skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is all pretty obvious and a long time coming. There are a lot of forces at play: aging of the population, greater returns to capital vs labor due to increasing productivity.

As an absurd conclusion, birthrates drop to ~1 per couple, 2/3rds of the population retired, and robots put most people out of work.

Is it really so surprising that taxes would have to go up massively on the owners of the robots and other capital to provide all of the retirees a basic income?

Hans Moravec, who ran the CMU robotics department, pointed out these trends in his 1988 book _Mind Children_ and what the end game would be.

My fear about the unfunded liabilities argument is that it appears to be the new talking point of Trump and Fox News, and rather than see the writing on the wall with respect to the long term trends in the labor market and demographics, it'll just be more arguments about slashing federal social programs, pensions, and the liabilities themselves, which will make us all the less prepared when the real devil comes knocking.
Microsoft Word automatically saves backup copies of files, and has done for at least a decade.
I can't speak for anyone else, and I'm a perpetual beginner with languages, but for me, lisp's syntax was sort of a god-send for clarity. Whitespace didn't matter. Indentation didn't matter. There were no symbols to memorize (except I guess precisely one, 'quote,' which could also be done without the symbol). Stringing code together seemed spectacularly simple: Everything's a list, the first atom is always a function unless explicitly declared otherwise with that one simple symbol, and you could always tell exactly how one function fit with the others you were looking at. I'm not a programmer, but with other languages, I feel like even with simple scripts, I'm always having to look up syntax details or pitfalls. Lisp is simple and uniform. It's good for beginners, I guess.
Been waiting for an article like this but even though it points to two items, KB3075249 and KB3080149, it doesn't seem like "firm" information as there is a huge list of "maybe" items as well as a warning that removing things can mess up your computer.

How likely is it that we'll ever have a "firm" finite list?
The first eBook of its kind, this one by Copyshop Founder Bridget Regan teaches non-writers to write brand-rich copy the easy way. And the best part: It's not a book at all. It's a fillable cheat sheet so that by the time you've finished it, your headlines, tagline, blog post ideas, and sales page copy is already done. Brilliant!!
I really don't think people do realise this. Everyone still believes it's an automatic entry ticket to a middleclass lifestyle. As you say, they were lied to.
>high relative to, for example, earnings. This has been the case for quite some time.

Well, the Shiller CAPE has been "relatively high" (above the mean) since about 1998. So, I guess we agree that people have been calling for corrections the whole time. And it's useless.
"There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved."

https://mises.org/library/human-action-0/html/pp/818
From the article:

" In the United States, laws vary from state to state. Up until the mid 20th century most US states (especially Southern and Northeastern states) had laws against fornication, adultery or cohabitation. These laws have gradually been abolished or struck down by courts as unconstitutional.[138][139][140]"

If the law making it illegal is unconstitutional, it's legal.
Opera is not, as an entity or in terms of identity, a fork of Chrome.

However, it is, as rendering and JS goes, functionally a fork of Chrome, since as you'll notice from the source you cited, it uses Chrome's "Blink" rendering engine and Chrome's "V8" Javascript runtime.

Also from the link you cited:

>On 12 February 2013, Opera announced it would drop its own Presto engine in favour of WebKit as implemented by Google's Chrome browser, using code from the Chromium project. Opera Software also planned to contribute code to WebKit.[29] On 3 April 2013, Google announced that it would fork components from WebKit to form a new rendering engine known as Blink; the same day, Opera confirmed that it would follow Google in implementing Blink.[30]

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>On 28 May 2013, a beta release of Opera 15 was made available,[31] the first version based on the Chromium project.[32][33] Many distinctive features of the previous versions were dropped, and Opera Mail was separated into a standalone application derived from Opera 12.[34]
Well, I don't think that Microsoft Office and Microsoft Visual Studio are that similar. Both of them are using style different than the system default. Throw apps from other vendors into the mix, see Photoshop or Lightroom for example and it gets very difficult to argue, that the Windows desktop has unified style. Let's not go into the whole 'with WPF you can style your app any way you want' topic, because that's when the whole differentiation thing exploded.

Not that OSX is any better - Apple's own Pro apps always had different look that the rest of the system. iTunes was always experimenting with looking odd. Also, third party apps look different - Office, Adobe apps, etc.

So, it nothing wrong with Linux, all systems are like this.
1) Internet web sites have always been "lit up with speculation".

2) Microsoft's "spying" has been going on since Windows Vista was released, and speculation has gone along with it.

3) Since the 1990's, next year has always been "the year of desktop Linux."
It is probably out of frustration, because whatever language you use to argue something which is not supported by the mass media is rejected by most people as being 'fringe' or 'kooky' (Ron Paul being a well-known example).

The public is only slowly waking up to the fact that mass media ownership has been consolidated among 5-6 major corporate/industrial conglomerates.

