skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While you might not care about bonds if you're under 50, surely you care about the overinflated value you're pouring into real estate (your home) or equities (your retirement) if you're under 50, whose prices are going to deflate quickly when the Fed raises rates.

If Congress won't use policy to push wages up, thereby stoking consumer demand, we will be condemned to stagflation and never ending asset froth/bubble/pop cycles.

The Fed has run out of tools in their belt. If it took pushing benchmark rates close to zero to get the US economy humming again, and we're still close enough to zero to call it zero, what happens if another economic slowdown occurs?
> I mean, yeah, you probably can write OS kernel in Haskell, if you are determined enough.

Some of my colleagues did, a few years ago.

http://jfla.inria.fr/2007/actes/Presentation/tolmach.pdf
> it's that SF is failing its citizens by allowing this to get worse.

The electorate of San Francisco themselves are failing these people.

The San Francisco government is elected by and serves (primarily) the property owners, then tenants, of San Francisco through their tax revenue. If people are this pissed off about it, they should be funding and opening more shelters and affordable housing, but instead NIMBYism and the zoning laws are forcing more "luxury" apartments and lack of building that these people never had any hope of affording.

Of course, slacktivism reigns due to its easier barrier to entry.
The Yahoo-email-search story is garbage
Simply part of a trend of bureaucracies / governments to always extend their power.
I have to disagree. All but 3 of those pictographs are already in the Unicode standard. You have to patch fonts because A) your preferred font may not have them and B) to make certain that the font meets Powerline's expectations.

The ones that are "unique" are a bit annoying because they replace defined characters in the Basic Multilingual Plane - Private Use section(E000-FFFF). Even though the section is "Private Use" it is often already defined by your OS's system font. There's the Supplemental Private Use Areas A (F0000-FFFFD) and B (100000-10FFFF) which can be overwritten safely.

I scare quote "unique" because two of those characters are full-height arrows; one right-pointing, the other left-pointing. These are already defined as u1F780 (🞀) u1F782 (🞂). It may be the case that some fonts that the triangles either A) don't actually go from floor to ceiling, or B) they have empty space behind their hypotenuse.

The only truly unique character is the "git branch" pictograph. Maybe, someone could write up a convincing argument to include it, but I can't imagine one. It's not a symbol you see to often even in the git community. And, I would bet if you looked hard enough, there's some mathematical symbol that would be suitable.

Just FYI, I've used powerline fonts daily for the past ~3 years.
Spending tends to rise inline with income if you are some combination of foolish, bored or unhappy. Most people are some or all of those things at least some of the time. In particular people safely ensconced in comfortable long-term, well paying office jobs tend to be bored and unhappy a lot of the time.

That can lead you to make poor decisions which provide short burst of happiness. No matter how large an income you have you will be able to get a mortgage, a car loan and credit card payments sufficient to entirely consume your paycheck. And if you do still wind up with extra cash why not put in a swimming pool/buy a boat/take an expensive vacation. That will cheer you up (for a while).

Stuff like a more expensive home, vehicles and boats are especially disastrous financially because they have ongoing costs in addition to the upfront expense. You pay a bunch of money now and then have to pay money for maintenance, insurance etc for as long as you own the thing.
Traditional medicine was a thing, but the problem was that without the scientific method and isolation of active ingredients, you had no way to know if the treatment was helpful or not.

So one healer may provide you with an effective concoction of antibiotic compounds, but the next may treat with with leeches and give you some herbal tea.
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Cloud Sandboxing for Financial Services
'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' Far Bigger Than Imagined, Aerial Survey Shows
Out of curiosity, why Android-first?

Pretty much all the data indicated that iOS users will readily pay for apps and content, while far fewer Android owners do. Attribute this to whatever reason you want, but it seems foolish to chase after a market that costs more to develop for (due to fragmentation), more to maintain for (due to ancient versions of Android), and won't actually net you as much revenue.
People love to talk about themselves, it's what they know best.

Take your post as an example.
Wow, $2400 a YEAR? No wonder they just lost their entire dev team. That'd be a week's pay in the US for an experienced developer.
Maybe, I've heard the story with just about every 80s glam metal band and every m&m color. Maybe one or more of such stories is true?
> Did you mean to respond to me?
I just said that the Russian intelligence services will use..

I am not that poster. However, it seems that many are arguing if the source is legitimate, but tacitly accept it is StateSponsered. Yes, we are actively in a coldwar, however, that does not mean it is Russia.

I am extremely suspect of the sources agenda. I agree with you this has the markings of a manufactured agenda on it. It could certainly be Russian operatives; or some subset of information was handed off from a highlevel RU source, but that is not proveable nor are there a reasonable amount of credible evidence.

The media has spent time discussing "Russian" involvement in near synchronicity-- moreso than the content of the emails.

