skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And users. I suppose any win for users of iOS is a win of some kind for Apple too.
Am I the only one who read Friedman's paper? [1] The answer to OP's question [2] - "why are economists unaware of milton friedman's thermostat" - is because the OP is misinterpreting Friedman's paper, and therefore has misattributed this nonexistent "theory".

Friedman just said that the Fed acts like a thermostat, and in the linked paper, claimed that the period subsequent to 1985 had increased price stability owing to improvements in their understanding of inflation and it's relation to the quantity of money, hence their "better thermostat".

AFAICT, the OP has made up this "Friedman's Thermostat" insofar as it relates to economic forecasting, and now he wants to know why no one has heard of it.

As an aside, "exception that proves the rule" is an almost universally misapplied phrase, that should only be used if you're really really sure you know what it means (kind of like "begs the question").

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB106125694925954100,00.htm...

[2] OP = Nick Rowe - http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/abou...
Love this. A totally unique approach to what the iPad can be good at. I hope people at Apple take notice. It'd be great if webapps could opt-in to this behavior.
Just as much as the success of the iPhone shows the effectiveness of a giant pro-apple PR machine present in the world.
I wonder if the 5/4 meter of the XTC song "English Roundabout" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akrD84P_zxU (they're from Swindon and the Wikipedia page mentions that the song is a tribute) is a reference to the 5 external roundabouts.
<blockquote>If I remember correctly some weeks ago Kickstarter changed its terms and rules for running a campaign, in order to stress out that these are not pre-orders but just donations. </blockquote>

The current rules on Kickstarter provide an obligation to provide the reward or refund the backer, so the model is still (by the terms) more like a sale than a donation. There's a "good faith effort" requirement regarding the estimated date on which the rewards will be provided, but that's really not that unusual for sales-type contracts.
Digital Jubilee
I would be interested to know too. It would be nice if there was an open way to track listening data, but I assume it would depend on whatever APIs the music player would allow?
It seems to me that when people say "correlation is not causation", they typically mean you can't learn about a causal relationship by just looking at the correlation. The article makes the converse statement: you can't infer the absence of a causal relationship from the absence of correlation, or equivalently (contrapositive), even when you know there is a causal relationship, it won't necessarily lead to a visible correlation in the data.
One way streets.
Thanks. I did not see a box requesting my email address, only the privacy notification, which is why I started wondering.

I use an iPad 3, iOS 6, issue repeatable, open app in portrait mode, then rotate to landscape. Width does not adjust. When I open it in landscape more, issue does not present itself.

Edit: ah, found the box, it shows up shortly after launching the app, as a pop-up. The message in this pop-up (Please register and support us, it's free) is somewhat unclear. How does it support you? Also, I would suggest that you show that pop-up immediately after the privacy notification. OK, gonna to log in now!
I looked up a couple of sources for the facts I was interested in.

Extreme Poverty:

“Progress is within our reach. Since 2000, extreme poverty has been halved. This proves that with political will and the joint commitment of States, outcomes can be achieved. To succeed, we must redouble our efforts to combat new forms of poverty and social exclusion. We must also understand all aspects of poverty in order to tailor our response appropriately.” [1]

Life expectancy in Africa (2009):

"... the increasing availability of antiretroviral therapy has reduced the spread of the epidemic, and the mortality due to HIV/AIDS has been decreasing since about 2005, allowing life expectancy at birth to increase again: average life expectancy at birth, in Africa, was 51 years in 2000, whereas it was almost 54 years in 2009." [2]

[1]: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=43307&Cr=po...

[2]: http://www.who.int/gho/mortality_burden_disease/life_tables/...
Layer 1 - assembly to get the system to boot and communicate with hardware.

Layer 2 - C to schedule tasks, manage memory, provide filesystem support.

Layer 3 - C/C++ to provide a graphical user interface framework.

Layer 4 - C/C++ to render web pages.

Layer 6 - C/C++ to implement a Javascript VM.

Layer 7 - Javascript to implement a Lua interpreter.

Layer 8 - Game engine written in Lua.

Layer 9 - Game specific code written in Lua.

I wonder how much bang per Mhz this setup provides.
You can probably use their API to do so. If not, you can scrap everything without much trouble.
Rather than all the setup and teardown work that's done for every single partial, that work can be done once for the entire collection.
The problem was that paypal payments come in "from" the donor rather than paypal, and paypal was exempted but not all e-mails that were from paypal but listed as from the donor. This has now been solved.
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So it's not really a fork of Play v1, it's just inspired by Play v1.
A general general purpose device that can be programmed by the user to perform tasks beyond what was initially designed into the device.

