skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Australian bubble has been largely blamed on two things:

- Restrictive policies on land release for development which is the simple classic supply/demand explanation

- Low credit costs and negative gearing tax concessions which encourage speculation fueled by debt (Keen, Minsky, et al)

The First Home Owners Grant and other schemes also stimulated demand but any value was quickly absorbed by the rising prices. On top of this spruikers pushing get rich quick on property also inflated the market.

Now, everyone's stuck where they are.

A true correction here will require either a normalisation of interest rates or repeal of negative gearing provisions. Neither of which the current Government are likely to allow.

Most likely it will be a long slide and a lost generation who's best bet will be waiting for an inheritance. That is if their baby boomer parents don't reverse mortgage the house to fund their retirement.
Parallel construction
I'm pretty sure if the government had a way to force people to forgive, they'd try to. But so far they can only find way to control the information, not thought. I guess something is better than nothing for them.
Well, that list is things curl supports.
It's not so ridiculous if you consider the fact that, with decent internet, that 400,000 might grow considerably in number, reducing housing pressure in the major urban centres and allowing Australia to grow without having to slather on MOAR INFRASTRUCTURE to Sydney and Melbourne's already groaning transport systems.
Fortunately, nginx's server-side includes are (or at least appear to be, on a production website) quick, robust and very easy to learn.

I was facing exactly this problem on a static HTML website a few months ago, and was pleased to discover that two Google queries and five minutes' work left me with a functioning SSI.
Yeah but by the time it finished, it would be far from being obsolete ;)
You ARE using a 9 year old router, considering that probably all other hardware (PC, Laptop, Consoles, Phones, Tablets, ...) was replaced since then and most cable connections can't be maxed out with that wifi speed (After forward error correction you'll end up with about 30 mbit/s), a lot of things might be happier if you switched that one out :)
A PHP include takes about 1 minute to explain. You don't even need to know PHP, just the include syntax.
Generating fixed width documents in Ruby: Introducing Fixy
Dealing with Randomness
I’m done changing my passwords
Screw it
Sounds like we might find ourselves using home proxy services again, like how Privoxy was so prevalent in the past.
From Middleman's site: "Middleman ships with support for the ERb, Haml, Sass, Scss and CoffeeScript engines." I swap in a middleman-slim plugin, though.
Premature optimization, yadda yadda ...
Create your own FCC slow lane
One might say solving that problem is the entire point of the project.
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As a service provider you have to provide access to a fairly low percentage of data on your network under CALEA. But CALEA does not make end-to-end data protection illegal. You are not obligated to steal your customers' keys or access their endpoint equipment.

In practice, many operators do offer up access to 100% of their traffic, and to their endpoint devices to law enforcement and security agencies, but it's not a CALEA legal requirement.
> Also, the EJC is nowhere near the equivalent of the US Supreme Court. The EU is not a federal state.

Even though the EU is not a federal state, the decisions of the ECJ still overrule these of member states. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_v_ENEL
I see the benefits to performance and arguably flexibility. I don't see why this provides "unprecedented reliability".
Comment Sentiment Analysis Shows People Confused by “Super-Maglev” Train
OH HELL YES!!!!

Holy crap the internet is AMAZING!!!!!!

I seriously asked everyone i came within two feet of about that game for freakin years, and NO ONE ever know what I was going on about was like I'd seen a unicorn. Realise now must have been 84-85

I filed that away as some sort of weird delusion I was doomed to forever live the memory of alone until this very moment good god a 30 year reconciliation this is last starfighter-level mind blowing shit over here
Vesper Sync Diary
25% http://support.paystr.com/hc/en-us/articles/202097244-Pricin...
Betradar / Sportradar has it.
Kinda makes you want to disrupt that whole industry.
Check out the parking lot: Driving L.A. (2004)
Supreme Court Ruling Not Enough To Prevent Debtors Prisons
I'd like to know how. I am confused. :) it just seems to me that Netflix pays for bandwidth and so does the ISP. And bandwidth use is what is at question here because its what the ISP is complaining customers use too much of.
mod_rewrite? you must be kidding. How about an about-us/ folder with an index.html inside?

