skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And this is exactly why some inflation (caused by QE and a falling yen) would be a good thing - delays in consumer spending are a classic pitfall of deflation.

What do you mean by "delay in consumer spending" ? Oh, you mean like in the US when people buy everything at credit so that they don't have to wait, and have zero savings and huge debts as they go ? Is that the model you recommend ?

> This doesn't sound like an issue of the average Japanese citizen knowing less than the establishment or vice versa, but of individuals making rational economic decisions are good for them, but bad for the economy as a whole.

You fail to incorporate the bad decisions from the japanese government which are bad for the economy as a whole. As if it were JUST the fault of dumb people. Yeah, elites know much better :D
The source used to even work under Mono http://rtlsdr.org/softwarelinux
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I felt weird self posting. My curiosity of others thoughts overwhelmed any shame or other things stopping me.
Inflation/deflation indexes are massively skewed if you don't incorporate the right things into it. How sure are you that these indexes are factually correct?
It's almost funny, but I often point to Amazon's video choices to be an example that's worse than Netflix... I actually have a Prime and a Netflix account, though generally prefer torrents. :-/

I really wish that Netflix's UI wasn't so attrocious.. when I'm in a browser, there are so much better ways of interacting than what they offer... for a tablet/phone I kind of get it... the problem is the box covers aren't great for navigating quickly... Many of which you can't even tell what the movie is without hovering over.. or the cover doesn't offer insight.

Especially when it comes to discovery. They also offered multiple users for interacting far too late.. too many devices are tied to the default account user.

I'm not sure what the best option is.. but it certainly isn't what's in place, and could be much better..
>>"Enter the agents. Solomon describes himself as an equalizer. In creative industries, he told me, 'there’s always this pattern that the creatives start out at the bottom of the food chain and are exploited.'"

Even recognizing that the current hiring model has major inefficiencies, it's hard to not see this as awfully ironic.

>>"part of our goal is to de-risk freelancing and make it more viable. [...] She also appreciated that they had been vetted for interpersonal skills. At one point, they had to speak directly with the health-care company’s New York offices. 'They were good,' she said. 'And it wasn’t embarrassing to let them out of their cave.'"

The value proposition of the agent, pushing both technical and personal professionalism of candidates, should be addressable through a reputational system that doesn't take 15% and require ad hoc negotiations. It would, however, have to be complex enough to address how well certain talent is at addressing specific projects. How much of that is a lack of proper metrics and how much is the hiring party's inability to frame their needs?
Related[0]:

"Many people with cognitive disabilities have a great deal of trouble with blocks of text that are justified (aligned to both the left and the right margins). The spaces between words create "rivers of white" running down the page, which can make the text difficult for some people to read. This failure describes situations where this confusing text layout occurs. The best way to avoid this problem is not to create text layout that is fully justified (aligned to both the left and the right margins)."

[0] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/F88.html
What technology do you use for something like this? And I agree with arb99 that this can be abused by spammers.
Why is android testing so fucked?
Well, lets face it.If Japan is so reluctant to accept Chinese/Korean/Other Asians, whose appearance and culture are perhaps much closer to its own than other countries, it will only be harder for it to embrace the rest of the world.

It is pretty much like Asians in US sometimes being called as perpetual foreigners, even if some of them might been in this continent for generations.

Assume Japan is ever going to change its immigration policy, it will surely starts from developed countries and its neighboring states. But as I said in the above comment, the charm around Japan is vanishing, so even with a more friendly immigration policy, how much it could help Japan step out of painful declining is questionable.
that's a deliberately obtuse response formed by avoiding reading the 478 words of supporting detail immediately following. Certainly there exist csvs mssql will import. But I've run into problems with nested quoting, commas inside fields, and unicode. I'm apparently far from the only one. So I think it's hardly hyperbole to say mssql doesn't support csv.
> What they need to do is figure out a way to grow the population locally or through large-scale immigration

Or drastically increase productivity, or have more people join the workforce. Women are massively under-used in Japan. There's no need for immigration as long as there is a large untapped segment of the population not actively employed.
> "I am left wondering why Google wants this information directly from the merchant"

One possibility: it associates an online identity (@gmail) with an offline identity (credit card, physical address). Facebook has a deal with Axciom to cross-reference online & offline.
Where'd you get that info?
Great point.

This is easily observable in the idea that an artist refines his or her's own style. For example, I recently toured the Andy Warhol museum, and the progression of his style/projects were clearly showcased.

Certainly, people recognize him as having an intrinsic talent, but one that he built on to create some of the works for which he is most recognized.
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Web scraping is generally considered legal, if you are following a sites robots.txt. Otherwise, sites like archive.org would not be possible.
But can it resolve method calls (in C++, or really any language) to the correct methods, rather than just listing all methods with the same name implemented for any class?

