skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm personally curious about a FFOS phone. Especially since it doesn't require a Google account.
Amazing demo. I'd love for aphyr to take a closer look...
> If your currency is worth X today and more than X tomorrow you will see less economic activity than otherwise.

This is something that's confused me for a while. If the value of your currency is going up, doesn't that mean your purchasing power is going up too? Which means you feel richer because the relative prices of goods are going down.

So your argument seems to be saying: falling prices depress economic activity. Which is true in some cases, but isn't true as a general rule. I think it's more of a threshold effect.

No one ever says "I'm never going to buy an iPhone because the price keeps going down."
They say "Once the price drops to $X, I'll buy one."
Check this out for a demo of what it was designed to do.

This will solve the following complex equation (Find both X and Y):

x+y=10, x-y=4

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=x%2By%3D10%2C+x-y%3D4&#...

... and thats just scratching the surface. Kids studying maths these days don't know how good they have it. I struggled so much when I was younger.
iPad mini is non-retina. Maybe 2/3 of new ipads so maybe 15 million last quarter compared to around 45 million retina devices.
The short answer is, you don't. When real interest rates are at 5%, that is not normal and those are not usually good times.

Bonds in the US have earned a real 2.3% since 1926.
From 1937 to 1981 bonds lost a real -0.72% per year.

You don't buy bonds to earn the rate of growth of real GDP or better. If you want to do that, you have to take risk.

The last 30 years of declining inflation have been the anomaly. People built businesses instead of buying bonds because bonds looked pretty unattractive, but when inflation kept surprising to the downside, bonds did better than expected.
Many restaurants make lovely and delicious food... but their food is also expensive compared to preparing something yourself.

Convenience foods (microwave dinners, fast food) tend to sit somewhere in the middle. Cheaper then restaurant food but also both likely deficient nutritionally and not tasting good unless it's absolutely loaded with carbs, fats, salt, etc.

That cup of snot is most likely better for you then fast food and is a hell of a lot cheaper. Eating something like it could very well mean that you get to eat delicious restaurant food more often simply because you can afford to do so.
Ah, I misunderstood. I'll try to get in touch with the team. Thanks for letting me know.
They did get paid a salary, benefits, etc... they took almost none of the risk that would be worth a higher reward
There are two main types of liquidation preferences. First Participating vs. Non-Participating. Best for us (VCs) (worse for founders): Participating Preferred (i.e. VCs get our liquidation preferences PLUS we "double dip" and share pro-rate in anything above). Non-participating means basically that we take our pick: either the Liquidation Preference (usually amount VCs invested, sometimes though 2x or 3x etc.) or share pro-rate as if we had converted to common. So we take our pick of the higher amount

Participating Preferred: We get best of both worlds.
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I look forward to seeing a silent, short, repeating video of the award presentation.
Well, they say that it is China's century. Didn't realize this extended to us replicating their domestic media model and forwarding the State's interest of total civilian control. Silly me.
Yeah and think of how many of them are at Fox News. Ted Nugent literally said on TV that if Obama won in November then he (Nugent) was either gonna end up dead or in jail. If that's not a specific threat against an individual then how can this kid's rap be?
There isn't one at the moment. I removed it about two months ago as an attempt to encourage more signups.
I would go for both, a name and logo change.

A serious product, made by serious people, focuses on serious issue (privacy) shall look like one.
Sort of. "Trivia" was apparently invented by an author named L. P. Smith in 1902 [1, 2], and has always meant "tiny fact" since its invention. Whereas "trivial" comes from both Trivium, as you say, there was already a Latin word trivialis, meaning "commonplace" or "ordinary" (it literally means "of the crossroads", ie. people and sights you encounter every day in a city) [3, 4]. I guess what happened here, etymologically, is essentially a merging of words that happen to fit: The Trivium, being the simplest course, was basic and everyday to the point of being "trivialis".

[1] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=trivia

[2] http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2009/12/trivial-pursuit.ht...

[3] http://www.yourdictionary.com/trivial, see American Heritage Dictionary at the bottom of the page.

[4] http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-tri4.htm
> Optionally typed is extremely strange.

It's like the kind of JSDoc annotations you need for the Closure Compiler.

The difference is that it's baked into the language, which enables a very terse syntax and, since it's standardized, it can be used by all of your tools.

You only need those annotations at the API boundaries (arguments and return values) to get most of the tooling benefits like call-tips, auto-complete, direct & inferred static checks, runtime checks, generated documentation, and things like that.
The Supreme Court case to look up is Virginia v. Black (2003). It has the definition of a true threat as "those statements where the speaker means to communicate a serious expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence to a particular individual or group of individuals."
I would always encourage any form of education, coding included.

