skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I work for the federal government, but my thoughts are my own.

From what I have seen, there are a mix of issues that cause this:
- It takes a long time to hire someone (usually 2-3 months), and if they need a clearance, the process is even longer (some clearances can take easily over a year now, and that person cannot do any work until they have them).
- A lot of people want to go into these organizations to do cool things, but then find out they have a lot of additional duties they do not wish to do.
- Government salaries are capped, and it is very difficult to fire a government civilian.

The issue of taking a long time to hire someone means that if someone leaves, their job does not go away. So their duties have to go somewhere, usually on someone else, and that will take a minimum of 3 months if you hire someone off the street. If the job requires a clearance, you now are waiting over a year if the person did not have the right clearance (while the person sits on that spot, so you can't hire anyone else if they come up).

From what I have seen, most people hired off of the streets are from college/grad school, and they are excited to do technical work. However, since the government caps civilian salaries, they will frequently contract out technical work (so they can hire the very expensive technical personnel). This means most of the technical work is done by contractors. Civilians more often than not oversee the contractors doing the technical work. If you have a technically inclined government civilian, then those contractors frequently snatch them up.

So now you have a compounding problem of it is difficult to hire/keep technical people, and the work they do is more and more non-technical, as most of the work to oversee contractors is what is called an "inherently governmental function", so those have to be done by a government person. This is a negative feedback loop that really hurts keeping these types of technical people.
There are other notable exceptions. Pol Pot was educated in Paris. But I wouldn't be surprised if the Chinese elites being educated in the US did have a big role in the conversion of China to capitalism for example.
Organize so I can split them up in two different posts? One about the book and one about the behavior?
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Ubuntu is now really polished, and works great if you cherry pick hardware a bit and avoid components with drivers that are not in the kernel.

But I'd go one step further and argue that, as a developer, Linux can give you a unique experience if you stick to its strengths:

* Use a minimal distribution with few moving parts -> Things rarely break, and if something does it's usually easy to fix

* Try functional package management and administration (NixOS) -> Easy to reproduce setups, trivial to rollback, no dependency hell

* Try a simple keyboard-driven desktop -> A tiling window manager (XMonad), a web browser (Firefox) and Emacs (with Org, Magit, Eshell, Dired, Notmuch...) work incredibly well
There's a method (a bunch of slightly different ones, actually) for rejuvenation of cathodes to improve emittance. This can significantly prolong the life of a tube and has been applied by many with great success to expensive measurement equipment.
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That doesn't at all convey to me what I'm trying to find out: would I wish to be tried in the Norwegian system if I were charged with a given crime rather than in the United States? Neither where would I prefer to carry out my sentence, nor where I think the socioeconomic factors that lead to crime are best prevented. Those are all worthwhile questions, to be clear, but not what I was getting at.
I agree. A really annoying "feature". I can understand it if you use the English qwerty-layout but not when you use the Swedish/Norwegian/Danish/German layout.

There is an open issue for this over at the android issue tracker. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/37104657
Everyone is motivated by remuneration to some degree - the only question is who is remunerating our government officials: the public, or some other party with its own interests?

In the US, we've chosen the private sector to remunerate our officials after they've left public service, and our lovely government is the result.

Keep in mind that, as a public official earning top wages (~$150k/year) in DC, you can just afford to buy the median home in the area. But if you want a nice house (single-family) in a good neighborhood? Forget it! Whereas if you took your skills to the private sector, finding a place to raise your family would not be a major concern.
It's not a secret. It's pretty much the opposite of a secret actually.
Music licensing is really complex. As someone else has said in another comment thread it also varies territory by territory in how this is managed - but then also who is owed what can vary territory by territory depending on other deals at play.
Is there a particular model you'd suggest from there? Thanks in advance!
Two bits of history which helped me understand that more:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-ri...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/books/review/one-nation-u...
Came here to say exactly the same thing. Been running XPS 13 DE with Fedora for the past year and it's been flawless.

Battery life with the FHD screen is amazing, I can work two 7-8 hour work days on a single charge. At idle I'll get over 22 hours.

The updates for OS and BIOS are more polished than Windows or Mac.
Monero's big problem, right now, is that the fees are high - around $3. They're working on "Bulletproofs" that will reduce the size of transactions, and hopefully fees, by 80%.

Zcash has more advanced crypto, but it takes nearly a minute to generate a private transaction on a normal computer.

My favorite "privacy" coin is PIVX. It uses the zerocoin protocol and is fast with low fees. Die-hard privacy advocates don't like it because it uses Masternodes, but I consider that a plus from an adoption point of view.

