skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But problems 1 and 2 are the same for the official unemployment metric in times past as well.

Absolutely. Don't get me wrong... I'm not arguing for or against any specific policy in the post above, or making any particular claim regarding Bernanke's argument. I just wanted to point out that saying "we're at full employment" is at least a little bit questionable as an assertion, at least if we take "full employment" to represent a situation where lack of available labor represents a threat to the economy, vis-a-vis other policy issues.

Maybe I'm just picking nits with this observation, but that jumped out me for some reason, when I was reading the article.
The people who tend to care about high performance on a specific platform are game developers, and we all know Macs don't have that market. And with deprecating OpenGL, they probably aren't going to be getting it either. People on web are always saying performance of language doesn't matter, but then when these ultra-specific libraries come up it becomes different--- but I'd say server performance is _way_ more important than how fast my Notepad app runs...
I'd never, ever, under no circumstances, want to fly on a plane without windows. I hate the 787's stupid way of taking away my control of the window for the idiotic gimmick of controlling transparency through buttons. I like to see the sunrise. I like to see the sunset. I like to see the clouds below and the dark sky above.

If people want no windows or a completely dark place, let them add walls, curtains or put bags on their heads.
Exactly, if he meant it we wouldn't have Sessions in there trying to bring back the War on Weed from day one.
The housing bubble was caused by Clinton's policies that modified the CRA resulting in all those crappy loans
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Work to maintain a shaved head? Get a cordless, adjustable beard trimmer. Buzz your head every day in the shower. No mess and it takes maybe 30 seconds. Regular people can't tell the difference between the shortest setting and shaved with a blade. I've been doing this for most of the last 20 years.

If you insist on shaving with a blade, a Mach 3 should do the job in under a minute.
I bet tommorow he'll support the death penalty for marijuana possession.
There are some scenarios where sockets are slower because of the movement across the userland-kernel boundary. Even with all of the tricks that have been developed over the years it can still be much, much, slower than some of the tools that have come out. Intel released DPDK, Windows Server 2016 had a similar thing called PacketDirect.

It's an interesting read. I'm not finished with the video, so I don't know if this is the way that Apple went.
Could even just be saying this for the sole purpose of taking a jab at Sessions.
Now that Thunderbird is under active development again it should improve. The beta seems a good bit snappier.
Counterpoint: I've never run out of RAM or been worried by the limit. USB-C is fast, can charge my laptop using my phone. Touch bar is OK, useful in some situations but not really missing much compared to function keys. Build quality is second to none.
You have to wonder if he pretends to mull this over just to piss off Sessions. I've never seen someone so outwardly contemptuous of their own cabinet member.
Absolutely true but try telling that to your designers using Cloudfront.
Competition is great but when the narrative starts leaning towards "Us vs Them" and "We are at war" and countries start actively sabotaging each other, then we have a problem.
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Also don’t forget that a huge percentage of the job growth has been in the tenuousness of the “gig economy,” famous for its workers committing suicide in public as a desperate appeal for acknowledgement of their hardship.
You don't understand the problem. It's the possibility of types versus the types declared. Swift will always try to go with the most exact type it can find. C doesn't have types. C is just a bunch of numbers. Swift always has types, even if you don't type them. In case of a large dictionary with multiple types for keys and values it has a ton of possibilities to test for before the real type is determined.

Could be 2 seconds to compile a very large (like 20 items) untyped dictionary declaration in the days of yore. If you would put:

let dict: [String: Any] = [ /* bunch of confusing key-values */ ]

The compile time would go down to 100ms or less. Because it would only check if all of the keys were Strings and all of the values conformed to Any.
Preface: I am a full-time Linux user, who has used both Mac and Windows extensively. My systems run Ubuntu with MATE, but I'd accept Mint/Cinnamon or GNOME too.

Snow Leopard was nine years ago to be fair. The UI/UX of Linux has come a long way since then, but the UI/UX could be optimized further. What is wrong with it?

To cover the common issues first:
WiFi - Was an issue, but hasn't been on my machines at least six years.
Sleep - Was an issue, but hasn't been on my machines at least four years. I've had this machine up to 60 day uptime, so 50+ sleeps, only restarting for the kernel update for example.
HiDPI - Still an issue, but the apologist says "It was new tech! Just like the other two." Progress is being made, but it will be a while until seamless.

Due to my familiarity (with all three OSs) my UI/UX views may be incorrect for new users. I don't want a flame war. I want to know what else needs to be done in Ubuntu 18.04 GNOME and/or Mint/MATE. I'll file issues, create bug reports, and perhaps fix some things myself. It's easier to see this forest from another forest.

