skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If real GDP growth stops or even becomes negative

Given that return on invested capital has been decreasing 1965-2009, and I've seen similar charts for GDP, we're on track for that. How our banking/finance system resolves that situation will be ... interesting

http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_US/us/Insights/Browse-by-Con...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2012/01/25/shift-in...

I still don't see an argument that the real interest rate is decreased by long-term stable inflation.

I need to think this over a bit more. I'm not sure there is a stable long-term relationship here -- the financial system is part of the internal control and feedback system of the economy, growth is ultimately dependent on exogenous factors (notably resources). So it's fair to say that the real interest rate is determined by the nominal rate and the inflation rate. And the nominal interest rate is strongly influenced by the real rate of return on investment. See Shift Index above.

Though I'm trying to reconcile that with the low interest rates of the late 1960s / early 1970s and high interest of 1979-1982 or so.

Perhaps you want the government to stop borrowing when the Limits of Growth have been reached?

Not so much "want" as "it will have to, as the costs of borrowing will start increasing uncontrollably".

But (a) we are not at this point yet

You and I disagree on that point.

(b) how would you recognize when we've reached this point?

Real, depreciation-adjusted (e.g., declining stocks of energy reserves), EROEI-adjusted, quality-of-life adjusted aggregate and per-capita growth falling. GDP itself is a poor metric, it's mostly just easy to obtain (sum up everyone's incomes). There are other alternatives which have been proposed: FISH, GPI, UNHDI, among them.

A long, sustained, global recession or depression from which neither fiscal nor monetary stimulus seems sufficient to restore growth might lend another clue.

zero unemployment and real GDP is still shrinking?

I'd expect unemployment to be rather nonzero. Better: workforce participation rates to be low despite considerable pressures for individuals to seek out work.
Still hoping Daala can mature and take the throne. If its mathematics truly produce a next generation of compression efficiency in video, and it is open from xiph + Mozilla, that is the biggest kind of win.
>It will not be long before all valid passports are chipped.

What about other forms of ID?
This isn't meant to be a hippie, voodoo, "all you need to do is focus on success and it will come" message. There are real handicaps.

But there's also tons of people hurting their chances of success in order to protect their egos. It's not just about perfectionism (although that's one manifestation).

Which "real burdens" did you think were targeted that shouldn't have been?
Not that I'm a fan of his, but the description also glosses over Richard Clarke's resume a bit too.
> BTW. you can get a pretty good Emacs-as-an-OS feel with the combo of Emacs, Conkeror [0] and StumpWM [1].

This sort of setup is exactly what makes me, a Vim user, think I may have made a mistake by not picking up Emacs instead.
There are no legal rights in the state of nature. There is no liberty in the state of nature. These things don't exist as features of the land, they're concepts created by humans to curtail specific types of human behavior.
It's going to be on your phone, the way it already is for several airlines/airports now.
Just a simple, "there's someone at the door, can you please hold?", and then leave the phone on the desk.
I spent the entire article wondering how deployment via git was at all relevant, until I read the very last heading.

(The title is supposed to be read as "Docker is as powerful for deployment as git is powerful for SCM!". There is no mention of git-based deployment strategies like Heroku's.)
We're not "well known" but the combined audience of 3k followers on Twitter most likely did the trick.

Apart from that we gained experience dealing with press a few months ago, because another game [0] got featured in a german web magazine.

[0] http://tastatour.co/
Fails in firefox 23.0.1 for me (I see myself, but not the other person). Fails in chrome 29.0.1547.57 as well with similar results.
VC denying reality, hoping it'll go away.
Hangouts runs on a Google proprietary protocol. They are depreciating their foss Jingle library for xmpp video and audio conferencing for Hangouts, to force people to use their entire stack to use Hangouts.

I'm hoping Daala + Opus conferencing and streaming can enter Jingle in the next few years, see it mainlined in jabber, and that could be a good alternative. Self-host your own xmpp server if you want, or use a web service that provides it (like Talk did).
> but the combined audience of 3k followers on Twitter most likely did the trick.

