skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No offense, but with that intro to your post and the way you follow it up, you strike me as exactly the person in question who has been out of the web dev game for a bit and doesn't know how much it's progressed in the last 3 years alone.

It's not hard to do responsive design. Yes, in iOS world you can still hard code 5 layouts if you want. Those of us that have also done Android design work understand why that's untenable moving forward. I'll take relative layouts, etc and be very happy with Bootstrap/Foundation.
I wonder if that part is crowdsourceable, somehow... basically, tie the transaction volume/demand/etc. to its worth.
> Doesn't the UK have a huge problem with generations of families on welfare who never work?

It's a very different concept of welfare to the one Professor Standing and others propose here. The UK brand of welfare requires you to give up your dignity by completing endless forms and checks in the hope that - if your particular brand of requirements fit the definitions laid out by the state - you'll be allowed to live an all-to-often hopeless and impoverished quality of life. Day-to-day you're worrying about food and rent; there's no money for recreation, no money to clothe your children in a respectable way and no money to go on holiday like all your workmates and childrens' friends. You're trapped in your house and there's no opportunity to learn and to retrain in order to make a new life for yourself. Those that do get out of the spiral are those that have super-human resilience and determination over a number of years.
The difference a basic income could make to the UK could be enormous. It would change this country over night. It doesn't even matter if a few percent of people abuse it - it is far outweighed by opportunities it will give to those who wish to turn their lives around.
This is the niche ownCloud is targeting isn't it?
We'd call this teamwork. It's understood that GCJ will try to find cloned submissions, but for a lot of people telling them not to form teams simply does not compute. It might be three guys sitting beside each other in a dorm room or a lab, or it might be a team on chat. Either everyone knows they all can't win first place, or maybe not any place. That's not the point. If you're in a team, either everyone tries or no one does.

If this is what I think it is, the alternative would have been not to participate at all. Because GCJ is a zero risk way to try something challenging, why not give the team a go? More often than not, each member might have tried different solutions or come in having read up on different subjects.
It may surprise some HNers to learn that there are still thousands of MUDs online today in many different settings: fantasy, sci-fi, absurdist, and more, some of them with hundreds of players on concurrently. And not just MUDs, but MUCKs, MOOs, and MUSHes, which can have wildly different playing styles.

I played WoW for years and I'm not sure it ever matched the depth of experience I've somehow extracted from lines of scrolling text. MUDs will be around long after the last gnome leaves Ironforge.

MUDs are also the subject of my first indie iOS app - MUDRammer, a Modern MUD Client for iPhone and iPad. I'm hoping to build a client that's helpful for new mudders but powerful enough for the mudding veteran on the go.

Behold, a free copy! http://tokn.co/s4g2u64j

EDIT: Someone here has super fast fingers :) Here's one more: http://tokn.co/gxrswk67
I wonder what is the solution.

Recommendations from former employers does not seem to work either. I have some very good recommendations on my LinkedIn profile, but note that many dumb people I knew also have great recommendations.
Ha! That one confused me. Did he mean too much coupling between our systems (knowledge, financial, etc) effectively producing monoculture suceptible to disease... Or just too much hanky-panky :).
It's still a startup, so currently it's focused on accurate rendering, and fast speed(which is not achieved yet so far).

Features about recognition would be planned in the future, usually PDF viewers do not recognize too many things, do they? :)
It's not only about protection from hacking, it's often also about protection from access by authorities – in particular American authorities. Non-disclosure agreements, data privacy laws and attorney-client privileges are not compatible are simply not compatible with most hosted services, especially not abroad where your local law cannot protect your local legal obligations.
I don't think the argument was against the first part of your claim (there is a "parasitic" class, in that they are chronically unemployed and reliant on welfare) - this much is obvious at face value even outside of the Netherlands. Immigrants, by the very fact that they're people who have chosen to abandon everything they know to go to a different place, are by and large much poorer than the locals, and much less employable.

