skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beautifully illustrating my point. Inflation forces people to get off their butts. To put their money in investments. To loan it to other people with interest. To use it to build businesses. To buy durable goods and land and so forth.

There's no such thing as money for nothing. An implicitly deflationary currency comes at a cost, and that cost is the entire economy based on that currency. It stifles growth and activity compared to an implicitly inflationary currency. Which costs the individual a little over the short-term but benefits the entire economy as a whole. The end result being that economic growth spurred by the activity of people trying to avoid loss due to inflation more than makes up for that loss.

In the time since 1950 the US dollar has inflated by a whopping 840% (a factor of 9.4x), but the per capita GDP has grown by an even more impressive 3200% (a factor of 33x in nominal dollars), or 250% in inflation adjusted dollars.
Yes. My computer has never been unsafe or exploded. Minor fires, electric shocks and toxic smoke yes, and worst of all, cuts from the case while trying to connect cables or replace fans.
Monads were originally introduced by Wadler in his Monads for functional programming paper. In it he mentions state and I/O but also exception handling, parsing and non determinism.
Fri 12th April?
> Radios are scarce, but the range and ability to produce electromagnetic waves at certain frequencies is not scarce with said radio.

I work in the wireless networking field, and my and my coworkers' experience is actually the complete opposite in high-density environments: there is an abundance of radios, and a scarcity of frequency.

Which, BTW, is one of the reasons wired networking consistently outperforms wireless - you have one and only one transmitter (in a full-duplex connection) on a given medium.
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> Pin is proprietary software developed and supported by Intel and is supplied free of charge for non-commercial use.

Huh. What are the licensing conditions and price for commercial use then?
You test a) by following the news and making a note of what pieces are "important" and then whether or not you hear about them via other sources too.
Today or in 10 years ?
TL:DR: This dude was at the wrong place at the wrong time; and unless the US Government can prove otherwise, they should either release him, or if he is a terrorist, it would be a net-win if they just let him die of hunger (As their reputation w.r.t Gitmo has already been sullied).

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In a parallel universe, I claim that you are committing conspiracy to overthrow the reigning King. You say you were just walking by the forest to check out wildlife. I say nonsense; I have the power to capture you. The extent of your crime is that you were in the forest.

I then capture you and throw you in a dungeon/prison, parade you naked, urinate you, rob you of basic dignity, flog you when I have a bad day or just for my amusement. I also feed you the same bland food daily.

This is your reality [1]

I do this continuously for 20 years == 7300 days in a row. You either start growing crazy or realize it would be better to end the misery yourself. At this point you have been robbed of the aspirations you had to contribute to scientific discovery by cataloguing flora and fauna. You realize that you haven't seen your children for ~20 years. Because you have been labeled an enemy of the state, your wife was thrown out of the city limits, etc. You choose the only option that is remotely viable: deprive yourself of nutrition till you die.

I rob you of that choice. YOU DON'T HAVE ANY FUCKING CHOICE NOW. I strap you to a cot, and force feed you a disgusting liquid diet for the next N years of your life. You live like this for the rest of your life or till I decide otherwise.

Because in this scenario, I have power, I can do whatever I please in the name of protecting the life of this King.

[1] As an experiment, lock yourself in a room for a day/week with some bland nutritious food & pots & pans for bodily functions. No books, no computers, no phone or music players, or any other distractions. For added effect, wear noise canceling headphones & blindfolds. And just chill. Repeat this for a long period of time, and you'll either want to kill yourself because your existence has been reduced to nothing, or you'll go crazy. In reality you'll get pretty restless and bored within the hour.
Have you tried Heroin? :)
Do something fun, even if it has no immediate value. Motivation runs on momentum. Do whatever seems like the most fun.

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~kilcup/262/feynman.html
Neither. Less friendly ("language complexity") than Python, and less performant than Java (not in the same league).

Its just another trade off. Beyond the hype, it has interesting choices, and some very poor ones. (No algebraic datatypes, conservative exploitable will-break-your-program garbage collector, no tail recursion)

But the trade off between performance, safety and compile time is quite unique, and should be considered its main contribution to the language design space. Its just too bad it ignores every other contribution from the last thirty years. Like how to do a type system, or how to write a garbage collection that survives long run proccesses.
Indeed, everyone drank alcohol, and most of us are genetically predisposed to having some affinity for doing so currently, due to the simple fact that beer was sterile, and water made you sick. See: How Beer Saved the World
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One server will never be enough. You need redundancy in case of a fire. Don't forget to optimize kernels, load balance, ensure security patches get applied, etc. I know I don't want that world, so I pay Google a measly amount to run App Engine for me and spin up new instances as my service needs them. I will be very surprised if the future is not bigger and better clouds.
Never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
I think this person hit it on the head.

