skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK I'm going to date myself here...when I studied comsci/CPrE in college, we started out with C and moved to C++ and then to Java. I guess it doesn't speak much for the depth of the classes that I found C++ pretty easy to get into and used it in higher level courses, such as one involving Open GL.

I guess what I'm asking is...who uses just C any more? I can only guess that if, by this point, your main expertise is C and you are still hacking away at it, you're a hacker who is beyond the need for any introductory C++ course and who could probably learn it on your own. If you're a C-person and just want to dabble in a more OOP language to do fun things, why wouldn't you just jump into Python? The world of mostly-and-only-C-programmers seems to be fairly small these days, and the ones who need to get into C++ -- in lieu of what's out there --- seems even smaller

To reiterate my thoughts, here's a review from someone who has read the recommended text book:

http://www.amazon.com/For-Programmers-Third-Edition-3rd/prod...

> I was initially dismayed by the large number of negative reviews, but now that I've completed this book I believe I understand why; this book is really intended for a very narrow target audience: very experienced C programmers with no knowledge of C++ -- i.e., Old Farts,... like me. Is there ANY school out there today teaching people C WITHOUT also teaching them C++? It seems unlikely, almost as unlikely as it would be to find a potential employer out there who is seeking Plain Old C programmers today. So if you are an Old C Dog like me looking to learn the "new" trick of C++, this book is for you and ONLY for you! I read it carefully and was able to pass a C++ test that I wouldn't have gotten a single answer right on before I read it. Anyone else looking to learn C++ would be better served by choosing C++ for Dummies or something similar.
> you can make changes much more quickly in a simple system.

IME: Doing N features hackishly takes O(n^2) time; Doing them properly takes O(2n). The problem is when management sees a project as a series of several n=1 tasks, instead of one n=n project.
Just put it up on GitHub: https://github.com/benwasser/blahsay

Timing isn't too interesting as I doubt what I could build in 2 days could really compete with the year-long development of Ghost. This was just something I wanted to use, so I built it.
> You don't really need priors to understand other people, because other people feel exactly the same emotions as you do.

Under very different conditions, with different emotions running alongside them and in very different intensities arising from a wide range of possible causes. Other people do not all feel as I do, any more than they want what I do. The contrary claim is roughly analogous to claiming that all programs are the same because they're all made of 1s and 0s.
He's probably thinking of the JAW Japanese auto workers union or the internal-ish toyota union TMWUI or whatever its called in English. Lets think about it, the Japanese unions bargain with a healthier company therefore get a better deal than the UAW gets from the failing companies in Detroit, and Japanese management as a class is superior to American management as a class (just look at the financials?), therefore they keep the unions out in their transplant plants by offering a deal roughly as good as the union deals in Japan. The transplant workers know they'll get a better deal by piggy backing on the JAW workers offer and the transplant management knows keeping the workers slightly better off than they could possibly get under the UAW will keep a lot of hassle out of the plant. So pretty much everyone wins except the JAW and Toyota MotorWorkers Union (or whatever they're called) because everyone in the USA is piggy backing on their bargaining skills.

So there's two forbidden topics that can't be discussed in contemporary American culture which make it really weird when Americans try to talk about the topic, one that management is simply superior at Toyota (It is a much more successful company... wonder why? Hint its not the nuclear radiation, and management holds final responsibility always) and secondly the UAW is failing their members because the JAW can get a better deal (admittedly its easier to get a better deal when the company is successful, not failing). If you censor the forbidden topics from the discussion in the mass media, you get really weird, illogical stories and discussion.

One really weird thing you see is intentionally mixing apples and oranges to get a political outcome. So the UAW has bargained away salaries such that starting is now like $14/hr at a UAW plant, you can do better at a Toyota transplant which averages in the upper 20s. However if you carefully compare faked up total compensation of $73/hr counting all benefits and retiree amortized expenses and taxes and everything, then it looks like Toyota employees are only getting about 1/3 the pay of a UAW employee. Of course the takehome pay on a paycheck for a new Toyota employee is WAY higher than the takehome pay of a new UAW employee and will remain at that ratio, more or less, for the rest of that noobs career (or until GM finally goes out of business or gets bought out)
Well, now we'll never know.
Why I hate Funnels.
Xbox 360 total sales: 78.2 million units

PS3 total sales: 75 million units

Wii total sales: 100.04 million units

nintendo ds: 153.93 million units

nintendo 3ds: 32.48 million units

sony psp: 76.3 million units

sony playstation vita: 2.2 million units

sony psp go: not many
The Hutterites have been living communally for about 400 years (I think), and have evolved an ideal size for a "colony" of about 90 people. At about 110 they start getting ready to "hive off". Colonies have been very successful, often pissing off the less organized (and less successful) locals.

http://www.hutterites.org/day-to-day/structure/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutterite

While similar in ways to Amish, Hutterites rather like new technology and put it to good use on their farms.
lol, I wrote something like this, too.

