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Niall Ferguson's "The Ascent of Money" is pretty good:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ascent_of_Money

It's a fairly readable history of money, credit and related topics (e.g. the bond market and insurance).
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I simply do not know how one concludes that sleep, among all other things, is the reason for the deaths? When studying humans, how do you account for all the other lifestyle variables?

Does anyone on HN do these types of studies and can comment? Seems so very unscientific.
The disruptor is just a very efficient event loop. It doesn't prevent you from blocking the handling thread.
> ...and don't really care much about the real-world impact.

Except Facebook is one of the places where your software work has the most impact on the world.

Also if you don't want people to think it's sour grapes than don't even mention the word.
Presumbably because it is running in a single thread and s0 only using 25% of your 4 cores.
If you start from the premise that there are only two hard CS problems then all hard CS problems must be a special case of one or both of those two. So cache in an on-chip memory sense is conflated with disk storage is conflated with distributed disk storage. This isn't necessarily bad, Smarty for example caches rendered files to disk storage and calls it a cache, but it does show off the problem of naming things. (That and every variable named "data".) Anyway, I imagine what the GP was getting at is that if your data distribution isn't particularly deterministic enough (e.g. swapping hard drives in and out when they fail) you have to deal with validation that a particular data changing command (store, delete, whatever) actually propagated to a sufficient portion (in some cases all) of the servers and that the introduction of new or changing or rogue servers doesn't affect that. The more apt term for this is consistency. Related is the CAP theorem which says for any distributed system, you can only pick any 2 of consistency, availability, or partition tolerance, though it's more interesting to talk about atomic operations, where transactions are/where they might be desired, and whether things get faster or slower with more data.
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This is a feature of many firewalls now, even at the small/medium business end of the market.

If you're a company that relies on virus scanning HTTP traffic then the increasing number of websites which force SSL looks like a potential problem.
Another word for lossless is "reversible", i.e. you can get back out what you put in, which isn't the case with mp3, but is with zip or flac. If you don't worry about it being bit exact you can make it a fair bit smaller though, particularly if any of the original data is difficult/impossible to hear.
Except, by rolling our own systems and automating things we want to, we expand our potential and learn new things, which gives us somewhat difficult to quantify value for the future. One can't become an engineer without solving nontrivial (for one's own skills) problems.
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Ladies love to have fun. Letting your hair down and having a good time is something everyone enjoys right? But, the age old question is still being banded about: do blondes have more fun? Apparently they do if the well known saying is to be believed.
What's your goal? There are all types of certificates, some cheap and some expensive. If you're aiming for cheap, companies like Namecheap and GoDaddy sell them for peanuts but they're "cheap" certificates, not with bells and whistles.
If I recall correctly, APL executes right to left -- so it would return 8 for 2*2+2.
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1. Stereotypes are not always grounded in reality.

2. I suspect in this case they are probably based on british tourists in Prague/Berlin/Vienna/Budapest getting wasted out of their minds rather than britons drinking at home.
I like Gandi. You get a free SSL certificate for a year with your domain, and it's $12 a year after that.
I am learning django/web development, and will likely be launching my app in the wild soon. A link that details out how to manage deployment and source code management using git would be tremendously helpful.
It's worth noting that people involved in TPB have been fined millions of dollars, sentenced to jail and fled their country to avoid justice. Not everybody is willing to go those sorts of extremes to run a website.
Please don't vote. This article is not a legitimate HN poll from http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll, so votes won't be visible to us but will give the poster a pile of undeserved karma.
Demographics are more varied than that though - they also vary by Country. Take Denmark, the birthplace of several of the major players in flip catalogs - online flip based catalogs are so common that every internet going user knows what they are, and how to interact with them.

With such a common use of them, we can start looking at how to optimize the catalog format itself, rather than stick with the scrolling vs. catalog format discussion.
Pretty much anything can be considered as a "system," any aspect of it its "internal state," any aspect of it which can affect something else its "output," and any phenomenon that can affect it as "input" or "stimulus"

On what grounds?

The fundamental problem here is that any definition broad enough to encompass everything that can be considered "computation" is going to be too broad to say anything meaningful about the nature of the class of phenomena it describes.

