skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why this should come to surprise anyone. The big banks have always been in favor of government intervention in the market. They don't want a free market because 1) it's very possible that parts of their business would be considered fraudulent (fractional reserve banking) in a free market and they would be liable. 2) their existence is maintained by government programs: Federal Reserve, FDIC, bailouts, etc. 3) more regulations create bigger barriers for competitors, squeezing out the small guys from the market.
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But in the US, having collateral was viewed as a sort of privilege mechanism. Mitt Romney's Dad George, in the very best of intentions, tried to make it to where "underserved" or "redlined" mortgage districts got more service in mortgages to counterbalance things.

The end result of the monster that became blew up in 2008, after people took it far, far, far too far.

The hard problems are hard, mainly because you can't see the effect of an action until it's far too late.

Calomiris/Haber wrote a book explaining this. Recommended.

We can resort to a sort of grumpy, Congregationalist/Calvinist mentality but then stuff goes undone and people are poorer. Value should come from value, not suffering.
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Nice "umm, actually" there, good job.
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The income of low-income workers is spent back into the economy, allowing more people to be employed providing the goods that were purchased. This means it at least breaks even.

Since it stands to reason that the individual immigrant will benefit from immigrating with a higher income, it is also stands to reason that this income being spent would be greater than if they had stayed where they were.
It's a bit hyperbolic to call it a huge indictment. Or in fact, an indictment at all. It's more like a mildly divergent opinion.
iOS low battery mode disabling itself once charge goes over 80% is really annoying, but maybe I'm just used to how it behaves on the platform they copied the feature from...
I sat on one of these for a while: http://www.amazon.com/Salli-happy-ergonomic-seating-SS-TW-L5...

Extortionately priced, but I liked the hip angle, and mobility it encouraged, and the fact that you were so close to standing height that you could easily move between sitting and standing (still need a sit-stand desk though).
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You state that it is a 'wide backdoor' and while it seems that you could describe this as a backdoor, to assert that it is a wide one seems .. dubious to me. Also, the fact that forced marriage exists is not enough, because it is not necessarily used to foster immigration. Both of the people I have known who had spouses arranged for them had this done because of 'cultural history' and actually went to live abroad with their new husbands (one later managed to leave him and return by herself, I don't know of the other)

I think that the situation you describe (forced marriage) could be illegal already and while it would be good to detect and punish the perpertrators of this kind of offence, to penalise a whole bunch of other people in their name seems somewhat excessive.
Federal judges are salaried and appointed for life except in cases of impeachment.
Nothing being built today is designed to last. These frameworks align with the financing—get in, get money, get out.
Let's put Google's Youtube behind a deceptive site screen immediately! http://i.imgur.com/cXf5dwJ.png
In short, capital gains. $100k at normal tax rates leaves you with $60k in the bank each year. $500k taxed at capital gains tax rates leaves you with (approx) $400k.

That means it would take you 6.5 years to make the same amount of money. Do you want to run an app for 6 years if you could get the money today + do something else? That $400k can start making 5-10% returns a year.. starting today.
Realm is a mobile database: a replacement for SQLite and Core Data
Would you say, you got a dopamine kick out of it and suddenly lost interest after?

Can't help to wonder how oddly the pattern is to something else.

Though I still think it stems from the inability to make a decision. That's what I would say is the core. The dopamine kick as just medicine so you won't feel like shit all the time. Some amateur science here.
I love Angular 1 because I can be quite productive in it, and expect to keep on keeping on with the Angular 1 branch for years. I will not be jumping to 2 nor will I jet off to learn React.

Good to see others who have decided to keep on with what works.
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It's also hard for me to see a serious problem with this. I mean, it can be annoying, but it seems I often wish decisions could be made by professionals (doctors, engineers, etc.) instead of politics and caprice and the IBC (and it's siblings for plumbing and electrical) is an example of laws that are actually thought out by someone who knows, rather than someone who thinks they know better. I imagine they are not perfect, but it still seems like an achievement.
From where did you get the idea that the Swedish government can't do this?
I just got a walking desk set up in my home office with an old used treadmill and some cinder blocks. It's fantastic. I've tried doing just a standing desk and had a lot of the same problems the author mentions - my legs would get achy and I couldn't get in to a flow. While walking I don't have that problem. In fact I daresay my focus increases while walking. I've done about 50 miles on it so far and I feel great.
A little rant that I have been saving up:

"Capitalism" is not the same thing as "free market" is not the same thing as "laissez faire."

