skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not very familiar with him but stumbled upon this a while ago and it's some of the worst business and personal advice I've ever seen: http://craigconnects.org/2014/12/knowing-when-to-keep-your-m.... I wondered if he has some screws loose after reading it.

As someone deeply interested in UNIX history, it's also revisionist and dismissive of hard fought wins by people who don't cower like he did -- real UNIX is incredibly successful to this day.. SysV (Solaris/Illumos), BSD, etc.
This same topic came up on HN 3 years ago, and I took some shit for saying that I thought 2-year-olds shouldn't be playing with iPads[1] without having any kids of my own.

Fast-forward to now, I have a 2-year-old and an 8-month-old, and with the benefit of experience all I can say is Yep, I was right as hell. Tiny children generally shouldn't use iPads, nor should they watch TV.

I wouldn't support a law like this, but at the same time it is astounding how often I see toddlers plopped down in front of an iPad or TV set for hours, as if the mere fact that it makes them easier to deal with means it's an appropriate thing to do.

Giving 2-year-olds a quarter of a Valium will do that, too; doesn't mean we should.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3693886
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Thanks for asking for real data about this. I was only giving my very humble opinion about what could happen, I would like to know some links to literature and actual experiments with basic income. I think that laziness is learned and you need to be kicked strongly to move in a doers direction. In a weak economy with no expectations for people to progress laziness and hopeless bloom, if basic income is a step in the right direction it should be along with a way to foster better expectations. Your are not in an asylum for live.
Hi,

I'm the OP of the medium article.

For photoshop, I'm replacing with Sketch and Photoshop CS6
For illustrator, I'm replacing with Affinity and Illustrator CS6
For indesign, I'm replacing with .. Indesign CS6.

As you can see, the issue is that for print Indesign is far and away the best app for the job and has no replacement. I'll probably end up paying a monthly fee to finish Indesign specific work (which is fine because it is rare for me).

For work that I need to share resources, CS6 is fine for what I do.

For work that doesn't have that requirement, then I'm using alternatives and speeding up my workflow significantly.

As I work remotely, on smaller scale projects, the bulk of my work is easily moved to my new workflow.

If I was working in a Studio, things would probably be different.

I'm lucky.
If the widgets had to be reimplemented, they are not native by definition.
And that flat fee is $5?!

That sounds really, really cheap. I'm so jealous right now.
For 20 years, 'native GUI' has meant 'using the system's toolkit', not 'doesn't use web page to half-ass impersonate local application'. If this is really only OpenGL, then a more apt title would be 'Go + gxui: Rendering triangles very fast on any platform?'. There is quite a gap (like, Grand Canyon sized gap) between 'able to render what OpenGL provides' and 'render GUI'. Even building a UI as primitive as Motif is many man-months of effort for any serious application, if all you have to work with is OpenGL.
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The point of it is that our technology is far outpacing our own capabilities, and pretty soon you'll have to literally become a robot in order to compete for basic income. Instead of allowing only the 1 percent of the rich people to own everybody else, we'll have them pay for everyone to live comfortably so they can do good works, while the rich continue to have their robots do all the work. Everybody wins.
or you could just use .. bitbucket
That visual effect when hovering over a link is really bad.
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C++14 is awesome language, I didn't have much contact with C++ development for over a decade but I keep one eye on how C++ develops and am amazed of how flexible things became without abandoning strictness altogether C# "dynamic" kind of way.

Keeping strictness in the language allows for awesome tooling so I tried yesterday to find good IDE for C++14. There's not much on the market. Clion is decent but doesn't handle code completion for auto return type.

Clang does, so Atom code editor with clang based auto-complete plugin works better than Clion.

But I have luck for finding issues in the things I touch so I immediately encountered something that's not supported by clang autocomplete. It turned out of course that I'm not the first one to encounter this issue: https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=14446

Since it's hanging there since 2012 I understand it's a low priority issue. Could you give me any pointers of how could I help with implementing this feature? Maybe point me to files that I'd need to alter to attempt to implement this?
I live in france (10% unemployment), and unless you're listed as seeking work, you're not given welfare.

It's odd because they don't really check that you send resumes, nor do they really try to contact companies or just propose you a shitty jobs. The "get a job" mentality is really weird to me, because if you have freedom, and you can't find a job that suits you or that you're just too humiliated to beg all those employers, why punish people for being moochers ?

