skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This policy is infuriating because we all know that the people who need access to credit cannot get it at anything like policy rates. They're credit-quality constrained and so borrow at 15% (if they're lucky) on their credit card, or at 30% per month if they're less fortunate.

The only people and entities able to borrow at zero (soon negative) rates are those who have absolutely no need for the money, thereby concentrating wealth further into the hands of the haves as they go on their asset buying sprees (and who wouldn't if, for you, money was free).

The only way to get money to people who really need it is fiscal transfers, either directly, or through jobs programmes. This single-lever monetary policy game is up. It's not working, it's creating massive distortions that we'll pay exponentially for in the future, and it's endangering the fabric of our societies. That central banks are pushing ahead even further with these ideas is one of the great robberies of our time.
Bitcoin Mints New Words
That QR code needs to be a lot bigger. I have a 28" screen and had to wiggle my phone a good while to get it to register.

After getting connected i loaded up the racing game, my phone showed the controls, but half a second after the race started my phone went back to the "select the game" screen, while the game went on on my screen.
Oh wow, this is similar to the kind of clothing startup I've thought about, I'm glad someone is doing it.
I live in rural Scotland, there is no such thing, and sadly I don't have the time available to start one.
Yeah, Cluj is a great city. The people are friendly and quite hard working, IMO. There are multiple flights from/to Bucharest every day (and from there pretty much any place you want to go) so travel shouldn't be too difficult. There is undoubtedly a lot of undiscovered talent that can be had rather cheaply because of the rather undeveloped economy outside of IT in general. I hope it continues to grow and develop as more companies see fit to invest in Cluj and Romania in general.
Getting to Cluj is a completely ball-ache.

Maybe this is a culture difference between the US (where I live) and the UK (where I assume you live from context), but to my ear, that phrase comes across as crass and off-putting in a professional context, and probably the very type of low-level thing that perpetuates the gender imbalance in our industry.

I'm not trying to hijack the thread, but your comment touched the Great Tech Gender Debate in what seemed like a constructive and interesting way, so this turn of phrase seemed particularly out-of-place.
This author has a history of being on the wrong side of science, and fear mongers on the harms of GMO. For example:

http://www.foodrenegade.com/peru-bans-monsanto-gmos/

Just google GMO and this blog:
https://www.google.com/search?q=GMO+site%3Afoodrenegade.com
I may know what the cloudy stuff is. First, if the juice is outside the "best buy" date, just throw it away. The "cloudy juice" problem happened when they moved to a new production line in Watsonville. They discovered that as juice aged it got cloudy and then started to grow a "tree looking" like thing inside the bottle. It took them months to figure out that the big warehouse doors where they brought in apples was allowing mold spores to blow into the air and contaminate the juice. You've probably been holding on to that bottle for a while. (Some other brands don't filter their juice, and will appear cloudy.) This isn't a problem that anyone should be seeing anymore. (I should add that many, many bottles were tested and the mold wasn't a harmful mold. Many skeptical customers even arranged their own testing.)
> George Zimmerman

Zimmer. George Zimmerman is the piece of shit who shot Trayvon Martin.
This is nothing new, though. I think it's a mistake to blame social media, advertising, or clickbait - this has been happening far longer than any of them.

Watch the news on TV or read a newspaper; how many times do they tell you that people are outraged, or asking questions, or something is up for debate, without showing so much as a tweet?
Maybe there is a culture difference (I live in the southern US), but to my ear, this comment reads as pointless bellyaching touching on manufacturing outrage. One should give the writer of the comment the benefit of the doubt and assume that "ball-ache" is analogous to pain in the ass.
You should see Turkish news on web sites. "Scientists are in shock! Shock shock shock! Evry european talks about this! Here is what everybody should give attention!"
Python Social Auth¹ by Matías Aguirre is a great library that was abstracted from battle-tested Django Social Auth.
Authomatic² by Peter Hudec is good as well.

