skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think he makes the case that "many" are on the autism spectrum -- his article describes just one case. What resonated with me is the case that public violence has become so normalized that you don't need a violent nature to nurture violence yourself.

Obsession and lack of empathy are still required though, for now. As such, ASD people are probably more at risk from the "normalization" of deviant behaviour than others. But there are many ways to de-humanize other people, and ASD is just one of them (radicalization is another one).

To me, that's the real risk of today's media landscape. I don't mean just the Internet, even mainstream media does not back away from publishing the "manifestos" of these deviants. As such, the behaviour becomes more normalized and it's worrying that the threshold lowers with each publication.

This isn't just an American thing even. We've had the shootings in Norway, stabbing of an army sergeant in England, hostage taking at the Dutch public news channel. In each of those cases, the perpetrators got more news coverage than the victims, which disturbs me. That's also why I won't provide links or names for the above, I don't want to feel complicit.
Every developed country in the world has a negative net population growth - natural growth excluding migration. The only reason the seniors are fed, clothed and washed is a a supply train of foreign nurses and home-care aides, usually from a country such as Philippines - which has a positive population growth. The entire economic system, as it is right now - in reality, is based on positive population growth. How is decreasing the number of kids is going to help?
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What happens when there are more of the numerator than denominator? Can't be a probability ;-)
Oh wow, you just made me feel so much better about a decade of resentment. After placing dead last in my only two races, I knew there had to be a way to beat everyone...
>It's time to get to work, even if "work" is 20-30% (random number) tougher than what our parents dealt with.

...sounds like:

"Why Generation Y Yuppies are Unhappy"
http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/09/why-generation-y-yuppies-are-u...
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Interesting I did not know that this paper had been mentioned for the 2002 Physics Nobel too.
- 2002: "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos"
- 2015: "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass"

ref: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/
I paid for the PDF as a guide about 15 years ago and couldn't find a link to the same document. If I remember correctly, these were just four of the twenty-some tips. (We ended up with a second and third place car out of fields of about 80).
The economic structure changes drastically every few generations anyhow. Why not take direction of it? Besides, it's less a matter of making structural changes as it is of trying to change the culture and popularize the ideas that will motivate structural change.

My parents lived in the Soviet Union and Russia now is nothing like it was even three decades ago. It's pretty incredible. It's less drastic but still true for other countries.
Typically network effects (people discussing them on the internet) lead me to an interest in something which I then go and download. Did you want something more specific?
I, too, prefer braces for clarity.
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That would depend on what your definition of "conventionally disturbed" is. Most modern diagnostic psychology is based upon deviations from some kind of norm (it's greatest weakness, because then you have to define the "norm", not easy to do objectively)

..but it doesn't change the fact that most people would find the idea of picking up a weapon and killing random innocent people to be completely abhorrent. Given that definition, yes, I could see how "disturbed" or "mentally ill" fits. Having the mindset that committing mass murder is okay or justifiable is an aberrant thought pattern. Full stop, end of story.

Address that pattern, and you address the root of the problem.

I find the idea that "desensitiation to violence" is at all meaningful to be spurious at best. More tractable types believe the media narrative about, say, Columbine being caused by the shooters being avid fans of the FPS game Doom, but study after study can't find a link between games and real life violence.

There's also proof by inversion - the USA is famously inverse of the rest of the world, puritanical when it comes to sex, okay with violence. Therefore, you'd expect if the desensitization idea held any water, that the rest of the civilized world has a bigger problem than the USA with sexually-based crimes. I haven't seen evidence to that effect.
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Good engineers can be bad at English. I've seen C-suite briefings and strategy docs with obvious errors in them.

Unless you're working in publishing, I'd pay less attention to trivial errors than to evidence of an ability to get useful things done.
> You’re now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it’s just passé at this juncture.

Just my personal opinion but this is a very sad truth about our society and how easy it is to see porn.
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> Said yet one more way: "make something people want."

Or for a less general form, more aimed at the future employee than the self-starter: develop skills to produce what people need.
The world has confronted this problem every decade since the beginning of time. Is there any reason to believe This Time Is Different?
Obviously, I don't know who shot the missile.

But when trying to use logic here, I don't see why would Russia shoot the plane. They had nothing to gain. Ukraine? I don't know, I refuse to believe they would deliberately kill hundreds for some advantage. My bet is on the rebels who did it mistakenly. The question is whose BUK they used. One provided by Russia or one taken from an abandoned Ukrainian base.
The report answers that question.
TIL. Thanks.
> almost no drawback

1. You need to purchase a Li-Fi "router" for each room (if not several) instead of purchasing a single router

2. Connecting the "routers" to internet: you would either need a lot of cables... or Wi-Fi.

3. Only works in line-of-sight, while Wi-Fi works through walls... and pockets. Li-Fi probably wouldn't be useful for smartphones.

