skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...these strong similarities are not what these authors choose to emphasize.

This statement feels misleading, in that the similarities do not appear to be as significant as they are implying. The table they provide very clearly shows a significant difference between their 2010 findings and the HAP paper (-0.1 vs. 2.2 mean, a gap of over 2 percentage points).

> These results are, in fact, of a similar order of magnitude to the detailed country by country results we present in table 1 of the AER paper

Taken literally, this makes no sense. No one has ever claimed the HAP results were of a differing order of magnitude to their own.

Given that this is a rebuttal to a research paper where numerical values are in dispute, I would have thought they would use the term ("order of magnitude") precisely, and not colloquially.

> It is utterly misleading to speak of a 1% growth differential that lasts 10-25 years as small.

Perhaps, but if a 1% growth differential is significant (HAP), then a 2.9% differential is massive (2010 RR), compounding the scale of their error.

After all, their original 2010 work implied a mean 2.9% drop in the growth rate once debt climbed above 90%. That paints a significantly different picture than a decrease of 1 percentage point, resulting net positive growth rate (2.2%) as opposed to negative (-0.1%).

While this is speculative on my part, I feel it's safe to say that had they originally reported these (allegedly) "very similar" numbers ( > 2% vs -0.1 %), their findings would not have gotten the same wide circulation in certain political circles that it did. Given that context, the whole "...but the numbers are kinda close..." argument falls a little flat IMHO.
At 100% it's a brilliant scam because you can collect the EV of your income, then not do any work. Or do open-source work and build your career, or price yourself extremely low as a consultant and build a network, then improve your rate once the window is open.

There are some weird nonlinearities to this problem. For example, if 1% of a typical top-25 college STEM major's (lifetime) income is worth $50,000, then my estimation is that 10 percent is actually worth $1-2 million (20 to 40 times more). Why? Because, with that money and the cushion, he'll be able to take more risks and have a better career. But then at 50-100%, you get a Laffer-curve effect. So the value of N-percent of someone's income is:

(a) faster-than-linearly increasing for a while (career benefits) until it peaks and plummets (Laffer effect).

(b) not necessarily well-defined, because the infusion of capital has career-building effects that mean it might be better to give more money (for equivalent percentage).
Why merge it?

Merging isn't even funny with regular code.

How about having a process for who works on what or when?

Either than or let a single person be responsible for the UI.
While I find this quite exciting from a pure developer perspective, it also reminded me that I haven't had anything I'd call a Desktop box in quite some time.

If I were to ever get a Desktop machine again, it would have to be cheap and light, definitely don't want anything clunky, otherwise a laptop seems preferable to me.
There do not seem that many products that would fill that gap, Intel's NUC is too expensive, the Raspberry PI too slow. Apple's mini Mac seems like the best proposition in this segment.

I wonder if the Parallela could not only be used as development center, but also as a Desktop computer?
It won't run any fancy games, that's clear, but it may actually be usable for browsing, watching videos and office duties.
They will need to do something with their rigs once mining gets too hard and the payouts too small.
Why are they not subject to a class action lawsuit? The problems rather obviously seem to be American's fault.

Read the fine print on your ticket. You're not promised perfection.
Agreed, but putting GPL code into your internal code is incredibly risky because of the vagaries of what counts as distribution under the GPL (for example if you distribute your code to a third-party security auditing company).
I see she accepts Square. I wonder if she accepts Bitcoin.
Text characters? Like all ASCII?

I would think the ncurses library might be appropriate for that, in which case C, or any language that has ncurses bindings (like Python) should be fine.
> There's no way to build this that doesn't have a path from the internet to the card numbers either, since eventually they need to get onto an internet-connected machine to talk to the payment gateway and actually charge those cards.

I have to disagree.

