skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a constant rate of compounding rate of growth

The rate isn't constant; it's decreasing. That's the point. For example, you say it takes energy and materials to go to the store or go to work; but it takes less per person now than it used to. (One obvious example is that lots of people can telework now because we have the Internet, conference calling, etc.; I do that several times a week, saving a significant chunk of energy and materials.)

Wealth at its core is a desirable modification to goods and materials in our environment.

Which is done for lots of reasons in addition to food, clothing, and shelter. Your definition of wealth is way too narrow. There are plenty of countries where people have food, clothing, and shelter and nothing else. We call those countries "poor" for a reason.
Haha I liked that flash game - my favorite level was the one where after you hit start the word didn't disappear for a second or two. Appreciated that that trick got me.

Also looks like it's still available here: http://www.rrrrthats5rs.com/games/dont-shoot-the-puppy/
Really, if you think about it, if you only plan on having it open short-term, and you have the money of Viacom (parent co. of Comedy Central) behind you, then capital is not an issue.

You're not going to buy the equipment, you're going to lease it. Paper cups are pretty cheap, and you're hiring people off Craigslist. Coffee's cheap too. And it looks like they're in an area that would be pretty cheap.

Cable shows like this are incredibly cheap, and that's why networks love them. A few hundred grand isn't chump change, but if they get a whole episode out of it, they're still making money.
I do however think that I am correct in thinking that provided that any one of your sources is "true" and independent then the xor'd string of binary will be completely random. You cannot xor an unkown random binary string and make it less random.
I can't be the only one that A) Programs in multiple languages and B) Would gladly pay for language add-one to one IDE.

I'd be happy to use IntelliJ for everything!
Visual Studio 2013 has been available for a while and it fixes all problems you list by undoing those changes.

That's not entirely true. Some things fixed, while others are not.

(CAPSY MENUS, I'm looking at you)
Depending on the type of web app you are making, there are generally better (more productive) tools for the job than Java.
In fact it is hasn't yet been accepted: https://github.com/wbond/package_control_channel/pull/2800
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I think you would like Perl :)
In 2013 when v0.8/v0.7 difference in database engines caused half of the network mine parallel blockchain due to obscure limit on number of file handles.

Can I just highlight, for generic web developers who might not parse this sentence, that this is like saying "One of the ways we make sure all clients agree on HTTP is by making sure that all clients and servers stay on the same point release of Oracle DB because when they didn't for a few minutes the entire Internet died in fire. We put the fire out by reverting the Oracle DB version on a few big sites, telling everyone else to downgrade as well, and posting on an out of band channel that if you were doing anything important with the Internet you might want to stop for a few hours because there were going to be two separate and very mutually incompatible Internets and one of them was going to suddenly vanish a couple hours later and it sure would suck if your mail/web browsing/Dropbox/etc went into that one."

Seriously. That actually happened.
Your master email account is that same as account that is used to sign into their billing system. So yes you are exposed.
I just read the wikipedia write up about this -ROFL. Seriously I cant believe I missed this while it occurred.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Clicker
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Ask HN: How is knowledge management done at your workplace?
Interesting to note on the staff page: each reporter has a GPG key, they're accessible from public keyservers (as they should be), and they're at least self-signed. It'd be better if they were mutually signed, though a meet-up might have to be arranged for that. Micah Lee (former Chief Technologist for EFF) has signed Greenwald & Gallagher's keys.

Key lengths are 2048 or 4096. Greenwald, Poitras, Lee, Novack, and Gallagher have 4096 bit keys.

Wouldn't mind knowing who's trolling Micah's web of trust.
This post was relevant to me, because I was just opening a new account on my hosting provider today, and installing WordPress of course for just the reasons laid out. I don't care about anything, other than getting my article on my site so my customers can see it....and they don't care about anything other than the fact my article needs to be there.
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If you take this view:

> If it was a question of saving my child's life, I'd spend every last cent I had and then go sell a kidney.

there is no distinction between being unable to raise a child, and being unable to survive the attempt. If you survive, the child will get raised. The only way to fail is by dying (or killing the child).
This is a good idea.

However, in the context of forms authentication, there comes a delicate moment where the user name and hashed password must be exposed to an unauthenticated user, no?
But those frequencies don't get to the speaker 'cause the amplifier doesn't send them...
"It's that he thinks that the web will win (over app stores). I strongly believe that he's right there."

"Whoever can make the Google of app discovery might make a temporary splash, but i bet that, not long after, people will return to plain old Google Search."

You remember me to Kodak's "people will return to make analog photos, people want to hold something in their hand".

You are deluding yourself, and you can't see what you have in front of your eyes.

