skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I stand corrected. Luckily I made that mistake twice, so the overall argument still works.
It's important to note GDP is far from independent of underlying demographics. A stable population ends up older than post WWII countries where used to which requires an older retirement age and a lower percentage of workers to support spending levels. This shift feels like austerity, but countries have no choice long term.
The unemployment rate is a lot higher amongst MENA immigrants and their children than amongst the natives. This is a general finding and not in any way unique to Sweden. What is close to unique is the sheer number of low-skilled immigrants relative to the native population.
Is unlimited voice really that necessary? I see a lot of plans in European countries and US that mostly give unlimited calls for those amounts of money. And who uses SMS anyway when you have Whatsapp, Hangouts, iMessage, FB Messenger etc.
"""If I have a model that doesn't work in smaller AND larger (whatever that means) contexts, it's a bad model."""

I'd argue that global markets are chaotic (dynamical systems) and thus this statement is a little too simplified for my taste.
It is a growth map, not a density map
Inflation makes adjustment to relative wages much easier (i.e., having some jobs decline in wages and others increase).

That is such a good thing that it (probably) outweighs the negatives. It does seem like it should be a low and relatively constant and predictable inflation, though.
He did many things that were part of the conventional wisdom - 'light touch" financial regulation, which were wrong, but then did some things that are excellent in retrospect - preventing the UK from joining the Eurozone and his crisis response.

It is unfair to say that he caused the crisis and in hindsight he could do more to prevent and mitigate it. However he did much better than most of his peers abroad and better than his successor.

He is generally much more warmly received by economists (Paul Krugman) and economic historians (Skidelsky) and journalists (Martin Wolf).

Here is Martin Wolf on the end of his term:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3074d7ba-5ec0-11df-af86-00144feab4...

Krugman: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/hints-of-spring/ - "Gordon Brown may have saved the world, after all"
The EU Data Protection Directive also pushes for that: "Member States shall provide that personal data must be (...) collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a way incompatible with those purposes [and must be] adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purposes for which they are collected and/or further processed".

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX:319...
Highly inspirational quotes
How do you reconcile that with this chart: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Deviatio... via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_rotation#Changes_in_rota...

Cumulative deviation since 1972 will be 26 seconds.
They know that people check a flight price then they go check hotels and other details for those days, then they come back to book the flight. People also check similar flights and those earlier or a bit later. They can see this pattern of a customer looking for the best deal.

By the time you've figured everything and made up you mind to book, they know that you want to buy. This is when they increase the price. when you actually try to book. I often get flight no longer available at that price. some sites i have to start over, some offer me an increased price.

here's a pattern i saw, for a flight to book 2 days ago:

$775 (initial price) -> $779 -> $832 -> $895.

This price ladder happened regardless of how i accessed the booking, ie through different websites. I decided i wasn't paying another 100 bucks and gave up.

24 hours (approx) later, i booked the same flight, through the same website for $785.

The whole thing could be just random, but i've had this sort of thing before.
> Steps that pretty much failed spectacularly, considering current levels of debt.

People often confuse the national debt and the budget deficit.

The national debt is like a credit card bill. To pay off that debt, you need to spend less (including the interest on the money you owe) than you get paid, so you can give the surplus to the credit card company, thereby reducing the amount you owe them. If you spend more than you get paid, your credit card debt goes up (i.e. you're running a budget deficit).

In other words, the budget deficit must be eliminated (i.e. turned into a budget surplus) before the government can begin to reduce the national debt.

In 2008, the UK government spent ~£150bn more than it earnt, so the national debt grew by that amount. Last year, it spent about £90bn more than it earnt, so the national debt is still rising. The good news is that the deficit is falling. The government aims to eliminate it by 2020, at which point they will be in a position to start reducing the size of the national debt.
I first heard of Michał when he won a 1996 contest for a computer-themed sci-fi short story with an oneiric tale about an astoundingly complex self-modifying virus. He would have been 15 back then. I was 12, and I thought to myself "wow, I will never be as smart as this guy."

Fast forward 19 years, and the impression still stands.
Plastic bottles instead of glass bottles probably also help. You don't have to be nearly as careful when you handle plastic bottles.

