skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we're just joking

The worst thing he could really have done at this point was hide all of his tweets, particularly that one. If he kept something up saying it was just friendly banter, of course I don't really believe this, etc, then he could have not only saved him image, but also gotten more people to see him as ON their side vs against them. A huge boon for himself and his company as a whole.

People are people, and I can't expect a person to show absolutely zero character and personality outside of their company branding (And I am blessed to work for a company who thinks likewise). As a person and a figure of the industry, his opinion on things is something to pay attention to. If he could have just kept up that jk/lol tweet, things probably would not have turned out so nasty.
Well, right. They added more coupons, which fixed the problem.

But I don't see how that's significantly different from allowing the price of babysitting to float -- I know doubling the number of coupons isn't exactly the same as making them half as valuable, but it's similar.

But since bitcoins simply adjust in value according to market demand, I, as well, don't understand how Krugman's story applies to bitcoin. If everyone thinks bitcoin's value will always go up, because it's deflationary, and everybody hoards -- well not everybody will, right? There must be other factors at hand, surely?
The same security issues shouldn't occur on gist.github.com as you can't actually run any code there.
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman

You are misdefining extortion.
> Would you accept to be paid less and less every year (month, week...)

Because they'd be able to buy more and more with that money, obviously.
Float compared to what? The price of an hour of babysitting was always 1 because the only thing on the exchange is an hour of babysitting.

I suppose you could argue some hours of babysitting are more valuable than others, and people could negotiate, say, 4 hours for 5 coupons or vice versa. It's not clear this either (a) wasn't already done on some ad hoc basis (I'd imagine if it was agreeable to both parties, it'd probably happen) or (b) would have provided a solution to the liquidity problem, though.
I've pretty much ignored javascript until this week.

What exactly is wrong with it? Perhaps that is too broad. Can you give an example of something in javascript that impedes runtime performance optimization?
> USV missed the cutoff by 2 months, they were in the Sift Science Series A in November 2012

Understood, I just wanted to point out that there are legitimate reasons to go six months (or longer) without investing. The metric is helpful, but, like any isolated metric, not comprehensive.

Thanks for taking the time to put this together - very interesting data.
Firefox Nightly is version 23, not 22.
Any chance of remote work from Europe?
TWIG-like Templates in Objective-C
We own a lot of TLD's for GitHub, but we just settled on this one for no real reason other than it sounded nice (i.e., not because it's hip).

We also considered http://github.me and a few others, but thought this one worked well and was short without sounding like we were trying to make a mid-90's Personal Home Page Product™.
> provide a counterpoint to the deflationary spiral criticism?

Is that the retarded idea that no one will buy anything if prices keep falling? Look no further than computers, cell phones and all manner of electronic gadgets. Their prices keep going down, but everyone keeps buying them.

If you need/want something now, you'll buy it now.

Here's a summary of the article: "The State-Controlled Mainstream Media paints a gloomy picture of a currency that can't be controlled by the State."

EDIT: Perhaps a downvoter might want to point out a flaw in what I said?
That type of dev? One who uses fully public and well documented APIs to fetch extremely common libraries from a fast CDN? The horror!

ajax.googleapis.com isn't comparable to this now-defunct undocumented private API at all.
Epic commit message at bootstrap - "shiiiiit"
this was a long time coming; excellent move
One point that I haven't seen raised yet is that a reduction in the # of dynos required to operate a service would provide the benefit of being able to run certain addons that are priced on a per dyno basis more cheaply (e.g. NewRelic).
Google Fiber's Next City...Austin, TX?
The law should be changed, or overturned as unconstitutional, but that is a higly uncertain and lengthy process.

In the meantime, could we start a grassroots campaign to get companies to explicitly state at the top of their ToS that a violation of the ToS may be arbitrated only and does not constitute a 'unauthorized access' under CFAA?

Obviously the EFF would have to draft the exact clause, so that actual destructive hacking can still be prosecuted.

