skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...it's considered anti-feminist to believe that women want to find a man to marry or have kids."

Where is this said? Straw man runs wild.
> Social norm or not, you have to prioritize and make hard choices.

Yes, my point is that you have to prioritize and make hard choices to live at that level of income; not to build savings.

(I edited my parent comment because I didn't feel my personal data was really relevant, sorry for any confusion.)
Yes, HSA advocates are secretly biased, and unlike politicians and their campaign ads, their bias is covert.

But that's not the story we need reported on, because this story is preaching to the choir.

The real story is understanding the American public's malleability in the face of advertising/punditry in general. There is a real story analyzing in-depth (and with open-minded sympathy) why real believers in the practice believe that it is actually truly the right thing to do.

I suspect that the public won't understand what's at risk until the IRS starts using NSA collected data to conduct (automated, universal) audits.
I think it's because certain psychological conditions are now classified as disabilities and make you eligible for government assistance. See the so-called "autismbux" -- people presenting mental disorder symptoms to a doctor with the purpose of being classified as disabled, so they can have an income. The amount involved is pretty small, but it can be the difference between a sort-of normal life and homelessness for some people.

Further reading: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Autismbux http://4chandata.org/adv/Has-anyone-here-followed-Remus039s-...
The article says:

"Overall, one year after the intervention stopped, the experiment produced a 14% increase in assets and a 96% increase in savings, compared with similar groups of people not enrolled in the program,"

And the paper abstract says:

"This shift, which persists and strengthens after assistance is withdrawn, leads to a 38% increase in earnings."

Where are you getting 5% from?
Thanks, I'll take my hacks to people who will pay me actual money
The new coal frontier
> The EFF, the ACLU? Lobbyists. Good lobbyists, but lobbyists nonetheless.

Necessary to counter bad lobbyist. :)

Lobbying: you have more money == you have more influence. Sounds very undemocratic to me.

> I would prefer experts in a field (on both sides) to inform politicians than have them be clueless on the issues in question.

But to have them paid for? If civilians press on their representatives, in their own "free" time, this is the only "lobbying" that I consider "honest".

Lobbies kill democracies. You think, for instance, the US would be in so heavily invested in going to war without military corps spending on lobbying?

I think lobbies are bad. In my country (NL) a lobbyist can walk closer to politicians (like a journalist) then a civilian is allowed to. This is too much.
>> That the NSA funnels funds to people who have both a megaphone and a compatible point of view?

I don't think you even need to go that far. The underlying phenomenon here is the revolving door. Senior government officials retire into government contractors for their former agencies because that's by far the most lucrative positions open to them. The exception would be if you were completely disgruntled, Snowden isn't going to end up at Booz Allen.

What that means is that we have a shared underlying cause for the two things we are seeing: former senior officials that remain supporters of their agency end up at government contractors and former senior officials that remain supporters of their agency are happy to defend them publicly.

As for the solution to the revolving door, I'd say first we need to raise the salaries of senior government administrators. Every study I've seen shows that low skill government employees are over-compensated and high skill government employees are under-compensated (both as compared to the private sector). Second, we should probably cut down on government contracting. I don't a good reason for it to have grown so large.
> The lawsuit involves a European Patent registered in Germany

Aren't people always saying software patents don't exist in Europe?
It is beautiful, the complexity and and variance of what grows is stunning from aesthetic perspective.
I certainly hope this makes it past the Assembly and into law. I am stunned at how rancorous the debate has been though. If I ever questioned if there was a problem with science education, that question has been soundly answered. Way too many people are getting through our primary education system with absolutely no understanding of how science, as a process and discipline works. And that is a very sad thing indeed.
The labor-particpation-rate of working taxpayers fell about 7% (relative to itself 1-.63/.68) during the 21st century. This means fewer people paying social security taxes and three major programs those taxes support.
This graph tries to explain what happened. Its was blamed on old people retiring early or becoming disabled. However, decreased working is spread across all age groups.
Czech rep. had something similar for some time. There are two problems:

One has to prove to be homeless. Have some distant relative or had income a few years ago? Too bad, not homeless.

And some people will demolish their own house. It is expensive to buy firewood, floor and walls can be used instead. House gets eventually destroyed, owner become homeless, gets new house...
I'm not comfortable giving my old and new names, or my year of birth, BUT I can share that my first and last names before transition were very female (I've never met a guy with either of them) and my post transition first and last names are very male (although my first name often has female versions). All of my names have been family names, with minor spelling changes because of language changes as ancestors migrated to the U.S.

