skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the problem with the software industry right here. Managers who think it matters if a developer can draw code and solve problems on a whiteboard. In my whole 10 years and counting in the industry, I have never once seen a whiteboard used a pre-coding pad because at the end of the day, developers are hackers, not professors writing a code thesis on a whiteboard. The whole whiteboard approach is severely outdated, it might work for some companies, but it's 2013, not 1979, developers have the Internet to solve most of their problems now.

I think the real test of a developers skill is to ask them to code something for you. As a developer myself, i would fail any whiteboard interview because most of the problems I solve aren't because of solutions I've come up in my head, they are because I knew what to search on Google to find the solution. And to anyone who thinks this makes a bad developer, round up a group of 20 developers and ask them how often they use Google searches to solve problems they encounter. The difference between good developers and bad developers is not if you can solve every problem on your own, it's having the skills to know what to search when you encounter a problem. Us developers are over-glorified web searchers with a simple understanding of the language we are developing in.
As a home owner, I want dropping prices, with some caveats.

The people who want rising prices probably quite often would also benefit from dropping prices.

People who treat their primary home as an investment and/or have investments in property may benefit from rising prices. Even if it is by second mortgages or by trading down to release equity.

But I'd guess most home owners want to trade up or get something roughly the same most of the time when they move - our choice of house is usually constrained by price. And then dropping prices is generally preferable, as we'll get more for our money.

The caveat is that I of course don't want the prices to drop so far that I'm left without equity for a new deposit. A slow steady drop that leave us able to finance a decent deposit after covering our mortgages would be the best deal for most house owners, and generally far better than price increases (that it is probably pretty much impossible is another matter - it'd distort demand badly because people would suddenly want to wait, and be able to aim far higher when they do make the jump)

The reporting of house prices, as you say, really badly reflects this. Presumably because people see the value of their home as a proxy for their wealth, given that it is likely to be substantial compared to savings and other investments for most house owners.
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You mean from 1976(/1996) to present?

From about 2000 to 2010 it went from $100B to $150B and dropped to $140B after the "bloodletting".

Your "more nuanced interpretation" that "training of new scientists starting (~1996), and when they needed funding to really get their labs started (~2000), we stranded them" is simply wrong.
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> Since the Reagan tax reforms of the mid-1980s, the United States, the only country to tax the [Nobel] prize, has taken another 40 percent or so off the top. (http://www.cnbc.com/id/49341627)

Really? Oh yes it's right there under "Pulitzer, Nobel, and similar prizes." http://www.irs.gov/publications/p525/ar02.html#d0e8326

Stay classy America.
The thing is, you have laws and tax laws and, for how unjust they might seem, a State has to enforce them, full stop.

However, users data. I don't know, there is a thin line between enforcing the law and not respecting citizens freedom and privacy.

The housing argument, instead, is just ludicrous. Let's put all the hotels in the city out in the suburbs then.
In the midst of all these pie-in-the-sky numbers being thrown around, one has to wonder if it will be another FB.

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

68 days after the IPO, 47% of its initial value was wiped out. It has since recovered but the suspicion stands -- were we fleeced? Was the price artificially and strategically pumped up so as to encourage investment?
> Do you think perhaps they may have a similar concern regarding significantly larger mass vehicles moving at higher speeds some distance to your side?

So they're justified in acting recklessly around me because others act recklessly around them? If it's that much of a problem, they should walk.
My initial thought with the domain name was: "That's a rather specific thing to be selling... Side Projectors... Like creating a website selling just Dvorak Keyboards..."
I agree with that post!

A portion of HN is reluctant to down vote anything but the most obvious spam. But up voting, down voting, and flagging are important features of the site and should be used more often.

It's disappointing to see obvious trolls with no net down votes.
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Why some developers are so against progressive enhancement mystifies me. It is an elegant solution that actually works in all cases rather than an ugly hack that should probably work in the majority of cases. How can there even be a dispute about it? It's insane!
Similar, but much more chaotic project from 1993

(oh, and it's from the Obfuscated C Code Contest -- but worth every second you spend reading it)

https://github.com/c00kiemon5ter/ioccc-obfuscated-c-contest/...

(I would link to the original ioccc site, but it is not answering right now)
SOPA was easy to turn against and I would argue, didn't cost anything to oppose. Fighting the NSA on warrantless wiretaps is a completely different animal in that there will be real money involved in fighting it. Potentially millions of dollars duking it out in court(s).