This jekyll/octopress "compile your blog every time you post" crap didn't get me...
There is a long but good read that goes into this topic here
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/karchworld_identity/archive/2011/04/...

It's about the full lifecycle of a typical software product.
Particularly "Section 2.3.1: Loss of Architectural Integrity"

> code decay can be thought of as any implementation of functionality that makes the overall comprehension of the system more difficult to attain and increases the efforts required to implement future changes.

.. and makes further decay more likely
When he did it. Good luck with that time travel.
Certainly if you're going to enter into this sort of venture when you're married with a young family, it's a decision you need to make as a family rather than make yourself and try to impose on them.

Other than the capacity for risk and relative poverty elements, two other things I'd throw out there as factors are:

1) Exhaustion: I've two young children and the first few years of their lives I was exhausted most of the time and I know that I wasn't at my best professionally (lack of sleep makes you stupid and forgetful). It really isn't the best state to be risking everything on your own abilities.

2) Balancing work and life: If you're going to have kids you probably want (that's genuinely want rather than feel obliged) to spend time with them. It's different to a lot of other things you might want to do with your time in that there are things you can't say "I'll do later in life". They grow up incredibly quickly in those early years and it's not something you get a second shot at experiencing - you can't go back and see your infant child five years down the line when your business is settled.

And that's before the practicalities of child care and everything else that goes with it...
>This is a prize given by the Central Bank of Sweden, not really an unbiased source.

The only people who care about the title of the prize are elitists who clearly miss the point of discussion. This is a prestigious prize in the field of economic research. I don't see it as more or less relevant because it's called "Nobel". But thanks for pointing this out in every Economic Nobel thread.

Now, please, explain to everyone here the biases of the Central Bank of Sweden. Is it because it's run by economists? Who else should be choosing the prize? Clearly unbiased people with minimal economic knowledge?

Maybe you could provide us with a refutation of the works of Messrs. Fama, Shiller and Hansen, rather than just waving your hand and dismissing the work of men, far more accomplished than yourself in the field, as the "propagation of an agenda".
I love php. I also love developing Wordpress themes and plugins. I'm not sure you're making a convincing argument.

Then again, Markdown would be neat to work with, but in the end I'd just rather use html if I need to markup something. And I do like trying new things.
Hmm... so Xero will charge me the full end-user price for each business even if my clients have no interest in using Xero?
Wow. I had already signed up for it, but this certainly makes it more interesting.
With all due....

You say "SO many reasons", but at best you have 4, of which only one seems to hold any weight. Avoiding PHP is not something the average blogger would care about, bloat = features and most normal people like features, trying something different is woolly at best, which leaves wanting to use markdown. Do that many people really want to use markdown?

Are you 100% sure this isn't just an anti thing like anti MS, anti facebook, and now anti wordpress?
It's worth remembering that when selecting things at random from a given pool, there is always a chance of collision. If you think of a hash as taking a value to a "random" result, with different objects going to results uniformly "at random", then you have to expect collisions. This is why the term "perfect hash" is defined so carefully.

For those who are interested, the probability of collision, then size of the hash destination, and the number of objects chosen are related by this formula:

Choosing from N items, with N large, and wanting a
probability T of having no collisions, the number of
items you can choose at random with replacement is:

k ~ sqrt( -2 N ln(T) )

So

T ~ exp(-(k^2)/(2N))

Source: http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/TheBirthdayParadox.html?HN2013...
"not the 2013 one nobody plays"

Haha, so true. But ironically on the 2013 one you can actually build a massive solar farm that will look just like that.
Very, very interesting. There are a lot of to be announced in there, especially pricing. But as this is opensource I thank the creators of this and will hope to contribute.
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Firstly, I'm not from the US.
Nextly, yes. Yes, I would be ok with the Chinese government spying on me, if they were able to.

In the case of the NSA, the NSA coerced/worked with many private US companies and took the data from them (rather than somehow collecting the data themselves). Such coercion of American companies is what I believe should be curtailed.

The thing is, China has no such reach in my life. I don't use any Chinese websites to store my data. I don't use any Chinese social networks to keep up with my friends. I don't use a Chinese email service.
The missing point around Bitcoin is the necessity of authentication and thus bank account name, given our modern society regulation (against terrorism financing and money laundering especially).

