skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed - I have spent the last 3 years working from home making very little money but educating myself on the various gaps in my education so that I could make modern video games. Money has gotten really tight a few times but I've managed to survive along with my girlfriend on a very small income. We put almost all of our free time into learning game development for the sake of learning something new, but with the goal to produce an independent commercial game. After I found a way to get rid of most of my obligations I was able to pursue this as a life path.
Is there a video of someone giving this presentation? It's interesting.
What's this mess around Strange Loop? Do you have any links I can read?
Can't agree more. I can't figure out why this is possibly the case. Similarly I have lots of that I have seen (and rated in Netflix) presented on my home page. Why? I don't even have an hypothesis.
Netflix also don't have trailers, which means I have to go to IMDB or Youtube to see a trailer.
I suffered from depression for several years. What worked eventually is meditation. I meditate 1 hour every day in a meditation center and I participate regularly in retreats and I feel happier every day.
> why do we have all these pylons every 100 ft if we only need them every XXX ft?

Because most of the time people want to have their design include a safety factor.

Further there's a huge difference between "what this system is designed to do all day every day" and "what this system will do in the 5 minutes between an earthquake beginning and the time that the system is fully halted until repairs can be made"

Have you ever seen the remains of a power pole hanging from a power line? That would seem to indicate that there exists excess strength in the system, or that the line support structures are substantially overbuilt.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/130601193956-15-...

I suspect that in a hyperloop you could lose 5-10 pylons in a row and what would happen is that the tube would sag well beyond normal operational parameters between the remaining pylons, quite possibly even touching the ground. The reason that so much extra strength will probably exist in the system is that there's a limit to how much deflection you can tolerate without jostling passengers too much for them to buy tickets on a regular basis. And that small deflection means that there's a lot of extra strength in the system, even though it's not strictly needed just to hold things up.

This is why machine tools have giant castings well in excess of the strength needed for the machine to stay together. It's because the Young's modulus matters far more than the yield strength or the ultimate tensile strength when you're trying to build a machine that can hold a sub 0.001" tolerance.

So if you happened to be traveling in that overbuilt tube at 500mph just after it's fallen to the ground, you'd quite likely bump (or smash) your head on the sides and ceiling of your vehicle.

But what you wouldn't do is slam into the dirt that's now at the end of the tube like you would if your buried concrete tube was sheared 20ft by a fault line.
thats very interesting, I never thought of it that way but yeah its kind of true. many companies now all the money is already made before the IPO
Not to be argumentative (because I think we have somewhat similar opinions on the broader topic), but I am having real problems with your scorecard analogy. I have certainly met people who think that way but a) of course they want to be wealthy, because being in the game but having a low score isn't satisfying and doesn't come with any status benefits and b) even people who are obsessed with money-as-score still like to consume, partly to signify their ability to do so. Furthermore, almost all of the people with the scorecard mentality that I've encountered come from financially privileged backgrounds. I remember one person in particular who was working as a professional investor that I occasionally did some IT work for, and who confided in me that he sometimes felt it was an uphill struggle because he wasn't his father's favorite son and so had to start his investing career with only $1 million of capital. I forebore from mentioning that that was about 30 times my annual income and I would be delighted to swap my problems for his, but it was pretty dispiriting; while I don't view capitalism as a zero-sum game, there are far fewer investment opportunities open to people who have only tiny amounts of capital.

I agree that money can be a means to make choices about one's life, but only past a certain point. Poor people need money to obtain the necessities of survival, and that often doesn't leave a whole lot of options open for making life-scale economic choices. Picture a Monopoly game where some players get the standard $1500 at the outset and $200 each time they pass Go, others get $150 and $20, and one person gets $15,000 and $2000. No matter how good the players in the second group are, they're probably going to perform poorly under those conditions; likewise whoever is fortunate enough to start out controlling large sums is considerably more likely to win.

We all have the same amount of time at our disposal, and how we use that can certainly have a huge impact on our economic futures. But large capital disparities arguably provide a disincentive to maximize productivity insofar as people feel hard work will have little impact on their prospects for advancement relative to their contemporaries.
Time to kill the password.

Federated login using OpenID Connect seems like a far better solution. I can't fathom why so many web sites want the awful responsibility of storing your password. Why not leave that to Google, Facebook or Microsoft? Or you bank for that matter...

And yes - you should secure your IDP login with multi-factor authentication.
> News was their product, but they made their money by delivering ads to everyone's doorstep on a daily basis.

How does Google make money?
On the other hand, in the even of your untimely demise, your friends/family may end up in a bit of a pickle without access to some of your accounts. Granted, this is of less concern if you're single and without kids.
In case anyone's wondering what the formula on the blackboard is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupper's_self-referential_form...
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9717170
You can. It just doesn't make any business sense to do so. Unless, that is, you have a literal army of lawyers lobbying the government and chasing kids[1] and their laptops down.

