skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's doublespeak about this? The problem where the Fed can't push interest rates below zero when the economy is doing especially poorly is well documented. He's simply proposing a solution to this problem. Sure, the downsides might outweigh the benefits but it's a fairly straightforward and obvious solution.

Of course some people will barter or find other ways to store value than money but it seems to me that would still leave the Fed with more flexibility than it had before.

Do you disagree that there is ever a need for negative nominal interest rates?
Do you think there is a better solution than this one?
The interview with Google HR stating this finding right is here (Googled "google" + "interview" + "correlation"):

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-b...
I think it's more like when systemd/networkmanager/pulseaudio are involved, the hater horde comes out to tear down the hard work of developers without offering any viable alternatives.

Dbus is the future of system integration in Linux. Period. The Unix philosophy sucks; real integration is done with the COM philosophy of looking up and invoking services by name and sending messages and calling methods on them as they run.

The reason why we even have a systemd is to integrate the essential system bits -- startup, device and service management, user login and session management, etc. with the dbus fabric, providing application developers with an API to call into them. Unfortunately it meant rewriting fucking everything, but Lennart, Kay, and company rolled up their sleeves, did the work, and got it pushed into mainstream distros. What the fuck have you done lately?
Easy exhaustive search with the list monad
Just FYI, the fortune-telling doohickey sounds like a [volvelle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvelle).
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"...being on the ground with a gun makes you more likely and less inhibited..."

It's actually the exact opposite. Seeing the person you're about to kill makes it harder to pull the trigger (given a normal psychology, for whatever that's worth). If you're interested, the book linked to below goes into great detail about this.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0316040932/
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> I'm including such coworkers, who can't discern the difference between offensive material and journalism

What about people who just don't want to spend the mental energy on it? You can think that this is an important story, one that every American has an obligation to see, etc. and still want to save that for a time when you don't need to focus on your job.

I'd also remind you that not everyone is completely detached from these things. I've worked with Vietnamese immigrants, American veterans, and many people have family members who have birth defects which are similar to some of those pictures even if they weren't caused by Agent Orange. I certainly would hesitate to show any of them something like this without advanced warning.
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I wish Apple would do the obvious thing and allow 3rd party apps to send public transport data directly to the official Maps app, via a new extension point. That way, if you have the right apps, everything would always be up to date, and maybe you'd even be able to see things like real-time bus and subway markers if your public transit apps supported tracking! Google has some amazing technology, but their web-based infrastructure simply would not allow them to create a decentralized system like this — whereas it's right in Apple's wheelhouse.
Was this sentence not there when you first replied?

You want nested li's to not inherit the styles? Use ".collection > li" in your CSS.
I agree, I just didn't feel like debating it was worthwhile for the point.
It is not an issue at the moment. We can easily implement the "bad behaviour" reporting system to block the accounts of escort services or to prevent the commercial usage of any kind at all.
Sigh... "just". Find me 100 programmers capable of writing a C function to call another and tell me how many of them understand the ELF format, or even know that it exists. It's a subject worthy of its own tutorial (which you conveniently linked to), and specifically it's a subject that is rather more complicated than how to write an two x86 Linux system calls.
Yeah, it makes me sad how people actually enjoy feeding a proprietary data silo instead of providing their knowledge to everyone for free in open projects.
Do you cross-check everything else?

I'm sure it depends in what capacity the information is "used", right?
If you agree they have to automate the process, then haven't you just agreed it's a technological problem?
Version 0.0.3 released last night.
I prefer Linux but this is good news for FreeBSD. Too bad Microsoft didn't get behind .NET on Linux, FreeBSD, etc back in the early 2000's when a lot of us wanted to see that happen.
Why are you winking?
I don't think we need to clutter the front page with all these easter eggs found on Google Maps. Especially when this exact one is posted as a comment[1] in the previous thread about this[2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9433033

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9432504
haha, that was a funny rant.

You have expressed many problems with js clearly out.

Is there a solution ?

I do not see a better alternative, I didn't start programming in js out of spite. I tried to learn the old neckbeard C infrastructure formally and it seemed to be a mess. Even though I understand how most of it works, if you are trying to create products of value to people you really cannot use it.

Hopefully my kids will experience a better experience with computers but for now js will do.

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An Alarm Clock That Also Brews Your Coffee? SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
>Being told by an authority results in people going against their morals for the majority of people.

I think it's somewhat simpler: for a lot of people, obeying authority is their morality.
Europe has already pushed certain interest rates below zero. Let's see how well will it help the EU.
It is completely possible to be worthwhile, incompatible and not welcome at the same time.

