skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Places on the equator (0 degrees) tend to be rain forests. Places on the tropics of cancer/capricorn (30 degrees) tend to be deserts. This is due to the way the upper atmosphere works.

Air that rises tends to rain. Air that falls tends to be cloudless. This is because of how the dewpoint changes at different altitudes.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jet+streams&ia=images&iai=http%3A%...
I mostly agree, but I do have to point out that inflation has occurred. It's just been confined to a limited number of areas. Housing is completely insane in many areas when compared with median income, and that's largely a side effect of cheap money. Food, fuel, college tuition, and health care also continue to inflate, with tuition being almost as bad as housing.

Hyperinflation is almost impossible in a highly leveraged credit economy, but cheap money has to go somewhere.

I'm personally unimpressed with all the various schools of economics. Sometimes it seems like astrologers and palm readers arguing over which technique happened to randomly seem to work last time.
Top-CEO Pay Isn’t Driven by Talent
Maybe the stuffed up the hardware so the ID's they use actually map to other devices by other vendors.
Email is a critical communication channel. Don't put up with this sort of crap from any company. If you control your domain and have capability to modify records. Buy mail service from another provider and redirect MX record to new service. And if you can estimate approximate value lost due to this action and you are in U.S., send a bill to Google, file a small court claim against Google if unpaid for 30 days.
France: "French Court Rules It's Not Wrong To Revoke Citizenship Of A Convicted Binational Jihadist"

http://www.ibtimes.com/french-court-rules-its-not-wrong-revo...

Britain: Britain Increasingly Invokes Power to Disown Its Citizens

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/world/europe/britains-powe...

Other countries include: Netherlands, however it looks like many don't as well.

http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/home-affairs/what-we-do/networks/eur...
Algorithmic Music Generation With Recurrent Neural Networks [video]
Ask HN: What's the best book on organizational behavior?
After the organizational complexity article came up a few days ago I remembered someone once told me organizational behavior is supposed to be the most unneccessry seeming class during college but the most valuable one 10 years out. I imagine OC and OB are related, though I would prefer to focus on OB in this thread. What is the best source for you? Do you have any stories that can relate OB and OC?
Those are politically motivated posturing. The masses, the consumers, they don't care the way people in some countries decry 'debased american/western culture which undermines our local spirit'.
Still doesn't explain why. Are you suggesting they are doing it just for fun?
Do you have a better alternative that we should put our faith in? At least the government has a somewhat transparent and, at least in theory, non-profit motivated process for creating these guidelines. Virtually any other source, other than doing the research yourself, is going to be about selling you something. And the fact of the matter is, the government probably has the most incentive of any organisation to keep people healthy.

I actually find that this increases my confidence in government recommendations. The fact that the old guidelines are being updated given new research over the past decades is a wonderful thing to see.
I'm not sure this applies. "You're not allowed to disable updates" is not even close to "You cannot install any browser other than IE".
I do like that version.
Would you advocate a similar system for equity between founder/CEO/execs and employees?

I find that people in tech are outraged by Big Corp CEO pay, but don't bat an eye when the founder of a successful startup walks away with $40M while the employees still live in rented condos and each get a fraction of a house down payment.
Its a slow evening and I was curious about how many times people mentioned different places (countries) in the comments to this post. So I ran the Stanford (Named Entity) Analyzer on the copy of the comments so far.

Here is what I got so far (a gist is here: https://gist.github.com/ayush/6efe681ba968123605fd):