No, there is not a single platform that works in everything. In my company we do both low level programming(c, c++[small controlled subset so we control it]. embedded, microcontrollers, hardware) , and high level programming (python, java, web programing in general) for scripts, testing , rapid prototyping or deployment...

Both of them work very well for what they are designed for.

If we paint something in the screen in c we could do it in 0.001 seconds(without hardware accel!!), in python it is 0.5 seconds, 500 slower!!. In the browser is like 500 if we were to do things on javascript. Most people fake and call webgl with hard pre calculations done in a server(native) "web programming". It is not.

And we use python a lot. Because we don't care if something takes 5 seconds to draw if this saves hours or days of debugging.

In the future communications will be better, and program interaction will be stronger, but that does not mean that all software will be web. Multiplattform native works also very well, and much better for some things.

"Given that the world's #1 mobile OS is made by the worlds #1 web company, this change is not difficult to predict."

Android is not web for a reason. It sucks for lots of things. It is not that Google has not tried, as it is in their best interest to do so.

The interest of a web company are something, and the interest of consumers are something else.

Consumers probably don't like having to be connected all day, all what they do in their computers being monitored in real time and stored forever by the NSA.

You probably are American but there is people living in other countries, with different interests. As Snowden said the NSA uses their tools for industrial espionage(as should be expected).

If you have a company outside the USA you will have no brain if you used web for your secret sauce. They will take it from you, they will give it to an American company and even patent it. With native it is orders of magnitude harder to do this.
Think the author actually works at Buffer, so I doubt there's a push involved. The other two articles in the series are based on Facebook Paper and the iOS Twitter app, so there's hardly any marketing happening here. There is lots of interesting design being shown, though.
This is interesting, but... Font isn't perfect for such task. Also there seems to be no key to restart the game. Why game forces me to reach my mouse when it is focused on typing?

In my personal experience best typing game is http://phoboslab.org/ztype/
I'm not suggesting daemontools. I'm suggesting "not systemd" and "something that includes the valuable lessons that daemontools taught us".

The first of which is not to fuck up the Unix philosophy by producing a monolithic pile of junk.
It just blows my mind that some folks are condescending toward running WP over running a light weight solution with a vastly inferior range of functionality. If you want to publish a series of texts with only a minimum of requirements, sure there a dozens of solutions that could do the job. Publishing snippets of text is easy, no big deal.

Serious bloggers might like to have a commenting system, a taxonomy system, a widgets system, an rss feed, a user account system, a way to serve their content in more than one way. You know, typical blog stuff.

Ghost is not an alternative to WP, nor are any of the other barebones solutions. Doesn't mean they are not awesome in their own right. It's just the comparison with WP has to stop, because it's like comparing an analogue typewriter to a word processor. Both can comfortably print words, but that's where the comparison ends. You can fetishize simple solutions without having to hate on solutions that aren't even remotely similar in design.

And there's also this weird logic behind how people should pick their blogging engine. People don't choose WordPress because they aspire to use only what is written in the most fashionable language or coded by the most popular of programming methodologies, or because of some evolved affection for minimal solutions. They pick it because it has a great community and because it is open source, it's easy to use, it's totally free, you have countless people that can help you, it does a lot of stuff and because you can easily extend it in a countless ways.
People who want to just write words don't necessarily want to learn/use markdown though.
With the exception of SQL, are there any mainstream declarative languages?
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She will probably be glad to hear there's still young hackers out there who don't give a shit about this feminist propaganda.

I for one don't care what gender you are the rules are the same regardless of gender.

If i happen to have a complaint about your code or anything else for that matter and you happen to be a girl ...well what do i care?

On the other hand every girl in STEM that constantly complains about how awkward the guys are just outed them selves as not a hacker gir.

A real hacker girl knows that the guys are awkward but it's not intentional the just never bothered with social skills.

A real hacker girl also puts as much value into fasion and the likes like any other hacker which is to say very little at all.

So that well dressed and social girl in IT is most likely not really a hacker then again this is just a generalization and would gladly be proven wrong.

Hell if you happen to know someone like that i would love meet her that is quite rare.

The reality of people like us with a curious nature is the we never find time to learn social skills and fasion we're just too busy satisfying our curiosity.

I personally would love to have a better fasion sense but i really need to get that arch install working perfectly :)
How did you teach yourself programming?
"corrected"

I love this teleological market-speak.
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It's not lousy at being a blogging platform. It's feature heavy but you just ignore the features and blog.
Indirect object is similar to dative, sort of.

Seriously, most people would say "Who does this belong to?" We can argue whether it is good style or not, but descriptively it is standard grammar.
Specs-wise it's a lot better than my 2013 Nexus 7. 2 GiB RAM, a quad-core Atom, and 64 GiB of onboard storage.

