skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a Master's in Applied Math, and a Master's in Economics (educated by neo-Classicals).

Keep in mind the Austrians are not a monolithic movement, this article was published on the Von Mises Institute site, which has more to do with the Rothbardian strain of Austrians. Core to Austrian-Rothbardian theory is a system of a priori axioms and a repulsion to mathematic formulations and empirical validation, so the argumentation can end up being along the lines of "because I said so!"

The objection to mathematization comes from the belief that preference relations lead to a discontinuous utility curve, which the tools of differential calculus cannot crack (this is wrong, as a graduate-level mathematical analysis covering Lebesgue integration shows).

A more detailed neoclassical analysis of what's wrong with Austrian economics is Bryan Caplan's [Why I Am Not an Austrian Economist](http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/whyaust.htm).
Have you tried Firefox? I have an Acer tablet with the same Tegra, and I found the interface and responsiveness much better.
Seems like someone is butthurt...
This is because the website uses a badly-written redirect.

Chrome, Opera, and Safari have no problem with these redirects, though: their Back button doesn't become broken when they hit a redirect.

I think if every other modern browser has no problem with redirects, it's as much the fault of Firefox as the website...
A unified, object oriented database access API for both PDO and mysqli
Scale Computing Buildings Linux KVM Converged Systems
Good/Bad Code Study: Simple x Easy: Writing A Generic Code To Avoid Duplication
The HTML5 Vs. Native Apps Battle Broken Down
OT I know, I cant help but feel a little smug when I see cool projects like this and they use cmake, and not autotools.

Thank you cmake, you've made working in the C ecosystem fun again.
Can gaming be the turning point for Linux on the desktop?
Opera 14 is almost unusable on my old Nexus S (Android 2.3).
Back in 2008 Nintendo also had an amusing Wario Youtube channel. I can't find the live version anymore but here is a video of how it went down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSU-z-t9Ku4
Unfortunately for the Austrian school, prediction is the heart and soul of science. You cannot claim to be doing science in any sense if you do not make predictions based on falsifiable hypotheses.

As you imply, this is why teleology is not a science, though large-scale statistical studies in fields like politics and sociology have made plenty of scientific headway by ignoring the core Austrian belief system and conducting empirical studies about human actions and preferences anyway.
It was only a matter of time before someone did this, wasn't expecting something so fast though. I bet Yahoo! aren't anticipating people using that whole 1TB, but with something like this I could easily fill 1TB in music/videos very quickly.

Now if someone takes it one step further and creates a Site44 for Flickr: http://www.site44.com/ — we'll truly have it all.
Why does everyone assume they feel threatened? Crowd funded indie games are hardly destroying their business, or look like doing so anytime soon...

Just because someone makes fun of something, doesn't mean they are threatened by it.
As someone stated in the other HN thread, this is a bit of a dick move.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5741905
I use opera mobile, downloaded a day ago. The address bar is hidden when you use scroll down, and i don't see any big text on page load.

And regarding readability:i think opera is the best by far - because it has great reflow on zoom.
Elastic Load Balancing now supports additional HTTP methods
It seems to be focusing on reconnecting with old acquaintances. I think that will be hard - that is all about the network effect, to make sure that the people you know are already on the network - e.g. the case of Facebook. Coming as a new player with that as the main feature seems difficult.
Better to go for the angle of finding people based on topics or shared contexts (e.g. similar location).
Waiting to switch back from chrome to firefox after all this "Google dropping <product>" stuff. But the Chrome dev-tools are simply amazing, Firebug always felt clunky to me.

So I'm looking forward to this update :)
Bummer. I hadn't had a chance yet to try it on an old device yet as my HTC Desire died recently. But older pre-Chromium versions of Opera ran quite smoothly on it.
Salt is more easily repeatable across heterogeneous environments.

For example, we're using Salt to manage our development, testing, staging and production environments. We couldn't do this with AMIs, since the environments are quite different.

