skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google's increasingly strident insistence that every interaction I have with their services is tied irrevocably to my real name is souring what is otherwise a very happy relationship. I love Android, Chrome, Gmail, Translate, and Search but I don't like having my real name via Google+ twisted up in my use of these services.
Except that American bond yields are low because the US is in a depression (a liquidity trap), not because "the situation is not as bad as it seems."

You're right though that debt, personal or sovereign, is not always bad.
This site was not what I thought it was.

I want to find a match-- but nothing too serious... I'm really just looking for a good time. I want to be someone's interim technical co-founder with benefits for a while. Just temporarily. And not for equity (you see, I have a problem with commitment), but for cash.

Just long enough to get their idea from conception to climax.

And then we can part ways and I can find someone else who could benefit from my expertise.

I need a high-end co-founder matchmaker service, and okcofounder was not that.
Your dad and uncles sound like quite the crew.
i kept thinking about effective it might be to crowdsource this particular part of the investigation. it seems the only venues available for collaboration in a situation like this are 4chan, reddit, hn, tumblr, etc. perhaps there's an opportunity for a collaborative forum that's a bit more focused and a bit less public in terms of the potential suspects.
Since in the OP he fails to explain any reasons why anyone might find Bitcoin useful or valuable in the first place, one could doubt the quality of his 'extensive prior research'.
EV:Nova did finally make a PC release. But very late compared to the Mac.
Did not find your email. Would love to exchange an email, as I am in the same boat as you guys.
One reason for the current benign inflation may be that there is no alternative currency with which to trade for US derived goods. Neither the rmb, euro, ruble nor even Canadian dollar are valid mediums of exchange within the US.

Meanwhile hyper-inflation in Russia in the 90's used the dollar as a stable currency with which rubles were exchanged for dollars. Hyper-inflation in Poland, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria occurred in part due to easily exchange and convertibility of the Deutschmark.
__complex__ is for converting to a complex number.
Ask HN: Why stagflaction happens?
I keep hearing as one of the arguments against Bitcoin, or against the Japanese of the last years, that deflaction make people hoard money and cause the economy to get stuck as noone buys anything.

Thus, I also hear, that a constant level of low inflaction, makes people want to spend their money, and thus spur economic activity, and maybe some growth.

I live in Brazil, and in the last two years, I heard a lot of people complaining of inflaction and no salary rise... At first I thought it was some sort of psychologial thing or cronical complaining...

But in 2012 we had only 0.9% of GDP growth, and 5.8% of inflaction, and currently our GDP growth is not getting better (in fact it retracted in february) while inflaction is rising (6.3%), in fact, even more interestingly is looking beyond those numbers, and looking at the numbers that matter for most people, that is the inflaction of food prices, something that everyone must buy, those according to IPCA are 8.8%, but we can highlight some classes of basic products, like vegetables, that had a 46.67% increase in the last quarter.

Yet, I kept hearing in the last two years from people in the commerce sector (not services, those were not complaining much) that they were having terrible sales, only slightly better than 2009 (the height of the great recession here), the supermarket association for example that in the 12 months period leading to february they had a 4% real contraction in gross income.

If Brazil is having such problems with inflaction (to the point last week political magazines were all running cover stories on the price of tomato, that rose 70.45% on this quarter alone), why the GDP growth is struggling?

We have historic low unemployment and inflaction, why people are not spending money? Why commerce people (not only retailers, but I also spoke with B2B sellers) are complaining so much that they are selling less than the last years? (excepting 2009)
yep, I build response objects ( my own term, not great but it describes what they are ) that are basic subsets of the object that I want to serialize to json. That way I'm sure only the fields that I really want to send are making it out.
OHHHHHH. I get it now. Thank you for the explanation.
What you're really saying is "I disagree with you, but I'm going to take a rhetorical roundabout in which I attempt to disqualify your argument by calling it 'not helpful'"

> All your criticism can be summed up by "it doesn't look like a Mac, therefore it's the wrong approach".

No, my criticism can be summed up like so: If you create unnecessary, reducible complexity, then add even more complexity on top of that to manage it, you're doing it wrong.

> It's no coincidence each and every developer in my office who use a Mac also has either ports or brew installed.

You're right. It's not.

First of all, note what you said: every developer.

Second of all, note what they're installing: UNIX software. UNIX software is a distribution mess, and it requires a UNIX package manager. If you don't create the mess in the first place, you don't need a package manager to manage it.

Let third-party packaging systems deal with the UNIX packaging mess, and let engineers who need that software deal with the package managers needed to manage it.

Net result: Your users (which includes engineers when they don't have their software development hat on) don't have to deal with the package management disaster unless they need to deal with UNIX software.