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/09/music.swap.s...
The reason for the accumulation of wealth is because most profitable markets (i.e. ones where profits are not competed away) involve owning an asset that others a.) value and b.) cannot easily replicate. Very often these days, that asset is simply the purchasing habits of a large number of consumers. Building machinery is easy, but changing peoples' minds is hard.

The good news - from an economic mobility standpoint - is that technological change is rapid enough that peoples' purchasing habits change all the time. The bad news is that it's often pretty unpredictable which product or service they will land on.
I have this running on my Ubuntu Thinkpad with A Samsung 840 Pro as a weekly cron job. should I turn it off ?

#!/bin/sh
# call fstrim-all to trim all mounted file systems which support it
set -e

# This only runs on Intel and Samsung SSDs by default, as some SSDs with faulty
# firmware may encounter data loss problems when running fstrim under high I/O
# load (e. g. https://launchpad.net/bugs/1259829). You can append the
# --no-model-check option here to disable the vendor check and run fstrim on
# all SSD drives.
exec fstrim-all
Pursue Metrics that Matter
The reason you have problems with markers is that, when a marker is out of ink, people put it back on the whiteboard instead of throwing it in the trash.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9674992
An excellent point actually. Similar to the funding model of ordinary people buying papers; there's no one single big sponsor that can get a story shut down.
I've found a length of password that covers probably 85-90 percent of my accounts, and is a good tradeoff between security and portability. Most sites accept special characters, and the ones that don't also tend to be the same ones that have retarded length restrictions. Ironically these tend to be banks, who should know better!

The small subset of sites that don't fit into the scheme get one from a pool of fixed passwords that I just remember-- so if I forget, I just try from the pool until I get in. Or reset, but that happens rarely enough that it's no big deal.

IMO there should be federal regulation about password handling which would render that problem moot: There should be no length restriction, no special character restriction, no storage in plaintext, and mandatory salting. It's arguably a national security issue.
What' I've encountered:

Senior S/W Engineer -> Tech Lead/Specialist -> Architect -> Senior Architect -> CTO/VP-Technology
A Comparison of Go Web Frameworks (2014)
Veracrypt now has a truecrypt mode, which can read truecrypt volumes. I believe it can also convert them to Veracrypt ones by changing the algo then unchecking truecrypt mode.
Blackbank hacked supposed proof
Roku ftw.
I'm sorry but I just can't sympathize.

Imagine a newspaper trying to go after someone for not reading the ads in the news paper, or for cutting the ads out before reading the paper.

That's what you sound like to the rest of us.

When my browser asks for a page from your webserver, I'm under no obligation to render or even receive the packets that you send back to me. If you seek further guarantees or protections I encourage you to find a different medium.
>when Microsoft released Windows 8

Um, no.
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IANAL
RSS 2.0 is Attribution/Share Alike Creative Commons licensed[1]

Content on websites is subject to copyright law.
There could be mitigating Fair Use conditions to those copyright claims such as truncated news usage, educational use, criticism, parody, etc.

Web server HTTP requests generally bind the requester to the legal agreements on the site {Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, etc}, at least in terms of denial of service (so potentially less extreme).

Any violation of the "/robots.txt" by RSS readers could be considered a breach of Terms of Service (depending on the existence and content of those two documents).

I have not seen the News App and I don't know how it works, but taking copyrighted work without requesting (requesting is opt-in, not opt-out) and monetizing them with ads seems pretty risky to me.

It's possible the article author somehow made an agreement with Apple by becoming an Apple Developer / installing XCode, installing iTunes, creating an Apple account for an iOS device, etc. and didn't know it. Apple _did_ have to find his email address to email him -- typically large multinationals won't cold-email boilerplate email messages as a first point of contact since this would quickly taint their sending IPs on email block lists. I suspect there was already some sort of business relationship established.

[1] http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html#licenseAndAuthorsh...
barbarians like Napoleon

Barbarians don't usually leave a lasting legacy of significant law reform...
The Waters of Minnesota Mapped
> Why in the world would you do that?!

Please, tell me - what should I put there? I just don't want to detect browser / check screen capabilities, though need to be certain about the whole layout there. max-width may be?
> It's the same as taking the free newspapers in your area, cutting out all the advertisements, and giving those out to people.

What you've just described is me, taking the content from your site, stripping out the ads, and re-posting it on the Internet for others to consume sans advertisements.
This is very clearly different from a single person using ad blockers on their own computers, and you know it.

