skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would wager most of those people are disabled, but for psychological reasons. As you point out, the level of stress caused by financial insecurity during any period of disability is extremely high.

A lot of white collar workers in the US end up in a particular catch-22: their jobs are making them sick, but because they are sick, they can't leave their jobs. They become psychologically disabled because of the pressure to return to work before they are well, the stressor of battling the insurance companies, and the suffering from the cultural shame of not actively working.

Finally, after the 12-week FMLA requirement is exceeded, absent any policy, state law, contract, a company can fire an employee for absence after returning from, or even during, disability leave.

In conclusion, there is no doubt that there are some true "fakes" scamming the system. Afterall, the largest cause of disability is Generalized Anxiety Disorder, followed by several other "invisible" disabilities that cannot be objectively verified.

That makes me very upset, given that I sufferered a massively disruptive neuropathic pain disorder that only recently subsided enough to start coding again.

During those few months, I had to hear constant negative feedback from friends and relatives, usually telling me the equivalent of "Tough it out like a man."

This false perception was further compounded by the fact that I didn't look disabled. Every photo on Facebook caused a barrage of "I thought you were sick" comments, not realizing that my medical orders were to learn to resocialize despite the pain. Then that snapshot becomes people's vision of your illness, not realizing that the quiet dinner with your friends was the one hour you spent out of bed that day.

These skeptical responses are certainly due to the widespread deception by some, as you describe. I am just grateful that I had a "hard" medical diagnosis upon which to rely.

But some people really do need the disability insurance, which they have paid to obtain, in order to survive, not lose their homes, and pay for medical care during periods of tremendous suffering.

Everyone, please remember that not all illnesses present to the naked eye, or even to physical examination. We do not fully understand how either the human body, or more importantly, the human brain functions. Without that knowledge, it is almost impossible to tell the genuine afflictions from the false claims.
Interesingly, the "'apt-get install foo' and it just works!" aspect of Debian-like distros was what initially got me hooked, but has since become the bane of my existence.

Debian has a policy of shipping a sane default config, and generally enables/launches services for you. This is friggin awesome when you're experimenting and learning. apt-get install nginx, and bam, running webserver.

Unfortunately you then start automating processes, and it becomes quite painful. Wanna build a MySQL host with a non-default size innodb log? You get to install the package, stop the service, reconfigure mysql, blow away the log files created when the service was started by dpkg, then start the service back up. Compare this with RHEL/CentOS/Arch: Install package, configure service, start service. These are 3 discrete operations.

(Yes, there are workarounds for this, such as using policy-rc.d, but they bring their own complexity to the table.)
You can get some pretty good images out of almost any image editing software, even GIMP. First, know which format to use, and size your image appropriately.

For JPEGs: use chroma downsampling, and don't go above 80% quality unless absolutely necessary. If your software has a preview function, use it. Encode with MozJPEG if you can.

For PNGs: compress the hell out of them. There's several tools that can compress them further.
The primary difference between GDDR and DDR is 128bit vs 64bit bus. GDDR is also normally SRAM, but DDR can be SRAM, but it is normally DRAM.

Saying one is geared to graphics is just marketing.
That is all fine and well during a property bull cycle (which admittedly we've had for the last decade plus in the UK).

But equally property really ties you down if you are dependent on paying a mortgage. If you live somewhere with not huge demand for rental, then you cannot leave your job.

Mortgages and property prevent many people from taking time off, I could tell you of loads of people I know who cannot take time off because they need their monthly wage for mortgage.
I'm not really sure he expected to, although he still seems (justifiably) bitter about that.
Up voted as well. I just purchased an a6500 after quite the back and forth with myself.

Fuji actually uses Sony sensors. So the XPro2 / XT2 has the exact same sensor as a a6300 and a6500. So on paper, the Sony have a lot more going for them in terms of price to features. It should be really interesting to see what kind of pressure that puts on them.

That's not to say that the Sony's are better cameras. Fuji has a great glass selection, has arguably better ergonomics, but is also slightly larger and heavier. Fuji is a great camera company no doubt.

Overall, in the APS-C format, the offerings are pretty comparable across a wide range of price points.

