skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They are not underemployed, they prefer not to work. Go read the article I linked.

"Prefer not to work" is not a reasonable summary of the article. "Receive no benefit from working" is the real problem.

Not only do low income people in the US lose almost all of their earnings to government benefits phase outs, taking a job incurs expenses. You need transportation to the job, potentially to move to an area with an overall higher cost of living, pay someone to do things you can no longer do yourself because you're busy working, etc.

The result is that for low income people in the US, taking a job can easily cause you to lose money.

Which is the thing a UBI fixes, because there is no phase out other than normal taxes, so you keep >=70% of your earnings and taking a job will actually put more money in your pocket.
The cop dropping him on his face was horrible, but AFAIK everything up until that point was the correct course of action. The kid was refusing lawful orders. If a cop asks you to do something (which is what all the 'border' checkpoints show, often with clever wording), you can refuse. If a cop orders you to do something, you can't refuse.

Before someone comments about lawful orders, it's a complex topic and you're welcome to fight it in the Supreme Court, but in general I'm just going to obey police orders.
Except now you have a big dead space in your city which you need to work around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul#/media/File:Hangeul_let... suggests that ㅔ represents 'e' and 'ㅐ' represents 'ae'. The differences between these sounds may be difficult for someone who isn't accustom to the sounds to distinguish.

Compare the Japanese with the difficulty of 'l' vs 'r'. And an obligatory Babylon 5 scene with Zathras - https://youtu.be/1j-76eLz1hc?t=1m40s
Arbitrary command execution in TeX distributions
Malux85, this is a really cool idea and I just bookmarked it, I'd love to give it a test spin. Only feedback so far is that I had trouble remembering the name...do you have a mnemonic device or something like that to help folks keep it in mind?
Because Earth already has a magnetic field.
Well, a few generations ago, Men were OK with being in that kind of relationships. In fact, it was a culturally enforced value that the "Man should pay for everything" and it seemed to work fine.

I agree with your premise that unequal incomes (especially if they are glaring) can be a significant barrier to relationships. But what if e.g. the woman makes enough for the both of them, and all she is looking for in a partner is emotional well being, someone to talk/share activities etc.

So its not just a money thing IMO. It seems like the US culture has still not adopted to the economic realities of today. And it hurts everyone: a woman may know that she doesn't care about income differences and wants a partner for other reasons, but she will be dissuaded from pursuing such relationships by her friends/family etc.
As a Korean, I found this hilarious because it's complete gibberish yet you can totally read it out loud.
US Supreme court says a balancing test applies because there isn't much inconvenience. [0]

[0] http://traffic.findlaw.com/traffic-stops/are-dui-checkpoints...
Israel Officially Decriminalizes Marijuana Use
> Self-driving cars should try to avoid collisions regardless of fault and should not adjust that behavior based on who the local liability laws will hold responsible.

In this specific case the issue was that the car didn't handle what seems like an unremarkable case where the bicycle was moving normally.

That said, driverless technology that can't handle special cases like bicycles doing something unexpected is not ready for prime time. After reading Ghosn's comments it makes me wonder how he would feel about a kid running out into the street after a ball.
The fact that I still had to do 3 hours worth of updates and restarts after fresh install is beyond me.

Install (only) MS Word - - another cycle of updates. Restart, check updates, more updates!!! It's just insane. Why does it download Outlook spam filter update, 100mb?I don't have Outlook installed, I only wanted freaking MS Word.
Instacart price breakdown via in-store receipt comparison
Statistical models doesn't mean that there is no predictive power.

If we look at a (perfectly random) coin flip we can predict a 50% chance of heads. We can also predict the likelihood of distributions of values over x flips. If the system we are modeling is inherently statistical we would expect our prediction to be statistical.

You are also confusing the fact that the stuff in physics that isn't statistical in nature has extreme precision. Think of how well we know the orbits of planets.
I'd be curious if you are looking at laptops which ones you are looking at to run Arch on as a replacement. I'm in a similar boat.
Jupiter is 5.2 times farther from the Sun than the Earth. Thanks to the inverse square law, it gets 3.7% of the sunlight that Earth does. You won't be growing any plants there, and solar electric is going to be terrible.

Saturn, which Titan orbits, is 9.6 times farther, and receives 1% of the sunlight that Earth receives.

Mars is much better at 1.5 times farther, and receiving 44% of the sunlight that Earth does.

Also, Titan averages -179C compared to Mars' range from -125C up to 20C.
I don't think it's "Mac vs Windows" specifically. It's more that the compelling advantages that the Mac once had over _every_ other platform are being eaten away.

My first Mac was in 1992 (a IIsi). Since then every computer I've bought (servers aside) has been a Mac.

Last week my MBP died. The battery overheated and 'burst', taking the case and trackpad with it. I'll still have a Mac desktop for development and cartography, but I need a laptop, and I simply can't justify £1250 for a MacBook.

