skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Also - who on earth thought austerity was ever a good idea?"

First of all, spending a lot of money only helps solve an aggregate demand problem. It's not clear that it is (or at least not entirely an aggregate demand problem). Economies can have many problems, some deep, some subtle, some ephemeral. Some problems are plausibly solved through spending, and some are not. Sometimes, people talk about economics as though they could apply Keynesian principles in Somalia and it would be a thriving economy in 5 years. It's not that simple.

Second of all, 1-2% interest sounds great, and like a good opportunity to do some infrastructure projects. However, we have to consider that the debt is not stable now. Given a trillion dollar deficit, that 1-2% money is going to be borrowed anyway. We don't necessarily want to borrow it now, because it could make it more expensive to borrow the money in the future that we already know we need to borrow.

Third, people don't necessarily trust economists. Economies are complex, and a bunch of smart people saying they have the answers is not convincing to many people. On its face, a statement like "borrowing and spending and consuming are good for the economy" sounds like something for nothing, and triggers skepticism more so than "saving and investing is good for the economy". Even if the principles are sound, people don't trust the implementation, which is sure to be twisted for political gain. A trillion dollars being spent brings people out of the woodwork to manipulate it to their advantage, perhaps sacrificing the country in the process.

Last, many people see that a lot of borrowing, spending, and consuming have been happening over the last decade or so; and we still have problems. It's only natural that people are considering a change of direction that involves less borrowing and spending and consuming.
Guys seriously whats with all the Stripe threads? Yes they are great but there are many many readers here who are outside US (yes there are other countries outside USA) and its just rubbing it in our faces that we are stuck with ShitPal
I love S3, and have been experimenting with using it as a true key value store.

https://github.com/kennethreitz/elephant

It's going quite well so far :)
While from a business standpoint, this is perfectly viable and a smart move on IBM's part, in the long-term, seeing how Lenovo has ruined the Think brand, I would be wary of spinning off any more operations to Lenovo.

They just don't have clear product focus, but in this world, I guess shareholders rule. Even if those shareholders don't act in the best interest of the company.
His watch tripped me out.
Here's a thought experiment: what if a random chance of "double spending" was built into the cryptocurrency? Then people would have an incentive to make the money circulate, and you could calibrate it to prevent deflation.

(Obviously, it would be meaningless if people could just move money from wallet to the other.)
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Not sure if this leads to trolling, but yes, extremely, on both accounts. I'm both a Christian (even something of a creationist) and manage to love science. I admit it's not a common combination (hence my post), but it does exist. :)
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I wonder how it will affect IBM EXA.
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Perhaps HR should put what actually gets rewarded in the job listing. That way, both employers and employees can save a lot of time by not interviewing for jobs they aren't interested in. If employers were more honest and listed job requirement such as "kissing ass" and "play office politics like you're a congressperson", then we'd all know what jobs to avoid.
And this isn't location based. I've seen too many of those on my iPhone, claiming to find you some new "BFF's". It isn't the goal
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> 1. The elimination of null. This means that all types (even reference types!) become non-nullable.

Yep, problem solved, 'billion-dollar mistake' corrected (at least for future times).
you're taking religion to be this very clearly defined thing. for most religious people it's not like that. they don't sign up to an exact set of rules; they live within a society that shares certain ideas and they make their own personal choices and compromises.

so it's impossible to name "a religion" because every person's religion is slightly different. but if you are looking for examples of religions where people are particularly non-prescriptive then the quakers and the unitarians are pretty cool. see, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism - a "free and responsible search for truth and meaning" sounds pretty compatible with science to me....

[disclaimer: i'm an atheist (and have a PhD in SCIENCE). but i can see the advantages of community and even, at one particularly hard point in my life, talked to a bunch (what's the collective noun? vibrational mode?) of quakers to see if they would accept me. and frankly they would accept anyone (you gotta love em ;o), but it just didn't feel right...]
One thing that confuses me:

If the JQuery team is committed to keep supporting 1.9/1.x, entirely API-compatible with 2.0 -- what is the benefit to JQuery of the 1.x/2.x fork? You get a cleaner easier to maintain codebase in 2.x -- but you've got to keep maintaining 1.x anyway. If there was a feature you didn't want to add to 1.x because it was too hard -- you still can't add it to 2.x and not 1.x, because you committed to supporting 1.x as API-compatible, no?

Is the idea that 2.x will provide better performance on capable browsers than 1.x? So, yeah, the development burden is no less, but the results are better.

