skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(...) Over the last several decades groceries have been one of the real bargains in America, and the average rate of inflation on dozens of food items tracked by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has consistently been less than increases in the purchasing power of the average American family. As a result, the percentage of income that families devote to their food purchases has fallen sharply since the food inflation of the 1970s (...). Recent price spikes have done little to reverse years of moderation in the cost of food.

The good news started for most consumers in the 1980s and has continued since then. In the decade before, food prices rose at average annual clip of 8.4 percent, which was more than a full point above the overall inflation rate. But in the 1980s, the rate of inflation on food items declined to 4.6 percent annually, nearly a point below general inflation. That downward momentum continued in the 1990s, when food prices rose by a mere 2.8 percent annually, a trend that has pretty much continued in the new century until the last few months.

http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/miarticle.htm?id=301... (2008)
It's a draft that's still changing. How are they supporting a moving target?
ahh, it looks like that's because I have remote fonts disabled (security) and it picked comic sans ms as the closest.. for some reason.
Probably the best combination of personal engineering and artistic skills is the work (hobby?) of Tatjana J. van Vark:

http://www.tatjavanvark.nl/projects.html

Some of her stuff is absolutely stunningly beautiful and wonderfully esoteric e.g. "Mechanical Fourier Analysis and Synthesis":

http://www.tatjavanvark.nl/harmonium/harmonium.html
Why I support the US Government making a cryptography standard weaker
Ever try Stash?: https://www.atlassian.com/software/stash/overview
Actually, DRM systems prevent me from seeing content I'm willing to purchase. I tried to buy the Dragon Book on Kindle some time ago, but I couldn't because I live in Australia.

What was that about getting paid again?
Indeed, this changes nothing technically. But what it does is harm the idea that standards should promote the the open web. You may or may not agree to this idea of course.
Europe's hottest startups according to Wired
I assumed this article is some kind of a joke but after reading the comments, I seem to be wrong?
Not to mention tie content to a particular browser, not to mention a particular OS.
Well thanks, I feel very welcome.
The FCC doesn't actively police the amateur spectrum. Instead they rely on self-reporting from the community. The official observers will file reports after the FCC reopens. It takes months for them to take actions on the reports. So this really changes nothing.
For a private BitBucket (Mercurial only) check out HgLab: http://hglabhq.com

(edited link)
Heck they stole most of their name from BitBucket: https://bitbucket.org/features

And BitBucket was an attempt to steal GitHub's business primarily with Mercurial at the time, that Atlassian bought up, and since then GitHub has still been their #1 competitor, (not counting Sourceforge).
Programs and procedures yield algorithms.
How a Telecom Helped the Government Spy on Me
Super nice! Shall deploy it.
The voice behind Siri is finally revealed
I installed that about a month ago as I was having issues installing GitLab on a fresh Ubuntu installation. Trying to upgrade to the latest version is a massive ball ache. It completely messed up.

Eventually I installed myself. Everything works great now, although I had a couple of hiccups when trying to upgrade to a beta (that'll teach me).
So is it "a viewing" that is being sold? Are they buying my eyes, am I selling? How much do other companies pay for my eyes to see their shit advertisement even though Im not selling? And I dont get or see any of that money.

I already payed for the bandwidth to see the movie, it was already on my private property, it is my right to save it and to re-sell it or to mix it with other movies. But no, the intellectual right of the creator supersedes private property, and even my own intellectual creativity - no remixing.

Send intellectual property and rights to the trashcan, write into the constitution that anything written and created is available for remixing and redistribution by any means.
Let's compare your language patterns to other hacker news posts ;-)
Are all Docker images going to be required to conform to the Cartridge API, or is this another layer of standardness aimed at PaaS systems?

I have to say the Cartridge API does look quite good. Has anyone had any experience with it to share?
Regarding the "you get what you pay for" argument, in this case what you're paying Google is not "zero". You're paying them in data - specifically what they can learn about your email usage patterns. That might well be very valuable to Google, so they'd be happy to give you an awesome product for "nothing".

The HN mantra of "If you're not paying then you're the product" holds true in this example.
Occasional Address by Tim Minchin
Face-to-face tutoring might become as abundant as air when highly educated people with time on their hands and a desire to help or teach become as abundant as air.

At the moment we already have plenty of people, but most of them aren't highly educated yet, and they need to spend all their time on stupid jobs that exist mostly because people need to have jobs. So more education and basic income could go a long way towards fixing this situation.
Lets not forget the laws against reverse-engineering.

Lets not forget that people were seriously wondering if "jail-breaking" their iPhones is illegal or not. Thats how far it has gone. Its a disgrace to anything that a democratic liberal society is.

What is next, you are not allowed to run a certain program on your devices? Then it will be illegal to access certain web-sites with your devices. Then perhaps it will be illegal to have read a text on a print-out. Watch out, citizen, what you are writing is illegal, you are not allowed to do that!

