skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When it comes to services like email, the quality of the user interface is really secondary. The primary concern is the ability to trust that I will remain accessible through the identifier (email address) that I've spread around to many people and places over the years.

Given Google's service shutdowns, dropped support for protocols, and the horror stories of seemingly accidental account closures with no recourse, I simply cannot trust Google with something as critical as my email.
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Also, as swombat observed: the criteria for maximising shareholder returns long-term might be (and almost certainly is) very different to the short-term milking of the company for profit. Intuitively, a law requiring that company decisions favour maximum profit over N years would be ambiguous to the point of unenforceable.
i keep reading that its not federated and yet i am still chatting with people on gmail via xmpp via my own xmpp server.
While it's true there was a significant upset in the Diablo 3 economy after the 1.0.8 patch came out, things are settling down again, and we're certainly not seeing the kind of delta that would make me call out a hyperinflation. If anything, the prices remind of me a bubble forming and consequently popping.

Worse, the article is not just inaccurate, it's dishonest: it hides the data that contradicts it, despite being publicly available on a day-by-day basis. [1] is a wonderful resource.

The eye-catching table near the end stops at peak prices. The prices since that peak are more-or-less hidden in the second half of an otherwise fairly unremarkable paragraph. We've seen a downward tendency, with prices moving back to pre-patch prices. We can illustrate that by looking up more recent data for the same examples as listed in the article:

Radiant star amethyst: 20m before patch (april 29), high of 60m, 22m now.

Radiant square ruby: 200k before patch, high of 528k, 266k now.

Star emerald: 760k before patch, high of 1.6m, 770k now.

Flawless square topaz: 3k before patch, high of 16k, 4.5k now.

Tome of jewelcrafting: 1.2k before patch, high of 6.5k, 1.5k now.[1]

All these items have a downward price trend, with the exception of the (relatively inconsequential) tome of jewelcrafting, which is stable. I would not be surprised to see these and other (harder to track) items reach month's end at roughly pre-patch prices.

It's also worth mentioning at this point that the prices of each rank of gem is linked directly to the price of the rank below it. For example, a star gem costs 80k gold plus 3 radiant square gems of the same type to craft. This is an ingame feature. All gem prices are therefore functions of the price of flawless square gems, the highest rank that monsters can drop. The article mixes the prices of different gem ranks, which is either ignorance of the way the game's economy and mechanics works, or an intentionally and artificially pretense of diversity. It's a bad sign either way.

Finally, and most important of all: the European market has been fairly stable throughout this whole debacle. The only difference between the European and the North American markets is that the latter suffered the (disastrous) bug described by the article, while the European market did not: Europe gets its patches 6-9 hours after North America does and the bug that it introduced was fixed before the patch hit Europe.

This lends credit to the idea that all we're seeing here is the aftershocks of massive destabilization due to a simple bug. To me, the fact that prices seem to be returning to normal testifies to the relative stability of the Diablo 3 market, and long term price trends show the same. Huzzah, Blizzard!

All in all, while interesting in a general sense, the article is flawed when it comes to the specific case it uses to promote its message, the turbulence of Diablo 3's economy over the last few weeks. This is not hyperinflation.

[1] http://www.diablohub.com/price-tracker/
That might be possible but a competent buyer will have you agree to a non-compete for a given amount of time (likely a couple years) before a sale is finalized.
Imagery aside, no more like building a house in a storage locker.
What's wrong with a simple mail filter?
It seems like not many services want to be the full RAW backup service that also does easy photo sharing. As in press a button and get a zip file of the gallery type of photo sharing that you get with G+. You do

You have 3 tiers:
1. RAW backups
2. Full JPEG renders downloadable in a zip file
3. Smaller JPEGs for online slideshows and viewing.
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Name and shame. I'm intrigued. If they are London based then there's a very strong chance I'll know them.

