skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a pretty excellent idea. It seems like a good idea in general to have code create something physical as a motivation.
Another cool project would be a treasure map DSL or something similar...heh your comment got me thinking :)

Maybe a DSL for describing simple 3D printable stuff would be an option if a printer is available.
"Similarly, at the international level, the global free fall following the 2008 crisis was largely halted by the move, under the visionary leadership of Gordon Brown, for a meeting of the governments of the newly formed G20 in April 2009 in London, each promising to do its best not to feed the downward spiral by domestic complicity."

I think that is the first time I've heard Gordon Brown described as visionary. He's normally considered one of the worst post-war Prime Ministers.
> I did know that. I just don't consider

That isn't what you said in your post, now is it? You said "We've been here before", but as the article points out, we have not.

In any case,

Traffic lights and apache for the most part do not care what time it is - and certainly not to the second. Market orders are timed to the millisecond, they care very much.

Slewing vs stepping or any other de-synchronization could cause chaos with them, not so with most other fields. You might not care about HFT, but this applies to all orders, not just HFT. And like it or not the stock market plays a large role in everyday life.
And the Pulitzer goes to… a computer
You probably read too many UK newspapers, each of which decided to make a sustained attack throughout his leadership.
Was it really "SIM auth for IMS" or is there a typo and it's "SIP auth for IMS"? Sounds like an interesting project you did.
nah, there are genuinely world-changing people here.

I think it's more that finally, because of the internets, people can genuinely change the world from Perth. They always had to move East or North before. Now we actually have people here making a global impact we get astonished by it, and very very proud :)
Expectations of popular opposition to debt relief for Greece are greatly exaggerated. There is exactly one electorate slightly contrary (the German one) and even then, it's mostly due to tabloids stoking the fires of casual racism, that evergreen topic. Anybody who knows anything about how the Euro integration process happened and how Greek finances ended up in this state, will admit that 0.01% of Europe GDP is a pittance to pay for the benefit to humankind that a stable Euro would deliver.
Interesting. I never knew about this, and it certainly isn't true of Southwest today. These days they're the cattle-car of airlines, with their lack of assigned seating.

I found this bit particularly interesting, though:

> Today, the task of getting in and out of the gate in 10 minutes is impossible — but back then, says reporter Terry Maxon, the 10-Minute Turn saved the airline.

What makes it so impossible? Airport security has gotten far worse, but that's long before the gate. At the gate, what makes this less possible than it was back then?
Myfox launch alarm with open APIs, IFTTT and Nest links
Who said I didn't? :) https://github.com/egeozcan/jstatico (very naive implementation to generate small sites)

A larger percentage of the developers I know have their static site generators so I completely agree.
This is insanely awesome!
Facebook gets more like Snapchat with new photo uploader
Assume the only surviving beneficiary of the company is a Chinese nationalist. All of the company and servers are transferred over to him. He quickly moves all the data over to mainland China and uses it for.. who knows?

Even if you had laws, I'm not sure they would help in this case.

Besides, even if you have perfectly written self-binding contracts, there's nothing stopping the next owner from being a scumbag and finding clever or illegal ways around the deal. eg, he could 'find' a million dollars on the pavement in the surprising position where he happened to 'lose' a hard drive with all the data. Exaggeration obviously, but if the data is in someones possession there are a lot of things that can be done with it without overtly breaching any agreement. Eg, he could start a new company himself that 'leverages' the data to provide all previous customers with 'incredible deals and benefits'.
Your assessment is unfair. I'm not from Perth and have no vested interest in defending it.
The article is typical journalism. Perth blows no more smoke than anywhere else. The only place in Australia that could be accused of the arrogance you talk of is Victoria (nicknamed "France 2nd" for a good reason).
Perth now isn't exactly a shining example of journalism. It's one of the lowest quality publications in Australia. Adelaide's advertiser is probably the worst. ABC News or The Australian probably the best.
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Hi, I've made an app together with a website to run android java code snippets, for example if you send:

Toast.makeText(this, "Hello World!", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

The app will show a toast message. Or you can read the accelerometer or files, or what you like to program on the fly.

I'd love to get some feedback.

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This is an interactive version of the same dataset
> You have to keep adding hype in order do get funding. I call it Hype Driven Funding (HDF).

Fixed that for you.
Well, living in the UK, yes I do.

And Brown decided to wage his own childish sustained attack on Tony Blair for the whole time he was Chancellor of the Exchequor as well.

