skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example, if there is a labor shortage in software engineers, raising wages won't help

As long as it prices businesses out of the market it does. Mom and Pop probably cannot compete with Google and Facebook, so when the price rises Mom and Pop will stop hiring developers. When they do that reduces the demand for developers. With reduced demand, the existing supply comes closer to meeting the needs of what demand remains.

Demand, of course, does not measure what someone would like to have, it measures what they are willing and able to pay for. And a rising price usually means that more and more will no longer be able to pay the price (money isn't infinite). I expect not even the likes of Google and Facebook are willing to pay infinitely (the value of having a developer stops at some price point), so eventually even one of them will have to step out of the market if price reaches that level, leaving all of the developers in the world theoretically available to work for the last company who can still afford them.

This is why shortage and rising price typically do not go together. As long as the price is rising, then demand should be falling (especially when it is something like labour that quickly loses appeal with rising price), until the point that the supply and demand meet.
what fantasy world do you live in where there hasn't been inflation since the 70s?

The minimum wage in 1990, (well after volcker), was 3.80/hr

would you be able to live on $3.80/hr today?

As for loose money policy, the current loose money policy is just very very extreme. In 1980 my parents bought a house at a 16% interest rate; in 1990, they bought a second house at the same value (side observation: it was of worse construction) at 8%, and then in 2001 they bought a third one at ~5%. It would be hard to argue that the fact that my parents obtained two houses at no extra yearly cost is not a result of a 'loosening' of policy.
Here's the test it currently runs: https://github.com/HVF/franchise/blob/b9b1b8414bbc930f7e1a68...

Basically, it looks for geo-ish column names.
Yes, intentionally. Each level gets much faster and the players get bigger and momentum = mass * velocity. I believe most of the CTE cases involve NFL players and it is odd that someone could have such a severe case of CTE with only 3 years of NFL. Florida was a really fast and strong team when he played, but a fraction of the NFL speed and size.
There certainly is but the downside is that often these high-value, small goods come at an extreme markup compared to anywhere else in the world.

Take, for example, Tiffany & Co. whose products are on average 30% more expensive when paying in RMB vs USD. This means that at best you will make 70% of what you are trying to extract.

It's for this reason that this is not very attractive since there are many other schemes/methods by which you can get a better extraction rate.
I'm pretty sure that was the entire point of the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge. XD
Nice post and great that somebody did this with Elixir.

Another way to get into the Bitcoin Blockchain is just to use this API with simple API end points:

https://blockchain.info/api

There check the Blockhain Data API which is a good start to get going within minutes.

Also check the API of Etherscan.io for the Ethereum chain.

Both APIs should work with any language.
My Year Inside the International Alt-Right
> Equifax it seems gets to skip the whole "plead guilty" thing and just announced their negligent failure directly to the world.

You're presuming that Equifax is guilty of something. Of what? Of being victims of a hack? What about the SEC, who just notified the public now that they were hacked back in 2016?

You seem to think that Equifax is guilty of negligence. Good luck proving that. They're subject to security audits not only from the government, but in relation to the contracts they have with their various customers (standard stuff when companies deal with each other, not least of which when consumer data is involved). Their security wasn't good enough, but they didn't know that until too late. Same as Target. Same as Home Depot. Same as the SEC.

Equifax is going to get fined. They're going to lose business. They're going to eat the cost of providing identity theft protection/monitoring to the entire country. They're going to have to fight their way back to whatever previous stature they had. But any thought that they're going to be found criminally liable for this is simply not credible.
If they would otherwise be entitled to the award, then restricting that award is equivalent to punishment by fine of the same degree.
Cte is found amongst high school and college players as well.
How? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I wonder how Microsoft feels about the website's implication that it might be an investor. Or maybe they are just friends, went out for a beer last Tuesday? lol.
"Like pretty much everybody, I can't stand electron."

Except, you know, all of the folks that say that they like Atom or Visual Studio Code: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-mo...

(Atom and VS Code were specified by 20% of voters in each category).
Have you considered Citus as your scale-out solution? https://www.citusdata.com - maybe you can have your PostgreSQL and eat it too.
Right but it'd be a lot more expensive, no?
You've never used it in a crisis situation then. I've used it to be better informed about several hurricanes near me, political developments, a possible nuclear facility problem affecting family, the Tohuku earthquake, the Macondo well blowout, and numerous other things.

Twitter has been a prime source of first-hand real-time information in many many crises. Just because you haven't used it that way doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Perhaps you should curate your feeds a bit better.
This makes sense for plants and cold-blooded animals, which rely on light/heat respectively in order to function well.

