skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assumed younger. Perhaps I shouldn't have assumed male, but most fast food workers seem to be younger. I figured the vast majority would be under 30.

Most of the plans I've looked into have fine print that makes it more likely that they'll deny coverage than try to charge someone more than $300 month in the sub-30 male cohort.

Obviously I'm ignoring family/dependents.

I'm wasn't trying to suggest that health care was affordable, or that the kind of coverage someone in the position mentioned could get would be sufficient - at best it would probably make them go bankrupt a few month later in most cases - Just that a large number of fast food workers could probably get insured for somewhat less than the assumed estimate. Presuming no diabetes, cancer, other major issues.

Obviously if you were born in 1960s or 1970s then your base rate goes up to 120 - 400 range instead, and people no longer young are obviously likely to be less healthy to begin with, which makes it improbable that you'd get near the low rate.

Anyway, I wanted the takeaway to be that regardless of even being able to get insurance for less, it's worthless because if anything goes wrong maximum out of pocket would still ruin anybody in that kind of work position, not to mention the spiral effect of missing work, not that I obviously don't really know how much it costs to insure older people or women.
LAN syncing doesn't avoid having to upload it first to AWS, though; it just speeds up the subsequent download to the other devices.
See my blogposts on LGPL relicensing of VLC engine http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2012/I-did-it

Note that the relicensing was not done for the iOS port.

And the app above the VLC engine is dual licensed GPLv2/MPLv2
Ugh. It's like people decided the solution to crappy flash, was to make stupid flash stuff native in the browser.
Would you be able to elaborate on "algebraical vs geometrical" thinking?

I've noticed myself that there are two types of "math" that people tend to be good at:

1) Algorithmic - Following a set of steps to achieve a particular result. Algorithms, discrete math, "compsci" math, and procedural and OO programming. Coders tend to be good at this kind.

2) "Abstract" - "Pure Math", what I would label as the harder kind of math, like calculating the intersection of planes, calculus, linear algebra, etc. Pure math majors and theoretical computer science folks are good at this kind.

I have met folks that are good at 1 or 2, or both.

Forgive me for my poor use of terms, I'm one of those folks that is not particularly great at math (mostly due to lack of practice) but I was always curious if my observation was backed up with any "real" terms or if there has been any research into this kind of thing. What you describe seems to be relatively close to what I've observed myself.
I tried getting into it, but found it a little on the slow side. Perhaps it was because I had just read Leviathan Wakes directly before it, which is a lot more fast-paced and similarly covers human colonization of the inner solar system and asteroid belt (aka "Belters")
There are tons of people paying $30 a month for ESPN or $10 for AMC, or more, because of bundling. The bundling is designed so that if you want a single channel, you have to jump up an entire tier of service. This means that if you want basic channels plus ESPN, you have to jump up to that first tier, going from $16 a month to $64 a month.

That first non basic tier has options for me. There are two versions of it, one with kid's shows and one with ESPN. So if I want Nickelodeon and ESPN, I have to jump up another tier and I'm not paying $80 a month and I still don't get Game of Thrones.
I respond and give feedback on their pitch. I find that most recruiters just copy paste things and usually I think, "even if i was in the market for a job, this would turn me off".

So I tell them what I think they should do to get better responses from the people they want to recruit. Hopefully people don't think I'm selling out my kind (whatever that is).

Here is a recent interaction:

Recruiter:

...They are an auction house that is experiencing steady growth and are in need of a hands on Director of Technology. They need someone who is comfortable handling all of the development responsibilities and knows how to delegate when necessary. Ideally they would like this person to be strong in Python, Django, PHP, MySQL and PostGre SQL but are open to seeing someone who is strong with a couple and willing to learn the others....

Me:

Thanks for thinking of me, but I'm not looking for anything at this time.

Also, advice on your pitch to other tech people that will probably improve your hit rate:

1. asking for someone who is good at python and django is mostly redundant -- just ask for django, as it is a python based framework. asking for both makes it look like "credential bingo"

2. same, asking for python and php is a little crazy for single products -- its extremely rare for small companies to be using both in any meaningful capacity as they are basically replacements. this is like asking for a chef at a restaurant that is an expert at japanese cuisine and italian cuisine. sure they exist, but its improbable that you'll use it at the same restaurant.

3. MySQL and Postgres -- same thing -- these are replacements. (a) most people who are good enough at one will figure out the other, (b) the meaningful differences here only manifest themselves at extremely deep levels, where DATABASE expertise is what you are looking for, not a CTO.

Consider it friendly advice from someone who has recruited a lot of tech folk, feel free to ignore.
No, but "Wow, that's a rip-off" would fit.
There are some real issues in handling bitcoins. I worked on a bitcoin exchange that was never finished because of security issues and that was a team of 6+.
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I stayed in a village in India where everyone lived on the street in summer (they would let their rooms out to weird tourists who were used to being in a room). The main noise was the constant gossiping...
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Forced? Forced?

