skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, didn't know about that (the 4 books from Oreilly, Manning and Pragmatic are all terrific).

Another thing is if getclojure could get some pruning and discussion of corner/edge cases for each core function/macro/special forms (i.e. get some of the discussion from IRC of how/when to use the functions and maybe make it more hoogle-like)

http://getclojure.org/search?q=conj&num=0
"Additionally, most people believe lethal force is justified in cases of defense. It's not a huge jump of logic to view these hits as defense."

uh, wat?

The dude was a drug dealer protecting his criminal empire. If I'm robbing a bank and shoot a cop who is going to shoot me, is that also defense? So I should be charged for the original crime but not for killing the cop? Because that's pretty much what your argument sounds like to me.
Is this the same entity that has ~ $16,000,000,000,000 external debt?

source: a part of the government

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
Do you think that the life, as envisioned by children, who want to eat only ice cream when they grow up, includes scurvy, diabetes and other effects of such a diet?
No, no, football causes poverty. And obesity causes football.
If they control the network, can't they determine the mining difficulty? Difficulty is a single, unified knob that combined with the miners directly controls the rate of BTC generation.

Also, if they can freeze (stall) certain wallets indefinitely, that's pretty much as good as asset seizure.
UPDATE: I descended into the basement to retrieve my copy of Cleeton, Pitkin, and Cornwell's General Printing, 3rd edition, 1963. (Back then Glen U. Cleeton was the Dean of the School of Printing Management at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, better known today as Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering.) Anyway, one sentence from the book makes it clear:

"A font is an assortment of one size and face of type."

In other words, most faces came in multiple sizes, and each face-size pairing (that you could buy) was called a font. A.T.F. Goudy Bold, to use an example from the book, came in the following sizes: 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24, 30, 36, 42, 48, 60, 72, and 96 (all units given in typographer's points). Complicating the matter was that each font had a slight variation of the face design to accommodate the way that ink behaved on the type differently and was interpreted by the human eye differently at different sizes.
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> and it will only deflate as quickly as its economy is growing.

Which is bad. Deflation is not good for a currency, people don't want to spend it, people hoard, liquidity dries up, vendors don't like lowering prices and won't as quickly as they'd raise them. End result, deflationary spiral as the feedback loop of hoarding ensues.

> Also note that gold-backed currencies have a much longer track record historically than fiat currencies.

Yes, a much worse one. Fiat currencies stabilized our economy and eliminated the continual severe boom/depression cycles that occurred under gold. Fiat currencies have a far better track record than gold, despite being a shorter one.
1) please read ".. and becomes good also as a long-term store of value." as ".. and becomes good also as a long-term store of value while it lasts as a great short-term transfer medium".

2) I don't recall anything about a relation to pure transactional volume, but there is definitely very direct relation between the liquidity and ease of transactions and currency value; any significant changes in liquidity have a quick and lasting effect on value.
You're right. This would work with transparencies, while a straight OTP would not. I was at a lecture where the speaker made it work with transparencies, but he was obviously using a trick...
Being a Russian and having lived in a Western country long enough I started noticing that I use this fake smile all the time when I bump by someone. Not sure whether that's a good or a bad thing, but at least it is a code of conduct here.
You don't have any equity when your house is repossessed, never mind if you have remortgaged it umpteen times.

Based on the article, it looks like he made good money 1997-2002 or so, then took a couple of years off, tried to go back in 2004, and spent out his $500k by 2008 while trying and failing to find work.
> Is there any other mature framework for the language?

No. It's because Groovy and Grails are part of the same company that many developers are afraid of creating another web framework using Groovy.

Grails dictator Graeme Rocher was even one of the 5 Groovy despots for 4 yrs, and didn't leave until a few months ago. This could have been what prompted the Play! 2 framework to purge itself of all its Groovy code.

