skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a cynical note, "young men immersed in alternate reality" is also an opportunity:

- It's a rapidly growing market

- those people will eventually need financial support systems beyond family - new forms of annuities?

- more demand for "gig economy" type jobs

- demand for jobs that can be done inside virtual realities that are better suited for humans instead of robots - this one is a stretch

- more demand for on-demand "life support" services - food, cleaning, medical, sex

This is veering into dark-ish dystopian territory, so imma stop now.
Extortion is enabled by the previous rounds of victims paying up, so it's an endless cycle that simply won't stop until people stand their ground.

> If you're interested in covering the financial costs associated with fighting these suits please let me know.

I'm well aware of that, there were years when I paid more to the lawyers than to the tech department. Still, overall it was worth it. Big factor in our survival was that we had an EU parent company rather than one on the far side of the Atlantic.

Even so, I refuse to be extorted.
What you're describing (low taxes as an incentive to work) is a libertarian argument for small government. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but it's the opposite of UBI which requires a per capita tax equal to the per capita basic income.
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Obviously. Except that they have lobbied to pass laws to prevent competition and screw American consumers.
Racist, sexist and bigoted people exist in all communities.

You have a demographic represented by mostly people who are highly active in online communities, it's entirely unsurprising that a lot of unsavory opinions are seen.

The LGBTQI community has to deal with trans-phobic people who would call themselves queer, feminists try protect their cause from those who want anything but equality, political party's have to constantly fight their own members to maintain image.

No one community will ever be free of people who hold onto what you may consider to be abhorrent opinions.
Alcoholism is certainly still a thing, but there is a generation of young people these days who simply aren't drinking. Some do, and do so to an excess, but something like like half of collage-educated young people just don't. It isn't religion or ideology and so they aren't shouting it from rooftops. They just don't want to drink. For me it started at university. I was riding a motorcycle to class and a job with insane hours (film/TV). Drinking wasn't a practical option. (Riding in pouring rain, on a fiday night night, after 20+ hours of class and work... I would not have survived long.) Without making any decisions either way, one day I realized I hadn't had a drink in over a year.

"The proportion of 16-24-year-olds who do not drink increased by more than 40 per cent between 2005 and 2013. Today, one in five is teetotal."

"...wet sales at student union bars have dived in the last 10-15 years."

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/featu...
A small number of gamers are productive, just as a small number of artists are. Most aren't.
It is all about balance. I know several young adults who are smart, educated, and successful (for their age) and yet spend what for me is way too much time playing video games. But to them it is not just a game - it's another serious pursuit. And they make several to ten thousand dollars a year gaming.
I believe Russia uses FL measurements since a few years ago.
Wings generate lift primarily by deflecting air downward. There is an area of low pressure over the wing where air is taking a longer path than under the wing, but that is only responsible for a small fraction of the lift.
> As in: In the subversion days, many people commited only few times a day, sometimes not for several days.

This was often the source of merge hell. Half of what makes git merges easier is the smaller commits that it encourages.
I imagine it's going to be more like a handful of kleptocrat authoritarians, a small class of knowledge workers, and the rest are the shock troops of the above or the people who's heads their cracking for even thinking about rebelling.
You don't need to go rural. Just don't expect to live in a great house in a city.

Source: was a uni student for 10 years and survived.
how does a bar chart with no y-axis label show any trend? scale could be $100-101/mo
>There's plenty of land in the United States, and plenty of cities that have hardly been met with the "hoarding" you mention.

It doesn't matter how cheap the land/housing is if you can't get a job while living on it.

I'd love to be in a world where geography doesn't matter and everyone can work remotely. For now, only a small and elite subset of software engineers can pull US cost of living (even rural cost of living) from remote work.
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philosophy of mathematics? The argument to closing off areas goes both ways. FP, I guess, was really just used as analogy.
Your objective is to get a paycheck. It doesn't have to be more complicated than that. Then, use your off time do things more important to you.
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This is great, thanks for the writeup! We are actually building something quite similar. We have a rough landing page up at hireross.com. Airbnb folks, I'd love to chat if you're up for it. Just to learn more. email is at the bottom of the landing page.
You can't invent something like sexism, but some feminists did contribute to generating extra hatred towards the male gender.

The hate on all sides is understandable, but in the end, we all lose.
How else do you think grandma stores her priceless porcelain dolls and collectible thimbles? In that giant house that cost a year's salary when she got it, that's where.
Technically, a flight level isn't a distance measurement at all. It's defined by atmospheric pressure, so that all planes use the same "ground" barometer by definition. The feet are expressed nominally relative to a standard sea level pressure.
> Video games are relatively cheap for the amount of time you can spend on them.

