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I don't get it. A company _is_ a fiction, too. And that fictional nature is very close to the surface in a startup. Especially when you add in vesting schedules, dilution, getting squeezed out, etc.

(For more established companies, their equity's value works more like bitcoin: they might still go bankrupt and be worthless in eg thirty years, but they are unlikely to totally crash in the next few months.)
>The Push for Education Programs That Pay People As They Learn

Translated from corporate-speak: the push for cheap "trainee" style workers who get paid less than a regular worker because they are "learning on the job", and who never have to be hired when they complete their jobs, since companies can move to the next wave of trainees.
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That's a bit of a culture shock for me. Because talking on a cell phone is taboo in the Prague mass transport system. People will occasionally have a short and apologetically whispered phone call, but if you talk out loud old people will stare at you angrily and may even psht.
You're right, also television! But also other things. Which makes me think of the products that I use that are algorithmically built for addictiveness - not to say all products are initially built with the intention of being addictive, but products gradually become so and a company then unethically pushes new features that will further the addictiveness since that keeps the user coming back/on the product. An example of the latter is Netflix or Spotify. Netflix, last time I checked, now auto plays previews of shows on the main page - a way to get the user to be intrigued, stay on the product, and keep watching more shows. Spotify, while a revolutionary product, I find is addictive - millions of songs a user has yet to listen to? Well, then that is more of a reason for the user to plunge into two hours of music searching and while the user is at it, why not create a playlist for every occasion that might occur.

The latter two examples being poor examples, but yet, there are products/services all around us which manipulate our mind. I have always been keen on building something, a product or service, something morally and ethically just - no advertisements, no gimmicks, etc. I.e. Spotify should have a optional pop-message say: "You have been listening to music for five hours. You should let your ears rest and make some pumpkin pie." Or from Netflix: "You have just watched the entire season of two shows. You should really go lay under a tree in a park and eat some grapes." Again, the latter two examples are not likely, they are dream-like features but this is what I dictate to be a movement towards more healthy products/services to which we need.

In modern day, we must then be extra aware of what we consciously consume and put in our head day in and day out in our everyday life. We might even decipher if this is what we want to consume, if it is healthy, if it is the way we want to lead our lives. The latter being an approach I took to deciding to stop: watching, reading, and listening to the news, bookmarking countless of articles I find (Pocket, the bookmarking saving tool, is particularly overwhelming), sticking to just a few websites I regularly visit, not using/having any social media account, etc.

Above all, I'll finish this comment off with two of my favorite quotes and a video about everyday virtue that I think is appropriate in regard to the article and something teenagers should come to know:

Thomas Merton: "The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds.”

Andrei Tarkovsky from Sculpting in Time: “Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.”

Everyday Virtue, an analysis of the independent film Paterson with support from ideas of David Foster Wallace (it's about awareness, normal and ordinary everyday life, etc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnGvWTRQ9j4
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Julie Lythcott-Haims was a former Stanford Dean responsible for incoming freshmen students. From that position she likely collected many more data points than any of us on this topic, which led her to write a book called How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kids for Success [0]. I have not read the book but heard her on a podcast a few years back.

This article has some key points in it that address the comments in this thread [1].

Excerpt:

"Working with the quote-unquote best and brightest, I was seeing more and more [students] who seemed less and less capable of doing the stuff of life. They were incredibly accomplished in the transcript and GPA sense but less with their own selves, evidenced by how frequently they communicated with a parent, texting multiple times a day, needing a parent to tell them what to do."

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OO2LJS2/ref=as_li_tl?ie...

[1] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-murphy-jr/want-to-raise-...?
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A very good point. Still, it's raising awareness and is worthwhile as a project.

As you say, hopefully Wikimedia will take note and implement a darknet version themselves.
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Thank you, TLDR authors for this tool. It solves a real problem and can coexist with traditional man pages.

I may have missed it in the discussion already, but would it be possible for TLDR to favor editable online sources for its content (e.g.: WordPress/Mediawiki with Markdown)? This Wikipedia style of editing may be a big game changer.

Caveat: Of course, content would have to be packaged locally for offline use.
Article incorrectly names the journal as Elselvier journal ScienceDirect.com.

It’s actually Personality and Individual Differences
Assuming the parties correctly report the spending, or anyone bothers to investigate. I think that is the weak point - if it wasn't for a fairly dogged campaign by Channel 4 the problem with the Tories overspending to promote particular candidates might never have come to light.