A "free market" means lots of buyers and sellers participating on even playing field. Even Adam Smith acknowledged that government regulation is necessary in order to ensure that the market remains free. When people argue for the removal of laws and regulation, they are actually arguing for laissez faire economics which, in a nutshell, means for the government to stay out of it. Left to their own devices, however, capitalists will naturally (and rationally) try to tilt the playing field in their favour. Capitalism, for what it is worth, is people investing their free capital into economic enterprises in order to glean a return.

So, I am, actually, a strong proponent of capitalism operating under free markets. I am against capitalism, however, under a completely laissez faire economy.
> Visual Studio is a dream, if you're into that ecosystem. MS dev tools are actually very nice

Most likely because dogfooding
It is not precisely wrong, and thanks for tricking me into opening an obscene picture at work, asshole.

The internet is designed to be highly fault tolerant, because it was based on an arpanet project to design a network that would NOT go down, even if there was damage to a significant percentage of nodes.
> There are plenty of great use cases for an SPA. A blog probably isn't one, but like with all technologies, part of your job is knowing when not to use it.

99% of the SPA's I've encountered in life had no business being SPAs.
Performance Engineering with React, Part 1
My solution to this problem is to use LastPass. The crypto is about as good as you can get, the only problem is that its not Opensource. LastPass runs literally everywhere, every browser, every device.

Markdown support in the notes would be quite nice. The UI could be improved for that usecase as well.

I really like having only app for those use cases.

I really like that I can use my Yubikey for 2f authentication over NFC.
Whether you find the recent frameworks to be blessings that bring sanity to web development, or a over-engineered pile of chaos seems to be a religious argument, mostly based on if you have already gotten used to not having frameworks for the last 20 years.
Generally those workers are also moving around, not standing absolutely still with their arms held out in front of them. Standing desks don't insulate you from the need for frequent breaks.
Here you go: google.com/search?q=define+moderation
After surveying the house designs, I can't help but share this: http://inhabitat.com/magical-dome-house-in-remote-thailand-c...

$8000 for 3 room house with small pool, which is so fun that it looks like toy.
Exactly. For simple sites, I pretty much avoid all frameworks/libraries. However, I use babel/webpack though I really like webpack-dev-server and the full set of es6 features. I disagree with the React statement. I believe it's really simple on it's own. Flux/Redux add a lot of complexity, but confers significant gains. The new site I'm writing for work isn't just some stupid CRUD site - it's a complex UI used to monitor and manage industrial assets. Having the ability to organize long data flows and actions makes the code much easier to read and write, especially for other developers. If I had to manually manipulate the DOM (especially for making everything responsive) I'd go nuts. The thing about these tools are that once you learn them well, they save you a lot of time.
Silly question but we read all the time those complains from tech journalists or 'apple geeks' about those macos bugs, while I'm not a huge fan of the OS myself, my complains are usually UI or performance related, rarely on actual bugs: curious, is there an obvious, known list of bugs those guys are talking about?
GTK 1! I never thought it existed :)
According to theverge[1], "Canonical’s engineers tell me that given the technical capabilities of Ubuntu’s users, they’ll soon find ways to get the OS on other devices."

1: http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/4/10914004/canonical-m10-ubun...
Front-End Development really does suck, and I think that can be backed up by productivity science. I think the problem is that the web was never intended to become what it is today. It was meant for making documents with hyperlinks — that's It.

It's unsurprising that using a technology for something it was never meant for is problematic.
Seconded. I ran some basic benchmarks and found that Vultr outperformed DO rather consistently.

Vultr: https://gist.github.com/bobobo1618/0972fc51f49d90fb37af

DO: https://gist.github.com/bobobo1618/81aa3f413b99aaab1f0d
Apple Confidential. Steve Jobs “Think Different” Internal Meeting Sept. 23, 1997
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Aren't you contradicting yourself? If post-Jobs they only pay lip service to quality but with Jobs they actually took action, doesn't that suggest Jobs may have been a positive influence on quality?
Didn’t know about the AC-130. Definitely a risk even in a moderate threat environment.

I still don’t believe F-35 is the right platform for CAS. In a medium to high threat environment, I would prefer bombers (perhaps stealthy) or drones (expendable) at altitude with a payload of JDAM and LGBs, than a fighter with just a couple. And rolling in with the gun in a fighter is silly. If the environment is that high threat, limiting collateral damage with gun runs isn’t a concern.

