skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What I don't understand is where robots will get their jobs if nobody can afford the stuff that they make."

Exactly. In the US, there's plenty of capital, vast productive capacity, and a shortage of demand. The CEO of WalMart says that their customer base is spent out. One of Wal-Mart's metrics is same-store sales over the course of a month. By the end of the month, sales are down and are mostly basic necessities. That's what it looks like in mass-market retail.

There's a stable state where most of the population has a low income, can't buy much, and is barely participating in the economy. This is the normal condition in the parts of the world that have huge urban slums surrounding a rich city core. The US may be headed there. The "micro-houses" of today are the favelas of tomorrow.

More productivity only makes it worse. That's what's so frustrating.
Lua is commonly embedded in other programs, like nginx (via ngx_lua) or haproxy (starting in 1.6). This would let you interacti with elasticsearch from them.
Java considered harmful (for programming C++)
Tell HN: Thoughts on this idea? Hot or Not for software technologies
Software moves fast, especially in the JavaScript world.

It would be good if there was some sort of "Hot Or Not" type service that accumulated data that revealed popularity of web technologies over time.

There would need to be a way that any given tech community could create a "Hot Or Not" technology collection that relates only to the technologies in use in that community (i.e. JavaScript related technologies for the reactjs community).

It should then be possible for developers to get a sense of where the cutting edge is at, and in fast changing technology communities, where to focus their efforts.

Anyone think there is merit to this idea?
Microsoft: More Layoffs Equal Higher Shareholder Returns
Greeks have one of the higher average retirement ages in Europe:

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/world-affairs/2012/05/expl...

61.7 for Greece, 60.9 is the EU average.
It's working now. Fun game!
BIP 66 changed the definition of validity. These blocks are fully invalid.
Amazon Scanning Backyards in Seattle, Suggesting Drone Delivery in Its Sights
Indeed. I was also surprised to find this out given how popular Electrum is. The code is here: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/lib/blockch... and https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/lib/blockch...

One could run a modified Electrum server that sends a long chain at low difficulty and double spend Electrum users.
Just for the record I have to say that as a fellow Greek I totally disagree with that line of thinking, which is popular amongst many Greeks. Neither IMF nor EU did anything to cover our corruptive politicians. But they can’t substitute our constitution or our courts. Neither is their duty to govern Greece. Their duty is to set goals and check whether we implement agreeable reforms. Everything else is just conspiracy theories or pure speculations. They don’t have executive jurisdiction to enforce implementation of this or that policy.

You mentioned the Siemens scandal for example, by the way your numbers are off by an order of magnitude. This is a typical example of a cover-up from our part. We let the key witness escape to Germany where he is protected from extradition. It’s not their fault, we shouldn’t have let him leave in the first place. Taking responsibility for our mistakes would be a first step in overcoming our inefficiencies. And the previous government was anything but obedient, as a matter of fact all three governments that were called to implement reforms resisted as much as they could.

So please, let’s just stop the speculation about EU wanting to rule Greece through puppet governments. I’m sure they have better things to do.
The Laplacian.
And I'll say it again: Elasticsearch is one of the few things that lives up to its hype. It really is that good. Indexing, clustering, It Just Works. I'm very impressed with them and it's a refreshing change from other very hyped tech.
Intuitions are insights (hints) from so-called ancient, non-verbal (pre-linguistic) instinctive "knowledge" or "genetic memory". It is not only the kind of knowledge of how birds "know" how to make nests or men know to run out of building when earthquake happen (without any prior training), but also intuitive knowledge about the nature of reality, properties of physical environment, which has been "trained" before any language, even before human species has been evolved (we share "pre-cortex" brain centers with our ancestors which were shaped by environment). This is where intuitions are coming from.
EUREKA! 1.)learn from what U know - Vim, Zshell, Python
and engineering
2.)more MATURE so learn the ORGAN not a piano!
3.)go jazz, play from radio, never bought a book on circle
of 5ths
4.)some are slow, tool over 6-12 months to coordinate left
and right hands. playing off syncopate all the time.
5.)CLICK! read the book. Eureka! suddenly some of it works.
6.)ORGAN is more expensive but MUCH easier can hold down
key, change the instrument,etc.

7.)have not looked at sight read, since either jazz or
direct composition. I USED the simple method. tap the beat
with feet. use basic drumstick to sound melody with pots
whistle the 2nd part, etc. 3 piece band?

