skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the state and cities are going bankrupt then why did they enter the contract in the first place? What was the economic planning they did which let them conclude - apparently falsely - that they would be able to keep their side of the bargain, and how has it broken down?

Keep in mind that the politicians who put these bargains in place are long gone. And the politicians who later didn't fund the pension funds adequately are also long gone. None of them have to deal with the aftermath of their choices (and indeed one of the side-effects of the push for term limits over the last 30 years is that it's now guaranteed that politicians will not have to deal with the long-term consequences of their actions).

It's been my observation that many voters have strong opinions on what government expenditures should cost. Opinions that are driven by their gut, and not by any sort of market-based reality. But politicians have to satisfy both the market and the voters. If the market demands that the salary for a position be X, while voters think it should be X*0.85, then one way for politicians to deal with it is to defer the remaining 15%. They may convince themselves that it will work, or they may not care, but regardless, it's no longer their problem.
I’ve been doing the same—building a fairly large content-based website with around 100 pages for a telecom using Middleman. The site will be live soon, and I hope to be able to share more info about it when that happens.

So far, what I can tell is that Middleman provides a more efficient workflow than the database-driven CMSes I have used in the past.
You're right. It seems to be working now. When I first tried, I could paste into any field but the change password fields.

However on PayPal, when pasting I received a little tooltip-style popup saying something along the lines of "Please do not copy and paste passwords.", followed by their password criteria.

Pasting into other fields (including the login page password field) worked perfectly fine.
Damn, PayPal updated their password reset UI in the last week, but you can still only enter 20 characters for a site that holds cold hard (electronic) cash. Really guys? If you're really hashing them, why does the length matter? The DB column width doesn't need to change. Want us to submit a patch?

P.S. I wonder if they were expecting a lot of resets, hence the redesign rollout?
good point Daniel B.
What if they decide the best way to proceed is by selling off all 200k BTC for US/EUR/AUD/etc, which is then distributed among debtees?

Feel free to contact someone who actually practices bankruptcy law in Japan for a more authoritative answer, but I'd bet a dollar against a yen that they do exactly this. I would further bet that it would be a good time to be in Tokyo and capable of convincing a member of the Japanese establishment that one was willing and able to pay a substantial sum of yen, held at a reputable Japanese bank and having absolutely crystal clear provenance to a reputable business, for the impaired assets. The successful candidate will also exude the ability to complete complex high-value transactions in a manner befitting A Business Run By Responsible Adults (TM).
The endless "hours matter" debate.

For me, it's been a revolution at RescueTime. I had a 5 year old and new born when I started.

You structure your day right, you should be able to get done what is useful in a day's work in around 5-6 hours for most days. Otherwise, you need to restructure your day. You're doing something wrong-- excess communications, excess task-switching, excess research, over-engineering or something.

By consistently paying attention to getting the most out of the hours between 0830/0900 and 1530/1600, I am able to get at least 3-4 hours a day with my kids. There's the odd day where I get back on the computer after they are in bed.

The simple truth is you can restructure your work to match your life with kids, you cannot restructure your kids to match your life with work.
Slide 3 doesn't speak for me except for Java 8. I've looked at Scala, don't like the syntax, give me heartburn like trying to look at Lisp, Smalltalk, Ruby or Haskell. Eclipse so totally rocks, it beats the $1000+ cost of Visual Studio and Intellij isn't even in my rear view mirror. Gradle, syntax does not work in my brain, I get the same feeling as when looking at the languages I mentioned earlier. Give me make, Ant and/or Maven (though you have to be careful to keep Maven on a short leash).
> None of this could possibly have happened if people had used bitcoin as intended.

But this also proves the point that the way it _is_ intended is way too cumbersome for everyday use.

Convenience will always trump security, ask anyone who ever tried to enforce any sort of security, only to find every password written down on sticky note on the users' monitor.
Ah, I see what you guys are saying now. I'll have to look it up why its doing this!
Hey thanks for sharing! . It's beautifully written.
This is something I'd agree on, Visual Studio is amazing, but not good enough for me to switch to windows over. IMO all of the stuff jetbrains makes is almost as good as VS anyway.
Touring Uber’s Surprisingly Sober New Office.
yeah i see it now
Exactly. RequireJS promotes having lots of files, but for production, everyone runs their code through r.js anyway.

I used RequireJS for a while and it isn't bad, but Browserify has a lot of advantages like compatibility with Node.js and npm (while the only disadvantage I see is that the compile step is non-optional).
World's first connected bicycle
AFAIK, the Manning case was and has been prosecuted entirely under military procedure, rather than involving the DOJ. I just woke up, so I am fuzzy and may have gotten that wrong.

> Those have no place in the justice department of a well organized society.

I'm not really sure what a "well organized society" means in this case. I don't get a general sense that we are a well-organized society, but I never have, so maybe that's just me.