That's not really the citation needed part.

The citation needed part is:

> "who don't share our culture and consider depending on BI 'awesome' rather than shameful as Dutch people do"

This is the part that rtpg cites as being racist. You've gone from observing a fact to speculating on its causes, and the answer you've arrived at is "because they're lazier" - which as an argument is hundreds of years old and has been used against a laundry list of races. It was a key part of Social Darwinism, and one of the justifications for eugenics.

The Italians, the Irish, the Chinese, blacks in the US, etc etc, have all been subject to this argument in the past. The list goes on, and considering how common this argument is, and how frequently it has been debunked, the bar for evidence is high for many of us to be convinced.

Side note: it's frequently shocking to me how racist Europe can be to non-Europeans. And here I thought the USA had a bad case of racism - but the diversity seems to at least make people a little more aware, and the country's ugly history with it also sweeps a few common, easy-to-debunk arguments off the board. Around here the "oh, they're just lazier" argument would never go unchallenged if uttered in public, but yours is not the first time I've heard a European utter the notion as if it's the most natural conclusion in the world.
You make it sound like Indians are mentally incapable of working alone (or perhaps you're exaggerating for effect). Regardless, this is not the case. As an Indian, I know that cheating is more accepted in India, but I've never heard anyone delude themselves into calling it 'teamwork'.
Yes, actually they had this kind of plan, but I am not sure how it has been going.

It would be definitely interesting in that way, but in that case it may not be worth it to rewrite everything in JS.
And are dell/ubuntu laptops available there? In which case you are privileged. Couldn't get one here.
Right, that is in the schedule, just heard enough complains, in a good way.
Ludum Dare 26: 2,347 minimalist games built in a weekend
Show HN: Create DIY tutorials and share them on Pinterest from iPhone
Dropbox for the most part. Every few months I will zip it up and back that up to mega as a secondary backup.
Objective C? What for, when there is C++.
ARQ to Amazon Glacier for my system configuration
ARQ to Amazon S3 for the files that change more often
Tarsnap to S3 for my servers.

The main advantage for all of the above is I always get to keep my secret key secret.
Strogatz is mostly known for his research in dynamical systems, where coupling leads to chaotic behaviour. (Strong) coupling also terribly annoys particle physicists when they want to describe the strong nuclear force and generally makes life bad.

He was certainly referring to the first kind, a huge increase in interdependence leading to more chaotic/unpredictable and possibly more vulnerable systems, be they financial, economical, ecological or just semiconduct…orial?
Really?

I had it running fullscreen and pretty perfectly. Fullscreen was 1280x800, mind. But it worked fine. L4D and L4D2 I've had working too.
It is only impossible if only your employees are your customers - this was obviously never the case.
Actually, it's useful when 'N' (the number of elements) is much larger than 'k', the number of significant digits in the largest number in the set.

If k ∈ Θ(log N), then O(Nk) becomes O(N log N), which is asymptotically no better than any optimal comparison based sort.

However, if k ∈ o(log N), then we get an asymptotically better algorithm.
>like on surface systems.

Surface Pro ships with an unlockable bootloader. You can even remove Microsoft's own key and install your own so that Windows can't boot.

>They can either change a requirement to have the ability to disable it be optional, or make the inability to disable it mandatory, like on surface systems.

No, they cannot. The antitrust govt lawyers will be all over them if they want to try something like that.

>The problem with supporting secure boot is it legitimizes microsoft's role as the gatekeeper to computing

Microsoft doesn't mandate that their key must be the only one to ship by default. The fact that Linux community can't get together to make a signing infrastructure while the OEMs are willing to add keys is not Microsoft's fault.

