skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Today's jump may have more to do with this news from IRS:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2014/06/30/irs-...
The Best Salesman [video]
I got a acoustic guitar for birthday and from since I've sat hours before Youtube videos and tried to learn it. It has been a bumpy ride and I've merely learned anything.
Mainly because it's hard to learn from the people who are already good players. They play fast and keeping track with them using YouTube video player is really annoying.

Today I found GetInstinct and tried it out for like 30 minutes. I feel I've accomplished something and what is more important for me, I feel I've learned something.

It's easy, understandable and really enjoyable.

You'll make dozens (if not millions) of people enjoy playing guitar and hopefully other instruments.
Keep up the good work!
You're partially right about the dog whistle, but the literal meaning of 'entitlement' is that you have title to something, ie a legal right of ownership and it is the correct technical term for these payments, notwithstanding the secondary political meaning (of false entitlement) that has been attached to it.
I can see wanting JSON parsing built-in, but HTML is another problem. There isn't an obvious way to parse broken HTML, and every HTML parser does it differently. When you need to parse some HTML, you need to think about the differences, instead of just choosing the standard library one.
You say "our", but the bottom 50% do not own shares, in a pension fund or otherwise. Most of the money institutional investors are trading belongs to rich people.

(Who, you know, still have a right not to be ripped off)
err... where do you think people store their phones, anyway?
Almost any argument that relies on GDP numbers to back up its claim is specious at best.

For example, you could have a tornado destroy a town and the disaster recovery spending would increase GDP. You could build a teleportation device that puts all delivery drivers out of work. GDP would decrease but there would be an overall increase in wealth and quality of life.

Thinking about economics through the lens of GDP is just the wrong way to think about the economy.

Here's a great Planet Money podcast on the invention of "The Economy" and on GDP: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/02/28/283477546/the-inve...
Ah yes, the old "it'll work, we just need more money, promise!". We've been hearing that one since the beginning of the democratic form of governance. Guess you haven't looked at the recent graphs of US budget spending, otherwise you would have figured out that "more money" doesn't necessarily solve the problem.

Hint: Most, if not all, the additional money gets eaten up by newly created bureaucracy.
It's really simple. Trust is a mutual relation. I.e. since DRM always views users as potential criminals, it's natural always to view DRM as potential malware (and thus a security threat).

Here it's put in easy to understand terms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgFbqSYdNK4

Practice proves that point spectacularly, because DRM always has an overreaching unethical nature (since it's an overreaching preemptive policing which uses the logic of presumption of guilt). As the Sony exec voiced the core idea behind DRM:

> We will develop technology that transcends the individual user. We will firewall Napster at source - we will block it at your cable company. We will block it at your phone company. We will block it at your ISP. We will firewall it at your PC... These strategies are being aggressively pursued because there is simply too much at stake.

(See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_rootkit#Background ).

I.e. overreaching nature of DRM straight from the DRM proponents mouth. And it applies to all DRM by its very definition.
I and a friend attended to the class and read several papers, but all you learn are concepts, tools, paradigms and implementations. There is no "formula" for creating FRP, it's very generic although highly specific on monads, (applicative) functors, monoids, etc.
So definitively worth a shot, if you want to learn everything around FRP.
Politicians can't refer to social programs as "welfare" because it carries a negative connotation, and people on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security will be uncomfortable with being grouped with those on SNAP. They also can't refer to them as "social programs" because it's three short letters away from "socialism."

The use of the word "entitlements" is a lot like how socially left-leaning people are now more commonly referred to as "progressives" rather than "liberals."
How many flags does it take to kill a story? How many did this story get?
Who the heck defines what is relevant or for how much time a search engine can index some information available? When they are forcing to hide them they are censoring the information.

Your failure to recognize the simple fact does indicate two things: you either didn't read the EU ruling or you read and fail to grasp its meaning.
Amazing info and article.

In the end, Barclays created the LX dark pool to get more fees from individual investors and smaller investors. They used HFT firms as the carrot and stick to extract more revenue from the suckers using HFT and the volatility/liquidity that it can provide.

> Meanwhile, Barclays was advertising LX to high-frequency traders by offering them more information, lower fees, and faster connections than it gave to institutional investors.

