skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first thing to understand is that the U.S. government does not have to ever run a surplus in order to pay back its debt. Debt service is included in the budget; running budgets that are merely balanced is enough.

The second thing to understand is that the U.S. government is the financier of last resort, and thus, has nowhere to store surpluses other than itself. That is why the Social Security trust fund is invested in U.S. Treasury bonds...nothing is more trustworthy. Thus we find the perverse result that government surpluses actually create more government debt! So not only is a balanced budget sufficient, it is the optimum.

So the U.S. government's only option to finance capital investments is debt. In the startup world you can find an angel or VC to infuse you with cash in return for equity; but the U.S. government's equity offering is already fully subscribed (it belongs to the citizens). So the government's only option for unplanned expenditures is to issue debt.

From this we can see that it is expected that U.S. budgets will habitually miss low. Debt acculumates because it is the best way for the government to manage its finances. The amount of debt, and its rate of growth, matters only in the context of what the U.S. economy is doing.

When a company experiences a sales slump, they can dip into capital to maintain operations until sales improve. When the U.S. economy hits a slump, we only have debt--so debt has gone up. This is an expected result, not a crisis. We just have to make sure the rate of debt growth falls under GDP growth as part of the recovery.
A monthly mail delivery would be better, no? I had thought of this and when I researched I think I found something like that i.e. monthly condom delivery already exists and did not think about it any more. Btw, a yearly delivery of new underwear and undershirts for men would be another thing that is needed if it doesn't already exist.

[EDIT: fixed an embarrassing typo]
So, we can sum up that comment as "It's not what you learn, it's how much it cost for your degree that matters in life"?
> Your statement does not make sense unless you have never watched or heard about House of Cards until now.

Yes, that is precisely the standpoint I'm approaching this from — it's the position that most people are in at the moment. A new show from an unproven network can't depend on an existing audience to carry it.

> I highly recommend investigating it before passing judgement

You appear to be under the impression that I'm judging the show. I'm really not. I'm questioning whether the show is a good launching point for a fledgling network.
I think this page is hoax ... just an attempt to gather a list of rails urls. looking at my logs I see no such request.
How to fool German bombers to land in Britain
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They don't need it to be an instant hit out the gate, so if it's good enough, the word of mouth will be the hook.

It's a fundamentally different paradigm than network broadcasting, where numbers for the initial broadcast are so important for ad revenue. (It also helps that Netflix has incredibly detailed data on exactly who watches it and when; so they can more easily judge whether its a success in the long run.)
Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to get at. Thank you. I don't know a better word to describe "lacks a colorful distinguishing characteristic" than "bland," but if anyone has one, I'd be happy to edit.
>" Part of what made Lost, BSG, etc, so addicting is having to wait to find out what happens next. "

In the NYTimes article they specifically mention how annoying that was for fans and that is why they decided to change it to an all-at-once release. It also mentioned similar trends with other shows. People are gravitating away from shows in a series fashion and do want to do it marathon-style instead.
I'm all for original content but I wonder what the return on investment on this is compared to securing licenses for non original but popular content?

If this show ends up being the next big thing, will that really convince people who haven't subscribed to Netflix to finally join in? I would think that many of these people will be satisfied with just torrenting that one show.

OTOH, I would most definitely choose Netflix over Hulu, or vice versa, based on overall size of catalog...Finding torrents of the most popular show of the day is easy...finding torrents to a broad array of slightly older movies and tv shows is harder, and more work overall
I think it can't deal with the traffic it's getting. I saw a couple of hits to my server and the page's progress bar moved a little, but it's been stalled for quite a while now.
May I propose an alternate solution? Get your degree from India. Most of the good universities have special considerations/ admission procedures for foreign students.

There will be plenty of differences from a University in the West; but for those with a sense for adventure, it might still be worthwhile
I agree with you that the USNWR rankings are not senseless. The fact that Berkeley has the most graduate departments in the top 5 of any University but an undergrad ranking outside the top 20 actually tells you a lot about the undergrad experience at the university. It is a research powerhouse where a top undergrad will meet exceptional professors, but you also risk getting lost in a sea of indifference.

That said, we should also keep in mind what the USNWR rankings don't measure. Washington Monthly did a raking that had UCSD on top, and almost all large public research institutions did very well

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/feature/intro...

The clever angle they took was to ask the question "what have you done for us lately?" USNWR is good for an undergrad asking "what can you do for me?" Washington Monthly figured that since all universities receive massive amounts of government funding, tax exempt endowments, and subsidy for tuition through federal loan guarantees, we should ask what they are contributing back. They placed an emphasis on social mobility (percentage of low income students), research (placing an emphasis on science and engineering), and social service.

