skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of factors that play into this over the last 100 years: The prevalence of credit cards that increase the amount of depreciating goods young people can buy, and the long-term power of 401(k) investing.

Expanded consumer credit, and it's appurtenant high interest rate cost, would tend to keep young people less wealthy towards the last half of last century. As credit card debt skyrocketed, savings rates plummeted from almost 11% in 1982, to 1.5% in 2007 [0].

Similarly, the power of 401(k) investing is really only coming into it's own in the last decade or so, since 401(k) accounts have had 30 years to mature, total retirement assets now total well over $3 Trillion nationally.[1]

[0] http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/give-me-liberty-or-give-me...

[1] http://www.nber.org/bah/fall02/changingCharacter.html
Scientists Hack Cellular Machinery, Create First Artificial Ribosome
It's a competitive region.
No, the oversight seems to have ceased in 2012.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
Then don't rent an office? I really don't know what you think the alternative would be. I assume the value comes from not having to work by a flaming barrel down by the river.
MBA programs teach how to suck at startups (2010)
Yes and no? They take on risk as well right?

They only get to be parasitic when the real estate market is dysfunctional and supply is constrained, possibly artificially. In some sense they are acting as gatekeepers to a limited resource and providing liquidity by setting prices high enough that only those with need are willing to pay.
As a lawyer, I look forward to that brief period of automated income! But seriously, I think that there will always be a role for advice on novel issues, and good lawyers prefer to be in that niche rather than spending all our time mastering the ins and outs of Word macros. The problem is that people look to corporate lawyers for two very different services -- legal advice, and business process. Legal advice is very difficult, and I would argue, impossible to automate. Business process can and should be automated. It does not make sense to rely on highly trained humans for routine business process.
Search is coming in the next release!

http://monosnap.com/image/npl8jAtBNPAHUJAws8x4p3s3iAw36S#

I already have it (as I am a contributor). Its just getting better
Sorry about that, and thanks for reporting it! We'll get that fixed.
Our native implementations of all probabilistic data structures use MurmurHash3, so this isn't a problem. The dumbloom implementation is in no way a good Bloom filter, as the name suggests :)
Any plans to launch in India? Can I help?
Oh I'm aware as that's where I had to change it (chrome didn't give me a "make default" button which makes me wonder if that's not possible in Windows 10).
park.io discloses that they buy some names for their own portfolio. Whether disclosure makes it appear less disingenuous is in the eye of the beholder.

In their FAQ, park.io writes that one of the reasons an expiring name might not be listed is "because we intend to order this domain for our own portfolio. We don't do this often, but every once in a while there is a domain we want for our own collection and so we do not list it on park.io."
I am hearing the "if you don't like it don't use it" loud and clear. I did that for Windows 8. Looks like I will do that again.
Of course this argument falls apart with the many truly free OS's that would work perfectly well in the general market (as long as you didn't tell consumers they were using GNU/Linux and made it look the same as their Windows box).

I agree with you that "free" as a business model needs to go in one direction or the other. Truly free, as in my Fedora install (ignoring some binaries) or pay for privacy.

The problem with pay lies in the search for more revenue. Cable television used to be ad free. There wasn't a need to advertise since they were already getting subscription money - now look at it. The temptation to add easy profit is too great for many businesses (which is why we now have targeted ads within an OS we already quasi-paid for).

Meanwhile Red Hat isn't doing too bad with their blend of paid and free.

None of what I'm saying is particularly well written or fleshed out after a long day, but this is also something I think about a lot.
Ethereum is indeed not meant for distributed computing, You should use Ethereum only for consensus and avoid any unneeded processing, the blockchain is there to avoid 'cheating' it's not meant to be a backend.

As for frameworks I guess you are referring to Embark: https://github.com/iurimatias/embark-framework
Probably the best, general-interest resource for long-form reading is Medium: https://medium.com

If you're looking for long-form reading about interesting legal topics specifically, then the site I founded, Casetext (YC S13, https://casetext.com) is a great resource. You can visit individual communities of lawyers and find some pretty fantastic stuff. The communities that have really taken off include criminal law (https://casetext.com/communities/criminal-law), employment and labor law (https://casetext.com/communities/employment-law), and torts/product liability (https://casetext.com/communities/tort-law). There are also articles on the most recent important Supreme Court cases, like the same-sex marriage case (https://casetext.com/obergefell-v-hodges). You can also browse and read some other interesting form of long-form content, like court cases (e.g., https://casetext.com/case/lotus-development-corp-v-borland-i..., an interesting classic on software and copyrights).

Enjoy reading!
Experience. History.

