I can absolutely relate on the small talent pool problem. I'm part of a startup located in a college town. The university is pretty good, and has some pretty good Computer Science/Computer Engineering classes, but most of the students are not going to be great employees from the start.

It seems there is a whole trend of universities trying to get their students to be great interviewees so that they can work for the Googles and Facebooks of today. The kids will know the theory of the fundamentals(complexity, general OOP design, information theory), but will lack any skill to work on real projects.

Whenever I interview a potential employee that's still a student I notice the trend of students not really being ready to work, but rather the students being ready to go through more training at a company. It's like the 4 years of university are barely enough to get them to write a hello world in Java or a merge sort in Python from memory and fake their way through pseudo code of a Red-Black Tree, and then some big name company will pick them up and finish their training while having them work on a fancy button or keyboard shortcut on a page.

But I'm a weirdo...

Like that's going to stop a real American haha

I imagine reitirng for a regional governor might be hard, leaving the country would be even harder. But it's just a dog eat dog world out there, and the less fortunate are going to have to pick up the pieces of a bursted bubble.

The general assumption here is that the people receiving basic income do not become lazy good-for-nothing people who refuse to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

From what I understand, a basic income is supposed to try and soften the harshness of a global economy where there are fewer jobs as more and more jobs are being automated away.

For example, when a factory worker gets laid off, the worker has to apply for unemployment and then wait to receive checks. With basic income the factory worker has been receiving money already so the worker doesn't have to deal with a beurecratic organization like an (un)employment office. The worker will have enough money to survive, and it will be a net preventing the worker from falling into a vicious cycle of homelessnes and so on.

A person that has had a well paying job will not really care for a measly $500 or so a month, and they would probably just spend it on entertainment or some other services anyway, which is good for the economy.

Back of the envelope calculations: The richer person will have an additional $6,000 a year, which(assuming they make $60,000 a year already) is an increase of 10%, which is not that big. A factory worker who makes $20,000 will have the extra $6,000 a year which mill be a 30% increase in what they make. That will definitely easy the burden off of the factory worker, and if the worker loses a job, he still has at least $6,000 a year to survive off of.

I imagine replacing expensive and inefficient food stamp projects with a simpler government -> persons bank account deposit would end up saving a lot of money, too.

EDIT: sorry if anyone got 20 notifications for this. I kept getting a 502 error and after I finally managed a successful post I saw 8 or so posts from me. Sorry!

Seems like they misunderstood Slack itself. Sure it's expensive, but it comes with all of the integrations and capabilities that gitchat doesn't have.

I use slack at work and we have about 9 people on it, it's great for that, and it's not as expensive. I use the free tier for a private group between me and my wife, and it works great then too. And since it's so easy to work with, I have a hubot that the wife and I use to plan things out, set reminders, talk during the day, and to share funny pictures.

Why won't they just use a self-hosted IRC server if they are concerned about cost? A $50/mo VPS with some configuration would handle a lot of students pretty easily.

Haha, that is definietly something I've done before. I had a smaller list of aliases that would make it easier for me.

There is one universe where there were at least wo people writing in it. It was hard to keep track of it sometimes, especially since the only way to track posts is by a users submitted list.

Ha, I've already been getting job offers and requests for interviews from local companies, and my linkedin is blowing up with big company recruiters messaging me.

Honestly it makes me feel a little good about myself, especially since I know that with all this interest in me the wife and I won't go hungry. As of right now the only person that is worried about the startup failing is the CEO, since he is a business/finance guy, and there is a smaller demand for that.

Makes me wonder how many startup founders that are business people get laid off after a startup gets acqui-hired for the tech talent.

Can't wait for the API!

Thank you!

Haha, I can't believe you responded to this ancient post. You have a good memory.

Hi,

Not to come off as an asshole, but the 2013 Mac Air actually has an SSD. What's even more cool is that the SSDs used in the Mac Airs use a PCIe slot. Most SSDs now are still connected over SATA which is what almost all HDDs are connected too.

I am really excited that Apple went ahead and included a PCIe SSD card. Hopefully the rest of the industry will follow and we will all have smaller laptops pretty soon! PCIe slot SSDs are already used for very high performance tasks. For example this is using a PCIe slot and it's incredibly fast.

Maybe you should have a "contributions" page where you can post simple tasks others can do for you.

Say you want to change a minor functionality, but don't have the time for it, have some person pick up that project, and then return that to you.

It would probably hard without open-sourcing the project though, and could be too much of a pain to set up.

Also don't forget to salt the hashes. A salted hash is a happy hash ^_^

Thing is, it really is convenient.

If you do not want to set that up, you can always have a password like ThisIsAPassword-Hubski for hubski, or ThisIsAPassword-Facebook, it is slightly safer, makes the password stronger, and it actually helps discover where a leak of passwords came from, as usually someone will dump the passwords on pastebin without a source, and passwords like that will help identify it.

It is slightly more secure than using the exact same password everywhere, as when one site is compromised, the password can be put in a wordlist for brute forcing or hash cracking.

So instead of using ThisIsAPassword for every site, you have a slight variation but it is still extremely convenient to remember it.

I remember reading an article about this topic before. The main point of that article was that cheap material and labor from abroad is destroying the competitiveness of local business.

It was at the time when, in high school, it was popular for everyone to go to Africa or Central America and build houses for local residents. I tried to raise awareness about the fact that their unskilled housebuilding at no cost to the natives is hurting their economy. No one really listened to me, and I later understood that people went there for a vacation, meaning 20 kids and 10 grown-ups work 4 hours per day and spend the rest of the time drinking and taking pictures with small kids for facebook pictures to show how virtuous they are.

Wouldn't that be the Department of Justice in the US? Although now the DOJ seems to look after the music industry and so on, other than the interests of people, the NAACP seems to worry about Justice more.

Now just to make sure that people read the FAQ instead of posting the same questions. I guess other hubskies(or what is the official term for a hubski user? :D) would point them to it.

How so?

Oh, I googled it, but did not think of using search. Well hopefully it will be soon :)

All in convenient csv or similar to make pretty graphs and stuff. R(the language) nut here who loves making plots of random things.