skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about the costs of market distortions and mis-allocation of resources when a fiat currency can be inflated with almost no cost?

How much energy (and other resources) were expended in the dot-com boom, and the housing boom? Think of all the houses that were built to replace houses that were perfectly usable, and are now empty? And all the IT equipment built for dot-coms that died after 6 or 12 months?

Probably need to include at least some of the costs of wars and military forces, as those are necessary to maintain the "full faith and credit of the XYZ government" that is the fiat currency.

And definitely need to factor in all of the energy and materials put into huge volumes of cheaply imported products (including oil), that is only possible because fiat currencies enable huge trade imbalances. And all of the energy and materials put into re-creating the manufacturing industry in other countries, as those products become "cheaper", enabled by fiat currencies. And all of the energy used by those products, as their "low" prices make them more pervasive than they would normally be.

You don't have to continue this train of thought too far to realize that the costs of maintaining Bitcoin are minuscule when compared to the true costs of using and maintaining a fiat currency.
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Ok, I talked to them and this is fixed and waiting for QA. It will be in the first 2013 update, soon.
There are various physical coin dealers who are said to play the same sorts of games.
Try to read 30 lines of Brainfuck if you are a fan of unreadable languages. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
Exactly. Whoever wrote this article doesn't know much about the console gaming business.
Yay, thanks Scott!
But but but, handles get caught on your pant loops.
This is being QA'ed now and will be in the first VS update.
>> Bitcoin is different in that is the purest form of a fiat currency in the sense that it is backed by nothing and thus has no intrinsic value whatsoever.

It's backed by the tremendous amount of electricity required to run the transaction processing network (ie. "mining"). Remember this is the world's largest distributed supercomputer.

BTC is a proxy for electricity, that's why mining equipment ended up at ASICs so quickly- in mining, less W = more $$. By a lot.

The USD is currently backed by absolutely nothing. There is no way we could print the $2000 trillion dollars[1] of derivatives now in existence. You couldn't cash out all of it or even too much of it.

The USD is "fake". And high finance is not ignorant to this fact, at all.

[1] Or more, no one actually knows. Goldman Sachs would have the best idea of this.
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OP here. This is just a simulated demo, feel free to queue up as many objects as you like.

There are similar projects out there like OctoPrint and BotQueue, but neither of them met our needs. We wanted something that could work between our Makerbots and RepRaps, and something that was easy enough not to need configuration. Because we're hosted, we can offer multiple slicing algorithms, and an easy API for developers to build apps on top of.

Feedback would be much appreciated!
David Hockney has certainly embraced it as a medium.

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/11/hockney/
That's the point of marketing. What is silly is being a poseur, like many people on HN, and pretending you are above all this. Different people just respond to different styles of marketing.
I live in Canada for 10 years...

> At least until recently people would still go bankrupt because of medical emergencies.

On the flip side, they get the long term care they need earlier and more reliably. They can also get this care based on medical advice as opposed to political opinions. There is a reason I moved from Canada to the US for health care, and I've paid less for that care here in the US.

> People have to save for lifetime to send their children to collage.

Depends on where you want to send them. Send your children to MIT and see what you have to pay.

> Politics is populistic.

It's that way in other countries as well. You just tend to hear more about it because it's the US.

> The legal system is unjust in some areas (e.g. legal defense against bogus charges can drive you into bankruptcy).

Again, this can happen anywhere, and it the exception rather than the rule.

> Immigration decisions are arbitrary and unpredictable.

Immigration? Sure. We still let in more than most countries (every other country?). Or are you talking about border entry?

> Business has a large(r) influence in the government.

Larger? Hardly. Just as large. Do not think for a moment that large companies aren't entrenched in other governments as well.

Really, what it comes down to is this:

> If you are poor, most of the times you basic needs are still covered

And that's true in the US as well. Yes, not all parts of the US are equal. We have 50 states, all with their own rules and regulations that are completely different from one another.
And given more time, you can easily grow your business to be a 6 figure income. That is not uncommon.

Good work
Yeah, but I find it hard to believe they hadn't already included some amount of fire probability in their calculations. Isn't it possible their assumed probability is higher than the actual, since it was perhaps based on the track record of internal combustion cars? I'm out of my depth here. IANAAA - not an actuarial analyst, nor an automotive engineer.
I don't see any signs that this takes business deals into account: volume pricing that covers other products (Sony makes many other products that use similar parts), cross-promotion (getting paid to ship specific demos or software), etc.
I've found that many site owners are lulled into passively accepting advertising on their website through Google and BSA (which is exactly what they want).

If you have a website that is awesome with content that people like, go sell the hell out of it to advertisers. Find companies that sell things your readers should know about. Then go and actively contact them and sell them advertising space.

