skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that doesn't convince you to support HTTP/2, then nothing will: https://www.httpvshttps.com/ HTTP/1.1 is 5x-15x slower in this benchmark! These insane perf gains are possible only thanks to HTTP/2, specifically thanks to its support for multiplexing. Please read the spec and understand the technical implications before criticizing.

On some unrelated note: I found this tidbit of humor in the RFC draft (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-16):

ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM (0xb): The endpoint detected that its peer is
exhibiting a behavior that might be generating excessive load.
Linked from the original article is another piece by the author describing precisely such a license: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2009/01/27/gcc-exception.html . I'm rather surprised I haven't heard of this before.
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Remember, money doesn't matter, only goods consumed (which money can facilitate). To help make this clear, imagine if G.O.D. materialized a bag with $10 trillion on the front steps of the white house. Would the world, past, present or future, to be able to consume more?

Thus, it's hard to see how it's possible for the world as a whole to "borrow" from the future in any meaningful sense. How much you tax vs. how much debt you run up does matter, but not in the same way people think.
Clickable links:

[1] https://webcast.browserprotect.me/

[2] https://webcast.browserprotect.me/view/2764aa94dcd855959819f...
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I've known him for a couple years and we have hung out regularly. I'm quite sure he is alright because of his regular posts on facebook. I've attempted to contact his business partner as well with no avail. I've seen him pull this sort of radio silence with other people when he did't want to deal with a problem.
Looks interesting but it's non-free software.
> PNaCl is still enabled

Eh? What is the spec competitor to PNaCl? asm.js is a cute trick but it still lacks threads which is easily one of the biggest features of PNaCl. So what actual viable alternatives are there to PNaCl?
This looks glitchier than the original for some reason, probably just sheer numbers. Balls bouncing off the bottom of lines that are moving away appear to jump.
For Yosemite they did an open beta: https://appleseed.apple.com/sp/betaprogram

But in that case, it makes sense to get bug reports from non-developers.
> Laffer Curve? Boom. Dead. Utter rubbish. Totally falsified.

It may not be perfect, but to say utter rubbish is ridiculous. At its core, the Laffer Curve claims tax revenue is elastic with respect to tax rates. In other words, the revenue derived from taxes is not always proportionate to the tax rate.

The classic curve shows 0 revenue at a 0% tax rate -- obviously true since 0% times any number is 0 -- and 0 revenue at 100% tax rate -- because why would anyone work if 100% of it would be taken in taxes. Therefore, there exists a tax rate that provides the maximum amount of revenue between 0% and 100%.

The exact shape of the curve is wildly debated and some claim revenue doesn't truly drop to 0 at a 100% tax rate, but those don't change the point that it is possible to lower tax rates and receive more tax revenue.
The most important thing your P-value "doesn't do" is tell you if your underlying model structure is correct.

In particular, the actual value of your P-value is dependent on the underlying distribution, which rather begs the question.

This is the biggest issue with the P-value in the context of social science or commerce.

For physical systems, where God[1] actually makes sure that your distributions, errors, etc are normal, it's pretty awesome.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem
> And I particularly don't like how Krugman is always so quick to defend large debt loads. He keeps advocating to borrow borrow borrow, with seemingly no restraint. Is that really sustainable?

As long as the interest remains smaller than inflation, yes.
Isn't it because the prices of the houses were highly inflated, due to very easy credit?

Do you think that the rest of the economy is a bubble like the 2008 housing bubble?
>I find it hard to believe it's the scary monster mainstream economists make it out to be.

It isn't really complicated. First, when the value of holding cash gives a positive return, then it changes investment allocations. People often argue that "I won't change my spending habits!" Well, if you were economically rational, you would. But let's be realistic, no one cares about you putting off buying a TV. The concern is for the global financial system as a whole, who suddenly have incentive to hold money rather than circulate it.

Second, incomes are part of the deflation equation. It's one thing when technological progress allows for manufacturing processes to make items cheaper and we get cheaper computers. It's another when massive price deflation (ie oil) causes a sharp decrease in wages and mass unemployment.

Third, debtors are harmed during deflation, as the absolute value of their debts increases. That means your average household gets into trouble.

>That is NOT a good thing.

Prove it. Seriously. If you can, I'm sure you've got a Nobel in your future. I'm not being facetious. Nobody really knows how this ends, good or bad.

Unfortunately, Economics can't run experiments. You apply theory, make a best guess, implement the policy, and hope for the best.
> The government is selling Treasury securities on the open market.

Right, which the Fed is then buying with the money being printed. Government debt is being monetized by the Fed however you slice it.

> Deflation is a bad thing for borrowers.

