skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Savings accounts don't beat inflation. No guaranteed and insured investment does to my knowledge(if you find one that's not a ponzi scheme, let me know). If savings accounts were paying out double digit % point gains, you can bet your ass people would be shoveling money into the accounts and not cashing out.
Gosh, thank you!
I saw last night that someone responded to my comment, but I was too tired to read it thorouhgly and address it then and left it for today. I see now that that response is gone.

I hope that, "rantiness" aside, I was and would address the topic in a respectful (at least, as regards the conversation here) and productive fashion.

I do get... "agitated" about this topic, because for so long I was told that I was the one who needed to adjust and accommodate and "get used to" the status quo (ever noisier shared workspaces). And I tried. And tried. And tried....

It didn't get any easier for me. Even when I would deliberately pick out noisy cafes and try to work there in order to "train" myself.

I wasn't asking for the world. Just for a quiet workspace. I didn't mind people interrupting me for a purpose. I just didn't want to spend my days tuning out activity that did not directly involve me.

And much of that activity, in my particular environments, was not even work. It's very frustrating to be trying to be trying hard to get something done while your cubemate is engaged in their daily, extensive socializing.

Let those who do such rise or fall on their own merits. I'd rather stay out of that. Just don't disrupt my own work, while you're at it. And don't tell me to "get with the program", when I finally point it out.
Whilst defending British civilians from invasion by Argentine aggressors.

Argentina got slapped back off those islands.
She was a bit nationalist towards the latter half of her career but hardly a fascist.

Fascist gets thrown around too liberally.

But Thatcher was far from authoritarian. She was actually fighting against large government authoritarianism when she gained power.

Although she had moments where she used excessive state force against citizens such as:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_miners%27_strike_(1984%E2%80...
Oddly, the links in this article are missing colons.
Perhaps, but ~70% of the Earth is empty ocean, and lots of the remainder is relatively empty landmass (huge deserts, unpopulated areas like Siberia, etc.), so just from a statistical perspective the odds of something that survives re-entry hitting a populated area without remote guidance are pretty slim.
"What Killed Smalltalk Could Kill Ruby, Too" - Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX3iRjKj7C0
This is a work in progress that I think could turn into a better CakePHP, but also has the potential to become something more similar to Sinatra and have the relationship to CakePHP that Sinatra has to Rails. Would love to get feedback on these two routes of development.
Normally I would agree with you that software should be intuitive with a minimum of learning. However git is only used by expert users, people who use it all day every day. There's no doubt that git has a bit of a steep learning curve but the abstraction you're forced to learn is really powerful. Having come from SVN the intuitive abstraction I was used to now seems woefully inadequate.
I have a personal clone of whatever project I am working on, any branches that I publish can be changed at any time using a push -f.
The latter. I managed a software dev team of which this particular branch of Gov was a client. Each time we got a requirement that 'software x must be compatible with IE6+, Chrome, Safari and perform neat client-side tricks,' everyone cringed. Now I'm on the other side of the table and frequently run into "sorry, your browser is not supported." Love it. Just love it.
I would highly suggest watching Rob Pike's [1] talks [2] on youtube about Go.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike

[2] http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Rob+Pike&oq=...
Absolutely one the best talks I've seen.

Notice most of the talks people are referencing are about tech philosophies -- a vision/perspective -- not a particular technology.
The Internet Cafe
I'm the author of the article, and I chuckled at that myself on my final pass through the article.

The difference is that the deal-breaker in the 2nd case is that the "RTFM, dude" response shows the candidate to be 1) rude, and 2) someone who can't carry on a conversation. Asking questions to open conversations about what's on the resume isn't a trick question where the interviewer is waiting to pounce and say "A-ha! You like IE! Begone!"
The deflationary-spiral argument is pretty much as old as Bitcoin itself, and in my opinion quite overrated.