I am not passing judgement.
Probably, but you'd expect that because the interviews only test part of what is required to be a good employee. It's just a in-precise filter - a bar they force you to jump over, which if you manage to do so pretty much proves you're not hopeless (and have enough dedication to learn the material). So amongst the guaranteed-non-hopeless people there is fairly random distribution of ability to perform well in the company.
> Haskell just says "Fcuk you ! its my way or the gonadway !".

I think it's more accurate to say that Haskell makes you annotate specifically which way you're doing it, and only combine ways when it's okay to do so.
I don't know about CoreCLR but with Mono I can run my .NET WinForms programs from the early 2000's right now.
that's actually what you want, though.

It's because only successful candidates appear in the statistics. If Google let everyone in, you'd see a good correlation between how well developers do in the interviews and how well they do at Google. If you dump the 95% of people who don't perform well in the phone interview, then what you're left with is a bunch of high performers who performed well to different extents (where the purpose of the interview is not to gauge ability but to demonstrate minimum ability), where the extent to which they performed well is largely noise.

Either a positive or negative correlation would be bad in this case.
"Interestingly, none of the organizations I have researched for the book Reinventing Organizations are employee-owned; the question of employee ownership doesn’t seem to matter very much when power is truly distributed."

Excuse me while I raise a questioning eyebrow.
Wikipedia + the talk pages is closer to an ideal encyclopedia.

One of the major criticism of Wikipedia is that it preempts the possibility of having multiple encyclopedias, and thus multiple points of view. But, once you consider the talk pages, you not only restore the multiple points of view, but you also get to witness the contests between them. In that way, at least, this is better than having multiple encyclopedias.
Thus forcing me to use js as a server-side lang.
Great use for quickly cleaning up stuff without looking into the `sed` options.
This isn't an Easter egg, it's vandalism.
> Yes they are speed limited, however they are significantly cheaper.

I see that as an advantage. Where I live, college kids flying around on their scooters/motorcycles in residential areas are dangerous. Electric ones are so silent, you won't even know what hit you.
> I doubt you read his column. Whether you agree with him or not he provides tons of economics data for his arguments.

Yeah, that post seems kind of bizarre to me. Is Krugman partisan? Absolutely, and he admits it. Can he be - compared to most of the professional commentariat - abrasive and rude? Yes, and he admits it. [1] At the same time he is a cheerleader for Nate Silver and data-driven analysis. This is definitely reflected in his blog posts though somewhat less so in his columns (which do tend to be fluffier for a popular audience.) Half of his writing since the beginning of the recession has been deriding narrative-based analysis and demonstrating that the data contradicts it.

He does of course sometimes write about subjects outside his expertise - he wrote a lot about the Iraq War, for example - and he sometimes shades his economics with political analysis, but I wouldn't go so far as calling him a shill. Krugman is obviously derisive of most Republicans, but he has been decidedly unhappy about most post-2008 Democratic policies.

Krugman is basically the only mainstream political pundit I read at all, because you can actually learn a lot from what he writes.

I can see machines replacing David Brooks, but it will be a tragic day when we lose such a fitting (though well-intentioned) subject for mockery.

[1] He gives his reasons here:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/wild-words-brain...
Experience in old technologies is a huge hindrance to progress - likely the biggest there is because it prevents people from understanding this new thing - it looks superficially like this old thing and so why not just stick with that?

This doesn't mean that old people are automatically worthless, so long as they play around with new technologies too - but looking at the number of people at my workplace who do not code outside of work, statistically the old guy sitting in front of you has spent the last ten years writing the same badly designed Java.

If you have spent the last ten years coding java and nothing but java what is the chance that you will choose Go to write that highly concurrent non-blocking network server that is going to be a huge difference in whether the business succeeds or falls? After all Java has nio so that should be good enough, right?
Well, half right.
Hey thanks. I'm good at ranting.
I also have that hope for a better tomorrow.
Just to be clear, I wasn't advocating for C/neckbeards
Take care :)
>While fiddling around is still somewhat possible in Haskell, the language itself makes it quite difficult. Haskell kind of forces you right at the beginning to pause and think "Well, what is it that I'm actually trying to do here?"...

Wouldn't Scripting languages allows one to gradually build that understanding. Suppose you end up with a lot of complex code? Ditch it and build it from scratch. Usually takes around 1/10th the time it took first time with much better results.

