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Keynesian is saving money during booms and spending money during recessions. Yet during booms the money saved is too little and during recessions the money spent is too much.

Too little or too much with respect to what?

you (...) pay down your debt by (...) printing money

There is a misunderstanding underlying this sentence which probably explains most of the hyperinflation-phobia that is going on. The truth of the matter is this: both physical money and treasuries (government debt) are liabilities of the government. There are only two differences between them: (a) coupon (interest payment) and (b) maturity.

Paying back the debt by "printing money" is just exchanging one maturity for a different one. There is nothing inflationary or defaulting about that. Heck, the US government could just stop issuing bonds with long maturities altogether and it wouldn't change a thing (except for altering the maturity/interest structure of the financial assets held by the private sector). All this debt you're seeing is money that has already been spent.

But remember, the purpose of Keynesian approach was to smooth out booms and busts in the economy, yet what we're seeing is making them lasting longer and falling harder.

This may be your personal impression, but if you look objectively at the actual data, you'll see that it is incorrect. Whether it can be attributed to Keynes or not, both the frequency and the magnitude of recessions have been much lower since WWII than before. Just before the GFC, some economists even had the hubris to proclaim the business cycle dead.
> If it's just Adobe WhateverIUse that breaks, sure, people will blame Adobe.

Not a chance. People will blame Microsoft, because WhateverIUse worked perfectly before. The only parameter which changed is that they updated the OS, therefore the OS is to blame.
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If you are the kind of guy who likes HN, reading http://lesswrong.com/lw/6pf/new_post_version_1_please_read_t... and following up on its references may not be the worst idea. (This is empathically not a recommendation or endorsement.)
Does anyone have a clue why Amazon never pays any attention to graphic design if its pages/products?
I'd like to see some test based on a real-world scenario. A few dozens of images on one website is a well known HTTP issue and it's fixed with CSS sprites.
Consider that the same money could have paid several times over for a Mars Direct style program and permanent stay on Mars. The key to Mars (as opposed to the Moon) is being able to make your fuel from the Martian atmosphere, with an input of (solar?) power and some materials brought from Earth (5-25% of total mass). That means vastly cheaper upper stage, allowing for a for a continuous presence for a fraction of the Shuttle budget.

More here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDWvsdEYSqg
Also, a presentation on Mars Direct http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T52-Qu78TjQ&feature=BFa&#...
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Ok, I fully agree that music industry business model is broken.
But internet business model is also in its infancy. Using advertising to finance does not work for everything. Internet has also difficulties with business models.
It hasn't held them back. I wonder if it's a case of their services been so unique, cheap, competitive, etc. or if we overrate design and it's not really that important. I tend to think it's the former, but it's an interesting example.
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Are pretty sites necessary? I ask because most sites I go to on a daily basis, like HN, Google properties, Amazon, etc are relatively bland.
I wish it was false; I really wish I was bullshitting.

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As far as I understand it's actually been deprecated and being treated as not a bug by the chrome team
The idea is good for Sony. A cheap way to make sure that the latest android apps are working on their device.

But the to and fro shipping and the full charge on loss of phone kills the deal.

I wonder what these companies do with the phones that are later returned ? Or better, what they do with the phones that are trade in by customers ?

They should be providing it at a discount to the developers.
OT - I'm seeing more OSX based screenshots of cross-platform tools. Is it just for aesthetic purposes or is there a trend where more and more devs are starting to use Macs?
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Wow.. had a similar idea riding my bike today but using canvas.. http://jsfiddle.net/MNFV8/
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Not nice of google to try to change the ways of the web without prior discussion. Some people may store these URLs in bookmarks for convenience. What's next? disallow the javascript: protocol maybe?
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I just skimmed Outliers book by Malcom Gladwell. One of the things author discusses are differences in number systems in different cultures. He argues (in fact quoting Stanislas Dehaene [1]), that in eastern languages number words are shorter and faster to pronounce.
Thus, you can hold more of them at a time in memory (short term memory is very time sensitive).
You could say that you dont really need to 'pronounce' stuff to make mental operations, still they have sensory form (be it visual, auditory,...), so argument holds.

