skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like the authors, you have causality backwards. You're implying that I cannot find an example where inflation was almost 15% and interest rates were over 16% back in the 1980s. Fed interest rates were lowered after the 2008 crisis to limit deflation. Inflation did not cause low T-bill rates. In fact, logic would dictate that high inflation would increase Treasury rate expectations and the demand for inflation-protected TIPS.

The reason interest rates were low after Congress nearly defaulted on their debts is because federal bonds were considered a safer risk/reward than the markets. Wall Street trusted our treasury to pay its interest this last year more than they trusted blue chips to both hold their value and pay dividends with an unstable recovery. They were even holding onto T-bills while losing to inflation at times.
I'm pretty sure that you are someone I would not want to work with, because while I may disagree with Eich politically, I find your inability to separate the personal and professional spheres much more alarming. I'm not referring to your personal dislike for working with someone who supported prop 8, I'm referring to your internalizing and remembering that one particular non-politician supported it, and taking the time to post about it to make sure that people associate him with his political views, rather than his professional and public persona.
So, reading your post, I just wondered something, I realize it may sound stupid. Most people don't have a backyard. As soon as they get away from under their roof, they are in a public space. Does this not affect them?
Everything has to cancel or end eventually. Its a tough choice as I thought the BSG finale was awful. So just chop the series off in the middle, or risk an awful finale, which is worse?

The writers ran out of ideas in SG:U and it never should have been a series. Would have been a great movie or short mini-series.

There's probably a startup lesson about ambition in the SG_U story, something about designing a great six hour product results in disaster if "success" descends on you and you've suddenly gotta fill dozens of hours, any way possible. If they did a SG:U miniseries we'd probably still be ranting about how it was the best miniseries in years, etc.
>>a different algorithm for regexp matching<<

Here's a C++ program that uses RE2

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/program.php?test...
Great progress, Amir. Now, if only more startups adopt your away-trip practice :)
Most modern hardware LBs support active-active or active-passive connections with each other (deploying two A10s, etc.). It's been this way for 15 or so years (since local director, bigip, arrowpoint, etc.). The main reasons you would suffer from this would be misconfiguration or too cheap to buy 2 LBs.
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But was it really the puppy? There was a lot more text explaining what was involved (okay, not all that much, because there wasn't a lot on either, but significantly more) on the puppy version.

It could just have been that you described what signing up entailed. Plus you included 'cancel at any time', which might help some people decide.
It's interesting you mention that. I remember just a month ago, seeing pictures of dogs in the offices at Palantir (on their website), and wondered if seeing that became the deciding factor for prospective employees.
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You can have redundant load balancer setups that listen on the same IP [1]. Combined with round-robin DNS and there isn't a single point of failure unless your DNS servers go down.

[1] http://siag.nu/pen/vrrpd-linux.shtml
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This is fantastic! Althought the "MUNI" marker is nice, I think a smaller icon (maybe with a direction?) would make it easier to use.
Limited support for Python and Perl already exists:
https://www.haiku-os.org/tags/perl
I work for the largest telecommunications company in Canada and all 3 million or so of our customers are running on a few VMS servers
I had to use the downloadable Runescape client to get it to work on OSX. It works reasonably well but still sucks that I can't play in my browser anymore. A lot has changed so it's probably worth looking into!
Really? looks like Richard Jewell died a pretty horrible death...
3 and a brother. None of them live locally. I talk to my brother and another friend once or twice a week by phone, and text daily. My other friends, once every month or two by phone, several times a week by text, and once a week or so a decent conversation on Gmail.

There's something about people you grew up with, who watched your teenage affectations sputter and grow and mature into a personality, that can't be replicated. They know your shit stinks sometimes, too. They know what you're like when your cultivated exterior fails. They instinctively know when you're being "real." Hard to find in adult relationships, especially approaching 30, when most relationships start to really hone in on utilitarian aspects.
This map would be more useful if instead of each bus being represented by a nondescript MUNI logo, that it was an icon that contained the route number. As it stands it appears the only way to get useful information is to hover over each logo to work out what it represents.
Please consider posting a sentence or two and a link or two around why somebody might want to learn about the package and thus watch the videos.

In this case, adding a very brief overview of what Ember.js provides, and links to more info would seem appropriate.