I understand what you're saying, and in theory, it's true. Practically, it's flawed. Why? Because when I'm on a fixed income, I don't care about the value of my money that's going toward paying down debts. I care about the value of the money I have left over.

Say I earn $1000 a month. $600 goes to loans. $400 is left over to spend on food. With deflation, sure, that $600 is really worth more than otherwise. But it's a sunk cost to me. That $400 is what matters to me, as a consumer, and with deflation, it buys me more food!
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Feel free to email him tedu@tedunangst.com or tweet @tedunangst

Just because there's a comment section doesn't mean you can't comment. You can read James Hague's thoughts on the matter here: http://prog21.dadgum.com/57.html
There is some stuff listed at http://wiki.nginx.org/Configuration but it's more laid out in full examples rather than this code block does X
Am I the only one that first glanced this as: "Drug-dealing pioneer wins £1m engineering prize"?
Ask HN: What are some projects on GitHub that I can learn how to program from?
I've been trying for a while to learn how to program. Following the cannon of Why Learning to Code is So Hard (http://www.vikingcodeschool.com/posts/why-learning-to-code-is-so-damn-hard), I've been stuck early in the early stages of the Cliff of Confusion for a while.

But, I've heard many times that learning to program by copying (reading and then re-implementing) is a good way to go about it. So, I'd like to know if there are any GitHub projects you can point me toward that I can look at, re-implement, and learn from.

Ideally they would use core functionality of whatever language/platform they're built on, as I've found that most of the projects I am looking at use a ton of outside libraries that I don't know. I'm mainly looking for code that will show me how to use functionality of programming languages to create solutions to questions that the ideas behind the code are based on.

Just FYI: The stack I'm trying to learn is all JavaScript (Node/Express/React), but I'm completely open to examples that I can learn from in any language/platform/framework.

Thanks a ton,

bnb
That Cloudflare offers it for free doesn't change the economics for everyone else. They do a lot for free that anyone else would charge for. IP allocations are not free, extra load balancers are not free, labor to set up custom certs on load balancers is not free. If you put a CDN in front of your site and want SSL termination on it, then every node in every location needs to have that cert installed and potentially an extra IP address for it, each. Companies aren't charging extra for SSL solely because they think they can gouge you on it; it's really not free to deploy.
I remember hearing about a plan to build a giant rail-gun (or coil, or whatever) into the side of a mountain and try to send stuff into space.

The issue was A) the barrel would be evacuated of air and the piece of glass covering the end would send glass everywhere and B) the resulting sonic booms would destroy the local ecosystem.

Looking for sonic boom energy levels (up to 100 megawatts/sq. meter!) I stumbled across this gem:

> In 1964, NASA and the FAA began the Oklahoma City sonic boom tests, which caused eight sonic booms per day over a period of six months. Valuable data was gathered from the experiment, but 15,000 complaints were generated and ultimately entangled the government in a class action lawsuit, which it lost on appeal in 1969. (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Acoustics/Sonic_Boom#Perception...)
My Haskell article for HowIStart was CSV data processing. shrug
Ah, yes, I should've noted that.
It is certainly painful to read, particularly when the author is actually talking about a real person, who presumably is either a "her" or a "him."
I am sure the people who would murder you in your sleep can easily come up with a similar argument. For them, murdering someone is not as morally heavy as it is for you.
Lots of detail in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNm8PBUY-R4.
currently discussion on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/2var17/soundcloud_...
if you do, just make sure to grandfather all of us in with beta accounts :)
If a country uses that debt to let's say, invest in DARPANET, or build new transit infrastructure for commerce. I'd say that is a good use of debt. I think comparing what a government can use debt for vs buying a car or a house is short sighted.
There are dubious benefits. I use Emacs all the time, and have made a few contributions to it, but I won't be digging into the core C code anytime soon. First, learning enough to fix even a simple problem takes quite a bit of time. Second, the lessons learned will be mostly about Emacs, and not generally applicable; that's the way things are with most big programs.

The amount of time required to meaningfully learn from or contribute to something as hairy as a web browser or compiler is large enough that you can only engage with a few. Personally, I never want to have to look at my web browser's source code.
> And why does no other CMS system or framework come even close to the number of critical vulnerabilities in Wordpress?

Because no other CMS or framework has as many deployments. Not even close.

> If "flexibility and complexity equal vulnerability" then why does the linux kernel, 53x the size of Wordpress and a tad more complex than a CMS, not have about 53x more exploits?

Because it's behind a firewall. Do I really need to keep repeating myself?

If I could send remote commands to your kernel, don't you think there would be a few more exploits kicking around?

> Huh? SSH, Postfix and nginx are usually not firewalled.

