skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems to be untrue. Global and US unemployment rates are either normal or better than usual (looking over the past 10, 20, or 100 years).

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-economy-employment-...
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gworxUlu27o/VPmu_-G-ykI/AAAAAAAAik...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/US_Unemp...
etc...
Hundreds of antibiotics built from scratch
Twilio's new Notifiy API
Yes but who is it trivial for? Sharma or Mayer?
It's a poor article because it's not the kind of article you want? Seems a bit harsh. For a quick 7 point set of tips, it's the kind of thing that most people (in this country at least) would find a radical change.
You are correct to point out that moving large scale physical manufacturing is a massive undertaking. Building a factory in a new location is the least of your worries; available skilled workers, supply chains, transportation networks, various legal hurdles all have to be overcome. But it's doable - after all, it has happened in China's direction over the past fifty years. What you said was true of the United States once (and still is, in many industries).
What? If people want the same amount of things but are now more productive, they can also choose to work less (which is what has happened over the last few hundred years.)
The article mentions that the rotation of the Earth has slowed down over its history as energy has been transferred to the Moon and increased its orbit, a process that continues today at a rate that we are able to measure.

It failed to mention an awesome confirmation of this process from the fossil record, which is one of my favorite facts to bring up with young-earth creationists: there are fossil corals with both daily and annual growth indicators, and the older you go, the more days you'll find per year. And the math matches up to what you'd expect to see from a steady rate of losing about 1 second every 50,000 years, thanks to the Moon.
Because they are not done.

Remember any of these: Pocket PC, Windows CE, Microsoft Kin, Windows Embedded Handheld, ....

MS spent $1 billion for Kin alone. When they consider market to be important to their future, they'll keep going and spending money. Setbacks destroy their partners but they just wait and try again when time is right.

MS is still mainly business and OEM sales company. Consumer-centric divisions (including XBox, Windows Phone, Bing) are irrelevant from a profit standpoint. MS is perceptually trying to get into mobile because they are fearing for their business and OEM sales if they don't have the presense in mobile.
> What you described is commonly referred to as double taxation

Yes, just as liberals are referred to as leftists by conservatives, it's an inaccurate and derogatory means of referring to a perfectly normal tax practice whose sole purpose is intended to make the listener think it's unfair by glossing over the fact that money is taxed when it changes hands, not when it's earned. Anyone who calls it double taxation is participating in partisan propaganda and intentionally spreading ignorance.
Dark chocolate is still good, if you like it. Also the occasional fruit is supposedly good for your metabolism, because the fructose will restore any depleted glycogen in your liver from losing weight.
I prefer the even simpler Michael Pollan guide - “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
It's a pars pro toto: a CPU is an example of an integrated circuit, but there are integrated circuits that are not CPUs.

To make this distinction more relevant: this kind of attack would be very useful in the context of EEPROMs or cryptographic chips (like TPMs): you could, for example, induce a cryptographic chip to dump its internal state (private keys), or you could overwrite a flash region that would under normal operation be non-writable.
It's really interesting how quickly a once dominant name can implode so quickly. See Blackberry, PanAm and other companies. Seems no company is safe from becoming irrelevant in only a few years.
2 years from now-

Twitter's False Prophet: How Jack Dorsey Failed to Turn the Company Around (wsj.com)

HN top comment: I don't think the failure is on Jack; Twitter was a walking zombie before he arrived. All the engineers left after writing their own version of popular well designed Scala libraries like Akka and Spark and Play because huge ego. They stuffed these rewrites into monorepo which came crashing down. The engineers ran away and Jack turned off the lights.
dupe, discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11766621
(and here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11769763, but the first link is the longer and earlier one)
I enjoyed the books, but I enjoyed the original radio play[1] more. When it comes to books, I think Adams' best book is "Last Chance To See", which is apparently finally (well 2013) out in a new edition, so it's actually possible to get hold of):

https://www.amazon.com/Last-Chance-See-Douglas-Adams-ebook/d...

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Primary-Drama...
Wasn't feudalism mainly a hierarchical means of controlling land and the people that worked the land? If you don't actually need peasants/serfs to do anything then you wouldn't need feudalism.
The real problem is latency in modifications of advanced IC design. To quickly iterate a design, it's not enough to have the 'standard' components available. Many breaking technologies rely on designs utilizing the latest versions (or custom made) ICs, which are simply not available at the same time in the US/EU compared with China.
True in the assumptions. When looking around the world, I don't see any constraint in demand. I see people wanting better healthcare, iPhones, yachts, food, etc. I also see people wanting longer weekends and earlier retirement.

The alternative demand constrained world with excess supply would look very different
Definitely not using it for work; youtube videos at best.. love my P3S. Was able to fly for the first time within an hour at a tennis/golf retreat. Would only upgrade to get the further range.

