skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indonesia's GDP is ~$850 billion, not $2.8 trillion.

Singapore is ~$300 billion.

Not sure why Indonesia's GDP keeps getting over-estimated by such a dramatic amount in this thread.
I notice this a lot with web media. Designers have really nice setups, so they don't have any problem designing sites with tiny thin gray text on gray backgrounds with little gray icons etc, not realizing that it looks like indecipherable mush on other people's hardware.
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>A direct competitor exploited the free OSS version, hurting our bottom line.

Who were they ?
Star Wars has been a popular franchise for the last 38 years. Its popularity has gone up and down, but there hasn't been a holiday season in all those years where there wasn't some Star Wars toy on the shelves.

Four billion dollars in box office revenue, and over three billion more in home video sales. When you're done thinking about just how much money that is, take a look at how that pales in comparison to the merchandise.

http://www.statisticbrain.com/star-wars-total-franchise-reve...
At the end of the day, it takes a person holding a match to the tinder to get these fires going. You can blame the government, laws, and corporations all you want, but someone still lit the fires. Surely these farmers (whether self-employed or not) must realize how shitty they are making their lives? And if not, could a grassroots effort to educate them help?
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Right now the server is down, so here's a mirror: https://archive.is/ekGpj
The Dutch East India Company also had an economic application of fire, namely in burning down any production of spices they did not control. I don't know about better management.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18551857
He's not wrong about the capitalism thing. These farmers own the land--why shouldn't they be able to do whatever they want to it, including burning it? At least, that's the libertarian formulation of it.
In Podunk Hollow, Iowa, where $300/month gets you a 3-bedroom house, you're a millionaire. In New York City, you work at Starbucks at night to get by.
> one freedom is quickly taken away - one can't use the software as one wish, but needs to also license his work as GPL

Licensing software to users is not the same as using it for oneself; it's not use at all. There is no freedom to license someone else's software; there never has been a freedom to profit off of someone else's labour (there is, of course, a freedom to try to do so, by paying someone to work and then selling that person's work for hire).

> I really try to understand what is so great about GPL

It creates a community of users and software, where user-developers know that their contributions will be freely available to other users, and will not be locked up.

In principle, there's much to admire about the BSD license. But, as we see with so many proprietary devices and software built on BSD-licensed software, it's simply all too likely that good code will be locked up inside proprietary cages.
It's exactly why marshmallow is changing the permissions model. All of those permissions are necessary if you want an app that:

* can show a contact's name on a message they sent you
* can save public keys and access them
* can send/receive messages with multimedia
* can uniquely identify your device and you as a user (to generate your private key with unique primitives)

Off the top of my head iIdon't know why it asks for calendar permission, but we could inspect the source...

The point is, if you're trying to make a mass market app, you have to offer competitive features... And that requires a lot of permissions.
The only problem I feel this really solves is caching, and for that specific problem, generating static pages may be a (work-aroundy) solution to consider, but in general I don't think static website generators are going to be the next big thing...

When you look at page speed, not much of the slow-down is from servers delivering pages, but browsers having to digest HTML/CSS/IMG/JS

I guess it all depends on what you are trying to achieve. Thanks as always for the article, interesting to see someone taking this with both hands.
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Well, it's not close to us, so people don't really care. I mean, there's people starving everywhere, but that doesn't make problems like the refugee situation any less urgent. It's all relative...
Every time I see a sentiment like this (with which I agree completely), I am reminded of this fascinating essay by Bertrand Russell on the virtues of idleness. [1]

[1] http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
"This" is not necessarily unpopular but almost certainly pretty irrelevant. This kind of semi philosophical reasoning result in neither intellectual insight nor does it help to solve a single problem.

