skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* Just within the last 50 years, we've made a ton of progress on this "impossible problem". By any reasonable measure, global poverty has been cut by at least half. Keep in mind that both China and India each still have larger populations than the entire continent of Africa, and that the median Chinese and the median Indian were not in significantly better shape than the median African 50 years ago. Furthermore, some African leaders, most notably Rwanda's Paul Kagame, are now achieving some success at adapting Asian development patterns to their own conditions.

* Taiwan and South Korea did not need draconian one child policies, or any other form of population control, to become prosperous. And they've gotten much further than China. Of all the lessons you could draw from East Asia's rise, "copy the one child policy" is close to the most nonsensical. I won't deny the obvious fact that you can't sustainably have each generation be 5 times larger than the previous one, but we have tons of data points indicating that women's education, and other things you'd want to do anyway to facilitate economic development, happen to solve the "unsustainable fertility rate" problem as a side effect, and the causal mechanisms are fairly well understood (when women are permitted to do other things with their lives than serve as full-time brood mares, most of them take advantage of the additional options...).
When I had a startup, I put a "We own your brain" clause in the employment agreement. However, I also called it to the attention of everybody I hired, and encouraged them to carve out any exception they wanted. Every hire except a couple of pure secretary/office manager types had a carve-out.

That said, I suspect that that's not a common way of doing things. About 30 years ago, I came up with it for a friend who was joining McKinsey, but had published a book based on her PhD thesis. They claimed to have never gotten that request before. But they also didn't object to granting it.
I'm sorry, but while I can believe that they may have some hard choices to make (moving somewhere else, accepting a pay cut, having to go back to school, taking out debt), it doesn't excuse the damage they're doing to society. People like the ones you're describing do have options, they may just not be ones they like as much.
I'm pretty sure this was part of a pre-9/11 national security process change made around the time of the 1991 Gulf War.
The aesthetics is what is making this thing possible. Thinking with the old words would not allow development of new things.

I don't know if this is good or bad, but it is sincerely trying to do new things, so a new language is appropriate.
Hah, That's a shame.

I had the same happen when I asked it to play Bulerias. Which it kept understanding as some common variation of that word, Blue rays, etc..

As soon as I provided context and said flamenco bulerias that fixed it though.
For those who is new to Chatops word, here is pretty energetic 20min talk about ChatOps benefits from real experience in GitHub.

"ChatOps: Technology and Philosophy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhzxnY7FIvg1
This is just a summary of the original article at The Intercept, which was posted earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10279853
That's awesome -- and thank you for the clarification. I'm primarily a user of the webapp, although I have the CLI application on a server (hence not using mobile stuff, multiple machines, etc).

I'm a big fan of your product, and recommend it broadly -- great work so far!
It is unfortunate that Apple does not allow us to bring all of Chromium--our full rendering stack (Blink, etc.)--to iOS. If they did, we could build a much better browser for iOS. Instead, we are forced to use their provided WebView, and that means living with its limitations and bugs.
Right, Proactive, like you said, brings in so much revenue ($850M a year in 2010) and the profit margins are so high (most of their products are insanely cheap to produce (I've heard estimates of $1.20 for a month's supply that they sell for $30) that they could survive even on a high rate high risk interchange fee.
Yeah, but isn't the whole point of the secure enclave on the iPhone so that the decryption has to be done on device?
Privacy issues aside - after all, these programmes have scant interest in the average citizen - these look like fascinating projects to work on from a technical point of view, compared to most software development jobs. And it's surely a more ethical pursuit than, say, writing control software for missile targeting systems.
The way that these business's get past those regulations is pretty easy actually. They have multiple (and when I say multiple, i mean hundreds if not thousands) of payment 'accounts' (I think they are called pids) so if one of them gets killed it does not effect the entire business.

The other sneaky thing I heard some were starting to do was to determine if a card is a credit or debit card- You cant chargeback on a debit card so they treat those users worse.

The one thing I dont understand is the making it difficult for people to cancel via phone. Chargebacks cost money, so almost all of these guys give 100% refunds to anyone who calls. Not doing that seems stupid.

Its similar to back in the ringtone days how the providers would have hundreds of short codes, so that when some of them blew up, it wouldnt effect the entirety of the business.
indeed a great move, the part I don't get is that why dropbox acquired it then opensource it? what's the logic behind this...
Is there a way to run this without an internet connection?
Get over your self satisfied prejudices and actually think for a minute. Other cities don't have the same housing crisis as San Francisco and guess what, those cities also don't have bizarre and impossible restrictions on new constructions. So yeah, it is the city government causing the problem and suggestioning they only need another 18 months to come up with a plan is myopoc bullshit, they've had twenty years and still failed.

