skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're mincing words and still getting the definition of legal tender wrong. Currently purchased goods and services aren't the same thing as debts.

You need a subsection of a the correct law to get the pertinent definition. Here is a cite from the Treasury Department of the United states Explaining the pertinent section of law:

From http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/Currency/Pages/...

Legal Tender Status

I thought that United States currency was legal tender for all debts. Some businesses or governmental agencies say that they will only accept checks, money orders or credit cards as payment, and others will only accept currency notes in denominations of $20 or smaller. Isn't this illegal?
The pertinent portion of law that applies to your question is the Coinage Act of 1965, specifically Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, entitled "Legal tender," which states: "United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."

This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy.
I had a similar idea. I called it a launchaton (contrast with hackaton) but thought of it more like a virtual event (I'm not in Sillicon Valley) but never got to really execute it.
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Louis Gray (G+ evangelist, hired by Google) said in a different site[1] the following:

To clarify, Google Reader remains a stand-alone product. What is being announced is threefold: 1) Addition of sharing to Google+. 2) A new modern design. 3) Retiring of the dedicated sharing model.

This statement ( It will be impossible to use Google Reader as a standalone product) is incorrect. You can continue reading your feeds in Reader independent of Google+.

So it seems we (non-G+ users) won't be affected.

[1]: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/101011-6-google-reader-...
sharing is already opt in on Google Reader. So you would have to click "share" and then (most likely) select a circle, there will probably be a default circle but it won't just start spamming G+ whenever you read an article
opens up refridgerator

Yup, that little light still comes on. And yup, there's still food in there.

It might be a bullshit system, but it is functional.
Don't be so surprised - it seems that haughty dismissal of all things non-technical is a trademark of geeky communities. See: reddit, slashdot, etc.
I am not trying to say if it would be right, wrong or would fix things, because I don't know. But usually though people who advocate it are into conspiratorial stuff. Maybe more sane people advocate it as well, it is just how I remember hearing it more from.
This is great, I have a couple of projects that would need a push. I get bored when things evolve into something that requires knowledge areas that 1)I do not master and 2) have no proper/comprehensive docs I can resource to.

Hope the idea catches on, would sure love to see something like this in europe.
Awwwwwww ... I thought you meant CP/M :-( I was thinking "I bet someone's ported a Z80 emulator ..."
The point is not to make money. The point is not to get a PhD. The point isn't even to get a degree.

The point, if you want a job, is to be competitive in a cutting edge field.

I'll start worrying about what happens when everyone has a Master's Degree when 20% of the population has a Master's Degree.
I can host one of these in LA the same weekend if people are interested. Email's in profile.
That's really good advice Michael, thanks a lot :)
We actually have a prototype, but maybe we should focus a little bit more on that and start with branding later on the process.

Do you, being involved in branding, have any advise (book recommendations, blogs, etc).

Thanks a lot for your input!
Wowza.
http://www.google.com/#q=inurl:eyewonder/interim.html
>Is there a well known relationship between government debt and private debt?

Yes.

"[...T]he difference between the government budget deficit and the trade deficit must equal the difference between private saving and investment[...]"

http://internationalecon.com/Finance/Fch5/F5-9.php

Holding the trade deficit constant and lowering government debt implies a rise in private debt.
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The right wing can't argue for anything, it doesn't exist. The various people that compose the right (and left, and center) wing say specific things which are often at odds with each other. The organizations and people are generally talking their book rather than preaching a consistent ideology.

If you ask the owner of a cab company about Wall St bailouts they are probably against it because "it's not a free market" whereas if you ask them about taxi cab medallions they'll tell you it's about consumer protection and is an appropriate amount of regulation necessary similar to basic health codes for restaurants.

People talk their book, end of story. In general, welfare recipients want more welfare, governments want more government, and corporations want more corporations. It's just the evolutionary nature of organizations that propagate themselves. Organizations that are not self-propagating tend to die out once their usefulness has passed. (eg. Why do we still have a March of Dimes?)
Hello julian,

the difference between comments and news is that a thread (a collection of comments for a given news) is an hash made of sub-hashes, the hash is ID -> comment_hash. The comment hash just contains the different fields.

When there are this two levels, storing the first level as a Redis hash, and the second as JSON leads to very good memory usage performances, it is internally stored as a linear array. We can do that because we know most news will have just a few tens of comments. If there are more, the hash will turn into a real hash table transparently, more space, but worth it for the rare cases when this is needed.

