skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first impression is that it is like extending the two-way binding of AngularJS across the wire. Not sure though...
Oh, well IMO, nobody really wants to pay for that data, no matter how you aggregate it. it's why the gov gives it out for free :)
Considering that I've watched a new automated deployment process nuke an entire network due to a mistake in the config... Sometimes slow and plodding and potentially losing a node (as opposed to 100 nodes) is seen as preferable to the PTBs.

Of course intelligent, incremental deployment works too, but let's not confuse those poor suits...
Your historical knowledge is ok. But it wasn't a monopoly.

At its peak it had 90% market-share. It was never "illegal" or "impossible" to sell petroleum in competition to it -- just highly very difficult to compete with them.

In the same vein, google has 9-1 share of the internet search market....should we call it a "monopoly"?
That's just the thing: even if a company like Apple might be inclined to ignore short-sighted shareholders, nearly always they don't have the institutional capacity to find good uses for cash. Look at companies like Google and Yahoo: they throw excess cash around like crazy, rolling the dice to hit something great. (Even Google's solid, cool projects like the driverless car are highly speculative.)

Everything Amazon does, by contrast, is very clearly focused on one clear goal: becoming the retailer of record. It is able, either by institutional constitution or the nature of its market, to make investments in itself that will clearly add to its bottom line, either one or five or ten years from now.
That's because, functionally, that sort of interaction does not belong on a dashboard. Dashboards are meant to succinctly summarize what's going on under the hood. "Bakery 47 is running low on cinnamon rolls" && "Coffee shop on Main is your #1 seller this week" - Rolling up your sleeves and manipulating that data is best done in a bespoke screen/view.
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it probably does, webmaster tools shows keywords that are common, which doesn't mean they are meaningful. That information is mostly to check that you are not missing out your keywords completely.

For example, any tumblr blog will have "ask", "submit" and "liked" as the most common words, even though they will have zero weight in your positioning, the links they are in are likely marked as nofollow and they are blocked in robots.txt
Excited for the new mini. Also over or under $5000 for mac pro?
These workspaces look really nice, but I'm not sure how productive I can be in such an open space unless there is a serious "no talking in the library" style of culture there. I would regularly get distracted by conversations happening across the room, unless everything was kept to a whisper.
Not worth it for academia means, that academia deserves something better than a vendor lock-in, by some closed-source software. It deserves a medium that doesn't stand in it's way, but empowers students/professors, scientists and other people, instead of depowering them by centralizing all power to one login provider.

Academia is about innovation and sharing knowledge. A gatekeeper or a closed-source platform inevitably creates a bottleneck that slows innovation and knowledge sharing down. Furthermore, a social network as Academia requires a medium that adapts to it's need, not the other way around, therefore an optimal solution can only be opensource.
That is pretty much bang on Kops :)
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Nope, not only does half the widgets not work on my Chrome, it's actually very hard to look at for longer then 10 seconds.
Is "I don't find this article interesting" a good reason to flag? If it got to the front page, people must have found it interesting. It seems like flagging would mean "this article does not belong on HN". I think the announcement of new phones and tablets in new form factors with new apps and an upcoming software update from Nokia would be relevant, moreso than a slightly thinner iPad with the same internals and software as the already released iPhone 5s, which will undoubtedly be filling the front page later today.
I've just spent this morning setting up an Apple HTTP Live Stream to other platforms with a flash player. It's not too difficult to do, so I assume the reason for not doing it is Apple's unwillingness to use 3rd party technology.

In their defence, the technology is open, and the only reason Mozilla/Google etc aren't implementing support for HLS is that they are betting on their own technology instead of using HLS, which is currently far ahead.
There are plans to update the book, but they need help with that:

https://readthedocs.org/projects/django-book-new/

https://github.com/jacobian/djangobook.com
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nthnclrk just curious where you got the updated chart in your link. the chart link in PG's tweet has much less data...
-What- Which high value sites are using disqus?
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The expenditure includes:

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Let us know what you all think. Thanks :)

Here's the link: http://acetone.co

PS: Couldn't put the link in the title because the account is too new. Or something. Hope this works.
Not being able to install from binary installers is so annoying, it's a real shame it doesn't support it. Its the only reason I keep easy_install around.
"power transmission with DC is actually quite a lot more efficient than AC."

And the subject to google for is insulation breakdown and compare the equations relating peak voltage and RMS voltage. Intuitively you need to insulate a high power transmission line to handle the highest voltage it'll ever see at any instant, which and unfortunately the peak voltage is a microscope amount of time at the tiny peak of the sine wave, but the DC equivalent power you can get out of a sine wave is only the much lower RMS voltage, whereas a DC line can carry peak power continuously, so for a given line $100M budgeted toward cable insulation can insulate more power if its sent as DC rather than AC.
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>> Because you are setting a floor. First, if you make a minimum income of 1,000, anyone making less or around that will demand a raise, after all why would I work if I could get the same amount loafing around the house.

