skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This appears to be a product demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rd0mEAPT0Y
Near zero percent interest rates are the only reason debt is not a "crisis" at the moment. If interest rates are to normalize the payments on interest skyrocket.

As it stands right now the US pays $430 billion a year on interest, which is less than we paid in 2008, despite adding over $9 Trillion to the National Debt in six and a half years.

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/ir/ir_expense.ht...
When the Hashicorp folk have a few minutes to breathe at their conf, I really hope that they could address the question of stateful apps.

I imagine that users of Nomad also have persistent state to deal with and there must be a pattern that has emerged to solve this already?
Our debt is in dollars. You know, those things that can be arbitrarily printed by the government anytime, and created out of thin air by financial institutions (aka leverage).
We can never run out of dollars.
Got any sources for that? I've not found a single example of a react android app that shows "live updating apps in production". I'm talking about things like loading code seamlessly in the background from a CDN. There are examples for iOS though
Best estimates with some model of the Laffer curve as a given - of course experts disagree on what values that curve actually traces. In addition, the effect of the curve where it has been tested on the tax cut side has not been convincing (or perhaps even visible) ...
Teachers don't really get to teach whatever they want. State's all have standards that must be taught to. These are the standards for PE in Texas:

http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter116/ch116c.ht...

Foundations of Personal Fitness is a requirement for all the later gym classes and that has several of the things you are looking for:

(A) explain the relationship between physical fitness and health

(D) compare and contrast health-related and skill-related fitness;

(B) describe physical fitness activities that can be used for stress reduction;

(D) analyze the relationship between sound nutritional practices and physical activity;

etc...

Maybe there are a lot of bad gym teachers (why be a Gym Teacher when you could get paid more to be a Nutritionist?) or maybe some states have less rigorous standards. Or the standards were lower in the past. Or maybe when you were a student you didn't notice the lessons the teacher was trying to teach.

Schools are trying though. Even PE is getting better.
So we both agree that RPM is superior to all these methods, and that curl|bash is effectively not even worth talking about; great. It seems the question you're posing is: why would I use a deb when I could just make a Slackware package (which is what you're using as an example of a 'tarball', which is actually just another name for a tar file, but I digress) and 'unpack' that.

As you must be aware, both Slackware and Debian have methods to install a package locally: 'dpkg -x package.deb $HOME/` for Debian, and 'installpkg --root=$HOME/ package.tgz` for Slackware. This is effectively an easier way to 'unpack' the packaged files without performing any other operations.

You mention verifying signatures? That's built into the deb. It isn't built into the tgz.

You mention 'inspecting' the deb is more difficult. Yet 'dpkg -c package.deb` is not only less characters to type, it gives you more detail due to the nature of the deb's file layout.

You mention the version is in the tgz file name 'more often than not'. Doesn't really give me the warm and fuzzies compared to having a file with real metadata about the origin of the package, like deb provides.

And a random version number does not give you the info to report a bug. If it's not official, you have no idea who built it, unless the author added their e-mail to a file inside the package, which most don't. And even with the version and author, you still don't know what system the package was built for! If you're lucky the version was bumped from one distro version to the next, and with luck they never built the same version for more than one distro version!

HOW do you know what the tgz was built for? Sometimes the architecture is included, but you don't know what distro, what version, or any other platform or build-specific information. A 'download page' is not reliable metadata, nor is it included with the package, thus the package does not have the information, thus it is irrelevant to this conversation.

Slackware packages do not come with Makefiles for installation nor uninstallation. In fact, almost no precompiled tarball i've ever seen has had a Makefile for installation or uninstallation. And i've manually packaged well over 10,000 pieces of software for various distributions.

Comparing Slackware packages and debs is like comparing a bicycle to a Ford F-150. Sure, the bicycle is lightweight and easy to use. But a pickup truck is way more useful.
Agreed. I heard a guest on NPR address this and he made two points: there's likely already been plenty of material transferred between the two planets; and human arrival will guarantee the transfer of biological material.

Another take @ http://www.marssociety.org/home/about/faq/

Q: What are the risks of contaminating Mars with Earth life forms, or vice versa?

