skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right about my calculation mistake.

However This site : http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk
has the UK GDP and national debt from at least 1750

In 1816, the GDP was 0.32 billion pounds. If you assume from 1816 the lending to UK govt bonds was the Rot Schild bank, the starting point of the Rot Schild base moeny that I took will be far more than USD 1 million. So I think you will arrive at a trillion any which ways.

The reason for this is that from that year going forward, the Rot Schild would have bought bonds from the govt (effectively lending them money) every year going ahead, giving them (the Rot Schilds) a passive income stream from then to now.

Each year a new income stream would have been added by loaning additional bonds, which was independent of the previous years income.

I don't know what numbers to plug in, perhaps that is left to someone more knowledgeable than me.
You mean that my comment was stupid?
If you are signed in with a Microsoft account everything seems to work. Terrible UX though. Nothing indicates you need to sign in.
You can't downvote here. This is not SE.
Can SEO's Stop Acting Like Robots Please
The paper from last year's SIGGRAPH - http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/papers/vidmag.pdf
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php always links to your actual Facebook page, so being redirected there doesn't mean the PoC is working.
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Looks like most of it is handled, since most of them lead to a 404 if you click on the issues. Cache hasn't been invalidated I would guess
what a fucking surprise. A co-founder of a company with arguably the creepiest history of any comparable company, thinks it's new always-on spy glasses are better than a device which is in someones pocket a lot of the time.

Seriously, if I encountered someone wearing these I would ask them to take them off. Google already collects too much information about us, when we choose to interact with them - I sure as hell don't want them collecting information about me just because I spoke to some idiot stupid enough to buy their glasses.
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Oh, it's definitely elsewhere as well. They're doing it on the outskirts of Melbourne now, too. Australia is full of the stuff and it's only just now beginning to be exploited.
There is quite a bit of focus on the jobs aspect here, which will inevitably push people towards the business.

When I was a student, there was a similar push for teachers (a field also having a shortage of people at the time). The result is that I have several friends who are fully qualified to be teachers that haven't been able to find work in the industry for many years now.

I agree that simply having programming in school isn't going to see everyone becoming programmers. Programming has been offered in the schools here since at least my father's time – though there does seem to be a disproportionate number of programmers come from my region, for what it is worth. However, code.org specifically does seem to come with the purpose of trying to bring more people into the industry.
Ooh thanks for that, I was confused by the title and the video, but your pointless pedantics cleared it all up for me.

Thanks!
I imagine that the only real problem is it'll never be able to be 100% real time as you need to sources of colour. I guess you could get pretty close though.
Even in the presence of QE, the value of the USD remains more-or-less stable. I can go to bed confident that it's not going to cost me $10 to get a loaf of bread tomorrow. Bitcoin isn't and won't be useful to me as a currency until its value is stable.
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I know, I was in a rush! I didn't have much time and I needed to put this idea into action, I realize it isn't the correct way of doing it :P
I will add that in the next update.
Mtgox alreadyrely on Japan and Europe, and yesterday's they announced they offloaded US operations to coinsomething that is YC alum
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Cyberattack leaves natural gas pipelines vulnerable to sabotage
yeah. i live in santa monica but have lived in SF, and these people complaining about west LA's "homeless problem" are out of their minds.
You have to realize this is a very early release! The first working release! I Didn't take anything else into consideration, but I will. Thanks for the comment :D
Maybe the clerk was carefully sealing them back up again? In retrospect they probably should have had tamper-proof seals given the value attached to the wafers being delivered unopened, but then most problems are easily avoidable in retrospect.
The 100MB per domain includes the subdomain storage? Then it doesn't solve what parent comment described - few subdomains could use up all the storage. If it doesn't include it and it's separate then it is exactly like it is now.
'Wet' computer server could cut Internet waste
Correction - UK _Court_ requires ISPs to block more filesharing website. This is about the UK courts, not the ISPs.
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The slippery slope has started.

This is why it's so important to fight with everything you have over the tiny scraps of civil liberties you enjoy. Once a bite is taken, the whole cake inevitably follows.
Opera has a prompt message when limit is reached (it was actually triggered on the demo page). But it only works for subdomain level. There is no global domain limit.
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They should give free test units to the people who are making the open source hand prosthetics [1].

That could make such an immeasurable difference in people's lives.

[1] http://comingupshorthanded.com/
I especially like "Firefox 19 - Canvas elements can be exported to blog" ;)
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN USER EXPERIENCE STRATEGY OF MOBILE VS. WEB
Yea but still can't they block user? Also emails, hooks are still sent...
Maybe it could be scripted? Site owners would have to place some proof of ownership on their site (to be generated on the site of the forum owner - see Google web admins site verification), then a script could detect the faulty links on the forum and remove them automatically.
How will you be different than bswift.com?

