skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree about the crowdfunding idea; very often I find myself saying/attributing "Kickstarter" when I really mean "crowdfunding" :)

Thanks for the Git-Annex link - didn't know he ran a campaign on his own after doing it on Kickstarter.
I get that it's supposed to be funny but if you want to, for example, do anything on Android, then the answer is most definitely yes.
My old department at the UvA did the same in the past, new sysadmin changed it to European capitol cities. (I'll never lose muscle memory for typing sandshrew and farfetch.) Come to think of it, the DNS server should've been called PokeDex...

(btw, the mail infra consisted only of carebears... I'm looking at YOU J.P.!)
There is a paper from Dirk Bezemer about who predicted the crises:

http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15892/1/MPRA_paper_15892.pdf

Edit: I certainly wish Steve Keen would get the prize. He is the Keynes of our time. But man can only dream.
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> "Oh, he says he was in charge of WordPress interface design for two years. Using WordPress causes me pain. I expect this product to be painful."

Sadly, this is too common of a fallacy in judgment, and one that seems most non-fallacious on its face. But whether we want to admit it or not, sometimes output and achievements are highly impacted -- even dependent -- on the organization and institution than the individual. So someone highly successful at Apple retail, for example, may flounder at JCPenney's (http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/11/12/a-dose-of-realism-for...).

So it goes both ways. It's wrong to argue that someone who was great at once place will necessarily be great at another. And conversely, someone who's work turned out awful at one place (either by poor management or design-by-committee), may flourish in different circumstances
Yeah, my bad, I assumed you could. send me a message on twitter. @thecolorblue.
Avoiding PHP is what sold it to me.
Also, the ORM appears to have a Postgres backend, which I like a lot better than being locked into MySQL like with Wordpress.
I'd be interested to read a counter-case; he seemed to at least give citations.
Excellent article. Wish I had this when we started working on Nephorider Putting together all in one place and with a clear vision is certainly a non easy task.
Of course… Literary fiction is way better than popcorn culture escapism popular fiction, on a serious perspective. However, I believe, on understanding others, the best books are still those nonfiction books which try to directly analyze and cut the clutter. Literary fictions are subtle and lengthy, tending to be misunderstood, but nonfiction books/articles are the most effective in conveying the knowledge. Also I can't help but feeling this study very loose.
Not sure what the status is, but at some point Valve (yes the video game company) wanted to use their games to test economic theories: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/it-all-began-with-a...

Obviously not the real thing, but interesting to note.
The author is my colleague Mat - https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=matsadler

He's one of those quiet geniuses that we feel exceptionally lucky to have as part of our team.
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If the iPhone 5c is so new, why isn't it selling better than the 4S last year?
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Sorry, but that's just mindboggingly stupid. They could have done something (slightly) more interesting, e.g. xyz.shouldIlearnIt.com and replace the xyz in the answers by whatever the string in the hostname was.

As it stands, this unjustified hate in a particular technology comes across as childish.
I'd gamble Netflix has done more for his fame than his art.
> but we've done poorly when it comes to health, happiness, spirituality, environment etc.

Medicine has never been better, small children almost don't die anymore, and epidemics are extremely rare.

People are the happiest they have ever been.

Spirituality needs to die out with the old philosophies and lay together with all the other mythologies of the centuries.

Environment have never been cared more than it is cared about now. There are many species of animals who have been literally saved by the preservation of their natural habitats. Many governments are pushing towards cleaner technologies, less and less electricity proportionally is being produced by burning fossil fuels.

> More people are unhappy/depressed, more people are obese

These all are first world problems. These problems can be solved by the people themselves.

> most of us are addicted to technology/cheap entertainment, most of us consume way more than we produce etc

No, MOST of us produce more than consume. But there are small part of world population that consumes large part of world production. Countries like US and few others to be specific. If you are from that country, then congratulations, you got lucky.
People who know both languages well, also know that they are different enough to not be casually lumped together like that.
You can also just select GNOME Classic for example on login without having to install anything.
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This is old, still mrdoob's site is always worth checking out.
http://www.mrdoob.com/
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Screenshots are to a mobile app what a poster is to movie
They also run some interesting ads on that site: http://activistpost.net/teslasecret/
BTW, enko is referring to Part 2: http://globaldev.co.uk/2013/09/ruby-tips-part-2/

And I agree...I've been programming in Ruby for awhile and only lately had learned about the `Array()` conversion, which I learned through Avdi Grimm's "Confident Ruby" book (he blogged about Array several years ago: http://devblog.avdi.org/2009/10/21/array-ifying-values/).

