skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not following my logic at all. This is the currency of a country, which has a business cycle - it's relative magnitude is not relevant. Bitcoin is a global currency - the impact of the business cycle of the underlying assets is directly proportional to the amount of global assets represented by Bitcoin. Bitcoin BC's won't affect us until Bitcoin holdings are sufficiently large.

Edit: or it's not evenly distributed. A few thousand people holding all of their wealth in Bitcoin would be enough to study this.
when virtualenv was released with python 3.3 it didnt come with pip.
> They're thin in some places but huge in others. AWS, for example, has a 50% gross profit margin, and their gross margins on digital goods (mp3s, ebooks) are also high.

How do you know this? I don't think they have ever released this information in their financial reports. Are you going by analysts' estimates?
I have no idea how to get virtualenv working. I'm that user that needs it for now!
I can refactor a chunk of messy script into a separate method with PHPStorm, it's just one command. Good luck with Sublime :) IDEs were invented for a reason. To each his own, but I lost count of how many times I fixed bugs (of the sort that I could broadly classify as typos) made by colleagues who choose to code in Sublime, Commodo, Notepad++ and the like.

I really like Sublime when I need to search for something in a code base though. It also has very pleasant, slick feeling to it.
I would draw a line between systems that rely upon voluntary interaction like stock markets vs systems that rely upon forced coercion like organized crime.
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Having tried various ways of distributing desktop apps / non-web daemons, I've found virtualenvs useful there too (with the one fairly large caveat that installing wxWidgets in a virtualenv is a world of pain :( But then in those cases I use the OS-provided packages with the OS package manager, so I still never use virtualenv and pip independently)
Yes. That's why people are saying the community should squat one that is still unused and then it will be ours by default, because no manufacturers will want it if its already used.
"The real trick is to gradually surface functionality: provide powerful abstractions & flexible conceptual tools, but then hide them so that they only surface when they are needed, and, more importantly, when the user is able to cope with them."

But this already exist! ...well, sort of. For most things there is a broad range of applications that cover them from simple to very complex. Let's take text - we have everything from simple viewers and plain-text simple writers to complex text editors like "vim", to complex rich-content editing suites like LibreOffice, we even have designated document-preparation languages like LaTeX. The same for music, video, or other kind of content. From this broad range the beginner's system provides (or at least that's what it should provide) by default only the simplest basic tools. Also, at least in Windows, they removed the default easy access to computer's files that existed in early versions in 90's and instead let the applications in user's easy reach.
Two Scoops of Django does a great job of covering best practices.

https://django.2scoops.org/
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This is a key point: VPNs provide an obvious point of failure, and are easily shut down and/or monitored by repressive regimes. The big concern is not that the VPN is shut down, but that those who connect to it are being monitored, and will get a visit from the secret police.

It's P2P so that you have clear endpoints, so repressive regimes can't ascertain whether it's a VPN or not. It's also helpful in that you might well trust a friend in another country over a VPN company.
"How can I put a autorun file on my USB mouse?"

LOL its really easy. You've got an empty box of mostly air, so you open it up, solder four wires in parallel, done. All you need is for the victim to plug it in once for a few seconds. Yes this is why its dumb for windows admins not to disable autorun.

"can't think that you can own it."

The flash contains linux_installation.sh with:

#!/bin/bash

clear

echo Run this file as root to install the closed

echo source USB mouse driver for your

echo new "whatever" brand USB mouse.

(insert lots of stuff most folks won't understand which owns the machine and certainly didn't come from any mouse mfgr)

I think you could have hilarious fun on air-gapped networks plugging in wifi dongles and bluetooth dongles mounted inside a USB gadget. How your system responds to gaining a keylogger or another extra HID device or another extra network device would be interesting to watch. Just a COTS keylogger could be interesting.
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This works very well, especially in Sales situations. Once you can put things into someone else's words, they know you understand their point.

Two challenges to this approach:

1) It takes time. Lots of time. Sometimes decisions need to be made quicker.

2) If there is an unequal power distribution, sometimes you don't need them to consent. ("I know you disagree with the approach, we aren't equals. You wouldn't get the contract without our blessing. You have to do it our way even if you don't agree.")
If you build it, they won't necessarily come. Marketplaces provide a channel for discovery.
Why would the demand for basic goods change? The poor are are already getting fed and clothed in much the same way as they would on basic income.
Really? You eat over more than three apples a day worth of fresh fruit? You do realize that the maxim is "an apple a day", not "three apples a day", right?

Anyhow, like anything, context matters here. Fresh fruit is high in fiber, which tends to lead to less absorption of sugars and other carbohydrates. The equivalent amount of fructose in soda or fruit juice is much worse for you than in the form of whole fresh fruits.

