skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people not being counted are those people who are totally excluded from the workforce: disabled, students, retirees and other dependents.

The folks you seem to be saying are part of discourage and marginally attached workers, and are counted as part of the U5 and U6 measurement. When we talk about the large big pot of unemployed and want to work or don’t have enough work, U6 is the measure usually referred to.

We are improving on that measure as well. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
This is well-known, I think, in economic circles. If you want another, arguably more accurate measure based on the government's previous (pre-1995) methodology, check out Shadowstats.com:
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-chart...

It shows the real unemployment rate, counting short-term discouraged and marginally attached workers, to be around 22-23% today. That's up from around 12-13% before the 2008 recession.
I'd wait before emailing everyone. You've done the right thing approaching Netflix. Much like banks, I'm sure they will not want the publicity so hopefully they will work with you and the affected accounts. I'm hoping that the passwords are not in plain text though?
As I say below, how it turned out, was they were forced to include those features...
Labor force participation isn't adjusted for age of the population, so as a population pyramid squeezes through, like that of the baby boomers retiring, you would see a peak and drop naturally.
I think it would be more interesting and useful to have the source for WPF, given that WPF is an actual GUI toolkit implementing its own widgets, whereas WinForms is basically just a wrapper around Win32.
Very true, every stat has issues.

Take payroll of population that this CEO thinks is a better metric. It totally ignores demographics of a aging population.

Baby-boomers are retiring, how a metric based CEO ignores this shows were the real bias is.
I wonder why they would do this. In fact, I don't see the benefit of MIT over Apache except for compatibility with GPLv2. But I'm definitely not an expert, if someone would want to explain.
Cybercriminals Use RansomWeb Attacks to Hold Website Databases Hostage
Yeah, but that's an architecture about the attack/defense CTF. I'm working on a Jeopardy style CTF.
Th'x btw.
It appears to automatically detect and bridge: https://support.eero.com/hc/en-us/articles/204144995-Can-I-s...

> your modem's built-in router will continue to manage the network unless you can turn off the routing functionality. That means that eero won't manage your firewall, your NAT or your DHCP settings.

I'd guess if it gets an RFC 1918 address from upstream it turns off NAT and DHCP.
My first nethack game? I was locked in a room without door and was killed by a falling rock. I don't even know why I ever played another game :-) And yes, there was a big gap until the next game. As a beginner that's all you ever do, die, die, die.
1. The fact that one must hack together Meteor with anyting other than MongoDB effectively makes it "tied to MongoDB". Most people who want to engage in this level of hackery in their spare time would, I think, just ignore Meteor and dive straight into some version of the MEAN stack.

2. Because that's the whole point of Meteor: that it doesn't require the same level of server-side savviness and hackery that server-side JavaScript usually requires. Meteor is trying to be something like Rails, where the barriers to entry are not quite so prohibitive for quite so many aspiring developers.

3. Meteor must have official support for one (or more) of the SQL db's in order to take off. That's not all it needs, but it's a big one. I'm interested in seeing how SQL support is implemented, and I assume we're talking some sort of ORM, but we'll see.
+1, looks much nicer :)
Why doesn't the wikipedia have a style guide to address language issues such as this?
Yeah, it's probably the CEO promoting his own book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_Jobs_War
From their GetHashCode():

// We want to ensure we can change our hash function daily.

// This is perfectly fine as long as you don't persist the

// value from GetHashCode to disk or count on String A

// hashing before string B. Those are bugs in your code.

hash1 ^= ThisAssembly.DailyBuildNumber;

I'd love to hear the story behind this one :D
We are technically separate from USDS, but we're in close cooperation and constant communication with regard to overall strategy, hiring, technical and cultural techniques, and seriously watch out for those guys at Board Game Night. Basically we're BFFs.
Well, I'm sure there are law enforcement offices that address cybercrime in the Netherlands -- though Netflix is in the US, and that might be sufficient nexus for the US government to investigate, even if they might end up turning over the information they gather to local authorities where the perpetrators are for prosecution.
you mean like this?

http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/28/5758734/uber-will-eventual...
Isn't that what Buddhism, Confucianism, Zen and other East Asian philosophy-religions have always been about? A focus on ethics and the human condition without [too much] deity worship?
Please note that the chart only includes the working age population.
There are two major things that can make AI difficult: having too many options to choose from, and having difficulty figuring out which options are better. NetHack is nasty in both of these dimensions.