Such a small thing, but as you note, can greatly impact the cruft in your error-checking interfaces.
I wonder how many people making this claim are willing to apply it to geology, oceanography, climate science, astronomy and epidemiology?
I don't like the implied threat stuff going on here. I may look for a different ad blocking solution. But that article was pretty shrill.

As far as I'm concerned, most online advertising is malware.
Ditto, xP. Although, I imagine in 5-10 years solar will be a big player in energy, so I'm trying to stay current. Just gotta make it through the next 5-10 years.
"That's why we don't think the network will be taken over by child porn. You have to have someone accept what's on your node in order for them to pass your traffic around," he says. [1]

So instead of a guaranteed right to access information freely we make every mesh node a potential censor.

I do not want to depend on the likes or dislikes of mesh participants to be able to access or distribute information.

Here seems something fundamentally broken by design. I hope, I am misunderstanding the concept.

[1] http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929294.500-meshnet-a...
An admin in a research lab where I was an intern had used negative emotions as a naming scheme.
Anger
Despair
Fear
etc.
until someone on his day off created a machine called 'lol'.
I think I noticed all the previous hostnames in his face when he found out about that one...
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What claims did Fama make that you believe are wrong, and why?
For someone who has never used wordpress before, it can be hard to get started. Understanding the difference between a tag and a catagory. navigating the menu. Compare it to tumblr. Tumblr has a much better user experience.
Frankly, I hate advertising -- ALL advertising, not just web advertising -- and want the advertising industry to die in a fire. I recognize this is a bit controversial, especially with Americans (who seem unable to conceive of content industries that can exist in the absence of advertising: the BBC and the entire book publishing industry apparently exist in a cognitive blind spot), but advertising is mostly oriented around selling us stuff we don't want or need, and as such it shares many characteristics with spam; it's insidious, intrusive, tries to steal your attention, and works by instilling uncertainty and self-doubt.

Yes, 90% of the web would die without advertising -- but I think we'd be better off with just the 10% left over, because it'd be the best 10% (the stuff that has a viable business model that works without advertising).
> It'll be owned by a shell company in the Vigin Islands or some other tax haven & only the ownership of the company will ever change hands so no stamp duty will be due in the UK.

I believe this isn't true any more. Legally, stamp duty will be due at 15% in this case.

Of course, whether this is enforceable, whether the authorities make any effort to enforce this (as opposed to it being a nice sounding law to appease the public), and whether the people involved actually report these transactions are entirely different matters, and I wouldn't be optimistic.
I too was unaware of Array(), what an awesome little function! Definitely gonna read this series from the beginning.
This isn't about what he is saying, but how he is saying it:

This bit bothered me: "Wikipedia does a great job of explaining it:" then has a quote from an actual source, that happens to be block-quoted on the Wikipedia page. If the part you quote was directly said by Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder, attribute it to them.
Safari gets Nitro, Apple's JIT, but historically it has been unavailable to apps (via UIWebView) for security reasons. I'm unsure if the new Objective-C JavaScriptCore API gets Nitro.
Actually what I want ideally is the admin interface to be a Node app. For drafts use sqlite. For scheduling use sqlite. When I hit publish I want it to generate static assets.

The blog itself I don't need to be served by the Node app, Apache or Nginx can do that fine.
As it stands, this unjustified hate in a particular technology comes across as childish.

I think that's the point.
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This is a joke. It's not a Nobel Prize. It's a propaganda award given to promote economics.

I have a question, how many "Nobel Prize" winning economists does it take to lose billions of dollars in a hedge fund?

The answer: 2.

Why? Because economists are generally idiots and don't worry about "real world" applications. They just enjoy listening to themselves talk and win awards.

Edit: I just looked over the paper. They make no predictions about the future. They just say "it is possible to make longer term predictions."

Again, since they don't make any predictions, how can this be considered science?
if you don't want to support eyeo there's a fork of ABP called adblock edge.

works just as well, without the acceptable ads racket
I've been happily using Adblock Edge (a fork of ABP without the acceptable ads feature): https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/

I allow ads on sites I support and respect, and everyone else gets blocked. I'd rather do that myself than have ABP decide that for me.

Unfortunately ABE is not available for Chrome (see https://bitbucket.org/adstomper/adblockedge/issue/23/adblock...), so I still use ABP on Chrome. Is there an alternative out there yet?
On The Perils of isEmpty (or isBlank) in Objective-C
...as long as the categories are narrowed to dipshit, narcissist, fundie, and smug pedant.
You can set config.force_ssl = true to easily enable secure session cookies and strict transport security amongst other things.
I find it interesting that we're still using water to transfer the energy. Has there been much research into finding better ways to create electricity than stream => turbine? Is there anything interesting happening in this area?

