skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The prediction is not "crisis". It's hyperinflation and runaway depreciation of the yen.

In terms of duration: I would say they are one regular recession away from this. For the last 5 years I've been saying "next 2 years". Today I'd say 1 year. (I have no actual money involved so this prediction is worthless. But you asked for it...)

It was the same with Greece: people had months or even years to yank their money from the bank. The trainwreck was telegraphed way in advance. It's just that nobody did it because they couldn't imagine it.

It's a similar psychological process that is keeping Japanese markets disciplined for such a long time.

By contrast, in a country like Argentina people have living memories of monetary disasters and they trigger much quicker.
Well, if you have any questions regarding Red, join us on https://gitter.im/red/red :D

Also remember that Red is still alpha, and lots of cool, planned features are not yet implemented.

You can see the current roadmap on https://trello.com/b/FlQ6pzdB/red-tasks-overview
Is the writing extremely bad and intentionally obfuscated ? or is just my understanding as a non native speaker ?
Yes -- the FBI has no mission to protect the public good. Their job is not to defend ordinary Americans against cyber attacks. That's a different governmental agency, if such an agency even exists (I know there is a defensive part of NSA that does things like SELinux and hardening redhat, etc).

The job of the FBI is to detect and prosecute crimes under their jurisdiction. They've decided they can better do their jobs keeping the 0-day secret than disclosing it -- if it's kept secret, it makes it easier for criminals to commit more crimes for them to prosecute, and simultaneously gives them more investigative tools, win win.
Now at $0.036/GB. So basically for the cost of storing the data for a single month in the cloud - and cloud storage is one of the more price competitive options in the cloud.
It's not the same service as elsewhere. They either arrange a regular taxi (Berlin) or use licensed limousine companies (Munich).
I felt the same way until I realized you can literally hit a couple buttons on your phone and have a car pick you up almost instantaneously and I don't have to deal with thinking about payment at all...
Or you need to fix the supply chain issue yourself by holding inventory. This solves a problem that your producers have and provides better service to your customers. This is what Amazon does.

The real problem is when you have a bunch of producers trying to sell direct to customers and drop ship is that it's a very inconsistent consumer experience. If your selling point is a compelling customer experience, you need consistency in how packages are shipped and changes communicated. All of that leads to inventory, shipping, logistics, and something that looks much more like a traditional e-commerce store.

Once you lose control of the customer experience in this way, it can no longer be your competitive advantage. So you either need another competitive advantage, or you need to fold up shop.
As a non-American, the bit that amazes me is "political affiliation .. and voting history". Really?

Isn't voting meant to be a private thing?
Thank you. This looks the library I have been hunting for.
Studying the design document [1], one sentence makes it clear why this project is needed and simply using the Dropbox client does not suffice:

> We can perform a compare-and-swap operation in Dropbox by using the "update" write mode with a specific revision number.

Since a Git repository basically consists of a hash-addressed content object store alongside a mutable list of references (mapping branch names to hashes of latest commits), you need a compare-and-swap operation on the reference list to update the branch reference when you push new commits. The Dropbox client by design does not do a compare-and-swap whenever a file is updated, but the Dropbox API supports it.

[1] https://github.com/anishathalye/git-remote-dropbox/blob/mast...
I'm an OMSCS student. Udacity is fine. It serves its purpose. Sometimes it looks like the poor instructors are getting a double whammy of Georgia heat and hot spotlights, but the lectures are pretty high quality.

I'm not too far into the program, but the courses I've seen are built around readings, projects, and Piazza (a student forum for us to talk to each other in). Piazza is where most of the interesting stuff happens. For my class, there's the professor but also 5-10 TAs who are swarming Piazza at most hours of the day responding to questions. Once a week, there are office hours for a couple hours hosted on Hangouts. There's your normal midterm and final exam, but the courses seem very much structured around deadlines rather than mandatory participation week to week.

It's been good thusfar.
I got a good laugh out of his bio line 'After leaving traditional high school to compete on the international ski racing circuit...,' trying to throw off a genius-playboy-athlete vibe.

His FIS profile has him as a 100 point skier (1). I was a 100 point skier, and I sucked ass, miles away from any reasonable standard of international competition.

(1) http://data.fis-ski.com/dynamic/athlete-biography.html?secto...
I like Canada too. A relatively small population with a ridiculously huge amount of natural resources.
The company might not believe you, but many deaf people do listen to music. Deaf doesn't have to mean total silence, it can also mean that sound is so muffled or distorted that you can't understand the spoken word. Music still has some value, if you crank it up.
Armada Collective: DDoS Gang Making Thousands of BTC Without DDoSing Anyone
Do you mean VW? All the speculation I've read is that the DEF cars are also being recalled because they don't use the correct dosing.