If you take a look at that study you link to about average consumption, over half of it comes from "sugar sweetened beverages" and "grains" (which includes cakes, pies, snacks, breads, and cereals). So, the average American could cut their fructose level in half, to under that suggested limit, by merely cutting out sodas and sweetened baked goods. My personal recommendation is to never drink soda, and only have sweetened baked goods occasionally, no more often than once a week.
Apple does not see opportunity at the moment which is why it's holding the huge amount of cash.

Exactly - that's the OP's point.

Amazon has the vision to invest its cash in building entire new lines of business, whereas Apple can't see any opportunities.
I think your method is great for black and white situations. If arguing over 2 + 2 = 4, then yes get to the point. How many arguments really go that way though? More often than not arguments boil down to each persons experience and opinions formed through that experience.

It is also important to remember that emotions are always involved. If there was not any emotion why would the discussion be happening in the first place? Presumably both parties care about what they are arguing for.
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WebSocket book(oracle press) at the beginning of this month, TogetherJS a few days ago and now GoAngular/Instant. For me the timing couldn't have been better.
TogetherJS has references to hosting your own server, but I couldn't find something similar on GoInstant. I am still digging around on their site though.

BTW, what did you end up doing? Did you build something of your own? Any gotchas you would like to share? I am investigating if Nginx will co-operate with the websocket connections and what will be the price of maintaining live connections to a bunch of clients. I am kind of inclined to build and run my own server...
Sorry if this is always brought up (i haven't seen an Apple stream since the iPhone 4 event), but we /still/ need Quicktime to stream this? What the hell?
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I agree, being new to web development a few years ago I struggled along with Django for a bit before trying Flask, which is a fantastic framework. It's easy to keep the entire thing in your head while coding. Today I've moved on from Flask to Django, because as my web apps began to grow I ended up writing features that Django gives out of the box, but I still value Flask hugely. I will probably use it in the future, for small web apps here and there.
So basically it caches the native code produced by the Dalvik VM? I'm surprised Dalvik doesn't already do this.
The problem with Tor is that it's not clear who is running which nodes and where you'll come out. uProxy is designed for people who know that their endpoint is friendly, such as a friend who no longer lives in the country, or a journalist that you are working with.
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I like pip, but it's too bad that it can only install from source. It's quite a hassle sometimes to round up dependencies and build them all on windows (not to mention not everyone has a compiler installed on windows).

easy_install can install from binary installers or eggs. I'd like to see that added to pip.
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same for me, going for ed.
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Good point. I thought this trick was the most clever thing here. Making all email addresses instantly accessible as a sub-domain of fade.li.

As far as ideas, I'm actually thinking the complete opposite. Going on record - like an 3rd party service that proves that you sent an email to a person at a certain date and time in case of a later dispute. e.g.

youremail@google.com.prove.it
Here we go, already declining Europe turning even more socialist.

This almost feels like an insult. The modern capitalist wellfare state as it is implemented in The Netherlands, Germany, and Scandinavia have given the population at large huge and equal opportunities. It's actually the solidarity that have given such a wide group a high education.

Spain and communist countries were recent authoritarian states. It is not surprising that haven't been able to gain as much resilience yet.

The countries that are doing badly are countries that are corrupt, lived on EU subsidies for decades, or are strangled by unions.

(In fact, it's funny that you mention Spain, since it had one of the lower levels of social expenditure.)
The Sublime Text plugin is making use of typescript-tools [1] which also has support for vim and emacs.

[1]: https://github.com/clausreinke/typescript-tools
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I do like their new connector, however I'm concerned about what it is in the connection that wears.

In MicroUSB the springs providing force/friction to keep the connector in the device are in the cable. That means as it wears out, you should only have to replace the cable.

Where does Apple's wear? After the 10,000/25,000/50,000 insertions, do I just need to buy a new phone?
That's 200 mtgoxUSD, not USD. You're paying a premium if you want to pay for your bitcoins with mtgoxUSD.

It's a public secret that mtgox is in fractional reserve mode because of the seizure of their Wells Fargo and Dwolla accounts[1], and then there's the money that they claim that Coinbase owes them[2].

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/23/feds-seize-another-2-1-mill...

[2] http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/2013/09/14/mt-gox-responds-co...
Microseconds. It's called FOREX.
"From the moment I got to Manchester United, I thought of only one thing: building a football club. I wanted to build right from the bottom."

The first point is possibly the best. I like how it points at the difference between short and long term development.

That said, some managers have become experts in developing themselves over the long term, moving from club to club and eventually learning to win within a single season.

