skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The world black market is estimated to be 2 trillion dollars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_market). It will only be bigger, but governments will still be able to tax land, real estate and big companies.

However, without inflation, QE and ad-hoc confiscations, no government will be able to have "budget deficit". That is, no government would be able to "borrow" money from nothing to build stuff for "free" for their electorate.

Since no politician will be able to do "free" stuff without raising taxes, no one would elect any government at all. This all brutal nonsense will simply fall out.
Why aren't Web Workers used more?
Do you have any idea how stupid you sound?
Looks like a great product!

One annoyance I have with the page itself though: The top three links are pretty pointless.

Download does nothing unless you scroll down but then that hides the header.

About scrolls down a tiny bit and features just a bit more. The features is probably the most useful of them all but even then it's cutting it short. Why not make the header fixed and actually give some point to those links? :)
Is this Apple only? The articles do not mention Android.
Quartzy requires all the data on a chemical to be inserted manually. Chemical.io automatically catalogs reagents based on their chemical formula. We also have a mobile app and experiment writeup functionality.
See my answer below in sibling comment thread.
To increase the clarity, for future collaborators.
However, a trade in ideas vs. resources might work if the Sol system ever became highly resource constrained.

With the Sol system being permanently decades ahead of the colonies, a steady stream of resource haulers back would provide additional mass for Sol citizens to utilize, making it a fair trade in some circumstances. The problem arises when the trade becomes imbalanced or needs to stop, there's a lag time of decades to push out such an order.
There must be some reason why people would prefer the currency of one club over another. Maybe it's because in "the Bitcoin club" no one tells you what you can do with your money, no one devalues your money at will and no one steals from you and says it's "legitimate taxation" because you allegedly signed some social contract you've never actually seen.
Brazil to press for local Internet data storage after NSA spying
We're on the sales side of chemicals, drop me an email!
I don't see anything indicating why someone would migrate from WP to this new platform. WP grew among other things because it was easy to install and 'anyone' could create plug-ins, and now besides there's _a lot_ of themes.

I'm toying with the idea of reusing those WP themes, as in a platform with a drop-in for the themes.
There is one significant problem I see:

the length field for compound types (arrays and maps) specify the length in "the number of items", not in bytes. This means while processing, If I need to skip a compound type, I actually need to process it in its entirety. Not very "small device" friendly.

In practice, I have found far more utility in knowing the byte-length of a compound field in advance than the number of items it contains. If I am interested in the field, I am anyway going to find out the number of items cause I am going to process it. If I am not interested in the field, the number of items are useless to me, but the byte-length would have come in handy.
Apple products and services are not exclusively sold by Apple and its network of official resellers etc. On the other hand, most manufacturers offer warranty in addition to the legally mandatory seller's warranty obligations.
Firefox Nightly

[1,10,5,-15,-2,4].sort ((a, b) => a-b).toString();
"-15,-2,1,4,5,10"
Yes you are. It's O(nlogn) where n is 5 - i.e. it's constant time (you can easily find the median by 4 comparisons to find the smallest of the 5, followed by 3 comparisons for the 2nd smallest, followed by 2 comparisons for the median - a total of 9 comparisons)
I think it must be Android only because they don't mention Apple.
I think you're thinking of the GeForce 8600M GT recall, for 2007+ models. I went through that one myself. So far my mid-2011 MBP has been without major issues.
Bruce Sterling on Capitalism, Startups, Design Fiction and Disruption
One missing piece (or at least, not shown, and not sure how it would conflict in their puzzle like approach) is a hardware keyboard. Mostly for that i prefer Jolla's other half idea for modularity.
I was really starting to like capnproto.com
Its an interesting article. I would have liked "66% Hire Rate Suggests Deeper Hiring Issue" to have been further explored before conclusions were drawn.

The article assumption was the amazing 1/3 failure rate must have been due to their highly unusual hiring practices. But when you hear hooves, think horses not zebras unless you've ruled out horses, which hasn't been done. Most hiring failures are management failures, or culture problems on either or both side, or moral/ethical problems, or simple logistics ...
Flagging does, in fact push posts down. I believe the amount is proportional to the flagger's karma.

Psychologically, the UI seems intended to separate "I don't like this" from "I think this content is detrimental to the site". This communicates that users should not attempt to punish links they simply dislike, but may do so with comments.
I've been using "Minimalist for Everything" [1] for over a year, which comes with a great set of rules to clean and customise GMail's interface.

This seems to go further (and allow icons to be customised, which I'd like) - look forward to trying it!

1. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/minimalist-for-eve...
I think the key is that this was probably under warranty for her. The 4S, for many people, is more than a year old.

Most people expect that their new phone will be built to last more than one year, but understand that if something breaks after that period they will need to pay to fix it, even if it is a factory defect (say, a home button or battery which should last 2 years, but in some cases doesn't). They also expect to benefit from software updates after their warranty period, but understand new features may not always be available.

