jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The traditional safe havens for people worried about fiat currency have been gold and silver. This sets them apart from other commodities. All commodities, including gold and silver, are used to hedge against inflation. But gold and silver have a traditional or historical role as an alternative to paper money.

http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/gold-cru...

Treasuries, denominated in U.S. dollars, are held as liquid assets. People usually hold these when they expect markets to decline. They are perceived as very low risk, safe investments. They don't carry a lot of return, but they are seen as reliable.

If you think that the U.S. is going to issue a huge amount of dollars in order to pay off its debts ('monetizing the debt'), that would ordinarily lead to a great deal of inflation. The situation we are currently facing may prevent inflation from occurring. Because we are entering a credit crunch, the overall money supply has actually started to contract (using the broadest measure of money, 'M3'). A contraction in the money supply would lead to deflation. Thus a massive printing of U.S. dollars (at least in the short term) may serve to counteract deflation rather than causing inflation.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/7769126/US-mone...

Because of the turmoil in Europe, odd things have been happening. Usually the dollar and gold move in opposite directions (strong dollar weak gold, weak dollar strong gold). But people have been fleeing the Euro, causing both the dollar and gold to strengthen at the same time.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/204718-reading-into-the-simu...

The euro is facing a crisis, Japan's banks are also quietly scrambling for funds to prop up their banks, and there's a great deal of debt in the Chinese system that hasn't really been put to the test yet (but may be soon). There isn't really any currency that is unencumbered by large amounts of debt, including the dollar. Nevertheless, of the major world currencies (dollar, euro, pound, yen, yuan), the dollar probably still enjoys the greatest confidence.

If you are going to invest in anything denominated in a major currency, the dollar is still probably the best at the moment. If you have no medium- to long-term faith in fiat currencies, then buying gold and silver are the traditional alternatives.
The iPod line is usually updated at its own event in September. I expect to see an iPod with a front facing camera then.
I think it's to enhance the sense of exclusivity, to help people to get excited about it, to emphasize to people that important this is important. I mean, if people are scrambling to get live updates of something, then it must be important, right? This gives Apple two hours when, anywhere in the world, if someone is reporting on the proceedings, they are going to mention something about the difficulty of getting live updates. Man, what better way to show importance? Helpful isn't sexy.

In an era of easy video feeds of everything, the un-videoable seems far more valuable. Seeing photographs from pay-per-view events on the news gives that impression. Or think of the US Supreme Court. They only allow people to sketch the proceedings! Pencil drawings are the ultimate status symbol.
This post taught me more about troubleshooting a faulting process in Windows than anything I've done in the last year or two.
like the MiniDisplayPort.
Still more convenient than chat on net-books/laptops. Calling on a phone is very convenient and if you can, add video.
A simple enough solution would be to simply not include partial words. They don't help SEO, and when your phrase is long enough to require it, it's unlikely you'll have uniqueness issues.
Really? I was thinking it was becoming the place to post Wikipedia articles. "Oh noes it is becoming Reddit" gets posted every few months If you haven't seen more than one then you haven't been here long enough to raise the question(or so it says in the related documentation.)

Personally I dislike the fact that there is so much overlap with the programming sub reddit but the user base is interesting enough to make me prefer it to reddit. Thus the main difference has always been tone and character, or at least so far as I can tell.
I don't think you need Sand Hill VC if you're making a web SaaS startup. But big money is still useful and often necessary to get other types of startups off the ground or scale up, in areas like green tech, transportation, biomed, etc. For these, it prob still helps to be near high concentrations of VC. For a web SaaS, sure you can be in the middle of Idaho or Kansas.
He's a cryptographer, and he's on record as saying that the encryption was moderately hard. I think there's more involved than brute-forcing.
I don't want to alarm anyone but so does this site. If your not using unique passwords for every site you use then you really should consider doing it. Tools such as 1Password make it ridiculously easy, there really is no excuse.
Actually the initial reception of MoR from what I was was that it was a crackfic/humor piece. The first few chapters are, after all, hilarious. And people expected more of the same. There was quite a bit of confusion later on when it became apparent that the story was meant to be serious.
The smile is all wrong.
NYC grants yellow taxicabs a monopoly (they're the only vehicles allowed to pick you up when you hail them on the street) and regulates the number of licensed cabs, which creates an artificial shortage of taxis. In return for these pleasant market conditions, the taxis have to play by the rules.
The video claims there were no injuries in this project, though there's no way to tell how veracious that claim is.
Of course it's useful. What is a back-link other than a recommendation for a website? The internet has changed. Most people on the internet no longer publish anything, so we're effectively seeing an oligarchy when it comes to ranking information on the internet. Using various forms of social media is a way to again democratize the access to information.