Sure, the Euro and the Dollar themselves are inflationary currencies, but because of interest your buying power increases when you keep your money locked in a savings account rather than spend it today. Yet consumers spend their money on trivial products every day rather than saving it to let their wealth grow.

Sure, the current volatility is so extreme that it might induce hoarding, but as the Bitcoin economy grows and matures this should eventually decline to acceptable levels.
Not all sellers pin their BTC values to USD. What if I were offering you a $400 video card for $300 of BTC? (This is especially true of Silk Road prices, by the way).

I have a suspicion that many people are spending their "hoarded" bitcoins, and also immediately moving to buy/mine more...
In most scenarios, end users aren't hitting SSRS' interface directly: The product offers a robust web service that is an excellent way of add very rich, capable reporting to your own application.

The comment about "thrown together by an intern" seems suspect (though not as much as criticizing SQL Server for defaulting to data integrity. If ever there was a non-complaint, that is it). I've been using SQL Server since 6.5, and generally find the toolset to be excellent, and anything other than "thrown together" (quite contrary, the product moves far slower than I would prefer).

They both have their place. In SQL Server land the things that they limit to enterprise edition generally are functions that only really benefit data warehouses (partitioning and compression being two of the most obvious), and given that they know that the people who use data warehouses tend to have warehouses of cash, it comes with a cost.

Worth noting that SQL Server has had clustered indexes forever -- psql still has a rather hacked variant of it -- along with materialized views. Both are of tremendous value to web developers. Far more valuable than the default transaction isolation level.
It is also windows only.
How about laravel?
You mean by two layers the NAT by CPE and the CGN?
These Harvard undergrads use 3D tech to render paintings & help the blind
Unlocking the Motorola Bootloader
I'm a relatively new git user. I'm rebasing a log when other developers commit unrelated changes. What is the problem with git rebase?
It is worth reading the policies that brought her into power again eg http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/112551

UK politics was dominated by the unions in a way that is unthinkable now and tax policy has changed a lot. It feels more honest than today's politics although what was proposed and what was delivered were not entirely in line.

The papers on that site are fascinating... I was only 10 when she came to power but she was a huge figure of that time.
and Silex and Slim and, to a lesser degree, AuraPHP
http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/584.pdf

~80% of BTC are dormant, eg being hoarded.

>and that metric seems to show that hoarding is actually steadily decreasing over time.

This is the big question, isn't it. It's completely understandable the early adapters are hoarding, expecting a med/long-term payoff on their investment via appreciation. But will that continue indefinitely, or change eventually?

And dumping even a portion of that into the system would have significant price effect, and given how so many people seem to value BTC by its price more than its unique utility, what effect will that have on the economy.
A lot of this rings (painfully) true.

In the past, we used subsets of data to test our migration tool. Always. ALWAYS, there was something bizarre in the the excluded subset that caused the migration to break.
Everyone on HN, thanks a million
Not really sure how to thank everyone at the same time, so here goes. Thanks a million for existing!

We adopted the position to release stuff as soon as we're no longer embarrassed about it, and we did that yesterday with the wysiwyg editor for bootstrap. After an announcement on HN, a ton of fantastically useful suggestions, comments (and github pull requests) followed and the whole thing is much much better now. I stayed up until 5AM merging all the requests, implementing suggestions and fixing the problems that you guys reported.

There's only 3 of us working really on this project and we don't have the time or the resources to properly test in all possible OS/browser combinations. With roughly 10K people according to our statistics looking at this, complaining, proposing suggestions, commenting on code etc, the community on this site provided a fantastically useful ... dare I say 'service'?

As the project is opensource and bootstrapped, paying someone else to do this kind of testing is way over our budget, not to mention that no testing consultancy out there would provide git pull requests on everything from code styling to browser tweaks.

Thanks again. We'll be back with more half-baked opensource ideas soon!
Came here to say exactly that. USAToday is made with plain backbone.js and it's doing pretty well the last time I checked.
I just meant "has tech jobs, isn't insolvent".

