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> Hardcore libertarianism is the exception, not the norm in tech. Tech tends to float in big cities and as such is naturally liberal.

Wow, do I see a generation gap here.

Close your eyes and picture the nation in 1990. As you pointed out, tech tends to float in and around big cities. But we're in 1990. The cities are at rock bottom. Crime all over. Poverty. Horrendous disfunction.

Anyone living in the cities back then could be excused for blaming the situation on the hard-pressed staff of the executive branch at the various levels of government. And since a techie's first impulse is "let's automate this/route around this/code around this", there was in deed a lot of hardcore libertarianism.

But then the cities started to recover. And recover. And recover. And the clipboard-wielding liberal functionaries trying to hold things together, well, they started to hold things together.

But old attitudes die hard. Still a lot more libertarianism floating around than you think.
They bought it
Agreed. By most metrics I am very liberal (although am orthogonal to the left/right axis by some metrics), and I would love to see Republican primaries jammed up with intellectually honest science-believing fiscal conservatives. And should any of them make it through the primaries, I would be double plus thrilled to see a contest between two people who weren't batshit insane.

We really, really need this.

Having one party be the designated party of batshit insanity, and the other party be the party of... well, not much, aside from non-batshit-insanity... is very bad for society. It does nothing to promote good civic dialog, and holds the second party to an incredibly low standard. Don't get me wrong: on average I want is for Democrats to win, but I'd say that America really needs is more sanity amongst Republicans.
>giftedness varies wildly by subject. If you attend a school for gifted students, would there be an expectation that you would be gifted in all subject areas?

I think a superschool should allow each student to be ordinary in X subjects. In other words, two levels of acceptable marks depending on the student.

Splitting a student's school life between two schools cannot be an option, it also doubles administration.
You might want to take a look at Hopes & Concerns:

http://www.hopesandconcerns.org/

I'm not super excited about "expert" opinion. An expert, to quote Niels Bohr, "Is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." A jet engine mechanic is an expert if none of the planes she works on experiences engine failure. A scientist is, almost by definition, not an expert. This is especially the case when experiments cannot be carried out. For instance, we cannot instantiate 1000 earths, vary their CO2 content, and then observe what happens. We can only model, and modeling is based on assumptions, or "alternative facts." Almost everything controversial today (e.g., drug policy, economic interventions, climate change, etc.) falls into this quasi-scientific realm. I'm not sure that there is a quick way to reach a consensus on such issues other than by having all of the interested parties slug it out in public over an extended period. I also believe we must be careful about overzealously applying the precautionary principle to the point that policies that are objectively not working become sacred cows (e.g., the War on Drugs).
Even then, some policies take years to show an impact - often with amplification or diminution based upon other events that occur long after a President is gone.

Look at how long it took for the housing market bubble to grow before bursting - 15 to 30 years, depending upon which policies you view as being contributing factors.
There fear is unfounded. None of them have been attacked, accidentally shot or harmed by guns directly. Their fear goes so far as to them becoming hostile at the thought of them or myself carrying. They don't want anyone own this tool.

Guns, like all other power tools, should be respected. I carry daily. I respect the responsibility I bring on myself in doing so. I respect what the tool can do. Many weekend I use 1-5 power cutting tools. I respect those too. As a child I feared both. I then because an adult and put away childish things. I respect and use the tools properly.
Ah, okay... yeah.
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He will remove only the bad, useless ones. See A theory of regulation in https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-24/metrics-f...
> When science is a partisan issue, what else can you do?

At least when it comes to GMO crops and food, there is a pretty strong anti-science movement in the Democratic Party, too [1]. When more than one third of all currently alive science and medicine Nobel laureates have signed a pro-GMO letter [2], it is pretty strongly anti-science to be anti-GMO.

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/opposition-stalls-gmo...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2...
I used to work for the US HQ for a Swiss owned company. I worked in both offices on occasion with close interaction with both Swiss and American employees (I'm American).

This article is very spot on. What it doesn't mention much of, however, is the difference in what happens during working time. In a typical US office setting, water cooler talk, filing meaningless reports, etc is common. You'll probably have a guy who you're not really sure what he does. You simply don't see much of that in Swiss offices (at in my limited experiences, I'm sure there are exceptions). When it was time to work it was time to Fucking Work. If you're not adding value it is looked down upon. In the US, you kinda just shrug and go back to filing your TPS report.
You have no idea that if "the crash" hits there won't be another one a week later. Timing the market is a fools game. Long term, low cost, investing is the only way to match the market
The problem is the entire class is geared to the slower kids. Since the faster kids learn the entire year's work in the first month or prior to the beginning of the year, the only thing they learn is how to deal with slower kids or amuse themselves quietly. My son read most of the fiction in his elementary school before I took him out to go to a private school.
That's interesting - do you ever take advantage of unpaid leave?
You're confusing packages with classes. Arguably, the same number of package dependencies in Java could mean even more abstraction that's inherited for each.
By Republicans, I didn't mean your average Joe who votes Republican, but people running for office who have to toe the party/big-donor line (regardless of what they believe) or else lose access to support/funding.