A: Actually, it is arguable that this has already been happening for billions of years. During his study of known Martian meteorite ALH84001, Cal Tech's Joseph Kirschvink showed that large parts of the rock were never heated above 40C (104F), proving the theory of University of Arizona researcher Jay Melosh that it is possible for rocks to be ejected from one planet's surface and land on another's surface without being excessively heated. More importantly, this discovery showed that not all rocks ejected from either Mars or Earth are sterilized -- a fact that, when combined with the known ability of microorganisms to remain alive in a dormant state for millions of years, means that Earth life has probably already traveled to Mars, and if life ever existed on Mars, it has already traveled to Earth.
Well, let's put it this way, a lot of other countries are going to have a debt crisis long before the US does. So while in some theoretical universe all nations of the world (including the US) might have unsustainable debt, it will be a long, slow-moving problem by the time it becomes a problem for the US.
This is the best video I've found of the prototype (it autoplays):

http://www.reuters.com/video/2015/03/05/star-wars-inspired-p...
What does Otto do that Vagrant doesn't? I mean, Vagrant is pretty good! What do I need Otto for that I can't do with Vagrant and a few scripts (that I'm likely to have to write anyway)?
> Our debt is in dollars. You know, those things that can be arbitrarily printed by the government anytime, and created out of thin air by financial institutions (aka leverage). We can never run out of dollars.

Money can always be printed, but not without consequences. (Just ask Germany or Zimbabwe).

So yes it is literally impossible for the US to default on that debt unless it actively chooses to, but that doesn't mean that we can just rack up arbitrary amounts of debt without any negative ramifications.
ITT: people who failed macroeconomics and are cranky about fiat dollars.
Usually you can find the reason for why a site is down by reading Hacker News comments, not the article. That's why downtime posts on Hacker News are useful.

I come to Hacker News to read comments about the issue when major internet news breaks, because it's likely that somebody with a technical background intimately aware of what's going on will post here. With one good self post to discuss the issue, there's a hub for discussion and often interesting technical information about the issue that gets shared that the general media won't cover.

E.g. when Cloudflare recently had major downtime: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9842302 People on Hacker News posted explanations of what was going on and how to get around the issue almost right away, beating Cloudflare's own customer support blog by 3-4 hours easily. I remember it well because I had hundreds of customers contacting me immediately during that downtime incident. The information I got on Hacker News was crucial for helping me respond effectively & quickly during that crisis.
You're probably better off submitting an issue on GitHub than dropping a bug report here.
That talk looks fascinating... bookmarked it for a later read. Quite a few people in all kinds of areas would benefit from a study of machine learning theory -- I think some of these findings are philosophically profound.
You Have a Players. But Are They Playing Their A Game?
Debt is unsustainable when the market says it is. When the market is paying you to lend you money, it's not unsustainable.
> The American debt-to-GDP is pretty average for a developed country.

As of 2013, the national debt was $16.4 trillion; GDP was around $16.2 trillion, for a ratio of 102%. Developed countries with a higher ratio would be uh... Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Japan. Countries like Germany, Austria, Finland, New Zealand, Australia, Canada all have much lower ratios.

> What matters is not the total amount of debt, but rather the cost of maintaining it. And US Treasury bonds carry negative real interest rates.

Are you suggesting this is going to continue indefinitely?
If I were a teacher and I saw a student come up with a peculiar but correct notation, I'd be ecstatic.
That's a great way to think about it. You can drop popular (eventually it gets to expensive that you reach a new equilibrium and people stop coming!), but it's hard to say at what point in the future that actually happens.
>I'm no longer holding out hope that Java 8/9 will ever get to Android.

If you take a look at the public commit on the AOSP jack & jill repo, you can see that google is working on Java 8 integration : https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/150214/2/jack-te...

It is very surprising though, I would have expected Google to explore other options due to the hard back compatibility story and with Oracle ready to push this legal battle as far as possible.

As far as Swift on Android ? From a developer point of view, there would probably be far worse choices (one could argue that Kotlin would be a better choice, if only because of Java 6 as a target) but yeah even without considering the legal aspect, I doubt that Google would be ready to use a language managed by its direct competitor.
I created this html generator for Node.js
"You can see the low legibility of Helvetica if you type texts in a small size and make them blur. Some texts become blended and hard to decipher. They say that Apple developed San Francisco fonts in order to make small size texts in Apple Watch more legible."

Funny thing is, this is exactly the problem that font hinting was meant to solve [1][2]. Apple developed the tech for TrueType font hinting nearly 25 years ago but then ditched most of it in their antialiasing rasterizer for OS X. If they still had hinting in their rasterizer, then instead of creating a whole new font with flatter segments they could have hinted Helvetica to flatten out at smaller sizes while still curving in the larger sizes. Then they would have had the best of both. Granted, that would have meant admitting that there's something to respecting the pixel grid [3], but this seems like a tacit admission of that anyway.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/fonts/TrueType-Reference-Manual/...

[2] http://www.rastertragedy.com/

[3] http://blog.codinghorror.com/font-rendering-respecting-the-p...
You know when you see one of those Twitter embeds where a tweet or a conversation is pulled into a different page? That's "broader distribution" right there, and if Medium made that kind of feature I'd certainly count that as "doing their job".
Disclamer: I'm no font expert, this is all my opinion as a user.