>I seriously do not understand why everybody has rolled over so hard on this issue

Simple, because the user is in real control of their PC and can add/remove keys as they wish. And Secure Boot prevents the vast majority of non-techy users from getting undetectable bootkits installed on their machine.
Left 4 Dead 2 now available on Linux, reclaims beta moniker
Right, because only the employees are purchasing the product.
Thanks for posting that. I wasn't aware that it was pulled from a longer source. I did check if this link had been submitted, but wasn't aware of the original source.

I do think the "blogspam" offers concise summaries of the responses, which adds value for me. The fact that I can use that to go deeper into mini essays on edge will dominate my morning's reading.
Bitcoin will be the least of one's worries should strong crypto, in general, get broken through some computing breakthrough.
> ... you are putting yourself at the complete mercy of the market.

This is the "No one will want bitcoins because everybody's buying them" argument- I don't see much credibility in it. Also, what is an example of a commodity that isn't at the mercy of supply and demand?

> Another problem is that the currency is highly traceable ...

I agree with you that that is a major issue, and might hurt the popularity of bitcoin in the long run. Bitcoin is strange in that it separates the argument of "I don't want the government to control what I do" and "I don't want the government to know what I do". I'm not sure how this will play out long term. (yes, I know there is pseudo-anonymity, but if the tax man comes to you and asks you "how did you get the money to buy that car?" the block chain makes it possible to confirm/refute your response.)

> ... and thus caution should be used.

Yeah, I'm tired of folks who think they know with 100% certainty how the economy works. I have some good guesses that suggest to me bitcoin is going to do very well, but things could play out any number of ways and I have no clue whether my guesses are right.
That's a sad thing. I wonder what effect this will have on India in long term!
Is This the Best Education Money Can Buy?
The Edge answers, edited to tweets. Original source: http://edge.org/annual-question/q2013

Edit: Not quite blogspam because it is a useful summary that is not available on the original site. It would added more value with links to the answers.
The cloud is fine - you are just using it the wrong way
"it simply says that the NSF (prior to funding) has to publicly certify that each funded project is 1) in the best interests of the country,"

According to partisans.
Grammar issues:

1)You can expect regular update to InstaBilling, based on your feedback" - Please pluralize update - (make it updates).

2)Timesheet made easy - Please pluralize timesheet - (make it timesheets)

3)Simply add your clients and tasks along with your hourly rate, and start tracking your time from everywhere. - Change everywhere to anywhere. You can't do ANYTHING from everywhere because you can only be in one place at a time.

Good luck - from your testimonials, it looks like you've got a good solution to a real pain point!
The FBI records all telephone calls? "We certainly have ways..."
This kind of "hey I will parse your CLI out of some callables' argspecs" has been done many times before:

- https://github.com/fritzo/parsable.py

- https://github.com/gissehel/cltools

- https://github.com/piranha/opster

- https://github.com/kennethreitz-archive/argue

- https://github.com/pdubroy/simpleopt

(all of those found from a 30 second GitHub search, so apologies if I've left one out or if one of those isn't exactly alike).

The thing is, the fact that you cut out some code does not make your thing more Pythonic, or simpler, or easier to use by itself. It's definitely a start, but CLIs are hard. And while argparse has its issues, if you try to supplant it, I don't doubt that you can get the simple cases right, but it's the more complex composition of components that is hard to do, and that's why I find anything in this realm hard to latch onto.

docopt is a nice step in a different direction, and I use it occasionally, but it's hard to do this -- for the simple cases argparse really isn't that bad, and I really really don't think that magically introspecting callables is a good approach. You will at some point want something more complicated, or to prevent some magic from doing somethings, and that kind of interface will become awkward, inextensible, and painful. Or at least that has been the case so far for anyone that's tried this.

So, applaud any code that anyone's sharing, apologies for coming down hard, but I don't think this is something anyone should use for anything but a trivial "hey here's my CLI it's a one off, and I don't want to learn argparse [which takes an hour or two]". And even for that, docopt is probably a better option.
It does not matter what you call it but people who had their basic needs covered for generations do not just go and work because they want more. Some do, most - don't. Even as the USSR had been crumbling down and the cheap government goods had became hard to find people would rather go and line up for many hours to buy everyday groceries than do something to earn more money and buy much better goods without much hassle.