It does get to the heart of the matter - the things that harm Berkeley in the USNWR ratings (large numbers of undergrads and a relatively low tuition in spite of decreasing support from the state) also enable Berkeley to enroll more low income students than the entire ivy league combined. Berkeley gets dinged for all the negative aspects of enrolling so many low income students relative to Harvard, but gets no credit.

Should it? It's all a matter of perspective - the problem is that because many other major publications don't consider rankings to be useful, USNWR is an almost unanswered voice pushing a ranking system that rewards small, wealthy, private undergraduate programs with relatively few low income students, and they're broadcasting it through a bullhorn into a quiet room.
I'm not sure "unlimited" vacation time is empowering. It makes who goes on vacation more or less than whoever else something that may be silently judged. Bob went abroad for five weeks- is that excessive? Bob has no way of knowing what others will think, and may not go abroad at all to avoid the potential fallout. This judgment is also very difficult to uncover- if one person discourages his team from taking vacation, how would you tell? With allotted vacation times, HR tracks whether a specific manager's employee's are taking vacation.

More importantly the lack of vacation time accounting provides less protection for the employee in terms of job loss. Unused vacation time is often added to severance pay.

In actual practice, "unlimited vacation" seems to be a nice term for the company to minimize potential severance pay, bookkeeping, and potentially create a work environment that silently discourages taking vacation time while publicizing the opposite.
Nice. It's not very good at finding faces though. The right face is there, but way down.

http://i.imgur.com/PD1DkV6.png
Not a bad idea. What are the reputable schools a westerner could get into?
How about these points in order:

AVIATE: Keep the plane straight & Level.

NAVIGATE: Don't hit anything, turn to avoid any mountains etc, otherwise stay straight & level until ATC/Other pilot assistance directs you to the runway.

COMMUNICATE: Broadcasting MAYDAY on any common channel is a good first step. CTAF (Common Traffic Aerial Frequency) used by light VFR aircraft. ATC/Tower is also monitored. Most likely the current channel is good to start with.

DO NOT Squawk 7500 on the transponder unless a hostile action (hijacker etc.) caused the pilot to become disabled. Squawking 7500 results in armed fighter jets scrambled and SWAT teams meeting you on the runway. Squawking 7700 is the emergency code to use in case of a disabled pilot.

Aviate, Navigate, Communicate concept is drilled into every student pilot.
The shows most people consider the best shows made: The Wire (HBO) and Mad Men (*edit AMC) both seem bland at first glance...

A great show can be set in any setting.
I like little niche markets like this. If Roots didn't beat you by two weeks, I'd definitely get a cork wallet; seriously, a cork wallet! I like.
Where are the self-flying airplanes?
I'm all for no arbitrary marketing delays for episodes. I'd rather rave about an excellent series I enjoyed on my own time.
I recommend putting Amazon (or other) affiliate links to purchase the hardware you support. I don't have such hardware but am interested in it. I would have gladly clicked your links to check it out. Instead I now have to copy and paste into search.
Are there any rumors about the initial price?
I can't get netflix to work on a Macbook Air due to a problem with Silverlight.

I get an error telling me to uninstall and re-install Silverlight, which doesn't fix the problem.

This issue makes me very angry at Microsoft and at Netflix for using them. Pity there's no linux support at all :(
On Dogfights, there was an F4 veteran from Vietnam who used to deliberately spin his F4 as a radical airbrake to force overshoots. The enemy pilot would overshoot, then he'd recover on their tails.
It's not a hoax - could you get in touch with us at support@tinfoilsecurity.com or http://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/chat ? I'd love to see what went wrong.
I know that there are machines that automatically solders all the chips and electronics on a board which I think is the hardest part, why isn't the whole electronics manufacturing process automated yet? Whatever the reason I don't think it will last long and then I wonder where all these workers will work then.
> If this show ends up being the next big thing, will that really convince people who haven't subscribed to Netflix to finally join in? I would think that many of these people will be satisfied with just torrenting that one show.

Maybe this is a reflection of my personal priorities, but I will gladly pay $7.99 to watch a season of a show I enjoy (to say nothing of Netflix's other offerings).

Moreover, it's much easier to retain customers than to attract them in the first place, especially with such a relatively low subscription cost.
Clojure is different from any other language I have ever used, and as I learned Clojure I had to struggle with the various programming habits that my mind has acquired over the last 14 years. Here were some of the main struggles:

1.) how do I live without a loop that lets me iterate some counters? The first Clojure (sort of) looping structure that I understood was (reduce), so for awhile I jumping through hoops to use (reduce) every time I wanted to go into a loop.

