skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prices increasing without increase in economic output though, stagflation becomes a danger. Deflation is very dangerous, stagflation is dangerous, runaway inflation is dangerous. Monetary policy isn't easy.
I don't think time spent on swift is wasted, it's a fantastic language with a lot of practical application.
> Even if you grant that good programmers can pick up new languages or frameworks easily (which I'm not entirely convinced of - there is a wide gulf between "can follow the tutorial" and "successfully used in anger"), you'll incur a penalty in velocity while all your new hires learn Framework X.

I think the question is more "Does what we're doing require good programmers, or can we get by with shitty ones?" More often than not, you're not doing anything special, and you want to pick a platform that the cheapest, most common programmers out there can add features in a non-disastrous amount of time (different depending on industry + your competition), and not generate enough technical debt to collapse everything before the next rewrite/upgrade cycle.
I've dove in water enough to know this is true. Couldn't recall mechanics of breaking surface properly, though outside basic dives. Modification: something between the mattress and water to break the surface. Maybe repeating structures that do that in a single layer. What now?
Not really. I sold my Prius for more than I paid for it back in 2005/6.

Electric cars are tough in that nobody knows how well they age. Based on my experience with lithium batteries, I'd be a bear in the value!
Insightful human portraits made from data – R. Luke DuBois
Link with exact time: https://youtu.be/HPFhKUt245E?t=1625
For the record, this doesn't reflect my personal experience in Japan in any way whatsoever. People here are quite well aware of their history, but they don't understand some people's focus on Japan's most recent expansion into China and Korea any more than Americans would understand someone whose sole concern is the eradication of native Americans. This kind of "they're not sorry enough for me" discussion is fruitless, because no nation or ethnicity has a moral high ground to stand on.

Edit: I want to add that in my personal experience, there is no place on Earth that is more peaceful and pacifistic than Japan in 2016. Don't pay attention to the government, which simply tows the line for America...I'm talking about the people in the cities and villages. Meanwhile, to my point above, America does nothing but wage wars since WW2. Make of that what you will.
Uh... what about the leaf?! IMO that's the car spearheading the movement right now.
Guilty as charged. :)
This is partially because it is much, much, easier to pirate premium games on Android than it is on iOS. There are tons of 3rd party APK sites that are well trafficked. On F2P the platforms are much more equally split.

Also, as Android has a higher footprint in Asia, making games that resonate with the Japanese/Korean audience is pretty important, and I'm not sure if Monument Valley qualifies.
"HITTING THE OCEAN IS ESSENTIALLY THE SAME AS COLLIDING WITH A SIDEWALK" -from the article
HN tends to be fussy about logic.
I'd imagine it more to be like chess. Physical manuevering seems to me to be the type of problem a tireless computer with 360 degrees of sensors would be perfect at optimizing for. Especially combined with the incredible amount of data that could be generated by almost any fraction of the current vehicular use world wide. Very cool stuff. It's very exciting. Watching that rally car go was really cool.
I've seen this at two shops now, verbatim (indicating that the phrase is cut-n-pasted from some management self-help book).

In both cases, it translated into, "The assholes who have the most seniority or the ear of executives are 'team players'. The team players who do not have those things are 'assholes'".

It's just a verbal tool and political weapon for bullies to encourage sycophants... and for me is more of a red flag than a recruiting tool at this point.
If you want to see a place that has a toxic culture because it is filled with, well, arseholes - then you need to have a look at Wikipedia.

In fact, if you want to see how bad it can get, then you need to look at something I'm unfortunately responsible for starting - the Wikipedia Administrators' Noticeboard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_no...

Even worse is the incidents section of that noticeboard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_no...

It's very, very hard to edit on Wikipedia these days. If you have any mental instability whatsoever, I strongly urge you to avoid editing Wikipedia like the plague. It's very unlikely you'll be able to change the culture, good people with great reputations in the community have tried but the culture is so bad now that it's impossible to fix it as it stands.
I'm talking about a healthy athlete, not one that it's into professional sports and actually destroys his body or hearth with substance abuse.
Incidentally, I bought a former rental and it's great! No problems at all.

