skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has the potential to be just as good a medium of account as any conventional currency. The common measure of value of bitcoin will stabilize when it is a more generally accepted medium of exchange.
Should be WiFi SSID Sniffer in 10 lines of Scapy.

Let's give Philippe (Scapy's author) the credit he deserves.
You are espousing one form of economics which many consider unsustainable.

Regardless, many assets are deflationary. Rich people buy real estate and commodities because they are deflationary, or at least not inflationary. There is nothing wrong with assets that grow or maintain value.

Bitcoin is a liquid and easily transferrable deflationary value store, just like gold. Telling people they should submit to inflation for the greater good is ridiculous. Inflation works because it keeps those too poor to have real assets on the gerbil wheel. The wealthy (or smart) just store their money in non-inflationary assets and sit pretty.

Besides, if you can't get better than a 4% return, you probably shouldn't be investing in whatever it is you're considering anyhow.
It's my personal belief that humans need to sleep as long as their body wants too. I'm the "No alarm clock" type of guy, and when I'm very tired from a long week of short sleeps and exhaustive work, I sleep a lot more the first night of the Weekend, and the day after compensate and sleep less, with no planning whatsoever of my sleeping time.
So I usually sleep 8 hours before waking up, and I feel great, I don't know why.
What I do know, is that if I set up an alarm to wake me up before that time, say 90 minutes earlier, I would feel bad for a good part of the morning.
I'm quite sure a lot of people (the average people) are experiencing the same natural time span of sleep. Hence the "myth" that 8 hours are good for you.
On a side note, my father sleeps a lot less than I do, and most people do, and I can honestly say that he's more tired than the average person in his surroundings. Now that might be linked to stress, but I'm quite convinced that a lack of sleep induces stress, so...
I think you have the right idea with the current pricing.

For hit-based entertainment apps that are going to sell 1M copies, you want to go $0.99 (or free) to make the purchase decision easy. The consumer of those apps is weighing that app against all the other entertainment apps available, so price is a major factor. With games especially, I can buy 5 awesome games for $5 (or even more with free-to-play), so why should I pay $5 for your game?

For a functional app where there's little competition (like yours), the decision is more about whether I should buy the app to fulfill a need I have, and much less about the price. Once you have someone convinced that they need your product and willing to pay some amount of money for it, you're already over the biggest hurdle. This is why many productivity and business apps are priced at $5 and $10.

If I understand correctly, you're going after a small market segment of passionate fans. In that case, the theory is that dropping the price isn't going to get many more potential buyers, so you can make a lot more money by charging each of them $5.
Clearly, since new land isn't being created anymore, everyone is going to shamelessly hoard real estate. Why would anyone ever buy or sell a house anymore? REAL ESTATE IS ALL A BIG DEFLATIONARY SCAM- You heard it here first.
Increasing the money supply helps one class of people: the bankers. It doesn't help the middle class, it doesn't help entrepreneurs, and it definitely doesn't help the common person. It's an insidious hidden tax.

I don't understand how something completely unsupported by the data is repeated as truth.

Historically, deflation is disastrous for everyone, and high inflation also disastrous for everyone. Moderate inflation has the effect of redistributing wealth from capital to work, and tight money the effect of redistributing wealth from work to capital. Compare Australia (loose money) to the Eurozone or America or Japan (tight money) for example.
That graph is utterly meaningless without a corresponding graph of income per hour of labor (in dollars).
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Well you are right (after making me go back and re-read it) "vehicle deliveries (sales)" So this is really a hat tip to the production/delivery team vs a sentiment on orders and demand.
With minor exceptions.

The LMI Lambda 3x3 was kind of a three user machine.
> I remember reading a book in 2004 discussing what percentage of medical industry profits went towards research and development, verses what percentage went towards marketing.

That doesn't even make sense. Neither R&D nor marketing come out of profits. Otherwise they wouldn't be profits...

Ironically, I can't get at that article because of a paywall, but my guess would be that HuffPo is defining "basic research" in a way that excludes most of the R&D spending (which undoubtedly goes to "applied research") and is defining "promotion" in a way that includes not just advertising, but things like the sales network.

