skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't just do that. A careful reading of the establishment survey will tell you that the unemployment ratio is

unemployment = total jobs reported / people saying they're in the labour force (ie. who have a job or collect unemployment)

Part time jobs count as a fulltime job. So a poor person with 2 jobs is counted twice as employed, and long-term unemployed are excluded from the figures. It is hard to imagine, given the successive changes to this variable that this is an accident.

In reality the unemployment ratio should be:

people that are employed/people that could be employed

people that could be employed needs to be approximated, so I'm using the "working age population" figure.

I'm sure it's a total coincidence that the first ratio is 5.5%, showing a constant, if excruciatingly slow, decrease under the current administration (except during the GFC in 2008) and the second ratio is currently 25.8%, and shows a constant increase (except for the last 2 months) under the current administration. Caveat: I'm pretty sure the actual 25.8% figure is overstating matters, the changes in the figure are real: they represent either people who enter the workforce and can't find jobs, or people who get fired. Given anecdotes, and sentiment, I'm much more inclined to believe the latter : that there has been a constant increase of the unemployment figure since around 2006, extremely fast increase during 2008-2009, to ~12-13% followed by a slower increase after that, currently at 16% or so.

It is also funny that both figures start do diverge, immediately following a change in the way unemployment is calculated. One wonders ... which of those 2 things is cause, and which is effect.
Thanks for the props! For those who don't know https://surge.sh is single command static hosting serving over 28k projects.
Another reason to be concerned about peak helium: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/7959624...
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What next? Are they going to insist that folk desist from labelling things in: milligrams, centigrams, decigrams, grams, dekagrams, hectograms, kilograms, and megagrams?

That would be _super_ inconvenient. I think they are being right arsegrams about this.
If someone talks to you like this hold out for the day that actually fire you and offer you a significant severance package. Accept it (in writing) before telling them about the great new job you are starting soon.
Except spending is included in GDP which I think makes GDP about as useful as BMI calculations.
You never will, there or anywhere else. Communism can never be classless. It always turns out to be an oligarchy in practice or in the case of Stalin, a dictatorship.
Developers will see value in a product if they use it or see it being used and realise it could improve their work. Less about 'perception' of value.

More, is this something that will help me enough that it's worth the time of integrating it into my work flow.

As mentioned in another comment, it also depends who's money it is as to how that value tradeoff looks. The company they work for or their own.
Well, there is a third, rather significant type of bitcoin user: people who don't particularly care about the cool crypto or sticking it to the Fed, but do like the ability to make anonymous payments. And let's not be coy about who many if not most of these are: criminals.
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The problem with LAm was not so much US interventionism -the problem was that LAm was sitting pretty vis a vis most of Europe (aside from the UK/France), at the turn of the last century. They had natural resources and they could have exploited them to their advantage, but they didn't. You had a few "caudilloes" a great peasant population which did not have a tradition of education and generational social climbing (you must remember they were very far flung and rural).

When the US went in meddling, it's not like we messed something good in those places, they were going down anyway, due to many varied issues (see Mexico, Venezuela or Peru, proud anti-imperialists) and arguably where we did mess around, like Chile and Argentina, Colombia, Panama things are better off than in the places which languish in Garcia-Marques's feudal time warp.

It's almost as though LAm, tied somewhat spiritually to Spain (or the Iberian pen.), followed down Spain's footsteps to relative irrelevance.

We did mess up in a few places, due to realpolitiks, but I don't think things would have turned out better without our intervention --I don't see it realized in the places we didn't intervene down there.
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OCaml accommodates imperative programming just fine: `if` without `else`, `for` loops, single semicolons as statement delimiters (without enclosing statement blocks in parentheses), records and objects containing mutable data, etc. OCaml isn't like SML and Haskell, which <strike>do get in your way when you want to program imperatively</strike> push you a little bit more forcefully towards programming in a functional style.

On the other hand, Haxe lacks features like higher order modules and signature ascription, which give the programmer very fine-grained control over the scope of abstractions. Haxe's abstract types are more like what ML had in the 70's, before MacQueen invented the ML module system.
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It's not saying that apple is suddenly worse than yesterday. It's that new information may make you suddenly realize you overvalued it yesterday, right?
That's great until you work with any third party libraries.
I was mostly just curious if RSU refreshes was what was meant by bonuses.

Just never heard the term bonus used to describe them, but that makes sense.

Do other places typically do additional stock grants (bonuses) that don't vest for 2 years?
I guess the phenomenon of netflix and chill. Is more like "netflix and safe-chill". Either that or people are taking it too literally and actually chilling.
Wonder what the margin on their e-journals are like, vs printed journals.