Some easy ways to find potential advertisers:

-see who advertises on other sites in the same field

-if there are trade magazines, look to see who advertises in those

-look for trade shows and see who buys booths and advertisements at them
Why I'm putting all my savings into bitcoin (2011)
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This isn't a reaction to Snowden so much as the EFF's ongoing FOIA lawsuit explicitly seeking release of the documents, which are still pretty heavily redacted. (Among the blackouts: the name of an official that briefed FISA court judges, the number of years that the Bush warrantless wiretap program had proceeded without judicial sanction, and solid pages of blackout apparently characterizing what it collected.)

See https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/victory-government-rel... on the lawsuit.

Clapper may claim instead that the release was the result of a sudden dedication to openness, but he did also claim before Congress that there was no ongoing widespread surveillance of Americans at all.
Context anyone?
Have they never heard of the "Significant figures"? I doubt they estimate to 0.3%.

In fact, I would not be surprised if the estimation error is bigger than 5%, so we don't know if they are selling at a loss or not.
I'm not familiar with Emacs+CEDET+magit, but if it has these features, then basically yes - its Intellisense is as good as Visual Studio's:

-Method and property completion on framework and own methods
-Parameter hints on all methods
-Enum completion

In addition, VS has a solution-understanding which goes way beyond intellisense. For instance I cannot fathom how people are able to work without "Navigate to definition", "Find usages" or "Refactor > Rename" in any development environment.
would've loved some iPad 2 love
I don't think you understand the deflation argument.

Also Bitcoin can already be split into 10e8 subunits (Satoshis)
I had that Samsung remote and then upgraded to a newer model as the previous Samsung glass TV base literally exploded. And amusingly, the newer remote is far worse than the one you've used as an example. I wish I could revert!
This app shows you what you should't have said on Facebook.
Agree 100% - but now that mine are a bit older, I'd like to replace them all with levers so I can open them with my hands full of laundry, kids, bags, toys, etc...
Am I the only one who at first thought this was a joke, i.e. making fun of our crazy hyperbole by marketing a real pencil?
Why are we building new walls to divide us?
Yeah, the Groovy plugin for Eclipse is pretty decent. The "intellisense" function can be a bit slow at times, and I think there are just a few more times that it is unable to find the relevant auto-complete, as compared to working in Java. But other than those two minor nits, it mostly "just works" as you say. I'm a fan.
I feel like there is probably a lot more going on under the surface than the article portrays.
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I don't think so. There are endless blog articles online that have addressed this, e.g. http://davidwalsh.name/textarea-width
>USA is simply a less developed country

Of course it is.

In all of the below measures, the US is not at all comparable to Developed countries, and sits squarely within Developing countries.

infant mortality, child poverty, child health and safety, life expectancy at birth, healthy life expectancy, rate of obesity, disability-adjusted life years, doctors per 1000 people, deaths from treatable conditions, rate of mental health disorders, rate of drug abuse, rate of prescription drug use, incarceration rate, rate of assaults, rate of homicides, income inequality, wealth inequality, and economic
mobility.
This looks to be about as 1984 as ADA is. This whole thing appears to be an accessibility issue.
Part 2 is coming in a few days
This is the entire point of the console ecosystem. Give the razors away at a lost, make the money on the blades.
A Primer on Debugging Native Code in Chrome
i dont really understand why these things are considered impressive. all of the technically challenging bits are handled by the enormous stack of technology involved.

granted the js is highly size optimised, and that probably required some reasonable effort. i see nothing clever here at all. also, the fact that its 35 lines is a weird measure - i can see ways to reduce that trivially - why isn't everything to do with the render baked into the final loop?.

the byte count is a more useful measure.

4k/64k executable demos are much more impressive - even though there is a stack of technology underneath you have to do things like butcher your C/C++ standard libraries or not use them at all...
Indeed they have
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#Why_don.27t_we_use_calculatio...
Other than paranoia reasons, Google Apps has seemed like the best choice for a small startup / business. I don't know how it scales, but at $5 a person, it is pretty nice. When I was last Googling around, I wasn't finding comparable features in things like fastmail.fm, my hosting providers, etc, for such a low price.
His grandfather was, so he has Jewish ancestry, which is enough for people in some parts of the world to consider him Jewish. (Even though he may not be Jewish in the eyes of the actual religion, it's not relevant.)
I agree on the apps part, but you're missing the "between tablets" part of this particular situation.
Unless you add the requirement that they be able to detect us when Earth eclipses the Sun from their perspective.
http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES-1.4 says

Changes with nginx 1.4.4 19 Nov 2013

*) Security: a character following an unescaped space in a request line
was handled incorrectly (CVE-2013-4547); the bug had appeared in
0.8.41.
Thanks to Ivan Fratric of the Google Security Team.