8.)hobby only, not stress tested like real code

9.) the auto transfer from guitar chord trellis to ORGAN
can be useful.

QUESTION: better to go deep first? and be a genius on
organ for Tchaikovsky? or just go radio plus jazz and
make it up HACKER STYLE as U go?
Is Fidelity finding the next Facebook or inflating the bubble?
I have this on my desk if you want it. Make me an offer.

http://imgur.com/RH6zsIq

edit: I can see from the Amazon link below it's still easy to get a hold of.
I’m not a Windows user, so I couldn’t tell you precisely. Those two articles don’t talk much about what kind of structure/format the records getting piped around have. Are they arbitrary hierarchies with rich (ideally extensible) data-types?
Persisting TabBars Across Views in React Native
Thanks for taking a look, and looking close enough to see that it uses Docker :-)

Was there some specific aspect or attack vector that came to mind? Or did you mean it more as a blanket warning?
Didn't sound like it was too awfully difficult but yea, pretty thin on the details. Here's Harvards password reset instructions... http://huit.harvard.edu/reset-your-harvard-password
The difference between "limit on that kind of behavior" and "limit on the kind of behavior" is critical.

A limit on red cars is a limit on "the color" of cars, but it's not a limit on "that color" when someone is pointing at a blue car.

So when "that kind" refers to sanely-implemented scraping, then there should not be a limit. There is a limit on "the kind", to restrict it to activities like scraping that aren't inherently harmful.
Tom Still: Why stopping data breaches will become a bigger problem by the day
Thanks for the reply; it's given me quite a bit to think through. I think I'll implement some part of this system and either charge recurring for hosting and domain or transfer them to hosting and domain renewal charged to them, their choice.

Spinning up a new Linode for their level of use is overkill, but I'd like to go through the effort to keep my personal VPS, well, personal.
I totally agree with you, Windows does it better, but cmd+shift+/ is a pretty good replacement. It opens the help menu, and then you can just type the name of the command you are looking for. It doesn't handle the case where you don't know a program well, but it's quite good at the case where you know a feature should exist, but you don't know the shortcut for it.
just like germany paid off its debts post ww1 and ww2?
Yes but the chances of the hacked also compromising your other info is much lower.
> the loyal lurkers such as myself that have cut ourselves off completely. I have blocked reddit on all of my devices as a result of this ordeal.

I'm curious what you mean by "loyal", then.
Flexport is hiring engineers for its global logistics platform
I love the idea of trying to come up with a better way of notating music to make it more accessible. That's a great idea.

However, I'm skeptical that this is it. First, looking at the 2 notations of "Let it Be," we can see that the new notation does not convey the same data, or even a simplified version of it. It's a different version of it. I find that odd.

Second, I don't think learning music notation is very difficult. I learned to read treble and bass clef when I was 5 years old. It was much harder trying to make my fingers press the right keys at the right time than memorizing which circle on which line matched with which key or note.

Looking at this, I'm reminded of Laban notation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laban_Movement_Analysis) and Benesh Notation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benesh_Movement_Notation) for notating dance. Both are very complicated and essentially never used by the people who actually do the dancing. Furthermore, I'm told that Benesh, for example, allows a notator to add written (human-language) notes below the staff to convey additional information. In other words, they know it doesn't convey everything it's supposed to.

So what do dancers do? They learn from video. They watch the masters who went before them directly performing the movement. Frankly, I think it would be great to see something similar for music. Having a video of someone playing a keyboard from above, possibly with a graphical overlay showing the notes pressed would be way better (in my opinion). (Which isn't to say it's without issues - far more bandwidth, video codecs, playback hardware, etc.)
The problem I have always had with the analogy of a person holding up the books with their back is that a table doesn't have to do "work" to hold up the books, but a person does. They table isn't burning any calories.
رقم+صباغ+بالكويت+55757238+ارقام+صباغين+-+
> The fact that the AskScience mods stood up in agreement with what was going on, and pointed out how non-responsive admins had been

r/AskScience also has a lot of AMAs, and so was directly affected by Victoria's firing in a way that most other subs were not.
So. I immediately upgraded to the Black Hat plan (no ads forever) and would say you are charging way too little or should not use in app purchase.

We HN users are a dedicated base of people. While you need data to decide this, I think you will find that most people will pay more than $3.99 for no ads. I think most of us are happy to pay for a quality product.

