skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is from 2015, and as a result, that is the last reported year.

I found a more up-to-date data set at http://federal-budget.insidegov.com/ which is consistent with the reported years, and includes both earlier years and an estimate for 2016. Unfortunately, it seems the deficit is growing again, with an estimate of -$616 billion for 2016.

It's also worth looking at earlier years -- nothing before 2009 was higher than $464 billion. Looking at a longer timeline, it seems clear that the general trend is towards a bigger deficit, but the impact of the subprime mortgage crisis means we can play games with statistics by framing our timeline around that year.

This is similar to the trick used by Ted Cruz to argue against climate change, by insisting on presenting the data on an 18-year timeline, so that it would start in 1997 and include that year's abnormally high temperatures caused by an El Niño weather pattern.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fact-check-ted-cruzs-claims-abou...
For anyone who doesn't know about the collapse of TNR: http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/inside-collapse-new-....
About AmazonSmile
Having read about it more, I suspect that people are eating it too quickly and with insufficient liquid.

I've experienced this problem with other nutrition bars - when I eat them like candy bars, they sit like a leaden lump in my stomach for hours.
Two Charged for Alleged Connections to Lizard Squad and PoodleCorp
I don't know about you, but I'm very thankful that we have a president that can understand and intelligently talk about these issues (rather than thinking it's all just black magic).
It's not necessarily a case of expecting candidates to be grateful for even being considered. Avoiding a bad hire is surprisingly important.
Maybe that was a Freudian slip?
Count me among those for whom "private cloud" effectively means a colo solution (a sibling comment[1] mentions another version of this, which I would also consider a private cloud since it's on dedicated hardware). I would call what you first referred to as a "managed cloud" service.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12697390
The Milton Friedman model gave you a tax deduction twice as much as the BI check. So, if you're getting $500 a month in BI, but you decide to work a little, up to $1000 dollars in taxes is deductible. The idea is, you always make more money by working.

So maybe you sell a painting for $500, 20% taxes would be $100. At the end of the month, you wind up with $450 from BI and $500 from the painting (because you can deduct all the taxes at a 2 for 1 rate).

So maybe you're a fancy doctor that makes $10000 a month. to keep things simple taxes would still be 20%, $2000. You get to deduct $1000, from those taxes, because you didn't take any BI benefits.

One of the things i think is great about it, it provides a soft launch for anything you might want to do.

(I think you know this, but some people sort of miss the "it's better to work" part of BI)
Prices are driven up when there is too much demand competing for a limited amount of goods. When a company can scale infinitely, they don't have to raise their prices. Lower prices keep demand up, so producers tend to want to keep their prices low.
or random error.
There's also the issue of self-driving car hype vs. the actual progress of the technology. Despite a growing number of successes in the field, I still can't really imagine that we are anywhere close to having self-driving cars that could be trusted to maneuver around public roads without human supervision.
We also have to run stuff on windows server as well. Docker won't fly in that kind of environment either. Microsoft still has large market share in enterprise yet and will for a long time.

Containers are built into Windows Server 2016, and they're powered by Docker. (or Hyper-V for full-VM containers).

https://blog.docker.com/2016/09/dockerforws2016/
learning truth doesn't make people initially happy as truth doesn't match what they were expecting. over time learning truth as early as possible would align people's expectations more in sync with reality. So in the future their expectations about something will not be wildly off the mark as they will expect more realistically and hence result in less disappointments. So I would say learning truth will help people be more happy
Yes, we initiate protocol zero once the sirens sound off.

IT team then calls in air support
> Our problem is not that we can't make enough stuff for everyone to be happy, it's that we're still acting like that is the case.

The real issue is that the ruling class makes their money off capital. That's why Tiny Houses are banned in San Francisco and elsewhere. Because no one really needs more than 400 square feet of (well-designed) living space, but if people were allowed to buy houses and apartments that small then they wouldn't need to go into debt.

If the basic necessities of life become free then capital itself becomes devalued, so don't expect it to be an easy fight.
What a surprising problem. If the boss mistakenly accuses you of watching porn - why not explain why they're wrong and show them the site? If they won't accept that, then it means you're in danger with any web surfing you do at work and should already not be clicking random links. It's not the site's fault, it's your company's fault and your own for not protecting yourself against breaking their rules.
"impressive" is a word for it... there are others...
Citations needed.

I don't see any fundamental change in scarcity of resources in the last few years.

Additionally... to say that nearly every industry can absorb almost infinite demand for their products is absurd. Near infinite claims need near infinite evidence. Can we produce near infinite food? Can we produce near infinite precious metals?

