skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? Because we're in a global economic depression. Because the government cannot print money anymore. Because anymore printing will most likely induce hyperinflation.

This is common Internet Wisdom, but there's no reason to believe it's actually true.

The TIPS spread--the spread between ordinary government bonds and inflation-protected bonds--is very low. Under 2%. The TIPS spread also tends to overestimate inflation, because the long-tail risk of inflation is higher than that of deflation. The Fed is dominated by inflation hawks with substantial political will to fight inflation and very little to implement monetary expansion. Very few economists seem to expect the risk of hyperinflation.

This kind of inflationary alarmism is infectious. It's infected our politics, skewing the GOP primaries towards severe economic ignorance. Nominal GDP is still limp. Inflation is still low. Unemployment is still high. Borrowing is still tight. The recovery is stalling. Stop. Please.
For a startup, sales is about more than just "getting to yes"
Most people don't think like that (last I read the average American is $8k+ in CC debt). Also, see how many people are using the free phone that comes with their contract.
One of the driving goals of putting everything in DRAM was "low latency." They want latency of retrieving a small sized (100 byte) object to be as low as a few microseconds, even across a network.
Siri’s Social Dilemma
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Of course. I was just more critical of the relation between media and people's perceptions than government's efficiency in my last comment.
Choosing A Minimally Viable Co-Founder
Very cool product. I might sign up.
Awesome! Thanks a lot. Look forward :)
From what I read elsewhere, it may require either a Verizon FiOS or Comcast account to access it as well as a Xbox Live Gold membership.
Seconding this - Sproutcore 2 is such a different beast to 1.0 it's a pity they share a name. There's a number of concepts, particularly around handling cascades of DOM updates in there that are far more advanced that you'd have to write yourself in backbone.
It is simply not clear that the economic meltdown will be prevented by throwing more money at the problem. It will make some people rich, but the root causes are not addressed.
Don't wildly veer the car around the road in a vain attempt to hit every single sale.

You drive your developers mad, and you stomp all over any hope of putting together a clean, concise vision for your product.
Did you guys get any writeups prior to Gigaom? Was is the case that you had lots of customers but just not a lot of glamour?
The problem in a lot of people's minds (and to a lesser extent mine as well) is that the stock price dropping largely affects the shareholders who are often huge money management funds managing 401(K)s and other retirement plans for the ordinary citizen, while plenty of bankers are still getting large salaries and bonuses not tied to their performance.

This isn't strictly the case with B of A, but it's part of the reason for the negative sentiment towards large banks.
650,000 People Get First Strike Notices in France
> To India's credit, its socialist tendencies kept the country unaffected from 2008 subprime crisis.

No boom, no bust....

> While corruption in socialism is bad, corruption in capitalism is just as bad. Even the most developed capitalist countries have failed to remove corruption. (hence the 2008 subprime crisis)

The 2008 "subprime crisis" wasn't capitalist corruption, it was govt corruption. The US govt decided to subsidize home ownership via various means, which created a property bubble. Bubbles eventually pop, and the govt then decided to "socialize" the losses and try to restore the bubble.

The Irish govt went one step further - it decided to guarantee all bank losses.

That's not capitalism.
Lightsabers, Time Machines, & Other Automation Heuristics
> It seems pretty clear that such stores are extremely
> good at selling products to your average customer.

That's the hypothesis; Google is now testing it to see if it's true.
> the choice of installing 'for me'

Right, and this puts program files into a system directory, but the Start Menu shortcuts into the user's profile. That's not exactly "for me", isn't it?

> Profiles belong to the user. The application belongs - in a Windows world, in a Linux world - to the system / administrator.

