skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Inflation also drives the velocity of money up, and the interest rate down. And both inflation and demurrage are "continuously assessed," it's just that losses to inflation aren't immediately measurable.

No, inflation is measurably delayed and hurts the poor and middle class more than it does the wealthy because insiders have preferential access to credit, allowing them to benefit from inflation. Instantly and continuously assessed demurrage would remove that preferential treatment.

> Even if the timing of inflation/demurrage costs were different, could you explain more about the link between the timing of fees and the sustainability of investments? I don't see how the two are related.

Demurrage reduces interest, where interest can have negative/short-sighted effects. As the value of an investment is calculated by discounting future cash flows by the expected interest rate, a lower interest rate means investments generating sustainable cash flow are more likely to be preferred than a one-time ROI.

The classic example being clear-cutting a forest vs. sustainably harvesting it. The incentive is to clear-cut the forest when there are high interest rates, as the cash can be re-invested, whereas a sustainable logging model makes more sense as the long-term interest rate approaches zero.
You can't avoid this change, so yes it's forced.
There are three discussions about this on the front page :-/ .

I think this is just might be one of those things which would ticks us off as techies... but techies are the minority audience for sites like facebook.

Do emails sent to the facebook id go to the standard facebook 'message system'? If so, for a majority of people this will probably make sense... want to message somebody on facebook? You don't have to login to facebook! Email them at xyz@facebook.com. I didn't know you could do that, pretty sure a lot of other people didn't either. Now a lot of folks probably are updated about this feature.

In addition: non-techies who have accidentally exposed their private email id's will now have their facebook id's scraped instead... and the ones who exposed their private emails intentionally will change it back anyway.

However, all said and done... it could have been done differently.
Well I was using my gmail account to collect all the worthless emails Facebook sends me. Now I guess I will be wasting Facebook's disk space instead.

On the positive side, they'll be getting no data to mine since they already know what I do there.
Is it open source at this stage?

(Found the source in the jar file, wondering about publishing modifications.)
If this ever makes it to mass market, there will be some bloody knuckles on people who are trying to make small adjustments to the inside of their computer case while it is running. It's basically 100 butter knives spinning at 2000 rpm.
Whats your thoughts on the app MapsWithMe? I use it and it lets me download whole countries with surprisingly good detail.
The steps the wealthy take to mitigate inflation are what drive a large portion of our economy. Investing in stocks, bonds, angel and venture funds, etc. puts their money to use for the economy, allowing an entrepreneur to get funding for her start-up, so companies have more money to pay employees, so local and national governments can invest in infrastructure and services, and so a rich guy loses his shirt on some stupid or unlucky bets and joins the lower classes. Inflation, to a point, is a very strong incentive against hoarding cash, and provides much of the social mobility in our economy.
Wow - I like coderwall - UX is great
While I felt compelled to downvote you, I won't since you ask nicely. You should explain how it doesn't speak well for his judgment. Doing translation work isn't the same as programming on the pay scale, and any respectable employer should realize that when it comes time to discuss compensation for a programming position. In fact, I feel it speaks highly of his character in that A) he's motivated enough to continue with some form of work while looking for a programming job, and B) that he has the talent to do translation work in the first place.
Does it give you a friendly email address or is it just random numbers (or your fb id)? For instance, if your facebook username is "AznHisoka" do they display aznhisoka@facebook.com ?
Goodzer searches now in 500,000 stores, largest in the US
I'd really like to see you guys team up with someone like Dan Carlin (Hardcore History) or the guys at Crash Course World History to get more history material out there.

They seem to have the right levels of exceedingly INTERESTING history along with getting narrative out about why X is important or Y is to us today, etc
By your reckoning, that tweet also suggests we are about to go war with Bolivia.
Thank you, this is extremely useful.