There you go. I'd say that counts, especially if it's an audience receptive to the topic. Don't underestimate your connections!
Finally. A country gets it. Hell will freeze over before a country like the United States would pass such a bill.
Yeah, I think the "authentic" and "real" stuff is one direction that we gravitated towards after seeing early usage; we purposefully made it really simple with a few constraints to see how people would use it. We thought it was going to be a side project, but so far the lessons have been unexpected and fun. I don't know where the product exactly goes, and we're not going to try to push it into any preconceived box, but there is something interesting going on about how people see themselves and what they're willing to share. For me, authenticity = diversity. And weirdly, there's a lot of diversity to be found in just our faces! Appreciate the thoughts on this - I like thinking about this stuff.
> it's somewhat automatic if he puts them on hold shortly after receiving the call

Preferably with an automated message in an overly cheery voice saying "your call is important to us"
Without going into details there are vulnerabilities that are being exploited today that are netting fraudsters millions a day and there is very little can be done to stop them.

The most interesting thing you learn about these fraud teams is that it is a job to them - meaning they work 9-5.30, dont work weekends or holidays. This is industrialised fraud on an enterprise scale.

If you wanted my advice:
Dont trust any 2 factor authentication system that uses your mobile unless its for a large bank

Dont data roam with your mobile when abroad, better still, leave your mobile at home.

Before doing anything secure with your phone, call it to ensure its not been redirected

Dont say anything in a call that you wouldnt want played back to you at some point in the future...
@nicpottier loved the post would also love to see how can we help k lab from the us? Or help in any of the other local initiatives you are doing to foster a community around tech.
Sure, it's prettier, but still way too much information.

Anybody that's handling the pass prior to boarding surely has access to a computer system. Why not devote 80% of the entire pass for the passenger's benefit, and just have a small scannable code for the bureaucrats?

Also, the seat diagram is pretty ambiguous and not useful for a plane with multiple aisles. I think a plane specific cross-section of the row would be more useful.
Custom Elements - A Web Components Gallery for Modern Web Apps
I think it's a specific rejection of the notion that there ever existed a time before governments. Governments existed, in some form, the moment particles started interacting.
The legend doesn't update properly, so it really is broken.
I'm the founder of Forward Commerce (http://getfwd.com), a new platform focused on giving developers more template control without all the pain.

One of our early adopters was a very notable/early Shopify customer who encountered the kind of problems you describe with templates and customization. I am pleased to say they have been successful using Forward and Shopify combined in order to solve these problems, and are planning to migrate completely when the time is right.

Shopify is a great solution for small business without irregular catalog and checkout requirements. I am however surprised that they haven't done more to support businesses that grow beyond this stage.
Or you can use ABalytics: no backend, just use Google Analytics :) https://github.com/danmaz74/ABalytics/
AppScale 1.10 Released - Open Source Google App Engine
I tried this, I started gedit then xwininfo to get the window id then xev -id and then started typing in gedit. I saw event information but didn't see what characters were being typed so what's the point you're trying to make?
How does Docker mesh with something like continuous deployment? How many layers until the AUFS falls down?
Combine with speech recognition for extra fun.
I wonder if they are aware of the super high resolution weather satellites that NOAA is putting up into orbit and will come on line, I believe, end of this year. I was talking to a high level NOAA official on the technical side and he was saying that it will essentially provide a remarkable, i.e., revolutionary increase in prediction accuracy and be able to provide on the ground climate level predictions.
Similarly, Eskil Steenberg talked about building tools for doing simple things quickly rather than for doing complicated things at all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f90R2taD1WQ

His main point is that building a game is no longer about what you can do, but rather what you can get done.
Awesome. Khia’s “Thug Misses” is a pretty good album.
Guess what? The number of people who are annoyed by junk mail or spam greatly exceeds the number of people who gain some benefit from it (mainly spammers and junk mailers - and since they are dishonest actors, I give their considerations very little weight).

