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Japan's real estate bubble crashing had nothing to do with deflation. The claim that it did, is one of the greatest myths in all of economics. They've had zero net deflation on their consumer price index since ~1989.

The US dotcom bubble imploding was also not deflation.

Japan got a real estate bubble from extreme monetary expansion flooding into the economy in the 1970s and 1980s. They got a popped bubble when that fake economic party ended with monetary expansion falling to single digits in the early 1990s. The reduction in that rather massive monetary expansion forced their economy back to reality.

The US real estate bubble occurred in part for the same reason. The Fed juiced the economy after 9/11 to attempt to avoid a recession.

When reality hit, Japan shifted to accumulating vast amounts of debt to fake a better economic condition than what they really had. That overwhelming debt has continued to drown their prospects as the years go by, sapping growth potential.

You can see this same exact scenario playing out in China right now.

A bubble imploding is not deflation, just as price contraction on the CPI is not inherently deflation.

See: flat screen tv prices, computing prices, etc. The US enjoyed decades of general price stability and contraction due to vast automation and economies of scale after the civil war, none of which was deflation (monetary contraction).
Watching too many air-crash investigation episodes had lead me to believe 0% of media reported "facts" surrounding plane crashes.

I will wait for the official accident investigation report.
From my comment, which you apparently didn't read:

> considering autopsy is done on every body

what I meant was, even if every body is autopsied, it wouldn't make sense
I can't believe I'll live the day to see somebody confusing a shell and a terminal emulator on Hacker News.

What happened?
I couldn't even tell from the top of my head if the optical device in my desktop supports bluray or not. Not even sure if I ever opened its tray since building the PC 2.5 years ago. I guess I shouldn't have wasted $30 on it.

So different than the time when an upgrade from 4x to 8x CD-R write speed was a big deal to me...
I use oh-my-zsh on Arch and it takes ages to give me a prompt unless I Ctrl-C. For some reason this only happens the first time I open a terminal after logging on. Haven't got around to digging up the root cause yet.
Crashed very very badly - they had 100+ year mortgages that where handed down from generation to generation.

You can imagine the will reading "I leave my Rolex and and the remaing 40 years of my mortgage to my son/daughter"
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The "Get Ship Done" button on the FAQ points to the wrong spot. May want to fix that...
> usually not because your money will theoretically buy you more tomorrow

Which is a ridiculous argument because it's always true (or at least has been for 100+ years).

It's very easy to find safe investments with greater returns than inflation and it always has been, has it caused a hoarding problem?
If the vast majority of people, rich and poor, buy consumer electronics, why is it "sneaky" to include them in the inflation basket?
Double commander ? http://sourceforge.net/p/doublecmd/wiki/Download/
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> I'm quite concerned about getting a job doing something interesting where I feel like I have some sort of positive impact on the world,

It's great if you get some sort of shiny job like that right out of the gate. But for most people, their job-related positive impact on the world comes on top of some years of experience.

If you don't get the shiny job right off, enjoy the normal job, learn about your field, the world and yourself. Take the long view, and enjoy the days. Eventually you'll focus on what you want to contribute, rather than the needs of some particular early employer.

It'll be fine.
long read, but he argues that the Japan CPI went up
http://www.financialsensearchive.com/fsu/editorials/amerman/...
Thanks! I found out a little bit about the founder(I think)--forget his name, but he seems legit. He's a founder of vagabond.something, and was a player in Skype. I listened to his podcast, and he was pretty grounded in reality. I heard he was given 5 million a few years ago to get this thing started; which doesn't seems like enough to manufacture your own chip? After every job posting, the company is offering a Mac book pro retina as an incentive to join the company. For some reason I started to laugh, but you need a laptop to work, and why not a Mac book pro retina? What I got out of the podcast is the TV show Silicon Valley just might be a documentary. I guess I didn't realize just how important Silicon Valley has become, and seems akin to an amusement park in some ways. No wonder rents in the Bay Area are beyond staggering. The podcast I watched was about vagabond.someting--not this company.
I agree in that I believe companies should do their own recruiting and many of the best do. But there are many employers who have a lot of potential who just don't prioritise or want to spend the time doing the sourcing. Maybe this is indicative of a poor company culture. Maybe they just need to be shown how to market themselves.
Have a really good rest. Because after that you'll be working your ass off for the rest of your life.
I wonder if this is what lead to Airbus making a pretty vague statement compared to Boeing about its software on this other recent related news:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-18/hacker-cla...
benbreen just missed the "-3" at the end, or maybe even removed it intentionally thinking it was a link to the third page of the article.

