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When central banks target inflation (say 2%) and the economy is growing around 2% (thus 2% deflation) they acctully produce 4% inflation in nominal terms.

You're mixing up two different notions of inflation here.

There is the old-fashioned definition of inflation which calls any expansion of the "money supply" inflation. (With "money supply" in scare quotes because it's a pretty arbitrary concept, considering the multitude of very different definitions that exist.)

Then there is the modern definition of inflation, which is simply a different word for aggregate changes in the price level.

Those two notions of inflation are only superficially linked, and arguably, the modern definition makes more sense because it is what people are really interested in outside of economics.

On the topic of NGDP targeting, the blog Unlearning Economics has two enlightening posts:
http://unlearningeconomics.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/on-the-l...
http://unlearningeconomics.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/more-on-...
From the submitted blog post: "third, that I understood how ridiculous it was to say that I had no money. Out-of-state tuition at the University of Virginia is almost $50,000 per year, and my scholarship alone put me in the world’s top 1% of earners."

I liked the point in the blog post that a United States student at a decent university with full financial support for studies is, by that fact alone, basically in the top 1 percent of the world in income. When I went overseas (to Taiwan in early 1982), it was also to gain perspective on another country and another level of income, and to get out of my narrow American rut. I would go back there (or to many other places outside the United States) in a heartbeat.
Nice job! Looks awesome! Will have to try it out with my little one. I haven't seen the other apps that people say are similar, and kind of surprised by some of the not-so-positive comments. As far as real coloring books vs apps - I really don't see the dichotomy. I think kids are going to grow up with a mix of both, fulfilling different needs/purposes. Kudos!
This idea has some history to it, I remember reading that they tried to use this same analysis in the trials against Kevin Mitnick. Some clever sysadmin had recorded Mitnick's telnet activity (as it went across some crappy modem) and claimed to be able to identify him based on the timing of different keys. The judge threw it out as not being reliable evidence.

Wish I could remember where I read that; it was some book about hackers in general.
Anyone who can't navigate the submission process themselves, probably has a very low threshold for pain, and will likely not last very long doing business in the Appstore.
Bullshit, this isnt about culture. Read my response above.

The only possible cultural angle here may be coming from an academic background and having bizarre/naive ideas about business.
I use a combination of notepad++, webstorm 4.0 and visual studio 10 with resharper 6.0
Service means that you're serving other people. You can certainly be forced into that.
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Vim with a few plugins(snipmate, supertab, vim-powerline, nerdtree, command-p).
Tell me about it. :(
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AirSync (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doubleTwis...) does a great job of syncing iTunes. The rest I sync with Gmail (I don't use Mail.app - I find Gmail's web interface superior to any desktop client).
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Trying to scam Blekko alone, or all search engines?
Actually, "indent-nazism" is a big thing in the Go community. The Gofmt utility, which takes an AST of your code and normalizes it to a common style. Nobody agrees that the style is perfect, a lot of people have religious preferences when it comes to brace placement. But Gofmt ensures that all these people can find a consistent format when it comes time to diff.

GoSublime and go.vim both integrate gofmt into the editor; you start to miss it when refactoring, because you can just shrug and say "gofmt will clean it up when I save" when you move a block to a different function or indent level.

I agree with the grandparent -- seeing non-gofmt code is jarring and deliberately distracting. It's like someone writing an entire Python program with nothing but lambdas.
There are several distributed triple stores (triple stores are a specialised graph store).

http://4store.org
http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/
http://www.systap.com/bigdata.htm

There's a paper on 4store here: http://4store.org/publications/harris-ssws09.pdf
I'm curious, go back to live or to visit? If the former, why haven't you?
>What's in it for them? It's not actually a PR disaster for Apple; if anything, from a coldly calculated perspective, this is good PR for Apple.

That's pretty much it. There's basically nothing they could say or do that works out for them in either the long run or short run.

If they leave it up after the C&D/DMCA/whatever complaint, they could be sued. If they make a statement that's remotely in support of PRC's case, the story suddenly isn't PRC vs. Speak for Yourself, it's Apple vs. a little girl. If they make a statement in support of Speak for Yourself, it's suddenly PRC vs. Apple. None of those outcomes are positive PR. While the third is a feel-good move, it doesn't actually do anything positive with the case.

It's in Apple's best interest to just pull the app and stay silent until the courts decide the case.
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A hackerish question: how can you take advantage of it? Say, in stocks or online transactions?

