skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm right that all stocks benefit equally, then it makes no sense to pick certain companies as "examples". Certainly we wouldn't expect a large differential impact on share prices, and so only a small portion of Amazon's excessive wealth can be explained by the Fed's actions.

Furthermore, it's very hard to separate the direct effect of low interest rates, from improvements in the economy in general. You cite the current price of stocks as an example, but the Fed has had low interest rates since the financial crisis, so you to explain why now in particular is a bubble caused by low interest rates.

On the final point, I am correct about the mechanics of which stocks benefit the most. Suppose instead of high risk stocks, low risk stocks, and bonds, we had apples, oranges and mandarins.

When the Fed buys lots of mandarins, it creates excessive demand for mandarins, and so the price increases. This causes people who were buying mandarins to buy oranges and apples, instead but the total demand for mandarins has still risen. We would expected the biggest price increases to be in mandarins, then oranges, and then apples.

Similarly the biggest price change is in the bond market (which the Fed effectively has complete control over), and then in low risk stocks, and then high risk stocks.

The effect you observe - people being driven from the low-risk to high risk markets by low interest rates - is ignoring the initial price increase that caused this shift.
No, it is easier for people to pay small chunks at different times then to be confronted by one huge bill. Planning is not something innate in people. This is the exact reason withholdings were created.

Number 2, the cost addition to government budget should be unacceptable and the cost of this program will increase the tax beyond what is needed.
The abstract rules of a game are not copyrightable. This is long established.

The character names are more protectable though.
You do know that "Technica" is Latin for technology, right? Ars was not the first English language publication to notice this. There are hundreds of others, including this one, "Clean Technica". (The truly non-lazy would have probably figured out the Latin word for clean and used that, but...)

Your argument is like complaining that The New York Times ripped off The Washington Post's "the" brand.
Like Dmitry Sklyarov? https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/04/21-20
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_producer
"Back in the twentieth century, people were roughly equal in their power to avoid advertising. Only desert hermits and commune dwellers could truly live ad-free."

In the 20th Century it was certainly possible to avoid ads on TV. You could use the remote to mute them (or temporarily switch channels), leave the room to do other stuff while they were on, or tape your TV shows on a VCR and fast-forward over the ads.

Avoiding ads in print media was pretty easy too: just turn the page. Since print ads don't flash or make noise, they can be ignored pretty easily.
A very interesting read.

The final point is probably the most notable one, that key-generation immediately following a boot up can compromise the PRNG (as we know). Also a cool thought, comparing all those keys. I just compared the few keys I have hanging around (only of order 10, not 4 billion), and none of mine have common factors other than 1. Yay!

Spoofing host keys also sounds like a potential target, so you could spoof the server identity and then decrypt communications without having to deal with the actual key-cracking.
The video didn't seem all that strange to me. Only weird thing is the amount of stuff pedestrians carry. Otherwise it looks like plenty of "first-world" places I've been to.

Edit: I'm not sure why the comment was deleted; I hope the author didn't feel discouraged by any reactions, including mine.
This looks like a step toward what is variously called "hotspot 2.0" (Wi-Fi Alliance)[1], "next generation hotspot" (Wireless Broadband Alliance)[2], and "het-net" (4G Americas)[3].

The problem is the exponential growth in demand for cellular bandwidth. Its very expensive for the cellular industry to increase capacity by building new towers. So the idea is to get consumers' cellular devices using wifi data connections wherever possible, offloading demand for 3G/4G.

This looks like a way for cell phone companies to lease an "xfinity password" from Comcast. Then the cell company can seamlessly offload the data connection of any subscriber near enough to an xfinity hotspot.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Alliance
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Broadband_Alliance
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G_Americas
The simple messages are often one of the most powerful.
Not really. I've got a bog-standard Wordpress site and it coped just fine. I use Cloudflare to save on bandwidth costs though.
Granted, the average US person I've met... are not far from that, or from 50cents, or Paris Hilton...

