skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are using COM you should already know how to instantiate an object from it's UUID. That's all the provided example code is doing. It's not outrageous for the author to assume as much from the reader. It's basic COM 101.
Did you check net external debt? One side of the debt equation (which is what the "external debt" figures show) is not a particularly interesting figure. If you owe people $75 billion, and they owe you $100 billion, you are "$75 billion in debt" by the external-debt statistic, but "$25 billion in the black" by the definition of indebtedness most people use. There are specific technical uses for external debt, but it does not equate to "spending money you don't really own".

The figure that nets these out is the "net international investment position", which subtracts liabilities from assets. The Scandinavian countries have very good positions here. Denmark's NIIP is +27% of GDP, versus the U.S.'s -17%.

The Scandinavian countries have high debt positions basically because they are advanced (i.e. highly financialized) economies with good credit ratings, so make a lot of use of cheap bonds. Same reason Apple issued a bunch of bonds last year despite their huge cash pile. Due to some quirks at the moment Denmark is actually making money on their bonds, as they are issued at negative interest rates— there has been an influx of EUR into DKK due to fears over the EUR, and to discourage that influx (to protect its pegged exchange rate) Denmark is offering negative rates...
1. So you've matched a number of good features that Bootstrap has, but you seem to be missing:

- Responsive grid control based on browser size (.col-md, -sm, -xsm, -lg)

- Nestable grids (apparently)

- Fluid container

- Offsetting columns

- Column ordering

- Subheading/secondary heading text

- Lead body copy

- Text alignment classes

- Blockquote styling

- List styling (no discs, inline)

- Description elements (dl/dt/dd)

- Code/pre formatting

- Various table styles

- Responsive tables

And that's just going halfway down Bootstrap's css documentation page without touching any of the 20 or so css components or the the 12 or so js modules that Bootstrap provides. You personally might not need even 90% of them, but you cannot make the claim that Min has anywhere near the features of Bootstrap. It's disingenuous. I wouldn't make the claim for YUI's Pure[0], and it's a similarly-scoped framework. In fact, that's one of the selling points to a minimal framework - it isn't "bloated".

2. That's because that example page requires jQuery, just like many other sites require jQuery. I've used Bootstrap several times as just a CSS framework, and it works well. You obviously can't use any js modules, as all of them depend on jQ, but none of the pure-css modules do.

3. I have built custom versions of Bootstrap, so yes I would do it. I'd wager most people wouldn't, but I don't know if I see that as a fault of Bootstrap's. I applaud you encouraging modularity, and I wish that more people would go that route with Bootstrap.

Normalize is intended to give consistent results across browsers. If you've accounted for all of the discrepancies between browsers, then that's great! I'd wager that there are some cases that you haven't caught.

I understand where you're coming from wrt. monolithic frameworks, and I do wish more people would take the time to slim down their libraries. Hell, I wrote a grunt plugin[1] that looks at a site's outputted js and determines a minimal build of Lo-Dash[2], and it's only 10kB gzipped.

[0]: http://purecss.io/

[1]: https://github.com/jjt/grunt-lodash-autobuild

[2]: http://lodash.com/
I sure had no idea Box uses PHP.
I tried Server Density and was really depressed by my experience.

During my first couple of hours I encountered a ton of bugs, all of which I reported to SD. Some of them were UI issues — I would edit a chart's settings or an alert, and a minute later my changes had been reverted to the original one. Some of them were monitoring issues, with alerts showing up 45 minutes after the service went down (I was testing with a non-production setup), or not at all, or showing false positives and/or wrong values. And a good deal of SD was not well designed, eg. no monitoring templating.

Also sad to see that plugins cost money; SD comes with very little functionality built in, so you have to rely on plugins.

In general, the whole system seemed incredibly brittle. Not something I would trust a production system to. They have been running SD since 2009, but it feels like an alpha version; not a good sign. (That said, SD's response was very forthcoming.)

