skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been impressed by the reasoning behind market monetarism (mainstream credibility: good and rising). They also seem to have a pretty good ante facto grasp on events, in the sense that when e.g. Japan commits to a less tight monetary policy the results (amazingly rising real GDP with little inflation) do not seem like the sort of the sort of thing other pundits would expect, while being the sort of thing you would expect from reading market monetarist blogs. It gives the impression of being the theory that takes the last few years in stride (or earlier decades too of course) whereas the other economic stories I know are busy manufacturing new special explanations for each successive event.

Check the sidebar of "The Money Illusion" for an introduction or Google market monetarism.

Relevant judgments here: Fiscal policy can't do anything monetary policy can't, so you should generally prefer QE to increased government debt, unless a separate case is made for government investment qua investment; with a properly behaving central bank the fiscal multiplier is exactly zero because the central bank is already stabilizing NGDP. Money is 'tight' or 'loose' in the general economy depending on NGDP growth rates; looking at interest rates or money supply will be exceedingly misleading as to what the effective policy is right now, never mind what it should be going forward.

-- Eliezer Yudkowsky
What's the most surprising thing you've learned so far from interviewing people?
Coding camps for kids rise in popularity
Maybe so, but Closure and Ur/Web are apples and oranges. The selling points of Ur/Web are not present in Clojure.
Guardian ran an article how GCHQ/NSA installed keyloggers in all public cafes during a g8 event hosting in the UK in hopes of capturing diplomat traffic. They also ran Stingray fake towers galore to capture cell traffic and hacked every blackberry device they could.

For some reason they were really interested in spying on Turkey and South Africa of all places.

Surprised these internet cafes still aren't using a disposable VPS for every customer to prevent easy keyloggers though I would imagine they can probably smash right through a hypervisor and bug the host and guest.
The crazy thing is - what are they doing with all this "intel" anyway?

It's not like the US can make unilateral decisions (except for a president declaring war). Congress has to make decisions and that's like herding cats.

Somehow before they were taping everyone's phone calls and internet traffic they produced the report "Bin Laden determined to strike" [1] yet nothing was done with that intel.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_Ladin_Determined_To_Strike_...
Isn't this the explicit purpose of the NSA, to spy on the communications of foreign governments? And aren't EU members' governments doing the same thing against the US?
Actually, if you could port that to Node.js, and call Node from the shell...
As opposed to the psychological technique of continuous rewards, or never rewarding something (both of which are also boring)?
I didn't see that. I just tested the slider with $1 to get a percentage and it gave me 40ct for the author from which I concluded they take 60%. My bad, thanks for the correction.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5824286

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4334264

I'm still waiting for someone to make an app that does this -- would it require linking 2 phones?
Ask HN: What is the best way to transition away from supporting IE
We are considering dropping most of our support of IE and Safari. Our intention is to encourage people to use Chrome. If we lost every IE and Safari user on our site it would result in a 12% decrease in usage, but if just a small portion started using Chrome and exhibited the same behavior as our Chrome users, we could make up the loss pretty easily. Has anyone done this? What is the best approach so as not to lose too many users? Is there any way to track the IE/Safari users who came, saw our "Please use Chrome" collateral and then did so? Any tips are appreciated.
Thanks,
No doubt the fan would eat most of the power, thats just another engineering challenge to overcome. There doesnt seem like a better way without making the flashlight huge, then again the scale of power I am used to is an several orders of magnitude greater than what she uses, I probably have a scale bias. Im sure she could design an innovative passive and small heatsink.

Idea: using PCM you could make a flashlight that you recharge in the oven.
You can't downvote comments over 48 hours old - perhaps that's the effect you're seeing.

I usually find that even here on HN, the symptoms people report are not actually what's happening, but are filtered through their incorrect assumptions. It is important to report what you see, not what you think is happening underneath. It's so easy to fall into the trap of reporting what you think must be happening.
This is so true, the key takeaway is that you can hire a scientist to 'prove your agenda' with science, you can hire an economist to 'prove your monetary policy' with economics, and you can hire a mathematician to 'prove your trend/point' with statistics. And once demagogues figured out that having a [profession] type person on board improved the reception of their rhetoric they went off to find such people.

So what is the chance we could create some sort of Guild of Objectivity or some such. Basically membership in the guild for person of profession X requires that all of their output as a professional person be complete and without omission or slant. The proof of said objectivity to be created by review of at least 3 other Guild members of the same profession. Where the Guild removes members who violate their oath, and operates on constant self evaluation.

