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Your write up of deflation is excellent, but I'd dispute this: In theory, the ability to "split" bitcoins infinitely would fix the problem

The original deflationary spiral was defined in 1933[1]. The spiral is caused by the growth in value of currency AND a decrease in velocity of circulation. Splitting bitcoins wouldn't solve either of these problems in the same way having higher denomination currency doesn't solve inflation.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_deflation
"Cars must have been made by 1999"
So my 2010 Honda Civic is too new? They only want pre-2000 cars?
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Has anyone been able to get it to work? Whenever I try to open the stats display, I get:

OpenCV Error: Assertion failed (p.checkVector(2, CV_32S) >= 0) in polylines, file /tmp/buildd/opencv-2.3.1/modules/core/src/drawing.cpp, line 2064
Honestly, humans ought to be better than this outdated and questionable nature.
There is no evidence to suggest that Linode leaked credit card data.

Personally I took precautionary measures and just called my bank to replace my credit card, which I think is the sane approach, as when it comes to hacking you have to assume the worst.

However, your statement on "has lots of small issues but fixes them the same day" is just stupidly childish. Linode's issues are bigger just because they are a bigger target.
'speaking in metaphor' is a bit self-referential and is another way of saying 'talking around the issue without having to exactly specify everything in a bullet-pointed list that is clear to even the most basic speaker of the language, all the while allowing for all the usual disclaimers to be applied, the most salient being that the item in question is a general trend that has been noted by the utterer, and not a cast-iron ruling applicable to every possible combination of subject parties when applied in a Condorcet-style fashion'. It's a kind of shorthand.

As for 'what do I mean', I mean that I find people who actually follow news (and I mean in general, not news junkies) generally have a better understanding of why one event follows another, are generally more worldly in that way. You can of course find exceptions, because these are humans and there is little that is absolute or even near absolute in that realm, but I think that 'following news' and 'having a more worldly view' are two items that are not completely orthogonal; the relationship between them is a positive one and is not lost in statistical noise.
It's not about language, it's about the module ecosystem. Less Node.js vs Ruby vs Python more npm vs gem vs pip
I honestly think it might be (changing the face of open source), I am not a part of the node.js community, but I do look at the way NPM works with a bit of jealousy.

Born at the right time, defaulting to the "right" (according to me) license, with the right mix of tools that make it easy to publish and share -- and bluntly I hope other communities (like Erlang, one close to my heart) follow suit.
Are you under the impression that anyone had ever in the history of anything proposed the hypothesis that lack of DRM defeats piracy?

The hypothesis is that it does just as good (really bad) job of preventing it while encumbering legitimate customers less.
The ultimate bookmarking tool is finally here
I believe those who have Glass are the only ones who can get an API key.
After the Boston Marathon Tragedy, We Need Justice ... and Democracy
I'm sorry, but it's not a good thing when there are multiple packages to do a binary search.
Irrelevant but I must say it: Node.js forced async IO is its strength but programming it is a pain in the butt.
I was a game programmer at EA for eight years.

Six years here.

This is pretty spot-on. One of the main reasons I left the industry was because I got tired of it being perpetual amateur hour. I felt like I didn't know much and yet I often knew more than those around me.
I worked on one game where more than 50% of the engineers had never shipped a game before. Those that had spent all of their time fire-fighting the messes created by the energetic yet clueless brigade of novices.

I agree completely. I still remember the HR presentation where they talked about how long most of the developers at our studio had been with the company. I had only been there 6 years and I was somehow one of the 10% most senior people at the studio.

At one point our studio (EA Burnaby) was run by a nice fellow named Jonathan Schappert who later went on to be CEO at Zynga. I'm told that his vision for the studio was for some small percentage (like around 5%) of the programmers to be senior engineers - SE3's or better - and for the rest of the programmers to be kids straight out of school. You can imagine how this 'pyramid of excellence' worked out in practice.
Does anybody know the proportion of women in tech? If there is a lower proportion of women speaking at conferences than in the industries that the conferences are about, you may have a point.
Exactly. Also the ease into the ecosystem.
I guess this also proves the power of networking =)
But of course "access to a repeater" violates the part of "with no centralized infrastructure to fail" in the parent's post.

But one also has to distinguish old-school repeaters covering a medium-diameter area from the worldwide, internet-connected relays (such as IRLP). Whereas the former are easily put up freestanding on an amateur budget, and hence will stay in operation independent of all the other infrastructure, the internet-bound systems will cease operation once the internet links break down.
Or maybe there are just more men than women in tech to start off with (in which case it's hardly surprising there are also more men at conferences).

