skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you had $1.50 in 1945 and held it until today, you'd have $1.50. Problem is, in 1945 it would have bought you lunch for a week, and today it would buy you one miniature fast food hamburger.

My parents tell me tales of my great grandparents who didn't trust the banks and probably buried money in the yard near where I live. If they buried it in cash, well, it wouldn't be a very impressive sum today.

That same $1.50 invested at 3%, you'd have... $12.22 today. A little better, but inflation's still pretty rough. You'd have been better off buying that pair of overalls in 1945.

Now, $1.50 worth of gold in 1945 would be worth $57-ish today, so if my great grandparents didn't trust the greenback either, then that theoretical coffee can is worth something. But don't take that as investment advice; the dollar price of gold went through the roof when the dollar was taken off the gold standard (go figure) and that's not going to happen twice.
It depends. I know of several people who have Twitter accounts so they can follow other people, but they don't tweet much (or at all) themselves.
Restangular 1.3.0 released with multiple interceptors, jsonp and more
Well, he did study neuroscience for a while, I think he's informed enough to give educated guesses to how the mind operates enough to design a platform that operates much in the same way.
Court: Google infringed patents, must pay 1.36 percent of AdWords revenue
I've come to believe that inflation is the least-understood concept in personal finance. The fact that this is on the HN homepage seems like evidence supporting that.
> You are officially part of the problem.

Exactly. As is the tone of some other HN responses herein. Little outrage at the men's behavior and much criticism of or advice for Simpson. Not much better than men who blame the victim for being raped.

EDIT: I just read more comments. So sad. Just a tamer version of the same ignorance and male chauvinism that blames women for being raped, or stigmatizes them for coming forward.
It interpreted it as 1.50 CAD * 1945 and I briefly panicked.
If you're not interested in creating tweets then you don't really need to be taking up such a valuable piece of the namespace.
I'd stay away from it. It is an inconsistent, incoherent mess. The framework feels like a mesh of hacks.
>You compiled it? Why?

Learning exercise

>Why not compile on a different architecture thats faster or use distcc to make a compile farm? Last times I used Gentoo I just used the packages, took no longer to install than an rpm based distribution.

Well this was 10 years ago. I was 17 or so and I didn't know about distcc. I was young, dewy-eyed, and a huge noob.
chuckles

This isn't a SSL cert screw-up, but certainly a silly misconfiguration. They should certainly have known better than to let that happen.

To be fair... when I worked there, I thought about different ways to transparently enable SSL across all domains using a CDN that would work with all existing SSL-enabled browsers and it's a freakin' hard problem. There are potential solutions, but they're not particularly cheap or simple given the IPv4 address crunch and for Akamai even more so since the edge servers are so widely distributed.

Bottom line - I never pitched the idea anyway because while I was interested in making the internet a better place, I knew that it was DOA at Akamai because they're much more interested in making it a more profitable place, and I couldn't think of a strong-enough business case...
Interestingly, the period after 1945 coincides with the explosive growth in computing performance, according to William Nordhaus of Yale University in a 2002 study entitled The Progress of Computing [1].

Nordhaus documents computer performance improvements on the order of 1 trillon to 5 trillion times "...in constant dollars or in terms of labor units since 1900." During that period, Nordhaus notes that "...there were relatively small improvements in efficiency (perhaps a factor of ten) in the century before World War II. Around World War II, however, there was a substantial acceleration in productivity, and the growth in computer power from 1940 to 2002 has averaged close to 50 percent per year."

Automation really picked up in industry in the period since 1970, which has seen relatively stagnant wages for most of the working population.

[1] http://nordhaus.econ.yale.edu/prog_030402_all.pdf
Unless you are talking on the actual twitter account about selling it you should be fine.

If not I could just make fake email logs and report you.
> I doubt JMAP will replace it anytime soon unless the WG itself takes up the issue.

