skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you misunderstood me; the Index is not the table of contents or the list of headings. The index is what you access with the “i” key, and can also be read directly using the “g” key to go directly to the “Index” node.

I agree, reading headings and navigating that way is mostly a waste of time when trying to find something specific. Which is why I never do it; I use the Index.
I'm not sure the general public needs the level of trust you are describing. The have an email address somehow, from a Facebook chat, business card, or spam mail - and that's the level of trust in identity they are currently comfortable with.

Adding a key exchange with the identity they have - the person handing out biz cards could be lieing about his identity, but if someone else spoofs his key, he will not be able to read the email which will still end up in his inbox, not the spoofers. So now the spoofer needs to control this guys whole box to read and delete the emails, or else he'll be detected. At this point if your box is compromised, pgp isn't providing security. ;)

On the whole it sounds easier to impersonate biz card guy, than to just spoof his real email address and provide a fake pgp key.

(And as for unsolicited mails identity being trusted - Nigerian spam does still work, but the message has gotten through, even to the general populace - people know there is no assurance that identities are real. We just need to NOT undermine that distrust when adding pgp. )
I agree. I'm not sure what kind of an algorithm they use for kerning, but it seems to ignore how letters interact optically. Pairs like "ve" and "ro" are set too far apart.
If I remember correctly, in IE6, the table didn't load until all of the elements loaded. That's how they tought us tables were baaad.
I developed something very close to this for myself a while back and happened on pomodoro when searching for an interval timer.

The two most important things I get from these techniques is "tricking" myself into starting unappealing work by considering that "it's only 30 minutes" and regular break reminders.
I always write it by hand, still haven't found a tool that does it better.
I agree that basically all I am saying is "This time it’s different". That is my interpretation of the situation, take it for what you will. I am not trying to prove anything and do not believe in predicting the markets in general.
That's valid, but there are already armed guards and officers in airports. An argument could be made that more guns would be overkill (pun unintended) but I don't know that it would necessarily increase the intimidation factor significantly, would it?
"Computer scientists collectively suffer from what I
call the Whorfian syndrome the confusion of
language with reality. Since these devices are
described in different languages, they must all be
different. In fact, they (..all computation basically..)are all naturally described
as state machines."
There should be an article "Why it is a negative application signal if the HR worries about MBAs (in startups)". Seriously, there are so many articles out there about this topic. But I don't think there is any good startup team that worries about any of the certificates you can provide. Startup is a game of street smarts. So street cred should count. Having done something cool should count. Having worked with someone cool should count. Being resilient should count. But definitely not having one or another paper.
"Windows: A 64-bit extension to a 32-bit patch for a 16-bit GUI shell running on top of an 8-bit operating system written for a 4-bit processor by a 2-bit company who cannot stand 1 bit of competition."
This isn't passive.
You aren't doing justice to d4vlx’s comment. What he said is that this bubble has not permeated the community outside of tech, whereas the .com bubble did (and I would add the housing bubble, and the per-depression bubble). A larger bubble is always producing a larger bust, with non-linear effect.

"This time is different" is normally referring to "tech is changing the world, we don't need he profits, it will grow forever, this time it's different" or "they don't make any more land, housing prices will grow forever, this time it's different". It's not at all the same things to point out that the scale of the bubble is much smaller. Lumping the two together produces a strong impression that your comment is disingenuous.
So, move to a new host?
> Bratz are fucking evil

Many toys are fucking evil. It's a bizarre, horrible, industry.
Math problems for programmers
My experience going from 17" MBP to 15" rMBP for programming
I have always thought the meme was really saying the total opposite, by saying how cool he is was really making fun of him for the reasons you state.
On Chrome, on a retina Mac Book Pro here. Kind of liked the right side they produced at first glance, but actually reading the text, the left side is clearer, sharper, and lighter and easier on the eyes. Reading the right is like reading an entire book set in bold. Maybe their stuff is just good for heavy title fonts or something?
This is a good example of the straightjacked of backwards compatibility. Not too long, not too short, a fun display both of people who know what they're talking about vs just complaining.

Also a good example of inside the box thinking. The reason you need to run a 16 bit installer is the software isn't free or open source therefore a simple recompile with a newer version of debhelper or whatever isn't going to bring it up to modern packaging standards.
What Type Are You?
It's a lot easier to download and transfer a single PDF file versus downloading a complete webpage and all of its assets.

You can be sure formatting will be fine. I once bought a Kindle ebook that had lots of code samples. Even when reading on my laptop with a large screen spacing was really bad. (Though safari books online handles this well in HTML.
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So much technical analysis, and so little actually valuable information.

The thing is, anyone can draw a sawtooth over these kinds of things. The catch is, how wide is the sawtooth? Why would the market crash _now_ and not in for example, 2 years, or 5, or 10? You can't predict that with simple technical analysis, you need actual indicators.

