skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US does well on cancer, but that's because cancer is mostly a disease of old age and the US spends a lot of public money via medicaid on older people.

> 98% of the US has completed at least 5th grade.

There's a lot of illiteracy in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States

> The study, the most comprehensive study of literacy ever commissioned by the U.S. government, was released in April 2002 and reapplied in 2003 giving trend data. It involved lengthy interviews of over 90,700 adults statistically balanced[clarification needed] for age, gender, ethnicity, education level, and location (urban, suburban, or rural) in 12 states across the U.S. and was designed to represent the U.S. population as a whole. This government study showed that 21% to 23% of adult Americans were not "able to locate information in text", could not "make low-level inferences using printed materials", and were unable to "integrate easily identifiable pieces of information." Further, this study showed that 41% to 44% of U.S. adults in the lowest level on the literacy scale (literacy rate of 35 or below) were living in poverty.[2]
AoE II HD [1] and AoE II HD: The Forgotten [2] are currently on 80% discount holiday sale on Steam.

Offer ends in 29 hours and 15 minutes as of this writing.

[1]: http://store.steampowered.com/app/221380

[2]: http://store.steampowered.com/app/239550
Flickr never caused the problems Instagram does, and maybe the narcissism and neurotic behavior Insta encourages is purely accidental but it is what is is, which is a pretty nasty invention I'm not so comfortable dismissing.
What I'm a bit puzzled by here is that if I'm reading the X-axis right the rot sets in at 3 weeks ... I mean, that's not very far in. It seems odd that the graphs are both otherwise so linear.

I just EOLed a project which started 8 years ago ... at least one bug existed for 7.5 years of that. It was a minor UI bug and just bumped along at Priority Low with no-one really minding it until the company got acquired and the project got merged into another one. There were others as well.

My point is: without splitting the "backlog" by priority it is hard to see if this is really "software death" or just "bug fossilization" ...

Maybe I should draw my own graph.
Computing Pioneers: Some funny and lesser known facts about Hopper, Babbage and Co
Rs user interface kit released
Yeah, the way some people target people's employers to get people fired is a horrible thing. As is how a lot of said employers will happily kick someone to the curb because their 'reputation' apparently matters more than being fair to their employees.

Still, it can get even worse than that. I've seen cases where people have basically been blacklisted from an industry based on what they said online or their political views. It's horrible, likely illegal in many places, but there's definitely a crowd that wishes they can block people with 'unpopular' political opinions from various industries.
Xargs with crawled data sounds like a nightmare. Allow me to link to example.com?$(rm -rf /).
I don't think 80% at an early stage is ever justified as it not only hurts future investors from considering you in future rounds, but it hurts founders.

I like PG's equity equation to calculate the value of investors. I don't think any investment can increase your odds of success by 400%.

[0]:http://paulgraham.com/equity.html
No-one disputes that protests like those seen in the Indian independence movement, the Civil Rights movement, the Iraq War opposition, the Arab Spring, the gay rights movement etc are extremely valuable and necessary.

Where people object is where justifiable protest switches to ugly mob behaviour, including things like looting of innocent business operators, indiscriminate violence and vandalism, etc , just like what happened in Tottenham.

Mob behaviour, by definition, is where people stop thinking critically about issues and blindly follow whatever their peers are doing. This can never be beneficial. Independent, critical thought is essential for positive change to be effected.

The problem with the modern Social Justice Warrior movement is that it is counter to the interests of true social justice, as the people who need the most protection are the smallest minorities, and these are the people who lose out the most when everyone is banding together in mobs and deliberately shutting silencing debate and individual expression. Meanwhile, the "social justice warriors" are far too busy focusing on how moral they seem rather than how much real social justice they're achieving.

If your response is - as I would hope - that true campaigners for social justice are not like this, then that's ok - they're not the ones being criticised.
Reminds me of Doom on a printer: http://www.contextis.com/resources/blog/hacking-canon-pixma-...
Define "communist", and we can have a meaningful debate.

This is the point: The US right tries to label anything they perceive as to the left of it socialist or communist and by extension to equate all of these ideologies with Soviet or Chinese inspired socialism with total disregard for the fact that while it also includes related ideologies, this spectrum also encompasses ideologies that are further apart than Republicanism and Stalinism.

It just becomes comical when e.g. European style social democrats gets lumped in with Stalinists, ignoring that Stalin himself ordered all Komintern member parties to treat the social-democrats as fascists (more precisely they were deemed to be "social fascists") and to oppose them with the same urgency as they opposed Hitler, effectively destroying any chance of a united opposition to Hitler, and draining both.

