skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The consequences are a massive drop in poverty.

http://ourworldindata.org/data/growth-and-distribution-of-pr...

Also a massive drop in inequality, if that's the sort of thing you care about.

http://www.maxroser.com/economic-world-history-in-one-chart/
So, one, that's not what the top comment is saying. Two, there are dozens of other comments that try to help the OP, despite how vague his blog post is on specifics which could actually be used to help him. Based on those missing details and the fact that he has not replied to this thread, is it more likely he was looking for help or simply looking to vent to a large audience?
Hi there - I am the author of the above blog post on Medium. Thanks to @prawn for posting it here on Hacker News. I am happy to hear ant criticism or answer any questions anyone has.
That was in 2002, right?

Yeah it hasn't gone down much since. The absolute cheapest price is a $1,470 annual subscription. A perpetual license will cost you $3,675.

I wish we had competition in that space. Maybe if Maya hadn't have sold out, we'd have something like the current price war between Unity and Unreal, which is great for games and game developers.
The US used to have a more generous welfare and housing program. In the 1950s and 1960s, the US built huge housing projects in big cities. The result was a huge population, mostly black, with nothing to do. Riots, concentrated crime, and several generations of welfare kids resulted.

Background: [1]

[1] https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/better-public-housing-lesso...
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But does she is marginalized and need your protection?

The point is, assuming it's impossible for a women to have power is extremely prejudiced
Thank you. That's an excellent expression of Google's negative value proposition IMO as a social network.

I actually somewhat like G+. But because Google has so much of the rest of my life, I'm:

1. Not willing to participate on G+ as "me" under a real name.

2. I'm going to withdraw as much other content from G+ as possible.
Did it take you three years to make a single dollar though?

This to me was a story of someone who put in so much effort and time but made early mistakes that compounded later. I found it posted on Reddit - the author was wondering if they should shelve the app and try something else, or persist.

(My strong vote would be to drop it and try something else.)
We make more stuff than ever before.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/INDPRO/

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/IPMAN

The rest of the world also makes more stuff than ever before, which just means that we all have more stuff.
FYI, China is still not the largest economy in the world.
Thanks for the tips and the links. Yes, it looks like my original goal was a little too self centric. I do have a ton of other app ideas based on my work with my client base, but I guess I wanted to pick the easiest one first so I could get it off the ground quickly and use it as a test case for the best way to launch and market (and sustain) it.

So far it has been a hard lesson, but the feedback so far from my blog post has been great.
ya, that's a good idea! make things more clear.. (personally i still dont get why heroku charges that much)
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OT: Your personal website is giving me a security risk warning on Firefox (latest stable build).
I'm glad I'm not the only one that uses IPython as a calculator. I might have to revisit trying to get it working in windows 8.
True - I have read in a lot of places that $20/month seems to be the 'magic number' for a sustainable web app. Because this one is so simple, and really has been set up as a test case for future (larger) web apps, I was happy to just get to the stage where I could have a few hundred paying users @ $5/mth. That would easily pay the back end hosting bills and give me some spare cash to experiment with different forms of online marketing.
In addition to what other commenters said, even once the money is given back, this still amounts to a loan without interest. I would call that unprincipled.
well, one doesn't pay for the house itself, one mostly pays for the right to live at that location. Very limited number of good locations and large number of locations where housing is affordable and nobody wants to live - we, the People, make some locations good and others bad.
Grew up on these, my dad had a couple of em around the house. They were so far ahead of even the Performa machines we had at school in so many ways; it really instilled this notion that what you had to work with in terms of raw materials could sometimes take a second seat to ingenuity and drive. Super great system.
I agree that the graph was bad. I also made the rookie mistake of comparing a real value with a non-inflation adjusted value. I've updated the graph so that both datasets are in the same units and described the data with more accuracy/depth. Thank you for pointing this out.

Here is the original (bad) graph for reference: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=1yYi
>The suggestion that they'd be banning the export of Intel processors is dumb.