Outside that, I really hope that this will become my go-to for hacker news :)

Caveat: for some reason I cannot post a comment from the client but the error is not verbose. It also says "tu " instead of "to". Just a note.
Related: The Story of the Ribbon

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX08/UX09
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I never really understood the point of these simplified markup languages. I see Markdown and ReST being pushed on non-technical writers who just don't want to use a text-based markup language. They want Word, or Google Docs, or a rich edit box, or something like that.

As for me, yeah I like writing in plain text but given the choice I'd rather just write in HTML which I already know, rather than use something like Markdown. I don't find Markdown to be particularly time-saving or easier to use. Or if I'm writing something where I particularly care about beautiful typesetting or I need a table of contents and an index I'll use LaTeX which has been developed for decades specifically for scholarly and technical writing.
Ask HN: How to get with a startup early stage
My question is pretty simple I am looking to get involved with a very early stage startup. I want to help out and learn to build something with a team of people. I am currently am in Upstate NY and looking to move to Palo Alto area, so I have a better chance of meeting like minded people. I don't have any programing experience I just want to make a change in my life. Currently 27 college grad with Bachelors in Business working part time at a retail job I hate and freelance as an assitant to a manager for musician. I still live at home and I am looking to make a change in my life. I am pretty much self taught everything I do graphic design, marketing, currently learning UI UX design so I have some tech skills to bring to table. If anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it.
Generally. And only because I see other companies doing this sort of thing. I'd like docker to be a solution here, but we're not quite there.
Thanks for the links! I'm really curious about what Haskell can come up with for a front-end story.

Do you think that Purescript's row typing (as seen in records and the Eff monad/effect system) is a viable replacement for monad transformer stacks? I "get" MT stacks but I find them heavyweight when what is most often desired is commutative set building of capabilities rather than MT-style stacking.
> A local file is not the same thing as a remote file

That's actually the easy case. Remote files are not local files, but local files are remote files: or more precisely, local files are a special case of remote files from the point of view of file access. If your filesystem API starts with the assumption that files are remote and must be handled as if they are remote, then you get pretty good local file access for free, as HTTP has been demonstrating for a couple of decades now. Of course if you instead start with the assumption that files are local and thus it's safe to do blocking I/O on them then when you add remote files you'll end up with an NFS-like mess instead. That doesn't prove that abstraction and generalisation can't work cleanly, it just shows that you were looking through the wrong end of the telescope. (Really, the distinction here isn't truly between remote and local but between unreliable and reliable. All remote file access may be unreliable, but it's certainly not the case that all local file access is reliable, or should be expected to be reliable. Especially not when you bring in user-space filesystems, as Plan 9 does.) Apparently Plan 9 actually started with a blocking-I/O-plus-thread-spawning model which was only so-so before it was fixed up: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/plan9:jmhickey-meng.pdf .
> Actually where the country controls its currency the effects are totally different and if the ECB could certainly step in for tiny Greece if there was a will.

It's the same thing. If you don't have enough money in the bank to make creditors whole, you print more (thus devaluing what everybody has). If you can't print, you cut their deposits. Either way, creditors are robbed. There is no magical solution here. Mathematics cannot be amended at will of any government.

If you spend more than you earn, someone somewhere someday is paying for it. And the longer you conceal that truth, the harder it is going to hit.
How Do You Learn to Code?
Now, let's extend your idea. Everyone can vote with their dollars for what they want to have in their lives! That way, no one is forced to use products or services someone else imposes on them. Now wouldn't that be the fairest system of all?
BMW has a hydrogen-powered 5 Series
Well we all learn to talk well before we learn to read and write, so I guess it's not too farfetched.
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We are a multicultural team with French, American, British, Chinese, Korean, Dutch and Finnish colleagues. We are about to settle a third office in Berlin this year.

We work a lot with Javascript (node.js, AngularJS), Python, occasionally Go and Erlang. Lots of single page apps, APIs and infrastructure automation.

We are looking for full-time or interns:

- Developers; front-end (HTML5 + Compass + AngularJS), backend (node.js, Python), ops (Python, Go).

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I agree that naive isn't quite the right word. A lot of the attitude and world view have their roots in the 60s counter culture and hacker / raver culture which combine huge optimism in human potential with a deep distrust of authority.
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Saltbreaker
I'm a designer on windows 10 and I wanted to comment on your last thought. Take it with a grain of salt but these types of ideas are what we are working on every day consistently attempting to improve or refine. The following are my own thoughts:

I agree that the desktop interface is stagnating - but the WIMP methodology is still bar none for discoverability and learnability, and if you're a company making money from the enterprise market, you will always be torn between desiring and pushing innovation and maintaining consistency.