However, this is equivalent to everyone who reads you newspaper cutting out the ads from their own newspaper before reading it. Which, perhaps, should tell you something about the ads in your paper.
I believe you described Marx's theory of alienation[1] as applied to software engineering.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx's_theory_of_alienation
I've been worried about the same thing. Also the idea that if the pod stops you have no way out for hundreds of miles.
What does javascript have to do with it? It's trivial to display images inline through data URLs. Javascript provides for some of the more onerous types of advertising, but it is by no means necessary to the process. We've all seen plenty of ways CSS could be leverages as an alternate solution.

Re: text only browsing, that still allows for advertising, and it's up to the content provider to either take advantage of the mediums available to the client or take steps to attempt to block that access. There are plenty of legitimate cases for text only internet (such as access for the blind).

Re: cURL, now we are getting more into scraping, and I think it's event more clear cut that it's not the intent of the provider for their content to be used that way, and there are much more often AUPs that specifically cover this in a non-ambiguous way.

This is something I've thought quite a bit about, as at times some of my major work projects have been based around web scraping. I've come to terms that some of the things I have done, and do, for work, are morally ambiguous (or even immoral) to a degree (although others may not see it that way at all).

Similarly, I myself run an ad-blocker, as I find the web untenable without one. I'm aware of how hypocritical this is. My argument has never been "do not run ad-blockers", it's always been just to point out what I see as a set of troubling behavior that I see, which I also contribute to. I would prefer not to block ads, but I don't see that as a strategy that's currently useful. That may make me worse than those that I view as ignorant of their actions. I'm prepared to live with this, at least in the short term.

Really,I'm just pushing what I see as introspection.
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the problem with this theory is the bank doesn't borrow at zero. Goldman Sachs has 380 Bln of outstanding debt, and is paying roughly AA corporate rates on that debt. Overnight bank rate is 0.13 right now, which is the Fed Funds rate
On my Dell's, the diagnostics have been a partition on the hard drive, which while in hardware, should not be considered 'baked in' in any important sense. If a user has formatted over that partition when installing another OS, then those diagnostics cease to be available [which was how I came by my intimate knowledge]. Fortunately, the box has never required service beyond BIOS upgrades which can be user installed.
Here's an Ubuntu bug tracker entry for what sounds like the same problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fstrim/+bug/144900...

Linux 4.0.5 includes a patch that blacklists queued TRIM for the buggy drives. Windows and OS X apparently don't support queued TRIM at all, so they're unaffected.
Wow. It's hard to make out, but that definitely looks like a plane.
> I can't remember ever encountered a unix-like system without "vi" installed.

Default Ubuntu install.
Field Notes have the quadrille pages. The cover is cheaper and less durable than the Moleskin cover, but the pages hold up fine, and I'd rather have pages that don't lose integrity. If you're looking for a larger size notebook than 3.5"x5.5" then Moleskine definitely has an advantage--FN is pretty much just notecard size.
Not in Ubuntu.
I'm not predicting Uber's demise. I'm casting doubts on continued revenue growth and margin protection to justify the skyhigh valuation (since this is a thread about private funding valuations).

Uber doesn't have a monopoly on smart people. Pretty soon each and every significant market in the world will have a local competitor who'll know how to play the local system better than Uber and not to piss off civic stakeholders to this extent. There's nothing to stop the competition either. Drivers already on the road with Uber can be easily persuaded to install a second app with a small financial incentive. It's absolutely a commodity play for them. Same for consumers. It's a classic race to the bottom competitive situation, great for consumers and perhaps even the drivers but not necessarily for the company.
E3 2015: The Final Fantasy 7 Remake Is Finally Happening
There's no reason to learn vi.
4 Popular Myths about Management Jobs
If you're into the command line, I'd recommend getting a physical copy of Unix Power Tools [1] and spending some time with it. This is a nice article, but Unix Power Tools is better in almost every way for learning the basics (and more) of the Unix command line. This article mentions a few more modern tools, but Unix Power Tools has a far better explanation of what's going on.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Unix-Power-Tools-Third-Edition/dp/0596...
Gold is never "good money".

it was a good material for making tokens back when making hard worn notes was a virtual impossibility.
Shenmue 3, the Largest Kickstarter Project Ever?
Not in terms of goals, but in terms of expected backing. After it was announced at the E3, KS crashed and could not display the page anymore. It's back now, with 700 000 USD already pledged in a matter of an hour.
Might be worth adding this to adding these notes to the README.
I think you missed reading part of the comment that implied it worked on Professional:

> It works on non-pro/non-enterprise systems.
I've known some systems that exclusive "offensive" words/substrings, occasionally leading to the ol' Scunthorpe Problem[1].