My argument is not that junk mail is bad, because it annoys some people. My argument is that it is bad, because it annoys almost everyone.

PS - Surely you can think of a better system of informing users their inbox is working than regularly spamming everyone who has an inbox...?
There is a concept called stewardship, too. "I have a responsibility to this piece of property. I have a moral duty to safeguard, cultivate, and appropriate utilize this property. I expect that it will be passed on to another for usage at some point for some reason, and in recognition of that future steward, I will do my best to forward it in the best condition possible."

I don't feel like I'm doing the concept justice, but hopefully I'm conveying the gist well enough to distinguish from "ownership" and "possession".
Puma is not for me, but Ragel seems very interesting.
Can a case boost your iPhone 5's WiFi?
City of Detroit Left a $1M Check in a Desk Drawer
The concept is that affecting stdout isn't "just" - it requires a clear definition when (and if) that function will be executed, and in Haskell you don't do that if you can avoid that - it allows for lazy execution, actually running the function less (or 0) times depending on how it's result is used.

I.e., if your program needs top 3 results in a race, then you can safely use a function that returns all the results, but since you afterwards use only first three then the remainder aren't calculated, that code most likely isn't run and the order of any "embedded" print statements would be undefined.

That being said, standard Debug.Trace module allows simple adding of debug prints anywhere.
Old people have different cultures.
The quote that to date inspired me the most
The whole point of publicizing gambits is to make them less effective. (Sounds like you could write a book and make a killing on this topic.)

Edit: An obvious hack in the US would be to spoof a bank's caller id and start calling as the "fraud department" ... Leaving the rest to the imagination.
Well, his first goal was to reduce the number of unsolicited calls, so it is very effective. The fact that he makes little money on the side is just the cherry on the cake.
What a waste of time. Boarding passes are not designed the way they are to be helpful to the passenger!

If you put the seat diagram or the boarding priority on the pass, people will demand those things. The airline needs to be able to shift you around. Actually printing Economy instead of Y will cheapen the experience.

Finally, it won't help the airlines/airport squeeze you for more in-flight purchases. Let's face it, the whole flying experience is designed around selling you extra stuff.
Happens to me as well. I don't experience the lag you talked about in other comments, though.
Is a correlation of 0.5 like flipping a coin? No, it isn't. A coin flip would have a correlation of 0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_and_dependence
go-mode (at least used to) have a bug in the auto-indent code that would occasionally throw it into an infinite loop. This should only affect the buffer with the code being indented. I should be able to switch buffers, switch to another frame, and edit other code. I should be able to kill the buffer. However, I can't, as the lisp is stuck trying to parse go code that can't be parsed. Now, my Emacs session, which may include several unsaved files, my IRC sessions, and connections to remote hosts, must be killed.
And for some of us, this is a typical experience:

25 packets transmitted, 25 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 263.361/321.076/375.393/29.289 ms

(That's from Sydney Australia to a DigitalOcean Droplet in nyc1)
Or RSS.
For completeness, it could be interesting to also test:

• separate image files: after the cost of the initial many-separate-loads (which might be minimized by pipelining/SPDY), once reaching the cached-condition, might having them as individual artifacts again show some wins (no translations/trimming; shorter/simpler CSS)?

• data URIs inside CSS rather than HTML: on the off chance that leads to better post-data-decode image caching than re-parsing the cached HTML
I don't get where the data is coming from. A lot of it must be interpolated.
Groovy is a programming language on the JVM http://groovy.codehaus.org/
Yes. I've been at start-ups unwilling to fire people and it sucks.

I've had people suggest that "willing to fire" is a bad sign, because we can be even better by just always hiring the right people! Which is a self-reinforcing style, because now you really can't admit you hired the wrong person.
I wasn't disagreeing with your point; I don't even care about your point because it's as misplaced as the OP's. You're both self selecting companies you think are cool and then noting the pattern of real world vs not as if such a self selected list is in any way representative and not purely selection bias. It's silly, you see what you want to see based on a self selected list of "cool companies". It doesn't teach me anything of value.

