skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SGD is fast but not necessarily more accurate. If you've got lots and lots of data, then a simple yet fast approach is likely to be a good choice to start with.
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This is a demand problem, just like the Great Depression. Eventually demand will pick up after obsolescence will mean people would just have to buy new goods to replace the old ones.

However government doesn't need to save at the same time as households in business. It can employ unemployed resources to build public goods and provide public services. The extra spending will create a multiplier effect - when the government spends, someone will spend out of his pocket. The multiplier effect is present empirically when short-term safe asset interest rates are near zero (as is now - the liquidity trap) or if exchange rates are fixed - something that fits well theory as well.

The Economics of Depression are called "Keynesian" - the set of tools, observations and policy proposals that are shown to work when in such a crisis. They are again fashionable with young stars in economics creating new Keynesian-expired models. All of the criticism of this "Depression economics" is usually valid during normal times, but this is an extraordinary event.

The talking heads and politicians never like stimulus - its use implies a different mode of the economy, its much easier to just continue talking as before. Debt isn't an issue, because stimulus from defence spending right before WWII was done with much bigger debt-to-GDP, inhereted from WWI in most countries that did it.

Three countries had a successful stimulus package in the last crisis enacted big - China, South Korea and Germany. The third one has the luxury of being a proponent of austerity after fixing the demand gap the first year.

The United States hasn't had net stimulus. The package was too little to offset the huge spending cuts at state and local level.

If you don't like stimulus a second best idea is to forgive debt when the debtor cannot pay, to increase inflation (hard), and to at least refrain from cutting government spending. No mainstream economic model recommends austerity. The classical types recommend smooth changes in spending, the Keynesian-type fiscal stimulus, the Austrians and other Liquiditionists are a joke.

Structural reforms are intended to improve long-run trend growth. This doesn't matter when you cannot return to the previous path.
what's the point of being a production leader? Shouldn't it be left to the free market? The Oil bias is in a sense, hampering innovation in efficiency in oil-consuming machines, notwithstanding effects on other energy sources.

Remember, the great efficiency drive in automobiles started after the Middle East Oil crisis in 1979, if I'm not wrong...
Because an apartment is not a hotel. What on earth would an emergency exit for an apartment be? The front door? I'm betting there are all sorts of requirements that simply wouldn't make sense when applied to a single apartment.
These tweets are from 2.5 years ago. Has the google bot improved since then? (Honest question)
So the US produces 11 mbpd (million barrels per day) of liquids (oil, gas2liquids, ethanol, biodiesel). However it consumes about 19 mpbd [0]. Unfortunately this is just a bleep because more expensive prices have made fracking (a 30 - 20 year old technology) economical, but the typical decline rates of these fields are extremely high (produces loads the first year, dies out very very quickly thereafter) [1]. In the longer view (5 - 10 yrs) it's a bump in a long,unstoppable and ever more expensive decline [2].

[0] http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/steo/report/us_oil.cfm

[1] http://www.theoildrum.com/node/9506

[2] http://ourfiniteworld.com/2013/10/02/our-oil-problems-are-no...
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A more interesting question is how much other languages rock in comparison to Java.

(As I was in the middle of this reply, the Java Auto-Updater popped up and stole my focus!)
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Ross was a San Fran "startup" guy. Hey created an MVP product with the usual "fake it till you make it" attitude that is part of this culture. PG himself will happily tell you not to worry about lawyers and other distractions until your MVP is out the door.

This may work for a typical startup, but Ross was foolish enough to apply this advice to a criminal enterprise.
"Typically HN frowns on: one liner humor, ..." Ok, so now I know that.
The more interesting question regarding this seizure is whether the FBI can compell the creators of BitCoin to assist in decrypting what they have just seized. For example, there are a number of statutes that require those operating communications networks maintain the ability for the governemnt to access them regardless of the encryption or other security features being used. I don't know the corresponding baking law as well but it would not surprise me if the same laws that require banks to comply with seizing fund, blocking wire transfers, and tracking where money goes in the course of a criminal investigation could kick in here.

Certainly something like this would have a big effect on the BitCoin market. I'm interested to see what happens in the future.
> Tell me this though. Someone who will install Bedrock Linux is most likely a more advanced linux user.

True. We're not targeting the user-friendly crowd for the foreseeable future.

> Would they not just compile from source instead of installing this disto?

Compiling from source does not provide all of the benefits that Bedrock Linux can provide. For example, Bedrock Linux lets you do things like use Gentoo for the vast majority of your system but, if you want a package now and don't want to wait for it to compile, you can just grab it pre-compiled from another distro. Then later compile it if you want and remove the pre-compiled version.

