skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Why can external currency changes (USD to bolivar) cause such strong inflation internally?"

Simply because 'most things' that are sold in Venezuela are either imported - or depend on imports.

The Bolivar is crashing against all currencies, not just the USD - so anything: parts, fuel, TV's, entertainment - it all has to be imported, and it all got expensive.

'Internal inflation' can happen when there are more Bolivars floating around than before - even without outside currency markets to validate the price.

Ex: if there are 1 Trillion Bolivars in existence, and the government simply prints '1 Trillion' more and dumps them on the market. Guess what happens to prices? They will basically double every where.

So your shoes that cost 100 Bolivars, now cost 200.
What gets people into trouble on Wikipedia is that they think it's a forum system where they can write anything they want. It's more like submitting pull requests to a major project on Github. You're changing something used by tens of millions of people.
when I was a child I came up with a mustard and sugar sandwich. it was pretty nice, the hotness of the mustard kinda boosted the sugariness
I am not sure how you vote but in my country, you could not pre-fill the ballot because you only get it at the voting booth. You have a voting registration that you bring to the booth, there you exchange it for the ballot which you fill out in a closed cabine and the pass right into an urn. (Which is basically like a voting machine, you only fill out your vote at the place you are voting). Honestly, not a very good reason for voting machines, only maybe against mail voting.
My bank account used to contain money, I guess I'm homeopathically rich.
My personal belief (to about 90%) is that there was some sort of Disaster (lit. "sundering from the stars") in the past and we are all, globally, suffering from shock in the aftermath. I don't think current conditions are normal.
As much as I loathe the socialists, let's not be too conspiratorial.

Maduro is facing assault on all sides due to this crises. Trust me he's rather be in the heady days of Chavez, when things were all kosher and happy.

He's a few inches away from losing power.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_FNsuyX8lNo
From the title, I thought this would be a list of CSS properties ordered by frequency of use (as crawled on the web).
> It seems a lot of tortuous effort to produce in the end a machine of absolutely no utility whatsoever, but that sets me firmly in the mainstream of modern technology. At least I will have no intention of foisting the product onto a long-suffering public in the name of progress.
Ah yes. "You wrote an article which was incorrect, here is an explanation of why what you wrote was incorrect, backed up with reasoning and sources" is exactly identical to "fuck off, do things my way".

I am glad to have your wisdom on this issue.
Yet many of the ideas in Android and iOS were in Microsoft devices first, even if they failed to monetize them properly.

Regardless of what will happen with this Surface phone, at least from the consumer computer stores in some European countries, it is clear to me Windows 10 is the current winner for hybrid tablets and netbooks reborn, given that they replaced most of the Android ones that used to be on display.
Yes, approximately. Homicide per year per 100 000 people:

U.K. 0.9
U.S. 3.9
Venezuela 62.0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
> You'd be surprised how many of those paper ballots don't get recognized when they are counted. Because the checkmarks don't fill up the box enough or because of optical/scantron error.

In the UK's 2014 elections for the European Parliament, a Scottish voter wrote against the four parties/candidates listed: "wank"; "wank"; "good guy"; "wank".

The vote was deemed valid as the voter had expressed a clear preference.

(Source: https://twitter.com/JamieRoss7/status/473068708441894912/pho...)
Yeah. I see what you're saying. If you could magically plug your iPhone into your Macbook charger, it'd still take 290 seconds to deliver enough juice to change the battery, ignoring heat and losses. Then there's the amount of copper and shielding it'd take inside the phone to carry that much current. An iPhone is about a quarter the volume of the apple charger, but from the teardowns the DC side is about 25-20% of the size. I would find it reasonable if you wanted to assert that there would be no room for the 'iphone' inside of the case. It'd be all battery and charge controll circuits.

