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Economists call what you're describing "cost-push inflation." And these days most believe it's a myth.

But surely that's just an artifact of liberal Krugmanite thinking infecting our institutions of higher learning! Let's see what the reliably conservative Cato Institute thinks: http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa106.html#4

There are several problems with the notion of cost-push inflation. The primary error in this analysis is that it confuses a shift in the structure of relative prices with a general rise in the level of prices. If the labor costs of businesses are increased and they succeed in passing on the costs to consumers in the form of higher prices, they will have managed to change the structure of relative prices at the expense of businesses that are unable to raise their prices because of more-intense competition. This is quite distinct from a general increase in the level of prices, which would be possible only if the real supply of money was increased.

Many firms, however, may be unable to pass on their increased costs to consumers. It is consumers who ultimately determine the price of any good on the market, and they may decide that a business's product is not worth a higher price. Producers cannot force consumers to buy what they produce, and businesses cannot always arbitrarily increase the prices of their products simply because the government has arbitrarily increased their costs.

Oh.

Well, how about free market champion Milton Friedman? What did he think? http://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/1970-stagf...

Milton Friedman did not believe in cost push inflation. He believed that "inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon." In other words, he believed prices could not increase without an increase in the money supply.

Oh.
You may want to fix the double scrollbar(vertical).
agreed, but... the benchmarks given also show a marked difference between amazon ec2 and direct hardware - ec2 seems to be the common culprit.
HNers tend to talk about good companies solving real problems and this seems like a very real, important (albeit admittedly unsexy) problem to me. Kudos for trying to tackle this problem.
Oh, good point on the surname. Don't know how I managed to miss that.

Totally agree on the rest of your comment.
That's very good news. Microsoft often get a lot of criticism for their products, most on IE. But they are still able to make bold moves that go in the right directions. That's not the case for all companies their size.
Linode for hosting, DO for experimenting and Amazon for Glacier, the combination worked well for me.
>Leave yourself logged in to Facebook for a few days, and watch it take up 2GB of memory.

It's entirely possible for a website to have a memory leak. (Or, at any rate, consume an ever increasing amount of memory.) If closing the tab and opening it again frees the memory, then there might not be anything FF can do about it. (It's also possible you've got an addon causing the problem.)
"Is Amazon overpriced"

Well, yeah. If you use it as just commodity servers. At Radius, we migrated our index build process over to using Elastic Map Reduce on spot-priced servers and it's been a huge cost savings.

Long story short, move to Amazon if you want elasticity and can design around saving from their services. Otherwise, look elsewhere.
Also, I understand the activist world, as have been part of it myself sometimes...

It's the way startups feel like such a cynical transaction these days...Initially it seemed like such a liberating thing, now it's more of an emprisonment for many - shuttered away from those people and things that really matter.
There's an assumption here that doing this would result in a material number of users for Google+. But I'm not sure it would: it's reasonably safe to assume that everyone using Google Reader knows about G+, and is either using it already or has decided to not use it. At best, what's proposed would convert some percentage of that latter group (maybe) over to using G+. It might be a couple million users if everything plays out well. It's probably less.

That sounds like a lot, but at the scale G+ and FB are competing, a few million (possible) users isn't worth allocating dev resources for. They're looking for things that move tens, or hundreds of millions of users. Some opportunities are just too small to pursue.
It's pretty close.
To play devil's advocate, I can't think of anything more befitting the term "misogyny" than what happened to Linda Lovelace, and to the extent that someone calls a reference to her porn career, knowing the circumstances behind it, "cool" I think that's at least an endorsement of misogyny.

That said, I think the author was probably unaware of those circumstances.
Don't stop with the technical search for solutions (and improvements), but push in non-technical ways as well:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/restore-fourth-campaig...
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maybe you don't file charges until you complete an investigation
Offshore developers: how do you break into U.S. market?
The question is in the headline. When you are offshore, you are tied to job sites like www.odesk.com where you have to compete with people from low cost countries like India, which drives rates down, forming a low-cost market of its own (and with these providers frequently scamming their clients, these low costs seem to be justified due to increased risks customers have to carry). Essentially there are no jobs at over $35 an hour or so.

Everyone knows that these are below bottom rate on U.S. market, and for someone knowing his job, there must be a way to break in there - i mean both individuals and companies. Who tried? Can you share some of your experience?
I think the reason many choose Amazon is also all the other services they offer, keeping everything under the same umbrella.
I have not experienced that, I don't use Facebook.

"Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Use Facebook"
the [edit: outer envelope of the] walk should slowly deviate from zero, shouldn't it (the variance of the sum increases with time / a random walk is a walk)? what i am seeing is returning to zero much more strongly than i would have expected. what is the prng that you are using? i suspect it's not that great.
Interesting. My local chipshop has had a like us on Facebook sign up for the past year. They have 13 likes.. The only use for this I can see is in an office so everyone can see the count going up.

Putting it on the shop front of a small business would be a bit embarassing as the majority of small businesses have a miniscule number of likes..
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We don't have awesome data on this. But, we're working on it. Personally, I think it really depends if the texter wants the interaction. It can have great utility or be somewhat annoying.
This is great, but I have a slight complaint.

Sliding the kurtosis indicator changes the left distribution, which makes sense. However, it also changes the appearance of the right, normal distribution, which is misleading. Normal distributions have [EDIT: constant] kurtosis. I realize that the appearance is changing because the scale is changing so that the max is always pegged. However, it might be less confusing if the scale remained static and the height of the left distribution simply changed, since that would be a more accurate representation of what's actually happening. That would obscure some details, but I don't think the precise details of the heights of each bar in the distribution are really the point of this page.
Do you mount the root file system read-only in these images? That seems like it would be a great way to lock things down further, if it's practical.
> Basically, they're moving to a standards-compliant model like WebKit or Gecko

I think that was the professed and proclaimed goal for every IE version since 8, or maybe even back at 7? I keep hearing that for years, and what this intention delivers in the end is yet more "IE modes":

n "browser modes" times 2 "document modes". Quirks mode. "Compatibility view."

So for IE 11, web developers would have two choices: test your page in a total of 10 IE mode-combinations. Or just serve "the Crawler/Geocities version of our site" to IE users no matter what version they're using.

Which is of course what MS/IE wants to avoid. But hey they could just pull an "Apple Inc." and license WebKit, or pull a "Google Inc." and make your browser auto-updating. Without prompts, progress indicators or restarts, just as invisible and efficiently as Chrome does by default. Presto, no more headaches with IE for BOTH users AND web devs. Maybe some MS egos would get a little dent, maybe some enterprise consultancy shops would have to cut down on man-days sold for IE-specific work. Ah yes. I can see why IE won't go this way any time soon---or only way after it has been finally and fully obsoleted even in the remotes of backwater net-cafes and even the slowest of Enterprise-IT depts...
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I didn't read the copy in the first section and instead scanned over to the video/demo. Maybe lead off with that or place it higher on the page.

... or integrate the step 1/2/3 into the animated demo to save on web page real estate.

...but also not something that's just a video capture of your desktop.

Also, this sounds cool for IT Operations like if you integrated with Nagios or PagerDuty.
Because that's a more general claim which cannot be made from this study, and may very well be false.
I love this blog! It is so straight forward and looks nice - cool!
Interesting. In Germany, people usually fret about potential job losses if a general minimum wage would be introduced (they didn't have one last time I checked), not inflation.
And that's the day I switched back. I abandoned after FF 3.x
So... where're Lamassu dealing with currency exchange regulations? Or are they only building the hardware, and leaving currency exchange services to other companies? The article is not clear on this.
Not true at all. Look up the actual viewing figures. Less than 1% of the population watches CNN's morning news show. They most intentionally do NOT broadcast to the 'mainstream audience'. Careers are made and broken by appealing to perhaps 1% of the population (or 0.5%...) rather than the current 0.9% or so.

Its a mix of HN elitism combined with gross over estimation of cultural impact WRT a cultural icon that doesn't matter anymore.

They do not broadcast to the mainstream, they try to steal away fractions of a percent of weirdo daytime news network junkies from other networks, not boost viewership from the 99% of "normal" people who don't watch that kind of thing.

Its like top40 music or hollywood movies in that way.
This is a cool idea. Although isn't 5 digits a little limited?
Nope, I'm thinking of contractors - self-employed developers, business analysts, project managers that are hired for a fixed length of time.

They generally are more highly skilled as they need to be productive in new environments in a short period of time.
Sublime Text 3 is still lightweight, fast and has awesome "jump to definition".
Insignificant price controls don't make much difference, so it's basically a wash. Significant price controls tend to have predictable perverse effects. It seems to be impolite to report them: for some years, every time I read a story about long gas lines somewhere, I go searching for information to verify that yes, it was under a system of gas price controls, and generally I can verify it with enough poking around in search engines. But it seems very uncommon for it to be reported in the news story about gas lines. Because gas lines just happen, like sunspots, you know?

