skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
QE was meant to work in tandem with the stimulus bill put forward by President Obama. The stimulus bill would create jobs to help fuel demand, and interest rates would stay low so that loans could be made more easily to companies that contracted with the government, thus helping them to expand and creating more demand in the economy.

Unfortunately the stimulus bill wasn't large enough (even though it was 787 billion dollars). This was the largest recession ever. The Great Depression needed a stimulus bill called World War II. What followed were over 2 decades of prosperity. The most recent stimulus plan simply wasn't big enough to allow companies to grab Wall Street's attention, so Wall Street parked its money elsewhere.

TL;DR: not enough jobs were created so people got poorer while Wall Street got richer.

Edit: phrasing
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If you have (lots) of extra money to spend, then there's always Lee Valley Tools

http://www.leevalley.com/en/home/OnlineCatalog.aspx?id=0a61b...

(They do ship internationally and to the U.S.)
That's the nature of power. Decisions always flow down a power hierarchy, but accurate information rarely flows upwards, as everyone providing information to the decision-maker wants to make sure that it'll influence the decision in a way favorable to themselves. As a result, the leader of any large organization is usually the least informed person in the organization.

There's not actually a way to fix this - you aren't going to get rid of the concept of power itself. If you try to "educate" decision-makers, you're just contributing to the problem: all you do is replace the slice of reality that was contributed by someone else wanting to influence them with the slice of reality that you want to influence them with, and then someone else can get mad. It's up to the decision-maker herself to seek out accurate, independent, non-biased information, because most information volunteered to them will be biased. I think many of the "tech elite" actually do this - it's to their advantage, after all, since what they don't know will lead to them being replaced by a new elite. Indeed, the problem is somewhat self-correcting: as old elites become progressively more powerful and less informed, smart & hungry technocrats start looking at them as rubes to take advantage of, and they end up being replaced by people with a more accurate conception of reality.

My point is just that objectively speaking, power hierarchies seem a lot flatter now than they did in the late 19th centuries. Nobody has died yet because a tech startup founder hired an armed militia. Investors today complain about how they influence the market and buy software to minimize that influence, they don't actively try to corner or manipulate it (well, outside of Bitcoin and Porsche). The Vinod Khosla flap would barely have made the news 100 years ago, he would've hired armed guards to keep the surfers out and that would've been the end of it. We've made progress, as a society, in the last 150 years: it's slow progress, but progress nonetheless.
Nice description! Yeah, the cuts in that song are really fresh and interesting. At one point in the second half they're jamming out pretty hard and then suddenly everyone starts screaming for a few seconds, Mats pulls up his shirt and laughs, and then the guitar guys goes into an awesome solo. I always laugh at it.

The rhythm changes are just awesome too. When I first listened to it they were pretty disorienting but after a few listens I could tap my feet to it and it's so satisfying.

Here's another polyrhythmic song that's confusing at first but then really satisfying. It's by Avishai Cohen Trio, I couldn't find the original but this cover is pretty good.

https://soundcloud.com/jasper-mellema/trio-pinzin-kinzin-avi...
> We see 1.44 billion monthly active users. That translates to about $12 a year per user.

No, the $4 Billion in revenue was last quarter. In other words $48/user annually, not to mention the huge growth of even that number. That's why its market cap is ~$300 Billion.

> Twitter can't break even. They report 320MM monthly active users which means they're pulling in about $7 per user per year in revenues, less than Facebook, and with a growth curve that's even more alarming.

Twitter could fire 90% of its staff today and keep bringing in that same amount of revenue, being wildly profitable. But it doesn't because it's still trying to grow quickly. It also just barely started turning on revenue.

You're actually the one thinking about this the wrong way. Profit alone is just a bad way to value quickly growing companies, as it never carries all of the nuance (see Amazon - http://a16z.com/2014/09/05/why-amazon-has-no-profits-and-why...).