I think it's already been established that the NSA has HUGE financial resources (from the part that we can tell) and to top it all off, fighting the NSA on it's grounds would most likely pass through the FISA court. A court which in and of itself, is shrouded in secrecy.

Also, this: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/12727867/#.UlKlY2RtVOg
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This is a similar thing, but is far faster because it uses Zombie instead of Phantom: https://github.com/bfirsh/otter
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The ancedotes in the article seemed determined not to mention lack of income or inflation as issues WRT spending.

For a good time google "labor force participation rate graph" at images.google.com. Unemployed people after unemployment runs out don't tend to go on shopping sprees.

Another fun one is looking at disposable income after real world inflation rates (not .gov imaginary rates). Especially as median income continues its permanent inflation adjusted decline.

The final whopper is plankton always do the opposite of profitable. So after a major drop, they sell, after a major rise, they buy. So if this article is vaguely trendsetting plankton going back in to the market to buy, thats a major sell signal. We've had a reasonably long ride up from the bottom; seems about right time to sell as the plankton buy. This kind of data is why I still pay attention to financial infotainment "news". Just like the classic stories of you know its time to sell when your shoeshine boy owns stocks in late 1920s or your hairdresser owns multiple california houses in mid 2000s, if the plankton are being encouraged to go all in, that is a very strong sell signal for those who know how to to listen.
This is not entirely true. Social media & blogging have indeed provided an alternative to TV news. It has actually changed the "entrenched structure". Even established media giants use tweets or posts to spread information. How many of us prefer tuning in to local news station instead of just logging into fb/t/g+ to stay updated? These platforms have been built by programmers who I am sure are happy about the impact they have created.
I can't believe this needs to be explained, but here we are. The difference is twofold: the journalists aren't potentially plotting terrorist attacks against the west, hiding among innocents because they know it will buy their cause the sort of empathy and political capital you're using as the basis of your claims here. The journalists killed in Russia were simply criticizing the power structure in Russia. Last time I checked, there is a near limitless amount of unabated criticism of the US government, both domestically and abroad.

Secondly, the collateral damage is not the goal of the drone strikes, in fact they use drones to reduce the amount of collateral damage(for reasons beyond precision munitions). If you run the numbers, the amount of collateral deaths are far lower than conventional airstrikes. The deaths of journalists is/was the explicit intent of the power structure in Russia because it furthers their political goals.
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Perhaps the Record Labels believe that a differentiator between buying a CD and downloading for free is the lyrics book that comes with (most) CDs.
Actually, what you're arguing for is less rapid growth - which is perfectly reasonable. Less rapid growth may look like a period of growth, then a period of contraction.
"I can only imagine just how incendiary such headlines might become: US Seizes Australian Servers in NSA/FBI/Scary-three-letter-name US Agency Sting Operation. That'd go over real well, especially among Commonwealth nations."

I think if that were to happen, it would be another nail in the coffin for the "US cloud".

From www2.itif.org/2013-cloud-computing-costs.pdf‎

"The U.S cloud computing industry stands to lose $22 to $35 billion over the next three years as a result of the recent revelations about the NDA's electronic surveillance programs"
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I'm not aware M823 can be downloaded (which is the first of the two number theory courses using Apostol)
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Because some addresses or locations in a city are more desirable than others?
Users in this context are AirBNBs users, those letting their apartments short-term.

Which means that this is the State's hitlist of tax avoiders.

This is tax enforcement pure and simple, and doesn't seem to be a privacy issue. I've never heard of a reasonable defence against not paying tax being "that's my business and not yours", tax enforcement always wins.
It's amazing how quickly that claim falls to basic research: http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodborneIllnessContaminants/BuyStor...

> Probiotic microorganisms must be of human origin in order to have an impact on human health (Teitelbaum and Walker, 2000). Bacteria present in raw milk are from infected udder tissues (e.g., mastitis causing bacteria), the dairy environment (e.g., soil, water, and cow manure), and milking equipment. High bacteria counts in raw milk only indicate poor animal health and poor farm hygiene.

> Bacteria in raw milk are typically not of human origin. An exception is Streptococcus pyogenes. S. pyogenes that has adapted to humans can be transmitted to animals. Once S. pyogenes is colonized in animals, it can be re-transmitted to humans as a human pathogen that causes strep throat. For example, S. pyogenes can infect a cow udder to cause mastitis. The infected cow udder can subsequently shed S. pyogenes, a pathogen, into raw milk.

