skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jason Cohen with WPEngine. Great lean startup. They rock, and are profitable.
Nah, I'm just repeating what @bryanveloso said: https://twitter.com/bryanveloso/status/324204710888357888 and https://twitter.com/bryanveloso/status/324214383989383168.
They are still working on it? After TypeScript was introduced?
Is there a high-level language for the web?
Oh wow, this is awesome. Integration with WooCommerce and/or other shopping carts would be amazing.
would you have been in CS without hackathons though?
And indeed, "a green greatdragon" sounds quite fine :-)
There are a number of things that are wrong with your argument:

1. Interest payments typically do not replace other government spending. This is simply not how politics works: Politicians, at least at the highest level of government, typically do not look at the budget in terms of how much is available, but in terms of how much should be spent.

2. From the perspective of the macroeconomy, interest payments are a zero-sum game. The money goes to other actors in the economy who spend it.

3. Government is always able to spend the money on programs in addition to interest payment. After all, the government runs the monetary system (I realize that this is hard to grok because it is so different from our own, private, experience with how money works, but the difference is significant.)
Well, it's pretty common to have a generic name for your corporation. No one but their lawyers ever really knew about that name. I'm saying that I think they could actually build a corporate brand separate from GitHub.
Reminds me of the search for Jim Gray. Story here: http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2011/03/17/searching-for-ji...
It seems clear to me that government debt in modern fiat-credit economies isn't really debt in the same sense that private debt is debt. It doesn't behave like private debt. I don't think debt is even the correct term for it. Maybe we need a new one.
Or worse, this guy is $ethnic_minority or $people_I_dont_like
It's simple really. It cost the GOP no bad Karma to let Cheney and Bush open the thing. The President called it a "military camp" so legally it was the same as keeping these bad guys in a tent in Iraq.

For Obama to MOVE THEM would have required some kind of law to put them in Federal courts, or even standard Military courts. Also, congress threatened to EXPLICITLY tell the President no funds were available.

... Kind of like how the 1980 congress told Reagan there would be no funds available to trade for hostages. In 1980 Reagan just went ahead and BROKE THE LAW something Obama has too much respect to do. The issue was divisive enough That Obama couldn't count in his own slim majority to vote on his side. Because Obama doesn't RULE the Democrats like Cheney did.
Debt service that allows it to borrow more then spend more in the immediate. Wars that require massive amounts of spending on things that include manufactured goods. Something wasteful....which is open to significant interpretation in a lot of cases. Waste is part of any large organization. Government isn't alone there.

It's just not this simple. It never is. That's why these arguments about debt and economy keep breaking down.
"there is NO evidence that government debt exceeding 90% of GDP somehow negatively impacts growth."

Correct, 90% is not the magical, universal debt/GDP:dGDP inflection point it was made out to be.

"there is NO EVIDENCE that more government debt causes slower economic growth"

Whoah, whoah. Try the refutation paper [1]. It finds "that average GDP growth tails off somewhat when the public debt/GDP ratio increases towards 120 percent."

There is no strong inflection point ("the scatterplot does suggest a non-linearity in the relationship, but that occurs in the change in the public debt/GDP ratio from 0 to 30 percent"). But there is a monotonically decreasing debt/GDP:dGDP relationship.

It is more subtle than previously characterised, and thus potentially mitigatable in the short term, but let's not take Einstein's refutation of Newtonian physics to mean gravity doesn't exist.

[1] http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/working_papers/worki...
A lot of the US debt is short-term; plus the US has a primary deficit.

The average interest rate over the past 50 years has been something like 5% [citation needed on my own number]. If we hit that, we will very quickly need to pay more money, and a lot of that old debt rolls over each year.

The US does not have a debt problem in 2013; as has been said, we can borrow at effectively zero. The US might very well have a big debt problem in 2018 or 2023.
Let the "internet" does what it does best. Release every bit of information and let the "internet" try and catch the perpetrators. The official channels will take weeks if not longer, with left hand not talking to right hand, burdensome process, ineptitude and inefficiency. In some cases, what takes the official channels weeks only to finally give up, the "internet" can solve in hours.
If you read The Lean Startup there are examples in there. I mentioned above WPEngine did it, but also look at Food on the Table. These stories show the lean startup done right. The story above is so riddled with holes. It's like the guys heard some buzzwords, read a wikipedia page, and ran with their limited understanding of it.
Not so sure. I like learning at a pace in which I'm really understanding the technologies that I'm picking up. For PennApps, we do a series of tech talks over the course the week before the hackathon, and I encourage students who don't know how to code to attend those talks. I think "learning" at a hackathon can leave a lot of gaps in knowledge, which is not necessarily terrible but not the strategy I would immediately advise.
What would be a good way of reliably farming out docker daemons to worker nodes? Mesos is a bit heavyweight but a docker-mesos framework could be pretty cool for programmatically scaling up or down dockers across worker nodes.
The interest rate is controlled by the Fed, which is effectively a branch of government.