> Should I install a whole different distro just to get pre-packaged software? I think not.

There are people out there who like the flexibility that Bedrock Linux provides, but Bedrock Linux isn't for everyone. If you're 100% satisfied with whatever software stack you're using, I certainly encourage you to stick with it.
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And in this case, no rule is sensible if its consequence is that you can't rent out your apartment on Airbnb.
He doesnt even need a copy of the wallet file.

If he stored the bitcoins in a single address, and he has the private key stashed somewhere, then even if the wallet file is deleted, it can be retrieved. This is how bitcoin works, if you have the ECDSA private key of a bitcoin address, you can spend those bitcoins without having the need for a wallet :)
Other commenters have made the case very well...it is often been necessary to defy the law in order to force Government to accept responsibility for an unacceptable situation.

I'm not really saying that this particular case is like the civil rights movement...just pointing out that your "law = ethical" statement just doesn't jive with history.
As both non-owners, you both dont know that features were disabled in SS for literally months for some users. The entire launch and release was a fiasco.
I loved it. The only part that actually annoyed me for impossibility was the:

SPOILERS BELOW:

The pivotal moment between Clooney and Bullock. They were both moving at 0 velocity relative to each other, yet somehow he's 'pulling' her away? Definitely not physically accurate how it's portrayed. A simple pull of any sort should have brought him her way. Was annoying to me that such a key moment was brought on by a physics inaccuracy.
Different approaches to the question of "HOW to bring about change" (as opposed to just "WHAT change is needed") are the reason so many political tendencies exist. Your approach can be described as reformist, and it surely hasn't always proven to be the "right way to go" (other commenters have mentioned the civil rights movement). On the other hand, "hoping that illegality will reach a scale where the government will be forced to accept it" is a strategy frequently adopted by anarchist, libertarian or autonomist trends that hope to create pockets of resistance outside the "system" and try to expand them to bring about change from the outside.

I doubt that there is only one "right way to go" that applies to any situation, but I think that any tactic that can bring about a powerful long-term mass movement is more likely to succeed: for example in the case of the Civil rights movement mentioned, civil disobedience was only one of the methods used, along with discussions, massive marches, boycotts, threatening escalation, and alliances with certain people within the system who have more access to power and who supported the movement.

Which brings me back to the OP's point: individualism vs. authority. Since I personally believe that building mass movements that support freedoms is the most effective way to protect them, individualism (as a method of organising) seems to be another obstacle to building a strong opposition to authority, and thus indirectly serving it.
Apparently it's expensive and rare. From the Wikipedia page:

"In 2002, the price was US$94 per kilogram. The recent changes in demand and supply have resulted in high and fluctuating prices of indium, which from 2006 to 2009 ranged from US$382/kg to US$918/kg.

It has been estimated that there are fewer than 20 years left of indium supplies, based on current rates of extraction, demonstrating the need for additional recycling.[37]"
Plus they tend to avoid all the excessive XML tooling and configuration that goes along with J2EE. Compared to nearly any other templating system, JSP is one of the most tedious I've encountered and try to avoid. I had the displeasure of using it a while ago with Struts for a project at my University and hope it will be the last time I ever have to use it.

I assume it stems from Coldfusion and it being popular around the time of the rise of Java, but to continue that tradition nearly 20 years later of XML templating/configuring everywhere just deters professional developers of nearly any other language.

There are some non J2EE Java frameworks that try to remedy the faults of J2EE, but it's kind of given Java on the web a bad rap.
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What's more likely? That we'll convince people to cut their energy consumption in half, or convince people to purchase higher efficiency equipment and slowly move over to cleaner forms of energy as they become available? What's needed in the climate debate is a healthy dose of pragmatism.
The 20-50x performance tradeoff is a hard pill to swallow though. I'd love to see a better performing dynamic language that isn't as minimal as Lua.
I don't understand what you're trying to say with the Russian example.

You can for example trust the Finnish government not to look at your data or let other governments do the same. A number of companies here in Finland are emphasizing that point in their marketing nowadays.
Will US stop importing oil and gas?
Shameless plug:
https://github.com/selvakn/rack_phantom

Similar idea, but implemented without a server for rendering, with a phantomjs process. And only for rails/rack app.
Here are the bitcoins they were able to seize:
http://blockchain.info/address/1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GN...
What on earth would an emergency exit for an apartment be? The front door?

Do you think all hotels rooms have two exits? Of course not. The issue is whether the floor and the building have sufficient emergency exits.

And that's where it will get complicated. A hotel owns the entire building and can ensure that stuff - someone owning one apartment in the building can't really make any modifications if they are needed.
> The thing is, you have laws and tax laws and, for how unjust they might seem, a State has to enforce them, full stop.