That's in a Linux world that is modeled after the Windows one. In a traditional #nix world there are system binaries and there are user binaries. If the user needs something that is not readily available on the box, or if he needs a specific version or whatever, he can install it into ~/bin. Point being, that on Windows this is not even an option. There is no standard location to put user's personal program files into.
CRTC opts not to regulate Netflix
Sounds like Animal House:

"You fucked up! You trusted us."
I own a company that does this, and most advertisers do prefer to put an ad image instead of a QR code. We focus primarily on sites near flight paths at major airports and the Google Earth/Maps aspect is more of just an added bonus for us so there is some difference in target audience but our clients resoundingly prefer actual ads to QR codes. We've tried selling the idea of rooftop QR codes because they are so much easier to paint than e.g. a photorealistic person who is 250ft tall but haven't had any interest from clients so far.
Not just the platform. Each Cygnet starts as a complete iQ and is then reworked into a Cygnet.
True, but that's more a problem with URL shorteners than QR codes. Anyway most shorteners you can append '+' to get info before visiting (inconvenient, I know) http://goo.gl/i3wBs+
Switching from C++ to R
Apple's vision of the future?

Lots of room for different opinions on the life cycle of electronics but:

1) What you are complaining about is a decades old, industry wide phenomena and not something vaguely unique about Apple.

2) Apple products tend to retain functionality and re-sale value much longer than their competitors.
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The reason we have those big explanatory text explaining the product was to address documentation. We needed to educate users on the whole targeting capabilities inside our surveys. That said, I know it ain't the best way to do it. Will cut the flab.

Thanks for the feedback.
The parents post was specifically pointing out that Samsung's patents don't enable them to block their competitors period end of story. It comes down to Samsung saying it's reasonable for us to get the right to use your patents as compensation for using ours. And Apple saying, as long as we are willing to pay you money we get to use your patents and you don't have the option do say no as long as the amount of money is reasonable.
Ever heard of "Greek Orthodox"? I believe it's quite popular in Greece.
As The Web Gets Busier: The Rise of Overlays / Blooms.
Only commands capable of doing something meaningful with symlinks need such a flag. These are a minority.
I don't know about the spreading of rumours, but alot of funds short apple on the day of product announcements as their stock almost always goes down during the announcements.

It's pretty much free money.
> They are basically throwing the electorate at them

I think they're primarily throwing the non-electorate.

Many young people don't vote because they perceive it to be about boring, old people stuff they don't really get nor care about. They barely know what are inflation or the ECB fund rate, they certainly don't have any advice about who's going to act on it in the most constructive way.

Now mess with their Internets, and suddenly they understand what the poll is about. Politicians have tailored their rhetorics for a world in which retired people vote, whereas youngsters don't. It looks like it's changing.
You forgot BeOS, which lives on in Haiku. One of my favorite "alternative" operating systems of the time. I still wish I had more hours in the day so I could hack on Haiku once in a while.

http://haiku-os.org/
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I don't know if this was the above posters intent, but from what I gather lots of qaunts and other statistically minded finance workers have a background in physics because the math education they've received is highly applicable.
You can search for a name with aptitude, whereas you can't with apt-get. Thats why I prefer the former anyway.
> When markets go astray the answer is not to make the taxpayer step in once more, but to introduce better regulation."

And this better regulation is going to come from the folks who wrote Dodd-Frank, who think that the CRA is a good idea, who keep defending Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.....
The term DRAM is used to differentiate it from SRAM, which is faster but less dense.
it's worth pointing out, by comparison to other world leaders, Angela Merkel has a PhD in Physics (Quantum Chemistry in fact). In other words she's more than capable to grasping the complexities of financial markets.

I also have a PhD in quantum chemistry, and I don't think this in itself qualifies me to understand economics any better than anyone else.

Actually there was an interesting article on the subject of why smart people so often make really bad politicians.

The tldr: "So why do intelligent people consistently make such a hash of things? Because they are smart enough to talk themselves into anything. Ordinary mortals don’t engage in fancy mental gymnastics to reach conclusions that defy common sense. But intellectuals are particularly prone to this."

http://reason.com/archives/2011/10/04/why-smart-presidents-d...
Didn't get any feedback on my post late last night, hoping that someone can give me any comments/suggestions, won't post anymore..appreciate any feedback on the idea both positive and negative suggestions/comments welcome

Thanks!
Apple's plan is to obsolete the current iPods by continuing to sell them.

