skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gold standard is also inconvenient for progressive policies: it removes the floating of currency exchange rates, which tends to act as an automatic stabilizer. See the Eurozone to see how this played out over the last few years, since the Euro has the same technical effect on the member countries. If a country like Spain had had its own currency with a floating exchange rate, that currency would have automatically devalued against other European currencies, which would have acted as a big boost to the Spanish economy via increased exports. Instead, Spain got atrociously high unemployment.

The gold standard is just inconvenient, period. It restricts the policy space for governments. This can be a good thing, but in democracies - where the government mostly does act in the interest of the population[0] - I would say that it mostly ends up being a bad thing.

> FDR temporarily unlinked in 1933 and we had the great depression

Yes, both of these things happened. The important thing is the order in which they happened: The great depression happened first. Abandoning the gold standard was a somewhat late and indirect reaction to that. In fact, countries recovered roughly in the order in which they abolished the gold standard (see e.g. [1] for references).

Edit to add: As to the history of coin debasement, I genuinely wonder whether historians have got their causality right. There appears to be a self-reinforcing belief that historically, coin debasement always caused inflation. At a superficial glance, that story seems to fit the data, hence the self-reinforcement. However, there are some episodes in the Roman empire where it seems plausible that causality could have run in the other direction: Inflation came first, and the coins ended up being debased to match the reality of how much (or how little) they were still worth.

I know that gold bugs must deny the mere possibility of such a "reverse causality" on quasi-religious grounds, but a sober look at the data leaves quite a lot of room for this. Some of the inflation values use price data that is almost a century apart, and a 5x increase in price over a century is actually relatively modest inflation on a year-over-year basis, if you take the exponential nature of inflation into account. This level of inflation could easily arise endogenously, say out of modest wage-price pressure effects. Changing the coins to adjust to a new reality after a century is then merely reasonable administration.

This is not to say that the story of "bad emperor flooded the market with coins to fund wars" never happened. It's just to say that perhaps history was sometimes more complicated than what fits into a bug's brain.

[0] Yes, yes, come at me with your cynicism; and indeed modern democracies are imperfect. But compare today to the middle ages without prejudice, and you'll see what I mean.

[1] http://www.nber.org/chapters/c11482.pdf‎
Governments have some control over the 'managing' and 'running' of the Internet, via TLD control, blocking, filtering, surveillance and legislation (e.g. the cookie law in EU), but even with all these in place, they're not really 'running' the Internet. If they did, there'd be no newsgroups, no torrents and no porn. They're seizing more control as time goes on, however: See the death of Net Neutrality in the US.

I'd like to see governments pledge to back off from the Internet. Unfortunately I can't see that ever happening. Forever pushing for more governance means that the non-government-approved portion will get bigger and erect more walls around it. If governments want to govern, they need to be more accepting of the 'net in its natural state and deal with it on those terms, rather than forcing citizens to choose to be on the 'light side' or 'dark side' (choose for yourself which term applies to which).
I disagree.

Although some people might take this tool and a list of NTP servers and use it to generate a DDoS against a site or service, it's worth seeing just how simple these attacks are by examining this tool.

They are trivial to perform and the solution, BCP38, needs to be rolled out.

http://blog.cloudflare.com/understanding-and-mitigating-ntp-...
Because it has been downvoted to oblivion. HN is a "community" and there are unwritten rules that apply. Being deliberately impolite, attacking another users grammar and not views (especially when the topic is not related to the English language) can have that effect.

Generally speaking, HN promotes constructive criticism and bashes trolling in direct or indirect ways.
Agreed, but looking at the answers to the question here, the wrong answers are just as present
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Super Hexagon creator releases Flappy Bird clone, and it’s fantastic
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I think the point was is that when the fat is removed from milk, it is not only fat that is removed, but also compounds that readily dissolve in fat.

This means that any effects seen could be due to the additional compounds as well as the fats that have been removed. I am not sure it is possible to distinguish what is the major cause for the effects seen.
+1 I know it because my English are poor.
Well yeah; that's the eternal issue generally; top managers are considered doing well because they dared to reorganized. That's great, but they also messed up; if they didn't there would be no need for the lay-offs; IBM is big; they can put those people to work in another division. So after the re-organization I would suggest the responsible managers are fired with a few weeks severance as well. That never happens though and no matter what people come up with as excuses, they never sounds very valid. Giving some guys a few million bonus (don't say that happens here, but probably will, learning from the past) basically for firing 10.000 people is a weird concept in my eyes and it will always be. The bonuses and other incentives for the responsible parties should be put towards re-educating and re-hiring the affected people in other parts of IBM (and whatever other company you put here). IMHO.
I just don't want it to be too easy for the script kiddies. Anybody who understands the vulnerability could write this pretty easily.
no matter what the intentions, this sort of notion that we have to formalize the governance of the internet seems like just the sort of thing to bring about a "death by committee" when it comes to internet freedom.