Not everybody landing on that page knows what Ember is or why they might want to learn it, after all.
Please do not invent your own article titles.

Your title: "Intel aims to disrupt proprietory networks with SDN"

The actual title: "Intel aims to disrupt proprietary networks with software-defined open networks"

"Proprietory" is not a word. A minor quibble? Maybe -- but what if someone tries to search the Web for the term "proprietary networks"? No single thing is so certain to prevent an effective Web search as misspelled words in the searched content.
Agreed! It's one of the best status pages I've seen for a service (or set of services) like theirs. It's almost as if it's the AWS status pages run through a prettification machine.
We learnt about this in marketing class. If you're feeling lazy about getting creative, use cute animals.
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These are totally valid concerns. The average home internet upload cap, especially in the US, is not very generous. But the idea with Space Monkey is that most of your ongoing data access will be directly from your own device. If you're at home already, that will be especially fast. If not, it will be slower, but we're still able to watch movies in remote tests over a crappy home DSL uplink.

Other people's upload bandwidth only needs to come into play if your device isn't available: its hard drive breaks, it gets stolen, your house burns down, etc. In that case, yes, getting all of your data back probably will be slower than you want it to be, but you will get it all back.

Regarding redundancy, be assured that Space Monkey can provide much better numbers than RAID-6. We do assume that a decent percentage of devices will have poor network uptime, and we want your data to be available and redundant even in the face of that, even if the "fancy algorithms" take more processing power on the devices than we would need otherwise :).
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My actual best friend would have to be my fiancee. We talk several times a week, due to our relationship being depressingly long-distance right now.
There's no maybe about it, to me. Cultural context is always going to define what a legitimate political belief is. Unless you believe that there is an objective definition of good and evil that exists outside human culture.
You're right. It was wrong of me to conflate homophobia and conservatism.

I found Prop 8 utterly repulsive, but I also dislike the precedent it sets to fire someone over protected political activity (campaign donations).
If we are living in a simulation, then our simulation exists and is part of reality. It should just be considered a type of reality rather than NOT REAL. This whole idea is just the idea of God put into terms people can believe
I haven't seen that anywhere, and I find it unlikely.
The operator very kindly let my girlfriend and I manually control it!

There's a button on a long wire which you could click to advance the current program a single step. You could watch the RAM spin and flicker and the relays(?) 'clack' through the computations :-D
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Indeed. It's almost like it would be a good idea to have people dedicated to performing this function. Make it their job. Give them training. Give them oversight.
> "why does basecamp.37signals.com share a load balancer with campfire.37signals.com?"

That is what I was trying to understand. Thanks for the insight.
Oh I see. Firebase is the magic behind that https://www.firebase.com/
Of course the issues affect people , that's why they have strong views.

However one of the great triumphs of capitalism appears to be getting very different people to work together towards a common goal.
There's a difference between taking an intolerant side in a civil rights issue and a game designer being dismissive of complaints. The latter is par for the course, for one thing, and on top of that, unless I missed the part about Microsoft not requiring always-on connections, he wasn't in disagreement with company policy.
as an aside, one does not "stick" one's .signature file in a NNTP feed.

Author likely wasn't there, back in the day.
Mozilla is one of the safest and most welcoming places to work in software, regardless of your sexual orientation or gender identity. Their actions, collectively as an organization, speak for themselves.

But yeah, one of their employees happens to hold personal beliefs you disagree with. That means he should be fired regardless of job performance? How does that make any sense? It's one thing to say that he directly took actions to make a workplace unsafe, or has openly said harmful, awful things in public. But neither of those things are true of Brendan Eich. An employer has no more right to fire someone for being anti-gay marriage than it does to fire them for being pro-gay marriage. And that's a good thing, because there are plenty of staunchly conservative employers out there that would love to force all their employees to support their own pet political agendas.
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Yeah, but the request isn't to include some random language, it's to use the fast implementations of any given language. Why wouldn't you, in a site that benchmarks speed?

I think not to do so is unhelpful, actually -- if you don't realize they're are JITs for Python and Lua that aren't being included in the benchmarks, you will come away with a completely wrong impression about the possible performance of those languages.

edit: what spion said in their comment
Why do people keep bringing up Ryan, it was an off-by-one error and the shooter killed himself so there's no way anyone could look at Ryan and discriminate against him for the wrong reason.

