skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The locals who have not sold are now much wealthier.

And now have to pay much higher property taxes, which they might not be able to afford with their current income. For sure, they should be able to sell the property and buy a comparable one cheaper elsewhere (Thus netting some profit) however they're basically being priced out of the property they own, with no real choice. (Issue #1)

Unless they can find a similar paying job wherever they move to (which might not be the case), they now need to face a much longer commute to work every single day, wasting hours that could previously be spent on leisure, with family, or doing work on the side to earn extra money. (Issue #2) The amount of profit they net from the sale of the property might be useful to compensate for this effect, if they're able to invest it properly, and depending on the specifics and market conditions.

(Renting the property will probably result in a comparable outcome to investing the profits from the sale, which might or might not be enough to break even considered the increased commute time)
Kill them when they aren't working yes - kill them _quickly_ not so much.
I miss this even as an American. The old 8088 computers I grew up with had reverse-L enter keys.
> I think putting more effort into trying to influence them towards "not being evil", as they say, is much more of a realistic move for someone with concerns over data, privacy, power/security of all this, etc.

There's absolutely no chance for me to do that. I don't work at Google, I'm not rich nor influential. I have as much influence on what Google does as I have influence on the orbit of the planets.

Voice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty) doesn't work. The only other option is Exit, and while it's shitty, it's not as utterly futile as Voice is.
It's been briefly on the front page a couple more times as well (click "past" on the top of the page), but each time quickly flagged off by users. Likely this was because many of the early comments were concentrating on the flaws in article rather than the intriguing underlying concept. Let's see if we can keep this one alive by staying focused on the interesting parts.
Sure I agree with you on this, and I didn't intend for my comment to sound like there's no case for dressing nicely beyond signaling. When I said that the side requiring justification is that of dressing nicely, personal explanations like yours are exactly the kind of thing I was thinking of.

What I was arguing against is the maximizing impulse on the _other_ end: the notion that it's so self-evidently universally valuable that the primary reason to not dress well would be Virtue signaling.

That comment you linked to is just flat bullshit. People who desperately try to justify strict old-fashioned dress codes somehow conflate "you can literally lose your job if you don't dress this way" with "I feel awkward being the only person dressed this way, even in the absence of anyone else's reaction". It's insane to me that so many people uncritically parrot this utter nonsense.
My COO is amazing and I'm super lucky to have her, she basically runs the business for me so I can focus on the company and the customer. I learned early my dyslexia lets me think about the business well but someone else should operate it for me. Teams are important.
He didn't get hit with a wrench, but rather got all his stuff seized by the FBI.

I don't know if you've ever been hit with a wrench, but those two things are nothing alike. Starting with the fact that the FBI might not have gained access to the data in your story.
Good to know miles. I've used VIM, but it is more strict in editing and takes a while to get to know. nano is just a plain editor. I'll keep a lookout for it if something doesn't work.
Agree completely. And I can't imagine that the self-disclosures at the end of the current term will be worse than this.
Sigh, but Google will find a way...
Empty/useless vaults aren't any better. Even if you went to the lengths of creating fake social profiles and adding their passwords to your fake vault, that's not any better either.
It was explained to me in a talk I went to, which made reference to a study that was done. Alas, it was years ago and I don't know how to find it again. But you can easily reason it out for yourself. Let's say Person A approaches activity X the normal way, does it the "right" way, and succeeds. In the same amount of time, Person B starts on X but soon transitions to Y, and then again to Z.

In the same amount of time, A has tried one thing and finished one thing, while B has tried 3 things and finished none. People who are like A can't stop harping on B for not finishing X. However A didn't even think about Y or Z. Sometimes Y & Z turn out to be better than X. (For that matter, sometimes the reason you're bored of X is not because something's wrong with you, but because something's wrong with X.)

Being "distracted" is also known as being sensitive to your environment. Focusing on X comes at the cost of ignoring Y & Z. And vice versa, too, but that idea already gets plenty of airtime.

In an organization there are people who start things, and people who finish them. Entrepreneurs and executives usually seem to be more about starting things. Technicians, managers, organizers, they're the ones who follow through. So IF there's a place in the firm where ADHD might not be too much of a problem, and might even help, CEO is it.
They had Oculus Rift in 1995
Nope :) I'm home sick so I was in my pajamas.

I don't think describing a common thought pattern has much to do with an increased sense of superiority. Have you never spoken about a behavior or activity that you think is bad? Were you exhibiting a superiority complex each time? Give me a break.

