skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fine if it makes you uncomfortable. That's an opportunity to introspect and find out why exactly it makes you feel that way. It's a learning opportunity.

It's also fine if it "seems racist" to you - another opportunity, to see if it actually is. In this case, it isn't; if anything, it's making a joke in the opposite direction, as other comments point out.
I think he is arguing almost exactly the opposite.

Poverty, poor education, etc are the underlying problem - the arsenic - and income inequality is one of the symptoms - like hair loss from chronic arsenic poisoning. Attacking income inequality directly would be like forcing haircuts on people to make wigs for people with arsenic poisoning. Not only does it not solve the problem - it helps a bit - but it actually harms innocent bystanders.

People like quick, simple solutions. It's a lot easier to raise taxes on billionaires than break the cycle of poverty or fix public schools.
Because in the real world there are transaction costs and people don't shift jobs over epsilon=$1. See also efficiency wages; for a couple of extra grand you can get a lot of extra loyalty and goodwill.
Right. And if you get nothing, you pay less.
Some people use LinkedIn more than other sites, some people use Twitter more than other sites etc. Even if LinkedIn has its issues it's worth being on it so you can get in contact or be contacted by people that prefer using LinkedIn. I know lots of management types that love it and it's the first place they check up on when background checking job applicants.
In my case, that was not true. While I had the high deductible bronze plan, I benefited from the insurance-company negotiated rates to still get a savings compared to the providers' billed rates.
Like I said, I love Spacemacs. I just don't like animation for animation's sake. It's the modern equivalent of blink and marquee elements. Just saying that I like the old site better.
For most sensors throughput is not the problem -- it's distance, and power consumption.
Are you familiar with the concept of "insurance"? Most people would ascribe value to it.
After watching Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, I decided to check out Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard on Amazon. 67% of raters gave it 5 stars.
Nice. I always assumed they used wrapping paper, but that makes a ton of sense given that time is the cost, a nice looking sack is clearly a much better idea.
Gigabyte: Decimal vs. Binary
> It is possible, or even likely, that a repository switch could lose that history on a project like emacs.

Emacs is, as far as I know, the project with the oldest history stored in git. It contains the first commit from April 18th, 1985.
https://www.openhub.net/p/emacs
Here, look at the first few:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/?ofs=124080
Because that link is likely to go obsolete as more commits are added, here's the first commit:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=ce5584...

That this commit even exists there is the result of 10 months of work by ESR, who perfected his RepoSurgeon tool on the Emacs repo, in order to cleanly pass over all the relevant commits and branches (and cleanup obsolete metadata from old version control systems). Here's one post about that work: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5634

(as an aside, I think RepoSurgeon is a very interesting tool that operates on a git-fast-import operation stream, as invented by Keith Packard when he moved X.org to git. A git-fast-import stream is a wonderful VCS interoperable format)

Anyhow, my demonstrated point is: of any projects, I expect that Emacs is the least likely to ever lose history in a repository switch.
> I guess Tumblr really is dead after Yahoo bought it.

Kids these days use it to swap emo/selfharm/anorexia/weird porn pics. It ain't dead yet, but mostly is to us "older generation" ;)
" I've used pretty much every major English language blogging platform and Medium has the simplest, smoothest writing experience, in part because they remove so many design and formatting options, while still leaving the ones most people want."

"I contend that text-based websites
should not exceed in size the
major works of Russian literature." [0]

But does it have to be so weighty? cf: "The Website Obesity Crisis" discussion of 4 days ago.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10820445
It bothered me too, thanks for posting about it.
His Linkedin profile sheds some light on this (don't want to be creepy and link to it or anything, it's pretty easily discoverable via his blog if you're interested).
Correct. These days, in the US, at least, it's more of a payment plan with an insurance component than true insurance. I think we've even sort of stopped referring to it as insurance and usually call it "health care" or something.
Can you summarize the healthcare system in Hong Kong? I'm particularly interested in options for non-citizens. Can you just walk into a private hospital and get treatment for cash? Or is it like so many places in the US where they don't want to talk to you unless you have proof of insurance?
Study Finds the Poorest Americans Die Younger Than the Poorest Costa Ricans
Pico Iyer is a well regarded author who has written a lot about Japan. If you look at it from a purely utilitarian writer-looking-for-exciting-experiences-to-write-about perspective, Indian-ethnicity British-American choosing to live in Japan isn't a bad bet.
A lot of what we (the west) believe about communism is shaped by western propaganda (though western propaganda is more about exaggerations and omission of facts than outright lies so you could argue that it's not as bad). If you ask old Russian people who were around at the time, they will often tell you that things were good.
howlin: People never or almost never "die in the streets". That's just scary FUD, not reality.
I'm actively hoping meatspace office buildings become a quaint, too-expensive-to-compete contrivance. With AR and virtual work spaces, I think it'll be possible to make people more productive than they would be without VR. If that happens, it will be economic suicide to NOT use VR. The savings in green-house gasses, the extra time people will have, the reduction in cost of living. We'd finally have a truly global economy.
> logged your country, IP address, screen resolution, OS and browser version, language preference and keyboard layout

I've got some bad news for you friend, all of that is tracked by every site that uses google analytics. Medium post [1] about abandonment: 7 minutes is optimal. They have plenty of other posts about writing good content based on their user metrics.

