skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, some of the measures were "effective" against inflation. The Brazilian Central Bank fixed 1 BRL to worth 1 USD and lowered a lot of import fees, flooding Brazil with US goods. This helped put prices down at cost of our own industries.
This as an extension to AdWords doesn't seem like a horrible idea. For some retailers, allowing Google to complete an order might be a net improvement over their own store/experience. For the small to medium size etailers, Google most likely can offer superior experience and an "order is an order" assuming the net profit is reasonable.
It is http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Contri...

If it isn't, all you need to do is flag it.
Oh that brings to mind the old User Friendly comic attitude. We really need more of that these days.
Write protocols in JavaScript instead of English
Try working with the occult for a year. Specifically chaos magic. It focuses on using science to verify and disqualify claims and what can be done, given that your sample size is inherently 1; yourself.

There's something there, that's for sure. Don't believe me? You don't have to. Try it out yourself.
So I'll only be considered a good programmer if I work on github?
Way to replace one broken method with another equally limited view of candidates.
Addition of originaly appeared on $date in the top credit would be perfect.
To have a virtual keyboard, it must have some other sensor. The laser can also be used as a 20x projector.
That is what I do as well. I leave mails in the inbox and flag those that need action or follow-up, and unflag them when I am done. I rely on search to look for an e-mail, There is a rule set up that moves unflagged threads older than X to archive. What counts is not the size of inbox, but unread and flagged count.

This works especially well for mobile clients where it is pretty inconvenient to sort e-mail.
Interesting, in the past 3 years, this same link/post has appeared multiple times on the front page.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=hackershelf.com&sort=byPopular...
Zero screenshots or anything of the kind. When I want a demo, I don't want to take extra steps just to be able to look at that demo, I just want to take a look right now.

Those prices are really high too for what it presents itself doing. And I don't care about all the people talking about how awesome it is, really I don't. Show me the sausage.

If this project wants to go anywhere it's going to have to severely review its strategy.
When we will start using https://diasporafoundation.org
I think what you're talking about was an option at the bottom of the feed which allowed one to see everything everyone's posted. Unfortunately, upon making the feed endless, this option is no longer available.

Is there an easy way to choose who sees a particular post (ie, the way one sees a display of friends to click on when inviting them to an event)? They should implement this, allowing for deselecting unwanted viewers (rather than selecting for wanted viewers - for those with too many friends).
disconnect.me is an alternative. That in combination with a hosts file works very well for me; especially because it uses much less memory compared to adblock.
Ad providers are prime hacking targets because it's a vector to deliver malware to reputable sites showing reputable ads.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ad+network+hacked&t=ffnt
Or that they are inevitable results of mild neurological deficiencies; similar to e.g. dyslexia but more strongly stigmatized.

If you believe that attribution of consciousness to only yourself is a culturally developed feature (which seems plausible given the existence of many mystics who don't seem to do so) then it is very possible that in some people the machinery that is required to do so doesn't work properly resulting in varying degrees of schizophrenia.
> I think it's too cognitively complex to categorise a few hundred contacts into various subgroups. Most users aren't going to bother.

I actually think the fact that you have to specifically put people into circles when you follow them makes it pretty straightforward. It only takes a moment, I like the inline dropdown interface to check the circles you want to add them to, and while it does take a few minutes to wrap your head around the first time you use it (probably not a non-tech-Grandma-ready interface), once you get it, it's easy and works well (IMHO).
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That is some crazy amount of spin. SourceForge started their path down the scummy side a while ago but this is really taking it to a new level.

You'd think that if they really cared, they would back pedal on what they did, but no, instead, they double down by trying to justify what they did and "welcoming further discussions".

Also, this:

> deliver easy-to-decline third-party offers

How about delivering third-party offers that users need to opt in instead?