I don't feel the psychological effects of dressing well particularly strongly, but I acknowledge that others do and I don't think there's anything wrong with those feelings.

That's a very different position from being small minded enough to universalize one's own attitudes towards attire to "explain" the behavior of those who may not feel the same way as you. _That's_ what I was arguing against, the idea that virtue signalling must be the reason for putting less money and time into attire because people couldn't _possibly_ have different preferences.
Seems like Quora is going after a big chunk of YouTube's market. Pretty much everyone uses YouTube for this sort of thing. It'll be interesting to see if they'll be able to pull this off.
Surprised to see no comments about the fact Bezos owns the post and they randomly include the fact about halfway through the article. "(Jeffrey P. Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon, owns The Washington Post.)"
No, returning a purchase is not a concept that exists in India, whether for electronics or clothes or other things.
why not use ii?
(OP of parent thread here) Okay. I understand your points.

Actually I have posted the reasons for such considerations before on my blog:

https://paradite.com/2016/02/18/stay-independent-problems-wi...
I've written maybe 10 lines of Python in my life, and I got 15/15. They did a good job explaining the Python-specific stuff with comments.
The relevant figure is the proportion of owners to population, not the absolute numbers.
Sorry, I looked back at the comment and realize that some of it was unnecessary to say. I've got a pretty nasty cold and I'm home sick bored put of my mind so my mood probably wasn't the best when I made that comment.
you can see from the link malandrew provided about American spending habits (in a sibling comment to mine) that Americans are spending considerably more on housing, on average.

I don't believe the surveys cover "high-income" housing, but they do show median / middle-income housing growing by the mid 2010s to roughly triple the 1970s square footage. Inflation-adjusted, that means lower cost per square foot.

But it's certainly worth thinking about whether the shift to much bigger housing has been an entirely positive one, or whether it has drawbacks.
Yikes. If $70 is a 'middle' blazer, what's left for low?

Sears and Penney always offered better clothes than discount stores like Woolworth's, Wal-mart and K-Mart; you could get pants or a suit that might be worth tailoring and keeping for more than a season. One of the memorable lines out of the Millionaire Nextdoor was that most millionaires bought suits at Sears.

Today, fast fashion and casual office is killing off even semi-formal clothes. In almost every situation, Americans wear jeans or shorts, and don't want to pay much for those. Sears is hopelessly lost, and Penney has been limping since the Ron Johnson debacle.
Employee experience is the next big differentiator
>I guess the reasonable next step, when all the outrage has fizzled, is pre-screening. Pay for the government to have all of your passwords all the time, and save yourself the hassle.

Lol, on what planet is that the "reasonable next step"?? Do they want to see my dick pics and login to my bank accounts as well? My poetry or whatever rambling I may write? Am I not entitled to any privacy at all?

The actual reasonable next step is not to go to, or deal with, the US at all.
This is probably an unusual opinion, but for me privacy is similar to freedom. Freedom is usually defined as a negative: people are free of oppression, have freedom of speech (freedom from speech being constrained), freedom of movement (not forced to stay in one place), religious freedom (freedom to believe what one will and not be limited in practice or assembly), etc.

Privacy is the freedom from being watched, from having one's movements and actions and consumption and words observed, tabulated and stored. I hope that one day whether by laws or technological solutions, privacy will again be the norm in our lives.
> I'm sure Steve Jobs wouldn't have been as successful if he didn't have dyslexia.

I've seen this claim several times and have tried to find a source to support it. I would love to know if you are aware of one!
The examples you raised are all - I believe not by coincidence - related to how Clojure interact with the host platform (both Java and Javascript). It simply doesn't shield you from it. As a consequence tracebacks bubble up, and you're expected to know how to debug it, and hopefully use the debugger of the host platform. This is aggravated on JS since JS exceptions mean nothing most of the time.

clojure.spec (launching on 1.9) will allow better error reporting on some cases, but the philosophy of the language has always being about giving you a lot of power vs. shielding you from complexity.

Also, a lot of people being introduced to Clojure from a Ruby background (and others, ofc) are having to learn simultaneously about: functional programming, Lisp, immutable data structures, the internals of JS/JVM, advanced concepts like STM, CSP, and a whole host of new libraries. That is a steep learning hill, specially if one bought the argument that programmers are snowflakes who can't take frustration. Once you're on the other side though, the complex, messy real-world projects become more amenable, because Clojure was created thinking about those. That's what Rich meant by "Simple ain't easy".