I doubt it, since this basically requires a C++ compiler and GLOBAL does not seem to have that. Yet that is what, after years now, I'm still looking for for Vim...

Incidentally I remember there was a work in progress code navigation system posted to HN semi-recently (written in Go?), but its name eludes me. Anyone want to point me to it? I'm curious how it's progressed since it was posted.
If the Netflix TOS is violated - isn't this illegal? If it is how has he managed to fend off the Netflix lawyers?
There's a lot of interesting backstory on the Heimlich family.

One son goes on to accuse him of fraud: http://medfraud.info/

Another becomes a Cincinnati religulous politician: http://philheimlich.com/
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This debate has really been bothering me and making me anxious the last couple of days. I haven't been able to sleep. I need to know something, are you self-taught in quantum mechanics or do you have a PhD in theoretical physics?

I'm not doubting your argument, (for all I know you're a well-known physics professor), I would just really like an answer to this question, as I think it would put my mind at ease.
See my message to Lisper.
Ask HN: Is there ever an excuse for browser-restricted websites?
Websites (generally some sort of form-filling/viewing site) that only work (or claim they only work) with a specific browser(s), specific browser versions, specific OSes, etc. Usually this is Internet Explorer or at least includes it.

Is there ever a good reason or excuse for this? I've only ever seen it in government/university/internal-company sites that (a) don't have a lot of development budget and (b) have a captive audience. Generally quality is pretty low as well. Is there actually a solid security advantage or something to e.g. only supporting IE7-10 on Windows XP, Vista, or 7?

(That last is an actual example of a "training program" site my current contracting agency is making me run through. I'm thinking of sending them a polite but stern email regarding the standards one expects in a company whose entire job is contracting coders and web designers.)
I don't think I could code first thing in the morning. I am still booting then, perhaps related to option 2 too. I do like the concept thou, just can't see how to make it reality for myself
Can you really get rockstars like that for $150-$250/hour including the agent's fee?

How are these agents any different than other contracting firms, other than their supposed access to the best?
It's unfortunate that consumers of the netflix API will have to resort to this sort of web-scraping solution. Web scraping is more complicated than using a provided API, and more computationally expensive for both the servers and clients. It's a lose-lose.

I can't really understand Netflix's decision to close down their API. Surely the cost of maintaining it was not so high that it was a worse alternative than this.
The author seems to be confusing documented surveillance access points used by various governments for their lawful wiretaps with hidden backdoors inserted solely for the US government, which stretches credulity.
Nice project! I do wish it supported a PostgreSQL backend rather than (or as well as I guess) MySQL.
The city says it is reviewing “this situation,” but officials have defended Bio-Recovery’s work cleaning Dr. Spencer’s apartment. The company was hired because “they had the requisite skills in blood and body fluid assessment and cleanup,”

When they say things like this, it's no wonder that people don't trust their politicians.
My guess is that, in light of the insanely limited memories of the machines they were working with, they had to leave out any feature that wasn't absolutely necessary. Maybe the benefits of coroutines weren't as obvious then, or maybe they didn't seem to mesh well with the rest of UNIX ("why not just fork")

Then, when UNIX and C exploded into far bigger things than they had probably ever dreamed of, it was too late. I think C would be a very different language if you had explicitly given Dennis Ritchie the task of writing the eternal lingua franca of programming with at least 80's-level computing resources at his disposal, but that's history for you.
What's funny is that sometimes designers need to really accept that there may be a need for more than a single use-case and that a global all-happy answer isn't right. If it weren't for actually breaking up into groups of answer blocks we'd never have Thick And Chunky spaghetti sauce.

For a largely used application like gmail (or email in generally), it's often important to be able to show a "simple" interface and an "advanced" interface... this flag should affect all areas of use... Not just bury options together under an "advanced settings" menu.. but by declaring "I'm an advanced user" other menus will offer more options.

Some of said screens will be wholly different, and that is okay.

I have to agree on a lot of the changes you make note of regarding Gmail for android, and in VS... What really got me was when they changed the mail app in android to match gmail... I really don't need a randomly colored box with a letter for every email I see... I'd rather have a few more words from the subject, or sender's email address.