While I agree that "revenge and furiousness" are wrong, I also see much less problem in anger. Anger has to be tempered by reason, sure, but that's what procedure is for, why good judges don't watch the news.
yes its definitely off the mark at the moment, i'll be looking into it.
Probably 1000x in the last 30 seconds. There's a lot of people.
That's the happy path.

Sometimes a site gets brought up in conversation, (hey, I found this site called HN with a bunch of neat tech information on it), and it's just not important enough to stop the flow of conversation right then and there. Later while you're looking in the fridge you realize, hey, that actually was sort of interesting. What was that site again? hn.com? hacker.news? What's this ycombinator thing, that can't be right.
Can someone suggest a different title, sans click-bait? I'm at the point where I just ignore articles that start with a number or the word "This."
I have been writing Erlang professionally for 3 years now. Your writings have helped me immensely. Thanks!
eBay's password character limit is 20 characters. I use a password manager and detest sites that limit your password length to < 100 characters.
Application/vnd.geo+json
France Mistakenly Orders 2,000 Trains Which Are Too Wide For Its Platforms
Source maps solve that issue, even though browser support isn't perfect yet.
I share this sentiment. The author needs to consider which thing will cause him more regret in the long term--working a more normal schedule and potentially missing out on whatever rewards living the startup life may give him, or definitely missing out on his daughter's childhood.

For me it would be (and is--I have two sons) a no-brainer. I actually am working at a start-up, but it's one that places a high value on work-life balance so I never feel that I have to work outside of 9-5. I have cracked open the laptop on the occasional evening just because I enjoy what I'm working on, but I definitely wouldn't want to miss this period of my kids' lives for anything. They're only this young once.
No idea about most cities, but my city (Veliky Novgorod, a relatively small town in Russia with mere 200K population and 90 km.sq. in size) has lots of such cases. Voskresenskii lane and Voskresenskii boulevard; Orlovsakya street, Orlovskii lane and Orvovskii passage and so on - all are distinct addresses, some located in very different parts of the city.

Out of 300 ways extracted from address database I see about 40 entries (counted by hand, too lazy to build a proper query) being very alike. Luckily, most names decline and "street" and, say, "boulevard" have different grammatical gender, so it's harder to make a mistake.
There is a big difference between having that attitude or desire and having $70 Billion Every. Single. Year. to implement that desire.

Most places don't have 1% of that budget. Some places have no surveillance budget at all.

Or, look at it this way: If you took away 99% of the NSA's budget, how much intrusion into privacy would we be talking about.
Did you see the "in their judgment" bit? (Or the "not technically a business" bit, for that matter?) A court can still order testimony if the judge feels it doesn't qualify for the immunity, even as the priest feels that his duty is to protect it.

You can't dismiss the scenario by acting like a priest will never protect a confessional in violation of a court order.
Royalty deal breaks barrier to entry in Canada's digital music streaming market
Since he specifically called out gtld's, I suspect he is a fan of cctld's.

The only real problem as far as I see it with cctlds is that it reinforces the notion that you must pick a country to be subservient to, but you aren't really escaping that by using gtlds..
Distribution level voltage is anywhere from 4kv to 25 kv. Say it's 12. Typical partridge or linnet distribution conductor might do 200 A. P=sqrt(3)IV cos theta = 1.73 * 200 * 12000 * 0.9 = 3.7 mw.

So you are correct your average distribution feeder probably does not have capacity for a 10 mw service. I guess that's not much of a shock.
Do you find many sites that allow 100 character passwords? That surprises me.
I don't follow your logic. A forced sale of bitcoins to assuage creditors is different to speculators losing confidence in the currency and trying to exit their positions. The latter causes market volatility and price crashes. Temporarily increased liquidity is not inherently disastrous.
Be there for your daughter, or you are not her father.

I feel sorry and pity for you.

I would suggest thinking about another job (and btw, it is 100% possible to work normal hours at a startup).
So you know, your "Leave Feedback" button seems to lead to a survey / feedback form for "Competition Tab," rather than Honeybadger.

