skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The essence of the trick was convincing people that the money that they received wasn't going to suddenly become worthless, so they wouldn't go out and spend it immediately, perpetuating the inflation - killing off the vicious cycle.

i.e. it was a hack to reduce the velocity of money in Brazil.

In all likelihood inflation would have come down anyway at some point around that time. Energy prices had stopped rising. Perhaps this made it happen a few months or even a year earlier, though.

If they'd tried this trick in the beginning, while energy prices were still rising it would have done fuck all.
If you mean the practicalities of how to use it, they describe it a bit here http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/parallel/parallel_process... .

If you mean how have I used it specifically, I've used it to do a variety of things. Ranging from recreating what was described in the original post to using it as an ad hoc MPI replacement. I find it's handy for managing jobs that have some coupling (and so aren't easily suited to running via the features of the batch system), but aren't tightly coupled enough to warrant the suffering of having to write MPI-based code.
This website seems to republish articles periodically: http://nautil.us/issue/19/illusions/your-brain-cant-handle-t...

The older article was on HN as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8635384

That seems kind of skeevy of nautil.us. [EDIT: Although, to their credit, they do say at the veeeeery bottom they originally published it 2014.]
Because I can proceed directly through a green light. The other directions will never be green at the same time. If the light is red, I know nothing about the other directions, and have to stop and 'clear' the intersection before proceeding through.
The old ones work by turning all lights red which is great for a low density and organized traffic system and make it non-beneficial to hack them unless you are immune to tickets.

If there is traffic crowding and narrow lanes or lane sharing then the ambulance needs the drivers in front of it to also realize they have right of way and the obligation to continue moving out of the way.

This is a common problem in older US/European cities where the streets have not kept up with capacity and are not as wide as would be required by current rules.
The "let" should really be read as "for all". If you do so, your objection disappears since quantifying over the empty always imply the consequent.
I don't understand this "Inbox Zero" stress. How hard is it to set up filters on your email? How hard is it to swipe it away to archive it? How many emails do you have to write a day?!
reading between the lines, it seems like they may have cause to believe fitbit induced the employees to grab that information before leaving. If that's the case then the case against fitbit makes more sense
Unless FitBit asked them to acquire the information. Then it's appropriate to go after both.
I agree with all of the above. However, strange as it is, I have started appreciating really good long-form writing lately. I really enjoy nautil.us, the site that is always posting their long-form articles on here, to the point that I got a subscription. I also enjoy long form essays on Medium and Quanta magazine seems to have some good stuff as well. That's just been my personal evolving experience with reading in the last 2-3 years.
Built one of these as a youth with some friends. Worked great:)
> "have no grounds to look down upon those who are getting their hands dirty."

Reading Proust isn't getting your hands dirty? I don't think you've read Proust.
Source Forge has been doing this for a while now, not just gimp.

Pretty sure I downloaded Synergy and it deceivingly downloaded a common installer which was small and installed adware as it downloaded the proper executable which you desired to download in the first place
An analog radio tuned to read nothing but static is not deterministic.
According to the article, that had been tried and failed several times in the past. Slowing down the creation of money would have eventually stopped inflation, yes. But it would have taken a lot longer and created some really nasty side effects in the economy during the period when inflation exceeds monetary growth. Those side effects were nasty enough to topple several governments, and the government change stopped the slowdown before it had time to take effect.
Same here. I'm done with Sourceforge.
Some one needs to pay for it. Well this is where things like minimum wage and guaranteed income go wrong. Why would any one work more hard to make a extra money, only to be taxed and given to people who don't wish to even try working and want to have fun all the time.

Guess what happens to such societies. People who want to make more money go elsewhere where they are valued better. Eventually back in their original country everybody gets equally poor over time.
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Facebook has become something of a "Third Place," in this respect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
FYI, recent versions of Firefox include a reader view.
This could be said of any company, even ones that let you choose your own workstation. You're fooling yourself if you think that the OS on the workstation indicates some sort of difference in your employer. If they mandated Macs with OSX would it make any difference? They are still mandating something and you are still an employee.

Also, use vagrant and build your own custom box to match your production environment's OS flavor, web, app and db server versions. Even if you are on a Mac you should do this.
That's just it though. G+ did most of what was listed here without the annoying app/game requests and a better interface. They had cross-platform text and video chat long before Facebook did either.

But in the end, the only thing that matters on a closed communications platform is where the people are. Most people won't bother switching platforms and in order for any competitor (G+ or otherwise) to take off is for everyone voluntarily migrate over.
And it seems like an easy enough project to make.

Everyone wants to jump in on the blog-engine space and invent their own blog engine (I'm guilty of this myself).

