skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say we shouldn't get the deficit under control. I said that we should calibrate our responses to avoid hurting the economy while doing so. In 2009, debt was not the problem, economic collapse was. In 2013, we should start working on the debt but be careful not to hurt the economy while doing so.

Regardless of 'who's guy' is in the White House I maintain there's a difference between inheriting a surplus and turning it into a deficit (during the dotcom bust), and inheriting a trillion dollar deficit and not fixing it right away (during the worst crash since 1929).
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Tried this -- didn't work for me unfortunately.
> It's a bunch of nice sounding words

I suspect the founding fathers put a lot of thought into those nice sounding words in the hope they would define a nation.

Those nice sounding words where powerful enough to start a civil war over the topic of slavery and basic human rights.

However, in a way I think you are right. Those words may well have lost there meaning and been devalued by big business and big money :(

Maybe today they are indeed just words, but the end result will be the USA has lost a lot more than just a bunch of words :(
On a related but tangential theme, I once started an argument by claiming that Japanese culture does not support the emergence of strong individuals. Perhaps, in electronics as in software, it really does take someone with a huge ego to send a product back to the development labs because 'the black is not black enough'.
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So, the answer to the great question of universe is not 42, but that the simulation results will be presented in a paper authored by a researcher duo Trurl and Klapaucius at the SIG UNI conference in the main universe? ;-)
10 years or so ago, but I had a storage locker at a facility that used an Apple ][+ to run the two main facility access keypads.
Good name your own price Mac bundle happening at the moment
The worst part about all of this has been the many scenes I saw on Monday that caused flashbacks to memories of 9/11. Nothing I saw Monday compares to the horror of being with friends waiting to find out that yes, their parents had died in the WTC. Even seeing blood and police everywhere steel feels abstract.

I am relatively certain that I won't be fearful (or at least I hope so). I just hope passing by the scene will not cause an emotional response that I can't hold back. Most weeks I pass by the spot a dozen times or more, and I don't want to unconsciously play a game of "what if" every time I'm there.
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This is a bit of an odd question.

Ember.js is a tool like many others. So it's sort of like asking "Will I be richer if I learn Django or if I learn Rails?". Nobody on HN can really give you a definitive answer.

It is a framework for building rich javascript client web apps and helps you keep your code structured in a certain way and takes care of a great deal of boilerplate heavy lifting for you, if you take the time to learn it's idioms.

So the question, "Is there a way in which I can leveridge the fact that such a framework exists in order to make more money as a consultant?" is one that only you yourself can answer.
> Japanese programmers wrote a huge proportion of the world's greatest video games....

But how much credit is because of the programmers being better than the rest, and not because of the creativity of the designers, the graphics, or even the hardware the games were created to run on?
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Not to mention Ruby.

Yet I was amazed by how long it took Sony and Nintendo to build something as seemingly prosaic as a usable menu system in their recent consoles. Part of me wonders if the Apple/Microsoft patent battles of the 80's deterred a lot of capable non-US companies from doing any work in operating systems.

The article seems to ignore any discussion of startup culture, which I've read elsewhere is a challenge in a country whose business culture has been defined by the "salaryman" working their entire career for one company. I mean, should we be surprised that companies around for the better part of a century are getting disrupted?
ah, the sweet voice of sanity
Isn't that much better to know you can update your software and transition to another system every X years ?

Knowing you can update or change your system implies nothing or no one is really indispensable. I would much prefer something like that.
Epiphany Architecture Reference: http://www.adapteva.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/epiphany_...
A lot of JDM devices like wristwatch TV's and minidisc players just never caught on in the USA.
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Well that's exactly my point with the eReader. They did the hardware (in most regards better than Amazon) but because they didn't do much for past-sale services they ultimately lost out.

The viewpoint of things as stand alone devices has ruined them. It's not necessarily to do with one device to replace many (smart phone to replace PDA, walkman and laptop for example - they ultimately did that) but that couldn't tie them all together. Anyway, if they don't cannibalise their own products, someone else will (and did). It's only short term profit focus that scares them from doing so.
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> They tell me that if an invention is obvious, then somebody would have done it before

...and for someone to have done it before, someone must have patented it...

