skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you get to the point where you’re turning 30, you’ve never held a real job and you don’t have a college education, then it is very hard to recover at that point."

I've raised this point to a fair few of my friends and colleagues recently. I think it is becoming increasingly hard to contribute to society, because everything is so gosh-darn technical.

Companies _scream_ for developers - but not junior developers, or people who they can teach to program - but developers with 5+ years worth of experience.

I think this will only get WAY worse in the future. Unfortunately, I also think it will mean that people who fail to get a job after taking their degree will be worse off than people with little or no education, who has always had a job (no matter the type of job).

So if you're done with college/university (which is when you're around 25-30 y/o in Europe), and you can't get a job, and you can't put your education to use. You're pretty much shit out of luck in most cases. Of course you can always dig yourself out, but doing so would most likely mean working a min-wage job for 8-10 hours a day, and then spending all your free-time and weekends learning a useful skill, which doesn't leave much time for friends or family (or making a family).
Some interesting things in this article. Given what appear to be changing attitudes to men ("long America’s economically privileged gender"), is this situation really surprising? When one considers diversity and inclusion goals, hiring more men seems like a lower priority.

I was also amused by the comment, “I’m very quick to get frustrated when people refuse to pay me what I’m worth.” This seems like a conversation I have at least once a quarter with someone. You're worth what the market is willing to offer you, not what you think you are worth.
From [1], which is much better and more on-point, if still short: "Opponents of the proposition argue [...] the sun wouldn’t rise until 8 a.m. during some winter months, forcing children to walk to school or buses in darkness"

Maybe school shouldn't start so early then? Starting at 8:30-9 would reduce a lot of that, though not all of it. Also, as a Canadian and Vancouverite... so what? Darkness is a fact of life, get over it.

[1]: https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/11/06/proposition-7-pas...
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I think something's a little off here. I pasted in a paragraph from the PCI Express 3.0 specification document and it told me it was "average" for software developers, ineffective for retirees, college students and men but fairly effective for accountants and women. It then recommended a bunch of rather strange changes such as use "embraces" or "empowers" instead of "supports". I also couldn't get anything less niche than fairly heavy technical writing to produce a result outside of the "average" range.
So when the US East Coast springs forward 1 hour California is then going to be 4 hours behind? That's gonna make West Coast travel even worse.
The only thing proprietary about the main distribution of be code, that i can tell, is the configuration. I'm not aware of any differing functionality or limitations on the open source code. MS states that their distro is the same code but with their own configuration in the product.json file.
FDA Not Doing Enough to Prevent Medical Device Hacking, HHS Report Says
>long-term success is rarely predicated on gouging customers

Razor blades, Inkjet cartridges, sunglasses, broadband internet/telecom, most luxury goods, payday loans, the entire diamond industry
I know a bunch of single men with nice engineering jobs (mostly aerospace). The notion that there just aren't good people or there on either side just seems silly to me.
That reminds me that in an AWS conference a few years ago, the presenter touted Amazon Mechanical Turk as "Artificial Artificial Intelligence"
Well you know, if perhaps HR reviewed it's practices and didn't make discriminating against men a point of pride, then perhaps there would be less "failure-to-launch".
Another adjuvant therapy to consider is the 3-5 day fast or fasting mimicking diet.
https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/valter-longo-2

Essentially, during the fast, the body cannibalizes a significant percentage 30%? (IIRC) of immune cells. Once the fast completes, the refeeding cycle regenerates brand new cells from stem cells which results in resetting auto-immune symptoms.

For serious cases of necessary therapy, they do this on a 25 day (normal) /5 (fast) cycle.

Reviews say that the book that Dr Valter Longo promotes is a big ad for his fasting-mimicking diet kit, but they have a brief screen shot of the fasting-mimicking diet protocol which is:

day 1 - 1100 calories (11/46/43% protein/fat/carb)
day 2-5 - 720 calories (9/44/47% protein/fat/carb) macronutrient breakdown.

This works out to:
day 1 - 30g protein, 56g fat, 118g carb
day 2-5 - 16g protein, 35g fat, 85g carb
From what I've heard, you'll want a USB-C to DisplayPort+USB-A adapter, and an Active DVI (with dual link) to DisplayPort adapter.
> Yes, it is unlikely that that’s true.

It may be unlikely that such changes exist, but evidence from two different people has shown that it's at least something that can be considered (even if it's by people not familiar with Rust).

> At least, I can’t think of anything. Or at least, nothing that’s compatible.

Nobody asked you to come up with a che, the question was what would happen if someone did come up with such a change. The answer seems to be "it will be added" (assuming it goes through the normal process of course, I'm not claiming that a random change will be added merely because it's compatible), at that point you can no longer claim a feature freeze, because a feature freeze is a much stronger claim than merely saying "it's unlikely that there will be changes".