The way I learned how to code was to play with pre-written pieces of code myself.

1. I would say to myself... I want to see if I can write a loop to print out a message.

2. Then I would go and google for the code.

3. Copy and paste it into my own file, and change it to do what I want.

I'm willing to bet that most of the hackers on HN learned how to code this way. That's why we call ourselves hackers right?

I guess this is similar to your approach but in a more controlled environment?
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| Gmail has it as an option

Supposedly Gmail added this as an option because their infrastructure was setup in such a way that the delay was already there. They just made hooks so that you could cancel it before it was sent.
Why replace Dropbox? I use it with encfs and works just fine. And it's free.
Have something original and distinctive that is not similar to a well-known competitor.
Thank you for the info. I am glad that you are passionate about your work and have faith in your company's executives. There are many groups of humans on earth who believe they hold special knowledge, are able to do things no one else can do, and are intent on making the world a better place. You can imagine from the outside that we might be skeptical. But I hope for the best.
perhaps even worse than privco's non-stop rubbish "research" is the naive reporting on this story without seeking a second source to verify "the facts". would it have pained the writer to at least request the so-called "financial documents"? such is the sad state of affairs in journalism these days (sigh).
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Replacing dropbox is an easy task. Have u tried tonido (http://www.tonido.com)
"Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger" has _some_ truth to it. The body adapts and learns from various harmful things, hence it's less likely to affect you as strongly in the future.
There is if artistic integrity matters.
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I'm working with a small team on an open source backend at dreamfactory.com. Apache licensed and installable on AWS, Azure, etc. or on any LAMP server. REST API is here http://www.dreamfactory.com/developers/live_API. CORS support plus JS SDK and boilerplate apps for jQuery, AngularJS, and Sencha around the corner.

What features are you looking for?
Search for info on "chicken and egg" problems.

Some links here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2126209
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It is funny that I agree with both you and GP's post:

On one side, it is very sad that the majority of posts in this thread are very negative. But on the other side, I would give more credit to their enterprise if there was a nutriologist, chemist, or at leas tan MD in their team.

The fact that no one in the team is slightly related to food/nutrition or human well-being rings bells.
Do you just use Dart on the client side, or also do server side using Dart? I have been using Clojurescript and Clojure for client and server coding, but I might be interested in trying another "one language" stack.
Unless you present a specific reason to think that Soylent is unsafe, you're just blowing hot air.

The reason I even bother pointing this out is because you seem like the kind of person who might actually be able to present a specific reason.

Obviously, it's not safe to assume that it can replace all food, period, but I don't see/haven't heard any specific reason to suspect that it would be dangerous to consume it in large portions on a regular basis.
What exactly does whole food offer that a meal replacement doesn't? Are we talking nutrients? Because those can be replaced. Are we talking about the form? Because form shouldn't matter much to a digestive track that is built to dissolve and pulverize food. So what makes "whole foods" so much better?
I work in biomedical research building software apps. We are grant funded with tiny teams. Every little thing that allows us to go from idea to reality helps. Python, Django, Postgres... Hell even Twitter bootstrap (we don't have time to screw with styling, but stuff needs to look professional) are all critical for us. The more stuff we can use off the shelf to solve ferociously hard biomedical data problems, the better.

Concrete example: there is a paper in Nature that just came out where some discoveries were made on the genetic causes of congenital heart defects. Our team did all the data integration work to create a resource those researchers could use to do their work. I'm proud of what we have done, but there is so much more we could be doing for them if we could only move faster.... If our tools were better. We haven't switched to using Light Table yet, but we will if it lets us do more with so few people.

I often wonder if the creators of the open source tools we use ever imagined their stuff being used the way we use it. Did the Postgres team ever think someone would try to shove 100's of millions of DNA variants of folks looking for a cause for their disease into their database? Did the JavaScript library teams think someone would be using their stuff to show radiology images to people studying hearing impairment? Did the Django team ever image someone would build a biomedical data integration framework on top of their web framework so biomedical researchers don't have to reinvent their particular wheel every time?

If you build great stuff that is useful, it will have an impact in ways you can't possibly imagine.
What about Cloud Foundry and Red Hat Open Shift?

Cloud Foundry seems kind of cool, and I think they are doing a lot of things right. But it's hard to set up AFAICT. And I think it's a little Java- or enterprise-centric

Haven't played around with OpenShift, but read about it. Seems interesting.