Not a fan of the font to be honest. I was excited for a Helvetica replacement on OS X, but to this day nothing beats Lucida Grande, especially on non retina displays. I'd even say I prefer Helvetica to SF (and I was definitely not a fan of Helvetica as a UI font), after using iOS 9 for two weeks and then coming back to iOS 8. I can't describe it properly without typography knowledge, but I'd say it feels more elegant than SF (and other "modern" fonts like Roboto).

Also there's the issue of readability, so I guess in that regard SF trumps Helvetica. Then again, I'm no expert so I don't really know.
Experimental linguistics
This makes no sense as a comparison. All of the top 10 schools get many more applications than they have spaces, and that's true of many of the "party" schools as well.
I agree with your general point regarding wealth, although I do think it's worth considering that absolute real wages are down significantly from their peak, and academia, in particular, is a brutally tough place to get a stable job now.

Humans generally rate themselves in relative terms: how are they doing compared to the people "around them". This wealth gradient has become more extreme in the last thirty years, leading to more intense competition for the higher slots. Additionally, modern media has brought more people "around us." I say this descriptively and without any value judgement, simply to explain the current behavior of children and parents.

It's a long conversation that is hard to carry out in HN comments, but suffice to say that despite the fact that I lean stoic, I cut parents and kids quite a lot of slack given the context they find themselves in.
You might be thinking about different "design". In this particular case USDS tries to "design" (as in engineering or architecture) efficient, cross-organizational set of guidelines to keep look consistent across all government websites. This should lead to same standard of UX and AX, which should lower amount of confusion of customers and lower costs building new projects.

You can think about it as of Twitter Bootstrap for government websites.
Where is the actual data that back up this recommendations?
FDA Phonetic and Orthographic Computer Analysis Program
What Is a HTTP HEAD Request Good For? Some Uses
And you know that how? Magic sense?
The code is full of implemented proprietary strategies. Many technical patents find their implementation in there. Who's mad to give up the source code for models researched after investing millions in equipment and engineering, on a such competitive market?
Same, despite running under Cygwin (babun).
like pokemon.
sometimes it's enough, nobody could know all thousands pokemon.. 251 were enough.
The article is from February. A couple of corrections:

1. It's spelled Grosse Pointe not Grosse Point.

2. The flower boxes that blocked entry from the city have been removed.

3. Downtown's renewal has created jobs in security, food and construction

4. There has been the start of a revival of retail centers in some of the neighborhoods

5. There's a really cool sculpture park a few blocks West of the Whole Foods, I was there a week ago. It's on the service road of the Lodge expressway.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/2015/06/08/ar...
This is unrelated to the conversation at hand... but for a site that calls itself "Practical Typography", something about the font and typesetting there makes me almost squint when I try to read that page.
1) We can dictate price: $0.00. 2) We can decide what drugs to develop (i.e. do we need Ibuprofen, Advil, Tylenol, This, That, or do we need the best). 3) When the price is $0.00 we ensure no one dies because they can't afford a drug. 4) When the price is $0.00 well physician can focus on providing you with the best drug, and not the one they get kick back from.

Shall I continue?

This idea does not stop at Pharma. Wherever Gov fails, we can try this.
> The "POA" heading is misaligned. You can tell they used table-less design - things don't line up right.

Um, that's not the case. Those look like table tags, as they should be (it's a table). The only problem is that that column header is left-aligned, not right-aligned like the rows are.

Most of your complaints are bullshit, frankly, and the rest are about interaction design/UX, not visual design, which is all that this project claimed to be. The visual design and layout look fine, with the exception of that misaligned column heading (the horror!).
The story needs to have a link. If you have something to add it's better to add it in the comments.
Logswan – Fast Web log analyzer using probabilistic data structures
Apple should have limited this font to the Watch. On the iPhone it looks ugly. There is too much space between characters and that hurts readability. iPhone's screen resolution is high enough that there is no need to use a special font designed for screens -- that only makes it look cheap and unprofessional.
This would have been a great comment without the word "bullshit", which made the whole thing read needlessly venomous.
Laser Razor by Skarp
There is nothing wrong that needs to be fixed. Because the dollar is a fiat currency, and the national debt is denominated fully in a currency the government controls, the “debt” is not really debt. It is really equity, shares of stock in USG. A dollar is just a piece of paper backed by the United States Government. A US Treasury Bill (T-Bill) is just a piece of paper backed by USG. A T-Bill is simply a dollar with a not-valid date. A dollar is analogous to stock in a corporation (except that instead of providing a dividend, it has the feature of extinguishing tax debt). A treasury bill is therefore analogous to restricted stock, stock that cannot be sold until a future date.

