skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They tried it in Japan, it didn't work.

There's a big difference between "trying to make it happen" and "happened despite of them trying to not happen".

Deflation/Inflation works fine when governments aren't involved. Point being that if market can predict the inflation and deflation then every contract will account for that. No business will fail because of deflation, because they will purposefully account for the deflation in their economic calculation when they pay the workers and raw materials.

In simple words, when government isn't causing deflation, at the start of deflation the wages always falls faster than the prices of consumer goods which always clears the market(which is when the rate of fall of consumer goods prices equals the rate of fall of wages).

When government is trying to meddle with the money supply, it disrupts the economic calculation of the market which prevents the market from clearing in time and from real wages to rise up.
I thought we were talking about FREELANCE here? O.o
why have you put this as such? Don't put words in my mouth.
Suburban residential is very low-population-density, a few people per square mile, less during working hours. It wouldn't be hard to put a box next to your driveway where a copter could drop a package, and never get within a hundred feet of anybody.

The real population density issue is downtown, during working hours. Even then folks are on the sidewalk or indoors. There's nobody on the roof for instance. Copters could drop a package into a chute, again without getting close to anybody.
Not the parent, but I went through a phase of blogging about Clojure earlier this year: http://adambard.com/blog/Getting-started-with-Clojure-web-ap...
Question [and don't make fun of me if this stupid, I don't know much about stocks]: what about stocks that pay dividends. In other words picking stocks not that would go up necessarily and then sell, but rather pick those that pay dividends? Is it better? Still pick ETFs based on dividends and don't touch stocks?
The recent New Yorker piece on Google's driverless cars makes it very clear that Google's intention from day one was to bring this to market as a product, even if it requires partnering with another company: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/11/25/131125fa_fact_...
India is not in SE Asia, get your facts right.
Doing what is right isn't always easy, but we should still demand it.
maybe it would be more constructive to address that reply to someone talking about her sentencing? i haven't expressed an opinion on it either way.

as far as lying about her background, criminal background checks are par for the course in this line of business. anything drug related ever, or anything indicating a propensity for lying are automatic disqualifications.
So would you say that he's advocating to not depend on police help for anything (for the entirety of one's life), on the basis that it would require talking to police?
See that is crazy, all that stuff would taste better not stuffed into a sandwich.
Programming is very vast field and each kind has different requirements and challenges. In programming kernel, compiler or any complex software, the need of data structures is inevitable but in web development, you rarely need them and I can safely assume even frameworks build on high level language like Ruby or python, don't need them at all. Of course, there apps like Akinator which are an exception.

Some people believe that how web development is a cakewalk, in comparison. While it might be true to a certain extent since developers are cut off from challenges at lower level but there are difficulties that can take toll on you, trying to work with huge interactive JS application is no piece of cake, for instance.
Produced this video for my talented, beatboxing friend
> I think that people blame the ads for the performance and experience issues

And they're right. Ads slow things down, especially because many ad networks are still using archaic JavaScript. (Lots of document.write...)
Yep! But u get used to it. though it doesn't mean it's in any way GOOD. Just "pretty".
Walmart is totally fine. Who cares about it? Tons of people want to work there tons of people want to shop there. Those people should shut the fuck up and if you do neither why would you care?

It's just an easy target for people who want to misdiagnose a problem and provide a solution that will make things worse.
> at least very little evidence that the people who beat the market do so by making use of _skill_

Also there is a strong selection bias component. People who lose don't usually brag to their friends/news station/co-workers/blogs/twitter, those that beat the market do.

This is the same as lottery. If you had to sit and watch a 1 min clip of everyone who bought a ticket and didn't win, just like people watch those that played and won. Nobody would probably buy lottery tickets. But because of the selection bias, it seems there is always so and so how "made lots of money on the stock market, so why can't you?"
> "it's approximately equivalent to accepting 1 or 2 extra short contracting gigs."

Except:

- You don't have to do the work (you are free to do more work or relax)

- That's one or two gigs every year (until you choose to spend the money)

- The gigs compound: in 9 years, it's 2-4, and in 18, 4-8
per year.

I'm just providing an alternate viewpoint, but I don't disparage your right to play "the lottery" this way. I think that's a perfectly valid basis for a personal investment strategy.

As you pointed out, it might be statistically worse, but you aren't interested in the median return, either.
I regularly have 20+ guests(with their own device) over at my place and my old router would usually be unresponsive when everyone connects to it(20 + half a dozen of my own devices).