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.nginx.english/41133
Dear LG,

I just returned a Nexus 5 because it had poor reception compared to other phones using the same SIM card.

I was going to buy a LG G2 but having just seen how you treat your TV customers as cattle, I won't touch anything from LG for the forseeable future.

In a nutshell, LG, you lose my money.

Regards,

Ex-Customer
What are your problems with TFS?
Same here... I have seen tons of XBox One advertising over the weekend, but very little about the PS4.
This is really neat, but I am very wary of building kernel modules with garbage collected languages especially ones like Haskell, which can has very difficult to reason about runtime characteristics due to laziness.

This is FUD, repeated ad nauseum all over the internet as a misinterpretation of what Simon Peyton Jones said once during a talk. In case you hadn't noticed, there appears to be a tradition in programmer circles of picking SPJ quotes and turning them into memes. "Haskell is useless!" and "Avoid success at all costs!" are some others.

The reality is far less extreme than most people think. It is not at all unreasonable to write low-level code such as device drivers in Haskell. This has actually been done as part of the HaLVM project.
so let me get this straight... over the course of three years, 19 people (many of them not full time employees) have left a 70-person company founded by students? and this is news?
Great read, and ParallelX looks great too.
I know you know, but for those who don't: it _was_ standard. Apple nowadays promotes applications to autosave and restore windows with their content at startup.

I think an utility like this should follow that strategy.
A better link: http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2013/00012...
Don't be so bitter. Your post above was informative to me, and it's telling that you alluded to the community blaming ops troubles on "bad code", and the two people who replied to you did just that.
Apple plans to unveil bigger iPad
ray tracing is conceptually the same as following the reverse path an idealised 'photon' takes - that photon being the classical 'ray of light' idea.

photon tracing is quite different - instead of starting from the pixel you accumulate your results.

as such i consider the original comment not only accurate, but insightful. (if ambiguous)
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Yeah, I noticed the Startup Edition theme after writing this comment. How timely!
> The border patrol could care less whether you are a broke student or a rich tourist.

Not true at all. I'm Australian and I regularly cross from Canada into the US in my junker car full of snowboarding or camping gear. Every single time the border guards want to see bank statements, proof of employment, etc. etc.

They're convinced I want to stay in the US and leech off the system (which is nonsensical, when I could stay in Canada, which actually has a system)
I noticed that too when I colored things fast. It was fast enough for most things. The most frustrating speed issue for me was when painting with watercolor brush where the variable speed changes the effect of the ink.

Thanks for the tip re: Upad! I'll check it out.
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Of course the discs cost next to nothing to make but that’s not the point. If you think like that you are completely misunderstanding the entertainment industry and their cost structure.

Actually making the game (not the disc but what’s on the disc) is extremely expensive and the production costs of AAA games are actually exploding. Think of all the more or less non-automateable manual work that is involved in creating believable virtual worlds. Think of all the textures that have to be painted, things that have to be animated, lines of dialog that have to be written and voice-acted. Much of this is hard, manual work. There is no way to make it better except by paying more people more money to do it.

The second thing that costs a lot is marketing, i.e. making sure that everyone and their grandparents actually know about the game and want to buy it, mostly because making AAA games is so expensive already, so it better be successful.

It’s perfectly reasonable to be worried about the new consoles and the future of (AAA) games. Even last generation expensive games like the Tomb Raider reboot sold tons of copies but were nevertheless barely satisfactory in their financial performance. Think about what kind of challenge it must be to make a game for a console fewer people have and that also needs much better assets (i.e. is more expensive) because what’s the justification for making a next-gen game otherwise?

The next few years will be extremely interesting for video games. I’m very much looking forward to see how that shakes out (though I wouldn’t necessarily want to work on AAA games). Will there only be few, safe and expensive mammoths like GTAV? Or safe and boring yearly updates to games like Call of Duty? Some of this is already happening. Just look at the bankruptcy of THQ. And on the other end of the spectrum there are tons of indie games popping up (which purposefully limit their scope – mostly by not creating photo-realistic virtual worlds – to get by with much less money).

This is a terribly exciting time for video games and I wouldn’t be surprised if this industry looks completely different in ten years (the supposed life-span of these new consoles – maybe the last consoles?).

All of this is not to say that Sony doesn’t take a hit on the console but plans to make money some other way, that is probably very true. But it doesn’t have anything to do with the fact that making a plastic disc costs a few cents.
Emphasis on was. Now tab management and the side panel are non-existent.
I answered a comment which I assumed was ironic. I'd appreciate if the down voters or someone else could explain, if I misunderstood?

