skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The amount of reserves in the system are fixed by the Fed. Reserves can be moved from bank to bank, but the total amount in the system remains the same.
Nutters that are becoming increasingly popular.
> It would be a great way of learning Scala.

For me it is :). I started to learn Scala after finding this nice project.
Since it was so easy to install it (just copied the WAR file in a running Tomcat) it made me curious enough to give Scala a try and also to buy the Scalatra book too :).
Yeah, good luck the the DRM crap - it worked over so well with music (not) and I'm sure it'll fly super fine with video too. Tim Berners-Lee has sold his soul somewhere along the line. Following bit from Florian Bösch comment on article sums it up brilliantly:

"The W3Cs (and Tim Baner Lees) support of EME shows clearly that once again, the W3C has gone down a blind alley (like with XHTML) and is not interested to serve the real needs of the web. The WhatWG was the result of W3Cs stagnation on addressing real world needs. And once again the W3C is more interested in stagnation than real world needs with EME. It has to be expected that the relevancy of any W3C standard will substantially diminish in the future."
In this case, "written in Scala" is already interesting new idea. By the fact it's written in Scala, I already know that it can be run on standard JVM application server stack, that it will need less resources than your standard Ruby implementation and be much more performant and cheaper to maintain if installed locally.
Genepeeks firm to offer 'digital baby' screen for sperm donors
Minimizing page load times with hash-ring-ctypes
> how much safer would this guy be if they'd done the standard 'Hey, you're cool, let's add eachother on Facebook' or 'Can you text me your address'? A minimal digital 'paper trail' would probably give a guy like this a lot of pause, and if he'd been hesitant/weird about those interactions, it'd probably be even more of a clue for even a young guy.

I guess being a serial killer is an iterative process. You start clumsy, and develop the technique. You probably lack the inhibitions that stop you from psychological experiments on people.

I'm sure a plausible liar could persuade me that there was a reason not to give me facebook ("oh, hey, my mom is on there, and she'd ask me questions about all the guys I keep adding" would probably work on me) or other interactions.
I am, can you link to it? :)

I also want to find some research a professor once mentioned, about the traits that employees associated with good managers/bosses (I recall that almost all were personal, almost none technical).
>As long as the Fed is easing, fundamentals don't matter.

Can you point to a metric, besides the obviously flawed Cape-Shiller, that shows the stock market is anywhere near a point where fundamentals "don't matter"?

>This game will end, and badly

Will it? I think it's already ended well, preventing us from going into a deep depression.
Functional Programming course just started on Coursera
Michael Crichton's book Prey might not be too far off.
I agree, we shouldn't reinvent the wheel but it applies to "host of repositories" too :). There are already existing solutions so why spend time to build another one? Also when someone builds a product which does and look the same as another and even the name is very similar, it reminds me the Adidos(http://bit.ly/1aRN2IN) shoes.
My point is at least make a different UI and choose a name which closes out confusion.
Why? Should not the goal be 100% leisure for everyone? I want a fractional allocation of the output of an army of robots, not a job.
I agree. But why not make it double-blind? Make the author anonymous to the reviewer too? Wouldn't that make the most sense?
It was also the code name of the Power Mac 8100.
The Industrial Complex is far too small to be even considered among such players as Litosphere and Biosphere.
He said 'alternative', meaning something that will provide UI to Git. Proposing solution based on another SCM is not really an alternative, it's a completely different thing.
> the medium of a software product is considered interesting as well as the finished product

I get that, and I find things like the demoscene interesting where the medium is a large part of the value -- but in this case (and most cases when stories like this are posted) it seems like a serious business product, where the medium is an implementation detail - the value is in other things like "open source" and "easy to install"
Everywhere is blowing their own horn to try to attract wealth creation. Everywhere wants to be the euro silicon valley. I don't see it in London, for all their crowing, and I expect London is too expensive for collectives of young innovators to amass. Maybe Brighton, if UK. Berlin would seem more likely.
Wacko in the Morning 10/04 by The Wacko Network
The sulphur issue is already being solved, and a solution will be in place by january 1, 2015

http://www.imo.org/OurWork/Environment/PollutionPrevention/A...

This is because of the sulphur emission control laws that will come into action then. Basically, ships will buy scrubbers that clean the exhaust gases, buy low sulphur diesel, or change to a completely different fuel.

The emissions control areas, or ECA:s as they are called, inlude US coasts, the North Sea, the English Channel and the whole Baltic Sea.

