skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great book.

That being said, why is this on HN? The link is from 2007. The book is even older.
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I think there is wisdom in the first part of your plan, but I'm not so sure about the second.
Deflation poses a couple of significant threats.

Firstly, it acts as a disincentive to real investment: the rate of deflation is effectively an interest rate earned on funds stuffed into mattresses. If deflation is at 5%, no one will want to invest in any project with less than a 5% return over the same period. Risk and liquidity premiums would also increase even for investments that do provide a higher return than the deflation rate.

Secondly, existing long-term debts would become extremely onerous for borrowers. The implications for outstanding mortgages could make the recent default epidemic pale in comparison.

However, it's worth pointing out that the 19th century was largely a period of sustained, gradual deflation, and was also a period of tremendous economic growth with little of the amplified boom-bust cycle we experienced in the 20th century.

I'd conjecture that a climate in which a small amount of deflation is accepted as a given would foster economic decision making that tends to focus more on real wealth-creation, and less on the kind of financial abstractions which have led to the recent turmoil. As long as we could manage the transition from a slightly inflationary to a slightly deflationary economy (i.e. find a way to deal with the problem of outstanding debt), I'm not so sure it would be quite the disaster that the article portrays.
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Add acoustic sensors to triangulate enemy positions, coordinate with aerial surveillance, add ability for aerial drop to be deployed across battlefield, add control moment gyros to allow it traverse difficult terrain.

You could have them roll back to a base point for self-charging. To make them airborne you could embed the standard model in a quad-rotor "collar" and use the rolling mechanism for avionics and control. Really, you could base a whole micro-UAV/UGV system around some version of this concept.
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But these are not performance optimisations.

Angus is making the case that functional techniques can be more concise and readable than procedural style control flow.
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I interpret that as based on the portion that the GP has consumed. Like eating a 3 course meal, if the starter is great you might say 'this meal could be really good', you can't tell for sure because you haven't eaten all of it, hence the caveat.
No, I meant whitebeards. The NASA programmers, Kernighan/Richie, etc.
This is really sad. HP has been making a lot of really interesting strategic decisions lately, some decisions that I think have been set up through acquisitions and product development over the past few years. Mark Hurd seemed to know what he was doing on a long term scale, which is something unusual in a company like HP. That he was fired over something as unrelated to business skill as sexual harassment is sad. Shame on him, of course, but I wonder if his absence will end up hurting HP more in the long term than his personal actions over the short term.

HP recently hired some top notch industrial designers, and their newest computers are built far better than the older ones. The acquisition of WebOS was strategic. HP is poised to take on Android and iOS if they can execute well enough. From what I have seen, HP has been putting all the pieces into place for positioning themselves as the Apple of the PC world, at least in their high end market. They even embarrassed Microsoft by refusing to support the Windows 7 Slate in a consumer device. That's a big risk I was surprised HP took. It sends a message.

I was excited about HP’s future, but now I’m not so sure. HP just lost its Steve Jobs.

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Someone else in this thread linked to this awesome NYT article about Hurd: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/technology/companies/26hp....
Yeah, that would suck.
Devices within it would probably be safe.
mp4 format here http://www.kickasstorrents.com/mit-ocw-godel-escher-bach-bun...

Not 100% sure if that torrent is legit, but I've had the mp4 files on my harddisk for a few months now. I also can't imagine why anyone would go through the trouble to fake this particular torrent so enjoy !
Except none of that stuff was indexed by google at time of writing. The links that were added to Wikipedia after the article was published made your search possible:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hyperlink#what_does_href_s...

Trust me. The whole reason the article exists was because there was no clear answer through search/wikipedia/w3c/etc.
Computer hardware (and electronic hardware in general) has been in continuous deflation for decades. "Wait until the price comes down" is common advice in tech circles. And yet the market has grown exponentially regardless.
That's not been the case for Japan.

The cause of the inflation in Zimbabwe is the collapse of their economy, not the other way around. More here: http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=3773
What? The latter half of the 19th century had ridiculous booms and busts.
Stormpulse is great. I've never been interested in hurricanes before, but I am now thanks to you guys.
Most likely part of the deal of him resigning includes keeping those details out of the public.
"The investigation determined there was no violation of HP's sexual harassment policy, but did find violations of HP's Standards of Business Conduct." - hum, that is a curious line.

HP seems to have no luck with CEOs. I wonder if they will use this situation to find someone more familiar with the mobile space.
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I've taken several courses in classical mechanics, and I've never seen anyone give a proper treatment of complex (really, chaotic) systems unless the entire course in devoted to it. The ideas are so different and time-consuming that it just cannot be introduced alongside simple classical mechanics.