This sounds tricky, but if the EFF can't write something we could put in the ToS to protect users from the Feds trying to extort cooperation from users by abusing CFAA (a la Aaron) then how can we expect legislators to get it right?

Specifically some things the ToS should define is how "damages" will be defined, proper ways to disclose vulnerabilities, things which are NOT considered subverting access control, and a lower standard for trespass of online chattel which required actual damage or dissemination.
The Way of the Egghead Is Hard
What is wrong with The Frighteners?? That movie is awesome!
I'm an immigrant and moved to the Bay Area in the 90s with no network, and no desire to plug into my ethnic (Irish) network for political reasons (when I moved here first the Irish community was tilted heavily towards support of of the IRA and its associated political arm). My in-laws moved here from North Vietnam via Hong Kong in the 70s, and were also somewhat socially isolated by choice (most Vietnamese people in the Bay Area are from South Vietnam and as you can imagine this would make for some political friction).

It's certainly possible, but it also helps to be young and healthy; not to have any particular life obligations; to be a bit alienated from your native environment in the first place; and to have a somewhat unrealistic view of your own capabilities :) It also helps if you're moving from lesser to greater opportunities. If you're moving from SF (for example) to somewhere much cheaper, you're likely also facing a narrowing of your available economic, academic and other options.

So although I share your views to a certain extent, I think you're also taking a rather rosy view of things. It is certainly possible to move and adapt, but there are significant costs involved and it's not equally easy to move in any direction.
Some homeless subcultures do choose homelessness (in Denmark, also). If it were just them, the problem would be small. I'd like to do something about the rest, though.

I agree helping homeless find meaning in their lives is different from helping well-off folks. I don't suggest that anyone should be forced into apartments against their will. But I'd make the option available. I would be surprised if SF's homeless are, on the whole, actually happier and more fulfilled than Copenhagen's ex-homeless. So I suspect making the option available to them would benefit them in addition to the rest of us, certainly relative to the status quo, which is bad for everyone.
Go 1.1 is looking very strong! Pat (pfalls) just showed me some very preliminary numbers and we are extremely happy with them.

Thanks for the input and constructive criticism, vanderZwan. It has been very helpful to get feedback from yourself and everyone else. I too am particularly happy with the sportsmanlike competition vibe. You have no idea how fulfilling that is to us.
That's a Douglass Adams quote, isn't it?
My anecdata on this is that level of stigma varies a lot based on the mental illness involved. Some mental illnesses (e.g. schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder) appear to be labeled very harshly by our culture and have a huge amount of stigma attached to them.

I'll see if I can dig up any journal articles or research on this.
Come on, now?! You don't think there might be some problem with the complete disappearance of unskilled blue-collar jobs in America? Where did this rampant increase in drug/alcohol and mental health problems come from? Where were they in the 60s/70s/80s? Could it be that drug/alcohol/mental health problems occur or lead to homelessness when you don't have a sustainable income? I think a lot of people in the tech industry who are paid oodles of money to write basic code (and surf the web or cyberloaf for a good number of hours) are woefully ignorant to the income inequities in America. Who will speak for them when their cushy jobs are shipped overseas (just like the blue-collar workers), so that the stock holders can add another yacht to their evergrowing fleet.
Here the problem is that bitcoins are illiquid: you can't spend them freely on most goods and services, and you can't get a consistent exchange rate into a liquid currency, and the supply problem means that hoarding is sensible... right up until the crash.
That's using Bitcoin merely as a payment mechanism, where both the buyer and the seller hold onto it for as short a time as possible.
Related is the term x32, which is an architecture (from the point of view of the Linux kernel) for x86-64 code designed to run in 0x86-64 32-bit mode.

