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Is your handsontable/cljs work open source? Would love to see it.
I have given up on handsontable being usable in a modern js setup. I had to fall back to including it in a script tag and get it to work. Am quite interested to see if I can build it in cljs
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I hear this "inherit housing riches" a lot and I'm glad to see you aren't fooled by it. Housing isn't wealth. The value of land represents the ability to make use of it.

If the support ratio slips (ratio of working to non-working) then if we are to maintain the living standards of the non-working we either have to have a big productivity leap or lower living standards for those in work.

Reverse mortgages aren't going to cut it. And as you say, what then when the millenials have to hand over the keys to their parents' house?

Land isn't a thing of value in and of itself if we can't work it.

The only use ramping land value has is as an inflationary tax by private banks on workers.

My $0.02 on this is we give the boomers+ a massive haircut right now. Just pull the rug right out from under them, their politicians and their banks.
Trivial for for major values but I wouldn't know what 23 deg. was in radians without a calculator.
Yeah, but there's other bugs that do let you do that (pull peoples account info). I've found a plenty of exploitable vulnerabilities on steam but stopped reporting them after their support told me to go post "suggestions" on their forums instead.
Correction: 1TB for the default image [1]

(...although, there are alternatives [2], and will probably require some technical effort to pull off)

[1] https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6372-YZB...

[2] http://repo.steamstatic.com/steamos/
Okay, I was just curious if you meant something more recent that I was not aware of. (Not that the colonial era wasn't bad enough, mind you.)
> Its a choice between having facebook, or having no internet at all.

So.. a choice between having no internet with a chance to be part of the effort to destroy it and having no internet ?

It is critical to understand that there can be no internet without net neutrality, if you support in any way a choice that goes against net neutrality, you're taking part in destroying the internet.
"op" is Arc's idiom for web request type, so that attribute makes it easy for a scraper to tell what kind of page it's looking at. We added it for a Chrome extension we wrote to help with moderation.

One of these years I want to open-source a stripped-down version of that Chrome extension, or better still make it an optional JS client that people can opt into. It's handy for browsing HN, if you like keyboard shortcuts and don't mind spawning tabs. Anybody know if there's a way for regular JS to spawn tabs, if the user is willing to give it the right permissions?
Really? I've never heard a figure that high. I think the estimates currently are about $50B, spread out over 10 years or so.
Planting almond trees now doesn't necessarily require confidence that the state is going to bail them out. Because almonds are a high-value crop, even significant increases in the price of water will not make them uneconomic to grow.

I think we agree that farmers should be paying more for water in any case. Alas, the Rube Goldberg-esque legal structure that's grown up around water rights since the 1800s makes this much harder to implement than it should be -- and that is the real problem.
Coming from a rural farming community in India i think this is a very bad deal. I speak with my folks when i visit India about how they use technology. The use cases are very practical such as turning off/on the pumpset, since the fields are far and the power comes and goes at different times, this kind of app is amazing. I can think of similar use cases once IoT takes off. ex: Checking the water levels in paddy fields (The crabs make holes and if you are out of luck all the water is gone, resulting in midnight trips to fields to make sure everything is fine). The startups which might provide these kind of services will do well only if the internet is free, else FB will build its own apps to do this. FB will have a monopoly over the future use cases. The last thing my folks back home need is to play farmville or poke at each other or put booty shots in instagram :)
Thanks for the explanation! The assumption that volatility is a random walk strikes me as a very poor model when shit goes south. I would guess people use more sophisticated models in practice? Do you know of any good books on the subject?
Apparently Steve Jobs narrowly missed Berners Lee demonstrating his browser for inclusion with an upcoming version of next step to catch a plane.

I constantly think about how them meeting that day may have moved the mainstream adoption of the web up by 5 years.
It's Christmas Day - I'm sure 99% of their staff are on holiday.
Technical info about 'the thing': http://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/thing/index.htm
Well, if you literally have to leverage TONS of third party libraries, most of which are incompatible, then I would at least be glad that my code, the ui framework, the date handling library, the routing library, the ajax and the validation library, was all written using compatible and immutable by default code.

