skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or not. This will give you something to begin invesitgating.

PVR software (there are more):
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http://www.chris-tv.com/index.html

Schedules Direct has a list of packages that work with their service:

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When my mate finally got in DK1(and we finally got HL2 working with it) I found the load a terrible user experience. Going from head tracking and immersion to a sudden frozen image that is fixed in your view while your head moves.. Crazy vertigo. I didn't really get sick from it, but it definitely was not the most fun I have had playing a game.

These things will get sorted out relatively quickly though I imagine.
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not sure what you mean by "desktops" - their chips are the fastest CPUs you can get for notebooks, workstations and for many (most?) servers.
It's still nonsense. Macro does discuss involuntary unemployment and money. Also, the specific microeconomic phenomenon he discusses is exactly the microfoundation for a specific macro theory (Keynesian economics).
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> tl;dr: Largest and best-funded social science program I've ever seen.

I don't want to sound like a hater and I'm very well aware of the fact that some design choices might have affected the company's revenues, but all this discussion involving very smart people discussing what, from a very "outsider-ish" perspective, seem like trivial issues (the color of the letter G, for example) reminds me of Herman Hesse's "Glass Bead Game". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Bead_Game#Plot)
No, Keynesian economics proposes that high real wages are what cause unemployment - if an employee's real output drops but his real wage stays flat, he might become unprofitable to employ. Since nominal wages are the real sticky quantity, Keynesians propose inflation as a sneaky way to reduce the employee's real wages.
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What happens with the private method and the sysout in your example?
Like you said, skilled graphic designers are in high demand. As a software engineer, I made over 70k base my first job out of school in 2006, with similar perks. And this wasn't even at Google/Microsoft/etc.

So I don't think if I were a good graphic designer now, I'd be stoked on 70k a year in most locales.
It's not just lawyer-politicians, but economic organisations like the IMF and the ECB. Stiglitz' book on the subject is excellent, including the anecdote about how we know that their advice is the same whatever the country and situation because someone once forgot to search-and-replace the country name before sending it out.

Then there's the Rheinhart-Rogoff excel error: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/opinion/krugman-the-excel-...
Decimal floating point is almost never used though. What's used is decimal fixed point, which is simple to understand and doesn't blow up in bizarre ways when moving up to larger numbers (or mix numbers with different magnitudes).
I find the "WoW token" -- where, supposedly, people can buy game-time tokens from Blizzard for cash and then resell them to other players for virtual currency -- to be a brilliant scheme. (Note: I first noticed the concept in Eve Online, not WoW -- where did it originate?)

MMO operators have long struggled with secondary markets for virtual currency. They often have trouble trying to sell virtual currency directly to players because then it has the feel of "pay-to-win." And so third parties have captured the lion's share of this market for years -- by some accounts capturing billions of dollars annually in revenues.

But with WoW tokens (and similar concepts in other MMOs), they can market virtual currency to players, and because other players can feel like they benefit, too by getting their subscription for free, they don't complain as much of it being a "pay-to-win" model.

In reality, though, remember that Blizzard controls the market for both buying and selling WoW tokens, and they can peg prices (in cash and in in-game currency) at whatever they feel is appropriate, by either providing or reducing supply artificially.

Yet it is the artifice of "exchanging WoW tokens with other players" that gives the whole practice an air of fairness. This brain-dead-simple scheme will make them tens or hundreds of millions of dollars per year in increased profits that for years has been instead going to IGE and a cadre of third-party gold sellers.
Any recommendations on economics books with just the right amount of math, for non-economists with a college degree?

I'm looking for the economics equivalent of Feynman's lectures on physics.
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According to Keynesians, if real wages fall, employment should rise (relative to a counterfactual of fixed real wages). According to Varoufakis, "real wages fell by 40% but employment dropped" which is the exact opposite of Keynesian economics. Another phrase for "Keynesian economics" is "macroeconomic models taught at the best universities", which is what Varoufakis is criticizing.
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I think they may use near field rather than radiation for communication.
Broadly agree, but I don't entirely blame the economists, the politicians need justifications for what they do, and appealing to economics is a great one. Most political movements that have been successful have had some economic backup (eg Friedman and the libertarian right in the 1980s). In practise much of policy is just trying to change stuff using financial incentives, which in many cases has unintended consequences or is too complex.
Doesn't economic theory say that you can't play the market? That's confusing.
You average user doesn't have close to 100GB to store and when you dedupe the big media files that drops even more. Hell, Amazon is doing unlimited storage for consumers for $70/year already and that's not just for phones.
> But all the reasoning should always be a direct consequence of the data. Not the other way around.

In order to test a model, it is useful to collect new data.
Yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPNXUfOkt2A

You would probably want more fidelity, though.
Thats a much better argument, trickle up, than people make today.
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I'm sorry, but I don't want to debate your personal definition of the word "science". Per convention economics is called a "social science" and that's a convention I will adhere to.

