skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We haven't had that much fiscal stimulus in the US releative to the size of the economy. It's a missed opportunity considering money is basically free right now and T-bills return a fixed coupon (so even if interest rates were 5% in 5 years' time it would have no effect on the cost of servicing debt issued today).

The EU has trillions to spend. This is a federal problem, but some countries in Europe don't want to admit because they want to cling to the illusion that monetary union can exist indepedently of fiscal union.
Getting terms that are twice as good only works if no one rejects your offer.
Choose Your Cell Phone Smartly
To enable the Lahoris to purchase these highly priced mobile phones many businesses in the city offer cell phones deals. These special promotions cut down a considerable price so it becomes affordable for the people to purchase a smart phone of their choice.
Mechanical and Civil engineering requires more up front design than software because of the physical processes involved (plus the consequences of mistakes are usually deadlier). There are more questions with definite yes or no answers in engineering, and engineering uses a more rigorous application of applied mathematics than software engineering.

If software engineering were more like civil engineering we'd spend a lot more time formally proving our algorithms before we implemented them.
That's a cool paper, thanks for linking to it. I'm not quite sure how to make sense of all its findings. It seems to be saying:

1) If you aren't selling digitally, piracy can hurt your album sales (if your music becomes well-known enough).

2) If you are selling digitally, piracy doesn't really hurt your digital sales, as the piracy will generally be from people who wouldn't otherwise sell your music.

3) Making your music available on streaming sites has a measurable but very small positive effect on digital sales. However, it's unclear if they're trying to measure the people that would buy digitally if they weren't streaming, but don't since they can stream. (This my reason for being interested in jango/pandora but not spotify - on jango/pandora, the stream is presented to the consumer but not on-demand, so if the consumer wants to hear it again, they can't just stream it again like on spotify. So they'll still have an incentive to buy.)

4) Streaming might not have a positive impact on physical sales, although this might be because they're assuming that songs are digitally available.
Show HN: Logging to MongoDB in Python
Just a small log handler for pythons logging module, which stores the records in a mongodb. Not ready yet but at least somewhat usable. :)
And I'm annoyed when there are hundreds of innocuous warnings. In that case I have to mentally track the warning count so I know when I've incremented it.

Someone who can't fix a warning properly probably isn't a very good coder to begin with. I'd say you're hosed no matter what. :P

I understand you problem with lots of temporary variables. It's not a situation I've encountered. It's certainly something that might make me reassess my position should I encounter it.
What's your most productive vim shortcut?
NodeJS and Python are my languages of choice.
Just use Google OpenID on your site, then you don't have to worry about your customers' passwords getting stolen.

Simplistic? Yup. Perfect? Nope. Does the trick? Sure.
Completely false equivalence. We make guaranteed margin off the albums and the cost/risk has already been born in production costs, and we also have control over just how much we involve the middle-men.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybristophilia

Obligatory Dilbert reference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqzoxBBQ4pU&t=7m15s
Interesting arguments...But apart from IDEs like visual studios, How much do individuals and companies pay for developer tools? Like say a better debugger or a code coverage tool? How about VIM plugins or better editors? I too have some ideas for a better debugger that I have been working on.
> and not coded to youre standards does not signal incompetence.

You are incompetent at making this determination. Dunning-Kruger in full effect, here.
One issue with just using a public key everywhere is that the most common public key authentication protocols result in some degree of non-repudiability. This is desirable for signing in to a bank but not for potentially embarrassing sites. I guess the cryptographic community might already have an answer to this, though.
But the record companies made a killing on the recorded album sales. It's not because touring is better than recorded sales, it's because they were being dicked by the labels.
And does it work for iPhone too? non-rooted? We did such stuff as SpotEx: http://spotex.linkstore.ru But Wi-Fi scan on iPhone was a problem.
Being backed by a company (a) not known as a player in the mobile PaaS space (ie higher likelyhood they will shut it down) and (b) known to care little about user privacy may have also made the chasm 3x wider.
Come on, it's anything but simple physics.

Macroeconomics has nothing to do with "common sense" family finance hygiene or the mind-numbing model you describe.
I long for a future where passwords are no longer necessary because the info you want to access is public anyway.
Thanks for the great info.

prserve.com just quoted me sub-$1K for one story on a major tech media news site, pay only after the story goes live.

What I read from here so far makes the prserve deal a pretty good one, isn't it?
Definitely wasn't the money.

I wanted to explore a new topic that didn't have that much material out at the time (Google Wave -> HTML5 Gaming). And I like to speak at conferences, a book helps you get selected more.