It's better to have a problem with some dependencies, than to have an issue with your entire codebase. So yes, I would argue that clojurescript has value.
Airsage does this for the entire USA for all time.
You copied that binary right? I think from a historical perspective that would be important to preserve...
Ew, cookies? I thought those days were behind us..
A special mode for that is not necessary:

23*pi/180
Of course. Google will profile you and have a search for "make" return results about the software rather than the verb. The only downside is that you have to let Google profile you which is a pretty large demand if you ask me. I would rather use a better keyword.
http://perl6.org/downloads/
The arrogance of the subtext that machine intelligence is nothing like human intelligence and therefore inherently inferior and nothing to be afraid of is more disturbing than the prospect of artificial intelligence gone awry as it reminds us how far awry natural intelligence goes routinely.
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In 1981 since when we've moved on from the Cold War (political crisis), massively decreased world poverty (economic crisis) and moved from an era of 14% inflation in the West being considered something economics couldn't address. On all of those measures we're doing much better than in 1981 - surely that demonstrates our capacity to improve and overcome problems.
18 miles is nothing in American driving culture. 18 miles is very close if most of that is highway.
Not that I want to support Microsoft, but I had the same issue until I switched to HERE (Nokia's old product). Basically I have downloaded a map of my country (~300 MB in size) and set the application to work offline. Works like a charm, does not feel like a downgrade at all.
India has been around for two orders of magnitude longer than facebook and is doing quite well without facebook and hopefully will gladly continue to do so.

It's quite the reverse situation here: Facebook leaves India, India continue unfazed. India gets rid of facebook, the overvalued facebook shares will plummet because facebook future depends on its success in conquering new users.
Sure but what's a solution that's a reasonable compromise until that happens?
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They looked at people's facial expressions, it wasn't based on self-reporting of emotion. The subjects were treated as animals in a biology experiment. You can look it up easily enough, the guy's name is Silvan Tomkins and the work is known as "affect theory".
> Would you say that the market for software developers after the first dotcom implosion was merely saturated

Yes, I sure would.

> all the out of work devs had chosen careers poorly, joining a saturated market?

I would, although obviously only of the devs who had decided on the job after the crash (given how short it was, this applies to very few). Tenured professorship, on the other hand, has been in decline for a long time and clearly not a good financial choice for close to a decade, if not longer.
I am not the author, please contact him to insist about the preservation. (a stupid downvoter was here).
I don't get it. How can a company claim to hire the best and the brightest, have some of the toughest interviewing processes in the industry and yet produce a clunky slow piece of shit software that's been dragging its feet for nearly a decade resulting in your account information splattered all over someone's screen. What an embarrassment.
We've made over a billion of the poorest of the poor less poor - that is a massive achievement. The crucial thing about that being less poor is that they are then not in subsistence mode and able to consider things like educating their children, engaging in capitalism, i.e. economic activity which can increase their wealth further rather than merely trying to stay alive.

Your quotes highlighting the problems of SSA move quickly into using percentages of an overall number that has decreased - it acknowledges that in all other regions in the world poverty has fallen dramatically, especially in China where their middle class is now around 340 million.
Not really, no. But you kinda got the idea: the wrong kind of network access could kill the internet.

This is the whole net neutrality issue. No net neutrality, no internet.
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'Firefox conceded that the device "must have DRM and content partnerships to be successful."'

No, it doesn't. Actually the failed Matchstick claimed to be DRM free initially/had DRM as an optional 'stretch goal' that was bolted on and lead to the poor excuses in the end. "We want to support Netflix etc. and failed, sorry people"

Plenty of backers asked for the device, sans DRM, because that's what they (and me) shelled out their money for.

I don't give a damn about DRM and content partners, I wanted a 'beam something to my TV' option. Sad to see that these plans were completely scrapped for another random Chromecast clone..
Some access is better than no access but some types of "some access" are better than other types of "some access".
I'd just get a new router or DD-WRT. If you are spending all of the money on a Raspberry Pi and all equipment you should probably get a router that is free*.

Hell, add a wifi dongle, and now you have a kindof-good router.
You're looking at the costs vs benefits in isolation. We'd get far more than just a trip to mars.

Many of the technologies and research in to a wide range of medical fields (including long term isolation/social pressures) that are developed as a result of that endeavor would continue to pay dividends for generations after the trip.

However I am very much in favor of sending robots up first; build a place to actually go to and live in, then stock it with a lower order ecosystem, and THEN send anything we forgot with the human payload.
"Among Bulletproof coffee's listed benefits: It triggers weight loss by way of ketosis..."

Just having bulletproof coffee for breakfast won't put you into ketosis (the state of using fat-derived ketone bodies for energy). You'd also need to have a radically low amount of carbs in the rest of your your diet. Otherwise, you'll have ample supplies of glycogen in your liver that will be providing you with glucose to fill your energy needs between breakfast and lunch.