Seen from an investor who bought the marketing, this is dishonest. But seen from the Barclay's boardroom, if they make all their money off of non HFTs, they need to increase buying/selling on their smalls and institutional investors. So of course Barclays would make it really cheap for the HFTs, all the more action to extract fees and commissions from the clients/suckers that pay.
Yes, that is exactly it. Boulder has been the biggest proponent of public transit, but gets the least in return. Former Democratic Colorado state legislator Ron Tupa a while back used to make an issue of this. If memory serves correct, it was city of Boulder that originally set up the successful HOP bus service not RTD (it was eventually absorbed into RTD). Apparently there is no (political) upshot for RTD to serve Boulder in any decent fashion. But this can only last so long before even Boulderites get fed up. My hunch is another tax increase would not pass. Of course, most of the FasTracks system will be complete soon so now so that does not matter except if you live in the neglected NW corridor, of course.
This same argument has been repeated for literally centuries now, and it always turns out wrong in the long run.

Imagine if we could run the entire world economy with only 5% of the workers. Pandemonium? No, it has already happened before. Agriculture was the whole economy, the rest was rounding error. Virtually all workers worked in agriculture. Now we produce all that and much more with something less than 5% of the workforce.

Having no more work to do necessarily means that everybody already has everything they want. It's not a meaningful risk.

Most of already do work so esoteric that our ancestors wouldn't possibly believe you could base a real economy around it. Yet here we are. Our descendants will do things that similarly boggle us.
Very true, but no one offers the Universal Inbox feature we do. From the feedback we've received thus far, users seem to find Stacker easier to use by comparison and we offer a lot of features on the lower priced plans that our competitors only offer on the top-tier plans.
Uber and the appropriation of public space
If you can't bullshit your way through criticism with vague-sounding phrases like “As the particles move along, they feel the wave field generated by them in the past and all other particles in the past”, you're not trying hard enough. :v

This magical bracelet is powered by the wave field shaping the contours of the superfluid of space time! Carrying you through life on positive pilot waves!
I don't know anyone who set out to create a google+ account on purpose, it was more of a side effect of using Google services and needing to sign in.
hah! Thank you for the link! Your experience definitely rings a bell -- I'm now a father of a 6 months old and I did my fair share of experiments with Zeo a few years ago.

By the way, there is a special firmware going around for Zeo that if installed will store the data unencrypted and also enables sending "real-time" info to the serial port located at the back of the device (I managed to read this data successfully using a python script that was also provided).

If you're interested in that custom firmware and realtime data schematics&code and not finding from the web, ping me and I'll look up from the archives!

For me wearing zeo more than 5 days in a row became unfomfortable, how long did you use it constantly to get to this 6.30am wakeup time?

You mention 18 months but I guess it's not possible to wear the headband for that many months in a row comforably?
"Literally" has actually been used informally in that sense for a few hundred years.
Since the post was published three days ago, bitcoin is up about 12%.
Investigating Wholly – Investigation with Integrity
Investigating the whole of existence.
Then this paper might be of great help to you

http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~imaier/pub/DeprecatingObserversTR201...

It's straightly viewn from an implementor's perspective in my opinion.

Tl:Dr.: The observer-pattern is bad and encourages callback-hell, therefore a Data-Flow DSL is implemented to control the order of evaluation. It's kind of showing the implementation of an IO-Monad.
The shape is intentional. Do you think they made it like that for branding purposes?
> This is Scott Adams saying "hey guys, here's some stuff I think but haven't really tested even a little bit."

For non-regular readers: that's exactly what Scott Adams' blog is about - throwing ideas into the wild and discussing them in the comments. It's a feature, not a bug.

The problems come when people read it without knowing that, and assuming he's advocating for <issue>, while he's more of a "what do you think about this crazy thought?" kind of writer. Check this post[1] (specially the disclaimer) for an example.

[1] http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/proof_almost_of_intelligent_de...
I'm sorry but you are simply way off base. When a road is expanded, it does temporarily shorten commute times and reduce traffic. But that makes the cheap land farther away from everything more desirable, causing people to move out further, increasing traffic. Those new suburbs require a massive infrastructure investment to install water, sewer, gas, electricity, etc. Not to mention building surface streets, schools, libraries, shopping centers, etc.

We've been building roads at a massive clip around the Dallas area, sprawling out over huge suburbs, many of which support mixed development (as does the city of Dallas itself). When I first moved here, the previous two lane highway had just been turned into a six lane toll road and there were no traffic jams, not even during rush hour. It's been 8 years and now we have stop and go traffic every day for about a 30 minute window and that window continues to grow larger.

If you think about the design of roads it should become clear why this happens... You have many on-ramps dumping cars into a fixed set of lanes. If, at any point, there are more cars that want to enter than there is room traffic must slow to accommodate them. In reality it happens before the road is full as people leave space for braking, etc. When that happens at any point, it creates a wave of slowed traffic that begins to ripple backwards from that point, meaning anywhere further backward that is close to capacity begins to jam up, making it even more difficult for new vehicles to enter the roadway, amplifying the wave even more.

