skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your intriguing missive would be better served by not slandering your opponents. By which I mean, why say "fake" left without explaining what the left position is and what is fake about it. It's as if you expect us to be privy to some evolving thought process or conversation and that expectation is a little troublesome for me.

But apart from that. Of course you come across as a little, (um, how do I put this delicately?) ... half-baked. Sorry! It's true. Like that old joke, you read 1984 as an instruction manual, not a warning? But seriously, surveillance is freedom. Like I say, intriguing. I've often wondered about the behaviour modifying properties of believing in an omniscient creator. I think you're pointing to something similar, except humans themselves are the ever-watching eyes and ears. I actually think you could be correct to some extent, the knowledge that someone is observing you does affect ones behaviour -- cf: chilling effect.

Taking you at face value: counter-argument. 1) Adults are not dependent on the government in the way you describe. In modern society we are all dependent on each other. 2) Who watches the watchers becomes a very real problem and not one that has been solved. 3) We know empirically that total surveillance states don't last very long. Have we got it right this time? Let's see. If we have then human society has been changed utterly and political theorists will have a lot of work to do. 4) Lots of people (from the left and right) don't want to live in that kind of society, no matter the benefits. 5) I'm not convinced the good you put forward outweighs the obvious dangers, you'd have to present a much more coherent argument than the one you are presenting.

I know you'll be shot down here but I find the intellectual challenge of responding to your position rewarding, so thanks for that.

edit: thought of a sixth. 6) maybe some behaviours you want (like being able to speak out against injustices and corruption and so on) will be suppressed as well as the "bad" beahviours you want rid of.
That was such a ridiculous load of nonsense that I'll go ahead and have some fun with it.

> Complaining about the existence of a power structure and the extortion of the common man is akin to complaining about entropy

Complaining about someone beating you with a baseball bat is akin to complaining about entropy. Shit just happens, so you need to learn to accept it.

> It is possible that life would have been better off without them

It's possible that your life would be better without getting beaten with a bat, but "we" just have to choose the best incarnation of getting assaulted.

> Most western democracies are perceived as legitimate and surprisingly often have your interests at heart

Most assaulters are perceived as legitimate and often have your best interests at heart. That's why they assault you. Duh?

> Anarcho-libertarianism or whatever it is you people want to call it is not a stable (lack of) form of governance

Look, not getting beaten with a bat is not a stable form of getting beaten with a bat. Just let the idea of not being assaulted die.

I rest my case.
I was very excited for Siri-Apple Music integration but I switched back recently. Queries like these didn't work:

* Play top songs from 2010
* Play some indie rock music
* Play Rihanna's most popular song
* Play this month's top songs

Aside poor voice recognition, even after it got the input right, outcome was terrible.
The code of conduct seems to agree with the stance that all gender is self-perceived. The idea can easily be reduced to: respect people enough to address them the way they want to be addressed.
What really worries me about the terribly slow income growth is its inevitable effect on the housing market. There is a huge disparity between median income growth and median house prices.

Check out this FRED graph comparing median income growth and new housing price growth: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=1yY7
We see that median income growth is flat at 1.8% while price growth of new housing has picked up dramatically from 1.3% in 2011 to 9.9% YoY growth in 2013.

In nominal terms median income has grown $6,000 over the past decade while the price of a new house has jumped up by approximately $70,000. In real terms (adjusted for inflation) real median income has dropped -$4,000 while new house prices have increased by $2,000. [1] I'll leave the calculation of the 10-year % change of real median values as an exercise for the reader.

As a recent grad with a decent job, there is still no way in hell I'm going to be able to afford a mortgage on any decent, middle-class house in a semi-urban area for a very, very long time, unless I want to move to Detroit or a similarly bankrupt/developing part of the US. I'm also speaking from a debt-free perspective: if I had come out of school with $100k+ in student loans, forget about it.

The only kind of jobs that are going to pay for good houses in the future are banking/tech/fortune 500, which have median salaries of ~60k right out of school and a well-compensated track to climb. These jobs are becoming increasingly scarce and hard to obtain, especially with competition from out of country talent.

