skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I chose M0 because you are talking about creating hard money, which is what M0 measures. When you create 7.5 Trillion in hard money, you increase M0 by 200%. My very rough estimate is that this will create 200% inflation, because M0 is the base through which all other kinds of currency derive their value (hence the name "monetary base").

Reserve banking doesn't cause inflation in itself as long as the reserve ratio is fixed, because a given percentage increase in M0 will result in a similar percentage increase in bank reserves (M1). So it is really down to M0, which is also the quantity that the reserve bank manipulates through its open market operations in order to execute monetary policy.

>I'll also point out that M2, not M0, is traditionally what is used to forecast inflation.

That is not relevant. Forecasting inflation under the current policy regime is a completely different matter from forecasting the inflation that your proposal would cause.
Why you shouldn't use Data Bags in Chef
thx Michael
interesting tweets from Jan Koum:

"Be so good they can't ignore you" - https://twitter.com/jankoum/status/262099630773399552

"If you run a startup and your goal is to get on techcrunch, you are doing it wrong." - https://twitter.com/jankoum/status/199240645745979392
As vi was a popular editor amongst programmers and system administrators, there initially was doubt whether Bram's 'improved' version could achieve the quality and fan following of the original. But since its first release for Unix systems in 1992, Vim has effectively eclipsed the original Vi, having won several awards[3] and has been referred to as one of the most popular text editors.

- Excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Moolenaar
Why can you just wear some of the freshest designer shit and put everyone you work with to shame causing them to step up their game?
The technology is amazing, but honestly these applications don't really seem that valuable, especially to the average user. Facial recognition is the main application of machine vision I can think of, but even that has limited utility. And I'm not sure if it will actually benefit from this technology.
I am about to finish CS106a which is designed in similar fashion. It uses ACM libraries. It was my first programming course and I think I did great[1]. Mehran Sahami is a great teacher and he presented lectures in a very digestible fashion. Also assignments are designed in a very doable way. It all turned out to be a very pleasing experience. There is no end to learning so I will have to spend some time learning the main Java class.

It also only supports Mac(Xcode) and Windows(VB) but I would like to use something like Qt-Creator on Linux.

[1] https://github.com/donniezazen/Stanford-CS106a
Whole Foods: America’s Temple of Pseudoscience
Regarding the final bullet point of doing a second validation, the sample size should be bigger right? Because of the tendency for winners to coincide with +ve random effects, you will choose a larger experiment size and expect to see a lesser result.
I read about half way through before realizing that I was reading your writing...you've switched up your spiel a bit recently I see. Usually it takes no more than 1 to 2 sentences to figure out it's you.

This isn't meant to be negative btw. I just think it's funny how I can spot your writing and ideas from a mile away.
+1. I have a personal email address of the form <first initial><second initial><lastname>@gmail.com and I get tonnes of misdirected mail from Sarahs, Samanthas, Sams and Sebastians. And that's with a second initial! I'm very close to moving my personal email to a vanity domain, for this reason alone. (It's also a bit smelly to rely on another company for your unique identifier.)
https://xkcd.com/1279/
Exactly. Cogent isn't shoving a burden onto Comcast because that "burden" is part of Comcast's value proposition to its customers. Calling it a "burden" is like saying that Zappos is placing a burden on UPS and should pay above the standard rate to have their product delivered.

Of course, UPS doesn't have a monopoly, so they can't get away with that crap. But they reveal the truth: this is all about leverage.
Yet these experiments like Firefox Os are exactly the reason why Mozilla is not what it used to be. And Firefox browser did not came out of the void neither, it wouldnt have existed without Netscape.
Looks like a quirk with display: -moz-box (an outdated property). Changing div.input to display: flex makes it work properly.
I use a chrome extension called Strict Workflow that is an implementation of Pomodoro (with website blocker), and I pair it with Any.Do's extension and have both right next to my browser bar. They work pretty well in tandem...
Depends on the setting, but in some settings I've felt overdressed and even gotten odd comments when dressing business casual. I interpret that to mean slacks and button shirt, plus sport coat when weather warrants (but not a suit, and probably no tie). Less of an issue in Europe than in the US afaict, although the opposite could be an issue in Europe (wearing shorts to the office is fairly unusual in many countries, even for programmers).
"Toss them some money" will turn into "lie down and let them bleed you dry" sooner or later once Comcast decides to launch a competing service.
I have no idea how Tier 1 providers work but is it possible that in the future (5 - 10 years) more will be sprung up?

