skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Ideally, the money supply would expand exactly in proportion to the real economy, so there wouldn't be price fluctuations due to money at all, but this is hard to achieve, because there's no clear-cut way to quantify the size of the real economy (GDP doesn't really work) and because it'd be difficult to devise a mechanism that could keep the money supply indexed to the real economy without having it be dependent on some sort of central authority. So a currency that maintains a constant relation with the real economy probably isn't an option here and now.

I disagree. A money supply that was perfectly indexed to the real economy would magnify ups and downs. Nobody wants a slight downturn to result in a death spiral because the money supply keeps getting incrementally tighter.

>> If we have to choose between maintaining a single monopoly inflationary currency, or adding a deflationary alternative currency like bitcoin into the mix, such that each currency can temper the excesses of the other, I think the latter is a better choice.

I'm not saying bitcoin is the worst thing ever, but I think its design will keep it from making a big positive impact. It'll be a novelty akin to precious metals but with more volatility and fraud.
I would say with out a doubt it'll go east of I-35. East Austin is an up and coming neighborhood. The Hipster demand there will be fierce plus it has a ton of lower income households still which will look good for the free internet (with installation fee) version of google fiber.

Additionally during SXSW a lot of the tech people stay over there. I think one of the reasons Austin was picked was to show off the speed during events like SXSW and Austin City Limits.

The only question is how far east it'll go.
Comparing an m1.medium EC2 instance w/ 96GB EBS volume to a 4GB Linode (ignoring the fact that you're probably getting at least 2x CPU with Linode), you're looking at ~$100/mo for EC2 and $80/mo for Linode. If you take full advantage of Linode's 8TB/mo of included transfer, AWS is going to cost you an extra ~$1000 (assuming 100% outbound).
What does it feel like to lose a lot of money (quickly)?﻿
I love that the actual experience (or something damn close to it) is usable right there in the home page. Great work.
I have participated in or witnessed multiple gaming groups in different states/countries and read some articles, etc. The first (marathon/hyperfocused) gaming group I participated in was not the norm.

I suspect the "must work 24/7" thing is probably rooted in the fact that some folks are just like that and those folks are often crazily successful. But I think the inference that high number of hours worked is the thing to shoot for isn't really accurate. Some folks don't need a lot of sleep. Some folks can focus for long periods. Someone who has both traits may well be brighter than average.

Their phenomenal success isn't necessarily rooted in any one thing. Putting in the hours if you aren't that bright and actually need more sleep may be a recipe for disaster instead of a recipe for success. However, people like Bill Gates do tend to work crazy long hours. You can't ask to be born with his brains -- you have whatever brain you have -- but you can try to emulate his work habits and hope that's the most important piece. But I see no reason to believe it is. Perhaps long hours are a good idea. I just have yet to see good data which proves that. I have seen more data that for most people job performance improves if they cut back their hours and are working when fresh and focused.
I've not had the same experience, at least with the Google results I've gotten from the flight number. I've not tried anything otherwise, but I do track a lot of flights since I travel a lot as well as my family. Where have you been checking?
The Fremont issues have mostly been due to HE, AFAIK. That wouldn't really affect RAM upgrades, would it?
Video editing is probably a good target. When we do any kind of HD video editing you are looking at raw video upwards of the 60gb range just for one video. Especially if you are building out renders being able to access those on a local harddrive instead of over firewire/usb would be a godsend. With that said when you are using files that large, complex backup systems are necessary so internal ssd probably wont even meet that need.
DigitalOcean[1] is a ssd-only VM provider, by their numbers they should have a few TB in SSD storage. Not that large, but would be interesting to hear about their experiences.

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/
When I was learning how to program, I asked the friend who was teaching me the rudiments "How long does it take to learn how to code?"

He replied "Eight hours."

"Eight hours?"

"Yep, eight hours, every day. It's pretty much just like driving a bus. The hard part is keeping your ass in the seat."

Fifteen years and a master's degree later, his advice remains remarkably accurate.
We think of productivity as "how much can you get done in an hour" * "how many hours you work."

Unfortunately, as humans, we need recharge time. If I code 80 hours this week, the first twenty hours will be very productive, the next 20 will be slightly less productive, the next 20 will be significantly less productive, and the last 20 might be hurting more than helping.

After a day of rest, I might be back at the same productivity as I was for the middle 40 last week, and degrade from there.

The irony is that the more hours I work, the less I get done, the less difficult problems I can tackle.

Meetings take less out of people, be we still make poorer decisions by tiring our brains rather than taking passive time to rest, and using spare cycles to reflect on how we can squeeze more productivity out of the time we can work.