I'm a programmer, I can handle some light graphics work. But I can't do music.
To further this logic, demurrage allows the effects of inflation but with naturally low interest rates, reducing the probability of a positive-feedback spiral.
I don't have hard numbers but given the popularity of web and mobile game engines, like Unity3D, there are numerous people entering the game development space. Music seems to be one of the most often requested areas and most indie devs either try to make it themselves or buy really crappy music. I figure I can offer them affordable yet high-quality music. I've been talking to a handful of social/mobile studios as well and have some ideas on how I'm going to change the business model to support them.
The website could use some optimization but it's a great start. I like the music that you've posted so far. One question, though: Would you consider doing short musical sound effects ("jingles" for lack of a better word)? For example, for level-ups or small achievements within a game. A lot of music is available for games but it seems tough to find decent-sounding musical effects that can be used in this way.
And so I will be closing yet another social media account.

It is nice that I have a specific reason (valid or not) this time, besides the usual vague feeling of dissatisfaction.
I think that perhaps is a phone skills thing though? You only have to be 1/5th as good if you can take 5x as many calls as you can in person meeetings

I'd say less than 10 people have ever asked for references.
This is well-stated by Garrett Hardin in his classic 1968 essay "The Tragedy of the Commons":

http://dieoff.org/page95.htm
Smooth move Facebook engineers.
I haven't been able to get it working on Windows 7. After much hoop jumping I've gotten stuck on this error while trying to run the jar:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: Can't change/establish root binding of: warn-on-reflection with set (compiler.clj:1)
There were people on the Bitcoin forums that proposed such schemes, but not one has been found to be free of exploitable attacks.

In the end, I decided the security of a fixed rate was better than the uncertainty that someone might come along and figure out how to game the system.
That's true.

The only thing that Reddit has going for it is that has a way to build new communities built in. /r/DepthHub, /r/math, and /r/askscience are doing just fine.
Maybe something changed in the last, oh, 5 days?
Obligatory jwz quote: ``Zawinski's law of software envelopment''

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

(obviously Myspace did not read mail ;-))

[EDIT]

In response to http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patrickaljord below, Myspace introduced email service in mid-2009. Perhaps the above should read, ``(obviously Myspace did not read mail back then when it mattered ;-))''
Yes of course Eric, it's all just liberal propaganda. We should all hate gays just like you since a bullshit article claims Turing was pretty happy. Certainly people who advocate for basic human rights are just "partisans".
Nice! Are you planning to make an Android app?
Are you running the jar with prod as an arg?

java -jar lighttable-full.jar prod
You can use any version at any time: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/nodejs-versions
If only.

Sharepoint may be an atrocity against good software, but it is heavily used in the industry. You would cry if you knew how much money MS makes off of it.
Wow those tracks really are cheap. $100 per track would still be cheap.
It didn't replace my addresses and there are two other stories on the front page about this, so it looks rather linkbaity.
Yeah, I am not that exercised about the security risk but it made a really bad first impression. I primarily use Windows, I wouldn't mind so much if I were Unix-based. Also, installing it in my Documents folder under Windows is weird.

On the plus side, I like the prototype itself and will be interested to see where it goes.
Clickable:

Here is what I think: http://notehub.org/2012/6/16/how-notehub-is-built

The app itself: http://notehub.org

GitHub: http://github.com/chmllr/NoteHub
We will probably use a combination of SSDs for speed and HDDs for storage for a long time. I don't think it's cost effective to keep everything on a SSD (like: movies), as the cost/GB is ~15x higher than the HDD storage. I have a combination of SSD+HDD in both my machines (desktop: first-generation 40GB SSD + 2TB 7200rpm HDD, laptop: 128GB SSD + 500GB 7200rpm HDD) and I get the best from both worlds: cheap storage for large files on HDDs and fast OS and applications on SSDs. Because of this combination I don't feel the need to use a bigger (and costly) SSD.
> "Yes, yes, repression, anti-gay prejudice, I know all right-thinking people are supposed to be horrified by such things"

You know, the academic jargon about "white male privilege" is kind of cliched, but this quote could serve as the poster child for what they are talking about. "yes, yes, repression, how tedious, how gauche to bring it up" when talking of homosexuals -- but try enacting some gun control legislation and then see if "repression" is something to be handwaved away.