Why would you do this? Given that you never use 4 GB of memory, you can save a few bytes of memory (32-bit pointers instead of 64-bit) while still getting the extra registers and operations of x86-64 code.
MusicBrainz Potential Security Leak, database dump contained bcrypted passwords
FWIW, I have git.to if you're interested in taking it.
btw, here's the source code for Broadway.js, the JavaScript H.264 decoder:

https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway
Do you have a team that sources all your data for you or does it come from CrunchBase? (is that the CB?)
is the css not loading for anyone else?

http://i7.minus.com/jIB4Ck8nD7cOH.png
Interesting that the Play code optimizations had virtually no effect. Almost identical absolute scores between tests. Clearly something heavy's going on within the Play request handling framework to slow things down, not the code we see.

I was also surprised at the difference between the Java and Scala play test, since I thought they were supposed to be similar. But it looks like the approaches are quite different. The Java DB test uses the ebean ORM while Scala does not. The JSON code also looks a bit different, with the Java version surfacing more Jackson internals. I don't know if these are necessarily "wrong", but perhaps it's not as apples-to-apples a comparison as it could be.
>A new addition to the list of top contributors this year was Microsoft. The Redmond giant was the 17th most prolific corporate contributor to the Linux kernel in 2011. The company first began contributing code to Linux in 2009 when it submitted patches to improve the performance of running virtualized Linux guest instances on Windows servers.

That's not nearly the same as "Microsoft contributed most lines of code to the Linux kernal"
Probably needs some adjustment or moderator intervention in the near term. I just tried a moment ago; you can still submit a pages.github.com URL and HN will mark the domain as github.com, but it will redirect to github.io when you follow the link.
Dell/Alienware release Ubuntu gaming desktop
Our whole office went crazy with excitement when we saw this article. I really hope it is fiber. I can't wait to get out from under I current ISPs.
> they centralize the danger to a single, publicly controlled entity.

Come to think of it, we should centralize the backbone for the internet in the white house basement, so that we "centralize the danger to a single, publicly controlled entity."
I agree that less time and more obligations does make learning new things more difficult later in life. But there's also evidence that fluid intelligence [1] peaks in young adulthood and declines with older age.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_and_crystallized_intellig... : "This decline may be related to local atrophy of the brain in the right cerebellum. Other researchers have suggested that a lack of practice, along with age-related changes in the brain may contribute to the decline."
He risked the life of someone else. And the Jobs/Woz comparison is dumb.
Float compared to supply and demand in a free market. Instead of issuing 1-hour coupons, they should have issued an arbitrary currency, say, Shillings. Then buyers can request babysitting paying at 1 shilling per hour, and sellers could say that they want 1.3 shillings per hour. The value of the currency needs to float with supply and demand.

The whole argument in the article is a pathetic straw-man. The value of bitcoin floats with supply and demand. When the supply is fixed when bitcoins can no longer be mined, then the supply is based on how much is circulating vs being held.
Ha! It's Aco. Small world! I actually wasn't around UT99 back when you were, but things are chugging along better now than they have in a looong time since I made newnet. If I recall, you were actually the guy who told everyone newnet wasn't possible for UT99!

At any rate, hit me up on irc.globalgamers.net #iPug and #uPug (#tdmpickups and #mlut are dead).
That makes two of us then. (:
I believe that John C. Dvorak made the same argument on the No Agenda podcast a few weeks back. It has really made me rethink how news is reported. We simply have no way of knowing if what is being reported and explained is correct.

Even in the rare cases where true expects a interviewed we rarely get a completely objective opinion. This, I believe, is either because the journalist are trying to steer the conversation into a direction he or she understands or because it make for more "exciting" news.

It's truly sad that the media believes that it should dumb down content, or make it more "easily available" at the cost of the truth and correctness. I don't think the average media consumers are so dumb that it's necessary and if they are presenting the with incorrect information surely can't be helping the issue.
> Yes, having a Nobel Prize in economics doesn't make him right every time.

Yep, he proved that several times when he wrote about the imaginary Euro crisis.
Reminds me of houses with one antenna for each apt. A strange lack of coordination.
The challenge is that people really really don't want to see game invites / gifts / in-app purchases in their friends streams, unless they're personally playing the game, too (and even then they don't always like it).

