skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a "dissenter" per se, just a rational human trying to draw connections:

In service positions, I could see a rise in wages attributed to those jobs that might have previously been filled with migrants.

I might see legal immigration also being discouraged, but to be honest that includes tourism from abroad which is shrinking and potentially having a negative impact on the service sector.

The only direct _policy_ link I can see is not a policy but rather a "business friendly" climate that might lead companies to start to invest more, understanding that they probably won't be taxed or regulated more heavily in the next 3 years.

That, plus cheap credit (a big overheat risk IMO) means opportunities for growth.

In terms of actual policy, I'd say not much has happened but rather the economy is now recovering from the housing crisis and growth has picked up again across the board. This was occurring before Trump, and will continue until another systemic issue occurs and people panic I'd imagine.

That said, in my opinion, Presidents rarely have much to do with economic outcomes except to either inject risk / instability with policy initiatives or pronouncements. Some big policies have costs, but most of the day to day impacts are quite spread out. There has been no action yet on health care or taxes that would influence employer direct costs. Perhaps some regulation has not been implemented and some executive orders rolled back, but nothing that would impact markets.
I don't believe he is bound by this, or maybe wouldn't care if he was.
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https://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov/intpolicy/
I have been honing in on my own personal adaptation of GTD with Evernote for about four years. It has absolutely made a positive difference in my life, productivity, and stress levels. I tried two or three times before this and it never stuck.

I think the system works well for people who are already inclined to the general mindset and other systems likely work better for different types of people. For me, it is a slow process to reach a perfection of the system.

I am currently going through my fourth major overhaul of my system and I think when I come out the other side I will be about 80% of the way to where I want to be. I think I am about 60% now, but even when I was only 20% in the beginning it was an improvement over zero.

The last large overhaul I did shifted me from David Allen's notion of contextual based lists to lists based on criticality. Contextual was largely irrelevant to me since nearly everything I do can be done on my phone and otherwise computer, which is where I spend most of my working day.

I have 4 next action lists for the tasks in my personal life.
Critical - Nothing sits in here for more than a day or two. The struggle for me is being honest about only putting items in here that I truly cannot let go past a day or two, not items that I wish I would do in a day or two.

Priority - This holds items that absolutely need to be completed at some point in the near future (within a week or two), but not necessarily today. It is reviewed every few days and actions are taken care of, shuffled up to critical, or shuffled down to Important, or elsewhere.

Important - This exists so that I don't fill up Priority with junk, but still feel like I have place I will review regularly so that these items don't fall through the cracks and end up as last minute fires to be put out.

Remember - Along the same lines, this exists so that Important isn't full of junk that I am just temporarily attached to. Most of 'remember' ends up being filed to a project, deleted, or placed into incubate. This folder was a key addition to remove the stress of what to do with ideas I felt were important in the moment, but knew they couldn't possibly take precedence over anything that had a real timeline.

I am returning to running my own business at the first of the year and so the new overhaul is all about managing separate clients and the related projects/tasks. From previous experience, I know how hard it is for me to comfortably step in and out of work, especially at home. I am developing a series of forms, note tags, and procedures to dump my mental operating RAM into Evernote at the end of a work session and then reload that project/task specific data into my mind whenever I return.

Like GTD in general, so much of the value for me is in having the confidence to say, "you can forget completely about that for now, it has been documented and filed in such a way that you need have no fear of not remembering and accessing it later in the moment when it is needed."
I'm always kind of fascinated by posts like this on this site. Could I ask what field you're in that pays 35k/yr, apparently in the US, is in the field of your degree, and yet is somewhat related to Hacker News? Or are you not in tech at all and this site is an outside interest? Or maybe you're just in a rural area?

I don't mean this to sound challenging out all, I'm just kind of curious.
The description in the blog rehashes the Eisenhower method. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management
The image feels more convoluted than the four squares.
god bless anyone dumb enough to believe him
The FCC is waiting to release it Wednesday or Friday of this week, when a majority of Americans are busy on Holidays or shopping.
If I'm cutting pulpwood or stacking boxes in a warehouse, it doesn't really matter whether my brain is engaged or not; it's mechanical labor and damn near mindless anyway[1]. But if I'm writing code and solving problems, and my brain isn't in gear, I can come sit at the desk for eight hours, but I'm not going to get anything accomplished, except building resentment for having to sit there at the desk for eight hours and look busy.

