skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First drop for me is easily Microsoft. I have a gaming PC, and I keep it booted in Ubuntu unless a game requires Windows. I'm pretty sure I could boot into Windows less often if I used WINE, but I don't currently wanna deal with that hassle. The only other tools from Microsoft that I follow are TypeScript and Visual Studio Code, but I'm happily using Flow and WebStorm.

Second drop would definitely be Facebook. I feel like my Facebook feed is largely full of shitty memes. It'd be annoying to lose Messenger, but most of the contacts I regularly speak with are available through other means of communication. If I were closing my account I'd probably message a bunch of people to make sure I have their alternative contact info. I don't think I'd be able to easily drop React and Flow. Migrating away from their ecosystem would be incredibly challenging for me.

I can't drop Amazon, Apple, or Google.
> Thing is, they provide so much stuff, I don't know how I could possible ever migrate away.

It's actually very easy, and once you do you'll realise Google's significance in your life is seriously overestimated.
This is a bit of a hobby horse of mine, but the reason is the number of elected representatives has not kept pace with the population growth. When the USA was founded there were about 20,000 electors per representatives and now in some seats there are over a million.

If you want representation you need to be able to meet and talk to your rep - more importantly they need to be able to acquire your vote without the need for advertising. Remove the need for advertising and you remove the need for money and the corruption that flows.
Honestly, the marketplace doesn't seem like a good fit for Github. I couldn't see my company or any organization that I am in buying services through Github when we have that capability in the following locations already:

- Docker
- Heroku
- AWS
- Google
- Direct

Feels more for "discovery" than purchasing.
Writing software you can get a job straight out of college making 2x more than the median family income of the US. Within 5 years it is common to make 4-5x the median income. The same pattern emerges for system administrators and SRE's, but quite as steep of an income growth curve. The requirements for working in IT help desks is basically 'basic ability to install software and click the button to image hd's, and shows up to work'.

Companies are outright desperate for even entry level skills. If you can't even find work in this field, that is very atypical, and I think it is reasonable to assume that something is going on there. Maybe it's substance abuse, maybe it's a complete lack of skills, but it's something, because there are far more jobs than people to fill them.
Can you give a few examples of poor nations that are not being exploited by global capitalism?
You should read about REST then :)
Globalism doesn't "attempt" anything, its not designed and it doesn't have agency.
Wait, why was your client running a desktop OS in-scope?

Every PCI zone I've seen is just servers (Windows Server and Linux). Does the client store card data on desktop machines?

Generally, you'll have a locked-down portion of your infrastructure be PCI-compliant, and that's the only place card data is stored or entered. That reduces your scope and costs.
I think this is just the right move. It's the only good reason to own an Apple or Android Watch, to monitor your health. The current solutions require quite a many devices to get the information to your watch. If Apple nails it with their product for us Type 1 diabetics, I'm ready to switch from Android.
UK firm designs 'world's most affordable solar lamp'
Wait what? So because there are even poorer people on the other sides of the ponds, some of which might actually benefit in some tangential way from globalism, it's OK for the 0.01 % to rob their closest neighbours blind?
I agree that first past the post is stupid, but the strong divide between Repulicans and Democrats seems to be fairly recent.[1] They used to vote less along party lines. So maybe the rise of mass media is to blame?

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
gRPC is a much better approach.
On the other side swiss people seem aware of that and don't use the term so loosely like everyone else.
Thank you, so tired to see "REST vs GraphQL" topics/blog posts. They are orthogonal.
How did I even imply that the problem is the America doesn't have enough wealth? My comment didn't touch on anything of the sort.

My point was actually this: In a better democracy the people who believed income inequality was a big problem would vote for the "Bernie Sanders Party" instead of being forced to vote for Clinton. Let's say that just 20% voted for the BSP while 31% voted for the Hillary Party.

They would be forced to govern together, and create the best solutions in order to retain or grow their parties. The constantly changing dynamic between all the different parties would in turn lead to better solutions for the voters instead of the current solution in the US - where people on the left are practically forced to vote democratic and the people on the right are forced to vote republican, no matter the job performance.

Since the US forces people into camps based on ideology instead of the delivered results, the results suffer while the ideological conflict is enhanced.
How do you propose ensuring a democracy doesn't fail? In the first passage I linked, hereditary aristocracy is referred to as "the worst of all governments", it suggests that "the wisest should govern the many", and Rousseau even acknowledges that aristtocracy "demands others which are peculiar to itself; for instance, moderation on the side of the rich and contentment on that of the poor".
Backend: Vert.x (Java)
Frontend: Angular 2 or React
Two party system isn't in the constitution. If you go back and look at us history politics have always had periods that look nutty and disfunctional.
Developed ones.

A more serious answer: each country has impoverished neighborhoods. The difference between developed countries and developing ones is the magnitude of the impoverished neighborhoods.

So far I haven't seen any really big slums in Germany, for example.
What? Neither I nor GP were talking about elections, voting, or government.
The thing I regret not doing is sales. And I mean SALES. Selling plots of land in a swamp. Selling GIs suits of armour on an aircraft carrier. Selling fake Gucci jackets out of the boot of a car. I'm talking Glengarry Glen Ross shit and worse. If I had a career timeout I think that's what I might do.

Bear with me here.

It's like there's two ways of looking at what life is really about. On the one hand life is about stopping to smell the flowers, feel the sand in between your toes, enjoy balmy evenings with friends and family. On the other hand life is about a cruel and monstrous struggle for survival in which every living organism is consuming or parasitising some other organism for its own advantage.

Both these things are true: I feel like people who have the privilege of NOT doing sales, don't see both sides on a regular basis. Don't understand where their incomes really originate.

