skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Let's not forget the "oops, sooo the British actually aren't with us on this one" part either. But everyone sacrifices a little bit to gain something much more important.

- Obama took one on the chin and temporarily looked inept, but in the long run, no one will remember the war he didn't start, and both parties get to forget about that awkward time they were forced to advocate for positions opposite of traditional party lines.

- Russia lost a the ability to prevent any action against its increasingly isolated stoolpidgeon, but got some much needed diplomacy cred, and a distraction from its very public human rights issues.

- Assad doesn't risk provoking a multilateral military action against his government, but also gains a pretext to prevent proliferation of weapons that have become a huge liability, and some much needed legitimacy as the "grownup" in Syria.

I'm not a new world order guy, but I do absolutely think that there are times when unfriendly nations work through the backchannels to prevent things that are just awful for everyone.
I'm the author of the book...

It may be fairly simple for you to change your design to generate a static call graph for the nodes using topographical sort. Then on each "tick" you simply execute each node, in order, from top to bottom.

I always like to use a stack to schedule execution because I can then change the algorithm that schedules them to use a very different method.

- Matt Carkci
Theoretical Physicist Talks Quantum Computing Future
Middle class is virtually gone, so what do you think happens when the vultures circling see that all government protection is gone from their prey?

The red ink is from everything that is still running right now, ie. the military industrial complex.
Or, for students, their student government. For most US College Students, the student government likely makes more important decisions than any other.
This is really cool. While it's obviously aimed at people making ads (which makes sense for Google), this seems very useful for any kind of interactive element on a web page. I'm pretty sure I'll use it.
By "disasters like in Tennessee," you're referring to a family that lost their home in a fire due to not paying a business for their fire-fighting services.

It's not as if they paid the firefighters, but the firefighters refused to act--if that were the case, there would be a serious civil lawsuit to recoup the cost of the lost home, its sentimental value, and punitive damages.

He didn't pay for fire-fighting. He didn't have enough insurance. And somehow, this is someone else's fault.
Is there anything you wish you had done different before it got to that point? I am sorry for your loss but these things usually do not just come out of the blue. There is usually a lot of history, history which could have potentially gone different.
Obamacare could help fuel a tech start-up boom
Agreed- it's a huge stretch to call it one of the most successful marketing campaigns in history. I do think it will be remembered though, as this will likely mark a big jump in budgets of advergames. Advergames themselves are nothing new.
All other companies (especially US based ones, which are almost all) are involved in the whole NSA thing. Surface 1 wasn't successful yes, can't tell about 2. Windows 8 sales aren't bad on desktop, let's wait how surface 2 does. Windows Phone doing better and better (yes, after really lame start).

I am not saying MS is doing everything right or didn't make mistakes but they are (slowly) learning and adopting. And since it's Microsoft they have a long breath.
So I've been waiting for my email to come but it hasn't.

I looked at this old thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4594853

And found this RSVP link: http://news.ycombinator.com/susrsvp

Clicked it. And apparently I was accepted, and it let me RSVP. Please let this be real and don't take it away.
These sound like very good ideas. I'll see if I can get them implemented. Thanks for the suggestions.
What has surprised me about this issue is how so much of the media has automatically adopted the Democrats narrative (especially on point #1, see below). Surprisingly, the media stories covering this shutdown are actually pretty fair in their summary (at least with respect to point #1).

The Democrat narrative has at least three elements:

(1) The House Republicans are unwilling to compromise and will shutdown the government if they can't get rid of Obamacare. (2) This will ruin the economy. (3) America should pay its bills.

So much of the media has ignored the Republican narrative:

(1) Senate Democrats and the President are unwilling to compromise and will shutdown the government if they can't keep all of Obamacare. (2) Excessive government spending hurts the economy. (3) Going deeper into debt is not paying ones bills.

Like I said, surprisingly the latest blurbs about the shutdown actually focus on Congress as a whole not being able to compromise and come to an agreement instead of focusing only on the GOP or Tea Party.
Yes, because privatization worked so well for the prison system.
They can't read at 4 or 5?
And argumentation by loaded, leading questions is better because...?
What do you get if you divide science by God?
One downside: it shafts young men uninsured through their employers (read: a considerable part of the HN demographic) pretty hard: http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/14/news/economy/obamacare-premi...
One of the roles of the federal government is to redistribute funds from states that have populations to tax to states that don't. It's difficult to "tax more", if there's no one to tax (e.g. Montana).