As I recommend in my post, contact the company, ask to speak to someone in a position of authority and instruct them to remove all your details from their database or you will lodge a formal complaint for harassment.
"Just don't look at the new Flickr redesign and swallow this lovely blue pill and everything will be allllllllright."
Store files in your Flickr account
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Ask A Banker: Capital, Capital
The problem is that the Ludwig von Mises Institute don't really sell Mises.

They sell Rothbardianism, mostly. It's Rothbard acolytes and a series of increasingly more-anarcho-capitalist-than-thou writers.

von Mises, who was actually more sensible and more measured than Rothbard, is just the name above the door.

And von Hayek, who was more sensible and more measured than von Mises, is nowhere to be seen. At all. Except possibly as the subject of jokes.

These days I find the Hayekian account of economics to be thoughtful and compelling [1].

I find the Rothbard account to be a breeding ground of ivory towers and scenes from Life of Brian.

[1] http://chester.id.au/2012/12/07/review-the-essence-of-hayek-...
Where Would the World Be Without YouTube?
Consider this:

The question "What is your pornstar name?" asks for your mothers maiden name and first pets name...

To get your security details.
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I'd guess this is parodying Kickstarters where rich people ask for money to support them like the person who wanted 800 dollars to send her daughter to the RPG maker camp or the PennyArcade podcast kickstarter that only required $10 to fund completely.

Wario is extremely rich and is asking for support in a similar manner in a way that suits his personality.
That cancer game
Physical key-protected one-time pad
Wow! I agree with you. This would be a perfect mobile game. Stuff like this could really help to save their business.
Works with chrome on android for me.
Google shows developers how to hack Glass and run Ubuntu
Decompress and subsequent recompress would do this just fine.
"you need to spend some time learning the syntax"

But Lisp has rather less syntax than most other programming languages - and that's possibly a weakness rather than a strength when it comes to anyone new to the language.

I suspect there is a sweet spot when it comes to the syntactic complexity of programming languages - too little and people get lost in the generality and abstractions, too much and its difficult to remember it all and you end up with coding standards desperately trying to close down on the features that should be used (e.g. banning the ternary conditional operator).
AMIs are really useful for production servers when you want to quickly launch a bunch of similar servers or set up auto-scaling groups to launch new servers based on load. The issue is that to take full advantage of using AMIs, you need to re-build (bake) the AMI every time you make a change to your production machines.

Disadvantages of AMIs are that they are large files (which can be unwieldy) and are not in a format that can be immediately used in a vagrant instance or elsewhere, so you need to convert between AMI and .vbox or .box formats to use amis with your local vagrant instance.

With saltstack, you can deploy and configure machines from base Ubuntu or RHEL distros by using salty-vagrant for vagrant instances and salt-cloud for AWS / rackspace / openstack / vps machines. Once machines are deployed and connected to your salt-master, you can use your yaml config files to bring all the machines to the desired roles (api machine, load balancer, web front-end, etc.). This is more flexible than using AMIs, since you can roll out a minor change quickly to all servers, including production servers, without needing to wait to build a new AMI.

There are hybrid approaches also (some puppet/chef users do this) where for production machines you can have saltstack deploy to a machine that then gets built into a new AMI automatically. And then this new AMI gets updated into the autoscaling groups and is deployed to replace the current production servers. Sounds complicated... and it is, but at the cost of extra complexity it does give you the best of both worlds.
Is it though?

I've not once heard of this actually being pursued. This line seems to me to be something of an urban myth.
I find Prolog a marvel in "look what I can do!" Writing stupidly fun code in it is almost a no-brainer, compared to other languages (I have a half-assed English grammar parser in 60-odd lines, with a few comments!) But getting into prolog needs a complete rewire of how you think about programming: if you are used to imperative (or functional, or list-based, or almost whatever else) prolog feels very foreign.

I'm also a Lisp aficionado, having written more than a few small pieces (not counting emacs lisp, where I write more than a few!) to scrape the web or draw Lavaurs chords.

