skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So just print more money?

Right. And hand it directly to consumers.

> I just tried to explain to you that printing money without producing more goods/services just dilutes your purchasing power.

Yes. But then you went on to say:

> The US GDP has been bumping barely above 0 over the past several years, which means we are not producing more. A lot of reasons for it, but one of them is lack of consumption caused by excessive debt of consumers, who are flat out broke (and heavily in debt).

If we hand real money to consumers instead of handing them credit and plunging them into debt, why wouldn't that address the lack of consumption problem?

> The pain caused by _moderate_ inflation is easier to hoist on unsuspecting public, so inflation is typically chosen over bankruptcy

I'm skeptical that printing money and handing it to consumers would cause any amount of inflation. If we assume a downward-sloping long-term aggregate supply curve -- and the long term gets shorter the more scalable our businesses are -- then the more stuff we produce, the cheaper that stuff gets. Right?

Besides, if we do see inflation rates that are higher than what we want, the government has other levers it can use to address that.

1. Open market operations. The fed sells treasury securities back to the open market thereby removing dollars from the supply.

2. Increase bank reserve requirements to discourage bank lending. This reduces the amount of credit (and therefore debt) and can help reduce future credit crises.

3. Tax consumption/spending. Taxation is fine as a means to reduce the money supply and influence consumer behavior. But I'm not sure how useful it is to view taxation as a way to fund the government. Why not spend as needed and tax as needed without worrying about balancing the two?

> Greece is out of luck

Yup.
Does there exist a solution that doesn't rely on undefined repeat behavior? I finally gave in and looked at the answers, but it looks like they all use `repeat M N>M`, or `repeat M N>currentOutputSize`.

I kinda assumed that the interpreter was just there for convenience, and that its implementation of undefined behavior was irrelevant. But is the interpreter's implementation critical to the solution?

(Then again, I'm now reading the examples and realizing that the implementation of undefined behavior was front-and-center, so that's kinda my bad xP)
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That should give pause to people who attempt to shame others to enact social change.
Amen brotha. That is the difference between employees and entrepreneurs when the bubble bursts.
Stick it out. Make a contribution. And if not, what industry in tech are you in.. I want that signing bonus.
assumong 330m/s for the speed of sound, you can get 1 inch of precision at a sample rate of just under 13kHz. With 3 channels of 12-bit accelerometer data that's ~ 58kBps with no compression which doesn't seem too out there. Of course you can get a pretty close approximation at much lower sample rates (/2, /4, /8, /16) using band-limited interpolation
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A big "problem" is that things are too easy actually. Slap together an MVP based on an obvious idea, execute it half-assedly on the ragged edge of competence, expand with VC money, make tens of millions at the lower end, maybe billions. Because so much of industry, the economy, etc. still hasn't been hit fully by the disruption of 21st century technology. Uber being the perfect example, disrupting an industry that had barely changed much in a century. There are countless similar examples. In SV you can snowclone your way to success because there's just so damned much low hanging fruit that hasn't been executed on hardly at all. The same's been true in the mobile space for years as well. Hardware wise, just rev the display and the proc. and you're golden, as long as the device wasn't garbage you could demand a huge profit margin (amplified further by the "subsidized" handset purchase model).

Easy money makes for laziness. When google hit big they entered a tight market during an economic downturn. That's also when amazon started hitting its stride. But there is so much potential right now for easy money in tech that I suspect it'll be a long time, if ever, before economic pressures force a serious drive for innovation.

But there's also a huge need for real innovation. Mobile devices are still largely consumption rather than creation devices, for example, though they have no shortage of capability. And there's a huge need for fundamental research into programming languages, operating systems, and especially software development as an activity (what works, what doesn't, in which situations and circumstances, and why, etc.) Consider, for example, how utterly lacking in universally acknowledge best practices is the development of firmware with potential safety implications.
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Less than well known: you can also use the timestamp of an ICMP packet to set your clock. The "clockdiff" command, for example, can be used to find the difference.
So far at nilenso we've seen it swing both ways but the difference is largely a factor of age. Young(er) people are just not that interested in a co-operative corporate structure. The advantages (and disadvantages) of a co-op are all intellectual to someone graduating from University and the majority of these folks are more focused on their own career and personal finances than their employer's legal entity. I remember when I was 21 -- I didn't care whether I worked for government, a private corporation, a public corporation, or a non-profit. All I cared about was salary and an interesting technology problem to solve.

When it comes to lateral hires, there is more interest from people who have been burned. If someone has suffered from the opaque nature of a large corporation or suffered an opportunity due to an unfair equity structure their eyes light up when they hear about us.