Terrible, terrible company and organization.
Kaleidoscope in CSS3
What surprised me about the moon was when I read that its diameter is less than the width of Australia. I just imagined it to be bigger than that.
I'm sorry but this article reads like a narcissistic wet dream. The author continues to quote himself and even misquotes himself several times (look up "facebook has tried tried to remedy" and "facebook has tried to repair"). The rest of the article slams Facebook for its success and tries to say users don't want to use Facebook. I personally love what Facebook developers are doing in terms of React and Jest. In terms of Facebook's core product, I use it for easy social login and have unfollowed anyone who posts things I don't agree with so my "feed" is pretty well curated. Myspace sank because a better product came out. When someone comes out and does Social better than Facebook, Facebook will fall but until then: if you don't like it, good news, you don't have to use it.
Genuine question: If you are using HTTP over SSL + an auth token as your API transport, do you need JSON web tokens? What do they provide on top of that?
"But if the political deck seemed stacked against the Sierra Club, Henry held the economic cards. In Oklahoma, coal imported from Wyoming now costs more per kilowatt hour than the abundant gas under the ground or the wind that famously comes sweeping down the plain. In another recent haze case, the Sierra Club cut a deal requiring Oklahoma’s other major utility to phase out its only coal plant and buy 200 megawatts of wind—and the bids came in so low, the utility ended up buying 600 megawatts of wind. That’s why Walmart, the hospital group and the coalition of industrial ratepayers all supported Beyond Coal’s push for more wind in the OG&E case. Cheap electricity has a way of scrambling political alliances."
> "loose definition"
How so? I state quite explicitly what sort of content is welcome. If the contents of the book are available for free from a site controlled by the author(s) or publisher, it is free enough for the purposes of the site. If you care enough and find a book that doesn't meet that standard, you can flag it, and I can have a look to confirm this.
You guys make me feel old.

http://www.textfiles.com/phreak/BOXES/chrome
I think there are strengths and weaknesses to the approach.

I got a BS in Computer Science from liberal arts school with a theory-focused CS department.

Pros:

- I developed a very strong sense of code smell. Intuition. My department cared about elegance and good coding practices. I used to be a TA and my prof even had a couple points dedicated to "style" on his grading rubric. I don't think this is something you can pick up in 12 weeks, but at the same time, there are plenty of college CS programs that don't teach best practices.

- Algorithms. Data structures. Systems. Math. Yeah, I probably never have to write out a proof as to why a program is O(nlogn) again but not all programming jobs are full-stack dev stuff. These subjects are a lot more difficult to teach yourself than just reading a book about Javascript. There are a lot of careers in programming that require strong theoretical CS knowledge. Go to Glassdoor and look at the interview questions for entry-level programmers at Google or Amazon.

Cons:

- Didn't know anything about industry practices. None of our professors had ever held a job in the industry.

- Teaches "irrelevant" stuff. Now, this is a commonly cited as an issue with traditional education. I actually disagree because you never know what's going to be relevant in your future. If you go after a specific subset of the field from the start ("I am going to be a full-stack developer") you are inherently limiting your future. You don't know what you don't know. And you don't know if that's something you're missing out on because you never tried it.
Former EMS provider...

The laws on whether ambulances must stop at red lights and stop signs vary by locality.

It's almost always legally your mess if you don't stop at a traffic control device and are then involved in a collision — most laws and various insurance or service policy requirements tend to require "due care" or "prudent" or other such wording, and collisions are usually considered an adverse indication.

I've always wanted the traffic signal in front of me to be green on approach.

This reduces the numbers of stopped cars in my path.

Some of the drivers of the stopped cars at intersections will attempt or will perform odd or normally-unexpected maneuvers, sometimes leading to collisions. But mostly the herd in front of me scatters short distances, and generally resulting in intersection gridlock.

It's common practice in some areas to avoid using the siren in certain situations, such as when passing to the right of the bulk of (stopped) traffic waiting on a red, using the breakdown or turn lane at an intersection, for instance. Some folks will hear the siren and immediately block that lane, or they might turn into and collide with me.

The local traffic preemption systems all include a flashing indicator — a rotating red beacon on a cross-arm or a pole, for instance — indicating that the preemption request has been accepted and is occurring. This tells me that the other lights are all red. Or it tells me that I'm approaching a non-preempted light, and that the green in front of me might go red.

If the traffic lights are red and there's no preemption and no open and no bypass lane, then some of the folks at the front of the herd will inevitably not break that red, meaning local traffic gridlock, meaning that the ambulance waits (with the siren off) for the light to change.
Could this be Atlantis?
So, temporarily decreasing the artificial "protections" that those inefficient and outdated industries enjoy? That is a good thing.
I struggle to think of something where I would buy it from the search result alone. Even if it is the thing I want, I'm going to price shop or at least click through for details. Then again, I am not the internet, so maybe some people will be really happy with this. I doubt I'll ever use it.
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I am not saying that a CS degree is necessary or necessarily better, but I believe it is a categorical mistake to treat the experience gained obtaining a formal CS education with the experience gained teaching oneself...if only for no other reason than that a student, by definition is less able to distinguish among the hoops and accurately separate them into useless, useful, important and critical.

The features of a formal education include guaranteed access to experts [for some definition of 'expert'] and a proven set of priorities [for some definition of 'proven']. The downside is less potential breadth since standardized systems are standardized.

The real question is what does 'make it' mean? For some people the piece of paper matters. It's a goal with social and personal significance and there is nothing wrong with that. If 'make it' is tied to wealth...well it's easier if you were smart enough to pick rich parents.

