skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article posted by the OP is backwards looking over the past 5 years, the 5 years after the financial crisis when things were pessimistic. You're posting current data.

I did mention the Zerohedge article was very pessimistic. But I found it explains well in what circumstances companies choose to pay dividends, acquire using stock and to perform stock buybacks, instead of making new investments.

You've linked to a reference to dividends. What about stock buybacks?

Debt-service repayments are low due to low interest rates. If you've gotten a $1.5m loan at low variable rate of 1%, it would still be difficult to convince you to borrow another $1.5m, since there is uncertainty of future interest rates. You're not going to borrow more just because it's cheap, unless of course you're not on the hook in the case when interest rates go up. (i.e. using a limited-liability vehicle, i.e. a corporation.)

A high value of loans being made does not a healthy economy make. There was a very high amount of loans being made just before the financial crisis, too.

You've cherry-picked data that shows the economy seems to be in good shape.

I can do the same too.

Median household income in continuous decline since 2007:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?id=MEHOINUSA672N

Less money = less spending.

Civilian-Employment ratio stagnating at 1983 levels: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?id=EMRATIO

Stagnating employment = stagnating future income.

Inflation over 14 years at 2.5% is 40%:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?id=CPIFABSL

Reduced savings and income due to inflation reduce leverage available, leading less to spend.

Investment looks like it's approaching a possible peak:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?id=GPDIC96

Let's hope it can continue to increase - it's still far from the previous high in 2006.

If the inflationary policies of the Federal Reserve aren't doing any harm to the economy why not just keep up the bond buying program? Why taper? They have to, that's why.
How could I? I didn't know.
But is obviously tongue in cheek.
There is that saying for that:

behind every great/successful man there stands a woman :)
but why would you count time in hex?
"Technology tends to separate normal from natural. Our bodies weren't designed to eat the foods that people in rich countries eat, or to get so little exercise. There may be a similar problem with the way we work: a normal job may be as bad for us intellectually as white flour or sugar is for us physically." -- http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html
It's interesting to see one commonality not mentioned by both the article and (so far) commenters.

Boko Haram, the Taliban, Saudi Arabia, and Iran differ in almost every way one can compare: wealth, nationality, race, language, political views, and more. But they do share one thing besides the oppression of women. Have you guessed it yet?

There are no Taoists throwing acid in the faces of women. There are no Buddhists massacring students. There are no Hindu dictatorships refusing to let women drive, or decreeing their testimony to be worth half that of a man's even in the case of rape. No Zoroastrian state punishes thieves with amputation. Some of these religions have had their share of atrocities in the past, but they are rather tame now. Many of them have adherents who are ignorant, poor, and oppressed (especially the Tibetan Buddhists), but the doctrines and traditions surrounding them seem less prone to cause violence and unnecessary suffering than a book endorsed by every group mentioned in the article.

I truly wish it were otherwise.
‘Alien’ creator H.R. Giger is dead
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When we were having the Categories subject in Algebra II (maths degree) half-jokingly with a few friends we built a category (with operations, universal properties and objects and all that funny and weird stuff) based on the columns of the university courtyard (this one: http://blocmat.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/matefestub-ba.jpg)
no party for the Excel people: 41772.7037037037
I don't like using null generally, because it results in having to use a bunch of unwieldy if statements. It's much nicer to have the notion of an "empty" object, which supports the same interface as a normal object. Python's lists are a good example of this, as opposed to passing around a bunch of lists or nulls, pass around empty or occupied lists. Both of course support the same interface. This negates the need for a bunch of if statements, which are cumbersome and easy to forget.
Motorola adds LTE to Moto G, introduces an even cheaper Moto E
I still remember the great 1234567890 party. We had a great time back then! (Feb 13 2009)
JAX-RS annotations aren't really composable - functions usually are, although I haven't looked at the Spark implementation to find out.

With plain functions if I need to wrap requests or responses I just wrap the functions. With JAX-RS I need to find or write an appropriate annotation or start adding filters.

With plain functions I can share behaviour between resources by sharing functions.
I strongly feel the exact opposite. I've worked with the Django Admin extensively since 0.98 and it gets more flexible and easier to customize with every release.

There's an astonishingly large ecosystem of widgets, extensions and additions and having a single point of integration that (mostly) everyone agrees on allows them all to work fairly well together.

There are things that I wish could be improved about the admin - mainly to do with the slightly old-school HTML and CSS behind it - but there are so many points where you can override, replace and extend that the good outweights the bad.
> "The industry is acting like a low-competition industry, scaling back investment and plowing its profits into dividends and share buybacks and merger efforts."