Maybe. I'm curious what the effect would be if a single mobile platform provider (iOS, Android) supported a new protocol with a single main free mail provider. Specifically, Gmail and Android could possibly push major change through.

Look at SPDY, it was originally an experiment with Chrome and only a subset of Google services, and is now being deployed to other properties and iterated on rapidly in other browsers, too.
How will this be any different?
Yes, I didn't find this helpful at all. Also, it needs editing.
There are finite resources in our light cone. Resources are fixed. I said that I didn't expect we were nearing those limits. Quite obviously we aren't nearing that limit, but I don't rule out the possibility that there may be other, more relevant ones.
I still don't get why it's a bad idea to forgo salary in a venture where you retain majority ownership. It sure seems like there are loads and loads of people who spun up successful businesses on sweat equity. Way more than have ever taken funding.

If it's not a capital intensive business and your cost of living is low, why on earth wouldn't you minimize investors to the extent possible? If you've got $300k in savings and cheap digs, your percentage ownership of the upside is the concern, not getting a check for $3k every month.
I'm consistently surprised at the number of complaints against GoDaddy. They are a horrible company! You get what you pay for...
I don't think that's "sweet" I think that's a bad decision. What if I don't need two of those per 10 arm cores? Now I'm just paying for gates I don't need.
creationx's Tedit: Alpha Released (offline development environment using js-git)
New Aaron Swartz Documentary Continues His Crusade For Digital Freedom
Calm Down. Facebook Isn't Dying.
Interesting that GoDaddy does not keep an audit trail for account detail changes that might help detect malicious activity. I guess they'll rather lose customers and reputation than do this.
I hope they sued the accountant for damages?
Inflation is very powerful. I always feel like people don't think about it in enough detail. For example, the year that your dollars were worth twice what they are now? That would be the long-ago time of ... 1988. Did you learn your general sense for how much "20 dollars" is in the '80s? Doesn't "40 dollars" just sound like more, somehow? I wonder how many people mentally account for just how elastic nominal amounts are.
I was contacted by a Google recruiter recently and have a phone interview set up now after a phone screen. Until I read this I was feeling pretty pleased with myself :(
Facebook Saves a Billion Dollars via Open Compute Designs
This French sci-fi epic took 30 years to translate
I work for a F500 and we cannot upgrade to 8. We have antiquated web platforms that don't work without it. It sucks. A lot.
All great points. The biggest issue I see with their apparent lack of consideration towards a passable SSL/TLS configuration is that it extends outside of their own corporate web space to impact their customers. As just one example:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=ozsale.com.au

You'll see in the Qualys report that the Akamai accelerated Ozsales gets an "F" & from the Qualys report you'll note that results in a PCI compliance failure (near the bottom of this report):

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.ozsale.co...
I think you have misunderstood the 'Stay Hungry' part. It doesn't mean 'Don't Eat'. It means don't get satisfied with success and keep striving for more.
There, now I can go have my food with a clean conscience :-)
There's a big difference between getting something "to 'space'" and getting something into orbit. More than 28,000 km/h difference.
Learning exercise

What did you learn watching code compile?
I am the creator of this Kickstarter project. Kickstarter mostly is used to promote the project. We're actually in fundraising mode in Boost accelerator before Demo Day 11th February. I agree with you that Kickstarter is not the best venue to raise money for highly technical project.
Everything Intel sells today clobbers any currently-marketed ARM chip on per-unit-energy computation performed. The race is not even close. ARM is only of interest if you are constrained by something other than compute (phones) or you don't know how to program and you are wasting most of the performance of your Xeons. The latter category contains nearly the entire enterprise software market and most other programmers as well.
Californians can grade the state on timely issues with new tool from Berkeley
Anyone can participate by taking a few minutes to assign grades to the State of California on timely issues: Healthcare, Education, Marriage Equality, Immigrant Rights, and Marijuana Decriminalization. Participants are also invited to enter an online “cafe” to propose issues that they’d like to see included in the next report card (version 2.0 will come out later this Spring).
These ideas (negative income tax/minimum income) have been proposed for decades by classical liberals / libertarians as a replacement to the welfare state, and (less often) as a supplement by progressives.

