skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest problem I see with the US today is we lack a national narrative for success. From ~1950 - ~1980 it was something like "Get a good job, work hard and you'll be able to succeed." By whatever combination of political, social and economic factors, the country was able to provide opportunities for the majority of people with aspirations of a comfortable middle class lifestyle to achieve them.

Earlier in the country's history it was "Go west, young man" -- the frontier served a similar social function of giving just about everybody willing to put in the effort demanded the ability to move up a notch economically -- maybe several notches.

Now we've reached a point where many ordinary people no longer have that sort of opportunity. It's tearing our society apart. We need to figure out how to fix it.

I've heard a lot of HN'ers talk about how "Detroit deserved to be disrupted since American cars weren't innovative." OK, maybe true, but the guy screwing bolts on cars now has to go work at McDonald's for a third of the wage and no benefits. He had approximately zero influence on how cars were designed, and now he's struggling to support his family. What was once a shining city in the industrial heartland of America is now a bandit-infested ruin.

"Go work for a startup" is also (understandably) a common sentiment on HN. OK, that works for people like us, but we all know there are a lot fewer decent programmers out there than people who can screw bolts on cars. We need something that can be done by most people, not only the 1%'ers of the intellectual food chain.

This country's made of ordinary folks who just want a comfortable middle class lifestyle. Our society used to be able to provide paths to achieve that, accessible to all, and that was the key to our success. Now we've lost the ability to do so, despite our technological advancements.

America's a broken system. How can we fix it?
Show HN: Tool to do a full-text search over a billion of files
XML should NEVER be used for configuration, not even if you're a Java or C# framework/middleware/application server.
I'd love a 10in epaper tablet with modern android. How hard can that be? You'd think with dozens of color tablets on the market it would be easy, but is impossible apparently.
If every time someone says something as inoffensive as "CEO's are overpaid", people (who don't much care about inequality) jump and lash out and demand precision, they're just making the job of organizing and discussing that much harder.

CEO's are ovepaid. It's a fact. People are increasingly comfortable just saying this. A socialist sympathizer just made a decent bid for the presidency of the USA.
And there I think you have it. I discovered as a parent the homogeneity is the key to "kid food", chicken breast being an excellent example. I remembered preferring Campbell's chicken soup, with its uniform little white cubes of chicken and homogenized fat to the version that my mother, where the chicken was raggedy looking and the fat floated unevenly.
or we could just take the steering wheels away.
I understand why there is a need for the variable rates, but the administration of it all sounds horrible.

There should be a single source of truth for the rates data, and there should be an api instead of having to rely on a third party for that information.
What Project Management Software Helps to Beat the Workplace Chaos
I'm not sure the comment you're replying to is saying to choose between one or the other (eating animals or plants) but perhaps rather that sustainable eco-friendly production is what is important regardless of the product.
If anyone ever pays a traffic ticket, it means taxes are too low. Consider: after paying the traffic ticket, they still show up to work! That means they would have shown up to work even if they had paid that money anyway, in the form of higher taxes.
This means if anyone ever pays a traffic ticket, for doing something wrong, it logically follows that everyone's taxes are too low. Otherwise how can they afford to pay it?

Do you see how this is an exact analogy for your "argument" (which is a logical error.)

We are talking about a punitive fine, for doing something wrong.

If you don't agree with my microeconomic analysis please make a graph (the supply curve) with your claim.
I guess they haven't seen San Francisco lately
I've seen a lot of things going this way. There's benefits to having a hybrid configuration.
> If everyone is getting an equal education, no one would move quintiles

Huh? Equal education implies more economic movement. Of course education is not the only factor anyway so claiming movement stops completely as a result of some educational change doesn't make sense.
Ah, you're correct, I was specifically told "we don't take cost of living into account when deciding compensation" or similar language. (which isn't strictly true either)

That said, from what I've seen, compensation growth at Google from everything I've seen is faster than at the other companies, which means that for someone coming in at L>3, they will likely be given greater compensation at google than elsewhere.

I'm curious as to how they misrepresented things. I was actually pleasantly surprised once I got here by how extensive the benefits were, but I'm always interested in learning more, since while I actually think that 4 google interviews is a decent way to judge someone for google, I really hate their interview/negotiation process.
> This is the holy grail of meat substitutes for vegans.

Hi, vegan here! I already get all this from plants.

> No living thing of any kind is killed, molested, or even inconvenienced in its manufacture (provided you don't look too closely at where the amino acids came from).