My book has done better than most and is still selling decently approaching 2 years since publication but that's the exception , not the rule.
At this moment it's in first position, I guess that's because most of HN readers (including me) haven't read it before, so the repost is totally worth it.
Show HN: LeanReviews - quick reviews for almost anything
Chrome is the browser of choice these days. [Posted from IE10.]
If you watch the video embedded, you'll see that he actually ran a large network that smuggled cocaine from Miami to Seattle. A little more serious than the kid who sells an 8-ball to his college classmate.
It's case by case and there is no general rule. My hunch is that in this case it makes decision makers at big companies feel like they'll be around for longer.
To think that I'm are ready for a challenge, but mostly I fail without preparation, that mindset makes me weak and always fail
Hermes is also a household name, believe it or not.
> Someone shouldn't have to be exposed to that involuntarily.

I wish I had the same right to not be exposed to agrotoxics, growth hormones and antibiotics from the meat, xenoestrogen present in all damn plastic and airborne lead from exhausts.

Maybe if the government really cared about well-being they would be regulating those, instead of wasting time with e-cigarrettes, no?
This isn't true, it's more an amalgamation of half-truths and repeated statements from other people.

The first sentence is only (occasionally) true in the cases of artists signed to big-label contracts - very out of date in today's day and age, where most indie musicians don't even consider trying to get signed to a label. Meanwhile, the labels DID get money from record sales.

Piracy hurt labels and not artists because piracy hurt record sales, which went towards the labels' bottom lines and not the artists. But in a world where the record sales actually go to the artists' bottom lines, piracy does hurt the physical sales of the artists.

The real money does not come from live shows and merch. This is generally debunked elsewhere.
MorePhone, the Smartphone Screen That Changes Shape to Alert You
Isnt this bonfyre?
> If I owned myaudithooks.com, I could have it email me based on certain rules. (...) I’d be able to sleep a little easier knowing that if one of my account credentials were compromised — whether it be due to my own carelessness or that of a random developer’s — I’d have a nice history and potentially even alerting so I know about it when it happens.

... and since it relies on DNS, it's useless.
This is a good idea; but if your single computer is hack'd that is just as bad as if someone just got on your computer when you were just walking away and you were still logged in.

It makes identity and account problems just as problematic.

I actually like the auditing idea; however I think he goes a bit overboard about having GeoIP for every single login because I know many people log in from tons of different locations all the time.

Maybe a more simpler alternative would work; but it needs to be well thought out for sure.
Even on my AMD E-450 netbook, that was pretty much instant. Lagged a lot afterwards (to be expected, running FF on elementary Luna), but way better than I thought it would! Well done OP, seriously well done.
Sometimes I wonder if I am at a disadvantage because I don't smoke! It would be nice to be able to call on the clear and lucid feeling when I sit down to work or need to think something through.
I don't know what the right punishment is for that, but the original sentence of 45 years seems too steep. As does 25.
CMU running CTF competition for high school students
Right, I actually agree and think your version is best!
Alfred Jarry and Père Ubu
It was Sweden (with a similar system to Norway) where Frank Abagnale[1] (Catch Me If You Can) spent some time and spoke highly of the penal system of the Scandinavian countries. I think he mentioned they were paid a fair wage, able to take real college courses (not just correspondence) and made other attempts at real rehabilitation.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale
A couple of popular hobby type websites are Sparkfun (https://www.sparkfun.com/) and Adafruit (http://adafruit.com/). You can obviously also buy sensors from places like Mouser or Digikey, but you'll have to do a fair bit of digging through datasheets. The nice thing about Sparkfun and Adafruit is they publish plenty of tutorials for getting stuff running with Arduino or Raspberry Pi.
Hi HN, I am developing LeanReviews with a goal to make it easier to share opinions about anything people care about. People often have lots of opinions about lots of things but dont usually write elaborate reviews. LeanReviews makes sharing quick reviews almost trivial. I had submitted this to HN about a week ago but could not get any response. So I revamped some things and am resubmitting. I hope I get some feedback - any feedback is good feedback. Thanks.
>Contextual alone would completely eliminate their need for panhandling, and would also enable drastic improvements to their infrastructure. Better for users, better for everyone.

maybe? but compare wikipedia's uptime to, say, twitter or reddit. Advertising dollars do not always make for reasonable Engineering decisions. (I'm not saying that advertising causes twitter or reddit to go down often; but they both get dramatically more revenue per user. I mean, dramatically more revenue per user, and they both have terrible uptime vs. wikipedia.)
Can you show me an example of a car-sharing board? A quick google search showed me I obviously don't know what to search for.
But that requires sites to not be bozos, to deal with a more complex cryptosystem. If we could achieve that then we could just get them to do the damn hashing right.