Flask Social³ by Matt Wright is worth a look, too.

You can find example implementations with different DBs in the examples directories of the projects. I've used everything from Redis and MongoDB to SQLite to store user information. It all depends on your goals. My framework of choice is Flask most of the time.

[1] https://github.com/omab/python-social-auth

[2] https://github.com/peterhudec/authomatic

[3] https://github.com/mattupstate/flask-social
Just found some pig and rat experiments:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2572176

"We examined the effects of topically applied amino acids (glutamate, aspartate, glycine, and taurine) and a synthetic glutamate analogue [N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)] on pial arteriolar tone and cortical surface cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) dilator prostanoid concentrations in anesthetized newborn pigs. [...] We conclude that these amino acids are potent dilators of the neonatal cerebral circulation."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9134957

"Taken together, these results indicate that glutamate contributes to the dilatory tone of cerebral microvessels under physiologic conditions and that this effect is mediated by NMDA receptors. Glutamatergic vasodilation is dependent on neuronal discharge activity and the neuronal production of NO."

Experiment with glutamate infusion in cardiac surgery patients:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11724641

"These data show that an intravenous glutamate infusion after routine CABG surgery significantly improved cardiac haemodynamic performance without direct effects on cardiac substrate metabolism. This suggests that a reduction of the afterload via a peripheral vasodilatory effect is the main mechanism leading to the observed changes in haemodynamics."
> The economy would fare a LOT better in my eyes if any investor over a certain threshold (10k?) was forced to hold the stock in question for 12 months at a minimum, [...]

You can do this naturally by simply increasing the short-term capital gains tax rate; currently it's calculated as pure income tax which maxes out around 40%.
machine code looks pretty much like the "essence of computing" to me, and that's about as far as you can get from functional programming. I think I would agree with you more if you meant the essence of computer "science". If I remember correctly there is, anyway, a theorem by Church and Turing that proves imperative and functional programming to be capability-equivalent. The argument is more about the superiority of functional programming in its benefits to software engineering and algorithm discovery by forcing rigour onto our mistake-prone brains.
Ask HN: Building a code portfolio – any suggestions / ideas?
Ask HN: How to stay fit?
As software developers we sit many hours at a desk. How do you stay slim/fit?
H2O is highly caustic.
Distilled water (pure) has such a low mineral/salt level that it pulls important salts out of your cells. Your body is mostly water, but it's mostly salty water.
Some people would say that the formal proof stands on its own. No need for anyone to appreciate it.
FWIW, the OP links to an apparently controversial article ("an article about a particular narrative thread") in which Infocom employees discuss the never-released sequel to HHGG. The domain of that post seems to be currently down (waxy.org), but here's the Sept. 2015 archive.org link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150928021842/http://waxy.org/2...
Why the Android app? This could have been done with web tech, which would have made it work on any touch device.
I only ever buy cloudy apple juice. Or is there something else going on in Martinelli?
"Microdebt" clearly does not solve poverty. This idea has always had its critics. It is distasteful at best to be a money lender to the poorest strata of humanity. Common wisdom tells us as much.

I couldn't care less about your unsupported "common wisdom".

Show me data.
Silicon Valley professionals are taking LSD at work to increase productivity
Do You Like What I Do for a Living?
It sounds reasonable that fiber could reduce the rate of aborption of sugar. But I lose you when you start talking about sugar highs. I thought that was dispelled as a myth after a number of placebo controlled studies.
Just eat something with it. Anything.
> This is true to the degree that a show about a Japanese man who crushes business cards to get a reaction was invented.

This is not at all "a show about a Japanese man who crushes business cards to get a reaction."

