skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wages are shit for workers and thus consumption/demand are weak... this undermines the Chinese economy, which in turn undermines the US economy.

Labor force participation is also garbage. Savings rates are a bit moot when tons of people are living paycheck to paycheck, also.

It's not 2007-2008, but it's not quite 1998 either.
I thought facebook sent a confirmation email to the address. How are people getting around that requirement?
Why did you predict a meltdown?
The forkandwait/ ancient Greek ideal diet: A bunch of whole grain bread, fish, olive oil, and all the random seasonal fruits and vegetables you can get your hands on, but don't eat until you are full. Every once in a while gorge on meat and dairy and honey. Get lots of exercise. Don't get killed in battle, get enslaved, or die in an epidemic.

There should be a special name and place in hell for all the diet bullshit that goes through the culture like this.

Not that i follow my own advice or anything...
The biggest problem is that in poor areas, supermarkets / grocery stores don't set up shop because of crime and the smaller amount of money that they can get from customers. So, in general, poor areas are served by convenience stores. They might have some garbage produce that's going to be not fresh and relatively expensive, and they have a lot of cheap, unhealthy, calorie-rich food. In order to get to the grocery store, it's usually more than half an hour, if not more. And if they don't have a car, they're limited to what they can carry. And if they're living in a cramped apartment, their storage space is really limited.

I have none of these problems - I live less than ten minutes from four different grocery stores, (Albertson's, Safeway, Fred Meyer, and Costco) have a freezer chest in addition to a regular refrigerator, and an enormous amount of cabinet space for non-perishable goods. Poor people have none of that. So, they buy shitty food from the bodega and the local Taco Bell so that they don't have to travel long distances and store food.
Also, I think there's a genuine issue in journalism / online readership that remains to be addressed - the prestige payment scale.

Basically my view is that internet hosted articles are a low form of journalism, so it's reasonable to expect UPROXX to get basic facts wrong XX% of the time, or a Huffington Post author to employ fallacies here and there to support a position, or some other kind of issue where quality and integrity are at odds with driving traffic. It makes for good training though. That's when it's possible to advance to the next tier.

An Ars Technica or Engadget is above the basic tier, but only in the sense that they have a better reputation, drive more traffic, and therefore pay better. The usefulness of this tier varies - those with chops will continue to develop. Eventually, a featured writer or contributor will become known for their work at the site.

Then comes the top tier, the legacy media outlets that are forced to compete with the lower two tiers mentioned. They are at the height of the prestige and pay scale environment, at least in theory. I've seen several authors move from 2nd tier outlets (Ars Technica, DealBreaker) up to the 1st tier (Washington Post, Bloomberg) which look like the reward for many years of developing a journalistic style, reputation, and pool of knowledge to weave into works as a whole.

I think it'd be a pretty worthwhile review of careers for authors in certain fields since a 20XX time until the present. Unfortunately I don't have the free time or interest to do it myself. It's just a musing, I suppose.
Sorry but how do you know enough to "predict" a September 2015 meltdown and then um and ah about whether this might be a correction? It's 6 days short of September and you are not sure? Pardon my skepticism.
imo FP is a pretty ideal match for 'just-in-time-date' (JITD) systems.
Thank you.

This cognitive fallacy of "I knew" and "I was saying it long ago" etc... really irks me.

Especially in something like stocks you are 100% right, put your money where your mouth is and spare us the story of your grand predictive prowesses.
Warren Buffett says "If you're buying hamburger your whole life, do you want the price to be low or high?"

For me, the situation is such a mess that I don't think we're close yet to what I would consider a buying opportunity.

One saying is "buy when there's blood in the streets"... but I don't think we're there yet.

Downvoted and slow banned. Why do I even contribute to this site?
It's beginning to sound like Frank Underwood is behind all of this.
The problem here is your reliance on mainstream media for this kind of information.

It's a sad state of affairs, I know, but you simply cannot trust mainstream media for this. If a compound that - per chance - exists in beer is discovered to influence lipolysis in vitro , then mainstream media will tell you to drink a beer to get lean. And it's not only mainstream media fault; universities and research centres PR departments will probably report it in the same way, under the disguise of "making it friendly to the average Joe".

This doesn't mean, however, that you should strictly "think for yourself". Of course, you're not supposed to follow everything blindly, but if you're not an health expert (or even if you are!), It's better to trust authoritative sources and your physicians.
A clarification: Windows 7 always collected limited telemetry data, but it wasn't until Windows 8 was released that most aspects of your daily computing experience were collected by default. I believe that some of the more aggressive data collection methods in Windows 8+ have started trickling down to 7 via recent updates though, mostly due to the GWX Windows 10 compatibility checks.
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I'm not sure how they could. It's just a text file.