I switched to Scout [1], which is not as visually pretty, but works and seems very sturdy. No bugs found so far. Integrates very well with Puppet, easy plugin development in languages like Ruby. Oh, and plugins are free.

[1] http://scoutapp.com/
External debt per capita is a pretty silly measure; external debt to GDP ratio would be more sane to care about, and, on that measure, the Scandinavian countries aren't particularly bad compared to, say, most of Western Europe.

This is in addition to mjn's sibling post noting why "external debt" may not be the right thing to be concerned about to start with.
> The next expected block is always due in 10 minutes

Not if the current network speed is higher than the difficulty level due to more mining power having come online since the last difficulty change.

You could estimate this by examining the block times over the last 120 (or some N) blocks, estimating the difficulty for that solve rate, and using the ratio of current network difficulty over the the estimated difficulty times 10 minutes.
Of course connections do matter. They are actually very important. You need to hire. You need to market. You need to sell.

And who is actually saying that Silicon Valley is a meritocracy?

[ I did noticed, that VCs and especially incubators will sometimes say that "connections didn't matter" and they only "invest based on meritocracy" because they want show to others (the next people in chain of investment) that they always fund "best of the best". But VCs and incubators are investors so why to take their view of society as correct? ]
From the why-anonymity-is-important department.

Truth will out.
Massive Boulders just miss Italian Farmhouse
Had to look up Lewis' Law:

"the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Lewis_(journalist)#Lewis....
Simple, direct, favorable questions will be planted or cherrypicked so that the president can have a suitable platform for exposition. Softball, meaningless questions will be answered spontaneously in a lighthearted manner.

Real questions will be ignored. Critical questions will be ignored and possibly hidden.
As another poster pointed out, it's different when you work for the government. If you have a clearance, you need to be careful about reading the news at work lest you open one of Snowden's classified slides on an unclassified workstation.
Ooh, that's a good one! I've added that to the list. It might be quite a while, though. :)
This isn't a periodical (although you used to be able to view the top questions for the given week--if anyone knows how to get that out of StackExchange again, please let me know) but it is a good source of bite-sized info-trickle:

http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes
A bad job is never wasted on a good writer.
I was thinking the opposite, I would've though a SE is more specialised in one field, but a P has broad knowledge and hence is more flexible in how he/she applies that knowledge in order to develop a specific piece of software required by a client.
Among many other reasons, it's partly a question of scale. A quick Wikipedia check[1] shows Israel has 28 airports, the US has a few more than that, as of 2011 it was 19,782.[2] You just can't expect the same level of quality with the same policies with the difference in locations and passenger volume.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_airports

[2] http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pub...
it's worth pointing out that new relic does not charge for server monitoring (SmartOS, *Nix, Windows). It's a free product and doesn't matter if you have one server or 100,000 or where they're hosted.

https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/server
It is extremely common for divorced (and not remarried) women to keep the surnames of their previous spouses, especially if they have children with that name. I know of at least half a dozen divorced women personally who still use their married names, including my own mother. For most it just isn't worth the hassle of changing everything legally (again) and/or not worth the social confusion of raising kids with a different last name.
Wow I had no idea you need your employer's permission to be in a photo..
GoldieBlox ad makes Super Bowl history
Speed up AWS S3 by 2000x
Most investors think because a YC Partner invested, that must be the best company. And the YC Partners should know, they've spent the last three months with every company!

I'm sure the YC Partners' track record of "picking" is no better than SV Angel, a16z, Greylock, etc.

I think this tweak to the investment policy will contribute to eliminating the sub-par angel investors who base a majority of their investments on which companies received funding from YC partners. PG taking action to make his dreams a reality [1]

[1] http://paulgraham.com/invtrend.html
Synchronizing a Restored Event Driven Component with its Upstream Components
Facebook Allows Advertisers to Target Users Based on Offline Spending Habits
Startup Somalia
Turing completelness does not mean that the execution paths are specified.