If you're not restricting access to SSH using a firewall, then you're a bigger idiot than I thought you were.
The nested if-let statements of doom have been one of my major annoyances -- so glad to hear unwrapping multiple optionals in a single line landed in 1.2.

The "wrapping the optionals in a tuple and using switch to pattern match" hack always seemed dirty, and this is a huge step in the right direction for code readability.
"Why can't Americans play poker online?"

American anti-gambling laws.

"Why does Amazon have to collect state taxes for states they don't have a physical presence in?"

Because those states count things like affiliate programs and subsidiary companies as a sales tax "nexus". Amazon tends to kill those programs to avoid being taxable. They only collect sales tax in 24 states.

"Google is forced to censor French and German search results. Facebook is forced to follow EU privacy laws."

Yeah, because they have operations in those countries, and can thus be sued there. Also, perhaps, because they might be blocked in the relevant countries, and would rather stay in those markets.

The EU simply cannot make me collect VAT (or do any other crazy thing they think up), because I'm not in the EU. They can ban me or my services or products in their jurisdiction, or make life hard for my customers in their jurisdiction, which may be enough.
> I'm not ever supporting HTTP/2.

Congrats? Want a cookie or something?

Do you have an actual complaint with the spec or do you just want to be an old man yelling at a cloud?
You have to have a title, and one of url or text (but not both).

What I'm saying is that title+url would be a better choice for your post than title+text. You can add your text as a comment to the thread after the submission has gone through.
National debt is different from household debt for many reasons, including the fact that the government operates a central bank, prints its own currency, does not have to apply for credit, passes the laws that specify the terms of the debt it owes, etc. Plus, in the case of the United States, the national debt is in the form of one of the safest and most widely held investment vehicles in the world : US treasury debt.

To argue that government debt is the not any different from household debt is to ignore all of those things.
I would be interested in knowing this too, if anybody can shed some light. Falklands war? North Koreans trying to take a South Korean ship?
The idea here is that if people connected with the video while watching the superbowl, they shared it online. Commercials were uploaded to YouTube by their respective company, and included a hashtag- deliberate pushes to form a conversation online. There are a lot of ways to measure engagement/impact of a commercial, this is one of them.
The only explanation for this nonsense phaenomenon seems to be that HTTPS ports are less used generally, which isn't an argument in favor of HTTPS.
one method that works extremely well for me is to pick a book based on Amazon's "what other customer's bought". I noticed that some of the best books I read appear in clusters that other customers/peers valued equally high
I think the military are already using coilguns but for mortars.

It's still in early R&D stage unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your perspective):

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA481646

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA610358
Debt to build new transit infrastructure, research and development labs etc is a great way a country can use debt to benefit it's current and future citizens. A person could take a loan out for a car and that may create a small fraction of jobs. Where as if a government can take on debt to create DARPANET or invest in clean energy the outcome is many times more profitable to the government and future business derived from that.
Sorry but I had to make this: http://imgur.com/H6CLekc
Hm. I thought the largest part of our money is actually debt money created by private banks when they are granting credit. In order to create the money to pay interest on that credit, it is necessary that somebody makes more debt elsewhere. Which is an absurd system to start with.
Even without a first stage, wouldn't that mean that the railgun would need to account for dealing the energy needed to accelerate a couple hundred thousand tons of rocket fuel to any reasonable speed? As per Newtons 3rd law?
Wait - but quantitative easing usually involves buying back government bonds (in recent times it has also involved buying riskier instruments like collateralized debt obligations (eg. bundled mortages from freddy mac/fannie mae))

But government bonds are issued by the government as a form of govt debt to finance the federal government deficit.

So doesn't that mean that money IS being printed to finance government deficit? It's just that it goes through a slightly convoluted path to get there?
I think this is a great idea. Could definitely see it being used in educational institutions where Chromebooks are popular.
I wonder what the effective range of this thing actually is because the curvature of the earth is going to come into it when talking about these distances.

The curvature is roughly 8 inches per mile, ~1 meter per 5 miles. Something 6 stories tall (~18 meters), like say a large capital ship would be below the horizon if it was 90 miles away. Granted rail guns don't shoot in a straight line but you aren't going to get much ballistic drop in the time it takes a Mach 7 projectile to get to its destination...

Mounting the gun higher on the ship would help, but then you are dealing with a very large equal-and-opposite force high above your center of gravity...