I highly doubt all Republicans in Congress don't believe in climate change. But they say what they have to say in order to get the votes they need to stay in Congress, and while they keep saying that, it doesn't make sense for a pro-science group to support them or their ilk.
This is really cool. NamedDict is a useful thing indeed!
Now I'm back in the office with a wired in mouse, it's working fine.
The article reminds me a bit of the Maine School for Science and Mathematics (http://www.mssm.org/). It is a free boarding school run by the state of Maine to support those kids who don't have a school district where they can really get into STEM. Tuition is free if you're from Maine, which is really cool. A great way to support kids in rural areas. It is usually rated one of the top high schools in the country.
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To say nothing of the non-UK businesses who sold goods/services for GBP.
We had an 8-year experiment with a dumber person as President and that also failed pretty spectacularly. He got us involved in a war costing trillions of dollars that was in the wrong country and allowed Wall St to crater the economy. The contrast in the past 8 years with the 8 years that preceded it is pretty stark.

The way I see it, being smart is no guarantee of success. This can be especially true when those intelligent people are misguided in what they aim to achieve. History is replete with people who were very effective in pursuing misguided goals. But that doesn't mean that less-than-intelligent people are well-suited to run government. It just means that we need to choose better from among our intelligent people.
My level of stress at the moment is around 50%, just because I have resigned a couple of days ago.

In the last 3/4 months the level of stress was 100%: a lot of overtime, a lot of nightly works and on duty calls.
Furthermore my manager is part-time (the only case in my whole careeer) and it's under big pressure; the company is in the middle of a big reorganization and there is a lot of politic wars.
Serious question, does this guy actually know how to deal with populism? Chavez died of cancer, he wasn't defeated politically. Current day Venezuela is led by Chavez's former Vice President.
I disagree, he was paraphrasing early 19th century abolitionist Theodore Parker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Parker

Another theologian for sure, but pretty squarely in the context of black rights in the US.
Can you elaborate? Do you avoid stressful situations or just not feel stressed by the kinds of situations that you used to encounter?
> Clojure is untyped, I hear many people praising it but I don't know any big project done in Clojure.

Not sure your standard of big, but:

1. Most of Climate Corporation's (https://climate.com/) backend is written in clojure and they deal truly massive amounts of imaging data and parse/munge it to be useful for their applications.

2. Various places using clojure for various things without details but some of them are likely big https://clojure.org/community/companies and http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/Clojure+Success+Sto....

I'm sure people with first hand experience will chime in too.
I thought the stipends were more like $12k/yr and it was not allowed to seek outside work (though everyone did and had to, to get by).
Deja-vu. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13303544
> Again and again, people are attacking Trump for the wrong reasons. Focus on the truly bad.

I disagree. Attacking him at all is a huge mistake, at least until you/the opposition can offer a credible alternative (which Hillary isn't/wasn't). People will put up with all the bad that Trump is, as long as all the alternatives are worse (and yes, economic reasons will trump moral/social reasons for most people except the most well-off).
Primary moderation on HN is your up/down vote. Anything that is too partisan or is pure propaganda is clear down vote material.

This is not partisan, it applies to either party.
They were not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_United...
As an employer, I am always cautious of guys who was tossed into project and then ran away. Been there, done that. I hired such a guy once, and soon regretted it a lot: not only he was not responsible enough, he only worked 3 months and then jumped away to another job without giving any prior notice. Just my 2 cents from another side of the moon.
Except that it didn't, because it wasn't attempted. Michelle Obama said, when they go low, you go high. Clinton was pretty respectful in the debates. I'm not saying nobody mocked Trump, I'm saying opposing candidate and their close associates didn't. There's a big difference because things that get said in the debates etc. get seen by the opposing camp in a way tribal-affiliated shows and magazines don't.

There's also a difference between taking the piss effectively and just calling people names. E.g. calling Trump a misogynistic idiot isn't funny or persuasive. There was a lot of righteous name calling, but not much satire - from the right people.
I agree that there was a bird flu effect that you describe. Likewise, I always point people at Y2K as being a case in point where a lot of hype created the work that deflated the danger - but lay people could only see the hype.

