skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would think a large majority of bitcoins would end up in the hands of people living somewhere with low interest rates - instead of parking their money in banks, they'll park it in bitcoins. The demand for investing - which applies across all currencies - could easily be greater than the demand to spend bitcoins.

Investment demand has caused deflationary problems in other areas too, specifically food prices when a lot of investment was made in certain agricultural futures.
Note that those projects would be profitable only if they were permitted in limited areas only. A broad lifting of regulation would result in sprawl, not density. Look at Houston. Everyone would avoid expensive, dense areas by building out further and further into the land, and in the Bay, there's a ton of undeveloped wooden land that developers would have no problem replacing with tract homes if they were able to do so.
The article hits on an entire class of silly arguments I've seen against bitcoin from the start: people claim that bitcoins will be worthless because they will be too valuable to trade.

The language used for "too valuable" may vary (scarcity! illiquid! deflation!) But, as the author notes, that's not at all what matters -- all that's necessary is that they're tradeable and people have different values for a bitcoin at a particular time.
But the focus for the respective presentations could be be said to be reflective of each company's priorities for their new machine?
Does that last point include grandfathering in existing users on cheaper plans? If I'm an existing user, I'll be annoyed if my bill goes up, especially if it's a really big jump. But if prices go down, everyone is happy. If you start high, how big of a problem is it to go down? How much of my objection is just because I'm spoiled by the internet and haven't run a business?
The article opened my eyes to that. I am treating all feedback as valuable, whereas that might be the wrong way to go about it. It's clearly something I need to think about more deeply and work on discovering the true customer pain points, not just the "it would be nice if you had x, y, z" type of response I'm accustomed to reacting to.
I don't think this is a big deal at all. It's not like you can build a Mac from scratch just by following those schematics.

At most they might be useful for someone looking to do reverse engineering.
What if enterprise IT built software like an F1 racing team?
Hm, HN traffic has grown. The server will be back up in a couple minutes. Edit: All good, I think.

This post has been in the draft folder for a while, but I decided to just run it. A better title would be "Common Flaws in the 'Bitcoin is Deflationary' Argument". There might actually be a convincing "Bitcoin is Deflationary" argument to be made, it's just that no one has made it yet.
This is a great article.

When raising my prices, I'm always worried that my competition will be able to see and roughly gauge how profitable I am. I'm worried that this will give them an incentive offer products that overlap what I offer and undercut me.

Many price-sensitive customers will just leave at that point. Does anybody share the same fears or have experience of this?
> To be fair, they had no obligation to help you in the way you wanted

Sure, but they didn't have to be dicks about it. They could have said "we don't want to tell you if it won't teach you anything" and I'd have left. Berating me wasn't very productive.

> fact probably could not do so without sacrificing a great deal.

It was a "you're using sprintf("%d") when you need sprintf("%u")" sort of thing. Not exactly that, but very easy.

> it's rather like going to a math tutor with your homework

Not really, given that I don't ever work with C. It's more like asking for help with a flat tire and having the person say "I will ask you questions until you figure out how to do it". Thanks, but I just want to get to my job interview on time.

> the folks answering questions still require a certain amount of buy-in

I had done all the debugging I could and narrowed it down to that specific line, but doing anything more would require reading a large amount of material (which I didn't know where to find) on the intricacies of the C standard/compiler/etc, so it wasn't like I just went in saying "help me I don't remember the for loop syntax".

> a refusal to help when someone just wants a quick answer doesn't sound unreasonable, and in fact may be all that holds their community together.

I doubt that's what holds a community together, and I agree that it's not unreasonable. However, the way they treated me was.
As others have mentioned, it's not really the technical aspects of SMTP that make hosting your own email difficult. It's the entire deliverability ecosystem that's developed (ostensibly to protect from spam), such as most residential providers blocking outgoing port 25, or most mailservers filtering incoming mail from dynamic IPs.
Why is it called the Xbox One?

Because if they called it the 720, they'd be going round and round in circles...

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Thank you! I'm here all night!

- Gallefray
As others have pointed out in this thread, existing products already use this mechanism. It would be very difficult to patent something that was very obviously invented already.
I went with Data Matrix to backup my (encrypted) PGP key pair to paper. When I compared QR and Data Matrix, Data Matrix "won" because of its ability to encode pretty massive amounts of data by chaining individual barcodes together. (QR tops out at around 3000 bytes; less if you increase the error correction level.)

That said, I'm not sure if I'd make the same decision today. QR code readers are plentiful, and Data Matrix readers are comparatively rare.
That's why I'm moving everything to The Cloud (TM)
Like most existing government programs, it's a wealth transfer from the young to the old. The program pays for the old and sick on the back of the comparatively more healthy and less wealthy younger workers.