It is very simple: If the people of Indonesia are unhappy with their situation, they have to actively change it. It is my impression, that power is very uneven distributed in this country and it doesn't seem like the ruling elite is going share it voluntary. You always have to fight for power, there is no way around.
There was at one point an effort to port the entire "Indigo Magic" (i.e including all Motif toolkits etc.) / 4DWM desktop to Linux. It made some progress early on but then it seemed to evaporate into vapourware. The website is still online but doesn't appear to have been updated since ~ 2007: http://5dwm.org
You may have accidentally confused the characters. It wasn't me who was told by Scala's designer my facts were wrong (that never happened; well, I'm sure I've got many facts wrong in my lifetime, but Martin Odersky has never called me out on any), but you, and only 3 days ago. Not only did he find you wrong but also rude, and as someone who actually tries to correct a true inaccuracy, he pointed out quite specifically (though very politely) what you got wrong[1] rather than just yelling FUD as some other people do whenever someone voices an opinion they don't like to hear. BTW, I can attest to modersky's statement, as I personally witnessed him and Andrey Breslav talking and exchanging ideas on more than one occasion.

As to gavinking, well, he and I have rarely seen eye to eye, but he, too, hasn't pointed to a factual error on my part. Now, you can make an original contribution to this discussion or not, but you should stop with the personal attacks.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10480284
> it's simply all too likely that good code will be locked up inside proprietary cages.

...and that bad changes to good code get hidden and are now unfixable.
You would still never use trailing Revenue. You would want to use y/y revenue growth rate if you are going to use it as indicator for value.
I start with FoxPro DOS (2.6). After the end of the 3 months course, a full app with menus, forms, reports, etc. The same with Acces. Later Delphi (the best RAD ever!). In contrast, Visual Studio is clumsy.. but all others tools fall so far below than people truly imagine html+js is easy!
I did some comparisons just a couple of days ago. I want a reasonable amount of free storage+linux support, and found a service called 'copy'. They give 15GB + (5GB if you use a referral link) + (5GB for every user you refer up to 25GB).

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please read archlinux systemd-free website[1].

[1]: http://systemd-free.org/
I was living in Algeria, now I live in France, and things there are worst comparing to Tunisa in term of economy freedom, we can exchange maximum of 15000DA the equivalent of 130 euro per year, so if you want to leave the country for holidays, you will for sure ends up in the black market.
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It sends messages through Google's messaging framework. Of course the messages are end to end encrypted, so there's no security risk. It's just really hard to set up a global push messaging framework unless you have the clout of, say, Google.
define your target audience go talk to those people and see what they think of the app idea. visit forums, facebook groups, email people with a "personal" message ideally previous contacts, reach out to bloggers that might blog about your app see what they think of it etc. but if your having issues reaching your target market you may want to think about your app. put it out on the app store sounds like you might get lost in the app store. On the other hand, if it's skills you want to learn and it's not years worth of work why not just build it to develop the skills.
No, these are man made fires to clear up land. They're going the Easter Island route, apparently...
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I've used Leechblock, with fairly permissive settings (type a 64-bit key displayed on screen to override), and I think the annoyance is the point. It raises the psychological cost of going to a time-waster website, which makes it less desirable.
>Also, Mono is licensed under the LGPL

From what I understand lot of code is GPLv2 as well, which would make the project as a whole GPLv2 licensed.
How is a spinal cord injury relevant to an accountant job? It's weird and premature to bring it up in a cover letter, it could be taken as a sign of poor judgement or "why are they bringing this up? I don't care, are they an activist type? I don't need that kind of attitude." A younger person new to the world of work might be more easily forgiven the choice than an experienced person. If you get contacted for an interview, that's the time to bring up accommodations like wheelchair access.

I could imagine a cover letter describing Asperger's syndrome as an asset for accountancy work, claiming it's a source of their focus and numeracy. It would still be weird but that would meet the reader's expectations, right?

Still, I'm not trying to explain away their results, the quantity of data and comparable results for both disabilities suggests a common bias irrespective of the nature of the disability.
Yep, McDonald's has begun purchasing franchises back as well. I think you're right, that this distributed ownership model is an artifact of an earlier time. I might attribute this to better communication abilities. It made sense to have autonomous dealers; it was hard for everyone to communicate with each other using telephones and snail mail. With the internet, companies can run advanced inventory databases, run prediction algorithms to shift inventory to areas with expected demand, have regional managers focus on local communities, instantly update pricing across the country etc. etc.
Palm oil, yes.
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What do you want to sell? All of that or just one of these things? Ps. Have you checked out Pat Flynn and his podcasts/blog?
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I would be equally interested if the article was titled "Why Static Website Generators Are Awesome". They are not the "next big thing", they've been around for years.
Here's a not too old pop article on his group [1]. If you like (and can read physics somewhat) look over his papers (which as far as I can tell never get published in peer reviewed journals). They're borderline nonsense, the kind that is hard to dispute since there is no content, just a lot of hand wavy speculation with a few formulas copy pasted out of textbooks. Their experiments are routinely debunked in physics forums by grad students. It's crap all the way down.