So I think by the time one can think up and build the perfect abstractions in Haskell, one can write 3 or 4 iterations of the program in a dynamic language. Each time with better abstractions and neater organization....
The EUs big problem is that they have a single currency covering many different countries with wildly different economies so it's very difficult (or impossible) to institute a monetary policy that is beneficial for all countries at the same time.
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Considering how many google products have failed in the past and are how divided users are on the existing ones I would question whether google's culture is worth anything at all.

Seems to me that many of the big tech companies are losing the reality plot like coked up Hollywood starlets. I think we might see a paradigm shift in tech again soon including how recruitment is carried out.
Honestly, with only a week you can't really learn a lot so I'd recommend doing something practical. See the canonical answer here:

http://norvig.com/21-days.html

Go to Kaggle and do one of the competitions.

https://www.kaggle.com/competitions

and reference the wiki for help:

https://www.kaggle.com/wiki/Home

In my opinion, the only way to learn machine learning without a strong foundation is to page in learning. That means you'll need to pick a practical task and just jump into it and find out what you don't know.

If you've never done anything practical, great you'll need to learn about the basic data structures of machine learning.

Find out what a data frame is, what time series analysis is and what data structures you need to do it.

Are you going to do classification or prediction? Pick one and learn some of the basic tools used for it.
I hope you sell your IP to Microsoft Excel. This would be a major time saver feature for a lot of the Excel world.
I have interviewed twice at Google now and it seems pretty par for the course. They didn't tell me the interview date and time until the day before, and despite having to rearrange my schedule on short notice, they couldn't have the courtesy of being on time.

After showing up to the call half hour late, we got started. My interviewer was quite verbally irate when I asked clarifying questions and had some connection problems. Then he asked me to explain my code over the phone, brace-by-brace, colon by colon. I asked to share a document it was declined, I asked if we could talk about the algorithm and pseudo-code, but he wanted the C++. Afterwards he told me it wouldn't compile because it was missing some semicolons.

A few months later I tried again, thinking it was a fluke. Second interview started much the same as the first. I just hung up, not worth my time.
There's not much point being a nation of unjust laws, so they should probably be rewritten to criminalize the really severe harms and impose less penalty on less-severe harms.
I'm confused, is caching not a thing anymore?
The theory is that negative (real or nominal) interest rates serve as a continuation of the general purpose of lowering interest rates. That is, they encourage borrowing and spending, both increasing the size of the money supply and especially its velocity. The net effect is supposed to be increased economic activity and higher nominal prices for goods and services. The essential premise is that negative deposit rates encourage people to spend money by in effect confiscating it if they do not. It's not obvious that negative nominal rates are any more effective at this than the negative real rates that have been imposed in much of the world for the last 7 years. Perhaps someone could point us at research on that particular topic, if any has been done.

There are a number of problems with this. Some of them have been mentioned in passing in other comments, and most of them boil down to the disconnect between economic models of humans and real humans. Among other discrepancies, real humans have finite life spans and therefore a limited tolerance for variance; as such, under less than total economic security they generally refuse to dispense with saving if it's an option for them, even if the expected value of spending their savings is greater than not. So the real effect of progressively lower interest rates on monetary velocity diminishes as rates decline. A similar effect limits the ability of lower rates to increase the size of the money supply; people convinced that capital cannot be usefully employed in the present economic environment are unlikely to borrow regardless of how low rates are. A stagnant, highly unequal distribution of capital also limits the effects of lower rates, since the only people likely to be able to take advantage of them already have plenty of capital available to invest. Of course, the money supply side of this is somewhat less relevant, since no one is (yet) proposing negative lending rates, only negative deposit rates. However, negative deposit rates can actually shrink the supply of money, because the "confiscated" money ends up at the central bank where it would simply add to an already-gigantic pool of reserves that could be lent, but haven't been for the above reasons. That is, the money would essentially be removed from circulation and destroyed, potentially offsetting or even dominating any increase in velocity.

You can learn more about the relationships among these quantities by looking up "modern central banking theory" and basic macroeconomic theory in general.
Thank you. As a web-dev I had never heard of the man, but the submitter seemed to think that everybody knew him.
Short links are way more offensive than words. Here's the direct link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria

Apparently it is good for the tourism industry, people even used to steal the Fucking signs.
I'm in fine shape, but I'll never go back from my ebike, simply because pedaling from a dead stop is so easy that it gives me no reason to run stop signs. The assist also means my average speed is closer to my top speed, so getting around town (with two kids on the bike) is just as fast if not faster than a car, once you factor in parking and all the time I don't waste waiting in traffic etc.