Edit: Further down the comments I found "Bluetooth" I'm going to look into it.
I'd take it a step further and ask why we always consider depression, anxiety, drug abuse, etc. as an individual's "mental illness", when many of these illnesses seem to be inexorably linked to the broader societal sicknesses we find ourselves living under. Economics, politics, technology, cultural norms, community (or lack thereof), health and wellness; all of these things are directly or indirectly affecting the mental health of the population at large. Even if we double down on mental health treatment for individuals, it is ignoring the larger, more complicated issues that are likely at the root (of at least a significant contributor) of these problems.

And yes, I think it is a perfectly valid choice for someone to check out if that's what they want to do. Mental health or whatever aside, if you don't want to live anymore, for WHATEVER reason, I don't see why anybody else has the right to try to stop you.
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Trump wants Sessions out so this could be another nudge to get him to resign.
What about the argument that your rights are inalienable until they infringe upon the rights of others? Do people who care about me, or the people who invested so much time and money in raising me, not have a right to keep me in their life? By taking your own life you force people who care about you into a state of grief. I do not believe anyone has the right to force emotional distress onto another person.

I understand that from the perspective of someone who is suicidal, they might feel that they have nobody who cares about them, or that the people who do “would be better off” without the suicidal person in their life. But that thought alone is misguided and certainly not a justification for engaging in such a selfish act. Regardless of how the suicidal person feels, the people who care about them will be harmed by the suicide.
This is straight up politics news. How about we keep at least one corner of the internet focused on things that are not Trump?
I started losing my hair at 20 and by 26 I was shaving it off. I'm 36 now and can honestly say I look far better without hair than I ever did with.

That doesn't stop me from thinking every month or so that maybe I should investigate what's new in regrowth.
There are many big name apps on the app store that are intended to be as cross-platform as possible (reducing platform specific code), and as backwards compatible as possible (4 latest releases of iOS). For these reasons, they are built on top of sockets. I supremely doubt Apple will tell these companies to pound sand; they are much more important to them than those affected by the OpenGL / OpenCL deprecation.
Karma, should never have removed HDMI ports.
You are probably right but people tend to give credit to presidents when things go well so they also should get the blame. Justified or unjustified.
Very logical comment, thank you.

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I assume you don't know Javascript? </joke>
> “The economy is already at full employment.”

On a recent EconTalk[1], Edward Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard, said, in their recent sample, 11.9% of U.S. men aged 25-55 have been jobless for over 12 months.

EDIT: quick googling, 11.9% of U.S. men aged 25-55 is about 7.5 million people.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2018/03/edward_glaeser.html
How is this even compatible with GDPR? Is this not sharing protected data with a third party data processor? Would the legal basis for regulatory compliance or something else?
Airbnbs are not passive income.

You need to take down sheets, wash them, remake the bed, clean the bathroom, buy fruit/food every ~3 days, vacuum, be available for your guests.

When you have tenets, its passive income. You clean up every 6 months to 3+ years.

Airbnb pays better, but its labor. The ~300$/mo difference can easily be accounted for with that. Not to mention the cost of food(always HQ), electricity, water, heat/AC.

The items I listed are not optional, people can give you a bad review regardless what expectations you set with prices + description.
I was going to comment on the cultural differences in regards to balding. My experience is similar to yours and I would always observe how balding Caucasian coworkers would continue to allow their sides to grow. I couldn't even imagine how I would look in my 30s with hair on the side and bald on top, it's just not an option for me. I watch Inside the NBA on TNT and notice how all three of the black hosts have bald heads and it's perfectly fine. Meanwhile Ernie Johnson is holding on to his sides for some reason. Very interesting.
A lot centers around how you read the series to gauge the power of transporters. Bear in mind these are machines that A: Can accidentally leave a full copy of you behind (Riker) B: Can take your body and split it into "good" and "evil" halves, later recombining them (Kirk) C: Can combine two unrelated life forms together into one (Tuvix) and separate them later and the coup de grace for this discussion D: Can turn you into a childhood version of yourself that still has your full memories (Picard, Guinan, a few others)

So, canonically, the "beam yourself into a younger you" problem is all but solved. Yes, with various minor environmental pokes and prods, but meh, they've demonstrated the ability to replicate those when necessary, so hardly a stopper.

That last one is one of the most egregious examples of how weird it is that nobody ever follows up on anything that happens in Star Trek. Whoops! Figured out how to turn an old man into a ~14 year old with all his memories! Ha ha, life sure is weird, but otherwise uninteresting, right? Unimportant! Move on!
Sounds like the triangle of success. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy0lEzhc8yo&t=29s
Yeah and he is wrong and telling a false history.

Go back to 2008 and look at their policy and meeting. The fact is that they were talking about HIGH INFLATION in the meeting in late 2008.

They did not lower interest rates to zero and had a policy of sterilization (selling bonds to buy troubled housing assets, instead of buying the troubled with new money).