Even if you allow the usual marketing bullshit where anything under 2 minutes is allowed to be called 'seconds', we're still off by a factor of 3. You'd have to go through the next set of mental gymnastics where you say 'well if the phone charges that fast, I can just top it up whenever so it doesn't need to last for 3 days at a time'. In other words you could charge it 'in seconds' but you'll be doing that a couple times a day.
I disagree with your assertion about 'depressed' countries having to inflate. The only reason that they got so depressed is because of bad government and way to much printing. You can't then turn around and say 'we already fucked it up' so destroying the monetary system now is good.

Stabilizing the monetary system, reduce government spending and deregulation is the only solution.

Its never impossible to get out of Inflation, there are only bad greedy governments that can't get there shit together. Its never a economic problem, just a political one.
And Spain doesn't even have the oil Venezuela has...
Venezuela and other Latin America countries-targets confirmed by the IMF
http://bit.ly/2bwyCr0
It really depends on how trivial the idea is and if there are any significant difficulties with implementation.

If it's something simple and easy to replicate, then those with better marketing will win. But if it's a technically hard product, then it comes down to execution.

In either case being first to the market matters only if you have a trully innovative idea with immediate mass appeal.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12991524
Coder, developer, writer? Why the aversion to the term software engineer, her title? (Criticising poster and the article)
When I was child, my grandmother used to cook this recipe for me:

*. put oil to heat

1. lightly beat a couple of eggs
2. add provenzal, as you like it
3. wet a piece of bread in there
4. and quickly throw it on the oil
5. fry for a bit and turn the bread around
5. enjoy :)

It was one of these mini family rituals that later on I came to understand how much happiness it brought to my life.
Yeah, enlightenment, the world would be a better place without it. For example there would be no computers, no internet and no parent comment.
some of the arguments i've seen about it make sense - how do users know that this hasn't happened before? reddit comments have made it into court apparently, and now that it's public knowledge that reddit's higher ups can silently edit comments, that's a huge deal.

in my opinion, it's made me lose a lot of trust (not that I had a ton anyway) for the entire site.
It's worse than that. Money is a store of value as well, a people will build in a price premium because the 200 bolivars will take another haircut.
It's in human nature, to belong to a clan, and to leave a mark for future generations. Wikipedia success comes from exploiting both instincts: you belong to a great organization, you're doing a great service to humanity, you have value for the clan.
I forget the statistical term but after the fact, you can't go back and say "look at this, only 107K votes determined the outcome" because you can always find such explanations post hoc. I tried to search but couldn't find the discussion but one example is how couples use this type of fallacy to "prove" their love was fated. Typically on the day the fated couple met there were a number of unusual events or circumstances (a missed bus, sick grandma, a power outage, etc.) that played a key role in their meeting and the probability of all these coincidences occurring together must mean they were fated to meet.

Moreover, you have to ask; How could the Simon Bar Sinister have known prior to the election that these three states (and probably one or two counties in each state) would be the decisive counties to hack to manipulate votes and win the election? He can't.
It kind of makes sense to me, I think the poster is trying to say Clinton buys votes but in a way we prefer/tolerate.

That way being "walking around money" in the sense of mingling with wealthy people at expensive events funded by other wealthy people in an attempt gain favor (and votes) from the people who can afford those events.

I think it's being purposely dramatic, but the English (kind of) adds up.
I literally linked my reference. I found similar references. Lowest figure I've seen is 90% Chinese speculators.

edit: if you mean the drug usage as the next biggest: in 2014, darknet markets saw more use than all legitimate payment processors put together. https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity15/technical...
I suppose you mean deregulation. Regulation (in particular, price regulation) is what got them into this mess.
The Shake part of Shake Shack is honestly better than the burger part. Shake Shack can't even shake a french fry at Burgerville.

Edit: Definitive nationwide fast casual burger total ordering is Burgerville > In n Out > Cook Out > Shake Shack > Five Guys
Look at this graph of weekly M2 data, and zoom into any short time period so that you can actually make out individual weeks: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM2NS

Note the seemingly odd monthly pattern that is apparent everywhere along the graph? That's because the economy has a distinct monthly rhythm of loans being used and repaid e.g. for monthly payroll payments etc.