This distinction is critical. But, I'd wager that many libertarians (like myself) would happily match the total welfare spend + proposed minimum income on a per person basis as long as we cut out the middle-class bureaucrats and administrators.

It will be hard to reach consensus for the reasons Sam mentioned, but not impossible, since some elements are supported by otherwise diametrically opposed politics. I much prefer the debate be between libertarians & progressives (or even anarchists & socialists) than the center-left and center-right.

> But this still doesn’t address the fundamental issue—I believe most people want to be productive.

I'm not too worried about that people will be lazy or feel alienated due to not being productive. Science and Technology are not the only outlets for human creativity: my prediction is that we will see a flowering of the Arts and Recreation: more music, more writing, more painting, more sculpture, more sports & games etc. This will enhance all of our lives ..

As an aside, I think its a mistake to measure the delta in wealth distribution primarily in terms of assets. Technology, while increasing wealth disparity in measurable ways, often decreases it in immeasurable (and more important) ones: for example, wikipedia vs encyclopedia britannica.
there's a rather unrelating sameness starting to manifest itself in the web design world--the pastels, rounded corners and dropped vowels of a few years ago have given way to monochrome color schemes, large text, and vast swaths of whitespace

To their credit, they were on this trend early. But, I agree...it has lost any sort of cachet it might have had, designwise. Unfortunately, for them perhaps.

The social-cachet-to-build-buzz to then sell-out business plan. Seems to be heading into its final phase with indeterminate success on the first two.

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edited.
Why is it valuable? What amazing things are other single character handles being used for?

Or is it just vaguely notable?
/shrug

I'm not trying to get you to play. You criticized it. I'm explaining what parts of your criticism were off mark. You don't want to hear it, don't criticize it where the fanboys are.
yep it's wild. even more startling is 1785 to 1900. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%241.50+1785+to+1900
I am the creator of this Kickstarter project.
Upper stage without lower stage is certainly not reaching space. We didn't want to give people false hope. And the project there is mostly for a promotion, since we're fundraising in Boost accelerator before demo day
Helpful advice on this listing: Designers are not Developers, and vice-versa. Split out the requirements into two positions.
I could be wrong but what is the value of a stolen Twitter handle? Just like a stolen car or phone if someone starts using it won't it be obvious that it's the thief or the thieves buyer? That's like stealing a Porsche and then showing it off downtown in front of everyone.
As a child, he wired his house for electricity. He was ahead of the curve before he himself was producing cars, no matter the badge.
So wait ... we will be preventing students from hearing about religious dogma by ... imposing our own dogma ? Wtf ?

The Soviet union, incidentally, did exactly that. Here's one of the initially funny consequences of forcing scientific views on everyone, currently referred to as Lysenkoism [1]. It's only funny until you realize just how many people this affected and what was done to enforce this.

Short list of people executed as direct result of attempts to enforce scientific socialist/soviet dogma:

Isaak Agol

Solomon Levit

Grigorii Levitskii

Georgii Karpechenko

Georgii Nadson

Is scientific dogma really any better than religious dogma ? I would argue that the vast majority of Christian schools teach both creationism and evolution. What is wrong with that ?

Incidentally, like the things it's describing, there's quite a bit of evolution in evolution itself. So much, that what most people were taught as evolution is no longer considered true.