Here's a simpler solution: integrate password managers with modern browsers out of the box. Each site I log on to gets a hash of my password with their domain. But I need to install an extension to get this. Just make it more accessible. It doesn't matter if you use sha-1 or md5; it'll get everyone to use high-entropy passwords, and to not reuse passwords across sites. It'll be strictly better (by orders of magnitude) than the current situation.
We are trying to build this platform at the Philly Startup Weekend. Would love to hear some feedback on the idea !!!!
No we have not fogotten him. We should, though because he was wrong. Stimulus doesn't work.
"News-programming, or whatever you want to call it, has just gotten started, at a time when the industry is too busy flailing in a downward revenue spiral to put serious thought into anything."

I wouldn't say it's completely in a downward spiral, and it's not exactly super new either. There are a lot of prominent tech sites and programming sites many that have been around for centuries. Many have gotten bigger audiences over the years I am sure it's not exactly just a "fad."

And the curriculum change she was describing did not sound very expensive to add equipment wise. It just requires new teachers with more tech skills. But you are right in the sense that any change involving technology just takes time.
I agree, but that also depends on the offender.

In a way, you could make an argument that prison should not have timed sentences, but rather that it should be "you stay until it is deemed that you will not offend again, and that you can be a productive member of society."

After all the word "corrections" implies that something should be corrected, not that somebody should be punished.
My favorite thus far has been development in Python with Django. I've also done a lot using C#, and although it wasn't my choice, I've been amazed at what it can do. I think the biggest thing that held back C# over the years was its connection to Microsoft. It is actually very good.

Beyond a doubt, Meteor interests me most for the future. It might not be Meteor js that wins the war, but it has definitely opened my eyes to what could be the future of web development. Looking at Meteor, it was the first time I was really wowed vs my old reaction of "This is a small step forward."
"Nanny staters" are bipartisan, always and ever.
The article seems much ado about nothing. It's not necessary to "major" in a subject to learn a lot about it. In the US (unlike the UK), undergraduates have the flexibility to take coursework in a broad range of disciplines. Nothing stops a journalism major from taking plenty of math and statistics and CS classes, assuming s/he can hack the work.

Should journalism programs require a course on "making sense of data and technology"? Yes, probably they should.
How Astronaut Chris Hadfield Snaps Photos in Space
Probably this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
I only see a blank page
God darn it Notch. This is gonna make people have forced tunnel vision!

My record was 37. Though I only played it for a few minutes. It's just too damn fast and annoying on your eyesight.
I thought I had seen it on HN as well, but I just searched around and realized it was a Quora post from 3 months ago that I was thinking of by the same guy. Apparently Santos went from knowing zero about technology to being a viral marketing master.
I love books. It's a way to influence the world with my ideas and passion. It was a fantastic learning experience, and is still a good conversation starter.

Having said that, my next book(s) will be much more closely tied to my professional career aspirations - the book can serve as a "calling card."

If you do write a book, put in the work to do it well. Please don't use a vanity press!
Germany struck a deal with the big counties after the liberation of east Germany that allowed them to reunited. The common currency was meant as a way to tie Germany to the rest of europe and prevent them for going Nazi again.

Germany agreed because reunification had been a dream for decades.
Download the Unity Web Player browser extension.
http://unity3d.com/webplayer/
He also uploaded just the fractal-like animation: http://trom.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com

It seems like there is a Ludum Dare event going on: https://twitter.com/notch/status/328290085487398913
I find my suits to be comfortable, and wear something comparable (odd jacket and slacks) most days. I don't wear a suit because I already stand out enough in my office wearing what I do.
"In 2011, the US GNP was 15,097,083 million USD."

That should be 15 trillion (definitely not ~15,000,000,000,000 :p )
Does it always bother you when people give uselessly reductive, empirically unsubstantiated pat explanations for incredibly complicated social behaviors, or only when they conflict with your own?
based on the capturing the requests sent from this page, it tries (and fails) to offer to install Unity3D plugin.
me too , with a message telling me i have to download and install something to access the content , how is it web based ?
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I developed a similar app for a psychology research team. They needed a way to trigger certain things (sound recording, etc) when two certain people were in physical proximity. As it turns out, bluetooth bonjour discovery did the trick when they were in the same room. Over wifi, it got triggered sooner, once one of them enterred the building where the other one was (which corresponded to being on the same LAN).

The hard problem on iOS devices (iPod touch) was keeping them awake during this, so they could detect eac other. iOS likes to sleep while locked. Got a solution, which made the battery last around a day. I guess they're not using mobile to mobile peer triggers, but fixed-to-mobile and then deliver a notification. Interesting to see this popping up in commercial tech.

I was going to spin my code out into a infrastructure for spatial awareness triggers for various home automation tasks, but also couldn't find a killer use case. I'll be following this topic for ideas :)
Google joins the FIDO Alliance, supports its two-factor authentication standard
Automate Your Window Blinds with an Arduinio
"The standard way to avoid all such problems is to let one person cut the pizza in two halves, and the other person choose who gets which half."

