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Don't interest rates generally factor in inflation?

Also, perhaps it would be a good thing for some of us to borrow less money...
This is really true and most every financial services company knows this.

They spend so much money on buying huge machines which makes writing performance intensive code similar to writing regular code - ie if its sucks it'll still perform pretty well.

Think of the biggest financial services companies you know - all of them do this.
I think LBS is not an independent service type. Google Maps or other maps/Geo-based services will be dominant.
From the article:

"I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial."

There haven't been any charges brought against him, and his life for the past DECADE (10+ years) has been stuck in a fucking limbo.

The US Government won't even let him commit suicide by way of hunger, so in essence he has absolutely no hope or choice as it currently stands.
> That said, we are not only Gitmo, and we actually do a lot of good things for the world.

Indeed, it is not just Gitmo, if only, and it's not just the US. Lots of EU governments are complicit in the whole rendition (what a word, kidnapping would be the appropriate term) program as well and there are/were more places in the world where people are being held without any sort of process, to be tortured and disposed of, either by killing them or by turning them loose years later without even an idea of who their captors were.
The paper uses an approach general enough for any game on the NES, which is what makes it exceptional. The humor is killer, too.
Eh, false memories. I distinctly remember the day after 9/11. Real people greeted it with maybe a sad shrug. I remember talking to a janitor who predicted war with Iraq. (He knew guys in the military who got phone calls right after.) Shrug. Whatever. It was only the media that kept up the hysteria.

The janitor and the New York Times were on the same page. Shrug. I still don't care that much. Those guys at gitmo at this point could seriously prove embarrassing, either through talking or blowing themselves up. That doesn't effect me, but TPTB are risk-averse.
Massive cyber attack scheduled against USA by Anonymous Hackers
Thanks all. 2 more questions:

1. A student who was offered a paid internship just asked if there is any vacation.

My first reaction was "WTF?". Is it even appropriate to ask for vacation when you will only be working for 3 months?

2. On my job postings, I usually ask the candidate to answer 3 questions when they apply. However, more often than not, most candidates don't submit the required answers. Should I automatically discard those resumes?
Thanks for posting this, I got a lot of value out of it.
Reserve currencies have come and go, but sometimes over spans of hundreds of years.

Bitcoin has been around fewer than five.

Maybe we should wait a minute or two before discussing its role as a global reserve.

No smart government would make the currency dependent upon predictions about its impact on global monetary policy, because that would involve a heady series of presumptions.

Also challenging these presumptions: Bitcoin is essentially a proof of concept, which could be copied or forked or reimplemented from scratch at any time. Some alternate coins have been developed already, maybe not enough to exceed the network effects, but these improvements pile up. Something destabilizing could easily unseat Bitcoin over the span of time required to scale to cover a plurality of human transactions.
This is true in theory, but in practice, Congress can be as specific as it likes about how the money is allowed to be spent.

For example (from the NDAA 2013, Section 1022)[1]:

"(a) In General- No amounts authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available to the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2013 may be used to construct or modify any facility in the United States, its territories, or possessions to house any individual detained at Guantanamo for the purposes of detention or imprisonment in the custody or under the control of the Department of Defense unless authorized by Congress.

(b) Exception- The prohibition in subsection (a) shall not apply to any modification of facilities at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."

[1] http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr4310/text
"Only a large and powerful state can implement the required blocks to form monopolies." - now that is decidedly false; if there are any entry barriers (such as capital investments required to start), then free market naturally tends to consolidate (as it's more profitable) towards monopolies or oligopolies, which coincidentally means the end of free market in that industry. Only a powerful state can PREVENT monopolies and keep the free market economy as defined, with many suppliers and buyers setting the prices in a market instead of a monopolistic ultimatum.

For real life examples, see the classic USA situations of railway and oil magnates in 19th century - these monopolies weren't caused by the state and regulations, but by lack of it.

Of course, states can also create bad monopolies, but the solution is to change government actions, not to "disarm" the state - since in that case the bad monopolies will stay anyway, and even more monopolies will arise.
I wish this article would have presented some empirical evidence.
In the meantime, you're free to use one of several merchant services (BitPay, Coinbase, MtGox) that automatically convert BTC to USD immediately (and take on the exchange risk, for a small percentage)
Google Kenya hacked
> He could also order due process to start tomorrow.

The correct course of action, obviously.

> Maybe there are a few issues with sending people back to their countries, but certainly not in all cases.

Well, as Commander in Chief, he could just order the Marines to cut a hole in Gitmo's perimeter fence and shoo the prisoners into Cuber though it. I'm sure Fidel and Raúl would be pleased to handle their homeward travel arrangements, albeit not quietly.