Where do they come from, then? There is already enough plant diversity to not need to manufacture cells this way. In fact, fermentation of foods brings us many nutritional gifts, and I do actually kill these organisms when I eat them, but I'm ok with killing some yeasts over cows (grey line, I know! :)
Algae is the future!
Really top-notch American barbecue really doesn't get enough credit. The best BBQ places deliver a head-trip, pleasure-overload, "this is so good I'm going to die" experience that matches any haute cuisine you can find.
It's precursor (the DPTS1, which is also mentioned in the article) is just as weird. Specifically, it's a product that I obsessed over some time, but is actually incredible niche and not widely available. The resellers specifically target lawyers and other specific professions.

It's also nearly impossible to find a physical place where you could test it without making an appointment. There are few things I want more than a product like this to succeed. I have had a couple of Microsoft Surface products, and they are amazing. Game changing even. But nothing beats e-ink as far as being pleasant on the eyes for extended periods of times.

I've been trying to move from books to e-books, just because I don't have a lot of space to keep books anymore. For non-technical books, a Kindle suffices. But for anything even slightly technical everything falls short. Nothing comes close to the experience of physical books. The surface is the closest for me, but even that the software available for making annotations on it is lackluster, and just staring at a screen too long is not pleasant. This sort of large e-ink tablets I hope are the solution, but their popularity being so lackluster, makes me think that those that have spent the money aren't quite happy with it.

I wish more products like this keep coming out until one sticks.
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/03/history-of-human-powe...
I see you have already been downvoted heavily. But I feel that despite being completely wrong you were attempting a real rebuttal, with real thought and content.

Companies colluding to fix wages - This couldn't exist without the companies trusting each other.

monopolies - These don't need trust between customers and business. But they also represent a failure mode were capitalism breaks down... perhaps because customers don't trust vendors.

Wage theft - This can't go on long before the people earning those wages leave for a more trustworthy environment. There are plenty of examples of people switching jobs (or even countries) to get a more trustworthy employer to prevent this. It is far from perfect, but people generally don't like to be stolen from. Those that tolerate make life harder for those victims that don't.

Discrimination - I am not sure what this has to do with anything here. But even groups like the KKK have trust between member to not out each other. It is fucked up but trust does exist and enables them to operate.

Sweatshops - People wouldn't work in sweatshops if they didn't get paid, otherwise its called slavery. In slavery the slaves aren't economic participants, they are products. Even in slave trades there must be trust. The slavers trust they can sell and the consumers trust they they can buy. This sadly comes with all the assurances of quality that any other transaction comes with.

Child labor - Is very sad, but still requires trust. The kids were either bought/sold so again the slave transaction or the kids are employees and have the employer/employee relationship.

All capitalism requires trust. I never said blind trust, and never trust in the product beyond its ability to function. You cannot buy things from or sell things to someone you do not trust to not attempt to kill you as the most base level. The more valuable or nuanced the transaction the greater the trust required.
I recently got one of these https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/13-3-inch-android-e-reade.... It's pretty fantastic so far. The stylus and e-ink screen do work pretty well for handwriting with the built-in notebook software.
I would find a job in another company post haste.
Theories of markets generally assume that people that should actively trade stocks are people that have a insight into aspects of the market they're trading in which is superior to that of other stock-pickers. If you're wondering whether the generic advice to buy an index fund might be better, you're not one of those people (and you should buy the index fund).

Of course, plenty of professional fund managers claim to have that insight, but when they're charging higher fees for insights that on average don't beat the market, you should probably take the same view that you need enough knowledge to evaluate their trading strategy (or a strong reason to prefer a fund which claims to be aiming for low/high volatility) to consider them over the index...

Since the index has lower fees and the "winners" are disproportionately likely to have information advantages, beating an index is a competition in which the average joe can usually expect to fall behind.
Complex sales tax almost seems inevitable, there are lots of similar services in the US, like https://www.taxjar.com/api/.

One of the things regulators want from a tax code is to stop large companies picking their jurisdiction to avoid sales tax, and therefore gain an unfair advantage. The MOSS is really annoying for microbusinesses, like musicians wanting to sell their album online, but compliance is easily handed off to an accountant for anyone working on such things full-time.
This is sheer beauty. Once upon a time I would experience anxiety when I ran into this kooky stuff. Now I find it delightful because I have come to realize that is it impossible to have a rational discussion with irrational people, and in any society there will always be a significant population that does not yield to rational thought. While one might argue that such people are detrimental to the mental and intellectual health of a society, I find those claims to be mostly posturing. With some exceptions, these people are mostly harmless. So what to do? Why fret about it? Study the phenomenon and enjoy it.
Not being mandatory and uploaded to 3rd party servers means this is dead on arrival.
Apache configs are not XML files, they just happen to contain some square brackets.
I didn't know you could watch development on Twitch, only gaming and the like.

