skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But they were compelled to write them by the Community Reinvestment Act passed by Clinton.

That's directly contrary to the conclusion of a bipartisan government commission that investigated the subprime mortgage crisis: "...the CRA was not a significant factor in subprime lending or the crisis. Many subprime lenders were not subject to the CRA. Research indicates only 6% of high-cost loans—a proxy for subprime loans—had any connection to the law." [1]

Indeed, CRA-induced loans had a far-lower default rate: "Loans made by CRA-regulated lenders in the neighborhoods in which they were required to lend were half as likely to default as similar loans made in the same neighborhoods by independent mortgage originators not subject to the law." [1]

Even the dissent by three Republican commission members agreed, "Neither the Community Reinvestment Act nor removal of the Glass-Steagall firewall was a significant cause. The crisis can be explained without resorting to these factors." [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_policies_and_the_sub...
Sure, but shelf life won't be a problem when you burn a new disc every day and you intend to keep at most a couple of months' worth of daily snapshots.

As terrible as optical discs are for long-term archiving, I'm sure their shelf life usually exceeds that of a carton of eggs. That should be enough to protect against ransomware and most other kinds of disasters that can strike a personal computer.
Here are my tmux bindings which I have been using daily for over a year. These are configured in iTerm in the Profiles->Keys section using Send Hex Codes.

Cmd-shift-c: New window
Cmd-shift-l: New pane to the right
Cmd-shift-h: New pane to the left
Cmd-shift-k: New pane above
Cmd-shift-j: New pane below
Cmd-l: Focus pane on right
Cmd-h: Focus pane on left
Cmd-k: Focus pane above
Cmd-j: Focus pane below
Cmd-1: Select first window
Cmd-2: Select second window
...
Option-h: Previous window
Option-l: Next window
Command-/: Enter copy mode

I have the same bindings in MacVim. The nice thing about using command is that it doesn't interfere with other cli apps like ctrl.

The following allows you to yank the tmux clipboard into the system clipboard: https://github.com/ChrisJohnsen/tmux-MacOSX-pasteboard
Tinder for Talent. Castr.
Just started using Telegram, it's awesome and so fast. Also their desktop apps are very useful.
Ted Ligety has practically invented a new way of skiing
Thoughts on two years of exercise data
> I have as a rule that if you are in a situation where there can only be 1 element with those properties (it would make no sense at all to have more), I should use the id.

Not a good idea: IDs take massive priority over classes in the cascade.

As someone who often has to override an enormous stylesheet which is all styled to IDs, this is a serious pain point.

Simple example: http://jsfiddle.net/B7tSz/
As another person stated, on another question, you didn't really answer why the 16 character limit was imposed in the first place. Is it due to some plugin? You don't think people will remember long passwords?
You are absolutely correct that there's a difference between mil chocolate and chocolate milk. However, the comparisons with both having less chocolate and more sugar in the US is relevant for a comparison of American vs European tastes.
I second that. We had to build pretty simple application for iOS and Android and all the swipes and buttons that were animated via css were horribly laggy.

Not to mention you have so little control over device itself, only thing you can do is rely on Cordova plugins (which are horrible to begin with).

Never again.
Glad to hear you decided to make the plunge. I'll be interested to see what affect this has on your revenues etc.
You're using logical fallacy wrong. At best this is a logical error, not a clasifiable fallacy.

But it's far more likely that it's just an error of judgement, involving no formal or informal logic at all.

Namely, nobody, including OP, made the syllogism you present, with the neat "therefore, X must include" etc step.

They simply thought that it's very probable that this is what LinkedIn did to inflate their numbers.
Except, that the idea of semantic web is the traditional approach, whereas composable cross-browser classes controlled with LESS variables is the new and more pragmatic approach.
Less has the same feature:
http://lesscss.org/features/#extend-feature
This is hack on top of a broken feature.

