skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think more fiscal transfers are the answer. If you took an even bigger chunk of money away from SF, you might succeed in reducing the rate at which real estate prices there are driven upward. But air-dropping that money in Akron will probably serve only to drive up real estate prices in Akron, which doesn't really solve anything (in particular, it does not increase output).

The problem here is twofold: first, not enough of the money being created is flowing into operating assets; second, the operating assets being purchased with this money aren't productive. This seems like an obvious and natural consequence of a service economy, in which the dominant inputs are labor and real estate. When you pay higher wages, that money has to go somewhere. Some of it goes toward consumption, but most is surplus and gets invested. It has the same problem it had when it was created: it can go toward real estate, operating assets, or portfolio investment. No one wants operating assets in a service economy (because they're not productive), so it ends up in real estate or portfolio investments. That drives up asset prices but does not increase output. Diverting more of this money into operating assets (things that make stuff) would increase output and alleviate the pressure on asset prices. Instead it goes into more wages (paying people more does not make them produce more) and real estate (paying more for land or office space does not make it produce more, either). One of the few bright spots was oil, but the sharp drop in prices has made investment there unattractive as well, and has reduced nominal output at the same time.

The central bankers can control the rate of asset price inflation by making money cheaper or more expensive, but they can't do anything to increase output when the money they create is used primarily to acquire nonproductive assets, or to acquire at higher prices assets that are already being fully utilized. That's why real estate is expensive and output is stagnant, and why fiscal transfers won't solve anything.

Any number of solutions suggest themselves: relaxing regulatory requirements to make manufacturing, utilities, and other non-service industries more productive; fixing China so that surplus cash in the US can be invested in operating assets there instead of domestic real estate; fixing laws that limit the supply of real estate, both to directly reduce the price and to make it less appealing as an investment; investing more tax revenue in infrastructure instead of transfer payments to individuals (where much of it ends up in ... real estate); radical alternatives like breaking up the United States into separate nation-states that are more cohesive internally. I'm sure you can think of others as well.
That is a really pretty dashboard.
That's a big stretch. Javascript is underneath everything in the web, but users aren't forced to interact with it every time they open their browser.
Well the assumption here is that we've got something we're measuring with a steady mean and either inherently noisy variation or some measurement error on top.

Lots of real-world samples follow the normal distribution, and anything that does should look roughly like that sim.

So there's no real need to use random numbers, but it's a very quick way of me getting data that looks like real data and I know I've got the standard deviation & mean correct and that there should be no anomalies.

My sim can only show one side of the story though, it can't show how often real issues are picked up. For that, we'd probably want to look at real-world data and investigate each reported issue to see what proportion are important (and then possibly try and see how many were missed).
Mozilla changes your default search engine to Yahoo. I wonder if they would be as upset if Bing had outbid Yahoo for this privilege.

Both companies should be prosecuted under the CFAA for these acts, making unauthorized changes to computers that don't belong to them.
Indeed! GEB has been a bible in this regard (pun intended).
Susan Blackmore's The Meme Machine is the book that brought the ideas home for me.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254502.The_Meme_Machine
"After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, 'Lies--damned lies--and statistics,' still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of." Leonard Henry Courtney, 1895

Also, those are "toy programs" not "microbenchmarks".
Is there any difference between Data Analyst and Business Analyst?
What fraction of jobs can be worked from home? Lots, but definitely not all.

Of course I'm a proponent of automating all jobs and switching to a leisure economy, which would fix the problem too and in a similar way, but I'm considering the near term here.
The problems in that area are nothing new, the local medias of each involved country have been talking about it for years, before the US began to take sides.
Why are the two groups upset at each other?
Clients can't prevent you from taking time off, you have a complete freedom to choose how much you work in theory. Having said that taking a week or more off during a 3 month contract will no be expected by most of the clients. Taking a day or two off is usually not a problem. It really depends on the client.
This reminded me of the Commodore 64 User's Guide ( http://www.commodore.ca/manuals/c64_users_guide/c64-users_gu...) in that they both assume the user is very knowledgable of what's going on under the hood.
I've never had coffee come out of my nose before. Thank you for that experience :)

I just sat through an hour of shit like that. My eyelids were so heavy they nearly became a singularity.
http://prog21.dadgum.com/203.html
UK is Leading the Way to Tax and Regulate Bitcoin
> It includes a built-in Turtle graphics system and a decent IDE. You can teach loops and draw graphics in just a few lines of code:

What! I've been looking for a nice easy to use turtle program for ages and it's been right in front of me the whole time!

Thank you for this.
What do yo really mean by that?

