skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. This is economics, there are no hard and fast rules. In fact, I would say that the moment a hard and fast rule is discovered, is the exact moment that it becomes invalid.

However, even in your example, the higher prices will only come in time. This is assuming we are talking about a commodity good that is traded on an open market.

The immediate effect of a sudden reduction in demand is an increase in inventories on the sell side. If there is no expectation of resumption of demand, the inventory holders are likely to panic and sell at a reduced price to cut inventories. This is a classic case of "first out the door wins" and is what crashes are made of. They will also cut manufacturing (or mining or farming), but the affect of this on the price will only manifest once the reduction in production makes it through the supply chain. For something like corn, this could take upwards of a year.

Obviously, all this is affected by a large number of variables: warehousing costs, profit margins, manufacturing complexity and lead time, pricing power, tooling costs and other capital expenditures, etc.
Well, that probably is actually a new world record.
I’m guessing a lot of readers feel that this is helpful information to keep in mind when they are asked for help by others.
> The only way for people to make money with bitcoin is if people buy more bitcoin.

How is that any different than gold? Are you against that too?
It's probably the most first world problem that could possibly exist. Ughhh fuck I'm so tired of making six figures while someone else offers me that!!
Exactly how I felt, great at small scale, but increasingly painful to use as you reach scale.

By the way, great tool, thanks for building it!
Cloud Cost Calculator
Direct link to the calculator -- https://www.scalyr.com/cloud/
Not necessarily. "Almost 5" could be 4.8 and "slightly over 3" could be 3.2, and 4.8 = 3.2 * 1.5.
Of course the people buying Google stock are considering expected growth. (Though I wouldn't call market dynamics "deciding." You humanized that in an interesting way.). But I don't think all future growth is priced-in to the stock. Nor should it be. The question is, do you think there is upside, can your investment grow as the company grows.

I've always been fascinated by the people who prescribe index funds to everybody as the only right play. Of course I own index funds. Over half my total portfolio is in tax favored retirement accounts and all of that is in low-cost index funds. But if you have more tolerance for risk and a desire to personally manage your money, investing smartly and holding for the long term is a perfectly reasonable and often profitable strategy.

I stand by what I've said. There is no reason for me to believe that long-term value in Google will not be returned to share holders. There is certainly an amount of risk here. But buy-and-hold is a solid strategy IMHO.
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What someone does at home is probably limited by available time, and not limited by lack of things to do.

Given what you've stated, I would hope the manly man would build them a roof for their home.

I still don't see any requirement or suggestion that being manly somehow implies dickish behavior at home or with his partner.
> It goes into manufacturing.

That is a good manipulation. I do not think that this is a joke becaus you must know that the major manufacturer is the China yet the major oil conumers are Europe and US, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_consum.... The consumers consume 15 times more oil per capita than average chaneese (and 3 times more in absolute figures). So, you do not need the oil to produce. You need it to consume.

> It goes into farming, fertilizers are often oil based.

This manipulation is even better. Look at the figures, and try to find the microscope to localize your fertilizers, http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/oil-i.... You will start informing in only after finish that, ok?

How can you respond such things on the video that I have linked? The western lifestyle assumes that you free-ride a car and live in the suburb. You need a suburb to free-ride a car. This is where all oil goes into. If you rebuild your city into sustainable one, as suggested, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugv0OY6LyuE, you can reduce your oil consumption tens of times. This would cut not only gasoline but also all other expenditures, including car building (this is a major job in the industry, accroding to the 2008 crisis) road building, lighting, other communications and water pipelines, and even home heating, http://sustainability.stackexchange.com/a/2398/476 correspondingly. So, all the resources are consumed by car. The gadgets are orders of magnitude chaper for the environment and do not need the costly subrubs to exist.

The planes are of the same kind. They are a part of your american car lifestyle. They are a stupid waste of the oil when there is a train that is 1000 times more energy efficient (and does not need any oil), once you have a railroad.

So, I am saying that there is no way you can sustain your car. But, the micro-electronics is the tip of the human civilizaiton and you have a choice: either you give up the car right now and keep developing the high-tech or keep driving the car and loose both after 20 years (or may be sooner). If the latter happens, the civilization will never recover since there is won't be any oil in the world anymore.

This is what I say. But, instead of listening that great insight, you feel necessary to support your catastrophic way of life, where you are going to loose everything.
I've been working in that "real world" for a long time and I've seen plenty of what the author is describing and relate to the frustration.

However, there are a couple of things that I'd ask someone new to that world to consider:

* It's trivial to point out all the ways some existing system is broken and how much better it could be given a imaginary greenfield to recreate it.

