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An argument you hear a lot, particuarly from Keynsian economists is: bitcoin is bad because it's deflationary like gold.

In the past when we were using gold, like during the Civil War, we couldn't pay soldiers so we went to greenbacks (paper money like today). That allowed the soldiers to get paid so we could continue to fight the war. Gold obviously has a physical practical limit that can be traded and transfered. When a gram becomes worth so much it buys a house that makes other purchases of food and bills become impractical and people stop buying, and when building a billion dollar construction project moving it and protecting it has another set of problems and overhead. Bitcoin does not have the division problem--a single coin can be divided into pieces 10^8 pieces as the code currently works. That can also be changed in future versions to be divided even smaller. Ie, when one bitcoin can buy a house, you can just pay 0.0000001 for your stick of gum. So, we are then left with the argument, "Oh My God people won't buy because of the psychology that 0.01 coin today that currently buys a pack of gum being able to buy a car in the future." But, that's almost true now with savings and stocks and people still spend their money today and go into debt. Everyone knows if you save starting in your early 20s compounding interest it will be worth a ton more in 10 years, 20 years, etc.

Loans clearly have issues in a deflationary system. If you loan someone $10 today and that's worth $100 tomorrow how do they ever have a chance to pay it back? Payback would have to be on some growth rate where you owe "less" the longer the life of the loan with some interest built in. Venture Capital also would have issues, but if the rate of return on investments is greater than growth of the currency price that wouldn't be an issue either and one would expect it to stabilize over time.

Inflation is built into the current model to encourage investment and prevent concentration of capital. Clearly, given the wealth divide that isn't working (blame exploitation of 3rd world or robots). The argument from the anarcho-libertarians and socialist-libertarians is to try something new.
Because of facts?
It's a good point. Coupons were a pegged currency (with fixed exchange rate to commodity or to other currency). The same wrong assumption that made Bretton Woods failed.
I think the article would be the same no matter which tool he were using. It's about a process of fast iterations in design, which is possible when you're this comfortable with the tool. I'd compare it to using dev tools to mock up a website, it just reduces friction for something you could do manually.
Isn't the title a bit imprecise? It seems the article is about leveraging things you learn playing starcraft to better use some software tools, not how starcraft gives you lessons about good design.
Something's going horribly wrong, I'm seeing a screenshot of code to read and parse CPUID.
If relevant, in the archive.

A link to https://us.pycon.org from a post dating back to 2008 now redirects to https://us.pycon.org/2013. But that is on a domain basis. Hypothetical: python.org/pycon could always show the most current event, with a link to an archive, if you'd want to read the announcement page of the 2008 event, for whatever reason.

If you use python.org/pycon-2012/ and it gets 1000s of links, then you lose all that if you create a new URL python.org/pycon-2013/.

This does depend on the event of course and how bad it is reduced in relevance after its date has passed.

Compare:
/search-engine-ranking-factors-2010
/search-engine-ranking-factors-2011
/search-engine-ranking-factors-2012

or a catchall:

/search-engine-ranking-factors

Showing the most current one. An URL like above will collect links from all the years, instead of spreading it out over multiple years.

P.S.: If you register pycon2013.org then domain squatters might register pycon2014.org pycon2015.org etc.
Playing Starcraft is an excellent analogy to playing the piano while also playing chess. I won't speak for designers and Photoshop, but for general computer usage, both strategic thinking and expressive hand-eye coordination are particularly useful skills.
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I longboarded to and from work on that path everyday for almost a year over 2011/2012, and never smelled anything :(
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Apparently pinterest does it via
<meta name="pinterest" content="nopin" />

You could honor a 'content="nopin"'. It's be interesting if that became a standard (similar to nofollow or robots.txt).

