skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But who do the Dems even have? I mean Warren is a bit too left for most Americans. Bernie, I don't think he'll go another go after they threw him under the bus like that.

Warren is less left than Sanders, who AFAIK remains the single most popular politician in the country. Sanders might not want to make another run at his age, but while he might have a grudge against the former DNC leadership, he and his supporters have been actively engaged in DNC reform efforts and made some significant advances; I don't see any reason to expect he wouldn't continue to positively engage with the national party.

As for other candidates, Sen. Kamala Harris (CA) has been hailed as a rising star and potential near-future Presidential candidate. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (IL) likewise has been floated as a potential candidate. Rep. John Delaney (MD) is certainly running, and not obviously implausible as a nominee.

Actually, rather than going on, I’ll just drop the WaPo’s lost of potentials (which I just found, and overlaps mine; I don't necessarily agree with their ranking, but they are mostly plausible and, but for Dwayne Johnson and Oprah, experienced candidates.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/12/22/th...
I once asked a first responder (firefighter) if they actually pay any attention to those signs when responding to a crash. They don't.
The rate that the government can borrow at is determined by the quality of underlying assets.

US 10-year note is 2.58% at the moment, but Argentina's is 7%.
> As far as SS goes, I'd be happy to see it fail

I wouldn't. If SS fails, there will be riots, if not armed uprisings in the streets.
You can't compress truly random data, though. I guess you'd have to sufficiently pad the stream with data that compresses to a constant bit rate.
Then allow me to fill in the gaps.

>What masses of historical evidence?

This is a question in response to the GPs post that:

>>masses of historical evidence

>The ones that show that being a male has long been a major disadvantage in a legal system?

This is a purposed answer to the previous question, making the claim that there is plenty of historical evidence that males have been strongly discriminated against by the legal system, even if we went back in time. Need I source a claim showing that men were more likely than women to be charged, convicted, and receive longer sentences? This has been the case for at as far back as I've looked.

The reason for this is because GP acted as if I was ignoring some evidence that would justify the argument that the legal system is biased against women because it goes easier on them and make it somehow compatible with the second argument that the legal system is biased against racial minorities because it treats them harsher. It shouldn't be hard to see that these things still appear to be in contradiction.

>Yes, going back into the past being a minority was even worse than it is today, to a point where there was absolutely no justice at all

This is to preempt a response that if you went back in time, the legal system was even more biased against minorities than it is today. Instead of waiting for that response to be potentially made, I made it myself. I preempt this based on past experiences of seeing the point made in counter to my point.

> but that doesn't have an impact on the line of reasoning used to try to say the legal system discriminates against women.

I then follow up saying that I don't see this as a counter, because it doesn't impact the half of the two statements I have a problem with. One can try to explain why racial minorities being treated worse in the past by the legal system supports the statement that the legal system going easier on women is discriminating against women, only that the claim that I made in the first half of this sentence is not enough.

>This type of response only further reinforces the notion that the underlying reasoning and terminology is created ad-hoc to justify existing notions.

I then finish by saying the type of response from GP, which does not explain their argument to any degree other than a claim of forgetting to take historical evidence into account, makes people more dismissive of the original line of reasoning and the terminology associated with it, that of systematic discrimination, because the historical evidence appears to support my claim, not theirs. In short, an unsatisfactory defense strengthens the opposition's argument.

Would you like me to further clarify any point?
The underlying problem with a lot of folks isn't that they aren't productive enough. They've got plenty of trait Conscientiousness - working hard and getting things done isn't the problem.

The problem is pairing it with too much trait Agreeableness. If you can easily work hard and you easily say yes to other people's demands, you'll always be busy sating the insatiable hunger for more work at your expense. The solution isn't to become a better worker, though there's plenty of advice for how to do that. The fix is to learn how to avoid doing things not in your interest.

For fairly obvious reasons of self-interest, there aren't many people out there telling you to look out for number one. Especially for people with self-interested and highly authoritarian parents that taught their children to live up to a high standard and not push back against their demands.
This is really dangerous advice, especially for the poor. Crypto "investments" only multiply by convincing the next person down the line to buy your <coin of choice> at a higher price than you did. Add to this that there are no consumer protections around it, and it's an absolute honeypot for scammers.

99% of the key to wealth is to live beneath your means. It's unglamorous advice, but it's absolutely effective.
Ask HN: How many hours do you work in a week?
Is it reflected in your yearly income?
Would it be better if banks owned all the debt? I think the really bad statistic is just how much student debt there is.