Or, in a simpler way, do you know Haskell?
Poll: What is your level of education?
Post-Graduate (Masters/PhD degree)
College Graduate (Bachelors/Associate degree)
College Drop-out
High School Graduate
High School Dropout
Never went to school
Given the same skill level a P isn't a strict subset of SE, by that I mean an SE wouldn't be able to do a P's job efficient/effectively as they don't posses the required knowledge/skill... and vice versa.
Insults? attacks? where?

And yes there are lines which, when crossed with threat of force, will be met with force.
Trying to Run a Startup When Your Spouse is an Addict
It may just be profiling since I'm a middle-class white male, but I've been waved into the pre-check line several times despite flying coach and not signing up for anything special. Shoes on, drop your stuff on the conveyor belt and move along. It was great. That's how security should be all the time.

It might not be solely profiling, because my girlfriend, who is clearly Indian, has also been sent into the precheck line when flying alone.

Even in the regular lines, I can't think of the last time it took more than 15 minutes to get through security, and I usually opt out every time too.
Yes: http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans

Only 100 mins talk time though, so its not for everyone.
Cycling Chicago for a Brewing Internship
Is it really hard for anyone in 2014 to get the type of a card from the first 2 digits of a card number and add a field to an INSERT query?
The title is sort of misleading. A municipality offering broadband service isn't really an economic actor since it can use tax receipts to subsidize the service. Offering a choice between service provided by local government and a private business isn't really the kind of competition most people have in mind when they think of healthy markets. The laws should incentivize competition between multiple telcos not between telcos and government.

Also, generally speaking, running big telco networks is hard, capital intensive, and requires a lot of expertise that municipalities don't really have. I've never used a municipal internet service that was any good.
Reminds me of that pudding guy getting 4 million miles or something. Crazy... genius
Nominet names the date for shorter .uk addresses
Yeah, my high school stopped publishing class ranks in transcripts as of my graduating class because something like you got down to 50 or 60 out of a class of nearly 300 before you got below a 4.0 GPA and it was hurting kids on college admissions.
Expedia.com: Full deep-dive into Unnatural Travel Link Schemes
> However, it's hard to imagine that we wouldn't be more secure hiring educated behaviorists to have a quick chat with passengers before they board a plane.

"quick chat"?

Would this would be a "quick chat" where they can ask anything they want, lying is a felony, and choosing not to answer would get you locked in a back room for "secondary screening" until ten minutes after your plane leaves?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7136797 (0 comments)
What about 3) compile to LaTeX?
Maybe this is a new business model for the music industry? (said with a large dose of sarcasm).
And a tax rate is that line? I cannot think of any change in tax policy that would induce me to shoot a human.
I should probably do a teardown on my own process at some point, but here's a quick overview:

• Record the entire experience full-screen with Screenflow (http://www.telestream.net/screenflow/ - highly recommended)

• Paste stills into Keynote, annotate them, etc.

• Export to PDF, split it into individual jpegs via Automator, batch scale them for web via Ps droplet

• Display images on site with homemade slideshow js, plus zoom effect from jQuery Zoom by Jack Moore (http://www.jacklmoore.com/zoom/ - also highly recommended)

That's about it!
Which is both good and bad in that it also modifies jQuery's internals if it's present. (I last looked at the 1.0.x branch)
I'm not saying that AD is easy to disrupt (the primary challenge is that there's no one clearly superior replacement), but that if you crack it, a massive benefit / bonus of Microsoft's product line is voided.
Amherst College Physicists Create Synthetic Magnetic Particle
Why doesn't Coursera do what corporations that export far more dangerous goods than education do:
Have a subsidiary in another country where export restrictions permit you to work with Cuba, Iran, Syria and Sudan.