It just seems to me that the process of turning water to steam to impart kinetic energy to a turbine is incredibly wasteful, and all we seem to be researching are fancier turbines. I would love to be shown otherwise.
I'm like this professionally too; in fact it's my professional experience that informs this political view (I was a fairly gung-ho socialist before I became a professional developer). Attempting to fundamentally re-architect a software system almost always ends in disaster - I've seen it happen, or http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html is the standard reference.

What works? Incremental changes that you can make while keeping the current system running. It's ok if you have some grand masterplan behind your changes, but try and make sure those small changes will be valuable even if you have to abandon the grand plan, or change its direction. So I now approach politics this way, and it feels like this is a more mature position, not less.
It depends. If the image is innocent then i'll let it pass. But if it is in any way compromising then yes that's abusing my privacy.
I have seen this at the (shameless) Spring textbooks table at CRYPTO, and it seems to be useful as a reference (the few times I have checked it out of the library):

http://www.hyperelliptic.org/HEHCC/

It is a bit pricey though.
As an alternative, I switched to Adblock Edge: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/
In linux you could write a script with xdotool to select the window you want and spam whatever key/sequence of keys you would like.
Perhaps the triple-click shortcut is turned off for some reason, though a quick search indicated that it was on by default in iOS 6 and 7. Normally double-click is enough to show all running apps.

You could check in Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Accessibility Shortcut.
Rediscovering a Project from 2005...
Can you explain rule #3?

"Devops SHOULD work with engineering teams to come up with continuous deployment strategy that doesn’t involve the destruction and creation of fresh operating systems."

Why should one avoid a deploy process that destroys and creates an OS? Can you give an example?

I'm using MS Azure and one of the PaaS solutions is a "Cloud Service", where you give them your code and a definition file that describes what the OS should look like. They then provision you a fresh VM. Takes about 5 minutes to do a deployment. A bit time consuming but overall I find the process really convenient.
Be careful with Array() since it uses #to_a method whenever it exists. As such, this trick is unsuitable for array of hashes (in any version of ruby) and strings (in ruby 1.8).

Other Enumerables might make for unpleasant surprise too.

Old mootools had $A method (called Array.from now) which did exactly what you expected.
To "guess" is one thing but to get it correctly is another. Of course popcorn literature won't help you anything on understanding humanity, but I doubt whether literary classics tend to create some misunderstanding and confusion. Still the most effective way to improve your understanding of others is to read direct books which talk about understanding others.
Hotmail is still one of the top three webmail providers. Sad, but true.

WebTV was just too early. It wanted to be a tablet experience on a TV with a remote keyboard. What it should have been is modern day AppleTV/Roku (which wasn't possible back then with dialup and 1.5M DSL speeds).
I'd imagine poor people had basically 0 access to computers in the 1970's.
Anyone else is a serial attender? Any further tips to share? please let me know! I'm really keen on adding more tips and hints in the next couple of weeks!
And I find that this means the entire build out of the web server is scripted. Meaning at any time we always know what settings are involved, and what 3rd party dependencies should be setup and how they should be configured, ACL's, etc.

This also makes scaling the # of instances up/down literally as easy as updating a single line in a config script, or adjusting a slider in the admin portal.
>>Why is money being spent on contraception when people are starving?

As some one staying in a Developing nation(India), I can absolutely attest to the fact that excess population is root of all problems. Poor people have kids when they can't afford to raise them, give them education, health care or even as simple a necessity like food. The net result is poverty, which worsens with every kid they have.

If you look at it closely, many a times its due to total ignorance about contraceptive methods.

So educating the poor, especially in third world nations is actually a very nice way of tackling poverty. I would have great respect for people who are involved in spreading information and educating poor people about such methods.
There are many, many people who use C and rarely or never use C++. Most embedded work is done in C, the Linux and BSD kernels are in C, etc. There are a variety of reasons for this, with audit-ability and debug-ability being two big ones. Code space is also a reason, although there are ways to make C++ mostly behave the way you want it to on all but the teensy tiniest platforms (although the resulting code is sometimes a questionable upgrade over just writing the thing in C). A great number of language interpreters are also written in C rather than C++ (cpython being one of them) - easier bindings are one reason for this.

As another datum, where I went to school the intro to CS data structures and algorithms courses were taught in C++ and the operating systems course was taught in C. In my day to day work I use C and a tiny bit of assembly (more reading than writing).
Indeed.

I'd hate to think my tweets like "Black Eyed Beauty #AddAWordRuinAMovie" would be used without context to build up a personality profile.