That said, who worked to make sure that the market didn't crash after Trump got in office?
I read this question as "How would one go about quantifying the level of stress at work?", which is what I was hoping I would read about after the click.

In a world where metrics are useful for everything, I feel like a time-series graph showing relative stress levels time would be really illuminating.
But is migration the direct cause of other people losing out financially?

UKIP know that a lot of people are racist and only too happy to have a finger to point at whatever scapegoat sounds believable to them.
Great article but it fails to address a key point of this type of revolutions (I've lived through a couple). Upset people don't like listening to reason. They want relief ( even the promise of it.)
They're also irresponsible and blame others (Russian hackers).

Like children who grew up being sheltered, then came to college and saw protesting (blaming others) is the answer.
In the US, major infrastructure projects are routinely much, much more expensive [1][2][3][4][5] than anywhere else.

Without details, I'm skeptical of how Musk intends to solve this problem. Of course, he doesn't have to. If he merely intends to absorb as much PPP/government spending as possible -- like partially does now with SpaceX -- then it could still be a sound business model. This works out rather well for the likes of other infrastructure companies like Fluor, Skanska, Strabag, and many more -- companies that are hardly household names, but form consortiums to construct just about every major infrastructure project we have today.

I wouldn't put it Musk to try to explore using as minimal human labor as possible and deploy completely automatic Tunnel Boring Machines, enabling him to underbid everyone and win contracts. Then with a few projects under his belt, and a few construction journals writing about his company's innovations, his company will achieve name recognition on a level that few construction companies have. This will confer prestige to projects he's worked on, potentially making it an non-negligible selection criteria, especially in countries where prestige and demonstrating being on the cutting-edge is held in high regard.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-04-08/why-u-s-i...
[2] http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/06/how-much-bang-...
[3] https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/us-r...
[4] https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/comp...
[5] http://theweek.com/articles/449646/why-expensive-build-bridg...
Windows Defender misses a lot of malware and drive by toolbar installs. I bought licenses of ESET Smart Security for everyone in my immediate family about 3 years ago. They were on Windows Defender before. The number of calls about "my internet isn't working" has dropped to 0 since I rolled out ESET.
This gets a thumps-up from me. I love REPLs in general, and I think it's pretty sweet that Java is getting JShell. It's great for beginners, but also for any level for experimenting with ideas and APIs.
For what it's worth 314 Action is more about supporting 4 issues: http://www.314action.org/issues/

The headline is a little misleading, but this isn't actually a "support scientists, in general, running for office," but rather "support specific scientists running for office who support the issues 314 wants to address."
Thanks for the feedback, I'm actually considering a couple of options to make it easier to read right now
I meant that they work for the individual, a child sent to a grammar school will get a solid education.

I take your point about the wider ramifications, but I feel as though I got a good education, and if I ever have kids, I would want them to go to a grammar school too.
So your concerns demand a fix while others' deserve this kind of dismissive treatment? I don't see how that's any better.
I refer people to my previous comments on the politics of immigration, where people pretty much admit that it's not about immigration status (which you can't see) but ethnicity (which you can). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13470571

There are real economic problems, and the press have been quite effective at blaming them on immigration when really they're more due to inequality.

> Trump succeeds and does a good job

Succeeds for whom? Different people want very different things, that's where politics comes from in the first place. What would "success" look like? How much global warming does it include?

For some Americans, the executive order banning entry for a list of nationalities means that their spouses can never leave the country again and are at greatly increased risk of being deported.

(There's a similar argument happening in the UK where "success" for some people means unemployment for others, or even being obliged to leave the country)
Okay, so the problem arises due to:

* bad luck so a signedness issue doesn't cause a warning

* the use of the worst possible value as the invalid value

* no testing

* no defense in depth: no other component in the system appears to notice a file with such a dangerous mode set
Or the 8 men on the K-19 Widowmaker submarine who had to repair their reactor knowing it meant certain death.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3136111.stm
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At least as of a month or so ago it was plainly obvious that Mac is a third level supported platform here.
Alright, Hank Rearden. Let's see you build a steel plant by yourself, starting with two coconuts and a bit of twine. Then we'll talk about your God-given property rights. In the meantime, as long as we rely on the patent system, banking system, courts, and police to build and maintain our businesses, I'm fine with the government coming and 'stealing' some of our profits.
Maintaining the loyalty of those you invite to protect you can be a bit tricky - according to one source that's how the Anglo Saxons were invited to what became England to help protect a post Roman society of Britons from attacks from what is now Scotland (Picts and Dalriadic Scots):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_settlement_of_Brit...

