skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US, the banking and military sectors - and a large chunk of tech - are at least as dependent on government handouts.

So the problem isn't one of scale, which is already huge. It's one of distribution.

Money on its own is not the solution. You can only grow an economy when people are building useful things of all kinds, doing useful things for each other, and creating new businesses.

The big problem in the US isn't capitalism as such, it's the fact that there's a layer of old and new money privilege accreted around Wall St and Washington. It's such a resource sink it has literally locked out most of the rest of the population.

It's a networking and patronage problem. The money is just a symptom.

If you're on the right side of the social firewall you can be a complete failure and still get jobs at C-suite and board level. (See recent examples from any number of tech companies - which are the obvious symptoms of a much bigger issue.)

Prosperity only happens when an economy rewards ability much more than it rewards the benefits of in-caste relationships.

This isn't even considered an issue in most descriptions of economics, but it's a huge influence at every level of business. And with the partial exception of the startup/accelerator/incubator scene, the current situation in the US has been a tragic brake on real growth.

The best you'll get from throwing money at people is temporarily less crime, starvation, and homelessness. Those are big wins on their own, but they're a bandaid and the improvement isn't really sustainable. For a growth-oriented economy, more is needed.
Says the guy with an extreme vested interest in more TV watching. [eye roll]
It can also be produced by bacteria that would would normally emit H2O, as in an oxygen deprived environment they can produce H2S instead.
The bulk of the LOC reductions were elimination of header files, I'm sure, and the fact they wrote something a second time, but knowing what the picture on the box was.

Do I believe Swift is better? Sure.

Do I believe they eliminated some bugs in the original code? Yep.

Do I believe they introduced a whole whack of new bugs they now don't know they have? Most definitely. That's what happens when you re-write software (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html).

I've been waiting on writing Swift in production until Apple stops making breaking changes to the syntax. Running a converter over a million line codebase every few months and then checking it in is simply not a good answer. I think we're either there, or very close. That said I'm definitely, super double not rewriting large swaths of code. There's no value there. New stuff? Totally.
Can't say I'm a military expert, but the Singapore air force, at least during the time I was there, was well-known to have capabilities and technology unrivaled by even the United States. But I know there are major developments happening in American air technology, so that is possibly changing.
I think the consensus we reached was it was a much older bit of slang and mostly localized to a specific region, although it was tough for us to confirm.
This is good advice for talking to any law enforcement really. They are not on your side if they are asking you questions.
What do the other people on the team think?

Team is everything, at the end of the day. Sounds like you're thinking about doing your own startup with the team anyways and are just tired of management. In my experience, this is usually a big warning flag but doesn't mean the company is dead in any way. A good team can push forward!
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With the sale of Lastpass to LogMeIn, more excited than ever for 1Password to add team features
Could you be specific about which programs you're referring to? I'd also appreciate specific figures about expenditures, and what percentage of people are dependent on public welfare programs.

The figures I've seen suggest that in the US, 50% of welfare beneficiaries are long-term dependents, but they have bouts of it, going in and out of welfare over the course of (on average) 12 years.

If you dig into specific programs, I think generally you find that programs fail because they aren't giving people enough resources to become self-sufficient, and are expecting results on too short a time frame.
You are grossly overstating the influence of the "us economic advice", which was zero. The mafioso oligarchs needed and used none of it.
I'm unsure about a couple of these points but think the added perspectives of different people is pretty unique and useful. How did you organize software engineers?
I know this is a serious subject but I'm having a good laugh about this supposed "jug of meth". We should also prevent people from injecting any more than 3 marijuanas, I've heard it can kill you.
I believe it doesn't actually send the message content through GCM anymore, but just notifies the client that a new message is available and tells it to connect to Open Whisper Systems' server for the content.
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Its designed for finance and statistics.

http://www.hpmuseum.org/hp12c.htm
Isn't this a really positive indicator that Canada is acquiring more foreign holdings?

Isolationism is generally a path to irrelevance. The most powerful countries are porous and actively engaged with the world, allowing capital and people to flow in and out. Isolated countries wither.
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While the technology is very cool, this pushes me that much closer to a "dumber" email service. It's always a conflict for me as I love shiny new things, but I'd rather we let AI loose on someone else's email, especially when the AI's revenue stream is advertising (a business predicated on knowing as much as possible about your audience).
"If the paper weren’t laid out in complete grammatical sentences and published in JACS, you’d swear it was the work of a violent lunatic."

