skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The trouble was that the exchange rate of dollars for gold was kept fixed, while the Fed had been inflating the currency since 1914.

The Federal Reserve's gold reserve requirements and the gold price of the dollar were set by Congress.

> By 1930, the dollar had inflated by 85% or so

This is not the normal meaning of the word inflation. (Nor do I know where your 85% number comes from).

> meaning that you could roughly double your money by trading dollars for gold.

That's not what that means. If that were true then the gold standard would have failed the minute that gold was worth 1% more than its dollar equivalent.
Samsung smartwatches run on Tizen
What stops pirates from doing that to manned ships now? Nothing, as your stories indicate.

The crews on cargo ships are there to operate the ship, not protect the cargo.
The art incubator: kickstarting the business of design
Twitter restores $50,000 N username to its owner
Well I've never really liked the new UI paradigm in Office 2007 and beyond: it's just very messy to do even simple things. With LibreOffice there are certainly some UI issues as well, but it's closer to Office 2003 in terms of how things are organized.
This seems very similar to a YC S11 company - picplum.com - which shut down at the start of 2013.

What challenges did they face, and why are you better?
Well it sort of lives in both worlds. It does some some problems better, some not so much.

It is a quantum computers as much as you can build a specialized FPGA or ASIC that does SHA256 hashes really well then kind of think, hmm, where I can use this awesome feature and what problems can be reduced to computing SHA256 hashes? Is that a "computer", well, kinda, maybe.

> but it can't solve problems of the size we could if we had a 509 q-bit regular quantum computer.

Well yeah because it is not really a universal computer and it is controversial and they are being sneaky about it.
> The Federal Reserve's gold reserve requirements and the gold price of the dollar were set by Congress.

Yes.

> This is not the normal meaning of the word inflation. (Nor do I know where your 85% number comes from).

Perhaps I should have said deflated. Anyhow, it comes from any of the various historical inflation calculators you can find on the internet.

> That's not what that means. If that were true then the gold standard would have failed the minute that gold was worth 1% more than its dollar equivalent.

I too find this surprising, but it happens again and again whenever one currency is artificially pegged to another - nothing happens for years, and then a wrenching correction.
Funny T-Shirt commercial
yes, because teaching the children living there that white people are rich and you can never be white is worse than being accosted by rich people from another land who at least look something like them
It should stop when the mouse is over the marquee!
I hope not. Everyone expects billionaires not be massive philanthropists like Gates and Buffett and Carnegie. You can have Ellison, I guess.
CL is not a good place, great sales people are rare and they dont hunt around on CL. I would find an already successful enterprise software sales person in the space you want to be in. He/She probably already has a job but sales people sell and they love have new things to sell. It may take some convincing but keep persistent and you will find someone.

The salesperson does not really rack up the dollar amount on a feature by feature basis. There is not some line item set of features each with a price. They are buying the whole thing - the feature dance is all about ensuring the customer (whether you have the goods or not) that your package will fit their needs. Large corporations have evolved themselves into a potpurri of rules and processes for how they do things. They dont make sense in most cases which is what prevents them from using a low barrier to entry tool like something a small startup might make - basically, they cannot change their process to fit the software, they need the software to fit them. None will, I repeat, no software from any vendor will fit their business...the salesperson has to convince them that you are the best company to make it fit.

Preferably dont hire guys and manage, hire no one and do it yourself. When you are working way too much, have not enough time and a mountain of work ahead AND signed deals with customers (including checks) then hire someone. Repeat this process. DO NOT HIRE people until you absolutely need them.

If the sales person is any good, he had the next lead before he left the last meeting. When you find a good one you will have to tell them to slow down.

Pricing is a black art, too low and no one takes you serious, too high and you become a budget item that needs to be planned for and the sales cycle goes on for over a year which gives competitors more chances. Feel out your customer, ask them directly what their budget is...but mostly let your sales person worry about that.
Care to say which companies do these tests?
White people are finally starting to "get it". http://youtu.be/dyf2Cf5GkTY See Dambisa Moyo's interview about her book "Dead Aid" The statistics showing how aid is actually hurting African countries and not allowing them to develop on their own the way the rest of the world has.
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It would be wrong if you didn't.
I use BitBalloon!

