skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Fed economic policies of strict inflation control have had a big part in holding down wages for working people. We all know when there is very strong job growth the Fed increases interest rates to slow the economy. This is done to limit inflation but it's executed at the very point when the "working person" would otherwise have the chance to get ahead. If interest rates were held lower longer strong job growth would elevate competition for labor... thereby increasing wages. This strategy caries with it a more pronounced risk of a spike in inflation but I would suggest that risk is worth it. If you look at the stagnation in real wages it starts around 1980, not coincidentally 1 year into Paul Volcker's term as fed chairman (whose clear mandate and legacy was controlling inflation at any cost).
At least in theory...
I admire Zuck wanting to do good for the world, and wanting to sell his FB shares in order to help others, but this still seems like a bad precedent for the financial markets in general. The shareholders are the owners of the company, and the percentage shares they own should represent the percentage influence they should have in the company. It's easy to dismiss "shareholders" as being wealthy capitalists, but in reality, the majority of shares are owned by the middle class, either directly, or indirectly through pension plans and such. The idea that a "ruling elite" can overrule the wishes of company's majority owners, and use the company's resources in any way they want, is conceptually very disturbing. In the long run, it's bound to lead to corruption, nepotism, and abuse of power.
> I think your mind is a little bit stuck in the SF bubble.

I'm sure you meant no harm, but please don't make unfounded personal comments like that. They have a high probability of being taken ill and provoking defensive reactions. And they add no information, except perhaps information about the commenter's assumptions.
That would be incredibly rare to implement a breadth first algorithm in front end work. I mean you could pick any question about the most obscure browser quirks would probably be more relevant.
For some people and at certain times it's not that easy to find a good job immediately after quitting. If this had happened in 2001 good luck finding a job!
Drones and the service industry
I've seen research indicating that tobacco users actually cost the Canadian healthcare system less overall: they die ~5 years younger, and healthcare costs go up with age.
There is no generic answer to your question. That's no how design works. Sometimes the tradeoff is worth it sometimes it's not. It depends on your goal. In an app that is 100% notifications I could imagine it being a quite good tradeoff.
So I followed the gitter link to Orleans. I see a bunch of people talking. I'm not going to write "hey so what's this all about" so they can link me to the readme.

I went to the repo. The "homepage" includes the readme, which includes enough detail and code examples that I'm all set as far as knowing what Orlean's is "about".
Yes, there will be a community of teachers sharing their lesson plans by offering them free to others. The plans will be hosted in our software. A free lessonplan directory of sorts.
Movement in UO worked ok most of the time, and that was with clients on 56k modems and servers powered by hamster wheels.

> it's because they don't care

That'd be nearly every company running an MMO then. You're quite right in principle: speed hacks and teleportation should be extremely easy to find by doing basic sanity checks every now and then. But in practice these things go on for months and months.
Game Critic Uses Brilliant Workaround for YouTube's Copyright Bullshit
Can work is irrelevant. And mostly wrong, since can is not do.

They claim it is happening.
http://fcell.io/

They have a product like yours but will do C#/F#/VB instead of SQL (in your case). Their pricing is pretty heavy ;).
Yes, in Australia we have a very good dairy industry (milk, cheese, yoghurt ...) and I was surprised to see lots of Chobani on the shelf. We already had about four local and NZ manufacturers of yoghurt, including 'traditional' or 'Greek style'.

I wonder if it's a bubble or whether they can compete.
It doesn't taste much different to the existing products, and costs more.
The random person is also involved in the transaction even if not taking part in it.
Before the fact, we know that cancer testing does not reduce mortality, with the possible exception of cervical cancer. PSA tests are the worst offenders.

Why cancer screening has never been shown to “save lives”—and what we can do about it

http://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.h6080
XMPP had a fair amount of shortcomings and the real issue is that federated systems don't solve spam. So everyone living in this "we'll run our own IM systems, just like email" is deluded, as spam in email is barely a solved issue. And much of the solution involves blocking "independent" servers.
I mean, so did Ghengis. He didn't call his rape + pillage a charity, though. It just so happens Mark is conquering by forcing the world to depend on him by rewriting "the internet" to mean "facebook".
'''there was a public effort to try to select a broad representation of cultures, backgrounds, educations, nationalities etc to be astronauts.'''

Oy vey... that might be a sentiment which befits an established enterprise, but it is no way to reach for the stars.

Do you think Magellan or Columbus tried to be inclusive when they were looking to crew their expeditions? Of course not, they selected on whatever capabilities or vices they deemed necessary for their purpose. Did the Vikings go for a multicultural crew when they tried to reach Vinland? Nope. What about Genghis Khan, did he choose his troops by looking at the colour of their skin or their cultural heritage? He probably did, the criteria being 'just as long as they look and talk like me'.

