skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They are incredibly well diversified, across domestic and international public equities, as well as private equity, commodities, fixed income securities (bonds, etc), real estate, and a category they call "absolute return", which is where they've placed money into external hedge funds. If the US economy tanks, they'll be fine. If Europe falls apart, they'll be fine. A bunch of start up unicorns fail in Silicon Valley? Fine.

This does not appear to be true. See page 14 of this paper, which shows the 2008-2009 performance of six privately endowed colleges and universities in New England. The smallest loss was 18%, the largest was 30%. Between January 1, 2008, when the S&P500 was at 1,378.76, and January 1, 2009, when the S&P500 was at 868.58, the S&P500 lost 37%. A reasonable mix of stocks and bonds would have had a similar loss as the endowments.

http://www.tellus.org/pub/Tellusendowmentcrisis.pdf
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I wonder if the returns quoted for endowments properly subtract out the salaries, build space, etc for the employees of the institution with the endowment, or just the explicit costs from outside management?

(See my clarification below. I'm talking about the costs only for the employees making investment decisions.)
China has between 400 and 500 million fake farmers that are a readily available supply of working age labor.

Supply of labor is the absolute least of China's problems. In fact, they have far too much labor compared to global consumer demand, which is why the bottom 50% of China is so poor.

If China operated its farming as efficiently as South Korea, much less the US, they'd need no more than 30 million farmers. They have hundreds of millions of people producing very little output, and they're kept that way - and without any ability to own their own farms - on purpose because the state has no idea what to do with them if they're not subsistence farmers.
I don't see how these facts are relevant to my statements. Every endowment gets massive donations. Harvard hires very smart people to run their money and they are not beholden to anyone other than themselves for the choices they make, which gives them lots of flexibility.
That perspective was Hayek's primary contribution to economics. Markets are not just short-term allocation systems. In the medium and long term, their primary function is to collect, compute, and communicate granular information about what is wanted where.

Bureaucrats can compile reports on the broad strokes in static systems, and by doing it without wastes like marketing, or redundant infrastructure they could maybe even do those parts more efficiently than markets. But nothing beats a market for realtime servicing of rapidly moving demand (unless you ask the techno-utopian communists).
He has absolutely no understanding of the technical differences between allowing the FBI and other government agencies with the proper subpoena access to iCloud data which is not encrypted and Apple has done, with hacking a phone and installing custom software.
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China to lay off five to six million workers
So what we lose in money, we gain in health insurance being ungodly expensive?
This problem isn't about using robots to refine steel or manufacture iPhones, or have workers magically move up the value stack, it's a question of who will take care of the legions of elderly Chinese. Throw in the fact that China lacks a serious social safety net and the spice of nobody wanting to be an elderly care worker, and you have a full on crises on your hands.
Depends if it's a good or bad law. I think we have seen plenty of examples of both but the downside of a bad law is significantly more injurious. I think sometimes we fail to appreciate just how much a bad law affects an individual because it's abstracted away or "collateral damage"

Opinion also sways what gets prosecuted. This cuts both ways in that the prosecutor wants to appear tough on law or favors can be had because of "affluenza" etc. Neither is right and I do believe good laws need to be applied consistently.
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Thank you for your thoughts - I appreciate this discussion. I think in the beginning it will best work on bigger websites with popular commenting sections and strict editorial policies. Take The Guardian for example. They disable comments very often, moderate them aggressively - I would love to be able to discuss their content on their website without their control.
Another user case is reviews on websites that more savvy users find not trustworthy. Scam websites etc. Being able to read actual user reviews there could be invaluable.
I'm sorry could you please explain to me why you believe I'm talking about the supply of labor?
Exactly. So it kind-of makes sense that those workers are represented in local elections as well (via their employers), don't you think?
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Hi, the author of the piece here. Definitely not a sponsored article. I heard the story over dinner at Mobile World Congress and thought it was interesting and worth sharing. If it had been sponsored it would be clearly marked as such.
Just to be clear: I'm happy paying a premium for all the great features services like SendGrid/Mandrill offer. We knew about cheaper services like SES, or the ability to roll our own, but we didn't want to re-invent the wheel.

I'm not happy about them quadrupling their prices, with a ridiculously short deadline to avoid it.
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Thanks for that. We certainly do not have an age requirement for the job. Not sure what job you found but I'm pretty sure age requirements are largely illegal in the U.S.
I wonder what a similar comparision between London and New York would be... Anyone has a good link?
I think it is important to note we beat AWS Lambda to market.

It goes to show you the innovation behind hook.io. We've been ahead of the curve on functionality for microservice hosting since day one.
As I'm becoming a huge fan of Elixir/Erlang, I'm going to have to try this (eat your own dog food, you know?)
But it's clearly not banned quick enough if he can get to #16 and have >1M downloads. I can't believe that happened in a few days. Every reupload would start from 0 users.
Amen.

It's an unfortunate effect of social media and the information overload. People get flooded with info. They spot hypocrisy. They think they are doing gods works by pointing it out. They get encouraged by the likes and retweets. And we get an endless cycle of people who have no idea what to do about hypocrisy upvoting each other.

The architecture needs to change. We have hit peak hypocrisy detection. You can detect hypocrisy in anything by spending a few days looking into things just like the "activist" editors have. The kind of people who do things about hypocrisy...well...where's the algo for that?
Can someone explain to me why they would do this ? I cannot think of a reason why they would stop providing this service.
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It's certainly a nice enough script for what it does, and I can see it being useful in some instances, but... a lot of this 'feature tour/tutorial' stuff strikes me as more of an excuse to not worry about ease of use. A good site design should be intuitive in of itself, not something that requires a guided tour to figure out.

