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BTW this data is from 2005.

I would be surprised to see Ireland/Italy/Spain etc... placed so high, post-crisis.
I fully admit, I didn't read through the details of your assumptions, just skimmed the post, but I didn't see anything addressing the changes in prices of basic goods if everyone can afford them. Do you model any increase/decrease in prices - e.g., a 10% increase in demand for housing cause a 10% increase in housing prices?
No FOOF? http://what-if.xkcd.com/40/
I think the same pattern is repeating over and over again, a company uses something like HTML 5 to get traction cheaply on multiple platforms, then when they want to provide a better user experience, they go some kind of native to provide more/better features on specific platforms.

It seems like an entirely pragmatic approach.
At the age of 8, my grandmother gave me a box of matches, some newspaper and told me to play in the garden. Shortly afterwards her shed and fence were well on their way to being no more and I knew how quickly fire spread. Couldn't agree more.
I don't think you read my statement very carefully. The password has 595 bits of entropy, not 100.
Among Netflix users, 48% watch on a computer screen (up from 44% last year); 23% watch on a smartphone (up from 11%); 15% watch on their iPad, way up from 5% last year. But the percentage of users who reported using Roku or Nintendo's Wii game console dropped this year.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2013/09/18/netflix-hul...
As a client, it's easy to be your own CA. Then you can just obtain the remote server certificates you need and, if you trust those endpoints, sign them yourself.

The problem is how to get those certificates and be sure they are the right ones. The problem was already solved in the pre-Internet world: letterhead, signatures and postal mail.

Trustworthy commercial entities could really distribute their certificates in paper form (or maybe on a business card) as an official document. Customers then scan these into their computing devices and, if they choose, sign them.

I doubt that anyone is pushing HTTPS based on the authentication function. It is the need for encryption that is probably the impetus.
Consistency indeed ! Thanks :)
That is a very naive and idealistic position. Governments often and rightly have genuine reasons for keeping things secret - as do other institutions, businesses and indeed individual people.
DRM is only a hinderance to legit users. Pirates are pirates and DRM isn't something they deal with.
Large companies who install transparent proxies can often find 10%-20% byte hit rate. It is said to see this go away with the move to HTTPS everywhere.

I wonder if transparent proxy caches are a thing of the past now?
The grad assistant in my computer structures (programming hardware in assembler) class suggested that every CS student should take a semester of microeconomics to understand trade-offs. He was right.

EDIT: Made microeconomics more explicit.
The whole premise of the movie was that sometimes that kind of surveillance is necessary to save society.
Don't you think that there are legitimate reasons for governments to keep certain things secret?
The problem with these kinds of things is that the document might be watermarked to obviate who leaked it. It follows the same vein as "spying on allies" which -- until recently -- was tin-foil-hat conspiracy territory.

The political fallout will not be minimal, and it will not be kept secret.
It's purposely constructing a false reality to make a victim think they are going insane. I am taking some rhetorical liberties by not intending the second part of that and using it to refer to the false information only.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting
Only a win if you have some reason to believe your code will be any less buggy when you inevitably start on your own ad-hoc reimplementations of those abstractions.
The Verge has one: http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/13/5099236/wikileaks-publish...
Nope I wanna know about ALIENS! Do they exist?
Really awesome. considering there is some company angling to make millions of dollars with this very notion (trainable robots), I think it's pretty impressive
>The drawback, she says, is that communicating via text chat "takes a lot of time." Mr. Swaminathan says TutorVista can provide audio-chat sessions if scheduled in advance.

Really? I would not pay $45 an hour for text based tutoring. I had assumed up until I read this it would be skype-like video to video chats. Having to schedule audio chats as if this is some kind of special feature is a bit of a joke is it not?

Fair play to all of the tutors giving up their time to help students, that's great but the people behind tutors.com really ought to consider adding video features as standard. Even if it's just using Skype or a similar service
Apart from "obvious" national security in the name of TERRORISM[1], what are such reasons?

[1]: http://www.gwern.net/Terrorism%20is%20not%20about%20Terror
I think LinkedIn has a bit of a bad reputation due to their leaking of ~6 million passwords last year, so people are perhaps right to be worried about their credentials.

Also, the example of giving out Gmail access via OAuth is a little inaccurate since OAuth is more auditable and revokable than sharing your username and password with a third party, which is what Intro requires (even if they promise not to look.)
Indeed. I think this is huge. To me, this is one of the most attractive things about basic income. Someone receiving basic income (and protected by universal health care) can effectively do whatever they want. That includes playing video games all day, but it also includes working full-time on something interesting to them. Maybe it will be profitable, maybe it'll simply make them a more interesting (and maybe even more employable) person.