Why is this a dumb suggestion? The article does not specify, nor does the PR release by china.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2015-08/01/c_134469932...
Yes, free housing and food stamps is not the answer. Basic income is.
In general, the left side of the political spectrum has a much stronger part in politics, and discussion, in Europe, compared to US. Continental Europe even more than UK. (Which can make it more difficult to follow the discussions, as it is mostly in other languages than in English.) Consequently, they also have more influence on the use and definition of words and concept used in political debate.

To get to the the heart of this, you probably would need to find a European leftist to talk with. I am writing this under the assumption that /u/igravious is one. Or, he could just be a bit of a jerk.
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Bank of America has it. They call it Account Management, but AFAIK they charge for using it at least if you're a business account.
Nissan leaf has 24 KWhr pack, so a 5 KW solar system getting 5 hours of sun could charge it.

However, the cost of having 2 full batteries (ie panel - powerwall - car battery) would be massive in today's world, where batteries are already a huge cost.
There has been steady progress in our ability to offshore work traditionally constrained to localized locations. Chickens being shipped to china for butchering and then shipped back to the states for sale being an example of a job not historically offshore-able. FD3SA has a point. There are multiple factors involved in changes to labor supply and demand.
Should a security conscious user not be using any extensions?
Unfair--there aren't nearly that many princelings.

It's more like 5 million of China's elite are engaged in a mass theft from 1 billion other Chinese, and after expropriating as much wealth as possible and destroying as much of the environment as possible they want a nice hideout so that when the revolution comes they're not the first up against the wall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)

Right behind the European Union.
Something I'm finding handy, at least for one specific purpose, is emacs org mode. I have a big file, papers.org. It looks like this:

* Computer science :computer_science:
** [[~/org/papers/Category_Theory_Applied_to_Functional_Programming__cain-screen.pdf][Category Theory Applied to Functional Programming]]
:PROPERTIES:
:original-source: http://www1.eafit.edu.co/asr/pubs/cain-screen.pdf
:END:
** [[file:papers/bitcoin.pdf][Bitcoin]] :bitcoin:
Original paper.

All the papers go into ~/org/papers/. I find stuff with text search and tags.

This, combined with org mode task management, is actually making me pretty good at queueing and reading new papers.
My first Apple was a IIgs. We ran a bulletin board system (BBS) on a 2400 bps modem hooked up to a second phone line in the basement. The hard drive was 20 MB and was seriously the size of a large shoebox.

Good times on that machine.
If you were reluctant to drop it immediately, some things you could try:

- no free trial or monthly option, but $40 one-off
- market more heavily that it's a tax write-off
- $5/mo base plan, $7/mo unlimited cars (makes $7 seem like a better deal)
- run it past motoring associations or small business groups
- offer free accounts to business owners if they promote it to employees
If your organization does periodic engineering meetings or demos of cool things, you might show off that one feature that you feel is killer. You'll be able to field questions and hopefully demonstrate how it would be useful and awesome.
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Are you serious? Even if we stipulate that Java is as big or bigger (I don't think anyone would say Java is more complex), what other mainstream language is as large or as complex as C++?
> As of June 2015 the median sales price is $281,800

As a Canadian, I'd love to have that problem, our average is $453,560.

http://crea.ca/content/national-average-price-map
Did you mean inequality?
I completely agree, but I see automation as a catalyst that has allowed wealth concentration to proceed at an unprecedented rate which would otherwise be impossible.

Policy is by far the greatest factor, but it doesn't help that businesses no longer need as many employees to get things done. Compare profits per employee at new companies like Airbnb to old companies like Hilton. They are off by orders of magnitude due to automation.
You do realize you can't buy food or housing with "stuff" that is cheaper or more advanced than it was 10-20 years ago, right?
I apologize if I sound overly negative, but I have expended significant time and energy exploring this idea maze (http://cdixon.org/2013/08/04/the-idea-maze/), only to hit one dead end after another. I left for greener pastures (software), but I wish you and the rest of the YC biotech founders the best of luck.
Just wait until minimum wage reaches the $15 per hour utopia. That huge sucking sound you'll hear are more jobs leaving the country.

The cynic in me thinks some politicians actually want more disparity, poverty and suffering. Why? Because those are the people who vote for them and keep them in office.

