skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't buy imported goods. I am talking about groceries and everyday life expenses including energy. Prices have definitely gone up. I keep my receipts for 5 years.
Yeah - I also think this would def work better with one-off projects (like wordpress set up) rather than for projects they have to plan for or need long term
I think it's fairly comparable to leading an open source project consisting of unpaid volunteers, which I have a fair amount of experience at.
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I've since increases since the sales tax went active that have nothing to do with a 3% increase, more like a 10-15 % increase in prices. Milk has gone up from 170 JPY where I shopped to 200 JPY in a matter of weeks. And that's just one item, I can give you dozens of examples like that. Anyone who's claiming there's no inflation is clearly blind or refusing to see the truth out there. Most of the time, these people happen to the politicians in power. Strange coincidence.
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One could argue that you're the one that's brainwashed.

>Japan's currency will never inflate because it's always been that way

I think you're going to change your tone very quickly over the next year or so. Japan's government has never set targets for inflation until now. They are sitting on the largest debt stack to gdp in the world right now at ~245%. They spend almost half their revenues on debt service ALONE.

What happens when inflation hits two percent? What do you think all of these people holding JGBs bringing in 60bp are going to do? They're going to run, not walk.

There was a day and a half when not a single person bought a Japanese government bond because the government wasn't purchasing. The government is buying ALL and I mean ALL the bonds right now.

They are printing as much money as the fed in an economy that is a third our size (~70 billion USD per month). They are going to double the monetary base in two years.

This is clearly unsustainable and the yen is in for some serious devaluation in the very near term when people start running from JGBs.
That's really great but the unsolved hurdle in solar power is energy storage. You can generate a large amount of energy on bright, sunny days but what happens at night when people go home and turn on their lights, television, and computers? Without a way to offer on-demand energy, solar will never be able to replace traditional coal and gas-fired plants. Wind power does fare better throughout the day, but is still subject to the whims of the weather. The big piece of the puzzle still to be solved is large scale battery/storage technology.
Hong Kong to lobby Google over the 'right to be forgotten'
Good thing mega.co.nz gives you 50GB for free. :-)

Also, BitTorrent was built for this, as mentioned elsewhere...
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I got a massive nostalgy rush out of the 0.5 screenshots.

When I was summer intern at Nokia back in 2007 we installed android beta version into N800 (the small Linux tablet by Nokia). And for maximum amount of trolling we even taped the text "gPhone" in it (iPhone had just been released).

This was absolutely non official but hey. It was fun! The actual port was made by someone at maemo forums so we didn't even waste too much work hours on it.
Air conditioning is a big power draw and peaks along with the sun.
The CSIRO really is a gem in this country's crown. The amount they return on investment given is really quite impressive and their focus is directed towards our partiuclar problems (e.g.: agricultural research, ocean-based research, etc.) which may not necessarily be considered as equally by overseas research centres.

To gut their funding is really very depressing.
I think you're pretty much correct. Kyle Bass has been talking about this for years.

When the Japanese hit 2% inflation, people are going to be rushing out of JGBs if the government maintains ZIRP.

This is a complex issue, so I'm going to refer people to this talk that Kyle Bass gave last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kFcDKBpdII
Interesting application of a series of moral principles. I do think you've missed a couple of reasons some people object so strongly to airbnb though. This service has the capacity to transform residential places with families into transient or tourist destinations. Even if the airbnb guests revolving in the spare bedrooms in the house next to mine are quiet and pleasant they aren't going to be a family with kids that my kids will get to know over the next decade of life.

I really don't object to airbnb' s existence. But I do think people in some neighborhoods should be able to trade their right to run a hotel out of their house in exchange for a legally enforced expectation that their neighbors won't either. This is critical for certain types of neighborhoods and is encoded in zoning laws.
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What happens when facebook engagement as a whole starts dropping? My news feed is maybe 5 real posts, 10 "upworthy" style video shares, top10 lists and "brand" content. The whole thing feels useless, and all the things I actually care about are buried under ads and crapware. Events and messaging are the main usable portions of the platform - I only know a few people who use those exclusively, and once they're off I'm done with facebook entirely.
Why isn't QI shown in America?
My reading of that statement is that "Passwords are strongly encrypted" means that they are stored securly such that the cannot be 'decrypted' even by someone with access to the database. This phrase is intended for people without crypto knowledge who would not know what a one-way hash is. The "using a one-way hash" phrase is intended for people who do have this knowledge and clarifies that they are actually using a hash function, and that the previous statement was just a simplification for lay people.
Quite a bit actually. Foams for instance are very easy and fun to play around with. Hydrocolloids aren't very expensive, let you do cool stuff, and often take very little time/effort to use. Toss an eight of a teaspoon of xanthan in your next salad dressing and watch it get creamy as all hell and not separate.

