skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even the distinction between macroeconomics and microeconomics is not scientific.

If I have a model that doesn't work in smaller AND larger (whatever that means) contexts, it's a bad model.

Physicists admit it, economists might, politicians don't.

My own "religion" is that you should build a reward function for every actor in a system (be it state, politician, company, CEO, consumer, ...) and see how they react to different events (legislation, appearance and disappearance of new services/products, ...).

If you follow that line, you'll end up with a very pessimistic view and an Austrian mindset.

IMO game theory is the foundation of economics and it explains how it could look like, what's happening right now, why central banks collude and why any monopoly on violence and/or the issuance of money will degrade into what we currently have.

In the end, the budgets are irrelevant, politicians don't want to balance them and even if for some reason one does, his successors won't.
Here in France I pay 20 EUR (<$25) per month for unlimited voice and SMS, + 20Go data.

This is way over my needs BTW, I never exceeded 5Go in any given month in two years, except one month when I bought a new laptop and left Dropbox sync it over phone tethering. I then discovered that there was no way to buy more data, which was a bit frustrating...
> the Conservative government has taken steps to balance the budget by reigning in public spending

Steps that pretty much failed spectacularly, considering current levels of debt. However, the markets trust this government will keep cutting ad infinitum in order to pay back their debt, so they trust them enough to lend them more money at decent rates. It's like a lender trusting a borrower willing to prostitute or sell his children above an unwilling one.

"Market trust" is a big joke, and also what underpins the whole economic structure of our times. It's insane.
Keynes's record on matters of public spending and monetary policy is a shaky one (see broken window fallacy). Not only is any level of public debt a threat to long-term stability, it's immoral. Generally speaking it's not us, in the present economy, or the politicians who allow the debt to rise who have to pay it back. It's our children and grandchildren. Inter-generational debt just isn't right. New Statesman should have read some Hayek.
Austerity is a religion in Europe and it's strongly supported by Germany, which is the leading economic powerhouse and major EU creditor.

If you look at the surplus it works well for their exports but the salaries are at the same level they were in the 90s. So although unemployment is low and exports were going strong (hence corporations like BMW and Mercedes are making huge profits) the salaries were largely at the same levels. The German government decide to keep the surplus instead of spending money in local and foreign investment which keeps virtually the EUR low. It's a policy heavily criticized by both USA and European economists.

One might argue that these choices worked very well for Germany. Not very well for the rest of the Eurozone, especially the Mediterranean countries, which found themselves having huge deficits. The EU has structural problems which the German model speed up.
Ouch, “You Hit Me in the Face and You're Dead”
Kickstarter: First mobile drinking glass
we will lose moon well before that, it's going further away every year (don't recall exact value, should be few cm per year)
looks really interesting, not knowledgeable enough to add value but I'll be excited to see this in action!
And you're not accounting for the price of the bottle relative to the cost of the water/syrup.
Hi, having started Docker I am of course biased, but I thought I'd bring some data to this conversation.

Last 30 days on Docker Compose: 45 PRs merged from 26 people

Full time Docker employees on Compose: 1

Last 30 days on Docker Machine: 39 PRs merged from 33 people

Full time Docker employees on Machine: 1

Last 30 days on Docker Swarm: 50 PRs merged from 21 people

Full time employees on Swarm: 3

Last 30 days on Docker core: 265 PRs merged from 161 people

Full time employees on core: 8

The lmctfy authors are now core maintainers of runC (and its underlying libcontainer) which they built together with Docker core maintainers. Together they built something robust and operationally sound, based on their combined experience running containers in production.

Overall, lots of great tools being developed, at different levels of maturity, some focused on low-level operations and some focused on helping developers. I don't understand the negativity.