I didn't know anything about TX schools (UT-Austin is great, as is UW, but I assume the discussion is mainly about K-12).
Like this? http://www.cocoacontrols.com/cocoapods :)
Are you in the same situation as the OP?
That's the state of things now- but in a year? More exchanges could appear. I don't see why they won't. Panic selling will only happen so many times before people stop freaking out over little things.
But my point is that the possibility of fiscal stimulus is not critical for a functioning economy, and in many cases simply does not work. I disagree with the monetarist principle that economic growth is stimulated by money injections—it's just people getting up and going to work in the morning, and inventing new things and discovering new processes. All this money mechanics stuff is distracting fluff.
I've spent many years studying economics, but I'm also a programmer. One thing that annoys me about the discussion that tends to crop up on Hacker News is that you have too many of the latter issuing too many uninformed opinions on the former. Currencies that are doomed to deflate are doomed to enter liquidity traps. There is nothing special about BitCoin that prevents this from happening, regardless of its position against other currencies. There are probably ingenious ways to implement distributed digital currencies, but I'm fairly sure that in the long term BitCoin is not one of those ways.
No-- that's not true.

Goldman's statement isn't saying that these positions of powere are morally bankrupt -because- they are held by men.

She's saying that the positions of power -are- morally bankrupt, and it doesn't matter which gender inhabits them, they are still bad.

We can disagree with her that she's wrong about the morality of those positions, but her statement is not a sexist statement.
HN circa 1813: s/animals/slaves/g

This is not meant to defend cruel people, I just want to raise a few points about slave owners.

While I have only been to small plantations, I have definitely seen what some people would consider slave cruelty. But I think it's important to understand the mentality of people that work with these slaves.

Slaves on plantations are seen as property, not an employee in any way. Most owners and workers of slaves distance themselves from the slaves to keep themselves mentally healthy. When distance yourself from a a slave, you won't be treating it as nicely as you would your hired hand.

Plantation owners see slaves as money, so they won't do anything that could jeopardize being paid (won't damage the product).

When people are disconnected with the slaves they are working with, it is easier for some people not to be so nice to those slaves. This isn't to say that all people working with slaves will be abusive towards them, but it creates an opening for those people that aren't as nice to take their anger out on the slaves.
GoingNative 2012 - Bjarne Stroustrup talks about C++ 11. Very good talk about the ideas behind C++ 11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB-bdWKwXsU&playnext=1...
Hightrack, a new productivity app (tasks + calendar)
Or, people might be more careful what they spend on, ie things that could provide more utility than the rate at which bitcoins would appreciate.
There's bots in JabbR too
Just fixed it, thanks for the notice.
I think he means anyone arguing for more money without also wanting metrics. I think there are a lot of people against metrics, for two main reasons: they distrust the metrics for accuracy (or think they measure the wrongs things), or personal fear of change. A bottom-30-percent teacher probably knows he or she is in the bottom half, at least, and is rightly afraid of metrics.
Part of the problem too is that when a particular product is compromised, most people stop at "Product X sucks" and don't ask themselves if the same vulnerabilities are present in products they themselves use.

As an example, take WordPress. I talk to people all the time who say "oh, WordPress isn't secure" even though the reasons most WordPress sites get hacked are due to practices that would make you vulnerable no matter what CMS you run -- not keeping up with security patches, running unneeded services on the server, not putting the admin area behind SSL, etc. But there's lots of people who move from WP to, say, Drupal and think that's made them secure, even as they continue doing all those same practices.
Should Hillary Clinton serve as an inspiration for gender equality?
Watch Navy's New Laser Cannon, Mounted on a Ship, Kill a Drone
I'm not other countries' financial services sectors are necessarily any less slippery than the UK's; the main difference is the Ombundsman has come down squarely on the side of people not sophisticated enough to ask the right questions (or in the case of PPI, even read the small print of policies they'd been opted into)

I suspect in the UK the Advertising Standards Authority would have jumped on Tesla's marketing materiaal
(especially the bit where they calculate a "true cost of ownership" based on 15000 mile usage and quoting a buyback rate based on 12000 mile usage) before dissatisfied customers started complaining about the small print.