This is a matter of understanding how the phenomena work, not a matter of definition. Can you imagine someone 500 years ago saying "any definition of matter broad enough to encompass everything that can be considered 'matter' is going to be too broad to say anything meaningful about the nature of the class of phenomena it describes"?

But it wasn't a matter of "defining" matter, it was understanding how it worked, and the sort of understanding of matter we have these days -- at the level of protons, neutrons, and electrons, or deeper ones that that -- is very broad, yet very precise.

If you want to learn anything substantial, you'll generally have to pick some particular model of computation to study. You could choose to study deterministic pushdown automata, and then you will learn about computation that fits in that model. Or you could study Markov algorithms and learn about computation that fits in that model. Or you could even study something like Turing machines augmented with halting oracles. For computers that fit a particular model, you can discover things like what they can and can't compute, how quickly they can compute various things, what it takes to convert a computation system defined in that model into another model, etc., and this will all follow from properties of the model you've chosen to study.

It's entirely valid to investigate a particular model of computation as a means of better understanding computation. However, there's a really big danger in such an approach. If there is an underlying unity to the various types of computation, then investigating the specifics of a specific form of computation is likely to make you miss the forest for the trees. That is, if you're goal is to understand computation in general then you need to look at what is there in general, not what is a matter of just one specific way to do it. I do think that in order to understand computation its useful to look at the various forms of it, but to do so with an eye to what is fundamental and general across all the cases.

The only thing common to all models is that they have some way of mapping "input" to "output" via some change in "state." That is not specific enough to draw much further
insight...

Why do you think that? You don't say. I think that's an important hint about what computation -- all computation -- is doing.

(and FWIW, this is not a question about 'models' but about computation.. which is always a physical process. 'models' are a kind of computational device that can be used to perform that process).
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I know that there are sites such as betalist that rank really well even though the website URL is betali.st.

What about if the name were part of a subdirectory? An example being: ban.an/a. Would that affect the ranking and the searches?
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Shouldn't we put Reddit, Facebook and Hacker News in there too? TV?

Limit everything except going to the gym? Maybe limit that too?
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I have George Simmel's "The Philosophy of Money" but I haven't read it yet.

Bought it on the recommendation of this guy: http://earlyretirementextreme.com/the-independence-of-money....
The response headers indicates photos are set to expire in exactly 14 days. Does Akamai not honor cache-related headers from the origin URL? If it does, couldn't Facebook just generate URLs that includes an rolling expiration date so that when the CDN pulls from the origin URL again, Facebook may send a file-not-found placeholder image?
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I wonder what will be the response from the Khronos Group and OpenCL. I am a big fan of openCL and openGL and hope that they take this as an opportunity to improve on the openCL standard.
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I'm a South African and to be honest more than anything I'm amazed this made it to the HN front page.

Google does not have a big presence in SA. That being said, I'm sure their presence in SA must extend largely to the rest of that continent, so that should lend some authority to his words.
> Injustice is making people close sites and get out of business even if they are not doing anything illegal.

Is there any evidence that anyone made btjunkie shut down? It sounds voluntary. Presumably they know they are doing something illegal and have chosen to shut down.

> For another analogy, this is like a pawn show deciding to close because some unrelated guys makes drug dealing inside. In this situation does governments go after pawn shops? or only after dealers?

If it can be shown that the pawn show was designed primarily to facilitate illegal conduct inside, then it's not really "some unrelated guys".

> Better yet why not make drugs legal and receive taxes for this deals?

Why not make murder-for-hire legal and tax it? Let's not make analogies just so that we can appeal to whether some other activity should or should not be legal in the analogy. And I don't even know what your point about taxes would since btjunkie likely paid taxes on their ad revenue and donations.

We can just discuss whether copyright should exist rather than resorting to silly analogies. I am not even close to happy with the current situation with copyright. My personal view is that copying for personal consumption should not be illegal. But copying or enabling copying for profit is much more nefarious to me.

I gather you think copyright should be entirely abolished and it should be legal to profit from distributing content created by someone else against their wishes. I'll respect that opinion. But it has nothing to do with SOPA, and nothing to do with people engaged in entirely legal activities being pursued.