By average I mean literally average, the majority, not HNers
You should probably ask people who manage restaurants rather than people on HN.
That wasn't intended to be the final one, but I made it and it worked. It was printed with support material that peeled off a little too strongly, exfoliating the back surface. The orientation is kind of tricky as there's a lip/groove interface between the front and back of the case which needs to be cosmetically clean to ensure a snug fit, so the only way to get that to work well is to print it with the back down, but there's a 'hood' over the ethernet connector that disallows printing directly onto the back. Slicing with slic3r.
Condolences to spouse Laurie Anderson.
Abortion Is Murder (written/recorded by, Evon Latrail)
Woah, decrease in usability? Let's slow down there a little bit.

There's a legitimate case for big phones, in that they make typing somewhat easier. Typing on my iphone is pretty annoying to me, so I'm actually happy that a 5 inch size is coming to be more standardized.
>IE is writing into the process memory of notepad

I don't have much experience in this area, but shouldn't that be prevented by the kernel unless IE got specific permission to do so?
Every time you occupy a country there will be guerrillas and insurgents. So, I'm not really sure how this is unconventional in this context. It's absolutely normal, natural and to be expected.

With the regard of the enemy of state a so-called terrorist in the US today I have the same fundamental problems as with the enemy of the state called Jew in the Nazi Germany:
1. No definition of terrorist, hence anyone can be one including 82-old nuns: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/10/protesting-n...
2. "Terrorists" are devoid of all human and citizen rights. No right to free trial, no right to the attorney, no right to be not tortured, not right to be suspected innocent unless proven guilty, etc.

So now the dirty work of killing these quite often completely innocent people is handed over to those squads. And they just remind me of "special operations" done by SS Totenkopf. Go there kill a boy because his daddy is a suspected terrorist. And then kill their whole family too. All I'm saying there is difference in scale, but the legal ramifications are very similar. What stops the Government from labeling you a terrorist and targeting you? How will you proof your innocence without a trial and attorney?
It not just China, I've seen this in India too. I've also noticed another thing about it - In India its the poor people who are much more willing to help compared to the middle and upper-middle class people.
I call it the "not my problem" problem.
Kindle is a particularly bad example. Kindle forked Android, so are not under control of Google. In principle, other manufacturers could also do this, but in practice it's practically impossible because they'd loose Google Play.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-...
Really hope so!
The Rav4 EV looks like a Rav4 (not a sedan, but not obviously EV). Slightly longer range, higher price than a Leaf, lower than a Tesla.
> Oddly enough though, Japan has some busy cities too but I suspect the bystander-effect has less power there. But then again, even in the tsunami-aftermath, people remained orderly collecting food & supplies so they are some kind of super-special case.

There is an unusually high level of trust between Japanese people. I think the ethnic and cultural homogeneity is the main reason for this. Ethnic Japanese are seen as one big family. On the other hand, anyone who is non-Japanese is permanently excluded from this group. This is responsible for their extremely low levels of immigration.
It's not that my time and reading effort is so valuable (it isn't). It's that news forums are as valuable as they are curated to be on topic. With your argument, everyone could just post anything, such as what Justin B had for lunch, and I could just scroll down, right?
How to explain Dependency Injection to a 5-year old
He was probably going off of Joel/Buffer's example landing page:
http://blog.bufferapp.com/idea-to-paying-customers-in-7-week...
It might help to mention what plugin it was, the link to your plugin, the link on their site, and the link on envato.
I think there is a distinct difference between not wanting to put yourself in harms way by getting involved with a murder and taking photos of someone who has their head stuck in a guard rail.
$7 billion in profit would be about $15 per share, yielding a P/E around 24. That's on the high end, but not absurd, so I think your analysis is a good justification for the valuation.