I think that's the real rub of the patent conundrum. The patent office assumes that if something hasn't been patented yet, it must be non-obvious. The whole "skilled in the art" things sort of goes out the window.
Keep a tiger in your boat. What is yours?
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Ember.js is interesting and I might even use it one day, but to suggest that web apps written in anything else are 'done wrong' is bollocks.
That explains why I can't get my email =).
You don't. You can't, really.

You just let synth collect things into geo-locations to speed up the sorting process. You still have to manually sort all images that overlay a 'point of interest'. But the real boon is that you can quickly, intuitively and effectively do that sort.

And if you see a 'person of interest' you can 'walk' down a possible path and sort the images at intermediate points to see if you can establish a route or potentially see them from other angles.
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There's a list of Backbone examples at http://backbonejs.org/#examples
The provision api is still fine doh.
There is some truth in this article but it misses some of the really key factors.

1) Value of the Yen. The Yen is seen as a safe haven and has been at almost ridiculous levels (considering trade balances and government debt) at least since late 2008. This is crippling exports (and/or profitability) in these price sensitive markets (TV's, computers, phones) as even though much production is abroad they still have massive cost bases in Japan.

2) Development of Korea. LG and especially Samsung took the place of the aggressive upstarts driving down prices and then building up the quality as Japan once did to the West in markets such as cars. It will be interesting to see what China's development does to Korea in 15-20 years. So far the aggressive pricing from Korea has kept Chinese TV brands from prominence but that may not last.

3) As Japan prospered and incomes rose it became uneconomic to manufacture commodity items there. Outsourcing and offshoring production damages the feedback and development loop between production and design that enables efficient optimum design of products. Also they narrowed the parts of the supply chain that they supplied to focus on the high value ones that could still be profitable but that costs control and foresight into important developing areas. e.g. Samsung could develop LCD panels in exact form factors to fit their devices and to use them as structural elements in TVs getting a jump start on Sony. (Sharp had[has?] their own panels but the quality wasn't uniformly high and they were overly dependent on their home TV market anyway).

4) There is very little profit in many electronics items. TVs especially are not a source of profits (maybe Samsung makes some but it is hard to tell from their annual reports). Aggressive and falling prices, unstable panel supplies and the fact egos and ecosystems are on the line means that the once stable profit source of CRT TVs has been replaced by an LCD bloodbath. Even in mobile phones only Apple and Samsung are really making money (along with a number of component suppliers getting their slices).

[Former Sony employee.]
They probably don't know what to do
>It's just that the Japanese specialised in high quality manufacturing, and the market went to China's low-wage manufacturing instead.

Apple iPhones are largely assembled in China, and nobody would claim they are low quality. Chinese manufacturing isn't low quality, unless that's what you want to pay for.

Furthermore, I claim that in the last 10-15 years, the quality of Japanese electronics actually declined.
IMAP & SMTP have been down for at least an hour in the UK :(
I cant believe this has only 18 upvotes when the Meetup Delhi and Bangalore items have a lot more. I would never have known about this program if it was not posted on HN. Thanks Brajeshwar. And I will be posting comments on the other 2 topics to upvote this.
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Yes I know this (and it's not just compilers for niche languages that does this either). But again, that wasn't my point. My point was this:

1. it's statically compiling in libraries for APIs that aren't even being used (again, I know this is pretty common as well - it was more said as a side issue since I was already on the topic of it's runtime). But most importantly:

2. because automation.whatismyip.com DOES NOT EXIST. The API is broken because it calls a non-existent sub-domain name. The sub-domain has no DNS record. It does not ping nor curl because it's completely imaginary....and so on. (sorry for the flippancy of the post, but this is now the 3rd time I'm having to reiterate myself so I just want to be clear that everyone understands my point)
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Am I missing something?
I suppose I actually searched for all of those stock tickers while I was putting together the page. I was pretty sure I didn't, but it makes sense now because I had to get a decent approximation of the closing prices.
The indictment can be found here: http://www.aklagare.se/PageFiles/10239/AM_52124_12.pdf (Swedish. Save as, appears to be broken when viewed in browser)

A quick read-through seems to suggest that they have quite solid support for it. However, I haven't seen the investigation protocol (FUP) so I cannot say if the actual evidence is any good.
I'm sorry you read it that way, but I do not think that I have said, nor hinted, to that at all.
There is a high probability that this is false accusations, just "because we can" from the prosecutors ...