Also, some clubs have so much money that they can afford to buy the best players who are able to adapt and perform at any club.

The complications are fun to analyse.
> We're not all building web apps in python - virtualenv is not universally useful.

Huh, fair enough. I work on non-webapps too -- could you explain more about your use case?
Or perhaps it could just be that we find anything made by microsoft mind-numbingly uninteresting. Just like anything made by SAP, IBM, Oracle, CA and other old-guard tech companies. Seriously, why are there e.g. no SAP employees on HN wondering whether HN is really that anti SAP?
Either way at some point you need to install pip. They are removing an unnecessary step, which is a good thing.
My team has been using TypeScript since 0.9 was released. From our perspective it's been a great win. It's greatly eased the refactoring of our JavaScript.

The thing that's been really nice is the ability to write a certain amount of ES6 style code (eg using arrow functions to lexically bind the this value) and having the TypeScript compiler transpile that into ES5 / ES3 JavaScript.

I really like it. I think the tooling is still a little rough but it's still in Alpha so that's fair enough I guess. It'll improve.
"To my surprise, they found our health disadvantage 'could not be explained simply by reference to problems associated with an inefficient health care system, the lack of universal health care coverage, or large racial and socioeconomic disparities in the United States.'"

That doesn't seem to address the fact that as a nation, the US seems to be growing more and more obese with worse nutrition and less exercise. I assume the authors of the paper did some analysis based on things other than the inefficient health care system.
If you are in the e-commerce...
That's strange. Shouldn't Google be using frequency analysis to determine likely key words? Shouldn't "Disqus" appear so often on high-value sites that Google decides the word is virtually content-free?
I actually had no idea that Priceonomics was anything other than a blog!
There is both a personal and collective responsibility. Yes, people should take responsibility for what they put in their body. But to do that, they need to have good things available that are affordable and not too inconvenient.

People eat what is cheap and convenient. We would do well to try and reduce the trend to make the most cheap convenient food by making processed food that's full of stuff that's bad for you.
From experience, if you want to sell something that is used and is in poor condition, don't sell it on amazon... when people buy things used through Amazon they expect it to be Like New, even if thats not what the description says.

My simple tips for selling online:
New/Like New -> Amazon
Used/poor/missing things -> Ebay
Right, which they're obligated to do. As a company, you're bound to follow the laws of the countries in which you do business.

You have the option to direct lobbying power against laws you feel are unjust.
Do you seriously believe that the government subsidies of Airbus/EADS and Boeing in the 60s and 70s have been a net negative benefit to their home countries economic and employment wise, now that those two companies dominate the jet airliner market?
Also: "The hardest thing is to let go of a player who has been a great guy – but all the evidence is on the field."
That's the nice thing about standards, there are so many conflicting ones to choose from. And you are correct before hams started using powerpoles in wholesale lots, the mfgr had a semi-elaborate scheme for full scale railroad wiring where the color had a meaning WRT voltage which the hams disregarded and decided to use red/black.

That's in itself is a lesson optimistic power connector designers need to learn about the past, if you "borrow" something currently used for marine power, or solar panel wiring, or forklift battery chargers, and try to do something totally different, expect some conflicts even if the new app dwarfs the old one by a couple orders of magnitude.

Yes, on a railroad locomotive engine I wouldn't randomly plug red/black ham radio powerpoles into the first railroad engine red/black that you see, its not going to be what you expected. Almost everywhere else, it will work.
They can't fire that person. He's the only one who knows the state of the servers.
The best resource for learning Django best practices right now is probably the Two Scoops book:

https://django.2scoops.org/

One thing that Django suffers from is having a long history which means that old best-practices (which no longer are best practices) still float around on blogs and it's hard to know what is what. I understand that the fact that so many people swap out core components with 3rd party libs can make it confusing, but I would disagree that in order to get to production quality it is required. I would even recommend avoiding swapping out core pieces whenever possible and work within the framework.
Nope, I realize that. It wasn't meant for that - it would have just been inspiring enough or rather elevating to have found someone I could start to build deep trust with, but I don't absolutely need that. For now I'm just focusing on building better friendships and relationships in general. Just the thought of having someone I can fully confide into - business wise or otherwise - is appealing.
We actually don't know with 100% certainty that Chrome runs the code that we see.

Considering Google is forced to comply with NSA's shit (and other agencies in their respective countries), I wouldn't trust my life to this extension.
Django screencasts for the interested:

https://godjango.com/

http://gettingstartedwithdjango.com/
When I view the page in FF24, it says "Live Streaming video requires Safari 4 or later on OS X v10.6 or later; Safari on iOS 4.2 or later."