The clip you have linked is labelled as being from "Gigazeus" which is apparently a comedy tokusatsu (like Power Rangers) show. Since I was confused as to why there were other clips with the same person that didn't seem to be from this show, I wasted some time researching this and determined the following:

There was a series of dumb comedy tv shows that were supposed to be lessons in how to make people angry. In these shows, this actor (Shinichi Usui) was supposed to be a professor, who demonstrated how to make people angry by disrespecting them. The person who directed these shows then went on to direct the show the clip you have linked is from, and apparently brought on the same actor to do essentially the same thing but as a different character.

This was simply a short gag on two different shows directed by the same person that was more about the silly facial expression made by the actor than about the actual destroying of the business cards.

I have taken the time to write a reply (to this comment that is arguably only tangentially related to the original link) that is arguably unnecessarily detailed because misinformation about Japan and Japanese TV shows seems to be so prevalent on the internet. In particular, I want to dispel the idea that the very idea of crushing business cards is somehow so shocking to Japanese people (more than it would be in other countries) that there would be a reality show just about someone crushing business cards.
Not really.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distilled_water#Drinking_disti...
I agree. When learning to program, one should first learn the mental activity oc solving problems with code. Then maybe learn all the boilerplate and BS associated with a language like Java. Pascal is simple enough that students can learn fundamentals first. Same with industrial BASIC. Both are like pseudocode.

Many people are turned off to programming encountering Java, C++, etc because they think programming is inherently that difficult.
By definition, if you doubt someone's story, then you don't believe them. It's fairly simple, but if you would prefer to pretend that you didn't say what you said, that's certainly your right.
Sorry, I had no idea I could not share the link with friends and family. Just now I noticed in the FAQs you're not supposed to.
Even Aldi sells lots of organic stuff these days.
The biggest issue containers have at the moment is data, while there are a few "solutions" none of them make much sense when containers are meant to be scheduled for high availability, shifting hosts with ease packing things nice and tight.

Containers make sense for applications or processing but if you have to tie a database to a host you lose a lot of the container benefits IMHO.

Config management tools will be around for a while, if nothing else you need to configure those docker hosts.
Eat real food, and exercise.

Not exactly rocket science.
>I realize that all of this is my problem

Congrats! This is true wisdom and maturity.

Dive into what you find uncomfortable, try to adopt (or at least foster) new perspectives. Maybe even talk to these new people and share your feelings with them. Luckily for you they're in the soft-skills craft and may have the tools you're looking for at this uncomfortable time.

Your best bet for harmony and comfort is to adapt to the change rather than adhere to old ways. Because, in the end, flexibility is life skill we all need.
Wow. Interesting and makes plenty of sense. Thank you.

To be specific, I was trying to describe the "tree looking" like thing inside the bottle.
Cool. Reminds me of this mystery fungus from a while ago: http://www.wired.com/2011/05/ff_angelsshare/
Nice!

If you like Forth, there's information about similar languages over at http://concatenative.org/.
Business computing had always used more memory. IBM had very interesting devices with punch cards.

It's interesting to compare these two big strands: business vs scientific computing.
Really cool work. Personally, I can really recommend Newsify as a top quality RSS reader on the iPhone. Great offline support, and it downloads the full articles with images as well.

Not affiliated, just a very happy customer.
I have to wonder how they feel about their decisions now.

From what I can gather, he put together a pretty cool company with nice ethics. I heard that he hired felons saying that everyone needs a second chance. He treated his employees well. The company, so far as I know, was doing well. Not cranking the stock price but making bank and taking care of customers and employees. What's so awful about that?
At the very least assault with a deadly weapon seems appropriate.
Actually, this may be even worse than described. The UUID digits all amount to the hex digit of hi in the 163 place (i.e. the 4th least-significant nybble). However, it also turns out that hi[init]*0xFFFF will give the same digit sequence but with a leading 0. This probably can be used to determine the RNG state from a single UUID, but the calculations for that are beyond me.
Native Intelligence: The Indians who feasted with the English colonists (2005)
A new form of gold, almost as light as air
Because in Chinese morphology "xi'an" is two distinct syllables, while "xian" is a single syllable. In Hanyu Pinyin (the modern Chinese transliteration standard) this distinction is made with an apostrophe. What English "usually" does with the apostrophe is irrelevant.