The lack of interest seen in lateral hires comes from a pretty narrow segment: software developers who (in the present economy) want to be entrepreneurs. The "I HATE HIPPIES" attitude generally comes attached to an individual capitalist motivation to be on top. This is our biggest hiring/retention challenge, because these are precisely the people we want on board. We have plenty of entrepreneurial folks in the office but we've also lost some because a co-op will never let a person "be on top".

As for a "segment of the population", I don't think we've felt restricted there (though we of course suffer from our own bias). We've had a surprisingly wide set of demographics for a tiny Bangalore-based consultancy. :)

The huge advantage to hiring in a co-op is agency. The company is inherently democratic and change largely comes from individuals who exact it. There are a number of concrete examples we can give potential hires: moving most of the business to Clojure, running Haskell classes, everyone buying hardware for themselves, speaking at conferences, installing a garden and composter on our rooftop patio... everyone is attracted to a company where they can make the changes they really want to make.
Documents always compile: it's not enough to define your code review process
If you can't explain it, it's probably not such a great idea as you think it is.
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Come to think of it, I don't really think kickstarter or indiegogo provide any sort of broadening of possible audience, as you put it. I mean, I don't think people scan kickstarter's front page looking for things to throw their money at, its generally up to the project managers to publicize, and then kickstarter provides the communication infrastructure once you have that audience pulled in.
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Inalienable rights. Not civil rights.

Inalienable rights are human rights - which extend (at least in theory) to foreigners.

I read the story.

But anyway if the Supreme Court ruling holds from Zimmerman it would apply equally well to everything in the article. Of course the Zimmerman case was about foreign exports as well.

Try to be charitable.
> It's things like this that make it really obvious that we're primates, hardwired for status.

Or maybe it's an indicator that our incredibly hierarchical society inflicts psychological violence on people because it holds them to conform to impossible shapes in order to fit into the system.

I have a lot of contempt for any abductive reasoning that explains Western Capitalist society with unobservable primordial determinism. Anthropologists and primatologists both observe numerous counterexamples to the idea that we are hardwired to vie for status.

What is true is that we would like to be valued as worthy by the people we invest a lot of importance in. Shame and humiliation is not the absence of status, it is a response to a positive situation of being socially attacked in some way. In a society where status is governed by intricate, interlocking, alienating systems of rules and violence, no one but the very few priviliged (and even then) can escape feeling shamed by their social surroundings.
Here's a portable version for those of us who do not use Bash:

a=$(printf '\xb%-47.s' \
|nc -uw1 ntp.metas.ch 123 \
|exec xxd -s40 -l4 -p)
b=$(printf %d\\n 0x"$a")
c=$((b-2208988800))
date -r$c

There is a way to do the xxd step using original netcat.
Included with nc was a short program called nc-data.
It converts from btoa and atob for shoveling data to nc.

Slower than xxd but still useful. It also shows octal, decimal and byte number.

Another exercise might be a one-liner for the TAICLOCK protocol: http://cr.yp.to/proto/taiclock.txt (Alternative to SNTP with smaller packets and support for leap seconds.)
> ou tell them that types are for fallible people, like we all are. They help us reason and catch our mistakes, because while software has grown more complex, we’re still stuck with the same old brains. If they tell you they don’t need types to catch errors, tell them that they must be much smarter than you, because you sure do. But even more, tell them that all the brainpower they use to not need types could turn into even greater, bigger, and more creative ideas if they let the compiler help them.

So true, type driven development allows me to solve problems and feel out a design space and leads me to an answer.

> This is not a language for clever people, although there are clever things that can be done in this language.

Totally agree.
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Most co-ops (including ours) are run by a representative democracy. The difference between a co-op's hierarchy and that of a privately-owned corporation is that the co-op gives you transparency into the decision-making process.

I've never felt I've known whether the decision makers at my previous employers valued solid/logical argument... because I've never been party to the top level decision-making process unless I was a part of it.
There is a funny (somewhat related) thing I've been trying recently, which is just using pouchdb to hold the application state and using pouchdb change listeners to propagate database content straight into views.

For smallish amounts of content, re-querying the entire dataset out of pouch every time a change happens works fine.

For tables with e.g. several thousand rows, I started to need an explicit cache however, and update it with only the changed documents.
That makes a lot of sense, thanks for the reply!

Still, I find it kinda weird that Google feel the need to reinvent the wheel and redesign the whole site from scratch, when the old Google+ Photos is generally considered to be very well built. Why can't you just take Google+ Photos front end and build it up from there?
They were visa gift cards. He could use them like a regular credit card.
on HN maybe. Nowhere else.
For much more on Lisp of all varieties (including Common Lisp), see http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/ .
There are various methods that you can use to unload the cards back to either your checking account or directly to the credit card you used to buy them.