There has only been limited time to remarks questioning a second Snowden like insider, which on the program I heard (NPR) there was casual speculation they were a Russian plant.

There are many outfits capable of this one might imagine. The "this was so easy"-esqu bit strikes me as utter bullshit. This whole leak seems extremely awkward, and its motivation is unclear.

The lack of real evidence & the unlnowns about the underlying agenda are scary. Clearly, someone who is powerful is behind this, if they are able to evade detenction by the NSA as well as gain entry to one of Americas most powerful correspondence.
Being a very good blackjack player doesn't mean much. You can follow a relatively simple set of instructions to maximize expected value.
All things being equal, it's no worse than other commodities and better than many. However, there are alot of less than scrupulous people who keep pushing it onto less sophisticated investors. And many of those people are paid by various companies to herd those less sophisticated investors into buying their product.

Not saying that Bill Gross is one of those by any means, just pointing out why it has a bad rep. And if the non-GOP candidate wins, they'll be another round of "buy gold" and/or "buy guns" or another TFH approved product come January.
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> So, then, why do you think that "We need to rewrite everything in Rust" isn't doing something productive?

The Linux kernel didn't get written because people on a forum said "we need to write a complete open source reimplementation of the UNIX kernel," but because Torvalds just went ahead and wrote it. Most things in F/OSS work that way.
Boy do I miss zimride. Much more useful to me than Lyft.
Major Twitter investor Sacca is selling his stock, wants company acquired
The pastebin of 5,199 emails is still up as of now. I reported it but if someone has a PRO account, those reports will get processed sooner and hopefully the leak won't be abused too badly.
Website seems to be down. For those that are curious, it's CVE-2016-7117.

Mitre link: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7117
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If you're playing against someone whose pockets have unlimited depth, why would you play at the same table? How do you succeed when the rules can change like the winds shifting?

That's what "old folks" don't like.
The press release says that they play nice with lots of devices ... but then list only one device. The Google Pixel. Which isn't even available.

Where's the iPhone app and compatibility?
And then what would you do with your gains? You already have all the gold in the world, so what would you buy after that if you want to increase your return on investment?
Lies, fearmongering and fables: that’s our democracy
If you realize too late your product is not fit for purpouse [1], you recall and replace it. Especially if you're a big estabilished company flush with cash and an expensive brand to protect. (I wonder if their decision to drop the Nexus brand had a part here...)

[1] Obviously the VR SDK is not the benchmark here, the other well publicized overheating problems with consumer apps are
Any idea what he used to make that? Super impressive
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The US economy since has hardly been free of massive economic shocks, neither has any other monetary policy economy.
For those looking for Klingon, and many more ficticious fonts, there is the "ConScript Unicode Registry" [0] which defines the BMP Private Plane[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConScript_Unicode_Registry
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Character_Set_charac...
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Bingo. Motion sickness in the end is about mixed signals from balance and sight, resulting in the "i'm poisoned" reflex kicking in.
>Why do private military contractors stay in politically-unstable places?

Because that's where they make the most money....
It's not only density but also separation of different usage types.
That link is really interesting! Thanks for that. I should have probably said procfs is Linux-specific. Anyway, learned (rather unlearned) something new today.

Also interesting is that early Unix systems (before v8) used `ptrace()` for gathering process information - the same system call programs like strace/ltrace use today.
The EU is a proponent of the "right to be forgotten" to the point where it is lobbying Google to (successfully) have them remove many results.
Uh, this isn't the direction I was expecting this to go. When you start killing judges, corrupt or not, you have Mexico. I was thinking more along the lines of being disbarred and exposed to civil and criminal liability.

Gag orders should be required to have a short duration and, once lifted, be subject to an open and thorough examination, where it's the state's responsibility to prove that the gag was necessary. Failing that, the prosecutor and signing judge would be liable.

The problem is our lack of political momentum and any lever for average citizens to use to move the judicial system to reform.
A woman had a baby. Then her hospital charged her $39.35 to hold it
An autoplaying video with sound and a broken pause button? No thanks.
No, procfs is also not Linux specific ;-) /proc is a filesystem, so most of us refer to it as 'procfs' for short. In fact, the header file you include a C program in Solaris to use it is '<procfs.h>'.

As I said before, the only thing that's really Linux-specific is Linux chose to represent it as text instead of something machine-parsable.
While I understand your concern, the entire point of database is to highlight police misconduct in the first place, and highlighting that many of these deaths were unnecessary.

I mean otherwise we'd call lynching's back in the 1900's "alleged murders" since most of them also didn't have murder convictions nor murder charges.

Though I guess they could use "manslaughter" instead?
You're probably going to put a case on it anyway right?
I'm relatively early in my career, and I feel like I've learned a ridiculous amount of useful stuff from talks given by these people:

Brandon Rhodes

Raymond Hettinger

David Beazley

Sandi Metz

Avdi Grimm
"Pause playback."