If you believe the current laws are unjust, then please be clear that this is your stance rather than pretending that they aren't being broken. And please don't pretend that Wiki pedia and thousands of other sites blacked out for a day in support of illegal file sharing.
scobble likes to think of himself as a visionary that contributes pearls of wisdom that shape the reality of the lesser people (us). and if you do not think that his pearls are worth something, then you are stupid/arrogant/etc

i will never understand how he managed to have gained some significance in the world.
I'm an Ex-Zynga engineer as well, payments team. The guy on reddit is a bit bent, parent's comment is far more accurate.
"He wants to tell stories rather than to analyze a phenomenon. He tells them well enough, if you can stand the style. (Blink is written like a book intended for people who do not read books.)"

-Richard Posner on Malcolm Gladwell
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Before going any further, I should point out (as a former economist-in-training) that the relationship between money supply and prices is not understood well. The Quantity Theory of Money is a theory in the truest sense of the word, and has been challenged by other schools of thought.

With that said, the equation's main point is that prices grow proportionally to money supply if velocity and transactions are also proportional to one another. As you've stated, we cannot measure V and T, so we're not sure of the relationship between prices and money.

There's really no reason to fret, though. As someone who helped with research at the Federal Reserve Board, I can tell you that research into this area is thriving, and our understanding of the relationship between money and prices constantly evolves.
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I'd say the same thing. Between pg's essays and this community lies a strong catalyst for entrepreneurship. I stumbled upon pg's essays and joined HN 12 months ago, and have since quit my job and started my own company (with amazing cofounders). If it weren't for these forces I'd still be working for someone.

I must say I'm still new to this country and being Canadian means you don't think much about entrepreneurship.
I think the author has also uncovered a universal truth about drug use that relates to it's original uptake, as well as their effects whilst under the influence as detailed in the article . I believe that this relates alcohol, caffeine or 'harder' drugs.

Take starting to smoke tobacco for instance, in the U.K smoking has seen a large decline within the last decade (1), this can be can be attributed to several factors including a ban on certain mediums of tobacco advertising (at cultural and social events) and an increase in government adverts that address the culture of social smoking as well as the more traditional health issues (2), it is far more 'uncool' to smoke in the UK now.

Although largely harmless, drinking caffeine to 'start your day' is a behaviour largely taught by culture. To further this point, Italian people in general have a far more prevalent culture of drinking espresso than British, with the existence of espresso bars (until recently) being a rarity.

I believe this has far wider implication that extend to the 'war on drugs' in the US. I personally can testify that growing up in a drug infested area, I was never tempted to partake in drug abuse due to family culture and my upbringing.

(1) http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/types/lung/smok...

(2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDAN7Oi62e0
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Gentoo had slightly fresher packages (I was running ~x86). But, arch packages are in principle more stable. I haven't had any major breakage with Arch for a few years now, while with Gentoo it was a norm to have breakages every month until I finally switched off.
It's neither shadowy nor really a conspiracy - but do you really want to deny that the results of research are often biased in favor of the organization funding it, and that the various alcohol-producing and -distributing industries have a lot of PR money between them?

"conflicting scientific data" does not by itself mean there isn't overwhelming evidence for one position - although that's of course exactly what those whose livelihood depends on that evidence being ignored want people to believe, in so many areas - be it the effects of alcohol, the existence of global warming, or the efficacy of homeopathy.

What counts is the quality of the actual science, size and rigor of studies, etc. And yes, I'm too lazy to go into that level of detail here.
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Whilst my gut reaction would be that this is the wrong decision, this - "However, the law at the time required a prosecution and, as such, long-standing policy has been to accept that such convictions took place and, rather than trying to alter the historical context and to put right what cannot be put right, ensure instead that we never again return to those times." - is actually a rational and convincing response.
I don't know anyone in here. I'm usually not submitting links, but among the very few I did submit, there was front page traction more often than not (if I remember correctly). So, yes, it's absolutely possible to "make front page" if that's your goal.

It's different when you're talking about your own project - I only submitted general news stuff. I understand that it can really sting if your project doesn't get picked up. There could be many reasons for it and, unless you're one of the top-ten superstars around here, I don't believe HN familiarity plays a big role in a story's success.

