skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inflation doesn't decrease your purchasing power unless you're living on a fixed, non inflation-adjusted income, or from a limited pool of wealth which you keep in cash.

If you're doing productive work, you can expect your wages to keep pace with inflation, and if they're not, it's very likely that without inflation you'd be seeing wage cuts; your relative value as a worker is independent of inflation. If you're living off of stored wealth, you need to store it in the form of goods, not cash. Real estate, stocks, etc.

There are advantages to inflation. One is that it encourages people to keep their wealth invested in production (aside: This is also part of the economic value proposition for property taxes, which discourage non-productive land-hoarding). Another is that it discounts debt. Because debt payments are not inflation-adjusted and wages effectively are, making your payments gets easier over time. This isn't a good in and of itself, but it's a good when considered against the alternative possibility of deflation, which tends to create insolvency among borrowers. Of course, inflation can harm creditors who don't factor it into their interest rate, but this is less harmful to the economy as a whole.

The ideal would be a money supply that exactly kept pace with growth in production resulting in neither inflation nor deflation. But that's hard. Because mild inflation is not particularly harmful, and deflation is really bad, policymakers prefer to aim for mild inflation as a hedge against deflation.
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This is kickass.
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What does "shoulder covered" mean?
Could someone explain the market reaction here?

When rates are lowered, it puts both competitve pressure and supply pressure on the currency. This can be seen in all historical interest rate cuts. You cut rates to weaken, and raise rates to strengthen.

And yet, this CUT in rates is leading to a BID for CHF.

As they say in Geneva, WTF?
Is your price pegged to USD/EUR?
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That buys them a lot of Euros, and stabilised the very large part of the Swiss economy that's dependent on financial services. This includes CHF-denominated Hungarian mortgages, which may now start defaulting again http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2011/08/03/642281/oh-schweizer/ (2011)
Not many people in that area these days: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7630869,-114.6965377,9z/data... - then it must have been incredibly remote.
Couldn't those companies invest their money in a total new and fresh service/brand? We can agree that they're in fact declining, isn't it like "pulling up a car off a cliff"?
Forget the corruption, crazy laws, favouritism and racketeering. The biggest problem you'll face doing business in Italy is the wide-spread, deep-rooted "it can wait" mentality that is really prevalent. No one can be bothered with anything. Be prepared to wait for months and months for trivial tasks that can be completed in 30 minutes. Be prepared for people to cancel meetings at the last minute, then set a new date and time just to miss that one too - repeat ad nauseam. Don't even try to explain the concept of a "deadline" to an Italian.

The worst part is you can't even hate them for this, because they're so friendly and likeable!

Other than that, it's a lovely country. Make your wealth elsewhere and go enjoy what Italy has to offer.
I created Localize.js (https://localizejs.com), a localization SaaS.

Pluralization is a challenge, but we're able to solve this with some pretty simple HTML tags.

For example:

<div>I have <var pluralize="3">3</var> dogs!</div>

Localize.js identifies the <var> tag with the pluralize attribute, and pluralizes the phrase to any language (including languages like Arabic which can have 6 different plural forms).
The price of sunglasses is insane.
Are you in Canada? I wasn't familiar with Tim Hortons, but Wikipedia indicates its a Canadian bakery chain.

Come on down to the US and you will find 600 calorie donuts aplenty.
That's the first law of thermodynamics, not the second (although you can't violate the second either).

In general, through my life, I've found the best way to think about it is exercise for fitness, diet for weight maintenance.

What happens to you once you have responsibilities to others (wife, kids, etc.) unless you are a professional-level athlete is that you really don't have the time and energy to burn enough calories. It's hard to burn 400 kcalories, but it's easy to not eat that piece of pie (or to have a small piece and no bread with your meal).

There are exceptions, and most of us who are somewhat active have probably gone through that phase of life where we do 5000 kcal workouts 5 days a week and so on, but it's a very time-and-energy consuming proposition. I have known some men who have made it a point to continue that lifestyle into middle age, but they are exceptional and almost to a person never married (gay I think) or several times divorced. In other words, it takes total self absorption and those of us with normal family and community responsibilities have to let it go eventually.

That's also the failure I see with people and their New Years' Resolutions to get fit: quit drinking, go to the gym twice a day, etc. It's not sustainable.
+1. The vast majority of people commenting on these platforms are very very limited thinkers that just see the positive short term effect for them but not even try to think about the effect this has on the swiss exporting economy. Pretty sad.
Could you point to your company?
Sorry about this, but i think there are some big flaws in your comment.

