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I think you are confusing what economics is then. Economics is not only about predicting, actually there are various fields in economics focused in different kind of predictions techniques - including such ones that (coupled with the field of statistics/mathematics) resulted in big data analysis and machine learning.
In one of many definitions that you can find in Wikipedia definition of its "Economics" page:

"Economics is a study of man in the ordinary business of life. It enquires how he gets his income and how he uses it. Thus, it is on the one side, the study of wealth and on the other and more important side, a part of the study of man.[21]"
Lionel Robbins (1932) developed implications of what has been termed "[p]erhaps the most commonly accepted current definition of the subject":[22]

Economics is about understanding how your everyday actions impacts the whole, it is a study that allowed whole societies to organize and plan at the beginning and now it dares, through data, to predict events. And believe me, if companies and people couldn't have a minimal idea of the inflation rate by the end of next year, investments wouldn't occur as much (because the interest rate would be higher) and everyone would be worse off. Obviously, trying to predict the future is almost nonsensical, and yet those methods apply to every field nowadays. Marketing without data is nothing, does a marketing analysis always result in a successful prediction? No, and yet if you don't actually engage in trying you don't have a clue of what works and is ultimately worse off. Again, there are predictions for every possible outcome. There are researchers that say is no environment crisis and use data to back that up. The policy that ends up being made is about the study, but about the elected by the people that chooses that prediction it think it suits the society that he represents better, doesn't mean that aren't very serious people doing work that benefits us all doing those predictions.
The math is a red herring. It's the buried assumptions that underpin the math which is where the real bullshit usually lies.
> Being stuck and being moving are dependent on each other.

Yeah, but in times of being stuck, it's much easier to get distracted and procrastinate.
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> "Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer."

So, essentially Memento?
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This isn't 4K or even 4x HD. There's not enough vertical resolution. Consumer 4K is 2160 vertical pixels. This is only 1600. If you write software for a living, vertical space is precious!
This XML spec does exist, it's called UBL. However adoption of this is slow and still quite uncertain. As always, many companies try to make money by creating their own flavour and trying to license it (unfortunate with success) and of course all these competing standards are not compatible with each other.

Since digital bookkeeping is ubiquitous nowadays, one could argue that invoicing is simply about sharing digital transactions between systems, and should not need to be 'pretty' or human readable at all.

I'm trying to bridge this gap, and I know that given enough time, my service will become obsolete.

But I'm goign higly off-topic now ;-)
Ripple labs version of Ripple is completely different than the previous piece of software called Ripple written by Ryan Fugger.
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-They don't require everyone to hold the whole blockchain, you can have a thin wallet where the blockchain is held elsewhere.

-An ecosystem of multiple different currencies does create sharding.

-Merkle trees are a hierarchy of hashes so that someone can hold only the parts of the chain they want to look at and know that they are on the right chain by syncing large parts of it with their hash as a whole.

-At Visa level transaction rates of 300 Million transactions per day and the minimum size of about 4 transactions per KB in bitcoin, that means that at current 8TB hard drive prices it costs about $900 USD per year to store all the transactions. This would also require a steady connection of at least 870 KB/s to sync with the chain.

In short, there are plenty of solutions with even the extreme examples of involvement being very obtainable by the average person in a developed country.
The pricing is so odd. For $300 more, you can get a monitor with _much_ better resolution (5120x2880), though in a smaller screen size.

It's called an iMac.

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/imac/27-inch
sharding has the same problem: if you want to check whether a coin has been double spent, then you need to go look at all the relevant shards anyway.

http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/scalingbitcoin/sharding-th...
For 40+ years, the economics profession at large has advocated policies which have massively favored the wealthy over everyone else (globalisation/neoliberalism). The same economists were showered with huge pay packets, consulting fees and prizes (just look at how many Nobel prizes the Chicago school hoovered up). The profession as simply another means by which the wealthy exercise control over the rest of us.

So it's all a bit late for this hand-wringing now. They used you, you got paid, enjoy your privileges and try not to think what you've done.
Exactly. The answer is not less mathematics, but more empirical work.
This comment is just "no true Scotsman..."
This is simply wrong. We switched from Macs to Windows 10 because of the better monitor options available for professional color grading work. And true "Cinema" and consumer 4K resolutions are supported and supported well ONLY on Windows 10.
IMO, there is a difference between war and attacks on civilians.
That numbers have interesting relationships to each-other is not an “ugly thing”, but rather a beautiful thing. The relationships exist whether we pay attention to them or not, so giving people a way to write and pronounce those relationships is a nice way to improve numeracy.