IMHO, working at a company w/ a codebase of ~150 projects written in Clojure, the productivity has paid off w/ interest though.
Perhaps you and I have different needs. AIM didn't have any of the features I mentioned except group messaging.
Some brands "knockoff" themselves by selling a lower quality product of the same name at outlet stores.[1] I have no idea if this is true of Levi Strauss.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/outlet-stores-arent-a-good-de...
How does your concept compare in SWOT analysis against existing models/systems? (ie. Kayak)
> The difference might be that shoes aren't as good of a substrate for bacteria as a warm moist foot.

Oh, good point. I hadn't considered that.

> The athletic administration at my college required that I put my shoes back on when practicing soccer on the intramural fields. Their reasoning was that I could get a cut and develop an e coli infection.

This is also a good point, but not the issue that was being raised, which was specifically about others' health, not my own.
http://www.gq.com/story/the-male-romper-is-here You're welcome
HSMM-MESH is cool, really really cool, and people should definitely go check it out, but to quote the website you've linked:

it is NOT a replacement for your home internet connection
being an Amateur Radio network, it can only carry traffic that is allowed under FCC Part 97 rules
several types of internet traffic violate these rules
also, it is NOT a replacement for your home internet connection
finally, it is N O T a replacement for your home internet connection
and by the way, it most certainly CANNOT be used in any way with your business network

I understand much of the traffic you'd usually send over the internet is not permissible over broadband hamnet.
9k hacked Spotify accounts
Technically true, but a given property is placed in a specific band based upon the value of the property.

The only real reason why this isn't a direct link is that the banding is not reassessed regularly.

I do know some people who successfully persuaded their local council to move their property to a lower-priced band based upon the alleged fall in property value..
The problems you listed are about ClojureScript. I agree the ergonomics are still behind JVM Clojure, but then again the competition is significantly worse too in the JS space.

And if you end up concluding some other front-end language is better, Clojure is still a really good choice for the back end.
I entertained the thought of how strange the article is, and yet I don't think I've ever felt that way about any of the innovations you're describing: in fact I may I'm probably a little too slavish in my trust of the direction our collective research infrastructure.

That isn't to say I disagree with you in general though. Given where and when I was born relative to the article's setting, it's a lot more understanding that my baseline would be faith in the long-term wisdom of scientific progress.
Most of gold's value is indeed a "myth". Silver is the best metallic conductor, it's equally finite and not man made, yet it trades at around 1/50th of gold value, despite having considerable decorative value itself. That 50x difference is not all because gold inhibits bacterial growth (so do some plastics) or does not corrode as easily.

The author's main point, though, is that perception is reality. If I accidentally offend you, your offense does not become any less real just because I didn't mean to offend you, or that you should not have been offended.
I really wanted to subscribe to this podcast in my RSS reader, it was a nice episode! Unfortunately, I could find no way to download the audio and my usual use of podcasts is to listen during a commute when I have unreliable internet. Without the ability to download it is unlikely I will continue to listen. There's even a link on the 100kfreelancing site that says "download mp3" but it doesn't work and just links again to the streaming web player.
From what I've seen, it's changed over time. I graduated HS in 1982, my kids are in HS now. I had virtually no homework, and spent my spare time playing music, learning electronics, and eventually learning how to program. I wasn't concerned about college admissions at all.
My vote doesn't mean anything either.
> Virtually all the comments I'm seeing here are sensationalist sentiments/anecdotes, backed with no facts, reverberated in an echo chamber.

Point them out here, if you disagree. How do I prove to you that I spoke with a Lyft driver who prefers other car service apps over Uber? I am not going to prove it. Take it as a fact, or don't.

Let people post what they want to say. We don't need everyone to write like a professional critic or columnist. This is not a competition for Best Comment. I like sharing my thoughts with people regardless of how much content I can fill my comment with. You like to keep yourself mute from commentary, that's okay. If you think you are hearing echoes, perhaps there is truth to this? Or perhaps we should conjecture a conspiracy theory that a competitor is running a destroy-uber campaign here on this thread, like they planned a bunch of accounts weeks or months ago. Yeah there are a lot of fake online identities out there (esp during election time). Shall we continue with this conspiracy theory?