There is however the issue that adding entries to the hosts file may not change anything, as the domains for this telemetry collection might be hardcoded elsewhere and would likely override/ignore the hosts file.
> Broadly speaking the US economy is quite healthy

In reality, it's the exact opposite of "quite healthy". Here's a good overview of what's up: http://www.oftwominds.com/blogaug15/bear8-15.html
Fair enough. Sorry if my own comment was unnecessarily harsh.
This sort of vesting schedule is pretty common. I'm not sure busting Amazon's balls on this one is very genuine.
Can you elaborate on your prediction? I'm interested in the details.
I did not know that, thanks!
Spoke about the USA because its the country I have experience with, and know how to find employment data for. I think it would be equally as interesting if someone could do the same for other countries :). I'd really like to know what is mid range and top end developer pay in India and how it compares to toptal rates.
No doubt its going to be hard to phase out Flash. My browser keeps blocking Flash on sites like Yahoo and its funny because then Yahoo's video player, which is one of the clunkiest by the way, doesn't even load.

As a side note, I found this page to be a great follow-up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_HTML5_and_Flash
Even your advice has a special name: "Cretan Diet".
But yeah - this diet-bs is actually quite unnerving.
That would be an eye-candy feature these days. A slow transition mimicking some real-world effect (like page turning) or some completely fake transition (Alt-Tab being on some sort of 3D shape or items in a folder).
I don't gamble and I don't have enough money to gamble, and, even if I did, I'd have been wrong by a few weeks anyway.

It's more of a morbid curiosity for me.
Austin, SLC, Denver, Boulder, Research Triangle North Carolina all seem like good options.

Realistically you can probably pick a nice suburb of almost any top 25 population city in the country and get what you're looking for.
How do we "think for ourselves"? Come up with independant reasoning?

Lots of things are highly non-obvious. Vitamins weren't discovered until the 20th century. Many baby's lives are improved by their mothers taking folic acid. I would never guess how few calories there are in things like raspberries or strawberries without having been told about it.

Certainly there is lots of terrible health advice, and it's a major issue, telling people to "only read good advice" seems like the worst advice I've ever heard -- obviously we would all only read the good advice if we knew what that was!
I have two kids in elementary school, K and 2nd grade. The last few years the school district has been experimenting with Chromebook carts they would send to various classrooms once or twice a week. This year, they went with Chromebooks for all students K-12. The kids bring them home in the evening and are expected to bring them to school every day. The K's have touch screen Chromebooks to help mitigate their lack of typing skills.

I'm really interested to see how they will be using them. They have already been using google docs and they have both been talking about email. Maybe they will finally come to appreciate the vanity domains I registered for them when they were born :)
I think you're splitting hairs a little, rue.

In fairness, fab was splitting hairs with me. What I meant is a softening of the monogamy using the currently normal relationship model as the definition. What he meant is that the definition of normal monogamy has changed anyway over the past few generations. Courtship became relationships, which really became marriage-like partnership.

He's right. What we call monogamy would not have held with our great grandparents. They would have objected to the serial partnerships much more than the infidelity which at least we have the decency to try and keep secret.
I thought of it as how a CPU appears to be running several programs at the same time in a home PC, but we know the OS is actually switching between all the processes at an extremely high rate. :)
yeah, scratch your head, that's the best you could do.
And yes, that is the same Chet Faliszek of Valve/Old Man Murray 'fame'.
Can you clarify your meaning of community in this context? You mean the AM community or the "victim's" community? Also, who are you referencing as the victim, the person who had their data leaked or those affected by the fallout?

In the context of those affected by the fallout, if enough are affected, then one could claim the opposite: That it makes it easier knowing that so many were affected that nobody is passing any judgment on their specific incident because everyone is in the same boat - thus the humiliation is actually less.
> but you simply cannot trust mainstream media for this.

Can you trust them for any real information? In my eyes mainstream media is there to tell stories. Oftentimes bedtime stories for sheepwalkers.

But the truth (TM) - well whatever that may be, I do not see it in media. At least not very often.

Regarding the "trust your physician"-part:
I would even take their advice with a very big grain of salt. At least looking at my own experience and the experiences of my significant other in this regard. (And I know, anecdotes not evidence.)
Corporate profits have been good, GDP has been rising at a decent rate, consumer confidence has been looking OK. Statistically, the economy has been looking alright, although the distribution of benefits continues to be unequal.
> Google didn't even have Adwords back then!

Google didn't, but banner ads were around back then, and they were one of the main ways of making money off the Internet until the market bottomed out. DoubleClick was a pretty major player for years before Google bought them.

I remember lots of websites saying they suddenly had problems affording their hosting around 2000 because their banner ads suddenly started paying them pennies when they used to provide at least enough cash to cover the server bills.