Followed by

It has a 1280x800 high-quality IPS screen.

So spec-wise, it has more storage, but apart from that, it has the same amount of RAM, and a display completely inferior to the 2013 Nexus 7.

I don't know about you, but I would trade storage for display anytime. You can always download/stream content from the cloud, but it's hard to stream a better display.
Angular will utilize web components when they become a standard. Think of directives in Angular as a polyfill for web components.
Have you seen Nimrod? http://nimrod-lang.org/manual.html#foreign-function-interfac... https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/wiki/Nimrod-for-C-programmers http://nimrod-lang.org/
> it it runs on just about every shared hosting in the world.

Even more to your point, most hosts either provide WordPress installations out of the box or provide some sort of 1 click install via cPanel. For a non-technical user, that's great ease of use.
Interesting how so many people now know so many things about the most secret organization in the world. There must be a lot of money in writing stories about it.
actual_hacker: you've been hellbanned. You only have two comments.. so I'm guessing someone didn't like your nic(?)
How about you start by seeding this with some useful info? I'm tired of seeing one-line questions asking for "something that it would take me 10+ minutes to answer well" here. It happens all too often:

- Ask HN: A really broad question?

- 5-10 really useful, helpful replies but OP never comes back to thread
Early days of exciting new tech are early. And, yes, Blockchain compatibility requirement is a new phenomenon, unlike HTTP or even TCP/IP, so your comparison is not very relevant (although useful to highlight possible difficulties). We have to get used to it and learn how to deal with the risk of unintentional forks, or stay away from the game.
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Cue the BSD vs MIT license flame wars over whether the BSD license is free enough or whether one needs the sublicense right grant in the MIT license to achieve full freedom ;-)
How about "Oh you think you can build a blogging platform that competes with WordPress? How adorable."

I find it funny that WordPress was criticized for being a crappy CMS and when it became a decent CMS people criticized it for being a bloated blogging platform.

I also find it humorous that seemingly every 20-something rockstar-ninja-startup founder/developer thinks they can write a "better blogging platform" yet I don't see any traction in the real world.
Ouch, no!
Once you know C, you've already gone through most of the pain with regard to C++s warts, but you still have to treat it as a new language.

I really don't know why people have such a problem getting to grips with pure-C++ functionality like templates, virtual functions, inheritance, RAII, exceptions, references, type system oddities, rvalues and lvalues and their references, operator overloads, extended temporary lifetimes, smart pointers, runtime type information, the lack of decent unicode support, slow compilation times, binary compatibility which is tricky to maintain, member function pointers, virtual base class construction order, SFINAE, and static polymorphism and concept checking.

It's really not that difficult... ;)
"v1.0" is meaningless label. Bitcoin already works and cannot be changed willy-nilly in a glorious self-proclaimed version 1.0 of a single particular implementation.
Perhaps you missed number 5:
No company is willing to make as many crazy acquisitions as Google

Google acquires startups/established companies on weekly basis. Their workforce increases by hundreds every week. A recent one I can recall was Boston Dynamics. Not even a two person startup. Google's main revenue stream only goes up. I see no slowing down of this machine.
In engineering terms it would be easier to cover a shitty webcam with a bag, take a photo, and then use the lower bit of each pixel as the source of entropy.

You can use other things, like microphone input, or CPU temperature.

No need to buy expensive hardware generators.

Then you can use something like Fortuna to generate more random numbers from that seed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortuna_(PRNG)
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Is there any defined software programming model for neuromorphic hardware?
nice app and very useful
Part 2 is interesting though somewhat at odds with part 1.

In explaining how they're blowing it he's really talking about something which seems to me at least, is fundamental to Google's culture. They've never really done support, or consultation, or partners, they've never cared about other people's issues when they kill a popular service, in short they don't really care what others think.

That's given them a fantastic focus and means that theydon't get paralyzed by indecision or trying to keep everyone happy, but if that changes (and I really think it won't, I honestly think they don't care in that way) what else would changes with it and how would it impact them?

Part 2 is (a part of) the answer to his questions in part 1 - why Google will win everything. They'll be wildy successful, yes, but the way they operate will always leave areas where others will be able to be more appealing, at least for some consumers.
Facebook was just a bit too early when trying to make html5 work on smart phones. If they were to make the attempt again today it would probably successful.
For some inexplicable reason, the actual download link is hidden on the page: https://ghost.org/download/ or their GitHub: https://github.com/tryghost/ghost/

Looks pretty!