> Debating what is or what isn't a startup is not as valuable.

Says who? It's valuable to me, I'm tired of seeing everyone call every damn company a startup cause it isn't so. A startup is a company looking for a viable business model who's still burning cash looking. It's not a profitable business who's been around for years. Making that distinction, while a side tangent, is worth making.

You don't get to tell me which part of a conversation I find interesting enough to engage on. That's my decision.
I sometimes get Windows virus attachments in emails, when clam doesn't identify them as a virus, usually avg can. I'd hope it can catch Linux viruses and trojans too.
Nifty. I've got a suggestion for the visualization category: http://nvd3.org/
Serial killers "love" killing...
He's an idiot for not recognizing that using low level language is an optimization, and premature optimization is a vain attempt. He's still the idiot because he didn't recognize it yet although the symptoms are right in front of him.

If you read this, let me tell you: Sanity is not a dogma.
My favorite example from their tutorial:

if yes("Should I delete all your important files?"):
echo("I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.")
else:
echo("I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.")
From what I've seen, streaming a 1080p version of a 90-minute feature film is actually fairly significant in terms of CDN fees, unless you're at massive scale.
Thanks for the post. I love show HN posts. I wish they fared better.

As an aside, I think your requirement of less than 1000 twitter followers is a bit low. I have a couple thousand followers and I can tell you that it means very little. If I tweet a link to a project of mine I can expect a ctr of about .2%.
I think the SqueakVM was developped in the same way. Can't remember where I read this. </remembering in progress>
There are many traditions that also have an eyes-open approach. I'm constantly amazed by this propagation in the West of the idea that meditation has anything to do with the mind 'wandering off' (or not wandering off, e.g. extreme concentration or 'awareness' as is the current buzzword).

This is unfortunate because it tends to make practice feel difficult, as our minds naturally wander, and then come back, etc. People connect their perceived success at this with their experience of practice, and quit or go off on very strange and contrived tangents. The notion of success/failure is typically irrelevant in many traditional meditation practices.
I believe most of what they do is aggregation, including of NOAA's data, so this may just improve forecast.io.
How A Genius Learned To Start Working Hard
Now I see: great grandparent's "emacs buffer locks up" refers to the (multi-threaded) way he (and probably you) wish Emacs worked, not the way it actually works.

Typing control-G does not get you out of the infinite loop?
As the director a development agency, we cannot use Shopify for our clients until they create the ability for products to have custom fields. Some products need to present more information than is standard, such as a wine store that needs to display vintage, alcohol. volume etc. Til then this excellent new technology is useless to us.
> Can you kindly explain how even a UV laser, with a wavelength of about 200 nm, can apply enough torque on a buckyball about 1.1 nm across?

No chance. But it turns out there are larger fullerenes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerene#Other_buckyballs

But as it turns out, the larger fullerenes aren't as strong as C60, so my original idea probably wouldn't represent any easily achieved advantage.
Oh buddy yes. Try it while eating shit and not maintaining any ratios and tell me how you feel / how long you last.
John Mayer was bootstrapped like a startup
I got endorsed for Javascript by one of my undergrad professors that teaching business communication...among other equally as WTF endorsements.

I always sorta thought that LI was randomly generating these things somehow.
Drop the "the".
The overhead is slightly worse when it's compressed alongside normal HTML content (the Huffman trees aren't so favorable).

$ wget http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
$ (cat ASCII;dd if=/dev/urandom bs=8000 count=1 | base64) | gzip | wc -c
50578
$ (cat ASCII;dd if=/dev/urandom bs=9000 count=1 | base64) | gzip | wc -c
51621

Around 4% overhead. Either way, it's negligible.
The music does serve a specific purpose.

The Seba track is chosen for its 80s style synths (itself a reuse of Vangelis' Blade Runner soundtrack), which separates cleanly in the FFT and enables the audio response to follow individual notes.