I feel like we are building platforms that can beat up medium threats (Iraq/Iran), won’t work against big threats (China), and bankrupt the country against small threats (counter insurgency operations). I’d favor a more diversified set of assets for specific roles and don’t think the F-35 fits the bill.
Not at all. With how widely known patent trolling is, there's nothing inherent in a patent dispute victory that signifies the patent protects a valid invention and that the party suing isn't a troll. All it means is that the troll succeeded in their trolling. That's equivalent to suggesting that if a person was found not guilty of a crime they actually committed, they didn't actually commit it.

The legal system does not adjudicate reality.

PS: The rounded corners patent is equally offensive as those bought up and profited from by trolls in the courts. Patents don't intrinsically signify authentic invention. They should, but there are far too many counter examples to rely on such a claim.
> Are spouses of people on this type of VISA allowed to work?

Yes.

> You do know the default answer to that is: "Fine, as paragons of morality, we will hereby no longer allow any foreign workers with spouses who make under XX,XXX to enter the UK, because separating them from their family is immoral."

You completely misunderstand what is even being discussed.

We're talking about UK NATIONALS who if they earn below the threshold cannot bring in a foreign spouse or child.

We are NOT talking about foreign nationals on work visas and their ability to bring in other foreign nationals.

To use a specific example: If a UK national moved to the US, got married, and had a kid. If all three of them wanted to move to the UK, they would be separated for years. The UK national would have to move to the UK alone, get a job, earn 23K/year, and only then could they apply to bring the other two over. This ignores how long the visa process takes or how many years of work-history you need to get approval!
Scary reading.
Agreed - the barrier to entry has been lowered significantly, and legions of bro-kiddies who now call themselves developers have been pumping out garbage
Apple software quality is not declining. The previous versions weren't better. It's just not advancing with its competitors. Apple software products are still great but it feels like they've been too relaxed and that's the major fear (that others may meet up with them and surpass them)
Hmm.. I'm actually convinced, for what it's worth.. Thank you.
Because we don't need better tools. If things are getting worse, that shows we had the tools already. The problem IMO: We keep trying new tools where they aren't needed.

#grumpy #getoffmylawn
The demand for product X is always only sufficient to attract Y workers. That's how the economy works, your confusing a demand shortage for a worker shortage.
Damage to a forum from users running around insinuating others are 'shills' is much greater than from any supposed shills. And you keep doing it - adding links doesn't make it any less baseless or icky.
One thing I've noticed is that Apple product users (myself included) always think Mac and iPhone software was so much better 5 years ago. Is it really? I think if you look at it in detail there are features that take turns at being bad.
You need to get used to it like anything else.

I'm a few weeks into using a self-built standing desk[1] and I don't even realize I'm standing anymore.

Yesterday I stood for 15 hours and walked 3 miles and at the 15th hour I barely felt different than when I started the day. I took (2) 10min sitting breaks for meals.

[1] http://blog.nickjanetakis.com/post/137161793153/build-home-m...
This author has their priorities wrong. I'm 37, so the physical health of my body is priority #1. Without a standing desk, I frankly wouldn't be able to write code any more due to constant neck pain.
The 33rd degree is the highest degree of initiation into Scottish Rite Freemasonry. Clearly they are in on the conspiracy.
> Any link to where I can read about that encoding style in more details?

Hmm, I'm not aware of any literature other than what's on the Cap'n Proto web site. You can of course find the Cap'n Proto encoding documented here:

https://capnproto.org/encoding.html

The format is, of course, a lot like how in-memory data structures are laid out in C (fields of a struct have fixed offsets; variable-size fields are behind pointers). Unlike native pointers, though, Cap'n Proto's pointers are designed to be relocatable and easy to bounds-check, and they contain just enough type information for the message to be minimally self-describing (so that you can e.g. make a copy of a particular sub-object without knowing its schema).
This is interesting/disturbing. The content-marketing aspect was a little heavy-handed, though.
The authors note that it is a contributing factor, which means it is not the only factor.

I'm not really sure why people referred for semen analysis would be a biasing factor in this when it is present in both test groups. It seems like it would be the only reasonable way to get statistical power in a study like this since if the effect is small and most people don't suffer from it there would be a much larger sample size required.
" Is it somehow immoral to use the legal system for financial gain?"

Yes. Yes it is.
I found flights to Valencia on flychecker at € 36
Absolutely. Snow Leopard was the pinnacle. I could run for months without a reboot and did a tremendous amount of heavy work on that old Macbook Pro.