What they aren't expecting is that Apple will pro-actively break a core feature of their phone with an update, which can't be reversed, and can't be repaired, without replacing the whole device.
- Unfortunatly you can complain all you want you'll have to write some javascript if you do front-end development. And today there are quite a lot of tools (transpilers,linters,etc...) that can help you with that.

Fortunalty you can chose the language you want on the server.
Being resistant to legal action is an advantage in many parts of the world with repressive government.

There are more advantages when you look outside the narrow view of utility in modern western society. Now anyone in the world can explore entrepreneurship and all they need is a computer. Computers are becoming more and more accessible (Raspery Pi's, $100 laptops etc).

Now people in poverty stricken countries can establish their own businesses and trade on a world wide scale. No bank accounts needed. Ability to accept micro payments without abhorent fees.

> Bitcoin seems to be a very good way of creating a new "club" of a small number of bitcoin-wealthy at the expense of everyone else

Currently we live in a society where wealth disparity has reached sickening levels.

Bitcoin will significantly reward those who take the risk from an early stage if it does take off. The difference being that Bitcoin is not a fundamentally rigged system.
That would be very expensive for government. First, it will basically give away a lot of money and invite 100 times more people and capital in the bitcoin economy. Then, after selling its stash it will affect the price much less (because it will also have been driven up by many additional speculators) and simply earn back much less USD than they have spent.

Of course, it will destabilize prices for some period of time, but only at great expense to itself and making millions of people aware of Bitcoin and thus accelerating its long-term growth.
The End of Native Apps
Nope, aside from marching band road trips. Ithaca was too far away, for a PA kid. New Jersey was as far as I managed.
You are holding it wrong.

No seriously, you might be trying to use a fast glue/prototyping/event processing and browser deployed language to do something that should be done in a different environment. If your core logic task is algorithmic, consider C or Go and call that from your event framework. If it's data integrity/type-safety related, consider using your sql dialect.

(not a flamebait, but nosql is just a big distraction, please seriously consider postgres, it rocks, esp with json and plpgsql stored procedures that can be used to enforce data integrity braces and as independent unit testing for your data structures)

AngularJS, Express, node, and postgres is the most potent combination I've used in a long time.

Cheers,and good luck!
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Agreed. To me at least, the iPhones are beautiful, fast, reliable...and really, frickin boring. I would much rather have an fat, ugly phone if that meant I could customize it.
I think there are many upsides:

- The candidate gets to know the company better.

- The company gets to know the candidate better.

- You can check for fit as well as technical competency.

Some of the downsides people raise make less sense:

- Yes it's a week of vacation lost, but you can get it back if you switch companies and you're paid for your time.

- Yes, it's expensive, but it's cheaper than a bad hire.

- It's entirely voluntary, there's no exploitation.

There's only two downsides in my mind: You won't be able to pry any superstars away with this, and sometimes a week isn't enough. The solution is to go further in the direction that this company is going - offers lots of real-work internships to college students. You need to identify the best while they're still sophomores and juniors. It's usually too tough to get them after they're seniors, and they're usually too happy in their jobs to take a week off to work somewhere else.
And now you are effectively fighting against the direction which the software you are using is heading, while the software should actually be supporting you.

If you weren't already. For me Gmail became a slippery slope of "I don't like that either" incidents.

When I decided to leave it had become an easy decision to make, and once I left it honestly made me feel glad.
"Move attachment icons from the right to the left of your inbox"

-- sold!!! ... and a bunch of other ones I like too :)
>If I would maintain my forum I'd also delete the comments that are aggressive, overblown, conspiracy-insane etc, for example. //

That's fine, but a polite legitimate enquiry about a genuine problem doesn't meet with those characteristics - it is "censorship". Apple Computers are censoring the speech of their users seeking support from other users (and Apple).

So I guess what you're saying is "don't expect Apple to offer support or act ethically towards their users". Fair enough.

>Due to the different laws in different countries, who should you personally contact to solve the problem varies so even such answers in globally-read thread which should be purely technical can be inappropriate. //

Yeah 'cause that's why the posts were deleted. Not like you could simply add a comment "these returns are only available in the EU".

>What's certainly clear is that nobody would even want the forums without the active moderation, except the spammers and the insane. //

Which is a strawman. You can have a moderated forum without deleting posts simply because they'd affect your profits.
Then use something else on the back end. Problem solved.

I'm saying the places you need JS and only JS are small. Have a larger problem? Use a statically typed language on the back end, and compile to JS on the front...
It's been years since I've been in a chemistry lab, so I don't remember how they monitored inventory levels, but do they really just jot down amount used/remaining for each chemical? If that's the case, then I can certainly see value in the app.

