skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also compete for a limited amount of time. There are very few console gamers who also don't have a smartphone or tablet with some games on it. They may not explicitly choose to game on their phone over Xbox, and they may acknowledge that they enjoy console games more. But on a given night, maybe they choose to watch tv, and second screen some games on their phone. And if that phone didn't exist, they would have chosen to play on their console. So they aren't equivalent, but they can still substitute for each other, and compete for time/money/attention.
In the video that autoplayed for me when I tried to read the article, it ended with janitors saying they wished people thanked them.
How many thousands are we talking? Depending on the state, you might be able to just walk this into small claims court. Some have a $5K limit, some have $10K, find out what your state's limit is for small claims. If your lost amount of money falls within that range, you don't need a lawyer and lawyers are not allowed in the courtroom for such cases generally speaking. Walk to the court house, file your paperwork with the court, have someone NOT related to the case serve the person you're suing and have them sign the appropriate proof of service paperwork, which the court clerk should give to you. After that, it's just waiting for the court day to be declared, both parties are notified by the court of that, and then you go into the court room on that date.

Usually, big companies don't show up in small claims, so they default, and you can simply file a lien on them and get your money back either by cash or by equipment. You get to literally walk in to their building, with cops by your side, and start taking stuff until the lien is settled. Or you can walk to their bank with the court order, and have it yanked directly from their account. I've done both. It's fun.
You do know that "technology" and "capitalism" are not synonyms, right? And that a whole lot of technological advances have occurred outside of a capitalist context? It serves the interests of the powerful to pretend like we have to have both, but it's just not true.
That is truly, and quite literally, the least you can do. Don't pat yourself on the back too hard.
I think this tends to happen once density of the place people live goes above a certain threshold. People don't have to rely on their neighbours because they know so many people (friends/family/coworkers) close by they can contact if they need help with anything.

On the flip side your neigbours are most likely potential see you arguing with a partner, coming home drunk late at night, going out after calling in sick etc. See things that tarnish your reputation, more downside than upside if you find out you have connections and potential gossip.
Would anti-retaliation laws cover this?
Their turn around time is super fast. I can't imagine this happening even with NASA. Here's a lot of good luck to SpaceX in 2017.
tmux is a good alternative to the whole paradigm of 'running shell commands within a text editor like vim'. Why run a shell command within vim when one can run the shell command in an actual shell? It seems to me that running a shell command in vim is using vim outside of its intended scope. It might be able to do it but it won't be able to do it well, which is where something like tmux comes in. I might be in the minority with this viewpoint though.
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I dont know about Palo Alto, but this is a big problem where I live in Brooklyn, and in NYC in general. When there is gray money coming into the market, prices go up. Honest earners get pushed down, and the push-down happens all the way down the chain. See the article below for more details. Of course in the Bay Area, there is an additional dynamic of restrained building which might be the bigger problem.

https://www.nytimes.com/news-event/shell-company-towers-of-s... "From Manhattan condominiums to California mansions to gentrifying neighborhoods in Brooklyn, shell companies are increasingly pervasive in the world of real estate. These articles explore the people behind the opaque deals."
No aspiring or self-respecting AI researcher could take an article like this at face value. "The largest concentration of independent AI researchers in the world"? Citation needed. Better yet, data.
I think the point that the author was trying to make was SV/startup/tech company bulshytt all touts technology* as equating to progress, and progress equalling some kind of unambiguous improvement to individual quality of life or society as a whole. This claim is open to critique given the exploitative nature of some/most/all sharing economy services, the frequently pointless and often time consuming nature of apps, etc.

The idea here is if technology was in fact improving the economy, society, or the world the individuals who are stuck working 2nd and 3rd jobs would have other options available, especially in light of how many jobs/career tracks/industries software has eaten in the last 20 years.

* poorly defined term in this context
Well, I don't know if they're cognitive ones but you seem to have some deficits in 'knowing how to engage people on forums' and 'knowing what security by obscurity means'. The content of your post is that isn't rude is just inaccurate.
Why your games are made by childless, 31 year old white men (2014)
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> Yes, that's crony capitalism, not a free market.

You're getting close to "no true scotsman" territory here. Microsoft abusing its position in the PC market: crony capitalism, not a free market? Intel bullying AMD in the processor market: crony capitalism, not a free market? Are there any examples anywhere in the world of a truly free market then?

> "Accident" insurance makes a lot more sense to me, and it's compatible with the idea of insurance (broken arms/trauma/etc.). But even serious illnesses are not really unexpected, because almost everyone gets them -- it's just a question of when. I think all medical expenses should be paid out of pocket.