Progressives in Oakland want the city to create a municipal bank. If they do, maybe progressives will then complain "Y% of Oakland's assets are mortgages and small business loans."

For any level of student debt, I think it is obviously better that the government own a lot of it, as the payments the government receives can be used for spending. The payments banks receive go to shareholders. In fact, given the government can borrow money at 2% while student loan rates are like 4-8%, it might not even be a bad idea to have the government issue treasuries and buy more student loans. Administratively, perhaps this would be bad for reasons I can't guess ex ante, but off the cuff I can't see why it's bad for the government to own lots of student debt, especially when government is what enforces the debt contracts (siphoning off your wages in the event of default, etc).

One could argue that the government should just cancel all or most of that student debt. Maybe so, but if that would cause the government to forgo $X billion in revenue every year, I think it would be better to just have another $X billion in spending. However, if the $X billion would just go to more tax cuts for the super-wealthy then perhaps it would be a good idea.
Indecent exposure, even though it was without underlying sexual motivation, is very shameful and embarrassing to talk about, especially in an interview. And already a few Fortune 500 companies who wanted to move forward with me have decided not to for this reason, so it's more than shame, it seems like an automatic disqualification. It's very likely my career is over now. I guess if nothing else, my life can at least be a warning to others.
So you call a millennial getting a degree not ‘personally responsible’? Disclaimer: anecdotes ahead, but I know many, many millennials who grew up hearing ‘Just get a college degree and you’ll be in good shape’ who did and aren’t, respectively. Not everyone is geared toward being an engineer or mathematician or scientist. For those who aren’t, and followed the resounding conventional wisdom to get a degree, largely got screwed. Full stop. Personal responsibility would hold water in a world where millennials gave up on the system and got screwed. This isn’t that world.
From what I can tell, the person who introduced the (unrelated) gender discrimination issue to this thread is you. As to the rest of your comment: I didn't doubt that any of what you had to say was important to you. I just don't think it has anything to do with what I said upthread.
I wrote a zero-allocation `Option`-style (monadic) data structure for Scala a while ago [1]. Unlike all the previous attempts, it supports the distinction between `None`, `Some(None)`, `Some(null)`, `Some(Some(None))`, etc., which is what allows it to remain monadic. The surprise is that it does not use `null` as the `None` value. The downside is that `toString()` is altered: `Some("hello").toString()` returns `hello`, not `Some(hello)`.

There was an experiment to use it as a replacement for the implementation of `scala.Option` in the dotty compiler code base [2], but it is inconclusive so far; it should be tried directly in the collections library.

[1] https://github.com/sjrd/scala-unboxed-option

[2] https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/pull/3181
>We're the most educated in history, but many people decided to use that education to learn topics that aren't lucrative/in demand,

People keep saying this as if it's true without citing anything regarding it. Is there any hard evidence this is true?
The one downside I've found with homework problems is that oftentimes the set of requirements (or "suggested features") doesn't line up with the amount of time you're expected to spend on it.

I've personally been in the situation of receiving a list of 10-12 required features, with a stack that the recruiters know I am unfamiliar with, and then been told to only spend four hours on it.

While this was an extreme case, I find that the unreasonable time expectation is not uncommon. That is quite frustrating as an applicant.
That's a pretty bad comparison actually. They don't "have" them. It's just another place to sell your risk when you do a mortgage deal and then they repackage them and sell the end result to investors. It's necessary (or helpful rather) so that you don't have to have a balance sheet to hammer out CRE deals. You can just do the deal and sell the risk and not keep the interest rate risk on your books.

The Fed's balance sheet on the other hand, now that makes the student debt load seem miniscule.
I'm well aware of the TV shows for Star Wars and I particularly like Rebels. I'm in my forties and enjoy them immensely.

>> I wouldn't blow it off just because it doesn't seem aimed at you

Who said anything remotely like that?
Non-centrally controlled connectivity can be solved by low-altitude communication satellites[1], and other sky based solutions[2].

We should be focusing on tech that makes aerospace less costly. The benefits will extend beyond a free & open network. There is good science and theory on ways to reduce costs in aerospace, it's an engineering/business problem at this point.

[1]https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/04/spacex-internet-satellites-e...
[2]https://medium.com/iot-5g-extreme-ideas-lab/googles-balloon-...
There's no way there's going to be subloop unbundling after the Supreme Court killer local loop unbundling.
STEM grads are only mildly better off. Turns out the sem parts of stem haven't experienced the same jobs boom:

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/education/edlife/stem-...
It is not so easy to immigrate to Eastern Europe from outside EU/EEA. I don't know about Bulgaria in particular, but typically in order to move to another country, either permanently or temporarily, you need to show that you have a degree in an in-demand major, a job offer from a reputable employer in the country, and an official assessment showing that you will not negatively impact the labor market, e.g. by taking a job a citizen could have done. You can't just pack your bags and take a plane and expect to be allowed to work in the country of your destination.