This phenomenon is not very noticeable on small scale (both in population and time). So I'd recommend paying a closer attention to the USSR history and being a bit critical to the "we overspent them" or "they did not do socialism right, duh" explanations. In my opinion, if it's been possible to overspend a superpower that had its own spaceships then overspending small fry like Libya, North Korea or Iran would not take any time at all. And free market just does not work when people have their basic needs covered.
There also had been very small free market in the USSR and it was so small not because communists had been screwing with it (at least not more than the western governments screw with their markets), it's been small because most people just ignored it. If they could not find something in the government store then they would not buy it, even if they could afford the free market price.
I'm not generalizing - I'm sure there are plenty of Indians in that round who played by the rules, and plenty who tried deliberately to cheat (besides the ones who were actually caught). I'm saying that 'collusion' is thought of differently here in a lot of circles.
Yeah, I'm worried what happens if one of the big three (Apple/Amazon/Google) builds a bitcoin variant pegged to a baseline dollar price, which also has a large marketing budget.
The Feynman File (2005)
>all goods are free

Making all goods very inexpensive (necessities for pennies/day) solves the problems of "free".

Of course it's also a very dangerous idea, because it's so similar to the present system that it invites one to change it. Here's a small exercise:

1. Choose a product (potatos, t-shirts, rockets, diamonds, *anything*).

2. Imagine you pay modern prices for it, but made in a totally automated
factory.

3. Using your knowledge of business, ask yourself: When that money
eventually reaches a person, who is it? Who ultimately gets your
consumer dollar? The person who installed the solar panels?
Mined the ore? Ponied up the capital? Built the building? Ran the
company?

4. You haven't fully thought out the implications of the AI economy. Automate
that person's job and repeat.

Every iteration of this loop is a business opportunity.

Contrast this with the "free" economy (à la Roddenberry's 'Star Trek'), which is non-threatening because there's no clear plan of action from here to there.
Nothing he said tries to frame them as evil. It was an accurate statement.
I am not quite sure how one proves an observation on a board like Hacker News. All I can do is provide a few links as examples that clearly won't be enough to prove anything, just illustrate that I am not deliberately making things up.

Also keep in mind that most WSJ articles are behind a paywall.

To be clear, my view is: The WSJ editorial board (not their news dept, which is exemplary) has backed a number of somewhat dubious economic ideas for nearly a century, between their own editorials and op-ed contributors with ideas far from the mainstream whose ideas have lacked empirical support, but are popular among certain interest groups. This also goes for scientific ideas with political implications, such as global warming (which i'll not discuss here).

I am not claiming that they're "wrong" in doing this - people clearly have a right to promote what they believe in - just that I think the many of the ideas themselves are wrong, and damaging to the economy overall but also the middle class. though that is a different and much longer conversation.

Topics include:

Support for "expansionary austerity" - ie. if governments spend less the economy will recover because of "confidence".

Debt and Growth (2013)
http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/a/SB100014241278873235284045784...

The Real Stimulus Record (2012)
http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/a/SB100008723963904448732045775...

Rejecting Macroeconomic theory as not common sense enough (ie. doesn't fit with 19th century micro)

Why Americans Hate Economics (2011)
http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/a/SB100014240531119035969045765...

Unemployment insurance benefits "causes" or "encourages" unemployment

The Wages of Unemployment (2013)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732446160457819...

Stimulating unemployment (2010)
http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/a/SB100014240527487037205045753...

Support for hard money (despite evidence that a gold standard was and would continue to be very deflationary and that current policies haven't been inflationary at all)

Bernanke: Currency Manipulator
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020453050457807...

Capitalism Needs a Sound Money Foundation (2009)
http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/a/SB123440593696275773?mg=reno6...

