skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is always yandex, if you aren't afraid of a Russian company.

https://mail.yandex.com

You can also set up a personal domain there for free, if you can read/translate Russian instructions at http://pdd.yandex.ru

Their web client for mail is localized into English.

Pros:

* Not google; yandex have rather good reputation here, and like google, they are tech company, with good engineering team

* A nice web-interface for mail (for my use case it's comparable to google's)

* Supports RSS feeds via mail interface

* Like google, there are interesting services: calendar, maps, search, translations, etc.

Cons:

* Basically, yandex is Russian google in terms of business (89% of their revenue is ads); however, they don't do hardware and don't have a facebook/plus-like social network

* Russian-based, so potentially a kgbfsb threat (never heard of any kgbfsb incidents, though)

* Some/most services are not localized for English speakers
> directed at some (vaguely implied) strawman

The Felix Salmon piece linked at the top, and every other article on the subject. If there's a good one, I haven't seen it.

> I don't think that has any bearing on whether a deflationary currency is bad or not.

Of course it does. Read the "supposedly relevant" link.
Fastmail.fm has keyboard shortcuts that are pretty similar to gmail.
Is it just me or has medium.com begun to dominate HN in the last month?
Apple Deserves an Apology From US Government
I think there is a danger of losing existing customers with price increases. I think price increases need to be very carefully thought out and reasoned to existing users. We are raising our rates not to make more money but because we are now offering you more value.
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I think it's rather natural. Look at Haskell. Static typing with type inference was recently extended to allow "holes" in the type system. It lets you run broken programs, and let's be honest, my programs are broken (in some sense) most of the time. C++ lets you use the "auto" keyword in many places. Maybe the only thing strange here is that Dart has more of the "dynamic by default" mentality, but that's not strange either if you look at languages like Common Lisp, which have optional type annotations.

Here's optional type annotations in Haskell, which uses type inference by default but lets you override types with annotations. Note that f and g have different types, but the same body.

-- Haskell
f = return 5

g :: IO Int
g = return 5

Here it is in Lisp, which uses dynamic typing by default but lets you specify types with annotations.

; Dynamic +3 function
(defun add3 (x) (+ x 3))

; Static +3 function for integers
(defun add3 (x)
(declare (type integer x))
(+ x 3))
You are spot on. There are so many alternative fee-generating sources and maybe I've been too stubborn at ignoring them. My motivation going into this was that I wanted to create something that provided a definitive value of x, and have customers happily pay a function of x. The known value / known cost approach seemed fair to me.

Pitching additional product for me is troublesome because of the intrinsic fees associated with them. I look at my service as something that accelerates debt repayment in the most efficient way. But to encourage customers to roll-over into a cc balance transfer, mortgage refi, or student loan consolidation, it just pushes their obligations further out in the future. Now, this might not be a bad thing for some people. But ultimately you could get a lot of people into the fee roulette game and it becomes a never-ending cycle where every economic peak and trough of high->low interest rates creates a new incentive for a financial services company to pitch new product.

So, I struggle with this. Do I want to maximize my revenue, or do I want to just provide a really good service for the small group of people willing to pay for it...
From what I initially read about it, he also posted a video to youtube verbalizing the rap lyrics.

Freedom of speech and freedom of the press will be obliterated under the boot of the fake war on terror. You've got both sides of the political aisle working 24/7 on it.
Grandfathering is the best thing to do here.

A good trick I've heard is to launch at a high price - say $100 per month - and do promos through marketing channels where you are quite liberal with discounts. This gives the perception of high value on a limited time offer while still making it clear what your price point is.

You then make the discounts more and more scarce over time and for smaller and smaller amounts until you settle on optimal pricing.
Roy Osherove Online TDD Course for 50$ instead of 500$ for a few hours
Shameless plug? or just helpful?
I had some really happy news today, so I am basically giving away my course for 90% off for a few hours. If you ever wanted to learn unit testing and TDD, but could not afford it, I hope this helps.
> Like most existing government programs, it's a wealth transfer from the young to the old.

It seems accurate to say that Medicare is as you describe -- we've more or less been socializing the costs of insuring the elderly, privatizing the risks/benefits of insuring the employable, and letting everybody else fend for themselves for a few decades.

But it seems pretty tenuous specifically in the context of the recent PP/ACA legislation. The only arguable point is that by requiring people to join a risk pool, we're forcing them to subsidize the elderly... which we were already doing via a tax-supported medicare program.

> The program pays for the old and sick on the back of the comparatively more healthy and less wealthy younger workers.

Sure, in the same sense that any insurance program is. That is, there is no insurance program of any kind that isn't a "wealth transfer" to those who suffer from the insured-against event from those who don't.