For the record, the magic number is £30k per seat contested on "campaign spending" (to promote the national party), and another about £10-16k of "candidate spending" (to promote a particular candidate) depending on the size of the constituency.

https://fullfact.org/law/election-spending-rules-conservativ...
Shiny is missing a lot of desirable features (full-screen, window positioning, disallowing window scaling) and is no longer being maintained, unfortunately.
An educated guess: you get stronger negative reactions to caffeine: anxiety/panic, aggression, insomnia, heart racing and/or palpitations, sweats, tremors/muscle spasms, dehydration.

That said, I don't think it's as genetically hard-coded as the the root comment suggested.

I've been through episodes (coinciding with when I was having debilitating symptoms of chronic fatigue and depression), when I experienced these symptoms (sometimes very severely) when consuming caffeine. As I've become more physically energized and mentally well, my tolerance for caffeine has vastly improved.
Do not misunderstand me, I do not want to denigrate anything, as I appreciate the potential of configurability, but this is not the average case of a public employee.
I was not strictly promoting prohibitive penalization, for one. My comment tried to clarify whether intoxication was res publique or purely private.

The fallacies in your conclusion are:

> freedoms of everyone

> faults of a few

Whether intoxication leads to freedom is debatable.

Secondly, casualties from alcohol abuse are hardly "a few".

You say people susceptible to the detrimental effects, perhaps from a preexisting tendency for lack of inhibition and aptitude are responsible. Whereas they are literally irresponsible. Further, your comment in response to my question could be understood to uphold the right to a buzz over thousands of deaths a year.
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Yeah, when I first wrote this, I used "conservative" instead of "right", because most of the right aren't conservatives: they're market fundamentalists or religious zealots - neither of which puts conservation of the good at the top of their list of values, regardless of their rhetoric. And yes, many on the left aren't interested in freedom at all: they're intensely authoritarian, which is no surprise when "equality" is the highest good in your value system.

And plenty of people from all parts of the political spectrum are simply exploiting the intuitions of their "tribe" for status advantages.
> Meanwhile I’m paying about ~$4k a month in just rent and car bills for her. Not including anything else.

You are contributing to her horrific lifestyle. You need to cut everything off. There is no other way to save her and yourself.
This book really opened my eyes to the importance of savings. Really glad I picked it up when I was 18.
The study group consisted exclusively of males. Maybe it's a male thing ? I heard (but can't remember the sources) that women work better when collaborating, while men work better alone.

I wonder if I get downvoted for saying this. I think misandry is politically correct, because it's not that discrimination is frowned upon, it's just misogyny and racism.
Open source is good for things programmers like writing. Kernels, databases, game engines, etc. Fails completely when it comes to UIs.
It’s rare to see the word misunderestimate in the wild. Mind if I ask was this a mistake, or intentional irony, or is this word has just made its way into the general vocabulary now?

And to be less irrelevant, I do agree with you that a simple rubric that can be internalized by compelling stories can be very powerful in a person’s life.
One thing after another, in order of death toll.
they are where GNU projects hide the man pages in an attempt to trick you into using emacs.
This is a good point and one that is recognized often here: there's a good chunk of internet users that are mobile only.

That's an entirely different way to come up and learn technology than those of us who went through any variation of DOS > MS or Apple Desktops > Smartphones.

Conjecture: the browser, if thought about at all by mobile users, is an afterthought to apps like FB, messaging, Youtube, etc.
`C-a, a` sends `C-a` to muxed terminal. Sure is a bit harder to remember, but not much.

IMO the biggest mistake tmux made was not using C-a by default. I don't know anybody who doesn't remap it - it's far more convenient keyboard-wise, and it sets you up for using `screen` on servers where tmux isn't installed. So go ahead and remap it.
> And therefore it is for people who cannot put in the thirty years to feel like subject matter experts.

So 99.9% of everybody? That sounds more like a recommendation than a criticism.
It’s so bad that I decided to put “Inc.” in my garbage media blacklist. After scanning their previous articles posted to HN, I relialized that I should have done it sooner.
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The upgrades have progressively become much less painful. Rails 1 to 2 was a big deal, as the change introduced the RESTful API. Rails 3 was slightly less violent, but the asset pipeline was still a pretty big deal. Rails 4 had a lot of API cleanup/simplification. A lot of meta programming magic was removed in favor of simpler code, which resulted in some rewriting of existing code.

Rails 5 was the easiest upgrade yet. ActionCable was the big change, but it’s an addition to Rails, not a replacement for some existing tech. As a result, it doesn’t disturb much existing code.
Yes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
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I upvoted this comment and then immediately felt dirty.
Anecdotal: If you aren't able to fall asleep as easily 6 hours after a cup of coffee vs 10 hours you might be a slow metabolizer.

