skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed it is odd that many people can agree the best way forwards for GM was to give the shareholders a total loss and the bondholders a severe haircut. But when it comes time for a country to do the same thing - everyone disagrees and says what is needed is for the original bondholders to be made whole by issuing new debt. There is not some miracle line where obvious solutions jump over to being wrong based on size. Defaulting on payments is a scalable strategy, from the underwater home owner to the overly-indebted bank to the hopelessly over-borrowed national government. It's not pleasant for anyone involved, but confronting the problem is far better than trying to sweep it under the carpet.

There has arisen a pervasive myth that only debtors should lose when creditors are unable to keep a loan performing. For sure, the rights of the creditor exceed that of the debtor, but it's plain wrong to expect a creditor not to suffer losses when extensive bad loans are found.

The problem is that, by being locked into the Euro, Ireland was unable to use the shock-absorber of a floating exchange rate. People rightly dumped their Icelandic currency, because they got burnt. The Icelandic people lost a lot of wealth. The Icelandic government rightly stripped the banks of their independence. But now the decks are cleared and people can get back to working and being productive, and getting their economy growing again.

Why people will continue to insist that the best measure for an indebted government is to borrow more money and hope for a miracle of growth to fix the payments is beyond me.

The only result from drunkenness is a hangover. You can resume drinking to postpone the symptoms, but they will always arrive, and the further you push it out, the worse it gets.
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And yeah, I agree, lot of work to be done, I was just looking for some feedback whether I should move ahead with this or not! Thanks!
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Hey everyone, I made this app to scratch my own itch of constantly wanting things to read but after spending a few months on it (nights and weekends) I figured some other people might like it as well. I crank though a few hundred content sources on my server, filter out the crud using some simple content filtering rules, publish it out and then Interesting picks it up. Not hitting any DBs or third-party APIs make the app's refresh happen extremely fast and I can add/edit sources whenever I want without needing an app update.

I'd love any feedback you have!
So this is where the profits from the patent litigation goes:

Myhrvold started buying equipment for the research kitchen in the Intellectual Ventures lab. Much of the equipment was standard cooking equipment, but it also included items such as rotor-stator homogenizers, ultrahigh-pressure homogenizers, freeze-dryers, a 50 G centrifuge,[1] ultrasonic baths, and rotary evaporators.[9] The laboratory already included other high-tech and industrial equipment,[10] a 100-ton hydraulic press,[10] a large water-jet cutter, an electrical discharge machine, and automated milling machines.

I can see the connection with Heston Blumenthal in terms of the science of cooking etc.

Myhrvold and Wayt Gibbs, an executive editor at Intellectual Ventures who served as the editor-in-chief and project manager for the book, also started hiring writers and editors, research assistants, photo editors, and an art director. First hired was Chris Young, who had just stopped his work of leading the development kitchen in Heston Blumenthal's restaurant The Fat Duck in England.
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Just in case you were wondering what kind of shots this rig can produce....

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My guess: Getting repeatedly cautioned and perhaps threatened by patent lawyers while CTO at Microsoft. To use the cliche, he could not beat them so he joined them. IV is essentially a patent law firm that is its own client, or a company legal department minus the company; it was initially funded out of his own pocket. In my experience very few business people like lawyers or litigation and no sensible business person would have been inclined to invest millions in an idea like IV. But a man with Microsoft money and a grudge to settle with the world of patents and patent lawyers... anything is possible when you have that much cash. Some guys build failed music museums shaped like melting guitars[1], others start acquiring low quality patents en masse, forming short-lived shell companies with cryptic names and threatening innovators with patent litigation.

Now that they are bringing in revenue a business person might see things differently; maybe IV looks like a sensible investment. But trolling is still trolling. As with a law firm, they rely on the patent system to make money yet they produce nothing. They rely on fear of litigation to drive their "business". How long can they keep up the charade?

1. Interestingly, he's no stranger to frivolous patent litigation either. However like his museum, his attempts at bogus-patent-based extortion failed.
It is not theft by any legal or everyday definition I have ever heard. Even if it were illegal, the crime would not be called theft. Are there any types of debt in the US in which a default is considered considered illegal?

Among the many differences between a loan and a theft, is that the transaction is entered into by the choice of both parties. Whether it is a true free choice is another question, as is the issue of fraud in creation or discharge of the obligation.
This isn't due to transcode issues. They use Silverlight to stream to full-function PCs (be it OSX or Windows). Microsoft hasn't made Silverlight available to the greater GNU community, so it's pretty obvious that they wouldn't distribute to Linux: their contracts with content-holders probably hold them to constricting DRM demands on the videos streamed to devices capable of ripping them off.

