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How did you find a mentor?
I'm currently looking for a mentor, and would love to listen to any advice HN has to offer. Currently I am learning C on my own, but have no experience in the field. How did you find a mentor? Was the experience worth it? If you were a mentor did you find any value in the relationship? Thanks in advance! Also feel free to contact me at n_villela(at)yahoo.com
Sometimes politics and technology cannot be separated. This is much as technology issue as a policy issue.
No, this is not what you "should better" do, largely because your approach is so demonstrably inefficient when applied to multiple problems. After all, what you propose is a a particular solution to a particular problem. UBI is a general solution to a vast number of particular problem.

For reasons of efficacy alone, UBI > your idea.

QED
Yes, tobacco is explicitly excluded because it was foreseen what would happen if they weren't. People went to the mat to exclude it specifically. Why would tobacco companies have to be specifically excluded if the TPP didn't offer a mechanism for such abuse? What prevents other industries from using those mechanisms?

You are indeed correct in that I haven't read the 2700-page document. And to be frank, I highly doubt your own claims that you read it twice. I also doubt the characterisation of this extraordinarily lengthy document argued between multiple countries for the better part of a decade as "pretty simple".
Nice work, I really love the design. Good job guys.
I would say similar, which is why at one point I actually sent in PhD applications. PhDs in computer science usually come with a stipend and a tuition exemption. Why do you need to wait until retirement?
Batteries are still a long way from being useful for ships, long-haul trains and trucks, and large aircraft.
What you describe would work in dev if you are using your editor's transpiler, but what about production error logging? In my experience that generates JS stack traces and it is a pain to convert those to source-mapped ts stack traces. I know mocha has built-in support for source maps.

Also regarding ES6 Promises. The issue I'm referring to has to do with using 3rd-party libraries that don't provide promise support, which is a lot of popular node libraries. Even if you have type definitions for them, if you use a library to auto-wrap the API to provide promises (which is, as far as I know, still the only way to do it without writing your own Promise wrappers, you lose not only your completions, but also information about the returning types, and the compiler will complain.

I believe most of these problems will resolve in time. I'm sure node will add built-in support for source maps some day, and most libraries will eventually come with Promise APIs.

The problem that will be much more difficult to address is the lack of reliable type information for most libraries. That of course isn't really Typescript's fault, as it just has to do with the fact that most library devs in the node community are writing in JS, but it also strikes me as something that will limit adoption of TS amongst backend developers looking for a static type system.
If you go back far enough, it was the democrats who opposed abolition of slavery, and it was a Republican who went to war to keep the south from seceding over it.
All jobs exported to other countries, e.g. China, where those same jobs are increasingly subject to automation.

Republicans historically don't support labor movements, they've supported breaking up unions. Democrats created a vacuum by supporting the environment over the worker.

It is way too soon to know whether Trump voters will experience buyer's remorse. The real question is hardly even Trump, it's whether Republicans will sign on to this new idea of defending the worker, defending their job, protectionism, and even a trade war in the form of tariffs as promised by the leader of the party. If it's true Trump represents non-establishment, and threatens its existence, we can expect at some point Democrats and Republicans will figure out a way to throw him under the bus. That he spends more time feeding his narcissism by punching down, and sending his press secretary to lie on TV on the level of 2+2 does not equal 4, he will squander any ability to form the political barriers he will need to survive 4 years let alone 8.

The 200 year history of parties getting the presidency 3 terms in a row shows how rare it is. I think that's a bigger factor in the election, that people were sufficiently less enthusiastic about Hillary rather than enthusiastic about Trump, and in fact the raw numbers support that. Likewise that 200 year history shows it's even more rare for a president who loses the popular vote, but wins the electoral college, to win a 2nd term.

Does Trump stop his TV show inspired pissing matches? Those are appealing to some degree by angry voters during a campaign, but broadly very distasteful and unbecoming of a president. To be a successful president he's going to have to stop getting hung up in minutiae of his own creation.

Do Republicans or Democrats (or both) have some sort of transformative realignment, necessarily demoting previous priorities in doing so, or do they collude together to make an outsider president, already acting like a nut case as he keeps stepping on his own dick, an unwitting scape goat and destroy him in favor of Pence, a stable predictable known quantity?
k, but the people who fired him for it disagree
As a payor of six digits of taxes, this sounds expensive and likely to be taken advantage of by the lazy.

When I grew up my basic income was something called "wages," for which I worked to earn.

Someone has to fund shit like this. Handouts do not promote self help, but the opposite: dependence on the government. Is that something to be proud about?
> It has an impact all the time because there are many subjects not safe to discuss.

I agree with you, in the sense that cultures heavier on PC typically have a bit more self-censorship than they might otherwise. However, my experience so far is basically that nothing of value was lost!