And my day-to-day I write PHP, Python, awk, R and whatever it takes to improve revenues in my company. So I have both perspectives, Lisp & Prolog and its awesomeness and "the other side." And mixing them up (splurge into data with awk, write it as Prolog terms, analyse its structure in Prolog and represent it in R) is one of the biggest joys of programming. Don't get entrenched in your "language," learn as many as you can and cherry-pick each one as you see fit for the problem.
Rothbard-school Austrians make the same error as classical Keynsians. They freeze the structure of production, treat it as a homogenous gas, and then modify some exogenous variable.

The Austrians modify money supply; the Keynsians modify the aggregate demand.

It's the same error of over-simplification. Economies are not smooth curves, they are lumpy and have heterogeneous networks of heterogeneous agents.
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Well I´m glad you weren´t confused - now ignoring your ad hominem comments - all I´m trying to understand is a) why one needs a kickstarter campaign for this and b)if I had to wait a while to get a square piece of plastic - I´d rather go to a local CNC place and have it cut for me (or even a local home depot kinda place). No i dont make my own floss or toothpicks - but theres a whole lot more work that goes into them & I dont need to fund them online via a kickstarter to get them - I can go to the neighbourhood shop and pick em up - just like I could with the pieces of plastic I´d prototype my apps on ;). Now go learn how to argue properly rather than getting personal!
> David Nolen give a talk at a LispNYC Meetup called: LISP is Too Powerful

...is this up online? does anyone have a link to it?
Just when I was about to delete my Yahoo account ... this comes up on HN. I think I'll wait a while longer. :)
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I am not sure if David had any power to decide about the deal with Yahoo.

If he took money from Venture Capital he might have very, very little impact on bussiness side of Tumblr.
>> Worse, the article is not just inaccurate, it's dishonest: it hides the data that contradicts it, despite being publicly available on a day-by-day basis. [1] is a wonderful resource.

What do you expect from mises.org?

It has an agenda to push, and is relentless in doing so.
I know I'm in the minority here, but I love getting contacted by recruiters.

If they've looked at my CV/Profile it's validation that my skillet is in demand, and that's always moderately good to know.

If I'm looking, or even considering looking, then it's awesome - I've got a lead into a job before it's advertised.

If I'm not actively looking (or considering looking) then I get some information about the market that may well be useful for when I -am- looking.

If I'm not actively looking, I tell recruiters what sort of position would turn my head. Now, my current role is pretty damned awesome, but if they can offer something better, then I want to hear about it.

It may well be different in other parts of the world (I'm in Australia, and most of my experience has been here or in New Zealand), but I generally find that recruiters offer a service that (as a candidate) I value.

Ironically, as the person doing the hiring, I've generally found them to be a waste of time and effort.
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This is an interesting line of inquiry. I wonder, though, what would be a good way to quantify accessibility. I find myself doubting your statement that even non-programmers would find JavaScript or PHP easier than Lisp due to syntax, given the latter's extreme simplicity of syntax. Programmers with C/Java/etc. experience would of course likely find JS and PHP more familiar and hence accessible.
Watch a toddler intercept a ball thrown along a parabolic trajectory. Toddlers can do calculus too!
It is also useful to take into account that it is relatively easy to protect against earthquakes (cf. Japan) and floods, provided that money is less of a concern, whereas hurricanes and tornadoes are somewhat more problematic.

Or put another way: To protect against wind meaningful you have to protect the whole surface area of a building and every high-voltage electricity line etc. etc. To protect against floods, you ‘only’ have to build reasonable dams (easy) and to protect against earthquakes, you have to build reasonable houses (less easy, but doable).
Austrians argue that predictions can't, as a matter of epistemology, be made.

Of course, humans do that all the time. What's missing from the original Austrian concept in Mises is allowing for imprecision -- making accurate predictions with error bars for variability below the threshold of detection.

What von Mises didn't like about this and what Rothbard hated about it is that such predictions are statistical and probablistic in nature. They aren't deontological, they can't be nutted out a priori from first principles.