(I /think/ they are also cheaper to produce.)
It had a competitor, the Commodore CDTV (basically an amiga).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_CDTV
Pretty cool machine, CD rom drives were sparse in 91.
Here are some videos that convinced me to try low-carbs a few years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM Sugar: The Bitter Truth

1h29 - One of the best information (as in biology) video around about sugar.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDneyrETR2o Why We Get Fat

1h10 - A little less technical (IIRC), but still a great insight on what's going on.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vfK5U9qKaI TWiT Live Specials 124: The Sugar Hill

55min - Steve Gibson on his discovery of low-carbs, how and why it works.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSLf4bzAyOM - Dr Eric Westman - Duke University New Atkins Ketogenic Diet for Weight Loss and Health

38min - Dr Eric Westman guide patients through what they can eat and what will be transition 'symptoms'.
Migrant brainpower
Yes it was close to meco.
If 1 second can cause so much of havoc, I am wondering, to what precision are the servers in markets synchronized?

Are they made in a distributed fashion where it is assumed that two clocks can never be synchronized with full precision.

PS - I am a noob in markets and trading.
I never said that Brown caused the crisis. He did, however, spend all the UK Government's surpluses that would have helped cushion the crisis' effects.

I can't read the FT article as it's paywalled, but I don't think Krugman can be called an economist any more. He's more of a paid troll for the NYT.

How can you say he's done better than his successor? We can never know how the economy would be doing now under Brown.
Julia

http://julialang.org/

Btw. almost down-vote for "embarrassingly"
Believe you are fit to make value judgments
I tried to engage Southwest about this algorithm and it (email) was like talking to a brick wall.
Call for Testing: Valgrind on OpenBSD
This thread is damn good economics.
> "You guys are either going to turn these airplanes in 10 minutes or I'm going to fire every single one of you — and I'm going to hire a whole new crew that's willing to work and turn these airplanes in 10 minutes."

Sounds like a great way to fail spectacularly. If it was impossible, it wasn't going to magically work just because everyone was too afraid to tell him.
A neat bit of code? Yes. Startling? No. There's no telling how long most of these victims would have lived. Once suicide is factored out (which it looks to be in this graphic because total gun deaths in the US is closer to something like 30,000 people) the remaining vast majority is from gang violence and crime. Guns themselves don't cause people to choose to be in a gang or fight another gang or commit a crime. Those lives may just have easily been lost to knives or other blunt weapons. There's just no way to know what would have happened to them.
He could have made a very good academic. He's obviously a bright bloke. He appeared to be temperamentally unsuitable to leadership though.

To your other points:

- Calling Blair a war criminal is just childish name calling.

- Thatcher is one of the best post-war Prime Ministers, together with Clement Atlee, depending on your politics.

- The left-wing press has its own share of liars and frauds. The Daily Mirror was at least as complicit as the Murdoch press in phone hacking. And Johan Hari, Guardian Journalist, is probably the biggest liar in journalism of moderd times.
Sounds like you're suggesting that instead of doing a headcount for population growth, we should be looking at biomass. Interesting. This would mace sense for big mac economics and the newly founded field of coke economics.
"at which point they will be in a position to start reducing the size of the national debt"

Just to give some context to this, the UK national debt is currently £1.56 trillion [1]. Reducing this by anything other than a token amount is an enormous undertaking.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_national_debt
The first I would recommend you do is talk to your investors connect with them on a human level and explain why the business tanked. I did this in my case and one of the investors went on to land me very good contract.

Second I would recommend analyzing really well what caused the situation. Rarely is the answer running out of money the real reason. In my case the best way I found to deal with this is to give talks in my ecosystem on why my startup failed. This way it gave me a better chance to figure things properly because I had to explain them.

Third I would not recommend things such as Elance or Odesk, but rather direct consulting with people. I have done this personally and the financial payback from direct consulting is incomparably better then online marketplaces of services. The bottom line is that in direct consulting people are looking for your expertise while on Elance they are looking for code and we as software engineers produce code but what we sell is the expertise (ie the code is only the means to the end).
Fourth for your motivation levels I would recommend forming a sporting habit. Personally I run long distances and I find it helps me stay "earthed". On the really off days I find reading science fiction is quite helpful but that is just me.
Finally I would like to point our that your startup has only failed if you do not see the rewards at the end of the journey and only focus on that you missed your goal. As an example Columbus failed to reach India by a new route. If he had only focused on that he would have never gone back with the fact that he had discovered the Americas.
As opposed to the situation in Greece I have lost over £1k since the Friday close and its only Lunch time :-)
Judging by its investors I'd say in their view the fact that it uses bricks is a feature, not a bug.
Magnitude EK Targets Adobe 0Day to Deliver CryptoWall Ransomware
> it doesn't address the fact that someone has lost money due to fraud

You would try it out with a few hundreds or possibly thousands first. If it isn't showing any return at all, something is fishy. You wouldn't with a sum that would hurt to lose.

