skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arch has python2 and python3 with the /usr/bin/python symlinked to python3. Anything that depends on 2 uses, well, 2.

It is the bane of backwards compatibility breakage in language semantics. I sometimes think maybe Python3 should have been another language, but it is understandable when there is so little syntactic breakage between the two you want to try to tie them together than diverge on the unicode issue.
You might want to note that it's illegal to own or use Halon extinguishers
in many countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_extinguisher
If you want to learn Python, you should jump in. The differences between Python 2 and Python 3 are easy to pick up if you start with Python 2.
I would if it would serve any practical purpose. Freigeld needs to be adjusted (by printing/removing money) to maintain 0% inflation. To me that implies some form of centralization.
Good try at separating transactions from holding currency. The 'killer app' is not a government-less currency. The killer app is frictionless digital transactions. A previous article expanded on it.
Wikipedia says they have their own fab at Ft Meade. Or is this just a super secure division of an Intel fab?
No, the problem is with your class names

.testimonial.vertical
.testimonial.horizontal

By including those classes in the actual markup you're hard-coding semantics about the presentation of those two elements that may cease to be relevant when the screen changes width. What if when the screen gets sufficiently narrow you want the horizontal layout to actually change to vertical? The breakpoint at which that happens is more closely linked to the size of the element than the global size of the whole screen (which media queries relate to).

So the point is that with element queries you're defining modular breakpoints that directly relate to your CSS modules, not the global size of the screen, and you're not polluting/complicating markup with CSS class names that could become non-semantic in drastically differing viewport dimensions.
In other words, saving money is completely disincentivized in favor of constant spending? Why would anyone adopt this?
What a sad story. I know it's easy to say "in retrospect, if we knew x, y, z, it never would have gone this far," but I have to ask:

Where was the board before the last round of funding?

There is no mention of the CFO or company accountant. Did the company have either?

What did he tell investors who asked about who was overseeing the accounts?
"We" don't have this myth. "10x developer" is just the made-up term of the week. Real people aren't talking about this, because it's bullshit.

People love to pretend they're somehow in the know by making shit up. Go out and do something useful instead.
Encouraging currency to be used/passed around more is not a bug for me.

I never doubt your goal, just the ability of your currency to achieve what you are trying to get.

Might interest you: http://www.lietaer.com/2010/03/the-worgl-experiment/

I have no reason to doubt the story as told there(other than my theoretical complaint), but I am not a historian or economist.
"Whoops, all the things went wrong!"

Definitely not going to space today.
Indie app dev raises $1mm in 6 months after 159 rejections.
tips on testing your idea and getting investment dollars
One big reason for moving to 1.9 is that 1.8 is hitting EOL in June[1]; this means no further security patches either.

(The plan for this was originally announced[2] in 2011.)

1. http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-dev/4...

2. http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2011/10/06/plans-for-1-8-7/
"10x developer" is just the made-up term of the week. Real people aren't talking about this, because it's bullshit.
People love to pretend they're somehow in the know by making shit up. Go out and do something useful instead.
How is this technically implemented -- is the demurrage subtracted once a year, or when you send a transaction?

Where do the coins taken for this fee go?

How can I apply for a grant from the foundation?
By 2014-2015 all of the cards should be Chip & Pin in USA.
Not globally, but to solve local economic problems people are making real headway. Local currencies that can only be spent with local businesses are solving a problem right?
As a polyglot whose preferred scripting language is Python, 3 is the future, there will be no more backwards compatibility breakage in it (that was what going to v3 was for) and the only reason major dev houses still don't use it is because legacy 2.7 code isn't / won't be ported, and is backwards incompatible.

3.0 and its usage of pervasive unicode is an essential scripting language feature Python needed, and where Python2 was a syntactically pretty language with some big pitfalls and "wtfs?" Python3 corrects most of those and is all around better for it.

