skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my mind move to a consumption tax with pre-bate (aka FairTax) and remove corporate income taxes altogether.
Aeron, many memories from that era. I really hated those chairs.
If affluence itself is defined in its relationship to poverty, then yes, then making money off of affluence is in essence making money off of poverty. Any kind of market that plays to peoples sense of status is playing into class dynamics born out of the existence of relative poverty.
Having programmed alone in the eighties, I can just feel it's much better.

For example, I needed to do some UI but back then I hadn't the money to buy a toolkit (Windows was still some years away). Therefore I had to spend much time on making a UI and that UI was just a small concern to me.

Today, I have an idea for a program, then I gather all the libs I can to progress as fast as possible and I just need to code the missing/most important bits.

That is, I can concentrate on what's really important and leave plenty of the 80-other-percent to the open source community...
If you're interested in an open source option that compares quite well to the LastPass feature-set, check out bitwarden: https://bitwarden.com/ (note: I am the lead developer).
>In fact to most companies it is critical to have an affluent market to sell things to.

I think you may be describing what you see around you. Plenty of companies make plenty of money specifically because of people being in need. Think of all the fast food and microwaveable crap that gets sold simply because the buyer either doesn't have a good way to keep food or doesn't have the time to make a "real" meal as they get off of one job and have to go right to the next.
>but it's still perfectly usable for reading books on the Kindle app

Reading books on a low-res display sounds terrible. Why not just buy a Kindle if you read a lot?
> Increased wealth at lower levels benefits everyone.

Both the positive and negative experiences of wealth/poverty are driven largely by relative, not absolute, material situation, so this is not really true, as much as those who think that absolute material conditions should be the driver of utility think it is.

> The main problem of poverty, at least in America, is that the welfare system traps poor people in government dependency.

That was the theory beyond the welfare reform of the 1990s, which created new limitations, etc. It was quite successful in getting people off welfare (and pretty good at keeping them off, with caseloads not increasing much with the downturns that followed in 2001 and 2008), but far less successful at keeping people out of poverty (beyond the declines during the expansion the reform was passed in the middle of.)

> Another massive issue, homelessness, is due to terrible mental health treatment, which is especially sad.

You probably need to decide if the problem is too much or too little public support, since you've in effect argued both positions in the same paragraph.
> numpy works, scipy & matplotlib are very close.

Care to elaborate? I agree that numpypy is pretty much complete, though I have not found it to be faster in my limited testing. I was under the impression that a great deal of work would be required to get the other two running, even using CPyExt (which would not be faster, which was the whole point to begin with). I'd love to be proved wrong though.
One of the best vulnerability researchers in the world right now. Tavis Ormandy is a spectre of doom. He is one of the last people you want to see tweeting about your company.

Every member of Google's Project Zero team is individually more capable and productive than entire teams of consultants at the best security firms.
For many cloud vendors, including EC2, "dedicated hardware" just means yours will be the only virtual machine on that computer. But they're still running your image under a hypervisor.
This made me laugh:

"They also said they couldn't get my exploit to work, but I checked my apache access logs and they were using a Mac. Naturally, calc.exe will not appear on a Mac."
> so the JSON generation did something right

Rediscovered S-expressions and reimplemented them in a mix of square and curly braces ;).
Makerbots were the worst products to use for awhile two years back, but in the past few months, their reliability has been unmatched. Have barely had any failed prints.
The service status page has been updated with a comment that they're deploying a fix:

Current status: We're deploying a fix to restore service. Users should begin to experience service restoration as the fix is rolled out.
Payday lenders would probably (thankfully) go away, but other businesses could benefit. Credit Card issuers will do well. Interest rates go down, but credit limits can go up. A pawn shop makes money selling stuff, so if there was more money in the neighborhood, they could sell more. They may need to acquire products in new ways, and rebrand as an antique store, or general store.
It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.
-Rothbard

I'm seeing all sorts of economic flailing in these comments. Is it okay to make a reading recommendation? I think people who read them will have a better understanding of how economics actually works in the real world.

Economism by James Kwak

Economic Ideas You Should Forget by Bruno Frey & David Iselin
> in general capitalist prefer people to be rich

I'm not convinced that this is true.

Poor populations allow for is the cheap accumulation of power - people who have less are easier to motivate with an offering of money or support. If you increase the distribution of wealth amongst the population buying that goodwill and loyalty becomes a lot more expensive.

This power dynamic can be seen demonstrated in the dissemination of living assistance by profit-motivated groups that wish to accumulate political and social power such as organized crime.

UPDATE:

I'm leaving the old post as a historical reference but I wanted to take a second swing at explaining my disagreement coherently.