What are the indicators they suggest? Anecdotal evidence that some companies have some investments in businesses that don't seem like they're worth it.

So what if AH stopped investing in early stage B2C startups? Perhaps they've just looked at their portfolio and determined their risk to be saturated? And what does the valuation of B2C have to do with the overall valuation of the tech industry?

Why is no one showing the numbers, how much money is in B2C tech startups right now? How much is in B2B tech? How much revenue are these sectors generating? How can we be expected to make a judgement over if we're in a bubble or not if instead of useful numbers they give us a bunch of anecdotes?

Articles like these are FUD, I don't know what the motivation is.

Please note that I'm not saying we're not in a bubble. I'm just saying this article is not helping us deciding if we're in one.
I'll never understand DST. Why On Earth change every clock in the country (and inthe process create bizarre things like missing hours and redundant hours) twice a year when we could simply change working hours and habits?
Block everything in robots.txt except the homepage, instead ?
Assuming a 80 year life span, and 5 billion humans, that is only .00001% of their life span. I hope we do better with the rest?
General advice:

1. Settle your debts soon. Losing your job does not mean losing your debts.

2. If you have no debts, save your money with low-risk investments (or a bank account, but then you are probably losing to inflation). If you lose your job you will still need to have some money available.
This time it is different.

I'm not denying it mind, but I too was there in the 90s. It was a crazy time. You would get in a taxi and the driver would be talking about stocks, giving out tips, talking about his portfolio. It was everywhere. Nowadays not so much. And outside Silly Valley, allowing for inflation tech wages have been basically flat since '01. A few years later it was the housing bubble, and everybody, everywhere was talking about property, buying, selling, renovating, letting. Now, if you put your ear to the ground, it doesn't sound like before.

But then as now, money is too cheap and money cannot stand still, it has to go somewhere, then a bit later it just evaporates. So it's bubble, but a different kind of bubble.
I'm in support of more fiber, I'm actually considering a move to get it at some of the downtown condos that offer it. However, this feels like the promise of a down in the polls incumbent hoping to turn this into a 1 issue race. Why weren't 4 years enough to get it rolling already? (And don't take this wrong, I likely will vote for McGinn, this just seems opportunistic is all).
While this doesn't help you decide on the topic, if you have even a vague sense for what you want to read about, most people just use Google Scholar.

Nearly all CS papers are posted by the authors on personal pages in PDF form. Once you've found something that has an interested abstract just go back to regular Google with the title, add "pdf" and it's almost certain you'll get a link to the file.

[edit]: Also, once you've got one paper that fits squarely into an area of interest you can then just start reading references. You'll also get a better handle on terminology which should make your Google Scholar searches more effective.
Build it? With whose money? The city's finances have been a disaster since 2008 and they've only been scraping by with a series of unsustainable tricks. The next mayor will almost certainly be Bill de Blasio, whose top agenda item is basically to spending a lot more money on the city's unionized labor. (His next agenda item is to revive rent control, because the War Emergency Tenant Protection Act apparently hasn't done enough to run the city into the ground yet. (And yes, that war emergency is WWII.))

Have you ever wondered why we can't have nice things? :P
Is it just me, or does it feel like the tech sector can't do well without someone crying bubble?

This article in particular starts off with some relatively good data, but the rest of it is just anecdotal hogwash. Particularly the wage issue.
Show HN: seekr [StartupHacks hackathon, London]
Background. We're a diverse team of students and young professionals that has just spent a productive weekend at StartupHacks London building seekr [1], and we'd love to have HN's feedback on it.

Product. Put simply, seekr is a service (and iOS app [2]) that lets you find interesting events around you. Our aim is to figure out in real-time what's popular. By analysing publicly available social data we can avoid relying on 3rd party services, and also create some valuable data of our own. We also use the metadata to improve event detection accuracy and identification.

Mobile. The iOS app can be used to submit photos (together with a "mood" rating) and to browse a map that displays photos grouped in clusters, their size being an obvious indicator of popularity.

Platform. seekr is effectively a platform - by making our APIs public we can allow developers take advantage of the analysis we perform on the data. Our technology stack can be seen here http://i.imgur.com/t0gEYq0.png

[1] Landing page: http://getseekr.com/

[2] App screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/SCYJo

[*] Hackathon: http://startuphacks.co/
Moto, Samsung, HTC. All three offer Developer Edition devices which are easily bootloader-unlockable on all carriers.
Assume the stock market follows the theory of supply and demand. The amount of stocks is mostly constant, so if the stock prices increases then the demand must also have increased. Why has the demand increased? Because more people want to put more money there. Why do they want that? Because they have more money and the only reasonable thing to do with that money is to buy stocks. Why do they have more money? Tax cuts for the rich. There is only so many yachts and cars you can buy, the rest of the unallocated capital has to be invested somehow.

