skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rates, and more importantly inflation, haven't soared because the US controls the global reserve currency, and printing a trillion dollars is barely relevant to that scale.

The rest of the world absorbs a sizable portion of US inflation because of that reserve standard. Fair or not, that is how it works and will continue to for at least several decades. Every other country on earth is partially subsidizing US fiscal irresponsibility.

The Fed can raise rates, and the US Govt can afford to pay another $500 billion on interest that would be incurred. It wouldn't be pretty, spending would either have to be frozen for five years to allow tax revenues to catch up, or the Fed would have to pay the bill for an extended period of time (again, at part cost to the rest of the world reliant on the dollar).
True, but I figured having a two letter function was kinda useful, and HR means other things. Plus, it's a light wrapper for XHR, so hey.

Another nice side effect is that if you use 2-spaces then your promise .then lines up with the initial call...

xr.get()
.then(...)
They publish source for their client programs (some even are GP v3), but they keep the server side stuff to themselves.
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On the contrary, the evolutionary argument here is that a few generations under these conditions would allow more biologically "stupider" humans to survive (since intelligence isn't being selected for) and pass on their genes, creating future generations of dumber humans.

Jared Diamond makes a similar argument in Guns, Germs, and Steel for why the people of New Guinea are smarter than their western counterparts.
Their docs are amazing as well. Very detailed, step-by-step instructions.
Not useless, but not as great as it could be indeed. I would love to publish my textsecure contact details online but I would never publish my phone number.
> Of course, I don't think it's a direct analogy. But it seems that partly what makes YC successful is also what makes BH successful.

In what way? Yes, they both invest in companies, and the investments represent people trying to figure out how to make money and beat their competitors. But there are a lot of differences in the details (Buffet has a source of stable income that people trust him to reinvest; Y Combinator makes money sporadically when other investors decide to buy their companies). They're about as similar -- to me -- as football and bowling. Sure, both sports have balls, but there are a few relevant differences.
All of which, while certainly true, still makes them a worse credit risk than the numbers say.
> ...the market determines the interest rate it will buy bonds at.

No, most newly issued government debt in the US, EU and Japan is now bought by their respective central banks at below fair market interest rates.

Consider that some European banks now charge savers and pay borrowers [1]. Do you really think that a fair market would accept negative interest rates?!

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/28/business/dealbook/in-europ...
Deny. There's no reason dying of wood smoke or disease selects for the smart or the dumb. Removing those pressures has no obvious effect on the intelligence of the survivors.
It seems like the equation processing gets messed late in section 4 - $$ \mathrm{DFT}[k] = \sum_{n=0}^{N-1} \mathrm{x}[n] \cdot (cos(\varphi) - sin(\varphi)i) \\ where \quad \varphi = k \frac{n}{N} 2\pi $$

https://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/dft_wa...

there are a few other examples in section 5

Aside from that, this is really great.
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I used to read Berkshire's annual reports - good to see HN discussing them.

If you liked the annual report, take a look at the "Owner's Manual" as well - it is worth a read:
http://berkshirehathaway.com/ownman.pdf
Curious if the new FCC rulings will put the kibosh on that, or if the MVNOs are enough of a separate entity.
> promised privacy features

They were never promised. It was internal dev tools that accidentally got released.
I'm still rather incredulous about the whole idea. I think to myself, if this is the best way to do things, we must be missing something.

Though, I can't put my finger on why JVM seems reasonable while BrowserVM doesn't.
> A bankruptcy for a low- or middle income earner would be much more disruptive than it would be to a high-income earner

It would be. But I am saying even if even they wouldn't, the higher income earner will have less moral and ethical qualms about walking away.

In other words they would do the math and seeing that their million dollar home is under water, they would throw the keys at the bank and walk away.

While perhaps someone raised and believing in hard work, paying your debts, being fair and responsible, would actually feel like they are letting the bank down or they are violating some core ethical principles, and might lose sleep over it.
On the same note, it's worth mentioning Palemoon: http://www.palemoon.org/
Because iPhones have had encryption hardware since the 3GS (2009).

"Data protection is available for devices that offer hardware encryption, including iPhone 3GS and later, all iPad models, and iPod touch (3rd generation and later)."

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202064
There's a link to it in that conversation: https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/904.pdf
I'm wondering how we engineers will deal with situations like carjacking and other extreme situations. Sometimes you just need to go, even if it breaks the law, or even if it involves hitting something or someone.

These situations don't occur every day... at least where I live. Thank goodness.

But this is a PR nightmare in the making, unless it is somehow addressed now, before such vehicles become commonplace.

