skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going against the grain, I don't think Chaffetz meant it literally.

While he may or may not have been taking an extremist Right ideological view of poverty, the OP article takes another extreme ideological view, that poverty is inevitable and individuals can do little to avoid it.

While it sounds heartless, I think there is some truth to the assertion that sound financial choices can lift you up from poverty. Duflo, Banerjee, etc. from the randomista economists crowd have shown that poor people are sometimes likely to spend extra cash in suboptimal ways (TV ownership when they need extra calories, etc.). http://economics.mit.edu/files/530

This includes buying health insurance. That health insurance is too expensive is unfortunate, and I think GOP earnestly believes that their plan makes it cheaper for people to buy health insurance. This is not unlike how Obama and Democrats implemented their healthcare overhaul with the best of intentions, yet it lead to expensive premiums, etc.

While we are loathe to admit it, poverty is a result of both poor choices and unavoidable bad-luck. Like the common debate of 'nature vs. nurture', it is hard to delineate bad-luck and poor-choices as causes leading to poverty.

At the end of the day, we should have compassion and understand that many things that affect our situation are beyond our control, and yet not be afraid to consider honestly and objectively, the various causes of poverty.
> iPhones are luxury smartphones.

Used iPhones and year-old iPhones (likewise for Galaxy S-model phones and others on the top end) still perform better than "mid-tier" phones. Given this, an iPhone and "a budget alternative" are not mutually exclusive terms. Keep in mind that for most people today, a phone might well be the closest they can get to having any form of decent connectivity, so it becomes an investment in one's future to buy a device with years of life ahead of it.

A _new_ iPhone might be mutually exclusive with "a budget alternative," but that's not what's being argued.
The things you're stating would explain a small number of iPhones among a given group of poor people. The observation is that the things are damn near universal and often quite new.

It isn't just a failure of intelligence, but cognitive discipline, to miss these points.
Oh yay, more chat apps from Google. I had finally hit a nice point of integration: using Hangouts with Project Fi means I got somewhat close to the iMessage experience (at least as far as being able to send/receive SMS from my computer). Clearly the integration wasn't great, and the Hangouts app is badly in need of work, but it's a shame to see that even that limited functionality is going away in favor of more fragmentation.
Oh, stereotypes are fun. Can I play too?

Chat with an immigrate in a sanctuary city if you really want to "get" it. It's the feeder high schools (mostly Irish Catholic) that make police and fire departments fraternal, recalcitrant, racist and corrupt.
and the generation that thinks poor people shouldn't have iPhones are the same ones who generally view all this technology stuff as magical hoo hah.

Which means they are unlikely to accurately identify an actual iPhone. More likely, they see a glass surface on a diagonally 5" device, and just assume the $50 low-end Android phone is an iPhone. That, and it conveniently fits their uncharitable mind set.
Not "by the same logic". He called iPhones "luxury smartphones". They're not. There are cheap ones and expensive ones, just like how the alternative platform - Android - comes with cheap and expensive phones.

Lost time because typically Android phones require more maintenance and produce more hassles for novice users, and a budget Android phone is going to have more problems (and probably stop getting updates).

FTR, I haven't owned an iPhone since the original one came out. All Android since. I'm speaking from the perspective of someone who's owned multiple different Android handsets and given them as gifts to family (I've since learned my lesson about that one).
That's not controversial at all, about half of the country seems to believe that. It's just... wrong.
One should be careful to not go public about this intent (to game it). Someone had dedicated blog about his studies, preparations for BigG interview, he was reject right away without even a phone call... This story was on HN.
Apparently "beyond reproach" was the wrong wording above, but now I'm unable to edit it.

That said, given how often "trustworthiness" is used as a mental shortcut for "believing anything they publish", it's still a knee-jerk worth fighting against. None of Wikileaks' released documents in their history have proven to be false, and so they are still reliable as a source.
I have a young friend who made poor decisions when she was younger.

She has virtually zero family support, almost a net negative. Her father died two years ago from a lifetime of substance abuse, her mother suffered a stroke and has been in rehab for months, her step-father is an alcoholic who has problems keeping a job.

Yes, she's responsible for her outcome to the extent that she made some poor decisions as a teenager growing up with a dramatic absence of good role models, and she'll be paying the price for those decisions for the rest of her life.

But the fact that her family is of little help and the government really, really doesn't want her to succeed (I could describe the challenges she's had getting a suboxone prescription but I'd be here all day) is very much not her fault.
A Scene from Waldorf Astoria  Feb 10th 2017
The ideographic description characters do provide a way to describe how to map radicals into characters, but don't actually provide rendering in such a manner.

There is active discussion on actually being able to build up complex grapheme clusters in such a manner, because it's necessary for Egyptian and Mayan text to be displayed properly. U+13430 and U+13431 have been accepted for Unicode 10.0 already for some Egyptian quadrat construction.
UglyFounders.com?
I think this may attract customer who have existing Gapps suit in their organization.

