skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you'll look at your chart, those peaks in ~2002 & ~2009 were market bottoms, earnings had already dropped precipitously; and they were also black swan events. Historically from a F P/E and P/E ratio, the market is overvalued, even without a black swan. Also when you look at the debt market right now, it does not look healthy at all. That's usually a sign that something is brewing, usually a recession. However, stocks can continue higher, blow off tops are common place in the last phases of a bull market.

My fear is that the central banks are pumping so much liquidity into the market that they are driving up equities and pushing people out of safer assets into things like high yield bonds and momentum stocks. If we do have a recession, the pain could be worse than usual (for stocks) for the mere fact that the debt market could have liquidity problems when tons of funds begin to pull their money out at once from HY.

Not to mention all of the corporate buybacks that companies are doing by leveraging, because cash is too expensive to bring back overseas.

You can still invest in solid companies, but companies like Tesla, Netflix, anything with a super high P/E is going to be taken out back and shot (that doesn't mean the companies will go out of business, only that their stocks are much like Amazon in the 2000s.)
The US isn't prosecuting anything or anyone here - as has been pointed out multiple times, this is a civil case brought against Cisco in the US.
Yep, that's about it in a nutshell.
Have you ever considered quitting porn? Have you ever wondered if the women that you're classifying have any reservations about being exposed for your titillation?
>Their actions are anticompetitive towards developers and app publishers.

On their own marketplace. That they created themselves and can control as they like, and which is not even a monopoly (though that's also legal to be).

Not on the overall market.

That's like saying a supermarket can't decide what they sell or not, and whether they'll promote a particular product or not.
> You yell, "But people lose their jobs..." There are more jobs, plus why does everyone need a job anyway?

This is kind of silly. Job losses are a bad thing precisely because we don't yet live in a world where you can get by on a guaranteed minimum income without a job.

If you think it's worthwhile to push society in that direction, then great, but don't kid yourself that believing in it is the same as having already accomplished it.
San Francisco: all new buildings must have solar panels
I guess one answer to my question might be:
They are trying to build an AGI.

But one would have to say that the relatively sparse training data consisting mostly of takeout orders, and the sweatshop like environment would be a strange way to go about attempting such a thing.
The detail semantics don't matter. When you get a rejection letter, they always explicitly mention items on that guideline. What else would you call a "rule"?
That's very interesting, thank you for posting this!
That's not a firewall any more than a river is a damn.
Saudi Arabia Diversifies Its Economy by Investing in Startups
It's the circle of life. It wouldn't need to be that way if the investors do not expect outsized returns for the runways.
Can't get a 10G mobile data plan in Sweden.

I had to get a 2G contract and a data only sim (which is LTE/data only and meant for a tablet) to boost it to 22G

I pay 2 contracts for this because there's no uncapped data plan, the highest I could buy is 5G. (which I certainly exhaust in a month with my iphone).

I'm not too happy about you calling my countrymen idiots to be honest, not when there's no choice.

I highly doubt that Sweden is alone with this.
I don't see why job losses are a bad thing.

As long as we move quickly to "you don't need a job to live" because otherwise these job losses are destroying people's lives.
You mean the tech that has nothing to do with Oracle that's built on this foundation:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2617566/open-source-softwar...

So, it was started by a devious company. They tried to kill it off. It's being maintained and extended by a small pool of talented labor. Many of its features are migrating over to BSD and Linux. They have lots more work going into them. Also less risk of copyright and patent lawsuits in the future.

All in all, it seems that it's a dead-end, Oracle project that's probably going to stay behind the others in various ways with unknown risk from its parent company. And should still be avoided.
I own shares given to me in a company I used to work for that has now floated. I am keeping the shares, which is effectively a pick but I know it is well run and very good at executing value acquisitions
> He’s sharp. (He graduated with an interdisciplinary studies degree, having studied business, engineering, and design).

In my experience, interdisciplinary studies degrees have the reputation of being for the people who are sort of dumb, failed to pass upper level classes for intended major, and wound up doing general studies because they had so many credit hours they couldn't use towards a single degree. Are interdisciplinary studies degrees especially difficult or indicative of intelligence elsewhere?

>It’s easy to understand their interest in Fiance.

Not really, and this article doesn't help at all either. The argument seems to be that he made some some Photoshop graphics and pitched the idea of "Why not me?" to a group of people he probably had connections with through friends or family.

There is lots of stuff that is seemingly bullshit in this article I can't even be bothered to address specifically.
Reading the comments section on the Atlantic site was depressing. Judging other people's choices without understanding psychology or human nature seems to be a time-honoured American sport.

