skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Currency isn't wealth - wealth is real estate, stock, furniture, computers. Deflation makes it easier for wage earner savers to increase their tangible wealth.

Yes, we agree on that. However, I think we need to also acknowledge that 1) a large proportion of wage earners have very few, or negative net assets, so deflation actually hurts them and 2) even though deflation helps savers, the biggest savers in the economy are actually the rich. Deflation helps savers, but the people with 80%+ of nominal assets are the already-wealthy.

In fact, the most common form of household wealth is a house, where you own a real asset and owe a nominal debt.

Under inflation, your house value grows at inflation while your debt remains constant, so this even benefits the saver. Under deflation the opposite happens.

> Are we going to act on theories that match the data or does not match the data?

You need more data. The developed world has been on the gold standard since the late 19th century through to the 1970s. During that time the US has seen:

- the Robber Baron age and the Long Depression (where the rich got much richer)

- the roaring 20s, when wealth was more distributed

- the subsequent crash and the Great Depression, where the entire world was in misery (but inequality was very high)

- WW2 and the post-war era, which saw large decreases in wealth inequality

Seems a bit silly to say that 'the gold standard was responsible for lowering wealth inequality', given the huge swings back and forth in inequality while we were on the gold standard over 100+ years.
Doing VFX pipeline dev here and none of the softwares support 3 yet. Houdini/3ds Max/Maya are all 2.7 only.

I have not even seen mention of moving to 3.
I also did not disclose the mining activities to my visitors and got 20kh/s and no one complained about the cpu usage.

Forcing an opt-in won't work. Many users doesn't even know what mining is and won't agree with it. Most of the users doesn't take the time to read explanations either. Imagine what would happen if we ask the users to opt-in to see ads.

If antivirus continues to block the miner, most websites will display a warning to the visitor requiring him to disable his antivirus just like they do with adblocks.

Coin-hive already takes a large percentage (30%) and competition will arrive soon. Forcing an opt-in will just force us to seek another platform.

You can require opt-in to use 100% of the users cpu or something close to it to prevent abuse, but never to small percentages such as 10 or 20%. You should focus on contacting those antivirus companies and explain to them that the miner is not a virus and it does not harm the visitor.
How is <int:id> identical to (?P<year>[0-9]{4})? I'm talking about the {4}. Just an error in their blog post?
A basic income makes it possible for, say, 100 software developers to choose to work together on the same project of their own choosing and of their own free will -- as opposed to having to work for someone else on someone else's choice of project just to be able to pay for food and rent. That's the difference a BI would make.

Now, getting 100 software developers top agree to work together on the same project might not be easy ("herding cats"). But it seems doable, as we can point to quite a few projects (including big names like Linux, WordPress, Apache, and Python) where it has happened. And there are even some books out there on how to create and manage FOSS projects.

Granted, those particular big-name projects have also had commercial support eventually -- so we don't know all the details of what might be possible otherwise. But there are plenty of examples of voluntary groups of significant size dedicated to a common purpose (fire companies, sports clubs, historical societies, and so on) so it is not inconceivable the same will continue to happen for software if people have the free time to participate in them.
I have a Kiwi SDR here:

http://64.136.200.36:8073

Also some scanner software:

https://github.com/madengr/ham2mon
(not very) Deep Learning
You need permission to turn your BTC into USD, in order to pay for your rent and food. This could take weeks, too. The reason the regular financial system has all these high-friction components is because of AML/KYC/fraud.

If you think the interface between BTC and the real world won't eventually have to be compliant will all those onerous regulations, background checks, and business processes, you are vastly underestimating the persistence of our regulators.
Typing "sch<tab>" in the chrome address bar used to search on Google scholar directly. It went broken yesterday on my browser.
The mentality of Homo interneticus: Some Ongian postulates (2004)
It's not necessarily imprudent or inefficient. It's just a consequence of what happens when you build stuff that needs maintenance. Now, I'm not saying that some of the projects weren't unwisely extravagant, nor that the budget wasn't spent inefficiently and recklessly - but even if it was spent by angels instead of humans, this would still happen.

We can't know the future. So when you need a 5-lane road now, or a major shopping center now, and the history says you'll almost certainly need a 7-lane road and big parking garage in a few years, the prudent thing to do is to build a little more capacity than you need, with the hopes that by the time you maintain it for 20 years and it needs to be replaced or improved again, it's served its purpose well.

Detroit was a seriously happening place half a century ago. There was nothing wrong with creating the buildings, infrastructure, and signing up for the maintenance contracts that those buildings needed at the time. But there was no plan in place for "What happens if all the money disappears and most of the city flees."