[1] https://help.pinterest.com/entries/21063792-How-to-prevent-p...
It doesn't work out of the box though. Have to run this:

ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/subl
My friend who's the leader of our counter-strike online team. (We play ESEA for money) Put that on his resume for a manager position at an apple retail store and ended up getting it. I'm sure it wasn't directly related, but it definitely helped.
Betabeat is the only other news site that has covered it, and it's mostly covered it by recapping Gawker's reporting. Someone submitted a link to a BetaBeat before but it was flagged off:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5492145

Most controversies related to personal conflicts and allegations are usually flagged, not just in this particular case (many of the Adria Richards-related submissions, for example). I wouldn't chalk this up to a conspiracy to protect Arrington or being anti-Gawker as much as HN's editorial stance on these topics in general.
I doubt this is censorship, HN has exhibited similar behavior for me in the past when linking to friends' blogs and self-hosted pages, seems to me that it's just a simple bug, no big conspiracy
But Google's domain name isn't misleading. github.io still gives the impression of github-backed content.
Another post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5492145 was flagged and killed after not even 10 minutes on the front page
I think so. I've had a deadspin story I submitted disappear, even though it was on-topic. (It was a story about satellite feeds glitching under certain conditions.)
Japanese culture has a much smaller 'power distance' than US culture, we pay our CEOs so much because our individualistic culture rewards the superstar unlike almost any other nation in the world. You can debate over whether this is good or bad (it's probably bad when taken to this extreme), but it is an essential part of The American Dream.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstede%27s_cultural_dimension...

for more info on Power Distance and other variables that can broadly define a society.
Yes, I just submitted one, logged out and it was gone. HN may be censoring the links based on the resent surge of Arrington posts, however. Who knows.
I see. I thought they could limit the cookies to the github.com root, but they already have stuff like gist.github.com.
Why not publish it if you publish the article? It's not as though someone else would be unable to pull the very same data. She isn't explicitly calling any of those VCs zombies, just noting that they meet one of her core criteria.

You're implying that information which may not be used wisely by the reader is unprofessional to publish.

Furthermore if those firms are healthy they have nothing to fear.
I use sublime text, its good for general text editing and some light weight scripting.

That said, this is what I don't get....

Why choose a light weight code editor then add 30 plugins to it?

I've tried this approach with sublime text for Java, Groovy, Ruby, JS, etc. I honestly don't get it, IntelliJ / Rubymine / PyCharm kicks its ass in every way I've tried to look at it.

It seems there is some instilled fear of the term 'IDE' that scares people away or people just really enjoy piece-meal assembling an IDE. But for me, JetBrain's stuff just works 90% of the time and the last 10% is easily filled with plugins or an open terminal. Anything that just lets me code efficiently without a lot of mucking around is gold in my book.

If you like the minimalist approach, more power to you, Sublime Text is awesome for that. If you like the 'almost everything in one app' approach, I'd highly encourage you to at least try some IDEs, especially JetBrain's stuff. Eclipse sucks, no doubt, but not all IDE's are like Eclipse.
I generally find that rephrasing "you are" to "you have" is powerful. "You've said something racist" vs. "You're a racist"; "This paper is written badly" vs. "The authors write badly"; "You have an addiction" vs. "You are an addict". etc.

Separating the action from the actor seems to make us a lot more willing to quit/change our questionable actions.
It's like 6 hours of your work if you are really bad paid, I use my license for 2 years already, it paid off on the first day.
Regarding Lift: good news, we received a pull request for that earlier this week. Too late for this week's run, but we'll try to get it in next week!

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/pull/44
You can learn enough VIM to make quick server edits in about 5 minutes. I know about a half dozen VIM commands and that's enough for me to edit files on servers pretty much every day.

- Arrow keys
- i
- esc
- o
- shift g
- cw
- /
- :x
- :q!

Done and done.
I can't afford it right now, but when the day comes that I'm making $70 per hour using it, I'll have no problem paying for that license.
Well that's sort of the point of Pinry. We don't have to deal with it, it's up to the individual who hosts their own Pinry. We don't maintain that user's servers or have anything to do with it. If you want a completely private Pinry you can and then no one will ever question copyrighted photos because no one but you will see it.