At the very least, there needs to be some kind of 'safety override' button that you can press in an emergency.
I cannot relate, I need 7+, but I can imagine how much more you could get done if you had 20 hours a day to do it in. My grandmother was a short sleeper, she usually slept from midnight to 4am her whole life.
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They're probably going to record and store all of the conversations that happen over their network.
> simpler to understand than the standard write-compile-execute cycle

well, you'll hear different things about that. Some say the exact opposite, since understanding the program then depends on the large amount of state of a running system. In contrast, the write-compile-execute-cycle is more controlled, since the state building is being controlled as part of starting the program.
It was really $20 then $20 whenever you want to upgrade. And it's mainly for kids with gaming rigs. Good luck running any demos on Intel Integrated Graphics, much less the editor.

Unity can be used for free, with limits on certain features but good enough for school. Runs even on crappy $500 laptops.
I love it when a web site devoted to writing engages in blatant copyright violations like this. I mean, they acknowledge right up front that "copyright remains with Mr King" — and then proceed to violate King's copyright anyway. Brilliant!
Neat. My rough understanding is that carriers here route traffic through SEACOM, EASSy (and likely others) to minimize cost and traffic. I don't think I can choose SEACOM specifically -- but I'm always up to test Cunningham's Law.
In general the pension "debt" in most states and cities, like in the US Post Office, is overstated. Bizarre accounting assumptions that require the full pension cost for every current employee (or in the case of the USPO, employees not yet born) to be held in liquid assets in the present day are unrealistic. Yes, you may represent the presumed liability as a debt, but it's a debt that we know will not have to be paid out in full and which is constantly being paid off every cycle.

In short, pension liability "concerns" are often an effort to create an artificial budget crisis to use for political purposes, rather than an actual crisis. When you have to estimate costs 75 years into the future (as the Post Office is required to), the numbers look big, but you also have 75 years to bring in the revenue to pay for it.
HI MIKE!

I think you're the only other person I know who reads HN.

Neat idea.
Though it clearly isn't a server farm, there would appear to be reasonable use cases in the consumer and small business markets.

Lowest first cost is a significant form of capital efficiency [as opposed to energy]. There are tradeoffs either way, and for a single moderate use computer reaching the break-even point via reduced energy footprint could easily be several years. The raw cost of running the most power hungry P4 [115w] is $151 per 24/7 year @ full load @ $0.15/kwH.

In addition, having the machine pre-loaded with Linux also offers time efficiency versus re-provisioning a new Windows machine with Ubuntu or shopping for components, etc.

None of which to say it's a good deal per FLOP or MIP or anything else. But it's not necessarily bad either.
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If you mean the WebDAV one in RFC 3253, its spec (as is usual for WebDAV methods) has some WebDAV specific requirements in it that aren't really appropriate for general use; content-type isn't the only place where problems with generality can be found.

Something like that completely decoupled from WebDAV is basically what I'd like to see.
The Euro lost 21% of its value against the global reserve currency in 9.5 months or so. For a major currency, that is pretty close to crashing. It's going to get worse yet, given the US is on the upswing (strengthening the dollar), and Europe is still mired in economic disaster and moving into QE mode (weakening the Euro).
> As a rule, HTTP GET requests should not modify server state. This rule is useful because it lets intermediaries infer something about the request just by looking at the HTTP method.

As long as we're picking nits, it doesn't really matter if a GET request modifies server state so long as the state after N requests is the same as the state after 1 request (idempotence).
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Moving forward, many governments are doing away with or reducing pensions for newer employees (for example, in Washington State where I work, the old PERS 1 pension was replaced with a choice of a lesser pension or a 401(k) style plan instead). Only "grandfathered in" employees have PERS 1 pension.

However, I think the promises made to that generation must be considered. In many cases, working for the government is less cash salary in exchange for other benefits. For example, I make $87k working for the state but was offered $110k+bonus at Microsoft. Why the difference? The state can compensate me in additional non-monetary ways, which make up the difference of the value proposition. If that ceases to be true, so be it, and I will seek employment else; but don't try to go back in time and retroactively revoke something earned.

