skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough, but that's way less effective as rhetoric. How do we know Krugman didn't falsify his results and murder people?
Upon opening this page, some Kinja registration appeared, suggesting the username Luc0895. My first name is Luc, so I'm extremely curious as to how it knew this. I'm not logged in to io9 nor another Gawker website as far as I know. Anyone else had this?
It was interesting to see Inform 7 source for its own sake, rather than for what it compiles to (which in this case would be filled with non sequiturs.)
But then how would we know that facorreia is smarter than we are?
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I was thinking of Northern Ireland, but yeah, Nazi German will do.
Yes, IMAP and POP were supported: https://gist.github.com/bretwalker/5420652
it says

the poignant guide never really was about Ruby. It was a wonderfully quirky book that happened to be using Ruby as its language
Awesome. The other ISS thread [1] posted today had me lost on youtube watching related videos for nearly 2 hours.

I really want to experience zero-gravity!

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5575469
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Wow, that's just terrible.
It appears that kilowatt cards are priced at "$3.50 or less", which removes the actual advantage of using energy as money. If they were really good for delivery of energy, this would incentivize people to move energy from places it's now cheap to places it's expensive. By removing the possibility for arbitrage they've destroyed most of the point.
It's telling me that beer o'clock will be at 10am. Not usually the time of day I go for a beer.
Sousveillance, not Surveillance. There is a distinction, which is basically one of being anti-Surveillance.

But of course, with Google Glass, the concept of Surveillance is being somewhat muddied and spread across the people that will be using it.

And you should look into how Police forces are being more regularly equipped with on-person Surveillance.. I'd prefer to have my own version of events that can be compared with the "authorized" version (where you can insert your own value of "authorized" if you want), and I'd prefer it to be under my, not Googles control.

(edit: typo)
Be careful! Scan-to-cloud/email is patented!
> _why was the first person to actually create art around and about software.

That's complete rubbish. But it probably is correct that he was the first person that created art around and about software that you are aware of.
Do you want to live in a world where you need permission to take a picture? We do not live in a world where a minority of people carry cameras: almost every cell phone now has an integrated camera, and almost everyone has a cell phone (even in remote African villages, people have cell phones, often shared among the villagers). Tourists have been taking pictures in public places, without regard for the strangers in their camera's field of view, for decades.

There are already other classes of always-on video recorders that people generally accept: dashcams, security cameras, etc. There are a few complaints from people who do not think wearing a mask in public is an acceptable countermeasure, but for the most part people do not mind -- as long as the camera is not pointed into their home. Google Glass is hardly different; in fact, it records video less often.
Actually, no. Here (DE), photographers are allowed to take your picture in public if you are not the main component of that picture (with a few extra exceptions).

And that’s just for picture taking. For recording (either video or sound), you need to put up signs on private property and you are not allowed to constantly record public places anyways.

So, yes, you can have an expectation of privacy in any public place in the meaning of not being covertly recorded and photographed.
Thanks for your contribution. Try search "Nathan A. Baker"
Yes, using Flask. I need to write why we chose it over Django....but mostly becasue we're using Mongo and once you're down the path of not using the Django ORM, what's the point? Also, it seems like there's dozens of articles on "how to structure" your large Django projects, so you don't even get good guidance about it out of the box.

I'm running mine under NGINX->uWSGI....but might be switching to Gunicorn. (I'm still researching our path to production).
11am for me. Time zone issues?
Working in information security, I see this far, far too often in support tickets from employees who are unable to get to a site because our proxy is blocking misconfigured certificates. Usually we like to reach out to the owner of the site and have them update their configuration, and it gets quite frustrating when we find an unresponsive organization. Having to bypass cert checking for a site on our end is a huge security risk, and defeats the purpose of even having an SSL cert.

Companies! Make sure your certs are all in order! There's no reason to send a page to your users over HTTPS if they can't trust the certificate. Canonical has been a long-time offender of this, with many of their pages sporting a certificate signed to canonical.com but being served by ubuntu.com.
You might be thinking of this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monsters_Are_Due_on_Maple_S...
Absolutely, it's full of the fog of war.

But I'd rather try to interpret that myself than get it filtered through the traditional media in quasi-real time (vs. the much more reliable reporting that happens, say, a couple days after everything is over).
Click customise and then select the alcopop. Nice little easter egg haha
Printing a book as a print spool, including a self-referential handwritten program to print the spool? If you don't think this is fun, I just don't know what to tell you.

Speaking purely for myself, the absurdist nature of _why's work is part of the fun. The feeling of being a little bit confused but enjoying the moment is why I find programming interesting in the first place.