He also brings up the issue of regularity of eastern number systems making it much easier to do calculations in these languages - to an extent that it gives eastern children real advantage in math. Developmentally speaking.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislas_Dehaene#Numerical_co...
Well, at work I use Cognos. But it is clumsy and it forces you in its paradigms. Instead, when I dream or code (I am learning to code, I am a finance guy), I am making demos for things that should provide a better way to explore your data: http://andemo.ep.io/.

Basically, my issue with corporate analytics is that there are no apis. Everything has to be accessed from its software. SAP data stays in SAP or goes in some 90' data warehause system.

Another issue is that data is stored in multiple versions in different files across many users locations (Excel files madness). This drives people nuts and I can't understand why don't we already have a BaseCamp for finance and analytics.

A third issue is that people are mixing data and views. This makes usually data in, i.e. in spreadsheets, completelly unuseful for other analysis, you basically have to copy and paste data from the fancy templates to a clean file to use it. Views should be web based too, not to enter the 'update this file periodically manually' hell.

Once you have apis, it's a matter of building apps to consume them and eventually to make snapshots of your data (you don't want to recalculate monthly billings at every page request). Your specific need, for example, could be solved with a fancy web based pivot table (the sort you have in spreadsheets) that accesses json data...

So, finally, if you find or start an interesing project of this type, let me know as I am interested to join!
Thanks for posting these ideas. Here are some thoughts off the top of my head, train-of-thought.

Band Generator - There's something I love about this. I don't think Fandalism can just "generate" a band any more than LinkedIn can "generate" a startup. That said, it seems like musicians are always looking for the equivalent of marriage (a band) when I think it might be more fun to just have a several one-off trysts (random jams). The latter isn't really something musicians do currently. Which is an obstacle. But maybe there's a way to spark this behavior using a "random person to jam with this wednesday" generator.

Worldwide Music Battles - In theory this sounds really fun. I recently did a contest with Interscope records to promote the new Van Halen album. Musicians performed cover versions of the new Van Halen single in exchange for the possibility of fame and fortune. There weren't as many entries as I was hoping for. I think it comes down to musicians as artists -- and artists want to be free to create. They don't want to be told what to play. I think. Or maybe they think contests are cheesy, and your idea is more legit. I'll experiment.

Collaborative Online Recording - I think indabamusic.com does this. At least, that's the impression I get (I haven't used that site yet). It's surprisingly non-trivial to just throw a drumset recording over your bass line. To get a good drum sound you need a few mics, a mixer, recording software, EQ & mixing skills... it's really easier (and more fun, for me at least) to just jam with people in real life. And record it.

Thanks again for these ideas. They got me thinking and I'm sure I'll use them in some regard as I build new features. Same goes with all the awesome comments in my original post.

I'll keep blogging as I add new stuff to Fandalism. I plan to add a lot of stuff that was suggested in HN, in one way or another.
Once you have all this data, simulate mouse clicks on the next and previous buttons to paginate and get more data. It’s all a tricky process, very hacky, but you’re getting really valuable data.

If you go all the way to simulate mouse clicks, why not OCR the prices off the screen? I guess that's somewhat simpler (I used to do it for a poker bot, there's a few open source screen scraping tools available). Maybe there's more information available in memory than is shown to the user, of course.
Another storm in a Hacker News glass of water.

Who cares you are not a 501 developer? The "manifesto" says 501 developers don't wont to be pressured into doing something they don't want. There was no pressure on "super-extra-ninja-coders" such as yourself to conform to a 9-5 schedule.

So again - who cares if you're not a 501 developer? Nobody. Sit down, shut up and stop inserting yourself into discussions where you're not supposed to.