I wouldn't be surprised at all to see my generation (I'm 22) having an extremely low & delayed demand for purchasing housing, and to eventually see what is happening in Detroit (houses abandoned, rotting away [2]) happen on a smaller scale across the country where there is too much housing supply for too little demand.

And no, prices will not equalize to accommodate lower salaries because real estate always appreciates in the long run...right? The Chinese, Canadians, Mexicans, Indians, and British seem to think so: foreign investments in US real estate totaled $108bn over the past year, or 8% of total existing home-sales dollar volume. Unsurprisingly, they are "spending more money on fewer homes," aka they are driving real estate bubbles in major cities such as NYC and SF. [3]

So we'll see a bunch of late 20, early 30 something's living together, splitting the rent in what would have once been a 4-6 person family house in order to make ends meet/be close to work. Maybe they'll even drive for Uber on the weekends. Welcome to the sharing economy.

[1] The median sales price of a new house in June 2005 was $226,100, which would be $279,000 in 2015 dollars. As of June 2015 the median sales price is $281,800. I used this inflation calculator because FRED didn't have an inflation-adjusted real median sales price graph: http://www.saving.org/inflation/inflation.php?amount=226,100...

[2] http://www.motherjones.com/photoessays/2010/10/detroit-house...

[3] http://realtormag.realtor.org/daily-news/2015/06/18/foreign-...
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Harvard School of Economics kindly requests that you blame it on robots rather than trade pacts made by their friends.
Well as is mentioned elsewhere, being a successful Kickstarter campaign is amazing P.R. You can take that kind of hype to VCs and get some very real Series A from that if the proposed product is good.

So what could be happening here is that a big company was the target audience all along. Raise a bunch of money with a "disruptive" piece of hardware, garner hype, get some venture money, return the Kickstarter cash.

That seems totally plausible to me. To the VCs these guys look like semi-sure bets to get gobbled by MS or Sony or Netflix or, hell, anyone looking to enter this space.
>Personally I'd be fine with transcoding videos on the fly from another machine to remove the DRM

That would probably be either illegal or against the ToS of the streaming service they were trying to add.
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I lived in NYC for well over a decade and I never knew this existed! This is so cool. I wonder why it was limited to Roosevelt Island, the system is so futuristic and clean. Maybe it costs a ton of money? It seems like it should save money in sanitation staff over the long run assuming it's not too hard to interconnect and keep the pressure up for new buildings.
I'm sorry if things aren't working well for you. The Python community already did pick a standard, which is PyPI, pip and wheels. All this is covered in PEPs. Unfortunately, the creators of Conda present their own tool to compete with the standard with a complete fork of all of Python's packaging, right down to virtualenv, which really only works for the packages that they wanted to support. That isn't the fault of the broader Python community. There is nothing anyone else can do to prevent that.
I think app is just a trendy word for application (or computer program) possibly with the implication that it has a user interface.

So application are old apps and apps are new applications.
A couple of problems I see:

1) $5/month is not sustainable for a company. $15/month is better (which I see you tried later on).
2) You really shouldn't have gotten rid of a 25 year old consulting company. That was a really bad idea

You should have used your clients to figure out a product that they need and used them as your first beta users.

Most products aren't an instant success. It took me 3 years before I started seeing some sort of profit with my current company. It took another year before I was able to quit all of my consulting gigs.
1. Global surveillance is not a left/right thing. No matter what you believe in or where you stand on issues, global surveillance can be used to force you to do things you do not want to do - without regard to any moral, ethical or legal considerations.

2. The article pretty much proves you wrong on the moral scope thing.

> Surveillance is seen in fact a tool of freedom, it is the light shone upon.

War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.

> If large groups of individuals were capable of governing themselves in an ad-hoc fashion then...the internet, reddit, all of these places would be domains of inclusion, tolerance, peace, and respect.

Many parts of the Internet are domains of inclusion, tolerance, peace, and respect. Reddit, Twitter and 4CHAN are designed to be what they are. They're not the only models of how things work, they're just the largest centralized platforms that draw the most attention.
There's still the issue of using our most precious resource up the way we do everything else. It could be done with desalination plants like they already use in California. There's also research into doing it more efficiently:

http://phys.org/news/2013-06-sea-ocean-hydrogen-fuel.html

So, dealing with the fuel source using ocean is a possibility. (light bulb) Might even be a solution to rising oceans as arctic caps melt. Now there's some original thinking on the topic haha. Probably wouldn't work in reality but might make a good movie scenario.
The KS Terms are a little more nuanced. The 'refund' stipulation, for example, only says that they must refund any 'remaining' money, not that they must provide a full refund. And there are several criteria that a project creator has to meet, in the absence of completion, to meet their obligations.

