skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Printing money, and putting it into circulation, in values that exceed economic growth always results in inflation.

Inflation is trivial to cause. Deflation takes a bit more work and discipline, and is subject to the requirement that economic growth exceed increase in money supply - but the method behind it is well understood.

The challenge is to keep your inflation at a low, reasonable level - say 3-5%. I don't think anybody has figured out a repeatable method to do that.
Yeah. I was closely following the news, and the separatists bragged about shooting down another Ukrainian plane (they downed few helicopters and planes earlier).

Of course as soon as they knew it was foreign civilian plane they started to deny it.

This might be of interest, this the intercept of several phone calls by Ukrainian intelligence service (SBU) where separatists discuss the indecent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvAyXVS-Qj8
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It is strange using an ATM in Zimbabwe in that it dispenses US dollars. Unlike most US ATMs, it will dispense fifties and hundreds. Larger notes are mostly clean, but dollar bills are absolutely filthy. They are used until they fall apart.

Notes are US, but coins are South African rands.
You do not get legislations like TTIP in smaller democratic circles, its only when the whole political apparatus is too big to be hold accountable. It's them the big top politicians in some far away country in EU that you cannot directly reach that we get this kind legislation.

I am assuming it’s also non-governmental think tanks that come up with the ideas that leave us the funny acronym sounding legislations that is not in the public’s best interest. Why do they have to draft the proposals in secret if it’s good for the public? If you are not ashamed of your actions you show it, if you hide something or lie you are afraid that in the light others might not like what you propose.

The computer analogy would be open source vs closed source or security by obscurity.
A new methodology, agile/scrum but more humane.

Been an IT developer for most of my life but always found humans and how they work more interesting than computers and finally I figured out how to do something good with that interest.

http://timeblock.com
Booklet on TTIP and Digital Rights, https://edri.org/ttip-and-digital-rights-the-booklet/

From http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/10/obscure-lega...

"Brazil has never signed up to this system – it has not entered into a single treaty with these investor-state dispute provisions – and yet it has had no trouble attracting foreign investment."
How poverty alters the young brain
They need to use exponential notations! 10^20.
please note that according to https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt

this is a valid record definition from a csv file:
"b CRLF
bb","ccc" CRLF
zzz,yyy,xxx

Your code will fail on this case. CSV parsing is not as simple as it sounds. Given that the format is also not well-defined, it's even worse. (is the first line a header or not for example)
Brazil did this in the 90's but with a twist: they created a transition currency, the URV (Real unit of value), and the people believed when they introduced (1:1 to URV) new currency (R$ or Real).

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-f...
Ah, looks like it's the cloudflare DNS issue:

https://twitter.com/StackStatus/status/609296474015444992

http://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/br8t7ds3mhh6

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9704843

(Nothing to see here)
Oistrakh plays the Vitali Chaconne
Could be a fallout of DNS issues at CloudFlare:
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
Google's right to be forgotten: one year on
Here is one solution for tinnitus that uses such a device: [1]

[1] http://www.microtransponder.com/?page_id=118
It is really riduculous that we now start evaluating human life by the amount of carbon emission one generates. Sorry, but that is just nonsense. Wont killing yourself achieve your goals? Also, you should start a non-profit that pays family members if they commit suicide.
The ultimate guide to product design
That actually happened before Yang returned as CEO:

"In 2005, under Yang’s direction but before he took over as CEO in 2007, Yahoo! purchased a 40% stake in Alibaba for $1 billion plus the assets of Yahoo! China, valued at $700 million."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Yang_(entrepreneur)#Alib...
> [S]ome of of the "classified codewords" seem related to the subject matter.

1) I'm aware of not-really-important projects that have an obvious connection between their code words and the thing described by the code word.