I guess I understand why people are doubting whether they will really follow through -- because if they do follow through, it makes it somewhat unclear what the benefit of the 2.x refactor was in the first place.
This is exactly right for multi-family housing. I can't see any sort of startup or disruption coming in anytime soon without taking years of hard work to reach 50% feature parity to meet what the industry expects are standard features. (Or maybe I've been working here too long to get past that notion.)
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I should have read the post you replied to, all the way through. My apologies.
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It isn't, and I don't know why you're being downvoted for asking.
Reminds me of that famous anecdote where NASA invested a million in developing a pen that could write in zero G, while the Russians used a pencil.
Out of curiosity, what's the difference between this and forums which have many ultraspecific subsections for people to discuss their personal interests? Is it that this searches for people who have as many overlapping interests with you as possible?
>> 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.

Thanks! So there's hope for me. Let me know when you are ready with the offices. I might pack my bags and book that ticket to join you. I hope the pay's sufficient ;-)
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Oh, I don't know, maybe something along the lines of this:

The business of buying weapons that takes place in the Pentagon is a corrupt business - ethically and morally corrupt from top to bottom. The process is dominated by advocacy, with few, if any, checks and balances. Most people in power like this system of doing business and do not want it changed. -- Colonel James G. Burton

And yes, it's about buying weapons, not selling them (though of course, someone has to sell them to the Pentagon when they're buying). But do you really think there's not plenty of profitable looking the other way going on with the selling, too? Was Bill Hicks too simplicistic when he talked about arming the world, then starting wars because the world's so dangerous... ?

The elephant in the room, to me, is the squeamishness about random, senseless murder on a small scale, and the numbness to planned, profitable murder on a big scale.
"How is the meaning of "double spending" vague? It means spending the same units of a crypto-currency more than once."

First of all, that is not a good definition, since it rules out the possibility of a unit of currency "coming back" to the party that spent it (imagine if I gave you a dollar, and then you were not allowed to give it back to me). It also fails to rule out the possibility of dividing one 1BTC unit into two 0.75BTC units, which is another form of double spending.

There are deeper problems too. You say that if you "can" do it, it is a security problem, but there is no restriction on the attacker's computing power. What if the attacker forges ECDSA signatures? What if the attacker finds SHA256 collisions? What if the attacker computes a longer block chain, which is a polynomial time problem, reversing his transaction and getting the chance to spend the money again?

The reason I said the security notion is vague is that there is no precise definition that Bitcoin actually achieves. If someone can develop one, and if it actually captures a meaningful notion of security, great! So far, no such definition exists.

"The first part of that sentence is not completely true, because Bitcoin itself was (presumably) developed by cryptography researchers."

I seriously doubt that, given that the original Bitcoin paper made absolutely no mention of the decades of previous work on digital cash that preceded it, nor any of the work on secure multiparty computation, nor did the paper give a security definition, nor did the author seem to be bothered by the fact that there is a polynomial-time attack on the system. It reads like a paper written by cryptography amateurs or enthusiasts, the sort of people who make most of the posts in sci.crypt and comp.compression. In a pedantic sense, Bitcoin is the product of research, but if the term "researcher" means anything beyond "human being," I think it is fair to draw the line at being familiar with and building on previous work.

[Edit: Of course, that definition of "researcher" is not quite what we want, since it does not account for people who open entirely new fields. That is a rare edge case, however, and the issue was whether or not Satoshi was a researcher in an already established and well-developed field.]
I second this notion.

I have several friends who have stayed there after graduating from NDSU to work as developers and engineers. If you make $50K/year you can easily live high on the hog. It also continues to keep a "small town" feel even though its grown a ton over the past ten years.
GetGoing is looking for a Director of Hotel Partnerships
About GetGoing

GetGoing makes it easier and more affordable for leisure travelers to discover and book their next trip. Our existing products are focused on providing the industry’s most innovative ways of searching and booking flights – what BBC has recently called “a website that will change the travel game in 2013” -- and we are now expanding by launching a new hotel booking platform powered by our proprietary Guaranteed Upgrade™ technology. GetGoing is a Y Combinator company backed by the founders and/or largest investors in Groupon, Facebook, AirBnB and Twitter, and we are based in San Francisco, California.

About the Role

We are looking for our first hotel team hire, to lead hotel supply acquisition for the initial launch of the Guaranteed Upgrade™ platform. This is a rare opportunity to make a significant contribution to bringing a new product to market.

Requirements:

- An MBA with prior experience in and/or interest in a strategic business development role.
-	Passionate about / a subject expert on the hospitality industry.
-	Track record of achievement: must have a degree from a top school and/or a record of progressive promotions and quantifiable success in a sales role.
-	Must be entrepreneurial: know how to execute the day-to-day details of the job, but also think strategically, spot opportunities, take risks, and not be afraid to raise your hand and speak up / suggest a better way of doing things or an innovative approach to a seemingly intractable problem.
-	Must be a self-starter who can work well with others: you value the opinion of your team, but you can also prioritize and manage your own schedule efficiently, with little hand-holding or supervision.
-	You are analytical, and can provide our hotel partners with reports, analysis, and advice on how to improve their performance and conversion rate on our website.

