skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Low interest rates (at least with a yield curve) can help banks. Banks that can borrow short term and pay near zero, and lend long term (say a mortgage) with a higher rate can make money in this environment.

Insurance and Pensions are trickier, and it gets to the point of real (inflation adjusted) versus nominal returns. If an insurance company needs to invest against a real returns, than a 3% interest rate with 0% inflation is the same as 7% with 4% inflation. This is how we should think of our 401Ks - as long as we maintain purchasing power, the # of the rate doesn't matter. (Rates rise when inflation rises and goes down when it shrinks) The flip side is if insurance companies or pensions make nominal promises ("Give us 10% of your income per year, and we'll invest it guaranteed at a 5% return") then it becomes problematic. But in a low rate environment, people shouldn't be making these kinds of promises.

The strange thing about this whole article is why now? Why are the financial markets more of a casino than in 1999 or 2007?
There's a difference between whitewashing and seeing the bright side. Having been on the dev team of this popular game is useful. Presumably even the $2,400/yr was useful, though obviously only as useful as $2,400/yr is. I'm not saying it's fair, I'm saying "it happened, and what now?"
It's Success 101. When you go through something that sucks, by all means enumerate what sucked about it so you can watch out for those things in the future. But the next thing a successful type of person does is take inventory of what positive and useful things they got out of it, or can make out of it. And then go do it. Cry if you want, have yourself a little outrage parade for your Facebook friends, but it's a waste of time. Maybe fester over it for 20 years and get an ulcer, that'll show 'em! Meanwhile if I interview that person I will stay far away, and hire the guy who found the bright side.
I'm sure the NSA has something to say about that, at least with consumer grade encryption.
Why not hire for the 1.0 version through pipeline?
IS is a game changer for video. Its really light and day with and without.
It's 1480 light-years away; if any construction occurred there, it was ongoing in 536 AD. For reference, this was during the First Gothic War (Belisarius' reconquest of Italy); if the Battle of Mount Badon (somewhere between 482 and 500 AD) actually occurred, it would have been in living memory...
A look at the design of the new Squarespace office in New York
Because you take less photos with those as you need to change the whole time depending on the situation. Not surprising on the contrary.
> I live in Mexico, I've never seen anyone in Mexico make minimum wage, ever. And I do know people from all walks of life.

But what do you mean by that? Do they get paid less or more?
Polite vs. Impolite Software
Not that it justifies anything but that is probably a significant overestimate, Steam takes 30% and most people didn't pay full price for the game.
No wireless charging is rather disappointing for me. Other than those from Samsung, are there any options left for a recent flagship with built-in wireless charging?

Maybe I'll just hold out on my Nexus 5 for a couple more years...
Agree. It does seem like its not the standard anymore.
In fairness I haven't seen anyone make a serious comment like yours yet in this thread.
Edit: Apparently I'm not as cultured as I thought. I didn't know Machiavelli had his own version of "The Art of War". Obviously, my previous comment was unqualified.

However, I did read "The Prince" and I think there's a lot most can learn from it. While I find the majority of the book reprehensible, there are many powerful people in our society that seem to think of it as a bible / instruction manual. Given the fact that such ideas still play a significant role in our society; I feel it is worthwhile to learn about them.
Stop Building Products by David Edwards.

A deeply thoughtful discussion of the impact of metaphors on how we think about software development.

Skip to 0:40 if you don't want to hear the MC.

http://livestre.am/5qFUn
>The camera doesn't stick out the back of the phone and become the main contact point for all surfaces.

This is a "courageous" decision ;)
Of course, we are agreeing. But as the other front page story shows us, even companies with the best of intentions and made up of people with strict moral codes devoted to providing their users a secure product can be usurped by government forces with ulterior motives.

I believe Whisper doesn't want this data. I can even trust that they would never collect it of their own volition. But it's irrelevant if they can simply be compelled to collect it, or even worse, someone within their organization can be compelled to secretly collect it and may even do a better job at this secret collection than Mayer's lackies at Yahoo!.
In fairness, conditions and restarts could do the same job and would be more readable.
Yeah. The long term investment is clearly lenses while the body should be considered as disposable.
It's interesting that Jordan was invoked as an example of Hero Ball. He didn't start winning championships until he had all-stars around him. And he elevated them - Pippen would have been a lesser player if teams could afford to double-team him. Jordan gave up salary to get other superstars around him. This is the opposite of Kobe.
> WebOS was far ahead of its time

I see this any time WebOS is mentioned but this makes WebOS sound a lot more innovative than it was. WebOS is widely lauded for two things: (1) the card application interface and (2) the accompanying physics/gestures, especially swipe from edge. Now these are great and appropriately lauded but that is a short list that really pales compared to a similar list of things the iPhone OS had introduced at that time. Other than that WebOS is basically a nicely polished clone of the iPhone OS. Even the cards metaphor itself, the hallmark of WebOS, was used two years earlier in the original iPhone in Mobile Safari and Cover Flow.
A lot of jobs can lead to being middle class if you a) sticjpk with them/get good and b) manage your personal finances well.