Over the years seeing a lot of "interesting" stuff attributed to NASA, I eventually noticed the common denominator was Harold White, and now whenever I see a story like this, his name is the first one I look for. He's good at this game, but apparently very sketchy at science.

[1] http://www.wired.com/2015/05/nasa-warp-drive-yeah-still-popp...
I don't remember adblocking to be specific, it was about adding a bunch of ip to your hosts file to redirect them to 127.0.0.1 and was sometimes a bit too broad.

Then again this is a matter of opinion, to me it is ad supported model popularity that is the problem.
Again insistence that stock traders are all about dividends, on no evidence whatsoever? Folks trade stocks because the bid and ask overlap; that's it. There's nothing else going on, except in people's heads. Fictitious future dividends are ... fictitious! Good luck trying to sell your stock for anything but what its going for on the day you sell. Any cries of 'but dividends! Its worth X!" will be drowned out by the marketplace.

And the evidence points to, there's no accommodation for dividends in the price. Stocks ramp up in the month before dividends are issued; drop that day. That's all the market does to accommodate dividends.
I think you're vastly overestimating how well engineered most SME web-platforms are when you say that the client-side is slower than the server side. There are a huge number of server-side asp.NET webforms/JSP/php sites out there which are far slower server side than client side.

And it's not just legacy code, new applications in 2015 are still using those mostly server side technologies without too much done on the front-end.
Ok, "static" here means no RDBMS-backed website. But you can still use statically generated JSON resources from a db once off. These resources can then be "filtered" and "combined" without the need for databases (not using the words JOIN or WHERE carefully).

Sounds like a great idea to overcome the need to obsess about connection multi-plexing.
I do not buy anything with palm oil in it. I try to find and buy shares of companies that are developing synthetic palm oil alternatives.

I'm also offering up prayers to the Lord of the host of ganoderma boninense.

I expect all of the above to have about the same effect.
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I'm not entirely sure they're the next big thing. More likely, is that 15 years ago, it was people who were used to static sites began moving to dynamically generated ones as sites became more complex. They were the new thing then. Now we have a load of people who have grown up with dynamically generated sites and are suddenly discovering the benefits of static sites - thanks in part to the proliferation of tools that are easy to use.

It's the usual boomerang cycle of discovery and adoption.

Both types of sites have their benefits and it's a balancing act to use the right tool for the job. It's getting this right that comes with experience and an understanding of the current pitfalls of each. It's the rough edges that push people in the other direction and without the experience of the pitfalls of each, it's inevitable that people start predicting that one solves all the problems facing the other.

I fully expect the usual over reliance on the wrong type of tech for the sake of it being the current hotness and then an over correction in the other direction the moment we have a new generation of developers.
You just said that they don't work, but they do work. Just as well as anything else does.
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IIMNM the first ads I remember were banners, used to be banner exchange between willing webmasters turned into paid for banners (not sure if it was per impression or per click or both).
I would love to read that book, but is a funding campaign the best way to get there? Can she work on it during her spare time, like most authors do, and deliver in 6 or even 9 months instead of 3?

$20,000 to write a book is an enormous amount. When you work with actual publishers you don't get that much, the upfront royalties usually stay in the 4 digit range.

Maybe it would make more sense to use a platform like GitBook or LeanPup.
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We need to eliminate the idea of the diet. The only way to lose weight and to keep it off is to commit to a long term lifestyle change. Similar to how recovering addicts continue to go to meetings years have they've gotten sober, people need to make the same kind of commitment to their weight and general health.

Disclosure: I lost nearly 100lbs 15 years ago. The most I gained back was 20 pounds. Never going back.
Yeah - and it also works with last year's 5K imac. (source: I have one)
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I am working on a project, http://blogful.me, that combines a hosted static blog generator with a solid admin backend including post syndication, an embedded analytics dashboard, authoring tools, and an API if you don't want to use the frontend.