Writing numbers in multiple possible ways is really not that big a problem for most uses (for record-keeping in business transactions maybe). Personally I recommend becoming familiar with two different normalizations: all same-signed digits (the form we use now) or [–5, 5] with digits before a terminal 5 rounded away from zero. But in general for personal scratch work numbers don’t need to be normalized unless you feel like it. As long as you understand that 20–3 is the same as 10+7, it doesn’t really matter which one you think of as primary.

We use multiple number representations all the time, with e.g. the vulgar fraction 11/8 alternately representable as the “mixed number” 1 + 3/8, or as the decimal fraction 1.375, the simple continued fraction [1; 2, 1, 2], the percentage 137.5%, or the common logarithm ~10^(0.1383). Figuring out that 1.375, 1.385̅, 1.42̅5̅, 1.43̅5, and 2.6̅2̅5̅ are the same number isn’t that hard, with some practice.
That's not what "hiding behind X" means. It means to use X to distract people from yourself / your own positions. So here hiding behind scary epithets would mean using snarky epithets to counter criticism of dynamic languages.
Like many laws, it's not really supposed to act as a deterrent, it's just an easier way to administer the law.

If you find someone flying a drone dangerously, at the moment it's hard to know where to draw the line at what is legal, which then makes it difficult to prosecute someone who's flying drones recklessly (such as flying over airports).

If you have drone registration, then in the same scenario you can either take away their license (an action which doesn't require proof beyond reasonable doubt) or if they aren't licensed, you have a very easy law to prosecute against (flying without a license).
I can read 10-20 words per minute. The main problem is that you cannot "scan" for a word.
typos in last phrase: The policy that ends up being made is NOT* about the study, but about the one who was elected by the people thinks suits the society that he represents better, doesn't mean that aren't very serious people doing work that benefits us all doing those predictions...
Chrome's hidpi support has been acceptable on Windows since about 2015. It's still not absolutely perfect (there are issues with 1px black bars when resizing Windows), but it's completely usable.
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Right, and a Phone could spend $50 to build that screen on a $700 device (not that they do). Just a raw 75 * $50 is near $4000, which would explain a high price.
+1 for watching ISIS videos. I needed to understand the situation, I needed to internalize it better. I watched an execution. I watched combat footage. And I am glad I did. I now understand the severity and urgency of the problem. I didn't use a VPN or anything. NSA, come get me.
Honest question: why does it matter if you see pixels while producing audio?
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This is exactly the fallacy he is addressing. Math = rigor, so clearly the discipline which uses the most math is the most rigorous, right? But actually math is only useful when it is based on a useful model of reality. If the underlying assumptions are unfounded or faulty, then math does not help you at all.
This is disgusting.

If you survey all the regular citizens of the entire world and ask them one question.

"Which group or country is responsible for most terrorist acts?"

The answer is 95% of people vote the USA to be the #1 terrorist organization.

This is not just a matter of opinion, but reflected in the blood soaked histories of the USA's secret assassinations, coups, and bombings.

You know what's extremist vs. not extremist? Whatever the mainstream media wants you to think. That's what.
Yeah what I mean is not that you will receive instant feedback (and thus instant happiness) but is that what people are looking for. Likes from strange people seems even more common than from family and friends anyway.
and you think the ends justify the means for news papers no matter what the human cost ?
In Norway and the rest of Scandinavia (Swedish here) you get data on all the income, even capital gains. Even some benefits that you have to pay taxes on is included here.
Using text, I am fine with 5fps if it is not blinking like a CRT did. My kindle I think does 0fps when not changing pages and it is 100x better than a monitor. I have found the 300fps thing a bit silly for computers meant for text (which is my use case, not claiming it is the ONLY use case).
There are already many examples of end user programming that have taken off, just not many that can create full general purpose programs that run at an acceptable speed.
I'm guessing it has to do with how the waveform is rendered. More pixels means a more precise waveform view.
I get your point - we've slowly, and sometimes quite quickly, seen some of our rights eroded as a result of policies that are advertised as being anti-terrorist.

Honestly when I first heard of ISIS I was pretty sure it was going to turn out to be some kind of "false alarm" excuse to continue war in the Middle East and continue curbing rights in the US. Somewhat like how Al Qaeda didn't really exist until the US started telling ghost stories about them, which turned into free recruiting.

What are the chances that the CIA is behind ISIS?
I don't travel a ton, but I do some for personal vacations. Honestly myself, and I'm sure many others don't care about the money spent. I'd rather have a nice trip, I'm not that greedy.
I use chrome with the extension The Great suspender and that works well for me:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...