Slowly, hence the frustration.
The fact that labor participation rates haven't stabilized or even increased in response to their population level attempts to enter the workforce shows that there really are not enough jobs to go around.

I'm not sure the data bears this out. If they're looking they're in the labor force, and we'd see a commensurate rise in unemployment for age groups 20-24. That's clearly not the case, as unemployment is down ~1.5% for that demo since mid-2014:

http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea10.htm

I don't have demo-level participation data available but that would clarify whether rates are lower bc of millenial LF dropout or millenial employment success.
Ah, ok...not so good.
some food that flipped this on

Stop eating bread (yes, pizza counts as bread. beer counts as bread. stop it). Stop drinking calories unless you're exercising for 2+ hours at once (yes, fruit juice is bad for you. stop it).

The practice of making "processed foods" is essentially just cramming carbs and salt into everything and making it as highly concentrated as possible. Much processed food (read: basically anything pre-packaged in a wrapper) is more like a high calorie MRE food brick instead of something you should be combining with other foodstuffs.

We know how food interacts with human bodies. Water doesn't cause fat growth. Dietary fat doesn't cause fat growth (the chemical 'fat' isn't human fat tissue, so drinking a gallon of olive oil won't increase your fat stores). High glycemic sugars cause fat growth in non-glycogen depleted bags of bones. Turns out we can stop getting obese just by not eating things causing obesity.
astazangasta, what did you do in this sector? I am moving into this space and get a foothold -- specifically I want to work on 3-D simulations for cells and gene manipulation.. :-] (coming from game development)
Even if they aren't directly related, I hope some people will at least take pause about the spread and analysis of people's private, leaked information. Sure they're kinda scummy but it is their private lives.
That's patently false. Skiing, painting, home woodshop, hobby farms, gardening...

Many people believe that an education is a good thing in its own right. Its a sad view of life that you're own betterment isn't worth any price. I guess its all for hedonistic pleasures then? Video games, movies, fancy car - those are the meaning of life?
Which underscores the value of starting to save for retirement in your 20s...
> If the research shows a slight problem with Milk (for example) you can bet that the dairy industry will promote another conflicting study that shows Milk is just GREAT!

The news headlines are a problem. News should be able to show the true aspect to a story. So, "Milk may have benefits" is a much milder statement than "MILK IS SO GOOOD!". The latter however catches people's eyes but the former is sombre and is a footnote.
Who Makes the Decision to Go Cloud … and Who Should?
How did you do this?
Taking an active view of watching over the flock ;)
Ask HN: Why Has SDK Become a Four-Letter Word for Developers?
At a developer conference last week, several app and game developers said, "SDK has become a four letter word." That goes the same for API.

I have a general sense as to why this is, but I am curious to hear it from the community. Why are SDKs and APIs a dreaded aspect of the development cycle?
Yeah, that one has been bugging me all day for some reason. The utter hypocrisy!

Of course, it may be that she is just a paranoid spouse but needs to concoct a reason to look up her husband's email without sounding too paranoid.

Either way, it's sad beyond belief.
No, because an economic crisis is a fall in economic output.

The point is that "undesirable wealth distribution" is not what an economic crisis is. If 400 people controlled everything, the world wouldn't be a great place to live, but the economy would probably be more stable.
Because the risk profile of having your primary income and your retirement savings linked to a single company is pretty dangerous?
FYI, you can't disable telemetry on Win10 unless you have enterprise edition, but you can select levels.
>were all just barely over 100% debt / GDP when things went bad?

Indeed. It's amazing to me that people don't blink an eye at borrowing 8-10x their annual income to buy a home in California, but think the US economy, which can print its own currency, is going to fold with debt levels at 1x income and rates at historic lows.
It's not the same conjecture. It's a fact that Canada is in a recession right now. Their economy is highly dependent on the price of commodities. The price of commodities is primarily determined by the dollar and demand. The dollar is high and is going to stay there. Demand is toast. It's obvious what outcome that is going to spell for Canada.

Nearly all commodities are lower than a year ago, and half of them have crashed. Oil is the opposite of an outlier.

Copper has gone from $3.30x, to $2.20x in a year. Copper is considered a critical bell-weather commodity. Demand for copper has fallen off a cliff.

Iron Ore has crashed by 60% in less than two years, and is down 40% in just one year.

Coal has dropped by over 20% in one year.

Steel prices are down 30% in one year.

Platinum has gone from $1500x to $992.

Natural gas was $4 last year this time, and it's $2.60x now.

Heating oil and gasoline have crashed with oil.

Sugar has dropped by 50% in a year, on a non-stop crash.

Lumber is down by 1/3 in a year, and has crashed.

Coffee is down by 40%.

Corn, wheat and orange juice are all down slightly versus one year ago. Rice is down about 15% vs a year ago. Soybeans are down 13%. Soybean oil is down over 20%.