This has far-reaching consequences. With most goods, the consumer has to keep consuming (and thus creating demand). There's major concerns whether or not we can keep enough people working (and buying things) to keep the economy going, and video games don't contribute as much to aggregate demand. With an economic system that depends on continuous growth, we are trying to simultaneously squeeze more labor out of people while reducing the value of what people get out of it. This contradiction doesn't come with new luxury goods, but is a contradiction within capitalism that has been well described for almost two centuries: the dual nature of labour as capital and labour as a commodity.

>They are confusing correlation with causation.

Actually, this is one of the biggest questions of the paper cited, so the authors are not oblivious.
Ok, it was started by a former MS exec and funded by Gates... that's shitty, but Microsoft has lots of former employees and I'm sure Gates invests in lots of things. For all we know it was a family office investment that he wasn't even aware of... or the dude was a friend or something.

Microsoft doesn't have a stake in the company nor do they provide the company with any assistance..? Unless there's more to the story I think it's kind of a stretch to say that this is a Microsoft operation. According to Wikipedia they've actually _sued_ Microsoft.
Gnu Parallel ?
Have you looked into kubernetes?
> As soon as we became aware of it on Monday, we reached out to Taylor to apologize for the email and reschedule her interview

Yes, I'm sure that interview will go fine and they won't find anymore "culture fit" issues /s
When you look at UBI, you can consider it as the government supplying a "default job" to everyone, in the same sort of way it provides a few other "defaults" - mail (USPS) being a good example.

This provides a "minimum competition" against which any company must compete - FedEx is always going to have to be better than the USPS.

So notionally - if UBI provides a "default job", companies will have to offer better jobs than that, in order to attract any employees at all.

Except this article is pointing out that for a chunk of the population, that effect is already here, supplied by video games. The job (compensation considered) must be less shitty than playing video games all day.
I don't think you've been paying attention. All the major payers Health IT vendors have analytics as good as anything at MS or Google, to the point where it's almost becoming a commodity rather than a real differentiator. Yes provider organizations are behind the curve in actually using those tools due to misaligned incentives but adding another vendor to the market won't solve that problem.

Payers have no interest in driving drug development. It wouldn't give them any competitive advantage. It's not like they could restrict sales of a new drug to only their own members! And most payers are providing very little "insurance" now anyway. Mostly they just process claims on behalf of self-insured group buyers.

And the notion of those companies getting into medical insurance or drug development is just ludicrous. Their corporate boards would laugh the idea out of the room.
I don't fully understand the question.

clair does static analysis

vuls uses a package manager and changelogs
Its clear that you are really passionate about this, however I don't think saying stuff like that helps. The respondent went so far as to describe a very reasonable scenario in which his company was outmatched by the litigant insofar as their willingness to lose money.

I don't think that should be vilified.

100% success rate when and if they stuck to the end

Except your "success rate" doesn't include things you can't get back, like time and effort which is crucial for a startup - even in the unlikely case that you get your attorney's fees back.
I think you underestimate the time someone who would play a game for 6 hours would spend watching porn (hint: it's probably closer to 6 hours).

Would you rather have your daughter date a guy who has skewed opinions on how to impress a girl, based on video games, or a guy who has skewed opinions on how enjoyable anal fisting is on average, based on pornography?
This is what happened in Japan in the mid 1990s when it firmly entered the post-industrial age. There's an entire sector of society that's given up on getting ahead because the old model of employment is broken, and there's no point in fighting to get ahead since there's no winning.

Console games and ramen noodles until you die.
Lots of jobs produce pollution because it makes someone money.

Lots more jobs (medical billers) exist mostly in opposition of other people (insurance adjusters).
I see my website [0], where I teach React and JavaScript, as my personal project. It is time consuming, but in the end rewarding. Only some of the benefits I see:

- improve communication skills

- learn yourself by teaching others

- it's open source, you give something back

- maybe it is even good for your employer

- personal branding, enhance own credibility

- [0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/
You lock your doors because you don't trust your _neighbors_? That's madness.

Companies often face legal requirements that your data is truly gone, e.g. see the European Union's Data Protection Directive. So it's not just a pinky swear -- there is some legal force behind it. (Which happens to be true for the neighbor situation as well, so you really don't need to get pinky swears from everyone.)
Exactly, do the grunt work. Get a job in the Midwest if you need to, grind it out and get to be mid-level, then be the jobs will be calling you.
> Except your "success rate" doesn't include things you can't get back, like time and effort which is crucial for a startup - even in the unlikely case that you get your attorney's fees back.

