skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really have to ask why a government in the US isn't taking action against a business or industry?
He lost me at "In fact, many of us who are working at a high pace and functioning at a high level seem to experience this."
They say Americans learn about geography though war -- I'm going to say they learn about economics through financial crises. Most people don't understand private equity markets (like they didn't understand CDS's, etc) so it's certainly in the list of contenders for the next crisis.
"If people like you in the cultures that you're part of decide that surveillance is cool and exciting, that's more talent to take the billions of dollars and vast intellectual challenges of figuring out how to eliminate the vestiges of privacy. If they decide it's uncool and sketchy, that's more talent that goes elsewhere and does something else."

And why you shouldn't work for the NSA. This scene from 'Good Will Hunting' comes to mind ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOZllbNarw
First uSched FAQ
Great! Curious about MongoDB 3.0 and WiredTiger storage engine performance in my meteor apps. Also curious how it performs in comparison with PostgreSQL.
The "Capacitor Plague"[1] almost guarantees that machines made 10 to 15 years ago will have shortened lifespans. Would be interesting to peek into the future and see what antique computer collecting is like and if a working 2002 machine would be more expensive because of its rarity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
> universities move away from tenure-based hiring and towards long-term-contract-based hiring

they already do, see the army of adjuncts
Deflation shifts the returns, making holding cash more attractive, so it reduces investment. Reduced investment likely results in lower long term growth as less new businesses and ideas can be funded.
Consul: the end of CNAMEs and PuppetDB?
Orbit: EA's first open source project
And when they are sold in Australia, they will cost over $350.
But it has MongoDB so it is web scale!
I stopped believing when nobody could provide me with an economy that collapsed due to deflationary spiral, but dead economies from inflationary spirals happen several times per century, right up until the current day.

There is, however, evidence of periods in the Roman Empire where price stability lasted for spans of several emperors (the ones that didn't debase the currency). But when emperors decided to debase the currency, those long periods of price stability were destroyed in the blink of an eye.

Many economists tie themselves in knots trying to explain how inflation has complex causes, but it is 'always and everywhere a monetary phenomonen'
And these advantages are meaningful not just for the companies, but for the end-user. Most users don't want to root their own machines, they just want a machine that can help them live their lives, make ends meet, and learn more about their world. A virus that bricks the machine keeps them from doing that.

Of course, for some 15-year-old girl in Jakarta, "learn more about their world" may in fact mean rooting their machine so they can deal with grotty Unix details and 8 years down the road build on that to for an MEng thesis and then startup.
Here's a reasonably recent list of production Meteor apps: http://www.quora.com/Which-startups-use-Meteor-in-production

IMHO, one of the often overlooked use cases for Meteor is rapid-prototyping. If anyone remembers DHH's video 10 years ago demonstrating Rails' scaffolding [0], Meteor is the 2015 version.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzj723LkRJY
It is a matter of time: https://trello.com/b/hjBDflxp/meteor-roadmap
Meteor is great, I can't create a web app with other stacks faster than with Meteor.

My record was saving the day with a demo in less than 1 hour.

I'm glad is more mature.

The only thing I miss is Postgres as alternative to MongoDB.

Mongo is really comfortable but some projects needs Postgres badassness.

Should be doable for Meteor's team since Postgres is now super friendly to JSON. I guess the main challenge is in the SQL support because is a beast in itself. But starting small with a MiniSQL API at the frontend would be totally fine.
Farmers are sacred in America. People are terrified of the idea that, "if we cut how much water they get, how will we eat???" Never mind that such thinking is nonsense. What will happen if water becomes more expensive is that farmers will adopt more efficient technology, they will grow somewhat less of the thirstier crops, and those crops will go up in price somewhat.

So yes, the downside is that the price of your almonds and alfalfa will be a bit higher; the upside is that people will have enough water for day to day use to live normally.
But what I'm saying is that the tight control specifically from Tesla is totally unrelated to it being electric. Nothing stops electric vehicles from being great for modding. Tesla is a lot like Apple but it's not at all about the engine.

And some of the androids are even more expensive than iPhones...
Because money. That's generally the answer when the government does something that defies logic.
Three-in-one benefits of LDAP integration
I've often thought this. It's something Woz mentions in his book, iWoz. There's something to be said about having a wholistic appreciation of the machine, and there was a time when a somewhat ordinary individual could hold a mental model of all the components -- software and hardware -- of their machine.