The time and efforts of a person is a commodity and the price of that commodity is partially pegged to the accessible wealth of that person. As the average personal wealth of people increases the cost to purchasing their time and efforts increases.

There are two ways to increase profit - increase the cost of the product or lower the cost of production. Increased average wealth helps with the former but (depending on how manually intensive your product is) decreased average wealth helps with the latter.
I'm on an iPad 2 and most all of the music programs I use on the regular are without issue. Garage Band. Figure. Some synths. Safari works great too, only the occasional hiccup.

Functionally it's still fine, I just fear the day when it will be put out to pasture by Apple in spite of my TLC and enjoyment.

I've never felt compelled to visit one of the nearby shops on Harry Hines by the Korean Community to jailbreak an Apple device, but I think in this case I'll be tempted.
Goddammit why are they still calling it swagger (Pardon my french), i thought they came to senses and decided to use "OpenAPI"
If you're exposing telnet to the public internet on anything you need to rethink whether you're competent to run internet infrastructure.
I don't get why he didnt' make up some bullshit and call it his great idea. Tell them he thought up a way to train monkeys to reverse compile FORTRAN.
The argument would be that the right to seek rent from your capital goods, whether created, bought, or inherited, is what drives people to create these rent-creating systems in the first place.

If people didn't have the right to seek rent from the houses they build or inventions they come up with, why would they expend the effort in the first place?

(note, I don't take that view exactly, I believe motivation comes from a whole lot of places)
Ok, well, by way of that example, in less than an hour or so, I was able to read Vingerhoets last 2 years of selected publications (via his personal website, http://www.advingerhoets.com/journal-articles/) and of particular note one of the most recent (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02699931.2016.11...) was actually rebutting/failing to reproduce the other study cited in this article by the Israeli group (http://faculty.washington.edu/beecher/Gelstein_et_al_2011.pd...) on the chemosignal theory.

It's not just about reading the sources. It the quality of the analysis and faithful representation of the sources. Don't you think that this major disagreement between two primary sources would have undermined his thesis (though captured the actual level of nuance/disagreement that exists in the research), or at signaled appropriate levels of uncertainty to the reader?

I still think a days worth of Googling (real, concerted, sustained effort) would leave anyone with a better understanding of the subject matter than reading this article. If someone wants to read an edgy pop-biology econometrical/anthrological opinion piece, that's another story.
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but their mobile enabled recipe site is TOTALLY going to be around for a long time too!!! ;-)
Yeah, sadly, the reason things are often so expensive for poor people is because it ISN'T profitable to service them. This means that there is little competition for their business and things cost a lot.

For example, rent for poor people is way too high. So why don't other people come in and offer to rent to them for less?

Well, poor people have trouble paying their rent a lot of the times. They have a high chance of failing to pay, and that is costly to a landlord. So that risk is priced into the rent.

What this ends up meaning, though, is that if you are poor but always pay your rent on time, you are paying for all the people who fail to pay their rent.
Got 15 minutes and want to learn Git?
> Embedded work is especially good if you feel nostalgic about 80s-style PC hacking.

True, and reciprocally, it is terrible if you hate it. Back to the world of having no debugger, zero tool, potentially no auto completion and unable to do a print.

I still remember an old embedded IDE, when I scrolled down or up with the mouse, the code sometimes becomes a screen of garbage. It's not a display bug, if you save the file, it really become garbage of random characters :D
This was really neat - thanks.

I built a search engine for lectures (https://www.findlectures.com) to counter the "lots of noise" problem (not podcasts or audiobooks, but it's the same idea).

It never occurred to me there were so many ways to approach the problem, so this post gave me some things to think about :)
Give Divvy a try (http://mizage.com/divvy/).

I find it to be quite configurable, easy to use and quite better than the available alternatives.
I agree 100%

The article (I'm not sure about the book) painted landlords as evil for evicting women "Think of that next time you ask a woman why she doesn't call the police," but Crack doesn't come out of walls easily, holes punched in by that abusive man aren't fixed for free, and cops making an arrest care even less about your property than the tenants. There are insanely high cost to renting to low-wage families and most landlords I know that attempted it didn't last long doing so.

Are there some sad stories of people truly trying to improve their lives? Yes, there absolutely are, but for every "Pursuit of Happyness" Oprah level story of overcoming poverty there are 20 people who've absolutely given up and don't give a crap about anything that's not physically attached to them. It's not the business owner's responsibility to try and spur the human spirit of the impoverished.