Edit: the lmctfy authors, unlike the grand-parent in this thread, have been super pragmatic about the pros and cons of the Google stack vs others. They realize that it's a big and complex world out there, and that not every computer system can make the same simplifying assumptions as Google. Only a relatively unexperienced SRE would assume that you can build any system on top of their employer's custom tools, unmodified. To take an obvious example: nested cgrouls and performance profiles are really sweet, but last I checked, net namespace support was not a priority because "we don't need it at Google". Welcome to the real world, GauntletWizard.
"The new study, which was presented at the Antitrust Enforcement Symposium in Oxford, U.K., over the weekend, says the content Google displays at the top of many search results pages is inferior to material on competing websites. For this reason, the paper asserts, the practice has the effect of harming consumers. "
in Poland, 30k USD would be considered extremely good salary for engineer (35k for software devs). With 30k USD gross income, you receive 22k net compensation (health care, retirement plan, included in tax ).
I may only be a few years out of university, but over the last couple years I've learned that what I studied in university falls into three categories:

1) Incredibly out of date.

2) Far newer than what my job requires me to use.

3) Existing in some ideal world that matches nothing anyone actually created or uses in industry.

And yes, it's possible (and not rare at all) for both (1) AND (2) to be true at the same time.
> Seems to me like an airplane on the ground is a lot safer to stand in than a fully packed bus in a busy city. Any ideas?

A plane is designed to fly sitting passengers, a city bus is designed to drive standing passengers. A driving plane has very poor suspension - it's bumpy and the bumps are leveraged by the tall landing gears. Inside the plane, people won't just be standing, they will be unpacking the overhead lockers, handing around heavy luggage over people's heads. Busses don't have overhead storage for heavy items, probably for this exact reason.
I'm just beginning my reading of this 'paper' but so far I'm not convinced. From what I can tell, they compared Google's pages with and without Yelp reviews, but Yelp won't give this data to Google. Therefore it's complete bullshit, they're comparing a hypothetical product that cannot exist and arguing that Google is being anticompetitive because users prefer this nonexistant product.
What are the benefits to giving to Open Philanthropy Project / GiveWell / Giving What We Can Trust over donating directly to the charities they recommend?

The recommended charities don't change often, so it wouldn't be much of a time saving. And it puts a lot of power into the trusts' hands.
They are a limited model. Namespaces do allow you to pass access tokens between processes, but these are limited as mostly you can only be in one namespace at a time, so they are not usefully compositional. You can never be in more than one cgroup of the same type, and you cannot pass your capabilties on.

Capsicum is a real capabilities system, as is being discussed in the article, where capabilities are attached to file descriptors. So for example process descriptors in Capsicum are file descriptors that refer to a process, if that design was pervasive you do not need process namespaces as you can only see processes you have a descriptor for.
Girlfriend has pretty deep mental health issues, she got one of these for Christmas and it works really well as a coping technique. Takes her mind off of whatever she's obsessing about and instead she gets lost in colouring. Highly recommended as a distraction to an overthinking brain.
Yes, that's why the economy was in such great shape when he left office.
Google's self-driving cars are accident-prone – but it may not be their fault
As a side note, is there any way to view a graph of open PRs over time? It could be a good test of the health of a repo.
I'm having trouble finding a detailed explanation of how this works and how it handles concurrency. http://www3.nd.edu/~dthain/papers/chirp-jgc.pdf seems to be the paper, but it has only a small section on this important subject.
New Technology by Samsung to Double the Smartphones Battery Life
I can recommend Fedora and Arch... but "good" is a pretty individual thing. I measure by ease of maintenance and breadth of repository. Some people measure by WM/DE which is strange to me because you can replace that in about 30 seconds with one command.
The Prime Meridian looks very popular.
Assuming your company is not a startup using fancy C-titles early, it's not a requirement for a CTO to be a coder but it helps to understand the complexity of problems and gain trust and respect from direct reports if your CTO used to be a coder.
If I want to buy ebooks, games, music, movies etc. online, it's extremely difficult to find a company that actually respects my privacy (as opposed to just saying they respect my privacy - plenty of those). I wonder, if I bought myself one of those Visa giftcards, and just made up a fake name and address, would that be any problem? Would I be breaking any laws or anything?
Grexit and the Morning After
Will Grexit Force Bitcoin Price to Spike Like the 2013 Cyprus Collapse?
I just look at the "pulse" section on github. We also have an internal tool which we query for more complex queries (contributor retention across projects, things like that).
There is no correlation between austerity and debt reduction: http://equitablegrowth.org/2015/06/28/must-read-christian-od...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9796611