• Many options are available:

- Many different actions available at any given time (move, attack with a weapon, Zap using a wand, Quaff a potion, Wear a different piece of armor or equipment, Wield a different weapon, Read a scroll, Spellcasting, etc)

- Many different options available within each action (place to move, spot to place a fireball or lightning bolt, place to teleport to (!!), which piece of armor or equipment to use)

As a very rough estimate from someone who hasn't played NetHack much, I'd guess that a mid-level character might have 10^4 or so options immediately available to them at any given time, though many of these are combinatorial results of having thirty different spells that can be targeted on any of the hundred or so visible tiles. The branching factor for Chess is about 10^1.5, and Go is around 10^2.

• Options are difficult to evaluate:

- On an immediate mechanical level: If you want to use teleport, what's the best place to teleport to? If you want to cast Fireball, how do you use it as effectively as possible? If you want to shoot into a group of enemies, where do you aim?

- On a tactical level: Would this monster be more effectively dealt with by spending some energy to cast Fireball, using a charge from your Wand of Magic Missiles, or attacking it in melee and risking taking some damage?

- On a strategic level: Would it be more useful to clean out the rest of this level or immediately go down the stairs? What set of armor and weapons would result in the best chances in melee against the enemies I expect to encounter in the near future? Which of my items should I cast Polymorph on to maximize the chance of receiving a random item that would be useful to me?

- On a mathematical level, NetHack suffers significantly from the horizon problem. That is, many immediate tactical or mechanical decisions have strategic consequences that require an AI to simultaneously consider all of the above problems. You can't just have a mechanical planner, a tactical planner, and a strategic planner; you have to have a unified AI that can realize that it'd be a good idea to not kill that one enemy in the corner because it can kill it and eat it two hours later on its way back up to the surface.

This is an even nastier issue. Even humans can't do this effectively for NetHack. For example, if you look on the NetHack subreddit, one of the current top posts is "Help me make it out of this group of enemies alive!", and everybody who comments has a different idea of what the best solution is.
Stripe Partners with Intuit, Help On-Demand Workers Keep Track of Their Finance
Engineers Trying to Pick a Logo with Google Forms
Kids like Hamlet: "So excellent a king, that was to this
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother..."
I'm not sure why this is being reported as new or interesting. "They don't count people who have stopped looking for work" has been reported to death for decades (always, year after year, decade after decade, as if no one had ever pointed this out before... it's one of those strange "perpetually surprising" stories, like "engineers look to nature for inspiration".)

What is new and interesting is that in the past six years the American labour participation rate--the fraction of the working-age-adult population that is either employed or looking for work--has plummeted from 66% to 63%: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

To get a sense of what a big deal this is, you can re-run that chart to cover the full range of data from 1948-2014. After being flat at about 59% for two decades, the LPR begins to ramp up in the late 60's as Boomer women entered the workforce. It exhibits a broad flat peak from 1990 to 2008 at about the 66-67% level, and then starts its dramatic decline in sync with the financial crisis, and is now back at a level not seen since 1978.

This is a demographic shift of enormous proportions, and the answer to "Why" is not known: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/06/t...