It's legitimately hard to figure out how to remediate or replace that system while keeping the business moving by scheduling downtime, training users, managing expectations, working within a budget, working within the abilities of your staff or finding new staff.

I've seen more than a few otherwise smart (typically young) people poison themselves and everyone around them by being impatient, idealistic and simply ignorant about everything beyond their own desktop.

* Doing the hard things, taking the broken stuff and making it shine builds credibility and trust. It's rare that you can come in the door and start reinventing a place, but given a solid track record - you absolutely can or at least be given the autonomy to work on more satisfying things.

* I don't have start-up experience to make a direct comparison, but I do know that the typical rates I've seen for equivalent roles in a few start-ups and even some of the prestigious SV BigCos are low to terrible relative to what's available to competent people with a track record in "enterprise".

* If you take it seriously, I think there's actually something a lot of satisfaction to be had in an enterprise. You're not racking up a million users, but you are getting a shot to change the lives of thousands if not tens of thousands of people who depend on your software and systems for their livelihood and interact with it for 8 hours of every day.
> People didn't put lights on their bikes at night until about 15 years ago when low-weight, bright LEDs became cheap and ubiquitous

Perhaps this is different in the US, but in the UK people were definitely putting lights on their bikes way before then, because if you didn't you were liable to get stopped by the police. Having a light on your bike in the UK has been the law for at least 30 years.
That would be a more reasonable law, but that is not the law.
So this man buys BTC on an exchange and sells them through localbitcoin.com.

An undercover cop buys 1 BTC from him and mentions that he wants to buy stolen credit cards.

Now the seller is going to jail.

If this is even a crime, how does it compare with the billion-dollar frauds of financial industry?

How does this guy go to jail while the real criminals get raises and bonuses?
Why Intelligent People Are Still Religious
Finnish police probe Wikipedia's donation requests
Because of the "fish-eye" effect of the lens, it is hard to use stabilization plugins for editing purposes. In After Effects CS6 by Adobe they have a plugin called "Warp Stabilizer" that is pretty good but again it's not perfect.
It sure does look like a Multiflow on steroids...
I think it is a law in the US as well? Pretty hard to corner the market though with a bike light...
Homo sapiens has evolved from a long line of primates exhibiting significant sexual dimorphism. [1] Attempts to eliminate spontaneously emerging gender roles are thus fighting millions of years of evolution. This doesn't necessarily make such attempts bad—the strategy of forced copulation is also millions of years old [2], and I'm sure we agree it should be suppressed with vigor—but it does suggest that denying the reality of sex differences might cause unnecessary suffering.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_dimorphism#Humans

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_coercion
For those that are mainly software-oriented, the Lighterra overview posted earlier is helpful background for understanding where VLIW fits into the zoo of CPU architectures:

http://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/
If a slew of people with zero knowledge of programming, computers, technology, etc. decided one day to start pontificating incessantly about code, programming languages, etc. hn would first sneer at them and then rightly ignore them.

But if people with zero knowledge of economics or finance write a torrent of vapid and completely ignorant articles about currency, bitcoin, macro-economics and their intersection hn seems to just lap it up.

I'm really tired of this. I do get that the bitcoin protocol has some interesting aspects. But can we please ignore the total waste of space, time and pixels that is every single article about the bitcoin currency?
I know a few people at Adobe so this is anecdotal, but I was under the impression from them that turnover was pretty low, so I'm curious if the % looks a little inflated just based off the relative numbers.
Doing good work for the money does not make you a mercenary (in whatever bad sense you're implying here.) It makes you like 95% of the workers in the world. Are people who work at McDonald's fucking them over if they don't give a shit about corporate's goals?
cdist 3.0.7 allows dependencies to be defined by execution order
1) "Investors have been contacted. [...] they’re all professional investors, I still can’t help but feel a personal responsibility to them."
2) "Our debt is still a concern. We’ve contacted an attorney to properly handle this, but I’m still unsure of how this will all turn out. We don’t believe that we signed for anything personally, but who knows. All previous employees have been paid, it’s just creditors that concerns me."

On both counts[0], I would say don't worry about it. There's significant asymmetry in the debt-vs-debtor relationship [1] and you should feel about as much personal responsibility to them as they have to you -- ie, none. For both equity holders and debt holders, they are compensated for the risk they take. They will prey on your feelings of personal responsibility to try to get you to repay them, but if you've filed for bankruptcy and tied things up neatly (I'm not a lawyer), then you should walk away cleanly.

Note that I'm not saying "screw your equity and debt holders", I'm just saying that once the entity(ies) in which equity and debt was held has folded, you need to walk away.