C++ doesn't zero-initialize instances before calling the constructor. Thus you can't tell which fields need to be cleaned up in a destructor in case of a partial construction [1]. So destructors aren't called for partial construction, and you need to handle the exception cleanup in the constructor. But you can't do that for member initialization lists, so there's this thing.

RAII and wrappers is one reasonable way out of the insanity, but the costs are arguably higher than zero initialization - certainly in ugliness of wrapper classes, if not in absolute runtime.

Forbidding exceptions in constructors is another reasonable way out, but that kind of sucks - constructors have no other way of communicating error, so you need to add isValid flags to your classes, and to be belt and braces secure, you need to check this flag for every operation.

The correct answer is zero initialization, possibly with some kind of pragma to prevent zero init for critical performance classes. The thing with zero init is that data flow analysis can mitigate the costs - the compiler would be able to eliminate the earlier zero assignment much of the time.

Overall it's more of the same from C++: unsafe, broken by default, bodged up with hacks to make it slightly more stable, and usually works mostly OK in practice owing to limiting C++ to a reasonable subset.

[1] I know that technically 0 can be a valid physical address, but even for (embedded) systems that do allocate there, it's worthwhile reserving it.
LinkedIn deploys dark patterns left and right. I can't think of any more scammy site in widespread use today.
Video of the presentation at the Quantified Self Show & Tell NY:

Getting Outdoors, Taking Photos, and Collecting Data Along the Way
https://vimeo.com/85797403
Aldi may not be low quality in Germany (It's just a.n.other supermarket there), but in the UK, it is definitely percieved as such. A small percentage of the stock is german delicacies, and a further small percentage are standard brand name items, however the vast majority is off-brand look-alike items, usually dangerously close to a trademark infringement. Combined with very low prices gives it something of stigma with shopping brand snobs.
Might have but didn't, which is my point. WW2 increased the demand for automated computing, which got computer development the funding it didn't have 100 years earlier.
But not a good reason. Originally it was the boiler time-to-steam; but with a coil that's subsecond. We should really be using steam for lots of things.
a rule of thumb I've been following when using Sass/LESS: If your mixin doesn't take arguments, you probably want `@extend`
It doesn't mean it. It just means that if enough people think the same way, the world is doomed.

Or, if not doomed, it's not getting any better in areas that matter.

(People laugh at words like "doomed", assuming everything will be as it was when they were growing up. For some lucky ones that's true. For others the worse happens, like a financial collapse or a world war, and then they "knew it all along it was going to happen").
Tried it for a few days but I haven't used it since. The appeal of twitter isn't the concept anymore it's the fact that everyone else is using it
The broken-down grace of Bill Murray
A lot of the SAAS offering usually say something like "for just the price of a coffee a day you can get our service" but If I was to pay for every services I use daily I would need a third job.
Artificial Intelligence for Humans, Vol 2: Nature Algorithms
Same. Twitter ads never bother me. They always appear to be mildly relevant and I barely notice them
Castr - Be found.

Castr is a platform which connects talent with filmmakers, casting directors, and other talent seekers.

Caster helps you:

* Find the right role for you whether as a film actor, stage actor, voice talent, or a model.

* Be exposed to agencies and directors who are looking for someone just like you.

* Refine your resume with feedback collected from people who make casting decisions.

* Get access to potential roles currently not available to you.

Swipe right if you like them and swipe left if you don’t. All on the mobile app. Easy enough to find a date for this weekend, but what if you are trying to fill a role in an upcoming feature film?

Finding the right person for a role is one of the biggest challenges filmmakers face, and being found is the biggest dream of an aspiring actor. Castr gives actors the ability to create a profile with headshots and a resume. Talent agents can search through potential prospects to find the perfect fit for the role they are casting.
Any decent password manager can generate passwords of any length to use, and XKCD style phrase passwords are not that safe anyway.
Phew, lots of questions :). I've only really done this once (with ShareLaTeX), and it feels like a constant challenge in many ways. I think I'd have to try it a few more times with other products to understand which challenges are the important ones. So no big insight there, sorry.

