skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This paper is interesting but I don't think it really gets at the core of the issue. It associates the decline of young men in the workforce with so-called "leisure luxuries" such as video games. The paper even admits that, "For other groups - younger women, older men and older women - recreational computer is not a leisure luxury."

I would like to submit a complimentary hypothesis. While it may be true that young males are more interested in video games, video games are not necessarily the cause of the decline of younger males in the workforce. Perhaps games are simply a tool of escapism, utilized by a demoralized section of the population (young males). This could explain why young females are not influenced as drastically by the same leisure luxury. As with anything, the underlying reason behind young male decline in the work force could be a variety of things (e.g. males have more interest in games compared to young females or are more addiction prone to game than young females), but I believe that the case for escapism in young males in a society which is increasingly anti-male is a strong one to explain them seeking refuge in video games.
Funding Surges for Esports Startups by Approximately 1,125% in Five Years
Regarding your last point about foreign money being used in the U.S. election, you should familiarize yourself with the concept of "soft money" and political action committees.

And the outside entities can bypass the US organizations entirely. There's no law against someone from another country buying political TV ads in the United States.
Why not? It would certainly be ludicrous for a brick and mortar establishment to be subjected to that, but if you’re offering a global product, welcome to the rest of the world.
If only everyone had the luxury of time. Universal basic income FTW.
This reminds me of:
"Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god." - Jean Rostand
I went ahead and added a small section on this.
The argument "X already exists" is not a reason not to do something. We have both Coke and Pepsi ya know.
> most ardent free-market defenders claim it doesn't exist

Yes, and the people on the other side of that debate are perfectly reasonable, dispassionate truth-seekers.
Once they acquire a dominant position, the cost to assail it will be astronomical. It already is in fact, which is why Lyft is burning so much cash just in the US market alone ($3 to $4 billion in red ink just in the US).

You're going to have to convince venture capitalists to put in $10 or $15 billion and be willing to watch it all burn, on the nearly impossible task of unseating the market winner. That will never happen. That is not how VCs operate. Which is why Google search has gone almost entirely unchallenged by VC over the last decade, despite being an extraordinary cash cow.

The reason there isn't another Uber competitor getting $7 billion in VC across multiple rounds in the US right now, is the same exact reason there won't be another Uber after the dust settles.
Seems more like a political issue
I assume this was in response to "Really, we should just use a proper process manager, but that probably won't happen soon".

Yes, like systemd. Our servers even run systemd already!

Sadly, we don't have root on our servers, and user-level service support is broken on CentOS 7:

https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=8767

Maybe i could install another process manager of my own, and start it from cron. That really doesn't sound like fun, though. Is there a simple process manager which i can install and use without root privileges, and which won't make me restructure my whole deployment process?
Right. Many things get easier, but "everything" is not easy, especially not in comparison to every-other-thing.

And +1 for pointing out that drudgery-for-the-sake-of-drudgery is hardly the solution.
Is OSM not doing this? I swear I've seen them importing and updating street level address data in my city - it directly referenced some city GIS server. Maybe not officially, but someone must be running scripts that do this?
You were downvoted because what you said shows that you do not understand what paredit is.

I'd recommend you read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_editor to better grasp the concept.

If you've ever used the XML structure view in eclipse, its the Design tab, you get a better idea. In contrast to its source tab.
I am curious, how can you charge someone for what amounts to speech - something that the 1st amendment clearly guarantees freedom of?
It's so exciting that there is now a putative mechanism for this! Ketamine is such a curious drug, and this effect of it is one of the most interesting of all. Knowing the target will allow more focused therapies and possibly a greater understanding of depression in general.
>1) If the parties principled and upfront as befits the democratic process rather than utterly skeezy there would be nothing to selectively leak/embarrass them with.

This is incorrect both on a practically every level.

First, the Russians, in other instances where they have 'leaked' emails have both changed contents and in fact inserted emails. See David Satter[0] Because the emails were private to begin with, you are taking an enormous leap of faith to trust them as fully accurate simply because they were 'leaked.' The absolutely easiest thing to do would be to leverage any potential misinterpretations or suggestions of impropriety by inserting things to make that worse.

Second, we see a group of people intentionally, aggressively, and dangerously taking things out of context and mislead others to drive a narrative. See Pizza gate.

Third, you entire argument relies on no one ever misunderstanding another person's communication. Has anyone ever misinterpreted your actions? your words?