That I'll readily agree with. Still, I absolutely believe that settling with these jerks is making the problem much worse.
like these

https://www.google.com/search?q=at%26t+blocks+google+fiber&o...

and these

https://www.google.com/search?q=comcast+blocks+google+fiber&...
Inside the Social Media Lives of Teens
When ‘he’ll be kept on payroll, somewhere’ is where you are
Do PDFs have to be so frustrating?
I'm a 26 year old male and never got any deeper into video games than some intense rounds of Mario Kart in college. I've played others but generally lose interest and move on quickly. Doubt I've played a video game in a few years at this point. What follows is likely senseless babbling and bullshit armchair pop psychology.

The prevalence of video games among young men frightens me, in two ways:

First, in the development of narcissism in teens. In so many video games, you play the hero—the one man left who can save the world! The fate of everything rests on you and you alone for those hours while you're plugged in. Pumping music, suspense, surprise and eventually reward. How can this not fuel the development of narcissism amongst growing boys? You play as the only person who can succeed and you're rewarded for that success, but without real-world troubles like concern for others' feelings. No, I'm not a psychiatrist, but can't we imagine that at least some boys become addicted to that sensation?

My hypothesis is that video games in boys and teens can fuel narcissistic disorders. Not in all, but in some.

That leads us to the second reason I'm frightened of the prevalence of video games.

I recognize that as a man in a burgeoning industry (software) and a dynamic city (Boulder/Denver), I'm not subject to the same economic pressures as the average American male my age.

My concern is that (by my first theory) we have a growing group of young men with narcissism problems. They are also coming of age in an economy which increasingly doesn't need them. Their job—and therefore romantic—prospects are poor.

A large group of narcissistic men unable to find recognition at work or in love, yearning for the reward stimulation they once got from their Xbox. Most will muddle along, merely dissatisfied.

Narcissists, of course, do not blame themselves for their problems. Those are the fault of others.

So is it that much of a leap to imagine how this fuels movements like the alt-right? Certainly, unemployed men have been a source of strife throughout history. When I read the rhetoric of the alt-right, either their leaders or those who subscribe to the philosophy, it's impossible not to hear the language of revenge and envy.

Revenge against not just successful individuals—those with careers, love, success, recognition, fueled by petty envy—but also revenge against the entire system that now conspires, supposedly, against these men, preventing them from achieving their proper position and the recognition they deserve.

They see a society celebrating women, minorities, the educated, the talented and crave the same. Society does not celebrate them. So that society, therefore, must be abolished.

Men are growing up with a desire for recognition, they are failing to find that recognition and that leads them to lash out.

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Thus endeth my theory.

It's probably a load of crap. But I'm also sure it describes some posters here on HN. I know it describes some friends of mine.
There's a pretty nifty open source OpenMRS app called Bahmni that is widely used in poor countries. A lot of my friends contribute to it. Worth checking.
There's a lot of value available by building apps for strangers for free? All I can see is risk. If you can find a way to de-risk that business model, then you'll have your value.

Perhaps you meant potential. But then there's potential in most everything. Every manuscript in a slush pile has a certain amount of potential.
Right, but the author spent three paragraphs on Chris from Ipswitch who's a contractor in the health-sector who rarely gets work and can't get an employer to help train him. It's not exactly like Chris is running away from some lucrative alternative to spend his time playing videogames.

I'm sympathetic to the idea that many of these games are skinner boxes that our brains have relatively few defenses against, but Chris is a stupid example.

I'd also guess that many people who trash video games would happily say watching baseball, perhaps playing baseball, opera, or chess are somehow superior. It's not like those have much intrinsic value in them besides the enjoyment they may generate for the participant.
Just live in the lame ass suburbs like everyone else. What the fuck is wrong with you people? Are you going to be on your deathbed wishing you had more squid ink pasta and museums in your life? No, you'll wish you spent more time your loved ones, which you can do anywhere.
Getting that paycheck saps the majority of the time and energy of a given person. Using a paycheck as a side effect to actually do something useful seems like a very strange system.
They are right now but this isn't always the case. For example you can see just from that page that in the past 24h, Kraken reached a low of 1025 while Bitstamp only reached a low of 1118, a difference of 9%. If at that low, you'd bought BTC on Kraken and sold BTC on Bitstamp, you would have made that 9% difference.

This is the point of the strategy. Whenever they diverge for whatever reason, assume it's temporary and that they'll reconverge. Make money converging them.
Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Canberra, The Gold Coast and Newcastle all have better prices for real estate.

Canberra is the most affordable city in the country.

Sydney and Melbourne just are not worth it any more unless you and a partner earn 200K+ or you have property there.
All ryzen motherboards have some sort of video card. The ones I've seen on newegg supporting up to 2560 x 1600@60Hz on HDMI 1.4b, and 4096 x 2160@24Hz.

Not great, but for a workstation it should be more than enough. Nobody doing gaming would go with an integrated card on a desktop processor anyways.