Web server has write-only access to a remote database table on the accounts/billing server, writes account change requests; accounts/billing server polls table, matches account numbers to billing information, submits charge requests to payment gateway via a firewall that allows access to only a single IP or set of IPs; accounts/billing server writes charge result back to another table; web server has read-only access to the results table and subsequently changes the user's account type or sends out an email or performs other administrative duties.

That's how I'd build it, I've done similar stuff before. (I have a paranoid business client.)

The nice thing about this is that you can capture credit card information on the web server, encrypt it with the public key, and then decrypt it using the private key which is only on the accounts/billing server.

Getting unauthorized remote access to the accounts/billing server would be a challenge. If they needed authorized remote access to it for customer service reasons on ports other than ssh, I'd use authpf on the pf firewall sitting between the accounts/billing server and the rest of the network, along with a unique password-protected ssh key for each employee. But, really, 1 or 2 sysadmins are the only people who should have non-console access to it.
> Vagrant is the execution environment that you set up, share and whatnots. Your dev environment (IDE, text editor, etc) can still be in the original environment you are familiar with.

Sorry if i have missed this but how do you execute/debug in the IDE through Vagrant? e.g. how would rubymine use vagrant's ruby binary?
I would add to my sibling comment here that one should note that a particular characteristic of the engineer (or software developer) is the ability to internalise all of the layers of a system and to be able to treat it as whichever subset of the layers are relevant at any given time.

Doing so hardly means that one considers all such systems equivalent or indeed that one doesn't think of a reductionist view as just the most reified (though pretty damned vague) possible view of the system.
Argh I wish I had thought to say that.
Read the actual rules in the graphic in the article. The "knives" they are talking about are the tiniest little scrapers, first class cutlery would be more dangerous.

For example, the Leatherman Wave is too long (by 7mm) too broad (by 1mm) and locking in any case. That was in my toolkit in my cabin baggage all the time back in the 90s.
Are you saying that when you share a filesystem between your windows 8 host and the Debian guest, that files written from windows have bad perms?
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Stepping back for a moment, this thorough debunking of Reinhart and Rogoff's flawed paper means that now there is NO evidence that government debt exceeding 90% of GDP somehow negatively impacts growth.
Let me repeat that: there is NO EVIDENCE that more government debt causes slower economic growth -- just theories.

These two sentences do not say the same thing. There is evidence that debt results in slower economic growth. There is not evidence that it negatively impacts growth, to with that it results in economic shrinkage. I'm with your general sentiment but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater in your enthusiasm.
> What is the actual average debt on graduation? ~$27,000

That does not seem bad at all, though I suppose I am coming from the perspective of being employed immediately out of school in your field, which obviously is not the case for everyone.

Does anybody know what the average time to pay off that sort of loan is? I'm assuming that any undergraduate, regardless of degree, could expect to have that same average debt, but maybe that isn't true either.
I'm thinking here why Linode holds CC data on its servers in the first place. Anyone care to weight in here?

Secondly, if they hold that data, it's possible one day someone will find a security breach and will access that data. The best solution is to never hold that data.

Since I don't trust most of the systems I use AND Linode has not denied it holds that data... I'm more inclined to believe in this anonymous IRC guy and err on the side of caution.

If Linode had come out and said "Look, we don't hold your CC number in our database" then I think there would be very little reason to be concerned. However...
On the other hand, if her startup gets bought out and she ends up with millions of dollars as a result, the investor's gonna get 10% of that.
It's extremely unlikely that they'll make millions. For them to make even a single million, she'd have to earn $10,000,000 before age 29. Even if her business idea is relatively successful, a payout-to-founder of $10,000,000 after taxes is very unlikely.

This concept is basically angel investing with some risk mitigation (if the business idea doesn't turn out, but the founder goes on to create another business or get a high-paid job as a non-founder, you get some money out of it), but with a much lower reward.

The lower reward is as follows: A typical angel investor might get, I dunno, 5% equity in a company. In the case of this deal, the "angel" gets 10% of the post-tax amount of the equity that the founder keeps and turns into money.