Anyway I am interested in what others want from an open PaaS.
Fascinating links. Thanks for sharing!
I'm talking about the original Paper Mario and Super Mario 64, both for the N64. It was my intention to compare them, not equate them, precisely because they aren't much alike at all and demonstrate that even within a franchise you can be quite unique, which is more or less as good as a new IP and Nintendo has shown itself repeatedly capable of doing that. What's not good are games like the last several Mario games since Super Mario Galaxy and New Super Mario Bros. DS, which have all, again more or less, been the same. (Note Super Paper Mario (fairly different from the original itself, and Thousand Year Door as well) was released before Super Mario Galaxy.)

Nintendo is responsible, yes, so long as they're a games company and not a hardware company. Sony does it, Microsoft even does it to a lesser degree. There was not a single new IP that Miyamoto worked on for the Wii apart from Wii Sports. Wii owners did get 1.5 new Zelda games though, and as a Wii owner of course that pleases me. Again, nothing wrong with using a franchise.

It's also in their self-interest to make new IPs, if for nothing else than to show what their console can do which is just one extra selling point for getting third-parties on board. I would have thought they learned their lesson with the Wii from its final couple years, but how's the Wii U doing? A lot of third-party developers (notably in the news recently, EA) aren't getting invested in that at all, especially with the PS4 and Xbox One on the way, and especially with the rise of mobile gaming. And there is still the audience that's always there, the glorious PC Gaming Master Race! (My own bias. Though the consoles have made it this way for me by no longer catering to the gamer.)
And Soylent or whatever it evolves into (or alternatives it inspires) will have research and evidence behind it once it goes big. You gotta start somewhere.
There's a difference between "works" and "has worked". And it hasn't existed for "a long period of time", just long when compared against the lifetime of modern economics.

Which is not to say it's wrong. Merely that the world hasn't settled on Keynesianism as the One True Path™, and there exists no logical proof that it is successful, much less the only successful scheme, because you can't construct irrefutable proofs when you have to include human behavior.

The bashing may be popular now, but Keynesianism has been popular for quite a while, during a period of great wealth increase (which you cannot attribute solely to it, for the same reasons you cannot prove it works), and I suspect it has blinded people to other possibilities. At least this gets people talking about it, and it has generally been civil as far as I have seen.
I really like the feature set and feel of Dart. My only concern is lack of browser support.

As of May 2013, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera Software's Opera browser, and Apple Safari have no plan to embed a separate Dart VM [1].

What would it take to get these vendors to add support?

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dart_%28programming_language%29...
Hi jawngee! Thanks for the kinds words about us. We're really fortunate to have passionate users like you. :)

Regarding pricing - it's definitely more of an art than a science. We're by no means perfect and are learning from our customer's needs as we go along. Rest assured though, we've thought about cases like your team's a ton and and we'll have some good news to share very, very soon!
Is that jealousy, I hear ;-) ?

Well Dart is fun. It is fun in its own niche. It is like Java for the web. Can have types. The IDE is a central point of development. Easy to get started for those who are perhaps average in their skill. Is designed to be familiar (curly brackets and simple syntax).

It is not fun in the sense that Haskell, Erlang or LISP are fun. Oh look monadic isomorphic catamorphims with actor based concurrent meta-interpreters kind of stuff. So both fun but in different ways.

Let's see how the shout example is fun in more detail. It shows the usage of a library. This is not a require.js hack, but a nicely built in facility. Also don't have to put everything in a class like in Java. The example also shows the usage of an anonymous function syntax. Those are fun and good for short callbacks. Not fun is in academically interesting but fun for practical use. It took Java decades to acquire those.
>= ~5 Sv in an acute dose is generally fatal, but a man named Albert Stevens was injected with a small dose of plutonium in a human radiation experiment, and suffered a net dose of 64 Sv over a 21 year period before dying of heart disease. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stevens
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If you haven't seen the Dove commercial, you should watch it while reading this article from The Last Psychiatrist:

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/05/dove.html
I'm not sure about stack frames, but I do remember a lot of discussion about golang using a single contiguous area of virtual memory for its heap. Since C wouldn't be using that same address range, there would be no potential issues where someone would put a Go object on the C heap for a long time and have that result in implicit GC pinning. C stack frames may be an issue (I haven't checked either) but only for upcalls from C, which seem rare.
Sorry, are there any carcinogens in Soylent? Ah, didn't think so.
Take this for what it's worth, maybe nothing...

A fair number of the people in these communities that offer help are doing so to help those of us who have questions.

