skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So say your country produced 5% more goods, and the bitcoin supply increased 1% or even decreased. Production is higher than monetary supply increase.

Seems to me that sure, the cost of investment would rise in this deflationary scenario, but to assume this results in no investment is a foregone conclusion. Wouldn't you just get a new investment vs savings equilibrium? One that may be more aligned with responsible investments and purchases? Why is it a downward spiral? If saving is greater than investment than production wouldn't stay at 5%, it's ostensibly fall, reducing deflation, and making investment more appealing relative to saving.

Doubtless this 'target inflation' debate has raged for the past century. Does anyone have any book recommendations that explore these ideas?
hahaha that's awesome. let me know if I can help :)
> One could argue that the national forests and parks can be a new home for these animals if we stop messing with them.

I should certainly hope not. It would be a very poor decision to introduce a bunch of invasive species into wilderness that we preserve.
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You could probably still MITM your phone to see their private API calls
Ah nice, I need to do the same with House of Leaves, I'm a big fan of stories with unconventional structuring. Sometimes a Great Notion by Kesey is my favorite; it's told from multiple first-person perspectives that shift pretty rapidly, where the shifts are indicated by having a particular speakers' text italicized, in parenthesis, with no formatting applied, etc. It's pretty neat.
I hope this becomes more and more common, leading to actual protections against it, and not the "We're totally serious about combating harassment and sexism, this time, for reals" response that it seems has the the norm for the past several years.
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I feel like the behavior listed is sadly not isolated to silicon valley nor the tech industry. It might be more prevalent (amplified relative to normal society) due to the social factors.

* Housing in the area makes vibrant communities difficult, thus encouraging isolation.

* Typical social dynamics within those companies encourage long job-focused hours, thus encouraging isolation.

* The old adage "power corrupts" is a sad truth inherent in human social dynamics. The above two factors encourage those disposed to predatory behavior to focus on the workplace rather than high barrier 'third space' settings like bars and clubs.

I believe one of the best ways of combating this issue (that isn't already implemented, if not adequately enforced) would be zoning laws that encouraged housing density to match economic pressure while still maintaining community nexuses to provide positive social interaction environments.
I remember a similar argument when it came to FB Credits. The whole industry collapsed when virtual currency was hot. Let's hope they learn and grow this.
I thought we had signed an international treaty against militarizing space and other celestial bodies. In fact, here is the text:

http://www.nti.org/learn/treaties-and-regimes/treaty-princip...
I feel like downward trend in jailbreaking is temporary. iOS 10 has proven to be the most secure version of iOS. iOS 11 adds some additional complexity with the new file system and the possibility of sharing files between apps. I can only imagine there are new vulnerabilities to go along with that. In addition, the new, faster hardware provides opportunities for mods that were previously not possible.

My hope is that the severe lack of jailbreaks this year lulls Apple into a sense of complacency opens up new opportunities for jailbreaking iOS 11.
Keep programming and don't be afraid of corporate I.T. You don't have to be a musician or make a huge impact on the world but if you keep programming you'll be happy.

That was back in 1994. Back then I felt pulled in multiple directions because I was in a band, hanging out with hippies, writing music, but I also loved hacking and all things computer related. I was raised to believe we all must do our best to have the maximum positive impact on the world, and anything less would be selling yourself short.

I also wanted to be a programmer, maybe eventually a game developer, but back then the only programming jobs required a CS degree. I went through some books and wrote a few apps, but it all seemed out of reach back then.

I eventually settled on I.T. but stayed in the SMB space due to bad experiences in the corporate world early on. I hit rock bottom after failing to run my own business during the late 00's. I was ready for a career change when I stumbled on an enterprise I.T. gig. About 2 years ago I discovered DevOps and now I'm a full time developer focused on simplifying, automating, and abstracting complex infrastructure tasks. It's so fun! Python, HTML, and JS all day!

So yeah, I should have stuck with programming, I had no idea how fun it would be. Maybe back then I didn't have the focus or perspective to really engineer complex projects. I was also intimidated by all the maths.
That's in case they overbook you're end of the queue.
According to bill you posted:

Number of Pages: 217
Number of Total Words: 65396
Number of Unique Words: 3106
You will know 90% of words after 28 pages which are 12.90% of the book.
At that page, you will know 36.77% of unique words.

The graph is less regular but it has more or less same shape. I will not publish this part because it is not a book.
Initially inspired by this Stratechery post (which also has a bunch of historical references):

https://stratechery.com/2016/apples-organizational-crossroad...

Also by personal experience at Google, which reorganized from functional lines to product lines when Larry took over as CEO in 2011.