I'd definitely recommend trying to start a business with monthly recurring revenue. It makes things quite stable and predictable, and watching it grow is like crack.

We're not that worried about this impacting our revenue. Most of our value that people pay for comes from being a hosted service.
Your first link merely cites my link, and provides no data of it's own. Your second link is from 1913 and provides little data. Your third link is blogspam for my link.

The nasa article is interesting, and hints that maybe long hours can increase error rates (which would be very bad if you are highly risk averse). It draws no conclusions.

The microsoft article is irrelevant. Your last link has no data.

Apparently it takes more than 5 minutes of google to find something that addresses these questions. And not a single link you provided even attempts to answer the question of whether some individuals can productively work 60 hour weeks. Every single study with data addresses the average person.
TechCrunch is the kind of site read by indie start up kids and just peddles crap about whichever startup is hot or 'crunching it' that week. Same goes for Mashable. I used to read both for a while before realising it was all mostly hype with no real content or analysis.

Good exposure though, just maybe not to the right audience.
Except that this guy wants and expects to only hire Navy SEALs.

"All else being equal, why would I hire someone that works 40 hour weeks when there are a ton of other people willing to work 60?"

To which I'd ask, why would someone who isn't horribly naive work 60 hours to make you rich?
Show HN: 5000 Free Form Templates
In any case, at best they are a worse evil.

Nothing to be thankful for.
Obfuscating a PRF turns a symmetric primitive into an asymmetric one.

You can think of a PRF as a keyed hash. Now, you can turn this into an encryption scheme by running it in counter mode:

keystream = PRF(K, 0) || PRF(K, 1) || ...
ciphertext = plaintext XOR keystream

Now suppose we can obfuscate this PRF with a specific key (i.e. Obf(PRF(K, _))), in a way that makes it impossible to find out what K is. Then you can distribute the encrypted program as a public key, and the private key would simply be K. That's the gist of it.
Signed up for an account when they started offering free, didn't really understand the benefit because no one was there.

I have not been back.
If you're under X, you can also use cssh (cluster ssh) to start synchronized ssh sessions in different windows.

cssh host1 host2 ...

It's not pretty, but it works.
Having a new Jolla phone, it's OK... however after calling a couple of people last night by accident, I think any actions that might disturb someone (calling, or playing music) - should not be activated by just a drag.
My Competitor Copies My Blog
In Netherland it is considered low quality. From what I hear, goods remain unpacked in their boxes, are often not sorted by date, so there may be expired products at the back. I wouldn't know which supermarket chain could possibly rank lower than Aldi, though I'm sure there are some smaller and independent supermarkets that are worse.

But I have to admit I might be a bit elitist about this. Lidl, which I hear a lot more good about, also doesn't really meet my standards for a supermarket. And Albert Heijn, which is often considered pretty good, is not considered all that good by me.
I agree with all but the last sentence. The ethnicity may be considered as constituency warrant for a national state, not for an empire. Usually empires don't have any warrant for their existence but the power through which are maintained.
In general, I believe in being as honest as one can, but some people can't be trusted with the truth. That's just a fact. It may be unfortunate, but we're not going to change it just by talking about it. There are many people who are better off not knowing all of the world's state variables (i.e. the truth) because they aren't equipped to handle the complexity and context.

Investors who rely on social proof, if you don't have it yet, fall into that "can't be trusted with the truth" category and it's OK to apply reality tweaks that are ultimately in their interests (giving them the courage to do the right thing) as much as yours.

I don't advocate fraud (lying to people in a way that acts against their interests) but some people don't have the courage to do the right thing unless you pull out some reality tweaks and make them comfortable. That's just life.