The did not even deliberately end this policy, the market forced them because they were running out of T-Bonds. Later the called this 'QE1' but it was not really QE, it was them preserving a minim of T-Bonds (and that's their own account).

While they did go on to do QE1/QE2 they also payed interest on reserves to prevent that money from creating more inflation. And this was very deliberate policy, they explicitly said 'We are doing this to prevent the money from going out'.

The fact is that while nominal income collapsed in 2008 the Fed did nothing while the economy collapsed, like Nero in Rome.

How can you claim that a bank that can print infinite amounts of money could not do anything against this:

https://oregoneconomicanalysis.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/n...

Friedman, Bernanke and many others have written about how the central bank could do much at the zero bound and other countries like Switzerland showed that this is true.

The Fed failed as a institutional because they didn't plan for 0% interest, not because its impossible to do anything.
It's insane that they don't support a 17" option still. Those machines were beasts. If I could have afforded to spend twice the money on a laptop at the time, I would have gotten one - I still probably should have with the number of HPs and Dells and Asuss I've gone through since.
Elf has the concept of sections, and you can make as many of them as you want. The standard gnu Linker also automatically creates labels that you can use to get ahold of those sections. For example for a section titled XYZ, it'll automatically create to extern variables named __xyz_start and @__xyz_end sorry some such thing. You can place things into sections from source code, or add them later using objcopy
I’ve been called names because of it. Pretty sure it contributed to bullying and work place harassment at my last job. I’ve been told people literally do not believe me because of my looks. The women that rejected me based on my hairline are the least of it.
Any strategies you recommend?
I'm open to putting a small percentage towards riskier stuff.
It's startling what my 401k/IRA did from 2012 to 2014:
https://imgur.com/a/M7PZn2m

What's your point?

> then immediately jumping, once the election results were in.

So your long-term retirement investment fund which should span over 20+ years increased somewhat drastically over a small percentage of it's perceived lifetime. Why is that superbly beneficial for long term fund performance?

> Even outside the market, people are hiring again

When did they stop hiring? Source data?
I wonder what the environment would be if there wasnt so many laws ontop of laws.
fed intervention has been shown to make things worse, rather than a quick and violent correction we get the anemic recovery from the 2008 recession, combined with another 10 trillion in debt from the fed printing money to buy stocks and prop up Obama. Zero interest rake hikes during his entire presidency is a joke.
I was just replying to the last paragraph. I haven't said anything else and please be assured I'm not going to complain.

I'm not attacking Microsoft and I'm not endorsing google. I actually agree with the rest of the parent's comment and with amp being bad. I do think selling anything as open source when it's not in a subtle way is shady and I won't comment on which is worse, I'm not in a position to compare. And VScode being an Electron app isn't relevant to me.

I also won't comment on Microsoft buying github, I'm not a fortune teller.
As far as I'm concerned, I chose not to host my stuff on github anyway from the begining, since the platform is not open source. I won't rely on any feature of gitlab that is not in the community edition for the same reasons. I which gitlab sold support and hosting instead of proprietary software.
I don't need your ... gray case ... or whatever is supposed to be good about the new MBPs compared to the 2015 models. But I rather enjoy SD card slots for my cameras and multiple ports, so now I have a Dell.

And based on sales numbers it seems like I'm not in a large group there. Which is fine, the Dell is great. But if I were Apple, I'd be doing a lot of research to find out how narrow is too narrow, when it comes to the bulk of their sales.
Javascript and no framework.
You mean "like one and only one other OS vendor"
There are a few long-time MacOS design decisions that puzzle me. The lack of proper package management is one. Of course, the same might be said of Windows--although it's different enough from *nix that it's at least somewhat understandable.

The other one is the limitations of the Finder. There are better third-party apps but they don't integrate as first-class citizens.
Whats the Salary for SDE2 Amazon in Dublin?
Im interesed in knowing base salary, cash bonuses, stocks and those details.

And how is the work environment? Hours per day? Friends? Bosses?
I was on hold with my insurance to file a claim, the IVR loop said for the third time "Did you know? You can file your claim online!" so I gave in, hung up, went online and all the form asks for is my contact information (phone + email) and my preferred method, so I enter email.

I get an email "Hey, I need to contact you so we can proceed, what method would you prefer?" I reply "Email, please" provide the information I assume the rep needs and which the online form should have been able to ask me and offer "What else do you need".

"Is there a time I can call you and [go over the script and fill out a form on my computer, as if you'd just stayed on hold hours ago]?"

10/10
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A few years ago I tried that as an experiment. I wanted to see if I could setup completely anonymous Tor exit nodes. It didn't work.

I bought a prepaid debit card at a grocery store with cash. I tried to sign up for a few VPS providers using coffee shop WiFi. All wanted additional verification or wouldn't allow me to use the card. All providers use 3rd party services (eg MaxMind) to prevent fraud and prepaid cards is one of the things they look for.

