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It's hard to get a balanced nutrition on a bush diet for two main reasons:

0. Lack of nutrition understanding: what are/where to get essential nutrients.

1. Nutrition-balanced foods in the middle of nowhere may be nonexistent or difficult to acquire.

> If humans are being replaced with computers, then there will be need for fewer managers, supervisors etc. This would cause a decline in demand for people with "human skills" also.

Lower demand of workers and over-supply of candidates = employers' market = greater expectations placed on workers for lower pay. This would change nice-to-have attributes of excellent candidates from nice-to-have to compulsory as workers have to be even more perfect just to keep their job against the 100 other people lined up ready to take it from them. Besides, if there are 3 equally-qualified people with people skills and 5 without, it's a no brainer because the non-people-skilled folks are liabilities: they can kill the team dynamic, put people off and waste time & money (finding new coworkers to replace those that left whom will put up with their antics, finding new customers/vendors/partners/etc. that they put off, etc.). I know of a number of first-hand cases where some arrogant developers were passed over for hiring consideration at a successful enterprise startup because it was clear they would be too difficult to work with.

In labor markets with a foreseeable overabundance of talent, the future of work may include a number of people willing to work even longer for free, far longer than internships, simply to showcase their chops, get real experience and edge out other candidates/employees. Let's hope it doesn't come to that, but it certainly seems headed down that path.

FBSD: I was just dealing with circular dependency hell (or misunderstanding of docs/conventions) in some rc.d scripts.

Maybe someone here knows how to do this properly (or better):

    # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dnscrypt-proxy
    #
    # PROVIDE: dnscrypt_proxy
    # REQUIRE: ldconfig cleanvar NETWORKING
    # BEFORE: SERVERS local_unbound
    # KEYWORD: shutdown

^--- REQUIRE: ... NETWORKING always seems to cause a circular dependency (as per running: rcorder /etc/rc.d/* /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*)

Help appreciated, not required, just showing a real-life example.

Most, but not all, companies generally don't donate any money to server OSes and open source they deploy by the hundreds of thousands. It sucks but it's the current state of affairs. (I think more FOSS should be be less free and monetized more in the context of large-scale enterprise purposes, in order to keep developers' bills paid and support quality up. The honor system doesn't work because most corporate choose to "cheat" where possible.)

If a project releases open source totally for free, it cannot realistically expect sponsorship to magically appear.

If a project needs sponsorship to keep the lights on, the we're closing up shop, unless ... routine works.

If a project prefers to become a commercial product with a freemium option, they should do such.

Otherwise, don't slave away on a project and resent what you cannot afford to give away. Just don't do it, if you can't live with it being exploited by companies for free.

Punishing everyone for the sin of a few rogue companies is the kindergarteners routine and childish. It doesn't work and it just angers people without solving the licensing issue at a core level.

PS: Perhaps grsecurity may want to instead consider a sensible noncommercial license similar to somewhere between AGPL and something like what good ol' evil Oracle would license their DBMS, i.e., companies over X employees or Y revenue need a license; hobbyists, academics and individual developers exempted. Drama resolved.

One risk of using OpenBSD is a lot, but not quite enough, people use it on enough on random hardware and give actionable feedback to make it battle-tested, "Just Work" (TM).

So true.

We would consider OpenBSD if it ran on AWS and stably supported ZFS. (We use FreeBSD with PF and ZFS.)

"NIH syndrome" resulted in signify rather than using normal, proven tools like GPG which Debian-base distros use for package management.

Yup. Business theater is usually stuck in maintaining in-group approval, "industry standards" and historical continuity.

My favorite HR signal which doesn't seem to qualitatively work:

- non-rigorous certifications

The best interview styles are not labeled as such explicitly, whenever possible, because it makes for artificially-awkward pressure, alters expectations and ups the hype and hazing.

There is no debate that a hateful double-standard (lifetime ban) is allowed to stand, the questionnaire can be essentially eliminated right now by more rigorous and comprehensive testing using modern lab processes. If the testing is up to standards, arbitrarily throwing out certain groups is a only shortcut which imposes hate systematically and normalizes it.

