skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IPFS also allows IA to not just be a backup, but to help distribute the original content itself. There's no longer a distinction between origin hosts and backups.
Like the freedom to run my own choice of operating system?

Or the freedom to reset my device to a known-good state from read-only media so I know it's safe to use again after potentially being compromised through these slightly-too-clever new reprogrammable systems?
Haha, agism, lols.

You've got this completely backwards. The article itself has a strong agist tone ("whoever could have predicted the emergence of this font from the mists of time...") but you may have a hard time perceiving it. That's because, to the extent there is an agist problem here, the problem is you.
This work doesn't provide a direct audit for websites but it does measure software security at organizations.

https://www.bsimm.com
The equality remains true in the pure, absolute sense. The scenarios you cite are cases where it appears to be violated, but the equality works out anyway.

For starters, money is not investment or savings, it's a way of keeping account. If you create money and nothing else changes, there is implicit inflation as the money supply gets larger and chases the same supply of good and services.

That's really the point of the article: if you understand that the identity is true, you can parse where endogenous money'comes from': how is wealth being transferred (which depends both on the state of the economy and the form of endogenous money).

But the point remains, axiomatically, that money is an accounting unit. Do not confuse it with the goods and services it represents; that's a failure of abstraction and makes it impossible to really understand inflation, financial repression, and endogenous money.
Deleted double post. HN plus crappy Android phone is no good.
It's also worth noting that the burden of proof is on the alleged infringer to convince a court that the patent is invalid. Invalid patents can still cause pain.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/282
I do remember a data structures textbook in university that actually managed to confuse me about stuff I already understood really well. It wasn't offering a different perspective, it was just that badly written.
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I've been bitten by things like this so many times, that my first reaction on seeing an inexplicable syntax error is to delete and manually re-type the line.
This somewhat reminds me if this little entry on how "tolerant" JavaScript is...

https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-identifiers
I, OTOH, am appalled by how the medical profession has stolen the title 'doctor.' A doctor should be someone who has expanded the sum total of human knowledge by performing original research; an MD is just a technical degree.

I always refer to those who have earned an MD as 'physicians' or 'surgeons.'
Come on idler....it's a web article, so there's no excuse not to have a link to the original paper itself!

We may only just know that ants are lazy, but we've known all along humans are too lazy to do a google scholar search ;)

Seriously though - pet peeve = science stories with no direct links for references.
Eh, there's a lot of good in academia too. It's just the people who have good experiences are busy with their lives for the most part.

My experience was great. I got paid to do 6 years of learning and experimental work by the government (thank you DOD and NSF) on the coldest states of matter in the universe. I traveled the world for free and hang out with Nobel prize winners. I was surrounded by bright and a few world-class brilliant people. I didn't have any real deadlines. I got to write and publish papers trying to explain my work.

Now, the post-doc/professor rat race is only for those who are truly called to the field. My plan was PhD->industry the whole time.
One of the key concepts for thinking like an economist is noticing where and how things are economically equivalent, or literally fungible.

Trade (like outsourcing) and technology is economically indistinguishable from technology from the perspective of a single country. The classic example is that if you export potatoes and import cars, this is economically equivalent to finding a way to grow cars in a field.

In practice trade and technology have always been closely related. When China could make silk and Italy could make glass, trade was very obviously a substitute for the technology.

So basically, it makes a lot of sense to treat advancements in trade and technologies similarly in our thinking. Luddite ideas and economic isolationist ideas are in this sense different flavors of the same reaction by those made redundant.

Personally, I don't buy "robots wil take all jobs" wholesale. There's a lot of guesses in there we don't have a rational way of making. We need to remember the many incarnations of Ned Ludd though time, including eminent figures like Ghandi. I think they've all been wrong regarding the big picture. While this time might indeed be different, we need to give some respect to the fact that this is an idea we have a long history with, and we've been wrong about it in most cases.

That said, I think the pace of change is a new part of the mix. The work in a 1850 factory and an 1875 factory was not different to the same extent as 1990-2015. People with 1990 skills now are not employable today in many/most fields. If that condenses further as I think it will, many people will fail to stay employable from 18-65, which means more unemployment.

I think we also need to consider some points Marx was fairly right about, the inevitability of political instability as a result of certain economic realities. Too much inequality can lead to revolution.
One of UK's biggest broadband companies leaks thousands of customer bank details
It'd be interesting to see a browser implement caching using something like IPFS. When a regular HTTP GET (or whatever, really) request is sent, the IPFS enabled browser could look for a `Link` header with the `ipfs:` scheme and `rel="alternate"` in the response, and use that as an alternate place to look for the content. The Etag header could carry the hash, so the browser would could tell on subsequent requests which hash it associates with the mutable URI. In the event of a 304 it'd look up the data in the IPFS cache – which may or may not actually be on disk. If not it might still be a more efficient fetch than HTTP since there may be many peers; worst case scenario, the only peer is the HTTP server you made the request to in the first place.