Also, inflation concerns (by reasonable people) only occur when the economy overheating. An overheating economy automatically reduces the government deficit via increased tax flows and reduced social security spending.
I'm at DFW right now heading to LAX on AA. Computers just came up and they are going to begin boarding shortly. Lots of unhappy travelers here as you can imagine I'm sure.

Edit--

To follow up. It's been about an hour since the computers came back up in the terminal and I'm finally in my seat on the plane. About 3 hours after it was supposed to depart.

There were several canceled flights in my terminal and no other flights going out so people had to stay overnight. Most were very mad as American was not supplying food or hotel vouchers - all those people are coming out of pocket I guess.

I heard quite a few saying things like, "No wonder they are going out of business" and "I will never fly American again no matter what".
Are you saying that a sovereign nation using a floating fx non-convertible currency regime cannot meet any financial obligation ? Or won't ?
This, or give people objectives rather than just stabbing in the dark.

The AP[1] is reporting the bombs were in black duffel bags containing 6ltr pressure cookers. Make people look for them instead of "anything suspicious".

[1]: http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/16/some-areas-downtown-...
That James Holden track can also change your life.
All of them?

I guess the big question is schools, which I know nothing about. But if you stay away from the worst parts of oakland than I think almost any east bay city would be pretty good.

My wife and I live in North Oakland and we think it's very nice. It's certainly not white yuppie suburbia, but it's also not dirty run down violent west oakland. If you want something more towards the former then you probably want to look in places like the berkeley or oakland hills, rockridge, peidmont, walnut creek, etc. Basically things along Rt 24.
Exploding Fish: A URI Library for Clojure
I know you haven't said this, but due process hasn't been followed in prior years - gitmo prisoners still languish in limbo.
> However, as I said, it's fun work. Too much of it, certainly. But nonetheless fun. The games industry is similar. That's the point I'm making.

And the point I'm making is that the games industry isn't similar (in that it isn't as fun as people make it out to be), as evidenced by numerous such assertions by various people who have worked in the industry.
Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drop at 130,000 fps
> But we should not lose sight of the fact that interest rates are a highly psychological affair. Once trust in the ability to repay debt gets eroded things can get out of control very quickly. So we should be scared at least a little bit.

This is one thing an overstretched fiat currency has strikingly in common with Ponzi schemes.
Court transcripts, military reports reveal telling patterns in information
I don't understand all the anti-IB sentiment. I feel like it speeds up my workflow tremendously compared to manual code, especially now w/ autolayout. I put off learning it for years and feel like an idiot for not learning it sooner. It's elegantly designed to not hide anything from the programmer (a common mistake with visual tools like it), it essentially is just a way to design an object hierarchy and pass it into code.
Neat. I've been using one of my Pi's for a Perl project. I have a second part of the same project that I'm building in C# using the Nancy[1] framework. Looks like I can host the whole thing on the same Pi.

[1]http://nancyfx.org
Interest expense for the fiscal year of 2012 was actually 360 billion. And interest rates are at record lows, lets just say that interest rates jump back to average levels, then your looking at more than doubling that amount over the next 10 years as the debt gets refinanced and more debt gets added. Hardly sustainable. And the Fed is deliberately keeping interest rates at a ridiculously low level, so that the debt burden can be kept low, but we can't have that forever and things aren't looking too good in the near future.
Yes, I agree it would be awesome. And the heavyweight problem could be solved by bootstrapping mesos itself from a nicely packaged docker container. Turtles all the way down :)
I've created some command aliases in my bash profile. There are also tools to create shortcuts for git commands. Other than that, I have created shell scripts that I copy to projects, and also some Rake commands.

I haven't spent enough time on some sort of centralization of "snippets" per se, since what I listed above covers the stuff I reuse the most.
Reporting the news is their entire job.
I think the hackathon is more for helping people dive in and go from 0 to something. After that, learning more comprehensively is definitely crucial.
You're only proving the opposing case with such a toothless argument. Generally speaking, debt is defined as something that is expected to be paid back. That's what makes it debt and not a gift.

In many cases, taking debt increases growth.

Maybe you took convertible debt or a loan to fund your startup? I don't imagine you told investors or bankers that taking on debt would slow the growth of your company. Did your 10-slide pitch deck show upward growth because you intend to stop growing as soon as they fund you? Why would investors lend you money if they knew your growth would slow down as soon as they did it?