Personally I worry that mere attaching some empty labels to an argument is reason enough justify censoring it.
Can someone give us a backgrounder on what the split in the ffmpeg community is about?
Untrue - start editing a file in a tabs editor, download a snippet from the internet that has spaces in it, and voila - you've screwed up your file.

And this happens all the time to professional developers, much less 9-year-old beginners.
XOR was probably the intention of the author.
Data Mapping and Smarter Views Framework for Android
Do You Need to Own the .Com for Your Startup’s Name?
That is correct, but isn't the difference that the hosted docker images are 'fully' isolated from one another including the kernel.

I thought docker came about because this mechanism is inefficient, but if they have, as they claim, resolved that particular problem, it might be interesting
I was enamored with Skyrim, but the more of the plot lines I went through, the more ridiculous the story seemed. So I'm the best warrior Companion, the best Mage in Winterhold, the key to the civil war and the dragon born? The first plot line I went through - Companions - worked fine, because it was the first. But each successive one fell flat at least a little, because how I was the best at everything.

What I enjoyed was the world they built. The plot was secondary.
I don't get why you got downvoted, it's indeed not looking really serious to realese a video with this kind of watermark. Sure, well, whatever. I think the whatever has became the new moto at Mozilla.
At risk of being pedantic I would clarify that being an introvert has nothing to do with your skills at being social. The reason I bring this up is because once you put the proper name on something (i.e. identify it) then it is easier to work on.

Going out to events and striking up conversations probably have more to do with problems of finding the right kinds of events, overcoming shyness, anxiety, public speaking, etc.

There is a podcast I learned about from HN called the Art of Charm. They handle some basic things like how to strike up conversations and such. Might be worth a listen.
Identifying the companies involved in Pentagon drone operations
Are you claiming Germany does not have a history with a deep state? To be more specific, are you claiming the US has not been effective in steering the direction of German domestic politics?
The measure is value for money.

For 350 GBP (=500 EUR), you can have Intellij Idea.

When you ask your boss for a budget for Nx500 (N=number of developers), it is a huge difference, if you ask that for language bindings for GUI toolkit, or IDE.

The language and GUI toolkits are both free, the glue between them is not, and that damages them both. How many commercial PyQt apps have you seen in the wild?

Exactly.

Imagine, if someone asked money for XAML for C#... or for JavaFX. What it would do with their adaptation in projects?
Javascript has a lot of similarities to Python, actually. Why would you consider it so different?

I'd consider Javascript closer to Python than to C/C++/Java, for example.
Solar-powered flight for 81 hours: A new endurance world record
Last weekend I was at the Amiga's 30th Anniversary event at the Computer History Museum here in Mountain View. A lot of the original Amiga engineers spoke. A couple of things stood out that are relevant here. First, the culture of the company was so positive, and what they built was so impactful, that even 30 years later, they considered it the highlight of their careers.

Second was that the engineers had offices with doors that closed.

As a programmer, I want to build solid, easy-to-use, impactful products that delight people. In order to do that I need to focus, and in order to focus I need long periods free of distraction. It's also satisfying to be able to get into a state of flow. I don't need that all the time, but I need and want it some of the time.

As a (hopefully!) future tech CEO, I want to work with people who want the same. As as Amiga Inc (and many others) have proved, small groups of people with private offices can produce wonderful things and still have a great corporate culture. I also want to make sure I spend my company's or my investors' money wisely and efficiently.

(As an aside, the reason that the Amiga had line-drawing built into hardware is because one of the software developers had experience with line-draw algorithms, recognized that it could be easily put into hardware, and convinced the hardware designer to do so. Which I offer as a counter to the people who think that private offices means people won't collaborate).

Finally, I'm rather taken aback that the director of a design agency would get onto a public forum and announce that he doesn't really care about productivity. Productivity relates to money spent; don't your customers care about how much it costs to engage you?
I disagree. FFmpeg is/was heavily dependent on Michael for active development and bug fixes. In the last few years, more than half of the commits are from him. Without his contribution to development, nor a clear leader and succession plan, FFmpeg may stagnate again.

I don't blame Michael for any of this situation, but this is not a win for the community, product, or users. Development is going to slow way down, bugs are going to go unfixed, and the overall quality will decline in the short to medium term. It is unfortunate that vitriol over the fork led to this situation, where neither libav nor FFmpeg win, and everyone loses.
For some reason, I didn't see this yesterday but I'm glad it's been re-posted (even though it's redundant) this will be a very hand tool!
Am I the only one getting "HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable." on the link?
... or getting back the mysteriously missing german gold reserves...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-02-05/germany-s-...
I'm right there now. I just simplified everything by going back and looking for the technological singularity where everything just worked.