Edit: For what it's worth, if the plugin really does what it says it does on the Chrome Webstore page, it sounds really, really useful. Will try later.
Data Governance – It Takes A Data Village
Those are great points, but I don't see how they're applicable as a reply to anything I said.
I think you have to pick one. Startup or kids. You can work at a burnout pace for 5 years in the hope of getting rich, or you can be there for your young children. In my opinion, if you're going to try the startup thing, there's nothing stopping you from having kids afterwards. Except that if your startup(s) didn't succeed, your skills might translate perfectly into a career that can sustain a family. And having gone that route, you might have missed out on opportunities to bond with a good partner.
Maven is wonderful because it means I can pick up any Java project and there will be no surprises in how it builds; it simply won't allow your project to be a special snowflake with its own weird rules. I wish the community would cherish this and stop writing tools that make it possible to set up more complicated builds.
It also shows Groovy over Clojure which can't possibly be true. I'm basing my disbelief on what my connections are working in in the dc area, literally no one works on Groovy unless they have to deal with Gradle.
If you're into this type of thing, this is another neat story - Andy Warhol playing with a Mac for the first time at a party Steve Jobs went to

http://davidsheff.com/article/the-night-steve-jobs-met-andy-...
I use Nikola. On the tech side the developer decided to model it as a series of tasks such as render photos, render posts, build rss etc. Those tasks are also implemented to run incrementally. For example if you add a new post then only that new post gets rendered to the output directory.

While this sounds fine in principle, it soon gets messy. A configuration change may require everything to be rebuilt. But if you rename or delete a source file it didn't track how that ended up in the output directory so you end up with a slow accumulation of crud. It turns out to be fairly easy to confuse all the incremental logic and end up with messy builds. Add poor decisions like using the datestamp of items in the output directory to build the sitemap (they don't set output directory datestamp to that of the input items) and you get important failings.

In my opinion, incremental builds should give the same results as full clean builds or you have a fragile non-repeatable build - something that is very undesirable. I wrote a bit more at http://www.rogerbinns.com/blog/on-nikola.html
I've run TempleOS on bare metal before. Getting it installed can be a bit fiddly (e.g. finding the right io ports for the CD-ROM), but it worked for me.
For a recap of the Mt Gox rise and fall check my timeline: http://newslines.org/mt-gox/
For those of us who don't have this setup, suppose this kind of breach does occur and money is taken from a checking account. Is this covered by the bank somehow? Can that money be returned?
> Charge profile is not linear in existing batteries. A supercharger is 40mn to 80% and 75mn to 100%.

Many people have a mental model of battery charging like a tank of gas or another fluid, in which the first 10% and the last 10% take the same amount of time and effort.

It seems like a better mental model of battery charging would be a pressurized container of a compressible gas: the more you put in, the more it takes to put the next bit in.
I'm not convinced there is a problem. It sounds like some women seized upon this conference as an opportunity to point out a perceived bias.

The article is clearly written to suggest that you are either with us or against us and I take issue with that. The academic content of that kind of conference should not be limited by a speaker's gender, even if that means there are no women speakers. Just to be clear, I would feel the same if there were no male speakers
You can paste in PayPal passwords on the password reset tool this week, but it's a new tool from last week when I last reset it. Wonder what made them update it?
Darkcoin is Booming
Most startups fail. Throwing some of the best years of your life away and shirking parental responsibilities for a remote chance of a payoff is simply a dangerous form of gambling.

Paul Graham is basically just talking his own book. His model is to fund a heap of cheap companies that overwork work young, naive people. Most of these companies fail. The occasional one succeeds enormously which more than covers the costs of the failures. Meanwhile, the starry-eyed young employees often don't notice the system is rotten until their thirties.

I was once in the SF startup world, and it's a pretty disgusting place. It's sexist, extremely ageist, intolerant of actual diversity, and anti-family. The sooner that particular culture dies (and make no mistake, it's dying), the better.

It's also lazy capitalism; it loads as much risk as possible onto the employees instead of those providing the capital, and many of the twenty-somethings love it. Machismo (look at how hard I work) and confirmation bias abound.

You're being played, folks.
Would you be able to give any examples, aside from being "native" (which I'm assuming means its built on AppKit+Cocoa) as to what your app does differently or better than Charles? I use Charles pretty frequently but my co workers haven't gotten on board yet.

As an aside, IMO claiming that Charles isn't native is a little disingenuous. Yes it's built with Java, but I wouldn't dismiss it as non-native (unless you're using native in the purest of ways, meaning that its "natural" - e.g. Cocoa - to the system). I consider tools like Eclipse and IntelliJ "native" even though their UI may be poor compared to Xcode.
Frankly, startup or no startup. You can only do so much work within a day. With a bit of planning and discipline you can manage to stay effective and be a part of the family while building your startup.
It is hard to argue against these numbers.

It's actually quite easy to argue with those numbers.

They're not measuring what you think they're measuring. See github's bad language detection if I put jquery in git. Also, number of modules available does not imply utility, quality or size, nor take into consideration the utility quality and size of standard libraries.

There is no acknowledgement that there is a domain where javascript is the only option, and that adoption is not by choice but out of necessity (in which case, there is no reason to argue for a language, you're either building for that domain or not).

There is no distinguishing between frontend and backend javascript. Growth on the frontend is not a case for node.js. Unless I'm assuming I'll use the exact same employees for both, that they only know JS and that they're so worthless they can't pick up a second language that is probably very close to javascript evolutionarily.