QED.
No criticism here; your quick hack let me do a quick hack and learn some bash in the process. :)
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/288#issuecom... has some options.
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Cool, I think a good JSONResponse implementation would bake that into the framework such that it's difficult to make the mistake you didn't make :)
Is something going on inside Google, perhaps revenue-wise? Maybe it's just increased media coverage, but they really seem to be trimming the fat.
There is also the whole world of Jazz.
I just can't get over how mind-bogglingly stupid this was.

Even having decided to use dirty tricks to strengthen their overall marketing effort... What possessed them to try to go after HTC in Taiwan of all places? As HTC's stronghold, Taiwan is simultaneously the country where:

1. This sort of campaign is least likely to be effective.

2. Samsung is most likely to be caught.

3. Local regulators are most likely to be sympathetic to HTC's complaints.

I mean I understand that people generally overestimate their chances of success and underestimate the chance of being caught, but this is ridiculous.
And is remarkably similar to the CR-48, which had the same "do not loan, do not sell" provision.

I wouldn't pay $1,500 for the test hardware with this provision, but I'm going to withhold my hypothetical anger until Google does this with the consumer version.
I couldnt agree more.
I had a knee jerk reaction to say that it would be someone who works in bash who would say something like this, because constantly sshing in to various boxes and having to constantly tweak your various . files is a fucking pain.

But after thinking it over, I definitely know those who are awesome sysadmins, and require every bit of the setup to match their preferences before they will deign to work in that system.
It is indeed unfortunate that in you reply to the substance at little as possible, since this way neither I nor other readers can benefit from your knowledge. The bill is not very large, so it would not be hard for you to show that it does not apply to your company, if indeed it does not. I don't think this has anything to do with corruption, but it does have something to do with bias. However, since you clearly genuinely believe that this bill does not pertain to your company, this possibility for bias has already been eliminated whether or not the bill actually does apply to your company. Still, I think that's an interesting question.

As far as I can tell, these sections of the bill indicate that it does apply to your company:

‘‘(A) CYBERSECURITY PROVIDERS.— Not-
5 withstanding any other provision of law, a cy-
6 bersecurity provider, with the express consent
7 of a protected entity for which such cybersecu-
8 rity provider is providing goods or services for
9 cybersecurity purposes, may, for cybersecurity
10 purposes—
11 ‘‘(i) use cybersecurity systems to iden-
12 tify and obtain cyber threat information to
13 protect the rights and property of such
14 protected entity; and [...]

So, if the company your are investigating gives you consent, you may obtain cyber threat information. Note that this says nothing about the way the company is contracted.

What is cyber threat information?

1 ‘‘(2) CYBER THREAT INFORMATION.—The term
2 ‘cyber threat information’ means information di-
3 rectly pertaining to a vulnerability of, or threat to,
4 a system or network of a government or private enti-
5 ty, including [...]

So this means that you can get all information pertaining to a vulnerability, and CISPA will protect the company you're getting that information from. This is so vague that it could be virtually any data. But it gets better:

‘‘(4) EXEMPTION FROM LIABILITY.—No civil or
12 criminal cause of action shall lie or be maintained in
13 Federal or State court against a protected entity,
14 self-protected entity, cybersecurity provider, or an
15 officer, employee, or agent of a protected entity, self-
16 protected entity, or cybersecurity provider, acting in
17 good faith—
18 ‘‘(A) for using cybersecurity systems or
19 sharing information in accordance with this sec-
20 tion; or
21 ‘‘(B) for decisions made based on cyber
22 threat information identified, obtained, or
23 shared under this section

So even if a company managed to share data that would not be allowed, as long as it's acting "in good faith" everything is A-OK. Given this I fail to see how your company is not a consumer of cyber threat information as defined in this bill.

If you are so easily offended, you may wish to review your own writing style, since your comments are far from the least argumentative on HN (and I do not just mean this thread).

Thanks for your blessing, you have mine as well.
Why is every other post on HN from medium.com?
You just described my workplace. No wonder I'm frustrated working there.
I didn't mean to slander Phish! I know literally nothing (else?) about them.
I think the difference is legitimately more than semantics. There's a very real difference between starting something like Heroku and something like MyClean.

I'm not saying one is easier than the other. I'm just saying different expertise is required. MyClean sounds like a perfect company to be run by MBAs with technology pushed to the side. My gut feeling is the opposite for Heroku.
Any exchange company should operate in one of the well-known havens like Gibraltar or Curaçao, not the US.
I think everyone's big concern is how to make the next teen 'thing' the next goldmine, which I think it where ideas flounder. Once upon a time, it was chat rooms and message boards, then Xanga and LiveJournal, then MySpace and currently Facebook. At their inception, all of these things were not for-profit, but for expression.

