skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's (unfortunately) indeed an American perspective, that I totally share.

Obviously nurses in Germany earn too little money. Obviously society would benefit if the state would help in cases like these.

Still it bothers me that this family is actually paying off its house, which means they are taking part in capitalism and creating capital for themselves, but rely on the state to do so. They decided that the benefit they are already getting (3 year job security, 14 months of wage-like financial benefits), which every American parent can only dream of, are not enough for their child.

Germans don't invest in the capital market (4,14% of Germans have stocks, compared to 23% in the UK or 56% in the US [0]), Germans - especially women - choose their careers without considering how much they will earn. Being rich has a dirty connotation in Germany. If you are rich, you better be a doctor or a lawyer, then you get an excuse, other than that you probably did something shady or just benefited from other peoples work. Business school is for people who were too stupid to become engineers. They will earn more, but be worth less, because they won't be a Diplomingenieur (okay, this one is gone now, the Master of Science has much less reputation). When Germans finally realize that a bit more would be nice, they complain that the state is not fixing their situation.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion%C3%A4rsquote
Perhaps it needs active ventilation.
> And Hartz IV is a neo-liberal's wet dream.

Not really. UBI would be. The effective marginal tax rate for poor people is pretty high. (The conventional taxes are low, but each extra Euro earned pre-tax cuts into welfare a lot. That incentive ain't great---especially since welfare is a very stable income once you have all the bureaucracy sorted, but the kinds of jobs poor people get are often less stable. Especially jarring if getting a job involves sunk costs like buying a car or moving to a different city.)
I agree that arguments against slavery were stronger in 1865, than against taxes, but absence of something is a bad predictor about possibility. You couldn't point to a liberal democracy before 18th century too.
I see no evidence that the health care system in my area is either practical or affordable.
I'm currently living in Rome and it's pretty much the same here. If you sit outside having a coffee in certain areas people will come by asking for change - you usually see the same people everyday. In the tourist areas you will be approached a million times to buy selfie sticks or other junk by street vendors.

I regularly see people rummaging through rubbish bins to see what they can salvage, and if someone dumps an appliance on the street (this is how they "recycle" here in Italy) things like the motor and cables will be gone in a few hours. The scary thing is a lot of people you see are young people - they've clearly just been failed by the system.

I'm from the UK and lived in London a few years ago ('09 - '11) and I remember seeing a few people begging but they were usually drunkards. I don't remember so many young people, or getting approached to give money as much as here. I wonder how the UK does things differently to Germany and Italy?
It would be great if war gets to some point where human lives aren't threatened, but for the forseeable future, robot soldiers are going to be killing humans. Forces who can afford them aren't going to be squaring off anytime soon-- it's going to be military Goliaths like Assad vs. rebels. Like other bombs and advanced weaponry.
IRC, XMPP, WebRTC, WebSocket and AJAX.

Almost all common chat clients are based on one of these technologies.

The most straight forward protocol to implement is certainly IRC. It works very well for group chats and is used by many open source projects and in house usage. FBchat and Gchat are based on a slightly non-standard XMPP, at least started from that point and turned less and less open.

Maybe I am a forerunner, I used chat a lot more several years ago, and nowadays write a lot more (short) emails or just talk in person (or over VoIP with video). On the other side, we will chat/talk a lot with our personal software assistent in future.
This looks like a job for a peristaltic pump. They can be had on ebay for a few $ and would allow very precise watering amounts.
Does this require control of the server being bridged to implement, or could I do something like, say, set up an instance that lets me be on both Rizon and Freenode at the same time on one client connection?
Responding with facts is enough, attacking the poster personally as you did in your last sentence isn't needed.
It's still not much of an analogy unless you believe that, say, driving on the wrong side of the road, uninsured and without a license is somehow comparable to any form of slavery.
Freecharge vulnerability that people should be aware of
Actually, there hasn't been a lot of fighting between oculus and vive owners.

It's the least acrimonious tech choice I've ever seen.

There has been a lot of grumbling about the choices Palmer & Facebook have made about the Rift, but people have not been attacking each other like they used to with android/iOS or other famous tech disagreement centers.
You don't consider Chinese workers to be people?
Funny enough, the Euro was a quid pro quo in return for French approval of unification. (The French were basically forced to copy the Bundesbank's monetary policy. Their politicians had hoped to meddle more with the ECB.)