So so so amazing how people will refuse to actually examine their assumptions.
Hey, don't delete your comment like that!
Isn't the moratorium there to give the city time to come up with a plan? So by itself it wouldn't have an effect, but whatever the city comes up with should have the effect (whether it does or not depends on which crystal ball you're looking at).
Poverty is hard to solve, but it's becoming easy to solve very quickly. Let's assume for a minute we have all the money in the world. Poverty is easily solved by removing the obstacles that are preventing the poor from being self-sufficient. But what are those obstacles? Poverty is not considered a disorder yet, and we do not have good diagnostic tools for diagnosing those obstacles.

Let's think for a second about how it if you are wealthy. If your family has enough money, you can have access to 24-hour care for much of your development, either from a stay-at-home parent or a nanny. In other words, you have a person whose full-time job is removing those obstacles and training you to detect and remove them on your own. Not everyone's parents actually do that well, but they at least had a shot at it.

That's great, but it's not useful to us for fixing poverty because it's too expensive to scale. We can't assign a full-time nanny to everyone in poverty, it'd be in the trillions of dollars.

But I think the internet changes the economics of this substantially.

For every one of those specific obstacles that is THE big blocker in a poor person's life, there is someone somewhere else in the world, who has either been there before, or seen it a million times, and who knows exactly what are the main tools you need in your toolbag if you are going to make it through that kind of situation. If we had that all of those equipment lists in a giant database for all of the world's poor, we wouldn't need a full-time nanny, we could just equip the poor person with some tools, and they would have a good shot at leveling up. Tools like I'm describing would be orders of magnitude cheaper than a full time nanny.

So there's a chunk of work for someone: How do you connect poor people with other people who have seen people get through their specific bottleneck?

Of course then they'll need some supplies and probably some ongoing hourly work by whatever relevant professionals are needed. And obviously you are paying rent and health insurance and all of that until those things become self sufficienct.

I think good information tools could bring the cost of this down from trillions to billions.

Still a lot of money, how could we make it back?

By bringing people out of poverty you basically get first crack at marketing to a totally new market. You could also make recruiting deals. I think as long as you're transparent about what is advertising and what is advice, it's morally OK to do this. Although I would love to hear other ideas about that. I am not attached to the model.

All of these transitions I'm talking about facilitating are going to have very high variability, which makes this also a very difficult endeavor to fund or insure. But if you can get all of the tools as efficient as possible, I think a relatively small amount of capital might be able to bootstrap the process. You just have to get your scale to something above the stochastic noise in the outcomes for individual clients.

Once it was bootstrapped though, you could just fund it with VC.
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You clearly don't invest in early stage startups. Alternately, one can read this as "unsophisticated non-SV investor's perspective."
I've been using OpenFire, no problem there either.

I had never heard of Prosody, any major difference cons/pros between the two?
I have some in invites as well, shoot me an email at cmiles74@hotmail.com.
> The police is fundamentally a paramilitary unit that serves the interests of a state, not private citizens.

This is not intrinsically the case; though modern general-purpose police organizations tend to be paramilitary (however, specialized regulatory law-enforcement bodies with police powers often aren't paramilitary in structure and operation the way most general police agencies working for the same government are.)

So, I don't think this is a situation that is fundamentally not subject to reform, though it might require rethinking fairly fundamentally the role of law enforcement, and redistributing much of what is now the role of general law enforcement agencies into domain specific agencies that are not defined by being enforcement agencies despite including enforcement functions within their domain as part of their brief.
I just tried these exact same two queries and it showed me photos of Toni Kroos for the first one and Tony Cruz for the second.
Catholicism also promotes the idea of the sanctity of individual life, places moral burdens on business and political leaders in countries where brutality and exploitation are the norm, and creates a culture that emphasizes and encourages education. (Not to mention the whole "creating the moral foundation Western Democracy takes for granted" thing.)

You don't need to start fighting religion to help the poor; religion has provided, for many, the most effective means of getting out poverty. Also, going in to a place and starting a fight against the local religion (be it Catholicism, Islam, neo-Jobsian technocracy) is a good way to be ignored by the people your trying to help.
Same. It's kind of sad. Apparently questioning the business reason behind decisions isn't appreciated. I personally find them interesting.
Yeah that might work for programming mistakes, but not sure it can help with bad design choices.
It would be helpful if you could clarify the misunderstanding, then. How is the author's interpretation of the proposed legislation incorrect?
I understand that. It's actually addressed starting on page 26 of the report -- basic conclusion is that a landowner / developer will more likely hold the land until after the moratorium (when it will be even more valuable due to the moratorium) than develop below-market units at a lower price.