You may think that this could be managed with a fixed money supply, but why should it? The days where money was an object are long gone (if they ever really existed). Money is instead a reflection of contractual relations in the economy. As those contractual relations change, so does the money supply.

None of these changes in the money supply have to do with the government or the central bank, by the way.[1] The whole fluctuation is due to commercial banks creating money when they issue loans, and destroying money when the loans are paid back. It's a system that works well.

A sibling comment mentions MV = PQ (or MV = PY), which is a good point, although they get all confused about the direction of causality (as is common). For example: when the price level increases, the loans taken out by economic actors become bigger, which increases M. Similarly, correlated growth of M and Q is usually really driven by a hidden variable: for example, an increased volume in consumer loans will drive up both Q and M at the same time. Similarly for an increase in investment.

Conversely, in a recession, a shrinkage of Q may go hand in hand with a decrease in V (economic actors keep their money for longer rather than spending it) or M (economic actors try to deleverage).

[1] They are related, actually, but only because the government is an economic actor. There is no special relation between government and broad money supply aggregates in today's monetary system.
Yep, you can recount fake paper votes, but how you will distinguish fake votes from real ones? Remember, votes are anonymous, so you cannot track vote back to live being to ask. And even if you will be able to do so, live being can lie you about his vote, to protect himself, or just to not look dumb in eyes of others.
I've read the article, and it's the opposite of what the title says. The article writes about "rumors" but Nadella hasn't said anything to support them.

I'd call it a click-bait, YMMV.
Have you checked out Krugman's Twitter recently? The man has lost the plot after the election. And now he's pushing even more bullshit conspiracy theories. Sad.
>Maduro is facing assault on all sides due to this crises. Trust me he's rather be in the heady days of Chavez, when things were all kosher and happy.

As someone who lived in Venezuela during Chavez's regime things were anything but "Kosher" and "Happy".

These are EVIL individuals who only want to make themselves rich at the expense of an entire nation.
It doesn't - the currency markets are just adjusting the relative price for supply and demand. The inflation itself is being caused by money printing. Their Government prints cash, M0 (expand out to Max to see it):

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/venezuela/money-supply-m0

And then the banking system multiplies it by f(reserve requirement) modulo any capital requirements:

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/venezuela/money-supply-m3

From the ratio of M0 to M3, most of the expansion is from M0, so the Basel capital controls are actually slowing down a runway hyperinflation - to some extent at least. Seems to start in 2012, so I would guess that they started money printing to cover civil service salaries when the oil price dropped, and haven't looked back.
I'm in the same boat. Due to Apple's most recent product decisions I'm losing confidence and I'm starting to look elsewhere. After reading up on the current state of Android and especially how to increase privacy and security, it seems I'll have to stick with Apple for a while longer.
This is over six months old.

Editing wikipedia is a great place to refine your use of stoicism...
If it's at all possible to consider Microsoft the "new Apple" (at least as far as hardware goes), it's worth a thought: Will Microsoft do what we've been asking Apple to do with the iPad Pro all along: give it a real OS.

Obviously, it wouldn't be an iPad Pro form factor, and Surface already runs Windows 10. But I'm sure you're following.

A Windows Phone with the ability to run ("native") Windows software would be an incredibly interesting play.

Asus ZenPhone houses an Intel Atom... Windows also has their little Linux thing... Android is Linux-based... Project Astoria was a thing...

This could be really fun to watch.
i am currently working on a side project [1] to search for java-method usages and also parse java-code on the backend, but it's not as fast as i would like it to be. I did some very obvious performance improvement, but i suspect that for the most time i am waiting to download the sources/to complete the search request. There might also be some serious performance issues (it started as a hackathon project, so...). I hope to find time this weekend to do some benchmarking. I would guess you download the whole git repo at once and then do the parsing and not lazily per file? I also experience high memory usage, it might be the library that i am using.