It is interesting that the date is ignored in the URL. It looks like the part after the date is actually an identifier for the article made up of the title + "-1", "-2" etc when needed. The Sacks article is the third with the title "Altered States."
Payday loans in the UK have been around for a long time and well before that you have Pawnbrokers
Sourced form this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=9568939&goto=item%3Fid...
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Typo after adding shipment: "We match or beat AusPost's price - garanteed." should read "We match or beat AusPost's price - guaranteed."
That is the only part that makes sense. The mining makes zero sense but having a secure wallet in everything sounds like a good idea.
Games have to optimize for performance - if your game doesn't run smoothly on typical market hardware, it's a market failure (generally). Web applications have to optimize for flexibility of development. Performance is certainly important, but at a very different level (usually network and data retrieval) compared to games (massive SIMD operations).
I am not surprised at all. There are a lot of contractors involved in the development of the software for the A400M, and they are basically competing for price and employing undergraduates making below €18K/year, which they replace every few months due to burnouts and bad working conditions. Projects get continuously delayed, and key people barely stay more than a couple of years.
Very cool site, though! I'm particularly impressed with the address parsing and autofill.
Japan has had zero net deflation in the last 30 years. Their CPI is higher today than it was in 1990 for example.

Here's what Japan had:

1) Too much monetary expansion in the 1970s and 1980s, leading to bubbles in both real estate and the stock market.

2) When monetary expansion slowed down, they suffered the popping of both of those asset bubbles.

3) In response to that fake boom ending, they turned to accumulating debt.

4) That debt has led to protracted stagnation for ~20 years. Which has now led to currency debasement to devalue that debt, because it's consuming so much of their budget, and the the central government can no longer borrow from Japan's savers (because their savings rate is non-existent now).
agree but would add even the mattress and metal hoarders serve a purpose in signalling that the offer of risk vs reward in current interest rates needs adjustment.
This is all distorted however since the central banks keep their hand on rates and decide what the market should accept for the risk lending savings to the bank (depositing).
Stanford has its own cogen steam and chilled water (underground "ice cube") capabilities, in addition to power generation. Many such campuses use the industrial central plant model because it's cheaper and more efficient at scale. Residential areas could leverage this and other utilities (like internet) if people get out there, organize and develop compelling, sustainable operational (quasi-business) models that can compete with for-profit. Because it doesn't make sense to have an entire neighborhood with excess internet capacity and individual wifi boxes, having to have one "own" of everything is demonstrably wasteful compared to "sharing economy" alternatives. (Steam and chilled water as well, since temperature regulation is usually the number one energy consumer in a household without an EV.)
Personally, I wouldn't jump to call them "clueless", at least in the case of Facebook. They seem to clearly know what they are doing is not in the spirit of net neutrality, yet defend it to no end.
Whats the best book to learn Java/Object Oriented programming?
Hey guys I want to start learning Java/Object Oriented programming on my own - I know there are a lot of resources on the subject but I want the "analog" experience :). Can anyone recommend a good book?
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> "Strict no log policy"

That's meaningless. You can say it but you can't prove it.

> That's a great thing for many of us.

If you need to rely on that to keep you out of trouble then don't.
Can anyone explain what IUP is and why its needed for this toolkit? Because it seems to me that a UI framework shouldn't come with a dependency on system-specific binaries, but that's just because I don't understand what it is, probably.
Actually not just an actor, but a writer of sci-fi with some serious credits.

But even if he was just a layman, and it was his opinion, that's just as good. That's what discussion is about, an exhange of opinions and arguments.

Not everything has to be "studies" and "statistics". Not everything is a Journal (nor are most "studies" and "statistics" illuminating and valid).
Because common sense its better to investing in something than pay the same or higher to rent it.

Renting would have to be a LOT! cheaper than owner occupiers to make renting a rational decision.
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A fabulous set of quotes. Do you collect them as you read them?
Nope, I don't think so. That's just a political talking point.

Chancellor: "Negative inflation is not damaging deflation"

So it's not "damaging deflation", but it's still deflation.

"Economists [...] say proper deflation is a long term term trend of declining prices [...]"

So it's not "proper deflation", but it's still deflation.

We could also s/inflation/negative deflation/ and that would be absolutely correct.

They are avoiding the word for fear of the connotations of a sustained period of deflation. Which will actually make the problem worse, as it sets a precedent for a changed understanding of the word deflation. So next time everyone will be even warier of using the term. Instead they should accustom people to hearing the word without thinking "OMG! WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!1!".
Nothing except housing is relevant.
Nothing at all.

For a UK citizen buying a home (or renting cheaply and saving) is the thing to do. It is the first step along the way to retirement. It's the only thing that matters.