Investors who scheme against people who are trying to do that are acting in bad faith, because the ultimate goal of this activity on their part is to bring the devolution of our society into a feudal state. They don't care, at this point, about building or investing in great businesses. They just want to keep others-- people who weren't born into their parasitic social network-- out. I can't respect that in the least and I have no issue with those who choose to mislead them. If the club's purpose is vapid and its selection criteria both meaningless and unfair, then is it wrong to fake membership if it is convenient? Absolutely not.
The CloudFlare MITM
Thank you! I did not know about the source-file command. I've been writing shell scripts, instead. You have just changed my entire work-flow!
Here is a LESS mixin that will go a long way in making semantic Bootstrap easy to actually do:

.make-column(@large, @medium, @small, @tiny: 12) {
.make-xs-column(@tiny);
.make-sm-column(@small);
.make-md-column(@medium);
.make-lg-column(@large);
}

Then use it with:
section#main-content { .make-column(8,8,9,12); }
The point for me is that whoever uses drones is not that better than Hitler.

And the fact that "ok, at least they kill fewer people" is not that conforting either. At least a full blown war has casualties from both sides, and pilots are not a boundless resource.
This is incredible news! Congratulations, and thanks so much for contributing back
I noticed this a while back - I'm fairly sure they are scanning your mobile phone contact list via their mobile app.

I promptly uninstalled it.
There's also h2g2.com which is similar
Are you aware of

https://news.ycombinator.com/best

and the other options like

https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

This article sits at number 66 on the list (at least for me), but it's there :)
Is the container / host security sorted? A month ago you could get a root shell via /sys.
if server fail or service down.you pay peanut get monkey. cheap service quite dangerous unless depend on big investor.
Ironic title coming from a post on Google+. In all seriousness though the title is misleading. Its not increasing user numbers, its increasing perceived relevancy, and misleading users into evangelizing its platform.
Neither the article nor the title actually talk about inflating numbers, which is how I read it at first too. They only talk about actually increasing the number of users, by sending out invites: "Another example of the lengths LinkedIn will go to in order to increase its user base."
Whoever writes "printf()" in pseudo-code though, and bothers with newline characters? I would expect "print" or something but of course there's no standard for psuedo-code.
> Europeans must hate Parmesan cheese then,

Europeans have access to the real thing: Parmigiano Reggiano. Butyric fermentation is kept under control because it can ruin the cheese's taste and aspect in a very obvious way (by creating holes).

Parmigiano Reggiano's direct italian competitors - Grana Padano and Trentingrana - "cheat" by using lysozyme to inhibit the bacteria responsible for producing butyric acid.
> banks themselves together with government seem not able to come up with better ways of organizing this industry

It's not that they couldn't, it's that entrenched interests don't want change.
Our user contributed form templates gallery now has over 5000 templates. Just wanted to share it with the HN community.
i never really understood what they were trying to do.

even going to their about page (https://app.net/about/) doesn't really explain anything. there are no screen shots, only common buzzy worded language, no depth of explanation on benefits of using the product.
Well, in case anyone is curious: I have done a fair amount of searching, and for the most part it is a barren wasteland of alternatives. The only one I've found that looks OK is Seelio[1]. Let's see how this goes.

[1] https://seelio.com
Surprised no one has mentioned the "Visible Mars Bar" project yet: http://totl.net/VisibleMars/

Basically UK vs. US Mars/Milky Way bars.
There's one company called Candy Japan that sends stuff to suscribers :) they were discussed here recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7190912

http://www.candyjapan.com/2013-year-in-review
Yes, most of this data is short term because it's for the construction industry which works on projects. Depending on how long the recovery period is, it could easily be the case that the long term maxima is achieved by long hours + short recovery periods. (I.e., 7 65 hour weeks + 1 30 hour week.)