(I haven't got time to read the article right now (but will do in a week when I'm less busy) and have little to zero experience with times, so forgive me if it's something that's been discussed in the article. I'm just curious.)
Ask HN: Why don't mobile sites automatically redirect to desktop versions?
I know there are plenty of services to redirect normal pages to mobile versions when viewed on a phone/tablet, but shouldn't the mobile ones be able to check for desktop browsers and make the reverse switch?
It looks like it's Gremlin only.

What triple stores have you looked at? 4store is performant, but doesn't support reasoning. There's also BigData and Virtuoso which support various levels of it, and Franz are apparently working on a clustered version of Allegrograph.
Apple now requires user permission in iOS 6 before apps can access private data
"I liked the point in the blog post that a United States student at a decent university with full financial support for studies is, by that fact alone, basically in the top 1 percent of the world in income."

What number are you (and the OP) referring to? Is it the $50,000 or the portion of the $50,000 paid for by scholarship that relates to living expenses?
>That these people, those who have their daughter threatened to be re-muted by Apple, that they still insist on using Apple's hardware is a mystery to me.

Well off the top of my head, going on stories I've read in the past two months: The Apple app store is about 2-3x more profitable than the Android marketplace. The fragmentation of Android makes developing cool apps using new features a nightmare, as about 4% of all phones are using the most recent version of Android. The Android Marketplace has had problems with piracy and illegal app copying that aren't as bad on the Apple app store. Stories of people more willing to pay money for iOS apps.

If you really can't understand why someone would prefer one development environment over another for reasons other than "freedom" (the irony of calling developing for the whims of a fickle, fast moving market supported by a corporation you like more than another corporation's market 'free' seems to be lost on you) then I don't think you can be reasoned with.
Take this sort of thinking to the limit, and you end up with a unification of a programming language with the OS. Lisp Machines and some of the first instances of Smalltalk were like this. (Smalltalk used to be an OS.) In this case, you don't ever parse text output from your shell tools. You just code directly against objects and streams and collections of objects.
I built some network security software in the early part of the 2000s. Around 2005, a local guy built a keystroke pattern recognizer utilizing neural networks to learn your keystrokes and was able to correctly identify who you were after a minimal amount of learning (typing). He brought it buy to see if we were interested in licensing it and using it in our product.

While somewhat of a black box demo, we were able to play with the technology. We tried a ton of stuff to fool the system (physical only, we didn't use keystroke macros or anything like that) and it would correctly identify us every time. It was showing us the probabilities as they'd change and it was uncanny how it would immediately know that I started typing instead of a coworker.

So, it's not only probable/possible/exists, it's only drawback is the lack of necessity. Outside of the the highly paranoid using it to prevent outside intrusions (government mostly), not many systems need it due to lower-end attacks that are much easier to do and typically successful enough.
Time is relative.
There is a whole document with hard & fast rules ("App Store Review Guidelines"). They introduced it a while ago.
Sorry how they are tightly coupled in backbone? I have a number of beefs with backbone.js but coupling between the model and views (or the views and anything) is not one of them. In fact I mostly only use backbone for the views and the convenient event binding.
No. They are guidelines. You can break those guidelines and get in, or follow them and get denied. I've seen this firsthand.
The author's style is not idiomatic for C or Go. He uses shortcuts for compactness at the cost of readability.

Normally this alone is not an issue, but using non-idiomatic code is a weak argument when trying to describe language readability differences.
Because until the last couple years, mobile was a second class citizen. A vast majority of the web is still desktop first, and therefore, the expected and default view. The trend that reverses this will likely be a mobile-first responsive design, where the site scales up automatically on the clientside.
I too find advertisements in general unsavory.
>If Speak for Yourself had developed an app for Android they would have had none of these problems. None. Zilch. There are several markets. There are several stores. You can install standalone APKs if you like. The nature of the platform protects you from the likes of Apple.

Yes, but it also protects you from the likes of customers and profits. Last time I checked that was still the case with Android vs iOS marketplaces.

Do you think developers are idiots that develop for iOS BECAUSE of the restrictions? They develop for iOS DESPITE the restrictions, because a) that's where the money is, b) more high-end devices and latest versions of the respective OS at more end user hands with less fragmentation headaches. Plus, as a API, Cocoa Touch is pretty hard to beat, not for easy of use but for sheer _comprehensiveness_.

That said, going with Android could have worked well financially for an app such as this though, where the customers have a real need for it that is more important than their preference in smartphone.

>You would at least think that they saw why choosing Apple is fundamentally wrong for any person who considers himself free. If you're not free to do with your own property as you please, how much of a free being are you really?