"New generations need their own way of expressing feelings and creativity."

This is the most important sentence of the article. The reason all the above examples were so popular is because when they we in their heyday, parents and authority figures in general were nowhere near them. A teen could post their brooding emo poetry on LiveJournal without a concern that everyone they know would see it, only your friends.

While picture sites are popular, I feel like they miss the 'expressing yourself' portion of what made these sites a hit (or maybe I'm just an old fogy now that preferred text to videos and pictures).

Personally, I think there will be a more 'localized' social network that teens will flock to because everything is just 'out there'. While something like Diaspora could be the answer, I'm sure us adults won't really know until the 'next big thing' is no longer 'cool'.
Oh I had meant that their IP theft isn't limited to mobile devices, but you have a very good point with their reviews in general.

(with their oncoming push into notebook computers, I expect similar fraudulent reviews in that area as well)
I used to work in a place that use SAP-like software called MFP Pro that was implemented in IE6 days. Six-figure pricetag. We developed all our business processes around it, and they screwed us on support (which can be summed up by "Here's a URL to the link with the patches, we won't even email you when there's an update"). So we weren't going to give them more business when they came up with a better version... but we didn't have enough money to move to something else (once you factor in training costs etc). I left in 2009, and it was still running on an NT4 machine.

We did look at some cheaper options, but it's interesting that the manufacture of electronic systems doesn't really have anything cheap in the space. Properly managing nested BOMs of an arbitrary depth? Pretty much always a high pricetag or something you have to hack yourself...
I was waiting for someone who really knows the answer to jump in, but I don't think so, because a client would have to know to jump back to the DNS again after reaching the IP address failed, which I don't think they typically do. But I might be wrong.

Almost want to test it now...

Probably 80% of hackernews knows this by heart.
I don't see a monitoring system there? Something like Supervisor is great, but who watches the watcher? I prefer Nagios, but that's just because I'm used to it. Even it is better than nothing.

If you want something a bit more distributed (read less prone to single points of failure) than Supervisor, check out pacemaker. Very powerful and useful for keeping resources alive in any sized cluster.
The article made it sound like Phish sells a lot of live albums. Every ticket purchased includes a free download of the show off the soundboard. I am a huge phish fan and have been to an embarrassing number of shows. Phish makes the majority of money from touring touring and more touring. When they do a deal with a venue, they take home way more than the average band.
Overturn laws that limit auto manufacturers from selling their vehicles directly
I'm definitely in the taking a walk bunch. Seems like most of my frustrating problems are just a case of looking too hard. I'll get up and (try to) do something completely unrelated like turn on the TV or sit outside, then suddenly the answer comes to me.

When I run into an issue during some late night ooding, the solution is always sleep. Next morning, the answer will come to me a little after I wake up (when the mind is most clear).
depends on the actual app use. Simple in and out low traffic crud? It's probably not worth the extra effort. MySQL is still a great product that has and will continue to serve billions of web requests and just cause NoSQL is a new kid on the block doesn't mean that everything should use it.

That said if you are storing data that is really just documents, Mongo or another document db is likely a good choice. For example if you storing interrelated performance measurements (like in a factory setting ) Mongo would likely not be the best choice but say in a setting like an app for applying for a job or registering for events ( natural document data segments ) a document db would work well for modeling the domain I'd think.
I disagree with most of this because I don't think it is about money, but this part in particular underplays what in my mind is the largest reason entrepreneurs cannot stand large organizations:

>Corporate politics and bureaucracy are just another obstacle that can be learned and overcome

You can learn to navigate politics and bureaucracy, but you can't overcome them without becoming management - in which case your hands are generally bound to the same metrics that your previous bosses were as well.

If it takes 4 levels of review just to see if my project can be begun or to build a team to begin even MVP development, I don't want to be near that. It's too slow, access to resources, if available, are so tightly scrutinized that if there is any failure you can kiss future chances goodbye, attaching new hardware or software is a nightmare because the systems need to all be compatible on this network etc.. etc.. all make the large corporately integrated system terrible for the fast paced error>revise>error>revise cycle that entrepreneurs want.

This is why the Valve model of flat organization is so appealing to many and spoken about in terms like "future of the workplace."
Isn't development hardware is usually licenced as property of the supplier?
eg. "A Perth man's house has been raided by police after he allegedly tried to sell a prototype of Microsoft's new Xbox gaming console" http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/perth-gamer-caught-in-c...
This is perfect for numerical computing applications like software-defined radio or image processing, which can now be done on embedded platforms. I'll definitely be ordering a board when they're available.
Take a walk, jump in the shower, working on something else that needs to be done, and last but not least - reach for the booze.
There's no inconsistency. Linode said "Credit card numbers in our database are stored in encrypted format... Along with the encrypted credit card, the last four digits are stored in clear text..."
The addendum for the Explorer Edition states: you may not resell, loan, transfer, or give your Device to any other person.

