skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/the-case-for-hig...

"When you have very low inflation, getting relative wages right would require that a significant number of workers take wage cuts. So having a somewhat higher inflation rate would lead to lower unemployment, not just temporarily, but on a sustained basis."

Shorter Krugman: Cheat poor people out of their wages to make the government look like it's doing something about unemployment.
I think you explained yourself very well, you said that the company should cut perks and put the money into re-training employees to avoid layoffs.

Cutting perks will gut the company morale.

Re-training on the job is already available at most SV companies of this size. You want it, you get it.

The original article that called out the lavish party was explicitly doing so to paint Marissa as a CEO that spends frivolously, and the author wanted her to move that money from employees to the investors instead.
More like:

-0.3% Bank account
0% Mattress
[-100%..0%] Investments

No government goes into negative rates when the times are good.
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So many broken SVGs!
>A million dollars

1/44th of Goodell's yearly salary
I wonder what other options are available. The NFL owns the content of the tapes, but Haupt owns the only known copies of that content. Haupt and the NFL are collectively the owners of the 1st Super Bowl, but can't agree on what to do with it.

The loss or destruction of the tapes won't meaningfully impact the NFL. They didn't have a copy of the work beforehand, and so nothing changes if they don't come to an agreement. On the other hand, a special viewing of the "lost copy of Super Bowl I" could be very lucrative to the NFL and the airing network. Haupt has something valuable to the NFL. There is obviously an incentive for the NFL to make a deal.

What would the ramifications of submitting the tapes to a museum or other historical archive be? It might incentivize the NFL to make a deal if they know there is another legitimate course of action that Haupt can take to make the copy less rare. I'm not sure what the legal implications are.
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A lot of the top engineering schools in the country are state universities all over. All these engineers leave to go to CA doubt it.

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...
I consider it likely that they're still doing it after four years. Even so, you can still report what happened four years ago.

The DoD inspector general hotline is (800) 424-9098 or http://www.dodig.mil/hotline/hotlinecomplaint.html .

The GAO fraudnet hotline is (800) 424-5454 or https://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/fraudnet.cgi .
Maybe the guy who owns the recording is being too greedy, but given the NFL's track record it's likely the NFL. The NFL should buy the recording and play it on the NFL Network. That should be a decent draw during the off season or in the run to to the next Super Bowl.
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OK, we've replaced that with "200 nm". Let's stay on topic now.
Comodo should have crashed and burned years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA
> but what happened to doing right by people and the community at large.

That's not really up to the NFL, it's up to the guy who has the tapes being willing to give them away for free. The NFL is basically being extorted here. Sure they have the money, but why should they pay? The value of the tapes is zero, because the only possible buyer isn't interested.
I love nerf guns! Great read, thanks fictivmade :)
Private repository?
> Anyone have any suggestions for a free firewall alternative?

pf on OpenBSD. Strong firewall, highly configurable, the syntax isn't bad, and there are even some decent books out on it.
I think he works for Google.
interesting... but I started playing with orgmode a few weeks ago and I'm not going anywhere else. Especially after I finally found a nice (working) workflow for literate programming.
I'm only aware of this slightly older (11/2011) article [1] on the topic. I've poked at the numbers recently in Big Query and see a wide spread for jQuery versions on popular sites. Maybe one of these days I'll get around to documenting it properly. I'd rather measure from a sampling of client side pageloads but this might be a bigger project to tackle.

[1] http://statichtml.com/2011/google-ajax-libraries-caching.htm...

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29930805/measuring-visito...
For SHTF or remote rural use, I would use the FRS frequencies. No license required, but the Baofengs do transmit above the .25W power max. Oh well.
The concept of a storing energy this way is fascinating.
I just had a short romance with RST/ACK.
It happened during a keepalive http session to AWS ELB, where the nginx backend had keepalive disabled completely due to a misconfiguration. The ELB's idle_time was set to 10seconds (instead of default 60).
Just because the idle_time was set to a low value the effect of seeing the RST/ACK could be seen. It needed Wireshark to track this down. On the http level it appeared that a request had been sent, but the received response was empty and didn't even reach nginx at all (because ELB closed the stream).
dikaiosune has it right. We put it in the second-chance pool, described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926 and earlier posts linked from there. It's the latest in a long series of experiments to try to give good stories a second crack at the front page.