Some janitor left millions to charity. He was frugal and was good at investing in stocks.

I have read that the 5% of people who have financial goals outperform the 95% without them -- combined.

I have also read that people who folow their interests typically have more career success. People who like what they are doing tend to do it well, for a variety of reasons.

I suggest you figure out what you enjoy doing and try to find a job that is a good fit for that to the best of your ability. Also, learn to budget, stay healthy, use birth control consistently. Health issues and unplanned children seriously derail personal budgets.

Best.
"in b4 'we should rewrite W in X/Y/Z'" has become the new "we should rewrite W in X/Y/Z".
It has 2GB less ram, and the same processor (slightly higher clock speed) and same gpu, vs the oneplus 3
That's like saying "I've never eaten lettuce, but I know I don't like it just from looking at it." What a weird, sheltered approach to life; you should broaden your horizons a bit and read, say, Mein Kampf. Developing critical skills is essential for anyone and it's totally reasonable to read something even when you know you will disagree.
Works very well. If you can put this behind an API I could be your first client ;)
It's actually a combination of public knowledge and trade secrets. The public knowledge comes from what the chip-makers themselves describe in conferences, trade journals, etc. Those would get you really far in design, implementation, and verification. There are also trade secrets for optimizing both digital and analog components. They stay trade secrets for the obvious reason of slowing competition but also to reduce odds of patent suits given about everything you can think of will get patented in this field. Especially micro-architecture tricks within CPU's.

You can get much of the knowledge you need from books, CPU specs, academic papers, open-source CPU's in industry, and so on. The standard cell model is the easiest with the highest performers being full-custom designs. There are plenty of successful designs in former with good performance, though. So, that's you're best bet.

Here's a GPL one used in embedded (esp space) applications for you to start with that has good performance and extremely-high configurability:

http://www.gaisler.com/index.php/products/processors/leon3

Recent one for open ISA:

https://github.com/ucb-bar/rocket

Lots of interesting things might be done with asynchronous logic that's not as explored and patented compared to synchronous techniques. The cutting-edge stuff is using it more and more. Whole chips have been done that way that were easier to fab right the first time plus with energy and performance benefits.

http://vcl.ece.ucdavis.edu/asap/

http://www.achronix.com/technology/picopipe.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMULET_microprocessor
The Art of a War is a lot of common sense. If your not predisposed to be a sociopath, I don't think it's a bad read.

You don't want to be the guy who has memorized every passage, and rarely leaves his room though.

I wasn't introduced to Ayn Rand's books/philosophy until years after philosophy classes in college. The guys who followed it, or were rabid fans of hers were literally homeless. I can't blame her philosophy on their situation.

One of her most voracious, fervent fans was one of the most naturally gifted artists I have ever been in the presence of. His personality was like sandpaper. He would argue for the sake of arguing.

I will never forget one thing he did. He received over a million dollars in an inheritance. He bought a nice Van. I figured I will never have to picture him homeless.

He decided to invest the money on the stock market himself. He literally lost everything in about a year in a half. He didn't want any advice--nothing, even about diversification. He relied on a computer program to pick stock. I heard he's still around.

If you happen to read this; your art is magical. (He didn't know quite how talented he was as an artist. I don't know why. At some point, I believe, someone he respected, told him his art was not original, and his drawings were just the result of good technique? His drawings/paintings were original, and showed so much original talent.)
I agree that a lot of programs for the homeless suck, and they suck for the same reason that a lot of prison programs suck, in that people often attach moral or social evaluations to the people involved -- homeless or criminals -- that just aren't true. They don't see "there goes me, except for a few lucky encounters", they see "there goes something I could never be".

Which is why I feel even more obligated to be involved on the advocacy side -- part (perhaps even all) of fixing the problem is changing the narrative in society about who the homeless are. Shaping that narrative, and the effect it has on choices about our economic model or policy decisions, really is the most direct thing I could do to combat homelessness, because it eats at the heart of what makes homelessness so damaging.

That being said, I'm also a big fan of more scientific methods. Things like "housing first" programs are showing HUGE promise in making lasting change, and while less glamorous, we're slowly tying the social safety net back together and working to make it more efficient, so less people fall through the holes (which got a lot bigger when certain people were in power and went around making tears, but c'est la vie) and become trapped in homelessness in the first place.