If someone has a copyright complaint with a public Pinry it will need to be directed at that individual because we really have no control over it and even if we did honor something like a nopin tag it's open source, it'll just get removed if someone wants to post copyrighted material.
Not all gawker-related domains are banned. There was a frontpage story from i09 a couple days ago:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=io...

And Kotaku is still allowed as well: it was the top story (regarding LucasArts shutdown) a couple days ago:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=ko...
Not true. Done multiple initial meetings that have lead to investments. This is one of those myths that is silly and wrong-headed.
Of course, you want different behaviour for the links if youre not on a mobile device, or are and dont have the game, or have the game installed. These links dont help with that.
Its not that much as APM as comfort with the tools you are using. Most great programmers are great typists and are master of some text editor, so that the tools won't get in the way and you can actually concentrate on the hard things without having to be thinking how to do the easy stuff.
And the whole "donglegate" story didn't go against that same stance?
Google heard the message but apparently their data suggests otherwise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q... – which is really hard to believe in regards to .io domains.
Have you visited the UK? There is universal health care, and there is rampant homelessness
Relating skill to Starcraft's ranking system was a nice analogy–it's easy to visualize/see in practice on a site like Dribbble along with the described improvement over time. Conversely, it's also easy to pick up on some designers constantly playing the same card.
The problem wasn't anticipated, and the fix has been to enable showing subdomains on only on certain domains, mainly blog hosts like wordpress, blogspot, tumblr.
That's the thing people feign to ignore: SublimeText might be the rage these days, but TextMate was the bee's knees a few years ago and has now been replaced. The reason for that is that despite being expensive, there was no guarantee that the maintainer would put the effort needed to make it a world-class editor fully capable of competing against the big boys.

SublimeText seems to be the same kind of editor: you pay for it (a hefty price), it brings you features, but it's still very young, non-standard, non-ubiquitous and seems to be going at too fast a pace for its own good.

My bet is that as good as it is and as much as it wants to be the new vim or emacs, those editors will still be around in 20 years from now, because they've been thoroughly tested, augmented, improved upon, they're free in all sense of the word and they benefit from HUGE ecosystems of plugin developers, sane choices of underlying language support for scripting and customization (vim less so than emacs but you get the point), i.e. they deliver HUGE value.
> JavaScript code is some of the fastest interpreted code around, and projects like asm.js take that even farther.

That says something about market forces, but nothing about the language. JavaScript is the fastest dynamic language because it was the language that was most profitable to optimize.

We don't have any real-world comparisons to other languages where an equal amount of brainpower was spent on optimization so that we could see how the language itself affects things.
I was once a 13-year-old girl and loved writing short stories and learning about business. Some books that worked for me:
- The 4-Hour Work Week, by Tim Ferriss
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad, by Guy Kawasaki
- The Magic of Thinking Big, by David. J Schwartz
- Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey

One not super related to business but a great short read: Vagabonding by Rolf Potts. That book taught me to think creatively about my goals and not to allow traditional expectations to stop me from accomplishing them.
nice, i guess it's some other issue then :(
Obviously I can't argue against "problems" you can't be bothered to enumerate.
LATEST links in this topic:

http://gawker.com/5993695/techcrunch-founder-michael-arringt...

http://www.inquisitr.com/605219/the-michael-arrington-abuse-...

http://betabeat.com/2013/04/new-allegations-emerge-against-m...

http://www.policymic.com/articles/32719/michael-arrington-ra...
Back in the 90's TI had a processor, maybe a DSP, I am not sure about it, which used a form of light C as their assembler.

There wasn't an Assembly language available as we tend to know.

