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This article makes me wonder, what, exactly, is wrong and what is supposed to be done about this. I get that it seems exploitative and probably does have consequences for social attitudes at work, but what I don't understand is what's to be done about this?

Surely there's nothing (drug use aside) that's legally actionable about this. The encounters seemed consensual in the sense that the women weren't threatened or forced and were told about what the drugs offered would do.

If there's not any legal wrong doing then is it social misconduct? Somehow it feels wrong for me to judge or condemn adults for their sexual conduct - even if it seems cheap, transactional, and gross to me. I understand different people have different values and preferences, so why should I apply mine to them? Furthermore, I can't imagine that finger wagging from the likes of Vanity Fair is going to make these rich young men give up on their drug fueled sex parties.

It's an interesting article, even though the author is decidedly biased and at times intentionally misleading (e.g. when she scorns the idea that there are some/many women interested in taking advantage of men, in the middle of an article about rich nerds finding themselves suddenly with a surfeit of women). I don't understand what is supposed to be done about this though or even if something should be aside from educating young women about the tradeoffs they may make in these environments.
The problem is that you have a marked tendency to turn HN threads into generic ideological tangents, as you've done here, and this takes them in a direction of lower quality. If there's any generalization about HN threads that holds up, it's that one, so would you please take this in and stop doing this here?

This isn't an observation for or against capitalism. It's an observation about ideological arguments on the internet. The specific ideological flavor doesn't matter; it works the same dismal way regardless.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I will be 34 soon. I made the transition to development after 3-4 years of self-study and building things. You can do it.

My personal opinion is to start with a language like Python for programming. Learn the fundamentals and then start with web development after that. There are many other ways to go about it depending on what you want to do.
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It helps if JIRA users (i.e. developers) help to define the workflow.
15-20mill is not a big bet in terms of BTC market.
Because it will be much easier to deal with an increase in joblessness/transition to different types of work if it doesn't happen all at once.
> One of the things that drives poverty for women is the cultural expectation that we provide caregiving to our own children and other relatives essentially for free and that society owes us nothing for this imposition on our time and energy. There are other factors, but that's a big one.

You have a source for that? I would think that the wage gap would be a much more significant factor than cultural expectations. And I would hope that people would provide caregiving to their own children for free.
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First of all, the annual number of H1Bs is over 85000: there are 65K general H1Bs, 20K for people who got Master's degree in the US and uncapped number for non-profits and other exempt orgs. And non-profit is not necessarily a shelter for orphaned kittens, NFL is one, for example.

Secondly - H1B can be extended indefinitely while the AOS process is pending, this is in the news right now since Trump's admin announced they are looking into ways to prevent this. The same news are saying over a million H1Bs holders will be affected if the admin succeeds.
The subsidies are for substantial amounts: $50,000 to $1M and are to support development of sharding and layer 2 systems.
Looks like you're not very familiar with it. Again, I highly recommend taking a close look and see if any of your questions are already answered/addressed.
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Eh. It would definitely help to have better tech that could point people in the right direction in their job searches.

But I agree with you that when the real problem is a rising fundamental scarcity, a better breadcrumb detector is not the ultimate solution.
Good lord.

This comment of mine is probably going to get deprecated down to -1 and beyond, but it needs saying anyway:

We already have a perfectly good technology for combatting poverty. It's called socialism.

How many people read this article on the way to work, on their expensive new Christmas phones, absentmindedly stepping over homeless people they only semi-see.

It's not the tech that's the problem. It's us. All of us. Shape up and start giving your resources away. If you need specific recommendations, ask.
You don't have to do an import, you could just have a MapRoulette challenge. Or some sort of JOSM todo plugin, so people could whiz from one to the next
I am currently only working in Tech Support while I learn new skills and try to break into DevOps. My employer has been dangling promotions in front of me for the past four years, but keeps indefinitely delaying them.

I keep becoming more vocal about my career development, but the company keeps having new excuses as to why I need to "wait a few more months".

I have now escalated my demands and made it clear that my career is not going the direction it needs to. I have laid out my conditions for further employment.

Now, my employer either needs to get things moving in the right direction, or one of the 50 places I applied for this week is going to replace them.

The real issue is that I am so valuable to my employer doing what I currently do that they don't want to change my role and have to replace me. Unfortunately for them, they're going to have to replace me no matter what happens.

Don't get too comfortable in the same position for too long, and don't let your company make you feel bad for needing more. If they won't give you what you need in a career, get out and find an employer that will.
Good point about how essential AI will be for data centers.
So...a Silicon Valley version of a Hellfire club [1]?