Enough drawbacks?
too many issues, shadows refraction and most importantly power and LED stability if you take a slow motion capture of all current LED lights you see that the flicker quite a bit usually at much higher frequencies and more erratically than the solid 50/60hz incandescence bulbs do.
And you still need to use Wi-Fi as your upload channel, communication protocols which require 2 separated mediums tend not to work very well.

Pretty much for Li-Fi to work reliably you need to build and power LED's that will produce a similar illumination stability to current laser diodes which are used in fiber optics, build light sensors on equipment and still maintain a Wireless network for your up channel, so I really don't understand why this is trying to become a thing at all.
There have been a number of little rounds since summer 2014.
> Today, there is tremendous demand for certain occupations, even as others are being hollowed out.

While that is true, these certain occupations tend to have a skillset or a depth of knowledge that most (not all) "classical" (here used as non-STEM) educations do not provide. As we progress forward, it becomes legitimately disingenuous to put green-behind-the-ears college students on an academic path that will undoubtedly lead them to unemployment at the end of that road.

And I hate to break it to you, even occupations that still enjoys a demand in hiring such as software / native-app engineering / web development are also to become more scarce as greater droves of students enter these fields and a global economy allows employers to find offshore work for cheaper.

> People "trying hard" to get jobs in technology almost certainly can do so. People "trying really, really, really hard" to get jobs in heavy manufacturing in the American midwest are probably going to have a hard time (as are would-be blacksmiths, weavers, scribes, typists, telephone operators and many others).

At what point do you begin to discredit everyone incapable of getting a job with "you aren't trying hard/smart enough" ? This is a bit of a hypothetical question - I'm not taking shots at your argument, but its something that is very important to ask of ourselves and of others.
That would be a good idea save for the mostly male audience of Playboy (mag/site). It's always tried to market itself as the Gentleman's magazine, and although it could try to market to women in terms of empowerment, I'd argue that it always tried to empower all people in terms of sexual freedom.

I don't think an all-male audience is where interviews on women leaders should go, simply because it won't sell.
Three drawbacks i can think of right away:

1. You need to maintain line-of-sight with the receiver on your receiving device, and the transmitter. No, you can't turn around with your cellphone in your hand.

2. Interference potential is high due to environmental other lights, reflective surfaces, etc.

3. The camera in the receive won't be particularly cheap.
The market did accommodate it. Lots of for-profit schools (Wyotech, Heald, etc.) popped up and made a killing largely by helping students fill out loan paperwork for the maximum allowable amount while providing a dubious credential without meeting the standards of reputable accreditation boards. The credits were not transferrable in most cases, and many of the schools have been shuttered for charges bordering on fraud. (A friend from HS owes more on loans for 18 months at Heald than I owed from a 4-year degree at a state school.)
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Maskirovka:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050674y
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10376146 and marked it off-topic.
What kinds of global value mutation are thread-safe?
> But I would only blame those who shoot it down. It's not okay to shoot down airplanes. Commercial airplanes are not valid targets.

If only reality worked that way. In real war, everything is a potential target - sometimes civilians get hurt by mistake, other times because one side decides to take advantage of the "rules" above and e.g. hide weapons in hospitals.

In general, if an area of land is a warzone and it's known there are anti-aircraft missiles deployed, and there are confirmed shootdowns of aircrafts in the area, you don't fly over that area. Flying there shows lack of practical wisdom. You're betting lives over desperate people following some arbitrary rules and not making any mistake.

In general, exposing yourself willingly to significant danger is stupid, and if anything happens to you, you can't avoid some part of responsibility.
exactly. turf wars, gang drive-bys and those committed by career gang criminal groups aren't really part of the gun conversation like the sleeper psychopath that goes to a child care center just to kill as many unarmed innocent people as possible for notoriety or some kind of distorted personal-political act is depraved in an entirely different way.

It's kind of like, say you had a murder down the street. You'd be shocked either way, but if a wife murdered a husband for money, you're maybe not as concerned about your community as you would if it were an unsolved unconnected murder rape. Yeah the murder for money shows up as a murder, but it's one you could calmly write out the conversation about crime.

that's why I hate that 294 number people touting lately. Really it's kind of BS.

In other words, there are some crimes you could maybe use laws to kind of get out in front of, but some are just gonna happen, only the means might change a bit. The game is the game always.
> in the US, getting a job as a barista or fast food is possible, but a horrendous waste of a college education.