Old first name:

- as female: the peak, of over 20,000, was a decade after I was born, stayed there approximately 15 years and has had a slow decline since

- as male: actually follows a similar curve, but the peak was only over 100

Old middle name:

- as female: the peak, of over 10,000, was between the World Wars, went through a steady decline until a decade before my birth, when it went into a sharp decline

- as male: the peak, of over over 25, was a few years after peaking as a female name, then went through a steady decline until 20 years before my birth and has leveled out at 10+ a year

New first name:

- as male: first peak, of over 10,000, was around my birth, then went through a small dip and peaked again a couple decades later

- as female: similar to the male curve with the two peaks breaking 50 a year

New middle name:

- as male: the peak, of over 2,000, was between the World Wars, went through a sharp decline until just after WWII, when it leveled out for a couple of decades, then went through another sharp decline before leveling out around my birth.

- as female: extremely sporadic, mostly due to the low numbers of women getting this name; the range went from just over 20 in one sample year to none for almost 20 of the sample years
Not right now - SRS is blocked at work.

One simple experiment is to look at the front page of the subreddit - each link description has, per the rules, the amount of comment karma it has when it was submitted. Look at relatively new posts, and look at the difference in karma at submission time and then as time goes on.

I tried this a few times months ago, and being linked from SRS led to a significant decline in scores on every post in the top 25.
And the fish is what tipped you off?
Ha, sadly misread as nasa.gov, expecting some new ideas from SpaceX collaboration ... My apologies.
I'm the guy who stays after a concert to see if the musicians jam. When musics play "out of office hours" it just sounds different to my ears.

I envy your BB King private show, badly.

RIP BB.
Have you yet figured out a metric that encapsulates code quality? Any metric you name, I can find a way to game it.

The only way I can see is to thinly slice the system enough and to require business peer review and daily demos on all slices to correct bad systems earlier. This also means you need a top engineer devoted to babysitting on behalf of the organization, and a good enough engineer to handle the code reviews can probably do the job better than a team of remote mediocre engineers.
> ...I've spent my entire life hearing about how society victimizes females as compared to males...

Maybe that's what you heard from it, but it's not the position of feminism that, e.g., rape is bad merely because women get raped more than men. Rape is bad, period. The point is that the problem affects women disproportionately more, and in the past men could get away with it without any punishment. So, women need, and have fought for, extra protection. And of course, for the general dismantling of the power imbalance between men and women. Why some men immediately internalize this, and feel like someone just called all men rapists and woman haters is really beyond me.

In any case, we will probably have to agree to disagree. In my experience, MRA is not really about anything else than feminism. There are some who actually care about the specific injustices faced by men, and some who have endured them directly (and you may be shocked but I am a feminist and still support them...). But the MRA movement is really just using these things as tools in a fight purely against feminism. Because, it's always feminism. Nothing else can be at fault but feminism. Every male problem is either caused by feminists, or feminists are indirectly to blame because they didn't fix it already (?!). Because, yeah, fuck all the rapes, domestic violence and shit, the most important thing all feminists have to care about when fighting these injustices is - men, of course! :D

A lot of feminists probably go to far, and dismiss valid concerns too easily, but to take that as a reason to focus on feminism, and to constantly negate the whole of feminism makes it clear that the MRA movement, for the most part, is just anti-feminism and nothing more. That the problems men face are being used as a fig leaf to cover up simple misogyny.
unfortunately, it is annoyingly orthographic, no perspective.. :)
I gave up on the sign-up. Too much of a hassle choosing a password to their specifications. It's a stoicism course, not a freakin' bank account.
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I'm not going to disagree, since your advice is good. If you're having trouble financially, don't go crazy on Christmas gifts, eat out all the time, or buy expensive clothes.

But keep in mind, in SF, a 3br house or apartment south of 280 (a bit blighted in spots, but far safer than its reputation) starts at 800K, and really, unless you're at the outskirts and buying a property in need of considerable work, you're probably going to shell out over a mil. Child care is easily over $2k a month, so 50K a year.

So at least in SF, you're probably looking at about 90k+ on housing and child care. Health care is another huge cost, but it's hidden.

What percentage of that is really spent on creature comforts like expensive travel or christmas gifts? New clothes? You're a parent, you've seen what things cost at lower cost spots like Old Navy or payless shoes. It's not a big expense. I do a lot of hand-me-downs (I have 2 kids myself), but in the end, I'd estimate very generously that clothing costs about 0.5% of the yearly budget.

Now, one could certainly reasonably say that living in SF is a financially illiterate thing to do (though if this is the case, then many of the employers claiming a shortage of software developers are actually claiming that there is a shortage of financially illiterate developers, since these companies are generally located in SF or Silicon Valley).

But is Boston, New York, Washington DC, Seattle, or LA really that much better? I think it just goes from impossible to difficult.

