skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've set it up for a project where incoming HTTP requests can trigger outgoing HTTP requests, something I found useful was a wrapper function that attempts to execute the task asynchronously (the_task.apply_async) but falls back on running it in-process (the_task.apply). This way if RabbitMQ isn't running everything still basically works. The downside is that if RabbitMQ is running but celeryd isn't, all the tasks just pile up in the queue.
May I point out that those extreme edge cases

Personally, I'm not convinced that if you add up all the very valid reasons people have for wanting to be anonymous, that you have a percentage of people which could be described as "extreme edge cases."
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Hey very good idea, I've always thought to do that by myself, ie posting several ads to teach how to program. But I was actually thinking of giving course for some specific programming languages.
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It's like they are trying to say "look at what bad things can happen when humans crash cars. Aren't you afraid of robots also crashing cars? Even though Google's robots have never crashed cars, and thus already a better track record than nearly every human?"
I dunno, I recently downgraded and don't remember it being a hassle at all.
I didn't necessarily assume an anti-Google tone, but I did mutter "what the hell?" when I read "Glad no one appears hurt, but this is a good reminder of one of the main reasons Google’s experiment with robot cars both fascinates us and creeps us out.".

If it was human error, 160K miles have been logged without incident... how the hell is this a good reminder of why we should be creeped out by Google's experiment? (edit: The last sentence of that last paragraph is equally useless.) I'm no journalist but I feel comfortable rolling my eyes at this article and its style.
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But node multiplies that, a lot.

Yes. Rails is measured in hundreds per second. Node in thousands per second.

The point that you still seem to be missing is that the monetary amounts involved have normally turned into a rounding error long before you reach a traffic-volume where this difference becomes relevant.

Or, in other words, hosting a "webapp" already is nearly free in terms of hardware.
I believe it's satirising the HN error message, m'lud.
I am curious. How does Germany do it? It has high labor cost yet it maintains its manufacture leadership and has export surplus. China and Germany become manufacture powerhouses yet have vast difference in labor cost structure.
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Haha! I recognize this board :) Good luck, my friend!
> we've been through this many times before

'past predicts future' is not exactly commensurate with a point of inflection. perhaps a real-life example can help - a medical transcription firm in India hires 25 Indians to transcribe medical records. I then sell the CEO a copy of voice recognition software. He is so happy with the results, he fires 24 and keeps 1 Indian to fix the occasional transcription typos! After one month, he finds the transcription error rate is unacceptably high, so he hires one more Indian to fix typos. For the past 1 year, these 2 Indians & that software has chugged along, making money. Now that CEO is happy, making money, and has opened his second office in India, with another copy of the software & just 2 more Indians to babysit and bugfix! True story. Any way you cut it, that's net job loss. First, a bunch of housewives in Atlanta who transcribed for a living lost their livelihood, but you can rationalize that by saying, hey atleast 25 Indians got hired. But 23 out of those 25 Indians lost jobs & 1 piece of software ended up doing the job! Now unless the Atlanta housewives and the 23 Indians end up working for the voice recognition software company ( a very remote possibility ) or end up in a brand new job ( even more remote possibility ) given their limited skills, there is definitely a block of time when there is net job loss.
Ofcourse eventually some of these people will learn new skills and/or are absorbed into new jobs etc...atleast, that's the hope. But the intervening reality can't be wished away. I still think this story will have a happy ending, but so far I don't see it.
I didn't say that I respected people with software patents, I said that I don't blame them.
Swiss watchmakers have reported record sales since 2008. The guys who own the smartphone factories in China really like luxury automatic watches.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-21/switzerland-s-watch...
"Our new economy is shrinking because technology leads to efficiency over growth."

I disagree with this premise. IMHO, it is much simpler: we as individuals lived beyond our means for 20+ years by borrowing money against our houses and against our personal word (e.g. credit cards). We as governments lived beyond our means in terms of direct spending as well future spending promises (e.g. promising retirement/pension/medical benefits that are funded by borrowing or not funded at all). Big companies also promised retirement (pension) benefits that assumed a continuing growth of the investments that backed the pensions - that didn't work out so well.

"But why now, when it hasn't in the past?"

In the past, we relied on general growth exceeding our indebtedness, "growing" our way out of our debt. This is a game that cannot go on forever... and the longer it goes on, the worse the crash will be at the end. Right now, it is looking pretty tough.

In short, we lived beyond our means for 20+ years. We will have to live "below our means" for a substantial number of years to balance our past spending against our current and future incomes... and that assumes we have the will to make the hard decisions to truly reduce our spending rather than claiming to reduce spending, but the "reductions" are 2/5/10 years in the future.