[EDIT] On second thought, with a velocity of 1.48 miles per second you are talking about 81 seconds of flying time at it maximum range, which is quite long enough for our friend gravity to drop the projectile and "bend" it around the horizon. Holy shit that's pretty incredible.
To be continued: how much as English society changed since 1714?
Please let me know if there's any questions or just an FYI link. I recently shared some thoughts on challenges faced when scaling a company - https://medium.com/@ahoog42/go-go-go-stop-a-lesson-in-scalin...
The point is that it shouldn't be. Removing personal protective equipment? The amount of people I know who've had very narrow escapes for completely unnecessary reasons... and yet people are still cavalier about it. I just don't understand.
Facebook's proxygen has HTTP/2 support "in progress": https://github.com/facebook/proxygen
Sad that Swift doesn't use an expressive if, then you could just write:

let x: Something = if condition {
// do stuff
foo()
} else {
// do other stuff
bar()
}
I use myfitnesspal to track all of my calories and workouts. I work 6-12 hour days, and usually take 1-2 days per week off. I workout 30-90 minutes 5 days a week doing HIT training. I'm in great shape, feel great look great.

Its a pretty simple mathematical equation: if you are trying to lose weight, just calculate your calories + energy burned, don't eat too many bad carbs, bad fats and eat lots of protein, fresh foods, and get fresh air.
I think you underestimate the military's ability to solve the equations for ballistic trajectories. Don't forget, the very first digital computers existed for the sole purpose of calculating firing tables. They've been at this game a looooong time.
I'm not a lawyer, but on a personal level, this article has always resonated with me: http://philip.greenspun.com/politics/litigation/philosophy.h...
You can still purchase sodium from chemical suppliers, schools just aren't quite as relaxed about letting kids play with it. Even college students can get in trouble: http://tech.mit.edu/V127/N37/sodiumdrop.html I doubt throwing a chunk of sodium into the Charles really helped further "scientific experimentation" all that much... It did get a lot of beach cleanup volunteers injured, and caused significant property damage, though.
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That is true, for Broadcom's proprietary BOOTCODE.BIN, the (ThreadX-based) START.ELF VPU-side microkernel and their user-space graphics driver components which talk to it via the Linux kernel shims. (Although, note: you won't get a BCM2836 anywhere else anyway.) Broadcom do, however, have someone writing an open firmware I understand - definitely an unfamiliar world for them, so let's give them time and see what happens.

I am also aware of a complete reverse-engineering effort (for the purposes of interoperability), and that is all I'm going to say about that right now. :)
>until the Fed conjured it up.

So in what way would you have money production occur, if not "out of thin air"?
u don't seem to have taken any initiatives in ur jobs. E.g. the systems u have fixed bugs for, do u really understand how dots are connected? have u used profiling tools to analyze its performance and tried to improve it? have u tried rewriting most critical parts to do things in different ways?
Yes, but deadly weapons are created by people who think, simply, "science is cool". ;)
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Gosh, glad I posted! Thanks!

The reverse charge as described there is for services rather than goods, though. How does it work with goods, and specifically digital goods like downloads of the sort that VATMOSS applies to? I'm quite sure sellers of such goods from outside the EU to within it are expected to use VATMOSS, does that mean there is no corresponding expectation to reverse charge?

I clearly need to do quite a bit more reading!
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That's what the balance sheet aspect is. There is a due date on the securities purchased by the Fed. Thus there is a time a limit.

The Fed does not consider quantitative easing as just printing money. I think if it were just printing money then people would not have faith in Treasury securities and thus the interest rate would be a lot, lot higher than it is now.

EDIT: From the link supplied above:

"Global demand for Treasury securities has remained strong, and the Treasury has been able to finance large deficits without difficulty. In addition, U.S. currency has expanded at only a moderate pace in recent years, and the Federal Reserve has indicated that it will return its securities holdings to a more normal level over time, as the economy recovers and the current monetary accommodation is unwound."
With you on the larger point, but for the sake of argument, creating weapons technology isn't necessarily deadweight. Military applications have driven all sorts of technological developments that ultimately resulted in civilian economic growth (the Internet probably being the most salient here). Even this contraption probably required development of new compact power systems that might have all sorts of uses eventually.

And it may well be that the Internet would have happened anyway, but there seem to be some inventions that nobody would have had the drive to produce if not for wars... nuclear power might be a good example.
Totally can sympathize with the title. Open a bottle of an ether with a loose cap that has had diethyl ether peroxides form on it's rim... you'll have a new outlook on the situation.

(Diethyl ether peroxide is a contact explosive)
> Source files that haven’t changed will no longer be re-compiled by default

That's a nice example of "if you're not embarrassed of 1.0, you shipped too late".
> How do people get good at this?

Embrace the suck of your underachievement and get busy learning to master your craft. Lots of guys have been in your shoes before, you might find Robert Greenes book a timely read> http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13589182-mastery
I'll happily signup if I can save my sound configuration. The biz dev dude in the office down the hall has been shouting on his phone all day, and I found this just as I was about to go berserk.

Anyway, nice work - and if you can build in saving sounds, I'd definitely pay for this.
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