His predecessor presided over the end of Vietnam, and there were plenty of casualties.

His successor was involved in lots of hot conflicts, from illegal covert operations to the invasion of Grenada to the bombing of Libya.

Why did the Cold War not keep that from happening?
I've been lucky enough to get in the alpha/beta of Loom - I've got to say I love it; great having my photos everywhere, not having to have them all on my mac (damn ssd's!) and knowing they're somewhere safe.
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Thanks. I wasn't aware that the core engine and modules have been re-licensed as LGPL.
Whatever you do, do not under any circumstances go through the company’s HR department to get a job. I work in one of the best tech companies in the industry, and our HR people frequently reject highly qualified candidates we’d like to talk to before we even see their resumes. We know this because these same people often know people on our team, or on our friends teams, and we get their resumes through back channels. We almost always hire these people instead of whoever HR sends us.

As an example, about a decade ago, I saw an opening for someone with vector processing experience. I applied and highlighted my extensive experience with AltiVec processors in Macs. The recruiter actually sent me back an email asking why I had included all this irrelevant AltiVec stuff. It turned out he had no idea what vector processing was and didn’t realize I had exactly the experience he was looking for.

Later, when they had an even better opening, I just emailed a guy on the team that I had met once or twice and he was very happy to pass my resume on to the hiring manager because he knew I had the experience needed from being on some mailing lists with me. I got the job and have been at it for 8 years. My boss’s boss at the time said it was one of the best hires they’d ever made.
My power bill is around $40/month for my house, I work at home most of the time and I live in San Francisco. Tack in about $60-70/mo in the winter when I run the heater (gas). I am also educated enough to put on a sweater instead of running the heater :)

That said, I think the budget is pretty skewed as well, and assumes a few things that I propose are incorrect. For starters, having a car payment (or really a car at all) is an incredibly bad idea. I'd also posit that living in a non-shared situation is also un-ideal. I'd also suggest that if you're not making enough money, you shouldn't have a cellphone nor cable TV, but I suppose you could qualify for the infamous "Obamaphone". IMHO you could cut $600/mo off that spend then tack on $40/mo for a bus pass, tack on $80/mo for a reasonable healthcare bill, $30/mo for some cheap DSL or even dialup so you're not totally off the grid.
That leaves you with $450 and only working the MCDs job.

This obviously isn't to say it'd be a marvellous life, but its not working two jobs/etc.

I think the other disconnect is that people expect a "job" to be a "career" as well, and IMHO thats just wrong in this situation. Someone who's working a min-wage job is either just getting into the workforce (as a teenager or something) or someone who can't get anything else. The someone who can't get anything else, I don't know what to do about that, but its not the problem of wage payers to help them out.
In America it is illegal to make a currency that competes with the USD. Congress will eventually rule that Bitcoins do compete with the USD and then yes it will be illegal.
What I remember from physics class makes me think this isn't viable.

If you have sound moving through the tube, you have energy pushing the sound. Either you have to keep the whole tube 'humming' or you have to send people off in a blast wave. With the humming idea, you might be able to create vacuums that travel around the tube at the speed of sound (sound works by changing the density of air, oscillating from high pressure to low pressure), and then you can move vehicles around the tube at the speed of sound with very little drag.

So then you need some way to keep the vehicles floating, and you need to get them to the speed of sound in the first place (rail gun?). I'm going to pretend that we have a cheap way to do both of those things.

So, how expensive would it be to keep 100s of miles of hyperloop humming with a sound powerful enough to create vacuums large enough to fit transportation units in? Even if you are only using cars large enough to hold 1 person and a suitcase, you are going to need a lot of energy powering the sound waves throughout the tube.

You might be able to do some acoustics-like engineering to keep the sound loud at little energy cost, but I don't think that solar power above the tunnel is going to be enough. Using this model, Musk would need a handful of technological advances up his sleeve.

So I think the big 'secret' that makes a hyperloop viable is not this one. Then again, with the Tesla and his space adventures, he has had to deal with at least a handful of difficult obstacles. So maybe he is expecting to develop multiple technologies to make this viable.
Peter Gibbons: You know, corporate accounting is sure as hell gonna notice $305,326.13, Michael!
If you are in a big city, I have found that in person events are the best option. Meetups are everywhere. In New York specifically there is the New York Startup Job Fair, NY Tech Day, New York Uncubed, and a couple others.

