skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a couple years out of college and can't overstate how real this is (in America, though I know the article is focused on the UK). Last summer I flew back to my Midwestern hometown for a concert, and I still remember being introduced to a friend of a friend. She was a college graduate one year removed, vastly 'underemployed' [1], and living in her parents basement.

When my friend mentioned that I was just in town from SF for the weekend, she asked what I did and after telling her, her reaction was something along the lines of 'oh you're like a real grown up!' Her tone was one of embarrassment and a begrudging acceptance of where she was, and it's one I've seen a fair bit despite going to a pretty solid school. Not Ivy League, mind you, but a reasonably high-ranked state school.

I really have no idea what the solution is, but I've thought a fair bit about the as of yet unrealized ripple effects: Many of these people are in debt up to their eyeballs. Given that, they're going to be much less likely to (or at least will significantly delay) purchases of cars and real estate. Dating is a lot harder when you're living at your parents', and I'm sure we'll see an impact in the ratio of singles/families among my generation as a result. Then there's the whole psychological impact of feeling they have nothing going for them that the article focuses on. Pretty dismal scene.

[1] Honestly, I hate this term. It shouldn't be any surprise to us that when we promote an 'everyone goes to college!' culture a la 'everyone's a home owner!', coupled with an insidious lowering of standards in our education system starting in the lower rungs of K-12, we'll have a mass of college-educated individuals who can't find gainful employment.
True, but then he also gives examples of people that cope with social isolation just fine, suggesting that they substitute the environment instead. That sounds more like support for sensory deprivation being the cause of his claims.
You're basically right though, there are regular calls on /r/bitcoin for people to run a full node because the number has gone down recently. I decided set one up on my dedicated host due to one of these.
Same happened to us. Took away live chat around the same time.
I'm not sure I can think of a single iLok protected plugin that I haven't been able to pirate successfully.
I second this: Pixelmator is great. But most heavy Photoshop users won't leave Photoshop unless dragged away. It's all they know. Sure they'll kick, scream, bitch. But suggest something like Pixelmator you get excuses like "But Pixelmator doesn't have [insert obscure filter that they've only used once in their life]".

In the end, they'll still stay on Adobe's CC.
For me it adds very little value (by comparison I find fb to have 0 value and twitter to be very valuable)

I don't actively design day in and day out,so when I'm online I want to be informed... for me Pinterest is just eye candy and entertainment and not a tool that I use often, unlike twitter.

My wife however...
I think the poker analogy is a better one.

Two parties took a bet, as in a poker game. They each though they were doing the right thing. Turns out, one of them had a winning hand and one of them didn't.

But since everyone knew the nature of the game, and everyone knew they were making bets, why is it unethical?

Really, I would think more anger should be placed on the politicians who got monetary policy so drastically wrong. Or maybe anger is wrong - maybe I should say "learn from this". Because heaping anger on someone who outplayed you is a great way to mask the fact that you need to learn.
Sadly Gimp doesn't really work. I tried to use it but always were differences when showing the psd. (Missing effects, bad colored layers, etc. )
HN discussions on the original report:

Some comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7754065

Zero comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7751352
In the same vein, I have come to the conclusion that my dog does not have a sense of humor.

I have never seen it play a joke on another dog or a human. It will tease others, but not play jokes.

I have never seen it exhibit anything similar to a laugh. It will wag its tail in happiness, but never respond to a situation or event with anything that would be construed as a laugh.
It's mostly a question of storage.

Here's a great tool for getting a feel:

http://tools.geofabrik.de/calc/#type=geofabrik_standard&bbox...

Z=18 is rarely used, so for Z<=17 you're looking at roughly 300MB for raster tiles a city the size of Calgary. You also don't get routing information with purely raster data.

You could try vector data which would be smaller, but then you have to display it, which can be computationally expensive if you want it to look pretty, and you'd lose the snappiness you're seeking.
Opera 12.16
Doesn't this make it slightly more difficult bootstrap a new node when you can't just copy an existing installation?
Might well have been the predecessor to or inspiration for GNU Superopt (which has been moribund for twenty years now...).
stackoverflow status twitter feed - https://twitter.com/StackStatus
Neil Postman: Things We Need to Know About Technological Change (1998) [pdf]
$26MM in venture funding will get you far. Iirc, color.com was purchased for $200,000. This was probably in that ballpark.
Intelligence as we define it is very much tied to visual world.
There's also been some interesting prior work involving optics: http://phys.org/news/2012-09-scientists-renowned-uncertainty...
How an ad campaign changed engagement rings forever
"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable."

- Leslie Lamport
Significantly more stars than in 2013! [1]

This is a very good development, and it also suggests that these kinds of publications may have some positive effect in encouraging more companies to, well, "have your back".