I don't think you understand the proposal. Everyone gets the minimum income. There is no means-test. It is not a welfare benefit. It comes with citizenship. If you work and earn $1000 a month, that is in addition to the $1000 a month basic income you receive. However, you will also now pay tax on that $1000 additional income, even if prior to the basic income you did not earn enough to pay taxes. However, you still come out ahead overall.

>> with everyone making more money, goods in that area will rise in price, as landlords find they can make more money etc... and then we're back in the same situation.
>> inflation would quickly catch up.

The basic income amount would be inflation-adjusted each year. This is no different from how SSI and welfare benefits work now. Or for that matter regular wages and costs, which rise with inflation each year, to allow relative adjustments without the disruption of falling prices.
I'd be really interested in the advanced course if it wasn't three months away.
Looking at GDP per capita over the past century it looks like it rises sharply around WWII and there is a slight rise in the 80s, but for the most part it has steady growth.

Considering WWII and the 80s saw the highest increases in deficit spending, I think that just proves my point?
Curious how most of these spaces promo photos don't have any people in them.

Along that same vein, I'm very partial to the community-focused angle that Indy Hall in Philadelphia has taken: http://www.indyhall.org/
> By the way, were it not for abandoning the gold standard, the US would not be able to finance a perpetual state of war.

you're correct, but a few things:

1) the gold standard never fully went away; while we implemented Keynesian fiat money, we then pegged it to Oil production, hence the term "Petrodollar". It was a little amusing that we went to war in Iraq (under the WAR ON TERROR banner) immediately after Hussein switched to the Euro as the default currency. [1] Even in it's weakened state, the Petrodollar is still the main currency of choice.

2) The Gold Standard switch is the tip of the iceberg. We should be talking about the US Bankruptcy. Check out the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 (specifically, the 1933 amendment) [2], and House Joint Resolution 192 of June 5th, 1933 [3]. Those two acts set up the perpetual state of war in the US, though some would say it happened when congress went sine die during the civil war.

3) Fiat money is _awesome_ in a world in bankruptcy. Since 1933, people/citizens are the source of all money. we live in a world of abundance now since the industrial revolution, and in the next 20 years, as machines take over all the old grunt-labor jobs, we're going to have a glut of people unable to do the jobs they were trained to do. under any resource-backed economy (gold, oil), this would be catastrophic. However, this is why we have institutions like the Bank of International Settlements in place, to post bonds and discharge debt for insolvent countries/corporations. Money is debt, as the Youtube video tells us. We're now in a world where a Promise to Pay (an IOU) is in fact the money itself [4]. In this world, everyone that has a "Sophisticated Investor" level of understanding of the game can act as their own BIS, effectively becoming another Carnegie, Rockefeller, Warburg, or Oppenheimer.

I suspect you're a lewrockwell.com reader, or at least one who follows a more libertarian leaning (correct me if wrong). Back when I was championing the gold standard, I used to say a lot of the same things. Much of what they said was right, but was missing the massive caveat that it was only correct within the confines of HJR-192. Gold/Silver is only payable for private commerce outside the jurisdiction of Wickard v. Filburn [5] nowadays. Michael Badnarik, former Libertarian Presidential Candidate, teaches a common law class that explains many of these concepts, so that you can preserve and exercise those pre-1933 rights [6].

[1] http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,998512,...

[2] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/12/95a

[3] http://www.focusoncommerce.net/index_htm_files/LAW%20-%20Hou...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negotiable_instrument

[5] http://www.lawnix.com/cases/wickard-filburn.html

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-a_yR1jzHY
I've just integrated all of our 7,000+ products into Amazon and one of the things Amazon is trying to do now is persuade us to use Fulfilled by Amazon (FBA).

It's quite attractive to us as a retailer as they take all the negative feedback, handle returns, etc etc. FBA makes us, as a retailer, look good and saves us money (no shipping costs), while protecting our reputation.

From a logistics point of view it simplifies things immensely (we just need to manage stocks in another warehouse).

Coding this should, however, be interesting :)
Microsoft has a government-enforced monopoly (copyright and patents).
CANBUS +1. Would love to nudge the ardunio-ish end of the IoT community in that direction.
> How can I put a autorun file on my USB mouse?

You make the mouse identify itself as a USB HUB with a mouse, keyboard and a flashdrive.

You make it simulate keypresses of Win+R, `F:\exploit.exe`, Enter (or Cmd+space, Terminal, `open /Volumes/pretendmouse/exploit`, etc.)