The fact is that say Merck spends much more on R&D than on advertising: http://www.fiercebiotech.com/special-reports/7-merck-top-15-..., http://www.fiercepharma.com/special-reports/merck-top-13-adv...
From other articles I've read, there is some evidence to suggest that without artificial light, humans tend to break sleep into two periods--waking up in the middle of the night for a few hours.

Also drinking water before you go to sleep works as a natural alarm clock.
I've noticed that taking a sleep aid, regardless of the amount of sleep I actually get, is actually helpful for feeling rested when I wake up.

For instance, last Saturday night, no sleep aid, I fell asleep around 5am, woke briefly at 10am, and woke completely at 1pm for a total of 7 hours. Last night, I took some AdvilPM (instead of my usual 3mg melatonin) at 10:30p, was in bed by 11p, and woke up this morning around 8a.

This might be because the sleep aid actually pushes me into waking up at the end of a REM cycle; I can't ascertain that. But I've found that the amount of sleep I get basically doesn't matter. Before I started with the sleep aids, it was random and infrequent for me to feel rested. I've been taking them for about a month now and it's sort of amazing how much better I feel.

(Also, as an aside, the first sleep aid I tried a year ago, a tablet of Unisom, did absolutely nothing for me. Also, 5mg melatonin seems to be too much for me. More data points.)
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There are a few replies here that seem to be reacting negatively to the OP due to the tone of the submission instead of the content. To be clear, deflation is categorically bad for a currency. It's terrible, like great depression terrible. The reason it's bad is that deflation makes it more profitable to do nothing than to invest. When this happens, people react by not spending money. The market dies. While inflation can be bad, it's at least manageable. In fact, some inflation is actually heathly as it encourages investing.

If that doesn't make sense, think of it like this. Inflation is similar to nuclear fusion and deflation is like nuclear fission. When the former goes critical, you can just shut off the spigots and things more or less fix themselves(albeit with some collateral damage) without the whole system crashing. However, with the latter, there may be no fixing without dismantling everything and starting over.
I wonder how much symptoms of what is characterized as "lack of executive function" or "ADD" can be relieved just by getting sufficient sleep.

If you're a person who reads the description of ADD and says that it sounds like you, maybe a lot.

If you're a person who has the disorder, sufficient sleep is not going to make it go away.
I'm no expert in App Store rankings but isn't that quite expensive way of doing so? Assuming you pay it 10 times, you end up with burning 3000 dollars in Apple transaction cuts.

And I doubt 10 sales, will get you into top-grossing
Use a throwaway account when dealing on Alibaba your email is either sold or leaked and you will receive a thousand scam offers per second after sending an inquiry to a vendor.

I did manage to do a test run of 100 custom cellphones there though and it worked out fine. I had a friend who speaks Mandarin actually call the place directly though and didn't deal through Alibaba
Exactly.Wozniak had to be willing to go along on the ride.And he did it.Did he ever create a scandal or, I don't know, fight for glory with Jobs?No.He was always a humble guy and got the work done.No drama or anything.And he was well repaid.

We have plenty of young talented people in this world.But I already stated the problem in my initial post.
That statement could lead to some hot water/discriminatory hiring practice issues.
You got the logic right, but flipped the actors. The state isn't subsidizing electric cars, it's subsidizing oil and internal combustion engine cars. Nobody ever paid for the pollution and damage caused. The result is that we have been basing transportation on burning dead dinosaurs for over 100 years yet, and there has not been a single new car company in the US for that same period (until Tesla).

If you are looking for a very rough approximation of what a gasoline car needs to cost, scroll down to where someone explains the pricing in Norway.
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They could have at least provided IDs for the paragraphs so I could book mark where I left off. At 16,729 words I don't think you can call this a single serving read.
Just re-introduced my kids (8 and 10) to Scratch:

http://scratch.mit.edu/

Drag and drop visual programming. Its good for kids because it allows them to quickly create things that they're used to seeing/using (graphics, animations, sounds), but still uses real programming concepts.

At 5 you're going to have to sit with her and help guide her on concepts, but she'll pick it up quick.

