skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well said.

Macroeconomics is mostly closed sytem, not open system like microeconomics. Roughly 70% of US GDP is private consumption (household final consumption expenditure). Startups that build cool products need markets that can afford to buy them.

The top 1%-2% may be wealthy, but as a consumer segment they are not big enough to justify new microprocessor plant or Apple product line. More importantly, rich don't pay for innovation. Luxury phones like Vertu are diamonds and personal service, there is no pressure for innovation. You don't need speech recognition if you can afford personal service. You don't need self driving car if you have a driver or enjoy driving with your Porsche.

It's the middle class who creates demand for high-tech bleeding edge innovations. Who will buy the Oculus rifts and create enough cash flow to carry the VR-industry next 5 years? If the number of upper middle class families drops 5%, will Tesla lose 5% of their sales? The share of the GDP going to the middle class has been falling. It's down roughly 10% from 2000 and something like 30-20% from 70's.

Low income people spend more money into necessities and very small high income population just can't consume enough to be large demand creating force. If the income distribution of the country starts to resemble classical South American country, it will have the economic structure of classical South American country sooner or later.

PG has supply side view of the economy. It's not the whole picture.
grep -v "^#" config-file
Then the organization should have provided the text under an appropriate free license if they wanted it to be broadly reused. (Which is actually a good idea and more organizations should probably do for boilerplate they'd like others to cut and paste.)
I think there's also a bi-directional mode for it.
> "I'll pay almost anything to ensure that a sudden medical event doesn't bankrupt me."

Exactly, and reflects the mafia-esque choice imposed on the consumer when rates are increased: pay the absurd rate or face absolute ruin if (when) a sudden medical event occurs.
I think he's saying, you can buy a plan from outside the official marketplace. You still want to get a plan that qualifies as a real health insurance plan for the purposes of the penalty. It's probably pretty hard to NOT do that when buying a plan, however.
It's IP range or http URL pattern matching, we had to provide this information when we joined the music program. Interestingly they also try to exclude the related ad traffic, if any, but that's challenging due to how undocumented and varied ad networks are.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10835423
There was all manner of food preservation. Smoke it, salt it, pickle it, ferment it, dry it, thresh it and bag it up in cold storage.
I am okay with paying more to cover others who can't afford it. What I'm not okay with is losing my plan, my doctor, and my benefits, all while paying more.
I don't understand this, sorry. If the employer retains copyright, then isn't it the case that, in most situations, the applicant cannot legally license their work under an open-source license? (Because the employer owns the copyright, and may not agree to the licensing.) I don't see how the fact that it's open source makes any difference.
So get those costs under control, it's not like you need profiteers like your boy Shkreli profiteering off this stuff. Also ban drug marketing while you are at it. They spend half that money on marketing the drugs to consumers.
It's like VC. Most artists cost money, a couple rare ones make some money, one in a million earns like the Beatles. The managers/companies/etc aren't greedy, they're surviving.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10835416
I have no enthusiasm left for Oculus.

> But if you're browsing HN because you're a hacker / developer / dreamer you are crazy to discount how substantial this release is (especially if you haven't TRIED it yet!).

I bought a Rift DK2, because they said that they support linux. Their linux support was never complete and always pretty bad, especially mesa support was always buggy. So I haven't seen much in the DK2 until I sold it after oculus dropped linux support.

Enthusiasm for VR is still there, but for oculus? They didn't deliver what they promised for their DK2. The only good thing is that - unlike with the DK2 - linux users know for sure not to buy it now.

Maybe Valve will get it right with Steam OS.
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LVMerge and LVDiff showed how it's possible with LabVIEW.
>how else do you 'steal wealth'

For example by colluding with your competitors not to poach each-other's employees, thereby lowering your employees salaries, and stealing wealth directly from your employees. That's exactly what CEOs do. Even the Holy Steve Jobs himself.
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Configuration files are the main initial resource for information about the configuration. If there is no reason to suspect that reality mismatches configuration, there's no reason to go down that rabbit hole.