I suppose `Content-Location` could be used as well, but I don't know how well browsers that don't understand the `ipfs:` scheme would react to that, although the spec doesn't preclude non-http schemes used in the URI.

It'd be an interesting experiment anyway, and could be a boon to adoption of a distributed system like IPFS.
This kind of finding is one of the benefits of centralized medicine, storing medical records in standardized electronic formats. It gives a rich base for finding out relationships. Those relationships still need to be investigated for biological mechanisms, but when you start with a biomarker to important medical outcome you are able to start the next phase of research with the important "so what" question already answered.

Also, I am encouraged that my practice of intermittent fasting might directly fight against the chronic low level inflammation that this article draws attention to.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24886300
From this abstract "our results suggest that IF induces adaptive responses in the brain and periphery that can suppress inflammation and preserve cognitive function in an animal model of systemic bacterial infection."

One more reason to keep up IF
> Analogies are inexact by semantic definition, and that doesn't make then "faulty".

Well, it makes them useless as evidence. An argument by analogy simply isn't a valid argument. Don't you remember the "You wouldn't steal a car" ads?

> Privacy is readily available through https, two factor OAuth, etc.

HTTPS is broken by privileged man-in-the-middle attacks (attacks where the attacker has key signing power) and downgrade attacks. And that is when it's even available (it isn't always). And even against attackers with less power, it only provides privacy for what you send over the wire, not who you send it to. And finally, this all assumes that you're sending your data to an entity which won't simply sell it to whoever is willing to pay a few bucks (an uneducated user might think, for example, that data sent through GMail is private).

I'm not even gonna touch "two factor OAuth"; I'm not sure what kind of privacy you even think that provides.

In short, you clearly have no knowledge about what does and does not provide privacy. It would behoove you to not make claims on topics you are ignorant of.
I love the absurdity of this and arbitrariness. You'll happily drive in a car, one of the most dangerous machines people use regularly. But if it has a computer in it, no siree, that's when things get too deadly to deal with. All of the other thousands of moving parts, like the thing that takes energy-dense hydrocarbons and ignites them several thousand times a second in hot, high pressure tubes - that's fine and totally safe. It's the ECU that makes the car dangerous. The fact that the only thing separating you walking on the sidewalk from death from a two ton metal box is the convention that we'll all stay within the lines painted on the ground. That's fine. It's the ECU that you're afraid of. Absurd.
Isn't OpenID Connect supposed to solve this?
(don't know if it actually delivers though)
think this is it:

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-015-1958-1

it's hidden behind a paywall. Yay!
Death from a thousand cuts. The only way a distributed system could take on a monster is by VCs investing in 50 $100 million dollar companies using a distributed communication platform. Because the way it is now most of the investments go to winner take all companies. And in order for the market to use something different at scale it needs to be 10x. so a 50B company would need to become a 5B dollar open market with 5 or 10 winners.
Hacker News dataset now shared on BigQuery: What are the best times to post?
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The GAU-8 cannon was designed specifically for the anti-tank role using APDU. The A-10 was designed solely for close air support, including attacking tanks as the link I provided mentions. All close air support requires control of the air space.
The A-10 was not a anti-tank panacea. It's survivability was questioned even then, and given what we now know about the threat environment, it's likely it would have suffered tremendously. [1]

Now, in the 1980s, there was a growing idea that it was feasible to stop a conventional attack [2] but this was a new an untested idea. Doctrine still called for tactical nuclear weapons against Soviet bridgeheads as being the only way to assuredly offset the numerical disadvantage.

But that's all tactical. Part of the reason there were simply so many warheads built was to account for attrition and failure. There were real concerns about the inability for nuclear weapons to reach their targets. Having 5 bombs did not assuredly mean 5 cities destroyed. Bombers and cruise missiles could be shot down, ballistic missiles intercepted, and submarines sunk. That's not to mention that, with testing (relatively) limited after 1963, there were reliability concerns regarding a weapon's ability to detonate after delivery (especially with regard to shocks.)

So the solution for the U.S. and the USSR (others turned to more elaborate means [3]) was to simply throw more warheads, on more platforms, in a variety of ways, to ensure that regardless of whether or not this was a first strike, counterforce, etc, weapons would get through in quantity. This was the "A" in Mutually Assured Destruction.