What?!
There are a few products the use primarily DRAM, usually backed by capacitors/batteries and flash.

ZeusRAM SAS drive: http://www.stec-inc.com/product/zeusram.php

RamSan rack-mounted: http://www.ramsan.com/products/rackmount-ram-storage/ramsan-...

Kaminario K2 SAN: http://www.kaminario.com/products/K2-Solid-State-SAN-Storage...
Already watching in GitHub. And I love it.
(Random aside: I agree with all your arguments against the retina iPad display.

That said, I wrote the iOS Artwork Tool, which reads and writes the .artwork files found in iOS SDKs. Last night I updated the tool with iOS5 support and to my surprise discovered new iPad-specific @2x graphics. To be clear, the iPad @2x graphics appear to be woefully incomplete... but it's clear that someone over there is working on this.

Timeframes? I'll leave that to the rumor mill. Will it eventually happen? I'll venture a cautious yes.)
"Imagine a world where data layout doesn’t matter, where apps are optimized for sub-millisecond storage, where 100 byte I/Os are faster and just as efficient as 8KB I/Os. The architectural implications are huge and would take a decade or more to get our heads around."

Umm.. I've worked with in memory data structures (who hasn't?) and yeah, layout DOES matter. Especially if your data structure is larger than a cache line.
tldr: if you miss vb6, ajax will help.
Painting is much easier for rooftop ads than vinyl. Difficulty installing anchor hardware without puncturing the roof surface, high winds, etc make it much easier and cheaper to use paint. The rooftop ads my company does are typically 50,000 square feet or more so using vinyl sheets that size (it usually comes printed in strips 6-10 ft wide) is impractical. I'm not sure how large these QR codes are but based on prices I've seen for rooftop ads in the past $8,500 is not surprising when you consider cost of paint, labor, and a reasonable profit margin.
Also, I suspect it was about dropping the price to $99 while still preserving the enthusiast market who will continue to buy the $299 devices on sheer inertia. The former part of that decision is good. The latter is IMHO a very dangerous platform to base your business on (i.e. "dumb users will continue to pay more for our products"). Apple tried that in the 90's. It worked... poorly.
When You Should Ignore Your Customers
Incubators/Accelerators by Deadline
Yeah sorry - it's all good, I'm not sure what the problem was. My bad, false alarm etc. :-s
Yeah, they are asking ISPs permission to launch an IPTV service. Bad precedent.
One of the stamps at the bottom means "Retina Display support". That's probably why the texture are so high-res.
- Voice Over often just outright failed. The accuracy for speech interpretation was good, but not great.

- The tasks that it could actually do were simplistic (pause! play! call Bob! next track!) and often it was more work to turn on Voice Over and talk, and easier to just touch the device and be done with it.

- Voice Over had a very limited verb database that you had to learn. It wasn't so much natural language recognition as simply using voice to input a (very) limited set of commands.

Siri is (ostensibly) not subject to any of the above limitations, so if it works as advertised it really will be completely different from Voice Over.
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> Say, $1/EUR per trade would remove the incentive for High frequency trading and encourage some more productive market dynamics.

Why do you think that?

These trades net far more than $1 (or one euro).

Yes, they're looking for pennies, or less, on each share, but they're not trading single shares.
Not that I necessarily agree, but I think his point is that they have overlapping use cases and that people aren't avoiding Voice Control because it sucks, they're not using it because they don't have a huge need to.
The Italian language Wikipedia is no longer available
Stop Whining about the iPhone 4S - You Don't Need a New Phone Every Year
SATA2 DDR2 HyperDrive5 64GB: A Solid State DDR drive.

http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/07042003/hardware.htm
That's fair enough, but it seems like more of a personal wish list than an analysis of what the iPhone really needs. Does it need a bigger screen and a new enclosure? The sales figures don't seem to suggest that it does.