A key question is whether that 10% price increase would be absorbed by customers with no change in sales. There's an argument it goes the other way: customers trade the immediacy of brick-and-mortar for Amazon's low prices. But if the online prices are no better, then Amazon provides no benefit, and a 10% price increase could result in a much larger drop in sales. This played out in my own household: we used to buy diapers exclusively through Amazon, but completely stopped following their diaper price increase.
I've never been a fan of this. If I can't get it with guaranteed overnight shipping for $3.99, I'm not buying it.
I suspect moleskins are status items, but keep in mind that just because something is a small improvement over something else doesnt mean it can't be worth paying 10 times the price. It just requires that the price difference is less than the value difference to the individual. It can make sense to pay 100 times the price for fancy surgical screws even if they're only 2% less likely to strip than the kind you buy at Home Depot. In the end, screws and notebooks are not the cost drivers of having surgery or being a writer.
What's the best way have redshift run on startup (or login) on OS X?
I see lots of talk about cultural/societal problems, but this is at least in part (if not mostly) due to a string of unfortunate lawsuits in China that were reported to have punished good samaritans. It's quite possible that the media organizations spun the stories to make them seem worse than they were, but the effect on public perception is huge.

For instance: http://en.ntd.tv/reference/chinablog/a-good-samaritan-punish...
Most open source libraries are written in C/C++. The interface is usually described in header files, you need them to compile your program. The implementation itself is contained in a library, which you link into your program. There is also the possibility to resolve the implementation at runtime via shared libraries.
What's your objection to this feature?
Happy to oblige. I look forward to the Perez Hiltification of the forum...
> Is there any hope it will be available on Verizon?

I highly doubt it. I would recommend getting either the Moto X (if you're OK with a subpar camera) or the LG G2 (if you're OK with shitty default software and a slightly larger screen). The latter seems like the better option, since you can just install CyanogenMod. Plus the G2's camera is even better than the Nexus 5's will be.
So, what you're saying is that its easier to try to track down every source of electricity an electric vehicle might use to tax it at the point of charging vs having someone put a debit or credit card on file through a web app and charging it monthly? Seriously? You have to be joking. Because that's pretty outrageous to suggest.

My tollway transponder auto-debits my credit card just fine every month for the tolls I use, and has worked like this for over 8 years. Same concept, just no transponder.

Name. Vehicle info. License plate tag. Credit card info. Charge monthly. Email receipt. Done.
I can't really relate to all the other great IDE's out there for Python, but in the scientific context I think Spyder makes a lot of sense. It tries to create a comfortable environment for scientists with a limited background on computer science. Especially for the more GUI oriented users, it is great to have a visual on the variables in the workspace with the variable inspector (like Matlab has). Debugging toolbar, object inspector showing rich text documentation (including MathJax rendered formulas), running a multitude of Python or IPython consoles, syntax checking etc makes it for my line of work as a scientist a very decent environment.

There was a nice tutorial given on the SciPy 2013 conference [0] by Carlos Cordoba (the main developer these days for Spyder I believe). What I also think is exciting is that he shows some ideas about how to integrate the IPython notebook in Spyder (last minutes of the talk). Would be interesting to see when that feature further materialize. I think that is a potential killer feature. There are more interesting idea's on further improving Spyder, please ping the mailing list if you are interested in helping out :-)

Besides python(x,y), the WinPython distribution [1] can sometimes offer some installation releave for Windows systems (don't have experience with it as a Linux user though).

@Rickasaurus: When running Spyder straight from source, you can have multiple instances running. Not sure in what context that would be useful besides developing Spyder with Spyder [2] though:
python bootstrap.py -- --new-instance

@Derbasti: Spyder does work with Python 3 [3] for the older 2.1 branch. For 2.3 I believe full Python 3 support is also eminent.

[0] http://pyvideo.org/video/2113/the-advantages-of-a-scientific...

[1] https://code.google.com/p/winpython/

[2] http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/wiki/NoteForContributors

[3] http://spyder-ide.blogspot.dk/2013/01/spyder-v2114-supports-...