Unfortunately, Groovy project manager Guillaume Laforge uses "and Grails initiator" in this title, perhaps not realizing the message that sends to people thinking about using Groovy for something web-related but not part of Grails.
for anyone looking, his twitter is: https://twitter.com/davidraether
Be careful though, those folks are wrong more often then they are right. I've tried to point out their mistakes in the past, but they usually just accused me of trying to be deceptive, so I gave up.
http://blockchain.info/charts/tx-trade-ratio

USD <-> BTC Trade Volume is spiking, while BTC Transaction is staying the same.

If you believe that BTC is experiencing "rapid growth", can you post some statistics that back your claims? Currently, the charts I'm watching indicate that the only "growth" BTC has right now, is USD <-> BTC exchange volume... which indicates increased speculation.
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Price has gone up by nearly $200 since you posted this comment.

Still to late to invest?! :P
51% attacks don't allow you to mine arbitrary amounts of Bitcoin. At worst they could DoS the Bitcoin network and double-spend their funds, but the recipients (their own citizens? other governments?) would find out and be pissed.
It seems unlikely that two parties would try to launch 51% attacks at the same time. And if one party started an attack it would probably take someone else at least 30 days to fab enough chips to respond, by which time the attack would be over one way or the other.
The legal structure that replaced pensions with 401k's and the like is considered the main source of the bubble. It isn't a coincidence that the dot com bubble happened right as all the baby boomers were hoping to retire.
http://p3rl.org/App::Asciio ? :)
>The major takeaway from the article is that he fell into the same trap that a lot of us did in the 90s, that the future was so bright you had to wear shades. I had no idea the 2000s were going to be so dang BLEAK.

I don't buy this. He knew that writer's jobs rarely lasted into their 50's. He knew the end was coming but didn't save enough, and continued to spend 400k per year while being unemployed.
Using Webapp Builder to manage static assets in Node.js
This is why I think having a good welfare system encourages entrepreneurship. You can take risks without going homeless.
Interesting. If this is the case, then there must be a good reason not to stop rendering that. I am also curious if each server has its own private key or not. Anyhow, thanks for the info.
Can't agree more. People are broken here, I've heard so many times from my mother "don't attract attention, be as everyone". Life was tough, truth could harm. Lying brainwashing system, under control of fools it's better to hide emotions under brick-face. Parts of that system is still around - school, university, city services, army. They are awful.

People are pour, angry, have no sense of life, my friends advice "don't sing and dance outside, it's dangerous". I don't know why they live.
I don't think that's really true. My dad was a househusband from about a year after I was born until his death. My mom grumbled about it once or twice, but she stuck with him until then, and I always got the feeling she didn't care all that much about the money.

What does seem to be non-negotiable is self-respect; I don't know anyone who can respect or care about someone who doesn't respect themselves. And as a man in contemporary American society, you get a lot of messages that you're worthless if you don't have a job. You don't have to buy into those messages, though.

I've also found that there's a high degree of selection bias in what spouses care about. If you always end up in relationships where people care about "bringing home the bacon", it's probably because you care about bringing home the bacon, and people tend to attract like-minded partners. There are many, many women who don't care about this.
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Very cool!

But the title doesn't mention that there are also 57 lines of HTML and 121 lines of CSS (with some line breaks).

Still amazing though. =)
It's not a nitpick. It's a core and fundamental flaw in the central point of your reasoning.
I just rolled to the floor. I love South Park.
Lockitron is also committed to shipping their product, but I still have no idea if I'm going to get it or not, or if it's going to be DOA on arrival.
Quantifying Surprise
My initial concern was that the adhesive might be prone to wearing off after a few reapplications. Their FAQ addressed that point, though not in the way I'd hoped:

"Like normal stickers, they are designed to be stuck exactly once. Since the adhesive takes some time to reach full strength, if you are careful, you can peel the stickers off right away, but this causes the sticker to lose some of its tack (which can make faulty connections in the circuit)."

