skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do we privilege individual judgements that something seems "weird," particularly when it would be perfectly understood?

It's as if linguistics is often modeling syntactic rules which reflect something other than natural communication as it actually occurs.
I'm also in New York if you want to chat about it over a beer some time. I doubt I can convert a hardcore Haskell programmer on my "scruffy" unchecked, dynamic point of view, but we might have a good conversation about it. We've occasionally quipped that Julia drags Matlab programmers halfway to Haskell, so maybe there's some common ground.
Disclaimer: I work for MS.

The hiccups I've had have been DNS routing issues early on. It seems to have been solved, but for a while I was experiencing periodic enormous increases in latency (I think at one point the delay was 26 seconds). From what I heard they were specific to their linux VPSs (which is what I'm using), but those were solved around three or four months ago. I haven't had any issues since.

As far as the VPS goes, overall it's decent. I do a lot of my development over ssh so small latency blips are almost always immediately noticeable. Linode seems to still be more consistent, but just barely.
I wasn't casting aspersions on their previous credentials, but if anything that magnifies the seriousness of this situation. It looks a lot like unethical cherry picking of data (the 'coding error' is really of secondary importance to me).

I know economics can be considered on the transition from hard to soft sciences, and even within the field you have very soft-science schools like the Austrians to very quantitative approaches like 'freshwater'. But that doesn't seem to apply here. Maybe if they added caveats to their methodology it would have been different.

I'm also not dismissing Cato or AEP out of hand, but nobody can deny that they are partisan think tanks. Their primary purpose is to provide cover for policy proposals, not original research.
Apparently economics is harder than chess.
I guess this is part of the "maintenance"... :)
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You don't read HN for nuanced and broadly-informed economics perspectives.
I wish you were right but there is a big difference between research not being able to show that large debts slow growth and banishing unemployment forever.

For starters there will always be some unemployment due to natural turnover: companies sometimes have to reduce their workforce and not every hire is a success for either the company or the employee. People need time to find the next job and companies need time to fill the position. This is often called the natural rate of unemployment.

However it is much more than that. Suppose the government could just spend lots more. What does it spend on? Or does it just hire every unemployed person? Are these permanent government jobs? What do they do? What are the long term effects?

Sadly I am not aware of any country that has managed to solve unemployment (except perhaps some totalitarian regimes like the former USSR and these were not sustainable solutions). You would think that is it was just a matter of spending as much as you want that this solution wold have been found long ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_rate_of_unemployment
I wasn't implying that it looks like Bootstrap's docs, I was saying that it looks influenced by the conventions Bootstrap conforms to, which, makes sense from your first paragraph.

Either way, I don't think it matters. It looks good and clean.
"Monetary constraints only matter for countries that are not sovereign, e.g. the various members of the Euro area."

The members of the Eurozone taken together have the same sovereignty over monetary policy as any other country. But that's beside the point.

The point is that a sovereign country with a central bank can print its own money, but that doesn't mean it can borrow in its own currency. If that country keeps printing tons of money inflating away the value of its debt and running a current account deficit on top of it will not be able to borrow in its own currency under its own laws for long.

That's where monetary constraints become very real constraints, because the country loses its ability to import stuff it doesn't produce.
I don't have anything scheduled until the morning luckily so no big deal for me. I was more inconvenienced by the fact that they don't have enough power outlets to charge devices here (DFW).
I'll definitely check it out - thanks for the suggestion!
Hey thanks for sharing. For anyone wondering, ConvertKit is an email marketing system designed to increase conversions. It came out of my work on The Web App Challenge (http://nathanbarry.com/starting-web-app-challenge/) my personal contest to build a new web app to $5k in recurring revenue in 6 months.

Thanks for taking a look!
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I think it's not that they want to be more "serious" but more they didn't want the logotype to look like the first idea a college kid had.

The type was so terrible on it.
Dispatching a table of functions should have roughly similar performance to dispatching a large switch table, yes, but implementing opcodes as a table of functions allows you restructure your bytecode interpreter in a way that significantly improves performance. Here's a much better explanation than I could give of the dispatch-per-opcode technique, how it works, and why it's faster (tl;dr it's all about branch prediction): http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/07/12/computed-goto-for-ef...