Many of the roads and buildings are in surprisingly good shape. Even if they can't do a good, frequent job of plowing the snow off that 7-lane-road in the winter, they're keeping up with it well enough. Pipes, drains, and wires designed to last 20 years are holding together pretty well after 40 years. But they're going to fail eventually, and it's going to get worse before it gets better.

Should there be a plan, maybe an insurance contract, for demolition if the city can no longer afford a thing? Could there be?
Evolutionists who believe that Neanderthals were not fully human always seem surprised by discoveries like this. As a creationist, I don't find it surprising at all - more and more evidence keeps stacking up that Neanderthals were fully human.
I went from MEL scripting to Python to PHP to Python / Django.

Coming from VFX will give you a different perspective compared to other compsci types IMO. Especially if you've worked with things procedurally.

In the end with Django it's more than just Python but other than controlling ornery ORM generated SQL its pretty easy to work with on all fronts and has PHENOMENAL documentation.

Hit me up I twitter @leetrout if you want to chat more.
It's probably just me personally as a teetotaler, but opening the article with praising a ritual of getting drunk/buzzed before executing a translation really set a lower bar for the rest of the article to me.

Anyway, I think it's great he's able to help really bring shows to life for deaf people. Adding his own personality and style into it is tremendous
Learn html, css and some basic HTTP, the read the Django docs.
While I agree many people do this with Highland Park, Hamtramck is very distinct, both physically (types of houses, density) and demographically (huge immigrant populations, Polish and now Middle Eastern and South Asian). Actually, certain parts around Hamtramck (e.g. Banglatown) are often lumped with Hamtramck despite being in Detroit.
How is this made? (Stack, AI, etc?) awesome site thanks!
This whole I'm not a lawyer business brings this to mind... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKF9KCcXkAA11ez.jpg
Well, they still have arount 2.5 years of support (https://pythonclock.org/)
Healthcare.gov going offline nearly every Sunday for 12 hours during enrollment
Start with the django-tutorial. Always start with the tutorial no matter what else they tell you. The django tutorial is excellent and cover most basics: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/intro/tutorial01/

Then start writing your own application. When you have questions read the django documentantion. The django docs are the best documentantion I've ever seen, they are better than most books about django and should answer all your questions. The docs are so good I recommend reading them from start to finish - i.e download this off line version of the docs: https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/django/1.11.x/django.pdf

and read it from cover to cover. You will not regret it.
I am from a 3rd world country, have been using all things pirated since my birth without ever blinking an eye. But still, I do realize this is morally wrong, and should be discouraged even if it doesn't directly harm sales.
> the public and private sector policy that enabled that evacuation

What do you mean by "enabled"? Are you suggesting the law should force a manufacturing plant to stay in a city, or a person to stay in their apartment? How would that possibly work?
Phenomenally detailed article and interesting subject matter. Thanks for sharing. Of particular concern to the community should be the issuance and solvency of Tether. An audit is long overdue.

As mentioned, our CEO, Arthur Hayes, wrote on Chinese exchanges running their customers' deposits in local bonds & stocks back in 2015 [1]. It's worth a read. We at BitMEX have brought a full-time writer into our employ just to bring more of these stories to the fore and help create the facts-first, inquisitive atmosphere crypto desperately needs. [2]

1. https://blog.bitmex.com/crypto-trader-digest-nov-30/#shadow-...

2. https://research.bitmex.com
A consequence of this model that one perhaps might not anticipate... India is this taken to the extreme. To assist in the "negotiation in motion," all the vehicles use their horns constantly. Beep beep beep. It's not considered rude, more like sonar. But it is a lot of noise pollution.
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Where I grew up the city actively avoided traffic lights (too expensive!) and opted for roundabouts wherever possible. While you would always encounter the odd tentative person who screwed things up, generally they did a wonderful job of regulating traffic flow. I contrast that with the US city I now live in where it feels like you can't drive 200 feet without grinding to halt to wait at yet another red light.
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

http://toptalkedbooks.com/books/aRnlEw/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-...

http://toptalkedbooks.com/books/_5tcQA/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-...
The challenges facing media are complex. The subscription model encourages publications to become luxury goods, just as the pace of the Web pushes print editions to become future-focused and heavy on analysis. Subscriptions can sustain niche products, but the free content on the Internet makes that harder than it used to be.

Almost every publication is beholden to someone, and often to several entities, usually the owners. Bloomberg News treads carefully with Michael Bloomberg, and the same is true for every billionaire-owned outlet. You can't avoid it, and as long as there are enough publications, it doesn't matter. They all make up for the others' blind spots.

While it may be a fallacy that people must act according to perverse incentives, it is not a fallacy to expect that they probably will. Statistically speaking, moral bounds are not strong arguments when confronted with power and wealth. Those who decline on moral grounds are easily replaced.
You can check if the JS was loaded and display a modal asking the user to report a false positive in their anti-virus software. It's similar to what websites already do with adblocks.
I couldn’t be bothered with the hassle and cost of storing hundreds of $1 downloads.

