skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a stupid measurement.

Firstly, what exactly is it measuring? For a start, it appears to include private debt.

Australian government debt is under 5% of GDP. As recently as 2008 it was debt free.

http://www.treasury.gov.au/documents/1496/PDF/01_Debt.pdf is a good link (from another comment here)
Or remember your Facebook/Twitter/etc username/password.
jesus. get a grip. its a stupid bot email. if thats the only way you can communicate with your users is through their hitting reply to an obvious no-reply email then you've got other problems.
There is actually rampant inflation. Global prices for food, energy, gold, and many other commodities are at or near all time highs. The reason this might not show up in some metrics is because we are also experiencing deflationary collapse in previously inflated sectors like housing.
Chrome, Linux: 14.0.835.35 dev. I don't see any scrollbar. Scrolling with the mouse does nothing.

Got it working in Firefox, or at least I think I did. This is kinda awful, and I do mean that with respect. I'd much rather mouse over the labels on the right and have the message pop up instantly. The delay and amount I have to scroll makes this awkward. I thought it was broken still until I gave up and the message popped in.
I liked the method the USENET group alt.hackers uses---it's moderated, but there's no moderator. Good luck in posting.
You're right; I don't care about IE. As a result, I need a lot less code.
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This is a fantastic starting point, though I think the model needs a lot of work. As it is an article looking at the dependencies of the internet - I would suggest that a model similar to the OSI be used, but in a deeper hierarchy than what is shown. Where the physical layer has all the hardware component dependencies listed out. But each other layer talks about the energy, config, political etc.. meta influences on them.

Take the OSI, and build a tree:

* Application

* Presentation

* Session

* Transport

* Network

* Data-Link

* Physical

--Transport Needs

--Mineral Resources

---Chemicals based on minerals

----Refined Chemicals/Compounds

-----Base Components

------Glass

------*Plastic

etc...

You wind up looking much deeper into the tree of dependency and can really start to map out this modern civilization. I would recommend THRIFTDB.com for this effort.

When you start mapping the higher layers, you start to roll things up into providers and how they are connected via physical and logical peering.

This, I feel, is a compelling and whole area of study which I think needs a lot of attention.

Just like with any system - you need to document what you have to really understand what it is you truly need.
Awh, I guess it's not a good hack then ',>/

If you have Chrome it should open in that.
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I'm by no means an expert, but I think you're confused as to how NNs work.

>Extrapolating from this fact, shouldn't the patterns (and hence the logic) within social networks hold meaning?

Most likely not. Neural nets are trained to map relations between inputs and outputs. The way that each neuron relates to the others is set, during training, so that when you present a given input to the network, you get something close to the expected output. In a social network, you basically just have a (somehow weighted) graph of people, but you lack the means to "train" it. If you somehow found a way to use the social graph as a pre-trained neural net, you'd most likely get the old "garbage in - garbage out".

Also, what kind of inputs and outputs would you expect to use?

I think you'd be better off thinking of ways to exploit the social graph just as a graph (if you could have access to it, that is).
SpaceX is growing, and they aren't the only ones. Space travel is going to happen.

I'd do anything to actually be a part of space travel. That's all I want in my life.

If you really mean it, then make it happen.
How is idea different from taking "short term debt for long term project", which he assails up front? The money is short term debt; the job, we hope, is long term--presuming best case scenario where the program operates as planned, and creates jobs that don't evaporate.

I don't know logics, but that doesn't seem like a natural good conclusion, when the positive negates the whole.
If deficits don't matter, then why isn't the government borrowing money and just paying for everything that its citizens desire? Why tax at all? Why not send >us< money?

Deficits matter. They just matter in ways more complicated than we are used to, if you have the borrowing power of a first world nation behind you. Or rather, they don't matter until they do. Ask Greece or Italy. Or check the rate of return on Greek treasury bills.

Growth is not the answer. Building your society on the concept of perpetual, unceasing, unpausing growth - that's the problem. The mentality of people who's only solution to financial incompetence, graft, greed and waste is 'throw some more furniture on the fire' - that's the problem.
This is probably it, I block all social widgets, addthis, share me, and advertising in my hosts file.
Interesting comparison! Let's take a look:

TAOCP Vol 1 Amazon rank: 364,370.
K&R C Amazon rank: 2307

Based on the above, and also that C programmers are a subset of everyone that knows how to program, it seems that the two ratios would be off by a few orders of magnitude. So I don't think this comparison is really correct.