If those promised, contracted benefits are taken away with the swipe of a pen, why should that be a legal or moral thing to do? I'm ok with saying "moving forward, we won't be offering pensions to anyone new", but to go back in time and invalidate the contracted benefit from past work? It's like if you contract with someone and say "work for a month and I will pay for $5000." Then at the end of the month, you say "Well, I don't have the money. That's too bad." Of course that would be a violation and the courts would step in. Should it be any different with the state?
"The contents of these internal database files are closely guarded by Uber,"

Mmm, the evidence suggests otherwise.
I'm finding 8051 variants integrated into SOC's for capacitive touch screens, RFID readers, and even in contactless "smart" cards.
Deluge is a good client with a local GUI and web access
True. Also, there are rumors that epic is working on a multiplayer implementation of the player centered coordinate system.
Since when does the OSI advocate for copyleft licenses, explicitly or otherwise? It was in fact founded -- and the term "open source" was coined -- in order to advocate for free software licensing separately from the FSF's ethical positions and promotion of copyleft.
From the changelog:

> autocomplete=off is no longer supported for username/password fields

As far as I can recall, autocomplete=off was originally added specifically for username and password fields, so somebody who nicked your laptop couldn't go to your bank's website and have your username and password filled in.

As a power user I find autocomplete=off pretty annoying, but I've got ways to work around it. I'm very curious what the rationale for this change is.
Isn't this a decent amount of PHP frameworks? I mean taken from the Wiki link;

* MVC frameworks written in PHP. For example Yii, CakePHP, Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter and Zend Framework

* Drupal

* Microsoft's ASP.NET MVC Framework.

* Spring Framework

* Cairngorm framework in Adobe Flex.

* Yesod web application framework written in Haskell.

So is this a knock on WordPress, or any application that uses the Front Controller Pattern
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"Data control by large corporations and government agencies is a tangible concern. Our Symple PC represents another, environmentally intelligent and privacy-aware path. It is one of the most planet-friendly PCs in the world. The case is made from recycled ABS plastic, the parts are recycled..."

Hold on, hold on. They are directly marketing this solution to call centers, non-profits, etc., claiming it's "privacy-conscious" yet it utilizes recycled components which by their nature are from unknown sources. There is no chain of custody for recycled components. As such, do they have a lab which is verifying the firmware of any of those recycled components haven't been tampered with in a way which will result in a breach of privacy? If they do, that's cool but I'd think it would add significantly to the cost. This has been a major challenge in the re-use space for years as it's possible to tamper with firmware on motherboards, hard-drives, and network cards in a way which breaches privacy, independent of the operating system. I get the whole reuse thing, it's cool, but I'd be very cautious about making binding claims as to either the privacy or security of devices using recycled components which can be re-flashed.
Your unregistering options are best summarized here:
http://support.whispersystems.org/customer/portal/articles/1...
If I'm doing the math right, that's only about 16% annualized ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_of_return#Geometric_averag... ). Which, for the record, is much better than I've ever done. But Buffet is being a little sneaky there: it's really a good example of compound interest over long time periods.
Now consider the following buggy code:

var price = document.querySelector('input#price').value; // "10"
var tax = document.querySelector('input#tax').value; // "1"
var total = foo(price, tax); // "101"

This will concatenate two strings together, even though the author intended to add two numbers. If the foo function had been annotated as numeric the IDE could have provided a warning about the incorrect types and put a squigly line under foo.

I find this type of fast feedback improves programmer productivity. It means that you get warned straight away, and don't have to do a trip through the debugger to find the problem.

Just because the compiler can infer that a specific type could be passed to a function, that does not mean that the developer intended that function to be used with that type.
Google revinue is ~US$ 66.001 billion so they make ~9.54$ per person in the world.

However, I suspect actual users is probably closer to 2 billion than 7 billion. ex: ~1.17 billion people use Google search.
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So how is it living there? Curios... I live in NYC, my brother is flying out to test out his micro solar chargers...Any insights?
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Maybe they're a buyer for T-Mobile or Sprint? Unlikely, yes.
I got rejected by a random defense contractor, before getting a job offer from Apple.

After a handful of years in the tech industry, I also begun to operate with the understanding that the tech hiring process is a bit of a cluster, industry-wide. Whether or not you end up with a job does, often times, incorporate a non-trivial amount of luck, chance, and a few other factors that are just outside of your control (headcount + budget, 'culture'-related reasons, perceived urgency + supply, random management decisions, etc).

It's rough advice that no one wants to hear and no one wants to admit but, IMO, it's the stark reality of tech hiring, and I wish it was pointed out, more often.
Uber needs to accept responsibility and live with their mistake.

"Intruders"? Uber gave their permission when they uploaded the key to a public service (...a key to a publicly accessible database, nonetheless). Doesn't matter if it was accidental...Uber doesn't have the right to inconvenience another company (GitHub) with a subpoena because of their own mistake.
I don't see why that would be. It seems to me that people are vastly more likely to purport to hold an orthodox opinion when they actually hole a heretical one than vice versa. But obviously they will also predict that other people will purport to hold the orthodox opinion.
Brackets can be used as a general programmer editor if you don't care for the preview/autoreload functions. It has some pretty good plugins, the TypeScript support for instance is excellent with codeintel and everything [1].

