skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this entire thing is nonsense. seriously.

> Freicoin's parameters are carefully chosen to eliminate the basic interest component of investments, called the liquidity premium by economists

Liquidity is a real thing, not a product of currency "parameters" (whatever that means). I prefer to hold dollars over gold because I can go to McDonalds and buy a cheeseburger with dollars, but I cant do that with gold. Thus, if someone was like, would you rather have a dollar bill, or $1.01 worth of a gold bar, most people would probably say the dollar bill. If you wanted to eliminate the liquidity premium of a currency, you would have make the currency super illiquid. (Ironically, they've already achieved this because nobody accepts Freicoin right now)

> Usurious non-zero basic interest distorts the free market, incentivises poisonous greed, excess, and short-term thinking, and perpetuates a vicious cycle of boom/bust recessions

No they don't. Maybe if this "argument" had some reasons behind it, I could refute it.

> When business is conducted in Freicoin, participants value present and future holdings equally, and favor sustainable processes.

This sounds pretty magical. Do YOU value present and future holdings equally? Would you rather that I give you a iPhone now, or in 1 year? Okay, now let's say that iPhone is denominated in Freicoin, what now?

> Separation of money's roles as store-of-value and medium-of-exchange allows money to flow when it is needed, in good times and bad

Is money flow an issue? In the modern era, has the quantity of cash available ever deterred anyone from spending money?
Giving up. Trying to register with Microsoft's "Healthvault"
https://account.healthvault.co.uk/signup/new

Ignoring privacy issues, let's just imagine I want to sign up for the service above. One of the mandatory fields is "Date of birth". However, no matter what I put in that field, I always get the error "date is not valid". No hint of format, not even a datepicker. Anyone here from MS that can hit these guys with a clue-stick ??
Yikes, that switch is only buffering a third of a millisecond's worth of packets. Easy to see why the connections would collapse.
1) I've been a customer of restaurants for far longer than I've been a tech entrepreneur.

2) I've been an investor in over 20 food-tech based Startups. I'm not clueless about the industry.

3) I come from middle-class (or lower-class!) america -- Appalachia, to be exact -- and my opinions are not based exclusively on either fast food restaurants nor high-class ones, but rather all of the above.

you're welcome to your own opinion, but I'm hardly I'll-informed about the industry, from either customer or operator perspective.
"This policy change tells us a few things: First, Nissan is very confident that its batteries won't suffer from too much capacity loss within those 5 years or 60,000 miles."

Depends what you consider "too much". If your battery can only be charged to 9 out of 12 bars after five years (which is considered acceptable under the warranty), that means you've lost 25% of your battery capacity, or 25% of your car's range.

Since after five years it will only get worse (and the warranty will have expired), it also suggests that nobody will want to buy your five year old Leaf unless you discount the price by the cost of a new battery (several thousand dollars).

Gasoline powered cars don't have either of these problems, which suggests that electric cars will remain a small market unless the price of gas goes up sharply.
Really nice work. Discovered some nice music, too :)

When it's on-screen is uses two whole CPUs though (one for the chrome tab, and one for Chrome's GPU-driving process) and the visualization is obviously half a beat ahead of the music. That's not your fault, but it certainly demonstrates the drawbacks of the platform.
> a litany of cases where FISA-backed surveillance saved lives

Bullshit.
I don't doubt Win 8 demand is "weak", but I understand that app store activity for paid apps more than doubled after Christmas. So I suspect that a better measure will be to see where we are in January after all the folks who got new PCs and other Win 8 paraphernalia begin to be counted.

Not to mention, unlike the reaction to Vista, I don't hear folks asking for their machines to be retrograded. IOW a reaction of - I may not hurry up to upgrade, but I'm also not going to go out of my way to avoid it.

Obviously just my .02 on the matter.
Have you considered carrying an EPIRB too?
What is your position on trickle down economics? Do you think it was a good thing? On theoretical or historical grounds?

As far as I can tell, it is a theory that failed in practice. Does this relate to your unsupported ideas on great benefits of innovation. I'm not sure if you are arguing for trickle-down, or just ignoring how it failed.
Nothing really. It's the same interface to the same software.
> What happens if #2 has kids... and he's still unfulfilled?

Send them back to the factory and try something else?

[Taken literally, it's of course a joke; but taken less literally, it's a bit scary... oO; ]
Pretty much. A signal tower usually controls several stations, so delays up ahead are usually contained within the zone of control of a signal tower.

In cases where delays are more substantial and you need to hold trains further upstream, this is communicated manually between towers.

Much of the control here is not based on semantic data, but rather verbal. The actual control system itself isn't capable of much more than indicating which piece of track is occupied.
Cross-language compilers are not a new concept, you're right about that. I was more enthusiastic about the fact that any person trying to offer alternatives is doing a good deed.

