skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If people don't spend their money, or lend it, the economy suffers.

Do you think people buy stuff because their currency is steadily losing value, or might it be because they need or want stuff?

> When there is high inflation people will spend all their money as soon as possible, before it loses value. Too much inflation is bad too, but some inflation is good.

Your average Joe off the street has no clue about what inflation means or what the current official (understated) rate is. You're talking about a situation where it's obvious to everyone that they just should not hold on to the currency they have. Think hyperinflation.

> With the gold standard the supply of money is completely independent of the need for money.

The need for money? Well, if gold is money, then you don't "need money" because you already have it. There's no need to worry about your money having lots of purchasing power either, that's just a good thing.

> The discovery of a great source of gold will bring inflation;

And conjuring up trillions of quatloos out of thin air will not?

You're saying that the money supply increasing without a corresponding increase in economic activity will cause your currency's purchasing power to dwindle? Well yeah, that's about right. But what exactly is supposed to be the problem you're talking about here?

> an expansion of the economy without a corresponding increase of the money supply will bring deflation.

Yyyep. Again, what's the problem?

> The same would be true with bitcoin and bitcoin mining.

Ditto.
buyout incoming, well done
And don't forget the amazing amount of functionality that's available for free using the plugin system.

It's a classic software development problem - Wordpress's complexity is both it's strength and weakness, and will probably be it's downfall one day (but not just yet)
Indeed. I've been using the klip.me extension, which is great:

http://www.klip.me/

Even better has been their Google Reader to Kindle service, which I've set up to send a daily chapterized kindle version of all the news blogs I follow.

Oh well.
China's Shanda is Launching its Own Smart Watch Running Firefox OS
You're probably talking about this -
https://github.com/kayue/WordpressBundle

Not what I was talking about - this allows you to run wordpress on a symfony site and share user state (pretty trivial).

I'm talking about an adapter that allows you to run Wordpress plug-ins - without Wordpress. Basically allowing you to write a normal blog system while leveraging the huge community and functionality of WP plugins.
Having previously worked as a carpenter I have vast experience with moderate size cuts, and always had a bottle of brush-on superglue in my belt. If you rinse the cut and leave it a little damp when you apply the superglue it actually pulls the wound closed as it dries as well as killing any bacteria.
This seems like a good way to get 1 year's experience ten times.
Why is Xbox emulation still immature after a decade of development?
Another "Web Flow": http://www.springsource.org/spring-web-flow
Especially since it doesn't provide any actual stats or data or back up the claim that photographers are being put out of work. There are no testimonials from either those who would hire photographers nor photographers themselves that this is happening.
Follow up: The Computer Language Benchmark Game still only marginally relevant to real world use.
Does Plunker have an about page? I've been looking for a description of what it does and what it's for but can't seem to find anything.
Looks cool. When is it gonna be open sourced?
HTML5 game server. Full source code + server available via torrent
Hi Jean,

Agreed 100% - both with the value of meetups and balancing the technical risk assessment. I'm doing a keynote at NFJS New York on "how to select and adopt technologies" that talks a lot about community focus, where in the technology adoption lifecycle the technology is, etc.

You also have to look out for how many technologies you're managing. I'm a fan of polyglot programming and polyglot persistence, but that doesn't mean you should have five server side languages and seven different NoSQL data stores.

Agreed re: innovating on peripheral apps. Only thing I'd add is select technologies that could be great for your core, innovate peripherally, and once you have some experience you can revisit the risks of introducing that tech into your core stack.

Nice link re: the infoQ etsy talk - thanks!
Rob, there are many different forms of chronic pain, many different
severities, and many different causes. The most common instances of
chronic pain occur after some form of trauma (damage), but others occur
without any known trauma. From your description, you seem to be in the
"post trauma" category (from cycling), and the pain is limited to your
legs.

Since you're still able to walk, and surprisingly, rollerblade and run,
you should to count yourself as very lucky.

I mean this sincerely. I won't compare pains in public, but I'll just
say, I still appreciate my good fortune and I always count my blessings.
Whenever you have moments when you're unable to do the things you want,
try to remember the things you can still do. It helps. Even if the only
things you can manage to do today is get yourself out of bed into a
chair and try to concentrate well enough to read, those are still
accomplishments and you are lucky to be able to do them.

You managed to use a computer for awhile or maybe even did a bit of
typing today? -- FUCK YEAH! Major Win!

Celebrate the wins. Appreciate the little things. Until a person is no
longer able to do the little things, those little things are taken for
granted.

The supposed little things seem so pathetic by comparison, but
comparison is the real problem. If you compare yourself with others,
there are only two possible outcomes and both are harmful; either you'll
become vain, or you'll become insecure.