It's a bit like the modern gaming world to be honest. In the old days, games like Super Mario Bros was designed to teach you through level design, so you'd figure out how things worked without getting a huge info box thrown in your face.

Like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH2wGpEZVgE

On the other hand, games since got obsessed with tutorials detailing every minute thing about the title, leading to such over the top insanity as this 'help DVD' included with Super Mario Galaxy 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbDLuDRgnkM

These tutorials on sites and in mobile apps remind me all too much of the latter. It's like 'we won't use our product to teach people in a natural way, so we'll put in a guide for complete dummies instead'.
I find that statement weirdly irreconcilable. Can you really be a naive user and a developer worth his mettle? I get your point, but there is a huge chasm between what users think is good for them and the actual capacity they have to not harm themselves.

I get that you as a "power user" are probably not interested in the restrictions and rules that the Apple ecosystem "imposes", but there is a humongous gap between you who is probably very competent and skilled at protecting yourself from all the numerous and plentiful risks that the Android system exposes you to; and the other end of the spectrum, the 99.99% of users who couldn't protect themselves even if they wanted to and wantonly download and install and follow prompts (if they read them at all) to expose themselves.

I find it rather ironic and rather reckless really from the developer perspective too that you seem to totally eschew all the risk considerations that Apple takes into account, just ignoring the business decisions they make. It is unarguable that the Apple ecosystem is not astronomically more secure and safe and a better user experience than Android for 99.999% of users.

You may be upset that you don't have access to low level device or OS features, but ultimately those are also largely security restrictions and in no way there to annoy you. What you should ask yourself is why the devs like you seem to be wholly unappreciative that Apple doesn't leave massive, humongous, gargantuan security and privacy vulnerabilities just gaping wide open all over their OS and devices. It's rather telling that people with your kind of mentality have no understanding for practical considerations and justifiable limitations and boundaries.

Sure, I'm not a huge fan about all of Apple's decisions, but conversely, your type of mentality is the equivalent of saying that there should be no guards in prisons and bank vaults should be open to the outside 24/7 where everyone can take out money on the honor system.
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They don't just have a lot of corporate debt, they have a vast amount of muni debt and shadow debt. Their total debt to GDP ratio exceeds that of the US [1], and it's still expanding rapidly. Their non-financial corporate + financial institution debt is now roughly twice that of the US.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-08/china-s-ve...
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To be clear, Theresa May just seems to be much more blatant about it because "terrorists and pedophiles"

She seems to be a real life personification of Delores Umbridge with all her unpleasantness.

But hey, there's also the current sh*tshow aka US presidential campaign.. :)
How many old laws do we now lament for their lack of foresight or for having been written in a time well before technology like today's could have even been imagined?

Here we have the opportunity to do the opposite. It is inevitable, given the trends in technology, that we will someday be able to directly integrate computing devices into our minds in some way. Perhaps we would use them to store memories themselves, or offload the processing of difficult thoughts or problems. It's hard to say, but if you can imagine controlling a smartphone or computer with only your mind then it's not too hard to imagine all the other potential uses.

We have the opportunity to get it right, here and now. Let's not waste it.
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Greece is very far from a market based economy. The article "Why is Greece so Successful" by Scott Sumner discusses in detail.

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/07/why_is_greece_s....

Examining the ranks of economic freedom, we find Greece at 138. Italy, the next of the PIGS, is at 86. Only a couple of Euro nations (Bosnia and Croatia) are below Italy (102 and 108).

http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking

You are right about inflation - I spoke badly. What I should have said is that the elected officials of Greece are not anti-inflation.
That large population of savers is largely doing so because houses are extremely expensive and the gender gap is so wide that most (of the few) Chinese women can disregard (the very many) men without property and do so without consequence.

So even if this large population of savers were to start spending their money, what are they expected to do with their lives, jack off until they die?

I wonder if this point will hit home to Bay Area engineers who live and work mostly among men and can't afford a house without serious pay or a startup buyout.
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Non EU European countries are actually included mind.

Also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_bailout_referendum,_2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_European_Constitution_r...
und so wieder...

Please entertain me with tales of how democracy in EU is alive and well... Not even going to touch democracy in the US, current presidential campaign speaks for itself...
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The 3DSystems stuff is really nice, plus they have Hershey helping them out.

I saw them at the National Restaurant Show, but this video was shot around the same time, same booth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWbFYZTrpM4
Doesn't any email originating form an AWS server get big marks against it from most spam filters?
As a single data-point, Singapore managed low corruption without free speech (and indeed, economic development without much attendant political freedom).
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People generally agree that it rains between 140 and 160 days a year on average, in London.

Do you ever get acclimated to the constant soggyness / dampness, the mugginess & the lack of steady bright sunlight even if you were born & raised there ?

Especially when you have to live in such small quarters without ample backyards, which are puny even by SF standards.

I don't know if Seattle gets such frequent rainfall although the total rainfall might actually be higher [1]. But I couldn't live in a place enveloped with constant dampness. It just drives me nuts. Dryness is something I've to have.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-does-it-rain-so-often-in-London/an...
Google could still take legal action against them.

Repeatedly signing up for new accounts after being banned is trespassing on private property, and I'm fairly sure Google could sue for TOS violations if they wanted.
What pissed me off the most about this change is that Mandrill was specifically marketed as a separate product, something they believed in. We had no reason to suspect MailChimp didn't actually care for the market they were operating in.

Now MailChimp have come out and said something along the lines of "Sure, it made us lots of money. But we never really cared about you or your use case. So we're killing the product."

It is for this reason I have lost respect for MailChimp. Quite frankly, they can't be trusted.
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