Get ready for inflation and higher interest rates (2009)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124458888993599879.html

Counter-points:

Laffer's anti stimulus curve ball is a foul
http://business.time.com/2012/08/09/arthur-laffers-anti-stim...

70% of economists believe that stimulus and monetary expansion (ie. fiat money) has helped the economic recovery

http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/a/SB100014240527487036253045751...

reduced participation in the labor force is due to boomer retirement,
Not unemployment insurance

http://www.offthechartsblog.org/why-is-labor-force-participa...

Unemployment insurance has small negative effect on return to employment

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w17534
> the country where there are winding roads and limited police presence

These areas usually aren't that far away, just ask your local motorcyclists where the fun roads are if you don't know the local spots.

I happen to live in one of those areas and drive some really fun roads on my weekly trip to and from SF, but I'm not that far from a bunch of people who live in a very different environment and almost don't seem to know our roads exist.
If the core bitcoin team tells miners their mining is going to be ignored if it isn't part of a specific fork because of some credible reason, the miners will follow, no matter how many of them there are.
Similar task solved in Java, though for interactive CLI. There it's much more needed, for we don't have argparse and the language's just too verbose.

https://code.google.com/p/cliche/
And PayPal is commonly, easily and effectively used in these instances.
Yep. Not fair. There are also people who have cancer and I don't.

1) Life's a bitch and then you die.

2) Life is beautiful.

Choose one and go with it.
Thanks for your comment. You are right my Dad has true character, and great his story can help inspire a few people on hacker news!
Technical reasons aside, the canvas tag is still orders of magnitude slower than writing Core Graphics by hand. Personally I'd say almost unacceptably slow, but YMMV.

You succeeded in picking out a minor technical inaccuracy, but not in addressing the point the author was making about rendering performance.
Now we just need FTL travel to get there.
An economy is a closed system - if some are saving, others have to spend to keep the music going. If we all stop spending, we get into a depression, where people lose their jobs, and the economy isn't working to its potential - all because the currency is rising in value.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depression#Interpretations

Consistently low unemployment, improving productivity, constantly increasing real value of wages, corporations struggling to earn a profit. A Currency that doesn't constantly lose value seems like a not-so-terrible proposition. God forbid, people end up having savings to live from.
Sorry to hear about your father but great that you found a positive path through life.
While not a "learning" technique directly, this reminds me of this amazing work: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/
I'm not trolling, but this appears to work pretty poorly. Does anyone know any better approaches to approximating images like this?
I would much much rather have small maker faire workshops in each town (each school?) as a franchise operation. You can get my subscription by direct debit if you are within bicycle distance
We've been building a modern MUD platform over at [RolePlayGateway](http://www.roleplaygateway.com) for the past eight years and now have a sustained 5% _per month_ growth curve. The core market is there, and there's continuing hunger for what MUDs provide, even among teens and young adults today -- a majority of our users are teenagers and college students.
I've seen the case of Sencha Facebook app brought up many times now, but I've never seen someone point out their huge flaw in the scrolling. At one point in the demo, they trivially dismiss the fact that they made the scrolling inertia smaller to give the data a chance to load; but that's in my opinion THE main flaw of the app. As a matter of fact, that's the first thing I notice on every web app I've seen to date: the quirky scrolling physics. For me, Sencha's implementation falls right in that uncanny valley and it kills the UX of the app each time for me. I don't see why they put so much emphasis on the loading speed or smoothness (not that it's not important), when all this effort to improve the UX is completely offset by the scrolling.
There is a difference in collaboration and collusion.

Collaboration is a way to share ideas, and as a group, innovate or improve the way problems are solved and new ideas developed.

Collusion is a way a group completes a task, in education or practice, with the minimum amount of effort and an equivalent level of quality.

An education system (instead of the concept of a culture) does not equate collusion and cheating at some level, it provides neither the students nor their prospective employers a benefit.