More supporting evidence that democracies tend to work in favor of the largest voting blocs rather than some abstract "public interest".
Are you saying there is something wrong with nominal inflation? 2% a year is scary when you talk big numbers like that, but the only time that money spans that large of time spans is retirement, which is invested at well over inflation even if you choose something like government guaranteed bonds.

To my knowledge the only way to lose money to inflation is to sit on cash (stupid for other reasons), have it in short term treasury bonds (which are bought by companies that have nothing to do with their flex cash), or have a bad savings account.
Ah, I thought youtube only had public/"only with link"/none sharing. Cheers.
That's completely unfair. The XL line of 8-bit computers had some decent graphics and sound comparable to and often better than much more expensive 16-bit (or even 8-bit) machines.
Sometimes it's a case of ideas popping into our heads when we've relaxed our minds from the problem. eg Some of my best ideas come to my while I'm on the toilet because I can be staring at a piece of code for hours and not find the fault. But the act of walking away from the problem and relaxing my brain for a few minutes is sometimes all that's needed to see the problem from another angle (and thus stumble onto the solution).

It's the same reason that I used to have a bath whenever I'd get stuck on a college assignment.
The point seems to be that communicating information has no cash value. It's even counterproductive.
"One of the main reasons it doesn't work is that people don't ask questions to clarify. They jump to conclusions, some of which are very wrong."

Do people realise that Winer reads and replies on HN? Would they ask a question to clarify if they knew he would?

Even when there is a general submission, it is not always obvious that OP or Original Author is participating. Reddit highlights the OP in a discussion which can be helpful.
This is pretty crazy - I've been on here almost as much as you!
The language looks great. The challenge I think is always building enough of a community to create a rich enough stack that people can build real-world applications on. Scala did a fine job there, and a lot of that had to do with some companies taking some ownership of the platform (TypeSafe in that case), which may be good and/or bad. I wander what others think of this.
Of course, there is room for urban planning. But it's quite telling that none of these projects are starting even in the "downtown" areas adjacent to caltrain stops, which is exactly where you want growth to happen. If a peninsula city actually wanted to prevent sprawl, they'd build up the urban core rather than force people to commute from more permissive cities in the east bay.
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Correction: it's actually only possible to use an unverified email to reset the password if you don't have any verified emails on the account.

Not as bad as I thought, but it still seems a bit questionable.
You made an assertion with enthusiasm. He said yes because he was agreeing with your '!'

If you read it out loud it sounds perfectly natural.
I understand that now, but when you pull the trigger on dist-upgrade without that knowledge, you're going to want to revert it, and I needed to learn to read strace to figure it out.

I have put semi-instructions to go back in this thread, in case you want to try a foolish thing like I did.
Guilty as charged. But I do appreciate hearing it directly from you as it serves to drive the point home.

As a first-time founder and relatively new developer, I could never really tell when the time is right to stop creating and start pitching. Looking back, I definitely went too far with the build, but better late than never to snap out of it and start soliciting.
That is pretty much what I thought too. To me the first seemed like over reach but understandable, the second is just silly.
No, it isn't the same thing - especially as the standards for most certified kitchens don't even touch the packaging requirement conditions of a cGMP facility. There's a big difference between selling food locally and taking it nationally. You don't waltz into GNC, Vitamin Shoppe or the health section at a major retailer with something made in a certified kitchen.

This is why it would have been useful for these guys to consult people with actual experience in the supplement industry.
Most places do prohibit AirBnB-style arrangements in many circumstances. A lot of landlords prohibit it in their contracts.
Replying to my own comment, deflation isn't the worst thing that can happen to bitcoin IMO - unstable prices could be a bigger challenge. Since the market for bitcoins is not regulated, it could end up subject to all manor of tricks to create panics or booms. If the price fluctuates rapidly then timing the market becomes a burden of using the currency.
Which browser is it? 2 vague sentences and a green arrow, awesome!
> short term treasury bonds

Hold on. If those are worse than even savings accounts.. why would said companies not put their money in a normal savings account?
A lot of people can be opposed to this kind of teaching platform, and while I do agree that a traditional environment (hopefully in a good institution) is definitely preferable, I think that for a lot of people this is better than nothing. People who study there may not be competing for the same jobs with the people who went to Stanford or MIT but it might get them good jobs that they otherwise would not have been able to have and I think that's a good thing at the end of the day.
I wonder if it's reasonable to put the snowfall replica back up now as it has become closer to an element of a fair use political speech over copyright overreach.
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It is a very active project. I'm using it at home with a 12Tb server for a central storage point in our household. It's been great for us. It is quite basic at the moment, but has a tonne of promise. Haven't found it to be buggy myself.
I don't think Microsoft cares about advertisement to the same degree that Yahoo and Google do. Of course they will still try to lock you in.
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I do not run the fiscal policy of a huge company, so I am speculating, but here goes:

Savings accounts are considered perfectly safe due to FDIC. If you have $10 million for six months you can't do anything with but don't want to invest, Treasury Bonds are zero risk and have some kind of return. In contrast there is a minor risk that a bank could go under.