Unrelated to the intellectual pursuit of the problem, but this algorithm is a bit of a silly sore point for me.

Several years ago I used to periodically split a giant burrito with my friend and I proposed the above algorithm. So I cut it and my friend would choose a half. After a couple times I realized that thanks to the fact that it's not humanly possible to cut it in half perfectly, the person choosing will always get the bigger half. Clearly my friend realized the same thing as he always insisted that I do the cutting!
6 Amazing Facts From an Amazing Obituary of a 'Human Computer'
I have no idea what this has to do with HN, but, one of the best "life hacks" I've ever learned was from my Iraq tours: evaporative cooling.

If you're outside on a hot day and your drink is hot (in our case, it was palettes and palettes full of bottled water), get a wash rag or a skivvy shirt wet, wrap it around your drink container, and let it sit out in the sun. In a little while, voila, cold drink.

Apropos of nothing.
Should all disciplines require a course on "making sense of data and technology"? Yes, probably they should.
It's actually harder to read than to type correctly. I only got to 48 before it turned unreadable. Cool idea though.
Fantastic, using Unity which isn't available for Linux. Hardly deserving of "web-based".
1. This is an excellent idea, for the reasons stated. Auditing is a huge part of enterprise best practice; it should be best practice for consumers as well, and enterprises should help them with it.

2. That said, the number of sites for which we need really solid security is probably under 10. For me it's primary email, 3 for websites I own/hosting/etc., Paypal, bank, arguably Amazon, and not much else. And frankly I forget my bank password and have to keep resetting it (which is part of why my email needs to be secure).
Microsoft office 365 v/s Open Source Fedena
Firefox 23: Bookmark Star button moved and merged with bookmarks icon
Nate Silver Doesn’t Like Twitter Data.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079367/
Show HN: Posts from Hacker News tagged "Show HN"
My first python app, it displays posts from hacker news that is tagged under "Show HN"...
Yes, that's all I could focus on as well when reading the article. What kind of non-violent crime deserves 25 years in prison: Cocaine dealing?
Where I am from, selling cocaine on a grand scale (huge amounts, running an organization, smuggling etc.) would put you behind bars for maybe 6-10 years, although in theory you could receive a 16 year sentence.
> If you want to just redefine the meaning of that button to be "maximize,"

Mac OS is doing the redefining, here. To more than 90% of desktop users (Windows users), "maximize" means "take up all the screen".

Mac OS came up with this weird notion that it should mean something different, hence all the complaining.

Microsoft examined this problem in the 90's and reached the conclusion that the "standard" state made little sense: to a user, a window has only two states, "full screen" and "the size they resized it to".
I find that typically the person choosing will pick the smaller half out of politeness.

For the same reason everyone is reluctant to take the last slice of a pizza or cake if they feel they will have had more than others.

Is this just a British thing?
That clear lucid feeling is your brain being relieved of its addiction withdrawal. Non-smokers never have that feeling because their brain has never been exposed to it. Read Allen Carr to help you never want a cigarette again.

I think long-term smokers have a permanently-affected brain, it will be interesting to see future studies.
Cocaine use was a major problem in the 80's, which also gave rise to the crack epidemic which was even worse:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_epidemic

Santos was considered a "King Pin" under the law, which essentially meant that he had several people working under him and was also dealing with very large financial transactions (this by his own admission in the UC Berkeley video).

By today's standards the punishment may seem harsh, but at the time it was probably appropriate.
It's partially deterrent and partially corrections.

If it were only for corrections, then it would cause all kinds of problems. The most obvious one is that you get one "free crime" to commit.

There's also a fairness (and rule-of-law) argument: if two people steal $100 each, why would one person be let out earlier?
As long as you aren't using Linux... Fail.
Some liquids leave a bad smell, most do not. There's about 8 of us in my office that smoke them (inside) and no one had an issue with it until recently when we got some new liquids and they DID smell. So we took them outside until we got back to our regular liquids.

I think people just need to have some common decency.
In my experience it never, ever, ever, ever, ever has been that they didn't _know better_ but rather it was a time/money issue. Someone makes a page that needs to be used by two or three people only and doesn't bother to secure it because it is quick and dirty project done that afternoon. The developer throws the project together and pushes it out.

Then 18 months later it is exploited :-/
It requires a Unity plugin.
i'm looking at this too, and i would say no... use a framework that has most of the stuff you will need built in, it will make your life easier. adapting to other lua will just be learning the underlying features and the cool stuff you never learned, might make you a better scripter.
Handy Profiles did something similar for symbian using cell tower id.
All subjects lead back to the US...
Embrace Randomness
For my specific car I can detect the Bluetooth connection using tasker, without the need for the NFC chip.

I don't mean to turn this into an, "Isn't Tasker great?" rave, but... isn't it?