skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true and false at the same time.

False because, wealth can be added to any economy every time you build/sell some thing other people want.

True because, though wealth can be added over a period of time at any given time the current net circulation is still a static constant number.
hey it looks cool. i'm looking forward to the blog post. would love to see examples of killer techniques this enables. the readme is rather dense.
It won't work for a TV, but it should work in VR, even for movies.
This is the first time I've heard of Ninefold. I checked out the service just now.

The first thing I looked for was support for multiple environments (e.g., staging and production). I searched ninefold.com for "staging" using Google, and there weren't any relevant results:

https://www.google.com/search?q=staging+site:ninefold.com

Here's an example of the type of information I was looking for:

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/multiple-environments

The second thing I looked for was support for zero-downtime deployments. I searched ninefold.com for "zero downtime deployments" using Google, and there weren't any relevant results:

https://www.google.com/search?q=zero+downtime+deployments+si...

Here's an example of the type of information I was looking for:

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/labs-preboot

After not finding the above two features, I stopped looking for other features that interest me.
Food: The SNAP program spent $76.4 billion in 2013. The maximum amount that a family of 4 can receive is $632/month.

Other: The TANF program spent $33.3 billion in 2013. Maximum benefit for family of 3 in California is $702/month.

Housing: Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program spends somewhere around $17 billion per year to provide housing. The maximum voucher that can be received is $2,200/month.

Education: K-12 Public schools are free with free lunches for the poor. Depends on the neighborhood how good the education is.

Pell Grant: The program was appropriated ~$36 billion to award in 2011. Most recent maximum benefit per year was $5,645. Max number of years is six. 6 x $5,645 = $33,870.

In addition, to these benefits if a family does earn an income low enough to qualify for these benefits another benefit is not having to pay taxes. There is a 10% tax on the lowest bracket but it is returned in credits and deductions thus moving the effective tax rate to zero and if the W-4 is adjusted the taxes that will be taken out are almost nil.

If a family received half of the max for each of the items above they could for five years receive ~$1700/month plus Pell Grant money to go to college. After 5 years, TANF is no longer available.
The Forbidden Path
There's an early xkcd with an answer for that: http://xkcd.com/129/
Simple solution: store the comment revisions, and when you go to a reply, allow the user to see the revision that was active when the reply was posted.
Unless the situation has changed, the Windows registry has an entry to show Arial when Helvetica is requested.
San Francisco Is Eating Itself
> As someone who has had the misfortune of having to support out-of-date browsers, anything that can be done to force browser upgrades is a plus in my book.

I hope someone starts force-updating your terminal and editor/IDE, introducing all sorts of random changes. Maybe then you would understand why it is bad to make your users' lives worse to make your own life marginally easier.
Someone already brought it up in a sibling comment.
http://www.youtube.com/user/EEVblog - this Aussie has some pretty cool tutorial videos/community. He talks on a pretty high level so it can be hard to follow but I prefer that.

http://www.youtube.com/user/jeriellsworth - she hasn't made much recently due to here kickstarter VR project. Good explanations though.
Given the uncertainties and rounding involved, it makes (a lot) more sense to say $30M
A "brain interface" is also superfluous because your senses are already "brain interfaces". Any interface connected to your brain will "appear" to you as a new sense organ.

I'll take some new sense organs for sure, but a "brain interface" is not the panacea people make it out to be. For one, the thoughts in our head are a jumbled mess and are only clarified through expression, which involves sensing and acting with your body. Any new interface will become a new body part. You cannot speak before you speak and you cannot write before you write just as you can't run before you run.
The article is a good read of state of affairs of funding in India. It covers the short coming on both sides of the table.
Agreed (Gopher 1+ years)! My heart still leans towards Erlang, but Go is my current daily driver. The vicious pragmatism at every turn is whats keeps me (and the team) loving it.