Yes, political parties are sometimes skeezy, so are people. But the broader point here is that one group is leveraging and digging and amplifying some bad behavior into not just a believe that it is universal and unfixable (which you seem to already accept) but an actual undermining of the whole system.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/05/26/russi...
To me you came across as one of the types who blames government for everything reflexively. I also think your comparison is not accurate. Going on welfare is not convenient in the sense of the article.
Newer cars have very poor visibility to the rear and sides of the car due to rollover safety requirements, the rear view camera gives you back most of the visibility you had before the new safety requirements were enacted.
> Russia hysteria

Even beyond the domestic political implications of Russian involvement in our election, Russia is actively supporting groups that are likely shooting at Americans and our allies today (http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/05/17/evidence-russian-mil... or
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/04/24...).

Is it hysterical to care about these issues?
You're absolutely correct! The Clinton foundation received plenty of foreign donations. These may be cause for potential concern.

It may also be worth recalling that charitable foundations and political campaigns are legally distinct structures that operate under different legal requirements. As a result, a comparison between the two might be slightly less than fully straightforward in certain cases.
I first read Asimov's stories about robots when I was in elementary school. I loved them so much -- especially the ones with Dr. Susan Calvin -- but it took me years and years to realize that the whole point of the Three Laws of Robotics was to explore and even showcase how they can't possibly work. In my opinion, it takes a special kind of genius to write like that.
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In fact, I'd go so far to say that data is source code in the case of Machine Learning; it just goes through a kind of compilation step.
We don’t wear bulletproof vests because it’s inconvenient while we wear seatbelts and bike helmets.
The thing is. If one side is allowed to do propaganda why should the other side be not allowed to.

Obviously hacking into systems and releasing internal data is a step to far.

But I don't see the general problem of propaganda as long all sides are doing it. Well sure I do see the issue but this is just how a open society works.
This is a strategy that has "worked" in transportation markets before. This is what the post-privatization 1980s bus wars were all about in the UK.

A few companies won out, consolidation happened, unprofitable routes were dropped and prices rose on profitable routes to a level where bus riders could be more reliably tapped for profits - largely by monopolies and duopolies.
Maybe it would've made a difference. Your comment was downvoted because it put words into the author's mouth that were obviously not his own, about a topic that's going to be known to be controversial, and followed it up with absolutely zero substance. Many folks would happily debate the merit or lack thereof of welfare programs if they had some substantive opinion, statistics, or really content to debate about. Your comment was nothing but snark, and to dismiss the downvotes as downvoting the subject matter and not the snark is a second piece of disengaging snark that is also not contributing meaningfully to the discussion.
I think that younger men are going into video games because computers have made us so productive that we don’t need as much as a labor supply anymore. We have seen a drop of labor participation for men since the 60s which is invariant under any economic conditions .

People forget that to disrupt an industry someone loses and it appears we can see some of this in the male labor participation rate .

Since women have unfortunately had restrictions on their ability to be employed that information could have been lost.
> there are interesting methods being developed in this space

Would you mind posting any relevant links? Is there general agreement in the field that more data is the solution?
that kinda overestimates how long it took wikipedia to get to where it is today. when wikipedia launched, no one knew what it would grow into. why would large amounts of trolls bother harassing wikipedia when in all likelihood it would have just gone nowhere.
A single event can be illegal, immoral, wrong, or any one of a bunch of other words, and a single event is never harassment because harassment requires multiple events.

A single demand for quid pro quo sexual favors in exchange for professional rewards is a sexual offence, a bad one, and alone it is not harassment. IANAL, though the dictionary definition sticks with me, especially the key words: "multiple", "unwanted", and "intentional".

That's why "harassment" as a word exists, it is to indicate that multiple unwanted events have happened intentionally.

Maybe the legal definition of "harassment" differs from the dictionary definition. If so, a new word for single event harassment needs to be chosen.
because we are being socialized to over-react to even the hint of hypocrisy as invalidating rather than engaging in meaningful evaluation of information sources quality.
I remember just a few years ago, I got a new phone and was interested in replacing as many Google apps with OSS maps that I could. (K9 instead of Google's mail app, etc.)

Naturally I turned to OSM instead of Google Maps. But I was really surprised by how strange and difficult it was to install and use. As the author mentioned, OSM itself doesn't have any apps, which is very confusing. After some research I figured out that you have to download a 3rd party app. The 3rd party apps that do exist all use different terminologies, require downloading huge amounts of data and picking what maps you want ahead of time, and had different levels of functionality. The UIs were universally terrible (at the time at least).

Needless to say I quickly gave up on using OSM and turned back to Google Maps--and I'm their perfect use case, a skilled techie with a deep interest in using free software! I can't imagine trying to explain how to use OSM to my mom, even if I somehow managed to install it for her.