To do this you have to go where the recommendations are. They used to be by linking to a website from your own. Of course that is going to remain a large component, but any company would be foolish to write off using social linking as a source for recommendations.
Heh, I seem to recall Eliezer saying something about how the story was going to be played completely straight, and then out of nowhere, Harry bit his teacher, and he realized it was going to be a humor piece.
This reminds me of: "All Our Programming Languages Boil Down to Sequence, Selection and Iteration"

http://bit.ly/9lwT8e
Think about this - when Android goes to tablets with Honeycomb, the same app binary will work with tablets and phones while automagically adjusting the UI to suit the available screen real estate. Now think how Apple did this with iPad.

That may be wonderful for developers, but that will probably make for a horrible user experience.
I AM a biologist, and a specialist on social insects, and sure, it's not understood perfectly. But this guy's statement is valid.
I like how the first point is essentially that the diversity of Linux would make it hard for malware writers because of the differences between distributions, and the last point seems to assume that the diversity is NOT a problem to writing Linux software.
We've been quite successful at cracking the UK market and we run the sites for a few of the UK's biggest chains down to some smaller brasserie style companies.

I'd like to present some work which I think is good for a change (there are a lot of bad examples on here)

So here we go

http://giraffe.net

http://www.chezgerard.co.uk

http://www.brasseriegerard.co.uk

Some of our older ones

http://www.strada.co.uk

http://www.caferouge.co.uk

http://www.bellaitalia.co.uk

The most visited pages on our busiest sites are

1. Offers and vouchers

2. Locations

3. Menus

so it is really important to do those well.

Also we've recently launched a product that allows anyone with a website the ability to have a content managed mobile site set up and working in no time.

The product is called http://www.pocketdiner.co.uk

Any feedback or comments are welcome
Totally. Earlier in my web development career I re-sold hosting to a friend who, as a waitress, did the website for the place she worked. It was pretty terrible, stale, hard to update, and had (I think) BMP format scanned menus. Eventually she was fired and I was dragged into a horrible mess over who actually owned the site, when my friend asked me to take it down (she was the only one I ever dealt with).
ok, so who is an expert on life? and have they published a book?
Well you have the permutations,

(email, Facebook, porn)

(email, porn, Facebook)

(porn, email, Facebook)

(Facebook, email, porn)

(Facebook, porn, email)

(porn, Facebook, email)

That is 3! or 6 total possibilities, 2 of which involved porn immediately following Facebook. which is 1 in 3... ...How do you figure 1 in 2?
> Whenever someone pooh-poohs rationality as unnecessary, or makes fun of rationalists

Fun and clever article, but for it all to land on that was jarring and disappointing. Preaching to the choir I guess.
I agree with much of this (and eagerly await the next few years).

The difference between sleeping 6 hours uninterrupted and sleeping 6 hours with 2 interruptions is so dramatic. The cumulative effect of sleep deprivation takes awhile to really hit - the first three months or so I thought I was "fine" and then it really started to compound. Mood was really the most negatively hit aspect of my life.

It's fair to say my appreciation of sleep is perhaps more psychologically-induced than physiological. Happens often when something is taken for granted and then ripped from under your feet for some duration. :)
Hot air balloons frequently fly over Rancho Santa Fe nearby, as well. Local ordinances are such that most if not all of them are doing so illegally, if I recall correctly, but that still doesn't mean shooting them down would be legal.
Whilst it is a shitty idea for a question I'm not sure I could hire a .NET dev that didn't know this simple fact. Type aliases are common in many languages, not just .NET. Being unable to answer this question, or even make a correct guess at it (it's not exactly hard), suggests a larger problem with the candidate.
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I mentioned that this post isn’t about debating who the righteous side is. The question is around the issue of Youtube removing songs, not only for Indian users but those around the world.
>>*Although the evidence shows that SARS- CoV-2 is not a purposefully manipulated virus, it is currently impossible to prove or disprove the other theories of its origin described here.*

From the conclusion section
> Here is a good selection of some tongue twisters: https://ivypanda.com/tongue-twisters-italian

... though quite a few are regional/dialect and they may confuse a non-italian reader (and there are quite a few typos).

It is not I believe a fault of the specific source, I guess that the fully Italian tongue-twisters are relatively few, as many are dialect related.
"Also, I lied about the profit in the title, this is about being a dick."
It wouldn't be lame; it would be awesome to have another kickass editor for Mac OS X, especially one that takes full advantage of the features of Snow Leopard and modern hardware.

Signed up for the beta; looking forward to trying it out.
How dare Yahoo allow the press to incorrectly speculate based on a leaked photo from an internal meeting.
Imagine you have 20 services that need to run with your website ( 5 database daemons, 5 nodejs apps, 5 ngnix instances, 2 dns servers, 2 mail smtpd daemons, 1 git repository ).

Your infrastructure consists of 5+ virtual servers that host your services. Each virtual server might be database only or db + dns or web + dns or ... you got the point.

