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Everything you said is true, but I don't find the points terribly practical.

1) I seriously doubt investors will prefer to hold US dollars for meager deflation gains instead of investing in other financial assets projecting far greater return (stocks, bonds, real estate, etc).

2) Wages are sticky. Yes, 20 years of deflation would send wages down. I don't think a short period of deflation would do too much.

3) See my comment below. I printed an abridged version of it here:

When I'm on a fixed income, I don't care much 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.

I appreciate your points, but I still think deflation fears are overblown.

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EDIT: to comment on your last remark about proving the unfavorable effects of money-printing...I don't need to run tests. I have history. Money printing is the genesis of hyperinflation, a well-documented historical phenomenon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation

Printing paper money to monetize debts NEVER ends well. Show me a case in which it does, and I'll award you a paper Nobel Prize.
2-factor is not implemented in the preview, but i will work on it asap.

You can create a other github account and give him access to write on your repository, it's a kind of workaround if you want to keep the 2-fact auth on your main account
Have you been screwed by your school administration?
I don't feel like submitting a PR for it, but you have one syntax error and one suboptimal piece of syntax in the readme at the bottom:

The Windows section should read:

Minecraft folder: %appdata%\minecraft
Worlds folder: %appdata%\minecraft\saves\<world>

(observe the "closing" percent sign)

and the OSX one could read:

Minecraft folder: $HOME/Library/Application Support/minecraft
Worlds folder: $HOME/Library/Application Support/minecraft/saves/<world>

or, of course, using the same tilde syntax as in Linux.
Disrupt NYC
I cannot remember where I saw the story but there is a firm in the US that is fully using autism people in some IT tasks..fulltime jobs..it may have been listed on Slashdot 2 months ago..

Sorry that I cannot remember the firm name
‘Fullz’, ‘Dumps’, and more: Here’s what hackers are selling on the black market
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_naval_battles

The most recent ones are primarily clashes between patrol boats.
Show me the strictly paper money system which has lived 1000 years (or even 100!) and I'll stop believing that having the ability to debase a currency isn't a train wreck in slow motion. And when I say "strict" I mean it, so paper currencies which used to be convertable to gold or silver or whatever only start counting once convertability stopped.

Nothing in economics short of trivial tautologies can be proved or else economics would be just like physics and we'd understand it all already.
Hard to answer that as I lack your exact frame of reference.

Generally, employees of Mozilla Corp. are paid (and managed) to contribute to specific aspects of the Mozilla project. Sounds confusing, but essentially, imagine there is a new feature for Firefox browser's rendering code that needs implemented -- it's open source so technically anyone can submit a patch, but Mozilla-the-legal-entity may opt to hire and pay you to fix it (and many more after that).

You are then a professional software engineer working for someone who would like to reach a certain goal (such as: A new release of Firefox!) and gives you money to help them achieve it.

Edit: For disclosure, I should have mentioned that I work at Mozilla.
well, that gives you an idea just how much chemical potential energy there is in gasoline. its pretty incredible stuff.
Has anyone used Bluemix past the 30-day trial? It looks like you get 375 GB-hours. That sounds like quite a lot of time. It sounds like as a developer I can mess around with their beta services and not worry about paying anything.
Adobe’s Kickbox: The Kit to Launch Your Next Big Idea
There are two major problems with this article (although they're not specific to this article and are more generally applicable to Keynesian economics).

Firstly Prof. Krugman writes: "Why is deleveraging a problem? Because my spending is your income, and your spending is my income, so if everyone slashes spending at the same time, incomes go down around the world."

This model entirely ignores capital theory. It creates a simple closed system where if spending goes up, everyone is better off, and if spending goes down, everyone is worse off (because they have less income). But this has almost no relation to whether more or less wealth is being created. Are there more cars, iphones, loaves of bread, new medical technologies? It is the creation of new capital that makes everyone better off, and increases the standard of living, not more spending (although more spending often follows the creation of new goods)

Secondly Prof Krugman writes:

"You can see that misunderstanding at work every time someone rails against deficits with slogans like “Stop stealing from our kids.” It sounds right, if you don’t think about it: Families who run up debts make themselves poorer, so isn’t that true when we look at overall national debt?

No, it isn’t. An indebted family owes money to other people; the world economy as a whole owes money to itself. And while it’s true that countries can borrow from other countries, America has actually been borrowing less from abroad since 2008 than it did before, and Europe is a net lender to the rest of the world.

