skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the many ironies of a government shutdown is that it always increases debt (unless it were unprecedentedly long, which wouldn't necessarily decrease the debt either, it's just unknown). Think of it like a car on the freeway — you waste gas by slamming the breaks and then stomping on the gas to get back up to speed. Plus, the economic damage a shutdown does will result in suppressed tax incomes at the end of the year.
"...and thus can continue being asked to die in its name."
Unfortunately, Firefox and Safari still don't provide column numbers in error stack traces, only line numbers, which are next to useless if your code is minified. Here's the Firefox bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762556

Not much discussion about fixing it :( This caused a lot of pain at my last job. When we got Chrome and IE10 stack traces, we had a script run them through our source maps and show us the exact, full stack trace through the unminified source. Firefox's and Safari's traces remained impenetrable, short of manually inspecting the minified line of code and guessing.
I just read the whole thing and it was definitely worth it! If you like these kind of coder memoirs (especially if you like Masters of Doom) then this will be right up your alley. Plus I'm an R-Type fan so that's an added bonus.

As I was reading it I couldn't help but feel a bit of regret. It was in 1991 on a visit with my dad to LA that I got my first computer (a TRS-80 Model III) along with a book on programming in BASIC. I didn't know what I was doing, but I wanted the computer to do the stuff I saw on War Games and Explorers. I got pretty far but it wasn't until 1996 or so that I really got into the swing of "serious" programming in C and C++. Growing up in Dallas, TX I didn't have the first clue where I might find people interested in this stuff. Until sophomore year in college it was really just me. I find that I regret not having lived in a place where I could have "gotten into the scene" early. This is even more ironic considering that my idol at the time (and arguably today as well), John Carmack, worked less than 5 miles from my house!
Lots of cheap "catastrophic" insurance plans for individuals can no longer be offered because they don't meet all provisions of the law. The one I was using last year while I was in between jobs suffered that fate.
In addition, some theorize that the Republicans can use the chaos and votes supporting the ACA to go after vulnerable Democratic senators.

And maybe I'm getting too cynical, but the extreme Republican line for years has been that government is the problem, not the solution. So I don't think the members chasing the base have the same interest in a functioning state that the rest of them do.
Oh, you will if it goes on more than a few days. I remember the 1995 one quite well; you may be surprised by the ripple effect.
A friend who was writing a bittorrent client in x86 asm was actually going to have something like this as one of its features. Hopefully this will motivate him to start working on it again since it was such a cool project...
In my experience, pointing out the hysterical racism involved does contribute to the understanding of the situation by non-Americans. And you don't get to accuse me of absurdities when the other side's motto is "Keep the government out of Medicare!". You just don't.
Well, maybe it's not a downside. One could argue that young men have life on easy mode and should be the ones to bear burdens that their advantages let them handle more easily than others.
Oh, so shutting down the parts which don't support industries with strong lobbying or lots of political contributions. How am I not surprised?
5MP downsample, resolution falls well short of what a 38MP camera should (theoretically) be capable of, runs windows phone 8 (fewer apps), phone has awkward shape not shown in commercials, low screen resolution, and as the following review puts it:

http://www.everyjoe.com/2013/07/13/technology/nokia-lumia-10...

"You might think that despite all of these negatives, at least the Lumia 1020 blows all other phones out of the water when it comes to the camera. You’d be wrong. There’s a noticeable lag when between taking a picture, saving it, and being able to take another picture. The Lumia 1020 comes with three different camera apps, each with their own function, so good luck figuring out what does what. Annoyingly, every photo you take has an on-screen caption that reminds you which app took the photo, but at least it doesn't show up in the picture itself"
I think he was objecting to your presentation of your opinion as axiomatic fact.

(Notice, for what it's worth, that I said "I think" and not "Actually, he was". The core meaning is the same, but the former phrasing makes it more clear that I am aware the statement was my opinion. Acknowledging that something you say is an opinion is an important part of having a healthy discussion, I think.)
I didn't even mention volatility or stability. I was challenging your assertion that risk was agnostic to direction. It is not.
I am not a parliamentary expert but there are lots of ways I think. Not passing a supply bill (equiv to the budget crisis) would trigger an election, not passing a non-supply bill repeatedly can be a trigger, a motion of no-confidence in the government. Or governments can resign.

Not being able to pass bills required to finance the government would be seen as equivalent to the government having lost the confidence of parliament and I think under a Westminster system they would have to resign or face being dismissed by the head of state as they have clearly lost the ability to govern.
I totally get what you're saying!! :) Thought it was just me who abnormally remembered where stuff is on pages.
Australian banks operate in a government protected cartel, nothing to be proud of. They are a huge drain on the economy.