Said video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mucjAyPrKOU
Pre-ordering != crowdfunding
This should also be true for android as of version 6. I haven't tried installing the facebook app to make extra sure, but I get to choose with every other app I use.
You are likely being downvoted because this seems very condescending and patronizing.

There are several statements that elide over critical details. You could literally write entire books on these topics:

- Pick a job that has long-term potential.
- If you own a house ... get it sold.
- When things go sour, go back to step 1.
- It's no big deal when the houses are cheap.

Jobs with "long-term potential" went into decline decades ago. I have already held more positions than both of my parents, combined, over their entire careers, from graduation to retirement. My sister can say the same. Our spouses can, too. Everybody I know is an "at will" employee, and every last one of us is afraid of sudden unemployment.

Remember 2008? I do. There's nothing quite like dropping $50k as a down payment and then being unable to sell when you really need to, because your note-holder won't even consider taking a little haircut with a short sale--which you would have to do, because all your equity is gone.

Step 1 is BS. How many articles pop up on HN about how broken tech hiring is? I would literally rather help my current boss bury a dead hooker in the woods (for the paying customer, of course) than deal with more whiteboard interviews and homework assignments and sudden ceasing of all communication.

When houses are cheap, usually rent is, too. But even where houses are "cheap", they are often still an over-unity multiple of the local median income, and require a lot of long-term debt to purchase. For most people in the US, a house is the most expensive thing they will ever even aspire to owning.
I think this would be really useful to UX researchers! The folks I know in that space often set up screen-sharing sessions with users, and watch them interact with the UI in real time. Adding gaze tracking to this process seems like a natural progression, allowing the researchers to see where the user expects a button or UI feature to be, even if the user can't articulate that in real time.
You could have fooled me. Just two hours ago, my girlfriend's laptop has a pop-up window that said Windows 10 would be installed in 10 minutes with a countdown timer. The one button on the window was "restart and upgrade now". And I wasn't going to click the x to close it in the upper right because we all know that now also starts the upgrade thanks to the recent articles on it. So normal users are screwed. If it happens to you, there's a small hamburger menu icon on the upper left. Click it and go to settings (iirc) and select the small text that says "cancel upgrade".

Microsoft has gotten so monumentally shady about these upgrades that I'm reconsidering using or recommending windows 10 at all to anyone.
If you have a bad nation state actor wanting these exploits in place I don't think it's beyond reason that they would go to any steps. Imagine they could get a backdoor into every smartphone on the market by getting TSMC to manufacture chips with exploits in them. You really think there's any feasible but difficult steps that would stop them from doing this?
The process for the automated edits just seems to be too ad-hoc to me. For instance, you could argue mass edits should require an API key which is granted by positive approval through an automated, formal process, made using formal guidelines which are polished and adjusted over time. Any automated edits should have a link through to the formal discussion in each commit.

Excellent point about the suggestions through the web editor, though, perhaps that will be enough. As a matter of interest, do you have any idea who decides what items are in the editor (for instance, if tags are disputed or inconsistent)? And are the suggestions done by popularity, or are they manually decided?

On shared conventions, it's just, do you have separate start and end construction dates, or combined, do you write that 1930-34 or 1930:1934, how do you handle approximate dates, are you going to write C19, 19th C, 19th century or 19C, and so on.

In general I just think you need more active decision making, and a process towards consistency in the data. It's really tough to consume data from a geographical database where everything is up in the air.
I think it's a bit naive approach. The food is cheap because of the highly efficent agriculture. If you are going to grow stuff yourself your output per square meter is probably going to be much lower and it's going to take a lot of time and energy than if you were to rely on the economy. It's simply not feasible for masses to go back, without changing their diet, ie having to eat less with smaller variety of food. And if you take into account the impact on the country's economy due to this shift, it would be disastrous and put your country behind every other country in the world. It would also mean that you were going to be exposed militarily because of the inferior war technology caused by the inefficient economy. And so on.
Actually, the CDDL allows the person who wrote the License (Sun, now Oracle) to release a new version of the license that implicitly updates the license for all projects using the old license (It's like the "or any later version" thing with the GPL, but I'm fairly sure it's not optional with CDDL). Which is why people are asking why Oracle doesn't just release CDDL 2.0 that is GPL compatible.
I'm all for not getting rid of passwords, because everything proposed to replace them so far has sounded a lot worse.
If the cost of labor is gone, another cost comes into focus - cost of transportation, including the time it takes to ship.

Example: Zara produces in Spain as high fashion items have a very short shelf life, whereas a container with skirts takes a bit to come from China to Europe.

If I gain an advantage by producing closer to my buyer, I'll do it.