In other words, austerity doesn't work.
In 1900 A coke was 5c, average income $438 per year = 8760 cokes per year.

So in coke terms wages shot up 1900 to 1950. Or coke was just cheap then.

http://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/his/e_prices1.htm
>Zero minimum wage gives 0% unemployment and creates millions of jobs.

Sweden has a quite high unemloyment, especially for young people, and Sweden has no minimum wage.
Thanks for this link - I found it very interesting!
Bricklaying is a semi-skilled job, it's not just a matter of placing bricks on top of each other. You need to have a perfect mix of cement and the corner pieces need to be custom fit, usually by breaking full blocks down to side with a lump hammer. All of this detail is glossed over so as usual I'm hesitant about saying that this is much more than a pick and place robot.
You're welcome, it's funny what sticks in one's head after nearly a decade.
In addition to the safety concerns: Larger planes, and "larger" passengers.
I had been using Republic Wireless for the past year. It also tries to keep you in WiFi (at all costs). This is in return for a flat rate of $30/mo with unlimited text, talk, and data. (Data gets limited after 5 gigs though.)

This was a great service when I was in college. I stayed on one network the whole time. But after I left school and started The Commute things got hairy.

I switched to Google Fi about a week ago and the service is already much more incredible. But this is no surprise, I pay a lot more for it too.

If you are debating between services like Google Fi and Republic Wireless, I would suggest Republic Wireless is a better choice for someone who doesn't do a lot of daily travel. It's cheaper and definitely good enough, fairly seamless and whatnot. However, for anyone doing any nontrivial amount of daily travel, I highly recommend going with a provider not /hell-bent/ on getting you on WiFi. Google Fi seems to be a good alt.
Wait, we're supposed to have excuses for that? I've just been doing it for fun.
I founded a startup creating an innovative media for mobile that, while probably not "immune" to fraud, had very little space for, and provided accurate and real measurements on engagement and content exposure.

While trying to sell this, I heard multiple advertisers say that they only buy TV ads because it would look "weird" with their hierarchy if the company is not on prime time TV, despite knowing that TV ads are hardly profitable and nearly impossible to measure. The same thing goes for billboards on roads with heavy traffic in the capital.
Actually, what they claim to have is a

"libertarian attitude toward personal responsibility"

Not exactly the same thing.
It seems to be available in Ubuntu LTS as "coop-computing-tools". Nice.
Warren Buffet said:

It has always been a fantasy of mine that a boatload of 25 brokers would be shipwrecked and struggle to an island from which there could be no rescue. Faced with developing an economy that would maximize their consumption and pleasure, would they, I wonder assign 20 of their number to produce food, clothing, shelter, etc., while setting 5 to trading options endlessly on the future output of the 20?
Technically true, but the combination of a generous welfare system and powerful unions means that there is a de facto minimum wage.

No one is going to work for much less than they'll get from unemployment, and just try starting a company paying less than the union collective bargaining rates and see how long it takes before a bunch of thugs harass you out of business.
You could add an extra second by having the previous 1,000 seconds (16 hours) last 1,001ms each, say. Then the scope for confusion is more likely to be limited to software that reads human time, and counts milliseconds, and requires the two to match over time. Probably a much smaller percentage of all programs.

When you know what the problems are likely to be, you can of course pick the approach that's least likely to cause you problems! But if you're going in blind, then this seems like it could be a safer way to do it.