[1] https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2013
There is a comment from Nick Stinemates:

> Docker certainly has an opinion about where the industry should be headed, and there are companies who believe and have invested in that vision, and we definitely applaud their efforts.

> Industry change is a long, arduous process. Not everyone has the benefit of being able to make those bold investments, and for them, a more evolutionary approach makes a ton of sense. As a result, we're seeing massive adoptions in traditionally cautious verticals, taking advantage of Docker as a part of solving specific issues.

So, docker has a monopoly on "vision" now, and anyone not marching to the beat of the docker drum simply has no vision?

Give me a fucking break.
"In light of this development, we're starting a Fiscal Policy Bug Bounty program...."
Immigration to the UK has created a labour surplus. It's not a coincidence that the UKIP is doing well.
With the new version (v8 in Android) of Google maps, just click on the search and scroll down to end.

There is an option "Save map to use offline". Alas, it has an expiry period of 30 days.
I agree with CocaKola that this isn't relevant - I'd vote against having people acting in good faith, if the end result is getting screwed.

As to your other point, this is how markets are supposed to work. Soros in effect helped show the incompetency of the government, which was a net good. People got screwed, certainly, but the situation was terrible and no one did anything about it until Soros stepped in.

You could say that he is similar to Snowden or other whistleblowers in many ways. They through the government into chaos, likely endangered a lot of the economy and possibly lives, and they did it all because exposing the bad things the government was doing was more important.

Of course, I'm not arguing that it's the same, as the whistleblowers do this despite the fact that it ruins their lives, and Soros did it to make money. What I am saying is, it's great we've setup a system where people like Soros are incentivized to uncover government screwups, so we can do better next time.
Any plans to support a UDP transport? I was intrigued with QUIC, but the protocol complication and overhead is immense and highly integrated into Chrome.
The /24 that stackoverflow.com belongs to seems to be gone.

core1.fmt2.he.net> show ip bgp routes detail 198.252.206.0/24
BGP4 : None of the BGP4 routes match the display condition
# Entry cached for another 60 seconds.

EDIT: And now it points to 69.59.197.16 for me and is back up \o/
To introduce another bad analogy in to the conversation, eating cheese is not immoral but forcing a 10kg block of cheddar into somebody's mouth is.

Black Wednesday still has political and economic consequences more than 20 years later - the UK is not a member of the Euro and the Right may potentially pull us out of the EU altogether. The (de)merits of both positions notwithstanding, Black Wednesday certainly still has a huge psychological effect on our relationship with the rest of Europe.
In a very real sense our data is an extension of ourselves, a part of our minds. In contrast water, electricity, and banking are by-and-large anonymous basic services that have no further properties.

I get that cloud storage people think of themselves as the utility providers of the future, after all it makes instinctive sense to want to own something which consumers will spend their whole lives on. I've been in meetings where SaaS people gave presentations saying stuff like "...and in the near future the average person will spend 60% of their total income on cloud services; let's make that future happen!"

The difference is of course that after a power outage or after changing your utility providers, everything is back to normal - but after a little "cloud accident", all your stuff is simply gone. Worse, suppose in that glorious cloud future a person might end up in a situation where they can't make those substantial payments to their cloud providers for a time. All their stuff will be gone, as well. It turns out, we're being re-educated to accept a world where everything is just rented, not only including the stuff we "bought", but also the right to keep our very own creative output. Let the severity of that sink in for a minute.

We're drifting into a setting where basic properties of our digital lives are taken and then rented back to us at a horrendous markup.
I have similar experiences. I almost hate running in to people that I went to high school with, or getting friend requests via Facebook and then having these getting reacquainted discussions. I see my friends and they are struggling to find a place in the world, many are living at home and society at large is telling them that they are failures. It makes me very sad for them because feeling like a failure is one of the worst things in life, in my experience anyway.
Adobe CC is a sales experiment if you can extract subscription fees from tradition desktop software users.

As a user I hope they fail. As a traditional desktop software vendor I hope they succeed.
Quartz? Verge? ArsTechnica?
> "I were suicidal at times coz I felt worthless and it just went on and on and I weren't getting anywhere."

That was hard to read and it is very serious stuff. Some might take a derisive, cynical approach that "Well in so many countries people have to much worse and how do these people from a first world country think that way". But it is important to note that human experience is unique the pain one experiences is often relative to their environment and their expectations.