Will the demand for stock continue to grow? Perhaps if there are more tax cuts or if more money is "freed" so it can be put in stocks.
Google typically funds all major contenders in big races.
Well it depends on a few things. Are the guards standing at the checkpoints, or just wandering around on patrol? Are they armed with handguns or assault rifles?

For what it's worth, I did not notice a police presence or armed guards the last time I flew out of LGA (a week ago).
As someone who has worked alternating day/night shifts for several years, I can anecdotally say that going to Amsterdam a few weeks ago from SF completely and utterly kicked my ass, and then getting back was worse. Much worse than alternating day/night shifts in the same week. I was not nearly expecting anything like that.
It isn't "tax cuts", it is QE3, with the government pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into the securities markets.
Right now only about $300 a month but it is fairly passive. I also do freelance work and sell other products.

I recently started using Google AdWords as so far I've done very little marketing. Hopefully AdWords can improve that number into something far more impressive.

I'm also building a couple of other websites which I think have potential to make a lot of money but they will take a while longer yet.

It's my ultimate goal to build a sustainable living from software products online. I think it's a realistic, yet very difficult goal but I'm enjoying the challenge!
This affects mainly Windows users (why I do not know.. but the default Google fonts have always look like shit on my Windows machine).

If you don't see any difference think about how many people are viewing your app/site on windows machines and having to look at the horrible default rendering.

You can always tell when a site is build with Apple and not throughout tested on Windows, the fonts are always horrible, and there are very few tested services that render fonts across OS/browsers the right way, so this is a great idea.
Same here, I live on the Jersey City waterfront and love the ferry commute. Hoboken and Jersey City are excellent places to live for a Manhattan job. We get to take advantage of the market inefficiency created by the "eww Jersey" popular image. Bonus, we dodge the NYC income tax which runs over 3% of income.
Government Is Magic
So, this could simply be a smaller bubble. “This time it’s smaller!” is an equally non-persuasive argument.
Yeah, I ultimately came to the same conclusion.

I do feel that it can be contextually helpful, in that it works well when you have tons of small tasks out of the way - sometimes that's the best way to prevent the 8-2 situation you describe.
The best option is as many have pointed out - Google Scholar.

But the very next I have personally found is ssrn.com - which is an open source repository.

You will also find that more and more papers are being hosted on arXiv.org.

If I am reading a book that links to specific academic papers, I'll first try google scholar, then a google search for the primary author. If the first doesn't return a link to a free copy, you will usually find it on the authors .edu homepage.
The MTA is a state agency, so really you need to look at the state's budget, not the city's. I also have little sympathy for the argument that the MTA is too short on cash -- they have been wasting enormous amounts of tax dollars on failed projects for decades.

Not that that should give us any hope for an expanded subway system.
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That's a trite disclaimer. If the economy as a whole is growing at N%, and the price of equity in the economy is growing at M%, eventually the two WILL converge. At what overall level & when that happens is difficult to predict, but unless you think nominal GDP is going to grow at 10% in steady-state, steady-state stock returns of 10% are impossible.
Great game. Great work. Play further to get harder.
Because HTML doesn't support content that needs to be in a paged format properly and is terrible for printing.

Companies also tend to like things as .PDFs for archiving.
Where I work they recently rolled out a policy that all laptops must be protected by PGP. We are not a small company and that update was pushed out with a few minor inconveniences but for me, I do not even notice its there.
Well if you use functools like you started with in your lead up examples your talking about what two lines of boilerplate (functools decorator and function definition)? Personally I often times just add the four lines of boiler plate and forgo functools.... Look I'm not saying that your library is a bad idea; Its neat, in fact it seems to handle a few thing better than the more well known decorator library does.

( Out of curiosity though how about the functions signature, I think functools doesn't maintain the original functions signature but I think decorator does, what does funcy do? )

For me personally I feel its better to have the decorator all in one place where you can see everything that is going on, and making it a class makes it pretty straight forward to understand.
Root cause: Usability. It's difficult to quickly set up. But there are (at least) two components to this:

1. Portability. How do I manage keys across my computers, phones & tablets?

2. Ease of use. What do I do to set this up? Most common clients don't support PGP out of the box. Even once plugins are added, they are complicated to use.

As a result, no one uses it. So, if you want to start, you need to convince your friends/colleagues to also use it.

