skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that's why I said "up to". Apologies for overstating the case. The truth is that it's hard to pinpoint the exact value.

SSDI applicants accounted for around 30% of the drop in the labor force participation rate, according to a couple of studies. That means that around 1% of the working population was shifted onto disability. Two estimates I've read by researchers suggest that about half of all applicants to SSDI were sufficiently physically disabled to prevent them from working. The other half were economic refugees. So if half of that 1% did so for economic -- not physical -- reasons, then we've just shifted around 0.5% of the workforce since 2010 onto a federal welfare program that's going bankrupt.

And disturbingly few analyses of employment data discuss the many elephants in the room: The workforce is rapidly aging, the social safety net is massively underfunded, health care costs keep rising, and wages have been stagnant for a decade or more. This means that each retiree/disabled worker/kid on SSDI costs more to take care of at exactly the same time that each additional job in the economy pays less. And while these problems aren't as pronounced in the US as they are in Japan and Germany, they're exacerbated by spiraling health care costs.

So no, the US isn't necessarily doing better because the picture is bigger and more nuanced than "68.7% > 67.6%". Your employment rate numbers simply mean that a greater percentage of Americans are working than were before. The tax revenue and value produced by that 1.1% who have found a new spot in the workforce does not necessarily offset the costs produced by the 0.5% who have been permanently placed on disability, collecting a monthly stipend and having their medical costs covered. In fact, I'd argue it's probably a net negative.
The Raspberry Pi is the obvious choice because it’s very widely available. :) Raspberry Pi 3 compatibility is coming with the next version.

For Nextcloud itself people like to of course hate about it being in PHP just for the sake of it. But the simple fact is that it enables a lot of people to run it. And if we want a viable alternative, then that is paramount.
Some post are "resubmitted" by the mods using some kind of manual curation. They appear a few hours later. I sometimes notice this with a comment in an obscure submission with 2 or 3 points that falls from the newest page, but a few hours later the submission gets to the front page and then the comment can get a few upvotes.

I think the most clear description of this by dang is in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926
Aren't clubs and extracurricular activities perceived rather differently in Japan as well? Being part of clubs, from my very limited vantage point, seems to be incredibly culturally important.
Yes, but I don't see any parallels there.
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You have no control if your awesome company gets sold to giant multinational.
Thanks a lot! We’re always happy about feedback if you have any. :)
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Yeah, once AI can do stuff like that, I'll be impressed. Right now it's somewhat useful but the consumer applications are all just lame gimmicks.
As someone who has spent the last 3-4 years on and off making a Football Manager game (https://github.com/lifebeyondfife/Cm93) that started as a weekend project - I loved this.

I recognise so many of the bullet points the author recommends avoiding, and why they're so tempting, but ultimately it's all great advice. The last ones like this I remember considering were Steam integration, and database encryption to make cheating harder _shakes head_.

I'm determined to finish within 5 years, and never start another Duke Nukem again.
I asked Google's support team the same thing regarding the SLA not including situations when the system would not be responding to any requests at all. This was there response: "please understand that these SLA's are meant to cover backend issues on our end. In your scenario, we would have no control over our DNS server getting hacked. I apologize if there was confusion caused."

So Google claims that it does not have control over its own DNS servers and is therefore not to blame if the DNS is pointing to the wrong IP. Not very reassuring.
> Question: do they still insist on UML at university?

I had a course [1] where the lecturer insisted on UML diagrams. And, even worse, they insisted on using a specific proprietary Java software and submitting the diagrams in that program's proprietary format.

Fortunately, my TA (who actually graded these diagrams) was much more lenient, but we had to do at least those UML diagrams that went up to the lecturer.

[1] The course was about applied development practices. Students were split into groups of 5 and had to develop a simple web application. It was really horrible; the lecturer had never heard of agile and forced us into a waterfall process in which 60% of the time was spent documenting requirements and drawing bogus diagrams.
Chrome and Firefox drain batteries really fast. When I use Chrome on my MBP, I have 2 to 4 hours less battery life compared to Safari. Google / the Blink developers really don’t care about draining the battery. It is infuriating because Opera, Vivaldi and other browsers using the Blink engine suffer from the same problem. Safari has come a long way, both in terms of battery savings and usability. I use Safari Technology Preview[1], which is the most up-to-date version of Safari. Apple releases an update every two to four weeks.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/safari/technology-preview/
Are you saying the process that creates risk is ending or that we are simply hitting a boundary condition (i.e. The edge of the Petri dish)?