A basic job tends to discourage mobility in all the ways a normal job does. A basic income encourages mobility because you have time to do anything... including invent something or go back to school (or use online courses) to learn a totally new field. Or even just take a break to recharge.

I'd love to model this, but I have no clue how. Perhaps a normal distribution of a change in a person's ability to produce value when taking basic income and not working. Some people will drastically decrease their ability to produce value, some people will drastically increase it. Most, I suspect, will somewhat increase it and then get back to work.
Well, that's embarrassing, you are 100% correct. I looked it up, and the only non-recipients other than non AK residents are felons in prison (no idea why, I guess to punish their families with less income or make sure they can't pay restitution to victims?)

So, no, I have no idea where he gets the idea only adults would get an income.
I really . . . hope . . . that governments will become incapable of keeping anything a secret.

Does that include personal information about you, for example your personal medical information that is part of the treatment records of a government-administered medical insurance plan? Some countries (not many) make personal income tax filings public information. Do you live in such a country?
The good thing here is that containment is the hard part and honor and integrity seems to be more on everyone's mind in today's world of egregious corruption within our 'democratic' governments.

I share your hope and support the leaks. It is an awkward position to be in for the next US administration, I'll be curious to see how it plays out during the all annoying campaign season.

Information wants to be free...
This is like when I was watching the Champions' League and got a hankering for some tasty Gazprom.
Negotiations. When you go to a new job and they tell you "How much do you make at your current position? Tell us, you have nothing to hide." what do you do?
This is nice, but I don't think it is refactoring.
You and your worth
Well potassium nitrate is a pretty strong oxidiser. Mill it with a pestle+mortar and mix it with icing sugar 1:1 by mass. Put 30-40g on some alu foil.

Setting fire to that will produce crap loads of smoke very quickly. I filled my entire garden up with smoke with one of them a couple of years ago.

Sure there are more in that list but that strikes me as the most obvious.
What if I told you your government knows what you masterbate to?
Quite honestly, this sounds like a classic case of OCD. I'm not going to be the idiot who tries to diagnose you, but I've dealt with mild anxiety issues, and my sister has OCD.

It will help you to understand yourself. Take the time and the money, and go see a psychologist, or at the very least go see a doctor. I didn't need medicine to overcome my anxiety, but my sister did.

The behavior you describe of needing to get your things ready for the next day is particularly similar to mild OCD behavior. Something is causing you to obsess, and you respond with a compulsion to fix the obsession (so your worry is relieved).

It is not only common to experience these things - about 18% of American adults suffer with some kind of anxiety disorder [0] - it is also very well documented and studied. Other people who have dealt with similar issues will be the first to tell you that there is a bright end of a tunnel.

A few things that helped me when I dealt with it:

- Exercise, every day. Often, this was really the most effective means of relieving the tension, and it actually helped me avoid the onset in the first place.
- Invest your time into doing something meaningful. When I say meaningful, I mean something that helps another human. This helped me reduce my introspective obsession, and instead focus on other people and how I can help make the world better.
- Go outside. Staying inside will limit the stimulation to your mind, and your mind won't have the imperative of processing new and exciting information; instead, it will take shortcuts (you likely know everything about your own living space) and the energy you have will be easily focused back on the worrying aspects of your life.
- See a doctor.

Once again, take everything I have to say with a grain of salt; I am not qualified to give you advice or definitive statements beyond my own experiences.

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/anxiety-disorder...
Yep, I have a couple of single-member LLCs and I'm required to have a registered agent (basically someone who is normally available during typical business hours at a given location) to accept service.
Just wanted to add that the importance of a clean mail interface can't be overstated. It helps you to focus on the emails. Fastmail accomplishes this perfectly.
My text disappears after I type it in and move on.

And why do you call a table an "excel-like" app? Can it so =SUM(); can it do search and replace or the over 9000 other features of excel? No... it's a table, with a editor.
Maybe the future is in making calls over the Internet, not a private cellular network?

Or maybe the future is in open source software defined radio?

I never tried it, but I heard OpenMoko could run BSD.

In any event, I hope the future is one where I can read, modify and compile the source for my handheld's bootloader and operating system, as I currently can do with my laptop's bootloader and operating system.
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Yahoo mail. Gmail, Hotmail provide a real monetary value to me : they make it easy for me to get emails without setting up my email server or being hostage to the whims of my ISP. I trade my email privacy with these companies in exchange for savings. I understand that deal and I am comfortable with it.

LinkedIn on the other hand is an addressbook / contact list and nothing more to me. I do not assign their service having any monetary value to me. I am not a call center operator : I do not need that lookup capability. Therefore I do not want them to fuck with my email. And that is why I find their hack to be sleazy.
What is "micro"?
It's PGP sign/encrypt email with a passphrase option. There's also an option to read receipt.

