skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take one of the most widely-known principles in macro: the Philips curve. In its most basic form, it says that as unemployment decreases, employment increases.

The trouble is, it doesn't work very well. So economists augment it with other unobservable variables like 'inflation expectations'. But if you go looking for evidence that these newer models are any better, 99% of what you'll find is theory.

The rules of the game reward you for making elegant models, not for making good empirical predictions.
I was expecting something much bigger, that doesn't look close to 40".
This article ignored the fact that male teachers are discriminated against by many parents. Simple behaviors that female teachers can do without any batting an eye, like being hugged by a pupil, can result in fear, or accusations of pedophilia when a male teacher does it.[1] A single accusation can be career ending[2] When you couple this with the average pay it's a high risk job with no commesurate reward so of course you're going to find less men going into the field

[1]http://abcnews.go.com/Health/men-teach-elementary-school/sto...
[2]https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fairfax-teacher-sean-la...
Is it what the Go community wants or is it what a lot of people who don't actually write much Go want?

It can be hard to tell, which is why they came up with a process and are asking for experience reports:

https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/ExperienceReports
Well damn. I am happy that I am not there.
Not so much salaries, as declared gross incomes and wealth.

Salaries are dealt with via bi-yearly negotiations between unions and business representatives.

Note btw that there is no minimum wage legislation in Norway. Instead the agreement formed during negotiations apply not just to union members but to the business sector as a whole.
You are describing one possible reaction and the implication is that people should try to remain blissfully ignorant to avoid having to experience this type of envy or reduced self-esteem. There are people that have this reaction and do try to avoid it all costs but it's certainly not the only way. I, for one, relish this kind of gritty reality feedback from the world and try to use it to guide my choices. If you get to peek at salaries and find they are unfair, well now you can feel empowered to negotiate from a position where you can revoke an employer's BS of "we need to keep everyone's salary on an even (read: artificially capped) playing field and therefore we can't go making exceptions for you". On the other hand, sometimes you peek and are presently surprised that you landed somewhere actually walking the meritocratic walk. Does it sting to see that some bozo makes more than you? Of course. But now you know and can take steps to rectify the situation. I'm definitely biased toward the growth mindset school of things; I'd say "peeking" is overall net positive in most cases, whether we are talking salaries or any other sensitive information. Now that I think about it, It would be awesome to see everyone's performance reviews. Who's getting a free a pass and who's getting a raw deal and such.
The HN title is consistent with the Atlantic title, but the Atlantic title is clickbait.

He didn't overturn 150 years of biology. He found that one little corner of the vastness which is biology was somewhat wrong -- lichen are symbiosis of two fungi and an algae, instead of just one fungus and an algae. Good for him, and he has an interesting backstory, but sheesh.
Just make sure that you do not have a 50%-50% ownership arrangement (http://www.delawareonline.com/story/money/2017/07/17/transpe...)
You can opt out of the latter, but not the former. Makes a big difference.
I think it's more that the economics establishment had convinced themselves that the Great Recession was impossible than that they didn't see it coming.
Then learn how to use it--it's unclear to me what the issue is.

(Noting that Rails plugins are much the same--some work, some don't, some are maintained well, some aren't, version conflicts, etc.)

Regarding "finding the code" -- Rails is much, much worse in that regard. There is a lot of magic, and functionality can be difficult to locate.
You know, NASA didn't actually spend all that money developing the space pen.
I think you are getting at a wrong conclusion.

Praxeology as defined by wikipedia, "is the deductive study of human action". Deduction is deeply rooted philosophy, mathematics and logic. A very valid way of scientific reasoning.

It is a different way of doing science, than the "scientific method", which uses observation and quantitative methods.

The Austrian school derives consequences from human action, allowing to describe what can happen in an economy, qualitatively. But their method doesn't allow to make quantitative statements, which makes it "useless" to politicians wanting to change the economy.
>> "When you pay that much you have to know that everyone else is doing it, and you have to know that the money goes to something reasonable," he says.

That's an interesting justification. It's like the Norwegian government wants people to focus on making sure their neighbors are getting just as hosed as they are instead of asking why they have to pay a 40% income tax.

Also, how does making everyone's salary public prove to taxpayers that their money is going to something reasonable? That doesn't follow at all.
the alcantara definitely feels different than the version they use for the type cover. more plasticky.
The same goes for this comment.
I've successfully used Pivotal Tracker for my last three startups. It's an opinionated tool whose opinions don't always match mine, but it works well, and I've scaled it to teams up to about 15-20 participants. Beyond that, it seems to get bulky and hard to work with, but I don't know if that's so much a limitation with Pivotal, or with how I've tended to use it.
well generic's wasn't the things why I stopped using golang.
But I think many do because of it.