But on top of all this, Brown was a bully to his subordinates as well.
In linux cgroups and namespaces effectively are a better model. I wonder if internally posix capabilities could just be re-implemented over cgroups instead.
Apparently Netflix commisioned it (and they also call it a 'Netflix Original').
For future googlers - not advocating this, just a guess as to a future debate.
Pure guess: they were already driving the plane to the runway while people were still getting settled, and similarly they'd take people's luggage down while navigating to the airport. These days, I assume there are regulations that disallow anybody to move until the plane is at a full standstill.

I wonder why, though. Seems to me like an airplane on the ground is a lot safer to stand in than a fully packed bus in a busy city. Any ideas?
Microsoft is going have containers for Windows Server. It looks like it would would with Docker's client as well.

"Last October, Microsoft and Docker, Inc. jointly announced plans to bring containers to developers across the Docker and Windows ecosystems via Windows Server Containers, available in the next version of Windows Server."

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/04/08/microsoft-unveils...
- ProductHunt has Games

- IndieDB

- GameJolt

- Desura

- stomt
This is probably irrelevant, but how are the number of 'engineering-hours' calculated?
I think author using fake image

http://who.is/whois/zendcdn.net

Domain had registered on June 12, 2015
Gecko on the Move
The article states that the planet's speed of rotation is slowing down, albeit very slowly. Is the implication that at some point in the (distant) future the rotation will stop completely, or will it just reach a new equilibrium? Could it in fact speed up again?
He also understood economics better than the current bunch will ever do. But hey, they smile better on tv, so here we are.
I don't dispute the accuracy of your numbers.

Spain's household borrowing was unwise/irresponsible, no question about it. No good comes from a housing bubble like that. Of course, this housing bubble was funded by foreign banks. When people see an opportunity to live in a big house for cheap they just sign on the dotted line. That's human nature for ya.

Household debt in the Netherlands also way too high, although it's unclear whether it will become a disaster in any meaningful sense. Stagnant GDP caused by austerity. No surprise there. I specifically mentioned the Netherlands because they're portrayed as a responsible country, in contrast to GIPS countries.

Spain's labor costs also increased by 50% during the boom (http://i.imgur.com/pdHgmf4.png), so gov't spending had to go way up just to provide the same services. Besides, spending a lot of money for a couple of years is no big deal when the country doesn't have a big national debt, and Spain didn't. Doesn't mean Spain's fiscal policy was beyond reproach, of course. Ideally speaking a government should have anti-cyclical fiscal policy.

Bubbles followed by recessions happen all the time in Western Europe and the US, but the consequences are usually pretty manageable. When it comes to Spain the government was no more irresponsible, but because of the Euro they got pulled into a crushing depression.

If you want to argue that every modern government is irresponsible, fine. But if you want to demonstrate that Spain was fiscally irresponsible compared to the rest of Europe or the US you're going to need better stats.
I meant online games. A lot of elderly people are not really mobile anymore, after several falls and broken hips.
You're now assuming the new owners are willing to commit illegal acts, or at the very least breach a contract. (And the newly started company would be breaching the contract as well, if it was written to exclude that.) That's at least a significantly higher bar than "the highest bidder can do whatever they want with the data", which is the current state of things.

But yes, even better protection would be never collecting data you don't need in the first place.
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Not all administrative costs are bad. Givewell itself is 100% overhead, for instance.
I believe the time-scale is such, that the Sun will swallow the Earth long before it stops spinning.
This is probably the ideal outcome of volunteer tourism.
There you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9793555
Coloring books are suddenly catching on with adults
well, outdated, but personal data and its quality has indeed a value:

http://www.statista.com/statistics/289505/social-networks-va...

also user generates revenue by themselves

http://www.technologyreview.com/article/424650/how-much-is-a...

edit: updated link to more recent stats
It can't speed up without an external force and at current slow rate it'll take about 2 trillion years to stop (this assumes a linear rate of slowing over time, which won't happen).

Much of the slowing is caused by tidal friction with the Moon (which recedes slightly each year), iirc eventually the Earth will become tidally locked with the Sun (same side facing all the time).
More details and an amusing story involving Novell: http://www.eros-os.org/project/novelty.html#persistence
Sen is being disingenuous when he compares the ratio of debt to GDP in 1948 (200%) and 1957 (120%), with 2010 (70%). The reason that, as he puts it, "the scare was not there from the late 1940s through the 1960s" is because the UK's debt level at that time was a legacy of WWII. The UK's national debt ballooned during WWII, peaking at 237% in 1946-47, then declined rapidly to less than 50% in 1973.[1]

He also fails to distinguish between the degree of austerity imposed in the UK and Europe. In the UK, the Conservative government has taken steps to balance the budget by reigning in public spending (benefits in particular) in order to cut the deficit. It is a world apart from the extreme measures that were imposed on countries like Ireland[2] and Greece[3].