2.) how do I realize lazy sequences? I got myself badly stuck with some of the libraries, for instance Enlive, when I saved the nodes as a string and then later re-imported them to my code, at which point they were lazy sequences and I was wondering, how do I get this back to being Enlive nodes? Took me awhile.

3.) when do I divide code into a new file/namespace. In a language like Java the rule is something like "one class = one file" (I could qualify that, etc...). Clojure doesn't impose obvious dividing points on your code, and I think it takes a while to figure out what the right dividing points are (and I still wonder about what the best practice is, for instance: is it acceptable for code in one namespace to rely upon, and modify, an atom in a different namespace?)

Learning Clojure has been a fantastic educational experience for me. It is my favorite language and my favorite development eco-system. And I am lucky enough to be able to use at my job, so I get to work with it full time now, for which I am very grateful. (Previously I was getting a lot of corporate gigs where they needed PHP programmers who knew the Symfony framework -- I found those jobs very tedious, and, more to the point, after a few years I felt like I was not learning anything new).
Are you referring to the scan from our homepage or the Rails checker? Either way, could you get in touch with us at support@tinfoilsecurity.com or http://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/chat ? I'd love to see what went wrong.

We shouldn't be having issues with load.
Mad Men is AMC.
Blank the screen if kids are too loud
There may be a sustainable business.

I will not use it. I don't want receipts in my inbox. I prefer to discard the useless ones at point of purchase. I file the important ones away for taxes, warranty, etc. I don't want to have to go through my email printing them out.

I get email receipts for online purchases. Those are also the companies which send me offers I don't care about once they have my email address.

I don't want to talk about my email at the cash register in the bookstore. I prefer to talk about books. If I want an electronic record, I can pay by credit card.

Now you damn kids, Get off my lawn!
It's still the right thing to do to contact them and ask for advice, they have emergency services to arrange, traffic to clear, and many have flight experience of some kind or another. More to the point they are at the twitching heart of the airport and can get on the phone or handball the task of patching through to a pilot that does have the relevant experience.

Even small airports have a surprising breadth and depth of experience hanging about the associated flight schools and maintenance sheds, the chances of finding a semi retired 747 (say) pilot lurking about with the older mechanics working on a light aircraft or custom built car are surprisingly high.
I'm not sure I understand your use of the terms 'original' and 'bland'. Many 'splashy and quirky' shows have totally bombed, while many cliched topics have been turned into hugely successful shows.

It seems to be that you're saying "Why doesn't Netflix pick a successful show?". You might as well ask "Why doesn't Joe pick the winning lottery numbers?".
With a string of successful original shows, Netflix may gain a valuable weapon in the pricing war it wages with studios.

Or at the very least, one can hope that this becomes the case.
It's a tricky issue. They are being exploited, sure, but without foxconn jobs, where would they work?
There are some bugs, but i like the layout, workspace customization, and UX.
Bioinformatics is easy, so jump in "Discovering Genomic Variants"
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Figured it would be worth a shot, signed up for the free trial. Doesn't work on linux. Guess I'll wait for the pirates.
The Wire I will agree is "bland" in the sense I'm using here. And indeed, I don't think the The Wire would have been a good show to establish a network, even though it was good. That's a good example of the sort of thing I'm talking about here. I really don't mean the show is bad. I mean that shows that "make" networks tend to be obviously quirky, and this show doesn't seem to have that trait.

But IMO Mad Men was actually a pretty high-concept show. It was readily identifiable even to people who weren't very familiar with it. (I say this as someone who actually didn't watch Mad Men for several years and thus was actually in that position.)
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Worth the read
Primary school seems to be about social skills just as much as academic skills. How does homeschooling address that?
If you are developing a cross-platform game, Parallels or VMWare will only get you so far. At the very least you'll need to test on an NVidia card as well as AMD and Intel HD. A Windows machine is inevitable in this case.

The good news is for managing these you can Remote Desktop into them for most things like setup and build monitoring.

I love the Mac Pro, it's a great platform, but don't think it's going away just yet. This regulatory snag is really unusual and only happened because Apple's investing a ton of effort in the 2013 model of the Pro.
Apple obsoletes older technology, but it doesn't introduce dozens of redundant technologies only to drop them. There's a difference between keeping up with a linear path of progress and jumping from API to API without any clue as to which one is the "right" one.
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Check out manpacks.com for men's shirts, underwear, and sock packages. I think they also have razors too, but I am fully satisfied with Dollar Shave Club for those.
Do you pose any interesting facts or thought to these discussions? I've seen you post in nearly every single one of these threads with nothing constructive. I understand that "you used to use Rails" and are much happier now that you're leaving the "insecure framework" but do you need to post it in every single thread?