Personally, I don't understand how the current governance of the internet is an issue. The only thing that enables stuff like all the NSA spying is that American companies are by and large the major providers of services. No amount of governance will fix that problem.

On the other hand, many European countries do have some pretty heavy-handed approaches to information regulation, which I definitely would not want to affect the status quo.
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My 4 year old daughter was drinking a modest amount whole milk when the pediatrician recommended we switch to skim milk. We did, and her consumption of Milk more than doubled (skim milk is sweeter and lighter) and she got more irritable (more sugar?). We switched back.
Why I don't believe in scaling Agile to the Enterprise
I think the ultimate consequence of embracing Agility is not scaling it to the big corporation, but denying the reason for corporations altogether.
Chemically it is insulin that triggers the signal in our body to store fat. Carbohydrates trigger a large insulin response while fats cause no insulin response (protein is somewhere in the middle)

The nutrients in dairy are all fat soluble and so there some things that specifically target the excretion of fat from our systems. Drinking full fat milk will have more of those nutrients as it comes in bound to fat.

There may be some amount of causation going on because of milk (Dairy calcium specifically).

BBC documentary talks about the calcium thing here:http://vimeo.com/m/18339967

Gary taubes http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lDneyrETR2o and Robert lustig http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM talk about the carbohydrate hypothesis
You want governments to decide market winners and losers?! the fact that US companies are successful in Europe and Europeans are less so is partly due to the fact that they don't suffer from the backwards economic views you're currently displaying.
You are right.
We are naturally pattern seeking and everyone is trying to explain this complex phenomenon with causality. Is highly improbable that someone will know the real cause (probably is multi-causal), and more important, knowing it does not guarantee that it will work again.
What you can do is ride the wave, looks like we have a new flappy in town: http://www.topappcharts.com/568868771/app-details-adventures.... Currently at #5, now is time to start explaining how they got there, too :)
Slightly tinfoil hat rant there. The UK government does not decide what you watch, what they have done is pressure ISPs to provide optional filtering (set up by the ISP), with the default set to on. I don't like this and argue against it. It doesn't help my case when bullshit like this gets thrown about.
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Take this report with the same grain of salt it's recommending taking the conventional wisdom of avoiding dairy fat. These diet studies focus on extremely narrow questions and generally have homogenous (pun intended) population samples.

Ignore the headlines. The best diet advice I've heard is Michael Pollan's: "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."
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> make it illegal to say anything critical about the French government.

What?

I'm sorry but I think you don't know anything about France, french politics, citizens or whatever related to the Hexagon.
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Then you should start rebuilding the political system which defines DC. Corporations literally ARE the government, nowadays. (It was given the name "lobbying", but is nothing other than corruption that's apparently accepted by the voter/citizen.)
>Macros are just EVIL period, anything goes with them.

Have you ever worked with a Lisp? Macros are incredibly useful for all sorts of things. For instance, the 'if' form is a macro. So are 'define' and 'let'. For an example of something that isn't a core language feature, there's the SRFI-41 Streams API that uses several macros.

I know that this is trite, but as with any feature of any programming language, it can be abused. That doesn't nullify the benefits of macros.

>Good languages dont need macros

I hold the opposite opinion. Good languages need hygienic macros. Macros allow a programmer to build a language suited to their problem space.
Totally.

However, in case said "things" are not from the current year, it is a habit on HN to include the date in the title — at least the year, like so:

I challenged hackers to investigate me and what they found out is chilling (2013)

Also, HN Search has just been drastically improved, so, when your "things" are not fresh from the morning, please use it to look for older submissions.
Sixto Rodriguez singing "Sugar Man" in Background of this site.
Thank you, that line of reasoning makes sense.
Yes, it can get very complicated trying to handle all the edge cases as you described. I would guess doing it the same way erlang does it is actually the simplest: let it crash.

This gets into coding mindset, my impression is that most erlang programmers expect their code to crash whereas most other languages seem to lend themselves to expecting the program _not_ to crash.

I am not very well versed in erlang but my readings so far imply that the graceful handling of crashes is really where erlang/OTP shines. Regardless of the framework, I would say it comes down to proper queuing, being able to safely retry work, and to some extent having some smarts on the clients.
But none of those are solutions.. you've solved nothing.