TFR is synthetic based on population behavior (I.e. Not solely intrinsic, such as genetic).

My point is that there is a feedback-loop at work here. Educated women self-select against reproduction because the consequences are more obvious. But under-educated women still have high TFR-- they will need to hit hard boundaries (starvation, dieback).

I don't think the process of overpopulation is ending, just clamped.
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The same thing have been happening in Sweden.
>Trump and Myron talking
>Trump: "Hey Myron, thoughts on climate change?"
>Myron: "Oh it's nothing, the polar bears are just brown and cities are going underwater, but your ozone-damaging hairspray won't escape your dressing room (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU2p6YakNJg) while you grope a supermodel"

Please Elon Musk, if you're reading this, make Tesla and SolarCity come faster so we can still experience snow no matter who runs this country
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There is no business perspective to programming languages. Stop kidding yourself to explain your favorite tool of the week as good for business.

Successful companies have used plain st* languages like PHP and Java, thousands of companies that use the tool of the week go bust. There is no correlation (perhaps you should not use Assembler or COBOL for web development)

If there is any then companies that use the tool of the week do too many rewrites instead of focusing on delivering business value, the correlation is negative if any.
On the other hand, the US is quite diverse overall, and is economically very strong; our GDP per capita is the highest of any large country.
Well, this is part of why we forked it to Nextcloud (disclaimer: I used to be Design Lead at ownCloud and moved to Nextcloud).

We’re focusing a lot more on stability and innovation, and if you look at the Github statistics, you’ll see that our activity surpasses ownCloud’s by a magnitude.
I did a weekend exercise for a company once. I didn't care for it. I felt like I was wasting my time when I could be doing something I wanted to do instead, but I wanted a new job and they seemed decent.

However, before they had time to review it and get back to me, another company interviewed me and offered me the job and I took it.

From the other side of that, we now give these assignments when hiring. It has virtually eliminated the bad candidates, and we've hired a few good junior programmers for a change.

However, neither of those 2 situations paid anything. They were throw-away projects that the company couldn't actually use to avoid any legal issues. If we were going for experienced programmers, I think I'd recommend the payment route. But junior programmers? We got too many applicants to send it to all of them, and so we'd end up pre-filtering them like we used to do, which makes the process less valuable.
"1M users without promotion" is also misleading without "By the way, we run the platform it operates on."
He was also supposed to repeal the "PATRIOT" Act...
We are also calling S3 from our servers. S3 is receiving more requests and has had 0 issues. This is the corresponding NewRelic data for S3: http://imgur.com/HjH4f0Q
I was referred by somebody that I know from Twitter...
Ken Stanley came up with the idea of NeuroEvolution while he was a phd student at the Neural Networks lab at UT-Austin.

You can see some of the older NeuroEvolution papers here:
http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/project-list.php

I believe Ken Stanley has gone to become a professor at UCF to continue his research:
http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~kstanley/
Maybe some prisons can fundamentally change to becoming some sort of YMCA-like environment. I imagine a lot of the prisoners are non violent. If so, I wonder if you could co-mingle those who live at the "prison" with those who go for the social activities and whatnot.
We do have an IMAP app for mail https://github.com/nextcloud/mail

You can run that together with a Dovecot for example. It integrates nicely with Nextcloud Contacts for autocompletion and Files for attachments. Testing and contributions are very much welcome! :)
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That's why I built DevFreeBooks, to curate more the free books, instead only add any link without know if is a good or not content.
So this just in:

"Chinese state media has warned the U.S. president-elect against isolationism and interventionism, calling instead for the United States to actively work with China to maintain the international status quo."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-china-media-i...?
Since you mentioned majorities, how many Linux kernel systems out there belong to parties which can afford to maintain a custom-built kernel with things like grsec integrated?

Oh, wouldn't things be better if we had all that candy upstream?
Are you kidding? Is being coherent your litmus test for deserving help? He's probably a little depressed and emotionally rattled right now, and being incoherent (I understood him just fine, though) is absolutely a side effect of being in a dire, stressful situation.
how about using such an institution to educate immigrants?
> Mashing two buttons that are literally side by side vs. pressing one button is not really a huge usability boost.

I have a feeling you're saying that while being a Mac user 99% of the time, and using Windows 10 1% of the time. Correct me if you actually used Windows 10 for a serious length of time.

IMHO, once you get used to the convenience of Windows 10, you can't go back. Not having installers, clunkiness of Spotlight, the outdated sheer unfriendliness of Finder...I found the one year I used a Macbook Air with OS X Mavericks an unpleasant experience.