Certainly, reapplicability would be a design challenge in itself - I can't fault them for eliminating that concern. Still, it would've been fun to see. Maybe a future version?
Exactly - that's why I posted the link to Github repo.

The game still works - just clone the repo and start index.html.
But do they board from the same place? I don't see a whole lot of private planes attached to commercial aircraft terminals.
I'll tell you this - back in Soviet times there were little to no racism towards black people. In part due to Soviet Union helping to "liberate" a good chunk of African countries back in 60s (and through people viewing them as our friends) and in part due to black people simply being an oddity. Also the past slavery and segregation matters in the US, the enemy no. 1, helped them winning some inherent sympathy.

But then Perestroyka came and African exchange students somehow managed to become a reliable source of hard drugs. At least in Moscow. And gradually the attitude changed.

That said no one would help a skinhead beaten up in a subway. Whatever the GP is smoking, it's potent.
One wonders why all this nostalgia for gold, as if it were in any way a better currency than fiat dollars. It's like they don't even acknowledge how terrible gold was as a currency before we finally smartened up and went fiat. The gold economy was a terrible boom/depression continual cycle time and time again; it took fiat currency to end that and stabilize the economy to mere boom/recession cycles that are far more mild.
That's true, but if memory serves that was a metaphorical 10th-page oped. The coverage we're seeing now, starting around the thefts, is 1st or 2nd page.
For example I'd like to have the Firefox button at top left orange, not gray. And slimmer (not as tall as a tab). It's clearly less polished than the Windows version. And yet I thanks them everyday for the browser
Any argument?

The rise of Ghost resemble a lot of Wordpress at that time: simple and fast - both features Wordpress doesn't have anymore... and Ghost do, despite the nature of the language and Node itself like I pointed above.
In addition to that, most semi-recent "gold economies" have been of a fairly fictional variety, not literally trading physical gold as the medium of exchange, but rather trading paper money that is theoretically backed by gold, with the theory supposed to be bolstered by the fact that it's exchangeable on demand for gold. But these economies depended on not too many people at once actually demanding the exchange for gold, which is why the American 19th century economy was littered with bank runs.

There hasn't been a real test of what a purely "hard money" gold-based economy would look like in centuries. Could turn out well, could not. I would guess not.
Russians are racist? Care to explain further. That's like saying Italians are racist. What caused you to reach that conclusion?
As far as I've been able to tell from years of Reddit/HN, downvoting is basically a signal that says "this comment is not worth the time it'd take to rebut it--but also isn't doing anything actively harmful enough to elicit flagging."
Farewell to Pyramid Power Promoter Max Toth
A Lollipop that Plays Music in Your Mouth
Gdgt.com gets merged into Engadget
Crypto-Equity: The Future of Bitcoin-Like Projects?
+ Top down and Bottom up: In other words, work out "What is wanted" and "What is possible".

+ Over 20 Quality control innovations exist, use at least 1/2 of them.
DoS it long enough, and you in effect confiscate/destroy the wealth of all Bitcoin holders, if you wish so; and as they have the most experience in producing specialized crypto-processing hardware on a large scale, it wouldn't be that expensive when compared to the [future] value of Bitcoin network.

Others getting 'pissed'? What are they going to do? The very limited consequences of Snowden-leaks pretty much show that they can do such things and ignore protests, if the government leaders are okay with that.
> Side note: I thought I saw Snowden... http://imgur.com/IaAPGjx

I actually thought he looked a lot more like Tucker Carlson (the bow-tie wearing talking head who was verbally bitch-slapped by John Stewart on Carlson's ex-show, Crossfire).
I built webpages and figured out CSS well enough where I understood how to use it to do most standard things. I learned how to use jQuery to do custom behavior such as setting width on certain elements depending on the browser window size (which I now know I should have been doing via CSS), animating, etc. I figured out how to use LESS functionally, if not structure my HTML & CSS well enough to take huge advantage of it.