Edit: Err, 5th grade, I see, not 5yo... sorry.
What's the cut of Apple in that kind of purchase and how many do they need to buy to get in to that ranking?

If it's 30% and 20, it's still quite a bit money.
> It seems that if you want to make a probability based game you ought to have at least a working knowledge of the basics.

People have been making games of chance since long before advanced mathematics. Being a statistician doesn't necessarily mean you can design a great game - the opposite holds as well.
Folk theories in other contexts provide the basis for crap like homeopathy though. It's hard to see how a folk theory could be as liberating as the truth. There's a tradeoff here between "investment in" and "utility derived from" that is worth raising an awareness of, but I can't disagree with the author that keeping people ignorant--even if it is convenient for both parties--is a disenfranchising force.
You need to fix sorting by disk usage as it doesn't take units into account.
On its own? No more than the sun coming up in the morning.

Which isn't saying "it's as certain as the sun coming up that there's a startup bubble.". I'm mean that, as far as startup-favorable actions go, this seems way too benign to signal much of anything. It could be driven by clueless end-harbinging followers try to cash in, but, on this article alone, it could just as likely be a small progressive victory, with the Canadian federal government doing something for a relatively voiceless potential constituency.

The Canadian government rarely leads anymore on "progressive" matters, so perhaps if you could trace the influence that got this policy through it would point to something that could better answer that question. I am not personally familiar with the opposing parties involved.
I believe we'll see some form of inflation through the introduction of new currencies. when the price (ie. deflation) of one cryptocurrency becomes too high other currencies will jump in. the outcome however is unclear, because we are now at an unprecedented point in history. because of the openness of the bitcoin protocol everybody has now the possibility to create his own currency - and the price of adopting a new currency will become marginal for businesses, thanks to new APIs. I have no idea what the long term equilibrium will be.
I so much hoped to find some dancing bananas in there...
The realtors were lying to you when they said real estate always goes up in value. ;-)

Jokes aside, any sort of investing in illiquid assets is fraught with risks. We are talking about a currency here which by definition requires liquidity to be useful, these are two very different things.
I always thought the game "lightbot" might be good as part of a intro course.

http://armorgames.com/play/2205/light-bot
Yes, to clarify, I started with the base CMUdict for syllable counts, but I had the program keep track of any term misses it ran into. This way I could augment its vocabulary. It also helped me find some tokenization bugs and also try some rules for dealing with compound words like "unsportsmanlike"
I think it's fine to have a promotion and do everything possible to get users to experience and hopefully buy your product (I would not be paying my own mortgage otherwise). But I disagree with the "free forever" term in this case. This is a free trial. Perhaps there is a small catch to it, but still a free trial in my opinion.
I just did ./configure && make && sudo make install.
If they trust you, they can do it with gold too. "I owe you an ounce of gold."
My dad runs a small plastic injection molding company. He's got a single bread and butter product they make, but he's always looking for new ideas.

Is there a way for people to easily connect with manufacturers in the USA? My dads shop is really small and hungry vs some shop you could find in a google search with lots of machines (and expensive)
I have mixed feelings about the (intellectual, sometimes snob troll/badger) Evgeny Morozov. Yet, I've read him enthusiastically for years. On par, he's important. Nothing wrong with sharp dissent.

Despite perhaps carving his own "media empire" by knocking Silicon Valley - he speaks truth.
Always worth reading.

This is the BEST essay I've read in a long time, and genuinely sorts out the history between "open source" and "free software".

I had no idea Tim O'Reilly actively barred Stallman from his early conferences, which crucially helped create the competing open source community.

Morozov is an extremely well-read intellectual (often requiring Wikipedia to grok his allusions) -- he's an important counterbalance to Silicon Valley stupidity (or perhaps, lack of broader education).

