skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great essay. I was struck by this though:

> A woodworker creates wealth.

There's an odd can of worms in that simple statement, which is roughly reduced to: How do you measure wealth?

Part of the controversy is that wealth is often a summation of net worth in [dollars | yen | euro | yap stones]. However, if you look at the simple act of the woodworker selling a chair, the total dollars in circulation before and after the woodworker sells his chair is constant. Therefore, the woodworker is now in possession of a greater percentage of the total dollars, and consequently "inequality" has now increased, due to the (mostly) zero-sum definition of the money supply.
> The wheels are mounted with a double wishbone suspension based on model-
car oil dampers, but they are not propelled in any way.

From the paper on the Disney Research site. [0]

[0] https://www.disneyresearch.com/publication/vertigo/
I'm not really well informed about this, but here - when a company "closes" - they're assigned (by the state) a insolvency manager. From that point on, the manager will hire whoever he sees fit to handle the spoils, so to speak. From what I know, the process is rather obscure (as in, corrupt). It typically ends up with employers pillaging the spoils before the insolvency guys come in. Very third-world, I know - I have a pocket microscope from the spoils, actually.
Wondering how Swift will play in this arena now that is open sourced - and performance ? According to this (http://www.primatelabs.com/blog/2014/12/swift-performance) for some workloads does approach C++.
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nobody (should?) looks for satisfaction at work. that's the marketing human resources and PR feed you so you spend more time at work.

work is a means to sustenance. you help someone make a lot of money (either exploring space or showing ads in a plagiarized fart app) for a paycheck and then you use that money to sponsor your life style.

work is not supposed to be a hobby.
He takes the easy way out on the war theory: It would be awful, of course, so let's not think about it.

But think about it. Would historical WWII be possible in today's United States? Introduce the draft and send current US population off to die in Europe? I think you'd see intense levels of political resistance, draft dodging and desertion in the field. Fragmentation means you probably can't unite the whole country to die for... whatever anymore.
if you want gear that can last and stand up to heavy use, buy professional kitchen equipment from restaurant stores. plastic consumer stuff is always cheaply built because they compete on price.
Guard makes things less readable because it "hides" variable declarations. If you break it out onto it's own line I'm sure it would make things look downright ugly.

"Don't put multiple statements on a single line unless you have something to hide" - https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle

(If you disagree or if you think I said something wrong and my comment deserves to be hidden, I'd love to know why!)
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World War 2 and large companies like GE and IBM kept everyone the same.
Seems the issue is not settled. NMC were also tested: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25714114

and

"More HF is generated per cell as the number of cells increases. The NMC cells tested generate significantly less HF gas than the LFP cells. However, only one cell type from a single supplier was tested so it is impossible to conclude if this is a general characteristic of NMC cells."

http://www.egvi.eu/uploads/Scania%20-%20Abuse%20testing%20of...
Dismiss it, but you don't have to tell the entire world about your uninformed opinion. It's not as valuable as you suspect.
Q: Can I use this on top of any non-ACID-compliant database to avoid race conditions?
It's not as much of a mess as it seems there. I started out with James Long's config as well but quickly simplified everything and ended up with the following (left out some project-specific stuff):

https://gist.github.com/Ambroos/8299d0c0d322cd3a736d

As most complex things in Webpack do, it still feels like a hack at first.

Using simply /^(?!\.|\/).+/i in externals is way easier than scanning the filesystem for module names and usually more reliable. You simply assume that everything that is accessed with a relative path is local, and everything else is an external module. Add libraryTarget: 'commonjs' to tell Webpack to simply use classic requires for externals and to bundle everything up in the end, and you're done. Add loaders and plugins to your own preference.

You end up with one giant Javascript file that, when ran through Node, does exactly what you expect it to (but still requires NPM dependencies externally, so you can't 'just' use the bundled file without npm install).
I use T-Mobile and recently traveled from the US to Mexico. Everything was free including voice and 4G data - http://explore.t-mobile.com/3countryplan
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/three-sins-avoid-while-still-... My two cents on this
Sometimes more than once per day :)

Crates.io has 3700 crates in stock. That said, there are still gaps, like with any young ecosystem. It's really progressing nicely though. And given Rust's domain, there are packages for really interesting stuff, like OS dev...
This article is a decent intro to the concepts and implications of gene drivers. Based on the title, I expected something new; I thought "self-driving genes" would be somehow different than the CRISPR-based developments of late.
When the Beatles found themselves taxed at 95%, they wrote a song about it ("Here's one for you, nineteen for me..."), but they didn't hang up their guitars.
I would find it hard to believe that c++ can be that much faster for many websites since the bottleneck would be the I/O subsystem. I don't understand how they are getting this 40x speed up. I wonder what the benchmark looks like.
If I was going to email a patch to a project,

- I would already be following the mailing list and/or the bug tracker,

- I would already have read the relevant guidelines before starting to work on the tree, and

- I would already have figured out to whom should I refer my patch.