Advantage slack has is integration with different things and you can use any email address to sign up.

if Chat and meet required to sign in with only Gmail then people may not want to get locked in
When there are at least 4 such languages/runtime implementations that exist already and have more libraries that also "have 100 less resources" then, yes, that one claim is a lot less special.
I'm no fan of slack but I don't see this as being competitive.

Google hangouts (which I use for sms, among other things) has a very poor search feature. Slack on the other hand has decent search capabilities. Plus, slack-bots are well integrated already. It does not avoid my largest criticism of slack: the inability to save conversation history locally.

This sounds like a late to market slack-clone. What is innovative about this offering?
Can vmware replace the linux kernel and vmklinux, and still have a functioning vmkernel?

Ie, for some definition of independence and separation, how independent are vmklinux and vmkernel, and how separated are they in function and use? Could one simply remove the linux parts and plug in a different unix like kernel?

With two independent work I should be able to put them each on a different computer and have a meaningful result from doing so. Two work can have a cumulative effect when brought together, but independent they need to still be meaningful and working on their own. If I arbitrary separate a program, I can obviously not do so since they will not start, function proper or produce a meaningful effect on their own.
Launch HN: Fiix (YC W17) – Same-Day Auto Repair at Your Home
Hi HN, we’re the founders of Fiix (https://www.fiix.io). We’re a startup from Toronto, Canada in the YC W17 batch.

We send licensed auto mechanics to your home to fix your car within 3 hours. All you need to do is send us a message over chat. We figure out what your car needs and send over a vetted mechanic with all the parts and tools to perform the repair at your home.

We started the company as “TireSwap” from Arif’s parent’s attic as a way to have your tires changed at home. Our customers asked for more and more repairs, until we offered over 300 services. We rebranded to “Fiix” and were accepted into the YC Fellowship (somewhat unorthodoxly!) via Snapchat (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11678286). Since then, we've quit our jobs, repaired thousands of cars, and are now processing almost $100k/month in sales.

Getting our unit economics right has been the most important takeaway from YC. We’re priced so we have enough money to acquire customers, offer a great price, and earn a profit to grow the business. We’d love to hear what you think about our company, and if you have any tips on local growth, those would be appreciated!
one thing I haven't heard mentioned is that a lot of poor people DON'T have iPhones. they have cheap flip phones with prepaid cards. And guess what? They still can't afford health care.
I'm amazed that isn't obvious to you, they are there to influence your buying habits in the interest of the advertiser.
Hi, that's a very interesting post, thanks a lot ! It's cool to see that sometimes a small lua script can do exactly what you need, instead of adding a new Redis command to the already very long list.

I have a question regarding "deployment" of Lua scripts (I've never used Redis for more than toys, so I may be wrong on something). I would assume a caller would do something like this just after the Redis cluster is up:

- calculate script's SHA

- EVALSHA a script

- script is not there

- EVAL script

And then later in the lifetime of the caller:

- calculate script's SHA

- EVALSHA script

Which means you wouldn't need to care about the script size, nor would you need to fiddle with your deployment pipeline.

Am I missing something ?
You also have to be techie enough to use Android... which if you're dirt poor you might not be.
Functional PASCAL: interim solution to a changing course in language development
A second hand iphone would do just fine and would be cheap. 'Iphone' does not magically translate into $700 piece of hardware, it could easily be $50 or $100 when bought second hand or even free when a gift from a family member or even a stranger. Heck I know of some iPhones that have gone through 4 pairs of hands by now. Just because the first owner moves on to a newer and shinier model whenever they come out (talk about bad decisions...).
What's important IMO isn't not owning a TV, it's not having or using traditional TV services, namely cable TV or even over-the-air TV.

Having a TV by itself can be good, so you can watch a movie at home with friends (preferably served by a mediaPC). It's cable/network TV, stuffed with ads and mostly worthless shows, that's the real time-waster. (And even if there's worthwhile shows in there somewhere, they're aired at inconvenient times, you actually have to watch them as they air (without spending extra money to rent a DVR), and you can't pause or rewind them (again without a DVR rental). The whole scheme is archaic and ridiculous and inefficient.

Finally, a big factor is cost (except with OTA). The TV itself is pretty cheap these days unless you get some big 60" quantum-dot display or something. A simple 32" TV can be had for just over $100 now, and a 40" for around $200. These are one-time costs. But cable TV can easily cost you over $100 every month, or over $1200/year. And for what? So you can watch ugly, over-compressed video, loaded with loud commercials, that you have no ability to control when you watch, or pause or rewind?
Context is king... gp comment:

> "According to adherents of this belief system, poverty is a symptom of laziness, full stop, and government can do nothing, and more importantly must not."