It makes updating quite easy, as you don't need to create a new AMI, just push your update to your release branch, then run state.highstate from your Master.

If you configuration changes, you update the master and then you can push that change across all (or just one) of your environments.
>>>The only thing left between me and winning the bet was the questions. I dropped them both subtly in a conversation, noted down the answers and to my surprise: they were both accepted.

Hoo boy. They should let us create our own security questions that can't be asked in everyday conversations. I never liked "Favorite pet's name" or "Best teacher's name" and the rest of them.
I've found Firefox quickly turning too slow for my taste, especially on my tablet.

This usually only became a problem after a while, after it accrued a bit of history, and local user-data which needs to get searched, cached, updated etc.

To be fair, I've had that problem with lots of browsers, including Chrome.
But what does leanstack use? ;)
I'm so glad they figured out how to get text reflow working with webkit. It was missing in the beta and I was ready to be very disappointed. Not sure why more people don't love it, to be honest.
Has anybody tried this out on Hacker News? How does it display comments? The current (previous?) version handled this beautifully and was pretty much the only reason I used it as my default browser (chrome for instance is a total and utter FUBAR when it comes to text wrapping making in unusable (and I can't believe they still haven't fixed this)).
The problem is, we let them choose where to spend their money, so everyone in need depends on their mercy. They're like the Kings and Queens of our time.
Isn't videos is perfectly allowed so long its self-produced?
In that context any kind of comparision would be a strawman unless is _your_ way of mixing jQuery with native code; maybe this would become more clear with different examples:

#Ex. 1

$("div").map(function(){ return $(this).css('background-image'); })

"If you just want the background-image just use the get-computed-style-background-image!"

[].slice.call(documents.getElementsByTagName('div')).map(function(a){
return getComputedStyle(a)["background-image"];
});

#Ex. 2

$("div").sort(function(a, b){
return $(a).find('*').length - $(b).find('*').length;
});

"If you just want an algorithm that sorts the ones with the biggest amount of children and grandchildren just use an algorithm that sorts the ones with the biggest amount of children using domElement.getElementsByTagName"

[].slice.call(documents.getElementsByTagName('div')).sort(function(a){
a.getElementsByTagName('*').length - b.getElementsByTagName('*').length;
});

>And is not meant to be a wholesale replacement

I never said such thing neither; now that is 100% a straw-man.
Register your own domain and sign up for the free version of google apps. I have a gmail inbox for jamie@scattered-thoughts.net but if I need to change services I just move the MX record and upload my backups elsewhere.
Many do, but it isn't always "sanitizing". http://www.iptc.org//site/Home/Media_Releases/IPTC_study_sho...:

"According to a study by the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC), major social networks like Facebook, Twitter or Flickr remove copyright information and other useful embedded data from pictures posted by their users"
The only thing that's missing and is very important (from a front end designer point of view) is showing paddings / margins when you mouse over / select elements in the Inspector.
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Well, yes. Until you find out that they are analysing your documents and send you an email explaining why you no longer can access them.

I guess 'noise' does not a photo make.

Of course I doubt they will implement that kind of filtering, but this 'invention' is not that original/difficult/interesting, I guess.

The fact that the original designers did not say anything about this does not mean they did not envision it, by the way. Simply that they may very much either do not care or have a recovery plan.

EDIT: this is obviously easily circumvented with a lot of traffic going on but it is just a simple idea.
I for one welcome our new SMTP overlords which support deletion instead of archiving of messages.
It runs incredibly smooth on my 13" MBA as well.
What would do what fine? mogrify -strip removes what he asks...
You might as well change a single byte. A tiny modification and BANG! nobody notices and the service is pretty useless as a general back-up solution.

They could even implement that in their TOS: "whenever you upload a photo you agree to a random byte being modified on one of the pixels on the border."
The irony of this coming from Microsoft, a company which has never had a single mainstream XMPP-based product and owner of Skype, which has sent Cease and Desist letters to people creating Skype-XMPP bridges, is not lost on me.