Edit: Wow, you've been posting some great articles: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=PascLeRasc. We've put https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11007792 in the second-chance pool and we'll send you a repost invite for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10932621. (After a few days have gone by, we do the latter instead of re-upping the post.) Hope you'll keep up the great submissions!
> I noticed their scan process is not using ASLR

You can be pretty sure that none of their software is fit for purpose if they're not using basic protections for a process which runs as a super user and parses every file it can find.
Um, Siberia has already melted. See this global warming thing is already happening. Folks still talk like its theoretical, or in the far future.
Are you using Windows? What's wrong with the Built-in Advanced Firewall?
He was working with stolen documents. He saw files he wasn't cleared to see. Of course the government wouldn't clear him. He would have been better off to tell them that he did not want to be exposed to any classified material while working. Once you see what classified information is, you know you can work without it. The disadvantages, such as lifetime censorship, and control, outweigh the advantages of a brief government job.
If you're on Mac just create a sparse encrypted DMG using Disk Utility, put it into Dropbox, bam you're done. http://blog.fosketts.net/2011/07/05/mac-dropbox-encrypted-vo...

I prefer applications to focus on one thing and do it very well, and leave other orthogonal functionality to other applications or the OS to then do the other parts very well. In this respect Quiver is well designed, I tip my hat to the author.
I've heard people running pf in a vm which their main OS talks to the rest of the world through.

Sounds interesting but personally I'm sure I would get it wrong.
Thanks! Updated the post with "Segmentation faults can happen in C..."
I just uninstalled this "Internet Security" piece of software recently and had only kept it on my media PC because it was more of a burden to remove it. Once upon a time, they used to receive high marks for their antivirus software, but as of late, their antivirus software has done nothing but plague me with ads that popup over the taskbar and rob me of my computational resources. It isn't surprising that it is also riddled with security issues like this.

This seems to be the trend in antivirus software (like the other gangbuster revelation with Trend Micro). They've slowly turned their software into the crapware they used to defend against in response to their increasing irrelevance.
If it were web-based in the first place, I'd be complaining about that instead!
After reading the DeepMind paper, it does seem like their techniques could also be applied to chess and could possibly improve the state-of-art there as well. It is unclear, however, how much improvement remains in modern chess engines. They are already phenomenal.
“NSA as a service” and other honest taglines for Facebook
How Peach Onboards New Users
I believe the idea is that you can now build better analysis tools on top of this unified semantics - this better decouples tracing systems from the trace data analysis tools.
Awesome read. Sounds like a great guy.
>My jaded view would be that the banks would just borrow free money

I'm not entirely sure that is how it would work. They use Denmark as an example, but I believe that the negative interest here was for deposits in "National Banken"/treasury bonds. Meaning that the banks can't just park their money with the state, at least not without incurring a lose.

Some still bought Danish treasury bonds, because at least the lose would be predictable and with no real risk.

It forces the banks to actually do something with what ever money they have, but you're right in as so fare that the customers aren't going to benefit. Most likely the money will just be placed in stock or treasury bond of other stable countries.
I wonder if this one cable was miswired or it's something consistently wrong with the product. Either way that something like that could make it out of the factory demonstrates terrible or no QA/QC.

I've never used the Twinkie but it looks pretty cool. This shows that it may be worth adding some simple protection to the circuit to prevent simple miswires from damaging it or the host PC.
How would more demand reduce capital investment? If anything it should make it more attractive to invest. Supply and demand?
I guess in case of SHTF radio frequency legality won't matter anymore.
Investing isn't about only rent and salaries its about capital to grow. I would also say that investing in a bunch of super risk takers can work but could also leave you with a bunch of unicorns you can't dump off to the public.
To my knowledge you are correct. Although I kind of hope the rules get reworked a little. As a public service volunteer, it would be beneficial to be able to operate on many services with one radio, and many modern radios are capable of being "good citizens" on multiple services simultaneously.

(For example, we operate on Part 90, but may interact with members of the public who are carrying a Part 95 radio. Luckily as a ham, I believe I can at least operate my Part 90 radio on Part 97 bands.)
That's what confused me too. If I've been selling everyone apples at $5/bag forever, and all of a sudden I start selling them at $2.50/bag, Bloomberg logic would dictate I'm giving them a $2.50 * number of sales wealth transfer?
"He who knows enough is enough will always have enough" -Lao Tzu

Yes, I would agree that implementing a basic income is not a problem of technical feasibility or lack of resources but a problem of user buy in. I've read at least half of Graeber's book Debt: The First 5000 Years, pretty interesting stuff which points out some of the false assumptions at the heart of the mainstream sociopolitical game. For anyone interested, here is the pdf version:

https://libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf

It will definitely change the way you view "debt" which is such an ambiguous term in this day and age of trillion dollar debts.
No. I have not done that when I was hiring, and I would rather resign than do that now if I were told to do so today.