The ironic thing is that for Tesla's target market a breakdown vs a "leading competitor showing the total amount saved on running costs would probably look more impressive than the misleadingly low "cost of ownership" figure.
There is a client library that makes it easy to write JabbR bots in .NET/Mono:

https://github.com/davidfowl/JabbR.Client
I use magit (popular emacs interface) for my day to day git work. I only hit the commandline for things like the ones I've spoken about in the parent article.
You seem to be missing a crucial point. As far as our whole history and our current system are concerned, (food) animals are not people. That's the crux of the issue.

When you say "others" you're implicitly ascribing personhood to those animals.

I'm not arguing whether this is right or wrong, but it's where we are now as a society. In general, most people do what's socially acceptable and avoid doing what's not. It is socially acceptable to kill animals, which involves some level of cruelty. It is not, except in war, socially acceptable to do that to humans (although we concoct all kinds of excuses for special circumstances).
Or more likely.. the Bitcoin developers release a new version that allows for more than 21m coins. I think a lot of people don't realize that Bitcoin is still an actively developed beta-version software project. There are several parts of the code that the devs are already thinking about changing (such as the way that transaction fees are calculated, or increasing the number of times you can subdivide one coin). If the 21m limit becomes crippling, I'm sure they will change that too. Really, they can change anything they want as long as they can convince 51% of pool owners to upgrade.
I shared my post to a few folks who said they’d like to play the bracket with friends, like “startup madness”. I love the idea. In fact, when I started tracking W12, I asked some friends who had been to demo day to participate. It was just another tab in a spreadsheet.

If you want to build something like this, here are two thoughts. First, tracking variable amounts making tracking time and valuation much more important. Here I’ve just assumed equal investments at demo day. Second, because it is fake money, to simulate a real deal flow, the amount of investments should be limited. 10 every 6 months sounds good.
I am webkit contributor (committer). I didn't say it before because it doesn't matter to this conversation. And neither do I want my comment to have some magical weight because of my contribution status.

Your argument is not valid though. I am not actively writing media articles 'prediciting' that WebKit project is going to have a painful time or going on webkit-dev telling people what to do.
Dear god - not more gender politics - please make it stop.
For some companies it doesn't make sense to drop support for IE6. I work for a company who's product is sold completely online. If we dropped support for IE6 we would loose hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars a year. Sure it's a tiny fraction of our business, but it's a considerable amount of money and pretty much covers the wages of our entire web development team.
Mali has announced its .ML domain will be free
I think the concept is interesting. I'm particularly interested in the 'personal productivity' aspect. As in, what if I could monitor my productivity over the course of a month and have a way to quickly figure out which days were really productive and which days weren't?
What do you hope to get out of the experience?
I don't entirely like her politics, but have always found Condoleezza Rice quite inspiring. This might be an odd way of putting it (and don't misconstrue what I'm trying to say), but it always seemed that no one ever noticed she was a woman.

Proof positive that gender simply doesn't matter if you are the best at what you do.
I'm still confused why even relatively normal tech/libertarian-lite Scottish people seem to hate her so much (e.g. cstross), to the point of dancing on her grave.
I built out a connection pool for the Python redis client for these types of setups where you'd want master / slave failover. It's meant to be paired with something like sentinel or custom failover scripts. https://github.com/StartTheShift/jondis
I don't think they'd need to scan the 300+ million new photos. They'd just need to scan the photos of individuals that governments and/or corporations would like to target.
“Rich versus King”: The Core Concept
HappyGraphs for 10 UK cities
Reading the Silver Spring monkeys case, it sounds like the researchers would have been in a better position legally if there was 24/7 recorded surveillance of the animals' conditions. Of course, this assumes that he was correct and that the PETA member intentionally stopped cleaning the cages when the PI was on vacation to set him up.
It was not really like that. Britain was always big in financial services, that came from ships and Empire (insurance really). Plus then the US created the euro bond markets and oil created petrodollars. But it was an old boys club and very inefficient. Industry in the UK was already in a bad state and was going away already. As much accident as plan.
Not in the US. There is no such thing as a journalist's license. That's my point. I can issue a press pass to my cubicle and have security escort out people who don't have one. That does not make it a journalist's license.

