skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I prefer we not go back to any oversimplistic analogies. That's part of what makes these debates so insufferable. A nation's economy isn't a household budget. A company isn't a person. A nation isn't a person.

I don't really see much value in someone's axiomatic understanding of all of economics premised on the belief that they are smarter than people who study economics (even if they are; probably they are!). I'd much prefer to hear from someone who is less smart, but who admits the subject is too complex for them to fully understand and who can be bothered to go out and actually attempt to measure something (rather than telling me what it must be).

I guess I'm saying I think I can learn more from an honest person than a smart one. Now I'm questioning why I am wasting my time reading hacker news again.
But those people make far and away my favorite apps. I really think it‘s as simple as that. The best quality comes from those people – and Google blocks them. Just like that.
There need to be more packages, because you are starting at a lower level than a "batteries-included" language
And that would take sustained years long local action, eg me and 100 of my friends camping in my Senator's or Representative's office. Ditto probably 40 other local groups. Hard to pull off.

Yeah, Obama doesn't have to do any of this. Maybe the "sustained years" part for some issues, but that's the limits of commonality between your tools and Obama's.
I see a lot of comments here to the effect that this means debt is a free lunch now. Would that it were so - we could get rid of taxes, as well as Medicare and Social Security withholding. And nix the Obamacare penalty. And, of course, buy everyone a pony.

Sadly, ponies are a finite resource until such time as the government figures out how to print more of them. Debt still has a multiplier less than 1 - far less, for large amounts of debt.

All this article means is the magic number where debt starts to cause deep hurting is somewhere above 90% of GDP.
Do you think this will this have an effect on the technology companies there in the long run if things keep going the way they are?
There is no reason for all this unnecessary complication.
I got some sort of error message about 'Nginx has been freshly installed' or something.
Depends which stats you look at. Some say it is true other not so much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Su...
Well, in ridiculous amounts, something like more money would work. Like, you offer me a million a year, I'll do the shittiest development job you have to offer for 5 years and retire.

But, assuming all things are equal, I would go with the job that allowed me to work whenever/wherever. Mainly because I'd love to work from home and travel at my leisure. Being able to book a trip overseas for a few months and just work from wherever I'm at is worth more to me than money or the type of work I'd be doing.
Deleting a comment in one thread (especially a parent comment) and reposting it in another is not a very good practice. Also, this is obviously news. Also, a gratuitous reference to climate science in this context is flamebait—luckily it hasn't set anyone off. Fully agree about releasing both data and code.
Fun little project. Well done.

Giving a public facing application sudo powers (even limited ones) is a little scarey. If I understood your documentation I believe if I somehow got onto your box I could escalate to root just by editing your iptables scripts. You probably want to ensure www-data (or anyone) cannot write to these files :-)
Violence in Pakistan has now become like poverty in Africa.

It doesn't make for a surprising headline. It's almost an expectation of how we expect Pakistan to be.

...And of course /persons from 1st world countries/white people/ aren't dieing. So it won't make the headlines of news sites.
> And Storyboards are certainly in principle a cool idea, but I've never seen a production app that has actually used them

Fly Delta app uses them all over the place (first-hand experience) - they're fantastic for static cell table views. Admittedly, merging them can be a HUGE pain, though.

> As far as I know, Apple aren't dog-fooding them in their own apps either.

From what I've heard from an Apple engineer, Apple doesn't dog-food a lot of this stuff because the tools either don't exist yet by the time they need to ship or aren't stable. A lot (most?) of their apps end up being done programatically.
Totally. Take the complaint about the mobile app. They built a mobile app that nobody wanted, and then blamed Lean!

"Nevertheless as devout Lean Startup followers, we kept building, measuring, and learning. Hidden inside our minimum viable product was a separate mobile application to gather data on logic model performance. This mobile app mystified our customers. Why didn’t we let them input data online at their desks as a starting step?"

On what planet can you be doing Lean development and get as far as building an entire app that not one of your customer wants with features that none of them needs? How can anything be "hidden"?

Wow. Was this published April 1st?
> the mobile phone is arguably the most personal consumer electronic device[2] and arguably SMS is its most intimate form of communication

Only really arguable if you forget voice calls...
They probably have the facial recognition tech, but they probably dont have the Web stuff setup so people can just drag and drop their pics to a service that automatically sorts through them and stores them intelligently.

Heck, Google/FB probably wouldn't even have to ask people to upload photos they could just ask them if they can use the photos they've already uploaded. Heck, they probably wouldn't even need to ask. Heck, they are probably doing this for the FBI already and not telling anyone :-/

EDIT: Apparently you can email your photos to the FBI if anyone reading this has anything they think is useful: Boston@ic.fbi.gov
But what about shops like CNBC ? They get lots of ad revenue from the FIRE industry.
you mean WHEN you get in! Cheers!
"By that reasoning a work of art is just random colors and there is no reason to admire it."