And it just becomes ridiculous when libertarian and moderate socialists who fought the Bolsheviks authoritarian tendencies tooth and nail and often lost their lives also gets lumped in with them: Millions of socialists and communists and anarchists were amongst the 10 million dead during the Russian Civil War - fighting alongside the White's to oppose Lenin. Thousands died in the Kronstadt rebellion, demanding reinstatement of free speech. Rebellion after rebellion against the Bolsheviks were arranged by SR, Left SR, the Mensheviks and other left wing groups, leading to executions after executions, and starting in 1922 a concerted campaign of political show-trials. Tens of thousands of them were murdered after the Moscow Processes by Stalin in the 30's - at that point Stalin was even purging opposition inside the Bolshevik party.

Many, many more perished in labour camps or had been wiped out together with other political opponents in the years before for standing up for democracy.

So, if you define what you consider socialism and communism, we can nail down which of these groups you are including, and how many of them were actually actively opposing the mass murders you are referring to and/or were victims of them.
"I think it's easy to be among 'the herd', working with people of diverse backgrounds, while also staying true to yourself, and I think you could argue it's an essential skill if you ever want to accomplish something great."

Grey man.

Say nothing, don't make ripples and don't be noticed. Works well when SHTF and possibly when nothing of any consequence is happening. There is one aspect I don't like with this approach: By sitting back, not being noticed you loose the chance to lead.

In LOTF I can think of one person who tried this approach, Simon. When he voiced his opinion on the snake thingy, noting it was in fact a dead airman, he was ignored. By taking the grey man approach you fail to take the chance and opportunity to lead, letting others dictate your situation.
> "built many hundred line dense bash scripts... please do not do this"

Of course. But that's with any language that's many hundred lines of dense code.

His point is if something can be done simply with built-in proven tools, use them until you need something more.
Could you expand upon your definition of flat tax?

Is, for example, the constant amount of money you mention the same of every member of the populace regardless of income?

If so, it bears semblance with the UK's poll tax (or Community Charge as it was officially labelled), an early 90's tax which was disastrously received (riots in the streets across the country).

It introduced by a right wing government, and subsequently repealed
I have created a mostly anonymous Instagram account, and I love it. Gives me somewhere to post all the photos I'd feel like a cock posting on Facebook. I am "friends" with some truly random people and we comment on each others' photos: some random 50-year-old Nigerian guy living in Atlanta who loves getting table service at clubs and natty shoes; a single mother (I assume) in Brazil; a whole bunch of other luxury travel lovers.
I'm not active on Twitter and I think I've missed the SJW movement and it's effects. Perhaps the problem is that complex nuanced ideas can't be expressed in 160 characters?
Sure it can be used artistically but overall I'd say it represents one of the more ugly facets of modern life.

It's become the mosquito of the Internet, possibly useful in some mysterious way but if I had to choose a species to exterminate it'd probably be that one.
Reso responsive ui framework released
Adjusting your mindset can get you the right results
Nice idea, but I'm not sure about the weighting in favour of PRs. A project that gets lots of issues but proportionally few PRs gets a pass. See material-ui for example.

Also, badge for the README.md might help spread awareness of your site.
Akka toolkit for Scala
Can't help laughing upon the "USA" to "About us" :-）
Syncovery v7.29 Build 222 (x86/ x64) Incl License Key
Ray Peat, isn't it ? :)
I also conceptually like the idea of libertarianism, but recognize that it's an impossible form of society and you can't really create a government around it. What I recommend to everyone is that they go around trying to be a libertarian - respect everyone else's rights like they'd like their own to be respected.

With regard to the author's interaction with a "pack" of libertarians - you can find quite a few of groups but they rarely agree with each other.
seems pretty nice!
That's awful. Attacking someone for being disabled is pretty low. Was this on Twitter?
His arguments on taxes simply don't hold water. Income inequality is expanding because those at the very top either pay taxes much lower than all others (HF, PE, VC) or just don't pay taxes at all (AAPL).

The other problem with income inequality is simply interest rate related. If you look at all asset classes over the last 30 years, real estate gains have far outpaces every other asset class. Real estate prices are very sensitive to interest rates.

If the Fed keeps raising rates, the value of these real estate holdings will go down and well inequality will reverse itself somewhat. To do that significantly, I think we need Fed Funds at 5-6%. I don't see that happening for a long time, though.

Another longer term trend which may help wealth inequality reverse itself is global warming. The global elite own a disproportionate portion of coastal real estate. With rising ocean levels these assets will be wiped out.
Who is really denunciating healthy debate? The notion that this is some sort of social cancer strikes me as completely out of touch with reality.

I've seen maybe a handful of failed attempts to allow students to opt out of university course curricula. Is that what you are so horrified about? Or is it the mostly failed attempts to get people fired for saying things that some people found abhorrent?

I've yet to see anyone imprisoned for their speech by SJWs. Frankly, the anti-SJW stance reads to me as quite ironic: people horrified that someone they disagree with might be allowed to have a voice on the national stage. I thought the whole point of free speech was that people get to voice ideas you find abhorrent?