Though when talking about "young" and "old" in the context of a stable policy, this may not be a particularly important point. Most people are going to get a chance to be part of both.
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Stop being a perfectionist
Will Silicon Valley Disrupt Politics With a Candidate for Congress?
> None of the arguments he brings forward are relevant to the question at hand.

That's an unfair criticism, since the arguments I address are exactly those raised by everyone else who has written on the subject.
I suspect that a lot of that context (or "buy-in") was missing, as it was when you explained it the first time here, which is why you got the response you did.

A lot of people show up in programming communities asking for help with their intro programming homework. Once you see a few dozen of those, it's understandable if your knee-jerk reaction is at least somewhat insulting.
Fascinating. I look forward to the coverage of Jemalloc!

On a related note, I'd love to use (or see someone else use) some of the techniques used by modern mallocs (tcmalloc, jemalloc, Hoard, etc) in a concurrent garbage collector. I believe the Boehm GC already uses thread-local free lists, but in an accurate GC, i'd bet more tricks could be put to use
Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) adjust your principal accordingly with the CPI. You also get the coupon rate.
cGMP applies to all dietary supplements, which is what this will likely be classified as. This same process applies to Abbott Labs [owner of EAS] as well as small entities.

Here is the compliance guide for small entities: http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocuments...

As of 2010 all SEs must meet these requirements, regardless of firm size.

Re: my experience in this field, it is all indirect - research for those interested in developing products in this area, alongside business partnerships and friendships with those who produce a wide range of dietary supplements.

EDIT: I will note that they now claim the product will be produced in a FDA-approved facility. Whether this facility's certification is applicable to their specific case is not made clear but this is at least a step in the right direction. There's also the matter of labeling/ad claims with the FDA but hopefully they have the foresight to dial back the hyperbole before pushing the product to a wider audience.

I would also suggest caution with what "industry experts" one works. There's quite a few less-than-desirable elements in the dietary supplement game. Case in point? The lacing of the Craze/Detonate pre-workout supplements with amphetamines just a few months ago. (http://patrickarnoldblog.com/craziness-over-craze/)
Bad writing. Bloggers that start talking about something as if I know what it is, and never even take 2 sentences to describe it, really grind my gears. I still don't know what the story is about or why newsrooms would refer to it.

On top of that, the piece is the most vain attempt at generating controversy for the sake traffic i've ever seen. Please, can't blatant attempts at advertising be taken off HN?
This "medium.com" site causes the "pinch to zoom" function to not work on the iPad. This sucks. I refuse to read sites that break things like this. Why do they wish to disenfranchise iPad users?
There's plenty of legitimate reasons to give brusque, dismissive answers.

It's tough to distinguish between someone dismissing an idea because he sees the inevitable problems that make it unworkable, and someone dismissing an idea that falls outside his comfort zone.

It's tough to distinguish between someone giving an abrupt answer because her time is too valuable to spend on a detailed one, and someone giving an abrupt answer because she doesn't have the understanding to formulate an actual rebuttal.

And of course it's impossible to tell any of the above from a nice guy having a shitty day.

There's a lot of gripe about our shitty community, and I often wonder whether the griping is just a byproduct of having so many conversations in permanently archived public fora, or whether there really is some force at work that makes impolite people choose programming or makes programmers impolite.
It's not about the name as an abstract concept, or as something you have to look at on the screen. It's saying it out loud that's the problem. It's a perfectly good symbol for representing the concept, but it's not a very good word for using. It's awkward.

Thinking about it, the reason UK people don't like it might be to do with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottal_stop

I imagine it's easier to soften the Ks with an american accent. For an english person putting two of them in a row like that is just, shall we say, taking the piss.

Perhaps it's not specifically the glottal stop, but there is certainly some articulatory havoc going on when I try to say your search engine's name out loud. I have to bounce my tongue off the roof of my mouth twice in quick succession in a way that's never normally required and it feels quite unnatural.

(Google, on the other hand, is literally fun to say, even though it's a silly word, and hardly professional.)
Why build a factory today if you can buy your country's bonds and enjoy a risk-free x% a year?

Why buy a smart phone today if you can wait 1 year and get a much better one for the same price?
The Crack Baby Epidemic That Wasn’t
I think I had told them that I narrowed it down to that line, as they specifically offered to help me debug it. I said I got the error pinned down to line X, but still... It might have been a fluke, though, as I think there was one person who instigated this whole bad treatment. Apparently he was well-known for it, because someone said something like "heh, hell will freeze over before X will just hand out a solution".
I looked at their site, and I haven't found anything talking ACTUALLY about the ingredients. We don't have to list scientific methods which they did not utilize, if their website does not give us any clue about the actual product, rather than it will be "good for your body".
Well what may doom them is that their concoction looks like human snot, or even semen.
re: "since Bitcoin isn't a currency in the sense of a transaction medium"

$2M per month of transactions on SilkRoad beg to differ.
> 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.