Instead, for the first time in 25 years, I'm buying something else: a Chromebook, on which I'll install Ubuntu. It's pretty much the same weight (1.19kg vs 0.91kg) and size; it does word processing, web browsing, PDF viewing, and Ruby hacking just fine; and it costs £1,000 less. Sure, the performance is much, much worse, but for my uses that's fine.
Important in order to avoid the future Sagan predicted, I'd guess
$20 and an Algorithm Could Save Your Teen from a Heart Attack
> After three years, you'd be hard pressed to give away a Windows machine

Because they actually update the hardware...
"rent seeking" and capitalism only differ in that a rent seeker strives to rig the system to maintain for themselves a profit whereas in capitalism it is assume that all profits will drop to zero with competition, and one must chart new territory to regain profitability. Hence if you can maintain your profit (like Apple) then you are probably a rent seeker and not a capitalist.
Curious why Mars and not the Earth's moon, seems to be the prime target for colonization?
I pretty much regard "well, sexual pressures on evolution!" to be the biologist's cop-out answer when they don't actually know what's going on.

I am male, and I would not want to date a woman who spends all day watching TV and nothing else, either.
I spent apprx. $2500 on a returned Lenovo workstation (box hasn't been opened) maybe 1.5 years ago. It has 64G ECC RAM and 20 physical cores, but it also has a lot of room for expansion (it can, theoretically, have 768G RAM).

I don't need to sell this in 1.5 years, probably not in 3-4 years. After 5 years, it'll certainly worth >$1000.
On a slight tangent, anyone else really annoyed by the articles which seem to be "company profiles" but really are PR puff pieces. They masquered as real journalism but they feel like content spoon fed by the company's PR manager. They tend to be at publications like Fast company, Techcrunch, and business insider. Anyone have a way to filter out puff pieces? I have been thinking about building an algorithm since these pieces now filter into more reputable sources like WSJ and Nytimes too.
I still search ebay for a3000s and a4000s every now and then. I want both. I think the machine I want more than anything is an A4000 with a video toaster. But 3000s and 4000s don't come along very often (at least in my country) and they're expensive when they do. And back when they were current I couldn't afford one. I'd also love to get my hands on ab X1000, but they were ridiculously expensive and I couldn't justify the cost, as much as I'd love to have an Amiga OS 4 machine.

I actually also have an A600HD. Was my first Amiga. Great machine. The Vampire II looks cool but I'd need another 600 to put it in - my current A600 is a collection piece and is staying stock (except for things you can plug into it like compact flash / SD card adapters).
Because why abandon anything if it's better than the alternatives?
Take away their video games and drugs, and see what you end up with. Their video game addiction is obviously a sign of deep, fundamental and overwhelming distress. I think you're going for the "they're victims too, not violent inhumane monsters" which is true, but doesn't take away from GP's point that they're potentially volatile and therefore a threat to stability.
Don't forget the BBC Micro - hugely popular in schools and at home, at least in Australia and the UK. The first computer I used was a Beeb :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro
Yes, my question was actually aimed at the second part of the sentence which seemed to suggest that there was a bijection between sounds and symbols.

Either way, I can see how what you're saying makes sense.
Why is arch so popular among switchers?

It is not very user friendly and requires manual work to set up unlike, say, ubuntu
I am a developer on macOS who feels like I'm not getting the things I'd like to see out of Apple (real new Pro machines most specifically.)

But saying that Windows 10 is so much better than Sierra doesn't hold water for me. It's laden with spyware that is difficult to turn off, and even when you manage to, the next update turns it back on and changes what you have to do to disable it. Windows 10 is the most user abusing operating system in history. It's just that it does it in ways that are less obvious than Vista or Windows 8, on the surface (no pun intended) it seems all is good.

Microsoft is doing some good things with open source and making things like Code. But I can't abide the aggressive spyware.
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>Make it sexy to be a poet, writer, singer, househusband, whatever, derive personal/interpersonal value from something other than a career.

I would dearly love to believe this is possible, but I fear it's not. I don't think (most) women are capable of overcoming their programming to seek a high-status provider.
There are good cross platform options for most of what you mention. I just finished switching from Mac to Fedora 25 and aside from having to covert from 1Password to LastPass or from Paw to Postman...it's been pretty painless. I expected I'd be reaching for the Mac regularly and it's just been sitting in my backpack.
Are We Breaking the Internet?
While I am not fully on board with all of the negatives he mentions about Apple (and would add one of my own, XCode), Microsoft is doing a great job of becoming more relevant to developers who prefer nx tooling.

Things like Homebrew have given Microsoft a very clear feature roadmap for achieving parity with Apple in most open source development stuff.