Trying to be culturally sensitive and inclusive might work when trips to Mars are organised by the UN, based on technology and experience from pioneers like the current crop of 'commercial space access providers'. This is not where we are just now, however. Right now the selection criteria are altogether more practical: can you afford it, cope with the stress, have the right capabilities, can you function as a crew in a cramped environment for an extended period, can you handle the possibility of being left 'stranded' on a planet hostile to (our) life?
The second half of this piece states the fear pretty well: https://medium.com/@anildash/how-to-look-at-the-chan-zuckerb...
> Haskell's type system made it frustratingly easy to construct types that would force the typechecker into an infinite loop [4].

It's more akin to C++ templates, where the type checker only has a bounded number of reductions it will do before it gives up. Aside from writing something that really is infinite and a limit of trillions of reductions - which wouldn't really be a useful program - it ends up as a type error as you'd expect. This also only happens with -XUndecidableInstances, which frankly isn't really one of the most common extensions, I'd say.

That said, in practice, most Haskell programmers seem to largely consider subtyping a misfeature anyway, and approximations of it elsewhere in the ecosystem use things like RankNTypes to give a 'feel' for subtyping where you can do things like "use any instance of a more general base type, in place of that type, right here". The infamous lens library does this to great effect.

> previously allowed only by Haskell, and then not with user-defined types

I don't know what you mean here - Haskell has, until recently, never allowed overloaded literals for certain syntactic forms, like lists. For the other cases, though, like numerics, you have always been able to have polymorphic literals, which can be instantiated to user-defined type. The most general type of `1` by itself with no defaulting is `1 :: Num a => a`, and there's certainly no problem with instantiating `a` to whatever user-defined type you have, providing it can sensibly be constructed from a base-10 decimal value (meaning, you have a function `toInteger :: Integer -> a`)

These days, lists are also syntactically overloadable by a similar convention, through value polymorphism/type classes.
Did any of the commenters here actually read the article?

Although the FBI paid more than $1.3 million for the method, Amy Hess, the agency’s executive assistant director for science and technology, said Wednesday that it didn’t purchase the rights to the technical details and therefore doesn’t have the necessary information to submit the method for an Obama administration review known as the Vulnerabilities Equities Process.
"The FBI assesses that it cannot submit the method to the VEP," Hess said in a statement. "We do not have enough technical information about any vulnerability that would permit any meaningful review.”

...

The law enforcement agency bought the hacking tool from an entity it hasn’t identified and then used it to access data on an encrypted iPhone

It sounds like the FBI doesn't actually understand the details of how the crack worked and was hand-holded through the process.
The code base has similarities to Remind 101. Our goal is to get parents/guardians involved in their student's education. Bring the parents back in the loop about assignment due dates and elements important to the success of their students. We can also share important documents with the parents using the paperless system. The function will also send an sms remind to the student as well to insure that due dates are met.
Updated Android malware steals voice two factor authentication
I fear that he will waste his money e.g. providing facebook to the world out of "charity". Gee thanks!
Agreed. I guess what I'm really saying is I wish there were more companies taking on huge problems in exciting and innovative ways the way SpaceX does, which is a prerequisite to them being transparent about it.
I don't think you should be deferential to politicians, not legislators anyway. I think you should be deferential to law enforcement. If you're talking about current term executive branch politicians then I guess I would include them too if they are in law enforcement.
super bummer! I clicked on purchased with paypal and then decided to check and make sure if there was mac option or not.
It's too bad there is not. I was ready to buy.
That said, great work!
As someone who has built a lot of saas products off Shopify this makes total sense. Square, Amazon, and PayPal have already gone down this path and proved its highly profitable. I would be curious if Shopify is white labelling a banks offering or if they are making loans a core competency. If the later then its really dangerous for this area is starting to become regulated and is shifting quickly. This risk is one the reasons Square moved away from doing it themselves to actually using third party banking partners to make loans. Also as many of those in the industry already know large loan providers are starting to anticipate a shift in the economy and are moving to invest in collection services rather than sales. If you don't have a competency in making good loans/ collections then you can get in trouble in a down market. That said I do love how companies like Shopify are figuring ways to empower more entrepreneurs to start and grow their businesses. I personally would have though it would have been better for them to open store processing data to qualified third party lenders and provide them an easy way to evaluate, price, and sell loans. This competition would have driven down the price of loans for businesses and Shopify could focus on making great software and just taking a cut off an area that isn't their core focus. Similar model to what has worked for them in other areas outside their core focus (i.e. apps/ theme/ experts market).
How Semco Went Digital Without a Strategy (2000)
> manual maintenance without the proper bookkeeping would be viewed as tampering/sabotage, and the plane would refuse to operate.

