skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am skeptical of these findings. The graph comes from LSE's center for economic performance (http://cep.lse.ac.uk/), but I cannot find any reference for a related study when searching google.

I also find that it would be very difficult to summarize 4000 research papers into a clean graph about subjective life satisfaction in such a way that you could cleanly compare post divorce well-being and post unemployment well-being.

Given, it's VERY hard to find the root study, and most other peer websites are just referencing the Bloomberg article. My guess is the author of the article is conflating some data.

A few interesting references:
https://whatworkswellbeing.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/unemp...

References: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/926/1/02-16.pdf
To conclude:
"Using a longitudinal study of 24,000 people living in Germany, this study
found on average that individuals had lower life satisfaction following
unemployment and this never recovered to the pre-unemployment levels.
These results held for men and women but were stronger for men."

The authors of this study frame their results slightly differently:

"The findings suggests that even a short period of unemployment can cause an alteration in a person’s long-term set-point. Although there was substantial stability in life satisfaction over the years, unemployment did influence long-term levels, thus suggesting that in addition to personality, long-term subjective well-being can also be influenced by life circumstances"
Csound is more analogous to GCC than it is to Vim, though. I'd say something akin to Vim would be a tracker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker
Consider Google's investment in Uber! "The $258 million is an 86 percent chunk of Google Ventures’ $300 million dollar a year fund, and it’s unclear whether the firm will continue to make such sizable investments." - https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/22/google-ventures-puts-258m-...
* you just interviewed with the shop across the street who offered you double, got fired right before you could spread the good news

* your project never had any customer, it was finally decided to kill it after 2 years

* your project, oh wait, you had no project to work on. What were you doing this past year? No even you can tell.

* you got replaced by a cheaper developer who's in his twenties, probably right out of a bootcamp.

* you were at the bottom of the stack ranking.

* your manager doesn't like you and he's got fire power.

* the team was disbanded. half the guys are moving to a new project, half the guys are laid off. you were in the bad half.

* no more budget to pay salaries. Sorry guys.
I don't think so. According to the all-knowing Wikipedia, the lowest cost estimate during development was $635/lb in modern dollars. The actual cost was something like $8,000-$20,000/lb depending on whether you're measuring marginal or total costs.
> Freedom originally meant that you could deal with whoever you wanted on whatever terms both parties could agree on

As defined where, "originally"? (serious question)
And for the people who want to read their original article about this (with the full translation), here's the link:

http://sourcegaming.info/2017/04/19/kirbys-development-secre...
The full set of HIPAA mandated X12 standards is only $3,100, which isn't all that much. (Though, yeah, it would be much better if they were still gratis; but even when they were it wasn't exactly like the open-source community was jumping all over them.)

The bigger problem is that many of the external code sets referenced are also not-free-of-charge, and weren't even when the X12 standards were.
No, it's not. But being against Silk Road selling it doesn't mean we also don't want Rx sales to be more closely scrutinized.

Saying, "But what about Big Pharma, huh?" isn't an effective argument, as many of us against Silk Road are also against their practices, and we'd like to see government agents investigating them more, as well.
Number of GitHub issues is not a good metric for quality.
well it can also make things faster.
well in your example it won't.
but consider you need to load 4 requests and do operations on each of them. if you schedule them in an async fashion you can begin operating on the first one that's ready and not the first one you defined. and this is also often the case. a website does not just do one request to the database. mostly it runs multiple ones and often they don't interfere. like getting 20 rows and the count as a whole, there is just no need to start the first and wait till you have 20 rows and then start the second. you should always start both and wait till you have both.

yes it does not magically make your fetching 100 rows faster or your pbkdf2()/bcrypt() function. you still need to wait for those.
No Levandowski pissed off the wrong people by stealing core technology from Google. Stealing employees is OK. Technology is not. It is the law.
The important detail that everyone likes to ignore is that the flight was not overbooked. It was filled to capacity. Everybody who wanted to be on the flight was on the airplane. Then United decided to reaccommodate four seated passengers to make room for four employees who were needed elsewhere.

Their contract of carriage allows them to kick you off under certain conditions, but that's not one of them. "Overbooking" didn't come into play at all in this case.
I agree with a lot of what you say, but to take the following a little out of context ...

> I would emphasize that "truth" is not a binary thing but a highly contextual and multidimensional device.

That can be taken too far and become the words of propaganda (whether or not the commenter intends it). Truth is not simple or always easy, but it's a real thing. The liar (not calling the parent a liar, but for purposes of example) says, 'the truth is complicated; we just have different opinions; look at all sides'; they say 'I lie, you lie, what's the difference?' No, there is truth, it's something to strive for, and it makes all the difference.
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Billions? Really? 1 in 7 people could have hacked the NSA or CIA?
That sleazebag would be Kalanick then, given the evidence of their romantic after dinner walks.

