skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stagnation is the main threat the world is waking up to.

People will blame other things of course. Things like MENA immigration, climate patterns, crop failures, these are second order affects of stagnation.

The peripheral fails before the center. Never forget that.

I have to congratulate Peter Thiel. He has managed to see a lot of this ahead of almost anybody else I can think of and this is despite being at the heart of the cozy bubble that is Silicon Valley. One of his expressions is that you can have instances of success in an ocean of general failure or something to that effect.

Even on HN a few hours ago I saw a WSJ article proclaiming that everything is smashingly good these days, that three/four decade wage stagnation is a mere blip on the radar. Though I agreed with the substance of the historical facts she stated I also think this is an utterly clueless point of view on human nature that is shared by huge swathes of the middle class. I didn't live in 1850 and I cannot be expected to appreciate the good fortune of the years since then! If you live in a downcycle then that's all you know.

You see the contradictions at their most dire with the pension funds. They require either massive hikes in funding or 6-7 real percent per year. Wages will have to rise suddenly and dramatically and/or else we need massive massive technological changes.

Somehow I see Larry Summers getting called back into Court. Whether monetary policy is enough, that is another question.
http://roborace.com/
> So my question is, how well documented was the Japanese back-channel surrender offer? Is it documented that it was made to legitimate decision-makers through those back channels?

[Edit: I linked to a terrible source. I apologise.]
Stable year-on-year growth for 15 years is not the sign of a bubble, it's just what you see with a growing industry.
I can't speak to why people downvoted the first post (I upvoted it), but it's generally frowned upon to complain about people downvoting you.

> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Careful what you ask for... being able to exclude you based on a conversion means better tracking.

Tracking is not something that can be easily improved, either you use cookies which are acceptable, widespread, but sadly very limited in functionality or you get into the world of supercookies and fingerprinting which is not yet properly regulated and where a few players are disregarding industry self-regulation to get as much data as possible.
For those who haven't heard, Formula E, the electric racing series is putting together a support race called RoboRace.
http://roborace.com/
All autonomously driven cars designed for exactly that purpose. It should be exciting.
The Law of Unforseen Consequences cannot be ignored and a full accounting of its costs will be paid.

This will not turn out well.
There is a ton of information that is objectively wrong.

"A customer who has already made a purchase may be bombarded with redundant repeat ads wherever he roams: what we might call the phenomenon of “repetitive irrelevance."

Its pretty easy to not do this on a lot of ad platforms. Facebook calls it "exclusion audiences".
A few years ago I started installing fail2ban on all my server instances, which comes with sane defaults and the SSH filter enabled out of the box (on Debian/Ubuntu, at least).
Anytime you're looking at a wish-list of requirements one or some of them might give way for the sake of advances in the other. The OP wants: static typing, concurrency, good tooling, speed/simplicity in a web framework, non-reliance on big IDEs.

If OP were to look at using Clojure/Luminus they might find that the combination of everything except the static typing was sufficient to overcome the lack of static typing (also something like Prismatic Schema to mitigate types might help). I haven't messed around with it enough to say, but there is also JVM interop with clojure so one could write the most type-concerned components in Java (or even in Scala).

tldr: failing one requirement of many isn't necessarily a reason to not offer an option if it succeeds on many others.
Also consider Freshdesk (https://freshdesk.com)
if you think a "key" is any better than a "password" relative to trouble, you already have trouble.
A few days later than what?
TLDR: I feel we, the people in the online advertising industry, have failed at our duties. We have failed to show relevant ads. People who would benefit from relevant ads don't see it, and those who have no interest get ads shoved to their faces.

Online advertising currently feels more tuned to marketing and branding than actual advertising. (Ex: Seeing the same ad 20 times is crappy advertising but good marketing/branding)

Online advertising is a powerful tool: no other medium of advertising offers more efficient tracking and analysis metrics. Unfortunately, it's also the most hard to do properly.

The biggest issue is most clients do not understand online advertising: they assume it's just like TV, in that, you have a creative that you show online to people and then hope for the best.

Online advertising is not a one way street: you can interact with the user, see how they respond and then tailor the advertising to their needs.

No other medium offers this ability.

Consultants like patio11 make a living off this knowledge (and give away this knowledge for free on their sites).

This inefficiency is currently arbitraged by two parties:

1. People who understand that clients do not understand online advertising: they offer inexpensive CPMs to agencies so that they can meet their "numbers" (like one does in the TV realm). Then they "somehow" meet these numbers, often in ways that does not help the client at all.

2. Online deal sites who know a certain store/brand is offering a great deal and create pages with deal information so that people click on the links to the product leading to the site getting kickbacks from the store/brand. Some of these sites keep the whole kickback to themselves and some split it with the users, but this is money that the store/brand paid out unnecessarily because they otherwise had failed to convert a customer directly.
The estimate of biological age would be a measure of how damaged you are, and would have a solid statistical relationship with remaining life expectancy.