See eg http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-price-of-uni... (lots more to be found with some searching).
Changing your name in general is not easy in Germany. There is a short list of allowed reasons for doing so, each with its own process. Reasons would be things like: Marriage, gender change (in Germany at least one for your first names needs to indicate your gender), unfortunate or funny name, or at naturalization to make your name more German-sounding.

Outside of that it's almost impossible to change your name.
No, he actually does mean 9pm. It only runs late at night. Getting to SFO using public transit is a royal PITA.

https://www.bart.gov/sites/all/themes/bart_desktop/img/syste...
> [...] having gone through multiple hyperinflations historically [...]

In the 20s and at the end of WWII? Any other one I missed?
It's quite ok if people have prejudices, and even discrimination, or any other thoughts that are controversial, as long as their actions aren't harming another person's property.

In my personal observation, the problem of liberalism, is it is trying to enforce a ideology/doctrine in a larger scale, through law making process or extensive propaganda, etc.
I have a computer which is always on and always connected.

It's my smartphone.

Can I just run a 'homeserver' on that and be connected?
Changing the way people get stuff done is one of the hardest things to succeed at.

We're not assholes unless you come talk to us without checking your assumptions and entitlement at the door.

Probably.
Many of the Germans of Turkish familial origin still self-identify as Turks, not as German, or as both Turkish and German, in the second or third generation.

You certainly can be German and non-caucasian, but you actually have to believe yourself to be German and be part of German culture.
It's a real shame, because if you learned about fundamentals like compilers, data structures and operating systems eg in the 80s and then slept for 30 years, you would still pass a Google interview today.

It's not even that you had to be lucky to guess right. The fundamentals are easy to identify.

But of course, lots of people chased and are still chasing the latest superficial thing; and complain that they can't keep up.
> What Charter really wants is the flexibility to buy up other cable companies in the future, and it'll have a harder time selling those deals to government regulators if Charter has been competing with the target firms the whole time.

So, FCC wants them to enter a territory to increase competition, and Charter says "we want to reduce competition down the road buying the competitor". FCC should simply make it a requirement, that Charter should be forbidden from buying competitors in that market. That's all, problem solved.

And Charter must be really stupid to claim they want to reduce competition when talking about monopoly restricting conditions for the merger.
Bathing water quality in the EU
My bad. Not the comment that I'm most proud of.
Tolerance is "easy" only when you live in a walled-up garden and your only encounter with the marginal groups is through the media and newspapers. Once it becomes an issue of sharing scarce resources together with these groups, tolerance becomes an entirely different matter.

I live in a country where the people promoting "tolerance against the minorities" live in ivory towers and have no contact whatsoever with them. On the other hand, people who live side by side with the minorities are being accused of not being "tolerant enough".
At least you'll have a harder time catching skin cancer than in Australia.
> In the UK, student unions have supported the right of Muslims to separate men and women in lectures as long as they are the same distance from the front.

I've just tried to search for this and can't find anything - a bit of help? By "supported", do you mean someone brought it up in a debate or as a suggestion, or do you mean a significant group of people agreed it's a good idea?

I also tried to find information on the activists demanding segregated housing. Either nobody's reported on any of this or I suck at googling.
I had a similar experience (and result) recently, although it was my first time interviewing with Google, and I did my coding in Python. I want able to get any detail whatsoever about why I was rejected; the feedback Vijay got would have been appreciated!
What I find frustrating are that things like this are permitted to happen by editors who've clearly no clue about the subject matter of the article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

"Yet another piece of niche software without any evidence of notability."

Upon looking up profile of the editor who proposed this deletion we discover:

"I am an environmentalist, scientist and naturalist retired from a career spent working for the UK Government. By training I am an aquatic biologist"

Absolutely no mention of any knowledge or expertise about the Microsoft development ecosystem, so how would they know anything about the notability of Chocolatey or whether the references are reliable or notable.

I created the original NuGet article and got the go ahead to publish it from an experienced wikipedian. A few months later, despite being reasonably well fleshed out, a different editor trots by and sticks a "I'll delete this page because I don't think its notable enough" at the top. My problem is that I don't have the time or energy to jump through their bizarre argumentative hoops to challenge these kinds of things. It happens all the time. I've had two or three wikipedia articles bookmarked only to return some months later to discover they're gone because in the limited opinion of one or two editors the subject matter is not notable.