The news instead is just a collection of fields. There is no outer object that is reasonably sized, like "all the news obeject" (it is too big), so there is no gain in using this approach.

What is good about storing sub-objects of hashes as JSON objects is that Redis unstable just got JSON support in Lua scripts, so it will also be able to manipulate this objects sending Redis small Lua scripts.

I hope this clarifies the issue.
It's hard enough to figure out how much money a product will make when you're building, but you want companies to come out with SEC-acceptable projections for how much they would have made on projects they chose not to build?

It's very hard to figure out how much individual feature elements in a huge product or service earn or lose. It's similarly hard to put numbers on the damage to brand done by a privacy violation or breach of trust costs a company. Attempting to guide company ethics via financial metrics just leads to people finding loopholes in the math.
Improving UI and UX for email is difficult because it's used in such a wide variety of ways by different people (or the same people at different times).

Sometimes it's social, and replies and photos need a lot of space.

Sometimes its a to-do list, where marking and seeing snippets are high priorities.

Sometimes its a filter for everything incoming, where quick scanning and sorting are high priorities.

Trying to do all of these effectively within the the same UI is not possible, so it looks like Google is pushing for the social path as the one it wants to target
Redis seems like a poor choice if you want the comments and stories to stick around for a while. It's designed to be an in-memory database...
False. The closest he came was from 1999-2000 where he only increased the debt by $23B.

DATE VALUE

1990-09-30 3206.3
1991-09-30 3598.2
1992-09-30 4001.8
1993-09-30 4351.0
1994-09-30 4643.3
1995-09-30 4920.6
1996-09-30 5181.5
1997-09-30 5369.2
1998-09-30 5478.2
1999-09-30 5605.5
2000-09-30 5628.7
2001-09-30 5769.9
2002-09-30 6198.4

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/FYGFD.txt
We do have a prototype, not the final product but it may be a good think to start thinking about the brand.
Careful. That makes you liable for copyright violations. Better to use the user's computer.
True, but if you had zero debt it might well be appropriate to issue some. for example, suppose you want to build a vast new infrastructure project; it may make more sense to borrow to do so if the cost of capital is lower than the opportunity cost of waiting for the money to accumulate.
>Patricia Churchland's writings on this topic very persuasive to me.

Any particularly accessible works of hers you would recommend?
if what you are thinking about is to use blowfish or other algorithm with a slow key scheduling step, what about if we just reiterate N times SHA1? Should be exactly as secure, like in:

SHA1(SHA1(SHA1(0|pass)|1)|2) and so forth.

This way there is no requirement for an additional library.
I'm in Eugene, I would love to see one of these in Portland.
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not sure if trolling.
Paying off a reporter is very different then paying for good PR. Just read what pg has to say: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Don't be so nieve as to think all this good press just happens, well all still live by C.R.E.A.M. And it's not a bad thing, I love DB, but you can bet they did, indeed, pay good money for this. Did they pay the reporter? no. Did they pay for all this press? yes.
This is Web 2.0, profits are uncool :)
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They were a bit lacking in an obvious right person to email[1], but I did send a quick "hey there's a problem" note. I almost didn't when I saw that their main "contact us" page was a "opt in for us to email you" form, but then I found some actual email addresses rather further down.

[1]: http://www.eyewonder.com/contact.php
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It's hard to understand how you could be surprised that 97% of Americans make less than $140,000.
What a lot of peakist don't understand is that the most important attribute of hydrocarbons is energy density not energy efficiency. If we expend more energy extracting hydrocarbons for jet fuel for instance than we get from burning it that's fine as long as 1) the extra energy we expends comes from an abundant and cheap source like future PV solar and 2) those hydrocarbons are used in an economically useful fashion like air travel. Peakists seem to fall prey to the belief that the earth is a closed system, instead of an open system powered by the sun.
Thanks for the feedback. We'll be sure to get more info regarding the venue and location soon.

If you're in Chicago, come on over!
Haven't heard about Warren Mossler before, but yeah, he does seem pretty important figure in MMT circles.