Would love to switch to Firefox, but I still find Chrome faster to use. Anyone tried vivaldi?
ok clarified with you later that i meant xpcom bindings not keyboard bindings :)
The last 40+ years of globalization have raised more people out of poverty than at any other time in history, and spread progress and prosperity around the world. Check your envy and hatred, friend.
A hypothetical difference, or a practical difference? Can you give me an example of a war that managed to avoid attacks on civilians?
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"it simply either isn't palatable to the public ear to proclaim they're going by intuition alone, or involve proposals so complex that our intuition just can't evaluate them - they need an academic foundation to stand on."

Complex proposals that the public can't evaluate are more typically a way of pulling the wool over the public's eyes.

If the public were against "economic intuition" on principle then Trump would likely have lost Michigan on the basis of his opposition to the TPP, which most economists supported.
>Long before the existence of the internet and Facebook in the days of film photography, hosts would torture their dinner guests by having them gather in the living room and flip through slides[1] of the hosts' vacation.

Yep, I do remember some of the most fierce fights against falling asleep in those occasions.

But - to give some sociological insight - those terrible after dinners came out because of sheer convenience.

Till then there were "pictures" (not slides) that costed a lot of money to print in a decently large format, so typically you took less shots, then had them printed in a very small format, and only reprinted a handful out of each roll.

With slides the costs were a fraction, even considering the cost (rather high for today's standards) of the projector and of the carousels.

Now what if someone (not the government as it would be anti-democratic, not google as it would be a dominant position abuse, etc.) would put a minimal cost for publishing on the net these images (let's say 0.50 US$/apiece, of course devolved entirely to a non-profit/humanitariaon association)?

I would bet that in no time we would have the amount of those photos reduced to 1/20th or less.
If I recall correctly, the Austrian School of Economics has a tradition of rejecting the scientific method and instead using something they call praxeology, which is most definitely not a scientific methodology.
I have a large physical book library.

My 3 year old has a large pirated physical book library.

I also have a huge pirated ebook library.

In the future, my child will have a copy.

Times, they are a-changin'.
N lines/hours is a useless metric unless you strictly only do coding to the spec in greenfield projects. E.g. compare using a code generator producing 20k LOC in a millisecond with modifying an undocumented legacy system, where every slight change to the system's incoherent logic might blow up the hole thing.
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Going HTTP/2 and HTTPS only on a smaller scale than the likes of Stack Overflow
No, it's not. Because a 4K "retina" (aka HiDPI) display is only 1080P. 1080P on anything larger than a 24" screen is a non-starter for me (thanks but no thanks to huge icons on screen). I'd ideally like a 27-30" 8k "retina" monitor (aka 4K useable) with DCI-P3 color gamut. Refresh rate I'm ok with 60hz, but wouldn't object to higher obviously.
I'd kill for something that could search across Firefox and Chrome tabs - sometimes I know I have something open, but not sure which browser app. I did have an addin like this for FF, but with the performance issues FF already has, it wasn't realistic to run it.
Couldn't get past "if you can read this, keep going."
> Some designers are going to interpret that as a plea to make websites accessible at the cost of aesthetics, and solidify their own stance.

Is that such a terrible thing? HN seems to me highly accessible and not terribly aesthetically tuned, and it's one of my favourite sites to visit, purely from a navigational viewpoint.
> It is bad for negotiation and getting a favourable outcome for yourself.

This means that you believe that you are stronger by negotiating alone just for yourself rather than collectively negotiating as a group of people? How can this work without you winning being to the detriment of others?

I know that a lot of people think like you, but I strongly believe that you are wrong. Historically, the individualization of the negotiations between employees and employers is always to the benefit of the employers, not the employees. The negotiation of one's salary is not an equal to equal negotiation, at least as long as there are unemployed people and the society we live in requires people to be employed to live decently.

This is exactly why people in France were against the "loi travail" of the previous government, and still are against that of the current government: because one of the main objective of these laws is to inverse the hierarchy of norms. This hierarchy stipulates that the labor legal code is above sector/industry-specific agreements which are above individual contracts. This means that a contract can only be enforced if it is more favorable to the employee than their sector's agreements which in turn are only enforceable if they are more favorable to employees that the labor legal code. This is how you can enforce a nation-wide minimum salary for example, or any other social rights for that matter (good social security, good retirement plans, etc.).

> I would never want to live in a country like that.

Having some close family living in Norway I can assure you that you are very mislead about how people live there. You know, there are other incentive to work hard than money. Happiness is not measurable with money for everyone, and working hard is not necessarily one's life ideal :).
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This sums up the whole thread. We have a lot more low hanging fruit in the interfaces than we do in the languages.
Does 60 hz keep windows from lagging when moved?
Both of you are correct. The issue I see is that we could have done more.
> You don't convince people through forced lectures, you convince people by engaging with them on an even level discourse to reach a common understanding of the issue at hand.

