skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
U3 data goes back to 1890. There's always someone, usually in an opposing political camp, who says "it's misleading" when it goes down, or when it goes up. Both the left and the right have done this sort of handwaving over the years, but having a stable statistic that goes back many decades is useful even if you want to look at others for a more complete picture about what's going on. On some planet having U6 go from above 17% to just over 11% from 2009 to the present counts as "failed recovery" but I'm not quite sure how. You could argue that there's a bit of a gap there, like around 1.5% if you look at recent history, and maybe even argue that it's structural, i.e. that information technology is causing full-time work to go away, etc. but that's a technical argument to have, which would require looking at a lot of data and not just trying to score points by cherry-picking.
A nice thing about Wikipedia is that all history remains public in the vast majority of cases. In this light, I think it would be better to provide links to your reverted edits, so that we can try to understand why they were reverted, and we can apply them again if they were erroneously reverted and the error is still there.
Is there any way to tell within Fundable how much equity the startup gave up in order to attain their funding goal? Referring to these examples: https://www.fundable.com/raise-capital
"changing them when they become a problem" is a huge understatement. changing economic systems is incredibly complex and extremely hard to predict. even just engineering enough people to collectively act is very difficult.
I'm also curious to know if this second book pulls as heavily from her life experiences as mockingbird did. Mockingbird is such a poignant book because of how well it captures a certain period in american history. If the second one does as well, it could be just as important of a novel.
It works right now on Mono. There are loads of example projects on GitHub.
It's already a static site, but being on the HN front page is really hammering my tiny VPS's network & IO; there are a lot of large images and videos in the post. Guess I should set up a CDN.
That's the intention, but more work is needed.
Oral language does not require as large of a vocabulary. You can color the meaning of any spoken word by intonation and diction. If, for instance, you chose to speak only the word "dude", you could probably still make yourself understood to any native speaker.

As English lacks punctuation modifiers for altering the context and intent of a written sentence, we accomplish that end through an expanded lexicon, wherein several is more than a few and less than a buttload, despite each word representing an unspecified quantity.

English is far more likely to invent a new word, filch one from another tongue, or reuse a previously disused English word with a new sense or different part of speech, than it is to recalibrate the ordering of synonyms on a continuum of intent.

"Comprise" and "compose" are inverse terms. Using one when you mean the other initially generates confusion, and subsequently destroys the language model around composition. The whole comprises the parts, and the parts compose the whole. Passive voice is an inverting structure, so the whole is composed by the parts, and the parts are comprised by the whole. Include is a weaker form of comprise, without the implication of completeness (except in legal writing, where that implication is the default, and comprise is not generally used). But as the inverse of include is exclude, inclusion is more about membership in the set than about a level transition in the composition hierarchy. A league comprises teams, and a team comprises players. Yet a league does not comprise players; the league includes players. This is how we describe things precisely and concisely.

Oral use is much more forgiving of misuse, as it has error-correcting code in the form of context and intonation. Written use has a greater need for correctness, especially when such use is read by many, any of whom may repeat and propagate the error.

And I think parent post is incorrect. When you transpose or rotate the meaning of a word onto the meaning of an existing word, English is poorer for it. Once those meanings overlap, it is as difficult to separate them into different shades of meaning as it is to unlock gimbals. Also, "aught" is the shortened version of "naught", or zero, whereas "ought" is the synonym for "should" with a greater implication that the actor is obligated to perform, but not quite to the extent that he "must".

Logicity is perfectly cromulent, though someone should elucidate the conditionals for when it would be preferacious to logicality.
The .com is the corporation behind MongoDB. .org is the open source project. Yes, they are intertwined heavily at this point (but it wasn't always this case back in the day) but I can understand why they try and keep their separation of concerns here.
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In this post, a holder of a business degree performs an informed cost benefit analysis of getting a business degree and finds it wanting. Also, a well trained twenty something argues that training can't match the benefits of his experience.
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Wait a minute, I thought the Quran was that sequel. Wasn't it?
I, personally, am hoping for a more creative based economy.

We must tackle some serious issues before that is viable as I'd like it to be, though.

First is that we must value creators and be eager to pay them for their work. Right now that is a serious problem in an era of glorified piracy. Hopefully, with technology bringing creators closer to their audience, this attitude will change.