'Kalanick began courting Levandowski this spring, broaching the possibility of an acquisition during a series of 10-mile night walks from the Soma neighborhood where Uber is also headquartered to the Golden Gate Bridge. The two men would leave their offices separately—to avoid being seen by employees, the press, or competitors. They’d grab takeout food, then rendezvous near the city’s Ferry Building. Levandowski says he saw a union as a way to bring the company’s trucks to market faster.'

How are those trucks coming along, haha.
I don't know about that. I think the visual programming aspect is the most defining trait, in which case...? I don't know any general purpose non-toy visual programming languages/interfaces. Scratch exists but likening PD to Scratch doesn't seem fair to me.
> For this project I landed on gtk-rs, but it's a nightmare of Rc's, RefCells, and borrow_mut just to get even the simplest UI working.

> Without thinking too much about it, I feel like things could be better. If Rust was driving the UI loop, and if the callbacks didn't have 'static lifetimes, then it might be possible shove the UI into an isolated struct and not have to deal with too many ownership and lifetime issues.

I recently tried to implement a simple GUI using pure WinAPI, and I finally understod why Rc<Refcell<>> is necessary for callbacks. So far the experience is very mind-boggling.

We desperately need React-like UI library for Rust.
To the extent that's true, artificial constriction of supply does not escape "supply and demand".
Fascinating! A couple of questions:

Are there any non-singleton sets with the fixpoint property?

> a ↦ f (e a a)

Don't you mean

a ↦ e a a

? Because later you expand (g a0) to (e a0 a0).
We could eliminate regulation that makes it impractical to build competing networks. DC has three different broadband providers: Comcast, RCN, and Verizon. All three are in the process of rolling out gigabit service. That's possible because DC is pretty liberal about letting providers only build in the locations where they can make a profit (instead of demanding they cover the whole city in one go).

5G technologies in particular are going to make it extremely easy for startups to break into existing markets. I did a speedtest.net run the other day in Annapolis, and I got 150 mbps--what I get on my fiber connection at home. And that's just with LTE-A. Fiber might still be faster, but that doesn't matter. It's fast enough for plenty of people and would be meaningful competition for incumbents. Cities just have to get out of the way and let companies build those networks in an incremental and demand-driven way.

(I'm not free market fundamentalist--I think it would also be fine to just have to government build the networks. But this stuff is expensive and somebody has to write those billion-dollar checks, and you need to make sure they have the incentive to do so.)
Most doctors ask for ID now. Even as recent as 10 years ago that was a rare practice. So, yes, it was possible to get medical services under someone else's name and even possible to execute an illegal adoption that way; I have a cousin (in his 30s now) who was "adopted" like that. My aunt was unable to have children but really wanted them, she also had a minor criminal record and wasn't well off financially so she'd never be able to legally adopt. One of her friends had an unwanted pregnancy. Aunt convinced friend to give birth assuming my aunt's name and my aunt took the baby home.
> We could eliminate regulation that makes it impractical to build competing networks.

Property rights of holders of real estate?
Counter-counter point: Southwest boards faster, by far, than airlines using the standard pre-assigned method. That means less time sitting on the plane, or waiting to board the place. Also means less abuse of selling seat upgrades.
I agree 100%. I often hear people talk about how Southwest offers such a great experience. I find the boarding process frustrating (and no more efficient, unfortunately) and the staff no better than my usual airline—either far less friendly, or hokey in a very contrived way.
They know what they're doing.
BS. It's like anywhere else, you code on your machine and devops takes care of the rest.
Silicon Valley and Ayn Rand
The whole PC market is circling the drain and Microsoft doesn't want to get sucked down with it. The Surface is an effort to push PC hardware to higher standards, to show what the platform is capable of if you aim for something other than "cheapest possible".

> Since windows pc makers have essentially lost the ability to do much R&D and Design because of their brutal margins...

This is their own doing. They race to the bottom, they end up in a knife fight to the death. If HP, which has significant engineering chops, started making good hardware and focus their teams on making a few great products instead of a dizzying array of marginal ones they'd probably find more success.

For example: The HP Z1 is a great concept, but it barely gets any attention and is almost impossible to find in retail channels. Microsoft was able to trot out their version of same and it was as if this thing didn't even exist.
There was a downsizing recently at my company and I remember getting scolded for using the term "fired" instead of "laid off" when talking about the people who were leaving the company. Apparently the terms are different enough to irk some people when mixed and matched.
And the initialization needs to conditionally throw an exception based on user input.
Yes it is a civil case, and it is a valid point about the lack of a criminal complaint. My explanation is inadequate.