I'd rather have less safe banks, or banks that at least stop making a huge profit when the world is in a global depression, and have a free banking market.
"So much of the media has ignored the Republican narrative:"

Maybe because it's bullshit.

"Congress as a whole not being able to compromise"

There's no compromise being offered, this is hostage taking. As Kevin Drum said earlier today:

If my neighbor threatens to steal my car, and then comes back and says he'll settle for just stealing my TV set, what kind of compromise is that? What am I getting out of the deal?

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/09/i-think-republ...
Awesome. Love the flag.
This must be bullshit. Not that I have scientific evidence, but as a app developer I got quite good at identifying a device type just by having a quick glance at it and that's what I usually do to keep me busy in public transport and other places.
What I see is about 50% iPhones, the majority being iPhone 4, not so many 4S, but also quite a few iPhone 5. Next up are Samsung phones of all kinds, with the prevalent being S3, S2 and low budget ones like the Ace. Not so many S4 though yet. HTC and everything else are kind of the underdog. And very rarely someone pulls out a BlackBerry.
But Windows Phone? I think I've seen one so far. I don't doubt there are out there, but comparing the share with the iPhone is ridiculous.
Those statistics are for usage instead of devices, include tablets and not just phones, and sidestep people who don't have a data plan (a more common situation for low end smartphone buyers in europe vs the US).
Immutable collections ready for prime time
sorry about "old man".
What i wrote was "old man gripes", which was intended at the "I'm afraid, uncertain, and I doubt this technology", not at you as a person.
Poorly chosen words. Mea culpa.

"Some kid" clearly was directed at me as a person. so..yeah. I'm going there.
For a fun time, read the unminified source w/ comments at the new healthcare.gov
I don't see what that has to do with noticing the shut down over the next hours/days/etc
netflix has a policy of hiring great people and booting them after their first big contribution.

basically a way to get top talent, lure with promises of stability and career, get them to do what should have been a highly paid consulting jig and boot them.

after experiencing that second hand, i will take my time to contribute to projects that wont benefit them directly
"questionable benefit of military protection" ...

You may not like the extent of their protection, or how they go about protecting, but it is childishly naive to suggest the country does not need protection.

But I know it is cool these days to pretend that the military is 100% evil and every dollar spent on it is a total waste.
Very cool. Also, I didn't know about bl.ocks.org!
Where do you live? Smartphone marketshare is highly regional. I live in belgium and see them all the time.
Are you suggesting the state policing is working well?
Yet somehow everyone understands what people mean when they say "Mac or PC"...

Prescriptivists.
> The last banking crisis originated in the US, but it didn't hit the non-US nearly as hard.

Didn't the last US crisis lead to multiple countries defaulting on their debt and having to be bailed out and economic malaise that continues to this day?
If the Web Designer team are reading this, I would really recommend renaming the tool to ad designer.
RethinkDB started life as a MySQL storage engine.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Weird way of reporting the stats (as others in this thread seem to imply) or not, just walking around in Germany is enough to realize that Windows Phone is comparatively popular there. It's very present both in real users' hands and advertising. I wonder if focusing on ROTW markets is Microsoft's strategy.
It seems odd that the writers of the constitution didn't recognise the problem.

There had only been a couple of similar republics before - there wasn't a lot of [codified] experience in the area. The Holy Roman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had some similar power structures, for example, but I imagine that their process of obtaining and distributing funds was fairly different.
Mother Jones has a good summary of what this means for us

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/09/who-gets-screwed...

Some things that surprised me:

* Campers: People living (or vacationing) in national parks and forests will have 48 hours to relocate.

* People who make money off tourists: Shuttered national parks are bad news for the hotels, restaurants, and other attractions that feed off them.

* Employers: The Department of Homeland Security's e-Verify program will be offline for the duration of the shutdown.

* @CuriosityRover: 98 percent of NASA's staff will be furloughed, and the agency's website and live-streams will go dark.

and plenty of more serious things mentioned in the article like

* People on food assistance: The USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) will stop making payments on October 1.
Very interesting if true, any proof/resources?
$150-400 a month from my blog [0]. The highest I earned was $2100 in a month, when the traffic was much higher (~2 years ago).

[0] http://blog.sudobits.com
I don't really know how to respond to this. No one in this discussion said "Keep the government out of Medicare". In fact, as far as I know, no one in the leadership of the Republican party has said it, either, so it would be an odd sort of "motto". But of course you know this.

In contrast, you did ascribe vile racist motives to more or less half the country. Indeed, so racist they'd be willing to destroy the country to fulfill their base aims. All their professed arguments (about, say, the negative effect on hiring triggered by the ACA) are simply a smokescreen. We're lucky our international readership has you to fill them in on this fundamental truth of American politics.