US 108
Canada 42
America 42
U.S. 25
Zealand 20
Europe 18
NZ 17
Japan 16
China 13
France 12
India 11
UK 10
USA 10n
Australia 10
EU 9
Germany 9
United 8
Switzerland 7
States 6
us 6
Netherlands 5
Korea 5
South 5
Asia 5
area 4
York 4
Auckland 4
Mexico 4
California 3
Italy 3
Spain 3
china 3
U.S 3
Bay 3
Brazil 2
bay 2
London 2
Ireland 2
Norway 2
Denmark 2
kameez 1
Usano 1
america 1
Francisco 1
Arabia 1
North 1
Vatican 1
Colombia 1
devouredSouth 1
Berlin 1
Africa 1
Britain 1
U.S.Another 1
City 1
Hollywood 1
Turkey 1
Saudi 1
Tesla 1
Honduras 1
U.S.A. 1
S. 1
Amazon 1
Oregon 1
San 1
south 1
shalwar 1
Pakistan 1
Amsterdan 1
PERM 1
Amsterdam 1
Numbeo 1
Nigeria 1
Croatia 1
Philippines 1
StatesFolks 1
Samoa 1
States7 1
GOSPLAN 1
earth 1
Israel 1
Schleswig-Holstein 1
> Would you prefer if Windows worked like iOS where there are serious limitations on what apps can do in the background and where every application has to go through a central authority for vetting?

I've thought about this for a while, and honestly, for desktops/notebooks/tablets? Yes. Maybe not just one App Store like iOS, but at least sandbox all possible non-os code similarly to ChromeOS, in a way that's on by default and requires a boot-time flag to disable (and users should be allowed to do this, but OEMs shouldn't.)

Recently my dad bought a new $300 toshiba laptop because his old machine was just "slow", as in he had so much spyware on his computer that it was easier to just buy a new one than going through the hassle of cleaning up his old one. Even though his old laptop was perfectly good and of a recent hardware generation.

I'm 100% positive he's going to have the same issues on his new laptop, and his response was that he uses his iPad so much that it doesn't matter anyway.

The role of the modern day OS has changed immensely over the years. Nowadays there's simply no reason for legitimate applications to have the level of access to the underlying system that they used to have. Apps really don't need arbitrary filesystem access. They don't need to be able to overwrite core system files. They should be run in a sandbox or a container with as restricted of a set of permissions as possible.

For servers and development workstations the story is a little bit different, but those are exceptions to the rule, and with the proper release hatches like boot-time enabling of un-sandboxed code it's a good tradeoff IMO.
I wish we would get slavery back. At least they got some food.
It would also encourage CEOs to replace low-paid workers with expensive to maintain, buggy robots - sure, the company/shareholders might be somewhat worse off, but the CEOs wage could go up, and you can always misrepresent the costs and benefits, especially if there's an industry-wide trend in that direction. Or you could make contractors out of employees.
There are no GIFs, but I enjoyed the "Three Wrongs Don't Make a Right" article ( http://fee.org/freeman/detail/paul-krugman-three-wrongs-dont... ):

"Krugman, armed with his Keynesian model, came into the Great Recession thinking that (a) nominal interest rates can’t go below 0 percent, (b) total government spending reductions in the United States amid a weak recovery would lead to a double dip, and (c) persistently high unemployment would go hand in hand with accelerating price deflation. Because of these macroeconomic views, Krugman recommended aggressive federal deficit spending.

"As things turned out, Krugman was wrong on each of the above points: we learned (and this surprised me, too) that nominal rates could go persistently negative, that the US budget 'austerity' from 2011 onward coincided with a strengthening recovery, and that consumer prices rose modestly even as unemployment remained high. Krugman was wrong on all of these points, and yet his policy recommendations didn’t budge an iota over the years.

"Far from changing his policy conclusions in light of his model’s botched predictions, Krugman kept running victory laps, claiming his model had been 'right about everything.' He further speculated that the only explanation for his opponents’ unwillingness to concede defeat was that they were evil or stupid."
The main problem is the difficulty to hire Haskell programmers. Recruiting is crucial to a startup's success.

"We were pleased to get a total of 42 applications, of which 19 merited serious consideration, and we eventually settled on a shortlist of 7 to interview. " [0]

Then there's the entire ecosystem surrounding Haskell, which is still old and antiquated (looking at you Cabal) and moving very slowly (interfacing to NoSQL or AWS, etc...).