And that started the trend of websites accepting more and more intrusive ads, because they made more money than banner ads. Pop-ups became popular because pop-ups made money and banner ads didn't.
I tried Flash with pipelight (iirc) in Firefox once. It worked mostly well, but I noticed two bugs:

-full screen simply plain didn't work, required restarting X to make computer usable again. This was my reason for uninstalling it again.

-opening a file dialog didn't work. E.g. try the export function of "ClickerHeroes".

Do these things work with this implementation? Or is it similar to pipelight?

Thanks!
Fair point. They were wrong, not lying, and I only used that word because it was the one @idlewords used. Perhaps you're right that I should have corrected @idlewords that accusing people of being wrong is not the same as accusing them of lying. But I love the prose @idlewords writes so I didn't feel that it was my place to correct him on English, when I feel his is better than mine.

I do think it's entirely plausible that an automated coding test could be "failed" by a competent programmer in any programming language, because many automated coding tests are bullshit. It's not Toptal's fault that the state-of-the-art in automated programmer assessment is sub-par. Isn't that the problem Starfighter is solving -- better automated assessment of programmer ability? There's a reason it needs to exist.
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Perhaps not "rabidly anti-microsoft", but it does come across as childish and reduce the effectiveness of the point you are trying to make.
>Why would you ever do this?

The complaints I'm hearing from folks running Windows 10 is that it is broken enough to interrupt their work. (E.g., crashing while using an IDE to code.) That's all the reason needed, really. If you can't quickly find a solution, you'd have to spend the time to revert.
Can an Amazon employee confirm this?

The chart Bloomberg has shows the old 401k plan for Microsoft. The new one would put it near the top instead of near the bottom.
When I saw the articles in my local newspaper over the weekend of this happening, I figured its almost time for me, a fresh college graduate, to jump into the markets.

But considering how profound the issues of Chinese Real Estate bubble are - they were paying people to make it look like empty, recently-built, luxury apartment complexes had people actually living in them - I think the worst is yet to come and I'm still waiting.[0] [1]

[0] RE Homes: http://www.wsj.com/articles/more-than-1-in-5-homes-in-chines...

[1] RE Apartments: http://www.economywatch.com/economy-business-and-finance-new...
from user "ionised" above,

July 31, 2012

Microsoft (MS) began encrypting web-based chat with the introduction of the new outlook.com service. This new Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption effectively cut off collection of the new service for FAA 702 and likely 12333 (to some degree) for the Intelligence Community (IC). MS, working with the FBI, developed a surveillance capability to deal with the new SSL. These solutions were successfully tested and went live 12 Dec 2012.

From; https://search.edwardsnowden.com/
They mention this in the article, but bears repeating - if you don't want to get a kidney stone (and believe me, you don't) 8 glasses a day is probably not a bad idea.
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> The match of employee contributions into their 401(k) plans is below average and made entirely in Amazon stock, which leaves employees dangerously exposed to the company's fortunes.

How about this other aspect of their 401k plan? I have never worked at a company that does that. Being so closely tied to your place of work financially is usually not recommended.
Microsoft employees maybe?
I'm not rich enough to be an investor but I agree, some kind of cool down system should be required.
I'm surprised it's not common, is that just for particular industries or for most US employers?
I'm still taken aback that a church would comb through the dump and email peoples' spouses. Just terrible.
Best time to buy is when there's blood in the streets :D
> It's hard for me to tell whether this is just a "correction" or an actual meltdown.

You can't really anticipate the exact timing of plunges, but feels like the start of the financial crash that many people has been expecting for this September. This has been talked during months in non-mainstream financial websites like ZH. So it shouldn't really come as a surprise to anyone that follows the markets closely...

> How is it fair that the markets get put on pause if they're failing? I really don't understand.

Deutsche Bank said this morning:

"The fragility of this artificially manipulated financial system was exposed over the last couple of days of last week. It all ended with the S&P 500 falling -3.19% on Friday - its worst day since November 9th 2011."
That was a good joke. It got me the first time around.
http://factually.gizmodo.com/shutdownify-is-fake-1725170019
Yeah this is only relevant as news if the implementing company also has an habit of firing people at the 34 month mark.

I mean, it does suck, but it is what one sign for, so no amount complaining later will change that
> when you look at the US economy as a whole things are doing quite well

To be more accurate, when you look at the propaganda spewed by the mainstream media, everything seems to be fine, because they keep spinning everything in a positive light.

In the US, for starters, there's a huge bubble in stocks, and an echo bubble in housing. There's a massive property bubble in Canada and Australia, and so on.

With interest rates already at roughly zero, they don't have room for lowering them to "stimulate" the economy (to avoid the inevitable crash that's coming).