And no lock-in to git itself. The project can use git, hg, cvs, svn, darcs, rcs, sccs, whatever. I can, after obtaining the tree, create diffs to orig files and be done with it.

If I was going to contribute to a project on github (which I did a few times), the above-mentioned are still relevant, if one wants to contribute to a projects, they should be familiar with it. Also, I would have to know how things work the github way. And because the github way is so mechanical, it becomes hard to enforce project rules.

Then, the github web interface is score oriented: Commit numbers, release numbers, source tree layout in the face, source language statistics, search that can take me to other projects, profiles with contribution numbers, many other irrelevant stuff. It makes one want to "score", and "show off". It distracts from the actual goal of one's contribution: sharing.
I like the term social mobility. A person's station in life should not be tied to their parents' income level.
Let me come out and say - I think OP is wrong. When people write 500 line long functions the only way they are going to test it is, run with real input and see if it breaks.

Such testing is not only insufficient, but any regression that is added as a result of a change will go unnoticed too, until a real user hits that bug. You will notice how most people who are supporting long functions - don't even talk about how the heck they are going to test it.
The development mode of New Relic (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agents/ruby-agent/developer-m...) is another good tool to find out about response times of your controller actions and the number of SQL queries. I'm pretty sure you can use it even if you're not on a paying plan for New Relic. We switched to this after we weren't been able to get rack-mini-profiler to work in a Rails app for a single-page app as the Rails app only returns JSON and doesn't render templates.
There are two sides to this problem. One is that - making meditation to be a game where in, you don't understand exactly what you are paying attention to and why it matters but just that you need to increase your "game" score. This is probably not an optimal outcome because meditation can enable one to understand their inner world as well as they do their outer world. Such understanding could help solve the emotional crisis that they undergo.
Another side to this story is that those who have spent time and effort understanding the "why" and "what" of meditation can probably benefit from some push to meditation more often. I believe we should let such choices to be left over to individuals.
Everybody has different priorities.

I'd easily take a 20% pay cut (all else being equal) if I could find a job I don't need to commute into Seattle, Redmond or Bellevue for. Unfortunately, I've had zilch luck so far.
WWII had a cohesive effect on the American society and economy that lasted approximately until the 1980s. The results were more equality and less fragmentation during that period.

Since the 1980s technological progress and also social factors brought an ever increasing re-fragmentation, which, if not properly addressed, might lead to problems soon.

Acknowledging these problems is remarkable -- I think it's the first time pg did that.
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This essay is excellent, but I wonder a bit about the fact that it focused on the US only. On a global scale I think that experiences are continuing to compress and will continue to do so for at least a few generations.

If this is true, does it invalidate pg's overall thesis? I'm not sure. Interesting to think about though.
Huh? The question isn't even about whether it's possible to create a "vast internet property". The question is about how much of the money the creator, heirs and descendants get to control personally.
More concretely, access to capital is a function of ones personal/professional network. The greater the divide due to income inequality, the less likely one has access to capital.
The basic problem is that very few apps are designed with the mindset that file I/O can take some time. So they'll freeze until you get all of the packets. Even if it only takes 2-3 seconds, that's sort of unacceptable.

In this case, a better experience could be had via a web-to-torrent proxy. Browsers are one of the few apps which don't freeze while waiting for remote I/O...
But from experience a collocated team works better - some types of work are more suited to remote working LOB support for a mature system for example.
I found Google Now can't hold a candle to Siri. Neither of these assertions is particularly useful. ;-)

Actually, what I've found under the hood is that each expects to be used in a particular way, and when used the other way, isn't as good at it.

Sort of like the expression that you belong to your cat, the assistant trains you.
I made one over a weekend: vocowl.com (give it few secs to load)
Source: https://github.com/pathikrit/vocowl
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A (mostly) golden age in the US was caused by conditions that forced the population to work together.

The conditions have disappeared, so the economic and social order is unraveling.

Let’s acknowledge the issue and let that acknowledgment guide our policy decisions. We want this golden age back(?).
Not exactly. Before the woodworker builds the chair, they have some wood. The value of the wood is less than the value of the chair. So building the chair increases the total value of the economy.