He's in a really terrible spot but it's not because of some confused reporting.
> Is the poor service in the US seen as a problem that's being sorted? Or just accepted?

I think differences in acceptance vs. verbalized outrage are less important than whether things actually get fixed. (I'll definitely admit, though, that I'm irked by the acceptance I've seen among fellow Americans.) Do you know whether wait times actually went down substantially, or just that "something was done"?
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I believe I read that adding up all the Mozilla donations, the "against prop 8" donations vastly outweighted the "for" donations. I can't say whether that makes up for anything, but I get the impression that Mozilla as a community is very much not socially regressive.
...but we are moving more and more to a transparent society...

This key issue isn't whether or not things are changing (they are) or whether it's good or bad (that's debatable).

The key issue is who gets to decide.

If I want to tell the world a million things about myself, that's my business. But if someone else wants to tell the world things about me (especially if they know it's personal or private), then that's definitely not cool.

It's not that much different for institutions, companies, or any group in general. None of us should be surprised at the reaction of another whose digital cherry we popped on-line.

This reminds me of the old tale about the man with a gossiping problem who went to a sage for advice. The sage told him to slice open a feather-filled pillow, shake it outside his house, then come back tomorrow. The next day the man asked the sage what to do about his gossip problem. The sage said, "Go gather those feathers."
+1.

> I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it

-- Attributed to Voltaire.

IMO, that perspective is one of the keystones of our culture, and not to be thrown away lightly.
Great :) My house is kind of dirty, have any advice on how to find a good cleaner outside of the NYC area?
So what approach is implemented in the Go distribution?
> Correct me if I'm wrong but you sound like someone who isn't a big fan of opinionated frameworks in the first place.

I think you are right. I have been burnt by enough frameworks both picked by me or others that promise the world ('really easy, just use this framework! here is an example of a thing X that we did for a demo that kind of looks like something you might want to do').

Then as soon as you do something not anticipated or unimplemented yet in the framework you hit a wall and decelerate from 100 to 0 pretty quickly.

I guess a good framework is one that is extensible and straddles the border between a framework and library.
This lacks a control test: a version with any image.

Just the fact you used a graphic can make it superior to the text version, not necessarily because it's a dog.
Go figure... befoe reading this I was proud I still had a 2005 Celeron laptop that I still use now that I've installed Ubuntu on it...
My perception of "Web Applications Done Right" is that it implies that any other way is "wrong".
Because that isn't true at all.
First of all, great work. It looks like you boosted your conversion rate from 0.19% to 0.43%. Which is a 125% improvement, or with confidence intervals, 55% - 179% improvement.

However, before everybody goes out and puts puppies on their homepages, they need to realize that there are a bunch of things being tested.

Image vs. no image: Is it possible that having any image at all improves the conversion. You should test with other pictures: perhaps some animals, people, nature, and see if the puppy is what makes it work.

Call to action: The 'puppy' version also features a more succinct call to action in "Sign up now" rather than "Start your 30 days free trial." Perhaps this also contributes some of the difference.

Button size: The button size in the 'puppy' version is smaller. Perhaps this has some effect as well.

Length of text: The 'puppy' version has more description of what is involved in the free trial. It says "Pick a plan & sign up in 60 seconds. Upgrade, downgrade cancel at any time." vs. the no puppy version that says "Start you 30 days free trial."

Vertical vs. Horizontal Layout: The 'puppy' version has a vertical layout of the text and button, where they are stacked on top of each other rather than left or right.

So there are at least five different changes made between these two designs. Clearly the second design wins on conversions, but it's not entirely clear to me why it wins.
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I've been using Knockout for months and I had no idea it was built by a Microsoft employee. And why should anyone care?
If the white ball goes in it's called a "scratch."
Sony is being killed by Sony's content division, that is, the movie studio and the music label.
Actually under the paid out today number you could have a little hyper link that says "verify" and links to the blockchain showing the actual payouts. It might give you some legitimacy.
I think we're in dire need of a new benchmarks game. The author:

removed PyPy

removed the clear overview table that showed all languages, keeping only the barely visible gray bar charts with vertical text (why not horizontal bar charts, they can be scrolled and read without head tilting)

refuses to add LuaJIT and other languages

responds to most change inquiries with "publish your own version" which probably means that he doesn't really care about the project anymore

As a result, the spirit of the benchmarks game was lost a long time ago as its made less fun with each iteration.
3. I think he was referring to aggregate file size (total amount stored) not a single file. If that's the case, his point still stands.