This, of course, ignores that some people burn out easier than others, and some have higher peaks than others. Working a truly focused 20 hours is more exhausting than 50 hours of semi-focused work for many people, and isn't rewarded in many corporate cultures. Find your own personal style.
Suffering Oriented Programming
Google Glass won't be welcome everywhere
Jared is also a great project maintainer. He has been very responsive to questions and stays on top of github issues. Go Passport!
I too tried moving to DigitalOcean because their offering seemed very compelling. Turned out to be a huge mistake.

After waiting some weeks for Arch to be re-released I finally booted an Arch image. Not a week had passed and some kernel upgrade had already made the system unavailable (no network on vm). I forced nothing, just ran sudo pacman -Syu as I always did on Linode.

Support didn't care. For days I tried responding to the ticket that I opened, talking to them on the irc, via mail. Nothing. I tried to request help to at least recover the files. Nope, nothing they can do.

I did not understand the true value of good support. Now I do. Back to Linode.
The physical connector is different, so you can't plug in a standard mSATA drive.

"Keep in mind that although the interface is electrically SATA, it is not physically SATA or mSATA or any other standardized interface - this is entirely Apple's own creation."

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6005/apples-new-ssd-its-fast
Very interesting, thanks for the data.
The solution should be obvious -- rather than list questionable gray-area journals, some of which are absolutely predatory and some less so, we should make a list of journals with impeccable credentials, by some vetting process. Among other advantages, this would result in a much shorter list.

Some will object that this flies in the face of free-expression principles and smacks of authoritarianism, but to me the existence of hundreds of faux-science journals, and the occasional story of a perhaps naive scholar falling into the tar pit, is a much worse problem.
Isn't it a little short sighted to not have an android app? I get linked to the iTunes store on my phone. I also can't find it in the Play store.
No, but if they're going to imminently switch to a new data center vendor they wouldn't bother rolling out the new hardware at their old data center, would they?
So your relaxing time is spent rooting for the dolphins? Now that's unsustainable.
Well, where better to debate some of the details:-)

I would simply suggest that any company that performs a "data match" - between data held internally and an "internal or external identifier" that can be directly linked to an individual person

must publish that they hold data, on that person, on their site (example.com/datamatch) and have matched that data. And make that data available to that person or duly authorised agents.

Essentially, if you hold personal data, you have to give a copy of that to the person. And it is recursive. No one can collect data on me without my knowing it, because a cottage industry will spring up of people telling me just how much is out there.

It will put a significant cost on personal data processing, and force everyone to evaluate the cost - I think the loss of privacy is simple an example of an externality. Adjust the price to its true cost.
I'm also looking at moving and was down for an upcloud.com trial later this month precisely because of the fact that Linode had let the ball slip on the quality of their offering.

This does play catchup, and the things that they have had in private beta are pretty nice too... but whether it will make a difference is yet to be seen.

Hosting is far more a retention game than pure acquisition, these changes are long overdue... SSDs are also overdue.
> The economy is not a zero sum game, where if the rich make a trillion more it comes out of the pockets of the workers. This notion is childish and wrong.

I'm genuinely curious about this point. Every dollar in pay I cut from my worker's salary is a dollar more in my company's pocket, isn't it?
You can get OSX up and running in VirtualBox/Vagrant.

Not that I'd want to do actual development that way, but we do it for iOS CI.
This isn't quite the same thing. Facebook is letting people advertise apps on news feeds, they're not forcing downloads via a game mechanism.

What GP is talking about is the much sketchier model of blocking (or greatly slowing down) access to an app unless the user goes and downloads an affiliated app. This is artificial download inflation by bending the user over a barrel, not advertising.
Ken Segall takes issue with Apple's iPhone naming scheme
Is that using microwaves? I've heard of buildings getting pretty great speed using that technology.
Wordpress 3.6 Beta - what is new
At $20/mo Digital Ocean offers twice as much memory, 1 TB more transfer and and 4 GB less disk (put it is SSD...)

Digital Oceans lack of "private" network is silly, if you really need it, setup a encrypted tunnel yourself, I would not trust anything else anyway. Also I highly doubt that if your DO DB and App server talk the traffic leaves the datacenter, but you could test this.
Enlighten the unenlightened here for a second...

Why would you even want to explain higher-order dimensions to a 5 year old?

I don't know all that many 5 year olds, in all honesty, but I don't know that I know ANY of them that I'd ever need to explain multi-dimensional space-time (or multi-dimensional mathematics, depending on what you want to call a "dimension").

C'mon, the kid's still very new to the world. They're barely comfortable with three dimensions at this point in their lives.

I understand that this question may have been posed simply as a rubber duck scenario, but even still, that'd be my first response.
i am sorry, but this is the largest density of drivel in a while posted here.

android, linux, suing samsung, lack of innovation - it's like reading an Engadget comment.

apple's business model around the app store is to protect users from CRAP. malware, viruses, etc. it acts like a spam filter of sorts. just like any spam filter there are false positives, some things get through, etc. but this concrete case? good riddance.

and watch how google will tighten the screws in their play store due to facebook, malware, etc. they run ads for nexus without mentioning android. they run ads for chrome.
That's correct, the Simple Login service allows apps that use Firebase to integrate Persona authentication: https://www.firebase.com/docs/security/simple-login-persona....