Just-In-Time production becomes even tighter. That Amazon Prime 24h delivery item could come hot of the press.
You can analyze it in terms of your time budget.

Say growing your own food while limiting inputs from the broader economy would take 30% of your available time. You can compare that to how much time you are currently spending earning money to pay for food (probably less than that).

Is the greater certainty that comes with the self reliance a good trade?
>This is what needs to be fixed; there is no reason for most people to remember more than two passwords for personal use, one or two more for work in some cases, and maybe a few more in special circumstances. Decades of encouraging (or legislating in some cases[1]) users to do the wrong thing makes people hate passwords.

I'd argue there is no point for any person to remember more than 2 passwords. That is what password managers are for. One master password and you don't know your other passwords. Those are randomly generated for security (pick a password manager capable of generating pattern-matching passwords for places with terrible password policies).

>[1] Apparently in the US medical patient portals are required to (attempt to) prevent you from storing your password in your web browser.

HIPAA concern. If credentials are stored someone could login as the patient and view their details.
That seems very complicated compared to looking at security camera footage from the hundreds of cameras I walk past. Type in the code you see on the video and there you are.

Likewise no one in .com or .gov technically needs my phone other than to look at what I might have saved locally on it; they own everyone from the mfgr thru the telco thru every app writer and SaaS provider either by just buying/sharing data or NSLs.
Disclaimer: Very half-baked idea follows.

The problem seems to be rooted in automation replacing jobs faster than it creates new ones. The solution, then, may be to limit automation so that we have close to full employment.

The best (economically) way to limit automation is to tax it. You set the level of the tax, and basic economics does the rest. The jobs that are more economically done by humans (after the tax on automation) get done by humans. If there are still too many people unemployed, raise the tax. If the job market gets tight, lower it.

What could go wrong? Plenty:

The tax might not cover all forms of automation.

The tax might be set at levels that are politically determined, rather than for the effect on employment.

Raising and lowering this tax could react in unfortunate ways with the business cycle.

Foreign countries using automation could eat our lunch. We could to some degree handle that with tariffs, but they might respond with tariffs of their own and kill our exports.

I'm sure there are more possible problems that I haven't thought of. Never the less, in theory, this might be a decent solution.
The problem is usability and licensing costs. Our in-house tool is amazingly powerful and fits our needs but the usability would need improvement (no surprise) and we license some of the utility code we use (which is cheaper if we don't resell our tool).
A CEO absolutely can turn a failing business around? Are you sure of that? I don't feel any cognitive dissonance in my belief that, yes, Mayer is responsible for Yahoo's ongoing failure, but also it's quite likely impossible to turn Yahoo around.
This feels an overly technical objection? Very little of our problems are actually "impossible" if by "impossible" you mean something like "inverting a one-way function".

What I think most people mean is that moving production is impractical, e.g., that there is no realistic incentive that justifies making the investment and so for that reason nobody will make the investment, and production will not move, etc.

It would be more effective to argue that the required investment is smaller than expected, and some particular entity does have an incentive to make the investment after all, etc.
I really don't understand how it happened. I used shapeshift.io. I put a ticket in with them at least. Waiting to hear back.
I am a freelancer, I manage about a dozen client servers and couple of my own VPSes.
Just to clarify if I'm understanding correctly here: the data itself is often outside Docker for performance and other reasons, but the DB software itself (PostgreSQL / MySQL / whatever) can still easily be within Docker.
The source of most of my info on this is the Planet Money T-Shirt project[1]. On this topic specifically, I believe the episode "'Our Industry Follows Poverty': Success Threatens A T-Shirt Business"[2] was the one that covered this (but the whole series, and the podcast in general, is great)

1: http://www.npr.org/series/248799434/planet-moneys-t-shirt-pr...

2: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/12/04/247360787/our-i...
Actually the article was pretty good I thought in terms of giving simple advice -- it actually said "don't eat too much of bad food, eat more of good food" and it tells what might be generally classified as bad food. It's simple advice and actionable.
People who I've searched for always appear as recommendations afterwards. My best guess is that this is a reverse of that, your wife was searched and so got the recommendation. I still don't like it though.
At this point, can anyone take The New York Times seriously about health advice? Someone should compile their history of publishing thinly-sourced, pop science conclusions that are openly contradictory.
Agreed. Ethereum seems like a pretty cool iteration on what bitcoin was able to achieve, but just like with bitcoin we're left with a gigantic deficit when we subtract real-world-applicability from the incredible levels of hype.