"Whenever I start feeling sick, I just stop being sick and be awesome instead"
- Barney Stinson
I think especially beginners who learn from snippets and various sites often use code that is simply outdated and/or bad. They don't know any better so they use what works.
>PS - It's defeatist to say the following: "internet protests will never change anything in Washington."

You shouldn't characterize the dismissal of a single technique as ineffective to achieving a stated goal as some sort of a spiritual or moral failing (or whatever "defeatist" is supposed to mean other than 'a prediction of defeat.')

Would you say that the statement "your private prayers will never change anything about segregated schools" is defeatist?

Personally, I think that protests succeed through creating an intimidating public physical presence that actively prevents the behavior being protested against, or through the violent reaction of the powers being protested against to the protest causing outrage amongst passive supporters of those powers.

I don't see any way that banner ads fit into that.

That being said, it was a great effort to spread good and current information to people, and to remind Congress that we are a special interest group that needs to be catered to.

>Our elected officials heard us today - from seemingly nowhere, that the status quo isn't acceptable.

They hear this from abortion, gun rights, and immigration protesters on both sides every day, except for those causes, people are willing to fight to the death. For this cause, there's a webapp to help people send email. For a politician, choosing either position on any of the former issues will completely obliterate any influence that the latter will have on the vote.

We're really going to have to get together in real life, and make plans to make life unpleasant for specific people who oppose our goals and convince other people to do the same. The problem with that is that when you start doing that, you're going to go on a list, there are going to be informants that you think are your friends, and all of your communications and movements are going to be scoured for opportunities for parallel construction in order to imprison you or to blackmail you into becoming an informant. You may lose your job, you may go to prison.

There are a number of people who have committed to this lifestyle over the NSA issue. The strength of any effective movement is going to be measured by the number of those people.

As a lot of people have said, I agree that the most important thing that we can do is create channels through which they (and hopefully we) can communicate without being monitored. I think that a very close second is to create channels for the average person to be able to donate funds to the imprisoned without ending up on a list.
This is what all organizations do when they don't really care about something.
I think I will challenge the hackers to finish and polish all my half assed open source projects. I won't get a nice clickbait title, but maybe the world will have moved slightly forwards.
South Korea and Japan I can understand, but .... Italy?
I've tried it on and off but have trouble actually drinking a glass. Using it to make a rich hot chocolate works for me, but I can't drink a glass of plain, unflavored whole milk... just tastes gross, like I'm drinking some kind of butter-in-water mixture. Sort of how I like butter on toast, but not by itself on a spoon. (Warm whole milk, as is popular in some countries, is even worse.)
Grammar Nazis are not really that interesting.
The reason the big companies didn't mount much of a fight is because they benefit from the surveillance state.

Facebook and Google hoover more private data out of my life than the NSA ever will. They may have less sinister motives (I don't think Amazon intends to kill anyone with their drones,) but whipping up public ire about on-line surveillance will blow back on them.

So they go the Captain Renard route ("I'm shocked, shocked to see mass surveillance going on here!"): they put up token resistance, but they don't want to be too effective.
Are there just a lot of really rich people out there? Or am I over-cautious and they're operating without a safety net?

The Internet also has a lot of 25-year-olds dying of stomach cancer.

The likelihood that an individual person will have that happen is very low, but those 1-in-10,000 events are magnified by reporting bias (in favor of the unusual) when you're on the Internet.

Couple this with the positive reporting bias of social media, and it looks like there are even more very rich people than there are.

However, the answer is that there are still a fair number of rich people out there. Self-made tech rich people are extremely rare-- you're about as likely to win the startup lottery, if you weren't born into VC connections that take you directly to founderdom, as you are to win the lottery-- but there are plenty of people making money the old-fashioned way: inheriting it.
The 3 months of compensation mentioned here - is equivalent only to 1.5 months in any other country. So not overtly generous.

I'm sure their employment contracts mention 1-2 months of salary in event of termination (or a similar notice period in case the employee wants to leave) - so this is not more than committed.