Don't blame Netflix for it. Blame the arduous contracts which must be negotiated in order for Netflix to carry the content it does.
It's not quite as nice but you can use http://tryfs.net to play without the silverlight dependency.

Edit: it seems to be under quite a bit of load right now, but usually works just fine.
Contradictory goals? Saving the world generally means selfless work for the common good. Startup generally means creating a new business with the goal of making yourself rich. (I know that will piss a lot of people off.)

But if your goal of saving the world works out, you'll get rich on the speaking fees.
I'm glad you were the one to point out that Krugman has become so fixated with denying the obvious that it has become embarrassing. Continually pointing out that Japan hasn't get gone broke isn't much of a defense when their economy - once the envy of the world - has completed two decades of stagnation and shows no signs of recovery.

Had Japan done a Iceland-style cleanout, they would probably be still striking fear into the hearts of governments and corporates everywhere.
Also cool, all of the samples on http://fssnip.net can be loaded into tryfsharp.org and tryfs.net with the click of a button.
Really? I'm pretty sure that's not true. I think I would have heard about it when I went through one of my spider-fascination phases.
I believe a lot of well-known people will start deleting their account as well. I don't think that Selena Gomez, for example, is comfortable with her pictures being used for advertisements without her consent.
Cool! Treskot: You should try it on a mobile
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Japanese firm lifts lid on Android-controlled toilet
I don't see why. If the Steam-DRM'd version of a game requires Steam installed in order to play, they can just add the Steam package as a dependency.

Possibly a bigger issue would be that Steam has incremental updates (fixing a bug in a game requires downloading a fixed binary but not the multi-gigabyte data files) while most Linux package managers do not support incremental updates (when Debian releases a new LibreOffice package that fixes some dependencies for the s360 archictecture, I still have to download hundreds of megabytes of changes on amd64).
Loving the toilet paper reference. :) Yeah the proof of concept could definitely use a lot of tweaking by us (@sc5io). For now it was obviously just a fun exercise for a few hours.
> ask if they would they say the same thing if it was a water company that needed bailing out

The difference between water companies and financial institutions is that if the San Francisco water utility goes under, you have to move to a new city. But if the bank that offers you credit goes under, you just send your checks to a different address.
No economist calls themselves a scientist. They call themselves economists.

The term 'austerity' is meant to apply to a government living within its means. These days it is applied to a government with single digit debt growth instead of double-digit growth. Kind of like how eating balanced meals is now called dieting.

It's true that you can avoid unemployment by borrowing money to pay people to dig holes and fill them in again. What is also true is that, without production there is no consumption. Digging up holes and filling them in is not production, ergo, consumption will not rise.

TLDR; J.B. Say was right. Keynes was wrong.
What's the difference between economists and homeopaths?

At least there's evidence that water exists.
I wonder if Elon Musk has ever spoken about Orion.

I'd love to live in a world in 2030 or so where a private shuttle runs Earth-Mars every few weeks using Orion technology, since it wouldn't then need to operate on energy-conserving orbits.
I wasn't being sarcastic at all.
I was using the term in neither the mainstream nor the technical sense, but in the Dr Sam Beckett sense. Oh, boy!
Storage is cheap. Edge connections are not. It makes sense to have 120 instantiations of the videos if that huge multitude is necessary to optimally serve the plethora of mobile devices out there: you don't want to be negotiating for the worst bitrate out of a 720p encode if the device you're delivering too is only capable of 480x320 and can only gain access to 3G networks.
They have a working Android application which uses native linux code to handle the DRM.

So Silverlight not beign supported on Linux is not the real issue here.
He's using 600D (which would be my choice as well for that kind of setup).

The cheapest one I can find is $439.

$439 * 50 = $21,950

Then lenses. Not sure which ones he uses. One of the cheapest lenses is 50mm/1.8, and it's a pretty good lens. They cost around $100.

$100 * 50 = $5,000

Then add a could of hundred for wiring and connectors.

Then add a few thousand for building the structure.

All in all, should be under $30K.
I'm a big fan of niche job boards (I run api-jobs.com). I think the pricing might be a little high without some broader distribution though. For instance, featured listings on my site are syndicated on ProgrammableWeb.

Either way if you can find an untapped niche, they're pretty easy to run for passive income.
In fact, it is not unheard of for us to re-encode the entire catalog when a new, better format or codec comes along, or we add support for a new device.
You can run it in mono (it's part of the standard package now) or you can give it a go on tryfs.net once the load goes down.

If you're on windows, there's an addon for VS2012 Express Web Edition for F#: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/fsharpteam/archive/2012/09/12/announ...
When I first heard the name "Safari"
on jobboard.io the bottom of the hero unit is sticking out: http://i.imgur.com/Kz9Cg.png (chrome v23 windows 7)
digeek is right -- they have GPU instances too.