Disclaimer: I'm a java programmer.
No, I don't underestimate it, because I have done it, i know how long it takes, and what one gets from it.

There are simpler ways, as I point out above.
It's weird, I can't add it to my instant queue through the web interface or the android app. My desktops are all linux, so I usually add things to my queue through the web interface, and then watch them using the netflix client on my TV.

Finding shows through the TV interface is a pain; I wonder why they're not letting me add the show to my queue.
Really cool. The drawing tool would be even better if it drew as soon as you clicked (i.e., would draw a single dot if you click and don't drag the mouse).
Figured it would be worth a shot, went to the store. Doesn't accept AmEx. Guess I'll just shoplift.
Roundup of the current crop of Kickstarter hardware projects
How Andreessen Horowitz Chooses Investments
Or accept the fact that Netflix not working on Linux doesn't entitle you to their hard work?
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I watch on Ubuntu using ppa:ehoover/compholio

I haven't even really looked into how it works but it looks like a wrapper around IE in Wine. Works pretty well on my 3 year old laptop although not being a native app, there are some weird interactions related to window switching and resizing.
Getting it done right is the easy part. Any foodhackers have a technique to get the shell off easily?
Common Lisp

(defun example (&rest maps)
(format nil "~:[<none>~;~:*~{~A~^, ~}~]"
(sort (remove-duplicates
(loop for map in maps nconc
(loop for key being the hash-key of map collect key))
:test 'equal)
'string<)))
Why
why?
You can "subscribe" to certain products (mostly grocery items I think, in my limited purview) on Amazon. Condoms are among the products they offer, available for delivery every 1–6 months.
> second tick data would be more useful in swing trading situations where your profit target is 5-10% in a span of a few days to a week - it matters less if your order gets executed $0.01 less or more. So latency shouldn't be an issue.

How stiff is the competition in that kind of trading?
Can you tell us what you think of the Conference Call widget we made?
We made a widget that we think is really cool. It lets you easily embed in browser conference calls into any website in a matter of minutes. Works with webrtc or flash depending on the browser.

Give it a try and let us know what you think, what is missing, what else you would like it to do... etc.. etc... Any and all feedback is appreciated!!! :)

You can find it at http://voic.io

Thanks!
Adding my own commands to node core
They built a special landing page for the show. If you do a search for House of Cards on Netflix.com, the button to add to your queue is there.
I wish you the best. But, thwarting fraud is a legitimately difficult undertaking and is often the same reason cited by google and paypal for why they are freezing accounts. Unfortunately, you might be the false positive and they should have a better policy in place, if that's the case. Good luck and hopefully you'll get the attention required to get them to engage and resolve the problem.
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Exactly lol
Man, he even streams himself coding to help others who want to pursue their hobbies and people find a way to spin that into a bad thing? Seriously?
The problem for Netflix is that consumers flip the fuck out when they decide to raise the price $1 or $2, meanwhile cable is racking in 10-20x times the subscriptions revenue and no one bats an eye. This means that Netflix does not have the buying power that cable does, and hence the studios do not like Netflix. I mean sure it's great as supplemental income, but as Netflix becomes more popular the economics breakdown for studios and it becomes harder and harder for them to sign deals. So in effect, the pricing of content follows something like a power law distribution. Therefore the fixed cost of producing a great show is a no brainer for Netflix. In fact it may be their only out given the squeeze between consumers and studios.
I think andrewcross has some solid feedback. I once read that if you have to give instructions to your website, you've already failed the UX. Even though I could deduce everything that your website does without reading the instructions, I did so anyway which took me away from getting to actual product.

I wish your top 25 had price as a column. Otherwise, great job guys & good luck. I forwarded this to one of my colleagues who is a huge wino and will add his feedback.
Thanks. It's weird, I restarted my phone and then I was able to add it to my queue through the android app. But before, I was clicking on the "instant queue" button and nothing was happening.
Smart guys.
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Nice article! I have one question for others though: Am I the only one who disagrees with ->> being easier to read?

From the OP:

(->>
(set (concat (keys map1) (keys map2)))
(map str)
sort)

And also from the OP:

(sort (map str (set (concat (keys map1) (keys map2)))))

I'm so used to reading Lisp "in to out" that I have a difficult using the thread-fast macro. I guess it depends on your background. Do those who have have a bit of Lisp experience agree with me?
‟ (U+201F) possibly?
I ran into the same problem. It requires deleting a file. Google for that error code and you'll find the fix.
Oh it tries...