skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is not what this is about. More spending doesn't necessarily mean more consumer spending and less saving.

Yes you can increase aggregate spending through consumer goods spending, but you can also increase spending and aggregate demand by having people buy more investments. You can spend and save at the same time. There are many ways to spend and save at the same time. You can buy something you are only going to need later, you can buy stocks in a business that will use the money to buy equipment and employ people, you can lend to a business that will buy equipment and employ people. This is all the economic equivalent of investing, the I in the GDP equation C+I+G+(X-M)

The only thing you need to prevent is people and organisations sitting on idle cash or cash like investments. That's what destroys the economy. Anyways fiat is a fictitious form of saving on the aggregate. It doesn't produce anything and people accumulating it doesn't increase the amount of stuff they will be able to buy in the future on the whole.

The point is to move the economy away from idle fiat and into consumption or investment.
Not really. Surely the real problem is that learning Esperanto means you can now talk to people who, well, are the kind of people who learnt Esperanto...
Right, but everyone knew that he'd had people whacked, and maybe even done some whacking himself.

Just like the not-very-explicit "murder for hire" used to justify the astonishing sentence given Ulbricht.
>Microsoft is all about business. Big business. Big partnerships.

Then how do you explain the lack of traction Windows Phones had the last decade? Did they forget to leverage all those super duper BIG partnerships?
Since you specifically requested my argument...

I'd agree that lawbreaking is a reasonable moral choice, but not in this case. Moral lawbreaking, in my view, is done when there is a clear benefit or reason to the lawbreaking. And by clear I mean clear to a reasonable and moral person, and not just a speculative personal opinion.

Given that frame of reference, I would argue that (1) the notion that online drug dealing would lead to harm reduction for a drug addict is speculative rather than clear; (2) the harm caused by improved access to hard drugs by more potential addicts would be tremendous and therefore likely exceed any potential harm reduction; (3) given Ulbrict's apparent willingness to hire hitmen, I find it impossible to believe he was in any way motivated by concern for others.
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They're getting priced out of Brooklyn too. Not sure what the ideal answer is.
Sorry, I didn't actually go through the entire scrolling graphics thing, I just read the explanation of the idea. I'll agree that that part didn't add to my understanding and I didn't intend to praise it.
These days we have good models for how to teach bilingualism to kids: dual-language immersion schools, in which both languages are used extensively in coursework. The problem is that this labor-intensive model will be impractical outside metropolitan areas with school choice, or communities with a strong heritage language community.

Latin may not be a living language, but it remains very widely used in scientific terminology, law, religion, and elsewhere. Like the prestigious national languages, it is a mark of erudition and social status; the demonstration of which is itself a purpose of education.
I upvoted you for your last sentence alone. What high school did you go to, and is it still heavily focused on Latin and Greek?
That was one case, but he also seemed to have hired another hitman who pretended to kill multiple people. He seemed to have been addicted to hiring hitmen, eventually it probably would have led to actual murders.
Aiming for a buyout doesn't mean you don't also want to improve the world.

Your tone is pretty offensive. It would shock almost no one on this site that someone would like to build their own business without an aim to sell it or that someone would have philanthropic life-goals in general.

Many business owners who are bought out turn to philanthropic pursuits now that they've become fiscally stable.
From the articles I've read, this was not part of the sentencing.
Ask HN: What free things have you found this week?
Hey HN,

I was curious. What free things have you found/received this week and how did you get them? This can be anything at all(ebooks,tshirts,etc.)
Of course I am :) but natural rights have formed the basis of most modern (english revolution and forward-- american, french, russian) revolutions. Those citizens didn't care for what was _legal_ or _illegal_, they cared for their welfare and rights, even though it was essentially illegal. Webcomic for the choir: http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=469

If humans followed the law above all else, then we would not have democracy, or even republics. We'd have totalitarian nations of smiling slaves.
The "can't turn, can't climb, can't run" stuff -- well, sure, compared to a clean F-16, or an F-22, or any number of other platforms, the F-35 has less maneuverability. This pilot says it better than I can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCZmPUQZGvw

To paraphrase him: is the F-35 the world's best pure dogfighter? No. Is it the best pure CAS aircraft? No. For everything else, how does it compare? It's better.

This video is also worth checking out.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtZNBkKdO5U

Sorry for sounding impenetrable.
Well now he is going to conform his ass to federal prison for his entire life.

Going to UofA during segregation wasn't a serious crime.

As a practical matter, civil disobedience is most effective when you aren't committing serious crimes.

Throwing a rock through a window to support coffee farmers in Guatemala is one thing. Bombing a logging operation is quite another.

