skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it me or would "china dumping us bonds" have absolutely no effect since the Federal reserve is already the only one buying us bonds in massive quantities ?
My primary focus is running these two SAAS apps

http://rotaville.com/ - employee scheduling, rosters, rota management

http://Big.first.name/ - print awesome name badges for your event

These apps are built on a mixture of technologies including Rails, postgresql and backbone.js
Amazing how just a day ago, the media is carrying stories about wealthy techies hurting poor people, driving up prices, living in lavish palaces, and enjoying huge unfair perks like free shuttles to the office. Now the story is, they should have had even more money.
In an online world of ephermeralization (and applying good password hygiene), I don't see that as a particularly sound criticism.

I don't make heavy use of online services, and yet I've got over 100 accounts I access (assessed by counting entries in my encrypted password store).

Resetting those passwords (or even changing them, which might not be a bad idea) could easily take some time.
It's a clone of the "Space is Key" series from Chris Jeff -see (for part 2): http://chris-jeff.com/games/spaceiskey2/
> Drugs are still a huge taboo in our society and widely misunderstood, and maligned.

I don't think this broad characterization is correct: Alcohol and Nicotine are drugs, but widely used and accepted in our society. Certain forms of medication could easily be added to the list. It's just that certain drugs are not accepted in our society, despite all scientific evidence that they are at least not more dangerous than alcohol and tobacco.
Sounds like DRM (Digital Rights Management) problem. We have these locks on things so you wouldn't do anything questionable, but of course we can't send MPAA representative everytime you try to watch a movie, so here are the keys as well..
initial rendering should definitely be on the server, his premise to render content on the server side and then async load it in is flawed, he adds latency and the dom still has to parse a string at the end of the day and put them on the display tree, so the only bit he offloaded was a bunch of string concatenation (given he used a sane templating system) at the cost of latency. bad trade off IMO.

the downside to his reasoning is that he is tying himself to a single back end (node) if he used something like mustache he coulkd use any backend, but mustache implies parsing templates on the client. googles closure compiles to javascript functions and I am sure something like that exists for mustache and this would seem very sensical.

Converting a large string to a dom element is not expensive, it is when that dom element is added to the actual display tree when things go a bit awol, this is to be expected, redrawing any GUI costs a lot.

React is an excellent library and I am glad people use it, none of the ideas are radical however.
Here :

http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/tutorials/walkthrough.html

And if you're on a mac :

http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/tutorials/walkthrough_macos...
I know of the "Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs" and the "United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances", but I am no lawyer so I can't say whether these treaties have a legally binding effect which prevents more relaxed dealing with drugs.
Yeah I don't think it would make much of a difference, with or without the Fed. They'd really have to try to spend the dollars & not just stick that money back into a bank, and the effects of that would be slow and noticeable in time for the US to react with some policy.
In addition to popular SwiftKey and Swype, it's great to see all these new experimental keyboards coming out. Between KALQ for speed and Minuum for saving screen real estate, there are so many great options to choose from on the Android platform.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vardhamani...
I'm serious: Are you really comfortable with that layout? I mean, most programmin related symbols are hard to reach in my world..
I'm on en_US just because of that.
Ah yes, "Don't be evil": illegally colluding to line your own pockets at the expense of your employees is clearly perfectly acceptable behaviour as far as Google execs are concerned however.

Makes you wonder in what other ways Google has "not been evil" doesn't it.
Consider that the cost may be astronomically high because it's possible to make marginally more. It's entirely possible that the same level of drug research can be done for much less money.

For instance, with patents there is an incentive to find a solution first. This probably raises the cost of research because (a) pharmas spend more time researching alternative medicines with different compounds with the same effect as existing drugs simply to get around pre-existing patents and (b) pharmas spend more money to rush research to patent it first.

Also, if clinical trials are the problem, India appears to be willing to help.
Why don't we see more firms created?
Is this true?
I am from India and want to do a PhD in US. I thought the work opportunities of PhD gards is good.
The four Democratic justices in Raich are part of a block that has supported total federal jurisdiction over every aspect of American life since Wickard v. Filburn in 1942 [0]. The essential theory is that state governments are a barbarous relic of the founding and should be dissolved in fact, even if they still cannot yet be in theory. Even when Democratic Party opinion favors a state, the Democratic justices will always rule in favor of federal power, even in cases where the Constitution explicitly favors state power.