At this rate it won't be long before nearly anyone using open source tooling will likely be indifferent between OSX and Windows 10. This is great news for everyone.
Civics courses are and were little more than rote indoctrination in the status quo. It makes you appreciate the political system. (E.g., take them in the UK and you will learn how great monarchy is.) But our current education policy has less civics now.
How to Beat Writer's Block in Easy Steps [comic]
These are often not kids of the lower-classes, who are more likely to end up on the streets caught up in crime than in their bedroom playing video games. It's the middle or even upper middle class children often doing this, not just for economic reasons.
I see a lot of concepts simply borrowed from Cosmos, rewriting it and seeking copyright - Especially the IL2Native compiler is very similar.
>If the tables had turned, then men would be systematically be kept out of jobs, particularly high paying careers.

hundreds of thousands of men that we have imprisoned, thousands of men with mental health issues and drug addictions. men that took a wrong turn in life and ended up homeless, destitute or in the prison.

These men have been systematically kept out of jobs. There has to be special kind of hypocrisy in action to conclude society influences women's choices( eg: giving them barbie/pink toys) and prevents them from having a STEM career and yet turn around and say men at bottom belong there because of their own failings. Men at the bottom must pay the price for the 'privilege' enjoyed by men at top.

According to the narrative, a rich woman is 'systematically be kept out of jobs' while a poor boy man in a war/drug-torn urban environment is not. I just hate this line of thought so much.

Sex is not a deterrent to one's success in todays America, parental income is, a privilege that can be precisely measured.
> I wont buy a laptop without a magsafe or similar connection

What about wireless charging? I see magsafe as deprecated and only Macbook air has it now.
I'm kinda curious what they said.
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Copyright Troll Sues Tor Exit Node, Gets Partial Win
> Same for memory compression (which only exists on the Mac IIRC) and continuity (which would be useful even if it only worked from Mac to Mac).

Windows 10 has memory compression.
> Middle America's stubborn refusal to move forward

This is a form of name-calling, which the site guidelines ask you not to do: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Thats how you reach a local maxima.
Gigster finally gets sued
I don't find it flawed at all. The Public Works Administration (PWA) during the depression put many able-bodied men (and women?) to work, and built many public facilities - including parks - that we all benefit from today. I don' think the men and women who participated in PWA considered it "soul destroyingly meaningless". But perhaps there was a different work ethic then.
I know multiple people who regularly buy 3-5 year old Lenovos.

Not at 50% of the original price, but still...
Yes, seems ok for me too now.
Okay, let’s give this article the proper headline: you are returning to Windows after just a couple of years, “a life-long Windows user” (from article). You basically were on the Mac for a single product generation.

Also, you’ve conveniently left out a hell of a lot about what’s wrong with Windows 10, starting with the utterly insane way that Microsoft shoehorned it onto most people’s systems. Microsoft has done well, and they have made some reasonable moves for developers but you have some fog-covered glasses here.
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Read them and weep. https://intelligence.org/research-guide/
How does paw compare to postman?
No, even in theory there's an advantage to having information only available at runtime. Some optimizations depend on the probability distribution of data coming in (eg. an optimization for a CSV parser that makes it faster when dealing with well-formed CSVs that would slow the program down if it starts getting a lot of mis-formatted CSVs). The compiler can choose one or the other, but not both. The JVM can effectively choose both by deciding during execution.

If the compiler is allowed to embed a JIT or other runtime system, then all bets are off.
While I don't want to hijack the op's thread, I would like to hear more about the advantages of the mac. I listen to some mac-centric podcasts and hear them complain about the current state of the mac so much but when they mention windows they just say vague things like "but windows is worse." So what is better about a mac?

To give more detail on my use case: I'm not a developer so things like terminal or unix don't really matter to me. And I don't think I've had a virus since the 90s.
I will quit my job in a few days.

There are two opportunities I am pursuing. One is to be a CTO in a nascent startup foundry; I would be co-founding, in a way, but there is one main person leading the initiative and therefore it wouldn't be a "solo founder" type of thing. It might happen. I am not going to talk about this one now.

The second opportunity/idea, however, is something I would do by myself for now, as a solo founder. It is about solving the problems that current cities have, by eventually being able to build a new city in a better way. Yes: taking a piece of land, and building a new city there, from scratch. Hopefully not too far away from existing hospitals, airports, schools, but far away enough that there is a lot of room to build new stuff. I would like this place to be sustainable, affordable, and a great place to live.

Every time I say this, I realize how nearly impossible this sounds. I have read a ton, wrote a ton, studied a ton, and spoke to several people, some of which could be good co-founding candidates, but none of which has shown interest in joining me as a founder.

I feel that the problem is evident, and I see a few serious "struggles" for me right now:

1) I am alone. Nobody to share the burden with. Being a solo founder, being alone feels harder, because you regularly have "down" moments and nobody is there to cheer you up.