Remember Eben Moglens talk on the war against general purpose computing.
BitBucket and GitHub both launched in 2008, as far as I can tell. So I wouldn't say BitBucket was an attempt to steal GitHub's business.
>What has HTC got to loose?

HTC Sense
Pakistan To Ban Skype, Viber For 3 Months Over Terrorist Usage
Proteção Civil Promove Exercício Público de Preparação para o Risco Sísmico
update every 6 weeks
At some point the turbines may have to be treated as part of the infrastructure, rather than part of the production.

If you produce energy, you get paid for it, but also pay a levy depending on how well your supply fits the demand. The levy goes to whoever fills in the gaps.
I don't know why the author keep talking about world economy while the only examples he presents are U.S. only: mortgage crisis, debt fuelled spending, etc. In Europe there wasn't nothing like that and yet Europeans have been hit hardest by the recession.
How many CDMs have they created? Genuinely interested.
We've got all that in the U.K.
"Visiting a site is giving that site permission to run whatever it wants in your browser/on your computer."

Unless you configure your browser otherwise. Which is what I'm recommending people do.
You don't need systematic birth control. Given enough education and good pensions, people tend to have a lot less kids. Give people enough education and security, and the economy may become a lot more sustainable.
How does this communicate with git?
I like stash and have been a paying customer since last year. As far as I know, it is written in Scala too (the plugin API docs had a Scala flavour when I last looked at them).

I especially like its Pull Request interface. It separates out the changes into a file tree, which appears as a pane on the left. Makes it much easier to review large PRs.

The only hitch is, Atlassian has very opinionated product managers. I (and a bunch of other users) had to convince them to support "forks" over a long JIRA thread!
Twitter IPO: social media company looks to raise $1bn in public share sale
LIFX: Manufacturing begins
Searching Instagram using multiple hashtags
What?

Can't you just add a new remote, push and bang, your code is now there? You should always have a full (hopefully up to date) source somewhere so incase github/bitbucket/remote provider - even your server if you host locally on gitlab etc - catches on fire you always have a spare.
> 60-70% of the world's population is useless (if you killed all of them tonight, tomorrow there would be no visible difference at all).

No difference visible to you, perhaps. I'm thinking it might be visible to their friends and families. It would certainly be visible to them, were it not for the accident that you're contemplating killing them rather than, say, just permanently disabling them.

If you view people solely as units in the economy -- devices for providing goods and services that other people will pay money for -- then it may be true that 70% of the world's population is "useless". But if you take a look you may notice that most people do other things besides providing goods and services for money. No one is paying me when I read my daughter a bedtime story, listen to a friend who's having relationship difficulties, or bake chocolate chip cookies to take to a party. Those activities may (or may not) be less valuable per hour than my highly paid day job, but if you think they are useless then I think you are looking at the world through a filter that blocks out some important things.
I got an error on OSX when trying to install the package. Where do I submit bug reports? Do you want the debug info from the console app?
From the video at the bottom "We found out by accident that they were able to jump, we weren't intending for them to do that..."

Maybe the Terminator comparisons were all too prescient...
His title is the hook, not the catch. So it can’t be a red herring.
"Golden Master" is what went to CD/DVD printing when we still had those.

GM = "the build that will be released to customers"

Seed = "if nothing showstopping crops up."
I thought it was Berlin?
Disable weak SSL/TLS ciphers in Firefox
If you're not earning at least the $75 a month doing the things Adobe's software suite is aimed at (graphical work, video work, etc) you probably need to up your rates. Bearing in mind there's only a cost in this scenario during months you're working with the software, if you've got just the 1 job for (for example) $50 in a month don't accept the job or charge more for it.
> I don't understand the Windows 8 hate;

You're not meant to understand it. Its the party line. Many of the people that loathe Windows 8 likely have had Windows XP shoved down their throats for the last decade at work. So anything with a Microsoft logo on it makes them sick.
Sure, and that's one of the problems with server-side key strengthening. You start off making a cracker do a thousand or million fold more work. They go and get better technology, like a GPU or an ASIC. So then you have to go upgrade your own hardware, or skimp and make the user wait for 1, 10 or 30 seconds while they login and you strengthen their password. It's an arms race and not something a star-topology (single server serving potentially thousands of users) is going to scale well on. You want those cycles rendering your HTML or doing something valuable.

Client-side password stretching and memoization simply makes more sense.
I love GitLab but it is too time consuming to maintain. Once a month you have to manually update it and you can't skip updates. The update process can take from 15 minutes to hours should any problem arise. I know since I have performed all updates from 2.3 to current version.

It is great but due to the update situation and the resources it needs (amount of RAM), I think it targets mainly groups and not individuals.