But this so called refutation seems to be totally missing the point. No wonder - it's coming from Austrian. This is like asking Aristotelian about General Relativity. They're Universe apart.
giving users a dislike option encourages crowdsourced censorship - people don't just downvote content they don't like, they downvote content they disagree with. look at reddit for a prime example of how allowing everybody to downvote encourages groupthink. additionally, a publicly available dislike button discourages content creation: people who might otherwise post original content start to get nervous about how it will be received if there is a capacity to express dislike.

a button to flag for review is one thing, but hiding content purely based on public user input is generally not so great. imho, HN has a great system of only allowing high-karma accounts to access the power of the downvote. it's a similar idea to selecting community moderators to go over any content flagged for review, but just a little more automated.
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Redis is perfectly fine for this application, both from the point of view of data persistence since AOF is very durable, and from the point of view of space needed. This application is designed to hold a lot of news and comments even using little memory.
Considering the creator of lamernews is also one of the creators of redis, he probably knows what hes doing.
What's the difference between a "treasury IOU" and a treasury bond?
It should be called Launch Weekend, and if it was in San Francisco I'd be there.
Report From Iron Mountain is similar:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/The_Report_fr...

Anyway money is just a tool to keep the populus occupied. And since without problems or debt there would be no need for governments and banksters, they shall exist to create problems(government) and debt(money) and therefore assure they survival.
I bet you he made this just to get more referral storage from Dropbox.
This is suited not for entrepreneurs, but wealthy retirees from overseas and also parents of rich overseas students who want to be with their children. This is especially if they can show proof of pension income and will not take up work in the U.S..

However, the US tax laws aren't particularly friendly to the super rich and wealthy. Once you are deemed resident (I read this from phodgen's blog) then you have to pay tax on all your income.
This is only for income reported on a W2, i.e. employees. So the "top 1%" is the top 1% of individuals paid by a company, not the actual owners themselves (although I suppose they could be the same). The top 1% include a ton of business owners.
It's not buy a home, it's spend half a mill. That gets about 4 homes 'round these parts.
It's the same kind of object like Blueprint, Goldilocks, Bootstrap, Columnal, 1140, Gridless, Skeleton and Grid.
According to the Congressional Budget Office there was a decrease in 2000/2001. According to the NPR story and the original graph you linked to there was a decrease at this time.

http://www.cbo.gov/budget/data/historical.pdf

According to the PDF there was a decrease in public debt for a number of years during the Clinton administration.

NOTE: I think the chart you linked to includes private debt and isn't just federal debt.
Well, "hacked" is now an overused word.
Doesn't this Visa mandate that the person cannot work on this visa and it's just for stay?!
I swear there is a pun in here somewhere, eyewonder if any-one else felt this way?

Seeing things like this affect such big sites always scares me, good find.
Australia faced the same issue over the period 2006-2009 when the national debt became a surplus. The bond market didn't implode as this article would predict. Rather the govt simply continued to issued bonds and bought other assets to keep the market alive.

The bond market actually did very well - in 1998 there was approx $167BB of govt debt issued while in 2008 there was $480BB.

http://www.brr.com.au/event/43083/recent-developments-in-the... for a boring speech about it by the RBA governor
Why pay off all the debt? What are we saving our credit for? Of course the burden can rise so high that it is prohibitive to growth, but in general credit exists to be used.
lol - sorry!
does that mean less of these in source?

/ hide /
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Gary V. hit the nail on the head.
Interesting: MySpace seems to have a "fixed" version of the code (but the date indicates that it isn't a recent fix):

http://www.myspace.com/eyewonder/interim.html

<script language="JavaScript">
// NEW CODE 09-14-05
var query = window.location.search;
var adUrl = query.substring(5, query.length);
var clickthru;
var failclickthru;
if (/^http:\/\/([-a-z0-9]+\.)*eyewonder\.com\//i.test(adUrl) && adUrl.indexOf('"') == -1) {
document.write('<s'+'cript language="JavaScript" src="');
document.write(adUrl+'"></s'+'cript>');
}
</script>
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I just sent an email to sitesupport@, websites@ (both from whois), abuse@, noc@, webmaster@, security@ (from RFC2142).

Generally you should attempt to receive a response before posting vulnerabilities though...
They "hacked themselves"... Really?
I see there is a Rails gem for Foundation:
https://github.com/zurb/foundation-rails

But please, tell me why I should use this rather than Skeleton (http://getskeleton.com/) or Twitter's Bootstrap (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/)?
Ron Paul wants to cut $1 trillion in the first year, and end the wars. That would go a long way to paying off the debt. Plus he was against increasing the debt limit, so he's the only one who truly realizes the debt problem, and that the country might implode if they keep spending as they do, with no cuts whatsoever.
> Hmm... looks like you're using a browser that doesn't support CSS animations. You should go get one in order to use this cool stuff.

Yes it does.

http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/presto23/css/transitions/
Well that is an improvement!
As I've already mentioned to antirez, the only suitable mascot is this - http://www.google.com/search?q=llama&hl=en&tbm=isch&...
I may not gain your respect, but how can you speak for my coworkers and employees?