As an aside, about Wordpress, there are a couple of important points:

1) The famous install - it's extremely simple, anyone can do it if they have MySQL set up. Even easier if your hoster has CPanel. Ghost requires either hosting on their systems or your own server running Node. The latter is not an option for many customers, the majority of bloggers are _not_ web savvy.

2) Plugins, themes and knowledgebase, pretty damn good. However, like any app store there's a lot of rubbish and it's often hard to tell which plugin you really want. Not to mention you can make Wordpress do virtually anything you want with the right theme.

3) Security. Wordpress is a mire for this. I don't have a well known blog, but I still got hammered by script kiddies trying to upload malicious files, attempting to access restricted directories, etc.

Ultimately this is the problem, Wordpress is a fantastic platform, but it requires constant maintenance to make sure that nothing is insecure. This is not a problem if you're a full time blogger, or you're running a profitable website that needs that kind of flexibility. However, for someone who doesn't blog that often and doesn't want this overhead, Wordpress is just too much.

I now use a static generator (Octopress) because I can't be bothered with updating all the time, knowing that if I forget, my site is likely to get hacked. It was fairly easy to add support for mathtex too. This plus a hand coded static site for other content is all I need. I don't need any databases, everything is nice and low bandwidth and it's trivial to manage everything with git. Thank god for rake watch!
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If you had money in Gox and in other exchanges you might dump your other money now in fear of having lost Gox's funds forever.
In my area where there is no competition they refuse to do this anymore. I used to do this each year with my cable/internet bundle but whatever I did I could not get them to budge. I ended up canceling my cable, which usually leads to a phone call from some customer rep offering a discount, but it did nothing. I think they are to the point that they don't care in markets where there is no competition.
He needs a better product manager, his product is all over the place.
Dammit, I was really excited about this too. Here's to hoping somebody reposts about it when the ST3 version is official...
Did a hacker just reveal how much Clash of Clans makes in a day?
Is there anything like org-mode (emacs) with vim?
We'll likely switch to systemd, over at Gentoo, when we need to. As we discussed at FOSDEM, it's a matter of 'when' rather than 'if'.
Is there a C# on the JVM ? it would be awesome.
You might be approaching this from the wrong direction. Maybe you dont need a programming language at all, but rather some user interface sketching tool?

If you want to learn programming itself, there are very few shortcuts as you will have problems along the way if you dont have the basics down. Pick a language and dive in. I will probably take less time than you think.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/10/bitcoin-implodes-...

Well, whatever you want to call it "plan"/"strategy"/"hope"/"insane dreaming". About this time last year, if I executed on my "plan" I'd have reached my goal in Nov 2013. Bottom line is I think bitcoin still has a disaster or 2 or 3 ahead of it that'll tank the price; only to recover a month or 2 later. With all this MtGox drama happening + "Russia banning bitcoin", I'm poised to move. Also, this list[1] was front-page of HN at one time. If #9 actually happens, combined with a disaster that makes the price tank - say, MtGox shutting down & "USA bans Bitcoin!!", then I'd be set.

I know my "plan" depends on 2 unlikely events. Probably won't happen, but this is bitcoin we're talking about. Nobody knows what will happen yet. This is my "plan" based on the craziness I see of bitcoin. Nothing really that special; buy low & sell high. Call me crazy but I say coins still has a few huge swings coming up in 2014. MtGox is already causing one right now. Even if these extremes don't happen, I got 1k that I'm day trading with under smaller swings that I'll at least earn back the 2k I've put in so far if not more.

1. http://lightspeedindia.wordpress.com/2014/01/13/bitcoin-2014...

Bonus: Reddit is doing a good job of getting people all riled up to cause these big swings... http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1xitx4/im_giving_1_...
Ghost: the super simple minimal blogging platform that requires considerable server experience to setup. Plus you get to write everything in Markdown! What's not to love?
Hey everyone, dev here - thanks for the awesome feedback. Rather than one-at-a-time-ing things, here's some responses!

1. Font sucks? Feature, not a flaw.

2. Game crashes? Ummm... feature, not a flaw.

3. Need mouse to restart? Nope, there aren't any real buttons in the game. Just press space.

4. Did you credit original? Err, no.. it's got the original copyright on the title screen, but I'll add a note to point out I stole the gfx.

5. How did you steal the gfx? I just copied out the sprite atlas inside the iPhone app and cut it up in javascript/canvas. I tried to recreate things as closely as possible (screen transitions etc, not physics!).

6. Hey, do you make other awesome games in your free time? Why yes! just check out the blog at http://www.mrspeaker.net!
Thanks for such an insightful comment. Out of curiosity, in what way is WordPress optimized for SEO? Is it the URL structure? Isn't the actual content what matters the most?