In the end it depends on what you want. And in any event, while a CS degree won't necessarily make anyone good [for some definition of 'good'] it may open opportunities and if they are good a CS degree will probably make them better, and almost certainly not make them worse.

Good luck.
I was also expecting something along those lines. I haven't used much Visual Studio for Python development, but in my experience PyCharm is much better than PyDev(Eclipse). I did see someone use VS, but I can't really compare it to PyCharm.

For me, PyCharm has been so good, it's become one of the main reasons why I've been staying with Python, because no matter how much I complain about the issues of Python ("it's slow", 2 vs 3, Python in Windows 64 bit, to name a few), PyCharm does a lot of things right and helps in development.

It's also great to welcome new developers: just install it and it'll all magically work (99% of the time). Not the experience we had with Eclipse.
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In addition to slowing the production of money, the URV program essentially tied wages to the inflation rate. To me, that seems like a fundamentally important step in both restoring the people's faith in the currency and maintaining the standard of living for them. By only printing less money, they could easily fall into a period of widespread poverty while inflation rates continued to rise -- albeit at a slower rate.

Of course, I'm just an armchair economist, so perhaps there's part of the picture that I'm not seeing.
IMO, if I downloaded something that is supposed to block the ads, I don't want the damn ads. I've not used ABP in a while but I'd be pretty pissed if it started loading ads again just because the people had paid for it. They had to figure out some way to make money, though, I guess.
Maybe when it leaves being an alpha.
It's not that simple. Except for the simplest ones that might just be an image, ads are not just ads like in magazines and on TV.

Ads use your resources to download more content. They use your resources for animation and sound.

They also track you.

Content providers are free to not serve you content if they detect ad blockers. If they have trouble detecting ad blockers, they are free to not be in business.

They are free to move to a subscription model.

They are operating willingly on the current open web. It's not your problem.
I have good memories of SF being the hub of OSS back in the day. I was particularly fond of how projects could actively post types of people they were looking for (artists, doc writers, etc) instead of just relying on being stumbled upon and/or just listing an issue.

However, recently, I cringe if I somehow end up at an SF link. Feels like I'm on the wrong side of the Internet and that I can't trust any downloads from them.
I'm just curious why Google is implementing this now, given that the basis of the EU antitrust case was due to its relationship with online retailers.
I'm sure you're probably aware, but just in case:

Ninite.com is a great resource for getting tools like this (and things like Chrome, Firefox, etc) without all of the packaged adware.

I use it almost exclusively to get all of my dev tools on a Windows machine.
I haven't read the article yet, but I stopped using Facebook a couple of years ago and it was the best decision.
Silicon Valley really, really wants to be a meritocracy.

Nope. It really doesn't. It wants to be perceived as a meritocracy. That's a different goal entirely. It's the same privileged, well-connected "MBA culture", but in the 21st century, MBA stands for "Meritocracy By Assertion".

VC doesn't want not to be a clubby, relationship-based business, because who-you-know cultures are great at giving the well-connected an extortive power that they wouldn't otherwise have. ("Those who question the meritocracy will be de-meritized.") Sure, there are Silicon Valley engineers who want to live in (and believe in) meritocracy, but they're not the people with the power. You can get an employee position on merit, but if you want to ascend to the founder or investor ranks and get real equity in the Valley... you still have to be a child of the old empire.

It was hard to read the rest of this article after this critical miss.
It's like TV without a DVR. It's like "People actually SIT THROUGH THIS SHIT?"
You can't copyright a name. You can trademark it, but unlike copyrights, trademarks have to be applied for and registered, and have to be actively defended.
I'm a fan of Planet Money, but this particular episode made a lot of extraordinary claims (by the standards of the usual formulation of macroeconomics) and did not present a any extraordinary evidence to back up these claims.

As others in this thread are pointing out, the episode was very hand-wavy about previous attempts at limiting the money supply in the country and how effective those attempts were.
Wouldn't you be getting false positives from ads that are simply slow to load and false negatives from ad blockers that hide ads without using the "display" property?
HN automatically makes the first letter of the title uppercase AFAIK.
Most is true, but:

128-bit hash functions for hash table makes no sense, unless you have 1TB tables in external memory.
And for security 128 is peanuts, you start with 256 there.

First you need 4x more space, when you store the hash also for faster collision checks. 32bit is normal. cache size is more important than cpu mostly.

Second, collision resistancy on normal sized hash tables take only the first 7-15 bits, so calculating the other 113 bits makes not much sense. 32 bit is usually enough unless you need huge tables, where 64bit is enough.
The rules are inherently there; we humans just don't understand them other than as a case by case basis.

