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This is what Austrian economists have been arguing forever. They base their models on simple assumptions. Trying to figure out how an economy works just by observing it's macro behavior is insane. There are so many factors, economic models change over time as market actors use them to make decisions, and the sample size is incredibly small (not many countries to look at) and biased (differences between countries are huge, differences in time within a country are huge too.) Economists of all types are terribly inaccurate at making predictions, even in the short term.

>Also - who on earth thought austerity was ever a good idea?

Who on Earth thought spending was ever a good idea?

>The US should load up on as much debt as possible

This is ludicrous. How on Earth would you pay it back? The only way you could justify such spending is if it created more wealth than the amount of debt and interest. Which depends entirely on where the money is spent. Just creating new roads and bridges may produce some value to the economy, but it's no where near enough to justify it (and in the end most of it would have to be taxed back of course, to pay for the debt and interest.)
>I'd be very annoyed to... have their access be denied by a local proxy

Untrusted certificate chains is a valid security risk. If it annoys you that users are blocked from viewing your site because you haven't gone through the established and accepted practice of actually completing the SSL trust chain, that's not the local proxy's fault.

My number one concern is the integrity and security of my company's data. Your personal or temporary TLS site is much lower down that list, especially if you're serving up untrusted certificates and expecting that users will completely ignore the warnings that try to keep them from falling victim to the kinds of attacks SSL is meant to avoid.
Actually it would be nice if it becomes "implicitly" a dating site, but not explicitly.

Just like how in real life you can hang out with a mixed group of people where implicitly/secretly everyone knows a part of it is fishing for a relationship.

But explicitly and on the surface it's only about finding friends and like minded people.
What a wonderful improvement to our old networking design. Can certainly see the benefits of redundancy, but the throughput advantage is huge. It will allow massively high throughput between servers by aggregating commodity hardware, scaling out instead of up. >1Gb server hardware is ridiculously expensive. I've tried interface bonding and the performance sucks. Now I can get a cheap 5Gb link using 5 dirt cheap NIC's. Awesome.
I really do believe that consciousness doesn't really have anything to do with intelligence.

The problem is that both of these terms are really too vague. What do you mean by "consciousness"? Some people claim insects are conscious; some claim bacteria are conscious; some even claim electrons are conscious.

Also, what do you mean by "intelligence"? By some definitions, the process of evolution by natural selection is "intelligent".

If by these terms, you mean "the properties humans have that we call consciousness and intelligence", then why do you think there is no connection between them? Does your own intelligence really have nothing to do with your consciousness? Or vice versa?

It's conceivable you could create something like a human with very simple machinery, just massively scaled up.

Conceivable, yes. Likely, I don't think so. But that's really a matter of opinion; it depends on how much of the complexity in the parts of the human brain (neurons, chemicals, etc.) is necessary for human consciousness or intelligence, and how much you think is just an artifact of the implementation, so to speak. We don't know enough about how the brain works yet to really judge.

the end result may be complex, but the algorithm that creates it is not.

In other words, the complexity is still there.

That complex seeming behavior can "emerge" from simple rules and a simple process.

Wait a minute--complex seeming? Or complex?

If you're trying to argue that the complexity may not be in the algorithm itself, but only in the actual working out of the algorithm in time and space, I'll buy that.

But if you're trying to argue that it isn't "really" complex because the algorithm is simple, I don't buy that. I never said the algorithm had to be complex; I just said there has to be complexity somewhere for there to be (human-level, to avoid all the definitional issues I raised above) consciousness and intelligence. That's perfectly consistent with the complexity ultimately being built out of simple parts--just a lot of them with a lot of interactions, so the complexity is in the interactions, not in the parts themselves.

(I think it's likely that the parts themselves have significant complexity too, as I said above, but even if that's true, there will still be some lower level, possibly much lower, where there are simple parts, just a huge, huge number of them with a lot of interactions.)
The first thing I thought of that is similar to Rendr is http://meteor.com/ . I'm not sure about how it works with Angular. It does describe itself as a framework where Rendr describes itself as a library, so I'd think it'd be easier to run Angular stuff on top of Rendr.
OTOH there's the hidden cost of transactions, which the seller pays (and that's where the refunds come from), which admittedly won't go away if it's just you who stops using credit cards.
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I'm not sure I fully understand this, is this just for SEO? Why not run the page in phantomJS, which is what we do at https://circleci.com, and what meteor apps do, and any others?
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Absolutely agree. I mean we already "pay" by going out whether it's a coffee shop or a restaurant, etc.
Yes, people are. Off the top of my head, one prominent example was Jon Stewart: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/stewart-tears-apart-cnn-for-compl...
I have 5 months of free time and nothing (important) to work on so if you would consider working with someone as partner and not just someone you would pay to complete the project email me at gehn@gmx.com

btw You should add email to your profile.
At the :22 mark. http://www.mixcloud.com/MadDecent/mdwwr-74-major-lazer-carni...
I have been thinking about something similar to this for a while. The problem is the negative stigma of hunting for friends. That makes it difficult to get people to want to signup. The best potential candidates would already have lots of friends and wouldn't need your service.