When it comes to distractions and thinking, less is more, and forced constant interaction is bad.
Yeah, but what will it be worth when the iPhone 6 comes out?
I think it's all about using the right tool for the right job. Sure enough, there are some things that dynamic binary modification(DBM) does that can also be implemented another way (e.g. generic application level profiling), but even some of those things are sometimes done faster/better by DBM tools: Want to log the system calls to RANDOM_SYSCALL? Sure, use ptrace and do these context switches: app>kernel>ptrace_app>kernel(actual syscall)>ptrace_app>kernel>app every time any system call executes... Or use PIN and take the usually small performance hit. ptrace also messes up signal delivery.

Want to profile dynamically generated code? libelf won't be much help there. Or do you want to run memory accesses through a cache simulator? ptrace won't be much help. There are plenty of uses when DBM is the right (or only) tool.
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Yeah, you can see how this would happen if you look at Internet access in the US. Remember how, when Google announced they'd launch Google Fiber in Austin, AT&T announced an equally fast fiber rollout there. Now imagine if that first fiber rollout was being done by a company that actually needed to show profitability on its investment - there's no way that they could compete with AT&T, they'd fold before they made enough money to expand and that'd be the end of them. Which is why, until Google got interested, the US was stuck with the incumbent telecom and cable operators.
I think 2 things need to be emphasised.

1. This was a paper submitted for a joke conference. It is in no way a giant leap in AI. It is something that some nerds find amusing. Like an anti-Rube Goldberg machine. It is trying to accomplish something quite complex using a ridiculously stupid approach.

2. Its stupid because it is looking at the memory state as just a list of numbers that change during the gameplay. It has no knowledge of the actual game. It doesn't parse the memory to figure out game state or anything. It doesn't even have any generic idea of what games involve. It figures out "oo, the number that starts at location 243 goes up in the training data. I'll mash buttons to try to make memory location 243 go up".
That depends on the kind of change. There is actually a list of changes that are of high impact to the network and block chain but may be implemented nevertheless

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hardfork_Wishlist

Of course, none of these are major economic changes. To quote the article "Please don't list anything here which would significantly change the committed overall economics of the system, it's safe to assume anything with significant economic impact will _never_ be changed in Bitcoin, because such changes would undermine the trust people have in the system, though they may form the basis of an interesting alternative chain.".

A recent example of a change that affects the P2P network, but not the block chain, is the use of bloom filters to make more efficient (but still secure) light clients possible.
>Rob Pike explains how Google designed Go to address major development issues they encounter

Only Google never "designed Go" -- in the way it designed the V8 or Dart, SUN designed Java or MS designed C#, ie. assembled a team, funded them, and told them to specifically build a language as a project to fix some specific issues.

A team at Google designed Go on their own, as a side project, to scratch their own itches/pain-points.

For me at least, those are two clearly distinct cases.

Now, you can argue that the second, being grassroots and all, is better, or whatever, but I would not use the words "Google designed Go to address major development issues they encounter" for the second case.

Now, afterwards, the team got some funding from Google to work on it now, and Google even has added other people to work on it, but it was never "designed" by Google (ie as a company decision at large) to solve their pain points, and the language was never officially adopted by Google by some decree in the "teams, use that, it solves our pain points" sense.

As for heavily invested, I don't know. A few projects seem to use it, but mainly minor ones. A db balancer for YouTube, Google Downloads (which was "no longer actively maintained" before switching to Go, etc). Of course they could adopt the language more in the future, but as of yet I haven't heard of any heavy rewrites and main components done in it.

Not to mention that at some point Google was "heavily invested" in Wave too, and that didn't come out that good. Who's to say at some point during the regular spring cleaning they wont kill the funding for the Go work, to streamline their development story? I can even see them killing Dart at some point, if it fails to get any adoption in 3-4 years.
What would a poverty map of India look like?
Pencil Project, a free GUI prototyping tool that's available for all platforms.
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If he is accused, then surely discovery and a trial are in order.

Even nazis got trials.
Nitpick: Afghanistan isn't an Arabic country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashtun_people
I believe there is no proof of a real world airline doing this. Happy to hear otherwise though!
the other advantage of the Economist is that it only comes out once a week. I've gotten slack about reading it lately but I should just cut out the time I spend reading daily news. What you'll notice if you read the Economist regularly is that after a few months or a year you realize that virtually everything of consequence you see on the TV news or the front pages of daily newspapers (with the exception of truly surprising stuff) is stuff you already read about weeks previously.
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Perhaps but the main thing was that within 15 minutes of a story hitting HN three people had mentioned the same reasons for leaving.
I'm looking forward to go to this conf.

