skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a popular opinion on HN that a population should wish that. Mostly because of corruption, evil financial institutions, inflation is bad, technical superiority, ...

At the end of the day, it does not really matter. The people that have the power to adopt it listen to different arguments. Although a lot of them recognize the same problem as people on HN, they share the same opinion as you do. The others have no interest in changing a system that favors them. So the point is mood regardless what my opinion is.

The only other option is to have the population impose its currency. In a lot of third world countries, the USD has been adopted as a alternative to the local currency. They could adopt bitcoin. To them, the possibility to build complete financial services outside the official channels is good. Having a currency controlled by few rich people rather than the US government and few rich people could be perceived as an improvement.

Difficult to see that happening in the biggest economies though. The balance between corruption and general interest is good enough, and there is just nothing for the consumer.

The key to bitcoin success is the balance between popular interest in emerging nations and the games the financial institutions of the first world nations extracting as much profit out of it. Significant success in that area could force first world economies to deal with bitcoin as a currency, despite its flaws.

After that, eventually, I guess there is the extremely remote possibility that bitcoin proves a better currency in the long term and gets adopted (for example, in a world where growth and recessions alternate all the time, it may become beneficial to rely on a currency with predictable deflation / inflation curve rather than a man being a printer )

That's an awful lot of ifs.
Oh, I doubt it. This is probably produced by an independent production team for CC. I don't know if CC legal would be notified before the fact of this or just prior to broadcast.

In the OP, they had quoted Starbucks (PR?) saying that they thought "Dumb Starbucks" was misusing their trademarks.
I thought the main gist of the article was that Kiva in the end just doesn't work. The only thing Kiva seems to achieve is to sate our conscience. This concerns me, since I actually did lend a bit of money through Kiva thinking this would really get results.

In the end I'm happy I didn't advertise Kiva to friends and family. I'd have to be 100% sure about the results of any such organisation before recommending it to other people and I guess in the case of Kiva, I never was.
A Flappy Narayan (cat) would be cool
You're taking this too seriously. I can't believe what I wrote pissed so many people off. This is appalling.
I was referring more to the numerous sites they host like kaddafi.hk which sells stolen credit cards online. 4chan has a recurring problem with child porn (which their moderators do their best to prevent), but I agree with your distinction regarding trafficking.
i thought windows had the major market share in world. but after seeing this blogpost pageviews (13mac,1nexus7,1iphone), it seems mac is dominating here in HN to me
My theory is that some of them are proof-of-concept attacks: "We took down X for forty eight hours; give us $Y and we'll do the same to anyone you name."
If you're interested in this sort of thing, you might want to give to GiveDirectly instead. It gives grants instead of loans (so interest rates aren't an issue) and is one of the very few charity organizations to do randomized controlled trials to prove its effectiveness.

More detail than you probably want to know:
http://www.givewell.org/international/top-charities/give-dir...
$84K isn't cheap outside the Valley
Copy Editing Stylesheet
My understanding in most locales:

Terminating an employee without cause is acceptable for at will employment, but it means you will be paying them unemployment.

Firing is terminating an employee with just cause and means you don't have to pay unemployment.

If this guys is letting people go because they don't fit into his super-culture, that is the former and not the latter.
Why exactly is Dreamweaver such a bad tool to use, especially with it's code editor that (personally of course) seems to be hands and feet better than the competition.

I can see why designers would dislike the visual editor side, but who really uses it for serious work anyway, PHP syntax highlighting is far better in Dreamweaver, as is HTML. its really a personal choice that the developer has to make, and if it works well for them, I don't think its right to say, "you use Dreamweaver, hence i am better".

Same goes for Visual Studio/Aptana/whatever else, if the developer prefers t and can produce his work with it, why deride him for the tools he chooses to use?
You're probably correct. I apologize. Honestly. I was mad at the time. That's I why I held off posting it as is. Now I realize my mistake.
This is weirdly incorrect for a number of reasons.

Firstly it's not simply a domain change. There's very good reason to believe that the architectural problems MTGox are facing today may be due in part to re-using not fit-for-purpose code, from the earlier revision of their product. Yes it never went live, and yes it's new people now; both of those things are irrelevant unless there was a complete code re-write at some point.

On to your next point, there certainly is a problem with being in over your head if you're dealing with financial trading. Some industries are not suited to amateur attempts, period. Think of the amount of litigation MTGox are opening themselves up to, not just in terms of people who use them, but based on the wider impact to the BTC community if they really stuff things up. Not good if they can't show due dilligence beyond "LOL we're a startup, what do you expect?".
Thanks for making this. It's beautifully crafted and great attention to detail is shown with the inspirational quotes and the optional b/w icon.
Fucking lame. Comedy Central provides product placement for fucking Starbucks.

