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Inflation did not remain low, it just went into the capital markets and luxury goods first because all the new money (~$3T so far) was effectively handed to big finance to buy their junk bonds above market prices. The wealthy can only consume so much in basic consumer goods (steaks, coffee, paper towels, soap, etc) so we wouldn't expect consumer prices to increase immediately, but we can expect them to increase inevitably. Had the newly printed money been sent to each citizen instead, consumer prices would have risen almost immediately.
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FFmpeg has some thoughts on this...

Q: Does FFmpeg use patented algorithms?
A: We do not know, we are not lawyers so we are not qualified to answer this. Also we have never read patents to implement any part of FFmpeg, so even if we were qualified we could not answer it as we do not know what is patented. Furthermore the sheer number of software patents makes it impossible to read them all so no one (lawyer or not) could answer such a question with a definite no, those who do lie. What we do know is that various standards FFmpeg supports contain vague hints that any conforming implementation might be subject to some patent rights in some jurisdictions

Source: https://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html
You didn't read the specs on the Sage Tea Maker; it has a motorized infusion basket and can be programmed for different infusion times, whether to immerse once or repeatedly dip, and different brew temperatures. Not just a "fancy hot water pot".
> Rewriting any game in javascript is imho a great idea.

How do you deal with the fact that the only native numeric type is a 64bit float? Space Engineers currently uses floats as the basis for their world coordinate system. Things get really bumpy when you get far away from [0,0,0].
Peter Grogono: "The Evolution of Programming Languages"

http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~grogono/CourseNotes/epl.pdf
There was no report of anyone being harmed -- of any violence occurring. The police escalated the situation to a violent confrontation.

Fail.

P.S. If they had raised a sudden firefight, where might some of the resulting rounds traveled and impacted, particularly in what might be a fairly population-dense apartment building(s) setting?
It's mentioned in the article; even linked from the words "threaten to Taser a woman": http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/21...
I have a CS degree and I prefer immutable data structures and pure functions. If anything, I believe it might be the other way around, since holding a CS degree means you've had a FP course and you're more aware of the implications of multithreading, immutability and side effects. "Self taught"s are more likely to have an education from online tutorials, which are fairly shallow.
Author here: Feature request noted, although the one-logfile-per-day for me doesn't seem too unwieldy. I have not seen webserver logs stored in the way you describe, is that a common practice (each month's worth in its own separate directory?)
You have to have strength to weight ratio far greater than the average westerner (remember that statistically half the population is female) to make serious use of pull up bars and rings.
Not to downplay the skill involved in lifeguarding, but the camera position/focal length in most of those videos offers an absolutely terrible view of those swimming compared to what the lifeguard can see.

In my experience, the challenge of lifeguarding is mostly a mental battle to stay focused. It's not that hard to spot people who are drowning if you're paying attention to what's going on, especially if you know what IDR actually looks like, as detailed in the OP. It's also pretty easy to pick out the people who are most likely to need to be saved just by watching them move in the water. But again, being able to pick up on that requires focus.
Yet another instance of "worse" is better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
"Should we do this or that? I don't know, let's make it an option in the settings!"

That's not how it happens.

It happens like this:

Person 1 creates something.

Person 2 wants slightly different behavior and provides a patch to make it configurable.

And you know what? Its not a bad thing.

My KDE is heavily configured and you have no idea how productive it is for me. I love it :)
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[0] [PDF] https://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/bangert-nail-la...

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I think there is a fallacy in being a "tech co-founder".

If your idea is simple enough that you can package it and sell it (because you are adding some type of value), then you could just hack away at some pre-existing solution and live with that.

Granted, it may not be very exciting to say you built a decent 7-figure business by using some bland CMS and excel spreadsheets, but who cares at the end of the day?

For every unicorn that comes out of Silicon Valley, there are thousands of smaller enterprises making due with some pre-existing solution that they modify and resell.

Perhaps as a solo founder, YC is not for you.

I think if analysis were to be done on founder happiness, non-investor lifestyle founders would say that they are generally more happy than a founder who has just raised $600 million and lives on lifes edge with a "sink or sail the world" mantra that his investors have placed om him.

Try forging your own path without their $12,000 and "fellowship" see where that takes you (there will always be next year).
Holy cow, thank you so much for the lectures!
You say less regulation means higher prices ?!