Hell, Obama could even save some postage by having the Marines entrust the prisoners to a deliver a $4085 check to the Treasurer General of the [Cuban] Republic, in payment of Gitmo's annual rental[1].

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/08/17/idUSN17200921
Could you explain how that works, or link to a good tldr article? I've read something about that it works based on amount of coins that you have rather than how much gpus/cpus/asics/..s you have, but I still don't really get it. Also what keeps Bill Gates (or his equivalents) from mining 90% of the coins? Or is mining different there? What about double spending attacks?

Lots of questions... any good place explaining this? Thanks :)
Many really successful people were and are engineers. Also many big companies are led by managers who started as engineers.
Dissent is a powerful and useful thing.

If you feel this is article is a lie and part of a wider political strategy, then present your case. Making sweeping statements without context or reason will not win you friends on HN.

FYI HN doesn't control the links, its users post links and vote on them.
Indeed, the Java code is readable to someone who's just picked up a Java book/tutorial, while that CL code is like an "obsfucated mandarind local dialect" to someone just starting to learn CL (even to someone pre-exposed to SICP Scheme or other lisp-family languages)! I think it's closer to someone writing Python code specifically tailored to the way PyPy does JIT or smth like that, but that wouldn't be idiomatic Python in a thousand years, or even "comprehensible by the average Python coder".
I think you are going to see less location based services, and more location aware services. Google Now, or programs that know when a friend is nearby.
> the location isn't what matters.

The location is what allowed it to exist in the first place. It matters a great deal.
This cannot be further from the truth. Inflation encourages people to spend, that's true. However there's nothing in inflation that encourages the right kind of spending. If I'm not sure what to invest in right now or don't see an opportunity, I may want to hoard for a while. Inflation punishes careful investors, so more stupid and risky projects are funded.

Let me give you another example. Let's say I decided to bootstrap my own business using only my savings which I intend to live off for a year or so. Inflation decreases the time I have to bootstrap my business so instead of a year I may only be able to afford 8 months, which in turn decreases my chances for success. Thus, it is precisely the productive entrepreneurs and innovators who are punished.
The alternative is to surround yourself with other people that love to learn. They might not love learning the same things that you do, but that enthusiasm will enrich your life. Though there is value in keeping around your mates.
This theory is so paranoid that I am only willing to raise from a throwaway account through Tor and run through the translation twice to remove the possibility of textual analysis. Standard disclaimer applies, this is just a theory and, apart from the evidence we go down I have no absolute proof that this is true.

If a government is truly responsible for the creation of bitcoin, it is possible to paint markers on people who want to subvert the government so they can be properly "handled" at a later date as part of a road to orwellian absolute tyranny.

Now legislation is being heavily promoted by the powers in the U.S. to specifically target the types of weapons that would be useful in an uprising militarily under reducing firearms violence when statistics show civilian use of firearms in crime over handguns instead of 5.56 mm rifles show that this is a blatant lie. Recent high-profile attacks on several soft spots throughout the U.S. with peculiar details on close examination indicate at least plausible false flags. In addition, DHS recently purchased 1.6 million rounds of hollow-point ammunition,

The "war on terror" is coming to an end of its armed Islamic extremists phase, but the war is the health of the state and will require a new threat to keep the sheep in line, what better threat than a manufactured cabal of illuminati, unholy cross Timothy McVeigh, Kevin Mitnick and distributed shadow mercenary NSA? And what better way to create a "person of interest" initial list of those who have been very active and vocal support bitcoin rising, especially in view of the way that could destabilize / destroy the world's states?

In short, it may well be the modern equivalent of standing on a table in a dive tavern and encourage the disgruntled into armed insurrection against the tyrant king, and when the targets behind you leave, having them picked up by the secret police.
Something like a quarter of Americans also think the President is a crypto-Muslim. In the Wall Street Journal, today, for UN ambassador John Bolton and Bush Admin. legal adviser John Yoo are arguing that the administration signed up to a UN treaty intended to curb the global arms trade is really a cover for destroying the 2nd amendment and confiscating Americans' guns.

I am, frankly, surprised that that nobody in the House has offered articles of impeachment so far. (checks) Well almost, but it died q uiet death in the House Judiciary committee: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.CON.RES.107:

This is one of those cases where only Nixon can go to China.
Could you explain why would I ever want to use a centralized currency like that ? It can't be trusted.
Ask HN: What should I do with an unlimited water supply?
I'm a college student in an off-campus apartment complex separate from the university. My apartment complex does not charge for water (hot water included). I've been trying to think of a way to make use of the water supply that exceeds traditional use. Do you guys have any cool ideas? Some of the things I've thought about:

1)Electricity generator. This would most likely be from kinetic energy rather than heat. The sink is a couple feet above the ground and the shower head is about 7 feet above the ground. The water doesn't get hot enough to boil for steam energy (although I did find a company that makes a device that generates electricity from a temperature differential [http://www.ergenics.com/])

2) Some sort of room heater. Maybe grab a water pump, an insulated tub, and some copper pipe to run through my room for a space heater/cooler.