This will cause massive cost increases in shipping. Expect your import goods to be expensive and export profits to be less. Yet it will save lots of lives.
EU law allows you get a refund after week for anything you buy online.
The exec$ are doing ju$t fine I'm $ure
What a wonderful way to make lemonade! Thank you for doing this. I hope the site can withstand the onslaught of visitors as I'm sure they'll get more than their fair share at the moment.
New shape-shifting metals discovered
"Democracy" is tyranny of the majority. In our constitutional republics, we have courts as a check on democracy, and that's necessary. Sometimes, those courts strike down programs generally supported by the electorate. Sometimes that's necessary too, but it's always a subversion of democracy.

However, courts ultimately derive their principles of justice from the values and traditions of a people. That's why international tribunals can have no legitimacy. It makes utterly no sense for judges in other countries, representative of people in other countries with different values and traditions, to weigh in on the actions of elected officials in your country. That's why Americans broadly dislike the idea, and I'd guess the majority of Britons do too.
I actually spawn multiple processes thanks to supervisord, which also restarts them if needed.

See https://github.com/steeve/docker-lemp
That series of posts was mostly about miscommunication, we were talking about two different things (compiling the same code using different compilers and compiling the same code using the same compiler), neither of us picked up on the other person's point at the time.

Besides which, are accusing me of being fallible? That's not a difficult task, all humans are so. As to what "the vast majority of the economics profession" believes, I would point out that the track record of that profession in predicting the economic outcome of different decisions is poor at best.
Glad you liked it. Share it with your circle too. Someone might be looking this type of info
Dude, climate always changes. But humans have nothing to influence it in any significant way.
All climate change research is paid by cunny people who create carbon quota trade market out of thin air, and seek political control in their own coutries.

Did the US signed the Kyoto Protocol, I wonder.
The women aren't being exploited- in fact, they are in control.I
>If they stop these purchases there is a widely held belief that the t note rates will increase

The only people calling for a crash when rates return from "historically low" to just plain old "low" are those that depend on these low rates.

It never ends well when you pile in at historical minima/maxima.
19-Year-Old Inventor Finds Way To Clean Up The World's Oceans
Although there is a whole sub-genre where that is the case, it is neither one of the current most popular sub-genres, or a sub-genre that the majority of the current most popular bands play. Folk metal and friends have had their day for now. Various spin-offs of metalcore and deathcore, along with the dying djent, seem to rule at the moment, I reckon.
Prosperity does cause humans to move towards relatively fewer offspring, but only relatively. If the birth rate exceeds the replacement rate by even a tiny fraction in any demographic, the result is exponential growth. And there are prosperous, well-educated demographics with ultra-high birth rates, such as Mormons.
True, but sadly they are popular nutters.

Daly with UK voter turn out being so low (between 60% and 70%) it's not so hard to grab some votes, especially if you spew the kind of stuff that UKIP spew.

It'd be interesting to see some vigorous modelling with different amounts of UKIP influence to see what happens (in the fictitious model).

(http://ukpolitical.info/turnout45.htm)
It saddens me that all the replies to your post are nit-picking over the cold fusion side. I never heard that the arsenic-based life paper had been discredited or had anything wrong with it until I saw this link.

The main point is that someone working at Science wrote a bunch of fake papers and ascribed them to fake African scientists (which bugs me a lot, since it might both assume and create discrimination) and showed that a bunch of open access journals don't do peer review properly but he didn't do the same thing to the conventional journals.

Where's the control group?

Any scientist will tell you over drinks about peers who double-publish, fake data, and force anyone whose work they review to cite their own work. I'm reminded of the scandalous story (in the New Yorker a few years ago, sorry no link) of a famous -- Fields Medallist no less -- mathematician who took over a journal and started publishing his own and disciples' work without review to get the jump on rivals -- and does a science get more assumed credit for perfection than Math?
Entrepreneurial Pieces of Advice from Bijan Sabet, Spark Capital
New Google video: Expanding your site to multiple languages
> I was just wondering about theoretical consequences of cloning UI/tool of a successful company software with the reason of the tool/interface being too expensive.

The UI was not cloned either :). The UI is a Scalatra template (Twirl) and a Twitter Bootstrap style. It could be customized in any possible way and look the user would wish, but so far the developers are concentrating on the basic features.
Adidos? I raise you with Lodidas :)

I know there are other solutions like Gitlab, but from what people are saying here, it is harder to setup & maintain, so I do not feel that this particular product does not bring something new.

Maybe create an open source GitHub/Bitbucket UI that people can use in their projects?
The feature I want the most? Safari's new web inspector.

Everything else is just icing on the cake.
The /good/ managers called things "problems" and knew how to manage people well.

The /bad/ managers never wanted confrontation, were afraid to raise up problems, were autocratic to their reports and nebbishes to their own managers, and never tried to grow their people.

