skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it could have been random chance, and any number of things could have or did happen to make events happen as they did. It depends on how far back you want to go to highlight pivotal events, or with the butterfly effect, consider every miniscule event is important to the end result.

Absolutely agree with aerospace accidents occurring because of events that by themselves wouldn't be fatal, but the combination is.

I still think the original articles attempt at proving there was no conspiracy by using that example is a poor choice, because if you did want Ruby to kill Oswald, and the timing was wrong, Oswald needed to be delayed.
A socialist would say that you have complete ownership over the product of your labor.
Fellow Venezuelan here (although living outside of the country right now)

I have hard times explaining to people how the economy works over there. Most people overestimate how harmful is a regime under foreign currency exchange control. But some metrics like the big mac index (http://www.economist.com/content/big-mac-index) can give a rough idea of what is happening.
It was always possible to background processes in fish. You may be confusing it with not able to background functions (https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/238). We are yet to fix that bug.
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Indeed, the term Keynsian has been uselessly spread to cover both New Deal style stimulus spending and printing money and giving it to the banks.

The two are not the same, they are connected only by the theory of trickle down Reaganomics.
I had a similar experience moving from Ft. Lauderdale to Dallas. The contrast was made even more interesting because many of the people I worked with when I moved out here originally came from northern climes, with a few coming from places where snowfall is measured in feet instead of inches. I have adapted to it, mainly because North Texas winters tend to be sunny and dry. I would still rather be back in South Florida, though. Winter was actually the best time to be outside there.
Vote up on an AMA!
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No but if you reduce the quality of my lemons then yes you did do something akin to theft. That's what inflation does it. It debases the quality of money.

Inflation can't continue in a free market forever because eventually a crash occurs because inflation kicks off a boom bust cycle. Taxes have nothing to do with inflation and don't change anything on their own. They may reduce the pool of capital and may force people to the credit markets but we need more information before saying such a connection exists.
Your apparent misanthropy aside, every study I've ever heard of links increased wealth, health and prosperity with declining birth rates.

By improving the lot of these women, you decrease their need to have large numbers of children (to work for them), you increase their education (so they understand why large numbers of children are unnecessary) and you also put power into the hands of the women rather than the men (so that they have a choice).
I second this.

No, I "just" have the "winter blues", not a real depression, for witch I am glad.

But knowing someone who does really, really well (and being empathic) just shows me year for year, that there really are a lot of people who just don't get it and try to "cheer" the depressed up.

Know what: Doesn't help, often makes it worse, if they say "Hey, there and there it is much worse, get up, get your sht together, don't make such a fuss...

... and so on.

Try being empathic, we all have our dark hours. Some have it darker, some a little bit lighter. Some are on the bright side, some not so. But we are in this world together and postings like the trolling grandparent really help no one.

So heads up, turn on the lights and I wish you the best during the coming month.

Greetings from Germany. If you are ever in Hamburg, Germany I'd be happy to invite you to a beer/tea/coffee or such.
I use NameCheap because it's simple. Nothing fancy about it.
I hate the crazy amount of popups GoDaddy gives you.
I'm on OS X and having installed it initially via homebrew, I just did:

brew update
brew upgrade fish

I'm not sure how it'll work if you initially installed it via a different method. I believe the standalone package installs into /usr/local, just like homebrew, so maybe installing via homebrew will just update it out of the box?
It's a myth invented by (sociopathic) business gurus. It holds as much H2O as "soggy biscuit".
"SURESH PALDIA" likes to get his name into every block of JS code. Ref: https://kyenroll.ky.gov/Scripts/HBECommonUtility.js

Seems to be a common pattern with these gov websites or maybe the outsourcer. Bad quality code! Really really bad JS code chaining everything to the global prototype, hoisting issues indicate low comprehension about JS, no basic minification or cdn use et al.. awful. I hope they didn't spend in the millions to build that.

Now if these folks could code well they would probably also build out unit tests. Thus reducing the need for manual labor testing the site, logic etc and launching faster.
I'm more curious about the difference in the cost of men's haircuts and loaves of bread that they mention in the opening...
This is an awesome summary, that I think I actually understand. Thanks!
Relevant headers:

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Thanks! That was very useful.
Does anyone have experience with either Philips goLITE [1] or Wake-Up light [2]? I wonder which of these will be more effective (blue vs warm yellow).

Alternatively, has anyone managed to build such a device at home? AFAIK 470 nm wavelength LEDs are the way to go but getting 10k lux out of the grid..

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Philips-goLITE-BLU-Therapy-Device/dp/B...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Philips-HF3520-Wake-Up-Colored-Simulat...
I guess that position is easier to hold if you're not the brown person being given extra attention every time you enter the US. This happens even to Olympic athletes.