Or is it so costly that it will eventually be a single tier 1 in the future?
Except they do compete for the same customers, no? The merger is with Time Warner Cable and not Time Warner.

However, even if they did merge with Time Warner, they would still be competing for the same customers, since Comcast is NBC is Universal.
I essentially did in the first sentence of my original reply - any foreign affair that could potentially involve our defense or economy is a valid national concern and therefore should be the reason we perform significant foreign espionage.

I do not follow where you are going with the lobbying/off-shoring concern? I do not have a position at this time, one way or another on the idea of whether a nation controlled by corporate-interests is sovereign or not... I could see arguments for both - I will say such a system is not democratic however - and I strongly opposed to non-representative forms of government.
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This is a video tutorial on how to rip Blu-ray 3D to anaglyph 3D. DVDFab Blu-ray Ripper (3D Plus) will help you to rip Blu-ray 3D discs into anaglyph 3D videos easily. It's absolutely a nice way to enlarge your 3D video gallery.Learn more about DVDFab Blu-ray Ripper (3D Plus) at: http://www.dvdfab.com/blu-ray-ripper.htm
Yeah, you start to think, wow, some criticism I hadn't considered before, then you see the word "VC-istan" and move on.
Mt. Gox Resigns Bitcoin Foundation Board Seat
The price of break can start going up even before money is printed. World reserve currency status is due to the fact that historically US Dollar was a very safe and reliable storage of wealth. As soon as talks of printing more money start circulating, people outside of US will start selling USD and buying EUR/Chinese Yuan/Bitcoins/local currency. Due to that, US Dollar exhchange rate can collapse and price of bread will definitely go up.

There is some flexibility - trust in USD is still very strong and US can print quite a bit before negative cycle kicks in but it defintely could not print as much as needed to make everyone rich.
Concept Of Security
There's ample precedent (Bell) for what will happen to Comcast, though the real issue is so long as US voters put more emphasis on hearing the evangelism of free markets then seeing the implementation, nothing will change.

What's needed at a low level is laws that provide general access to street-level conduits and cabinets so competing ISPs (i.e. Google Fibre) can actually start up competing services to the big providers. Unfortunately efficiency would demand some level of government subsidy and the chances of that in the current environment trend towards zero (i.e. it would be way more efficient to have the government pay for the fibre to the home splice, and then let the big companies fight it out over who gets to attach a router to that and how that router is serviced).
It is extremely short-sighted to look at the volatility of Bitcoin today and say "it can never work".

Volatility IS DECREASING over time, as the economy and volume/market depth on exchanges are increasing. This has been explained many times on HN.
No, it is not, in most countries. As bitcoins are considered a good, it is generally considered barter. A contractor can accept whatever they want in return for their services, and there's specific taxation rules set out for it, at least in the UK.[0]

An employment arrangement, however, might require that a reasonable currency (either the legal tender of the country, or whatever the court decides is reasonable in countries which do not have a legal tender) is offered. Certain laws might allow the employee to opt in to being paid in Bitcoin anyway; BitPay supports this in the US via their Payroll API[1], and I have yet to hear of any legal challenges to it.

[0] http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/vat/managing/special-situations/sampl...
[1] https://bitpay.com/bitcoin-payroll-api
Depending on whether the prisoners are able to determine the passage of time, this can either take relatively little time or a lot of time.

Easy: If the warden grabs a prisoner once a night, then the prisoners set up a system according to the passage of days.

Each prisoner starts with four "tokens." This means that in a prison population of 23 prisoners, there are 92 tokens in total for the prisoners.