I think a claim that aging involves only damage is reaching a bit. It seems plausible that each standard phase of human development involve adaptation as well as chromosome damage.

A standard claim is that evolve doesn't care about an organism once it is beyond the age of reproduction. Human beings live considerably longer than other primates and longer past the age of reproduction. One argument is that the extra human lifetime is an adaption to allow an aged human to aid the survival of their offspring. If this is mutation, then one might guess human genes already contain adaptions again usual genetic decay. However this may not be good news since further extending these may be harder than just eliminating the simple aging of simpler organisms.

I know that, just for example, the low metabolisms of the very elderly are seen as a protection against cancer, cancer that would otherwise be more prevalent given accumulative genetic. And this means a failure to lower metabolism over aging time might actually be associated with higher mortality (this may screw up the association of mortality and aging-process measures).
>Clearly there's an obligation to use the funds for a specific purpose, but that doesn't mean the donor is buying that food, anymore than a donor to Doctors Without Borders is employing MDs.

I feel like having an actual charity changes this somewhat, in that it's expected that a charity might not spend all its donations right away, there's overhead, etc. As far as I can tell he's doing this all personally.
5 years should be enough, if it takes 10 years that shows you must be wrong.
The current President of France is a socialist. So is the Prime Minister of France. The Socialist Party is currently the ruling party in France.
Absolutely. I shared my thoughts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11750840
Building secure systems in Java requires a lot of arcane knowledge due to the complexity of the libraries. For instance, you can't just throw a switch and convert all socket-based communication to TLS. I'm not arguing that Go is necessarily better but it's a useful consideration in language evaluation.

But maybe I'm missing your point.
Exactly. It's hard to call something a bubble when it actually displays all the characteristics of a maturing market.

Additionally, the non-online advertising market is huge. TV advertising in the US alone is almost 25% bigger than the online market[1]. People don't talk about that 40-year old "bubble" bursting, even though it seems inevitable that money will move to online.

Do people really expect there to be less money spent in advertising?

[1] http://www.marketingcharts.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Pw...
Remember, on an average week in WWII more civilians died than from either of the bomb blasts. Together they might have equaled an average week, but probably not. That's the scale we are talking about.

The month was likely below average for the war. So, it's not just a question of would we have invaded, but just how many days it shortens the war.

Further, it is likely more people died in Tokyo than either of those city's.
There is a fact-based dramatization of the incident on the Dark Matters TV show. Look for Season 2, Episode 4:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPFhKUt245E
(Edited video source)
Around 90 percent of world trade is carried by sea
Not to mention, and here I am forced to curse: how much actual fucking food is there in a shop today?

Seriously, get rid of the sweets (<3) and sweet-like items from the store. What's left? It's usually about 1/4 of the store or less.

Food inflation in quality and quantity is a serious problem and it's damaging our health and wallets.

Relatedly; freddo frogs are becoming an extravagance.

https://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/comments/18yx14/the...

At least British and Irish schoolchildren will have no trouble comprehending the idea of inflation in economics and accounting classes.
Solving one solves the other.

While I executed my QED here deliberately, I've left more than a few duplicate comments on laggy connections and/or bogged-down browser sessions.

Other elements of HN's design and workflow make detecting this difficult. Rather than returning the user to the comment they'd just posted, or its parent, you're returned to the discussion root.

Catching typos, incorrect tags (I keep having to remember that _this_ doesn't emphasise content), etc., would be far easier if the renderd comment was presented.

Solving this as a browser / HTML built-in would be most ideal.

HTML though isn't stateful. By design.
My problem is whenever something spooky doesn't work, I never know which part of the source to read through. You need to understand the architecture to even know where to look. Which means you have to go through a huge up front process (like reading a webseries on the subject) to even get started. This front loading is the kind of thing that keeps more people from getting into programming, and is one of the primary ways we keep our salaries high.
I feel like this is akin to asking why the staging of the moon landing was not more well documented.
Growing up it wasn't something we really thought of. People of all sorts were always around us. In high school we even used to play the game of trying to pronounce someone's name "correctly" (Which could be really difficult if you didn't have the right accent).

I had heard from people about 10 years older than me that they got flak for interracial marriage. It seemed absolutely alien to me at the time.
Maybe you should stop self-hosting your email server :)

Defiantly there is a trend away from email outside of business, but in B2B email still rules. The ability to have a record of what was originally said and agreed to has saved my backside more than once.
Yet, in the US, if you're wearing a mask, the majority will think you're a terrorist.

What a world we live in.
According to wikipedia, the other people in the room in the second accident were shielded by Slotin's body.