Give me a lightweight, one command, free software alternative with 60% of GitLab's feature set and I will be a happy man.
Of course, but that's the whole point. Rather than debating policies which are nominally designed for one goal but secretly trying to promote another goal (e.g., social security, nominally a pension, secretly a redistribution scheme), we just debate the goals themselves.

This actually increases transparency. For example, if some party wants to declare a War on Christmas (TM) or a War on Women's Bodies (R), they actually need to put 23 x Dead Santa or -6 x Women's Freedom into the objective function.
YouTrack is neat. Keyboard shortcuts for everything, well thought out interface. And it is implemented in this new meta-language called MTS.

MTS is a topic unto itself. Check out this for example: http://mbeddr.wordpress.com/blog/
An Embedded C DSL, built using MTS.
Not to mention, it means that Sealion is one admin account compromise away from losing the keys to a ready-made botnet.
Hi Chris, I don't think that the Docker team have gotten that far yet in knowing where they are going to go, but you can imagine that in the future I blogged about that you might be able to layer OpenShift's gears on top of Docker - now that would be very cool!
There is certainly some convergence going on here which is really exciting for PaaS.
When they block you, block them back.
What country are you from? I'm very interested in consumer behavior in this area, and have seen massive differences between countries.
Capitalism's problem is this: it's totally goddamn imaginary. There is no worker, no consumer, no manager, no government. When you get down to reality, we're all in this shit together - and that includes the non-human parts of the ecosystem and non-renewable resources that we're systematically screwing over. The profit motive has its place, but we've clearly demonstrated that it's not a viable, holistic modus operandi for the world at large.

So where to next? IMHO what we need is less people looking backwards to theories but rather looking forward to systemic change that is more closely based on reality. A system in which tropical fruit in December is either produced locally, taxed in some way or otherwise socially frowned upon. A system in which a dildo that's imported half way around the world for a frigid, antisocial society of sterile worker-drones living in a fantasty of fear and loathing becomes unnecessary.

How do we get there? I think significant change in financial systems is the most realistic path. I think the way to achieve that is by systems that allow the exchange of new asset types that can represent social or environmental value, and also by allowing innovation in financial services (currently next to impossible), and by governments eventually wising up to grant tax or other types of incentives to parts of their community contributing to more educated, peaceful, sustainable, locally-grounded, holistic ways of life.

Put it this way: big capital which controls much of politics says no. Environment says your days are numbered. IMHO there's really no option but to engineer a more holistic/realistic modification of the existing system operating closer to reality - in which big capital can profit from environmental and social concern. Pure capitalism - selling fresh air - is not an option that will preserve biodiversity.
Some really impressive optimization techniques used in this library :)

What's also really impressive is that ultra-fast means callback-level performance. And that performance is achieved even though promises are exception-safe (and don't crash the process like exceptions in callbacks ;)

In fact, this library may become the turning point that causes node.js userland to start switching to promises...
Normal link to Lebedev's blog:

http://optimus-project.livejournal.com/70862.html
CoreOS etcd is now ported to FreeBSD
We Need to Nurture More Startup Marketers
Would you like to elaborate on that?
Solar is low output, but it requires very little infrastructure. What we need is to make it as cheap as possible, and then cover all roofs and windows with it. Anywhere you need electricity, lay down a sheet of solar cells with a battery, and you're there.

It won't be entirely free, but with enough effort, it might get very cheap.
-"The MIT researchers are currently building an army of 100 cubes"

Hardly "unleashes hundreds of swarmbots", more like unleashes eight of them, and plans to release more .. Quite a misleading article title.

edit: I'm not complaining about the HN title, which is just taken from the article. I'm pointing out that the actual article title, which states that hundreds of these bots have been unleashed (lie, it's about eight) and that they self assemble (lie, they require direct instruction) is misleading...
Easily create animated .gifs from .mov files using command line
The fact that you are surprised by 2-3 beers is fascinating. Social stigma is definitely powerful enough that the younger generations completely overestimate the effects of alcohol.

2-3 beers over the length of time in the story would leave you well below the legal limit and your motor skills would not be impaired unless you never have alcohol, which he clearly stated wasn't the case.

Tldr. Cut the melodrama. It's like being shocked when someone has a beer and walks down some stairs.
A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery. etcd is inspired by zookeeper and doozer, with a focus on:

* Simple: curl'able user facing API (HTTP+JSON)

* Secure: optional SSL client cert authentication

* Fast: benchmarked 1000s of writes/s per instance

* Reliable: Properly distributed using Raft

Etcd is written in Go and uses the raft consensus algorithm to manage a highly-available replicated log.
A survival guide for the Node immigrant
It's times like this that I'm very glad the ECHR exists.
Product description: http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/popularis/
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=275788