We have obviously not moved forward with some candidates. They got answers; they were always candid and truthful, and combining that with appropriate tact is somewhat of an art ;)
Your screen name informs me that you're an unbiased source for thoughtful analysis.
IMHO recent versions of Windows (7+) are best left with Windows Firewall and Defender.
Might be a mystery but I'm really glad they keep doing it, because the alternatives are 1) all your data are belong to us, or 2) it looks terrible everywhere.
I believe there is a misconception on this. The interest rate is payed BY the government to the holders of the treasury security.

This is loan the government takes to pay for its expenses. The interest rate the government pays on these securities is determined by the FED, and it is one powerful weapon to regulate an economy. The government is the lowest risk debtor in a country, so anybody who wants borrow must pay more than what the government does. If the FED raises the rate, the rest of the economy follows, financing goods and investing get harder, but inflation tends to recede. The opposite happens when the rate is lowered.

If the government pays negative rates on its securities, the banks have to pay TO the government in order to keep money invested in securities. The effect is that the government's debt will decrease, money will flood the market, possibly resulting in a bit of inflation, but maybe kickstarting the economy (and your student loan rates might get lower, if they are not regulated and/or subsidized, which I'm not of sure since I don't live in the US).
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Still pretty american centric. Obviously, there are great engineers all over the world.
Man, you're right. It's impossible. Oh well.
The reason the "stimulus" didn't work is that it costs more to the economy to produce the money that was spent to "stimulate" it than the economic benefits of that spending could produce.

And yes, 8 years ago people did predict what happened, exactly, namely look at the archives of http://mises.org and you will find articles predicting this result.

The problem is, it doesn't fit the political desires.

If you really want to stimulate the economy, by getting more money being spent, simply cut taxes and cut inflation. (Which means cutting government spending). You cut monetary inflation and taxation and individuals and businesses will have more money at the end of the day to spend on things.

Unfortunately, cutting government spending doesn't fit the "lets promise people free health care and education to get elected" agenda.

The Bush "stimulus" didn't work either. We had a housing bubble, but that wasn't exactly a net positive for the economy.

The problems is the "Science" of economics has been compromised to the point where people aren't even aware of the predictions that this would fail (you weren't for instance).... because what passes for economics is more akin to rationalizations for political policies, rather than a science. (outside of places like the Chicago and Austrian schools.)
Surely this product should be removed from sale by Amazon until the manufacturer can investigate?
Why call them militia-patriots when they're domestic terrorists?
For those unfamiliar, this person (Benson Leung) is a Google employee that has been testing USB-C cables to make sure they match the specs. His efforts were previously discussed on HN[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10508494
> The whole independent claim is just smoke and mirrors.

No, its actually legally substantive (though its more independent within the government than independent of the government.) Within its scope of granted authority, the Fed can (and does, regularly) act independently of the President and Congress. OTOH, actions outside of the Fed's legal powers require actions by Congress and/or the Executive Branch.

Now, certainly, the Fed, the President, and the Congress all interact and share their opinions, preferences, etc.
Speaking of controversial: I think things are going to keep being bad until developers realize that the problem isn't technical, but rather economic. Back before the current "give it all away for free" trend became a thing, commercialization of software was a given and allowed "winners" to emerge from the chaos. The merits of the "winners" isn't important here, it's the stability that comes with it. As long as everything is given away for free and there are no barriers to entry, you'll keep ending up with chaos and unmanageable churn whereby your job as a software developer has now morphed into a software tester/evaluator for every single piece of functionality that you need and don't want to write yourself.

When you have to actually put your money on the line and have an actual business presence on the web, it's a completely different mindset from "I'm going to write this small library and pop it up on GitHub for free, so who cares if there's documentation or if the software even works as described". The fact that there are developers that are professional and thorough and still give away their software is a minor miracle. But, it's not wise to count on the charity of such developers for the long-term because it isn't realistic. As more and more one-offs are created, it becomes much harder to distinguish one's software from the rest of the pack, so developers will simply not even attempt to do so. The Apple store is a perfect example of this problem.
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> Do you really want to require someone to sell 3.75% of their stake in a start-up every year so they can pay the taxes on it?

Yes. That's one of the many expected results.
Whether it's better than before is extremely debatable.

Cross-browser compatibility was a major issue, and it has improved some. But the problem in the 90s wasn't whether you could get the UI you wanted to work, and even if that was the problem, it still isn't solved. Actually, the consensus I remember from back then was that Javascript sucked. I guess the solution to that problem was to have more Javascript?