So I think what M_Grey was probably getting at when they said, "It really is the philosophy of the exceedingly short-sighted, arrogant, or just plain uneducated" we can believe it to be in the context of a libertarian who believes, "[...] poverty is a symptom of laziness [...]".

So to just fully concatenate that:

Libertarians who believe that poverty is a symptom of laziness and government can and should do nothing must be exceedingly short-sighted, arrogant, or plain uneducated.

Or maybe I'm contextualizing too much? Either way, it hardly seems the comment thread worthy of trying to turn people's words back on them.
But for some things either you know how to do a job or you don't.

If I need someone to build me a compiler, there's no point sending me any number of job applications who did brilliantly on a coding test, if they have never built a compiler before.

(Of course sometimes it's great to build someone up from scratch, but you can't do that for an entire team all the time).
Did you feel like there was a point to the questions they asked you? If you were being as rigorous as you could about designing the interview they delivered (I know your memory on this is hazy), what do you think they'd be trying to learn about you from the interview?

Did they give you homework challenges? Did you clear those but then bomb the interview?
On the Google Cloud Console you can change the memory allocation of your Cloud Functions: https://console.cloud.google.com/functions/list?project=_ we'll be providing better integrations with Firebase tools and also looking into providing more options in the future.
You're not doing much to add information to the situation. If you wanted to actually, you know, make a point or offer some info that'd be useful though.
And that's not problematic?

I'm from India, and in general, the Indian attitude towards money is "you only spend it if you have it" and even then, essentials came first and then money saved in a shoebox for a rainy day. There is no concept of borrowing money as a "personal loan" to afford a new MacBook or new Chrome wheels. In my very limited, east coast experience, this was not the attitude of the American poor.
Here's a question: what if I don't want to hire people like that? If you know something about underwater basket weaving I absolutely expect you speak up when we're considering switching to twine from seagrass. I don't want you to keep quiet and let us make a bad decision because you're concerned your knowledge is invalid.
> However, when it comes to service or product quality, you can be almost entirely objective in its value judgment.

No, all assessments of value are subjective (and for most services involve subjective weighting of multiple different subjective quality factors.) And the mapping from an internal value judgement to a star rating is something which is a separate subjective evaluation, and one on which research has shown substantial cultural variation along ethnic and other lines.
The article addresses this exact form of argument in a manner that I find compelling:

> There’s one final problem with these kinds of arguments, and that is the implication that we should be worried by the possibility of poor people buying the occasional steak, lottery ticket or, yes, even an iPhone. Set aside the fact that a better cut of meat may be more nutritious than a meal Chaffetz would approve of, or the fact that a smartphone may be your only access to email, job notices, benefit applications, school work and so on. Why do we begrudge people struggling to get by the occasional indulgence? Why do we so little value pleasure and joy? Why do we insist that if you are poor, you should also be miserable? Why do we require penitence?
Slack is very important to a lot of companies and groups. We use it not only as an IRC replacement, but also to hook into our CI and git repos. Along with the wealth of information and tools already put in there, there is the mindset that Slack is our communication tool we can rely on.

Google does not have a good track record when it comes to supporting their products. Look at Picasa, Google Glass, Bump, Currents, and sadly, Google Reader.

Google is good at advertising, email, and search. But I would not put any investment of time or data into their other products if I knew I needed them in the future.
Exactly. You can be poor as dirt and still have people who throw you a bone.
Wow, Google playing catch up to Microsoft who's playing catch up to Slack.
company's website https://www.ennetcom.com/ contains a press release in dutch