(http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mo-farah-reve...)

> Farah moved to America last year, but despite his international fame he says he frequently gets stopped at customs because of his Somali origin.

> He told the Sun on Sunday: "I couldn't believe it. Because of my Somali origin I get detained every time I come through US customs. This time I even got my medals out to show who I am, but they wouldn't have it."

(http://www.channel4.com/news/mo-farah-stopped-at-customs-hes...)
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Meal Snap, already tries doing this:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meal-snap-calorie-counting/i...
Perhaps his exception is to the "high-powered" claim.
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Something scary that is way over do.
Don't give into fear, don't give into fright,
May you have One Dark Halloween Night!
Everything is full of regressive killjoys. Do what you like.
You're right, it doesn't make sense. We're adjusting our numbers to what the central bank has actually reported here: http://www.bcra.gov.ar

Reserves at 31 Dec were US$43.29b and at 18 Oct were US$34.25 = total loss of US$9.04b. Since there has been 291 actual days in the year up to 18 Oct, the daily loss is $31.08m.
>Framing the problem as one of degeneration, rather than as one of inadequacy, is in my opinion one of the most critical problems with our approaches to change.

This is the smartest sentence I've read on any topic so far this week. It's an insightful comment with applications in many other domains as well (e.g., IT, data security, etc.).
I loved this comment:

> 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

Trivially use three different systems to simulate some type of not quite automatic syncing.

Why do Linux users often claim something is "trivial" and then go on to list obscure commands and software packages that have to be tied together in just the right way? To me that's "possible to do", not "trivial to do".
The problem with D/Nimrod/Go/Rust is the kind of people who would use them have already invested heavily in coping with the pain of C++ and have solid tools. As languages the alternatives are only maybe 2X better than C++, which is almost entirely countered by the fact that you will hit compiler and library bugs that you wouldn't when using mature C++ components and tools. As soon as you waste a day writing your own library wrapper that you would have taken off the shelf in C++, the relative elegance of Nimrod becomes moot. It seems like the alternative languages need years more to build steam.
It will affect the latency on the actual internet link. The second you add extra traffic latency shoots up...it doesn't matter where that traffic comes from. You can mitigate the effect somewhat with QoS but it doesn't go away.
Feh, I'm sure Montana has some really good ones, and even "average" Mexican food tends to be quite good.

More importantly, the right wing sources I read, like National Review Online (http://nationalreview.com/corner/361577/assessing-exchanges-...) agree that their site works, along with those of Nevada, Colorado, and Washington state.

I also give Hawaii and Oregon initial credit for not launching their sites on Oct 1 because they knew they weren't ready. That takes a level of moral courage we didn't see from those running the Healthcare.gov effort.
Apple and Google do take very cold, inhuman approaches toward customer service (or lack of it.) Except in the case of the Apple Store where the employees are generally quite friendly, even if their actual helpfulness varies greatly from individual to individual.

That said, it would be moronic of them to allow comments/threads which are advocating people to take legal action against the company on their own boards. It doesn't matter if the customer is right or not, those kinds of posts are only going to result in more angry, pitchfork wielding customers. I expect pretty much any company, even ones much more customer friendly than Apple, would remove such posts.
I just got my first mac for development and followed this guide:

https://github.com/nicolashery/mac-dev-setup
Are there any MOOC startups you know of, in India, that one can get involved in?
which lists the gems that depend on FFI

Are these only gems where the gem source code is in Github?
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In fact, MIT's user search is just a front end for the finger command:

http://web.mit.edu/search.html

And as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, it does raise some privacy concerns. For example:

http://amap.mit.edu/
Here are a few, in no particular order:

Ur-Scheme: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/urscheme/

An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction: http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf

PicoLisp: http://picolisp.com/5000/!wiki?home

Lambda-the-Ultimate papers: http://library.readscheme.org/page1.html

SICP: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

LiSP: http://www.amazon.com/Lisp-Small-Pieces-Christian-Queinnec/d...

Maru: http://piumarta.com/software/maru/

Edit: You might also enjoy Jonesforth (see jonesforth.S): http://git.annexia.org/?p=jonesforth.git;a=tree
Windows 8 runs fine on a ThinkPad X41 Tablet from 2005. That's not 10 years, but it's pretty close. It has a Pentium M and 512 MiB of RAM. The only real issue is that you need to use the generic Microsoft video driver, which isn't quite acceptable for the video playback performance we're used to today (though it does support Aero). For all the other basics, it works great.
It works as you'd like yes.

The reason my code is SBT 0.13.x specific is just because .sbt file syntax was robustified in 0.13.x to cover most cases you'd previously need a Build.scala for.