The Selah Sue track is chosen for its low bpm and jazz style vocals, which can easily be synced to a 6 DOF camera running at a constant speed on spline tracks without causing significant motion sickness. Trust me, you don't want to ride that thing on dubstep.

Neither demo could be accomplished without specific requirements in music, whether it's these songs or others, and each is a novel demonstration of web technology. The full source is on github, there's commentary and accurate, live diagrams of the internal mechanisms.

I don't deny that this is skirting the rules a bit, but the educational goal is genuine. I'm a DSP engineer. What's the difference between me slapping a commercial MP3 on a research project involving real-time graphics and audio processing, and a colleague using a copyrighted Playboy centerfold (1) to demonstrate their image processing algorithm? Also chosen for specific purposes: it contains a complex mix of textures that shows flaws in algorithms well, and is a plausible real world use case too.

For an encore, the server is configured to make pirating the songs from me as inconvenient as possible without compromising the demonstration.

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Söderberg
How to Evaluate a Potential Startup CEO
Zerocoin, if it's ever adopted, will go a long way to solving this problem.
I'd rather say that 'performance+ convenience/safety-' is a poor default - minute performance improvements matter only in the bottlenecks of your code, so it makes sense to use the varsatile though slightly slower implementations as the default, and have the 100%-speed option require some explicit code as they are needed only in a minority/exception segments of your program.

:) You could say that "all things being equal" never happens because mutable data structures have worse persistence if they're not used in a way that their performance matters. But also, different defaults make sense for different problem domains.
Insights we discovered when we scraped and analyzed all of Indiegogo’s campaigns
Why would this generate electricity? The energy put in to spin the ball must be higher than what you get out of it.
What's the difference between that and a mathematician slaving away for years to solve a hard problem? And yet, we don't grant patents on math.

One person's time isn't that big an investment (relatively speaking) and funding is available.
My favorite part of Hacker News is Show HN. When I see all the awesome projects and startups people are building, I get inspired to work on my own projects.

I launched r/SideProject because there are a lot of great projects and startups that do not get any exposure. It is a subreddit for sharing and receiving constructive feedback on side projects and startups.

r/SideProject:
http://www.reddit.com/r/sideproject
Kato Graduates From Techstars, Raises Series A
BART will be running. In fact I'd recommend BART over driving even if the Bay Bridge wasn't going to be closed.
Refactoring ? Which language ? Around 2008, Eclipse was only great at refactoring Java. Other languages had few basic transformation (scoped rename, variable lift, ...). Is it different now ?
I can see a phone company offering you-pay-me-to-call as their core service coming up soon.
If you use Ubuntu without upgrading it, apt-get install will fail for any package given a year or two when they (routinely) change all the source repo URLs.
This experience sounds especially bad. Sorry about that.

As mentioned in another comment in this post, I was doing 300gigs of data per day with an elasticsearch cluster size of 7 elasticsearch nodes (16 cores & 16gb ram per node) and load was around 5-10% cpu utilization.

100MB/day is pretty small in terms of log data, I think. If you attempt this again, please invoke the community (elasticsearch's is great!) and see if we can assist you in figuring out what's busted.
After the password mishap I deleted mine.
I think RTMA already includes ground station measurements, so analyzing performance using a leave-N-out strategy wouldn't be a good verification:

http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/txt_descriptions/RTMA_doc.shtml
http://eamcweb4.usfs.msu.edu/mm5-case/RAWS/RTMA%20papers/pon...

Instead, I think you'd need to find temperature measurements that are completely independent and use them for verification. Along this line, I'm not sure how refitting the data to ground stations would produce a better match anywhere except at those ground stations (overfitting). Or are you using ground stations that are truly independent?
Ultimate Crowd-funded Discovery-Science Project: Hibernaut X-Periment
It's on! Here's the boom!
https://www.indiegogo.com/project/preview/e4a98b17