I can kinda sympathize with the first guy who gets in trouble for stepping over the (newly instated, sometimes implicit) line.

But as far as actual effects on the office? Mostly just a work place that feels more like a place where important work happens and less like a high school lunch table.

I'd be curious to know why you think the typically censored topics add anything of business value to a work place.
> Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed.

Calling all engineers! We do have the power amongst ourselves to add technical impediments to surveillance to the services we're building, and to the internet as a whole.

The technology exists to prevent surveillance, we just need to care, and to use it. Also keep in mind that net neutrality would be an automatic byproduct of an internet that prevents automatic surveillance.

> “The standard operating procedure for the Domestic Surveillance Directorate is to ‘collect all available information from all available sources all the time, every time, always.’”

This will never change, and I would go so far as to suggest it's even a reasonable position to take, from someone who's job it is to collect information for the government. What we need to do is make our internet usage unavailable to onlookers.
Which is why government allows for surveillance directly in its constitution. Search warrants have always existed.

There is no government without a search warrant, since no government allows privacy against the state's will.

Until you are your own king, you will always have to live under the permission of government.
The first Republicans did not focus on abolition because they wanted to change a class structure, they fought for abolition because they feared an unfair imbalance in the labor market as the nation expanded westward while the abolitionist policies of the northern states ensured that there would be a continuous set of compromises between new free and slave states such that over time the slave states would be dominant economically and politically (3/5ths clause).
Thanks for the nice words! Really appreciate that!
Might be helpful:

http://pindancing.blogspot.nl/2010/12/answer-to-will-you-men...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9400288
Quick thought I had, you're right those services should be charging for rep management, the fact your emails aren't getting through is a sign that perhaps the IP Mailgun are using to send those mails from isn't exactly white listed. If you're sending legit traffic it's way easier and cheaper to setup a mass mailer on a server of your own with a dedicated IP and then build the reputation slowly. It doesn't take very long if your emails are legit and you have unsubscribe etc inside so people don't flag you as spammy once they get bored of you.
I was ready for Algrebra in 6th grade, but we moved and I had to wait until 8th grade. It was boring repeating arithmetic for 2 additional years.

I'm glad I was able to get it in 8th grade, though, as I was able to get BC Calc in high school. The engineering students in college who first saw calculus in college didn't usually do very well.

In university, I did an informal poll of the foreign students I met over the years I was there. Irrespective of major, they pretty much all said they got to Algebra in 6th grade.

On the other hand, I don't really see the point of forcing everyone to take math as early as possible or as advanced as possible. In our state, nurses need to take and pass college Algebra, which is equivalent to Algebra II, Trig, and some Analytical Geometry and Linear Algebra. This prevents a lot of people from becoming nurses. The argument is that this teaches abstract reasoning skills. Such a waste to prevent people from becoming nurses over a skill they'll never use, and which nothing else they learn needs.
Let's say you want to use facebook less.

Space creates a space-launcher icon that you put where you used to keep facebook on your home screen. Now you click the space-launcher instead of clicking facebook. The space-launcher loads a 2-12 second meditation exercise, then loads facebook.
The license specifies: The following license governs your NON-COMMERCIAL use of the Software. Commercial use is strictly prohibited.

That's a goodbye for anyone wanting to build anything interesting in the future with it. Such a pity. I couldn't find anywhere any kind of "commercial license".
I keep finding that no matter how much I want to be an optimist I cannot. The problem I have with it is that it feels as if I'm deluding myself whenever I try to be optimistic about anything and I can't hold it for any significant amount of time, perhaps I get too carried away when I become "optimistic".

Maybe it's just me but would you have any tips to overcome or at least come to terms with this mentality?
Question: once this CO2 has been changed into a solid form, will we be able to burn the solids to produce energy?
The people who decided that the new SEPA payments should include a way for creditors to take people's money using just public information and their signature should be fired. It's like they learned nothing from the billions of dollars wasted from fraud in the credit card system. Payments should always start after an explicit order by the payer to their bank, not just having the payee say "trust me, they totally want me to have this money".
Because, here in the real world, my paycheck depends on keeping my customers happy.
How my girlfriend was harassed on her first day at work
Right, but there is a procedure behind obtaining a search warrant, which is nothing at all like giving the government blanket surveillance powers.
If you are going to quote me, please do it in the context of the conversation.

I was making a reply to a comment of $10 am hour vs $3 in China, in which I stated it would be a lot more than $10 for a U.S factory working - amd - I don't think anyone disagrees with securing American jobs, but the math wouldn't make sense.

The initial remark discussion and reply did not relate to Foxconn jobs vs automation.
Mass surveillance in the digital age is a Pandora's box that's been opened.