I'll add to this my anecdotal experience that about half of the people I have worked with who call themselves C programmers have read K&R.
"Wasn't cheap money from the Fed supposed to do this a couple of years ago?"

It has done it. Food prices are at all time highs and causing global social instability. Gold is at an all time high. Energy and commodity prices are very high.

You are mistaking an inflationary depression for equilibrium.
Just as the headline gave me hope for the future, a giant Verizon pop-up with no close button ruined my day.
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I was looking for a screenshot on the blog post.

In any case, it'd also be cool to send this to a friend or list of friends so that they could help decide.
I have a morbid fascination with these guys, so I checked out Mission Abstract Data's web site. It's the usual patent troll BS, but there's one thing that really stuck out to me on their blog:

The radio stations we all enjoy today were built upon Thomas Jefferson’s belief that an invention, properly documented as unique and original, is private property.

It reminded me of one of my favorite quotes of all time:

If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

TLDR: Thomas Jefferson is a boss, patent trolls are sleazy.

Edit: Actually, the other post[0] on the blog is great too. It's a defense of one of their patents— not really worth reading except the comments, which has several people who had personal experience with prior art years before the patent was issued. These guys are such clowns.
[0] http://www.missionabstractdata.com/1/post/2011/03/mission-ab...
This is a very good point.

I'm this is true to some extent, but (as much as I'd love to wholeheartedly agree with you), the reason I don't consider this likely is this: the main reason I have this opinion of HN is because of one 3-month period in 2009, where I was off the grid (bought a car in Europe, drove around, drank lots of booze, smoked some mushrooms, &c). I assure you I didn't learn about computers during that time. When I left in June, I thought HN was full of insightful articles and comments; when I returned in September, I thought it was markedly worse. I think HN had its Eternal September then, and it's been steadily downhill since then.

(Um, yes, I was keeping track of replies, and logged back in to post this. Mea culpa.)
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Just too bad 2011 OS X is hurting even more than ever for a competent programmers editor.

Seriously? Mac OS X has the best of both worlds: vim and emacs come pre-installed and we have the best of the GUI editors like BBEdit, TextMate, Espresso, SubEthaEdit, Fraise, Vico, etc.

As for BBedit, it's pretty much a HTML editor with syntax highlighting for some other things.

BBEdit kicks ass. Yes, it has great HTML tools(http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/benefitsstandards.h...) which were updated and enhanced recently in version 10 (http://www.macworld.com/article/161180/2011/07/bbedit_10.htm...). But it can also handle the hairiest tasks you can throw at it. Being a hardcore text editor is great and all; where it has always shined is supporting Mac OS X technologies: AppleScript(http://macosxautomation.com/lion/applescript.html) (scriptable, recordable, and attachable), Automator(http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/automator.html) without sacrificing the Unix goodies--it's scriptable using Perl, Ruby, Python, etc. I don't know of another editor that has a document type (Unix worksheets http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/benefitsintegrate.h...) just for executing shell commands without leaving the editor itself.

I would put BBEdit's feature set against any editor on any platform.

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I'm interested, but before I continue I'd like to see screenshots or a demo so I can get a feel for the product.
Unfortunately the tablet is still running Android 2.3, rather than 3.x. At that point, I think I'd go with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7" (WiFi), because for $40 more you get a much nicer screen, faster processor, more RAM, etc. Of course the downside is you only have WiFi rather than one on network. I don't know if there is an Indian cell company offering, but you can get a Samsung Galaxy Tab 7" for ~$300 if you get it on contract, which means you can get it for the same cost, and get a much nicer tablet.
Initializr is a little more bare-bones, you can create your own package and customize it a little on their site already. It's based on the HTML5 Boilerplate but haven't got as much stuff in there. I use it all the time. http://www.initializr.com/
Reliance is Indian's Largest non-government company.
Which was instrumental to bring masses to Mobile Phone with its $15 mobile distribution in 2007.
If you read the article, they are planning to support Rails, Node.js, Python, etc. soon, so the name change reflects their goal to make it into something bigger. Also, I checked out the domain appfog.com and there is a huge PHP Fog button right there as one of their products, so it doesn't appear to be an attempt to cover anything up.
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based on the downvotes, I guess my logic must be highly faulty..
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2871127
This is only the starting point. If such a company were able to hit critical mass, think about the potential they could have feeding residents and helping healthcare monitering. Perhaps even disrupting the concept of needed super markets. The possibilities are endless beyond whats on the surface
Face palm.