What docker allows you to do is to isolate all those 20 services in separate containers that if any of them is being hacked your attacker will end up compromising only that service without any access to the main server.

What docker allows you to do is to version control the configuration and the container for the different services in a way that if you need to reinstall a service ( redeploy your app ) it is less of a hassle and since it is containeraized you will not be compromising your other services while doing that.

etc.
no, it does not.
I would recommend anything other than Virtuozzo/OpenVZ, because of broken memory allocation. Virtuozzo allows hosts to oversell RAM, without properly handling over-allocation. So, memory allocations fail while reporting available memory, making it difficult to troubleshoot, and difficult for users to predict what their VM can accommodate.

If intermittent failures without useful error messages is the worst kind of failure (and it is, IMHO), then Virtuozzo intentionally subjects its users to the worst kind of failure. Unless you know how to spot this kind of problem, it's easy to bang your head on it for days or weeks; and we've had users who were ecstatic when we diagnose their problem and provide the knowledge they need to spot it in the future (though resolving it may be more tricky than diagnosing it). Even without the host intentionally overselling, we've seen this behavior happen, because allocation seems to require contiguous blocks of memory (or something else that means that even with enough available memory allocations can fail).

I am not deeply familiar with the code, only with spotting this problem in the wild. I've seen assertions, spanning years (including from Parallels), that it's been fixed, or that as long as the host isn't overselling RAM it won't happen. But, we still get these support requests regularly. I'm not an expert on their software, but I'm an expert on spotting when it's their software that is causing our customer's despair. (Note that the support requests are usually about Postfix, Apache, MySQL or other services "crashing"; it rarely manifests with our software specifically, since our software rarely needs to allocate large amounts of memory.)

If you happen to be stuck on a Virtuozzo or OpenVZ system, and have mysterious failures of services, you can find out of it is this problem by checking /proc/bc/* or /proc/user_beancounters.
Actually Apple and Google are doing something to dev houses, they're commoditizing their products. When an app costs 0.99 it's easily replaced with another one and nearly worthless.
Totally unrelated but I have to know this! Somebody posted an article many months back that talked about DIY audio system that gives run for money to Bose, Beats and likes. It was open source design by an anon electrical engineer. Anyone knows what was it?
I saw the Ai Weiwei show recently and I was noting that he uses his brief imprisonment for its performance value and I was a bit critical of this. There was one room that was just all the artifacts laid out (police reports, confiscated computers). This didn't seem like much of an artwork compared to his much better and more complex ones like http://www.zodiacheads.com/about_exhibit_gold.html

But after a while I understood that this is his strategy to simply transform all oppression and government intervention into some artistic response. Both he and the government understand that this makes it into a stalemate. Whatever they do, he echos it and gets publicity out of it.

But those pieces are not his major works at all.

http://nprberlin.de/post/ai-weiweis-evidence-exhibit-opens-m...
http://www.designboom.com/art/ai-weiwei-straightens-150-tons...
I actually started looking at this the other day on Open Courseware - as I'd set myself a resolution this year to put together a little embedded\SBC system and needed to understand electronics in more detail[0]. It's a little bit intimidating. For example in the first few sentences he started referring to Maxwell's equations in very familiar terms (something like "we all know about Maxwell's equations already...") which threw me slightly and made me wonder if there's probably a better introduction to electronics out there.

[0] = http://blog.mclemon.io/new-years-resolutions-2015
If only there was a way to know...
Here in Germany we have Stiftung Warentest [1] and it is financed by selling their reports as magazines and online. They also receive some government support from the consumer protection ministry. Not sure if there are any competitors, Stiftung Warentest is certainly by far the most well known one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiftung_Warentest
Nice to see the ACT field moving forward :-).
I do indeed! They help quite a bit. I'll have to look into that, thanks for the suggestion.
And saturated fats are linked to higher LDL. What are we disagreeing about?
Cool, I'll just stream the video but replace the audio with NWA's fuck the police.
> profiling of users for content moderation purposes should be banned

I'm not sure exactly what this is suggesting, but noticing that a user has previously posted abusive comments and using that to lower the threshold for flagging future comments for review seems completely fine.
Generally I think these scenarios happen because the founders get backed into a corner and forced to exit with a sub-optimal deal:

Founders don't _want_ to screw over employees, but at the end of the day, they have a duty to their investors too and if the company is failing, the best thing can do is recoup something out of it.
Unfortunately ammo is easy to make. Many people make their own to varying degrees of complexity.
Kind of makes this seem funny in retrospect:

> Aaronson and O’Donnell both called Huang’s paper the “book” proof of the sensitivity conjecture, referring to Paul Erdős’ notion of a celestial book in which God writes the perfect proof of every theorem. “I find it hard to imagine that even God knows how to prove the Sensitivity Conjecture in any simpler way than this,” Aaronson wrote.
Sounds like a fun project. How much rope does your bot have? What did you write it in / what’s the deployed stack?
We have the same problem here in the US - however we papered it over with immigration.
> This is simply because companies pay money to individuals who then pay taxes. This is a feature not a bug as taxing companies is less efficient from just having employee pay as a deduction that gets taxed downstream.