You're also not appreciating the growth. There's a reason PG says "startups = growth"; because growing 25% month over month compounds and gets really big really fast.

> And, mark my words, in 5 years [uber] will be shut down by regulators and class action lawsuits as folks realize they're making $10B a year on the backs of illegal contract workers.

In most cities they're not "illegal contract workers" even today. I'd bet good money that in 5 years few, if any cities, would call Uber drivers "illegal contract workers."
Original Paper: Turbulent luminance in impassioned van Gogh paintings

http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0606246v2.pdf]
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It's Paris Hilton, the self-made millionaire you are referring to, right? The one disowned by her family, but who leveraged an entertaining personality into her own brand of fashion and and entertainment products? From what I can tell, most of her wealth is in the form of jewelry production and sales.

Had she kept her inherited wealth it would be mostly in the form of hotels rather than money.
> the branch was an asset it could be leveraged to allow the bank to loan more money.

The system has taken on a life of its own, and it's pursuing interests that are divergent from ours.
Since Windows was considered a monopoly the government stepped in and prevented Microsoft from bundling too much or restricting access to the platform. In a way, Apple should be grateful to Android for keeping the government at bay.
Tabs in Xcode have been around for a while.
Wow:

"The results suggest that an appropriate altered state of one brain can effect specific predictable frequencies of the electroncephalographic activity of another distant brain which is genetically related."
utter bullshit.

while 30% of the population vote far right, there is also a strong left tradition in Austria, as exemplified by Red Vienna (Das Rote Wien), with its revolutionary social housing and socialist Mayor (re-elected, again).
The only way I can remember passwords (completely) is to have hands on a keyboard. So weird.
In a joking-but-actually-kinda-not sense, the only justification for Linux Chrome existing is so Google engineers test the websites they make in the browser used by Google's users. So the only Chrome they really make is the one that runs on the engineering workstations. (On the Linux team I liked to joke that 80% of our users were coworkers.)
Right now, I think it's best you stay and try to turn things around. I don't think I can give you more concrete advice just based on your description so far.

I lead a team of engineers too - email me (in my profile) if you want to chat in person or Skype. I'd be more than happy to listen and discuss your situation.
Swiftype is hiring a lead technical recruiter
Who is endlessly confused? Who suspects that the author of a neat lisp editor plugin has never written a non-trivial line of Common Lisp, Clojure, or Scheme? What are the chances that people in either category are also curious and excited to experiment with novel editing techniques?
Why Jamie Dimon CEO of JP Morgan Is right and Bitcoin is in trouble
I can speak to this as I've been using Parinfer on existing code for the last week or so.

There can potentially be a "big diff" when you run Paren Mode on a file for the first time, but that's typically a one-time event. The beauty of Parinfer is that most Lisp code already uses these conventions.

Once you start using Parinfer's Indent Mode regularly it feels crazy to write or edit lisp without it.

One of my plans for atom-parinfer[0] is to have a comment flag in a file that will automatically signal "use Parinfer on this file". Similar to JSHint inline configurations [1].

[0] https://github.com/oakmac/atom-parinfer
[1] http://jshint.com/docs/#inline-configuration
Without empathy or remorse, a "rational agent" is a sociopath.
because the well educated, high income parents (now with more uniformly high income extended families) tend to give a higher level of attention, resources, and support to their children compared to the children of the poor, working, and middle classes.

That's the uncontroversial perspective, yes. The more controversial, but far better-supported-by-evidence perspective is that the estimated 40-80% contribution that genes make to people's intelligence, conscientiousness, and work ethic is much more likely to be at play, here.
A 3 sentence Google Plus post can hardly be called a summary of the opinion.
Let Microsoft Guess How You're Feeling
Introducing runC: a lightweight universal container runtime
I think, that having (idealistic) principles and regard them as being above of money, is very important.