For context: The New Statesman is a left-wing publication. The left-wing in Britain are deeply opposed to the (right wing) Conservative government's austerity policies.

1: http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/uk_national_debt_chart.htm...

2: http://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/the-10-w...

3: http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/what-austerity-lo...
Unless you are someone who keeps all your money in physical cash and drives cars for a living, there is no way HFT is less important than traffic lights; one keeps the economy of the world flowing, the other stops people getting driving tickets.

"Being a second off and resynchronizing next time" could be a million dollar difference, there is no way that you can shrug that off.

As a developer for a financial firm, this leap second is an extremely big deal; the fact that this is the first time in history that financial markets (which are normally millisecond accurate) have had to deal with this phenomenon will absolutely result in something somewhere going wrong.

This article isn't exaggerated; it's there to highlight what's going on for the traders and brokers who aren't technologically advanced.
He wasn't as bad as James Callaghan, John Major, or - IMO - Margaret Thatcher. And Blair was - and is - a war criminal.

The politicking between the two was juvenile, but I'd rather blame Brown for his insistence on semi-privatised (and ruinously expensive) funding for public projects through the misuse of PFI.

That aside, Sen may actually be right in that Brown kept it together after 2008.

The Tory press love to blame him for 2008 in its entirety, including the parts he had no control over. But that's because the Tory press is full of vile liars, criminals, and frauds. (Some of whom have spent time in jail now.)

A more sober assessment is less unkind to Brown as an economist - if perhaps not as a politician.
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Old (2008) Newsweek article on China's use of human bees: http://www.newsweek.com/stung-bees-91351
I clicked on a german town (frankfurt) and got a video blocked in germany ;)
Here's a 20/20 interview with Dr Sarno from NYU:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vsR4wydiIBI

And a summary of his theory: http://www.rsi.deas.harvard.edu/handout.doc
You forgot the part where layers upon layers of Chinese managers and bureaucrats cook their books to a crisp to keep their careers in motion.
Burn it and decrease inflation.
> Eventually the advertisers are going to pay for performance, and to do that they are going to have to fix the way they do advertising so that their ad, leads to their landing page which identifies who delivered the ad. Then they are going to pay based on whether or not the person who landed on their page actually buys something (service, good, or subscription). No money, no ad payment.

This already happens. It's referred to as an "acquisition" and "cost-per-acquisition" (CPA) is a fairly standard term in the advertising industry these days.

However, it doesn't necessarily involve money (e.g. a car company might define an acquisition as someone signing up for a test drive).
That's where we disagree. You think Blit is one of things what makes UNIX UNIX while I don't. We have different interpretations of "co-author". I don't see any further benefit in discussing that.
The scale difference in airplanes can be massive. see accidents like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yx7aNdGYZo
Is this one thing credited with saving the airline, or were there other efforts involved? I don't understand how a 10-minute turnaround time can turn an airline around so quickly.
> But it's a false dichotomy that these are the only choices.

I agree. Unfortunately, these are the only choices that are typically envisioned by people advocating balanced budgets, so they are automatically associated to the concept. It's the responsibility of such advocates to come up with alternative choices; alas, as we've just seen, they don't seem willing to entertain the possible existence of alternative paths.

> The problem with most macroeconomic theories is that they ignore too many important details. So for example [...] you can come to completely different conclusions as to the effectiveness of government spending.

Among the many important details these theories ignore is the actual identity of people responsible for such spending.
you can park your number at twilio for about a dollar a month. It gives you a full api to pretty much program whatever response/forwarding etc. you want.
I don't know a lot about R, but apart from the fact that it's made for stats, isn't it a great language because it's also aimed to handle embarrassingly parallel programs, and no other other language do it as well as R ?

I guess R is used in machine learning fields.

Is R opencl enabled, or is it planned to be ?
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Actually, having no assigned seats is the fastest way to board a plane.

https://www.math.duke.edu/news/awards/mcm2007bbe.pdf
From a cursory Google search, an employee at Bell Labs (he's featured in the recruitment video) and later Google. Worked on the UNIX kernel and was considered a networking expert.
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It seemed that it made up for the one airplane they had to sell, which destroyed their planned schedules, but it wasn't super clear. Maybe if they hadn't met previous obligations they would have gone under.
It's easier to sell one bigger package than several smaller.

I would not be surprised, if the 505,000 ounces in 20oz packages cost less to produce in 1950 prices, than 480,000 ounces in 6oz packages. (Just one physical package, not three separate).
Sounds like an easy idea to come up with, but more difficult to implement.
> with their lack of assigned seating.