This means the data you store in Firebase can be associated with a Persona user, and you can structure your security rules to enforce whatever read/write behavior makes sense for your app.
Just to nitpick a little. It's not that those organic users are so valuable that everyone who can promote does just to get them. It's that organic users + incentivized users lowers your eCPI and can make your app (usually a game) profitable. But you can totally be profitable with just incentivized users as well...you just need to make sure your retention and revenue per user are higher than your costs in acquiring them :)
Just noticed the plane fly by in the background. Nice touch!
And yet it typically yields the right answer (in the hands of an expert). I wonder why?
After you click a button labeled sign in, the popup reads "[Your site] uses Persona instead of usernames to sign you in. To sign in with Persona, please enter your email address."

I'm not sure I can do better than that text -- do you have any suggestions?
Yeah, sorry! Codemirror automatically keeps your cursor scrolled into view and with lots of people editing, your cursor keeps moving.

I just tweaked it (again) so that we remove focus from CodeMirror when you scroll the page, so this should be taken care of.

Sorry about that!
"In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable moats" - Warren Buffett

I completely agree that its in Google's interest to have faster pipes. But I think Google Fiber may just be another moat for Google, another way for them to hinder their perceived threats.

This was an excellent write up on Google's strategy to build business moats (from 2011):
http://abovethecrowd.com/2011/03/24/freight-train-that-is-an...
How is it different/better than highcharts?
Facebook sorry for banning breastfeeding picture
Looks like London and Tokyo are now available! (as per the blog)
You can just use IPSec for securing your private network?
All Apple notebooks have SSDs now, not just the Pros, and they start at $999 -- not cheap, but not just the "very top end" either...
The FAQ has a bit about Android: http://www.getjustlanded.com/iphonefaq
Yummy cookies across domains
I still think this whole thing is to shame other internet providers who says this kind of service is impossible and there is no demand for it.

There is no way Google will be able to roll this out across the country. But if they roll it out to 10 or 20 cities then they might be able to force other internet providers into doing something.
You only pay for outbound traffic on Linode, is that the same on Digital Ocean?
Google Now already does this on Android.
No. These are not lifestyle businesses. These are just micro-businesses that are very low maintenance. I currently operate a couple, and am about to launch another. Its times better than any big business Ive had before.
Maybe it isn't so clear, but I thought it's been clear that I acknowledge the wide variety of Google experiences. Some people have good ones, and that's great.

If I said, "Google is a hellhole and you'll hate your life", then I'd be a liar because some people get great managers and the best projects and Google is really awesome for them.

What I do intend to say is that Google's HR infrastructure and upper management (at least on the people-management front) are irresponsibly bad at their jobs. That usually won't affect you if you have a string of good managers. If you land in the wrong spot, though, look out because there won't be any competent to fix the problem.

Google has a lot of ways it could become a great company again (open allocation) but for now, I'm going to come out and continue to say that their upper management (again, at least on people management) is disastrously bad and they are singularly responsible for ruining what used to be and still could be a great company.

I'm sorry, but I'm not going to let these assholes destroy billions of dollars in value and get away with it.
Is it my imagination, or have prices stalled at $1/GB for a while now? Where's Moore's Law when you need it?
Acetate rocks, especially when its well written and you can pop into the prof's office and have a tea and chat and do some photocopying. I learned much more this way.

Chalk, we spent more time dictating and deciphering the babbling fool who can't communicate it all concisely from memory.
No. Phusion Passenger is software. Google App Engine is a PaaS.
The way I see it, that's simply shifting the problem around. Before your loan was based in BTC, now it's based in (essentially) "Number of equivalent baskets of goods".

I don't think lenders would appreciate the volatility inherent in their loaned-out money having value fixed to the amount of crop yield the farmers can deliver this year, or the amount of oil extracted, etc. Similar logic would apply for those trying to get a loan.
London now available too. "You are in the Migration Queue!
Your position is 4 out of 4 queued migrations in this Linode's datacenter."

~1min in queue and 5min to migrate 512MB to 1024MB.

However I'm still on old CPU. :/
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5520 @ 2.27GHz
8 cores
Memory
1001 MB real
Try http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com they have guides for many countries. In the US I would personally go with coinbase.com (I have used them).

Or post to your local craigslist and ask to pay cash for bitcoins. If you are in a big city, anywhere in the world, chances are you will find a Bitcoin seller.
apple's business model around the app store is to protect users from CRAP

Apple's business model around the App Store involves protecting users from crap, but it also has healthy doses of limiting competition and establishing first-party app dominance.
Can I freeze myself, invest the funds and thaw myself 2,000 years later?
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I had the same take away; seems like a huge waste of effort for a very modest marketing return (and a not very funny joke).
This is how I do it.