There are certainly some very interesting characteristics about our economy right now, but this is not the right articulation. It's more that we are stuck in a liquidity trap, and we can grow our economy without increasing demand on the labor market.
One Coin, Much Scam: OneCoin Exposed as Global MLM Ponzi Scheme
> However, once out of the city, and cellular data ceases to be a thing, Google maps and similar applications built with an assumption of an always-available Internet connection become kind of useless. Yes, you can add maps for the areas you are planning to be to your offline areas, but that requires planning ahead. And if you ended up somewhere you didn't plan to be, well, good luck.

I'm one of the few who still uses a Nokia smartphone (from before the deal with Microsoft), and it has an application called Here maps that allows you to download maps for offline use. I have all of the US, Canada and Mexico pre-loaded into it. It takes around 3 GB of space on the phone IIRC and I haven't had any issues with lack of map data at least in the areas I drive (plenty of which do not have adequate cellular signal on any network).
It has another related downside: it's not a strong driver of economic productivity, as the President recently pointed out [1].

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21708216-americas-pre...
Why not use cron?

mysql the_database << "SELECT ...." | mail -s "Daily report" your@email

You can insert some formatter in between if you want. If you'd rather send emails from a proper account and not local mailer, you can use ssmtp and configure a smarthost. (http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-use-gmail-as-a-smarthost...)
It sounds like Obama was making a joke.
Oriental is not an offensive word, anyone who thinks it is should grow a pair and get a life. The hypersensitive PC social justice crap is so wearisome.
I don't hate you, I don't hate myself, I don't hate men, and I don't hate women. I see plenty of great qualities in men (strong, assertive, spatially and mathematically intelligent, logical, emotionally stable, sexually expressive, loyal, etc), but to be honest, I would prefer to be treated as an individual than to be stereotyped and labeled in such ways.

It sucks that you've had it so rough. I don't doubt that the women in your particular life may have had unfair advantages in many ways. That's frustrating. I might be pissed, too. I also have a friend with an ex-wife who controls his kid, and it's infuriating. But cheer up. You have plenty to live for, and the world's not as bad as it may seem.
> So maybe you're a fancy doctor that makes $10000 a month.

An annual salary of $120,000 is $10,000 a month. No need to be a fancy doctor to pull that salary.
Errrmmm, they're not asking for "donations", they're mostly selling laptops for between about 300 and 600 UK pounds a piece.

Not quite "thousands", but its not like they're proposing you spend an extra $20-50 to make a cup-of-coffee-sized "donation".
It is enforced. See Arthur Andersen.
> In the same way that magic does not exist, it is not possible to plan future capacity with accuracy.

I...what? Capacity Planning for Unpredictable Growth is literally SRE 103. It's hard and will have a margin of error, yes, but it's not bloody magic. The "magic" is in identifying and collecting the correct metrics that somewhat model the abstracted utilizations of the property, because almost everyone picks the wrong ones; this is situational so there is no blanket advice to offer except that load average is almost certainly wrong, as well as consulting only one metric. If you're working capacity from five or six key application metrics you're probably on the right path.

SRE is, quite specifically, application operations engineering. If you can't model your application's growth I'd be more inclined to call you an SA. (There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, to be clear, even speaking as an SRE. And I am aware several valley companies are diluting the term.)
Peer pressure’s effects are perhaps more powerful than we thought (2014)
Let's keep it simple; it wasn't Silver and 538 who did the piece on USC/Dornsife and why it was an outlier, it was Nate Cohn and the NYT. I think Silver and his org know more than 95% of the others about polling, but you'd think that this would be an obvious one for them to break since it is ostensibly their specialty.

Not that there's anything wrong with getting scooped. But it is an indication that his nose is too far in the meta-model and not in the real world. That's a class of mistake that can lead you to drive off a cliff.
The U.S. was founded on the principle that people have the right to a voice in government, and if that voice is denied people can rise up and overthrow the government. This isn't to say that the expression of this right was entirely just, moral, or ethical. In other words, the ends don't necessarily justify the means.

> When you put convenience and order over basic human and constitutional rights, yes, you bloody well should be inconvenienced. The status quo 'inconveniences' these people every day - far worse then a blocked freeway. Perhaps you should channel your inconvenience at the oppressor, rather then the victim.