Beyond that, there's a lot of info in there about classical cooking too that is quite informative. You'll improve the performance of your charcoal grill by lining it with foil, for instance. It's neat seeing how proper wok cooking works, even though you can't try it at home because you'll never get a hot enough burner.
This was brought to my attention through the excellent (and highly recommended) Operating Systems class[0] in Rust taught by David Evans.

[0]: http://rust-class.org/class-3-zero-to-a-billion-in-486-years...
and again "dept" hmmm
"The $5.68 million research program..."

It struck me how tiny the amount of money involved here is. Let's say this engineering effort was a one one-thousandth step along the way to developing the technology into a major energy alternative. Then that would be, what, $5B?

Perhaps I'm overestimating the significance of this discovery.
There are two issues with most 'cognitive enhancement' drug regimens. On the one hand they are risky, potentially triggering or exacerbating existing mental health and neurological issues. On the other if it becomes an expectation that people will push their biology to it's limits for the benefit of their employers... we all suffer.
Ask HN: Is There A Steam-Like Service For Publishing Software?
I was thinking that Steam is the go-to multi-platform game selling/publishing service, and that every major platform has it's own software publishing store (e.g. Mac App Store, Ubuntu Software Center). Yet, is there a multi-platform service similar to Steam that allows you to publish software?
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It's tough for me. On the one hand, nobody likes patent trolling. On the other hand, one wants to support someone who would undertake such a monumental, bold project. Plus IV does some cool stuff in addition to trolling. Modernist Cuisine is a whole organization with lots of people that do phenomenal work.
Is Kyle Bass standing over your shoulder? ;-)

I think it's more like 25% of revenues, not 50%, but otherwise you're spot on. BTW, the bond futures market froze up last week, too.

But what you're forgetting is that our friend crdoconner has no problem with the idea that the government can print money and then lend it to itself at whatever interest rate it chooses. (Either that, or he doesn't understand the difference between benchmark interest rates and government bond prices.)
LLVM was a tiny project compared to what it became with Apple's investment. What LLVM is today is thanks to Apple's support of Chris Lattner.
Because the BoJ is going to keep on funding the government's debt forever with freshly printed yen, right? Which is just a complicated way of saying that the government is going to print money to pay for it's spending program.

You don't see a problem with that?
This seems like a good place to ask:

Why do people "become a fan" of a brand on fb? What value do people get from publicly declaring they like gatorade? I contrast this with the implicit declaration that occurs when I carry a gatorade bottle around, because in that situation presumably I'm enjoying drinking it.

I cannot see how doing so would benefit a) me or b) my friends who might see that I like gatorade.

It just seems like I'm a) giving fb more information about me and b) inviting gatorade to try and sell me things.

Am I wrong or is becoming a fan of a brand just all bad for the user and all good for fb/the brand?
If archive a program, it doesn't get erased when you clear the RAM btw. I put up with the little show and dance, but it was ultimately a pointless exercise. I'd hate to lose Tetris.
That will make things interesting. I think people elsewhere in the thread really aren't grasping the privacy implications.
Reducing the incentive to host uncompressed DVDs / BluRay?
I know this is not an option for a lot of people - it requires root access to the device - but there is an Xposed module which disables the popups for location services [0]. I use it with Tasker to selectively enable and disable location services, but it may help you.

[0] http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.mohammadag.disablelocatio...
Point taken! I'm not an expert.

As I understand it, a container of boiling water will have liquid in the bottom half and steam in the top half. As the pressure and temperature rise, the steam/water goes supercritial, meaning the water/steam boundary disappears and the whole container becomes a homogenous mush of supercritical fluid.

Am I right in thinking that this supercritical fluid can flash into steam faster than a combination of water and steam? My thinking is that for a water/steam combination to convert into steam, the water molecules have to take the time to break their bonds and separate into a gas. For a supercritical fluid it's faster because there are no bonds to be broken?