The concept of freedom, as developed in Greece and Rome, is all about influencing policy and not being under the will of another man. So, a better question would be: if you are not free NOT to work as an employee, i.e not to spend 8+ hours a day under the commands of another, then how much of a free being are you really? Or, if you are not free to have an equal influence in public affairs with Joe Billionaire and Jack Lobbyist, how much of a free being are you really? Furthermore, if half of your life is regulated, from non-smoking laws, to anti-abortion, to whatever, how much of a free being are you?

The "installing whatever on my smartphone" is really really low in the freedom list...
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Lawyer attacking The Oatmeal shocked by big mean Internet's reaction

The reaction of the lawyer is understandable, it being the sole prerogative of lawyers to bully hapless victims into submission and, if not bully, at least to trick and cajole them into giving them what they want and, if not that, in extremis, to get a true day in court for their client in which the victim can finally speak up, and might even win, but then the client on whose behalf the bullying is done pays in spades for the privilege of financing a futile process in which everyone loses except, of course, the lawyers who invented a system dating back at least to Jarndyce v. Jarndyce (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarndyce_and_Jarndyce) for the betterment of society and only incidentally for those who might take a modest profit from their humble efforts in the service of humanity.
I hope the iOS jailbreak scene can do something with them.
That is pretty awesome if you ask me!
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> I think you are mischaracterizing what is happening here.

I was responding to the notion that Apple's decision to only support a curated app store should be 'fixed' by the government because it is in some unexplained way 'illegal'.

You are introducing a lot of other issues that I wasn't trying to address.

If you don't like Apple's curated ecosystem: use Apple's Enterprise Program to distribute unreviewed apps or jail break your phone or switch to Android or switch to a Windows smartphone or start your own company and compete against all of them or don't use a smartphone or ...

These are all preferable to supporting the idea that there is something illegal going on that has to be remedied by a lawsuit.
Windows was a monopoly, hence the government didn't allow for this kind of behavior. iOS is not the only one, so you have a choice.

I, for one, am glad of the situation. No sideloading means less piracy.
What are you talking about? Graphics have nothing to do with it.
This is pretty much what we use, here it is with map and builds the element prior to dom insertion (better performance): https://gist.github.com/2932520
The real problem is that Unix commands produce flat text output without any information about how to parse that text back into structured data. Any user who wants the structured version of the data has to parse it themselves, but these parsers are ad hoc and incomplete by their very nature.

There are a variety of serialization schemes that are quite easy to parse and would be suitable for the output of most Unix command-line tools. BEncode from bittorrent would do nicely, and it's quite easy to parse. JSON would do nicely as well.

Better yet, unify the shell with a virtual machine that is used to implement the OS, and have everything available as 1st class Objects.
For anyone with 20 minutes to spare, here is a great video explaining the prevalence of the "Amen Break" sample.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac
Calendars are different than time. It's a little hard to think about; maybe this will help:

The earth is sort of an inertial reference frame with a single proper time. It isn't exactly, because it's orbiting, in varying gravity, and spinning, and has local gravitational changes, etc, but to a decent approximation you can write down an average time for the whole earth, which is the number of seconds since the epoch. That time is TAI.

Calendars and dates are things like "June", "Monday, "12:40:70.534 PM", etc. These are human-friendly names for times, and don't have to be precisely comparable. It's OK to have "12:00 AM" twice. It's not OK to have "143563534 seconds since Jan 1st 1970 00:00:00" twice.

Calendars are supposed to line up with things like seasons and days. Those don't last a fixed number of seconds; the earth is always changing. So we need to have a translation between earth-average-time like TAI, and human calendars/dates/times. There are a whole bunch of layers of translation between various time schemes; most of them derive from TAI and add some offset. UTC is basically TAI plus leap seconds, which keep UTC as "86400 times the number of days since the epoch, plus the number of seconds since midnight." POSIX time is derived from UTC. Local time is typically derived from UTC plus a timezone offset, which can also be modified by daylight savings time.

Those translations need to change and be updated over time, so we insert and remove leap seconds, leap days, etc. It doesn't change TAI, but it does change the mapping from TAI to human times.