2) The task feels unsurmountable. I fully realize how difficult it is to "eventually" build a new city; there are so many barriers, so many delays, so many friction points.

It still feels unsormountable, despite there seem to be a huge market for a radical new way to "interpret" city living, both for existing cities, and for new ones. There's going to be 60 million more "citizens" in the US in the coming decades, which means "demand" for new places to live (either in existing cities, or new ones) is strong. Worldwide that number is 1.5B more people living in cities by 2030 (or 2035?).

3) I am working on an idea that has is massively capital intensive - and I am not a billionaire. Convincing people to invest in this is going to be insanely hard.

4) Last, but not least, personal life is not too easy at the moment; I have no really hard issue to handle, but I am not the happiest guy on Earth either.

I could go on forever, but... I feel this is enough color to give you an idea.
59.2% is quite misleading because it includes students and retirees. The next two paragraphs from your own source[1] say:

One reason for the difference is that the share of Americans saying they
don’t want a job has trended up since the Great Recession: from 31.9% of
the working-age population in October 2008 to 34.6% last month (on a
non-seasonally adjusted basis). Some of that increase, though, may be due
to Baby Boomers reaching retirement age; as they leave the workforce over
the next several years, labor economists expect the employment-to-population
ratio to trend lower. Young adults staying in or returning to school also
may be a factor.

So if we look at just the 25-to-54 age group, which strips out most students
and retirees, the employment-to-population ratio has been slowly improving
since it bottomed out at 74.6% (not seasonally adjusted) in February 2011.
Last month, 77.3% of all 25-to-54-year-olds were employed, which is well below
the indicator’s pre-recession high in October 2006, when 80.7% of people in
this age group were employed.

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/11/07/employment-v...
The language of science has shifted before; I don't think it's reasonable to assume it won't again.

Then again, English might stay around as a, well, legacy language. I could imagine someone a few hundred years from now studying archaic english, in preparation for a dive into the kernel or whatever. Then again, computer translation will probably have gotten good enough that it won't be necessary.
The cost of landlord insurance to protect against delinquent tenants is surely passed on to renters though, driving up the rents as well and maybe contributing to the empty homes problem as nobody can afford to live there.

Vancouver has bypassed the lengthy process of eviction and limits on rent increases with landlords now forcing you to sign yearly contracts with clauses that specify you agree to move out on the day the lease expires, so they can increase the rent however much they wish or toss you out more easily. I have yet to find anywhere that doesn't dangle this yearly lease scheme so I have to now plan a vacation week around lease negotiation time in case they skyrocket it and I'm forced to move.
See dang's reply. I don't know much about Iceland, so I can't comment there. The UK has a very strong history of banning "socially dangerous" material. Not only did you imagine an outrage against a hypothetical "Magic Melissa," and not only does such a movie actually exist and received none of that outrage, but the whole thought exercise directly contradicts your premise that western culture is obsessed with shaming men.

One huge problem, at least in the US, is the cult of social justice. By cult, I mean there is a status hierarchy among the social justice warriors; those at the top consistently shame and abuse perceived enemies, internal and external, and they operate with a high degree of secrecy while putting on a front of transparency (hence the constant Twittering). It is not "women of the west" attacking men, it is SJWs using the old and well understand tactics of high-control groups. Why were self-proclaimed feminists recently attacking Emma Watson and trying to dictate what she is and isn't allowed to do?
Except dystopia isn't "everyone lives in a bad, mean world". It's societal dislocation. For some, the dystopia is real, right now. For others, it never will be.
I live in Linux world (Archville with visits over the border to Debiana). I admit getting things ideal takes a while and every 9 or 10 months something melts down but the cost is a couple of days here or there.

The cost of Mac or Windows is cumulatively huge for me: on both I regularly sit wondering when some incidental operation will end.
You are making things up.

According to people who seen the phones the are similar to the old Lumia line by Nokia. Guess why that is??
> Oh please. Not this again.

Exactly. Honestly it's linkbate nonsense. Sucks you in like a car crash on the side of the road or a hockey fight.
But everything in the universe is caused by something else. Why go through to original causes in some cases and not in others?
Wireless charging is horribly inefficient...IIRC there aren't even any that go over 10W.

Magsafe may be deprecated by Apple, but that's a step backwards in functionality. One cannot deny that using USB C for charging is inferior in terms of protecting the device.
Yes.... And I would choose NOT to apply to such a company, because F them.
I think it already is sexy to be a poet/writer/singer/whatever... those single women who don't want to marry are getting pregnant with "non-marriagable" men, after all. It becomes a question of, why become economically tied to these sexy losers.
It's extremely hard for the US to regulate those places. It's true we can do things like raise tariffs on goods coming from those areas or something but that's unlikely to have the intended effect.

On the other side China and India are both pursuing renewable energy faster than the US.
Why can't you have a one (two w/ 180 deg) phase cooker?