Not going to happen of course, but it would an interesting plot point in a fantasy story I suspect.
Actually, Germany does both. The 25ct thing is a more recent development.
Paraffin would be excellent. In fact, wax + copper was such an excellent combination to pull away thermal energy, this was the same mechanism used on the NASA Lunar Rover :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehicle#Wheels_and...

Basically, the heat was stored in the wax, which melted. Then, radiators would pull the heat from the wax out into space when the Rover was resting, which would solidify the wax again ready for the next run.
Spying on officials is not just to get state secrets. It is used also to discover any information (maybe embarrassing, or just private information) which can be used as a leverage in negotiation or, in more severe cases, as a plain old black-mail.
Leave Sean Parker Alone
You're right, I have no idea how I forgot about this. Shame on me.
The laziness of synchronous work
Was it here that I saw people lashing at Falkvinge for accusing US of spying on EU officials [1]?

Ok, he didn't show any real proof at the time, but was it that hard to believe it would happen? I don't know about you, but I'd rather be paranoid than naive this time, especially since we have no idea what else NSA is hiding, and what's the real extent of their spying operations. It seems to me being naive would hurt more, at this point.

[1] http://falkvinge.net/2013/06/24/the-united-states-wiretapped...
Can this technology work in an airconditioned room? I was thinking if this technology can provide enough electricity to even just lighting up a single room. It can use the heat outside, and the cool air (form air condition) inside the room.

All in all, very good invention! And also inspiring. I hope more teens will be involve in inventing things. I hope she wins. Also, (totally unrelated) I think she's cute. :)
I don't really see simple concurrency happening in Ruby.
Unless either:

1) The design of MRI changes fundamentally in the next few years
2) More room is made for alternative implementations like Rubinius or JRuby
> How would you ever prevent whoever gets the information to pass it to secret services agency?

I think it is about third parties. If I can't trust the person I am communicating to, why would I want to tell this person any secrets?

> That is why as European I find the whole PRISM discussion overblown as if people weren't aware secret service agencies have been doing this for years all over the world.

I agree completely.
I believe the "x-ray" machine is actually an iron lung.
> Did you read the comments under the article?

It usually isn't a good idea.

> I usually do not buy sexism in tech

So I guess you don't "buy" it because you don't usually see it, if only on account of not being on the receiving end of it?
This is the difference between a consultant and a contractor.

A contractor is an order taker. A consultant is a trusted advisor.

You'll pitch to a different level (middle managers and above) but you'll also double your billing rate. It works very well with companies that don't have a CIO/CTO/VP of IT and are struggling but don't really know why.

The epipheo guys are pretty good at putting business pain into a short message. You may not want to have cartoons, but watching their videos can give you quick insights on marketing your solutions.

As for what to call yourself, incorporate and go with "principal consultant", "founder", "CEO", whatever. If you specialize, use that in the company name or as a subtitle on your letterhead/email sigs/cards/etc.
Going back a step, Java itself is just download, unzip. Oracle actually made it even easier than Sun, by doing the "agree" on the website. But they do lose by not having it in ubuntu/debian.
Time to rethink its mission.
True, or by leaving it in the sun.

Combining ideas may make sense here. A flashlight with PCM and a black handle that you can leave in the sun, and optionally wrap in a soaked cloth. Perhaps PV makes more sense, but I haven't run the math.

Of course, you'd also want a thermos to carry it in. ;)
Well, I'm not claiming that everything is just fine - the opposite of complete disarray. My point is that economics so burdened with controversy that its better to dismiss it.
I find it funny that there's a paper on constructive type theory and a CSS3 cheat sheet on the same list.
Never really had any problems reading/understanding dynamic code, actually I (and this is highly subjective) think it's easier to read dynamic code because you don't need to read a lot of extra code written to satisfy a compiler.

I agree completely when it comes to refactoring/modifying code though. This can become cumbersome, especially if you don't have unit tests.
Sorry, what you're talking about is a perpetual motion machine, which the laws of thermodynamics forbid. The AC will just have to work harder to get the extra heat added by the thermoelectric device back out, no free energy here.
Is complete transcription available somewhere?
Of course, I still have personal friends who are US citizens and I still think highly of them. I think it's obvious what I meant. And rest assured that I am very aware of the fact that government does not always represent people well - I grew up in a totalitarian regime. But it's also true that they act in your name (especially because you did elect them in democratic elections) and when they do horrible things overseas people might believe that you 'let them', that you did not do enough to stop them... I hope you understand what I mean.

EDIT: I still believe that Americans - the people - have freedom and courage in their blood and some of them will think of something smart and innovative to change the course.
You want to be careful of writing your application such that it only supports Chrome, as it's very possible in five or ten years that Chrome will look as archaic as supporting IE 5.5 does today.