Even if demand were 100% evenly spread out (which it never, never will be simply by the fact that brand new areas have empty fields or wooded lots - it takes time to build offices, start businesses, etc), the friction of merging & exiting the highway would eventually require more cars to exit than are entering, the exact opposite of rush hour conditions.

Building more lanes merely delays the inevitable; that's assuming you can, which in Dallas is impossible - most of the current roads (and 100% of the worst congested ones) would require tearing down skyscrapers or 100% tunneling / elevated highways because there is no more space.
Most of the websites, especially bloggers, prohibit contents being scraped and duplicated into other media such as this app. The app creator should try to get the consent of the bloggers before anything else. Otherwise, definitely an app I would like to use. Good work!
How Optimizely (Almost) Got Me Fired
That "optimization" might be reasonable does not imply that any method is, "optimization" is not an actual activity, but a label for the purpose of a wide variety of things you can do. Murdering your competitors is also good for "optimizing" your bottom line, but still unethical, to put it mildly.

Also, I strongly doubt that the public has any clue of what facebook is doing. For all the public knows and understands, facebook could be employing magic message fairies.
Note that this assumes the markets believe all bitcoins are fungible. There was some speculation buyers might pay a premium for coins held by the US government because they would be considered "clean".

That said, if you don't believe Bitcoins to be fungible I think you'd be crazy to buy millions of dollars worth of them. Bitcoin becomes far less useful if everyone has to worry whether their Bitcoins won't be accepted by certain users.
The counter to that is that I understand what services and goods are essential to me better than the government does (or anyone that isn't me, for that matter). If the goal is to do the most good with the least waste, basic income is probably better than a hodgepodge of universal services.

That said, I'm all for either or a combination of approaches. Anything to catch the US up with the rest of the developed world socially.
yeah, robots.txt is a horrible standard. trust me, i wrote https://www.npmjs.org/package/robotstxt just so that i can really understand what is going on. it's based on https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index...

the article is pretty much correct (although strangely worded at some times), the stuff about "communicating via robotst comments to google" is of course not true. the example he gives are developer jokes, nothing more.

still, you should not use comments in the robots.txt, why?

you can group user agents i.e.:

User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: bingbot
User-Agent: Yandex
Disallow: /

Congrats, you have just disallowed googlebot, bingbot and yandox from crawling (not indexing, just crawling)

ok, now:

User-agent: Googlebot
#User-agent: bingbot
User-Agent: Yandex
Disallow: /

so well, you have definitly blocked yandex, you do not care for bingbot (commented out), but what about googlebot? is googlebot and yandex part of a user-agent group? or is googlebot it's own group and yandex it's own group? if the commented line is interpredted as blank line, then googlebot and yandex are different groups, if it's interpredted are as non existent, they belong together.

they way i read the spec https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index..., this behaviour is undefined. (pleae correct me if i'm wrong)

simple solution: don't use comments in the robots.txt file.

also, please somebody fork and take over https://www.npmjs.org/package/robotstxt it has this undefined behaviour and it also does not follow HTTP 301 requests (which was unspecified when i coded it) and also it tries to do too much (fetching and analysing, it should only do one thing).

by the way, my recommendation is to have a robots.txt file like this

User-agent: *
Dissalow:

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/your-sitemap-index.xml

and return HTTP 200

why: if you do not have a file there, then at some point in the future suddenly you will return HTTP 500 or HTTP 200 with some response, that can be misleading. also it's quite common that the staging robots.txt file spills over into the real word, this happens as soon as you forget that you have to care about your real robots.txt

also read the spec https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index...
> After that, memes and macros became the currency of reddit.

You really have to sign up to the special interest subs. Of course /r/pics isn't going to be a place for good discussion. But there are hundreds (maybe thousands) of excellent, active, well moderated subs all over reddit that cater to just about any topic and they aren't hard to find.
Debt to GDP isn't a problem: http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/working_papers/worki... (very widely circulated paper, given that they lowered the boom on Reinhart/Rogoff)
Yep. Heart attacks, perpetual 'diabetes treatment', borrowing a million (or a trillion) dollars you can't pay back and spending it, promising unrealistic pension benefits, and depleting natural resources (wood, water, energy, overfishing, selling your seed corn), fighting losing wars (is there ever a winner?), paying other people to raise your kids, all grow "gee-dee-pee'.
I would not be surprised if it turns out that the Copenhagen interpretation is a modern phlogiston theory.
The Universal Bike
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I believe Cassini also flew through a gap in the outer rings during its initial positioning, using the communications dish as a shield against residual dust. There was also a recording released that transposed the energy dispersed from the impacts into audible noise. I'll see if I can find it.