I'm from Sweden and I'm very sad to say that I don't consider Sweden to fulfil all the requirements for rule of law and legal security.

Even if he is acquitted from the crimes in a trial he will have spent a few months arrested and we don't have a bail system here in Sweden.

Both European committee for the prevention of torture and Amnesty International frequently criticize Sweden for the conditions for arrestees ... Yepp, that's where Gotfried is being kept locked up...
Confirmed Mail and Drive are down:
http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=13...

http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=13...
Drive and Docs are down now!
X billion of years for us may in fact just be minutes for those running the simulation.

If you were running a simulation you wouldn't want to have to wait billions of years for the first life to form.
The last example on: https://trigger.io/examples/ has a quote from a previous example. Both are from the CTO of Famium.

Just a heads up.
As usual, relevant xkcd:

http://xkcd.com/927/
This is off topic and about the 10000 startups (which is a NASSCOM project currently on HN). I would not have known about this if it was not posted here, and it is going to drop off the HN Frontpage as it has only 18 votes right now. Requesting anyone from India and interested in startups, to upvote that article to spread awareness (even if it means decreasing your chances of getting in a bit; 10000 startups is a lot and If I dont get in I probably am working on something stupid)
The editor on that page doesn't know that selecting something (like the loooong help text that's there from the start) and hitting the DELETE key on my keyboard should delete the selection. That's when I hit my back button.

Aargh, all these re-implemented text editors on the web. :/
They tried (and succeeded in one case) to transfer money between accounts, without authorization so illegally transferring money seems to be the correct wording?

Stealing does tend to be associated with physical theft?
I'm not totally sure it will have been the right choice in retrospect but it was effectively this blog post:

http://corner.squareup.com/2012/04/building-analytics.html

that lead me to prototype using ember. I believe Square's analytics platform - not a "full" web app but a pretty substantial one - is still in production deployment based on ember. Of course, they're probably using whatever version of ember was around 18 months ago, and there have been radical changes since...

It feels very likely to me that these javascript frameworks represent a substantial component of the future of this kind of development. People smarter than I am seem to feel that angular is 'better technology' than ember, or at least that in looking like extensible html it has more in common with the eventual future than ember does.

I'm actually surprised, in this spate of MVC framework posts, that Meteor hasn't gotten more of a mention. In some ways it's younger than the others, and it has some idiosyncrasies (it doesn't actually require that the client and the serve both be written in javascript but you'd never know if from the web site). But the meteor team is incredibly smart and the company is well financed - and they're spending a lot of time and energy on one of the most interesting aspects of the problem, something ember and angular have not worked out: how to synchronize models and data between the client and the server. Meteor has a special protocol for handling this, such that when deployed properly if the data changes in a database the model in the client automatically updates to reflect this.

As someone building a complicated analytical engine with computations done in a python / C++ back-end and structure results visualized in javascript, the idea of being able to reuse models in both places is appealing and the idea that I wouldn't have to spend as much time on data synchronization is almost enough to try to make the switch...
Which is why I'm surprised that Sony has failed so thoroughly to dominate in this new software-oriented era. Sony easily has various assets that would make them positively terrifying to Apple and Samsung if they got their crap together. Between their game ecosystem and their media (music and movies) labels, they could easily put together a Sony-branded e-shop that would give iTunes/App Store and Play Store a run for their money.

Combine that with the wide inventory of platforms they're in - imagine a Sony-branded de-Googled version of Android running on everything from PSPs to smart TVs.

They're excellently positioned, and they've demonstrated they can make good software in the various PlayStation-related devices.
In 2001, I was going from one Intel factory to another, teaching Nikon technicians about VMS, which ran on the Alpha stations Nikon was still putting into its steppers (big machines used to make computer chips). They switched over to Windows NT and Linux a few years later, but I'm sure many of those VMS-based steppers are still operating.
Apparently Polish National Rail(PKP) still uses a 40 year old Odra computer for train logging at one of their stations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odra_(computer)

Edit: No, apparently it was switched off in 2010, I remember talking to somebody from their IT department back in 2008 when that computer was functioning, didn't know that they actually shut it down now.
It depends on your model - size and variables. If you have a moderately sized model with discrete variables you can infer values using exact algorithms (e.g. clique tree propagation, variable elimination, etc). If your model is too complex or has certain continuous distributions then you can use simulation techniques or other approximate algorithms.