Maybe. Not all college educations are created equal. Got a major in philosophy? You're not useful to the economy, there are no jobs and no one is wasting your education. Of course the example here is facetious, the point is this: If you have a college education/degree in something that is not marketable to the economy, the waste is not the economies fault, but that of whomever pursued that education.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tellspec-what-s-in-your-f...
> There is no law stating that each generation of humans should have it easier and with more resources available to them.

This is pie-in-the-sky thinking, but maybe there should be a law. Corporations have a legal duty to shareholders to make money. Why shouldn't our government have a legal duty to society to increase our resources and make things easier for each generation?
I don't know how to respond to this comment.

Your earlier comment parroted a line that is apparently popular in the Russian media, that Russia no longer uses the 9M38M1 SAM. But that missile is distinctive, and can been seen in recent photographs at Russian military installations.

I didn't say that Russia shot down MH17. I said that if they're claiming not to use that missile, they're lying. Why? What a weird thing to lie about, that's so easily falsifiable.
The government will eventually realize that the defaulted loans, together with penalties and fees, can never be paid back - no different than the typical house flippers of 2008 who leveraged themselves to the hilt with multiple properties.

The banks and funds that own these defaulted loans will threaten to take down the whole system, including Main Street's pension and IRA savings, unless they're bailed out. The Fed's printing machine will come to the rescue.

Loans won't be 'forgiven' per se, but just like many defaulted mortgages, the debt will simply not be enforced for those that have the balls to simply stop paying, though life will be a PITA for a while as their credit takes a huge hit for the next decade.

Those that do continue to pay will feel like suckers. The rest of us will curse the lazy bums who got off without paying. Wall Street execs will be handsomely rewarded for having saved their firms from catastrophe, while politicians will preach of reform, only to pass watered-down laws to appear proactive.

Due to the money printing, the average American will see his quality of life decrease relative to the rest of the world; meanwhile, Wall Street will begin moving money into the next hot idea that can be leveraged with no risk to themselves.
I doubt Twitter is making deep cuts so they can keep their friends. But it does help to like the people you work with.
That's a pretty ridiculous attitude. Just hire yourself -- clearly your opinion is the only opinion that matters and moving money from someone else's pocket into your own is ultimately all about about your feels.

Where's the hustle?
You don't need separated routers each LED light bulb can be used as an access point, there are already LED bulbs with WiFi because people will buy anything that looks like an Apple product.

You need WiFi still because the LiFi channel is only one way.

It can still sorta work through some pockets but rule of thumb is that if your mobile device is in your pocket you don't need the fastest speed possible and you can fallback to WiFi.

But yeah the tech is kinda silly in general.
Meanwhile others use JavaEE. Supported by multiple vendors and multiple open source options, easy to use, well-tested and battle-hardened.

Oh: and it has a secret feature - pragmatic and friendly developers.
Once we no longer need to work we can occupy ourselves with love, learning, passion and play!
I was approached by a VC firm to consider a job at one of their portfolio companies and it has worked out fantastic so far :)
"Fear of unemployment" is a necessary abstraction, but consider what unemployment actually means.

Let's say you are unemployed, and living with your parents-- a very common situation for this generation. You're getting bled each month by your student loans, even if you no other bills, which you probably do. The candidate wants to work at any one of those 40 places, because otherwise they go into default and ruin their credit and probably their parents' credit too.

If you don't live at home, the stakes are losing your apartment or car. This isn't some unreasonable fear; bills need to get paid, and there's an entire generation that is struggling to do so because their largest bill just won't go away.
Plumbers and electricians make as much if not more than 'educated' jobs and are impossible to outsource. Education is great and today you can learn virtually anything with an internet connection but family expectations mean you are expected to go the college. 'The government is oppressing me with student loans' is pretty weak sauce and is par for the course lack of personal responsibility. Don't run up debt to major in art history.
Sitting down is no worse for you than standing up
I've made some trivial contributions (enough to require copyright papers, barely), and can confirm that it's a smart, positive community. There are the usual few kooks, and you absolutely must work within RMS's strict ideas on software freedom, but it's nowhere near LKML hostility and dysfunction. The regulars, including RMS, operate in and assume good faith.
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Right, but a real problem is that the HR "match the keywords" whack-a-mole filter is totally random! 10 years of experience for a framework that's only been around for 8 years means that only the liars qualify and the honest folks don't. You don't know how people are going to evaluate your resume but statistically a bunch of companies aren't going to grade people holistically.