I don't remember the name of the processor, though.
Yes, I can confirm this. I just tried submitting a link and it died.
Exactly- So the claim that deflation (i.e. decreasing prices) will hurt liquidity is false.
That would be awesome. Plenty of people already have their own weather stations... why not detect pollutants too?
It's a real pain that "project pages", i.e. serving the gh-pages branch from username.github.com/project aren't being redirected, for example: http://nightworld.github.com/odlnorth just 404's

Is this an oversight or am I missing something?
How much value do you expect for $70?
Ok, let's say I will honor nopin. But isn't the legality still in question, since it is not user-submitted content? Or can I be safe when the pins will be "small enough"?
As for editor wars, I believe using plaintext editor for editing code is ugly whatever the editor is. Especially, if the editor (like bare ST2 or bare Vim) has very low understanding of code semantics just enough to highlight the code and do most primitive type-ahead suggestions.

Unfortunately, there aren't many structured editors/IDEs that operate on AST/ASG instead of blobs of plaintext. And, sadly, none I could subjectively call good.
I'm fairly sure Gawker.com links are auto-killed. That's the issue here, that no one other than Gawker is covering the story.
Ask HN: I finally ditched Windows for Ubuntu - How do I keep things secure?
I'm a Python programmer who finally got fed up enough with Windows to take the plunge.

The thing is I'm totally new to Linux, and am pretty paranoid about security (former Win user, remember.) I really feel like I'm flying blind here.

I know the standard, glib line is that you don't have to worry about security once you leave Microsoft, but I have a hard time accepting that. It seems like I should be installing Anti-virus, anti-malware, and firewall software.

Does anyone know of any basic intros to Linux/Ubuntu security, or have any tips?

Thanks in advance.
It's already happened. See litecoin.
i find it interesting that some users on here think stories are being censored; it happens about once or twice a month.

why?

i believe paul graham and any moderators know full well the damaging effects censorship has on a community. why do some of you guys or gals constantly think there is some conspiracy?
I own an alienware in that config and it's dead quiet.
Good. I'd pay money for these types of story to be actively censored.
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We wrote a detailed blog post outlining the 5 reasons why this acquisition was a mistake:

http://lingolive.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/rosetta-stone-buys...
Migrating INNODB, without the self-loathing
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That was the only one that really stood out for me on the list. It's a really fun movie all around.
I agree mostly, and this was surprisingly well put for this type of post. However I do think that a good programmer should be able to get through a day with Vim (no plugins) alone if he/she has to, as it's free and installed everywhere. Beyond that just use what makes you happy. I do agree that it's much too hard to get started with Vim as compared to Sublime Text, but if you're a crazy vim ninja more power to you. I have never understood why you'd care what editor your friends/enemies use. As long as you're not coding in MS Word you're good in my book.
Hi Cheriot,

We do in fact have 5 and 10-query runs available in the data. Switch the views to "Data table" or "All samples (line chart)" and you should see the data for 1, 5, 10, 15, and 20 queries per request.
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If you asked an ATM for $50 and it gave you $100, do you think you're entitled to keep the extra $50?
Once Alice has all the coupons, nobody can get any babysitting because they have consumed babysitting without producing anything. Either they need to start babysitting for Alice, or find something else valuable to sell to Alice, or decline to babysit and leave Alice stuck with a pile of worthless coupons.
Well that's a good hack!! that's why I read HN, not for some Arrington story.

I wouldn't have guessed there was enough data left in the picture of the gramophone track to recreate audio from it.

Which makes me think about Shannon theorem - my guesses would have been wrong, so I wonder just "how wrong".

What would the minimal resolution (dpi) be to store say 1 minute of audio at 8Hz? Would there be an easy way to calculate that (just a back of the envelope calculation, to get a rough idea)

What was the resolution of the printing press ca 1880, to know how much audio could have been "stored" in a single page for posterity? In the picture there is a lot of text, so obviously a lot of lost space.

And I wonder how we could make 2d barcodes to store uncompressed wav audio, which might be more resistant to noise, but only because it'll be like a "lower resolution", ie less easily disruptible. Which leads me back to Shannon.