Edit: Sony does not have the exact same sensor as the Fuji. Fuji's X-Trans sensor doesn't use a Bayer array. But Fuji's sensor is made by Sony.
> The problem with most apt-based distributions is I've found that a lot of packages are out of date.

If you want APT based distro + rolling update, Debian testing is what you need.

(Obviously if you're satisfied with Arch, there is no need to change.)
The problem with the A6000 series is the lack of lenses.
But which country's government owns most of RBS's shares? ;)
> As far as I can see (I may be wrong, this is my estimate) Google tries hard to devote best talents to 1) ads and Search and it's maintaining 2) Chrome team 3) Google apps and services online and on iPhones.

I don't know where you would insert WebApps in this list but it looks like that they are taking bigger portions of the Google Keynotes lately. Seems that Google is pursuing to arrive quick to the point where WebApps can substitute native apps. You can skip app stores (manifest), run apps in the background, synchronize and receive push notifications (service workers). They have dedicated talented people to design the specs (like Jake Archivald) and they are early adopters of them (Chrome and Android).

WebApps are probably the greater threat to native apps. Apple resists hard to them (imagine the profit loss if anyone can bypass the App Store and it's commission e.g. Amazon).

Webapps can't be used for high performance applications like games, music or VR. But definitely can make that talent or atention to be taken from the native ones.
I tried this once, and funnily enough it worked for a bit, but I ended up pulling out my phone while waiting for a site to load one day, and then laughed at the irony of what was happening.
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I dislike using specialist fonts because it's overloading what a character is supposed to show. If the user doesn't have the webfont, either because it was blocked or because of support reasons, the page becomes a mess of alphabet soup.
Why wouldn't use simply use the editor you leave open on your desktop for the "small editor" tasks?

What kind of person says "this is a job for nano, while this is a job for emacs?"
For Exchange-based email you can use DavMail (http://davmail.sourceforge.net/) At work I have the only Linux workstation and DavMail + Thunderbird + Lightning works a treat. I have pretty much all the functionality that my Outlook fellows have. (email, calendars, LDAP corporate address book, etc...)
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This is close to what I want, it would be nice if I could add any source, by URL, even if it means I have to go to the origin site and look for the RSS endpoint myself
I love getting ram on the cheap. I don't really use it, but just having an insane amount of it is so satisfying.

Star Citizen will probably get its own ram disk, if priced keep on dropping
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Honest question, why should a developer need Photoshop and Illustrator?

I thought .psd mockups and HTML slicing were a thing of the past, and vector work (logos, etc) should be done by a graphic designer. Not to mention most icon/graphic assets can be provided by Bootstrap or FontAwesome.
Seems like a symptom, not a cause. Escapism for the psychologically inflicted and chronically unemployed.
I would just like to note, that the gist of the problem with Hogan is that Gawker has been ordered to remove the said tape by a court and they refused to comply.

That is the real reason why they got obliterated in the end.
I don't know.. maybe the answer to the pair of you is "Mind your own damn business?"
The Chinese copy because they have a billion people to get out of poverty.

And years of catch-up.

Makes 100% sense, no need for innovation yet.

Just sucks if you are in a rich country.
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This in itself is a problem for society though. The UK government is generally pushing more and more requirements and liability on banks. At the same time we are moving more and more in the direction of requiring a bank account to be able to participate in society (or as a business).

This has the effect of making it impossible for outliers to operate, even if they are doing so entirely within the law.

I don't think this is acceptable. UK banks over a certain size should be required to provide service (a universal service obligation), or otherwise the UK government should arrange a framework such that outliers can always receive basic transactional banking services.
That also only works for the windows file sharing protocol. It's not even close to what KIO provided with it's protocol agnostic support. The windows UNC paths also only work on windows with windows apps. It's not a fair comparison.

The real win would be the Plan 9 filesystem protocols which had the same feature but at the file system protocol level.
The only reason not to downvote, is to ensure that the rebuttal to this common attitude remains highly visible.
> It apparently turns out: RBS is simply dropping them as a customer. The UK has not frozen their accounts.