Whether or not this has practical applications is irrelevant for now, the project seems to be in its infancy. Nonetheless, it's a good thing that the author is trying and tackling new concepts.
Visiting the other side of the family, but also contributing to a couple of open source projects.
Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath discusses how to make a message memorable. It's changed the way I communicate - I use its principles on an almost-daily basis.
NVDA is a free and open source screen reader:

http://www.nvda-project.org/
Could someone explain why this is needed?

I don't understand why someone wouldn't just write Java if they wanted to write Java.

I also don't understand why anyone would want generated code. The unnecessary abstraction leaves you less expressive and with less control.

Not trying to be a troll here, just hoping to learn something I'm missing.
Ummm... not to be the wet blanket, but what business advantage is there to your blog loading 2.3x (or even 5x) faster? I understand you may occasionally be adding content that helps plug your work, but in general I am less concerned about the speed of a long article loading than I am the content being worth the much longer time it will take to read.

Maybe it's just me?
I feel Chrome is going to become the next IE6. And that sucks.

Then again is it Chrome's fault that Firefox and Opera don't catch up? Would love any insight on this.
Unfortunately, "Num" isn't precisely what you want in money - you don't multiply dollars by dollars to get dollars...

But it works well enough.
I use aptitude because I can use one tool to search and install, I never learned when to use apt-get and when time use apt-cache.

If a package depends on a recommendation, then that sounds like a packaging bug. Report it to the package maintainer.
I do not understand why people continue to pay any sort of attention to Dave McClure. He cannot write a cogent sentence to save his life. He's a perfect symbol of the move-fast-think-later VC culture that is draining the fun out of tech.
For example, most people know the New York Times is liberal
and that the Wall Street Journal is (moderately) conservative.

TIL that in the US, "liberal" means pro-war and "moderately conservative" means fanatically pro-war.
Looks like a business ripe for disruption, too -- ripe to the point of rottenness.
1) yes. proven already at 100's of restaurants using E la Carte PrestoTablet systems. immediately positive economics. also reduced turnover time, so more available spots for additional customers.

2) there's plenty of inefficient market to address... literally hundreds of millions if not billions of customers. certainly millions of restaurant.

3) absolutely. and should be higher on priority, if they only knew how much money they would save / make.

again, we put our money where our mouths are. check out http://elacarte.com if you don't believe me.
Here's a theory: high end design houses have not created their own 'low end self-copycats' because they couldn't block the JC Pennys and Zaras and couldn't compete with their large-scale production, marketing and sales. If law now allows such blocking, then I could see that expansion into low end happening.
And just for anyone unaware, this project is by the author of JRuby.
It is actually quite amazing what it is possible to survive. The hypothermia "record", so to speak, was broken shortly after this article was written. See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_B%C3%A5genholm http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/12/cheating.death.bage...
It's a brilliant film, but it really isn't open-ended to anyone who has read A Tale of Two Cities. In Dicken's book, the sacrificial death of scoundrel Sydney Carton "recalls to life" his aristocratic double Charles Darney. And then as Carton walks to the guillotine we share his vision of a post-revolutionary France that has moved past destructive class conflict and emerged "peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy." Ergo Carton's line that "it is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."

Resolving the ambiguity of the ending is the entire point of this extended allusion. We have the sacrifice of a negative character (Batman) redeeming his positive aristocratic double (Wayne), and then general images of social redemption (even down to the visuals of children returning to the garden) as Gotham moves beyond the political/economic oppression that the film claims has thematically resulted from Batman's vigilante behavior and his refusal to trust in the norms of democratic society.

A great movie and widely misunderstood! And very suitable for the HN crowd given that it operates as an extended critique of the American war on terror. Some more thoughts for anyone curious:

http://popupchinese.com/the-dark-knight-rises.html
Theres a lot more where that's coming from:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=67.0
Apart from being a great business leader, Ratan is a good, decent person. I've been told by someone very close to me who was a corporate pilot for him and flew him around for several years.
How to design a customer support process
11. Load pages on Google Plus?

Seriously, trying to load that page on my iPhone was a disaster.
Zhuangzi Speaks: The Music of Nature

http://www.amazon.com/Zhuangzi-Speaks-The-Music-Nature/dp/06...
Context. The author said it's better that they spoiled their dogs rotten than spoiled kids rotten. She's not saying that dogs are better than children.
Incidentally, 1/100th of a cent is a "milray", defined in A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court.
I thought the presence of the train on given section of track was actually detected by the trains wheels completing the circuit between the rails, not with the third rail.
Considering that it runs very smooth for me at 1080p using a first generation, low-end quad core and ultra cheap onboard video, I can only assume that you either have a technical issue with your system or you're using a browser that doesn't properly support some of the required CSS3 features.
Maybe, maybe not. We're simply taking them at their word. For all anyone outside the company knows, this was a stealth move designed to see how far the TOS could be pushed before the company decided what, exactly, they were going to do within whatever parameters they could get away with. After all, the real issue with becoming part of Facebook for $1 billion is that Instagram is reasonably assumed to be hard pressed to justify their price in a corporate structure famous for its own uncertain prospects and notorious lack of scruples.