There definitely appears to be a lot of interest in this space because you get the best of all worlds. Static site generators definitely seem like the way to go for all but actual web applications.
Have we just become too selfish for OSS? We're going to end up punishing ourselves by having to use proprietary, closed systems for everything. I don't want to compute in that world. That would be awful.
From the short description, it looks like a project from Google about training a deep network to play the game. The resulting bot was quite strong (or at least, quite strong for not using Monte Carlo tree search, at least). Without any more details though, it's hard to tell.
Next to geosites.com, I suppose.
Yet the stock market goes up 15% every year (on average) for the last century. Where does that come from? The 'zero-sum game' fiction is ridiculous urban legend. The price depends upon a market, and I sell to a different agent than I bought from, at a different price - the transaction is nothing like 'zero sum'.

Most stocks don't issue a dividend - yet they have solid, stable prices. Folks use a variety of valuation techniques, but mainly the present value of expected future value. Which means what you think you could sell it for in a year.

Have a nice time with those dividends - but my retirement stock portfolio is worth something when I sell it for income when I'm retired. The dividends are a tiny part of that.
Haven't done any benchmarks myself, but I'd be keen to find out if a static site loaded up with JS design elements, a product store, comments and analytics code would load any quicker than a CMS with PHP caching, system caching and microcaching to handle bursts on a lightweight webserver such as Nginx.

The article is frustratingly biased in this regard. Static sites should just play to their strengths, otherwise you probably want a CMS that will act like a static site when it needs to.
Personally, I think it's a reasonable amount given that you have to pay taxes on it, you have to get health insurance for the 3 months that you are working on it (not cheap), and the position is not extendible after 3 months.

In other words, you have to consider this as a 3 month contract as an independent contractor with no chance of extension. Personally, that would be pretty far into my discounted rate ;-)

Still, if successful, it has the upside of giving the author chances at a good reputation and follow on contracts. I'm very interested to see how successful this is. I'm sceptical that it can be completed in 3 months, but wish the author the very best of luck!
s/Against Disabled//

This study has been done with people using names that are, black, foreign, feminine, etc. If you're different, some people are gonna think differently. When there's a "pipeline" little biases add up: Your teacher treats you differently, the college admission treats you differently, your professors treat you differently, recruiters treat you differently, your boss treats you differently. That might not happen in every step along the way, but the potential is there and there are many opportunities.

A white male Stanford grad from a well off family is flipping a coin once to see if they get a real chance to be successful in life. Someone who is discriminated against has to roll a D20 every step of the way to see if they make it.

If you want to make a difference, recognize these biases exist. Review CVs with all identifying information removed or generalized. Hopefully, eventually the bias will fade, but you can't ignore that it exists and that you can turn it off like a switch.
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And thank god, these new js heavy frontends really hammer the performance of browsers and are often buggy.
I don't see why Glassdoor ratings would be correlated with a company's ethics, in the real world.
But has Japan mitigated it? The statistic quoted is that 99.7% of companies are SMEs.

But in the US, 98.2% of companies have less than 100 people (ie, they're SMEs): http://www.census.gov/econ/susb/

So, that statistic might not be telling you what you think it's telling you.
Do you have a link for the Google thing?
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This is a report from an American conservative think-tank, would be more convincing to see something peer-reviewed on this.
Strange. This has been reported e.g. by CNN many times.

Sep 19: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/16/asia/gallery/southeast-asi...

Sep 25: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/25/asia/singapore-haze-indone...

Oct 01: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/01/asia/indonesia-evacuates-b...

Oct 30: http://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/10/30/indonesia-fig...

And this is just one (albeit major) news provider.

(I have seen this many times reported by my local national broadcaster in Finland. But then maybe I just notice and care because I know people who live in the affected area. E.g. in June this year, Asia Pacific Resources International Limited APRIL announced it will stop forestry work in order to reduce forest fires and conserve nature. http://yle.fi/uutiset/aasian_sellujatti_lopettaa_hakkuut_ind... )
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I will like to pivot, and focus on the product that grows the most.

and yes! the Smart passive income is a great podcast, I listen to it almost regularly but never hear and advice for my case
Obvious question is whether some kind of blockchain based implementation would address enough of the disadvantages to be useful.