What the current configuration _means_, however, is a different matter. I have worked on systems where the explanatory comments are only accessible in a different system. One more extra hurdle, whether they are helpful or not...
Thank you! I didn't mean anything personal, just wanted to make a point on how valuable time is and that we should focus on real issues such as colonizing the space, curing cancer, MRSA, diabetes, CVD - you name them, reverse time, eradicate poverty, and countless others. Often we do exactly what the offenders want - to get outraged and enter the vicious circle that's often hard to escape. I think ignoring such attempts is the harshest penalty.
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... and it was sitting there in my mailbox, thanks! Is it possible to create more than one organization?
Those services will be able to take place at low-peak times (overnight). Currently getting my car serviced is a chore. When using a car in the future, that process will be invisible to me. And the costs will be absorbed into whatever per-use or subscription fee I choose to pay.
"Harvard" here is a symbol for a quality education. Not literally Harvard.

I recommend This American Life episode "Three Miles" if you want to hear more about how poor kids don't have the same access to education.
Did you mean that:

try:
os.remove(temp_file)
except OSError:
pass

Has a race condition? Care to explain?
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It's mildly terrifying. If you're unlucky enough to break a major bone or get cancer or something like that, you could literally be on the hook for millions of dollars. I lived overseas for a couple of years, and when I got back to the US one of the first things I did was obtain health insurance because of this.
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No, but he should shut up about it if he's not going to take it seriously.
I don't think society faces that binary choice exactly, I think the reduction to a binary choice is pointless, and I think pg is really bad at knowing when to keep his mouth shut.

In the end he's trying to exonerate himself from the 'hunters,' but he's not even making arguments the hunters would understand. It's all directed towards people like him.

He's not saying "You shouldn't eat me," he's saying "They shouldn't eat me" to the other prey animals (or those that already don't make much of an issue of income inequality).

I don't know why he bothers. Say he's saying something uncontroversial endorsing weakening 'the link between money and political influence' or some such. He should say that instead!

He's either deliberately inflammatory or he really has no idea how terrible he sounds.
That's the kind of smug naivete that makes young programmers so insufferable. Your use of "should" in your two sentences is a hidden, inappropriate abstraction. You're positing the existence of a "correct design" for expand-file-name and working backwards to how you'd write it in a modern ground-up development project.

The actual problem at hand was rewriting that function in a way that doesn't break the uncounted thousands of usages in the wild, which depend on the self-described "complex and likely to have subtle bugs" original implementation.
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This was my read on this too. foreigny name ergo not trustworthy. The same point could have been made just as well with "Honest Joe's Used Car and Certs."
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Dick James was instrumental in the creation of the Beatles showbiz phenomenon, getting them on UK TV talent shows. Easy to forget this seminal effort and stake once the fab 4 became famous.

Separately, Michael Jackson also owned the Elvis Presley catalog. He shared ownership of the Beatles catalog with Sony in later years, and there was a lot of bad blood between them.

If you are into intrigue it is very hard to find out Jackson's true worth at his death but easy to follow the money afterwards...
If I had a self-driving car and some time on my hands, I'd get rid of my home and be in that thing practically 24/7, seeing the land and enjoying having it drive me around. No way I would rent in that situation. I'd definitely buy. There will be a whole class of similar nomads who will spring up once it becomes truly viable.

The future is not one-size-fits-all. Just because Uber execs and investors are blathering about how personal car ownership will go away (meaning they will own everything, how convenient) doesn't mean it actually will happen that way.
I've only seen the blue felt bag once, when buying my wife some (cheap) jewelry. For items big enough, they use plain blue wrapping paper. That's what I usually see. It seems like a perfectly adequate wrapping job to me -- certainly better than my notoriously uncoordinated self would do.

For the record, Amazon charged me 3.95 per item for gift wrapping. I don't know if it changes based on the size of the item, whether you're a Prime member (I am), or other factors. But it's not always $6.
"but his original economic inequality essay was indistinguishable from fox news uncle"

More like a much wiser Uncle telling his inexperienced nephews why they are making a bad decision.

"And that startups somehow occurred in periods with much less economic inequality."

Startups did occur in periods with much less economic equality, but there were also much less government regulations.

PG is saying that the current solutions for economic equality, which is always an increase in taxes and regulations, will mean the death of startups. He's right. It's a warning for the future generations of startups.

Anyone with wealth won't really be effected, because other countries will accept them (and their tax dollars) with open arms.

Look at any of the Nordic countries: They all tout income equality, but your only options for work are the government or a big corporation.

Startups are nearly impossible to get past the initial stages because regulations and taxes kick in and your lifeblood is cut off before you even get a chance to get anything going. Investors also steer clear of the entire region. This is a great indicator that it is not conducive for any sort of small business.