Edit: Here we go. Info [1] and sound [2]

[1] http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cassini-Huyg...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rrc5pxRdLc
Is there anything like this for UK startups?
Quite. It's entirely rational for the government o maximize borrowing when interest rates are low, because treasuries are fixed-income securities, whose coupon (regular payment of interest to bondholders) does not fluctuate with the interest rate. Now if rates go up and borrowing does not fall, that would be a huge problem. But when rates are historically low it's completely rational to load up with as much debt as you can carry if the economic gain > the interest payment. My main beef with governance (by both the parties rather than one alone) of the last few years is that we didn't borrow enough and what we did borrow was mostly spent on transfer payments, instead of a massive (and necessary) overhaul of our infrastructure that would have created more employment and arguably had a greater money multiplier effect even at sub-optimal levels of economic efficiency.
You could have named it Shwing, though that name is a bit exclusionary.
When the government stops making it illegial, or charging fees for---Living. If Jesus Christ reappeared; what would
his first few days look like? He couldn't fish without a license. He couldn't hunt without a license. He couldn't
light a fire without a permit. He couldn't sleep unless
in a sanctified Homeless Shelter. He would probally get a
loitering ticket while preaching to the masses, or worse--
thrown in jail over inciting a riot? So, we live in a society where government regulates pretty much everything
we do; until they back off--they need to help the people
who can't "work" in their system. (God--please forgive me, I was just trying to make a point. I didn't use your name in vain.)
What was big data in the 70s, 80s and 90s? We just didn't call it map-reduce at the time.
This comment section turned out about the way one would predict when so few of the participants have ever studied economics.
Cassandra driver for Spark
The problem with entitlements/social safety net programs (how ever you want to spin it) is that they're policies that are predicated on the old generation being funded by a larger younger generation. That's policy that isn't fault tolerant to population decreases nor medical black swans.
These have some good points =)
Hacker News is a community of technologists, many working in the start-up space.

This man, his company, and the industry he represents are a bane for many start-ups (and other companies, small and large).

Such a bane, in fact, that many people, including many on this site, are working hard and expending large amounts of resources to change laws to prevent this man, his company, and their ilk from continuing to be an economic drag on our entire industry.

But never mind all that. He's got some great ideas about ovens.
"most things are already taken care of." Note how you used the word "most" instead of all.

I see what you're saying, but it relies on a lot of details being glossed over. We'd essentially have to live in some sort of utopian society where the universe magically auto-aligns and adjusts everything so that everything and everyone is equal, and has the exact same things.

Because, as soon as something is unequal, it's scarce in one place and abundant in another. If that happens, then we've created a market for exchange, and we're back to scarcity economics again. Granted, we're getting into philosophical grounds now, but do you understand what I'm trying to say?
You're allowed to discriminate against even "protected classes" of people if it actually materially affects their performance. If a woman is actually pregnant and can't lift heavy things, and that's part of the job requirement, then you're allowed to not hire her. If a heavy passenger is actually costing you more money for fuel, you'd be allowed to charge that person more for fuel. This is moot though, since height and weight are not protected categories and you can already discriminate against them all you want!
YouTube Is About to Change Drastically
Staunch opponent of reform tapped to head US Patent Office
Looks like Optimizely defaults to 1 tail tests, which only show that a variation is not worse than the control. Seems very misleading to market their tool as a product that helps you make data based business decisions.
i prefer universal essential services (healthcare, education, etc.) over a guaranteed basic income.

What about countries in Europe that have that, and yet aren't doing great?
That's just wrong. The definition of preemptive multitasking isn't that it works most of the time. A definition that lax would mean almost any cooperative threading system would be counted as "preemptive."

Also can you please find a reference that shows (Linux) kernel threads being 1-2 orders slower than user threads?
The sole reason the US avoided disaster - temporarily - from occurring due to the massive increase in public debt, is the Fed began buying the radical majority of the government's debt after China let up on its buying.

When you have to rely on your central bank to fund your government's debt burdens with magic fiat, you're in a perpetual downward spiral scenario already. These are the good years, the deficit is set to explode dramatically higher again soon, and there will be nobody to buy except the Fed.

Who else can eat $500b to $1t per year in junk paper? China can't afford it any longer (having just taken on a mountain of debt the past five years). Japan hasn't been able to afford it for a very long time, they can't even afford their own debt.

Now it's merely a question of time. The Fed is pulling its programs because it can't sustain them any longer without running inflation through the roof. They know the US economy is weak, they see the data that led to the -3% GDP print. It's not like we're producing 500,000 full-time jobs and 200,000 manufacturing jobs per month.