That's what the story is about, because there are no other editions of Glass.
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Well, not dangerous so much as will fail with a "Model instance is not JSON serializable" message. So of course you'll need to construct the list/dictionary representation of your data manually. A good framework can help with that, but this isn't something that's solvable in the general case with just a response subclass without risking data leaks as you stated. (The other option in the original post makes this mistake, making both suggested options insecure)
Search is (mostly) stateless. They can copy the search database to hundreds of DCs around the world, and each can operate independently - so if one of them has a problem, it's not likely to affect the others (unless it's bad data, but that's why you shouldn't deploy index updates to all DCs simultaneously). There's some personalization, sure, but you can just fall back to non-personalized search if that breaks.

Things like gmail, on the other hand, are inherently stateful. When you log into gmail, you have to eventually connect to one system that maintains your mailbox. Sure, there might be replication - but the replicas are all talking to each other. It's surprisingly easy to have a cascade failure in a system like this, where one of the replicas going down triggers (directly or indirectly) all the others failing as well. Or you can have some bad data that gets replicated out, and then proceeds to confuse everything that's looking at it - unlike search, you have to replicate that data immediately, and don't get to enjoy the benefits of a staged deployment.

This also explains why not all users were affected - I'd guess that their system is divided into some number of shards, and users are assigned to a particular shard. That 0.07% of users affected probably represents a single unhealthy shard.
You're speaking as if doing AJAX and doing client-side MVC are one step apart. Moreover, you're speaking as if using server-side MVC forces the programmer to use no JavaScript at all. At best, this is naive. Either that, or you deliberately misrepresenting technologies to promote something.

The simplest way to use AJAX with a server-side MVC is by fetching blocks of pre-rendered HTML. This is commonly known as AHAH. It's dead-simple to do, powerful and trivial to use via progressive enhancement. That is what you should treat as the server-side alternative to client-side MVC.
Spot on, although I think the most recent album, Joy, is fantastic and a pleasure to hear anytime. The Red Hot Chili Peppers have adopted the same download model (sans download codes included with ticket purchases) for the most recent tour and are running http://livechilipeppers.com/. I bought the Bonnaroo set I saw last year and was really informed how good of a live band Phish really is (because of how unmagical the RHCP recording was).
Depends on the advice, depends on your experience. Vague answer for a vague question.
Your advantage unfortunately obscures other useful information.

My [zsh] prompt displays the exact time down to the second on its own line. I just scan up looking at the time to see if the hours match or minutes... But I still have the ability to know if one was 3 minutes 33 seconds or one was 27 minutes 10 seconds within that hour/half hour.
Thanks! I haven't listened to Elysium in a long time. Brings back memories of coding to mods playing in WinAmp back in the late 90's...
You forgot:

9a.) Make a Crucible review
9b.) Refresh a few times because Crucible isn't loading correctly
9c.) Figure out who to invite to the review
9d.) Wait 3 days until the PM notices the review and signs off on it
9e.) Close the review
9f.) Wait another day because the tools team decided they'd upgrade all the Atlassian tools today

Is this shit really common? I thought it was just where I worked.
It discharges/charges much faster, that is all about the new battery.

Discharging fast make it more possible to catch fire.

Overall, it seems not very useful for smartphones.
Expenses Mount for App Launches
Fertilizer Plant Explodes in Waco, TX
One of the greatest profile essays of all time, by one of the greatest profilers.

"A small riot ensued."
I've worked at small to mid-level sized companies my whole adult life (I'm quitting in two weeks to work on my business full-time).

Working at any company always starts out well. I have so many ideas, thoughts, and energy I want to put into my position. For me, it always fades after about 6 months.

The politics, managers, ridiculous ideas that I'm forced develop, long hours that could have easily been prevented with better practices usually ruin it for me.
Is the joke that your username contains fish? For the life of me I can't figure out what the joke is and if its the username bit its a poor joke.
Writing things down or drawing on paper has always helped me.
This seems normal and precedented.

When they handed out free Chromebooks 860 days ago[1] they had the same terms.

Of course they also said: "Do not expose the device to water, moisture, or rap music." Not sure how we were supposed to take the rest of the message seriously...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1987536
Yes, where I work, we really do have to type a long bit of bullshit. At least seven mostly-meaningless fields all need to be filled out or the form will not submit. Worse, several of the fields are drop-down boxes with dozens of entries. Half the time I just click random shit because I don't care and no-one else does.