The main thing about the /newest section is that it is very low quality. It's dominated by spam and trash, so it's easy to overlook interesting stuff in there. Due to the high rate of new submissions a new entry doesn't last very long. Even good links vanish in record time if nobody sees them in the first few minutes.

In my opinion the main reason why good links do not get picked up is purely technical. Ideally, only accounts with good karma would be allowed to submit links to the queue and there should be harder limits on the number of things you can submit in a certain timeframe. That being said, HN's success rate is still pretty high regardless. Personally, when I see a "Show HN:" article I make it a point to vote it up (if the project isn't totally lame).
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Yes - which basically boils down to "if you are maths-centric enough to know which way ^ should bind, you probably shouldn't be working in excel"....
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Look on the bright side. Never before in human history have there been opportunities as abound today for finding resources, acquiring & leveraging skills and changing situations. Yes, there can be local difficulties. For instance I live in Romania where there seems to be a conspiracy against those creating and running small and medium businesses or start-ups. That's part of the reason why the country is so poor. Talented young Romanians emigrate in large numbers. Here, the dead hand of the state is all too evident. It is also increasingly prevalent in Western Europe and the UK. I contend that it is the ever-growing bureaucratic controls (mostly dictated by folk who have no appreciation of how wealth is created but are comfortably financed by those who do) that have created a massive disinclination for wealth creation on the part of the workers in the capitalist system.
This is perhaps the most naive statement I have ever read on Hacker News. Domain seizures don't have temporary consequences, and law enforcement knows this. Once they've seized the domain, they've done all the damage they need to do. Everything else is just window dressing. Tomorrow morning, the feds could release Kim DotCom, give him all of his money, apologize, and immediately return their domains, and it wouldn't matter. The site, and the multi-million dollar business behind it, are dead.

As much as prosecutors would love to, we don't put people to death before they are found guilty. We should not allow the equivalent to happen to websites without giving them the opportunity to present counterarguments to a judge. They should be given notice that the domain is going to be seized, and arguments should be scheduled. Domain seizures are far too easy to obtain given that they mean the absolute and total destruction of the target business, without recourse, regardless of the ultimate outcome of any trial. That is hardly fair and certainly not the way the US system of "justice" is supposed to operate.
I've been thinking the same thing over the last few years. Going to bed at 1AM every day used to be no big deal, but that's not the case now that I'm closer to 40 than 30. To combat this, I'm working on new routines - sleep by 11-12PM, alternating going to the gym and cycling to work daily and eating better (I have a serious sweet tooth). It's too early to see any results yet, but I believe it's going to make a major difference in the quality of life & work.

As another point of reference about sleep apnea, my mom got a CPAP machine in last couple years and reports amazing changes from using it. The sleep studies were a pain, but well worth the effort.
This does not mean that "due process" isn't respected, but that it is broken.
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You can summarize the whole article without loosing much information as following "Facebook uses what you post on your or others wall to deliver targeted adverts", there are no details and like.
Exponentiation is right associative because

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(using dot for multiplication because I fear that HN will mess up an asterisk)

So, a right associative exponentiation makes your expression language more powerful.
it's not a double standard, it's two very arguably different issues that people frequently confuse as the same. the zynga issue is closer to plagiarism, and copying is not the same thing.

people get really upset about plagiarism and see it as dishonesty or fraud, as well as theft. history is rife with good (or at least gray) works of plagiarism that people would miss, such as "make em' laugh" in "singin' in the rain," which is a complete ripoff of "be a clown" by cole porter. not a parody, a ripoff with no attribution. (porter never complained.)

still, you find a larger portion of humanity is pissed off by plagiarism, where more people think copies are copies are copies, at least they help make the author famous or rich as a kind of advertising if attribution stays intact.

plagiarism is less likely to help the author of the original, but it can sometimes. for example, i hadn't heard anything about joe satriani for about a decade until coldplay allegedly plagiarized some guitar riffs from him. i've listened to both and apparently you need to be a musician to tell. at least i couldn't tell.

i like that riffs get reused sometimes, and so i don't think it's always easy to have a black and white view about plagiarism. i've neither defended zynga nor joined in condemnation.