The Republican justices avow a preference for textual interpretation and division between state and federal power. Justice Thomas actually appears to believe that, based on his support for Raich. Justice Rhenquist was dying from cancer and considering that he might want some medical marijuana himself and Justice O'Connor's husband was in a similar situation; they both voted with Thomas. Scalia and Kennedy are right wing culture warriors who hate the "dirty f* cking hippies" and don't care much for textual interpretation unless it's convenient to their agenda; they voted with their culture war preference.

The decision was 6-3 against America. Today America would lose 8-1.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

* man fsck for details
User privacy against other people? I actually mildly agree, but no more than any other company.

User privacy against the NSA? No. Any company with ethics would have gone public with PRISM.

User privacy against google's analytics and targeted advertising? Definitely not. Users are the product as far as google is concerned. Why else would they have privacy options shrink monthly, close well-used and liked services like Reader (disclosure: I never used Reader), and spend so much time forcing people into google+ against their wishes? Combine that with the latest anti-privacy features in Android 4.4 and google's creeping "you must use your real name" and it's about as far from privacy as you can get.
If you read underground by Julian assange and Dreyfus you'll see a lot of these numbers are just pulled out of their asses. I remember once case went from 6 digit damages to 4digit when the defendant stoop up against it.
Seriously? There are slight differences, but nowhere near the same extent as evidenced on OP's blog. Really, the only place I can see any difference is on the curve of the C's.

Side by side comparison: http://i.imgur.com/wYPr1rg.png

Some difference is to be expected. Google, Microsoft, and Firefox are in competition, after all. Microsoft has the advantage of controlling both the OS and the browser in this case. I would be surprised if IE did not render slightly better. As others have pointed out FF and Chrome look better on other OS's (where IE doesn't even play).
Dockerfiles can build off of other Dockerfiles (the FROM) directive. What you'd want to do in this situation is probably build a base Docker image that apps build off of, with this base Docker image containing your "standard things."

If you have a lot of Chef, you can get this up and running pretty quickly by using Packer (http://www.packer.io). Packer can build Docker images using Chef to provision them. The next version of Packer (already in git) can tag and push those images to a registry, too, if you want. You probably do, if you want downstream to use Dockerfiles.

Using Packer for the creation of the containers has helped a lot of organizations we work with use Docker while maintaining existing workflows and tools that their employees are trained to use well and that they're happy with. Its a good balance, and easy to replace things with Dockerfiles if you feel the need.

In terms of "allowing dev & ops to layer", the way this looks is you separate what layers you need: clearly you need a base layer (OS), then you want a standard layer (monitoring agents and so on), then maybe you want a stack-specific layer (rails vs node vs whatever), then finally maybe you want devs to be able to put in their application.

Dockerfiles are great and concise for apps (put files here, start by running this command, etc.). Chef/Puppet are great for pretty much the rest of the stack upwards. Packer comes into play there.

It is just an option, at the end of the day, but it can provide a smoother adoption process without having to disrupt too much.
Confirmed, not FBI: http://www.businessinsider.com/guy-detained-by-feds-for-wear...
Web version needs a lot of work. It's really slow, freezes when going back and reloads all assets all the time.
It doesn't. Germany is having its own little housing price explosion in every major city where there is employment. Prices are being driven up by wealthy non-tech investors throughout the EU thinking German (and London) real estate is the only safe place to hold onto their fortunes. Consumer goods prices are also significantly higher than in the US.

Healthcare is approximately the same cost now from what I've seen with ACA prices in the US. Education is still cheaper, but only if you assume an American student will have zero financial aid. I also doubt this lower price tag offsets the prices and regressive taxation elsewhere throughout the economy.
Install Titanium Backup and uninstall or freeze 'Google Contacts Sync'. Private contacts live!
I far prefer this quote:

FireWire (400Mbps) data syncing _and_ recharging at the same time. That's cool.

I wonder if it's hackable for a bigger drive...

Plus, you can use it as a portable disk. No "content protection". Yay!
X-FRAME-OPTIONS I feel like the number of times this has prevented a useful action vs prevented a bad action is many:0

I am rather curious where did you get this claim? Any stories I should check?

And also what's the larger problem? Again, I'd really love to hear you elaborate on your thoughts.. thanks.
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1) As humans are causing it, they are making the change much much faster than the natural effects did. The living world has much less time to adapt. Humans are producing the massive extinction.