That said, if Google keeps locking down all their former open products/platforms, I will be fleeing ship.

If Hangouts (which replaces Gtalk) drops XMPP support, I see no reason to keep using it.
Unity goes free on Android and iOS
Just noticed that about the address bar, works nicely indeed.
One thing that jumps out at me is that phantompy uses Qt5 internally, while phantomjs uses Qt4. There are lots of new WebKit features and optimizations in Qt5.
No one reads RSS directly, in XML. So it's actually doesn't matter that it's m-m protocol.
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For me at least the Windows client was incredibly buggy and unstable. I probably installed and uninstalled it a dozen times over several month trying to fix various problems before giving up on it. Search around the internet indicated that I was far from alone in having problems. Dropbox on the other hand has never crashed on me (on any platform) as far as I can remember.

I also thought Dropbox's Android client was better.
That's a common reaction when confronted with the Dutch :)
I don't find the argument that 'if the other guys are jerks, then I too can be a jerk' to be an argument that makes me see anyone in a more favourable light. I thought Google wanted to avoid being Microsoft and Apple, with their unofficial motto, 'don't be evil'.

I prefer it when someone showcases their willingness to be 'the nicer guy' by opening up while the others are closing down. Like allowing to export your GMail contacts, while Facebook won't go the other way around.

I always find Microsoft complaining to be hypocritical, they are usually committing a similar overreach towards a competitor themselves. But still, where are the 'good guys'?

I know, that would be naïve, this is business.
It's really really slow.
Security 101: Never answer security questions truthfully
How to build the Eurovision app to support 125 million viewers
Doing it yourself. I'm not convinced if even Google is willing to pay $100m for a service then let it crumble that there's much in the business model for anyone else to maintain long term.
Growing Android Applications guided by tests. Part I: The setup
I'd expect the script to account for other past contributions. Shouldn't be too hard?!

edit: Well, except of course that it'd be impossible to change past pixels to have less colour. So you're right.
Just installed it on my Nexus One, agent is set to Desktop. Reddit (.compact) and other sites are rendered with a serif font now, scrolling is not fluid anymore but jerking in "waves". If I scroll fast everything is displayed blurred.

It lost all my cookies.

Font sizes are all over the place, sometimes bigger, sometimes smaller. It does not render like the desktop anymore. Zooming in, the text is not wrapped to fit the window width (GOD WHY, this feature was fantastic and intuitive, who on earth would not want that and why?) (you can re-enable it in the settings). With text wrapping re-enabled it takes ~10 seconds (I counted on heise.de) to render when I zoom in. On HN it is slightly faster (6-7s).

It does not display the state of downloading in the address bar (or anywhere) anymore so I cannot prematurely stop loading a heavy website when I just want to read text.

There is a second+ delay between clicking the X or refresh icon and the resulting action in the address bar. Same for clicking links in webpages (the indication of what you clicked is much less visible than before).

Overall verdict: Quite unusable on my device because of being very slow. User interface has regressed. This is terrible (and I say that as a Opera fanatic). I am glad I kept a backup of the apk so I can downgrade.
That's all fine to say, but unfortunately for this decision, it cost shareholders 12 billion dollars. Her poker hand may have been good, but it lost, and it lost HUGE. And in all fairness, I don't know how much of that decision was hers, per se. But the risk that a good decision has a bad outsome it kind of the risk that CEOs take. People are lazy, and they tend to just look at outcomes. Hedge fund managers don't get paid for good losses. And they get their funds closed when they bet the house on a good decision that goes bad.

I wish her the best, but she's going to have a very difficult time making a body of good decisions that will make up for that one, if it was her doing.

Either way, my point is to say that hiring Mayer has neither hurt nor helped Yahoo's enterprise value. The entire company, just as was was under Jerry Yang, is just moving around with the value of its assets.
I must have missed that thread. It's almost the same implementation.