Tools give some people too much rope ...
Cool idea. What does this have to do with Public Transit though? It seems to me that a better description would be "Uber meets /Private/ Transit"
An okay summary of landing page basics.

The part about 1,440 more new trial signups equaling over a million dollars per year is plain silly. Not all trials will convert into paying customers--especially when plans start at $49/month.

The main lesson you should take away from this is to A/B test your hypotheses. (By the way, that means starting with a hypothesis.)

Also, keep your expectations in check. Reading stories about a single test resulting in +$1,000,000 will delude you into thinking that every test will result in huge improvements. In reality, most tests don't have a conclusive winner. Optimization is a process... It is not a one-day or get-rich-quick affair.

Edit: Apparently it's not OK to mention I'm a marketer...? I removed that bit. If you're downvoting for some other reason it would help me if you explained.
OK, but France (Piketty's home country) has a Gini index of 32.7 and I find it easy to conceive of significant wealth disparities between individual French people notwithstanding their relative economic homogeneity. India was a poor example to pick, not just because of the existence of Indian billionaires, but because of the genetic institutionalization of inequality there in the form of caste, such that (until very recently) if you were born a Brahmin you had massively greater economic prospects than if you were born a Dalit.

Anyway, as far as open borders go, the primary argument against them is that everyone will flood into those countries which have the most favorable conditions for workers, not just in terms of pay but in terms of safety, contractual rights and so forth. You would certainly want some sort of receiprocal arrangement, such that if people from China want to immigrate to the US, US people should be equally free to live, work and invest in China. You don't need to harmonize everything of course, but it's an incredibly difficult sell politically if you don't have reciprocity, on top of being an incredibly difficult sell because of mercantilist and xenophobic tendencies in the receiving economies. I'm heartily in favor of open borders and free trade in general, but most people hate the idea - even Tea Party types who profess a general disbelief in governmental competence.
I feel like the "same thing but cheaper" biz model is a terrible way to compete. Unless you have a dramatically lower cost structure, it basically means that you're kneecapping yourself in terms of revenue and profits.

From a potential customer standpoint, price is important, but your site makes price hard to find and it looks like you took the Unbounce prices and lowered each by $20/mo. Also, the single get started now button across all three plans is confusing, it looks like a mistake.

Your service looks cool, but I hope you can develop a stronger pitch than "Unbounce but cheaper, and maybe a bit easier." That feels like a commodity to me. I'm not sure what the stronger value proposition is, but I'm sure you'll find it. Your product looks great.
It's not inherent: GNU Smalltalk is "just" another programming language for your Unixy (or Windows) system. From their FAQ:

Compared to other Smalltalk implementations, GNU Smalltalk is very different in one aspect: it is pragmatically designed to be a tool rather than an environment.

It has a CLI, loads programs from the OS filesystem, etc.
FYI, the Github link to KSS in the article is broken (href just reads "KSS").
on top of that you can apply transformations to the data if you use scroll and bulk, but not with dump/restore. On the flip side, dump/restore allows incremental transfer which is a bit of work to do if you're implementing your own copy script.
The 'Nine Fingered Economy' – How the Yakuza Scammed Lehman Bros Out of $350m
One downside might be that if the next person (person N+1) doesn't know the system and just edits the HTML and CSS by hand for a few months or years, and then person N+k comes along and runs the generate script, he potentially blows away any edits that weren't done with markdown and the site generator.

I suppose you could use the static generator for the initial build and then throw it all away yourself, but that's basically the same as not using it at all.
Nothing wrong with the CEO mentioning their product. But not disclosing your affiliation is frowned upon on this site.
The Indie Bubble Is Popping
Actually, You Don't Need VC Funding to Succeed
Both capital expenditures (hardware, staff, etc.) and demand are much, much higher for ISPs than Netflix, both of which justify a larger price to the consumer.
Asheron's Call is going f2p and maintenance mode in a month or two, btw. Still sort of cranking along. Go Turbine!
Hmph. Well, I see now that my decision to move out of California has precedence. Thank you.