"I paused the playback."

<playback continues>
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> Android app quality is much worse.

Good thing that offline web apps will start making most native apps obsolete in a few years.
Then isn't the analogy between Latin/Romance pretty comparable with Classical Chinese/Modern Chinese?

Modern written Mandarin was standardized based on Northern vernacular Chinese dialects in early last century, which had diverged very far from the Classical Chinese of the Qing and Han dynasties (when the vernacular of the time was recorded and standardized).

Without specifically being taught, Classical Chinese is mostly incomprehensible to a native Mandarin speaker -- the vocabulary has changed a lot and the grammar has shifted. To make things more difficult, because the sound system in Mandarin underwent simplification, many words that used to be differentiated are now homophones.

Written Classical Chinese is also not readable without specific teaching -- even when characters are the same, the meaning has often diverged significantly. False cognates abound.

To further the analogy, the regional Chinese 'dialects' like Cantonese, Fuzhounese, Taiwanese, Shanghainese, etc. are for the most part mutually incomprehensible, having developed their own sound systems, vocabulary, and grammar. A linguist would consider them separate languages, just like the different Romance languages.

Source: am a native Cantonese and Mandarin speaker
MkLinux was a popular environment on a portal I worked for in the late 90s. We brought dozens of Macs back into active duty as secondary workstations for the operations team.
> But again, you're not really arguing against HRC as much as you are the status quo

To many people that is the same as voting Trump.
The stupid little sticker pack that went #1 on the App Store
Stock Android is pretty broken in China.

A lot of things like connecting to a public WiFi (which tries to connect to a Google page which doesn't work), Google PlayStore, Google Maps, email apps, etc.

In China you need an Android that doesn't come preloaded with Google stuff or an iPhone which just works fine incl the AppStore.

It's very strange that Google doesn't offer at least basic support there.
The main reason I see/hear people coming across from Apple to Android is they get a quality handset at half the price. Given this pricing is inline with Apple, I cant see as something that will seriously threaten other than crowding the market a bit more.

I still dont understand why Google didn't keep pushing the mid-range nexus. They were onto such a sweet spot.
Thank you for the explanation! Do you also have any insights into the US obsession with keeping different usage types separated in addition to low density? I just don't understand how anyone could see it as a bad thing to be able to walk to a cafe or small grocer. That and low density doesn't seem obviously mutually exclusive.
More lanes means a temporary decrease in congestion, which incentivizes people to choose automobiles as their primary form of transportation, which fills up the roads again. Repeat this cycle endlessly as roads are widened.

Basically widening roads doesn't decrease traffic in the long term. This is why LA and Houston and other car dominated places have wider roads than anywhere else and terrible traffic.

Google "Induced Demand" and you will find a ton of articles about this such as this one. http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/11/californias-dot-admit...

The core issue is that automobile oriented infrastructure infrastructure isn't very efficient at moving people in the first place. If you're going to spend a lot of money to increase transportation capacity, extra car lanes is a poor choice.
> FYI a Knot is standard for navigation world wide because the unit is standardized on earth's size.

Historically, a meter was too. A line of longitude is a little over 20,000km.
I had an issue with my Chromecast and felt it was defective...yes, that little $25 device. I called up the support line, got an American (at least, someone with an American accent) and went through a few steps. I didn't have to twist their arm to send me a replacement or anything. It was resolved within 10 minutes (though I recall there was a wait).

I would hope they have the same support, or better, for their more expensive hardware.
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Okay, I'll appreciate and celebrate it, but at $649 with only 2 years of feature updates, I'm not going to buy it. I just don't make enough to afford shelling out this much money every two years.
You need to target based on you end customers. In my country more then 90% users are on Android. So going Android first is no brainer. We recently launched a App using react native, getting positive reviews.
GNU had a whole manifesto, though. https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.en.html (Although, yes, a signifiant body of software existed when the manifesto was published.)
Hoover is clearly the best ex-President we've ever had. Carter is probably second.
>Design is not a matter of personal taste. It either achieves the goals of the designer or it doesn't. It can be evaluated on a purely objective basis.

No it cannot. First, because nobody cares about the goals of the designer -- it's all about the goals and satisfaction of the users.

(E.g. if the designer is in love with themselves and find everything they do great, then any crap design they've made that they're fine with, can be said to "satisfy their goals" and by this logic is "objectively good").

If you meant "satisfies the designer's stated goals when it comes to actual use" (e.g. make the UI intuitive, convenient, powerful, etc") then notice how all those words are still subjective, and the various hard objective design laws (Fitts law, etc) are not enough to cover the entirety of a design.

And of course all those are about the UX. A design can have great UX but still look like crap in the aesthetics department -- and this is also quite subjective.