The above points were specific, but the overall argument presented is that javascript is undergoing rapid growth. Not a great reason to jump on a technology, but even if you're willing to jump on something just because it's growing, it doesn't look at the context of _WHY_ it just started growing.

It is crucial to understand the pros and cons of using JavaScript.

Well yes, but that's a gimmie, it's crucial to understand the pros and cons of just about everything in your field. It would have been nice had this article gone into those pros and cons, but this was not a business case for JavaScript. It was a persuasive essay that the reader should evaluate JS on their own and possibly create a business case for it.
Breaking into Data
Can Xtend even be compiled to Java outside of Eclipse? I haven't been following recent improvements, but when I last checked, that wasn't possible. So it was essentially an in-IDE-only language, nice for little scripts, but completely useless for larger applications (or teams)
So, I am the child of a startup founder. Roughly a year before I was born my dad founded a startup. Throughout most of my early childhood he would routinely be working for 10+ hours at the office and then work after me and my sibling were put to sleep. Plus, he was usually travelling 4-5 days a month trying to pitch his idea (we didn't live in a big center for startups). Basically, he wasn't there.

I love my dad. A lot. He is still one of my favorite people, and when I come home it's always a joy to talk to him. But, he just wasn't around all that often as a kid, and I know he really tried, but you just can't be in two places at once. Honestly, I think it was a lot harder on my mom, what with the financial difficulties (especially when the startup eventually went belly up for a bit) raising me and my sibling on her own, all that stuff. I'm not angry at my dad, he did something he really wanted to do, and worked really hard at it, but you know you can't stop growing when you're five.

The only piece of 'advice' I have is try to carve out a regular time for being with your kids. Every Friday night, my dad would take me and my sibling down to the lake, and we'd get food, and talk, and play at an arcade (I still can totally beat him at Space Invaders, by the way), and that w as a really meaningful time for me and my sister, especially on the weekends he was working, or when we found him passed out in his chair after working all night.
Notably, there are only four female scientists among the 110 living members of IAQMS, which elects new candidates by internal vote. Ten out of 102 talks during the previous three conference were given by women, and only two female chemists have been awarded medals over the past decade, according to the instigators of the boycott.

“These numbers do not reflect the proportion of women active in the field,” said Gagliardi, who is a professor at the University of Minnesota. “Some 50 years ago the gender distribution in Quantum Molecular Sciences may have been so skewed, but nowadays things have changed.”

To illustrate the point, Krylov maintains the Women in Theoretical Chemistry web-directory, listing “more than 300 female scientists holding tenured and tenure track academic positions or equivalent positions in industry and other research establishments pursuing research in theoretical and computational chemistry, biochemistry, material science, as well as theoretical molecular/atomic physics and biophysics.”

That doesn't illustrate the point unless you compare that 300 against the number of male scientists. If there are 3000+ male scientists in the field, then it's not crazy that only 5-10% of the members/talks are given by women.

300 women is undoubtedly just a drop in the bucket compared to everyone working in "theoretical and computational chemistry, biochemistry, material science, as well as theoretical molecular/atomic physics and biophysics", a ridiculously broad set of topics spanning multiple large departments at every major university (most of which have little business at a quantum chemistry conference, of course).
As a non-American you are fundamentally unimportant to America, and are fair game for whatever they see fit. If they want your communications, your wealth, your life, they will have it. Wiretaps, asset freezes, drone-strikes.

The only thing that non-Americans can try to do is not engage with American businesses, but this doesn't really work either, as from the jingoistic perspective taken by US leadership and media this would be the "unfree world" "ganging up" because "they hate our freedom", and would only lead to yet more of the same, deeper isolation, and the vicious cycle continues.

It's very much worth noting that this is not a uniquely American phenomenon. The Chinese are at it, the Brits are at it in league with the Americans and the rest of their gang, and you can be sure anyone else with a capability is using it.

The same pattern applies elsewhere, and any external effort to apply pressure is propagandised into an attack, justifying the further reduction of liberties and increase of surveillance activities.

So what to do? The only thing I can perceive is the amputation of the power wielded by our senile and demented states by simply rendering them irrelevant through citizen-led governance. This is already happening, slowly, and the collapse of less entrenched governments which is ongoing all over the planet is reflective of exactly what happens when the populace just stop believing in the elite's power, and instead their own. The wheel turns, and gathers momentum.
What 60 years of political gerrymandering looks like
Activists Expose Michelle Obama’s Hypocrisy with #BringBackYourDrones
Right, this throwaway account is misnamed. My point is not that I can't buy a house, because I could easily move further away or move somewhere with lousy schools or get a small condo. It's that the majority of houses in the city we live in are out of our reach, despite how well off we are (median price in MV is > $1M). And so it boggles my mind how there are enough people in perpetuity to maintain these prices.