Buy gift card with credit card -> Unload gift card back to credit card. Repeat. Send the same $5000 around in a circle (less fees). I'm simplifying of course.

Bluebird, a prepaid debit card from Amex and Walmart, has been one of the big methods for some time but I'm not sure if that one is still viable.
How does that cause grief? That's called "context" and language has it.

Isomorphic here is being used in the already existing biological sense. Just because the HN commenting user base is largely ignorant of non-mathmatics terms (a problem) doesn't make it wrong.

In fact it's very applicable. Fitting pretty much perfectly with what is going on.
Flying to Bay Area is still recommended. The odd for an application out of U.S is low.
Fun fact about Yodlee: if you link a bank account to a PayPal account, by the very act of doing so, you grant Yodlee and PayPal power of attorney

Makes ya think about the fine print with sites that deal with bank account details.
At the top of the page

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This is the expanded version of a talk I gave on September 9, 2014, at the HOW Interactive Design conference in Washington, DC.
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It's fun. Unless we're going to reduce everything we spend time on down to utilitarian justifications, that's all the reason I need.
I've tried it but it's not the same feeling. However, VS Code is perfect for quick file edit.
Hey there,

if anyone wants some more background on all the negative side-effects of the current regulation, I wrote a lengthy blog post on the problems with the current phrasing of the Wassenaar amendments here:

http://addxorrol.blogspot.ch/2015/05/why-changes-to-wassenaa...

(Background: I am a security researcher who designed industry-standard patch analysis algorithms / software, built algorithms & a startup for malware reverse engineering that was acquired by Google, pioneered several exploitation techniques, and worked heavily on the recent Rowhammer vulnerability)
What about the claim about the actual cause of the Apollo 11 program alarms? What about the involvement of Hal Laning in the actual design and implementation of the real-time executive casually attributed to Hamilton in this article and some of the others on the web?
I get emails from companies who upload their product photos to Picasa and then use the share feature to spam. No matter how many I marked as spam, they still make it through unhindered.
I couldn't make it through. I was thinking about Bloom filters just earlier today and was actually looking forward to reading about them. I'll try again tomorrow with a different author.
At the standard (rather than saver) award price. United knows almost nobody is actually redeeming that, it's just a marketing ploy.
You're welcome. I actually didn't pay much attention to the welcome message when I signed up for HN and I just (re-)discovered it.
This is great. I keep telling people that Patreon is awesome. It is nice to have somewhere to send them instead of just saying "lots of people are making good money on Patreon."
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Moving to an area specifically for your startup, even if you were told to do so, can really show your dedication (not just by saying it). You are proving that you are willing to do whatever it takes. I've known many who have moved for the 3 months @ YC and then have rightfully moved back... I don't think any of them have regretted. YC may be looking for someone who can make it work, if there is a will, there is a way. THAT is what they are looking for.

There is a method to the madness. They have proven it.
Wow - I've seen smaller versions of that photo amid all the New Horizons releases, but I never noticed that you can actually see the volcano erupting on Io!
That's an interesting idea, replace the burners in a scam jet with a electo-magnetic plasma doohickey. Basically an electric ram-jet.

Edit: My dad mentioned in school doing some scut work for a group designing an external combustion engine. Use the shock waves off the body to compress air, add fuel, zoom. Not sure if you could make that work with with an external heat source.

Side note: My understanding why people want to use hydrogen is it's a light particle, making it easy to accelerate it to high speeds. The higher exhaust velocity the better the ratio of payload to fuel becomes.
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Greece could boost the economy by creating a mass market Bitcoin experiment
Princeton University Scientists discover Wyle Fermion
I believe that two things will happen in the 21st century that will have outsized impacts on the economy, both of which are software related.

One is that we'll finally get a leg up on software development. This is more likely to be the result of lots of incremental improvements. We've made huge strides since the '60s, we have tons and tons of tools that we've built and use, but still at the end of the day software development is a crude endeavor. More often than not projects end up with "big ball of mud" architectures. And we lack the fundamental models and terminology to even talk about software design and architecture at a reasonable level most of the time. We have all these tools like TDD, static analysis, and so on, all of which is more or less bolted on to our other tools. And I can't help but be reminded of both the pre-structured programming era and the pre-OOP era, when there was a transition from a kludgy mess of useful components bolted on to existing paradigms that congealed into a cohesive design that became a universal standard. In, say, 30 years programmers will not only have better tools they'll have better techniques, better standards, and better models. They'd be able to look at the software projects of today and go "oh, well, here you have a classic example of X common architecture design anti-pattern, which you can fix using techniques U, V, W, and Z" and so forth. I think that alone will unleash a tremendous amount of potential in the use of computing systems and result in an inflection point in the effectiveness of software development projects.