> We do have features for 2018 that are incompatible with 2015.

I'm fairly certain that everyone in this discussion understood that there are features in 2018 that are not in 2015, that's the whole point of having a separate edition.
There are a lot of platforms to choose from, but my house is only physically connected by one high speed ISP.
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I had this exact discussion with my grandfather (a catholic) when I was 11 years old (I'm 41 now), and rejecting most religious stuff I was fed with at the time.

It is an incredibly fascinating debate.
FDA isn't doing enough to prevent medical device hacking, HHS report says
Still I don't get it. There are two creatures, the caterpillar and the butterfly. Which one came first?...

Complete metamorphosis is a circular process as pictured here: http://burns-classroom.weebly.com/module-6-plants-and-life-c... Caterpillar (or larvae) turns into pupa; pupa turns into butterfly and butterfly (turns?) into egg; and egg turns into larvae and so on... I am curious to know which of these organisms came first. Did the butterfly exist before the caterpillar? Or were they two different species who entered into a symbiosis agreement?

And why is it that the transformation of a seed into a tree not considered a metamorphosis? The seed and the tree are as different as the caterpillar and the butterfly.
Whatever else we might disagree on, let's be clear that I agree with you about Swartz.
It's funny because I would see that as a spectacularly good use of their time.

I don't even see why it's considered a hack.

People are visual - we make decisions based on how things look. Their product is online, the pictures are basically everything. The snaps are 90% of what's being presented, so making sure those are good would be worth 1/2 of their time overall. The technology part of AriBnB at smaller scale is just not rocket science, it's almost commodity.
That's not the case in the US.
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Autonomy is not a problem of medical treatment, it's a fundamental principle of an ethical society.

Without autonomy, the concepts of voluntary/involuntary lose meaning, which can enable some very nasty scenarios. Exceptions to autonomy are rare and come with stringent legal duties and obligations on the responsible party. Doctors are not responsible for their patients in that way; they are service providers.

Lack of understanding should not be sufficient to undercut an ethical principle like autonomy. Imagine if I had the power to decide that you don't sufficiently understand the concept of autonomy, and must be shipped off to a re-education center.
One place where democracy unquestionably works is Switzerland.

One thing Swiss do often is voting on small local issues. Practice makes perfect. Seeing the more immediate local effect is a great teaching experience. Making the training ground small in scale makes a lot of sense.

I think that a path to more informed, conscious voting on big elections lies (partly) through exercise of voting often for local cases.

Approval / Condorcet voting would be another crucial improvement.

The problem is, of course, that I have no idea how the US political system could be adapted to allow this.
I like to call it "aggregated intelligence", because that's what basically all AI solutions really are. Even ones that are actually using embeddings & CNNs are just aggregating the opinions of the thousands to millions of humans who supplied training data.
Got any case studies you would care to share with the class
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And you don't know AGI is possible. Both are options, and we should first do some kind of basic research to determine which is a better route before dumping billions of dollars in one direction. Or, at very least we should dump money in both directions, and tune towards which is getting better real world gains.
When I was in high school (which wasn't that long ago), I had a dedicated class on critical thinking, and a unit on critical thinking in another. It has helped me very much in my adult life in spotting bias and emotional manipulation in the media.

It's unfortunate that I'm unable to find a source that doesn't manipulate language to achieve a desired emotional state in their readers.
No. Under this plan, in the winter, CA would be 2 hours behind the East Coast, and the summer, 3 hours behind.
Elastic isn't good example of good open-source company, like RH was. They have their main product open sourced (ElasticSearch)[1], but other products aren't [2].

From RH I always expected they will open their successful product at some point (e.g. Tower); from Elastic, I'm expecting opposite.

[1] "open source" I mean OSI approved license, not some cryptic text which can get you on court

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16487440
Anytime the issue of millenials and jobs comes up, I think you have to talk about what the structural differences in the economy and business world are now:

"Thirty years ago, she says, you could walk into any hotel in America and everyone in the building, from the cleaners to the security guards to the bartenders, was a direct hire, each worker on the same pay scale and enjoying the same benefits as everyone else. Today, they’re almost all indirect hires, employees of random, anonymous contracting companies: Laundry Inc., Rent-A-Guard Inc., Watery Margarita Inc. In 2015, the Government Accountability Office estimated that 40 percent of American workers were employed under some sort of “contingent” arrangement like this—from barbers to midwives to nuclear waste inspectors to symphony cellists. Since the downturn, the industry that has added the most jobs is not tech or retail or nursing. It is “temporary help services”—all the small, no-brand contractors who recruit workers and rent them out to bigger companies."