Honestly, to see this guy as a spokesman for hacker culture makes me ashamed to be identified with it.
That's actually on my to-do list. I want to create a series of shorter "jingles" that can be packaged and sold as bundles in various styles (so you'd have a more orchestral set, an electronic set, etc). It's definitely something I want to have available sooner than later.
I confirm this as well.
> (obviously Myspace did not read mail ;-))

Except that it can http://www.myspace.com/guide/mail
Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks
These guys make a good argument that you can do just as much good or more by working a conventional job and donating money to nonprofits than by working for a nonprofit directly:

http://vimeo.com/32787159
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I am a hobbyist game developer, and this seems like a good resource (I have bookmarked it). Do you compose all the music or take in tracks from others as well?
I highly recommend making a version that does not rely on Javascript for simply listing the tracks.
That's REALLY cool.
Can you offer some constructive advice?

I've been actively seeking something paid at a higher rate using platforms I've already worked on (iOS or JS/CSS), but it's going slowly. Translation is good for helping me continue to use and strengthen my 2nd (or 3rd) language. The rails work is priced as it is because I've never used rails before and I'm spending at least half the time reading docs. It's not a good long-term money-making solution, but I am learning and I'm adding something to my portfolio.

What would someone with good judgement do if their funds were running out and finding a real gig was clearly in sight but moving slowly? Missing rent would bring all kinds of pain I don't want to deal with and wreak my credit.
Mine didn't get changed?

Perhaps this is just for people without an email?
Facebook Forcibly Changes Everyone's EMail Address to Facebook.com
There is a competitor...
The problem is, it's not enough to provide "you" the option. Many people have to agree to accept it together...
Does anyone know what their revenue/profit margins were like?
this is about spam protection like integrating IE into Windows was about making the install easier. Seriously, this is about getting marketshare for a failing product.
That's an awesome app. I would like to have their rendering detail and compression but settled for what I did to make sure I have an MVP. They focussed on map rendering quality and I focussed on travelers' needs. They were 4 guys working for a year and I was one guy with nights and weekends working for 2 months before launch.
On another note, I made my app free for a couple of days a few weeks ago and it became the #1 travel app in 18 countries and it overtook Google Earth on the US AppStore for a day or so. See my account on that here: http://blog.lightfighterlabs.com/how-i-got-45000-downloads-i...
> What is modern Perl? Python.

Ah, 'fraid not.

I am also a Perl to Python refugee. For most applications I get far more enjoyment out of Python. But try implementing Higher Order Perl in Python and you won't get past Chapter 1 without some weirdness. Using decorators, lambda, map, reduce, itertools, even generators all feel like bending over backwards to achieve what comes naturally in Perl.

This isn't an attack on Python. I'm just saying, Python is not meant for functional programming any more than Perl excels at OO, and that's why I disagree with your thesis.
Interesting. I guess I was mostly just focused on the bittorrent integration and block-chain pruning elements, both of which sound great for bitcoin.

Just did a very quick skimming trying to understand demurrage currency. Sounds very, very different from normal currency.

From a practical standpoint, would a two-step process make more sense:
1) Widespread adoption of peer-to-peer commodity currency (bitcoin).
2) The implementation of a second peer-to-peer currency on a different basis (demurrage).

Both of these seem like very difficult undertakings. And doing both at the same time seems like it would compound the difficulty.

Apart from Woergi, has there ever been a real-life implementation of a demurrage currency?

Excepting of course the natural cost of storing gold (vaults, guards, etc.). Which is easy for people to accept on a wide scale because its necessity is self-evident.
Same thing with matter/antimatter, and "white flight" demographics. Also, the more energy-efficient we make our technology, the more energy we will use in total.