The n66u on the other hand seems to be chugging away with no problems at all and I really think it could last me another 5 years.
What is there to question? Either their motive is to make money, or it is to do as much research as possible. But it takes money to do research. One way to get money is to patent and license what you have so you can continue to innovate (which is the main reason why we have patents in the first place)
Wait a minute, so he didn't realize that the criticism is that it performs a function without me wanting to perform it, and thinks the criticism is that "i feel it sucks out my soul" -_- Seriously, why DID the GP link to this?
Over that time was also a massive tech bubble. What did the S&P 500 do over that time? A tech fund? Actually, I have that answer. If you bought AAPL on Feb 25, 2008 (or thereabouts, it was the only time in the last 10 years it was around that price) you could have bought an S&P index fund at 1,222. Today, that would be a 50% unrealized gain -- not that great. BUT, were you rebalancing to your optimal portfolio, you would have been continuously selling as it rose. In the crash of 2008, you would have had no choice -- based on your optimal portfolio -- to buy a bunch more S&P, which you would have then tripled. Again, not near your AAPL number, but the risk profile of that investment is also much lower. Add the fact that you have focused on the tech sector because of your perceived knowledge, and that is why you have a higher return. But you are betting on the belief you have in these companies. There is an emotional component. I personally believe AAPL is laughably undervalued at 550, but there are lots of smart people out there -- smarter than I am -- that have much lower price targets and are actively shorting the stock. I have 5 stocks in my portfolio that I believed in -- thought they had something -- and really know the field well -- graduate degree and years of work experience well. Some have panned out, others haven't. Over the long term -- retirement length (>20-30 years) -- index funds and a balanced investment strategy is objectively better.

Also: If you bought AAPL at $35.72, your unrealized gain today is more like 1456% (based on a last trade price of 550.06).

Disclaimer: I am also at a business school, so maybe we are all just being sold the same snake oil. I sorta doubt it, though. Both of our schools are respected, and our professors are largely people who have spent a lot of time learning these lessons the hard way.
You could of said a tl;dr version that .org is for organization and .com is for commercial.
Unlike you I finished reading the Odersky book and am very easily "Getting Shit Done" much faster than I ever did in Ruby. It did take effort to learn the language, but it was worth it. Having apps running an order of magnitude faster with better response times is just icing on the cake. Perhaps consider getting a gentler introduction to the language, the Odersky book is rather long and goes into excessive detail about obscure corners of the language you will seldom ever see in a production system.
Chronic - Python Instrumentation
Shoot it down, take out the battery, put it in a faraday cage bag and sell it to the blackhat hardware modder. It ain't pretty but a few of those, and you can afford both food and mortage. You got to live off something, and jobs have been hard to come by since The Automatization. </story>
What differences, would you say? Of course an ebook is a little less readable, but other than that, I can't think of any major differences.
Not just juvenile delinquents. I am well into my 40s, and I am not sure I am going to be able to resist take a shot at them.
Windows 7 Handily Bests Windows 8 And 8.1′s Minute Market Share Gains
You'd expect that too. Get enough people flipping coins and a few of them are going to have long streaks of heads.

Plus once you've had a record of success opportunities come your way that aren't generally available. You try and buy GS preferred stock with a 10% dividend and warrants on top and see how far you get.
Fulfillment
There are only 21 million possible bitcoins, but there are 2.1e15 possible satoshis, which are the only denomination that really matter.
Social Security is a ponzi scheme. Insurance companies have assets the can fall back on to pay claims, they don't just pay them out of insurance payments as they come in.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardsalsman/2011/09/27/social...
Screw Your Stupid Typedefs
No, not linked to your account.
Seconded. I use the 3600 with Gargoyle OpenWrt (www.gargoyle-router.com, basically a web interface to OpenWrt) and it's been nothing but great.
Most of these router devices use NOR flash; much more expensive than NAND, which is the one you're used to seeing in USB sticks.
It's not surprising your top 10 sites are mostly news site. News websites have tons of third-party ads/tracking, and many of them use third party video/login/comment/sharing systems. These kinds of websites are just not your typical single page web app.
If wiki articles start purchasing SaaS I will begin to care what they say, but office managers purchase SaaS quite routinely, and empirically they don't care. If you doubt this, you're welcome to chat up the office manager at e.g. your dentist. Ask them to a) name a TLD, b) name three common TLDs, and c) explain the difference between those TLDs.
To Test or Not To Test: Unit Testing and Privacy
My 6-ish years trading has lead me to the view (to a point) that by knowing less I trade better.

To give context to "the less I know" I studied economics (though don't work in that field) and follow financial press from interest. So my low knowledge is probably better than the average public. Based on this low knowlege trading on my broad stroke feelings, as much on gut as anything, and infrequent trading seem to work best. Previously I traded regularily (changing positions several times a week) and followed/analylised daily micro events within or affecting my target companies. I found I did worse and I was trying to understand market sentiment and buy/sell based on short term humps/dips.... which has no logic.

