skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I contacted the ISP. The reasoning is "that is a limitation/flaw in the firmware of the single router that we provide (and you cannot use your own, or meddle with it). The company behind that product might correct this mistake early 2014 and we will upgrade your routers firmware (you cannot) when we get around. Just.. unplug it every three days for now".
That is the official statement, confirmed several times. The manufacturer (AVM) confirmed that they know about this issue and are working on a fix, but didn't want to commit to the early 2014 part.. Meanwhile the ISP gives you no choice to refuse dual stack lite and have a stable internet connection..

Technology: UPNP might be a way to open ports, but that works for IPv4 as well, no? I mean, the benefits of IPv6 lie elsewhere? A global address (for a time.. my prefix changes whenever my ISP likes to do that. I have the same 'unstable' address problem, still need to update my AAAA records all the time to make incoming connections work), independent of firewall issues?

If I host a game, it can open a port via upnp (and serve people from the internet) with ipv4 as well. Where is the benefit I'm missing, other than being able to see a dancing tortoise on kame?
Years ago I got into an argument about these sorts of "beautiful" and "intuitive" APIs:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/21pnl/just_say_...

I still do not have good answers to the questions I asked in that first comment.
It's very true that a bit of extra horsepower in the right place can make a game better than the original, even if it's something as simple as a boosted framerate.

But I don't think accuracy is a waste of time. Accuracy can even be the easier method if you have proper specifications for the chips, with the difficulty moving into optimization.
This looks really nice.

I wish Java would do something about getters and setters. It's very awkward that they are not incorporated into the language but so many libraries assume they exist that it's a defacto requirement to generate the same boilerplate constantly. I wish the language itself would provide default 'simple' getters/setters the way Groovy does and incorporate them throughout so I could use e.g.

.set(Person::firstName) //Reference a default setter method for the firstName member if one isn't explicitly defined

instead of

.set(Person::setFirstName)
Krugman is more like Chomsky -- he did some academic work (including a good textbook in microecon), but then left that to do politics, almost entirely disconnected from his academic record.

The Econ "Nobel" is a little more rationally awarded than the Nobel Peace Prize, but neither is the same as Physics/Chem/Medicine.

I think it's fine to judge Krugman's political arguments on political merits; there isn't "nobel-caliber" economics behind them. They're usually about things which economics doesn't even address.
Firefox, first try:

http://mr-andersen.no/div/send-to-gfycat.xpi

Edit:
If you want to inspect the source, download the file and rename the extension to zip.

Edit2:
You may have to download the file and drag it into Firefox in order to install.
I wrote something in Java 7 I call zerorm that has some similar functionality. The type safety is mostly optional, but it can be enforced in a few ways, either through the compiler or at "bind time". It's similar to jOOq, korma, etc... but one nice benefit is it doesn't try to do everything, it has no dependencies, and the core part of the code is around 3k LoC IIRC.

http://github.com/zerorm/zerorm
It needs to be "gender" if they are extending these opportunities to people who identify as female, regardless of biology.
This may be the end result, but it seems to me like the more direct (but not necessarily simple) solution to this problem is to close up those loopholes for the rich. The government does need to collect taxes after all, and if nobody is paying then we've created another problem.
... This is spam do not open, at least remove the "refId" query param
So your business is to ask people for their Instagram/Facebook credentials, then send them their old pictures wrapped in ads? Everpix already tried doing something much better than this, and crashed and burned.
This title of this post does a disservice to its contents. "Bitcoin is evil' makes it sound like it's a propaganda piece. I went in expecting some of the usual poorly researched allegations that we've been seeing over the past few weeks. But surprisingly, the post does make a few good points.

> Placing a ceiling on the value of bitcoins is computer technology and the form of the hash function… until the limit of 21 million bitcoins is reached. Placing a floor on the value of bitcoins is… what, exactly?

However, the analysis fails again because he wants to decouple bitcoin's role as a store of value from it being a medium of exchange. To which I would like to ask: What's the point of a store of value if ultimately it cannot be exchanged for something else ?

That's like saying that the energy inside an atom's nucleus has no value. (prior to the discovery of controlled nuclear fission) Of course it had value but we couldn't use it without accessing it and tapping into it somehow.

Bitcoin's value is closely coupled with its utility as a medium of exchange, which is based solely off some pretty excellent technology and principles.

Now, don't get me wrong, I don't think its current value in terms of USD/Euros/etc. is necessarily linked well to it's current utility. However, there is value in being able to transfer something (a bitcoin or parts of it..) that no one else can transfer to someone across the world securely and almost instantly with little to no centralized control.

This ability is what places a floor on its value, whatever that hypothetical floor may be.