1: https://medium.com/data-lab/the-optimal-post-is-7-minutes-74...
> Yeah, the vast majority of us have healthcare, aren't really sick, and occasionally when we do get really sick, our insurance pays the bills.

That's the case in most modern countries. As far as data is concerned, the U.S. performs poorly in many metrics. The risk to individuals in the system compared to other nations is atrocious. The per-capita cost is atrocious. And the actual health outcomes are not spectacular.

I'm biased. As a Canadian I enjoy single-payer universal coverage and the freedom of not having to worry about private insurers and deductibles and copays and premiums and whether or not my doctor or hospital is covered or whether or not my insurer is going to fight me on something when my kid breaks his arm or what the health coverage implications will be if I switch jobs or start a business is totally worth the problems you tend to find in universal systems, in my opinion!
They should still add "(while supplies last)" as a clue.
You are conflating supply of housing with real estate speculation. You might as well complain that GOOG is up $750 and AMZN is $630; this is completely true, but it doesn't make searching the internet or buying stuff online cost more.
The top answer here is good:
http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/258/what-are-the...

"Since most of the other answers here deal with the downsides of site-wide SSL (mainly performance issues - btw these can easily be mitigated by offloading the SSL termination, either to an SSL proxy box, or an SSL card), I will point out some issues with having only the login page over SSL, then switching to non-SSL:

- The rest of the site is not secured (though this is obvious, sometimes the focus is too much on just the user's password).

- The user's session id must be transmitted in the clear, allowing it to be intercepted and used, and thus enabling the bad guys to impersonate your users. (This is mostly what the Firesheep hubbub was about).

- Because of the previous point, your session cookies cannot be marked with the secure attribute, which means that they can be retrieved in additional ways.

- I have seen sites with login-only-SSL, and of course neglect to include in that the Forgot-password page, the Change-password page, and even the Registration page...

- The switch from SSL to non-SSL is often complicated, can require complex configuration on your webserver, and in many cases will pop up a scary message for your users.

- If it's ONLY the login page, and f.e. there is a link to the login page from your sites home page - what is to guarantee that someone won't spoof/modify/intercept your homepage, and have it point to a different login page?

- Then there is the case where the login page itself is not SSL, but only the SUBMIT is - since that's the only time the password is sent, so that should be safe, right? But in truth that removes from the user the ability to ensure ahead of time that the password is being sent to the correct site, until its too late. (E.g. Bank of America, and many others)."

I imagine top YouTube contributors would be pretty annoyed if their account got hijacked.
It's bidirectional, that's the whole point. If it was unidirectional it would be no better than standard radio.
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That was the problem. Apparently, in order to cut down on paperwork, someone had just bought a bunch of $x gift cards and they were handed out to the people on support each week. As a one-time thing, it probably wouldn't have been a problem, but as an ongoing perk, it needed to be taxed like a bonus.
If you can't convince others to defend your country through rhetoric and compensation, perhaps the country isn't worth defending; your comment implicitly assumes every state is worth sacrificing young lives for.
if your unlucky in two years you will have one months to manually scrape any stuff you want before the site is shutdown.

You can download your Medium content with a single click.

Remember when having a [insert email provider] email address was a thing? ... And don't forget about [video upload site] or [source control site]. If you have the time to migrate from one service to the next go right ahead and play the game every few years.

Gmail, YouTube, Github. If they all gave you the same access to your content as Medium, and one of them were to disappear tomorrow, you will have had to "play the game" once every nine years on average per service. I doubt your worst-case definition of "every few years" is a common one.

If you are really lucky Medium will end up like Blogger with a perfectly okay reputation and is actually still getting improvements

You should disclose that you blog at Blogger. It doesn't help me personally make sense of the rest of your comment, but it might be relevant to others.
"Ev Williams (founder of Medium, Twitter, and Blogger) is well-connected in the tech and startup communities due to his past companies, so he was probably able to easily convince a lot of famous tech/startup people to switch."