It's a form of discrimination equivalent to banning African Americans from donating blood. [0] Because a group "might" engage in risky behavior, it's unfair to assume all members do and are therefore treated differently than other groups.

0: http://www.avert.org/hiv-aids-among-african-americans.htm

The entire blood donation routine lifestyle/behaviors questionnaire of self-reporting is of little value because people can make mistakes or intentionally misrepresent their status. A far better approach is to test all donated blood, all the time for significant communicable, incurable diseases. If it's "too expensive," then newer/cheaper tests need to be developed.

Yeah, I've seen it on the questionnaires. That's just wrong and an obvious form of pervasive hate. I think the determination should be strictly related to risky behaviors like not using condoms or sharing needles.

Also, the testing of the blood should be better (more frequent and comprehensive, esp. HIV and hepatitis families) and not simply arbitrarily throw the few people out that actually take the time to donate blood.

EDIT: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/12...

Yup. It seems better than inhaling smoke particles though.

For people that use weed, vaping is probably safer than inhaling unfiltered joints. http://www.theweedblog.com/smoking-marijuana-vs-vaporizing-m...

What does killing oneself with excesses and risky habits like drugs, alcohol, food, driving too fast, riding a bike/motorcycle without a helmet, etc. have to do with being gay?

PS: I have a gay roommate, so clearly I must be a Republican, believe in God, conspiracies and lynchings. Stereotyping troll fail.

Sadly, I think the only way for most Americans to maintain a healthy lifestyle would require significant, paternalistic education and intervention. One idea others have proposed would be clearly-and-emphatically warn of future denial of certain healthcare expenses and conditions for people that fail to achieve and maintain reasonable goals to curtail high-risk lifestyle choices, i.e., smoking, poor diet. The key is conditions which arise even with good lifestyle habits should have priority over people that don't take care of themselves and expect everyone else to clean up their mess.

(I'd be first in line because I could lose 20 lbs (9 kg).)

Just curious: Will Code staff eventually transition to 1 or N other departments, or are most already maintaining other projects?

"The problem is, if you're not a hacker, you can't tell who the good hackers are." http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html

Relying on coding challenges or automatically-generated code metrics is deceptive because it tests if people can solve coding challenges, not solve real production issues or work on production apps, quickly and/or produce maintainable code. (It's about as useful as asking "why are manhole covers round" frequently asked questions interview trivia questions as proxy signals for intelligence.)

So, unfortunately, finding top coding talent is fundamentally an irreducible problem because it takes a little time & money to examine if someone is a badass coder by other badass/es reviewing some actual work and/or working with them on side-project/s.

This is cool as another resource to get seemingly curated recipes, but there's not really a place comment, sort/filter/search recipes, make changes or see user reviews before viewing an individual recipe.

Usually, I use allrecipes.com and pick only 4.5+ star recipes. It's pretty good overall considering the zillion of recipes available of widely-varying quality, though it requires some filtering to find something near to what you want. The major limitation to allrecipes is it's hard to modify a recipe to make your own variant, which should be effortless as "forking" (pun intended) on github.

I've also looked at recipe APIs-as-service like Yummly, but it's ridiculously expensive for anything other than massive, establish projects, so it's basically unusable. Most shops would be better off scraping from a bunch of AWS small instances for cheaper.

Interesting. It so happens I took provigil (modafinil) more for this reason than for sleep deprivation or to cram in more all-nighters in college. The experience was like caffeine, but without jitters or noticeably increased BP/heart rate. It was more like "hyperawareness" without hyper-vigilance or anything unpleasant. ("Limitless lite.")

I tried adderall for concentration at a standard therapeutic dose, but the jitters and palpitations.

These days, I just use mirtazapine (depression) and flonase (sleep apnea) and occasional caffeine, and all is sweetness and light.

EDIT: If anyone can add peer-reviewed, reasonably-safe, well-studied neuroenhancement lifestyle choices (food, supplements, pharma, etc.) that aren't just spam/gimmicks, that would be interesting.