I’d watch a lot more movies on iTunes if renting was $1 a pop.
Is this lambda effort looks like force fitting ?
thanks to jshell, i can now practice streaming without looking like a fool
In very broad terms it's not bad. The docs are great and they give specific advice for upgrades.

With that said you may find many 3rd party apps / utils lagging. A couple libs I use still don't support new style middleware, for instance.

With 2.0 dropping support for py2.7 this might cause more pain points for poorly maintained libs but all in all keeping up with Django releases is pretty straightforward and almost always worth it.

Source: happily using Django since 2008.
No one believes they were pre-human. They were our cousins.
I don't see why it can't, at least with low melting point metals like tin and lead.

Aluminium is tougher, you need 660°C, but why do you think that's impossible to achieve on a regular 3D printer with some modifications?
Awesome! We're working on a Cloud IDE to make your life your life even easier. Less setup for your students.
It's an extensible language with a meta system so you can make each and every level of it do what you want. And, as I mentioned, the first version of Smalltalk (-72) did not have a convention to use a selector. The later Smalltalks wound up with the convention because using "keywords" to make the messages more readable for humans was used a lot in Smalltalk-72.
I wonder why there would not be some kind of alternative economic opportunities in that city.

I sense it would be the ideal place to "start over" and build something new in terms of politics and economics.

But when you think about it, a city is such a complex thing, so unless there is money and investment, a poor american city will just stay poor, that seems to fit the law of gravity. Unless you redefine some new way to live in detroit that shortcuts the problems of money, this city will linger.

It's surprising because I really think all the large pool of cash from the silicon valley and its thousands of new alternative ideas could revive detroit. But instead San Francisco is just the antithesis of detroit. That says lengths about the polarized world of today's capitalism.

To be totally honest, I wonder why somebody like Bernie Sanders is not campaigning for mayor or governor other there. It's the ideal place for the left to accomplish things.
> In other words, the ICO rackets have recreated many aspects of the financial services industry (underwriters, broker/dealers)

This is all you need to know, end of article.

Of course, the tone of this article is "racket", "boiler room" etc. I call it price discovery, efficient, economic growth.

The article's only objectiveness is by saying that they don't have transparency and financial controls that the securities industry does. But makes no mistake in calling it controversial that one fund or one ICO is investing their proceeds in other ICOs, news flash this is how all economies work. But here it is controversial because "shareholders" don't know, except there are no shareholders, BUT WAIT THEY SHOULD BE SHAREHOLDERS as if these are equity securities!

It is hard to debate this article because each aspect has to be taken individually.

But this author consistently describes an aspect of cryptocurrency as controversial, while inadvertently describing how all capital markets work, but holding bitcoin at a different non-existent standard.
Because it would be ridiculous to make Facebook and Twitter part of that security perimeter.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/463/ ("You're doing it wrong")
If you stick to LTS releases, you are guaranteed to be able to upgrade from one LTS to the next without breaking changes. There will only be deprecation warnings about the next LTS release.
This can also lead to some potentially dicey conclusions in certain corners that analyze prevalence of Neanderthal DNA in human populations.
Typically, every year, or every X years, you undergo an audit, that verifies that your processes are still compliant.

Yes, the edge case of "Fire everyone and hire some other people" does not trigger re-licensing. Also, hardly anybody does this, in order to do anything other then downgrade employees to contractors, or union-bust. That's because 99% of the time, companies, even with a lot of turnover, don't change their business processes out of the blue.

99% of the time, when they are being acquired for their licenses, they do.
No one said to break the law.
The courses at RealPython.com look good.
You need a beefy machine to capture, but there are 4k capture cards that do work now. I use x264 in lossless mode at superfast and it can keep up on a ryzen 1700. You now own your movie again. You'll need an HDCP 2.2 stripper, but those aren't too hard to find (I got mine for $40 on amazon).
I feel like this works for some things, like Redhats core businesses for instance, as you noted. If I’m an indie software developer though and release say a tool for managing Wordpress sites or maybe I release an app that is like a crazy good bookmarks manager, how can I justify losing revenue when most users don’t care if the source is open and those who do probably won’t buy my product. Yet the inverse - one user getting that code and uploading it online - could damage me greatly?

How do you reconcile that
I wouldn't say about what available on GitHub today, but up until year ago all source code was included and they only sold precompiled binaries and support. Also I doubt they can really change anything about that because Synergy never required CLA and it's under GPLv2.

