skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My theory is that we're in danger of a global repeat of the Great Depression that hammered North America and, to a lesser extent, Europe in the 1930s.

The last one, in the 1920s, was caused by ill-managed prosperity, I would argue. You had sudden gains in agricultural productivity, which led to crashing commodity prices, which eventually led to rural poverty. One might have "expected" farmers to move into the cities and become the new middle class, and some did, but that doesn't work out so well when thousands or millions of poor, hungry people are doing the same thing. What was just "rural poverty" (of course, half the country was still rural) in 1925 became more widespread by 1927-28 (noticeable slipping demand for consumer products) and finally was recognized as a Great Depression after it tanked the stock market in 1929-32.

We have, in 2015, a lot of ill-managed prosperity. We have a culture in Silicon Valley that glorifies ill-managed prosperity. (What else do you call funding Clinkle?) And the same thing that happened to food prices in 1900-30 (slow at first, accelerating toward the end) is happening to almost all human labor in 1985-2015.

It may not end well. Including the damage brought by the war, I'd argue that most of Europe didn't get out of the Depression (manifest somewhat differently over there, especially in the fascist countries) until the late 1950s.
Only way i see Google getting them all onboard is revenue sharing from Play based on what Android version the person is using.
NAND Flash can be designed to keep the data longer, but most SSD uses value storage capacity over endurance. Using multilevel cells really reduces endurance because smaller voltage drops will change bits.

Also node size makes retention harder too.
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system. – John Gall
I don't think the people who found successful startups are the type who agonize over all the possible minutiae that could be percieved as offensive to someone, somewhere.
I've recently been reading Norman Cantor's really excellent history of the Middle Ages and thinking that we are seriously missing a science that studies forms of human collective organization, which have varied enormously over time.

In business studies there is an extremely minor area called "theory of the firm" that almost no one pays attention to, and it is narrowly focused on modern corporate structure.

In economics there has been some work on cooperatives and partnerships vs corporations, which is why we know that cooperatives suffer extreme diminishing returns as they cross the Dunbar threshold (a fact that is simply flat-out ignored by the alt-community folks you so accurately carricature [1].) There has also been some work done in economics on agency issues in corporations (looting by managers, in particular, especially focused on the savings and loan crisis in the US in the late '80's or early '90's).

Sociologists and criminologists have done a little work on different kinds of collective organization, but no one has attempted any kind of grand cover of all the different ideas and structures humans have employed to solve the problem of getting stuff done in groups of more than a few close friends and family, which includes but is not limited to:

1) military organizations
2) churches and monastaries
3) town corporations
4) craft guilds
5) trade unions
6) civil bureaucracies
7) chartered companies
8) partnerships
9) cooperatives
10) corporations (in the modern, post-1850's sense)
11) criminal gangs
12) collegial organizations (universities)

Reading about the Middle Ages, I am struck by how various social innovations were really about attempting to figure out how to solve the problem of collective organization, and how new institutions that solved certain problems better edged out older ones that failed to adapt (in the later Middle Ages universities and town corporations took over many functions that had been previously handled by monasteries, for example.)

We only have the most scattered and incomplete understanding of any of this, and yet finding effective solutions to the problem of collective organization is the most pressing problem for any human civilization. The disasters of the total state in the 20th century were essentially possible because no one could prove they wouldn't work, and while we are somewhat better off in that regard today there is still an enormous amount of work to be done, to the extent that I think the problem really needs its own field of study, rather than being scattered across economics, business, politics, sociology and history.

[1] It manages to be both accurate and carricature because the real thing is as genuinely grotesque as what you describe. It is a carricature of itself.
At Broadcom? I'd echo that, the late 1990s and early 2000s were definitely when they were undergoing radical growth. They tended to pay lower wages but everyone was okay with it because they were making tons on the stock. I never worked for them but worked closely with them. They had an intensity about them...

It seems like they've lost a bit of their mojo, everyone, it seems, builds custom ARM chips now... Back in those days they could pretty easily target a vertical, graft a few chips together and sell a specialized solution that was pretty compelling.
Ultimately, I think this whole debate on wages, STEM, wealth inequality, and automation boils down to IQ.
http://greyenlightenment.com/winner-take-all-nation/

IMHO, people are falling behind because of low IQs and the winner-take-all economy that enriches some, but doesn't leave a whole lot for everyone else. Today’s hyper-meritocracy is amplifying the socioeconomic ramifications of individual cognitive differences such that a person with an IQ >110 is much more likely to succeed than someone with an IQ <90, whereas decades ago the disparity wasn't so obvious.