2) No, the Earth would certainly not fix it for us, we know how CO2 behaves. A third of CO2 goes in the oceans at the moment, raising acidity which dissolves , for example, corals. It's another place where humans produce extinctions.

3) Human civilization is extremely dependent on the current state, most of the decisions are made like the current state lasts forever (very short term) and the deniers aren't focusing on anything else than spreading the belief that there isn't any need to adapt to anything. They deny the basic facts. You are also still making the same questions doubting the basic facts.

There's absolutely no need to wait for any "confirmation," the scientific certainty is 97% right now. If you don't understand this, imagine that your doctor analyses your blood, your tissue samples, your medical history and many more observations and all results are absolutely consistent with the same illness, and 97 of 100 people die with that results if they don't stop smoking.

In our case, we are actually even more certain than any "uncertain" medical diagnosis of today. We measure the "organism" not with one thermometer but with almost unlimited number of them, and we make the different "tissue probes" also on unlimited number of places all the time. All are consistent. More CO2. More heat. Nobody who understands basic science can deny that.

You ask basically "shouldn't the patient smoke until the certainty that he dies is 100%?" Well then he is actually dead. The problem is, the patient is the whole earth, and we don't have another one.
"There are two kinds of people: Those who keep backups, and those who haven't lost all their data yet."

Also why to use KeePass with a very strong password and not 'remember my password' in $browserofchoice.
Umm... no, it's you. It would have a massive impact on the price of treasuries world wide.
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Finally...a rational statement about what is really going on. I do think Facebook will survive, as infrastructure for the internet, but the history of all social networks says they have a time limit before they are replaced by something cooler. Right now, there is nothing better, so no one is jumping ship en masse.
A friend who used Bing advertising told me he got much better results per dollar compared to Adwords. Better conversion and lower costs.
Regrettably, Bing has very low volume outside the US. On our company site, Bing referrals are less than 2% of Google.
Hey, this is just like the big guys forming a trade union, right? Trade unions are legal, no? :^)
The sound is horrible in this video, here's a better one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1coLC-MUCJc
Why is there still such resistance at the highest levels to legalization / decriminalization?

Government is filled with a bunch of squares. DOJ and DEA doubly or triply so.

Did you ever know anybody in school who not only never smoked pot or drank, but thought people who did were human failures? They went on to become professional squares, the US government employs thousands of them, and they've got the power of law enforcement and judicial precedent supporting the careers they've spent their lives building. They also populate the staffs, advisors, and campaign workers of Congresspeople who do smoke and drink.

As much as you think legal weed is a slam dunk derp, there are huge swaths of the country who through religion, politics, bad experiences and/or general upbringing who think it's just as simply a terrible idea.
That remains a constraint a permanent resident wouldn't have to face.

More specifically: in a case where an H1B holder had concern for employer retaliation (say: working for a sketchy, illegal, or otherwise undesirable firm), and was looking for an option to leave (or possibly whistle blow), the fact that not having employment would be grounds for deportation within short order would be a constant threat.

I've known many people over the years who've had varying levels of frustrations with emigration issues. Many spent at least some of that time as undocumented, what some like to call "illegal", including working without authorization. For others it was merely the frustration of waiting while an impenetrable and slow process worked its way, with several having to make unavoidable trips out of country to be able to retain eligibility, often leaving work, friends, family, and homes for extended periods (sometimes with greater levels of support and assistance). And this isn't just a DESI situation: Europeans, Canadians, east Asians, doctors, programmers, healthcare professionals, researchers, nurses.

Most eventually settled in the US, some did not.

All had a considerable toll taken on them.
Make the safe a Faraday cage.
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To disable this behavior in Firefox set media.peerconnection.enabled to false.
Still better than all the Bebier stuff that was breaking on their (US) homepage today
The bottom line is any paper made public will be examined and possibly turned into a story, so evidence and conclusions better be up to snuff or risk damaging one's and the institution's reputations.
Don't forget the best new feature: Google+ integration right in your search results!

Now you can see all the Google+ post blurbs right at the top of your results even if they aren't good ones! Also, Google+ notifications about random people adding you? That's right, it's right at the top of every Google search page with a nice red highlight so you don't miss it!
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Not always. Fireproof safes are rated for paper, tape or drives, as well as a time limit. A safe rated for drives will guaranteed a maximum of 55 degrees (C) inside it for the rated time, enough for drives to survive without problem when powered down.

See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/02/setting_the_iosafe_2...
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The bigger issue is kids don't want to use the uncool social networks their parents use. Secondarily, that might come into play later as an afterthought.
This.