-Supply/demand problem-Check

-Low credit costs & speculation (though in a bubbly way)-Check

-Unlikely repeal of Prop13-Check

-Likelyness of parents selling house & moving to Arizona-Check

Yep, getting out sounds better and better
That is a great features. I will implement.
I believe that BeOS (and now Haiku) explored some ideas like that. I think that all (most?) OS APIs were async and message queues were used to call the APIs as well as return values from them (someone correct me if I'm wrong). This resulted in a really snappy GUI but that's about all I know about it. One major hurdle was that programming for the OS became tricky.

There's this free book about BeOS which I've been meaning to read
http://oreilly.com/openbook/beosprog/book/
but never quite got around to it. You might find answers to some of your questions there.
I was thinking that initially, but it looks to be a proxy registration with somebody else acting as the domain holder. The domain holder is 'Paul Campbell', who registered under the category "Discretionary Name" as a Sole Trader. I'm guessing there were some little fibs used to get the registration past the hostmasters... :-)
Thank you, that looks really good. I have had a consulting business for 15 years and several customers have insisted on all email being encrypted, sometimes using Apple's email app with encryption enabled and sometimes just manually using PGP.

For just those customers who cared about protecting their IP, protonmail looks like it would be easier to use, as long as all parties used it.
I wouldn't dismiss walking as an inferior form of exercise. It is just different.
I'm the Director of Engineering at an e-commerce startup in an industry I know very little about (BaubleBar, fashion jewelry), and our challenges are in a much different realm than a product based startup, and I would say that we attract a different kind of developer.

As far as the business goes, operations and marketing need to scale much faster than our technology. Acquiring customers and efficiently supporting them (building and supporting tools for improved reporting, logistics, order fulfillment) are definitely more important to company growth than building a recommendation engine.

Our work varies a lot more and we get the support a huge variety of different types of projects. We support marketing, creative, customer service, operations and are constantly integrating with a new advertising network, analytics platform or shipping API.

I think engineers want to work on things that are impactful in measurable ways.
Some want nerd cred, or really hard technology problems, my team builds cool stuff supporting a (more traditional) business that's growing crazy fast. And for us, that's exciting.

P.S. We're also hiring in NY.
Dragon's Lair and Space Ace are both on iOS AppStore. Space Ace was a much easier game to beat in the arcades but I never got far on Dragon's Lair. Now, thanks to the mobile app, I can finish the game while my son watches on - amazed at my dexterity. A so the torch is passed.
That misses the point of this article though, it isn't about easy to learn tools, it's about not having to learn something at all.

I've used SSI and I don't wish to use it again. It isn't the same as a static page, and is too underpowered for me to want to use it for a dynamic page.

It reminds me of files that don't contain a well-formed html fragment. Stuff like

<!--#include "header.html"-->
<p>Hello</p>
</body>
</html>

Oops, did I just remember the proper syntax for SSI? Guess I might not have forgotten it like I intended to. :P

Also server side includes are using a second language inside a first language without any introduction to the second language. No mention of them here: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/

Edit: I didn't quite remember it right. It's <!--#include virtual="header.html"-->
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is also available under public domain and available here: http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.html
Not to be that guy, but how was this hard to find if WoW was adding the ...hic to the text? Couldn't you examine the exchange, see the ...hic and immediately recognize that would be added because drunk?
I've recently been reading meditations (and carrying it around in my bag always at the ready). Very good book and I highly recommend writing your own meditations as well.
These days we seem to live by degrees rather than absolutes - I trust the Swiss more than I do the Americans.
You missed the point. I'm saying rentiers bid up pricing in those professions, affecting them indirectly. In the US, for example, there's a very clear bimodal distribution in legal income between graduating lawyers who go to work for large firms and who mostly do corporate law, and the others who don't. The former pays more than triple the latter, so guess where most of the talent goes.

http://www.nalp.org/salarycurve_classof2011
Tried to stir HN crowd but failed miserably (IPCC announcement)
Nice, you're correct I completely missed this posting! Added it to my evernote database, thanks!
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I've always, always hated Dragon's Lair.