This is my view, and not the only definition that exists. But if we want to avoid having to include every item ever produced in the last 10 years or so, the definition of a computer device needs to be slightly limited. Some Teddy bears nowadays has FPGAs in them. If everything from a stuffed toy bear to a 600 ton airplane can be called "a computer", "a computer" loses its meaning.
No wonder he is the CEO and you aren't. Think LOOOOONG term, in a few years Apple will catch Google for the most part (hello AAPL bank accounts and increase of usage!) and Apple will not depend on a major competitor for a crucial aspect of the mobile world. Google is the loser, despite Apple having a few growing pains.
Of the difficult data problems in the world, creating an online mirror map of the physical world is probably in the top three.

Let's say Apple tried. They didn't know how hard it would be, so they bought all the companies they could. They realized, "shit--this still won't be good enough, but we can't give in to mountain view." Their only move? Release 98% done maps anyway and hope Google misses the iOS map spying ad traffic. iOS maps is perfectly usable, but it's not perfect for every situation (park layouts, transit, inside building directions, more sane turn-by-turn routing).

Google has been doing massive data collection for years (mapping individual internal building layouts? street view gps trails by bike? insane on a world scale.) How can anybody possibly get close to the polish of Google's mapping data (varying wildly by country though)? Apple should have made every Apple Store a base of mapping operations. They should have sent people out with gps loggers to run, bike, walk, drive everywhere they could. Someday a company will buy google just for its mapping capability and toss the rest in the bitbucket.
Agreed. An analogy made by Friedman in a WSJ op-ed != established theory.
Raj Mathur, Hacker and Foss Contributor passed away
People active on Linux User Groups in India do not need an introduction to who Raj Mathur was. Raj Mathur, the guy known for his brutal honesty and principles, is no more with us. He died on 12.12.12 but will always be remembered as a lively and a humorous personality in the hearts of many open source lovers.
They had a Web App before (under a different name) and also dekstop clients. The team is made of amazing people.
I've had students in similar situations. They found a way and learned C++. Those who want to, can.
Not to mention they had to fire one of their VP's over it.
This is nothing. Try to look up many of the hospital in Quebec and it will send you to random places (car dealer, ice cream shop, etc...)
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This is just another proving of products from FAMOUS COMPANY will hit the top of the App store with no reason.
Maybe it is the time for iOS Map Developers to quit the business.
So, what will be the next?
I'm in the Yegge school, so far as I think that the mathematical ignorance and, more generally, anti-intellectualism of our industry is its downfall. We see it in the lack of design sense and the awful code that is produced. VisitorFactory nonsense is something that was invented by people who hated math and wanted to tear programming away from its mathematical/problem-solving roots with a bunch of junk complexity that adds nothing.

If you're doing simple things over and over, with the objective function being minimal rejection/loss rate, the anti-intellectual/industrial get-your-boss-off-your-back-oriented development works. Complex work is different. You need to invest a lot of additional energy into elegance and quality that most companies won't pay for.

However, what we do is so intensely collaborative if it's done right that we are teachers more than anything else. Not engineers or programmers. Our job doesn't end when we build the thing: we have to teach people how to use it, so that it's not mindless complexity being inflicted upon them (as is true of many enterprise products) but something that actually makes their lives better (most software doesn't, because bosses have a tendency to force people to use bad software and this makes engineers' lives, and thus products, worse). It's sad to me that this is an extreme minority viewpoint, and that almost no software manager on earth will actually pay for things to be this way.
Essentially, that's what happens when you take in outside investment. If you can build a cool product and bootstrap it, it need not be that way. Once you're taking in external shareholders, you're semi-bounded by their wishes.
"let's not make this more than what it is"
Which is?

I mean as much as you can discount this you must also for the same reasons promote it. Without knowing the algorithm used and downloads all we really have to go off of is release time and rating count and average rating. Both of which seem pretty good to me.
Amazon Instant Video iPhone App
How much money Apple or Google spent is not really an issue Both are loaded, especially Apple. And unless the egg in the face translated to lost sales, it will go away.

Never underestimate the power of "default" and Apple can tighten the screws on Google Maps to make iOS maps look even better. Bottom line is that Apple is working on their own maps and that's a major loss for Google.
I don't know about the UK, but in the other countries I've been to, the default roundabout is as you described. The "spokes" of the roundabout (the exits) are narrower than the roundabout, and only the outermost circle of the roundabout traffic can "peel off" into the exit. To keep from leaving at this turn, you need to go in towards the center, then make your way back out at the turn you wish to take.
Amazon Instant Video on Apple iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch
Yes, it's just a circular road which happens to have lots of roundabouts on it.
Were Bing Maps and Nokia maps #1 soon after they launched in the Apple app store, too? (or ever?)
That is an Apple win actually.
There's also the simple fact that programming literally is math.

http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/computational+trinitarianism
Maybe its because the people involved are actual reading the Kickstarter terms of service -- unlike the project creators who are treating the funding like a donation -- which require the project creator to provide the promised rewards or a refund to every backer who doesn't get the reward, and, by doing so, make the transaction more like a sale than a donation or speculative investment.