[1] https://exemplator.xyz
The news flies under the radar because for most people Go is now solved (compare to what happened after Deep Blue's win). There's a small blemish in that Ke Jie is still rated higher than AlphaGo. Perhaps they will rectify that, perhaps not.

Cho Chikun had the large advantage over Lee Sedol that his opponent (Zen) and similar programs (Crazy Stone, Leela) are simply available for him to practice against and probe for weaknesses.

Then of course there's also a significant reduction in the speed of the hardware.

Both of those matter a lot. I won't make a firm statement how relevant the style argument is you mention, but really, don't underestimate those two.
Let's start with a simple example. A spreadsheet with your name and your vote. You can be sure that your vote is taken into account by the SUM function.
In the U.K. the ballot staff are volunteers and cheap/free venues are used (schools, church halls, etc.)
Regardless of how distributed the errors are, the squared error fit will provide the expectation value of the variable, which is the mean. It will say nothing of the error of the mean it calculates.
No it isn't.

Differentiability is important if you want to have an closed-form formula and derive it in front of undergraduates.
In this case the devaluation is almost entirely driven by Venezuela specific issues. This can be clearly seen by the fact that the US dollar exchange rate is relatively stable versus almost every other currency while the Venezuelan currency is rapidly depreciating versus every other currency.

So you have it backwards. This almost entirely due to poor economic policies by the Venezuela, not something "external".

While the fall in oil prices has exacerbated the problem the core issue is the policy of plugging a huge budget deficit by printing Bolivars. This almost directly causes the huge local inflation and rapidly falling exchange rate as measured in the black market (i.e. the "true exchange rate). Combine this with strict currency controls (i.e. "fake" government set exchange rates that are not available to most people) you get shortages since Venezuela must import many essentials. [EDIT: And, as pointed out below, price controls are a key cause of the shortages.)

This situation while somewhat complex is a textbook example of these issues.
Looks good so far, but some important Software is missing e.g. Drupal or Magento
Flats not being available to locals is a major concern, though. Housing shortages are a concern in a lot of major cities, including the one in which I live. Perhaps cities should consider the possibility of enabling markets to potentially develop additional housing.

It shouldn't surprise anyone that an international business isn't enthusiastically embracing the notion of every city and neighborhood being a unique regulation snowflake. In business terms, it sounds like a complete nightmare.
Wrt your edit, that's what happened during the Irish famine in the middle of the 19th century.
Rubbish conspiracy theories. Greece was not any more "target" than Latin American countries.

The governments screwed up; then they got some loans from IMF, but there were conditions. They didn't have to take it.
As someone who does frontend only occasionally I expect this site to be of great help to refresh my knowledge now and then.

PS. Note to everyone - whitelist this in your ad blocker as author asks you to do!
What exactly would go wrong if you assume that the derivative is zero at x = 0?

And aren't exact zeroes an error scenario for most machine learning models anyway?
It's called a deep sandwich. You should add some convolutional layers inside.
I was asking him specifically what he attaches to it for his work.
Why squared error? Because you can solve the equation to minimize squared error using linear algebra in closed form.

Why L2 regularization? Same reason. A closed form solution exists from linear algebra.

But at the end of the day, you are most interested in the expectation value of the coefficient and minimizing the squared error gives you E[coeffs] which is the mean of the coefficients.
You can't really count Orkut, it was a Googler's 20% project without anything like the resources or management support that G+ had.