I'd be grateful if you can correct the above, as I can learn something here.
>are they that disconnected from their customers?

Kinda. It's Nintendo being Nintendo. Miss the boat on some trend, and rather than work towards fixing it, deny the trend.
You are right, a lot of women seem to be happy getting rid of not so great jobs and stay at home with their children.

But I think it is a social problem. This means a lot of jobs offered to women are shitty because employers know they will lose them around their 30ies.

Since there is social consensus to leave after a child birth, it makes it difficult keep the woman's job but with an alternative solutions, like part time, progressively returning after the leave or going remote.

I knew couples who would have wanted to switch positions, with the man at home and the woman working. It is not impossible, but there's a lot of hurdles and there is still a social stigma associated with.

Addition:
A secundary effect of women leaving after building a family: the man in the couple has to bare all the burden. The employer knows it, and the power balance changes. This is also a reason why some couples don't want childs, or young men don't even think about marriage (they assess there is nothing good for them in the deal).

The position of women obviously shapes the whole society, and its becoming more and more a problem on a lot of very different aspects.
Yes, the important thing is getting good information to the right readers, for whom it is relevant. Counting absolute page views is in the interests of SEO wizards and social media specialists. They monetize through page views and spam is a legitimate tactic.

It's hard to measure engagement on a news site when someone doesn't "like" and "share" the story because they don't want to share it with their social circles. If only there was a site that kept track of personal bookmarks.
Can somebody shed a light on what the ''a means in the Request type?

pub struct Request<''a> {
pub origin: &''a Request,
pub params: HashMap<String, String>,
}
>>>Japan's currency will never inflate because it's always been that way

Why are you quoting me? I NEVER said this.

In fact, I said the OPPOSITE - inflation is already rising in Japan and it is likely to continue to rise.

It's hyperinflation that I ruled out.

>This is clearly unsustainable

No it isn't. It's been said that it was unsustainable 20 years ago as I said above. This is why the ratings agencies IDIOTICALLY predicted Japanese default in 1997. Cue 20 more years of zero percent interest rates. They were a little bit wrong.

It wasn't unsustainable then which is why it continued for 20 more years. And it's not now either.
Does this mean we've hit peak prosumer? Maybe reading these in-depth reviews have become more superficial hobby than valuable information. The comments on reviews are just awful to read. There is always petty factioning, squabbling about inconsistencies of numeric rating systems, and "Let's keep this discussion civil" is now the contemporary version of "first post".

I rely greatly on in-depth reviews when I'm seeking information about high consideration items like computer parts, cameras, etc. Hopefully the distilled reviews aren't interpreted as "best in class" but are understood as "best for the average person's priorities given they can afford this item"
> Now, you have an object file, but to run the app you will need to link it first. Press ‘L’ at the Workshop prompt (it’s a hidden option)

Ouch.
That's a nice looking UI for an IRC. Did not work in windows :(
Garbage collection causes problems with memory pressure and pauses.

ARC is very little different for the programmer, but suffers less from these problems and is easier to integrate with C language code.

No reason for GC.
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Archive.org? Once you have an account: https://archive.org/create/
Depending on the brand some people like to see updates from them. Of course this isn't true for all brands and like batiudrami said people get tired of how often many brands post updates.
I'm looking at the bright side, it means that we don't even need to achieve speed of light to travel to other galaxies, because the universe is ever-expanding it means that some planets will occupy the space our planet is in now, so theoretically if we can figure how to live in a static point in the universe (e.g, absolute position, not relative to our solar system) some day in the future (millions of years from now) we could visit other galaxies.
>>There is value in degrees like philosophy and other "questionable" majors not directly related to their utility in the job market.

The problem is that this value is intangible and cannot help with more worldly problems such as paying the bills. Until we have social policies that take care of those worldly problems (such as basic income), people are better off treating undergraduate education as vocational training.
If you 'agree' with Chris Granger, perhaps you can name one of the mistakes.

Also - what good is Rust being developed in the open if it can't be used for production apps yet?
New trend to expect: People are so afraid of posting their real status because of privacy, that you won't expect anything meaningful from your newsfeed.
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We're assuming here that the Japanese government has the capability of lowering as well as raising spending if they feel inflation is too high. They can also raise interest rates and end QE.