Here's a graph from 2013 from Calculated Risk (an economics blog) that shows recessions in blue shading.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cF1c7HUBzQg/UV7FqoIP9BI/AAAAAAAAZt...
The concept is called the Business Cycle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_cycle

As you can see from that page, the theories about what it entails and what causes it are many and varied.
> To be fair, they reset all defaults. For images, video, everything.

For what it's worth I'm not a fan of upgrades working that way. Granted I could see where that is ideal but web browsers not so much.

> Google Chrome pops up a bar that takes you directly to the settings. It's literally two clicks to change it back.

See, Google Chrome never popped up a bar for me. I had to go into the Chrome settings which took me into the Windows 10 settings where I could then change the default app. I wonder why I didn't get that bar.
Telcos vs. big data companies: Which sector will drive consumer robotics?
NTT’s recent entry into consumer robotics suggests that it’s not just about Google vs Amazon, or Softbank vs NTT anymore, but about telcos vs big data companies. With two major and distinct sectors now competing for market share in consumer robotics, will this impact the way the whole robotics industry evolves?
This is using getRandomValues which is cryptographically secure. The account/login/privacy crypto is using SJCL and the entire app is a signed desktop or mobile application - (no remote code)
Cool site -- totally missed it before. Adding it to my bookmarks!
My son, who mostly plays Minecraft, does not understand why many of his friends use Apple PCs. The "render distance" and framerate in Minecraft on our home PC (running Windows 8.1) is twice that of his friends, and our PC cost half what a similar Apple costs.

As a parent, I'm also not sure if an equivalent of Family Safety exists on other platforms. Windows sends me weekly overviews of our kids PC use and blocks inappropriate content. Also, our kids log into their own profiles, I don't give them Administrator level access, they have to aks me if they want to install something.
And there are many studies linking menial work to poor mental health, legal work to poor mental health, medical work to poor mental health, shift work to poor mental health, so on and so forth, right on down to linking unemployment with poor mental health. It's also a bit disingenuous to say 'no-one knows why' and then turn around and say 'there are many studies into these things'.

We have a reasonable understanding of the various causes of suicide, though not perfect. And if what you're saying is true, that IT is special and backed by many studies, then we have a reasonable understanding there, too. And a reasonable understanding of what can be done about it.

I guess my point is that while it's normal to express sympathy by using the "it's all a big sad mystery" response, it's not actually helpful beyond being a very short term salve. It's not a mystery when you actually look at it, and there are things that can be done - it's just not socially viable.

edit: some of the things we can do around suicide is promoting the idea of counselling and trying to remove the taboo. Encourage people to call helplines if they're not in a good way, and getting to counselling before they reach that stage helps. Reduce the taboo and let people know that while it's not pleasant talking about this stuff to loved ones, it's better than the alternative. Improve mental health clinical services and subsidise the cost of appropriate medication. Raise awareness of the issue itself without getting into hysteria, so people know that it's there and can look for markers in friends and family, but also that something can be done about it. That it's not unique to feel suicidal. Run outreach programs to demographics identified as at-risk, and do that in a manner that will be socially acceptable to those demographics. A lot of tax dollars need to be spent here, because a lot of people don't have loved ones in their private lives to look out for them, and some who do have loved ones don't have loved ones capable of looking out for them.

There's a lot that can be done, and a lot more that can be done if society is willing to throw in the dollars. It's a hard problem, but it's not an unsolvable ball of mystery.
"A Yelp spokesperson told Re/code that to combat the hiring problems it has plans to hire people in other offices across the country."

They're not opening up new offices, they're looking to hire where they already have offices like New York and Phoenix.
Would you assume that they haven't and trust your secrets to that assumption?
Tell them that facilities are obsolete and if they don't want to become an obsolete dinosaur, they should jump on the remote-working trend before it eats the world. Then show them your Slack channel, git commit log, and issue tracker to introduce them to the new world.

Some will probably leave, but then, they're dinosaurs anyway, and why would you want an investor who just doesn't get it?
Don't forget wage stagnation over the last 40 years and the increased cost in college education (funded, yet again, by cheap credit backed by the federal government).
FWIW, I suspect people who join the PIFs, 18f, USDS, and Nava will have potentially very different experiences. Each of those organizations has a different strategy, and I don't think anybody yet knows for sure which ones will work out.

I think USDS is doing a good job of putting "critical mass" on a limited number of high-impact projects, and ensuring there is buy-in from the top-level leadership of each agency they work with. That seems like a good strategy to me.
I'm not familiar with SAR, but it seems like they could use more than just 2 antennas to produce a more directional receive array. I work with HF radars (2-30 MHz) and this is basically what we do. There is a lot of clever engineering out there - that one doesn't need to be too clever to apply.
When I upgraded it gave me a page showing me the new defaults it was about to apply, and gave me the option to skip it and keep what I was using before.