I'm not into audio processing but that raises a lot of questions I'll be pondering over with some coffee tonight (obligatory xkcd reference- http://xkcd.com/356/)

That's the kind of article I love :-)

EDIT: downvotes, whatever. Haters gonna hate. I'll have some hours of fun thanks to this article anyway!
dmor stands to profit with the list if some VCs send non-public data to her to get them off the list. That's extortion. She could become the Verisign of VC business. dmor approved VC list.
The less Silicon Valley e-drama on HN the better.
Yes, people will obviously buy the things they need immediately but will defer purchases where they can. Houses would be an obvious example. Everyone would try to spend less, reducing total output.
Since I have routinely kept showdead on in my HN user profile, I have developed some sense of which stories are autokilled on submission (almost always because they are from banned domains) and which quickly die after submission (because multiple users with flagging privileges flag them). It looks like gawker.com stories are dying rapidly, perhaps being autokilled on submission, without regard to topic.

On my part, I think that most news about Michael Arrington is probably relevant to this community, but I don't count a story about someone's personal life as "news" until it comes from a reliable source. (After all, even Wikipedia tries to maintain this standard for biographical statements about living persons.) Having just searched Google News, I haven't seen any uptake of any reporting about Arrington in professionally edited news sources. If that kind of story is developed, it MIGHT be worth discussing here. (Meanwhile, we have plenty of other things to discuss here.)
I highly doubt they are censoring the story. It's much more probable that Gawker.com is banned. While the story of Arrington might be notable to the HN community, Gawker is traditionally a tech tabloid. Most of their content can only serve to harm the startup community.
I'm not sure that actually makes it any better. This further re-enforces the idea that a huge amount of wealth is horded by a small number of people.
This means that there are a small number of CEOs earning well in excess of 300x salary. Of course there are also going to be many small business "CEOs" making less than many salaries.
I was wondering what is this doing on the front page again. I guess HNers can never get enough of discussing the virtues of Vim :-)
Tangential but awesome story: A few years back, I listed a starcraft-related project on my resume.

An interviewer at VeryFamousWebCompany(tm) went totally rogue (I am assuming) and we spent a good 30 minutes discussing the most recent patch and how it effects game balance. I'm guessing he was able to justify this was some kind of analysis/critical-thinking question. And I still got an offer. So there's that.
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Wine can run most popular games surprisingly well these days. Many even run better than they do under Windows.
Business Model Generation is a great practical and useful book. I reckon she could like and enjoy that.
>Not using special chars. Consider replacing é with e and removing any non-alphabet non-number character like: ' " (

I disagree with this. Maybe this works in English where some spell naïve with two dots to appear fancy, but in some languages letters with diacritical marks are completely different.

Now, with IDNs, people should be moving towards more internationalization, not less. Sorry for the bitterness, but the English alphabet is like IE6.
I dunno, I hear the term "scalable" applied to business decisions all the time. I think it encompasses more than "Is this problem embarrassingly parallelizable?"
So do a pull request and create a node.js equivalent of the stripped editions of rails and django. I'm sure they're open to it.
Or use Emacs.
If deflation is (let's say) 4%, why wouldn't people be greedy and let people borrow it at 6% or something?
URLs used for asynchronous requests seem much less important. The original comment's point was about outlook.com redirecting the actual url of the page (the one in the address bar) to a data center specific version.
Is it "inflation" if each new IOU is accompanied by a corresponding unit of production?

I thought not, but I am no expert.
You are correct and I have adjusted accordingly, you can see the results immediately: http://getpinry.com/
It also has a new URL after the github.com -> github.io change.
I doubt it was censored. Stuff just gets flagged by users, and personal allegations tend to among flagged stories.

But I'm curious if HN really shows different stories when logged in and logged out, which is what this particular post is alleging. I've never noticed that happen, but maybe I just didn't notice.
same thing you could say for a better, but more expensive IDE... it will pay off pretty quickly