It isn't the most elegant, not even close. It isn't the most succinct, not even in the running. It isn't the most flexible -- people would mock you for claiming it is. It isn't interesting in the least, remarkably unremarkable as they say.

But when it comes to just simply getting shit done, and quickly understanding and being able to work in other peoples code, it is second to none. It just doesn't get in your way, and out of the box it gives you simple syntax, great tools and easy deploys.
Is China's Historic Credit Bubble About to Pop?
You might try signing up on https://www.odesk.com/ - you'll probably want to stick to small projects to build up your reputation at first, but once you have a few under your belt you should be able to raise your rates and start bidding on larger projects as well.

There isn't really a set number for how many or how long they should take as far as I know.
> "Not so coincidentally, an old personal server had a database accessed using old forum credentials obtained from the incident last year."

> That either means that the attacker used the data on the compromised server to SWAT them, OR that the SWAT team used their physical access to access the server. Anything else would make the SWAT visit and the server compromise a coincidence, and they make it clear that it is not.

Or that whomever just recently found the old data decided to post it at the same time as SWAT'ing Linode, to make it harder for them to do damage control, hoping everyone would be up in arms, complaining about how Linode doesn't communicate, they have no transparency, etc.
It's hilarious, watching the WSJ pretend to have a social conscience.
Perhaps this is an early sign of a credit collapse:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/is-china...
Not to say that group action is bad, part of the point of the top comment is that this is an individual action, and it would be relatively easy to bring the hammer of authority down on this one person, which is a distinguishing factor here. Moreover, (and possibly easier because it's a single indvidual) the ethical rationale are listed in a declaratory form, which is not always the case in mass student actions.
Do programmers on Wall Street ever see similar bonuses, or is it necessary to work on the trading floor?
I have no problem with 3D (when it's used properly, but that's true of everything and shouldn't need to be said). I like how the article is supposedly using "science" to "prove" what is already disproven plainly and empirically. 3D does work.
I'm suspecting the attacker infiltrated the server and left a note on the server for the admins to read. The note might have mentioned that an explosive is in the building. Upon reporting the breach (along with the note) to the authorities SWAT was called out as a precautionary measure even though they were all suspecting a hoax.
[domain]-descriptor-[giberish]

In this case: js-synchronized-orbits

Or, renamed for the JavaScript pattern: SynchronizedOrbit.js or orbsync.js

If we all followed this pattern, it would be nice to then have a registry for [domain]-[giberish] pairs, but really we can get away without one for a very long time.

A few examples:
Django-registration becomes django-registration-valet
Django-Facebook becomes django-facebook-elite
Django-zebra becomes django-stripe-zebra (they have the giberish part but are hard to discover by googling the problem because they don't have the descriptor)
On the 2 vs 8 things... It's clear what this was meant to convey by your mentor, and I'm glad it worked for you, but those aren't the same kind of thing. Things in your refrigerator which are white only happen to be white, but things in the entire world that are white are white by definition.
App Neutrality Should Be Part Of The Net Neutrality Discussion
1400 for a 2br in Glen Park? Good luck getting that for 2000 today...
I recently watched this movie (again) and can confirm that this is correct. Even though _Pirates of Silicon Valley_ also skims over a lot of stuff, it's a far better movie and way more factual.
It's not a hard problem at all. We just need a way to measure code against the money it generates/loses. This should actually be a relatively trivial problem to solve. We have static analyzers, funneling metrics and code coverage tools; this just seems like an extension of that.
I'd be more tolerant of it if the cinema glasses didn't make it all so dark and uncomfortable.
Nobody issues this diatribe about Sonia Sotomayor, and she went to Yale. I would welcome it if you started doing this.
They should visit the other 99%
3D movie projection is exciting because it may allow film, as an art form, to be more like video games.

Those who say video games are an art form tend to offer two explanations: 1) they can convey thought-provoking stories, much like traditional movies; 2) they're spatial competitions, similar to the way there's an art in learning how to maneuver around a tennis court.