Because debt is money we owe to ourselves, it does not directly make the economy poorer (and paying it off doesn’t make us richer)"

The problem isn't who the debt is owed to, the problem is whether the debt is serviceable or not and is used to create new wealth. This all gets confused by the introduction of money into the discussion. But imagine a situation where person A loans person B a shovel with the understanding they will receive the shovel back in a week, along with 10 potatoes. This is a loan that is likely to be serviceable. Now instead imagine a loan where person A loans person B a shovel with the understanding that person B will return the shovel along with some produce. Now instead of digging up vegetables, person B uses his shovel to excavate some rocks on his property to create a nice looking rock garden. Person B is now going to get into trouble paying back his loan. The debt he has incurred has been used to work on a project that is unlikely to be profitable. This is akin to people going into debt during the housing bubble to fund their consumption (big house, fast cars, big TV etc) rather than fund more production. That is the kind of debt that is not going to be serviceable and will eventually need to be written down, or in the case of the US, handed over to the taxpayer.

We ARE better off writing down that debt because, in general, we want people to use debt to work on projects that generate new wealth and capital over time, and if we do not write that debt down, people will continue to work on unproductive, unprofitable projects.
Neat breakdown
My logs are clean. Because sshd is restricted to specific ip ranges. Ever hear of a firewall? Apparently the other guy on this thread hasn't either.
Social pressure is very effective. Comment on one of his Facebook statuses: "I've been trying to reach you for weeks, but you haven't responded. Could you please call me?"

If he doesn't respond to that, you could get more extreme by posting your own status and tagging him in it: "I've been working for @[friend] for months, and he hasn't paid me or responded to my emails. Anyone have any suggestions?"

Phone calls, in-person visits to his office, and emails to other friends or employees at his company will also be effective. It's very easy to ignore a personal email. It's very hard to ignore something that starts to affect your reputation and peace of mind.

Other than that, you might have some luck selling the debt to a collection agency.

You can, of course, always sue him, but if you don't have a pretty tight contract, it would be more trouble than it's worth.
This is exactly what good managers are for.

Go get _some_ job doing what you know how to do -- hunting down bugs in embedded C++ code is a skill the right employers will pay good money for. Don't apply for full software engineering jobs if you don't feel confident doing that. Be up front with your hiring manager about what skills you have now and what skills you want to develop. ("Up front" does not mean "ruthlessly self-critical." Do not say, "I'm actually quite terrible at programming," or, "I have no value in an engineering organization." Say, "I've done plenty of coding but to be honest most of my professional experience to date has been tracking down hard-to-find bugs and I think that's where I'll be able to provide the most value from day 1.")

Apply around to a lot of places, and look for somewhere that values the skills you have but also will allow you to develop into the longer-term role you want to hold. Make sure you meet your hiring manager before you accept a job, make sure you talk through this with him, make sure you look him or her in the eye and believe that they are a good person and are sincere about helping you grow into the next phase of your career.
Unless the investments bomb and no value is created eg. the clean energy investments of the last 10 years
VATMOSS has no relevance to B2B transactions (luckily!) but international businesses providing digital services to EU customers above a certain amount have been technically required to register since around 2003 - see http://www.taxamo.com/european-vat-on-e-services/ - this is why some US Web hosting providers will charge you VAT, but most (about 1% allegedly!) don't (and, I personally feel, they shouldn't).

The other issue is I don't believe there's any such thing as digital goods - they're considered electronically supplied services. Things like Web hosting are included in this. I'm not sure what purchases you're making from the US, but in my case things like Web hosting, Mailchimp, Pluralsight, videos, etc. all of these are e-services that I have to reverse charge.
Typical whataboutisms from a Putin apologist, none of which has to do with the space race. Sadly, those on the wrong side of history and who worship tyrants just can't seem to understand the modern world.
I can point you to a benchmark that disagrees. http://www.guypo.com/not-as-spdy-as-you-thought/ .

I promise you that I've considered the spec and its implications. Where are we now?
Why a VC's rejection just made me feel awesome
The Rich Man’s Dropout Club
TIWWW often mocks the blasé wording of this kind of reports or articles, the things you really don't want to read are the source texts.

I very, very strongly recommend reading Ignition!, it is truly awesome (it's the source for "Sand won't save you this time" and the book would be well worth its weight in rare metals if it were still possible to find the thing in any other form than a PDF)
>It means you can buy an expensive good like a house or a car now and pay for it later. As opposed to saving for years and then getting the car.

What about debt to build businesses or infrastructure that creates real wealth?
Median funding might be interesting (and less skewed by larger follow-ons).
Don't revert the code. Even if you don't "break" anything, he could make an argument that you caused damages, and he could sue you. Furthermore, damaging his business isn't going to make him richer and more likely to pay.

You could, of course, say something like this:

"Because you have failed to pay me for my work, I feel it would be morally justified for me to revert all of my changes unless we reach an agreement in the next 10 days."

You're not actually saying you're going to do it. You're just saying you think it would be ok.
That has nothing to do with anything. SPDY and HTTP/2 reduce the number of TCP round trips needed to transmit information.

