skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the economy has two possible reactions to an increase in demand: There can be price increases, and there can be increases in production.

armchair economist here, but i woudl say that when the increase in money supply outstrip the increase in production (becase there is a limit to the rate of increase of production, but there is no real limit to the rate of increase of printing more money - just put an extra zero at the end, you don't even need more paper/plastic!).
Who makes the actual shirts? I only go with quality American Apparel base shirts for printing.
FYI, this is unusable on an ipad running chrome.
Again the media fall in love in the "drop out of school makes millions story". But that's not reality. only 0.0000000001% of school and college dropout will get such a huge deal. Other will just waste their life. What's sad is that somewhere a child is reading this and thinks he really got a chance to beat the odds. It's no different than pumping out lottery raffles.
Privacy, public health and the moral hazard of surveillance
I think you're misunderstanding the point because it's badly stated. Basically they say that inflation happens when money increases but the things paid for with money do not. For the lattery they use specie as a proxy - you need the exchange rate between money and something to actually measure inflation, but specie is a somewhat confusing choice because it's often considered (and sometimes defined) to be money.
IslamBasics
That's the old rule in investing that things which bring really handsome profits down the line are not this much in the public interest.

When I was telling people back in 2007 I'm buying gold and silver they thought I'm crazy. It was waaay to expensive at $600usd and $10 usd respectively.

Since then I just heard that gold and silver are "a bubble". Literally, like for past 6 years my family, my coworkers, the media, you name it - treat this investment type with the highest dose of suspicion. While their "investments" (a.k.a. house - a place to live not an investment really) - went bad.

It's funny how the markets work.

The genuine growth stocks/assets will be the ones that don't bring too much of the media attention and the ones that "climb wall of worry".

Gold mining cost is currenly above the price of gold. A bubble?

Tumblr P/E (price to earning ratio) is 1:100. And any investor worth his buck knows that anything above 1:15 (some say 1:10 in bad market conditions like we have nowadays) is too expensive.

And still everybody wants to buy it, media reports on it all the time, and overnight everybody and their uncle knows who Mr. David Karp is. That's how you spot a bubble. Or at least seriously overvalued asset. And assets are to be bought on cheap and sold expensive not the other way around.
Only displays empty page with Firefox ESR. Throw us at least a "your browser is too old, you old fart!" bone.
Most API rate limits are stated in the developer docs. By default I stay below 1 request per second and that seems to work for most APIs.

If you wait long enough we'll eventually open source our import infrastructure :).
Absolutely. It is a matter of quantity, and it would be nice to understand how much and how fast production can increase. But since Austrians usually outright deny the possibility that production increases at all, the path to a fruitful discussion is usually closed.

In practice, even the more ambitious types of policies that are debated do not actually increase spending that much.
Gold mining cost is currenly above the price of gold. A bubble?

Where did you get this info?
The Weakest Link Is You
I think that is quite a large part of it. From what I have seen many people don't really filter their privacy settings on Facebook. Most relationships develop around a shared interest or activity and each develops at its own pace dependant on many different factors. Accepting a friend request for a lot of people would be like you going up to them in class and saying 'Hey, I've seen you around. I'm dvt.' and the person responding by pulling out their phone and handing it to you to leaf through their photos, check their calendar and see who;s numbers they have.

Google tried to address this with circles, which Facebook responded to and implemented a similar solution, but I think most people just don't like to classify their 'Friends' when first accepting a connection and are very unlikely to reclassify them later.
Samsung Offering $800K for Galaxy S 4 Apps Challenge
Indian 'attacks' Norwegian telco to get at Pakistan, China
Don't underestimate this. The first thing anyone will want to do is import/upload their photos.
Well, in practice, public/private key encryption with large keys does achieve the same security, as does meeting in person (as required here) and simply exchanging a 100gb flash with a random OTP.