This is a really hard and uncomfortable thing after years of convenience along the same lines of going back to CDs after using mp3s but it's worth it.
If you must include the Techcrunch icon (even when the product hasn't been featured in Techcrunch?) it might be best to direct the clickthrough to a Google site-search rather than a general Bing keyword search.

So, for example, the Techcrunch icon under RocketClub could direct to: https://www.google.co.uk/#q=site:techcrunch.com+RocketClub

However, given the fact that only a very small number of products featured on Product Hunt will be covered by Techcrunch, but may be covered by other publications/blogs, it might be better to link directly to a Google News search?
For example: https://www.google.co.uk/#q=RocketClub&tbm=nws
For anyone unable to load the page: https://archive.is/ybHy7
That's exactly right. They are heuristic. Control charts were designed to be used on a manufacturing floor by workers who updated their charts manually on paper and called an engineer to aid in further investigation when a manufacturing process might to be out of control. Making out of spec parts or having an expensive machine break because it's operated outside it's limits cost real $$ so some false positives on a low frequency signal can be worth it. Also manufacturing engineers or QC would be responsible for the frequency of testing and sampling procedures so it's unlikely to be as naive as you might assume from the outside.
I think JS is perfect choice for first language. Sure, there are many rough edges and dark corners. On the other hand, it's fun, it's safe to experiment (because it's sandboxed), very easy to deploy and show friends, and it's quite usable language for all sorts of applications.

There are more elegant languages (lisp, lua, scala, python) but they fall short at some of mentioned points.
It's true that Java needs boilerplate code even for "hello world" but this isn't a real issue and the IDE produces it for you. The general need for more boilerplate is a slight nuisance, which makes languages like Python and Ruby slightly better for getting started. (Though Java's ability to catch compile errors is helpful for beginners... )
I mean that if you choose to use slurs or donate money to hate groups, and are ostracized from a community as a result, then invoking "free speech" is not sufficient defense to be allowed back into that community.

Or, in popular comic form: https://xkcd.com/1357/
Seriously, how much would it cost per square foot to build an island?
Some info: http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html

There are more links in that post to fill you in on the details.
I can really relate. A lot of the time I'm seen as quiet during verbal conversations, and it's confusing to me because I feel like I'm just being polite and listening to what people are saying. I've gotten better at it, but I've had to put a lot of work into doing so. I used to be called "shy" a lot.

On the other hand, because I've spent so much time figuring out how to talk to people (it's an important life and business skill) I am very good at expressing things clearly. I can see miscommunication a lot faster, and with written word I can -really- pick up on the nuances. I think it's because I've spent so many years having to figure out how people think and how they came to say the words they're saying. I have to think through every step so I can empathize better. Constantly putting myself in their shoes.

But like you said it can be exhausting. Not only am I figuring out what I want to say, but I'm trying to emulate the reasons they are saying what they are saying.
I wonder if Express Settings includes setting the browser back to MS default.
I think if you want people to enjoy what you build, JS is probably the quickest route. And I think you see it being used in "intro" programming courses to teach middle school or high school kids for that reason -- it quickly shows something visual where platforms, dependencies, and complex libs have made that harder elsewhere.

It's unfortunate it's a mess of a language and evolving too rapidly.

GWBasic, QBasic, and later TI-Basic were some of my first major forays into software, and I worry a bit when there's not a super easy way to get a game out there - however simple, because those are great gateway drugs.

For BASIC, this meant easy access to graphics modes, and some basic "BEEP" and noise playing ability.

These were all installed by default -- something that's not true of most programming tools today (well not entirely, OS X does have them! But not game/graphics libs), and having the source code to things like gorillas and snake helped. Many people could discover them completely by accident and boom, you're a programmer!

And that's all you need.

JS has a bit more learning curve.

OT: I think the glossy production of games these days may also be a negative factor, for those that know they can take millions of dollars, people trying to reproduce this result at a young age (or even as older hobbyists) may get disllusioned, give up, and not build something.

Just as DevOps culture has encouraged sharing how tools works at meetups, I wish this happened more for indie/homebrewed game development.
(Is that a joke? Am I falling for that rule that says that jokes on the Internet can not be recognized?)