They get the research papers for free, the editors don't get paid ... it's such a scam, and always has been.
What's the lowest cost in $$$/year for EV SSL certs?
They can control and modulate the injection far more with DI, because they're not limited to intake injection. I cannot give you much in the way of credible sources on the 50% claim from DI, only that I've read it from multiple sources - so treat it as marketing speak.

But even if we're "only" gaining 5% efficiency from DI, it's a pretty big deal. I'm fairly sure a GP3 or GP2 engine supplier have stated that DI provides better mileage, power, and torque, especially with an FI engine, compared to MPI.
I was interviewed for this article though not mentioned in it. My use case isn't mentioned: unaffiliated researchers with limited access to journals doing our own exploration of areas. I've compiled a library of several thousand articles (and via other sources, books) which for both access and portability I prefer electronic versions. My 10" tablet is almost perfect for reading printed material, and functions as a small research library on its own. (Organising this content is another headache -- Android and apps are sadly lacking in this area, one of the few options being Mendalay, owned by, you guessed it, Elsevier. Burn it with fire.)

While I can and do access materials from libraries, including online access, Sci-Hub is both more complete and far more reliable and convenient. Find a resource, plug in the URL or DOI, and I've got it. Versus locating the same reference independently through one of several distinct libraries, each with their own multiple subsystems, authenticating, and sometimes, sometimes not, securing the material.

Another point Bohannon failed to address, which is covered in the discussion here, is the role of journal publishers as gatekeepers not only to content but to careers. Academics, increasingly squeezed by budget retrenchments and awful working conditions[1], must publish through prestige journals in order to establish and advance their careers.

Journal publishers are rent-seeking at both ends of this channel.

Sci-Hub, or as I like to call it, the Library of Alexandra, hs a tour de force demonstration that information is a public good, and that information access wants, and needs to be free. Sci-Hub isn't a complete answer to the problems of current academic publishing (again: publish or perish), but it's a relief valve for many, and an absolute and irrefutable proof of the pressing demands for access.

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Notes:

1. See the amazingly awful story of a young newlywed biology postdoc who lost her arm in a lab explosion involving an improperly instrumented gas cylinder in which oxygen and hydrogen were being mixed under pressure. This after repeatedly reporting short circuits and electric shocks from the equipment.

http://chemjobber.blogspot.com/2016/03/postdoc-loses-arm-in-...
Latergramme just changed their name to later.com....
Luckily in the UK many libraries have access to BSO (British Standards Online), which allows you to view the standards in a DRM viewer as part of your free library membership.

It's not perfect, but it allowed me to implement an RFID data decoding library (ISO-28560) at my last job.
I also think that Rust has a bright future ahead, but C++ will probably live forever. There is a huge amount legacy code in C++, a lot of it tied to embedded systems that have service contracts that measure decades.

C++ didn't manage to displace C completely, I doubt that Rust will manage to displace C++. This is especially true now that C++ is seeing active improvement that makes it a lot more attractive for new projects.
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Even if you can only write at 80MB/s it doesn't take that long to do 4TB.
He likely would be in Prison, because he'd be forced to plead out to lesser crimes, or face the prospect of a cripplingly expensive trial with the threat of higher sanctions.
Which means that they're using profits from an unrelated market to undercut and push out / destroy any competition in their storefront market. Not a good situation for future competition.
Yeah I'm sure this can work out well for Microsoft. But let's not pretend they're in any way a good fit for the scenarios gcloud covers. I'd wager for most of the people on HN, or at least the "startup" focused ones that want a solid IaaS, Google blows Azure out of the water.
Instacart has photos... Instapaper has social features... FB is instadumb.
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There's definitely value in wrapping APIs - an API is useless to someone who doesn't know any programming. If you can provide an easy interface for non programmers to use the service, that definitely has value, even if the API does all the actual work.

You should aim to have a way to switch on the fly between 3rd Party providers though. On my (small) e-commerce website the payment processor would occasionally have issues with a customer, so I had actually signed up for multiple services that I could switch between at any time. That was useful when one of the providers I'd signed up with ended up getting out of the consumer e-commerce space at short notice.
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I'm actually worried about short term issues in Google search. After the introduction of "AI" in to search, the keywords are far more frequently being ignored and results are astonishingly less relevant than about a year ago in my experience. There also isn't any easy way to force the keyword in queries because "+" operator has been reassigned to Google+.
i concur
"151 million Americans count themselves employed"

Whoa - that would be 47% of the population? Or even higher if you only count percentage of population eligible to work (no kids or pensioners)? That number must be wrong?
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Wikipedia:

> In 2015, Elsevier reported a profit margin of approximately 37% on revenues of £2.070 billion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier
Before sci-hub, whenever I needed a paper I would email the author kindly asking for a copy. Almost everytime I would have the PDF by the end of the day. Researchers are happy to share their knowledge.
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Buying back stock decreasing the amount of outstanding shares. Decreasing the amount of outstanding shares means each share has more share of the earnings (earnings per share).