The author's whole point is that he belongs to a large category of people with the same affliction. If the socioeconomic system of a developed and very wealthy country leads to this outcome for 47% of its people, the proper response is not to nitpick the author's life choices. I find this sort of hypocrisy is strongest from the notionally conservative types who claim to be excellent financial planners and managers of money. I'd like to see them hold up a mirror to their own financial choices for thirty seconds. It turns out we're all idiots because we spend on things we find important and subjectively value--things others don't value and don't find important, and will call you an idiot for prioritising.

"A decent shot at a good station in life--but only if you've been an inscrutably perfect angel" is not too different than the promise offered to us back home in my native USSR. Supposedly, American capitalism is supposed to be an improvement over that.

Finally, the author did not recommend a specific policy response, such as taxing the rich and redistributing their wealth his way. If anything, it seems that his professed ethos would lead him to turn that down. So, I don't know why the Trumpers are out in full force acting like someone's proposing to tax them and give their money to this guy.
> OK, this is not going to be a popular opinion but this is terrible, harsh and condescending language.

Whereas I think it's refreshingly clear and honest, unbound by the artificial construct of committee-approved PR-speak.

> I don't own any apple product and never will because I cannot imagine buying a device where I cannot install my own software without purchasing Apple laptops.

Each to their own. I'm a developer and I consider my personal phone an appliance, not a hacking station. Even if I didn't own any other Apple devices, I'd still have an iPhone.

(And considering Apple laptops have among the best build quality, considering they ship with an OS with an open UNIX core, and are competitively priced, I couldn't be happier with them.)
He means report Lyft for spamming you with promos and ads via notifications.
Alright, I'll pass it along to PHP people starting new sites as I run into them.
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Can always rent one, try the one your spouse uses, borrow one from a friend, etc. Even buy and then sell, slightly used, for mostly the same amount of money 2 weeks later.

Heck, can even buy it and then return it for a refund, no questions asked, in some countries.
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Sources: Data from San Bernardino phone has helped in probe
There's a huge difference between an employee monitoring the product to make sure things don't go wrong, and an employee paid to fill in for the main product. It's like a real-life mechanical turk.
Google and Facebook offer largeish stock grants when you join the company, no ? Google is also known, to offer some kind of bonuses on merit, but that policy is seen as remarkable in tech.

I'd guess Amazon is more political and/or stingy than the above 2.

Anyway I was not referring to big tech specifically.
Even so, Go and a makefile won't account for filesystem differences, databases, services like cron, etc in a deployment environment.
Oracle does have something - CONNECT BY (part of their hierachical queries). Sadly, to do something similar in PostreSQL you need to use a recursive CTE.
Thanks for the thoughtful response. You make an especially good point about being accountable when running a "public market" that I hadn't really considered.
A primer to the IMMENSE CASH FLOW that's going through the IoT industry
In case you're wondering, the way accessing the data helped:

> The phone didn't contain evidence of contacts with other ISIS supporters or the use of encrypted communications during the period the FBI was concerned about. The FBI views that information as valuable to the probe, possibilities it couldn't discount without getting into the phone, the officials said.

If this is the threshold for gathering information, then there's no way the data could not have helped.
I have tried atom a couple of times, but ran in to some very annoying rendering issues - tearing while scrolling, dark backround flashing white when changing tabs, especially with the minimap - as well as general lag and sluggishness. Sublime is just so much smoother and easier to use.
In this case though, the tool only had one purpose, and the creator knew exactly what the buyer would be doing with it.
>Apple really does do nasty things to drive short term profits while hurting user experience. Why does Apple charge $130 for a $5 LTE antenna on iPads or $100 for a $3 64GB SSD chip on iPhones? Why do they cripple entry level iPhones with only 16GB?

Because market segmentation. It's a concept in sales as old as Adam Smith.
Everyone replying to you is echoing the "got mine, fuck everyone else" attitude, personally I'd also like it if my phone didn't /automatically/ download large things which will chew my cap, and rather wait until I'm near wifi.

to me, that's good UX, it's unnecessary to automatically download anything over 100mb right now, you can always manually force it- I guess this thread is in "hate apple" mode though.
Yes they mail you a fancy disk, you fill and mail back.
The goal/intent/promise with these companies is always train AI to automate the process. This is good for both "buzz" and cost reasons long-term.

Companies describe the AI as two-fold: 1) actual AI responding to your requests and 2) Automation making human workers' jobs much easier, ie. a really good CRM or scheduling algo.

The reality is that high growth almost always means throwing more people at the problem under the guise of being "trainers" when in reality the technology only really caters to #2 (better automation) and the company is forced to pivot before ever really getting to #1 (AI handling the requests) either due to distractions or inability to actual deliver on the promise.
Unless these folks had degrees in Working At Intel, losing a job is not the same as becoming permanently unemployable. Job loss sucks. But it's pretty hyperbolic to say it's destroying peoples' lives. Particularly for skilled workers, finding a new job isn't all that far out.
Any chance you might share your YC app?
On finding the right VC
My coworker has type 1 and she said that life for her using the immunosuppressive drugs would be much worse since she has hers under control with a pump & continuous monitoring. But she also said that she knew someone who had gone blind, had kidneys shutdown, etc because they couldn't control it. This study seems to be targeted more at this class of type 1 diabetics.
>especially given these guidelines are years old for the most part.