As a user of bswift I was given a printed booklet specific to my company and was presented with the easiest web page enrollment and benifit summary I've ever seen.

Will you be a competitor to apps like bswift? What are your plans for differentiation (if any)?
I've said it elsewhere, but it bears repeating: RAID is about availability first and foremost. The fact that it happens to preserve your data in the case of one form of hardware failure is a side effect of its primary goal.
This is a chart for number of bitcoin transactions per day:
http://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions

ASIC hardware sales don't even make 1 days worth of transactions (when we account for the "number" of transactions). I don't see the bitcoin price going back to where it was 3 months ago.
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I can't speak for most other cities on the list. But in DC you can from far out wealthy suburbs (e.g. Loudoun County to the White Houss and see homeless. It certaintly is not as prevelant as I've seen in Tenderloin/SF but its not hidden either.
And yet, we have stuff like this: http://www.facebook.com/VfxSolidarityIntl

Specifically this: http://vfxsoldier.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/an-open-letter-to...
I know I was implying it wasn't.
For sure, the Argentinian Government measures are not for the benefit of the Argentinian people.
Their concept video was definitely interesting, but is there any video of an actual demo? (Or, since the company seems to be answering questions here, is one planned?)
it doesnt, indexeddb and filesystem api do though
>Whenever the BTC price moves up or down, do you honestly believe "It's those blasted early adopters, at it again I tell you"

Because of bitcoin's ludicrous generation curve the early adopters own what, 3/4 of all the bitcoins, guaranteed to be at least half of all those there will ever be? So yeah, price movements are likely to be their influence because they're the biggest owners.

>You also appear to assume, incorrectly, that early adopters are just itching to exchange out into fiat currencies, as if their eyes are glued to their computer monitors, just waiting for their lucky day to "cash out BIG" ... into fiat currency. Hmmmm

It only takes a few. They're sitting on these bitcoins that have shown themselves to be highly volatile, and at the moment their value is increasing by the day. Sooner or later many of these people are going to be in a position where they could get several hundred thousand dollars by selling up, if they're not there already. Is a crash certain? No, but it's wise to plan for that contingency.
http://proxybay.info/ is a good one.
Why so many coding schools/bootcamps recently?
why have coding schools proliferated recently?

Does it signify higher industry demand for entry level trainees or higher worker demand for training?
The problem with giving blanket investment advice is that different investors have different methodologies and timetables. For example, some people buy and sell stocks every few minutes, while some hold stocks for years. They also use different methods to predict future value, like algorithms. If you were to trust someone to tell you when to buy, you'd also need him to tell you when to sell.
I think the biggest difference here is that he's not dreaming alone. His wife is extremely supportive on his career and was as committed as him in his pursue to be great in film. In the essay he wrote he tore up the schedule after his wife told him: "Don't forget your dreams." because she found out he'd been going to computer classes and got upset by that. He was not the only on in the pursue of the big dream, they both were, so he doesn't get to make the decision to give up on his own. It's a great, great fortune to have someone who stands by you in the long, frustrating journey, and it made all the differences.
(I always found VB's definition more obvious, given that -1 == ~0.)
Thanks for the Terry Rossio links. Good stuff - just ate two hours of my time.
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I'm looking into why those are showing up in the issues list. Likely a bug. The user has been marked as spammy for over a month, though, which means notifications (email or web) are not delivered.

We should have this cleaned up shortly.
I got to over 2GB and then Chrome crashed (not dramatically, just a tab). Fun fact is that I was not running the "exploit" in Chrome. I was testing it in Opera and I suspect that it was cheating and allocating more and more memory for all the local storage instead of dumping it out to hard drive. So system run out of memory and something had to go.. I still find it funny that it was Chrome :)
It's also detailed in Jobs' biography.
Spending makes sense because the future of bitcoin is uncertain. If you could guarantee that bitcoin wasn't going to crash, hoarding would be a guaranteed winner and people would stop spending (and ironically enough, it then would crash).
Interesting, I wonder how much of that is Satoshi Dice though?. Not that SD doesn't count as demand, but it's unlikely to be sustainable due to the way it bloats the blockchain.
Actually, ∞ ⋅ 0 is undefined.
Nobody is saying Bitcoin is currently awesome and better than standard currencies. However, what is clear is its long-term viability.

You should ask yourself from where currency originates. What is its predecessor and was its acceptance ubiquitous. And take note that there was a period not long ago where saffron was used as "currency".

Also, though you may be intelligent, it would good to take a note from Socrates and consider that perhaps you don't know everything about every field.
Makes total sense; Spotify launches in 2006 and has had increasing revenue and user base year over year since, UK Courts block TPB in 2012. Clear cause and effect, plus time travel.
I'd also be curious about the effects of diffraction and whether the atom appears as a sphere. If so, can we expect to see a Poisson spot, which a bright spot in the middle of the shadow caused by constructive interference?
The slippery slope started when they installed these blocks "for child porn only!" way back when. They even said, specifically, that no other content would ever be blocked.