2) Many, but not all projects have randomly generated names. It's really up to the discretion of the -for lack of a better term- project manager and his supervisor whether they use the random name or use a more evocative one. DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM were two high-profile classified projects from the early 1990s whose names were not randomly generated.
4 essential elements of successful UX design
How we solved it in Nix: http://lethalman.blogspot.it/2015/02/developing-in-golang-wi...

We don't need go get or any other tool, and we have about 174 packaged libraries in our repository.
The rules of engaging eLearning
Sorry, typo - my post should have read "Pointing out that something doesn't solve everything is no argument against it".

In other words, just because banning /fph won't entirely solve the problem of People Being Assholes doesn't mean it's a bad idea.
He said that they don't touch posts unless they violate the rules. You said that is changing. No, that is not changing. They still don't touch anything unless it violates the rules.
Startup that gives you advice on anything
Sounds like a very healthy company culture. ;)
yet another duct tape kind of feature, from people already too corrupted by js, that will be further abused and cause yet more duct tape features in ES7.

this is nothing but a more convoluted way of the pattern that sets a unique object as a unique value for comparison. well, it adds a label for easy debug. hooray.
There is already a lot of research done in the area of decomposing signals. For example, to make an ECG of a foetus' heart, where the heart signal of the mother is noise that is to be canceled. The classical approach is to use something that is called a Kalman filter.
Any Dev, Any App, Any OS
I agree, the e-voting technology should be a lot more secure, but as long as they keep improving it, I don't see it as too big of a problem, but if they used the same technology in the states for example, I would be pretty worried. The influence Estonia has in the world is negligible compared the US, so if something was to go wrong, sure, it would be pretty bad, but compared to the same happening in a more influencial country, it would be pretty minor.
Level 3 is down
Postponing something like this that would boost the prosperity of both continents is highly irresponsible. Majority of the public can only grasp emotional catchphrases and isn't nearly cognitively capable of grasping the enormous benefits of this important agreement. This is incredibly frustrating, it should have been signed 50 years ago.
Ecuador also uses the US dollar as currency, cash machines dispense $20s and $50s.

Tourists from the USA should bring $1 coins and leave $1 notes at home, people don't like the notes as they get dirty.

Ecuador mints coins (1, 5, 10, 25, 50¢) which are the same shape as US ones, and interchangeable in Ecuador.
Awesome post.

I like the assumption that he didn't care that his "rlci" lisp interpreter didn't garbage collect at all because it was just a way to get to the next step and he knew it was going to have enough RAM to do so.
Ok.. so in current form you can say it's kind of aggregating the content from multiple platform. We are constantly improving it to make feed in rime better than any existing platform. User will have better control over the feed. They will be able to follow the particular #tags, RSS feed and more.
That is why you have sitemaps, for new websites with no sitemaps we could start with a default frequency, say, once a day. If it changes more often than that you can increase it to multiple times a day and so on. We can also look for the type of website to determine a starting frequency — for example an e-commerce websites ought to be crawled more frequently because new products, reviews, ratings could be added every few minutes whereas a personal blog may stay the same for weeks altogether.
They will discuss it and approve it while there is some major event going down. Let's say a complete meltdown of Greece, a natural disaster, more war in the middle east...
Apple’s Latest Product Is Privacy
I searched the photo before I posted the previous message but as usually, when you need something you can't find it. I remember talking to some friends and showing them the screen capture but now I can't localize it on 2 of the 3 computers where I might have saved it. For me it was interesting to observe how the russian special services distracted the attention from this and put forward other "facts", circumstances and "proofs". Basically if you can't suppress some information, then you cover it with noise and in the end no one is sure of anything.
It's interesting how the article explains the FUD aspects and not the benefits. There are significant benefits, but you wouldn't know it due to the anti-trade lobby's propaganda to the contrary. I don't have a position in the agreement because I haven't read it, but then again, neither has anyone else; even the U.S. congress can't get ready access to the agreement's text. So we're debating a phantom.