People always say "But what if some idiot has thrashed it?" Well, probably some idiot did, but at least they only did it for a couple of days... much better than buying a car which was solely driven by some idiot.
Stackoverflow does have a separate concept of "Moderator", which is a voted-on position and denoted by a blue diamond next to their name.
Why? There are plenty of times I've heard that a client won't pay up or demands things that are way outside of what was agreed to, and people just decide that they aren't who they want to do business with...
The world doesn't have to head there. Central banks can produce any amount of inflation they want to, if they have the guts.

See nominal GDP level targeting: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/10/monetary...
Oh, that wasn't aimed at you. :-) When I said "he" I meant the writer of the article!

All this talk of arseholes, very confusing.
I know what you mean. The piece sounded vaguely angry, perhaps part of what stimulated it is

A) Wide use of a strong word ("asshole") sounds angry. It can be funny, but I didn't sense humor.

B) All-or-nothing language

C) Focuses on failures of the past rather (so and so and his wife screwed us over!) than benefits seen from the policy.
I came here to say pretty much exactly this.

There are a lot of Japanophiles (be it culture, food, anime or whatever). Much of it seems to spring from disaffection for the West. All of that's fine but this revisionist view of history is one thing that's always bothered me about Japan.

Now we have China and Japan squaring off over some uninhabited rocks in the South China Sea and I think it's at least in part a byproduct of WW2.

The Chinese remember Manchuria, Nanking, etc. From the outside looking in it seems like "payback" might not be the goal of this but it sure is a nice bonus.

The Japanese on the other hand as a whole I think don't understand this motivation because they don't have this foundation in historical events. To them it must seem like the Chinese actions are unprovoked and unwarranted.

This sort of thing is a dangerous and inevitable consequence of ignoring the lessons of history. Population and economics are on the side of the Chinese here.
I love the line of reasoning from online apologists that states that since they helped birth Bangladesh, India now has the right to push Bangladesh around in perpetuity.

Bangladeshis genuinely appreciate the assist (we really do!), but that doesn't mean we are going to stand around and bend over without complaint when India decides to unilaterally cut off the rivers that feed and sustain the 180 million people in Bangladesh.

Just because there aren't guns and secret police involved doesn't mean that harm can't occur. If this project goes ahead, India's actions are just as unpleasant as anything the US did in Latin America.

But hey, at least they'll finally be a superpower.
There's a small bit of irony here in that there was a rash of "Why I'm leaving X for Rails" posts between 2008 and 2012 or so.
A land value tax would help get land use right. (Because there would be less incentive for the NIMBYs to protest, and more incentive for the government to move to more efficient forms of land use.)

Land value tax would also allows us to untax labour and capital, thus reducing deadweight losses in the economy.

See http://masongaffney.org/blog/index.php/2012/08/the-hidden-ta...
It's not like Japan would be the first country to selectively remember history to make itself look good. I doubt they teach much about Dresden in the UK, or the extermination of Indians in America, or killing literally every Aborigine in Tasmania, or the British forcing the Chinese to buy opium.

I went to school in Japan and we didn't learn a sugar-coated version of history. We went to Hiroshima and listened to a talk from a bomb survivor who told us it was our job to make a world where something like that could never happen again.
While this is true, the post lists 9 specific examples of features directly below that quote, of which 5 are found in haskell. He never said he tried to capture the essence of Haskell, simply that features in his language were inspired (in part) by Haskell.
Hmmm. Interesting that speeds at the edge don't appear to have changed much at all, in years. I didn't think there was much ongoing coverage expansion going on. What's driving the capacity investment? Greater utilization of existing connections? What's using up this capacity?
Having withdrawn the citation you should either replace it with a better one or retract your assertion.
There's probably room here for a niche consumer product. Something that one could wear on a flight discretely, that would behave as a makeshift parachute should one find oneself in this circumstance. If it were cheap enough (and not ridiculously uncomfortable) I'd probably consider buying one.
"Great web frameworks like Ruby on Rails, for example, can’t be built without relying on a more dynamic language."