In addition to what JupiterMoon says, I'd say that individual behaviour was never a real problem in economics. A lot of the theories are built on stupid assumptions about rational behaviour, but that's just it: you always can change the assumptions and see what happens. Behavioural economics is just that.

The real problem of economics is scale and inability to cleanly experiment on that scale. To imply any kind of large scale "herd" behaviour from individual behaviour would still require a tonne of a priori, non-falsifiable assumptions. Even if the assumptions can be shown to be valid now, it would be impossible to prove that they are stable and valid for a long period of time.
"The most promising research..." ...Varies, at the moment it is definitely immune system related, in other words: It is all about how we can reignite the fire of the immune system against the cancer cells which often have immunosuppressive micro-environments (the stop the attacks of the body against the tumor by inactivating immune cells). (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6165/1432.full (2013))
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If you want readable economics, there is Keynes. No maths at all though.
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In your nuclear power example, the counterfactual is don't build the power plant.

Suppose governments did not formulate economic policies with these imperfect models. What would they do instead?
I find it frustrating that it's not made clear upfront that Walkmod is only for Java. In fact, it's not really made clear anywhere I can see so I'm not 100% sure that's correct but it seems to be the case.
CyanogenMod is a lot better for the issues you have.

It has built-in Privacy Guard giving you granular control of all app permissions.

It also comes completely free of Google Apps, which you can download a very minimal version of if you need it. The version I use comes only with Play Store and the Framework to make it work. I do use F-Droid for apps whenever possible though.

I'll never install a stock Google or provider ROM ever again. It's such a hassle to maintain control over what it's doing.

Honestly I'm kind of hoping Firefox OS makes good on its goals. I'll switch in a heart beat if it does.
I'm very curious to see how those data points are going to be used, especially the one about smashing the keyboard.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book I've never managed to get past the first page. It's really hard to read - Wittgenstein actually numbered all the paragraphs so they can be discussed individually it's so dense. I'd still recommend picking up a copy though, because there's a foreword by Bertrand Russell that's really worthwhile reading.
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They should start by making the library download-able without a registration form so that people could provide scripted installation for it.

The registration form is the reason it's not included in the dl-machine Amazon EC2 image for instance: https://github.com/deeplearningparis/dl-machine
Also, using GPL for a library is often the better choice!

Many people believe that GPL is for programs and LGPL for libraries - as if the "L" would stand for "Library". But that's wrong! This was never the intention. The "L" stands for "Lesser" and means less protection than GPL, for very special circumstances.

According to FSF, you should use LGPL only for libraries that are competing with widely accepted proprietary libraries. For anything new and original, you should use GPL - to promote Free Software.

"Why you shouldn't use the Lesser GPL for your next library"

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.en.html

(I disagree with that article in one point: If you compete with pervasive software, use a simple license like ISC/MIT/BSD rather than LGPL, to promote their usage even more.)
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The quote he was commenting on had a very condescending tone too:

" Do not complain about something you think is missing, wrong, or stupid. You are ignorant and new to the language, no matter how much of an expert you are on programming in general."
Thanks for clarifying this.
RTFA

"That the new generation of VR’s first software products will mostly be games, then, seems in little doubt. But the industry’s boosters point out that it could have plenty of other uses as well. One is film. All of the proposed headsets will come with cinema apps that put the user inside a virtual picture palace with an ordinary flat screen. But immersive films that place the viewer at the centre of the action, and which are made with special panoramic cameras, are possible too. One, called “Clouds over Sidra”, which chronicles life inside a refugee camp in Jordan, has already proved a hit online."
Why not the MIT or BSD license? It would be more useful for other developers.
I am a VR user who finds the experience magical and incredible.

But I can't see it becoming a mainstream interaction device. It may be an amazing experience, but as long as it involves strapping something to your face it is immediately too much work to use.
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>Austerity in the last few decades would have avoided the crisis

No it wouldn't. The 2008 crisis and the European Crisis were both caused by an unsustainable build up of private debt. The levels of public debt had nothing to do with it

Even in Europe where there was multiple sovereign debt crises, the debts all started out in the private sector and were later shifted on to the public balance sheet. Same story in Spain, Ireland, Slovakia, etc. (even Greece to a large extent).

>once you have more debt than you can ever afford to repay

"Afford to pay" means something different to governments than it does to the rest of us. Governments that print their own currency cannot run out of it. The only decision they have to make regarding the deficit is "is the current level of inflation too much?"

Austerity in the UK and the US is thus kind of like saying "well, we must stop spending money because what if we run out of little green bits of paper". It would be funny how stupid it is if it weren't so devastating.

Similarly in the EU inflation is rock bottom and the ECB could kickstart every ailing economy easily. They just don't want to.

>Since you refer to Greece in your other comment - I am more concerned about the politics than about the economics, given they don't default even though they have a clear democratic mandate.