Starting with 10.7 and seeing the decline coming, I was happy that Ubuntu ran very well on that laptop and that held me over until I left Apple hardware entirely.
Steve Jobs in a meeting with PC computers in the background
"Trolls" don't do anything with the patents other than sue people. You'd be pretty hard pressed to say those companies don't use their patents.
Goldman Sachs Leads $30 Million Investment in Software Supply Chain Fixer
> ...whose functionality has been entirely superseded by HTML at this point...

This is just not true. Not all functionality enabled by XUL can be executed with Web Extensions. Perhaps this will be so in the future.

> ...and that's why care is being taken to make sure the important extensions continue to work...

Who decides what extensions are "important" and therefore worthy of working in this new "web extensions world"? I guess my point is that if there were true parity between web extensions and XUL there would be no need for concern. However, that is not the case and we know many extensions cannot be recreated. Therein lies the problem. Many users will be negatively affected by this change and I am still trying to understand the benefit. For example, why are Web Extensions mutually exclusive to XUL extensions? I get that supporting both is inelegant, but it at least reflects the current reality of Firefox usage.
If you come at every discussion about economics as if you are an oppressed employee as opposed to the small business owner or an employee entering into a voluntary mutually beneficial contract, then you are going to rally for state interference in everything concerning your employment. Unfortunately, there are so many negative and obvious unintended consequences that the workers are harmed more than if they would have been more "economically free".
I don't understand all these comments talking about how these prototypes are inferior to existing transportation technologies. You're comparing something completely new, that's barely started the transition from thought to physical reality, with technology that's half a century old.

The Wright Flyer was slower than a contemporary ship, let alone a train, yet this technology quickly became the fastest transportation available.

Hyperloop is supposed to average about 600MPH and hit a top speed of 760MPH. Now, that's a far-off estimate of something totally unproven and could be way off, but if you're going to compare it to alternatives you need to compare what it will become, not what it currently is. You might disagree on what it could become (I have no idea how much of the supposed specs are feasible and how much is just wishful thinking, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if it couldn't achieve its goals) but you can't just look at some first-try barely-works prototype and assume that's the end state.
Thin-Layer BaaS – prevent another Parse
Fast in what context? Fast web requests? Basecamp 2 had 50 millisecond responses when employing Russian Doll Caching and Turbolinks.
Interesting, its only a few taps to set an alarm, and I'd find "speaking to the cloud" cumbersome.
A majority of Americans believe that aliens have visited earth and that the government is hiding evidence of UFOs. By your logic I should conclude that all Americans are stupid, which wouldn't be that extreme, given the popularity of Donald Trump. I then could come up with a rhetoric that it's irresponsible to let americans go to vote. But all of that wouldn't be fair now, would it?

> If I feed a starving child because my horoscope told me ...

In our times astrology is nothing more than a fun conversation piece. I do wonder what your definition for "good" and "bad" is.
Not even close, I can't tell you the last time I've wasted a day trying to get something to "seemingly" work in IE that worked in firefox. Sometimes fixing it in one place would break the other. It was a nightmare where I'd loose hours maybe once a week. I just don't have those problems anymore. Maybe its because I was a junior dev back when IE5 and IE6 was everywhere... but I lost a lot of time on it.
> the years of oversimplifying applications has created an Apple that can't handle complex applications?

Ah, you've fallen for the illusion. Those "simple" Mac apps you love are fantastically complex to implement. It's the user experience that is simple, and it takes a ton of sophisticated engineering to pull that off.

You can think of it as there being a certain fixed amount of complexity in the user attaining some goal. You can make your software simpler by foisting the complexity on to the user: just make them do all of the nit-picky tasks.

If you want to make it simple for them to achieve their goal, your app is going to have to contain that complexity itself.
My work environment: standing desk with big monitor. And a low coffee table at the right height for putting the laptop on and sitting on the floor.

And of course taking the laptop out for a walk to a cafe or park. Variety.

Except right now the coffee table is covered with Lego castles because I got this toy dragon princess who demands a pretty place to live in. These things happen and you have to work around them.
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Exactly. If the problem was note-saving integration, they should have built an open interface for it, and then maybe (maybe) endorsed Pocket as the reference implementation, featured in the extension gallery or on the start screen.

Bundling Pocket outright, like Mozilla was just another Silicon Valley company, was very shortsighted.