The problem is serious illnesses tend to be the most expensive. Even if health care costs were magically cut in half, cancer treatment would still bankrupt the vast majority of the population. So, tough luck for them?

> Basically, well-intentioned people like yourself would benefit people who depend on this drug in the short term, through government intervention, at the expense of innovation in the long term as fewer corporations are attracted by the riches that await them for furthering the medical field and saving people's lives.

Yeah... I'm not necessarily convinced that medical research should be a for-profit enterprise either, for exactly the reasons you mention. ("Should we research a cure for this disease?" "Our projections indicate it won't be profitable" "Ok, moving on then...")

I get that you believe free markets will solve the problem of expensive health care, I just don't see the mechanism behind it. So far it seems very hand-wavy to me. 1) Free markets. 2) ... 3) Cheap health care. What exactly happens in step 2? How do you prevent it from turning into an abusive "crony capitalism" situation?
"multi-story" => "two stories tall maximum, and half of ground space is parking lot"

Places like Paris are entirely (or nearly entirely) 4-5 stories tall, with no parking lots. This allows incredible density simultaneously with great livability (especially for pedestrians). (See [1])

So technically the gp was incorrect, but I would posit there are few (any?) places in Mountain View, or even most of the bay, with a floor area ratio (FAR) > 1.0.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris#Cityscape
Some of them are very good for pet projects and hacking and rooting and doing stuff you would not dare to do on your new phones. I would love to tinker with them a bit.
From the wording in the blog post I think that in some of the cases where people redistributed Paint.NET they broke the terms of the license. In such cases the original author is right to feel that his work has been plagiarized. None of my projects have been big enough that this has ever happened to me so I can't really offer any useful advice for what to do. I think it's sad that he chose to close the source though and as a consequence of it I can now no longer (since 2009 actually but this is the first time I've been made aware of the change of license because the last time I was using Windows on any of my own computers was around that time and the last time I installed Paint.NET on one of my computers it was still open source) advice friends and family to install Paint.NET when they are looking for a photo editing program.

I release most of my own code under a license similar to MIT (the ISC license) and as long as the people who are using my code honor the conditions of the license they are free to rebrand it and sell it if they want to or to do whatever else that doesn't violate the license.

Often I feel that if someone is going to redistribute an MIT licensed project with modifications, they should rebrand it. For example say that I wanted to sell copies of FreeBSD as a whole with some of my own patches and modifications. I would not be able to call that FreeBSD without first working out an agreement with the FreeBSD Foundation [1]. The reason for this being that FreeBSD is a trademark of the FreeBSD Foundation and so they get to retain control of it. This is how it should be. This is what I like about the MIT family of licenses, the code is free but the license does not grant rights to use a trademark. When I say rebrand, note that proper attribution is still required.

However, if binaries are redistributed unmodified then I think it should be ok to refer to it by the original name because then that name is an accurate representation of exactly what is being distributed.

Furthermore I think that when just maintaining source changes in a public repo it should not be necessary to rebrand.

Meanwhile, if someone completely stripped my name from something I wrote and they didn't give me the proper attribution, they'd be in violation of the license and therefore the license would be void. If someone is going to use my code, they are going to attribute me in the manner that is set out in the license.

IANAL, TINLA.

[1]: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/legal/trademark-usage-term...
I highly recommend using Cursive https://cursive-ide.com/ for editing. It's an excellent IDE with lots of great features. For as simple editor Atom is a good choice as well http://yogthos.net/posts/2016-10-15-AtomWithLuminus.html

I maintain Luminus http://www.luminusweb.net/docs specifically to make it easier for people to get started. For example, if you wanted to make a new web app with Clojure you could do:

lein new luminus myapp
cd myapp
lein run

That's all there is to it.

I would recommend using Leiningen, just because it is more popular. If you're starting out, then you don't really need to change that much stuff in the project file aside from adding dependencies.
shell is a bit like JavaScript: both languages have a lot of warts, but if you interact with UNIX-like systems / browsers at intermediate or above levels, you must be comfortable with them. Unlike browsers, you have a few choices for shells, and IMHO [t]csh lost because a) Linux "won" over *BSDs, b) POSIX basically standardized on sh, c) [t]csh is a worse scripting language.

Back in uni I used to use tcsh interactively, script in [ba]sh, and program in a "real language" like C, Java, etc., but I wasn't doing anything very complicated with any of them. Once I started working and begin using these tools seriously, I simply couldn't learn and retain all of them. Something had to go, and tcsh was it.
This wiki page [1] explains why whether two events happen at the same time depends on your reference frame. If you can send signals faster than light then you can send a signal to an even far away and cancel that event. In another reference frame the sending of the signal would have happened after the far-way event has already happened. Hence, due to the "relativity of simultaneity" FTL communication is equivalent to sending messages to the past.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity
The PC was created due to the consent decree. IBM was forced to use other people's processors, OS, hardware interfaces, etc. If it wasn't for the consent decree the world would look very different.
This is all true of course, but it's not what I said.

