skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is my family less important than your product? This kind of micro thinking, writ large, is how we end up with busted policy at a macro level.
"Not an especially new idea"

I didn't claim it to be one. Of course Plato and his thoughts are behind it and if you give the book I mentioned a shot you'll find out that he is heavily mentioned in it.
Greece is what I might call cashflow positive - its government is taking in more money than it's spending in its business of running the country. It's only the bond repayments that are pushing it down.

Government spending should be countercyclical - and smart creditors (which, sure, a government beholden to populism can't always be) would realize that. Prop up the economy now, get growth up again, and then cream off some "repayments" when times are good - I'm sure a contract could be structured to specify that they'd repay their bonds in proportion to e.g. growth above 3%. Running Greece into the ground benefits noone, not even Germany. But sadly, decades on, politicians are still ignoring Keynes.

Or they could have simply defaulted. It's worked out pretty well for Iceland. The argument as I understand it for every nation being perpetually indebted is that it ensures outsiders have an interest in that country being successful - if you own Greek bonds you're less likely to invade Greece. But if your bondholders are forcing a lot of suffering on your country, maybe the costs outweigh the benefits.
This depends on your founding documents and your terms with the investors. The answer is going to differ based on those, as well as your state laws.

Absolutely spend the money to hire a good lawyer who specializes in startups. If you're getting some traction and believe you're going to succeed, you'll save yourself a lot of heartache (and potentially huge amounts of money) by investigating this properly right now.
KC was selected for a lot of reasons -- tons of cities were desperate to be the first Fiber city and would've given any accommodation necessary. KC had the perfect coalescence of geography (quite flat, minimal bodies of water, etc), market availability, and governmental cooperation for the pilot.
Why? It may be nice, but why should employers be forced to subsidize reproduction?
I'm in Charlotte and I have two ISPs, and neither of them gives me any data cap or any problem watching 2 Netflix streams.

My neighborhood has buried cable, so I don't know if the fiber will come to my house.
Of course, most competition also died. In terms of free email, there's now... I think Outlook.com is the only one I see semi-regularly? Yahoo's email service is utterly dreadful and I seem to remember a lot of kerfuffle regarding them and mailing lists.
Incredibly cheap in terms of financial cost, but not in terms of opportunity cost of the time you lose.

Admittedly I haven't read the article because Vice is blocked at work, but I imagine video game addiction is a lot different from other addictions since it has to do with something you do rather than a state you're in (not to say it's necessarily worse - just different). Serious addicts can play video games for several days straight, whereas I don't think doing drugs for several days straight (at least without doing anything else) is common among even the most serious addicts (though admittedly I'm not an expert in this). I think it would be very difficult to be a "high functioning" video game addict.
We use ballistocardiography (aka a big less sensitive microphone) to pick up movements, breathing and heart rate through the bed sheets.
The conspiracy theorist in me suspects that's the reason Greece is being forced to go through painful austerity measures even though everyone knows they won't work. The system survived a Greek defaul^H^Hvoluntary restructuring, but it wouldn't survive every country doing that, so the Greeks have to be seen to suffer.
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Accepting code donations from sanctioned countries
> That's what you need to do when OS releases are made only once every few years and are big. They don't have to be that way

Ubuntu and Fedora releases happen already in 6 month cycles. This is not some novel unexplored concept.
I know the founding team (3 out of 4 are Italians like me, all living in SF), and as a disclaimer, I am an early angel investor in the company.

I have tried the product in its alpha version, and have followed the progress thus far. I think that what Luna is trying to achieve is extremely important. In fact, I have decided to invest because I thought that improving someone's sleep is going to have a huge impact in his/her life.

I am not aware of any other product that is qualitatively similar to this. If there are, let me know :)

Good luck, guys!
What user management tasks do you anticipate?

What I've gleaned from listening to the StackOverflow/StackExchange podcasts is: If you can a build a community, community members will be inclined toward handling a lot of user management as part of their engagement in it.

There's also the implication that if you're not trying to build that sort of community, it's unlikely to be successful.
You should check out http://varinode.com
Maybe reading his post twice wasn't enough. Or maybe it's just that Bitcoin is not just "money" but the whole underlying technology ie. the blockchain is about to introduce huge changes into things we have been used to do in a certain way.
Personally I'm of the idealistic belief that glibc is really starting to show its corrosion, and should be replaced by a clean-room, standards-compliant and elegant design like musl: http://wiki.musl-libc.org/wiki/Functional_differences_from_g...

Of course, this would be a massive change for the Linux ecosystem at large. It is my hope that projects like Sabotage Linux will eventually procure most major software to become musl-compatible, though.

The source of the GHOST bug was in NSS, which musl lacks by design.
From a different perspective...