The problem with this analysis is that a State also creates these laws and can change them.
Thanks, I'll work on adding that. I'd still like to use a useragent fall-back for the crawlers that might not use the _escaped_fragment_ protocol.
Russia has been a member of the Russia-NATO Council since 2002 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO%E2%80%93Russia_relations).

You don't see them extraditing Snowden, do you? Regardless, despite your lack of tact you claim to know more about Croatia than I do and you dismiss web citations that claim to know more than you so it's pointless to discuss further.
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> Meanwhile China makes more solar panels than anyone in the world yet has the most filthy air.

Most overall or per capita? And do they use them?

If the cleaners at Grand Central Station use only twice the cleaning supplies as you do at your house, it's likely to be much dirtier than your house.
For what? All the members of our team have a Rackspace login. We can all make tickets, reboot servers, etc.
the economic impact on those african nations is immense. but the economic impact of those nations is miniscule. that is my point. they do not research, they do not produce, they do not contribute. not just because of malaria, but because of history, hundreds, even thousands of years.

diabetes will see even more attention now. why? because of china. china is economically more important to the world, short, middle and long term than africa. this is an un-emotional, completely rational statement.

and the panama canal is a great example of the west's interests driving research in medics. white people started colonies, got sick, wanted cures. HIV started to become a target for research the moment famous white people got sick and started dying - and in this context someone like magic johnson is white, western.

sub-saharan africa will always be a shitty place to live. climate, natural resources - all work against it. not all locations where humans settle make sense. bangladesh, etc.
3 or 4 letter usernames that are used all over the place is the only way I have found to mix yourself in with the sea of noise.
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My knowledge of bitcoin, while probably better than your average guy on the street, is certainly not infallible. Thank you for correcting my mistake.
This is completely unreasonable. The NSA doing this in secret is one thing but now they aren't even trying to hide it.
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It's an interesting debate I suppose. Most 'communist' regimes don't really end up being anything like communist philosophy, yet we still call them communist and draw the conclusion that practical communism degenerates quickly from the ideal to totalitarian dystopia.

I'm not saying libertarianism has the same flaw (though personally I think it's a recipe for neo-feudalism) but it does rather complicate the idea of a strict definition for a political group.
If they don't go they can't tweet about it and post a couple of pictures smiling for the camera
> I surf with JavaScript turned off

Why would you do this? Genuinely interested. Do you browse the web with JavaScript turned off the majority of the time or just in this particular example?
Having lots of Bitcoins means very little.

You actually have to convert them to cash first.

And that process becomes increasingly more difficult as you go from selling 1 to 10 to 100 to 1000 BTC.

At each step you lose more and more of your anonymity and safety...

Because you can't open up a MtGox account and offer 10k BTC to then cash out anonymously, nor create a localbitcoins account and use meatspace for this large amount without possibly getting robbed or killed.

Not to mention some of those transactions can be traced back via the chainblock after-the-fact, creating more problems for you as now the FEDs know it's SR related.

And that even does not bring up the fact that large transactions can easily cause BTC prices to go down dramatically, since the majority of upticks are based on small transactions that are fraudulently gaming the system.

I imagine DPR basically had little to no money and a lot of BitCoins he could not sell.
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The beauty is that NOT spending the 600K BTC is economically equivalent to giving a 600K gift to all other bitcoin owners. If the news ever came out that these coins are lost for all times, the exchange price for BTCs would most likely increase 600K/11M or about 5.5% in an instant.

(Of course, there's no way this could happen since we don't know what private keys are stored in Ross' head. Also this is based on the efficient market hypothesis and real world results have other complecting factors.)
I like verbose. Some of the bloated patterns populat in enterprise Java are overly verbose, but the language itself is pretty nice for me.
No, it's about the economy. Any alternative energy is going to have to be a drop-in replacement for current energy sources or it will be a complete non-starter (without heavy subsidies). Maybe we should consider finding this drop-in replacement our next moonshot? Or just embrace nuclear power and be done with it.
For the vast majority of websites, this is true and I agree.

However, there are now websites that are more akin to applications than to the traditional website of yore and that are meaningless without Javascript. This is not a bad thing; it is just the opening up of the web platform to new opportunities.

Some of these emerging applications may want some of their content to be searchable and so I argue that the posted solution is solving a real problem and is of value to users.
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I think the bigger problem is when politicians blame each other for what happens to the economy at all...