It's also a bit reminiscent of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -- the hero rides an older bike, while his buddy rides a newer BMW model that the buddy can't maintain himself. There's less of a connection between the technology and the user; less "feel".
Instacart does all of those as well.
What makes parts of your life annoying?
See the list that Slava Kim answered.

https://www.quora.com/Which-startups-use-Meteor-in-productio...
Here's a good test to try in the store. You can do it in OneNote.

Using a business card as a ruler, try to draw a diagonal line, slowly (a few seconds to cross the card). Unless they have fixed it recently, the Surface Pro 3 cannot draw straight lines in this way, and they will be quite jagged.

In practice, you might never draw lines in this way, but the same jagged features will pop up everywhere, especially if you draw fine shapes carefully (as opposed to large strokes sloppily).
Also, "if we enforce immigration laws or require farmers to pay a living wage, how will we eat?"

It's despicable.
For mobile numbers it sounds like this uses an HLR Lookup service, which will (in simple terms) return the Mobile Country Code (MCC) and Mobile Network Code (MNC) - e.g. MCC 234 is the UK, and MNC 20 is Hutchinson 3G (aka 3). If you were to check the number itself against a numbering plan (for the UK http://www.telecom-tariffs.co.uk/codelook.htm is a useful tool) it'd show the original operator.
iPhone model likely refers to iPads with cellular data.
Everyone who pays $100/year to get free two-day shipping for Amazon products lives post-scarcity.
Yes and no. The biggest writing task I do is film scripts (which run about 20-25,000 words). I'm used to editing as I go and I have the whole story plus a lot of the language in my head while I'm writing (or more often, typing - the composition part usually takes place away from the keyboard).

But once I'm done with a draft, the next day I go get it printed and then I go through it with a pencil, crossing things out and scribbling notes on it. Not being able to edit the paper version makes some errors suddenly visible (like misplaced subject errors that a spelling/grammar checker can't easily catch) and more importantly it gives me a much better sense of the narrative pacing and suchlike.

I do very much appreciate the capabilities of a good word processor. The idea of writing in linear fashion using a typewriter isn't appealing at all. Incidentally I'd like to mention I use Fade In, which is a one-man project by Kent Tessman who answers all his own support queries. It's well worth the $50 he asks and vastly more pleasant to use than Final Draft.
Interesting results on a couple of 'special' +1800 numbers -- could someone from Twilio clarify the results?

+18005551212

{
"country_code": "US",
"phone_number": "+18005551212",
"national_format": "(800) 555-1212",
"url": "https://lookups.twilio.com/v1/PhoneNumber/+18005551212",
"carrier": {
"type": "mobile",
"error_code": null,
"mobile_network_code": null,
"mobile_country_code": "310",
"name": "ICE Wireless"
}
}

+18005551111
{
"country_code": "US",
"phone_number": "+18005551111",
"national_format": "(800) 555-1111",
"url": "https://lookups.twilio.com/v1/PhoneNumber/+18005551111",
"carrier": {
"type": "mobile",
"error_code": null,
"mobile_network_code": null,
"mobile_country_code": "310",
"name": "Zipwhip"
}
}

Specifically, Ice Wireless seems to be a small northern Canada provider?
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. As your wikipedia link explains, calling the Central Valley a desert is not 100% off-base but is definitely an exaggeration to the point of being incorrect. Parts of it are semidesert and parts of it get too much precipitation to even begin to qualify as a desert.
in your defense, twitter really is an awful idea.
I see, they give evidence for both factors.

1. Better programmers are more likely to have negotiating leverage.

2. Taking a poor programmer and moving him to a quieter space improves his productivity.

I'd still like to see a proper modern scientific study comparing office environments. It's very hard to do correctly, because there are too many variables.

Also, there really are 10x programmers. At my current job, the new programmer took a couple of weeks to do something that I thought would take a couple of days. (and I was already familiar with the codebase, so my estimate of how long it would take me to do it was probably accurate) That's only 5x, but he's be deficient in other ways, such as not noticing severe bugs until other people pointed them out.
Yeah, I guess I should've stated a reasonable/known amount of time :)
All 40 Runners Fail at 100-Mile Tennessee Mountain Race
If you live in California, and you're not registered to vote by mail, please do so. It only takes five minutes.

Here are step by step instructions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/housingforsf/comments/22xoht/help_h...
Good on them. Sticking random flash drives into hospital computers seems like a good way to compromise medical records.
I'm offended
I think you misunderstand what a secondary market and a derivative is. They're orthogonal concepts.

A secondary market is any market where securities are traded not with the company, but with a third party. The big stock exchanges (NYSE, Nasdaq) are primarily secondary markets (only IPOs are primary, and even then, the primary transaction is to underwriters who then resell the stock as a secondary to other investors in the IPO).