"Xi'an" and "xian" must be able to be distinguished in English because they refer to separate things. If you have a problem with using an apostrophe for this, take it up with the standards body that decided on Hanyu Pinyin.
Fun environment.

A couple of weeks ago I installed 8th to learn a Forth as a hobby. (It promised iOS integration, so it might even be useful. I'm not there yet. :-) )
Even if you send only non-commercial notifications to users who requested them they still may uninstall your app (or for email, report as spam.)

If you are in a very competitive market for user acquisition - mobile game, Uber, crowd based delivery service, etc - 1 or 2 percentage points in behavior can be a really damn big deal. 1 or 2% uninstalling your app every week is enough to kill your viral coefficient. It would have been enough to kill Facebook.

You are notch and you just made Minecraft? Probably doesn't matter.
I often use dc(1) so my first instinct was to type "1 2 3 +" into the input without intermediate linebreaks. I was delighted to see that this was correctly understood to mean what I wanted to express instead of it doing something silly like taking just the first int of my string or trying to parse the string as a whole straight to int.

These are the sort of things which encourage readers to read on :)

Edit: Unfortunatelly, when I try to scroll and read the rest, the input field steals focus rendering me unable to continue. Firefox on Android.
That is because you happen to be ignorant of all but the most notable thing that could be either "xi'an" or "xian". Others are not limited by the extent of your knowledge.
But I'm skeptical about the "juice is bad" meme.

It is and for a simple reason that we've known about for a long time: glycaemic index. If the sugars (fructose) are locked in a matrix of cellulose (AKA dietary fibre) they're released gradually as your body digests the bulk matter. If you plot the blood sugar concentration of the person consuming a solid piece of fruit you see a nice curve where the levels rise, peak, and non-violently fall.

Now when you process the fruit you're effectively pre-digesting it - the sugars are free of the cellulose matrix (the bulk of the fruit) and when you plot the blood sugar concentration after consumption of juice, because no work needs to be done to digest it, the blood sugar level quickly spikes. This provides a rush, then your insulin response peaks, sending your blood sugar levels crashing. This happens much faster than the curve in blood sugar from eating unprocessed fruit.

The only argument I'll accept from people who drink juice: They like it. That's OK. You're allowed to like things. I like beer, which acts similarly to juice with regards to blood sugar concentration.
Python, Pitch Shifting, and the Pianoputer (2014)
Except he never provides any proof that any of the chemicals named are harmful in any way. His claims are

1. Juice produced at industrial scale are loaded with sugar and are less nutritious than actual fruits (true, but also true of any juice, industrial or otherwise)

2. Juice produced at industrial scale is "unnatural" (also true, depending on your definition of "natural", but merely asserting that they are unnatural doesn't mean they're good or bad for you - naturalistic fallacy)

He can't assert that the chemicals are in fact bad for you because there's no proof of it, as mentioned elsewhere in this comment thread, and by his own admission these are the exact same chemicals you'd find in oranges anyway
Portland much?
It hurts my eyes.
A better choice of fonts and layout might make it readable.
And the writing could do with significant improvement.
I'll make an effort to take notes over the next few weeks and put something up on the issue tracker. To be absolutely clear I think GitLab is pretty good I'd just prefer and recommend GitHub still if self-hosted and cost weren't the primary requirements.
You are ignoring the positive effect of this policy on unemployment and debt overhang. See, for example, http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/ben-bernanke/posts/2015/06/01....
The point is enforcement. Currently, ad tech does not allow websites to achieve great performance (incl. fast page loads). AMP changes this by enforcing new rules for ads and everything else.
I mean. I'm not sure what your point is trying to explain my own motivations to me. It was part of what I was getting paid to do at the time. But I didn't need the newest kernel to run on it, so I never ported beyond 3.9. Arguably had it been a passionate side project, I may have gone further. Trying to use this as some kind of capitalistic example of how the market forces just didn't motivate it enough is... missing a lot of the point around so much of what happens here and why a lot of the people who do this work continue to do it.