What this method does is makes it harder to attack if the Bob's key/OTP is physically stolen. ALthough keys embedded on secure chip-cards cheaply and commonly available now are just as secure - the authors apparently claim that the keys can be read off the glass blocks in less than 24 hours; and extracting a long key off a chip-card (even if it's just pin-protected with permanent blocking for x mistakes) would be a bigger pain, you have to physicially scan the chip with extremely expensive gear for that.

What this method doesn't do, is "make electronic copying impossible" or facilitate DRM, since Bob or anyone who compromises Bob's computers can freely copy and distribute the data right after the decryption.
As someone who bought his cheapest dream car about 6 years ago, don't blame the car for getting bored. :P
That sounds really good! What would be most important to me is that the data of the worlds would be saved on my own server (and I think many others would appreciate this too, espacially as they are used to it from minecraft).

I'll support you and hope that this will be possible. The more backers you have the more you can focus on the game. Make it good! :)
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Norton introduce Ditto to backup & store Twitter, FB and Gmail data
I suppose the main thing you'd need is a data source mapping the stations and lines, then build it in whatever technology from that. The information page doesn't mention where the data came from, so I imagine it was manually created. I don't think TfL would be too willing to provide that data either, judging by the comments regarding licensing etc. in this thread.
Let's Make the Web Jank-free
Ex-Yahoo. Yahoo has infrastructure for a bunch of things which are really beneficial. Abuse detection/prevention, internationalization into like 40 languages and a ton of scaling services - to name a few.

Tumblr might not need them but Yahoo! might feel like they'd benefit from all of it.

If I were the Tumblr team I wouldn't want to deal with the man hours to get onto Yahoo!'s platform but I'm not sure how much of a choice they have.
"All apps must leverage the Samsung Chord SDK" - presumably only the Samsung platform will have this SDK. The first thought that comes to my mind is fragmentation of the Android platform. What are the odds that these award winning apps will run on an HTC One, or LG device?

It's an effective strategy - and drives the differentiation stake into what remains of their android competitors.
Ok, it has nothing to do with git but this is my personal contribution to pixel art movement: http://drawbang.com
wasn't this just on HN a few months ago?
Bigger opportunities.

TV/print ads are pretty much "played out" and nothing earth-shattering is going to happen in that area [0].

Online is still relatively new.. who knows what will happen :)

[0] Maybe it could. And should. But I guess most people don't believe that.
I think JS is actually a radically simpler language than either Python or Ruby. Lua is a much closer comparison, and its certainly got a nice interpreter and JIT available.
"Austrian economics is tad stupid" is the more correct choice. Austrian economics does not correspond with reality and is rightfully marginalized and ridiculed by the vast majority of economists.

In the 19th century we thought of inflation as the change in ratio of money to goods. Inject more money in the economy without a commensurate increase in the amount of goods and you get inflation. Take money out of an economy and deflation occurs. Now we know this isn't really accurate. Inflation happens not when there is more money in the economy but when more money is competing for the same goods. If money just sits in a bank account (or virtual bank account in the case of Diablo III) it doesn't really affect the economy and no inflation occurs. There is the same economic activity but a few rows in a database somewhere contain larger numbers.

This is also why in the real world the fed can triple the size of the money supply without causing inflation. Of course the austrians predict, over and over again, that runaway inflation is going to happen Any Time Now. But it doesn't and it won't.

Of course in a completely healthy economy you would expect an increase in the money supply to lead to an increase in economic activity and inflation, because in a healthy economy people spend and invest the money they have.

Austrian economics is about digging gold up from the ground, then smelting it into ingots and then burying those ingots again in a vault somewhere. Only through this mystical process can you get Real Money. Otherwise the money is "fiat money". It's so silly.
> incredible track record of dead-wrong predictions

The Austrian School economics methodology does not allow for making predictions. See e.g. the note at the beginning of http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Austrian_predictions It provides certain tools and models that one can use for explaining events and reasoning about policy options. These reasoning can be used as a basis of predictions (along with the other, non-economics-theoretic assumptions), but the predictions themselves will fall outside of the economics science in the Austrian School sense.