That article explains how to implement the technique for C programs using a "computed goto"/"labels as values" gcc extension. While Go lacks that feature, dispatching a table of functions as the last statement in each opcode implementation should yield a similar result. As long as Go supports "tail-call optimization" in the trivial case of "functions that take no parameters and return nothing calling similar functions" it should work just fine. Googling suggests that Go does not support TCO, but at least this program didn't explode the stack:

EDIT: Yes, it does.

package main
import ("fmt")
var acc byte
func main() {
fmt.Println(acc)
acc++
main()
}
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While Firebase largely worked in PhoneGap prior to the latest releases, there were a few outstanding bugs specific to PhoneGap deployments that required special handling or attention, though websockets were not directly affected. As a sample, we had some previous errors around long-polling and creating iframes (used as a fallback when websockets fail) in PhoneGap, and most notably Firebase Simple Login was entirely unsupported in PhoneGap applications until this latest release.
Good luck with that! Really hope you reach your goal :)
http://triplocker.com can be used for this. Store your stuff in your locker, sell it, then TripLocker will ship it for you. You can eBay/craigslist from anywhere in the world as long as your buyer doesn't mind not seeing the item before paying.
Does VMware do anything VirtualBox doesn't?
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Don't know if I understand. You have the one develop box with all the languages/server/databases on there. Then when you decide to start a PHP project, you keep a copy of that box in with the project files? Doesn't this result in multiple boxes sitting around?

Or does the Vagrantfile specify the environment and when you vagrant init develop it recreates it?

I've never used Vagrant but am interested in starting to do something like this.
I haven't used Vagrant, and I believe I now know why.My daily driver is Win8.I have a Debian VM I do my development on.All files are on the VM because Windows sets all file and folder permissions to 755. This means that if I were to delete the vagrant VM I would also be deleting my files. I am exploring possible solutions to this problem.
There is a tail in the new favicon[0] It's also been the old logo[1]

[0] https://github.com/favicon.ico

[1] http://octodex.github.com/favicon.ico
Being a former customer I decided to contact Linode support. I wanted to know if we have anything to worry about as we used to have a credit card on file with them. Notice how they say "Decrypted" which to me is not the same as NOT COMPROMISED.

Here is their response:

Thank you for reaching out to us. We do archive customer credit card details. At this point there is no evidence that customer credit cards have been decrypted.
With direct printing, there is no need for taxes.
What us "scaremongers" are going to say is that it's not very wise. Debt is based on future growth so it's always a gamble. Wouldn't you rather be prudent and spend less? Or is there some rush to spend every single dime? I just don't get it. Breaking it down with research into past events doesn't negate the fact that borrowing has to be paid back. Did we just fall of the rational-thinking cart or something? It's not silly to be conservative. In fact in a lot of places it's called wisdom.
Why is this a terrible time compared to others? While the third world is still not a good life compared to our past it could be a lot worse. While famines are still a problem they are not nearly as prevalent as in the past. Although people living in the third world don’t get good medical care it’s still better than what most people had available 1500 years ago. All we’ve done is exchange one set of problems for another, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that when looking at history this is a more terrible time than any other.
I agree to a certain extent. I still use my notebook to create mock ups, but nothing beats balsamiq's demo-ability. The fact that you can take a mock up and make it interactive, and show the real flow is amazing. I have taken our mock ups done in balsamiq to design meetings, and it makes it extremely easy.
Spending causes various kinds of deadweight loss: Outright waste, rent-seeking by negative-output industries, do-nothing jobs and does-nothing purchases, some regulations have large financial externalities, war and war accessories.

Taxes are mostly outside of government control, so more spending implies more debt. Reducing debt implies reducing spending, and therefore less loss.

You're right that it's not the debt itself (or even the spending) that matters, but it's a good enough proxy.
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Extremely helpful - this really clarifies the differentiation in the Julia approach and I'm excited your team is taking this direction. There's a lot of people cheering Julia on, even if we're wimping ut remaining on the sidelines.

It would help if this explanation was a bit more prominent.
You're trying to put people down by calling them nerds on Hacker News. It's not an insult that gains much traction anyway, but surely this is about the worst place you could possibly do it.

Nobody's suggesting what you're saying but you. If you're incapable of comprehending written English then you probably shouldn't be reading these comments.
One of the anonymous editors has added back "Mike Pall" to the title. Thanks.
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What do you mean by fuzzier? We're doing it carrier-based, so that the corresponding postage works. What are you needing this for?
Thanks! I am currently at $1,513.67, which is 30% of the way complete. Only 2 months left!
> I feel what a terrible place and time I have been born in.