... perhaps if we were to actually get serious about doing small/incremental updates all the time, we'd get better at actually doing them without incident.

I think one of the major obstactles is that the software stack has become ridiculously (and hideously) complex over time. If we could converge towards a world more like what's described here[1], then I think we'd be in a better place overall. (Granted, this the video is talking about deploying services, but AFAICT there's little essential difference between that and a modern GUI system with all its DBUS interfaces and whatnot.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaHzdqFithc
I personally question the goal of fighting it. More and more I begin to believe that it's "privacy vs. progress of mankind - choose one". Privacy for privacy's sake is not something I think is important - the problem is always with the ways lack of it could be abused. I can't see how we can save privacy without getting rid of computers - after all, even if you reduce number of sensors, the remaining void can be filled back by throwing more computing power at data you can get.
Because it is one of those things that help close the gender gap, and besides without reproduction where will those companies get the next generation of workers and who will help pay for the pensions of those that work today.

Almost every developed country has done the math and has realized that having children is part of having a society and that paid leave for people that have children is on balance a good thing. Ditto anti-discriminatory hiring laws and laws that state that it is illegal to ask a woman directly or indirectly whether or not she plans to have children during the hiring process.

Here is a nice map illustrating the various times available per country:

http://worldpolicyforum.org/global-maps/is-paid-leave-availa...
Show HN: Xchange.js and btc-stats – My first Node modules
Hi all,

https://github.com/jxm262/btc-stats

-Bitcoin price api to calculate statistics on spot prices across exchanges. Uses the xchange.js module to retrieve current ticker prices.

https://github.com/jxm262/xchange.js

-Bitcoin and Altcoin spot price api. Aggregates different exchanges api's into a convenient wrapper.

-----

This is my first time asking for feedback on HN so I'm a little nervous, but could definitely use some good feedback. I've recently been trying out Node.js and so far love the tech stack as it's been super easy for me to pick up.

I've also been contemplating creating a library to interact with all the bitcoin exchanges, similar to https://github.com/timmolter/XChange , but in JavaScript. It could also include some common wrapper responses and super easy to read documentation. My goal is to learn Node.js and at the same time make dealing with Bitcoin exchanges easier for developers.

Please let me know what you think! Any ideas for improvements , or perhaps other projects?
Real world phone reception compared
@detaro, here's a version of the image with original and my modified version

http://d.pr/i/14Pi0
If enough Americans were sufficiently upset about the NSA, it would be gone. They aren't. It's not even a significant election issue.

Are we sure of that? Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold lost his re-election bid. He was the only Senator to vote against the PATRIOT Act in 2001.

Colorado Senator Mark Udall lost his 2012 re-election campaign after being a total gadfly in the Senate Intelligence Oversight Committee.

It strikes me that the NSA is a significant election issue, just not to the voters.

Also, you're kind of arguing about a technicality in the definition of "democratic". Our elected reps often act un-democratically. I hope this is to prevent tyranny of the majority, but I fear that it's just legislative capture.
I hear you but given our stage we are trying to keep the project to as few SKUs as possible.
BTW we are about to announce Cal King and we'll definitely expand the selection if we see demand.

Help us find more like you! :)
> The only thing I can think of is that it's hard to synchronize the discount of an entire industry, and nobody wants to go first. Having a local currency and printing more money allows you to do that across the board.

That's exactly right. The key point is time.

If you have to wait for your economy to contract, you're still borrowing tons of money to keep the country afloat. You're paying high interest rates on that debt, while at the same time you're losing tax receipts as more and more people are no longer paying taxes but instead are on the dole.
maybe because it jumps as malware usually does
XSS via DNS TXT record
>But perhaps the less radical approach would be to pay them enough such that they can take the time to judge the work on it's merit.

I assume you have not TAed: I'd like to agree with you, but the realities are it is poor pay for crappy work. Most students don't care about their work. Most students seem to be unable to follow basic instructions. I go out of my way to help students if they care and stay late at labs for these students, but I have no patience for wasting my time because someone wants to show off and deliberately make my life harder. As is, when I'm being paid for 6hrs of lab + marking/week, and I am already spending 8+hrs a week because students can't format their assignments properly, don't write in complete sentences, etc, I have zero interest in patting this guy on the back. Instead, I have to do more work for no pay so he can feel clever.
How to Use Yeoman to Scaffold Your Next Web App
It' stories like these that's making me not sure if google is evil or not(i'm guessing the least evil of them all)
Really surprising - I would have thought that would be a "total no-go" environment. Thanks for the data point!
After a 2+ year shipping delay for a defunct product, this company will never see a penny of my money ever again.

Fool me once, shame on you;
fool me twice, shame on me.
I question the scale of just what is getting upgraded if it is "quick and painless."