There is a fairly desperate attempt to spin this as "Boomers retiring" but that runs into a problem of simple arithmetic: the population of the United States was 203 million in 1970, when the ramp-up in the LPR began. It is now 320 million, a factor of 1.5 higher. So for every Boomer retiring, there should be 1.5 new workers entering the workforce. Where are they?
/etc/shadow would be a good example of storing sensitive information (kind of).
Student X-Rated Webcam Performance inside Campus Library, Beauty Pageant
Uber's brand doesn't seem very strong to me ("Oh yeah! Uber! They're the ones who deny any responsibility for accidents and attempted kidnappings of users of their service, right?"), and in any case it's only going to be significant for the tiny fraction of the travelling population who currently use Uber. The vast majority (for whom the human chauffeur model is too expensive) will have no brand loyalty at all, and are there for the taking. Also, for Google, getting the necessary visibility is basically effortless. They have Maps (which Uber integrated their hail system into for a reason), and they have incredible robot cars that will be featured everywhere when they appear anywhere.

As for the trip data:

a) I don't think this is either worth as much or is as hard to get as Uber would like their investors to think. You only really need average bulk commuter flows in order to get a near optimal fleet distribution, and this is surprisingly easy to get surprisingly quickly, and especially easy to manage when you don't need to worry about the vehicle distribution constraints human drivers create.

b) Google have this data in spades through Android device tracking. It doesn't matter that it's anonymized and aggregated, because individual trips don't matter; only having your cars in roughly the right place to respond to specific demands.

I think Uber have grossly misrepresented the extent to which this market (personal transport using self driving vehicles) will be 'winner take most', and equally grossly misrepresented the extent to which their current position creates any sort of moat guaranteeing them the 'win'.
VAT is state global

Nit pick: this isn't strictly true - Spain's various islands (Balearic islands, etc.) have a different VAT rate to mainland Spain. And there are 2 towns in Austria with the same VAT rate as Germany's, not the rest of Austria's - one is an enclave in Germany, the other is only reachable by road via Germany. There are probably other weird VAT exceptions, but in any case, consumer prices must always be quoted including VAT.
Massive Worldwide Layoff Underway at IBM
I'm with you. Long term, this is good news. If we had basic income I'd be cheerful rather than worried.

But we're not there yet, and you can't tell someone that is unemployed and can't find work that they should be happy to be free of the time sucking drudgery of employment. That's clearly a "let them eat cake" response.
LXC 1.1.0 release announcement
What is the purpose of acquiring the team if the project is not going to continue? Is the idea that the core cassandra database will add graphs as a datatype?
The top twenty to thirty private universities in the US have extremely generous financial aid, and the public ones aren't super expensive depending on which school you go to.
USDS got Alex Gaynor. Freaking Alex Gaynor, l'enfant terrible of the Python universe. They're definitely getting talent.
Yes! Mental agility. A gorgeous thing.
I thought it was quite humorous.
$130,000 in 1988 is $260,000 in 2014 dollars. And the tech sector is vastly more competitive today than it was in 1988, which is why these ceilings are vastly outpacing inflation.

The big question is when the ceiling will slow back down to slightly above inflation.
To kill a mocking bird was the first novel i read in my life. I was only 11 (in 6th grade) at the time and took around 3-4 months (summer break) to complete it, to be honest this was the book that made me realize that reading english literature can be an extremely amazing and insightful experience. Granted i didn't understand many things that were in it at the time but it kept me hooked.

Also i remember thinking that jean was a boy till i was 20-30 pages in realizing that she was in fact a girl.
Yeah, even though I was prepared for the fact that prices in America don't include tax, I was still astounded when I discovered this applied to dollar stores as well. To me, half the point of a pound shop is that the change is easy.
Right-leaning Gallup of course "forgets" to note that baby boomers retiring is making a material contribution.
Parts of Mono are GPLv2, maybe they want Mono (and thus Xamarin) to have the freedom to use as much of this as possible.
The delta is the most relatable conclusion the average person can draw from the unemployment rate reports. Otherwise, without taking some economics classes, you're doomed to misinterpret.
I really like the idea of having an independent mesh network for all my devices/things to track - and at least during pre-orders it seems like a less expensive alternative to other bluetooth tracking devices. The Verge did a write up on Pixie with more details [1].