I have a lot of hope for involuntary homelessness being (largely) solved in another generation or two, if we can keep momentum on it. The problem of what to do with some of the people who are... less there mentally, and have trouble functioning in society at a personal level is of course difficult in the long term, because while we can give them houses easily enough, keeping them in them might require involuntary and on-going intervention at times, and that's a very touchy subject. Mental health care, particularly involuntary mental health care, has a dark history in this country.

I actually need to get going, but I've enjoyed speaking with you.
Car sharing fills this gap: I want to keep the same car and handle multiple errands and use the car as temporary storage in between. (I'm going to pick up some tools from home depot, then to get my hair cut, then to a grocery store before heading home.)
So, when do Americans exercise the right of the Second and liberate from this totalitarian government?
> But, if you still think it is important, what do you plan to do with an error that might just randomly appear in the future anyway?

Terminate processing and pass the error back up the call chain. This is basically what exceptions do, and basically what 'if err != nil { return err }' does.

One could also pause processing, interrogate the call chain for what to do about the error condition and the proceed as directed; this is what conditions & restarts do. IMHO it's a better solution, but it requires some syntax to be readable.
> Is it more elegant, more concise, does it have more libraries, can it be run in parallel better? That would be great to know!

Give it a try and decide for yourself!
Said like a non-parent. :-) It's not just the accidents. Kids need to be strapped down to keep them from attacking each other.
Amazon EC2 P2: the largest GPU-Powered virtual machines
Doesn't the iPhone 7 have only 3 GB of RAM? If 4 GB is "barely adequate" then the iPhone 7 must be pretty bad. /s
Choosing Content for Netflix: How Data Leads the Way
Responding with an ad hominem - whether at the author of the quote or the poster of it by association - is both an ineffective response (the appeal to emotion signals an inability to argue rationally) and lowers the quality of discussion (by taking it away from the point, into emotional territory).

Constant appeals to emotion and resorting to a wide array of fallacies allows for strongmen to build tribes which follow them blindly (no need to bother forming policy) and is how we end up with Trump vs Clinton in 2016 (see [1] for the impact on the legislative process). Reducing the quality of debate is therefore a harmful thing with real consequences.

One line of argument might be to criticise the paranoid nature of the quote: it is entirely possible that a mess of laws arises naturally from a mix of special interests doing some lobbying to preserve small advantages for themselves, and bad laws arising as a form of horse trading necessary to get policy enacted. Only then does this mess presents an opportunity to manipulators.

[1] http://imgur.com/a/Wmoex - "Voting Relationships between Senators in the 101st through 113th Congresses"
People with success tend to be afraid of losing it. They know it's mostly all luck and lightening probably won't strike twice.
The setup process is pretty widely known as an issue these days as they keep adding new screens for every new feature. It could use some cleanup.
First a disclaimer: I have no idea what's going on with KGS or any inside info. I'm just speculating, please treat it as such.

As a generalization when a significant group from a successful game walks out en mass, it's because they feel the owners aren't fairly sharing profits. Letting this happen is usually a really dumb move by the owners.

A great example is the Medal of Honor franchise, which raised a studio best known for a nice quake expansion to the top of the industry. The owners did not treat the team in a way the team considered fair. The bulk walked out, signed a deal with another publisher to become their own studio, and the Call of Duty franchise was born. I think most people are aware that CoD has made an obscene amount of money. It's hard to believe that whatever selfish split the MoH owners were getting justified not having any split of that team's later work.

When you have a team that has proven they can hit the top, the last thing to do is treat them as disposable.
"Relatively stable," appropriately qualifies the statement and your link to a chart for a gold ETF is not support for your claim that, "The value of gold is not at all stable."
I did never meant to say that made it a good/reasonable thing (although, if we are going down that path, why is it right to pay someone $200 a month to clean toilets and not to write code? If anything, it is a shittier thing - pun intended - to offer that deal to people who don't have the means and options to refuse or get other jobs... but I suspect we would both end up agreeing that the Mexican minimum wage should be higher). My point is that there is likely no legal recourse here, which is an important detail.
A Programmer's Sorting Hat
My standards are based on objective reality and a decent knowledge of physical fitness and nutrition.

When I weighed 160, I had slightly defined abs. Similar to what you would see on someone with 10-15% body fat.

The existence of a lot of overweight people in the US doesn't change what the words "overweight" and "athletic" mean.
'Great Pacific garbage patch' far bigger than imagined, aerial survey shows
Ask HN: [help] Fired because of reporting sexual harassment
Posting this anonymously and story of a close friend. A weird thing happened. She works for one of the top and hottest companies in Bay Area today lead by one of the most respected CEO.

She was recently sexually harassed by a junior employee. The employee accepted his mistake and she slapped him in retaliation. Several months later, HR started looking into this. In the end, she was asked to resign or else she would be fired.