I wouldn't advise the XIII century. Or most of the XX. Or the 5th BC. Or ...

As a matter of fact, you probably just have "better" news of the world, not objectively worse conditions. There was a post about that recently ...
Yes, but "realizing that stuff is ultimately just big collections of fundamental particles" is probably the ultimate in pointless activities. (Unless of course you are studying particle physics.)

By that measure every single thing that exists is exactly identical to everything else. If nothing is different, then nothing matters, and nothing has value.

Let's just short circuit that entire pointless line of thought and look at the whole, not just the parts.
If a business sends me an SMS without other communication options I wouldn't do business with them (unless the SMS is the point, eg twitter). Family/friends only is a feature, not an opportunity to exploit the trust in giving you my phone number.
It's not just 'more time to kick the can', which still implies that not trimming debt immediately is irresponsible.

If you trim debt by a little and hurt GDP growth by a little, you wind up with the same ratio you had before. If you trim debt in a way that really hurts GDP, you'll likely increase the debt:GDP ratio.

The original paper implied that we'd wind up in a spiral of shrinking GDP, increasing that ratio, shrinking the GDP more, and so on. But it turns out it was complete bullshit.
Why haven't carriers like AA been displaced by more competent (and passenger friendly) alternatives yet?
Confusion and fear on the ground in Boston
According to Zach Holman, it's four legs and a tail: https://speakerdeck.com/holman/git-and-github-secrets?slide=...
From the official Git README:

"git" can mean anything, depending on your mood.

- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not
actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a
mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the
dictionary of slang.
- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually
works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/README
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I don't think I understand your comment. If you are referring to the english words of the post, yes, the word "technically" can be used. The parent comment stated an opinion, I stated a fact.
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You suggested that others should do as Norway did, re Breivik.

So, as usual, it was pointed out to you that Norway was a very different situation since Breivik was in jail, there is no big organisation that promise more terror.

Then you went troll and described 9/11 as "19 brown people" and started talking about unrelated crazies on another continent of Breivik -- decades earlier.

Edit: That you lie about what you wrote yourself means that you're an unusually sad troll and not a mental case. That makes me happy, believe it or not. Please get a life instead. If you go to a gym/psychologist it should be ok in the end.
The Vagrantfile specifies the enviroment, and vagrant init develop creates a new Vagrantfile with the base vm specified as "develop".

There's only one box, and you add it to vagrant with "vagrant box add develop path/to/develop.box". After that, you can delete the develop.box file from your computer: it now exists somewhere in the nethers of vagrant's configuration.
I'd be wary of people being able to submit arbitrary "evidence." The two risks that leap immediately to mind are the perpetrators offering things that direct the investigation elsewhere, and people with an agenda against $group submitting things that make it look like $group was responsible.
Thanks - I really like the categories your site has for each thing that you post. I think it'll be pretty valuable to know whether you're quoting from a tweet, a book, or a newspaper article, and not only depend on the source domain.
A good way to remain anonymous in age of Google Glass?
It's also true that a person and a block of wood are the same - they are both made of atoms, and the same types of atoms for that matter.

If everything is true then nothing is. If you want to compare a person to a meat bag, then you also have to compare them to a block of wood, and the sun, and everything else. i.e. you've actually done nothing whatsoever.
Hi, I have been looking at fluidui which is purported to be faster than paper for web apps. I like it because you the UI is drag and drop. You can zoomout and just make a thumbnail view or zoom in and detail each page. I like invisionapp for stiching together your paper or illustrator sketches with hotspots and an easy to email url that invites you to bookmark the app. I bought Balsalmiq because it was so dang satisfying but I find my workflow is not awesome because I can't play with it easily on my phone.

Right now I just bought a $4 pad of news print from BLICK. It's cheap and I can use it on the airplane which is where I'll be tomorrow. HTH!
Thanks for the link to their response. I am going to try to refrain from further comment until I've look at the other papers they reference and beyond the summary of what's alleged.

That being said, and paraphrasing Yglesias, that association/causation disclaimer from them is really weak sauce. I don't recall such protestations while the paper was a cause celebre.
Listen, people in office have a much greater responsibility than you or me to make the right choices because their decisions affect all of us and that's also why it's incumbent upon us to make these crooks accountable for their actions and to criticize them because, in the words of Howard Zinn "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."