I'm pretty sure unassigned seating has been proven to be the fastest way to load an aircraft in practice.

> what makes this less possible than it was back then?

I'm not sure, I'd guess there are controls in place now that were not in place then e.g. passenger manifest reconciliation for security, ID checks, etc.

Ryanair (European Southwest essentially) target 25 minutes. If there were a way to do if faster I think they'd have found it.
Probably that these days the company actually complies with safety regulations. Apparently back then the flight attendants were pulling luggage from bins right after the plane hit the ground. Passengers were lined up outside before the plane even hit the ground. The plane was pushing back and starting to taxi before passengers were even seated. I doubt any of this complies with safety regulations.
Our sun will turn into a red giant and destroy earth long before earth has a chance to stop its rotation, as we're talking about an increase in milliseconds per century. Since 1820 the earth's rotation slowed down by about 2.5 milliseconds.
There's a reason her "objectivism" isn't discussed in philosophy courses

Actually, this isn't true. In the fall of 2010, I took a philosophy course (at the University of Wisconsin - Madison) for which we had to read Anthem and The Fountainhead.

...

conservative rhetoric

Also, I don't think you have a good grasp of Rand's ideas if you think she was a conservative.

Rand was an atheist and pro-choice:

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/god.html

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/abortion.html
Same for me, the increased battery life is nicer than the increased screen size. But I do think it is just slightly too big for comfortably using with one hand (and I have big hands).

I will go back to something similar in size to Nexus 5 next time I switch. That was the perfect size.
Really? People are honestly surprised by this? This isn't anything new.
My first thought: you would not want luggage blocking aisles if there's an accident on the ground.

Also, aircraft (and trains) are held to a far greater safety standard. Yesterday's bus crash [1] is unlikely to have much investigation, never mind a change to driving practices, road engineering, law enforcement, or anything else.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/28/belgium-coach-c...
I'm surprised NoScript actually contains a whitelist, I didn't expect it to.

I personally switched to Policeman (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/policeman/) a while ago, and there it's pretty clear that you can remove the built-in rule set.

I actually like it better than uMatrix: policeman shows you the full url of the blocked resource that you can inspect before allowing, and cross-domain request are very easy to follow.

The only thing I wished is per-domain control of most modern browser extensions, like, for example: disable CSS animations everywhere except when I allow it to. Likewise for <audio>, <media>, GL, and whatever useless feature I don't need 99.99% of the time.

uMatrix has already per-domain boolean control of "agent spoofing" and related settings, it would be awesome if the above would be included there.

NoScript was a bit more forward thinking in that regard: you can disable media/GL globally except for whitelisted sites, but then again without cross-domain control you end-up whitelisting everything.
Well it's pretty straightforward, if turnaround time is only 10 minutes and your competitors take an hour then you can simply make more flights per aircraft per day than them. This is amplified when your flights are short distance domestic. Depending on destination it probably allowed them to make 2 - 3 extra flights per aircraft per day, at a time when jet fuel was not so expensive. That could make a massive difference to profitability.
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>> "Wu co-authored the study with Michael Luca, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and data scientists at the local reviews site Yelp, which has been one of Google's primary opponents in the global antitrust fight. Wu was paid by Yelp for his work on the paper."

That's a fun fact.
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That's the whole point of inflation. Remember, wages are 'sticky' in that workers don't like getting their pay cut. So economists invented a way to rob them while giving them nominal wage raises!
> A balanced budget doesn't seem very 'austere' to me.

Except that that's not what it means. Norway has been running a budget surplus for years (because of oil), but is not engaging in austerity; the UK was running a deficit and engaging in austerity at the same time.

Austerity is generally understood to mean a reduction of the structural deficit in a time when the economy is struggling or contracting. It is considered counterproductive because it typically makes the economy even worse by killing domestic demand (directly and through cascading effects). See also the paradox of thrift [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_thrift
> ah yes, the usual "HFT is the best invetion since wheel and fire" mantra...

again, same question - who cares? apart from some already super rich HTF guys.

> "something somewhere going wrong" - um, this is practically constant situation for quite some time, in or out of markets. But don't let my relaxed monday mood disturb your doomsday freaking out :)

> This article isn't exaggerated; it's there to highlight what's going on for the traders and brokers who aren't technologically advanced.

traders and brokers who do actual trading and not HFT will not be affected directly by that (ie their books), it's more like a sidenote that "if you see some blip in feeds during that time, this might explain it"
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Stop the population increasing? You are aware that our entire economic system is built on the assumption it'll keep increasing?

The reason people think racists are idiots is because racists are idiots. "no other reason than to stop the population increasing"! Ha!