> You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you will tell me precisely what it is that a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine that will do just that!
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Know anything about the Halting problem & NP-Hard? There are things that computers will never-ever be able to perform, even if we go quantum.

> Computers will continue to get better at human things as we continue to get better at understanding how human things work

Your argument is the basic concept of symbolism, and deep learning is one of the multiple connectionism types of learning, a whole different world in ML.

> Fraud detection relies heavily on unsupervised learning

No, i have been working in Fraud and no, it is supervised with lot of manual feedback.

> unsupervised learning was usually SVD + clustering or some variation on that. The current state of the art, things like deep belief networks, are able to achieve markedly superior results.

Sorry, No Free Lunch for learning algorithms...

> historically it has been wise to include a human element in fraud detection, I don't believe there is any reason to assume that trend will continue indefinitely into the future.

Yes, and it will.
And of course, if one person in a zip code can get it, everyone can.

I could give you my old Zip code, it would include a small city that had DSL providers and Cable. Where I lived there was one provider, 3mb DSL. That finally showed up about 4 years ago.
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this works for me precisely because i use readability/instapaper first. since pocket is neglected, it gives it purpose.
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Yes, yes, I know. But my hard-drive is named after the characteristics of the spacecraft, not the deity :)
My guess is it's to do with the relative state of the Euro. This move by the Swiss bank is effectively a vote of no confidence in the ECB being able to resolve the weakness there, so even though going into CHF is bad, it's judged to be less bad than sticking in EUR.
There is always vigorous discussion about whether A6 can actually exist. I know some desert tower routes have been graded A6, but most end up being downgraded.

Actually, there is at least one free scare-fest on the Big Stone: Leo Houlding's route The Prophet [0]. For many years, Houlding attempted the route in proper British ground-up style, but eventually had to apply "sport" tactics on the hardest pitch. Note that while The Prophet is not as technically hard as Caldwell's Dawn Wall project, it is significantly more dangerous (run-out climbing...for example, Jason Pickles fractured his pelvis on a long fall).

[0] http://www.rockandice.com/lates-news/the-prophet
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After reading comments about this topic, I see a pattern, people blaming religion or/and country for atrocities on human beings. We are human beings first, so trying to justify killing your fellow human being because of religion/country or for wealth suggests we have lost our way and soon we will have another world war and many more after that. Let’s learn to forgive and instead of killing lets have dialogue
Ironically, this is exactly the case described in the article, and even the article got it slightly wrong. The rules in pseudocode - for this specific sentence! - are as follows:

if ((n % 10 == 1) && (n % 100 != 11)) {
// singular nominative (not accusative as article says) - 1 котенок, 101 котенок, 301 котенок
} else if (n % 10 >= 2 && n % 10 <= 4 && n % 100 <12 && n % 100 > 14) {
// singular genitive: 2 котенка, 43 котенка, 1024 котенка
} else {
// all other cases plural genitive: 5 котят, 11 котят, 212 котят
}

But this is true only for this sentence because kittens here are the subject, not the object: with Russian verb "есть" (to be, to exist) the literal translation would be "Kitten/Kittens exists/exist belonging to Harry".

Once the declension of the numbered subject(s) turns to accusative: "Гарри гладит 1 котенка" ("Harry pets one kitten"), the rules become much simpler:

if ((n % 10 == 1) && (n % 100 != 11)) {
// singular accusative - 1 котенка, 101 котенка, 301 котенка
} else {
// all other cases plural genitive: 2 котят, 43 котят, 5 котят, 11 котят, 212 котят
}
I have friends who did a startup in Rome which went after government grants and contracts for software. I got to watch as they battled nepotism, insularity, incompetence, and extraordinarily sclerotic, glacial movement on part of the government and its affiliates and contractors, both as customers and as providers of standard societal services. Taxation is unbelievably high and bureaucratic for those (like my friends) who were straight shooters and wanted to pay taxes, unlike nearly all their competition, who dodged them.

