skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People already predisposed to being idle are already idle and always will be.

People feeling the social pressure to do stuff, already do stuff and always will.

Its interesting to watch retired people.

Some social groups do just sit at home and watch TV and get inebriated, and no government program is going to stop them, or start them down that path. Others do all kinds of volunteer crazy work.

My retired MiL has a near part time job of volunteer work, around 20 hrs week. My wife was unemployed for awhile many years ago and she did some volunteer work to pad the resume and took training and educational classes. All the classes were theoretically STEM/useful but were completely useless in practice (if there's no job, it doesn't matter if you're now a freshly minted MCSE of Excel if there's no job).

My near retirement accountant neighbor can do nothing accounting like on his own, although he could have helped me a lot when I was a treasurer for a volunteer org, I was pretty lost the first few weeks. Also he spends about ten hours a week in his woodworking shop and I suspect after 40 years he's pretty tired of accounting even if he is an expert. He's a better woodworker than I (and I'm not that bad) so if we were both out of work permanently I'd probably apprentice under him for a few years.

Worthless people are going to be worthless and that's always been the case. People who aren't worthless are always going to be doing something (maybe not what you like or expect, but they'll be nose to grindstone on something...) and that's always been the case. A mere economic policy isn't going to change any of that.

Much like being fired or downsized usually doesn't change most people forever, merely being fired or downsized forever isn't going to change most people very much.
Wow! I'm not really a front end person who works with this kind of stuff, so I don't know the real use case of this versus something else.

But: I went through a lot of the simpler ones on the codepen (minus, plus, menu, etc.) and learned some awesome techniques that I didn't know, then recreated them from scratch and was able to create some of the more complicated things. tbh I probably learned more css in the last hour than in any other single hour of my life. Nice!

I present: crudely drawn "x" icon with a circle around it:

http://codepen.io/mdp123/pen/vXzbYb
Why Ex-Smokers Gain Weight: Blame the Bugs in Your Bowel
Can't have him mucking up the election, after all...
We have that. It's private health insurance. However, as we've gotten pretty good at identifying high and low risk individuals it means many people are unable to access it when they need it. This is why health insurance may be better provided by the state (though really the jury's still out on that one).

In general stuff like this suffers from the free rider problem - after all, who in their right mind would pay to build a lighthouse when anyone who wants can enjoy use of said lighthouse without paying?
The pre-commitment hashes were released before, not after.
Interesting story, but one really stuck out to me was that people were paying thousands in tuition to go to a bootcamp that was apparently run via Slack (which is how the founder managed to disappear so suddenly, as he lived in Mexico). That's a crazy sign to me of how high the demand is; I had only known of bootcamps that had actual physical classrooms and meetings.
- you are right, GP digressed first

- our lives may not look that "sophisticated" to someone who travels to Monaco in private plane on a whim; all our "sophistication" is only in our heads

- generally speaking, i was amazed how defensive most people in this thread became, when they faced the fact that somewhere really far away in Mexican jungle some people dared to chose to live without gangsters/police/politicians; people here are almost offended by that possibility and started coming up with poorly designed straw man arguments (like GP) just to take attention away from the subject
People have locks to their house doors but they don't have locks to their minds. Any burglar can come in and plant, not steal ideas, and then people think, hey.. this is my idea, it's in my mind.

Critical thinking, this is the antidote. Protect your mind with critical thinking, and don't let any idea enter unscrutinized. It's better to dismiss it then let it enter unscrutinized. But don't dismiss everything, or you'll develop confirmation bias. Put in the effort to reflect on/research some of them..
There's nothing binary about a nuclear attack. Ask any survivor or family member of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Steam OS is pretty dumb. Why would you want to install an OS that only works for gaming? Steam should probably work with major distros to get Steam working easily with it, so that installing Steam is easy (they don't; for example I had to delete their ancient C stdlib to make it work with my open-source AMD drivers). And closing Steam doesn't move it to the taskbar (this is known issue in their bugtracker for many years).
Obama’s Facebook Messenger Bot Is Now “Open Source” and Available on GitHub
My impression is that it really shines when you need to scale and you can easily spin up and kill large amounts of nodes/compute without any impact to your service–when you're at the point where you're thinking about the health of the service rather than individual nodes. The whole pets vs. cattle ideal seems to be discussed most in configuration management contexts (because it's widely applicable to most architectures) but it translates into big benefits when operating infrastructure for something like a scaleable SOA.

So to give them the benefit of the doubt, they may have made some assumptions about your scale/workload/architecture. Perhaps for them containers occasionally crashing is just a small blip that will be automatically corrected so while they need to be aware of it to monitor for trends they're not generally concerned with them.
>They don't have to though. If there's a symbol and sites with that symbol are faster, they'll learn to look for the symbol, perhaps not even consciously.