Basically, if your analysis manages to reason away uncertainty of the future, you're not following Austrian methodology. And no, the Austrian methodology won't even let you quantify that future uncertainty in probabilistic terms: that would only be possible if it used causal explanations of human action; instead, it relies on teleological, goal-oriented explanations.

Now, questioning and disputing the value, coherence and real-world applicability of the Austrian methodology is perfectly OK. (Personally, I find the Austrian economists' disregard for formal notations very unfortunate, as I've mentioned in another discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1647747) Your comment, however, seems to be simply misguided, based on a flawed understanding of the issue, and the sarcastic tone is unlikely to facilitate a constructive discussion.

(Edited: spelling.)
From:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-17/gold-miners-lose-16...

Quote:
"Gold producers, ignored as global stocks rebounded in the past two years and investors turned to exchange-traded funds that track bullion, face closing mines or shutting themselves down after the metal’s worst slump in three decades this week made 15 percent of miners unprofitable."

I also read that the biggest gold mine in the world in South Africa (70% world production) is not profitable at these prices.

But you'd need to google for that information yourself.

Also, I'll add another point. The definition of bubble is that nobody knows that's a bubble. Everybody will think and tell you it's a genuine investment, actually the best investment going on at the moment. That's why one way of making sure you're not investing in overvalued assets is to ask your cab driver if he invests (or would like to invest) in that asset. Now, evey cab driver who drives me stays away from gold because it's a "bubble". But in the day they would all just love to buy Facebook.

So media says gold is in bubble. All my friends do. My family does. You check the stats - the price merely covers or doesn't cover mining cost - that's your "wall of worry" factor - now you buy.

Don't get me wrong gold will be a bubble. But that's in distant future. That's when I'll be selling. (if im right)
Cool has no 'e' in it
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5232415
At least one problem with gold in games is that the management of large sums of gold is unrealistic. If you really had a huge portion of gold available in the game the storage and transportation of said gold would be both costly and risky. These concepts work mostly for fantasy themed MMOs though, not as much in something like Eve Online.
How to deal with Recruiters
10 things I’ve learnt about lean startup
That's correct:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5232415

93 days ago to be correct
Hm, that is an interesting point, I never fully realized it, but you're right - over the recent years, I only remember seeing themed Lego sets like you describe in shops, not the all-purpose "box of blocks" I remember from my childhood.

I will stop by a toy store I have on my way to lunch today, and check out their offer of Lego (Legos? Legoes?).
No, because the users do vote for them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Successful_requests_f... -- successful elections

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unsuccessful_adminshi... -- unsuccessful elections
Flickr aside, I am surprised nobody (AFAIK) has come up with a way of sanitizing uploaded image files yet.

I wonder if there's a way for GD/ImageMagick to detect the image data and strip everything else. (And if EXIF data is needed for photographs, import all non-binary EXIF data into the system first.)
What is “Jank”?
Doh, I feel like a pillock now - didn't realise Dean was talking about openphoto.

I've not seen it before; it's a great idea. I haven't got an API yet (but it will be coming soon after beta) and I'm all about freedom of data and information, so if you fancied supporting Photographer.io as another data source in the future I'd be more than happy to help.

I've worked a bit with Flickr's API in the past and found it very reasonable, so hopefully adding support for importing from there shouldn't be too tricky.
Yes I would, I'd probably jump back to them. I've just not had time to sit down this year!
You sound like a Woot fan? ;)

The site states

Prices in USD for 5.3 oz. Gildan #5000 100% cotton.
Show HN: Lines, the free London Underground app
Nintendo parodies Kickstarter
Why call it the exact same name as the very-similar-but-not-the-same Cappucino/Objective-J IDE product from 280 North?