Personally, I feel the opposite should be enforced. If you make the password vile enough, people should be less willing to tell it to other people :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
However, being in America means he still has open access to lines of communication and can build up support back home. Being on St Helens means that only a couple of British ships dock per year - a lot harder to be the spider at the centre of the web.
"the notion that a Stanford or Berkely degree makes on a better engineer is laughable"

True. Similarly, the notion that the only companies worth working for are the "top companies" (consumer-facing companies that all your friends have heard of, like Apple or Facebook or Uber) is also laughable.

Just as there are great software engineers graduating from obscure schools, there are great engineers working on interesting stuff in companies you've never heard of. It pays to broaden your horizons when looking for a job. Also, there are a lot of interesting problems in CS that have nothing to do with developing web or phone apps.
iCloud Keychain doesn't store your passwords on Apple-controlled servers when you do not configure an iCliud Keychain storage PIN; you can use it in a mode that simply syncs keychains across devices, all of which allow password-based encryption.
He's a phenomenal writer.

Do you need more than that? Plenty of fantastic authors were people who were severely unpleasant to be around.

Beyond that, though, Hunter S. Thompson led an incredibly interesting life.

You have to admire the chutzpah of somebody who runs for sheriff on the "Freak Power" ticket, and shaves his head so that he can spend the entire race referring to his conservative, crew-cut wearing opponent as "my long-haired opponent".
Yeah, I thought the same thing when reading through the slides. It's pretty disingenuous of them to do that, since I think when most people say "tech bubble" they're referring to the inability of most of the VC funded companies to go public. A couple of months ago there was a blog post by Mark Cuban that made a similar argument. It wasn't well received on HN largely because most commenters just looked at the words tech bubble and instantly disagreed, rather than seeing that his argument was really about liquidity.

Anyways, I don't have a strong opinion either way as to whether we're in a tech bubble or not and it doesn't strongly affect me since I'm not heavily invested in tech companies. But I certainly am skeptical of the high valuations that currently exist.

One last thing HN readers should be aware of. VC firms are like hedge funds. The people running them make money whether the fund does well or poorly and typically the amount invested by the general partners is quite small relative to the size of the fund (often around 1%), so when you look to VC guidance for how the VC market is doing keep in mind what their incentivizes are.

Edited to add on VC firms: Typically the investors in such funds aren't rich people either. They're often (probably in most cases) institutional investors such as pension funds and university endowments.
Public tech company's price to earnings does look historically reasonable.

And private companies are slowly going public at current valuations.

Yet public tech company's earnings to revenue is unusually high.

http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2015/01/explosion/

Open source doesn't fully explain this, as this alone is not a barrier to entry.

As US rates slowly increase, I expect to see an increase in currency headwinds.
Wow, seriously? I stand corrected -- still much more likely to find than emacs.
Start coding. Then start throwing away code and rewriting. Then start living with code that you know you could rewrite so you can write more code to throw away and rewrite. If you're like me, and I hope not but if you are, most of your code will start out wrong and get rewritten to merely bad with a few good bits that will keep you coming back.

Anyway, all that planning feels like work but isn't work. Plans don't live long past contact with reality, and anyway new programmers by definition lack practical experience in making good plans and bad code is better than bad plans for no other reason than bad code provides its own feedback while bad plans don't until there is some code to prove them bad.

tl;dr start writing code.

Good luck.
Not new at all. I remember reading articles in the media in 98-99 about "tech" stocks like pets.com and etoys. Anything back then that had a website was a tech stock just like anything with an app is a tech stock these days. Nothing new to see here...
The old file performance hit is VERY big, I can't overstate the need to upgrade.
> The problem with using any standard algorithm like that is that the algorithm becomes your password.

That's not true at all. The press released linked in this thread, for example, is very open that they use 100,000 rounds of PBKDF2-SHA256 to encrypt their passwords. That's a very standard algorithm. The security it provides is not its obscurity, but rather that the only way to check against an output hash is the naive brute force method which takes a long time - impractically long for attackers to try to brute force.
always use long form flags when writing scripts...have some consideration for the person who has to fix your code when you move on
Different cultures I assume, based on my interaction with my UK (I'm in the US) counterparts.
I bodged this into a userscript and i'm running it for HN right now. It's hilarious. So much pretentiousness broken up by so many cats!
I'm talking less about whether anyone will do it and more about whether there a system in place to encourage enough people to do it
You tend to have to "come to" mindfulness though -- in my personal experience you can't just wander over to someone with depression and go "oh, meditate and you'll feel better". They wouldn't know why they were meditating or what it was trying to achieve. You need to come to understand the mechanisms in your mind that cause the symptoms before you can take action to mitigate them and that wisdom unfortunately usually only comes with time.