Perhaps if there were some semantic way for HN to link an article to a previous one, like threading. For example, a text field with previous HN item ID and a type drop-down with "duplicate"# and "follow-up" fields.

# For editors to reduce duplicate posts.

Community archivism FTW (with a dash of leadership, out-of-pocket $, project management and planning).

For ephemeral collaboration, just use an semi-anonymous EtherPad fork like PiratePad.

http://piratepad.net/

Another cool, live EtherPad fork which has existed for a long time (anonymous pads, w/o source): http://piratepad.net/front-page/

Maybe the platform runtime one, but I could be wrong. ;)

Let's face it. What's most important in life/business is social access and maintaining trust/confidence/respect to stay in those relevant circles in order to keep it. IOW, staying in the members' clubs, secret societies, party circuits, etc.

Example: Could Luci have met Larry anywhere other than a Stanford party? Probably not.

Food for though:

raw cost for a below-poverty annual subsidy of $12.5k to all adults in the United States:

209,128,094(&) * 12,500 = 2.6 trillion USD/year

That's equal to about 66% of the 2015 federal budget or 15% of 2015 GDP.

Would that make it affordable or unaffordable?

Notes:

& http://www.infoplease.com/us/census/data/demographic.html

Also: Freecycle and Popcorn Time# (and BitTorrent, both legal and illegal uses).

# "Theft" is part of the economy too, with a purchase price of zero.

I don't think you understand the Paradox of Choice or why people love In-n-Out and 2-tiered pricing plans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice

Also, there are lots of people whom already do things they love. My stepsister is a special ed TA and loves it, but makes peanuts. Would this help her family, absolutely.

With wide-scale deployment, a common issue will be too many people doing all sorts of terrible# crafty work without making something people would actually want to buy like bric-à-brac kitsch shops that wealthy spouses subsidize while having zero foot traffic.

# Terrible because it's far too common for people to make the novice mistake of asking opinion of friends and family whom will say only nice things, and those people to base their perception on those lies.

Disclaimer: I'm stupid broke, live in a van and take a highly-effective antidepressant, so I might have a little authority on this subject. ;)

Depression is terrible (anti-social, self-destructive, painful, etc.) but useful when it's grounded in an existential crisis... it makes people reflect on themselves and think about what else they can do or change.

They're not worries, they're concerns. Also, that resource doesn't list a single successful, large-scale deployment. Finland is considering it. (The US will never, ever have such a fanciful thing because the plutocracy prevents it, even with Bernie 2016.)

And another concern: if people don't earn money themselves, the tendency is to waste, in all regards. This tends to reinforce learned helplessness, even farther away from the brutal reality of life/business/nature.

That's a sweeping generalization which presumes far too much. It depends on the person. Some people enjoy monotonous factory work because it removes the burden of thinking. Other people need a manager because they don't want to, or can't, plan the next logical thing. Others need constant variety or don't like being told what to do.

The other issue is that getting paid for a "meaningful job" which doesn't turn a profit is not going to scale. Millions of people suddenly wouldn't work in fast food, farm fields, industrial tanneries or meat processing plants because they're really shitty/dangerous/disgusting jobs. (But I'm sure some scary/crazy people enjoy them.)

And, when people have infinite choices and opportunities, the Paradox of Choice comes in to play and people become even more dissatisfied. See also: Zillions of wealthy housewives in perpetual existential boredom (depression) filling psychology & psychiatry offices.

The next concern of implementation: extremely common for people whom aren't good with money tend to not budget or buy what they need, and end up in crises of failure-to-plan ahead (economists call them "high MPC"). Some people will need guidance as to what to buy. Others won't.

A related concern is when people whom aren't good with money suddenly receive a pile of it: the sad Anna Nicole Smith syndrome: excesses in all things apart from improving or acquiring basic necessities. It's common in human nature to really screw up, and it literally kills some people. There has to be some programs/assistance which can offer/help locate specific recommendations and get people out of a bind at least once.

Hopefully, it can be implemented in a way which reduces risks of negatives and offers useful, advantageous advice without treating people as children or dipping into their privacy without permission.