The solution, on the other hand, -I don't know. No one really knows, and that's why this is such a big debate. So many people realize that this is one of the most pressing issues of the 21st century. How are we going to develop a compromise or solution that handles automation-related jobs loss and inequality. Some propose a basic income; others want redistribution; others wants more spending on education, and so on...

From students fresh out of college and in debt, to people looking for jobs, or people who have been laid-off, we're all a part of this debate. Economics is not just for economists - now more than ever we all experience it in our everyday lives.
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It sounds like if you open source the code, you could get some pull requests pretty easily.
To call the Reagan air traffic controller strike the start is bizarre.

Not at all. Bizarre is the need to immediately jump to such invective.
Thing is, the limbic reward system can be pretty automatic, too. You're reward system can signal mistakes without conscious input, e.g., cutting yourself while routinely chopping vegetables.

The reward system can be involved consciously but doesn't have to be.
Permissions

"We are giving users control of app permissions in the M release. Apps can trigger requests for permissions at runtime, in the right context, and users can choose whether to grant the permission. Making permission requests right when they’re needed means users can get up and running in your app faster. Also, users have easy access to manage all their app permissions in settings."

Great, finally Google got it. Hopefully with the old Android 2.3 style fine granular permissions and not the few permission groups of Android 4/5.
Heh, I figured there was probably a word for it out there somewhere invented by the people actually doing the stuff. I'll take a look at this, thanks.
IMO, the most game changing feature announced today is 'Now on tap'

Google isn't releasing more details on it, but with it, Google would be able to understand what you do, when you do it, who your pals are, who you go out to movies with, who you chat with the most, are you looking to quit your job, are you about to break up, are you going through a depression and so on...

They haven't revealed anything about how exactly 'Now on tap' works...but the potential for data collection is enormous. With 'Now on tap' they promise to do 'searches' based on the context (which is derived from the contents in the app that's showing on-screen). So no matter what app you're using, Google will get its hand on the data. It sounds nightmarish and exciting at the same time.
What's your aim in doing this? For what reason?

Surely your family and acquaintances and people in the street are free - depending where you live (?) - to take pictures. So you're going to have to police all of those images in perpetuity to prevent images from appearing online. The likelihood is that when they're a teenager they'll put their lives online themselves in some way ... so?

If your child goes on a playdate or attends a nursery or goes to a public location then there's a good chance (at least in the UK) that they'll appear on Facebook no matter how many "I do not consent for my child to appear in photographs" statements you sign. Once they appear in the background of images then in the not too distant future face recognition is likely to be good enough to trawl the net for images of them. I think what you'll find is that the images are all one's you haven't curated whereas if you were adding your own images (no matter if it's only a few) then you at least have some control over the general presentation of images.
Idk but I'm not the biggest an of the implementation of Material Design. I like the principles but some of the elements are just really ugly–i.e. the huge heroes.
This thing is infuriating, I never remember how to create a new file in Google Drive now (it's the bottom right FAB located at a place yet unexplored in every desktop UI ever).
Its similar to Samsung's Project Beyond.
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I've tried it up until Crescent Bay, and it's fabulous. But I still feel it is very much for carefully fashioned, virtual experiences, and will have trouble replicating things via video, however many gopros you put on the task.
A woman referring to a company as "he" or "him" is just as weird, in my opinion. This isn't a gender issue, it's an anthropomorphizing issue.
Drew a oscillating curve. Definite lulz in the outcome.
Yeah, nothing is free, they will know everything about us.
It's going to be the social data source of google, like facebook comments, messages, events, friends, etc (which are also unlimited).
We are the data source for the ultimate ad targeting machine.
I don't have any belief in the supernatural, but this suggestion intrigues me. Can you suggest an intro at the level of "Chaos Magic for Dummies"?
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Mandiant Intelligence Center: Exposing One of China's Cyber Espionage Units
16 gopros isn't much more than a mid-range Canon DSLR, which TONS of amateurs manage to pony up the cash for.

I don't think price will be a big inhibitor here, honestly.
> I would say that puts it pretty high on the list.

I would say it puts it pretty LOW. It's not like death is a hard thing to accept. We've always been dying. Life would suck without it.
Petista detected.
I got the "you are weird" value.
If you're just trying to demote a lifetime, you should just be able to specify the lifetime on the variable:

let values: &'a Vec<Value> = &values;

Lifetimes have variance so that you can always put a "bigger" lifetime in a place expecting a "smaller" one safely and it will treated as the smaller one forever.