Just brainstorming, how feasible would it be to detect fluid levels/quantities using the phone's camera? A chemist can simply snap a photo of a vile and the rest is automagically taken care of. Or maybe you could at some point sell a line of viles/beakers/flasks/etc with level markers, volume indicators, and chemical labels that would work with your app.

A little design feedback: I would show the product on the homepage. Right now you're just selling to me with words. And the weight of that typeface being used for that sub-header is really light. This is how it's rendering in Safari - http://i.imgur.com/izWWUbZ.png
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Yeah, sovereign debt will become a thing of the past and that's a good thing. Not sure how this is related to socialism though, at least in the strict sense of the word. It's more about short term thinking than anything else.
That's completely untrue. Providing information that you can solve your problems under warranty is helpful, constructive, factual, and a fix to the specific technical problem under discussion. It meets every point Apple cites as the characteristics of a proper forum post, unless of course it is impolite to criticize.
The inflationary economy already created huge inequality. Do you think all Fed's printed dollars are equally distributed to the poor? In reality, they all go to banks that loan them to the poor. Increasing prices on energy and food + mortgage and other credits prevent poor people from saving money and becoming economically independent.

Bitcoin holders, on the other hand, have to sell bitcoin below tomorrow's price to eat something today. It is reversed trend: the more people want bitcoins, the more "equally" they will become distributed. Everyone who holds and doesn't spend bitcoins does not participate in the economy and thus doesn't earn his wealth yet. But to earn it he has to part with part of his stash, thus leaving less for himself in the future.
Your understanding it correct. The government's CMS took on the role of integrator, including integration testing, and they on up to the White House were calling the shots.

This included a very late first set of requirements (delayed in part by a 3+ month freeze before the 2012 elections), per the NYT 7 major changes in the last 10 months, the major change in August to registration first, no window shopping (for which there is absolutely no technical or legal need), and changes continued through the week before launch.

CMS did not see fit to start integration testing until 2 weeks before launch, the tests, or at least the 200 simulated simultaneous login attempt failed hard, yet they launched the site anyway.

CMS has now lost their role to QSSI (who they in a panic proposed to fire 3 days into launch) and the fix-it czar is saying the right thing, like his highest priority is to stop sending garbage to the insurers, a colossal problem no one else in the effort has publicly been willing to even acknowledge.

Now the contractors have a chance.

As for these yahoos, all but the Filemon Vela are clearly in competitive districts, and his is brand new. Sounds like they're feeling the heat; I fear they'd better get used to it.
Thanks for your suggestions, I'll look into the rendering bug now. :)
Great points! I really want to check out Scheme now.
Reminds me of the quote [1]: "There's very little difference between being early and being wrong."

Sometimes, you have the right idea, but the world isn't ready for it, yet. Appears to be the case for Modu?

edit: found quote reference.
[1] Herb Greenberg, 27 Apr 1986, Chicago Tribune. <http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-04-27/business/86013...
2. If the government wants to ban certain activities it can do so easily. Suppose that the government wants to keep its citizens from gambling or from using mixer services, it could declare that it won't recognize Bitcoins that passed through those services as legal tender. Good luck paying property taxes with your tainted bitcoins.

Bitcoins aren't actual "things", they're just values that get debited from an account and credited in another, so you can't have tainted bitcoins.

You could have tainted addresses, by checking if there's a path between a certain address and the blacklisted ones,
but then anyone could taint anyone else's address by just sending them a Satoshi.
Most of these people have 3 year old machines.

Gee, I wonder why the batteries need service…
> No dammit, javascript does not coerce numbers to strings when comparing them, a "weak typing" implementation would behave exactly as he wants.

Please note that I wrote it's a broken implementation over weak typing, not of weak typing. The typing system is fine, at least as far as this matter is concerned, but the standard library is badly applied over it.
Not sure if you're trolling, but I'll bite. Agreed that aggression in forums shouldn't be tolerated and aggressive or false comments deleted, but this isn't a case here. The point of a support forum is to provide a platform for getting information about a problem you are having. Legitimate questions and solutions to problems are being actively deleted by Apple and it's clear they are trying to hide bugs in their software rather than addressing it.
Gripe: One of the options that I selected reverted Hangouts to the old Google Chat system without explicitly saying so.

EDIT: It was the Old Compose feature, which admittedly is in beta. Still, I'm not a fan of losing the group chats I have open.
I suppose cracks in the facade may be starting to show...

WASHINGTON — The White House and State Department signed off on surveillance targeting phone conversations of friendly foreign leaders, current and former U.S. intelligence officials said Monday, pushing back against assertions that President Obama and his aides were unaware of the high-level eavesdropping.

