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Yes, the opposite of the Fed, who tries to influence it through their special privilege of monetary policy.

> The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged workers.

You can argue the accuracy of the numbers or estimates, but my understanding it is just supposed to take into account long-term discouraged workers, which you can decide whether they matter or not, which are not reflected in official numbers since 1994 according to SGS.

Even more interesting is the long-term trend of long-term discouraged workers. This doesn't seem to be recovering anytime soon, if you believe SGS - http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-chart...

> The Federal Reserve has been raising its benchmark interest rate since December 2015, and will probably do so again this month, from a range of 1.75-2% to 2-2.25%.

> This is the central banker’s version of twiddling the bath taps, but on a national scale. It requires a delicate touch. Too much cold water, in the form of higher rates, will choke off demand and hence jobs. Too much hot, and rising inflation will eat away at people’s spending power. The aim is to find the perfect temperature, where employment is as high as it can be while inflation stays subdued.

> It is as if the rate-setters must adjust the flow of hot and cold water not only without knowing what temperature is most comfortable, but also without knowing how hot the bath is to begin with—or when they will be getting in.

Reading this, you'd swear we were living in a communist society where academics and policy makers are smart enough to centrally plan the economy and to guess what the price of the most important thing in our civilization should be - money.

Not sure that webpack still depends on `is-odd` (at least not directly). Note that `is-odd` depends on `is-number` facepalm. Some people in this world seem to think their purpose is to create as many JS modules as possible.

I can imagine it sucks working for Musk. I think he burns his people out. But yeah, makes you wonder if it's anything beyond that.

This article seems to start with the premise that JS-heavy frontends improve the developer experience. This, I would heavily challenge.

Compared to a Rails, Django, Express.js, or any similar more-traditional framework that does server-side rendering with HTML templates, a little bit of JS and AJAX sprinkled in, SPA apps with frameworks like React are significantly more complex and requires more specialized knowledge on the frontend. I'm just starting to dive into React and Redux, and the amount of jargon and complexity is mind-blowing. All to solve the complexities of what? Bigco's massive bloated app with thousands of developers working on it?

> It must be about cost though, at least in some corporations.

I agree, I just don't think it's as much about cost as you might think (or as I used to think). Profitable companies can afford office space.

I feel like at some point (around the turn of the century ~2000) it was cool to be open office, if you weren't you were uncool, and the latest hipster generation didn't want to work for you.

I think things are changing though, and people are seeing past the latest fad of what people today call "open office." It just takes a while for the general-pop wisdom to change. Nobody's ever been fired for building open office, during this latest phase.

I kind of wonder how much open office really is about cost. I mean, it definitely does matter for startups, but I don't think that's a factor at FAANG. I mean, look at this new FB office, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmTZJRLtA30, there is a ton of open space, they could probably sacrifice just a bit of that for individual offices, or even keep it how it is and add offices.

Because probably only larger companies (very difficult for startups to innovate here!) can actually afford individual offices, and it's not exactly trivial to re-arrange, I think it just takes a long time for the conventional wisdom to change.

So, I’m one of Theranos’ biggest critic, since I’ve had a weird fascination with the company since someone on HN pointed out the bizarreness of its BoD back in 2013.

I think if Theranos hadn’t gone all-in on its fraud it still could have had an impact. One area was that it was actually pushing to change laws (I know it did this in Arizona) to give individual control over blood testing instead of requiring people to go through doctors and corporations. Another area was price transparency. Much like the Surgery Center of Oklahoma (https://surgerycenterok.com), it was listing all the prices for its tests right there on its website. These 2 things alone would be a major advancement in the US. Forget the mini blood tubes.

Also, the wasted money spent on any travel costs, the wasted time spent earning the money that was pointlessly spent on said travel costs, and the opportunity cost of not doing something more productive with your time and money.

Intolerant of allowing people to waste your time or wasting other people's time?

Cool reference repo. Why do I feel like this will be outdated in less than 18 months?