Look, I'm not the sales department and I'm not going to hold your hand. Please, do your own homework.
No.
Thanks for asking!
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With respect to government contracts: It would really hurt a company if their detail pricing scheme was released, as a competitor could easily undercut if they had access to that information.

With respect to court documents: It could result is someone getting hurt or a mis-trial due to outside influences (ie. Rob Ford video)

There are obviously many reasons...
Most (smart) phones have two mics for noise canceling. I would assume this only affects one.
Obvious one comes to mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Federal_Witness_P...

It's not hard to think of others.
Unfortunately, with EME in Chrome OS, content owners won't have to give up on DRM any time soon for Netflix to switch to HTML5.

(On ARM-based Chromebooks, Netflix already uses an HTML5 interface.)
Note that there's a difference between SSH fingerprints and (self-signed) SSL certificates. Multiple servers can easily share a certificate.
Micro-economics, I'd guess.
try "=1+2"
Why is customer supporter log(n)? Seems it would be nlog(n) (because of management overhead)
Careful! That got Gary McKinnon indicted by a federal grand jury in Virginia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon ...
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Secrets have existed since the dawn of man, your hopes of eradicating them are naive.

How would you propose that "culture" be contained within the sphere of government? It clearly could not, it would spread to corporate and private spheres of life (if it didn't start here). It sounds dangerously close to a 100% surveillance society. How lovely.
It's easy to forget and hard to imagine from a 2013 point of view, but South Korea was among the poorest countries in the world only decades earlier.
doesn't seem to work - it remains as text, instead of giving 3.
Like everybody's saying, talk to a professional about this. You're going through something extreme but still relatively common, and you need not suffer in silence.

Your school probably has counseling available, they'll be able to get you started on fixing yourself. Failing that, talk to a doctor. Failing that, there's probably a mental health hotline you can call to get started.

Good luck!
My suggestions would be to try running Canopy (Enthought) or Anaconda (Continuum), which come with all 'scientific' batteries included and make scientific libraries easier to install and to keep them up to date.
gtuckerkellogg, thanks for your posting. I'm curious -- have you learned Mandarin or Malay language during your stay, enough to communicate extensively?

It was my experience living in Taiwan for two years that language is a significant requirement for understanding the culture, even when English is commonly spoken among the educated classes.

In my opinion, a month really isn't long enough to evaluate a country, even a small one such as Singapore.
That is by far not the only way to do have a context-free grammar. Python for example also has a context-free grammar without semicolon insertion.
Thanks for the kind words. Pittsburgh's tech scene looks pretty awesome.
Do documentaries like this bother anyone else? I'm only surmising from the trailer, but it seems to take this very serious event and over dramatize it into something like the bogus Gasland documentary. I already know about this tragedy, so maybe this movie's not for me.
I don't get that feeling from most of HN articles. In fact, just the opposite. HNers are leaving these companies for places that fit better. It's one thing to have crunch time to get an MVP out the door but if you're still doing that a month later something is wrong.

I've worked in London, Paris, and Miami. Only in the US do we work long hours and then continue to discuss it outside of work.
Its easy to think of programs as existing in the unbounded abstract, but as soon as you run them, you'll find the logic fragments are competing for physical representational resources (bits in RAM, CPU cycles etc.). So having feature X does cost feature Y for a fixed CPU and RAM budget.

finite resources implies tradeoffs
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The purpose of economics is defeated by making "busy work". The government can pay everyone to dig holes, but do we need all those holes? That's the fundamental problem with the Basic Job concept. But give everyone basic income, now they have money to spend. When they spend the money it creates jobs to produce the things that people actually need and want. No simple programming model can account for this.

I should also point out that governments already create far too many "busy work" jobs as it is. The IRS and welfare systems are some of the best examples due to overly complex regulations and means testing.
Cool they are doing a creative commons open license on the footage. I'll have to do a re-edit and change the cringeworthy title.
"Should"? I'm slightly surprised that CS courses don't have at least an introduction to hardware/low-level level design as a compulsory component.

Then again, I'm probably showing my age...
Expert opinions are often based on economic models which use incredibly simplified assumptions and questionably appropriate mathematical techniques. At least this guy is willing to post his model for the world to pick apart.
sure not
Elon Musk envisions electric supersonic airplanes
TWTR at $41.20 but ads limited to targeting US users only for small business
It's 30 lines of javascript, what do you expect? This is a cool little project and the negativity is really unnecessary. The author could definitely have chosen a better description, but that is no reason to dismiss it outright.
It works, but only in reasonably modern browsers. Which one do you use?
Firefox is more performant on my Ubuntu box than Chromium, even for things like Gmail and Google Docs.
How $2 in debt almost turned into $90k
That's why you don't use revenue relative to profit as a metric, but various returns on invested capital as a metric, e.g. profit to debt, profit to assets, profit to capital expenditures, etc. Revenue is often a difficult figure to compare, as different companies in the same industry can record revenue in different ways depending on a multitude of factors (e.g. location in the value chain).