Of course, getting people to spend money they don't have and businesses to start projects they shouldn't, isn't exactly good for the economy but hey.. whatever keeps the show going for a while longer.

(Downvoters? It's at the very least possible that you just don't know that I'm right.. :) Do your homework, but not from mainstream media sources)
> I find it odd that you'd link to that image

Did you not see the evidence in the bottom left corner?

( Microsoft 9/11/07 )

> Microsoft weren't an adopter at all

They were compared to the other businesses listed on that lide.

> PRISM is the theft of unencrypted data on dedicated lines between data centers.

This is as common misunderstanding. There are quite a few NSA programs that tap lines, which serve as inputs to XKEYSCORE. Some of these taps are line taps or Tailored Access based attacks, but those are not PRISM.

PRISM is the "polite" way the NSA gets their data, using FISA warrants and the cooperation of the business. They ask for a tap, and the business accommodates them. IF a business decides to not be part of prism, that's when the NSA simply takes the data via other means. The entire point of PRISM as a program is that it involves asking private business to participate.

> PRISM has absolutely nothing to do with Windows at all.

When windows 10 decides to make all those network connections, where are they going? They're writing to some sort of database at Microsoft. Now that windows has made the network part of the OS, the situation at the remote data center becomes relevant.
You often can, but they are not fungible.
Oh my gawd, a 2% match? Doesn't that violate some UN human rights convention?! 


It's reasonable to compare their comp package to their competitors, especially if you're considering working there. But calling the tax-advantaged retirement plan that gives you free money "brutal" is just whinging.
You are not a fiduciary in this context so would not have fiduciary responsibility to the owners (public or private). Essentially your relationship is with the company as a user/buyer of their product or services and is governed by user agreement - which may be a blanket EULA and may or may not be enforceable.
Not really, there's a bunch of other options that are not in the privacy section and need to be explicitly toggled off in the scheduled tasks manager (I forgot what was the name of it).
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When I was treating water to drink while traveling I would 2 liters a day. That seemed to be right on the edge of being thirsty a lot while being fairly active

I drink more than that now. But it gives me an excuse at the office to get up and walk to bathroom then walk around. So its not just the staying hydrated. Plus its hard to drink too much water and better for you generally then other liquids.
I'm struggling to think of what the Fed can even do in this situation.

I guess they can either 1) dig themselves deeper into a hole and issue another round of QE to inject liquidity into the markets or 2) do absolutely nothing. Though they are probably loathe to do nothing as then it would seem like they don't have a solution.

Whatever happens, it will be an interesting/exciting time in non-traditional monetary policy that will generate a ton of academic papers going forward.
Yea unfortunately is
Neither would the Stasi if they had this. They would do exactly what the US is doing. Modern surveillance has eliminated the middleman. "Come work for the NSA and disrupt surveillance!"
If you're using Windows to run a milling machine, you're doing it wrong. It's not Windows problem that you're using it inappropriately. That's like taking a 1990 Ford Taurus with 250k on it to a track day and then complaining that the engine blew up. Technically the engine did fail, but the driver should have known better.
Do you have a source for the data collecting for Win 7? Windows 8 is a slightly different story since they incorporated signing into your machine with a Microsoft account, so they have more personal identification linked to your machine (email etc).

Yes other services and companies use your data, including Google and Apple. But these are usually (as far as I know) more annonimized. Microsoft is taking personal data collecting to a new level. From their TOS:

“Microsoft collects information about you, your devices, applications and networks, and your use of those devices, applications and networks. Examples of data we collect include your name, email address, preferences and interests; browsing, search and file history; phone call and SMS data; device configuration and sensor data; and application usage.”

And also:

“If you open a file, we may collect information about the file, the application used to open the file, and how long it takes any use [of]it for purposes such as improving performance, or [if you]enter text, we may collect typed characters, we may collect typed characters and use them for purposes such as improving autocomplete and spell check features.”

There are also reports they are taking sound recordings and webcam captures. This operating system is like an NSA wet dream. If this doesn't make you feel uncomfortable, go ahead and support the new normal. I don't want any part in it.
I think it was the same person claimed to state: Do not judge lest thee be judged thyself.

Also: You must love your neighbour as yourself...

So basically... you're gonna fuck up at some point, so don't be too hard on others when they fuck up; because when you do it, you're gonna need some support and then where will you be?
And yet, there is no country in the world that has lower life expectancy now than 200 years ago. http://www.maxroser.com/everyone-is-better-off-life-expectan...
Stocks are rebounding. Someone made it off like a bandit this morning.
There is/was KSplice for kernel and everything else can be upgraded without reboot.
Stack machines predate the HP calculators

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_machine#Commercial_stack...
Yeah, but eating a few grams once in a blue moon won't kill you. It's not Polonium.