If housing is cheap we are rich. If housing is expensive we are poor.

Hell, the fact that 'stuff' is getting cheaper may well be because demand is repressed by the fact that everyone is scrambling to pay the rent and has no disposable income.

I maintain that the price of stuff is totally irrelevant. We can live without stuff (regardless of whether the average person actually does). We can't live without shelter.
>In fact, the proliferation of air conditioners has increased to such a degree that it has slowly begun to modify humans, lowering our species’ threshold for heat.

What fact would that be? The linked article to support this bold claim is a health advice piece from the University of Iowa suggesting that the average body acclimatizes to warmer or cooler environments over a two-week period.
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>which is good because later I did consulting in Defense and NSA projects

If you work in the adult film industry, you can't work for the government/get security clearances?
If I had to put it in one phrase: work on making your fame preceed you

Make some of your work public, have your blog

Network between people, assuming you are in the us, make yourself member of the chamber of commerce of your area, participate not only in tech forums, but in business forums too.

Be nice, be competent, be helpful, all this publically.

Clients are a side effect of this
I think you want to argue with an answer to a different question. Gp asked about monetising - that's getting people to pay the service provider. What happens to the money later is a completely different issue of artist compensation, contracts, etc

I'm not claiming it's legal or a valid business, only saying that the service will not be free soon. If they get paid afterwards, than it's probably something distributors should look at in the future.
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> people hoard their money in hopes that they can buy more stuff for it tomorrow than they can buy today

The computer and car industries (both manufacturing depreciating assets) seems to have managed over the past decade/century
Two thirds of public sector workers keep quiet on major security breaches
True, but they've never been as prolific as they are now
Do you say the same about Spotify?
More than being out of control, the spies seem to be in control. They do what they want, without oversight, and government leaders are "shocked, shocked" when these things are exposed.
LXD crushes KVM, Canonical says
With apologies to Glengarry Glen Ross (a must see movie, BTW)...

Always
Be
Networking

Good luck!
Really? We hired a guy that worked for two of the largest porn companies (they account for 2 and 3 percent of US traffic, respectively) and never looked back. Now that is a guy who knows how to scale and more importantly keep it running.
The company is named after the max amount of bitcoins so I think the VCS would get that bitcoins are limited.
> So, not much information why the computers sent conflicting commands and also why the engines power down in such a situation.

I think shutting down the engines is probably the safest option when this sort of thing happens. You could argue they should stay in the present setting, but what would happen if one engine were at 0% and another 100%?

Most aircraft are pretty good at gliding even without power, and I'd assume a deadstick landing is part of the pilots training. In 2001, TS236 flew unpowered for 19 minutes before making an emergency landing (on a runway) with only minor injuries:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236
This is a very sound decision.

The media is infamous for not getting facts straight. They much rather write an opinion based on suspicion.

Well, no, thank you. Give me facts, get them straight, then I will make up my opinion.
In a different location but no that far away sea water was/is being used to cool a data center: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/02/21/video...
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I'd say food is very relevant for most people, especially since prices have gone up so much in the past 5 years or so. For many their food bill will be the 2nd or 3rd most expensive monthly outlay.
I'm pretty sure the problem wouldn't be the VPN but rather the payment. Iirc they only accept US based credit cards/paypal for Netflix US. I researched it briefly a while back before Netflix was available here.

It's not impossible to get around but getting a CC from another country and the like quickly leads to pretty shady websites.
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I don't see anything unreasonable about asking the studios to provide their product in a particular format. What if you wanted to purchase a movie, and the studios only offered it on Betamax?

Relying on Flash or Silverlight is similar. I use Linux, and Flash is officially unsupported on Linux. Silverlight has never been officially supported on Linux. If these are the options, then I cannot watch the movie out of the box, I have to find a flash installer (I had better hope one's in my package repositories), or I have to install wine and build Silverlight into my browser or some such.

I think it is totally reasonable that you would ask the studios to provide content in a manner that you can actually watch. Let's not even get in to the Blu-Ray encryption snafu and how that affected those of us who use non-commercial operating systems.
I guess there is always deficit spending to get things going again...
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9109968 Australian researchers create world's first 3D-printed jet engine (abc.net.au)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9111239 Australian engineers 3D print jet engine in world first (theage.com.au)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9112052 Australian researchers create first 3D-printed jet engine (theguardian.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9519471 Watch: Engineers 3D Printed a Model Jet Engine, Then Started it Up (gereports.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9533954 GE 3D-Printed a Miniature Jet Engine That Runs at 33,000 RPM (gizmodo.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9534688 3D Printed Mini Jet Engine (gereports.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9542996 3D-printed mini jet engine revved up to 33,000 rpm (cnet.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9544673 A 3D-printed mini jet engine that performs at 33,000 RPM (kurzweilai.net)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9569304 GE Engineers 3D Printed a Mini Jet Engine, Then Took It to 33,000 RPM (gereports.com)

