skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To expand on that, QE means Quantitative Easing:

>An unconventional monetary policy in which a central bank purchases government securities or other securities from the market in order to lower interest rates and increase the money supply. Quantitative easing increases the money supply by flooding financial institutions with capital in an effort to promote increased lending and liquidity. Quantitative easing is considered when short-term interest rates are at or approaching zero, and does not involve the printing of new banknotes.

So if suddenly, a new player shows up in the markets buying trillions of dollars worth of securities, due to the law of supply and demand, one can expect price of stocks to go up. You can check out the Feds balance sheet here [1]. Check out "Securities held outright" [2], yeah, that's 4.3 trillion with a "t". This figure used to be on the billions before the financial crisis [3], which means that the Fed flooded secondary markets (stock exchanges among them) with more than 3 trillion dollars, to put this into perspective, this the value of all the goods and services that the US produces in 2 months, or two and a half years in the case of Mexico.

So yeah, the causality between QE and inflation of stock prices seems very plausible.

Disclaimer: Central banking operations is not one of my main strengths, so you are more than welcome to fact check, correct or complete my comment.

[1] Web: http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/ PDF: http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/h41.pdf

[2] The amount of securities held by Federal Reserve Banks. This quantity is the cumulative result of permanent open market operations: outright purchases or sales of securities, conducted by the Federal Reserve. Section 14 of the Federal Reserve Act defines the securities that the Federal Reserve is authorized to buy and sell.

[3] http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/WSECOUT
Just found that! Thanks!
One of the big reasons is it has multithreading. So, you know when you have a plugin that's doing something and the whole editor locks up so you can't do anything... with NeoVim there's a way to prevent that from occurring.
It's more like, can American Democracy get by with a few secret admins blocking all the attempts at bug fixes?
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They are doing this so they can also be a telco company and then the phone companies have to allow them to use there polls to lay fiber, etc...
Yes - definitely more of a symbolic lesson. I remember a comment from Jim Rogers [0] that I can't seem to find to the effect of, "The lesson from Japan is bubbles take decades to recover form, not years." This is symbolic that we've finally recovered.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Rogers
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I really want to support Firefox OS and abandon Android. But Mozilla keeps missing the mark as far as I'm concerned. I don't want a flip phone, or a low-spec phone, or one that's only available in Japan. I just want something with a decent quad-core and more than 1gb of ram that I can purchase in the US and that will come with a warranty.
Once we're talking subpoenas, the game is kind of up. At that point we're talking about how to most effectively flee the law.
I think the logic behind hiring contractors is that he's available to start working immediately and, in the meantime, a company can look for a good permanent employee (which is usually much cheaper as well, at least in London) to replace him.
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You can also pick up a Thinkpad T400 laptop on ebay for about that amount. (Has absolutely crap video hardware, but plenty good for web development and educational purposes.)
If American Democracy is software, then it's in a pretty good state I'd say. It does numerous functions, but they all seem loosely coupled. Refactoring policy in one branch wouldn't catastrophically collapse another branch. No one aspect of American democracy seems able to crash the system.

Some modules can be completely re-written for better results, for instance our tax system could be replaced by some type of flat-tax.

Other ones can get by with significant refactoring over a long period, maybe financial regulation could have better consumer protection and ultimately allow for a more equitable distribution of wealth (I'm' not economist, maybe those goals don't even involve each other)

And other ones just need bug patches, for instance interstate commerce, which I'd guess is smooth as a cucumber right now, but we could have more states align on issues of policy that create confusion in the marketplace (a Delaware C copr is a great example of people finding those simple solutions).

It is hard to think of a really good, functioning part of government, but generally those are the ones we don't even notice. The government is great at handing out money to people, and that is often touted as the only social program we really need. We can reform the broken way it hands out contracts to companies.

Here's the thing. Starting over is a fanciful idea, but completely stupid. When you re-build a system, you have to re-build the parts that worked too. And for what it's worth, democracy works and change happens. Yes it sucks that it's slow, but it's sure.
> It's initially doesn't cost anything, but if you want to charge for a game, it costs you.

That's just it though; if you wanted to use this to make a completely free GNU/Linux game, you could, without ever paying a cent to Epic. If you do decide to make a game for profit, it's only when you "make it" that you have to pay for your tools. I see it as a fair and equitable arrangement, where both sides profit if and only if the developer is successful.
Could you reasonably expect a more favourable deal on a world-class game engine?
> That's a bastardisation of loyalty though. Yes, people volunteer, because they are expected to.