Here's a privacy coin comparison of these & others, if anyone is interested.

https://www.bitcoinbeginner.com/blog/privacy-coin-comparison
50% of the non-western refugees in The Netherlands are working at least part-time. With most companies scrambling to find personnel even in low-paying jobs, I think we'll conclude in a few years that those refugees were a net-benefit to society.
If the government doesn't make sense look to some group with a powerful lobby trying to save jobs or kids:

https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-fre...
I don’t know about PIA, but I believe Malaysian vpn provider Hide.me brought in an independent auditor to validate their claims. I expect you could do that in any country.
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Thank you, bloomberg.com, for giving us news from 6 months ago. I'm glad I have serious traditional media with professionals working to provide me with fresh information and insight.

Tomorrow, they will tell us the amazing discovery on about how the economy of crypto is now influenced by massive master nodes holdings.

Next month: the impact of Macafee tweeting.

Seriouly, how are they still doing money when bloggers give better, fresher, stuff than them ?
Thanks for telling it like it is
Unsurprisingly this is complete rubbish.

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"SJW" basically means "outspoken anti-bigot"

Are you sure about that? I'm pretty certain that outspoken anti-bigots and people commonly labeled as SJWs are not even in a proper subset relationship in either way.
Bones can give and break. This can be a benefit. Better to break a bone than rend the flesh in many cases.
Possibly. I thought the top answer in the Uber-as-ambulance discussion offered a lot of insight as to how the current system is a market failure:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16007246

>> I don't have the time or expertise to do the months of legalese and calculus it would take me to understand my insurance policy, so I have no idea how much an ambulance ride would have cost me. $0? $400? $15000? None of those numbers would surprise me. As best I can tell, insurance companies throw a dart to decide whether you're covered or not, and then the healthcare provider makes up some insane number if you aren't.

>> The Uber got me to the hospital faster than an ambulance would have, for less than $10, and I knew it would cost less than $10.

It would be interesting to have a conversation about how you deliberately construct a sane ambulance market (liability, dispatch, predictable pricing, proper competition) to handle a wider range of emergencies.

But in the US, I don't expect such a reasonable conversation. I expect to be bludgeoned to death with the word "deregulation", as if the only control we have is a a single dial to turn "regulation" up or down.

You never get to zero "regulation". "Deregulation" is always selective and another form of market interference -- and like any market constraint, selective deregulation will always favor certain players.

So, can we have a conversation about constructing a market? It's the US. I'm not getting my hopes up.
I don't think they fixed a bug or something. A new developer probably just stumbled upon some undocumented code he didn't know what it was used for, so he removed it. My tip: They should improve their CI.
Per day? So around one to three years for the delivery of 150 000 cars.
Any of the big tech companies, for starters. But, I don't work for any of those companies. You can PM me for details, we're hiring.

Keep in mind this is in SF, and I don't know any senior software engineers here making less than $300k/year, more than everyone in the government except the President!
At least for RetroPie, there's a config file you can edit directly on the SD-card, to force a video output and resolution and set overscan.

I'm using it force mine into 480p mode, to feed a HDMI->S-Video converter, which gives better video quality than using the composite output.
I have used (and set up) Jenkins, Drone and GitLab CI, and the latter two are definitely my preference these days. Unlike Jenkins, the configuration for Drone or GitLab sits in the repo, so it's as portable as the code itself - you manage the CI process through PRs and merges, same as anything. I use GitLab for personal projects, and it's pretty nice in that it's also git hosting, but the runners can be finicky to set up, and even though I've set up a few, it can still be confusing (specifically, tagging runners for specific tasks). In general, I think the most flexible thing is the one that's configured on the fly in the project itself.
Yeah the entire NCAA system is basically funded by young men playing basketball and football, a few who are objectively being cheated out of millions of dollars (because the ncaa lobbies the nfl and nba to have minimum age requirements).
Get a reputable auditor to vouch for you, by giving them access to your infrastructure for a while. Of course it’s not foolproof (you could change everything the minute he leaves) but it’s the best you can do. Bonus points for making it a yearly event.
I bought biking shorts yesterday it was an American medium/European large. Americans eat way too much easy carbs and "unhappy" meat. Sure there are other reasons but this is the reason they spend so much. Ppl would be willing to pay healthcare for others who fall on bad times, but most sick ppl are ppl who made bad lifestyle choices and everyone knows this.
Small correction: intercooler works with either jQuery or zepto.
A single example, sure, but quite a high profile site: news.bbc.co.uk was using tables for layout in 2008 -

https://web.archive.org/web/20080306220511/http://news.bbc.c...
Smaller screens only had 1 wire
How active are they?
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Actually, this stability and security was another big reason I chose not to join Government. I had done a few internships in the public service, and what I saw horrified me.