I've seen this article before, but I will never get tired of reading it again.
This is a good point, and I'm finding on re-reading my comment that I was too flippant. I do think the point stands that it is easier for younger people to find their place without existing expertise or relationships, but certainly it's easier to build status in some communities than others.
> since they were used as a condiment rather than a staple food

such an unstaple food that The Times of India has a page dedicated to track the price of onions

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Onion-prices
Yes. I like Butterick's "Practical Typography" a lot, and the rationale behind using Racket. That said, I don't actually like Pollen because it's just a string-based templating system. Instead, I want to use something that is based around s-expressions. My static site generator, Haunt, works with SXML trees instead of raw strings which is much nicer to work with.
Both lose?
Skip the article and just read the opinion: https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/E8CAF3B0....

The case here decides a specific issue: whether a Bivens action for money damages is available when the government violates a Constitutional right of a U.S. citizen abroad in a terrorism investigation. Bivens is basically a last-ditch option where a tort cause of action is created when there is no other remedy for a Constitutional violation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivens_v._Six_Unknown_Named_Ag.... But because it's a totally judicially-created construct, the Supreme Court has warned caution in expanding it to new contexts.

The opinion does not say that it is legal for the Government to do what Mr. Meshal alleges it did. The question is whether Mr. Meshal can get money from the Government for violating his rights.
I agree that it is a racist remark, but you'd be surprised how much explicit and accepted racism exists in SE Asia. When I lived there, if you were of Indian ethnicity, you were not allowed to live above the 4th floor in the HDB housing towers, which house nearly half the population. Singapore will also not allow ethnic Malays to have high ranks in its military. And very common you see Help Wanted posters around town that list the races they will allow for application.
Loading the set of files needed to satisfy a request is equivalent to a database query. Databases and file systems have to deal with similar issues when looking up a single item, so there's a clear correspondence there. The difference is that a database can do a JOIN but a file system can't (directory traversals really aren't equivalent). In that case any such logic would have to be in the client-side JS, fetching objects and quite likely imposing even more load than an SQL query would have. Being able to shut down that database process is good in a lot of ways (especially security) but reduced total load isn't necessarily one of them. You might just be shifting load to the the web server and file system. That's why I said the generator part is as important as the static part. That solves the result-aggregation problem at edit/compile time instead of request/run time, which is good regardless of whether the back end is a database or a file system.
The rest of the marketing was on point as well, which led to the worldwide phenomenon. Just do it is a powerful phrase. Its short, distinct, and appeals to a our basic instincts. Its was a meme before we were inudated with memes.
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Unrelated, but reading this reminded me of the story. One of my chemistry teachers in high school made a lab where we had to identify various substances by smell. H2S was one of those substances, and we were told it had a distinctive sulfuric smell.

I remember trying to smell the substance by wafting[0] (as previous teachers had instructed us) and thinking 'hm, I thought I smelled that a second ago, but now I can't'. My teacher's response was 'oh, you're just not smelling it hard enough. You really need to take a big sniff' and stuck his nose over the petri dish to demonstrate.

Fortunately I was skeptical enough of him by this point in the semester that I ignored him. Only later did I look it up and discover that H2S is not actually odorless - it smell like rotten eggs. But it also dulls your sense of smell at the same time[1].

This is only one of several times when he almost killed us with labs in that class (my favorite was when he came just a second away from lighting a classmate on fire with Thermite[2]).

I'm really glad I'm not in high school anymore.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQis0nnap74

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_sulfide#Safety

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite
You should have explained that the word is completely innocent, like in "bum a fag".
Ok, let's add that to the title.
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For some context ...

http://alberta.ca/budget/

Long story short ... it's about really, really poor prospects for the oilsands going forward, added to a very uncertain fiscal situation:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-budget-debt-wi...

For what it's worth, yes, this is what we get for being hewers of wood, drawers of water, etc. Traders don't call CAD a commodity currency for nothing.

Edit: wrong link!
http://teropa.info/blog/2015/09/10/full-stack-redux-tutorial...
It appears the Mazda was never sold outside Japan and the Kia was only a concept vehicle. Additionally the Buick is now called LaCrosse in Canada. So probably not as impactful as it might seem...
All this talk of Office 365... But entirely sure what the real benefit us apart from hosted Exchange.

Yammer? Meh. Besides, they constantly change their UI and confuse their users.

Office itself? LibreOffice is almost able to do everything it can do, and more.

Lync (sorry, "Skype for Business"): There are thousands of chat clients out there.
You send someone like me to China, after you do what GP said to do.
Fair! He does mention improved throughput and responsiveness, but I don't see what metrics they're using for that.
Says the guy that has bet heavily that creating more TV will pay off handsomely.
The term y-fronts is also used in Australia (the article mentions UK only usage). I think of them as old fashioned, but that may be my own interpretation.