Imagine you follow @timoreilly for his technical and political insights, only to see farmville spam in 3 out of 4 of his posts. That would get very old, very quickly.

Twitter is awesome partly because of the lack of app-specific streams, but it necessarily limits the types of things you can do on the platform. Now, they may reverse course on that direction as a consequence of pushing Cards so hard, but they're not there yet, and arguably will steadfastly continue to avoid going there.
I've used it for client work that was in production and for a side-project that's in production, but private with few users. It has been reliable for me.

Note that Compojure is more of a routing library than a framework. It's similar to Flask or Sinatra. Clojure's philosophy includes aggressive separation of concerns such that full-stack frameworks aren't really "the Clojure way".
Allowing the price of baby sitting to float relative to what? It's babysitting all the way down.

That's one of the great things about this hypothetical, is that it forces you to think of the underlying barter transactions instead of misleading yourself into treating the currency as having intrinsic value.
In case it wasn't obvious, the word "rape" was used metaphorically. Taxes represent forcefully taking your money away from you. "Rape" seems fitting.

Oh, and it's not about "affording" anything. If it were, it would be a voluntary transaction, much like buying a Retina MacBook Pro if you can afford one.
for the most part, my 360 is connected to the internet whenever it is on. my problem with the always-on requirement is that when my internet goes down (not often, maybe 3-4 times a year), my first thought "eh, i'll just play a video game until it comes back up". there have been two instances i can remember where i wasn't allowed to play a single player game that i purchased because i was not connected to the internet.

it's annoying and it's anti-consumer. for the next gen, i will be going with whoever doesn't have this restriction.
Think about that in somewhat more pragmatic terms. Lets say Alice babysits for Bob for 1 coupon per hour. And hoards coupons. Over time as the supply of coupons becomes more precious she can charge larger and larger 'rates' for her services. Eventually she has all the coupons and nobody else can get any baby sitting.

At which point we discover her maiden name is Bernanke! And she has set herself to be the central bank of babysitting coupons, which she will loan out but only at extortionate rates bwa ha ha ha!

Basically if someone has all the currency then you can't really make a market with it. Even if the prices fluctuate. Long before the market shuts down it becomes very inefficient.
"17th most prolific corporate contributor" != most lines.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1bl0jd/in_2011_paul...
Egor Homakov's write up of the session fixation and CSRF vulnerabilities that this addresses:

http://homakov.blogspot.com/2013/03/hacking-github-with-webk...
One most of money generated goes to the central reserve to use as they see fit.

Two; Freigeld was advised as local and not global currency. The more its spread over the world the easier it is to manipulate.
it's also why mens rights type things are sprouting up to balance things out.
Yep, same here, I only know because people occasionally say "I saw an article in Woman's Day" when they send a support email.
It was very heavily marketed as if it were a vanilla horror movie; expectations can really affect how you view a film.
Often "publish-then-correct" reaches the truth faster, asymptotically, than waiting to get everything right before publishing.

Call it "Minimum Viable Truthiness", if you'd like.
Coupons are not currency. They were trading coupons of 1 hour babysitting to save from spending real currency on hours of babysitting.
Just because an asset perpetually appreciates does not mean it has a present value of infinity. I hope to write a deeper rebuttal soon in the form of a blog post.
Yes meta noindex is the standard way.

But what if you don't want to waste server resources in bots crawling thousands of meta noindex pages? Perhaps you are using some heavy SQL queries on those pages.

You can block crawling with robots.txt but then Google won't see the noindex and URLs will be indexed.

If you block and send a 404 to bots I think that's fine. They will see a blank page - nothing to gain from that in ranking. So cloaking, perhaps yes, but I don't think it would be risky.
That is not a flaw in the argument - that is a flaw in your understanding of the argument, which makes you think this is a valid rebuttal.