Although it can be a bit of a dangerous game trying to "set" lifetimes manually because lifetime variance is hell (at least to me).
More details:
http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/anatomy-of-sourcefo...
The Grand Illusion:  Why consciousness exists only when you look for it (2002)
GOMAXPROCS isn't really a language feature, that's all implementation specific AFAIC.
The Very Strange Life of Nepal's Child Goddess
To some extent, it is true that finances (or the lack of) play a big part in whether or not a student goes to university. However, if you were born under those circumstances, like I was, the best thing to do is to work hard to make sure you reach that goal. I was born in an environment where attending university is not a necessity but a privilege. People from our neighborhood would rather have their children working after high school. Why? Because working rakes in money for the household, while attending school means having to spend out of what is left of your household's allocated budget. I thought differently. I knew that if I thought the way my parents did, it will be a never-ending story. My son and his sons will suffer the same fate. I didn't want that.
While I was still in high school, I knew I wouldn't be able to attend further schooling so I started to save. After graduating, I tried hard to look for scholarships. While waiting, I enrolled myself in http://preply.com/en for some private tuturing because it was more affordable. I didn't want to get left behind. As of the moment, I am still waiting, I am behind by 1 year but I believe that I will get there.
If I ever get into university, I will have proof that sometimes, it's only just a matter of working hard for your dreams. If not, I will make sure that my son does.
Is This the First Computational Imagination?
When it's symetrically encrypted, you have the key, it's verified if it decrypts to a valid value.

When it's asymetrically signed, you are supposed to verify the signature.
RubyMotion is terrible: it's expensive, closed, and is basically objective-c meets ruby syntax.

This is at least running on a JVM, which gives you a buttload of tooling.
In LA, Amazon same day delivery didn't deliver on the same day in 2 of 3 orders. The order that was delivered same day came at 10pm, much too late.

Of course, I only ordered same day delivery because I actually needed the item that day. I was trying to save a car trip (an especially valuable feature in LA), but had to go out and buy the items anyway.

The people who deliver same day seem to be freelancers, who don't seem to have any delivery tracking technology.

I can't see choosing this option again. Ordering for next day delivery almost always meets the delivery commitment.
Real estate speculation by foreign investors has definitely driven housing prices to levels not supported by the locals- Vancouver BC being a prime example of this.

I've always wondered what the best way to prevent this would be... if non-residents were prevented from buying more than a single small property in a country, would that help at all?
> 1) Women entering the workplace. This increased the supply of workers without increasing demand, which drives down prices.

Women earning salaries led to higher consumption.
Easy solution used by the NYC startup I work at:

Schedule a company standup meeting at 4:30 or so. Everyone cracks open a beer to enjoy while presenting what they have been working on for the past week. The standup lasts 30 mins or so, after which those who want to leave take off, and those that are going to continue working usually grab another beer and head back to the computer.
AngularJS-ORM: Example Project of Scalable Architecture and Best Practices
What you're describing is the philosophical zombie (as opposed to the flesh-eating kind) and is a widespread conundrum in philosophy of consciousness. I.e., could there be an entity that appeared human to all outsiders, but had no internal experiences?
Byron does not come across that well in many many accounts. Talented but not that nice a guy it seems...
I had feeling this was going to happen. While I don't live in one of the metro areas on the map, I recently had an order that I received the next day, although I chose 2-day shipping.
You can get immersed easily in any video game (I felt vertigo the first time I jumped from a building in Minecraft), but you can always tell what is real.
The Google I/O site works fine in Opera. Not sure what you're seeing. Considering that Opera now uses Blink, that's not really surprising.
By case system, do you mean upper case and lower case? If so, it looks like we do have a record of it evolving:

http://blog.dictionary.com/capitals/
Thank you for contributing exactly nothing to this thread. Go fuck yourself.
Lol at how nobody ever mentions immigration. Total labor hours haven't increased since 2000 but we've imported tens of millions of people. I'm not an economist but I think it's obvious that the average person would be having an easier time getting paid without the added population.
The US government deployed armed federal forces to literally kill union strikers at privately held companies nearly 80 years before Reagan used his executive powers to fire federal employees.

I stand by the phrase bizarre.
What scared me about that announcement was that "no changes in the app are necessary" which basically means that google from now on will parse the text that is displayed, regardless of the type of app that is open.

Without any further clarification i have to expect Google now to send the displayed data of my mobile banking app to its servers everytime i hit that "Now on Tap" button, accidentally or not, while its open. I don't like that.
The decoupling is also obvious when comparing advanced degree employment and income versus those with only high school or 'some college'. It's also pronounced between majors, with STEM earning more. these trends have accelerated since 2008.
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There is some evidence of languages gaining features, pidgins become creoles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_language

They end up with features that are separate from the parent languages.