I put together some slang definitions for a Quiz Night earlier this year. I noticed Australia has a lot more in common with the UK than the US when it comes to slang. This may change with the Internet in the next decade or so.
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I hope you were all CYA'd up on that one!
So it's not legal, but there's nothing you can do to stop them? That doesn't offer much in the way of reassurance to the people being tortured at the request of the FBI.
>Hospitals here are not allowed to turn away those in need, even if they have no insurance.

What about the mentally ill unable to afford any mental health treatment or prescription coverage?

What about the terminally ill who will be turned away unless they wait until they are in critical or unstable condition (costing the hospital vastly more in treatment costs and endangering lives)?

Also, please speak to the statistics that show health care as the leading cause of bankruptcies in the US. If free care is so available, is it pure ignorance that is causing 3 of every 5 bankruptcies in the US?
One of the reasons that such a model still has problems.

(Just to be clear, I don't actually like that model. I just find it interesting that it even exists when the general view for illegal transactions are that sellers are worse than buyers.)
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10447142
More: http://en-us.sennheiser.com/orpheus
Doesn't the qoute state that income inequality is supposed to enact accumulation and growth("give something to aspire to") but instead leads to concentration of political power among the wealthy, who then use that power to further secure their higher income, creating a feedback loop?

That directly implies that removing income inequality and adding feedback loops that avoids excessive capital concentration is the way to go.

And to your point about non-coerced transactions, where does coercion start? Monopolies? Excessive costs? Does Comcast coerce their customers, if they have only no internet as the alternative? Does uber coerce people with surge pricing? And that pharma guy, raising the price of the drug, did he coerce people ? I would tend to say yes in the case of the Comcast monopoly, no in the other cases.

But it's hard to define exactly where coercion starts.

A more fundamental examples, from my libertarian socialist perspective: advertising in public view. Is that coercion of a third party(the advertised to?)
Microsoft windows/ apple and other walled gardens with no data export, but payed for upgrade path and end of support?

And even more fundamentally, sometimes any and all transactions you make can be under duress and make you inherently dependent on the partner:
Getting a shitty job that barely feeds you, because your skills are obsolete and your country doesn't provide basic income?

Startint that shitty job early, due to not having the same resources, stability and growing opportunities because your father is working a shitty job just to make ends meet?
Hi there! I think you should start with one or two lamps in areas you spend the most time in. Be sure to not use harsh white overhead lights at night :)
I'm sure someone had fun making that but it is a really weird way to present something.
http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2013/03/us-vs-european-gdp.htm...
You're totally right. I think there's a rediscovery of static sites going on, and an improvement in the tools, but it can't possibly solve every use case, or even the majority of them.
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That doesn't make sense. Plenty of features from ES6 and 7 on the server and other platforms have steamed ahead despite browser adoption.
And I agree...I certainly never meant to imply that it is impossible to reform your image, so to speak, and to find some sort of place to "fit in" again.

Obviously, AA/NA, volunteering, and perhaps even church groups are all potential ways to build social connections after a lifelong struggle with addiction.

But please, don't minimize too much how one's destroyed self-image affects one's motivation to begin anew, esp. in your 50's.
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Well this is especially (aka more) important when talking to a "Federal Agent". This can be US Marshals, Secret Service, Fish and Wildlife management, DEA, etc. (if you find yourself in this situation ask the person if they are an "1811" job series). Lying to a federal agent is always an actual felony (18 U.S.C. SECTION 1001).

Lying to a local police officer, state patrol is not always a crime (local, state laws).
If you listen on multiple ports, you can get way more than 64k connections per client. If the workload is mostly idle, tsung should be able to manage quite a few connections too.
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Because it's true. The topic has been so politicized now that it's almost impossible to have an even discussion about it, which is part of what I find annoying.

Too big to fail is not about diversification, it is about the scope of capital assets and counterparty risk. USAA, for example, is a diversified institution that would have been illegal under Glass-Steagall but navigated the meltdown well on their own. Meanwhile every institution I list above was too big to fail but would never have been covered by Glass-Steagall--not to mention Fannie and Freddie.

