skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone got a list of features? This page doesn't tell us much.

Edit: http://www.ghost.org/features/

Looks like markdown+looks stylish. Not sure what else.
> On past form, the winner will be an aging Anglophone, Caucasian male. He will also probably be a dangerous crank.

So... much like the author of this rant?

It's a cute quip in the title but there's nothing more to that article. Mood affiliation in its pure form.

And Krugman is the notable exception? The guy who cheered the real estate bubble on?
He inserts code to prompt device failure after the warranty expiration date?
one coder claimed he worked for IT companies to insert special code to prompt device failure after the warranty expiration date, is it true
>Why are these only positive adjectives? You could have included unethical, anticompetitive and illegal just as well

Because those things were not as important to Microsoft's success as anti-ms people would like to think.
> Inflation (a jargon word that basically means printing money) transfers money from savers to debtors.

No. Inflation is a decrease in the value of money relative to the goods and services in the economy. As with all things, the price of currency depends on the supply of currency, but as with all things, it also depends on the demand for currency, speculation, etc.

> It's destructive because the amount of money the government will print is not fully predictable, so it creates financial risks for people who plan ahead.

Nothing in this world is fully predictable, but inflation for the US dollar has been approximately 2% per year for a long time, although it is now somewhat lower. This is much more stable than the price of bitcoins which can vary significantly day-to-day. If I'm planning, what I care about is prices, i.e. inflation in my definition, not quantities, inflation in your definition.

> It's destructive because the new money enters the economy unevenly -- and basically unpredictably and unfairly, not efficiently.

There's a great deal of difference between fairness and economic efficiency. You undermine your point by confusing the two, and I'm not sure what you mean here.

> It's also destructive because it discourages savings and capital accumulation, which are important to wealth creation.

No. Inflation discourages holding cash, by which it encourages investing in the real economy. If you put your money into some investment whose value is tied to real goods and services (e.g. a factory or rental apartments), then the value of your investment will not be impacted by moderate, predictable inflation.
been using this for a while

things i've noticed so far (.3.0):

- no dash yet

- no view posts by category feature

- no list top 10 most recent posts

- kind of confusing or redundant mvc abstraction

i hacked up a view posts by category and a template swap by hostURL in a few hours but the code is really abstracted. it will probably make sense later when all the features are implemented though.

good:

- easy to install

- love the editor

- love the admin

- templates are handlebars and easy

i've been following this for ~6 months now and am stoked to use it. congrats on your release. can we please have a CMS style feature were we can edit some static pages to go into our blogs! PLZ!
Trade & Investment Ministry funds international graduates to start UK businesses
He was the Senior Vice President of Engineering, so $10 million probably isn't that unusual.
They weren't self-hosting.

And whether it is SOA or not, the moral is that many many systems are designed and sold as if performance didn't matter.

I had another job where the team toiled for years to develop an SOA system that, when we first stacked it all up, took 45 minutes to boot up an RIA because it did 50,000 requests to initialize it's state.

Sure, this is stupid design, but people do this all the time.

I was able to speed the boot time to 20 seconds by packing much of the data with the application file and creating one "initialize" call that downloaded all of the data necessary to initialize a particular instance of he app in one shot.

Had performance been built into the app from day one that app might have seen the light of day.
This isn't one of Philip Greenspun's better articles, but it's a deliberate troll of the Gladwellian kind to make you see that your assumptions of success may not be entirely accurate. Where he makes assertions, most of them are factually correct. The rest is a trolling frame to get you to think about the question of Microsoft's management and decisionmaking as a strategy for success. Which you may be doing.
I can't take anyone seriously who uses fonts to display icons (it doesn't work when you turn off foreign fonts!)

Sadly, nowadays thats pretty much everyone. If you want me to care about you (apparently/marketwise you don't), then get your design right. Tip: Design is not looking pretty. Design is this question: Does it work?
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How is this standard called: http://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Sa... ?
This column mentions Ha-Joon Chang, a great commentator on the discipline of economics from the inside. I really enjoyed this recording of a talk he gave at the LSE: http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/pub...

That definitely has more substance than the submitted piece.
Well I don't know anything about who this organisation is or who in particular is running the course because I can't view the website!
Looking back at the article:

'Train your CEO' Yea, that Ballmer guy worked out really well.

Do as HP does in regards to profits? Months after this article was written, Carly Fiorina took the reigns of HP. Oof.
It's awesome that it has an ORM - but ever since I have started using Octopress, which is based on Jekyll, is the more I realize that we don't need a DB for 'just blogging'.

Plain, old, generated HTML works perfectly. Plus it is very easy to host.

If this is something you guys can implement, I would suggest looking at it.

Your hosting will be MUCH simpler, cheaper, more profitable (even though you say you are running a non-profit), general footprint will be smaller, and pages will load quicker.