Which is AWFULLY rough! I mean, suppose that the founder maintains 30% of their company, and then converts all of that to cash, and gets hit with only 15% long-term cap gains, all in ten years. So the angel's effective equity share of the company is .3 * .85 * .1 = 2.55%.
It depends on the size of the space your passwords are drawn from.

The dictionary files I have in /usr/share/dict/ have about half a million words. Mean length is 11 characters. And there are about 100 characters easily accessible on my keyboard (letters, numbers and common symbols).

Regular words, trying lower case, UPPER CASE or First Letter Capitalised. 3 * 0.5 million options = Half a second to search.

Same but with a two digit number before or after (e.g. Patio11): 2 * 100 * 3 * 0.5 million options = 100 seconds to search.

Single regular word with up to 4 standard keyboard characters before or after (e.g. Patio3&A@): 2 * 100^4 * 3 * 0.5 million = about 3.1 years to search.

Two regular words, same case options, with or without a space. (3 * 0.5 million)^2 * 2 = 17 days to search.

Single regular word, random capitalisation (e.g. paTIo) rough figure: 2^11 * 0.5 million = 6 minutes to search.

Single regular word, random capitalisation, 4 standard keyboard characters before or after (e.g. PaTio8#`¬): 2 * 100^4 * 2^11 * 0.5 million = 2163 years to search.

Four regular lower case words (e.g. correct battery horse staple): (0.5 million)^4 = 660000000 years to search.

Up to 10 letters or numbers, upper or lower case (e.g. nk7rFG9Ad9): 63^10 combinations = 10403 years to search.

Up to 8 letters or numbers, upper or lower case (e.g. Plfws0aX): 63^8 combinations = 2.6 years to search.

Assuming you could obtain the same 3M hashes/second on an Amazon EC2 cluster GPU instance (this isn't a given as they have nVidia GPUs instead of the ATI chip used in the test reported) 2.6 years of GPU time at the spot price of 35 cents an hour would cost $7976.85

Needless to say, if you had access to a whole load of people's 1password files, probably some of them would be following a weak password selection scheme and you'd break them within seconds. On the other hand, people with strong password selection schemes will still be safe.
I just booked a couple of flights from Europe to Asia, and it took a while to find the sort of low prices I've paid in previous years. It turned out that half the ticket price was for airport fees and taxes, so the airline was charging more and getting less.
If the files reside on the NTFS Win8 partition, they show up as 755 on Debian.

If the files reside on the ext3 partition on the Debian VM, the permissions are fine and even editing the files from Windows, on a Windows IDE does not change the permissions.
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I'm not sure about Rubymine since I'm more of a Python/Golang guy (also I use SublimeText). In Python, there is an IDE called PyCharm that has a remote intepreter function. I expect all good IDEs to have something like that too: remote intepreter/libraries/etc

EDIT: A quick Google yielded this: http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/webhelp/configuring-remote-int...
Move. Forget investment, if you're aiming for a large scale business you need to ask if you're in the right place to hire talent. Could you hire a 100 good engineers, product managers, biz dev, etc. people where you are ?

You might be able to raise the money from where you are, but if you can't grow the company there then at some point sooner or later you'll have to move.
A non-zero quantity of people have a gender that is separate and different to their sex. By marking out differentating sex and gender as "vernacular revisionism", you are contributing to making the lives of a non-zero quantity of people worse than they need to be. Erasure sucks, please don't perpetuate it.
Please take this sort of thing back to reddit.
Brilliant question. How is prostitution impacted by bitcoins? If anonymous payment is possible, how would people be prosecuted?
It's not an "idea" really. It's a business that needs $400,000 initial investment :-)

I realised that if he was really interested, he'd probably rather invest in someone investing it. No NDA it is.
Hmm, what's the opportunity cost (in terms of average BTC not mined) for doing 2^48 attempts?
But given that there are no technical limitations for this being developed, it's safe to assume that it will be developed at some point, if it has not been already.