I'd recommend that you consider instead only supporting IE 10 and/or 11, and prompting users of lower versions to upgrade to any supported browser (e.g. Firefox/Chrome for users who can't upgrade Windows, and IE 10/11 for users on Windows 7/8).

Edit: You also want to think about correlation vs. causation -- is it the choice of browser that causes a user to be more engaged, or is is that more engaged users are more likely to choose Chrome for an external reason? (e.g. because they're Google fanboys, or because they tend to have a hundred tabs open, or because they need account sync because they use three different computers, etc.)
Yeah, that's what I'm disagreeing with.

Maven doesn't require an IDE and uses a convention over configuration based approach where it will run against the public repo with zero config.

Moreover, it's significantly 'more fluid' due to the ability to ship assembled fat binaries that have all of their dependencies packaged with them. No need to worry about which version of what is installed on this machine.
Has Germany banned its foreign intelligence agencies from spying on the US government? Is that also covered under its privacy laws?
In this scenario, Hollywood glamorizes law enforcement by not only portraying LEOs as basically paladins who are working hard to "catch bad guys", but also by portraying all criminals as despicable villains who only seek to hurt others. This glamorization makes us want to be spied upon, as the narrative tells us that this allows the "good guys" to catch those who are trying to harm us.

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No I actually rely on my unit tests and very rarely I'm using the debugger (which is awesome by the way). In my book any "programmer" who say's "You shouldn't be writing more than a couple of lines of code a day" is a ... not even noob, dunno what to call him. If your opinion is that IDE makes you a shitty programmer than I honestly don't think you know what you're talking about. Sorry.
Setting aside the tendency of small gangs to become large ones, a gang is a form of government in most senses of the term, i.e. it is not anarchy. You'll also need to show that gang warfare is a desirous state.

A government is a local monopoly on the use of force. We do not live in a world that can be made free of violence, therefore government is an unpleasant necessity. Solve the violence issue, and we can talk about abolishing government -- although you should also be aware of the concepts of "market failure" and "natural monopoly".
It should be provable that thermodynamics guarantees that it will be more power-efficient to generate the light directly with electricity instead of using electricity to cool the room, then exploiting a thermal gradient with even a lossless Peltier element.
Yes. I'd be disappointed if NSA wasn't trying to spy on other nations; or if GCHQ wasn't trying to spy on other nations.

That's why they get all that tax money. If anything, we should be pleased that here are some government departments who actually manage to meet their obligations - gather a bunch of intelligence.

What other people do with that intel is perhaps disappointing.
The effect of the Federal Reserve increasing the money supply, and making it available to favored banks and the US Treasury at low rates helps cause inflation and has about the same effect as a tax: your holdings are worth less, and somebody else, albeit indirectly, is able to tap into the value that those dollars held.
It would 'work' but it would be grossly inefficient.
Your room is cooled by a heat pump(air conditioner) a Peltier is just a different heat pump, a very inefficient one at that. You would end up spending much more money cooling the room than it would cost to just power lights normally.
1st, economic/business espionage. 2nd, looking for leaks. 3rd, ... terrorism?

I doubt much of 3, because they've been in operation since the fifties, which is a very long time for usage to evolve and find a purpose and then entrench itself.

I assume 1 is the primary usage.
Yes, the "it's a hot day in summer therefore climate change" annoys me as much as "it's a cool day in winter therefore no climate change." Any given year, or even span of a couple years, isn't enough, let alone a day in a particular region.

As for your questions, dealing with them individually with some level of certainty isn't too bad: I've certainly read convincing discussions of them. It's when dealing with things not in isolation that things become tricky. Most (though not all) feedbacks point in the positive direction, so all together they are almost certainly positive, even if that's not mathematical proof. But the magnitude of that positivity is very much up in the air.
That's a very unfriendly act.

I would love to see Obama have a town hall with European citizens and explain to them why this is a good thing.
I think a lot of people react to the sensationalism of the headlines on stories like this. It's absolutely wonderful that a 15 year old girl is interested in experimenting with little bits of tech like this, and I'm sure she's way ahead of the curve, but the news outlets like to portray this as "15 year old kid invents a new solution to a difficult problem," which is just way overstating it in the annoying style of people who are overly impressed by their own grandchildren's science projects.

Just from the headline, I said to myself, "sounds like some kid discovered peltier junctions and LEDs and the media decided to act like she's invented something," which was exactly right. Good for her, she's learning and experimenting, and that's a great thing, but let's not get carried away with our portrayal of how amazing it is.