I guess it is not without controversy, but there is a somewhat famous case of children inventing a language (re what you are getting at, the later children added things like verb agreement):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Sign_Language
You're in the wrong bubble, fuckedcompany was 15 years ago.
I was creeped out at first, but then I realized that Verizon already has all the same data, and I trust Google way more than I trust Verizon.
Any of my more "important" relationships are maintained via frequent text messages and less frequent phone calls. For me, Facebook is rarely used for keeping in touch and mostly for its group features. Otherwise its just old acquaintances from yesteryear who'd I don't necessarily care to keep up with anyway. In fact, if it wasn't so painstakingly tedious to delete large numbers of "friends" on there i'd probably only have about 50.
Yeah, like having a vacation home in Florida is not for me. If I want i can have it, i can apply for mortgage and buy one tomorrow, but i can not afford it. I should not do it.
Recently, I've had that happen frequently—probably 50% of the time. Makes it difficult to time orders when I'm trying to receive something covertly on a day when I'm working from home (and my wife is not). I've ended up paying for overnight shipping just to ensure that I have the timing right.
This is one of the reasons that public libraries are so important. It's still true that textbooks are a good investment even for the very poor - $100 is less than 15 hours at minimum wage, and you'll learn more from 35 hours of studying a good textbook than 50 hours of studying a bad one. But part of the crushing burden of poverty is that it prevents you from making good investments. It doesn't matter how much time that $100 investment will save in the future if there's just no way you can spare the money now. So we as a society should be doing whatever we can to give people access to these resources.
Google Free Material Icons
Are you saying that poor peasant led to the Great Depression? I thought runaway speculation did...
The image is blurry and the colours are dithered. This really looks good to you? https://i.imgur.com/r3HZWyG.png
Padding and font-weight are really the most crucial.
For strange reasons I am getting the same vibe I got when I was viewing Google's Wave promotion, as if Google had uncovered the best thing ever. Everyone at Google seems super excited about their new things. I suppose when they're in their own little silo universe everything seems exciting and right.

Again I am only speaking about the feeling I got after watching the promotion video.
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Since people might not be familiar with the term yet, I feel it's useful to point out that it's spelled "presence" with a 'c', as in, you feel as if you were actually present in a virtual reality.
Does it allow me to access raw feeds data?
I think we can look a little closer to home. A lot of software 'ideas' are out there, but few people actually test them.
And immediately following that:

> I told them that […] I faced two facts:
> First, I had to pack up and leave California […]
> Second, I had no backup plan […]

Neither of which is "I have sold the company". A few paragraphs later we see "But I’d kept all this secret."

So if he shared his diagnosis and the lack of backup plan, that is the "all this" that remained secret? The writing didn't seem clear to me on this point.
Google I/O 2015 – Day 1 – Live now
there exists the term "overengineered" for technical products. There should be a term "overdesigned" for user interfaces too.

Material design is a good example for this.
Do you mean Material Design is tacky?

Polymer is just a library to help you make Web Components. They don't have to be Material Design.
I'd love to see private pages for private repos.
GitHub pages are often used to present the project from the repo to the public.

Why not use them to present customer projects (in private repos) to your customers? As long the pages are public this is pretty often a no-go.
I am curious if this will be a source of friction with app developers. If Google is scraping app data usage for both content and context ostensibly to extend the benefit of that app's data and utility, wouldn't that make it considerably easier for them to clone the app and improve upon it?
Price is a huge inhibitor for a mid-range Canon DSLR, so it'll probably be a huge inhibitor for this system too.
What old code would break when adding generics?
Getting hands dirty == interfacing with reality where mistakes are possible

You could hold Proust's greatest work upside down and read it backwards but nothing bad will happen. If a neurologist makes a mistake they could kill their patient, their hands are dirty because part of their job is making mistakes that hurt people.
ill-managed prosperity

Who do you propose manage it? That seems overbearing, to assume that some entity can do a better job managing the wealth of those who earned it. Wealth inequality will always be with us, just as it has all throughout history. In a free market, bad decisions are punished through the loss of wealth.
Uhhmm... how much do you think gopro 4's cost?
Per the OP: "Increased parallelism could make bugs in racy programs more likely to cause crashes or other problems. The setting of GOMAXPROCS=1 may have thus far let those bugs go undetected. Raising it may therefore make buggy programs less reliable."
But ultimately the pixels are colored, are they not? To me this reads as a way to acceptably talk about degrading designers...

"Well we aren't employing those pesky 'Pixel Pushers' anymore. No. We are moving towards a jazz inspired design, it's more important and sophisticated than just coloring pixels"

Please. Give it a rest.

(^ In case it needs to be pointed out that's not an actual quote from anything anyone said.)

There's no better case for Google putting zero thought into design than this new website.

I mean what is this? http://i.imgur.com/dGCCLzx.png (my attempt at balancing the grid on the bottom.)