Do you have any Twitch accounts you'd recommend for this? Thanks....
Join the club, then. My view is there is a borderline unhealthy obsession with unit testing to the point that the actual product code takes a back seat (in quality and functionality) just so that some usually arbitrary measure of "testable" applies to it.
You can achieve really nice looking syntax highlighting using only bold, _italic_ and several different scales of gray.
Ask HN: Will privacy and cryptography go the way of communism?
In other words, a nice idea in theory but eventually we'll all realize we can't afford it?

Or will it somehow stick around? And maybe somehow find the balance needed to survive?

For me this question was prompted by reading https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Crypto/Crypto_misc/cypherpunk.manifesto and thinking, yeah, it's a nice piece, but written before terrorism, globally, became a weekly occurrence and before secret message services were widespread, and is blissfully ignorant of the future we inhabit.

And also by remembering, I used to like writing cryptography, but now I also have the feeling that I don't want to make something that helps people do bad things. I never felt that responsibility before. It was just being creative and making something cool. But I feel that responsibility now. I don't want to put a tool in people's hands that could help them get away with hurting people illegally. So even tho I want to, I don't know if I'll write crypto anymore. And even if I do I don't know if I'll share it. It's kind of sad to realise stuff you like doing is going to be abused by some people. And that if you share it with the world, you're going to be part of that. And so instead you pick other projects that have less abuse potential.
Aren't Apache configs something unique that has pieces that look like XML but actually aren't?
Maybe your area really sucks, but i've never had the misfortune to work at jobs even half as bad as the two you've described here. I'm not in a tech hub at all.
It's standard for companies that pay large bonuses (as a percentage of salary). That's the whole point. It's a carrot they dangle in front of you that you get to break off the string once a year.
I don't think there's that many programmers who never, ever deal with colours. An icon, a font change, and you need colour. Not to mention the fact that colours provide useful cues in general and improve productivity (syntax highlighting, coloured terminals, etc.).
A quote from the flat-Earthers included in the article: "After watching this video, you will reverse your concept of forests by 360 degrees."

At least these people understand their audience's intellectual limitations.

For the record, I circumnavigated the world solo in a 31-foot boat (https://arachnoid.com/sailbook/). From direct empirical evidence, I know the earth is round.
Can this create new PDFs at least? Like can I just open a blank page, doodle a bit, and save it as a PDF?
...a lot of the benefit comes from the aggressive renaming.

ISTM if we're going to compress the file anyway, renaming would have a much smaller effect on what actually gets served?
When roasting a whole bird, I love to use the turn method. Some people turn the bird three times, I just do it once and find it's awesome (same for turkey).

Basically, cook the chicken upside down for basically half the time, and then finish it breast side up.

Juicy breast meat every time.
This is your periodical friendly reminder that Igor Sysoev, principal author of nginx, is strongly pro-Putin and anti-Ukraine. You might get a taste of his views at his personal website, http://sysoev.ru (in Russian; use Google translate).

So, if such things matter to you, you might consider choosing some other web frontend.
My study of these energies so far points toward body language, posture, empathy, intentional breath, hypnotic trance and synesthesia as being the major drivers. The calmer you are and more relaxed you are, the easier it is to sense. I've read theories around how the nervous system normally deals with too much background noise, and by calming the mind you can free up bandwidth for the esoteric. I'm not convinced of there being any relation to the EM realm and as I'm sure we all know, psychedelics seem to increase one's sensitivity to these things.
That's not merit. It's opportunity. A poor kid with absentee parents has as much merit as your daughter.
Yes - this API is an attempt to help with that.
Indeed. If you're going with an Arduino/ethernet you are not going to get SSL layer between client/broker. Then again, you do get the security of being on a wired network, and little to no RF emissions.

If you "upgrade" to an ESP class microprocessor, you do get MQTT, CoAP, and SSL support. And frankly the more protocols, the better. Some do tend to be better than others in different situations. I know I greatly prefer MQTT, for its clean and basic protocol. It gets out of the way for me to do what I want, basic Pub/Sub and storing relevant data into a MongoDB for timeseries.

I know at work, we're using RabbitMQ (AMQP). It has its own positives and negatives. My biggest concern is it serves as a forward-and-store datastore - another place where backups need to be made, let we lose essential data. I'm against complex moving parts, where simpler moving parts would suffice.
I got one of these https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/13-3-inch-android-e-reade...

It's pretty decent, and exactly what I wanted - an old-school Kindle around the size of a sheet of paper.
I know way more great developers who contribute to open source than great developers that don't.
Apache wasn't a competition, lighttpd was.
cPanel has no native support for nginx, if you've seen that it's been using a third party plugin. The second most popluar server controlpanel Plesk supports the configuraion you describes bt it's not enabled by default so I doubt will be affected the statistics.
I would hope that many (if not most) white-collar workers are getting some kind of profit sharing bonus, Christmas bonus, employee of the month, or some kind of incentive for a job well done beyond the bare minimum performance your salary is meant to represent. Certainly every office job I've ever had I've gotten periodic bonuses for doing a good job, and I've also not received bonuses in times when I did not do a good job.
I have a sketch of a theory that rattles around in my head. I'm fairly sure I'll be pilloried, but what the heck.