The burden of proof in a theft of trade secrets argument is on the plaintiff[1,2]. Google needs to prove Levandowski stole trade secrets, it does not require Uber to prove that he didn't.

I am also presuming that Uber has an employment contract with Levandowski which includes earn outs as part of the Otto acquisition. This is common practice. And if my presumption is correct, he is not an 'at will' employee, there are specific guidelines around termination and the responsibilities of each party should they decide to separate. It is entirely possible that if they were to ask him to leave, and he had yet to be proven to have stolen secrets or misreprented his ownership of the IP he brought, Uber could conceivably owe him the balance of all earn outs immediately.

[1] "Illinois law applied to the case and Illinois has passed the Uniform Trade Secrets Act. This Uniform Act is the law in 46 of the 50 states. To prevail on a trade secrets claim under the Act, a plaintiff must prove that: (1) it has information qualifying as a trade secret; (2) at least one of its trade secrets has been misappropriated; and (3) the defendant used that trade secret in their business
activity or inevitably will." --
http://www.btlaw.com/files/Uploads/Documents/Publications/A%...

[2] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.x....
I thought pwnallthethings is also in the Russians-did-it camp.

DNC hack: https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/74319706484310425... "Gosh, I wonder what outlet Russian intelligence is going to use to launder these stolen documents."

Podesta Hack: 14 year old hackers vs. Russian Intelligence

https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/81662561706823680... "How many accounts did this "14 year old" hack? About 1800. In 2015. Who were these accounts? Mil, govt personnel in the West, defence cos, journos critical of govt in Russia etc"

DNC hack connected to German government hack

https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/75689252388524032...
"Reminder: Malware control servers used in DNC hack were also used in the hack on Bundestag linked to Russian intel."

Influencing politics

https://arstechnica.com/security/2016/06/guccifer-leak-of-dn... ""There's also the fact that the hacker is publishing documents at all, which rules out lots of nation-states," the PwnAllTheThings researcher told Ars in a private message. "China, for example, would happily spy on the DNC to try and get the Trump oppo [opposition] research to support their foreign policy objectives, but they wouldn't publish the documents to influence the election.""
I hope it has a walkway too. Not sure what they were thinking when they made Verrazano bridge without one.
For anyone looking to switch airlines amidst all the news lately, I can't recommend Southwest more highly. Flew them out of Chicago for business the last two years -- their rewards, no-fee rebooking, etc. literally changed our lives. Wrote a bit about it here:

http://baugues.com/southwest
I did a little Googling after I watched and supposedly he has denied several potential methods, with that being one of them.
Faxes are are a special case, and are exempt, I think. Plaintext email, for instance, would not ordinarily be allowed to contain patient health information.
No. ZFS is in much greater need for ECC than most other filesystems.

1. ZFS doesn't come with any disk repair tools and the ones that exist are not nearly as capable as for other filesystems (the ZFS motto is that it is too costly to repair filesystems, just recover from tape instead (here we can sense the intended audience of ZFS)). If the wrong bit get's flipped your entire pool might be gone (you can of course spend months of your spare time to debug it yourself if you want to). This is not the case (to the same extent) for FAT, NTFS or EXT.

2. The more you use memory the more likely you are about to get hit. I'd argue that ZFS is a quite resource heavy filesystem and is thus more likely to actually attract bit flips. This is similar as to when using an encrypted filesystem on an overclocked CPU. There is nothing inherently more risky with encrypting your filesystem with an overclocked CPU - but overclocking your CPU increases the risk for miscalculations. And enabling encryption increases the CPU usage when accessing the filesystem by several orders of magnitude. So, in practice you quickly notice how filesystem data on encrypted drives get corrupted but not on regular drives on an ever so slightly too overclocked machine.

So, if you care about your filesystem, then yes - saying that ZFS needs ECC is quite sensible.
(if you care about your data you should have backups regardless)
> men do meaningfully worse than women post-firing, per the graph

I'd easy to assume than women rely on the income from the men.
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Let's assume that they are. What predictions can we make from that assumption, given what happens to other utilities that are closely regulated by the government?

- Services would be tightly constrained by regulation. You should see all ISPs offering the same set of services in all locations, with the same bandwidths and guarantees.

- Services would be tightly constrained on price: the price for 100Mb/s bidirectional service in Philadelphia should be the same as in Pittsburgh or Punxatawny.

- Nobody would care who their ISP was, because the regulated service is about the same everywhere.

- All the ISPs would have mandated interconnection exchanges where they would be forced to settle traffic with each other. When they get to defined packet loss rates with any other provider, both sides need to improve their connection.