Went with the latter option and indeed, it's still all MPC-HC, foobar2000 and Opera.

Maybe it's because I was upgrading from 8 you were upgrading from 7? I recall some changes to how defaults were handled between them.
Here's another angle on Ethereum: I think it's going to put Walmart, Amazon, Uber and Airbnb out of business.

Consider Amazon. They buy goods from manufacturers, then sell those goods to consumers for higher prices and pocket (or spend) the profits. Pretty simple. They provide a great service that makes it easier for people to buy and sell stuff, and they get paid well to do it.

But what if all of Amazon's customers wanted to band together and cut out the middleman? They could use their collective buying power to get the same prices from manufacturers, but eliminate the profit and just pay lower prices. It's possible, but it'd be hard to achieve. Who would run the system? How would they make decisions? It's so hard that the customers would give up, finish buying their disposable consumer goods, watch an episode of Humans and go to sleep.

Or one of them could come up with a solution. "Hey y'all, I wrote the software for a marketplace system to connect us all directly to manufacturers, but I know you can't trust me to never take a cut if I run the system myself. So instead, I'll run it on a global computer that no one controls. Programs on the global computer can never change, and no one can fake their data. That means the system will be out of my control and the rules are set in stone. It's everyone's system."

That global computer is called Ethereum, and it lets us build new kinds of software that can coordinate human interactions so powerfully that this guy's solution just might work. You could build other kinds of apps on Ethereum too, like voluntary social safety nets, apps that let your future smart appliances talk to each other long after their manufacturer shuts down, or pretty much the entire financial industry—all without any middlemen to charge you or restrict your access.

If you know how to program, you should learn how to build apps on Ethereum. And not just the code that runs directly on the global computer, but web apps and mobile apps that you already know how to build, just with the global computer as the backend instead of a private computer. I will help you get started. (niran@niran.org)

Maybe I'm overly optimistic. That's a risk I'm willing to take. You should too.
The strong real-estate market in general makes it a bit easier to act on these kinds of hunches, even if they're somewhat flaky. It's probably the case that a portfolio of big companies and clients in "conventional" industries poses less risk over the next 5 years than a portfolio of startup clients does, regardless of your exact estimates of the probability/timing of a potential crash in the startup market. With rental rates what they are, you can still make a ton of $$$ by renting to those other clients. So why not take the lower-risk clients, even if it leaves a few bucks on the table in rent? Once you're making really healthy margins, attention often turns towards thinking about how to maintain them and avoid big risks to those margins: you're a lot more worried about the possibility of everything going south next year, than about juicing the margins another 10-20%.
This. Majority of people don't care about having any of these privacy issues on their cell phones which infact is far more capable and something you always keep next to you. Heck I have even seen hackers here recommend ChromeOS, an operating system where everything lives on the cloud. Even though I am cautious about my privacy, I have come to learn that most are not and there is nothing wrong with it. It is just not something that bothers them enough to care about. Privacy is not black and white, some try to maintain an absolute fence while others are willing to trade some for convenience in return.
Will be very interesting to follow this project!
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Using our sensor geometry, there's an ambiguity from where off to the side the energy was returned from. So, the solution would wind up being non-unique whatever you do.

There has been some fun work along the lines you describe that uses maps of the surface shape (generated from camera imagery or scanning laser data) to discriminate which apparently-subsurface echoes are most likely due to the surface topography. So far as I know, this hasn't been automated - it's more an aid to human interpretation (we have an army of undergrads that "picks" the most likely bed location).
Yeah, wasn't trying to dig at MSFT. Just giving reason why I switched from a PC to a Mac--in part because of frustratingly having to "manage" my computer, rather than using it as a tool to accomplish goals.

There is no denying that Apple is a closed ecosystem.
> removing the maximum wage for Social Security contributions, and higher Medicare premiums.

Ahh! So the question is, at what point will Millenials (myself included, at the older end of the spectrum at 32) say "f* it" when we're paying Europe-level taxes with third world country benefits

* Single-payer Medicare for retires, expensive private insurance for everyone else

* Social security essentially becomes a basic income for retirees, as its not an account that can be depleted but an entitlement until death, supported by younger workers with terrible job prospects and long hours at low pay

Maybe the problem is that no one saves enough anymore, but that's because no one makes enough to save because most new income/wealth is kept by the very top wealth bracket.
"Instead, it alleges that at least twenty Amazon Local employees signed up for their Angie’s List, some using fake names, and used the information about providers on Angie’s List to approach their competitor’s top rated providers for listings on Amazon Local."