Two data points, I met my current startup at NY Tech Day. My previous startup was met via one of the NY Tech meetups.
No, that would be a mechanic to provide thrust, which is not what he was describing.
It would be just two versions (original vs cut), not several, and an option like that would be hidden in the in-program options menu along with subtitles and audio. Technically you could only store metadata for the latter and do the resampling on the playback device, but there probably isn't a workflow that makes that possible.

I find picture quality excellent when using the AppleTV. The PS3 client is a bit less stable, but almost the same after some buffering.
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True, but in the case of Glass the speaker is always the same (it's the owner) so you can learn and adapt the acoustic model over time. I'm wondering btw if Google doesn't do that already for Android's built-in speech recognition, which accuracy is amazing.

The other problem is that apps cannot (at least for now) change the language model, so Glass will always be in either "search" or "dictation" mode.
And thank God* for that. Hell is other people.

* or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Elbereth, etc.
>"That's only if the escalator isn't under repair."

Are you in DC? Metro is notorious for out of service escalators, but they do have more than any other transit system in North America [0] and they can be quite long/deep [1].

">I always take the staircase to/from the entrance."

Depending on the station/situation, that might not be an option.

0: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/us/02escalators.html?_r=0
1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheaton_(Washington_Metro)
Hence the reason I explicitly mention "trailer" in every reference and hoped that the full movie was more nuanced.
If you want to play with space games that'll let you do that check out Kerbal Space Program. Might still be on sale on steam.

If they can get it off the ground this could easily make things so much easier to get into LEO, since the main engines wouldn't have to carry around half the equation it'll mean much higher thrust to weight ratios, which means cheaper, and then you could have a much smaller craft increase it's orbit with smaller engines and a much lower delta-v than is needed to reach orbit normally. Take that and add a single larger setup that'll get large heavy things in orbit (we've got that now with modern rockets) and you could leave a station in orbit that could act as a bit of gas station for the smaller ones. That alone could make moon transits far more economical, though it still leaves the problem of what do you do when you get there, the resources available aren't incredibly valuable or anything.
What countries have we permanently annexed since World War II?
It's questionable whether you want the opposite to happen - high restaurant prices, fewer affordable options, and fewer restaurants in general.

People will start screaming at politicians to "create new jobs", and for the skill level there's not much you can do except having subsidized cheap joints.
I have no criticism for people who take minimum wage jobs - they are stars because they have motivation and (often) a clear view of where they are going - so all power to your sister.

The bug bear is that a very high percentage of the people earning minimum wage need state intervention to actually live.

If minimum wage does not pay enough to pay rent and local taxes - plus a reasonable social security contribution (health insurance in the USA) then the job is being subsidised by the people earning just a little more (the tax payer?) - so this is a subsidy to the employer - often a very large one.

I resent being asked to subside jobs where employers should be required to pay a living wage. I have no issue with the employees - only respect because they are doing their best in a tough market place.
I've been in the work force 12 years and had 4 jobs. My first job was my University Co-op that turned into full time employment after I graduated. When I want to change jobs I put the word out to my friends and ex-coworkers that I'm looking. Usually somebody will come up with something fairly quickly. I may or may not have to send a resume. The interview will be a formality. I've never just applied for jobs that are posted, that's what some of my friends are doing now and it seems very difficult, especially if you don't interview well.

I didn't even do anything particular to build my network. I just worked at a company with fairly high turnover for 4 years, so now I have ex-coworkers at pretty much every company in town.

I live in a fairly small city, 350,000 people. So it's pretty easy to get known in the tech industry without knowing that many people.
This still had a bunch of issues when I tried it: The user I connected with saw many instances of my user because I was trying to connect with Sublime Text, and couldn't give permission to all of them. The system didn't sync well from ST to the browser, but it worked the other way around. At some point we began typing over each other entirely. Screenshot here: http://grab.by/oAgS

Really want to see this working well!
It looks like it works right after install. No need to reboot. On an up to date Ubuntu 12.04.2 that is.
I think the main reason bundling will continue to be how most television is offered is because it offers easy price discrimination. Which customer will be willing to pay more for ESPN: customer 1, who already is subscribed to 200 channels and has more than enough shows to watch; or customer 2, who isn't subscribed to anything? The cable companies and networks know that each additional channel or show offers diminishing marginal returns for the customer, and they want to get as much of the surplus in this transaction as they can. If they unbundle, they'll charge much more per channel, because they know customers will be willing to pay more.

If unbundling starts becoming more common, the big advantages I see for consumers are that people will waste less time watching things they don't care about (because they never subscribed to them in the first place) and money will go to studios that produce quality shows people are willing to pony up for, increasing the overall quality of entertainment. I'd love to be able to not subsidize reality TV.
Your post reminded me that alerts for uses when someone is working would be valuable. ggreer and I should also really broadcast our g+ hangouts (we use Floobits to write Floobits).
But it totally had a functioning democracy when the President had a team of henchmen breaking into the offices of his political opponents, during an era where the Joint Chiefs had a plan to depose the President if he was unwilling to abide by impeachment.