Buying back stock does not benefit Apple as a company, but if the shares are undervalued it benefits you as a shareholder.
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Dammit Jim!
Its also offensive to a certain type of bird.
Really interesting. Only two weeks ago we've been told by an AWS Architect that "if you need persistent TCP connections to servers avoid the ELB and connect straight with your [scaled] EC2 instances".
This was for a higher load scenario though.
... in the US
"a heinous apparatus has been constructed in order to control us all"

Sorry, I don't think reasoned debate is possible with you, you're on the fringe extremes with your beliefs. Hope you're feeling more positive today. Take a walk and end enjoy life.
I think what he's trying to express may have some value, but I agree that he's misreading quantum physics in a number of ways to try and use it to prop up his philosophical ideas.

The observer affecting the outcome of the experiment is an interesting property of quantum physics, but it only affects very small objects that have reached the point where they are almost at the edge of perceptible reality. And it really has nothing to do with consciousness or anything else he was putting across in the interview.

And of course, since the person doing the interview hasn't even read basic pop-science stuff on this kind of physics, the guy doesn't get called out on this.
Quality is also a key requirement for me. We developed our game Ellipsis for iOS with quality as the main driving factor. It's a minimalist action game of survival and dexterity, with zero text, no ads and no IAP. We've put a lot of effort crafting a polished experience that respects the player.

Please check it out, you're precisely the type of audience we are aiming for: http://playellipsis.com

Regarding curation, aside from places like TouchArcade, there are occasionally nicely curated video lists of best new premium games like these from Gameranx:

- January: https://youtu.be/Nuaj_ti5MtA

- February: https://youtu.be/aTQO0_bhuUI (disclaimer: we're in this list)

- March: https://youtu.be/oreE8YX5jQI
I don't understand academia (genuinely):

Couldn't the researchers simply publish their own papers? Make torrents etc? Or are they prevented from doing that somehow?
'Fout' is also Dutch for 'error / mistake' ;)
Plus you can scale labour up or down whereas you can usually only scale machines up without significant loss.
Liquidity would go down. Spread would be up. Market makers would have a hard time.
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I use arrow for all my time related operations. I tried dolorean once (very quickly) and found out it was missing several elelents I needed (which arrow had). Maybe I did not look closely enough, I will try again and be back if there is interest. Thanks.
I've wondered the same. I'm quite curious when they'll unveil an unmanned F-35.

I also wonder just how much of the technology and the pace of development we're seeing from SpaceX hasn't originated from the military themselves.
Your career is based on how "good" the journals are that you publish in.

If I publish a paper in Nature, Nature Genetics, Science, etc. then I can hand-pick my next position. The more glam-journals I publish in, the better my chances for tenure.
Vasalgel, an excellent contraceptive for men is slowly making its way through the FDA's testing process:
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Remember that in this scenario the alternative to an NPE is that the program doesn't even compile (because it won't type check).
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If I had super cool tech, I'd use Hawking radiation from small black holes as my means of turning matter into usable energy. Much more compact than a star, and the energy density is also a lot better.
So "Insists it be renamed" vs "insists it is renamed".

IMHO the first option sounds formal and archaic. The second sounds more in tune with contemporary English.

That said "insists they rename it" would get rid of the passive and avoid the problem entirely.
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No, I think all IP (at least above a certain scale) should come with compulsory licensing, with RAND or better terms. Then I could, in theory, pay directly for any TV show in an amount commensurate to the advertising revenue my viewing would generate, as could any streaming provider, cable/satellite network, etc.
Great idea, you get some money, and no good will and no reference. If money is more important to you than ethics and connections, this a great way to go. But know that connections will get you way farther than being an arrogant but skilled individual.
Wow <3 Alexandra Elbakyan is my new favorite super hero:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/alexandra-elbakyan-fo...
If Haxe had an interpreter (not hscript as it is far too limited) I would use it for a lot. Now compiling takes too long. The JS version is quite fast but not good for everything. It's a fantastic product though; in my experience it is write once - run anywhere. With some tweaks but that's to be expected. Please someone implement an interpreter in Haxe for Haxe.
(Unless you're Apple)
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Thomas Picketty says because the share of capital versus the share of salaries is up by ten points (and usually people notice it, hence all the raising inequalities and the crazy billionaires that "deserved it").