I do have to say, as someone who has looked at Perl, that is pretty much my stance - Perl 6 is a long time coming, I want it to hit before I try out Perl, same reason I waited until C++11 was market ready to jump into C++ (and now I'm writing qt apps all the time).
Kubuntu or Xubuntu, AFAIK, don't have the crap
Python 2 and 3 are in most practical senses two very closely related, but different, languages. So your scenario is not very different from the two groups of developers suggesting Python and Ruby.

By the way, assuming either language satisfies the external requirements for the project, any half-way competent boss would say "Figure it out. Bring me your decision by the end of the day(/week/whatever). KTHXBYE."
Why do you think it is a complete and utter scam rather than just something that won't work?
Searching 1897 files for "goto "
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603 matches across 121 files

cocks gun, blows brains out

(Yes I know the evil goto supposedly has its time and place, blah blah blah)
I dunno, it is kind of reasonable. C# was designed with a different mindset, but the intents were the same - take a predecessor (VB / Python2) and make them more modern, fix the gotchas and mindfuck, and produce something more refined that isn't backwards compatible.

C# takes it much further, and iterates on syntax a lot more, but Python3's breakage from Python2's is comparable I feel, just not in nearly as extreme a case.
Inside the World's Highest Data Center
Fedora is more of a bleeding-edge (or at least developer-focused) distro - they also ship with Ruby 1.9 instead of 1.8.
There is a correlation between testosterone levels and competitiveness. Exercise will increase your testosterone levels and this may increase your competitiveness
Probably because that's the most obvious thing.
Soooooooooooooooo interesting...
That comes at a cost, though.

The implementations become more complex, which in turn can result in bugs, development delays, and so forth.

Additionally, it allows users of said technologies to continue to use techniques and functionality that have been observed to be outdated, bad or even harmful. You mention Java, which is a good example of how cruft can linger for many, many years, and continue to be used in that time.
Show HN: Simple reviewing based on word clouds
Hackersh - Hacker Shell - a pipeline for processing security information
What all these 10x developer posts miss is really simple. 10x developer may not even work that fast. He might seem extremely slow to those around him. However 10x developers bring TCO of a system waaay below all the "I did this in a weekend" crowd.

10x developer thinks and implements just the right level of abstraction, does just enough testing and implements just enough unit testing. He will think of the forest and will not blindly howl at the trees.

I would go and write a blog post about it to harvest some free karma. But I am just too busy/lazy to do it.

However my point is that all the OP and everybody posting their blogs are ignorant pricks and should really at the very least read and try to understand the Mythical Man Month from Brooks, before they go and start overloading a perfectly fine and understandable term.

Thanks.
China's Baidu developing digital eyewear similar to Google Glass
Mark Zuckerberg Q&A on Facebook Home
What led to your building Facebook Home?
Facebook occupies an interesting space in mobile. We’re not an operating system, but we’re not just an app either. Facebook accounts for 23 percent of the time people spend on smartphones.
I can't speak for others, but in my case, if I came to possess some of this currency I would immediately seek a way to convert it into something that would not decay as I kept it.

I think that saving money for both unexpected problems and future investments is an important part of social responsibility, and I would not adopt a currency that was deliberately designed to make saving difficult unless it was forced on me. Even then, I'd probably try to turn it into some kind of commodity that I could sell again later in order to dodge the losses.

There are a few assertions on the main page that I find interesting, in particular the one about money value vs goods value being "the underlying cause of the boom/bust cycle." I don't have time to read the linked book about it, is there a quick version of the explanation?
My gut tells me that somehow there is room for a "everyone gets N" style ~~virtual currency~~. Like you prove your identity and get the same amount that everyone else gets (scrubbed on transfer) because the whole early-adopters-win thing is sucky.

But this doesn't look like the answer.
They manufacture the hardware, design and produce the software, and are the intermediary between all device communication with all other devices.