When 3D projection is incorporated into some movies (note: some), it can bring out this spatial element in interesting ways. A great example of this Gravity (2013), with George Clooney and Sandra Bullock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiTiKOy59o4

The main character in that movie was essentially space. Although there wasn't much dialogue or traditional character development, it managed to engage audiences and critics until the last minute. The appeal of movies like Gravity is somewhat new to the film industry; it's similar to the appeal of watching a tense sports match or navigating your way through a puzzle game like Portal.
Milton Friedman predicts the rise of Bitcoin in 1999
I think you're paying the $5 for getting the Python 2 & 3 versions of the book more so than the different file formats. After all, you could convert formats fairly easily.
It's probable that that invention is old enough that is not currently under patent protection.
Did you read the article? If so, where did you get 'unsuccessful' from?

Nissan LEAF launched in the United States in December 2010. The United States accounts for nearly half of the sales worldwide. The pace of LEAF sales has continued to accelerate. In 2013, Nissan sold 22,610 of the electric vehicles in the United States, more than twice as many as in 2012 and more than 2012 and 2011 Leaf sales combined.

Nissan LEAF traditionally has performed well on the West Coast with notable markets such as San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle, but now interest has expanded across the country. New hot markets have emerged such as Atlanta, which has been the No. 1 LEAF market for the past five months.
Or use twisted python and throw simple out the window!

Kidding (sort of), twisted is great :)
I have OCR in production live written in pure Go. It does OCR on small specific portions of images to get keywords out to be put into a DB (1B+ page scans). We use tesseract for full page scans (when needed, when our OCR fails). But Go was so easy to write, and so fast to get live for small page partials that we wrote it in a few weeks (idea to live, just implementing well known algorithms) to avoid having to deal with tesseract overhead in the average case.

I am curious about specifically where you got bound up -- and how we managed to via ignorance or blind luck avoid these rough patches. Additionally, I am not 100% sure I understand why you refactor cycle is so brutal. That generally is one of the things I enjoy about Go, lightspeed refactor / dev / test cycles.

Good thing no one is asking you to use Go, Haskell is always around (and Elixir, I guess... I am too used to Erlang syntax, Elixir feels like an ill fitting glove) and we need lots of great languages -- and they SHOULD feel different and some shouldn't be a great fit for you.
Green Fade-Out: Europe to Ditch Climate Protection Goals
Google unveils 'smart contact lens' to measure glucose levels
Yes, but it doesn't say that it can't be done by a large team. If you break down a project the right way, it can be parallelized.

I think a good specification helps a lot. For example, integration is much easier if the OS kernel and C library are coded to POSIX standards, than to whatever the project itself chooses. Same thing applies for other standards, like programming languages (Java, JavaScript). You can have a JVM team implement the VM separately, then come in at the end and plug it into the big system.

Also, what the MMM says regarding big projects is that "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later", not that it's never useful. As a counter-example, let's look at Android. Are you saying that all of Android was written by a small team of 10 people?
Gustavo's articles are always a pleasure to read.
"Who the hell is Casey?" :-)
> That idea taken to the extreme will lead to computers become opaque devices ala a TV, rather than the hackable playground they are now.

Which is funny, seeing how Tivo got into the end-to-end experience on TV.
Should be $0 since http://www.google.com/patents/US2987607 ought to be expired by now.
Apple Needs to Quit iAd
At first I was surprised because last year China and Canonical started to make China's own Ubuntu.
http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/ubuntukylin
My guess is, after reading some Chinese articles, the Chinese government wants this to be the standard OS in China. They want this to be the national's mobile OS and future PC OS.