Or do you mean the Chevy Cruze? They must have some strategy that works (so far).
I flew Ryanair a couple of weeks ago, without having been aware of the boarding pass re-design.

I saw immediately that it was meant to be folded into quarters. Neat, I thought. Then I found myself referring to each section at various times, and actually finding the information really useful.

It's great to be pleasantly surprised by well-considered design.
Font Awesome has a good collection of brand icons (along with quite a lot of other things): http://fontawesome.io/icons/#brand
Your severe exaggeration weakens your critique. I read the comments here before the actual article and after reading yours I expected the article to devolve into a juvenile defense of communism at the end. The author blames the problem in part on capitalism, but there was a distinct lack of "no true Scotsman" fallacy toward socialism.

Your anti-socialism bias is far more overt and absurd than the article's vague anti-capitalism bias. You got so bent out of shape at the mere mention of socialism in a positive light that you made up an argument that the article didn't put forth just so you could accuse the author of a fallacy. I don't know what to call this. It's not even a strawman. It's intellectually dishonest.
BLACKROOM: A New FPS from Romero and [Adrian] Carmack
OMG, talk about being overly sensitive as a community :)

If you skim the comments here you'll see that there are also other problems with this list and there's no aggression in pointing out that those issues lower the level of trust one has for it.
Are they offering the 6.0 controllers, etc. with the standard length housing? I would think that's an option soon, if not now. Perhaps the 6.0 controllers have no benefit with fewer drives.
The Hackathon Life
FreedomBox 0.9 Released
All true but done in light of the historical record of every other time the party crashed to a halt suddenly. They're trying to not let everything go to shit while a solution is prayed for.
And quite inefficiently, I might add.
So your saying someone who does security research but does not get paid is a researcher, but if someone else does the same research but they get paid their not a researcher?

So what if a security researcher is paid for their work? We don't say Lawyers are not Lawyers because their being paid and not doing work pro bono.

Remember security research takes lot's of time, skill and hardware they should be paid to do their work.
What? So unlike every other profession, you're not a real infosec researcher unless you're not in it for the money? Just about everyone does their job for the money. Are we all mercenaries too?
> Ford makes them though, but only in Europe, and they are not particularly strong in diesel at that

I disagree, certainly from a UK perspective.

Most modern Ford diesel engines are the product of the collaboration between Ford, Citreon and Peugeot [0][1].

Ford diesel Focus and Mondeo's are hugely popular and are quite reliable, reasonably sporty and fuel efficient things. My dad's last three Fords (Focus, Mondeo then Focus) were all diesels and he loved them. Virtually everyone I know that own's a Focus has one of the diesel versions.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_DLD_engine

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_AJD-V6/PSA_DT17
Lead developer here, In my experience it's been:

- Setting up the dev team for success by helping select language/framework/tech stacks

- Helping other devs, sharing knowledge, training, tools

- Encourage good developer habits, testing, OOP/OOD/patterns where needed etc.

- Get team input and be point of contact with upper management

- Plan the technical/solution design/architecture of said app. Share with other team members, work through it, get everyone on board, setup foundation, go build.

- A bunch more but that's a good start.
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I believe some of them do and that’s a major reason populist politicians are becoming in favor. Would be interesting to see the average asset ownership between supporters of the traditional candidates Clinton/Cruz and outside candidates Sanders/Trump. My guess is that the bases for the latter candidates (young/working-class) have a lot less ‘ownership’ and wouldn’t care too much if the stock market and home prices where cut in half.
Regarding your last point - we sort of do need accurate detection. What if there is a balloon on the road? I wouldn't swerve to avoid hitting a balloon, but an automatic car is going to see a round, rather large object. It might as well be a 100kg rock, hitting which would be disastrous. What is the car going to do? Stop and tell you to investigate? How about piles of leaves, cardboard boxes, large soda bottles. If you live anywhere with wind you are going to get those on the road.

As for the "best judgement" part - if a human is about to get into an accident, they are going to do what feels best. It's not necessarily the best option, but no court would ever tell you "our simulation tells us that if you reacted 0.1s earlier you could have turned the wheels 30 degrees and hit a car with two occupants instead of four, who had better survival chances". A computer is going to make an algorithmic choice, and that's what the article was about - who makes the choice as to how the car should react? The owner? The manufacturer? The police? The insurer? Should it prioritize its owner life at the potential cost of other lives? Or minimise the damage to protect the interests of its insurers?