However, this would be immensely helpful in finding new friends, especially if you just moved to a new area. Even moving within a city, it is difficult to maintain close connections to your friends if you don't live near them.

Best of luck
Meetup.com is pretty good but there's plenty of room for competition.
"We don't need the low end. Let them have it."

Didn't the american car companies take that route too?
And steel mills. and... mainframes I think.
Or in meatspace.
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I don't work there, but I doubt it. With rendr, both the client- and server-side portions of the Backbone stack still need to consume an upstream API. If I had to guess, I'd say that for projects they're building that use this stack, all the templating/rendering/presentation logic is in JS, but that the database interaction stuff probably isn't; they probably have Rails apps that expose a RESTful API that the rendr apps consume.
"managers did the work of their underlings." - only in very traditional companies that promote on seniority.

Its not uncommon for someone straight out of college, working as an "ideas" man to manage programmers.
He he... That's the one :-)
Wow, looks very impressive from my quick look over it.

These days, there are so many JavaScript frameworks for web development, it's starting to make my head spin a little bit.

Does anyone have a link to a good rundown of where everyone stands?
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>> A year ago I was still building pages for an airport that needed to support IE6 to a functional level. We charged a huge number for that support

Bravo. What you did was rational, explains why the jQuery team is doing this, and gives you your solution.

You and they both recognize that supporting old browsers is expensive. They're dropping that support. You're charging a lot to deal with it, which incentivizes clients to stop asking for it.

With the extra money you are charging, you can, if necessary, pay someone to fix bugs in jQuery that affect those clients' projects. You can contribute those patches back. Everyone wins.

I understand your emotional response to "losing" support for browsers, but this is not a story of open source failing you. You could have been paying for a proprietary library instead of using jQuery. jQuery has already saved you thousands by being free. You don't get to dictate the project's direction, but you have lots of savings ready to patch it as needed.

I'd say that's a pretty good deal.
Straw-man much? I just said that it's funny to hold up Paul Ryan as an exemplar of sensibility.
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While there's room for competition, it does have the chicken-and-egg problem. People who create meetup groups need to know there are people to join the group and people who want to go to meetups need to go to a place with a wide variety of groups. That's why it's hard to do a Craigslist or eBay competitor.
Are you saying you're religious, yet love science? I'd like to have a discussion with you.
Responsive Multi-Level Menu
The main idea is to save space for menus that have a lot of content and sub-levels. Each sub-level in this menu will be shown in its own context, making the “parent” level disappear. This is done with subtle animations that are defined in separate animation classes. The menu is fluid so that it can be used easily in a responsive layout.
That's totally dependant on your app. What it does. is it viral like? are you advertising it? Are you getting the word out? how interactive is it? how often do people use it? the only way to get those numbers is to test. Also, a growth hacker is someone that tweeks flows through the app to improve numbers conversion numbers. Different advertising channels will produce different results also.
My understanding is that the major cost is to pay people to do the physical work of drilling holes and digging trenches, so the cost of upgrading to FTTH in future (adjusted for inflation) would be about the same as creating a FTTH network now.
Guava for Java has Optional. Very nice, except for Java's horrid syntax for generics.
Thanks! LOL no "body type" things. I'm still in looking to come up with more features, but I'm not sure weather you'll be able to press a button saying "find me a friend" like dating sites do, that matches you up. I'd love to discuss over your ideas/everything you'd like to see in the site via email as well - contact AT interestin.co
I wouldn't call it "if you don't like it, fix it yourself." I'd call it "you need code that does X? We don't have that, but we have something that does 99.9% of X, and you can have it for free!"
> The problem is the negative stigma of hunting for friends. That makes it difficult to get people to want to signup.

I think it'd be interesting to research why that is and trying to come up with some solutions. (This problem is also present in dating sites).

I think meetup.com's approach avoids this problem because you're not explicitly "fishing" for friends.
There's a difference between the whimsical, the surreal, the colorful as a method of misleading or distracting or revealing things which cannot be said more directly, and pretension.