Anyhow, this new OS called COS is developed based on Linux, but is closed source.Here is a screenshot of the prototype: http://images2.china.com/tech/zh_cn/news/company/892/2014012...
Fully agree. I've had front-row seats to the shenanigans that are BMR housing units because my girlfriend qualifies for and has been trying to get, and the only conclusion that I can come to is that:

(1) It's a "squeaky wheel gets the grease" policy
(2) They are just sticking fingers in the cracks in a dam that is leaking everywhere to plug a few holes.

The biggest problem with mollifying a large segment of the population with a lottery system is that it legitimizes a solution that never really solves the problem.

BMR housing is typically accessible to people with 70-110% of the area's median income. For every unit, there are 100+ applicants, and those are just the ones that are aware of the program's existence. The program is also riddled with fraud, with many applicants misrepresenting their income to be eligible or adding family members to the application even when that family member isn't going to live with them in the unit.

The worst effect though is that it removes many people from becoming advocates for re-zoning and building of new units. Each of those 100 people per unit now directs their time and attention towards a lottery system instead of demanding real changes from their representatives in local government. Removing those people leaves the very rich and very poor. The poor know they don't have a chance and are living hand to mouth so they won't participate at all. The rich are either well off enough to be insulated from the issue so they complain but never do anything, or the rich are the property owners extracting rent. Ultimately the only people really participating in numbers are the landlords.
I can honestly admit that I was trying to follow the subtlety of that statement, but yet I don't follow.

I guess my question is how are things in my refrigerator only white by happen-stance and not by definition? As everything that I see (regardless of where I see it at) is a product of my own definition, so that should not be of matter. What should be of matter is how quickly I am able to recall the things that are only defined by the scope I place them in (be in everywhere or in my refrigerator)
No I didn't miss that part. Like I said religious charities devoted to human services are counted towards human services in the source I posted. My source counts charities as religious if they identify their cause as being for "Religious Activities" or "Religous Media and Broadcasting"

I'm not trolling. I think religous charities do a lot of good, but I think they also can do a lot of harm. I think it's ridiculous to suggest that private charity will solve everything when the majority of that charity goes to religious Charities who have a track record of oppressing those with different beliefs.
I'm not exactly sure where the meme of giving a minimal guaranteed income came from (and I only mention it because this seems to be along the similar lines). However, it is worth noting that income inequality has as much to do with the middle class as it does the poor.

I'm not exactly pro-union as they tend to outlive their usefulness, but in the absence of something similar, the average employee basically gave up their bargaining rights probably decades ago and since then the people at the top who know how to bargain are getting ahead faster than anyone else.

I don't know if a guaranteed income for the poor would help out a lot and I don't know how you would even pay for such a program. What I do know is in a consumer driven economy, more money is made by all if people are spending it, and the people at the top who get paid the most just don't spend enough to keep things moving up and to the right forever.

I do agree with the idea that somehow people lower on the economic ladder need to get paid more and that would benefit society as a whole. Heck, even Henry Ford seemed to understand that point. Somehow, that notion has been lost on modern society and I find that to be somewhat sad.
Man, I wish I had this back in 1992 designing UIs for MS-DOS :) Very nice!
I've eaten it for about six years. The basic ingredient has no flavour, but is very good at taking on flavours in a dish. Mostly it's sold pre-flavoured in some way (like chicken-style, beef-style, etc.) and these tend to be pretty nice too. As a way to get started, chicken-style pieces are excellent for stir-frys.
I'm in the same boat. Personally I suspect the later rather than the former.
Oh it was. I've never seen a 3D movie before, I went specifically because so many critics I trust had said it may have been the first case of 3D done well and actually being useful to the storytelling.

But that's the same reason I don't expect to do it again any time soon. What were the previous movies where 3D was supposed to be a big part of the experience? Avatar? Polar Express? Even if those were perfect movies, they were years and years ago. The last time I even gave it a second thought was Hugo.

Gravity made a lot of sense, because you convey just how alone the characters were in the volume of space. It's going to be a while before someone makes a movie 1) with a good script and 2) a good director that 3) really uses 3D well.
I'd also be happy to talk more about this if you email me.