After a couple of years of mixed results, results have been much better by trading when I see those macro events when you feel to your bone the market has got it wrong. And then go in and wait a few months.

As a sample of one I cant say if this is right, and there are several industries that exist implying I'm wrong. But it absolutely works best for me.
> Even professional investors, who devote their lives to following the market, only occasionally beat the market.

It really depends how much money you're managing, and whose...

If it's your own money, and it's not a massive amount, you can easily double your money or better every year.

Returns go down as numbers go up, especially when you have clients.
Regarding [2]...

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s74/sh/f033a734-455b-427a-90a...

SF: Is there something that I'm missing that isn't shitty comcast? (And I'm not eligible for Webpass, though I can dream)
> I can also reasonably expect it to be worth $0, which I'm fine with considering I'm young and gainfully employed.

Hmm, if you can reasonably expect to gamble away $100k without much worrying, congratulations, and also this article probably wasn't' written with you mind.
I read an amazing article about all that... I think it was focused on TCP/IP, and the big telcos ideas competing. I wish I knew what the link was.
Given that Facebook used to be thefacebook and Dropbox used to be getdropbox, I think you should go with the cheap option.
Unless you have money coming in or are especially committed, either keep brainstorming or add a prefix/suffix to your name to find something available for $10. You can still see success this way and it doesn't encourage the domainer.
Some Damn Foolish Thing
I happen to like Go, but the excessive marketing of Go on HN as a solution to every "problem" is tiresome.
What is to prevent the chemist from just cutting the coke after snorting some of it. Coke comes in 10% baking soda, goes out 15% baking soda, and who is in charge of figuring that out? The person that did it...
Is Bitcoin mining compromising the security of SHA256?
| Or just encrypt everything and bounce it through proxies or route anonymizers

Yep, that'll speed things up
Or what happens if the vehicle is operating with malicious intent.
> But because the plumbing must be laid out so meticulously and in every situation, it is often hard to see how things work at a high level. You can't see an architectural sketch in Java, you can only see endless classes in endlessly nested subdirectories. This is a very low level of abstraction, and helps the layperson (such as someone approaching a new open source project) build up an understanding from the base elements. But what's lacking is the high level abstraction.

I agree that it becomes tricky to get an overview of the whole project in C/Java/etc, but I very much disagree that it actually becomes easy to get that high level overview in Scala/Ruby/etc. As soon as the project becomes 'interestingly large' and full of the corner cases that comes with interacting with reality, all languages fall down here. Regardless of the level of the language, you are still communicating with a machine. I'd guess that for a mathematician who has spent most of their lives looking at equations and little time talking to people, a mathematical functional language may seem easier to read than a novel - but for most people this isn't the case.

The best way I've seen to handle this regardless of language is to have the high level overview outside of the code in a human form document describing the reason for components and not just what they are.

This is also why I prefer simpler languages (like Java or C, as you say) - they are very good at specifying exactly what is going on with little room for creativity to confuse things. We use legal contracts for a reason - imagine if our laws were written in poetry? Writing a computer program is much closer to a law than a poem as you need to limit ambiguity as much as possible and specify as many corner cases as possible to prevent undefined behavior. Plus being at a lower level means optimization strategies are easier to see.

There's a reason C/Java/C#/etc are still the most popular languages, imo. The only real outlier being Javascript which gets its popularity from being the only option for the browser.
It depends on whether you already have an established brand and name. If you don't then find a name that hasn't been taken. Unless it is THE PERFECT NAME, it isn't worth more than your standard new name.
I've found because of the composability of clojure and its powerful macros, you find that your 'framework' ends up a small collection of macros custom to your application.
You're definitely using the wrong metric to assess how much JavaScript is used. Look at total weight, not total requests. Just because a site combines and minifies its libraries doesn't mean its not using them.

As for why publishers use more JavaScript than tech companies, it comes down to the amount of technical talent. Maybe 10% of a digital publisher's employees work on the tech team, as opposed to ~50% for a tech company. Given these resource constraints, JavaScript requests proliferate due to two reasons:

1. With less time, engineers turn to external libraries more often to get things done even when they could address the problem with less code if they wrote it themselves.

2. We can't necessarily spend the time to tune everything and combine/minify libraries for peak performance.

That being said, I'm sorry performance sucks. I'm working on it. Can anyone recommend good tools for analyzing performance bottlenecks on the web?
Until the monitor supports at least 60hz I would say it's unusable for gaming.
And yet bugs like this make it into production systems all the time. Several Rails security bugs have been almost as trivial and just as avoidable.
"Domainer"? When did we stop calling them "scalpers"? There's no reason to give purely parasitic middlemen the benefit of a euphemism.
If someone wants an accessible instrument that regularly goes 20x+ times initial risk in a year or even a month! look into the options markets. Remember to always only buy to open your call and put positions and sell before the contract expires if it is in the money.