There've also been a bunch of other articles about this. Selected reading material:

https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/functional-versus-unit...

http://thetechnalyzer.com/apples-functional-organization/

https://hbr.org/1968/11/organizational-choice-product-vs-fun...

https://a16z.com/2010/08/02/taking-the-mystery-out-of-scalin...

I'm perhaps overselling product organization as having "won" - the choice remains controversial, and the a16z article even explicitly says that it's basically a "pick your poison" situation where whichever choice you make will have drawbacks. But the general principle remains that product organization leads to more nimble products, while functional organization leads to more efficient functions. Perhaps the military's functional organization is a function (no pun intended) of it being peacetime, and the primary goal of Congress being to control costs.
> The fact that two super smart guys with huge work ethics like Chris and Elon Musk couldn't get along is very disappointing to me.

I'm storing popcorn for the day all the people who've been burned working for Musk finally come together and speak out about his insanity as a manager.

I suspect the thing holding them back is that Musk's goals are laudable and everyone still wants them to succeed.

But be glad you're a (potential?) customer of Musk's, not an employee.
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So true. Even the best security measures can be rendered useless by physical access. :)
What also concerns me about that is maintenance. You're constantly bringing in new people to build new things who have no knowledge of what people in previous "tours" built. The overheard of all the handoffs and knowledge transfers that needs to happen seems unfortunately high.
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Many features only exist because Swift needs to work inside an ecosystem built on Objective-C. Otherwise, would we really have both "static" and "class" methods? Or Swift's method declaration/call syntax that looks unlike anything else (except maybe Objective-C)?

I love Objective-C, but I don't want to inherit its baggage (via Swift) when I write backend code.
Totally agree.

Case in point: myself.

I have never owned a record player nor any vinyl records.

I have owned a Walkman which was a hand-me-down from my older brother and I used it for a couple of years before it got accidentally broken.

Then I owned and used CD players (a mini stereo and a Discman) for about 5-8 years after that.

Ever since then I've owned mp3 players and/or streamed music onto my computer / devices.

The drop in audio quality/fidelity from switching to digital formats notwithstanding, I still very much listen to music very deliberately and very purposefully.

I actually try not to just play music as background noise while I work (I listen to podcasts instead).

Instead, I make time to experience music during my walks or at home.

I do this regardless of the medium.

To suggest that vinyl records is the only way to truly experience music is almost to suggest that people who don't own record players don't really like or care about music which is grossly untrue.

And also, collecting and curating your vinyl collection is not the only way to be active about music.
It'd be an interesting exercise in Modernist writing to try producing a book that violates Zipf's law, say by hashing all but the most common few hundred words into chapter buckets.
quantum algorithms change complexity class. The pro is simply too big if it can work in reality.
There’s almost always time for the military in Congress.
> fresh college grad

I think the point is to bring in as much cheap[er] labor as possible. I mean, obviously people have been managing to cope with complex languages in complex multi-hundred and multi-million lines of code for decades, but now, with the startup craze, there is a need for a vast amount of developer force, that may not be as capable as before. When people go into the business for money reasons alone, things get bleak. I think that concept is for these people. And I get it, money is important! But I think there should be at least some passion there there too, and that's not just for software development, but for most walks of life.
I wonder why the street drugs are impure? I wonder why you can't get pharmaceutically pure heroin? I wonder why you think that opioid recovery is free of charge, is that just near you?

I think what GP was trying to say was that trying to treat people in opioid recovery programs with opioids that can be abused in the same way as dirty street drugs is ineffectual and their use isn't being proscribed for recovery as much as it's being proscribed because it's profitable to someone.

I agree with them. I don't think I interact with many opioid dependent people, but I've heard good anecdotes about Kratom, Marijuana, and Narcotics Anonymous for recovery. Two vilified plants and an organization that rejects outside help(or how ever the local chapter interprets their traditions) versus a potential goldmine of profits and feel-goods, I think I know which way the government is going to enforce their minimal efforts at drug rehabilitation.
or contextually, lemmatization
Apple is pretty rampant about Sherlocking, this isn't new.
>It's all bits in a computer, but those bits are backed by a sovereign entity. That's why we are able to use them as currency.

I've always felt this argument is disingenuous. People traded goods and services prior to government-backed currency. Being backed by a government sure does simplify things and make more people value it but it isn't necessary. Government-backed money can turn into Monopoly money as well.

Lest you forget 1920's Germany [0].

[0] http://i.imgur.com/nk0CnNr.png
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The article touches on the relationship between Phosphorus and Lucifer, it's also noteworthy that Phosphorus was the name given to Venus when appearing as the Morning Star (as the Evening Star it was Hesperus)
USAF actually consulted a lot on the show and later in the series I believe the Stargate operation becomes a joint international civilian-military effort.
I would classify a small minority of these instances as "harrassment." Specifically, the groping. That's sexual assault. Most of the rest of it, though, in my opinion, is much ado about nothing.