From the fantastic https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millenn...
There are so many of those fake AI startups now that you could probably build a successful startup specifically to provide offshore human staffing services and workflow automation to them. During a gold rush, sell shovels.
I think these beautiful accomplished women you speak of might need to try something different/hit up a new watering hole rather than blame a lack of appropriate salary-man breeding stock, as even this wrongheaded article states that these mystifying jobless millennial men (who are presumably ruining America) total only around 500,000, when the number of millennial men is healthily in the millions.
I don't mind conservative changes to the language honestly. Knowing that what you get is what you get is quite empowering. But I'm not going to confuse and lie to myself into thinking there's going to be massive new features in any new version of Perl (5). That's what Perl 6 was supposed to be, but "Perl 6" isn't Perl and that's not a great thing, as choices to add to my tool box just puts Perl 6/Raku in line against Python, Ruby, Scala, Java, etc, etc, etc. I'm not saying anything new... that's the existential crisis created by not having backwards compat. Does Perl 6/Raku seem AWESOME?! Yeah; but not production-ready.

The idea of extending things via modules in Perl 5 was a great one, but there's a limit on what you can without features guaranteed to be in core. I also get the idea that keeping the core small is probably a good one (by not shipping every module in the world), and keeping the language opinionated (by letter you select just what type of meta-object system you want, but after a while, it doesn't seem like these things help with architecting a future for the core language.

So it goes, I suppose.
Crowdfunding sites have found ways to be compensated.
It's not the jobs themselves that are hot, it's the job market that is. We have low unemployment, but for some reason this demographic remains at a higher rate of unemployment than their age-wise peers from a decade ago, while other demographics have recovered or surpassed their prior numbers.
I'd actually say that is close to an optimal traffic circle. I'd add an even inner-er-er lane, make the outside lane a mandatory exit. If you enter in the right lane, you exit. The middle lane connects to the left of each entrance, and is able to exit at ANY of the exits, and the most inner-er lane would allow you to potentially bypass a traffic jam at another exit.
Good example because their strategy is to move away from consultancy/training/support as their primary business model towards shipping add on services, cloud products, etc.

I was at Elastic.on beginning of the year where they talked a bit about their thinking. They referred to 'other' OSS companies having contradicting goals where in order to sell support/training, they make the base OSS product harder to use and more complicated so that people actually need the support and training. E.g. having great documentation directly conflicts with selling training and consultancy. They did not want to differentiate between a hard to use OSS version and a nicer commercial package. Instead they want users to pay for added value in the form of bundled stuff that is not OSS (but now mostly available for free), or cloud based SAAS products that they run for you. The core product is the same for everyone.

So, their strategy is already exactly as suggested in the article: great OSS that they actively help build complemented by SAAS business and other services where they are making a lot of money.

Looking at their acquisitions, they have been buying companies that do SAAS business on top of their core technology or support that business in some way. Elastic cloud is based on one of their early acquisitions (a company called found.no). Another more recent one is Swiftype which provides easy to integrate search as a service for small websites. Then there's Prelert which provides incident management and analytics tooling. In addition they've been investing in building out geospatial data for the purpose of supporting analytics use cases using their Kibana tool (another of their acquisitions) and now included as part of Elastic cloud. They've bought packetbeat and opsworks that both focus on infrastructure OSS that supports getting data to Elasticsearch and Kibana.

Of course they also still do support, consultancy, training, etc. as well. But that is a tougher business to scale because it involves lots of handholding. That's actually a key problem with this business: you need lots of sales to close deals and then you need lots of consultants to actually keep the customers happy. Looking at IBM and Oracle, you can clearly see that they are struggling there. IBM is looking to buy credibility for their cloud solutions through Red Hat. They've been struggling for years with consultancy as their core business and have been laying off people aggressively as revenues have been disappointing. They have at this point very little in house tech to draw in new customers.

AWS is all about selling their cloud stuff. If it's OSS and widely used, you can bet there's an AWS service from them that you can use (e.g. Elasticsearch, Hadoop, ActiveMQ, Mysql, Postgresql, Redis, etc.).
The opposite. California is going to UTC-7 year-round. The East Coast varies between UTC-5 and UTC-4. California is effectively going to be in the exact same time zone as Arizona, which is in Mountain Standard Time and does not recognize DST.

Honestly, we should just abolish the Pacific time zone and then abolish DST on the West Coast. Rename Mountain Standard Time to Western Standard Time.
> "And we should cut topic X to make room for it."

We could start with having one, or two years of Shakespeare, instead of five.

We could also drop most of the feel-good national history fairy tale propaganda bullshit.