The problem needs to be fixed at the middle school level (or earlier) where girls are discouraged from technical subjects.
Women do not constitute 50% of the people in tech it makes sense for them to be a minority when presenting.

Why are they a minority in tech in the first place? Well video games got me and most of my friends into tech, and when I was in high-school in the mid 90s most girls abhorred games and considered them childish and geeky. It was a serious social faux pas to be a tech geek who loved hacking around with computers and playing video games. I never met a single girl in the 90s who was into it beyond playing an occasional game of Mario Kart.

Who are we to blame for that?
"Make no fucking mistake that you occupy your cushy tech salary, your mid-level management job, your paltry access to power by permission of the patriarchy."

Oooh, it's one of those tumblr-style feminists. You always know you're in for a psychotic, incoherent rant when they start dropping the f-bomb repeatedly. (not to mention blaming everything from car engine troubles to a stubbed toe on the nebulous yet infamous "Patriarchy"...)
I'm a bit confused about why it was possible to send an email to a million wrong people. Don't million-person lists usually have some form of moderation?
The Runaway Brain - a simple anti-procrastination idea
Interesting - PHONETIC not thread safe. There must be a story behind that, as its not obviously a contended resource. http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/excel-help/phonetic-functi...
Senators unveil bipartisan immigration bill
It's suprisingly horrible, which I suppose actually shows how succesfull it is!
I saw Neil Degrasse Tyson speak a few months ago. In his talk, he mentioned how strange it was that he was always referred to as "a black physicist," since he had always thought of himself as just "a physicist."

I feel much the same way.
LinkedIn's Acquisition Of Pulse Promotes Role Of Game Changer
I would love Apple if they created an excellent file systems specifically for SSD use, and if they also opened that file system to other users.

HFS+ has some nice features. I don't know anyone not running OS X using it.
It came late (but at the perfect time) -- it lowered the barrier to entry -- it changed the default licensing -- it leveraged existing systems (github).

In short, it didn't do any amazing -- but by simply combining the right tech at the right time, the result is something IMHO much better than pip or gem or X.
Fair enough, appreciate the input. I'll remember it till next time, and you're kinda on to something, it sounds defeatist and quite frankly just tacky.
This isn't the way to do it. I'd be really offended if someone explicitly added me to the speaking roster just because of my genitals, just as much as I'd be annoyed if they explicitly denied me because of them.
You're being overly pedantic on your definitions. Egalitarian means giving everyone an equal starting point free of cultural background. It doesn't mean that the cardiac health advice of a consultant cardiologist is weighed the same as a random person on the street with no medical training. It's not "all opinions are equal", but "opinions should start free of cultural bias". If you want your bug report accepted more easily, then experience with writing bug reports matters - what doesn't matter is if you're a woman, or a south asian or whatever.

Egalitarianism and meritocracy are not mutually exclusive nor orthogonal. A dyed-in-the-wool egalitarian in need of advice on wood will still seek a carpenter over a weaver.
"These days due to reservations, people want to be born in lower castes in India."

Pure unadulterated bullshit or trolling.

Er.. I'm from India too.. and kamaal.. you seem to be stuck in the small college student protests about reservation around 7 - 8 years ago.

Nobody wants to be born in a lower caste. In the end, such comments are just jokes. India's social playing field is still more important to the ordinary people. Especially when castes play a big role in marriages in India, the next most important thing after society as a whole.

So, i have to ask... whats your angle kamaal. Convincing HN that reservations are bad is going to make no difference on the politics of India. You seem to be ranting about it every chance you get (and against poor people from the last comment i read).

Also, your rant here is only against the backward sections of society, which have been denied equal opportunities for ages and have now become a political pawn in the reservations fiasco.

I question this, because India, as you know has reservations for women too, already in many educational institutions, pending in the parliament.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womens_Reservation_Bill

So, instead of quoting something relevant like the impact of various reservations the country has implemented for women, you seem to just pout out your own agenda.

Don't wanna make the world a better place? Please don't try to make it worse.
(I am from India too.)

There is a provable, significant difference is earning/wealth between different castes in India[1]. If you believe that there is no difference between people depending on their caste, this is situation you want to remedy.

If there has been systematic discrimination against a class of people, spanning centuries, they can not compete without providing affirmative action. Quota's are a way to level the playing field.

"If some one is good, they will win anyway. If they are not, they can't and won't."

Not if the means of productions, wealth and power is hoarded by a few.

