skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is UI madness, things hides, moves and pop around with no obvious relation with my input.

The main news timeline is promising though, but greatly needs visual codes for differentiating and qualifying content.

It's great to focus on the content while not putting technology asides, but your publishing tool is also of strategical importance. It's great to have rethought the general way of showing information, but this is, to me, clearly half baked.

Comparing that with your submission title (for whatever it means, it evokes technology), makes me think you have a problem here.
UK taxes are low but that is because public infrastructure and healthcare there are comparatively cheap and shoddy. It is not really a European country in that sense.
I did not make that assertion, what I said is that the advocates of government spending only shift the burden of decision making and don't really propose anything at all. Or in other words, the claim "government spending can fix the economy" is trivially true but useless.

The link about public goods doesn't convince me that government spending on public goods is always the best choice, see example of too many roads.

As for printing money, isn't it kind of equivalent to taking on debt?
Ask HN: How would you store a number with a 10^6 digits and all numbers 
Very large numbers have a few applications, the largest prime numbers in the world have millions of digits [1].
On stackoverflow, one solution for storing a million phone numbers is to use a trie. [2][3]
Another way would be to use alphabets as a method of encoding the numbers. For example if all the unicode characters were used in a string we could have 110,000^(String length) [4]
Here Pi is displayed to a million digits [5]. As a unicode .txt this is 2MB. If I was to store every combination of number from 0 to this number it could prove to be impossible. How would you suggest storing such large numbers?

[1] http://primes.utm.edu/largest.html
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5262465/storing-1-million-phone-numbers
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode
[5] http://www.piday.org/million.php
So, one thing that always gets brought up is "yeah, but what about those reserves?"

WMF have in the past said that they keep about six months of cash in reserve. And have for a few years now. Orlowski and some of the troll brigade get very antsy about this. I think it is... sound financial planning.

I don't know about you, but having a cash reserve is kind of a useful selling point if you are trying to hire programmers and engineers. "We're not suddenly going to go bankrupt overnight and leave you in the lurch" is something you actually need to be able to tell prospective employees if they've got families and mortgages and so on.

As a Wikipedia admin and volunteer, I'm actually mostly okay with how the Foundation operates. Some of the local chapters are probably a bit too bloated but the Foundation itself, I'm broadly okay with.
Please resolve this fast: I got a 404 when clicking on "Buy now".

Does the doomsday 47 Euros version 11 of IntelliJ IDEA qualifies for the free upgrade to version 12?

If it does please resolve this fast or give us 24 hours from the time the issue is fixed ; )
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I have been working on a product idea and have something going on. I know product I have built has a future - it has some paying and non-paying customers. It is live and doing well. But like typical SaaS based service, it does not have enough users at this moment for me to be self sustainable. I am not sure if any one would interested to fund the venture in US - but am trying through variety of avenues.I have failed on one angle. That is- to keep fire in house burning through my journey, I have been through and have wiped out my savings now. The fire in my belly is much more than before and have an attitude to not give up till I get it right. I can make it happen - I have made it happen before. Dont trust history - test my current creds.

However the need of the hour is to find some one who can leverage my expertise (technical hands on) and help me pay my bills. Another limitation is that, I cannot be quite open about my personal situation because my customers would suffer and may not trust my credibility.

I am very passionate about my work and clients and past experiences can vouch for my creds. I have established creds and experience in building next gen - SaaS based multi-tenant services on several different cloud (IAAS) providers.Is there any one who can help me in my journey to be a successful individual? Please feel free to reach out on my gmail : sid4it@gmail.com. I am based in Houston, Texas.

Expert in popular web frameworks.
Working in a folder called dev feels wrong to me. It's like having a folder called 'bin' that is a trash bin.
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Your premise is based on an improper definition of "cargo cult."

> By “cargo-culting”, I was generally referring to doing something without properly knowing why it might be good or bad.

That is not what cargo culting is.

Cargo culting is creating an expectation ("If A, then B") based on inaccurate or incomplete observations.

You then go on to list examples, of which two are cargo cult. The database indexes one is just stupid.