This is shocking because it is coming from such a famous company. She is not a citizen of US and not sure what she can do about this.

She only has few days to decide or do anything about this. What can she do ? IS it a good idea to reach out to the CEO or other leaders? Thanks
You appear to be confusing 'engineering self-driving cars' with 'creating a sentient being'. Programmers are only capable of one of these tasks.
VR headsets are designed to be comfy to wear in general.

This is an Apple like move, they made it sexy and "nice". Something that might appeal to the masses.
At those wages, they can get work off elance, odesk, etc and make a heck lot more money. I guess that's the gaming industry for you. Treat people poorly because they are passionate about what they do and can't find that kind of work elsewhere.
They're excellent. You should read both, critically. You should likely throw in the Fountainhead as well....and for good measure should likely also read Exodus, 1914, The Service: The Memoirs of General Reinhard Gehlen, and likely more fun stuff like the Federalist and Anti-federalist papers. The history, passion, and often hypocrisy found are enlightening. Ayn R. had wonderful insights into the human condition...as a previous author had said, the solutions were often a bit twisted. If you want really interesting, dig into Beyond Good and Evil. I read all of Nietzsche while I was in officer basic a long time ago. Very interesting stuff. I guess my point is, don't discount literature because you disagree with it.
>> Still, worth saying, not an illegal salary.

Much of that depends on specifics. Some of these devs traveled. Any work done while in other jurisdictions must have been done at local minimum wages. It doesn't take many days spent on the road promoting KSP in the US before you are legally entitled to more.

There are prosecuted cases of offshore firms sending below-minimum workers into the US. It is a crime.
Honestly, I don't know why I hadn't thought of this. Good point!
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The Rise of the ‘Bromosexual’ Friendship
Interestingly, Mexican law does put a series of restrictions on employing 16 year olds, so that part might be actually illegal (specially if it's full time work, or anything above 6 hours per day).
Is an MBA Worth It?
Not sure. I have both but I know people who have sold their DSLR kit and now use mirrorless exclusively. Especially if you don't do a lot of sports or other action photography using long lenses and benefitting from the best autofocus.

For much of the photography I do, I find the Fujifilm cameras/lenses a better match. If I were starting out I'm not sure I'd make the investment in full-frame Canon gear.
It's the single best selling phone, but that's in part because Samsung has 12 options that compete with it so naturally no individual model has the same numbers.

Probably more of a perception/mindshare thing.
but... that only renders JS... which is what the client speaks, so the client and server still speak the same language
Since GP risks flag death: the implication was that Hillary Clinton would seek to have Signal shut down, or more specifically: target Moxie directly.

Moxie's link shows her campaign is in fact relying on the service.
My wife had a Palm Pre with WebOS when I had an iPhone 3G. The Pre was pure crap, but the OS was very interesting and intuitive. I rarely had to help her with it. She's had iPhones since then, which can frustrate her due to how it handles settings, and she hates changes -- this week it's the removal of swipe to unlock :)
Isn't "beleagured" the word you're looking for?
Mopeds are considered auto traffic.. Checkmate?

But actually, super blocks aren't closed to traffic, they enforce slow traffic speeds -- like 5MPH. A van could still cruise by at 5MPH and steal a moped,
but it would be super obvious in a crowded super block.
You dont buy gold as its stable. You buy it as it's;

1) A generally appreciating asset

2) It physically exists (or is backed by exiting material).

And most importantly:

3) It is a flight to safety commodity so when things go bad you expect to make money.

So I would argue it is something special as a commodity. People dont rush to iron ore in a market crash. Maybe people do attribute more to it than it deserves but its disingenuous to pretend it doesn't have a special place in financial markets.
Peter Norvig on the "Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvDCzhbjYWs

I think it is so easy for us to discuss the impact of big data and quickly get into the weeds, but I think in this talk Norvig does an especially great job in making you truly appreciate the seismic impact that the availability of massive quantities of data can have on your way to think about problems. This is one of the first things I ever saw of him, and I've been in love ever since.
Have you been to Silicon Valley? It may be a very wealthy area, but you wouldn't know it from the square footage counts of what people live in.
Because things change over time? There's a big difference between accepting a job at a low salary, and then staying on after awhile at that low salary with no raises, when you realize just how hard the working conditions are, and that you aren't saving any money while your friends are making steps in their financial lives and careers. This is basic at-will employment; you're free to decide you on longer want to do it at any point. I don't understand why you think that just because they initially accepted it, they should be OK with it indefinitely.
Mobile VR makes little sense to me except potentially on airplanes. AR on the other hand...
>That's inexcusable

Except it's not, we live in an IPv4 world.

Edit: How are you guys downvoting me on your v6 connections? HN only supports v4.