I pretty sure their "core" naming is just another way to promote usage of paid version, but you can still compile it yourself and easily remove all license checks.
If a person with a wikipedia account can revert the last change (from 9/20/17) on the Savings & Load Crisis page, it's immature vandalism.
Yes. See the App Store which has less compelling content (IMO) and makes twice as much as all DVD, Blu-ray and streaming.
Not noted in the article, but I feel like a lot of the reasons that the rate of people starting their own business is declining is that the costs of essential services like housing, education, healthcare and childcare have been increasing at a rate much greater than inflation [0]. It was comparably easier to pay for essential services 30 years ago than it is today, and it is difficult to take the risk of starting your own business when you need to pay higher costs for basic life necessities.

[0] http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user2305...
Right now the next step would be enabling multithreading with Puma. Throughput is acceptable, packaging with Omnibus is working well. So the problem to solve is memory usage. We hope multithreading can help there.
> Evolutionists who believe that Neanderthals were some sort of pre-human

That's not saying anything more than they're ignorant of the details of paleontology, no different than people who believe that T-Rexes snacked on homonids, or anyone who doesn't know the specifics of a particular domain they know only superficially.
American cyclists seem to feel so threatened by cars that they repeat a lot of the same unwanted behaviors they complain about. Maybe it's bad driver's ed, maybe it's the fact that there's no effort to teach cyclists the rules of the road in the US at an early age. Of course bicycling as an everyday transport is pretty common in europe, whereas cyclists make up a much smaller proportion of road users in the US.
I've already put about 10x the effort (based on character count) into answering the question than the person put into asking it. I wasn't actually attempting to cover all the bases; that'd be a few books and blog articles.

If the goal is to learn Django, then the basic tutorial is a great place to start, especially for a Rails engineer. If the goal is to build something from scratch in 2017, Django is probably not good choice for someone that's already a Rails expert.

Django would be a great way to set up an admin interface and rapidly get a CRUD interface going for an app of 20+ inter-related tables going. But the OP is already a Rails engineer, and in the modern world they're not going to be gaining much. Django is indeed a nice way to make REST backends, but so is Rails.

If the idea is to learn something new for an existing Rails engineer, then single page apps are a good choice or some other way to make backends (such as Flask) would be a superior investment of time.
The problem is that anything which you remember that well is likely to be discoverable by other people. For instance, if someone's mother is dead there's a good chance that her obituary will be online and list the names of her children and her maiden name. Likewise, you could find the name of a person's elementary school via looking at their posts on Facebook in many cases - or if not their posts, then their siblings or their friends. So these kinds of questions are hardly a great proof of identity if it can be found online with a bit of searching.
There are many tradeoffs one makes taking any route. Electricity-wise? I'm not sure. We'll see.

> ...just buying the coins directly?

Realistically, there's never such a thing such as "just buying coins". You need payment processor / security / refunds / authorization / ...

There is, however, something close to "just mining coins". This is one of the fundamental reasons cryptocurrency is attractive in the first place.
Great to hear that. Thanks for posting.
Haha, here in Germany people will call you out for crossing a pedestrian red light.
Modern music + ASL is a fun thing: https://www.youtube.com/user/1stopforasl

I've been told by Deaf and hard-of-hearing people multiple times that they think they have more fun at concerts and clubs than hearing people. They get to enjoy the music and can still communicate effectively.
A Giant Filter: Thoughts on the ramifications of information overload
This was the key insight to me:

'Many economists say the answer could lie in the rising power of the biggest corporations, which they argue is stifling entrepreneurship by making it easier for incumbent businesses to swat away challengers — or else to swallow them before they become a serious threat.'

How many start ups are founded with an explicit target at being acquired by a megacorp? Increasingly a few massive monopolies in tech are siphoning up more and more markets, often without even extracting profit (its for data and customer acquisition). While it is good for the consumer, it certainly is not helping maintain a dynamic economy.
People on HN believe stuff like that because making an app is practically free compared to making nearly anything else. It distorts their perspective of how much things should cost.
Where I live we have this massive traffic circle thing. It has four levels - N/S, E/W, Traffic Circle, diagonal train tracks.

East/West direct road has traffic lights on either side of the thing. I find absolutely infuriating to be sitting on this marvel of efficiency waiting for an unsynced traffic signal to turn green.
Well, I hope it still has a patent grant, just a more reasonable one.
This feels like a conversation meant to get a veiled point through, perhaps pushed by the same minds behind reevaluating anti-trust around large technology companies: http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09/17/open-markets...

It'd be interesting to get a split beyond just pure volume of startup businesses to dive a little deeper -- small businesses divided by industry, and also revenue/profit per small business might be interesting to look at.

Anecdotally, it doesn't feel like small businesses have slowed, though I live in the eye of the Silicon Valley storm. I'd love to dive deeper into the stats to try to reconcile what I'm anecdotally experiencing and the systematic truths that might be out there.