This is really all I've got at this point. I'd love to hear from you guys!
Vicarious creativity. That's an interesting thought. I'm satisfied that you came up with it! :)
Is Facebook Making ‘The Netflix Mistake’?
Can you explain more about location aware services? You mean like apple's friends nearby, or discover circle type apps?
All languages have "layers/levels" at which one uses them. Isn't the whole point of a language shootout to compare "default levels", that is levels at which the "average programs" are written, and not the kilometers of rope stored in the levels below? (or is it really true that there isn't a "default level" for CL?)
And the unspeakably repulsive irony is that Woo enjoys these protections while the Gitmo inmates do not receive due process.
The most suprising part to me is that it doesn't support inheritance. I'm currently reading 'Object Oriented Design with Applications' by Grady Booch [1] and I noticed the following in the section 'Object Oriented Programming'

> …object-oriented programming (1) uses objects, not algorithms, as its fundamental logical building blocks; (2) each object is an instance of some class; and (3) classes are related to one another via inheritance relationships.

> …By this definition, some languages are object-oriented, and some are not. Stroustrup suggests that "if the term 'object-oriented language' means anything, it must mean a language that has mechanisms that support the object-oriented style of programming well. A language supports a programming style well if it provides facilities that make it convenient to use that style. A language does not support a technique if it takes exceptional effort or skill to write such programs; in that case, the language merely enables programmers to use the techniques"

>…if a language does not provide direct support for inheritance, then it is not object-oriented. Cardelli and Wegner distinguish such languages by calling them object-based rather than object-oriented.

Per this definition I wonder if Go might not be better labeled 'object-based.'

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=qs&...
Until the .ke top level domain is signed, we can't really trust the identify of any site under .ke that doesn't use an SSL certificate (i.e. the regular google.co.ke without "https").

http://stats.research.icann.org/dns/tld_report/

I'm pretty confident that Google's systems weren't cracked and that this was something like a DNS attack on one of the ISPs or similar.

Does anybody have any more information?
I also want lower-level access, but I would presumably not be using it for files/reliable storage.

If a lossy interface is acceptable, why couldn't SSDs simply expose a faster albeit lossy block device and, if necessary, an extended SMART or custom inspection method, and let the user take responsibility for wear-leveling, ECC, etc? It would be backwards compatible with other things by virtue of presenting the standard block interface. A common ECC+wear-leveling middle layer could evolve allowing use of standard filesystems and a common codebase for all flash storage, relieving the apparent burden on SSD vendors who would love to sell fast unreliable storage rather than reliable storage.

I think the chicken-egg problem is just an egg problem though, because even though I'd love lower level access to the unreliable bits, I have to expect that the market for unreliable storage is very small, not unlike the high-efficiency-but-sometimes-exploding toilet. :)

If reliable storage is the primary use-case, maybe the drives just need to be smarter to keep up. I'd rather an ASIC handle ECC, etc, transparently (for the same reasons I'd rather have a dedicated GPU) than run ECC (or 3D floating point software) on my general processor. If you inevitably want reliable storage and just wind up running ECC, etc, on the CPU, the speed gains disappear and we're back in something similar to a pre-DMA world with the main processor doing something that could be done in parallel by a dedicated chip. If the hard drive is the right place for the offload, I'd rather the economic pressures remain for the SSD vendors to optimize inside that black box, behind the standard reliable interface.

That said, again, I too would love finer-grain control.
Well, with current technologies, radio spectrum is a finite resource. Say, 1900 mhz range GSM standard has some 300 channels available, and if your cell towers are using these channels than I can't use them at all (or we both will get just disruption).
You're being silly. Typical rates of inflation tend to be less than 5%, often around 3% or so, per year. That's not enough to cause anyone serious worry about their savings becoming diluted over a period of a year or even a few years. At 3% inflation it would take 7 years of letting your money sit around doing nothing before the savings necessary to survive for a year degraded to only being able to support you for 8 months.

I rather think that's more than enough time to figure out how to invest.
Are there some or other kinds of indexes on JSON data fields? The thing is I would not need any kind of JSON manipulation unless it includes INDEX assisted queries. Doing linear lookups is pretty stupid even if it includes fancy accessors and validators for field formatting. I am far from being considered expert on the topic .. but there is no mention of calculated indexes on JSON formatted fields...