I also love the naivite in this position. As if this pushing of evolution is being done to advance scientific knowledge. It is being done for the same reason that the French revolutionaries did it (another example of people who pushed scientific dogma, another example of that practice ending in mountains of corpses). They did it for a simple reason : to make people follow the state like they follow the church.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
But you can use your twitter account to log into some websites now.
This is good news. The worldwide trend for more than a century is that the countries that are now developed countries have been gaining about 2.5 years of life expectancy each decade (sometimes expressed as "six hours each day").[0]

Girls born since 2000 in the developed world are more likely than not to reach the age of 100, with boys likely to enjoy lifespans almost as long. The article "The Biodemography of Human Ageing"[1] by James Vaupel, originally published in the journal Nature in 2010, is a good current reference on the subject. Vaupel is one of the leading scholars on the demography of aging and how to adjust for time trends in life expectancy. An article in a series on Slate, "Why Are You Not Dead Yet? Life expectancy doubled in past 150 years. Here’s why,"[2] gives background on the incremental changes that have increased life expectancy. ("Period life expectancy" is what is usually reported for a whole country. But cohort life expectancy provides a better estimate of future lifespans of young people today,[3] and is still steadily on the rise around the world.) Life expectancy at age 40, at age 60, and at even higher ages is still rising throughout the developed countries of the world.[4] It's great to hear that India is enjoying this kind of development too.

[0] http://www.prb.org/Journalists/Webcasts/2010/humanlongevity....

[1] http://www.demographic-challenge.com/files/downloads/2eb51e2...

[2] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science_of_...

[3] http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1...

[4] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=longevity-w...
Geeze, that's some truly awful CGI in the first section of that video. You can tell the director is well aware, too, cutting away at every opportunity - quite a contrast to the loving treatment the camera later gives the 918.

You'd think Porsche, of all companies, would spend a little more and get something that looks the part.
Thanks, interesting sources :)
In terms of IPC, I like Singularity's model a lot. You don't do any (slow) hardware boxing, only software-enforced isolation, so you're already in the same address space, which means sending data between apps is a lot faster.
Since medium also depends on Twitter, his page is no longer available. I checked @N_is_stolen page, it is fresh. So, all his posts in medium is gone, just because there is a change in username?
> Even though there was no evidence of copying—Vringo admitted as much

What a ridiculous system we all operate under. You come up with a mathematical formula for ranking some text on a page (in this case, what ads to show first), and you could now owe $250M/year to some company you've never heard of because they already bought the rights to that formula. It turns my stomach; sorry that I have nothing of more substance to add to this story.
I am the creator of the project. It is unlikely that plans and designs will ever become open sourced. Considering experience of DefDist and their issues with State Dept because of open plans of "Liberator" gun, we are being careful not to expose designs to outside of United States.
Apparently (according to the author of this blog post) it's worth 50k. That's at least moderately valuable.

shrug
Wow. I and my friend have build a similar project (similar technology, not topic). I will announce it here in NH, I am just afraid the tiny server won't be able to handle the traffic.

It just took him two days to build it. But I realize that we don't have your "Redo search when map moved". I realize that it is annoying that we don't have this feature.

Great work.
actually several twitter handles have been "sold" although the transaction was done in such a way that it was not as straightforward to get around the TOS

the most famous is the CNNbrk handle
All of the major operating systems depending on your definition of dick is the only one that comes to mind.
http://hover.com is my go to for domains
I'm a big fan of MG and this was so great! It really does paint the story in a new way. Thanks for sharing.

Still, David was intent on destroying Goliath. I want our company to be the best at what we do, but that's not the same as wanting to beat and/or destroy Google. I'd like for Google to stick around for a long time, inventing new cars and better internet and whatnot :)
Namecheap [1] & IWantMyName [2]

[2] http://namecheap.com
[2] http://iwantmyname.com
I am the creator of this project. We are doing pump-feeding because we have to grow as designers and analysts. First stage engines are going to be 9 times more powerful and will definitely need pumps. It is way better to mitigate risks by designing small scale low-risk propulsion system early
It's a close approximation of value.

Much closer than saying "I would sell this if I received a 50k offer."
Actually come to think of it, I like everything in the Singularity paper. We should do way more software-based enforcement and utilize compile-time and install-time verification to do things like avoid DLL-hell, etc.
> A better analogy would be an owner of a valuable piece of property who wasn't putting it to good use.