Even if you think you are being moral, it's really stupid to commit serious crimes.
I don't know. But hinging the argument on bitcoin and decentralization seems short-sighted and letting yourself fall into the same traps as the guys who have been busted.
Almost everyone has forgotten this vision:

We now have a way to distribute works of art (i.e., any that can be digitized, including music) freely, easily, globally, and immediately to everyone, in an open, free-as-in-speech form that enables further innovation. Works of art aren't limited, as they have been for all of human history until now, to a specific object or location. What an incredible boon, a miracle, and or artists too, whose vision can spread from their studio, or parents' basement, around the world, effortlessly.

But an industry had been built on the old distribution medium; it earned money by limiting and selling access to the artwork. Rather than someone creatively disrupting that industry and replacing it with something native to and facilitating the advantages of this miraculous medium, instead we've imposed the old industry on the new tech, crippling it with DRM and laws (and by framing the discussion to the degree that everyone refers to music as an article of commerce and not as a work of art, to the point that even artists speak that way and buy into the 'threat' of the Internet).

If anything should be open and free, it's art.
Yeah. Also, judges are not very well paid so some of them work with the anticipation of returning to the private sector later on. IF they developed a reputation for having decisions overturned by appeal courts, that wouldn't serve them well in their private career. Although the ideal judge would be utterly impartial, in the real world judges are human and still subject to economic incentives, herding behavior and so on. Richard Posner (arguably America's most influential living legal scholar/jurist) has written extensively on this topic (as well as just about every other topic).
While it is a good exercise, much of the commentary on this thread is conjecture. Attempting to explain why the GDP shrank last quarter is similar to explaining why the weather in your city was cooler over the last few weeks.

Still, I would much rather read conjecture here than in a business news article :)
At least physically it one the safest known chemicals when comparing the amount needed to notice an effect and the LD50 rating.
There is even an Esperantist movement that explicitly argues that it's a culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raumism
Don't take this as a bad sign, just because Google is behind it doesn't mean they're devoting a lot of resources to it or that they'll hit the right mark.

Build your vision and be better than your competitors.
I'd say that people have the right to partake in whatever mind altering substances they'd like even if 95% of others disagree. Your appeal to democratic collectivism is fallacious.

The rule of law and courts were supposed to protect such minorities (ie drug legalization through generalized privacy of Roe v Wade, and trade via the right to free speech). It's pretty fucked up that the legal system has rotted so thoroughly that the courts are harshly persecuting them while the majority of interested people dissent.

Then again, much of that rot is due to the "war on drugs" and its underlying philosophy that people exist to serve their government.
They don't have to remove your choice. They need to significantly change your mind.

Basically, if the undercover cop suggests X and you say no. Then come on nobody will know, and you say no. And then they spend the next six weeks convincing you it's a good idea, then that's entrapment.

The issue is he was on a sting for over a year and that's plenty of time to cross the line.

Of note, asking several times and catching someone at a moment of weakness is not entrapment. So, if you have been clean for 10 years then you’re out of luck.
I'm amazed they never changed their name. Even after entering the German market. There's absolutely no way to refer to them in a proper business context in German.

For the uninitiated: wixen is a common misspelling of the slang term "wichsen" meaning "to masturbate". To a German speaker they might as well have named the company "wank".
Darkest Dungeon's Affliction System
This actually sounds like fun, but I would like to see some examples because I'm not sure what you would call quality requirements.

For argument sake, are you using Volere or IREB or any other recognised requirement engineering method?
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In addition to the murder for hire plots, apparently five people died after using drugs purchased on silk road.
Nope. Entrapment requires the police to have caused someone to commit a crime they wouldn't have otherwise. A good explanation of what counts as entrapment:
http://thecriminallawyer.tumblr.com/post/19810672629/12-i-wa...
The affliction history at the bottom is the coolest part.

>Finally, another small mechanic that came about organically from observing human behaviour is the Affliction History. People tend to react to stress in ways that are individually consistent over time. A person who panics as a deadline approaches tends to fall into that comfortable panic again when the next deadline comes around. To pay this concept off in-game, we track each hero’s history, and over time they tend to fall into the same Affliction patterns. This supports our goal of building a small emergent narrative for each hero.
You probably could if it were curated better. But in the rush to have people create content, there's less focus on editing and actually figuring out what we have. Instead it's all about aggregation.
AirPair's listing in HTML/CSS includes:

Machine learning,
Spam and relevance detection,
NLP problems

Not sure that these would really fit, but it could just be me.
Lex talionis has been a part of human legal tradition for at least 3700 years. The retaliatory penalty shall be equal or lesser than the harm caused by the crime.

This is a big problem with victimless crimes and offenses against the public welfare. The extent of actual harm to actual people cannot be easily measured, so there is no rational limit upon punishments levied against the offenders.