I just started working with python about 3-4 weeks ago. No experience other than html, css3 and graphic design.

So I started doing some online classes but they were so boring and simple that I finished them within a day or two. I actually started doing Udacity's CS class when they teach you how to design a search engine, however half way through I realized that this can be done twice as faster with tools that already exist.

From there I read some Django docs, installed it but django was the most confusing framework to me (not really sure why, just didn't like it)

I stumbled upon Flask and I fell in love. Without any knowledge of how to program and how things work I simply started coding, working with db (postgres). Within a week or so I designed a small blogging application that lets you register users, each user can upload photos, create docs and delete them.
I try to code very neatly, and comment on everything. There are a couple of solutions for everything so if I find a better solution I comment out the first one and apply another one.

PS. Don't code for 12h straight. Go out.
If I don't know something, I seek for direction, not an answer. I also walk away from my comp and think about a solution, and these tend to be very easy and can be done with a few lines of code. I guess I use my creativity to solve code problems.

Also write everything in small chunks and reuse.
Most of the current migration into Texas is from California and NY. How can I tell?

They are constantly bitching that Texas isn't California or NY.
Working with File Handling in Java
CoffeeScript vs. TypeScript
Lets say you need 20k DLs to get top 5 in a notable category. Lets say you get another 20k of real DLs from the app store ranking. Incentivised DLs are $0.35 each, but they are Dls and not real users. So $7k for 20k DLs.

You usually want a LTV of 3:1. So your LTV would need to be $2.10 per user. These users are way worse than acquiring them from other channels because they only briefly see your logo and a brief description. Let's say they are only 25% as good. So now you need a regular LTV of $8.40. Very few apps have a LTV of over a dollar.
So... don't be selfish and egotistical. This website is just as pretentious and judgmental as the people its calling out.

Most of these symptoms are forms of entrepreneurial naiveté -- eventually these people wash out or learn:

1) Your startup is more like a small business you'd like to admit

2) Products (apps) don't make sustainable billion dollar companies in themselves -- production and distribution do

3) An idea has some value, but a business plan with solid market research pointing to a real gap that has potential for short term and long term profit is truly valuable.

4) You need cash, engineers, or a magnetic personality. One of these is good, two of these is great, and three of these is nearly unstoppable.
> how the act of entering an e-mail address is secure (other people may have access to my computer and know my e-mail address)

Assuming you're saying other people have access to your email account already, it's game over: practically every site will send password reset procedures on demand to the email you used to create your account.

Alternatively, if you're saying other people know your email address, that's not really relevant. They need to either be able to read email on your account (see above), or be able to implement an Identity Provider on your email domain.

If an unauthorized party is able to implement an IdP on your email domain you have an even worse problem: your email provider apparently is unable to control basic aspects of their own domain.

to actually implement an IdP, your email provider must publish a https://domain.com/.well-known/browserid file. If a rogue third party can do this at will, I'd say your email provider has horrible security and your security assumptions are probably broken anyway.
Yeah I'd like this answered. I have several apps that advertise through push notifications, EA is one of them.
$300 for a single developer, and the EULA says I can't transfer this license to another person?
Find a nugget of inspiration in their terrible ideas and then find a decent business cofounder?
They provide virtual hardware, how is it their if fault you can't manage your software using of it? I'm glad I use Debian/Ubuntu. It also sounds like you never took a backup snapshot.
Armed immigrants and gun control
"the SSD seems to more than compensate" that really depends. If you are using the server for a web app, disk IO should be minimized and CPU is more likely to be a bottleneck. This assertion largely depends on how well your database can cache its queries. For the web apps I host, I'd rather have CPU over faster disk IO.
Free alternative to http://www.maxmind.com/en/home :)
Which is why http://www.battlegroundtexas.com/ is so important. Texas needs some competition for it's top offices. Having a whole state run by one party is a terrible idea.
How one London cab company struck back against digital disruptors
> and introduce a guaranteed minimum income.

Nixon tried this in 70's. It came surprising close to passing on the grounds that it would be far more efficient and lead to better outcomes than the patch work system of social programs we currently have.
My cable provider does this to and i don't trust them in the slightest so i just use my own router:
cable --> providers modem/router --> my router --> network

I would disable its routing ability and use it as a bridge, but it provides a easy way to share wifi with guests/neighbours.
Death of Moore's Law Will Cause Economic Crisis | PCWorld
The problem is low quality software and no trials. I can't tell you how many times I've seen an app, paid $2.99 for it and then found out it was garbage.
You shouldn't set "trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": true unless you work alone, otherwise you're going to have random whitespace changes polluting your diffs.