Basically, I build static sites for some small businesses in the area. They want to be able to choose where everything goes, to the pixel, so it's easiest to work with just html and css. Then I can upload to BitBalloon and everything works exactly as it did on my laptop. Forms work, everything gets optimized, and setting up my own domains is super simple. And it's cheap.

I could use S3 or something else, and it would be cheaper, but deploying in a half second really is useful. Everything is done right with no effort on my part other than building the site itself.

I also built a site just for fun and host it there. 750,000 page views in the last couple weeks, didn't worry for a second. http://gallerrit.com/ It has also been very easy to push updated versions with no down time.
resell ?
You're wrong, it's not easy, the value is not in the code, it's in the network, and no one has shown they can replicate the power of the bitcoin network. All alt coins combined are but a fraction of bitcoin.

Also, early investors always get rewarded disproportionately, that's compensation for taking the risk, it's not something wrong, it's something right; they should be rewarded for giving you a peer to peer distributed payment system that's better than western union and better than credit cards for online use.
The interesting thing is that this is single system image - it just looks like one very large desktop computer.

EDIT: add "single"
What do you mean by "are you me"? :)
Drone helicopters.
How does a US court successfully subpoena a Japanese company? What happens next, extraditions?
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I'm not sure if you are the author, but I get some kind of failure page and redirected to https://atom.io/auth/failure?message=invalid_credentials&str...
Literary Allusion > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden
Most Peace Corps type voluntourism works on the premise that throwing "white" folks into a country and telling them to fix things will generate results. This is because, you know, we understand the incredibly complex social, economic, political, and cultural dynamics of countries better than they know themselves.

We're better educated, and if these backwards countries would just start doing XYZ they'd start to lift themselves up and out of poverty. You know, things like alternative livelihood by making souvenirs out of trash. That's the ticket.

But we don't understand the issues and aren't equipped to be able to even determine what a particular region of the country actually needs, especially not in 2 years or less.

Real results can only come from funded research into what the underlying issues are and how best to combat them. Also, if the United States weren't so economically oppressive.

I disagree however, with the notion that being "white" is a hindrance in the developing world. Being "white" is an advantage everywhere.
well... the example from the book is a rather good one, but I rolled my eyes too.
Where were these zealous prosecutors during the global financial meltdown in 2008? It would be nice if people went to jail for fraudelently representing mortgages.

I'm fine with Gox getting investigated, too, but justice shouldn't depend on who you are.
If you think your going to need servers down the road on AWS I would look into reserving a bunch of servers on three year terms for medium usage. Pay upfront using your credit and save money later on down the road.
That's all well and good, but Mt. Gox likely won't conduct any more business in NY. It gets even more problematic if they don't actually operate any legal entity in the U.S.

The U.S. may enforce its laws upon U.S. entities, but it has no authority to do so on e.g. a Japanese one, unless a treaty/agreement exists that facilitates it. This is why China-only companies that engage in IP theft (or vice versa) aren't being hauled into court on the daily. (You wouldn't be surprised if I said China can't enforce its laws on a NY company, right?)
If you really want to help people, find a charity to donate to via Givewell. It won't feel as warm and fuzzy as volunteering, but in most cases that's the best way you can actually help people in need.
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Any word on how to get in on the beta?
> I asked how she got that gig, and she told me a story about her going to Tanzania to build a school. She decided to make a real difference.

When you (or she) don't explain how she got from A to B, your epiphany has a lot less force. Most kids that come back from these trips seem to have no idea that they weren't helping. How did she realize it? How did she do something about it? How did she start actually doing something?
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Will it save my documents in a compatible format to Office 2013? I've had Excel documents go corrupt or unreadable on Excel desktop app. As much as I use Excel at work and home, I'm staying away from their online thing with most of my work. Been burnt enough
I just wish the Tasks/To-do portion of Outlook.com/Live Calendar would sync to anything on a Windows 8 desktop.