I hated how people would marvel at the "great graphics!" I hated how unreliable the game was (it was always broken -- the stupid laser disc).

I liked it as a movie... but it was lame as a game.
I signed up. Not sure if i would use it, but the Algorithmia concept is pretty interesting.
This reminds me a lot of Dale Carnegie's "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living".

In the first chapter he talks about how successful people often sit once or twice a week and write down the mistakes they made in order that they might make them less in the future.

The one that stuck with me the most of course was Benjamin Franklin's "Fool Things I've Done" which he wrote into every night.

Of course the book that helped me quit smoking, Alan Carr's phenomenal (albeit, (car salesman with rust proof undercoating to sell)-esque) reminded me of Carnegie's book as well.

The moral of the story for me? I need to reread Carnegie's book! Added Meditations to my cart though. I buy almost every book I read about that sounds cool. Working my way through them one by one!

Maybe I'll start a fool things I've done as well.
Lawyers are how you find references to other lawyers.
The Koch bothers essentially own an entire political party. While their political contributions and influence has not resulted in any major changes in policy and legislation in recent years, they have successfully prevented a popular (at time of election) democratic president from making any major impact on policy. After the 2012 elections, a lot of press was written about how much money was spent on Republican elections and how little success resulted. But if you look at the House of Representatives, despite the fact that overall, more votes were democratic, the Republicans still walked away with a clear majority of seats thanks to redistricting. And of course, the majority in the house allows Republicans to obstruct just about anything.

If the Koch brothers weren't getting a return on their political contributions, I highly doubt they would continue to do so. After the recession there was a big push for wall st regulation, higher taxes on the 1%, and increases in welfare program funding, and yet nothing meaningful came from it despite popular support. My guess is the Koch brothers consider that a success.
First of all, I need to mention that I am the CEO of Instapage. I apologize for not including this on my initial comment.

We are currently running split tests on our pricing page and the large button is one of them. We'll see what the data says ;)

It's not a bit easier, our builder is dramatically easier. Try the two and then let me know what you think.

We also don't nickel and dime for new client accounts, team members, etc. which unbounce charges $10/each for after you've reach the limits set by the plan. We actually offer unlimited team members on all plans (including free).

Lastly, we are not slightly less expensive. Unbounce's closest to an unlimited plan is nearly $499, however this is hidden within the app.

We are building a landing page tool that anyone can use, not just advanced designers within a marketing department of a larger company.

Don't believe me... try it out!
Sure, in some sense :) This model exists under a number of names: Pesero, Jittney, Monit Sherut (to name a few).
That said, it's not just an app that we've built. It's a system that can make dynamic decisions about which routes merit being paired together, and communicates with our drivers about any changes that need to be made to the current route. Of course, we take on-road safety into account, and so changes are only made while the vehicle is stationary.
Needs an option to search by "smokes pot/does not smoke pot" http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/fbi-chief-says-an...
You're right about top marginal rates being high, but you seem to have overlooked the vast number of available deductions. I would be quite happy to see a lower top rate of tax there weren't so many ways of avoiding it.
I would assume it scrambles it more then that. Lol.
I'm not hiding! I apologize for not stating that up front.
Comparatively speaking, yes, but they're registered in Germany, so that wouldn't fly. It looks like they used a proxy registrant and some well placed fibs to acquire the domain name, which is one of the more dicey ways to go about it as the IEDR aren't afraid to pull registrations.

Much safer and saner is to get a Registered Business Name number from the CRO. It doesn't cost much, you have it practically forever, and it's possible for private citizens and foreign corps to get them.
Slight – the best way talk to people you're already in the room with...
Tehnoetic wireless USB adapter now FSF-certified to respect your freedom
It's not for readability in Clojure. [+ 1 2] and (+ 1 2) and '(+ 1 2) all evaluate to different values. The closest are [+ 1 2] and '(+ 1 2) as arguments to anything but `eval` or `seq?`. Under `eval` '(+ 1 2) is identical to (+ 1 2) under `seq?` [+ 1 2] and (+ 1 2) both evaluate to false.