Is this article [dead] yet?
Isn't gov't breaking down actually the broken window? We have to spend more money because of backpay and inefficiencies of a sudden stoppage.
That happened during a very strong economy. The economy now is much more vulnerable. An extended shutdown could tip the US back into recession, partly through primary effects (that is, reduced economic activity from everybody the government pays, and everybody they pay) and partly through secondary ones (e.g., consumers putting off spending and businesses deferring investment until things are more clear).

Also, the threats to force a debt default along with the shutdown are dumbfounding. That would, as The Economist writes, "unleash global financial chaos". Poorly handled, it could be worse than the 2008 crisis, especially given what poor shape Europe is in right now.
If you live in US that might be right, but on the rest of the world?

No sir!
>In fact, you can see this difference play out in slow motion in the Eurozone, which still has not recovered from the financial crisis. Things would have played out very different had their been a Eurozone federal government that provides at least the basic components of the social safety nets.

I don't understand this argument. Are you claiming that there's no social safety nets in Europe? There are and have been and will still be without a federal government (although I like to argue we already have a defacto federal government).

Just because individual member states provide their own social security and finance it through borrowing money from the central bank(s), doesn't really seem that different from a federal government directly providing social safety nets. In fact, most member states have a way better social security net than United States. I could, in theory, just stop working today and get paid about $1200/month in addition to things like practically free health care and university education. Of course, there are poorer member states that have worse social security.
Multiparty sounds great and all. But I'd be happy if they could make a laptop use both a hard-wired Ethernet and a wifi connection at the same time. Is it really that difficult?

Not for bandwidth, I work with embedded systems. If the wifi is active, then it's not possible to connect to an IP address on the Ethernet port (OS X and Win7). Subnet doesn't matter, and re-arranging the priorities of the network devices doesn't help either.
I've heard something about limiting the choice of specialists to a very narrow list or forcing using regional doctors (similar to UK). Is that correct? That's actually pretty bad if true, since people will be barred from choosing a preferred doctor.
I think it's not a matter of having a military but it's relevant how big it is and how much people are working for it (direct or indirect). Keeping the balance. There are so many people working for them or dependent through government contracts in the US, it's shocking (don't know another word for it right now; americans often talk about freedom and free market and so on but so many are dependent on this complex, a huge chunk of their economy is. Like in almost no other country).
http://www.rxlist.com/desoxyn-drug/warnings-precautions.htm

"Methamphetamine should be administered at the lowest effective dosage"

"For treatment of children 6 years or older with a behavioral syndrome characterized by moderate to severe distractibility, short attention span, hyperactivity, emotional lability and impulsivity"

I am not opposed to the treatment of ADHD, and I understand the difference in purity between prescription amphetamines and street drugs, and the difference in effect from treatment dosage vs recreational use, but.. even so, it's a little hilarious to read, given my preconceptions regarding the drug.
Your first point is true in idealized situations. There are many circumstances which contribute to the benefit of incumbents. Regulatory capture, first-mover advantage, cartels, price collusion, asymmetric information are just a few tools inefficient incumbents use against new efficient competitors.

Your example of waste, power, and water are a few cases where people, I think, support the government granted monopoly status. These industries have huge fixed costs and generate large externalities. Reliable waste management is a communal concern with clear risks to public health. I'd rather not have the trash company decide my neighborhood is too far to service weekly and switches to monthly pickup.

Government exists as a function of the people to balance externalities. Does it go to far sometimes? Sure. But when people are actively engaged though government can be a force for good.
So thankful for the Chrome extension. Even more thankful to see some UI projects happening through Github. We use Jenkins every day around the office and I can't count the amount of times someone mentions just how... not pretty... or, worse, confusing the interface can be, especially moving out of jobs you normally focus in. It's a bunch of elements that make sense after a while of using it, but initially it's a bit much.
Ember.js impression
Peru makes book writing into a spectator sport
It's not very significant unto itself. Total government expenditures are about $6.7 trillion per year, between local + state + federal. The years will keep rolling on, and they're all going to keep spending more with little evidence of a good return on investment from the last $50 trillion they spent the prior decade. All greased by the nice annual trillion dollar shot from the Fed propping up the Federal Govt., the housing market (state property taxes, 'wealth effect') and the stock market.