A big part of living "below our means" is buying less, paying down our debt, which means lower demand and thus lower job levels.
It would improve faster if your bosses would engage in QE3 and started to inflate the economy. [Edit: that's an attack on the Board of Governors, certainly not you.]
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> But what bugs me most about your post is your belief that we should work to keep wages high for overpaid middle class American by prohibiting poor Chinese and Indians from having access to world markets where they might actually earn their marginal product.

Rather than ascribe sinister motives to a person (a desire to oppress Chinese/Indian workers in order to keep American salaries high), maybe you could consider the structural problems that make it difficult for American workers to compete with foreign ones. OSHA regulations, Social Security, Medicare, health insurance, unions, and many other factors go into the cost of an American worker. I don't know much about China or India but I doubt they have any of these things. So, are they important? If they are, why are we ok with importing goods made by people without the same protections, in order to save a few bucks? If they're not important, maybe we should eliminate them, so we can compete in the global marketplace.
Community votes on new trust features, we build them.
Action is sometimes taken against prosecutors who abuse their position, though. Mike Nifong comes to mind:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Nifong

Granted, the behavior does have to be pretty egregious, but at least these people aren't (always) above the law.
From your other responses, it looks like you're American? If you're willing to move up to communist Canada (I kid, I kid), we're starving for engineers. Alberta needs civil engineers for their oil industry, and Ontario & the City of Toronto are hiring too.
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There are civil engineering jobs in places you probably don't want to go, like western North Dakota.
Read "lights in the tunnel" by Martin Ford.
There is this. -> http://codeigniter.com/wiki/PayPal_Lib/

and this -> https://github.com/orderly/codeigniter-paypal-ipn

I'm looking to charge to post and just need PayPal to communicate back that a payment was successful and proceed with posting.

(newbie here)
Ask HN: Recommendations for issuing a press release?
Anybody here issued a press release before? I understand you have to issue it through a company that will distribute it to the press. Does anyone have a recommendation on a good company to use?

(The press release I want to issue is to announce the date of when the new MMO I've been working on for the last 4 years is going to start.)
I don't think it's "blogspam" to educate the developer community about this opportunity. Betable is basically a hack for both the gaming and gambling industries. It hacks the gambling industry by letting new players easily enter the space to spark innovation, and it hacks the gaming industry by giving small developers a monetization channel that makes MUCH more money per player.

This is huge for game developers because they can afford to build their games faster and market more aggressively if they use real-money play vs. virtual goods. In our article, we mention that it takes a million users at an ARPU of $1 to make $1M in revenue. Many gambling games have an ARPU of $70-$100, so even if you fall in between $1 and $100 and hit, for instance, $10 ARPU, you are talking about an order of magnitude increase in your revenue per player. The flexibility that this will award game developers is awesome, and we think worthy of a post here.

Also, we believe that the best new games that will build on this will combine the best aspect of social games (as we know them) and gambling mechanics. These games will be a merger of the two: Social Gambling Games.
In case you're interested, here are the other submissions related to this story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839764

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840062 <- This one has the most comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840330

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2841698

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2842905

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2843168

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847398
I actually agree with you (It's not a coincidence I wrote the CappRuby project mentioned in the boucher's comment).

At some point I'd like to build some nicer pure-JavaScript bindings to the Objective-J runtime which get you 90% of what you get from Objective-J without the OMG-WTF-is-this-new-language reactions.

However, I'm not convinced it will make a big difference. Language style and convention permeate libraries/frameworks, and simple language bindings often results in a sort of "uncanny valley". Can you name any significant frameworks that are more commonly used from an alternative language than the one it was originally written for?
The lack of pickup in employment numbers is not surprising when viewed in an historical context.

There is very broad historical overview of sovereign crisis in “This Time Is Different”, by Reinhart and Rogoff, which also includes banking crisis. Looking at what I can find on Google books (I don’t have the book here), we have that historically the unemployment rate rises an average of %7 and that this lasts 4 years. Output falls more than 9 percent, but that down turn only lasts 2 years. So yes, a jobless recovery is what we should expect.

From their summary on pp. 224 [1] that on average:

-	Housing prices decline %35 over 6 years.
-	Equity collapses %56 over about 3.5 years
-	Unemployment rises %7; down phases lasts 4 years
-	Output falls %9, downturn lasts 2 years.
-	Government debt rises %86. The main cause is not the bailout but from the collapse in tax revenues.
-	Frequent spike in government borrowing rates.

So I would say we are not living anything unexpected.