Also, how is the fact that I'm not Steve Jobs relevant? Do you feel that I need to be taken down a notch? It's ok if you do. I'm asking because your reply is terse, so I'm not sure how to take it.
Lol! For the first time ever I ran across a reasonably sized perl based project where I actually understood and could read the flow of things and I've written plenty of perl many ages ago. (even that god awful object oriented style perl they made me use at bellatlantic for "Watson" )

Never had any issues playing around with or reading others emacs lisp macros though. After the initial within within brain fuck part is over at least.
Actually supporting and promoting Android on the network seems to go a long way. AT&T has been very slow to adopt Android before or promote it because they wanted to make Apple happy, but now that Apple has gone to other carriers, they seem to want to balance it out as much as possible.
Also - the Head-First HTML5 book from O'Reilly was released a couple of days ago.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920010906.do
Without being confident enough to have voiced it earlier, I thought similar thoughts. Clojure appears to depart from something that characterizes both traditional Lisp and Unix systems – having one universal interface, with a big emphasis on one. Though by the definitions he outline, that would perhaps be easy more than simple.
> In spite of the recession, US debt is still considered the safest asset in the world.

Precious metals are much safer than US debt.

Most tangible things (metals, real estate, income producing businesses) are safer than currencies that can be created out of thin air.
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He's not talking about people doing programming work for low pay. He's talking about talentless people--of which there are many. I mean--people who would starve to death or become criminals if it wasn't for the social safety net.

And the solution is genetic engineering, an infant technology.
By hack, they mean that two teens who know how to use Facebook, Twitter, and other social media, help musicians use Facebook, Twitter, and other social media.
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Past experience dealing with ad networks about this issue has led me to believe that they really don't care.

Multiple networks, multiple framebusting scripts they want you to host, all with blatant security holes that they don't want to fix after you (as a client) point them out.

Or maybe it's that the people in the organization who might care are completely insulated from the channels available to people who are dealing with the network as a client. Hard to say.
What do you do when you get more data than fits into ram?

I've been working on a 'for fun' application with Redis, and had been counting on some sort of on disk memory.

(Because storing everything in ram is comparatively expensive, I had figured I could use Diskstore or VM with a small server to start).

Now I'm considering porting over to a mongodb or sql backend because the disk based storage options won't be supported in Redis in the future.

What should I do? Simply Use Redis as a cache? Buy RAM?
Doesn't that seem to limit its utility and complicate things?
Yes, the economy was soaring thanks to the technology and housing boom.

You can pretend that our economy revolves around who's president and what political party system they belong to but no matter how hard you pretend it still isn't true.
Your site lamernews.com is showing godaddy adverts.
Your confusion is based on the fact that there's no such thing as a "Treasury IOU." It's a made-up prejudicial term to trivialize the Treasury bonds held by Social Security, used by people who argue that SS is insolvent.

If the US government selectively defaulted on the Treasury bonds held by Social Security, would there be repercussions on the bond market? I don't know. It depends on whether you would continue to loan money to someone who was stealing from their children's piggy bank to pay off their bills. Maybe, if every other option for storing money was worse. What it would absolutely be was a theft of funds disproportionally levied from low income people to give as a gift to all other bondholders.
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Who said it was good? An honest examination of the current state of reality is not a value judgement.
This makes me wonder; how is it appropriate to handle vulnerabilities such as these?

A few months ago, I decided (as an experiment to see how common XSS actually is) to click on random HN links and type "<asdf '\"" into any search bars and look for weird rendering on the page or weird behaviour in the page source. After half an hour, I had five or so exploitable XSS vulnerabilities, two of the more prominent ones being CNN and Newegg. I sent emails to their security-related issue addresses, but they never responded or fixed the issue.

After sending them a couple more emails, I just gave up. But this article makes me wonder, could I have handled the situation better? The thought of releasing a benign-but-scary exploit crossed my mind, b
ut I'm uncertain...
Coffee prices in the US are odd. 'round here (Southern European country) we pay less than a dollar for a coffee. Well, except in Starbucks, but then again, that's my point.
It's been attempted, many many times. We ended up with some really good text adventure parsers, but none that developed into productivity tools. If you do want to pursue this line of thought, do some searching on Magnetic Scrolls' approach to command parsing, I think a lot of that eventually got open-sourced.
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buy a home....get stuck with "The Heart Taxation Act" if you haven't heard of it google it....this is whats going to drive a lot of expats away from the USA in 2014.