This is what excites the 'technical people' he mentions in his article. I don't expect non-technical people to 'get it' immediately, but people will get it, eventually. No one understood why email was important in the beginning either.
As I mentioned in the post,

> Now, I should say that I almost never use 2.days, but the point is that it’s a benchmark of expressiveness: if you can write it, you can do all sorts of other flexible things.

I tend to use MiniTest, not RSpec. But I'm very glad RSpec can be built.
That's why I invest only in Dogecoin.
Placing a ceiling on the value of gold is mining technology, and the prospect that if its price gets out of whack for long on the upside a great deal more of it will be created. Placing a ceiling on the value of the dollar is the Federal Reserve’s role as actual dollar source, and its commitment not to allow deflation to happen.

Placing a ceiling on the value of bitcoins is computer technology and the form of the hash function… until the limit of 21 million bitcoins is reached. Placing a floor on the value of bitcoins is… what, exactly?

Where's the floor on the value of the dollar?
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital, by Carlota Perez
I'm a liberal, a Keynesian, but my interest in BitCoin is completely non-ideological. And I resent being painted with an ideological brush by Krugman because I can see the elegance in BitCoin, and I can see the possibility that one day, in spite of my ideological beliefs that unregulated markets are susceptible to bubbles and destructive volatility, BitCoin or something like it might still be able to function as a stable, useful world currency.

Ideology is never an accurate or complete description of the world. It is false awareness. What might be true under paradigm A might no longer be true under paradigm B, but at no point will an ideologue change his world-view to fit paradigm B. He will try to cram paradigm B into his ideology in order to preserve his ideology, rather than adjust his ideology to describe paradigm B.

For instance a fiat currency heavily regulated by state monetary policy might have been the best idea in the 20th century, during which for the most part there was no Internet. But in the 21st century, where the Internet enables markets that can function more efficiently, a virtual currency with a self-regulating monetary policy might be a better replacement. The jury is still out on that. BitCoin is an experiment, and that's the best thing about the Internet - it is a laboratory for experiments, where we can try new and different monetary policies really quickly, whereas in the wildly inefficient 20th century we were locked into one monetary policy at a time. We're just figuring out what works the best, but Krugman calling BitCoin "evil" suggests to me that he is afraid of what we might find out.
The size of a default Blender installation _now_ is ~214MB. Zipped, it's abt 40.
Actually, I think that if a physicist/chemist came out with unproven theories or opinions (the original article is nothing more than an opinion), the community would react pretty much the same. Physics and chemistry (and economics as well) have proofs and experiments, and this post doesn't offer either of those. It makes perfect sense to dismiss it if you disagree with him, since he doesn't really say anything concrete.
>Of all the "quirks" in this world you find this one worthy of snark?

Because it's here on the front page and I was listening to the "Dead Milkmen".

I'm sorry if I may have offended you.

The quirk I was referring to is the fact that equality is only championed for trendy jobs perceived as desirable. There are no "Black Girls Construction" events for example.
> Isn't it sort of obvious that the person with more experience is likely to have more skills?

Of course not. The quality of their practice is rather important.
Are you black? Are you a black woman?
My personal choice for "statically typed Ruby" is actually Scala or Kotlin. Scala has its drawbacks, especially the compile time, (which is getting better) but both have similar expressiveness when it comes to mind blowing library usage. (Although sometimes arguably in the expense of potentially complexity of the language when it comes to being able to writing such elegant libraries) I found it similar to the OP's argument regarding python vs ruby. Scala as a language might be a very subjective and divided topic, but using it with the right libraries can be very expressive just with added static typing.
Definitely the latter: to be honest, I wasn't super drawn to the protagonist (it's kind of set up as a bildungsroman, which isn't bad or anything but I think I'm past the point in my life where that stuff is super-applicable) but more the overall depiction of adult life in the town. There's a pervading sense of loneliness (or, more accurately, lonesomeness) and how that affects the town as a whole.

All in all, I thought it was pretty modern stuff considering the settings.
Eh, the article doesn't say much, is pretty light on details/analysis, heavy on rhetoric ("Bitcoin is Evil") and says very little anyone with even passing familiar w/ Bitcoin doesn't know already.

I'm not sure what technologists he's been speaking with, but I think the distinction between value store and payment network is abundantly clear to most people even peripherally involved with Bitcoin. I think the view of most competent technologists is that Bitcoin is a promising technology, with somewhat unproven utility.
binaural and spatial is the same, 3d is quite different and really nothing compared to real spatial sound. check the link I left in my other comment, I explain the differences there. but wikipedia will probably do a good job too.

after you understand that, you'll see why i'm asking the question, sound tech is really behind
"I have never been to an event wherein I've seen anything but positive vibes towards all people attending."