Feel free to think that your own criticisms of this work stem from some objective place wherein your appraisal is accurate and valid, but it seems there are members of this community also weathered in art and art criticism who think this is a valid, provocative, even moving body of writing.
I've been working on http://www.socialocale.com . It's interest and location based. Judges at Startup Weekend hated it. What do you guys think? Is it worth pursuing? Here's a screenshot of what it looks like on the inside http://imgur.com/ciPp9pA
OK see you are arguing to a specific point on the drones issue. I.E. them being used in your back yard. I'm referring to the idea that the government (using your logic) could film and track you whenever you go out in public, period.

But that's not the point I'm trying to make, Someone took a photo (publicly available) and found someone without a backpack, then the put it up online and said, this guy is a suspect.

Now we have a crowd of people (here on Hacker news and if you follow the threads others on Reddit) who have seen this guys face. The law of idiots leads me to believe that someone is going to recognize him and this could adversely affect his life.

Is it illegal... no. Is it morally wrong to post something like this online, I believe so. Sure, he has no right to privacy, and I'm no lawyer, but to slander someone's name with a very limited amount of evidence seems fucked up. I said it in another area, but they should have privately released this information to the police and let them investigate.
1. Register domain accordionfy.com or accordion.io.

2. Put a lading page to collect emails in it. Link to this demo.

3. Include the copy "Accordionfy.com is aiming to disrupt the accordion industry by leveraging the web stack to deliver an life-like accordion experience to anyone with an internet connection."

4. Under the copy include: "We are currently raising seed investment."

5. Write 3 blog posts a day about anything but accordions.

6. Tweet about accordion-first startups.

7. Apply to YC and then complain about how PG hates accordions.

8. Buy a black hoodie and an airplane ticket to SF.

9. Go to every startup event in SF.

10. Tell people how much traction you got from the HN post.

11. Rinse and repeat #9 && #10 for 3 months.

12. Make a blog post about how you failed, and how it taught you that startups are hard. Never thinking about that you were trying to sell a fucking accordion in a web browser.

13. Get acquired by Yahoo! for 15 Million dollars.

In all seriousness, I love this.
HootSuite is finally paying its interns
From TFA - "His name turned up on the Boston Police Department's scanner early this morning"

Citation required. This is gaining truth through repeated assertion, but people looking for actual verification seem to be coming up short (one person could recall hearing this general police chatter including the word "Sammy", which apparently was enough, proving out what a confirmation bias is). Remember when there were broad claims of "confirmation" that the FBI were looking for the same individuals that had been widely, and mistakenly, identified? Only that wasn't actually true.

The danger of large crowds working loosely together is that not every participant has good intentions, and not every participant is mentally balanced. In the absence of legitimate information, someone maliciously dropping false information bombs in the middle of a well meaning conversation can dramatically mislead the herd.
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To hypothesize the least violent encounter I can imagine where the use of lethal force by the police would be justified:

If someone is advancing on you, a known explosives user (during the chase) who's from a region where the use of "suicide vests" is common, and refuses to stop, you without hesitation shoot to stop. And at as far a distance as you can.

The encounter could have been more violent on the part of the deceased, or since he killed a fellow officer it could have been an execution as all too often happens like recently in California. But the event was probably more confused than any of what I'd said here might imply.

All I can say that we know by inference is that the event was confused enough, and/or there were few enough police there, that his brother escaped---actually, I don't think we know that, the brother might have been let off before the stop---and has obviously successfully gone to ground. Likely into an apartment or home, and they're going to have to search house to house, apartment to apartment, could take quite a while assuming he is inside the 25 block? cordoned off area in Watertown. Not too familiar with that suburb, but I lived in Cambridge and surrounding mostly urban suburbs for a dozen years, it's likely a densely populated area. Even with a maximum effort by all it could drag on for more than a day, or he could get flushed out a minute from now.

ADDED: while all current accounts from the media are highly suspect, this: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/19/report-boston-marathon... would fit in what else we've heard or can discern:

"According to WBZ-TV’s Joe Shortsleeve, MBTA transit police intercepted the Mercedes in Cambridge and followed it.

"A source told Shortsleeve the brothers lost control of the car and crashed it. A gunfight with police erupted and an MBTA police officer was shot and seriously wounded.

"Miller reported that Tamerlan Tsarnaev threw a bomb at police as he approached them and that’s when officers shot and killed him.