OK, I'm going to try real hard to stop now. The number of repeated stories is comparatively small, but I'm finding it impossible it ignore them, so I'm going off HN and using my homebrew filter system to control the firehose and remove the duplicates.
Except when you steal a car, the owner doesn't have it anymore. If you would manage to clone a car and then resell it for a fraction of its price, it would mean the car industry is broken.
Its more a problem in country's with week banking systems where the population do not trust the banks - look at the outflows of cash from Greece.
I'm also speculating, but in the case of it being a serial link (very common), it's probably ARINC-429 as that's the predominant standard in aviation low and medium (read: very low and low) speed data exchange. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARINC_429 )

I find ARINC-429 to be quite elegant/pleasing as an engineer and impressive for the time of its creation.
The first time opening a terminal window also takes longer on my machine, but only a second or two not longer.
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The original speaks of quality problems in the manufacturing plant. This is very general and could include problems in the design phase up to the flashing of the module after assembly of the plane.
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> Satoshi put in a negligible amount of computational effort relative to the payoff

Yes but he put in a metric fuck ton of work imagining and coding bitcoin. Comparing bitcoin to a pre-mined alt-coin is disingenous. Bitcoin is different because it came first, it needed those coins to be mined for the network to exist. Alt-coins that were pre-mined were pre-mined specificaly to create an advantage for the author of the system after seein the success of bitcoin.

Satoshi cannot be said with having done this. He didnt know the success that would follow on from his experiment and he didnt pre-mine, he just made up a large part of the network in the early days.
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It's better to refrain from attributing and condemning hidden intent and thoughtcrime. Let's stick to what's explicit when we communicate and maybe we'll avoid wasting each other's time.
Think about it for a while:

So you deliberately add to the basket of goods a device (that you know will deflate) at say £200 10 years later its now £25.

Makes inflation seem less than it really is.
Put.io has a big advantage in that it streams the files to you via the browser. You don't need to download the whole file locally in order to watch it. If needed it even converts to mp4 and adds subtitles.
Here's Airbus's statement on the Alert they sent to operators:

Airbus Defence and Space has today (Tuesday 19 May) sent an Alert Operator Transmission (AOT) to all operators of the A400M informing them about specific checks to be performed on the fleet.

To avoid potential risks in any future flights, Airbus Defence and Space has informed the operators about necessary actions to take. In addition, these results have immediately been shared with the official investigation team.

The AOT requires Operators to perform one-time specific checks of the Electronic Control Units (ECU) on each of the aircraft's engines before next flight and introduces additional detailed checks to be carried out in the event of any subsequent engine or ECU replacement.

This AOT results from Airbus Defence and Space's internal analysis and is issued as part of the Continued Airworthiness activities, independently from the on-going Official investigation.

They're asking for a one-time check to be performed on the ECU. If it's just a software bug, normally a one-time check wouldn't reveal whether or not that bug could trigger. So, obviously they've found something they're concerned about, but it seems to me to be a bit early to say as Spiegel Online do that software caused the crash.

In any event, one of the flight recorders was only just sent off to the manufacturer:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world...
As much as I think it's a good idea, I try my best to not be that "self advertising guy".

I mean, I would never just post this link to my CV to get everyone to look at it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byk8zRX0L3yPYzMtQW1oMDBTcms...
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Transport costs for commuters is the other big one
This is how the famous Connection Machine 2's “one-bit processors” were implemented and programmed too, and basically the connection fabric is roughly analogous.

Indeed one can dynamically any kind of rapidly-reconfiguring FPGA-array into a very peculiar and high-performance general parallel processor.
The most amusing ones are where the submitter has stated how absurd the code is for the situation. Like the Spanish Ministry of Culture video telling people to become programmers, where complete jibberish (asdfghjkl kind of thing) is being typed.
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In 2015, a brick and mortar store for renting physical videos still have content which online services do not

In 2005 or even 2010 I would absolutely have agreed with you. However in 2015 all those really great independent brick and mortar video rental places I used to go to anywhere near me are long since bankrupt and closed down.
The IFE system has ties to the weight on wheels sensors at a minimum, meaning a ground test isn't a faithful reproduction of an air test. (That's how the IFE shuts down at touchdown, and I suspect it's how they know to push you their takeoff ads.)