You don't necessarily want dynamism, you want metaprogramming.
Outside of export oriented manufacturing, Japan doesn't have high productivity.
A lot of weird stuff happens close to zero. Dropping from $1/loaf of bread to $0.50/loaf is only fifty cents, which for some people seems tiny. For someone who doesn't have a job or any assets generating income, the fifty cents means they can afford to eat.
I don't get it? Just print money? (Or more formal, do QE?)
Arguably the "central gripe" of the article is one level higher, in which Rails has no competition in Ruby-land, and if you don't agree the architectural preferences of a few thought leaders, your only choice is to abandon not just Rails but the entire Ruby world. At least that was my takeaway.
> Everyone becomes conflict-averse for fear of looking like an asshole, so bad ideas often go unchecked

While assholes are probably necessary for a functional society, in the context of business the No Asshole Rule refers to things like sexually harassing your coworkers. Calling out bad ideas wouldn't qualify.
What's too bad about the Volt? I may be about to buy one of the new ones. The 2016 model has better electric range and looks better too.
We can probably judge their sensitivity to Bangladesh's concerns by looking at what they've done already with the (admittedly smaller) Farakka Barrage on the Ganges.

The barrage regularly floods Bangladesh when the monsoon rains are too heavy to handle, and withholds far too much when the rains are too light. Past performance is likely to be an indicator of future performance.

Alas. It's much easier to call me an unhinged Bangladeshi nationalist (huh?) and call it a day though.
I think the equation is whether to srve the interests of 300-400 million indians living in these areas or that of 100+ million in Bangladesh.

even then India has acted generally to protect everyone's interest vis a vis other countries like US who allow millions in Africa to starve to protect the interest of a few 100 US farmers.
I disagree. People intuitively know or quickly learn when others are socially trying to cause them harm. Classifying anyone doing that as an asshole is putting a word on a reflexive assessment even non-judgmental people do and understand. They might choose to take it a different direction in how they respond. They know person was being an asshole in that moment.

From there, we could say someone who consistently performs asshole behavior is straight-up an asshole. Whereas, others just act like them on occasion.
Sure, but computer sales were not a bubble to begin with.
Just set a level target (eg 5% increase in NGDP each year), and follow it. Very easy.

If market forecasts are below target, do QE (= print money), if above, slow or stop the creation of extra money.

(One can target the market forecast of ngpd in a years time or two, instead of current ngdp.)
Yes, precisely. It irks me how this concept is always stated so matter-of-factly, like they just discovered some objective fact of the universe and you're an idiot if you're not on board. "No assholes! Like, duh!"

All I can think is, let me guess: when you get rid of perks and don't promote people that should be promoted, and generally treat employees like cattle, you're not being an asshole. But if someone is not prim and proper about disagreeing with you on some issue they are an asshole.

Also, I had to laugh at this absolute ridiculous gem of a sentence:

> Almost everyone, including jerks, agree that a workplace free from assholes is attractive.

So, is that "jerks" as distinct from "assholes", or... ? The liberal employment of the word "asshole" gives the impression that this is direct, simple talk, that there is no wiggle room here. But the rub is always in who gets to decide who is an asshole and who isn't.
True. But over open water? It might be worth taking a stab at it, though you're probably going to die anyway from falling debris, drowning, hypothermia, sharks, or just bleeding out.
I think the majority of app developers still, at least nominally, believe that they are providing something of value.
USDJPY: Consolidates with Downside Threats
The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan… Stalin Did [1]

[1] http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japa...
In the UK, children are definitely taught a history to be proud of in general. Which is the opposite of how history is taught in Germany. But there were a few exceptions. I'm certain we studied the Allied bombing of Dresden and also the massacres that occurred during the Indian independence movement.
They label these groups without so much as a shred of documentation or even stating their criteria in specific, objective terms. Certainly, "engaging in groundless conspiracy theorizing, or advocate or adhere to extreme antigovernment doctrines" applied to pretty much the entire Occupy movement, yet no such groups were ever counted by SPLC.
What's your goal exactly? Depending on your goal there's a few routes.