"Nonsense phaenomenon?" Not to anyone who actually looks at how the protocols are implemented!
Dude, you sound like you are just depressed. You can't read that much into things. We are surrounded by signals telling us how awesome other people are, because they show us what they are proud of, and only the coolest of that really get's seen.

Second, remember the best companies hiring are still basically only a little better than 50/50 at predicting success after 18 months, and success isn't a simple thing. If you support developers they do a lot better then if you just throw them in the deep end, but still there are a bunch of factors, expectations, time demands etc. that can effect the perception of a programmer.

Third, coding ability isn't a singular thing. It's a mixture of various talents, skills, and knowledges that each programmer has to a certain degree.

But let's say that you are a shitty coder. The truth is, with all the talk of rockstar programmers who do 10x the work of the normal, most coders are not awesome, and most code isn't written by rockstars, and that code runs, and works, and ships/is put into production. There are people who will hire you, and there is work for you, engineering work, that is a valuable contribution to a company. This is a pretty good time to be in tech, and there are plenty of positions.

Even if you lack innate talent, you can work to develop your skills and knowledges and become a better programmer.

Or it's perfectly fine to do testing, automation, sys admin work, or take a management role.

Still, I think you are probably selling yourself short, because you feel discouraged.
Hmm ... I along with a couple of my friends spent the last two days at the DeveloperWeek hackathon trying to explore Watson's capabilites. IBM's PaaS solution is called BlueMix and all of Watson's capabilities are available as Services for you to use.

We tried using the "tradeoff Analytics" service for the project - and I must say , the tools and help available around it, the API and its documentation is pretty bad , convoluted and unusable. This is true too other services available through watson too.

We looked into IoT ( Internet of things ) as well . And once again , ran into a ton of dead ends without being able to proceed. The API documentation and examples just suck . If you are used to playing around with well documented APIs / Tools / Languages - this is going to be frustrating.

If the OP is the person who actually wrote the article , please please please go back to Watson Dev Cloud or BlueMix and try it out your services and APIs an a consumer.
Thanks, right, I forgot that one.
Could you outline a scenario where you make a request that someone else's certificate be revoked, yet it's of such little importance that you refuse to pay the $25 fee that may possibly be charged?
Historically it has been people digging in the dirt to find precious metals and then coining those metals. Worked pretty well for thousands of years and doesn't allow people to counterfeit.

If you want money to be a store of value there's no replacement to something that can't be faked. Personally I like the idea of my money holding value but from what I hear that's somewhere between "old fashioned" and "retardedly luddite" these days.
Sure, here is a gist: https://gist.github.com/dvbportal/cccccbbf6163cfbbbce6

The frontend definition advertises spdy and http/1.1 protocols via npn. (this should be now ALPN, HAProxy supports it)

The ssl_fc_npn ACL routes to the SSL-teminated traffic to the appropriate backends.

Nginx is configured to serve two backends with one port for each protocol. There can be multiple instances with round robin, if necessary.

This setup scales and is extensible for additional protocols
Harsh Profile of Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff
> Show me the strictly paper money system which has lived 1000 years (or even 100!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money

"The first use of fiat money was recorded in China around 1000 AD. Since then, it has been used continuously by various countries, concurrently with commodity currencies."

> ...or else economics would be just like physics and we'd understand it all already.

So you think physicists understand all about physics? I've got a bridge to sell you...
We thought that Youtube was a good gauge of general internet interest in the ad. If you liked the ad or ended up talking about it after, you probably pulled it up on Youtube to see it again.
You are right, it is more a preview than a demo, i'll change that. Thank you
QE finished last October.
Alternate title: "Crowdsourcing Vulnerabilities: DARPA Shredder Challenge Post-Mortem."
If let (and optionals in general) is my favorite Swift feature and has immediately made my code 10x more stable from the get-go. Glad to see it get expanded like this.
Appearance matters.

The font makes the page very hard to read and lends an impression of silliness to what is obviously a very serious project.
"A major weakness of the system, however, was that no letter could be enciphered to itself."

In hindsight this seems like a huge blunder. Even at the time of design it seems that if anyone were to ask the question "should we exclude enciphering "X" as "X" even the most rookie cryptographer would say "Of course not! That's absurd!"
The obvious answer is to have a spacegun that can only shoot two shots at the same time in opposite directions.
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Perhaps "scientific experimentation" was a bit much. But still, I can easily imagine that incident kindling the yearning for knowledge in a young man, perhaps setting him on the path of being a scientist. At the very least, I think it's a somewhat safe bet it influenced his study of sodium later in life, and we did gain some knowledge from his studies.