That's just my $0.02.

I love what I see here, but I can't bring myself to going back to a db-powered blog from Octopress.

The day you guys implement something similar, you will have 1 more user though!

Either way....awesome execution and congrats on everything you guys have done. Love it so far.
I wonder if, for those who experience it, the motion sickness would be as bad if running around on an omni-directional treadmill. While your body would be moving to match your avatar, your inner ear might still sense that you are stationary and cause you to feel nauseous.
What do you think of drupal 8?
There’s not just pgp.mit.edu but a whole network of keyservers to which you can upload your key – after all, publishing a PGP key is not the hard part, verifying it is the difficult task.
Not obvious from skimming the about page the entire project is written in node.js. Here is a ten step installation guide. http://ghosted.co/install-ghost-digitalocean
A cube?
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into it.

That said, my first underbelly reaction is that I don't want to write C++-like code in C. Why would I do that? I might as well use C++ then. It's like writing functional code in Java. It's possible, but it's a hack.

What I'd like to learn is how to decently deal with memory, exceptional behaviour, common data structures, etc in modern idiomatic C. Some other people in this thread made some nice suggestions for that, btw, so thanks guys :)
When I click log out, I know I'm logging out on this
browser but not other browsers.

Different browsers get different sessions.

... it doesn't limit you from storing and checking
things on the server-side.

Correct, but you basically end up reimplementing parts of ActiveRecord::SessionStore anyway.
So, photos of actors, who are used to trying to portray emotions in works that closely match high-brow literary fiction, were more easily guessed correctly when someone had been reading such books.

It seems somewhat of a stretch to say, on the basis of that alone, that people were better at reading others emotions.
Accountants & Bookkeepers aren't charged, the model is to charge the end customer (business owner). The accountant or bookkeeper can choose to purchase Xero and then charge their client for it, or just absorb it into their existing pricing.

Through the Xero partner program there are some perks, including software to manage their practice.
http://www.xero.com/au/partners/
I can't take anyone seriously who does not uses fonts to display icons,

Turn off foreign fonts (?) maybe 0.001% of web users do that.
Fama was wrong about everything. I think Nassim Taleb should have deserved it, for actually "predicting" the crises.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3REdLZ8Xis&list=PLzfJcwakFwl...
It's great to see how Kickstarter helped also "stabilize" the development of Open Source software (another example is Django Migrations project [0] which has been discussed here a couple of times already). It helped Ghost provide something on a much higher and usable level than most other Open Source projects did, which should have positive impact on the user/community adoption. I'm speaking here about collaboration with Digital Ocean, Rackspace and Envato, as well as the marketing campaign by Kickstarter before this release. DOcean, RackSpace and Envato alone will generate pretty high traffic and build up the community, especially if Envato (with Tutsplus/Nettuts) starts doing something similar as for Laravel [1][2][3], and provide free developer introduction to the platform.

Glad to see this, hope it will keep up the expectations.

[0] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-migr...

[1] http://laravel.com/

[2] http://net.tutsplus.com/tag/laravel/

[3] https://tutsplus.com/course/laravel-essentials/
Show HN: I made my own free Javascript blogging engine over the weekend
I'd be interested in finding out more, but www.redecentralized.org isn't working for me. Is there a typo? I wouldn't be against having a machine at my home, but I suppose that means single point of failure would erase all data?

What I would really like to know if it would be possible to have internet over wifi, and no backbone - just purely personal wifi - house to house. I don't see a way that I would find my bank's website if any computer can claim to be my bank, but maybe there's a solution.
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This sounds like "Broken Windows Syndrome".

Once a system gets to the point where more than (somewhere between 30-50%) is connected together, developers stop caring about keeping it modular, because it's clear to them that their efforts are a waste of energy.

From that point onwards, the project becomes a cesspool of hackery.
Um, surely that is an edge case? I haven't disabled foreign fonts, and haven't had issues from any clients either? Are there any statistics on this?

Fonts to display icons reduce HTTP overhead and scale, looking great on retina screens.
There's also http://ghost.org/ which holds a lot of information, but blog.ghost.org doesn't link there.
Here's a little secret, guys:
It's not the language that is bad. Although a lot of things can go out of hands and most of the added features seem extremely "tacked on", at the end of the day, it's us, the programmers, that write the bad code. C++'s main problem is allowing people to write stupid code... but then again, stupid programmers are stupid programmers, no matter the language... plus, every mainstream language has a lot of stupid programmers using it :)

Still, if you look at the Chromium code, or the Doom 3 BFG Edition code, it's really neat and readable.
I agree with both of you, its more like an "OS inside and OS". However do note here that there is a project to make smalltalk into a true standalone OS called SqueakNOS. Of course I dont think of this as a special feature of Smalltalk, any language could be used to do the same. This is because modern languages come with loads of re factoring tools, GUI APIs and user environments. Smalltalk may have been the first to implement this approach (GUI wise) but no longer the only one.