As I said it's complicated.

In Racket on the other hand `))))))` is equivalent to `)))]]]` except in so far as matching goes. The brackets are just decorations.
Shaming an ISP is one thing. Like pommi said, the end user might not be very interested in the fact that its connection to a web site is using IPv4 or IPv6. The end user just wants to see the content instead of an error.

The maintainer of the web site that the end user is visiting must make sure his website is reachable over either IPv4 and IPv6, so the content can be viewed by users who have an IPv4 only connection, a dual stack connection, or even an IPv6 only connection.

Doing so just requires to enable IPv4 and IPv6 on the entry point (loadbalancer / front facing web server) of the place where the web site is hosted.

What I'd like to get shamed, is the poor adoption of IPv6 in all major "cloud" systems. Where's the IPv6 address on the VM I can start at amazon[1], where's proper IPv6 support in OpenStack [2], CloudStack [3], CloudFoundry [4] etc. etc...

[1] http://blog.iphoting.com/blog/2012/06/02/ipv6-on-amazon-aws-...
[2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Neutron/IPv6
[3] http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/networking/ipv6....
[4] cannot even find a sensible page to quote here when I google it

IPv6 is not only about the fact that you can put some address on an external facing loadbalancer. The applications I want to run on my IaaS, PaaS or WhateverAas are also clients who connect to the internet, just like a web browser.
From the end of the article...

The TL;DR version for efficient readers

Java versions – Adoption since 2012 of the newest Java versions has been strong, namely growth in Java SE 7 and Java EE 6…the fact that certain older version of Java SE and EE still command decent minorities is a bit odd, but nothing to fear.

IDEs – Eclipse is a very stable market leader, but increasing favor and interest in IntelliJ IDEA may eventually equalize things.

Alternative JVM languages – Scala is the most interesting, enterprise-ready language on the JVM, and Groovy & Clojure play a great counterpart to the non-Java coding movement.

Build tools – Maven’s dominance is now unquestioned with Ant’s decline from previous years, although fast-growing Gradle is extremely interesting to respondents.

Application servers – Open-source players like Tomcat, JBoss, Jetty and GlassFish dominate both production and development environments, which use the same technology for 81% of respondents, although it’s clear that development-only app servers in the highest favor are Jetty, Tomcat & TomEE.

Web frameworks – A mature and fragmented market, over 1/3 of developers use more than 1 web framework, and here Spring MVC is still king in this area, with stable JSF and growing Vaadin following

Object-relational mapping frameworks – When it comes to ORM, Hibernate takes the cake, although other technologies are available and in common use in parallel.

Code analysis tools – Although nearly 1/3 of developers don’t use these tools (big mistake), the market is rich with complementary technologies like FindBugs, CheckStyle and a platform to bring it all together, SonarQube.

Continuous Integration (CI) servers – Jenkins’ dominance here is stronger than ever, yet 1 in 5 developers still don’t use CI as a practice.

Databases: SQL and NoSQL – The mature SQL is dominated by Oracle, but the market has a good mix of free/open-source and proprietary offerings from long-time players. NoSQL is a maturing segment that is mainly driven by MongoDB.

Version Control Systems (VCS) – Git, supported by the headline-worthy GitHub, is finally reigning supreme over Mercurial as a distributed VCS, and is often used in parallel with the legacy Subversion (SVN).

Repositories – A maturing market that still needs a lot of adoption by developers, the legacy market leader Nexus is losing ground to JFrog’s Artifactory.

Testing frameworks – In this area, complementary technologies work better together rather than competing, with unit testing, mocking and browser testing all highly practiced using strong tools	like JUnit, Mockito and Selenium respectively.

Priorities for 2015 – Java 8 (obviously), Continous Delivery / Deployment and Non-Java programming using alternative JVM languages are the 3 top priorities for the next year according to respondents.