-- are there indexes that assisted queries against JSON datastructures stored in JSON type fields?
You know who else did hunger strikes ? Some old chap named Gandhi.
> So do we need a new form of money? I guess you could make that case if the money we actually have were misbehaving. But it isn’t. We have huge economic problems, but green pieces of paper are doing fine — and we should let them alone.

The point of the article was not to inform, but to denigrate Bitcoin (and Gold) in the reader's mind. Both Bitcoin and Gold are a means to measuring the value of paper money over time, as well as a potential store of value. Krugman is not going to write anything in support of Bitcoin because he likes the status quo and doesn't want things to change.
There are other digital options besides HDMI...
American Everyman - Warren Buffett (2004)
Yet leaving it illegal is the problem we face on both counts. I dont see why youre bothering to state this nonsense in the form of an argument against doing the right thing. It would have been easier to do nothing in the first place yet here we bloody well are.
I think the biggest direct competitors are Rackspace, Windows Azure, Google Cloud, HP, and Dell. Indirectly, VMware and OpenStack are huge competitors too. Lots of companies are trying to decide how their existing infrastructure fits in with cloud computing, and the "private cloud" is one likely choice.

None of these have the wide product functionality that AWS has -- yet. Amazon has a multi-year head start on most of these companies, but as you mention, there's lots of time to make progress before 2020.
and obviously eff and alike are not enough.

What we need is full decentralization in govs too
Now we are talking!
If you want my honest opinion on this: don't waste the water. Just because it's there doesn't mean you should abuse it, you could ruin it for everyone. They might not charge now, but if you go using mega-litres on a weekly basis then they might reconsider. There are tonnes of countries and areas that would kill for any amount of water. Besides I doubt the pressure would be there to run anything of the likes of a water powered generator, it's not just the quantity but the force that powers traditional hydroelectricity.

I have a more resourceful idea. Go and buy a few hundred empty 1L water bottles if you're determined to use unneeded amounts of water on a large scale and then fill them with water and then give them out to people or if you really want too, find a way to send them to those in need (although could be expensive for transport). Think of a way to benefit someone else instead of pouring it down the sink.
Well, no, it would be just as profitable without government intervention - it just wouldn't serve the unprofitable less populated areas for which it was subsidised.

In the major population centers the paying customer demand was easily sufficient to build the network without government.
And once the network in "good" areas was built, they would still be a monopoly and be able to deny any newcomer access by dumping prices in the profitable areas if anybody would invest in a new network - if the government was weak enough to let them.
> The scale of the engineering effort required to compete with AWS is enormous, and no-one's really trying

I would suggest that you're wildly misinformed. Not only AWS has plenty of competitors who're silently kicking their butt one area at a time, but even as pure cloud environments go, the value of virtualization continues to evaporate as hardware continues to grow faster than the population.

In other words, theoretically you'll be just able to purchase a single $5K DELL server in a few years and run an Airbnb-sized business on it. As the Moore's law keeps going, it's getting more and more insane for a start-up to invest so much of software fault-tolerance and scaling around AWS-style farms of barely alive virtualized servers from the 90s.

For a lot of businesses even today, a single Dell R720 with a Chef script makes a lot more sense (in terms of uptime, hosting bill and engineering efforts) than a small army of VPS boxes.

If you're not CPU-bound, if you don't need x100 spikes of compute, then you don't need to overpay for AWS-style elasticity, especially in terms of engineering that's required to get stable on it.
> In countries where the currencies have not matched the USD depreciation, energy prices aren't anywhere near as high.

Name a currency where oil prices have remained stable over the past ten years. I can't find one. Even oil-rich countries have seen their oil prices skyrocket.

> Population growth

It's not about population growth. It's about economic development. 2 billion Chinese and Indians doing subsistence farming or riding bicycles don't raise the price of oil. 2 billion Chinese and Indians buying cars for the first time does. You honestly think there's no relationship between the rising cost of oil and the smog blanketing Chinese cities in recent years?

You want to talk precious metals? Half of platinum is used for automobiles, and another 30% is used for jewelry. Two sectors where demand goes up when previously poor countries suddenly get richer. Half of gold is jewelry as well. About 40% of gold is bought for investment, which if anything indicates a speculative bubble.

> What is required is a flooding of the denominator - USD.

So name another currency that doesn't show this. I picked Icelandic krona specifically because most critics of how the US responded to the global economic crisis hail Iceland as an example of doing it right. But their petroleum costs have risen as much as ours.

> Printing any currency leads to inflation across the board.

False. Expanding the monetary base in excess of economic growth leads to inflation.
I find it interesting how often extremist capitalist beliefs justify themselves as producing more for everyone and then preaching Buddhist spirituality to individuals as a way to be happy with less.