The effect is that KS can be used for projects that may fail. And quite right too, since that was its original aim (before it got saturated with companies using it as pre-sales / marketing / investment credentials / etc.
TMSU (http://tmsu.org/) and git-annex (https://git-annex.branchable.com/) also allow for different tag-based filing methods. OS X has had native file tagging for at least a version or two now as well, though it's less helpful with many tags.
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OK, what about:

$ goapp deploy

Go is a statically compiled language
Customer uses Windows, so...
They hit the manufacturers because they're a large target.

An awful lot of people in or close to poverty still can't do without a car, and this will hit them the hardest. Even for people who make a modest living, an inordinate number of them drive something for their job.

55 MPG is an arbitrary and modestly ridiculous target that soon. A Prius stickers @ 51 MPG. And or course, SUVs and pickups are exempt.

At a loss of $15k per car, I'd have to seriously consider abandoning the California market were I Marchionne.

CARB are not ... nice people.
"High risk tolerance is built into the local DNA. This area is populated by decedents of those who migrated here during the Gold Rush."

The California gold rush ended 1855 (reading Wikipedia) but the technological growth in Silicon Valley hasn't started until at least the 1950s. There's three generations difference. Can one really claim risk tolerance is higher in the area? Or money more abundant? Or easier to create a business because of the gold rush?
That is effectively the I2P process.
This stuff is so interesting. D.J. Bernstein is certainly prolific! It's cool how processor-specific that cache-based attack is. It's weird, I have a compilers background but (evidently) I've never even thought about timing attacks. There isn't a lot of overlap between the PL and crypto communities I guess. I know we used to use asm volatile with gcc but apparently that isn't even a guaranteed scheduling barrier anymore.

Anyway, my curiosity is satisfied for now, but thanks again for sharing, and keep posting about this stuff.
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An additional benefit of Conda is that building or installing packages that require a C/Fortran compiler can be done without using sudo. This is really nice when you're working on a cluster or other shared computer resources, and don't want to have to bother the sysadmin.
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This may be outdated, and Google might have improved the process, but the problem I found is that trying to report the extension didn't seem to have any effect.

I had an experience awhile ago where I found a Chrome extension that was inserting its own ads among Google search results. It was subtle enough that most people probably would never notice it happening, inserting an ad in a place where you would expect Google display an ad in results.
If anyone who feels unsafe if they can't exclude some group is able to make a private repository, today, and you can't even picture what discrimination looks like on Github other than that... then what specific problem is it that we're actually solving here with this CoC? Sounds like an incredibly safe space for everyone already.
> Thus, they struggled to build DRM into the product, although DRM had nothing to do with the product they promised their backers, and everything to do with their other business dealings and plans.

You do realize that most HDMI chips require you to sign that you will adhere to HDCP?
The ironic thing is that the insane price of housing was partly a direct policy decision, supposedly intended to make you feel wealthier so that you would spend more and stimulate the economy.

The Fed calls it the 'wealth effect'. In private it was known as "foaming the runway" (making sure to spread out the foreclosures post-2008, so as not to bankrupt any major banks).

To this day they're still scratching their head about why QE might be causing people to spend less on consumables (saving for an apartment, perhaps? paying rent?).
About time.
Many of these movie studios sell their own movies through the Google Play store. Maybe as a first step, they could stop supporting the company that they hate so much?
The turnaround for 6.0.3 was quite a bit better than 6.0.2.
Why does it have to be either/or?
On the one hand there isn't any arguing with the numbers, but the if the foreclosure crisis has shown us anything, it is that house prices don't "only" go up. When there is no one to buy them, or people who are living in them can't afford them any more, the price goes down. Sometimes significantly.

So it is impossible for house prices to rise so high that "nobody" can afford them, although the job categories that can afford them might change.