That president was forced to resign after public, televised House hearings showed the country what was going on.

Certainly, democracy must have flourished during the time where the administration waged an undeclared war in Central America that sponsored death squads and brokered arms deals with the Iranians, in part as an effort to undermine the campaign of the preceding incumbent President.

The public Iran contra hearings exposed what happened and sent Oliver North to jail.

And democracy was no doubt stronger during the era of the Vietnam Draft.

Nightly news programs showing the war and giving the count of US deaths led to protests that ended the war and the draft.

And it absolutely had a functioning democracy during a time when the House had a committee on "Un-American Activities" that subpoena'd citizens and had them testify under penalty of perjury --- a penalty that actually imprisoned Americans --- for merely sympathizing with the aims of Communism.

And those public hearings ultimately led to the downfall and disgrace of McCarthy.

And surely we had a functioning democracy during the times where voting was controlled by literacy tests --- "Question 13: Spell Backwards, Forwards" and dogs and firehoses greeted people who dared challenge enforced, legal segregation.

Would those tests have ever ended if they were not publicly known?

The idea that it's never been worse in American, because some government agency might be reading your Facebook posts, is lunacy; an insult to people who actually stood up to real malignant government power. It's an easy mistake to make: it's the availability heuristic. You understand the implications of worldwide Internet surveillance, but barely remember (if you even knew about in the first place) HUAC.

You're purposefully trivializing what has been going on. All of the situations you described were ended by public knowledge of what was going on. In the current case not only is there no public knowledge, there is the threat of imprisonment for those who discuss what they know publicly.

I don't know what Carter's excuse is, though; he surely knows about Watergate, Iran-Contra, HUAC, Tuskegee, COINTELPRO, and the Hoover FBI. Carter is just being a coot.

Carter has always listened to a different drummer. He's also been willing to speak for others. In this case he happens to be speaking out for us.
Claims made by parties are irrelevant. Look at the actions and both parties are nearly identical.
MPlayer works in the Linux world, but the app itself has no stable releases outside of that so it doesn't have traction beyond Linux. Unless you count things like SMPlayer (Windows-specific front-end and MPlayer backend) and the like. MPC-HC is pretty popular in the Windows world. But neither of them come close to approaching VLC's userbase. We make SMPlayer, MPC-HC and VLC all available in portable form at PortableApps.com alongside each other and VLC's downloads blow the other two away.
As a quote, it really only works when attributed to Freud.
Even if it did, the amount of "lobby time" would still be drastically lessened just based on frequency of departures and decoupling of passengers and elimination (presumably) of the checked baggage situation.

TSA security checkpoints suck, but IME they "only" represent about 15 or so minutes of the extra time required for airport lobby time (on average; sometimes more sometimes less. Which is at least 14 minutes too many, but hardly the whole 1-4 hour overhead often cited).

Most of the overhead of plane travel in terms of airport and tarmac waiting time is due to deadlocking problems that occur in coordinating all the passengers into a single vehicle that is as full as possible (to maximize the airline's profit per trip), so you get a very uneven/lumpy demand curve based on when flights are scheduled, all sorts of complexity due to the system of having to check bags into a separate physical compartment, etc. A continually operating system where you could just show up whenever, your bags stay with you for the ride, etc could easily smooth that out. Solve the deadlocking issue (and most of the hyperloop guesses I've seen do) and even if the security checkpoint stuff stays mostly the same you'll still have a far more efficient embark/disembark system.
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What was part of Go's pitch, exactly? And where did you see it pitched?

People outside the Go team have tried to pitch Go as a lot of things, most of them having no relationship to what Go was actually intended to accomplish.

The FAQ[1] may be enlightening. Nowhere does it say Go is supposed to be a straightjacket that makes bad programmers into good ones.

[1] http://golang.org/doc/faq#What_is_the_purpose_of_the_project
I still haven't forgiven him for bringing back Selective Service.
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Assuming it's like the last version on iOS (which I was lucky enough to download before it got yanked) you can just plug in your device and throw whatever videos you want into VLC's documents folder. Transfers really quickly over USB.
Yes, because class conflict totally started with OWS.

I wasn't aware that I had to mention the entire history of class conflict in order to note a strong similarity with a recent movement.

fantasies perpetuated on our generation is the idea that there are simple policy prescriptions that are "good for everyone.

Ironic that you say that since in political threads you generally defend a one-size-fits-all, overpowering American government. If you really believed what you said then I'd think you'd be all for Freedom and individual Liberty. Instead, I view you as an opponent of those things in favor of the State.
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