I would be glad if the agreement simply ended tariffs and protectionism. It's completely silly that certain products in the UK cost double the same product in the U.S., even after adjusting for VAT. For example Grivel G12 crampons cost $175 in the U.S. And about £150 in the UK. Things like clothing are hugely more expensive in France than the U.S. (North Face jackets for example.) Hershey's syrup is triple the price than in the U.S. However conversely, Nutella is actually cheaper in the U.S. There are thousands of examples like this. It's funny how a Volkswagen made in the U.S. And sold in the U.S. is less expensive than a Volkswagen made in Germany and sold in Germany.
That sounds eminently reasonable.
>It seems that usually when moving from paper to digital forms, the original form is just reimplemented to be filled out on a computer.

In Germany as a business owner I'm required to file taxes electronically. But then in the last step I still have to print out some of forms and send them via snail mail to the German tax office.

And don't get me started about registering a new company. It takes weeks and you need to visit a notary.
(Coincidentally last week I created a UK Ltd to hold some intellectual property. It took 20 minutes and I paid the fee via PayPal. And the next day everything was ready to go.)

There are really different school of thoughts when it comes to administration. And you can't just slap an electronic form ontop of an over-regulated dinosaur and automagically become a modern & agile institution.
That only works if you don't have self referential structures though.

(Disclaimer: I've never actually used one /or/ seen an example of one being used... (See, those AI Koans do have useful tidbits of knowledge in them!)).
Reimagining the iPad split view for a Markdown editor
https://search.edwardsnowden.com/docs/IHuntSysAdmins20140320

This reads like a reddit or HN post.

"Yeah, that pretty much makes sense, but how are you 'just gonna get CNE access' on an admin?"

(S/SI//REL) Good question, thanks for asking. Most of the time I'm going to rely on QUANTUM to get
access to their account (yeah, you could try spam, but people have been getting smarter over
the last 5-10 years... it's not as reliable anymore). So, inorderto work our QUANTUM-magic on an
admin, we'll need some sort of webmail/facebook selector for them.

"You know, you could just look up the 'point of contact' in the registry information associated
with their IP space/domain names..."

(S/SI//REL) Yeah, you could do that. Personally, I haven't had a huge amount of luck with it,
because most of the time I end up running across their ♦official* e-mail address that's hosted on
their own network. That's generally not a recipe for success in the QUANTUM world, what we'd
really like is a personal webmail or facebook account to target. There's a couple ways you could
try' this: dumpster-dive for alternate selectors in the big SIGINT trash can, or pull out your wicked
Google-fu to see if they've posted on any forums and list both their official and non-official e-mails
in a signature block...but what if there was another way to do it?

(S/SI//REL) If a target that I care about is on a network that I don't have access to. in this post I
described that I will try to get access to that network by targeting the sys admin. In order to
target the sys admin, it's easiest if I know what their personal webmail/facebook username is so
that I can target it with QUANTUM. The hardest part is identifying that admin's personal account
to target in the first place.

Now, fade off with me into dream-land. Pretend that we had some master list. This master list
contained tons of networks around the world, and the personal accounts of admins for each of
those networks. And any time you wanted to target a new network, you could just find the admin
associated with it, queue his accounts up for QUANTUM, get access to his box and proceed to pwn
the network. Wouldn't that be swell?
Apache Spark
I would really like to see something similar to Slick (Scala) for Rust. This one says it's an ORM, but a simple query compile time type checker (an example: http://slick.typesafe.com/doc/3.0.0/sql.html) would already be great.
Estonia is basically one big city, no country side. It is easy to score high in broadband speed etc, if no rural areas are decreasing average speed.
I didn't really understand that part. Care to explain?
Hacking into the traffic lights
Code review 4 lines: hundreds of comments

Code review 1000 lines: "Looks fine"
IronScheme
Absolutely. A fantastic album, especially for the fantastic double-stop bass playing.
Maybe a trade agreement would prevent a Greek meltdown by freeing trade opportunities for Greece. The problem in Greece has been too much left wing and not enough economic liberalism.
The day after I moved to Namecheap last year, their DNS servers came under DDOS attack and my domain stopped resolving.[1]

Now, I move to Cloudflare yesterday, and this happens.