You're a man, aren't you
Well I also disagree that tech moves fast. There is a lot of mindless churn, but software companies do themselves a lot of prejudice chasing buzzwords when computing and networking principles are in fact very stable and long lived. And in any case, it makes a lot more sense to formally train in relevant new technologies than to have ad hoc self learning.
Counterpoint:

GSA products sales aren't so bad, and sometimes services are incidental to product sales. If I were a lock maker, I'd sure want to be Kaba-Mas or S&G with a decent amount of government sales. If you have to provide some services, it's not horrible -- it's a $200-400k/yr living for a few consultants if you're in the right space, and generates nice revenue for the company, without taking over the focus. If you're an independent contractor and end up subcontracting to a product company, you can make really good money filling this role. If you don't have to do the "get the product sold" phase, and are purely subcontracted to the the implementation/support, it's actually not bad, and not very different from enterprise clients in general. There is the problem of single-client-all-revenue, and some slightly odd work rules, but enterprise often has that.

I share your moral concerns about vuln research/etc. for the government, but I have no problem with defensive tech for them, or for non-security tech.
Usually, journalists don't get to choose their own headlines. Does that fact change your read on this piece?
I would only use :lang pseudo class to style direction-specific documents/elements if I'd be certain that no other language of same direction will be added in the future (and I can never be certain in something like that).

Actually direction-specific styling is a different topic I think and I wish we had a :dir pseudo class or something for documents with multiple directions.

Usually RTL languages expect the whole layout (with few exceptions) to be in opposite direction and not just nav elements. So, if a document exists in LTR and RTL (or even TTB) languages I'd recommend having separate stylesheet for each direction instead (btw it can be achieved and maintained easily with CSS pre-processors).

If, however, multiple directions are mixed in one document, I'd probably use descendant selector instead:

body [dir="rtl"] p {}
or
body [dir="ttb"] p {}
etc.

I have yet to see such combinations however..
OT: If anyone is interested in trying Blender or need a place to get solutions to problems, http://blender.stackexchange.com/ is a great resource.
This seems to be mainly a reference to another article that has also been on HN.

By approximate scroll down length on mobile, the ratio of content that isnt a quote, to that which is, seems to be approximately 7:5 .
(not taking into account the fact the quoted text takes less horizontal space, but I did overestimate the new text length in a few small ways as well, so I hope that this ratio is at least approximately accurate)

Essentially the article states a difference between "positive economics" (what is), and "nomfyvhbxgv economics" (what should be). The author claims that their political opponents tend to get the two confused (and that despite what people criticizing the article might think, that his political allies tend not to make the same mistake)

They then go on to say that the other article suggests that bitcoin was created as a weapon, connecting to the "what should be" part of economics, quote the other article, and repeat from the other article the part about a "gold fetish".

I personally believe that it didn't add a whole lot to what was already in the other article, though I admit I should probably reread the guidelines for comments and submissions. I intend to do that, and then possibly modify this post that I am now making.
BGE wasn't ignored because anyone on the dev team wanted to sideline it. In fact, many many people really loved it and hoped it would go somewhere. But it is an open source project. The stuff that gets resources is the communities that show up and work on it.

If you want BGE to get better, join the team and make it better.
He claims that the ability to pay taxes in dollars and the Federal Reserve's willingness to buy up dollars to maintain their value places a floor on the value of the dollar. I disagree. In a crisis of confidence in the dollar, both factors would fail.
Bitcoin is terrible though you guys, in it's current state, it encourages hoarding and what used to be a promising currency is now a stagnant commodity.

I like the utility of bitcoin, and I see it's value. But I do not hold the same optimism I did for the currency as I did in months past.

I do not see a future where normal people will be paid primarily in bitcoins, and all the bitcoin people will be rich and happily ever after. No, just stop. Normal people hate this coin. They hate it, and they really hate people telling them this is where there money should go.

Hacker News we are wrong about bitcoins, and we should feel bad for holding them in such high regard. They have done a lot more bad than good, and I am not sure the road forward is good or bad.
I was thinking about reading 'Thinking, Fast and Slow', but I couldn't tell if it would really be useful or if it would just be another glorified self-help book. But if people here like it, I will probably give it a shot.

Also, Drunkard's Walk was excellent.
"why do the states need to monitor financial transactions?"

I hate the "terrorism" BS as much as you, but money laundering and large-scale scamming ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6972139 ) are actual threats.
He poses a question:

To be successful, money must be both a medium of exchange and a reasonably stable store of value. And it remains completely unclear why BitCoin should be a stable store of value.