Even though 280 North's IDE named Atlas is now defunct, think of all the google-search confusion that will result. It'd be kind of like naming a new GNUStep Objective-C IDE for Linux "ProjectBuilder".
I think the mental disorder is more an authority disorder, in like "If you don't do as I say then I will declare you a madman".

http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/02/why-anti-authoritarians-...
72k posts could be just a handful of active accounts. My own has 15k or so posts and I often don't touch it for weeks at a time.
This is awesome: https://gobyexample.com/ I'm no go expert but that's a really efficient way to learn a language.
> We will operate Tumblr independently. David Karp will remain CEO.

What this really says is that even though Yahoo! acquired all of the Tumblr stock it will remain an independent company and Yahoo will not ask for favours or influence Tumblr in any way.

So Tumblr will not be absorbed or coerced to do things it would not otherwise do.

But then, a few lines down:

> The combination of Tumblr+Yahoo! could grow Yahoo!’s audience by 50% to more than a billion monthly visitors, and could grow traffic by approximately 20%.

If Tumblr is still independent how does this grow Yahoo!'s audience?

> Tumblr can deploy Yahoo!’s personalization technology and search infrastructure to help its users discover creators, bloggers, and content they’ll love.

If Tumblr so far saw no reason to require a Yahoo! login and their first move (the ink on the agreement is not even dry yet) is to go for a Yahoo! ID (any other interpretation of that line?) and Yahoo! search then clearly they are not as independent as suggested in the first few lines.

I put very little faith in promises made by executives of companies being acquired or the ones doing the acquiring around the time of a major deal. See:

http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/may/myOneTalkWithMarissaM...
I would characterize the comment as more like "Attitudes towards development practices are a decade behind" (rather that the tech itself necessarily) which sounds pretty accurate[1] for most Japanese companies that are not part of the newer "Gree" wave.

[1] Anecdotal data etc etc.
Yes but most of what Buffett does is not activist shareholder action or buyouts, it's security/company analysis. Then once he finds an underpriced company (as was the most recent case by Heinz) he then takes an action to get the best price for the shares for Berkshire. The market won't digest the information of these private negotiations of course but up until that point Buffett's idea generation is largely driven by the public price of securities, at least according to what he tells us.
So it's a limited (buggy?) version of "at"? What's the use case for this? A demonstration of "english-time"?
You can find a list here - https://cloud.google.com/customers/
I was like you. I thought that tabs were useless. Now I use tabs. The workflow is to open 3 or 4 tabs, not more. For example, first tab rails app, second tab a gem used by the app, third tab my vimrc (I need to tweak constantly), fourth tab my todo list.
Here you find my comment about it with a screenshot
http://syskall.com/my-biggest-vim-productivity-boost/#commen...
It wont be called Atlas. Right now Im just relating it to Atlas, which like you said is defunct. Im just in the early stages of developing the framework and tools and am looking for feedback.
The same for MacVim
http://syskall.com/my-biggest-vim-productivity-boost/#commen...
The survivorship bias argument to explain people like Buffett is ridiculous. Before you continue to tell myself and others to read up on CAPM, the EMH, portfolio theory, and so on (which I have, extensively), I suggest you read up on Buffett and his approach to investing. He vocally rejected the EMH decades ago, and has continued to produce outsized returns. The proof of the pudding is in the eating and Buffett has managed to be right much more often than the academics and their insane asset and derivative pricing models.
I worked at Yahoo at that time, and what I remember was the sheer panic from the Mail team trying to figure out how to respond...
Alternate Character Interpretation: what would otherwise be "grade school-level name-calling" corresponds rather strikingly to reality.
Damn these Byzantine generals!
we print & ship from the same facility. we can provide AA shirts, here's our competitive price chart.

http://cdn.teelaun.ch/pricelist.pdf
email support@teelaunch.com
The Myth of the Myth of the Unicorn Designer
> So why did they go for storage instead of pumping the features with premium subscriptions

1TB is a meaningless promise. No one will use a full terabyte for a long time to come. I have about 1,400 photos on Flickr today, almost all of which were shot with a DSLR. Even if you were to consider file size of my current camera in RAW, that would come out to about 31GB total; Jpeg will be a lot smaller.