The most interesting thing about the shut down, is that it represents a total government failure of competency. All parties, the Congress, and the President; and not just now, but the last 20 years, leading up to this mess. From George W's hyper spending, to Clinton continuing the grand tradition of stealing from SS inflows to fake balance the budget, to Obama's hyper spending increases while the Democrats had super majority control of the House + Senate while they had the Presidency. Everybody is to blame in DC; the partisans claiming their side is right are to blame as well.
3 points:
1. those others groups with smaller percentage increases currently pay higher premiums.
2. Young men become old men.
3. Young men actually are more likely to have risky behavior that leads to them becoming old men that take money out of the system.

All of these are basically part of the nature of insurance - pooling risk.
> I also see it as a failure of our president not getting the 2 sides to play nicely. Obama should be working with both parties to get the government working. From the media quotes I see from him, Obama is playing the blame game, and not actually working to resolve the issues.

What? Obama had a majority in the senate and the house and still tried to get both parties to work together on obama care. The republicans rejected even the plans that had most of their ideas in them, just because they didn't want obama to get credit. Why would you think he would be able to convince them now?
You should read up on how routing works. In particular - source-based routing.
Do you really think a private police force paid for by a particular group of individuals would be a fair and neutral enforcer of laws?
According to numerous articles, food stamps (SNAP) aren't affected by the shutdown.

School lunches and breakfasts would continue to be served, and food stamps, known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, would continue to be distributed. But several smaller feeding programs would not have the money to operate.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/29/20745618-a-govern...

The USDA said food stamps would not be affected in October.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/28/government-shutdown...
ah yes, al jazeera. New York Times for terrorists.
Out of Endeca, a new crop start-ups take shape
It may just be my laptop, but I was able to get both WiFi and Ethernet working on an HP Elitebook 8460p after toggling a setting in the BIOS.
Please wait for the official one that posts the various threads automatically.
Stepic - An educational platform
Money(Supply) bill - in other countries it forces an election
The problem with the 40% savings figure is that tablet-based operating systems cost around $1k annually. And in the long run, your windows desktop will have an OS more like a tablet than a windows 7 desktop.
> The whole problem comes from Apple not allowing trial apps.

The problem with this hypothesis is that Google (among others) does allow a variety of trial apps (I've bought several). Unfortunately, that isn't having a significant impact on Play Store sales as a whole (especially when considered relative to Apple's App Store sales). Instead, to the extent that the Play Store is closing the gap, it is through a growing user base and improved freemium games (just look at a Top Grossing chart).

Trial apps will certainly help some developers, but they're not a game-changer for most.
And how you able to tell the difference between the 4 and 4S? Are you looking at the seams in the antenna?
If you don't want to look like a conspiracy theorist, you should probably stop making such hyperbolic claims about gerrymandering.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/17/r...
It wouldn't seem in Netflix's (or any company's) best interest to behave like that: essentially, firing someone that has produced, that they're under-paying.

You're under no obligation to share more details, but you'll have to recognize that you have a high burden of proof here if you want others to believe you.

I enjoyed the competition and would do similar ones again.
Well, fundraising is a full time job. Can't expect them to do two jobs, can you?
Fact 1: Government current expenditures directly contribute $5.621 trillion out of $16.6 trillion of US GDP.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/W022RC1A027NBEA?...
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/GDP

Fact 2: State and municipal governments have subsidized borrowing costs via the federal tax exemption. I don't know where you live, but are your state and local governments borrowers? What about the road money from the Federal Government?

Fact 3: Private savings come from public deficits

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=mzu

What if, what if, what if...

Well, you will discover in due time what all of this nets out to and no one will enjoy it. The forces of deflation are far mightier than the forces of inflation for inflation requires persistent and exponentially increasing consumption, fueled by net-borrowing of the combined public and private worlds.

As it turns out, the zombie apocalypse isn't triggered by an infectious disease or rapidly mutating virus. Instead, it's capital destruction via chaining debt defaults.
I think "apropos" is the word.
Jenkins is especially bad with the transparent logos overlapping the butler image. A lot of developer designed tools have a simplicity like Hacker News or infinite possible customizations like X windows. Jenkins has neither of these attributes and often just seems painful to use
Customer: "Our global market share is a pimple on the ass of our competitors. Are there any numbers ANYWHERE that can make us look like, at the least, a full-blown cyst?"

Marketing Exec: "Sure, let's look at the numbers. US...no. EU...no. Asia...no. Africa...no. Middle East...no. Austral--"

Customer: "Stop. Just stop."

Marketing Exec: "It's okay, getting your message and name out there is far more important than the actual numbers. Plus, we'll find positive numbers and trends that we'll plaster in the occasional release. We also still have the stats on individual countries to go through."

Customer: "Okay, let's go down the list and pick some. We've got our astroturfing contractor waiting."
Right - where by 'for years' you mean "was approved for Flight Deck use by the FAA at the end of 2011?