[1] http://www.ras.org.in/income_inequality_and_caste_in_village...
> > You’ll be working on a greenfield project. Any tool you use is fine as long as you know it REALLY well. Except of course for Ext.js. There’s just no excuse for using it ever.

This definitely deserves extra emphasis.
Well, according to Feminism 101, everything in society that is bad is because of the Patriarchy. So even if it is a class war, men are still to blame for it. I...don't agree with this, but they make the same jump in "logic" over and over again, so it's fairly predictable.

It's frankly a little alarming. College should be about learning diverse methods of evaluating a position, and critical thinking, not blaming everything on X root cause. (Any given problem is quite likely to have several variables affecting it.)
Your Mobile Experience Is Not Theirs
Good point, I hadn't really thought it through.
The Light Bulb Conspiracy is a great documentary about planned obsolescence. It starts with a printer programmed to fail (at the end of the movie Marcus downloads a homemade Russian driver which mysteriously repairs it). It deals with many more subjects and products, including titular lightbulbs (one of them is working for over 100 years already), ipads with irreplaceable batteries lasting 3 years, macs and other PC waste dumped in Africa as "used computers", degrowth, Bernard London, Phoebus, wooing consumers with short-lived products instead of forcing them (reminds me of STEAM).
Unfortunately, only fragments of it are on youtube (except for Polish version, in full).
Silk Road Travel 
These countries house sites and places that either have historical or archeological importance. In order to explore the tourist destinations along the Silk Road, one needs to be sure of a lot many factors like the expenses and the course that can be followed keeping all of the above in mind.
Don’t kill your brand by buying likes/followers
> What keeps the US relatively free of terrorism is the massive ocean that's between the terrorists and their target.

What keeps most countries relatively free from terrorism is that they aren't occupying other peoples land or bombing their women and children all the way to hell.

Ever wonder why extremists haven't bombed the Cook Islands or Peru?
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Why You Need A CRM System In Your Business
Ask HN: Whats your reporting pipeline?
1) How do you use reporting on top of analytics and create a pipeline to generate reports that can be exported to different formats and emailed.
2) Any relevant SAAS providers
3) Is Jasper a good fit for use in a python/ruby/javascript stack?
> You define "society" far too narrowly

You're defining "society" as a pointless philosophical abstraction. I'm defining "society" in terms of the only thing I care about: the people and country around me. I'm not interested in the history books that remain to be written. I think most Americans feel similarly. It might be satisfying in some intellectual sense if "the worldwide shared culture of the 21st century" (of which America might represent a small fraction numerically, but which is disproportionately American in its composition) survives, but does little good for Americans who suffer.
A perfect day, then the unimaginable
There is a huge difference in the barrier to entry. To contribute a module to cpan versus contributing a module to NPM.

You might consider the barrier a feature, but it is a wild difference.
In time of the internets I can't imagine a design shop hard to bootstrap. On internet nobody knows you're an intern.
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Did anyone else read the fees?

1% and 15cents? That's incredible.... Compared to the 2.9% and 30 cents most other payment processors charge.

I will be migrating my start up soon!
Laid back working environments?

lol 'yea you can dress however you want'. Yea, they bloody well should let you when you're in the office 80+ hours a week.

I'll never go back to games - in the 6 years I've been in the games industry, I've worked with some really smart and fun people, but management (and on the whole, a lot of 'game designers') generally suck and have no idea what they're talking about. That includes a lot of the veterans - they got famous on a single game idea, way way way back and are carried by that.
Wow this article is bullshit. If we want to stop getting bombed, we need to stop bombing other countries. Simple as that. What happened in Boston today happens every day in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thanks to America.
Have we considered the underlying issues that might actually make your strawman argument true?
So... all of these people got really angry over getting one email? Maybe I'm reading the article wrong, but I get tons of emails all the time that I didn't ask for. It's just part of using the internet as far as I can tell.
Details Of Immigration Bill Revealed, More High-Skilled Visas And Employer Fees
The duration of the pulse is much shorter than the beat, though. Should still be visible at that framerate, just noting that pulses aren't sinewaves :)
Congratulations, sir. I just about lost my shit laughing when I saw the arduino in the first picture. Good work, it's really cool seeing people doing interesting projects like this. The maximum number of lego presses is something I might never have thought of (I'm a k'nex person!), but I'm really happy to now know.
Peru has had tens of thousands of civilians killed in conflict with the Shining Path.
Doesn't work for me when using an RDP client on Linux. Is this an RDP spec thing or a microsoft only feature?
Ooh, good question!
How does SOA improve scaling? I've never had to build anything as big as pinterest and it seems interesting to me.