It's no coincidence that the most rural, most Republican states are massive consumers of federal funds (via farm subsidies and transportation subsidies, mainly) and the most urban, most Democratic states are net producers of federal funds.
I also recall something about private tax debt collectors who basically took peoples homes. Some things should not be privatized or "optimized" for maximum efficiency.
Police State Programs Not Affected by a US Government Shutdown
They feel pretty confident, because they gerrymandered the hell out of the country's electoral map in the 2010 redistricting. That's how they currently have a majority in the House: there is a significant overall preference among the voters for Democrats, but the electoral map has been drawn so as to concentrate Republican voters and break up blocs of Democratic voters, ensuring that they will have enough "safe" districts to retain control of the House at least until the 2020 redistricting.
How is JavaScript different from Java?
This whole article is not HN material, really. You can see why, too: most of the comments are extremely predictable, and predictably bad.
> a president who isn't even qualified to run a cookie baking operation

Obama's at 811,417,118.8 Cps in Cookie Clicker - what have you done that's so great?
Since the basics of the ACA are identical to plans Republicans put forth multiple times over the past few decades, the downside is Republicans will be caught in the trap of being violently against something that was both A) their idea originally and B) has been shown to be quite popular among voters once they learn what it actually does.

Thus the Republican party has committed to stopping implementation at all costs.
> and frustratingly, it doesn't seem to actually link to the research that it mentions either, nor even provide enough a citation to find it

Citations don't sell. Sex, violence, and realistic-sounding, baseless, faulty journalism does. Welcome to the 20xx's. :)
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Someone else might rephrase that as "no matter how dysfunctional our government becomes it will go to any length to ensure that those people who are asked to die in its name still receive the token remuneration promised them."
I think we got off on the wrong foot here, and I find that I am pursuing this to absurdity. I'm gonna try and set this right.

In a sense, you are right, there is nothing about javascript that makes it particularly suitable for programming hardware. Nothing at all, for many reasons that you kind of hinted at but, as you say, never really went into in any depth.

The main plus for javascript, is that it's accessible to people who already know javascript, and there's quite a lot of them. The other plus, potentially, is that existing software may be able to run on it. However, as I pointed out in a much much older comment, truly, it's not clear to me really what the use cases for this device are, other than that it's a way to run javascript on hardware, and some people might want that. (as I point out in another more recent comment, if it were my own project I would have chosen differently)

My goal was, initially, to just try to turn the conversation away from language wars toward actually discussing the device. and its merits. I have clearly failed.

What I've been trying to get you to do was, rather than just say "I don't think javascript is suitable", to actually go into some detail about that. over time you revealed that you believe that being able to deal natively with binary protocols is a core feature of a language suited for hardware.

While I concede that this is a late added feature to javascript, it is a core feature of node.js, which is the api this hardware device purports to emulate. node.js is a kind of defacto standard at this point, which is good enough. To my knowledge there are no standards documents for lua, python or ruby and people have no problem using those languages.

So what else is there that gives you the willies? You seem to believe you know something, trying to impart some knowledge you have, but I can't get at what it is, because you may have assumed you said all kinds of things you haven't actually said. (such as, the assumption that I needed to intuit, about binary protocols)
I apologize if this is inflammatory, but: "I guess when you have a president who isn't even qualified to run a cookie baking operation" -- this is where you lost all my interest, hyperbole or not.
It appears that you don't think I should be allowed to share opinions of my own. This is curious, given your clear opposition to the trappings of oppression.
I went to FIT (2004-2008) and moved to SF last May. Twitter contact's in my profile if you wanna meet up!
So like 1% of the Federal government (by spending, just making this number up) is going to be closed.

National parks, EPA, WIC, and Housing and Urban Dev.

99% of the federal government (by spending) will remain open, including:

US Military, Food stamps, Unemployment benefits, Social Security benefits, TSA, air traffic control, border patrol, Federal Reserve, and the Post Office.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/09/30/227884483...
In .NET bytecodes are always compiled to native code before execution, there aren't any interpretation steps like in other management environments.

By default, MSIL gets compiled to native code on load via a JIT compiler. The developers that care about performance on startup, can choose to use ngen at installion time, thus taking the JIT out of the equation.