I am of course not saying every kid that plays with sodium will become interested in science, just that perhaps this one wouldn't have, otherwise.
Why Do Startups REALLY Fail?
We can discuss alternatives to PNaCl, but that isn't really the issue. Even if you have something you believe has no peer at the moment, that doesn't mean you can ship it without regards for the the standards process. It's still wrong for all the usual reasons.

Of course, not having a good alternative might mean that the other parties in the standards process should take another look at it. But again, that's a totally separate issue from whether it is ok to just ignore the standards process and ship whatever you want, which is what Google is doing here.
You should give it a try . I have a 30-day trial account and spun up a couple of services. Well the UI is cool , and there are a lot of templates ( boiler plates ) that you could use to get you app up and running. But you might struggle with respect to documentation depending on what services you use. A lot Watson stuff is in Beta ( you could see it when you login to Bluemix) - and you might have troubles with them.
Interesting, the pictures show it being tested without a case. At the frequencies it uses, I would expect it not to pass without some kind of shielding.

Do you know if the Raspberry Pi 2 has been tested yet?
That's right, your credentials are send to GitHub, then a personal token is generate through the GitHub API, and its use for each futur call
My "actual" complaint is that it's not enough to be a major version and that it's a system that only benefits large corporations with data to pre-push, with no other benefits.

You can think differently, of course, but after looking at this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8824789) I reconsidered my previously positive view on it.

(Also, I'd love a cookie)
>I seriously doubt investors will prefer to hold US dollars

Well, with all due respect, what you doubt doesn't really matter. We're watching it happen. Why would I buy bonds with a negative real yield when I can hold appreciating dollars risk free? Again, this concerns the system as a whole. Don't underestimate how important the V in MV = PT is.

>Wages are sticky.

Right. So people get fired to bring costs down, instead of everyone taking a little less.

>When I'm on a fixed income,

If you're on a fixed income with no debt, then you love deflation. Your dollars buy more goods.

>Money printing is the genesis of hyperinflation

Excess money printing is the genesis of hyperinflation. So, again, the problem is determining where that "excess" line is. One indicator of that is rising prices, which we don't see.

Are you calling for hyperinflation? If so, when?
I guess that depends what you mean by "secure things." If you mean tivoize then no kidding. But what kind of actual security requires the device owner to be unconditionally locked out of the device? It seems to be working as intended.
Krugman's right about one thing: economies that have had large austerity pushes seem to have done worse than countries that have had smaller spending cuts. I don't know that I would agree with Krugman about how much spending needs to happen to recover. Within the next 20 years, spending on Medicare and Social Security are expected to grow rapidly. Thus, I think frugality still makes sense.
I've been wanting something like this to exist - specifically for weird browser compatibility issues or for submitting bugs. There's been a few times where I've encountered a bug, sent a message about it to someone on Twitter, and wished I could send a quick Snapchat/Vine of the issue to them. This would be much better than numerous screenshots. It shows exactly how I produced the bug.

This, hopefully, could allow me to do just that.
> Nobody really knows how this ends, good or bad.

Efficient market theory is based on the fact that when you leave people to their own devices, they tend to do a far better job and be better off than if you try to help them. Basically everyone agrees on that.

So why do we accept efficient market theory for basically everything, yet when it comes to currency someone has decided that we need elaborate schemes of variable government decreed micromanagement in order for things to work?

In terms of keeping things simple and letting the market decide, the perfect currency would be global, unable to be printed or manipulated, of a fixed amount, so that external interference is impossible, and people knew exactly what they were dealing with at all times. The closest we have is gold (and maybe bitcoin).
yeah, to say Facebook is written in PHP is misleading. Facebook was originally written in PHP. Now it runs on the HHVM, which foregoes supporting the dangerous parts of the PHP stdlib, and offers better performance (fixing the two biggest problems with PHP). As I understand, much of their new code is written in Hack which interoperates with their legacy PHP code but supports gradual typing and other safety features (and some niceties).

Facebook is written in PHP, but they have invested a lot into making their PHP not be PHP.
This is like anti-noise-reduction. Which to me is weird. It's the fan white(?) noise which makes my blood pressure go up not down. So I wonder if it isn't just a myth that this should be calming at all.

That said, I still think the page is very well made and the sounds sound great! Well done!
Though, the only real data point that probably matters is what sales were like for the companies. I'd imagine they are at least a little correlated, would be neat to see some actual numbers.
What about Express itself?

Honestly, JavaScript is a very confusing language to start with. It's also hard to debug (easy-to-miss scoping issues, silent failures, silent logic errors, etc.) You'll write code that you think will work, and it just won't, and you won't know where to even start.

Go is a decent language for a beginner because it's very explicit (there's very little magic).

Check out this site, which I just discovered on HN: http://howistart.org