Keep up the great work _why!
Maybe government doesn't want redditers countering their official narrative regarding the suspects
I strongly disagree.

Every change to user account should send automated email stating what changed (and if email changed send it to both old and new address).

This is so you know that changes took effect, and in case somebody else tried changing info for you.

This includes cancellation/termination of service.

Think of it as a commercial transaction, you request an action, and after action is completed you receive receipt.
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You should hold off on that judgement, e.g. there's plenty of talk about suicide vests, or injuries that go beyond just gun shots.

ADDED: There's no particularly kind and gentle way to deal with someone throwing explosives at you....
I thought 'Racist Where's Waldo' is a very good 3 word summary
Fucking android, man. I would gladly include support for IE5.5 if I could drop Android 2.x.
Wow, thank you for including Lift, It's mind blowing to see Lift perform only marginally better than Ruby on Rails...I always thought it as a very performant framework...
It's correct for UK time (assuming beer o'clock is 5pm, which it is).
This was my argument with a friend the other day, that a bitcoin is worth the amount of energy needed to create it.

The other point was that it is not important for a currency to be a long term store of value. It's only needed to facilitate transactions.
That might be his future, but Clueless -> Loser is "going completely sane".

Technocrats are Clueless who go the other way and turn into "Sociopath with a heart of gold" types. We actually believe that there's something worth fighting for. Since we tend to disadvantage our own employability and, therefore, our incomes, I believe this puts us into the "insane" category.

We are here to use technology and rationality to do what our Boomer forebears never did (they came too soon, and had a lack of insight into the real problem) which is end industrial authoritarianism. The '60s radicals are back, 45 years later, but we sling code and like markets (in a left-libertarian, hybridize-the-welfare-state-and-market-economy, sort of way).
SC: This is a fantastic tree. It keeps us totally dry.

LOL
I always get his name wrong, sorry for that. Yes, Joe Navarro.
The very premise that the value of a "fuel" is in its energy content alone is wrong. We'd be quick to lower the value of a "dirty Joule" (eg coal) compared to a "clean Joule" (hydrogen). Also, some fuels are inherently much cheaper to extract than others (coal is so cheap, and hydrogen so expensive). These costs of extraction also change over time -- ten years ago some applications naturally called for liquid fossil fuels (heating oil, diesel, gasoline), but after the fracking revolution a new operation starting today would better and more cheaply use natural gas. Natural gas will continue to be cheaper for some industrial applications in some areas until deployed fuel-using industrial capital equipment and vehicles using natural gas increases to take advantage of the cheaper energy.

Other factors that affect the pricing of a "Joule": convenience of application (I can't burn coal in my car, I pay a premium for gasoline; gasoline won't get me to the moon, I pay a premium for rocket fuel); ease of refining the mined resource into finished product form; ease of transporting fuels from source to "refinery" to distribution to end user; we'll pay a premium for fuels with a reliable steady supply; outside risks, e.g., political unrest in the Middle East increasing production costs and risk.

The "joule" measure for the value of a fuel is flawed. We already have a great measure for the value of a fuel, it is the US$.

Also, as many point out, the energy required to create a bitcoin has little bearing on its value. Energy costs help determine the mining effort and technology put toward mining bitcoin, but the value of a BTC will fluctuate depending on other factors. The total energy required to manufacture, transport components of, and assemble a house, along with the "inherent" value of those materials, is less than the US$-denominated utility of that house. If I shock a turd with the same energy used to build the house, it doesn't have any value approaching that of the house unless I'm Andy Warhol.
More Bad Excel
I love this one:

http://www.whynopadlock.com/
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Spring with Maven
Spring with Maven - focuses on the dependencies for Persistence, Web, Security and Testing.
IBM looks to sell its x86 server business to Lenovo as profits crash
If I recall correctly, their original result had negative growth (like -0.1%) when debt is above 90%, and the revised result has growth at 2.2%.

The revised 2.2% is much closer than the original -0.1% to the rate at the next level down (3.2%).

So now they are clinging to the fact that 2.2% growth is still less than 3.2%. It is, but it's much closer than the old, original -0.1% growth.
You should do because it's great:

* No queues at the bar

* lots of unique characters - many of whole will still be sober enough to pass their worldly insight onto you

* public transport will still be running by the time you stumble out of the pub again.
Speak for yourself.

I flagged the entire thread immediately. I suggest you do the same in the future. This does not belong on HN.
The extra cert dialogue box will really drive up traffic. #not
http://brightbox.com/ is UK based and privately owned. I don't think they've said anything about plans to expand into the US or otherwise.
Yes. If someone finds it appropriate to record what I am doing in a technical, easily-reproduced manner, I will stay away from that person.
I've never worked in the Valley, but with one possible exception (I never tried to take advantage while I was there) every job I've had has had some form of Employee Assistance Program that covered things like counseling for workplace-related stress or work-life balance. It wasn't a comprehensive program (that was covered mostly by health insurance) but in most cases it would cover approximately six visits- free of charge- and not on your health insurance .