Evidence that a criminal intentionally acted in such a way as to reduce the potential harms wrought by his crimes is VERY relevant to sentencing, in my opinion. The same holds true for malice and negligence.

For instance, if you sell heroin, that's illegal. If you refused to sell heroin to people younger than 18, and also embargoed and beat the excrement out of anyone you discovered to be passing heroin on to minors, that would still be pretty awful. But it would also show that you were making some attempt to be less awful than you could be. If, perhaps, you kidnapped any customer who lost his job, and forced him to dry out and clean up in your own private rehab, that would still be pretty nasty. But it would also show a commitment to reduction of harm. You should probably get a below-median sentence, as punishments for drug kingpins go.

Contrariwise, if you keep your drug stash and your loaded shotgun in your baby's crib, then screw you, buddy; you're getting the maximum on all counts.
It is true that it would take more work, but surely the rewards would make it worth trying. I can understand following the current modelled you are one of the tier 1 VC firms, but if you are tier 2 or 3 you need to do something different to succeed.
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Git itself is already distributed. Do we really need more distribution or do we simply need to learn to work more distributed?
> CDs aren't "studio-quality masters" anymore

Well, not sure many studios are still using 16-bit 44.1kHz either... ;)
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The cost of food continues to drop, but wages have also been stagnant since the 70's.

Housing vs wages: https://makewealthhistory.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/wages-...
Bad shape? How so?

Zygote is more about memory than performance, and that's still a needed thing. SELinux is in enforcing mode and has an increasingly tighter and tighter net.

Also Google is using 3.10 on the devices they sell, not 3.4. What Samsung, HTC, etc... ship is a different story, but that's not under Google's control.
So... hotels = APPLE and AirBnB = homeowners parking cars in their driveways?
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I completely agree, the point is a 1 year sting is plenty of time for someone to cross the line, and they did not bring the charges up for some reason, so it’s a possibility.

I suspect it's more likely they wanted to convict him on just the SR charges because that's better publicity, but it’s still odd.
It would probably get annoyed and shoot you with its lasers.
Hear hear. This is an easy-to-understand and concise thought experiment; use it often!
12 steps has a pretty poor record.
Rather than put forth any definitive theories, usually what I try do is understand some of the top drivers of a change, and then, with those in mind, think about what the secondary effects might be.
I'd guess it more has to do with physical colo/datacenter layouts. Traffic moving between racks is considered east/west*. Traffic moving in and out of your routers (and through to the meet-me-room) would take place over fiber pairs up into the ceiling or down through the floor.

Just a guess.
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I never thought of that! Hopefully if vault becomes a common thing, we'll see more phones with microSD card slots! To be honest, a large part of choosing my phone was if it had a card slot or not, they give so many extra capabilities.
Well yes, you are right. But just the fact that something is difficult to overdose does not imply long-term safety of use. And as far as I know there are know connections between certain psychiatric issues and LSD usage. This is why I do not believe that "LSD is basically harmless".
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I have trouble getting behind desalination for California. Surely we have not exhausted all our options in collection and storage?
Well that is a different story because I was using 4800rpm 80mm fans like an idiot back then.
I'm curious... is that 75.8% a bounce rate from the entire site, or just navigating away from the page?
> Money does not create value

Picking winners and loser successfully is as valuable as appraising houses. Without people investing, growth will only follow established wealth (you have to save up to start a business or buy a house). We would be moving from a crowd-sourced pricing model to an "expert" (assuming people with disposable wealth are experts) pricing model.
California could also copy the very low water waste, and the greywater recycling for agriculture.
Sage advice from Peter Molyneux:

"The bizarre thing is a huge amount of effort and time and money goes into researching the tech, like the Kinect tech and scanning the bodies, and there's always this one line that hardware manufacturers - whether it be Microsoft or anyone else - say and that's 'we can't wait to see what happens when it gets into the hands of developers.' Now if Apple had said that when they introduced the iPhone, I don't think we'd ever end up with the iPhone! What really should happen is that they put a similar amount of money into researching just awesome real world applications that you'll really use and that work robustly and smoothly and delightfully.

"They should spend as much money doing that rather than just on hardware tech and saying, 'Okay developers, we'll leave it to you.' If you look at the cases where technology has worked well - touch is one of those, and Wii Sports and motion control; Nintendo didn't introduce motion control until they had Wii Sports. You weren't just playing a few demos. I just hope that for the Holo stuff that they really choose an application and make that sing. That is what transforms a piece of tech from awe inspiring gadget that you try a few times and show off to friends into something that you use as part of your life, and that's really what we want technology to be. And that requires just an awesome amount of design to be put into the software, not just the hardware."