The best answer is to just do your best. At times, your best will be
truly bad, by comparison, but this is true for absolutely everyone. When
you learn to accept your abilities and appreciate your best, you've got
the positive momentum to keep striving for better. Everyone endures
setbacks, and everyone is enduring some rate of deterioration -- for
example, think of some skill you had but are now a bit rusty due to lack
of practice (like SYS/360 or VAX assembly code?). Only by continually
trying to do your best can you stave off the eventual decline a little
longer, but more importantly, doing our best is where we find happiness.

The rogues gallery of interaction on the Internet is always there, and
every day it seems to become more of a competition and conflict of
harmful comparisons. Whether it's the effigy of yourself on some
"social" site being compared with others, or your best work being
compared with alternatives; the comparisons are always there. The only
thing you should ever take with you from a comparison is new ideas to
improve your best.

Laugh! It helps. Make jokes so others can laugh with you. (Yes, even
here on HN)

If you, or others, in our situation would like to contact me privately
through email, I have a good collection of information that can help
people living with chronic pain. My email is in my profile.
It makes me wonder if the companies behind that online game and auction site were "sold" Wordpress by a developer/designer as a way they could easily update their website. Perhaps whoever pitched Wordpress as a solution in those cases didn't have the knowledge to build a fully functional website from the ground up without Wordpress.

As a fellow PHP developer, I can say I share the heart sinking feeling when I see "functions.php".
At a guess, because the "ix" makes an "s" sound. So, in the writer's mind, it sounds like a plural i.e. "Netflicks".
Why was the Getting Started Guide not at (or near) the top of your priority list for documentation?
It doesn't matter what Rails decides to do if your HTTP server doesn't support it.

With that said, it looks like many do already support it (from the same article you linked): Apache, nginx, Phusion Passenger, Unicorn, Thin, and WEBrick.
People treat WordPress like a Swiss Army Knife because they can. Why build an online directory or CRM or auction site from scratch when you can just use WordPress? It can be a bit sloppy, code-wise, but it works and you can get the job done a lot faster than it would take to do it from scratch.

Consider an online business directory. You could just build one from scratch or use some script designed for that purpose but WP simply offers more flexibility. If you decide you want a Google Map displayed in each listing, just download the relevant plugin. If you want to add oEmbed functionality (for, let's say, embedded videos), it's already built-in. If you want to do advance taxonomy queries use the Taxonomy Drill-Down plugin, etc.

Yes, it's all held together with chewing gum, but it works.
ooooh I have a story similar to this

Back in 2010 I moved to a new city, and was trying to find a graphic design firm that wanted an in-house web developer. I shopped a resume (with prominent link to on-line portfolio) to all sorts of shops, never got a single call back.

A while later, I had brief access to a Mac, and decided to check out my site there (those were the dark OS 9 days when Mac testing was sort of optional). Turns out that a CSS glitch in IE Mac would take down — not just the browser — but the entire computer. I had been walking around crashing systems and losing peoples work for months.
What we need is not more journalists -- everybody and his brother is a journalist. What we need is more editors. And more demand for editors. Somebody to curate and brutally dissect content for others to consume. Somebody to tell authors "No. This is not good enough. Rewrite it."

Newspapers and other MSM outlets are one of the last places this is happening. I don't think we'll miss newspapers when they finally disappear, but we're sure as heck going to miss editors.
Computer networks crash at South Korean banks, media companies
One more thought on this: no one on unemployment is obligated to take the first job they can find. Part of the reason for unemployment insurance is to give people time to find a job that's a good fit. In the broader sense, that's pretty much what you say you'd like to do by trying the startup.
> People who have a high amount of debt relative to income (generally the poor, the middle class, governments) benefit from inflation, not deflation, as they can spend full value money today and pay it back with diminished value money later.

But they keep having to pay more for Stuff. In other words, their purchasing power keeps decreasing, unless their wages rise to compensage for inflation. Deflation "means" an increase in purchasing power, which means getting more stuff for your money, which is.. good? What's not to like?
Reminds me of reading Flat Earth News http://www.flatearthnews.net/ - the view that journalism is seen as a cost center and has been squeezed to the max
My father was a typewriter repairman, and his specialty was fixing the Selectric. It was quite lucrative -- these things were expensive enough to be worth repairing and were as important to companies as Internet is now. When I was 10, however, we were watching the Super Bowl and the infamous Apple 1984 advertisement came on TV. My dad immediately realized he was doomed. He went out and bought the Mac on the first day it was available. We brought it home. I plugged it in, turned it on, and my faster saw WYSIWYG for the first time in the text editor. The first words out of his mouth were "oh, shit." I went to print the document and it didn't work -- the initial batch of printer cables were incorrect. When we got the new printer cable from the store the next week, my dad decided to change professions and focused on real estate.
Any idea how much this expedition cost him?
Not sure why you got downvoted.