Now, consider government. What happens when your community outgrows its roads? Do new businesses continue opening in that area? Do well-paid executives and engineers move to a city with lousy, outdated schools, poor telephone service, and minimal broadband Internet service?
I considered doing this myself but didn't for a few reasons. I have tutored math (college level) for sometime now and it has proven to be quite lucrative at times. I don't do it much anymore but in college and my early-career time frame (when I usually needed money) it was great.

The primary reason tutoring math is better than comp sci (IMO) is the following: In all levels of schooling and in practically every domain, math is required whether you like it or not. Computer science is not.

I chose upper level math because of the types of rates I could charge. It's very common to get clients who have high paying jobs who also need tutoring in math. For example, a nurse who wants to sit for the GRE to get into grad school will probably need help in math because math wasn't a primary focus area when he went to college 3 years ago. That same nurse probably makes a lot of money and can pay you well (Especially if you show that you made an extremely high score on the math section of the GRE.)

Computer Science isn't required in most walks of life so so you'll automatically reduce your clientele to mostly just students. Furthermore, they'll be the smartest of the students (engineers, comp scientists, physicists, etc..) so there won't be many to chose from. These kids didn't go into these fields cause they're bad at learning from their teachers... They also are reasonably savvy at looking up a free tutorial online. Worst part of this is the fact that most of that group will be broke. If you're looking to make money at this, you need a steady stream of people who can pay. This demographic will not result in that (my experience only. yours could be different).

This is not to say that you should tutor math. It's to say that you shouldn't tutor comp sci. All this changes if you're doing this for fun/volunteering. I mostly just tutor younger friends/family members now for free. There are definitely worse ways you could spend your time.
Absolutely. This is the missing link in any shopping cart that I've tried out. We don't do huge volume (maybe $100,000/year for 2013), but this is a continual source of annoyance for me - that there is simply no good, automated way to deal with this. Paying a 5% surcharge is absolutely reasonable if someone can just use the USPS APIs and wrap it into an automated postage plugin where my orders get posted to their API and I simply just print out the PDFs that come out. Or something like that. We're not even close to that right now and it's silly!
If all you are is a "meat bag", then a bomb blast is no more tragic than making sloppy joes with ground beef.

Silly nerd thinking. Your "meat bag" and "meat space" thinking is ridiculous.
I think "The Lean Startup" is a good book - it presents a model for creating a successful business which diverges from older more traditional business thinking. Some successful technology companies feel the same way. I also think books like this should be read as guideposts, not as some orthodoxy. If a suggestion from the book goes against particular circumstances or common sense, you do what your common sense tells you.

Nonetheless, they seem to have missed important lessons from the book. Or re-learned them rather. The odd thing is they then claim the book does not cover these things, and distracted them from these problems. I don't understand why this is said, since the book does cover these things.

The blog post says:

> Lean Startup principles distracted us from four livelihood-threatening fundamentals. First, you need rigorous product management. Don’t speculate. Build no feature unless you understand it thoroughly and have unshakeable evidence that multiple customers need it --urgently.

But this lesson learned is one of the Lean Startup principles.

From "The Lean Startup":
"For example, how many features do we really need to include to appeal to early adopters? Every extra feature is a form of waste, and if we delay the test for these extra features, it comes with a tremendous potential cost in terms of learning and cycle time. The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might have seemed at the time."

...I quote only one paragraph from the Lean Startup, but the idea about no excessive features in an MVP is repeated throughout the book.

It's possible the Lean Startup approach has some holes in it, but warning against too many features in an MVP is not one of them.
Seems like there would be two stages: (1) solve the crime and (2) gather the evidence. Seems like as long as the evidence is not tampered with it would still be usable in court. For example uploading a picture shouldn't destroy its value as evidence.
I don't think most people are arguing against the negative side effects of massive amounts of debt. The point this really drives home is that the budget theater that has been going on for the past few years is entirely unnecessary.

The reality of the budget drama in Congress is that it's almost entirely about the house majority stymieing any forward momentum by the current administration at just about any cost. This is why Congress has such a low approval rating.
Definitely in the works - part of our vision is to provide an annotation layer over the Internet. Awkward comparison, but something like the Kindle, "N people have also highlighted this passage". But for every webpage on the Internet.
College campuses are pretty nice for college, but I don't think they translate well as a city. I'll admit to being a bit of a new-urbanism and walkability snob, so when I look at a campus as "the city of the future" it makes me gag a bit. They are ok, but missing most of what makes "real" cities great.
The general feedback so far seems to be "Good idea, but could result in mob justice."