What I wrote in my comment is in reference to the entire request, including the highlighted part of the email. Asking someone to remove something or cease and desist is not solely the domain of copyright infringement. The only part of the second C&D that deals with copyright infringement is the first sentence, where they state that changing the video status to private is unacceptable.

The other claim they make, starting at "Further, you need to remove any reference..." and ending with "...We made a replica in under an hour" is a claim of trademark, not copyright, infringement, contrary to GGP's belief. Nowhere in the C&D does the NYT assert copyright over the use of the quoted text: they only made a claim of copyright infringement in the first C&D with respect to "any New York Times content", not the text referencing their name.

This situation really isn't that hard to parse and requires no speculation: just read all of what the New York Times sent instead of relying on the OP's misinterpretation that everything the NYT is claiming is all just something absurd about copyright infringement.
Members of the team and community have talk about such a tool, also tools that remove type annotations to prove that they don't effect performance, or remove them from local variables to match the style guide.
Small nominal inflation encourages investment, whereas deflation incentivizes people to just hold their money in the form of cash.
I'm going to guess he's a shill for Privco.
>Why build a factory today if you can get 5% a year increase in purchasing power just by hoarding currency?

You don't; but the reality is that if the need for something becomes great enough, the potential profits from investing in production of that thing surpass the potential profits of saving. And if no one is investing in production, prices increase, combatting deflation. As usual, the market will solve this problem given a little time.

>In a modern economy, especially where there's a lot of debt finance, price deflation is death.

Then I guess businesses can continue to use deflationary currency while everyone who wants to save can use Bitcoin or some other non-deflationary holding.

>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.

A deflationary currency is certainly not a stable store of value either. Bitcoin is, of course, a transaction medium and a unit of account. I guess if you wanted, you could conduct transaction in beanie babies, but it would be much less convenient.
IBM's Watson Tries to Learn . . . Everything
Procedural landscapes in JS (js1k demo explained)
Replacing the underlying crypto is 1000x simpler than replacing the coin production mechanism, for both political and practical reasons.
Agreed, context is everything. In the context of a poor guy with just this dead-simple programming question going to someone for help, being shut down hard is rude and unfair. In the context of a small community of programmers who are barraged constantly by novice questions, asking for evidence of significant amounts of effort on the part of the question-asker is the only way to avoid chaos.

I'm almost certain that this anecdote arises purely due to the structure of the forum in which the question was asked, and has very little bearing on the vitriol and malice (or lack thereof) present in the denizens of #C.
You are always losing money to inflation. First, you always need to have cash because there is no cashless economy and you need cash to pay for everyday expenses, and that is a significant amount of money impacted by inflation.

Second, there is no serious rationale to have inflation (except to make it easy for governments to pay their debt and make everyone else poor), despite what Keynesians bring back on the table every single time without evidence (and citing the current "economist consensus" as a proof, even though they fail to realize economists were thought and raised the believe in Keynes' theory for dozens of years - hardly convincing). As another poster mentioned, even without inflation the money you have now is worth more than the money you have tomorrow, therefore there would still be time-value attached to a currency even if no inflation is there.

Inflation is punishing savers, in turn punishing investment and lowering the economic expectations.
What other than repair is this really good for?
If you use PaintCode, you get CoreGraphics c code output. If you deliver your designs to a developer in CG code, their jaw will drop.
Where Else Do Tornadoes Strike?
GIF Creator, Steve Wilhite, Receives Lifetime Achievement Webby Award
New Kinect will sense more detail, heartbeat and minuscule shifts
The point that majority of the work goes to figuring out how to execute well, and only a tiny amout towards the execution itself can be generalized to more than just copying website ideas. It applies to formulating hypotheses when solving problems. Most of the work is spent on figuring out the right question to ask, and only the little part is needed to actually answer it. It was nicely described on LessWrong:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/jn/how_much_evidence_does_it_take/

http://lesswrong.com/lw/jo/einsteins_arrogance/

Relevant quotes from the second post:

(...) you need an amount of evidence roughly equivalent to the complexity of the hypothesis just to locate the hypothesis in theory-space. It's not a question of justifying anything to anyone. If there's a hundred million alternatives, you need at least 27 bits of evidence just to focus your attention uniquely on the correct answer.