In the first accident the scientist, Harry Daghlian, was working alone and the second victim, a guard was a sitting a few meters away (so I guess he too was probably shielded by Daghlian's body).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core#Second_incident
Study on Balancing Refactoring with Feature Development (IEEE 2015)
Yes, my saying is "deliberate", I'm in full command of my actions and thinking. And yes, it is a "tactic", after all I'm trying to do something here (convey a point in an argumentation).

I hope that by "deliberate tactic" you didn't try to imply as being "mean" or "bad" or not "benign".

As for the "benign use" you mentioned, it is clearly your opinion on it, but where are your reasons, your arguments in favour of it?

(welcome to the conversation)
And the states continue to get away with things like this to this day.
Its very possible to do this on most ad platforms. Some people are just lazy or aren't good at their job.
Although I lean libertarian I don't see how you can control monetary policy without also needing to control population size. Lots of awkward ethical questions nobody wants to talk about here.
Dude, go through the wiki link once. Also we already have a water treaty with Bangladesh.
my two cents on Rails (as someone who's worked with Rails/Ruby, Node, Scala, Golang in some depth)

- ORM is bad at any sort of scale/complexity.

- Net IO that looks like property access makes it too easy for devs to do bad things, N+1 queries etc.

- ORM abstraction is not helpful when you know the exact efficient query you want.

- ActiveRecord Models + the Ruby module system encourage OO bloat.

- ActiveRecord database drivers are too numerous and not well implemented. Default schema generation includes many SQL anti-patterns.

- ActiveRecord has too many public interfaces, too much meta-programming. Hard to understand scope, Hard to analyze and improve performance.

- ActiveSupport monkey patches too much of Ruby. Need an very deep understanding of language to understand what's going on at a non-superficial level.

- Rails/Ruby community places too much emphasis on "clever" DSLs / APIs

- If your stack/framework choices limited to dynamic languages, Rails is a lot less efficient than Node and for web apps you need JS developers anyway.
Homeless to Home  wp.me
Have ever took a look at django (Python)?
Github, Airbnb, Dribbble, Bloomberg, Genius, Funny or Die, Goodreads, Groupon, Hulu, Kickstarter, Shopify, Square, Twitch, Soundcloud, etc etc etc.

So yeah, survival bias. If startups failed and used Rails, it's because they were bad startups for reasons outside using Rails.
It also needs to be a biomarker that tracks with rejuvenation and doesn't track non-rejuvenation. Which is probably more than this result can offer.

It's like, if you have an old car, the steel body will rust in sync with the engine getting worn. But if you fix the engine, it won't be reflected in the rust, it will just break the previous association. And if you fix the rust, the engine has not been rejuvenated.
Speaking of Rota and differential equations, he also wrote a rant about the terrible state of teaching differential equations [0].

[0] https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/lg5/Rota.pdf
The two bombs killed hundreds of thousands of people. No idea what your point is, please explain.
Actually..... Since this is a pedantic chain....

13M was not stolen. 12M was stolen (and some more).

Thus the more accurate title would be "12M stolen from hacked South African bank via 1,400 ATMs across Japan" since the statement in your title is demonstrably false, while the other title is (presumably, from the article) true.
Unless it's coming directly from who you bought the toaster from they can't do that without access to your purchase history which they'd be thrilled to have but I doubt most people would want to give.
LOL it's about "Zen" now?

Half a decade ago they were claiming ownership of "desk".

2011 HN discussion of their tiff with freshdesk.com: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3311496
>> It's more surprising to me that they didn't use more remote devices for these kinds of experiments.

They did, but these also caused accidents. See the Lady Godiva device:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godiva_device

Otto Frisch received a larger than intended dose of radiation when leaning over the original Lady Godiva device for a couple of seconds. He noticed that the red lamps (that normally would flicker intermittently when neutrons were being emitted) were 'glowing continuously'. Frisch's body had reflected some neutrons back to the device, causing it to go critical, and it was only by quickly leaning back and away from the device and removing a couple of the uranium blocks that Frisch escaped harm but, he said, "if I had hesitated for another two seconds before removing the material ... the dose would have been fatal". On 3 February 1954 and 12 February 1957, accidental criticality excursions occurred causing damage to the device, but fortunately only insignificant exposures to personnel. This original Godiva device was irreparable after the second accident and was replaced by the Godiva II.

If I understand this correctly (the closest I got to being a nuclear phycisist is having met an astrophycisist once) this happened during the setup of an experiment. I think normally the experiments with this device were sort of automated (they dropped a rod between two masses, so gravity killed the reaction quickly).