Also, because we're still working 40 hours a week in a world, especially in computer science, where that makes zero sense.
That seems a little hypocritical in light of the fact that the entire US aeronautics industry was subsidized by the US government.

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
OCaml provides some nice syntactic sugar for imperative programming patterns like "if" statements. But, I wouldn't really call it an imperative language, as it has its roots firmly in ML (which is not such a bad thing after all).

Arguing that ML had a precursor to Haxe abstract types is well within reason, but I'm not so sure they're the same. I'll have to do some more reading.
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Yes, which is why you can't call a window-based operating system *indows, paint your delivery trucks brown, or use the letter I.
Yeah, the difference is subtle. I know I was fired like this once, and I still say I was fired, but from the boss' actions at the time? I think he was super surprised that I made that choice; he fully expected me to do the "do this thing" part of the "do this thing or quit" ultimatum.

I mean, it was an ultimatum, but as far as I can tell, I could very well have simply done what the boss asked of me and kept the job.
If there is a FAQ it probably points to something that needs to be fixed or streamlined.
Wow, I can't believe those Telegram people thought they could get away with making up a name out of 'Telephone' and 'Instagram'.
For those who aren't familiar, the Productivity Commission is a major Australian Government advisory body/think tank that conducts public inquiries into matters of economic policy. The Government requested a broad report into the economic effectiveness of the intellectual property system.

This report is a draft - the Commission is presently taking public submissions that will be considered for the final report later this year.

Highlights from the findings and recommendations:

* 70 years after death is far too long a term for copyright - it would be more appropriate to limit copyright to 15-25 years after creation (noting that this has implications for international copyright treaties)

* Make it explicitly legal to evade geoblocking

* Repeal Australia's "parallel import" restrictions on books

* Replace Australia's present "fair dealing" exemptions with a US-style "fair use" clause which would be much broader in scope

* Ban software patents and business method patents

* Reform pharmaceutical patents in various ways

* Government should adopt an Open Access policy for publicly funded research

All of which seems in line with what I consider sensible policy reform. Of course, whether the Government will consider any of these recommendations at all is a completely different question...
Quote the word by itself.
An interesting counterargument from Peter Thiel:

"Monopolies drive progress because the promise of years or even decades of monopoly profits provides a powerful incentive to innovate. Then monopolies can keep innovating because profits enable them to make the long-term plans and finance the ambitious research projects that firms locked in competition can't dream of."

http://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-l...
>Sadly, some of them profit (immensely) from putting up that huge barrier for smaller companies to compete with them.

Patents go both ways. Studies that while patent thickets may discourage entry [1], this effect is limited, and smaller companies are more likely to enter the same markets (and succeed) if they have patents themselves [1, 2, 3, 4].

> Oracle gets to claim $9B for 37 methods in the Android code.

This has nothing to do patents and everything to do with copyright licenses like the GPL. And just to be pedantic, it's 37 whole packages. And without this, Google would have been rip off Sun's hard work of building a developer base for Java. "Free software" should not mean "freeloading".

> Apple gets to sue Samsung over icons, among other things.

And without those, as ridiculous as they are, Samsung would have gotten away with ripping off Apple wholesale.

> Being Open Source friendly isn't about releasing code under liberal licenses. It is about the commitment to software freedom.

False dichotomy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11583749

1. http://people.bu.edu/cockburn/cockburn_macgarvie_entry_and_p...

2. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=510103

3. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=989592

4. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=926204
Pretty much none of these are engineers; most are in academia or on the research side of things.
> when they finally realise their monetary policy is only making the inevitable worse

How come you realise it and those in charge of the policy are ignorant of the fact ?
When I clicked on the link, I thought the article was going to be about a dispute about an app highlighting all of the digital junk on Instagram/Facebook feeds.

It occurs to me that my brain now readily connects these brands to trash. There was a time when that wasn't the case.
That's the same argument as

I used to have to make my own hammer, and then I could buy them at the store.
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> The people who use GDP are aware of this. The thing is that no one has come up with anything better.

For what it's worth, I too cannot think of anything better. And good points about all the other things not captured by GDP.

But given that GDP is a terrible measure of productivity,
shouldn't the result be: We don't know how to measure productivity on a nation scale so let's stop pretending that GDP meaningfully measures it?

Thanks for the book recommendation. For anyone else who's interested in checking it out I found chapter 1 available here:
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10544.html
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