The question I ask is, what is the next transition? Do programmers buy all the future houses?
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I have often seen it touted that OS X is "real Unix." To me, that would imply the easy availability of working compilers and compile environments. Is that not true?
I took that more as a subversive act, rather than as a joke.
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Just ... just, stop. Please. There is absolutely no way that armchair analysis of gender stereotypes in an industry is going to be an insightful discussion, because it's a discussion that really shouldn't even be happening.

You know what I never hear when I go climbing? "Wow, those girls don't look like climbers." I'm helping on the periphery of a project right now to open a small co-op bouldering gym in my town, there's a "core" group of people making it happen, we got together to figure out the building layout and wall design, and half the people there were women. The person negotiating the lease for the commercial space is a woman. Not once have I overheard even a single mention of gender there.

You know what I never hear when I play Ultimate? "Wow, she runs fast for a girl." Again, nobody cares. People show up, they play, they hang out together, they go home.

One of the strongest people doing go (weiqi / badul) lessons online right now is a woman, Haylee. Not a single, "oh, she doesn't look like a go player". Instead, nothing but piles and piles of enthusiasm for every one of her videos. She's becoming a niche celebrity.

The outlier is the software industry. It's full of people that feel they have some kind of special insight into the anthropological origins of gender relations in a technical context, or some such bullshit. This entire thing should be a non-issue. I can't believe an ad for some company is getting this much attention just because one of the ads featured a young woman. It's stupid.

Damn I wish tech would just get over itself and start treating eachother like fellow people.
That first graph is a terrible graph. Median income doesn't start at zero. That they overlap suggests a connection. What is it? I get that the less you earn the less you'll be able to afford (housing-wise). But I doubt that the relation is linear, especially as the purchase is "lumpy".

Other than that I agree with you. The trends aren't encouraging, certainly not.
Yet another measure of pay, compiled by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, shows wages are accelerating. Hourly pay for a typical employee rose 3.2 percent in June from 12 months earlier, according to the Atlanta Fed.

Wow, this is what passes for journalism? Write an article about slow wage grow (notably only this last quarter, it grew the quarters before that). Then, finish up the article with another wage growth metric that is actually looking pretty good.

Ugh.....
China trying to get tech credibility by restricting exports of supercomputers made using Intel chips? Hilarious.
Being "apolitical" is a political stance in itself. By definition, you can't make meaningful changes without giving someone "special treatment".
The bubble exists because people with wealth have no other decent option to put their wealth for growth. So the slot machine of social-tech startups it is, pulling for that unicorn.

I personally believe that this will keep this startup bubble going longer that it "naturally would", though it will pass through different phases of what's popular to fund. Where else are the wealthy going to invest if they get soured on social-tech funding? Something else will have to rise up first.
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I really appreciate the thorough, cited reply! There isn't enough of this deep dialogue on the 'net, much less on HN. Upvoted, for that alone. :)

All of your concerns are rational considerations: integrated costs of materials, existing demand for electric/plug-in hybrid vehicles (though I think you'll see there's been growing uptake since your 2011 source!), sources of power on the grid skewing towards fossil fuels...

The ultimate question (one that you and I may ultimately all on different sides of), is whether or not things will always be this way. Also informing this is where things are going to. I don't have my sources available for proper citation (happy to share them later if you are interested), but share of forecasted new power generation is dominated by solar. Graduated regulations are integrating the cost of externalities for sources like coal and other polluters that make them look less like the sure bet they were in the past. The battery density, range, and charging capabilities of electric cars are improving dramatically under concentrated R&D. Tesla's entire company objective is to bring their technology down to consumer-level with the Model 3 in 2 years time. These developments and more signal to me that we are moving to a much more friendly ecosystem for the technologies that could push gasoline cars to the sidelines in very short time.

In this dynamically changing market, some companies (Fiat included, likely) will find themselves lagging due to a combination of internal organizational conflict or maybe just failing to "read the tea leaves" correctly. Witness GM and Chrysler going under when Ford stayed afloat in the 2008 crisis... Sometimes companies get it wrong and fail to innovate, and regulation like California is pushing is designed to incentivize the right kind of decision making out of even those who drag their feet.

Thanks for being willing to have this discourse with me!
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this a really saturated market. Have you actually validated the need by talking to real/active realtors ?