My girlfriend has a WP8 phone and a Windows 8 laptop, and uses Live for all her PIM stuff -- but there isn't any way to get Live Calendar tasks/to-dos on her desktop. It works on her phone though, so go figure, and it also works in the web app.

This is what frustrates me with Microsoft. They have cool features and neat applications, and the new integration across devices is awesome... but they miss these little details, and that ruins the experience quite a bit :(
And it's totally gonna be awesome. I'm fairly confident they built it around node-webkit or another wrapper, perhaps in browser, I'm not sure.

What's important is that it's a text editor on top of web technologies. I was poking around doing the same a couple months back, brackets has been doing it for even longer. It's honestly sorely needed because of the amount of expression one can put into due to it's technological stack. An open, compile-less, hot-reloading editor sounds like a dream coming true.

I'm excited for it.

It also appears to be built around react, so that's really cool as well. And the code is simply great.
Ask HN: Will webfonts ever be good enough?
How do we get webfonts to have all the benefits of system installed fonts with none of the downsides?
Great! What does the paper say about overcoming some of the problems that seem to make it tough, like the radiation that humans will receive riding up, or avoiding space debris? I'm assuming problems like building a rope strong enough to hold its own weight will be overcome, as well as developing the technology to climb the elevator.
i'm waiting for vbscript or excel macro to enable first. then can suggest customer back.
Working Backwards to the Technology
I have seen, heard of and have been invited to participate in these trips. Some are NGOs, some are religious groups.

Yeah, looking at it from the perspective she wrote, it seems ridiculous. It is an "industry", wrapped in a non-profit, save-the-world PR shroud, that caters to educated, Westerners who can afford to travel overseas. People feel good when they do good. Whether they other side perceives it as good, sometimes it is not clear.

One can ask, is it better if these "unskilled" people never left home? Maybe even with all the seeming waste and incompetence, it keeps people engaged. I suspect most of them would not have just taken the money for that plane ticket, and handed that check to a NGO that knows better how to spend it, and could build 10 libraries for all that money. But I am afraid it is either "send the volunteers and keep them engaged somehow" vs "don't send the volunteers at all and say goodbye to that money and resources".

People like to help others, people like to tell stories, like to have adventures. These trips cater to that aspect. Do people in Africa feel better knowing that foreigners want to come in and at least try to slap a brick on top of another even if they don't know how? I see a lot of criticism of this here, and rationally I agree, but I also feel there is a bit more too it and I personally am on the fence whether this is good thing or not.
Pretty crazy! Here are a few interesting plugins in there already:

- vim-mode
- fuzzy-finder
- emmet (aka Zen Coding)
- solarized-dark-syntax (heh)
- snippets (check)
- language-* (check; so many; awesome)
- timecop (tracking where time is spent in the editor)
- editor-stats (graph your mouse / keyboard activitiy)
- ...
I must not understand his methodology, because if you're willing to meet at an interim stop (as in the examples above), then it's easy to save quite a bit more than $2.05 just by swapping with someone who is taking almost exactly the opposite route as you.

For example, if you're making the long trip from San Bruno to North Concord / Martinez, that'll cost you $6.95. If someone is traveling from Pittsburg to South San Francisco (almost exactly the opposite route), then that would normally cost them $6.70. But if you notice that their destination is one stop from your starting point, and vice versa, then you can meet up at any station in between and swap tickets, so the ticket you started with travels from San Bruno to South SF ($3.10) and their ticket travels from Pittsburg to North Concord / Martinez ($1.85). Instead of paying a combined $13.65, you pay a combined $4.95.

What am I missing? Are those twitter data scientists just not that bright? ;)
The key word in your comment is 'suddenly'. I'm sure it was nothing like waking up one morning and finding $400000 in a bag outside his front door.
MPAA’s latest anti-piracy move accidentally screws Hollywood studios
Xkcd/now
Never had to deal with takedowns personally.