I've had both failure modes (fried my motor somehow, rode pedal-only for a week before I could get to warranty service) also (busted my gearset somehow, got around on throttle-only til I scheduled maintenance.) I ride hard, usually pass everyone (with a wide berth, I'll hang back instead of passing rudely.)

If you are replacing your Prius then a few thousand dollars is easy to afford. The shop that built my bike: http://www.splendidcycles.com/
Most sites aren't web apps--they're content-based, with text, pictures, and links. Progressive enhancement makes the most sense for the majority of content on the web.

Web applications are certainly useful in some contexts, and progressive enhancement may not be the best approach if your application requires a lot of extended interaction. But building a web app to display primarily text- and picture-based articles and documents is misguided, and it does web users a disservice.
Actually there is a practical reason in some hiring processes: you get many applicants, you look at their papers, then you interview them. Being able to map the face to the correct paper helps, particularly afterwards when you are contemplating the results.

At some point earlier in my career I sometimes did a hundred interviews in a week to hire a dozen people. To decide between different people, it was useful to have the pictures attached in application letters.

Of course, in addition it can be used to discriminate.
EU approves first new genetically modified crops since 2013
That's quite the dystopian picture you paint there. I especially love the exaggeration for effect you weave throughout the essay as well as the masterful way you ignore any trends that counter your point.

All in all this is expertly executed.
> Seperate Select for files and Sockets on Windows..

And linux has the epoll/posix aio split for sockets and files.
I wonder what happens when a non-US entity flies a plane to kill US citiz ..

At least OBL had a valid reason ( for ppl who don't know this - he did it as a revenge to what israel was doing in Lebanon ). Killing civilians without reason is genocide and history will judge US appropriately.
Sometimes, I have to use a bunch of numbers in an SQL query and surround them with single quotes and a comma. Seems a good fit, thanks.
user CHY872 says it much better than me :-)
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Those are really nice, but aren't some of those trademarked?
I'm sorry, could you be more specific? Please link to specific cases that meet the criteria (antitrust cases where the company is found guilty of anti-competitive practices that do NOT involve the company abusing their (mon|olig)opoly power in a certain market). Both those companies are involved in many cases, antitrust or otherwise, and I'm unable to find one that fits the bill. I think you (and digi_owl) are incorrect.
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I have never been cool.

Except that time when I skipped my Senior year of High School and watched a matinée of Ferris Buehler's Day Off.
>> For software engineers at least, I think the Google interview process would naturally select younger people.

If true then it violates the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA):

http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/qanda.html
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Yeah it's what we call the trunk.
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Corporate firewalls that block JS? Thats so stupid I don't doubt it is true.
I think that's an interesting point, _if_ people actually do that. That said, I'm wary of the claim of 1/10th time and being able to iterate 3 or 4 times per every one iteration with Haskell. Sure, maybe when you're starting out, but once you become proficient I don't think that would be the case anymore. And, there's no guarantee that 3rd or 4th iteration will be as good as the well thought out Haskell code, since the first iterations may be prohibitively complex.
A little off-topic, but a fact that I find amazing is that around the time of the first moon landing the average age of the mission controllers was 26.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tothemoon/kranz.html
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Pretty much all of these will be trademarked.
Thanks! Indeed, I've been maintaining (on the long term) Ruby-based ETL jobs since 2006 (written in activewarehouse-etl at the time), and I've been fairly happy with the overall return on investment and quality that I could reach (e.g.: unit-testing on ETL transforms ftw!).

Note that Kiba is (on purpose) JRuby compatible and that I will demonstrate how to call Java classes in that context for faster processing. Stay tuned :-)
I dunno, I guess it's because people don't understand that drones aren't autonomous, and think Skynet or robot overlords fly them and pull the trigger.
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That would be wrong. Functors also describe things that aren't necessarily "mappable". The actual definition of functor is more general than that.
Yes, yes, great information there. But, does it scale?
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Wouldn't have been much of a problem if CSS hadn't sucked so badly. If you want certain layouts and have to support old browsers you have to use JS.
I see the credit card companies are trying to take a page out of the health insurance industry's book: Get legislation mandating everyone use our product, so we can make lots of money...

There is a "theorem" of startups, which states that any business plan which depends on getting Congress to do something is a bad plan. But if the business plan is proposed by someone like Citi, who's big enough to actually influence legislation, it's a little scary...
Any chance of making a plugin for Sublime Text?
No. In fact, this already happened before, see https://www.decryptcryptolocker.com/.

It helps some people already infected.