We'll call the switches A and B. Starting off, A signifies 1 token. When you turn the switch on, you are putting a token into the switch. When you turn it off, you are taking one. B signifies 2 tokens.

When a prisoner visits the office, he looks to see if he can grab some tokens. If neither are on, then he puts in some tokens of his own. He will try to put as many tokens as possible in. So, for example, if he has 4 tokens, he will put in two.

Of course, if he has insufficient tokens, he does nothing.

After a predetermined period of time, the switches double in "worth." Switch A is now worth 2 tokens, and Switch B is worth 4. This will double again to 8 and 4, then 16 and 8, and so on, until they reach 64 and 32. If someone is able to accumulate 92 tokens, then it's apparent that everyone has visited the room at least once. Otherwise, it then starts over at 1 and 2.

We need four tokens for every prisoner because of a few possible extra tokens. If A and B are both on, then there are three extra tokens in the system. If you have fewer than four tokens per prisoner, it becomes possible to accumulate the required number without having everyone be in the room. You also can't have fewer tokens, because it would require that a prisoner collect tokens that might not actually be there.

Hard: If no one can figure out the passage of time, then they have to stay at 1 and 2. This will take much longer for someone to eventually accumulate all of the tokens, especially since all of them are trying to accumulate.

Edit: Here's a horribly written Python program that shows this process in action: http://codepad.org/iY121Ui3
I completely agree with your last point on getting feedback and iterating on your designs. Prototyping is such an important part of the design process. ABP (always be prototyping.) I wanted a prototyping solution that worked within a designer's existing workflow which is why we built Stand In [http://standin.io] on top of Photoshop. It allows us to keep the prototype always in sync with the design and truly becomes part of the design process — not just a step afterwards.
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As I recall, EGCS happened because GCC development had stagnated, if not stalled entirely.
Bubble 1.0 was greed without the knowledge on how to value digital companies properly. This phase is greed even after knowing how to value digital companies properly.

You will come off looking really silly if an attempt is made to make sense of all these on actuals and fundamentals.
> better health care and clean tech

Health care? Sure. The US via NIH, CDC,
etc. spends a bundle on health care, and
a lot of good research has made into
practice and helped people.

Clean tech? Sorry, I can't go along with
you here. If you mean cleaning up Lake
Erie and the Hudson River, okay. If you
mean reducing emissions of CO2 in order to
'slow global warming', then I can't agree.
To me the claim that CO2 from human activities
is a significant cause of warming the planet
is so far bad science and, really, a flim-flam,
fraud scam 'morality play' to get into boodle
bags.

USV shouldn't invest in health care. Why? Because
look at the VC firms that do: They commonly have
as partners people with good backgrounds in medicine
and medical science, lots of MDs and biomedical
Ph.D.s. USV does not have such people.
GrubHub Seamless Files Confidential Public Offering
Yes it's on by default in OpenBSD. This is the only distro I've used where that is the case. I think it's amusing. If you don't like it, turn it off.
In what way? The US government has done nothing to restrict the growth of the Internet compared to other nations that force national firewalls and web-filtering proxies on their citizens.
This could have been titled "The Rise Of Python".

Both languages have their uses. I write almost all of my code in Python these days, but fall back to Perl for complicated bash scripting. Shell scripts in Python feel clumsy, while Perl is very well suited for that environment.
Do You Want to Rule the World? – Gabe Leydon
There are probably not many markets in which Time Warner Cable and Comcast both exist. That's probably what he meant as its been a talking point.
> Comfortable rooms appear on flatshare websites from time to time, at typical rents of £600 a month in areas such as Richmond.

Even if you are working at minimum wage* you are earning over £900 after tax. Assuming you spend £100 a month to get to work, that's still £200 to spend on food, the pub, whatever else takes your fancy. You could also save more by not trying to live in one of the most expensive areas of London. When I was there (ok nearly two years ago now), I was paying under £400 a month for a rather comfortable (and warm) house share in South Wimbledon. It was zone 3, and took 25 minutes to get to work in central London.