What's the deal with that hot tub party photo from 1996? In particular what is supporting the laptop? It appears to be right on the surface of the water, which would be a ridiculous way to try to use it, as any ripples or waves would get it wet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfire_Club
Ask HN: Macbook Pro mid 2015 vs. mid 2017 (15“)
I'm looking for a good quality machine for development. Requirements are next: Good display and performance for hard projects in Node.js/Meteor, code editing in WebStorm, running a few docker containers.
I really want MBP mid 2017. Any major issues not to buy it
Despite your obvious irony, you're actually right - those should be primary goals of humanity. Beyond all this talk about life being a journey and not the destination, people sometimes forget that at some point, you're supposed to stop taking in the view and start doing something useful.
You can reorder the issue fields can't you?
The central argument of your post appears to be based solely on personal opinion because you provided no evidence to back it up.

meesterdude provided evidence that runs counter to that opinion. I'm not sure what you're complaining about.
>I think this is close to the Blaredunner camera tech you want: http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/cornar/

Yes, that's it, never heard about Femto-Photography, thanks.
I wouldn't hate JIRA so much if it wasn't for the terrible UX. Literally every action I do there's a loading spinner.
If all of the ASIC mining dropped off Bitcoin would end up with a "frisbee on the roof" problem with its difficulty scaling, ie with the current difficulty there wouldn't be enough mining power left to mine enough blocks (2016) to reach the next difficulty reset in any reasonable amount of time, effectively killing Bitcoin as its transaction throughput would grind to a halt. This is an unlikely death, but still a possible one.
I think we can agree that there are degrees of freedom in a market, and that the us healthcare market is far from a the freest possible version of healthcare.

Im not sure about the information asymmetry argument: insurance companies also lack lots of information. And some of that the patient knows and the insurance doesn't. (pre-existing conditions for example). Also, there's plenty of markets with information asymmetry that dont show the backwardness of US Health care.

> Services are requested under the duress of health problems without the ability to end the agreement.

That is the nature of any insurance market. You cant bargain with your fire insurance when your house is burning down. Well, not effectively, if you look at the richest man in old rome.
Given we've either already destroyed or are in the process of destroying every major marine fishery on the planet and something like 40% of the total dry land area on the planet is currently used for some form of agriculture it seems pretty plain that we cannot sustainably support the current global population. You sure that massive increases in global wealth and not a reduction in global population are what are called for?
That’s essentially the same argument which was levied against the Gutenberg press, and the home telephone, the crossbow, and virtually all significant advances which served to empower more people at the expense of hierarchy.
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Given that most of these cancers are 20-30 years after your trip, and treatments and cure rates improve over time, the risk is likely even lower than our current estimates.
An additional reason is that expertise died out with the end of funding. We had exactly one generation that tackled this problem - there has been no opportunity for them to hand down their experience. We're not starting from scratch, but we're certainly worse-off than we were at the end of the space race - scientists and engineers will have to learn from books and papers, rather than having an expert around to guide them.
She retired in 97 and still has health coverage by her employer. Is that typical in the US? Is it very expensive to insure someone in perpetuity like that?
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And Krita, and Inkscape and Blender...
Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzZ-8bHsD5s to learn how risc-v does simd, without hardcoding vector lengths or needing peeling loops.
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I’m not necessarily disagreeing but what if the monster truck is carrying a child to the hospital? And the other option is to take the homemade electric hot rod your neighbor just completed yesterday?
Only if trained to.
ICD 10 is a medical classification system by the World Health Organization. It contains thousands of extremely detailed codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. It is used by all parties in the healthcare system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICD-10
> Though no one's in that thread complaining about the disclosure, [...]

I imagine if someone had complaints they would make them in private so as to not make the situation even less ideal embargo-wise.
Bitbucket Server is only $26,400 for the 1st year in your scenario. The 2nd and subsequent years are $13,200/year.
JS is only part of the browser.

Accusing people not running browsers that expose them to a nasty bug of feeling an exaggerated sense of "smugness"?

This seems disrepectful of users.

Doesnt that violate HN guidelines?
Gene Munster clearly does not understand how Amazon works. They dominate on efficiency which comes with scale. I do not think they want to the brick and mortar route, but could be wrong.

His analysis is flawed unless they can pick up Target cheaper than they would be able to custom fit/design their own stores.

I think they would want to own the least amount possible, but they may use stores as storage units if they decide to get into the logistics game.

The Commercial Real Estate in the Retail sector is getting whacked.
(In english, it is getting cheap as real estate owners are willing to accept less rather than let a huge building go vacant and receive no income.) With that being said, they will drop a tenant if the likes of Amazon came knocking. The only issue is the leverage that Amazon has may or may not be beneficial for the owner of the real estate.

(http://www.businessinsider.com/store-closures-in-2018-will-e...)
(https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/12/20/here-26-reta...)

With interest rates rising in the U.S, it will put more pressure on the retail sector for those whose leases are tied to expensive financing and did not lock in lease/rates.