Translation, in case you don't get my rage:
Person A (501 guy) - "Gee, I'd really wish people would stop looking down on me when I leave work at 5 PM."
Person B (that's you, by the way) - "OMG YOU COMPLETELY LOST ME I LOOOOVE CODING IT'S AWESOME I'M SO PASSIONATE ABOUT IT OPENSOOOOOURCE RATATATATA"

I mean seriously, who was asking you? Did you think that somehow people forgot that on HN there are a lot of people who can't take a breath without writing a line of code? I really don't see how your post follows up logically, it's just a waste of bits. Good job asserting you're a 501, we got it, thank you. Now carry on.
And you don't have an easy to find out who he is? Or mail him based on his username?
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This is exactly what I am talking about, I'm "not ready to leave C++".

C++ certainly has it's faults, and some of them are quite painful. However, I find there are things I can do nicer in Haskell than C++, but some jobs call for an XORed linked list, or implementing trailing by knowing my underlying types are C and just calling memcpy, and I can't do that in Haskell.

At http://minisat.se/ , you will find Minisat, an (in my opinion) neat, easy to read(ish) and highly efficient C++ program. I've seen numerous people try to turn it into Haskell and all they have ended up with is something less readable, and much slower.
Knowing-how-to-use-HN fail - anyone have a link to the article he's replying to?
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Agree. But usually business rules and exceptions boil down to filters and look ups on the dataset. It is difficult to keep up with that mess from outside, but if you deliver a way to make look ups and filters efficiently, maybe you got a solution.
Pylint is used internally: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.logilab/1075
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Yes, but there are several major security advisories since 0.8. Any support worth their pay would be using the latest version.
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There are three separate things going on here: The standard "6 dB per bit" is the approximate signal-to-noise ratio with a flat dither. Then you can use a shaped dither to increase the dynamic range at some frequencies at the expense of others (the SNR actually decreases as the dither is louder overall, but quieter at frequencies the ear is most sensitive). Then in a real-world DAC there is analog noise getting in at various points in the circuit, so that is what limits the end result to 111 dB.

So yes, the main reason to use a 24-bit DAC here is for volume adjustment, so the lowest bits are well below the analog noise floor, not above it like they would be for a 16-bit DAC.
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That's good and all that, buy what about latency? That's the killer these days.
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No - I don't think they'll remove it. I was talking to one of their developers about the idea that they might make it public a few months ago, and it seems that they did.
Hey Dom,

you could try looking at

* SAP Business Objects Explorer - http://www.sap.com/germany/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/sme/...

They used to provide a feature that will directly load your data and let's you simply specifying your fact and dimension tables and than you can directly run your reports.

Maybe it's worth a try.
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8 is due out this year, XP dies in two years, so providing 8 is stable at the end of 2013, and the interface looks like it will support business productivity perfectly well, then yeah, jumping to 8 would make sense. Particularly as that way there would be longer until we have to make the next jump.
In the post he states that he'll be publishing measurements of latency in his next article on the ODAC.

In the comments section he writes:

"The total hardware latency of the ODAC is approximately 1.6 mS (it should be under 2 mS worst case). But that's just the hardware. You have to add whatever latency the driver (ASIO or native UAC1) requires for buffering, etc. I'll have more information in the next ODAC article. I haven't yet tried it with DAW software."
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Yes, the known unknows. Everybody knows about them, but strange enough we all seam to be ill-prepared for them. You just have to look up new aerospace developments of late:

F-22, JSF, the Kiowa repalcement, the new tankers, A400M, NH90, Eurofighter, Rafale, B787, A380, B747-8, A350... you name it. Almost all of them were over budget, late and ran into serious technical and performance issues. Not all of them were due to design changes. And even if, when you know that certain changes are going to blow your development apart you just don't ask for them as a customer.