What We Offer

-	A unique opportunity to play an integral role in building and launching a new product in a true startup environment. Get a real say in setting the direction of the product and defining the future of the company.
-	You will be an early hire in a well-funded tech startup. We offer competitive salary and equity; a great benefits & technology package; monthly commuter expense reimbursement; sponsored membership at the San Francisco Tennis Club; daily catered lunches; unlimited vacation time; and a friendly yet professional environment in our sunny offices based in SOMA in San Francisco, CA.

Email jobs@getgoing.com if you are interested.
there are lot of things that you would need to capture. Are all the people dropping off from the same page? How many people are bouncing out?
Assuming you are a B2C app, you would need to study the UX behaviour and keep performing experiments.
If B2B, you might contact the customers for feedback.

PS : People are by nature appreciative of one's work. So they are going to say - i love your product, get third/fourth degree people to use it and get their feedback from your friend (hopefully you would get a correct feedback)
Scala still has the problem that you can return null explicitly (since references on the JVM are nullable), but any Scala code which does this should probably be shot on sight.
I should have clarified that I was only talking about housing in big cities, not generally.
I'm curious. What does "something of a creationist" entail? Is this a Deist sort of creationism, or are you closer to biblical literalism?
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I hope some of you find this useful :)
If the EUR is the replacement people have in mind for the USD America is safe for a long time.
Was Marina Chapman really brought up by monkeys?
To answer your question, yes outbound and inbound SSH is blocked except through our secure gateways. Every security organization at every company will have procedures in place for bypassing the official policy on an ad-hoc basis. There's always going to be a one-off situation that requires a different set of rules on a limited time basis, and there are many ways of dealing with these exceptions.

On a broad basis, though, untrusted certificates are blocked outright. I'm sure you can understand that for every one-to-one or one-to-few valid communications like your case, there are dozens or hundreds of one-to-many not-so-valid communications. SSL has certificate trust built in for a reason. Engineers may laugh at security professionals, but we're here for a reason. Even though we're directly at odds with each other in approach, our goal is the same. You want to help further the business by pushing new software. We want to further the business by making sure that software is secure. No one benefits from the new e-commerce solution if the business bank account is completely drained the day after the product launches.

I can come up with a hundred good reasons why I should be able to enter a store after business hours, pick up a few things, and leave (I left the money on the counter!), but for some reason businesses still lock their doors. Do you laugh at them for having completely backwards requirements?
I switched from WP to Octopress. It's pretty easy to use and manage.
Nice job guys! Good luck!
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Most employees are likely taking a lot more risk than founders. In the worst case, a founder has to look for another job (same as the employee), but with experience at being an executive at a company. Lots of founders won't have to look for another job even if their company fails in the worst way.

An employee, on the other hand, puts 100% of their eggs in your basket. If the company fails then they have no income at all, through no fault of their own. What goes on their resume? "I was a grunt at some company you never heard of and never will because it doesn't exist anymore".

Granted, it's possible a founder could be putting up a lot of their own money and end up being broke if it fails, but I think in today's world of seed funding and so on, I'd call such a person an idiot. :)
Yep, they don't offer any huge incentive to switch. Google has a much more robust search and as an android user I actually like the integration into Now.
I'm Catholic and I think this is much more common than you think.
Right! Love the presence of emperors' names.
The whole first half of the post is kind of off-target, IMO, because it is dollar weighted, vs. type of weapon weighted.

The US predominately sells two things: big "weapons systems" (radars, aircraft, etc.) to middle tier countries, and a comprehensive range of small arms both domestically and to allied countries.

The weapons which primarily affect individuals and civilians in conflict are small arms, landmines, and certain ISR and ground attack resources. As a percentage of the total, it's about 1%. It doesn't hurt the life of a guy in Jordan that his neighbors have F-16s with top-end avionics. It does matter to a guy in the Congo that a box of cheap AK-47s has arrived.

Within the US, arms are both an economic issue (LockMart, etc. are huge employers, and wisely spread production/employment across congressional districts), and a civil rights issue (for small arms; no one really cares about F-16s for private ownership). Either issue is more than enough to keep the industry safe.

Russia, etc. are the same.