My favorite story was when they were trying to get internet service in Trastevere. They were required to start paying the phone company (TI) as if they had internet service, and then wait. For three months. Then after they called TI wondering where the service was, they were told TI had sent someone out to install the service but he couldn't find their office. TI didn't bother to call them. So they were then required to go to the back of the queue and wait for another three months, all the while paying, followed by another excuse. This went on for the better part of a year. Meanwhile they ran the whole company off of cellular data plans.

And they're still there, and why? Because Trastevere is one of the most wonderful places in the world. It's worth it to them. But it's not surprising they're in the minority: Italy has a very, very serious brain drain problem.
Absolutely agree. People often fall into the false mindset that legal = morally or ethically right. Law is neither. Law is the result of politically motivated negotiations which managed to reach majority consensus. It could be argued that law is amoral.
You're an Italian, this is for people outside of Italy.

Culture makes a big difference. Starting a company in other places is easier, this is likely why Italy is resorting to something like this to try to bring in more startups.

Just because someone says the truths about the issues with Italian society, doesn't make them "disgusting". Reality can be harsh.
I am also wondering of some companies have made money off these things.

I know of some examples off the top of my head, but I don't know too much specifics on how the idea came from or what exactly the sell/how they make money. I think a lot of the money comes from investors until they really start selling a product, and selling a product of just information is somewhat hard I think.

For example:

Mattermark-> tracks startups and provides info for VC firms and regular joes

Dataminr, StockTwits-> Monitor twitter for viral events or breaking news
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Select "wired" and you're back to what FireBeyond said. One provider. As I replied to you earlier in another thread, cellular internet isn't equivalent, nor is it priced comparably.

http://www.broadbandmap.gov/internet-service-providers/olymp...

re: EDIT: I didn't DV you but you shouldn't be surprised. There probably isn't a single HN'er without direct experience shopping for an ISP, and thus few without the knowledge that the many promises of "broadband" service are often mere pie in the sky.
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Internet lawyers... why did I bother.
You don't solve the inflexion problem.
You would need something where the lemmization tokenization of the sentence is easily accessible to a grammar engine.
Something horrible like:
<div ><lemm="personnal pronoun">I</lemm> <lemm=verb>have</lemm>< <case=accusative quant=3><lemm=noun quantifier /><lemm=....</div>
This kind of isolation is very interesting to me. There is a lot of space out there, and there are probably a lot of acres that only get one human visitor every 5 years. I'd give myself a 1% chance of noticing the rifle if I walked past, based on this picture. So it's not at all surprising that the last time anyone looked at this tree was in the 19th century.
As for going faster: if I got it right they were stuck for some 10 days because Jorgesen had a trouble with one particular pitch.
This is sloppy. Consciousness is not clearly defined. We have more information now than ever before about consciousness. This is important because minds appear to have hardware for processing various types and levels of consciousness. Even small insects might have significant and notable consciousness. Humans might be capable of a range of forms of consciousness including bicameral and totemic, both of which are still being initially characterized by science with a full understanding being far off to the point of being hard to envision with what is known now.
Not trying to be sarcastic, but is "too dogmatic" a different way of saying "too principled?"

I pay taxes to several entities, including the government of the United States of America and the state of Washington.

These taxes are non-voluntary and coerced from me under threat of force.
Going by your definition, does Apple have a monopoly on phones since every other phone is inferior? Just because one broadband provider has greater speeds than the others, it doesn't mean it has a 'broadband monopoly'. Again most Americans don't need 100Mbps+. They are fine with 25Mbps. Netflix only requires 3Mbps.

Now the "cable monopoly" is a separate issue entirely. Comcast has superior speed in some areas because the municipalities create bottlenecks that keep new wires from being laid (like charging exorbitant fees to do so). See, http://www.wired.com/2013/07/we-need-to-stop-focusing-on-jus...
The interest rate has not been the main method of controlling the exchange rate in this case. There was an artificial CHFEUR peg maintained by selling Francs and buying Euro-denominated assets.
>"As of now it is a hobby that brings in an income, which you can't complain too much about," Zarick said. "I've made over 50 Xbooks and PlayBooks, so I guess I could say it is a small business."

Out of curiosity, how does he sidestep Microsoft and Sony's legal teams? Is it that the operation is too small to bother with? It just seems strange that he can take the consoles, modify them and then sell them on for profit without Sony/Microsoft's say-so (I know the article doesn't touch legalities at all, but I assume such a garage-level operation wouldn't have agreements in place).
And, more to the point, both OpenReach and BT's broadband retail take this very seriously.
suddenly love my language (Turkish) although there are special characters.
1 elma (apple)
2 elma
3 elma
.
.
10 elma
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That particular model is still in production, costs around $1000.