I wrote a basic bitcoin exchange using triggers and PL/pgSQL back in 2012. You would insert into an orders table and an after-insert trigger would run the order matching algo written in a PL/pgSQL function. It wouldn't have scaled up too well, I suspect, but it worked really well for the initial product that allowed us to acquire initial customers and raise a Series A.

I would say my experience was pretty positive, I would consider doing something like this again for the right use case. It saved a lot of back-and-forth queries between the app and database and allowed the logic in the app to be much more simple than it otherwise would have been, but at the cost of insert throughput into the triggered tables.

If you are at all considering this route, I would recommend the excellent project, pgtap, for testing: https://pgtap.org/

I used pgtap, along with the cli utility, pgprove, to run tests.

“To open a checking or savings account, the bank or credit union will need to verify your name, date of birth, address, and ID number. An ID number can be a social security number or an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN).“

Having spent more than a few years in FinTech, I know these things can vary from company to company as companies generally are required to design their own “risk-based” policies for AML and KYC.

Yeah, I’m confused by this too. My experience and perception has always been the factory bottled stuff is way better than the fountain stuff you get in a restaurant.

> she precisely knew how ad business works and brought huge network of big players in this space with her. In a way its backstabbing to your previous employer but well who cares.

How is this backstabbing? Nobody is owned by their employer for life. People change jobs and bring customers with them to their new employer in all types of industries.

Fun fact: Car dealerships are actually considered financial institutions under FinCEN regulations. Depending on the cost of the car/cash amount, they may need your SSN for reporting purposes.

Most states allow driving by yourself without an adult at 16, but usually have some sort of restriction like curfew until 18: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver%27s_licenses_in_the_Uni...

As someone else already pointed out, I don’t think they’ll be able to rely on the name as it’s been severely tarnished beyond repair. They’ll have to rely on something that is significantly better than what the GitHubs, Bitbuckets, and Gitlabs are offering.

Completely agree. Sourceforge, the brand, is so tainted I can’t even read this on my phone, since a content blocker List I have installed has apparently blocked the entire domain. The brand has been shit in my own mind for a while. Not even going to bother reading this. Why does it still exist? Replaced by GitHub, Bitbucket, and Gitlab.

This was great. If you enjoyed this, you should also watch this short parody of LinkedIn from SuperNews: https://youtu.be/_7DiOm-edMs

> One of the ideas is to allow anyone to buy a property at its set value at any time (giving a reasonable notice period, I presume). The property owner is the one who sets the value of the property.

I must be misunderstanding something, this is how any free/mixed economy works, including in Canada and US. You may make the property owner an offer at anytime, and the owner sets the price by either accepting or rejecting an offer. The problem is the buyer can't just do anything with the property (like subdivide/build apartments) due to zoning laws.

Yeah, would love to hear what the actual use cases are in-mind here. The closest thing I can think of is a high-growth startup that realizes they really need to get off MongoDB and get strong transactional support, so does this thing even support transactions? But again, you still need to migrate data, so probably will be best to just migrate directly to a pg driver.

This article is nearly 30 years old.

Youtube John Carreyrou, he's done many 30min+ interviews in the last month that summarizes the story well.

Ideally, find a contracting role / freelance locally, but work remotely. Doing it "locally" will help build up your network and reputation and lead to more opportunities down the road. Maybe meet 1-2 times every 1/2 weeks and work remotely. More frequent communication should be limited to agile-like questions that come up and should be able to completed over email if you pick your clients well.

There is a lot of talk in the comments about amount/value of startup equity vs FAANG companies, but having founded and worked with numerous startups, there seems to be an overall lack of transparency when it comes to equity. It's not just how much (percentage), but how are you even measuring that percentage? Fully-diluted shares or current outstanding? What are the liquidity preferences of the VCs? 1x, 2x, 3x? Beyond the rare chance of the company even exiting, there are so many terms that most engineers are completely oblivious to, and the startups are usually not there to inform you.

Steve Jobs was only 21 in 1976

This study is from Redfin and AFAIK Redfin only deals with real estate purchases, excluding renters.