[1] Perversely, I miss burning wood; as a kid I cursed the woodpile, but its good exercise and you can get a lot of thinking done while you do it.
I'd consider using a rooted android smartphone.
My father used to say, "doing nothing is a poison". I think he might be right.
I personally like the higher resolution that scaling provides, but if you don't mind low DPI you should check out the 42.5" 4k panel that Dell makes[0]. I have one in my home office, and while it's not great for design and photo editing, the sheer real-estate available is mind blowing.

[0] http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-43-ultra-hd-4k-mult...
> I bet you'd get approx. 0 noshows if you bumped salary.

I'm not sure exactly what industry the original poster was referring to, but broadly my experience has been that there are many people who are just unreliable. I worked in retail a few years ago, and it was incredible. People just don't show up, or show up so intoxicated from the night before that they're not actually capable of doing their job.

Now, as a developer, I think I can count on one hand the number of times someone has shown up too hungover to work, and I can tell you exactly (0) the number of times someone has just flat out failed to show up when they were supposed to be working.

> So don't give drug tests?

For lots of jobs that may not be an option. Operating heavy machinery puts lots of lives at risk, or it could be an insurance requirement.

> Try paying more?

Again, people are flaky. Suddenly paying someone more isn't going to make them start showing up on time.
As an American in Germany, I say good for them. My FlixBus rides have been downright amazing compared to Greyhound back home.
I agree and I _almost_ didn't buy the 4k panel, but as I noted in my comment above my first Dell panel lasted 12 years, and that's a long time.
So can we finally purchase books from iOS Kindle?

No, of course not.
Yeah, I've been intrigued by this cognitive dissonance for a while. Are we going to visit, or would contaminating the planet be a disaster for science and our understanding of the nature of life?
I think the disconnect is that those teams of recruiters are trying to get experienced developers, not just someone who can sling some code together.

A lot of FOSS starts as an amateur's project and buds into the full scale projects we see while the maintainers are also growing as software engineers with the project. People start FOSS projects and give them away because the initial market value tends to be negligible until the project has had time to mature and be fleshed out. Something like Linux had almost zero market value years into the project, its still just a "toy" to the market.

Just the way I see things, but I can understand your viewpoint as well.
I had a long talk with a guy getting his general contractor's license yesterday. He told me that down in San Diego they are continually short on construction workers, so much that one of his friends said that there is 10 years worth of construction that needs to be done and no one to do it. Wages at ~$45/hr, and probably rising, some projects paying perdiems for commutes from Orange County.

Strange.
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> it wasn't the bullshit that caused its downfall

this wasn't stated, so i don't understand your complaint. the post even says "Bullshit might get you to the top, but it won’t keep you there."
What it means is that we are a tiny speck of dust floating on a tiny rock in space and an object that has come from a distance that is so far away numbers wouldn't do it justice has just flew by earth closer than the distance between the earth and sun (1 AU). Some quick facts (from wikipedia), 100 years ago it was 561 AU away (Neptune is ~30 AU), its max speed was 196,000mph and when discovered it was going 'only' 100,000mph. Space/Astronomy is a beautiful thing when it comes to relative perspective to us humans.
>> "Anecdotaly, about 20% of new hires under 30 don’t understand the concept of showing up on time (or at all)"

Don't kid yourself. Those new hires are at other jobs making more money. I am booked for a roofer in feb 2018 (fingers crossed - friend of a friend). Blue skills are in extremely high demand. And those guys are working extremely hard making really high incomes (400k+). These guys are highly paid and are not messing around -- most saw 2008. They drive nice trucks, own their company, have rude secretaries and wont look at your email until feb 18 (fingers crossed). Look at a blue collar guys' current circumstance: no competition (know anyone learning HVAC?), a HUGE housing boom in cali, pass through low tax income, 2k homes burned (wtf), no outsourcing (try outsourcing a plumber) -- as my mentor said: "Harvest time".
I don't know about the us, but here in Canada they go everywhere. In most towns and smaller cities, your options for travel are either greyhound or personal vehicle.

They're still relevant because there is literally no alternative.
You left out the part that I find horrifying:

> It is the third reason, though, WikiLeaks wrote, that “is the real kicker.” “If we publish them it will dramatically improve the perception of our impartiality,” WikiLeaks explained. “That means that the vast amount of stuff that we are publishing on Clinton will have much higher impact, because it won’t be perceived as coming from a ‘pro-Trump’ ‘pro-Russia’ source.” It then provided an email address and link where the Trump campaign could send the tax returns, and adds, “The same for any other negative stuff (documents, recordings) that you think has a decent chance of coming out. Let us put it out.”