What needs to be done is a way to distill the logic behind "written good-quality code" and feed that to a machine to analyze. Machine learning seems like a good fit for this kind of exploratory problem.
Why don't they (SourceForge but also all the other software vendors out there, even Oracle with the Java and Ask.com bundling) just have it so it automatically installs all the crapware instead of asking you? Last I checked, it was because this would get them treated as outright malicious. I suggest that we consider such offers where the default option is to install them to be considered as malicious as installing them without asking.
> The worst thing that bootcamps can do is to encourage developers to simply "pad" their GitHub accounts with exercises in order to have used as many technologies as possible. I've seen developers bragging solely about the number of repos and commits they have in GitHub.

Industry hiring practices are encouraging this; bootcamps are simply keying their students into it.
Notwithstanding that the intricate technicalities of killing someone was what I was going for at all, how did you miss the two other comments that repeated this information nearly an hour before yours?

I get it. The anecdote had technical issues. Not-with-standing that being technically correct is not what anecdotes are about in the first place.
I think that the major challenge in understanding debits and credits is that different accounts have different 'signs' that may seem counter-intuitive.

For example, if you earn money (get revenue) this is something that you would typically consider 'positive', however revenue is a credit account and so the earning of revenue is actually a credit.

A simple trick is to recognize that balance sheet accounts have signs that align with our intuitive understanding of positive and negative, whereas income statement accounts are flipped. To grok why that is gets a little more tricky and the linked article seems to give a great basis for understanding that.

Source: I'm a Canadian CPA, CA (and CBV) and soon-to-be software engineer. I think this helps understand both perspectives.
That was my hope 1198 days ago when I started the website https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3589963 :-) I would have titled it "Free Computer Books" otherwise. If you know of any books that fulfill the "free" condition, that would appeal to a curious mind - however you choose to define that, then feel free to submit them.
What's interesting is that SF.net seems to not care if you have removed the project. Or, even if the project never existed at SourceForge, at all. In the previous thread about this issue, someone linked to the sf-editor1 account, which has projects for a huge swath of software, including software that has never been hosted at SourceForge.

https://sourceforge.net/u/sf-editor1/profile/

It is part of their "mirror directory" project, which seems designed merely to get traffic from popular Open Source software, and occasionally inject malware into downloads that they can dupe people into getting from SF.net rather than the authoritative source.

And, of course, in this case, the author of Gimp-Win has plainly stated they did not abandon the SF project. They were locked out by SourceForge staff.

I'm all for caution before reaching for the pitchforks and the torches, but there's an awful lot of very large, very credible, projects saying, "Yes, SourceForge did this to our project."

I sent them an email yesterday asking for clarification, but have not received a reply.
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Hey guys me and my partner have been working for the last year on this project. I quit my job and have been living off my credit cards and overdraft as I am deeply passionate about health and fitness and weirdly think that I can make the world a healthier place. We have created an app where users can share their fitness journeys with others, read and educated themselves on nutrition and fitness with articles from doctors, nutritionists PT's bloggers etc. You also get discount codes on healthy products and supplements. We have more to do and lots of new features to add but We would really love it if you guys could check it out and give us some feedback on what you think we could do better and what you would like to see on a fitness hub. The app is called Bodypage https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/bodypage/id895137497?mt=8 and its on the iphone. It's free to download guys. Thank you!
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I'm thinking about starting integrating this into my projects. However there is a couple of things that irritate me,

- SASS is already serving all my needs

- Current css frameworks are all on sass or less

- Specs could change before CSS4 is released.
That is true. I think you can work around it by prepending a space to the title. So this one would be " cssnext: use tomorrow's CSS syntax, today".
Yeah, probably some of them (the economist and his buddies) thought the same and didn't give a shit. What happened them? Most of Brazilian industries got broke or were acquired under great circumstances by foreign companies. Long live plutocrats.
Adblock+, bro.
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You might believe that if the worlds largest, most sophisticated searcher of the Internet has scoured all vendors and displayed the exact item you want, and they have a buy button on the best price, that it is the best price.

You'd probably be wrong, but most people are wrong about something every day. There will be clicks. Revenue will be steered.
Path is really good, I've been using it for about a year now. It's like FB, but much closer-knit. It's like Swarm and FB. Easy to share things, easy to decide who to share with. It started where you could only have a small number of friends, but I think they removed that requirement. A number of my close friends are on it, so it's neat to see updates that I care about from people that I care about. And then I log onto FB occasionally to wade through the updates of all the tangential friends and acquaintances just to kind of see what's going on.

FB:Path::Reddit:HackerNews I think.

https://path.com/
There is, it's called the Indie Bible.
wow. The European Commission is going to love this (context http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/15/google-fac...)