They have a real bee in their bonnet about it. It's a shadow (ha!) of Platonist/Aristotelian bunfights.

Out here in that's-nice-but-I-have-shit-to-do land, grownups accept that models are wrong. But even if the map is not the territory, most of the time it's still good to have a map.
I never thought of Ansible for orchestration particularly, but that sounds interesting! The current orchestration support in saltstack is somewhat limited, so it would be neat to check out.

Are people using Ansible to replace or manage fabric scripts? I'd like to figure out some way to limit the spread of one-off fabric scripts (reminds me too much of bash script proliferation) and it'd be great to get everything under one roof.
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The Linux Firewall
A European Politician with Digital expertise.
An interesting read with a grasp of the ongoing issues.

Did I die and goto heaven?
What is misguided is the assumption that Google provides a service. It is a company. I think we are seeing the result of the company saying "what's the business case for this" now.
Nice resource for a newbie like me. I really liked the interactive command line. Playing with it.
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I've spent time in both Aus & NZ and I promise you, the recruitment industry on your side of the world is vastly different to the UK & US.

That being siad, your point is completely valid. There is an upside to getting recruiter calls however I didn't bother addressing it simply because most folk complain about the intrusion rather than praise the benefit.
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It's not about Yahoo and other big players. The edge GTalk had was it was capable of talking to my server and to my friends' servers.
Now that edge is gone, but it's really not needed any more, they have enough mass to not care.
This nicely highlights a problem I see with controlled app store models. I would like to give this a try but looking at reviews I feel like I might not like it (always visible address bar, bigger text). So I might want to downgrade which is not "allowed".

I am glad they let users move the navigation bar to the bottom, that is much easier to reach with one hand.

I wish there were site specific preferences like on the desktop version. Being able to block image loading for selected websites or forcing a css mode would greatly reduce my bandwidth costs and increase readability.

A great feature of Opera Mobile is that you can save pages for later offline reading.
For me, the major idea that the Austrians bring to the table is that the study of economics is not a science and never can be. Attempts to create and support models by quantitive analysis of data are flawed because human economies are so astronomically complex that it's impossible to isolate variables, and therefore impossible to design valid economic experiments or draw sound conclusions from economic data.

There are many parallels to algorithms analysis. If we want to know how fast an algorithm runs, our approach isn't to try to run it on every processor in existence and compare the results. Instead we break down the algorithm logically to deduce its theoretical running time.

Austrian economics--in its good parts anyway--is an attempt to build a framework for economics that is more like the asymptotic analysis of algorithms. But this very compelling goal is frequently derailed by politics and polemics.
Really sluggish on the Note 2 too. Even Chrome is faster.
I seem to recall that one of the issue with Prolog is that, above a certain level of complexity, you can't really write purely declarative Prolog "progams" - you have to start considering the procedural aspect as well which (in certain cases) can be non-trivial.
Oh, I didn't think of middle clicking as "CLI" related in any way... I'm a relative newbie with respect to Acme, but I have recorded some videos in my blog (tagged Acme) about cool stuff you can do with it, and that I find beautiful in its own way. I love emacs (and in fact also vim, I use evil in emacs) but I find some of the ideas behind acme just too cool to overlook. You can drive acme completely, making it a gui to your text-based code (via the virtual file system /acme/events which pipes everything that goes on in the acme window!)

In Acme, middle click executes text under the cursor (and middle selection executes selection,) whereas right-click looks for text/opens file depending on what you point it to. You can also add extra arguments to commands (via the 1-2 chord, where you select something with the left button, select something else with the middle button and click the left button afterwards, so you can have ~/dev in your file pane, ls in another pane and execute ls ~/dev in one go without typing anything else.

Now I understand your comment. Just a side remark, ~ usually doesn't work correctly in Plan9 from User Space and you have to input all the path... I'm sure it can be worked around, but I haven't got time to figure it out.

