skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I respectfully disagree. The purpose of inflation in this context is to "kill the debt", because the US cannot pay out $17T or even maintain interest payments, with "non-inflated" dollars. That is why all of this is just hand-waving and subversive, mis-directing PR.

The reason Japan is such a bad example is precisely inflation. But its death-nell was asset inflation, not cpi. Housing stocks and Bank loans were massively overinflated and never allowed to correct. The notion that this "inflation" should have been corrected with "other inflation" is one of those laughable bits of rediculousness.

Likewise, the US in a funk caused by Asset inflation. Fighting it with price inflation will be interesting. Take a look at the London property market. Do you think raising the price of consumer goods will help? Wont people just be encouraged to park their cash in property (ie, real goods?). Right now, they are trying to "make housing more affordable" by interest rate subsidies (inflationary). Doesn't seem to be making anything more affordable, though.
Gumroad? (though I'm not sure about Indian bank...)
Why are people in NYC and San Fransisco subsidising people in Oregon?

Shouldn't both of those cities have comparable prices to London, whereas Oregon should be $200+ per line to cover the cost of the long distances between homes?
Gold is shiny though. How could it not be special?
Interesting to note that in the UK it is now routine for there to be a four year deadline on PhD students. Where I work, instrumentation people were routinely finishing late because they were enjoying the lifestyle a bit too much. They're trying to streamline the system a lot.

We now have to jump through a lot of hoops - 9 month, 12 month, 18 month review panels. It's a pain, but it's obvious they're trying to make sure you don't spend a year in write-up mode. They absolutely want you through the system, because if you don't finish on time, the department gets a funding cut.

And actually you make a good point. In the UK, PhD students are fairly well paid. I'm on a CASE program and make around £17k a year tax free (outside London). The nominal wage is £13.5k for outside London (£15.5 inside). We're treated like research staff and not cheap labour.
This is a big US/EU cultural difference in CS. In American CS, in many sub-areas, conferences are considered the top place to publish: CHI, SIGGRAPH, NIPS, etc. are basically the most prestigious place to publish, and are frequently cited. In some areas the journals are actually less prestigious: there is no HCI journal that matches ACM CHI's impact factor or name recognition. And many AI journals are considered worse then AAAI or IJCAI as publication venues (though JMLR and JAIR are well-respected journals).

But in Europe, it's more similar to the way it is in other fields in the US, such as physics: conferences are considered a fine place to present small bits of work, or work in progress, but not a proper archival publication for major results, which should go in journals. Journal articles get the main prestige and are what's expected on a CV, and citations to journals are strongly preferred over citations to proceedings.

This leads to an interesting situation where some prominent tenured professors in the U.S. would be weak candidates for European faculty positions, and vice versa.
my point was being a centralized app like buffer , it will affect all users. But using an individual desktop client will prevent being hacked centrally.
> Deflation means houses and capital assets are worth less than they were before, so people with a positive net worth are "hurt".

That's wrong, houses can be bought with less money because the purchasing power of money increased, not because houses are losing value. In a deflationary economy, the owner of a house could be richer if instead he holds money. By holding the house instead of money he has the same wealth (assuming the value of the house didn't change for other reasons).
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If salaries don't rise with inflation, then two things will happen:

1. Workers will have less disposable income to spend, so economic growth will slow down.

2. Workers will be more likely to leave their jobs if offered a salary that's just a few percent higher. The companies that are having problems finding and retaining workers now will have even more problems if the total worth of the compensation package they're offering (in real dollars) goes down.

You don't need to be a unionized worker to notice that your salary can buy less and less stuff every year.
"it does raise questions about why the school's arguments which seem so utterly convincing to so many people, don't manage to gain many converts among people who research the subject professionally."

I think it would be easier to convince people with no physics knowledge that a bowling ball falls faster than a golf ball. Intuitively, it seems that bowling ball should fall faster. Austrian economics seems to follow a similar thread. It's more intuitive and easier to grasp than the economics taught in the textbooks, but doesn't have much data to validate it.
Stir the debate, escalate it to management, make your co-workers aware of the wrongdoing. If it's shoved under the carpet, leave, maybe write a blog post.

However, most people care more about their job than their values and for that reason, remain quiet. As long as the paycheck's comin' in, u kno.

You've probably heard of a story like this before recently, just on a bigger scale.
Sure, but the density of, say, NYC, Chicago, or SF, is pretty high. If density were the only factor, parts of the US would rank much more highly than they do now, would they not?
Perhaps their lobbyists aren't as convincing.

