jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What the SNB really taught people this week is what emerging markets people have known for decades, and actually, developed markets traders really should know too. You should never trade a peg in the direction that is being defended by a central bank. You should almost always fight the central bank.

Anybody who takes a cursory glance at history will know this: ERM 1992, Russia 1998, Brazil 2001, and yes, Russia H2 2014 (semi peg). The examples of peg breaks are numerous, and some recent. No excuses.

A "grid trading" strategy that was essentially recommending picking up pennies in front of a steamroller, was irresponsible at best. One should always look at the balance of payments of a country to see if it is in surplus or deficit, and trade the currency accordingly. Swiss was in massive surplus on the capital account. This guy was recommending selling swiss francs for a tiny, marginal carry trade in euros.

And if you don't know what balance of payments means, you really should figure it out before committing money to the FX market.

Finally, all the bull about liquidity. Of course there is no liquidity when a market revalues suddenly. This is the same in equities: if an unexpected announcement happens, the price revalues instantly and there is no liquidity in between. It is a discrete event. Econ 101.
Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/435/
No but it makes it more affordable, which increases spending, which improves the economy, which combats inflation. Or maybe we should continue the "trickle down economy" that has worked so, so well.
When that article was posted, M1 money supply for feb. 1 of this year was still listed as 6.8 trillion, a 70% increase vs. 1 year ago. Right now it's almost 3x as much. Although it does look like the graph in that article has been updated automatically as well.
That's a condescending and unfounded response. Some people can take heroin and not have issues, but that doesn't make heroin safe by any means. You're in a small minority of Americans and not representative of the average person.

> The organization estimates that 3/4 of the American population will likely be overweight or obese by 2020.[13] According to research done by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, it is estimated that around 40% of Americans are considered obese, and 18% are considered severely obese as of 2019. Severe obesity is defined as a BMI over 35 in the study. Their projections say that about half of the US population (48.9%) will be considered obese and nearly 1 in 4 (24.2%) will be considered severely obese by the year 2030.[14][15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States
I vaguely remember editing one of the boot files so it'd start up and display a fake > prompt. This was then used to print out an insult. Also because everyone just hit break you could set it with a *KEY0 command to just run the program and insult them some more. I remember getting in trouble more than exactly what I did - was a long time ago now! :)
Let me rephrase that, how could that occur credibly.

The government, much like us, won't throw away money intentionally.
What's wrong with Starbucks and McDonalds? Kids drink glasses of milk. An iced latte is literally just a glass of milk with espresso in it. As to McDonalds--I'm not convinced it's any worse than the stuff I ate at that age in Bangladesh (curries heavy with oil, lots of carbs).
hfsp - have fun staying poor. somewhat of a slang used among cryptocurrency fans to joke about no-coiners.
> Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that it accelerates inflation. Inflation doesn't happen in fits and spurts, it's on going and has been happening well beyond my entire life.

Amen. I'm so tired of hearing "X might cause inflation" as if I haven't dealt with inflation for my entire life. Finding a non-bias source for "True Inflation" (aka, not the government who benefits from lower inflation because it directly impacts GDP) is hard but even using the government's numbers inflation is just shy of 100% (92.1%) since I was born, I will be 30 years old next month. That's ridiculous.
Exactly. If the rich are happy to leave it in a bank account gathering dust, it doesn't affect prices. But when everyone is actively bidding for scarce assets, we get inflation.
> As in Haskell and O’Caml, operators are just syntactic sugar for ordinary functions. Enclosing any operator in backticks lets you use it as if it were an ordinary function. For example, calling `+`(2, 3) returns 5.

This is awesome. This is probably one of those things that I should have known but didn't. It strikes me as being very useful in combination with the 'apply' functions.
a) http://www.anandtech.com/tag/guides has guides that are updated frequently and are pretty good.
b) You can also head to www.hardforums.com and get recommendations from techies themselves. People on hardforums are extremely helpful and knowledgeable.
It's a pretty well known case and easy enough to find.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5297822.stm
Yeah, that's true. I think there are three major limitations.

- First, code that is intentionally (or out of neglect) opaque to the compiler. For example, someone may simply forget to write type stable code, or someone might intentionally create a function barrier to specialize some code

- Second, Julia has no standard way of encoding constrains on types. That's good, because someone else can make up a new type you never thought about, and throw it into your functions, and if it has implemented all the right methods, it will work. But it also means you can never guarantee your code will work for any type.

- Third, Julia encodes less information in the type system - e.g. the use of result types is not common.
It is not as strange when you see information move from sexual/asexual genetic reproduction, to markings on clay tablets and the mental diversity of human knowledge propagating with faster, more flexible fitness functions than the foundational survival/extinction binary.
DNA is an arbitrary (albeit important) replicant and not at all the only form of physical memory.
Just creating a new user is annoying enough.