Money is supposed to represent value. Not to actually be value. There are new humans arriving in the world all the time. And new resources are being mined from the earth, and created intellectually all the time.

If the money supply does not match these new things then the currency fails.

You can't just do a "currency split" and issue more notes - doing that effectively tells everyone their resources are half as valuable which is clearly wrong - the value of the resources didn't change.

You need to issue more currency so that the sum total of money available is equal to the sum total of value in the world. Any currency that doesn't do that fails.
The amount of innovation coming from Mozilla has been staggering the last year. IonMonkey, asm.js, impressive memory usage improvements (Firefox is now by far the least memory hungry browser among the modern ones), new baseline jit...Rock on, Mozilla.
The life stream is really just the small talk of the social network. It's not particularly interesting but it enables the next step. Communities of practice and group action do rely on people syncing up their interests first.
Will github pages finally support SSL?
or , do like heroku : something like github-pages.com or github-space.com , mygithub.com , etc ... github.io / github.com still a bit confusing...
There is some limited info from the CDC below.

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5920a3.htm
"Now, it’s worth noting that this fatal flaw of Bitcoin is not a fatal flaw for all cryptocurrencies or algorithmic currencies. One can imagine a Bitcoin-like currency with a smart algorithmic central bank (indeed, Bitcoin does have an algorithmic central bank–just an economically illiterate one)."

It's also worth noting that it's theoretically possible for Bitcoin's "monetary philosophy" to change over time.

If a majority of Bitcoin miners, and thus (in theory) the "economic majority" (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Economic_majority), agree on changes to the system (for example, the rate of mining) everyone can migrate to newer versions of the software that will accept those rules, and those who don't will risk their version of the blockchain not being accepted by the majority of users.

One interesting question is what happens if there's a fairly even split between the group that accepts the old and new rules. Would the value of each blockchain be effectively halved?
I think he deserves being mentioned in the github's post.
Organizations approaching big data from a value perspective are more successful
It's the same in Canada as far as I understand - but thing is, options aren't compensation unless the business is sold or goes public.

Unless I'm misunderstanding something, in which case I'll have to change my mind on this.

If I'm issued stock options in a privately held company at $1 per share, and I vest 200, I get $0 (the value hasn't changed since I was issued them). In order for the value to change, the company needs to be purchased or be listed on an exchange. No?
It happens all the time in real economies -- virtually every recession. Uncertainty leads to hoarding, which leads to a smaller supply of liquid money with velocity, which leads to deflation.

Even in a world with zero hoarding, bitcoin will deflate indefinitely forever, because production will continue to grow while money supply remains constant.
You guys should file to have a 'hub' TLD added, then you'd have the ultimate domain - git.hub
There is none, in the future we do have plans to have hosted instances of Pinry so those who don't know how to setup their own server can purchase easy one-click hosting through us. We plan to do hosting as close to cost as possible/not looking to get rich off this.
Thanks for the link, errnoh. You're precisely right, we want to have C# and .Net tests included but didn't find the time to do so ourselves in the past week and have not yet received a pull request. I was not familiar with ServiceStack prior to feedback we received to last week's test, but from the looks of it, I'd personally like to see how it does.
Unfortunately, deflation is not so simple a concept. If your currency quickly deflates and hoarders EXPECT it to deflate, no one will be interested in lending and the economy will suffer.

Lending is not an optional feature in a modern economy. You need some level of lending to have credit balances with merchants or investment in stocks and bonds. An economy without lending can take few risks on innovation, such as YCombinator has. They also have less incentive to spend money hiring employees because the risk/reward ratio is higher.

A currency that continuously deflates is also likely to hit a liquidity crisis when everyone attempts to sell at once and the exchanges stop buying. We've already seen exchanges stop selling or choose to impose hurdles to buyers because Bitcoin demand was too high.

Until they resolve the money supply issues, the Bitcoin is likely to remain merely an expensive and risky proxy for illicit drugs.