We need more people to jump in on the mailing-list/forum type products.
I tried that: https://github.com/elidickinson/ad-block-test

Much harder to get right than you'd think and if you're a big site it's worse: the block lists will be updated to "whitelist" your test ad.

It's difficult for publishers to even accurately measure what impact ad blocking is having on their business.
Ancient Hindu monks have pondered on the question of consciousness forever. Ancient Hindu texts elaborate on differences between Self, Consciousness, Experiences, Knowledge. Some of this is intertwined with the Hindu concept of souls. All of Hindu philosophy is based on the concept that Self (pure consciousness) and Brahman (total reality, universe) is the same if we dig deeper and our goal as a human being is to find that union. In Sanskrit, the term itself is similar to "same yet different" - Advaita Vedanta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advaita_Vedanta)

Lot of spirituality and even if you do not believe in those religious teachings, monks who wrote those texts thousands of years ago were conscious and questioning their consciousness.
Ha that's a good point ;) but once you factor in opportunity cost for developers, especially ones experienced enough to write a book, it's definitely not a great choice (likely negative.)
>Websites rely on ad revenue. If the ads are blocked the website or streamers on Twitch do not receive the revenue.

And I'm perfectly happy with that.

It is not my responsibility to download webpages in such a way as to maximise the revenue of the site owner.

It is the business' responsibility to make money. Not mine. If they are employing ineffective methods then it is up to them to alter them. It is not up to me to change my behaviour to suit their business plan.

I am perfectly within my rights to download web pages using whatever software I like, whether that be lynx, wget, curl, a screen-reader, or Firefox with add-ons or Firefox with javascript or images or widgets or cookies blocked. I use the software that suits me. I am under no obligation - legal or moral - to use the software that suits companies serving websites.
Self defense, manslaughter, second degree, first degree...

Intent and reason is quite important. It is the difference between receiving no punishment and receiving the death penalty (in places that still have it).
Because using your power to do a hostile takeover of an open source project is just bad taste. They'd be free to make a fork of the project and host it on their site, but taking over someone's account / project without their permission is a case of power abuse.
If not a real story, then it is a pretty good correlation!

Hyperinflation abruptly stopped the month after Real was introduced. All previous governments tried and failed to control it.

The Real was a success. Mismanagement of the economy later on has nothing to do with it.
Not to bag on artists but, sounds like a pretty apt description of the art world.
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You can disable that white list of "unobtrusive advertising" by unchecking a single tick box.

I use it because it works and has worked for a long time. I tried µBlock but it was leading to weird short lockups of my Firefox after a longer session.
I was lucky enough that this is how I was taught calculus in high-school. It definitely wasn't easy at the time, but I feel for all the students for whom calculus is taught as a mindless set of algebraic rules.

This focus on calculating derivatives as opposed to actually understanding the concept and why the calculations work that way is, I think, why so many struggle with it.
It's a little presumptuous to assume that everyone who could possibly need access to a technical book has a loose $15 to spare. I know I didn't when I built it, as a 2nd year undergrad not living in a First World economy. The authors who chose to make them free obviously had a wider audience in mind than people who can afford their books. I can, and do, buy books now that I can afford them, but you'd be hard pressed to find a better introduction to Python than Zed Shaw's Learn Python the Hard Way, a free book.
Rightscorp offered ISP a cut from profits for help catching pirates
Kaggle Interactive R Tutorial on Machine Learning
Legally, no - after all, people give their express permission by leaving the box ticked.

The newish anti-spam measures in the Netherlands actually forbid the 'Yes I would like to receive spam' checkboxes to be pre-checked - has to be opt-in instead of opt-out.
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My brain can't handle the kind of pop-ups that article throws in my face.
Considering the terrible tax / spending policy and massive amounts of money being printed at the time I have my doubts the energy crisis was nearly as important as you suggest.

Also of note the inflation rate in 1991 was very close to the 1970, and 1976 rate of six percent. So spiking to up another 6% to 12% percent briefly was clearly related, but 1/2 of that total was directly from failed policy.

http://www.frbsf.org/education/publications/doctor-econ/2003...

PS: Another way to look at it was the oil crisis created a price spike, which poor monetary policy turned into increased inflation.
My best friendships are maintained by calling by phone or Skype, calling regularly when it comes to closer friends. I keep in touch with important people in my life using technology available to my parents when they were my age, and I feel more satisfied for it.
It seems that BeeWare has produced its own set of tools and has described these as "The IDEs of Python" even though they are neither IDEs, there are other IDEs, and there is nothing official about BeeWare's tools.

Too bad, because it makes sense to get some exposure for these particular tools that probably few people have ever heard of.
What's skeevy about it?
Let's not make it appear easier than it really is. Email is hard. Mailing lists are even harder. There's a lot of non-obvious things you have to know about email before you even start to tackle things like these and on top of it you have to handle spam, registration/security, moderation, etc. It's a lot of hard, dirty problems.