However one thing I think we are doing now that is very interesting is attempting to reconcile the world of WIMP (desktop) with the FIM paradigm (finger icon menu - I made this up - ie mobile). Despite their similarities there is a HUGE challenge to meet the user's expectations when you are not fixed in one model.

There are a few different points of view I see in the industry - one is that people will get better at the touch language and our interfaces will evolve to support complex touch interactions. And some who think that we have achieved the optimal method for efficient interaction and and the optimal method for mobile quick interaction and that the two worlds should be separate. And still others who believe the best interaction method is still out there (gestures, voice, pen, natural language, ai etc.)

The view of windows 10 is that these two interaction paradigms or mental models support two semi formed methods of computing that are continually converging. The attempt is to create a UI that is adaptive to the users goal and should support: WIMP, FIM or a crossover between the two. The closest analogy is definitely responsive web design.

There are huge drawbacks to this such as complexity, and current user expectations. But also huge benefits such as computing that is less tied to a device or input method, and lets you choose the best tool for your task at hand.

I think it will be very interesting to see how the market reacts to this convergence, and if microsoft is able to communicate real user benefits from this type of experience. So far, it seems like simplicity is key.

As a tech geek and designer, I'm excited for the next 5-10 years of interaction design. I think a lot will change with new tech (AR/VR + natural language + ai) and the continual evolution of our existing UIs. I don't expect many major shift within already established interaction paradigms, but shifts that will influence them from outside technology.

edit: there are so many facets to this that I couldn't capture them all - but I wanted to comment on the card metaphor. To me it's a symptom of designers and devs looking for a metaphor that is able to cross between devices, screens and surfaces and escape the boundaries of the WIMP methodology. The fact that these types of metaphors are arising naturally in the world of software is a signal that the zerox/parc metaphor approach is still the best for mass market adoption. And seem to be the most well adopted to the environment we have created.
I really don't know that much of the details of this particular situation, I've grown tired of hearing about this sort of thing. I RTFA and it was interesting, but then it's always interesting, isn't it.

I was surprised that a CTRL+F "Icelend" in this thread turned up nothing. While I'm sure there were many differences in their situation, I bet there were a lot more similarities. My crude analysis of this situation is, it is yet another example of "men behaving badly while playing with other people's money". And when I say men, I'm not using it in the gender agnostic sense.

When this sort of thing happened to Iceland, they had the choice of "doing the right thing" (aka do what they were told by the international banking industry), or go it on their own. After some "public discussions", it was decided they would go it on their own. And a key learning that came out of that public discussion was to ensure females were involved in the process:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/feb/22/iceland-women

And by most accounts, Iceland is now doing generally "ok".

By the way, I have no idea if that article is at all authoritative on the topic of Iceland or females role in its recovery, I did a 5 second google search. My point is, as the author of the article (that is the topic of this post) clearly pointed out, the original deal with Greece was built on a fair amount of lies, that everyone knew were lies. I particularly liked the reference to this term: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=IBGYBG

And my experience (as a man), dealing with other men for many decades now is: a certain subset of men have absolutely no moral qualms about lying in the pursuit of power; other men of the same personality type, even if seemingly enemies, are happy to go along, and the collusion between these opposing actors who share the same mindset often results in them all rising into positions of extreme power, and they eventually blow the whole place up. It's probably always been this way in a sense - in the good old days, it resulted in war - nowadays, it results in financial markets blowing up.

I know there are all sorts of holes in my "theory of the world", and I don't even care, because this same shit will continue to happen indefinitely, and it will always be men running the show, but there's no way to prove causation because it will always be men running the show.
I always ask myself: "who accepted them?" and then I simply respond to myself the EU accepted them along with all the other PIGS.

Like they did with the EMS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Monetary_System

It didn't work at the time, they now wanted to make it forcibly work (again). Something is not right.
Taxing income only hurts those who do have jobs. The solution is a Land Value Tax.
http://www.quora.com/How-do-I-find-non-technical-job-opportu...
Maybe OP or someone else will take the initiative to add that and other reference material to the project's wiki.
It decompresses properly if you have the proper tool. With Mac, you can use the built in tool and with Windows, perhaps WinRAR. Mostly just see the source code and the documents in html format. Used to read this thoroughly back in college.
http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html

The above is a good accessible exposition of this perspective. Though it would help to have some acquaintance with ordinary probability as well as basic linear algebra.