The other problem is that even now, they're still bullshitting, and indirectly blaming users for the fuss. In truth, there was nothing unclear or confusing about the language they used. To the contrary, it was explicitly clear. And what it said was awful. Even if the message conveyed wasn't what they intended, it's dishonest to to characterize the resulting uproar as "confusion". That wasn't confusion. That was justified fury aimed at a richly deserving target.

Even now, they're still remain very unclear on the concepts of respect, integrity, and honesty. What they should have said was not "Thank you" (as if people's rage is a favor gladly bestowed), and "Hey, we're listening", (as if there was any doubt when their entire brand was headed for a cliff.) This is just more patronizing nonsense, which only exacerbates the mushrooming trust issue they've got on their hands.

Instead, they should have said, in big bold letters at the very top "We're really Sorry! We just published something truly awful. In no way does it reflect our intentions, but none of you had any way of knowing that, so if we were in your position, we'd be just as furious as you are. Again, we screwed up the ToS - badly. We're scrapping that effort entirely. Please accept our very humble apologies. "

Continuing, the should have noted "And that's not the only thing we screwed up. By failing to share our plans for the company with the community we rely on - in plain English, clearly, and up front - we left you no choice but to assume the worst when our train-wreck of a ToS update hit the internet. Furthermore, we've failed to account for the residual trust issues that our new owners at Facebook developed in their rapid growth phase, and which they are still dealing with today. We are now aware that we're a part of putting those concerns to rest, which means being especially careful with things like Privacy and IP. As noted, we weren't. Please believe us when we say that we've learned these lessons hard and fast, and that none of these problems will be problems again."

At that point, they could do what they should have done from the very beginning, and clearly explain the (hopefully) non-abusive, non-sleazy way they intended to build a commercial service to the IP holders they rely on.
I doubt it was unintentional. I know some guys at MTA who work on this stuff, and they are all about open data and APIs and robots etc.
Three weeks ago we blogged about sessional teachers, the often underpaid, overworked “Roads Scholars” who teach individual classes (sometimes through multiple universities). Most of them hope to accumulate enough teaching experience to become tenured at a university. Some critics condemn the way they are used and how little they are paid.

This phrasing seems a little deceptive. Certainly, most lecturers would hope to become tenured but in the way most fast food workers would hope to win the lottery. Lecturers teach the majority of classes in the modern university and effectively have no chance of becoming tenured. It's not even that new a situation but it has worsened over time.

Further, I'm sure how much "breakout" is possible through the web. Considering the web gives a potential student much wider options, it is hard to see it as a way for teachers to attain a high wage in the long run even if the "middle man" is cut out.
doing some coding (refactoring) on some of my open source projects, playing some of the starcraft 2 ^^ :) also learning to ...
One of the best interactive news pieces I've seen on the web, props Guardian.
Saw this whilst browsing for news this evening, just wanted to commend the Guardian's work and share it with y'all.
I'd love to have $10 or $20mm socked away. It would allow me to pay off my mother's and sister's mortgages, not have to ever worry about how to pay bills, and be able to take trips at any time to anywhere. But, I don't think that would make me any happier than I am now at my current level of income.

And, as it works out, there's a recent study that backs this up.

"Beyond $75,000 in the contemporary United States,
however, higher income is neither the road to
experience happiness nor the road to relief of
unhappiness or stress, although higher income
continues to improve individuals' life evaluations."

http://www.inc.com/news/articles/2010/09/study-says-$75,000-...

My (totally wild-assed) guess is that an income of $75,000 is, on average, enough in the United States to always satisfy the first and second levels of Maslow's hierarchy of needs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslows_hierarchy_of_needs), at least as far as money can address the enumerated needs.
Actually I just went through this same process recently and found that if you apply using the link on Apple's site, you can get the DUNS number for free within 5 days. Follow this form: https://developer.apple.com/ios/enroll/dunsLookupForm.action

I explained the full process at http://blog.metamorphium.com/2012/12/03/apple-duns/

It's sad that this whole process isn't more transparent and easy though.
Oh sweet irony! A majority of kamaal's comments are about the devalued programming culture in India... where people are expected to shift to a management role asap and if you are just a programmer after 5-10 years you must be a loser. Who is responsible for that culture? 3 guesses tcs infosys wipro .
You may be on to something - perhaps the donor is not anonymous, but Anonymous, of 4chan fame?
PageSpeed Service is currently offered free of charge to a
limited set of webmasters during this trial period. Pricing
will be competitive and details will be made available later.