Edit: Without your comment, I would have assumed it was for my stupid joke. Ah, never mind.
large difference between the immigration process, which usually begins months ahead of time in the foreign country first, and border security for a visitor.

the U.S. has more open immigration policy than many other countries but it also has a really shitty and thuggish border security policy that is a direct consequence of the ongoing security theatre that we play at because of terrorism.
But "Pencil" probably won't work with Adobe apps, am I right?
Que: A fast, concurrent job queue for Ruby and PostgreSQL
Your criticisms are correct, but when people say "Intellisense" they refer to more than just command completion. When you hit that "." or "->" or "<ctrl>+<space>" or whatever, you can see (and navigate with the keyboard):

- The full type signature of the function and its arguments (including generic/template parameters and constraints)

- Whether any of the arguments have default values and, if so, what they are

- Whether the last argument is a "params" or "..."

- The XMLDoc describing the function and every argument

- A scrollable list of every overload for that function name

Invoking Intellisense when not completing a function tells you:

- What code objects are available in your current scope

- What type of things those objects are (property, field, method, overloadable method in a subclass, ...)

- A list of snippets you could invoke from that point

All of this can be configured to show up automatically or only when invoked with specific key combinations. Also, the Visual Studio team has somehow made it so that all this stuff stays out of your way even when it comes up automagically. I've never seen any other IDE come close to being "always there yet unobtrusive". This includes Eclipse and they do it pretty well.

The biggest issue I have with your argument is that, while it's true that watching someone fumble around with their mouse while coding IS pretty painful, Intellisense is NOT the cause.

You didn't make this argument but I want to address it: I watch people who use vanilla Vim when they code (I can knock them because I tend to be one of them). What do they have on their other screen? A browser with some combination of google search tabs and Stackoverflow.com. What's on their terminal? One tab usually has a man (3) page up for shmemget() or something. A lot of what we're doing is looking up documentation for an API. I don't understand how this is somehow more "pure" than having that same documentation browsable in your editor and at your fingertips!

You're right; IDEs encourage lazy programming habits. But look again at that guy fumbling around with his mouse. Is he REALLY going to turn into a ninja command line wizard because you took his IDE away? Nope. He's going to continue to be mediocre no matter what tools you give him, because the underlying reason is deeper than the tools.
Wow, well I've updated to fixed versions from http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html before even being noticed about vulnerability.
Guess which TV brand I wont be buying this black friday?
Came to say the same thing. Bring back mouse chording damnit! (Not to mention all of the little things that made Opera, Opera).
I'm really interested in suggestions or comments about Que - I'm trying to make it as durable as possible while retaining its speed.

I'm also looking for a steady job using Ruby, if anyone is hiring in Seattle. My email's in my profile.

Thanks!
I personally find handles much more difficult to use, requiring me to bend my hand to unnatural angles.
Specifying it for all government or public construction is ADA-ish. Specifying it for private residences is more in the 1984 direction.

I say "in the direction" because no, I don't think this is a boot stomping into our face, forever. But it is heavy handed. Hardly unprecedented, of course. Pushing out "accessibility" requirements into the general home market is something we've not done for good reason; it's an expense incurred quite widely for little societal benefit, unlike public spaces. We can't afford to make every residence everywhere handicapped-accessible, childproofed, elderly-appropriate, etc etc. Private residences do have variance due to the variances in people.
From trying it on Windows, you're not missing much. It's mostly Chrome with a different skin as most of the features users liked on Opera < 12 are gone or have lost functionality. I still use Opera 12 for that reason.

Some of that functionality may return in the future, but they have said that things like bookmarks will never be like they were exactly on Opera < 12. If they had lived up to making it Opera 12, but with a Chromium Engine, it wouldn't be a problem, but as many long term users were afraid, someone at Opera is using it as an excuse to radically change what Opera is.
The retailers also don't make much margin on consoles - the understanding is they get their margin on the games. Although it's probably more than $18!
I'm a programmer who is very interested to learn about how to gain traction. To be honest, I am skeptical about how complex that domain of skills and knowledge could really be. Note that I did not say hard, I said complex.

My belief at the moment is that gaining traction is mainly a matter of creating or selecting/evolving the right idea and then largely comes down to social network effects. Basically, I look at startup traction as being largely a popularity contest and about who or what is lucky enough to become trendy.
They don't cost Sony anything to spit out, but Sony takes a big cut of the sales.

Developers even have to pay Sony for hardware, SDKs etc. to develop the content.
This article is so unnecessarily long. It takes a full page before it even mentions what the doorknobs are being replaced with, and for what reason. It doesn't show a picture of a lever door knob nor does it even explain how one works.
How did you like the Belgian beers? Living in Ghent (but in Berlin atm).
Well i suppose that they are selling them at break even points. Sony surely gets pretty decent wholesale discounts on the BOM and probably give 50-80 dollars to the retailers. Which means that the outlook for next gen is bleaker - even the developers of the console are wary of the next few years.