1. http://baloogancampaign.com/2015/02/02/10-future-us-close-ai...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirLand_Battle

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevaline
Keep in mind that I live in the country side and don't hang out with the likes of Patio11 ;-) I think he's seeing the best side of it. Where I live (in Japan, if it isn't obvious), the programmers I know have no training in programming, let alone a degree or anything like that. One of my friends was a secretary at an insurance company. One day her boss walked up to her and said, "From today you are going to be a programmer" and that was that!

I do also know a self taught free lancer who makes an absolute killing cleaning up problems in various companies. He does really short contracts (like 2-4 weeks) in Tokyo and Osaka. Then he comes back to Shizuoka and hangs out for a couple of weeks. So there is money to be made ;-)
I think you forgot this:

<sarcasm> </sarcasm>
There's a difference between a limited choice offered by a particular company and a limited choice in the marketplace. No one is arguing for the latter.

From the article:

"...too many options create anxiety and leave us less satisfied. Could one answer lie in a return to the state monopolies of old?"

"consider jeans. Once there was only one kind, says Schwartz – the ill-fitting sort that, fingers-crossed, would get less ill-fitting once he wore and washed them repeatedly. Now, what with all the options (stone-washed, straight-leg, boot-fit, distressed, zip fly, button fly, slightly distressed, very distressed, knee-holed, thigh-holed, knee and thigh-holed, pretty much all holes and negligible denim), Schwartz feels entitled to expect that there is a perfect pair of jeans for him. Inevitably, though, when he leaves the store, he is likely to be less satisfied now than when there were hardly any options."

"Corbyn’s political philosophy suggests, what we need is not more choice, but less; not more competition but more monopolies."
A Riddle Wrapped Inside an Enigma: NSA Abandons Suite B [pdf]
> Founded in 2010, Motif is an online broker that allows investors to trade baskets of stocks centered around particular themes or investing styles.

AKA "Hey boss I heard these index fund things were popular. Let's get in on that, but make it EXCITING!"

It looks like, at the very least, Motif doesn't charge you an annual fee for the privilege of buying 30 stocks in one click.
I don't think so, but that's a really challenging thing to find via search engines.

Judges are more familiar with law than they are with other fields. Making software look like statutory material by careful drafting of a patent application may be possible, but I imagine making a legal maneuver look like statutory material for a patent is much harder.
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First of all, you can insist all you want, it won't make it so, people will call you what they want. Second, I can insist on being called "Warren Buffet", and people may even humor
me, but that won't let me sign checks from his bank account, or give commencement speeches.

Regarding trustlesness: the onion hidden service model (domain is hash of key) is trustless in the sense that, according to very strong mathematical conjectures, it would require astronomical power to break.

There are no mathematical guarantees at play at all in Bitcoin. You're assuming that miners are solely interested in earning rewards and not in bringing down the chain. You're assuming they're not colluding with each other.

And no, breaking bitcoin doesn't entail spending hundreds of millions building up mining capability, that is complete wishful thinking. It entails spending a couple millions to kidnap the families of a few mining pool operators.
Since it is convenience/time save tool, price point suitability will depend largely in your price per hour.

For example, if your price per hour is $20 and this tool saves you 1.5 hours of time in your lifetime, it would make the business case. Or, if your price per hour is $5 and it saves you 6 hours in your lifetime it also would make the business case.

However, it would be a bad investment if your price per hour is $5 and it only saves you 5 hours in your lifetime.
I'm sorry to say this, but that site is horrible. It's almost blinding, the colors should be toned down.
When writing in English, unless the writer specifies otherwise, the word "observation" means what the dictionary says it does.

The writer of this article is saying that the particles behave differently after being observed.

Perhaps that is a lie.

My point is, if it's a lie, let's call it a lie, not bad writing.
> The Chinese version may have the line strike through another line, while the Japanese only has it touching.

Case in point: 每 (chinese) vs 毎 (japanese).
You're being disingenuous. For starters, from the second paragraph: "In between Roboto on Android, San Francisco on iPhones and Macs, and Segoe UI on Windows..." Clearly, they're targeting all major platforms. Not to mention, retina MacBooks start at $1299—which is on par with other HiDPI PC laptops, mind you—and I can buy a car on Craigslist here in the first world for like $500. (And I have.)

If you don't like Apple, that's fine, but don't disguise your displeasure as a stand against class warfare.
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Why is a helicopter drop more prone to inflation than QE? Presume we're in a liquidity trap as the proponents of helicopter drops and QE do.

Edit: I have misinterpreted what you said. I read your first sentence as explaining what was wrong with a helicopter drop of money, because that is what was asked. However you probably didn't mean that to be a list of bad effects, just effects, to set the stage for your real answer which is the multiplier. Which is indeed the most important thing to consider.
People should never, ever be using their Facebook logins to sign in to other applications, and developers have a responsibility not to allow that to proliferate. I wouldn't use Facebook creds to log into any application, so I sure wouldn't push that on users who don't know better.
And yet it does boil. The folk wisdom is wrong, so is the experiment wrong as well?
>> Also, coincidentally, I forgot to kill Facebook last night and when I picked up my phone this morning it was warm. Glad I remembered to leave it plugged in.