[0] Excluding if you signed personally for debts
[1] See: housing crash
Yeah that makes perfect sense. I would probably refer to that as "cheating" rather than "magic" but I totally get the nomenclature mix-up.
I haven't ever done anything too significant in Haskell, but the Jekor Redo [1] videos are fantastic, and demonstrate the slow building up of more complicated things than "reverse this string." I haven't watched his xmonad [2] or pandoc [3] videos yet, but I would bet that they are highly worthwhile as well.

- 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ_nI9E9g0I

- 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63MpfyZUcrU

- 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCwG9ijQMuQ
Actually, this isn't a new idea, and the studio may very well pull something like this together if they need a shot or two for continuity.

edit: see Oliver Reed reference in other comments
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This might be one of the most interesting things posted on HN.
I wonder what happens when his Tesla gets t-boned by a pickup truck, they guy speeds off and he has to claim it on his insurance. His insurance finds out he's driving for Uber and then...
I use Wine on and off, so much that I bought the CrossOver app that's built on Wine.. I use it on Mac to run windows-only programs for work like Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio and a small desktop tool we wrote a Lon time ago. I think Wine is amazing but must admit that one day it's use will probably be obsolete (there are alternatives to the Microsoft programs that are more or less "good enough").
source: http://www.genproc.gov.ru/smi/news/news-86432/
I'll also agree it was bad for them to be deceptive. But it goes to show how stupid the app review process is. If you can alter your app enough that it wouldn't have passed review, by merely changing an external server that doesn't fall under App Store code signing policies, what is the point of the review? Did they even represent that the server would never change? Is that part of the agreement?

I'm open to being corrected on this, as I know very little. It's just a bit ironic that Hacker News so gleefully condemns someone for, well, hacking the app review process (and not in the "cracker" sense.)
Apple's Lost History with Dead Poets Society
"Fuck you, pay me" is the beginning of wisdom in this industry.
the author here.

Working on getting the server back online
Never got such a load of people on my blog ;)
I'm being nitpicky, but these are the exact moments when statistical findings get turned into forced conclusions:

"The risk of divorce is lowest when the husband does 40 percent of the housework and the wife earns 40 percent of the income."

It's not that some risk is lowest, it's that, of the divorces studied, apparently regardless of demographic, there seems to be a statistically significant smaller amount of divorces coming from that particular configuration of earning and housework.

Emotional write ups, of everyone's favorite subject, like this are destined to be rife with opinion and forced conclusion. That entire write up, IMHO, is just as valid as answering the question with the word "no."

Like everything else in life you need to ask yourself, "does my sex life suck?" and then "What can I do to change it?" If the answer is, "Tell my wife to make less money and do more chores" then go for it.
I actually think this is great. I've enjoyed using Krita (even though its sometimes a PITA to get setup) and its rapidly surpassing everything GIMP spent a dozen years trying to pull off.

Make it crossplatform and you have a BIG win.
I think this type of a concept is what the author is driving at. We shouldn't be manipulating blocks of words, we should be manipulating what those blocks of words create into making even bigger things.
The real purpose of that article is to establish that "number of household chores shared" is a meaningful measure of equality in a marriage. The sex bit is just the transmission vector for the feminist meme.
You cannot make your currency resemble official US currency in any way that would confuse a normal citizen. This has been interpreted rather broadly. The Secret Service has shut down a number of private currencies due to this rule, including silver/gold backed paper money and coins, Liberty Dollar, eGold, etc. I think they shut down the guy that was putting a bitcoin sticker on gold coins as well.

The reason they have not shut down Bitcoin is that they do not consider it a currency. It isn't money, it is a commodity at best.
I guess you could see open relationships as one resolution to that trinity. The others then being:

- greater reliance on same-sex friend groups (spouse lacking as a best friend)

- Keeping aspects like finances split, or surrendering management of this or that aspect completely to one or the other partner

All three resolutions have been a part of successful relationships, though not necessarily together.
The worst thing about a struggling company is the petty, demoralizing measures management takes to cut costs. Save a few million in 401k costs but waste eight figures in decreased productivity, increased employee turnover, and lower morale overall. This seems shortsighted.
"which adds up to a few million dollars before the game dies. Totally fine for a solo dev in Vietnam."

Totally fine? I would rate it quite a bit higher, especially in Vietnam, with a GDP per capita of $1755 per year (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD)
I think jq's data methods allow you to store any type of object. So in the example above, '60' would be stored as a Number and not a String. When you extract it, you would get the Number and this helps if you want to do any math on the value.