"Shortsleeve’s source said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev then jumped back in the Mercedes, drove over his brother’s body, threw bombs at police and crashed again. He ran off, firing a weapon and that sparked the massive manhunt in Watertown."
Company paid health insurance is one of the stupidest thing ever, the moment you most needed it, they fire you.
Yeah that's a pity, it sucks when only the loud obnoxious people get their way...
"The business of murdering people" -- there, better? Can we now address the elephant in the room?
First, I do not intend to charge for this, at least at the moment. Same thing about ads. I'll have to come up with more sophisticated business plan, but this it doesn't really matter for me now, cause this isn't the goal. Regarding the problems you pointed out: I see your point, and I think this will be a challenge to connect people with truly best friends.
Ask HN: Mongo DB and Django - which library to use
The choices are django-nonrel, third party ORM like mongo engine or platform specific code for mongodb. Django - nonrel seems very natural but not sure about the support/ future development or its quality. Does anyone use this two together? Which one you use and why?
And thanks for you feedback!
Ask HN: How does your company handle deployments?
How does your company approach code deployments? Bonus points on dealing with multiple code bases on multiple servers over multiple data centers where up-time is critical.
Angelic white and demonic black
I know we're talking about python, but personally I advise against raw SQL because there is no type protection of any kind. In, e.g. C# I can use Linq to ensure I build a query that type checks and makes sense, even across joins.
You are totally right...
Because obviously America needs zero improvements to its infrastructure. No high-speed rail, no electrical grid improvements, no roads or bridges, no fixing or improving the water system, no blue-sky scientific research, no teachers to hire to decrease class sizes.... NOTHING, YOU HEAR ME, NOTHING YOU STUPID LITTLE LIBERAL!

Oh, I'm sorry, I thought I was supposed to sound like an Austrian "economist".
The goal to "prevent double-spending" is just a means to fix the money supply. You still have the problem that the value of your money will fluctuate, and the then you end up back at the problem of deflation. If you want the "value" of your currency to remain static, then the amount of currency in circulation must correlate to the size of your economy. New value is created all the time through increased productivity, increased population, and the creation of new markets. If your money supply remains fixed to any of the factors I've listed, you have a deflationary currency.

The "prevention of double-spending" is a means, not an end. You have to ask yourself why you don't want "double-spending".
It's the injustice in the system. People just can't handle it anymore. It's only going to get worse as they keep on printing money and give it to the rich as well.
Great openness and willingness to be transparent about the fact you don't always feel in control (as much as you would want your investors, team, and users to think so 24/7).
I would avoid calling it a social network, simply because of the increasing "social network fatigue." Even when fatigue isn't tangible (and I don't think it yet is for social networks) it can mean the difference between a potential user visiting your site and possibly signing up, or never even clicking the link.
Arrgh. Sorry, but this is an absolutely classic example of why "security professionals" get laughed at by engineers. This requirements analysis is just completely backwards.

In the example in question (which frankly isn't very interesting, I can come up with hundreds of scenarios like this) I have a git archive I need to share with someone on an ad-hoc basis. For whatever reason, I'd like to do it securely, so it needs authentication and encryption and shouldn't go on anyone else's site. So the obvious solution is to throw it up on a static webserver somewhere and use TLS (or use ssh, of course, but that's subject to exactly the same root-of-trust problem as a self-signed cert -- surely you disallow outbound ssh access too, right? right?).

Your fantasy world wants to pretend requirements like this don't exist, and that you can simply refuse to support this kind of transfer via fiat. But it's not the real world. In the real world, this is what people have to do. Unless you break their systems, in which case they'll work around your silly rules in even less secure ways.
This is exactly right. We still have 5 years worth of business logic in Rails, so we just expose a RESTful API as part of the Rails app. The same API is consumed by our iOS, Android, Mobile Web, and Desktop clients.
the reasons are legion.

Up and ctrl A are independent key strokes. They precede typing sudo, which is a logical train of thought ("Oh I forgot sudo, i should of typed sudo and then x").

! is a commonly used key in English language, and pressing it twice is fast, where as getting two desperate keys is not.

After the proposed action, you end up here:

sudo |something fishy

as opposed to here:

sudo something fishy|

which prevents you from writing an addendum to that command.

This sounds small, but I was doing what you suggested before I found out I could say "sudo !!" I immediately switched when I found out, and it's now a very common idiom for me. I switched from "up home sudo space" to "sudo space bang bang" for all the reasons described above.
maybe you're just being nice, but this comes across as "how can you be a religious scientist?". and if that's how it was intended, well, many people are both religious and scientific. religion is a social thing - a community with common moral ideas. it can be very useful / rewarding and it certianly doesn't have to mean anti-scientific beliefs.
Thank you very much!
The site's goal isn't to provide you with a "friend hunting" platform. More like Facebook, but here you can actually find people that interest you and connect with them. If you become close friends it's even better.
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