Now we live in a world where a guy can be publicly shamed for attempting to flirt or for making a pass at a woman he is interested in?

If a woman sent me a Facebook message saying that she wanted to date me, or even sleep with me, and I wasn't interested, I would just say "No", not call a newspaper. It's an offer, not a rape.

Newsflash: the workplace is the second most common place for couples to meet. People of different genders who are bound to sometimes be attracted to one another are going to be forced to spend long hours with one another. And a lot of people are not good with subtle cues, especially men.

Uneven power dynamics makes this more complicated, but a complete social ban on any attempt at flirting is just silly. Speaking of uneven power dynamics, try to find me an example of a man reporting a woman to a newspaper because she offered to sleep with him.
This is one of the things that's made me hesitant to deploy client-cert-based user authentication. I'm looking forward to TLS1.3, though.
Regarding cases/CD damage - I agree that if you're careful those things won't happen but I'm not exactly clumsy and I've ruined many CD's. It just doesn't seem to happen to vinyl on the same scale for me (I've never scratched a record or broken the cover but can't count how many times I've done that with CD's).
As a trans m2f2a pansexual, hearing strong women who are just like me standing up against sexual harassment fills my heart with hope and my eyes with tears of joy.

Keep fighting the good fight ladies, for all of us!
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I think I lean the same way as you: the option for complexity, and counting on static analysis/linters/discipline to bound that complexity.

That said, for all its theoretical flaws, Go is certainly a productive language (and has grown a pretty handy ecosystem over the years). In the end, the project was deemed a success and choice of language probably played a minimal role compared to hiring good people and prioritizing the right features.
Yes, in e.g. the UK, perhaps, where 1 was two pulses (although they would be more likely to dial 000, I would think) but not in NZ, for the reason given in the comment you replied to.
I selected GPLv2 for distributing a project even with the availability of v3. I see others who did this as well.

Version 2 is readable by mere mortals; simplicity is a feature.

I was also surprised by the boilerplate "version x or any later version", seems strange to give away something under terms that don't even exist yet -- and I'd be interested if this actually weakens the assertion of the license.
Well yeah but I thought the point of this conversation was comparing the physical media CD to vinyl instead of using a digital version on your computer. Vinyl can be ripped too and most new releases come with a free download.
I wonder though: how would you feel if a digital medium forced the a similar ritual? In other words, if the task you had to perform to get music playing was as involved as putting on a record, would you gain the same sense of satisfaction from it? Or would it just feel contrived?
Sure, but isn't 161k the max, and there's no room to grow beyond that? For many people who work in the SF bay area (for example) and have 10+ years of experience, even 161k may represent a pay cut. DC is certainly cheaper cost-of-living-wise, but not by a lot. And if 161k is the max, where do you go from there, especially if you won't have a job after a few years due to how their "tour of duty" thing? Spend even more of your own money to move back to the bay area, and try to reestablish your old salary from before you left?
At the timeframe discussed on the panel, I don't think Swift is really lagging. In few years, it has gone rather well, and in few more years, it should mature a lot more on multiple platforms. Right now, I think attempting to use Swift on a Linux server would be a big nuisance; it's enough to look at the open-source implementation of Foundation & co. and the many trivial things still missing. Once that is complete, it should start becoming more interesting. I don't think the push for Windows support will be very difficult.
Given how piecemeal the use of EV certs is by big companies, I'm not sure EV as implemented today delivers any 'real' benefits. It absolutely is about browser specific behaviors. How can you tell users only to interact with companies if they have an EV certificate, when huge internet properties like Amazon, Google and Facebook don't use them? In reality you can't, which means Safari/Edge's behavior arguably doesn't really help anyone. I'm not saying Safari/Edge shouldn't tell the user an EV certificate is present, they absolutely should, but that the approaches used by rival browsers arguably make more sense.

I think Chrome/Firefox got this one right by using a green padlock for both valid EV _and_ DV certificates like Letsencrypt, displaying the extra EV information clearly inline in the URL bar if it is present. The changing color in Safari/Edge can give the impression that the the non-EV certificate is somehow less secure, which in technical terms is not the case. Questions of identity verification and security of data transmission are two separate issues which the Safari/Edge approach arguably conflates - both EV and DV can provide equal security of transmission, even if only EV provides some degree of identity confirmation.

As a user, it's simply not possible to make the distinction too - if I visit your fake Bank Of America site with a grey padlock, how can I even be sure the 'real' site had an EV certificate and a green one, when there's so many companies that don't? As a user you are effectively forced to treat the grey and green padlocks the same, so why not make them the same color and display extra EV info if it is there, like the other browsers?
this kind of looks like a site from the 90s
As bad as drug court sounds, it still sounds more rehabilitative than prison.