It is pretty clear that you have no idea what you're talking about. You know that you can dislike people in general, but still recognize positive qualities right? Here is another example: Sergeant Major Bradley Kasal. This guy used his own body as a bullet stop to protect his Marines, nobody expects that.

> What about speaking up about a situation that is going to get people killed?

There was a lot of that, we got it shut down at the eleventh hour.

> What about the people who didn't volunteer, where they fine with the whole thing as long as they weren't affected?

I didn't poll everybody, but I'm pretty confident in saying that nobody was fine with the situation. At lot of those guys were pretty torn between loyalty to their families, the guys that they'd just been in combat with and their fellow Marines in the artillery battalion. There were many private conversation had were they tried to talk volunteers out of it, and more than one anonymous letter to a General.

> Is the commander visiting his guys after years and year when they are dealing with PTSD?

Do you think that is practical? In their careers they will have commanded thousands of men. There is a strong bond though, for example: another personal story :) When I got out of the Corps I drove all the way across the country, for a job in DC. After a few days of searching, I found a basement apartment for rent - the landlord lived upstairs with his wife and toddler daughter. Purely by chance, the landlord was a Colonel in the USMC, and he instantly treated me like an old family friend - standing invitation to dinner, long conversation on the porch, etc. The wife was not a big fan of this, and I'm pretty sure my new buddy was constantly catching hell for it. Until one day, several months later, when I came home from work and found the front door wide open and heard panicked footsteps inside. Now this was in pretty much the worst part of DC, and I could have easily just made my way to my private entrance and ignored the possibility that the landlord was getting burgled. Instead, I began clearing the house room by room - armed with a paring knife from the kitchen. I gave the cleaning lady quite a shock, she had forgotten the alarm code and was rushing around trying to find it. I was sure that I'd get the boot for that, but instead I got a dinner invitation from the wife. The cleaning lady informed her of what happened, and it suddenly clicked for her - I was family.

> The military selectively decides what part of these virtues that are valued.

Again, spoken like somebody who has no idea what they're talking about. Outside of the philosophy department in college, I've never seen an organization focus as much on morality as the USMC. Of course, the perspective is that of the state. So any flaws you find in the logic of military morality will be rooted in the state, not the military.
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I'm very glad of course but...

...technically all they did was lower the price by $19 a month.

...and bought a lot of press for that

...and a lot more shots at the 5% revenue.

It's really great of course. But better yet, it's really very clever.
Edit: Resonance may pay a tiny role, but it's a long way from the star of the show.

It also works with normal waves, storm surges, and Tsunamis which are non-oscillating systems. It's due to the large amount of kinetic energy in moving water which allows a much wider range of waves to benefit than you get with a resonance effect. Picture a large rock in a fast moving stream, the water bunches up in front of it and in some cases you can see a bump the water over some obstruction. http://ak.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/6538901/preview/stoc...

PS: Because the land slopes up the water nearing the shore can have a slightly lower angel over a long distance which adds up. Thus, the total height at the end might be 20+ feet, but at the edge of the bay it's only vary slightly above sea level. However, the reverse at low tide does not work nearly as well because the slope dampens the effect vs reinforcing it. Resonance effects require both the height and trough of each wave to reinforce each other.
For me, the 7 minute workout was kind of effective. I say kind of, because i couldnt build the habit, but got some light results in less than a week.

So even if it isnt the most effective it could help you
start building the habit.
31 months is a long time though.
> faring much worse

You have to specify a timeframe when you claim this. For example, Bitcoin has been quite stable for the YTD. (Well, at least as far as Bitcoin goes.)

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/coinbase/btcusd
I've been trying to decide which to cut my teeth on, to build a prototype MMORPG. I'm comfortable with C++, though my colleague won't be. Any suggestion on which engine/toolkit would be better for that type of build? Graphics quality is not a big concern, mostly just want to use the tool that have the best chance of becoming proficient with.
My comment was based on research into the illness, and understanding the underlying etiology (see my peerj post). Also, I have seen many people cured completely from CFS (most of whom didn't use CBT).

Unfortunately there is no effective, evidence-based treatment that is based on a sound etiology of the illness. However if you understand the etiology you can certainly "hack" your brain to fully recover from CFS like myself and many other patients have done.
Morgan Computers! I bought a few bits from them nearly 15 years ago. Good to see they are still in business, I'd have thought eBay would have finished them off.
Take a look at Attempto Controlled English.
There's actually an exception in the site rules[0] for the sorts of titles which are common on the Reg:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Your first point hinges on using existing infrastructure which even within the US is a questionable situation. Being at the mercy of the infrastructure, where it exists at all, greatly limits the value they can create - a project on Kickstarter could achieve the same result.