Would be interesting if it's in relation to the UK equivalent of the Federal Reserve implying they'd be "simply dropping RBS as a customer" if they didn't do so.
This is unfortunate not only for reasons of productivity losses, but also because the sense of belonging and agency that goes with employment can be a great boon to one's mental health and mental disorders are cited as being present in a large proportion of those who have dropped out of the labor force.
The general population has an incidence rate of around 1:5 every year. Lifetime incidence is 1:2. That its between the two in the chronic unemployed isn't at all surprising.

The group is probably overrepresented in suicide stats too.
I don't think that's their responsibility.
Traditionally it's your distribution's job to create and provide packages. Arch Linux has one (I just installed it myself) and if we're talking rpm: Fedora has one as well, it seems [1].

So, what is upsetting you here, really?

1: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/pinta%2A/
Were they not publishing revenge porn?
> why on earth should there be any protection for the guy who came up with it? He's not taking the risk on buying the meats, setting up a shop, marketing, and so forth.

In theory the person inventing it is investing time and effort into the invention itself, and the manufacturing company is risking money on a new idea.

Some protection seems reasonable. The current levels of protections - many years, is weird.
There is some global data available on the so called NEET phenomenon.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.UEM.NEET.ZS

http://oecdinsights.org/2016/10/13/neets-policies-to-support...
well i can see those replying to you completely ignore the amount of money involved in diagnosing such issues. it is similar to handing out handicap placards, there is so much money to be had from various programs that its profitable for both hospital and even the patients.

worse the system discourages not giving patients the designation they want because doctors are routinely subject to surveys that must come back positive, by the very patients they serve

this is not to say there are not people with mental disorders but the vagueness of some disorders leads to a lot of abuse and in some cases its because people figure they don't have to deal with it, life in general, its not their fault, its far easier to take that declaration of disorder and put the blame there and not change lifestyle, job, or habits.
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To build a real audience I would shy away from adwords and giveaways. Focus on publishing good content often instead that will get people signed up who are truly interested.

Depending on the audience, spend time answering questions in discussion groups, engage with your existing audience through emails and her website.

Instead of a giveaway provide value to signups through an ebook or a drip set of emails with small helpful pdfs that provide them value and will keep them interested and coming back.

Look in to doing guest posts/interviews and/or sponsoring popular blogs and podcasts in her niche.

Good luck building the list it can be a long road.
If you're into self-hosting, you can check Gogs which is probably the most lightweight Github-like platform (but also the one with the least features)
>The US has been pretty blunt and public about the fact that they think the DNC hack was performed by Russian hackers.

The way the joint statement has been covered by the media you can easily be led to believe that the US 1. has actually blamed Russia for the DNC hack 2. this is due to evidence they have. This is not true.

When the joint statement [0] is closely read, taking note of legalese, this is clear as day.

[0] https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/215-pr...
NEET
I'm not even american, I'm french, 31, I have skills in programming (C++, php, python, and some math), did not obtain my degree, and I have never worked more than a month during all my life. I currently have the disability status, and I will soon train to be an army reservist. I regularly see a psychiatrist for therapy and took anti depressant for 4 years. The inactivity and the feeling of exclusion is soul-killing (Of course there are people in worse situations than mine).

Every month I check a box online to certify I am actively looking for a job, but honestly I am not. How on earth do you want people like me begging for a job? It makes no sense. The worst thing is how society treats you and blames you for "laziness", yet those people are increasing but it seems nobody wants to hear it.

In some meeting with other people with disabilities, I suggested that there should be companies whose job is to match candidates with companies directly, so that candidates do not have to move sky and earth to find a job. I think it's not even a problem of investment and risk taking, it's just that there is nothing to build or to make, except software and robots, which require education, which is always money-constrained, unsurprisingly. Either that or people don't want to work anymore, and it's fine, because work is less and less necessary.

What kills me even more is the whole "get motivated" movement. I know I'm ranting but to me, society looks like a giant treading mill. Happiness and the slow, intelligent life have been forgotten in favor of a society of endless work and jobs. Contributing to the labor force has become a religion. The simple idea of idleness and staying at home to paint or draw seems to drive people crazy. It should not.
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I implied that perhaps their particular mental configurations, different as they are, should perhaps not be considered abnormal and in fact this is a false stigma of society. I did not imply any value judgement about their mental configurations.
Nothing can replace anything, but if you're looking for Photoshop alternatives, check out Krita. It's mainly focused on painting, but I've found it to be much nicer than Gimp.
One thing I like very much about the Fuji X100T is the leaf shutter. I wish they had incorporated leaf shutters into the lenses of their interchangeable-lens models!
That may be true. But my parent poster said that it was because they ruined people's lives. I don't think that refusing to comply with a court order, however dumb that may have been, was ruining anyone's life.
There are legitimate reasons to not want to use C, but I find around here it's mainly reflexive hate and language zealotry.