Unemployment is such a political subject, it always ends up being about social stratification anyways. Employed people are just safe and sound, and there are many parameters and behaviors that keep many individuals away from employment or social integration.

Being a marginal and being unemployed, to me are the same problem.

The UBI solves this problem, since it's injecting money that increase consumption, which in turn also increase business and growth.
Just provide any reasonable explanation for your claim. I can't imagine any. IQ is a metric that works like this: you do a test on a population, then take the median result and call it IQ 100. If suddenly God Himself put intelligence-enhancing drugs in the rainwater, making everyone smarter than Solomon, you'd still have half of the population below IQ 100.
1) The set of people who have access to venture capital through pension funds is smaller than the set of people who have access to public stock market.

2) Historical figures of stock market performance include such breakaway successes as MSFT and AAPL with the stories of "if you bought 100 shares of X on the day they went public, it would be worth [high dollar amount] today". Remove the outliers responsible for such gains, and general public will respond by removing liquidity from public markets until it becomes more attractive.

3) Things like DJIA and S&P 500 for better or for worse are viewed as proxies of US economic health, and are frequently used as underlying metrics of investor optimism, etc. Flatter indices are boring and are frequently interpreted as "going nowhere".
In The Netherlands we are already spending that amount, so it doesn't need to come from anywhere. We spend well over 1000/mo on services for unemployed and poor people. We send social workers, health care all sorts of things. The general theory is that if we would supply these people with basic income they will live healthier lifestyles and not need so much care. In the long run it's thought basic income might even save The Netherlands money.

There's a lot of complaining about how it will make people 'sit around and eat ice cream' as if that's all the unemployed do. They've clearly not gone outside much. The unemployed drink a lot of beer, they do meth and they walk around aimlessly through the city and generally cause all kinds of damages and harm.

I live in the east of The Netherlands with pretty high unemployment, and it's already quite visible. But I've been to San Francisco and that's just horrible. I can't imagine how a rich person (and you have to be rich to live there) would want to live there amongst so many homeless and desperate poor people. Would it really be so bad to pay a bit of extra tax just so those people have a little less shitty lives and don't need to stroll around the SF center? It's not like they enjoy that.

Of course, it's not 100% certain that the basic income will solve that particular problem, but I feel it's worth a shot, so I'm happy Utrecht is trying it.

edit: Also let's remember that most people are simply decent. There's not much wrong with watching American Idol and eating some ice cream. If people do decide to not work under basic income (I don't think the majority will) they won't because they have a satisfying way to spend their time at home or wherever. Why is that a bad thing?
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Are you looking for interns? This looks like an incredible product (and I'd really like to see how it works).
Craigslist continues to destroy its competition by maintaining its walled garden. This wouldn't bug me as much if CL was actually serious about improving its user experience, which has more or less been the same for the past decade (just bad enough to be usable).

I don't mind it being spartan - but that aside there are usability issues. One simple example is the reason things like PadMapper and HousingMaps became popular. Another example is that their categories are often hard to filter through. Lastly, there are trust issues - something like "connect to Facebook" would really go a long way in some transactions.

If anyone ever needed proof that monopolies crush innovation, this would be a good starting point.
I think you should come out of your elitism bubble and actually interact with some "dumb" people (dumb according to you, you sound like a 1930 eugenics propagator with how you treat IQ).

You'll find that there are a lot of people with drive but lack of opportunities there, just like there are a lot of lazy smart people.
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Is there any reason to fill in your long form when a CV and cover letter will convey the same information and I have that prepared already?
I don't really see the point.
Aren't everyone working there will know the office by heart after 2 weeks?

It looks good though.
1. The owner of copyright determines how the product is to be used

2. Provider of a service can set out terms of service

3. When using someone else resource, it is polite to do as asked ("Please don't finish all the staples" or "Please don't use my stapler John. Jane can still use it")

Increasing CLs server load & increasing their bandwidth costs was morally questionable, it became clearly immoral once they knew CL didn't like what they were doing.
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Sure, could very well be, and what is a perfect fit in one situation, might be unusable in another situation that at the surface looks like it's almost the same. It would be silly for me to claim that all data we need is already being collected or something like that. But that's not at odds with my abstract point that the realization that data is usually no longer the problem, but the lack of knowing what to do with it hasn't sunk in for most people. (This makes it sound like I think of myself as someone who has seen The Light and 'those others' are chumps, which would obviously be delusional of me, and I don't mean it that way)

I guess what I'm failing to articulate here is the shift that has snuck up on us over the last 10 or so years. My bitching about the quality of datasets today is about increasingly marginal issues (at the macro scale of course, there are still crap individual datasets, obviously); whereas 15 years ago, I didn't even have datasets to bitch about.
Building anything that rivals Wordpress in terms of features, extensibility and ease of use is a massive undertaking.