We don't think about cars in those categories because we don't(and I would say we can't) make those choices when we drive. But computers will have to be programmed in some way. A lack of stop sign is a specific type of intersection in itself(where anyone going from the right has priority but anyone coming from the left has to yield) - so the car would need to observe and learn. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's very hard to do.
Silicon Publishing: Automating InDesign Server
>My position in this discussion is that yes, infrastructure improvements are necessary, but they'll be relatively straight forward in the US, as basically every city in the US was designed to support automobile traffic.

This is not to say that it's impossible, but US cities barely manage to get the infrastructure upgrades and maintenance they need now - Google et. al. have a lot of money, but I'm not confident they can play bureaucracy well enough to get some of the infrastructure improvements necessary for either large fleets of SDC's. I admit, the idea of replacing all the individually owned cars on the road with a fleet of summonable automobiles is very appealing; it just seems like there are a lot of intermediary steps that are less about technology and money than they are about politics and personal interests.
Google Open Sources GPUCC, LLVM-Based NVCC Competitor, Better Tensorflow Perf
I wonder if we can get some of their investors in on board for @TheDailyMarkov?
I think your response is missing the point. Of course you have to avoid hitting someone even if they're technically in the wrong. The point was that people feel entitled to do things without even a basic understanding of the law (or even what's sensible).
Not sure what are you talking about. Their price for single month in the cloud is $0.005/GB.
While the point about the different level of support of different repos is a good one and it does deserve more awareness, without the right context the claims of the article are easy to mis- or over-interpret.

I think a fair comparison would be to show other distros too
rather than judge Ubuntu based on a single data-point.

For instance, a user stuck with ancient packages on CentOS may quickly reach out to alternative repos and pull in tons of packages with questionable security.
Anyone else picturing Rep. Sessions as holding a sign saying, "We Demand to Be Taken Seriously"?
Well... the federal elections are not democratic ( electoral college ) I lament this point because ... bush vs. al gore is still a sore subject, and the federal reserve is a private institution. Not to mention the supreme court justices are not elected.
None of that is relevant to this experiment or my comment.

And I disagree that the number of subjects doesn't matter. It matters enormously, precisely because this is a biology experiment.
Yev from Backblaze here -> We actually offer Backblaze B2 at $0.005/GB/Month, so slightly less expensive! -> https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html
This whole article is filled with negative stereotypes, incredibly warped views of capitalism, and seems hell-bent on pushing its own message independent of the truth of its supporting "arguments".

> This is why we’ve created all these bullshit “arty” corporate jobs in marketing and related fields, why software engineering is discussed in terms of people really making things rather than in terms of sitting at a computer, staring bleary-eyed at your code

What...? I love my job, and it does involve making things while I sit at my desk -- incredibly cool things. Not only that, but my manager is awesome and discourages anything of the "up late bleary-eyed" variety.

Sure, there's a lot of crap jobs out there, but also a lot of amazing jobs where we do make incredible things that change the world. That's the "capitalist american dream" this article loves to call totalitarian propaganda (read the article if you don't believe he said something so absurd).
Uber for giving: can we harness the power of laziness for good?
CERN Just Dropped 300 Terabytes of Raw Collider Data to the Internet
The Web Isn't Uniform
Your right-of-way/mutex metaphor is outstanding. I'm going to be stealing that for this and other physical-space-occupying race conditions.
Please don't post generically ideological comments to HN. They're a particularly harmful form of unsubstantive comment because they provoke generically ideological flamewars, which are the worst sort of thread.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11562004 and marked it off-topic.
"Capitalism does not require the concept of a loser. It's the base human instinct of comparison to ones neighbor that requires the concept of a loser."

I would say that both benefit from the concept of a loser. In fact capitalism and this instinct go hand in hand. Capitalism is a frame work which works with this instinct.

Having said that it is also true that children have a natural instinct to play with their own faeces. Both this preoccupation with poo and the desire to elevate self at the expense of other should be discouraged.

Capitalism sucks, for the reasons eloquently outlined in this article.
Magicians also use the term wizard (as well as 100s of other terms)
That will come standard in New York City
The RICH Economy
I'm more optimistic that the NTSA will rise to meet the challenge because there is so much benefit and momentum (thank you Elon Musk) to making them work.

My favorite article on the subject[1] extrapolates how much impact autonomous vehicle technology will have. I'd actually be pretty surprised if it hadn't come across the desks of the GM executives involved in the half a billion dollar Lyft investment[2]. The Obama administration seems to be making a real effort to lay the groundwork for the necessary infrastructure and regulatory resources[3].