here the google translation

~~~ ~~~ ~~~

Press Release dated March 9, 2017

Following the press release of the prosecution today, in which the prosecution indicated to have the servers "cracked", which the prosecution had seized from clients business Ennetcom, Part I, as counsel for clients, including that first must be firmly stated that the prosecution without justification location which has herds based on a suspicion of money laundering with the mom as were the phones criminals customers.
The dossier, which showed that the company Ennetcom had tens of thousands of customers who bought the phones and the software through resellers and that the prosecution called only about four examples of cases in which there would have been a PGP phone purchased from such reseller. The company also revealed many customers nationally and internationally also have with government agencies and businesses that wish to communicate not hacked not criminal reasons. The seizure of the servers, so it seemed more an attempt by the prosecution to have access on improper grounds for an immense amount of communications of tens of thousands in order to seek fish in a trawl.
Like KPN or any other telecom company also simply be invaded and the entire contents meegeroofd to see who sends an error message.
The prosecution now gives the impression that all servers were cracked, but at the same time states that 3.6 million messages were visible, obviously giving the impression as if that would mean a lot of communication. The prosecution while talking about 40,000 users. However, a message is part of a conversation, so successive "yes", "and when," "what do you mean", three messages in a conversation.
Calculated as the number of messages and the number of users, so were about 90 messages per user are visible. Given the fact that the servers after 48 hours standard were cleaned, so the posts were destroyed, it would indeed be visible only in the last 48 hours made for those 40,000 users to 3.6 million messages.
The prosecution speaks in the press release very remarkable about "encryption keys which were also owned by and the police in the investigation." Clients business, however, did not have those keys. Namely those keys are covered by the company that makes PGP, Symantec. There are many other companies, in the same way as clients business software like PGP to sell their products. The "fall into the hands" seems in this therefore involve a very shadowy area of ​​irregularities and possibly the result of today's wild juicy Hack.

The prosecution considers this "booty" to get started, but the Canadian court location and in my opinion it deceived by the prosecution on so given the basis of suspicion, only authorize the use of only 4 with especially appointed investigations. And then the question is always what messages indicate which then can be linked to any physical entities.
That still seems mostly a hack too much.
...neither of which has any support for third-party clients, still.
Where I live, rent starts at 24 top of the line iphones a year for a family.
Doesn't it already exist to an extent? That's pretty much how Korean is built isn't it?
This seems to be the most interesting thing:

> Finally, the company will let developers bring a programming package (binary) to App Engine as a Docker image.

This sounds like someone could package up any piece of software (assuming that it's compatible with the underlying OS, of course) into a Docker image and deploy it on Google App Engine. This isn't limited to just programming languages.
Except, everything funded by my taxes has to be open, freely accessible, etc.

Google is using ReCaptcha as measure to get an unfair edge over competitors and make competing even more impossible.
you always need at least compiler/interpreter to execute your code... unless write bytecode in your editor
As a long-time Android user who converted to iPhone last year, I disagree with the claim that a non-iPhone can work as well as an iPhone.
By all means, show me the evidence that these "things are damn near universal, and often quite new."
> The things you're stating would explain a small number of iPhones among a given group of poor people.

May you please source this assertion?
Another overlooked aspect of this is simply debate experience and skills.

Being able to defend any given perspective quickly and easily is just a learned skill. People who took years of debate have a massive advantage.
Just out of curiosity, what kind of functionality were you only able to build this way?
refugees, too
Yeah, I remember that.

When I say game, I mean: practice questions you can expect to get (a little googling will help).

To think anyone would get through those interviews without prepping is ridiculous. Google specifically actually tells you to prep and what things to practice.

And also, since so many people do prep, the bar for acceptable performance is much higher than it would otherwise.

At this point, I'm not sure what these interviews are supposed to be measuring.
Trump passed an EO stopped legal immigration from certain countries. I get your point but pretending Trump isn't also hostile to some legal immigrants seems naive.
It seems to be the market clearing price. Lots of companies think "hey, we offer peanuts and people do all this expensive work for us."

This guy did it to land a job. Hopefully he's done with spec-work like this and his new employer makes sure to negotiate rates ahead of time for security reviews.
An iphone 3 or 4 is less than most androids
"makes it hard to save and make better investments in your future" definitely applies to cell plans, even though it pales in comparison to the cost of health insurance these days.

Even when it comes to smartphone ownership, the poor get screwed. You get better pricing if you have good credit, and if you're going with prepaid or non-credit plans, they charge you even more for subpar service (some features are entirely unavailable). So even if you skimp and buy a cheapo smartphone, you're still getting less value for your money than a middle-class buyer.
China and India are also deeply racist. I'm Indian, and I've been to China.

If you're brown skinned in China, you are treated far worse than you are in the US. Likewise, if you're Chinese (or look Chinese - people from the North East of India), most of India treats you very badly. And if you're a woman with Chinese features.. well let's just say that there's a (deeply pejorative) term for that in India.

In both countries, if you're white (occidental), you'll be treated MUCH MUCH better than a darker skinned person.

And if you're black.. it's even worse.

So it's not easy for Indians to move to China, or for a Chinese person to move to India. Of course moving back to your own country of origin is (usually) easier.
I hope they'll fuse chat, message and allo, this is getting ridiculous
> Without a good phone and a car

There are a lot of things that can go into "good" - unpacking, I think here you more specifically mean "(sufficiently) reliable"?
Just wondering. Did you buy windows 10 pro disk and install from that, or did you upgrade from Windows store from a free upgrade of 10?
Why do you say that?

By any objective measure the US's record on human rights far exceeds that of China. Has the US violated human rights? Sure. Does it try and remedy those situations? Yes.

China has zero qualms about putting people under house arrest for voicing opinions contrary to the Party. It doesn't come back and say "that was an injustice" it says "this is the right thing to do for China". Add on top of that forced abortions, mock trials, etc. The two countries aren't even comparable.
I think the article "A Programmer's Introduction to Unicode" that was shared here recently is a good read and explains Unicode well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13790575