This doesn't explain the huge number of nocturnal animals that sleep during the day and are active at night.
What really terrifies Wall Street about the SEC hack
I think different people have different use cases. Not everyone is tied to legacy apps. I’m sure a lot of MacBook Airs are just used for web and email. Look at the Macbook, it’s trade-offs are for people that want long battery life and probably do a lot of typing. Think journalists on the road, on long flights. I’m sure that market would jump at longer battery life for majority of apps.

As for not being able to install Windows, I’m sure you could if the x86 front end was in silicon (again, think Transmetta), but it is probably not for that target market anyway.

As for Apple supporting two systems, I don’t see the problem. They did it for the 68k to PPC and PPC to x86 transition, and when you own the entire stack, including system language and build chain, it probably isn’t as big a deal as cross platform with different APIs and paradigms.
That's probably an optimistic view of the motivations of a lot of the ICOs. Your comment reminds me of an HN thread from about a month ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15072257).

> How to make money in ethereum, from high to low risk ... 3. Even more profitable is kicking off your own ICO. Go through the checklist - fancy HTML5 theme that you can buy off of Themeforest and edit the HTML a bit for the landing page, create a Slack channel/Twitter account/subreddit, write a "whitepaper" that is easy enough for the shmucks you're targeting to understand, yet replete with enough pseudo-academic crypto jargon and irrelevant/unnecessary mathematical symbols to get the shmucks nodding their heads and pretending to understand how this particular algorithm/equation based on the "turing-complete ethereum blockchain" will "change the world" or "bank the unbanked" or, more importantly to them, appreciate 500x in value.
Hi Erik - why are the SIPs ~ $30-40 in quantity on DigiKey while the PocketBeagle is only $25?

We're currently using Olimex's Am3352-SOM module in a product, and the Octavo SIP makes it simple enough to do a board down instead of a module... if only the SIPs were cheaper.
Yes, since the left jab to the head is a key part of a boxer's offensive foundation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnality
Hackers are using Apple’s “Find My” service to remotely hold devices for ransom
I think he was referring to "piracy" in the sense of pirates on pirate ships. Piracy is literally theft in its original sense.

The question now is if modern day software piracy and similar intellectual property copying is theft. If it isn't then perhaps "piracy" is a bad term for it?
Really? Reading the document I felt AOT was too much pain for too little gain.

This might benefit IDEs with slightly less startup time but with SSDs even that's questionable. And who besides IDE authors is writing desktop apps in Java anyways?
> But it's not clear that it's the same music we get today.

So what? We're just trending back towards the long-tail. The whole "super star" phenomenon only exists because producing/distributing music was expensive and so corporations were able to exert control over music consumption and (more importantly) music discovery. Most of my favorite bands fund their albums via Kickstarter/Patreon/etc, I listen to it on Spotify, and I drop $20-$40 on tickets when they come to town. My money is still there, I just spend it on the services that provide the most value to me.
That makes sense, but do we have info on whether that actually happened? Who's overseeing the overseers? The only theory under which it would make sense to withhold that info I can think of are criminal investigation tactics, but there's no actual info on suspect transactions, is there?

Broadly and vaguely trusting in surveillance isn't convincing at all. The usefulness of surveillance must be weighed and re-evaluated against risks, as demonstrated by this incident.
I think there are plenty of people who would be happy having a minimalist life, and there are those who would choose to see the world. And I believe that there are those who are drawn to doing things; working on stuff that they're interested in. And there are those who do want more stuff, and so will work.

All in all, I think there are enough people that things would be fine.
Utility pilot projects could soothe contentious regulatory proceedings
The algorithms are (basically) equivalent, and are translations from the Fortran (though row major instead of column major). As far as I know there are no major differences in the answers, though for extremely poorly conditioned matrices (1e14 or so) you shouldn't expect consistent answers across any implementation.

The performance story is complex. Typically we're the same speed on small matrices (and using Go is faster if you include the cgo overhead). We currently have significant speed penalties on large matrices (300x300 or so), but Kunde21 is working on assembly kernels for the BLAS functions to close that gap
Severe head injuries are not required for concussions.
Intel Cannon Lake may not be ready until year-end 2018, say sources
Cappadocia is definitely worth a visit. I've seen these and they are awesome. There is a vertical shaft that they think was for ventilation and emergencies - a straight drop with holds cut into the rock - would have needed a good head for heights!

I don't think Cappadocia is that risky to visit atm, but personally I wouldn't want to visit while Erdogan is still in power. We shouldn't be rewarding dictators.
As a huge fan of Neal Stephenson I found Seveneves to be one of his worst books. Cryptonomicon, Diamond Age, Snow Crash; some of my favorite books so the length of the book has nothing to do with it. The characters were flat, unbelievable and unlikable. The dialogue was weak and awkward. The scenario felt contrived and uninspired (the moon blew up, earth had to evacuate; yep, Cowboy Bebop already set a high bar for this story).