I've recently started signing email from my home computer as a hint to others to do the same. So far no takers.
Pay off your debts, put some aside, and practice living cheaply. Learn to cook, specifically learn to make hearty meals with cheap ingredients. Re-sole your shoes rather than buying a new pair. Put off a new laptop, phone, etc for an extra year. Specifically as s programmer, look at your skills, and make sure you are good at something that has high barriers to entry and sustained demand. Some people call this "legacy", but I call it "bread and butter".
From 3/07/12 - Nearly 6 Million Years of World of Warcraft Healthy for Players' Brains

By one analyst's calculation, the 11 million or so registered users of the online role-playing fantasy World of Warcraft collectively have spent as much time playing the game since its introduction in 2004 as humanity spent evolving as a species-about 50 billion hours of game time, which adds up to about 5.9 million years.

http://kotaku.com/5891421/nearly-6-million-years-of-world-of...
As a Queens native, I'm much more inclined to think that the reason Greenwald hints at the end of the article ("As white flight and urban decline escalated in the late 1960s, Queens identified more and more with Long Island, isolating Brooklyn further still.") was to blame. Though one side of my family didn't completely leave Brooklyn until the early 70s, the other side actually got out in the early 50s. This is probably related to the parts of Brooklyn they lived in.

That said, the changes in transit almost definitely had an impact, and i would guess that the two phenomena had a sympathetic effect on each other.
To me this is most useful when you're doing something that doesn't take any thought or creativity. I use it for rote tasks that I don't want to do and find myself having trouble concentrating on. In general, I agree with the just wanting to get in the zone and not being confined to a timer, but when getting those awful tasks out of the way I do like this method.
For econ papers:

http://afinetheorem.wordpress.com/
Existence of anti-virus program means inferiority of the platform in security design. At least for non-engineer end-users - so most people.

Google claims Android has full security, but if it really does, anti-virus app must be disappeared by lack of needs.

So by the Google, this app is a useless and hopeless.

Otherwise, this app proves Google's lying like a crap politician. In this case, the author is insulting Google, and his/her taste for Android.

That makes me sad in any case.
Of course, if you had an office with a door you could close when you needed uninterrupted focus time, that would pretty quickly stop the interruptions. This is the premise behind why C*O's supposedly need their own offices (to concentrate on all the important decisions), and there are some who advocate this approach for all programmers (look up Spolsky's offices for programmers).
It's still the top result for "language shootout", despite the name being changed year(s) ago.
Actually this affects Linux users too. I tested on Elementary OS, which is a distro based on Ubuntu and uses sub-pixel font rendering. Fonts made with font combiner are more crisp and clear (but not pixelated) than the default google fonts, which are fuzzy.
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I do not buy that all. They say that streetcars were on their way out anyway because buses were more efficient. There is a significant hole in this reasoning because:

(a) GM is not in the business of owning street car lines;
(b) GM spent considerable money to buy out the street car lines, nevertheless.

If the street car lines were on their way out anyways why did GM spend so much money on something very much out of their usual line business? It may not be true that GM was the sole reason streetcars went away there may have been other factors, but it is hard to deny that GM played a role and a very significant role as they were the party that did the actual physical destruction.

And, by the way, the only reason buses seemed cheaper at the time was subsidies. Street cars had to pay for the building and upkeep of their rails, while buses used the streets, and the city paid for upkeep of the streets. One usually does not consider the damage buses do on the streets, but it is pretty significant because heavy vehicles do disproportionate amount of damage to asphalt. When all costs are added up, light rail is usually much more efficient than buses and that is before you even consider environmental costs.

It is quite possible that as citizens started worrying over their tax bills they would require bus companies to pay for the use of city streets. Interstate truckers, for example, are taxed for use of the highways. In that case, street cars would again become cheaper to operate than buses.
You can't intelligently discuss cable monopolies without following the money and reading the franchise agreement. As near as Google and I can figure out, you need to read:

http://www.seattle.gov/cable/comcast_franchise_06.pdf

Is this the most recent revision? Who knows. That would take more effort than I'm willing to expend.

First of all the agreement I linked to at seattle.gov claims to be in effect until 2016. So until 2016 (or so) you can whine all you want but its just posturing until them. I donno enough about Seattle politics to know if the proposed candidate would be in office in 3 years? Also I don't know enough seattle politics to tell if the mayor really has any input. Some localities are more autocratic than other more anarchistic localities. So the mayor may or may not have much impact at all other than pure PR.

Secondly follow the money. Read section 11.1. Basically for CATV in Seattle there is a 5% sales tax on top of any and all other fees gathered by comcast and paid to the city. You can call it a fee or bribe or compensation or whatever but its basically a sales tax. The feds limit this local tax and there's the usual boilerplate about increasing if legally allowed etc.

You can estimate based on subscriber numbers and bills or the other way around as total comcast revenue times percentage of comcast subscribers located in Seattle, well whatever either way its a substantial amount of money. So, follow the money. Where is the candidate proposing to raise rates, implement new taxes, or cut services if they kick out Comcast completely?