Is that how Trump became presidents? Is he convincing by doing even level discourse? Bullshit. We are still all humans after all and so believe what we want to believe no matter the truth.
Software profession seems to be the last corner where to expect some sound knowledge about economics. Looks like a McDonalds cashier would have a better understanding of business cycles.
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>when Facebook was first invented, who are now all having kids, I don't really see that phenomenon at play.

I don't doubt that there are people that genuinely enjoy others' baby photos. However, I wouldn't be able to tell which comments left on each others' pages were expressions of authentic sincerity instead of mindless reflexes of etiquette.

That said, this Reddit thread[1] highlights a collective exasperation that clearly comes from somewhere.

Likewise, there are surely some who enjoy others vacation slideshows (e.g. Retric in this thread) but again, there's a widespread rejection of them[2] that comes from somewhere. People won't complaint directly to the posters face -- e.g. they won't write on the posters wall to "stop flooding the feed with your stupid vacation photos". People are generally too polite to do that.

>, maybe you're the narcissistic one.

It's not about me. It's about observing social dynamics:

1) People overestimate the parts of their personal lives that are interesting to others

2) People are silent or insincerely praise the over-sharing of others' personal highlights

Those 2 factors create a weird/interesting feedback cycle that transcends Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat. It's been happening long before that.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/rtapw/my_facebook_ne...

[2] http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2017/06/29/no-one-wants-to-see...
This is such a nice display of art and it is what I mostly judge a coders ability by.
I mean I'm reaching the jaded, cynical senior programmer attitude where I just can't muster up the emotions. There will be a few, but not quite the extreme, startup mindset. So I'm looking for a way to migrate to a style where I can do without them.
Please don't be condescending. I obviously know that corporations are not made of aliens. Corporations are not made of a group of people, which is precisely my point. With a corporation or conglomeration, the dynamics of negotiation usually becomes very different from what it is when you negotiate with a single consenting adult.

I did not elaborate this further and I am still not elaborating a lot here because these things were obvious.

For example, imagine negotiating a job offer with a single person client vs. negotiating a job offer with a large company. I think it is obvious that the negotiation dynamics are very different in both cases.

Depending on the situation, it may be easy to walk away from the first job but not so from the second job. Things like a large company would pay for my health insurance, would offer more job security, would offer me internal transfer, etc. make it a little more difficult to walk away from it. The fact that jobs in large corporations may appear lucrative to many people also puts the corporations in a position of more power where they can afford to negotiate unfairly with some people and still remain in business.
If you're seriously curious it was a bus route between Coventry and Sutton Coldfield in the UK.

By car it can take as little as 20 minutes, especially due to a toll motorway which never has traffic.

By bus you must take a 1.5hour bus into Birmingham city center (the bus number 900, goes via the airport), go across the city center on foot (20 minutes) usually wait 10-20 minutes for a 40 minute bus ride (940) into Sutton Coldfield.
This isn't at all related to the OP's comment.

Globalism has allowed multinational corporations to expand their economic and political influence - since they have the economies of scale to expand globally. It's true that more people have been lifted out of poverty, but the fact remains that globalism favors wealthy owners of multinationals over everyone else.

Look at how much influence western oil/tech companies have in countries around the world. Lobbies are stronger in our political realm, it really isn't fair to say that these policies benefited the poor more than the wealthy.

That's not to say that globalism is bad. But we need to be careful because as the wealthy's influence and power grows, it becomes harder to solve the problems that will come with the age of automation.
Do you imply that philosophy and sociology as disciplines are not rigorous? This shows a very weak knowledge of those disciplines, and of maths-focused economics if you still believe that maths = rigor.
Economics as a discipline is ultimately a form of humanistic understanding. The ideal of scientific rigor is certainly laudable, but it is nonetheless an ideal for the discipline in general. One of the two forms of understanding, humanistic and scientific, is not better than the other. But they require different questions and, as a result, often lead to different answers through different methods, one of which is interpretation, or, understanding the use and uses of something within a constellation of rules and history. Economics, in general, works, but we must be sure of the particular ways it works.

The discipline raises the questions of philosophy of mathematics and logic (and thus we should say language). How do mathematical models relate to the world? Is it the Tractatus, or Philosophical Investigations?

I wonder if economics students are ever assigned readings of Ludwig Wittgenstein. The latter part of Ray Monk's biography on him touches on many hilarious debates between him and his students, including Alan Turing, around these questions.
Exactly. There are lots of babies on my facebook feed that I don't care about, but it's pretty easy to hit the mute button (and I do). But when it's my brother or my cousin's kid, I'm definitely interested.
Would you please not take HN threads on generic ideological tangents? There's never anything new that comes of them.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14823395 and marked it off-topic.