skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure how you weight the great depression, but I believe* the period after the great depression through the 2008 financial crisis featured less severe business cycles than prior to the central bank. The repeated crashes of the late 19th century really were very severe.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Moderation (though that's a shorter period).

* I know a little about this, but not that much. Take what I say with a big grain of salt.
This Planet Money episode is a must-listen for Excel fans: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/25/389027988/episo...
same thing happens in cabs though all the time.
Active discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15310664
> Caution: The mentioned amount of hours is not advisable for people working on someone else's business for illusory stock options, with no payment for overtime. There's also no point in going beyond this number because working over 50 hours a week actually decreases productivity. Life should come first in the "work-life balance."

Great disclaimer in the article. The only problem is that many employers will be quite happy with people working 50+ hours per week. It's up to the employee to not let an employer take that much advantage of them (this includes having enough savings to be able to put in notice at the job at any point, assuming no contract or law would prevent it). The current landscape of the technology field, while lucrative for an employee, especially in the United States, is tremendously skewed toward the business where many employers see high turn-around as the rule, and no longer the exception, leading the employer to expect employees to work such high numbers of hours.

If a person likes working 200 hours per month, I wish them all the best and hope they are hourly-paid. Being salary-paid and having a family means I will continue to limit myself to 40 hours per week working for someone else. At a point where I work for myself, then, of course, that number may change.
I've only dealt with this on Intel chipset HDMI - if I'm remembering correctly there's some part of the snd_hda_intel kernel modules you can blacklist in order to disable this.
Databases do not use binary trees for indexes and tables, they use B-trees. B-trees are a family of self balancing tree data structures which usually are not binary because in a database you want the tree to have few levels.
Except that in UK approx 95% of such offences are carried out be people with no prior convictions - so you don't weed out that many attackers this way.
Clickbait as psychological anchor
Does anyone else look through the bottom of the page of some article at the clickbait and wonder is this the way the Internet really thinks about me.. Like am I the person the computer thinks these bizare headlines and pictures of things and people would be interesting to.. Am I somehow this person. What role am I to this computer what actions am I to take now that I am this person
Sigh.

Once upon a time, sound cards were files in the /dev tree. To play sound, you wrote pcm data to the file representing a sink. To record, you read pcm data from a file representing a source. Things were better then. I'm sure there are people with use cases that have required the four (and counting!) solutions crufted on since then, but I've never been one of them, and it irks me that the interfaces get more and more complex and brittle with each iteration.
It's worth noting that doubling the output of a tiny economy of 5 million people, and doubling the output of a large nation that in 1968 had half of all global manufacturing - are two very, very different things.

If you double America's output today, and take the GDP up toward $40 trillion - who is going to buy all of those products and services in the near term? Nobody, it couldn't happen over a short period of historical time (10-20 years); that supply could not be absorbed, it would be a disaster for the producing nation.

If you're Norway in 1990, and you have a $100 billion GDP, doubling that into a global economy of $28 trillion, is very feasible. If you're the US in 1990 with a $6.x trillion economy (20-25% of global GDP), doubling that quickly is essentially impossible. A global economy of $28 trillion can absorb an additional $100 billion in output from Norway fairly easily over a few years, assuming it's competitive / desired output. As a smaller economy selling into a massive ocean globally, you're dramatically less bound by the global growth rate; if you're the world's largest economy, you're tightly (not strictly) bound to global growth rates. From its smaller base, Norway can see huge economic gains and defy global growth rate limits; for example, imagine Norway having an Apple size company, that grew from $30b to $200b in sales over six or seven years, it would add 50% to their economy and that output could be easily absorbed by the global economy.
This is something I've also struggled with. I find it hard to read deep learning papers because I need to translate each math notation, thus struggling to get the bigger picture. I'm fond of the bottom-up approach, e.g. I started by mastering C and wrote my own libraries. But for deep learning I lean towards the opposite, starting with high-level libraries. When I want to understand the theory I search for simple python code that I can implement from scratch. This way I can understand the logic, without having to understand all the math behind it. I've mostly focused on doing Kaggle type of problems and used MOOCs when I get stuck. I've had little interest from larger companies, but I've managed to get a few offers from startups. Startups often have a couple of people with PhD-level knowledge but are also looking programmers that can code the models.
Elixir is really awesome. All the things that I do not like in Python [0] and [1] (and many more) are gone in a functional programming language where you have functions that always return values. But I do miss the large community of Python and the excellent documentation and discussion groups.

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[0] mutable vs non-mutable (strings and tuples) data structures for instance. This leads to inconsistencies: text = "hey there", text.sort() is not possible, data=[5, 7, 3], data.sort() is possible.