Second, it wouldn't hurt to turn our incredible per capita productivity into more free time. This is time to both create and consume more of those creative works.
We don't know indeed, but I'd rather bet my horses on the 9/10g than on 3/8g.
Have you contacted his ISP? It probably won't result in anything more than a sternly worded letter, but you could get lucky and get him dropped from his ISP (and maybe effectively cut off from home internet service unless he moves? Dunno if most ISPs in the Netherlands are effectively local monopolies like they are in the US).
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Reset your password an move on. What's the point of pursuing this?
Similar experience with ADOM, it even has a special location which becomes reachable only after the game killed your 100th hero. Got to this point in a few days back then, I wish there was something good for 1000th death, that was when I started to know what I'm doing :)
Personally I find it insulting. 9.99 prices are designed to deceive, their sole purpose is to hook you, anchor your decision process on MEANINGLESS numbers. When I see prices like that I know its a scammy place, and they designed it thinking Im a sucker.

Sooner you learn to ignore them the better for you as a consumer. Metacognition will set you free.
I thought the Google Skynet was funny, and there's potential for a few more jokes there. FYI, we check out at the checkout (first story).
The problem with that approach is that if everyone does this, Wikipedia will be dominated by pedants who discourage everyone else from contributing.

Wikipedia is a unique resource, it is everyone's resource, we can't afford to lose it like this. Of course, given the scale of the project, some time has to be sunk in the unpleasant task of dealing with users who don't understand how the project works. It will be problematic if no one has the courage to do this any longer...
This is great.

I recently shut down two small firms that I've run for years and years - the opportunity cost of not doing contract work or something else that paid decently was too much to keep at it.

...but I loved the code base, as clunky as it was. It had warts, scars, and stretch marks that documented its path through the years. I don't miss running the firms, but I do miss the code.

I'll be buying posters to hang on the wall and remind me of the good times.
The arithmetic would be too much for a large number of tillers, who can't do much more math than count change.

This still misses the other main purpose of the .99p, which was to force the tiller to open the till to get the change (thus, reducing the likelihood that they might just pocket the money handed to them).
That's what the Ivy League is really for. Getting into Harvard is difficult, but getting through Harvard is easy.
So it's wrong to say that one way is right and one way is wrong?

... ad nauseum
I'd describe these four published so far as moderately funny - slight smile inducing, no LOL, no meh. So keep them coming. The jokes are something that many comedians develop through iterations :)
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Except that hasn't happened, at all, since the mid/late 1990s.

ZeroHedge has been very adamant about exposing the problem with your assumption: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-03/hiring-grandparents...

You assume the Baby Boomers can retire, and I assert that they are the most indebted, non-saving, addicted to their lifestyle cohort the US has ever seen. The only natural drop is when they drop dead naturally...but they'll go out kicking and screaming, demanding free healthcare that they didn't pay for, etc, etc.
Skill retooling would help to an extent, but one programmer today can do more work than 10 programmers could do 15 years ago, or maybe even 10 years ago. That trend isn't going away.

Look at Django. If you include the hundreds of open-source modules with everything from messaging to billing to social media already coded, you can string together web apps in an hour that would take whole teams months and months from scratch.

Within the next decade or two I'd estimate that programming will hit its peak employment and start to decline as more and more work is automated.
This is bigger news for io.js than it is for atom. <<< I think is the lede.
This is interesting, and a very big business move to make the switch. Does this say something for the future of Node?
Minimum wage increases directly affect the purchasing power of all through price inflation. Here we have a real world example of this laid out by a business owner. The company recognizes that the minimum wage employment costs will be equal for all cafes in the area, as they will pass costs onto customers; the customers see their existing wages worth less through this increase and drives them to seek salary increases from their employer. The minimum wage increase does not make more things attainable as the entire system has raised the cost of goods throughout it to compensate for the employee cost increase.

