skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A reduction to the absurd reveals that the quantity of money is relevant to the price level. Try to run the economy with one dollar changing hands and, since it can't change hands fast enough, that single dollar is priceless. Try having an absurd (approach infinity) number of dollars and, even if circulation speed is near zero, dollars will have near zero value.

Naturally, it is monetary mass coupled with circulation speed. If you change the monetary mass and no other economic variable, within the tolerance envelope, circulation speed will adapt and price levels won't budge. Exceed tolerance levels, and you will influence price levels.

You saw this applied in practice recently. Quantitative easing is a correction using monetary mass to an abnormal reduction in circulation speed (via reduced lending).
That is terribly frustrating, but consistent. I see many posts like yours, you tried many of the normal appropriate communication methods and got no real connection. Not until it is public, and a possible public relations issue, did you get an nearly instant human response.
All money is fake.
So many places have great return policies, so it doesn't really matter anymore. There are places that specifically encourage you to buy like 2-3 pairs of shoes for example and ship back the ones that don't fit. If you are normally a size 10.5 shoe you can happily order 10/10.5/11 and then send the 2 that don't fit back for free. http://www.zappos.com/ is a good example. free shipping both ways.
Man printed 3-D copy of his brain tumor, pushes for more access to patient data
Oculus acquires British VR startup
I will write a new blog post this evening explaining it :)
More like G+ reviving your profile page after you moved to Facebook, and populating it with your Facebook posts with injected product placement without your permission.
Google Takes Another Shot at Mobile Payments with Android Pay
Google acquires Pulse.io
This is the case for a lot of things. Pretty much all "middle-class" tax credits phase out by the time you hit $80k, regardless of cost of living, because the IRS doesn't scale anything by zip code and so assumes that a household making 6 figures must be loaded.
As of April 18, 2015...I know that's not true. They archived a site of mine that does not have a robots.txt So it must be a very new policy, because prior to that there are long histories of my sites that don't have robots.txt files being archived.
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I hate being the typical negative commenter who points out that correlation doesn't equal causation, but in the case of this article I think it's warranted.

Just because high-income families send kids to college more does not mean that high income causes it. A recent study of Swedish lottery winners showed that the kids of lottery winners did not do better on measures of health or education, suggesting that wealth does not have a direct or short-term impact on child outcomes. [http://www.ifn.se/eng/publications/wp/2015/1060]
> I there an experiment that can prove that this theory is wrong? I this theory falsifiable?

There may be, but it's important to remember that not all experiments can be conducted with live animals in a lab. There are entirely valid, falsifiable, scientific questions that can't be answered that way. For example, "Could T-Rex swim?" You can't get a live T-Rex and toss it in a pool beca use they're extinct.

Instead, you have to do what's called a "natural experiment"[1]. Lab experiments work like this:

1. Make a prediction.
2. Create a situation in a lab that generates new data.
3. See if the prediction predicts the data.

A natural experiment is:

1. Make a prediction.
2. Dig up old but previously unknown data.
3. See if the prediction predicts the data.

For Jayne's hypotheses, you need to unearth things created by early humans and see if ones older than his predicted point in time show bicameralism while newer ones don't.

This is challenging because we just don't discover artifacts with sufficient detail in that way very often. But difficult-to-falsify-because-of-lack-of-evidence does not mean it's not a valid scientific question.

It's entirely scientifically valid to wonder about the mating behavior of prehistoric soft-bodied organisms, but we'll likely not be successful simply because they're poorly preserved in the fossil record.

> Ok, let's forget rats for a moment. Try to apply this to a closer relative: chimps

Chimps are not the same thing as early humans. Experiments on them doesn't tell us any more than experiments on chickens tell us definitive things about dinosaurs.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_experiment
Anything Ted Chiang writes.
Data, code, and regulation
> How did you, in a non-magical way, go from information about an angle to information about a ratio?

By having a right triangle?

The rest of your post seems to show that you want trig to be about periodic behavior, when it really is about triangles. That's what trigonometry means - measuring triangles.

Yes, trig has applications to periodic behavior, projectiles, differential equations, inclined planes, and all kinds of other stuff. But the point of a trig class is not to teach the applications. The point is to teach the tools, and maybe touch on the applications.
Ask HN: Most interesting career change after programming
i'm sure you can guess what i've been thinking about, but i'm wondering if anyone has any interesting stories or articles about people who went in to unexpected fields after quitting programming- like someone who became a train conductor, or an artist, or an architect etc.
Counterpoint: Mayflies live as adults for only weeks before mating and dying. Theirs is a brief, beautiful dance of life[0]

[0] http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176365
I love my Ocado deliveries, especially because they auto-populate the delivery based on our past orders + some light guidance (list of stuff to never add automatically + list of stuff to always add) and it's generally "close enough" that I often can't even be bothered to log in to check or modify the order...