Back when POSIX was being codified, we made the decision to base most computer clocks on UTC, which is a human time, subject to changes in that mapping. That introduces disagreement over what a given time means, discontinuities, reversals, etc. All of those make it difficult to do calculations around time correctly.
Draft in US will probably slightly reign in its tendency to throw armies around in one war after another on a whim. I think that is the outcome people tossing around the idea are hoping for.
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I am going to try it in the next few days!
True, so I'll take a shot at it. PC is a small, self-selecting group with a decent percentage of people that are adventure seeking do-gooders. If you make it through training there there is a very high probability that you are adaptable, self-motivated, and able to integrate into a new culture. If you make it to your post (most likely after a three day ride in a bus slightly bigger than an ice cream truck with a goat on your lap) you have shown a lot of courage and perseverance. If you are still at your post two (or three) years later then you have developed patience and humility. None of these things may make you "better" than anyone else, but they are traits that distinguish you for the rest of your life.
No not entirely. It acts like its being upvoted by the banned account, and to everyone else. It just doesnt actually count behind the scenes. If all you needed was 2 reddit accounts to detect if you're banned or not, it wouldnt be a very sound system ;)

Reddit uses an "upvote fuzzing" algorithm. All up votes you see anywhere on reddit are approximations influenced by the shadowban system. Only after a story has become old and locked, do the upvote totals truly stabalize to their actual levels.

The stories position on the site is based on the actual numbers. The numbers next to the story are just approximate though, to help fool banned accounts.

This is why things like Reddit Enhancement Suite that show upvote/downvote totals for comments are largely incorrect, and nothing more than a novelty.
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So you say there is more money to be had on iOS. I'm sure that is nice, as long as the one ruler decides that you are permitted to operate there.

I wonder how safe it feels doing working on a platform where you know that someone else, without any justification what so ever, can pull the rug under your business and say "so be it". You know, like we read about all the time with regard to iOS. Businesses dead because Apple declared them so.

Nice.

You seem to think that when I value Android over iOS, I do so because I prefer one corporate entity over another. That would be a false assumption. I value Android because the platform is open and will never own me.

I know this because I have cloned the Android git-repo, built it and deployed the build on my phone. From open source code to a working platform which I can use.

You will have to work very hard to convince me that this isn't open, that this isn't free and that somehow my preference for this platform is entirely corporate fanboying. If you somehow see that as "cannot be reasoned with", I think you may be in need of a mirror.
Now that would be magical - visit a website and start making comments, after a period of time it'd create an account for you with no input at all.

Now, visit it from a different browser or computer and make another comment - it would log you in as you again, somehow.

Errors would likely make it unpractical, but it'd be an amusing demo for the unaware.
Guidelines, but Apple is really sticking with them. When they reject an app, they always give a reason.

As for the ambiguity - there will always be some.
Are underaged engineers, under appreciated?
I've recently discovered ycombinator and it's wealth of informational responses and insights. Perhaps this breaches the guidelines of Hacker News, although I did not see anything that directly made me believe so.

I was born during the early 90's, as many others now breaking into tech careers were. However, I was a little different. I've been engrossed by technology and computer programming since the age of 7, and have developed my abilities for a total of 12 years.

I currently work as a software engineer for an enterprise level eCommerce company in the Seattle area. I take on a handful of the work along with 1 other engineer who is my higher up. I've been employed here for approximately 1 year and make a tiny bit over $30,000 a year with no benefits or perks. The average salary for a software engineer in Seattle is a little over $80,000 a year.

A lack of experience definitely does not apply to me. I've founded over 5 application startups, 2 of which I've sold, 3 which flopped since I was 15 years old. I've built entire application and scalable database frameworks from scratch, web applications, software, etc.

The 2 start ups I've sold:
- http://www.thesocialcork.com/
- http://www.useacademe.com/

So, what do you think? Are experienced, underaged developers less appreciated than older less experienced developers?
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For me it's between Angular.js, Batman.js and http://joosy.ws

I would prefer Batman.js, but it's so buggy and the developers seem confused, there is no roadmap and the docs aren't updated as the code is.
What sorts of initiatives are you referring to?
Hah, of course he doesn't want to live there! Who would!?

/bitter sarcasm
Money talks man. Offer to pay X months upfront. It's a tactic I've used twice to negotiate a rent discount. Be sure the upfront payment is documented.

Then again, how bad can you AND your girlfriends credit be that they won't even work with you?
why haven't you?

My wife (originally from Taiwan) and minor children (one of whom was born overseas) all have plenty to keep them busy and happy here in the United States at the moment, so we are all here together. As our children grow up, as our first already has, the whole world is open to them in their minds as places to live. My wife and I are each well adapted to the OTHER'S native country, so we frequently have friendly debates about where to live in old age.
tylermenezes is utterly right - I would up vote his reply 10 times if I could.

Dude you need to stop ignoring all the good advice you're getting. PG says the single most common trait to unsuccessful teams is that they get defensive and object to suggestions.

Grow up.
This is the principle behind Microsoft's PowerShell. Everything is .NET objects.
Good isn't it.

It's the "service" that really makes it I think.
Or, one could write a library of standard parsers and serializers for the Unix tools that would parse and produce known JSON representations of data that could be passed between scripts.