If you think modern levels of intervention in the labor market --- not just minimum wage, but mandatory benefits and a host of other things --- have been imposed with such a marvellously deft touch that they shouldn't cause persistent failure of labor markets to clear, it is possible to dream up other reasons that might conceivably explain the observed outcome of historically high long term unemployment. Not everyone finds those explanations convincing, though.
How does taking advantage of standards-compliant layouts requiring breaking the past?

I mean, if they're truly standards-compliant layouts, then they shouldn't be doing anything that requires that old stuff, and therefore they shouldn't be affected whether that stuff stays in or not. Or maybe I'm missing something.

Don't get me wrong, it sounds like it's headed in the right direction, but to me, at least, it's more about forcing crappy older sites to update their stuff than anything else.
Does anyone have experience with the free VS Shell mentioned in the article as the foundation for putting together a free of cost installation?

How does it compare to VS Express? Why would there be two different free Visual Studio offerings...just to keep things locked down and rule out support for add-ins?
This tool looks really great. I'm going to try it out to see if the actual experience of drawing wireframes is as easy as it looks in the sample videos. I usually do wireframes for websites I build on paper, which doesn't expose the dead ends or awkward UI decisions I made like a live wireframe would.
Hi. Laravel user/contributor here. I suggest you try the framework before judging it based on a benchmark. Not sure about their system/code, but a large production application with APC (Laravel 3.2.14, just like the benchmark) has a latency of 90-120ms, and some of those pages are pretty complex.
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I think that's fundamentally different. Breaking immutability in a language by stepping outside the language is still programmatic. Breaking it via administration is a human decision.

In programming, it's a conscious decision to break immutability (assuming a language that supports it). It administration, it's a conscious decision to enforce it.
Maybe he's a European leftie? They were historically much more internationalist.
typically they are cops on duty and conducting a normal assignment, like a DUI check point
call me crazy but I am a web developer not working for the enterprise and using windows 8 as main OS. If the dev tools of IE were superior to the competition be sure I'd be using it for development. I am sure I'm not a unique case.
> AFAICT, Linode doesn't offer that, and they probably won't.

While perhaps not entirely as mature and full featured as AWS's offering, Linode does offer an api with which you can script creation/initialization of test servers.

See https://www.linode.com/api/linode

They also offer something called StackScript, that to me looks like some kind of configuration management script. https://www.linode.com/stackscripts/
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Not only that, but it also means we have a simple (and cheap!) solution to the problem of female underperformance. Lets deploy the fix and be done with this, and scrap all of our other attempts at fixing this (e.g., affirmative action).

That's also a conclusion we can draw from this study, assuming we trust the conclusions to the same degree you do.
For me, Msft and JetBrains provide the best IDEs for getting work done. The majority of my work is in Java, C#, and Python.

At the moment, I use PyCharm for python projects because I'm usually working on OSX (and prefer the local unix-y environment instead of the Windows-virtual-machine thing.) However, I started with PTVS years ago and really like it.

MSFT adding IDE support for Python is a good thing -- as developers, we need more options, not less.
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Some CS departments require undergrads to do the typical engineering maths sequence (Calculus, Linear Algebra, etc.) but many don't. Lots of PhD students in machine learning have undergrad degrees in physics, maths, or engineering.

Where I did my PhD (the top ranked CS department in the UK by a recent survey) the undergrad students did one maths courses in their entire degree, with most of it being discrete maths (IIRC). This really limited the ability of students to undertake research in machine learning or theoretical CS.
Of course the economy is bigger than it was 63 years ago. I'm not disputing that. But just try and tell me with a straight face that the massive influx of immigrants (looking for work, coming here for school, etc.) from the BRIC and other developing countries coming here is not a byproduct of people in their countries fucking nonstop and unchecked in addition to their host countries being unable to provide a reasonable living for them. You don't see nth generation Americans taking up these temp jobs en masse. As more people enter the US who will work for less, wages will continue to fall for immigrants and natural-born citizens alike. A bit of an aside, but if the H1-B visa limit is released that the amazing Zuckerburg and others are clamoring for, in under a decade we'll all be wishing for the days of the 2000s.
KickASS! We're educational, so that works perfectly for us.
Thanks a ton!
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I gave a example, a specific one, of urban slavery in Brazil, that was tightly regulated, as a example of why labelling a word, does not always work.

Yes, I know how plantation slavery worked in the US, but it is a different animal, that worked in a different way.

Brazil for example do not had this widespread racism, because most of the middle class population was black anyway, data found from some cities in Brazil northwest (like Recife) show that 70% of the middle class was black, most of them ex-slaves that earned enough money to not only buy themselves from their owners, but also to have their own business.

It is a different context...

I am trying to say that you cannot go by absolutes.