A derivative is whether you're selling a real share, or something else based on that share. A derivative can be both primary or secondary. Employee stock options are derivatives, and what Equidate trades is also a derivative. If you sell your stock directly to a buyer in a secondary transaction, then it's not a derivative, and the company usually has the right to intercept the transaction (the right of first refusal).
Maybe push dns tunnels? That usually works on those networks.

Maybe one of the IT people on the ship was unable to login on his phone and so made it so push would always be able to send receive?
Make ec2ami
I misread the comment -- I thought they were saying that Wordpress was insecure and the plugins were secure. Never mind.
I really like Adobe's solution for this:

http://www.adobe.com/products/ink-and-slide.html

We need that at Surface...
A quantitative ranking of the top 20 startup accelerators in the U.S
> if we cut how much water they get, how will we eat?

And the thing is, we don't even need to curtail farming to the point where it impacts what we (Californians) eat. We just need to stop using California's water to grow things that people in other states (or other continents) eat.

Or charge them more for it, and use the proceeds to pay for expensive water-production and water-preservation technology.
> doesn't fall outside of oligarchical perspectives

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

> within the elite spectrum of opinion. But on issues that
> fall outside of that it is quite propagandistic

Occam's razor wants you to know that this means the elite have opinions on the same spectrum as the general public

> major media is usually very nationalistic about U.S.
> wars

US TV media is recently very nationalistic about U.S. wars; certainly weren't about Vietnam, for example. Accusing the NYT of being pro-Middle-Eastern war is a reach, and NYT is both the most respected newspaper in the US, but also, CRUCIALLY, the news source that is being censored here.
Ask HN: How Are You Replacing Balanced Payments' ACH API?
Now that Balanced Payments is shutting down, where is everyone headed? Has anyone had success with Stripe's ACH product?
Can money buy your kids a bigger brain?
SDN Series Part Eight: Comparison of Open Source SDN Controllers
R Package: Drawing Quick Plots with Ggplot2
Nice wrap-up:

...For any of these systems (not including the Osborne), I'd spend no more than
$6,000, or half as much as for the Displaywriter.

Godspeed as you follow this advice; meanwhile, I'll be spending nothing, sticking
with SOL and The Electric Pencil, and hoping for a world in which my sons can
grow up to have a better computer than their father had.

Looks like that wish worked out pretty well.
PicnicHealth CEO here and happy to answer questions. We're starting with the people who need the product most, so our customers tend to be pretty sick and have a ton of records going back and forth and sometimes multiple doctors appointments per week. We've brought the price down a lot from the companies that do record collection/aggregation for insurance and pharma (about $1000/patient just to start) but stay tuned for an even lower priced option for those with less intensive needs.
Why not switch to desktops? You'll be more productive (faster/bigger/more capable everything), and you won't have to haul around an entire laptop.

If you commit your work, you only need the network to sync between two desktops.
I was going to say "must not have kids", but I like your version better.
The tooling is where Meteor really shines. I must admit I found React to be quite cumbersome to get off the ground, in contrast Meteor is pure bliss.

It hasn't all been roses; I've had plenty of obstacles to overcome as I've learnt the framework, its capabilities and its limitations, but the community has been helpful and I can honestly say that working with Meteor is on the whole very slick.

https://atmospherejs.com/ is your close friend.
Iron Router is a very, very close friend.

Good luck!
I'm ready to have a STEM-based government where all of the participants ( read: politicians ) are from a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math background.
Re: 1, Sainsbury's Mobile is an MVNO on Vodafone, and Virgin is an MVNO on EE, so strictly speaking that's correct (see my previous answer here about how it's probably getting this info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9300690)

Re: 2, the data is available from Ofcom - maybe if you ask Twilio nicely they'll load it :)
Show HN: A JavaScript Quality Guide
It takes a gallon of water to grow an almond. So eating a single almond, grown in California, is like opening one of these (https://hornstrafarms.com/product_images/large/monadnock_gal...) and pouring it down the drain.

California grows 99% of the almonds in the United States, and 80% of all the almonds in the world.

This is only financially possible because we give almond farmers (and agriculture in general) gigantic subsidies on their water bills.