Apple must be operating in a low competition industry then ;-)

I am reading a lot of this noise, like the article, as, uhm, a naive perspective of business and economics through a political lens. It's like blaming retailers for inflation.
It'd be nice, I don't want Python to go the way of PERL.
My initial reaction was similar. There are some fine pieces on the website; but then why the fuck is raspberry pi listed as a platform, along with iOS, Linux and Windows? Why is Arduino there? If someone decides to do something on a MegaAVR, is that going to get there in addition to Arduino?

I honestly appreciate the initiative, but I find the presentation to be very disrespectful about the code part of it.
This is exactly how I feel. I really thought that this kind of backoffice design was a pattern that was universally hated and killed off. Making users drill down through menus (which already makes the mistake that end users understand a developers idea of a taxonomy and naming conventions) to get to content completely out of any context of the site is a horrible strategy. Joomla and typo3 have always been particularly bad examples of this but they are so "mature" that it's understandable why they have that stance. I don't feel like there is any reason for that model here.
There is a need for "girls education" organizations. How else do you propose humanity overcome the statistically significant difference between the number of girls being educated and the number of boys?

Girls aren't getting special treatment, they are being singled out for specific support to overcome patriarchy(ies) that would keep them undereducated, isolated, and disenfranchised from power. That isn't an issue that a "send kids to school" organization would be addressing.
Why France is losing the fight for the future of the Energy Sector
Some improvements to Hangouts in Gmail
An "order of magnitude" generally means a difference resulting from multiplying by 10, i.e. 10% vs 100%.
Freebie: Modern Touch UI Kit from PixelKit
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm
Five things I've learned over the past year
TV that doesn't pick up broadcast TV = huge market failure.

It's not that hard, you only need a couple of different options ( https://www.dvb.org/news/worldwide ) which could be implemented on a daughterboard PCB as wireless often is.
0x55555555 is in a year and two days. Tangible enough?
"You educate a boy, and he’ll have fewer children, but it’s a small effect. You educate a girl, and, on average, she will have a significantly smaller family."

Limited resources, maximise the effect. Also, the girls go on to be the caregivers traditionally, meaning the education has a knock-on effect. Thinking long term.
Yes. In java at the time if you wrote a number with 9 or less digits, it would always be considered to be an int. If the number was above 1 billion (10 digits), you had to end it with an L (1000000000L), probably since it possibly could overflow an int.

We had a trial version of our software that would expire after 30 days. To make that we had a script that inserted the expiry date into the source and recompiled every night. Around 30 days before it passed 1 billion the compiler started to give an error, and the script crashed.

(It may actually have been 12->13 digits, since java use milliseconds since the epoch, but I'm not so sure this many years later)
Nothing from Apple.
Yah, that organization is extremely misandristic

http://www.rd.com/true-stories/inspiring/barefoot-college-bu...

A choice quote:

"First we declared that men were untrainable. Men are restless, men are compulsively mobile, men are ambitious, and they all want a certificate to show for their efforts. And the moment you give one of them a certificate, he leaves the village looking for a job in the city."

....

"Because the moment you give a woman a certificate, like a man, she’ll see it as a passport for leaving rural areas and going to urban areas to find a job."

So basically like a person? And men and women are the same in this regard? But said that way you have no opportunity to bash men.

Any organization that tries to destroy the concept of a family unit in the name of education is not a good organization in my book. They seem to be one of the worst of the bunch. Especially since the actual "education" they give is all but worthless - they teach basically nothing, and make the poor women think they have been educated.
Same story. I gave up for now and ended up using Tonido. Hoping OwnCloud fixes the performance issues so I can make the switch.
Personally, I want to fix them if possible. That is why I posted a wishlist for Satya on a blog's comments for example, and why I like to discuss Google with for example michaelochurch. On Facebook, I posted this: http://www.quora.com/What-has-happened-to-Mark-Zuckerbergs-o...
I'm glad you asked this question. The answer is probably not the one you're expecting though. Boko Haram, the Taliban, Saudi Arabia all share the same islamic doctrine: wahabism. Basically, Saudi Arabia bankrolled the spread of wahabism in the world in a bet to increase its influence.
Iran is something else altogether, and I think that will see a lot more progress in the coming years.

Everything is more complex than it appears initially.

One last thing.

There are no Buddhists massacring students.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/un-dozens-of-rohingya-muslims-ma...
Perhaps you could point us to some elected women in powerful Iranian government positions to shed light on this 'American govt propaganda'?
In Iran science usually means chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science (which is, unlike its name, a branch of mathematics and is taught in math department with almost no computers involved), biology, etc. As I mentioned, chemistry was female-dominated in my university. I'm not sure about the others, but I guess they would be the same. I was referring to engineering majors when I said the 25-30% statistics.
Or 3% vs 30%...
Whilst I agree with you, there is nothing stopping someone defining link structures in JSON documents, coining a new media type e.g. JSON+Link and boom, problem solved.
Because it's a neat looking number. Human brains are real good at finding patterns, and mulling over where there appears to be no patterns, hence things like the interesting number paradox ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox ), or our puzzlement over disorders like schizophrenia, where those mechanisms break down.
I get what you're saying but it's a bit unPC to slag off Christians in these days of oppression.
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> If the inflationary policies of the Federal Reserve aren't doing any harm to the economy why not just keep up the bond buying program? Why taper? They have to, that's why.