(You might use some kind of a curve to do this, so it's smooth like. I imagine this is what the comment about weighting refers to.)
That's actually a good case. When a company goes bust your personal data could end up anywhere.
How These 5 Startups Raised Their First Round of Funding
> If I have a model that doesn't work in smaller AND larger (whatever that means) contexts, it's a bad model.

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.

Second, we use different models all the time, pretty much everywhere. So in engineering small local systems you would use classical mechanics. In physics, not. There are similar examples in computer science.
Hello! I'm the author. I just needed to use "alleged" a lot because I was citing second-hand -- though credible -- information and did not do any independent research. I could not verify anything myself, so I needed to make sure that the point was clear.
Hello, everyone!

I'm the author -- and I'm completely amazed. Thanks to whoever submitted this, and thanks to all the upvoters! I'll be going through the comments and responding when necessary. Feel free to AMA!

Oh, there seem to be a lot of interesting stories here from people who worked for ad companies and related firms. Feel free to post your comments on the original Moz article -- I'm sure the community there would love to hear about it.
Perhaps http://elm-lang.org ?
That sounds like it contradicts with the fact that we've had dozens of leap seconds in the last several decades. Explain?
Wouldn't capsicum then allow to effectively implement different user models than root/user? Where the login process would be responsible to just drop capabilities after switching the uid?
A lovely map, but the scale could be calibrated slightly better - 5% growth is coloured the same as 25% growth, it would have been interesting to see areas of extremely high growth highlighted as well.
Nah, don't think so. Keynes might not have been right about everything but I think some of his ideas are the closest we've come to what could be described as a 'just' economy.

Indeed if we're going down this road then the broken window fallacy contains a contradiction (and so must be false) because it assumes full employment to reach its conclusion. Something that, should it be true, would probably cause the problem we're trying to solve to disappear.
That leap second pinned loads of Linux boxes at 100% CPU. I'm a customer of Hetzner, they sent out a mail asking the customers to check their machines as their power draw increased by a megawatt in an instant.
This was so interesting, and probably a great foreshadowing of what is to come.

> It was always suspected that the government was behind the printing of those fake papers as a means of ending that

This was one of the more ruthless and unexpected things about your post. I would have suspected the rise of a barter economy, obv currency devaluation and a run on the banks, but I didn't think the government would undermine a small barter economy.

To contrast with Greece, they just do not have the resources Arg. does. This was insightful, thanks again.
re: your parenthetical, this Planet Money episode (http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-f...), describes Brazil's real, which was introduced as essentially that - an inflation-proof currency, replacing the cruzeiro, which was destroyed by hyper-inflation.
there is no way HFT is less important than traffic lights
one keeps the economy of the world flowing, the other
stops people getting driving tickets.

The New York Stock Exchange is closed for 17.5 hours each day, and the entire weekend. I doubt the world economy is going to stop flowing if they're closed for an extra second - or even if a few people take their systems offline for several minutes to restart them.
50ish on my Nexus 4, still very impressive.
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Whether Yelp supplies data to Google is irrelevant. The point of the study was to show that users don't like ads masquerading as organic content and neither do competitors. Therefore if Google is the only winner then their motives are anticompetitive.

The logic is sound. Yelp doesn't need to be complicit in it to disagree with it. Nor frankly should they. It's a dumb feature that actually makes Google less functional.
Why freelancers should avoid job boards
Most of them have been knocked down they are keeping a few as listed buildings in Birmingham.
Working Lego Printer – Printing the Lego Logo
Prior discussion of same data (statically presented) from last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9771997
Hello, I'm the author of the Moz piece and just wanted to respond. (No, I do not work for them -- I'm just a contributor.)

1. They do not sell marketing services. They sell marketing software.

2. I pitched my article to them, and they were very skeptical about the topic at first. Obviously, the issue can come across as very conspiratorial and sensational. But once I showed them all of my credible sources and citations and explained everything in-depth, they decided to publish the piece.