> looking at you cabal

See this link for a solution: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9766943

> interfacing to NoSQL

I recently used the Haskell riak[3] binding in my day job for an application. The mongoDB[4] package was uploaded "Tue Jan 19 06:04:06 UTC 2010"[5]

> AWS

There has been an AWS binding since 2011[1][2].

> etc

cassandra[6][7][8]

couchdb[9]

> Finally, the very high bar to just learn how to correctly program in Haskell puts it out of reach of 99% of the developer community.

A 10 year old can do it[9], so I'm sure more than 5% of the developer community can as well!

I wouldn't say I'm a spectacular programmer and I have both learned Haskell and used it in the real world easily enough. I will admit in the past there was a learning issue, but actions to make Haskell easier to learn have (and continue) to happen.[11][12][13][14]

I'm looking forward to any rebuttals you may have to these! :)

0: http://www.well-typed.com/blog/2010/08/on-hiring-haskell-peo...

1: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/aws-0.0.1

2: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/aws

3: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/riak

4: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/mongoDB

5: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/mongoDB-0.1

6: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cassandra-thrift

7: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hscassandra

8: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cassy

9: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/search?terms=couchdb

10: https://superginbaby.wordpress.com/2015/04/08/teaching-haske...

11: https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell

12: http://haskellbook.com/

13: http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Haskell-A-Project-Based-Appr...

14: https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell
Is there any reason to believe that private prisons are significantly worse than publicly run prisons?

I agree that the U.S. is badly in need of major reforms in its criminal justice system, but is there any reason to believe that society is better off with exclusively publicly run prisons?

Private prisons may do some regrettable lobbying on behalf of longer prison sentences, but I'm pretty sure that the corrections officers unions (most of whose membership works in publicly run prisons) is a far stronger political force.

It seems as though the students' activist energy would have been better used fighting the policies of mass incarceration rather than the private companies who do the government's bidding in applying them.
MacOS System 7.5.x shipped on ~100MHz PowerPC chips with ~24MB of RAM, a bit higher in the later models. So the Watch most certainly has more processing power.

The real problem is emulating PPC -> ARM, which is a very slow process, and why the boot time is so long in the video.
Do you have a link to your post outlining the issue?
They got papers from the indian tribes of that time.
It's no surprise that fresh graduates don't have an extremely clear idea about what employers in their field desire until multiple interviews later.

If potential employers divulge shortcomings in the interview then they may be slammed with a discrimination lawsuit.

If potential employers keep their mouths shut, then the overall incoming workforce takes longer to understand the rules of the hiring game.
Perhaps google should open up additional channels of communication for "top contributors" to escalate problems?
I usually just repeat the same exact phrase until they give up on the script. Three times is usually the max times someone will listen to me repeat "I would like to cancel my service" before they laugh and just do it.
if they sold beer it might be named ales-force? :)
Thanks to Paleo, I went from 340 pounds to 214 in exactly one year, and I'm now down to 190. People who've been part of Paleo already know the FDA avoids science as long as possible as not to piss off large Congressional lobbying groups.

I expect to get downvoted, and honestly, I don't care. Downvoting doesn't change the fact I lost all this weight by purposely ignoring the FDA's recommendations.
You seriously think ag policy created the food pyramid? It wasn't just the government promoting the idea that people needed to limit salt and fat.
I stand at least partially corrected, that certainly is some vague phrasing. It could be anything from installer files to the whole OS.
It's true, you can translate any Python program to C++. When you do this you'll have the benefit of having debugged it and getting the logic correct in a safe language. Just have to make sure all of that translates correctly. It's nicer to develop an algorithm in Python first where your off by one errors will not segfault or worse silently fail.
She was dead. You have to be alive to receive the Nobel Prize, any of them.
That basically fixes the CEO's wages at whatever that multiplier is * minimum wage because the lowest paid worker's wages probably won't increase over time. A large-enough company is always going to have entry-level employees and even if each individual's wages increase, the lowest paid worker is always going to be an employee who is brand new to the company in the lowest-paid position.