Strangely enough, if you find yourself in this situation of having drank coffee too late in the day nicotine has actually been proven to speed up the metabolization of caffeine: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3365914
Earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15779226
To be honest, without a strong political or ideological motivation to do so, it's hard to see why any government organisation would use Linux on the desktop, or how they would justify it. Cost, perhaps, but that's always going to be difficult to really quantify, because what you save in licensing fees, you might end up spending on the migration process, hiring expert contractors, retraining users, etc.

Since you're funded by taxes anyway, you're inevitably less motivated by purely economic concerns than by the quality and efficiency of the service you can provide. While I frequently see people defend desktop Linux and LibreOffice against hyperbolic claims about their inadequacy, I don't often see people promoting them as more usable for the everyday user than Windows 10. Other than the Windows 8 debacle, Microsoft keeps the happy-path of a typical business-user workflow in decent shape.

Of course, a plan to migrate every computer to Windows is just that: a plan. And IT plans have a bad habit of colliding messily with reality. It seems more likely that, by 2023, Munich will have a lot of computers running Windows 10, a lot still running LiMux, and a lot still running old versions of Windows. Or maybe the political landscape will have shifted again, and they'll be in the middle of a switch to Apple, Chrome OS, Ubuntu, or who knows what?
Problem is large organizations IT departments. Instead of using tested and quality components they only consider two options: Roll own thing (LiMux) use crappy vendor (MS).

It would be massively cheaper to sponsor 5 people to work on Libre Office, and 5 people to support the distribution of choice (Ubuntu, SUSE). The remaining effort should be put into aggressive upgrade policy. They would now be running on Ubuntu 16.04 and LibreOffice and OwnCloud installation that would cost them peanuts.

Instead, they are running on LiMux where the last release took place in 2011. Half of the documents are still probably in MS format and nothing work on modern hardware.

What they will do now is to embrace Windows10. But in few years MS will push everything to the cloud and they will be left hanging with expensive licenses per user. Because of privacy and data cannot move to the US and they will be forced to use legacy Office versions. Additionally, because Windows is expensive to support they will get squeezed by Indian outsourcing centers.
You’re right. I’m an enabler. Hard reality to face. Thank you.

Its hard to effectively choose for someone you care so deeply about, to suffer. Even if they need it badly.
Being accomplished space travelers doesn't necessarily imply a nuanced understanding of psychology
I'm afraid it won't work well without extra regulation laws. Even if Facebook is broken, it has shown the way. Before, it was MySpace (although it was never so popular). If someone breaks FB, the strongest competitor living in its shadow will step up.

I think it is the nature of certain services to centralize. Search engines, social networks. Unless someone forces them to inter-operate, it's winner takes all.
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How much does an initial consultation with an attorney cost? Likely less than 4K, I would assume.

I would think (not sure) that one significant contributing factor in psychological harm to children in context of divorce is the undermining of notions of love, loyalty. And I would think being front row observers of instability in human relations is also damaging to young ones.

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My sincere condolences to OP regarding this awful situation, but please consider if continuing this situation will in fact have the same (if not worse) adverse effects on your little loved ones as a divorce.

You also mentioned your so-called-wife has broken relations with her parents. What about your parents? It is critically important that FAMILY love, fealty, support is demonstrated to your children.
I think more dangerous than social media is the omnipresence of image recording devices. When I made a mistake as a teenager, people might laugh at me for a day or two, sooner or later it was forgotten. Today's teenager make a mistake and if they are unlucky, their shame gets immediately exposed to the whole world, forever.

I think this has to contribute a lot to today's anxiousness of teenagers - who hasn't been caught yet, should feel in constant danger. I would be anxious about this if i was a teenager today.

My kid is one and a half right now, in a few years I will have to explain him how important it is not to get taped doing stupid things...
Is it really that hard to believe that a Windows-based infrastructure is better for a city government?
It's a long time since I've ever read any of his stuff, but I remember reading his early stuff and he said how he'd "retired" and then started doing handyman jobs and his wife did x, y and z to make some extra money.

That's not retired.

That's just changing your career. Of course it's relevant. He's still earning to make money to do more stuff, he just changed the way he does its.

Now he makes money off blogging. That's, again, just changing your career.
Would you apply the same logic to government?