Wouldn't you prefer that something like this exists in the public domain?
Why is that uncharitable? It's fairly true. I am sure there are a lot of great companies out there that I've never heard of.
Why the hell would you ever use your credit card for that kind of transaction? I would never visit a prostitue, but if I did, I sure as hell wouldn't hand her my credit card.
"Reinforced doesn't mean impregnable, for one thing."

The reinforced cockpit doors are meant to be safe from being penetrated by small arms fire and fragmentation grenades. [1] I doubt knives of the size that the TSA plans to allow would be more dangerous.

"on the ground people can flee. On a plane you could still have a bad hostage situation even if the cockpit is not taken over"

You could have a similarly bad hostage situation on a bus, on a train, or in the subway.

[1] http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId...
In the case of any debugging in your IDE, you'd want to use remote debugging (which, I believe, rubymine supports). Otherwise, I'd connect to the virtual machine via ssh and debug there.
I don't get it. I was in sync with the Left when they decried George W. Bush's no-veto policy and ballooning of the debt. Now that "their guy" is in the WhiteHouse, they no longer agree that it's irresponsible to set the deficit meter on 11 and walk away like we have been.

Let me offer a crude analogy:

Before: 'Don't press down so hard on the accelerator (debt finance), or you will drive this car (economy) into the ditch (recession).'

(crash)

After: 'You need to push down on the accelerator to get out of the ditch and back onto the road.'

That's Keynesianism in a nutshell. If/when the economy is again growing at a decent clip, then government spending should be reduced (as a % of GDP and revenue, not necessarily in absolute terms) and debt service increased. Of course, that doesn't always happen.

Maybe 90% Debt:GDP won't hurt too badly, but sooner or later as it rises, it will crater even our economy.

But the reality is taht the debt probably won't rise that much as time goes on, because it'll be offset by increased revenues from increased growth. The 2010 R-R paper argued (incorrectly) that such growth would never happen due to the high debt load.
> I'm also essentially terrified of corruption or losing the data file, so any but the most cautious and transparent sync scares me.

I keep a recently updated (every few weeks or after I enter something especially important) copy on a flash drive. Worse comes to worse and something gets corrupted I can always use that version.
Had a rMBP, it was nice and light, but still "big". Sold it and got a maxed out 13" Air, haven't looked back. About the only thing I miss is the nice GPU in the rMBP, but I only miss that with games.

No speed complaints with the Air. Super portable.
The correction actually bolsters the claim that more debt leads to lower growth.

0-30 debt/GDP, 4.2% growth; 30-60, 3.1 %; 60-90, 3.2%,; 90-120, 2.4% and over 120, 1.6%
I suppose that P2P file sharing will eventually end up doing away with "major labels" and the RIAA. The major labels and RIAA just had a lot of money and contracts to begin with. The influence lent them by the money and contracts (lobbying, PR campaigns, law suits) has let them hang on for a while, as file sharing nibbles the foundations of the business from under them.

There's also clearly a societal component. We believe that "artists" own the music, even when legally, they may or may not. The PR campaigns referenced above tend to support societal concepts like "owning" ideas or riffs or sequences of notes. It will just take a while for the population who believes in owning ideas or concepts to turn over.

In the meantime, the RIAA thrives.
It still works for me.
If you think the only city that is difficult to hail a cab in is SF, you are sadly mistaken. I can personally say Austin, Atlanta, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Athens, etc. desperately need a better way to hail a cab.
Anyone thinking about enabling further crowdsourced investigative work would do well to read that thread [1] with an eye to how quickly it got out of hand.

In my opinion...

Efforts to help with this should focus on helping people to submit any data and information with relevant context they have in a consistent format to the relevant authorities, nothing more.