The accents: I would have no idea. Even in the corner case that Microsoft has not thought about Europe at all, I bet you can find a Windows utility (most probably free) that would replicate exactly what you need.

Edit: "The AltGr key functionally resembles the Option key", apparently: http://superuser.com/questions/814843/mac-style-option-key-f...
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So four more years of Obama?
Just to add to what Scott said: One important part is that the Nextcloud Box is just a device running Nextcloud. It’s not the main product. :) We focus on developing the software, which is 100% open source and at https://github.com/nextcloud

(Disclaimer: I used to be Design Lead at ownCloud and moved to Nextcloud.)
Yes, in a sane codebase, you (almost) never use <any>. 98% of the time, if you type <any>, you're being lazy.
These stats are usually about when the site becomes accessible, not jumping, text or the most important content loaded etc. Of course, optimizing images is important, but they load async anyway. Besides, people using imgx probably are heavy on pictures sites anyway.

Better start cutting the js and css bloat and load them both async.
I find UML state diagrams useful for specific, localized bits of projects where it is not necessarily possible to hold the entire state machine in my mind while developing/interpreting the code. It acts as a spec to guide writing tests and tells future visitors to the codebase exactly what I was trying to do. I check the UML diagram into source control alongside the code, which contains comments pointing to the UML diagram.

The key is to use this sauce in limited amounts and only to guide the development of truly critical parts of your code. A utility library to convert dates? Eh. A core library that handles complex multiparty bid management for a market? Definitely.
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Also just to add to this: The Nextcloud Box is a device running Nextcloud, not our main product. :) The focus continues to be the software, which is the server and the apps for syncing.

All 100% open source at https://github.com/nextcloud – and any contributions are very welcome! :)
They're different. They seem normal to the Chinese people, as their web design is a reflection of their culture. This is perhaps the main factor in the inability of the American tech companies to succeed in China, for more info you could read the book "Alibaba: the House that Jack Ma Built"
Through technology, groups of people have gathered together virtually. I think this is to the detriment of improved relationships between people physically, geographically closer together. The internet lets would-be community-builders act as if geography doesn't matter. But it does.
Seems they rolled out a fix now:

"We've seen some questions in our Community around the amount of written data using the Spotify client on desktop. These have been reviewed and any potential concerns have now been addressed in version 1.0.42, currently rolling out to all users."

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Major-I-O-wr...
Exactly. Also you have no idea what kind of cultural fit you're having if you only rely on technical skill. And besides, why do you want me to solve $problem? Take a look at my portfolio and public code - it's telling enough.
Business idea: import prisoners! (jk)
Cough, ahem, if you and parent didn't read all the way to the end:

>Consume Less

>Reading 20 articles a day on game development feels like work. It is work! But it's useless unproductive work, it's not moving the needle.

>Better to spend less time on Gamasutra, TIGSource, r/gamedev/ (or where ever the cool kids hang out these days) and a little more time in your editor getting stuff done.

I'd be inclined to say that Ludum Dare and Twitch or itch or whatever are up there in the "where ever the cool kids hang out these days" list.
I like to think we're innovating at Thread (thread.com). We're innovating on the customer side with recommendations and more educational content than a standard ecommerce experience, but also on the business model/stock/supply side.
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It would be very interesting to have pointers here. I would have liked to do the same thing, but for Golang.
Hey Drew,
thanks for the feedback!

I guess one thing to bear in mind is that I started this off with the European (particularly Spanish) market in mind. Leads are super important here too but many agents here also have a problem with websites that pretty much frighten clients away. These days a website might not be what generates leads but having a decent one is a good indicator of how seriously that agent can be taken.

Again it might be different in the US but remember that in Spain for example a lot of clients might be English speakers who will see a website with an English translation as a sign that the agent will at least make the effort to communicate with them.
>FIRST , cancel every unconstitutional executive action,
memorandum and order issued by President Obama.

Does this mean the LGBT rights to marry will be taken back?
Can't expect less from the legend that created the programmable roguelike system ZZT.

Long live to you, Tim!
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PathFinder is poorly designed imo. What is the result of calling getPath or getMinLength before calling findPath? The correct way of returning the path calculation is

Path findPath();

not void findPath() which stores the results as fields on PathFinder.
Gravitons (if they exist) will interact with any particle with mass, so a big heavy wall should stop them. Since the interaction is extremely small, the wall must be extremely heavy, probably bigger than a galaxy, not just a normal wall.