Disclaimer: I am a tiny and modest Spyder contributor.

Edit: fix layout
> Is there any hope it will be available on Verizon?

Almost none.

Verizon has all but stated they're not interested in carrying another Nexus phone, since it's "incompatible with their business strategy" (ie, they can't control updates on it and install bloatware on it).

As for the Nexus 5 itself, the leaked FCC diagrams show that it doesn't even have the correct radios to work on Verizon's network.

> If it's not.... it's gonna have to be a super great phone to convince me not to get a different comparable phone on Verizon.

I haven't found any other phone on Verizon compelling enough to make me consider upgrading to a Verizon phone from my Galaxy Nexus. When the next Nexus comes out, I'm probably ditching them for T-Mobile, even though I still have unlimited 4G data on Verizon.

I'm just completely fed up with Verizon's inane moves to keep all phones on their network locked down (they even forced the HTC One bootloader to be locked). No more.
My father-in-law who himself was a director in a large international company told me about a game they used to play in meetings: bullshit bingo. You have to make up your cards ahead of time and then mark off the squares as you hear buzzwords.
From that link: "In April 2010 Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax was stabbed to death in New York City after coming to the aid of a woman who was being attacked by a robber. Yax was on the sidewalk for more than an hour before firefighters arrived. Almost twenty-five people walked by while he lay dying on a sidewalk in Queens, several stared at Yax; one of them took pictures, however none of them helped or called emergency services".
When to put your head down
No need to improve working conditions when you can choose those candidates from the pool that will put up with the workplace as it is.

This is why HR is evil.
If you go to the main paper page, you can filter for small notebooks (a5-a8) and for unlined (blank). Here's a link to them.

http://www.gouletpens.com/Shop_All_Notebooks_s/890.htm?searc...
Small is beautiful. How much cache does your phone have? How long does it take to compile a 20MB binary? How long does it take it to load all those symbols into a debugger? How long does it take to process all those relocations if you are linking dynamically? How big will your overall binary be if every component is 20MB?
The set of chemicals in cigarettes that are dangerous is a subset of all chemicals known to be dangerous. One can conclude something quite important from that fact without any understanding of anything other than basic reasoning skills.
Seriously naive given the number of people using tablets for content creation. For me, most of my notes and writing are done on my iPad rather than my laptop. It is a more focused experience.

Programming/development it my MBP.
I lived in china for 2.5 years and american's are characterized by its celebrities. In the beginning, i spent most of my lunch time conversations explaining that... No i do not own a gun, but i also explained many times as the men told me they stopped drinking as they prepared to have children.... That is odd; most children in the US are conceived by parents that were drunk.
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Interesting. Any idea why AT&T can't make their hotspots around nyc not suck? I'd love to use them to save data, but I end up disabling my WiFi just to keep my phone from auto-connecting and then not functioning.
I am from Brazil and... helping people here is hard too.

I consider every brazillian a potential traitor and backstabber, and anyone that disagreed with me... well...
The notebooks I use:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/home-gift-patina-brown-drago...

It has a dragon fighting a gryphon, which makes it much cooler than the moleskines. It's $50.

On a serious note though, everybody should keep a daily journal, and a $0.99 cheapo from Wal-Mart will do the job.
Is this what photo printers did to prints? People don't buy prints as much because of digital photograph, but when they want prints, people still pay someone else to print them.
Ms. Merkel can always give Snowden permanent asylum. Or, for that matter, any of the EU countries who are so upset about all this spying. What's stopping them?

Put your money where your mouth is: if you think Snowden's revelations are real and show egregious conduct on the part of the NSA, then give him asylum!
Science has lost its way, at a big cost to humanity
I'm a non-smoker, but enjoy the effects of nicotine, and also find its effects on concentration etc useful when working. I've tried wearing patches during coding binges to (non-scientific) success.

The only real concern I'd have about vaping is forming an oral habit / gesture habit. What's your experience with this?