The employees who are most hurt by this minimum wage increase are small businesses, borderlands books, and those trying to make a start in a business
I think their small size and specificity (and given the fact that a large majority of what they have is low-margin paperback fiction) is probably what makes it really hard to be viable, since there's no real way to ratchet up volume. The counter example is Green Apple Books, which seems to be doing well across two geographical locations in less populated areas of the city.
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Poor government intervention meaning "not doing a damn thing" then, yeah, you're right.
It's taken.
In a world where most common fridges already make coffee, that's not so unreasonable.
That graph is pretty misleading being only from 80% to 85%. Also it's only over a period of <20 years.
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You've always been able to control this with write concern on a per-write basis. If you can handle an instance where and acknowledged write may not get replicated and possibly lost (logging use case - fast writes) then use that level of write concern. If you require extreme durability (slower writes but more durable) then use that level. In many applications you have both requirements and MongoDB lets you choose at write time the level of durability you want.
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- Pretty hard to hijack / Possibly, but what about hacking it? If it used gps technology researched have already shown that it can be messed with to take control. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18643134
Note that "to comprise" means both "to contain" and "to constitute". These meanings are exact opposites.
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Just to answer your question: it's in its genetic material. It really is fascinating; it can even make evolutionary sense to think of the dam as an extension of the beaver's physical body, in as much a beaver's dams are "built by" its genes just like the cells of its body are. Google "extended phenotype" if you'd like more detail.
NAIRU is hypothesized for some inflationary effects, but it's not well understood. Still, nice mention.
This is true, but it's important to bear in mind that a relatively high-prestige publisher like O'Reilly can make or break someone's reputation as a high-price consultant. O'Reilly realizes this, and pays their authors relatively poorly.

If you want to make significant money as a tech book author, I'm guessing you have to do what Brennan Dunn does, and self-publish your book and market it yourself. I'm guessing that after you've published an O'Reilly book, you could make a pretty nice sum if you do this on your next book.
...and not accounting for the health care costs, present or future, which the Baby Boomer cohort is going to take out from the economy from a productivity / wealth standpoint. Basically, to exaggerate, the inheritance tax is relatively a moot point because other than a small percentage, most Baby Boomers didn't save enough to retire and didn't pay enough into the system to keep them alive from 67-80 something, because there has been little to no upward mobility for the rank and file spend and be taxed lower classes.
It's part of the Republican platform when a Democrat president is in office, but it seems Republican presidents don't get the message. Deficits rose under every Republican president and dropped under every Democratic president, since the 1950s. But republicans always act as if it's the other way around.

Bush's administration for example financed: medicare overhaul, no child left behind, two wars overseas, and bank bailouts. The way they did the spending had little oversight and the results were mediocre, or negative. Under Obama's admin at least there was "recovery.org - track the money" and more accountability.

If republicans really want to cut government spending and deficits they should look into cutting the military budget. Not only does has it ballooned to take up nearly half of all non discretionary income, but apparently $7 TRILLION is unaccounted for. So until they do that, I don't consider their "platform" anything but a talking point to bring up ONLY against Democratic presidents. (In some way, it's good because it keeps them in check, but then republican presidents get a free ride from them.)

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/want-cut-governm...
your headline said "most people" -- and the whole "investment" thing is very hard. Which is why you shouldn't frame your discussion with certainties even in the headline. There are enough idiots out there telling people not to bother studying, both in words and by example. You want people hungry to work on tough problems, but they have to know what they are. And they have to see a variety of opportunities out there.

College is NOT an absolute fast track to employment. But it's an excellent reliable way to do that. Plus it's a fantastic place to find out more about yourself, meeting people, friends and for relationships. A lot of people have the college drinking perception. Which there is too much drinking, but there are a lot more ways to meet people in college where you're not drinking than in the working world.

Again just respect the work you and other people have done to get where we all are. Just to say "most people shouldn't go" is ridiculous. We want MORE people going. Show them how to do it in a financially responsible way. If that's too boring then stick to what you know.
Even if you genuinely don't care about money, recognize that when you work value is created, and that value, that wealth, has to go somewhere.

You could seize as much as you can get, then if you don't need it donate it to the local animal shelter, or you could leave it on the table for your manager to spend on his Rolex collection. Up to you. But think of the kittens.
"...is much better than anything I could write on my own"

Seems like that's your answer.
no need for that. Just use your favorite editor with omnisharp[1]

[1] http://www.omnisharp.net/
Right, because we all know there's just a huge void between "put it in in some kind of form, we'll get it out somehow" an "let's tweak the undocumented redo log retention policy to eke out the necessary performance for our massively joined manifested view that mostly consist of analytical functions".

It's "basic" as in your data being your foundation, not in rudimentary. And to be fair, most of the things that aim to replace SQL tend to be about as complicated. TANSTAAFL.
No, you can only turn off issues
The ~50-megaton Tsar-Bomba reputedly "lifted" the atmosphere above its mushroom cloud off the Earth and into space. The Russians allegedly had or have a 100-megaton version which could presumably perform more "heavy lifting". There are probably more scientifically-minded readers here who possess a formula which will show the ridiculous number of Tsar-Bombas needed to make Venus safe for Humanity.