Every election season, many people in the US say "If X is elected, I am moving to Canada." Then they check the immigration department website [1], realize it is going to take multiple years and thousands of dollars for them to navigate the immigration system, and even then there is a high likelihood of failure. So most promptly give up.

The bureaucratic difficulty of immigration is not the only issue dissuading potential immigrants. Language barrier, cultural differences, loss of one's professional network, the possibility that one's education and experience wouldn't be acceptable to the employers in the destination country, family and friends, etc. also play a role.

I am sure many consider moving to Easter Europe, but few end up going through with it.

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/website-crash-immigration-tr...
Bloomberg: Silicon Valley Will Pay the Price for Its Lefty Leanings
How to Fix Facebook – Before It Fixes Us
And the fuckers will not sell you internet without you also buying their useless phone and/or TV services...
If 80% of millennials collectively decided not to repay their student loans, there would not be enough space in prison for all of them.
Okay you piqued my interest... "bad monetary policy" usually means we should be on the gold standard, but I've never heard that before as a solution for student loans. What are you proposing is the monetary fix?
I think it's a multitude of factors. These jobs

1. Pay a lot. Barring trading, you'd be hard pressed to find a job that routinely pays 200K+ to 25-year olds

2. Are, at least most of them, not fundamentally difficult for a generally smart person, despite whatever people convince themselves of. I am not talking of the so-called 10x engineers here, who you are unlikely to find through standard interview techniques.

3. Pride themselves on NOT being credentialist (at least on the surface). You can't wake up tomorrow wanting to be a lawyer, read some books, and get a good job offer in a couple months. It's possible for CS jobs.
Succinct but wrong.

Here's Stallman in 2010:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
An interview is like dating and sometimes you think you found the one but maybe it doesn't work out in the end. Do you stop interviewing (or dating) people? No, you try again and hopefully take lessons from the last failed hire. A "failed hire" could actually be a failed process in your organization.

Also, every person you are interviewing has the option to interview with other companies. With that in mind, you should always be interviewing even if you aren't actually looking to hire at that moment. Sometimes you might find a really good candidate but, most importantly, you will have options yourself.

Last, I really like your idea of a paid temp position to assess fit. This will benefit everyone tremendously.
Wonder when we'll stop hyping the stupid startup culture
The best investment we could make in retirement would /honestly/ be in public owned automation and production of all basic things that don't inherently /require/ human labor.

The sooner we can have a society more like Star Trek's utopian future the better for anyone that wants to retire without being a burden on the current generation. (Even then, I don't think I'd ever want to /fully/ retire, I'd just like to focus on things I actually find fun and meaningful.)
111 Side Hustle Businesses You Can Turn into a Source of Passive Income
This would require the government determine "the truth" which is probably a really bad idea.

I'm curious, how would you punish those who did not comply?
"Don't leave your wife for your mistress" isn't a belief, it's a rule. Belief is saying that it applies across the board no matter what, no matter why.
The problem with using gut instincts for these kinds of decisions is that it introduces bias and discrimination. For a roommate that might be positive as it will bias towards people that are similar to you, but for companies it's too easy to end up making rooms full of middle class white dudes.
Because 80% of people (at least Americans) live <50 miles from their birthplace. People don't like to move. There's a lot of hurdles moving. I know I moved across country (west coast to the south) and there is still a big culture shock after a few years.

tldr: There's more to the equation than finance.
Kind of a red herring IMO. Anecdotes only get you so far—when we look at the vast majority of millenials, most of their prospects are not so great. And this is especially true in comparison to the prospects of earlier generations.
I don't believe the emergency services would check based on a anything like a "baby on board" sign. If they can check then they will, regardless of any sign. For a start, anything like that is going to fall off in a significant crash. Secondly, plenty of cars don't have them, and other cars have them when there isn't a child on board. Thirdly, a plastic sign would be one of the first things to melt if there was a fire. And lastly, if it was true then the emergency services would recommend drivers have them. They'd give them away as promotional items. No one would need to buy one.

It can't be true.
Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability in the Criminal Justice System
I'm pretty sure the parent was being sarcastic.