Building a CMS is relatively easy.

Building a CMS that does everything WP does is difficult.

Building a CMS that does everything WP does whilst still remaining easy to use is incredibly difficult.

There are plenty of blog alternatives out there - but few that you can turn into virtually any other kind of system in just a few clicks. WP can be turned into a whole host of other 'types' of website and you don't need to know anything particularly technical in order to do it.

Even installing Wordpress itself is just a few clicks (depending on your hosting provider).

WP is terrible in lots of ways, but in the ways that most people care about, it does a reasonable-to-good job.
This is really silly. Reading the article, it seems that:

1. Craigslist donated a bunch of money to somebody (which seems like a good thing)

2. Craigslist sued some company for scraping their data and using it in violation of their Terms of Service. And won a settlement. (which seems like a good thing)

So in short, good job Craigslist. Why is the author so angry?
That money has to come from somewhere, it will either reduce the consumption from where it was taken or it will reduce capital stocks that can be used for investment.
I would imagine its all closed source.
Exactly this. After 8h+ of work for little pay, 2h of commute, doing dishes, dinner and cleaning up, you'll have little energy to do anything creative and constructive. Grabbing a beer and turning on TV is a way to relax before turning in and beginning another day of work. I don't know of a person who doesn't have dreams, hobbies, things to do and create. Many just put it off until they can buy a house, until they can have children, until they can give children education, until they retire...
"If you can get $200 million from private sources, then yeah, I don’t want my company under the scrutiny of the unwashed masses who don’t understand my business," said Danielle Morrill"

Wow. I get that private money is easier to deal with but disparaging the public markets as 'unwashed masses' seems rather uncouth. I expect leading a public company requires quite a different skill-set than a private company and the 'scrutiny' is a necessary part of that (information release etc).
Anyone else has experience with this combo (golang + qt qml). Is it worth giving a shot for production quality cross platform app (win,osx,linux)?
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> How would they take more from the billionaire?

We have this obscure system that has been around for a few thousand years to do this. It's called "taxes".
Having lived under a communist regime and also in the ghettos of NYC decades ago, I can tell you just how idiotic this is. But I guess there's no shortage of idiotic ideas when you are playing with other people's money.
Does that mean you have tried giving your kids an iPad and found that it has detrimental effect? Or how else has having kids given you more insights into the issue?
yeah, let's not become like those damn proles from reddit. /sarcasm
Unless you cite any scientific sources I am going to be blunt here: You are dead wrong. About every point you try to make. Its exactly the other way around. Give people minimum wage with no perspective and they will learn to love the TV. Give people opportunities to be creative and they will flourish.

Be under no illusion: the reason why our culture is so fucked up and our common psyche is so damaged is the capitalist system, that robs humankind of its humanity by stripping humankind of its dignity. We are not cheap resources. We have rights.
Ironically, this is the first time I've heard of `\v`
I am looking for something to replace pocket now that the old extension is dead and the new sucks. The service is still great on the phone but the firefox extension is crap:

- slow

- no red visual icon to signal the page is already stored

- no access to pages from firefox (bookmark not working for french locale or sthg)

- and the `new' button is just an add button that you have to stare at for 5 seconds because it will lose the focus and cancel the submission if you move to another tab.

Wallabag isn't quite ready yet :(.
I personally fear that it might be equally pointless to try to encrypt your data.
There are just too many point of failures.
Some futurists like David Brin have been pushing the idea that encryption will ultimately fail and that sousveillance and a push for transparency were the only adapted responses.

I think it would be interesting to push in that direction (it does not prevent from trying to encrypt your data as well).
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_key :

"In practice, settable tab stops were rather quickly replaced with fixed tab stops, de facto standardized at every multiple of 8 characters horizontally, and every 6 lines vertically (typically one inch vertically)."