I did the PGDay before Fosdem 2013 and I was amazed by the quality of the one day conf: speakers, location, organization and refreshment

I will it advice to anybody interested in PostgreSQL: heavy user, sys-admin, developers
Setting up a PostGIS db with OpenStreetMap data
Thats stupid. You're stupid.
All companies would eventually collude, given the opportunity to do so without punishments. For more recent examples, see the DRAM cartel some decades ago and the current global diamond market.
> if you have difficulty focusing, you're not really interested in what you're doing.

I'm afraid if that's really the case, then I'm not interested in anything at all. Which is certainly a much bigger issue than focusing. But I don't think that's the case because I really enjoy seeing the results of my work and I've always been able to interest myself in math/science before in my life, so as far as I can tell I'm still interested. (Heck, just look at how many comments I post on HN about my research.)
Really? I've never once, despite living in the EU for my entire life (in various countries), heard anyone claim the country they live is anything like "the land of the free".
I found that especially hilarious having been through a painful housing bubble-pop in the UK in the early 90s.
A few points to add to the argument above

Consider the following scenario:

I am a very rich man : i have 1 trillion dollars, everybody else has < 1 million dollars.
Goal : I want to continue being the richest man on the planet and control its resources
An easy way: Whatever new assets are created, I raise the price far above the value that normal people can afford. If they can afford 1 million, I offer 50 million. It doesnt make a difference to my life, because I have 1 trillion, but I put it out of reach of all the people who have 1 million.

In 1977 my parents bought a 1 bedroom apartment for INR 47000. At that time, my dad told me, salaries for average jobs were about INR 600. 100 times 600 = 60,000, so the max leverage was about 100 times.

Today in 2013, an average white collar salary in India is about 50,000 a month. Today In Bombay in my locality a 1 bed apartment is 85 lakhs (INR 8.5 million). What's the leverage?

50,000 x 1000 = 50,000,000 = INR 5 million. My leverage is > 1000 times. But wait, if you consider the dollar (my dad was a marine engineer who earned in dollars), I have seen it go up from INR 18 to today's INR 50. So multiply that another 4 times, my leverage is about 4000 compared to 1977. What happened? Inflation.

a. Now consider the 6% dividend the Federal reserve share holders pay themselves on the interest gained by bonds raised.
b. I need an asset where I do no work, but earn money.

Every year people do economic business activities and generate wealth. Private equity companies invest in these companies and hence are able to increase their investors holdings.

But consider the extra income from 6% dividend. This is money that gives them an extra edge over everybody else. If the US raises 1 trillion dollars in bonds from the FED at 1% interest, the FED income is USD 10 billion. 6% of USD 10 billion is 600 million USD. But that income is only for the year 2013, to understand the total interest you must add up for all the bonds raised where the debt has not been paid back. The private banks have this extra money to play with, which keeps increasing their ability to jack up prices and decrease the common man's leverage.
I went to inner city schools. You have no idea how poor they are. Even the smartest kids who really wanted to learn had no chance.

Some odd summers ago I went across Chicago Public Schools to document building lighting for upgrades to more efficient lamps, since the current lamps the building "engineers" were using stopped being manufactured and supply was starting to run out.

Some of the shit I've seen there puts third world countries to shame. One day my photography partner couldn't make it so I brought my mother along to fill her spot. After we finished a particularly bad school she began crying because it reminded her of her own primary schooling in communist Ukraine some ~50 years ago. It was incomprehensible and heartbreaking to her that such a great country like America could have such terrible education standards. The difference between rich and poor schools is night and day. When you don't have central heating, when half of the bathroom facilities don't work, and when you don't even have enough money to buy chalk, there's absolutely no way you could even possibly comprehend to compete with the likes of Walter Payton.
If this is a concern, feel free to use the open source, BSD-licensed main competitor: DynamoRIO: http://www.dynamorio.org/
Then give them a choice to go home, and if they don't want to, grant them asylum in the US. There's no reason for them to be locked up in a quasi-jail just because it's unsafe for them to go home.
Yes, and that is the point...Quora and Medium are very similar, but Medium frames their content as stories and Quora frames it as answers. That is the main difference to the general public.
>3 Months ago Go was more popular on github by number of unique committers than Lua, Clojure, Haskell, Erlang, D, OCaml, Lisp/Scheme, Rust, Delphi, Prolog, F#, Ada etc [1]. Surely you consider some of those languages as being relevant?