So the issue is not that much about total anonymity, which is a pipe dream (government will never let you have it, and Is the model Silk Road?), but about bank transfer, or how to kill card scheme (i.e. Mastercard and Visa duopoly). And there are some awesome experiments doing just that like Dwolla.
Is the registering on ghost.org for hosting a blog on that page, or to obtain the prepackaged zip files the README at github talks about? In other words, to host ghost myself, do I need to register at ghost.org or do I have to clone the github repo?
The perfect epitaph for establishment journalism
Browsed the code a little bit and my overall impressions are the while the code quality is good, it's a shame that it seems to be tightly coupled to doing a database as the backend. I was hoping to fork Ghost, or even better just provide a plugin for it, that uses static file creation instead of a db backend but looking at the code this looks like it's going to be a bit of work to do. I'll probably still do it but it would have been nice if the db stuff had been abstracted a little further out
I would recommend splitting out the monolithic Gruntfile.js into individual config and task files. It makes it easier to read, in my opinion. I've put together an example here: https://github.com/badsyntax/gruntfile
So, it's novel?
No, he published the Black Swan in 2008, which as a term is now part of the dictionary. He very thoughtful about the term predictions, so it is much more a framework for statistical thinking. Actual help work, as opposed to the nonsense that is currently economics.
> Why the name "Ghost"?

(BLO)Ghost?
>This is a prize given by the Central Bank of Sweden, not really an unbiased source.

It is indeed sponsored by Riksbanken but the ones who actually choose the 'winners' are The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

>They have a clear agenda to propagate, and it is more about how to get more money for them for central planning than about economy.

Everyone has an agenda. And I don't think you understand how the Swedish Central Bank operates. Central planning has nothing to do about it. Last I checked their primary task was to maintain the inflation at ~2%.
> 'better'

Might I suggest that whilst it's great to get to completion pretty quickly and have many completed mini-projects under one's belt, that there might be some value in younger programmers choosing the untenable-but-beautiful approach to the codebase in order to learn some more about ways that they could build such architectures?

Whilst in the long term (and when working with others) it seems almost always best to go with a codebase which balances well simplicity and expressiveness (no point using Python like Java!) mightn't it be valuable experience, being able to work freely on those mini-projects when younger and without the burden of having to design for those goals of simplicity?
IBM researcher can produce pretty graph from 200 of your tweets
A lot of this rhymes with the Australian situation.
Let me guess: Suppliers of commodity hardware have an incentive to make that hardware look as attractive as possible, suppliers competing on other dimensions lie about other things ("We're open!, "It's magical")

Or did you mean something else?
Man, I was all excited for some open source ghosting software.
Medium is 'locked in.' Basically, if you want to make money from your articles or get decent analytics you're stuffed.
Why can't you do static generation from an online editor?
EBT benefit card glitch sparks Walmart shopping sprees in Louisiana
seeing at least 1 collision the tests makes me wonder why the chance of a bitcoin address collision is almost nil. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Generating_tons_of_add...
> Flat, marriage and family – 3 reasons why young Indians don’t turn entrepreneurs!

Um, the whole point of the post is to blame those three reasons - all external, societal or environmental - for personal decisions that educated and young programmers don't make.
(Thought I submitted this story a few days ago but must have been mistaken.)
As far as I'm Rails doesn't use secure-flag cookies by default; you need to have something like this in config/initializers/session_store.rb:

local_env = !(Rails.env.test? || Rails.env.development?)
MyApp::Application.config.session_store(:cookie_store, {
key: '_my_app_session',
secure: local_env, # ... or just true
})

Yes, somebody who has gone looking for this can find it, but I'd argue that Rails should at least give you the secure: ... option in a comment block. Anything less is just inviting people to get bitten by the lack of it.
>..random shared secret that is mirrored in a database table.

Isn't the point of using a cookiestore to avoid hitting the database and thus eliminating the need for the painful session/state maintenance across multiple nodes? Your solution looks more like a DIY security solution to me, (please correct me if I'm wrong) and I would take major precautions in gambling with security-related functions of a framework.

P.S I am confused, please explain if I am wrong, I will gladly rather be corrected than make a possibly serious security mistake in one of my own applications.
As someone who has taken several Coursera classes (some bad, some very good), the site is a pile of crap. Most pages need far too many round-trips to load, and very few do anything "interesting". On my tablet I sometimes need to refresh pages several times to get them to load "all the way", because some request failed to fire or return or something. It works ok on the desktop, but on the whole it hasn't been thought out very well.

I'm trying to think of a page on their site where doing things "their way" (load a mostly empty page, fetch all the content later) is the right thing to do. Fittingly, I'm drawing a blank.
This year at Burning Man, I happened to notice a car with the California state license plate "TUVA". I recognized it as belonging to Ralph Leighton, Feynman's close friend and author of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!. (The plate is a reference to the story recounted in [Tuva or Bust!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva_or_Bust!).) I reached out to Ralph, and it turns out he wasn't there but his son was. I thought it was a fun coincidence given the theme of the burn.
There is a link in the footer, but I'm with you on your main point.
Backdoor found in D-Link router firmware code
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6546701
Hmm, isn't this name caught by trademark law in the UK? Ghost is almost certainly a trademark of Symantec; wouldn't this fall into the same trademark category?
Wordpress is incredibly bloated. If you've ever tried to make a semi-large blog with it you'll know exactly what I mean. This is literally just a setup and run blog.