Good point, also don't underestimate Medium is a progression of Twitter. Simple sign-in with ready made Twit handle recognition.
I actually find working with C in Swift to be far more pleasant than using C directly. The blog post by our friends at Apple on the subject -https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=6 - gives a pretty good background.
Flowchart programming would let you zoom out and parse the program flow visually, something that's not always easy to do when reading a textual implementation.

You're exchanging density at a detail level with being able to visualize the entire program from a 1000 feet high.
I've always thought that competitive gaming at the highest levels (League, DOTA, CS:GO, etc.) required a great deal of mental aptitude. Whether that translates to increased skill in other activities, I'm unsure.
Ok but startups don't get a free pass in this debate.

Startups that capture wealth by creating value that wouldn't exist otherwise are, in my opinion, unquestionably good, even if they increase inequality.

But don't some of them try to capture wealth by striving to get monopolistic positions using network effects, mergers and acquisitions and such? Didn't Peter Thiel even write a book promoting this?

Capturing wealth through a monopoly on things that would otherwise have been created by competitors and that would yield lower margins if it wasn't for the monopolistic features of the specific market, is not that ethically different from theft.

A lot of technologies are a small jump from previous building blocks. Bob Kahn and Tim Berners-Lee are responsible for a huge core part of the innovations Facebook and others rely on but it's Zuckerberg who made all the money because he captured a natural monopoly, not because he created more value than Kahn and Berners-Lee. Twitter is a simplistic and obvious product that someone else would have created a long time ago if it hadn't already existed. If it wasn't for network effects, how do we know there wouldn't be another social network providing 10x the value to its users than the current ones? The monopolistic network effects _prevents_ this kind of innovation through competition.

I'm not saying people shouldn't get a chance to be well compensated for the risk they take and the effort they put but even in startup world, at a certain level of very high inequality, when inequality reducing free market competition forces don't seem to be materializing for long periods of time, suspicions of an unethical and detrimental ecosystem can reasonably be justified.
It's not so much manufacturers as the sellers of the merchandise. I've had multiple sellers offer full refunds in exchange for better reviews after I left 1,2 or 3 star reviews of some pretty shitty products.
> your comment implicitly assumes every state is worth sacrificing young lives for.

no, it assumes those in control of the state believe it is worth sacrificing young lives for.
Tumblr definitely used to crash for me back in 2010/2011 when some of my posts got about 30k views.
The problem with UML is not that it's graphical, but because it's not the ultimate source of truth in your software. The UML isn't executable.

Instead you build the UML and then go write code to implement what you modeled in UML. Anything you change in the code is not reflected in the UML making it out of date.

If you could actually execute your UML it would be much more useful. As it stands, its just a standardized diagram for visualizing designs.
There should be one plan, available to every citizen. There should be one payer, the Federal Government.

Should this also be the case for food, housing, and cell phones? If not, why?
I agree wordpress is a lot more of a hassle than medium. Wordpress is way more powerful and I think medium fills a different niche. What kind of problems were you having? I've never experienced downtime or critical issues with tens of wordpress deployments.
In addition to what else has been said so far, some videos are private, and making those videos interceptable would allow unauthorised access. Moreover, YouTube is not used only for entertainment. Unlike standard television, where the content is essentially chosen and pushed to you, YouTube involves pulling specifically that content on those topics which you want personally. Also unlike standard television, a greater portion of the content is controversial, biased, or sensitive. Similar to the idea of plausible deniability, making the site HTTPS-only allows people not to feel ashamed of viewing with SSL. Otherwise, we would have the classic problem of those using encryption being seen as suspicious or shady, which would prevent people from seeking the information they truly want. In a world where all your thoughts are being monitored at all times, you have no free thought.
Most of these comments boil down to, "the food's awful and the portions are too small!". Someone wants better JS interop because Elm will be a small part of their stack; someone wants server-side and isomorphic apps because Elm will be a large part of their stack. Yes, the tooling and language features have a long way to go, and hopefully Evan will make progress while at NoRedInk. If you enjoy Haskell, you're not really Elm's target audience. If you hawkishly watch HN, you're probably not the target audience - the point is that it's sane programming for the rest of us.
In the US we ascribe much higher value to freedom of choice & markets, etc. We have elected to take the good (driving a disproportionate share of medical progress) with the bad (twice the cost for worse outcomes).
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> This place should be above pedantry and people coming from all viewpoints should be able to see why it's the case that if one is bad, so is the other.

