skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But money has some transaction value that makes it more valuable than zero interest bonds, so this situation could not be an equilibrium.

The equilibrium price would be set by the demand for money-as-currency. But in the limit of instantaneous (electronic) settling of payments, this demand premium converges on zero, with the only residual demand being for money-as-store-of-value.

The purchasing power of hard money increases with time only to the extent that reality changes, i.e., for the same reason that each year you can buy more CPU cycles per inflation-adjusted dollar. And it's exactly as "deflationary" as the falling price of CPU cycles. This is perceived to be a problem only because of a double meaning of the word deflation: a contraction in the money supply causes a potentially harmful general drop in prices, whereas increased productivity causes a beneficial increase in the purchasing power of money. Those who fear the latter need to explain why it's bad that, e.g., smartphones keep getting better and cheaper every year.

Unfortunately, the usual strategy is to describe both kinds of price decreases as "deflationary", point out that deflation has historically been harmful, and then conclude that hard money must be harmful as well. That this logic is applied to hard money and not to smartphones is most parsimoniously explained by the political incentives that led to the abandonment of hard money in the first place, together with the associated displacement of descriptive "political economy" by prescriptive economics.
When did generation y get absorbed by the word millennials? Last time I looked they were 2 distinct ones. Soon gen x and baby boomer gonnna get gobbled up too?
I don't think Islamophobia is the way to go. We are all concerned with the migration crisis, but there are moderate voices in Islam.
Greece Has Been Accepted into Boost VC Tribe 6
Cool to see screenshots of price discrimination in practice
That's not really how they divide...

And they don't care about the numbers in general, unlike certain other cases where people have tried to restrict numbers entirely.

They just regulate transfers of control of value. You can communicate transfers of control of value with anything. Rocks, flags, numbers, dance. Doesn't mean governments want to regulate "magic rocks".
Old Schoolbus converted into house
> I would gladly hear about the community of programmers who actually write code and try to design new decentralized technology. The "bitcoin community" is not that.

You obviously have not met any of the bitcoin core developers. There are many talented people pouring their time and energy into bitcoin, not because they have a libertarian agenda or want to get rich quick, but because they believe in building a new decentralized technology.
Just like everyone else can find humor in a bunch of people trading 256-bit numbers between them. Except that's just a specious way of framing what's really happening.
Those aren't free lunches though. They are paying with future reciprocity.
One thing that is still very appealing with buying on physical media is that you really own the item. When you buy digital downloads they could become worthless if the seller for some reason go out of business, often its DRM protected so you cannot do what you want with your own media. License restrictions also restrict what you may do with your digital downloads.

Vinyl is a bit like Instagram purposeful alteration of the original for artful purposes.
Taiga is Project Management app based on Django and Angular. https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-back
Amazon can apparently go up or down 50% depending on whether a butterfly sneezes in Australia (it's wildly danced between 284 and 580 in the past 12 months alone).

In the background of such high volatility, it would be hard to pinpoint such a material effect from such a small disruption (in the big picture of course, I'm betting there are some pretty angry customers today due to the loss of a few sigma of reliability from this outage alone).

Now if a study were published indicating customers were switching providers over incidents this, then I think you'd have some material evidence. But is anyone else better yet? Azure was out for 12 hours last year apparently...

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2015/01/23/cloud...
The Ionic framework is not a good source base to look at for regular apps.

I'm a huge fan of the Ionic framework, but it's sourcecode is a mess and even the good parts are usually complex implementations of things you would definitely not be doing (such as keeping view state live, overriding default elements etc...)
Do you have source for 2.5? I only found 0.5M, but it seems like those are expats who did not moved in recently.

> There are 500,000 Syrians in Saudi Arabia, according to Nabil Othman, acting regional representative to the Gulf region at the UNHCR. In official documentation they are referred to as “Arab brothers and sisters in distress,” he said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-04/syria-s-re...
Url changed from http://slashdot.org/story/299691, which points to http://news.softpedia.com/news/avg-proudly-announces-it-will..., neither of which are very informative.

I found the Wired article by using the 'web' link we added last week to search on the title (which I had to modify a bit). If anyone can suggest a better URL, we'll change it again.
I recently switched from Bitdefender to AVG, and like you just uninstalled AVG.

I'm not sure where to go from here.
That's why parent post mentioned multiple regions. No other AWS region was affected...
Library for Double-Double and Quad-Double Arithmetic (2007) [pdf]
I'm moving away and need the money
That's the Google Effect.

It's really useful to remember some things though like basic server configs to quickly make a site on a hackathon or some libraries for the languages you usually use if you're on a plane with no internet.
There are two structures in a company: the management/decision structure & the communication structure. The management structure should be hierarchical. The communication structure should be flat. Make sure you have both!
The Return of the Command Line Interface
Costs are higher throughout the entire US for infrastructure projects. The US routinely pays an order of magnitude more per mile for similarly scoped projects compared to countries like Spain.