*A 'living wage' of £8.80 has been getting popular over the last few years, I'll use the UK minimum of £6.31 though. Also, yes I understand not everyone can get a full-time job, but bear with me for sake of argument.
It doesn't bother me when people think I'm wrong or disagree, but just because I use "VC-istan" doesn't mean my ideas are wrong.

VC-istan is the perfect descriptor for that ecosystem. "VC-funded world" is too many syllables, "VC-land" sounds like a theme park, and Silicon Valley is a geographical location more than an economic sector. Nothing works as well as "VC-istan".
No joke, genius. By innate what we mean is that we should agree to protect them no matter where the person happened to be born. You sound like a sociopath, unable to grasp this concept that is intuitive for everyone else.
thx for your answer
Yes, I completely agree!

I tried to do an email campaign about a year ago and it was a nightmare to get good quality subscribers.

I would much rather have 1,000 people who really care about my newsletter than 100,000 that don't.
It matters because there is a clear path to profit (unlike the "give away money" model).

The market sees it like this: Their costs are high because they (Google/Youtube) are investing to support high growth. At some point the growth will taper off, and so will the investment (because you invest to support larger numbers in the future), but the money keeps rolling in.

Google has deep enough pockets to invest in that for a long, long time.
OpenSMTPD is great for people who need a basic MTA. The configuration is not voodoo and the man pages are good.
Too late to edit, so I'll add this correction: replace "sum of the squares of the hypotenuse" with "square of the hypotenuse".
> I supposed no one ever thought of cracking such password yet.

Good luck with that!
Client Side vs Server Side Rendering Redux
Perl missed out on the hype-bubble of the web 2.0 craze which shot Python and Ruby to the top of the charts in the early/mid 2000's. But it wouldn't surprise me if Perl was "rediscovered" at some point sort of like how JavaScript has experienced a renaissance since Node and the much-improved runtime engines showed up.

Personally, I have done a little work in Perl, but I never really considered it as tool I would want to build a large app using. I have always argued however that Perl is an ideal replacement for shell scripts and I have wondered for awhile what an interpreter shell would feel like if it used Perl as the language rather than say Bash.
I wonder where the no $ comes from.
We just won the award for bitpay integration at Launch hackathon in SF
We launched an MVP for a platform for gating content with bitcoin micropayments (potentially also not-so-micro payments) that we think could appeal to photojournalists whose content is credit to "Twitter" or "Facebook" by only serving blurred or otherwise degraded quality thumbnails or moderate-sized images to the public.

What's there now blurs pretty hard, but bitpay got our vision more than our core judges and gave us the award for best use of their invoicing api!

It was great fun and I think we'll carry this on and evolve it as new friends.

Crash us!
$25k in Cape Town? Won't go as far as you think.
Why the opposition didn't wait till the upcoming elections in 2015?
There can be only one. The "competitive marketplace" is a fancy name for modern gladiatorial combat, played out with pens and contract forms instead of swords and shields.
Paraphrasing

> the FCC has no good solutions.

Yes they do, declare broadband to be a common carrier. Force comcast to sell wholesale access to their retail pipes to other companies who then compete for the end users. We've seen this show before and have good solutions to the problem. It's time to treat the Internet as a mature public utility and regulate it as such, i.e. regulate it to maximize social good
I wonder if part of the value equation to Google for Google Fiber is to help balance their traffic.
The reward just keeps halving, so it only approaches 0 (well, until we run out of digits of course). And by the time that happens, transaction fees will probably already be more valuable than the reward.
Sure they haven't...
> like you not using OpenSSH because you don't like Theo de Raadt

It looked to me like people do this sort of thing all the time? This happens even in non-tech scenarios (e.g. not reading an author's works because you don't like his politics, even when the work itself is non-political etc)
For some reason I read "GitHub" and did a double take.
I disagree. PulseAudio is a prime example of Lennart confusing an issue that is fairly specific to Linux to an issue general to Unix. Other Unixes have solutions to the problem of a limited number of audio channels; in such places, PulseAudio only adds needless complexity. Had Lennart instead worked with the people of the Alsa project to improve it, we wouldn't have had any of the problems we saw with pulseaudio, and we wouldn't have yet another layer to deal with in handling audio.
The pulsar that munched a billion ton asteroid
That's not a bad model: the last mile is usually the most expensive piece of any network to install, after all.