I have a feeling they could manage.
Ask HN: Any good online webdesign courses?
There are plenty of online resources if you want to learn programming but I haven't found many resources for webdesign. I want to learn how to design better user interface for my web applications. Can you recommend me any online course / resource?
"How I Explained REST to My Wife" taken down because of gender-oriented nature
I'm not sure why this article has you so upset with the NYT. It's not some morality play, it's about a paper published in Science magazine, one of many papers published every year that track changes to the environment. The fact that a different NYT writer (not a science reporter but a columnist) got his facts muddled when speaking extemporaneously, seems like a convenient straw man.
Yes I get your point, mine was simply that they seem to really target women, for whatever reason :)
> That is not true in the slightest, even if it were, it has nothing to do with this topic.

Sure it does.

You said:

> It doesn't matter that it's optional, the fact is I (didn't) pay for a game to be a advertising platform.

So I raised other examples where you would be "paying to be advertised to." If you're paying for any one of them or any other example which I'll name as needed, your point is incorrect since you would, in fact, pay to see adverts.

> besides you still really haven't addressed the issue directly

I directly addressed your issue head on twice. I pointed out that it is free, and opt-in. That addresses your issue. Your issue is you don't want to pay money and then get advertised to, so "fine," I say and then point out that that isn't what is going on here - twice.

> Instead you're just attacking those who are complaining.

I haven't attacked anyone in this thread. I have brought up facts that counter people's points. I might be attacking their argument but I am not attacking people on a personal level.

That's what you do in a discussion or debate. One person makes a statement, either the other person agrees with that statement and consensus has been reached, or they disagree and then that person needs to make a statement which counters the original statement.

That is what is going on here. You said some things, I said some things which counter your points, and now you counter my points until consensus has been reached.

> The fact remains that the money spent on entertainment was diverted into fund raising, diluting the product.

You'll need to cite something to show that that occurred.
Sorry about that, it should work slightly more reliably now.
I recently read a chapter of David Herman's Effective JavaScript[1] that talked about preserving the async contract even if you cache results (ie. can return without an async call from the caller). Try:

if (connectionInstance) {
setTimeout(function(){callback(connectionInstance)}, 0);
return;
}

That way your async functions will always behave the same way.

[1] http://effectivejs.com/
I think it's pretty safe to say at this point that Perl 6 will never really arrive. If a language doesn't have a practical implementation after well over a decade, it probably never will. This is even more true given that many of its features are now available, often in a better form, in many other mainstream languages.

At least Python 3 exists, and is usable for production-grade systems. Its adoption may not have been as quick as anticipated, but at least it does exist, and it is usable.
People are still writing Singleton pattern code in 2013? Wow.
You should put in some kind of protection for a max drawdown loss, like if you lose x%, you exit. Sometimes your algorithm messes up, or market conditions are bad.
http://www.businessinsider.com/hedge-funds-smashed-worst-qua...
Long short equity funds did poorly in 2008 financial crisis, and also in 2011, when there was high volatility.
A Few Notes On The Culture, by Iain M. Banks
> Small Companies could fund a non profit to help them against trolls, would it be illegal ?

Someone could set up an insurance company specialising in patent-troll insurance.
Release Announcement for v0.1 - http://blog.ikotler.org/2013/04/hackersh-01-release-announce...
Yeah, thanks. I didn't realize until Carmack tweeted about it (https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/319840740723286016).
Yes, but if currency is deflationary, it's best for me if someone else does these things and I just sit back and profit from my currency holdings.
Hack Design - hackdesign.com
Treehouse - http://teamtreehouse.com/

Is there anything you want to specifically learn?
Like D3.js for data viz?
How I wish Flask would support Python 3. And gevent, Twisted, PIL, NumPy, PyPy and... can I have gevent and PyPy working together as well? Oh well, back to reality!
> That is, what is in it for me to use freicoin?

Perhaps the advantages of bitcoin but without the instability.