There is an interesting couple of articles on the subject here:

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/01/what_would_you_do_if_...

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/02/what_would_you_do_if_...
I object to one thing you said. Criticism is often NOT because the critic wants you to succeed. If more than a few people know about your tool, some of them will hate your project and want it to be rejected and die. And they won't necessarily play fair. There are so many ways and so many reasons why an open source tool will be attacked, many of which are not constructive at all, not even honest, just intended to make your project look terrible in public so that they can "win" somehow. This is a social reality of writing tools for other people to use for free.
You don't become full stack by being shitty at lots of things quickly. You become full stack by going deep in many places, preferably quickly. This guy possesses some very short term thinking.
If a spacecraft were to travel orthogonal to the plane on which planets orbit the sun, would it experience the heliosheath as it exits the solar system? For that matter, have there been any spacecraft launched that didn't travel on the orbital plane (ignoring earth-orbiting spacecraft)?
Definitely love the fact that it's pre-designed. I think the FireFox support + responsive functionality is the right direction to go as those are the things I hate worrying about when doing front end work. As a Firebug user, I think this definitely fits into my toolbox.
I might be in the minority on HN, but I think that WordPress is doing fine just as it is. Whereas my gag reflex kicks in at the mention of a Drupal contract, WordPress is still pleasant-ish to work with. It's simple enough that I can get my own custom work done without having to spend a ton of time fighting the core system. Though, YMMV depending on the nature of the custom application, I'm sure.
Agreed, bad things are bad. I was in pain for 3-4 years in my early twenties due to Bechterew's disease, and it was a thoroughly bad experience. Though still mild compared to what the author describes, it really messed me up, making me angry and depressed. I had a good life before I got sick, and I have a good life now that I have a proper diagnosis and working drugs.

It's fantastic that the author found peace with his pain, but I wouldn't wish chronic pain on my worst enemy, and I definitely wouldn't expect people with chronic pain to view it as a new opportunity.

I really hope your [random bad thing] works out to something not quite as bad. Modern medicine is pretty awesome.
For anyone who's curious, this oft-repeated expression originates from the novel Shibumi (http://goo.gl/gPuyB, fourth line):

Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience — twenty times.
GoPro using DMCA to take down review
Mark, does CS fulfill the role Luwak formerly did? What's better and/or different about CS vs Luwak?
"Docker will be open source soon"

Soon could be in tomorrow, a week, a month, a year, or longer ...
At first I was thrown by the domain name.
I find the "advice" in the post a bit confusing. Finding an answer on SO or a forum or a book will help you solve a specific problem (thus making you a "productive" coder). But I seriously doubt it will make you code faster in general if this "code snippet copy & paste coding" is not expanded into understanding so next time the search part is removed from the process.

In the early days, it always took me a lot more time to get from finding an answer to using that answer in my code. The main reason is that I didn't want to just copy paste something without understanding it. On the other hand, a more experienced colleague of mine was sifting through books and forums and pushing code a lot faster. I talked to him trying to understand what I'm doing wrong. As I've learned (actually both of us learned), the only difference was the existing knowledge each of us had about the environment and the app. Over time I got to be a lot faster at finding an answer and moving along, but that came only with becoming more familiar with the tools/lang/etc and being able to understand things faster.
I'm not familiar with any of the technologies used in this. Anybody care to comment on how strong the isolations would be security wise, compared to normal virtualization?

If the security is almost at par and the isolation is good enough that one bad process can't bring the whole system down, might this be a good alternative to virtualization, since I imagine it would definitely use less resources.
As far as I can tell WordPress is stuck. Its success is largely down to the number of theme's and plugins it currently has. You can build pretty much any basic functionality by just installing the plugin's for it.

A rewrite would probably benefit the performance and abilities of Wordpress but it would be at the cost of ALL the themes and plugins. The platform would start again from scratch. I don't follow Wordpress too closely but I haven't heard of any one talking about - or having the energy for - such a rewrite.

Would Automattic even allow such a rewrite to go through? It would be a horrible transition for Wordpress.com.

As for alternatives... There are a number of good CMS with a well designed, easy to use admin panel. They aren't popular though, plugins are scarce and support is uncertain. This often makes Wordpress the best choice by default. Which is kinda sad.
You're right, it doesn't make sense to keep $BIG_BUCKS lying around on an account somewhere, losing value to inflation. It's a better idea to seek a return on that kind of money.