> Trump Jr. did not respond to this message.

"improve the perception of our impartiality" sounds as if "we're not impartial, and the world is figuring that out. If you have nothing to lose otherwise, please make it seem as if we were impartial."
Honestly, FlixBus aren't well known in Germany for being good. They are cheap, but you constantly see people complaining about them.
It's good to know that the person posting the link has a financial stake in it. Depending on the context this can mean a lot - like a review or recommendation.
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> But it's the best signal we've got

Except that's not true. We can actually test for sobriety. And by doing drug testing instead, we're actually using a worse signal in place of a better signal!

See e.g., http://www.predictivesafety.com/news/2017/2/6/the-advantages...

> Perhaps you are too young or live in too modern a world to understand how dangerous rare events are. Constructive paranoia has helped select evolutionary survivors for a very long time.

I'm not really sure if there's more than a vague analogy connecting Diamond's hypotheses to drug testing policy. And I don't find that exceptionally vague analogy to be compelling evidence. (And I'm one of those people who doesn't even buy a lot of Diamond's work anyways; in fact, I think I'm in good company on this one among the sober, grown-up anthropologists out there...)

My weathered experience tells me to prefer hard data over vague analogies to pop science writers who are themselves known more for their well-written vague analogies than their well-researched hard science :-)
I recently switched to firefox and I find that chrome has much better plugin support. Just browsing between the plugin stores and you can see the difference. Hopefully firefox can catch up.

One plugin that I really miss in firefox is holmes[0]. I bookmark alot of useful sites and it can be a pain to find them in the bookmark list. It's a plugin that makes me really miss chrome.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/holmes/gokficnebmo...

[1] https://www.chromium.org/tab-to-search
All living things are greedy and lazy. It's not good, but it's also not evil. It's just physics. Humans aren't unusually greedy or lazy. They are just the only ones that beat themselves up over it. Particularly the American ones.
Is it really any worse than the cattle-car experience of air travel in the US? I take the bus semi-regularly and while far from luxury, I don't find it any less appalling than what Alaska / United / et al. dish out.
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>you might have had a point about spending on education for mentally disabled people far outpacing that for the average student, but adding in the part

Do you discredit an idea because of the person espousing it? If so, go hang out with normies who read gossip mags.

>you might have an ulterior motive beyond fixing the education system.

My ulterior motive is a society where the productive people are unleashed to be as great as they can be, and the lazy/incompetent aren't given things at the expense of better investments.

>I also want to point out that you included teaching to read in you list of things parents should be doing and not the teachers.

Yeah, I want to live in a society with a norm of parents reading to their children and participating in their child's development. The expectation that only teachers are responsible for an individual's education is the reason we can dump so much money into the system and have little to show for it.
This is just a short-term patch. If they want to combat fake news or state propaganda on their rankings they would need algorithms to do it for them. Otherwise, new channels to do propaganda will appear.
I beleive it's part of the NPRM [0] issued in May.

[0] https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-344614A1.p...
but she says right above it:

"So, for example, if a process is owned by the julia user and julia is in the awesome group, then the process would be allowed to read this file."
Field sobriety tests are like polygraph tests: highly subjective, easily influenced by bias and have little to no scientific backing.
Your impression is possibly why the bar gets nudged pretty high for mass transit providers in Germany.
I ride with FlixBus several times a year within Germany to visit family. It gets you where you're going, on time, clean buses. There seems to be a lot of competition for buses in Germany, at least in Berlin, so maybe that pushes quality up. I wish them luck.
also the massive increase in stock prices, which some attribute to things trump might do. companies do act very differently when their stock is doing well - hire more employees, take on more projects, etc. when stock is down - lay off employees, cut costs
What does that achieve? May be it's ethically better, but what does it actually do that is a net positive to the consumer?
It would certainly be nice to disable just that one section. I took the GGP's comment to be about disabling the entire Google Now/Feed app.
Please don't post obvious dismissals of other people's work unless you have some specific knowledge about it.

There's nothing more lowering of discussion quality otherwise; it's like a snake in snakes and ladders.
> Firefox has given developers 3 years and over 10 FF releases to work on migrating extensions.

No it hasn't: Firefox still doesn't ship an API capable of supporting many existing extensions. The developers of those extensions haven't had three years to port; they still can't port.