So, they jettison features that are hard or costly, offer something that no one will actually use for a long time to come, and...profit, I suppose.

I think the time might have come for me to move entirely onto 500px, which kind of bums me out. I love 500px, but I've also been a Flickr user for over eight years.
Startups are businesses intended to make money. Kids are kids. While you may feel an attachment to the former, there may come a time when selling is the best strategy. With kids, that's generally frowned upon.
Beyond the Reach of Copyright (Nintendo profiting on someone else's YT uploads)
Epic Mode - Think Like (a) Git
Feel free to ping me (jaisen@{hackernewsusername}.com) to chat. I've got plenty of opinions to hand out for free.
The same thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago. Got a patronising mail from dinos.co.jp (ディノス) saying they were increasing their security measures and that I should change my password. I went and checked a few news sites and sure enough, they'd just had a massive breach. Disgraceful to not disclose it in their mail, IMO.

Ironically, they also preached how important security is - パスワードは、お客様の財産を守る重要な情報です (passwords are important information that protect your assets).
You do not really need a competing currency as anything can be a store of value eg cigarettes or cars that is not the currency. But dollars are widely available globally and plenty fit in a planeload of $100 bills. I was in Brazil when they had around 40% a month inflation and you could buy dollars on any street corner and the black market rate was broadcast every day on the TV news.
For All Mankind - Specific Views
GoCardless (YC S11) is hiring for sales and marketing in London
> Several years ago I was interviewing somewhere and Googled the job blurb. There were over 100 recruiters who had copied the job details from the company website and pretended it was their own client. (I checked with the company - they had in house recruiters and did not accept external ones - all those external ones were charlatans.)

I use LinkedIn, and have a personal website with my CV on it, and I experience this almost daily.

Recently, I've started keeping a list of all the recruiters that spam me or try to get in contact with me. I know quite a few of the companies in my area that are hiring so I usually run these names past people that work there and more often than not these recruiters will just scrape sites like Stack Overflow Careers to find companies that are hiring, only to sell people already on their books.

The worst I've experienced is when one of the large agencies in Bristol were hiring. My company received a phone call from a hurried man saying "Something is wrong, I need to speak to EnderMB". The second I picked up the phone, fearing the worst, this guy told me he was a recruiter and asked if I was happy at my job. After some harsh words he hung up, and then sent me a message on LinkedIn asking me to recommend other developers to him. Half an hour later, the phone rung again with someone saying that they needed to speak to someone else at the company. The boss gave the phone over, and it was the same guy again, doing the same thing to everyone in the company on my LinkedIn friends list. I checked with the hiring company and they'd blacklisted this guy and his company before, but they had tried to sell developers to him under another holding company.

Recruitment is entirely out of hand now. The only recruiters I've ever wanted to deal with are internal recruiters who seem to actually give a shit about getting good talent to their company.
Non-smooth animations, jitter, stutter, etc.
Those aren't conflicting statements. If SkyDrive is 5 points worth of good, and Dropbox is widely rated 30 but "actually" a 10, then it's overrated but still better than the competition.
I'd like to keep the 'show goal' window open but it obscures the prompt for me (FF20) so I have to keep reopening it. I might not make it very far before abandoning it.
For those curious, yes, Nintendo did purchase http://crowdfarter.com
Lightroom catalog and RAW storage.
TMO: a simple service that helps you define and send quotes to your customers
> if a tutorial emphasizing CUA makes adoption rates higher, then the
tutorial is more successful.

That's very insightful. Thanks!
Phantompy - Headless WebKit engine for Python, like phantomjs