There are managers I regret leaving behind, and managers who I was very happy to see the back of.
MongoDB Raises $150 Million at $1.2 Billion Valuation
Area-User Proportional Map of Online Communities (2007)
>The experts said it couldn’t be done. But research scientist John Romanishin of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has created M-Blocks — cube robots with no external moving parts.

I doubt that the experts were thinking about 1cm blocks when they passed their judgment.
I don't know how the US court system works, but if companies have opposed the orders and have subsequently been paid costs then these court orders are usually "sealed" so the judge wouldn't know of them.

Some companies probably just rolled over and agreed costs directly with the agencies involved.
It does seem to struggle here.

>I'd enjoy clipping my toenails more than paying any more attention to this movie. --> positive

>I'd enjoy clipping my toenails over paying any more attention to this movie. --> negative

If you change "paying" to "giving" it classes that clause as neutral instead of negative, but doesn't change the result.
This might be interesting too:

Pipework

https://github.com/jpetazzo/pipework

Essentially it lets you create private networks between containers which could each run its own service (one for Postgres, one for Redis, etc).
I gave you point because you asked the right question about the timeframe.

Consider it 12000-28000 years. Because this is timeframe between quite regular Ice Ages. And any tech-based civilization is wiped by serious icing event. Its inevitable. Thus it is not hypothetical global warming you shold be afraid of, but global cooling. And it is right about to start. Your grand-grand-grandson must get a skill of flintcnapping from you, not server administration, or stock brokerage, if ou want him live.
If you (the collective "you", not you specifically) did not subvert their property rights through piracy, they would not feel the need to subvert yours through DRM.

It's a mistake to think that content creators are in the business of selling bits and bytes, and then complain about not being allowed to trade those bits and bytes as you would physical property.

The reality is right there in the name: it's called "intellectual" property. What you think you paid for, the disc or the bandwidth or the bits, is simply the medium used to deliver that which what you really paid for.
The model was trained on an English data set, but if you train the same model on some other data, it can handle other languages as well.
10 seconds of extreme trading
Local insignificant event.
But why should a New York judge decide what happens in Alaska or Idaho?
Re: #16, my experience with and in management positions is that we no longer think of managers as people who specialize in management and whose function is to help a pool of natural talent stay coordinated, focused, challenged and rewarded. We instead think of them as people who do 40+ hours a week of their own specialized, non-management work but who also have to do performance reviews. I try to take a mentor/servant/counselor approach with my team, but it's difficult to do and my own experience suggests that it's a fairly uncommon mentality.
Just as 2.1 is around the corner ;-)
We’ve Got 1000 Beta Users and That’s Awesome
This story is for great (non-blockbuster) movie. Almodovar, but with good ending :-)

But it's interesting to think why is author still alive. Is killer possessive gay that is willing to kill guys that are ignoring/rejecting him? Because author didn't reject him as many others that are now in the grave?

Also, even if author is wrong, really interesting and non-intrusive emotional overview.
Why The Right Fights
All projects using the default Twitter Bootstrap styles look very alike :). One could of course using one of the many Bootstrap UI Builders generate a totally different look, but so far nobody volunteered :).
You can also donate to the Open Rights Group here: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/

It's Direct Debit (not credit card / paypal) which means less fees.
Good article, it's nice to start looking forward. And to remain optimistic.

I was never actually a customer, but it clearly filled a need many had. It would be a shame if the void it left isn't filled.

But as covered in this article, it is far more likely that it will be filled and in fact improved on.

The more they tighten their grip ...
No More Night? The Meaning of the Loss of Darkness
You'd be surprised how many large organizations don't have fully functioning disaster recovery scenarios.

Operating active/active is really hard for lots of applications, and having a spare data centre is hugely capital intensive, for little headline benefit.
The sad thing is that after using xmonad for the last few months I'm confident having xmonad style virtual workspaces independent from the monitors is ultimately the best solution.

At one point I want IDE|chat split. The other time Browser|IDE split. The other time IDE|Browser (reversed for better screen exposure). Absolutely perfect.

Plus tiling, tile navigation-resize and no window decorators.

But I'm still looking at the next OS X and hoping to move there just to have all tools in one box. Right now having some of the work in another less configured macbook laptop is wasting my time.
Make A Difference Today
the one that matches your incoming perception.

I never said that Greenspun's "perception" is mine, or that I agree with it.
12. is a tough one, and is the reason that businesses often choose 11.

The danger of soliciting input is that people often couple too much of their ego with their suggestions. You can't possibly go with every suggestion or incorporate all input (because let's face it - most of it is usually poorly thought out), so when you give everyone their say and then have to go a different direction from much of it, people get angry and resentful.