Since you can't really set element attributes to non-string values, trying to sync the 'data' values with element attributes raises all sorts of unwanted problems.
I am pretty sure they are talking about per-cycle performance. Since they can do 33 operations per cycle. IIRC the peak performance of an Intel chip at the moment is 6 FLOP per 2 cycles (or there abouts).

Of course this is beyond ridiculous since a 780 TI can pull off 5 TFLOP/sec on a little under a GHz clock, 5,000 FLOP per cycle is a little more than 33.

It seems like an interesting design, but comparing performance against what an x64 chip can do is a bit silly, you can't just pick numbers at random and call that the overall improvement.
When all you have is 35 m^2 (400 sq ft) flat there is a simple limit on amount of manly things you can do there. Once everything works, no more drilling, repairing or building is necessary.

But house chores are still unlimited, to be repeated every week.
Why is a multi-function device without any real buttons or durability a more practical mobile device? I sure wouldn't want to put my phone on the outside of my car or on my quadcopter or try and use its capacitive touch screen underwater.
Ooh, good use case :)
I use it for Netflix, but that's about it. Still nice to know that it exists in the event that I ever need it in some specific obscure case.
Is there a tool to code such a thing once and get it run in Android, iOS as App and also have it as webpage like this HTML5?
Taking out the trash as a manly activity made me giggle.

Well, the scene in Mad Men of Draper assembling the play house comes to mind. I'd bet many activities could be seen as manly, as long as the guy is well-muscled, in a thin shirt, and the activity requires muscle.
I think there is some obvious satire here. And, I think not everyone has picked up on it.
What you described is not a feature. Speed, or anything involving time, is an optimization, not a feature. Features are easy to add on to an application, but time, once lost, can never be regained.

Optimization usually requires fundamentally changes to architecture, and in the case of Django it is well-known that it is not for building fast or highly scalable apps.

Functional Reactive Programming is far better for building high performance apps.

Specifically, you are asking about code swapping which is something that is only used by developers during development, not during production. Most developers deal with such problems by getting faster hardware.

And finally, even if Django development stops today and it never gets any new features, it is still an ideal tool for building apps that are in its sweet spot. And it is easy to supplement with things like Celery or RabbitMQ to communicate with scalable non-Django backends. Nothing to fear here, move along.
Servo: Building a parallel web browser – Talk from FOSDEM '14 [video]
Wut, or yet another anonymous mass broadcast app.
C++ Micro Services (light OSGI for C++)
What makes me wonder: why the author didn't it copy really 1:1?

Everything from the sounds, the proportions to the speed is slightly wrong making this thing pretty awkward.
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Hi HN readers,

After spending 7 months building a startup with my friend that I subsequently chose to end development of, I'm looking for some work to make some extra money and keep my mind working.

Since moving on from my startup I've found myself under-inspired, under-challenged, and feeling lazy with no commitments or projects to work on.

I'm mostly a front-end dev, but taught myself Rails and built out the backend of the startup I was working on. I hosted it on Heroku with a PostgreSQL database. It wasn't really necessary, but for our blog I chose to use a Rails CMS, and hosted it on Digital Ocean with Nginx and Unicorn managing requests.

Below are some examples of my work.

My personal blog, which is responsive -- it takes inspiration from other blogging platforms but I wrote all the code from scratch.
http://blog.tommaxwell.me

My personal site, which is also responsive and written from scratch:
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I also have some projects on my Github profile that I worked on. Chakra is the Rails app that I wrote all myself.
http://github.com/tommaxwell

I have a solid understanding of OO JavaScript, CSS3, responsive design, Rails, and more. Preferably the projects I'm looking for are front-end oriented.

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http://twitter.com/tommaxwelll
http://medium.com/@tommaxwelll

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There's a flip side to your loud and persistent focus on his misspelling. Why should anyone take you seriously on the matter when you refuse to address his points? At least he was writing about the topic at hand. All you've done is throw a temper tantrum about "ci" vs. "se".

Nice distraction though, are you a politician? They're really good at the whole "all sizzle and no steak" thing.
Well, sure, and ten years' experience working for some other company with their technologies and in-house legacy code, libraries, design methodologies, and idiosyncratic ways of using even open source tools is not ten years' experience anywhere else.

A 22 year old with ten years of programming experience has ten years of experience doing what he's been doing. He may have built a Mongo-based sports statistics website for his high school. A 32 year old with ten years of corporate dev may have been creating in-house database utilities for MegaCorp's 20 year old Oracle customer database. He's had ten years of corporate database development experience. Is his experience clearly more suited to a Mongo-based startup selling hats to sports fans because his experience was corporate?

Or is it not a matter of corporate vs non-corporate experience but just how much experience doing which of the things we need someone to do?