The actual sale of the chair to someone else is a NOOP, it’s just shuffling assets around.
Apologies as I'm not an economist, but one thing that seems wrong/misleading about using the phrase "income inequality" in the media is that it usually follows a populist, single variable: "they have more money, so of course they took it from everyone else!!"

Which implies modern money is a finite closed-system ala the gold standard. It's not, and money is basically created via the Fed, debt, QE, etc.

Seems the real problem is not feel-good bashing and taxing of "high-pay" (which usually just means middle class), but instead the people and organizations that are beyond income such as bankers, banks, politicians, etc. who control that creation and distribution.
People still got rich when the top tax percentage was 90%. I personally don't care what people make, but I care when they use their massive wealth to influence policies which affect me. If you have more access to my representative than I do and you don't even live in my congressional district, then I want that to stop, one way or another.
There is actually a lot more turnover of wealth than in the past and most of the richest people in the world are self-made (albeit most were not exactly from humble beginnings).

> Over the past 30 years, the origin of the wealth of the richest people in the United States has shifted away from old, inherited money. Our new metric, the self-made scores developed for the Forbes 400, shows that increasingly we find self-made billionaires among the ranks of the richest people in the country. This has accompanied the incredible increase in wealth of the members of the Forbes 400, which has jumped 1,832% times since 1984, when the total net worth of our list was $125 billion, compared with $2.29 trillion today [0]

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2014/10/03/there-a...
Historically, prior to pearl harbor you also would not get the United States population to back you for a war. The political resistance would have likely been armed revolt, the general population was strongly against war.

However, after pearl harbor, the average citizen took a blow and was more than willing to fight. They wanted to protect their homes, and they felt if they didn't the Japanese would bring the fight to them.
Pg, in effect: "if there was no economic inequality there would be no startups (and all the good they bring). The real problem is the number of super poor, not the number of super rich".

But this is a straw man: no one is arguing for total economic equality, just a reduction in inequality. Further, pg asserts that startups are wealth creators, and they thus create rich founders without having influence on poverty in this country. This is patently false: the best startups make money eating other people's lunch, and they concentrate this money in the hands of the founders. Jeff bezos holds money that would have found its way to book store owners, Netflix money from video rental services, Uber money from taxis service owners, etc. The startups are often the better solution, you will not see me hailing a yellow cab, but the economic inequalities they are introducing must still be addressed.
If this piqued your interest; or left you wondering, I'd recommend reading Piketty's "Capital in the twenty-first Century".

As Graham's piece concludes; if we don't do something, we'll get into trouble.

- « Terrific work causes us to think of additional questions. »
I love this short clip of Margaret Thatcher being confronted about rising income inequality. She makes the argument against that kind of thinking as well as anyone ever has. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okHGCz6xxiw
PG is a butt.
It wouldn't be that hard to handle without any further privacy invasion: online shop waits O(12) hours before reporting to AdSense, and if visitor bought the product within that time, reports other, related product instead.

(If the ads in the first 12 hours are important, it makes little sense that they keep advertising for a whole month.)
David Chapman wrote an interesting set of posts about fragmentation from the perspective of culture, counterculture, and subcultures.

http://meaningness.com/meaningness-history

That's the intro for a series of posts listed at the bottom.

Here's a "gigantic chart that explains everything": http://meaningness.com/modes-chart

Here's "systems of meaning all in flames": http://meaningness.com/systems-crisis-breakdown
According to the paper the wheels are unpowered so wouldn't there only be the rolling friction of the wheel's bearings between the car and the wall? It'd be some but very little.

> The wheels are mounted with a double wishbone suspension based on model-car oil dampers, but they are not propelled in any way.
Anyone know of any companies working this as a primary/singular focus?
I had a job that was incredibly fulfilling for about three years. The remaining five years became less and less fun, leading me to move on after more than eight years with the company. Saying that "nobody looks for satisfaction at work" is an over-generalization. I worked with others who also loved being there. It might be rare, but it happens.
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This x1000. I can't tell you how much better traveling internationally is with T-Mobile. I always have service and it's useful for maps, trip advisor, foursquare, google, email access, etc. It's not super fast as it's 2G, but it totally gets the job done. I'm surprised none of the others have tried to match this.

Overall, the service/connectivity is great as well in the US. They were also the first with wifi calling. Highly recommend to anyone.
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Exactly. As someone working in Spain, I can live a comfortable life on my salary, but I don't feel rich. I would certainly struggle to give up working for a year and try and bootstrap a startup from what I can save (it's possible but it would be tough).
Can News Organizations Ever Get Past Asking These Sort Of Simplistic Questions In Thear Headlines?