Stop spreading bizarre misinformation.
As an American, I don't think I can possibly understand the mentality of late 70's/early 80's Britain.

Is there a large percentage of the population in Britain that views WHAT she did as wrong or is it HOW she did it? I can understand the HOW, but why would people think that handouts aren't first hand-ins? Do people really believe there is a such thing as FREE milk?

When I hear about the mining strikes causing 3 day work weeks for the entire country, my thought is the same as any other sane individual: You, sir, are cancelled.
The principle of dual circulation and 'bad money driving out good' is formulated as Gresham's Law. While this is typically applied to two currencies pegged by fiat, it would also apply to a pair of circulating currencies in which one is appreciating and the other depreciating.

The only problem is that Bitcoin does have an end use—as an anonymous digital currency (c.f. Silk Road). And furthermore, whether you believe it to be 'macroeconomic cancer' or not, it exists and cannot be shut down as a matter of policy.
A list is here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134179.0

One that avoids the fixed currency limit is PPcoin:
https://github.com/ppcoin/ppcoin/wiki/FAQ
I always chuckle when I hear "MVP" in the same sentence as a RoR/node.js stack, complicated monetization strategies and A/B testing.

A bank account and a Google Docs spreadsheet. That's MVP.
Quite a few things confuse me here:

How is a system based on CSS stylesheet native?

Why is it 1500 dollars per day to do what seems to be templated app development -- many other companies offer this at far far lower rates (think 50 dollars or less for a complete app).

Why only iOS? The purpose of templated distribution is to reach a wider audience, not a narrower one.
Gah, still get creeped out watching the System Shock 2 intro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXPn6wcsUmk

Let's hope this Shodan isn't as intelligent and psycho as System Shock 2 Shodan! Oh, and no zombies.
I'm not admitting to doing anything wrong.

I'm taking my role in my own food production and consumption with the weight it deserves. I'm further accepting my role in the food cycle, and realizing that things die at every stage of food production- even "vegan" food production, whether it's insects that must be removed from crops, animals displaced by tillage, fertilizers made from fish emulsion, and the squirrels that the semi trucks run over on their way to deliver pallets of Veggie Burgers to Whole Foods... and deciding that all things considered, meat is possible, ethically and at a lower environmental impact than the alternatives.
I dont know a lot about Thatcher but when Indira Gandhi's election was overturned by the courts on ground of election fraud she proceeded to suspend elections and civil liberties. I hope that you are correct and we would never see anyone like Indira Gandhi, no nation deserves to be ruled by a tyrant like her.
Me too. Scary game. Nothing else has come near to it.

As a tribute, my workstation and laptop are names xerxes and shodan.
I agree 100% - ban all politics and celebrity discussion from HN.
Sorry, but people and companies come and go from open source projects all the time.
You act as if this is not the typical happening in an open source project.
Just because it happens to involve a large company, or a well known project, doesn't change anything.

Either the project will find/attract new contributors to support those features, or it won't. If it doesn't, it generally means it wasn't going to stay viable.

Plenty of companies left GCC and left features unmaintained. They either find new maintainers, or get removed, and the project moves on.

This is the life of an open source project.
It's not like a divorce at all.
It's like a large collaboration where people are free to leave at any time.
When people leave, either the collaboration absorbs the loss, or it doesn't.