Professional staff members at the National Security Agency and other U.S. intelligence agencies are angry, these officials say, believing the president has cast them adrift as he tries to distance himself from the disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that have strained ties with close allies.

http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-spying-phones-20131029,0,...
Generating Domain Names with Markov Chains
Two and a half years ago 1 BTC was 200 times less valuable - around $1. Give it two more years and it will be 10% of US tax revenue. Than everything will be possible.
UBR-1 Robot Revolutionizes Affordable Mobile Manipulation
As a person currently interviewing with companies (student, graduating, etc.), I definitely wouldn't be able to commit to a week long trial process, even if paid, in the next 6-8 months. (Unless over Christmas/New Years; even the week long Spring break is nearly 6 months out.) I'm hoping (fingers crossed, etc.) that I'll have a job lined up in the next two months; I don't want to be looking for a job in 6-8.

Asking someone to drop everything for a week (particularly with what is likely a month of notice, if that, given how long hiring processes seem to take) seems ridiculously presumptuous about what people's motivations/etc. are. I'd imagine that many good candidates also just have other things in their life: such as responsibilities related to children. I know that I have a hard time re-arranging my responsibilities (to my grad classes, both part time jobs with very flexible hours, and to a lesser degree to extracurricular organizations) so that I'm free to spend a day or so travelling for a day long interview with a month's notice: and I'm a student with (supposedly) all the free time in the world and a much more flexible schedule. I don't see where working professionals with (supposedly) more rigid schedules and more obligations (work, sure, but also family or any other obligations in their lives) would find the time to spend a full week interviewing (assuming the weekend is spent travelling, so that the full work week is available).
I thought I'd write up a response to this, pointing out how Javascripters get around these issues right now, and how they will come ES6: http://sidekicksrc.com/post/for-modern-development-javascrip...
So, I wonder what kind of people are getting hired by "interview" games? Are these interviewing techniques bringing in high-caliber people? Or are they bringing in the highest-caliber people they can bring in. Are you hiring people from well-established firms, or hiring people from companies that are just that much farther off.

I guess what I'm wondering is are the people applying doing so because of the opportunity to work on interesting challenges, or are they just people who have a worse job and really have nothing to lose by applying. I look at these week long games and wonder what incentive is there for someone in my position to apply?

It's useless to talk about numbers unless you also talk about results. And hiring 50% or 75% of people that jump through hoops is a useless number. If those same people are just people coming out from college or jumping from another startup, is the number really impressive?

My thought is no. The additional games seem more like over-compensation for a deficiency.
> Then don't use Javascript

Like people have the choice. "Dont like HTML ? so dont write it" sounds stupid doesnt it.
Old English Money
If header is removed, you lose the option to Undo after performing some operation. That should be fixed.
( I am rather trying the argument, rather than actually believing it myself.)

There are not only BTCs, but also forks and other crypto currencies. So if BTCs hording becomes a problem the incentive to adopt one of the alternatives will rise. Diminishing the value of BTC relative to some other currency and therefore suppressing ( at least to some extend) hording.
Um, how many variations of the shoplifter story have we seen?
Here's a mirror as it appears as though the site went down due to HN traffic:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Discussed at length just over 2 weeks ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6544012

However, that's now old enough that comments are closed, so if you have anything extra to say, you'll need to say it here.
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Was really informative to read. I am a novice in every programming aspect, as I am formally a product (or content) manager.

But using python as my tool for answering my bosses questions with data, I really enjoy reading posts like these, giving me ideas to learn and try new things.

Thanks a lot for that!
> On Tuesday, mobile security researchers will demonstrate a simple attack that exploits a vulnerability in the code within apps that run on Apple’s iOS operating system.
We use Quartzy right now, but if you can make the Facilities management (ie. scheduling time on an FPLC) better (which, wouldn't be too hard) and embeddable / supporting CalDav/CardDav I would use this.

I have an Excel sheet of all our chemicals (~500+ reagents), is there a way for me to upload this? The data is fairly well ordered with the below headers

Chemical Description	Bldg	Room	#Units	Qty.	Unit	CAS #	Lot #	Expiration	Vendor	Storage_Location	Comments	Container	Physical State	Max on Hand	Chemical Formula	Molecular Weight	PO #	Vendor Catalog #	EHSA Chemical #	Order Date	Open Date	Receipt Date	Contact	Contact Phone	PI Code
The Self implementation papers are some of the seminal contributions to modern high-speed VM design:

http://selflanguage.org/documentation/published/index.html#i...

David Ungar's dissertation, "The Design and Evaluation of a High Performance Smalltalk System" is also well-worth reading:

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1986/CSD-86-287.p...
I agree with the post!

Today I use TitaniumSDK of Appcelerator and solves all my problems.

Another point is the HTML5. Some systems operacionias already thought of it as the FirefoxOS.

Good post!
Time when you can fiddle with cards and write down cryptic series of numbers without attracting undue attention is probably scarce.