And then says he hasn't been able to get an answer to this question, that the BitCoin enthusiasts he's talked to have mostly avoided trying to answer the question, and that he has reason to suspect that BitCoin gets promoted not because it is useful as a currency but because it pushes the right ideological buttons for some people.

And, one must admit, it is a perfectly legitimate question to ask when considering something's usefulness as a currency.
That is kind of fucked up. It might just be that the other events don't do any promotion? I'd assume there would be at least some general events, ideally revolving around better languages (... :) ), in a country the size of Finland.
> Real expresiveness is about what SICP calls "means of abstraction" and "means of combination", not necessarily about having very nice syntax.

I was thinking specifically of the expression problem:

> The Expression Problem is a new name for an old problem. The goal is to define a datatype by cases, where one can add new cases to the datatype and new functions over the datatype, without recompiling existing code, and while retaining static type safety (e.g., no casts).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_problem

Now, I'm not saying Rust solves the expression problem, nor that what I'm calling "expressiveness" here maps to it, even. Just that we can easily argue over what "expressive" means.

> Libraries like RSpec might be "nice", but they are certainly not "easy-to-use", and I don't think I would call them quite "clean", if I look at their source code.

The whole point of the quote is that the source code is ugly. I think we're in violent agreement here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Error_Reporting#Third-p...
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the successful imitation of natural language an example of "means of abstraction" in practice?
Krugman is to Bitcoin as Ebert was to video games.

The central failure of Krugman's understanding of cryptocurrencies is in the value of mining. It's not simply throwing energy away into solving useless math problems; it's spending energy to create infrastructure. That infrastructure is the part that does have intrinsic value, that can be used for something else in the same way gold can be made into useful things. Look at Bitmessage or any of the other projects built on top of Bitcoin. These form the floor Krugman can't seem to find.
Also, Cisco routers and Sysco restaurant supplies, even though a company that sold network hardware wouldn't be able to call itself Sysco for long. This is because the standard is confusion, not an exact string match. As per 15 USC § 1125:

> (a) Civil action

> (1) Any person who, on or in connection with any goods or services, or any container for goods, uses in commerce any word, term, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, or any false designation of origin, false or misleading description of fact, or false or misleading representation of fact, which—

> (A) is likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive as to the affiliation, connection, or association of such person with another person, or as to the origin, sponsorship, or approval of his or her goods, services, or commercial activities by another person, or

> (B) in commercial advertising or promotion, misrepresents the nature, characteristics, qualities, or geographic origin of his or her or another person’s goods, services, or commercial activities,

> shall be liable in a civil action by any person who believes that he or she is or is likely to be damaged by such act.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1125

This is because trademark law is a consumer protection law first and foremost, as opposed to being a property law like copyright and patent laws are. This is also why you can lose trademarks so easily: If you're not using it and defending it, it's presumed you don't care, so nobody's going to confuse an active trademark with a defunct one.
put the WAL of your database on an SSD

If you're talking about PostgreSQL, the general consensus from the mailing lists and IRC discussions seems to be that you should in fact not put your WAL on SSDs. $PGDATA/base, yes; $PGDATA/pg_xlog, no.

The amount of write churn in your WAL will burn through your SSDs wear leveling very quickly, and given that WAL is nearly perfectly sequential in access pattern, you lose (forfeit) nearly all the random IO benefit an SSD buys you.

My production master/slave pair only have SSD in them, so I'm "doing this wrong", given that advice. Our SSDs are SLC NAND, however, so their write endurance is vastly, vastly higher than the drives under consideration in both your comment, and TFA.
Krugman is right, I agree with him 100% on this, but almost every time I tried to make any sensible argument about bitcoin with people actually holding bitcoin, I hit a wall.

Most people confuse currencies with assets, storage-medium with exchange, etc. While at the same they are just hoarding.

I think that BTC will stick around because it has some unique qualities that are requested by the market such as partial anonymity, speed and size (a USB can contain whatever amount of USD).

But it has some serious flaws and as a currency is clearly failed. It is a libertarian's dream, but I don't think that the US or DE or RU government can't monitor whoever moves money in and out of the BTC blockchain.
How did you do that? I use a Macbook Pro with OS X 10.9 (Mavericks).
Reddit's real product has always been its hipness. You introduce something on Reddit, and 1000 bots-or-people "upvote" it, and suddenly the press picks up on the story.

How does this translate into dollars and cents? Reddit could use its platform to popularize new hip counterculture products. When advertisers purchase ad space, the real ads would be in the links and comments.

All it takes is about a dozen people to upvote something within the first 8-10 minutes after it is posted and it stands a good chance of "going viral." That's harder to sell than ads, but perhaps more valuable.