Today, it seems, that many people just have one principle that holds above anything else: Money. I think, this way, we ultimately sell out humanity.
I'd call Rome an English name. We could easily write/say Roma in our own alphabet, after all, but we choose a different name. Munich, I guess depends on how you count the dots.

Basically, it seems to me that there's a difference between using a different name from what the natives use because of some long tradition or linguistic drift ("English name") and using a different name from what the natives use out of necessity because nobody would know how to read it if you used the original.
Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program, Costing the U.S. Jobs
After reading the product page, this product seems too good to be true (OSS, supports every OS and every type of VPN). Is there some kind of catch? How come I've never heard of it until now?
We all knew what it meant, including the author. This is pointlessly pedantic.
Well, I'm claiming that it's fundamentally a self-serving and dishonest narrative, so I kind of have to contradict the lesser points to prove the narrative wrong.

As a different narrative, I don't see drug-store chains as a sign of communities dying, I see it as a sign of communities getting bigger. In a big city, there are lots of different chains, and in the small city that might have one drug store, they have a chain drug store and the community can focus on other things. Having a "local drug store" doesn't make a community. And having people raise millions of dollars for new episodes of a TV show from the 90s (MST3K) doesn't do anything for local communities.
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Java Tops TIOBE's Popular-Languages List
C brace style has nothing to do with readability. Indentation alone shows the block structure just fine; Python proves this.

The purpose of C brace style is to make editing easier in primitive editors that don't do delimiter matching. In such an editor, selecting where, in a long string of closing delimiters, to insert a new element requires counting the delimiters, which is tedious and error-prone. With delimiter matching, the editor does the work for you, so splitting delimiters across lines is completely unnecessary.
Lessons learned from writing an 8 bit game engine from scratch
Of course they aren't going to try IPv6. Not because of ICMP, but they won't try it.
This is a double whammy for employees - not only is the IPO valuation lower than the prior round, their stake is being diluted in the process. Definitely not a win for them.
Maybe take a look at http://codereview.stackexchange.com/ for features relating to the social aspects of code review. Making code review a more pleasant if not enjoyable process for the reviewer and reviewee seems like the hard part of the process.

Good luck.
Garry is one of the most incredible people we worked with at YC. Thanks, Garry!
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Taxonomy of Pathways to Dangerous AI
Alibaba's Singles' Day sales surge 60 percent to $14.3B
This comment makes me so happy; thank you :)

I'm glad it "just works"!
Tech Pros' Continuing Struggle for Work-Life Balance
Really, all you need are highlighted matching parens, I can't think of a single programmer's editor that doesnt' do that.
That free markets ensure a Pareto optimal allocation of resources is the first fundamental theorem of welfare economics. It does not imply any normative statement on whether the distribution is "just", as that is very difficult to qualify.
The main reason C++ is still in use is not the zillions lines of existing code. It's the lack of alternative. Other languages may excel in one or two areas, but if you consider the whole ecosystem, C++ is still the best. The availability of highest quality compilers for all possible architectures, build tools, IDEs, static analysis tools, profilers, libraries - all of these factors combined make C++ the first choice for many applications.

C++11/14 didn't just "happen." A lot of smart and highly paid people invested their time and expertise to make it happen. Were there a better alternative to C++, they would invest in that alternative rather than putting their time and effort into C++.

It's also great to see new ideas being borrowed from other languages and applied to C++. It shows that C++ is not a niche language some people like to view it.
Is it me or does Epic have one of the most effective and productive development teams on Earth?

This was less than two and a half months ago:

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unreal-engine-49-released
"mobile is here to stay"

nothing in the past decade has been here to stay. I dont know what the next decade holds, but i highly doubt it will look like what we now call 'mobile'
Escape to somewhere else then?
Agreed. Apple/Google have a ton of engineers and they must make major improvements to their OS each and every year. The easiest fruit is just to copy what's been successful and incorporate it into the OS itself. The solution is to be better than Apple/Google with your app/business or to be in a niche that Apple/Google doesn't want to get into because it's too small.
Perfecto Mobile Adds $35M to Test Apps Before They Reach Users
How much one "should" pay in property/income forfeiture is, of course, a matter of political policy.