The TL;DR of this article is, as it usually is with such questions, "Doesn't really seem like it, results are inconclusive, but you gotta start somewhere so why not."

You're better off skipping the read, honestly.
"But automation leaves a lot of people off the payrolls without jobs"

No, it does not.

Before automated agriculture something like 90% of the population was directly engaged in agricultural labor.

We don't have 90% unemployment or anything like it, and we also have social supports for those who are unemployed (also largely nonexistent in those days).

" And incomes have dropped more than inflation in most cases for the poor which means it is not cheaper for those less able to afford it."

This is pure nonsense. Sorry, it just is.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/04/how-amer...

In 1900, 43% of income was spent on food.

In 2003, only 13% of income was spent on food.
We don't need startups. The only reason why we "need" startups is because you can't get anything done in this society unless the property owners and capital holders get the majority of the profit.

I bet a lot of people prefer the version of history where great men do all the great work and drag the rest of humanity along with them: peerless, fearless leaders who need to be rewarded with wealth and power because otherwise they would not contribute their might and talent to the betterment of the world and we would all be living in shit-thatched straw huts because only the great men who own property can save us from our inferior nature.
Wow, both of you need to stop flaming each other and say something valuable. No one should care about your line by line refutations of each other (though I'm sure some will make the mistake of caring).

What matters if what you can teach us about microkernels vs. monolithic kernels. The original "Microkernels are slow and Elvis didn't do drugs" somewhat does this, though the presentation as a series of lengthy quotes and the dismissive presentation of viewpoints (describing opponents as calling people "fags") could use some real work. But all three messages above this one are a waste.
On that note: the most offensive economic inequality isn't the 1% vs. the 99%, which successful startup founders would find themselves on the wrong side of.

It's more about the 80 individuals with more wealth than half the world's population [1] – which, yes, does include "startup founders" such as Gates, Ellison, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Page & Brin, etc. But the vast majority of successful startup founders aren't in this group. Even if they were, the proposals are to keep people from becoming quite as obscenely wealthy, as you've pointed out.

[1] http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/meet-the-80-people-who-ar...
> The creative class flocks to a handful of happy cities, abandoning the rest

At least this trend is one that individual programmers can choose to resist, assuming we don't have to move to Silicon Valley or Seattle to get good jobs. I, for one, don't have any desire to leave my home town of Wichita, Kansas.
> pie fallacy: that the rich get rich by taking money from the poor.

I've read this in other pg essays. But I've always wondered if there is some truth to that 'fallacy' and if shouldn't be simply dismissed with an absurd and simplistic example of generating wealth by fixing an old car.
Dreams From My Father is a pretty good book. He wrote it before he started running for President, so it's actually quite a nice insight into his mind. It's worth reading just to get to know a hard-working, successful biracial man who had some very interesting experiences.
Do you think no labor can occur unless someone owns its product?

I mean, that's the implicit conclusion of bourgeois ideology, but it's ridiculous when made explicit.
Reducing economic inequality is merely a lesser form of eliminating it. I think the tough question people should consider here is whether relative inequality or absolute standard of living is the more important metric. If absolute standard of living rises faster as economic inequality increases, why should we try and limit economic inequality?
Robert Morris and Paul Graham are criminals. Morris crashed a large portion of the Internet in 1988. There is a large amount of evidence Graham had foreknowledge of this worm, which was presented in court.

How much jail time did Morris do? Nothing. I don't think Graham was even charged.

This is what inequality is. I know people who were arrested for hacking in early 1990, with less evidence, less destruction etc. But they were "spics, niggers and white trash" as one security consultant put it. Not the son of an Ivy League kid whose father had connections to the military-industrial state, or whose father was a physicist.

You can't have a better example of two born to the manor, silver spoon kids. They consider crashing a large number of machines on the Internet a prank, a hack etc., because people in their class can get away with such things, like the affluenza kid who was arrested. You don't get away with things like that as a kid. A few months after Morris crashed a sizeable percentage of Internet hosts, with indications of Graham's foreknowledge, three MoD hackers were arrested for crashing ONE machine. The evidence was flimsy - because while all had been on the machine (along with many others), none had crashed it. They had public defenders, and all three went to jail for crashing a machine none of them crashed. Morris walked for crashing thousands of machines, as did Graham who was never even charged.

Of course people in such a class want to keep things the way they are.

I don't even want to go into the other nonsense about wealth. It's the difference between rentier wealth and the wealth created by labor. You're not going to read about that in any mainstream economics text though.

This is the truth, which is why it will be downvoted to oblivion, or possibly even erased. Because his essay is bullshit, and we all know it.