This article is painting just a skewed of a viewpoint as the one it's trying to disprove, and I'm curious if the book is the same.
How many new Macbook Pros + 27" monitors have been purchased over the years for a sales person to check email and use a web-based CRM?
Mobile carriers. In the US, 55% of mobile traffic is IPv6: http://m.slashdot.org/story/315213
Yeah. A variation on my own story: http://seliger.com/2017/01/09/tools-continued-careful-buy-am... . It's definitely changed my buying habits. For example, I just got a Fujitsu SnapScan... from Office Depot. There's no way I'm buying a moderately expensive electronic item from Amazon anymore.
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Despite the cause being the end of the UNIX epoch in 2038, problems will become apparent a much sooner. Like the Y2K issue - in ~2031 (or sooner), systems that track expiration dates or contract terms will start to run into dates past 2038. As 2038 approaches, more systems will be affected (there are relatively fewer expiration dates 7 years out vs. 5 or 3).

The effects of this problem are closer than they seem - only 14 years away or less
In the case of the counterfeit copies of Linux Command Line sold through Amazon, those were printed by CreateSpace in violation of copyright. That is certain. From what we can tell that is also the case here.
Another huge difference was how slow compilers were. Programming is a completely different task when you don't mind hitting compile. I remember programming as a kid in the 1980s with my older brother. He would hit compile and we would wait and wait and wait and finally get an error. After a few times he would slam his fists on the keyboard in frustration.

These days I sometimes compile rather than looking up the correct syntax for something.

Fast cycles changes everything. When you don't get up for a cup of coffee during compiles you program differently, learn about your code differently and can think abiout high level design more
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If you're bad, then when you die all of the cats whom you've mildly pissed off - which is probably all of them - rush you instead.
I'm not seeing sympathy for meth, and that's largely white people. It's seldom prescribed in ways that addict people, unlike opiates.

There exist white crack addicts. They also don't get sympathy.

The key question: can we reliably assume that an addiction started for recreational reasons? If yes: no sympathy.
I know. And that landlady that had enough money leftover to take a yearly vacation and attend real estate meetups for professional development! "Monster" may be too generous.

If anyone here thinks you can take investment and usury out of any economy, I'd highly recommend David Graeber's book "Debt: The First 5000 Years". Totally viable, assuming we all go back to hunting and gathering.

One way or another, the poor need to be able to afford the basic necessities in life, housing included. Making anything that vaguely sounds like "rent-seeking" illegal is not going to fix it. How will anyone retire if dividends are illegal? Do we go back to a communist system, where you're required to work for government (benevolent, of course) for a fixed number of years? Where will the money come from to invest in a trailer that's "squalid"?
true, but isaferite was agreeing with OP, so I stick to my words.
How can you say "He's very critical of black people" in tht wording with a straight face, after acknowledging that he is black too? The point is that there's a difference between saying "I hate this person and the thousands like her who behaving this way" and "I hate black people because they behave this way".
> it has never been affected by malware, spyware

that you know of
Just read the first paragraph:
"...Since then, it's been moved to the Linux foundation and renamed to Open API"
You are welcome! :)

Just to clarify: Ctrl-L does clear the screen -- this would have been a problem on Windows, but does not bother me on a Mac; on the other hand, Cmd-L (which is the Mac shortcut for the URL) simply prints an "l".
for the others curious, seems javascript handles dates with 64-bit floating points, which have a maximum of 9007199254740991.

The highest date I could make with node+chrome was 'Dec 31 275759', which cozies-up pretty close to that (8639977899599000)
I patronize the local pawn shop all the time. I don't need to, but it's a way to easily sell things I no longer need, and buy things fairly cheap. It's a great place to pick up an inexpensive laptop, for example. I bought my favorite e-reader there.
Yeah, that's a bummer - but that's not the caltrain ticketing UI. That's using Clipper on the caltrain.
“It takes a lot of time and experimentation to work through unpredictable scenarios like a child picking up an item or a person wearing sunglasses or a face muffler,” he said.

This is funny. Because these aren't unpredictable scenarios at all in a grocery store, unless you are having to write software to deal with them.
Hi Tara, great work on the fund - and I'm a big fan of EA / GiveWell / Doing Good Better and all this "ecosystem". I'm curious about the scalability of EA funds. From what I know, some of the major areas that EA and GiveWell focus on are neglected causes.
If enough people are giving to neglected causes, would the movement lose its essence?

Also, individual donors in general are impact givers who make a donation because their friends told them about a non-profit, or they paid for a gala-dinner ticket for social reasons. How do you plan to transform the general public from being impulse givers into "effective altruists" ?
> Back-end developers often attribute front-end expertise not to mastery but to alchemy, wizardry or magic...

What?