I'd expect the loyalty to a rich employer would last right up to the point where money becomes worthless - after that exactly what bargaining power would a rich person have? Up to a certain point in history you achieved and maintained royal status largely by being a stupendous bad-ass...
We love to overestimate the short term impact and underestimate the long term impact of events.

Brexit probably will have large negative effects on the UK's economy... but it will take a long time to figure that out.

Some of Trump's policies are also likely to do long-term damage, but not in the short term.
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Right. It was basically already at 20k (19,963.8) on Jan 6, with two weeks left for Obama's Presidency.
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If that last part is true then we're in for a correction.
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Luckily for her, her glasses have virgin detection so she leaves after the first drink.
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> We're told if it's kosher.

Does USA have mandatory kosher labeling on foods?
Brexit hasn't happened yet. The vote happened, but the U.K. has not yet left the E.U.
Upstart is not actually dependency based, it's event based. Which is similar but not exactly the same.

It's worth mentioning that the -idea- of systemd if limited to replacing pid 1 with a more reasonable system and something akin to unit files is an excellent one and would be an improvement on OpenRC. Sadly as many have noted systemd come with a lot of very very bad side effects..
If you're self employed who pays 100 days of salary? Does it come from the government and, if so, wouldn't it be very easy to game that system by paying yourself a high salary just prior to taking leave?
Of course. It's her job to entertain her audience.

But that audience is free to ask for less focus on the insubstantial.
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And in 2015 (although that source article has since disappeared): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9987816
Yes. Everywhere "populism" is used as an insult for political parties that actually listen to people and intent to do as the population wants, as opposed to established parties that mainly keep their power because of intertia and are getting more and more disconnected from their voters.

Populism is how democracy is supposed to work.
The problem in the US is that there is no clear majority. Let's be clear, there are more than 2 parties, but the ultimate choice is completely binary: REP||DEM. The one who can dance in the media the best, wins.

It is all a load of bullshit.
This is true for large corporations, but smaller startups that is not the case. Smaller companies have everybody wearing multiple hats. Nobody sits around, and if they do, it's time to ask them to leave.
There's no real evidence that the President has much of an influence on the economy.
I was referring to the predictions about market impacts.
They learn to deal with slow-learning kids at the cost of not learning from a slower paced class at all. The negatives outweigh the positives for the gifted kids.
Definitely, most people do. I now have Parenting leave so it's less needed (the 1000 hours), I take it regularly. This arrangement ensures that I can always get my 1 FTE back when I finish the 1000 hours. Currently I take 8 hrs every two weeks roughly. I use it to have some time for myself when the kids are at school, others go for 1 month summer vacation and come back to still have a week of skying and two weeks around Christmas, although we get the 25th and 26th of December off anyway, do you? Then there is kingsday, easter, ascension day, are those days off in the US as well?
Its quite clear that you don't just tell the public something the moment you start planning it. It's not as if apple announce a fancy new bit of tech then invent them.

He clearly has been planning it for a while.
No offense, but 100% stress would mean it is not possible to feel any more stressed. To me, it brings to mind an ER surgeon or fighter pilot. Lives are on the line.

100% should be a breaking point. It sounds like you've accepted your situation if you've only found 2 companies that have quiet work spaces, and if moving isn't an option. Are you going to spend your working life at this job, redlining it at 100%?
It oscillates as a square wave between 0% and 100% depending on what's on fire, what's due, and who I have to deal with.

There's significantly more 0%s than 100%s though. Probably close to 5:1.
Why not launch your own? https://sporestack.com/launch/vpn
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I was being mostly sarcastic as that is the actual "life" of a software developer so it's not shocking to me why many wouldn't be intrinsically motivated.
I think the problem is just that already-insecure teenagers from background they feel insecure about are at institutions that make them feel even more insecure.

I agree we should be more open about money, but I think it's just hard when you're at that point in life.

It's from a starting point of privilege now that I make a good living, but I make it a point to say "I'm not sure I want to spend that much money" if friends talk about plans that don't strike me as worth it... rather than make some other excuse.
> Cannabis use is likely to increase the risk of developing schizophrenia and other psychoses; the higher the use the greater the risk.

Very scary! I wonder if age influences this.

This is really weird though:

> In individuals with schizophrenia and other psychoses, a history of cannabis use may be linked to better performance on learning and memory tasks.

Especially given the Psychosocial conclusions that:

> Recent cannabis use impairs the performance in cognitive domains of learning, memory, and attention.

And

> A limited number of studies suggest that there are impairments in cognitive domains of learning, memory, and attention in individuals who have stopped smoking cannabis.