It's just a fun POC. It's not reliable, efficient or fast enough to be something you'd use daily. I imagine it would be quite easy to filter out (and revoke API keys) if something like this started becoming popular.
Inception as an effective way to start web app development
I think you probably need to know him a little more?
I'm also hunting for video and slides. No luck so far.
Won't they lose a lot of paid subscribers? I currently have a Pro account but 1Tb will be plentiful so I'm not planning to renew my subscription
Sweet, I'm an accidental C++ expert!
Yup, text wrapping doesn't work, it's slow and the font sizes are all over the place for some reason.

I'm disappointed, hopefully this will get fixed in later versions.
Square Cash
a.) flickr is a photo sharing site, no? the UI certainly seems to be optimized for mediocre or even pretty photos, not random noise. If I started pasting huge blocks of mime64 in HN comments to store encrypted personal stuff, or unencrypted cat pictures, would that be in the spirit of hacking, too? Or rather in the spirit of laming? (also notice the fact that I know better than to actually DO this even just ONCE, just to prove a point, because one never knows what random thing might incur a hellban)

b.) imagery aside, more like stepping into a storage locker, saying "I could theoretically live here!", everybody having their minds blown, and then not living in the storage locker because that'd be just pointless and awkward.

How about this: a tool to put something into series of high-ISO photos via steganography (and allow it to be updated, too) which can't be detected without the correct key.
Ugly flash URL:
http://1q1gafmnta4fm0riakrenq213o0sa9p9.ig.gmodules.com/ig/i...
Yahoo´s purchase of Tumblr is also a race for the best news stream in the web.
By default it does display threads with posts in different font sizes and not wrapping lines if you zoom in. If you enabled text-wrapping (it is not a default anymore for god knows why), it will display with nice text-wrapping like earlier but it is so slow that it is unusable on my Nexus One.
Ask HN: Which is your recommended backup solution for photographs?
Personally, I have been considering a backup solution for my photographs after my recent travel. Flickr popped up even before the 1TB free upgrade with its old $25 plan. Although, the bets were against it due to reported out of the blue user stream deletions. I don't want that happening to my photographs, and I prefer my SD being destroyed than a third-party deleting my stuff.

Drive and Dropbox are the other two immediate alternatives but they are quite pricey and too much general purpose.

Someone also mentioned me 500px.

So, which one is your recommended and reliable backup solution for photographs? Are you happy with it?
I'm not sure "native apps still reign supreme over HTML5" on the monetization front (the app stores) because we have hybrid mobile apps for that (e.g. PhoneGap, Titanium, etc.).
Ask HN: How can I support myself in the long run?
* I work from 3PM - 11PM. This means I have most of the day to do what I please. My job is easy.

* I have plenty of disposable income because I'm overpaid due to the industry I'm in (gov't related, clearances, etc.). Double a normal sr. sysadmin salary.

* I think I will have this gig for another 3-5 years.

* I know I need to do something on my own as this job won't last forever.

* I am not a developer. I'm a sysadmin, devops engineer, operations engineer, whatever the kids are calling it these days.

* I'm interested and have experience in monitoring (alerting and trend analysis), tools automation, and mobile.

I know this is not sustainable. I need to go out on my own to maintain my financial situation and reclaim social normalcy. What kind of business can I build for myself? I have the benefit of having a ton of free time and a solid income I can use as a cushion. I've managed remote developers before and would be willing to go down that path. I'm not afraid of spending money. I know ideas are a dime a dozen and execution is (mostly) more important. I need help with direction.

TLDR; What kind of business can a sysadmin, with time and money, build and manage with the help of contract software engineers?
Publicly traded companies (kinda) have to do what their shareholders want them to, but that doesn't have to be maximizing returns (still less maximizing returns in the short term).

Here's some comment on this with quotations from actual law, but note that (1) it's from the UK rather than the US and presumably the relevant laws aren't quite the same, and (2) the author's position is further to the left than is customary in the US. So discount it as you please. http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2011/10/24/companies-do-n...

And a more US-centric discussion with some useful links: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8146/are-u-s-com...