While it might be more economically rational for newer homebuyers to be the ones fighting development, it hasn't been my observation that they are. Obviously I could be wrong, I'd love to hear stories of rampant NIMBYism among the newly-landed.
Planet Earth -I & II

The World at War

Fog of War

Citizen Four

And Many More...
Tim Ferris strikes again!
Technology fails to save Ringling Bros. circus
100 Moffett, Mariposa Heights, and 1101 West are all four-story of greater condo complexes. There are probably others that I'm not aware of (I work in Mountain View but don't live there).
Who do you think is made better off by keeping that role in the biosphere vacant?
you don't tend to arbitrage for lower prices

Are you kidding? I grew up relatively poor, and we watched for sales all the time -- one needs to more aggressively pursue sales / lower prices, as long as the savings exceed the travel cost / value of time.

Perhaps you meant that the poor won't have the same ability to stock up on sale items because they can't front the cash, but that's different from saying they don't pursue the lowest price available for everyday needs.

Besides, Grocery Outlet gets some cool things that the top-tier stores don't even carry. ;)
With unlimited money almost any engineering problem can be solved. It isn't a miracle men walked on the moon, we just decided to go.

>Compared to what was achieved in the 60s it doesn't seem that impressive.

Is all of computing since 1960 unexciting and pointless? It's just making computers faster and cheaper, so what? The internet? We already had networks, who cares? It turns out that scale matters. Cost matters. Access matters. Details matter. If you can't see the value of treating rockets more like airplanes then you have a small-minded worldview and I don't know what to tell you.

History is littered with inventions that didn't amount to a hill of beans until someone else found a way to turn that invention into an awesome product and sell it to a much wider audience.

When a trip into orbit costs $20,000 then a lot more people can go. When it costs $2,000 then anyone in the developed world can go. What impact that will have on our society?
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The difference is who is harmed. A company may have to fire and replace a lying employee, so the shareholders lose some money, but a person contracting HIV from a bad blood transfusion is substantially more devastating.
I read this recently:

Drug wholesalers shipped 780 million prescription painkillers to West Virginia over a six-year period.
In a state of 1.84 million residents, the shipments amount to 433 pain pills for every man, woman and child in West Virginia.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Drug-Wholesalers-Shi...
Or maybe reduce the number of jobs available.
I have a lg risio that is just sitting around and my new Alcatel idol 4 is there anything that can be done with them?As far as rooting and apps.
I don't know if it's still the case, but it used to be in Virginia that it was the buyer's responsibility to notify the DMV; the seller signed and handed over the title; if the buyer never registered the car it would be completely possible for the DMV to not have record of the transfer in that case.
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

> 2.5.6 Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript.

It reads to me like you're not allowed to use your own HTML renderer either.
Often investors in Australia leave houses empty as there are different laws around capital gains taxes for investment properties (rentals) vs primary residence (which you don't have to actually live in all the time). It's often cheaper to not rent a property out and to get the lower CGT rate than to receive rent but have a 30% CGT when it's sold.
As a tech worker who was made to move to the Bay Area--the tech scene is definitely part of the problem.
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>People now actively avoid those kinds of relationships.

Let's not act like people haven't avoided these kinds of 'polite' relationships forever. Most people in cities do not know nor do they want to know their neighbors. I personally feel no interest whatsoever in forcing social interaction between some people I happen to live in physical proximity to. Seamless has nothing to do with that.
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And frankly, she is amazing and the last time I read her blog it was to discover to my amazement that Apple was using shims for stuff like git... which led me to write about it a bit more here;

http://randomtechnicalstuff.blogspot.com.au/2016/05/os-x-and...

Basically, I wish I could do what she does. I don't go anywhere near her level of complexity, but due to a variety of reasons I seem to lately be diagnosing and discovering insane things in Windows 7, in particular Windows Update and SxS assemblies.
> If coming out of a CS program with internships and I still don't have the skills maybe these companies should invest in training me as an entry level worker.

I came out of an unknown school with no internships and got a big company to give me an entry level job at 100k+/year. I don't say this to be rude, but maybe the problem is you and you should look at what you can do to fix things.

If you aren't getting interviews maybe it is your resume, if you aren't passing interviews maybe it's your interview skills (I'm going through this now, as mine have rusted a lot and it really does suck).