Since then they added "violent [adult] porn," "illegal 'terrorist' sites," and now they've started doing pirate-related content.

So the slippery slope started a long time ago. We are half way down it and it is only getting steeper.
Browser makers have also done a fair bit of work to speed up the selectors - I'll see if I can find the article
Yeah, they don't look great with a ragged right edge. With justified text the structure would be far clearer.
It's really sad to see phonographic industry fighting piracy that way. There is a million of proxy sites which make Pirate Bay available in UK anyway...

The only way to deal with piracy is enable users to have access to they content they want in any possible way at affordable prices!

I used to download a lot of music, but since spotify offered Premium service for just 4 pounds a month in Poland I bought it instantly (I have Polish CC).

If Netflix had good XBMC app I would gladly pay for that as well.
Very interesting ideas, thanks for your reply. :) I'm really excited to start working on this idea now! xD
Philips launched an iPad app to do this over a year ago: http://innovation.philips.com/pressreleases/nurturing-bg_vit...
It's worth mentioning that in HTML 5.1 they are now recommending that you use headings with an appropriate rank. Not that it's wrong to have multiple H1 tags, just not recommended anymore.

Exact wording:
Sections may contain headings of any rank, but authors are strongly encouraged to use headings of the appropriate rank for the section's nesting level.

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/sections.html#h...
That's just a bug in the exploit that it accidentally used more than 5 MB per subdomain. I got the same prompt, but when I tried to run it again in private tab and the limit was not hit. It got to over 2GB before something bad happened (Chrome's tab process crashed).
Actually, if you're curious, there's matter that isn't made of atoms, such as neutrinos.
There's an app for that: http://cardiio.com/ (by HNer, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4062555)
I don't think it's such a good idea to link directly to such huge files from here. The directory would do just fine http://planet.openstreetmap.org/planet/ and avoid bots or inattentive clicks.

But good to know anyway!
>You can hold (hoard?) securities (VBLTX, HTS, JNJ) that beat inflation, yet people spend dollars on depreciating assets (cars, computers).

No-one buys a dozen computers and puts them in their basement as savings for retirement. People buy cars and computers to use, not as investments. People with nontrivial quantities of "spare" dollars generally do put them into inflation-beating investments.
I worked at a small web hosting company that did probably £2m in revenue a year in my first programming job. They had me spending part of my time as support and the other part on projects.

After about 3 or so months they took me took me out of support and literally placed my desk next to the only full time programmer that company had.

They made all changes direct on live servers and I'd already raised this as a concern and now that became my full time job it was agreed that I'd be allowed to create a dev environment.

Long story short, I exported the structure of our MySQL database and imported it into dev. Some variable was wrong so it didn't all import, so I changed the variable, dropped the schema and back to redo.

Yeah that was the live database I just dropped. After a horrible feeling that I can't really explain I fessed up. I dropped it during lunch so it took about two hours to get a restore.

The owner went mad but most other people were sympathetic, telling me their big mistakes and telling me thats what backups were for.

The owner was going crazy about losing money or something and the COO pulled me into a room. I thought I was getting fired but he just asked me what happened and said "yeah we all make mistakes, thats fair enough, just try not to do it again".

I was then told to get on with it and it must have took me a day to finish what would have taken me an hour but I done it and now we had a process and a simple dev environment. I lasted another two years there. I left over money.
Don't worry about the language, I live in a transatlantic world!

Wish British english would adopt more American spellings - try explaining to a dyslexic child why label and table end differently!
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I'm not sure, and I'm not sure how we could know for sure, but I think it's already prompted the creation of the largest ever DHT. Which peer-to-peer file sharing aside I think is really pretty cool. Along the same lines of cool as BitCoin being the largest ever distributed computing project.
Whatever it was, it's not there anymore.

What happened?
This is what Opera does (you are prompted to raise limit) and it does not prevent this kind of attack. You still would have to have separate TLD limit.
These kind of comments need to be down voted for adding no value.
Yes. The demand has increased 10x.

Last year, 6,000 bitcoin transactions occurred each day. Today, 60,000 transactions occur each day. Source: http://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions
http://screencloud.net/v/aDCU
To nitpick, -14 isn't a literal in all languages. :)

(In Haskell, it's just sugar for negate 14, while in Standard ML it's spelt ~14. And I assume there are other exceptions too.)
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There is a Squeak-based faithful recreation of Sketchpad at around 12:30 in Alan Kay's talk here: http://amturing.acm.org/acm_tcc_webcasts.cfm.
Actually, as this was an English court, I wonder if this has any effect in Scotland and Northern Ireland?
I find frequently that knowing what a computer can do, and knowing how to do it has lead to lots of interesting projects. I know I can automate things I find boring and I know I can write embedded code to make cool electronics. I think many people aren't even aware of what programming can offer them, and so when they have a problem that very simple scripting could solve, they don't recognise it.