Yes, let's have the business of government be exactly that of venture capital / angel investment.

The government is bankrupt because special interests and incompetence makes it an unprofitable business. I'm actually glad that the federal reserve is relatively immune and separate from the government. That way maybe we won't have a catastrophic failure when the government finally becomes illiquid.
My apologies if my post sounded disrespectful in any way though.

I wrote my post from the perspective of being a long time lurker on various tech forums who is only just beginning to feel I may be able to contribute on some topics (and only after many years of coding, reading & sponge-learning from sites like this one).

If it weren't for stories like this & people like yourself engaged in insightful discussion about them I personally would have missed a lot of "assumed knowledge" in the developer world, heck I wouldn't have heard of K&R (the shame!).

So I guess what I'm saying is: please don't leave, stay & help make us noobs less ignorant!

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>The problem with this is that older corporations will just create shell companies, funnel all their wealth through them, and then transfer it back through things like IP licensing and other immaterial fictional goods.

They would have to. How could an older company compete on such an uneven pitch?
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Yeah Galaxy Tab is the only competitor for the Reliance tab.! 3G is added advantage , Reliance has Powerful network of advertising, Retail and Telecommunication. So it would be a healthier market overall.
Reliance Tab is coming with 32 GB, good for Indian people who believe to stuff lot of songs on their devices.
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Slicehost says its a networking issue. Meanwhile, their Slicemanager, which is apparently dependent on a component in STL-A, is accessible but not showing any slices in STL-A.

I'm busy biting nails because this has taken all my sites offline. It's the middle of the night US time, so not the worst time in the world for extended downtime, but if their Rackspace migration stuff is FUBARed my ability to quickly move off of them is zero without either the DB backups or Slice clones... all of which are in STL-A. (A decision which I am now rethinking the wisdom of, to put it mildly.)
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I've only recently (last week!) started using split buffers with vi, and it is a major game changer for me! I've read about NERDTree before, so I'm moving it up on my TODO list.

If I may ask a newbie question, why do you use both tabs and split buffers? It seems like a little over kill, but perhaps it's because it allows you to easily switch between buffers w/o having to :b $file all the time? I haven't gone higher than 4 splits as the window sizes start getting too small.
To a certain extent debt is the problem. If the US and other Governments didn't have so much debt when the shit hit the fan in 2008 then they would have had more means to deal with the growth issues. US public debt is 100% debt to GDP, so there isn't a whole lot of room to move.
This. Doesn't anyone around here shop for groceries?
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It is that.

Fortunately that tedium is usually brief and infrequent. It's also not current.
I am surprised by the many naysayers.

Not because I think that his thoughts are necessarily the solution but because the lack of constructive criticism.

First of all I didn't read the post to say "this is to solution to end all solutions" but rather here is an idea could it work.

Second how is this a top down approach in any classical sense? His claims is that the companies who think they can create jobs with more money, exist out there and he want the find a mechanism to find them instead of simply distributing at large across the system and see what happens.

Third the US is probably the best country in the world to be an entrepreneur and business. There is very little in the way for anyone to find a need and then go out and build a business around it and there is a huge market for that. If your claim is that it can only be solved by making that part easier then the entire premise of capitalism seems flawed (I don't believe it is and I am not saying you are claiming that either)

The problem fundamentally is that you can only adjust your metrics so far before they become meaningless.

The first step to get the US out of their debt is to raise taxes. That won't make the startup environment better but it will start showing that the US as a country are ready to pay their bills instead of speculating their way out of it.

And before you start calling me a socialist and other nasty things let me just pre-empt this by the following.

I live in Denmark, a country with a progressive tax system +55% tax for the highest incomes and a sales tax of 25%. A car here cost 3 times the amount of a car in the US all because of taxes.

I am a member of the only liberal (in the european sense) political party and is fighting to get lower taxes.