"The Millionaire Next Door" should be required reading in high school. It has all you need to know about living below your means, building wealth slowly and consistently.
> As someone with a very strong software background and a recent felony, I'm wondering what your advice is in securing a local tech job.

Local...where? (That may help people with appropriate local knowledge give more specific advice.)

While the pay may be worse, you may have better luck with public sector tech jobs (they will certainly consider the offense in hiring decisions, but they may be less likely to use it as an arbitrary complete disqualification.)
A. The importance of good communication with potential and existing investors. Done effectively it significantly increases your chances of keeping the company funded, and therefore of success. Done terribly it makes you borderline un-fundable.

I learned it through being lashed by PG.

It helped by creating an open dialogue between our investors and us, and drove our focus and prioritization on the right things at the right time.

What does good communication look like? How about bad communication?
Come to Colorado. Formerly the apex of flyover real estate. Now the location of million dollar 2000sqft houses. I see maps from as late as a decade ago with nothing on them where whole cities now exist.
You may want to delete this post or at least make sure it doesn't trace back to your real-world identity. You've just publicly admitted to interstate fraud...If the statute of limitations hasn't run you could be prosecuted for it.

Also, based on your comments MS has stolen nothing from you. MS may not have been the best OS back in the day but it was better than what was generally available at the time to consumers.
I had already seen all the memes about 1984 not being an instruction manual, and it left me kind of confused, because the direction the west is moving towards doesn't really resemble what was described in the book (at least, not yet).

I have often wondered if we aren't a bit inoculated by 1984. "Red scare" and all that, and much of Orwell's work (1984, Animal Farm) was an obvious swipe at the Soviet Union and the like. Apple's first TV ad played on it. We're on the lookout for Orwellian things because we wouldn't want that, now, would we?

Poor ol' Brave New World, OTOH, never got much press. I mean, amongst my middle-aged crowd I don't know too many that have actually read it, but we all read 1984 in high school. So whereas we're all on the lookout for oppressive government actions, we kind of ignore the influences of other aspects of our lives.
I totally agree with this. We forget that animals are living beings, not rocks. We've evolved to eating animals but as "Intelligent beings" we need to understand that animals have rights too and should do what we can to minimise the pain we cause them.
Mesh networking hasn't really worked out. WISPs, i.e. Wireless Internet Service Providers, do a great job at serving rural (and other) areas.
Many of my childhood friends did that with Biotech. When I was growing up, Biotech was The Hot Thing (TM), and it was going to change the world. Now the ones that didn't like it enough to pursue a Masters/PhD in it are struggling to make ends meet with a cocktail of multiple jobs. The happiest ones mostly ended up leaving to lower cost-of-living parts of the US where it's easier to find lower-middle-class employment.

P.S. Most of my friends grew up in families around the poverty line, so that'll affect my story.
The part where you "literally couldn't buy a computer without paying them" is simply not true. I bought a lot of computers and computer parts at the time, and probably the only time I "had" to pay for an MS license was when buying a laptop. (But I got that one used, at a much cheaper price, on eBay, so...)

You are vastly exaggerating.
Welcome to Soviet Russia where you will meet engineers, doctors, and generally college level educated populous, as your waiters and cabbies.

How we learned from history.
What happens if US Government forgives the student loans? What's the share of that debt payment in the government budget?
I am an avid user of markdown files for notes that are saved in a Dropbox folder. I am quite happy with my setup and it works across any platform. That said, if there was an objectively perfect note taking system that worked on every platform, I would have to consider it.

However, I would never rent note taking software. Notes are much too valuable to just have an app/website shut off one day. I want to own the app so that if my system state does not change, I can continue to use it indefinitely. My price range would be somewhere around $50-75 every 18-24 months. I think of utility software like a drill from Home Depot. I expect software to run for 18-24 months and if it breaks after that period, it is up to me to revert to a system the drill works on or buy a new drill. 18-24 months feels like a reasonable timeframe to me. Essentially, it is a tool with a two year warranty.

In addition to valuing ownership of the software, I also value ownership of the data. I (or a different 3rd party I am comfortable with) would absolutely have to be in control of the sync process. Ideally, it would be a folder we can stick in any old cloud service. I value both the data that is in those notes and my privacy too much to trust any random sync provider. I would also prefer either a standard format or a well documented storage format (like Quiver has done) and a way to get my notes out of the app into a reasonable format.

Apologies if this comes across as an attack on your idea. I just wanted to voice my opinion as I have dropped 3-5 pieces of software in the last 18 months due to a combination of moving to SaaS and/or forcing me to use/pay for their sync services.