You can get an idea from what they are charging for PageSpeed on App Engine. It may be competitive but it's not cheap. Perhaps they've learned that price increases aren't taken well and have priced it high with the possibility to reduce it when it's widely available.
Show HN: The home automation system with an API
LinkedIn is allowing a few business leaders to write long form articles and have members follow them. Go to http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/whoToFollow
Isn't foreign spying great? Don't you just love it when the Chinese hack into our government and corporate systems and collect sensitive data? All for the safety of the Chinese people I'm sure.

/sarcasm
Screw the naysayers who said FreeBSD wouldn't make it.
Being a customer of restaurants and being an investor in food tech start-ups is not the same as understanding operating a food service business.

That logic is similar to the logic of people who say, "I love cooking, I'll open a restaurant." (which, by the way, is one of the major causes of the high rate of infant restaurant mortality).
I would guess it does not know there is a delayed train on the route, but just that there is a train on the route.

It is fairly easy to hook up a "'low resistance between the rails aka 'wheels on the rails' aka 'there is a train here'" detector to a 'do not enter' signal a few hundred meters up, and to a 'drive slowly' signal some distance before that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Block_Signal)
My experience has been that I interview worse for having "researched" interviewing. It gets me trying to answer what they want to hear rather than what I actually would normally say. That is a bad way to interview.

Also as an interviewer, the people trying to answer "the right way" never get past first round. I want someone that's genuine, not someone just trying to pick the right answers to get the job.
Warner can/will make sequels anyways... I believe what he said in this interview.
They really drilled that idea about Batman being a symbol in the last two films. So after reading this explanation I have to say I was disappointed. I was hoping Nolan would explain why he allowed us to wonder if the very last scene where Alfred sees Bruce in the cafe was reality or not. Batman being a symbol was pounded into the audience so hard that I feel like you can't not get that and the answer Nolan gave leaves much to be desired at least for me.
Rather than arbitrary multiplication, you should probably have an OrderUnits type, then define a function of type Money -> OrderUnits -> Money that calculates the price of multiple units.

(Money 3 * 2 will return Money 6 if fromIntegral 2 = Money 2. But that is not really the operation you want to perform, so you might consider not implementing Num for Money.)
The best defense against the cold I find, up until about 10F or lower, is several layers of long sleeve tshirts. You can add or remove layers rapidly with a rather good resolution (You can easily have 5 "settings") and if you get wet they are very quick to dry (separate them to dry them fast.) If you are out for several days, you can start to cycle which shirt is closest to your body, to delay discomfort caused by dirty clothing.
I'm curious who Mr. Anon is as well. Seems like the expected big pocket FreeBSD companies are already listed.
I just realized actually one very likely reason you would see a significant increase like this. I imagine that the GoogleBot and Pagespeed servers are on the same network, or at least regionally close enough to make a big difference.

Cloudflare is not going to be on the same network as Google for any of their servers as they host their own gear around the world. If you want to see the real speed decrease from switching it should be a set of tests between Cloudflare and Pagespeed from outside both of their respective networks (and a couple locations if possible). That would give you closer to real numbers... or the google services are on totally different networks and what you saw was real-world, which I couldn't answer.
That's exactly the part that bothers me the most. It's just like fortune tellers saying what can happen. If it's a statement, then it's unfalcifiable and hence is useless. If it's something else(a lesson?) then it should have a better context. I'm just a bit strict on people making statements.
Sigh. That wasn't at all what I was trying to say. I'm not my father either... but a piece of his generic code is in me. He was the final link of a countless chain of beings, and I am a continuation of that chain, and my daughter will be too. I hope that makes it clearer... unfortunately I'm not enough of a poet to express this sentiment any better.
Just for the sake of correctness, Charles Oliver Nutter is actually of one of the main developers of JRuby, a project created about 10 years ago but which has evolved a LOT since then. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JRuby#History
I imagine it depends how much of an appreciation of material things you've managed to cultivate.
There's not really a tangible business advantage. Sure, I put a brief plug in some of my posts, but that's not really the point. For me the whole point was just to explore new technology and push it as fast as it can go. I learned a lot from the process, I found it personally intriguing, and maybe I can even use some of what I learned in future business ventures. Other people might be able to take away something from it as well, however small.

(I know it's a pretty hefty post, hence the tl;dr at the top. No one is forcing you or even asking you to read the whole thing)
That would never work for a competent interviewer. Sure if they just downloaded a checklist off the web, but is that really the kind of place you want a job at?
Mount network share quickly with Alfred
No, it's someone or some company wishing to remain anonymous. There are other listings for anonymous donations.
Woman reportedly finds note from Chinese labor camp prisoner in decorations