They can be annoying, abrasive and downright rude. If you are polite and persist most of the time you will get your answer. I went through this in the late '80s on the C/C++ forums on FIDOnet and RIME/RelayNet. I managed to persist (and get pissed off a number of times) and get most of my answers. To this day I see people from FIDOnet and RIME/RelayNet still answering questions on web forums, StackOverflow etc. Jerry Coffin is one of them and the man is a saint. Bob Stout of Snippets fame has been around forever as well. The advice I read from Joseph Carnage on RIME was some of the most valuable ever and has a lot to do with how well I turned out as a developer.

I guess what I'm getting to here is to grow some thicker skin and try not to take it all so personally. A fair number of the guys answering the questions have seen the same questions a million times and gone to the trouble to write the FAQs for C and C++ and are presumably tired of answering the same old questions. Put yourself in their place and see if your perspective changes.
3.11 miles in 5km so maybe he was trying to run a 5k and went a little over?
Yes and no, An important caveat that Dart as JavaScript runs in it's own isolate and communicates with existing JavaScript libs through ports. This js-interop code is nearly 500k unminified. And you won't be able to minify all your JS (dartJs + other js) into one lib, because dart js doesn't play well with standard tools. One can certainly interop with js libs, but it's not pretty. Dart is not near 1.0 yet, so there is still time for improvement, but this doesn't seem to be a priority. Dart is great, don't get me wrong, and I've been working with it for several months, but I think this point should be made in fairness. You're really going to want to go all in with Dart and leave your custom js libs behind or convert them to Dart. If you have the luxury of working with just Dart code, then you'll be in for a pleasant surprise at how productive you can be and how fast the Dart VM is.
You could gather emails before launching, then stage a big launch event where everyone starts at the same time.
That is not the alternative. Depending on your definition of "law," it doesn't necessarily imply government. In fact, a lot of functioning "law" today is non-governmental (one reason for this is the unsurprisingly high cost and inefficiency of the government's conflict mediation system). But moreover, even regardless of your definition of "law," it's naive to assume that the way government works isn't "based on connections and reputation" in just as bad of a way as you expect a government-less society might be.
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What are you going to do to make people not worried about counter-party risk?

When you trade options on an exchange the obligations fall on the counter-party, then clearing firm, then clearing house, then exchange.

My concern would be that I would buy some 200 strike calls, then over the course of a few days bitcoin goes to $2000 and both the counter-party and the exchange go bankrupt.

Or alternatively I buy a bunch of 100 puts and bitcoin goes to $.10.
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This I didn't get:

"Dart is a source code VM

The Dart VM reads and executes source code, which means there is no compile step between edit and run. As with other popular scripting languages, it’s very quick to iterate with Dart. The Dart VM runs on the command line and servers, and can be embedded into browsers. Just point the VM at Dart source code and you’re up and running!"

By that definition Dartmouth BASIC is a "source code VM" aka an interpreter. Why call it something it isn't?

I think Dart is interesting in its own way, and generally a useful exercise for thinking about how you might write an interpreted language that can run in untrusted contexts, but beyond that I don't "get" the problem it is trying to solve.
> Read The Jungle[0] if you want to know how things were before the FDA existed.

Yeah, because before 1906, people were constantly dying from bad food. There wasn't any safe food to eat. In the whole world. For all of history. Until the FDA came along to save us in 1906.

I mean, it's demonstrably true that people aren't capable of caring for themselves. We need the government for force us to take care of ourselves.

P.S. The Jungle is a piece of left-wing propoganda.
An additional data point to the other commenters:

I switched to Fastmail a few months ago, and I am extremely happy with it. IMAP is much faster (especially search). I love the Sieve support and the domain hosting, and beyond that, Fastmail has all the features I need.

The only downside so far is that the spam filtering is not quite as good as Gmail's. Even spam identical to stuff I have marked as spam keeps reappearing. But it's not bad enough to be annoying.
What I'm confused by, is why is this even a conversation? PHP is possibly the most used language in the world. I'd presume that there's tons of highly qualified engineers to choose from, who are already bought in to the value of the language.
This looks nice. I'm currently in the process of creating a deployment script to cluster out wowza media server with a edge/origin setup ,auto scaling and loadbalancer setup. Really wish beanstalk was less error prone and worked 100% of the time.BTW does anyone know if beanstalk supports paid Ami's ?
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Because that is one of the products that if screwed up will end your company or you if you do it in China.
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The raw power that you feel in your hand when using VIM is amazing, I never get that feeling with Emacs, but each to their own. Not needing to reach for the arrow keys, backspace etc. is neat too.