This is the second time I've encountered the phrase "lacks predictive power on HN tonight" by the way. Is a theory without predictive power now considered wrong?
I can't help but think on how that reflects on current government.
it came with an embedded windows runtime - I think it was Microsoft not sure quite yet how they'd license it.
I agree that people should get into real assets but this sounds a lot like it's okay to beat your kids in order to train them to run faster.
What's in Google's secret floating office?
slitaz, i used to make a live cd to run GNS3/Dynamips using slax and the need to make it smaller led me to slitaz, once i began using it i ended up learning shell scripting and for a short time was a package maintainer of a few programs,then slowly picked up a little bit of web development, im no expert on it but what i know of linux, i learned due to slitaz.
For a privacy protecting VPN where you can't trust governments: There is really no policy-only way to trust a provider of a security-specific service where turning on logging is just flipping a single bit. There has to be some kind of technical measure to protect users, and no one has built that (yet).

It also will take a pretty clear Chinese wall between builders and operators of a service, or even an arms length multi entity relationship (eg a meta VPN provider sells sells fairly turnkey VPN nodes to operators, who then run them; maybe a third entity which does billing for end users and rev shares everything out). Much more like Tor than the commercial VPN services of today.

The corporate VPN world is different, and the simple "torrent shit on comcast" or "watch Netflix on vacation" market is way easier.

IFF lavabit is resolved successfully, you may be able to trust a US provider for general privacy stuff, but that is months or years off.
Can't think of anyone I know personally. Glad the bug is under control.
This is disappointing. I've created a number of FFI-based projects, and maybe have taken it for granted. I checked the mailing list archives, and did not see any warning signs or calls for new maintainers.
Yeah, Australians have it rough. ADSL2 here costs anywhere between $40-$100, those living a little further from the exchanges get speeds as low as 1.5mbps, and this is in Sydney. I can't imagine what it's like in country Australia. It's a real shame our government decided it's a good idea to CUT investment on broadband.
You can tell it for a given project by looking in Gemfile.lock. It shows all the gems you explicitly requested in your Gemfile, and what dependencies each one pulled in.

edit: assuming you're using Bundler, that is. If you're not, fix that first ;)
From the "How can visitors connect?" page:

> Visitors who are XFINITY Internet subscribers can simply select the XFINITY WiFi network “xfinitywifi” on their device and open a Web browser to get started. They will be able to sign in with their XFINITY email or username and password.

So now anyone can create a hotspot named "xfinitywifi" and phish for passwords from folks who doesn't look for an https connection. I hope Comcast does some good training beyond "connect and enter your password."
Why is this down-voted? Higher inflation has historically been considered a populist idea. The idea being that the poor had fixed-interest rate debt, and if you have fixed-interest debt, inflation is very good for you (and deflation is brutal)

I mean, there are counter arguments, but the idea that inflation favors the poor has been the standard, conventional wisdom for as long as I am aware, and this discussion has been going on for a long time. Read up on bimetallism (the most interesting part, I think, is the 'free silver' movement, which was the 'helicopter[1]' Bernanke of it's day.)

[1]Now, we haven't had significant inflation on Bernanke's watch, and really, he is pretty mild. I just... well, had to make a joke about free silver, and the hard money folks are awful riled at Bernanke. When Bernanke was appointed, it was thought that he would be much more aggressive than he has been. His PhD thesis focused on how to deal with the zero lower bound (which is to say, how to increase the money supply when interest rates are already at zero.) This caused some people to fear that he would cause massive inflation. He has also talked about ways to expand the money supply as the fed chairman, in which he references Friedman's "helicopter drop"

his thesis: http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/29839/05915220...

speech in which he makes the 'helicopter' comment:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boardDocs/speeches/2002/200211...
So I'm still a bit confused, what is it exactly that's shady and spammy with "Intro". The basic idea is rapportive right? Get the linkein information about the person emailing you.

Is the implementation that's shady/spammy? I don't see how Intro isn't useful for recruiters to instantly have the linkedin profile of the person their emailing available to them on their phone. That way it's a quick reference check.
I was just musing hypothetically, but can you elaborate on why this is bad? Surely sending an encoded password is better than a non-encoded one, and in a worst case only as bad as sending a cleartext password (i.e. what happens now).
This explains it in more general terms:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-son3EJTrU
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> UK is smaller than Oregon. Oregon has a population of 3.9 million. UK has a population of 63.2 million. It is cheaper to get Internet to concentrations of people (more income per line).

That's a bit misleading: 70% of Oregon's population is concentrated in the Willamette Valley, an area 1/5th the size of England and with a higher population density than Scotland. The US population is not evenly distributed: most of the population concentrates in very dense urban/suburban areas whereas most of the area (particularly in the west) is sparsely populated.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USA-2000-population-densi...
I don't think I was proposing not using TLS, just that if you interpret sending cleartext password over TLS as "plain-text" then sending it encoded over TLS sounds better.
Well the US is exporting its debt (counterintuitive as that sounds) overseas by buying goods made abroad.