Assuming for a minute that I'm right and the screen size and enclosure are not market liabilities for the iPhone, then my personal opinion is that the upgrades are sufficient to maintain sales, with the performance boost, new camera (along with the improved processing hardware) and Siri all being enough to keep it competitive at the high-end.
So include that shortcut by default. It's UI. The job of the shell is to help the user get the job done.

Same argument goes for find. Its usefulness compared to du justifies its existence.
This is good, it shows that the people dont like the mess the current government is producing.
Simple intro to the Web Audio API in Chrome
As someone on the ground in Germany I can tell that a lot of Germans, even techies are still confused and not sure what the Pirate Party represents or what their actual political program is, which greatly devalues what ever recent wins they have acquired. Unfortunately a political party must be about more than just transparency and better IP policies (I agree with both though) or at least that is how the Germans see the Pirates.
The open Internet: platform for growth
I am a proud BYU grad today.
I think that participatory culture (and finding a balance between media creators and the people who "consume"/participate in media experiences) is actually a very big part of transmedia. If interested, check out the writings of Henry Jenkins:
- http://www.amazon.com/Convergence-Culture-Where-Media-Collid...
- http://www.amazon.com/Confronting-Challenges-Participatory-C...
Hey, this is Nivi from AngelList. I am very happy for Stormpulse and I'm glad to answer any of your questions here.

A couple things:

1. We're getting out of the "gatekeeper" business as quickly as possible. Over 70% of the intros on the site are now driven by code and community -- not us. It took a lot longer than we thought it would. We're working on the remaining 30%.

2. We don't think of it as "applying" to AngelList any more. We think of it as creating a startup profile. Applications made sense when we reviewed and distributed every startup. Now startups create profiles and they live on AngelList well before and after they raise money. For example: http://angel.co/42-floors
First off this isn't luck and it's going to be harmful to view it as such. You made something people want so be proud.

BUT, as of now it seems your working and possibly letting people use your servers with no compensation. If your getting 1k downloads/day then slapping a $.99 price tag is going to make you much more than $50/week. I cannot emphasize enough don't use an ad based revenue model. Charging a price and dropping ads will more than double the income you would potentially get from using ads to generate income.

The alternative is use this app as marketing and start charging for other apps down the line. Free app generates exposure for paid app.

From one dev. to another think bigger, you can be making good money if you just start charging a price. People will pay!
Anonymous Vows to Attack NYSE
Bizarre timing on this. We still have 25% of 2011 to go...
I missed that possibility, thanks for alerting me to it.

I still think that it's too early to dismiss it because of what we've seen with Voice Control, but I agree that there's definitely the possibility that the idea won't catch on. I suppose everything depends on the implementation and whether it can be made seamless enough and useful enough that ordinary people use it.
Utilizing single purpose programs with a highly unintegrated scripting language breaks the whole idea of do one thing and do it well as there are now n things that do the same thing but with different trade offs. We have n flags, massive unmaintainable messes of bash, posix sh and other variants. Sun's shot with a 'managed' os with javaos was more than ahead of its time.
The government isn't making tablets in the same way they make watches (HMT Watches) or artificial limbs (	Artificial Limbs Mfg. Corpn. Of India). The government floated a tender and a private company developed the tablet. There is a huge difference between the two.

Also, if this device proves to be the best way to deliver essential public services (e.g. education, tele-medicine, etc.), it most certainly is the job of the government to make tablets. If this is a platform on which people can innovate and build apps on top of, it is not a stretch to compare this to US federal funding of basic science.
We did change by committing to B2B, but insofar as we didn't change the foundational product, team, or market, you are correct. Which is why I call it a hack -- doing what it takes rather than what you think is important.
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Uncertainty, Innovation, and the Alchemy of Fear
Ryan Dahl Video on the History of Node.js
Great video on how Ryan Dahl got into programming and the early beginnings of Node.js
Whatever a "rounded individual" is.
inflation?
QR codes are a standard[1] (otherwise they would just be meaningless random dots in a square shape).