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market

'A free market is a market system in which the prices for goods and services are set freely by consent between vendors and consumers, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority.'

So if supply is higher then demand, for example a kind of unlimited number of taxi's, then the prices go down.

I think in theory with easy entrance to a market the prices can drop as low as variable costs. But I cannot find a reference to that at the moment.
I recall recently the Norweigians suggestion when all cash Is electronic they could influence the economic situation by mandating -ve interest rates.

And yes that is as Orwellian as it sounds
Fantasic article! Lots of interesting thoughts.

Rather lengthy, though, isn't it? I feel that, lurking somewhere in this enormous stream-of-consciousness essay, there is a post about 1/2 the length that could become a truly classic blog post.
I wished something like distributed git for the masses or torrent distribution would replace services that are a single point a failure such as sourceforge or self-hosting.

Maybe even some kind of `Dropbox distributing' ?

Maybe Mega and other file hosting and sharing services are up to the job but most have a very suspicious kind of aura. I remember chasing the web after some rapidshare hosted android rom (they still do that btw) and it's a pain to deal with.

But that's just a technological POV, I don't know what kind of entity should/could distribute apps. FOSSHUB ?
A nice discussion on the hardness of finding regular expressions from examples: http://cstheory.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/on-learning-regular... . One interesting point: A good such system could easily break RSA.
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I just took a quick look, but it looks like a great article, might be worth doing a HN submission?
> enough white people regard black people being shot by the police as a positive outcome rather than a negative one

Could you elaborate? "Enough" for what?
You're right but I was unaware of the fork. I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my workstation, ran ffmpeg to do something and got a message which said:

"This program is not developed anymore and is only provided for compatibility. Use avconv instead."

Five minutes googling and I realized there had been a (somewhat acrimonious) fork. So my interpretation was quite natural: the libav developers and/or the Ubuntu maintainers were being dicks to the original project. If they really wanted to be clear they could have said something like:

"This is a deprecated wrapper around avconv, part of libav. It is not part of the ffmpeg project. See <url> for details."

How hard would that have been?
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For sure our police more often than necessary become very aggro. It may have to do with knowing anyone could own and possess either legal or illegal firearms.

We need to reconcile gun ownership with the violence it can allow and our desire for less aggro policing.

That said police most definitely need to be trained to deescallate rather than automatically double down.

We need to seriously emphasize de-escalation.
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This may be downvoted but she was stopped for not signaling but arrested (according to police statements anyway) for assaulting.

This may or not be true but we should reserve judgement I feel while the investigation is proceeding.
The idea that most people just talk a lot and don't take action has been rediscovered for thousand of years. They should cover that in the Introduction.

It's #52 on this enjoyable list.

"That was not "your idea" unless you shipped something, otherwise I invented Facebook, Nest and Oculus Rift"

http://www.talkingquickly.co.uk/2015/04/what-id-tell-myself-...

Just keep telling yourself you don't have an idea until you ship.
Here's what I don't get with Monads, why I've not felt the need to create a Monad-like system in my (non Haskell) code.

The 'world' is carried on the back of one parameter, right? So if I want to run a function taking two parameters in a particular 'world', which parameter is the Monad? If both of them are, what if they disagree which world is used?

Perhaps I haven't reached the fabled epiphany of monads, but they seem to be just implicit state attached to a single value, and only a single value. I'm not sure what this implicit stuff is better than a system where you are explicitly passing the 'world' that each function needs.

Why is

roll(dieSides: Random<int>) -> int

Clearer than

roll(random: Random, int dieSides) -> int

I get the passing of a world out of a function with a single value

getNumber() -> IO<int>

or using the extra implicit state to represent other possible values, like

Maybe<int>

but, using it to carry around state? That seems to me to be unnecessarily implicit.