Just think how much money goes into the economy to preserve income...if we simplified the tax code in any way, so many people would be out of work in both the private and public sectors.
I remember postponing my payments to the ISP, which hadn't blocked ICMP for anybody, by using ptunnel: http://www.cs.uit.no/~daniels/PingTunnel/

It was pretty much usable circa 2008...

btw, in debian (and probably, derivatives), it is just apt-get away from being installed.
... and I think you'll find that "changing the system" is pretty much impossible. The world is not created, the world evolves. The best you can do is try and apply a selection pressure
I believe you've happened upon a law of Psychohistory :)
The headline is in theory true, in practice not.

"In their ruling, the panel of three appellate judges found that Google and its co-defendants hadn’t violated the Wiretap Act because they were a “party” to the communications rather than a third-party eavesdropper—"

This is consistent with the ruling, but buries the part that is important for most folks:
http://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/134300p.pdf (page 35).

Because they were the intended party of the communication, they will never be liable under the wiretap act. Ever.

So yeah, if some third party you aren't communicating with grabs your cookies (cough cough), that may be an issue.

Otherwise, no.
No.
Because, as the ruling says, they are an intended party of the communication.
It's written in C++. /s

I suspect it hasn't gotten a lot of widespread publication in English forums because it's from a University project from Japan so there aren't a lot of English-speaking contributors (there are only 9 contributors to the official repo).

Additionally, it was only open sourced in 2014 so as an open source project it's pretty young.
Python Multi-Armed Bandits (and Beer)
I don't think anyone's disputing the economics of it. It's more about the effects of having a culture driven by the need to accrue more wealth.
One of my favorite all-time movies, even though their plan ultimately failed Kaleil and Tom were my heroes as a teenager. Really sad to see this.
An absence of a particular primary legislation related to pollution does not imply that the economic order is therefore laissez-faire.
> Lack of refactoring support for Swift is currently baking my noodle,

Yeah, I hear the refactoring tools are great, but they don't work with C++ either, which is what most of my source-base is.

>as is the lack of a supported plugin API (with which I could solve many of my own problems).

I don't know if this would solve your problem, but you can tell Xcode to compile (or maybe handle is a better word) any type of file with a script. So if you want to compile your Haskell source with Xcode, for example, just go to the target settings, click on the "Build Rules" tab, and add a rule that says "Process files with names matching: " *.hs, and Using "Custom Script:" with a pointer to a script that runs the input file through ghc, or whatever you need.
Maybe the reason for increasing prosperity was also the nature of economic expansion after WW2. Most of Europe in ashes needing to rebuild everything...same for Japan and Korea. The only country with the capacity to provide supplies was the US, so we had the massive expansion in US industries.

Once other countries caught up though, the world started getting a lot tougher for America. Luckily, it kept moving into other sectors via innovation. Unfortunately, most of these new sectors (Computers, BioTech, Finance, Robotics etc.) are just not as labor intensive so the benefits of economic growth are then limited to a few instead of many.
Does high-DPI support work if you put the right declaration in your executable's manifest? Specifically:

<application xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
<windowsSettings>
<dpiAware xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings">true/pm</dpiAware>
</windowsSettings>
</application>
Gentlemen, Start Your Drones
The abstract doesn't mention a control group of non-siblings. I would think that would be a prerequisite for concluding anything.
nothing, I made the switch in July. I was originally planning on using a VM to run linux, but homebrew had everything I needed. I use iTerm2 which is great, and I love the resolution and font on the terminal. It is worlds better than what I stair at on my redhat machine at the office.
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It's ironic that Google is helping Oracle make its language the most popular.
"Win", "die" and other such terms are nonsensical when referring to programming languages. What happens in reality is that the new language carves itself a niche, taking more or less from the market of the old language.