How can we prevent this? Some ideas so far:

- Moderation

- Give people specific tasks: "Find this duffle bag" (thanks shocks)

What else?
Your Privacy Doesn’t Exist
Data for the Boston Marathon Investigation Will Be Crowdsourced
Statically Embedding Python on Windows
Consider

> True || construct_a_1TB_object()

Unless you have infinite computation and memory, there are always visible side-effects, no matter how functional your language is.
Nice to see their legacy systems were kept up to date and maintained.
Obviously there are gaps in what you can learn at a hackathon. You guys need to stop beating the point there. However, provide a situation in which you can learn as much as you do so quickly as you do at a hackathon, and I guarantee you can't.
What if we all died at forty?
Same with any paper-based security as well. Any fiscal instrument can look like a Ponzi scheme if you pick the right angle.
What about just a way to forward on important images to authorities?
Very moving story.
Realtime at webmon.com using memqueue
I created an issue for integrating Docker as a Mesos agent. https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/410

If anybody with Mesos experience wants to lend a hand, I would love to give this a try. Say hi on the issue!
مشاهدة مباراة مانشستر يونايتد ووست هام بث مباشر
AgileBits 1Password support and Design Flaw?
node.js is like any other open source language in this case.

It's not so much like Linux (implied thesis: everyone will be running things on top of node.js like they are run on top of Linux)
The FBI will indeed crowdsource the evidence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5560609
I've been doing something similar for the last couple of years (SVN and Ubuntu One rather than Git and Dropbox). In general it works very well but you need to ensure that both computers have properly synced before you switch working between them or you risk issues with conflicts and/or corrupted files. Also you should have a backup plan in case things go wrong. In my setup I only keep the working copy in Ubuntu One with the repo somewhere safer. This means if something doesn't work properly I can simply create a new working copy. I realise Git works a little differently but it is always worth ensuring you can recover from failure as Dropbox and equivalents are all slightly less reliable than traditional file storage. The final thing to bear in mind is that if this is for work, some employers will be unhappy about their proprietary code being hosted on the "cloud" rather than on computers they control.
High Fidelity
Today morning I read about this bomb blast killing wedding guests and families in Afghanistan [1]. Unfortunately, it was carried out by one of us. I ignored the news, in some sort of natural filter, to avoid registering negatives of the world. There are just so many of them.

Now after read Daniel's experience, and your comment about Peshawar Neebz, I feel what a terrible place and time I have been born in. Why does all this have to happen? Who is terrorist for whom? And why do innocents have to die or face these experiences at all? For which perhaps only the political leaders are responsible.

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-125820/US-bomb-kills...
Powerful stuff, great read for all in light of yesterday's events.
I know only a little of Inform 7. I somehow thought it was as full featured as Inform 6. What can you do in I6 that you can't do in I7?
You have a lot of faith in a military which has done a lot of measurable harm in recent times for little measurable gain.
Yes, most of us also worked out solutions independently. Our solutions all follow the same 4-step pattern outlined in the post (your solution also follows this pattern).

Glad you enjoyed the challenge!
Compile OCaml for iOS
Where do I find the paper that links GDP to sustainability or quality of life? You can have a compulsive debt driven society and still have strong economic activity, no? Or is "economic growth" really an indicator of economic sustainability?
I want one, or two, maybe more.
I'm totally fascinated with parallel computing.
I find it a convincing argument that, of all the times for the US government to borrow, now is about as ideal as it gets by conventional measures. People will loan to the federal government for pitifully low rates.

And yet ...

I have to ask: If not now, when? If we can convince ourselves today that we can keep putting off the eventual cutbacks until tomorrow, as we have been for ages, how will next time be any different? If we can't justify cutbacks when the outlook is grim, how will we be able to when people are optimistic instead?

If not now, when? If not our generation, which? If the current state does not move us to make the hard calls, then what state would so move us?
The counterpoint is the more intuitive certainty that if times are tough, everyone should tighten their belts, including the government.

spinonthird has already pointed out the Paradox of Thrift. I would add that a lot of confusion surrounding this particular topic comes from the widespread inability to distinguish between real tough times and monetary tough times.

By monetary tough times I mean: bank collapses, loan defaults, low available income.

By real tough times I mean: lack of available resources, natural disasters destroying infrastructure.

In real tough times, it is true that everybody should tighten their belt. Typically, they are forced to do so via inflation, and if the government refuses to listen there will be hyperinflation.

In monetary tough times, tightening your belt personally is your only choice due to the constraints that you have. But it is exactly the wrong response for government to tighten its belt as well. Rather, government - especially monetarily sovereign government - should use its unique position in the economy to get the economy going again, to enable the real capacity available to be used.

Observe how a simple confusion of these scenarios can lead to incorrect predictions, similarly to how so many people predicted back in 2009 that raging hyperinflation should have happened by now. They were obviously wrong, and I posit that underlying their wrongness is the inability to properly distinguish between real and monetary phenomena.
There is something to be said for requiring developers to make things work right rather than work around their screwups, however.
Did Tech Websites Exploit the Boston Marathon Bombing?