4. He was probably saying that, as the average age of the nodes in the network goes up, the chance of them failing goes up. Also, the duplication you say (hundreds of copies) is in direct opposition to usable space (hundreds of copies means you can only use 1/100 of the space on your node. Because of this, I don't think your files will ever be duplicated on the order of "hundreds", probably less than 10. Also, it's important to keep clear: My node will backup to hundreds of other nodes, but each individual file fragment will only be duplicated to 3 (or whatever) nodes. That smaller number is the important one that keeps getting discussed.
As a counter example look at the arab guy. You can read about him in wikipedia and somewhat online (its intentionally not being discussed much by the media). Immediately after the blast a bunch of people tackled an arab dude for the crime of "running while Arab" and turned him over to the cops who tossed his apartment upside down. The latest I've heard was an official police spokesman said the arab dude had nothing to do with the event other than being another victim.

I would say this is an absolutely worst case heat of the moment outcome. Can't claim its unrelated or irrelevant. Its a sad outcome that lots of americans automatically equate being arab with being a criminal, and its sad he got tackled after nearly being blown up, and its sad the cops trashed his house, but in the long line of human injustice, its not that bad, no one shot him or lynched him or ruined his reputation.

In a somewhat slower paced, more methodical, less emotional situation like looking at pictures of backpacks online, I think the likely outcome compared to the poor arab dude would be immensely more likely to tend toward rational wise justice than uncontrolled rabid injustice.
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Cool thanks! I should remember it :)
>But yeah, one of their employees happens to hold personal beliefs you disagree with.

Holding personal beliefs and acting on personal beliefs are two different things entirely. In my arrogant opinion, being anti marriage equality should be held in the same level of disrepute as someone being against racial equality or similar.

You're free to hate whatever you want, but when you give money to organizations that cause people to kill themselves, you've directly supported that action. Some things I can see a company wanting no part of.
On your lottery page, I initially thought the addresses listed in the grid were the ones to send bitcoins to. You should really consider laying out that page differently to avoid confusion.
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Drupal 8 is in the works, and is scheduled for release towards the end of this year. So, what can you expect from the latest and possibly greatest version of?
I would say it's about as likely as it was before, sadly.

The Obama administration has seemingly made it a policy to decline to prosecute these types of offenses by the preceding administration. There's undoubtedly more that went into that decision than trying to piss off their own activist base but I don't see that any of the decision points would have changed for them.

As far as international law, the evidence hasn't really changed, it's always been risky for some of the Bush administration's neocons to travel abroad and risk arrest. I just don't see a country starting an international incident over this (but who knows?...)
I googled and found a basic filing fee was $180. But even 2.2 billion isn't really enough to create significant monetary incentives for the government to issue patents given that the 2012 federal budget was 2.5 trillion. There are far greater monetary incentives to finding the right patent structure that allows companies to turn profits, pay taxes and hire people who also pay taxes.
Interestingly I’ve found repeatedly through my career that there is very little separation between personal and professional spheres.

I will give you that there’s a giant difference between a public persona and the person. But I find when working closely with someone - particularly in 80hour crunch time weeks - you don’t end up dealing with their public persona, but with a version of them much closer to their "personal life". So day to day your experience with your co-workers is very personal, and frequently in an unprofessional mode.

I think that when making choices about who I will work with, I'll lean heavily on what I know about them personally, and treat their public persona with a great deal of distrust.
What is the best way to learn programming? 
I'm interested in programing (as many others) and just don't know the right approach to get into into it. Suggestions or ideas?
yes, the concept of erasure codes just works with the raw bits. so it would work equally for encrypted/unencrypted data from the wikipedia page, it "transforms a message of k symbols into a longer message (code word) with n symbols such that the original message can be recovered from a subset of the n symbols"
Wow. Looks like you guys did a great job. Very cool concept.
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Where would you draw the line? Why not simply monitor and track everyone everywhere all the time because hey they if they did something wrong then you'd be good to go with the proof... and we all know if you don't do anything criminal you don't have anything to hide...
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