Someone I knew was very successful and made millions of dollars (tens or so). And then his accountant stole probably half of it and disappeared. Well this acquaintance had contemplated suicide. And when word got out, many friends and acquaintances were laughing at him. "He still had all this great wealth and there he was ready to take his own life." But, the pain he was experiencing, was real to him. And he was ready to take that step. The wisdom to understand (maybe not agree with it, but at least to understand) comes a bit later in life.
Its not that I think Soros should be "blamed" per say, it just doesn't speak highly of his character. He put profits before the wellbeing of the British people. Clearly he doesn't feel an ethical obligation to them. I would have.

But you're right. Judging Soros gets us nowhere, drawing lessons from this does.
> If Soros's bet had gone against him, he would have lost all of his investors' money and been left penniless. There would have been no bailout waiting in the wings.

Well, no. This is explained in the article: If Soros' assumption (that the exchange rate would plummet) hadn't been realised Sterling would've stayed at the lower bound of the ERM and Quantum wouldn't have lost much at all.
Stackexchange network is down.
What does that sentence even mean? It's such an empty statement.
I've been pleasantly surprised by some of Buzzfeed's journalism. This article [1], a rich narrative following one of the few female boxing judges, has original reporting and is well written. Funnily enough, I discovered this article via a link from New York Times' wonderful new NYT Now app.

[1] http://www.buzzfeed.com/joelanderson/the-woman-who-kod-manny...
Will do! Thanks for taking time to check it out!
Very cool series of articles.

My take-away, from the last part:

The state represented by each search node doesn’t have to be limited to a position;
on the contrary, it can include an arbitrarly complex set of values. For example,
if turning 90 degrees takes the same time as walking from one square to the next,
the state of your character can be [position, heading]. Each node now represents
not only the position of the character, but also its heading; and the new edges
of the graph (implicit or explicit) reflect that.

Going back to the original 5x5 grid, the starting position of the search now may
be [A, East]. The adjacent nodes are now [B, East] and [A, South] - if you want
to reach F, you need to correct your heading first, so the path would be
[A, East], [A, South], [F, South].

First-person shooter? At least four dimensions: [X, Y, Z, Heading]. Maybe even
[X, Y, Z, Heading, Health, Ammo].
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Go Continuous Delivery source now on GitHub
I think part of the problem is that we don't have real problems. Throughout the last centuries every single generation had very fundamental challenges, mostly related to survival. Wars, hunger, whatever. Now first you have to find out what you want (career, gadget, car, traveling), then work for it, but the problems are not as simple and existential as they used to be. Most challenges are related to competition, pride and ego building, not to basic things like finding a small shelter to stay in, acquiring food and raising as many children as possible.
The point is this: while people with good jobs feel they have something to live for, much of what happens is the simplistic perpetuation of consumerism. And, while the unemployed tie their value to their net worth, they miss out on some of the simple things that can make life wonderful -- none of which is a curved iPhone.
It must be miserable to be in your early 20s today. The prospect of high student debt, more competitive job environment, polarising of wealth, a housing bubble that perpetuates here in the UK. I'm only early 30s but I'm glad I was born when I was.

IMO You really can't underestimate the importance of that last one, the property bubble.

In the past young people could strive towards buying their own place, starting a family, climbing the ladder, but that's so far out of reach nowadays that many people can't even hope to play that game.
One of the big drivers in many people's lives has been pulled out of reach.

It can all feel like a treadmill even if you're in a good job so I can see how young people who aren't working in a hot industry such as tech in a major city to feel this way.
It looks like this is a known problem with Opera 12.16[1][2]. According to the linked thread, a workaround is to disable opera:config#SecurityPrefs|OCSPValidateCertificates (obviously not ideal).

You might see if it is fixed in 12.17.

I do get an OCSP response if I run:

openssl s_client -connect takeitapart.com:443 -tls1_2 -tlsextdebug -status

Qualys also shows OCSP is working (though seemingly not part of the A+ rating)[3].

1. http://forums.opera.com/discussion/1773932/broken-websites-t...

2. https://www.google.com/search?{google:acceptedSuggestion}oq=...

3. https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=takeitapart.c...
I'm in a startup accelerator, and I can attest validation is one of the most important components they drill into us. Do whatever you can get in front of people and at the very least get people to say 'yes I want to use your platform', the more passionate the better, but even better than that is get signed contracts/deals before launch, or people who are passionate or excited about your app.
Immigration creating a surplus, or the economy itself hollowing out to eliminate jobs? As far as I can tell the UK is basically the City (as an export). Ultimately that doesn't require a lot of jobs, and they're either high skilled, or exist to support the City workers.

(obviously this isn't completely true, but the financial industry is even bigger as a percentage of exports in the UK than it is in the US, although nowhere near Liechtenstein levels)
When we abstract away the situation, then it all seems simple - we assume both parties (the BoE and Soros) are willing, aware and self-motivated actors in control of themselves.