But like a lot of successful people will tell you, if you want to be successful too, solve the dirty problems.
I'm not sure the GPL allows you to fork something under the same name though, right? Copyright law still lets you own the name of your project?

That's trademark, not copyright. Though I believe some free/copyleft licenses allow you to require a name change if they make changes.
Seized Megaupload domains directing visitors to malware and scam ads
There are many ways to continue to extend the `Distance` type, and many other types that can be constructed in the same fashion. Each extension should be considered in the context of the code base it's going to operate in. For example, it's not difficult to create a new protocol, some generic functions with type constraints, and end up with an `Area` type with a fully correct relationship to `Distance`. I may write about such extensions as I continue to explore this space.
If Jawbone is a typical large company, they do DPI on all their employees Internet traffic and have DLP software monitoring what files are moved to what directories/removable media on employees equipment.

I think it's safe to assume that if they're pursuing this kind of lawsuit, they have realistic evidence.
Artificial REM would be a trillion dollar drug.
Oh, they tried that before. Also tried to index prices. Which caused massive shortages of the most basic products. People were not happy about it.
One of many incredible books from the 70's, when science and humanities were interconnected and writers were exploring the edges of possibility.

Then Reagan came around, fear was restored, and corporations took ovet education. So much great work from the 70's and 80's and early 90's has already been lost, as young people assume everything worth learning is on Google or will get you a Valley job.

Is this how the Dark Ages began?
Full disclosure, I know one of the owners, and it's a SaaS, not exactly free, but we've been using Group Buzz:

http://groupbuzz.io/

It was originally built for sizable coworking communities but is pretty decent. Mail integrated, daily digests, etc.

Still a WIP but pretty mature at this point.
Why is Sublime Text not something to be frowned upon?
I still see the downvote arrow on steveklabnik's comment though? So you're saying that clicking it won't have any effect? I don't see any downvote arrow on your comment, because it's a reply to mine. Could you downvote my comment that you replied to?
Yes. It is refreshing - and sadly rare - to see Ghostery tell me 'No trackers found'.
It also says "community curated". The books are crowdsourced. Most contributors are clearly what you'd refer to as hackers, but there's nothing stopping you from posting a Philosophy book. I think it mostly points to the fact that (I'm willing to bet) most authors who'd willingly make their books available free of charge are of a technical bent. There are philosophy, economics, psychology books on the site. If you find any and you've got some time to spare, you're welcome to add to the site.
Cheating? How is it that controlling what my software, running in my hardware, running on my power does or does not do is cheating? Should I not have control over what's mine?

If a website finds that their business model became unsuited for modern times, it's their responsibility to change it, not mine.
I think that republishing is good if the content is worthy, and maybe didn't get the attention it deserved.

Republishing/re-promoting is kind of like spaced repetition software for content. I always take note of old articles on the front page of HN because its a signal they have lasting value.
I almost get a laugh whenever EU region people say that Americans are slaves to their jobs. Somehow they actually believe the BS that the EU labor laws are vastly superior for employees in every way.

What you're saying is true in many places in the EU. It's very sad.
Why It's Time to Stop Reading CMMS Software Reviews
I love their Terms of Service:

> I have read and agree to the above terms , and agree that if I ask FreeLists for email addresses or send SPAM using their resources, they have permission to inflict severe pain on me with large, blunt objects.

[emphasis mine]
1. Control the vast majority of web-search share ensuring the vast majority of users go through your site before buying anything.

2. Introduce a buy button for the cooperating retailers, which is obviously displayed at the very top of search results.

3. Other retailers have to either pay Google or be pushed down in search results below the retailers who have a buy button.

This is why Google Search desperately needs some real competition.

Oh, and the next step? Buy button right in your browser (Chrome). Buy stuff just by typing into OmniBar(TM)!
puhLease make a film one. :)
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How about, if you really want to deliver ads, then sell first party ads delivered from your own servers with the content... nobody is stopping that, and unless you use css classes like "ad" or JavaScript to deliver said ads, then it likely won't get blocked.

I worked on an SPA website a few years ago that used a time-based billing model for advertising, The three adslots for the given user session were for the same advertiser, this required locally delivered ads, and a JS/http ping to establish between min and max display time recording... It worked fine, and even got through the ad blockers.