You can do the same thing easily in 0.12.x, it just requires you do it in a Scala class that extends sbt.Build instead. In fact, that's what my code was a few days ago. I only just ported it to the new SBT 0.13.x syntax since the old syntax continued to work. We'd been using 0.13.x for awhile, I just hadn't got around to porting the build from being spread across build.sbt and project/Build.scala to consolidating to just the build.sbt.

The docs for SBT are actually really thorough, but to me at least, a bit hard to get into. I blame the theme at http://scala-sbt.org and the fact that there's no obvious "from basics to mastery" guide. The website feels more like a manual. Going deeper than you might want pretty quickly, but before you've got the breadth of it down. If that makes any sense?

That said, if you end up having to work with SBT for your day-job, you end up picking everything up pretty quickly once you're forced to. It's a lot more consistent than anything on the Ruby side. You may have a few syntaxes to choose from to add a libraryDependency for example (single, Seq, special operator), but the mechanics are all the same and directly exposed to you. You're building a definition for the build, not actually performing work, so as long as that dependency sequence ends up with the graph it needs you'll get the result you need. There's not a lot of magic to it. Despite peoples complaints about the operators (which honestly, there's only two or three you'll run into regularly, and it's not black magic, just look them up or Command+B in IntelliJ to see what they do).
I'm not sure how this is a particularly different policy from any mega-corporation. I've never seen any great support on online forums from the company in question. If you're having a wi-fi problem, follow the company's support potocol, which in this case is probably go to the genius bar and get it fixed. Where you'll probably have a better experience than if you tried to get help for a competing product.

I wish company forums did have more interaction than they do, but it's certainly not an Apple thing. They are universally "community" run and company censored.
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I know somebody that is actually diagnosed with this and its a serious condition.

Am I the only person that thinks that having the acronymn SAD is actually counterproductive? I mean, kind of sounds like a bad joke right?
I really love fish, is there any way to use fish over ssh?
imho, this is a large portion of the killer feature of zsh: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Zsh-Line-Editor.html
Even after doing the "type this to fix weird console ouput" I still have weird console output :(
In the same situation I think my productivity is actually equivalent with fewer hours after having kids because it has created an ongoing sense of urgency to get done what I can in the 8:30-5:30 window. In the old days, 4pm was almost like the half-day mark, which personally led to a mental slackness about how much time I had left to accomplish a given task that day.

These days, I sometimes get cut out of the zone by quitting time, but more often than not I am mentally exhausted and ready to go. I'm sure that this would not apply to the most focused and driven programmers, but I'm also sure that a lot of young startup types are fooling themselves that the long hours they put in are giving them better returns than they would get with a bit more sleep, a bit more exercise and a bit more downtime.
From what I've researched, the average worker make around $40k(canadian dolars) and it's about my market average.

Canadians pay around 40% of taxes(not a liberal country, right?).

I'm still in a way better position here in Brazil(in income). I think what is going to change is the lifestyle... but I'm not looking for some lifestyle, I'm young and want to work hard and conquer a lot.
Considering the fact that in billions of years of evolution only a few meteors have caused mass extinctions I have always been confident that we will not just happen to live in a time when one of the big ones hit. Human civilization has only existed for a very short time and I think it really would be like winning the lottery to get hit by a civilization ending meteor even in the next 10,000 years (although I'm no expert in the topic, simply looking at Earth's past).
I suppose you have to come at it from the mindset of those actually using Linux. That is, if it already exists and can be glued together using open tools (as opposed to having to code it yourself), it is "trivial", since it has already been done before.
What is your argument exactly? You say, "If you measure the efficacy of your policies and find that they have not achieved the intended effect, on what would you base the extension and expansion of those policies?" But then your example, QE2, achieved the intended effect. As you say, it had a moderate effect on economic growth, and with only a moderate effect on inflation. Nobody claimed it would be a magic bullet. Monetary policy without coordinated fiscal policy can only have moderate effects.
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Somewhat related, I’m looking at getting my first MacBook for basic computer usage and iPhone programming. I’m trying to figure out what model to get but since I am totally blind the retina display is a non-factor and a larger screen is a negative due to reduced portability. I was planning on buying an 11.6 inch Air. With the price drop on the pro my choice is no longer so clear cut. For $1449 I can get an Air with 256 GB of storage, a 1.7 GHZ processor that boosts
up to 3.3 GHZ, and 8 gigs of ram for $1449. I can get a 13 inch
MacBook Pro with 256 GB of storage, a 2.4 GHZ processor that boosts up
to 2.9 GHZ and 8 GB of ram for $1499. Both machines claim 9 hours of
battery life. Will the extra speed on the duel core with the reduced turbo boost provide enough of a noticeable performance boost to make it worth the
Extra weight and size.
Except that Jason isn't complaining about the Winter. He was pointing out that it affects his state of mind. Surprisingly, a number of people don't recognize this.