When you have job security and low expectations placed on you, it's wonderful. When everyone does, it's horrible. There is relatively little room for the lazy and useless in the private sector.
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Please. For innovation, Denmark and Finland plays in a different league than Norway. /the swede
That’s awful. I am sorry you and your wife had to go through that. Human beings can be depraved creatures.
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You haven't said anything new and some of what you have said is wrong, which you then make worse by suggesting you called bitcoin's fate 10 days ago. Even the fact that you call it "BC" shows that you are completely unfamiliar with the cryptocurrency domain. Your main point seems to be that criminals don't like btc now because of the increased volatility. But btc's volatility has not increased significantly compared to past years. Doubling or tripling in a few months in not unusual. 40% retracements happen 2-3 times per year. The fact that the price has more zeroes in it now doesn't change the percentages, which is what would matter to someone laundering money. The idea that the market will crash if big players cash out? Perhaps, but you have not provided any evidence that this is happening yet. Have significant amounts of coins moved from large holder's wallets recently? "There are better options out there". Yes, I think anyone with even a passing interest in cryptocurrency has been aware of this fact, as it has been true for years.

Historical volatility:
https://bitvol.info/
According to support, my site just got DDoS-ed. Makes me wonder who can get THAT pissed off with an article about Debian. Anyway, it makes me feel like I'm doing something right. :D

(BTW you're right, it's a cheap host and quite slow even when it's working. Site runs on Grav (flat-file CMS), which is a lot faster than e.g. WP and ilk (on the same chep host))
Our streets look similar to this, I rarely see any litter unless after a really big event or similar.

Background:
I'm not in Oslo but I'm living in Gothenburg which is both close by (roughly 3 hours with bus) and roughly the same size. I live on the main Avenue (avenyn) walk to and from work so I see much of the central inner city every day.
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Distric0x is a project working on this. Not necessarily for criminal markets, but for decentralized markets.

https://district0x.io/
Great, more compliance.
For me, I don't think the driving forces of capatilism are always compatible with 'caring for people' and that there are tasks that are better left to governmental organizations.
It's just a really accommodating radio station that always plays your requests, no?
I'm interested too, hope the OP or someone can answer. Also, why does the transaction itself need to be sent over tor? I thought Monero's feature is that you can't tell from a transaction who the recipient is (ring transactions or something?) but maybe I don't understand the end-to-end flow and the math well. What is incriminating when you publish a transaction without tor?
This sounds pretty good, actually. The trouble I have is that I'm looking to spend some good money on a laptop, but I think it's ultimately going to disappoint; why should I spend 2-3K on a laptop that only check x/y boxes where x < y? Maybe I'm just unreasonable.
I’ve seen three in the last few days and I haven’t spent much time driving.
> For example, the President is a climate change denier. How do you expect those views to be represented in universities when they fly in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence?

That scientific evidence is created, studied and reviewed by people who self-select to study it and are very much part of the overwhelming liberal bias in academia.

That's not to say the evidence isn't valid--but this is kind of a "chicken and egg" situation. If you already distrust academia, you are less likely to unconditionally accept that groupthink and bias could have no possible impact on the conclusions. You can't personally measure changes in climate without implicitly trusting the measurements and adjustments of these institutions, so it's tougher to accept the need for dramatic changes in policy.

Put differently: If science in academia had more conservative thinkers, the party's position might change, or at least soften over time. Or it's even possible the science could be made better by having more diverse viewpoints in the fields.
IMO technology can improve much.

But the decision to use the technology or not is a political one.
They are getting started. Mass producing a vehicle is not an easy task and takes a lot of expierence, equipment. Every manufacturer starts slowly but we don’t notice it as drastically because there is usually less demand. If Model A is not available, most customers choose Model B or Model A-like from company B. Or chances are they have not even heard of that Model and just don’t look for it. For Tesla it is different.

Tesla needs to announce them far in advance so they get funding. They can’t just create another Model, start mass production and delivery without anyone noticing and caring to post it online. So they capitalize on the hype and sell as man as they can.

Furthermore there is no Tesla Model 3 from any other company. There is not even a Model S or X from any company. There are some products that are close but lack some desirable features such as being purely electric or being “techy”. For the Model X there is the Volvo XC 90 plug-in with 19 miles of range which wouldn’t get many people to work in the winter. The screen is a bit Tesla like but from what I have heard is that Tesla’s screen (and infotainment system) is much better.

For the Model 3, the only true competitors are the i3 and Chevy Bolt. The i3 is selling ok but does not have a lot of range and is a small vehicle. For its price, it is not really a good deal unless you are looking for any ev. The Bolt is a much better choice but many do not like its style. It is also not really available because it is often seen as a complicance vehicle. I have heard that people were laughed out of the store when they wanted to buy it. It is also not available in Norway where it is anticipated the most. My guess is that the 2018 Nissan Leaf will be the best choice this year but compared to a Model 3 still a compromise because it lacks (amongst all non Tesla) a proper quick charging network.

So the real question should be: when will the other manufactures start delivering?
This is also a way for a country to young, healthy and educated immmigrants, the most vaunted kind.
Eh, I also do that and in fact, archlinux.org and all of its servers are also hosted on Arch Linux. It works really quite well and there is little reason to suspect it should be any less stable than other distros.