Oats have crashed by 40%.
Except it's not "job training". Many employers want professional experience in addition to the degree.
I'm no expert, but aren't there accessibility standards for government in place that this might violate?
"Historically speaking"

Historically speaking, when has the Fed kept interest rates at ZERO for 7 years? After pumping QE full throttle at $80B/mo? The economy has been in continuous "recovery" mode since '08, but not much has actually recovered. The market is going to collapse my friend because, historically speaking, we are in dark, uncharted territory and have lost our way back.
Is that due to the much higher success(?) rate among males vs females? What are the "attempts" per 100,000?
Google cache of the article as the site seems down: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.h...
Native Linux Valve games are a real pleasure.

I don't have a large experience with wine gaming but Hearthstone runs pretty well (too well, even) on Wine.
What about running them in virtual machine? https://www.computersnyou.com/1480/microsoft-officially-offe...
You can't disable it unless you have enterprise edition, but you can select between levels of telemetry in Win10 I think.
In my own experience, using cuda when you have access to an NVIDIA card increases the speed even more so. Perhaps you might want to add a comparison to that too. I used to make fractals too and went through the same steps :D
If that's really the case, then perhaps universities should just dump all their humanities departments, fire the faculty, and re-purpose the buildings, along with any other department that doesn't produce "outcomes".

And how do you measure "outcomes"? If you measure it by the first job students get out of college, that's very sad and short-sighted. To really understand the outcomes of education on careers, you need to look at the entire arc of a career-- NOT just the starting point.

Employ-ability is really up to the students themselves, NOT their university, and definitely NOT the particular department.
AshleyMadison: $500K Bounty for Hackers
If your vendor thinks that Windows is an acceptable control for a CNC milling machine, consider another vendor. Yes vendors might choose to use Windows, and think that it's OK. But just because a vendor chooses to use Windows doesn't somehow make you obligated to buy it and suffer, does it?

Sure they might be the only vendor, or someone inside your organization might choose them anyhow despite your protestations. But that doesn't change the fact that using Windows for these kinds of things is foolish.

Just because big companies do it doesn't make it smart, does it? I mean, if it did, then startups wouldn't be able to exist would they? Startups are able to be a thing because big companies sometimes do stupid stuff.
The Impact of the Stock Market on SaaS Valuations in 2015
I'm actually prone to believe in EMH, so I agree there's very few "bargains" to be had. That said, bargain hunting has worked for me statistically in the past, and even if it's hard to justify rationally I will continue to attempt it, since EMH just argues that I'll likely break even if I'm wrong.

> Why would you choose Disney over Google, given the choice?

My three big buys early this morning were Disney, Google, and Sony... I certainly think this is a good time to own Google. (Caveat emptor)
Learned Ruby on Rails in 3 months now I'm building 6 websites in 6 months
This isn't communication every few months. More like every hour, and it's only that sparse when locking down the privacy settings.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-w...
http://www.something.com/
Bingo; in the middle of perhaps the highest stress period of my life I got sloppy about making sure I drank enough water and got a kidney stone or two as a reward. So I say:

No, You Do Not Have to Drink 8 Glasses of Water a Day. You Also Don't Have to Get Kidney Stones.
Two-factor authentication with email doesn't actually help to average user at all. When Steam account password is stolen then email password is likely too.
.... aaaand Windows Update Automatic Updates is getting disabled.
Interest rates are nominal; they only matter relative to some equilibrium. The equilibrium interest rate is somewhere close to zero.
Keep Your Certificates Current Using Your Test Suite
Got a 23andme analysis some time ago. Now I can just search for gene SNPs (those IDs that start with rs) in the data set and see what variants I have. It's pretty cool.
If pretending to delete data is typical for the industry, then we can't know for sure unless a company is breached or an employee leaks the info. It would be very easy to sue a company for lying about that.

You may be right that many companies behave this way, but they at least pretend that they don't. The companies I've worked for have always been extremely conscientious about honoring data-related terms, even if no user would ever know. The fear of getting sued is strong.
I have my windows 7 PC set up to automatically install "important" updates. Are these telemetry updates considered "important" or "recommended"?
There is a huge stigma around seeking professional help. It can and does cost people there job and sometimes career.

Not to mention it tends to be rather expensive and of limited value.
Their overall security procedures may have been good, but at the very least the fact that they charged money for permanent deletion of data and then didn't actually permanently delete data ought to qualify. People who just signed up may not have a case, but anyone who "deleted" their account does.
Article text, since the site seems to be down:

Windows 10 has been launched and already installed on more than 50 million computers worldwide. It is now a known fact that Windows 10 user data is being sent back to Microsoft servers back in Redmond, Washington. Well, now new updates that are being deployed to all Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 machines will turn their computers into a big piece of spyware, just like their predecessor, Windows 10.