I've read that comets could be slammed into Venus, modifying its rotation, and somehow reducing or eliminating the runaway greenhouse effect. Of course, if mankind is at the point of being comfortable terraforming with comets, it may make more sense to point them toward the desert planet Mars.
Because you can immediately switch your focus to things that add direct value your to your business.
The application is greenfield, the environment where it needs to run, not.
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Also is it not for hash collision protection, which can end up hurting the runtime of many algorithms, causing a DoS?
Perhaps; authorship is disputed, and some claim the Book of Mormon is the sequel from the original author.

(Of course, its worth noting that that the problem goes back further than that and that "the Bible" is itself a combination of the Hebrew Scriptures and a -- of disputed provenance, like the others -- sequel to that work.)
Except, the other sandwich costs 5 dollars, and as far as we can tell, will cause our cars to make the same amount more money as the 50 dollar sandwich, so we need at least some kind of value proposition between the two sandwiches if we are to favor the 50 dollar one. (It's actually quite fun to be reasoning about this at ~2 cuils of overextended analogy.)
I've been using Meteor for sideprojects to learn Javascript. While I like the ecosystem and meteor itself, I have found it hard (as someone new to Javascript itself) to learn "best practices" while using Meteor. I've tried several times to use different testing frameworks, but I end up getting frustrated with not knowing what I need to mock, how I should package things, etc.
One of many other examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak
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This is how it's in Europe as well: unemployment rates can be redefined to include or exclude certain people depending on what are the desired results. I usually look at employment rates instead which comes with its own peculiarities.
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Barnes & Noble has a huge digital library and their own e-reader.

This is absolutely about the world moving away from bound print media, and also from brick-and-mortar booksellers to online sellers. It's also about gentrification, rising real estate prices and a million other things (in addition to the fact that a SciFi & Fantasy book store is a somewhat dodgy proposition in the first place).

This is not the first venerable San Francisco book store to close up shop in the past few years. It's not even the first one on that block. I love Borderlands and will probably go to their meeting to see what I can do to save it, but this is not a shock, and it certainly isn't just, or mostly, about the minimum wage.
That's what I'm saying. You've got somebody on this side who finished a degree. And this person who says they know a lot of skills, but how do I know they finished anything? Mix it up, degree, certs, internships self-learning, volunteering. All that and you're not only employable, but a great person to start a company. More better cheaper school, not less school.
Hello imsofuture,

I am a bilingual (English and French) in a GMT timezone (Republic of Ireland).

Would this post be suitable for someone working through college?

If so it seems like a great fit for me.
The speedruns most people are familiar with are the product of someone playing a meticulously planned route over and over again until the execution is almost perfect.

With the more popular games it reaches a point where they are barely even playing the game anymore, instead running on auto-pilot and hoping to make the least mistakes and get the most favorable RNG with minor things like enemy AI patterns.

Speedrunning a game with roguelike randomness is a completely different beast, requiring actual mastery of the game as it was intended to be played.
Sorry to hear about your experience. This is definitely not the experience we are aiming for...

Can you email directly at hegs (at) fixed (dot) com and I'll figure out exactly what happened with your ticket.

Thanks.
>On some planet having U6 go from above 17% to just over 11% from 2009 to the present counts as "failed recovery" but I'm not quite sure how.

Agreed. I argue this point all the time, actually. I think it's interesting to go back through and look at how unemployment fairs in comparison to the political party of the president during that time. Looking at the U3 rate for the past 50 years, unemployment has only gone down once under a republican president (Reagan) and Carter is the only democrat in the past 50 years who didn't see unemployment drop from the time he took office to the time that he left office.
Any idea if that would mean auto compilation for your own files in a project? Or is it more for plugins and such?
Yeah, I would contact both. Netflix may not even call the police if the damage is "minimal" in their terms. Getting the police involved forces the issue with Netflix. I'm not sure how effective it will be, but it doesn't hurt. Or you could mess with his/her head. Hire some guys to follow him around for a few days and make it very obvious. Man, I can think of so many possibilities...
This makes me sad. I nearly always pick up a book or two from Borderlands when I go to San Francisco (every other month). They're a great shop and community. It's shocking, but not entirely unexpected, to learn how little they make :(
Except any drastic change in the economic system (say, a Basic Minimum Wage) would come about only through strife. The people with entrenched interests in the present order aren't just going to roll over and say adios.
> APIs and robots can grow my food and wash my clothes for me, I have better things to be doing.

No, they're do that for their owners, the capital holders; you'll be left out in the cold to starve. This is a labor based world, no labor, no share of the pie.