This bottleneck prevents prosperity and creates an environment where citizens are more dependent on big corporations and there is almost no chance of moving up the socioeconomic ladder.

It also means less of a chance of getting a loan from a bank, which is another requirement for someone with no money to start a business.

I've never met a group that tries so hard to sabotage their own future success/vote against their own self-interests.
Hence "cold boot attack"
That's the comment saying why not to remove the commented-out code. The commented-out code itself was presumably there in 1985.
When I read this stuff, I'm a little astounded about how bad the situation must be in other states. Here in the Pacific Northwest, my premiums have actually been going down and the plan offerings are getting better. The provider I was on did go out of business so I had to switch, and I'm now paying less for more services.

And, to be totally frank, having had a pre-existing condition that kept me from buying any insurance (literally no one would sell to me pre-ACA), the law's been a net positive for me.

I feel bad for people in other states, in Oregon it was been a pretty sweet deal for me.
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The problem is not having a maximum speed IMO; the problem is having a maximum speed that discriminates based upon the type of content being requested.
I see bigotry, stereotypes, and generalizations are alive and well on HN. This is not an argument.
Weird - this was not one I expected to defend.

Let me re-phrase:

The first time I Heard of a hero block was in the Bootstrap Docs, and it was soon after that it became a phrase amount my colleagues.

As to where Bootstrap got the idea from - one would assume it's a phrase from serialised graphic novel production
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What ambiguity are you referring to? It has nothing to do with value versus reference types. Reference types have the exact same difference between the two languages. In Swift, mutable variables are captured by reference by default, and in Objective-C they're copied by default. Value versus reference doesn't make a difference. For example:

NSView *view = [NSButton new];
void (^block)(void) = ^{ NSLog(@"%@", view); };
view = [NSTextField new];
block();

In Objective-C, this will log an NSButton. Translate it to Swift and it will log an NSTextField.

I don't think either behavior is more correct, it's just a fairly arbitrary choice. IMO it's surprising only if you've learned to expect one way because you worked in a language that does it that way, then encounter a language that does it the other way.
Microsoft isn't the only one making Windows smartphones
I am still looking for an easily configurable self-hosted dynamic DNS solution. Signed updates to BIND9 are tricky. I really just want to delegate *.d.voltagex.org for when I have to move to an ISP that doesn't offer static v4/v6 IPs.
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Yeah, that sounds pretty accurate to me and likely what the submitter was conveying. I was only commenting on the intentional misspelling part of your comment :)
The actual lines themselves may not have changed much in your codebase, but unless you are diciplined about stuff like not introducing whitespace change noise, its very easy to rototill an entire codebase over a peroid of years.
> I am genuinely surprised that I am even slightly offended by this... its not a rational choice.

Racism is not rational. You feeling offended could have more to do with your own prejudice being exposed (the joke worked) than feeling sorry for the arabs that may have been offended by this (there is, as of yet, no sign pointing to that).

Humor uses stereotypes. That's why the owner of the Kwik-E-Mart is an Indian illegal immigrant named Apu Nahasapeemapetilon. If such humor makes one uncomfortable, do you really think that is out of empathy for the Indians? I think it is more likely that one has a thin skin or does not want to see their own stereotypes confirmed.

Also the context is important here (see the Comodo Hacker). The choice for a foreign name and an untrustworthy-sounding business name was not willy-nilly. Finally: Have a hacker tip of the day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAQqrnX7BsM
> Literally nobody is arguing for that. That's a humongous straw man, it's the same straw man pg used in his original article, and it's complete nonsense. "Reduce income inequality" does not mean eliminate all income inequality.

So you seem to agree that income inequality can be a good thing. If you didn't, you'd want everyone to have the same income. Maybe I misunderstood PG's essay, but the main takeaway I got was that income inequality CAN be a good thing for a society, and that the income inequality caused by successful startups are not an important enough problem (if it is even a problem) to society for us to try to focus on it.
If you're not being paid for on call, quitting is the only message that will get through to the employer. At least among physicans, that I know of, call is written into the contract on a per-day basis, and it generally pays well.
There's always freedns.afraid.org ... also, if you use google domains, they include dyndns with their registration. I've actually been moving most of my domains over, and been very happy with the lack of high pressure sales.
Growing up in the Midwest, where bird and deer hunts actually put meat on the table for a broke family, I disagree.
> Wouldn't the problem with that be, insurance companies would have an incentive to raise prices as high as they can, knowing that the public would basically be required by law to pay them (or an equivalent penalty)?