Greece has unfortunately handed over control of their payments system to the ECB and wresting back control is not something that can be done in under 9 months.

Thus it doesn't really matter what the Greek government says or what their electorate wants - if they don't follow Troika orders they flip a switch and the economy seizes up completely. Instant 3rd world status. No jobs, no money, no food, no life saving drugs.

This is why successive Greek governments have done the opposite of what they were elected to do. They have a gun against their heads and Schauble is just itching to pull the trigger if they don't fall in line.
I imagine that's the kind of thing that can be solved with more design experience - some kind of low-computing-load "loading room" that at least gives you control of the camera, for example.
The private sector saving too much or too little is explicitly NOT the issue.

The question is whether that savings goes into G or I - i.e., whether the money is spent on prisons or a new Tesla factory (to borrow two examples that contradict the standard mood affiliation).
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The fact that some people use astrology to play the markets, and seem to get results that are as good as those of economic theory, says a lot about both.

So meteorology isn't a real science either, I assume? Having a perfect model doesn't mean you can predict the behaviour of a system; conversely, not being able to predict the behaviour doesn't mean the model is flawed, or non-scientific.

That said, I do agree that economics is taken way too seriously for its incipient state.
Would it be possible to make a python implementation of this or is it dependent on a unique datastructure?
I've explained all this so there's nothing new here at all. I'll try again if it helps.

>Don't believe me? Take those four disks (you need four at minimum) in your RAID6. Your array can survive two disk failures. Now I build a RAID1 with four disks. Mine can survive three disk failures.

Apples and oranges again...

> Yes, there's a capacity hit, but it's been repeatedly established that it's not capacity that matters.

This is not established. This is something you keep saying but makes no sense. My NAS has 4 2TB disks, I've configured it as RAID6 for 4TB of space where any two disks can fail. RAID10 is strictly inferior to that and RAID1 would only give me 2TB of space which is not enough for me. This result is generalizable. For a given number of disks and a given target array usable size the n-parity RAID configuration always has superior redundancy to the RAID10 configuration, there's no way around that.

>Your points are much more valid when they're targeted at RAID10 instead of the concept of mirroring in general.

My points have always been about RAID10 and not RAID1. If RAID1 is enough that's always the better option as obviously it's not possible to improve on "you have N disks and N-1 of them can fail".

Note that's also the reason RAID5 implementations are limited to 3 disks minimum and RAID6 to 4 disks minimum. In theory you could configure a RAID5 with 2 (1+1parity) and a RAID6 with 3 (1+2parity) but since it doesn't make sense to calculate parity of a single disk that just ends up meaning RAID1.
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I beg to differ. I'm always happy to use external GPL libraries as an excuse for making stuff Open Source. Whenever I talked to unsure customers or managers, this was the single most convincing argument.

Of course, this only works if people aren't strictly against creating Free Software, but in that case you have lost anyway.
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Most of my time I write Python, but I'm trying to spend more time with Elixir, and I haven't found using Erlang libs that hard.

There are a handful of rules to remember, if that, and it's reasonably straight-forward. module:func becomes :module.func, the erlang func probably wants char lists rather than strings, atoms are lower-case and should be changed to :atom, vars are upper case and should probably be lowered.

Learning the Elixir language is easy, thinking functionally less so (for me at least).
That's a very good question and one I may struggle to answer properly.

I think with the other technologies there was always a feeling of using technology for the sake of technology. My experience with VR was that once somebody put the headset and noise cancelling headphones on, they were immersed. That is, they couldn't talk to a friend, fiddle with their phone or anything else that would distract them. Seeing people move their head for the first time and look shocked/awed that there was a feeling of presence is like nothing I saw with the other technologies listed. People would say "oh that's neat" or "that's cool". With VR, some people take the headset off and just sit there in a kind of daze at what they've just experienced. Seeing people try and reach out and touch stuff is always funny as well.

Funnily enough, the three technologies you list I see being used in conjunction with VR in some form or another as it grows - Valve's lighthouse tech is broadly similar to Kinect, the new Oculus/Steam controllers are somewhat in-line with Wiimote technology. It's starting to feel like all of the pieces of the puzzle are beginning to align for the very first time.

The real challenge to make the technology shine is going to be content creators adapting their thought processes to a new medium. They won't be able to apply the tricks that grew up out of cinema. The toolbox needs rebuilding. I'm eagerly awaiting trying what Oculus have been doing in this area with their Story Studio.
As you've pointed out yourself, it's a massively saturated market with new startups seemingly launching every month, and yet most restaurants still survive quite happily on Excel and paper, and are certainly not the easiest businesses to sell to.
I'm not sure that a 33% price cut is going to change that.
Getting those 500 customers isn't beyond the realms of possibility, but it probably involves an awful lot of work relative to getting 500 customers to spend $20 per month on something else.

I'd be tempted to double down on your old site, unless the reason for the dropoff is that you've upset a very small vertical or been overtaken by vastly superior competition.
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