Totally disagree. I didn't know what AMP is and I keep seeing it. I avoided it thinking it was yet-another Google adware property like DoubleClick, another cleverly named way to trick users.

For the vast majority of users on 4G connections, AMP loads aren't that much faster (When you download 8MB/sec on 4G, a 2MB page is just not a deal breaker) and I doubt that very many users at all in America are noticing that dramatic of difference on their devices, enough to subconsciously learn to like it.
> What is your problem?

I'm the archetype loser.

> Or that we currently have a shitty situation in job finding?

I think companies don't care about the candidate they are looking for. Of course it's a market, but it's not well "regulated". Nobody really knows who is available for what, and due to that, companies can't really hire properly. If there were an actual database of candidates, and if there were better profiling, and less job websites, maybe things would be much smoother. The job market is a complete anarchy. I would be glad to give $500 to a company so that this company can find me a good job that I will keep for 6 months. That would be an awesome investment. Yet this doesn't seem to exist for some reason.
Control Your Raspberry Pi from Anywhere in the World with AREST
It depends on what is important to you. I like good UI and I will pay a premium for it. Fuji has the best UI - physical knobs for everything. Even ISO has a physical control. I find that UI makes a big difference for my workflow and makes it easier for me to take good pictures, so the price is worth it.

Also, I happen to use an X-Pro2 not the X-T2, but I think similar arguments apply.
Lenovo Yoga Book Review
The site seems down.
I don't think if you're running a business there's any way to avoid optimizing for Google in the short-term. You simply have to do it, if you want to be seen. Not optimizing for Google won't hurt Google, it'll just hurt you. Because Google can always just promote someone else.

But you should also support antitrust legislation and judicial action against Google. Don't vote for candidates next month receiving large donations from Google (now referred to as Alphabet[1] on most donor lists). The long game is requiring open oversight of Google's search ranking methodologies and forbidding them from modifying them to benefit their own products and services.

[1] http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?cycle=2016&id=D00...
> I'm a semi-pro photographer, do commercial work from time to time, get flown to shoot weddings across the globe.

I think this differentiates you fairly significantly from the target market of this camera.

By way of example, I'd take an X100T over your above suggestions, despite it being less expensive and not full-frame and having a few annoying quirks. I consider the way a camera integrates into your image-making process more important than low-light capability, pixel count, and couldn't give any less cares about video.
I had a bowl with 1 cracker in it for 3 weeks. Over the last 24 hours it now has 7 crackers. And people say my cracker bowl is not overpopulated...

Look. Raw numbers mean nothing. What is the sustainable population of this planet. 1 billion? 10 billion? 100 billion?

I have no idea. As tech improves, our impact per person could be lower. So perhaps the limit today is 5 billion... But in 20 years it could be 20 billion.
I wouldn't consider it the dominant Protestant view at all. Maybe amongst Evangelicals ( a subset of Protestants). Even amongst Evangelicals I doubt such literal Millinialist views as expressed in Left Behind are the overwhelmingly majority.
>* His field had long espoused a theory called linguistic relativity, which held that language shapes perception. Color was the “parade example,” Kay says. His professors and textbooks taught that people could only recognize a color as categorically distinct from others if they had a word for it.
(...) The two languages are as unrelated to each other historically as any two languages can be,” Kay says. And yet they seemed to give rise to a common way of seeing and thinking about color. Either he and Berlin had stumbled upon a one-in-a-million coincidence. Or the relativists were wrong.*

Or relativism is truer for less tangible things (like how we deal with societal and abstract notions based on our language) than about stuff we experience directly, like color.
When I went to physical therapy it consisted of them just teaching me stretches, all of which I could just find online. Is this the normal experience?
What's the path they would have followed? The battery in the EV1 was crappy and expensive, is the thesis that billions of automotive dollars would have accelerated progress in battery research? Is it useful to lose money producing electric vehicles while doing that research?
I've only skimmed this but there seems to be a focus on customizing and plugins from the get go. I think it's worth getting to know Vim "as is" before doing such things. Indeed there certainly some things that aren't the most useful or obvious but it's good to understand their original intent.

Not to crap on the author of this but I'd recommend Drew Neil's Practical Vim over this (and pretty much every other Vim book).

https://pragprog.com/book/dnvim/practical-vim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
A simple issue tracker and website feedback tool for front-end devs
That was my first tought when I read this.

But you might bump into the oposite problem: patent trolls taking advantage of excess of protection for ideas.
The Dying Business of Picking Stocks
> Most people would advise you to, calmly, break the task at hand into small tasks/steps.

Yea, this seems to be the biggest takeaway from what everyone is saying here. I've tried to do this in the past and found that I don't do a good job of managing the list -- at some point, I'll just forget to add things to it or mark things off when I'm done; it's easier to just do them, right? But you're right, this is the right answer, if for no other reason than that it forces me to organize my thoughts, something I've noticed I'm bad at.