I stopped because of the error handling.
try in rust/scala is just too awesome to go back to basically a tuple that will always need to be handled.
Is there some reason why such libraries have not established themselves on the dark web?
I work in a pretty bright office -- usually I have the windows open and the overhead light on. My monitors (a Planar and a Philips) are both plenty bright enough for this use case, but neither of them will get as dim as I'd prefer once it's dark out and I have only the overhead light. If I would prefer to work by lamplight only (as I sometimes do), the contrast between the super-bright-on-the-dimmest-setting monitors and all the peripheral space around them makes my eyes hurt.

And, here's the thing: I like brightness, usually. As @ianai mentions, what's needed is a larger range, not the same range but brighter.
Every country has laws. If you want to evade investigations into drug trade and whatever else they were trading at AlphaBay and Hansa, you should go to a country where they're not illegal.
Not if it includes geofencing, obviously. There might be an opportunity to alter/delete the geofence, but that would not be different in a legal sense from "chipping" a moped for example. The chippability of mopeds does not make all mopeds illegal and selling properly geofenced drones with open source firmware would also be legal. Altering a drone to remove the geofencing and then flying it would be illegal though.
A question for all the people who use the word "fair":

Do you mean fair as paid

- by productivity,

- by necessity,

- paid equally, or

- something else?
Wow, likewise never knew of it until now! Sounds incredible although I also would never have had the time to take part.

That is one thing that makes me a bit sad about Spotify (and there's not much, I think it's a great product and I'd happily pay more for it if I could be sure a reasonable amount went to the artists I listen to) - I worry that people will get so used to streaming from large, but limited catalogs, that obscure recordings (e.g. 90s dance tracks only released on vinyl and the label is now gone) will be forgotten.

Hopefully there's enough hardcore fans to prevent that happening - but in an ideal world Spotify would somehow have access to all this kind of stuff you currently only find on YouTube!
... which is why nuclear holocaust is a risk for individuals and nations but not an extinction risk for the species as a whole.
I love learning about all the complexity behind things we do every day and never stop to think about.
Houston has a 20% vacancy rate [1]. Unfortunately, I can't recall the source but I did read a study that concluded that Airbnb has no effect on rental prices where the vacancy rate is 6% or more but it absolutely drives prices up in low vacancy rate cities.

I live in one with < 1% vacancy rate and it's also a tourist city. Apartment prices have gone up more than 50% in the past few years.

[1] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-17/houston-commercial-...
'On track'? Really? Dude it's 2017, not 1997.
I see two approaches to general government contracting. One is the proactive approach which would require some government agency to find "approved" vendors and micromanage the project. The other would be a liability approach, which would essentially mean that the overall goal of a project is provided and the lowest bid is taken across a large pool of contractors. However, if it is built very poorly and someone gets hurt, the contractor would be liable in court. The proactive approach has its appeal, but often results in higher costs and not necessarily better quality since the vendors and requirements are set by politicians and unaccountable, unelected committees.

I believe we are closer to the first in most cities, but I would much rather prefer the second.
The gp isn't expressing fear, but annoyance. As you well know but choose to misrepresent.

You are a nuisance. Your comment reminds me of a two year old's reaction to being asked to stop running around screaming.
Also, I miss my 4:3 in portrait mode, was perfect for having code and docs open at the same time: 1200x1600 FTW.
Of course you should. But if you anonymously contribute to society, who do you expect to pay you for it?
This is a nudge, they're using the power of social norms. It's ok that my tax bill is this high, because that's just how it is. The default assumption is that the money is going to something good because countries like Norway have high social trust.
Briar is designed with a distinct transport layer so it is entirely possible to support this type of thing.
My thought as well. A bunch of nodes that aren't all connected has got to have some sort of selection mechanism. Whether that's gravity or ions or social status, it will end up looking like that, a few nodes that are highly connected and many that are not.

If you read some complexity books this is the theme: the same structures show up in different substrates.
Is it possible to travel the world and run a business?
Twilio – Why there's no API for crossing the chasm
Is there a crypto voting ring? I understand why most crypto articles reach the top 10 posts but this one has nothing going for it.

* Niche website linked / breaking the news

* Non-mainstream crypto-fork

* No novel interest / features

There's nothing to suggest why this would be upvoted, even among this crypto-friendly crowd.
My favorite part of this story is how incredibly strong biases are toward existing hypotheses.

"Lichenologists all thought that the fungi in the partnership belonged to a group called the ascomycetes—so Spribille had only searched for ascomycete genes. Almost on a whim, he broadened his search to the entire fungal kingdom, and found something bizarre."