Hiring CEOs is a competitive marketplace like anything else and boards need to attract the best individuals in whatever way works best -- maybe the most fair way to compensate CEOs is through one-time, slow-vesting stock grants so that the CEO's "salary" they make each year is closely correlated to the value of the company (and therefore, to their success).
What do you mean by 'people in tech'? I don't think any of the engineers like it, VC probably do, but that's a very small subset.
Fracking is new tech with a ridiculously short path to profitability, you pump the oil and you sell it. It's just good business to pump money into fracking (maybe bad environmentally, but that's beside the point). I wasn't aware of subprime auto loans, I'll have to look into that at some point. But the point about traditional business being really, really tight on credit even during QE still stands.

Politically, citizens have nothing to do with it, look at Congress. They're voted in on fears of socialism and kenyans, not like they can turn around and support infrastructure spending.
Did you read the post at all? That's exactly the conclusion the post comes to.
I read enough to know what the author was asserting (that finding candidates is harder than filtering candidates), and I stopped when I realized her supporting claims were ignorant.

But people do this all the time. When people argue in person, they spend most of their time not listening to the other side, but trying to formulate a reason the other side is wrong.

It's not the right thing to do, and I know that, and it's why I put "I'm really sorry" at the start.
Yeah they need to tweak that onboarding experience. Although I'm sure announcing Wolfram is livestreaming and then forcing signups to view the stream, probably resulted in a lot of signups.
I also think it can be very revealing of just how biased our interpretations are, even without the issues surrounding translation. Our context for interpreting these works is completely different from their contemporary context, yet we still find ideas that resonate with us over 2500 years even though the context needed to understand their original meaning is long gone.
"Wasteful government spending" is a propaganda meme used to justify austerity, when it usually is just a dog-whistle for "screw PBS/NASA/the poor". Notice how the "waste" never seems to be found in the traditional crony/bankster favorites like our huge military or anything resembling a subsidy for Wall St. Removing "waste" sounds good, but you have to make sure it's actually "waste" being removed, and not the usual political targets.

The real problem with austerity is that it makes debt bigger by shrinking the underlying GDP, and a fallacy of composition where individually rational actions (e.g. cutting your personal expenses so you can pay down your debt) doesn't work if we all do it at the same time. The solution often is some variant of "grow your way out of recession". It's not a great solution, but it's probably the least-worst plan. This may or may not involve make-work programs; an "anti-austerity" plan may simply be a plan that stops ruining the GDP with cuts.

(trickle-down the opposite idea, I'm not sure why you associate it with anti-austerity)

Never mind Krugman - I highly recommend Mark Blyth's (prof. econ. Brown Uni) discussion of the topic ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6vV8_uQmxs#t=674 - the main lecture starts after a boring introduction at ~12min). While this particular lecture is focusing on the situation in the EU, Blyth covers a lot of general econ topics and spends a lot of time on the history of austerity and what it does to an economy.
Of course this is ridiculous in the lens of a privacy aware techie. In the lens of a consumer-first corporation such as Samsung, is this possibly the result of "convention over configuration" from the eyes of management demanding this kind of (de)functionality from their devs?

I think we should start focusing on a fundamental shift on what management means and how accountable that position is.
I'm sorry, but welcome to politics. The dietary guidelines speak more to lobbying efforts than anything else. It's disingenuous to suggest that the US dietary guidelines are aligned to the evolving theories in nutritional science.
Absolutely they should. Open borders would enrich everyone, not just the immigrants and not just the poor. Please see my comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769632
To be fair, Windows generally updates itself at the worst times, rendering your computer inoperable for an absurdly long time (a typical Windows update often takes longer than updating to a completely new version of a typical Linux distro).