You're trying to redefine cargo cult to make yourself seem less wrong, and in the end you go back to navel-gazing.
This would be more impressive if you didn't know that the original 'frozen pan' rigs were jerry-built from film SLRs.
These are so bad for a software project that they might even work for a codename. And this coming from a Finn.
There is no other 24 hours. It's the end of the world!
I get the same in IE 8.
Well, I won't deny that some websites are funded by advertising (Google comes to mind). On the other hand, there are a large number of websites that are ad-free, ranging from small personal blogs (which have low hosting fees; I know people who pay a tiny amount for EC2 to host their blog) to websites with millions of pageviews per day (e.g. Wikipedia). We had a world wide web before we had web advertising; somehow, people were able to pay for things back then.

Really though, my word choice was poor. What I should have said is that I doubt the necessity of advertising to fund the web, citing the examples above.

Also, sorry if I am attacking your company. It's nothing personal.
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Cheers guys, loved reading your debate. Thank you both for contributing!
It's legit, it's been around for ages and it's DRM free.

If I have to choose between Steam and GOG, and it is available on the both[1] I go with the latter and have not been disappointed.

[1] Generally yes in my case because I'm a crotchety old man who plays video games from before the dawn of time.
I agree, very legit. The site is addictive, as I see great games from my past and just have to pick them up for only a few dollars. I figure I'll have time to play them in the future. Recently, they have also been creating Mac compatible apps for some of the games, so you don't need to mess with Boxer or boot into windows.
I entirely concur. abook is great, but I've always wanted something that worked a bit more like this project.

Great work!
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Is it randomly picking a country it "thinks" I'm from? I opened seven products in different tabs and it's defaulting to US, Netherlands, Belgium, Russian Federation, US, US, and China.
Very similar for me. I was doing a job I could easily have got £40k for, for £13.5k (I incredibly stupidly applied labelling myself as 'junior' because I only had 4 years experience back then). I never got a single pay rise, not even for inflation. Eventually I wised up and moved on. Up until I went freelance it was the only way I ever got an increase.
Feels like only yesterday they were going strong.
I don't understand the difference between "following" and "moving towards".
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What's will all these _Dooms Day_ sale. I wonder whether it's really clever?
Yes I can see you mean a time and day when everyone will gigabit connections and what not.

But then you're forgetting: poverty hasn't quite abandoned us yet, has it?

Even with all of the modern technology and what not -- people are still dying of hunger.

We first need to start with these base human needs.

Elevate the standard of living of the people on the other side of digital (and economic) divide, and bring them up to standard of an average first-world-country person.
Yeah but I'm not going to sign up so I can be told about jobs in the US when I'm in the UK.
Following a default or possibly just a Euro exit: pre-Euro rates in the late 90ies were 10-25%!

http://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/cb/articles/?id=2264
"augmented reality to virtually show DIY interior design and move around furnitures in your room"

A major pain point for me and i m sure many others. If you can build this, i will pay.
I've been doing a broad job search for the last month, and my general impression is that the numbers are too low on those sites (in NYC, with 7-8 years of experience). It basically meant that I was in for a pleasant surprise!

I don't actually know what normal raises look like since I was in a startup and the raises tended to be huge followed by nothing for a while.
I have seen this first hand on both sides of the pond. It's more ridiculous than the article suggests.
I think that has something to do with it being the end of the world and all.
Sift Science, blocking high risk users before they do damage to your site
right click, inspect element, delete
Does it sync with Google contacts/my phone?
Any news when the shop will be back up?
True, but there are other kinds of images--paintings, sketches, drawings on a cave wall. We've been putting things on walls for a long time.
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Vim. That is all.
or perhaps because as the commenter posted on PetaPixel, it didn't work...
Thank you for the advice! I'm confident about my coding skills and have done few interesting freesoftwares that people have appreciated, but not really like those you have mentioned, the thing is I don't feel people whom I work with are up to the mark and that make me feel low and all people target me and wait to bring me down at times....this makes me feel sick!

I'm capable of being all those which you have said, but still not sure which :(
Unless their aim was to just create hype and not actually do much sale, it's extremely badly planned execution.

Their site (shopping cart actually) has been down for nearly 4 hrs now.
It's quite spot on for the past few years wherein we saw the stratospheric growth of software salaries. Remember, 2002 was right after the dot com bust and 2012 is at the peak of "angel" investing. Supply/demand can really change things.
The 47 Euros version of IntelliJ IDEA is v.12
Please do share the results (number of sales up or down, revenue up or down if you can).
Far from it was it our intention and we're actively working on solving. Please be patient.
When will the site be up?
I think the UI needs a lot of work. When I think of the future of news, I think of something like Mashable's latest UI (which I personally think is quite beautiful).