What part of the guidelines being old makes the outrage '[very] artificial'?

Seems valid outrage/annoyance to me, and I didn't artificially manufacture my annoyance, there's nothing 'eminently' fake about it.

Is the holocaust less shitty because time has passed? To draw a less emotionally charged parallel, was your coffee any less bitter that one time because you drank it two days ago?

>Don't you think there's a slight difference between living in "I don't know Korea, Middle east and the like" and deciding to develop for ios?

Obviously. It's an analogy. It's not supposed to be a direct representation of the current situation/issue.

To be clear here, your response is this: they own the devices/platform, they should be able to decide every aspect of how people code/develop/hack on that platform?

A purchased device should be, given the above, owned(or at least controlled) by those who created the device, not by those who bought it?

Yes, we do have the freedom to not buy Apple products, which is why many of us don't.
They've done a pretty good job automating the provisioning stuff. It still can be annoying to debug when it doesn't work, but for an individual or a small team it's pretty seamless these days.

I will agree with you about the Push Notifications (and other related features like IAP, GameCenter, etc).

Any company larger than a handful of developers should be using an Enterprise account, which costs about as much as three individual accounts, and has no limit to the number of devices for testing.
Inside Magic Leap [video]
At work I use exclusively an 11" MacBook Air.

One terminal, ssh'd into one tmux session. Typically running emacs in two column mode among many other tmux tabs.

I don't get distracted much :)
A cynical manager who knows his employer periodically clears out 10% dead weight would keep some dead weight around, so they could deliver the cut without losing the guys they need.
Of course it is...its has been and is being totally propped up by the Fed monetizing debt with equity purchasing ie QEI, II, III with QEIV being considered soon[1].

This is nothing but an asset bubble that is sure to burst someday, as is akin to what the Gov't, the credit agencies, and WS did with housing and mortgages back in the 2000's that led to the meltdown and TARP.

[1]http://www.safehaven.com/article/39140/jobs-report-moves-fed...
A relative few Silicon Valley elites living like kings while everyone else lives in a tiny box trying to raise their families on their meager Basic Income stipend doesn't sound like a utopia to me.
True, I thought of that and saw a couple people mention that when the original hullabaloo about the FOV differences started. Even if it's accurate to the actual FOV the end result is that the video doesn't give a good feel for the actual device so ideally to me it'd be done differently to give a more accurate feel to what the final FOV would look like.
>I'm not too happy about you calling my countrymen idiots to be honest, not when there's no choice.

How in God's name did the discussion get to be about your countrymen?

I haven't even mentioned them or made any hint that this is about some specific country. If anything, I was mostly talking with US examples on mind.

Heck, what I said isn't even targeted at people with 10GB plans, much less to people from a specific country...

It's not having or not having a 10GB data plan that I described as idiotic -- it's going over one's plan by doing something as downloading gigs of mobile apps, and then complaining about the extra charges.
Right, but it's still odd that other Google TLDs (as reported in this thread) are not flagged.
Well, obviously Apple has to keep driving up short-term profits because having only $200 billion stowed away in cash (mostly overseas, to avoid taxes) is not good enough. If only Apple had $300 billion, or $500 billion, it could really change the world... though I doubt whether paying Foxconn or Pegatron workers a decent basic wage would be part of it ;-)
Yes, pretty much any transplant recipient needs to do this to keep their immune system from recognizing the transplant as "foreign" and attacking it. This is an active area of research in immunology.
Interesting. How did you deal with this? What was your pricing model? If you're willing to share, I'd be curious.

We basically deal with this objection/request in two ways: (1) use the one-click survey as an entry-point into a bigger survey so you get at least SOME feedback, or (2) simply ask people if they'd prefer lots of info on a few people, or lots of people giving a bit of info. A lot of companies will choose the latter in this case.
"Calling things amateur is sad - who are they to decide? Let the market decide, don't decide for the market"

It's their market. That's who they are to decide. And they're right. Having a bunch of crappy, shoddy apps hurts those who actually put time, effort, and yes, money into apps with the hopes of making a return.

Seriously, by that token, any grocery store should be forced to carry my shittily packaged and shitty tasting food.

"I don't know about you guys but this is as close to big brother speak as I have seen."

No, it isn't. It's telling developers not to try and submit just any old crap and hope it sticks. Quite frankly, Apple has plenty of developers and apps; they can afford to be picky.

"(I don't own any apple product and never will because I cannot imagine buying a device where I cannot install my own software without purchasing Apple laptops. Seriously? This is progress?)"

