skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fractional reserve banking has a limit, because the bank always need to keep said fraction.

The thing is, though, that banks hand out loans independently of how much reserves they have. Only afterwards do they check whether they need more reserves, and obtain them if necessary. This is even reflected in the internal organization of banks: Loans and reserves are in different departments.

The central bank creates new reserves as a reaction to increased demand by banks as part of its normal operation. It is not a political decision to do so. The political decision is to set the target interest rate (Fed funds rate). The money supply fluctuates to accommodate the demand of borrowers given that interest rate. Because of that, private banks can and do account for the monetary expansion that goes hand in hand with rising prices.

However, it is probably more accurate to say that banks accommodate rising prices, i.e. the causality goes from rising prices to an increase of money (that is, causality goes from right to left in MV = PQ).

Most importantly, firms use more credit to cover their operating expenses as prices rise, and home owners take out larger mortgages as house prices rise, etc. This increase in the loan volume as a reaction to price increases is what drives the growth in the money supply.

All this about reserves is of course very far away from the fairy-tale stories of banks taking in deposits and loaning them out. Unfortunately, banking tends to be pretty opaque, and you really need to dig into this stuff to understand it. People like the MMT bloggers have popularized a proper understanding though, so it's not as difficult as it used to be (the MMT bloggers like Bill Mitchell and Randall Wray tend to have blind spots in other areas, but they have studied the monetary system pretty thoroughly and know what they're writing about in that regard).
OK. In this particular case I'd be very, very surprised if malice played any role. And assuming mistakes are malicious by default is more wrong than than the opposite, IMHO.
> it is unusual a person and their items could fail so many times using different testing equipment.

So maybe it's finding something true. BFD. You look in the bag, verify there's no explosive there, and let him through.

Maybe the bag had fireworks in or near it at some point. Or magician's supplies. Or a chemistry set. Or any number of other things. There are a dozens reasons why a bag might actually have been near explosives or chemicals that are similar enough to explosives or explosive precursors that the test would correctly show positive.

Nobody cares whether the test result was an error or a "correct" reading based on something that IS NO LONGER IN THE BAG - either way, you let him through. Why the hell not?
OpenStack can run with LXC as the "IaaS" tier.
I'm not following your first sentence. What doesn't help with debugging pure functions? Debug.Trace is quite precisely for the situation you describe.

Another option would be to pull the file in question up in ghci and play directly with the components of the function - in pure code that should be safe in a way that it won't be in effect-full code.

I also dispute the assertion that QuickCheck doesn't help - if you're getting weird behavior, then hopefully you can characterize that weird behavior, and get some example failed values out of QuickCheck - and getting a picture of what values the function is failing for can absolutely be useful.
How do you assign strips of land to render for each of the 8 cores in a flight simulator?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naORDnsiht4&feature=player_em...

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Demo/Games/EagleDive.html
There is a fallacy in here...

Provisioners in Vagrant allow you to automatically install software, alter configurations, and more on the machine as part of the vagrant up process.

This is useful since boxes typically aren't built perfectly for your use case. Of course, if you want to just use vagrant ssh and install the software by hand, that works. But by using the provisioning systems built-in to Vagrant, it automates the process so that it is repeatable.

It's the last part of the final sentence. You can't prove something is repeatable if it's potentially accessing the internet, date and time logic, etc. Cloning an image is a lot more repeatable (and known quantity) than re-massaging one in to existence.

I term the class of IMHO misdirected systems administration tools that attempt the latter PFCTs (post-facto configuration tinkerers). Vagrant is on the better end of these (at least it focuses on one-time instantiation versus constant modification). Other tools such as puppet could be construed as encouraging long term modification without a clean reference at all, thus potentially resulting in configuration drift.

It seems clear to me that this class of tool grew somewhat organically from classical systems administration and is not the most rigorous of approaches in this era of cheap virtualization and instant cloud-based provisioning.
This, thank you. People often forget about this when they are thinking about environmental elements modifying DNA.
It looks amazing, but I'm having trouble understanding where the power comes from.

The Kickstarter says 20 mph, 6 mile range, 2000 watts, which gives an energy of 600 watt hours.

A Macbook battery is around 60 watt hours, and weighs about 1.5 pounds; 10 of those would weigh 15 pounds - and take up a ton of space. I don't see the volume of even ONE in any of the photos I've seen.

Where's 600 watt hours of battery hiding?
take away lesson
the more 'democratic' a country = government wants to know a lot about you

thats if democracy isn't a myth
Could Microsoft's next CEO come from Google?
Any chance these will ever get down to ~$300? I guess what I'm asking is if this is the Tesla Roadster and there's an economy model a few generations down the line? Or will this always be for people more serious about using them for commuting, etc?
I love this post because it shows some real engineering. The fact they put so much effort into the test equipment shows that there's some serious characterization going on vs. just throwing together parts.
Housing strikes me as a pretty hackable problem. There's a lot of space between "residential hotels," Extended Stay America, and Airbnb, and there's a lot of potential especially in high-rent areas to come in under the cost of studio apartments by a lot, but still not be hovels.