The root cause appears to be in the unique way projects are bid on in the US, where details need to be laid out in excruciating detail ahead of time and then any unplanned changes are cause for cost padding.
Does getting that graduate degree help? I stuck it out for the degree (Computer Science), and I don't think it helped much with my job prospects. I get paid the same as my peers who only did undergrad.
Libya in 2003: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=5924
Constant rewards would mean the inflation tends to zero in the long term. But that's easy to fix by making the rewards increase over time in proportion to how many coins exist.

The harder problem is that without a central bank you can't track changes in the size of the economy. The more you want to avoid deflationary periods, the more you have to inflate "just in case". And high constant inflation has its own problems.

So it's better to say that it's extremely hard to create a mildly-inflationary currency without a central authority.
Requiring a degree when the content of the degree is not required for the job is propping up the bubbling education market.
"If you aren't paying, you're the product" is exactly correct when dealing with commercial software, GPL and otherwise. That's the idea behind the word "commercial." Commerce is taking place and somebody is making money, whether by offering paid support for GPL software at one end of the spectrum or by selling you out to advertisers at the other end.

I distinctly remember opting in to Apple's music suggestion service. Was that true for AVG's customers?
And of course you have raves that draw in hundreds of thousands in the US (134,000 for one night of this year's Electric Daisy Carnival for example), something unheard of in the 90's or 2000's here, so while house parties may not be as popular, partying itself obviously still is.

I do think people are much more disconnected socially, but I don't think that's a different scenario than ten or twenty years ago, just one that's ramped up. It is possible to live today in the US and have close to zero social interactions. I can work from home, get all my goods delivered by Amazon or Instacart, all my entertainment delivered digital, and all my socializing online. This isn't a hypothetical: other than my immediate family, this has been a sort of experiment for the last year and a half or so. It's certainly unusual, but also can be very appealing in its own right. There are, however, many things that are quite unappealing as you might imagine. I certainly wouldn't recommend it for long periods because of them, but I wonder if this isn't the direction that society as a whole is heading, but I fear that it might very well be.
Often? I can think of a single online music store that still sells DRM music. Music subscriptions use DRM, but I wouldn't call that 'buying'.
Show HN: Live Simple – Tiny homes
Sci-Fi Air Show
Wow big leaps in the article, big assumptions. With little backing for the assumptions.

Excuse the pun, but I call "Bull"
That's only true if people keep making the playing devices.

I have a bunch of minidiscs that I'll lose access to when the player dies. (Which is fine, I still have all the content in other forms).
Lorem Fill – Fills context specific random test data into forms
Flash cards. Buy some index cards and write your own flash cards. The act of writing them out does a lot; during review you can tell how far along you've come. If you have no trouble remembering one, take it out of the deck. Review the whole deck every day (week, whatever).

There are software tools for this, I'm sure, but I would still recommend using physical paper cards.
I'm not being Islamophobic. Just pointing out they're not all about to join the Childfree movement and become good little San Francisco liberals any time soon.

The future belongs to those who reproduce. It's just math.
If the only thing your parents cared about when you were a child was their own future... your family must be terrible. I'm sorry for you.

Some people really do things selflessly, and/or in term of social welfare. Not everything is "money" or "our own future".
This isn't a robust counter argument for the same reason that clock speed is not a robust measure of overall cpu performance: not all instructions (or cycles) achieve the same amount of work.
Accenture will get rid of annual performance reviews and rankings
Bitcoin will evolve to be exactly as fungible as is required to maintain its efficiency. As the cats build tracking tools, the mice will continue to expand on bitcoin's fungibility.
And I believe the these incremental improvements are being stifled by the current patent situation, unfortunately.
It's like being given a beer but owing one back on your round.
Grow Cube (game)
Absolutely. Like the handful of cases we "discovered" room temperature superconductivity. Until we tracked down something shorting somewhere in our system :-)
I don't think a Masters helps that much, but a PHD does, especially in AI.
Your post is content. So where's your ad subsidy?
> ZFS incremental snapshots and its send/receive are great, but my task is to create binary identical image of hard drive with bootloaders, partitions and so on.

If you use UEFI, bootloader is just a normal file on a normal (FAT) partition so no special magic is needed, but fair enough.

ZFS typically handles partitions its own way so no need to sync that.

But really: If you just want to keep to full drives in sync, at block-level so one can at any point be a stand-in replacement for the other, it sounds like what you want is RAID0. Isn't that what you want?

And with UEFI you can boot those RAID-volumes, even though they are soft-raid volumes.