In other words, the national debt in a fiat currency should really just be considered as part of the fully diluted money supply. There is no reason to worry about the absolute quantity, only the rate of growth relative to GDP. I wrote an extended explanation here: https://devinhelton.com/why-the-national-debt-is-non-problem
Same here. Life-long native New Yorker, and I've never seen anything like it. My building has many AirBnB guests (my floor alone has 2 apartments that have different guests all the time.) Overall it doesn't impact my personal experience, since the neighborhood I live in is fairly noisy already (LES) and I don't really care unless they blast music.

That all said, I think there are things that AirBnB can do to mitigate all this: standards enforcement division. A 24-hour service where you call them up, make your complaint, and they send over some big scary people to knock on the offender's door and ask them to "turn it down" or "pick up their garbage." Local government offices and the landlords themselves can't respond quickly enough (the former can't/won't send someone there at 2AM and it'd be pretty tough to get the latter to run over to your apartment for this sort of thing.) Basically AirBnB police. There are steps that can be taken that don't involve the local government or housing authority; I think AirBnB would be wise to take them.
What's the implication here for sites wishing to monetize by selling (hashed) email lists of their users? Take Reddit for example, it could make a lot of money by selling the (hashed) list of users subscribed to /r/travel (or almost any other sub). Suddenly all those users with adblock who won't fork out for subscriptions would be generating income.

I know most TOS's say they don't share email addresses, but sites could theoretically specify that a hash of an email address be allowed.
I do not know the name of a single writer at Medium, NYT, FT, WP, LAT. As a matter of fact I do not know the name of any writer at big publications.
Did you know Groovy was booted off the Codehaus hosting service and its 3 developers retrenched by Pivotal,Inc last January? And Groovy's backup plan to join Apache via its incubator is a hoax, just providing a cover story for a non-technical person to run the show in the background. Virtually all the links at Groovy's page at Apache redirect to "groovy-lang.org", which is privately registered to Registrant Name "Guillaume Laforge" and blank Registrant Organisation. This individual controlling this domain and holding passwords to other non-Apache infrastructure for Groovy is a non-technical person pretending otherwise. Looking at today's emails on the Groovy dev list, we see Cedric Champeau giving two examples of "non code committing" committers, but this Laforge would be a far better example as he doesn't have even one single email in the entire 6-month history of the notifications or commits lists for Groovy at Apache. Until "Apache Software Foundation" is listed as the Organisation, the incubation process isn't real. Even better would be if the technical people who actually built and tested Groovy took over. The only real reason they haven't tried is they know a worse predator lurks over at the Grails ecosystem ready to pounce if Laforge is toppled.
No, it's not (heh) — it's actually a faithful translation of what he said. His description of his peers is a description of students who have an objectively wrong perception, lack resilience, and are emotionally fragile, which is what the article is talking about.

(Your characterization seems odd to me anyway. I don't see where the person I was responding to made an assertion that something is so I don't know how you could read my response as being "no, it's not"; he simply provided an anecdote of his peers' mindset and I rephrased it.)
I think a big part of it's popularity is the polish of the design and the UX.

It's kind of useless, but also, you have to admit, nicer to read there than most other places... And since VCs have TONS of money because bubble etc... It gets traction

I am also convinced that the founders being so connected allows them to raise about 10x what they really deserve
Are you suggesting that Ireland, Italy, Greece, Japan, Germany, Austria, Finland, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada are really that comparable to a country that is the sole super power, has the strongest military in history, provides the majority of its energy consumption, and denominates it's debt in its own currency?!

I mean, come on. No, it will not continue indefinitely, but that is not the point. The rate of change and the feedback loops matter far more here than the sheer amount of "debt."
Why do I feel someone is going to use this for dating?
Disagree. Conformity is what makes professional.
Oh, I agree that poor by American standards are still good compared to world wide or historical standards. The problem is that if everyone around you has a car, you really can't get by without one (due to society expectations, such as being able to get from where you live to a job that could be 30 miles away). Whereas if everyone around you didn't have transportation, then jobs, stores, and housing would be closer together. And in the past (and in poorer areas of the world), daycare is provided by family instead of having to pay half your income to cover it. Not to mention that it is more miserable to go from school or work or stores with A/C and then go home to a house without it. Whereas if you aren't exposed to A/C anywhere else in the summer, you can acclimate to the heat better.
The POCA software was mentioned in the "How FDA Reviews Proposed Drug Names" PDF and is somewhat interesting reading:

http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/DrugSafety/MedicationErro...

The PDF was previously submitted by 'aclimatt' here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10079659