Brazil even made a attempt at that legally, here we have laws against "work conditions analogous to slavery" that have nothing to do with slavery, and more to do with employee abuse, unfortunately even those laws are kinda broken and sometimes punish those it is supposed to protect.

Also in US itself slavery is legal for punishment (the article that abolishes slavery in the US, says that it is forbidden except for legal punishment, and currently you can hire a private prison to have their workers be forced to do your work, classic literal slavery... is that evil? or people should be obliged to work to pay for their cost to the state?)
Actually, linode has an API but doesn't do metered billing - thats really what you want for your particular use case.
If security is a consideration, I personally wouldn't use Linode at this point. AWS has a dedicated security team. I don't know about DigitalOcean.
This is very upsetting.
I live in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood & pass by what I suspect is a similar temp agency, while on my way to the gym in the morning. Now I feel even worse for the people in line at its door...
That still doesn't explain the age of 21. Couldn't the federal government just as easily had required states set the age at 18 in order to recieve highway funds.
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Because that would require a single universal Internet encryption standard, and S/MIME never really succeeded as that.
Looks like proof of concept to me. The test in my mind is what gets done with those 114k addresses. Did they get leaked? No -- and the company was notified of the breech? No harm, no foul.
Yet another unfortunate reminder that if you're not paying, you're not the customer.
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I've found that watching almost any form of news -- in the United States -- is a complete waste of time, and even a hinderince to my own personal happiness.
I definitely know it's not the norm, and should not be the norm. It's a really bad habit I have. I run across something interesting and for some reason just hate to close it, and so I end up with tons of browser windows open.

Eventually Chrome freaks out and starts eating all my CPU time and I have to restart it and close a bunch of browser windows.
> There will never be a shortage of people to fill those jobs [...]

This is wrong. E.g. Germany during the Wirtschaftswunder had to import workers from first Italy and Greece, later from Turkey.
I must say I am impressed! For once, an article on HN on gender that hasn't deteriorated into something completely pointless and depressing. I am encouraged again about HN's prospect of being a smart place on the nets.
WebGL is not implemented, though 3d renderers to tty exist since the 90s, e.g. ttyquake! A scandal!

http://web.archive.org/web/20021113144923/http://webpages.on... (original site gone)
You're missing the point. They have the right to shut down the product, but nobody believes their explanation about why they are shutting it down.
I first came across this idea in this NPR article: http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2010/09/29/130221453/how-to-li...

I haven't been very successful in applying the suggestions. I tend to repeat the same few activities (building software, bike riding, spending time with the 10 or so people closest to me) because I really enjoy those things. I'm not convinced that having time pass quickly is at odds with feeling content with one's life.
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yeah i gave myself some grief about that aspect but ultimately decided different scales was more misleading. could go either way.
also, the kurtosis of a normal distribution is 3, not 0.
With math-related fields it IMO boils down to this: From what I have seen in academia during the last few years (yes, anecdotal, sample size of about two dozen female PhD students), I'd say that women are sorted out at almost all stages of the engineering/sciences career path. By the time you are a PhD student or Postdoc, the weeding out has produced a situation in which the women that remain are on average better than the male PhD students, because only the most talented/determined stuck it out.

Then most of them leave academia because they might at some point in the future want children, which is a 90% chance career-ender.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYhlQDS03KM This fellow built a controller for some, looks pretty simple
Having built an sms/web decision tree application for healthcare information (http://sxt.org.uk), my first question would be are there plans to build in any database searches?

I can see entring each option being tiresome for larger applications.
I don't think I go as far as others here. I am not sure an open door is an invitation to dig through someone's diary; that is, even if someone is incompetent in managing their security, there should probably still be a point at which abusing that crosses a line - though I am very open to discussing just where that point is (and some liability should certainly still sit with those who deployed an insecure system).

All of that said, I wholeheartedly agree that damage to reputation (where such damage comes only from revelation of the insecurity) is the fault of the people failing to live up to their reputation, not those exposing the reality of it.
Agree, all I saw was texting for education (quick scan which most people do) and didn't really get it.
Because of the "brilliant" decision to integrate the IE engine way too deep into windows to the point of unseverability.

So you get one-two IE versions per OS lifecycle. Enjoy ...
Not worth it in my opinion. I'd use the money you have to pay for rent and food and completely dedicate yourself to development. Set a few goals and accomplish them. If you're determined, you won't need Starter School to push you along.
Thanks. How do you deal with the multiple copies problem? (Or is it all transparently handled by Mail.app?) Do you just not save copies of messages encrypted with someone else's key? keep your version in a special folder? etc.
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