In a tablet, it's actually not so bad... I can't imagine how bad that would be in my browser.
Can this be made to work with the ESS julia mode?
Actually that's not the case at all. Google Apps users use the "regular" Gmail as their daily email client day in and day out, and there are over 6 million of those users who pay for the right to use Gmail as their client. They're not casual users who receive 5 or 6 emails per day that are mostly promotional, they receive upwards of a hundred emails over the course of a day in running their businesses. If you look at the most popular email client in the world, Microsoft Outlook, it has tons of advanced features to satisfy power users. For Google designers to err on the side of casual users over advanced users was an error and I'm glad they were called out on it by their own staff.
You failed to link to documents (again), failed to reply to all items (again) and selectively quoted content (again).

"it collects information on cellphones belonging to people who aren’t criminal suspects"

"unknown are the steps taken to ensure data collected on innocent people isn’t kept for future examination"

"scooping up of large volumes of information, even for a short period, may not be properly understood by judges"

"Some within the agency also question whether people scanning cellphone signals are doing enough to minimize intrusions into the phones of other citizens, and if there are effective procedures in place to safeguard the handling of that data."

> If another user cares to discuss these issues, I'll gladly take them up on the offer.

@adventured, the ball's yours.
The fancy language support is provided by exuberant ctags, so look into that if that excites you. As for cscope, GNU global is very similar; it's a bit slower for some things and a bit faster for others. Global can only find references, not callers/callees like cscope can. And the Debian maintainer of GNU Global thinks that the GNU Global maintainer is an idiot, and a consequence of this is that on Debian and derived distros the GNU Global package is ancient. But cscope is so similar, it doesn't really matter. Oh, and the gtags-cscope frontend global gives you is pretty much compatible with cscope, so any frontend that uses cscope will just work with gtags-cscope.
Actually, it rather fails to hold, in large part because the terminology has so changed in the intervening decades.

In 1964, the idea that computers would largely be small devices that sit on your disk or even in your pocket was unimaginable. The microcomputer--the forerunner of today's computers--wouldn't be developed for another decade. The term computer back then meant the big room-filling mainframes, and it would certainly have been infeasible that home users could own those computers.

When you look at the context of the article, it's clearly describing the future where you have access to time-shared resources on a large, central computer. On-line and interactive are meant as a reference in contrast to batch systems: in the days of punch cards, you typically operated by submitting your punch cards to be run and waiting for the results to come back--sometimes hours.

In effect, to use more modern terminology, the article is predicting:
"By 2000, you'll be able to purchase from Comcast (or other friendly telco) access to a computer that runs a suite of intelligent expert systems that will drive several professions out of business."

That prediction is more wrong than it is right:
1. You don't buy access to a computer, you own one outright.
2. Most of the intelligent expert systems it predicts don't exist.
3. Most of the professions purported to be obsolete are not. Travel planner is about the only counterexample I can think of, but that's not because computers are doing the planning. I'm not even sure if the 2000 deadline was met for that one.
4. The closest service to what it predicts would exist is Watson. Which debuted in 2011, wasn't commercially available until 2013, and certainly isn't commonplace or even easily accessible even to corporate users.

About the only thing it got right was that computers would move from batch mode to interactive mode. The expert system model has completely failed--note this article would have been written before automatic machine translation of natural languages was declared a failure (and it still is, 50 years later). Even with the rise of Big Data, most of the goals of computers in that article still seem difficult or impossible to achieve. I personally believe that Big Data is going to lead to the fourth (fifth? I've lost track) big AI crash. Impressive, really, that people still have high hopes for AI when it has failed to live up to those promises for over 60 years.
Maybe there is a market for what you are suggesting, but I like On Demand services like Netflix because I get to pick what I want when I want. Netflix is decent at suggesting things to watch based on my viewing history, but I have never been in a scenario where I wish it would just start playing something for me. I don't want Netflix to play stuff for me, I just want them to keep adding/making new content.
Another observation worth considering: cosmic travel times seem utterly problematic right now because we individually live for extremely short periods of time. Spending a few thousand years in transit is much less worrisome if you're, say, an autonomous machine carrying an AI through the galaxy.

Interesting. Especially if the AI can learn and evolve along the way.
I did the same - uninstalled it. For the most part I like Material Design, but on a Nexus 5 the new calendar app is woefully bad, and the reviews piling into the Play store tell that story - in the last week overwhelmingly 19k negative reviews, ouch.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
It was you who just dragged her name back into this, not him.
I've never been a freelance developer so I don't know what my rate would be...but I would really like to get some insight on what $200+/hr web-development is like. I mean, what are the expectations versus a $50-developer?

For example, I could probably build in 10 hours a customized, nice-looking Twitter bootstrap Rails site with Stripe integration and deploy it onto EC2 and set up Capistrano to integrate with whatever existing Github flow they have...but then when it comes to building the admin...um...developing the admin from a technical standpoint is non-trivial, but developing it in such a way that it is hassle free from the client...How exactly does the developer do that, without extensive consultation time with the client? And what if their in-house developer (let's pretend they have one who is competent) doesn't have a workflow like I imagine a good workflow should be?