Especially when you consider that you have several accounts with a bank, and you have say $20 million in your accounts total, why add to that?
Although its kind of a silly video, it does raise an interesting question as to why cant developers/apple push updates automatically much like how it goes with web services like gmail. I know there's a lot of potential for abuse but I think that at the end of the day people want updates and for the most part (not all the time) take them as is, so I wander if there's something that can be about it that can improve this experience for both the developers and the users.
Agreed. The author is beset by muddled thinking. None of the arguments he brings forward are relevant to the question at hand.

The most important consequence of bitcoin is watching programmers and other tech oriented people play armchair economist. They certainly seem to be having lots of fun but they are playing a game no economist recognizes.
Why not just host your own email, calendar etc? You can even do it in your personal cloud and replicated it SECURELY to machines who won't give out your information at the drop of a hat or are hacked by a high profile attack.

It would seem that many server apps support open standards (SMTP, CalDav, XMPP etc.)

Your address book is the new friendlist instead of facebook's. Why not do the same with your email and calendar, etc. ? And dropbox is cool but you can easily have mercurial + watch files with node.js ... I think there's DVCS-autosync and OwnCloud is coming along
Furthermore, Mapquest has an Open Street Map layer, if that suits you - http://open.mapquest.com/
The audio on their video is sooo bad!
Well, of course he is going to deny any wrongdoing, just like Bill Clinton famously said, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" — could you imagine the recourse such an admission would have besides the obvious Tim Cook losing the top job? Drop in stock price, credibility and image damage... I don't know for sure if Apple are doing anything suspicious, but I suspect something is up.
If Franklin was wrong about lightning rods, maybe it would have burned down your house. He also experimented with dieting etc... The point is that someone can study a lot on a topic and be more informed then someone who has gone to school for the subject. The Soylent guy isn't just mixing random stuff together, he's doing a lot of research, experimenting, and not suggesting you make it your only source of food.
I am curious about what you think-- is that kid really learning to solve for a class of exercises or training his muscle memory for a use case?

When you test them do they achieve the same outcome you would expect from a text?
A lot of these arguments against the future of Bitcoin rest on the ill-founded assumption that the Bitcoin protocol is static and unchanging. This isn't necessarily true; there's already reactionary plans should SHA-2 or secp256k1 become comprised.

It seems fair to reason that a community consensus would alter the protocol should deflation ever really become a problem.
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How about a virtual machine facility that outputs what the types of variables are at runtime, combined with tools that can collate data from many runs and apply consistent types back to the original source code?
The difference is that his product does not compete in with the New York Times; it may be valuable to the Times' competitors, but nobody will watch his video and then not read the Times article as a result. The criteria for judging fair use include the potential impact on the market value of the copyrighted work; in this case, it seems that the impact is basically nil, because there are two separate markets. It is not about commercial intent, but rather about the effect in a particular market (and even that is not cut-and-dry).

The case of textbook publishing is different, because the copies compete with the original in the same market.

Really though, my point was not about the educational nature. Even if we assume there is no educational value to the video, it is still a case of criticism/commentary, which is still fair use. The author is not in any way reducing the value of the Times article. The article was not copied in full. These are all things that support the claim that this is fair use.
This might be more work for you, but it's open source and tracked with git. You could find the old CSS and do it yourself.
Yes, it is harmful, particularly to savers. Of course, the Holy Keynesian view is that savings is bad and that we all need to be encouraged to spend.

Tell me right now where I can save and earn more than 2%. Maybe 30 year treasuries (with nominal values at 30 year highs, meaning that they have no where to go but down, further eroding savings), but certainly not in savings, a CD, or any other classic savings product. 2% compounding per year is a 22% loss in value over just 10 years. Chasing yield over that 2% per year further distorts savings and markets, and of course that 2% loss per year is good for what? It's just confiscation by the money printers to devalue future debt payments, making it seem all the easier to borrow and spend unsustainably.