I disagree. There is no conflict between admiring the organization of the fundamental particles and realizing that stuff is ultimately just big collections of fundamental particles.
Silicon Valley is known for having some very smart people solving very complex problems. Do you think there was any way for them to have limited the damage from California over the years?
The Phoenix Project - Book Review - DevOps
That's why I wrote "overstretched". I'm not opposing the idea of fiat currency in general.

At essence of any Ponzi scheme lies debt that inherently can not be repaid, and public disclosure of that acts as tipping point.
OCaml: Call for Presentations
I realize most of HN is left-of-center, but Cato in particular is not fluff. Specifically on the two, Rogoff was Chief Economist of the IMF (I spent a summer interning when he was there), and no one considers either of these economists as crazy-right wing types (the IMF, by American political standards, is probably a centrist Democratic type, even if it does make some very stupid calls for austerity from time to time).

There's always room for disagreement because economics is the dismal science (as one famous line put it, Harry Truman wanted to find a one-handed economist - so they wouldn't always answer "X could happen, on the other hand, Y could happen), and answers aren't as binary as they sometimes are in the hard sciences. I'm curious to see what Rogoff and Reinhart respond to this with.

Edit: thanks for the Ritholz piece - hadn't seen that. I certainly am not claiming that there's no mistake - I just want to see what the defendants in this have to say, so to speak.
> If all you are is a "meat bag", then a bomb blast is no more tragic than making sloppy joes with ground beef.

Does not follow, and I disagree strongly. Specifics matter, but that doesn't make the "meat bag" thing untrue.
We have a technology that goes much further than the suggestions above. For this use case, would need a little customization. If you want to get involved, email me - barrie@cliplabs.com - jon@jonb, perhaps combine our efforts?
Ask HN: [video] Can i get feedback for my YC S13 hardware pitch?
would love the community feedback

http://youtu.be/bgsWYDCOvA8
Unbounded Robotics: The Next Willow Garage Spin-Off?
Serious question - not trolling. Even if increasing the deficit does not affect GDP (and I'm in no position to even comment on whether or not I think it does) - how is that sustainable? I mean, AFAIK the argument behind increasing government spending is as simple as "it solves problems" - it provides help to those in need, affects the economy, etc. But why won't this at some point collapse? And if it will at some point collapse, why do we think politics will allow the government to behave any differently as we near that time? So again - serious question - I fail to see how we can expect government spending to grow without eventually consuming 100% of everyone's income or collapsing entirely (and I understand that many people may consider the former a good thing).

edit: And this may be because I don't know where the money comes from to begin with. If I keep getting bigger and bigger loans and there's no way my income will allow me to pay these loands back in the foreseeable future, then won't everyone just cease doing business with me at some point? Does "debt" in a government context act differently, and if so, why?
I like that. If you flag a photo as suspicious, that flag doesn't necessarily have to be publicly visible.
agreed, that 'just try now' flow was really enticing.
Are you the guy behind DevAppsDirect ?
Bitcoin Slush's pool is under DDoS attack
Interesting story I guess....3 hrs before deadline I received an email saying that they don't typically accept anyone without a video and that I needed to submit one, so I just did one of myself bc if such short notice and half my team was outta town. It only got viewed 3 times....so we shall see. GL GUYS/GALS!!!
check out www.tjhackathon.com. We're planning on expanding to various locations to do just that.

Code.org so far has just been a bunch of big names putting their name on something to make noise. Very little real change from what I've seen.
My apologies if I've misinterpreted your posts. I thought we were talking specifically about TDD, since that seemed to be the subject of the original article, but from the examples you gave, you seem to be talking about automated unit testing more generally now. In that case, I would certainly agree that there are successful projects using the approach.

However, I would also say that if you've never seen code untested in that way that wasn't crap then you're not looking hard enough. Some of the most impressively bug-free projects ever written used very different development processes with no unit testing at all. Space shuttle software, which is obviously about as mission critical as you can get, went in a very different direction[1]. Donald Knuth, the man who wrote TeX among other things, isn't much of a fan either[2].

[1] http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

[2] http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856
I came from a electrical and computer engineering background and so I am more used to procedural programming. When I started with iOS development, I tried IB but then I cannot figure out the magic and decided to create my UI mostly from code. Then, I started doing more and more software and adding more code, and managing it becomes painful. Since this is a personal project, I do not want to spend too much time and want to follow Apple's way of doing things. Since then, I started using XIB file and adding them slowly. It is important to realize that it is NOT an all or nothing approach. You can mix and match XIB and code with what you are comfortable with.

Some comments say that using UI will eventually restrict you. That might be true and I can totally see that. However, at that time, it is a good idea to step back and look at the overall design and figure out if you over design something. I like functional apps that work with little effort. It does not mean that it have to look ugly but you can customize and beautify the UI within the constraints of Apple's framework. Yes, there will be limits but is it worth the extra complexity of rolling it out on your own?