Running arbitrary decentralized code on a shared public ledger... I have to admit that this is pretty damn cool and I feel confident that there will be some useful projects or developments that will eventually emerge from this technology, but at the moment there aren't any obvious problems that this technology solves better than the existing centralized solutions. I saw a lot of talk about "autonomous corporations" in previous Ethereum threads, but it seems pretty clear that these entities are not capable of much autonomy beyond shuffling around eth between other Ethereum wallets/entities.
I would bet with quite high probability that their rodent model gets diabetes in a different way than and for different reasons than humans do, and that their treatment will not work.
It would be interesting to see studies on the overall happiness of individuals that are 100% "plugged in" or dependent and individuals leaning more towards the self reliant Amish living. If all the modern conveniences of a plugged in world aren't making us happier/healthier, maybe we should look at a major shift in the way we interact with the world and people around us.
This is true, I didn't go into any more detail as the post was getting a bit long, but I do find fruit and nuts to be a good substitute for snack food. I've never been a fan of dark chocolate, although I do find that after eating a lot of sugary foods your taste buds get dulled to other things, so I maybe I will try it again.
I tried Realm for an OS X desktop app a few months ago. I initially liked it, but was surprised when I discovered the threading requirements (one realm instance per thread, cannot pass realm-based objects across threads).

1) When I see that a library has a note about threading, I generally expect that it will either be "its thread safe" or "these operations are not thread safe and you need your own synchronization." I think having no ability to share realms/objects across threads is really unusual, and it would be better if the docs made that requirement clearer at the beginning.

2) My use case was reasonably simple - background thread A listens for messages about some expensive work to do, it updates the UI thread with the work, and then it spawns thread B to do that expensive work and keeps listening, thread B updates the worklist on the UI thread on completion. Based on my understanding of realm, I was going to have 3 copies of each object, one on each thread. Traditionally, I would expect one in-memory copy, with the threads using synchronized methods to modify the data. Then, when thread B completes, it just updates its work item and then notifies the UI thread to re-render.

Maybe I misunderstood it, or there is some really simple architecture to handle this issue, but that is how it seemed to me from the documentation.
I'm not allowed to look for jobs in St. Louis, due to a non-negotiable spouse veto. It's something about dating someone from there once, and being a Cubs fan.
I don't think it would have gone to a bitcoin address since I did get the two ether from somewhere.
Not overheating food is another healthy eating rule. (Though try making french fries, bacon, pot roast, etc, w/o doing this. Not possible!)

Seriously, though, to address why people find it hard to follow such rules one has to look beyond nutrition and medicine. People don't just eat to fuel their bodies, they eat to fuel their minds i.e. for comfort and pleasure.

This is why (I think) that small amounts of caffeine and alcohol are good: for a given level of mental stimulation they reduce the amount of food needed. Reducing side effects from any one source reduces overall damage to the body.

How does one reduce one's overall level of self-stimulation? For want of a better word this is a spiritual problem. Having an objectively valuable purpose or problem to occupy the mind with is crucial, but perhaps there will remain 'ups' and 'downs'. Look to traditional religious teachings or the AA for advice. Which advice, again, is going to be mingled with falsehoods and irrationalities. Intermittent fasting is becoming fashionable and may be part of the solution; it certainly bring personal issues into vivid focus.
Adidas doesn't need tons of customized and specially produced screws, fasteners, metal cases, and other such things that smartphones and laptops and other consumer electronics do.

The supply chain to support making shoes seems like it would be MUCH smaller.
They will be very interesting because robots don't need to buy things and people without jobs will not afford the things robots build.
Plus the more obnoxious ads get, the more people [1] will go to adblockers.

[1] Or businesses, e.g. Opera has an integrated adblocker now, and Firefox blocks tracking while in privacy mode (and they plan to expand this to the normal mode, IIRC).
Adding Meta Information to Git Branches
Macros for straightforward parallelism in Clojure [pdf]
Alternatively, as massive increases in productivity in manufacturing lead to plunging prices of goods, much smaller incomes will be able to support an increasing standard of living.
Fantastic. But how is the teacher supposed to know that you are just that smart?

There was likely ~25 kids in the class, and the teacher had no way of knowing that you cheated on the tests or got really lucky. The HW acted as a bulwark against the luck and cheating hypotheses that a teacher should entertain for each of the ~25 students in one of their ~6 classes (~150 students total). So what if you are a just that smart as a teenager? We all knew we were smarter than everyone at that age too. You have to prove that to the teacher in terms of consistent work at a consistent level (Sorta, things happen, Granpas die, parents get in accidents, etc. and teachers know that). 1 person out of ~150 showing up and acing a test tells a teacher nothing. And for the pay levels they get these days, the teachers are there because they want to be.
Couldn't you do this now with a projector?
GAO report reveals Pentagon's use of floppy disks to control US nuclear weapons
For something a little newer, also check out:

"Green Wing": http://www.amazon.com/Green-Wing-Plus-Special-Format/dp/B00C...

(As well as "Black Books" "The IT Crowd" etc).