With all this being said, I see this as very unlikely.
I agree by numerical value the difference is huge and under appreciated. But like many things wealth is correctly perceived logarithmically not linearly. There aren't hundreds of shades of gray between a millionaire and a billionaire, there are few steps, I wrote about them here http://www.kmeme.com/2017/11/the-richer-scale.html.
> Well no, because I'm speaking in general. But I'd love to know your example.

Instead of wasting time with examples that dont go for the core of your stance, can you share what would change your mind in the general?

Mine is that lightly regulated free healthcare markets will be efficient (though might not be equitable).
There's a lot of really great, free, resources available online right now.

If you want to go the self-study route, I'd recommend something like Odin Project, freecodecamp, or a a-la-carte program using coursera/edx/treehouse etc.

Javascript is a fine language to start with, if you want something a little more robust or transferable, check out python. But in all reality once you learn how to learn a language picking up new ones is a lot easier than starting from scratch.

Just like a diet, the best program is the one you can stick to. Pick a program and set a deadline for your self. Push as hard as you can until then, and then evaluate and change things up as you see fit.

Personally I would stay away from boot camps and "job ready programs". They seem to work for quite a few people, and if you have the resources (money) to do one, it wouldn't hurt - but for the average person it's tough to swing 8-12 weeks of no income + paying for lessons that can be learned for free, albeit at a slower pace.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN, regardless of how bad you feel someone is? You may not owe them any better but you do owe the community better if you want to participate here, the same way you wouldn't drop litter in a city park.
> In the software world, we would fork or rewrite, and deprecate the old version.

Yes and no. Can you name even one specific example of this being done with software on a scale within even an order of magnitude of "healthcare"?

Certainly people fork and rewrite software all the time. But almost all of those projects fail to replace the 'old version'.

And even large software projects that are rewritten are often (heroically) written so as to be (maximally) compatible with the ecosystem of users.

> The only obstacles are political and legal, which can be overcome in one or two election cycles.

This is both wildly optimistic and pessimistic. Vermont voters passed a single-payer referendum (but the government decided to cancel the plans because of the estimated cost). I'm not sure that there's much of anything stopping a single city from doing so (besides things like free-healthcare tourism).
PHP is only covered in any kind of depth beginning on page 495 of a 643 page book though.
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Checkout yEd (Google it) built ontology of graphml, it makes restructuring diagrams a doddle.
There are many sources. Off the top of my head, you can look for books, articles etc about the feminization of poverty, pink collar ghetto and the second shift. I have read far too many books (articles etc) over the course of decades to remember them all.

And I would hope that people would provide caregiving to their own children for free.

So would I. But why is it only women are expected to provide such care and are classified as gold digging whores if they think the father should provide for them while they do so and also provide some compensation into the future for the lost career building opportunities it costs them? Parents should both be responsible for the product of having gotten jiggy together, not just mothers.
Inflationary currencies is a new development.

We've had deflationary and gold backed currencies for thousands of years and it worked out fine for people who used them.
Retric outlined the best economic solution. Mainly it's not anything to worry about. You need some small area with heavy shielding to huddle in during solar flares, but the rest of the trip shielding isn't important. Explorers will happily a small increase in their lifetime cancer risk in exchange for visiting new worlds.

Eventually we'll have faster transits, and Aldrin Cyclers, and the problem will become even more minute.
> It's broken and I am sure it's killing people. I also don't see a technology fix. Anything that requires more than two or three providers is an edge case, this space is 90% edge cases.

Vertical integration is the biggest hope. With vertical integration, there is no billing.
Can you elaborate on your comment on the open traffic data? Is it difficult to acquire?
For the interested in the clean meat (aka lab grown meat) space, there was a recent cover story in Inc on the industry leader Memphis Meats that's well worth a read: https://www.inc.com/magazine/201711/jeff-bercovici/memphis-m...
Probably the most expensive identification of aspergillus sp. ever.
I can totally imagine a Chinese Prison facility that houses any nation's bad guys for a fee and churns out prepackaged organs. The tiny Albert Speer in my head can even see the benefit of such a system. And to be honest, China already does it to their prison populations. Putting the Organ Dispenser on the moon would just be a stylized recreation of the original concept of "international waters".
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I bet in the western world more men are in poverty than women

Wow such a chore seeing your own kin grow and learn
I think the concern is that mothers rather than fathers are expected to provide care giving.
Goodbye Android builds.

edit: yup;

On March 1, 2018 buddybuild will stop servicing apps on the Free Starter Plan. Also on March 1st, the buddybuild service will stop supporting Android apps for all plans. Any historical data related to those apps will be deleted from the service at that time.
Ha ha, very cool. Then you must know Nick Antonaccio, who has too. Seen his Rebol sites.