Permissions are also much more complex.

What the hell are schemas?
When a company gets a lot of market, they want to differentiate their products so people stop using the standard and gets locked into their "standard slightly modified".

No no no, It is not an MP3 player(anyone could make an MP3 player), is an Ipod.

No no no, It is not email, email is an standard and we don't want to have to compete with other companies on a levered field, it is the facebook messaging event.

As usual they will make it very easy for people to get in, not so easy to get out.

"I'm intensely jealous of the next generation who will have something like Facebook for their whole lives. They will have the conversational history with the people in their lives all the way back to the beginning: From "hey nice to meet you" to "do you want to get coffee sometime" to "our kids have soccer practice at 6 pm tonight." That's a really cool idea."

I feel scared about that, everything you said(later will come audio and video) in a very specific context and frame, like 10 years ago, could be used against you by other people. Bad things could happen when you can't control it(friends of friends could see that)like you could control on gmail.
To each his own. Foobar2000 looks pretty much like all the music players before iTunes: http://www.foobar2000.org/images/img/main.png

What I like about iTunes is that, in one window, it shows me all of my music in a way that is clean, consistent, and very easy to navigate. At least for my own usage patterns, the “one big window with an effective search box” display is just what I want. If it takes 10 seconds to start (as it does on my laptop), that’s frankly not a problem, as I just leave it open all the time; it doesn’t take any CPU to speak of when it’s not actively playing music.
That's quite light, considering my cannondale mtn bike is ~25-30 lbs.

Still, I'd love to see what additions such as AeroGel powders and carbon nanotube fibers would do to the weight of a rigid boat such as a canoe.

I think another design challenge would be a fold-able plastic one ala camping flatware (http://www.orikaso.com/)
Matt: what will happen to your graduate students?
The math is fairly simple. There are two cases: viral and non-viral.

The viral case is when the value you can offer to paying customers actually increases as more free users join the system. In this case, the free users are the resource and as long as the revenue you can extract from their added value exceeds the cost to support them, you can do freemium profitably.

The second case is non-viral and is where most people are. Here, the basic premise is that the free users may A) become paying customers or B) attract paying customers through word-of-mouth/scale halo effect.

In both cases, you need to estimate the lifetime cost of a free user. Even if it's only $0.25 per year, it will be something and is important. You will also need to estimate the lifetime profit of a customer (lifetime value minus lifetime cost). Don't forget user/customer support costs and overhead.

For case 2A, you then calculate the conversion rate for free users. If the lifetime profit of a customer exceeds the lifetime cost of a free user divided by the conversion rate, you win. If not, free users are a drag on profitability and not worth it.

For case 2B, you again calculate the lifetime profit of a customer and compare vs the lifetime cost of free users divided by the expected referral rate free users generate. If the profit exceeds the referral cost, you win. Otherwise, again, free users are not worth it.

Obviously, the above is very rough overview, and in real life there are many additional complexities. There are various ways these cases may mix, the functions may not be linear, etc. But in the end, it's just math and you can guestimate if freemium is economical for your business.
Bottom line... debt is idiotic. I think it should be retired as rapidly as possible. Would you choose lots of pain today, or tons more pain amortized over many generations to come?
Wow, What a move by MS, Well bloody done :|
By the way, you can install sudo on arch if you want.
Yes, thank you; my phrasing was unclear.
Are you on the AMEX team(s) in question? I am always interested in knowing all of the factors that were part of the decision in why a team chose the language or platform it did and if, after a respectable period of time, everyone is still happy with the choice or if there's buyer's remorse and what greener pasture languages/platforms (or problems with the selected stack) are bringing on those second thoughts.
Thanks for the twitter recommendations. I made great progress with progressive loading with isometric exercises the past 9 months, so I'm transitioning to slow concentric/eccentric movement to increase range of motion and struggling. This stems from an improperly healed ankle injury causing low dorsiflexion ROM so finding the right combination of exercises is tricky.
The world desperately needs bitcoin
A high-quality, moral, independent, and often compassionate judiciary is certainly a requirement for anything like common law to work.
I worked for a company once that went through an extended period of "cost controls." The end result was a cycle of hiring and hiring freezes, and many people would start interviews during a hiring period and then partway through the interview process would get caught in a hiring freeze.

Some HR people basically stopped responding to interviewees during these hiring freezes. It was stupid and extremely unprofessional. We had some great candidates who got caught in this.

Maybe your recruiter went on vacation and didn't set their out of office properly. Or maybe it is a case of severe stupidity like what I described above.

Either way, it's not your fault. I'd wait a week or two and email again. If you really like the job/company I'd try to find somebody who interviewed you on LinkedIn and contact them. Otherwise just forget it.
I'm confused about the license[1]. It seems to not be actually open source. The Open Source Definition says[2]:

> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

But this seems to be doing that exact restriction.