If I recall correctly 40% of US currency is actually outside the country.
For some reason, a few people at HN seem to have a hard-on for criticizing LinkedIn. I never hear the same criticism of Facebook or Twitter here, even though their privacy policies are just as bad, or worse in many cases, and they also send bulk email.

I get spammed by all the social networks I've joined, and even by a few that I didn't join. I get mail from every newspaper or magazine I've ever subscribed to, and many that I never have. Condemning one business for doing this while praising another is just hypocrisy.
Anecdotal but I would imagine it's similar in reputable state schools in red states: Texas has very few Keynesians yet economics professors at the University of Texas are overwhelmingly Keynesian.
I agree that they're visible—I spoke too soon. I mean more psychologically that they have distance which means that we apply a lot of value discounting. Even if I know that funding all the things I enjoy via advertisement will eventually dehumanize me, I still get to enjoy them today.

Disincentivizing local consumer gain is, if I were to wage a wide bet, something society will need to figure out. Our current values are clearly aiming at it.
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American Fiber is a corperate venture and doing work in the large cities can be expensive (especially New York) so maybe that has something to do with it.
As someone who is a music fanatic, but had never heard Velvet Underground until right now, I find "European Son" quite interesting, but "Heroin" didn't do anything for me.

I'll check out more VU, any suggestions for songs/albums in a similar vein (experimental, noisy, good guitar/bass interplay, heavily instrumental)?
I'd argue that software engineers are some of the most resistant people in the workforce to these kinds of moral high-wire acts. That's simply because they have way more job security than others. They can pick and choose companies with which they are in moral agreement and jump ship when something they disagree with is forced upon them.
I do not understand - is there an error in the submission title ?
Excellent point. It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but I find the anti-fat crowd to be chronically intellectually dishonest.
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Don't hate them for good marketing!

I think the lifetime value of a VPN customer is >$50 (accounts tend to churn but it is be same people getting new ones, in my experience with VPNs from before; users either fall into the long term customer bucket or use then for single purposes).

I've only seen their ads or promo stuff in very targeted places, as well as bitcoin (which is more them sponsoring it due to early involvement with bitcoin), so even high cpm would make sense. People go to " top VPN provider" lists with intent.

I see anchor free and hidemyass much more in general ads and forums. AF is free and ad supported, and mega capitalized, so that is probably why they go for random high volume stuff
That's not inflation, that's the economic effect of the world starting to run low on petroleum.
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I don't think Marie or Pierre knew the ill effects of exposure to high doses of radiation. Nobody did. They had no idea (at that time) how dangerous it was.
You'd think so, but it took a decade until Snowden was the first one of these 10,000 engineers to speak up.
Not to mention overt manipulation.
Pretty cool, any chance they might end up on Github?
Awesome, I really appreciate the feedback. Would you mind referring those friends?

If you subscribe + bring in a referral, I'll give you some extra free salsa :)
Their paper is great, but I use Moleskine notebooks specifically because of the weak covers.
> I never hear the same criticism of Facebook [...] here

Facebook is regularly criticised, often fiercely, for their invasive privacy policies.
I live in central WA and pay $80 for 100mb symmetric. We have local public utility districts in the central counties of the state that are all interconnected by local fiber optic networks. It's pushed the price of internet access way, way down.
No. Any attempt to do better than guessing should be valued above guessing.
He also acknowledges that Android tablets could succeed in terms of market share, just as they have with phones. He doesn't even outright predict anything, just draws a comparison with iPod.

Moving the goalposts is when you change the criteria for success during an argument. He posted two observations over two years — the first not even predicting anything with certainty. He is not "moving the goalposts."
After Bellard's JSLinux, it was just about time till more OS will be ported to JS.

http://bellard.org/jslinux/
Maybe to make the food still tasty. Go to your local store - check all low-fat, 2%-enters, etc. and then full milk - check the sugar content percentage. That's all... At least here in US, Los Angeles - usually it's the normal yogurt/milk (e.g. hihg-fat) that has lower sugary content (percentage-wise) than the rest. Sometimes it's quite significantly lower.

And I don't know how the whole craze about non-plain yogurt came. I'm bulgarian native, and it's "foreign" to me that yogurt is mixed with any sugar at all.

It's still yummy - you can mix it equal portions with water, shake it well - and you get a very good drink. Or make this cold soup - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarator

Or just eat it like this. No need for sugar...
As a former Berkeley grad student who managed to do ok (http://barnowl.org/research/) working normal hours (8/9 to 5/6, except around paper deadlines), I would dispute the claims here and in many similar threads that crazy hours are required for performing successful research (in computer science at least).
Every time I see an emulator like this on HN, my mind is blown.

Can someone explain to me and any other run-of-the-mill hackers reading this, how an emulator like this is made?