"Part 2 will incorporate the EME API with the Widevine CDM and is slated for a later release (M31)"
Yes. You can use HSMs to load the keys; there are various other ways to handle upgrades. It's "non-trivial" in practice.
TripGems.com - find and share hidden gems, get deals too.
TripGems is based around finding something to do at your destination, whether this is a travel tip from a friend, from someone else, or a deal from a local business owner. Would love to get some feedback.
It's a series of articles about all european startup capitals.
There are almost no positive feedback loops in nature, for the simple reason that they tend to get triggered by random variations and feedback on themself till they reach limit and convert to negative loops.
There's a list with the other cities:
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/11/european-sta...
anyone know what the 2 tracks in the video are?
Wow, memory lane. Yes it did, with the new 'ColorManager' that could display the same window spread across the beautiful 640x480 color monitor and a B&W monitor. Very cool in the day.
> Maybe it's because she/he is paid much more than the actual value her/his technical contribution, like most of the programmers servicing simple user sites, and wants to protect her/his niche?

Rather the opposite, I'm afraid. It's not even enough money to bother with, only profitable in good months, but it affords a living to women I know who would otherwise be destitute.
> The "start-up"-term has become so bloated that it hardly make any sense any more

> IMHO a start-up is a ...

Ironic. :)
Don't be silly. It was revealed on The Big Bang Theory that Siri is a smoking hot redhead! ;-)
I, for one, welcome our new Grey Goo [1] Overlords ;-)

Let's just hope those don't develop self-preservation instinct anytime near soon.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo
Ask the Economist and it is London.
Lots of money != smart money.

Eventually it does. Manipulating markets == handing your money to someone else, so the rich manipulators will exponentially [1] lose money as the smart speculators take it.

In this case, it's "smart in the interests of predicting which policies achieve the democratically selected objective function". For example, smart in predicting whether Obamacare will bend the cost curve (assuming that's the goal of obamacare).

[1] Assume 50/50 bets. The speculator bets $1, and takes $1 from the rich man. Next bet, he bets $2, takes $2 from the rich. Next bet he bets $4. The rate of growth doesn't have to be ln(2), but it is exponential.
Yellow Bird and Vibe Vendetta off of Pretty Light's A Color Map of the Sun.
Somewhat meta, but why are so many stories on HN "<existing product> written in <different language>", and not "<existing product> with <interesting new idea>"?

It's quite possible that gitbucket is better than github or gitlab for some reason, and if so I'd like to know that reason; "It's identical on the surface and different under the hood (not necessarily better, just different)" doesn't seem like a particularly great way to generate interest...
> As far as I know, it is written in Scala too (the plugin API docs had a Scala flavour when I last looked at them).

?? Their source code is downloadable to us since we have a license, but I've not checked. Everything else Atlassian purchased has been Java, afaik.

And Atlassian's only opinionated project manager I know about is Jens who does Stash, so I think you are generalizing to apply that to all of Atlassian. I've been using their products a long time now and he is the first that has been like that, but I know what you mean. He doesn't really meet up with Atlassian's typical level of customer service because of his attitude, but maybe he's a "rockstar" that deserves respect.
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> I would guess the reason of his burner is the stigma associated with the industry and the effects it could have on his other ventures / personal life.

Correct. This is not my full time occupation - I do it mainly as a favor, with some beer money thrown in.

Probably more significantly, it affords a reasonable living to otherwise unskilled women. Their alternatives are extremely limited - if it's exploitation to give people an alternative to poverty, so be it.
I doubt I deviate substantially from the mean.
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian: How the Web should lobby Washington
That's one of the most frustrating elements of the paper: the actual speculating mechanism is too imprecisely defined to assess whether speculators actually have any interest in opposing policies which are marginally negative overall but massively enrich one group. From the rather vague description on page 22, a speculator who thought Policy X would reduce the MagicIndex effectively "shorts" the policy by placing a "conditional" bet that comes into play only if the policy is passed, in which the speculator earns money if the MagicIndex then falls.

Frustratingly, it doesn't specify what happens to outstanding "conditional" bets if the policy isn't passed, but a reasonable guess is that it's returned less transaction costs, which means that every time Goldman Sachs does the public the service of vetoing a bad policy it loses money. Even if speculators' transaction costs are zero it's irrational for them to bet against a market actor that will take a profit (from selling corn) even if they pay more than the market price to for their long position. Assuming the corn industry is really committed to supporting tariffs and that the tariffs won't harm speculators' ability to earn from other markets, the Nash equilibrium strategy for speculators is not to bet.
a) What's the killer feature that I have to have, to make me tolerate the upgrade process (or wipe & reinstall, which I usually do)? ... and please don't tell me to go look at Apple's website to see the list of features ... I'm looking for some comments based on first-hand experience here.

b) does Mail.app still keep corrupting mailboxes?

c) homebrew / LaTeX / emacs still works?

oh hell maybe I'll just go install Debian

oh wait ... I have a retina display ...