To not try to counteract this political manipulation is almost more outrageous than the political manipulation itself.
No kidding - this is happening increasingly to me and I've also complained to Amazon. I live rurally, and USPS takes at least 2 extra days, and up to a week. Also, large items won't fit in my mailbox and I have to drive to the Post Office, vs UPS bringing the item to the door. Plus, the UPS driver always has a biscuit for my dog!
This is pretty cool stuff, and I can see a lot of places where this can be used (we've got a ton of stuff on S3). Will give this a deeper look. Thanks.
man I was going to start a visualization of blockchain but this is wayy cooler. KUDOS Mike!
You are assuming that their Business model is to profit from the difference in cost of shipping and prime subscription revenue. Rather than profit from a higher purchase volume if one has prime shipping than not.

I for one have observed that I have bought more things since I have had prime shipping. There is something to be
said for the quick response to your order in the form of 2 day delivery.
Yeah as bad as the first part of your post sounds it really isn't much different than my reality in a "traditional" ISP market here in the US.

Technically I have two choices, Time Warner Cable or AT&T DSL. Realistically I only have one choice because Time Warner Cable has proved that they are unable to keep an internet connection between my modem and their headend working for more than 6 hours at a stretch, so I'm stuck with 6mbps AT&T DSL, which is slow and overpriced relative to speed/caps but at least mostly reliable.
I'm watching a real time 3D visualisation of the generation of a distributed unregulated worldwide crypto-currency using the largest network of computers the world has ever seen.

Screw it I'm off to the Black Sun for a drink and a sword fight.
This is what I mean. With nuclear, the rabbit hole always goes deeper. We've been working on this for seventy years now, and however much the government subsidizes it, however many disasters we have, however many "new designs" are tried, however many "impermeable" storage depots are built, nuclear power always comes up with more ways to fail.
already posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7154027

also, apparently the doxxing was by a Venmo employee, and the cash in the photo was fake: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/clinkle-denies-hack-after-...
Ask HN: What should I do as a High School Senior to get funded in College?
I did't mean for an exploit, I just meant that you don't have any use for a x32 kernel on your system if you don't have x32 apps and libraries (unless you build a statically-linked x32 app).
That would increase costs and require higher competency. It won't happen.

What we need is to expand the TSA-Pre procedures to everyone who isn't a suspected terrorist.
The Challenge of Changing People’s Behavior
That makes a lot of sense especially in areas where you are competing for people's attention. If you aspire to being a front-end engineer it'd be silly not to know the DOM APIs inside and out, especially now that browsers have such nice dev tooling.

But for those aspiring to create big things another approach is to find a niche where you can offer something exclusive that people want. Thefacebook offered something that students would have put up with > 1s load times to see that they couldn't reliably get anywhere else. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thefacebook.png
"Onboard" isn't a verb.
Here are the two most prominent HN discussions of that story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1152269

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6404563

All this makes me wonder what crazy real-life hacks have been described in YC applications.

Edit: There's a discussion thread from when the "real-life hack" question was introduced to YC applications at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=104802. A few HNers shared their hacks there.
Interesting how the game score counter can't go over 255. Sounds like premature optimization at work.
I realized after writing my post that you don't really need an entire system, just the x32 libraries (and not even those if you statically link your x32 application).
Is there anything like this for an RDP connection?
funded in what way? for your startup?

no matter your age, just build a good product.
USNWR gives points for constructing new buildings, so universities construct new buildings instead of teaching students.
If you only accept the 4 biggest card issuers

Heads up: If you're in (say) Europe or UK, then American Express and Discover aren't a "big card issuer"
I still sign in with my .edu email out of muscle memory.
I assumed this, but I guess theres a large part of me believing a troll can make their way through and do some sort of damage. It's literally begging for it.
You should have an option for "College Graduate (Associate Degree)" as well.

Of course, this whole thing is kind of silly anyway. Who's to say that one's "level of education" corresponds to what degree they earned (or not). I've graduated college three times (3 associate degrees), have about 3/4's of the work towards a B.S. degree done, and have taught myself all sorts of shit totally unrelated to my college programs, over the intervening years.