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=Iihe6s0XincC&lpg=PP1...
I can't help but wonder what our unemployment numbers would look like without housing crisis and the two wars. Would we be investing in things like energy, healthcare, and tech? People are sitting on cash because of uncertainties in the markets, not because tech killed all the jobs.
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The middle class is going away. And not coming back. All of those factory and middle management jobs are being replaced by cheaper labor in the one case (offshore or robotics) or by technological and communication efficiencies on the other.

A prediction:
Twenty years from now, there will only be two types of jobs in the United States: Creatives and those in the Service Industry.

Creatives - anyone who creates things with their mind. Artists, yes, but also programmers, designers (graphic/web/product), musicians, directors, etc. The US won't necessarily have a monopoly in this department, but there's enough cultural barriers in many of these fields that it's likely we'll still have a very healthy presence there, at least for selling to the Western world.

Everyone else will be in the service industry - and I'm referring to service jobs that cannot be outsourced, because they require someone local. Waiters, barbers, chefs, trainers, couriers. Nurses and caregivers. And lots of service jobs that don't exist today. Need someone to help assemble the product you just downloaded and 3d printed?

The only jobs that will remain are the ones that we can't outsource to robots or cheap labor.
In my opinion John Michael Greer's "The Long Descent" is the most realistic and most hopeful take on this vein of thinking and writing. It is also a well-written and easy to read book. The main takeaway is that our situation is not a problem with a solution, but rather a predicament or situation with various coping mechanisms.

http://www.newsociety.com/Books/L/The-Long-Descent
The article posits a broad trend for which it provides no evidence, and indeed nobody has been able to provide evidence. This is the broad trend people have been positing since the ludites were smashing those newfangled automated looms.
I won't buy it unless perhaps performance increases. I tried it with the humble indie bundle and on both my computers with okay specs it was extremely laggy and noticeably slow. (i5 i5 m480 and an older e6300 oc'd)

For a 16 bit game I just find it sad that it performs so badly.

Tried in linux and windows on both machines (with 4gb ram each) and both did indeed experience the sticky keys.
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I have read it already, is this related?
This is interesting. So Google can claim that 160K mile of automated driving with the driver on-board and a single accident is blamed on the human.
If you have a plethora of thin controller classes which collectively handle most of the business logic, you still have a "fat controller" in aggregate, even if these controllers have limited, well-defined behavior and call out to each other.

I don't follow this at all.

Anyways, what I was getting at was, as
jarrettcoggin posted, Single Responsibility Principle. Couldn't think of the name before.

A problem I see in Rails code is that some people think you have only three places to put code: M, V, or C. Most people know enough to avoid stuffing code in the view, so they stuff code into either a controller or a model. Not quite "god classes", but demi-god classes at least.
Obligatory:

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This assumes that the customer has the option of choosing another service if they don't want to "opt-in" to such bullshit.

Sadly, in many places in the US, especially those places served by the ISPs mentioned, that is not the case. In the absence of reasonable choice (roughly the same speed of service) this becomes something that should be regulated.

Again, these kind of things would all go away if we had public last-mile fiber that ISPs could lease. Regulation is a poor substitute for true competition.
Lenovo Thinkpad T420s review - 80GB SSD 4x faster boot...
The onus is on individuals to add value to society. Don't sit around and wait for a job. Create your own job. There is not a shortage of jobs there is a shortage of entrepreneurs and go-getters.
Hey @gnocchi - that's actually a great idea. We're implementing your suggestion as we speak! Thanks for that.
Any set of figures needs adjusting before it can be usefully reported
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It's probably not going to be "now" or any time soon but, barring a global-scale disaster, it's hard to imagine how the future may not be jobless, given enough time. There are only so many levels "higher up the stack" humans can go before most of theirs skills are rendered redundant by the machine. Even if The Singularity doesn't happen and humans continue being exclusively in charge of the thinking, decision making, strategizing, etc., will there be enough demand for multi-millions or billions of such jobs? I doubt it.
Interesting point. In addition to population growth, you could say that this comes with progress in technology and policy, too.

Countries like China and India a good place to export our jobs, at a minimum, because they're stable enough. Even if we could trade with China in the late 1950's, the Great Leap Forward would've made such trade very unattractive. Why would I want to export my jobs to a country where the average citizen isn't even fed properly, assuming I could?

I posit that as countries such as North Korea and Libya stabilize, the global job growth rate will have to increase in order to main the job-to-employable-people ratio. A positive, but stable, job growth rate would not be enough.

I could be totally wrong about this in that there will always be some minimum political chaos in the world, but I'm an optimist :)
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Here's a different way to look at it.

