skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keynesian economics is only partially wrong, the only case where it is always wrong is if the Government always buy productivity less efficiently than the free market. Given the rather poor job that financial institutions have done recently I would think it would be hard to argue that this is always the case; we all know public servants don't get paid the insane wages that bank executives do.

Regardless of whether the source is the government or employers giving money to poor people is a good way to boost productivity because poor people spend money, rich people by comparison don't.
Why has this affected the magazines and online publications?
Thanks for the input. Steps 1-3 are how it currently works. Step 4 is problematic because the Firebase server cannot compute who wins; that has to be done on the client.

I think I can configure Firebase to validate scores based on some precondition (i.e. 'only allow this value to be increased by one if both players have chosen and declared'). Then clients would reset their choices immediately and scores would be 'locked-in' until the next victory condition is met. That will prevent basic attempts to cheat, but I need to look into the docs to see if I could be smarter about it.
Amazing footage of a Sun flare Puts Earth into perspective
I think you are both right. They are humans, who obviously come with all kinda of attitudes. Now it's probably slightly worse because of a position of specific power.

I've met cops that didn't really care, I met some that were super friendly and a few not so friendlies, one couple arrived at a party because of a noise complaint right at midnight when a lot of people were cheering happy birthday. Tried as I could (I was talking to them as their English and the Americans German both weren't great), they didn't understand that yes, that's louder than the rest of the party was before and after and were just assholish all around.

At the resident registration office I had case workers that tried to made me feel bad for everything and just wanted to exercise power as well as those that helped me avoid fees I would have otherwise had to pay.

The worst person was the doctor at the conscription office but as that was my only contact with a military person ever, it's not much of a sample size ;)

So in closing again: they are just humans. And just like humans they often can be manipulated into helping you.
China admits pollution-linked 'cancer villages'
I personally do not use favourites. I have friends who use them in conjunction with http://faavorite.com/. It might be worth checking out that site to see how your idea differs.
This is not a bug! Contribute more! :)
That's put in a very misleading way. It's dropping all special support for Internet Explorer. That just means that there will be problems with many things before IE9.
Maybe that is a little bit of the mark right now, but wouldn't that domain knowledge be a great opportunity for a non-tech co-founder to add value to a start-up? Just guessing, but there are a lot of domains out there that are quite diffcult to learn but that are also (or maybe because they are difficult to learn) ripe to be changed by software.

I could imagine the right match of domain knowledge and the capability to learn how to develop in a non-tech guy and programming skills and the capability to learn the domain in a tech guy would be rather powerfull combination. And pretty rare one, I guess. At least for me, the actual programming part is... difficult. ;-)

On another point, this applies pretty much things like lean or six sigma, too. Both are quite usefull (or can be, that depends!), but people tend to see them as domain by itself. In practice, and that's only my personal opinion, this comes out short. If you add this to existing expertiece in a certain domain, then it works!
> not worth the effort

Until it is, of course. Growing up is hard.
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Exactly. Programming is a means to an end. One of the great joys of programming is making something that is useful, especially if it is useful to somebody else (points 1 and 2 here: http://henrikwarne.com/2012/06/02/why-i-love-coding/)
I've got friends that dropped out of college, have jobs, got married, have kids, and very limited career opportunities because they didn't get their degree and don't have time to get it now (a manager in Spain is expected to have one).

Probably in the US could be a good idea to drop out of college because they BUILD technology products, and the cost of dropping out is simply less debt and the opportunity to build something good/new and get money.

In Europe It's not wise: Get a student job while you finish the degree; but FINISH it. Use what you learn on the job for your end of studies thesis: It'll be a lot easier to finish (that's what my boss did), and you'll finish your studies with something to put in your CV.

And rememeber that the education you get travels with you everywhere.

I hope this helps.
RPS focus only on PC gaming, but they really are head and shoulders above every other gaming site I've come across. Thoughtful, in-depth (and with a great sense of humour), I can't recommend them enough.
for some part of it, still true :-p
I expect language/cultural barriers are a larger factor. With a local alternative, why would you use an app made by someone that doesn't speak your language or understand your needs?
Can I ask you a dumb question: I think I just turned it on properly but I have no idea how to proactively confirm that mysql is actually using jemalloc, rather than just wait for better performance numbers?

Because it's an external environment variable, it doesn't actually show inside any of mysql's settings. No startup errors or runtime problems is always nice but I really am curious to know for a fact it worked.

Will probably have to ask this on stackexchange if you don't know.
Umm, you break federal laws or regulations every day in the course of your normal life. I guarantee it.

You add in state and municipal codes and you probably are breaking the law right now as you read this and probably in multiple ways.