Here's some similar advice I've given in the past:
- http://pchristensen.com/blog/articles/teach-yourself-program...
- http://pchristensen.com/blog/articles/advice-to-a-college-so...
There are millions of people who avoid boats for that exact reason.
You haven't had a proper cup of tea probably. ;)

Different teas require different water temperatures AND different steeping times for the best taste. Generally the less oxidized the tea the lower the water temperature. I find the worst offense is most Americans over steep their tea which makes it very bitter!

People who use a thermometer are very serious. I just guesstimate.

Also, get some high quality tea, the difference in taste is amazing and its not that expensive, only a few cents a cup.

Also - you can reuse tea leaves.

http://lifehacker.com/5697622/the-hackers-guide-to-tea
Hah, I was caught out repeating myself. :) I remember kvetching on that c2 page early this century.
exactly. How of often does it actually happen?
The current SMS-based version of TextSecure uses whitespace tagging for contact discovery.

The next-gen data-based TextSecure protocol (which is currently deployed in CyanogenMod's WhisperPush implementation of TextSecure, but not yet in the Play Store app) uploads a hashed list of the user's contacts to the server for contact discovery.

https://whispersystems.org/blog/contact-discovery/
Developing BLE devices in iOS does not require any MFI licensing whatsoever.
True, but one of the comments on the article is especially telling:

"The title of this piece expresses a false choice. It's not
meaningful to consider the development of industry separately
from the development of housing for the workers in industry. We
chose in the early 1950s to develop industry in the Bay Area
without regard for where the workers in the new workplaces
would live. Long before the current wave of tech immigrants
reached San Francisco there were people commuting to the Bay
Area from Manteca and Mountain Home and Santa Rosa and Santa
Cruz. Silicon Valley activists raised alarms in the early 1970s
that four new jobs were being created for each new housing unit
that was built. It shows an astonishing nearsightedness that
the people and the governments of Bay Area cities are only now
realizing that this is problematic."

It's observations like that that further support my views that San Francisco (and the Bay Area in general) is managed by children and has been for an incredibly long time. Considering how many people in the Bay Area are inventing the future, the local government here exhibits a level of shortsightedness that I have previously only witnessed in developing countries.
I'm trying to avoid that site and elance, largely because I find that it's extremely hard to compete with someone willing to work for less than $4 an hour and work with someone who just doesn't seem to understand that what they expect is not only unfeasible given their tiny fixed budget but that they themselves do not know what they want so they ask for everything for nothing.

An example I found (wasn't hard as it's filled with postings like this) is someone asking for a full fledged screen recording application (he has previously asked for a Java Swing GUI) to be delivered in 4 days for a budget of $25 dollars, he lives in the United Kingdom, and feels that someone residing in an ex-British colony should be able to feast on the earnings for years to come. What is even more ridiculous is the specification document is one sentence long. I doubt that this person would even take the time to write a paragraph of recommendation if someone unfortunately took that job.

https://www.odesk.com/o/jobs/job/_~01f423d25fa7e5a13d/
>If today's financial wizards went away, would we feel a surprising amount of ripple impact, or would they really just not matter?

1. There would be a substantial impact... for the better. You and I would see the benefit as lower spread between cost of production and price of purchase of goods and services (the spread is where the "financial wizards" take must come from).

There is a huge benefit from proper distribution of resources - which used to be the job of financiers and brokers. But now, they work not on "proper distribution", but rather on "distribution which is the most profitable for themselves".

2. And if the "financial wizards" did not go "away", but instead into professions where their intellect could be used for good instead of for evil (e.g.: science), that would be even better.
I've had a Zojirushi insulated pot for about ten years. I've got pretty hard water, but the scale just seems to build up and flake off in big chunks.

The pot still works fine. The gasket hardened and cracked, but Zojirushi USA sells parts online. It was about $10 for a new one.