Like you, I really resent the clothes shopping as the last bastion...

There are options there too, though, I just haven't gotten around to testing them.

E.g. ASOS offers a premier type subscription for a tenner that gives you free next day delivery and one free returns pickup per order, so you actually can order stuff, try it on and send it back as much as you like. They focused on women first but apparently have a large range for men too. I think you also can hand in returns at local corner shops many places if it's not convenient to have them pick it up...
Have you actual run out of space in Gmail?
> We can think of no better place to continue our journey than at the home of Android.

So close, but no "incredible"
Be sure to read the after report on the vaccine, linked in a cousin comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9613520

Especially the stuff about the VAERS database, which tracks/looks for patterns in reported side effects over time...
"If you buy a drive today and stash it away, the drive itself will become totally obsolete quicker than it will lose its data."

What does obsolete mean in this context? Does he mean the file system will become deprecated by future advances? Or does he mean the size will become insubstantial in comparison to future products?
Tangentially, how is that "applet" created?
> (they have a Prime equivalent where you pay £11 a month to get free deliveries on orders over £40, within a one-hour time slot, usually available at about 24 hours' notice)

This is great. The last time I looked (admittedly not too recently), delivery in my area of the US was just too expensive to bother, living around the corner from a supermarket and all. If it got cheaper, I'd be on that in a second.

As for the market opportunity, I'm almost positive I saw a site that "translated" sizes between brands, but I can't find the thing anymore. It's worth searching for though.
It's a good point - to some degree, you design not just for your customer, but for the distribution of the message. (This is also why packaging is underrated as a product in its own right.) Design the product so that it's self-explanatory in an image, and balancing against feature deep, include a feature that has a level of novelty.
Hyperinflation leads to some really strange things going on that are a bit hard to imagine when you live in a time with modest inflation. One example that really surprised me when my parents told me is that buying a car was considered an investment. Nowadays this sounds insane because cars are expensive and depreciate in value quickly but back then you needed to spend all your paycheck ASAP before it evaporated and cars are something you can purchase that has high liquidity.

For something that is closer to answer your question, one thing that happened in those times is that interest rates were really high in order to make it possible for people to keep money in the bank instead of having everyone run away with their money and spend it on physical goods. In a way, this kind of forced the government to print money to pay its debts, which perpetuated the oversupply of money. The disastrous Plano Collor tried to solve the problem from this angle by freezing all the money in savings accounts.

In the end the root of the problem is that the Brazilian economy got so dysfunctional that market prices started to be based on the inflation rate instead of it going the other way around. The URV system got rid of this coupling, which is something a regular new currency can't do. By tying the prices to the US dollar you can cause prices to stop changing in a much more direct way than hoping that everyone is going to simultaneously that the money supply is stable and therefore they should stop raising prices.
Are you paying the $299 fee a year?
VerneMQ committer here, we haven't published any benchmarks yet. I haven't looked at the emqtt codebase in depth, but as far as I can tell they use a different clustering/distribution model than VerneMQ. I also don't know about their take on plugins.
But the police need reasonable suspicion before detaining you. You can't generate reasonable suspicion as a result of a detention attempt, as it has to exist before that point.

This is why the cop will need to claim in his report that the running individual appeared to match the description of the suspect, however vague it may have been.

"Be advised that the suspect is... human, with a height, weight, skin color, and gender."

"Roger that, dispatch, I see someone matching that description now. Moving to intercept."

In your example, the suspicious factors are "wielding/brandishing a weapon in the absence of a known threat" and "possible suspect or witness to a violent crime". Since the person could be a frightened witness who pulled the knife in self-defense, it would be inappropriate to shoot him in the back 0.5 seconds after ordering him to drop the knife.

If the very same person did the same thing in the woods, near a dead deer, the suspicious factors would be "this is not deer season", "there was no gunshot", and "he isn't wearing safety orange". There are plenty of factors there to justify an investigatory detention beyond the direction and magnitude of a person's motion vector. But they must be relevant to a specific crime.

In the street example, the suspected crime is manslaughter. In the woods example, it is poaching. Without the body, the cop would have to fall back on, perhaps, city ordinances regarding the blade length of knives carried in public. Reasonable suspicion requires that the target be suspected of something specific.