Almost every office worker could have at one point or another benefited from simple task automation. They just don't know it!
The future of the Internet is quantum.
This is the 3Ddoodler precursor, isn't it?
Just import bootstrap.less into your own project's main less file and go from there.
Actually it appears to be the spatial pattern of absorption of around 6 million photons. So technically it is a shadow, but it's not like you are flashing an atom from the right and taking a picture from above. I'd like to know more about Fresnel lens aberrations to have an opinion about the feasibility of such a measure.
Oh yes, I second that. Feel really, really lucky...
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It is not a great bug report. In fact, as qznc states, it's not a bug report at all. However, in my weeklong attempts to deal with the issue, I came across a few formal bug reports submitted to various projects.

If I recall correctly, and since the issue is a fight between two different application components that wish to manage keybindings, the bug reports had responses of the "It's not our fault, it's the other package!" variety.
I was speaking to a friends dad at his last Christmas party. He was talking about downloading movies. I asked if he used a proxy. He said. "Of course I do. I use blah." He then told me how he checked to make sure it was working.. I was genuinely surprised that a casual internet user knew about proxies.

As always such domain bans are ridiculous and do not solve the issue of why people choose to pirate stuff. I now use Spotify. I used to pirate music, downloading thousands of albums. Most were deleted after one play. I brought albums, merchandise and saw live bands that I liked. Bands I would never have discovered without "pirating" the music to begin with.

The article talk's about how piracy is dropping and Spotify use is raising. This isn't to do with TPB being blocked. This is to do with people realizing that music discovery is easier with Spotify than it is via piracy. This is the way it should be.

I am sure less TV shows are being pirated due to the rise of catch up and streaming services. I only download TV shows and the only reason for this is the delay in availability in my country. I don't download movies any more because there is already an abundance of stuff to watch - be it new or old - on streaming services like Netflix. I recently discovered the TV show Jericho. Check it out. It was brilliant.

If anything these ban's are endangering users making them more vulnerable to viruses, keyloggers and becoming a part of a bot net. If someone wants something THEY WILL DOWNLOAD IT. Sites like TPB have great community moderation. Dodgy downloads are flagged. Good ones are up voted. I don't remember the last time I got a bad download.

Compare this to the less known sites which people are being pushed towards. More bad links, less community moderation, bad site owners pushing dodgy downloads. A lot of people who are not expert computer users are becoming more vulnerable.

All this is because the music / film lobbies have convinced the UK Government that Piracy is destroying their revenues. Its not. The Internet combined with the glacial speed in which these industries are moving is. Better content, easier access and fair pricing will crush piracy. Blocking domains moves piracy to another source.

Music streaming services have done more to stop piracy than anything else. If music / film industry spent less on lobbyists and court actions and more on innovating access to their products they would see a far bigger turnaround in profits.

When TPB was banned I said it would kick a ball rolling that wouldn't stop. Here we go. I wonder what is next.
Hm. Does he prove that unsuccessful people didn't do that? If not, then it's just the usual selection bias.
I had read that 55% of all transactions are due to Satoshi Dice. Can't find the source right now, but it seems about right by going through the latest transactions on blockchain.info
Haha yeah, that is a bit strange. When Chrome crashed for me it was every process, not just the one tab which I rarely see happen these days. Lets hope the Chrome team implement a fix for this ASAP, not holding my breath on an IE fix for at least a year or so given their prior history for patching things.
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Come to think of it, I've never met a homeless Asian on Indian before. I see plenty of Asians working their asses off in shitty conditions in chinatowns to feed their kids so they can go off to college some day. You're right, it does make you think.
I've had my share of SQL messes but nothing critical (thankfully!). Probably the worst as far as effect goes was a while back in a low paying dev job. I was under immense pressure to fix some thumbnails for an e-commerce site (as in, if this isn't done in 10 minutes, get your coat and get out). The shop I worked for was getting pressure from the client as they'd put it off for weeks at that point.

So.. I write a quick script to resize the master images and re-generate around 2,000 thumbnails. Except... I copy/paste the source path to destination - and I mistype 200px width as 20. Now we have a whole site with long thin product images and no originals to recover from! As in the linked story, no backups were in place and all work was done on production. Lost a weeks wages over that, and had to manually re-add everything from a stack of CD's :)

Lesson learned? Don't let pressure force you into making bad decisions. I knew I really shouldn't be doing that but I was young & foolish.