[1] https://github.com/fdecampredon/brackets-typescript
No! Her job as CEO was to fix Yahoo. If the work-from-home program was a problem at Yahoo, it was her responsibility to address that.

You speak as if it's a foregone conclusion that working from home is a good idea, but not everybody agrees with that. So you're suggesting that she should have made a decision she felt was bad for her company to advance your personal agenda, and that's a little bit crazy.
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Adding another similar organization: www.reglue.org
How really easy is it to set up a beginner's project with this engine ? I mean it's a commercial engine, it has all the bells and whistles, but how easy is it to learn it ? Does it require one to use the editor to use the engine, or can I start with a simple bit of code and start going from there ?

What I hate about unity is the whole interface editor thing, it's big and you must use everything to use it. Is this Unreal Engine more earth to earth when it comes to programming ?

If it's a powerful 3D renderer but it's hard to use for simple things and it's not easily extensible, it's not really worthwhile.

I see it's very powerful, but I'm still wondering about the real utility of an "engine" versus a library.

For example, if you have some new idea and you are a programmer, and you want to be able to experiment and not be constrained by the design of the engine, I doubt such engine would really be relevant. Programmers need simple tools and frozen platforms.

I guess this engine is great for small studio who want to make a real 3D game quickly, if their programming style fit well, but if you're an indie or a demoscener and you're just experimenting, this engine is just too powerful.

I mean it's great to have such great and powerful tools (if they can last at least 5 year and not make projects obsolete) for free, but I don't see becoming a standard in the game programming community, and I don't know why...
> Bitcoin has nothing to do with waging war or the end of the state.

Cash is just as important in war as bodies to throw into the meat grinder. If the state loses its control over the money supply, it isn't going to be able to finance war... or exert much influence otherwise.

> As for me being unrealistic: it's my life, I'll be happy...

Cool, I thought you were interested in solving a problem outside of yourself - carry on.

> Defense contractors can't wage war without people willing to operate the weapons...

There will always be people to operate the weapons, offer more money or tell them that their god demands it.

> As for the no-fly zones and the UN weapon inspectors:

Yeah, I'm not going to argue about facts - first result in google: http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/30/world/meast/iraq-weapons-inspe...

> It's all just dumb wars over resources no more, no less.

Agreed, but the original point was about legal justification, not actual agenda.
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Lots of great discussion in the bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=956906
YC's investment thesis is that there will be many more startups in the future than there are now; at some point in a generation or so, the economy may be all startups, and every company we know of today with "sustainable, predictable returns" will have been eaten by a disrupter.

IMHO, there is reason to believe this is plausible. Injecting my own interpretations - the proportion of startups to established businesses in an economy is dependent upon a.) the pace of change and b.) the degree of interconnectedness in the economy [because when firms are tightly connected, there is a high chance that future technological developments will invalidate fundamental assumptions that existing firms' existence is based upon, while when firms are generally siloed and vertically integrated, they are unlikely to be affected by the entry of new firms into the market]. Both of these variables are increasing rapidly today. That's going to put increasing evolutionary pressure on existing old-line industries, such that we may see a mass-extinction event in the near future where a number of prominent industries all go down en-masse.

What Berkshire and YC have in common is a full appreciation for the effect of compound interest and a willingness to employ that capital by putting their fingers in an increasing number of pies.
Really great. One nitpick: I looked 10 seconds for "Next" link. Would be better as a single article IMO.
I tell this to my friends, I am much younger but none the less there is a time when everything is awesome and fun and after that its just pain and no reason to struggle and try to keep hanging on. Its like a date that is not working and you are just trying to make it happen to no avail. Enjoy youth, have fun, love and cherish and when the music stops - its time to turn off the lights...
Its very heavy. I've been using airline for the last year or so. https://github.com/bling/vim-airline
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I'd be interested to see how the royalties work when UE for is not the primary part of the product.

Say, hypothetically you had an advanced visualisation component that you wanted to build in UE, or a virtual tour part of a much larger app. Or even using it to provide some sort of AR experience, however this was just one feature of a much much larger project, which revenues could be in the millions. Does that mean they get 5% of the whole thing? Or just the part that directly relates to the game engine?

Not knocking it, I think it's a great model, but it does make for an interesting problem. I think Unity is a better choice for this sort of scenario, of course, but still.
for backend admin, when creating usernames and passwords for new users, you dont want those saved in your own browser.

pretty much the only use-case i've run into and can think of.