That's some pretty weak logic. By this way of thinking, what's the difference between US-level inequality and African-dictatorship-level inequality? They both have the same impact, right?
> (imagine what would happen if there was a rape or robbery attempt by an Uber driver)

This has already happened: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34578477

They did some really incredible PR on it (adding the "emergency" button, quick dissociation of the driver and the company, etc), and seem to have gotten off basically scot-free in of public opinion.
Extremely cogent points, thanks for bringing them up. Your "Sure, we got engineered into falling into trap voluntarily." reminded me of the Panopticon'ish quality of an increasing number of the social networks and data nets we are forming. Who needs a Stasi, when the people themselves will eagerly straitjacket themselves into the pre-determined, desired conformity of whomever wields the power of this data corpora?

And it isn't just the sheer quantity and/or quality of the data either, that I see as different from before. Like you pointed out, the sheer ability to store the data indefinitely and efficiently retrieve it regardless of time passed adds a new dimension and quality to surveillance capabilities that too few outside the surveillance industry recognize.
> When PG says "income inequality isn't bad per se" I take it to mean that he sees the current level of income inequality, for example, in the US, as not bad,

Well, then you are more generous than I am. To me, it is a classic strawman and leads the whole essay astray. But I see then we do not disagree. I thought you were trying to support the strawman with your links.
With the decline of car ownership, a huge loss in jobs wills follow.

To me, one of the biggest long-term problems the U.S. faces is the rising gap between the rich and poor. Unfortunately, SDRs will only widen this.
That seems really crazy, but then... Frondo just said the company he was with before went out of business. Why? Were they, in fact, not charging enough to cover their costs (supposedly the motivation behind Oregon raising prices)?
I certainly fear poverty. No question there. That fear could be exacerbated by the erosion of the safety net in the US, and by economic segregation. Poor people experience worse health, higher violence, more intrusive police presence, less social stability.

I don't know what it would be like to move my family to Southeast Asia. How do they treat women? I suspect that it varies from country to country. Are their education systems better? I've heard that Korea is everything bad that we've been talking about in this thread, and a friend of mine from Singapore said: "I prefer the American schools. There are fewer beatings."

My problem is that I actually like education as an end unto itself. That's my culture. I just don't want it to kill people, or burn them out.
Around the world, dissatisfaction and pessimism on economy
Have you checked with hyper.sh?
Yup, and I have a sneaking suspicion "Elm" is "Evan's ML", except EML sounded bad.
How high is your deductible? I think the highest I've seen is $5k, which is nothing to sneeze at, but also not really in the realm of bankrupting most families.
How would you handle that at the warehouse though? Amazon is all about efficiency.
Can never need under any circumstances (prenatal care, for example).
>A good market would be one where you paid your doctor out of pocket for recurring, predictable costs and then bought insurance from a private company in order to guard against unforeseen catastrophes -- kind of like how your auto insurance policy doesn't pay for oil changes and car washes.

That works great if everyone is basically healthy. And it falls apart completely for people with ongoing medical conditions who either don't make a lot or are too sick to hold down a job.
Apologies if I misread your comment, but I read the following quote to imply that coercion was acceptable once the volunteer army was not enough:

>It's fine to have a volunteer force, until we need more. Then force is brought in.
I think there is an implied frustration with the fragmentation of "the open source effort", which is ... understandable. It should have been written more diplomatically. It seems to me to be a pervasive problem on anonymous forums.
> The short version of this is that there is a lot of money to be made from enterprises by selling them outdated technology because enterprises are almost always slow to adopt new technology.

A end-2011/2012 MBP has more than enough resources to fill most day jobs' needs. Give it an SSD and enough RAM and you can run IDEA just fine as on a brand new one.

The only thing that's not really possible is doing video editing or high-res photo editing because the screen is not high-res enough. Unless you're doing one of these two workloads, no need to shell out the double amount of cash if you don't profit from it. Or attach the MBP to an external screen, that works fine too.

Oh, also if you have >1k MBPs in service already and you don't want your IT service guys to have them sent to Apple for everything (after all, the guys are expensive and you want something to do for them other than packing Macbooks into parcels), the mentioned MBPs offer the advantage that you can do a LOT of the common stuff (hard disk swapping, battery replacement, RAM upgrades) yourself on these machines. When I had to swap the disk on my work MBP (end 2011) I needed under 5 minutes.

Also, enterprises like consistency because it makes spare parts acquisition and user troubleshooting really easy.
It takes literally 5 minutes to add a layer that will install whatever package you want.
If the government has billions of dollars in funds to blow up people, they have a few billion to heal people.
Or Uncle Mahmoud's genuine Persian rug emporium, going off the way that every helpful person in Istanbul has an uncle selling rugs in the market.
Um, it doesn't at all? Did you change "income equality" to "economic inquality" ?

What is extreme economic inequality vs normal economic inequality? Honest question -- I literally have no idea.
I don't believe it is acceptable, but the people in power probably (often?) do believe that it's acceptable, generally because it's not their own lives at risk.
Even OSX, potentially and with enough trickery