At the time of first formulating the hypothesis - the very first time the equations popped into his head - Einstein must have had, already in his possession, sufficient observational evidence to single out the complex equations of General Relativity for his unique attention. Or he couldn't have gotten them right.
You might want to build that factory now to be the first on the market, and reap all the benefits from that. The guy who waits until next year will have to face more competition.
Only the first letter even mentions copyright. The second letter does not mention either copyright or trademark. I think the claim wouldn't make any sense under either set of rights, and since the letter doesn't specify, you're basically just guessing.
C.E.O. Denies That Apple Is Avoiding Taxes
This video (at 26:13) gives a pretty good example of why these might be useful: "Dart: Google's evil plan to make it easier for you to build web apps" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RCuW6K1afs
Of course, the other option is stability. I'm not saying that bitcoin's deflationary behavior is good, only that it challenges the accepted collective wisdom.
Saving is not harmful nor beneficial. It all depends on what you do with your savings. If you stuff them under the mattress, saving is harmful. If you invest, then it's beneficial.

An inflationary currency promotes investment. A deflationary one promotes mattress stuffing. You may draw the conclusion yourself.
That's why there's restaurants and convenience foods. What a false dichotomy. The chore of an elaborate home cooked meal, or gulping down a cup of snot.
The comparison to housing seems a little off to me. For example with the property boom, people didn't want to sell their houses because they were going up in value. Therefor they go up in value some more. Therefor people can't afford to buy them, so we fix that with sub prime mortgages..
Except that those hippies don't raise $100k+ on the web.

"Soylent is perfectly balanced and optimized for your body and lifestyle, meaning it automatically puts you at an optimal weight, makes you feel full, and improves your focus and cognition"

The techniques and the wording seem snake oilish.

Also, if anything those dumb hacker kids build breaks (email, web app, game) etc, they won't hurt you physically.

The body is a weird mechanism: it can put up with lots of abuse and experimentation. It is also fragile at the same time.

Also, where are the ingredients listed? The FAQ is hilarious. I can't believe that people are so gullible. There are mountains of research on nutrition in modern science and thousands of years of accumulated evidence from traditional practices (Indian, Chinese) etc.

"But, hey, there is this magic potion which I can buy. Don't care about the ingredients. Can't be bothered to read up on the manuals for the greatest mechanism I will ever own. "

Whatever happened to extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence? In this case, there is a huge chance that a bunch of guys will get rich and some person will get hurt badly.
FYI the Browser on 4.2.x has been replaced with Chrome.

I'm eventually hoping that everything can be updated through the Play store, and the only reason to do an OS update will be for kernel updates.
First thing. That is people's problem, not directly TED's.

And TED's talks are not focus on science divulgation.
All TED talks can basically be stored in either the 'Look what I'm doing' bag or 'This is what happened to me' bag.

I have yet to see a talk where the main focus was to teach a concept rather than explaining it very superficially in order to introduce an idea based on that concept.
What I Learned at Tumblr, Flickr, and Yahoo
I have to agree with the posters above. What is the question at hand? I'd assume from the title you would be explaining why bitcoin is deflationary and why that is okay. (What is okay?)

What you actually seem to be addressing is whether the statement "Bitcoin cannot work as a medium of exchange" is true.
I know one thing, Silicon Valley is hurting for more H-1B visas to fill vacant jobs. Perhaps one reason SV overwhelmingly votes Democratic is that the Democrats are in general more pro immigration.
"Anything that anyone might disagree with," are you kidding?
I find it both funny and scary that more than one person thought I mention exercise as weight loss.

Exercise is necessary for general well being. It doesnt have to be the gym. Walking around is ok.

I also think that people who are extremely overweight generally (unless they have a specific sickness causing this) are simply too weak minded to over come this.
For these, the only way I know of is to educate them as young age. Ie, the ones that are lost are already lost.
Some will overcome their weak mind and eventually get healthy again, but a vast number will not.
And facts will back this up, unfortunately - I don't even think this needs a citation :/
That's dangerous, because you have no way of knowing if you have 100% coverage without doing static analysis, and if you double check everything with static analysis, you might as well only do the static analysis in the first place. (Static analysis won't always give you an answer, but it won't ever give you a wrong answer.)

I am reminded of the folks who optimized .kkrieger, which is a 95 kB first-person shooter. See "Metaprogramming for Madmen":

http://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/metaprogramming-for-...

Some highlights: during the test run, the player never pressed the up arrow key in the menu, so that functionality was removed by their tools. Enemies at the beginning never hit the player, so the code which handles damage was compiled out. And the system used a certain brand of graphics card, so code necessary for other graphics cards was compiled out.

The lesson is: don't let tools change code semantics based only on black-box testing.
Agreed on the issue of 1TB. It's curious to see how many people remain concerned they might inadvertently hit that ceiling.

Myself, I'll likely remain primarily on Flickr, simply for the community aspect - that's something which seems to remain imperceptible to the likes of Marissa Mayer, sad to say. I'm also on 500px, but there's no atmosphere there.
Is the alternative implied here to acquiesce instead?