Additionally the license seems like it contains a loophole:

>If you are creating an open source application under a license compatible with the GNU GPL license v3, you may use browserless under the terms of the GPLv3.

If I make an open source application, I can use browserless under the terms of the GPLv3. That means I can redistribute browserless under the GPLv3. That means people can take the browserless code I redistribute and use that for commercial products (as long as they don't distribute a non-GPLv3 binary form of the commercial products containing browserless, because that would break the GPLv3).

[1] https://github.com/browserless/chrome#licensing

[2] https://opensource.org/osd#fields-of-endeavor
If you care about such things then don't use vanilla emacs. Use spacemacs instead where I suspect you'll have this out of the box. It's not an obscure port. Indeed in the long run it wouldn't surprise me if we end up with more spacemacs users than vanilla emacs. I've even run across some pages with emacs tips where they take it as a given that you're using spacemacs (the tips only work on spacemacs and the page never qualifies this).

And even with vanilla emacs it's probably a one liner in your config to get vi bindings.
Depends on what you want to do on your desktop. If that includes running a DAW or doing high-end video rendering or editing, good luck doing that in such an environment. Or, for that matter, effective large scale software development (not the IDEs as much as the compilers).

It's not that the (G)UI can't be done with web tech, it's that the backend has to be native to be fast enough (or rather, not to get users cursing that the software stack is stealing 10% of their system horsepower). That means non-interpreted, non-sandboxed code running on the bare iron.
The other classic "rags in a corner" ignition source is that drying oils, ie vegetable oils like you'd use for paint or wood finish, generate heat as they "dry" (actually polymerize).
Mandatory XKCD.[1]

[1] https://xkcd.com/394/
That's optional touch - which is ideal, best of both worlds but there is a BMW iDrive still controller between the passengers for the screen, you can see it later in the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=582&v=eIfP2vcZD7M&feature=yo...
This is nothing new. Just another example of corporations screwing over consumers with ambiguous/confusing measurements.

See e.g.:

- ISPs advertising network speeds in megabits per second instead of megabytes (who ever uses megabits otherwise???)

- Banks advertising interest-bearing accounts with APY and advertising loans with APR.

Do folks have other good examples? I’m sure there are lots.
Files may not, but file-systems do.

All else being equal, I see it as better to under-promise and over-deliver than the reverse:

In a world where there was one commonly-accepted meaning for MB (ie, the world where computers were invented, proliferated and became ubiquitous), and one assumed meaning (however logical it may be), users without the requisite nugget of binary knowledge would be positioned to be pleasantly surprised that they had "more than they paid for". In the case of file-sizes, this is to that users detriment, but in the case of the potentially more litigious issue of amount of drive space or RAM being purchased, this is to the users advantage.

For those that simply knew, on the other hand, things were just as expected.

Conversely, in the world where we now have two justifiable hard meanings for MB (one historical, one "canonical"), and people who go about endlessly correcting each other about them, we have handed the "things are as expected" situation to the everyday users, while the rest have inherited a mix of "less than I paid for" and "confusion".

All-up, not a worthwhile trade IMO.
wow, all that code and it's still absolutely terrible to use. Imagine
those “safety” features can be dangerous in a few ways, like generally deskilling drivers over time, thereby increasing accident rates and severity of accidents. i’ve personally had auto-braking (on a rental car) almost cause an accident, which i had to counteract to avoid.
> "left to their own devices" doesn't mean that the US (or anyone else) would be uninvolved in things.

What? That's exactly what it means.
Turbine manufactures have cold weather packages and deicing systems. I'd wager they don't get installed in Texas.
You would probably be pleasantly surprised with how easy handling modifications are in GTA:V.

The handling meta files are all XML now, in more or less plain English, and very well documented by the modding community.

I run an GTA:V multiplayer RPG server using FiveM[0] and the community around vehicle mods is really incredible. 3D modelers produce all kinds of real-world vehicles for GTA:V from Nissan GTR’s up to hyper-accurate law enforcement Dodge Chargers[1] with accurate Whelen lights, Setina bull bars, etc.

[0] https://fivem.net/
[1] https://redneckmods.com/product?id=3fbaf24e-7775-432e-87e1-f...
Why so much blind faith in the algo amplification systems Social Media companies have cooked up?

People have accepted the like/click/upvote reward/amplification systems that surround us as if they are some well thought out foundation on top of which everything else has to be built.

Once some country decides to ban algo amplification of all content, all the castles in the sky being built and debated will break. Who thinks that wont happen?
no, just for certain things. I don't use julia on a day to day, it is not the right tool for my job (CRUD apps).
I'm getting some surprisingly mixed messages on here because I've come into the discussion with a couple of assumptions, so I'd like to try to clear those up.