I've worked hard to understand both sides of the issue. In practice what I strongly believe will happen is that ~800 market rate units will be delayed for 18 months, nothing else will change and the politicians who pushed this won't be taken to task because they're all terming out and eyeing Sacramento.
The best tagline for the project is what is written on the whitepaper, that a planet in Urbit is "the browser for the server side."
I have the same questions too. Acquihire?

Also, how is zulip compare to slack in term of features, stability, pro/con?

I tried search youtube for any zulip demo/screencast, can't find anything - very strange.
You're misinterpreting him. "Buy" here is purchasing the product, as a typical customer.
--no-referrers works just fine....
I find it very easy to not have an opinion. Whether my neighbor wants to rent out part of his property via airbnb, craigslist, or not at all makes no difference to me. It does not affect my quality of life, does not interfere with my enjoyment of my own property, and is a private transaction among 3 (or more) parties of which I am not one. I just don't care, at all. That doesn't mean that his tenants might not cause me problems, but in that case I will deal with the tenants themselves and/or my neighbor concerning the actual problem. Such things have nothing to do with airbnb and can and do happen regardless of whether tenants are short- or long-term (or the owners themselves).

People who are either pro-airbnb because they feel it makes some kind of political or economic statement or places them into some kind of club they like, or are anti-airbnb because they are busybodies and like to find things to be outraged over or similarly feel that being so places them in a club they like, find it impossible to imagine having no opinion of airbnb. Personally, I find it impossible to imagine myself in either of those camps. To each of us the limits of our own imagination, I suppose.
That was some funny stuff and enlightening. I remember having the PS2 experience myself when studying its architecture: so many individual processors stitched together it was like re-inventing 60-80's computing experience lol. That said, I thought it was cool that they threw in some scratchpad. It's better than cache in many ways and so underutlized in special-purpose, performance designs. Helps with real-time, too, as it's predictable. PS2's mainly just helped with I/O hacks IIRC correctly, though.

Also interesting to contrast your description of PS3 with Naughty Dog comments. Seems like they got a lot more out of them but had to work hard to do it. Curious, there were products that auto-synthesized code for SPU's like RapidMind. I had planned on trying them had I used PS3's for acceleration. Did you or anyone in that industry try those tools to see if they delivered similar performance over hand-coded algorithms in gaming workloads?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2007/05/08/rapidmind_two/
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Having 6 adults who can afford to collectively pay $9000+ a month bidding against you

very rare.

bidding against someone who's going to Airbnb the extra rooms

increasingly common.
And no one remembers VRML. Probably for good reason.
In the end it always seems to come down to the dependency tree.

Seems like unless you build something like Gentoo, you invariably run into overly stilted or rigid dependency trees.

Even Nix seems to have this issue, because the checksum of a lib is included in the path to the lib compiled into dependents.
When you switch photos I might pull all the way back out. It looks like you stay focused in.

Meaning whatever I was focused into on the picture I was just on is not important to the new picture. So pull back out. Ha hopefully that made sense.

Super cool idea.
The engineers who did that redesign didn't want to use react native or felt it wasn't a good choice. Just because one person at Facebook built a tool doesn't mean that everyone else at Facebook is suddenly required to use that tool where ever possible.
Why should he have a civil dialogue with someone who's working 40 hours a week to exfiltrate his personal private communications without cause? Do you sit car thieves down and explain how not having transportation for a month really hurt your feelings?
I haven't yet tried Zulip's threading model, but I can certainly say I'm not pleased with Slack's.

It can be very frustrating to try and trace a conversation backwards in a crowded Slack channel. I haven't used IRC in a while, but at least my client had a feature to toggle highlighting on a back-and-forth conversation, but that wasn't perfect.
Looks like they're doing what they should've done some time ago and what helped many competing languages get ahead. Between that and recent standards, C++ programming might get really interesting again. Even I might take a stab at it eventually.
"The heart of your argument is that there is some clear distinction between residential and commercial which doesn't actually exist. Residential properties have always been used for profit - its called an apartment."

That's a completely different situation, and not at all relevant to this conversation.

"These visitors are renting in a residential area precisely because they want a residential experience."

And I want a pony. Why should I care what they want?

"The "burden" on your neighbors from short-term visitors is highly overblown."

You're gonna have to prove that.
Yes, you can get the XNU kernel and many of the frameworks (including the Objective-C 2.0 runtime) from http://opensource.apple.com. Feel free to fork it and let us know how you get on.
> People increasingly huddle for safety in walled gardens like Facebook, rarely venturing out to unknown sites.