What am I missing?
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Not familiar with the game, was delighted to see that it's in the repository.
And yet this is a bigger problem in the USA than in Europe or Australia.
Meh, you're probably going to want to limit your buffer size anyway in any highly concurrent system. Assuming you need to scan them anyway, delimited fields can also be faster to scan. If a field can't contain 0x00, and is 0x00 terminated (you can ensure this), then you don't need to do as many bounds-checks. If you know what you're doing, then Ragels 'noend' directive enables this, for instance.
She was put into jail for committing an unwritten infraction called "Pissing Off the Police"

Most officers feel entitled to a considerable amount of respect and many of them are prone to use their discretion in order to extract revenge for perceived personal insults. This has always been the case. Recently we have technology that increasingly exposes this and other sorts of wrongdoing.
This is how you discriminate against the minority, quite literally.
Whilst I appreciate a bird analogy as much as the next guy (and it makes sense from a mechanical perspective), I'm not sure if it works for regulation purely because birds aren't responsible to anyone or anything else if things go wrong. Drones are human products and thus someone, ie their creator or user, would need to be held accountable.
44 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9699893
Thanks for the explanation of the PDF. I've never heard of the term 'capitation table'.

That still leaves the possibility that there's a difference between US/Commonwealth practices, that is, that you use 'anglosphere' where perhaps 'Commonwealth' is a more appropriate term?

For another US data point, the gym I went to in ~2005 had a stronger emphasis on weight lifting. http://www.carlandsandras.com/ . It's "Under the direction of Carl Miller, former United States National, Olympic, and World Weightlifting Coach", and one of the men in the first salsa class I went to, back in around 2000, was an amateur weightlifter.

Which means that I, like oldmanjay, find it hard to accept that 'Almost nobody knew what weightlifting was' before 2007.
Thanks for those links. The first link was especially useful! (Wish I'd seen this a few months ago hah)
>number of software patents makes it impossible to read them all //

IPC/ECLA (and probably whatever the USPTO use, USPC [IIRC]) allow for quite fine classification so it's not necessary to "read them all". The point is in there somewhere, and valid, but this phrasing seems just a little too flippant - to the point of deception.

I don't doubt that there is a patent attorney/researcher/engineer in a company somewhere sufficiently on top of their game to say truthfully they don't infringe on any patents with their primary technology, patents valid in their jurisdiction, but it would certainly be a rare thing.
> It may have to do with knowing anyone could own and possess either legal or illegal firearms.

While this may have an influence, it's important to remember that police officers are also trained to be wary of knives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_KJ1R2PCMM

You can't totally disarm a population, so there are diminishing returns on this front.
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All I can grok out of Taleb's rebuttal is that he and his team might be conflating "rare events with predictable frequency" and "events with unknown frequency" but I don't know if this is accurate either.

Any help?
People replying to this article may do well to remember that Krugman also attended MIT to receive his PhD in economics.

It's quite unfortunate that the man chooses to intentionally disregard all he learned and espoused while attending such a massively well-respected institution.
> why you need to have, and maintain, technology-neutral specifications documentation.

In theory that is absolutely correct, with an unambiguous and current spec you can re-implement the software in something else without the original system the problem there (other than trying to get programmers to keep the documentation in sync with the system...) is that a specifications document written in English (or any natural language) is way too ambiguous to get away with that so then you decide to use a constrained version of English to write your spec and then someone says well why can't we get the machine to understand this and....COBOL again ;).
IMHO, I'm not sure if any of the above there besides the testing libraries is something that should be part of Kotlin, _especially_ if it hasn't even yet hit v1.0.

That having been said, I think your concerns will be addressed, _eventually_, but JetBrain is not trying to disrupt Java or its ecosystem before mainstream adoption of the language.

Re: async capabilities like Erlang/Go, until the JVM can support continuations, an industry standard solution like bytecode instrumentation, which Java9 will improve on, will entrench libraries like Quasar / RxKotlin to be basically drop in. These libraries provide seamless interoperability with existing synchronous libraries (see https://github.com/puniverse/comsat) to get around the fact that Erlang's/Go's async capabilities are not built-in to the language.
Is a middle man not a seller, of sorts?
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The truth, although nobody will believe it, is that the economic analysis some of us learned at M.I.T. way back when has worked very, very well for the past seven years.

That makes me laugh. I wouldn't measure economic success over a period of 7 years. Yes, the economic policies seemed to have brought the US economy out of its slump. However, let's see how we do over the next 7 years.

The danger of "printing money" is not so much the printing, it's the pulling back once the economy recovers. Since the Fed will get a ton of crap for moving too fast and slowing down the recovery, it tends to err on the side of moving too slow.

The problem with that is a rapid increase in inflation, followed by a spike in interest rates.

Any idea what might happen to housing prices when interest rates jump from 4% to 10% (historically they floated around 6%)? Every increase in interest rates reduces the buying power of those looking for homes.