If that's true, it sounds like a solution is search of a requirement. IIRC, but I don't think the US military has had problems with tampering and sabotage of military jets.
Even though I don't use Meteor anymore, I still like DDP[1] a lot. It's simple (can be implemented in 50-100 lines), but it is the core of Meteor. There's a specification for it in their Github repo. Meteor's "optimistic UI" is basically an abstraction on top DDP, IMO.

[1] https://www.meteor.com/ddp
I feel its my responsibility to save the world, kill every disease that exists, cure world hunger. What a load of toss!

Something always stinks when you read these 'notes' from Zuckerberg. They all follow the same pattern, 'Im trying to save the world..... So here is a market update stating why I made these changes to improve my position, cause I'm saving the world.'

At least Bill Gates has humility and articulates the real world problems he is trying to solve. Gates works on his charity only, he is not the CEO of Microsoft and philanthropist.

Maybe you mega corps might want to start paying legitimate tax in foreign countries before you start telling us how you are saving the world, pffff.
Agreed.

Another: GitKraken - https://www.gitkraken.com
Meet the New CEO of the $22B Genomics Company You've Never Heard Of
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This https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O_azyt1JhI0

is a really impressive moment in history
This is a 3 for 1 stock split in that for each share of FB that you own, you will receive 2 shares of the new FB share class that do not have voting rights.

If you don't want to own the non-voting rights shares, sell them and buy the regular ones. You will lose a little bit due to the difference in price and the commissions (there may also be tax implications).

It is similar to what Google did last year and what Under Armour did a few weeks ago. Here's what Google and Under Armour are priced at end of day today:

GOOGL (has voting rights) at 721.46, GOOG at 705.84

UA (has voting rights) at 44.80, UA.C 42.16
If he wants day-to-day control as a founder but doesn't want to keep an ownership interest, then he can sell his shares and apply for the job of CEO. But that means he can be fired. So he wants to be CEO, not own the company, and yet nobody can fire him. The Romans had a word for that: Tyrant, with tyrannicide being a virtue. This scheme is doomed. The sooner he realizes it the fewer heads will roll during the cleanup.
He's 'donating' his money to the non-profit that was created last year. It sounds noble, but I believe one of the other motives is that he will be able to keep his money in the family for generations.

He will be able to get around the death tax and pretty much any other taxes that could take away his fortune. Pretty much every billionaire has done this.
Awesome work Evan!

I've been using Vue for a new project and it's a joy to use. It makes a lot more sense to me than any of the alternatives.
Well, uh, AC vs DC and 100-250 volts versus 5-48 volts are two completely different dimensions to the problem here.

For example, there has been some standardization of high voltage DC power distribution for datacenters, seeing as that could simplify providing battery backup, etc.

But back to the residential case: As soon as you go to lower voltage power distribution, unless you spend a lot more on copper (larger conductors), you're really hurting as far as power distribution losses: your load uses 10 times as many amps running on 12 volts DC as it did on 120 volts RMS AC. Thus your loss due to the resistance of the wire is 100 times what it was, given the same wiring. (i.e. the same series resistance -- your loss is P = V * I = I^2 * R)

And no, you don't suddenly get much greater efficiency in the power supply of the device - a lot of off-line power supply designs today are already 90% efficient, and even if you provide 12 volts (or 12 and 5) to the plug, there's going to be a lot of things you want to do in the device that does not satisfy, and if you want exactly 12, you're going to need some kind of DC-DC converter with regulation, because you cannot predict how the 12 volt supplied at the wall will go down due to other load at any given point in time -- so just like a laptop has various DC-DC converters from the 18 volts supplied by its power brick to the various internal circuits (Vcore logic, 1.8 volt logic, 3.3 volt, 5 volt USB, backlight circuits, etc) most devices will still have that. They might not require as much safety isolation, but you're not going to get them to be magically far more efficient than what we have today.
Is an input always valid? "Firing once" is an input: you have to validate that it's been long enough since last firing that you should act on it (limit the rate). "Moving left" is an input, but by how much? Can I send "Left, 9999999" and replicate a teleport hack by pre-calculating these inputs?

You could bound the inputs to a simple stream of enums (FIRE, LEFT, RIGHT, etc.), but it wouldn't be crazy to batch it up a little bit and send some magnitude data as well (FIRE 2, LEFT 50, etc.). It's a little harder to validate, but depending on the specifics of implementation, that could be a win.
In a fun turn of events, if Apple bought the exploit and it could be proven that they did, they could be expected to use it at the FBI's request in the future.
I'm up in Seattle desperately trying to save money for a down payment faster than housing prices are going up - if I wait a year it'll be an extra 30-50k for the same property. But if I overextend to try to buy a place and the market crashes I'm completely SOL. Its very difficult to make any long-term decisions or enter the housing market.