The Australian NBN was going to be something along the same lines: Government installs the common backhaul, last mile and "points of interconnect" then the corporations can install their points of presence & if required they can provide their own backhaul too.

Sadly Rupert Murdoch's party has decided that further proliferation of the very model the NBN was trying to avoid is a better way of spending the money.
The market passed "$75 or $100" a while ago.

$60 is where things are at now:

http://orange.co.ke/smartphones_androids.html

$40 or $50 is the frontier:

http://www.pepstores.com/product/mtn-steppa/
http://memeburn.com/2014/02/huaweis-sub-70-smartphone-shows-...

$25 is the next wave.
There are a lot of published "case studies" in the internet marketing field that consist of a few hundred views and a handful of conversions. It is even more embarrassing considering you often need 100,000+ unique visitors and thousands of conversions to find real winners.. and you still have to deal with a reality that a real 'winner' may result in a drop off of sales (in lead generation), an increase in charge backs (if your conversion was a sale), etc. This accounts for a sliver of the regression to the mean mentioned in the whitepaper.

Tests have value, but just making your site/app very simple and completely non-confusing to the viewer can do something years of split tests will not.

I suggest running tests and monitoring metrics as you implement design changes, not so much as a magic eight ball, but to ensure you avoid truly catastrophic UI fuck ups.
In what possible universe could Perl be considered "straight-jacketed"?
You're a sociopath. I'm an equal human being, despite not being born in the US.
Both this and the visualisations in the article are created by Drew Berry
Have now done this multiple times. I suppose a lot of us are waiting for GitHub's next big move.
A fully functioning life-form depends on so many things going right. With such precision needing to be met, I'm just surprised that there aren't more debilitating genetic diseases out there and that so many people are seemingly healthy.

Of course, it also has plan B and C in case plan A fail and is remarkable at adapting. Just for example, look at all the people with genetic diseases still hopping along day after day.
If you look at the charts volatility has actually gone up quite a bit during the past year, then levelled out a bit then spiked this past month or so but it's not really started dropping at all.
That people are still fighting this I just can't believe. How can the internet not be viewed as an essential utility in the modern world is just crazy to me.
1. Software patents are a horribly harmful idea. The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals should never have allowed them.

2. WTF? Xenix and SFU were in no way central to Microsoft's business, and I don't see how Microsoft arranging other banks to invest in SCO's scam had anything to do with licensing. Besides, the SCO case was about copyright, not patent, and Microsoft funds other companies to attack open source.

3. Microsoft actually disbanded the IE team after IE 6. Nobody can develop more slowly than not at all. I'm still not comfortable with modern IE, because Microsoft is trying to standardize DRM.

4. Fragmentation was never a problem for Nokia before, and Microsoft is still on the hook for S40 dumbphones. It doesn't help to differentiate by standardizing on an OS that (almost) nobody wants, or else Think Penguin would have a huge market. Nokia was a horribly mismanaged company, but Microsoft was not without fault for its rapid collapse.

Microsoft was never fair to us. It's still not a fair company.

Society works well when we have diversity. Most people "grow up" and become jaded and don't change anything. But society depends on people keeping their ideals and trying to change things for the better. One way is by reminding people that what we have actually is pretty awful compared to what we could have. So, it's instructive to remind people that Microsoft is still evil.
Mockup.

This guy is talking about building mockups, and only mockups.

A prototype is a working version of all key features that can be used as if it were the final product albeit in a somewhat limited fashion (E.g. the edges aren't rounded)

A mockup demonstrates the value in a non-working fashion so people can respond to the general idea.

If you don't get mockup vs prototype right, it's pretty hard for me to value your opinion on these matters.
"Lying is a good thing"