Gee, thanks for the situational advertising. Real funny.

Ever listen to Howard Stern ramble on about some brand name product for an hour and a half while stuck in traffic? This kind of thing isn't an accident. It's deliberately manipulative.
Microsoft Adds Bitcoin Currency Conversion to Bing
That's my understanding as well. I would assume if the termination reasons are as vague as this post, that those people he let go are eligible for unemployment.
The joke isn't that he's making fun of Starbucks. The joke is that Nathan Fielder (or more accurately, the character he's playing) is so naïve that he thinks that the "Dumb Starbucks" plan will actually work. His character is supposed to be the dryest, least-witty person on the planet. He takes everything seriously, and when he does say something funny, it's funnier because he seemingly doesn't realize it.

If it was funny, it would ruin the joke.
also I'm sure it would be important to note that I am familiar with Java, Python, C++, and am learning Perl this semester. I typically pick things up pretty fast so learning a new language (unless its just a strange one) wouldn't be that difficult for me.
They did not create a trial account of our product before the first interview.

Minor quibble, but given that their two products are ostensibly not consumer-oriented --a content management tool for marketers and a tool for creating branded, flippable PDF viewers--, is it really too unreasonable that some candidates did not sign for their product? Or maybe it's just seen as a sign of lack of curiosity/interest about the company, dunno.
I have been trying to pull-off a nREPL for hy. But haven't really come close yet. Going to try and do some more work on that front in the near future.
Looks like someone did there homework! But really, this a bit on the creep side...
There are some situations where the US healthcare system is superior to the Canadian one, but this is definitely not one of them.
It may well cost the better half of $2,000 but damn it looks nice. No wonder Ferrari uses them.
quoting the linked page... [edit: note that what Justice Black says applies whether or not the person is in US custody. He's laying out a restriction on ANY action by the US government against a US citizen outside of the US... the restriction against the US government has nothing to do with her detention]:

the Court held that American citizens outside of the territorial jurisdiction of the United States retain the protections guaranteed by the United States Constitution. Accordingly, the decision below granting Mrs. Covert’s habeas petition was affirmed. Black wrote: “[W]e reject the idea that when the United States acts against citizens abroad it can do so free of the Bill of Rights. The United States is entirely a creature of the Constitution. Its power and authority have no other source. It can only act in accordance with all the limitations imposed by the Constitution. When the Government reaches out to punish a citizen who is abroad, the shield which the Bill of Rights and other parts of the Constitution provide to protect his life and liberty should not be stripped away just because he happens to be in another land.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_C%2B%2B_compiler

I don't have a lot of experience with it. I've used Cilk Plus a few times.
It seems like someone is offended by the use of the word ___damn in the readme (censoring myself here so I don't offend them, I guess).

https://github.com/hylang/hy/pull/499
I post on Reddit, and I use my real name as my account there (same as here). I comment much more freely there, because a) I'm less likely to actually run into someone I know, and b) there is a wider variety of topics being discussed there.
awesome, looking forward to checking it out :) shame about the scoping, as you say, but i guess the python interop made it the natural choice.
Even in non-right to work states, firing in the first 90 days is generally no problem since most put it in the contract as a evaluation period.

Not that I am defending the article, I find the vague cultural fit and sweatshop vibe to be bad. I've watched amazing coders turn to crap after a couple of grind weeks.
Very sorry. Speaking from experience, this is exactly how it is. When there's a serious medical situation, the focus is necessarily on the bills. They even send you separate envelopes for every little line item and provider, staggered over time, even more than a year after the service, so you can never stop thinking about it. Always fearing opening the mailbox, having to deal with confusing hard to reconcile charges, trying to catch double-billing, dealing with payments to multiple providers. The stress of the bills can easily make the illness worse. The US is truly a barbaric system. But it has this small bubble of well-off people, who have a disproportionate platform for their propaganda, so you can get this public picture that everything is great. Everyone beams smiles in the commercials, consuming the miracle products. The well-off only associate with others who are well-off, so they can pat each other on the back and say "What a country! All this opportunity for those with the right sort of character, like us!"
You're not wrong (at least on the main points). The problem here is that with the declaration of war against al qaeda (technically, the "authorization for use of military force against terrorists") the entire world outside of the US became a de facto battlefield, and the President has a huge amount of discretion in saying "this piece of land is now a battlefield, this person is declared to be a high-ranking commander of enemy forces and therefore can be summarily executed via drone strike". It's a very weird and non-traditional form of warfare that is warping our institutions and the attempts at limiting government power that are supposed to exist within the constitution and the law.
Software on feeble CPUs does OK up to 100Mbps or so, and I doubt he's complaining about problems at that speed.