We don't actually use the GPU instances yet, but I think I heard we're moving over to them (need to check on that).
Stop calling them "our patients" and saying you are done with medical school. You submitted a post 227 days ago saying you worked in your dad's doctors office doing various IT tasks. Don't claim authority of passing four+ years of incredibly difficult schooling followed by several more years of intense residency. You don't deserve it so don't claim it.
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> App Store did a really bad job on app discovery and promotion, so I don't think they deserve anything on marketing

I have never understood this argument. It's a bit like saying "WalMart does a bad job promoting milk discovery, so I think they should sell it at cost."
I'm a happy customer, a shopify partner, and a developer on your platform. Thank you for an excellent experience in every possible way.
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He's ruining small companies using a tactic that is objectively unfair, and then using his ill-gotten gains to sate his own gluttony.

He'd need to have a long handlebar moustache and tie heroines to railroad tracks to be more of a cartoon villain stereotype.
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But this supposes there is some line, that, if crossed, means that you must make creditors whole, even if that means handing people who didn't make bad decisions (ie, the public) the bill.

If this line exists, then it would be interesting for people to suggest at what size the line lies at. Because I believe the line 'too big to fail' is a weak defense of vested interests making sure they aren't left holding the bag.
I don't buy that... and he knows he's villifying himself in the tech industry.

Perhaps I'm a bit of a romantic but I think he's doing it on purpose. If you know the game is rigged, and will have massive effects on the future of technological development, you have quite the motivation to show the flaws.

To anyone doubting me: think about it. We all know IV, these connections to shell corporations are new but they are also inevitable. Why wouldn't they play it slower? Why wouldn't they make sure there was no overlap?

These are technocrats; they know the smallest smudge can haunt them. Do you think the tracks were left by accident?
The company that did tesla's configurator charges 300k/year. Yowza.
VIA: http://www.functionn.in/2012/12/multigraph-interactive-data-...

Interesting JavaScript graphing library. The examples are very impressive, with loads of functionality depicted.

Love the panning and zooming as well. Good stuff.
>Netflix has a limited catalog... YouTube has a much larger one by many orders of magnitude.

Youtube offer their videos in vp8 along with h264.
Intellectual Ventures is a company who own the rights to large patent portfolios. Rather than use the patents to, say, make something useful, they sue or threaten to sue other companies. For various legal and PR reasons, they file suits using "shell" companies, a company wholly owned by Intellectual Ventures and which exists only or largely on paper.

They are exploiting a vulnerability in the system for profit and at the expense of system resources, stability, and usefulness.

There's no requirement that a private company disclose all the various names under which it operates, so the only way to list all the shell companies used by this one operation is to correlate thousands of public records held by the Patent Office to see which companies can be linked to Intellectual Ventures.
Sorry it isn't working. You are correct, it is the problem is the mp3 support. Getting the audio to play cross browser hasn't been trivial. We'll look into mp3.js.
Is this "android" browser on a phone? If so, which phone is it?
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I wonder if KickStarter would have been developing something similar already. If they do, the integration would be much smoother and would definitely hurt their business.
While I'm generally against RICO as law, this seems like one case where it would be reasonable to apply.
It'd be great if the animation worked with CSS3 in addition to or instead of canvas. I'd love to use some of this on my site without requiring a whole embed.
I think you missed the point of that whole exercise... Latvia and Estonia have tiny, almost insignificant economies, literally smaller than 49/50 US states. The lessons there are clearly not applicable to the US, or if you prefer, policies for the US shouldn't be applied to either of them.

Additionally, they aren't doing "pretty well" with austerity by any honest metric. Even four years after the GFC, their GDPs are still below where they were in 2007/2008, significantly in Latvia's case. Unemployment is extremely high (From 4%/6% in 2007 to 10%/14% today) and wages have fallen.

Where is the success story here?

Lat + Est Unemployment: (https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z8o7pt6rd5uqa6_...)
Lat + Est GDP: (https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...)
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Arguably most of the tech industry (at least people over 25 or so) already hated him due to his role at Microsoft, so he's used to that.

If he is actually engaged in a "long troll" against the patent industrial complex, then he's worthy of approximately every science and economics prize in the world. I just don't think that's his style, though.
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I highly doubt that just because its supposedly covered under TOS that they'd start using celebrity Instagram pictures against their will. There are plenty of reasons for them not to.
Funny, sound's like a strange Azurecombinator
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1. I don't see a reason for Steam to be installed per-user. (First, the client ought to be a standard binary/assets that can be shared between users. Second, the games should too, though I know games currently are per-Steam-user in Windows anyway so I understand that game installs would be installed per-User, but that can easily be done by a globally installed Steam executable).