In general, this research doesn't seem much more sophisticated than building a personality profile off of a vocabulary pulled from a very small subset of language usage.
I did a similar thing a while ago (inspired from this experiment) on the website of the institute where I'm working at: http://loopasam.github.io/experiments/ebi-gravity/
> But the problem is precisely that the flats aren't even rented out; they're just left sitting empty

Are they? According to the London Empty Homes Audit, january 2012 done on behalf of the GLA, there were 11202 units sitting empty in London at the time. londoncouncils.gov.uk on the other hand reports almost 80,000, or about 2.4% of units based on numbers from emptyhomes.com. Either way that seems way too small for property investors leaving flats empty being a big problem, especially given that a lot of these empty units are very obviously empty for other reasons, such as being in very undesirable state or bad locations. E.g. I very much doubt the 6k total that the source of the 80k number lists for Newham and Tower Hamlets is due to foreign investors (unless someone got scammed good).

Looking at the numbers for the rest of England from the same source indicates that London is middle of the tree in terms of percent of properties left empty compared to other regions, which you wouldn't expect to see if foreign investors was a particular problem in London. So either they're just as much of a problem elsewhere, or they're not having much impact in London.

The 80k source also breaks out the number of properties empty more than 6 months, and that is down to about 34k. Furthermore about 1/4 of empty properties are owned by the councils, housing associations or other semi-public bodies. So the percent of the total available properties left empty by investors necessarily can't be very high. Lets assume the councils etc. never leave their properties empty more than 6 months (yeah, right), and the whole 34k number is investors, as opposed to owners temporarily living out of country etc. - that is still just barely 1% of the market.
And now I dread seeing a sourceforge link on a project site. Absolutely, chest-clenchingly dread.
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Wordpress's admin page feels like you are fighting just to post something.

???

1) Log into admin area (usually /wp-admin)
2) Click "Posts" on left sidebar (first icon on the top)
3) Write
4) Submit

Is the current iteration of wordpress different from this workflow? Is Ghost different?
I don't think you really hate advertising as much as you say.

You get to use tons and tons of great sites without paying money, because the good people of ADVERT_CO paid for your attention.

Advertising gives you something you want, so you pay attention to something you don't want. But unless you want to pay a subscription fee to every site you use, it's not a bad deal at all.
I liked this, but the site is likely not expecting as high volume of traffic as it is receiving, if it doesn't load for you right away (like it did for me) just wait a few minutes and try again.
Interesting story, but glosses over lots of the details of how they got acceptance in US and Europe. Did they teach the gringos how to cook it?
Is it ultimately a technology triumph? As without the debittering (dehusking?) technology the crops would have been unsellable.
Availability is a big issue when it comes to solar energy. As you can guess, producing solar energy during the day ins't that much of a problem, but supplying the demand in the evening or at night with solar energy is a much bigger challenge.

So, even if takes 6 hours to heat up in the morning, it still expand the usability of solar energy for electricity production.
> The main problem with capitalism is that someone other than the people doing the work get to decide how the work is done and how to spend the surplus of value that work generates.

I think that the main problem with capitalism is that a free market system (assuming it works, though it doesn't in practice because competition doesn't quite behave according to the abstract models) strives to maximize economic output rather than welfare. Some capitalists care enough to hope that a system that maximizes product would also improve welfare, but that is not the goal; at best, it's a desirable side effect. That is why many critics of capitalism point out that under capitalism, people serve the "economy" rather than the other way around.
I'm a half-way house person when it comes to CMSes and databases. I don't think raw content needs to go in the database, it can happily live on the file system (assuming a sane permissions regime) and you can delegate version management to git.

However I feel metadata and other structured data belongs in the database for the usual reason: to support unforeseen future queries. That is, to make plugins and widgets easier to develop and better performing (vs, for example, iterating over every post or every comment to perform some calculation).
I find myself wondering whether it would have been good for GoTo.com to have patented its system. Business method patents were around back then, I think.

I have a lot of respect for Bill Gross and all his various IdeaLab ventures. But it strikes me that how a story is told affects your viewpoint.

I would probably still say the patents would have hurt the public more than they would have helped.
I might open source the app in the future.
Chess as a behavioral model for cognitive skill research : blindfold chess
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> What if you tie progress to overall happiness?

You are talking about Gross National Happiness, a measure that was used in Bhutan. You can read about it more to see the results. I, for one, do not wish to live in this "happy" country.

> That's not independence, that is cooperation.
Cooperation that relies on specialization is a better strategy than cooperation that relies on quantity. This is essentially argument equivalent to farmers from villages - sustaining themselves, no need outside help, vs specialists/engineers from cities, who need everything except the very thing they do.
Adblockers should just block ads, not be used to extort money once they reach a certain level of adoption.
My understanding is that converting heat to steam to turbine power is actually extremey efficient. I wish I had a cite for you, but I don't.