Then nice thing about the web is that we can measure and analyze user behavior.
This happens today though. Google search for "bars" shows a custom component at the top which links through to what is a mini Yelp site complete with reviews. It isn't aggregating reviews from the web they are specifically "Google Reviews" from Google+ users.

This sort of behaviour is very similar to what got Microsoft in so much trouble. Going from one market "search engine" to another "reviews". Normally adding features like this would be fine but because Google is so powerful as to make/break web businesses it can easily be seen as anticompetitive.
How much money was made during the Steam Summer Sale
Management/Leadership is easy: just stop lying
Looks nice on chrome osx; on ios it's also running smooth but there is something wrong with the texture or the culling which causes a big blue area to show up in the middle of the jellyfish especially when they are facing away.
Stocks are a very, very small part of the financial markets. Forex and futures markets are open most of the week and a lot more money flows through them. Forex alone accounts for about five trillion USD per DAY of money movement. Stocks are barely a blip on the radar in comparison.
The birth of the Internet in India
Why Startups like Moleskin
Ceph 1.3: A Tentacular Release
> That seems like a very strange remark. First, macroeconomics va. microeconomics is not about large and small, but about the whole vs. parts of it. And that indeed makes a huge difference.

To expand on that: A sovereign nation state has the power to tax, to legislate, and to regulate trade with other nations; outside the Eurozone, to issue its own currency. Households and businesses can do none of the above, but are subject to the decisions that their governments make on their behalf.
25fps on Lumia 920. Quite good. But I wonder why I'm seeing ~30fps on my laptop... It's nvidia gt540m. I think there is a framerate limit to 30.
Just to stir further reading, our moon is actually stealing our rotational momentum (our spin speed). Enjoy the rabbit-hole. 😀
> "The national debt is like a credit card bill."

Where you have the power to pay it off at will because you create the money. Assuming sovereign currency. (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/18/truth-m...)

It's really funny-money. Bureaucratic number-shuffling to make debt peons. To force people to chase numbers all their lives. Ever wondered what money is to an entity which creates it by changing numbers on a computer?
This is fantastic, I love how it's a bookmarklet, which means I don't have to mess around with bower to make my sites accessible. Great job!
My problem with Docker is not the abstractions - you need to learn to live with them as they're not going anywhere. I would [probably] be willing to make the [required] security trade offs and maybe even the complexities and workarounds.

My biggest problem is still the amount of noise despite project being alive for over 2 years now. Therefore what you said in:

> "the Docker model seems to have absorbed all the hacks without documenting any of the best practices,"

resonates a lot with me.

From the community point of view the ecosystem, despite having some really smart people involved, is swarming with vendors. This is probably good for Docker as a technology company which must be striving to be omnipresent/ubiquitous, but can be [and often is] detrimental for the end users: developers and operators.

Saying that Docker is still young, writing good software of Docker scale is tough and takes time, especially given the circumstances I've mentioned above. So let's see where Docker leadership will drive the project.
At first I thought that when you said, "this data" you were referring to the study's dataset, but now I realize you mean the live data feed Google would need to make the search results look like the product the users in the study seemed to prefer.
This is really great. Just two suggestions.

While minimised, the tab could display a score like A+ - this could incentivise websites to permanently present it on their pages as a badge of pride (while ensuring visibility to any changes that degrade the score).

Secondly, if you link to the project within the maximised tab, you'll likely see greater adoption.
Eris is 27% heavier than Pluto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_(dwarf_planet) . Do you want to classify Eris as a planet too?
Where did you get that whitelist from? My allowed sites only list the dozen or so I have added.
You have to wonder how such a crash can happen on clear, dry open roads in good weather. Buses never travel that fast, nor will they have reckless drivers. There's a slight irony in that the coach is made by Van Hool which is a Belgian company - and make very good coaches from what I know.

Belgium has a slightly mad thing that they allow buses full of people without seat belts / standing to travel at 50 mph along the motorways.
Aloisius: Create/Update/Delete dependent CloudFormation stacks in parallel
Can the medication to improve my
2. Can the medication to improve my intellectual capabilities?
The question immediately arises in the reader: "But is this really possible chemical can my thoughts are the best", the answer is yes: The brain is responsible for cognitive processes organ, and as such has a certain structure immutable physics and chemistry (for better or worse) through some of the articles that have this property, and called psychological.
These things are pretty old. I distinctly remember seeing one in a local curiosity/games shop well over 15 years ago.
Brick construction is still a major selling point for homes in Perth (especially double-brick [1]).