1: http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1cf5wp/2013_boston_m...
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Wow, what a dishonest response. Your attempt to repurpose the premise of my comment as if had been yours to begin with ignores your actual assertion, which is "but there are only a few of those [good startups] in existence".

I apologize in advance if you are like that guy in that movie who lost his long-term memory and therefore could only remember the last hour of his life and therefore only had my comment to go on in composing that response.
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If you want to translate (well, transcode really) from existing graphics
to ASCII art, your best bet is aalib [1,2].

I'm unsure if curses/ncurses [3] is suitable for game work, but it's another
thing you might want to look at.

If she has an interest in the creativity of character based art, it would be
best to talk to Jason Scott [4] but realize some of the archived art scene
text might be considered unsuitable for a 13 year old (even though I'm sure
some of it was created by 13 year olds). Also, Jason would be a good person
to ask about how character based graphics were done in old games.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAlib

[2] http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncurses

[4] http://ascii.textfiles.com/

EDIT: It also might be fun to show her Star Wars in ASCII animation

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Yes. Except no scrolling of the screen when it updates.

Yeah I knew there was a route to this in C, but aren't we talking *nix here? Seems like a heckuva an install just for something she may only use for a few hours.

I really like the idea of starting her with C, though. There's a couple good books out there, and as long as she stays away from pointers and macros it shouldn't be too much.

Modern environments are just so complex. Geesh. I'd hate to be starting today.
My original reaction was surprise since ten percent after tax seemed like a lot but after thinking about it this really is that bad of a deal for the entrepreneur, ten percent is a tithe.
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I agree, but I never bother taking a cab in other US cities.
It's because that's one of the metrics which is tracked and, therefore, optimized for, even at the detriment to the core business.
I encourage anyone interested in learning more about this sort of thing to read this article on the "category design pattern" by Gabriel Gonzalez, the author of the pipes library for Haskell:

http://www.haskellforall.com/2012/08/the-category-design-pat...
Because that's the comparison here. Between the "few good startups that exist", as you said elsewhere in this thread, and the rest of them that are run by people waiting for the opportunity to stab their grandparents for a title bump.
Have you tried http://amazd.com ? I design the extension to cut down the functionality to the bare minimum as I had the same kinds of concerns with other services/products.
> attempting to exploit a tragedy to grab attention for your unrelated interests

"exploit": False. PG does not benefit from people donating to Watsi. What he's doing is quite literally the opposite of exploitation: persuading people to give money to others.

"unrelated interests": I've already debunked this, as did PG in his tweet. A terrible event occurred. This has caused people to become abnormally empathetic toward their fellow man. PG is encouraging people to channel that empathy into a good cause however they can.

The belief your argument rests on consists entirely of falsehoods.
Nice. What's the manufacturing costs of every button?
I liked the gallery example better - much more interesting because you have much more things to like/dislike (it's not as binary as a cafe). Could also be used for IKEA style stores.
Good luck!
> Parallel processing models give you, at best, linear speedup.

Most commonly, yes, though in practice superlinear speedups can occur in some situations. (Not that this negates your overall point, just a nitpick.)
Somebody probably let an API key expire...
You can build on CF for free using Railo.
I think it's a good-faith concern.

So do I, but I also think it's wrong. As for the inflation concern, Weimar Germany was the loser of a highly economically destructive war on awful armistice terms. Even with the long and arguably inconclusive wars the US has been involved in over the last decade, its position as the #1 world power isn't really in question.
I'm not American, but I do resemble one on the internet.

It does vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but strict liability is still rare and still largely constrained to summary offences, not indictable offences.

Regardless of whether you are in a purely code jurisdiction or purely common law jurisdiction or some hybrid, there usually has to be additional effort by a legislator to indicate that strict liability applies.

IANAL, TINLA.
Yup, this works with Rubymine and Vagrant. Set this up today for myself. Took a bit of fiddling to get it to work, Ruby 2.0 seems a bit flaky to debug, 1.9.3 works well.