That said, numerical simulations of simple systems (harmonic oscillators, perturbed oscillators, etc.) can be a helpful partner to analytical study.
The problem is information content. 2^100^100 is a special case: what if I want 2^100^100+1? or (2 * 10^100) + (1 * 10^99) + (3 * 10^98) + (7 * 10^97)... it would be much shorter to write that in its regular decimal form 2,137,... So to specify a sequence, you would (on average, not for special cases like the one you picked) need just as much information as there is in the sequence!
"Lifestyle company" now seems to mean any business built without the intention of making money for a board of investors...
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> Here, if you strike another car, you're at fault. Regardless of what another vehicle does [...]

That's not true. Recently, I was a passenger in a car that stopped very quickly and made a turn into a restaurant. We were hit from behind and the driver of our car received a ticket because it was an erratic, unsafe maneuver.

> you're expected to maintain safe stopping distance and an 'exit' if your lane needs to be vacated in an emergency

It's possible to do this and still hit the car in front of you. I hit someone in front of me trying to make an illegal U-turn. I tried to avoid it but still hit them. They received a ticket.

> Granted, the car running the light got a ticket for breaking the law, but 'fault' for the collision was assigned to my friend.

I don't know the specifics but your friend probably got the ticket because it was determined by the cop after hearing both sides of the story that it was reasonable for him to see the other car coming. He may have been determined at fault in the context traffic laws but not in terms of who pays for it because Michigan is a no-fault insurance state.

I don't see how this is anything like Michigan.
I appreciate that in general this attitude has led to erosion of rights. However...

I don't see how anyone other than Blizzard has any right to free speech on their privately owned gaming platform.

Even if Blizzard has created a new medium of expression in Starcraft II maps, why should they should be compelled to enable the distribution of any map they don't like?

I understand that people may not like Blizzard's decision to moderate their platform, but it's a big stretch to say that they are trampling on our right to free speech. Is a newspaper trampling on your right to free speech by choosing which editorials to print?
aren't there big notices on the box like "online interactions are not rated"?
Even in comparison to the great depression and the recent financial collapse?

There are always booms and busts, but inflation tends to encourage much bigger booms, and thus much bigger busts. Could you imagine the kind of risk-taking behavior that led to the credit bubble happening in an environment of anticipated deflation?
Notice the phrasing. Not government borrowing, not "quantitative easing" (printing money) but spending. In the US and UK there's never been a peacetime high-spending government that didn't also borrow unsustainably.

So if you're say Sweden (high tax, high spending) then perhaps you can avoid high inflation, but you can't extrapolate from there to dissimilar economies.
I always find it interesting when drivers expect all bikers to follow every 'rule of the road' - meanwhile special laws grant cars the unique ability to pass a biker in otherwise no passing zones: one way single lane, double yellow, etc. Either understand that the two modes of transportation are different and deserve different laws, or don't expect special case laws for either mode.
They put out new versions of their games that fix existing pirating methods and then measure how that affects downloads and sales. How do they know what portion of the pirates are downloading the demo and then applying the crack rather than just downloaded a previous cracked version from somewhere else?
5 Trillion Digits Closer To Random: A New Record For Pi Calculation
I don't see any embed link. That would be great.
Haha, you can't make a square with a number of elements equal to the product of 11 different primes (or any number of primes).
I realize you're being sarcastic, but I don't see how it is possible to hand out payments to everyone and not cause inflation.
My friend Kragen wrote a good post about enterprise software:

http://www.mail-archive.com/kragen-tol@canonical.org/msg0010...
I once took the MIT class on which this book is based:
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/index.html

If anyone's interested, my problem sets solutions are here: http://www.cag.csail.mit.edu/~namin/mechanics/

The class was definitely out of my comfort zone in terms of the physics, but I loved the scheme system that allowed us to focus on the concepts, and leave the grunge to the computer. It's liberating to have an unambiguous notation, but it doesn't replace intuition.
Social aspects of the internet and games are not part of HP's strategy. HP's in the business of selling infrastructure that makes the internet and games possible.
The 25MB file size limit and 5 map limit are the biggest problematic facets of bnet I've heard of IMHO. They deserve to be addressed.

Obviously Blizzard is trying to prevent an explosion of crappy maps on their servers.

What's the compromise? Award more space and more map slots to authors who release popular maps. How the better maps are determined is up for discussion, but I think that would be an excellent move on Blizzard's part.
Riding somewhere on a bicycle can keep you cooler than if you were just standing or walking outside, provided you're riding at a leisurely pace on a bicycle designed for road use (and not some horrific retail store contraption with useless knobby tires). At say 14 mph on a road bike, you aren't doing enough work to heat up, yet you're moving fast enough to get a good breeze that keeps you cooler than if you were standing still.