I did find that most of my co-workers were not aware of such programs, so if you feel like you could benefit from such a program, please contact your HR department. It's quite possible you already have such a program available to you and taking advantage could help out quite a bit if you are stressed.
Phonefactor hit by security patent lawsuit
Even if you aren't working in a startup, you should also be happy for the fact that startups exist in abundance (even if low-quality). If it wasn't for these, it would have been the buyer's market (with you as your personal efforts' salesman) dictated by demand of a few players. It is the startups that are preventing a plunge in tech employee's value on the market.
http://www.lenovo.com/ww/lenovo/pdf/announcement/E_099220130...
Why Digital Money's Future Will Involve Something Like Bitcoin
No, it is the other way, Python is translated to SQL, not vice versa ;)

According to SQL standard, aggregate functions must skip NULL values. The problem is with queries which return no rows. In this case, intuitive expected result of SUM aggregate function is zero, but, because of some quirk in SQL standard, SUM must return NULL if no rows were found.

Without coalesce function, result of SUM will be returned as None if no rows were found. Coalesce replaces this surprising None with zero.
IBM In Talks To Sell x86 Server Business To Lenovo
Is anyone else not loading the images on that page?
I'm disappointed. It keeps saying I have to wait an hour and a half till 5pm. I'm thinking of getting some beer in 5 minutes. It's friday, fuck it!
I'd argue that a post-event analysis of those interactions would be justified. However, much of what was posted here really wasn't. There was comment threads with minute-by-minute updates of events, links to images of suspects and links to live police radios. I personally wouldn't consider any of that to be the type of stuff that should be submitted to HN.

I think the thing that must be remembered is that almost nobody who reads HN reads it in a vacuum. I'm willing to bet that almost every user here has an account on another website which is more suitable for discussing current events. HN isn't in competition with these sites, and it doesn't need to have their breadth. This is a site for engineers and developers about technology.
I don't really like the idea of putting managers "below" workers. The fundamental reason why middle managers behave in such shitty ways is that they're insecure. (Their job is to be leaders, but they often aren't the leaders the group would pick; they're compliant stooges selected by executives who trust them to favor upward interests.) Putting management at a level below workers is just as bad and will probably produce even more incompetent management than the dogshit we already get.

We need to accept different that isn't below or above.

What we need is a radically transparent system that allows for division of labor and investor/worker symbiosis but doesn't turn that into an excuse for parasitic behavior at any level: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/gervais-macle...
It's a shame the time isn't customisable. Where I work beer o'clock is normally 5.30.

Otherwise it's awesome
So, start early.

If you disrespect the beer o'clock, the beer fairy won't visit you anymore.
I was listening on NPR and they emphasized that the police want to capture him alive so they can find out more about why they did it, who they're connected to, etc.
Thank you for reading the forum trying to better understand my POV.

re: #1. Yes, my stance with Anthony is that he doesn't think there is a bug in the software because he thinks this is a typical one phase competition. Flight Quest was more complicated than the typical Kaggle competition.

re: #2. I have done a poor job explaining the checkbox. I understand the confusion, as my statements are contradictory. In a single phase competition, the checkbox is important because over the course of the competition, numerous submissions are scored and you ultimately need to pick the one you want to apply as your final submission. In the case you do not make a final selection, the system selects the most recent submission.

The same UI is used for the two phase competition, including the same text that Anthony posted in his response to me, however the submissions work slightly differently as I mentioned.

> "As I have been saying over email repeatedly over the past 8 days, and yesterday on the phone with you and the Sorkin, there is no checkbox to check!"

I said this because I don't believe there should have been a checkbox on the screen. That is what I meant by saying there is no checkbox to check.
PoP source is active again. Let's hack it
I view the ubiquitous rise of personal recording devices as linked to other progress that can not easily be (nor should it be) stopped.

I also see it as a privacy issue, where the expectation of privacy through anonymity is decreasing through a combination of much more recording of everyday events and future (and current) possibilities for correlating those positively with specific people.