The only people who are nearly always OK despite wars, recessions, poverty and national disasters are the political class. They exist in virtual isolation from reality.

It's a really sick feedback loop: In order to stay in power you need people who are UNHAPPY with their lives, not happy. The unhappy masses will vote for whoever promises to improve their standing. Their "champion", if you will. Therefore, as a politician, you talk about doing things for them and after elections you drop them on their heads, pretend to do a few things when, in reality, you didn't make it better for anyone except yourself.

There are great examples of this in South American politics. They've been suffering from this problem for decades on end. This is like a virus that is hard to eradicate. Why? Because it is hard to make the masses vote for anyone but the person who tells them they are going to solve their problems and give them things. In other words, people don't make logical long-term decisions and continue in an endless loop despite the fact that things never get better for them.

I mean, pick a country and look at their "war on poverty". Not just the US. Everyone has a version of this. And the poor never get richer. It's pure pandering and manipulation. It's sick, really.
> China (still the second largest economy in the world by a large margin, btw)

What is the largest?
This definitely caught my eye. Email sent!
The worst of both worlds:
(1) If you rarely use the gas engine, you are wasting electrical power hauling around a gas engine and gas tank
(2) If you often use the gas engine, you are wasting gas hauling around extra-large batteries.
We should be figuring out how stop delegating to end users

Here's a fair proposal to do the opposite: At collection points throughout a city's inner suburbs have bins equipped with cheap image sensors scan a QR code on the packaging - each code containing information to identify the type of packaging as well as provide a unique code for each item so it can't be scanned multiple times. Depending on the type of packaging, a certain lid on the bin (among several) will open so that sorting is automatic, and a refund for the packaging can be either donated to a chosen charity or aggregated until a certain dollar value is accrued from future recycling deposits and paid in bulk on the spot.

Biggest limitations: getting a country to alter its packaging requirements to include an advanced bar-code system and a schema that is internationally recognized (ISO certified). The hardware side of things would be trivial, and when concentrated in the inner city you have fewer bins capturing a greater number of people's waste.

Maybe I'm overthinking it - with machine learning the bin could determine the type of bottle/can/container, open the appropriate lid, and watch as the item is surely and safely deposited. A mid-tier smart phone could do this - use similar parts including modem to connect to a server to log a credit for the user/donate to charity. Perhaps an international packaging code schema isn't required.
To this day I have not found a good way to distribute compiled JNI binaries. You can either consider them completely separate from your Java code and package them separately, or you can put them into your JAR and then do some horrible hacks of unpacking the JAR at runtime, detecting the architecture and loading the library from the temporary directory. This is really something that should be built into the standard package formats/tools.
That's a tricky question. Some extension (e.g., HTTPS Everywhere[1])
can improve your privacy on the Web and are arguably written by
developers that as trustworthy as your browser developers. But, in
general, I would be cautious.

[1] https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

The EU if you count it as a country, otherwise the USA.
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Just to clarify, I didn't say that I couldn't think of examples of specific people with power/privilege, I said that I couldn't think of examples of public spaces similar to GitHub where current power structures are inverted.

I'm not assuming that it's impossible for women to have power. I am listening to women who say that they feel unsafe when contributing to open source because of the power imbalance that exists (which this CoC seeks to help rectify).
Why would the country that currently holds the world record on computing speed need "tech credibility?"
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This is silly. They are not acting in their own best interests by doing this. The only thing this does is open up the opportunity for someone else to step in. It's not like they are leading in either drone or supercomputer technology.

It would make sense if they were so ahead of the curve that everyone was clamoring to get the stuff and in which case the restrictions on the top end stuff would make sense but as it is I don't think they're in that kind of position. Manufacturing wise they might be but not in terms of R&D.
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> The code of conduct seems to agree with the stance that all gender is self-perceived.

A man who thinks he's a woman…is still a man; a woman who thinks she's a man…is still a woman. One's gender is a fact of nature; it's an issue of objective reality, not of subjective experience.

Why, just a bit ago there was an article here on HN noting that teenagers suffering from gender dysphoria have hormone levels appropriate to their actual, not perceived, sexes.