One comment - when I look at the top bar (side note: the automatic slide is jarring and unnatural IMO), I see titles like "Low Interest Rates". That makes me think of spam/advertisements.

Another one: "The Next Crisis"? Again, makes me think of spam.

I honestly just don't know what I'm looking at on this site. However, I think with some work, this could be interesting.
I find this kind of issue with conferences generally, in many subject areas.

I find that I can get more detailed and expansive information from a book for a vastly smaller price compared with attending a conference on the subject.

Also, many papers are published after a conference. So, I just save the air fare and hotel costs and buy the book!

I don't get it. Perhaps the main point of conferences is the coffee breaks, rather than a keynote address.
How do I know I can trust you and that wiki page? :) Got the pack. Good thing I took off the next 10 days. If anyone is looking for me, I'll be in the abyss.
Thx. Believe it or not that was intentional, but reflecting back perhaps not the best decision.
If you are curious about the Icelandic economy, the lessons learned, fact and fiction, you should follow the blog "Icelandic Economics" by Olafur Margeirsson. He writes interesting, fact-based posts on the Iceland Economy, like this one on the recovery: http://icelandicecon.blogspot.no/2012/07/is-iceland-ok-now-e...

I have no personal involvment in the blog or they author, am just a follower.
I donated as well (and got a bunch of others to do so, without any guilt tripping), but I don't really care what the operating costs are.

I (personally) price goods and services by the value they offer me, and not the cost of providing said goods and services.
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If black hats are not doing it for social good, they deserve to be vilified as well.
Here, the NPE's are only doing it for massive monetary gain to the detriment of innocents.

If the banks found a loophole in mortgage regulations that allowed them to take the houses of people who were paying, should we admire them for finding a bug, or vilify them for taking people's houses?

You seem (in this post and another) to think we should be doing the former. I believe it is the latter, or at worst, both.

The idea that we should admire NPE's in some fashion because they are doing Congress's job (which they aren't, btw), rather than vilify them, is, well, crazy.
I can assure you that this was not to "just create hype" and that the team is working to get up and running as quickly as possible.
The bar of different categories is really confusing but I appreciate the idea behind this.
It'll be interesting to compare this situation with what people thought colour film did to movies compared to monochrome. I can imagine people moaning eloquently about the loss of poetry in film, about how its not about the realism offered by colour, etc. ... though I do not know whether that happened. The state of 3D technology might be comparable to the realism of eastman colour.
Avid PyCharm user and JetBrains supporter here.

Before trying PyCharm and switching basically immediately I was using heavily plugged Vim and Tmux setup.

The main problem I had with the old setup was not Python, actually it was JavaSript editing, since Vim syntax highlighting just breaks down on modern JS.

After I tried out PyCharm I was an instant convert, JS and HTML editors are awersome, Vim integration is awesome and Django and VCS integrations are awesome.

PyCharm made coding fun again for me, its that good.
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I love cached_property, and I don't see what makes it unpythonic. I don't consider it magic, it's just a small addition to the built-in property descriptor, and it makes the often repeated code easier to read. I'm sure it will be a common idiom very soon.
Shareholders are worried this will leave them with stock that has no value.

There are several discussions about it going on over at: http://savethq.com/
Obama Reveals National Strategy for Information Sharing
The opening statement is a crock of bull. Creditors were not told to take a hike. The creditors became the owners of the banks erected to maintain the banking system. I'm sure they took a haircut of some sort and the capital controls forced them to maintain their assets in Iceland, but to the population at large it does not feel like the banks lost at all. They have been profitable EVERY QUARTER since then. The new banks got a firesale deal on the paper assets and have been making out like gangbusters.

I hate how the Icelandic Economic Wonder is held up as a model for others. Monetary policy is crap. The Fed (or our anemic facsimile thereof) blindly believes in the disproven assumption that interest rates control inflation (at least for microeconomies).

Meanwhile wages are stagnating, unemployment is high, social programs are under siege EVEN with the most left leaning government we have seen EVER in the history of Iceland. Mortgages are adjusted with the CPI but wages are not. I for the life of me can't see why the higher price of tomatoes or ketchup should raise my debt with the bank.