Sometimes we need to just throw our hypotheses out the window and look at all the data our tools can give us, especially now that sequencing is so cheap.
Before modelling cryptoeconomics maybe someone should apply some sound basic economics to the existing blockchain. Having a cryptocurrency where the founder owns 5% of all the currency that will ever exist and deflation is builtin and fixed seems like it fails some fairly basic things we know about standard economics before we need to start modelling the impacts of cryptoeconomics. Just had an interesting discussion about this on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6okg5v/a_hacke...
We did this once and it didn't work. The whiteboard's appeal is its size and interactivity. The webcam version loses both of those qualities.
The burned-out businessman
I mean, it seems to be working. I don't really like the implications either, but it's a bit of a stretch to say it's not economics.
> I'm also worried that pursuing something romantic would not be good for the company.

Yes, it rarely ends well.

If you end up in a long term relationship or even get married, then the boundaries between work and home get blurred, and on top of that, if you have vested interests in the success of your work (which is your company) things could easily get out of control - clashing egos, 1 partner feeling the other is not doing enough at work, or at home, or both.

I've seen 2 of my close friends end up like that. Doesn't mean that's the norm, but things get ugly over a few years...

That doesn't mean you should not pursue the romantic relationship, just saying be cautious and don't over-commit too soon. Wait for the "honeymoon period" of the relationship (if you do end up moving forward) to pass and see how thinks look. In "normal" relationships, this period is usually anywhere from 6 months to a year or two...
Can't you always lower the brightness in software, at the OS/driver level? Unless you're saying that this compresses the dynamic range of brightnesses too much, to the point where you can't distinguish shades that you need to be able to for your work.
Not for me. Resolution/DPI too low for work at desk, too small to use in the living room.

Who's this for? Only good use cases I can think of are Excel jocks and folks who like to watch movies at their desk.
Anyway, it makes sense that displays should have a much longer life span than desktops - which is one reason I don't fancy something like the iMac.
Really? It looks dated to me. The colors, the typefaces, and the illustrations are very "midcentury".
I personally disagree with this guy but felt the debate on here about what he wrote would be useful.

If you've IPO'd in general you've already crossed the chasm ;<). Sounds like a bitter former employee taking his shot.
Are there a lot of writers publishing Swedish only? I'm learning Swedish very slowly, and would love to know how the Nordic languages are fairing amidst English's cultural domination.
I can see Apple dropping some Glass reinvention swiftly.
Responder is a LLMNR, NBT-NS and MDNS poisoner, with built-in rogue auth server
There's a Microsoft product called PhotoDNA that does a fairly decent job of finding near matches. It's specifically used by several major image hosting places (Facebook and Tumblr I can specifically attest to using it, at least in the past) to find CP content uploaded by users. The hashes are shared among the services using PhotoDNA via NCMEC.
What about when Japan dumps all the contaminated water into the ocean, what, do I just move to a different planet?

I'm in no ways a defender or a supporter of coal here; I think we should be moving to clean energies as fast as we can. Still, the damages from nuclear catastrophes are orders of magnitude bigger than those of coal, imo.
Post-it doesn't even stick properly after the 2nd time

Give me an online tool any day, I work in software development, not in arts and crafts
You didn't use a single concrete example. Please show some Go code that demonstrates your point.

> I also don't appreciate being downvoted for having a pleasant discussion relevant to the topic.

I didn't downvote you (I couldn't even if I wanted to, HN disallows it). But you have certainly not made this a pleasant conversation. Your comments aren't intelligible to me. I've asked for clarification and you haven't given it, which leads me to believe you aren't interested in a good conversation.

> Proof that the type system I'm talking about isn't weak

I never contested that.

> unlike the ones C and Go have.

The only claim I've made is that Go's type system is "strong." You have, not once, ever responded to this claim directly.
But mathematics is itself a science!

It uses a priori truths and deduction from it to arrive at new results.

Additionally several branches of philosophy and logic use a priori facts to derive results from it.

Praxeology is one of different ways of scientific reasoning. Just because you cannot get quantitative results from it, doesn't mean its unscientific. It cannot get you very far in predicting concrete human action, because in its view, humans act based on a subjective value "function" that has a discrete scale (you can only say: A is better than B, not by how much). and since every human is unique with their own values, which are simply not objectively comparable, there is just no way to make predictions or qualitative assumptions from this approach to science.
Someone, or a group of people, is responsible for deploying this server in its configuration. These people are incompetent. I don't care if it's an engineer or leadership or corporate structure problem - it is a problem caused by incompetence. If you have a potentially lethal car accident because the car was faulty, nobody's gonna say "Oh well, it's just the corporate structure, nobody is responsible."
I'm not saying it's not economics, just that bitcoin (and the other cryptocurrencies in existence) seem to have quite a few fatal flaws going forward from just our understanding of normal economics, let alone a new branch someone wants to start.
A little glad I missed out on this when it was fadish (even unused ear piercing can get males in trouble for being out of regs in the military).