I'm just as surprised that it "requires Safari" which is just ... silly.
it's a sign that they got someone competent to do finance. Just means that he's the guy to go to (sue) when you demand remedy from the company for injuries caused. :)
They use LaserShip for a lot of deliveries here. They seem to have improved lately, but they used to be tremendously bad. They'd deliver packages a day after their tracking system said they were delivered, they'd just lose stuff, once they delivered my package to the wrong city.

On the flip side, I have to wonder if this is actually something of a benefit for Amazon. They get to save a ton of money by using a cheap delivery service, but the delivery service takes much of the heat for bad service. I'm a little annoyed with Amazon for using LaserShip, but I'm much more annoyed with LaserShip for sucking. If Amazon handled the delivery, they would have to do better just to get the same amount of satisfaction from me.
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I'm not sure that would explain a drop specifically in 55-to-75 year old people, even though we're competitive in other areas?
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Didn't come with it, or didn't install it by default?

AFAIK the default virtualenv behaviour has been "create an environment and then automatically and immediately install pip from the internet", so for the last several years they've been practically tied together, even if they were distributed individually.
rubygems has been bundled with ruby since 2009, and perl has had cpan since about forever.
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The iPod didn't take off until the release of the Windows version. I wonder if that lesson has been lost.
I don't think technological innovation has ever had the potential to disrupt existing power structures as much as the Internet and cryptography.

That's a bold statement. You don't think the cotton gin and improved looms contributed to the numbers of people enslaved in the antebellum southern USA? You don't think the railroads and telegraph contributed to the settling of the West? You don't think the rise of manufacturing, which pulled multitudes of (black and white) Southerners north, changed both the South and the Midwest?

I'm not sure what you mean by "legal profession running amok," but if you mean bad court decisions and draconian government legal theories, that's nothing new.

Let me preface this by saying that I'm not comparing Lavabit to Dred Scott in terms of the degree of injustice the two parties suffered. Mostly I just don't know a great deal of legal history and this historical "worst case ever" is what came to mind. However, I have never seen the unfortunate Mr. Scott blamed for the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford decision. So, bad court decisions: not new. Blaming the victims of those decisions: new.

Mostly it just speaks to an audacious sense of entitlement on the part of any attorney who upon news of a fresh new legal outrage, immediately excoriates the victims of our federal Department of Injustice. When he says a society without Lavabit is better than a society in which Lavabit doesn't have him (or a similarly experienced and wise litigator) on retainer, that is self-serving. He is fundamentally no different than the feds, because he also wants the legal profession to act as a check on all innovation. The slight cosmetic difference is that he wants to be the one running things, because his judgment is better than that of the feds.

Of course we mustn't fall victim to the classic is/ought confusion. When in legal trouble, it's best to be well-represented. However, when any developer who wants to help people maintain a modicum of privacy and dignity is automatically in legal trouble, we all have legal trouble.
Because it puts an extra $1,000 in everyone's pocket, not just the poor, so everyone will have additional money to spend on higher quality goods, driving up demand along the entire spectrum of price/quality for a given item.

I'm not a huge fan of subsidies because it distorts international markets and hurts other countries (mainly poor ones), but a better alternative might be to give large corporations a tax incentive to pay their minimum wage workers more, or provide them with additional benefits. Redistribution of wealth through the government is a great idea in theory, but it eventually breaks because you get a crooked politician in office or someone who can't manage the redistribution program effectively, as we're seeing in the US (look at our current debt problem). Plus, redistribution programs involve the government, which is an unnecessary step and complicates the process. If you encourage corporations to just pay their employees more, governments don't need to 'tax the rich' to 'feed the poor'.
As someone maintaining packages on pypi, I can tell you that demand for Python 3 support is growing and people are beginning to port packages for their own needs.

I expect we'll see python 3 overtake python 2 in new projects within 3 years. I realize that's still pretty far off, but these things take time. You have to give the PSF credit for great support of the 2.x series.
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Or, for a more apt (heh) comparison:

https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems
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The article is a second-hand source; the author could be trying to stir something up, or maybe just got a bit too excited. Who knows? The article also says the proposal, among others, "haven’t hit the desk of anyone at the USB Implementers Forum, the people who are actually in charge of designating USB VIDs and PIDs". Doesn't sound like the forum said no to me.
Install virtualenv:

pip install virtualenv
mkdir ~/.virtualenvs
virtualenv ~/.virtualenvs/my_new_project

Activate it to continue development:

. ~/.virtualenvs/my_new_project/bin/activate

The effect of this is that `python` and `pip` commands now only act on the virtualenv and not system (or user) site wide.

Deactivate it:

deactivate

Python and pip commands are now the system versions again.
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