Any tension not in a buffered solution will collapse to dominance by one-side.

This one, though:
> Why can’t everyone just agree to a family-friendly, 40-hour workweek?

You can choose to opt-out of the rat race, and still be happy.

Some other too. Yes, to a first approximation, there are no easy problems (or free lunches), so only attack problems you'd love to solve.
I meant that the coroner would have no need to test the apple given that he'd seen so much cyanide in liquid form in Turing's stomach.
> but Google pushing this fact is just plain sad.

Do you think it's part of some larger corporate effort on their part?

Seems like they need to talk to the employees who posted contrary statements in this thread. They don't seem to be on-message.

> Plus I was at the talk and it was sadly sadly corporate.

Wouldn't you expect someone highly successful in a corporate environment when asked about work environment issues to give you a very successfully-minded corporate type of answer?

The surprise to me would have been if she had given an answer like, "I only work 3 hours a day, then I exercise, meditate, spend time with my family, and get a good 10 hours of sleep. That's the kind of work-life balance that everyone can have and be filthy rich like I am!"

That would have been a great deal more surprising and interesting. Sadly, reality marches on and acts all boring and serious like reality tends to do. Work hard, eat your vegetables, stay in school, don't do drugs... totally boring. :)
Consider making some tracks free to use and share (with your name and contact info and "I make music for money for you" being mandatory to be kept). You can use a creative commons license for that. I haven't listened yet but doing this might mean ending up in free/open-source games and thus maybe being bundled into linux distributions. Great free advertising.
This is a great idea! One of the bigger stumbling blocks for me, as a hopeful one-man-studio, is that I am crap at making music. This could be the answer to that. Best of luck to you!
I compose all of the music at the moment, but as the business grows I would like to potentially bring in other composers and sound effect artists to offer a wider selection of styles.
Having trouble previewing songs on my iPhone, but this looks like a great resource. Will check out again when in front of a "real" computer. ; )
Because the energy grows on trees and it will be enough to sustain our civilization after it runs out of coal and oil to burn.
what an awesome idea!
Bookmarked it. I understand that you're a musician, and that's why you decided to start with music, but do you guys have any future plans of also providing other resources, such as sprite sheets, and that sort of stuff? This site has a great potential of being a one place stop for indie developers to help them get started.
I don't think it's very effective spam prevention. gmail.com and yahoo.com alone account for a large percentage of email addresses. Just add a few more to the list of domains to try, and there is a high probability you'll get something through.
That's exactly the issue I'm talking about: you can't “enforce” the static type, so different methods get called depending on whether you pass List foo = MyList(...) or MyList foo = MyList(...), which is acceptable for static methods, but a source of bugs when they can be made to look like instance methods.

> Scala has some neat stuff, but it's not Java 8 so I don't see how it's relevant.

Java's default methods are basically Scala's traits (just made a bit more cumbersome to make Java developers feel right at home), so what I said about traits applies to “interfaces with default methods”, too.
I have purchased a few tracks from Lucky Lion studios in the past for some personal projects (http://codeincomplete.com/) and been very happy.

I highly recommend them.

Good luck(y lion)!
Android has built in offline maps. Not sure about POIs not sure if the quality is as good as openstreetmaps for offline version. Given the app sales monetization for iOS vs Android is ~ 9:1, I need to come up with other monetization methods before working on an Android version.
Please charge more. My current (indy) project just selected the stock music for our project. I'm happy to pay $30 / piece. The site that we licensed our music from had pricing options as well. E.g. $30 for the full track, down to as low as $7 for a short loop or a stinger.

Also if you can make it easier to find what I'm looking for then I'll look first at your site rather than others. E.g. is the piece fast/slow tempo, instruments used, genre or style, etc.

Good luck.
The team, which was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2011 class, started off originally with the idea of auctioning off apartment rentals.