Sources:

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/02/wheres-califo...

http://www.thewire.com/national/2014/07/almonds-are-sucking-...
+1 vote for a relational alternative. I am a fan of NoSQL, and I am a fan of Mongo, but I'd love to have the power of Meteor with a relational backend too.
The Extraordinary Artwork of Francis Tsai
Church of Cannabis an unintended consequence of Indiana's new law
But hey guys, at least we might soon have a law saying restaurants have to be explicitly asked before serving drinking water!
@Apple/polarclock thing: That design really isn't that uncommon. There have been enough widgets on android that take a similar shape (A circle)
It is a fallacy because most consumption can only be postponed for an indefinite amount of time. If I need a fridge because my old one is broken or I just moved house, then I need a fridge. I'm not going to go without for 6 months because I think fridges will be cheaper then. We all purchase phones, computers, cars and sofas knowing that, in x months time, it's likely that the same item will be cheaper or same price but with more features.

It is true that major investments like new factories might conceivably become cheaper but this also ignores opportunity cost - in the same way, with inflation, new factories are more likely to become more expensive, so it's logical to think that in inflationary times, the countryside will be dotted with idle factories built as a hedge. This doesn't happen because of a variety of factors, not the least of which is that people make investments because they expect to see a big margin difference between keeping the cash and having that investment make cash for them. You don't built a new factory because you think you'll make 3% more than bank interest, you do it because you think you'll make 20-50% return on the cash.

The deflationary spiral postponed purchases explanation is a bit like the efficient market hypotheses - plausible sounding but ultimately and empirically not true in practice.
Of course, you'd be hard-pressed to find a person alive who isn't onboard with the idea that everything should be run by people they perceive as most like themselves. It's not a terribly useful sentiment.
Does anybody have prebuilt Servo for Windows 8.1 x64? I want to run this but I can't be bothered to build Servo just to test this.
How do things go viral? Information diffusion in social networks [video]
I think the reasoning goes that water is wasted when customers don't really want the restaurant provided water. Whatever is left in the glass gets poured down the drain, then the glasses get washed. Making people actually request water eliminates some waste.

But as this article shows, this is inane. The amount of water wasted by customers of all restaurants in California is probably less than the water used to grow a few acres of almonds.
tl;dr: "Hey, your CV says you've been doing all kinds of interesting stuff with Java..." "Oh you also use some of these modern tech tools to stay in touch with the community broadly, that's cool" "Can we hire you as a Senior Dev or Project Lead for our enterprise app used internally by our 10,000 staff?" "Great, hired".

Are you trolling here mate? (it's just such a strange question that I had to ask)

Most Java guys from the 90s shouldn't (or at minimum, I hope they don't) give a damn about the new paradigms enough to keep following the trends over stability.

You've lived through the Java, PHP, Ruby and now JS explosion.

You should probably know by now that the tools don't matter as much as how well you use the tools in the given situation.

Don't waste your time with web stuff professionally(if you enjoy learning it, then keep doing so and do web things part-time).

You have Java, which automatically tells someone like me that I could easily place you in an Android app developer role and you'll be building stuff more robust (experience) and just as quick (familiarity) as the young app guys.

Forget the consumer side as well. Big enterprises seem convinced that they need apps for their employees and you've dealt with the bullshit of enterprises, so either become an enterprise Android consultant (nobody gives a damn how old you are when running your consulting business and enterprise will value your age in some cases) or find a job at some company that either builds these apps or a company that has a few of them internally for their +50,000 staff contingent.

It's weird trying to give someone that is clearly in their late 30s/early 40s advice, when you probably have a ton more technical advice to give to young guys.
>Why don't we have more free time?

Than we did historically? We do.

Things that I am forced to do, I do not consider "free time", although for some reason anti-technologists like to consider at-home labor to be "free time", so they can make it look like pre-industrialization people had less work than we do today.

That said, with every passing year there is measurably less stuff that I have to waste time doing, mostly thanks to the power of the internet.
Besides the awesome content - which is great for starters to grasp some basic concepts of tactics and pay attention to some common patterns on the checkboard -

I love the format too.

It's really a conversation, a chat, but with solid content and serious people. So following is really easy, and satisfying. (unlike audio/videos of interviews here you can go back and reread lots of times a passage you lost - which is good.)

So Kudos also to the Taaalk team for the great design and format.
Previous conversation on this topic [1] yielded about the same results that we've had in the past 30 minutes here. Doesn't seem like anything's going to change; we'll all just continue posting about it to our favorite blogs and meta-blogs, and (almond|alfalfa|whatever) farmers will continue to eat subsidies and turn them into drought.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9175649
Which is a case where she should use CC0 and not the public domain marking.
Someone Dressed Up as Darth Vader and Robbed a Bank
What's great is you can still use React with a Meteor backend. There are tons of integrations and examples out there on how to do so. :)
Marginal or total?

My marginal tax rate in the UK is 45% but I take home 75% of what I invoice.