If bitcoin continues to go through boom and bust cycles that change its value by orders of magnitude, then ironically an alternative with demurrage might prove to be a better store of value. You might lose some of your savings, but at least it'll be predictable.
People are complaining about bitcoin's deflation meaning people are too incentivised to save rather than spend/invest

The fee is really no different from inflation in fiat currencies. Why would anyone save dollars when they are worth 1-2% less every year?
Webkit2 is a branch of webkit project supported by parties other than apple.
Whilst the simplification of the problem into a headline of 10x might be irksome to you, I think it is a symptom of a real problem.

Do people accurately value devs. I've never seen any evidence of it.

The free market doesn't really judge things on a long term quality, this problem isn't unique to software.

To generalise it as "superstar devs are the most awesome" and "bad devs are useless" isn't going to help matters either.

After all, we've all surely had a single line of code, which had been XP written, fully TDD with a good peer review, conducted entirely by superstars, then found it to contain a massive bug.

Micro or Macro level mistakes create problems, often the mistakes are very hard to understand. Even the very best will make 'mistakes', sometimes they might be unlucky and that mistake will become very costly.

If you want to talk about 10x devs, talk about understanding the value of what they do at every level. Otherwise you will have no idea what you have working for you.
Funny, just this morning I decided to write a blog post about Gesell and the 'Schwundgeld' and his short usage in the city of Wörgl almost a century ago.
The real question, of course, is wether inflation isn't a much more natural way of depriving currency of it's value.
Seems to ignore a lot of the flexibility of a traditional shell.

There's not a lot of ways to put all these tools together, that I can see.
To be fair, this post is about a literature Ph.D., not one in a field like Mathematics or Computer Science. Not that the job outlook is a lot rosier on that side, but it's an important distinction to be made.
It would be cool to do that with this signal, if the algo was buying/selling on another signal. Maybe use the short interest signal as a gate on momentum investing for example.
Coinbase Merchant Data Leak?
I think it's good that they "force" a little for devs to start using Python3.
Does anybody else feel that the current proliferation of P2P cryptocurrencies looks symptomatic of a pyramid scheme that has proven its viability (in the form of BTC) and is now being repeated by unscrupulous copycats who smell a quick buck?

I'm not calling the concept of BTC-style cryptocurrency a deliberate, malicious pyramid scheme in itself. I think this is an unintended side-effect.
"It's been zero days since GitHub hired someone."
-- I was expecting an unexpectedly large number. Not this.
+1 for Fedora :)
Nokia battles Google to kill open video
If you're going to sue people for patent infringement you probably shouldn't be joining the patent trolling defense fund.

Otherwise, if you've only got defensive patents (or no patents) the patent trolling defense fund isn't going to do any harm to you.
Some of this may have to do with the general differences in attitude we often see between Ruby and Python developers.

In my experience, Python developers put much more emphasis on creating systems that are correct, secure, robust and reliable. Part of this involves thinking through any changes thoroughly, and being somewhat conservative in the adoption of new technologies and techniques.

The Ruby community, on the other hand, generally places much less emphasis on such factors. They're often much more willing to use newer software, even if it means the stability, correctness and security of the software systems they're building is decreased.

So it doesn't surprise me at all that Ruby developers would rush to a new version, while Python developers take a slower approach involving more thought and care.
The problem with unit tests and a certain type of manager is that they see the unit test coverage as something that must be managed to be as close as possible to 100%, when this is arguably a waste of effort.
I like the effect this has on me. I look at Facebook at the weekend and see some friends were up hours before me to run up a mountain, others have gone into London for the day to see an exhibition then head to a restaurant. I stayed up late the night before watching (and of course, sharing) YouTube videos so missed the best part of the day, but now I see that I'm failing to live life. As a result I up my game and rather than have breakfast and lounge about I head out looking for interesting things to do to justify myself. . . then on Monday when I get a coffee and someone asks "What did you do this weekend" I'm saved of the infamous answer "Just chilled really", which is post Facebook world speak for "Nothing".
Now to wait for the up votes and ensuing rush of self-esteem. . . Anyone? ;)

TL;DR
Subconsciously believing everyone's better than you forces you to up your game and thus get more out of life.
Arch Linux all the way!
Let's hope so, there's got to be a tipping point.
Sounds like someone's bitter. Or trying to stave off competition. :)
From the article:
"How did you define “country?” for this trip?