3. Again, I cannot speak for Moz, but my sense is that they will publish anything that they perceive to be very helpful and interesting for their audience -- digital marketers. They more that they do so, the more that their brand will grow among their audience and the more that people will visit the website to read the good articles.
But it is a high profile study :)
The Kickstarter games that made it to console
Fred had a working replica coal mine in his back garden. Here is the full programme on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcH4nY43msk
That's how Google does that: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/05/Got-a-second... . The drawback is that their clock will be "wrong" for most of that day.
The Earth's rotation speed can be influenced by many things and can both be sped up and slowed down. For example, the Sumatran earthquake in 2004 shortened the rotation period by 3 milliseconds. In theory negative leap seconds could be added but none have yet.

This gives rise to problems for computers since they are irregular and unpredictable, and can't be made part of algorithms. In extent, to properly calculate a precise time difference (actual elapsed time) over several years, you actually need to consult a table of added, historic leap seconds and take these into account too...
Could definitely be a useful, regular, monthly post.

It seems like there are a lot of interesting projects out there.
I get 6 figures (contracting, and this one is only just) and London is still too expensive for me.
Im in the UK, and while I think this is a cool idea we already have BT Openzone/Fon available in a lot of places (It works in a similar way, except its free for anyone who is also on BT). We also have free 'Cloud' WiFi in lots of public places. I'm sure you'll have some success in areas without lots of WiFi hotspots, but you may struggle over here.
Or maybe just read too many of Mr Brown's speeches...

"My vision is of a Britain where there is not stop go and boom bust but economic stability" April 2000 British Chamber of Commerce speech.

FWIW I don't believe Gordon Brown was primarily responsible for the crash. But neither do I believe he was primarily responsible for the good years.

As to visionary. Well, let's say somewhat less than 20/20.
More like: if they haven't found it, it's not for a lack of trying.
Thank you so much for this excellent description!
Any google code that explicitly mentions another google product in their search engine rankings algorithm would be evidence of anti-competitive behaviour. Absent that I don't see how you could make an outside observation stating that google engages in anti-competitive practices. There may be a lot of smoke but that's the only thing that I would call a fire. So if they want to prove this google will have to open up their search engine code base, which I really don't see happening.
Rust, the Language for Growth
I always use a VPN. However, i think it's quite possible to make an on-the-fly ID of a potential customer, that's valid, say, for a few hours. I know that cookies weren't involved here, because i clear everything all the time. Nevertheless, it's still possible from a browser fingerprint and the fact that the same flight is being queried. :-/
Number of people working on the issue times the hours they worked since it happened? Most places have hours administration right?
> But yes, even better protection would be never collecting data you don't need in the first place.

"Germans even have a word for it: Datensparsamkeit, the principle of only collecting the bare minimum of data necessary." (http://qz.com/390988/germans-are-paranoid-that-the-us-is-spy...)

Since the concept was established in 1983 by the constitutional court, there's probably a body of knowledge around that, just in the 'wrong' language and hence less known in the anglo-saxon culture.
Someone who doesn't like reality-based economics downvoted you. +1 to compensate.
Hard to call it "new", as it was launched five years ago.
I was on this service for some time as a tester. Because I'm a dabbling minimalist and frugal enthusiast, I got my cellular data down below 250MB per month. As far as I can tell, there isn't a plan out there that can beat $22.50 per month.

Imo the big downfall is the requirement to use a Nexus 6. It's not a bad phone, but it also isn't terribly good. I recently went back to iPhone and joined another slightly higher but still low-cost carrier.
Startling Visualization of US Gun Deaths
A blog post explaining this visualization here: http://www.periscopic.com/news/2013/02/thoughts-on-visualizi...

I am also interested in the code behind the visualization. Anyone out there have any ideas?