Without comprehensively putting extreme restrictions on what people can put online, there is only ever going to be an exponentially growing trove of data to mine that reveals implications far removed from whatever whoever made it available intended to communicate.

While it may be possible to significantly cut back the amount of surveillance done on communications intended to be private, I think people need to accept that the automation of surveillance and of inferring likely connections from it are developments which irreversibly change how society functions going forward.

What's more, technology has a very persistent tendency to become accessible to more people over time. I have yet to see any reasons this wouldn't be true specifically in the case of automated surveillance. Remember the story about someone trying facial recognition to tie pictures of strangers on the subway to VKontakte profiles? That's just a small taste of the implications.

I think it's realistically possible to push back a large portion of the surveillance that invades private communications, likely by technological means more often than legal ones. And I think the article highlights that possibility, especially at a time when distrust in government is reaching a peak in America and elsewhere. That said, I'm waiting for the Pandora's box of wide access to powerful surveillance tools using publicly available information to be seen for what it is.
This is a very fine article, but I keep hoping to see an article that's more general and discusses the real-world consequences (such as having to hire spoiled employees) of the ways games systematically distort reality and rewards.

We know that the more TV kids watch, the more likely they are to end up in hospital from an accident - their view of physics and risk has been distorted. Are heavy game players more likely to get fired from their first few jobs?

I grant that games have to be fun, but I wonder if there isn't a way to both please the player, as is done now; and inform them about the downsides of reality too - by showing them the contrast with a reality-run-through (maybe as an option), or by showing them after the game where they got an assist, or something.

I started thinking about this topic heavily after playing Borderlands 2 a lot. Quite apart from the sociopathic role-playing bits, it became very clear to me that mere perseverance was being rewarded far more than skill, or increases in skill. Much less real learning. Just churning through a level badly a few times would you'd level up enough to be able to Steam through it. (Pardon the pun.) I don't know what the effects of this on developing minds are - will they persevere at hopeless real-world tasks futilely waiting for the pity-timer to kick in, but not really try to learn or improve in the meanwhile? Will they rarely persevere 'cause the rewards are too slow in coming? I dread to think (but could be wrong to be pessimistic.)

I do think I learned a lot about learning when playing solo computer games decades ago in a way that is all but impossible now, since online players or your buddies will tell you the most efficient way. There's nothing like realizing you've played the carriers in Starcraft the wrong way for years to make you reevaluate whether you're a good learner or have really tried to figure out how the world works; or really understand the world, your relationships or anything else.
According to very quick Web searches, $1000 is about 80% of the median personal income in the usa. I calculated the same rate for India and it comes to ₹2751 per month based on a median income of $616 per annum.

If I were to get ₹2751 extra every month, it wouldn't make a difference for me at all. In fact, my monthly expenses are 10x this amount and I'm only spending less than 50% of my income.

So this measure surely isn't meant to have any effect on people like me. I would imagine it's a similar calculation for most people on this website. For this reason alone, we are very badly positioned to react in an emotional manner. The only decisions that should be taken should be taken on the basis of trials and hard statistics. Otherwise the "free money for slackers" sentiment is too strong when it may not be the truth.
> Now (since Cameron?) they make US citizens fill out a card and give you a weirdly personal interrogation.

Landing cards have been a thing since the 1970s; as far as I'm aware, it's only ever been EEA citizens exempted.

As far as I'm aware, questioning has got stricter progressively over the past several decades.
Hey, I made something similar, a pure shell version with ImageMagick here: https://github.com/fantasyui-com/mockup (MIT) I decided to punch holes in the device image and then distort the user's image to fit the hole. See lib/laptop1/source.bash to glance what it takes to fit an image into a laptop similar to yours with shell and ImageMagick alone. If I had to do it again, I would use HTML/CSS to assemble the graphics and then screenshot it with something like pageres (see npm). It is easy to critique our behemoths, when someone tells you using Electron/AngularJS in a title bar is too heavy, remind them that Electron/JavaScript has SVG, Canvas, fantastic (mind blowing) Web Audio and that's just to scratch the surface. If I may suggest a new idea for you do the drum machine like here https://github.com/maryrosecook/drum-machine <3
PhD programs typically pay 20-30k a year, and you can get close to doubling that by taking summer internships. That's at or above a lot of basic income proposals, especially because many top CS universities are located in places with very low CoL.