For example, the coalition in the UK is very fond of blaming the economic crisis on the previous government/ in particular the prime minister Gordon Brown, who was chancellor (finance minister) for many years before that. The problem is that they confuse the blame - arguably, he might be partially responsible for loosening the regulation that allowed mortgages to get out of control, but the new government blames his imprudent spending for the crash - or at least they imply is when they say the solution is to balance the books, whatever the human cost (their cuts are extremely hard on people with disabilities - there are stories of people with cancer/heart disease being ordered back to work, and occasionally dying of shock when they find out. The assessments are carried out by random company staff rather than medics.)

They are also now starting to take the credit for the extremely tentative recovery - which will, if this lack of confidence holds, come back to bite them on the arse sometime soon. If not, it will bite them in 8-10 years when the next crash happens.

I do agree, though, that the levers they had could have an effect if they overuse them - but maybe that would be rather drastic and unpredictable. I think better way to influence behaviour (as I tried to allude to in GP comment) might be to change laws and regulations - this way you can target much more specific aspects of the way micro interactions work, and (subject to the usual unexpected economic hackery) would have a more predictable effect. Maybe.
There definitely are valid concerns with this approach...but until the search engines pick up the slack, this is the solution that we're left with. It's definitely not ideal, but I prefer it over having non-DRY code just to serve incomplete HTML to crawlers.
All I see is a link to a zip and a link to "http:///"?
You don't provide any reason why I should switch from a language I like to Java EE 6. "it truly is an asset" and "I encourage others" is not a reason.

It's not prejudice when it is true.
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Passwords are controversial under the 5th, but from the cases I followed, they are typically interpreted as a key to a safe, not as admission of guilt. As in, if your password is"YesITotallyDidIt", that is not an admission and is there fore not protected. The only things the 5th protects seem to be things you can say that can be directly used to convict you. Not giving the authorities with a warrant in hand your password seem to land you in jail indefinitely for contempt of court, which is likely as bad as what you will get if convicted.

Edit: I am not a lawyer.
Thanks.

I also found a blog post that figured the diagram, with some background infos:

http://peekaboo-vision.blogspot.de/2013/01/machine-learning-...
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"people pay taxes in Italy"

You wanted to say "some people", since a third of the people don't pay them (see the Uif research published in 2012). It's a huge number.

Do inform yourself a bit on the topic. It's way more easier than you think.
Right, so you're making my point for me. The apartment owner literally has no power over whether or not the larger building complies with these regulations. So maybe that's the point; to prevent them from ever subletting their apartments. If so then just make subletting illegal and be done with it.

A question to ask yourself: does it make sense to require hotels to adhere to these safety regulations but not apartment buildings?
If that's what 'plankton' are doing, what about the 'muppets'?
The presentation is awesome. Super clean, I love the logo and the video's that let you know just what this thing is. The blurbs of text were enough to get me interested enough to watch the video. The videos were clean and to the point. Damn, for me this is what all landing pages for projects like this should be. I'm not sure if I'll use your product but I'll certainly bookmark the page to learn from later.
For more along these lines, see Sacred Economics: http://sacred-economics.com/

The entirety of the book's text is available on the website.
There's some uncertainty about whether shale-gas is actually better than coal, due to the substantial (but poorly measured) "fugitive gas" losses direct to the atmosphere in gas recovery. This paper estimates that replacing coal with shale-gas leads to about 20% worse greenhouse-gas impact: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/greeninc/Howarth20...

Some commentary on the paper and reactions to it, which concludes mostly that better data would be nice: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/04/fracki...
You can do that with Scala as well. (or groovy or clojure...)
One way to get a leg up on retirement and start building an emergency fund is to start contributing to a Roth IRA. The principal on a Roth IRA is post tax dollars that you can withdraw without an express penalty (other then the fact that the rate you can contribute the money back each year is capped).

As a bonus you will get much lower fees than if you contributed to a 401k that does not have employer matching. Check out Vanguard.

It's not a substitute for having some amount of hard cash, but 6 months hard cash is a lot to have lying around IMO. There is going to be some risk depending on how you choose to invest.

I totally agree WRT to the freedom and peace of mind, that is huge for me.
No worries! It actually got me to click; I was curious how one would accomplish that for a CRM, something that is nothing but a database.
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The link is all JavaScripty, or you can just scroll down. I'm not keen on that UI.
Someone need to read some Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, an hilarious book.
Men constructed those roads, buildings, and documents - not society.

Or do you contend that "society" is exactly equal to the few dozen men who authored the US constitution? That simply doesn't make sense.

You may want to consider the fact that this applies to "corporations" as well. They're legal fictions. They can't be prosecuted, because they can't break laws, because they can't act. Only individuals can break laws and face prosecution, because only individuals can actually _do_ things.
Code - https://github.com/circa75/dropplets
The market deciding only would work right when there is perfect information. I'm not sure about that.