This is one reason many people are wary of 'raw milk': People lie to promote it. They tell bald-faced lies, and they expect people won't check up on them. And then they spin conspiracy theories when someone does check up on them and call them on their lies. It's just cynical advertising from an industry that uses fear to sell its wares.
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Right... so Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's campaign contributors last election?

http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate...

At number 4 with 1.58% of total campaign moneys, East 103rd Street Realty. Parent corporation: Glenwood Real Estate Corp.

http://www.glenwoodnyc.com/properties/

"Luxury Apartment Rentals in New York City"

Obviously the fact that people are renting their apartments is not something that buildings are capable of managing for themselves and has become a matter of great importance to the entire state of New York.
Is it just me, or does anyone else see not buy into the idea that the Internet is something that's dramatically altering the course of human evolution?

The author seems to think that with so many people being online that humans are evolving into something else and thus the way our society organizes itself is also due for a dramatic change. Personally I don't see things that way, instead I just see the Internet as a logical progression of our communication tools. It's existence, to me, doesn't mean anything more than it makes human's true nature more apparent.
It depends on the project, but in my experience many (if not most) people end up making their repos public.

As for finding them, I'll often just look up the hackers on GitHub and check if they have new repos.

Though that's not always the case. I kept the repo for the hack I made this weekend (http://socialsecurity.io — antivirus for Twitter) private because I'm commercializing some of the machine learning.
I would say that you should get a copy of Network Maintenance and Troubleshooting Guide: Field Tested Solutions for Everyday Problems, 2nd Edition by Neal Allen and get a couple of switches, setup HAProxy and couple of routers and get to work. You should be able to simulate the traffic virtually but the know how of the physical is always important too. Plus look into VMs like the Cisco UCS vm for looking at fiber switching and F5 BigIP vm for load balancing a bit vendor specific but free...
Blue Ocean Strategy: Creating new demand in an uncontested market space[1]. Summon the Warrior[2] was my attempt at this.

Red Ocean Strategy is a highly competitive market space, and what Lyricful were engaged in.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy
[2]http://summonthewarrior.com/
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I have been re-reading some of my favorite Iain M. Banks novels. It breaks my heart that there will not be any more Culture novels.
There aren't really topics for a lot of the hackathons (including HackMIT). For the "themed" hackathons you'll know the topics at registration (ie. weeks/months beforehand).
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Not mine, I found it in another thread[1], but it seems to load every now and then, try again.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6506360
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What I want to know, since we only consume a fraction of it, where is all that money going?

All that profit doesn't seem to be staying inside the US.
kfk's answer is good.

Aside from his advice ignore advice merely to diversify and hope. Diversify advice comes from old people still thinking in 10% return eras long ago. If you're getting 10% and have 20 diversified investments the failure of one is no big deal, even if you lost it all thats only a 5% loss and everything else returned a 10% gain for the year, so you really only lost 6 months. On the other hand, if you're getting 2% and have the same investments and one fails, then you've lost 5% and thats 2.5 years of growth where you'd have been better off putting the money in the mattress. And over that 2.5 years some other company will probably tank too leading to a cascading effect where "investing" your money at 2% or whatever is basically speculation/gambling you're better off picking up pennies from in front of steamrollers.

Now diversification does help with "return OF capital" its just no longer useful as a "return ON capital" technique. You lose one of your 20 investments you're wiped out for a quarter decade, but at least you haven't lost all your money... yet.
Google's domination is still kind of amazing.

Also, there should be a new version of RISK: The Game of World Domination. It should feature tech companies as the attacking hordes.
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Somebody actually did just that at hackNY this fall: http://committing.jit.su/
The underlying assumption is that the high consumption pre-crisis years is the natural state of the economy and the current situation is the outlier. I can't pretend to know which is true, but I really doubt that boom years were natural, however convenient that narrative it.
Or to avoid issues with their landlord.
Funny that the scene for his analogy in the beginning ends with the image of talking heads bantering about a fluff piece, and then he follows with a fluff piece for programmers. The genius is in the mocking subtext.
And? He admitted he hacked Stratfor. He wrote a short essay after his conviction congratulating himself for doing so.

I'm not sure I even understand the innuendo. What, if someone hacks the Washington Post, no judge in the country can hear their case?
and the author of pulseaudio and avahi. He's taken a lot of abuse over the years.
I'm in the same boat as you. I was anticipating this game but after all of the issues, I never even thought twice about passing on it.
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> The housing argument, instead, is just ludicrous. Let's put all the hotels in the city out in the suburbs then.