I have not tried storyboard but I would like to try it out soon.

In general, my philosophy has changed to use good, solid, reliable frameworks and keep the design (UI) and features (code) simpler. You will be able to get 90% of what you really want with less work (coding and maintaining).
Transformers 4 and Interstellar will shoot in IMAX
Um Greece cannot issue currency in the way that the US can.
I guess I just assumed that if excel was used at a financial firm, there were unit tests (or whatever the excel equivalent would be). It's a scary thought that it might not be the case because excel doesn't excel at reporting errors or debugging.
The AMD Radeon HD 7790 ($150) does 21 GFLOPS/Watt. So I would say Adapteva is definitely comparable to GPUs in this approximate price range.
If you board, you will be on the tarmac for a while:

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/airline-industry/20130416...
Leaked document shows AppGratis manipulated App Store rankings
ConvertKit Launched
For a minute I had a '24' flashback and started packing canned goods and ammunition into a 'bug out bag'..
How do you check how many times your video was viewed and the playback time? Sorry...still new to this whole thing.
First Look at Jamie Foxx as Electro in Amazing Spider-Man 2
What does “coalgebra” mean in the context of programming?
"Please Don't Buy an Electric Car"
Fair enough. Though as later comments point out, constructing a 1tb object is probably a better failure case for functional languages. It would also be fairly easy to avoid if the True on the lhs could be evaluated quickly so you could abort the second calculation.

That kind of code is only valid in strict languages because of short circuiting, is functionally equivalent to lazyness in this respect. If you tried to automatically parallelize C by speculatively evaluating both sides you would have exactly the same problem.

Lazy languages may make this kind of code easier to write, but the problem is actually that of non-deterministic calculations, and would be a problem anywhere.
The only practical way of making something like this work would be to collect all the photos taken ~2 hours before the bombs went off near the finish line. You could do this by searching Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for geotags and keywords/hashtags then sorting by date and time. Dump all the photos into a database and do your best to sort by time (duplicates shouldn't be much of a problem). I don't think there would be too many photos, probably less than 5,000. Then see if you can find what the bombs looked like before they went off, then go back and find when they first placed.

If anyone is interested in doing something like this, I can help, so let me know.
Excellent. Up vote. Gotta spread these truths on HN. Because if HN can't grok it, nobody can.
Boston@ic.fbi.gov

http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1cf5wp/2013_boston_m...
I don't do a lot of long form writing like this, and I feel I could improve quite a bit, so if you have any comments about how I could improve this piece, please let me know. Thanks.
I like how it says "apologize for ANY inconvenience" as if theres the possibility that all planes being grounded making hundreds of people late for meetings offers any room for there not to be an inconvenience.
"we don't need empirical evidence to know that at some point interest payments will require highter tax revenues which will reduce disposable income and hence consumption."

We always need empirical evidence. For your example, no, we don't know that, e.g. when the debt is monetized by the central bank. A bias towards sovereign debt elimination may be more dangerous than a bias towards sovereign debt accumulation - empirical evidence, not intuition, is how we validate the models that guide our trade-offs.
Police generally do not make me feel safe because i never know when i'm going to break some silly law i may or may not know about or observe (ala jaywalking, biking without a helmet) and get cited/jailed for it, or even worse deal with some cop getting his power trip on who takes it to far.
> The point this really drives home is that the budget theater that has been going on for the past few years is entirely unnecessary.

Translation(?): the econometric models used to measure the length of the road were off by a little bit, we have more time to kick the can.

Econometric models are descriptive in any case (they are measuring quantities that are based on the human actions causing those metrics, those metrics are not controlling those behaviors), past performance is no guarantee of future behavior.
couldn't this be done in the first place already?

I thought firebase supported html5 a long time ago.

Is it the websocket part that couldn't be ported to Phonegap?
It seems to me that "deficit scaremongers" are more worried about scenarios like Greece and the Weimar Republic, not "slower economic growth."

I think it's a good-faith concern. As much as I believe in data, the ability of the US to borrow cheaply enough to finance deficit spending is entirely up to the whims of investors. People are fickle. If the shit hits the fan and investors lose confidence in the USA for whatever reason, the deficit spending we currently rely on could become many times more expensive, and unsustainable.