Nobody cares.
What you folks are saying is mostly true. VR and 4K are the drivers for a whole new compute cycle in the home. I think the current core counts for Xeon are good enough for cloud (by this I mean that I think CPU isn't the bottleneck for the average EC2, Google Compute, Azure instance). Any one care to comment?
> Is the holocaust less shitty because time has passed?

Godwin Index = 4 Replies
This headline should be more specific. Energy companies definitely will see increased default rates. This can easily be evidenced by big banks like JPM and Wells Fargo putting 500 million more in their loss provision accounts.

For a couple years, while energy prices were sky high, these companies were given loans, expecting that energy prices would hold. Obviously that isn't the case, and these prolonged depressed prices will cause defaults to increase. Banks for the most part don't hold a big percentage of energy loans in comparison to their total loan portfolio. But I imagine regional banks in Oklahoma, Texas, etc with large energy exposure will have significant trouble.

Saudi Arabia is getting their wish, just at a much slower rate than anticipated.
30% sounds a lot, especially before tax.

but if we take a lesson from the games industry, we know that 30% is what valve takes.. and what Sony/Microsoft takes.

Not to mention the up front cost of the verification (which is a significant amount of money honestly, Apple's is minuscule by comparison).

But for that money Sony/Microsoft/Valve will not promote your product, they will simply be available for the platform.

I'm not sure how the Play store works of course, but my point is that marketing budget and release "tax" are separate.
Funnily enough, I think I picked up this habit from Korma source: https://github.com/korma/Korma/blob/master/src/korma/db.clj#...
This is old news.
>I don't see why job losses are a bad thing.

You'll see it if you lose your job and can't find a new one, like it happens to millions of people the world over.

Add a medical or family emergency to that, and you'll totally get it.

Unemployment in the real world is not about some Sci-fi automation fantasy. Might be, but not yet. And even when historically it leads to new jobs or other benefits (something not always a given) the pain and trouble is still there for those unfortunate to be left on the wrong side of those new jobs.
Could I send you an email? I'd like to ask about your moderation experiences for a project I'm working on, if you have the time. Thanks!
do you have any particular points of crossover OTOH? interested in what some similarities between data science ~ quant finance are.
> Uh, why didn't she teach the known diagnostic criteria?

Generally you would do this before having the lab in which students are expected to use the knowledge. It's kind of pointless the other way around. In other words, that doesn't help with the problem. Knowing the official diagnostic criteria is often not helpful for diagnosing a condition.

Your oncologist will be winging it based on their past experience.

As an addendum, here is a description of the process of diagnosing prostate cancer from a biopsy, from http://www.cancer.org/cancer/prostatecancer/detailedguide/pr... :

> Prostate cancers are graded according to the Gleason system. This system assigns a Gleason grade based on how much the cancer looks like normal prostate tissue.

> If the cancer looks a lot like normal prostate tissue, a grade of 1 is assigned.

> If the cancer looks very abnormal, it is given a grade of 5.

> Grades 2 through 4 have features in between these extremes.

> Most cancers are grade 3 or higher, and grades 1 and 2 are not often used.

> The Gleason score can be between 2 and 10, but most are at least a 6. The higher the Gleason score, the more likely it is that the cancer will grow and spread quickly.

> Since prostate cancers often have areas with different grades, a grade is assigned to the 2 areas that make up most of the cancer. These 2 grades are added to yield the Gleason score (also called the Gleason sum).

Note that this explicitly contemplates, at the low end of the scale, that it's difficult to distinguish between normal prostate cells and cancerous prostate cells.

Grades 1 and 2 are not often used because biopsies, a fairly invasive process, tend to be taken from men who are already suspected to have higher-than-average levels of cancer. If we took biopsies from a representative population sample, grades 1 and 2 would feature prominently in the results. That is the point of the med school anecdote -- even in samples artifically chosen to highlight the difference between a normal prostate gland and one with a serious problem, you just can't keep low-grade cancers out of the "normal" samples.

The point of the lab exercise is to give students practice grading cancers, and recognizing the difference between serious prostate cancer and run-of-the-mill prostate cancer. Only experience will help with this, because the diagnostic criteria are "prostate cancer runs the full continuum".

It is the norm in medicine that a question of the form "does this patient have this condition" has no truly objective answer. Surgery is well understood; internal medicine is not.
Romanticism is a 19th century thing.
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I must say, I'm surprised by how much their workforce swelled. Why did their workforce rise so much after 2009? Was this in the Bay area? Did this rise bring in additional revenue/create new business lines?
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They knew they'd use it to torture? I highly doubt that.

Monitor, perhaps. But that's very different. It's also not exactly specified what they built - was it generic and something they might be able to sell to corporations or other governments who want traffic monitoring or something designed only for this purpose?