I have much more to say on the issue but need to maintain my anger below flashpoint so I can do some work. Christmas is coming.
i did take a look at it, but they look quite different... has he customized flatstrap? or is it some out of the box theme? basically, where did 2.css come from?
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I would go with a static homepage instead of the slider. And make the headline more meaningful. Ultimately your visitors aren't interested in creating an account. Instead, they probably want an easy way to rent an apartment (if I'm not mistaken).
This way there's no shopping cart to go down. And anyway, it's the end of the world, what we gonna do with the 25%?
You have described exactly the two things about abook that have always put me off using it and drove me to build this. The ncurses UI works well but isn't what I want, and the "Yet Another File Format" addressbook format isn't very interoperable.

You're right that an exporter shouldn't be hard to build. Might get on that once some bugs and other features are out of the way!
What parties/groups are trying to get sensible copyright laws on the books? Where do I send my money if I want to support them?
Given that the checkout page is 404'ing, I'd say the requests are what is truly overwhelming ;)
This website is atrocious! If you scroll up or down slightly (easy to do with a touchpad or magic mouse) it loads another post.
Like others, I am impressed with this app and the fact it is written for the command line.

As the author is posting here: why using ruby, a language which seems to be missing from many Linux distributions and which needs to be installed. Why not C or Python or Perl? Present everywhere?
First, I just stumbled on this and am not affiliated with it.

Second, I agree that some parts of the UI are overkill. Keep in mind that it has been designed for tablets and phones though: "(...) built primarily for the devices closest at hand: tablets and mobile phones."

The title of this post is taken from the text the link points to. From the text itself: "Developers and journalists, sometimes one-and-the-same, sit next to each other in the Quartz newsroom as we continually iterate and experiment."

I'm simply happy to see someone trying something new.
Thanks a ton! "Thank you for sending the gift with Leanpub! We have sent an email to the lucky recipient of your gift. You can see your gift on the Gifts tab." Still waiting for the mail.

Edit : Thanks for the Christmas gift! :)
Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the 5th Amendment
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I hope the writing in their articles is more straightforward.
I'm not sure if you guys blog, but i'd love to see what kind of spike in sales this drove... you know assuming the world didn't end.
As a point of agreement, the US DOJ's current interaction with HSBC for laundering drug money, as documented by Rolling Stone:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageo...
One issue that will come up with any exporter: abook can handle multiple entries for each category, and (I think?) ppl can't yet. So, at the moment, I'm not sure there's a way to export without losing some information. Anyhow, I will definitely keep an eye on ppl. Looks like a very good start.
IntercontinentalExchange to buy NYSE for $8.2B
True! Is it Adult ADHD I wonder :D
Pirate Party.

There's a lot to disagree with about them, but they seem to be the only force pushing in the other direction. Depending on which country you're in they are garnering some amount of support. I believe they even have an MEP now.
? At some stage the science must be condensed into someones head and becomes opinion.

Even if that opinion is 'What is the current scientific view of this?', it is still an opinion of a flawed human being.

So Politicians must get as good as possible in judging opinion.

Being scientifically knowledgable themselves is a good step, but not sufficient.
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How does one even survive if it gets very boring to do what you have been doing.
Do these have Emacs key bindings?

I primarily code in Ruby and Javascript, should I buy those individually or get IDEA and find plugins?
is there an online (or offline actually, whatever) interpreter available? I didn't read the entire tutorial, but I'd like to give it a try!
In order to credibly get a raise and get paid what you're worth, you need a BATNA - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiate...

Otherwise your employer has no reason to give you a raise. If they don't think you're a risk of taking another job why would they voluntarily give you a large raise and cut into their margins?
I trust you that it's just bad planning, been waiting for hours with my CC in hand.
If you're just out of school, I think that kind of average is possible in certain parts of the country.

For note, I graduated in 2005, and have averaged about 8% increase per year since then. First 6 years with a Fortune 500 then changed employers, but the average applies even before my employer change.

At the Fortune 500, yearly inflation raises were averaging 2 to 3% but when you're fresh from school you get promoted on a 1 or 2 year cadence for the first few years and each promotion comes with a 5% raise. Promotions don't have to mean your job changes, just your paid grade goes up.
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How could you unsubscribe an email address without asking which one?