But saving makes sense even just to prepare for unexpected expenses. We're not talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars here, in most cases, it's not even tens. Barely scraping by might be a bit of an alien concept to someone pulling in $250K/year from programming.
Apparently someone likes the all caps version: http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/36418027.jpg
I'm on your side here but I still have to defend trek on this one. This sort of feedback is not all that uncommon and at this point the Ember team has to be deaf, dumb, and blind not to know about it. Trek even says he knows about this and that they're working on it. And he's right that HN can sometimes be a place where people come to talk down to other people and rant like entitled assholes about asinine topics and the community can sometimes get so wrapped up in it that we almost truly believe we're the center of the universe (myself included). So I can understand his "dickitude" remark.

I think what this really comes down to is a few very simple reasons he doesn't need to respond to this:

- He and the Ember team have heard it before and many times said they're working on this (I know I've seen that stated publicly many times)

- There are only so many people you can respond to. Again, the team knows, they're on it, no response required

- A front page HN post does not automatically mean the project maintainers need to respond.

- This is OSS. Like Trek says, there's only so much time he can devote to this stuff especially for free.

I think we need to give him a break here.
Are the aufs filesystems easily navigable from the host OS, ala Solaris's zones feature?
Same for me as well, I had previously used Backbone heavily at work (which is still awesome), but wanted to try something new. Angular has good docs, tutorials, screencasts and a very active Google Group with pretty helpful people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Spheres
Everything previous I'm aware of has been multicast based or address based, like email or mailing lists.

As others remarked, IRC is follower-based. You follow a bunch of channels by sending subscription message (JOIN #channel-name) to central authority (IRC server). The server keeps track of who follows which channel, and brokers any PRIVMSG #channel message messages to the followers, until the person does PART #channel-name or disconnects. Aside of that, a direct person-to-person mechanism exists just as well, also via the PRIVMSG command.

The USER nickname command provides, among other, list of (public) channels the named person follows, which some IRC clients use to allow user to follow the same channels.

Yes, there is a difference between an IRC channel and a singular persona, but it is not as clear-cut as it may seem on its face. On one hand, some channels are muted, and only admins, or just a single admin, can post. On the other, Twitter handles often stand for multiple persons, speaking for one organization, team etc.

* * *

As an IRC user, I am ashamed and appalled of how low our industry has fallen -- somebody applies for a patent for what (after cursory read seems to me) a copy of well-known and long-established functionality.
A lot of it is due to the fact that it's much easier to sell an end-user on a plugin to their existing site that requires little to no server configuration than a completely separate system.

Whether or not it makes sense as a WordPress add-on is not really taken into account by users, who just see it as easy to set up and manageable from the same dashboard as the rest of their site.
Maybe they nuked themselves:

http://digg.com/robots.txt
This idea is not aimed at startups. It's a huge problem for large enterprises, albeit less so for product companies than for captive IT orgs creating internal systems & utilities. If you, or anyone else, would like specific examples from one company -- along with discussion of remediation attempts -- feel free to email me. When the economy went south in 2007/2008 we dismissed about 18% of our global IT org and didn't start to rebuild until late 2011. Those 3+ years of stagnation nearly killed several business critical systems.
Infographic: The Average Facebook Page Performance For February 2013
I'm sympathetic. There is nothing you can do in open source which will not result in a political response.

Before, I had no interest in ember.js. Today I am willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. Because so many people are trying to bury it, for some reason which has nothing to do with technical concerns.
Yes, around 10%-20% time for design looks correct to me - which is why you have maybe 1-2 designers in a team of 10 people. But the designer still has to work 100% to get stuff done and it can get very stressful as well. And his work is important - because design-errors are early errors which means they are the most expensive ones you can have.

But it's really as in all jobs - the difference between good and bad designers is so absolutely unbelievable huge that if you worked with some bad ones and then meet good ones you hardly believe they are doing even similar jobs.
Although he's already replied to you, I wanted to point out that a refusal to respond to a post in no way indicates whether or not the communication has been received. In other words, he's not ignoring the feedback, he's just refusing to engage in discourse which he sees as already unproductive.

Quite the opposite, he sympathizes with the OP to begin with, and so he most likely read it. He just doesn't want to engage in what could easily turn into a flamefest.
W. Virginia won’t release “embarrassing” report on $126M broadband spend
Browser Based ARM Development for Raspberry PI
Most common answer to any CS question in school is... "It depends".. And I think that applies here.

There are some situations where its better to have a good enough solution today rather than a perfect solution next week. And when you are in the earliest stages of product development, I apply this tip often (JFDI). But eventually there comes a time where your prototype has actually become a product, and too much hack & slash code begins to work against you rather than for you.

You have to make the judgement of where this tipping point is yourself, I am sure it is different for many developers.

Side note: I am currently refactoring a massive amount of my product's code because I am about to introduce some new and repetitive functionality. I don't mind hacky code, but to copy and paste it is down right sinful to me. So I guess I have reached my tipping point.