What's really frightening is how often posts like yours, which are completely devoid of specifics, get voted up. It's like a frenzy of anger that rises to the top of these kinds of threads, totally detached from any history. I'm assuming there is some history behind your post, but you didn't reference it. Someone like Salmon Rushdie stands up and says he's terrified of the witch hunts, without providing any specifics, and it makes national news with thousands of people chiming in about how scared they are too. But scared of what, exactly? People rarely say. "SJWs".

The South Park episode is beloved because it's all straw men. If you had to reference real events, it would become clear that it's mostly straw feminists and students who actually didn't cause any particular reign of terror. As if wild-eyed college students haven't been making accusations that are beyond the pale for... well, forever.

That said, maybe I'm out of touch with the news and there are some events I missed. I would love to learn of such events, because it would make this debate much more interesting. As it is I find it kind of frightening how much anger seems to be building up around what appears to be a fabricated danger.
Paul Graham used to be one of my heroes, now I just see him as just another fat cat apologist in the vein of Ken Langone.
Flickr also never really had teenage users.

I'm pretty sure that these behaviors just come from being a teenager and aren't caused by any specific technology.
Police confirm Ian Murdock arrest before suicide
Selling 80% equity is effectively an exit. Just think if you are willing to sell a company for that much, and if so, go for it. Having no control over what remains will make you effectively hired managers working for 10% of profit each, so after that, what kind of salary they are willing to pay you will be your biggest concern. Making something which is easy to replicate doesn't put you in a good negotiation position for sure, so maybe just take this cash, then walk away, and use the money to fund yourselves for a couple more years to build something that isn't that easy to copy.
I liked open spaces whenever I was an employee in one. It's possible I'm a unique snowflake, but also that there may be a selection bias on HN.
The point is that if the primary concern of all the protestors was about the killing of the young man, the targets of the protest would have been confined to the police and the government. Such a protest could have been conducted in such a way that united all people in protest against the injustice. Instead, thanks to the mob instinct, the killing was used to justify indiscriminate violence, theft and destruction. Thus the real issue - the killing of the young man - was diminished in importance thanks to the mob behaviour, and the opportunity for that incident to be a catalyst for real social change was lost.
> Now — does it make me left or right?

I think it makes you confused. :-) Which is an OK state to be in, and it's up to you if you want to change that. Let me explain.

I think left vs right means how much you care about people when it comes to their relative power and social status in society. If you don't like power inequality, then you're on the left. If you enjoy it or are indifferent to it, then you're on the right.

Now democracy is a distinctly leftist concept, because it explicitly gives everybody the same political power. Gay rights, well, it's a little aside from this classification but basically equal rights for everybody is in the same ballpark (that's why most equal rights movements are considered leftist).

On the other hand, supporting flat tax is somewhat alluding to the idea that money do not influence power relationships in society. Which is AFAICT empirically false. I do however think that you can recognize flat tax as being just under that assumption.

You do seem to care about distribution of power in society, which makes you leftist. So I think the question is, do you believe in that assumption, that income has no influence on political power (and it cannot, for instance, limit personal freedom of other people)?
S = succeed

C = with specific characteristics

What we need is P(S | C) = P(S ^ C) / P(C), but the best sellers mentioned in the article instead address P(S ^ C)
I think discussions about sobriety tend to ignore the vast middle-ground between "stone-cold-sober" and "shit-faced".

It is totally possible to enjoy one or two alcoholic drinks on a weekly night out without ruining finances, making a fool of one's self, and blowing-out the next day from a hangover. You don't have to choose one extreme or another.
> PG, you are not a wild animal in a room of hunters. It's more like you are the hunter, and this is a bait that we won't bite.

I like this line very much. Paul has this notion that he and the rest of the members of his social class that they're victims of the persecution of commoners and that he and his fellows have the right to defend themselves against those evil poor people who want to do them harm when it's actually them and their economic policies that he's championing that are damaging and hurting people occupying the lower rungs beneath them.
Looting and rioting is critical component of a public protest, and it's morally justified. I draw the line at hurting people, which is never justified. I'm not outraged at property damage when people protest racism or police brutality, because I value people more than I value things.

As for your claim that rioting and the like can never be beneficial, that's plainly wrong.

Take for instance the Curaçao uprising in 1969 [1]. Workers protested wage discrimination and it turned into a mob that burned down 43 businesses and 10 other buildings, primarily those owned by white people. Guess what? The protest was a complete success, they got the wage they asked for and they got new democratic elections to boot.

I reiterate: people protest and riot because it works.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Cura%C3%A7ao_uprising
> one of our better presidents

I guess it depends on your metric of choice: http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/article/2014/oct/01/fac...
Not only that. A lot of the modules in the Python standard library are written in C; some may be thin wrappers over the corresponding C library. So when you call that code in your app, it runs at (nearly) the speed of C. Same could apply to other languages like Ruby too, that follow that model.
Plain English Programming (2006) [pdf]
So this feels relevant. I spotted this piece in this morning's NYTimes front page:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/fashion/so-you-think-your-...