I'm skeptical about your second point too as many businesses can afford internet connections, especially if there are any advantages to be had sharing them publicly.

Your final point, it is hard to imagine google caring to offer western audiences free internet. This is a very incremental benefit to a modern country, something like 87% of the USA [1] may already be online.

I think this is practice for doing it globally where internet can be very niche.

[1] http://www.internetworldstats.com/am/us.htm
I don't like when people say, "Just look at the stock price." The stock benefit came from not undoing the work of her predecessors who purchased Ali Baba. The article does jump into this later.

Turnarounds take a while, and this is indeed Step 1. I can't think of another "It" company that returned to greatness. Perhaps AOL is the closes. (For those who argue for Apple, I don't think it was the "It" company the first time around)
I was curious so I decided to post some of the Google links about this:

* man page: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/pollinate.1....

* Q&A style blog post: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2014/02/random-seeds-in-ubunt...

* A "why this is scary" blog post: https://tim.siosm.fr/blog/2014/04/25/why-not-ubuntu-14.04-lt...
From the article comments, it looks like a hardware issue:

"Apparently, Google has not merged the various drivers that optimize Qualcomm's QCE module for encryption and decryption into AOSP. The generally-assumed reason is that this code is proprietary. Without these optimizations, the Nexus 6's hardware decryption module on the Snapdragon 805 is essentially hamstrung."

From: http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/11/20 ... ot-pretty/
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Has anybody done UE4 dev on lower-end computers? I want to make games that can run on laptops with decent integrated graphics (Iris Pro). Does UE4 allow you to turn down all the fancy effects in order to do this at 60fps?
>When you ship a game or application, you pay a 5% royalty on gross revenue after the first $3,000 per product, per quarter.

Not only does it reset per quarter, it is per product as well.
> and when they want to offer to pay me in the form of a substantial service price discount for access to my web history I might reconsider

Why? It's not like they actually know whether your 80/443 traffic is real browsing or just chaff. One's best bet is to let them datamine the hell out of you for a discount (since they, NSA, and everyone in between is going to do any anyway), and then spend some of that savings on a VPN provider to route your insecure protocols over (as you're already doing, which is why I'm making this point).

I'm looking forward to services that charge less to inspect traffic harder, because I'm hoping it'll making your average person realize that their privacy is worth more than eg $30/mo, and that it can be better protected for $5/mo to a third party. Discounts for traffic inspection is a nice tip of the iceberg for us - some practice upfront totalitarianism that will hopefully inspire development, testing, and adoption of protocols that are truly opaque to the network.
Agreed and especially like your points around expert markets about the executives' radar.

Just a to build a bit on the pricing point: Outside of perfect competition, price is not determined by the market. It is determined by executive or committee or some agent of a company subject to the market, specifically 1) observed and expected competitors' prices and 2) the company's estimate of the demand curve composed of all possible customers & workloads.
I had many SIGABRT with my vim config under the hideous non-posix Terminal.app. Sometimes a SIGSEGV. With neovim, gone. Never had any.

Also, it's a bit faster (very noticeable with CtrlP).
And what's a real shame is that they could still make money off of private users. It's possible to offer targeted ads based on unencrypted metadata and hashed keywords (c.f. some of the interested work GNUnet has done on search); they could also offer 100% private (client-side encrypted) accounts for an upcharge. Google's revenue per user is reputed to be roughly $10 per annum; I'd be willing to pay $50/year for client-side encrypted everything.

Yes, it'd cost money to maintain that infrastructure, but I bet there are enough people who'd want to do it, and would be willing to pay enough to do it, that it'd be profitable.
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Looking at those numbers, I hadn't realised that from the Chinese civil war [1928] to the Korean War [1953], which is nearly a historical continuum, adds up to nearly 100 million deaths.
The old standard is that many promises are made (by Google and others) on privacy that are false.

The new standard is that we're all aware of this and seeking better options.
Energy is dirt cheap in comparison to labor. Therefore cost of industrial goods is correlated to labor not to energy / power costs. (with few exceptions in heavy industries.)
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> The Euro is crashing

Well, for an anti-hyper, there's a ton of spin right there ;)

The Euro is not crashing, it's pretty stable against most currencies except (re)surgent USD and GBP. It has some structural issues to overcome, not unlike USD, but "crashing" it is not.
Your binary divide between worthy homeless and unworthy is simplistic. Why, for example, do some cities have far more homeless people than others.