Put it more simply, if I have a business selling widgets and I need to invest $100 to start the business, it matters more what kind of profit I can get on that $100. If the widget I'm selling sells for $50 and I make $10 profit vs. sells for $500 and I make $10 profit, I'm still making $10 profit on $100 invested capital.

Now more often than not, I'd prefer to sell the higher margin product as it requires less working capital (such as inventory costs) which in itself has the 'cost of capital', but that's just the reality of some (fairly lucrative) industries you get into.
Seems okay to me
Probably not! Donations are only tax deductible if they're to registered charities, and usually only if the charity is in the same country in which you're a taxpayer.
Click on another cell rather than pressing enter.
micro-processors?
=A1+A2 works for me.
It's not a sign of danger in this case though, it's a sign of exponential adoption, which is exactly what's happening and is perfectly understandable for such a technological feat like Bitcoin. The same happened with many startups like Facebook: A lot of volatility in the beginning, exponential growth, IPO, stabilization.

> As a currency, gaining value rapidly all the time is also difficult - who wants to transact in such a currency instead of just holding on to it and spending other currencies or bartering?

That's another argument that keeps popping up and doesn't make sense, it's basically a myth. Economists and opinionologists dread this imaginary situation where people will starve before spending their deflationary coins. Hint: The world did just fine for thousands of years using gold. And no one starved to death with Bitcoin either yet.

If you have other currencies to spend or stuff to sell, you could have used them to buy more Bitcoin, and use Bitcoin to buy whatever you need at whatever price it is at the moment, so not spending Bitcoin and spending other things instead doesn't make any sense either.
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This is a really good list you have here. Currency Wars and Lies My Teacher Told Me are definitely on my Amazon wishlist.

Is reading Abundance worth it though if you've already seen his TED talk? I want a deep dive, not just a few more details here and there.
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I REALLY hope they keep my personal login credentials for various gov web sites secret. Along with any other personal information they have on file.
Because it simulates a subset of excel functionality, namely the ability to reference values in other cells and automatic re-computation of changed and dependent values.
Microeconomics, not micro-processors. I'll correct the original. It was in the context of tradeoffs.
And in addition, after making the 60%-80% adjustment, if you still think the results look wrong, you now know that the model itself may require tweaking or redesign.

I really don't understand all the negativity here.
Can't you link to those numbers?
PFS = Perfect Forward Security, wait, what? It's not perfect nor it's security. Great post.
It would really hurt a company if their detail pricing
scheme was released, as a competitor could easily
undercut if they had access to that information

If every company's pricing were public, wouldn't we just have healthy competition?
When I'm not rested, my mind can play tricks on me. The annoying thing is that being anxious can prevent you from sleeping, which can sometimes be all that is needed to park anxiety.
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Yes - micro-economics. It's mostly about tradeoffs, referenced in the OP.
He/She is clearly referring to Whistle Blowers.

All the ridiculous, obtuse comments just to feel superior. If you can't attack the actual message, then impeach the character?

Grow up.
No I don't but I do like the service from writeThatName (now called evercontact or something)

Its not perfect - it updates overnight in some kind of batch job, but hell, people who email me, I then get their signature into my contacts.

I have a whole heap of contact management problems (skype, VOip, mobile, email, IRC, please can I link them all - please) but this is one brick in a very large wall.

NB - not affiliated to them, just liked the idea.
Your scipy install is broken, it has nothing to do with his code. If you can't successfully run:

from scipy.stats import *

then it's not going to work.

Try installing a scientific python distribution like Enthought Canopy or Anaconda. On Unix systems it's possible to build it yourself, but on Windows unless you have the right compiler licenses and enjoy pain, you probably don't want to do that.
Can anyone compare Fastmail to Rackspace Mail?

I have used Rackspace Mail for 7 years and have been happy with it for both my clients and my family. It looks like RS is much cheaper for similar mail box sizes and offers pretty significant upgrades such as mobile sync, archival and exchange support. As a Rackspace customer for over 10 years, I have always been happy with their service. I do think the webmail interface is a bit dated.

However, I do see plenty of praise for Fastmail, and perhaps I haven't investigated their services fully.
how far does that go though? `git push --force --yes --yes-I-am-absolutely-sure --by-pushing-this-commit-I-agree-I-am-paying-attention`. Seems like `--force` is a succinct way to cover those two parts.