Also, while the T1 core may be somewhat dated, it is still the newest general purpose ASIC design that's ever been fabricated as a major CPU that you can actually download the verilog for and put on an FPGA.

The advances in computing power haven't been driven by tons of changes in the core units since the gigahertz wars. They are by no means static, but an OpenSPARC T1 core has a surprising amount of similarity to a SPARC core shipping in new designs today. It's an extremely valuable model and opportunity to play with hardware modifications that is otherwise unparalleled outside the few organizations that regularly fabricate new ASICs.
Are you aware of the difference between an empirical claim and a normative claim?
I stand corrected, and would edit my comment if I could. Thank you for teaching me about Japanese culture. (although I'll reiterate that business cards are still very important in that culture)
Human beings evolved senses to perceive food which will aid in the individual's survival on the plains of the African savannah. There's no reason to believe that food perceived to be flavorful necessarily contains the correct nutrients for us, and (more importantly) contain them in the right amounts. Otherwise if we can all just trust our taste buds then nutritionists would be all out of jobs.
Will the “Chemical Laptop” Find Extraterrestrial Life?
Ever try searching for trending outrage hashtags on Twitter? Generally it's 99.9% outrage over the outrage, with no real tweets expressing the original supposed outrage.
What kind of code? Embedded, dsp, web backend, web frontend, databases, protocols, ...?
Has anyone seen a comparison of developer billing rates by geographic region? A somewhat related question is how would one go about locating remote workers from a cheap region such as this. I know odesk is an option, but are there others to establish direct relationships?
I don't read the mainstream media. I don't use Facebook, Twitter, etc. I don't really notice any of this.
The Snake code is more complex than it needs to be -- example: defining directions as constants from 1 to 4 and then using IF on the direction, instead of defining directions as offsets in the coordinates. But simpler code would not be that much simpler -- Forth just takes getting used to, and I guess the step up to a whole game was too steep. Add some smaller exercises first? Like Sokoban?

(Generally the main thing that'd make Forth more readable is local variables in place of stack manipulations.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10626504
"Helicopter Ben". I rest my case.

You see, the main issue is not so much about sprinkling money around. It's that you're unfairly discriminating against the vast majority of medium/poor-credit people, while giving free money to equally poor-credit banks, who, as we all know, would be bust long ago because the liability side of their balance sheets are much bigger than assets, were it not for the prop-up of free money and wholesale transfer of bad assets to the public, at par prices instead of the steep discounts that should be warranted.

We're free-funding a zombie banking system in the hope that by inflating assets we'll bail them out "on the sly", meantime, all that money is being siphoned off by the wealthy into getting wealthier.

The working and middle classes are paying more than their fair share of the crisis, while capital (banks) has not been haircut for its bad decisions. Free markets are based on the principle that mistakes are punished, good decisions rewarded. We're instead short-circuiting the punishment warranted by poor capital allocation decisions pre-crisis.

It's squarely a political problem, a problem of huge discrimination in favour of the incumbent wealthy at the expense of everyone else.
OK I figured it out...the person who sent the message was using Android voice typing, so it was Google who censored it.
Material React Native (MRN) – A Material Design React Native Component Library
This looks really well made. I also enjoyed looking through your other (very clean) repos!

One question: does this work with React? I found this Github https://github.com/kwnccc/react-popmotion but it isn't part of the main Popmotion organization. I would be willing to pay a license fee for something well maintained with React support.

FYI, The pay structure I agree with most for web libraries is a non-recurring fee, 1 year upgrades and support, the versions I purchased are useable indefinitely but I can buy a new 1 year license for the newer versions and more support. Up to you how you do it though!
I've always wanted to build something like this for cinemas to feature before the movie starts