Let's move on with our life, we have bigger things to worry about than an echo chamber on HN.
So does cash handling.
Sure, maybe. But the post doesn't go into the details or even indicate the details existed. I'm not sure there is much insight here sans those details.
Well, they get hundreds of billions of dollars. I doubt they feel unappreciated.
I probably should have used a better example, I just did a quick google search and saw that.

The one I use often is John Britten but no one knows who he is nor was he a CEO.
IPL cricket has introduced mutual funds to hundreds of millions of Indians
Best fidget spinner skills so far
> I FedEx'd my SSD to the destination.

Are there any examples of laptops / ssds being searched in international mail?
Yes, and I think the intent of the correction was that "a la" is incorrect and AKA is correct in context. The rivalry described wasn't "along the lines of" The War of Currents, it _was_ (also known as) The War of Currents.
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You can be super-human with just cameras. Lidar is not required.
I have a notebook that I write quotations, sayings, and other wise-sounding tidbits in.

I never write who the quotes are ascribed to. I don't believe that just because a specific person had an adage or said something means that it's right. Unless it's on a subject that someone is an expert on, it's just a weak appeal to authority.

For me, it's more that I already agree with what the quotes are saying, but they're generally worded better than what I could write.
It very well could be, but I have many pairs and I wear them in hard. I'd find out very quickly if they're knock off (or at least sub par quality).
Pretty sure parent was just saying that it's way more likely to happen to you if you're not white, not that 100% of white people will pass through unaccosted.
Barnes and Noble was a great place to socialize as well, but enjoying tables and food with friends is not the same as buying retail.
Some earlier words on this topic:

"A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more, otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation."

-- Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)

https://redd.it/1z5vfb

"Is this improvement in the circumstances of the lower ranks of the people to be regarded as an advantage or as an inconveniency to the society? The answer seems at first sight abundantly plain. Servants, labourers, and workmen of different kinds, make up the far greater part of every great political society. But what improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged."

-- ibid

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_...

Or if you prefer Mill:

"It may be said that of this hard lot no one has any reason to complain, because it befalls those only who are outstripped by others, from inferiority of energy or of prudence. This, even were it true, would be a very small alleviation of the evil. If some Nero or Domitian were to require a hundred persons to run a race for their lives, on condition that the fifty or twenty who came in hindmost should be put to death, it would not be any diminution of the injustice that the strongest or nimblest would, except through some untoward accident, be certain to escape. The misery and the crime would be that any were put to death at all. So in the economy of society; if there be any who suffer physical privation or moral degradation, whose bodily necessities are either not satisfied or satisfied in a manner which only brutish creatures can be content with, this, though not necessarily the crime of society, is pro tanto a failure of the social arrangements."

-- John Stuart Mill, Chapters on Socialism, p. 204.

https://archive.org/stream/chaptersonsocial00mill#page/264/m...

Costs are what must be given up to obtain a thing. "All costs are opportunity costs" (Paul Krugman, Essentials of Economics, 2008). The wages of labour are the opportunity cost of provisioning that labour, and the living wage is the minimum price to be paid for same. If your business cannot pay workers what they require to live, then what you are operating is not a business, but a charity, on behalf of the workers, to the benefit of the owners. If you can pay a living wage but don't, then it is simple coercion.

http://www.worldcat.org/title/essentials-of-economics/oclc/9...

Smith, in the chapter quoted above, explains at length the circumstances in which labour is owed more than the minimum, worth while reading 241 years later.
I've also had Lyft drivers tell me that they stopped driving for Uber after they didn't pay promised bonuses for meeting certain metrics and that Lyft was more reliable in that department. I don't know whether it's a coordinated effort by Lyft to disparage Uber or whether it's just a common thing that happens to Uber drivers, but I've had four drivers tell me that and two did it with almost no prompting.
I wonder if many of the issues described aren't specific to the treatment of immigrant workers, but something inherent to modern ranching in the American West. "Sweetgrass" is a phenomenal 2009 documentary about American sheepherding culture in Montana:

An unsentimental elegy to the American West, “Sweetgrass” follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana’s breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.

http://sweetgrassthemovie.com

It's an unflinching movie that captures the beauty of the landscape, the desperation of the herders, and a sense of place and belonging. It also includes the most heartfelt swearing scene I've ever seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCbV58dzmBc. It's probably best to start with the official trailer, though, to give some context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV9iah71iPQ.
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Two seconds of Googling: https://www.aclu.org/blog/speakeasy/dangerous-precedent-why-...