The reason I mention this is that I believe the middle and working classes in the US are eroding, and while some of this can be self-indulgence (look at the way some people treated houses as piggy banks, for example), I wouldn't write off middle class struggles as financial illiteracy or excessive self-indulgence.
A partial, limited list of reasons why kernel threads are much worse than an M:N green thread user space implementation:

* kernel space and time overhead is relatively gigantic
* no cross-os usable kernel thread standard except fork()
* when you are writing systems code, sometimes you either do not have a kernel, or are writing one
* submitting to kernel threads means you must also give all cores over to the kernel as well, leading to competition between your program and others
* still doesn't solve the core problem of cross-thread communication
Way too many people are getting through our primary education system with absolutely no understanding of how science, as a process and discipline works.

It's a question of trust in scientific authorities, not about their knowledge or lack thereof.

No amount of understanding or attempt at education will dissuade anti-vaccine parents.
This is the honest truth.

I've dealt with outsourcing to India before and share many of the same headaches mentioned in these comments.

I know it's a generalization, but I believe it's fairer to generalize about Indian outsourcing businesses than about Indian individuals: these businesses are doing their best to maximize profits, like any business does. They hire very low, mark up quite a bit and (in my experience) misrepresent their talent pool.

Conversely, I've worked with a number of brilliant Indians at a large corp here in North America.

The good individuals leave after a couple of years or less. The turnover is really high. They leave for the same reasons anyone would: better opportunities, mentorship, culture, money, etc.

In reality, it's a smoke and mirrors game where the outsourcers mostly win. Indian individuals get a bad rap.
It is a more expressive language that leads to less bugs down the road. Encouraging lots of immutability is huge, as well as a bunch of other benefits.

Deja vu. I use to talk just like you. My colleagues would too.

I miss Java's verbose-ness. It's hell, but for large codebases and tooling - I wish I had a bottle of JDK 8 right now.

I heard a lot of this "prescription"-like talk, it'll buy us a lot X down the road. I blame our "this or nothing" attitude toward scala.

We would unconsciously, I think, immediately cast aside any contrary information. We thought ourselves as using this perfect tool and were condescending to anyone who used other things.

We wrote everything in it. We fired 2 node/python coders.

We're too invested and afraid to admit reality, it's a flawed language. Too complicated. Too many idioms for the lexer to handle.

Frankly, the only scala engineer who ever admitted it (they outright ban scala detractors on the mailing list and freenode) was Brad Phillips. Don't take my word for it, I recommend looking him up.
Causality is always preserved. If A happens in the past light cone of B in one frame, then it happens in the past light cone of B in all frames.

If, on the other hand, neither A nor B are in each other's past light cones, then there are reference frames where A or B happen 'first', but 'first' is in quotes, because this difference in time is really an artifact of a coordinate choice, and not physically meaningful.

The best way to think about time relationships is that events (points in spacetime) have a partial order given by the relationship 'is in the past lightcone of'. Some pairs of points have this relationship one way or the other, and it's transitive. However some pairs of points don't have this relationship, and there's no meaningful way to compare them. Attempting to do so is inappropriately forcing a classical viewpoint onto a data model that doesn't support it.
> Having children you cannot afford is a common way that lower income people live above their means

Poor people will never stop having sex, or wanting kids, or desiring a drink at the end of the day, because it just so happens that you don't lose basic human desires when you're poor. A lot of talk about financial literacy is really just moralizing about behaviors the lecturer would never dream of giving up himself.

It's a dead-end conversation, because, again, humans are always going to do the stuff that humans do.

But this entire thread is doomed because it stems from a claim that most people who struggle do so because they're living above their means. It seems to me that most people who struggle do so because they don't have as much money as the people who don't struggle.

EDIT: Dear HN, can we make > start a quote, already? Look at how many people in this thread alone have used it in that way! I do it all the time and usually edit it back out.
This is what confuses me, when I was growing up there was poor kids childcare that I went to that was dirt cheap. Don't they exist anymore? Our (lower income) city offered free summer camp and I went to a variety of after school programs. Sure you can't do that with babies though (I don't think).

The vast majority of my clothes were hand-me-downs or thrift store or sometimes sales rack stuff. My mom and her sisters and brothers passed around garbage bags full of their kids' old clothes for the smaller kids and clothes were passed on to coworkers and friends. Several kids all wore clothes until they fell apart. I was allowed to have one pair of shoes (only from Payless) and I wore them either until they didn't fit or until the next schoolyear came. My parents didn't spend hardly anything at all on clothes.