So I am not saying raise taxes lightly. I am simply saying that the US have reached a point where the low tax is working against them not for them.

All systems have thresholds especially economic ones. To keep wanting more of the same ends up creating a self sustaining effect after you reach a certain point. The US have reached that now.
On reflection, I'll buy that as well.
I really hope this isn't the way most people use R. Wouldn't it be better to call out to a python script that pulls in the emails and spits out a CSV, and then load that into R?
Buh, here I thought they fixed the "2 more tweets, click to reload" to automatically reload.

We don't need more distractions.
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Actually, I think would have probably set fire to their homes, flushing them out and into the range of archers. Then sent his chariots in to route those still standing. I know it's what I want to do.
One question to the writer, if you happen to be reading this: Why "AirTouch Adjustable sit/stand desk and non-moving side desk – $1738 from Steelcase" instead of Series 7 desks, which I think get mentioned elsewhere on your blog or Joel on Software?

And do those desks have memory, so you can move it from one position (seating) to another (standing) consistently?
> if you can borrow money at a negative rate you should borrow as much as you can

True, but the treasury can't borrow at a negative rate. Actual yields are positive [1].

So called "real" yield is the actual yield minus a forward inflation component as implied by the TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protected Securities) curve. All this means is that the return you earn on owning the bond is _likely_ to be less than what inflation is projected to be. And from the Govt perspective, they will still be paying back more than they borrowed (yields are positive) but that the payback is likely to be devalued to a "real" value less than today's value.

http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/in...
1) used to be true.
2) proper taxation and trimming the fat.
It would help a bit if you wrote on the README that it's a PHP ORM.

I mean, it's not that it takes long to figure it out, but hey.
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I'm not sure the "possibilities are endless". At best they are lowering transaction costs between ppl selling food and ppl buying food. Feels like there are bigger problems out there.
I suspect most standers 1) ease into it and 2) get adjustable desks precisely to avoid standing literally all day.
I would be curious to know what people think about this. Is the Amazon Cloud Reader an indication that they have been pushed out of the App Store, and found HTML5 to be a more powerful market position for themselves?

Is this where the battle lines are being drawn between Apple and Google in the war over developer attention?
I agree with the OP that all his examples were a poor use of no-reply addresses. My point is that they do serve a purpose sometimes - my example being notifications, reminders, and other inherently one-way messages.

If it is a message I am not expecting nor am I immediately aware of why it is being sent, then I think the reply-to address should be a real address capable of handing my response.
That's the thing, in outsourcing you tend to get the people who could only get hired at a bodyshop.
I wish there were an adjustable desk with a glass top; I think the geekdesk kits might work with the ikea glass tops, but I'm not sure.
Yeah... the author pretty much lost all credibility after that sentence for me. If C was a Formula 1 race car (fast, dangerous, designed by the most brilliant minds in the industry), PHP would be a Ford Pinto (cheap, convenient, ugly, and very likely to blow up on you out of nowhere).
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I like the way Engadget just shows the original press release, this is an act that every news service should follow.
The phrase is "Pushing on a string".

Give anyone some money and they'll save it, not spend it. They'll save it because next week milk and eggs will be more expensive, while houses and electronics will be less expensive. on craigslist. nobody is buying new stuff when the guy down the street is selling his PS3 to make rent.

Essentials are increasing in price. Luxuries are decreasing.

What company is going to create jobs in this environment? And what if you did create jobs making more of X: now X is cheaper. Deflation.

We need inflation. And that means pissing off the Chinese.

We need to accurately price assets. And that means letting some banks fail.
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There are probably some psychological benefits to doing something, even if it's only building trails in the forest or things like Timberline Lodge or various endeavors like that. Probably best to study it though, rather than simply conjecture.
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The problem with a lot of armchair economists is that they get stuff wrong. I left this comment on Cuban's site:

"Plus our federal government loves to hire people."

This isn't true. As <a href="http://www.data360.org/dsg.aspx?Data_Set_Group_Id=228>th... data set shows</a> (and it's similar to data I've seen in civics textbook, the number of non-Census federal employees has stayed more or less constant for decades.

If you want to know the biggest portion of future federal debt, look for Medicare entitlement spending.

Back to HN: the other problem is that merely "hiring employees" isn't the same as productively using employees. He's deploying a variation on the broken windows fallacy.