In other words, I'm having a hard time imagining what a rockstar developer could singlehandedly create that would be spectacular and would be something that that mortals can use and maintain on their own...but obviously that's why I'm not a $200+/hr freelance developer.
Creditors can't raise rates on bonds. When you issue a bond, you get paid then, and the creditor gets paid later. They can raise rates on new issuance, but the inflation rate is determined by monetary policy, not so much fiscal policy.
Think twice, Mahbod Moghadam haters
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It's a little amusing and rather sad that the word "smart" now seems to be used to describe products and services that act against their users and often perform surveillance on them, implying that it's somehow a "smart" thing to let this happen.
Integrating women into the workforce is a different issue. It would help to some degree --and the government is making a greater effort in having this happen. As paternalistic as Japan is, given the choice of making life easier for women to join the workforce or allow greater legal immigration in Japan, they have chosen to encourage women to stay in the workforce and to try to make it easier for them to succeed. As good as that is for society, it still will not make up for the structural problems bought on by a declining but aging population _and_ a large and growing retiree population. They need a younger population. Bringing in 10 million retirees from Florida would not help Japan's economy's structural problems. they need young, eager and enthusiastic immigrants to bring some vibrancy to their flagging economy.

Japan has great productivity and has automated moreso than any other country --it's had to due to a retiring population. They need a younger population with disposable income who are willing to spend their disposable income.
It's not a security advantage, it's a QA advantage: restricting browsers ensures that the website works as expected, which is extremely valuable to government/university/internal-companies which can't develop/QA for other browsers due to finite capital/time.
"My Hungarian-American wife Donna and I spent three weeks in the country [...]." - page 19 of the document.
I wonder if the arrival of the CD helped? The milk crate is precisely the right size for the storage of 12 inch LP albums (presumably just a hair over 12 inches inside diameter). Using the crate on its side, they are a cube 12"(+ a hair) H & W and a smidgeon under 12" deep, which meant you could actually get to the cover (the albums would be marginally proud in that orientation IIRC. Plus you could then use the crates as the legs of a coffee table or whatnot.

Err, or so I've been told.
Saw this on Techcrunch.

Are you solely funding only immigrants and or a team with one or more immigrants?

Do you consider a team of US citizens?
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<quote> There is a list of over one million "missing" Tibetans. </quote>

I'm going to call BS on this one.

The population of Tibet is only 2.91 million.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet_Autonomous_Region#Demogra...

Are you saying they "disappeared" 1/3 of the population?
You have things exactly backwards.

Monetary policy is considered neutral in the long run. The real economy is definitely not. Monetary shocks are a passing phenomenon. Loss of GDP hurts for a very long time.
Does anyone have a link comparing postgres 9.4 jsonb and mongodb ?
Tangentially, can anyone recommend a good book for learning PL/PGSQL and other ways to procedurally program on psql?
I don't think the $200/hr developers are building greenfield apps with simple models, but building quite complex logic or dealing with extending the functionality or fixing very large and brittle apps. At least, that's where I'd spend my $200/hr.
>inflation is literally destroying your economy for any foreseeable future.

Is that actually true? Is inflation really worse than default? I mean, we don't have any samples from "advanced" economies, but from the what I've seen, high inflation, in the long run, doesn't seem to be that much worse for economic health than default. They're both very painful, but it's not clear to me that one is especially worse than the other.
Doesn't constexpr fill some of the purpose?
Most of the online criticism came her tweet about it going viral, or is that too simple of an explanation? You're right though, Chris Plante should share a bunch of that shame for his hyperbolic article, which also got shared everywhere and set the tone for discussion.
You only get 1,000 lines of code a week
On average, 18% of police officers in a given department are female. It is more likely (5-1 odds) that the officer on your case will be male.

Of course you could also get a female cop, just as you could get a male cop who takes the complaint seriously. Parent asked why the victim's gender matters; this is a reason why it is not entirely irrelevant.
I imagine that currently-poor countries would love to have the buck passed down to them if it improves their standard of living.
I've been using GLOBAL with a slightly tweaked gtags.el for almost 5 years now. It's definitely served me well.
Right here. =) http://blogs.enterprisedb.com/2014/09/24/postgres-outperform...
" person pretty much said that they will never take me seriously in the realm of [computer/cyber/information/network/application] (select appropriate) security as long as I write PHP code."

that's reason enough not to take that person seriously - a truly experienced fellow programmer would have a tough time making that presumption about another programmer in ANY language