I built a basic homepage in Ruby on Rails using Twitter Bootstrap with SASS, without really understanding SASS that well except that it looked similar to LESS.

I knew nothing about best practices - nobody taught me anything like that before getting that first position. I hackishly created stuff, including a WordPress plugin that pulls Twitter JSON tweet data for a particular user & displayed it at the end of each post (without knowing about PHP's JSON decoding helper method) - this was for an interview that I did in about 1 day (but I did not get called back, probably because I did such horrible things such as manually parse the JSON into the strings I wanted).

For me, I happened into a good match since the non-profit needed someone to do frontend and learn some stuff like a client-side MVC framework & Node.js. I was desperate for any career-track job & zoomed in on web development, and the non-profit needed someone they could get as cheaply as possible, yet allow the person to grow while in the job. I think they got a lot more than they expected in me - I have far exceeded expectations at both of my jobs so far.
Ms. Male Character - Tropes vs Women in Video Games [video]
It could mean ycombinator does not have the necessary expertise to help you like they would want.
>We are animals. ... As such, cubicles are pretty much a nightmare.

and open space plan even more so if you don't get your desk placed so that your back is to the wall and you're facing "the space". In low density office this results in people's desks placed along the walls with emptiness in the center, ie. waste of space compare to cubicles, in high density - people in the middle are miserable (speaking from the fact, we have 2 very similar buildings on the campus - both open space, one is low density and another is heavily populated).
Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular
Groovy rose from below #50 to #18 in a mere 6 months (May to Oct) on the infamous Tiobe index, then dropped back down a month later. According to [1]:

> Groovy, which turned up in the [Tiobe] 18th spot last month, slid back down to a number 32 ranking. "After a long discussion with one of the Tiobe index readers, it turned out that the data that is produced by one of the Chinese sites that we track is interpreted incorrectly by our algorithms. So this was a bug," Janssen said. "After we had fixed this bug, Groovy lost much of its ratings." The ratings slip takes Groovy from a 0.658 percent rating last month to 0.393 percent this month.

I suspect someone at Pivotal, Inc has been gaming one of the search engines used by the Tiobe Index to promote Groovy in preparation for this release, and didn't expect to be caught out for at least another month. This has happened before. In April 2011, Groovy fell from #25 to #65 in a single month when something similar occurred. In December 2010, Groovy tech lead Jochen Theodorou had "volunteered" his services to Tiobe to help them improve their algorithms, after which Groovy began its short-lived rise.

Groovy really should focus more on features that help developers rather than search engine optimization.

[1] http://www.infoworld.com/t/application-development/c-pulls-a...
I think he means the man directly to the left of the man in the foreground of that picture. Blondish, square glasses, no tie.
Good point. As I write this, BTC-China is at 5680 RMB, or 932 USD. Bitstamp is 655 USD, Gox is 776 USD.

Maybe China is driving the demand and other exchanges are arbitraging against China. Since there's a lag in transferring funds into exchanges, the 20% to 40% premium in China may just be a measure of latency in a fast-moving market.

If so, then we'll see the prices converge over time, and we should use BTC-China as a leading indicator of exchange rates.
According to the NY Times they have terminals in China:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/world/asia/reporter-on-unp...

> Bloomberg L.P., the parent company of Bloomberg News, receives much of its revenue from selling subscriptions for its financial-information terminals. After Bloomberg News published an article in June 2012 on the family wealth of Xi Jinping, at that time the incoming Communist Party chief, sales of Bloomberg terminals in China slowed, as officials ordered state enterprises not to subscribe. Officials also blocked Bloomberg’s website on Chinese servers, and the company has been unable to get residency visas for new journalists.
It makes sense when you understand how DC works, and how corrupt the government is .How many representatives have "farms" and get subsidies? There is no insanity here, it's by design.