But, of course, a steady 2% per year is the pipe dream of central planners and doesn't happen in real life. See, e.g., the 1970s.
Falling prices and strong growth tend to be mutually exclusive in the real economy. Suppose you’re an investor and an entrepreneur comes to you with a proposal to build a factory, and the business plan shows next year the factory will cost 5% less to build, and the products will sell 5% cheaper. Why build a factory today if you can get 5% a year increase in purchasing power just by hoarding currency? You need much bigger margins than are currently typical outside tech and zero marginal cost products. Incur debt, and even at the zero interest rate bound, you need 5% more real income next year to pay it back. In a modern economy, especially where there's a lot of debt finance, price deflation is death.

Anyway, since Bitcoin isn't a currency in the sense of a transaction medium, a stable store of value, and a unit of account, but more akin to a digital pet rock or Beanie Baby, deflation doesn't really matter very much.
cGMP appears to apply to drug manufacturers. This isn't a drug, and isn't being marketed as a drug.

It's a food. Similar to the hippie granola bars I mentioned.

edit: are you saying that you have experience in this field? Enlighten me. What are they doing wrong, and how should they remedy it?
If the facts on the web site are correct, than this is really something that needs more attention. One hand you have people looking to hurt this country which must be stopped, but then on the other you have stories like this. It seems this would be a story that I think it would be good if it were picked up on by larger media to either help ley this boy go, or bring up the true facts of this case.
The software would be would be limited to 4 threads, have to use at least 500mb of memory, and be written in COBOL in order to be fair to other teams.
The Democratic Party is trying to gobble up more of the economy to spend through the federal government, the Republican Party is trying to make it eat less. How are they not left and right?
Look at the actual definition of fair use. There is no requirement that the use be non-commercial, only criteria that include whether or not the use was commercial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
Your little typo "wander" instead of wonder kind of demonstrates the point of Dart. It's a language that seems to provide more of a safety net for developers. We all make trivial mistakes, probably daily. It's nice to have a little more support in a language to help us along.

Throw in the extra performance (2x?) over Javascript and I'm ready to at least give it a try.
After shipping, it costs me about $3/book for a 160 page paperback copy of my book if I order 20+ at a time via CreateSpace.
What? The original Xbox and the Xbox 360 came in black (not to mention the PS2 and PS3). The One kind of looks like a cross between them, actually.
You should check this out if you have a Facebook account. It shows you the crimes you're guilty of, all over the world, just for posting stuff on Facebook:

http://www.trialbytimeline.org.nz
This is my first time hearing about this (honest to god), but I have to say I do like the homepage design. The combination of clean blue and white with tasteful screenshots do make me want to send this some designer friends and see if this can be helpful to them.
Wow, this is disgusting. Is this kid really being held without bail because he posted rap lyrics on Facebook? I feel like we're not hearing the full story here, but either way given his age and the fact they supposedly found nothing to support the claims they're holding him on, this is atrocious and I hope this story comes to light, so it can play out fairly in the public eye under fair scrutiny.
Too bad it just got flagged to death. HN seems to be getting worse for burying anything that anyone might disagree with lately

EDIT: Seems to have come back from the dead... :)
Untyped languages are okay. Typed languages are also okay. Typed languages with inference are okay.

Optionally typed is extremely strange.
That's only the first part of the request. The highlighted part of the email says they need to remove all mention of them from the site, and specifically calls about that bit of text as something that needs to be removed.
Or do like alt.hackers (USENET group)---it's moderated, but there is no moderator. To post, you have to figure out how to post to a moderator-less moderated group.
Also where did you get $200 a share from? That is bogus.
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SiliconValleyVC - this account has to be the worst attempt at astro-turfing I've seen in a while from a company employee or founder. Does anyone talk like this about a vendor (much less a data company) -- "I respect PrivCo from my working with their remarkably accurate data." Right right.

You're a SiliconValleyVC whose submission history is 2 privco articles. And your comment history references PrivCo multiple times and your love of them.

So perhaps you're just a really really happy VC client of a data tool or more likely you are here at the behest of your employer/are with the company and trying to salvage what must be a very bad day at the office - data company whose data gets called garbage.

On to your points to Fred:

1. If you've seen the docs, share them.

2. There was no ad-hominem attack. Fred called your data b.s. He has the #s so is in a good position to make that claim.

I can understand you're trying to save face for Privco after respected VC's Fred Wilson, Bijan Sabet have called you out. Plus, today, editors of 3 major tech publications called you out -- Jay Yarrow of Biz Insider, Eric Eldon of TechCrunch and Mike Isaac at AllThingsD all said Privco data and claims are incorrect and hyperbolic.

Pls don't insult us here with this very sad attempt at covering for your employer/company.
The advice of showing the most expensive item first is in the book Influence. They run a few tests, confirming that it does lead to more sales.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/006124189X/ref=r_soa_w_d
One of the biggest lies of progressivism is that regulation is in place to protect the poor. Rather, it usually serves vested interests.
I saw this a little late, but: Awesome.
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