Wasn't your first contention that interest rates were too low? Now the Fed is responsible for the lack of inflation because.. why again?

Honestly, I was getting geared up to type a full rebuttal, but if you consider 2.5% p.a. inflation an issue, I'm just going to save my time.
why not? why are you dividing a day into 24 parts, and them into 60 parts, and them again as well?
DNSSEC validation was enabled on Google DNS on May 6th
I could imagine in some countries it is more difficult to send girls to school than boys. But a "send kids to school" organization could simply spend more effort there to send the girls to school.

So your suggestion is that they could do the same as they're doing now, but pretend otherwise?
Windows also has it quite boring: 130444736000000000

Nobody talks about the year 30827 problem either :-(
numerology is not my cup of tea.
I don't think those patriarchy issues or whatever are any consolidation for a boy who can't afford to go to school. Why does he deserve less help than a girl? It's not his fault if fewer girls are being educated.
I've been using Syncthing for some months now and it's working well for my use case of keeping laptop/desktop and home server files in sync. I had one occasion when I lost everything as I'd brought up syncthing on my server without the "sync" directory mounted. It happily deleted all files from my synced laptop as a result. That's now fixed, but it was a buttock clenching moment. Yay backups, and a third machine (desktop) which was suspended and thus out of sync, so still had my data.

Upstream developer is very friendly and attentive & seems happy to discuss new features and use cases.
Ugh. Most short programs are all about the string handling, which C is terrible at.

The only real case for a short C utility is if the heart of what you're doing is a single system or library call that isn't so readily accessible in Python, Perl or shell.
You missed the latter part. They would focus on girl shortages where it was relevant and general shortages in other places.
Would you mind to elaborate (give an example)?

I've toyed with bonjour spoofing before, but I always found querying was incredibly difficult, using dns-sd, e.g.:

HOST=`(dns-sd -L "Name of Machine" _http._tcp local
| grep -o "at .* (interface"
| grep -o "[a-zA-Z\-]\{1,\}\.local" &
); sleep 1 && pkill -f dns-sq`

Obviously tailored specifically for that project, but I hope you catch my drift. And add to that the port lookup.

I'm fairly certain I'm not using it as you do, so would you mind giving an example of how your use MDNS for local dev testing?
If all you have is HN, every nail looks like an excuse to invent a new hammer.
If I compare the lines of code between JUnit without annotations and JUnit with annotations I usually have less lines of code without annotations and I don't find it bothersome to name my test method correctly.

Annotations in Java have always bothered me! Why are they needed? I don't need them in Clojure, Go, Haskell, C - similar behaviour is supplied by alternative means.
"Also, the girls go on to be the caregivers traditionally"

Not if they are educated, presumably. Or if so, then maybe the education was wasted after all? The logic of the article is to educate girls so that they have fewer children.

And why shouldn't educated boys take care to educate their offspring?
That's very subjective. I find the jax-rs version with annotations scattered everywhere to be very ugly. I prefer my source code to not look like it has Twitter hashtags everywhere.
I just tried finding that on YouTube as the IMDB comments suggested it might be there.

I didn't find that film, but I found this film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXgGsEO1b04

Which, for a condensed, half-witty animation, does a fair job of putting such a life into 3 minutes.

The best I found on the Oscar winning film are some clips: http://0xdb.org/0073068/clips/position . From the clips, I would describe it as a cross between the animations of Monty Python's Flying Circus and Yellow Submarine.

And those clips worked best in Firefox, click a frame and wait for no feedback, and then 5 seconds will play (with audio) when you least expect it.
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Boko Haram's activities can be seen as an ongoing mission in suppressing education. These killings and kidnappings aren't isolated incidents, so in a sense, the murders weren't short term events.

The kidnappings haven't been presented as an isolated event, either; it's been emphasized that Boko Haram, a known and active terrorist group with a "track record", is behind it, and that we must stop groups like this from doing the awful things that it is doing.
No - they should simply aim to give all kids a good education. For some kids it takes more effort than for other kids. No need to differentiate by gender.

Suppose there was an organization that only sent boys to school. Now if for one boy it is very cheap to go to school, and for one boy it is expensive (maybe he lives further away or he is poorer or whatever), should the organization only send the boy to school for whom it is cheap? I think the organization should try to help both boys.