I think the natural outcome of this is that we'll just shift our cultural relationship between assumed and explicit privacy and anonymity. In the future, it may not be uncommon to see people in cities go about with some sort of face covering / obfuscation, to achieve some semblance of the privacy and anonymity we currently expect (whether or not we should expect that at this point...)
A mobilized Hacker News in 15 minutes [video]
It's telling me 3AM Saturday morning in Brisbane. Something tells me it's a bit late to the party :)
Ah sorry, I was being a bit...American. Here, the only restriction on photography is on commercial use.
There is no inherent requirement that attacks need to be intentional. It's possible for a software glitch to launch a missile attack. Attack: An aggressive and violent action against a person or place
ONE BOSTON BOMBING SUSPECT DEAD, SECOND SUSPECT STILL AT LARGE AFTER SHOOTOUT
Duh, of course. This is what happens when I don't read the explanation and just grab on to the first pieces of code I see.

Thanks.
And anyone in the vicinity of the dartboard is going to get hurt.

And they were wrong on all counts. No bullseyes.
(Un)fortunately, Google Glass is not restricted to the states.
I like how you denied the "fuck you with a smile" response with the very "fuck you with a smile" response he was complaining about.
My first startup/business was 33/33/34. The business guy (the closest we had to the CEO) was the 34% and would be the tie breaker if the other cofounder and I disagreed on anything.

Even if you want to do 50/50 split of ownership, can't you structure voting power 51/49 or some other way such that you won't end up in a deadlock?
"advertising as you know is dying. "
For starters, users expect modern-looking websites. That includes users on old browsers, thanks to the amount of bending over backwards done in the web industry to provide those users with as much of the modern browsing experience as possible. If you serve up a page looking like the c2.com wiki to a non-technical user, they're not going to be too happy about it.

Far more so than that, though, what's shitty about having to support IE 6-8 is the complete lack of consistency. Even if you aren't doing anything fancy, you have to spend a hell of a lot of dev time if you want things to look the same across browsers when they're included. Hours and hours of wasted time is pretty shitty, especially when the work involved is so aggravating and, from a creative point of view, utterly pointless.

In effect, your question is like asking what would be shitty about developing apps for a 10-year-old Palm Pilot. There are millions of use-cases perfectly covered by those too, but that doesn't mean an iPhone app developer is going to want to spend time porting his apps to one.
...what kind of massage you received?

My browser only talk about the warning, but i only have old chromium... Not auto-updating g chrome
I find it funny when people talk about reddit, 4chan, etc as a single group. "Reddit should really not do this". Really? It's like saying Brooklyn should really stop being so hipster. Not only is it a very small portion of the entire group, but they aren't about to stop doing what they're doing because of a few articles.
As far as the rates that the feds have to pay to borrow money -- that's set by the market. They can issue bonds at 0.25% and people will buy them, therefore the interest rate is that low. It's not like they're forcing people to buy. The feds aren't setting the price for that interest rate -- well, they are, but what people are willing to pay is actually what sets the price.

Quantitative easing actually should, in theory, lead to inflation and higher interest rates. It's basically printing money. I think you have it confused with counter-cyclical fed reserve short-term lending rates which, by virtue of being very low, induce banks to lend money at only a little higher.
It's 17:35 and I see this http://cl.ly/OQTX It works. Cheers!
Yeah, but this was during the 90s, a period of growth caused by IT and finance developments. That budget surplus was a result of high economic growth, not a cause. Which, incidentally, is what the data that R/R distorted so much supports: that low growth causes high public debt, not the reverse.
Is there a way to quantify QE in personal finance terms?
Like, can I saw "QE is an X% inflation" for some X, so I can apply that to my personal understanding of the purchasing power of my savings once people try spending their inflated dollars and send ripple through the economy?
Noon for East Coast USA.

I could see an argument being made for that..
Well then, be sure to let us know which browsers we should be worried over supporting with your analytics from a few years from now.
those factors would be covered by the "utility" aspect.

"The energy supply defines how much productive work can be done, while the efficiency with which we use energy defines how much utility can be created from that energy supply (widgets per kilowatt-hour)."

the $ is driven by more factors such as FX, inflation, interest rates and therefore not a clean measure of energy value.

possibly the purest current value of energy today would be in energies futures markets?
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"It has been my experience that good producers are more likely to be asked to continue to produce. If they moved you to a higher position and better pay then who would produce the software?"

This has been my experience as well. No company ever uses that time to great benefit either, they just use it to change their minds seven times before release instead of two. Killing yourself for someone else is not worth it.
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I know jQuery. Now what?
Working on it! :-)
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By not supporting old browsers with all of their inconsistencies, a team can save a significant amount of development time. That development time can then go directly towards new features, bug fixes, etc. It's not so much that the latest browsers can do so many new things (though in some cases it's that as well), it's that you can actually develop for them efficiently without diving into a rabbit hole of IE compatibility issues every time you add a feature to the site.
Finally, a Tennis simulator for Linux.