If a cop chases down someone who ran from him upon spotting him, what is the suspected crime? As far as I know (not a lawyer), it is only a crime to flee from police custody if you are already suspected of a different crime, for which they already have reasonable suspicion to detain you. You can't be reasonably arrested solely for resisting arrest, because the arrest cannot occur prior to suspicion for an arrestable offense.

That's why you sometimes see reasonable articulable suspicion. If the cop cannot say why he chose to arrest you at the time of the arrest, it might be a bogus arrest. "Being a suspicious person" is not by itself a crime.

As for respect, the public owes the police respect in the same way that they owe restaurant waiters a 15% gratuity. If the waiter pees in your soup, you shouldn't leave a tip. If a cop fails to uphold the public's mandate for policing, he shouldn't expect any respect. That obligation flows only one way. If the public does not respect the police of a particular polity, it is because those particular police are providing them with poor service. It is not our responsibility to "save their tip".

In the waiter analogy, the customer does not leave a tip, so the next time he visits the restaurant, the waiter pees in his soup AND suckerpunches him in the face, then complains loudly when the customer not only fails to leave a tip, but also declines to pay for the soup.
> What systems are in place to prevent this from happening with package manager systems ... ?

There aren't any technical measures in place to prevent this. Imagine the backlash, however, if any Linux distribution decided to do this.
It’s especially interesting when one considers that during the NoCaptcha® relaunch several months ago they said that their algorithms could, by now, read text and detect animals and people better than humans could.
Very nice.

I hope "phone" includes phone number, as Android has a bad track record of leaking your cellphone number to every single app (and ad network) that you install.

I doubt it does, as Google had made it quite clear they don't consider your cell phone number personal information (but DO consider your email address). I am just waiting until it blows up in their faces, when spammers and scammers start utilising the hole.
Does anyone also find the "App link" a step back ? I thought getting a dialog where to open the Intent in is actually an awesome feature of the Android platform, now user will get thrown into whatever app will be defined on the server. Also let me check my crystal ball and predict that this will take a long time to be adapted by "big" companies, just like the design guidelines.

App permissions and copy/paste changes are welcomed, but I got a sense they finally caved in and just copied how some other mobile OS handles it (which is not bad, since it was always better there).
Polymer 1.0 is released by Google (Production Ready)
It's great to read on a 30" work monitor :-).
No offense, but your claim is ridiculous. $150K is not the minimum living wage for a family of four in SF. Plenty of families get by on less.

Here is a map of incomes in SF: http://www.city-data.com/income/income-San-Francisco-Califor...

And here's a better map, though it doesn't seem to have household/family incomes: http://www.richblockspoorblocks.com/
I'm pretty sure 99ish percentile are much under the limit. So I think it turned out alright?
I'm pretty sure this is the only answer. Those cities are where their warehouses are located, which is why they can offer same-day delivery from it. It's pretty unfeasible to offer the service for a city located 150mi away from a warehouse, for instance. The cost would be too high.
So... why are you doing something you hate?
Not really.

I typically use the Ninite installer on a clean, freshly installed Windows machine because the installer can be ran again in the future to update those same apps. Chrome/Firefox/etc. will auto-update themselves but for those apps that don't, they will be updated to the latest version if/when you re-run the same installer that you originally downloaded.
Results are interesting, though unfortunately not too surprising.

As an aside, I did really well in drawing the curve. The website asked me "Is that you, Raj Chetty?" [http://imgur.com/XU4UNya]
I've come to enjoy this about Deal Extreme. As long as you know to expect several month long shipping times, it ends up being a happy surprise when an awesome little gift arrives at your door that you had completely forgotten about ordering.
> something everybody would be comfortable with

Not possible.
Amazon heavily talks up the two-day shipping speed of Prime:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...

There's nothing in there about it being different if it's not close to you. The only exception to "two days" is the typical "it's business days, not actual days" exception, and an exception for stuff that can't be sent right away.

If they are indeed behaving as you say then it's a flat-out lie. The advantage of Prime is, as stated, that you can have everything shipped for free without worrying about minimums and get it fast.
I wonder how much power running the accelerometer uses? It isn't free to keep track of that. Back on my Note (1) Samsung had a bunch of gestures related to the accelerometer, and leaving them enabled drained a significant amount of battery.
The point of using it is to get back to native CSS, and restrict yourself to features that improve simplicity, adaptability and architecture of large CSS code bases.

Using a nice component based architecture (perhaps like SUITCSS) and this you can write really maintainable CSS, that can be understood by everyone, now and in the future, not just those that have learnt Sass.
Article:

So he decides to read early texts, including The Iliad and The Odyssey, to look for signs of people who aren’t capable of introspection—people who are all sea, no rime. And he believes he sees that in The Iliad. He writes that the characters in The Iliad do not look inward, and they take no independent initiative. They only do what is suggested by the gods.