However, there WERE other parameters. George Soros clearly believed the government to be incompetent/incapacitated (up against a wall), and took full advantage. It's also a zero-sum game where the loser isn't a single, self-motivated individual - it's a body of taxpayers who aren't explicitly consulted or perhaps even aware of the transaction, which calls into question the "willing, self-aware" parameter. Idealised financial transactions end with "win/lose", whereas ruining a whole economy like that results in years of decreased quality of life for other individuals, which has a moral implication. Soros was undoubtedly aware that his transaction would disadvantage a huge number of people, but did it anyway. He could have acted in such a way that netted him lots of money (a million, 10 million, 100 million) whilst still minimising taxpayer losses, but he didn't at all.

So in pure, simplified transactional terms, yeah fair game. In "big picture" we-are-all-human-beings terms, there's a huge moral hole here.
I changed it. The HN guidelines call for taking linkbait out of titles ("every user should know") and for not having arbitrary numbers in titles—which are also a form of linkbait. Taking those things out as well as the redundancies (terminal/command-line, utilities/users) yields something pretty close to "OS X Command Line Utilities".

I don't see any ambiguity. The article is precisely about OS X Command Line Utilities; it doesn't matter how many there are in the list. Nor is it misleading. There's no implication of completeness.
Hey, funny, I've spent the last two days doing something like this.

We have a large Laravel app that we've created, and want to run CI/CD on it, along with acceptance tests (all in Strider CD). The thing is, it has some annoying outdated dependencies, and I need a way to spin up an actual instance of our app, with MySQL, Apache and everything else to be able to run Huxley and Selenium on it.

So, I turned to Docker! I'm nearly at a point where we can just do a `docker pull <appname>` and then run the commands we want to from there, but I'm not there yet. It's really interesting, although the focus on "single process that runs in the foreground" stumps me a little. I'd love a way to running `httpd` and other services in the background, but still use `docker run /var/www/vendor/bin/phpunit` -- anyone got any luck doing something similar?
Take heart... http://www.technologyreview.com/view/523566/how-the-friendsh...
>Falling out of ERM kept the UK out of the Euro, which was beneficial in the long run.

Perhaps. That's certainly conventional wisdom, but we have no way of knowing what the political or economical landscape would have been if the UK stayed in the ERM and was now in the Eurozone. 20+ years is a long time.
I think implementing basic income would probably help at least somewhat, but everyone still needs some way to feel like they're contributing. Also, short of bringing back protectionist measures like high tariffs and reversing globalization somewhat (maybe not a terrible idea), it seems like we need to create a much more highly skilled workforce than the one we have so that we can move up the value chain.
> Especially since Adobe management could decide, overnight, to not be total dickheads

That's a big assumption there
Complete non-hacked photoshop CS2 is freely available with serial - http://www.techspot.com/downloads/3689-adobe-photoshop-cs2.h...

It works pretty well in Wine as well, if you fiddle with the settings.
I really have no idea what the solution is,

Redistribution of wealth?
I'm not sure to understand your point. Does it boil down to "single point of failure are bad"?

There are alternatives to each of the Adobe products, self hosted and available offline. People going the Creative Cloud route for their daily job are in a situation where the alternative costed too much or doesn't allow them to do their job in a sufficient way, so there was no real viable options from the start.

The problem is not really to trust Adobe or not. Adobe doesnt have any track record of great online services, I don't think they have an image of high quality software either, they do some amazing things and bring killer features, but I harldy heard anyone being loyal to Adobe itself.

I think this whole discussion would have taken a different turn if it wasn't Adobe but Amazon AWS or Google. When S3 is down, I don't remember seeing more than a few comments in the 'you should have self hosted your data' line. Why is it so different for Adobe ?
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No, it hasn't: http://www.migrationpolicycentre.eu/migration-myths-migratio...
Huh? All your e-mail exchange proves is that he believed, at one point, patents were a good idea.

In fact, it doesn't even prove that: If a stranger approached me about my company's patents, you can bet I'd smile and nod say, "Yes, they're important", like he did -- regardless of what I actually believe.

Establishing a written record of anything else sounds like a great way to throw that investment -- valuable or not -- in the trash. Especially when the remark is made to someone like you who then turns around and posts it to the public!

As someone who both holds several patents and has actually seen this device in person, I think you're trying way too hard to craft your point.

(throwaway because my anti-procrast is on, oh well)
Many things are obvious once you've seen them done.
Thank you for elaborating on the French autoroutes - I was under the impression the Vinci company was semi-private.
Funny how "materialism" is brought up as a solution in what seems to be a spiritual crisis.

By the way, the answer is no.