I wouldn't even know where to start.
I like Glenn Greenwald because I have a bias towards his politics. I follow him on Twitter, and I read every tweet and article he writes. With that mind I still recognize that he is NOT the future of news. As mentioned he is biased and on Twitter he belittles the opposition. (I do too but the news has to be about informing the public and that includes all facets in an unbiased way.
We've had good luck with Brown Cow, if you can find that in your market. However, it still pales in comparison to the full-fat yogurts you get in Europe.
Title of the article is "Judge OKs class-action suit against Apple, Intel, Google, Adobe", indicating this matter has not even yet been brought to trial. Just a quick heads up. The posted HN title, "Steve Jobs conspired with Tech companies to limit wages" seems to be declaring a conviction in the case.
You can make models all day, and I think it should be done in the pursuit of knowledge, but to imply these models can accurately predict behavior is a bit naive IMHO.

Economics in a globally integrated economy are of similar complexity as weather, if not worse.

Keynesians have been driving the bus for quite some time now, if they have it all figured out as many seem to imply, why do so many things (deficits and debt plus extreme government interference in the bond market, as just a few examples) seem to continue to deteriorate.

I don't know if Austrians would do a better job, but to look down one's nose at them seems a bit delusional to me.
I have three (all with the dot grid paper) and none of them have logos on every page, just on the cover.
Hence why I mentioned in my field, often the top publications are in ICCV/CPVR/SIGGRAPH and these are valued a lot more than many journals. As most of the work I review falls under computer science, I read a lot of highly cited conference papers. I'm also

I did get the impression that people tended to republish really 'big' results in places like IJCV or TPAMI. But, coming from a physics/UK background I guess I'm sufficiently biased towards journals!
As clueless as this New York Times writer chooses to be, he at least understands that the mention of Glenn Greenwald will bring forth clicks and impressions. (Journalism about a new journalistic business model to support an old journalistic model -it's not quite irony but some other literary device I can't remember the name of)
I would rather be in Kansas than Oz. I was only a couple of years from FTTH before the luddites got elected.
The problem with soft-links is that if the underlying file/directory is deleted, you are screwed. For example if you have 100 full-machine backups and want to free some space so you decide to delete every other one, you have to be careful that none of the backups you are keeping, have soft-links to files in the backups you are deleting.

With hard-links the underlying data is not deleted until all hard-links are deleted, so you can delete any individual backup directory without losing data in any other backup directory.

A soft-link is like a pointer in C whereas a hard-link is like a C++ shared_ptr, ie. reference counted.
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I've just re-read an old article by Joel Spolsky about using a monte-carlo simulation to create accurate software release schedules [1].

Does anyone have any experience using this approach? If so, would you recommend it?

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html
seriously cool hack; love it. This would be great for my niece.
Basically that (real) journalism will only live in exile?

The discussion of journalism in the abstract here is missing the relatively quick changes that Snowden's leaks highlighted. A journalism with ties to the established parties can still be "real journalism" if you have a strong democracy in general. American "democracy" has degenerated into a circus the permanent government uses to decide which frontman serves its interest better. As this degeneration has proceeded, journalism as a part of loyal opposition has become more or less impossible.

I mean, Obama's message of "I welcome this debate and I intend to put the person who began it in solitary for the rest of his life" is par for the cynically demagogic course on both sides of the aisle.

Thus, it seems like journalism in the sense of open debate and airing dirty laundry is mostly going to live based on the soft opposition between various states, each of which may find housing it's opponents dissents to it convenience (with the truth depending on this thin and dubious reed).
It would probably argued that under the Corporations Act 2001 as administered by ASIC you are probably offering a financial service here, and are therefore required to hold an Australian Financial Services License.

Good luck!
"Judith Zahid, a San Francisco lawyer specializing in antitrust matters, said the sued companies face an additional problem if the case goes to trial because, under antitrust law, any damage award against them would be automatically tripled."

Automatically tripled?! Wow. Good on the legal system, and you would think this knowledge would've prevented this sort of scheme, but they either didn't know or didn't care.
Spotify, Netflix, Prime.
I like the sentiment. And for the most part I do agree with you that many wantrepreneurs are looking for funding. There are a few who really can bring that vision to life though. Many of my friends have gone on to get funding without having any revenue. It's how well you can convince someone that the vision is possible.
I'd be interested to read reviews of notebooks and papers, written by someone who actually has a use for them. You could use referral links and put a google ad on the page for a tiny bit of passive income.

Have you tried Black n Red? (http://www.blacknred.com/) I doubt they'll have dot grid, but perhaps.

Or Field Notes? (http://fieldnotesbrand.com/) I'm not sure if Field Notes is just a fashion brand or if they're actually good.
Indeed.

What I might coin the "cloud tag".