But since you can't know a priori which company hires which way, the solution that people have settled on is to blast out a million resumes and hope that some make it past the keyword matchers and to actual human beings making hiring decisions. That's where the actual match-making takes place. But if you don't send out enough resumes to make it through the arbitrary, unpredictable filtering stage you don't make it to the matchmaking stage which means you're unemployed.
There is no practical difference. You could argue that manipulating the DOM is the closest analogy to Draw(), but trying to make a distinction between that and generating HTML (that is going to be used to update the DOM) seems like splitting hairs.
The mags, though, have contained serious articles. Alongside nude pictures of women.

I agree that they should probably move some of their serious content to their website, though. If only for marketing reasons. It would make the notion of reading Playboy for the news far less humorous.
I'm really sorry to see Stefan go. The rate at which Emacs improved while he was maintainer contrasts quite strongly with the stagnation of some years before (6 years from Emacs 21 to Emacs 22).
Yes, when I first read about Flux (which was after I learned RxJS) I kept thinking that you are essentially writing by hand things that could be generated automatically. It's like going from nested callbacks in early Node.js to Go. :)

I prototyped a decent amount of UI in Cycle and thought that it was great. Using virtualdom with it was really enjoyable and a lot easier to reason about than what is seen in the typical JQuery-based RxJS/Bacon/Kefir examples. However, I found the interaction between exception handling in Cycle and RxJS to be strange at times... maybe I'm just not experienced enough with them yet, but I swear I had some swallowed exceptions that I could never track down. That being said, I feel that this is "the future" (standard disclaimer applies).

Currently I'm using Knockout.js for UI stuff at work and I've found that by maximizing the use of pure computed observables and minimizing mutation of observables (essentially, implementing unidirectional data flow) I can get pretty good results.
They've done some excellent long-form articles, though.

For example: http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/16/3740422/the-life-and-death...
How would you do that? How can you prevent anyone from knowing you layoff 300 person until you contacted all 300 persons?

They tried to contact him and failed. Should they wait until they reach him before contacting all other employees? What if he was number 100 on the call list? Do they tell the 99 others to please not say anything for a few days and ask for a media embargo because they couldn't contact Joe?

What if he was on vacation? Should they wait until 100% of employees are not sick/away/in vacation and postpone the announcement a few weeks? (Weeks? I'm being generous here).
I'm a Swede and I'd talk our social democracy over the american system any day of the week.

I'm glad though that all of your population have access to care, I did not know that. We do too though.

Capitalism is a great idea. But if you let it be the only idea of your system it will hollow out it's citizens.
Start a startup and create your own job?
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you've got the wrong idea about drone pilots. people who do it do NOT see it as a video game. they follow orders, some they'd rather not, but if not for duty.
That's not quite correct. The jsonb requires that reads deserialize jsonb into textual JSON, whereas the json type can be sent directly to the client with no processing.

jsonb is superior when:

1. You want to use any of the built-in JSON functions, e.g. for extracting fields from the document.

2. You want to index the JSON (either the entire thing via GIN, or individual fields via ordinary B-tree indexes).

3. You want to save space; jsonb strips whitespace.

jsonb incurs an overhead on both reads and writes since it must serialize to/from textual JSON.
Especially since you're getting good at shooting down low-altitude flights you can expect the enemy to fly higher, at which point getting a weapon with greater range seems prudent.
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> the language is still changing significantly

Rust itself isn't changing these days (except for once-in-a-while adding new features backwards-compatibly), we're on to the next stage of maturity where only the libraries are rapidly changing and the prevailing idioms are still shaking out. :P
Udemy etc and the tutorial market are booming.

Universities in countries with inflated fees and tuition loans are about to fall off a cliff. I'll be surprised if they're still around a generation from now.

The Ivy League will survive because of social and political momentum. But colleges outside the prestige circuit are going to have real problems getting students for high-cost low-return education.
This is a factor as well. I remember reading an article on the Guardian a few months back about how unemployment is a significant mental health hazard, very frequently resulting in chronic anxiety/depression. It's easy to get stuck in a new rut when you're still stuck in the old rut.
Yup, I got more than once extremely mad with crap HR recruiting websites. When you have to waste 15 minutes by filling out a lot of useless fields, having to reenter everthing again because autologout and/or using the back button in the browser, internal server errors, creating a user account and so on. And the worst is that you know that nobody ever will look at most the fields you entered because you can upload your PDFs at the end of the process. And everyone I talked with in the interviews had only my CV and cover letter printed out or opened.

Somebody please make a sane recruiting service and sell it to every Bigco.
Python is definitely a better syntax to write meta-programs than the pre-processor, but you still have the issue of the additional step/tool. Anything that depends on the generated code depends on the step which, if it's missed, can lead to non-good things.
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