Likewise an organization that helps kids should help both boys and girls, no matter if helping one gender is more difficult than helping the other gender.

Suppose you are in hospital with cancer. Should they deny you treatment because other men only need a cheap circumcision? What does the illness of any other man or woman have to do with your specific problem?
I have the distinct impression you are more interested in clinging to a racist narrative of history than you are in investigating the facts. Try this: enter the religion of your choice into a search field, followed by the victim of your choice, with "attack" in between. In this specific case, try "Buddhist attack women"; or "Hindu attack women". The results will refute your veiled Islamophobia.
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Or rather, ones from other groups tend not to get reported, like the Christian ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the CAR[1], or the Lords Resistance Army in Uganda[2], or the various Hindu terrorist groups [3] in India, or Buddhists in Myanmar[4}, etc, etc

[1] http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/central-african-republic-ethn...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Resistance_Army

[3] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2011/jan/19/...

[4] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/reports/meiktila...
Maybe by that time people will have finally upgraded from XP. But maybe I'm too naive.
I have large media files, multiple TBs.

I deal with a constant stream of these and want to have a distributed network - connected via the inet - that allows me to sync the drives in all locations.

i.e. I would like to setup a server in my home office, one in my co-founder's home office and another in my editor's home office.

Whenever my editor runs off a few hundred GB of data to a specific folder or to their drive, I would love for that to be auto-synced to both my server and that of my co-founder.

Will Syncthing allow me to do this easily and will it be appropriate for an application like that?
‘Engineers back then were rock-and-roll gods with a hint of Hollywood.’
Actually, this might not be a bad idea. I know devs don't like speaking to HR because of the questions they ask and how they look at the resume (match buzzwords etc). It might make sense to train HRs to be a little bit more technical. Thank you!
Education does so much more for spreading democracy than drones do, but our monetary priorities don't reflect this, unfortunately.

That's because our priority is not spreading democracy; that's merely the pretext. The priority is lining the pockets of the members of the military-industrial complex.
RIP. He was a nice guy and a great artist, but the last years he was quite disabled by (I think) a stroke and it was almost impossible to talk to him. My friend used to visit him to discuss work they did together and I went with him one time; he talked a few times with him after that stroke but it was never the same. I was a big fan right after I saw Alien begin 80s and it was nice to meet him while he was still producing art.
How to Use Andy Grove's Stagger Chart to Build Predictability into a Startup
> And anyone who knew web, knew Silverlight didn't have a future from the very beginning.

Totally agree. In 2006/7 jQuery effectively meant that Silverlight was DOA.
Thank you for the counterexample. It sounds like you know more about this subject than I do. I was actually hesitant to mention Buddhism, since it was partially responsible for the kamikaze and other horrific acts.

Still, it does seem that different religions inspire different practices when it comes to violence and human rights. Parts of Islam (specifically Wahhabism and Salafism) are particularly bad these days. The US certainly hasn't helped the situation, but getting attacked by Predator drones is no reason to stone adulterers to death.

Lastly, I feel bad after commenting on this article. I don't think this article has much to contribute to HN, nor do I think HN will contribute much to the dialogue. Sexism + politics is a mix that few can discuss with civility. Now I've injected religion into the mix. I apologize.
> Also, the girls go on to be the caregivers traditionally, meaning the education has a knock-on effect. Thinking long term.

- "We must help these women more, because they must overcome the expectations of <gender stereotype>."

- "We must help these women more, because it would be more useful since they are <gender stereotype>."

Gender stereotypes: both oppressive and useful, depending on what you want to sell.
It is harder than you think and it isn't a hardware issue. It is software but annoying finicky differences. DVB has a huge range of options and different settings/modes/behaviours are mandated in different markets. Even in Europe there are the DtG requirements in the UK (Ireland has similar requirements), Nordig that covers Scandanavia but even within that there are particular certification requirements for RiksTV in Norway. Italy has particular requirements including MHP support. CI (common interface) support is mandatory on European TVs. UI affecting details too such as the quantity and validity of EPG data, whether channel reordering is allowed (actually channel numbering is something that there are many different ways to broadcast).

Don't get me wrong, Apple could do this if they wanted to but it is the sort of hard gruntwork boring, almost pointless tweaking to globalise products that I think they wouldn't do. They would just give you a TV that could access sufficient IP services to be valuable rather than dilute the experience by handling broadcast.

Many people already do not connect their TV to a broadcast signal, especially in the US but in many other areas where STB based pay TV is common. It might not be as much of a showstopper as you think and if anyone can get away with it Apple can.
He clearly did, and I echo his sentiment that the chances of Business X buying into the strategy of going .NET but without the ecosystem (what in most people eyes is the safety net of guaranteed support etc) are very close to zero. Even more so when they start trying to hire .net devs with strong linux devops skills.