It starts with a nation founded on faith and religion, of a group of people who are willing to kill and enslave based purely on things they believe but can't prove. They'll try like hell to prove it, they'll search up and down for the slightest hint of something they feel to which they can connect other tiny little other unproven dots to. It doesn't matter if YOU don't think it's true, it's MY religion and I believe it and YOU can't fuck with MY faith.

It continues on through a society full of advertisements that scream "the best!" "foolproof!" "most delicious!" night and day, from every corner...first from papers and billboards and then up through radio, tv and the internet. Even when demonstrably untrue and nonsensical, they're allowed to be propagated and repeated.

It reaches a modern day where political classes can literally almost say or do or vote what or however they want without fear of any serious reprisal or of the citizens taking half a minute to remember that they said/did/voted the exact opposite 6 months or two years ago.

This is true in the US specifically but also in varying proportions throughout the world, and moreso as our model is spread everywhere.

So basically I wonder if first we have been misdirected and advertised at and lied to for so long that a sizeable portion of those among us have actually lost sight of what's true reality anymore. Some of my family members I previously thought of as sane and rational have become so unhinged and irrational that if they suddenly came to me and said "the earth is flat and there are no trees" I might flinch for a second but otherwise would not be all that surprised.
How do you know if one life form is more or less sentient than another? Is sentience not a subjective phenomenon?
I think the most frustrating thing for me as someone from the United States is the number of people I talk to that want a 'better paying job' where the job is exactly what they are doing right now just with a bigger dollar amount attached to it. They can't even see that the fact that they have a job that pays as well as it does is an aberration and can go away, or that it is a cultural/economic norm to just slowly increase pay over time and those bonus/yearly raises are often not representative of your value in the organization. There is a reason why firing someone and replacing them with someone fresh out of school is such a common trope/strategy because it just resets this implicit clock among other established interpersonal tensions.

I'm not talking about the more entrepreneurial types or people who feel like trying to take a level of change jobs or start a business of their own is beyond their taste for risk, which are people I could see as part of 'hard work will pay off' not really ringing true.
Convenience alone could also account for all of the examples you mention. You can see the same trend in non-animal products as well - my wife just brought home a pack of pudding twice as expensive because it's in an "easy to eat" pouch that doesn't require a spoon, unlike a normal pudding cup.
Found in the wild: Vault7 hacking tools WikiLeaks says come from CIA
Certain people on HN love to take a single sentence out of context and then act like that single sentence was your entire comment. Very annoying.
Some discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14069409
How does it compare to DC/OS on Mesos? Interested in hearing from people experienced in both.
Unfortunately no easy fix around. Adapt to demand or suffer in current setup, with a pipe dream of some UBI one day with god knows what consequences.

World economy is fluid and in constant move - what will 300 million Chinese migrant workers do once their salaries are too high to be interesting for employment?
Ousted Lending Club founder launches rival startup Upgrade
The calculations are objective, the input values are subjective.

ICE says they ask a particular bunch of people "If _your_ bank wants to borrow money, how much does that cost?" and then they do a particular calculation to turn all those inputs into LIBOR

90 days later we can see all the individual numbers, so we can check if ICE did their job properly, and also we can see if, say, Lloyds have been ridiculously low-balling their numbers every Tuesday.

Because the question is subjective, that's still subject to bias, in particular it makes an unspecified assumption: that the bank asked could in fact secure such a loan because it's available to them if they wanted it. As a result loss of liquidity in parts of the market is not visible through LIBOR even with reforms.
Honestly, my biggest objection is that there's so much nearly pointless IoT stuff out there.

If a product desperately needs network connectivity, but is still prohibitively expensive to secure, I'm sympathetic. (Not forgiving, mind, but I understand the difficulty.) But when you're releasing a wifi teakettle, or a networked lightswitch that's talking to one other switch 5 feet away? At that point I think there's basically no excuse at all. Teakettles work great as is, adding insecure network support creates a product substantially worse than one without any software at all.

More theoretically, I can imagine an IoT product so good that they should just pay for the externalities they cause and keep manufacturing. But most insecure products out there today are creating far more externality than value, and wouldn't exist if they had to deal with the harm they cause.
If the next protocol iteration is something like QUIC, then the WS could just be implemented over QUIC UDP packets.
What's weird is the article not discussing what's weird