We will soon be in a leisure economy and 'jobs' will be something completely different. It'll be about helping people waste time/kill time rather than producing something of value.

As we advance, we are moving to a scenario where there just isn't that much work to do. Leisure time is increasing more and more. More and more 'work' is becoming automated or being done by robots or algorithms. People just aren't needed in lots of places.

If wealth was distributed equitably or even a little inequitably, then it would mean that most people could just take time off and spend their money on entertainment. You could argue this is already a big trend with movies, video games, devices that aren't necessary, etc. taking up more and more time.

Since wealth is very inequitably distributed - it leads to lots of people being left in a leisure economy with very little money. These people 'need' jobs even though the economy itself doesn't have 'jobs'.

The net is that we have technology doing this ->

A small percentage are taking up most of the money and lots of people need jobs for money even though the economy doesn't really have jobs left for them. They will be forced to adapt to become entertainers/time waste-helpers rather than productive workers.

instead of this ->

People need to work less and wealth is reasonably distributed and people can do what they want without worrying about money.
However I should point out that JMG points to different root causes of "decline". His core thesis is that Peak Oil and net-energy / net-resource growth not meeting demand are the main determining factors in our shrinking economy. His hopeful response to this scenario is that although there will be far fewer jobs, there will be much more work.
You mean like when SCO sued IBM? If SCO didn't have a case they wouldn't have brought suit, right?
Thanks for all the work, even if you did make a math error, I appreciate your look over of the raw time to launch required for what you're talking about.
This is a classic economic fallacy. Invention of the plow improved efficiency and killed jobs, invention of the sewing machine improved efficiency and killed jobs, invention of the computer improved efficiency and killed jobs.

They killed jobs in the short run but they made everyone in society better off on the whole. Sure, some workers had to be retrained -- and some workers could never find a job again. However such is progress. We are better off now because the next generation doesn't have to all be farmers, some can do this or that. It is a good thing when we require less humans to do the same amount of work than before. It means we free up human capital for more valuable uses.

Because of the advancements in technology their children will have jobs that never could have existed if we still needed 90% of our population to farm just so that we would not starve. Now like 1% of our population is farmers. It's progress.

Read: 'The Choice' by Russell Roberts

Read: 'Economic Facts and Fallacies' by Thomas Sowell

Read: 'Economics in One Lesson' by Henry Hazlitt
I clicked, I wondered, I laughed. Well done!
I felt absolutely the same way, but once we started using redis (for other reasons) I finally took the plunge.

We've been quite happy with it so far. It has a bit of a learning curve, but once you buy into the way it does things suddenly a lot of code you thought you had to write disappears. I was just looking at our async code and really was surprised at how short it is.

So far I recommend it heartily.
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How many times in that 160K miles were accidents prevented by vigilant human override?
One partial solution would be to reduce the term of patents.
"Economics in One Lesson", chapter 7. Everyone should read that book

http://www.fee.org/pdf/books/Economics_in_one_lesson.pdf
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Interesting. There were two links posted before arstechnica, both dealing with the same issue, one from eff I think, and neither made it to the front page.

Vote Rigging or just brand brainwashing or maybe groupthink?
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That's the key. "I'm interested in men's soccer" and "I'm interested in men" are expressing two completely different meanings of the English word "interested."
Oh, man... if the Renton police thought they were getting mocked before, they are unprepared for what's coming.

Edit: And the department isn't even named in the videos! Hilarious!
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wish it was...just checked mine and it doesn't have the downgrade option :S
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There is no level playing field with foreign workers, because they and we are not free to travel where wages are best or prices are lowest. Capital is free in the modern economy, but labor is not. Exploiting the poverty of trapped foreign workers is not altruism, it's lowering costs to maximize profits, which is what businesses are supposed to do.

And trade deficits accumulate as public and private debt (or rather negative savings.) This is not theoretical, this is an identity.
Lawyer up. I wouldn't want to be going up against howstuffworks.com's trademarks with a domain like that...
>5) The Thiel hypothesis: Recent technological developments are intrinsically more boring than past technological developments;

Shouldn't that be the Cuban hypothesis ?

Cuban in 2006
http://blogmaverick.com/2006/07/12/the-internet-is-old-news-...

Cuban in 2007
http://blogmaverick.com/2007/08/27/the-internet-is-still-dea...

Cuban in 2008
http://blogmaverick.com/2008/02/10/the-internet-is-officiall...

Thiel said it in 2011 ( or late 2010) if I'm not mistaken.
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why now?

Because technology != technology.