"My sister has been dating her boyfriend for two years. They live together and seem mostly happy. And I am happy for them, except for one thing: I am about 99 percent sure he is gay. Now, I have no problem with homosexuality, but you can understand my concern. Also, I am not the only one who thinks this. Several male friends have told me that he has tried to kiss other men or grab their crotches. I would like to bring this up with my sister. How should I do it?

Michelle, New York"

The response:

"Request denied! Before you say anything hurtful to your sister, let’s take a peek at some of the (homophobic-adjacent) assumptions that you’ve made on your (probably well-intentioned) road to judgment. Your 99 percent certainty rests on unknown evidence. (Spare me your gaydar.) But I am willing to bet that much of it involves silly stereotypes about masculinity. Is the boyfriend effeminate? Does he follow fashion or musical theater? News flash: He can still be straight."

"More problematic is the “gay panic” of your male friends, whose gossipy stories may rely on secondhand reports from still other men. Not so reliable. What’s more, I don’t buy it. Gay men and lesbians have long been, and often still are, a persecuted minority. (Have you seen the excellent film “Carol” yet?) The idea that a gay man could blithely and repeatedly “grab the crotches” of his straight cohorts is absurd. There would be consequences."

This story was linked on the front page of the NY Times this morning. I may be completely uncalibrated and out of touch with modern values and sensitivities. But I don't think I am. So I'm curious: Does anyone else see anything a little odd about this piece?
Sartre remarked on the pleasure one gets out of this type of behavior:

"I was, as it were, doubled. On the one hand, I was 'I'; Jean-Paul Sartre, you know, the person. On the other hand I was the chronicler of hell, the privileged young writer allowed to observe all the torments of the modern personality. I was extremely
happy, fake and hoodwinked to my very soul"

- From his autobiography Les Mots
My comparison is actually the pattern recognizing feedback loop not the animal part. Its just that humans can reflect on their emotions, animals cannot.

AI will be able reflect in even greater ways because its sensory input will be even more omnipresent.
I thought he meant the hardware-related meaning of DMA too, for a second. But the first line of his comment is:

>Well said! Dynamic memory allocation is a really big performance hit
And it's not like it was just people who are "naturally" on the left who thought the Poll Tax was unfair - the Duke of Westminster (one of the largest landowners in the UK) apparently paid the tax for lots of his employees as he thought it was unfair that he should pay the same amount of tax as them.
Netbeans is actually a great IDE, and no doubt has come a long way. It works well "out of the box" compared to Eclipse, and feels lighter than IntelliJ but still comes with tons of project templates that actually work well without further customization.
If the project is not enormous a simple hard disk is ok. A lot of RAM is much more important than SSD. Sure indexing the first time takes enough time for you to go grab a coffee but otherwise it runs pretty fast.
I believe Ms. Harper to be both abuser and abused. And it should be noted that she now has a financial interest in keeping these kind of things active.
Right click the directory -> mark directory as -> excluded.
Makes you wonder if @jlgaddis set us on this path of discovery on purpose. This is hilarious, by the way! Thanks for linking it.
Equating crypto with armaments does nobody any favors. If crypto is an armament, then the banks can be said to be wielding guns at the criminals who are forever stressing their networks and trying to get in, or even their customers, who require a more-than-mathematically strong peace of mind that their money is safe from theft.
>would prefer the world to be sorted on raw power alone

Regardless of whether such libertarians are right or wrong in their beliefs about private governance, this is completely inaccurate depiction of their views. Peter Stringham's book Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social Life explores theoretical and empirical foundations for private governance and why it would not amount to sorting things out based on raw power.

The book received praise from Peter Thiel: "Stringham dispels state-worshipping fiction with historical fact to show how good governance has preceded Leviathan, ignores it when necessary, and can surpass it when it fails."
> I want to see Trump elected just to piss them off.

Me too. Many times over the past 6 months I wish I had a "TRUMP 2016" T-Shirt.

Really, I don't even like the guy. I don't respect him. It's not as if he has a coherent philosophy anyway. It's just that he best represents the contempt I feel for the whole political process, all discourse surrounding it, and especially for the people who buy into the bullshit of anyone in the running.
Search engine show what they want you to see. It's no longer search results.
An old man wants the time of his youth to return, and he sees the increasing individualism as an erosion of our culture. The world has changed and he wants the old one back because he understands it.
In EU something a little bit like this will become mandatory for banks. To my understanding one part of Payment Service Directive 2 (PSD2) is that banks will be required to allow third party access to bank account statements (on customers permission, of course).

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-15-5793_en.htm?loc...