[1] since not every method returns a value we can't do method chaining. Ruby and JavaScript would allow me to do things like this: data.split.sort.first(). I used to do things like that in Mathematica years ago by postfix notation: f[data] // g // h (meaning: h(g(f(data)))). And Elixir allows this as well with data |> f |> g |> h. Can't do things like that in Python, have to create temp variables to capture intermediate results.
Is it possible that that's the case PaulRobinson was referring to? A few years earlier than he thinks but it's plausable no?
Corporations are paying people to post on HN as well as reddit now adays??
Transferred and bought miles last year to go on a vacation. They will let you do it but charge money or miles.
The problem with stopping early is that you may have to start again. A whole course, since feeling better doesn't mean you have a low enough population of the bacteria to not reinfect you.

Surely, repeated/massive bottlenecks in a viral population aren't a good thing for antibiotic resistance.

Of course, the absolute best scenario to avoid resistance is to treat exactly as needed (say, kill 95% of the bacterial population, let the immune system clear the last 5%, done) but really, you can't realistically do that right now.

So you have two choices : Either you tell patients "Take it until the end even if you feel better!" which leads to some antibiotic resistance, or you tell them "Take them until you feel better!" which probably leads to reinfection and use of a second course of the same antibiotic.

Taking exactly enough > Taking more to make sure it's dead > Stopping too early, requiring the process to be done again.
Dotards in the Sky with Diamons
Timing is also good but our initial goal was to make a RescueTime alternative, so Qbserve is similar to it in many ways.
Is there not still a limit to GPS accuracy when civilian receivers go beyond a certain speed? e.g. to deter clandestine missile development?
In technology, it's often the cost of re-integrating with something else. MongoDB makes this lock in ever better because it's API isn't SQL, so getting off is even harder than usual.
>Are credit cards very common there?

Much less prevalent than in the US. There are much fewer cash back/air miles/etc credit cards...actually, literally the only I'm sure exists is that for the department store De Bijenkorf. There may of course be more I haven't seen before.

Debit cards are the dominant payment method. Credit cards are most useful for things like hotels abroad, online shopping abroad (w/n Netherlands there is the iDeal payment system for online shopping). It's not uncommon to find shops that will not accept them.
We ran into this at my shop. What we did is tuck away everything that isn't accessed externally in a VPC. Now they can't be reached by these scanners.
>The odds are, from the start, stacked against the worker's interests.

If I negotiate a contract with a child for them to work for me, it is illegal because we realize the power difference between the average child and average adult is bad enough to justify banning child labor. Yet the power difference between trained negotiators and the average job seeker is as big a gap.
Reproducibility vs. root privileges
It's hard to be sure it's a viral infection unless you have a positive test for a specific virus.
Is withholding the best technology - that otherwise presumably would increase the quality of life of a nation's citizens if they had access to it - a good method of protest, or will it simply lead to other actors who are okay to support censorship and such to fill the gaps? I'm not sure of the answer.
Forgot a what in there, just woke up me can not english.
I've thought that that would be one of the responses, and you're partially right, of course. But in the grander scheme of things better wages for workers (including sales clerks) would, among other possible outcomes, also increase the "talent pool" (for a lack of better word) from which future capitalists will pick their "inventors" and "technicians" 15-20 years down the road.

More to the point, under the present conditions only the kids of capitalists themselves and the kids of some privileged social strata (like IT people's kids) are free to fulfill their intellectual potential 100%, because they don't have to worry if their parents have enough money for rent/putting food on the table/education, and as such they can spend their late teens - early 20s (when they've grown up a little) trying and playing with new stuff, studying whatever university courses they feel fulfills their intellectual potential etc, and not having to worry about finding a McDonald's job because their parents have left them with nothing. But if you pay all the workers a little more then their kids will also be able to follow the intellectual subjects they're really interested in instead of studying and learning only to get a job, any job, in order to pay down the future student-loans faster. These people would very rarely be interested in inventing new stuff for their "capitalist" owners or in becoming entrepreneurs (which it has been proven that it's good for capitalism, I mean, there being more entrepreneurs).

The same argument (only much better put into words) was made by J.S. Mill when he wrote about why women should be fully allowed in the workforce on the same level as men. He found it really, really inefficient that about 50% of the human population was taken out of the intellectual pursuits, which for us, as a species, means that we get to have 50% less inventors/great artists/technicians.
Pretty much this, and I have only crossed the channel a handful times to visit friends. Same experience in France when trying out legacy taxis, they are supposed to take cards, they display it on their car, yet, some will refuse it and cause trouble if you try using it.