And a white paper whose main topic is executive compensation but that has a useful discussion of this issue (in section 2): http://www.neiinvestments.com/neifiles/PDFs/5.4%20Research/E... -- reading between the lines, it looks as if there's at least a case to be made that US case law requires corporations to act in the financial interests of their shareholders, but it's debatable, and in other jurisdictions there isn't even much of a case to be made.

(I am not, even slightly, a lawyer.)
I really enjoyed learning it back in the day (94-99), specially given that many of our teachers were into Prolog and ML languages.

Sadly I seldom saw it being used commercially.
> Anakata's encrypted files (which the police did manage to decrypt)

Did anyone know how they managed to decrypt those files and which kind of protection Anakata had set?
I'm argentinian. If I'm not wrong, domain name registration is free there.

And, knowing argentinian authorities really well, It will be a waste of time ask them, and if they agree to do that, it will take ages.
The Lost Art of Apple Code Names
Back when I was at the university, Prolog and Lisp were the forbiden languages to write compilers on our compiler courses, because the teachers saw them as making the whole exercise too easy.
It might be helpful if you say how much backup space you need. e.g. Dropbox is fine for me because I just don't take that many photos so their free plan is enough for me.
Whether or not the brain has any inherent structure for "types" is irrelevant. Types are a mechanism for providing reasoning about the correctness of code. At the very least they are a notification to the compiler or interpreter as to the function (and possibly the correctness) of various operations.

And besides, we segment and type the world all the time. Its a natural behavior to define an instance of a object and to reason about that object in isolation.

A lot of these points are really short-sighted. The reasoning behind eliminating code-as-data (note, not really self-modifying code) has more to do with efficiency than with clarity.

If you do accept the premise of the article then Javascript is not the only language for which it applies.
Yes because the rest of the competition is completely coming up with new games and characters all the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(series)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Turismo_(series)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Fighter

There's nothing wrong with using a franchise. The characters are memorable, and perhaps even people really like them. As long as they are putting the characters into new worlds/levels it's all that matters.

Yes, Nintendo is notorious for re-releasing their older games, but it's not like the other companies don't do the same thing either.

Just look at the re-release of Combat Evolved, or SquareEnixs constant re-release of their older Final Fantasy games (with cheesy 3D added to them)

Edit: Don't know how to use HN markdown or something.
Arguably, you could use HN as a storage mechanism because it just marks comments as dead, it doesn't actually delete them.

Hell, you could even write a utility to spuriously create HN accounts, stuff them full of comments that will be deaded but still accessible, and use that as a data store.

Whilst there is some "hacker spirit" to it, it is absolutely, totally a dick move. And yes, it is like shitting in the urinals, then smearing your shit all over the taps and the mirrors, because why the hell should the rest of us be able to use the facilities for what they were supposed to be used for, if you can have your fun for a few days?

We need a new name for this. It's not "Tragedy of the commons", it's more like "Tragedy of the common troll".
No, whomever grayed my comment out because disagreeing in words would be too much like actual work.
I agree with your point, but just one quibble: from what I'm reading, you've made the argument that the probability of yahoo as a whole failing is the probability to watch during a merger.

I don't see from your argument that probability is a bad tool in analyzing this situation.
(Chrome devotee here). I spend an hour recently with FF-22 trying to debug a regression in FF by using the built-in dev tools; it seems to lack the ONLY feature that I actually want (and to be honest I feel so bemused that it's not there that I think I'm being dumb and missed it): I can't execute a JS statement in the context of the current stack frame. I'm sure the scratchpad must be able to do this, because otherwise it seems like its the most useless debugging console I've seen in some time.
This is awesome. Only downside - it doesn't consider private repos (which would substantially change my report card).
As a merchant who doesn't live in the US -- I don't think I can sell anything but Android apps with Google Checkout.

Paypal still wants my business.
Great work guys :P
I would add iwantmyname.com to the list.
It would be pretty easy to stick in some redundancy