Government has to be broken down to pieces. I think it has reached a state where it cannot be allowed to continue as a single government being able to observe/monitor public and private communication / social interaction of so many people and not being regulated and controlled by market forces.
I've seen the "invest in index funds" repeated over and over, but almost always coming from people in the US. I don't understand enough about investing to understand when the advice is useful globally, or only locally. I also don't really know where to get that knowledge, because most explanations don't say whether they apply outside of the US. What are some good source for someone based in Europe (Spain specifically, if it make any difference)?
> On the contrary. Linus can enforce his vision against majority of other senior developers because here is inherent costs friction in forking Linux

I challenge you to find an example where he did that.

> It would require large number of misguided decisions for any serious fork to emerge.

In the case of GCC, this wasn't true at all. All it took was being too conservative, and not including contributions fast enough.
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In NYC, most e-bikes are used by people running delivery. People running delivery are paid very little and may be undocumented. NYPD has seized hundreds of e-bikes (at roughly ~$1000/each) and fined their riders.

Our mayor has unfortunately listened to rich upper-west-siders who see e-bikes as a nuisance, so beginning in 2018 there will be increased enforcement against e-bikes. DeBlasio has suggested that e-bike users "use cars" instead. This is totally insane as it will only increase congestion and decrease safety overall.

Streetsblog NYC has good reporting on this:
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2017/11/22/delivery-workers-conf...
To be fair, HN hides a comment score until the user decides to see it.
It's clickbait, it doesn't matter if they click like it not
As long as you don't add fixed header+footer it's good.
But then, you didn't really make the part of you that make you humble.
I don't understand why do you think that.

The biggest problem of big companies is when they hurt consumers with predatory practices.

With Facebook I fail to see how that's the case. Everybody is perfectly capable of not being hurt by their own accord by just no using it.

If the problem is how it influences politics and government, I think that's even a point against letting the government mess with it, as it is a power that can be easily misused by the party in power.
"I'm retired" while you're blogging /making a lot of money by saying you're retired, is profitable but fishy. Like getting rich by writing a book about how you got rich.

Yeah, a Google /FB /x employee can sacrifice for 10 years and then retire, at least outside USA. Live like immigrants that send all their money back to their home country, do.
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When people ask what they should do with their money, I direct them to the /r/personalfinance flowchart. [1] It does a great job of getting people on the right track. Beyond that, I suggest lurking on /r/financialindependence. That community had grown very fast in recent years, but is far from as mainstream as /r/personalfinance.

[1] https://m.imgur.com/CcEVQAV (image seems to be compressed to hell and back on mobile)
Okay, did that, next?
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https://tldr.ostera.io/tar

https://man.openbsd.org/tar#EXAMPLES

What they're covering is just the examples section of a traditional man page. What makes you think people wouldn't merge these?
On the live demo, it uses a handlebars like template for examples. 'dig {{hostname.com}}'. I think it would be better to have 'dig $HOSTNAME', but maybe that is my bash showing.
Messenger works better than the default SMS app on my Android phone, so I end up using it instead. The value of using the actual Facebook website does seem to be in serious decline. Either nobody I know is actually using it anymore, or they are filtering the shit out of the newsfeed - I see the same stories for days at a time.
I'm not sure what you're even talking about. All I'm saying is that given the vast progress we've made, leisure for the masses has been disproportionately disfavoured. To say that, if I follow you correctly, this situation is somehow inherently "how it go to be" is just dogmatic.

> Myself, and apparently most of the western world, we'd rather give up those liberties for the massive benefits that we get in exchange.

Never mind that this is a blatant false dichotomy, there is no such choice offered.
Not a fan of needing npm. Why not provide a binary? Or did I miss that?
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us has a population of about 300 million and Harvard has a student body of size 6,700. looks almost exactly proportional
Doesn't seem to mention how this value agrees or not with predictions

The G-2 experiment at Fermilab is coming online soon and they're investigating the Muon's magnetic moment, which is suspected to not match the current predictions
Upvotes on HN/Reddit do essentially the same thing. I don't have the user statistics, but I'd imagine the typical HN reader only reads a sampling of the top-voted comments, which essentially allows them "to see how others feel about a post/article in an instant."

If you want an example of the opposite approach, you can always look at 2009-era YouTube, when all comments shown were in a strict "newest" order. If you remember, YouTube had a bit of reputation for some of the lowest-quality comment sections anywhere.

There simply is no "quick fix" for clickbait, aside from altering basic human psychology, or some type of (probably complex) regulation.
I suspect most of Libre Office's slow performance is a result of using JAVA.
It is so fricking trivial to implement. Slow down everything. Whitelist the IPs of paying parties. Done.
Please see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15121351 - I am still looking for a person to fit this role. I can also have this person fill many QA needs on the project in general.

My email is matthewvita48 at gmail dot com

Thanks!