The other is fully automated and configurable manufacturing. We have almost all of the necessary components in place for that today, but nobody's put them all together yet, but it'll be transformative. Imagine being able to upload a handful of files to some service somewhere and then those files would be used to produce PCBs; mechanical components and structures built from various materials (plastics, metals, composites, etc.) using 3D printing, injection molding, CNC milling, etc; and then having all of that assembled into a final device then shipped off to you. Imagine how that changes the economy we have today, how much it could accelerate innovation, how it could result in un-serviced economic niches finding satisfaction, and so on. Think about how many thousands of kickstarter projects would translate into simply designing something then making use of such a service. Also imagine how much things change if you can have a completely automated factory pumping out parts and goods 24/7. Imagine if you could bootstrap an industrial economy anywhere on Earth, or off, with a few shipping containers of machine tools set up the right way. And then you get into idea like self-replicating factories. Think about how all of this changes the economy into something that we would scarcely recognize today? What if manufacturing an automobile in 2100 was economically equivalent to manufacturing a diecast hot wheels toy today?
Good God. Windows Server 2003 is still under support? Why are people still running that?

I'm gonna assume this affects XP as well -- yet another reason to just ban that OS from all networks forever.
I'd expect similar performance but less fragmentation?, less memory used by the process if you aren't regularly calling MallocExtension::instance()->ReleaseFreeMemory() as a tcmalloc user.

The first answer at https://www.quora.com/Is-tcmalloc-stable-enough-for-producti... (by Keith Adams) is completely consistent with what I've seen. Rust went with jemalloc for some reason too.
>...but Officer Morale (from the protests / etc. etc.) is so low that none of the officers wanted to do anything about it.

In any other organization, people who didn't do their jobs would be disciplined or fired. Why are the police different?
As soon as I saw the simple design I was hoping that the design would 'improve' as I scrolled down the page.
Maybe it was poorly phrased. Here's another attempt.

Any degree of central planning is harmful to us because: 1) it always represents an opportunity cost compared to people making choices themselves, and 2) the choices made by central planners are not made to benefit the masses (because otherwise they'd just let people make the choices themselves)

What would be the point of being in a position to make decisions for other people, if you were just going to do your best to benefit others, instead of yourself?
Men who harass women online are quite literally losers, new study finds
I'm not sure about the US, but in India this would be huge. The early stage ecosystem is fairly broken, but the startup scene is crazy hot - everyone is doing a startup and the talent pool is huge.

Early stage investors put around 20-50K USD and take 30% of equity (yes equity - convertible notes are shunned in India).

A USD 12K grant and the YC cred, would go a long way in rebalancing the ecosystem.

I personally believe that early stage pre-prototype money is so easy in the US... or the Kickstarter ecosystem is so effective (cant do a kickstarter from India).... or the university aided startup infrastructure is so mature, that this would not materially impact as many people as it would in India/Asia.
I bought one for our baby's room, but when I decided I wanted one for myself, I hit on a much cheaper solution; I just turn my clock radio to an empty station and crank the volume.
>...What recruiting pool do you imagine we get new officers from?

There are plenty of people who would be very grateful for the kinds of money police officers can make in a typical city. I seriously don't think there would be a problem.
This is very cool. But unfortunately I'm doing a side project game with a friend. I'l join if I get more time. I love the logo. Very original.
You don't buy food? Furniture? Car? Bicycle? Computer?
This is the first disclosure on the S1's CPU and several other things, for those interested.
I have thought about and battled with impostor syndrome a LOT! So much so that I wrote this incredibly long article about it. I hope it's useful.

http://www.geekmindfitness.com/mindfulness/how-mindfulness-m...
However you might want to define "central planning", there's a massive difference. The business people are using their own money, but central planners use everyone else's.
I like the UI for G+, especially for the posts and comments. I don't like the design of the menus though. On a comparative scale, Facebook is ugly and mostly cluttered.

Tying up all Google services together with G+ really put me off the entire platform, and the reversal in some parts may be a bit too late. On the privacy front, I also trust Google a bit more than I trust Facebook.
That is definitely inaccurate. We have asgs that scale based on cpu load and custom cloudwatch metrics.

With ecs I can imagine a metric that keeps track of the number of tasks and hosts, or ports used or something. I think asg is the perfect tool to use to auto scale ecs clusters.
It still begs the question why monads specifically have this problem, and so many more concepts don't.
L’autonomie des voitures électriques appelée à évoluer?