Though it did for a while get me interested in senses we lose because we don't have words for them. Color identification along cultures/languages being the easiest to actually prove.
and such accusations are easy to level and can/have been used as leverage by unscrupulous students. men have become easy targets in education.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/mar/30/one-in-fiv...

https://www.nwpe.org/index.php/legal/false-accusations
> Economics needs to rely more on computation and data than on abstract mathematical models if it ever hopes to have real predictive power.

In industry it does. Every major bank and hedge fund employs economists, and generally they have a pretty good grasp of what's going on. Of course those models are kept secret, much like trading algorithms.

That's why stuff like Econometrics is taught, and why (at least in the program I took) a decent amount of stats courses are required.

There's many branches of Economics which look at different things; you have macro which is mostly theoretical and constructs broad models which attempt to model behaviour in a somewhat abstract way, micro which attempts to model individual behaviour, game theory which is practical but not necessarily for predictive power on a broad level, and Econometrics which is very practical, but doesn't necessarily provide much insight beyond medium-term predictions.
Yes, they use call centers with pressure tactics to get you to keep it up. Almost all EE research is done via an IEEE whitepaper though, so not much of a choice.
I'm not so optimistic:

* Fuckushima: A giant tsunami hit the plant, cut the external power lines and drawn the emergency generators. Not even waterproof robot will fix that. (You can blame bad design or not enough preparation, but robots will not solve that.)

* Chernobyl: They disable a few safety system to make some stupid tests. Apparently the safety system were necessary. If you can override the orders of the robots with a password, they will obey stupid orders. (You can blame bad design here too, to make the accident bigger.)

* Three Mile Island: Apparently it was partially an human error. Robots may have helped. (Let's blame also bad design a little.)
It's quite unrelated tech wise. This seems to be a simple inverse polar projection to map location around you based on your compass. It doesn't see anything, it's just a different skin for maps overlayed on the camera stream.
I don't know about you, but I have a number of more experienced but less productive colleagues who have been known to gripe about bonuses and raises not being directly tied to seniority. They often pine for unions, where time in grade leads inexorably to higher salary and these young hotshots would have to wait their turn.
Piriform is joining Avast
Reminds me of the Atom 1.0 intro video :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7aEiVwBAdk
Trust: A Tale of Security, Philosophy, Reverse Engineering and Python
Economics may not be about predicting, but if economic theories can't predict well (in the statistical sense, meaning the generated data should fit your predicted probability distribution), then the economic theory doesn't reflect reality. And thus has questionable use in policy decisions.
Automatically invest spare life's change
> the top comment suggests the they are SEO black holes.

The top comment in question reads like a Trump tweet and provides no further details, no sources, and no data:

"I have said it before and I will say it again, the new gTLDs are just a money grab by ICANN. Not only that, but they are basically SEO black holes, no thanks!"

Until someone definitely proves that new TLDs are detrimental to SEO, I'm not buying it. Much likelier is that the domains built on new TLDs simply don't have the domain age or link profile of competitors whose domains have been around for years and years.
> Calling VM's a mistake is surprising considering that today, a crushing majority of code (JVM, .net and arguably, LLVM) runs on a VM.

That was more of a self-fulfilling prophecy than a need. There simply was a shortage of reusable compiler backends in the 90s, so when major companies (Sun, IBM, and Microsoft in particular) decided to devote all their resources to the JVM and the CLR, then those became easy targets for language implementors (and low-hanging fruit, too).

Regardless of what you think of them, their success is probably mostly the result of going where the most resources were being spent.
Ok dude you too. Nice chatting
Many unions in Norway in the private sector (if not most) generate statistics based on information from their members regarding salary, education, experience and so on, so for me as a developer/sysop there really is no need to check what my colleagues are paid. I work at a place where everyone has a different background, so I don't expect the same pay for everyone. But I expect that I'm paid similar to others with the same responsibility, tasks, background, etc within the industry and geographical area.
Yes, economics is too mathy in constructing models. At the same time, maths and computation do have predictive power.

So you have to discern between academics trying to model the economy, and economists in industry just trying to make short-medium range predictions (and who are generally more accurate).
Hah, playing the player.
Thanks for posting this! Super interesting
Salaries are a proxy for value, but how we measure that value in a capitalist society, is most certainly driven by supply and demand. We should be careful not to project the inadequacies of the measuring device onto what's being measured.
In regards to the deathadder, it may be fixed with recent iterations, but the plastic piece that hits the actual button wears over time causing clicks to happen twice. The fix is to unscrew the mouse and get a (somewhat funny actually) razor blade and flatten out the tab. They should have used stronger plastic or a different design. I've never had a Logitech or Microsoft mouse do that. I'm just assuming they built that into their design so you'll buy another in a year.

And for the keyboard I have no idea what failed on them. Owned three over the years, all just stopped working at one point in their life.