>When someone reacts so negatively to material design that they won't use it, that is a failure. There's no matter of opinion there.

That's (someone's rejection) is the definition of subjective though.

So much for "design success is objective". If you meant "refusal to use can be objectively measured" sure, but that doesn't say much about the design.

Said person could be a bizarro outlier that prefers some way worse design for example.
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Here's my attempt at a constructive idea, inspired by all the preemptive C comments:

The l-k devs and the big commercial Linux vendors/users (Google, IBM, Red Hat, Amazon etc) should gang up and start offering big bounties for these. And simultaenously start doing subsystem rewrites in a memory-safe way prioritized by bugs found by bounty program (and other ways). If they're allergic to non-C languages, a safe C subset like SAFEcode or C0 could be used[1].

[1] I'm saying it's possible to have a memory safe C subset with current compiler technology, even though you can point out something missing from C0
They have not stopped. And you can't prove otherwise. Which strikes at the heart of the matter.
>Sounds like you're describing Art more than Design.

And even at that, parent goes for a controversial, "if it fits the goals of the artist it is fine" view of art, which is hardly some universally accepted standard for art.
Python is pretty readable but it doesn't look like someone smashed the keyboard while holding down the shift key.
Now there is no (expected) way to bypass seccomp filters, and
containers with seccomp filters can allow ptrace again.
So, does his post qualify him for the Cheap Bastard Plan?
Australia's e-Senate vote count: a good start but needs improvement
Is there a way to get this website for offline use?

I know it makes use of cloud computing to compile entered codes.
(Not to mention that the mute switch has been consistently implemented on 100% of iPhones since the first model in 2007...)
No, remove the entire assignment.
Friendly reminder: the FBI and NSA are part of the executive branch of government and report to the President of the United States. Make no mistake -- there absolutely is someone who could stop this. The fact that this clearly unconstitutional activity not only continued after being exposed, but actually appears to has expanded in its scope, leaves us with but one conclusion: the President supports this activity and wants it to continue.
It doesn't matter that you're measuring it in an odd way - pressure still has units of force per unit area. 1 "inch Hg" is 3386 Nm⁻².

The fact that you can express length as "number of football fields" doesn't make length dimensionless.
I read in ghacks that they released lite version of apps for countries with poor internet connection.

http://www.ghacks.net/2016/10/04/facebook-messenger-lite-wha...
I'm less worried about the creepy factor, and more about the nuance that I think would be hard to encapsulate in a user profile. There are a lot of complex factors that go into a decision. It can't be boiled down to "I always want to fly United, and I must have an aisle seat." Or "Italian is my favorite kind of food." There are a ton of other factors that go into the decisions, and those factors may change day to day. One day I might choose a different airline than usual because they have a nonstop flight. The next day, I might decide to stick with my primary airline despite two connections because I need the miles. When I choose restaurants, I often like to skim the yelp reviews -- not choosing solely on star rating or cuisine, but on the comments. I don't know how a virtual assistant could navigate this kind of stuff, even with tons of data about me.
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Without echoing the other responses to your comment, I must add that I think "solving" death is just another technological milestone, just like interstellar travel, required for any intelligent species in this Universe that wishes to make its mark beyond its home planet.

One of the things that are necessary to attain the next level of civilization, or perish. Yes, achieving a post-scarcity industry/economy is also necessary, and goes hand-in-hand with sustainable immortality.

At a certain scale, those that don't have these technologies may be seen as primitive.

I suppose there'll some kinds of biologies where immortality won't be necessary, like a insect-like hive-mind species, where each member is more or less already a copy of each other, but in species that have concepts of individuality and value them, achieving immortality is inevitable.
Another one in the same genre is Space Engineers - http://store.steampowered.com/app/244850/

Still pre-release but very playable, 4/5 stars.

Space Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering,
construction, exploration and survival in space and
on planets. Players build space ships, space stations,
planetary outposts of various sizes and uses, pilot ships
and travel through space to explore planets and gather
resources to survive.

Haven't played it myself, but my son loves it.
This has been one of my favorite new additions to Go 1.7. Incredibly useful for debugging persistent connection pool efficiency.
Cell phone sound quality is noticeably worse than a pots line or T1. I purposely use a landline when I need to make an important call. Presumably the call quality of VoiceLink is the same as normal cell phones, which is why modems (ie fax, alarms) don't work.
There are a couple of options. A good number of other UNIXes do in fact have a procfs. Some others, like macOS, have a system call that gives you the information you want (on macOS this is a sysctl, CTL_KERN / KERN_PROC / KERN_PROC_ALL, which returns a set of structs). And finally, especially on older UNIXes, the ps command is setuid root, and goes and opens /dev/kmem or similar and looks around in kernel memory and parses the live kernel's process table directly.
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