This is why so many people move to Texas: http://ideas.time.com/2013/10/17/10-reasons-texas-is-our-fut.... Most years, three to six of the fastest growing counties are in Texas. Texas's biggest cities have relatively free land-use laws, so that as demand rises new housing gets built and, in city centers, denser housing gets built.

This dynamic has been going on for a while: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/11/a-tale-o...:

In 2000, my husband and I moved out of our mid-1970s three-bedroom town house in Los Angeles and into a brand-new three-bedroom town house in Uptown Dallas. At the time, the two were worth about the same, but the Dallas place was 1,000 square feet bigger. We’ve moved back to L.A., and we’re glad we kept our old house. Over the past seven years, its value has roughly doubled. By contrast, we sold our Dallas place for $6,500 less than we paid for it.

It’s not that we bought into a declining Dallas neighborhood: Uptown is one of the hottest in the city, with block upon block of new construction. But the supply of housing in Dallas is elastic. When demand increases, because of growing population or rising incomes, so does the amount of housing; prices stay roughly the same. That’s true not only in the outlying suburbs, but also in old neighborhoods like ours, where dense clusters of town houses and multistory apartment buildings are replacing two-story fourplexes and single-family homes. It’s easy to build new housing in Dallas.

Not so in Los Angeles. There, in-creased demand generates little new supply. Even within zoning rules, it’s hard to get permission to build. When a local developer bought three small 1920s duplexes on our block, planning to replace them with a big condo building, neighbors campaigned to stop the proj­ect. The city declared the charming but architecturally undistinguished buildings historic landmarks, blocking demolition for a year. The developer gave up, leaving the neighborhood’s landscape—and its housing supply—unchanged. In Los Angeles, when demand for housing increases, prices rise.

Seattle has been better about expanding housing supply than most of CA, but it's not nearly as good as Texas cities.
With the erosion of the middle class i'd argue it's more the top 35% - 25% of Americans that own a meaningful number of shares. 63% of Americans don't even have $500 - $1000 on hand[1].

[1] http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/63-of-americans-cant...
We have designed a complete solution that is designed in Meteor with Agile collaboration at its core. Focusing on the unique needs of schools, teachers and students.

This product also creates a digital learning portfolio with out any additional steps. It is easily shared with anyone, such as college of interest or a future employer..

Classary also seperates the teachers/students classes or periods to match the way it is done at their school.
Paribus (YC S15), the App That AutoRefunds Price Drops, Comes to iOS and Android
Depends who they're willing to sell to obviously. If they're only looking to sell to governmental agencies, it should be easy enough to confirm the people they're selling to are such agents.

It's definitely true of a $10k exploit which might be readily available on the market, but for something more unique like this they might be more selective with their buyers to protect future profits.
That escalated quickly!
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Isn't that the point, people worked the fields of a feudal system for the food they got. The food they got was significantly less than the food the king got because he owned the land.

Sure people are using Facebook to get some value, but the value they are getting is nothing compared to the land owners value.

Also, the users of Facebook are the 'product' not the customer(advertisers are the customer).
The name is playful and plays on collective conscious of "thingamabob". I think the name is clever and succinct.
Also consider a license like JetBrains old "personal purchase for professional use". I've carried Resharper around with me from employer to employer as my own "hammer" resulting in multiple new enterprise licenses when other people see me use it. I imagine this is exactly that kind of software. Scratching an itch the business doesn't yet realize is there.
Well, that and asking how the analysis would look if they didn't throw away all the 250 years of data in the middle.

Fortunately they did present the full data in the paper (top graph is Japan, bottom Europe): http://www.nature.com/article-assets/npg/srep/2016/160426/sr...

Even though they omitted it while drawing the trend lines.
It's the Harrison Bergeron approach to space exploration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
Businesses cannot be trusted. If they could be trusted, you wouldn't need all this regulation. Even as it stands, many businesses don't follow regulations and there are generally no repercussions for that. It's the employees who always suffer, who don't get their lunch breaks or health insurance or whatever it is they are legally allowed by law but denied by their employers. Sorry, it's impossible to side with businesses on this one given the track record of most businesses.
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Isn't that how democracy generally ends up working?
> The actual reason for those subsidies is to protect the US solar panel industry. China's panels are artificially cheap because China massively subsidizes their manufacture. These are known as "countervailing duties" [1].

> The likely alternative to that is allowing China's subsidized panels to undercut domestic producers, we have cheap panels until our industry goes entirely out of business, and then have prices get jacked up because the competition is gone.

Isn’t that what half of Silicon Valley is doing?

Let’s look at Google. Undercut competitors in niche markets, financed with Search revenue, then increase prices or kill it completely (Google Apps for Work, etc).

Let’s look at Uber. Undercut competitors financed with investment money, making losses, then increase prices.

Are you sure you are making a case pro-Google?
That's like asking someone why they drive a Toyota Corolla.