Its not so much that smalltalk is an OS , but rather that is a Live Coding OS. The ability to hack application while they run, is something that could have a profound effect on user experience. Such features are hard coded to apps themselves and are not considered languages features for all non smalltalk apps.

But with smalltalk is not that you run an OS as much that you can hack any application on the spot , while it runs and see your changes immediately. This happens because smalltalk does not compile source files but rather methods and of course because of the flexibility of the whole system.

Smalltalk is an extremely user friendly environment for users that love to hack the easy way and not get insane in the process.
This effect is countered by speaking with a local accent.

My experience living in central Africa is that "whiteness" of a "cochon gratté" has nothing to do with skin color.
I watched this and thought to myself: is the reason that I'm even mildly interested in my startup ambitions because I know that democracy in the USA is a sham and the only way to thrive is to get rich?

Nah, that couldn't be it.
He predicted the crisis in December 2012?
Interesting. I like the clean styling. Needs a repo. Timing is interesting as Ghost just shipped and that is node.js.
> is the more I realize that we don't need a DB for 'just blogging'.

That works for you and me (we're using jekyll here) but not for people that want timed releases and an online editor. Comments will need some sort of database as well, so you'll have to rely on disqus or similar if you're running a static blog.
I find it hard to take a comment seriously that says the console video game market is a niche market. I mean, it's only a what, >$70 billion dollar a year industry (bigger than the entire film industry) and the fastest growing segment of the entire media market globally?
completely agree with you. I am no big fan of blocks myself and I try to use them as sparse as possible. Keeping things simple is the way to go unless you have a good reason to do otherwise.
The assumption is that word-choice features correlate to personality traits. It's not such a crazy assumption. Of course nobody knows how strong the correlation is. Humans are messy and complex but also very predictable in many ways.
If markets work, you don't need to incentivise - Risky investments pay out more when they do succeed.

If markets don't work yet, fix the failures with regulation until they do. No need to incentivise behaviour through taxation.

edit: my principal reason for believing it's better to do things this way round is cost: re-writing the rules only costs you (us, the government) money once, and it works forever. Writing an exception in costs you money once to write the exception, plus every year in lost revenue.

TL;DR - laws = code, exceptions = CPU-hours.
Sweden's top 30 (non-founder) tech executors
SO many reasons, many of which boil down into the following sentiment:

- Wordpress has become a over-convoluted behemoth, with a needlessly complex structure that is not overly extensible. It is a pain to develop for/with/around.

I think everyone can appreciate the very tangible effect that Wordpress has had on the web. However, it is currently in the rather painful throws of a transition from blogging platform to CMS, and has been for quite some time.

There are number of other reasons:

- You want to avoid PHP.

- You don't need most of the feature bloat that comes along with Wordpress.

- You want to use Markdown.

- You want to try something different.
http://techrabbit.asia is pretty neat, very clean and the jobs look legit. I have been coming across more and more international job boards. I have added techrabbit it to http://thejobist.com
American trio wins the Nobel in economics
> a Facebook competitor

actually yes. There's lots of things that I, and many of my friends wish, Facebook did that it doesn't do...and many things it does that we wish it didn't. Enough to build a competitor? Definitely. Would it be popular? Who knows?
I really like the idea of having images for popular hosting providers like Digital Ocean and Rackspace; this should lower the entry level difficulty tremendously.
I wish Discourse would do something similar, as I believe it would spread the adoption very quickly.
From what I gathered the one that has the largest storage capacity measured in "minutes at maximum power."
How to create and publish your first iPhone app
How Giving an eBook Away Skyrocketed my Mailing List Signups
Compared to rest of computing? Yes, it is, we are comparing their relative, not absolute sizes.
The aerial photograph at the top of TFA looks a whole lot like SimCity[1]. Awesome.

[1] One of the old versions, not the 2013 one nobody plays.
Ahhh....you are right. Good point.

Comments (outside of Disqus), timed-releases and online editor. Interesting. I can see that.
> So there's 5 pump attendants and one of them has the brains, motivation, luck, family connections, whatever to get promoted to be the next $7 car mechanic.

They all move on. Not necessarily to become car mechanics. The other one could be helping at the cash register at times, yet another one help to put merchandise on the shelves. Yet another one hand-wash cars. The fallacy of socialism is pointed out by you exactly: you think that 80% of people (4 out of 5) are idiots who can't do better in life and need the Government protection. Then Government comes along introduces a law that makes 80% of them unemployed, hence the proof that more Government in needed!

> "It's illegal to hire him, pay him and let him grow to better position."
> That's ridiculous. Managers take chances on noobs all the time, especially at the lower levels.