Has anyone had luck doing this?
The key here, I believe, is that CLIs are still vastly more productive for purposes on which you're familiar with the pertinent commands; GUIs are generally better for discovery of new functionality and one-off tasks.

Chatbots and NL interfaces in general are thus far a failure because they neither improve on these purposes nor provide a third, unique benefit. I could see them being useful for consolidation of services (instead of comparing eight puzza places' sites, go to one third-party pizza chatbot), but there's a very, very long way to go.
> The one and only problem with winforms I encountered is its bad performance.

Can you elaborate on that? If you keep the work off your main thread, and don't create an enormous amount of controls, noticeable performance should not occur.
Coolness of the project and/or the author.
How about describe a typical day in the life of a software dev there?
I'm not disputing that, just the the political climate makes that opinion a miniscule minority.
"Were it not for" is exactly why Linux is such a sub-par desktop experience. GNOME/KDE are fine, but they're just the desktop shell, what is missing is high quality apps.

If all you need is a terminal and a browser, then sure, Linux has you more than covered, but the apps for just about everything else are either lacking in UX or features or both.

I ran nothing but Linux from 1997 to 2010 and I switched to macOS full time in 2011 when I came home from the birth of my son, and decided to take all of the photos of the pregnancy and birth, import them into iPhoto and use the book designer to order a big printed photo book. It was so nice to be able to do that at all, so easy to do, and the results so pleasing, that I immediately demoted my Linux partition to a VM and haven't looked back :)
A blockchain-based solution to what, though? Bearing in mind the XMPP network exists now, and works. (It may not be "winning", but it works.) What is even the problem?

Though I will concede your point slightly; if XMPP needs some more Hype Juice to win, I can't deny "but on a blockchain!" could help there. Kinda not being sarcastic here.
Let me flesh out a few very simple proposals: a complaint that a lot of city residents have is that tourists that arrive in a city don't spend a lot of money there because they pack their own lunches/avoid museums, etc.

How about charging a very high tax (in the form of a voucher) for hotel/AirBnB stays, but make that voucher spendable in local restaurants/museums? This would have the bonus that you'd also kill the local black market economy, as tourists would insist on being able to pay for goods using their voucher.
I just don't see it. He is frustrated with the standard being wrong, no personal insult or anything.
There is already data collected on at least (2) and(3) of those points, although I can't tell you all of the details from memory, as far as who collects it, how it's collected, the frequency, etc. But I can clearly recall reading recent (and less recent) articles on economic issues that cited data reflecting underemployment, and wage growth.

There's a lot of interesting information here[1] regarding what employment related data is collected and reported by the BLS.

[1]: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/07/employment-v...

#3 is clearly happening in tech.

True, and a handful of other areas as well. But that's still only a portion of the overall economy.
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This realization is how Ray Kroc came to own McDonalds instead of the original founders, Richard and Maurice McDonald.
All Apple products seem to have stagnated for the last 3-4 years. iPhones have barely noticeably changed since iPhone 6, but you especially notice it with the Macbooks and iMacs--the specs have barely increased for several years but they cost the same. What's going on? Is Moore's law dead?
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And 4K is an easy one if you just want doubled density 1080p! I tried to set up a fractional scale once on a Surface Pro (Windows defaults to 1.5x) and the answer is "Set 2x in the UI, then configure xrandr to scale it back down 0.75x"

This was a few years ago, maybe things have improved.
Keyboard on Macbook Pro: it sucks big time. Can't believe how they shipped it this way.
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I find it extremely distasteful, but this is an Internet forum and a fair question. Do not recommend bringing this up in casual conversation! This question will probably lead to ended friendships if you approach someone who has been suicidal in the past, or has lost someone to suicide.

Also it's pedantic in a really ignorant and dumb way, and not nearly as clever as you think it is.

There are examples of people taking their own life due to physical maladies which I can COMPLETELY understand, and choosing to end your own life kevorkian-style is understandable to most people: Robin Williams had dementia. His mind had basically completely gone before the end, his wife spoke of the rages and lack of understanding of what was happening around him.

But many people choose to end their own life when they are young, healthy, and in a pit of despair that they feel they will never escape. Depression is a mental illness which symptoms of hopelessness and suicidal thoughts. So there you go. That is why. Depression is a mental illness.

We as a society have deemed having no value of life, including your own, is aberrant behavior. I would argue that "deciding to commit suicide" for no other reason than you are tired of being alive, or want to "decide your own fate" is completely psychotic.

Also, saying "It's your choice" and doesn't affect anyone else is just insanely wrong. As I've grown older and lost people around more at a higher rate, it is ASTOUNDING the hole left behind when you lose a loved one.