I don't quite understand how it reduces connections. If you have your front-end tier connecting to your service tier, you'll still have the same amount of requests going to the database, just with a little middle-man... If I understand correctly?
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> "that all Americans are created equal..."

Except the ones the executive branch orders to be assassinated: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/05/us-targeted-killing...
I got an arduino Uno, it was about $20 on amazon!

http://www.amazon.com/Arduino-UNO-board-DIP-ATmega328P/dp/B0...
Sony Launches 2 Gbps Internet In Japan
I flew less after 9/11 because it made rational sense to do so.

Before I could turn up at the airport 10 minutes before my plane took off and go the the gate and check in.

After 9/11 I was in a queue for ages and had to arrive really early. So it was quicker to just drive.
It seems that the Nyquist-Shannon sampling rate would be too low for the results to be accurate.
Super salt-tolerant rice, after 34k crosses (and 1 survived)
My point was along the lines of something like nginx (before it was commercialised), a growing open source project. If you felt you could make a business off nginx, you could have approached the author directly made an investment and taken some equity.
I have used splunkstorm.com which is a SaaS and that can allow you to generate distributable reports.
I need help rooting my android phone [Moto Electrify M]
I recently switched to android and with rooting being one of the main reasons I wanted to use the OS, I can't seem to figure out how to make that happen. I've tried using oneclickroot and that didn't work either. Anyone have a rooted Motorola electrify m (usc) that can point me in the right direction or have some tips/links?
I don't agree with the idea that there should be no standard library. There is a lot of benefit to having a big standard library with code for common tasks like manipulating strings, performing network I/O, or formatting text. Sure, you might be able to improve on the standard library, but the next person who has to maintain your code probably won't thank you for using something weird. And if your new thing is awesome enough, it might be added to the standard library in time.

Things like this were a big problem in C++. In the early days of C++, literally nothing was standard. Everyone ran around using his own string class-- "std" string was named aspirationally, not to reflect reality. They all behaved slightly differently. It has taken literally decades to get to the point where std::string appears in most new projects in the UNIX world. (I think that Windows is still hosed, due to the continuing UCS-2 train wreck on that platform... but I digress.) Similarly, there are 31 different flavors of smart pointer, and even a master C++ programmer won't know them all. So much pointless non-standardization, so much cognitive overhead.

I'm also reminded of Perl's "there's more than one way to do it" and the "enhanced job security" that ended up providing for anyone who managed to sneak Perl into production.

There is value in modularity, but only when the choice you're giving to the library user is a valuable one. Choosing whether to use a MySQL database connector or a Postgres database connector is good diversity. Choosing which string class to use, or what we're calling BigInt this month, or which of 15 Regex libraries we're using today... that kind of diversity just gives you headaches and maintenance pain, nothing more.
You did a spike.

It's ok to be untested for discovery. Even in TDD.

In pure TDD you would be supposed to throw it away afterwards and redo it clean (with learnings) based on test-first.
Yep, it was a weekend project ;).
> Architecture is doing the right thing when growth can be handled by adding more of the same stuff. You want to be able to scale by throwing money at a problem which means throwing more boxes at a problem as you need them. If you are architecture can do that, then you’re golden

My understanding is that the term of art is horizontal scalability.
funny but at first I didn't recognise Sendero Luminoso. I wouldn't expect English speaking people to know about them or ETA or so many others
One table for users is a no-brainer. The outer limit on table size is ~7 billion rows.

And that's just not a very big table these days.
No ? The frequency needs to be at-least double this seems the be the case.
However webcam noise and the algorithm might increase the need.
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PostgreSQL has a somewhat similar philosophy of extensibility and moving things out of core. Consider something like PostGIS: it's an entire first-class geospatial system done entirely as an extension (I don't think any other database can claim that).

It's still basically a batteries-included distribution, but it is very extensible and getting more so. I expect to see many more domain-specific extensions (you can already see a lot at http://pgxn.org ).

However, I will say that it should be a simple core but not too simplistic. Especially for something like a database, some things are better done in the core (perhaps not inherently, but it's in research-project territory). That's really the challenge: it's not "pro-modularity" versus "anti-modularity"; it's about what constitutes a good base from which to build.
why not use Paypal or AliPay ?
I assume it's a non serious posting about the fact that this word is indeed in Apple's default dictionary, which many of us can immediately verify with a three-finger tap: Esquivalience

It's especially fun because my popup shows the fake definition at the top, and the wikipedia explanation below it :) - not sure if that's because of my settings or if it is the default behaviour.
http://ruby-china.org/topics/10239
http://ruby-china.org/topics/10234