If Soylent can find a market, surely there's a market for housing for hackers.

(It sounds like this isn't really quite the problem Noisebridge faces, but it's what it made me think of.)
You'll know things are stable when a million dollar purchase of BTC shifts the market cap by ~$1 million.

In all fairness, this is nothing special about BTC. For every financial asset ever, an X$ amount of transactions shifts the market capitalization by more than X$.

That's what makes those "X billion $ value destroyed by stock market movement" stories so ridiculous.

It would be interesting though to see a comparison of BTC to a range of different stocks and other assets.
Please stop making your comparisons sound as if passenger-free was a fully functional application server such as unicorn or puma. It is not.

Passenger-free is a deliberately crippled demo-version. If someone wants to use passenger in production they will have to pay $50 USD per year, per server for it. And you know that very well.

The 'free' passenger drops requests and serves 502 errors to the users during every single deploy.

That's equivalent to popping up shareware nag-screens into my face at random intervals. Except phusion passenger doesn't nag me, it nags my customers.

You call the avoidance of these errors a 'feature' ('rolling restarts') that must be paid for.

For some reason your helpful comparisons never mention that both unicorn[1] and puma[2] ship with this basic functionality out of the box. One could almost think it is part of your sales strategy to have people notice this little 'limitation' only after they already deployed your product to production...

[1] http://www.justinappears.com/blog/2-no-downtime-deploys-with...

[2] http://blog.nicolai86.eu/posts/2013-02-06/phased-restarts-us...
I install something called OpenVPN-AS on a DigitalOcean droplet and it works like a charm...the first time out. Here are step-by-step instructions: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-insta....
OSHA is basically a big joke. My father owns a factory and has had an OSHA inspection only once in almost 30 years. Doubt they even get around to visiting offices.
This story gave me goosebumps - Ethan Austin Cofounder of Giveforward
"And now they’re asking themselves a hard question: how do you hack San Francisco's homelessness problem?"
Both Logstash and elasticsearch are great - but they both suffer from the same flaw: they're a pain to deploy and it's a pain to manage their packages.
Why hasn't the SEA changed the nameservers?
People viewing your views and cause, I guess.

Due to the worlds media being very selective about what appears, and the tone or context in which it is written, sometimes this is the only way to get your word out.

"Your word" being highly subjective.

Having the www.nytimes.com traffic being sent to your blog is probably one of the best things you can do.

Back in the day, leaflets were dropped from planes that contained what you wanted people to read. This is the much easier, and much much cheaper, way of achieving that aim.

EDIT: Removed the joke.
Yes, use a high chair. Pretty much any decent one [1] will do since you aren't spending a full day in it (but get at least a decent one, not a cruddy one).

1: http://www.overstock.com/search?keywords=drafting+chair

I far prefer a high chair to an adjustable desk. Adjustable desks involve too much of a mental decision and then a couple minutes of downtime every time. And added cost.
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I'd imagine it's similar to North Korea's growing online presence: "This is the information about Syria that we want you to know."
This argument is flawed. Yes startups have payoff akin to out of the money options, but that is obvious. However, the number of other startups would not affect the volatility. If anything it would be analogous to increasing the interest rate, since it increases the opportunity cost or cost of capital of investing in one particular startup vs other ones and decrease the value of the call option marginally. What would be analogous to "high vol" would be the speed of the startup to iterate and get to a real business model.
I absolutely agree in terms of quality.

For being a universal document format, it's very frustrating that PDF readers don't make using them easier.
I know the US healthcare system has problems, but really? Worse than Cuba or Libya?

You're going to get some weird results if you use life expectancy without filtering out the impact of variables that have nothing at all to do with healthcare (i.e. automobile accidents, incidence of premature births, etc).
twimg.com seems to be hijacked
Scientists create sperm & egg cells from skin cells, regardless of donor gender
Unconfirmed report: Syria's Assad makes surprise visit to Tehran
I agree with your larger point, but the example is flawed. Ford did not invent the car, he "just" made it much cheaper by inventing the assembly line.
I think the reference was to companies supporting open source projects.
Please, let's not have an argument over which dev team is smarter. The fact is that Go and Rust are very different languages with different goals and feature sets, with different levels of ambitiousness and which started development in earnest at different times.
> We will have to remove all items in another room,

Searching the bag in another room has too much abuse potential. If travelers let bags out of their sight even for a few minutes the TSA could easily steal or break anything of value in there with no accountability. So the existing procedures mostly don't allow that - searching has to take place in the presence of the passenger.
This is a guide that's been very popular over at r/fitness to correct "computer guy" posture: http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/ewrr0/writeup_on_th...