The only issue with ngen is that it isn't able to perform all optimizations that the JIT is capable of.

So this new JIT improves the current JIT and most likely, the optimizer will also be used by ngen.
Super excited about CORS and sourcemaps on all of the CDNs.

Once all vendors get onboard with reasonable native exception tracebacks life is going to be so much better.

Still a long ways to go, but great to see people making progress.
Or any loan. The IRS will not be providing your lender with a tax return transcript and your closing will be delayed. I just closed on a conventional loan and the sequester already was delaying the process.
I'm not arguing the position, I was providing a few examples where people can reasonably disagree with the story that was presented as obvious and definitive and educational.
I see it as all parties involved not working together to come to a compromise. Saying it's just one groups fault is not looking at the bigger picture. If there are members of congress that were elected under the notion of fighting a single law (such as ObamaCare), that should be a message that a large portion of the country does not like the law.

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.

The entire federal legislative branch is at fault for the shutdown, not just a select group that you call out. There has always been divide within congress, but the current congress can't figure out how to play nicely together.
This is a particularly massive point right now.

With 46 million people dependent on food stamps, the only thing separating the US from great depression style bread lines right now is that single program. Especially with the huge plunge in the labor force participation rate and the U6 being at 14%.

The downside to that is program is, the Federal Government is masking just how bad the US economy really is, with a trillion dollars a year of stimulus help from the Fed. Many people believe the economy is healthier than it really is when they read the fake unemployment number of 7.3%.
Government Shuts Down as Congress Misses Deadline
Obviously it would be better to keep things as-is, with non-employer-provided insurance ranging from difficult to impossible to obtain at any price :)
And it is not stupid theater. It is our government NOT at work. We may temporarily recover some of our debt. In fact, if they keep this going for an extended period of time, it might actually help- a lot. Our country has become much too dependent on our government,

And tell me, when was the nation not dependent on its government? When did this era of "rugged individualism" you speak of exist? Right from its very inception, the US government has been intervening in the economy and subsidizing things that the voters deemed desirable. If the US government has grown, it is because the US has grown. You need a larger government when there are 300 million people in the country than when there are 30 million.

there may actually be room for another socially moderate, somewhat fiscally-conservative, deficit hawk, constitutionalist, semi-libertarian party

So... you want a party of magic faerie unicorns to come along and set everything aright. Er, well, good luck with that.
Java is to JavaScript as ham is to hamster
"Isn't there anything in the US constitution to break deadlocks? "

Angry constituents, generally.
I never understood where people got this idea from.

You can target WinRT with the usual set of .NET languages, the only difference being the classes one uses.

Does C stop being C, if you don't use libc?
No debt will be recovered. They will include a back pay clause when the funding is finally passed and everyone will get payed as if they had worked anyway.

Edit: spelling
Yes, the family had not paid the insurance. But why does that matter in the context of the blanket claim that private companies can always do at least as good of a job as a government organization with less waste?

A city firefighting crew would not refuse to put out this fire so it is an example of a service that was provided at a lower quality in the private market due to market incentives.
Well, Obama and his Administration finally made a 4th quarter, last ditch effort -- after reading the polling tea leaves -- to appear as if they have a spine.

However, I think both parties may be surprised in the next elections to find just how much in disgust the U.S. public holds them.

That is, if the voters that put them there can finally remove their heads from their asses.

A primary responsibility of government is a certain degree of stability and predictability. We haven't had that in years.

As for the yahoos in D.C. I'm very tired of their self-serving "tantrums". Fuck them all.
We get half senate elections, not 1/3, but a similar result with the senate being out of step with the reps. Which is why in a crisis the double dissolution is a whole senate election to try and get things moving again. It seems odd that the President, being head of state, would not have similar powers to the Crown/GG to dismiss a dysfunctional parliament to resolve deadlocks. Too much power wrapped up in the presidency then I guess.

Similar problems happen all around the world where there is a minority government or an upper house blocking supply bills. The unusual thing with the US is the lack of constitutional mechanisms to resolve the problem before the government has to shut down. It seems odd that the writers of the constitution didn't recognise the problem.
>They require different plug-ins.

I wonder what JavaScript plugin is the best
You guys are so far out of touch with the reality of most people.
Steady growth is the expected economic baseline. Wild swings in growth, both positive and negative, cause instability. Instability also reduces long-term growth, because the harder it is to predict what will happen, the less people invest.
NGen invokes the JIT compiler, so your install time (and .NET servicing time) should be quite a bit lower, once we release RyuJIT as part of the full .NET Runtime. Probably less important, but still important enough for a lot of customers to complain :-)
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7 years.