Also, what's a good spot to dive into the community, especially to find quality products? I'm in France - huge consumers of e-cigs, but there are plenty of cheap ones - I'd like to avoid using 'dangerous' flavours - an would probably prefer to mix the juice myself.

Thanks !
In regards to too generous permissions--I can certainly see that sometimes. The one flashlight app I was using wanted network connectivity, access to contacts, etc. The solution? Find a new one that only needs use of camera hardware. Not always the easiest thing to do, but certainly an option.

In 4.3, they silently included the App Ops configuration to offer gating of permissions. Mixology doesn't need Calendar access? Turn it off.

BUT, that said, plenty of apps DON'T ask for too broad permissions, and sometimes you'll even find that app devs will put notes in the patch notes explaining why they need to increase permission scope (if they do).

I don't know about this feeling about installing the wrong package can mean doom. Doom in what way? This seems a bit silly.
> So, what would it take? A low price. If they offer a model at Nexus 4 prices, maybe...

Previous leak shows prices starting at $349 for the 16GB model (http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/17/4850738/nexus-5-google-pl...)
In short, at BT, no way. Your IP is your LAN. Other users get different IPs.

BT runs three SSIDs. Your network, BT-Wifi (FKA OpenZone), and BT-FON.

Your network is your network. Private IP, different encryption. The packets leave your house, travel over the ADSL, exit the DSLAM, into a BRAS. There (more or less) it exits onto the "internet" connectivity of BT, with the IP of your ADSL modem.

FON and BT-WiFi leave your house, travel over the ADSL, exit the DSLAM, into a BRAS, but there's a difference now. Instead of exiting onto the "internet", it is stuck in a channel that goes to a different part of the network. This part hosts the server where you login/etc. and where your traffic eventually leaves, with a different IP address than the home network, to the internet. I'm fairly sure the IP is a proxy address, assigned to the logged in user's session, and not tied to the specific router. That channel used to be 256kbps reserved. I think it is now 512kbps. This channel has lower priority than your normal internet traffic.

There is also another channel for BT Vision, that IIRC has 2Mbps reserved for their video. I assume this never leaves the BT network for the internet :-) This has a higher priority than your normal internet traffic (for obvious reasons).

AFAIK the BRAS is where the quality of service is enforced. The router is requesting the different classes of service though, and is tagging the packets. (And I think it's also running a tunnel for the FON and BT WiFi).

EDIT: Corrected a mistake, added some clarity for other q's raised elsewhere.
> I haven't found any other phone on Verizon compelling enough to make me consider upgrading to a Verizon phone from my Galaxy Nexus.

Like I mentioned in another comment, both the Moto X and the LG G2 are great upgrades on Verizon from the Galaxy Nexus.

> I'm probably ditching them for T-Mobile, even though I still have unlimited 4G data on Verizon.

Make sure you take T-Mo for a test drive first, to make sure you actually get reception everywhere you frequent.

Also, I've heard you can sell your unlimited data plan online for several hundred dollars.
I don't mind the infinitely long to-do list, but I get stressed out by having constantly changing priorities that force me to drop a project before it's done and work on a new one. Long-term strategic projects (which tend to be the most interesting to work on) can get dropped and resumed several times before they get completed, and each time that happens it seems more painful than the last time.
> I can assure that this is a topic on which I have done far more research in my lifetime than that blog post. I'm not trying to be snarky; I'm just emphasizing that I have a lot more knowledge on this topic than I can reasonably compress into a 124-word HN post (like my original comment).

Then I would appreciate your links to the studies of the harmful effects of nicotine alone that I have somehow failed to find.

> I make no claim about the situations under which any alleged benefits outweigh the the toxic effects, simply that said toxic effects exist.

So your confident assertions are merely technically correct, since everything has toxic effects under some situations such as high enough doses. But that's OK, since technically correct is the best kind of correct, as any geek knows!
But the important question is which version of IE those people the are using. From my experience they are using at least IE8+.