I listened to this one in the car (10+ hours for books a week thanks to my drive). Maybe it was a rough week but I had to stop halfway through because it completely lost me. Maybe it gets better but having read the spoilers I really can't imagine how.

But hey, your mileage may vary.
a short 8-minute rundown of economics and wages since WWII era

Professor Mark Blyth on Post-WW2 Economics and Neoliberalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rxrjhWTdv8
> "National Vulnerability Database
The NVD is currently offline for scheduled maintenance.

> Please check back again shortly. We apologize for the inconvenience.

> Please direct any questions to nvd@nist.gov. Thank you."

Perfect timing for hn Frontpage. Alt link: https://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html
There is definitely room for both opinionated and balanced thoughts on this. Do have a play with Elixir, Phoenix and Ecto though, it'll change the way you think about programming and mutable state forever.
>Why does the family of a murderer get a monetary reward?

He is suggesting even with a settlement, the family shouldn't get any because of what Hernandez' crimes were. Without a will, immediate family is the default recipient of that sort of thing.
My taxes are already pushing oppressive. Raise them further, and I'll seriously consider "going Galt" - cash in my investments, buy real estate & capital equipment outright, and live quite comfortably on $4000/mo ($UBI * family population).

You're subsidizing the unproductive, and punishing the productive. I can be productive in untaxable ways.
Those visits and weeks of waiting are transaction costs.

We've reduced those over here by figuring out how to batch-precompute most of the needed work, with a generally low error rate.
This is such an upsetting comment :( besides politics, Turkey is an awesome place to visit, with amazing history and people.

I hope you get to visit Turkey sometime in your life, I'm sure it will surprise you in a positive way.
So have the hardware and software required to write software. It still takes time though. I couldn't write software for a living if people didn't pay for it, even if I used free tools and free computers. The most expensive thing is my time. The same would be true if I wrote music.
for 4, you'll have to include all injuries sustained during practice too. I don't know the medical stuff about it, but I don't believe CTE requires injuries severe enough that it puts him out of commission, just constantly repeated ones. Even if they'd be below the threshold where you'd normally report on them, i.e. getting hit repeated and being dazed from it over and over.
Can you have both "creation of lots of jobs" by government policy

and at the same time

Higher wages for all workers

?
>Take, for example, Tiffany & Co. whose products are on average 30% more expensive when paying in RMB vs USD.

Naturally, China has high VAT. But if you are just a small time criminal who just wants to secure his "koosh of a lifetime" that he will never be able to earn even if we will spend multiple lifetimes working?
Great work. Love the name too, tickled me when I read the strapline
I think they can very likely match the TDP-down (7.5W,800MHz) performance of a Intel CPU from 2015 in a passively cooled iPhone. Now can they match the TDP-up (25W,2.8GHz,actively cooled) performance of this chip? Probably not.

That's the thing with Intel CPUs. There are a huge number of ways to configure them. Even knowing the part number is not really enough to judge what the overall system performance will be.

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/core_i7/i7-6600u
This was my first beef with the book. It seems to me that

1) the forces involved in smashing the big chunks into smaller pieces make the inelastic-ness of this significant, and because of this

2) there would not be the accelerating self-destruction that eventually turns into the white rain.

Physics aside, the idea that multiple non-communicating groups, separated for 5000 years, would be able to communicate, is unrealistic. Two friends who are linguistic professors tell me that the idea is preposterous.
no, just a third are nominated by the Comunity

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribunal_Superior_de_Justicia_...
inflation is good for the investor class. The investor class has access to relatively low and importantly, fixed rate, interest rates, so having high inflation relative to interest rate allows them to take out leveraged investments and make multipliers on their investments, while inflation erodes the real value out from under those loans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decade_(Japan)

"Trying to deflate speculation and keep inflation in check, the Bank of Japan sharply raised inter-bank lending rates in late 1989."