And Java has carved itself a really nice piece of the pie, but it's unlikely that it will expand any more, because it's already dominating in its target niches and doesn't have much to offer where it is not dominating.
That's applicable 99% of the time, but discontinuities happen too. French and American revolutions, for example. On a smaller scale, think of key pieces of legislation, landmark supreme court cases, and so on.
To be globally competitive in the long run, ITAR restrictions around space vehicles need to be reassessed. Right now to work for a US aerospace company you need to be a US citizen. This excludes a huge part of the available talent pool [1].

[1] http://paulgraham.com/95.html
At least one of the authors is in both papers.

If I am going to believe this I am going to need real independent reproducibility. A lot of it.
Maybe you're right. But to me, the purpose of using plain words instead of technical jargon, is to clarify meaning. On the other hand, maybe he's just trying to be funny.
When I was a kid, I could not start reciting the alphabet anywhere but from 'A'. In the alphabet song, the latter bits go really slowly compared to the first bits, so for the longest time I thought "P" was the middle of the alphabet, because it comes about halfway through the song. It came as some surprise to me that "M" is the 13th letter.
> The modern Austrian will be the first to tell you that Austria was the first victim of Nazi aggression

Uh. That has not been the case for many years now. Austria has had this attitude right after the war but things have changed a lot in the last 60 years.

As someone who went through Austrian education I can tell you that Austria's view as it being a victim was controversially discussed throughout our history education and ultimately dismissed.

There are probably still some that think Austria was a victim in this, but I doubt that this would be the majority.
Into the Future with YACHT's Claire Evans
Maybe it's like permanent advertisement on streets?
> better-supported-by-evidence

hah, ok, go ahead and make that claim with zero links to back it up. Please, tell me more about eugenics.
My opinion:

* People made a bunch of things that should have been websites apps. Still happens way too often. This sucks.

* More recently, people have been making things "mobile web apps" that should be websites. This sucks.

Mobile apps are a mess and the mobile web keeps getting worse, IMO. This won't stop until people quit pretending Javascript/DOM performance — including power drain and memory footprint — is acceptable on mobile. It's even bad on laptops!
Swift Intermediate Language Presentation
RTcmix: An Open-Source, Digital Signal Processing and Sound Synthesis Language
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I used to be of the camp that excellent documentation for your code was a necessity. All that pretty syntax and comments above every function declaration. It made me feel like putting icing on a cake...I still agree this is required for public facing APIs and stuff offered by a company or a complicated project.

But documentation is only part of the story. You really need a full team of smart technical people, writers, and "dev evangelists" that are creating sample projects, tutorials, quick start guides, and giving feedback to the engineers on how easy their APIs are to use and understand. You can't just auto-generate docs and think you're done.

That said, I much prefer open source projects to be organized logically and the code to be "self-documenting". Don't make me wade through mounds of API documentation when I usually just end up going to the source anyway to figure out what's going on.
God it would suck to have joined fairly recently, if you were banking on the options being worth anything. You have to wait to vest, your stock options are possibly underwater (depending on the 409a), even your vested options are going to be locked up for quite awhile, and on top of it all you're getting diluted.

After the lockup expires, you'd better hope to your lucky stars that the earnings have been good, because those first few earnings are tough, and can sink the stock price. And then on top of that, there are probably very specific windows that you can sell your stock inside of, so you have to hope to time the ups-and-downs just right.

Lots of ways for that to bite you in the ass. I have friends who had this all line up the wrong way as Twitter employees who joined a year or so before they IPOed, and currently that stock isn't worth exercising.
So true. It's very frustrating the way things are currently restricted. ITAR is really over-reaching in a lot of areas.
Nobody knows what they're doing
Getting veterans in software and tech companies
Using HubSpot? Ad Blockers Are Costing You Leads