EDIT: Downvotes? I doubt most people are even aware of this 90% number, but everyone knows about Greece. If you ask an average tea partier, I am willing to bet they are more concerned about Greece than exceeding 90% debt/GDP. If this is nonsense, refute it (I'd like to hear, and believe, that refutation).
Or they selectively release data. A personal example: a researcher was happy to give me unpublished data for a famous study which turned in an exciting research; then I asked about a pilot study she led which the technical report indicated was turning in a null result - all of a sudden, of course she would not give me any of the data and told me I shouldn't be relying on unpublished research!
If I have a big mortgage to pay off that slows my growth because I'm wasting about 60% of that monthly expense solely on debt repayment. Without the big mortgage - and the same salary - I could be making monthly investments that actually produce income.
The notion that Julia is not thoughtfully designed, and therefore we won't have the resources to make it run fast, is close to being the opposite of the main idea of the project. We don't want to go to extreme lengths to get performance, so we leverage design.

For example, one of the biggest challenges in dynamic type inference is getting the types of fields of mutable heap-allocated objects. We avoid this debacle by letting you declare field types, which also has benefits for code clarity and specifying memory layout. Everybody wins. But once you are writing types, you need fairly flexible types, to avoid being stuck with only Int and Any (everybody's favorites). We then follow the implications of this as far as we can.

As for "all those runtime type tag cases", the key is that they form a lattice, which feeds nicely into dataflow analysis. The lattice-theoretic properties of a language's universe of objects typically do not get enough attention, especially in dynamic languages, where it is actually most needed. Typically the lattices are either trivial (for example, scheme's fixed set of types), or highly uncooperative. You want to hit a sweet spot where you can compute greatest lower bounds that are actually somewhat interesting.
Once you learn to read, you don't have any consciousness of reading, but this does not mean there is a reading acquisition module. Or a driving one, etc.
Sounds quite an interesting idea... make a git client that acts like dropbox.
Thanks gusgordan! Can you e-mail me at jon@jonb.org?
I'm a long time Linode customer. I love the service they provide. I hate their lack of transparency.

The 'proof' is that the announcement came in very short order after Ryan's comments, and in the past, Linode has _never_ made such announcements (despite serious security breaches)
Dispatch from inside American Airlines’ travel hell
Great Idea! Not sure how you deal with time though... maybe one synth every 5 minutes?

http://photosynth.net/
When I was 13, I started to tinker around with electronics. I didn't really have a proper grasp of electronics except from electronics playsets at 8-10. I designed some circuits using the bits of digital logic knowledge I had, but they called for dozens of chips to implement simple tasks. Then, I stumbled across 8bit AVRs. The possibilities compared to my feeble steps around XOR gates and Flip Flop ICs...they put me in awe. So I started playing around with it, and tried to push bounds, optimize code, adressing, busses, multiplexing, etc. And then I found out about the 32 bit ARM Chips that came for a similar price to the AVRs. Again, the possibilities...And then CPLDs and FPGAs, Neuronal Network ICs, and so on. Every single time, this rush of excitement. I'm an addict, amn't I?

And the Adapteva is similar. From what it sounds like, you just have this brute power at your fingertips. I'll read into the specs a little bit, but it sounds frankly awe inspiring even before opening them up. Want to PWM control 500 leds individually? From what it sounds like in this article, the thing got power for double (off the top of my head). Want to create stereooptic 3d models using a camera and an IMU in real time? It sounds like it can do that (over the thumb calculation). Want to overlay your own 3d models into it and display them using the occulus 3d?

What I'm trying to get across is, if you're not as excited as if you found out santa is real, you're not excited enough.

EDIT: THERE'S A D*"§ FPGA ON THAT THING!!!! I'll stop datasheeting to avoid hyperventilation.
Have you watched an adult learn a pidgin through immersion? It has a similar character, because there is no French academy, Latin teacher, or privileged register of English involved, and there is no methodology.

I wonder where we got the idea that the only way people learn languages after their first is through school.
Geo Search problems
> Is "the private key was also compromised but we don't think they can guess it, so let's just move on" good enough?

You have to take that a step futher... "we don't _thing_ they can guess is, and we don't _think_ they were able to recover it from RAM"
Windows Azure goes GA with big pricing announcement, matching AWS
Could Congress bypass Obama on Keystone XL pipeline?
Reinhart and Rogoff's response here: Matt Yglesias has been covering this somewhat gleefully. But as they point out, they called it an association, not a cause (correlation, not causation).

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/16/reinhart_and_...
Not to minimize that tragic bombing you read about this morning, but it took place back in 2002. Your wording gave me the impression it happened recently.
I skimmed enough to see that you didn't argue against my description of your position.

So I take it the description was accurate.

I note that you lie about what I wrote, which was: All (functioning) democracies tend to ignore human rights and laws when its citizens are threatened with terrorism.

I removed the rest and references. You phantasize something without me having to help anyway...
Have you considered Mozilla Persona? https://voo.st is pretty successfully using Facebook and Persona together for auth, at least the last I heard from them.

You should be able to get it integrated in an hour or so, and I'd be happy to double-check your code (or submit a pull request myself) if you'd like.
I don't think the SIMD optimizations have actually landed yet, and if they have it would have been very recently, and the Dart VM has been beating V8 for a while.