This cannot be a coincidence: God exists.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7271602
I don't understand why the author compares ES6 symbols to Ruby symbols; they're nothing alike. It's kind of the opposite: Ruby symbols are guaranteed to be the same object if they have the same name, ES6 symbols are guaranteed to be a different object, even if they have the same name (description)
I think Greece should introduce a currency like that and pay pensions and government employees in it. It should have a floating exchange rate to the Euro. They should call it the 'faux'
Wrong. https://www.google.ee/maps/@58.6,25,7z
True but it's a first step. They don't master the technology, once they use it, what should and can be 'refactored' will probably be. Right now they're still thinking through their last medium.

Saw this for national websites (tax, jobs), first version was heavy Java front and backend, complex, slow, full of requirements. Recently it was simplified (a little, sometimes a lot).
I was wondering about this. Are they the same plugins or different ones? Do they use the same api or a different one?
If you trust SBU (and know russian) then that's reasonable proof, but if you trust only tweeter and https, it helps a lot when the rebel's commander admits freely on tweeter they were behind some incident.
import csv

r = csv.reader(open('file.csv'))
first_row = r.next()
for row in r:
if row[0] == first_row[0]:
return True
return False

287MB file 100m rows 15.804s peak memory usage 7MB
Why Reddit’s ban on Fat People Hate is ripping it apart – Vox
All the people I know who are against it are pretty smart. Apparently the decision makers are doing a bad job of explaining the benefits of this to us. Which is sad, because we are their employers.
Great news? Have you read the agreement? Even US congressmen have been unable to read the agreement without great difficulties. Condemning an agreement you know nothing about would seem to be irresponsible.
There's many people here in the EU who are strongly opposed (myself, for example).

We don't want this "prosperity" if they're going to undo many regulations we have in place for our safety. Food-industry regulations, plastic/chemicals regulations.

Thanks, but no thanks. Deregulating is not as cool as "liberal" guys tell us.
QUANTUM https://search.edwardsnowden.com/docs/CaseStudiesofIntegrate...
Is Singapore a democracy? If so, then your assertion doesn't hold.
In many countries and places this strategy of "ok, let's vote using internet, and we'll believe results are true" would work well. USA, India are not one of those places.

All the mainstream media reports on such topics and especially technology should be taken with a boatload of salt.
How to lose a customer: a worked example
Not even just poor people, almost all people have trouble getting electricity there. Of course, excluding the politically connected and powerful.

</used_to_live_there>
Small democracies are riddled with equally stupid legislation and decisions. I'm not sure that this follows at all.
Isn't that the basic purpose of Tor?
That's a good first step, but that's not enough for many companies.

If you're an enterprise customer with IBM, Oracle, or Microsoft, you know that you can have someone onsite within 24 hours if you have a critical failure, sometimes even sooner. You know that you can have people engaged 24/7 for as long as it takes to get you back up and running and you'll have not just technical people, but also incident managers who will keep you updated and help the engineers locate additional resources. They'll have someone sit in a conference bridge around the clock if you want, ready to provide updates.

Enterprises are also thinking about long time spans. With IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Redhat, and others, they generally guarantee at least 10 years of support for their products, plus the ability for custom agreements that go beyond their normal support dates. Offering 3+2 is a good start, but that's not long enough. Remember, many (probably most) banks still have applications written in COBOL running.