I'm at an advanced level strength wise for overhead press, squats and bench press, and need a lot of core strength to handle my lifts, yet standing for a long time is still brutal because of my posture and lacking strength in various smaller muscles, as well as lack of flexibility in certain muscles.

It's getting better quickly (I don't use a standing desk, but I do specific work to improve my posture), but even for people who think they've got a steel core after exercise might get nasty surprises if they try to stand all day.
How to install Ubuntu in VirtualBox from Start to Finish in 60 minutes
I experienced this, too, and found that self-massaging the bottoms of my feet with a bouncing ball (under the arch and the heel), while excrutiatingly painful at first, has completely gotten rid of my foot pain. Give it a try.
You're right, but that's still not an argument against trying a standing desk. If some people find them useful, and some don't, and assuming the cost of trying it is low, the rational thing to do is not to wait around until enough meta-studies are written for you to make a completely informed decision, but simply to try it out for yourself and see how you like it.
As someone asked in the comments of the article asked (no response yet), I'm curious myself...

> "twimg.com is a domain used by Twitter which is an widget company that is part of a network of sites, cookies, and other technologies used to track you, what you do and what you click on, as you go from site to site, surfing the Web. Does that not mean that SEA will be intercepting this data?"
How hard is this to do...

I ask because I find it harder to believe that they are responsible for this. Just like I don't trust the YouTube videos either. I would find it more likely that three letter agencies are involved as PR.
Great suggestions that should be considered fundamental for almost all roles, in any size company.
While Dropbox is simple to use, it's hardly the first thing that comes to mind when you make a comparison to Dropbox. I'd change that phrase because it's very confusing.
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Life expectancy is not solely determined by medical care though, there are many confounding factors which are, if anything, far more important than medical care. Ranging from genetic to cultural to socio-economic.

Edit: Also, health related statics can be tricky things to measure correctly, even though it may seem simple. It can depend on how countries define live births, for example, which varies greatly from country to country. Moreover, it's not necessarily a good proxy for "health". If someone breaks their arm, for example, and is unable to get it set by a doctor then they could live the entire rest of their life with a disabling injury, perhaps with a great deal of pain, even though they may end up living just as long as anyone else. Similarly, someone may spend the last decade of their life in a very pitiable state, suffering from dementia or alzheimer's and being mistreated often though receiving enough care to live a long life while someone in another country may receive a far better level of care in their old age but die earlier because they had better access to unhealthy foods throughout their life. Or, someone may live longer through heroic means of end-of-life care (intubation, forced feedings, resuscitation, artificial respiration, etc.) which extends their nominal life though may not extend the time period of their life where they are actually properly living.

Even more importantly, this is just a shitty infographic, there is no sourcing, no description of the methodology and standards of data gathering and analysis. And yet this comes from an alleged news organization. The quality of this "report" is below the standard that would be accepted in elementary school.
Care to provide some of that "current evidence"? Genuine question because the only papers I've come across show sitting to be pretty terrible
The battery is just under 100 watt hours. The motor power lets you accelerate uphill, but the range is calculated from riding at a constant speed on flat ground.
Am I the only one who thinks this is unnecessarilly rude and abhorent?

The lady was just doing her job for duck sake. For someone whose main point of argument is that they show humanity, you seem to have very little of your own.
Well, there is the classic 1949 study about bus drivers in England having a higher incidence of heart attacks because of all the sitting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Morris#Research
you won't have trouble. that said, the first Scala course is excellent independent of its use of Scala because of its fun/challenging homework assignments
Syrian Electronic Army = shadowy Western intel group.
Yea but SpaceX's private spaceships is how it looks when it's germinating, just like how mind control right now appears to be really basic as well.
I don't buy it either. Seems fishy.
For more than a year, I commuted to and from work (3 miles each way) on a lightweight electric scooter I bought on Craigslist for $100. It's been a while, but I used to skateboard, surf and snowboard, but having the handlebars of a scooter in an urban environment is huge for me in terms of control and safety. I used to call it the poor-man's Segway.

Edit: Not mine, but these look nice:
http://www.goped.com/products/Electric.asp
Yeah Matt it is
How Goya brought ethnic food to white America
Buy an anti-fatigue floor mat. It's what letter carriers who stand sorting mail and factory workers use http://www.officedepot.com/a/browse/antifatigue-floor-mats/N...
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DNSSEC most likely.
IBM's Power8 doubles performance of Watson
Exactly. I'd add that the inclusion of life expectancy is thus quite misleading.
My work has a similar model. They're quite nice, and I've gradually been working on how much I'm standing - up to about 2 hours now.