I worked with one chap who literally hung onto his discarded idea about a bit (seriously, a bit field in a database) for years, with it reappearing with a bitter sense of pride with every new database discussion.
> If you think locking up people who like 'shrooms is "The Right Thing", then we have a disagreement.

Just shrooms? Probably not, as long as they don't hurt anyone else.

> Over here in USA we honor a Revolution worthy of the name. Our founding fathers didn't pull that shit.

They also didn't install anarchy, either before, during, or the 2 times they tried after the American Revolution.

I'm not saying that "The State" is always the answer to an issue either. Certainly there are issues which can and should be properly resolved at the lowest possible level (believe me, I'm familiar with those too as a former Navy division officer... a lot of what I did was have to make decisions to avoid getting involved in minor spats between sailors that they should figure out themselves).

But when directed action on the part of the people is necessary, either to protect the public welfare, avoid being abused by Big Business, etc., there is no substitute for the state, and it must be empowered accordingly.

Witness the collective societies that succeed in nature. They don't succeed based on "what's best for the individual", they succeed based on "what's best for the colony". E.g. the example of Japanese honey bees vs. giant hornets. And don't mistake the apparent lack of overseers as each one working for itself and just happening to develop the needed emergent action. They're working by the rules alright... it's just that their rules are 'baked in'.
Sticking the "unelected" qualifier on "judge" as if there is no distinction between law and politics betrays a lot of prejudice. Judges in the EU aren't directly elected anywhere, as far as I know.

Human Rights law in the EU serves much the same role as constitutional law does in the US: an underlying set of values that the behaviour of the government must be consistent with. Article 8 ECHR serves much the same role as the US 4th Amendment in limiting searches.

Besides, if there's genuine consensus the rules can be changed and the judiciary have to go along with that.
"The W3C is the guardian of the world wide web"...

I completely disagree. You are the guardian. Every one of us is the guardian.

"Guarding the web" isn't in the W3C's mission at all: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/mission.html They design standards used internationally. That's it.
Ok, sometimes kew is faster, sometimes bluebird, submitted a PR
Website translator
Are there any other good translator APIs available other that google. The issue we have is that when you click on the language it covers the header. If you make the header floating then its hard to navigate the site as we have infinite scroll for images in the bottom. Any suggestions?
Inside the Arctic Circle, Where Your Facebook Data Live
This isn't related to the library, but promises in Javascript are much different than what I learned about promises in Scheme. In Javascript, promises seem to be about asynchronous operations. In Scheme (and other languages?), promises are used for lazy evaluation. Scheme provides the delay and force forms for this. Now I need to make sure that I don't get confused about this in the future.
There are lots of C constructs that are considered bad practice in C++

- null terminated strings

- plain vectors

- manual management of resources (memory, files, db connections, locks...)

- C style casts

- pre-processor instead of using inline/const/templates

- the C subset of C++ it is also not 100% compatible with C, there are a few cases with different semantics

- since C99, new language constructs are added via macros, instead of keywords

- no use of namespaces

- lack of safety of parameters that can be changed (pointer vs reference parameters)

The best way to learn C++ is to read books like "Modern C++ Design", "Programming -- Principles and Practice Using C++" and the recently published "Tour of C++".
That's my preference as well, I just prefer upstart to supervisord. Does anyone know how to start it offhand? It's probably just as easy as running the upstart daemon.

EDIT: Well, supervisord looks straightforward, and you only need a single config file for everything. You have swayed me, thank you for that. This will do perfectly, I will try it today.
I really wish this wasn't restricted to Windows servers... it's too bad, cause I doubt GitLab is planning on mercurial support anytime soon.
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Arctic circle. OK. Cool.
Totally agree! I think we (human beings) have this mechanism to compare ourselves to others and think we are better than the others. I noticed it several times, for myself as other people.
If you want only to listen, USB DAC is good option.
Buy sabre based diy[1]. It's simple and uses great components - best reciver and best in its budget class dac.

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> For instance, prisoners were frequently asked to make statements so mildly anti-American or pro-Communist as to seem inconsequential (“The United States is not perfect.” “In a Communist country, unemployment is not a problem.”).

This is a great technique because most people's beliefs about most things are shallow and weak. Anyone even slightly versed will quickly flip those ("You know what we call a system with no unemployment? Slavery.") but you can chip away at what seems like very fundamental convictions (democracy, human rights, capitalism, heliocentrism...) with relative ease because most people have never been confronted with any half-intelligent criticism of those.

Partially, it's a problem of our education system rewarding recitation of canonical answers. Fundamentally, humans have not evolved to be philosophers.