Basically, it comes down to lack of serious customer support and accountability system. Setting new rules from top to bottom in a legacy industry that has decades of industry malpractice under its belt cannot be effective if you aren't able to enforce those rules.
I see your point but I assume the producers of the hack own the rights and IP to their work i.e. there's nothing stopping them releasing what they did as open source and building a community around it (at least that's been the case with every hackathon I've ever participated in).

If the above assumption is true then I don't see the problem. ArcelorMittal get some buzz and maybe some ideas to pursue, the hackers get a fully paid fun weekend and a little cash for their efforts, society potentially benefits from the seeds that were planted.
Thank you, I'm happy to hear that it works as intended!
Thanks! That's useful.

Long time ago, there was a similar service that used push notifications (via now-dead Notifo; they also had emails https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1720763 but, personally, I felt that pushes were nicer).

I wonder if there's anything that uses Web Push notifications...
iPhone 8: small queues and muted reaction lead to questions over demand
You'd already probably use a a tape or laser if you were measuring a distance short enough for centimeters to matter.

(100 meters isn't that far; 1 cm at that range is already 1/10000 of the distance; Commercial equipment can apparently do millimeters across kilometers: http://www.micro-epsilon.com/displacement-position-sensors/l... )
I usually had sound cards with hardware mixing, but what was wrong with esd? It did software mixing and seemed to work. (And didn't require you to run the rest of enlightenment, despite the name)
Actual article (the BMJ peer reviewed analysis) is behind a paywall. But my thoughts as a microbiologist are that this is more a situation when the "course" that's been prescribed is generally wrong or the diagnosis is wrong.

In either case, the risk for increased resistance is high, while the value for treatment low. Without a positive biochemical assay to assert a bacterial agent, antibiotics should not be prescribed, but likely are. Knowing how long a course to prescribe takes empirical evidence, which seems to indicate shorter courses are needed.

Since I don't have access to the actual research, I'm guessing that it's more like "old, long antibiotic prescriptions were generally over prescribed, doctors should prescribe shorter doses and confirm with lab that bacterial agent present"

It's been a decade since I've need antibiotics, but the last time I took a z-pak which is only 3 doses. Since initial immune response normally takes longer to ramp up and normally is a few days, this seems reasonable.
My wife and I bought a house in May and my mom wanted us to move to Northwest Indiana due to how bad Illinois has become and how hard it will be to sell property in the coming years due to the tax increase to pay off all the debt the state has from a lack of a budget for nearly 2 years.

It has affected public education as well. The school district my wife teaches at relies on state money (she claims it is the only one outside of Chicago that does) and because of lack of budget and various debts the state owes there is not as much money for education. If things don't change shortly the district will have to shut down in February of 2018. If teachers want to stay past that they can but they just won't be paid. Now, granted this is the far southwest suburbs so it may not be exactly where the new amazon workers may live but it is still a reflection as the state as a whole.
He's using hyperbole, but his arguments are valid in explaining the rationale that some workers feel when considering a union.

Some unions are so hawkish that they impose hiring blacklists on affected employers, making membership mandatory instead of voluntary. Additionally, in the rank and file, there's a common fear of union corruption.
Yep. Paid with my promo credit, was reading, and arrived at an abrupt, mid sentence stop. There was no UI asking me to pay more.

I requested a refund and gave that as my reason.
A 2-line autohotkey script would be enough to disable the F1 key in just Excel. You can even compile it down to a single copyable binary.
It divides farmers and they wanna put it in our food? Jesus H!
I think the use cases you're describing are quite distinct from a "Linux on the desktop" user. The audio experience for this kind of user (myself included) has improved dramatically in the past few years.
Commercial airliners use a radar altimeter, not GPS/GNSS to assess altitude.

Most if not all airliners equipped with autoland systems use ILS rather than GPS for position as well.
Glad you're not ok w/ theft & are looking for improving biz models.

Their biz model is pretty good, as evidenced by the fact that they're still going strong despite the theft.

Their IP is primarily the engine designs for high power-weight ratios, reliability, manufacture-ability, etc. They sell to military and high-performance hobbyists.

Foxcon is probably stopped only by the threat of Apple's large legal dept and the likelihood that they'd lose their biggest contract, probably be put out of biz, executives possibly executed for making an international incident/harming the PRC (it's China...).

Basically, compared to a startup who is a small customer of a foundry/machine shop, Apple stops Foxconn with threat of enormous power.

IMO, what this biz should have done differently is found a way to build in US or MX with a more trusted manufacturer.

Or, if they had no choice but China, split the work between multiple unrelated suppliers so that no one supplier has any surplus or ability to create it. e.g., buy the materials at Source A, provide to Source B for with requirement to produce X cast parts, take those cast parts to machine shop w/req to produce X machined parts and ship all bad parts for inspection. Preferably ship each intermediate step to your own agent for inspection and shipping to next step, partly for verification, and partly to prevent supply chain from making knock-offs.