As far as power goes, my desk has a hidden power strip on the underside. It powers the lift feature for both legs (so there's only 1 wall plug), but you can also plug in your monitors so you don't need to have 10' cords on all your equipment. They also sell a power strip that can mount to the top of the desk, so again you don't need very long cords for all your peripherals (phones, chargers, etc).

For network cables you'll still need a cord long enough to travel to the standing height.
I got a ModTable (multitable.com), which is a bit more cost effective. Bought it through Amazon. You can buy just the hardware, and supply your own top if you want too (ikea sells some).

It isn't automatic (has a hand crank), but it works great!
I don't run it up and down all day, and taking a minute to crank the handle (which is removable) when I want to change positions, is not onerous.
Is there a possibility of getting Varicose veins in your legs by doing this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicose_veins
I bought mine at a garage sale for $100! (I do recognize that I am SUPER lucky) -- but keep hunting CL.
You hit the nail on the head with academia. Physics, to be precise. About 80% of my code is data analysis stuff where I'm just reducing events from data files. The other 20% is monte carlo simulations.
I attend (and work for) Rutgers, which is one of the data sources listed there. Our data stream is api.rutgers.edu which offers campus bus arrival time predictions (via NextBus), upcoming event info, dining hall menus, sports scores, and info on recreation facilities.
Hmmm, there are a lot of opinions and not many hard fact on this topic.

The majority of cultures and religions in human history shared the opinion that in general lending for interest leads to instability.
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Apologies for shooting from the hip. Never meant to say I can come up with a better design than mechanical engineers. You seem to suggest that building this table requires some serious engineering chops. May be there is some truth to it. As a layman ( in mechanical engineering ) I find it extremely hard to believe that technology for synchronized hydraulic lifts is not commoditized yet.

It just feels like these ergonomic goods producing companies are selling chairs/tables with super high markups ($900-$1500) for ergo chairs - really?). Seems like you have a better handle on the production costs of a hight-adjustable table. How much does it really cost?
Really.

You don't remember that Michael Moore movie, do you? Well, the US hasn't actually done anything to solve the problems since then.

Cuba is a vastly less wealthy country than the US. I notice in the chart it has a higher life expectancy. Poverty usually isn't a way to increase life expectancy. One must presume they're doing something right.
NYTimes DNS Entries Appear to be Hacked
DNS Records have been hijacked and point to Syrian Electronic Army

http://i.imgur.com/RwH0mpI.png
Cuba

Have you not seen Sicko [1] by Michael Moore? Cuba has a fantastic universal health care system. A friend from Canada lived and worked there for 3 years, he had some amazing things to say about it, and how much the Canadian system could learn from it.

Libya

A poster on Reddit who lives there mentioned that before all the crap going down now, Libya too had a fantastic Universal Health Care system. The Redditor in question mentioned it's comparable to the stories you hear from Scandinavian countries, Australia, NZ, etc. etc. (i.e. horrible car crash, totally free. Years of Cancer treatment, totally free, etc.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicko
I think that taking this [1] rather insane idea for a "longboard stroller", and replacing the child(!) with one's laptop bag and maybe some kind of fairing would be a pretty sweet solution for those of us not agile enough for regular longboarding.

[1] http://www.blessthisstuff.com/stuff/living/misc-living/longb...
> registered as a helper and have a computer call me

Not sure if serious, or already registered with Google Helpouts...
Agreed. This isn't going to form the 'alternate Internet' that some people are clamoring for. But there are tons of applications (machine->machine) where a basic serial/ssh is all that's required.

We've had similar hardware in the field for 3+ years now, covering ~50 square kilometers in a mesh configuration.
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It can be squashed easily - declare it an illegal, terrorist financing activity; send a few guys to Guantanamo and the 80% of the population, that matter, won't touch it.
> Yes, MUCH of what the TSA does is theater, and doesn't do much to keep us safe. Yes, much of it is theater.

ALL of what the TSA does is theater, and it actively makes us LESS safe. Their actions cause over a thousand unnecessary deaths a year by making air travel less convenient and more expensive so people who drive when they would otherwise fly get killed in auto accidents. There is no evidence they have saved even a single life with any of these precautions, much less the thousand-a-year they'd need for the billions we spend on them to be a break-even proposition.
One of the blog posts[1] I saw announcing it had a few more details than the course page, including a mention of RxJava.

[1]: http://letitcrash.com/post/59504788607/new-coursera-course-o...
You switch to doing the meetings while walking up and down the stairs. Or balancing on one leg.
No, I think the advice is, figure out a material lifestyle that you can feed with a reasonable job, so that you have time left to enjoy LIFE!