skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really liked the Polymer demos from I/O, but stepping back, it seems an awful lot like React without the compatibility.

Polymer does appear to be more than just another Google flash-in-the-pan. They've got a good team, which is working closely with the Chrome team and Google's investment at I/O was significant. I wonder how the Angular folks are feeling.

Facebook is using React right now, when will Google put Polymer into production? Hopefully Polymer will get around to some practical compatibility. Otherwise I'll make a note in my calendar for 2016.
I would looooove any insight that you have on making the docs better for people who haven't done systems programming before. If you've ever got the time to type out a few thoughts, my email is in my profile.
9 feet for one lane road between 10,000 cabins in a line 209 feet apart leads to 431 acres of road area. i.e. your less dense population already destroys more road area than the denser city did. It is an unfortunate reality that dense cities are orders more efficient for a modern society than spread out ones.

Phrased differently, if we have to bulldoze anyway, we should bulldoze the minimal surface area.

Let me know if messed up the calculation, I never used acres or feet.
Why would you? I’ve never been a fan of adopting technology for technology’s sake without a problem that you’re trying to solve with it. (n.b. that problem could acceptably be ‘I want to learn more about this technology’)
This is a lousy article that adds nothing (but unsourced speculation) over the Protonmail page that it links to here: https://protonmail.ch/blog/paypal-freezes-protonmail-campaig...
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If your fine with groupthink, personality driven research and science as a priesthood, then sure, why question. If you believe Piketty has written a largely rhetorical position paper, then sure, why question. However if Piketty is endeavoring to to do evidence-based formal social science questioning is not only appropriate, it should be welcomed.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arming_America as an example why questioning is necessary.

(As it happens, I don't believe any of the critiques so far have undermined his main results.)

Finally, your analogy is poorly informed and too cute by half.
PayPal does it again. It had previously done it "again", on many occasions. I just don't understand how people keep going back to an organisation like PayPal, or GoDaddy which practically mean "horror stories".
It is necessary, just and right (Immigratoin reform)
This is really good. Will take note.
Won't watch French Open tennis anymore. I hope the players will boycott as well, as long as BNP is sponsoring that event.
All relevant compilers do that automatically.
More than that, 4chan is a source upstream of other communities you mentioned. Content gets filtered and sifted, and some gets passed on. For example, Rickrolling
became a major phenomenon that way.
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Nokia’s destiny: From boots to phones to… boots
Slightly off-topic but the SC did not rule on corporations being capable of religious exercise in Hobby Lobby, it just ruled on what the law says (RFRA talks about corporations being allowed to get religious exemptions). There is nothing unconstitutional about the law, but the "religious exercise" did not spawn from the constitution, and the repeal of the law would make those religious beliefs disappear
> One individual sending money back and forth can generate tremendous volume

Which is what the "days destroyed" measurement looks to compensate for https://blockchain.info/charts/bitcoin-days-destroyed https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Days_Destroyed
The Polymer website uses Polymer and it is slooooow. That's a huge red flag to me.

I have nothing but good things to say about React. Try that instead.
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Who on earth thought it'd be a great idea to make the whole content on that webpage shift sideways as you scroll down the page? Thanks for that. I really appreciate designers making webpages more of a challenge to read.
This is great news indeed. At least now we know the OpenSSL developers recognize the problems they have and that they are actively working on fixing them.

This definitely increases my confidence in them.
For a mobile project, it is just too slow. I would go with ember
See the second article I referenced – it shows how you might think so even though it might be disastrously wrong.
This is pure skepticism. Your position is: "We don't know anything about the real world."

That is absolute hokum. The Earth orbits the Sun, living things need fuel to survive, two units combined with two units sums to four units. I could go on and on.

You need good epistemology to explain why this is, since while it's common sense, I agree that common sense is not sufficient when we're talking about philosophy. Clearly you have not discovered good epistemology.
Paypal enjoys many of the protections of banks (even FDIC insurance), but skirts many of the regulations. Namely, the regulation that it is illegal to withhold your customers money.
We are using it for implementing a rather large project. I plan on writing a few articles on our experiences with it in the next couple of months.

What you need to keep in mind that Polymer is largely experimental software, I would not recommend it yet for generic audience websites. The polyfills are nice, but you have to keep a tight eye on performance, and a new browser release could very easily pull out the rug from under you, as the Chrome release last month did, and make your site not work for a large chunk of users. I personally would not do it if I had a whole bunch of browsers I had to test every single thing in.

It also takes a little while to get accustomed to the Polymer way of doing things. Our app is a single page webapp and there's many things we had to find out for ourselves. Most Polymer documentation is about rendering views, not writing controllers or models that suit web applications.

From what I heard, they are working on a tighter integration with Angular. If that would become an official thing it would probably improve their opinionatedness on controllers/models. I personally am not a fan of Angular, so perhaps I would not follow that anyway ;)
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Sitting at the Wired Money conference and listening to a talk on the complexity in the finance market.

Fintech is a real market but we do have to make it interesting.
I was curious myself so I followed his advice and googled him.

Turns out, he works for google. http://www.linkedin.com/in/apenwarr

Which makes this line all the more hilarious.