If you want to "keep inflation low" you'd be crazy to drop interest rates, which is what japan and the US have been doing over the last 30 and 40 years, respectively. The whole point of fiscal stimulus is to try to goose the economy under the threat of impending inflation.
Getting Started with Versioning in AWS Lambda
Do you know how that'd work out for those of us with UUID primary keys rather than integer primary keys?
Search for a Stable Cryptocurrency (2014)
I believe I just saw an article the other day talking about brain injury to even younger kids.
Cool according to your buddy a bunch of hearsay is true. Thanks for the informative post, I'm glad you're such a useful resource in these discussions.
He could lose a bunch of weight and lose to Floyd Mayweather. :)
The natural resources of the Netherlands do not have as much of an impact on the economy as the outsized effects of oil for Norway. The Netherlands are primarily wealthy for similar reasons as Germany: they're a successful trading nation (indicated by not just having high exports as a percentage of GDP, but also high imports). Obviously, the devil is in the details, but they are at a minimum more comparable to Germany than Norway.
I thought it was already well known that the whole push for teaching kids to code as well as all the other initiatives to increase diversity was all about expanding the labor supply.
Well it wouldn't be "no reason", would it?
If your life (hunting, mating) happens at night, why would you waste energy staying active during the day?
Nuclear winter is not a discredited myth. Alan Robock at Rutgers has been conducting climate simulations using a 100 Hiroshimas (~20kT) standard. This is supposedly similar to what an India-Pakistan conflict might produce.

The results are something more akin to nuclear autumn, but it results in decreased agricultural production between 5-20% in year 5 after the war. The decrease is due primarily to soot in the atmosphere. Recall that nuclear weapons are hot and this causes air to rise. There is a suction effect immediately after the blast and firestorms can form.

Here's a link to a summary of results: http://ippnw.org/nuclear-famine.html

Simulations of a US-Russian war are more dire, and recent simulations are more in line with TAPPS. TAPPS was never discredited, its results were only somewhat moderated.
Honestly I often feel the whole piracy problem is less a problem then more a symptom for a discrepancy between how
"classical" content providers want us to consume the content
and how everyone else want to consume the content.

Without questions there are some areas where piracy is a real problem like:

- "free" (ad income) content of small content creators
pirated on youtube and reuploaded on facebook (or one of
the many other variations of this problem)

- maybe very good blockbuster movies most people would
actually have buyed even if slightly expensive

- movies released _before_ there official release (through
this is more a cybersecurity problem then a piracy one)

But at last for all people in my environment the coming of services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Crunchyroll, Spotify, and well regular Steam Sales and Humble Bundle cured them from any intend of illegal downloading content.
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"The evolution of sleep is inevitable" https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00293
Are there any free JVMs with AOT besides Eclipse/IBM OpenJ9 (of which I've only learned a couple of days ago)?
His daughter shouldn't get anything either.

His gf can get a job and raise the kid like any other single parent.
Which is exactly why I said, "...an alternative system needs to be put in place before releasing the database."

I wasn't saying that using SSNs they way they're currently used is a good system or even that it works halfway decently. I was saying your plan for the SSA to break the world would also fundamentally break the original purpose for the SSN and hurt themselves. The IRS and SSA need to get together and devise a better system for authenticating citizens and resident aliens before even contemplating taking that step.

What I'd like to see them do is get NIST involved and run it as a public challenge the way they have with the various encryption standards. Get competing strategies proposed and let cryptographers rip them to shreds until something acceptable is left over. Incidentally, we should also do the same thing with voting machines to create a standard which vendors can implement and sell to local election commissions.

> Besides, the IRS has been dealing with endless attempts at tax fraud for a century and a half now

Former Intuit employee here...not in tax, but I've worked with people who are and learned a lot about anti-fraud programs. Acting like this is an old problem is disingenuous. The advent of e-file has made the problem massively worse. Releasing the entire database would make it, turn, significantly worse. I can guarantee you that Intuit, H&R Block and the other online tax filing solutions have been in contact with Equifax to get the full list of (or full list of hashes of) SSNs that were compromised and that returns for those SSNs will undergo increased fraud scrutiny. Equifax only leaked around 1/3 of all SSNs, so your plan to release the full list would create far more than background noise.
I bet there are a few security vulns lurking in games that involve user-provided data (e.g. maybe you can customize your clan by uploading a logo). The boundary between trusted and untrusted in games with mods is especially porous ( e.g. https://security.gerhardt.link/RCE-in-Factorio/ ).
Well, if the only way to detect CTE is after death, unless the player killed themselves young, they would have to wait years and years until after the person played in high school. With that much time passed, many variables are introduced.

It's concerning to me because I played in high school.
So, if for 2 comunities of 1 million people with 300 politicians each, if in one comunity 1 politician steals 1.000 millions is more corrupt than one where 300 politicians steal 3 millions each?

Curious way of counting corruption

And, by the way, I think Catalonia is exactly as corrupt as the rest of the Spain, it is not a problem of the comunity, is a problem of the whole society which rewards that any people steal taxes or don't pay VAT

CiU, PP and PSOE are equal regarding corruption.
Better headline: "French chef asks to be stripped of his three Michelin stars because of the huge pressure of being judged on every dish he serves."

There, now, the reader gets most of the information content right away.