You're begging the question. There's no direct evidence for systemic racial bias in policing, there are only disparities, some of which haven't been accounted for because the U.S. does a shitty job of collecting this data (and sometimes left-leaning politicians even censor certain data that don't support their narrative, like offender race statistics in the NCVS or various city-specific data sets). Insufficient data isn't proof or even strong evidence of anything. That said, there are actual victims--those who have had their property stolen or destroyed or who have been harassed, assaulted, murdered by BLM activists.
There is a "web" link at the top of this page for that reason.
Can you point me to a good resource for "a game which uses a graphics engine". Last week, I built both an android app and an iOS app, and would like to build something that compiles cross-platform to complete the set.
PayPal :(

There's a reason people care enough to hate them.
Zero is a number, not just "small". If you can't buy anything with BI it's worse than worthless.
How much of that income would immediately go towards health/dental insurance premiums (or Obamacare penalty for those refusing to join the club)?

Healthcare is one of those things that seem to get more expensive as robotics and high-tech labs are introduced into it.
This is a kind of thing that you are never able to prove.
You, as a human being, can only consume so much water. So much energy. So much food. Its already within our means to feed everyone (green revolution), shelter [1] everyone, and energy? Please! Enough sunlight hits the Earth in 5 minutes to power the world for a year (you will never see the price of power go up again [2] [3], renewables are simply too cheap now, and will continue to be deployed at a rate somewhere between linear and exponential, pushing out generation sources that have a consumable fuel with marginal cost).

Surely we'll need to drive down the cost of healthcare and housing [4]; that'll be tough and expensive to solve. But everything else? Its all clean energy, automated manufacturing, and bits across a wire.

We must choose to provide for everyone not because it is easy, but because it is hard.

The economy does not need to grow further; growth is not the problem, distribution is ("The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." -- William Gibson).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YcrO8ONcfY

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=energy+deflation

[3] http://dqbasmyouzti2.cloudfront.net/content/images/articles/...
(TL;DR Cost of energy from solar is dropping faster than Battlestar Galactica through a planet's atmosphere [3a])

[3a] https://youtu.be/JdkCpnGMyGw?t=6s

[4] https://i.imgur.com/hJewEUY.jpg
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12679384
Giving money to charity makes people feel good, and they will shop more.
It is funny that this is written by "time.com"
Does WSJ writer get to decide how many jobs should be 'enough' for an industry? Weirdly written article, in my opinion... and the writer seems to cherry pick anecdotes, 'see now there are robots doing things in Amazon warehouses! Now we can't have enough slave labor sweatshop type jobs in the US to go around!'
What about Snapchat?
I was wondering why the authors would chose to interview someone with no particular credentials or expertise in the subject.
Who rips the $1,000 processors and $200 voltage control modules out of their servers to upgrade to $2,000 processors and $250 voltage control modules, then re-plans their entire infrastructure and possibly code back around that?

Symmetry between servers has a value.

The main board, raid controller, network, and usually the storage is going to be planned out meticulously ahead of time based on the maximum load the server is going to see during it's lifetime. Often, Processor and Memory come down to "If we needed X Feature and we didn't have it" or "If we took the server down for 1 hour to upgrade it, how expensive is that?".
Absolutely - poverty is a far more complex system than "not having enough money", and while UBI may (or may not) improve the standard of living for the very poor, alone it certainly wouldn't lift people out of poverty (or help them very much to lift themselves).

But I believe the long term concern is different - what the hell do we do with an economy that no longer requires human labor to be productive? We're not there yet, but it doesn't look like the automation train is jumping the tracks any time soon. Truck and cab drivers have what, 15 or 20 years left? How long until factory labor is completely obsolete? Technological change eliminating jobs is nothing new, but this isn't farm workers moving to the city. This is jobs disappearing forever to be replaced by nothing.

We need to start thinking about how we're going to divide up the stuff we produce when no one gets paid to produce it. Automation looks like the end of capitalism, and its up to us and our children how painful that's going to be.

So no, UBI probably isnt the right answer, and anyway there won't be the political will for something like that until things get seriously worse. But as long as we continue to address our immediate problems it's an issue worth thinking about if we want to avoid much greater pain down the road.
citation very much needed
I'm pretty sure hackney cab drivers argued similarly about automobiles.
UBI probably, but funding it with newly printed money.

Another way to think of what I'm saying is this: there are billions of people out there in the world who want more stuff. There are lot of companies and workers who want sell those people more stuff. And there are enough resources out there to make all that stuff for them (energy for a long time was the big limiter). Obviously, there is an economic disconnect that is limiting people from getting the goods that they want and need. What's really happening is that poor people just don't have anything to trade with. The solution is to give them something to trade with.

We don't have to do a UBI. I think we would be fine if central banks did something like give the bottom 20% of income earners a one time payment of ~$20k.
Or if you're stuck on windows, the task scheduler:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721931(v=ws.11...
Netflix is also almost certainly far into the "contact us" price tiers, so they're a useless example for cost-effectiveness of AWS unless/until they actually publish what they pay. If it's anything near the listed tiers, they're being ripped off, based on what little I know of the kind of discounts much smaller players have negotiated.
But how to send the result of this SQL query in a beautiful table format in email's body?