Consider what you are saying. "Government workers should consider it their job [to be] absolutely accurate." Do you really want a vehicular safety inspection when you get pulled over for speeding? Especially given that the tests for which are written so that any commercial vehicle with any wear and tear at all will fail some aspect.

"Standing your ground" on principle is fine I guess if you have as large an ego as Arrington; I would rather focus on what is important and get sh*t done. I also really would advise taking anything he says when it comes to anything he has a vested interest in with a grain of salt. He has less than a stellar record on honesty when it comes to self-reporting.
but they still care about our heritage. isn't that why all the cities with 'English' names were rechristened? :p
Just doing their jobs? Who's just description says "fraud" on it?
Sport, Olympics And Health
Sounds like you're not in the target demographic. That's okay, there are other products for you.
This. The same programmers that complain about clueless micromanagement are usually also the ones with the "I don't want to know all this business shit" attitude.

Guess what? You're being micromanaged by MBA's because otherwise, despite all your l33t coding skills, you're f-ing useless.
I did not state that a national health service was impossible to sue, just that it is harder to sue; as especially with democratic processes dictating service levels, those same processes will also have to dictate operational mechanics to make sure everything is being done "by the book" (and "sustainable", according to some central regulatory body). Ultimately if a provider can prove they were following the letter of the regulations, their culpability is diffused back to the regulatory authority, and their liability diminished.

I was not targeting the British NHS, in fact, I didn't mention it. However, I would point out that:

> the idea that someone might go untreated perhaps for years for a quickly treatable illness, because going to hospital would bankrupt them, is seen as abhorrent and barbaric.

Is not the same as having a rare condition. You have added (1) quickly treatable, and are assuming (2) easy to diagnose.
1. The design is "borrowed" from Apple
2. Average specs for the price
3. ChromeOS cannot do anything this kind of hardware allows you to.

Verdict: Could be a good Windows PC if the design was original and the specs were better.
Friend(s) of mine in Mumbai are easily accessible using WhatsApp on their android phone than they were on their home desktop machines and Instant messengers.

Just like other developing countries, I think Next generation of India will be skipping whole desktop and Laptop and move straight to mobile and tablet based computing devices.
I'll be looking into it -- if it is copyright infringement I believe this is fair use (parody, non-profit, academic, etc.). If it isn't fair use than this is actually a really interesting part of copyright law (e.g. using a premium font will make it more difficult for others to perform satire on your work).
I will be interested only when virtualbox will run on it ;-)
"Your browser is not supported
Only works in Google Chrome at the moment,
since HTML5 APIs it uses are not available in other browsers yet."

Is the message I receive using Chrome 25.
This is a very true post, but I don't think the solution is at the university, at least for undergrads. Schools barely have enough time in 4 years to create entry level programmers. Lopping off half the coursework in exchange for domain knowledge leaves grads unprepared.

My observation is if you can learn to program well, you can learn any field of knowledge. A programmer can learn consumer products easier than a brand manager can learn Python. Similarly a CS major can learn bond math easier than a Finance major can learn database design. (Yes, these are generalizations)

What's this mean? That bridging the Tech/Client divide is on the shoulder of the technologist. In addition to learning the latest frameworks, we have to learn our customers business. In addition to tech credentials, we should add theirs too.
Or is it? At least, for videogames you can reuse big chunks of game engines and various networking code. You can't reuse footage that easily.
Forgot to mention - touchscreen on notebook laptops is useless - your arms get tired and your screen gets dirty very quickly.
Also: google are regular copycats.
Hopefully I'll get the chance to try it when it goes back up. Editing the theme manually kinda sucks.

Currently, in Sublime Text 2, when I edit a theme and saves, it starts to add a lot of weird redundant codes inside the theme file. I'm not sure whether it's a bug or I shouldn't edit the theme file live.
Illinois state senator pushes anti-anonymity bill
Perhaps we should all work in compilers ;)
Another metaphor for necessity of Domain Knowledge is translation. Give an average translator a technological text full of idioms from this technology domain and you will laugh your ass off.

I remember reading reports about some SAP installation process (written by idiots) full of stupid special terms such as "System Landscape" and "User Privileges" translated by an English teacher.)

Why we have this as a top news? Isn't it obvious that you must know the slang before you're trying to speak, let alone translate?

Well, most of coders use a slightly different strategy - jump right into IDE and pile it up, using all that containers and design patterns they have heard of (without understanding, why bother?) until it satisfies the manager (compiles) who know absolutely nothing (this is why everything must be statically typed). Then test it like a black-box - correct input produces correct output (never try incorrect or unexpected) and then ship and forget.)
The UK is hovering around the recession borderline, but I wouldn't say the recession is deeper than is was pre-austerity.