1 - http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/3/7969375/pixies-new-bluetoot...
I wish.

One of the projects I am currently working on, a greenfield application, requires WindowsForms for reasons I cannot expose here.
... or they simply expect it to do what their existing WiFi AP/router combo already does?
The Anti-Aging Pill
The carbon absorbed in the photosynthesis does not just go free to burn again in oxidation, it stays as a building material for the living creature itself. Considering a positive process, in which more organisms are created (reproduced through mitosis) than those that die, in time the raw quantity of CO₂ should decrease. I'm not sure what to do afterwards with that mass of algae though.
Thank you! Matterhorn is at its best once you get a couple of projects started and have team members onboard, which is why we didn't go with a demo approach to start with, but hearing from everyone about wanting more details about how it works we're going to try and find a better way to showcase the features.
Hosting the Social Media Church Podcast
Right-leaning Gallup of course "forgets" to note that baby boomers retiring is making a material contribution. Also that the recession gave employers a good opportunity to automate workers out.
But if that U3 metric doesn't describe what normal people feel (the sort of people that don't know the difference between U3 and U6), then there is an argument for calling its "official" designation a sleight of hand.

The U6 metric counts underemployment as unemployment. This reflects the common sentiment in the media, and it obviously shows a lack of recovery where other metrics have fully recovered by now.
I am not seeing the exact issue you're trying to explain, but let me attempt to write a correct sentence, and its passive reversal (allegedly incorrect):

"Interesting people comprise the majority of the Wikipedia editorial community."

"The majority of the Wikipedia editorial community is comprised of interesting people."

Note that, in modern usage, "to comprise" has two meanings: "to constitute" and "to be composed of". These meanings are opposite!

That is the reason for the contention. The "be comprised of" reversal only works for one of the meanings.
In case anyone is wondering, this translates roughly as "We do not learn for school, but for life." [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_scholae_sed_vitae
Do you are think people who run polling organizations don't have political views? How about Pew? Yahoo? Even the AP? They all do. Why not speak from them? If it doesn't compromise their survey methodology, what's the problem?

If you don't know, Gallup was founded on an extremely ideological position: that public opinion matters, and politicians should seek to understand what it is as a guide, and we need tools and organizations devoted to studying it. It seems natural they would advocate for a better informed public.
Is that what my roommate does at night on Chat Roulette when he thinks I'm asleep?
A maypole is a tradition in several countries:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maypole#Germany_and_Austria
What Is a Full Stack Developer, and What Do They Need to Know?
Fundable Acquires Dan Martell-Founded Clarity, Creates Startups.Co
I'm not sure you can call it being "freed" when freedom in this context is the freedom to starve or live on disability/food stamps/whatever you can find.

And while I agree that economic systems can and should be changed as we shift towards a post-labor society, I'm worried about political obstacles to that. Even in the height of the worst recession in 70 years, we couldn't get Congress to approve food stamps for people out of work. How are those same politicians going to feel about cranking the work week back to 20 hours and tripling the minimum wage to make everything balance out? And if companies end up having to pay the same in labor costs to offset their automating, then what's the point in them automating? Will we actually see automation-enabling technology (3D printing, robotics, etc) hit their own peak and slide backwards in the face of higher fees/social unrest/political change/etc etc etc?

It's a trickier situation than you're giving credit.
Wow. Am currently reading "The Mockingbird Next Door" by Marja Mills. Brifely, Marja gained unprecedented access to the private life of Nelle Harper Lee. It is extremely interesting, and I am quite surprised at this turn of events. Good news!
So did I. I'm going to reuse the SVN joke for my local area, instead of Californians. (We don't get many of those on the eastern sea-board.)
Because typewriters, and therefore keyboard layouts, predate computers. There's no technical reason to not just have composable meta-keys, excepting maybe the pure number of existent diacritics [0].