I used the U.N. standard. There were 192 countries when I started, and one was added (more on that in a moment). I've also been to plenty of regions, islands, and culturally distinct places that don't technically count as member countries: Taiwan, Kosovo, Kurdistan, etc."
Sigh, so an interesting and thought provoking article is taken down because it could have been percieved as sexist? Why not just s/wife/partner/g and call it a day?

I don't think that it was inflammatory. Maybe it's due to wildly unchecked privilege, but I read it as "A way to convey the REST metaphor to a nontechnical person". I didn't see it as "women are stupid and need handholding to understand technology".
Quality is as Important in Marketing as it is in Software Development
What a bad article. First, a humanities PhD has little relation (from a career and financial perspective) to a STEM PhD. So I don't understand why this link is on Hacker News. Second, while I complain about the relatively-not-high compensation and limited opportunities available to CS PhDs, it isn't that bad if you graduated from a top 10-20 program. Lets stop it with the PhD bashing already.

- a CS PhD
Yikes. Applying FOL to Kafka, how... well let's just say recursive.

I think a labor shortage in some academic fields is a good thing. CS has been good to me, and I may eventually get over what I had to do to get my PhD, but if there wasn't a good job waiting for me, I don't see why I'd blow the opportunity cost on it.
He's right.. even seasoned sales people don't understand their own pipelines a lot of the time. Try coming into a sales-person oriented company with the job of building a marketing/lead gen system for them, and then introducing them to their first CRM (previously saving all their data in personal Excel spreadsheets). Then convincing them of the value of a marketing program to drive them leads, and how giving me their sales data actually helps them in the long run... It's a common problem in a number of corporations. There's a funnel to the pipeline and sales people often just focus on chasing their one or two current hot leads.
Interesting, until last year I used to use Ubuntu when I wanted a bleeding edge and lightweight OS for, say, working with new hardware. How things change.
"A chaum token bank may be blinded but is still a great big single central point of failure and control...they can still selectively deny access."

That is not really true when there is an offline transaction protocol; the bank can only deny access initially (e.g. the bank can refuse to let you open an account), but once you are in the system you can spend money or be paid without the bank's permission. It is also possible to create threshold systems where there is no single bank, so that there is no single point of failure.

"Chaum's system provides some properties "perfectly" but they aren't the properties such a system needed to have in order to exist, much less be successful."

I think protection against double spending is a pretty fundamental property for a digital cash system to be successful. People would not use Bitcoin if they did not believe that it protects them from double spending. My only real point in all of this is that Bitcoin does not provide that protection according to the standard used by cryptographers; in practice, nobody has pulled off a double spending attack yet, but everyone knows how to do it and it is not impractical by any stretch of the imagination.
A Leibniz curve, but no Newton curve... what an outrage!
The article is specifically about literature PhDs. I don't know why that isn't in the title here.
I assume that teenagers will be the primary market. They are naive enough not to realize (or don't care) that Facebook are tracking their every step, action, communication and physical location whether they like it or not.
I hope this is some sort of development/project manager rather than a business manager, otherwise they shouldn't be choosing the language at all!
WHAT MAKES YOU A MAN IS "UP AND DOWN" AND Not "up and down"
Arch made the mistake of symlinking python to python3, that's all.
I know several electrical engineering professors (PhD's from Carnegie Mellon, etc). They have no issue getting jobs at universities or in private sector. They are paid very well too.
is this open sourced somewhere ? "Github hired X today" would be so much better :)