I have since given up contributing time and money to wikipedia. Fuck them.
State of OpenStack as of May 2016
As of May 2016 what is the state of OpenStack deployment in enterprises ? Does it have a chance against the general trend towards AWS, GCE and Azure ?
Okay, I might get downvoted for this, but do you have a source that is not published by a marxist political party and called "World Socialist Web Site"?
And they could care less, since you do not view their ads, you provide them no value.
There's a form of faux-garbage-collection: you can wrap any form in `free!` and the heap pointer will be reset when that form finishes: http://microscheme.org/documentation#memman

This would be awful for general-purpose programming, but on a device with only 2.5kb of RAM to begin with you can usually pre-allocate anything that needs to survive that reset. I use this in my keyboard firmware's outer loop: http://atreus.technomancy.us/firmware2
It's absolutely not a PITA at all if you're coming on BART from the city or the east bay. If you're coming from a Bay Area county without BART services that explicitly chose to pull out of BART and not pay into the system like the other counties? Yeah, absolutely BART doesn't serve you well.

Maybe you should talk to your elected officials about why.
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I have actually purchased both so I like to think I am impartial. The oculus is better pretty much on any metric: easier to set up, better tracking (the htc shows a grey screen regularly), better games (valkyrie, lucky's tale in particular), and most important, it hurts a lot less to wear, the htc is an absolute pain in the neck (and what doesn't help is that game developers feel they need to give you a black screen with very long, non skipable narrative instead of giving you some VR, bad point for oculus for putting this narrative on pause when you take off the headset). The only problem of the rift is the large vertical band in the middle, very visible in a dark environment.

But both have few games, most of which are merely proof of concepts more than games, and have their own troubles (lucky's tale is great but it forces you to look down all the time, again it hurts). Also both are unfit for non gaming. They work on the assumption that your eyes will focus only on the centre of the screen, so the edges will be blury. That's simply not what we do when we work, only when we are shooting zombies.

And like the author, I now only use them to demo them to friends.
By the way, I always wondered how Germany treats name changes in other countries.

I grew up in Germany. I live overseas now. I could change my name here relatively easily, I think. I wonder how hard it would be to get that recognized back in Germany.
That's pretty much HTC vive
And the Tokyo Monorail isn't even that well connected, relatively speaking. It doesn't go to any major stations, and only interchanges with one other line before terminating at a smaller station on the orbital Yamanote line. (Although there are apparently plans to extend it to Tokyo station eventually.)
The people who live on the peninsula chose to pull out of the BART system. I'm sorry, but you kinda lose the ability to complain about how well it serves you and demand extra service frequency to serve a gap to another transit system from your communities when y'all explicitly chose not to be part of it.

For the counties that are part of BART, the SFO connection is great.
Maybe, although I'm not sure it's clear cut in your case. I don't think that tolerance necessariy requires pretending to agree. Sometimes (although not necessarily in this case) an uncomfortable private conversation is more appropriate. There's a large difference between pointing out to someone one-on-one that you don't agree, versus pointing out to "the group", who you expect to agree with you, that the individual is in the wrong.
The fact is, liberal youth, students, and academia have traditionally made up a substantial portion of what is considered the "liberalism" movement.
It makes sense for breaking news. Looking at a single day's stock movement doesn't make any sense for a discussion of a product that came out months ago.
One of the first American novels was about Timbuktu (though fictional, as novels often are)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Algerine_Captive
So has orange juice.
However, getting a stage name or artist pseudonym recognized is relatively easy. (But probably wouldn't help a transgender person feel better.)
We've been to the moon plenty. At some point one has to ask "why do we keep visiting a big desert that's difficult to get to?" It doesn't create any value for any one. WhatsApp does.
If you want to compare bothering other people, both left and right is guilty of bothering other people. On the left, we have taxes, gun control, speech control (the PC variety), various financial and labor regulations, etc. On the right we have decency laws and associated speech controls, marriage licenses, drug prohibition, opposition to immigration, etc. Of course, both lists are far from being complete.

The ideologies built on not bothering are outside linear left-right spectrum, towards libertarian and further anarchist ideas (depending on how far you are willing to go with that concept).
Point of order on the "1% a week":

Initially launched as btclending.com it was 1%/day, invite/referral only and payouts were every 3 days. Effectively it was 7%/week, compound into something like 3300% APR.