(I have a 5+-year-old Geode-based router at home, and it can do full pf rule evaluation and forwarding at about 300Mbps.)
You are a freaking WUSSY! And you have NO life,let alone social life. Social life is OUTSIDE, face to face, NOT on facebook. Get a fucking life, freaking zombie.
He did:

>one of our Bad Hires failed on three of the following items which are usually a make or break for me:

Sounds pretty serious. Let's find out what it is.

>They did not include a personalized cover letter with their resume when applying.

Oh my. No personalized cover letter? The bastard should be shot, or at least unemployed for the rest of his life. Or maybe instead the author should think for a moment why his number one priority (its the first thing he listed) when it comes to evaluating candidates has fuck all to do with anything that an actual adult might care about.
Suicide Bomb Trainer in Iraq Accidentally Blows Up His Class
is it costing you money? is it growing? if not what could you do to make it grow. maybe allow people to add accounts and post comments. if there are heavy commercial users look at charging them. Are the banner ads retargeted adwords? that might help conversion.
I suppose this is nice in a 'get new people to try bing' type of thing, but what is really going to be the tipping point to make people leave google for more than kicking the tires?
The Flappy Bird dev was getting death/suicide threats on Twitter after he announced he was taking it down. https://twitter.com/EliLanger/timelines/432588181611892736

I hope these people aren't the majority, but there are a lot of people who are abusive about games that don't measure up to their definition of a 'game'. It's unfortunate.
I was an ace employee for companies like this back in the day. I had no qualms playing along with the company culture, everyone has to start somewhere I suppose. It didn't last long until I learned enough to not look back at companies managed like this.
My iOS reading folder is:

- https://github.com/trending?l=objective-c

- http://nshipster.com/

- http://www.objc.io/

- http://cocoaheads.tv/

- http://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/

- http://nsscreencast.com/

- http://www.macrumors.com/

- http://dribbble.com/tags/iphone/
I've actually been involved in the evidence-gathering process that would have led to firing someone - a peer, not a subordinate - if he hadn't taken the offer to quit first. It turns out that avoiding those frivolous lawsuits requires concrete and specific evidence of incompetence, insubordination, misappropriation of company resources, etc. We're talking actual emails, not remembered hallway conversations. Direct refusal to do as they're told, not grudging half-compliance. It's a lot harder than most people think. Maybe some companies don't do their diligence and manage to get away with it, but at most startups the investors are likely to demand a much more comprehensive paper trail for anything that might incur liability. "At will" doesn't provide total immunity to lawsuits.

http://www.expertlaw.com/library/employment/at_will.html
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2001/01/art1full.pdf
Was Carnegie right about philanthropy?
This is the most succinct and accurate assessment of anyone who DDOSSes anything.
> One thing that drives me nuts is how frequently monitoring agents/dashboards report and graph only free memory on Linux, which gives misleading results. It's fine to report it, but to make sense of it, you have to stack free memory along with cached and buffered memory, if you care about what's actually available for applications to use.

Even that is misleading. It's actually non-trivial to find out exactly how much "freeable" memory one has on a linux system these days as not all the cached memory bits are truly freeable.
The one time I got angry at customer service was when I cancelled a mobile broadband contract and then several months later noticed I was still being charged. Apparently there was no record of the cancellation or indeed my original call at all (despite the original operator confirming that the cancellation had went through on their system). All the latter operator would do was simultaneously assert that their system was infallible and that, no, they didn't believe I was lying or otherwise confused. An unstoppable force was meeting an immovable object, both of the operator's own construction, and they refused to acknowledge that. The frustrating conclusion was that it was strictly impossible to refund me the money. Of course, they couldn't even keep that straight: some time later and out of the blue, a full refund showed up in the mail with no explanation attached.
We've been getting at least a few days per year since then
About $150 a month in hosting
This isn't actually relevant (although it's part of their schtick) because parody is not a defense to trademark infringement. Brands typically aren't covered by copyright because they're not substantial enough to qualify as a work.
Some people believe in magic, i.e. the ability of words to have power over their environment completely separate from the bare meaning of them.
Welcome to The Intercept – Reporting on the NSA by Glenn Greenwald
This is awful. Purely awful.
Yep, we got hit by this as well. I still have hope that one day Comcast will start to realize what the customer wants. Of course, it's not really necessary for a monopoly to fulfill their customers wishes, so fat chance that will ever happen. Cable franchising with municipal regulation is crazy.
Between PRTG and Windows, almost all of that is handled for us. And PRTG can call OMSA by SNMP.
I'd be a bit careful with that. Someone on /r/AndroidDev had his app removed from the store because Google thought it could get accidental ad clicks. He didn't have a space for the ads and the ad would just appear on top of the bottom content.

Not sure if they are cracking down on it or not but thought you'd like a heads up. Popping up onto an area not meant to be touched in the first place is probably fine though.
Sorry that my mention of the Pledge of the Allegiance set you off. My point was that American ideals have always been that everyone deserves a fair trial & due process.