Maybe, just maybe, it was warm because it was being charged.
My fault then. HN is my primary source of US news but I guess this was featured in more mainstream news.
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Then for $DEITY's sake, put the code snippets on pastebin or similar. Nothing's more infuriating than having to hex edit a file just to get all the \u00A0 out.
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>But you have to ask yourself why the finance sector have been on the rise and the answer to that inevitably become technology

It's not technology at all. Technology doesn't confer the monopoly powers which have led financial giants to be so dominant. Technology can be copied, reproduced and replicated.

The reason is much more mundane. The financial sector has been given dumptrucks full of cash and special privileges in the form of valuable guarantees. They're an adjunct of the government in all but name.
In regards to your point about the physical size being a thing:
I worked at an inner city school and one of the teachers that could get students in line like nobody else was a 6'5" 275 lb man who worked as a biker bar bouncer on weekends.

This was middle school, so maybe the effect was exaggerated, but he could stop fights like no other.

To your point about trying to gain the approval of students, the dynamic definitely makes a big difference. Teachers that tried to be the 'fun' teacher were taken advantage of time and time again. I wish this wasn't the case, but an authoritarian role was the best way to provide consistency, stability, and true opportunity for learning in these types of classrooms.
While the gun had been viewed as effective and economical, by the 80's there were real question as to how realistic the A-10s survivability would be.

I apologise for not having a link on hand that discusses this, but the standoff requirement to survive in the environment shifted the A-10's primary anti-tank weapon to the AGM-65 Maverick, and not the cannon, soon after it was introduced.
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Lasting seems appropriate – thanks!
A lot of unicode characters are blocked for domain names for this exact reason.
JavaScript allows a wide range of Unicode characters - http://stackoverflow.com/a/9337047
very true, but am not very sure what it means. You think one can apply for a visa especially for someone who has never been to the United States before?
I don't know if Motif does this, but a lot of trading is done where the trader _gets paid_ by the exchange or pool for making a trade. JP Morgan know this too.
Sword-wielding man in Darth Vader mask attacks Swedish school, killing 2
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so if I'm right the chrome extension suggests me the users details when I'm browsing LinkedIn. And I assume also harvests every profile and 'calls home' whenever I'm browsing one of my 1st level connections?

Otherwise where is the data coming from? The system doesn't seem to have any explicit function where it asks me for the addresses I already know.

unless I'm wrong then this should be totally banned.
Isn't that what an insurance company is? Defendants pool their resources to fight off torts, share the judgements against them.
The unexpected ways hackers can steal your assets
Someone on the radio just said it was an SQL injection. Can it get any more comical?

Meanwhile TalkTalk & Met Police PR machines are in full flow talking up exotic claims of cyberjihadiism to deflect responsibility.
> What austerity are you talking about? There was no austerity in the US.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/11/austere-indeed/

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/11/more-about-us-au...

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/american-austeri...

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/unprecedented-au...
What if you pay the network to host your blocks by hosting some other blocks from the cloud, at some m:n ratio? The cloud (some random peer) could periodically check your block inventory and make sure you were still holding up your end.

edit: surely that's been done before?
I thought the same thing when someone showed me the popular "Dr. Quantum" double slit video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc).

Generally a decent layman's explanation of the experiment, but they had to conflate quantum mechanics with magic by saying "the atom knew it was being watched..."

It's very hard to handle these misconceptions once they're already so widespread.
Hmmm, call me an old cynic, but this kind of populist move typically comes before a downturn.
One important datapoint is that Jack Dorsey did something very similar at Square in December 2013: http://fortune.com/2013/12/20/squares-dorsey-returns-10-of-h...

Judging by how strong the Square team is, and how much he's respected there, I imagine this move is now part of his playbook to build a great organisation. It's courageous.

From the link above:

> Jack Dorsey, the founder and CEO of Square, has voluntarily given 10% of his shares in the company back to Square. The highly unusual move will expand significantly the pool of shares available for employee compensation and acquisitions while minimizing dilution for shareholders.

> Dorsey owns approximately 30% of Square and is giving back about 3% of the company’s total equity. The shares Dorsey is returning are worth between $97.5 million and $150 million based on estimates of the company’s valuation.
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Ironically I have weird OCD where I always assume I made a typo, so I keep deleting and retyping code a few dozen character at a type, often in lines where I see nothing wrong. Over time this has just become something my hands do whenever my brain needs time to think about something else. So in a way I developed natural immunity to said unicode tricks ;)
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