Edit to add: IMO "Glass-Steagall" has become political shorthand, a sort of litmus test to see if people are for or against big banks that socialize risk and privatize profits. But G-S was a real law that was rather limited in scope. If we fail to understand the detailed realities of the financial meltdown, we will fail to prevent the next one.
The stories on that site almost always use placeholders. For example, the most recent post features an email from wtfinc.com.
FWIW I posted this article on FB and all my American friends had not heard about this problem before either. Most Westerners are not aware of what is happening in Indonesia at all.
Those aren't dupes by HN's definition because none of them has had significant attention yet. Please see the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

Why do we do it this way? Because good stories frequently get overlooked, and not allowing any reposts at all would doom those to obscurity, which would be bad for HN. Just as in startup investing the most important thing is not to miss a good company, on HN the most important thing is not to miss a good story.

Btw, posts that use identical URLs are rejected for 8 hours, to avoid stampedes. But not all of those posts used identical URLs.
If you are being illegally detained, you can file for a writ of habeas corpus. In contrast, Bivens is about getting money damages if you suffered illegal detainment in the past.

The scope of habeas corpus (which the Supreme Court has held does apply to U.S. citizens detained abroad) is broader than that of Bivens because the former is explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, and the latter is a relatively recent judge-made construct.
Thanks for sharing this.

It might not be too late to apologise to some of those you feel suffered, if they're still around.

Good luck for the future, and remember that those who know you now are lucky in every way :)
Great idea. This is like f.lux for the home. Getting one...
I wouldn't say Haskell is the perfect language for protocol specs. I do love Haskell, but what you're asking for sounds more like this: http://www.moserware.com/2008/04/towards-moores-law-software...
This is not a fair apples to apples comparison. I am certain that had they rewritten the application in Objective-C from the ground up, taking into account all they learned from the mistakes of the past, they would have ended up with similar or even better gains (by developing in a familiar environment).

It is natural, almost unavoidable in fact, that an application developed and continuously enhanced over many years will end up in a bit of a mess, unless the approach is very disciplined - which it was not in this case (inadequate unit tests for one example).

This was not a weakness or failure of Objective-C, but of circumstances and approach.
Now in 2015, its clear either you have traction, and ears might start listening to you. If not you are dead.
If it's comparable to other computer go ais then it's low dan.
Yes, I agree, but the argument that I responded to considered there was a distinction between capitalism and exploitation. My point is that exploitation is not the sole domain of government, if you had a capitalist society without government intervention then exploitation would still exist, but you'd have to rely on different methods in order to resist this exploitation, and those methods would not necessarily be an improvement over what we have now.
That's not correct, though, I went through the whole thing just fine with regular Firefox.
Would you be willing to elaborate on things you wanted to fix/options available/experiences?
I'm not sure how useful this comment will be be but I thought I would weigh in with my own experience of suicidal thoughts.

I have experienced serious suicidal thoughts in the past and still do from time to time. In the past (we're talking 10 years or so ago) it was definitely due to depression. I don't feel this way anymore though. At least, not that I can tell.

It's more of a philisophical exercise these days, thinking about what suicide means and what it would be like to experience, the people left behind, the scientific, philisophical and symbolic gesture of opting to end your own existence etc.

Sometimes I entertain the idea of suicide just because I'm so utterly bored or frustrated with life and people in it. I wouldn't describe it as depression as such, just a sense of being unimpressed with the way things work. The way people think, they way they treat eachother, the selfishness and deceit at the heart of all people whether they believe it about themselves or not. The fact that eventually the solar system, the galaxy and the universe will cease to exist and it all would have been pointless anyway.

I suppose it is more of a cynicism and misanthropy.

I kept it from friends and family, still do except for one friend who pretty much thinks the way I do, on most things. Not out of some sense of possibly appearing weak or 'not a man' though.

It is entirely because I feel that if I do eventually decide to check out one day, it's my decision and I don't want anyone stopping me (and likely putting me in an institution). They don't have the right because it is my decision. I'm not that enamoured with life that I need rescuing by someone with the audacity to start making decisions on my behalf. It seems like the height of arrogance to me.

Not sure how helpful this is and I'm not trying to disparage the feelings of other men who might be experiencing suicidal thoughts and are afraid to tell anyone. They definitely do need help. I just wanted to offer a another view, as I am sure I can't be the only one.
We'd like to explore a private network so we can get away with more than 64k per client, as it starts to get expensive spinning up 50 servers whenever we want to test. Unfortunately, the instances that were lent to us came with no way for us to assign additional IPs.
Oh Shit!
Ah, the amplifying effect of Twitter.
Bad+Memories:+How+To+ACT+Them+Out
It works with regular Firefox, though, I just did it. Maybe OP needs to update their Firefox?
What is happening there is very unlikely to occur with such frequency if it was purely natural. It takes manmade intervention to create the kind of problem happening in Indonesia right now. Every year, for most of the year, these fires rage because of techniques created by humans. It is about a lot more than just dry forests.
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