> You should break them into SMART goals (you've probably heart about this concept already).

Yea, I think this is key. When I do write a list, it's usually too abstract or in way too large chunks. What I'm trying now: put those large things down at the start of the day, then break them down when I decide to tackle that 'project'. I shouldn't start working until I've made the effort to break things down into atomic steps.

> Physically ticking off the item (pen and paper) is even better.

You know, I've never tried this... I'll give it a shot and see if that goes better than a list in vim.

> Meditation is also good to sharpen your focus.

Exactly how I narrowed down the vague feeling of 'agh, too much to do' in the first place :)
This reads more like a storyline from V for Vendetta or Black Mirror. A tourist was forced to undergo a cesarian in order to take away her child? Am I reading this correctly?!
You don't think genocide happened before ww2? Genocide is very old
So, you're saying GDDR is more geared towards operations done commonly in graphics? ;)
Stale Pointer Detection
I haven't done web stuff in 15+ years. Isn't there the equivalent of a compiler to produce a more static page, which would handle things like putting SVGs inline? Or the ability to create a library (like CSS) where there would only be a single reference to all the reusable components of a page, which may in turn be "compiled" from individual source files?
Agreed. I own an A7 and an X100s, and while the A7 is certainly a better and more versatile camera according just about any spec you care to use, the Fuji is the camera I grab before heading out 19 times out of 20.
This can be turned off... You can use the group policy editor to set it up like windows 7. I just did this on my dev machine this weekend after being bit by it. Now I get notified of the updates available and can choose to install them at my whim. No more coming back to a rebooted machine and all my development windows, webservers, etc are no longer running. I have windows 10 pro, so I cannot speak to how this works in Home, but I would be surprised if a developer was using the Home version anyway.
> how will "going nonprofit" be more motivating?

It may not!, but usually healing others is also self-healing.

One has to figure this path for themselves.

> I think you need to fix the depression issue first.

Absolutely! However, solving inability to work is equally important. Otherwise the patient will fall back into a depression again.

P.S: The comments above were for OP's inability to work, find work or be motivated about it. It isn't a solution for depression, which obviously needs thorough professional or medical help.
2.1 For who?

If the author is reading this, proper English would be "For whom?" The intro says he's not a native speaker, so it's a common mistake. Easily fixed.
Totally agree. Pros do use Fuji cameras. It depends on the job.

Remember, it's the photographer who takes the picture. The camera is just a tool, and if the photog wants to use a Fuji because it makes him happy and his pictures are bomb as fuck then who is to complain.
"Game bot" is apparently an overloaded term. I was under the impression that this was going to be about testing or ai/ml.
s/Telegraph/media in general/, then.

It's quite possible to be factual whilst being misleading, and that's not an "accusation", it's the general way of the world. I firmly believe large media organizations can not be trusted to remain anything resembling objective.
Camera releases are one of the most vivid examples of "these are my distinct, specific requirements; therefore this product will surely fail instantly."
So, in order to be a presenter, I must have already been a presenter?
Heh, I read it the same way you did, but I think the author's statement could be reworded like this:
"10 years ago, the updates drove me away from Windows."
Speed and type-inference are the two hard things in compilation in my experience.
A bit of an interesting dilemma in the spirit of transparency. Given an N-way race, do you just reveal secrets pertaining to one participant (since this may be all you have) or do you with-hold until you can reveal secrets from all participants?
What is the problem with money as the reward system as it currently is?
London insists on English requirement for private hire drivers
This. The people talking about fear the most are not talking about any of the things in the grandparent post, and instead are asking to double down on that behavior.
how do you know the bottom of "down"? this is essentially timing the market. good if you are nostradamus i guess. not trying to be a dick here but am looking for average joe plumber advice here.
You are precisely the kind of person who causes people to question welfare.

I know exactly how to give you a good reason to contribute society. If we stop giving you free food and shelter, and if you want to not starve, you will find a job.

In the current system you will get removed instantly if you are not competitive enough or take a little too much time to work on something. That's how capitalism works: only the numbers matter. People are not machines. Competition can be a problem if it becomes more important than cooperation. Unemployment is the failure of cooperation.

How would you know this? By your words, you have never worked more than a month in your entire life.
Yes, C++ has a baroque syntax, and I wish lexing/parsing C++ on nobody.
There were internal projects with no direction all the time under Steve as well.

Heck there were even EXTERNAL projects with no direction, like the Apple TV (still flailing around), the Apple Cloud offerings (only got robust in the last 2 years or so, and the most touted part back then, the "office"-like iCloud apps are universally ignored), the Apple boom box, and other things besides.
- Is the whole embassy shut down?

- Is there any direct reason for the timing (US elections, attack on Mosul or other current headlines)?