--

The Iliad is from 1200BC story, so that means he calling a good chunk of written history and those civilizations (Egypt, early Greece, Mesopotamia) as having this ridiculous pre-modern consciousness.
I think I am missing something because, I am unable to see why it is huge burden to introduce sine and cosine without their rigorous definition. At which age, are students taught trigonometry? And what does a course on trigonometry covers? What would you think they would be able to do without it?

When we were introduced the sine and the cosine function, we were already familiar with Thales theorem, so therefore we could show that this ratio was a constant.

I am quite sure historically as well sine and cosine predate the more formal construction of those functions, be it as a series, solution of an ODE or inverse of arc sin (and this defined as an integral)...
Not always. My same day stuff came with OnTrac.
Can anyone give me a top level overview of why I should use cssnext, and not for example just roll my own postcss pipeline?
I can't actually get the link to load here so I can't evaluate the site itself.

But on a general note: Hire an agency and spend your time growing your business in other areas and stop doing your own PR.

A good agency will help you create the proper messaging to use from your business' strategy, make sure that the announcement newsworthy, and, frankly, likely already has rapport with journalists and knows what they need to write a good story -- this will make them more effective and more efficient than you at pitching your announcement.

The opportunity cost on the pitching alone is insane so, seriously, don't do your own PR.
I worry that the new intents may not allow third party apps, as the domain of the link is verified. I hope not only official apps are allowed. Time will tell.
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Given the gender ratio of students at General Assembly it would be improbable in the extreme that all five candidates you hired from them were women.

Do you have some sort of explicit gender-based filtering in your hiring or recruiting process?
It's infuriating and borderline criminal that these kinds of companies are able to put a hold on all your funds at their whim. One of my previous startups lost several days of income for good when Google Checkout decided our business wasn't acceptable to them.
Relevant video: https://vimeo.com/116986391 (Why programming manuals aren't on audiobook)
I thing you want to say Gross National Product instead of Produto Interno Bruto here :)
It doesn't really have to be ready at a moment's notice. The time available is relatively short, but not absurdly so. The deal is order by noon, get it by 9PM, so that's (at least) nine hours to get it to you. Certainly the warehouse has to be close, but aside from that they should be able to follow the traditional model of packing orders as they go, sorting them into trucks after the cutoff time, generating routes, and having each truck deliver a full day's load in one trip.
Jamie and Jeff's Birth Plan – Timothy McSweeney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies%2C_damned_lies%2C_and_sta...

A joke?
Project Brillo
The only government subsidies that are worth anything are Pell grants and they phase out well below 150k. Also, they are limited to like 6k a year, way less than your 150k family can kick in.

The elite private schools have a similar formula that sort of screws over these people. But you have no right to an elite education. Just go to Berkeley instead of Stanford or UVA instead of Duke.
Thanks for your answer unfortunately I'm not from SF, not even from the US but hope I can move soon. I'll be happy to give Eden a try once it's available close to me. Continue the good work this summer :)
If $100 seems like a meaningless amount of money to you, then nothing I say here will make you understand what it feels like when that's practically an infinite amount of money. I've been on both sides of this and it's pretty hard to understand one side from the point of view of the other.

I hope you'll just take my word for it that $100 is not a meaningless amount of money to most people.
> In the particular context of Java, null solves some of the problems of the language, like what happens when a constructor invokes a derived method which reaches up and accesses a not-yet-initialized variable in the super-class. I do think some of these problems could be solved in a different way, but it's not completely straightforward.

That's a non-issue. A derived class shouldn't be able to access any variables from the super-class until after the super-class's constructor has completed. All variables in the super-class should have to be initialized before the constructor completes. The super-class constructor shouldn't be able to read from a variable until after it can be statically determined that it has initialized the variable.

If a class can't work within these constraints, then it can declare the variable as Option<T> initialized to None, and then it is back to the normal Java semantics for that one variable.
Luckily there is a collection of a large number of textbooks (Library Genesis, approx. 1 million) available online, curated in russia originally on dvd's that can be found by anyone determined enough to look. They have books that I needed to wait 2-3 weeks to get at the university library, because they were in storage.
IoT stuff looks promising. Brillo and Weave.

http://gizmodo.com/get-ready-for-google-brillo-the-new-opera...

Edit: Not sure the cross branding will work as well as with KitKat! Ball of metal wires? :)