You could try testing this.

As for removing it, I'm not convinced that it's worth the effort to; it's basically a single case in an escape-handling switch. The article he links to in the first line can basically be summarised as "I don't understand escaping and want to replace it with something even more complex".
perhaps public schooling is more about you learning to pass some tests than to enhance your abilities. Many very intelligent people are so bored in school that they don't learn anything there. With basic income school should change to train teachers about coaching people and less about tests. I think there is a lot to do besides basic income, I am not against UBI but there are side effects that we need to address the sooner the better about it.
How about science or engineering? Imagine how it would be if scientists actually had time to read papers in their field, perform experiments and pursue some research goals, instead of cranking paper after paper in order to stay employed?

What about all those social projects that people want to do, but don't have time to really support?
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Doctors opinions don't necessarily reflect scientific research. Please link to relevant research. There were some links in the article, but I find some of it inconclusive. The old problem of cause and effect.

In general the whole discussion seems silly because there is such a wide range of things you can do with a computer or an iPad. Surely it makes at least a little difference how you use the device? Just as it makes a difference what kind of books you are reading?

At least in terms of agility/movement/obesity, spending too much time reading books should have the same effect as time in front of computers. Yet I rarely see calls to limit reading time for kids?
I don't think the point was saying that Norway is better than the US. The point was saying that in Norway, it's already possible to live with tax payers money, but most people choose to work. So based on the assumption that US people are as good as Norwegians, most US people would still choose to work even if they didn't have to.
Yup couldn't agree more. For young children iPads, TV etc destroys development of imagination and concentration, and by extension creativity, resourcefulness etc. Plus the ability to actually cope with being bored is a vital life skill.
> Wouldn't you be offended if someone said a basic algorithm could eliminate your job?

Hey, some of my best friends are basic algorithms!
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Here are two articles that gave me insight: http://mondediplo.com/2013/05/04income and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINCOME

Basically, people who were working out of desperation worked less, otherwise people used the money to ensure food safety, invest in businesses or improving their lives.

I really don't think "lazy" is a valuable label. It tends to be applied when there are underlying causes for the supposed "laziness". When those causes are repaired the laziness tends to go away. For example: illness, precarity, hopelessness (as you mentioned), a lack of opportunities. I'd suggest doing away with the overly simplistic "lazy" and using more accurate words which express the underlying causes.
Isn't that the atlas shrugged plot, just mirrored?
I had to google what stampy was. For those interested: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/10980512/Stampylon... (seems to be a minecraft character controlled by a 23 year old from Portsmouth who sounds a bit like a kids TV presenter)
There are also a lot of things that can and need to be done for others (as opposed to personal growth, general fitness, etc.) that don't make sense as companies, or that are perverted beyond recognition when exposed to market pressures. Starting a company is one of many ways of doing things useful to the public, but not the only one.
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My inner pessimist is expecting to see a "there was this Daily Mail article one time".

Everywhere I look, I see the opposite. Families with a comfortable amount of disposable income have the 2.4 kids, but those in poverty (and particularly the working poor) have 3, or upwards. Anecdotal, but I'm yet to see evidence to the contrary
You're right, good question. Just the mere having of kids doesn't make you an expert.

But in this case, the beauty (or ugly) is not that OP can now say this without backing it up; it's that when you don't have kids, the roles are reversed. You don't have children? You don't know what you're talking about. You do? Now suddenly we want proof and all that jazz.

He put his money where his mouth was, good on him. If he wasn't entitled to an opinion for not having kids at first, then, now that he has them, I say let the man have his hour.
You never explain why you're denying your kids an iPad. Is it because you think you won't be able to stop them using it 24/7? Is it because you don't think there are good apps for kids?

You might want to try. There's something pretty cool about watching your 2 year old doing addition on a screen so that he can make his cartoon fish eat each other.

Moderation is not really an issue. You're bigger than them, and you have shelves they can't reach. Getting too attached to the iPad gets it taken away. You're the adult so you get to win. Most of the day, you'll find my kids out in the yard digging up the flowers and trying to injure one another. But there's good stuff to be had on an iPad these days. It's not something you want to toss out because you're scared.
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So what makes you think that's not the case? We're not observing a shortage in unskilled work right now.