And again, basically all the research either you or I have found is in construction. Construction != Programming.
Is there an alternative to LinkedIn period? I'm being serious, is there another "business focused" social network out there scavenging for life?
Nice post. At Fitocracy (I work here) we see the same thing. Over time, as people workout more and document their progress and transformations, we of course start to see them expand and change their routines in order to win more points, earn badges or complete quests, but we also start to see them make life changes as well that are completely separate of fitness.
I would be genuinely depressed by having to lie all day. This makes me appreciate more my standard European grumpy wait-staff.
I'll second this. Gabriel is an extremely nice guy. I approached him over 5 years ago for info about the Philly startup scene and he wrote me a huge, detailed email that I'm sure he didn't really have the time to write.

I switched my default search engine to Duck Duck Go a few years ago mainly because of that interaction. I still need to fall back on the g! shortcut a lot, but search quality has improved quite a bit over the years. I like supporting a hometown startup that exists outside the Bay Area bubble.
I made two attempts to convert to DDG, the first nearly two years ago, then, successfully, this past June. And in large part, it's working better than Google. Searches are fast, they're unfiltered, the !bang syntax is great, privacy is respected, and overall site weight and load is much preferable to Google. While I don't always find what I'm looking for, switching to !g often doesn't turn up what I was hoping for either -- sometimes it's just search refinement that you need.

All in all, I'm happy with it. This after sixteen years of Google use.
I'm having the same problem. Will post next time it hits.
Python is a "proper language", whatever that means.
Iraq offers $17,200 reward for killing jihadists
You seem to be implying that the reason OS/2 lost to Windows is its Windows compatibility, but that implies that OS/2 could plausibly have won without compatibility and that's a dodgy proposition.
I backed this project and loved how the author presented per project. I was able to identify with her and, more surprisingly, my non-technical spouse and family were also able to identify with her. I am excited to see where the story of Ruby goes for both my young daughter and myself.
Kinky is feathers. Illicit is using the whole duck ;-)
That's why everyone is still using J2ME.
Yes absolutely. I never said AC wasn't dangerous.
I am not sure why people are so dissed at the cost of WhatsApp acquisition. There is a significant value to whatsapps huge network.
You know what else cost almost as much as NASA's entire budget last year - Bonus paid to GoldmanSachs' employees

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/goldman-sachs-pay-bonuses-hit-12-61...
Starting a Hardware Company? Here is what worked for us…
I never really got what app.net is. Is there someone subscribed? Can you explain more?
ShareLaTeX is now open-source
For (what I feel is) a more useful figure, let's look at NASA:

> Annual budget ... when measured in real terms (adjusted for inflation), the figure is $790.0 billion, or an average of $15.818 billion per year over its fifty-year history. [1]

So WhatsApp is like 1.2 years worth of NASA.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
Congratulations James & Henri! I'm very happy that my lab has been financially contributing to your work for nearly a year :-)

Anyway, I'm currently writing my thesis and I've had to stop using your product. The dropbox sync is lame (I know that the problem is on their side) and working on three different computers (usually two at the same time) is a problem. But in case of collective writing, then shareLaTeX is the most useful tool. Thank you for that and for your move!
Show HN: Vegemite
On the other hand, considering that the surface of the moon has already been visited by space probes carrying instruments and by manned spacecraft, while many billions of possible combinations of human beings having conversations here on earth have never happened, there is probably a lot more undiscovered return on investment to be had from investing in WhatsApp than from investing in the Google Lunar XPRIZE. Both are arguably good things to spend money on, but investment flows sometimes attempt to follow where the big returns are likely to be.
No but thanks for reminding me that I need to go cancel the subscription I have with them. I think it was a neat idea that just shows how difficult it is to overcome the inertia of the established social networks.
Thanks for the link. I don't know that I would have considered using the site without the vouching of HN users.

Oh well, call me paranoid.
Whatsapp raised another 50m from Sequoia after those initial 8m
The lack of a time-bounded search is one of the few things I'll return to Google for.

Also: news, and book or Google Scholar.

I'm willing to accept the lack of these most of the time. Yes, privacy matters to me.
"There is a significant value to whatsapps huge network."

That remains to be seen. I've witnessed enough big acquisitions to know that the jury is still out on whether or not this investment will return value to Facebook.