It replaces a bigger problem with a smaller problem.

Can better be done? Yes.
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None of those things are necessarily fundamental notions in OOP so much as they are core constructs in many OOP languages. It's quite trivial to find multiple examples for why inheritance causes far more problems in many cases than when using composition- rigid class hierarchies and fragile superclasses are some such examples (problems: extendability/maintainability and high coupling). Patterns are ways to semi-cleanly work within an OOP design, but you'll find that it's often the case that a lot of verbosity needs to come along for the ride- working towards solving how to structure class hierarchies more than solving the actual problems those classes are meant to solve.

There's a reason why composition is preferred over inheritance. There's also good reason why some programmers will take it to the extreme and say that it ALWAYS causes more problems. Some languages lack of providing an appropriate aggregation alternative generally keeps inheritance alive.

Some people will hold onto their positive notions about inheritance too, and that's fine, but there's a reason why many people advocate strongly against it (and why some modern language designers skip it altogether!)
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It's about 2-2.5x the iTunes download price. It's slightly higher but almost equivalent to a CD price in the early 2000's.
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This entire article is a smorgasbord of cringe:

>During the recruiting process, Mr. McClure, a founder of 500 Startups and an investor, sent her a Facebook message that read in part, “I was getting confused figuring out whether to hire you or hit on you.”

One would think having the phrases "hire you" and "hit on you" in the same sentence when communicating with someone undergoing recruitment at your company would be reason enough to take pause for a moment, and maybe ponder why PR suicide seems like a good idea.

>Mr. Canter, in an interview, said that Ms. Dent “came on strong to me, asking for help” and that she had used her sexuality publicly. He said he disliked her ideas so he behaved the way he did to make her go away.

???

>Lindsay Meyer, an entrepreneur in San Francisco, said Mr. Caldbeck put $25,000 of his own money into her fitness start-up in 2015. That gave Mr. Caldbeck reason to constantly text her; in those messages, reviewed by The Times, he asked if she was attracted to him and why she would rather be with her boyfriend than him. At times, he groped and kissed her, she said.

That one's just downright pathological creepy in the extreme.
Just tried this and... wow!
> a language developed entirely by and for writing Apple ecosystem products

So, apparently you didn't even read the article, as it is explicitly stated that this was not the intention or direction of Swift.

> Among other things, there's no way to disable objective-c interop, even though it complicates the language and feels like someone merged smalltalk, C++, and ML—not a pretty combination. But—literally the only reason you'd enable that would be to work with Cocoa/UIKit.

Swift on Linux does not use any of the ObjC runtime features that are used on Apple platforms.
I wish Swift focused on reference semantics. One of the big problems of value types in C++ is that you have to be a language lawyer to not accidentally make wasteful copies of everything, and the same is true of Swift:

http://rosslebeau.com/2016/swift-copy-write-psa-mutating-dic...

I thought Objective-C had already solved this problem quite nicely with the explicit NSFoo/NSMutableFoo class pairs. I don't see why this needed to be fixed again, in a less explicit way.
In this model, the final cause of an elephant is to live the life of a happy, well-adjusted elephant

If that's the case, why do these animals have (non-human) predators? In fact, unlike humans, some animals actually need to eat meat to live. Doesn't that demonstrate that some animals are meant to be food?
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Then sterilizing the ingredient (which isn't always easy), and formulating a product that is very slow release. Not exactly easy. I give credit to the company for coming up with a useful slow release formulation of a product where nobody else did. Not just a re-hash/evergreening of an existing product for the sake of patent extension (oral Flomax CR, what was the point???)

My bigger concern is with naltrexone itself: If individuals on this need any dental/medical procedure, or have an accident, anaesthesia is very atypical. On-scene EMS won't be able to provide pain management beyond an ibuprofen.

Something like non-opioids that aren't typically used (ketamine, nitrous oxide, other volatile anaesthetics) or sufficiently high doses of short-acting opioids (fentanyl derivative) to overcome the naltrexone blockade (which would need active anaesthesiologist .management)
Given the choice between a drone+iPad and an A10 warthog, I'd pick the warthog all day every day. That said, I doubt it's an either or thing.
"While that might put peak price growth behind us, the question is how much the market will cool from the unsustainable 30-per-cent-plus pace, and how long the adjustment will persist,” he said in a statement."

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/the-market/canad...

How the country is growing 2% overall when the most populous region by far grew at 30% last year, and nowhere noteworthy is going down. 6.5M/36M x .3 = 5.4% national growth just from the GTA. We also have no inflation in Canada despite housing affordability being a major issue.

Your guess is as good as mine.