The updates in question are KB3075249 and KB3080149. if installed, these updates are known to report your data back to Microsoft servers, without user interaction. KB3075249 Microsoft Update adds telemetry points to ‘consent.exe’ in Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, allowing for remote monitoring of everything that happens within the operating system. KB3080149 ensures that all “down-level devices” receive the same updates and treatment as Windows 10 boxes get.

As you would guess, forums are lit up with speculation on these updates and more. Below you can find a list of other Windows updates that some users have questioned. Please keep in mind, avoiding some or all of these updates may cause your environment to be unstable and/or unsecure.

KB2505438
KB2670838 – Windows 7 Only (corrupts AERO and blurry fonts on some websites)
KB2952664
KB2976978 – Windows 8 only
KB3021917
KB3035583
KB3075249
The problem isn't so much that they are no longer door-opening, it's rather that not having a degree has become door-closing.
I interview CS graduates from time to time. Most of them have nothing up on GitHub, a mobile phone or tablet with nothing they've written running on it to show off, not even a Stack Overflow account. When I graduated in 1990 all my friends were doing CS because we loved it, we'd been programming since we were teenagers. Just as personal fun side projects I have stuff in GitHub, scripts I can show off on my iPhone and a few thousand points in SO. If a kid wants to be a programmer, nobody is stopping them. They'd don't have to get permission from anyone. My advice to kids doing CS is that if you want to be a programmer, then be one. Make that what you are. But most of them have no real passion or interest in the subject except as a means to a pay check.[/grumpyoldman]
And it's so 90s, dude. Move on. There's a lot more evil in the world now, even if they say they don't do any.
If you're looking to ship an app, sure. What this article is about are actual websites that use Flash in videos (non-games). When 40% of your traffic on your actual website is from mobile, it doesn't matter if Flash is available as mobile apps, it still won't run on your site.
Pyfolio – a Python library for financial performance and risk analysis
I mostly refer to adding new syntax to the language (recv, pattern matching as described in that report). It's obvious why it was done - it's syntactic sugar which make programming easier. But it's no longer Python, a language many people know or run apps in. So I'd really like if embedded Python folks tried to run their ideas thru python-ideas list to get wider Python community feedback (and yep, we're trying to do our homework in that direction, and would hope to meet other embedded Python folks there).

> Maybe you guys should collaborate with the guys behind the paper ?

Definitely, I'm drafting a "Hello" email. And I think there's really opportunity for collaboration - they based Owl on PyMite, so I figure they don't fancy developing own VM from scratch, so if they'd be interested in Python3, here's MicroPython. And we could use feedback and wider discussion on topics of hardware access APIs. And prototyping various concurrency models for uPy would be just fantastic.
In same time Steam support accounts are completely independent from Steam store accounts. Anyway my point is: Steam is not dating website or social network that collect tons of your personal information.

By not having account deletion procedure they don't hurt anyone's privacy, but just save average user from one more possible pain in ass for no reason (because they wouldn't be able to delete accounts for real anyway).
I don't like this new title...

There was plenty outcry when sizes 0 and 00 were introduced, and what attracted my attention to this article was not so much that dress sizes had changed upwards, but that such sizes are not "new", "anorexic" sizes at all!
So far the process to get the EV3 running with Open Roberta take some while... but we are working hard on that.

Mid september will be a new release available and with that some really cool features are available...

Everyone is also invited to join our Google group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/open-roberta

To get a deeper look "insight" Roberta follow these links:
http://dev.open-roberta.org
http://wiki.open-roberta.org

Enjoy
Thor
Yeah it's not the most intuitive.

As far as I'm aware you just long-press the app name in order to get to the more granular permissions controls.

There's nothing else I'm aware of that needs these long presses to get more options, save the stuff that Android has anyway.
We're drilling more than we can refine, so costs of the refined product are staying high.

Also, gasoline prices always lag behind crude a bit. Refinement takes time.
>there appears to be some correlation between this and the consumption of processed foods.

Really? I would love a source on this, because it seems that the #1 reason is that the average portion size has increased greatly in the past 30 years while people are exercising less and less.

It would be great if we could find a way to "flip a switch" to make weight-loss easier, but it's downright foolish to pretend that we are gaining weight for any other reason than that we are eating too much and exercising too little.

This "processed foods make you fat" nonsense is infuriating because it just validates people's beliefs that their weight problems have nothing to do with their personal habits, instead placing the blame on the quality of the foods they've been eating.
They got more common over time indeed, but most things you could buy abroad just weren't available. Mostly tropical fruits and vegetables that wouldn't grow in most of Russia and since there was little import of anything... I remember tasting Kiwis for the first time after we moved to Europe.

As far as standing in line for the latest iPhone: no thank you indeed, been there done that :)
You sort of can, see things like https://github.com/10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking/.