So if you were not putting your backyard to good use you would not feel too bad if your neighbors decided to encroach on it?
> Only @israel has been officially allowed to transfer hands for money, that I'm aware of.

Twitter: "I'm sorry, you can't do that."

Israel: "What are you, some kind of Anti-semite!?!"

Twitter: "OK, OK, go ahead and do what you want. See, we're not anti-semite :)"
Her: the movie every Internet addict should be forced to watch
namesilo has extremely tight security and is very price competitive:

* 2 factor authentication

* 5 security Q/A's before you can make an account change!

http://www.namesilo.com/Support/Domain-Defender

there is no WAY this guy would have had an issue if he was with namesilo and had both protections enabled

(I'm just a happy client and in no other way related to them)
I do wonder when we'll be able to order a motherboard and how much information will be available to create new drivers.
No domain registrar should be taking the last four of your credit card number as proof of account identity or ownership. We certainly don't. Have you confirmed they reset the password based on just the last four of the credit card OR was your account's email address itself comprised, allowing them to reset the password via your email address?
Is there a way to sort by points? I see only a radio button to "Sort by date."
I am the creator of the project. We are not expecting to launch nanosats higher than 400 km. or 600km in case of Sun Synchronous Orbit. All these nanosat orbits will degrade in 1.5-3 years and reenter and burn up in atmosphere.
I remember reading a Time magazine article about inflation around 1980 when I was at university. I remember it projected to the not too distant future (maybe to 2000?) and said, and I quote because it stuck in my mind; "We'll probably all make $100,000 then, but the downside will be that a candy bar will probably cost a whole dollar". I think of it whenever I buy a confectionary item, invariably for multiple dollars.
1 pound 10 shillings in 1945 (which would convert to $1.50 in 1965 with the changeover to decimal) becomes $98.74 in 2013. Ouch!
A standing desk. That is all.
Can't you sue paypal or godaddy ? Or better yet, both. Shouldn't be hard to track down the attacker either if you report the crime.
It's apples and oranges. In 1994 people went over 80mph all the time, and they still do. If you maintain a car well, it will continue to be able to do that. By contrast, though... a PC perfectly maintained from 1994 until now would be hopeless in today's infrastructure.
The US had no net inflation from 1800-1914, and endemic inflation ever since.
I've lived almost my entire adult life on a minimum wage budget (and/or close to it).

I think it really depends a lot on where you live. I live in NYC now, and fruits and vegetables here are about 75% cheaper than when I lived in the midwest. I can get a pound of blackberries for $2, when I'd pay probably double that for just a few ounces of them in my home state. Takeout is almost as cheap as cooking (filling, tasty meal for $4-5), which helps drives down costs when you're exhausted and don't have any more energy left to make something.
Yes, but given the distances involved in aviation, mid-airs are less likely than traffic collisions.

It is comforting to know that if you are religious about your preflight checks and your planning, and never fly in weather you aren't comfortable with, your odds of survival are greatly increased. How much is hard to tell, but making a hobby of reading NTSB reports shows you that the unavoidables - like wings randomly falling off - are pretty rare. Stupidity rules the day in aviation accidents.
Or maybe DNS should be secured with something besides the honor system.
There are finite resources in our light cone

Actually, if the universe is spatially infinite (which it is according to our best current models), this is not true even if we equate "resources" with "quantity of matter", which is what you are implicitly assuming.

However, this implicit assumption is false: what counts as a "resource", i.e., how much of what kind of matter it takes to accomplish a particular goal, is not fixed. It changes as technology and human knowledge changes. In principle there is no lower bound to how much of what kind of matter it can take to accomplish a particular goal, which means that in principle there is no upper bound to the amount of wealth that can be created with a fixed quantity of matter.
3 unanswered Bitcoin questions
Circumstantial evidence is used all the time to get convictions. It's not proof, but if there's enough of it it becomes very persuasive.