Note, that I do not mean to diminish the accomplishment. Especially as a fan of TeX and someone that often toutes that maybe we are learning the wrong software lessons by constantly rewriting everything to be in the latest safe language/paradigm.

However, to not acknowledge all of the progress that is made in other areas is just as dangerous as not acknowledging the benefits of more deliberate methodologies.
I wasn't commenting on IBM's methods - although I think attributing the entirety of their profit to scammery is extremely far-fetched - but on the choice of market. My comment was simply to point out that I don't think there's any shame in targeting boring market segments, and that there's clearly plenty of money to be made.
So, basically, you want Chromium/Firefox.
It’s this attitude that enables businesses to accumulate an unwieldy number of services!

My company subscribes to Google Apps, HipChat, Slack, Yammer, Zoom, … The costs accumulate.
I really want to lop off the 'ns' and '10 sec' divisions of all the charts and expand the resolution...
Simone, you are our favorite (and first!) investor:)
> the distorting lens of the unfortunate US insurance landscape, costs (for whatever "costs" mean in this distorted context)

On the topic of distorted costs, I nearly flipped out last night when I got the statement for my recent polysomnogram. The sticker price, if I walked in uninsured, would have been $8750. My insurance company is paying $616, and I am paying $15. I think it is abhorrent that the facility just ignores 93% of the sticker price just because I have insurance. I saw similar massive write-downs on my arm surgery. I imagine a C-section is the same.
Yikes. I'm in the UK, and while we had everything covered on the NHS in the end, we inquired about the costs of an elective/scheduled C-section (which the NHS does not offer - you do get a C-section if it is medically recommended, but not if you want it just for the "convenience"), and a C-section carried out privately by one of the top surgeons in the country at one of the top hospitals would have come out well under half the number your quoted for the US.
Sounds like an argument for detangling healthcare from the employer-employee relationship, possibly through a single-payer system...
This is one of my favorite book. I really like the raise and fall of IdSoftware. I also like to see how the relationship between Carmack and Romeo changed during the decade where they were so successful.
> It is no mystery why the Constitution included the provision allowing citizens to arm themselves with the same class of weapons that the government possessed.

It's worth noting that no longer do citizens have the ability to arm themselves with "the same class of weapons" as the government. Unless you're willing to sell APCs and cruise missiles to private parties, there's no way a rebellion can outgun country's military.
How much does the efficacy of this device dip when you share a king sized bed with your significant other and two 25-ish pound dogs?
I think you'd be surprised on both counts. Chasing a dopamine hit in a game is seeking a "state" as much as a thing to do — after all, you do things because of the way they make you feel, right? And multi-day drug and/or alcohol binges are actually very common.

But certainly you're right that the loss of time/opportunity is far from cheap. Although with someone who has the means to be addicted to something like a game - implying a computer, power, a place to stay - one might speculate that they have more to lose, materially speaking.
See my reply in atmosx's comment.
Step 2: Make a consumer web app.
Following your comment about 'ColorPy', I decided to write a quick IPython notebook using our API (Which is borrowing some plotting aspect ideas to Mark Kness package):

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/colour-science/colour-ram...
Lol, I hope that was a joke (i think it was), for those who aren't aware, this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig
For the shops who don't live and breath js and whose js work is almost entirely browser-based, these monoliths are great. I, for one, am bummed that the js market is moving away from monoliths. e.g. YUI shutting down.
Google Fiber: Coming to a neighbourhood other than your own soon!
I don't believe they should. If a company decides that that option is part of their benefits package great. The Fed should not be reaching its hands into businesses for much more than they do right now.
Because someone will have to pay, and it is the governments task to decide who. Obviously it could be decided that the government will pay for it. Regardless of who pays for it, the employers will suffer discomfort.

Do you think it is the employers right to not be forced to subsidize the reproduction of their employees?
>Ask a question like "why would I choose Framework X over Y" in Google's searchbox, and your top results will have the same question on SO, except that it has been closed because the answer is opinion-based. The few answers to the closed question are usually fairly objective and insightful and leave me wishing that more people were able to add their 2 cents.

They are often very outdated too - some were closed 3, 4, 5 years ago and never updated.
Related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8943709 ?
This seems really tricky to get right, though. For example, if you forced companies to pay through their leave, that gives them an incentive to hire people who they don't believe are likely to have children soon.

If that's the case then it seems like this would penalize people in the child bearing age even when they are not planning to have children.

On the other hand, not offering paid leave means that women are always going to be at an inherent disadvantage when they are bearing a child.

Of course, you could argue that having a child is really a choice (at least most commonly) and those who wish to have children should plan accordingly. Others might say that having a child is something that everyone should be able to do. I definitely don't belong in that group but I also don't plan to have kids so maybe I just can't understand.