Wordpress used to be that but it's turned into a huge CMS that's trying to do 2000 things at once. Jack of all trades and master of none if you will.
Confessions of a Living Room CEO
My reference for this is "Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation" (Sen, 1981), based on analysis of historical famines and the author's own experience in Bengal. It contributed to him being awarded a "economics Nobel".

The "sooner or later" argument is that of "Limits to Growth"; we're not there yet.
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I think people that do serious business consistently over time in the single minded pursuit of wealth just tend to be megalomaniacal assholes by nature, especially at that level. In general there are good sources to point towards lavish praise and constructive criticism as being better recipes for boosting employee productivity, so any success in that arena is probably despite their character traits, not because of them. Of course when it comes down to brass tacks and making decisions, you have to be ruthlessly objective, so these traits would be useful there.
The people you nominate will be recognised in Swedens Tech Community as the brightest talent in the industry & get to meet todays tech leaders ..plus win some very juicy prizes from Amazon, Computer Sweden etc ..Lets give back to the community ...Nominate one person now at 30under30.io
Couldn't find a link to try it out in the article. Anyone got a link?
I think the case for supporting retina screens + very fast load times far outweighs the amount of users that turn off foreign fonts (it baffles me why you would)
Note the posture of my comment: talking about the FISC court's ruling. While you're entitled to argue about the merits of the Supreme Court's 4th amendment jurisprudence, the FISC court is not. It must analyze the issues in terms of the framework established by the higher court.
Unfortunately, Debt is better labelled as fiction regardless of how readable it might be.
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A demonstration of how we (I?) judge projects and people via the wrong criteria; as I watched the video, this is what went through my mind:

* "Oh, a New Zealand accent. One of us! I hope this is really awesome and I want to try this out already."

* "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."
What he studied experimentally with the buttons and threads is know in graph theory as the "Giant component" threshold and is exactly known.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93R%C3%A9nyi_...
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He probably was also talking about investment banks, that will gladly lend you some money for the right price...
You may be interested in the extensive discussion of this from last month:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6340722

It's also been submitted, without discussion, on other occasions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6334991

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6331772
vim-sneak: the missing motion
How frequent do you check your spam folder?
Yeah, yeah. Java - the planes don't land.
Another interesting read is the rise and fall of the Kibbutz, possibly the most famous form of a commune.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz
Umm..ok. But the point of Black Swan is that certain are unpredictable. Yet plenty of people saw the crisis coming [2,3]. Taleb was not one of them - please see [0]

If you are a Taleb fan (or just curious), check out this critique of his work:

[0] http://quixoticfinance.com/tag/nassim-taleb/

[1] http://unpleasantfacts.com/falken-on-taleb

People who actually predicted the crisis

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Trade-Ever-Behind-Scenes/dp/0...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Short-Doomsday-Machine/dp/0393...
Or two years.
Maybe I am missing something, but why is this interesting? Is it because you copied the source from the google homepage and didn't change the links?
" legs obliquely to gain stability, like the giraffe. I mention "

https://www.marxists.org/archive/haldane/works/1920s/right-s...

There are no other differences with that version.
The market as a stabilizing influence on politics has a noble history going back to at least the Glorious Revolution in England, which was bloodless largely because the bond markets wouldn't fund a war.
That's important to note; linux and mac weren't really viable options in the 90's for most people.
So, does it take 6 hours to heat up in the morning?
Let's hope that there'll be no problems such as this and it'll solved in good spirit some day.
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The term "economic sciences" is about as appropriate as the term "sanitation engineers." No controlled experiments = not a science. Relevant: https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/cargocul.htm.
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> Are you 100% sure this isn't just an anti thing like anti MS, anti facebook

You mean being anti things that you have very good reasons for being anti? I suppose it is like that.
I completely agree, if you decide to do it and need any help PM me. With something lightweight like this it would definitely be a lot better with a simple file system instead of a whole database that you need to set up and deal with. I have done something similar before in PHP, but the Ghost front end is really nice.
Thanks for this.

I think a major flaw with the Shiller P/E is that there is no fundamental reason for choosing 10 years of earnings for the calculation. Why not 7, or 12? When events like 2008 happen, and earnings drop tremendously and temporarily, it puts a serious skew on the metric going forward (until that single year is no longer used in the calculation).

It is, however, a useful tool for "guesstimating" whether future stock markets returns will be above or below historical averages.