Source: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-01-22-molyneux-wa... via http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/01/23/mololens-molyneu...
Sounds like the company is the object of his intimate love.
I'm not sure I agree with the argument that faster line rates creating a speed limit for firewalls. It seems like firewall hardware could parallelize internally at layer 3, sharding by source/destination IP or port, so all packets from a single flow will go through the same processing core, no? This would add a finite latency, but I don't think it would impact throughput.

Am I missing something?
Why is Pluma's comment [1] marked as dead?

> I'm amazed they never changed their name. Even after entering

> the German market. There's absolutely no way to refer to them

> in a proper business context in German.

>

> For the uninitiated: wixen is a common misspelling of the

> slang term "wichsen" meaning "to masturbate". To a German

> speaker they might as well have named the company "wank".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9627716
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What's interesting about this is the desalination costs... The Sorek plant mentioned (largest of it's kind, 40 billion gallons/year) cost just $500 million to build. [1] They sell it back to Israel for $0.58/m^3 or $0.0022/gallon profitably.

That's way cheaper than, for example, Glendale, California, whose residential rates run anywhere between $0.0030 and $0.0052/gallon depending on consumption levels. [2]

What will it take to bring this kind of technology to Southern California?

[1] http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/534996/megasca...

[2] http://www.glendaleca.gov/water-rates
I wrote about this a few years ago. http://rocknerd.co.uk/2012/10/08/no-film-is-not-in-unique-ne... (The kid is eight now and she still thinks it's great.)

Here’s something instructive: YouTube: A Dinosaur Story. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfdZju4J0Y4 That’s a three-hour movie done by two kids in their loungeroom with toy dinosaurs. Ridiculously low production values, make-it-up-as-we-go-along story by a couple of kids who seem to be about nine or ten. It’s genuine unintermediated young children’s folk culture, on the internet. HOLY CRAP. PUNK ROCK FOR EVERYONE.

The reason this is noteworthy: it’s one of my five-year-old’s favourite films. She’s watched her assorted Disney DVDs about half a time each, she’s watched this movie repeatedly and tells bits of it to her classmates. I boggle, but I cannot deny the observation that they’re doing something right that Disney isn’t, on a budget of zero.

She was also incredibly excited when she saw YouTube videos of kids making Thomas the Tank Engine fan videos using wooden railways just like hers. “They’re making their own stories!” (Example. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg1cUl9rd9g Of course it’s rubbish. That’s not the point.) The powerful drive for a culture of your own starts early.

The recording industry used to try to justify not being taken out and shot by claiming blockbusterism was necessary to music, which was of course just a lie. Bands can (and do) now do albums with a microphone and a laptop. Microphone optional. Record at home, put it up on Bandcamp, the physical barrier to recording and distribution is gone. I remember the eighties, and just how bloody hard it was even to record, let alone distribute the result. Sure, the studio result is better, but that’s optional now. For getting the damn song out of your head and into the world, convenience beats quality every time the two are head-to-head.

Culture is everything humans do to impress each other, and it’s diseased unless it’s owned by all of us. The arrangement where you have creators here and consumers here and never the twain shall meet is a twentieth-century perversion we are well rid of.
There was an interesting link posted by tptacek about this - https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1391... - where the Court offers their view on this:

"As explained above, the murder-for-hire evidence is probative both as evidence of the charged offenses and to prove Ulbricht’s identity as DPR—a key disputed issue in this case. In addition, the charges in this case are extremely serious: Ulbricht is charged not with participating in a run-of-the-mill drug distribution conspiracy, but with designing and operating an online criminal enterprise of enormous scope, worldwide reach, and capacity to generate tens of millions of dollars in commissions."
i was not suggesting just recruiting the young with potential, but those people with a proven track record of getting things done. Engineers and designers that have years of proven success of building great products.
I haven't seen firewalls on the edge in ages. I guess it's more of a Fortune 500 attitude than tech company thing.

"Firewall" devices still have a place inside your network beyond the perimeter. Today they do ACL enforcement as well as DPI, IDP, IDS, tap data, etc. It's not unheard of to run a "firewall" in completely passive, monitor-only mode to generate telemetry data.
Well I have no idea what will be the ultimate version of this, but like all ideas, it will probably continue to evolve and improve itself. software is just codified ideas you know.
Lesson to be learned: ulbricht should have incorporated the Silk Road.
I was going to say something about Uber and traditional taxis in the same vein.

But then I was also going to say something about doctors, lawyers, and other professionals that form some kind of barrier around themselves... being someone who is in one of those groups.

the further I take this down the road(no pun intended), the more perplexed I find myself.

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