If you want to produce compelling VR experiences then I'd recommend you download Unity. You should be able to start making real, valid prototypes for different types of VR interactions in under a week.

If you want to graphics then I might recommend you poke at http://humus.name/index.php?page=3D or https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx. But graphics isn't my specialty so my thoughts aren't the strongest.

If you want to learn C++ then... that's an interesting question I've not thought of before. Maybe I'd start with "Learn C the Hard Way"? http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ I'm not as much of a C fanboy/C++ hater as other game devs. I quite like C++11 lambdas and move semantics. But I hate boost and it's ilk. So starting with C and later adding a dash of C++ seems like a good way to start.
What do you see as the 'gaping flaws' of a pure electric vehicle? I would never want a hybrid, as I would optimize for either an ICE or EV but there doesn't seem to be space in a consumer vehicle to have a workable hybrid that is better than either of its pureplay counterparts.
Yes, this - in my experience, most web apps start out as "good Rails apps", but few remain so indefinitely. Many people over the years of Rails' popularity have experienced the transition from feeling supported by the "Rails Way" to feeling like they're fighting it, and it isn't surprising that this burns people out eventually.
Right, I prefer to die of hunger because I think the price of food will be low next year. Do you really believe this? People buy expensive electronics every day even though they know all them will be much cheaper after some time.

Interest rates can adapt to pricing variations expectations, you know that because it works in inflationary environments.
It's hard to have contrition for policies and actions which saved, arguably, millions of lives.
With a passive aggressive policy, how would one expect anything but a bunch of assholes?

Negative rules are always a problem, because there's no consensus about what they mean. What does "playing politics mean"? Or "obnoxious"?

You know what's easier? Have a "treat your colleagues with respect" rule. Define that as "treat others as you would have them treat you".
> There is no Moore’s law for battery storage—the power of batteries doesn’t magically double every two years.

> Put another away, the battery pack in the 2017 Volt will cost less than 10 percent more than the one in the 2012 Volt. But it will be more than four times more powerful.

Intel wishes its chips still quadrupled in performance every 5 years.

> We’re moving toward a world where more and more cars will either run primarily on gasoline but with an assist from powerful batteries or primarily on powerful batteries but with an assist from gasoline.

He's saying that in article talking about how cheap batteries have become and how in a few years they'll be $100/KWh? Within 10 years all EVs will have 100-150 KWh batteries. That's 400-600 mile ranges.

The only place where you'll see "hybrids" is some niches where batteries alone couldn't possibly make sense, but I have a hard time coming up with ideas for vehicles where batteries alone wouldn't be enough in 15 years and they're smaller than say a train or an airplane. Even buses should do just fine with a 200KWh battery for a 16-18h work-day.

> Earlier this week, Bloomberg New Energy Finance released a report arguing that by 2040, 35 percent of annual vehicles sales will be electric.

It will be at least twice as much by 2030. By 2025 few will want a car that isn't an EV, and the car makers will have no choice but to start competing in EVs as their primary cars.
Yeah, regarding the not sorry enough position, people of the West generally broadcast toward Japan rather than the other way around. Read a book like "Senso," a compilation of letters to a Japanese newspaper by Japanese people sharing their recollections of the war. The sorrow becomes apparent. The shame is not hidden.
> probably not

Do you know whereof you're speaking, or are you attacking a school curriculum you've imagined? Japanese education does cover these topics. There was a big controversy around 2000 when the government approved a new textbook that greatly downplayed Japan's military past but it was never used in more than a handful of schools.