HN readers dumping on him (many without reading the entire article) is another sign of the intellectual decline of the quality of HN.
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My daughter 5/6th grade was using Khan Academy:

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I wasn't disagreeing with anything you said. I was trying to tighten up the language around "what is a currency". From a conceptual level, BitCoin is much more currency friendly than gold due to both divisibility and ability to process electronic transactions.
Wrote a few articles a couple years ago for HN on physical products here's one of them:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840896

elaborated a bit more here:
http://curtgeen.com/post/7575880635/expanded-part1-design

I've been out of it for a few years but if you have any questions I should be able to point you in the right direction.
Bitcoin will never be a government backed cryptocurrency they will make their own like Canada is doing. Governments want to track all money, and be able to print trillions to fight illegal wars bitcoin/gold standard prevent that behaviour.

To me bitcoin is excellent for e-commerce because of it's secure signatures you can use for escrow, proof of payment, decentralization so nobody can interfere with your commerce and safety for me as a merchant to prevent fraud.
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inflation is an absolutely necessary force in an economy; without inflation there is little incentive to spend money and as a result there is no real liquidity.

tl;dr; money is useless if no one spends it, that's the whole point.

another way to think about it is a stock. if a stock is priced, and no one is buying or selling at that price, is that price really valid? whats to keep another actor in the economy from pricing a stock totally different if there is a 'dumb' actor wiling to buy at that price.
But a key difference is that I have gold in my vault, and you have an oversold "gold" certificate, you can lose, but I can't.

When I have a dollar bill in my pocket, and the government floods the country with new dollar debt, my dollar inflates.
Kind of a ridiculous comment. I would buy groceries for someone and deliver them if they gave me 1 Bitcoin. I would also hand them my homegrown vegetables for a Bitcoin.
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Right, the point is to move this out-of-band information back in-band, so that

> How is linking now special in the sense that it can't be considered bona-fide JSON, if it is parsed by a JSON parser without error just like a shopping cart it.

Here's the definition of application/json: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt If my client accepts application/json, this is the only information that I can rely on for processing. Show me where links are defined in that spec.

They're not! Basically, we're having an implicit vs explicit argument: you're arguing that 'everyone should just know it's a convention I'm using, who cares?' and I'm saying 'By being explicit that you're using a convention, communication improves and everyone is more happy.'
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Depends on your investment strategy. Fads are nearly impossible to predict. So you have $100,000 to invest and this guy comes up to you with pet rocks. Another guy with toilets that sing. Another guy with shoes that play music.

Who do you give the money to? Any of these guys?

Just because fads exist, doesn't mean bad ideas don't. Banking on the pet rock was a huge gamble for someone and it somehow worked out. Fad toys must have 1 out of 100,000 success rate, if that.
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I always find this mindset amusing. You don't feel good about what you have you're worried about what you could have just over the fence but don't want to do the work to get it. If your car has additional features and you can write a bigger check to activate them then activate them. If not, be happy with what you have.
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Hey, what a surprise - the top comment on a HN post comes from a reader who dismisses the post outright despite failing to actually read it in its entirety.
Playing with it now, it's simple and straight forward. I'll see if it'll convince me to get more sleep. A couple things that I found odd:
1. What does the password color rectangle thing on signup mean? I know it had to do with password strength but the colors didn't make any sense.

2. I am doing a simple yes no question, it wasn't clear that checking the box = yes, and unchecked = no. I thought it was just missing a yes checkbox at first.
I agree with you. URL is just one kind of the things we need to quickly store. We also need short notes, pictures, blobs, sounds.. and for that, we need something like Evernote. Having an app just for URLs seems crazy to me. Just MOO.
Or Postgres.
The USD used to be on the Gold Standard -- that is, it used to be a proxy for Gold.

Using BTC as a "proxy" currency isn't unhealthy per se -- it's merely a transitionary step until people have adopted BTC more widely.
According to the American Haiku Society (yes, it exists), the syllable count is actually less important than including a seasonal word and a "cut" between two different sets of imagery. But that's a little harder to teach a bit of hack code to do... so...
Looks solid and functional. I think I'd definitely buy this if I was still into fantasy golf.

How did you alpha/beta test this? Did you use any frameworks/tools/hallway testing?
Absolutely, this goal is bad. I was just trying to show off the mechanics, and that clients don't have to be complex.
well maybe your content could take the entire page width instead of being in a 1/3 page width column , or is there invisible content on the right ? you should think about users who disabled javascript before talking about UI. that's UI 101.
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