There are thousand, if not tens of thousands of trades that can get someone that RoR.

I can point towards other instruments that can have that much or more risk to reward ratio. I calculate speculative risk at 100% value + incidental costs of the trade. So if someone said they doubled their investment that would mean a ratio of 1:1 aka a coin flip.

Though if someone did not know that these regulated speculative opportunities are abundantly available, they most likely should stay away.
I am addressing this: "everybody in this woman's field knows about her now, and will be googling up "massachusetts chemist" for the next 20 years whenever they get a female chemist from massachusetts applying for a position." Googling a liar is a poor defense.

Background checks obviously didn't figure out that she was lying the first time. Why should we trust them a second time?
"...but this designation no longer exists..."

Is this just the fine print? Or does it just not matter anymore.
Black Tech Game Changers
I don't think that ethics should be taught as part of all CS classes, and I don't think the essay you wrote made a convincing case for this.

All you have really shown is that ethical issues arise in CS. While this is true, I don't see any benefit to formally teaching thinking about ethics. It's not as if an engineer is never going to consider the ethical implications of their work just because they never took a course. It does make sense to discuss ethics when they are directly relevant, e.g. topics of privacy and security.

EDIT: rewrote to correct an error in understanding the article.
Trading stocks on public markets is like playing poker where 95% of your opponents are professionals. You can win, you just have to be damn good. If you're not that good, don't bother coming to the table.
some do very well and some do very badly, but this is exactly what you would expect from a large number of market participants pursuing different rational strategies

This suggests a possible scam (probably not an original suggestion). Set up some large-enough number, maybe 30 or 40, shell investment companies. Each one trades according to a very specific but randomly generated strategy, which it publicly announces in advance. (Some care would have to be taken in generating the strategies, but they should be such that they're expected to match the market, when taken as an ensemble.)

After a few years, some of these strategies will have turned out to be successful, others haven't. Quietly wind down the unsuccessful ones. The successful ones now look prescient: this firm announced in, say, 2008, that the market conditions were such that strategy X is clearly correct going forward. And history has now borne them out: here, five years later, their prediction was right and their portfolio is up 1000%. Of course, there is missing information, that this was just one of 40 shell companies, and overall returns across all companies did not beat the market. But now this successful company can sell investment services/consulting/whatever on the basis of its individual track record.

I suspect actual investment consultants are effectively doing a distributed, non-coordinated version of this, even if not intentionally.
Ask HN: What's the best way to clean out a music library? (iTunes)
This is a tricky one, because it's hard to know whether someone will want to listen to something in the future or not.

Based on whether or not as song has ever been listened to ... has a decent rating ... and/or is part of an album with a significant number of other tracks meeting that criteria, what's the best way to clean out unnecessary MP3s on a large scale? Typically with something like iTunes, and aside from moving to a streaming service like Spotify or Rdio.
everything is back to normal now :)
> - The gigs compound: in 9 years, it's 2-4, and in 18, 4-8 per year.

Ideally, my hourly rate also increases, though perhaps not exponentially. Still, I really meant the gigs purely as a comparison point... even $16,000 after 9 years isn't much of a lifestyle difference.
For example, look at all of the legacy stuff in an x86 system. You have the strange structure of the interrupt descriptor table/global descriptor table. You have the good old Intel 8042 keyboard controller, Intel 8259 programmable interrupt controller, old-style programmable interval timer, A20 gate and so much more.

There's so much legacy baggage inherent in the x86 architecture, all because of software compatibility. (ROM-BASIC will still run on a modern PC!)

ARM on the other hand has less to really worry about, sure there's some legacy infrastructure, such as the ARM vector table. Modern ARM architectures such as ARMv8-A remove old legacy baggage in favor of completely renovating it. (Look at the old coprocessor interface for instance. In A64 mode, it is completely gone. You must use 'mrs/msr' instructions compared to 'mrc/mcr'). There's also far less legacy software to worry about.
If Keynes's predictive model was so good then why has every application of his theory, whether in the US in the 30's, 70's and now, Japan in the past couple of decades, etc. failed so miserably? On what basis are you claiming that Detroit's collapse was structural, rather than being caused by bad governance? Other areas of the US, and other countries for that matter, have seen their main industries decline, but they've managed to replace them with others without suffering the total disaster that Detroit as.
> The price that the "domainer" is asking isn't going to come down.

That's not really true - they don't ever make money unless someone buys it - so it's not like they're sitting on all their domains waiting for million dollars offers for them.
Now you have just made an enemy of roughly half of the C/C++ developers in this world lol
The campus has internet access for professors and graduate students. There is an egyptian joint venture company in pyongyang that provides both wired and cell internet access.