There's no reason a publisher cannot do the same. Just like there's no reason a random website I visit should force me to download questionable content from third parties unknown to even the publisher.
At a previous job, we hired two people from General Assembly. One was decent; the other far less so. Admittedly, the hire that was less useful had other issues in terms of attitude, which perhaps we should have caught during the interview process.
It's so easy to forget that your salary is not everybody's salary. In Italy (a first world country afaik) a post doc makes a grand total of about 30 euros per day. An assistant professor probably around 45, which is similar to the entry salary of a software engineer. If you subtract food, housing and transportation, that $100 book starts looking very (very) expensive.

For a large fraction of the world's population time is not money...
Hugged.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
I also stopped using Facebook, shortly before the revelations of massive surveillance. At that time I was convinced I shouldn't be in the arms of companies, stopped using many services and started self-hosting stuff. People didn't understand me.

Then, Edward Snowden revealed that the possible abstract threats I wanted to avoid can in fact become real. We are fortunate to have received this information. People still didn't understand me.

In the beginning of my time without the services I clearly felt that something was missing, but it wasn't hard to withstand, for the idealistic flame burning within me.

After some time my interest for the services faded away, like an addiction you successfully cured. Now, I'm not even thinking about using them anymore.

Many don't understand me even now, and I'm not holding my breath, anymore.
Money laundering is old. Money laundering being its own stand-alone crime is recent.

(And part of the modern trend of criminalizing the living of one's life in a way not maximally transparent to the government.)
My google-foo is failing; could you please link to some information on "the right to learn"?
It's cssnext, not Cssnext or CSSNext :)

http://cssnext.io/it-s-cssnext-not-CSSNext/
I would've assumed a completely seperate system listening on a different frequency just to reboot the system would be in place in a system as complex as this one.
There's no need to assume. I searched the US trademark database. There was a registration for GIMP in 2001, number 78084356 ("computer programs for creating and manipulating graphic images on a computer. FIRST USE: 19990600. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19990600"), but it's abandoned since June 7, 2002. There are no other relevant registrations that I can find.

As far as I can tell, there's no formal "GIMP organization".
I hope the EU has something to say about this, because it sounds outrageous.
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Ultra-High-Definition Quality Experience with MPEG-DASH Streaming
Funny, I had no problem detecting this on a site with several million unique visitors a month... Of course I did the detection against my actual ad tags in the page...
If you can tell from a profile picture that you won't get along with someone, you might have a bit of a problem.
My smhasher fork has both:
https://github.com/rurban/smhasher/

Comparable results for xxHash and the new metrohash will be uploaded soon. These things take time.

But I'm more interested in comparing it to HW CRC32-C, the fastest and best hash so far, 2x faster than metro.
It wouldn't control anything on your machine. It allows the web site to control whether they send content to you or not.

I use AB Edge. I've visited Reddit, they posted a "we notice you use an ad blocker, if you like us, please think about whitelisting us." They could have just refused to serve the content. Either way would have been acceptable; it's my browser and I control what I see, it's their content and they control where it goes.

In that case I whitelisted Reddit. Nothing on Reddit remote-controlled my machine, it just initiated a brief "conversation."
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> Copyright law still lets you own the name of your project?

Copyright doesn't apply to names. That's trademark laws. Contrary to copyright, trademarks have to be registered and cost money. There is no registered trademark for Gimp or gimp-win in the US or Europe.
I don't think Universal v. Betamax applies. It specifically uses the word "time-shifting", meaning that it was meant simply to record a live program and watch it at a later time. Courts have subsequently rejected "phase-shifting" as an argument (see Napster). I do not believe Universal v. Betamax is sufficient precedent to the wholesale copying of your media for "personal use". I maintain that the specific facts we are discussing have never really been litigated and that the landscape has changed drastically since then, enough that courts would seriously reconsider Universal v. Betamax as precedent.

Down to the next point about obtaining a copy, I think there are two relevant points:

1. If you own it are you allowed to copy it?

To this I would personally argue yes. But I can see how copyright holders argue no. You purchase an item, not its contents. (When I think about the limits put on the aftermarket repair and upgrade market by hardware makers and the outrage that causes, I think there's a reverse logic that applies in this situation.)

2. Should you be able to obtain that ROM or copy because you purchased this item? (ethically, not legally)

This is thornier. Should I be able to download an ebook from a pirate site because I bought a copy of the physical book? What about an old nintendo game I bought many years ago? That to me is a more interesting ethical issue. I certainly did not buy a perpetual license for all forms of that work, but it's not like I can go pick up a copy of a game for my Android either. Of course, if I could pick up a commercial copy (Nintendo resells old games for its new platforms), would it still be OK?

But yes, I also have opinions about changing copyright law, or really reverting it to an older time. I do firmly believe copyright is a good tool to encourage the generation of art, knowledge and entertainment, but I believe that a perpetual monopoly on that content for a lifetime and for your children's lifetime (or companies) is counterproductive to that goal.