Not saying your need doesn't exist, but that existing solutions which are more standardized and requires less administration seemingly already exists.
Agreed. Fixed. Thanks for the suggestion.
A Geographically Accurate London Tube Map
That makes sense. Sounds like it could be amenable to some control theory, but certainly it's not a solved problem.
Thanks man!

Was pretty surprising when we first saw it, but have seen since that lots of sites now serve different prices/coupons depending on the device you use to access.
> and the first plant in the Pacific north-west.

Strange style choice, when "Pacific Northwest" is available. Does not seem like British English rules for cardinal directions should supersede the region's proper noun place name.
They claim 2.5 million here:

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/09/19/saudi-arabia-h...
Indeed, my university town meetup for "Young Adults" is oversubscribed. It really needs a better waitlist function -- roughly 2 percent of the entire city is subscribed, which means if 5 percent of subscribers attend your party, your average apartment will easily be filled up twice what is reasonable.
"I would also guess that there are far more people using bitcoin on dark net marketplaces now than there ever were using Silk Road (mostly due to all the publicity), but I don't have any sources to back this up."

Bitcoin transaction volume in dollars hasn't increased in 18 months. See this graph.[1] The two big spikes were in November 2013 and March 2014. Since then, not much. Bitcoin usage is not increasing.

[1] https://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-...
Inheritance over composition. I know what these words mean, but I don't see your meaning.

Also, I don't think that's what default methods are for. The new StreamUtil libraries uses default interfaces. It's not migrating anyone, but the default methods describe intrinsic properties about the classes that inherit the interface. A predicate can be in sequence of another predicate, for example.
In certain parts of the country (the Bay Area), that need people with specialized/advanced knowledge in CS (which a Masters would definitely provide), I would expect that your graduate CS degree will definitely give you a leg up on those without one.

If you have an undergraduate degree in a non-CS subject but you get a graduate degree in CS, your will have about the same or better knowledge than a person with a graduate degree in CS.

Of course, there is a great amount of subjectivity given to the School that you attended and your work experience after that.
That's a beautiful story if it is indeed the case. It seems absolutely conceivable to me that an intelligent species could mark places as safe havens.

Poachers are really shitty.
"Try doing that in the States."

You can't. There are essentially no public spaces in the US for this type of activity. As you noted, drinking is not legal in "public" spaces. That's minor when being in "public" spaces is not legal itself (it's called loitering). You can get away with it some places, but it's much harder in a group. If you're a group of teenagers or young adults, police harassment is almost guaranteed (remove the "almost" if you're not white). The only potentially safe place is in private homes. The only public places left are bars and clubs, as those are the only types of places socializing is still allowed, that I know of, under high scrutiny after you get patted down and searched of course. Also, bowling alleys, sometimes after the same type of pat-down.
E&Y handled my taxes when i moved countries. They made so many rookies mistakes on both sides i doubted they even required literacy to work there.
you can try AngJobs, which is a job board for angularjs developers written in angular and C#

https://github.com/victorantos/AngJobs
all i can say is two things:

1. someone has to be the boss, the person who makes the final decision for the group. it may not always be their own first choice, but after taking input from the group, the decision must be made, and followed. finding this person is hard because they have to override their own opinion sometimes. although for the right group leader, the best decision for the group/goals is their first choice by definition.

2. meet every single day first thing in the morning and go over open issues, blockers, eta, and priorities. note that these are not problem solving sessions, just identification sessions. you can call this agile, a stand-up, a ticket review, whatever. just makes sure it happens. once you get into the groove you can usually keep it to 15 minutes. every effective organization i've been in does this or something very similar (maybe every other day). i've seen some small groups do this 2x a day. once or twice a week is not often enough.

you will find that doing this actually reduces the meeting workload overall, especially when combined with #1.
HN is not really a "new products for you to use" site, and I find it a bit strange when people read and reply to posts purely from the perspective of a user or potential user.

If you approach the post with a more open curiosity I think it will make more sense to you why the language is a relevant detail, even if it still doesn't interest you personally.
The Shocking Facts You Don’t Know About Big Data
Personally, I think if they a) are very upfront about this (clearly stated during install) and b) offer a paid alternative then I'd be fine with this. There's actually some synergy if they do things right: you were most likely infected by a site you visited (most likely a malicious ad), so if they also use this data to track sources (which isn't clear) then it could even make for a better product.

Of course if they aren't being clear about the data-for-product swap then I'm not in favor.
Part of how to deal with them is how they got there. You make your own bed and you're the one who has to sleep in it.
Every bitcoin transaction you make involving accounts held by different entities, anyway.
Sure, you can represent private keys in many different formats and the keyspace is effectively 160-bit when brute forcing known addresses. I'm just making the point that unlike rocks and flags, bitcoin is intangible and more like speech.