Medical costs obviously are high (unless you are in the military)

I never even felt deprived or anything either. Not being able to pick out my clothes wasn't even a big issue for me.
What happens when Newton's third law is broken?
no? I've seen people say patents don't exist in china.
In my opinion these problems are very small compared to the root problem, and so they show that the system is working - they are exceptions that prove the rule.

But we can easily improve this first iteration, for example:

1. Let's instead give everyone an untested basic income that covers usual living expenses.

2. Let's give people who are unable to buy firewood better {financial,medical,mental health,educational} support to buy what they need instead of waiting for them demolish something more valuable.
Simple.

Without image: A quick glance and they'll see IT words and won't care.

With image: A quick glance and OMGWTFBBQ FIRED!

At least in the US the standard around nudity/reproduction is extremely immature. I was helping on a health system once and the user having an issue with part of the system recording reproductive health info, they refused to email/attach screenshots of the problem and had to send it physically in a sealed folder like it was some top secret document.
Just stop, dude. This is not elementary algebra, these are people we are talking about. Go out and meet some.
Is corporate welfare somehow worse than individual welfare? I gather from the tone of your comment that you think it is, but this being the internet, tone is easy to confuse.
If you get a good job and continue to live the "student lifestyle", that is fairly frugal and single, you can probably save boatloads of money and take time off.
If you want to raise a family or like spending money, that wont work for you.
The brushes are niiicely implemented! Dig the smoothing!
It's astounding how the more educated and affluent areas are the ones with the highest level of exemptions. So its not so much as science education, but people's disconnect between science in theory and how it's applied in real life.

It's not the middle class or lower middle class and poor who opt out the most but upper middle and wealthy out of irrational fear.

But yes, glad this loophole gets closed.
Works in Chrome; in Safari and Firefox, YouTube shows the original, distorted video without even a message to the effect that it's not the intended experience. Both of these browsers support WebGL, of course, so I doubt there is any technical reason only Chrome is supported. Why am I not surprised that this is nevertheless the case?
Yes, important questions. First of all let me state again, to keep that in our heads: nobody is allowing or forbidding anybody anything. And that's also not what I meant.

The point I'm trying to make is that there are talented people who put a lot of effort into keeping that game going. Some people (about 300 according to the article) work full time on it. Others don't get paid but still spend a significant amount of energy and time to keep their corps going. I'm hugely in favour of spending five minutes here and there to just slack off. But building a 1000 people big corp and owning a huge part of the EVE space is something different, right?

Also, the task of keeping that virtual corp going is the same as keeping a club going that secretly washes other people's cars at night. As a corp leader you mostly schedule regular work, prioritize tasks, convince people to do them, discuss with people when they are unhappy about they're tasks or if they're unhappy about other corp members. That job is not so different, no matter what the actual tasks are. And it certainly is a job. It's more fun to some than to others, but even of the most enjoying people it takes energy and time.

And let's face it there aren't even many people on this planet who are able to run a community of 1000+ people.
So, first, your assertion that it was "complete BS" (despite you, in another post, providing anecdotal data for the rape fantasy claim--with which there is nothing wrong, let me be clear) and "100% stupid" is exactly what I mean by closemindedness.

As for your questions, those are all excellent points, even if only a handful of easy references into popular culture or literature would be enough to answer them. I particularly like your observation about "well, they want a lot of banging first, then later want to raise kids": that suggests perhaps a temporal or maturity aspect to the whole thing.

The "want to adopt", "gays", "asexuals", etc. are all, bluntly, not representative of the popular as a whole nor worth considering from the timescale of thousands of years if we are going after an evolutionary explanation for this, which is the ultimate direction of the proposed sort of theories of human courtship.

It's not as off-topic as you assert because the paper suggests a three-strategy approach that loosely maps onto the theory put forth above. It's not a clean mapping, and there are a lot of valid criticisms with it, but it's not totally unrelated either.
Tynker, a Startup That Teaches Kids to Code, Works with Robots, Drones and More
Unfortunately the VODS on Twitch are deleted after 14 days, so unless he saved them somewhere they are gone. You could try sending him a message.
The numbers of disabled combat veterans are a tragedy, but they are really a drop in the bucket compared to the wider population. The numbers of people that have some medical condition that would allow them to work a job, if such jobs were available, is where the meat of that increase comes in. Then you have the perverse incentives by which someone on the low end of the pay scale can take a job, and be much worse off than if they stay on the dole, due to various other support programs getting cut off (free health care, fuel assistance, SNAP benefits, etc).
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How can one be "retired" at age 16?
There appears to be no way to quit the app & get it out of your menubar without resorting to `kill`. That's annoying and lazy.
Same with gold, etc.

You could simply store your bitcoin in a "bank" like Coinbase and they would secure your bitcoin for you.