I really like how fast the new Firefox is, but I won't use it until Keysnail works.
Being "beyond irritated" by a harmless easter egg in a developer facing tool which hasn't even been found in 6 years, is some pretty serious pedantry. Maybe the kind of pedantry you see in people who work with safety related embedded software like aircrafts or automobile software.

Unless you're someone who write that kind of embedded software, and depends on the stderr output of man to control some critical parts of that system (which would be insane) your level of pedantry is unwarranted.

Man is an UI for people. Complaining about its output is like complaining about the GUI of a PDF reader. Sure, you could take snapshots of it, parse it in your system, and be slightly annoyed once by a small easter egg, but it would be kind of stupid because that's not what it was build for.
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Yeah, some of us can type pretty fast. And for mice, some of us take clicker games seriously.
> I'll say it: did anyone consider an alien spaceship?

See some interesting back-and-forth on this here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/7ealls/solar_systems...
It's a modern NBA thing:

https://www.theringer.com/nba/2017/11/4/16593220/nba-weight-...
Fair enough, I noted there's nothing wrong with content marketing if the content is interesting, but my comment was about my interest in specific sites that sell these paintings. As I want to buy one. Rather than the factories that produce them. If you know any that would be helpful. Unless you also sell them? Thanks.
I shouldn't be forced to use a Developer edition to install my plugins in my browser. It's my computer, not Mozilla's.
Are you literate? Go back and reread the first sentence of the comment you are replying to.
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This question/doubt has very interesting consequences.

An argument against the thesis that "robots" will lead to catastrophic loss of jobs, is that the concept of "robot" in a strict sense (intended as a sudden similarity to human intelligence/capacity) doesn't really exist, because "robots" are simply a form automation - and civilization has been incrementally developing automation for 250 years by now.
This is definitely not the case. E-Verify has existed for a long time, but is still not mandatory [1].

Employers are supposed to have employees fill out an I-9 form that verifies employment eligibility, but the penalties for noncompliance are at most $1,100 per form -- basically slap on the wrist territory [2].

The irony here is that the anti-immigration wing of the Republican party is now in open conflict with the business wing of the party, which benefits heavily from hiring ineligible workers for low wages.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Verify#Operations

[2] https://www.thebalance.com/i-9-form-employment-eligibility-v...
Absolutely, the amount of technologies often required for full stack web development is astounding. Even for a smallish website, you can be quickly staring at 30+ essential pieces of technology you need to at least understand somewhat. Several languages, package managers, IDEs, frameworks, a database, debuggers, compilers, project management tools, virtual machines, server software, your OS, supporting protocols (SSL, TCP/IP, SSH, DNS etc.) and the list goes on. Who can truly understand all of that simultaneously? All of that bloat just massively increases the chance of errors and inefficiencies.
I don't - just filmed keyboard and screen together; key down is easy to see. I have a quality keyboard (Fujitsu KBPC PX eco) connected by PS/2, and as stated above I'd expect little extra latency from USB. As measured, anyway, there is no space for significant keyboard lag in the result.
The reason why I measured latency was that I seemed to notice a change after changing GPU driver kernel options. End to end was easiest to measure. The result was close to the theoretical minimum so I stopped there.
Correct, because as everyone knows, when Americans aren't busy shopping or on holiday, they are busy reading new FCC proposals.
Having worked on some warehouse automation equipment briefly in the past, I'd say they can meet that definition. The equipment I worked on was called a tilt-tray sorter system.

Packages would arrive along a conveyor belt and get put on a tray in a big train of trays (like a roller coaster for boxes).

A scanner would read a bar code on the package (sense).

The bar code would correspond to a particular loading bay where a truck was waiting that the package needed to be put on. (think - match code with loading bay).

When the tray went around and reached the chute for that loading bay it would tilt up and slide the box down to where it could be loaded (act).
Is there any article explaining the Chinese point of view? I'd like to know what they're hoping to accomplish by banning apps.
These are fish in a barrel, obviously some are much harder to pin down.

https://twitter.com/h0usew1fe/status/932645874747846656

https://twitter.com/moloian_thomas/status/932645063615660033

https://twitter.com/bo_rigga/status/932605065696866304

https://twitter.com/legnon_j/status/932570415913930752
Vimium is _good_ but I really wish it would use the browser's native search widget when searching via `/`. I've been meaning to look into the documentation, but my assumption is that this is a limitation of the WebExtensions API.
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