The high number of homeless people really struck me when I visited San Francisco a couple of years ago, and it's worth as a city asking why. For a wealthy place, it was incredibly sad and surprising too.
You can scale down the quality settings so it can run on just about anything. But I've found the editor itself--if you're not just going to work completely from Visual Studio--needs a fairly hefty computer.

I don't have any experience with Unity to compare, though.
The author doesn't provide much of a counterpoint: underneath the layers of rudeness and rhetorical flourishes, the only point of the article is that Mr. Buffet generally purchases companies for less than what the seller would receive in an auction managed by investment bankers.

This rebuts none of Mr. Buffet's points (not even those brought up in the parts of the letter that the author quotes), nor is it very insightful. Mr. Buffet has always ascribed to and publicly stated that he looks for deals, buying companies when they are cheap.
Check out PouchDB. That's exactly what it's designed for: JSON document storage with remote synchronization capabilities.
I made this plugin because I noticed that all other plugins that did this required you to use their blessed css styles / markup.

Its not perfect yet, but it appears to work for most people.
I will add to this that Republic Wireless has been a mostly awesome experience. I am not even convinced the bad points have been their fault. Just some times when the bloody phone will not actually make a call for me. (I should note I log a ridiculously low number of hours on voice calls.)
Dang tech companies and Greek letters? This guy must be a brogrammer
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Rescale image thumbmails on github readme. It takes forever to load and costs fortune on mobile internet.
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I don't care what they say, Google doesn't care about our privacy.
I don't know either, but they're really into it. I'm in negative numbers on every comment in this subtree. (except, hopefully, this one.)
Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support
Also unprivileged version would be nice. Java Web Start or applet. People still use those.
There may be reception, but is it possible to get a GPS fix? Without one, it may be hard to make automated assumptions about congestion / travel speed.
Tell HN: Linode upgrading and rebooting all Xen server instances one by one
Full support note included below.

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Hello,

Linode recently received several Xen Security Advisories (XSAs) that require us to perform updates to our host servers. In order to apply the updates, hosts and the Linodes running on them must be rebooted. The XSAs will be publicly released by the Xen project team on March 10th, therefore we must complete the updates before that date.

These updates are required to protect the security and safe operations of not only our infrastructure, but yours as well. We understand that a disruption with such limited notice is inconvenient, and we hope you understand that these measures are warranted due to the severity of the XSAs.

Your Linodes have been assigned a maintenance window in which a reboot will occur. These times are listed within the Linode Manager[1] in the timezone set in your user's My Profile[2]. Your schedule in UTC timezone is as follows:

/* List of linodes */

During the maintenance window Linode instances will be cleanly shut down while we perform the updates. Your Linode will be inaccessible during this time. A two-hour window is allocated, however the actual downtime can be much less. After the maintenance, each Linode will then be booted. See our Reboot Survival Guide[3] for tips and hints on configuring and testing that your Linode services boot properly after the maintenance.

Unfortunately, due the logistical demands of this effort, your assigned windows are not changeable and the host reboots are mandatory.

For general information, please see our status post: <http://status.linode.com/incidents/2dyvn29ds5mz>

Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist.

[1] <https://manager.linode.com/linodes>
[2] <https://manager.linode.com/profile>
[3] <https://www.linode.com/docs/uptime/reboot-survival-guide>

-Linode
From what I heard, the encryption was having a very noticeable impact on performance.
An even better question might be: why is it still an issue in 2179? :)

There will always be border disputes, but they don't usually last 200+ years.
But are they the best partners? For example the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline may really get phone interaction better than anyone else, but that's different than social media in terms of interaction from a users point of view.

This is really a different medium, and one that may generate false positives just for starters. So it may not be harmless because you could alienate a false positive, or abuse it to bully someone.

And I'm basing this as an interaction designer on just the few screens that I see there (so if I'm seeing that, what else is being missed?).
It's funny, because by your own statement, "open source" is also an excessively restrictive and ideologically motivated definition, what with OSI and FSF definitions being largely equivalent. For some reason I doubt you believe this.

Why would you say that?

I actually explicitly believe that the FSF and OSI have coopted the term "free" in order to bend it to their own definition, while in fact espousing a position that explicitly advocates for licenses that restrict user freedom in very specific ways.

They, of course, happen to restrict freedom in a way that many folks like. But it's undeniable that, from the perspective of the individual user of software, BSD-licensed open source (for example) affords greater individual freedoms than that provided by GPL-licensed software, specifically because the latter is "subject to or constrained by engagements or obligations".