> ...in other words, those soft fuzzy things that women are supposed to excel at

Oh, right. Support for the narrative. That's why that BS is shoe-horned in there.

You can just as easily say design is less like programming, more like art. Maybe there is a gender imbalance in art? But it isn't a subject that I know of to have a gender stigma.

> The gendered attributes switch as you travel to the back of the stack

The back of the stack has the impression of being mainly technical (and often less client-facing), which is why the stereotype is of a "relentlessly logical, asocial sci-fi enthusiasts – bearded geniuses". Other than 'bearded', are these gendered attributes? If so, so what; it seems the job fits.

> The bearded savant of computer science lore

Does the author just throw in 'bearded' again because it fit the narrative?

TBH, the this is the Guardian; its sex-baiting, concern-trolling, virtue-signalling feminism section does more harm than good.

Just look at its coverage of Trumps Merkel snub: "Trump did to Merkel what men do to women all the time", another Jessica Valenti classic.
I do. I saved for my kid's education, and I didn't bother even applying for aid, because (a) I don't need it, (b) I wouldn't get any, and (c) it's not anyone else's responsibility to send my kid to college.
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Isn't poverty a inherently relative term? It means you're impoverished relative to the contemporary living standard. To be impoverished is to be very poor, to be poor is to have less, and you have to be comparing against something to define a quantity against it.

So yes, relative to today's average first-world citizen, even the wealthiest humans from the past have been impoverished. But I don't think that's a useful framing.

The default state of humanity is to be a hunter-gatherer in a tribe. It's to spend the day walking/running long distances to find food and coming home at night to eat it and sleep, or to spend the day preparing the food and living quarters for eating/sleeping at night and making sure the children are safe. Within this context, the only poverty that exists is the bounty of the land which one happens to inhabit.

Our tribal past is often skimmed over, but I think it's instructive as to what systems and processes work well and allow the species to evolve and flourish. Psychology is a thin veneer atop biology. We should be careful to ensure that our conduct, both personal and systemic, is biologically compatible.
> in general capitalist prefer people to be rich.

Capitalists prefer to be rich themselves (both absolutely and relative to others in society), and they prefer labor to be cheap, which is served by laborers being poor and insecure.
Something like that, but in quantity. The copies we've seen were sold directly by Amazon. Push the main buy button and that's what you got. Counterfeits.
You can code all day and stay in your corner without any external hassle.

That process being enforced will ensure that most code is buggy and development is totally unproductive. That will usually create an environment where noone expect anything from developers and you have zero accountability.

if it all goes well, you can toy around all day and not have to ship anything, still getting a paycheck, and not risking the comparison to your peers.
Total guess, but they may mean request bodies instead of response since GET and DELETE normally don't have request bodies.

However, I'm not sure there is a definitive answer on if that's true from an HTTP perspective. I also couldn't find it in a skimming of the OpenAPI 3.0 spec.

In the end, REST [1] itself does not prescribe either condition and the HTTP 1.1 [2] spec doesn't either.

> A payload within a GET request message has no defined semantics; sending a payload body on a GET request might cause some existing implementations to reject the request.

[1] https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arc...
[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-4.3.1
This really brings me back. I used to write "algorithms" all the time, then at some point it just turned into debugging SQL queries. When I was younger, it was so much more "real" programming. But it's easy to look at things with rose-colored glasses, because there were two huge problems.

First, programming was sooo much slower. Nowadays there's a function or a library for everything. Back then, if you wanted to serialize something to disk, you had to write a serialization function first. Fun, but SLOW.

And secondly, debugging was even moooore slower. The amount of time wasted on trial and error was astounding. Nowadays, if a library or browser or OS is misbehaving, a quick search will usually find the problem and workaround options. Back then, it could easily take days and days to try different solutions (hence the "invention" and "creativity") until one turned out to work, and it might not ever work at all.

So while the author says:

> I have to admit I think programming was actually more fun back then. Without all the modern trappings of working as a programmer that suck major time out of your day we were able to spend a majority of every day actually programming.

What I remember is a majority of every day spent debugging mysterious problems with OS calls and libraries, or writing "grunt" algorithm code for stuff there ought to be a function for already, as opposed to writing the fun new stuff. And let's not even talk about waiting minutes to recompile, or how primitive debugging tools were back then.
He was a Presbyterian. A protestant Christian.
There is already more than enough bureaucracy involved in paying taxes, creating an ecosystem to make more of that bureaucracy... for a profit.... is not my idea of a good idea.
The buyer and seller both profit, or they would not engage in the trade. Each has something the other needs more than they do.
Google investing $50M for tech-based education