I've seen pre-fabricated homes in mining towns up North, where labour costs are insanely high. While they look nice (and structurally sound), people still prefer the traditional house constructions.

[1] - http://www.anewhouse.com.au/2013/01/why-double-brick/
I suspect he was referring to non-concrete prefabs.

I love a cool robot as much as the next guy, but a lot of these "building of the future" technologies act like they've won the race after the first lap. Prefab houses don't just give you the basic structure, they give you a finished house, with flooring, cabinetry, wallpaper, plumbing, electric... it's like the difference between a 3d printer that can print some of its rigid components and one that can print its servos and control circuits.
It started slowing down a lot more after this https://xkcd.com/162/
That site (pavlok) asks for my email and doesn't even say what the price of the product is supposed to be, nor any other details. They really expect people to donate their email address to don't-know-who for don't-know-what? I wonder how well that works.
Eric Schlosser's 'Command & Control' is a fascinating and very readable look at nuclear accidents and almost-accidents. Recommended if you're interested in this area.
There are some areas (e.g. weather), where Google's own content is a lot more useful (because of its simplicity) to me than third-party sites. On others (e.g. shopping in DE) not so much.
> I'm pretty sure unassigned seating has been proven to be the fastest way to load an aircraft in practice.

I would disagree with this. My experience is of low-cost operators in Europe (Ryanair, Easyjet, Wizz etc.), and I believe their experiences have been the opposite. Whilst most of the carriers used to operate on an unassigned seating basis, with fees for reserved seating, now seating is 'randomly' assigned at online check-in (although if possible groups are sat together). You can still pay for reserved seating but the benefit is obviously a lot less now.

My anecdotal evidence is that this has massively quickened the boarding process. Before, there would be delays waiting for people to sort out their seating and luggage arrangements (families especially), now it is much less of an issue and turnaround times are quicker.

It's also possible that the massive increase in people taking only hand-luggage in recent years has been a factor, but I'm not sure.
You're exaggerating, for sure.
How Television Won the Internet
I'm pretty sure everything on that is hydraulically or electrically driven - switching the diesel running the hydraulic pump out for an electric motor is probably simple... I suspect the most difficult part of that would be the software to manage having it drag around a 3 phase esxension lead safely...
Comic-Con, Defending Fantasy Culture And, Now, Its Brand
It looks very similar to this tool: https://squizlabs.github.io/HTML_CodeSniffer/

Very handy having things like these as bookmarks.
Greece Orders Banks Closed, Imposes Capital Controls to Stem Deposit Flight
growth = population increasing = popular.
Ask HN: Career advice – upgrade from “just developer”
Hi.

I'm a programmer and my entire career I was developing not very interesting desktop and web applications that don't require lots of CS skills and knowledge. However, I'm quite interesting in such things as complex algorithms, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, program languages design, distributed systems etc. I'm studying this for many years myself and still interested, but I see no opportunity of using this in my day job.

I want to ask your advice: is it possible to move myself from this local career minimum to a sphere where all this knowledge will be of use and I can do something more valueable? If it's possible, how I should do this: get a PhD? find a partner and do “consultaning”? found a company?
If it was impossible, the company would have failed: It was a hard constraint for them to turn around faster in order to maintain their flight schedule with one plane less in order to stop losing money.
In physics, we view it as a bad thing and a deep flaw when the macro model (GR) and the micro model (QM) don't agree. Large amounts of effort in physics are devoted to deriving macro models from micro models - this is the entire purpose of statistical mechanics, for example.
Clock sync is one of the areas where the markets and their participants actually deserve their reputation for sophistication.

That said, I'd be surprised if keeping the clocks together is what is causing the worry. Much more troubling are third party bugs (kernel, jvm, db, etc) and incorrect assumptions in their code.

This same story can be equally applied to any industry honestly, but the markets make for better headlines.
Yes, non-gaming platforms will eventually get games just by being popular. But that requires millions of units at a minimum, and even that might not be enough (what was the state of desktop Linux gaming in 2012?). For this path to work, the platform needs to become popular first. For the PC the early value proposition was productivity applications. For the iPhone it was good mobile web browsing, maps, etc.

A gaming system (which this was) can't wait for that popularity to happen through some other means. The games are the raison d'être of the system, the only reason for people to buy one. What was the end-user pitch here that'd get one of these to the hands of millions of consumers? "You can buy some other DVD player for $200, or this one that might some day play games for $300". Not very compelling, when both of them do an equally good job with the main task you're buying a DVD player for.