Also, if you haven't read/watched this, don't pass go: http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-george-hotz-self-driv...

[1] http://zackkanter.com/2015/01/23/how-ubers-autonomous-cars-w...
[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-04/gm-invests...
[3] http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2016/01/14/nhtsa-de...
Silicon Valley on HBO did just have its Season 3 premier yesterday. Could this (hopefully) be some huge fake marketing stunt?
Brian from Backblaze here. Aren't most standard closed racks 36" deep? From this wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19-inch_rack
"... A standard 19-inch server rack cabinet is typically 42u in height, 19-inch wide, and 36 inches deep ..."
What comes with the PhD positions is a requirement to respond to RFPs with concept notes, proposals, etc... and a lot of high level project management. They provide subject matter expertise from an analytic angle (usually without getting involved in the technical aspects) but almost never are involved in modeling, development, or anything else that I listed above. We're seeing change wherein data scientists more often are involved in the proposal and business development process, but not wherein PhD-level researchers are involved in the technical implementation of projects.
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Turns out that people, technically speaking, have a constitutional right to petition their government.
Magician contains in it stage magic, as well as street magic, parlor magic and other forms. It doesn't limit itself to the stage.
So a hard drive weighs about 1.5 pounds, so 60 of them in a pod is about 100 pounds before you even include the pod itself. That doesn't sound particularly pleasant for the technician to install the first time...

You put 10 of those in a rack and now we're up to 1000 pounds. At what point does this become challenging for the floor?
The car could have some sort of wireless (4G, WiFi, etc...) to download updated/detailed data for new routes when it needs it, and store locally what it will likely need again in the future. Since the car knows where it's going, as long as it has some idea of when it will be in range of a wireless access point, it can plan when and how it will download the rest of the trip information on the way.

As long as the car has basic route information and knowledge about where it will be able to connect to servers with updated information. Cars could drive anywhere with basic road info, and download updated and more detailed information (intersection metadata, possible closures, etc...) only as needed. It doesn't always need to be in wireless range, it just needs to know when it will be so it can plan accordingly.
Magicians use it, one of the more common ones.
Minecraft?
Mapping careers for entry-level occupations
To be or not to be full stack?
This is a frequent misguided criticism. The job of central banks isn't to ensure that savings accounts have a high rate of return. They're not robbing virtuous savers.

It is the nominal rate of return which we are talking about too, which means that the rate reflects the low rate of inflation. An increase as a result of inflation would amount to no long-term gain for savers.

Real returns result from real investments, not fluctuations in the money supply.
please make your comment without using the words "capitalism" or "socialism" since neither word has a proper, consensus definition.

This can not be repeated enough. It is absolutely true, if you use the words 'socialism' or 'capitalism' no one will have a clue what you are talking about.
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hackers != software engineers. The meaning for 'hackers' is completely different when you check the hacking/infosec community.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvL7T4gIJN8
I think he was referring to Amazon S3 prices which are up around the numbers he mentioned. But Amazon also has "Glacier" for 3/4 of one penny per month, and Backblaze has an S3 competitor for even less at 1/2 of one penny per month.
I'm super glad that my sophomoric musings didn't have this kind of reach, but it does seem odd that someones can.
Is anyone able to show how you get from this line:

ΣnFib(n+2)x^(n+2)=ΣnFib(n+1)x^(n+2)+ΣnFib(n)x^(n+2)

to this one:

F(x)−x−1=x(F(x)−1)+x2F(x)

I haven't managed to figure it out and have a couple of colleagues that haven't been able to work it out as well.
There are so many people, it'd be difficult to compile a list and not leave anyone out. It's a rich field.
It's actually right on point. Don't act like this is just some kid in his dorm coding up a new idea. This is just a giant money laundering scheme for the rich father.
Can we train our way out of security flaws?
Historically, 'magicians' have intentionally cloaked their illusions in the supernatural, so it makes sense they claim to be masters of the supernatural. So the confusion is intentional.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Thurston...
They're still missing Jonathan Goldsmith
I'd warn people not to pay too much attention to the advice that the american diabetes association provides. The targets it recommends are well known to cause damage to the body (you should be avoiding anything above a BG of 140 at any time) and it's dietary recommendations are contrary to the advice I've ever received from anyone that has had good results maintaining diabetes. Just to pick up on the two points you mention, I would never consume fruit unless accompanied by exercise and a low-carb diet is recommended by any consultant or nutrionist that I've ever spoken to.