That being said as the website ui and backend transitioned from btclending.com to "First Pirate Savings & Trust" and ultimately btcst.com (Bitcoin Savings & Trust) more people started "getting in on the action" rules were changed, payouts went to once per week, blah blah... obviously a ponzi doesn't scale well. In the end minimum balances were required to stay in the "7%/week bracket" where balances <1000BTC were only earning 5.5%/week.

If anyone that sets off your ponzi red flag detectors - well done.

I can say that there were a handful of early GPU miners with truckloads of sub 5 dollar bitcoins and no where to invest them. GPU Miners who built mining rigs that literally ROI'd in days or weeks, not months. Did some people get burned? Obviously. Did others milk free interest? Most likely.

Where I think Trendon and many others have ultimately failed - and this especially goes for Espinoza and his failed "bitcoin isn't money" argument - NOT PRACTICING KYC.

There's a lot of smart people out there that know to walk from the transaction when the counterparty mentions tor/fraud/crime/buying stolen credit cards. Espinoza obviously didn't think facilitating the purchase of stolen credit cards was a problem (or didn't care)

I'm not sure this specific article mentions it or not but the agents doing the undercover buy from localbitcoins told the seller Espinoza it was for fake credit cards. Huge Red flag for the bitcoin seller.

In general though, I would agree with OP that bitcoin is some type of money already defined by precedent and Espinoza is getting reamed for no MSB license and not practicing KYC.
It's been my complaint since the beginning: This isn't virtual reality. It's clever, non-sickening head tracking. Great. Now I won't throw up when I move my head around in a 3D space.

We're a bit closer, but not nearly close enough, to total immersion. You can play a racing game or a flying game and get some pretty good immersion, maybe even trick your brain here or there. But VR is a fever dream until we understand how brain impulses work and can manipulate them directly to simulate experience.

Of course, by then, we'll probably be questioning the whole thing altogether.
At U.C. Berkeley, same-sex harassment can cost you up to $300 per year of ongoing harassment![0]

[0] http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/ucal-berkeley-dive...
It's not expensive city vs rural. There are plenty of cheap cities, that still offer the good infrastructure---especially in East Germany.

The one thing they don't offer is jobs, that's why rent is cheap.
This claim is nearly as old as Wikipedia itself, and it is mostly false. There are over five million articles on English Wikipedia, and approximately 10,000 highly active editors (editors who make 25 or more edits a month). There is too much territory and too few claimants for your description to be true.

I don't know what motivates people to repeat this trope, when it is simply untrue. I think it stems from the fact that many people expect editing Wikipedia to be easier than it is. It is in fact quite hard. Some of the difficulty is essential (writing good, well-sourced expository prose is challenging) and some of it is inessential, the result of technical and social debt.

But most worthwhile things are difficult, and on balance, the rewards of editing Wikipedia are quite large in comparison to the effort required. You can go from a complete novice to a lasting (small) contribution to the project of civilization in an afternoon. You can't same the same for playing an instrument! And it can be hugely satisfying, really. Try it!
Polarized glasses, plus an LCD display with the front polarizer removed = display just for you, if there's a good way to route captions to a secondary display?

(getting an appropriate size and shape display to mount under or over the main display is also a challenge)

Edit: An article about removing the front polarizer http://www.gizmag.com/stealth-computer-display-lcd-polarizin... although I had forgotten that you'll end up with an all white screen for people without polarized glasses, that might be distracting too...
> I agree, moving your head around all the time to look at things does get really tiring after a while

Is this really the day and age we live in where needing to mov e your head around is considered a con? You move your head around all the time while walking around, driving, etc and nobody complains about that
yet, as someone mentioned to me many years ago, robots aren't (probably) going to torture and rape.

E.g. in ww2-with-robots people would have been killed but the nanking massacre would not have happened.
SVG: a little about my experience
I have a sort of similar situation, but about politics.

Does tolerance require that one subject themselves to this sort of thing? For example, I finally discovered I can ignore the shared item on facebook instead of the person sharing it. It's great, like improving the signal to noise ratio.

But is that intolerant? I mean, I'm not doing anything to prevent this friend from sharing this stuff that I consider crap, so is that enough, or am I expect by tolerant society to not ignore things?
Not to my knowledge. Maybe I should have written "two" instead.
And high prices is always the case with new technologies. The early CD writers weren't cheap. And laptops. Etc etc. Doesn't mean the technology won't success, at least not for that reason.
Sure. Homeserver software doesn't care where it's hosted. If you want it to federate with other homeservers on the Internet, it will need to be accessible from outside your local network, of course.