Safety deposit box at a bank, trusted non-local family member's house, and trusted international (preferably different continent) friend's house should be enough for most cases.
> Dockerfiles are great and concise for apps (put files here, start by running this command, etc.). Chef/Puppet are great for pretty much the rest of the stack upwards. Packer comes into play there.

You really don't need packer to use Chef in a docker build. Just install Chef as part of your build, add your cookbooks, and run chef with the arguments of your choice. That's 3 extra lines in your Dockerfile. As a bonus, you get to manage the exact build and version of chef to use, using the exact same syntax and toolbox as for the rest of your software stack. At the end day, chef is just that - software. Why make it a hardcoded special case?

See for example this blog post: http://tech.paulcz.net/2013/09/creating-immutable-servers-wi...
I'm the guy making the "one new game per week". It's amazing to see my little project posted on HN!

Thanks for the support, and let me know if you have any question about lsesmilk.
The honest answer is no in general.

For one, Yelp is public facing, a public data. I suppose you don't want to have your name out there in public for people to comment on right? So that comparison is not right.

If you want to do the "circle" kind of thing, which is what Linkedln does, then you have to enforce identity and network connection and you cannot allow anonymity.

Third, you need to consider trolls and haters. How can your user benefit from this app? What can they learn from themselves? Teen were/are using ask.fm and Tumblr to leave filtering and offensive comments. How do you deal with these things?

There are ways to improve the score, but I think today people are just too busy to rate anyone.
It's all deterrence.

Thieves don't wan to be caught or injured - they'll go for a house that doesn't have a dog bark at them when they are peeking in the windows; they'll go for the house without an alarm box next to the one that does. Even a small dog works for deterrence even if not so much actual physical defence - I've known people with some very non-aggressive dogs who still have 'Beware of Dog' signs for this exact reason.
Of course income distribution is technically a smooth curve with no gap, so you can draw that line anywhere you want. Hell, Gates can look over at Slim and shake his head, "God damn 0.0000000001%!"
Agreed. Right now I think it's only catching the attention of hobbyists, that want to play around with the technology for fun in their spare time. The demos don't show any practical examples to get average consumer excited. It also doesn't have any examples of how businesses can apply this to save time or money. In the end I'm thinking this is interesting, but what can I do with it? Setting up an overhead webcam to count dice? Who is this for? Not game developers, because they don't want to eliminate 99.999% of the market that doesn't have an overhead webcam. Counting bananas? Can you give me a real world example of how this can be used to count objects, that's better than current methods? The demos just take you halfway there, they show the software is able to recognize objects, but they don't show any real advantages for using it in the first place.
The lack of understanding and amount of hatred against web applications (different from web pages) is both sickening and rejuvenating. It is sad because the article is fairly clear, it describes the future of most computing (since most "human" computing will happen on the web) and it really shouldn't be hard to understand. But I am glad that most of the top commenters here instead focus on hating "webdevs". It means these people will stay on the desktop and won't create clones of desktop applications in the browser (see google docs for a missed opportunity of a better office system). History will show which way things shifted, no need to flame about it here now.
Java applet, but yeah, same here, not gonna happen.

It's not that I don't trust the source. It's that I don't trust Java. Had they done this as a browser plugin, python script or whatever, that'd be totally fine.
I grew up on Matlab. Entire PhD thesis work was all matlab. I started using python after leaving academia because it's much easier to put python into production, and I've never looked back. There are only 3 benefits to matlab. 1. Simulink, if you do that kind of stuff (I don't). 2. Some numerical algorithms in matlab are more efficient, but then some of the python ones are more efficient. 3. matlab array syntax is a bit more concise.

Python destroys matlab in all other regards. Once you've tried it for a while you'll understand the value of a general purpose programming language with advanced numerical capabilities
umm, no. It would be the end of the USD as you know it, instant hyperinflation and empty shelves in your local supermarket.
The point of dumping bonds is that they are saying they are worthless, they aren't trying to extract value from them by spending them somewhere else.
That would render other Central Bank dollar denominated reserve assets worthless too.
World trade, denominated in USD, would freeze, along with any American's relying on imported oil to warm their houses through the polar vortex.

So no, it wouldn't be business as usual...if this were a real story.
The post isn't just meant to cause a monetary scare. It implies that World War III is about to start.
You are wrong. It needs to be approved, which can take months unless you pay extra for "premium processing."