What I'd really like to see is a great analysis of the domestic small arms market -- who makes primers, who makes powder, brass, rifles, importation permits for foreign mil surplus, foreign current manufacture, etc. That is vastly more relevant to the 2A issues than who makes radars.
Pretty neat. Thank you for this.
There is a difference between being protected from all harm, ever, and simply not actively condonding, or even paying for being physically hurt and/or killed, or for others to enjoy that privilege.

Unless we're in a "no, but the real issue is" dick waving contest, in which case I would like to bring up the heat death of the universe, the ultimate futility of all materalistic undertakings, and stoicism if not love being the only answer to that. Your turn :)
@unalone as I said in the post, this meant to provide an alternative to multiple accounts on these various "ultraspecific subsections" sites. It doesn't matches you up with people. It provides you tools to find them, and not by using any weird "matching" algorithm.
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become a platform where people can contribute startup related content. For example, legel things vary from country to country. For someone in US, HN might help. What about Chinese/Indians etc?
Extrapolate this. Marketing gyan can be shared.

If you can create a platform where things are grouped properly, it would be valuable for people who want to startup :)
Thanks for your work! I'm a fan of CSP's goals.
Handling the media like a boss.
Boston bombing: How Internet detectives got it very wrong
We think we are on track with http://www.LetsLunch.com to cater to people meeting during lunch hour. It is a least friction way for you to meet new people. Tell us what you think about it? so far 12,000 lunches setup and going up!
That doesn't make sense. There is no basis for making this kind of generalization. The Reddit community has only become more diverse with time, not less. You'll find more homogenuous crowds in some subreddits, but Reddit's users are very diverse in both interests, demographics and behavior.
back to safety takes me to about:blank Does it take you to https://www.google.com/ ?
I only have questions, and _why is only one of them. The two burning ones for me are to what extent is he deliberate with the role his persona plays and to what extent are individuals trying to take a stab at what they think his role is, in the vain hope that he will take up the role again, having been given new direction by their witty proposal? (Easier to feel good about someone's role when they aren't disappeared. And let's face it, everyone is secretly itching to points whore all the forums with "_why is back!") And secondly, what did he mean that it is dangerous to come to us in this way? Are printer spools dangerous, or is he worried about the effect of the publicity on the person(a). Or is it dangerous for us? Has it really taken a year? Seems like forever and just a few days!
Maybe it was your browser? I've had firefox auto-fill forms on websites I have never been to before.
It's funny how much money is in weapons and how the media reports it.

http://www.economist.com/news/world-week/21576445-kals-carto...
This comment horrifies me, and yet it's probably the single best piece of advice here (aside from "quit working in toxic environments").
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So by your same logic then we should expect large file hosts such as Dropbox and MegaUpload to take active moderation measures to ensure that they are not used as springboards for minor crimes... such as copyright infringement?
Isn't it weired idea to assume that friends are necessarily like mined in every aspects? I don't think any of my friends is liked minded like this. Most of them know things that I don't, or behave differently, that why I enjoy spending time with them.
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Was it you who changed the submission title or was it some mod acting up yet again? The original was interesting and it wasn't factually inaccurate.
FWIW, a Mac mini server is a regular mini with two 2.5" hard drives (not hot-swappable or even user accessible) and a token to download Server.app from the App Store. Apple can't even be bothered to list a rack mount kit or 220V PDU-compatible power cable in their store.

That said, they work well enough.
I've found many of these new-age / self-help systems to be a really hyper-minimal Zen Buddhism. Don't take that as a discount, but I enjoy one of them immensely: Gangaji [1]

She has the worlds most breathe-y voice. I love it, her basic message is to "just let go." Here's her core message: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdshiy7CrwA

[1] http://www.gangaji.org/
You have a limited amount of years in your life that you can earn. Allowing yourself to be exploited so certain rich people can get even richer at your expense is not only a bad strategy for you [1], it hurts the market over all because everyone who does this adjusts the market rate downward.

[1] Seriously, people need to shut the fuck up about "fun". Whether you have "fun" or not has fuck all to do with anything. You think Micheal Jordan wasn't having "fun" making a living playing basketball? Of course he was, but he still demanded as high a rate as he could possibly get because he was worth it.
I think you're right - the post fails to address how big of a necessary / not necessarily negative component of our foreign policy/diplomacy is centered around arms trade. I'm no expert on the subject, but have worked with people with experience in this area. One thing I remember is hearing that the US has the distinction/disadvantage in the business of refusing to work with bribes.

My question to you - if you thought the article was off-target, why submit it? Seems pretty disingenuous to me.
One thing this article fails to mention is the wide range of Android devices which makes testing harder. It is much easier to test and launch an iOS app vs Android app.

BTW, SendHub is hiring! We are looking for iOS/Android developers