Peacetime assassinations have been officially banned by the US since 1976. The AUMF gets around that by saying we're perpetually at war now. The AUMF is part of the problem.
Unsuck your vagrant: Developing in one VM with Vagrant and Docker
This is great, thanks for releasing the app and the source code.

Just one question, why is it so big? 1.8mb executable seems quite large.

Still, fantastic!
The point being: delegating prioritization and categorization to a human in real-time is lazy and dangerous. As much as possible humans should only receive notifications when something requires action or is too complex to determine that programatically.
Sounds more like a bad company problem than a bad hire problem. If management is always nervously looking at the clock, then the company is fundamentally rotten. You get what you measure. If you measure hours at work, then you will get people who pad their time while they produce a pile of crap.

Nevertheless, this Canadian employer should know better. In the first three months they can let people go instantly. If they aren't confident in the person after a few days, show them the door.
A metal grease crayon?
There is actually a key to restart! You'd never know though, because of the poor UI design.
You know you can pay for more repos right?
Pretty sure that's on their roadmap: http://www.wired.com/business/2014/01/facebook-mobile-ad-tes...
Shii's essay on the strengths of anonymous communities is still the best I've read on the topic. It comes off as somewhat naive, being written in 2004 and updated in 2006, before 4chan had really exploded in popularity and set in stone what people think about when they hear the word "anonymous," but I think his assessment is still valid even in the 4chan of today. Forcing users to check their vanity at the door really does cut down on the superfluous garbage and keeps the conversation about the topic (or wherever the topic meanders) and not about the people having the conversation.

If I could add a postscript to that essay, I'd say that it's 4chan's lax administrative policies, distaste for moderation and censorship, and the incredible size of the community that give it its unruly flavor, not the fact that the posters are anonymous. In the smaller, more carefully moderated anonymous communities I've been a part of, things are much closer to the ideals shii describes.

http://wakaba.c3.cx/shii/shiichan
JVM is a platform.
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I tried to track the history of CI once[1] -- a similar practice may date back as far as the 60s at IBM. There are multiple sources indicating daily builds with tests at Microsoft from at least the early 90s (not quite CI but at the scale of the projects probably as close as practical at the time). Long before Agile became trendy in the 00's.

[1]: http://www.alittlemadness.com/2009/01/09/continuous-integrat...
I've been working from my home office for the better of 12 years. Not until recently did I opt to get an actual office space elsewhere. The main problem I had was that office and home hours were blurring to much together. While I was up and working by 7:30am, my days didn't end at 5pm. And when they did, I found myself working late at night. It really began to affect my sleep and my personal life. As others mentioned, define your time at work and at home as strictly as possible. The most important thing I found was spending a considerable amount of money for the best chair you can afford. With little distractions around you, you'll find yourself sitting for longer stretches of time.
Absolutely. Currently overdrawn, but sent all I could at $17.50.
In all honesty this was a bit of a joke, there is this implementation of Python called PythonB, which was posted on HN the other day, that violates everything Python stands for and uses braces instead of white space.
Further proof that online education is the way to go.
sometimes a good workplace cultural value is
tolerance for your co-workers idiosyncrasies

Very true. At the same time, having a boss with these types of idiosyncrasies is like seeing an exit sign.
Is there any way to ensure simplified expressions are only defined over the same range as the original expression?

My guess is no, but it is often important to understand that, for example, a polynomial fraction is not defined when the denominator is 0.

To use an example from the page,

simplify((x**3 + x**2 - x - 1)/(x**2 + 2*x + 1))

gives

x - 1

but should give

x - 1; x != 1 + sqrt(2), x != 1 - sqrt(2)

This is not always what you want to see, but it would be cool if you could turn it on :)
How much would you pay for a phone installed with Flappy Bird?
as shown by google with g+. Great web app but not that many users
I know what you did there ;).
In a way Hy seems to be to Python what Clojure is to Java / JavaScript. Did Clojure influence you and if so, how?

Congrats and nice looking terminal : )
That's new in the past 45 days. For what it's worth, under the ADA the insurance subsidy I get from taxes is enough that I actually am insured, but it doesn't bring the monthly cost of an insurance plan down any ... just pushes the cost off to taxpayers.

The miserable irony of this is that then the government winds up making a deal with FOR PROFIT insurance companies. Companies which would be failing their investors if they weren't wringing every cent out of the policy holders to pad their own pockets and generate wealth off the suffering of others.

My personal opinion is that the ACA is a stepping stone to a single payer or something close to it in the USA. Meanwhile it is absolutely the worst of both government spending and private corporations. Now we just have to wait a whole other oscillation of the liberal-conservative pendulum, which tends to take 10-20 years.