Also, the 3D passmark for the 460 is still twice that of the Intel card.
A company like Backblaze is bound to find out before the consumers do but I have a feeling it'll be fine. Keeping gas inside of something isn't much harder than keeping it sealed enough that dust stays out.

A high-altitude environment might put more pressure on the seals than other places, that could shorten the life-span, but other than that it shouldn't be a huge deal. Most drives have a commercial life-span of no more than 4-6 years anyway. After that you're on borrowed time.
Definitely ack (https://beyondgrep.com/).
It basically is grep but designed for source code. First off it can be downloaded as a single file (Perl script FTW!), so easy to deploy. Secondly, by default it automatically searches recursively, prints out the filename, and line numbers of matches. It also uses PCRE for its regexes which is really nice.

But by far the most time saving feature I have is the type searching functionality in it! For example, one can type 'ack --java System.out' and it will search ONLY the java files! No more 'find . -name *.java -exec grep -Hni System.out {} \;'.
And you can add custom types easily through your .ackrc, it is a very well put together piece of software.

(PS: If you're trying it, definitely try out 'ack --bar')
Obviously, but yours was also an unfair characterization. I maintain that this is a good idea and that other companies (Google and Amazon) should follow suit regardless of Microsoft's behavior around patent litigation.

If it does turn out that Microsoft is only doing this so that they can go and sue people who are using AWS or GCP then I'll change my tune. Until then I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

Furthermore, if Google/Amazon _did_ follow suit it would be mutually assured destruction for Microsoft to sue AWS / GCP users.
That's in the UK, do they have the same insanely high alcohol tax as Australia?
I really like Ansible. It provides a declarative framework for defining "roles" a server might have, and requires a minimal toolkit to get started- no images to deploy; just define the state the server should be in at the end of the playbook.
You can't manage what you can't measure (or, How to enter the multiverse)
I have more real estate than all of them combined actually, but that's not really what I meant. The stuff they have purchased and still own is baffling. It's all cheap, throw away, walmart crap. Compare this to the things I've saved from my grandparents and great grandparents which are mostly heirloom quality and the difference is striking.

The wastefulness is simply depressing.
Right, so it's the nature of the gas in terms of its viscosity and turbulence that's the factor here, not in terms of friction per-se.
Once again, blaming the drug for the addiction.

Maybe if life were, frankly, worth living; more people might choose to.

I'm a young man who just wants to live a decent life, marry a nice girl, and have a family some time in the next decade and a half. I have a promising career, I never really had to try to make money.

I can tell you that if life weren't so easy for me, I would probably just spend every day masturbating, eating ramen, and playing video games.

I thank my lucky stars that I was born middle class with a well-above-average IQ, met so many wonderful people who have stuck by me, and that I have the chance to live in a great city.

The world hates weak men. Video games are a great way to enjoy an otherwise empty life in a world full of people who think you're a waste of everything you cost. Nobody should blame them for doing what makes sense with what they have.
Your assumptions rest on some very big claims, such as being able to work part time as a low end labour worker. I can't imagine how that would come about in a natural market unless cost of goods dropped even further, and that's not possible through automation alone. Food for example, still needs huge resources and even if it's 100% automated you can't avoid the use of the finite resources required for it.

I do appreciate your optimism though, and I really hope we can work out how to arrive at a solution to the myriad of new problems without everything falling apart first.

We need to show initiative, as it's going to be a race between preserving quality of life with proactive policy and the very quickly changing labour landscape removing the means to participate in the way communities are currently structured.
America has a surplus of lawyers, which makes running a successful practice or getting a job as a new graduate harder than it's ever been.

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/A-glut-of-l...
Not a rash, that's what the kids gets.

Edit - And yes, that's a big step for a lot of kids with alcoholic parents.
It makes complete sense for your first job and when you're unemployed, but as someone with a couple jobs under his belt already, I have no interest in interview prep anymore unless it's relevant to my work and there's a clear ROI.

The way I see it, no experienced candidate should have to do "interview prep" because the work that he/she does on the job should be more relevant to his/her ability to do the job than any form of interview prep.

To make an extreme example, John Carmack's work time is probably better allocated actually doing work than brushing up on "Cracking the Coding Interview" problems. In an ideal world a software engineer's candidacy for a job would be based strictly on his ability to do the job, not academic trivia questions.
How would UBI solve this? If the jobs were still profitable to the employer, they'd be done. It's not clear to me how UBI solves market failures.
We already have classes of goods/services that are post scarcity. Music for instance is post scarcity in that it costs effectively nothing to reproduce. Before anyone argues creation of _new_ music is not post scarcity.

Anyway as manufacturing techniques improve more item will become post scarcity or effectively so if we can provide all the demand for an item for little to no cost.