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident#Recorded_...]
Probably haha. I could design one which couldn't, though, as people have been cooking since before cellphones, WiFi, and microwaves. There were five-star restaurants before these. Even feedback from customers could happen over landline. So, it's at least conceivable.
Even a blockade would have likely killed vastly more people unless it was really short term.
No one is saying we don't need to solve the water problem. The suggestion on the table is that there are better solutions than a nationwide diversion project.
> Yet we enjoy one of the highest standards of living

The US ranks 16th on the Where-to-be-born Index.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where-to-be-born_Index
Oh, I didn't mean pjax was used in the late 90's if that's what you thought I meant. I meant that we did all rendering server side, because there was no xhr :-)
_The New Yorker_'s Audience
You want the advantages of multiple returns without the disadvantage of copying the code in multiple places.
I'm not sure if this is the case, but I remember reading somewhere than in order to keep your trademark, you have to show that you defend it (ie. bully other companies with the same name).
Abstraction isn't for hiding complexity. A good abstraction redefines the problem to eliminate complexity.
Thx! Just checked out libtastic. Pretty fantastic :)
That's interesting. Thank you for the history lesson and for the glimpse into the culture at CERN.
Before any Southern Californians object, remember that almost all your clean water comes from snowmelt diverted through hundreds of miles of aqueducts. Draining lakes such as Owen's Lake to a dusty dry alkali bed.

Who are we to condemn India's actions? Let's just hope the project minimizes ecological impact.
People hack whatever interests them:

* iPhones

* Bikes they buy at Walmart

* Raspberry Pis

* Dodge Neons

* $5 Amazon Dash buttons

If it interests you, please hack it and let the world know what you did!
Did the British persecute Catholics when they were in an imperialist/expansionist mode around the world?

To the best of my knowledge, that didn't happen. The British Empire in its quests wasn't concerned about anti-Catholicism and disdain for the authority of the Pope, it was primarily driven by political/financial gains. On the other hand, for the Ottoman Turks it was all about Jihad and the subjugation of non-Muslims in newly conquered territories. The persecution and discrimination against non-Muslims for the subjects of their realm was one of the founding principles of taheir rule and public policy.
It's funny how war is always glorious from the point of view of the aggressor and always sad from the point of view of the aggressed (sp?), even when they're the same person! How we feel depends on who's story we're reading at the time.

"She had not had an easy time. Her husband, Isawa, had gone into the Army just after Myeko was born, and she had heard nothing from or of him for a long time, until, on March 5, 1942, she received a seven-word telegram: “Isawa died an honorable death at Singapore.” "

In case you don't know what her husband would have contributed to in Singapore - "between 25,000 and 50,000 ethnic Chinese in Singapore and Malaya ... were rounded up and taken to deserted spots around the island and killed systematically." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Singapo...
Honestly, after more than two years of running btrfs on data I care about, my answer would be "testing your backups".
I think the cause of the ad bubble is free VC money pouring into startups whose customer acquisition channel is spending 100s of thousands dollars on advertisement.

And when VC money dries out, startups will start tracking ROI and stop wasting money on branding. And that will cause domino effect.

Of course, there might be no bubble and this is a new normal.
interesting. Based on that, it looks like the sticking point really was whether the Emperor's safety would be guaranteed (thought he was eventually kept as a figurehead, it's not clear the US leadership expected to take that path.)

EDIT: that said, do you have a source that isn't a holocaust-denial website?
I started calling online advertising a bubble in 2008.

His credibility got killed in my eyes after reading that. Predicting the same thing over and over to no avail is called being a broken clock.

What he's really predicting is that the derivative will go negative.
It's kinda unbecoming that this is the 'logic' that passes for a blog published by school that is supposed to be really elite and prestigious.
I've been wanting to build a home automation dashboard display built into a wall in my house. This would be a good way to start.
In terms of price:

- You can buy an IPS display for roughly $42.

- The lithium polymer battery is also worth a few dollars.
There is no prohibition on non-personal use, and there never will be, since that would mean Prime account holders wouldn't be allowed to use Prime shipping to send gifts to other people, for example for Christmas.

There are two relevant prohibitions in the US amazon terms:

> Prime members are not permitted to purchase products for the purpose of resale, rental, or to ship to their customers or potential customers using Prime benefits.

He's not reselling or renting the food, so this isn't an issue.

> You may not transfer or assign your Prime membership or any Prime benefits, including promotion codes for Prime memberships or benefits, except as allowed in these terms.

I don't know what his tax structure is, but this is potentially relevant. The simplest possibility is that he receives money in his personal capacity as a sole proprietorship, spends it on food, and deducts the whole amount as a charitable donation. (I have no knowledge whatever of the Canadian tax system, and really only a little of the US tax system.) Assuming that works, he's fine. If that doesn't work, he'll either need to incorporate the charity he's running or pay taxes on the donations he receives. Letting other people directly pay for his orders, such that the money doesn't flow through him, would violate the non-assignability of Prime benefits. If he incorporates as a charity, the charity will need its own Amazon account; it can't use his.

Amazon does offer business accounts with two-day Prime shipping, but their pricing appears to be purposefully unadvertised.