If I posted a number which happened to have a value of $14,001 USD in this post, I would be breaking the law. If I sold t-shirts with bitcoin private keys printed on them, I would be considered an unlicensed money transmitter by FinCEN.
Had a discussion about XCodeGhost: “Couldn't Apple detect that?”
The chart for legal salaries has two big lobes: a small sharp one at the very high end and a huge one at the low end. The last time I looked a brand new JD from an unexceptional law school was looking at a starting salary of somewhere in the mid $40k range. So as professionals go, lawyers aren't that expensive (assuming you're not hiring from Harvard).

But running a law office is expensive. You're going to have idle "legal capacity" which has has to be paid for by the clients you do get.
It increases your worldwide mobility. For example, someone getting a green card (US) gets onto the EB-2 track rather than EB-3, they get 25 points instead of 20 in the education category for Canada, etc.
4. Have no degree and get paid 1/2 as much for same job
> I'm not sure where to go from here.

Linux.
A smaller, better compiler suite
> he argues that an optimal punishment system would combine a low probability of being punished with a high level of punishment if caught

the Trailer Park Boys series has an episode were small criminals decide to lower their crimes even more so police would ignore them.
I'm fairly sure this guy has been discussed here before. A year ago or so: https://web.archive.org/web/20150420142850/http://pipeline.c...
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Something that people often miss in these conversations is that there is a very strong networking effect from a graduate degree. Doing a graduate degree will mean that via your supervisor you will meet and probably work with some of the top people in your field. I think you would find it hard to cold-email them to ask for a job if you hadn't been introduced to that network via graduate education.
https://github.com/CosmoCMS/Cosmo
My reply is not intended to insult anyone associated with the Big 4/5 firms.

In my experience, the model is to get one or two really smart people into the client and then a boatload of rookies to pump up the billing machine.

Every client is a training on the job experience for the rookies.
That reminds me of my CS prof. He had been programming forever and said that one of the first languages he learned (Ada? Fortran? Can't Remember.) was a "two knee" language - meaning that you had to have a reference book open on each knee in order to write it!
Refactoring a bad view controller
As an experiment, I built CLAPACK (v3.2) for both arm64 and x86_64 with an up-to-date clang.

x86_64 size: 5.2M
arm64 size: 4.4M

So on at least some large codebases, arm64 looks pretty efficient.
New Method for Trading Shoes Safely
My first thought was generics since it's so old, but this is simply amazing:

> With the price now high, other companies could conceivably make generic copies, since patents have long expired. One factor that could discourage that option is that Daraprim’s distribution is now tightly controlled, making it harder for generic companies to get the samples they need for the required testing.

> The switch from drugstores to controlled distribution was made in June by Impax, not by Turing. Still, controlled distribution was a strategy Mr. Shkreli talked about at his previous company as a way to thwart generics.

How can this be true?
(Assuming you're using Windows)

Are you using a recent version of Windows (8, 8.1, or 10)?

Do you have automatic updates enabled?

Do you have standard Windows features such as User Access Control enabled?

Do you use the computer with a standard user account as opposed to an administrator (root access) user account?

If the answers to all these questions are yes, I'd say you don't need an antivirus solution. Don't listen to the scaremongers. Microsoft has got you covered.
"Physics for Poets" is physics presented in a way tailored to poets [1], not physics as done by poets—i.e., for poets, not by poets. Similarly, "Statistics for Hackers" is for hackers, not by hackers. Thus the focus on brute-force computational solutions via for loops, with which hackers would presumably be familiar.

[1]: Where poets is a possibly inaccurate metonym for "less mathematically sophisticated students"
Judges aren't supposed to pick and choose which laws get enforced - you can't have a system where the legislature passes a law and rest of the government says "Nah, we don't like that one."

What needs to happen is 1) the legislature needs to change the law to include exceptions where appropriate and 2) the voters in that area need to take this case into consideration when the prosecutor comes up for reelection.
SpringOne2GX 2015
JavaScript Web Development Quiz by David Shariff
Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8302451.
Big Tech Has Become Way Too Powerful
>Now one might righfully argue that this case is not just ludicrous but also racist.

Purely based on the fact the defendant and his girlfriend are black? No, I think not.
there is an expression, no one forgets how you make them feel. so when you read try to feel the words - as you accelerate. Imagine feel hear them - as you pick up your speed. This way retention will keep up with your rising reading speed. It takes a whole lot more effort to read this way but at least for me retention far greater(i'd say order of magnitude higher, but I haven't measured it :) )

Without this for me speedreading is scanning, I omit most of the content.
This is one of the huge benefits of taking a compilers class. You'll probably never write one, but you'll understand the languages you use better.