Given that probabilistic graphical models is in general NP-hard (or #P-hard) then approximate algorithms are often used. However, for many problems discrete valued networks can be effectively managed with exact algorithms.

Some tools for exact inference (that are free or commercial with free versions) are:

http://genie.sis.pitt.edu
http://www.norsys.com/netica.html
http://www.hugin.com

Netica in particular has a large library of example networks.
I built a web-app for my previous startup in Backbone, after a year and half working with it, (1) I got frustrated with the amount of files I had to create, (2) its performance, and (3) the difficulty to write pure tests, (3) no concreate convention.

EmberJs doesn't relieve me of any of these problems other than convention, but I'm currently working on contract work that has me using EmberJS

I didn't like Angular for many reasons, but they promised to solve my big 4 problems. What I didn't like at first about Angular. Cocumentation is written from what I'd expect from a computer science major, I had to litter my dom with tons of tags and I had to overcome the idea of their syntax as ugly. But it did everything I needed. I reduce my javascript by 70%. I got ride of most of my other 3rd part libraries. Performance was awesome. I didn't need to figure out how to compile all my templates into one js file. It made testing dead easy since all I was left was logical javascript.
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Ugly problems, ugly solutions?
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Couple of things I've seen recently:

* I know a person still running their entire businesses off an old HP-41 series calculator and an accounting book.

* A company I worked for in 2003 was running their entire DHCP off a 1985 built VAX. It worked and hadn't been rebooted for 15 years.

* Until well into the 00's, most UK rail timetable displays across the UK were running off circa 1985 BBC Micros. The following display was quite a regular occurrence: http://www.ntk.net/2000/07/14/dohtrain.jpg

Just because it's old, doesn't mean it doesn't work and leaving it isn't the most cost effective thing to do.
Well, that sure makes me feel less bad about pushing bad code and having downtime on my own site :)
TypeScript has almost no buzz, interest or excitement surrounding it that I can detect, which is sad because I think it's a good effort and great tool. I would appreciate it, if someone could point me to an active and growing TypeScript community.

As for TypeScript tracking ES6, I just watched "Kit Cambridge, "EcmaScript Next: The Subtleties of ES 6" at W3Conf 2013" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt0f2XdvriQ and am really kind of stunned at how much I hate ES6 now, when before I knew nothing about it.

Dart hits the sweet spot for me.
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Took me a while to figure out why people were having problems with Outlook, then I heard about this outage. Ugh.
Yes.

It didn't do anything.
> "The best GUI's and UX considerations for video games are a completely different kettle of sushi"

Not to mention Japanese games are notorious for their inscrutable, awkward and sometimes downright user-hostile controls, menus, save systems, etc. (As per common western opinion; who knows, perhaps the Japanese truly prefer it?)

But when considering what is great about Japanese games, no-one has ever lauded the game-user interface. Their games are largely great in spite of that side of things.
Getting the same message. However, this is happening to some of my logins only. Same with e-mails, some of them are working fine and some of them are timing out or asking for passwords. For a second I thought someone hacked my e-mail. :>
My HP-48sx is 21 years old and I still use it roughly daily at home.

I have an emulator on my phone but the tactile response of the keys is awful and the display and keyboard are tiny compared to the "real" thing.

Its just too easy to use. Latency of the calc on my phone is very high compared to a fraction of a second. If my desktop is up and running and logged in and a webbrowser is running (lots of ifs) then google and wolfram alpha are starting to eat into the 48's territory. But it still gets plenty of use. Batteries last about a year.

I also have a 32Sii at the workbench vaguely 90s vintage.
> That said, we don't have View Bindings / Two-way bindings built in, we have to use Backbone Event's listenTo manually. It's worked ok for us so far, especially when you have multiple views on the same model that need to do different things when the model changes.

Knockback.js (http://kmalakoff.github.io/knockback/) may help with that.
: ) - hopefully that's not the case here, afaik our protocol is the first proposal in this space meant for general adoption. All prior art is tied to specific libraries and services.
Out of interest, would you prefer to face Swedish justice or the US system?
you might be missing some DNS