The public is already required by law to pay the insurance companies. But with a fixed, lower fine, I suppose there's a "laffner curve", where insurance companies can't raise their prices too much or enough people will opt for the IRS penalty that the insurance market would stop having enough buy-in.
Yeah, but it's a relatively safe bet that an organization would rather be represented by their own carefully-reviewed, professionally-crafted verbiage than one hastily thrown together by a volunteer editor, and thus would not pursue action against the publisher.

I'm not saying that Wikipedia should use content without the appropriate licensure, but in practice, copyright is violated as a matter of routine to provide some fairly basic services. Copyright law should be amended to prevent liability for conventional uses.
> Use reST for docstrings

I would suggest also using the Napoleon [1] extension now included with recent versions of Sphinx. It allows you to use Google or Numpy-style reST formatting to describe parameters and types without all the javadoc-ish noise from :param:, :type:, and others.

[1] https://sphinxcontrib-napoleon.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Nice. I imagine this was intentional too? http://imgur.com/6oZ7cmK Do your ad-buys suffer a loss in price because your logo overlays it?

I had the same knee-jerk reaction as thewronbiennale but after thinking about it, I like it. It's like saying: "sure, we're gonna sell ads, but our blog still comes first." Clever.
How many people use public transit in Europe, or Japan and Korea?
So what? The reason so few people use public transit across the US is very likely because it sucks at getting them door-to-door in a reasonable amount of time.

The question is: if that changes, what might people choose to do? The example of large cities like NYC at least teaches us that the American preference for solo car travel is not fixed.
> In Greece 80% of virgin oil production is extra virgin. In Italy it's less than 50%, while in Spain less than 20%.

Just a note: After wikipedia in 2013, world production of virgin olive oil was 2.8 million tonnes. Spain produced 1.1 million tonnes, or 39% of world production in this year whereas in Greece the production of virgin olive oil was only 0.31 million tonnes. Therefore, please note that with your data both countries will produce almost the same amount of liters of extra virgin in fact.

If you find that in Spain less than 20% of the virgin olive oil is extra, this is a good thing, not bad. Means that if you read "extra virgin" in the tag is top quality. Only the best of the best can be tagged as extra virgin (More than 80% of the candidates are eliminated in the process). Of course, the controlled and 'low' production is also a marketing strategy to keeping prices of this premium product always high. Spain could produce much more bottles of extra virgin if they wanted to do so.

After wikipedia: Extra-virgin olive oil accounts normally for less than 10% of oil produced (extra-virgin + virgin + refined + pomace) so to find extra-virgin produced in California should be currently difficult, but the percentage is 80% in Greece, 65% in Italy and 50% in Spain and is not difficult to find in the european markets. Is just that is not cheap.
They are, however, incredibly useful in Erlang. Most languages don't ~need~ closures. The whole point is that they're useful, though.

Haskell doesn't have mutable state; it still has closures.

Mutable or immutable is somewhat orthogonal; I admit, coming from Erlang to Javascript I was -shocked- and very facepalmy when I learned that closures close over variables that can still vary. That is, I couldn't just pass back a function and expect it to behave the same way depending when I called it. I had to add an additional scope in place and bind the values anew (i.e., a new function, passing the values being closed over into it as params). Immutable is much easier to reason about, much easier to write with, and despite being more limited in what you can do with them, I'd argue just as useful. Everything it prevents you from doing there is some other, safe way of achieving; the same as comparing mutable vs immutable in other contexts.
The U.S. has trade negotiations which tend to include mutual or compatible copyright law with most of the countries in the world.
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Is it water proof? Does it float?
I believe Scott Adams wrote a book, "The Dilbert Effect" about this.
You are the first person I've met who finds Jeff Dunham's comedy funny.
Not exactly.

Per the article, the comment in the comment was added in 2001 when the comment was recreated after someone else deleted it.

The original commented out version predates the first public release back in the mid-80s.
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Care to elaborate? Your post looks like a knee-jerk reaction to the title, I don't see anything keeping charitable gardens/CSA/etc from popping up in lieu of charitable bird/deer hunts.
There is no scientific evidence that we SHOULD be vegans which is basically what he is claiming. (Just like there is no evidence that we should stop consumerism just because we know that it effects the environment.

And so despite his attempt to portray himself as the scientifically objective person he is the very non-objective person Kuhn talks about.