No, none of them is really relevant industry-wise at this point. That doesn't preclude them being excellent languages, used in a lot of projects, but the "a lot" for Haskell and even Clojure is some orders of magnitude less than the "a lot" for Java, C, VB, etc.

The listing has Java and Ruby head-to-head which is not at all the case, not even close, in programming at large. It's just that Ruby is more popular with the GitHub using type of people, whereas tons of enterprise programmers using Java can never put their source up there for all.

(The same listing has VimL and Emacs Lisp above of Go -- I guess people merely storing their Emacs configuration on GitHub are probably counted as programmers doing actual development work).
Isn't valgrind a more popular competitor?
I agree with you assessment, but as long as Jeff Bezos is able and leading the company, I am willing to bet on Amazon's dominance in it's core markets.
One place to start is the Wikipedia article about the subject. I do not know how accurate the sections about all countries are but the section about Sweden seems correct (we used to do renditions until it was stopped in 2006 after the UN called us out on having violated the torture ban).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition_by_the...
I mostly agree, but I also think it's worth doing it for the "side benefits" since they can be so huge, even if you can't predict what they may be.

Cutting a long story short, if it wasn't for tirelessly blogging in the early 2000s, I'd not have gotten a book deal which led to me creating a blog which became my main source of income and led to the e-mail newsletter network I now run. Nor would I have luckily became result #2 for a popular route planner and made $2-3k per month in Adsense over 2 years by accident. And.. a lot of things like that. And I barely had any readers, it's just that certain posts hit the spot with people Googling for very specific things.
>Being the last item on Ken Thompson's resume prior to his retirement makes it kind of visible, too

In the way Plan 9 got mass adopted?

Do lots of people know what Alan Kay does now? Or what was McCarthy's last project?
> Try progressively more crazy things.

Teaching a computer various concepts of 'crazy' must be tons of fun! :-D
In EU, a number of ministers have been disgraced enough to be thrown out of politics when their cooperation with USA "extraordinary rendition" came known.

Where is the outrage in USA about Gitmo - which high-ranking officials have resigned in shame (or been thrown out for being shameless) about keeping these torture centers?
Firstly, this is not a political article per se. It has political connotations like most things, including hacking.

Secondly, it most certainly "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And if they are never released, then it can't happen?

Please don't tell me that it's a reasonable (legally or ethically) argument for keeping them imprisoned for decades.
I too often have difficulty focussing on a task, often getting bogged down in reading email or 'quickly' checking the news.

To get around this I use the pomodoro technique [1] and [2]

I have also found quite a bit of success using paper lists; If I write down everything productive I need to get done (mostly on a high-level like 'look into bug nnnn') and only allow myself to work on the items on the list.

I also actively work on keeping my mind on task; if I find myself wandering off and thinking about something important I will write myself a quick note so that I can remember it later, this helps get it off my mind so I can get back to working.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
[2] http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/
>Lot of things mentioned here are not that easy.

It's US' burden to solve the Gitmo issue, whether it's easy or hard. America can't keep telling people that it's the land of democracy and freedom, and ignore Gitmo at the same time.

>To legally bring citizens of other countries in American justice system...

Gitmo is 100% American. If you think what US did there is outside of jurisdiction, it's fuckin politics and not reality. Stop ignoring the facts and face it.

>The next best thing however might be have them as prisoner of war...

Either there's no war or it's already over. Those people in Gitmo are there because US don't know how to clean up it's own shit without facing international humiliation when the press arrives at the door of the released prisoners.

>Even though there was no trial it is hard to imagine that military doesn't do any accounting of these people and they are just kept there...

So you're OK with a system if military or let's say a central authority decides if someone is guilty or not, without giving the man his right to defend himself. Where do you draw the line? Is it OK if military tells you that your friend is a terrorist? How about you father? "it is hard to imagine that military doesn't do any accounting of these people", after all.
1 - Except for open source startups, companies only use internal repositories;

2 - Many are still using centralized repositories like cvs, svn, clearcase and TFS
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The missing amendment: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Americans are created equal..."
Fixing eBay?
eBay is unsafe when one has to buy expensive products, especially from foreign countries. This is breaking eBay's business model. What if we could use a trusted third party entity that would check that the product matches the description and that the money is there to allow the transaction ? This would have a cost, but for expensive products it would be worth to pay a commission shared by both ends for such a guarantee. Requesting to use such a third party relay could also be a proof of honesty.

I guess it could be possible to build such a relay network by using small shops (i.e. press) for a small side income.

Would This Fly ?
Wow. It's like watching one normal person and a bunch of other people smoking crack.