Saying that things are "illogic" is insulting.Things make perfect sense, journalists just dont want to admit that US politicians are rotten to the core.
Ask HN: Why do so many post that YouTube is down?
Title pretty much says it all but to expand a little, YouTube was down recently and I saw at least half a dozen posts to HN along the lines of "YouTube is down" - including one that was on the front page with ~50 points.

Is a service interruption in YouTube (or any service) really that noteworthy? Is there a benefit to posting/discussing on HN when YouTube is down? If YouTube is down people will obviously figure that out when/if they try to access it - everyone else is unaffected by such an outage so we don't gain much by knowing about it.
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Perhaps it is also not applicable to geopolitical co-existance with imperialist countries like Nazi Germany and the USA?
The distinction was easier before digital type. Today we have no physical object to represent a font. The font file itself might be the closest analog to pre-digital fonts but that seems to be an even more extreme view than I took in the post.
Eye Tracking For PS4
Smiling there is more personal... and smiles are more valuable. And just like with anything valuable or good if there's too much of it it looses its value (a bit like money and inflation or recent startup valuations :-))
Oh, well. That's obviously a huge difference.
Step 1: Get help. Start figuring out what you don't know.

An app like this, especially if it were wildly successful in attracting users, could do a lot of harm if the underlying idea isn't thought out well and based on good ideas. You're 15. You love your idea and the competition judges did too. Great! Are you or them experts on suicide prevention?

Fortunately, your goal isn't to make money or something similarly self-serving. You're trying to save lives. That opens up tremendous resources to you what would be denied to most trying to make their first app. Psychologists, doctors, professors, etc. will all be happy to help you get the idea right, free of charge, because it could save lives.

If you see a psychologist, ask them for their input and ask them for contacts. Go to your local university and knock on doors. Find people who teach or do research in the field and ask for their input. Make some phone-calls. Email professors at other universities.

I know your instinct is to immediately try to advance your idea towards a working app, but a great app based on a faulty idea is usually pretty useless and this one could actually be dangerous. Get help immediately.
wouldn't bold, italic, etc., be variants of a typeface, with a corresponding font?
Partly yes, but being able to control the macro economy is arguably a much greater power in a western state than the monopoly on coercive force.

Force mostly has to be individually applied, and you can only take it so far before you have massive pushback in the form of civil unrest.

Printing money, to pick a simple example, is much more effective and can be done across the economy as a whole.

Could you imagine police forces breaking into everyone's home and taking half their cash in a matter of days? It's unthinkable that that would happen for logistical reasons alone.

But that's what we've effectively seen some modern western governments do just recently by rapidly deflating their currencies.

Abolishing fiat currency would take away that power, and make no mistake it is an immense power. It's the power to shape entire economies at the stroke of a pen.
Listen to realtime Bitcoin transactions
How did DPR find the hitman? Wouldn't it be reasonable to expect that once the feds had apprehended the admin, that the feds might be impersonating a hitman for said admin? It is after all widely insinuated, among certain crowds, that any hitman you hire on the internet is always a fed.
Maybe... or "The FBI can’t investigate terrorists and fraudsters due to budget cuts" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/30/t...

The FBI budget iirc is ~8 billion, if they get everything from silk road it could be over 10% of their budget.
It would be really cool if people could self-organize, crowd source, support, motivate, etc. a virtual incubator based on the same ideas and techniques as Y Combinator. The barriers to entry for creating products and companies is so small, it's a shame not to keep trying. After all, software is still eating the world:

http://www.wired.com/business/2012/04/ff_andreessen/5/

And all you really need is a lot of dedication:

http://quotesondesign.com/john-carmack/
If they were smart they'd see this as a market tell and come out with a competitive product for it. Cable companies, let me get my cable tv on my digital devices, same wire, just more usable. HBOGO is a nice start but I want all the channels I pay for.

I hope sports goes away from basic tv though so they might also finally open up NFL online for the US (available for the rest of the world). Why make it painful to watch, why not take people's money that want it.