So if it's just lack of basic income that's preventing you from going for a CS PhD, you should apply for programs next year (unfortunately you just missed the typical application deadlines...)
Not mentioned in these comments is the actual method they cite in capturing the solid CO2. The method involves bubbling CO2 through water and hydrogen sulfide, which is incredibly toxic. Not sure if there's a better way to do it, but their current process is both economically infeasible and dangerous.
Tesla quietly released the longest-range electric car in the world - 335mi
At the heart of the communist was the belief that the entire country with all its people can be managed and orchestrated. This translates to a very static universe, where you are born, given an assignment and are suppose to stay in the same place until you die or the state changes their mind. Everything was a number in a spreadsheet, how many doctors given are will have, how much bread you need to bake and how much toilet paper shoul be produced. The last one turned out to be the symbol of communism failure, they did some math and decided X amount of toilet paper should be produced, but sadly people wanted more. Huge shortfall of toilet paper began and it started being a valued asset. Such over-planned world doesn't really work well with human ambitions, it doesn't really matter if you job is meaningful or not, having very little choice will likely cause stress and make you unhappy. To make things worse promotion was only possible if you were a party member and was seen as valuable and loyal. The whole thing was more than just automatically giving people jobs, it's been about total control, job creation was one of the tools. I don't think it's easy to directly compare it with UBI if someone wants to make such analogy. UBI doesn't restrict you the same way, it might even be seen as opposite - liberating people from being forced into low paid jobs where you generate very little value and it's hard to progress your skills and income.
>Being an old school nerd, only the toughest survived with a love of technology back then.

Ah yes, only the toughest survive. Tech nerds are so tough that they get offended when somebody doesn't like their shirt.

>What frustrates me today is how the media (collectively) have revised the history books and promote some fairly extreme bullying (see the verge's article on Matt Taylor as an example of some extreme and unjustified bullying of Matt based on his gender).

They were complaining that he was wearing a shirt with scantily clad women on it? How is that gender-based harassment? Furthermore, how does it constitute revising history?

>You are not a gender, you are not a skin colour, you are not a religion or an age group. If you can rise above these things, you are a huge step to overcoming adversity. You stop looking down on others and yourself.

Unless you are in the category of people with the highest level of privilege in our society, you are not allowed to forget these aspects of your identity. The police, public restrooms, inaccessible buildings, and other people will relentlessly remind you of your abnormality and victimize you.
> Except for that time they freed the slaves.

... because only Northern Republicans signed up to the Union army?

Not to mention that only the superficial accounts of the civil war say it was about slavery. Even Lincoln basically said the free slaves thing was basically just an add-on.

If you're going to be literalist in how you read others' comments, then be correct when you do so.
Most parents know this about their children, that their sacrifices may go unappreciated in full until their kids pass some ill-defined maturity/life milestones.

They did it for you anyway, and doubtless on the whole, gladly. As another poster noted, you can pay it forward. That's likely what your parents did.
I would have to see something backing that up since unpaid internships would not be just the province of the well off and employers would have some incentive to raise wages where I don't think UBI would do that. You also assume for every $ I get from work would be deducted from my payment which isn't true for a lot of negative income tax schemes.
Do you still do this? Have you looked at low wattage lamps? There are serious risks of starting apartment/house fires with candles, please do not underestimate them.
"The other thing about the 'British' nuclear deterrent is that the U.S. holds the keys to the launch buttons, so the UK would not be able to 'nuke Trump' (or take out the Pentagon for the good of the world...)."

Credible citation needed.

I think you'll find that the PM can order the launch of the UK's nuclear warheads without permission from anyone else. I can also exclusively reveal that the Pentagon and Trump Towers are probably not on the list of targets.

This is far more interesting than your missguided assertions: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/in-the-eve...

I can't (be arsed to) find a source but I remember reading somewhere that the PM in the past was required to carry change at all times - probably a slack handful of tuppenny bits () - to be able to use a public phone box to be able to call in the final strike. The AA (see above) was another comms method and there were probably a few other odd ideas.

If you think we (UK) are odd then I'll just drop this for your delectation: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2515598/Launch-code-...

Cheers
Jon

() The UK's currency, pre-decimalisation (1971), was a bit strange but no odder than clinging on to miles/pints and other odd measures. We do now use Celsius for temperature. It is still called "Stirling" (silver standard, even though we went through the gold standard and now free float). It was pounds (£ - "L" for Libre), shillings ("S" for sestertii) and pence ("D" for denarii) - yep: Romanesque - so LSD. £1 = 20s = 240d => 1s = 12d. There was also the guinea which was £1.1s, we still have horse race prizes measured in guineas - presumably £x + (5x) pence because at the point of decimalisation the shilling was redefined from 12 old pence to five new pence.

Got a bit sidetracked there. A tuppenny bit is a two penny coin but I should point out that tuppenny is pronounced "tuppny" - ie a sort ot contracted tup-knee. How the hell did the silent k in knee come about, but I digress again.