Re: XKCD reference, I just love that comic. I even went as far as using it as the image in the "landing page" (or index, depending on how you think about it) in my personal page at the department I did my PhD... I'm still the only emacs user among ~30 hardcore unix users that have a preference for vi and vim (yes, both, I didn't forget the "m".) I can understand that they like vim (or I could if they knew more vim than they do, but they mostly don't and miss all the cool stuff vim has to offer, which is lots) but I just can't get why they don't even try emacs to see what other intelligent beings see in it. I have done it with vim, acme and I even try to use sam and ed occasionally to get used to different paradigms in editing. Probably I'm just nuts :)
Thanks for sharing, would be a neat Smartphone game indeed!
Technology education lacking in schools
It is not fast as we wished. The whole request and image deliver is about 2 seconds or more, It's because we're using right now the same server for everything but for what are you asking, I think is not good idea. Achieve 30fps i see it hard.
Eve Online is the MMO that has got this closest to right. The economy has been running for 10 years now and inflation, whilst existing, has not been rampant.

Interestingly, there is not a RMAH, but there is a system to exchange ISK (gold) for subscription time that someone else bought. In other words the conversion of cash to ISK is facillitated - but not ISK to cash.
> What makes you so sure no runaway inflation will occur?

Because when the economy picks up the Fed will decrease the size of the monetary base by selling treasury bills. The economy isn't going to pick up overnight (high unemployment, low demand, etc) so the Fed will have enough time to reduce the monetary base as needed.

Hyperinflation can happen, of course. But not through expansion of the monetary base in a liquidity trap. Austrian economists claim the opposite, and even go as far as saying that there is True Inflation, but that the gov't cheats in the way prices are measured. Again, completely silly.

Mainstream economics explains why inflation occurred in those countries. Those cases have been thoroughly studied and are mostly well understood.
CloudFlare uses gob a lot in a latency sensitive way and so I figured I would run my own test with a small program like this. The 'Thing' structure is meant to mirror the sort of items we send using gob.

package main

import (
"bytes"
"encoding/gob"
"fmt"
"time"
)

type Thing struct {
B []byte
S string
I int
}

func main() {
var n bytes.Buffer
e := gob.NewEncoder(&n)

t := Thing{[]byte(p), p, 42}

count := 10000000
mark := time.Now()
for i := 0; i < count; i++ {
if err := e.Encode(t); err != nil {
panic(err)
}

n.Truncate(0)
t.I += 1
}

fmt.Printf("%f\n", time.Since(mark).Seconds())
}

var p = `` // Cut for space but is a 15,344 byte web page as a string

I had two versions of Go on my machine: 16c93a202587 (http://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=16c93a202587f499... from March 1) and 9d60132d7784 (https://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=9d60132d7784 from yesterday).

Doing 10 runs of each and averaging the reported duration I see:

16c93a202587: 29.4829122s
9d60132d7784: 26.4422463s

So, in my test Go 1.1 (represented by 9d60132d7784) is 10% faster than a previous version from March.

Tests were done on a AMD64 Linux.
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So now the Firefox Developer tools is now on par feature-wise with Firebug? I think that the Network monitor is the only thing that was missing.
Nintendo has a history of making small casual games. Indeed, "Game and Wario" is named after one of their first systems, the Game and Watch, a series of small time-telling devices with a simple LCD game.
My personal favorite feature in Opera for Android is that it's available for Android 2.3 and up. That means you can get a modern and secure(!) browser on old or low-end phones that otherwise would never get a modern browser.
Indeed! During a security assessment of a large code base, I wrote a simple ruby source code parser that spat out Prolog terms. After that, it was a breeze to find certain kinds of logic errors, such as code paths that used user input before sanitation...

It's beautiful when it all works together, checking everything manually would certainly have been a PITA and would have resulted in a lower quality result.

Definitely an aha moment!
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Is it yet worth trying to make the shift from all-Firebug to all-FF-Dev-Tools? I hate having two sets of tools to do one job..