I do personally know of a company that's paying for rights to use very short sound clips from movies though (from a very small library at that) - so it probably is on the studios' radar.
Removing the pain points from Android development
I've always found https://www.quantconnect.com/ more interesting. They're just not as good as Quantopian at generating some buzz.
The OP suggests that their presence is actually detrimental, not just useless.

If so, then, yes, it would be better for them just to stay home, even though only a fraction of the money that people would have spent on their own trips will be donated outright.

It seems likely to me.

It is comfortable and positive to think along the lines of "If even one Westerner gets more engaged, it's a success!" but why would Westerner 'engagement' be the metric of success? It's not about the Westerners.

> Do people in Africa feel better knowing that foreigners want to come in and at least try to slap a brick on top of another even if they don't know how?

The answer to this isn't really unknown or unknowable: No, hardly anyone feels that way. Why would you feel better because a foreigner is coming and fucking shit up while you have to pretend you believe they're helping because they have so much more power than you?
Yes, that is the same as the Dwolla seizure. They had a Wells Fargo Business bank account linked to their Dwolla account. That is the 5 Million that was seized purportedly in connection to the investigation into Silk Road.
I see this as an ongoing model/strategy for grocery stores and other retailers: Taking the Amazon approach where they're just distributors, and you pay for the shelf space, and a fee per transaction.

The manufacturer/distributor sets the price and the grocer could care less whether any sells at all, as long as they find a way to keep getting foot traffic.
Hmm, I spoke up for Uber at SF MTA meetings and made strong arguments for them here against the incumbent taxi monopooly when they were getting off the ground. Although I have never used the service, I believe it provided much-needed competition.

On the other hand, I'm disgusted by Uber's bullshit legal argument that drivers are only employed by Uber during the time they have a passenger in the back, as a tactic to avoid liability in the case of an UberX driver that hit and killed a 6 year old child in SF last New Year's Eve. If they're logged into your app and checking for fares, then it's little different from being available for despatch in the same manner as a legacy cab (see http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Uber-sued-over-girl-s-... for a summary).

Uber is trying to have its cake and eat it here. I'm not inclined to support them if they're going to build their business model around offloading externalities onto the public.
Stolen from tech writer, Google Glass dutifully records the suspect
The fragile humans could still hitch a ride on a (reusable) rocket and extraplanetary garbage collection is something that is currently being proposed and could be a good source of materials too.
This list is amazing. On a related note, I only found out last year that the ever-mysterious "CGI Scripting" I remembered doing in my youth was actually just Perl the whole time.

I had guestbooks in CGI, tagboards in CGI. And you guys remember Greymatter, right?

How about b2?

I still hold a grudge against Wordpress for over-complicating what was a simple, bare-bones blogging software.

Ahhh, the 90s and early 2000s was a great time for the web.
Sure, it was just meant to be a joke.
The choice isn't giving $3000 to be a voluntourist, and give $3000 to a charity to hire locals to do the work. The other choice is to go to Europe and blow $3000 having a good time.
Flattered to see it using marked for the markdown engine. Maybe the world is finally ridding itself of showdown.
Thanks for putting this together!

My immediate question was whether another compiler might be more competitive with the assembly. On my Sandy Bridge processor, I found that although GCC was the slowest, the assembly was still the clear winner:

gcc 4.8.0: 0.801596113 seconds
icc 14.0.1: 0.739297534 seconds
clang 3.2: 0.706446818 seconds
assembly: 0.104038212 seconds

I was surprised by Clang here. It's an older version than the other two, yet fastest. A quick glance at 'perf stat' (which I used for the timing) says that although it's executing fewer instructions per cycle, it's managing to use fewer instructions than the other two.