Again, I don't mean to pick on you. I really have no idea what the actual situation is. Good luck.
> I think I'm going crazy now because none of the Android phones I've tried to replicate this on support this :/

They don't. Android uses usb cdc ethernet for connecting to network on devices that allow tethering. Feature phones (mostly) used PPP DUN over serial (bluetooth and I think IRDA gives rfcomm ports). A few of the later one also used the cdc_ethernet method (out of my old one.. only my K850i does)
So insurance is bounded by cost plus pricing now.

They're defence contractors now! :joy:
> There are plenty of people in East Palo Alto who would love a job driving a bus at nearby Facebook.

There are plenty of people anywhere who would like to drive a bus for Facebook. Why would you favor people who live closer?

That drives an even bigger line between people who live close to Silicon Valley and those who live further away.
Each to their own! I love my 70-200 f/2.8, and it is pretty much my every-day lens. Sure it is heavier than I'd prefer, but damn it makes beautiful images.
I would hope.

This was wayyyy before red light/speeding cameras existed - I was 17 under mom's insurance. Car insurance calls mom saying my car was involved in a hit-and-run, a bystander took down the license plate of the hit and run car, my license plate. This hit and run also happened in the town I lived in. Totally plausible and even provable it was me, or at least someone driving my car.

My car, however, at that time was about 250 miles away... Being towed, as the shitbox I drove broke down, again. I had the tow truck receipt to prove it.

I honestly don't know what ended up happening, as at 17 I wasn't handling this kinda stuff. I guess the tow receipts proved it wasn't me. Or maybe it was a different make/model/color than what was registered with the DMV. Anyways, I never heard about it again. Of course, nobody went after me for a crime, it was the insurance who cared in this case, not the police. I don't know how long this took to resolved or how much of a pain of the ass it was to deal with.

I just find it very frightening that, when you looked at it from afar, it seemed so obvious that it was me even though I was totally innocent.
Reading Fukuyama's "The Origins of Political Order" and part 2, "Political Order and Political Decay" is a really good sweep on political progress where it comes from and whether or not it's inevitable (hint: it's not).

Fukuyama is a real realist. What I mean by that is that he doesn't deny that progress has occurred (something some people believe), but he points out how precarious that progress is and that it can go away (something some people deny).

I don't understand why it's a controversial statement to say that progress isn't inevitable and that decay can sometimes happen, but for some reason it is. I think his books, among many other things, are useful for grasping that progress takes hard work and can, like anything in this world, be ruined by laziness, corruption, or simple accidental misfortune.
There is often collateral damage among family (children!), friends, and coworkers of addicts. Complications caused by prenatal drug/alcohol use are also well documented.
If you get in a car accident, you pay more in increased premiums. That gives people incentive to drive safe and punishes people who get into more accidents.

If you remove any sense of personal responsibility from people's health, they will have no incentive to take care of of themselves. Everything they suffer will be covered by insurance (ie. other healthy people). That's how it is right now. Healthy people are not signing up for these shitty health insurance plans because they are being forced to pay for sick people who eat up 80% ( or some ridiculous number, i don't know what it is) of the actual costs.

It's not about "punishment". it's about people paying their own way. If other people were paying for your car insurance they why not speed, drive drunk, drive recklessly, etc. You are not personally liable for any of your driving consequences.

The reality is that people who are sick are a drain on resources. We have to decide , rationally, how much other people should be forced to pay for these sick people. If you are fine joining a health insurance plan with these people and paying more then fine, all the power to you. So are you doing that?
I would guess probably something like 2-5%.
> The buses are the only reason that the big South Bay tech companies can attract significant quantities of engineers from SF and the East Bay.

That's simply not true. According to this highly flawed study, 50% of people would still drive in the buses didn't run. http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/01/21/study-40-percent...

Also, SF has a Google office. I'm not quite sure where you're coming up with these unfounded conjectures from.
The tooling is actually much simpler than equivalent Js setups from what I've seen. All you need is a copy of the JVM and Leiningen installed. Then you can make a new project simply by running:

lein new reagent-frontend myapp

You can start it up by running

lein figwheel

You now have your app running at localhost:3449 and you can open it in the browser.

You can now edit any source in the src folder and see changes reflected live in the browser without having to reload the page.
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Global Shift
That ship sailed. Here's what working class prospects looked like decades ago:

- Stable lifetime employment with a single firm was not unusual.

- Plentiful well-paying work was available for individuals with a grade school education.

- Overtime pay kept work over 40 hours in a week to a minimum and it was considered unusual bordering on pathological to take work home.

- Retirement pensions were a common company benefit.

- Interests rates on savings routinely beat inflation.

- Strong organized labor held even non-unionized employers in check.

To summarize: a highschool grad with a modicum of luck could land an entry level job at a firm, work their entire life for that company, and retire without having to worry about eating cat food to pay for medicine.