How could Angie's List possibly prove that Amazon Local employees signed up for their service using fake names? If they use IP logs coming from Amazon, that doesn't mean anything, because Amazon employees may be signing up for Angie's List for their own personal reasons, correct?

What am I missing?? Does Angie's List have a strong case here or naw?
Rental prop staff, like say, WeWork.
Yeah, this is the most "pot calling the kettle black" article I've seen all month. Let's see:

* no opt-out for Australis

* removal of tabs on bottom

* forced signed extensions

* removing option to not retain download history (unless you give up browsing history too)

* bundling of Hello

* bundling of Pocket (requires a lot of effort to disable)

* bundling of DRM web extensions

* bundling ads out of the box (can be disabled fairly easily)

* on and on ... I can't even keep track of it all anymore
My experience:

A while back I put together a Linode server for a small project. Because I was lazy I made a private page of web links for the site logs and made the URL something long and obscure with plenty of backslashes that couldn't be spidered or guessed. The main site had no Google analytics and barely any traffic.

When I checked the logs a couple of days later my private log page had been accessed externally. The visitor's IP address was in one of the ranges that belongs to Google.

So... I changed the URL, looked at the new URL in Chrome, and checked again a day later.

Same thing. Someone - or something - from Google was accessing my private URL, based on my Chrome history.

I changed the URL again and switched to Safari.

Nothing.

Clearly, Chrome phones home and Google feels entitled to check new URLs that it can't spider. Safari doesn't phone home. (Or if it does, no one at Apple cares enough to check weird URLs).

I don't think any other conclusion is possible.
It's also disingenuous to call Mozilla a non-profit, given its wholly-owned for-profit subsidiary: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/organizations. Used to be that mozilla.com was the homepage for the for-profit wing, but I see now that it just redirects to mozilla.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla doesn't mention the for-profit subsidiary either.

(I'm still a happy user of firefox. I just care about keeping them accountable.)
Your response coupled with your username gave me a shiver, heh.

That said, why would the Fed tighten money in the fall when we're so close to an election year? I know they hold longer terms to hopefully avoid political swings, but, it just seems like bad timing.
More like when the rates rise, investors seeking interest won't have to take on as much risk to get it, so a large volume of investors will go up a class leaving the riskier endeavors with a more difficult time getting funds. This is probably a good thing, preventing bubbles from forming and popping.
As James Surowiecki makes clear in his book "The Wisdom Of Crowds", the wisdom is only apparent in situations where the people are not able to talk to each other. But real estate agents are able to talk to each other.

In Surowiecki's telling, if you get a room full of people to write down a guess about how many jelly beans are in a jar, the average of all the guesses will be surprisingly accurate. But if the people are allowed to yell the answers aloud, the first person who yells a guess "anchors" the guesses, and so if that first guess is radically wrong, a substantial bias is introduced into the overall distribution of guesses.

Real estate agents in a small geographic area, such as one city, often talk to each other, and therefore they generate a conventional wisdom, but each of their opinions influences everyone else's opinion. So you can get a herd action that is greatly at odds with reality.
"Almost certainly" apparently means that no one was able to conclude that it was illegal. If crimes had been committed, they would have been prosecuted, but there were no grounds. However, companies may still decide to change the way they do things, e.g. for PR reasons.
While in SV, I couldn't understand the hate towards East Bay: it's fairly priced, close to the 'hub' and not as violent as otherwise portrayed.

Could anyone elaborate?
Windows 10, Privacy, and the Hole in the Sky
The privacy concerns. The letter from the Mozilla guy. I'm not even saying that they aren't valid. The vitriol and high-horse moralizing. How is that productive HN style discourse? None of it's constructive. How can we talk about these issues in a way that doesn't blow them out of proportion and actually exchange some information?
My hypothesis is that it is a real thing, and it has to do with human behavior. 7-10 years is enough time for enough people to forget the pain of a previous crash. It's enough time for a new generation to arise.

There are of course other cycles based on human time scales. In movie soundtracks, there is a rule that you should never insert a song 0-15 years old. It either has to be brand new, or older than 15 years.

Where does the number 15 come from? Human time scales. A half a generation. The number 5 would be too short, while 30 would be too long.

http://www.furious.com/perfect/culturecycles.html
Ask HN: Why can I only upvote (and not downvote) old comments?
In recent threads I can downvote comments but for old threads, I can only upvote comments. Why is this?