So yes, explain why that would be a problem, exactly. In terms of real effects on the economy that the Japanese would experience.
I wouldn't call CS a "free service". It's supposed to be more of a community. It's great for meeting people and learning their way of life, but if I travel on business or when I know I won't have much time to spend with the host, I find alternative accommodation.
I'm not sure about gatorade, but with some brands it can be a show of support in the company's mission/values/etc. It could also be a smaller company that you just want to make the existence of known to your social network because you think their product will better everyone's lives.
I've witnessed this, myself. It shows itself as a lot of questions about what's going to be on a test instead of trying to understand the material.
Hehe. I love Kyle. He's really good at explaining himself.

I think you would have been right a couple years ago. Japan is projected to spend $257 billion on debt service this year. They bring in about $500 billion in revenues.
I used this game to intro kids to command-line usage in a recent Linux-for-kids class I taught. Worked wonders.

Once they were comfortable with the IF parser, moving to CLI was much easier.
I can imagine getting scared off by trying to address the quality issue- the Grey Lady is an institution, a lot of journalists aspire to work there, and journalism has been done in the One True Way for so long it's hard to imagine alternatives.

I remember reading a science article in Ars for the first time, and thinking "wow, this doesn't suck. I thought all articles about science sucked." There was even a link to the paper at the bottom! Ryan Paul wrote articles about programming and open source, and they were nuanced, coherent, and made sense. He could even program!

Still, this is all nerd shit, right? Real people don't care. Vox seems to be addressing this in other fields- you read an article about a speech (http://www.vox.com/2014/6/15/5812752/read-obama-s-full-speec... chosen by fair dice roll), the same article every other two-bit news outlet hammered together in 45 minutes. Then you go down to the bottom of the page, and you've got a bunch of explanations of every related thing. What, why, more details, links to rebuttals.

Still, politics is just nerd shit for innumerate white people. Real people don't care, right? Grantland writes sports articles with heat maps, diagrams, tactical explanations, as well as the usual platitudes about desire, and perfunctory examinations of the politics of sport.

Quality is an issue, and it's certainly becoming more pressing. As to whether or not people who are not insiders are interested in the opinions of subject matter experts over professional summarizers, we'll see. Not everyone wants to know more about everything, but everyone wants to know more about something sometimes.
> Pierce, who came to The Verge from PC Magazine, is familiar with granular, spec-driven reviews, but says that they’ve been thinking about doing reviews differently for a while.

Pierce is the most "touchy-feely" reviewer on that site. I've always thought his reviews were of very poor quality, and he was making up numbers out of thin air, and then made it so the sub-ratings match his overall rating for the phone.
If a Starbucks barista wants to pursue continuing education for free, why would you ever argue against that? Especially when 70% of employees wish to do so? Even if they only pick up a single additional piece of knowledge from the ASU program, they are a better person in the end. And, you benefit from that whenever you interact with the person.
I think your placing of John Gruber and theMacalope among the side opposite the "oceans of random trash" really says it all: the future of journalism is not two sides, it's just oceans of trash.

the future of actual journalism is probably something like Pierre Omidyar's new venture - Benevolent billionaires supporting actual investigative journalism because it provides some public good, and not expecting it to be profitable on a scale like big media houses such as the New York Times are expected to work.
It is very interesting that essentially there are causally disconnected subsets of the universe - each a sub universe onto their own. Although globally not possible, is the gravitational collapse scenario plausible for some of these causally disconnected subsets? Tying it with the fact that galaxies seem to be slowly eaten by their black hole centers, would this be an example of a local gravitational collapse?

And when this process is over, what happens to all the black holes, isolated from everything else.. do they just dissipate out, creating a uniform, cold, low entropy universe?
There was a US TV commercial which tangentially mentioned cerulean blue, intending to characterize a speaker as discriminating or picky. So even though I will now have to consult a reference to know what color it is, the name is burned into my memory.
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Ultimately AS a marketer, I'd agree that the point is to sell you something when you like my brand. It's inherently self-serving, but that doesn't mean that a brand can't bring you joy and satisfaction through their interactions with you online.

IE I like GoPro on Facebook. Ultimately they want me to buy a $400 camera and all the accessories, but they also inspire me with images and photos to get me outdoors enjoying things I also love.

So...complicated thoughts are complicated.