Don't get me wrong, I think everyone should look at all the available options - free and paid. At the end of the day, though, there are a lot of projects where the risks and expected application lifecycle pretty much mandate the level of support you only get from the big companies.
Not to mention the new 'Private Justice' they want to set up in order to benefit corporations.
That is, I think, explained by the fact that they have broadened quite a bit the definition of autism in recent history -> and higher awareness from parents results in higher diagnosis rates. Hardly surprising.
Workers won't put in the same effort if they know that the employer has no replacement so the worker productivity will go down.
The scramble suit was an invention of the Bell laboratories, conjured up by accident by an employee named S. A. Powers... Basically, his design consisted of a multifaceted quartz lens hooked up to a million and a half physiognomic fraction-representations of various people: men and women, children, with every variant encoded and then projected outward in all directions equally onto a superthin shroudlike membrane large enough to fit around an average human.

As the computer looped through its banks, it projected every conceivable eye color, hair color, shape and type of nose, formation of teeth, configuration of facial bone structure - the entire shroudlike membrane took on whatever physical characteristics were projected at any nanosecond, then switched to the next...

In any case, the wearer of a scramble suit was Everyman and in every combination (up to combinations of a million and a half sub-bits) during the course of each hour. Hence, any description of him - or her - was meaningless.

From A Scanner Darkly, by Philip K. Dick.

Published by Not Known in 1977
Clearly you and your side project or resume website are the focus of an intense multi year DDOS campaign.
Shouldn't this be pointing to the paper being discussed?

https://www.academia.edu/11975482/Second-order_logic_explain...
Really? Can you explain why? Everything I've read, including emails obtained through FOIA points out to increasing rights for corporations at the expense of rights of individuals and weakening of protection for populations on the environment front. So why should it be signed?
“An ISP in Asia is leaking routes to a Tier 1 transit provider”
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That in itself seems like a good reason not to support it.

Incomprehensibility isn't a desirable feature of regulation.
Yes, blood brothers ;)

Another surprising revelation was that need-to-know structure isn't necessarily congruent with management structure or chain of command. That is, one can report to someone who isn't authorized to know what one is doing. As I recall, the focus was on financial accountability, duplication of effort, empire building, etc. But there are deeper concerns about accountability.
Am I right in thinking individual countries can end tariffs and protectionism? Seems to me the concern is that countries are being leveraged into a position which is not in the interests or the favour of the people. Through multi-country treaties.
It has just stopped working again (at least our droplets in AMS are out of the "internet" again).

Edit: Resolved
Dick Costolo is stepping down and Jack Dorsey is back as interim CEO
You don't need a treaty like that to drop import tariffs: this can be done by an individual country. This can be done unilaterally without losing any sovereignty - which is not the case for such trade agreements.
Config file wipe blunder caused deadly Airbus A400M crash – claim
Maybe I'm being picky, but I interpreted the title to mean "explained in [less that 75 pages of] plain English".

Attention span... draining... strength... procrastination fading... closing... tab
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Yes. In ideal world, for example, founding a run-of-the-mill company could be as simple as spinning up a DO box or creating Paypal account. Set up billing and contact details, check a few options, click and done.

In reality, even with e-signatures and what not it's far from that. You submit multiple documents to multiple government offices, processing takes days, and there is plenty of printing, mailing and scanning going on behind the scenes.

Problem is, governments have little incentive to improve UX, as they face no competition. You either put up with the bureaucracy and stupid big forms, or... well, there's no other option.
I've been involved for a long time, and it sure doesn't seem that way to me. Lots of that "code bloat" is simply making things portable across compilers, interpreters, operating systems and languages.
LOL, you got this all wrong. The government is pushing technology quite hard on Estonians (for a variety of justified reasons) THAT's why you see many Estonian teams floating around.
I don't see any benefit for EU countries here. Also, as long as the papers aren't fully opened for the public, signing them would render our "democracy" here a joke. It's just not acceptable.

Basically this whole thing exists solely to strengthen the power of huge US companies against these "nasty" EU regulations. No thanks, deregulation isn't something we want here.

Even if everything here falls apart regarding connections to the US we would still be humming along just fine in the EU.
Praising an agreement you know nothing about would be irresponsible. The default sane behaviour is not blind trust.