Although it doesn't seem to make much of a difference here, those are odd flags for Sandy Bridge. Core2 is a previous generation, and it supports AVX which came out after SSE4.2.
If you did to specify SB, you'd want the unwieldy "-march=corei7-avx". But probably better just to use '-mavx' or 'march=native', along with -Ofast or -O3.
Bill Gates fights incredibly hard to try to prove that aid is incredibly effective and considers this a "myth" to be dispelled. What do you think about the concept?
To be fair, American blacks run significantly lighter than African blacks.
I'm using kiva.org and have deposited $9,000 over couple of years.
With auto-relend option my account circulated currently $58,325 through 2,268 loans (individuals or groups) in 61 countries.

http://www.kiva.org/lender/kizaemon

For auto-relend I chose all countries except US, both genders. The sectors are Agriculture, Clothing, Education, Food, Health, Manufacturing, Retail. Have not chosen sectors Arts, Construction, Entertainment, Housing, Personal Use, Services, Transportation, Wholesale, as I do not feel these are basic enough.
I read "cyberspace" as a whisper.
http://www.lib.ru/GIBSON/neuromancer.txt_with-big-pictures.h...
Love C9 as well, been a big fan of that one since its early days, thanks for adding that!
Fuuuuuuck man, anyone remember ActiveWorlds?
"Who buries $750,000 in tin cans?"

Not quite the same amount, but my grandfather buried around $10k a few decades ago in his backyard. He'd migrated from Europe where he was well-off and lost a large amount of money entrusting money with a lawyer. I think he also had reason not to trust banks, but can't remember specifics.

Fast forward to Australia where, now decidedly working class, he had saved up a new sum and wanted to store it. So he buried it. Years later, before moving house, he went looking and dug over the backyard but couldn't remember where he'd buried the jars of money. Somewhere in suburban Adelaide, there is likely to be a stash of money under dirt.
The writing isn't too hot, either.
That just means you get to the high-radiation regions faster...
I'm not an Evil expert, but my experience were that the conflicts with existing Emacs keybindings made things more frustrating. As a vim user interested in Emacs I'm trying to avoid Evil and other "90%" vim emulations from now on as well.
The crew doesn't prevent cargo theft by force, they prevent cargo theft by acting as a layer of surveillance. It's obvious the eyes of the crew can be replaced by cameras.
Chicago's new police computer predicts crime, but is it racist?
haha, yeah, same I started out on BBS's with a 1200 baud modem and that required serious patience (better than my grand father who had a 300 bps acoustic coupler). We moved interstate and I had no ADSL for a week. I set up a modem, and it had been _years_ since I used one. I forgot you had to enable error correction in the init string (modem init string, remember those!), and so the connection was so bad I couldn't even get a page to load.

Thankfully there's mobile tethering/hot-spotting now
Tweeting the entire film (24f * 60s * 110m) every half hour for a month (2f * 24h * 30d) would leave the film at the first minute of credits. Obviously that wasn't what was going on.

Now, if you will, try to define 'commentary' and 'parody' in ways that are culturally relevant to the audience. That's harder to manipulate than numbers. The definition of fair use relies heavily on the context. Is this any different from gifs on tumblr?
We may have crossed a wire or two.

By "we" I meant everyone who is not a spy. By "they" I meant the spy agencies. And so, if the spy agencies take an interest in some activity, it becomes by (their) definition terrorism, so that they can claim that it's within their charter.
Fair use doesn't revolve around commentary/criticism/parody. That's just one factor. Not that the other factors are super favorable to @55uhz, but at least one of them (effect on market for original copyrighted work) cuts in their favor. Nobody's going to watch the movie in super (duper) slow-mo instead of buying/renting/streaming it. If anything, it's helping the market for Top Gun. The other factors are less favorable, and there's of course the question of how the user got the frames in the first place—if he ripped a DVD he might have violated the DMCA, which has no fair use exception.
Oh god! they found a way to get back into the ludicrously priced computer market!
Why wouldn't they just implement a stop/start button and a zoom out/in button? If you want to return to a missed word or reread a section, zoom out to see a page and then touch a word.