Anything you plug into USB can own your machine, and autorun is not even necessary.
I kinda of like this... but then again I'm kind of wary.

Isn't the standard library the place where packages go to die?

Isn't the reason pip is actually useful because has a nice health release cycle (http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/news.html) and isn't frozen into the standard-library ice age of the past?

Won't this make it even harder to build a compliant version of python that runs on mobile devices where you can't install packages (>_> iOS)?

I get that it's convenient, I'm not 100% convinced its a good idea.

Edit: Reading the PEP in detail its now clear that this is not bundling pip with python (see 'Including pip directly in the standard library'). This is bundling a pip installer as part of the standard library. Much better.
I'll gamble. $3250 for the base model.
Hopefully it will also bring about some improvements to pip. It's a pretty great tool but with a couple major caveats. The first is that although it supports many forms of package specification, including VCS repositories, it does not report the package spec according to the way that it was installed, but rather according to the package name and version according to its setup.py. Say you install a package from a git commit that fixed a bug in the PyPI 1.0.0 package whose version is still reported as 1.0.0 in setup.py at the commit. Then you freeze the environment to requirements.txt to distribute. It's still reported as package==1.0.0 instead of the git spec, so the next person to install will pull down the broken version from PyPI instead. The other headache is that installing from a requirements file just installs dependencies in the order they're listed, so oftentimes you need to re-organize the output of `pip freeze` to make sure dependencies are installed in the right order, otherwise you can encounter things like unexpected package versions due to other packages making ambiguous dependency specs for dependencies of your own app.
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Keep in mind that when you transfer large sums of money abroad, you have to report it to the IRS.

Anything over $10K requires an FBAR form (TD F 90-22.1):

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f90221.pdf

Transfering the money to trusts requires a 3520 form:

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f3520.pdf

Plus you should also read this:

http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Forei...
Is there any effort put into preventing this being used for harassment? I can already see the death threats and scare tactics this will be used for.
Hopefully, it will now.
Can the rates really be that much better than any other online FX payment service?

2% all-in seems to be the going rate for the ones I've used. Since both sides on an exchange are looking for the market price, that only gives you 1% of potential improvement assuming the market is sufficiently liquid and efficient.
I only briefly used Eclipse, so I can't comment on that one. I used NetBeans for a few months though. PHPStorm has much superior refactoring, it beats NB hands down. This by itself was for me enough of a reason to switch.

I also had some issues with NetBeans being inresponsive, or some functionalities breaking for no clear reason (like "go to definition" wouldn't work anymore) etc.

My working copy was on a mounted drive - which sucks, but it didn't depend on me - and whenever NB had a problem saving some file, it would make it look as if the file was saved anyway, and I ended up losing changes.

On the top of that, its SVN integration (I've switched to Git since, but I never looked back at NetBeans, so I can't compare) was ridiculously slow.

It just feels buggy.
PHPStorm is cool. Haven't looked back after switching to it almost an year ago. Worth the money. Plus, they offer discounted licenses for students and open source projects!
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The humans I've run into who didn't choose a IT career path definitely know nothing about the difference between programmer, sysadmin, and helpdesk, not even that the differences exist. If I didn't have an uncle in the biz I wouldn't even know there's a categorization of rough/structural carpenters and finish carpenters. I don't think most people make career decisions based on extensive rational data gathering of the whole human experience of work before picking a career.
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The customers do not even make the decision of buying Microsoft Windows operation system

Oh pish posh - that's just not true, not in any way, shape, or form. If we're talking about "regular people" buying computers (mom, dad, etc), they absolutely choose Windows when they go to the "computer store", play around on a new PC, and walk out with it. How can you act as if they had no choice? The Apple Store opened almost a decade ago yet these people chose Windows as their OS instead. If we're talking "enterprise/company employees", it's likely that their base OS was pre-chosen for them but, that said, at some point a higher up IT person chose Windows because of Apple's choices 20+ years ago w/ respect to having servers and networking being first class citizens of the OS/environment.

You can hate MSFT all you want but to act as though, 91% of the time, people did not make a decision is just willfully ignorant or foolish.
This isn't a full-blown example, but AngularJS works phenomenally as an interaction layer on top of a REST API. Creating such an API with Rails is almost trivial. Postgres + Rails + AngularJS (via Bower) has become my go-to stack and is an absolute blast to develop with.
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dashboard is only a subset admin templates

They are mostly read-only, useful for OLAP data. Admin templates are useful for OLTP data.
The scarce time and little to gain arguments are persuasive to me. I've also encountered many personalities who react negatively to frank disagreement. If there's little to gain, maybe the best solution is not to disagree. If time is scarce, but the issues is critical, maybe agreeing faster can work. Personally I'm working be less frank and bring these principles into more daily use.
I'd use headphones - same as for when I work in a 'regular' office. You might then question the need for being in such a space at all, but I like being around people, even if I'm not interacting with them.
USB was defacto standard for data transfer, especially on PCs, but the /connector/ on the phone side was not at all standards compliant or uniform across makes and models, and up until the passage of that law, it wasn't uncommon for the power port to be separate. Now that is basically unheard of. I'm not saying the law is the only reason for this change, but it is clearly a big factor, yet it is omitted from this article.
> In their defence, the technology is open, and the only reason Mozilla/Google etc aren't implementing support for HLS...