I can't comment on the rest of the article but its usability worries are on point.
Yes, they are a pure commodity.
It bothers me a little about the Russians "supporting" Trump AND Bernie. It sounds a little too "on the nose." As if the Russians expected to be caught one day and wanted to make sure a certain political viewpoint would be tainted.
Have you seen any issues with the envelope from not matching the the email address?

ezmlm, for example, will not let you subscribe/unsubscribe
Is your go-around detector data public anywhere?
OSM gives people the tools to create their own map rather than offering them a simple, out of the box solution

On this point and the main part of the first argument, I kinda disagree; the OSM project should specifically aim to do that: providing means for one to create a service.

However, providing an actual map service would cost much, much more in bandwidth and I doubt a free software project like this has that kind of funds - actually serving tiles can add up to large costs pretty fast if enough people use the service.

So if you want an actual service, you either do the hosting yourself or go see mapbox/whatever.
The problem here is that everything is balkanized now in the US. Nobody wants a strong federal government but more central control means enforcing a minimum standard, which we clearly do not have.
"there were plenty of reports of foreign donors to the Clinton foundation while she was SoS"

I see what you did there. Pure innuendo. The Clinton Foundation is not a campaign. The Clinton Foundation is a charity. Only in the minds of the paranoid is the Clinton Foundation some nefarious money laundering influence peddling deep state org. Keep in mind that Hillary is the most investigated politician in the history of the US and has never been found guilty of any crimes.
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> THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS

Agreed
It's faster, it's cheaper, it's easier to setup and use. As of now not everyone always has IPv4 access anymore. I conciously avoid purchasing products that have no IPv6 support, as I sometimes have an only IPv6 connection.
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This article is from July 2017. It did not existed a year ago.
Apple's Excellence in Design Leads to Employees Smacking into Glass Walls
You're completely correct. This applies to basically every technology - very few things are cheap enough to make available to everyone when first introduced.

With that said, it's often difficult to make this point successfully to people who resent that those with greater resources at their disposal have greater access to new, expensive technologies. Telling such people that today's technology that puts expensive herbs on the plates of the 1% today can grow food for the poor tomorrow is of little avail when they have visions dancing in their heads of food for the 99% being grown cheaply in basements today.
Certainly there is no defense there. I will say though, much like real life one should be careful of the company they keep - in this case websites which partner with these companies. We should be just as pissed or more at the websites enabling this behavior.
The problem runs deeper than that. I'm a woman and have participated on HN for about 8.5 years. HN is one of the most civilized environments I have participated in. I still have men politely email me to essentially chat me up and otherwise don't want to engage me at all.

I recently offered to let someone email me to discuss their issue. They were all enthused. We never discussed their issue. They basically wanted to know when I might come visit their country. I cut them off and let them know they could write back if they had any actual questions about [issue]. I never heard back.

There is a very short list of men who will talk to me like a human being. But about 99% of men have only one reason they would ever talk to me and that reason is to treat me like a talking fleshlight.

It's very frustrating and I'm getting to the point of starting to be pretty mad about the whole thing. Then when I comment on my gender being a factor contributing to my intractable poverty, inevitably someone is a jerk about that and acts like I am crazy.
What's the reasonable definition of operating in the EU?
Those were 2016. There has been many questions since.

https://www.thenation.com/article/a-new-report-raises-big-qu...
That wasn’t my intention, I think most of the asshattery I refer to definitely end up as sexism, and is directed towards women. And I have no idea why that is so. But it’s a problem, most definitely.

My point is merely that anonymity simply magnifies the same things we would see in non-anonymous settings.
Maybe I didn't understand their concept but I couldn't see how it wasn't just another centrally managed DRM system that lets you sell your license to someone else.
Sounds like paradise for lock pickers without moral fiber (actual pickers tend to have good rules they abide by) and desire to monetize their hobby.

“Oh yeah, door was wide open, I swear!”

Can we extend this a bit so that if you’re walking through a park at night, mugging you is kosher?
The narrative of coping with depression by playing video games seems reasonable but the data in the paper seem to show that there was an uptick in self-reported happiness in the segment playing the most games. That seemed to read to me as, crudely, "games make you happy and lazy" (namely they lower workforce participation). Happy to hear of a better way to read the data.
I think its because anything similar just gets implemented as part of Wikipedia/Wikimedia at this point.
>Democrats! What have they ever done for us? Except for putting the internet common carrier regulations in place in the first place for Pai to tear down.

This is unrelated to the concentration of media. Plus, if they cared about that, they should have passed the law ensuring it when it hit the floor in 2009.