Either way, I'd love to hear your or anyone else's thoughts on why this should be law when it's such a complicated issue and thus one that I bet law makers would screw up.
And how exactly do you attach one of the car battery cables to the inside handle if the door is locked? The point is that touching both cables to the front will result in the shortest path between the cables, which goes through nothing useful.
They don't want to dig only to have someone else undercut them.
Bolt works locally over Bluetooth with no Internet connection. The optional extra thing (Bridge) is if you would like to enable Internet connectivity.

A $15 dollar SDR wouldn't do it either. Most electronic locks aren't susceptible to replay attacks unless they're using KeeLoq and it's out of range. You might be able to do another kind of attack with three Ubertooth One's though. We got something like this working in our lab and I talked about it at DefCon 21 in the Wireless Village track - the basic patch is to use corroborate with other data (geo, time, etc.)
I would suggest reading and thinking harder. It would make for a better commenting history.
It's not chess if it doesn't allow castle. From the comments (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=64962#c715279):

> Well... It is clear to me that you put more interest in making a small chess program that in making a good chess program. That's understandable even if the result is a program very easy to beat but... you cannot say that BootChess is a complete chess program because it does not allow to castle (didn't tried promotions, underpromotions, en passant pawn captures, stalemate... but I bet that are not supported, are they?) and, worst, it does not care about avoid to place a King in check. Every chess player knows that it is illegal (the movement CANNOT be made) to place your king on a square controlled by your rival pieces. If you allow it, then this is not chess.
This needs to be standard across companies of all size and it needs to be a reasonable time, as it is at AeroFS. Kudos to them for doing something about it.
How is it possible that millions of New Yorkers accurately discounted the probability of it being a 500-year storm and yet the mayor didn't? The responsibility must lie with either the Mayor or the meteorologists. And there is something to own up to -- shutting down the city is not without real cost to real people. The mayor and governor will stay it was for our own good and better safe than sorry. But put a few million people under house arrest (no using roads -- under threat of arrest, no public transport) for basically no reason.

But a few things to consider:
1) The meteorologists with the most dire predictions are the one who are going to be picked up by the media -- the media needs to sell ads.
2) The bulk of the population accurately discounted the most dire predictions, because of well-calibrated but subconscious Bayesian calculation.
3) Bureaucrats, and to some extent politicians of both parties, have a well-intentioned, but costly and wrong, need to subvert the judgement of millions and replace it with that of a handful of experts. When the judgement proves wrong, they rest on their good intentions without assuming responsibility.
4) In subverting these judgements bureaucrats and politicians can and do rely on the states monopoly on force.
It’s easy. Every user is a bouncer. They don’t need to configure anything. My former company did this and it worked well.
Why should salary while on parental leave be determined by salary while working?
Sounds like a pipe dream from the outset. 100 ships? Against a small colony on the other side of the world? As a sense of scale, the Spanish Armada, expected to take over England itself if it succeeded (albeit 200 years earlier) was 130 ships strong. And the first colonisation fleet sent by the British was only 11 ships. While not all ships are created equal, 100 ships is still an enormous undertaking, especially at the limits of your supply lines.
kick the dogs off! i'm sure they aren't helping you sleep :)
It's a benefit of working for that company. Awesome. That should not be forced on every company.
Here ya go! http://d.pr/i/14Pi0
I didn't realize that. My only exposure to weather reports at this point is actually just going to weather.gov and saying "ok, might get snow, I'll go the store tonight instead of tomorrow". And stuff like this is precisely why.
I have a cousin who has been taking beginner CS classes and is actively looking at the steps she can take to eventually move into a job in web programming.

I've provided some feedback, but this first hand account is particularly useful. I've shared it with her. Thank you.
We used IRC at my former company (Simple) and it worked well. This is notable because most of the company is non-technical customer support.
You're glossing over a huge amount of stuff relating to who does the reporting and how the reporting on the government is done. There's plenty to suggest that the government actively works to keep journalists in line. The Sterling prosecution and James Risen's legal problems spring to mind. The heavy weight of the Espionage Act also comes to mind, as does the very heavy use of "anonymous" or "unnamed sources" these days.

In short, it really looks like some parts of the US government actively work to keep reporting very favorable or non-existent.
We currently don't have a built-in motor for the vibration, currently we are using the phone as an alarm, informed by the data coming from Luna.

We have an experimental feature that consists in gradually increasing the volume of the alarm sound till we notice you are waking up: the goal is to keep it just loud enough to wake you up but not your partner. This is obviously assuming your phone sits on a nightstand on your side of the bed.
Well, they made a nice few-second appearance in Google's Zeitgeist 2011 video, and also spawned some fun memes (#OccupyJupiter comes to my mind). That must be worth something. </sarcasm>