In fact, on the German keyboard, the circumflex (ˆ), acute accent (´), and grave accent (`) keys all compose with the next entered character. (That is, á is entered by pressing ´, then pressing a.)

Windows also offers an "international" keyboard mode which allows composition in a way similar to the German keyboard. [1]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic

[1] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306560
I'd make it freemium, like Slack or Trello. I'm hesitant to sign up for anything or pay for something without trying it.
Why does wifi still cost so much? Routers should be $25-50 and repeaters $15-25.
Given the new campus they're building it's probably for self-driving cars to bring engineers lunch

/s
This is refreshing to hear that I am not the only one who see this happening to the general public. This is a good video that explains how to determine which "science" is trustworthy or not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1RXvBveht0
While this is true, the "freed" minds (read: unemployed) aren't able to contribute to the current economy because their skills are no longer relevant. Do you see a change happening in the near term that is going to help these "freed minds?"
Folks, do yourself a favor, and check out the bot's source: https://github.com/krajj7/BotHack/blob/master/src/bothack/bo...

It's really, really neat. Even to those of us who know little or nothing about the game, from the nested Englishy descriptors piled up into short conditions for things-the-bot-might-want-to-do, the basic strategies can be discerned...
I don't know the story, but the logic behind it is simple: If you want to guarantee no one depends on GetHashCode staying static between runs of an application, change it all the time.
Your definition of "time sucking drudgery" is another's way to make a living.

Sometimes the factory job that was just automated was the only job in town, and companies aren't going to retrain a 50y/o to program computers. Many people just don't have the resources to learn a new job, or move and find a similar one.

Right now we're on a path to automate jobs more quickly than people can reorganize into new careers. In the long term the economic systems will work themselves out, but in the short term there's a huge potential for social and economic unrest.
A degree also signifies you've given a certain subject a lot of thought.

If by that you mean a Bachelor's Degree, than I don't agree with you. First four years of college is just a glorified day care for young adults.
How Cosmetic Companies Get Away with Pseudoscience
The site and content is hosted on Github (https://github.com/deadbeefnews/deadbeefnews.github.io) I wonder if they support pull requests?
Ahaha really good, although usually one writes more than 4 posts before starting a site like this.
>>The standard rate (U3) doesn't take underemployed or those who give up looking for work into account, but the U6 rate does. The U6 rate in January of 2009 was 14.2% and it is now down to 11.2% from its peak at 17.1% at the end of 2009/early 2010. Is the economy still struggling? Sure. Is unemployment headed in the right direction? Absolutely.

But the decrease in unemployment and underemployment still don't paint the most accurate picture, because a lot of people who became employed did so at lower pay. I mean you may be employed full-time but if you're making 25% less than what you did before the crash, it's difficult to make the case that things are improving.
This is an opinion piece though; there are facts (in the "lies, damn lies, and statistics" category) that state summary information about the world, and this author interprets those facts in a particular fashion.

There's not a lot of truth value one can assign to a statement like "A good job is an individual's primary identity, their very self-worth, their dignity -- it establishes the relationship they have with their friends, community and country." Well, I suppose one could if one were, say, Gallup and could poll on the question of how many people agree with that statement. But I'm unaware of such a poll at this time. ;)
Jem turned out to be a boy. When I started the book, all my classmates were sure she was truly outrageous.
I use regularly English, German and Romanian. I find it easier to learn using the two extra standard layouts (not the programmer version) and change between them by ALT-SHIFT than pressing ALT-X for every diacritic. The WPM count falls drastically using the ALT key all the time.
Only depending on how one evaluates the non-factually-substantiated assertions in the opinion piece.
It's in a #if DEBUG statement so it would not change. Historically, even if they shipped the debug symbols, the assembly would have been built in release. Now, I suppose you could build it in debug.
This is true for English and German but in the Polish layout the characters are only accessible with right Alt