It's popular to hate on C (and C++) because the languages are so ubiquitous and long-used that a large body of terrible, unsecure, and poorly written code exists using them. Other languages haven't had the same success as these two yet, so haven't had their warts exposed enough to be dumped in the "automatically hated" category. Java comes close, but it also is typically lumped in the "automatically hate it" bucket and for similar reasons.
While that may have been true in 2014, today it's hard to find an exploitable bug affecting a major image format parser in ImageMagick. Assuming you aren't using unsanitized user-provided parameters on the command line with it, it should be fine unless your attacker is very motivated.
Would also be interesting if it's in relation to the ancient lizard people gearing up to head for Mars.

What's the point of even stating something like this?
I misread this as "the best microcopy" and thought it'd be a potentially-interesting UX piece.

Still, some amazing images here. Conceptually, it reminds me of the bacterial imagery used in the movie The Fountain for many of its deep space visual effects (to avoid the cost of CGI): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountain#Visual_effects
We are in agreement then, democracies can fall for lots of reasons. They also have the potential to be very successful.

My point is democracy as it stands today is very young and if you only compare it against the failed attempts of Communism you will miss almost all of civilized human history.
It's packagers of RPM distros that should build RPMs. Upstream can't be expected to release packages for every distro (if any).
> What kind of person says "this is a job for nano, while this is a job for emacs?"

Me, I use nano for quick edits over SSH and a different editor/IDE for everything else (which is done locally and pushed, I (incredibly) rarely edit anything on the server.
Attempted to.
I would be interested in a tool that allows the user to make a snapshot of the DOM, and then at a later instant, compare the current DOM with the saved one (like a diff). For arbitrary websites of course.
I just tried to clarify my position in a post close to this one. Let me add this about tenure. Tenure is meant to protect researchers so they can do the resarch that they want and find most interesting. The idea is to insulate them from the vagaries of others opinions, as it is believed that this type of freedom is good for research. What it is NOT designed to do, and never was, was put tenured professors in a position where they can just not do research. While pressuring researchers to put out a half-dozen mediocre papers a year is probably not a good idea, as it lowers the quality of the field and turns science into a commodity, "less" is not necessarily the solution. In this case the amount that was being produced clearly indicated that research just wasn't getting done. If a researchers job is to do research, then expecting a certain amount of time and effort spent doing that is not unreasonable.

For that reason Higgs just isn't a good example of why the system is broken. The university was upset about his lack of productivity in the 70s, long before the current publishing environment became an issue.
Not to mention the UK Foreign Office checksum [0]. UK has so far been relatively unscathed by wikileaks. If the 3 pre-commits refer to the 2013 insurance files, then the Foreign office could be royally buggered. The corresponding file is 320gb.

[0] pre-commitment 3: UK FCO f33a6de5c627e3270ed3e02f62cd0c857467a780cf6123d2172d80d02a072f74
Not pointed out in the article, but perhaps in the study(?) - the United States has been engaged in an active war for the past 15 years that likely contributes to an increased number of those taking painkillers for injuries or having some sort of psychological disorder. In my mind I liken it to shellshock and after-effects felt in societies post WWI / WWII. I don't have specifics on the number of wounded / in treatment but it is likely not an insignificant contributor to such an increase.
But it's actively making the Internet worse for the current users. Is it worth destroying the current user base in order to attract a new one?
css icon has less code, the code is more editable and managable, argumentably better performance (because i haven't tested it)

in the intro youtube video I said more about that. But to be honest, I just had a lot of fun dealing with the constraints that comes with css and loved the creating process, I spent a few weekends keeping designing and coding those tiny icons and skipped a lot of sleeping and still had fun.
I also didn't understand this. If there's a quick view with a close button, where would it go but back to the search results?