A generated changelog and/or a list of changes straight out of source control is not a substitute for a good release notes files. In fact, while I used to do the same in the past (back to cvsps!), I now just use the log as a template for what I'm going to write, to remember what I did.

As an user I'm not interested in source details, minor cosmetic fixes and internals. I want to know what's new compared to the last release, what are the user facing changes, and any upgrade issues I might be facing. These are usually expressed just in a few paragraphs in a very discursive fashion. I personally hate straight-form-source changelogs. I do not read them as an user (too verbose), I don't use them as a developer (I use the scm directly!).

There's a tendency for developers using git to conflate the two, since history can be rewritten. I think it's a major mistake. Commit logs are meant to aid developers. Commit logs will inevitably contain redundant information about the same logical change, even when you try hard to hide it. This is all useless information for users. On the contrary, dumbing down the history just for the sake of readability will also hurt the developers in the long run.
You'll be happy to know that there are a lot more charging stations in the works, and the first battery swap station is active.

Also, you might find reading this story to be fun:

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/01/11/4-things-i-...
Another useful feature would be the ability to chose after how many days automatically mark things as read. Honestly, I've stopped using RSS feeds because Feedly has an option that marks everything older than 30 days as read without any possibility to disable it (as far as I can tell). I hate it, but I don't even know if it's a built-in feature of the RSS itself rather than the client.

In any case, your client does not say anything regarding the matter. My apologies in case this is something that can't be controlled.

EDIT: Another, small, thing: probably would be a better idea to make put the bar that, after registration, alerts to "check the email in order to verify the account" on top of the screen rather than on the bottom; or at least chat it's color to something more eyecatching. I don't know if it's only me, but I almost missed it.
Here's a bit about Bach's influence http://www.musicanthology.org/bach-and-handel-their-influenc...
Here's a chart I think everyone should keep in mind when we argue about what happened to the middle class: http://www.familyfacts.org/charts/340/married-couple-familie....

Single-parent households have always made less money, and the percentage of single-parent households has doubled to about 25% since 1960. That creates a lot of downward pressure on the income "median household" that is the result of sociological rather than economic factors.

Married couples where only the husband works make almost twice as much now, in constant dollars, as they did in 1950. Married couples where both spouses work make almost three times as much as they did in 1950.

I see some comments in this thread along the lines of "back in the day, middle class people could afford a house, two cars, college for their kids, and vacations." I think this view is more based on mistaken notions of what middle class families could actually afford in 1950. Partly, this is the byproduct of the fact that media always dramatically overstates the living conditions of people at any given income level.

Take, for example, "Leave it to Beaver" which is portrayed as archetypal of a 1950's middle class family with stay at home wife. But the Cleavers are an upper class family! Both parents attended college; the husband drives a top of the line car and has a white collar job. In the show, they have a nice colonial home, a small TV, and one nice car. Today, they'd be a dual-income couple with a McMansion, a couple of BMWs, and several flat screen TVs.