Yes, you can use promises instead of callbacks, and get in promise-hell instead of callback-hell. It's indeed a matter of style.
The approach I'm trying to take with the community I'm involved in is to keep the effort required spread out -- so for instance I manage mainline releases but somebody else deals with stable branches and point releases, and a third person does the "pick up otherwise orphaned patches from the mailing list and get them applied" work. If I was trying to do all those jobs at once I'd never find time to do any of the things I actually find interesting!
Maybe HN is too much for MS? :-)

Half an hour ago it was still working fine.
Well, I didn't expect that.
I don't know the extent of the drama, but I have used FFMpeg a decent amount and it's been a lifesaver. I know that OSS leaders are extremely under appreciated, and I'd like to thank Michael for all of his efforts doing so.
Anecdotally, I recently went back and did some QuickBasic 4.5 programming, and was surprised how decent the experience actually was. I was on a retro kick, and was working backward/up to to doing some IBM PCjr hardware cartridge programming/ROM design. I still have a stack of old programming books from the mid 80's and early 90's and it was great to dust them off and re-read them with a fresh/older set of eyes.

I ended up doing some simple graphics programming on an old 386sx. Using QB for high-level code, and interfacting with some ASM for lower level graphics and data processing, it was actually quite pleasant.

But then, the reference PCjr that I was targeting/experimenting on finally gave up the ghost and died, and I lost interest in hunting down a new one... Poor little guy.

What I took away from the experience is while the tools were more primitive, it wasn't the languages that sucked when I was learning to program in the mid 80's and early 90's as a kid; it was me. I sucked at programming.
I still live here, and I'm sick of the "Crime is part of the character" narrative. The Quarter, Marigny, Bywater, and Treme can have plenty of character without the risk of getting mugged biking home from work.
FedEx has a feature called "Delivery Manager" that allows you to specify the delivery time more specifically. You can also reroute your package to get it delivered to another destination. Both of these options come with a small additional cost.

If you're looking for a free option, you can reroute your package to a FedEx location like a FedEx office or distribution center and pick it up from there. I use this during the holidays to keep people from grabbing packages off my porch.

As far as technological solutions, FedEx also offers delivery notification. You can get an email or text when your package hits your front porch.

http://www.fedex.com/us/delivery/

I can only really speak to FedEx. I'm sure UPS, DHL, etc. offer similar options.
I'm the author of the tool. I had posted this yesterday linking to the home page. http://mycli.net

I guess a few people didn't see it. :)

Discussion Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9975022

I'll be happy to answer questions about the project.
Check out a startup called Doorman: http://www.doorman.co/

I heard about them awhile back and they are trying to solve this very problem.
The easiest solution is to have a neutral location where the package can be securely placed by the distributor/deliverer, and retrieved by the user. Amazon Locker and other services provide this. Edit: It looks like Bufferbox got bought by Google and then eventually shut down. Maybe there aren't many services like this.

Many workplaces will allow you to receive packages there; some would rather have that instead of having you work remotely. This is somewhat common, especially in smaller companies, where there isn't a dedicated shipping clerk or mailroom staff.

Another common option is to have someone available to accept the package, have them store it, and give it to you when you are available. This type of service ranges from apartments with staffed rental offices, to mailbox stores, to roommates and housemates, to friendly neighbors.

A less-common option is to pay for a large mailbox at a Post Office or 3rd-party mailbox store, and have all packages delivered there. The Post Office won't be able to sign for packages from parcel companies, but the 3rd-party mailbox stores usually can - sometimes you have to sign a waiver so they can.

Drone delivery is a fun option to consider, but it's a regulatory nightmare currently. Items such as licensing, insurance, liability, property damage, personally identifiable information (PII) and privacy, airspace laws, and criminal activity all have to be settled before we can realistically consider an automated delivery.

Scheduling deliveries is going to be very expensive, especially during the high (vehicular) traffic times when most people are both at their homes and still awake. There are too many cars on the roads to make this viable, delivering packages during the day is just a lot easier. If more people worked alternate schedules, this problem would be lessened, but alternate schedules impact human health.
>And then one should question as to whether or not they want to believe with any fervor that spacetime has a physical sense.

As I read that, I felt it was a bit too strong - isn't the issue whether spacetime have an independent physical sense? I went back to the article, and I see that it starts "What is space? What is time? Do they exist independently of the things and processes in them?" As the argument starts with a manifold of events, an answer of 'no' to the third question seems reasonable to me (though I realize, from experience, that that's probably because I haven't fully grasped the argument.)

As far as I can tell, the article doesn't indicate any particular problem with the 'no' answer.

In the argument in section 10.3.3, don't you have to accept the reality of K(t) in order to see a paradox?
Right, sorry. Off the top of my head.
http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html

There's probably some great popcorn in mailing lists.

Edit: libav have a big "personal conflict resolution" section here which is another hint:

http://libav.org/about/
I get a 503 Service Unavailable ?!

Anyways, it probably did not change much in the last few days:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150727212504/http://smallbasic...

Its good this is (still ?) available. But I would prefer my friends or kids to learn in a more platform independent way. Like Python.
That's a bit specious. 90% of nurses are female but there's nothing driving men out of the field.