So if a company has a large revenue that it mostly reinvests and pays low salaries, very little tax would be paid on this revenue, and that seems okay to you?

> People who complain about “companies not paying taxes” are like the “47% don’t pay taxes” people in that they don’t understand the principles behind taxation very well

Are you sure about that? Amazon paid a federal income tax of 1.2% in 2019 on 13B of U.S. income. I think this is what people complain about when they talk about companies not paying taxes.
> Second, is this "mentor-mentee" thing real, or just something business coaches and get-rich-quick gurus claim? Never seen it in the real world.

Have you ever learned from one of your more senior coworkers or peers? Worked alongside someone who showed you the ropes or helped you level up your skills? Then you've been a mentee.

Have you ever taken time to guide new hires or junior coworkers in something you're familiar with? Provided advice to accelerate someone's learning? Then you've been a mentor.

Mentor/mentee usually isn't an explicit declaration. It's a very valuable way to accelerate skills, though not the only way.
Yes, thank you, I just read that article as well and that is what I was looking for =]
It's the footraffic version of Digg. Publishers never figured out how to convert Diggers into return visitors. Then again, Groupon appears to be working harder on that front than Digg did.
I'd say Q3 FY12. The Yahoo search deal will be in place, but paid ads are lagging. Once the paid ads from Yahoo get bolted on with Bing, give it another quarter, to deal with the upfront costs.

At that point I speculate they'll be close to $500M in earnings. And at that point, every percentage point they get it should increase earnings by $100+M.
If you wanted to know something, there was no Google or Wikipedia. You might be able to find out a basic fact if you had a set of encyclopedias. But most information, from important stuff to basic trivia ("who was in that movie?") was not available unless you had a reference book or went to the library and really searched.

Rumors, lies, media manipulation, thwarted by a few seconds of research. If more people bothered, it would be a better world.

Off topic, but obligatory Monty Python piece http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
> It's unreasonable for everyone who wants to e-mail you to predict that you have an aggressive notification system.

No, it's not. Maybe it was when we didn't have RSS and other "push" systems like Twitter and Facebook to handle people who didn't know who wanted to see their updates but assumed somebody might. Now, however, there is little reason to push content directly to my inbox rather than letting me specify the sorts of things I want there.

I'll put my email address down on a web site if they haven't launched and I want an email notifying me of launch. I think that's a reasonable time to email me. I think it's also a great idea to offer an easy "sign up to have us email you our blog posts" for people who don't have RSS but would still like to benefit from receiving updates. People who release specifically-made-for-email newsletters are either not taking enough advantage of modern methods of online communication, or they're assholes who care more about my seeing their name than they care about whether or not I want to see their name.
Yes, in fact if you notice, I'm one of the top commenters on that thread - it's how I discovered most of what I know about Groupon, in fact - reading that story, and hearing about other ycombinator comments informed my thinking.

I don't really understand how any small business who spends more than 10 minutes googling can spend unwisely with Groupon. My mother and her partner identified a ton of concerns they had with groupon in about 60 seconds, and how they would deal with it. Small business owners are amazingly sophisticated when it comes to these types of deals. (With the exception of the $1400 on Door-Knockers they spent 5 years ago, that didn't show a great conversion rate, and I hear about every time I visit.)

Here are some of the issues they brought up:

o How badly will her regulars be impacted by a huge surge in business.

o Will their "vibe" be negatively impacted by large crowds of people (she runs a very intimate coffee/tea shop)

o How should she price her product so that a 5% conversion rate shows an ROI in about 6 months.

o How much staff should she have on hand the week following the Groupon to make sure that they can handle the business.

o How much should she spend on collateral, marketing, packaging to leverage these new people, and convert them to regulars.

o Preparing the staff for the lousy tipping (Though, they already knew people coming in with coupons never, ever tip)

I'll report back if they execute their groupon. Be interesting to see a real world execution from the side of the small business.
You'll have 150% better luck avoiding those comments if you phrase your question in terms of your understanding (or not, as the case may be) of the documentation that you (apparently obviously) already read. People don't know your unmentioned history.
This may be a little off topic, but downvoting w/o a comment seems rude. Let me help you balance that a little.

In response to your SO complaint: I will sometimes reply with a request to read the documentation (including a link to the relevant section), but only when it's very clear that the OP has not read the docs. It's especially prevalent for me, b/c I tend to stick to the PHP/lowest common denominator languages.
So the tech press has something to write about.