According to Wikipedia, it takes about 48 hours of carb deprivation to make your body switch to burning ketone bodies for energy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketosis#Diet
> Mark Zukerberg donated $100 million to Newark School...

With some quite interesting results and consequences[1], you can't just drop a big bunch of monies on soomething expect it to solve itself or be successful.

[1]:http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/19/schooled
Yeah, but look at iTunes. That is first party for the platform, and probably worse.
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Lots of crows and walnut trees in my 'hood. When I see a crow drop a nut into the street when I'm out and about, I walk over and crush it. I'm hoping someday they'll recognize me and start dropping near me when I'm walking :-)
Interesting note from the OP highlights that Bill Gates' infamous open later was 7 years before the courts actually decided copyright status for software.

The Franklin computer case is also interesting due to it's connection to Apple.
"We've made over a billion of the poorest of the poor less poor - that is a massive achievement."

That's a pretty meaningless claim. Again, the data you're leaning on to say that is using an exceptionally low bar, and it doesn't really take into account regional economic differences. The whole reason the World Bank had to raise it to $1.90 a day from $1.25 a day was because in many parts of the developing world, $1.90 a day buys you less than $1.25 did at the start of the measurements!

More importantly, $1.91 a day still makes for a pretty miserable life anywhere in the world. You're not magically on a trajectory to the middle class. You may be dying of waterborne illnesses and malnutrition, but you're not absolutely poor by World Bank standards!

The claim that there are far fewer poor people from 1820 to present is more reasonable, but the problem there is that the gains mostly came from things like "industrialization", which were big, one-time gains that, again, accrued mainly to the winners.
Any thoughts on Blackbox?

http://www.oberon.ch/blackbox.html
I'd like to have that thing on the roof of my house hooked to a powerwall, is that even possible?
The "best" probably don't want to work on something as boring as the steam client. Given the choice of working on the Steam client, the Source Engine, or HL3 - which one would you choose? It's the downside of a flat organization where the staff choose what they work on, without being assigned tasks by management.
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/45860425443147...

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Account information incorrect
We've gotten reports that people sometimes see other people's account information on the account page. Valve has been made aware of this and are working on a fix.

Some frequently asked questions:
- No, Steam is not hacked

- Creditcard info and phone numbers are, as required by law, censored and not visible to users

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Wow, steam as always with the killer customer support.
If I got to pick (not that I'm even a good developer, but as a PM) - the store/client hands down. Both because it is a glaring flaw now and because doing account and identity management securely is way more interesting to me than a random game.
A tipical Italian lives in the other room :-/
It's also probably their single biggest day of the year.
>> WorldWideWeb_0.1.0.tar

Aren't they these? There's a missing leading 0.

http://browsers.evolt.org/archive/worldwideweb/NeXT/WorldWid...
Yea, when I think about it some more, it makes sense. But it is interesting how much of a bubble you can live in without really realizing it.

Although the 25 miles in the Great Plains states shown in the article is still surprising to me. As anyone who's lived in those states will attest, 25 miles is nothing.
I haven't read the tut yet but… could I write a language like python with that tutorial? If not, what would it be the best tutorial for indented syntax like python?
How does this compare to Terraform, which allows you to manage infrastructure other than AWS (GCE, DO, bare metal, etc.)?
This is just gross.
Well at 3:15 PST there is some progress, now I can get to the store site again but it complains of too many failed logins. I wonder how long that will take to clear up.
This is a repeat of AOL's playbook in the US in the 90's. Sure the internet existed and the web was around, but they were more interested in pushing their curated online service.
I wonder how much space the average users steam games take up. It's possible they felt it better to demand space for average to high number of game installations up front rather than dealing with users that installed to small partitions and complain that steamos can't install their software.

Using their regular linux client, I have more than a hundred gigabytes used between my Steam/ and SteamLibrary/ directories, and I don't even have that many games installed.
Mozilla is not so open as you might think. They make many decisions behind closed doors, without even a hint of the discussion in any public forum. For example, the decision to bundle Pocket, which has been highly controversial and objectionable to many loyal users, came completely out-of-the-blue. There were no publicly visible internal musings, much less public discussion or RFC.

Mozilla has lost its way.
> All we are asking our Govt. is to adopt same Net Neutrality standards that exist in US and other EU countries.