It would be both accurate and wildly inaccurate to say that my "level of education" corresponds to:

1. college dropout

2. college graduate (associate degree)

3. college graduate (bachelors degree)

4. other

Then again, I'm probably the walking, talking definition of "edge case" so probably best to just ignore me. :o)
Israeli security is based on profiling, but not racial or religious profiling. They profile primarily on the nations you have passport stamps for. If you've been in a country that is known to harbor and train terrorists, you're gonna get the microscope. I feel like this is healthy profiling.
Stop Overthinking Your Life
/* GLOBAL */
.column {
width: 1280px;

Noooooo! 1280px is not a reasonable minimum screen width.
Code red alfalfa hot papa. THAT was the as redundant as full body scanner pat down security check anal probe passport sweep.
> My point is, showing wrong UI is often worse than clunkier UI.

Point taken. As I thought I pointed out however, it's not wrong UI for my app. Since our company only accepts those 4 options, any other code that does more work than my example is a pointless waste of time (for both the programmer and computer).
6 of Super Bowl-area hotels getting ‘unknown substance’ letters
What will health nuts eat on Super Bowl Sunday? Nuts
The quality of private telecom services in the U.S. isn't that good. Try using your cell phone in a major city without making excuses like "everybody else was trying to hail a cab after getting out of a Pink concert" or "I was staying in a hotel that has a lot of metal in the frame".

Private companies are consistently making bad decisions as to infrastructure. For one thing, they've wasted money building high-cost fiber-to-the-node and hybrid-fiber-coax networks.

Yes, the initial cost of FTTH is more than the alternatives, but the running costs of FTTH are much less and if you consider a time span of five years or more, FTTH comes out ahead.

In places like Austin where carriers have wasted money on xDSL deployments, they find they have to go to FTTH once a competitor goes to FTTH. Why? Since the running costs of FTTH are so low, an FTTH provider is the low cost provider and will win the value segment, not just the high-end segments.

The main problem is that rich people are full of themselves and think they deserve credit card interest rates for their investments rather than the low market rates that capital markets provide (which are telling them that they've got too much money and nobody needs them.)

They know they can build expensive (to run) networks because they can make their customers pay the operating costs, rather than putting some more money up front to produce something that will produce more profits in the long term.
It's a powerful story and about as real as they come.
The Truly Affordable New York Apartment
I assume fork aliases to clone, which gives you a checkout.
It is no impression.

When management decided to go full .NET, it was very hard to find out Win32 stuff, nowadays lots of it are back again with the "going native" change of wind.

However, most of the documentation related to Win16, Win32s and game libraries like WinG are now gone.

They are not the only ones, though. I don't find any longer many of the Apple documents from the early Mac OS X days.

Or the commercial UNIX documentation pages that used to be quite easy to find in the late 90's.
No, it's not. You are describing BIRGing, or somethings. #12 refers to supporting the team, including making noise in the stadium to affect the outcome of plays.
No, classic bait and switch would be "hey, how about some Prime for $10/year?" <user click "buy"> "oh, sorry, we're out of those. Would you like Super Supreme Prime instead for $120/year?" I would think bait-and-switch would really only be effective in a B&M store, though.

What you're looking for is "they raised the price for when you renew next year."
I traveled in mid-December (between the holiday peaks) and I was able to enjoy a new "expedited security process we're testing" that was essentially the old metal detector only screening.
Your personal favorite "document fragments" is anyways supported by jQuery for HTML strings that cross a certain complexity. http://jsapi.info/jquery/1.8.0/jQuery.buildFragment
It may have detracted from his argument but it isn't playground BS and you shouldn't call it such. If you parse each of his sentences he quite likely means them in a serious way.

The fact is that many poor Americans seem to oppose the implementation of some government policies designed to help them as poor people. This is a very frustrating phenomenon from a liberal perspective.
I agree. Are there any examples of multiple-identity system or "share as"?
There are two CVVs: one printed on the card, one on the magstripe. So for swipe transactions they're still getting a CVV.