Obviously there's a never-ending debate about precisely what gets taught, and right-wing activism to whitewash textbooks is always in the background. But the topics you're talking about do get taught, and discussed widely, and you'd have a hard time finding an educated Japanese person who isn't familiar with them.
I'd like to stay hopeful and perhaps they can figure out a way balance the welfare income and expenditure. But that will probably not happen. The bomb does need to blow to reset the clock.
Wondering what's the big feature announcement tomorrow.
It seems only right to me that children be taught pride in their country and their history. There's no need to teach people to cringe at the mention of their nation.
Japan is doing QEs since the 80's and now they achieved a 10 yen increase in the price of a candy with a strange name.
The present Indian government settled a long standing border dispute with Bangladesh (since it's liberation from Pakistan in 1974 aided by India) where 111 border enclaves were exchanged for 51 enclaves: http://www.news18.com/news/india/prime-minister-narendra-mod...

India has good relations with Bangladesh despite there being illegal immigration across the borders and I'm sure the governments of both countries will be able to resolve this dispute amicably.
This is my initial response as well. I came from the land of Java web dev and Rails was the best thing to ever happen. But it's been 10+ years since it really took the world by storm and things have changed. This "I will never use Rails again" saber rattling is just linkbait crap but well reasoned critiques of tools and patterns are always a good thing.
ActiveRecord is not the right tool for a job like this. It's meant to return records needed for serving normal web traffic, not for running data analytics. This is a better job for a tool which can run queries like this outside of a latency-sensitive environment (hadoop, presto, whatever).

> you'll also end up writing Ruby code to accomplish what the database is already capable of.

This is for the best. Usually, you have only a few database servers, while you have lots and lots of web servers. If you have a computationally intensive task, it's better to perform it on those web servers, which you can scale horizontally.

In our environment, the problem is usually the opposite -- it's way too easy in ActiveRecord to ask the database to do computation like sorting for you. Also, it can be hard to predict what impact an additional clause will have on the server's use of indexes. We try to get engineers new to Rails to write the simplest, most performant queries and then use ruby to do any soft of complicated transformation or computation.
> Japan on the other side, actively hide their actions.

The US, like the rest of the Allied powers, do more than their fair share of actively hiding their crimes during the war years. They also love to gloss over the degree to which, before they saw him as a threat to their existence, the Allied powers actually admired and respected Hitler and even sought to emulate his leadership.

I mean, most Americans sure as heck don't know that FDR literally modeled the genocide in Puerto Rico after 'the methods which Hitler used effectively'[0]. Because very few schools actually bother to mention Operation Bootstrap in the first place, let alone acknowledge that that the US forcibly sterilized 40% of Puerto Rican women (on the grounds that they were 'unfit to reproduce').

Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the exception only because the events directly led to the Cold War as we know it[1], and it's kind of hard to understand the next 50 years of world history without understanding that the Cold War was happening.

[0] https://books.google.com/books?id=3llNN7jmQE4C&pg=PA255&lpg=...

[1] Yes, the Cold War would still have happened even if the US had decided not to drop the bomb, but since we did, the bombings became the unforgettable, tangible symbol of the fear that the Cold War was based on.
Keep at it:

1. You never know if it will be a surprise hit (Crossy Road)

2. All of my game projects have made very little money, but have had unexpected side benefits that made them worthwhile.

3. It's fun. I enjoy making games more than playing them, so even if I'm wasting time, i can consider it entertainment. :)
I'm all for electric vehicles, but there are a few things that have bothered me about its mass adoption.

Right now, electrics comprise a tiny part of the automobile market share. Yet Tesla is already running into supply issues, particularly with lithium as there are only 3 companies in the world that do industrial-scale lithium mining, that too in a handful of mines around the world.

Secondly, I suppose we're currently in the honeymoon period for electrics. But what will happen 5-8 years down the line, when all the early mainstream adopters of electrics will have to replace their batteries? Is it feasible to recycle all those batteries?