It would be nice to have HTML tags with CSS style.

I am thinking in build an easy tool to do that, really similar to your solution using cronjob, but more fancy and easy to ready on email (also with an .csv attached with all data)

What do u think?
Dick Cheney has several vulnerabilities, besides disabled telemetry.
It's called the studio apartment :D

NIMBY has many reasons behind it, and one of them is trying to increase housing values. Other things are guarding precious "free" parking spaces, being old and not liking change, or being afraid of changes effecting the quality of your children's school and other things.
The peering links between the US and China, Korea, Japan, etcetera are congested. Hopefully, this will help reduce some of that congestion.
You are implying...?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12178986
> But how to send the result of this SQL query in a beautiful table format in email's body?

The same way. But get cron to invoke a ruby/python/bash script or program to get the output you want.
From the thread: Currently this is limited to Intel hosts. We would like to get AMD also supported, but that requires some more work.

Still very cool -- happy to have an option other than qemu.
This is also known as Agency Problem.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/agencyproblem.asp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal-agent_problem
I would assume he is talking about something like Unity.
Good thing this didn't exist in 1776, otherwise I'd be writing this from the British empire.
Why can't you rent it on Amazon Prime and cast[1] the tab in Chrome?

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-cast/boadge...
> After all these years, I still find the most difficult and un-natural thing is mixing concurrency / background tasks that must outlive the UI with complex UI component lifecycles.

Completely agree. I've been developing for Android since 1.0 and the complex interaction between background tasks and activity lifecycle is the worst part of Android that a significant majority of devs get wrong, introducing subtle bugs. (And the worst thing is that the documentation pretends like this issue doesn't exist last time I checked. Newbie developers have no chance getting this right, even experienced dev often ignore it.)

Overall, I wouldn't say Android is poorly designed, it's just mediocre, I would expect more from Google. In general, I'd say the design lacks simplicity and elegance. Some examples:

- Fragments. Activities were already overly complicated and for some mysterious reason they took it to the next level with fragments. (They should get rid of or redesigned activities too.)

- Older version of Google Cloud Messaging library - hundreds of lines of source code to implement a basic hello world example (wth)?

- Documentation is unclear in some cases, promoting some cargo cult patterns such view holders (zero effect on performence these days). Also, services, if you don't need IPC, the only "feature" of a service is that it lowers the probability that the app gets killed. I usually just create a simple service and start / stop it as a way to telling the system "don't kill the app".
I've been often thwarted by Gradle's anything-goes syntax (everything is a Groovy program) and obfuscated error messages. Also the switch to Android Studio. Leave an app alone for a month and I can't compile it anymore.
Genuine question: why would you make a throwaway to say a former employer, which fucked up, is taking ownership of its mistake and making serious changes to improve itself?
> They are often running centos 6.5 or less yet.

RHEL. Quite often 5.x still. They wouldn't let us ship CentOS to them. It was brutal
I took a look at the products while visiting the site. Where would one go to find laptops that are preinstalled with free software but are also powerful? high-end cpu and the like.
The problem is that stuff isn't what makes people happy. Sure if you give a poor person money they'll be happier, but that effect doesn't work for the middle class and above where people generally want a little more than they had before, and a little more than their neighbor. Of course a lot of people realize that material wealth won't make them happy, but that's an individual philosophical point that doesn't carry a lot of weight when you feel comparatively disadvantaged.

The real problem you have to solve then, is not the quantity of stuff, but the allocation of stuff. This is very difficult one to solve, especially in America, because of the deep puritanical culture. It's going to get a lot worse too as robotics, software and automation lead to ever greater consolidation of wealth. This is where capitalism starts to break down as economies of scale push us towards something resembling a feudal society, but the problem is we don't have any other system that people are ready to accept as "fair".
I'm not saying the performance isn't important in this case, I'm saying it's an inherently unsafe implementation. I can't think of a single way to secure the system if the password falls to the wrong hands.

I'd much rather have this done in a query language and have the queries cached. A compiled query should be very small (maybe only a few instructions) and if done right could be very quick without any fancy meta evaluation. You'd also get "some" way to sandbox the system inherently.

The code should only be able to access your data and if you design a language around that idea your have something infinitely more safe then something that isn't.
> This release is intentionally small. It matches what you should expect to see going forward. We are working hard to provide smaller more frequent releases with a smooth upgrade path.

They adopted sem-ver, and want everyone to be on the latest minor release.