It also wasn't at all "Googley". I wasn't at all surprised it was left to wither and die on the vine.
The parent commenter was saying anybody can go through your comment history, and by extension admins have no special access to 'dark secrets'. I was pointing out that that's just not true.
I'm used to that from rsync. I find it quite handy.
Sounds like fun, but imho people would still fake it.
Im not sure what it means that Venezuela is failing because of 'end stage oil' rather then socialism. Does Venezuela not have tons of oil reserves? If they fail to develop these and all the other resources then that clearly because of bad policy stemming from at least a nominal socialist agenda.
It is legal and common in the US [1]. It's typically done by the democrats because in general more people voting is good for democrats and bad for republicans.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_money
Well, there are lots of bad things that are already fact, including the seeds of systemic corruption in the form of Trump's business interests. Some of the personnel decisions also fall into that category.

But yes, on a lot of points it's still pretty hard to predict with any confidence what will happen.
Not sure what this is, but the note "All financing prices are based on the advertised price at 10% APR paid over 12 months" makes one suspect it's not cheap.
Reading a Wikipedia article on a subject you're actually very knowledgeable about can be extremely painful.
We updated the title from ‘Microsoft CEO hints at Surface phone with talk of an “ultimate mobile device”’, which breaks the guidelines by editorializing.
Motorola, Fujitsu-Siemens, palm. They all had portable windows devices, nobody had it good.
>brilliance

Indeed how brilliant it is, how a government steps all over their citizens rights.
I expect the network is observing a lack of facial symmetry.

It is fascinating to watch ML retread a hypothesis humans came up with.
I recently read a HN comment that used their once booming oil industry to illustrate this fact.

They have vast amounts of accessible light crude oil but due to their currency they're struggling to purchase/maintain the machinery in order to efficiently extract/refine and monetise it.

Talk about a vicious cycle.
I'm not in the market for a laptop right now, but if I was, the kind of company that distributes Infocom-style feelies with their laptops definitely gets bonus points.

Especially because the feelies actually work.

Seriously, software/hardware companies, bring back Feelies! Even if they're only digital. Bonus if they actually have a purpose in-game (Zachtronics gets a gold star for their Shenzhen IO and TIS-100 manuals. Those things are works of art).
Wikipedia has an enormous audience, and its contents are widely trusted whether they should be or not.

If you care about the subject matter of the article you're editing, the potential for those edits to influence millions of people is extremely valuable.
Perhaps WPF was the Electron of its time, in terms of being a resource hog. I remember how one particular WPF-based application hastened the obsolescence of my brother's laptop some years ago. [1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8444494
It shouldn't surprise anyone that an international business isn't enthusiastically embracing the notion of every city and neighborhood being a unique regulation snowflake.

Which is why one (=I, as someone without experience in the field admittedly) would think they'd have an interest in providing some standardized tools (like a free-text field for a tax ID for commercial operations, or a permit code) that local authorities can hook into, instead of dealing with one court forcing them to share data at a time. Many city administrations will happily do enforcement legwork if you give them a list to check, that's their daily business.
If you've ever answered a question on stackexchange, you're not too different from them.
IFComp crowns its first non-parser game
What happened to chess enthusiasts when chess was "solved"?
> the Ellen pao situation

You forgot this part, haven't you? http://nypost.com/2015/03/18/users-lash-out-at-reddit-boss-f...
I think the part I missed was why the solution to a crashing currency is to print more money. Let's say Venezuela cannot produce widgets, but they are necessary to modern living. Venezuela's currency drops in half, so now widgets are twice as expensive to a Venezuelan. Given a fixed exchange rate, as the government of Venezuela I could just double the amount of money all my people/companies have and everything would be fixed, but wouldn't that just lower the exchange rate again? Is there some lag in the market during which they can spend the new money at the old rate? At any rate, it's the Venezuelans and their corporations who need money. How does printing more money fix the issue of that poor citizen/company who is reliant on widgets?

It's becoming clearer, but I'm still confused.
we don't really know how strong its opponent is today

He's not exactly retired, you know:
https://www.goratings.org/players/98.html
Because it's very useful for symmetric distributions. If the distribution is highly non-symmetric, then the mean != maximum likelihood, which is probabilistic.