You realize that quote basically says "we've helped this happen for the past thirty years, but we've changed now!"
Long-Lived Mars Rover Opportunity Keeps Finding Surprises
Again, what do you mean by that? Most (all?) Facebook ads already state which business page they're associated with. (I'm admittedly not on Facebook, but I have trafficked some ads for work.)

If you're asserting that Facebook should say who's REALLY behind by the ads, you're basically asking for Facebook to hire a crack team of private investigators. Should they be responsible for figuring out that Nice Ad Buyers LLC is really a wholly-owned subsidiary of some other corporation, which some neo-nazi millionaire owns the controlling stake of?
I feel for the grown man who dresses up in costumes to read stories for children. I respect him. And yet if there were some subjective corporate performance metrics he had to game to keep his job, I think other employees may know how to work the system better than him. A lot of the best employees are bad at office politics, because they simply love what they do. If there's something to be said about mass-layoffs, it's that they're maybe better than targeted and subjective firings.

I think B&N was a wonderful place and concept while the underlying forces were working: it seems like a lot more people want to work with books than there are/were jobs at Independents or Libraries, and B&N got them into a business with the cashflow to support dozens of people on the floor. Are there enough jobs in the brick and mortar book business for everyone without B&N? Probably not right now, but there might be a new franchise concept at some point? Time for one of these people to start it.
Yes. What the article and the GP miss is the importance of design. Tailing off benefits gradually makes the most sense from the perspective of providing an incentive to work and earn more, but (a) government seldom looks at how the incentives actually work across the whole set of support programs (tuition assistance, CHIP, Medicaid, housing assistance, etc.) and (b) when you tail things off gradually, you will have people doing fairly well on their own still getting some subsidies, albeit small ones, and that's politically challenging to explain.
From WaPo's write-up:

"The suspects are charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, and aggravated identity theft."
This post seems half right, half wrong.

Wrong that OSM should be a service provider and not a database - I think it should be a database, and corporations are good for OSM. The post calls for OSM to essentially become Mapbox. It's insanely expensive to be Mapbox, and Mapzen just failed trying to be a less corporate version of Mapbox. And then the usage policy part of the article is moot or at least not that consequential if you don't believe OSM should be a service provider.

Right: Moderation tools need to be created/fixed. New mappers need to be encouraged/onboarded better. Vandalism is a problem. OSMF culture is toxic. Hidden gatekeepers are toxic. Imports need to be supported. Bots need to be enabled, and we need to consider people who contribute code/tech/imports first class OSM contributors and not just glorify the individual mapper.

Probably right: OSM needs layers, or even a more sweeping re-architecture to allow better versioning, moderation, better tooling, and easier understanding of the data.

Probably wrong: Expanding the scope of OpenStreetMap to include transient data. Too much other work to do, maybe later for this.
Re: 1)

As far as the Clinton/DNC leaks go, there was actually nothing damaging in them. Yet somehow it got spun up into a giant conspiracy that they had evidence didn't exist, thanks to the leak!
I vaguely suspect that GP may refer to the fact that certain corporations block access to the Gmail web interface (and the other big providers) from their network, typically for auditing purposes, in a way to a personally run mail server might evade. In those cases, actually accessing your personal mail server would typically be a gross breach of conduct and lead to immediate termination for cause if caught. This, of course, has nothing at all to do with the deliverability of email from those services, even to these same organisations (they can audit what goes through their own servers, so that's fine).

But, that's a guess, and I obviously can speak on GPs behalf.
Similarly, WhatsApp does the same thing.

As an end-user, I'd like things the way they are. If I'm used to the app and it works, why should I be forced to update the damn thing so that it keeps working?
So let's review.

First you accused me of posting a "deliberately inflammatory and made up title".

Then you misquoted me.

When I pointed out that you misquoted me, you replied with the following: "I copied and pasted exactly what you wrote, liar."

Then you deleted that reply, and posted this: "Actually you're correct on this. The "quote" was originally a response from me, based on what you said."

Then you edited that reply and it now reads: "My mistake. The "quote" was originally a reponse from me, based on what you said. Corrected."

There may have been other edits that I missed. But I guess we're back to the concept expressed in my original response. Content published online is subject to change over time without an entirely clear record of what gets changed, and when it's changed.
Roadmapping to minimize startup risk
Since this article was written c++17 has added std::variant and things like std:any. But his complaint about c++ matching being verbose is really AI complaint that c++ typically doesn’t have a first class type system (unless rtti is used, and even then you can’t create new types at runtime). This lack is either a limitation or benefit depending on your objectives for the program you are developing.

There isn’t a One True Approach; I do all my work in Common Lisp or C++ and although both are multi-paradigm languages they aren’t substitutable for each other.