Which doesn't help, because Facebook is used as a vector to install advanced persistent threats on peoples' computers.
It's good for detecting and working around bugs if nothing else. That's one of reasons OpenBSD development uses so many different pieces of hardware.
I read a summary on Wikipedia[1] and that helps. But why should the fact that someone didn't think (or document their thoughts) on something be evidence of non-obviousness?

I think of touch UIs and the patents there, for example Apple's rubber-band scrolling patent[2]. Sure, it's quite probable that no one thought of this before if they weren't designing touch UIs. And even if they were, they might have thought of that, plus several other ideas, while developing. Why should this make any difference?

For instance, no one has made scrolling that intentionally segfaults if you scroll fast enough (or insert other silly thing here). You won't find prior art on this. Should it be eligible for a patent just because it's novel? There should be some sort of criteria where the effort required to invent something is taken into account. If it's likely to come about merely as a result of playing in the space, then what does the public gain by issuing a patent?

What knowledge is contained in the "reverse PIN dials cops" that merits protection? Even if nobody had that idea before (or bothered to document it), what does that matter? If you patent can be constructed just by asking a simple question ("think of some ways to alarm when being robbed at an ATM"), well that should be grounds for it not being valid.

Edit: Another example. Things like algorithms. Look at a simple database indexing system: ISAM. Sort your data, sample every so often to form an index. Repeat if the index is too large. Ta-da. Going back far enough, this was very novel. But any worker that had to figure this problem out would arrive at the same solution. It's nearly as fundamental as binary search.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventive_step_and_non-obvious...

2: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...
That story has so shaken me. Just learned now that these Payday loan ops charge on average 391% to 521%.

http://www.responsiblelending.org/payday-lending/tools-resou...

Clearing a bank account could obviously lead to more significant damage to society at large than a loan company that "only made" 75% off the original loan.
I tweeted about this yesterday and I firmly believe the conversation around this would be a lot more fruitful if startups & founders would evaluate and focus their companies on _helping the world_ & stop with this "changing the world" bullshit. The latter is arrogant, presumptuous, and often not true; the former is a genuine desire and wish.

Few people and companies, in the history of our existence, arguably, truly change the world (i.e., make history and alter our lives for better). And none of them claim to be changing the world while they're doing so. Everyone else and every other company is a footnote but that doesn't mean it cannot help people and our world at large in some way while alive.
Edit: Thread parent lost due to moderator detach: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10281311

Houston also has four freakin' beltways (I610, TX 8, TX 6, and TX 99).

Comparing a city that is the poster child for "sprawl" with a chunk of real estate that is more than a little landfill and locked on 3 sides with water is more than a little disingenuous.

Houston's second beltway would encircle San Mateo, some of Oakland, and Sausalito if transplanted to San Fransico.

If transplanted to San Francisco, Houston's fourth beltway (TX 99--currently under construction) would encompass almost all of San Pablo bay, Walnut Creek (maybe even as far as Concord), easily all of Oakland, Hayward, and Redwood City. And be more than 50% underwater.

The differences are more than the "gubmint reg-you-lashion" my good man.
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Why not? You were right, I didn't read the paper, I just skimmed it, so my original comment was completely bogus. Deleting it seemed to be the best way to clean up the mess.
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I think it's important to note that Urbit - a very interesting piece of work that deserves more attention - would've been presented at Strange Loop if not the PC crowd made Strange Loop disinvite Curtis Yarvin (the creator of Urbit) for reasons unrelated to Urbit. Using throwaway for obviously reasons.
I, for one, am absolutely sick and tired of companies thinking it's "disruptive" to ignore the law. Why do they think they're so special?
Yea my point of the comment was (1). I didn't even know it was an acquisition. I am shutting up to prevent loosing any more minimal reputation.
You're such a snoc.
The switch to male pronouns partway through the article when it became a theoretical person was a little jarring.
One thing not addressed is that copy-pasting from the browser is insecure too:

http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste

But this should be mitigated by TLS/finding a "trusted" source. A bigger issue might be that curl|bash effectively elevates trust in the developer, the CA, the hosting provider to the same level as trust in your distribution's security team.

And while using SSL, wrapping the script in a function, practising safe posix shell, working acrosss many platforms is good - is it better than using something like https://0install.net ?

I can understand not wanting to work with dozens of distributions; but if you don' tautomate tests across all of those - does your fantastic script really work?

[Ed: it's also much easier to secure an off-line signing key than a TLS key that must be always on-line]