> The idea can easily be reduced to: respect people enough to address them the way they want to be addressed.

Oh sure, I'll address anyone as he wishes to be addressed. But the English, German and French first-person pronouns are all ungendered, and it's simply wrong to talk about someone with the incorrect pronouns.

I'd probably address the man who thinks he's Napoleon 'your Imperial and Royal Majesty,' in order to avoid causing further mental distress, but when speaking to others about him I'd refer simply use 'him.' Words mean things, and if one's neither Charles Marie Jérôme Victor Napoléon nor Jean Christophe Louis Ferdinand Albéric Napoléon, one doesn't fulfil the requirements of the title of the Bonapartist emperor.

I suppose one could argue that since online communication tends to be public, and thus the subject of a conversation could happen upon it, it's better to avoid further disturbing someone by continuing to humour him even in the third person, but it seems pretty extreme to require that.
Intel, though globally important, are not the only game in town.

This article suggests that there are numerous Chinese companies trying to make the grade: "Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC), Shanghai Huali Microelectronics (HLMC), Shanghai HuaHong NEC Electronics Company (HHNEC), Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing and Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (ASMC)"

http://qz.com/72542/china-just-surpassed-the-us-in-semicondu...

> "McKinsey’s proprietary research indicates that more than 50 percent of PCs, and between 30 and 40 percent of embedded systems (commonly found in automotive, commercial, consumer, industrial, and medical applications), contain content designed in China,"

http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/high_tech_telecoms_internet...

> "Compared to 2008, consumption of semiconductor materials in North America is down $250 million to $4.74 billion, while in China consumption has shot up 42% to $5.07 billion."
I don't think anyone here is arguing that no one has a need for more power, but all of what you are describing is a niche use-case. We seeming to be passed the time where we need more power for the general use case.
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> And my guess is: the local newspapers are a worse political target than evil large western company they can blame all their ills on :)

I don't think that's the reason:

> In 1995 the European Union adopted the European Data Protection Directive (Directive 95/46EC) to regulate the processing of personal data.[9] This is now considered a component of human rights law.[10] The new European Proposal for General Data Protection Regulation provides protection and exemption for companies listed as “media” companies, like newspapers and other journalistic work. However, Google purposely opted out of being classified as a “media” company and so is not protected. Judges in the European Union ruled that because the international corporation, Google, is a collector and processor of data it should be classified as a “data controller” under the meaning of the EU data protection directive. These “data controllers” are required under EU law to remove data that is “inadequate, irrelevant, or no longer relevant, ” - making this directive of global importance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
He is definitely not serious - the reason they sell the car at 32k is that is the best price to get the required sales. If people don't buy at that price, they'll have to go even lower, and lose more money.
I believe Mint does not use Yodlee, while most other sites that offer similar functionality do.
Would you hire some one, with just online courses (MOOC) experience?
would you guys be open to having interns?
Food production is up, and our waistlines indicate consumption is as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_security#/media/File:Food...

House sizes have also been increasing, even as # of people living in a house has been dropping.

https://www.census.gov/const/C25Ann/sftotalmedavgsqft.pdf

We simply have more of everything.
that graph's axes can make that graph extremely misleading.

Isn't the reasoning backwards though? An employment ratio of 50% means more people are looking for work than if the employment ratio is at 60%, right?

I mean if the employment ratio is 100% surely the labor market would be tight right?
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Great ideas! We did sneak in an option for a 'one off' payment in amongst the monthly subscriptions, but it may be too confusing for people to understand. Perhaps we will look at dropping subscription and just going one off?

The other ideas are intriguing. Never thought about making the unlimited plan closer in price to the base plan as a mental exercise in perceived value. May try that before going free etc.

I have posted about the web app in a couple of small business forums - really just trying to identify and pick away at the niches, but I may approach wider industry/automobile groups as well to see.

In all our targeted advertising (FB. Twitter etc.) I have always narrowed down the focus to small business, freelancers, solo entrepreneurs etc. in the hope of hitting our target market. Perhaps I have been TOO narrow though?!? There could be a target market that I have missed altogether?
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