The problem is with project creators who offer rewards that they aren't able to provide when the project funds, usually because they are promising rewards that include the output of the project when they are funding development rather than production.

Given KS's terms of service, creators risk substantial liability to backers when they do that; the better model would either be to offer rewards that don't depend on project success for development, or use Kickstarter to fund up-front production costs after development is complete and offer rewards that include the project output; there's no reason the same project couldn't do both, using two different Kickstarters, starting with one for development and followed -- once development is complete -- with one for production.
"What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders," Michael Dell on Apple, 1997.

If everybody just "shut it down" every time things went pear-shaped, we wouldn't get very far as a species.
Algolia: Build mobile search/autocomplete that doesn't suck! Demo on AppStore.
> Google was refusing to release a turn by turn direction update to their apps.

Your choice of wording here is rather misleading. Apple wrote the old Maps app. Google refused to allow Apple to add turn-by-turn to the old maps app. We will never know the true reasons, but it was likely due to Apple refusing to relinquish control of what was displayed to the user.
Well as far as I know you are not allowed. But thankfully it is not enforced, if your phone is not visible nobody is not going to tell you anything. That doesn´t meen that somebody at the cockpit keeps trying to reset a computer with no results.
We don´t know phones are the cause, there is no way to know that unless you analyze all the signals of all the data busses and check what is going on.
Of course not all the malfunctions are due to the phones, but we have enough of them to tell you that phones have something to do with some specific failures we experience.
How much? nobody knows.
Well, no worries then. A few thousand people who don't get to hospitals or who end up in dangerous situations is not LOOOOOONG term thinking and can safely be ignored.
If everyone starts using Google Maps, then they'll never collect the user feedback needed to perfect the data.
I saw this too and found it to be a bummer. Does it work with Gmail contacts if you log in?

I hope they'll integrate the local iOS address book with the next version.
9. Any less has a negative productivity impact.
Awesome - congrats :) Packt is a really good company too IMO.
That's exactly how I've observed it working.

And because none of the defenders were wikipedia insiders there was nothing anyone could do.
Isn't every big roundabout the same? I drive via Old Street roundabout in London almost every day and it certainly is spiraling. When I took my driving lessons a year ago, my instructor was saying this configuration is pretty normal.
If you truly don't want to understand mining or how the blockchain protects the integrity of transactions, you can hold off on making cynical assumptions about its design. Early adopters to the network provided the computing power that lets the currency even exist in the first place. They also likely all sold their BTC years ago. The economic output of a few days of mining in 2009 could have never been more than a couple hundred dollars in today's money for even the best miners. In fact it has been a long time since mining had a good ROI, or even a predictable one.

If your deal-breaker is a centralized currency or your preferred economic theory then by all means ignore it, but I don't see how you need to care about its proliferation. Cash has the same properties anyway. Your dismissive/grumpy attitude reminds me of something Gandhi said about ridicule.
GE uses piezo jets to keep a laptop cool
Possibly. I read some absolute drek as well in a U of Chicago symposium on the subject...

Re: think tanks, isn't it something that even in supposedly less rigorous fields like, oh English literature, such upfront results-orientation would be considered the badge of unserious scholarship?
Edit: somehow I screwed up my response, should be a response to @kjackson2012.

Apple's main issues are with their location information from TomTom. If apple is able to partner with a company with better data, these types of problems should not be nearly as bad.

Here's where Apple's maps product is better... The maps are vector based so there is not such a huge dependence on a data connection. I live near the pine barrens in NJ and google maps is mostly worthless when I venture into that abyss. Apple maps has worked flawlessly for me there. Locations where data connections are poor, apple maps will probably be a better solution. Plus, Apple maps look nicer, but that is hardly a critical feature.

To say apple should just give up is silly. I've used google navigation since the first day the alpha was leaked. It has only been in the last year that nav has gotten so good (used to have maddening ui problems with the zoom going crazy). Apple's initial maps release is much better and more refined than what google initially release. Fortunately for apple, I think they'll get their data issues mostly fix in 2013 and have a very nice alternative to google maps.
Ah, right, we can reproduce that. Good catch, we will look into it.

Edit: We're showing the box 20 minutes into the app because we figure that if you don't want to use it for more than 20 minutes, you didn't really like it. But in combination with the privacy policy I can see how it seems disturbing - we might need to change that.

You're supporting us because investors keep asking us "how many people have registered with you". By registering you increase the number we can tell them.