Yes, similar rifles can be had around $600.

There's an old (as in 1-2 centuries) aphorism that a good handgun costs about an ounce of gold. True then, true today; doesn't matter how currency fluctuates, solidly built classic products retain value.
Does it work with longjmp?
> ....(it doesn't change for any number greater than 5)

Not so lucky there either:

....21 katalogów

....22 katalogi

....23 katalogi

....24 katalogi

....25 katalogów

And the same pattern repeats modulo 10.

EDIT: And as I think about the 1001 part... Actually the following sounds right to me (translating "in X directories"):

....w 1000 katalogów (w tysiącu katalogów)

....w 1001 katalogu (w tysiąc-jednym katalogu)

....w 1002 katalogach (w tysiąc-dwóch katalogach)

etc.
tl;dr: Digg was the original reddit - much bigger, reddit was the underdog.

Digg did a redesign that was absolutely horrible and created a huge backlash. Because Digg did not create a backup/proper versioning, they couldn't go back to the old design, and people migrated to reddit. The rest, as they say, is history.
"Whenever you request a web page, Verizon stamps it with a beastly mark, a name-number to give you offers to buy goods."
Seems like the mac app is the new thing that he's trying to show off.

He probably thought his audience was existing users, but it may have been better to write to users who have never seen the app.
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"Wy" (plural you) don't work for single person in Polish, it sounds like "communist-speach" to us (almost like you called people "tovarishch") :) It was only used by soviet puppet politicians during communism (as carbon copy of Russian expression).

So it needs "Ty" (singular you), and with singular you "sure" translates to "pewien" for male recipients and "pewna" for female.

In Polish it should be "Jesteś pewny(or pewien)/pewna, że chcesz wyjść?"

So, it's Polish-specific, not Slavic-specific as I thought.
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> Everyone commenting on the exchange rate, but nobody commenting on the negative interest rate?

BTW: Real interest rates have been negative for a while in the US. Even the 10yr Treasuries are there now. http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/05/measures-of-real-inter...
I wanted to do that on one Android app, but apparently it's impossible to implement with Android's built-in localization features.
From http://www.luckyironfish.com:

"One Lucky Iron Fish can provide an entire family with up to 75% of their daily iron intake for up to 5 years".

So we'll need to replace them a bit more often than that (not that I'm saying it's not a good cause).
> Valleywag is cynical and harsh, but it has done more good for technology and humanity than all of Sand Hill Road combined

Ummm. What? Is there some secret Valleywag of which I'm not aware other than the one that is just a gossip site aimed at silicon valley types?
Might be worth it for Juliets - mine are ten years old and have taken a lot of abuse - (particularly being hit by the boom of dinghies and falls while skiing/cycling). I think I'm on my fourth set of lenses!
Huh. Localize.js sounds really cool. Fantastic idea.

Can you explain your example a little more? What would translators see in this case for Arabic; would they need to provide three translations? And if there were two variables, nine translations?

"Localization" also implies a lot more than just translation. Does Localize.js handle work like culture-specific number and date formatting? Different collation of records for different languages? How does it identify application-generated text versus user data (eg. on a blog, does it translate blog comments entered by readers, or just text like "Please enter a comment below")?
From Wikipedia on the first line of politics.

>Politics is the practice and theory of influencing other people on a global, civic or individual level.

So yes, ad serving clearly falls under that scope.
German groceries just got way cheaper.
From what I have heard from my Indian friends, this is pretty much how tax inspections in India go too. Crazy.
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Does anyone else feel the irony of an experiment's realism deliberately turned down because it was a university event?

Is this anecdotal evidence that education in the U.S. is pretty much useless? You're not even allowed to do real experiments for fear of being indecent?
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Congress is to vote on whether climate change is real
Lemmatization isn't necessary in this case, as there's no need for a grammar engine.

Here's how we handle pluralization on our backend (all abstracted away from the user): For a language with 2 plural forms (ie. French), we create 2 different phrases. One singular and one plural. Or for languages like Arabic, we create 6 different phrases for each plural form. We then send each plural form of the phrase to a human translator, who translates each phrase independently.

This ensures proper plural forms for all variations, without the need for complicated grammar syntax.