Android, for one example, does support http live streaming (since Honeycomb). Try it: Apple's own demonstration sample HLS stream[1] plays fine on Android. (I think VLC does too now, etc.)

Of course, Android users are still blocked from this event, the page won't show you the stream unless it detects you're using an Apple product, even if you could play it fine. This was a deliberate restriction by Apple, not a technical limitation.

[1] http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbop/gear1/prog_...
Definitely under here - I'll go $3750!
Nope, doesn't work, I just tried it.

Eclipse default: http://i.imgur.com/MKCUJR8.png

IDEA with your JAVA_OPTIONS: http://i.imgur.com/UGDVhin.png
If starting a pos company, what credit card processor would you go with
Would appreciate any device on which credit card processor would go best with a POS. Particularly for low cost credit transactions, doesnt make sense to pay a $0.30 transaction fee for a dollar sale
Yeah, having other companies compete for your labor would probably be terrible for you, wouldn't it.
totally agree with you, but why take the name GoAngular? now a protect that ties go and angular can't be called goangular
I'll venture 3299$ for the base Mac Pro.
You don't need a server, we offer our realtime collaborative stack as a service. We're cooking something up right now similar to TogetherJS, if you'd like a sneak peak drop me a email (in my profile).

If you want to build and host your own realtime application take a look at HAProxy (tcp mode in 1.4) for load balancing the incoming websocket connections to your application stack. There has been a lot of success using Node.js with engine.io, socket.io, or take a look at the meta Primus module.
You're again using the confused notion of "value". The HFTs are taking value away from others to themselves, not creating new value (at least if we reject the extra liquidity as a positive value).

Societies will succeed more or less based on various parameters, one of which is whether they generate value to sustain themselves or not.
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Those are some aggressive goals.
Google wants their own protocol to succeed, Mozilla wants a different video codec to succeed[1], Microsoft probably wants to own both. It's very easy to cache HLS, which makes distributing high definition to a large number of people much cheaper. Is Apple supposed to spend more money on lower quality steaming just because their competitors don't want to play nicely?

VLC is capable of playing HLS if you can get it the correct URL. Some other browsers can play it, but the web has an unfortunately long history of browser detection.

[1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577084]
The University of Waterloo has long been known as a center of text search excellence. Independent, perhaps, of the OED work (which I used in a smaller Oxford American? English dictionary product, I sure wish I could justify buying the OED :-( ), I remember a talk or paper about a very cool method developed there and/or by one of the companies, I seem to vaguely remember it used patricia tries. And I'm happy to see all that turned into a very successful company, 1 billion revenue and 123 profit FY 11, over 5,000 employees in 2012.

But all that said, per Wikipedia, it "is Canada's largest software company", which supports the general point. At least in Canada, we don't see the 1/10 of the American level of success we might expect, although I wouldn't be surprised if the "Canadians" situation looked a lot better if a good expat study was done, over the years I've known a number of top notch Canadian software engineers working here---which itself could be telling.

But the country itself, as a big source of computer technological excellence? Sorry....
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Good list.
...and you can check more on http://www.sharedesk.net (maybe for your next list?)
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I think this is exciting and has a valid use case. The other day we were explaining Python list comprehensions which was heavily inspired by Haskell's list comprehensions. But it was no where as concise or expressive as Haskell.

In many cases Haskell is very concise and it helps to have an option on the interactive interpreter to enter a Haskell one-liner to prototype a solution.
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Does it work if you spoof your user agent? Just curious.
Right. so the Bangladeshi Taka is not a globally-recognized currency. got it. we should probably get it de-listed from xe.com, then.
If they made USB ports reversible they wouldn't be USB anymore, and not just in shape either, the technology required to make them reversible also requires devices both upstream (e.g. computers, power bricks) and downstream (phones, tablets, etc) to "understand" that the port could be communicating in either of two modes (reverse and non-reverse, and to flip the data channels accordingly).

The technology exists. Just would require starting again from scratch.
Not sure if this counts, but Bamboo Detroit (Detroit, MI) (http://www.bamboodetroit.com/) is one I've heard some buzz around.
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