- Was there any imminent release? (last week there was an announcement of a leak but it didn't materialize as far as I know)

http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/4/13159914/wikileaks-hillary...

- You'd assume that Wikileaks the organization will continue to work even without Assange having internet access so what exactly will this accomplish other than lending support to Assange's stated reasons for hiding in an embassy to begin with?

edit: another comment here suggests the reason may be because his extradition is imminent.

http://time.com/4532984/wikileaks-julian-assange-theories/
Face it. We live in a time where mass media persuasion is extremely sophisticated,as a result of 85 years of refinement, that your version of the "truth" is highly dependent upon what information source you started with.
At some point you established a baseline of credibility which was the foundation your beliefs were built on. You must realize that your "facts" are mostly opinion.

EVERYONE needs to take time to ask questions about their foundational beliefs. Was the source of your beliefs credible? CNN, Credible? MSNBC Credible? internet Credible? Uncle, neighbor, dorm roommate credible? Whatever the source most have proven to be bias; some nefarious others innocent.

The absolute irrefutable examples of media manipulation and deceit are easy to find these days. Take a look at Wikileaks and pick your flavor of lies.
Use Hugo to support Go vanity imports
I had began archiving the /news and /newest because a lot of the Wikileak threads I was upvoting were disappearing into the ether. Seems they were getting mass-flagged/killed, this one survived. Also seems there has been discussion earlier today but the threads were mass-flagged off the front page.

Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12722929 [208 points, 144 comments, buried]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12724507 [50 points, marked as dupe]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12724939 [23 points, buried]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12724525 [7 points, marked as dupe, dead]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12725175 [3 points, buried instantly]
What choice do you have? You can only release what you have and you have no way of knowing what you don't have. He's not trying to reveal all of the facts in the world. He's trying to reveal the facts that he has.
You could set up some "failover" upstreams that are mirrored using git's post-receive hooks. Or, you could define a particular git remote to have multiple URL's.

This post explains in greater detail:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6882017/git-hook-post-rec...
I was born and raised in the midwest part of the U.S. and I've been using "flabbergasted" for all my adult life (20+ years). Of course, I've always had a propensity for peculiar or anachronous verbiage.
Unless you think the world has infinite resources or that technological progress is unbounded and exponential, the second scenario seems exceedingly likey or even inevitable.
Check out the blog post here: https://www.indiehackers.com/blog/launching-to-300000-pagevi...

I started with 0 subscribers and pageviews, but was at the top of HN for something like 30 hours (Thu morning to Fri afternoon), then only a couple days later I hit #1 on Product Hunt. That weekend alone got me to something like 200k pageviews and 800 subscribers. After that, I just added as many interviews as I could every week, and started sending out weekly newsletters.
Sounds good. I love your archeology work. Saves me a lot of time.It was a little too long for a coffee break read and now I'm behind my work schedule, though. Maybe you can split one article into smaller chunks, which may also increase your overall traffic. ;-)
I kind of agree but vim's defaults are awful. Tim Pope has put together a good set of non-opinionated defaults which don't change key bindings or customize it otherwise [0]. I have a very similar vanilla setup with no plugins apart from syntax highlighting for some languages not included by default.

[0] https://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible
From a Swedish perspective the Julian Assange case is particular close to the heart since it really shows how corrupt even our courts and politicians are. Sweden is rated as one of the countries with the lowest corruption but still 6 years have passed without even interviewing him for the pathetic accusations.

The entire case is a joke and whatever the US-election result is, it's bad for the entire world since our corrupt politicians will do whatever American corrupt politicians say.
I like the spinning cogs in the background.
Yes, I suppose Litvinenko did disappear in one sense of the word, i.e. ceased to exist.

However, the sense in which this word is usually used in this context, is different. It usually denotes a forced disappearance, when a person is secretly abducted or imprisoned by a state or political organization or by a third party with the authorization, support, or acquiescence of a state or political organization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the person's fate and whereabouts, with the intent of placing the victim outside the protection of the law.[1].

For instance, the following can be validly said about Pinochet's regime and government in Chile:
"He shut down parliament, suffocated political life, banned trade unions, and made Chile his sultanate. His government disappeared 3,000 opponents, arrested 30,000 (torturing thousands of them) ... Pinochet's name will forever be linked to the Desaparecidos, the Caravan of Death, and the institutionalized torture that took place in the Villa Grimaldi complex.”
— Thor Halvorssen, president of the Human Rights Foundation, National Review

I'll take doping scandal over institutionalized torture any time.
Low margin? They wouldn't be making Yugos. Like with their laptops and such, they'd be targeting the higher end of the market.

Cyclical is also great -- that's exactly what the laptop and especially the phone market are.
Saying that you can only think about abstract things if you have words for them is tautological since abstractions build on language.