(In India the "Base Salary" component is often 50% of FIXED compensation, not including bonuses. This is done to reduce the statutory requirements on the company, especially in times like this.)
Another good example of a Turing tarpit

My favorite is the OISC(One instruction set computer) http://esolangs.org/wiki/OISC

(Esolang is probably the best timewaster for language nerds)
In case it isn't apparent, IBM ported both V8 and Node.js to Linux/POWER as well as AIX/POWER:

http://v8ppc.osuosl.org:8080/job/Build-AIX-Node.js/
What about that French comedian that has your government exploring ways to ban his act? his material maybe reprehensible but in the US he'd have first amendment protection. Your country also has draconian and stringent liable laws, and I don't want it to have anything to do with Internet governance.
It's like asking "Why doesn't everyone know calculus in this day and age? It was discovered hundreds of years ago." Sometimes people are ignorant, lazy, under a time crunch, etc. When information became widely available(That SQL injection is bad and easy to fix) has little to do with how 5 random dudes working on a team write their code.
I'm French and I agree with him. There's no freedom of speech in France or at least it's seriously limited. It's easy to accuse anyone of hate speech for example and get him banned and fined. There's also offenses against the president and not to forget journalists getting mysteriously fired all the time because they were a bit too critical of the government.

France is also the biggest censor of tweets http://www.numerama.com/magazine/28312-la-france-fait-explos...
Not necessarily a substance already dissolved in the milk fat, but also potentially a substance already in other food or in the body itself that could be dissolved in the milk fat. A different kind of milk is going to have a different absorption profile, which could have interesting metabolic effects. While it's a bit counterintuitive that a higher-fat drink would be correlated to lower body fat, the body is a chaotic enough system that it's not entirely surprising.
Time-Series-Data-Store over LevelDB in Golang with HTTP,ZeroMQ api (almost stable)
And here marks the end of what the Internet was supposed to be.
"full of enriched this"

Before vitamin D fortification which began around the 1st great depression (1930s not 2007), bone deformities due to lack of vitamin D were the norm. Pro-fortification propaganda claims 90%+, anti-fortification propaganda glosses over it only being about half, and relatively minor. So the truth is probably in between.

Its very much like salt. If you know how and where you look you can buy nearly pure NaCl in a store (look in the canning aisle...) but anti-caking Mg salts and iodine are added. After that, gross levels of iodine deficiency were rare.

Or the TLDR is unless you're taking the proper supplements, you're better off not drinking "untouched except by pasteurization" milk. In some states its illegal to sell raw milk or in some states illegal to sell unfortified milk so if you really want to, you have a long evening with google to research which nanny state vs free state to visit and shop.

This is aside from the obvious issue that unless you're a baby cow, perhaps you're an adult human, you really haven't evolved to drink cow milk as an adult human so you almost certainly should not do so, at least not on a regular basis. Human milk would be much healthier balance of nutrients for a human to drink for obvious reasons, although culturally would be considered creepy, and your innards are way too old to be drinking milk anyway if you're posting to HN. Maybe you could industrially adulterate cow milk to make it nutritionally similar to human milk, that would be much healthier and not as culturally creepy as the real stuff.
If its so trivial why stress about me releasing it? I figured out how to write the attack from rfcs, wireshark and reports about attacks in early January. Also you can only launch an attack from somewhere that doesn't drop invalid udp packets (windows machines post XPSP2 and many consumer level ISPs) so it has skid protection naturally. To attack with this effectively someone could spawn a AWS instances id imagine.

Imagine my surprise as I was enjoying my cereal this morning and saw this on HN.
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The French Government had videos of Police officers mocking minorities removed from various news organizations.

Law for Trust in the Digital Economy (LCEN) Article 18 grants the French Government the ability to remove any content that may destabilize the public, hurt nation defense, or physically harm persons.

That being said currently France is ranked #6 out of all nations in terms of Internet Freedom, due to internet policing while being possible rarely exercised.
The article mentions several examples of real-world issues (in popular libraries etc.) that stem from this behavior. Writing a regular expression to match a single symbol sure seems easy until you realize some characters have a length of `2`, not `1`, in JavaScript (and some other languages).
Or for the functionally inclined - S & K combinators:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKI_combinator_calculus

I just found this document which describes a Q combinator that can be used to define S & K:

http://www.cs.uu.nl/research/techreps/repo/CS-1989/1989-14.p...
Engineering Complex Systems [pdf]
I don't know whether to agree with this or not. On one hand, a control point can easily be exploited by governments to censor and control users. On other, uncontrolled internet tends to form around where money is. And money is again in the governments that have enough to turn internet to their advantage. EC would be better after all, because that way we have to fight not with multibillion dollars of investments from large governments, but with votes while electing commission members.
Python isn't too bad (unless you're calling the script in a lot of separate instances), but python is fairly neat compared to ruby/javascript/whatever trendy language of the week as it doesn't need a huge pile of worthless dependencies itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

"The Unix philosophy emphasizes building short, simple, clear, modular, and extendable code that can be easily maintained and repurposed by developers other than its creators. The philosophy is based on composable (rather than contextual) design."