Also, while we're at it, ditch most of chemistry, beyond the basics (Conservation of mass, atoms and molecules, formulas for basic chemical reactions, combustion, acids and bases, temperature, pressure, and ideal gases, the common forms of matter are all good, and can be covered in three months, tops. [1]

Also, while we're at it, maybe 30 minutes of homework a day, instead of 120? And smaller class sizes?

[1] I explicitly omit nuclear physics [2], but only because I categorize that as part of physics.

[2] Everyone should understand how an atomic bomb works, how an atomic reactor works, and what the differences between the two are. [3]

[3] And why two countries having thousands of the former pointed at eachother is completely bonkers. Especially when a few hundred would work just as well.
I'm recording a podcast, called Open Source Underdogs, focusing on open source business models. You can find it on iTunes, Google, Stitcher, etc or on the website https://opensourceunderdogs.com

IBM just made it's biggest acquisition ever on an open source company... It seems strange to use that as evidence that open source is not an effective tool--in certain circumstances--for building your business.

What about Cloudera? What about Automattic? What about MongoDB? What about MariaDB?

The podcast has 9 episodes, and we have about 20 more in the queue for 2018-2019.

Tune in... Some of the gurus of open source software share some valuable insights.
Of course it's perplexing:

"Do well in school or you'll end up in a minimum-wage job!"

"Oh, you're too good for a minimum-wage job, are ya? Lazy, entitled Millennial."

See? Perplexing for everyone who said both of those things.

More seriously, it might be perplexing if you assume the "shame" of living with one's parents past the age of eighteen is greater than the negative impact of getting looped into the minimum-wage cycle with no clear way to escape. This further assumes that multi-generational households are... bad... in some indefinable way which doesn't apply to a lot of the rest of the world.
Wow. So literal.

So let's talk 2016 presidential election

I'd imagine that a Trump Voter's ballot would look like the following if Sanders had run as an independent.

1) Trump 2) Sanders 3) Gary Johnson (Maybe with a flip on 2/3)

Clinton voters would be

1) Clinton 2) Sanders

Neither primary choice would be acceptable to the other. There would be some voters who preferred Sanders first.
A higher quality USB DAC either has to do quite a bit of signal clean-up, and may use its own power supply rather than trying to clean up the USB power from the computer.

Optical has the benefit of always being electrically isolated.
This is why you see a jar full of bacon fat and the like in lots of rural homes. They aren't saving it to cook with, they are collecting it to throw out with the trash instead of sludging up the drain and septic system. People are much more careful about what they flush down the drain when they know they will be responsible to fix it if they cause issues.
Arizona has not been doing daylight savings for years, and they don't have this problem. Really any area with 350+ days of sun shine a year should abandon DLS.
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Feedback:

1. Parser prohibits literal "@click", there is no escape mechanism.

2. Only click, what about other DOM events?

3. Leaking: Event listeners not removed in destructor (your clean() function?)

4. No XSS protection, ow.

5. No tests, might want some.

6. Based on innerHTML assignment with nothing to guarantee valid HTML.

7. No error handling.
You can still connect to a low speed ISP much in the same way that people banned from Twitter or YouTube can still use much smaller platforms with a lower reach.
Ugh I hate Watery Margarita Inc!
If you're in a scenario where a crash can mean a critical security vulnerability, then being killed by the OS can also be, because some parts might continue running with an unexpected state
We've all heard that proverb about boat and plane rentals. As the cost of raising kids goes up it gets more and more true.
Why are people not turning out to vote? This is the key question, and I really, truly do not think it has anything to do with whether you can do it on your phone. This is a technological solution to a multifaceted problem.
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The laws of supply and demand apply to the marriage market. The most attractive are always in hot demand. Women generally marry up (hypergamy). Successful people pick other successful people. All of these factors shrink the pool.
And in fact, we're seeing some great open source companies, including Elastic, which just had an IPO last month. Modern decentralization has yielded the promise of valuable assets that actually become more valuable through being open, which means that VCs in 2018 are singing a very different tune to VCs in 2014.

No, we won't see another company that's exactly like Red Hat. That's how the technology industry works. We're not going to see another successful Facebook, either. But we will see many more companies that push our expectations and moves the industry forward. Many of them will absolutely be based on open source software and communities.
Canonical is another one.
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That's my current experience. Comcast is very fast and low latency. The next best is DSL that maxes out at 2 Mbps. After that my only choice would be some form of wireless.

So if Comcast decides not to sell me service, I'm screwed. They could charge as much as they want and to a point I'd just have to suck it up and pay. I assume the reason it isn't multiple times more expensive is because there is some regulation from the PUC capping what they can charge.
Losers.
On the other hand, how many people can you train to become programmers?
AWS largely makes money off of open source, it just provides virtualization as a service along with the actual hardware. It may not be as straightforward as RedHat, but it basically is the same thing.
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7 figure profit or revenue?