When I'm just cycling through the town (rather than exercising), the only time I really feel the heat is when I'm stopped at a light.
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I noticed this too. Seems to not let you scroll to the end when you rotate from portrait to landscape and back again.
I had to write a book analysis on Ishmael for my Composition 110 class. I was a freshman, and it was my first year in the US. I had the worst time reading and understanding it (though I think the professor cut me some slacks and I managed to get an A in the class). I haven't re-read it ever since, bad first impression.
The Bump technology is probably more complicated than it looks, especially when it comes to insuring that a transaction is unique, valid and can't be intercepted (the way a Paypal transaction needs to be).
Yes, it's from 2007, but it doesn't seem dated and definitely would be of interest to readers of HN. As far as I know there is no preference for 'new' material here - in fact tried and true is preferred! And if it's a double, it's worthwhile just for the mp4 link above. I wanted to do this but .rm - no.
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The great depression and recent collapse are 75 years apart.

There were 4 major downturns in the 1800s, 3 in the later half, and they were much more severe than the typical recession in the 20th century, 2 were full-fledged depressions:

http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=2008030421573...

This is in the context of the industrial revolution, so yes, very much boom or bust.
Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Mark Hurd resigned as chief executive officer after an investigation found he had a personal relationship with a contractor who received pay from the company that wasn’t business-related.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-08-06/hp-s-mark-hurd-r...
Anybody who's ever run a site with user-generated content quickly changes their opinion about free speech.

The internet has all the freedom you'll ever need, but you shouldn't expect to have that freedom everywhere you go on it. You can post anything you like to your blog, but I can't post anything I like to it. I have to do that at my own.

Deleting obnoxious custom maps from a video game is no different from trimming Ugg Boot spam from the front page of HackerNews. It's not impinging on anybody's freedom in any meaningful way. It's just making the game universe a better place to be.
I agree with your reasoning as to why deflation is dangerous, but I feel compelled to point out that the 19th century most emphatically WAS a period with lots of boom bust cycles.

There was the recession of 1802, the depression of 1807, the recession of 1812, the depression of 1815, the recessions of 1822, 1825, 1828, 1833, then a couple of depressions in 1836, and 1839... I could go on, but you can read the wikipedia page yourself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unite...

These weren't small either. Many of them saw decreases in business activity of over 15%. Contrast this with the postwar growth period of the late 1940s through the late 1990s, where you see inflation and strong steady economic growth (there were recessions, but they were all under 4%, and they were quickly erased by the growth that followed).

So without trying to start an economic flame war, whatever they were doing in the 19th century for the most part clearly didn't work, and whatever they were doing from the great depression to the late 1990s early 2000s clearly did, if what you are optimizing for is steady growth and to moderate boom / bust cycles.
Actually, $44/hour isn't so expensive - it costs ~$120/hr to rent a Cessna 172. Granted the $44/hour doesn't include the cost to actually purchase and maintain the thing, but what a small price to pay for your own personal helicopter :-D
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Lol, ya maybe we should keep our day jobs just in case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1819
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1837
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1857
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1893
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1901

Almost every 20 years, like clockwork.
This is a thin veneer on the slide-show already discussed here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565112
Hurd is a brilliant man and above all, the man could execute. He leaves behind some very talented executives. Let's hope they stick around. This is a wonderful opportunity for someone new to come aboard and give the company a more solid vision because it was unclear what HP's vision was under Hurd. It's tough when you have 300K+ employees.

I think this calls for Vyomesh Joshi to step up. Now that's a guy that works wonders. He's keeping the printing business alive (against all odds) with some serious leadership and innovation.
There are no rights here to erode.

It's the opposite actually. A few days ago you had no means to make Starcraft 2 maps of any description. Now you can, so long as you don't make an ass of yourself.

How is that not a good thing?
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I'll gladly second Jon Skeet's 'C# in Depth'. The second edition is currently available through MEAP @ http://www.manning.com/skeet2/, with the print edition coming in September.
Well Slashdot posts never get removed, just modded down (below the thresholds some users may read at, but they have a choice). The meta-moderation process should help catch abusive moderation and reduce the frequency of bad moderators getting mod points.

Since the moderation system isn't for down-rating posts that one disagrees with, the system get still get flooded with well-tempered deliberate misinformation.

Would MS pay people to post "I tried for days to get my Linux install to work right, but the buggy drivers made my screen flicker so much my dog had a seizure and died. I'm sticking with Windows forever!"? Fun for moderators...
This is pretty cool. I designed something similar for my previous employer that took a very large image of a map and scaled it and sliced it into squares. The resulting images were then used as a custom map with the Google Maps API.

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/v2...
Great cat toy (with or without suggested c4).
From 1991. Compiler technology has moved on since then and almost all of these transformations are done automatically for you. Hence the guideline now is to write your code to be readable.

Having said that, it's interesting to see what people worried about in 1991, and worrying that people needed to be told these things.