OEMs should just throw their weight behind one of the commercial Linuxes and be done with the madness. They want to compete with Apple and OSX, that's their chance.
Yeah, all manual. :/

http://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/box-drawing/

http://unicode-table.com/en/sets/arrows-symbols/
Look at implementing the Python language, couldn't you say that Python is faster than C if PyPy is faster than CPython ;-)
Yeah, but why engage in thoughtful debate when you can show a gif of him punching people?
Silent OS
I don't care. I'll do it anyway. When I disagree with something strongly at least I'll state my reasons. I rarely downvote people I disagree with if their arguments have obviously been considered. If we don't extend the courtesy of explaining ourselves to others, instead of learning from each other this turns into a popularity contest, and the value of the community is lost.
For the record, my Performa 6116CD which shipped with 7.5 had a 60 MHZ PPC 601 and 8 MB RAM. It could run on significantly less than that as well - in fact I believe it ran as far back as on some 80s machines.
> Interesting article, but the first graph is one of the most blatantly misleading charts I have seen in a long time. Showing two graphs overlapping on completely different scales is a really nasty trick.

They are the same in 2010 because that's where the graph starts. The rest of the graph should be interpreted as "cumulative growth as of $DATE, relative to 2010".

This is actually a common way of presenting two stocks. I believe Google Finance does it. Search for any ticker symbol (e.g. GOOG) and then type in another where it says "compare" (e.g. TWTR). No matter how far back you pull the graph, the leftmost points on each line will always overlap.

I agree that it's a bit weird if you're not used to it.
Open borders would enrich everyone, not just the immigrants or the poor. Please see my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769632. I live in SF where there's a "housing crisis". All it means is that a lot of people want to live here and so it's expensive. And NIMBY pieces of trash vote against high rise development so supply isn't allowed to naturally keep up with demand. It's not really a 'crisis', it's less than peanuts compared to the crisis of extreme poverty. Rich first worlders like you and me, we can deal, we'll be fine.
Is this the same as https://www.youtube.com/verify ? I've just verified my account, but I have no uploaded videos to test with.
When you throw as much money at the problem as we did in 2008-09, of course there's going to be a "recovery". I'll believe Krugman was right only if we go another 15 years without a major economic collapse.

I believe all we did following his policies is kick the can down the road, and will eventually pay a bigger price in the future.
Compare American Building Management, which is in the same business.[1] They provide janitors, security guards, and similar services. It's not great, but they have reasonable benefits and pay overtime.

They're also a unionized company in many cities - Service Employees International Union. That provides some protection against employer arbitrariness.

Is Q unionized?

[1] http://www.abm.com/pages/employee-benefits.aspx
Private companies have a greater motivation to maximize profits than public entities do. The problems stem from that.

That is more or less the ACLU's opinion, as well.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/private-prisons-are-problem-not-so...
While I admire the motivation, everything I have seen has stated divestment doesn't have much of an economic impact. If these companies are profitable, they will still be profitable. In fact, the profits will end up being concentrated with less morally minded investors, which can make the problem even worse. A moral stockholder can help drive the company in a moral direction. However if the only stockholders left put profit above all other motivations, the company has less and less incentive to make morally sound decisions.
The biggest factor in one's chances of success in life depends upon one's country of citizenship. That's a fact. It should be obvious so I am not stating any sources or research data.
I am well aware of the rule, I simply disagree with it because of cases like this.
Microsoft just made millions off a 14-year-old product it shut down a year ago
A chip that mimics human organs is the design of the year
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769632

"unhappy immigrants" - surely they're no where near as unhappy as the extreme poor. The moral case for opening the borders is an absolute slam dunk.
The real answer is we wait and see but my belief is that with prices falling to zero the greedy kind of person is going to be at a disadvantage. Probably there is a threshold. If there is need of very little money then enough good content will be made available for free because authors will keep creating no matter what and there will be little money to pay them anyway. Then the ones who insist getting more than claps or a legion of followers (that's power) will get less and less.
Also, when signing up, it takes you to an area to fill in more (apparently optional) information, and then presumably to the homepage, instead of including a link to go back to what one was trying to view, which I think would have been more convenient.