And what happens if they move way too late? Rampant inflation and an erosion of savings.

We're still not anywhere close to being out of the woods yet.
Luck is a necessary but not sufficient condition. Any success story that does not acknowledge that some level of unforseeable fortune contributed to the success is someone deluding themselves, or trying to mislead you, possibly to sell you a book.
What's more, with the miracle of credit creation by modern banking, only 5% of their money is actually in the bank--the rest is out making more money for the bank.

It's all a consensual hallucination which works only as long as everyone still has confidence in the system.
Your reaction is extreme. Working professionals from rich countries that come to the US on short term Visas are not subjected to intense scrutiny. No one is prosecuted for the name on their Facebook account.
I think Docker is selling (or riding) an ecosystem, not "just software". If they don't claim major mindshare, their could be replaced by a competitor. For example, see Bocker, "Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9925896
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A great way to avoid subsidizing these actors would be for NY to impose a $0.6439/gallon gas tax to pay for roads. If only someone already thought of that and passed it into law...
"calling something "luck" takes away the responsibility of the actors. This is a dangerous mentality for a founder, because their own actions and decisions are all they have in the pursuit of success."

On the other hand, I've met plenty of depressed, completely delusional startup founders who were convinced that their business failure meant that they did something wrong, because hey...it's never luck, right?

You're setting up a false dichotomy: it's possible -- essential, really -- too acknowledge that luck plays the most important part in any startup. You still have to maximize your chances of getting lucky, and that's the part you can control.
No. Using something that truncates and rotates the log files is pretty common.
Ten years ago Poland joined the EU. The majority of people did not fly to the UK, they drove or took the bus. How many of these buses crash every year? The last major crash was around Easter in Germany.
I was not weaseling out of it. I explained how it can go either way.
I've just watched a number of videos from that series. The #1 thing to look for in that pool is tube flips, most of which can be predicted by looking at who is monkeying around with their tube in some strange way.

That said, I can't spot anything nearly as fast as the guards do. And the I replay the video, knowing just who to watch and sometimes I'm surprised at how long they've been in the water when the guard finds them.

I can't really see the "ladder climbing" referenced elsewhere, but the style of "swimming" that goes on during drowning does stand out after you've seen a few. There were a few times where I thought the person was still swimming at first, especially the kids trying to swim back to their tube and failing, but even then you can sort of see a change in their behavior when instinct takes over and their body just starts jerking around.

EDIT: Here's a good example of what I mean. Watch how their swimming suddenly changes when they start drowning and their arms begin thrashing. I actually found this one before the guard whistled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXFgOBjk860
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Does that cover the cost of the underlying property and negotiating with individual landowners?
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This is still on the front page of Ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9941005

Not many replies this time around, which is too bad since I love reading these threads. There are links to the previous posts in there.

I usually talk about the same projects of mine, so this time I'll talk about a few smaller projects instead that also make money on the side.

http://www.daterangepicker.com -- a JavaScript widget for choosing date ranges, like hotel reservations or dates for a report. Initially it was just a post on my blog and a zip file. It got so much traffic I put it up on Github and gave the thing its own site. That site gets over 1000 daily uniques. I put one small banner ad in the sidebar, and that generates $200-400 per month.

http://www.websitegoodies.com -- A site I started in the mid-1990s to share what I learned as I taught myself web design. All the articles and tutorials became outdated, but the tools still had some popularity, so I rebuilt the site around them one weekend. A banner ad or two on each page generates $50-100 per month.

I have a few very old sites that resell another company's advertising services. Almost all the customers are new site owners, small businesses, that sort of thing. After checkout, there's a "resources" page in the customer area of the site with links to SEO services, payment processing services, and other things a new site owner might need. Those are all referral links, and I earn $200-300 per month in commissions for the business those links generate.
Unless more video becomes available or the trooper changes his story, all the evidence we will ever have that an assault took place is the trooper's word. So, a judgement on this is really a judgement on the character of the trooper as to whether or not you think he might lie or exaggerate his account of events in order to attempt to cause a certain result. My opinion of the trooper's character is not favorable in this respect. Without regard to our conclusions about the trooper's character though, we ought to at least be able to agree that it was never necessary for the trooper to order her to exit her car, and thus it was not necessary for Bland to be jailed.