On the other hand, Greece tried no austerity, and we see how that played out.

//edit//And in the UK - austerity hasn't even started yet. Government spending is still rising in real terms.
At least the gap at the beginning should be shortened. As that's not something you have any control over now.
You have to provide a link for some of the illiterate downvoters here. "2 + 2 = 5" was my 1st thought 2.

http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/articles/col-twoplustwo.htm
The birth of Intel Capital
Government buys everything less efficiently than the free market. That's what you can do when individuals aren't held accountable (I'm talking about government employees, not elected officials).
Bees and plants communicate via electric signals, say scientists
First, I never mentioned the UK.

Second, if I were, then small and homogenized could just as easily apply to a geographically concentrated population with the same macro drivers of external illness vectors (climate, weather and epidemiological proximity). Odds are that if the flu is going around the UK, the person coughing has the flu.

[EDIT] Third, I did say might and the short run...sometimes social engineering problems can take a while to diagnose, and can be difficult to treat.[/EDIT]

And just like anywhere that regulations spring up (Canada or not), regulatory compliance becomes a de facto legal defense against malfeasance.
Technically Scala does support top-level functions, because a top level singleton object can extend FunctionX[...]. It just doesn't support the short "def" form of declaring them at the top level.
Microsoft, BSA and Others Push For Appeal On Oracle v. Google Ruling
My experience of gamespy is a little different to what Im reading here. For me it is or was some bit of software that got installed that I never ever asked for or wanted. To me it was some sort of evil spyware I never asked for, a bit like being forced to install a tool bar in my browser. I'd get rid of it only for another game to replace it. When I first saw it, I looked it up and realised it was not dangerous or evil, so in the end I ignored it as an irritant not worth worrying about. Its still there in my start menu now.

First thing I thought when I saw the headline was, good. So, Im finding it fascinating that today I see a thread full of people who use(d) and love(d) it. I really never knew it had value to any one, let alone some fondness.
> I love that we get these political discussions on hacker news, but I sometimes wish we as a community would spend as much time thinking about politics as we do thinking about programming and science.

I don't love it, because they retread the same arguments over and over, generate flame wars, and attract people who are more interested in politics than the niche arguments that are the bread and butter of this site.

Also, many of us do spend a lot of time thinking about politics, it's just that we don't feel the need to pollute HN with it.
Was the pork pie cooked? They have a rule against raw meat but if it is cooked then it should have been allowed through.
That's more akin to reusing props and cameras.
Not even close the USCG was under the Dept of Transportation not the Marines before being merged into DHS in 2002. Also, in time of war the Navy can annex the USCG.
I believe there is not debate at all that not respecting patents helps societies that have not developed technology as a whole.

If it not were for USA importing machinery and not respecting foreign "IP", USA would be a de facto colony of foreign nations.

They will only be able to sell raw source materials very cheap, and will have to import very expensive machines, while being dominated by war with industrialized countries.

E.g. Why the US today invades Irak or Afganistan to get cheap goods, like oil?, because those countries don't have industry on their own to defend itself from the drones, tanks or missiles of the invader. They could only use light weapons against cameras, satellites and aircraft carriers.
Cooked and vacuum sealed, the rotters! :-)
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Languages exist to convey complex information, nothing else comes close to them in that ability.

As an exercise, try to convey the idea "I'm diabetic and I need some insulin" via !language. Charades? Interpretive dance? Drawing?

And yes, we do "write a skyscraper". That's what blueprints are for.
Well, at least it's true there are some expectations now that there were not before: you can't show up with a "personal homepage" full of silly animated gifs, random midi music in the background and a photo as a repeating background image and likewise you cannot post a comment that sounds stupid, silly or random on any site and expect it to be accepted, so to speak. Most people would agree this is for the better, but hey, it is true there is less randomness and less fun, in a way.
I will certainly donate to this.
I enjoyed the ideas on http://johannesbrodwall.com/2010/03/08/why-and-how-to-use-je... for similar reasons.
Or XeTeX for that matter, even though I suspect LuaTeX may very well be the future.
Japanese telecom DoCoMo proves H.265 is the future of video
A government can never spend too much money

A strange point of view. From mine, a government is generally a very bad spender and investor. Also, I prefer democracies were the power (money?) is in the hands of the citizens.

By the they spend too much, I meant that they have the tendency to throw money at problems to gain time instead of fixing things and having a vision.

I understand this point of view lies in the political territory though.
Massive tunnels hollowing the earth under NY
A lament: https://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=aaronsw

How fitting that it ends on a discordant note.
Along the lines of the real world PITA you acknowledged at the end: getting dollars out of mtgox is a nightmare and don't expect for a second that you won't be giving up all your info to the government.