Hotels in cities have to obey laws about fire risk and hygiene and noise and etc etc. They have accountable people to take responsibility for their guests.

That could be true for many AirBnB hosts, but there appears to be some who just don't care about the neighbours.
Yes, that is exactly what he is saying.
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I do the same! There is never anything on TV worth watching when you have the internet and lots of books, so that saves me $50/month at least, and I have a cheap android with a $30/month unlimited text and data with 100 minutes and that is more than enough to get by. The savings for me is more like $1200 a year, not $2000 though. My girlfriend and I have also started cooking instead of going out which saves a TON of money and living nearby where we work saves a lot on gas (at least $1000/year).
There are more 1000 Swiss Frank notes in circulation than ever before. The SNB believes that people using them as an easy way to 'sefaly' hoard large amounts of cash.

http://www.snb.ch/de/iabout/cash/id/cash_circulation
Alright, but the point still remains: You could theoretically place your servers anywhere in the world, so why choose the US?
Yes, they just characterized property owners seeking fair market value from tenants as "robbing the city" (direct quote).

Thanks, guys.
Another problem can be counter party risk. On the balance sheet something may be marked to market, but in sudden events the counter-party may be unable to meet the terms of the agreement at all.
I guess if you don't know anything about vesicle mechanics, sure, contribute a totally irrelevant political argument instead.
What do you mean by a fraction of it?

The U.S. is a net importer of both oil and natural gas:

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_wkly_dc_NUS-Z00_mbblpd_...

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/ng_move_ist_a2dcu_nus_a.htm
In Italy tax authorities have grown more and more powerful during the last years. At some point, they were suggesting checking all personal bank accounts and expenditures.

Think on the consequences of this.

By the way, in the AirBnB case, you can always have police pretending to rent flats to get the tax offenders. This would protect privacy and scare offenders.
There is a clip now of him saying 24 hours ago that a clean debt limit raise would not pass the house. Which means he will not likely present one.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-06/boehner-says-house-...

Tada. This is definitely happening. At least for a day if not more.
I don't do much writing for the web, but I do a lot of reading. For awhile I was using Evernote to save a snapshot of every (worthwhile) page I read, but once I had about 10,000 notes in my Evernote account it started to impair my ability to use it for things other than digital hoarding. Want to look up the baked tilapia recipe on my phone? Hold on 10 minutes while the headers for new notes are downloaded...

I like the idea of his archiving system, but is there a cross platform/device way to do it? The easiest option would seem to be proxying all your web traffic through a single Squid proxy that was configured to archive rather than just cache?
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Every week my significant other and I and some of our friends go to bar trivia. Last week our friend brought a lady friend he had been dating for a few weeks and she brought her roommate. These two were quite a bit younger than us (I'm in my 30s), they were 21 or 22 at the oldest. The whole time they were glued to their phones, except when we were answering questions because you can't have your phones out while answering questions. They got all huffy when they had to put them away, and didn't even want to help with the questions because of it. Neither of them wanted to interact with the people around them at all. It was really the most rude thing I ever saw in my life. My friend and her actually broke up over it.

When people pull their phones out when talking to my or out with me, it really really stresses me out. I don't know why I find it stressful, but I do.
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I think I meant that while the prize is a great appreciation of a scientist's work, it is not like a gold medal in a sports competition. There is usually no way of knowing how to get one beforehand, and they don't always go to fields that have received special attention from governments.

'More Nobel prizes to our country' is therefore hard to accomplish by politicians (and sounds populistic). Instead of using the Nobel prize as a rhetorical tool, politicians would probably do better to foster good science in general. Keep universities healthy, leave the policy making to scientists instead of pointing out areas that are going to get increased funding. Make sure scientists can investigate whatever they find interesting based on scientific quality of a proposal/track record. Maybe do keep a check on scientific nepotism et al.

Both being a scientist and defining a proper science policy are hard though.
The truth is in-between: everything about economic states is cyclical.
Isn't this going to be intrinsically restricted to one numeric type? Lua numbers are all the same type (double by default).
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Any reason that the winner of a cash prize from a popularity contest shouldn't be paying taxes?
Cooking altered human DNA, so it's possible for societal changes to show up in genes.

OTOH, that was 10,000 years ago, and it takes many many generations for it to happen.