Think back a month or so to the girl who "invented" a new way of charging cellphones in 30 seconds using capacitors. The sensationalism of that story was so over the top, I had non-technical people sharing the story with me on Facebook with breathless comments about what a genius this kid was and looking forward to this fantastic tech being available in all of our cell phones. Was it anything like that? No. It was a kid experimenting with well-understood technology and learning how things work, and there was no discovery or invention of anything non-obvious to any actual engineer. I don't want to detract from her industriousness or enthusiasm for learning, but when half the world is convinced she's done something notable enough to get her on the talk show circuit, something is wrong with the reporting.
Google’s not the one hurting Europe’s news business
There were many surprises, but one repeating theme was: how to promote a Kickstarter project long before your Kickstarter project actually goes life, and that there are really lots of ways to do that.
Your builder, who never gets eaten, produces +2 wood every 10 seconds.
I took a look at the kickstarter stat page and I was pleasantly surprised to find that they have a 44% success rate at funding projects. I expected that to be much lower. Tech projects have a 34% success rate which still seems high to me, but it is interesting to note that this is the second worst success rate.

I would be interested in what makes a kickstarter campaign click. The other side of the coin which is equally important is to find out what makes a campaign fail and the lessons that come out of that. Could you please also interview some folks that were unable to reach their pledge and how they felt they could have amended their approach ?

http://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats
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Eclipse Foundation opens up to social coding
Speaker is an analyst and uses several numbers (Tiobe, mailing lists, Stack Overflow, GitHub) and examples (Netflix) to show:

a) that Java is over its peak because it has to tolerate much more languages (JavaScript, Ruby) then in 2006

b) that Java is not in decline, but at least sustaining its popularity and if you include Android you could say the 'Java semantics' is growing.

Speaker continues with some examples of frictionless technology stacks/products, and argues that Java is not that. To sustain growth it needs less complexity, better package managements, compatible licensing, low cost Java hosting.

Finally, some languages got popular by the web frameworks (e.g. Node.js, Django, Rails). But Java web frameworks are too fragmented (due to its long history as a popular language and platform). Java should take its cues from those.
Restore The 4th: Group Organizes Nationwide Anti-NSA Spying Protests On July 4
Because I don't live in a hunter-gatherer tribe geographically separated from other competing tribes.

Because I don't live in a spaceship with nuclear power, an FTL drive and a working replicator to run away from the rest of humanity.

See Sethrin's comment.
For example, Amanda Palmer drummed up support on Twitter by drawing little sketches of people who tweeted their pics to her. It was a very personal way of relating to them, and it established a really strong bond with people who were then later willing to back her Kickstarter
I think you glossed over the 'configuration' that adds friction to Maven adoption. Namely, the pom.xml file. You could argue that its complexity is typically overstated, but the fact remains that it exists and most developers will have to interact with it at some point or another. That's simply not the case in many other systems.

> No need to worry about which version of what is installed on this machine.

That's not a concern when using NPM (out of the box), and when using virtualenv it's not a concern when using pip (which most Python devs do).
Computers have also been crucial in facilitating many, many horrible things - with massive investments by all of the standing militaries and secret police of the world.
He's getting worked up over 2%? I would expect the rates to fluctuate on the order of at least 2% due to normal traffic variations.
it's funny, because he's never admitted he was wrong, himself. Go ahead, search for it.
Google Mine Wants To Track Your Stuff
The US federal constitution allocates the power to declare war to Congress.

Some say this has become completely inverted but brilliant legal minds like John Yoo obviously know better.
Perhaps, but the U.S. has also entered into international agreements not to spy on certain diplomatic channels, though. And even if it were legal, its revelation could do more to isolate and harm U.S. foreign relations than the good that might have come from it.
I can't help thinking of a full body suit to harvest the entire heat output of the human body. Maybe you could use assisted sweat evaporation to provide for the cold tile?

It could be like a Fremen suit so they can pump the water coolant around and potentially and power electronics.
Making Sass talk to JavaScript with JSON
Has Instagram Been Hacked?
Steven Pinker argues that since the separation between the cause (lead exposure in childhood) and effect (criminal behavior in adulthood) is so wide, there are almost certainly big confounding variables that we haven't considered.

> There are reasons to be skeptical of any claim based on correlations between such widely
separated variables as lead exposure (the cause) and crime (the effect). Consuming lead does
not instantly turn someone i
nto a criminal in the way that consuming vitamin C cures scurvy. It
affects the child’s developing brain, which makes the child duller and more impulsive, which, in
some children, and under the right circumstances, leads them to grow up to make short
-
sight
ed
and risky choices, which, in some children and under the right circumstances, leads them to
commit crimes, which, if enough young people act in the same way and at the same time,
affects the crime rate. The lead hypothesis correlates the first and last
link in this chain, but it
would be more convincing if there were evidence about the intervening links.

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