I had some BTC lying around there for a year or so. When I came back, they had upgraded their security methods to the point where I had to:

-submit proof of residence

-submit a valid photo ID

-wait several days

-ask for verification on dwolla

-wait several days

In addition, there is a disclaimer on mtgox explicitly forbidding Tor and using proxies. There's not a shred of anonymity in this process.
> The profession of programmers who only know how to program should disappear like the profession of scribes who only know how to write.

I think it would be better to say that the new programmers would replace the old as writers replaced scribes. Because we do have people who only write, it's just not quite the same.
Maybe you have reason to be afraid, but...

> Charm simply does not work on underpaid meatheads

Charm, or respect, works on people. Sorry, but when you call them meatheads, it doesn't instill me with any confidence that you treated them with respect. The actions you describe support that fact (mostly through the way you describe it).

Again, maybe you have a reason, but unless you are leaving critical things out, your attitude is what makes it impossible.
doh! yes, I meant 'dog bites man'
I recently started using it as a "like" button. So I don't have to reply with "thanks", "cool" etc ...
You should crank up your dynos if you're on the front page ;)
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The sequester will set back medical science for a generation
> There are now inductive loops as you traverse the offramp. They sense if your car is exceeding a given speed, and they trigger a red light at the end of the offramp if you are. Then, after that turns green, the system triggers another red light four blocks down the road to be sure you're not drag racing.

Oh that's a wonderful nudge! These sound much more better than speed cameras. No need for a bureaucratic system of enforcement for the simple things.

Just as long as they're used judiciously. I can imagine the rage if the guy in front keeps triggering the red for everybody.
In my opinion, it would be better to create an OS abstraction layer for the application so that conditionals do not have to be added everywhere and people are able to use whatever tools they are comfortable with.
We haven't had a lot of luck using that for utf8. Also the character set is relatively limited (can't do Korean characters for example that way).
If she acted as Mike suggests she likely has a history of being an idiot and CBP will be happy to reprimand/release her.
$93k dental work sounds like an outlier. In a free market, $93k dental work should be as rare Bentley's on the road. There are very few people who can afford $93k procedures, so dentists/doctors will have to figure out how to do the procedure for a lot less or deal with the fact that their target market will be extremely small.
Sadly, that means the barrier to actually creating things will be that much higher. That concerns me.
Or you could just keep your PS3. Nobody is putting a gun to your head to sell it.
This comes up here with a saddening frequency. Here's the answer (from last time somebody in your shoes asked):

Valid reasons for leaving college to go into software development include having build an app/site/open-source-thing that's exploding to the point where you've demonstrated beyond a doubt that you're good at this stuff and therefore don't need a piece of paper from a 3rd party saying as much. It doesn't sound like you (original poster) have done that yet.

The quick test is this: Has Twitter offered you six figures to come work for them? If not, then no, you don't get to skip college yet. Stick it out until that happens, then go. Otherwise all you're doing is stacking the deck against yourself.

And in the meantime, try a bit harder to enjoy your time at university. Forty-year-old you will probably look back at it as one of the best parts of your life.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5025660
Do we now? Look at the cost of the military and its uses. I didn't make government spend on that. Look at all the paranoid post 9/11 security measures. What proportion of your money is being spent on those things compared to, say, education, health or even welfare? Who actually asked for all that? To be fair, I suppose it could be called job creation.

We don't make the government spend too much money, they chose to spend all that money because they are backed by the people who benefit from the spending of all that money, and its not the working or middle class. Remember those discussions about how bent and corrupt lobbying is? They are the people getting your money. Not "we".

Makes me laugh, all the US revulsion to socialism, while the US has one of the biggest state funded job creation strategies in the capitalist west. Its just that it is called the military rather than anything too socialist sounding. It also get the poor an education, at the risk of their lives. Shame its about killing and paranoia, rather than creating and earning.

Yes, the military drive some innovation, but man, really? In the 21st century?
There are a number of ways to handle UTF-8 in LaTeX, but the methods are all somewhat irritating in various ways.

I haven't had a lot of luck with inputenc. My understanding is that it breaks things up into escape sequences internally which is neat but doesn't give you some things that would be nice because your default fonts don't support it.

I have used xetex a bit more and found it more helpful. However it has some other rough corners

Luatex also handles UTF8 natively. Answer is "it's complicated." And hence your solutions depend entirely on what you are trying to do.
The reality of developers life
> That's exactly the point. Apple markets its high-PPI displays as being higher-resolution than the human retina.

But the resolution doesn't need to be any higher than the maximum resolution of a human retina. By definition, you'd be unable to see the difference; you're just left with the scaling problems of an extremely high resolution on a very small display.