Auctioning rentals? Seriously?

Just what the world doesn't need: yet another tool to "help" landlords inflate rents by further distorting market data about housing supply and demand. Purchaser practices (like auctioning and credit discrimination) don't belong in the renter's sphere.

When will a startup build something that actually _helps_ renters?

the startup plans to make money from landlords based on the number of listings they manage using the platform.

Landlords tend to pass the cost of pretty much everything onto their renters, so let's make a theory about what this will do to the cost of rent in an area.
Thanks, that's definitely one of the more popular genres so I'm planning on bulking up in that area for sure.
It doesn't work with files from HNResources.com for some reason. Are textile files supported?
I'm curious about your choice of pricing.

My uninformed guess is that you can charge substantially more than this and still provide great value. Consider that $5 is about the cost of four minutes of programmer time.
Am I the only one who's actually happy about not having my actual personal email exposed (even accidentally) on Facebook?
$17 is quite a bit of money for a retail position. My first IT job, which required a 4-year degree and was salaried, worked out to be less than that factoring 40-hour weeks (which were the exception).

And given the fact that $25k is the number mentioned tells me that's the floor. $17 for 40 hours a week for 50 weeks a year is $34k. It's probably not unreasonable to assume that folks with seniority and/or in management positions are pushing $20/hr or more.
The "only" think Reddit has is an engine to sustainably produce new communities as good as the original Reddit, at the cost of providing a pile of chaff I dislike that thousands of people enjoy?

I would love to have "only" what Reddit has.
If you don't have a username then currently its your FB id although, if you do have a FB username then the @facebook.com email is the same.
Did you check your profile, not your settings? My email settings were unchanged, but on my public profile they were different and had been set to a facebook address.

I think it's easy to understate the importance of this, personally, and don't mind the multiple stories. I'm extremely annoyed at this - I don't want this email address, that I do not control, be published as some kind of contact point for me.
as a developer+designer team, this resource is going to be tremendous for us! thank you :)
I wouldn't describe watching a movie as useful. It's enjoyable. There's a distinction.

But hey, it's a funny app. I was just joking a bit. Obviously it's not meant to be something like Evernote. :)
To make it clear:

Groove -> Office Groove -> SharePoint Workspace (not SharePoint in general)

Office Communicator -> Lync (unrelated to Groove, internally developed from the start I think)
Clickables!

Here's the site: http://linkthing.co
Here's a screenshot of it in action: http://imgur.com/Etgkc
Here's the stub of a privacy policy: http://linkthing.co/privacy.php

http://linkthing.co/public/qaaab
http://linkthing.co/public/0haab
I have a Facebook username (first initial and my last name) but it gave me random numbers for my @facebook.com email.
> If so, for a majority of people this will probably make sense... want to message somebody on facebook? You don't have to login to facebook! Email them at xyz@facebook.com.

There are easy ways to advertise this fact, without changing anyone's personal info in their Facebook account. It could be as simple as adding the text "You can also send messages to JaneDoe@facebook.com" to JaneDoe's profile page.
In 99% of cases, ppl didn't reveal their private email address. NOW, people can infer your facebook email address from your facebook id... thus making spamming you much more likely. Facebook IDs are public, right?

You can argue people can already mass-message people, but now it's easier.
It's a big deal, and there's no "canonical" link, so it's not surprising that multiple stories got enough upvotes to be on the front page. Also if you had public email addresses, it hid them. That's not cool.
I will just leave it here: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/c24/page_16... and http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/c18/page_10...
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2754725
I feel somewhat the same. I'm 16 and have only been doing this for 2 years. I know several people my age who have been doing this much longer and who have had way more monetary success in doing so.

I'd say I have a decent amount of talent, and spend probably 75% of my waking hours increasing said talent, but I still feel sort of late. I often lie awake wondering if I'm already behind in my career.
My math comes out differently.