- Prices would change every few years, when the public utility commission approved a rate hike. The ISPs would ask for 8% and get 4% and complain that they were going to go out of business. Same as last time.

- ISPs would be very boring stocks, growing slowly and issuing a regular dividend.

- The big news this year would be that IPv6 routing was going to change from an optional extra-fee service to a built-in on everyone's bill.

Basically, look up the way that the Baby Bells acted between 1982 and 1996.
If getting fired ranges up among the ten worst things that could happen to you, you really, really want to rethink your life. Deeply.

This strikes me as rather callous, or as well, something that only someone in a relatively secure and high-paying line of work (like software development) -- and of course, no kids to take care of -- could even begin have as a take on the situation.

Yes, getting fired isn't anything like getting maimed or killed, or suffering a truly debilitating illness. But for many people, the resulting financial tailspin that comes from losing a decent job (particularly after one has reached a certain age, after which, keep in mind, they may simply not ever find a comparable position) is an extremely brutal experience to go through (and if one has kids or older relatives to take care of, exponentially more so). In fact it's hard to think of a worse blow one is likely to have to deal with (short of, again, the aforementioned physical deprivations).
[paraphrased]

> The Shadow Brokers mentioned X. Why didn't Bruce mention it?

> The CIA had an internal hunt for contractors. Why didn't Bruce include this in his analysis?

That was information I hadn't known or had forgotten. I found it useful. jwtadvice is critiquing an opinion piece.

Following your rubric, practically every comment in here will be indistinguishable from propaganda. This is because we're commenting on an opinion piece, which itself is indistinguishable from propaganda. In fact, I assert that the most fact-laden article can be propaganda because it can completely ignore facts supporting the opposition.

Why would you be commenting about this? Because you're doing the same thing we're doing, commenting on a forum because it's fun to discuss stuff. Sure, maybe jwtadvice is a secret propagandist. Maybe I am. I think it's a waste of time to accuse people of it unless there's substance.

A more specific criticism is more appropriate: "You're just concern trolling by saying X." "You're spreading FUD about this topic without evidence. Let's wait and see." "You're changing the goal posts in order to 'be right'. Debate me on my argument." Etc.
> Compare the cost of the transaction to the price paid.

The cost of the transaction is, by definition, the price paid. `if x != x: raise_error()` only works if x is NaN.
Not everyone holds Bruce Schneier in high regard.
It is indeed the main fuck up - despite knowing they were 4 seats short (because of their internal requirements - it wasn't overbooking) and had no takers on their initial offer ($400), they let everyone board. You are not supposed to do that, especially if the number of seats is that significant.

It's suspicious that they didn't even make an attempt at getting to the maximum offer ($1300) before forcing matters. To me it looks like they were under pressure to avoid a big delay, so they rushed through boarding and just went "fuck this" when nobody picked up the $800 offer.
I couldn't agree more!!
I guess one can't resell. Need to know the names and id of customers. Regulation stuff.
As a daily user of the English language I declare this stupid and will use lead.
I have no idea what you're asking me. Is this wit? Are you implying everyone dog-ears books? Were you ruffled by my hyperbole?
He's one of the top experts in self driving technology, a motorcycle he and a team built in college is in the Smithsonian. I can see Uber wanting to keep him on unofficially.
If there was a modern, truly ethical bank in the US I'd be signing up in minutes. It's a great differentiator in a sea of corruption and morally apprehensible investments…
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Final paragraph: "What happens when intelligence agencies go to war with each other and don't tell the rest of us? I think there's something going on between the US and Russia that the public is just seeing pieces of. We have no idea why, or where it will go next, and can only speculate."

Correct. For over 75 years now. Article is just a summary of recent events in IC leaks. I clicked because I thought the author was going to speculate they're planned leaks as part of a counter-intel operation. That would have been interesting.
I don't want to fly on an airline with profit margins so slim. If a few hundred dollars one way or another is all that matters, I don't want to think about the decisions going on behind the scenes. These are extraordinarily expensive machines filled with hundreds of very human humans. You need more room for contingencies. I'd rather pay a few dollars more if that meant flying on a plane that wasn't constantly skirting the edge of profitability, one where employees have room to take reasonable and safe decisions.
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Simply put: it’s much harder to cope with a blow to your identity than merely your situation.
I have submitted this as a filing to the FCC. When it becomes visible on their site I will post a link to the filing.
Vote and campaign in your next election for a candidate you believe in, send letters to your representatives to not vote for anti-net-neutrality legislation, and donate to the EFF.

The petition.org thing is useless.

Like the other poster said, though, these are the consequences of last novembers election. You won't undo what is happening now. You can just participate to stop it from happening again and reverse the course to the best of your ability in the future.