"But it's not really a secret; you can probably figure it out if you bing around a bit for my name."
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And what if they have a clause in their ToC that they are allowed to kill you, are they allowed to kill you then? ...

Paypal is convenient and well known, that's all. They are in fact expensive and extremely unrecommended for anything else than personal low-frequency convenient payments imho.

just my 2 cents.
Additionally, the government itself was a large player in pushing the mortgage crisis. From keeping interest rates low, to encouraging lenders to get loans for those who couldn't afford them, to the implied bailouts (which turned out to be true) that only encouraged reckless behavior. If they look too hard they'll have to look in the mirror and that will never happen.
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It's a wake up call: real charity is stuff like stopping malaria in destitute villages. Releasing software without charging a fee? Not so much.
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1) Linux and other unixes were created with the idea of privilege separation and permission baked in. Windows had to add it later, while keeping compatibility

2) Linux has a variety of kernels and libraries versions across its base, making it difficult to exploit it uniformly

3) MS is indeed capable of making secure OSes, I don't deny it, but you should not use Xbox, Windows Phone and RT as examples, since all three of them can ONLY install approved software (less for RT, but it's not used by end users in the same way)

4) MS could have used the same approach used by Linux and Android (and partially OSX): have a central approved and monitored repository of software, but giving the possibility to add external software by jumping a few hoops, i.e. inserting a password, or checking a couple of checkboxes before allowing untrusted installations.

5) To prove the point, Android has malware almost exclusively outside of the google play store. Never heard of someone getting malware by using android, while I know an handful of people getting malware on windows (this is anecdotal experience, but I don't have any other data)

6) The shitstorm was raised because on some Secure Boot implementations it was impossible to disable it
Where are the HN rules? I always see comments referencing the style of comments that are encouraged / discouraged, without any actual reference.
The term "inelasticity" describes consumer demand, rather than the price. As a good becomes increasingly scarce, the price will rise. But when demand is highly "elastic," the price rise will be mitigated by consumers changing their behavior or seeking a substitute good (in this scenario, by relocating their residence away from NYC). In other words, demand elasticity means that consumers can decide not to pay the higher price because they have alternative options.

In the case of NYC housing, the demand is inelastic, meaning that the price increases stick because enough people do not have any acceptable alternative to paying it (likely because employment in their chosen profession requires being physically located in or near Manhattan).
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Finding out how many transactions are conducted, and their value would be easier, but it may be difficult to correlate this information with the people behind them.
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Actually I've only one I've been playing is DS1. As an armor-avoidant high dex thief type because that's generally my play style - see my love of being a tiny spaceship dodging giant bullets. Non-boss combat consists mostly of me rolling around like crazy until I can backstab. Also mouse and keyboard isn't any kind of option because I do 90% of my gaming on a console.
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Joe
No.

With correct targeting you can get some very smart people.

Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is shit) applies, and since /b/ is so rapid there is a lot of stuff in that 90%.

When /r9k/ started (I remember it when the Robot image was up) it was interesting. There are a couple of smart people in /g/ (especially if you're interested in Plan9 or FDE under Linux to protect Loli)

There is a bit of a problem with semi-smart people thinking they are smarter than they are. (And because of the volume of people you tend to meet a lot of them).
Or, alternatively, be clear that this is not connected to my) Google program. Email me at cdibona@google.com and we can give you some language that other summer of code like programs use.

Then we're actually happy to even highlight your program as one that takes inspiration from us... (assuming your program is good and long lasting...)
> New York, San Francisco, Berlin

There are exactly zero engineering positions outside of the US on http://www.shutterstock.com/jobs/listings

It should read: "New York, San Francisco, Seattle (but mostly New York)".
Great! I'll just drop my kids off outside the school gate on the way in at 7.15 and hope the teacher decided to opt for an early commute in today too.
This quote is just a load of crap.

There is awareness---I am conscious, so are you. It's a fact. It's true. There is simply no problem, here. It is not a great mystery. We don't know precisely how consciousness works, of course.

There is no boundary of the objective and subjective, because there is no such thing as subjective truth, which is an oxymoron. For example, if vanilla is my favorite ice cream, that is an objective truth about my personal preferences.
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Yeah that definitely gave me a weird moment of vertigo. Decidedly unpleasant.
Probably someone who thinks that "making pages readable for everyone" is a goal for losers :) That's the theory in action !
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It's faster and can live compile on reload which means you don't need to wait for any compilation step after save.
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The only reason to use polymer is if you need the L style UIs they discussed at Google I/O.

While Google's really good at Java apis, they're really terrible at JS apis. I love Google, but I would be very hesitant to use their JavaScript libraries or frameworks. A lot of people I've talked to (on irc, es-discus, etc.) don't agree with web components, but Google's pushing it hard.

Web components are poorly based good ideas, and polymer is poorly based on web components, and your app will be (poorly) based on that.

Other people have started posting some of the problems with polymer.
>"How do we know that American banks shunned it?"

We can never prove this, as an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Long-term stability is not exactly needed for Project Euler solutions, don't you think?

I think you're overreacting here - somebody barely mentions a language and you immediately start praising said language for features not even needed in this particular person use cases.
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It is web scale.