We can also keep you informed about other potential future Appser releases which you might like. Like say Appser for Cloud9 IDE or something similar.
"The same problem exists with polls on the Internet as with quotes on the internet."
— Abraham Lincoln
I believe http://www.rdio.com/ is now available in Europe. They posted earlier this past Summer that they'd be launching across Europe "soon".
Sadly, this article gets some stuff about btrfs wrong. Allow me to clarify:

* First off, btrfs does not use "hash tables". Instead, it uses hashes to create keys that index into B-Trees. The problem is that hash collisions are not handled with an efficient approach. btrfs is forced to do a lot of work to deal with these collisions.

* ZFS uses two distinct data structures to represent the contents of a directory: the so-called "micro-ZAP" and the so-called "fat-ZAP"

micro-ZAPs are for small directories. This is OK as the number of collisions is limited by the relatively small size of the micro-ZAP.

fat-ZAPs are like on-disk extensible hash-tables.

They both use CRC64, I think that fat-ZAPs might have a problem.
Provide evidence that Hayek and Friedman are the dominant ideology in Washington.

If we wanted to try and accurately describe the economic policy by the government in Washington, you'd have to describe the monetary and fiscal policies. Both of these since 2007 have been Keynesian far more than the other two schools (Monetarist and Austrian).

This hasn't always been the case (Friedman was much more in vogue from the late 70s to approximately late 90s as measured by policies put in place).

Keynes General Theory could theoretically work as he describes in his book, but is unrealistic in practice because of the political dynamics in government.
>> I'm from the part of the world where everybody is driving on the right side

and all because of one Napoleon ;-)

I speak in jest. I know the story is apocryphal, but I am not going to pass the opportunity up - aka let facts get in the way of a good story [-;)
Why Google Hangouts dropped Vidyo for WebRTC
I assume your assuming Google Maps will just stagnate during this time? Or are you assuming Google Maps has already reached its peak?
"pseudo-random if looked from outside without context. That doesn't make me an artist, at least not in my book"

Context (explicit, implied, or ambiguous) often separates "art" from "seemingly random pile of crap".
You could, of course, also use the hex representation of the ascii url to obscure it:
http://www.google.com/finance/url?sa=D&q=%68%74%74%70%3a...
Do we really need IPv6 now? What are the benefits for the average user? Where are those apps taking advantage of IPv6?
Great startup management teams are built with interlocking parts
I've been worried about the same thing. A few months ago I scraped all my scrobble data from last.fm with a python script I found online: http://encukou.github.com/lastscrape-gui/

You can even move all your data to libre.fm. I didn't do this because a few of my music programs (ahem spotify) only support last.fm.
You have a point there. But going with your example, the ideal gas law (PV = nRT) still models a system where all inputs are known. While not a perfect model, it's much better for predicting the performance of a thermodynamic system than most economic models are at predicting economic systems.
When one first encounters factorials, it often is the case that one uses them to calculate ratios of factorials, the simplest bing n!/(n-1)! = n. This example is a natural one to think about recursively. The comparable examples for sums would be the difference of two sums ... and this is rarely done (except perhaps in the case of proofs of the sum of integers from 1 to n, etc.)
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> The more people are in the labor force the greater amount of total work gets done, and thus the richer we all become.

You're assuming they'll all find productive employment, which is far from guaranteed.

Besides, a robot doesn't need to sleep or rest, it doesn't complain about working conditions, and it doesn't take days off. The incentive to replace manual labor with robots is huge.
Nope, absolutely not. The problem is that they have a feedback system which is attempting to maintain a constant value. This could be a driver pressing the gas, a thermostat (as listed below), or the Fed trying to modify interest rates to achieve a result. The problem is, if you do everything right, and there's no economic collapse, people wonder why you need to exist. If there is, you're clearly useless.

I fall into this a lot, but I really hate the attitude of engineers and scientists believing that everything can be solved by approaching a problem a certain way. We have this idealized, fetishized approach that if you define all your axioms and have a rigid framework in place, you can solve anything. Of course, as soon as you try it in real life, especially in a field like sociology or economics (which, of course, we deride as not being scientific enough), it all goes to hell.

I would recommend that anyone who is of this opinion - that economics, psychology, linguistics, et al are not scientific enough - actually take a course in that area. What you find are: people who are experts in a field are really smart, yes, they have thought of that already, no, it didn't work. It's a very humbling experience.
it's not meant to be taken literally, it's one of many phrases to describe long tail events
This comes as no surprise, least of all Apple, who have been perfectly forthcoming in their acknowledgement of the flaws in Apple Maps.
What Marc Andreessen said to Quartz that made us sit up and listen
> Isn't the more apt question about what Android ship as defaults for mail and browsing as an anti-trust question?

There is no "Android default". It varies according to carrier and OEM.
Google Maps are vector based as well...