I understand that, and support it 100%. I am 100% pro-net neutrality.

> Just because we are open, unlike China, doesn't mean you can play unfair.

My issue is that India will play unfair. They have a history of it.

Say what you will about all the people who have their own anecdotal bad experiences with Indian companies & professionals over the last 5-10 years (dozens of accounts that I've read here, on our very own hackernews), but the simple fact of the matter is that even India's government has a track record of reneging on deals. And these weren't small deals, these were deals years in the making.

That's not good for India. Investors will (and are) balking at the idea of entering the Indian market because who knows when India will pull the rug out from under them when the mood strikes. There's also very little legal recourse when that does happen. It doesn't help when your country is among the most corrupt countries on the planet; they ranked 94th in Transparency International's corruption index. There are 93 countries less corrupt than India. Source: http://www.transparency.org/cpi2013/results
Great things were possible before the West bore the yoke of diversification and social justice.
Something like 50% of all trips are by car in SF! I'm guessing NYC is better.
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I can imagine someone has to mediate disagreements. There has to be some workflow.
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Has "Sweet Sixteen" caused teens to be more frugal for their birthday parties?
Looks good, but... what's the version I'm to read? The first one or the second one? They seem like different versions of the same document... Since the table of contents is close to being the same it looks confusing.

Looks like the first one is in C++ and the second one in OCaml . Second one it will be then :)
Valve would have to entirely rewrite their current caching system in order to repair this which they've avoided for so long.
Those users can then buy super cheap external storage and plug it in via USB. You can make multiple SteamLibrary folders and put them wherever you'd like.

I'm almost certain it's an oversight due to not caring.
Where do you live? Most US cities aren't really urban - they were designed for cars, not people. Do you feel the same way about SF or NYC?
Congratulations all those who added something to this monumental effort.

By any metric (no. of contributors, no. of health scares survived by language designer, no of prototypes ...) it's been an enormous amount of blood, sweat and tears.

Looking forward to enjoying it for next 50 years.
>Society doesn't need 8 billion humans anymore

This is self-contradictory. Society is exactly the humans that exist.
The leading "0." is kind of the point of the whole article ;)
It should be noted that this is from a moderator, and is not a official PR response.
Syntax like python, sure.

Execution like python, not as much.
I agree completely. Firefox is cutting off (or has cut off) its own roots. "Power-users" are not where the money lies--at least, not in their eyes. Making the best, most powerful, user-extensible browser is no longer interesting or glamorous to them. Mozilla is now chasing after fireflies: here one moment, gone the next.

I have come to doubt that Mozilla will exist in 5 years--at least, not in a form that is recognizable as the Mozilla we have known. Mozilla has lost its way; it's having an identify crisis. It seems to me that their decisions are made with respect to maintaining their expensive facilities and furthering social causes, rather than with respect to maintaining their technical excellence and furthering their user-liberating causes.

This can't last much longer. Yahoo is having its own issues, and they are Mozilla's principle patron. When Yahoo's deal expires, how will Mozilla sell itself to its next patron, lacking a clear identity and purpose?

Mozilla needs to be reborn as yet another Phoenix from its own ashes.

Lacking this, I am hopeful that the Pale Moon fork of Firefox will live on and become the "next Firefox." Its developers seem to have good ideas and priorities about stability and extensibility, keeping it based on the pre-Aurora codebase.

But it's always a shame to see a good project go astray and facilitate its own demise.

Signed,
Developer, Firefox user, desktop and mobile
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10791939

One carrier is already trying this.

Also, facebook isn't even financing the actual data (the carriers are), and the carriers' business plan (get people hooked onto the Internet so they migrate to a full plan) works on any form of "free limited internet" plan, where the plan is limited by speed or a data cap instead of by limiting what "Internet" means. Facebook is a third party which has wedged itself into this with extra deals; but the situation from the carriers' point of view shouldn't be much different if they set a free data cap or provide a free slow internet plan.
Given the way the "Hackers at 20" article resonated, I'd say the answer is "YES": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10220853
Yes. Always take care of yourself first.

Another thing is to remember to always be humble. Your judgment toady is not the same as it might be 20 years from now. There are a lot of kids that survived terrible conditions that must move on. There are also a lot of kids who feel that they had a terribly abusive situation -- but will not feel that way 20 years from now when their parents are gone.
Do you have a link with more details? I was under impression vulnerable lead mains were replaced