It's a shame that the president of our country is out throwing lavish birthday parties for himself inviting useless celebrities and paying a guy $100,000 to play the music. Are you freakin kidding me???? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/05/obamas-birthday-bas...
We will never have empirical evidence (with any predictive power) for what really happens if the biggest economy in the world, the one that provides the reserve currency, the preeminent military power, goes bust, because the sample size is 1.

[Edit] And about your counter example: We do know that sovereign debt accumulation will eventually become impossible, so it's not relevant whether or not it would be beneficial. Once domestic lenders (who can be forced to lend) are exhausted, the government will have to borrow from foreigners in foreign currency under foreign law. So debt accumulation is only possible as long as foreigners are willing to lend.
Reporting on news like this may be the only way for journalism to stay in business ... I'll let you draw your own conclusions.
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I suppose they could also keep the decrypted key in memory using something like gpg-agent.
I like his answer to the first question of the FAQ:

What evidence do you have that this actually works even though it defies the laws of physics?

"You are going to have to spend some time figuring what I mean."
Yes, the SIMD optimizations aren't quite there yet. You can already write SIMD code though.
ouch! thank you! :) let's -w!
I guess as a white guy with short hair, I just assume the cops are there for me.
While I agree this article panders to the climate change skeptics, the following paragraph captures the actual issue:

"Some experts say their trust in climate science has declined because of the many uncertainties. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had to correct a 2007 report that exaggerated the pace of melt of the Himalayan glaciers and wrongly said they could all vanish by 2035."

The rash of black and white statements about what will happen based on "unequivocal" data and dire predictions of gloom and doom. All because some folks decided to use their view of science to push a political agenda in a direction they wanted to go (or their supporters did).

We risk having the public, especially the US public who is woefully under-trained in what science is, retreat further into mysticism and various other belief systems. That would be bad for everyone.
They don't understand the term crowdsource. They think this means that the crowd will be their source. This is explicitly spelled out in the article.
The Vagrantfile specifies the environment as a combination of a base box, VM settings and optionally a provisioning script/recipe/whatever to run. The base box is only stored once, and individual VMs for projects are created from that box and destroyed when you don't need them any more.

It's common to use something like Chef or Puppet to provision the software that you actually need for each project rather than just put everything in the base box, but the author chose to just make an all-inclusive box instead.
"A while" -- no kidding!

UPDATE: 3:02 P.M.: The Federal Aviation Administration has advised that American Airlines has extended its ground stop to at least 7 p.m.
You are making the classic mistake of assuming what people must think without actually bothering to stop and ask them if they really think that. Just because you think that he thinks that, does not actually mean that he does think that.

I simultaneously believe that humans are made of meat and that the loss of a human is tragic. You are in absolutely no place to tell me that I don't think the second because I think the first.

Edit: Also, "meatspace" generally is just shorthand for "life away from the computer. not 'cyberspace'" The term "real life" could be used, though many find the implication of that to be very silly for obvious reasons.
As a side discussion, I've been writing about every step of the process (finding a developer, wireframing, ideas, etc) but am running out of ideas. Any thoughts?

What aspects would you like me to cover in more detail?
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Monetizing debt would not change the fact that more debt would mean higher nominal payments, inflation would reduce real income and real consumption.
Neartime is a very interesting piece of software that might be in the direction this is going, could help in building a timeline of publicly available (fb, Instagram, flickr, twitter, etc.) photos based on lat/long+time. I believe it was only built for flickr.

http://blog.logicalrealism.org/2007/09/23/neartime-find-flic...
As a frequent US Airways flier, this makes me feel really warm and fuzzy about the upcoming merger with American Airlines.
"How do you become a millionaire? Make a billion dollars and then buy an airline." -- Warren Buffett [http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/05/23/if-you-have...]
Are we describing running the same formulae on the same numbers as 'replicating' these days?

Did real economists always consider these results provisional/dubious/bogus and the fact that they were used as the basis of policy is to the shame of our policy makers and press, or is the field of economics so messed up that research based on schoolboy errors can become the accepted view within the field?
Airlines are a pretty shitty business: commodity product, many competitors, low margins, high capital costs, high regulatory risk, high exposure to ever-rising oil prices, etc.

There's some areas in the higher end stuff, but right now JetBlue / Southwest are about as progressive as you get.
Very nice website.
That's why I thought the DNQ iqfeed was a suitable choice - no consolidation at all. Would love to know what the "interesting" effects are (beyond the fixed book CME effect) - will be looking a bit harder at the stream to find them!