We have actually gone backwards in terms of ideas like "semantic markup" and most websites are no longer fit for viewing in Lynx. Which also means accessibility has gotten worse. Bloat is worse than ever and privacy issues are worse than ever. Power over the internet is concentrated in the hands of huge corporations who run crummy walled gardens. At least in the 90s most internet users agreed that AOL's walled garden was a bad idea, but now everyone comes out of the woodwork to argue in favor of Facebook or the App Store. I'd say things are worse than before.
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Wow, this is amazing! Really, really nice work! Will read it and analyze it in-depth, think I could learn thing or two...
A couple trillion dollars was used to buy up securities that are realistically worth $0 in pretty much every timeframe for 100 cents on the dollar, cleaning up bank balance sheets. This allowed them to continue to speculate on all sorts of things, like housing, commodities, etc, looking for returns (some of it probably saw its way to silicon valley too). It was passed on as easy money to corporations, who mostly used it to do stock buy backs that pretty much do nothing for "the economy" while lifting the stock market.

As for employment, if you actually look at the numbers, its people over 55 who can't afford to retire doing service jobs. The participation rate is trash and young people are fucked.

#recovery
Could you explain?
Full disclosure: Not a Google employee, not even a fanboy anymore after some of the stuff I have seen over the last few years. That said I'm FED UP with this Google+ bashing.

Two major annoyances: no api access and centralized. Otherwise nice. Have used it a lot, but not much lately.

Generally it seems to be nicer and more focused on topics than twitter.
I have technical information about the taggers and the infrared protocol they use on my wiki if anyone is interested:

http://wiki.lazerswarm.com/

I also sell a device based on Arduino that connects to a computer over USB that allows for hosting and scoring of games:

http://lazerswarm.com/
Unless you're in a country that isn't like the US, such as Canada. Then your dollar just tanks and everything besides the price of oil goes up, including food...
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Once industries transition away from tooling that uses gas/oil, there will be significant cost to re-tooling back to using oil or gas. At this point oil/gas losses value because there is a barrier to using it. If all cars on the road are electric cars, then oil refined into gasoline won't see much use and the price will drop (relative to the costs to harvest it). It's not like a rise in the price of electricity will send people with 100% electric cars running to the gas pump.
If Troy gave the tape to an academic venue, can't the NFL get it from the same venue and rebroadcast it since they have the rights to it?
Yeah, that's what the amazon review details. The ground is miswired.
Breaking test equipment should probably force a recall by itself. I wonder what the Amazon procedure is for reporting faulty items?
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I was just skipping through it. This film gets things right many scifi films don’t to this day. Which is astonishing, really. There was no real need for it to be this accurate. I mean, there just was no space flight, so you could just as easily have picked stereotypes about what it’s like to fly to space … it’s not like anyone (safe some scientists) would have noticed.

(I love the scene with the water bottle in zero g with some nice special effects. They got the nice round water bubbles right, but didn’t quite go for space travelers catching them with their mouths. I don’t think putting those bubbles in a drinking glass would be as easy as they show it to be. But probably easier from a special effect point of view.)
it's up to the guy who has the tapes being willing to give
them away for free

No... that would still be illegal and the NFL could still sue.

'The value of the tapes is zero'; what a weird statement to make. Are the value of illegal drugs zero because 'the only possible buyers' (i.e., no one) can't show interest? There is inherent value in a recording of the first event of a series of events that attracts hundreds of millions of viewers.
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Their PKI infrastructure was compromised a few years back, too.

Obviously a very different corner of the security landscape, but it doesn't seem like they've gotten any more careful.

Avoid.
Well, they were also talking about Chinese SUV sales.
Pictures of the clock from when it was being dismantled:

http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/images/small/2014-4558-s.jpg

http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/images/small/2014-4559-s.jpg

http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/images/small/2014-4560-s.jpg

http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/images/small/2014-4561-s.jpg
I don't understand why the NFL can say (as the article lays out):

"Haupt owns the recording but not its content, which belongs to the N.F.L. If the league refuses to buy it, he cannot sell the tapes to a third party, like CBS or a collector who would like to own a piece of sports history that was believed to be lost."

Copyright law does not (as far as I understand it) actually give someone "ownership" of a work. Rather, it criminalizes making copies of the work without the permission of the copyright owner. But the author of a book cannot prevent you from selling your copy to a library, a friend, or a rich collector.

My view would be that Troy Haupt ought to be able to sell his videotape to anyone he wants (just as he could sell a book). He ought to be able to show the content to anyone he wants (although a "public performance" is a different matter). If the NFL complains that the copy was made illegally, then they should sue Mr. Haupt's father (or his presumably long-settled estate).

Perhaps the legal theory here is that the NFL never authorized the recording so it's existence is the equivalent of stolen property?