Now I'm not particularly affected by seasonality, my daughters are sometimes the opposite, they love the winter because it is when they can go skiiing. But that aspect of it (the looking forward to it) I found is a behavior modifier.

If you find yourself always doing things that you don't like in a particular season, that can affect your mood, you pre-anticipate the sadness. Just like if you do lots of things you like you pre-anticipate the goodness. I figured that to keep balanced the only choice was to find things to like about all unavoidable conditions. Doesn't always work, but it helps.
Depends how much of it Mr. Trump spends.

Seriously though, it doesn't work quite like that...

Edit - thought I'd be more helpful:

QE is when the Fed engages in open market transactions, buying bonds, and thus putting reserve money into the market. It's not free money for anyone, certainly not for Mr. Trump, and it doesn't involve printing money...
This is a fair enough concern, but I fail to see how it applies in this situation.
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I wouldn't say "looks like".
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In Argentina the Big Mac's price is actually regulated by the government (http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/05/01/why_big_macs_... the prices shown in that menu are about double now, except for the big mac, which is still ~30 pesos). Just another example of how much our government controls metrics here.
I'm surprised the same thing doesn't happen in Venezuela, though, as Cristina Fernandez seems to have copied almost her entire "economy model" from Chavez's.
The major change here is that `kill -9 %` with no backgrounded tasks would kill all of your processes (before Fish 2.1).

There's now a guarantee that `%` expands to either the last process backgrounded or an error.
Since 2006 when I first switched I don't remember Apple ever officially posting in those forums. This isn't something new. Their support channels are the phone number, and employees at the store. The forums are just their for archive really.
It's a good cautionary tale about how we should react to new science and technology.

While knee-jerk rejection can be annoying, skepticism is warranted!

What topics have the potential to surprise us with unforeseen downsides? I'd guess nano particles and GMOs, off the top of my head.
Looks interesting, but I worry when I see that templating support. After years of doing ruby development, I've come to believe that runtime generation of code is evil 99% of the time.
Ah! I can see it at work now. I sure have favorited a lot of stuff recently :)

One thing I noticed is that it favorites some things that don't make a whole lot of sense. For example, I have a 'bitcoin' campaign. It favorites Russian spam links and random BTC arbitrage "results" along with some more reasonable type stuff. Is there any way for me to tailor these results a bit?

For example, does it recognize my behavior and favorite similar items? Or if I add keywords to the campaign, will it limit results a bit more?
mandate that people take care of people. Use the government only to enforce this.

That sounds far more difficult, subject to corruption, and less efficient than having the government care for other people directly. Sure, having everybody be good to each other could be much more efficient than government aid, but having the government mandate and define "good to each other" is so very difficult.
Thanks for sharing @vanwilder77
Half of my family is from Buenos Aires and I often go back to visit. It's crazier than you think over there.

Not too long ago they made it illegal and very difficult for any Argentinean to take out their own money from the ATM. The government is trying really hard to keep everyone inside the country and only spend money within the country.

So for anyone visiting Argentina anytime soon, bring as many US dollars as possible. It almost makes traveling in the country cheap if you black market exchange it. It basically doubles your money.
It favorites things for you on Twitter.
Mine compiles to x86_64 machine code. I am the best programmer on the planet. My compiler is 20,000 lines of code.

God picked the best programmer to make His temple.

You are monkeys who have one tracked minds that can only imagine Linux. You have been jedi-mind tricked into thinking inside so many boxes. My operating system will absolutely blow your fucken pathetic little minds. Niggers.
tudborg covered a lot of good points. Another alternative to a geohash would be to use a GeoJSON[1] object to define location. It's a fairly widely adopted geographical standard and means you could throw the data from the API straight into a map (leaflet) or a database (mongoDB has native geoJSON support).

[1]: http://geojson.org/

Be careful with broadcasting your date of birth widely. It's surprising how little information is needed to open a store credit card.
Side attack against Plan 9? Plan 9 is neat ;) (and zsh too, I still have found no reason to spend more than 10 minutes with Fish with every new release)
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It's about daylight exposure, not temp. Working indoors is a relatively new phenomenon in humans and effects us all a little differently.

When it's dark when you go into work, and you don't have a corner office, and it's dark when you leave your body gets no sunlight. For some, this has a profound effect on mood.
This is only the first point of his post. The second, and more important, point being that Apple employees are actively deleting messages in which users explain how one can exerce their warranty rights to get the iPhone replaced.