>> A gravitational wave is made of a huge amount of gravitons

> That is not established at all!!

Completely agree. My conviction that they exist is based in many assumptions. In particular that we will someday have a quantum gravity theory that will be correct and that it will integrate nicely with the other physics theories. It's a good guess, but it's possible that we will not know the answer for hundreds of years.
Played a lot of Sim City? :)
I used Google Play for years, switched to Tidal for a short while and now listening only my own music. I have enough music for years, I can listen anything I want and the artists are getting a better deal when I purchase their albums. And I can have my music in any format and in any quality. My music follows me automatically from home NAS to work to mobile.
That will be awful. I've generally been fine with insurance companies selling in multiple states, but I always picture it with regulation - because of such a situation.
According to the article, they are doing exactly that (but only as a partial "solution").
Okay, maybe "sure winner" was putting it on the edge, but 70% chance of winning is still far from being decided by what is hidden in the margin error.
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I'm not sure about English, but "simple majority" and "absolute majority" are commonly used to refer to a plurality and >50% respectively in German.

Wikipedia [0] also recognizes this meaning.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_majority
Spoiler: I'm Muslim. Interacting with you, online, in a civil manner.

>It's very similar when it comes to Islam too. I criticize Islam. I criticize Islam's pedophile, rapist and thuggish prophet Muhammad. I criticize Islam's treatment of women and kaafirs (disbelievers). I criticize Islam's barbaric misogynist doctrines.

Again: zero to do with reality. Again: learn to interact with reality and not google. Very telling that you avoided answering any of my prior direct questions.

I've spent too much of my life listening to hate preachers try to misinterpret various Surah and Hadith to achieve objective (x); x is almost always silly, always nationalistic, and always wrong.

Watching you do the same thing to justify your desperate need for an Other - which you still refuse to acknowledge, and which again, is sad and worrying and a sign that you please, should see a doctor for this anxiety - reminds me very much of the behavior of a typical hate preacher. And that extremists of all types have so much in common with each other - namely, the willingness to ignore facts in the pursuit of satisfying dogma.

For what it's worth: if you want to tell me that there is a Muslim, or a group of Muslims somewhere in the world that mistreat women or 'kaffir' or what have you : that would be true! And conflating that group of people with anything that you can reasonably call Islam - a word used to represent 1.6 billion people, 57 countries, and millenia of history - is psychotic, and not a thing you can really do with any other religion or group of people without being called out directly for it, thankfully. Conflating a massive group of people by a cherry picked example of their worst is the exact definition of prejudice. I know that you won't accept that on the face of it, and your knee-jerk reaction is that you're armed with The Truth here - but take a deep breath. Cognitive dissonance can often be difficult to confront head on. Please try to do so.

Now - I believe this is your cue to explain to me that I really just want to turn you into a dhimmi; offer some whack-ass cherry picked mistranslated hadiths to prove that really, these noble savages just need to be shown the light; or copy paste some nonsense /b/ bullet points about how "Islam does X" in order to help you ignore the real human - this one, right in front of you! - telling you that faulty generalizations in the service of your priors is the telltale mark of a bigot. Go ahead, do what you want to do. And then, for the love of God - go to a doctor.

When you get back: why do you need an Other so badly? Second time I'm asking.
That's happening; holland takes on Belgian prisoners. Or at least they did, then did not, then did, I'm not sure where it stands right now. But definitely happening :)
That Youtube channel (Lazy Game Reviews) is generally speaking quite good. Recommended.
The factory that makes the Cruze is set up to make the Cruze and it will continue to make Cruzes, just 16 hours a day instead of 24.

They might be able to work in another model on the same platform as the Cruze but they can't build Cruzes for 16 hours a day and then switch to building trucks.

GM does typically offers reassignments but maybe workers expect to be called back at some point.
This sort of exists in the UK. When I was young I volunteered for CSV (now rebranded "Volunteering Matters"), but a good section, possibly 1/3rd of the people there were prisoners on day release or people who had been given (non-voluntary) community service as an alternative to prison.

Quite good, you definitely got to meet all types of people.

Sadly unlike the Simpsons joke I cannot trade my voluntary work against future crimes.
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I would not say it is a reflection of culture. They simply have a lower standard for aesthetic look relative to information density. If you look at some early pages from the western Internet they had similar designs which have gradually been phased out.
According to the article, now with Trump being president it is just a matter of time until the USA government starts spying on us :(
I've heard of at least one former prison being used for refugee housing.