KILL ME
Look, I'm sorry, but let's take an extreme example here to demonstrate how you are arguing something different than I am: if you are seriously trying to tell me that you have an easier time analyzing the source code for "grep" vs the binary for "false", something is seriously seriously wrong; the binary for false can seriously be less than 50 bytes large. If you show me an open source system and a closed source system, they are not going to be identical but for that one variable: that is just one of many variables.

Again, differently, you are again falling into the same problem of looking at this as a "single issue voter": open-source X vs. closed-source X. My complaint is that people go "omg, no source code, I can't trust this" as this knee jerk reaction, as if this is the only variable by which you should be evaluating your potential risks. In the real world, you are going to be comparing using this to other solutions, some open source, some closed source, and attempting to decide which one is more or less secure. Does being closed source affect your guess as to its security? Sure. But does it affect your guess more than some other key variables? I argue not.

That people then outright dismiss something closed source like "lolololololo" are being ludicrously over-simplistic in their view of where security comes from and how people audit systems, and the people like "Karunamon" who decide that it is "suspect", which assigns direct motives to the idea that they are somehow attempting to hide something in their closed source binary, don't understand the threat model.

Other people on this thread, like "bigiain", are even talking about the NSA leaving some kind of detectable backdoor in this closed source binary: that's insane... if the NSA were actually going to leave a backdoor, it wouldn't be something you'd ever look be able to look at, even with complete source code, and realize that it gives them complete control. At best, you'll find it as a "bug", assume it was a "mistake", and fix it, and they'll already have others as backup.
There are no federal firefighters and beat cops outside DC.
Repo was starred in a heartbeat.
800,000 people are getting furloughed and another 1 million are being asked to work without pay. That's pretty significant.
Again you stick to the quotes from 1930 written by others about him. Jesus is "the personal god" to Christians, not just a human with the attractive message who doesn't resurrect. Einstein writes in his own book which he authorizes in 1949:

"I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls."

and Einstein explicitly wrote in 1954:

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated." (The texts written by others claiming that he was "believer" were published during his life too, just like Wikipedia does it now. The statement continues:)

"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly." (That obviously refers both to the God of Old Testament and Jesus as Christians understand him "a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves").

"If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."

Further on, also in 1954:

"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. These subtilised interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the original text."

And then he dies in 1955. He was cremated immediately, which was his wish: http://npaphistory.wikispaces.com/file/view/New+York+Times+o...

That's as clear as it can be.
The power of legislators to delay funding in situations like this should be curtailed.
confort =! readability

comfort is keeping short attention span people just clicking around and looking at pictures.
I think you underestimate the level of effort required to develop and maintain a quality app. Every year around this time my life gets real hectic. I would not do it for no money. I think the app store gold rush days are just about over. A couple people on a wing and a prayer who got in very early on have gone on to do pretty well. But an indie dev with no distribution is going to find a pretty cold welcome in the app store. And a pro is going to figure out a way to make the books balance, either via exploiting engagement however they need to, or freemium, or cutting effort expended.
Yes, I knew about the registers. I guess I overestimated the number of applications that involve large number computations.
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Actually, that would be S40
Probably not as much as you seem to think. The last banking crisis originated in the US, but it didn't hit the non-US nearly as hard. In many ways, the US is actually very self-contained and in the backlash from its recent crisis, many countries have kind of separated themselves a bit.

But it would be bad, yes. Though I don't hink the US would 'take down' Asia or Europe.
If there are members of congress that were elected under the notion of fighting a single law (such as ObamaCare), that should be a message that a large portion of the country does not like the law.

Or, alternatively, there is a small fraction of the country willing to do whatever it takes to overrule the wishes of the majority, even if it means shutting down the government. It's childish. President Obama was re-elected in 2012. Rather than acknowledge the fact that they lost this battle, the Republicans are willing to do whatever it takes to re-fight (and re-lose).
Subscription based services are an alternative, but then you really don't the the ease of redistribution to friends and stuff.

Of course whatever floats your boat as long as there's some sort of compensation for the media one is ingesting. I don't really mind non-intrusive ads all that much.