I was there - I remember it well.
http://zoom.it/pages/api/

"You get the Zoom.it short URL, an embeddable viewer, as well as the underlying DZI and surrounding metadata."
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I'm sure this is a fine product, but as a consumer I would need a little education on this product, because the very first thing that came to my mind was "accident waiting to happen."
Alternatively, use this script to get the real .rm files:

PRE="mplayer -playlist http://mfile.akamai.com/7870/rm/mitstorage.download.akamai.com/7870/hs/godel_escher_bach
POST=" -dumpstream -dumpfile "
$PRE/OCW_7.01.07_Godel-220k.rm $POST OCW_7.01.07_Godel-220k.rm &
$PRE/OCW_7.08.07_Godel-220k.rm $POST OCW_7.08.07_Godel-220k.rm &
$PRE/OCW_7.15.07_Godel-220k.rm $POST OCW_7.15.07_Godel-220k.rm &
$PRE/OCW_7.22.07_Godel-220k.rm $POST OCW_7.22.07_Godel-220k.rm &
$PRE/OCW_7.29.07_Godel-220k.rm $POST OCW_7.29.07_Godel-220k.rm &
$PRE/OCW_8.12.07_Godel-220k.rm $POST OCW_8.12.07_Godel-220k.rm &
I got that in a tech interview and hadn't seen it before. Dirty.
Why not a lone computer hacker who discovers his own destiny written in pi? Or discovers the corruption of the evil government, or something along those lines?
The period of deflation in the 18th century was associated with the Long Depression, and overall it was probably more severe than the Great Depression though/because it took its course more slowly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depression
I don't think employees will miss Mark Hurd. It's true that HP's profits are soaring and the stock price is high, but he was an extremely disliked CEO. The rabid cost cutting in recent years made HP an awful place to work. Glassdoor ranked HP has the 3rd worst company to work for in tech in 2009. Product quality has definitely slipped as a result of the low morale. SquareTrade's 2009 laptop reliability survey ranked HP as the least reliable notebook manufacturer. Product delays and cancellations aren't about sending a message to Microsoft, what they're really about is an inability execute on ideas.
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They display an embed link under the image on the short-url page, if you create one, but not for the images on the home page slideshow/demo. I agree, it's confusing and masks the functionality.

E.G. NASA's Visible Earth Night Lights: http://zoom.it/333
They are in a tricky situation because a the alleged victim will certainly sue the company if she (or he) has not done so already, so if the board admits there was sexual harassment in an internal investigation that will be used against the company.
I'd argue that HN's professionalism is due to the fact that most of us use our real names (or at least make it easy for people to identify us) and most of the other commenters here are potential future colleagues.

I'm just as guilty as the next person of saying something rude on HN every now and then, but for the most part I and I suspect most others do our best to make substantive contributions to the discussions here.
And it directly follows that you can encode any document as 2 numbers: (start-index, length) in the Pi representation. Well, this is also a bad idea since you can always treat the entire document as one binary number...
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A "non-standard project" that is seeking funding by definition meets the relevant zoning because no one borrows money to build something that zoning forbids.

This is incorrect. Developers seek variances for various zoning restrictions all the time. And doing so effects financing decisions because a project that requires variances may face substantial delays.
I wish you could annotate in there.
Contrary to popular belief, conservatives are actually an intellectualy diverse group, not a centrally planned hivemind.
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I'm suggesting that a HTML4 parser that has complex recovery code, and a mostly-copy-and-paste HTML5 parser that doesn't isn't a big win.

Browsers are going to have a complex, ugly, recovery-enabled parser in them either way, and the effort to add HTML5 to the recovery-enabled parser isn't very big, comparatively speaking.
I remember I see people using some sort of old fashioned Basic like IDE with blue screen and yellow fonts to work on it. Do not know if it has improved.
Exactly. I was thinking while reading this: "All of this makes the code harder to read and any modern compiler will catch most of this stuff anyway".

Then I realized this was from 1991.
I wouldn't be so quick to claim HP has any real values. Do you remember this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_spying_scandal

The simple fact of the matter is that HP makes some decent servers and low cost storage that we buy a lot of. Unfortunately in recent years Mark Hurd has cut their support staff so thin, and outsourced most of it to Costa Rica, so that now when you need support on a server you're more likely to get someone speaking english as a second language that knows about enough to order a part # for you and have it shipped so you can replace it yourself.

I guess for these "cost-cutting measures" Mark Hurd should be praised, or at least he has been praised in this business environment. I don't think he has particularly done anything brilliant other than accelerate the globalization and outsourcing of the tech industry as a whole.
This is very interesting from a technical perspective. Its all being done with js and xhr requests. Its powered by Seadragon( http://seadragon.com/developer/ ) and apparently Zoom.it is just a new rename.