[1] http://www.denso-wave.com/qrcode/qrstandard-e.html
is that better than pngcrush? http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/
Outside of the case this is a brand new phone. A5 CPU, new GPU, better camera, better battery and better software (I believe Siri is 4S exclusive).
RIP Likealittle?
I don't think there's more marketing around the iPhone than Android - I see more ads for Android devices these days - but it may be substantially more successful marketing.
This is cool, but it's certainly not a game changer. If you didn't need an Xfinity or Verizon account to get all this content then it would be a lot more interesting.

If I were willing to pay $80/mo for cable, I wouldn't be on Xbox streaming it.
It feels strange that in the light of all these great streaming services that have popped up over the years... (Hulu, Netflix, etc.) ISPs have begun to punish people using these services via bandwidth caps and throttling.
Not if you're using a screenreader.
In a few previous threads, PG has dropped these tidbits:

-All else equal, students are favored. (regarding YCNYC: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2889006)

-All else equal, technical people are favored. (Last FAQ: http://startupschool.org/faq.html)

I'll find them and post links when I can. (Done)
No, thats not what they're doing. They're extending a cable operator initiative called "TV Everywhere" ESPN 360 and HBO Go are the two main services using this.

The basic idea is that if you can prove you're already a cable subscriber then they're willing to stream you content via IP to certain devices, within a strict set of parameters. For example if you're connected to the internet through your Comcast provided cable modem you can stream to your tablet device, or perhaps in this case the Xbox.

MS is not doing anything here without the cable operators permission they're working very closely with them to fit within the parameters they set. Its the only way they're able to launch this service. (Compare the lack of success GoogleTV has had which tried to go completely around the cable operators)
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So, our fault for not having caught it the first time. But the reason is more innocuous than you might think. On a busy day, we can get 50-100 startups showing up. That's a lot of applications to read - so we run an algorithmic filter to decide what to even look at. My guess is that your initial pitch didn't make it past the filter. The second time did, but not because you had a ton of offline traction with press and investors, but because you had a referrer who's known to the community - Joshua Baer. Yes, that's a bit of social proof (knowing an entrepreneur who's respected in the community) but not a particularly high bar. We'll try and do better in the future, and meantime, congratulations!
The carrier subsidy is not 350-400.

The iPhone is 200 with contract, 450-500 without. They're certainly not paying the retail 500, I'm sure it costs them 430-470, making the subsidy more in the range of 250-300.
This blogs is anti-google and anti-android and he constantly paints the google side as the losing one even though he got proven wrong many times. No wonder he did it again today. Samsung isn't just using FRAND patents in this lawsuits. The majority of the patents Samsung claimed in their lawsuit weren't.

> Also, Samsung can sue Apple if Apple is unwilling to pay which they aren't. The correct route (going by what I've read) to license FRAND patents would be: negotiate on price; if negotiations fail go to court to determine a fair price; if still the infringer doesn't want to pay seek an injunction and forced payment. (from http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/l1jcu/samsung_seeks...)

Also, a few years ago, Nokia sued Apple based on wifi FRAND patents, how did it end up? With a settlement in favor of Nokia. If FRAND patents were impossible to enforce, do you think it would have ended with a settlement?
OK, I have to admit at first I thought there was something wrong with the site because I didn't recognize enough books... but after reading some excerpts of books off the lists, I'm psyched -- turns out I just haven't been finding the good books for a long time, so now I can.

Suggests:

* show me excerpts on-page (if possible from amzn?)

* allow community +1/-1 on books and generate lists based on top-rated by site users

* commenting, facebook or disquss, on each book

(little issue: Facebook "like" button on main page and book pages doesn't seem to be working -- dunno if that's facebook's problem not yours)
There's an ad of sorts here http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/xbox/VideoGalle...