It gets better than that. There are free internships. You can get them for free - 0usd per hour, you can get them for 7usd/hr. But to give them employment at market price? Illegal! Genius!

>"Again, the unemployment rate among the young is the highest among all group ages"
>Hello Arab Spring, coming soon to a failed state near you.

Like Spain. Or Greece. Or some other place where socialists Governed for the past 50 years. Like... failed arabian states. Learn your history. They all have been socialist. That's why failing. From Saddam to Mubarak.

>Historically a graph with a y-axis of "desperate angry unemployed young men" tends to peak around revolutions and upheavals. The future is on a path that is aimed much more toward France in the 1790s than USA in the 1950s. There are probably startup implications to this trend toward inequality for awhile, then revolution.

Well, yeah. Guess what. If you forbid people to work, and kill businesses (places where they go to work), all you will end up with is violence.
> Without reading the paywalled study, I'd assume that reading literary fiction would give you insight into how people who write literary fiction (and those who share their demographic) see themselves, but not into their actual behavior.

The authors make no such assumption. Their understanding of literature draws on Barthes & Bakhtin, which leads them to the dichotomy of readerly and writerly texts. Whenever they talk about these texts, however, they know not to make assumptions about authors at all. The division between author, narrator and character (and, depending on your background, an implied author) have been well established within literatery studies with Genette, Stanzel and Iser.

Reading a book tells you very little about the "actual" author or background, because the process of writing is necessary one of construction and selection. Even an autobiography does not simply tell you the unmitigated, unfiltered, "actual" truth.

Reading fiction, then, tells you very little about people's self-images or (historic) background. What it does, however, is that it makes you aware of the distinct construction involved, as well as the divide between fact and fiction. This, in turn, lets you make certain more educated guesses as to the content and surroundings of peoples' utterances, and perhaps how to understand or interpret them.
We need to shine more light on the executors.. theese days all the focus tend to go to the founders
After briefly looking over documentation, it seems that Ghost doesn't support post types like links, asides, images, etc. Or did I overlook something? If else, future implementation?
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Well, their washing machines are OK. Anything computer or phone related is cheap rubbish for those with no money or with low standards.
I believe that this is fundamentally good research. But beware if anyone thinks that you can use this to build a killer investment strategy.

If one tests a simple rule, for example "buy when the shiller p/e ratio dips below 15 and sell when it hits 20" then indeed, you would have seen some fantastic results - most obviously in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, when after adjusting for inflation and dividends, you could have bought the S&P500 in Feb 2009 for 887.12 and sold it again in December for 1202.03, realizing a 35% return after inflation).

However, you also would have had the patience and determination to ride out some extremely tough times - you'd be long stocks for the 1987 crash, and completely miss out on the pre-2000 tech bubble, for example). You'd also have to ride out some drawdown that would have wiped out 50% of your capital before the eventual recovery.

In fact, you'd only have placed six trades in about 125 years --

1. Buy in April 1882 and sell in 1898, realizing 2.62% annualized, inflation-adjusted return over 16 years.

2. Buy in March 1907 and sell in 1928, realizing 1.01% annualized and inflation-adjusted over 21 years.

3. Buy in Sept 1931 and sell in 1936, realizing 10.1% annualized over five years (this was a great trade, as you bought in the immediate aftermath of the 1929-1930 crash, and just before the recovery of the early 1930s)

4. Buy in Jan 1937 and sell in 1961, realizing 6.79% annualized over 24 years (another great trade, but you would have had to hold your position over the second world war, which included some terrifying drawdowns).

5. Buy in 1973 and sell in 1992, realizing 2% annualized over 19 years. Again, you'd have to suffer losing over half your capital before you eventually came out on top.

6. Buy in Feb 2009 and sell in December the same year, realizing a 35% return in less than a year (the single greatest trade in the strategy's history, perhaps indicating how thoroughly depressed markets were after the 2008 crash).
'Why the name "Ghost"?'

I'm speculating wildly here, but maybe because the blogging platform becomes invisible, like a ghost. A similar approach to LaTeX for word processing. And also perhaps because of the writing theme, as in ghost writing.
> But most Rails devs (myself included) are just about getting shit done, we don't know everything that's going on under the bonnet, and we don't want to.

I love getting shit done.

It's my job as a professional to know everything that's going on "under the bonnet."

I'm still learning.

But it's my job to try.
You give too much credit to the financial system in regard to investment. Inflationary policy just makes the money a bad thing to hold on to, a "hot potato". This is what contributed (among other things) to housing bubble as people looked at real estate properties as safe deposits, not necessarily because they needed the houses. I presume however that you didn't counted housing bubble as "investment rush".
I'm choosing between this and Medium, and the user-facing design (at least the theme demo'd on their blog) looks similar.

I'd like to hear a comparison (though happy to throw wordpress in the consideration pool too)
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