2. I'm pretty sure path prefixes can be used and the same set of pkg management tools can be used to install in user land. I've done it in the past into an env I was chrooting and minifying to power a picture frame.
Could you help me, please? Static analysis of C++Builder and WinRT projects.
When will input and button size classes (e.g. input-xxlarge) be normalized as hinted to in the current docs?
Not sure what you mean with "bare sensors", a sensor won't do you much good without shutter, lens, and a way to control the aperture?

To go cheap, I'd replace the DSLRs with webcams. It sacrifices resolution (obviously), but reduces bandwidth and computation requirements, and lets you play with the effects until you get a client who can foot the bill for a high-res version.
instead of using patents to invent new things, they use patents to sue people and make money.
Ah.. nope, SuperDevMode is a very recent invention from GWT 2.5 - it uses Chrome's new source map tech to allow Chrome to overlay and debug your java code inside Chrome itself. Firefox will soon have the functionality too which will let Firebug work directly on Java code.

https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/articles/superdevm...

I agree very much with your last statement though - hacking something together with no concern for future changes/requirements in Java nearly always ends in catastrophe.
Brooks does talk about this topic in "The Mythical Man Month", but this isn't what he calls the "second system effect". The "second system" is the second significant system you build in your career, not a re-write of the first system. Brooks' "second system" was OS/360, written after he had worked on an operating system for an earlier machine.[1]

The idea of building a prototype and then re-writing it is what Brooks talks about when he says "plan to throw one [version] away; you will anyhow."[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect

[2] http://www.robelle.com/smugbook/manmonth.html
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> The usual way to address this is to add additional, easy to prove thresholds that let a case be dismissed without consideration of involved questions.

This, absolutely. Giving defendants an inexpensive way to challenge patents which should not have been issued and get the case dropped would basically end this nonsense as soon at it was enacted.

As it is now, the only reason trolls are successful is because they know any legal costs are going to be far more than what they are attempting to extort, so the economics force most businesses to concede the fight.
I like the fact that they split the keys into different steam keys this time than grouping them together. Allows me to do interesting such as not unlocking Binding of Issac DLC at the moment (already owns the original Binding of Issac).
Steam has a package so dependancies can be satisfied easily without resorting to "install xyz beforehand", and it runs an installer into your home folder because the user has to be able to modify the games directory for many, many games on steam, because stuff like configuration, custom maps, custom models etc, is stored alongside everything else.

Also steam has diff based patching (which requires accress from whoever is running the steam binary) which makes a lot more sense than how package managers operate for large packages, imagine downloading an entire 20 gig game every time there was a minor bugfix, it would be very obnoxious.

Unless the design of both package managers, and how steam games store settings/etc both change radically, this really is the only workable solution.

Luckily, you will still be able to share steam folders cross user, just simply give both users read/write access to the folder.
Huh. You guys must have quite the rendering farm for that, eh?
From the article: "Apart from the film title, its content had not been edited, as pointed out by the China Digital Times."

I imagine if there were changes (even if they were small) would have been called out.
Also, dropbox + grabbox + facebook + twitter + ifttt === awesome
This is irrelevant to whether they are allowed to support the EFF or not.
Hi rficcaglia, I would like to buy you a pint, or lunch, or coffee or something. Are you in the Silicon Valley area? Your email is not listed, but mine is. I am interested in natural language processing and machine learning in the medical field. Would you know anything about this?
This is exactly what i was thinking. Had Instagram been on its own, there wouldn't have been such an uproar. This is nothing but Facebook at work.
I see quite a lot of art -- not being exhaustive, but for photography, I've been to solo shows by Jeff Wall, Cathy Opie, and Robert Mapplethorpe, as well as various historical shows at the Getty. James Welling, one of the photographers in the book you cite, was on my wife's MFA committee. So I'm utterly unimpressed with your fragmented list of URLs.

I didn't say photography was unimportant. I said that it's hard to defend your statement that photography is the most important of the arts. I don't see you defending that statement.

I do see you putting words in my mouth, with quotes as if I wrote them ("at the cutting edge"). It's a tautology that photography is at the cutting edge of contemporary art. So is painting. So is multimedia installation.

Your last note ("does art exist") is puzzling, because nobody here said art did not exist. I did say it's hard to define, and lots of artists are working to keep it that way. Is a sculpture made of fingernail clippings art (http://strose.lunaimaging.com:8180/luna/servlet/detail/StRos...)?
EC2. 1000s of instances. :)