A good counter example is the F-117, that one was, aparantly, in budget, on-time and did what it was supposed to do. My theory is that it's the grown bureaucracy that it messing it all up. In the F-117s development there was none since it was more than just top-secret, they took what was available and turned out good. I know that one example doesn't make a proof, but it's pretty cose for me.
Why not add a 'Book me' button?

Plenty of people might be interested in being able to get one of these awesome people to come and play at your party or have a custom song recorded just for you.
But a product (generally) with a two-year lifespan. Android phones should all be ICS by 2014, hopefully.
Is it dumb of me to ask "so why isn't NASA working on terraforming bodies yet?"

It seems inevitable, and like we may as well start spitballing now. Send a few rooms that attach to the surface and dig in, practice in there remotely.
"80% of the funds collected are dispersed to the software vendor and AWS Marketplace charges a service fee of 20%."

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GP here. Whoa, just had this insight: maybe part of the maturation of a profession is developing practices that work well despite these counterintuitive effects (even if they aren't recognized/formalized as such - see bevan's follow-up too http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3860950). These are really hard to derive/infer because they depend on unknown probabilities (because you have no analytical solution to the "game"), and you just do a lot of experiments and develop a rule of thumb. They are informal heuristics. I saw similar approaches in machine learning in my grad school.

Change makes it harder for programming, not just that you have to keep relearning, but new technologies change the tradeoffs (e.g. plan vs. hack; performance vs. dev time). The rule of thumb shifts over time. Perhaps we'll develop a meta-rule of thumb...

Go is a vivid metaphor. Other disciplines have traditions/conventions/practices that are taken on faith, and aren't even noticed, let alone questioned or "proven" - because they can't be, without a sufficiently complete formal model of their world. Personally, I've found agile-like pragmatic conventions work well: focus on specific concrete things that are clearly needed (YAGNI); start before you are ready, it will become clear as you go along.
Almost all OLAP products provide this simple functionality, but it's almost impossible to find where it is because it is hidden under layers and layers of "added value" in the form of tools to extract, transform and present that data in flashy executive dashboards.

My first advice would be, don't try to build the fancy executive level dashboards, that's the component of the system with the least ROI, in spite of being the most visible for upper level management and thus likely to be the one that is easier to get funding for. The dashboard should be the top of the pyramid, but without a solid foundation it will be an exercise in frustration each time anyone wants to go deeper into any of the numbers.

The problem with these tools is twofold: first, they are targetted at big enterprise buyers that are not the end users. They are strong on fancy and simple features that do not scale well when your analysis becomes real-world complex. Second, all those fancy tools break down under heavy data loads. So in the end "these are my dimensions, these are my facts - now generate my Cube here so I can go datamining" works only during the executive demo.

You're usually better cherry picking up components from these suites that work well enough for you, and building the missing pieces on your own than trying to fully try to shoehorn one of these suites into your needs. Or maybe your needs are simple enough that one of these is good enough for you.

And finally there is the problem with data quality. Perhaps in the startup web-based application world this problem is less relevant, but it's not unusual for large organizations to invest heavily in large OLAP efforts only to find later that they should first have invested heavily in large proces, application and data cleanups. Garbage in, garbage out, no matter how fancy or cube structured the garbage out is.

Which by the way, I think that the cube is a fairly good structure for end users to work with. The only caveat is that have to make sure that they are able to link the data in the cube with the underlying transaction-level entries that make it up.
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what I mean is that it is just like running 'python' in a shell, not that each instance spawns a new one
What would be the value in competing with OpenCL? CUDA and OpenCL ship pretty much an identical feature set with small changes in the API. The biggest difference is that OpenCL requires you to use buffers+offsets where CUDA allows "pointers" to GPU memory.

It's nice that Nvidia has CUDA so they can go ahead and expose functionality in new GPU's without having to (first) deal with OpenCL standardization. However, for the long term, it would be better if we'd stick to OpenCL so at least parts of source code can be shared between CPU's and GPU's of different vendors.
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