I know one of my Swiss suppliers had some of their material mfg in China just for the Asia market, I expressed skepticism, and they said, "oh, no, we're making sure they have nothing -- we send them only the pre-made chemicals ready to mix & pour, and their only job is to pour/cure/cut. They have no idea what they are mixing, and it'd be nearly impossible to reverse engineer".

In short, take more serious steps to protect IP.
(Full disclosure: I work at Red Hat)

I was really intrigued by this as well and dug out the following press releases:

- https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-open-sources-prospect...
- https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/chaoss-project-creates-...

But more importantly, I found a hosted version available here: http://prospector.bitergia.net/project/
Slack's Linux version unsigned?
How Volunteering and Charity May Help You to Boost Your Career
Adding circuit breakers to .NET apps
I've been beating my head against the wall for weeks trying to compile rustc/cargo on Openindiana. I want it so that I can compile a recent version firefox and/or thunderbird for Openindiana, both of which require rustc and cargo.
There's a preference that asks for confirmation if there's more than one open tab.
In the 19th century, a panic in the US was limited to the US - it was still a peripheral economy compared to Europe. After WWI, the US had most of the gold reserves in the World, Europe was riddled with debt (to the US) and very slow to recover. The Great Depression was greater because it affected the whole World, given the centrality the US had assumed in World trade.

But, more importantly, between the Great Depression and the last crisis of 2008, the Western World never saw any panic as big as those of the 19th century: the Fed had learned much better how to be the World banker, and the US had learned that, after winning a war, rebuilding international trade was much important than collecting war debts.
There's a lot to be said for being able to pat yourself on the back for doing the ethical thing.

Sad this is dismissed so easily today.
Saudis are LPs in a lot of funds and funds of funds.

So are most not super human rights friendly sovereign wealth funds like Singapore... where it's technically illegal to be publicly gay and I know they use to ban WSJ but not sure if they still do.
== quality of life ==

by who's standards?
I read this as a single article distillation of the principles in Deep Work by Cal Newport, very well done. It's been a while since I read Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt, but the article feels familiar with that, as well (I recall a helpful section on meditation). The Accidental Creative by Todd Henry is another great resource.

Newport's sources showed that most people are capable of about four hours of deep work per day. If you hit that level, add in 2-3 hours of shallower tasks, and do it every day, you reach 200 "productive hours" in a month. I'm not sure how many people are willing or able to carve out two 3-hour blocks more than five days a week, but it seems highly worthwhile to step back once a month or quarter, with one's s.o. or family, if present, and think about what is possible and what makes sense in support of mutual goals. From there, in light of the goals and constraints, the article's breakdown for cultivating the environment, body, and mind are clarifying. Ok, I'm sitting down with my wife and doing this this weekend.

The gist of the article is what I try to practice, and I find the strategy refresher motivating. I have had good success with removing push notifications, removing the phone from the workspace, sleeping at the same time, regular breaks to stay limber, targeted muscle work (rowing during winter until it gets too boring, the Roam Strong workout plan currently), and reducing junk calories intake. I've had less success building deep work persistence by making streaks and subdividing tasks. I think it's time to force the break to a separate device for leisure.

How much is it worth spending on a CO2 monitor? As a remote worker, I'm in the same air space almost all day every day, so if there is a low grade problem, I'm cooked.
Right now they take a large % of every cab transaction (done on their platform).
3D Model from a Selfie [video]
I had to look it up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision

...and I'm surprised by the silly choice of words in English: it's really confusing.
I'm having a hard time finding much about the visual language, but does it happen to convert into a proper text-based scripting language? I love the idea of my designer being able to piece some stuff together with next to no programming knowledge, and me coming in later and editing it in a text form.
> I've had black cab drivers insist that I can't use my card, and that I must get out.
> I've had cab drivers refuse to drive me to certain parts of London because it's inconvenient for them.

Report them, by taxi license number (displayed on a plate in the passenger area). Both those things are rare and taken seriously, but the authorities can't do anything if they aren't told.
it would a lot easier to train existing programmers in newer technologies than wait 5-15 years for kids to grow up.
In just the same way that if someone compromises your email they can probably take control of all of your online accounts.

If you have to have many accounts to access government services people are just going to use the same password for all of them and never rotate them. A single authentication service used by all gov't services would be a huge gain for security.
> However your coins will most likely be moved to "Cold storage"

This is the part I was responding to. It sounds like you're saying that using the vault feature will move your coins into cold storage. In fact, they were always in cold storage.
Probably not, considering that some CPUs in laptops go past 20 or 30 Watts. Most displays don't reach that power usage.