1. Do we have the right to private, secure, anonymous communications?

2. If yes, do we have the right to be outraged when our government attempts to subvert our private communications, most especially with broadly-scoped warrants or tactics that can expose your communications to any potential listeners?
Would reusable rockets count. Technically it's an extension of rockets but it's still a new invention on its own
Virtual avatars? They seemed popular in the past, but maybe the general public wouldn't want them today.
You can just be experiencing something that is not consciousness...

That's what consciousness is: to borrow Thomas Nagel's phrase (which Chalmers also uses frequently), "the thing that it feels like" to be something. By every reasonable definition I've ever heard — and I've studied and read about this stuff for decades — that's pretty much a constant: consciousness is the experiential part of ... you know, experience. Yes, it's entirely possible — even common — to be mistaken or misled about the content of your experience, but not the fact that you are experiencing.

In a discussion already absurdly full of sophistry, your comment should win a very large, gaudy prize.
legal costs?
Logic does not compute. If they weren't in it for the money, why would they sell it for money?

I think the better argument is that they were incompetent.
If you go through the exercise of building a mental model of exactly what a title 3 wiretap facility on a packet-switched telephony network looks like, and then carefully study the covert channel traffic confirmation attack the Tor team disclosed and everyone presumes the FBI is using, you'll see that the technical differences are not that great. It's certainly not as black-and-white as "passive" versus "active".

I'm not sure I follow the point about how the FBI could have done grave damage to everyone's privacy. It's (hypothetically, assuming this is how the FBI did it) the relay-early traffic confirmation vulnerability that did that. The FBI didn't create that vulnerability.
Wouldn't Flash being ActiveX on IE make it the worst as it becomes the sum of both its own and ActiveX's badness? :-P

(FWIW i think that complexity aside, ActiveX in general is a nice idea - but it wasn't designed for the web and Microsoft just shoved the closest equivalent they had to applets into IE because they were afraid of Java's compile-once-run-anywhere threatening their desktop dominance and ActiveX's reliance on x86 and Windows API would put a stop on that; but didn't put much care into it beyond that point)
How much international employees do they have? The US, especially the SF area is probably the highest paid location, most of the world has much more reasonable wages.
CNC Machined, you cant die cast with that accuracy or get all that inside geometrey - http://www.apple.com/macmini/design.html
I think it's smart.

If your product is a compliment to another then sharing a point of sale is your earliest and best opportunity to make a sale. The type of people buying software at these stores, as opposed to Amazon/newegg etc, are generally the type least likely to discover/try/buy software such as Xobni online.

Also, Xobni Plus is a subscription product, so even if they make less on boxed sales it can lead to additional revenue in the future.
Building overpasses isn't exactly cheap and the article said no bridge construction was necessary when putting this layout up. It can definitely be done if the traffic level warrants shelling out extra for not having two traffic lights, but once you're going for a three-level interchange there are a lot of existing designs out there already (and some don't have the entrance-exit weaving pattern).
Foxconn certainly pushes the limits of mass production, but Apple's engineers make their designers visions come to life and figure out how to do manufacturing no one else has done before. Johnny's CNC play ground - http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/blog/uploaded_images/ive2-7...
Patches accepted ;)
Obligatory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diverging_diamond_interchange

Makes it easier to understand, seeing it from above. I also suspect I have seen this on an infrastructure blog which I can't recall offhand.

Instant edit: Could the submitted title be made clearer?
Political sites in Australia have already been refused classification (ie, would be blocked).

There was a candidate in the recent South Australian election who ran on an anti-abortion platform who's website was later refused classification. See http://lifenetwork.org.au/_bpost_2642/Australian_Government_...
We're using Java (and Google Web Toolkit) on thingloop.com, and it's working out great for us.

In answer to your questions:

1) Yeah, good cheap Java hosting doesn't seem to exist. That said, I think the Rackspace Cloud and Amazon EC2 are great solutions and great value for money.

2) Java is a high performance language, if you get performance issues it'll be your design/archiecture.

3) thingloop.com, successful from a technical standpoint, business-wise, the jury is still out!

On the whole question of which language, I'd say:

a) avoid religious arguments - my language is better than yours! They all have advantages and disadvantages.

b) a lot of it is down to what's cool. Ten years ago Java was the coolest kid on the block, now it's RoR. Thinking longer term, you might want to consider what the most available skillset is in your area for recruitment purposes.

c) if you've got a bunch of guys who already know a platform inside out, then stick with that. They'll almost certainly be way faster.
#1 reason: Java is a verbose language with a rather verbose design philosophy/ecosystem

which is not to say it's bad. it's actually really good, with lots of great qualities.

but compared to PHP, Ruby and Python, it's rather verbose. As a general rule you can pound out way more feature points per hour in a less verbose language than a more verbose one.

there are other factors, sure, but I think this is the biggest one.