So I always felt like it's a world I know about, but haven't really experienced. Like sometimes I love walking through an industrial estate at 6am and feeling like this is really where things are happening.
RSS readers ?
Tweeting your results is publishing them.

But the major result shown was your incompetence in setting GPOs.

You should be retracting your 'findings' until you learn how to use Windows properly, not doubling down on your claims. What an embarrassment.
Netherland absolutely takes flooding very seriously. After the 1953 flood, it was decided that that level of flooding should not happen more than once every 10,000 years. The Deltaworks [0] are the result of this.

Sea level rise reduces the effectiveness of this coastal protection, so a lot more money is needed to improve the Deltaworks. Fortunately we're a rich country and we can afford it. But only up to a point. There's no way to protect Netherland against a 50 m sea level rise.

So as global warming continues, this is going to cost us increasing amounts of money, and eventually our descendants are going to have to abandon this country anyway.

Note that it was never about us drowning. It's about our grandchildren and further in the future. Unfortunately a lot of people have quite literally an "apres moi le deluge" attitude about this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Works
What if ... it's both?
Laravel 5.4
I am making a website based on this and the experience is amazing. I literally started learning a week back, pivoted from firebase (after 7000% fiasco), and have been kicking myself, why I wasn't aware of this before.

Meteor is smooth. And react makes me feel good.
Someone in this thread might have the answer:

What is currently the best bang-for-buck CUDA card in mid-2017? 1080 Ti?

I need an upgrade for Premiere, which has become increasingly demanding on my GTX 960 in the last few CC updates.
Thanks for posting liotier! IPFS is a great project with incredible implications. I wanted to get involved so I figured building something with it would be a good start. Any and all feedback is much appreciated.
There's also a cultural aspect. E.g. Note how people in the us don't protest much, much to their detriment.
As an iOS developer who's looking to port to Android, this makes it easier to manually port my Swift code to Kotlin. But I wish there were automated tools. If two languages are this similar conceptually, such a tool should be easy to write, and handle the majority of cases.

I don't mind if this tool prohibits a few features (pattern-matching in Swift, say), even if it's considered idiomatic, because not having to maintain another codebase saves more than enough productivity to make it worth it.

Does such a tool exist?
I am not sure how a country becomes a Third World country _de jure_. Does it apply for membership in the Third World, sign a treaty to join the coterie of developing economies? Does the Supreme Court rule in a landmark case brought to it to finally settle the country's global status?

Could this be a case of "I don't think that word means what you think it means"? :-)
Can we not assume bad faith on behalf of other commenters? I've heard similar things from a grandparent, an older science teacher, and a CS prof I knew well. Everyone knows that science reporting is in a terrible state today, but I honestly don't think it was much better 40-50 years ago. The problem has always been that the non expert journalists that publish the stories exaggerate the outcomes of research, across the board. Painting people's experiences of popular climate science in the 70's as denialism is nonconstructive and needlessly insulting.
Our problem is the rural/urban split, and how the rural areas have a much more powerful per-person sway over policy and election outcomes.

Two senators per state is pretty kick-ass if you live in North Dakota.
The problem with density is that it assumes that housing will be efficiently allocated so it reduces people's need to commute. Unfortunately there are a lot of other factors involved and density in some cases ends up making traffic worse.
Diving deep into the world of emergent gravity
I moved to a (cold) place 5500 ft above sea level nearly 20 years ago partly with global warming in mind. Unfortunately I didn't anticipate that climate change would lead to a significant increase in wild fires too.
Dick van Dyke at Malibu Car Show
Zenhub is great Matt, good to hear it's beneficial to you :)

I'm going to recommend it to others here, with a caveat: I really wish it would not be so aggressively hijacking the Github UI.

Tabs and side panels move around because the JS on the page finishes executing, making the Github UI feel super sluggish. We also have a lot of projects which end up with the settings tab in a "More" dropdown, despite Boards and Reports being more easily accessible from keyboard shortcuts (and we don't even use Reports)...

All those features are great, but there's no option to turn them off at the UI level, or customize them in any way. Very annoying :(
The UK also has first-past-the-post though.
> It's not clear whether they're better off for it, and there is a slippery-slope argument, but monopolies and lock-in are not intrinsically evil.

They are only not intrinsically evil if you make the assumption that they will never harm you (act in a way you didn't bargain for) or disappear. A company which does either has given you no way out of a service you now depend on and are fucked if it doesn't work for you anymore.

Given the churn on technology companies, acquisitions and a general lack of ethics, I would not put a lot of trust in claiming that companies are going to uphold either of those requirements. Thus, I would argue that effectively all companies will do evil inevitably and thus are intrinsically evil.

Not to mention that companies are psychopaths by structure. They definitely don't care about you (hell, they don't care about their employees on the whole).
May I hear more about the nature of your sensor project?
But the UK also has a first past the post system.
Hey hd4. Can you leave your contact details here or on your profile? Or contact me (keybase in my profile).
Meet the CTO: Morten Primdahl from Zendesk
To be as concise as I can, I would say that Spring Boot is a framework which minimizes the amount of "code" you have to write at the cost of everything else.

And this means that it's hard to understand what is going on under the covers, hard to debug (partly due to metaprogramming bananza), slow to start, uses too much CPU, uses huge amounts of stack, has all bells and whistles turned on by default etc etc.
It gives you all errors at runtime. Encourages you to make your app too configurable (hard to test all configs). Reimplements a bunch of tools and libs badly (like one-jar). Its also intrusive like all frameworks. Requiring a custom test runner is not a feature, Spring! For these type of reasons you cannot easily integrate it with other frameworks.

And that is just from the top of my head.
To be happier, focus on what’s within your control
The parent comment was referring to mathematical properties of the voting system itself which tend to give rise to a two party system almost automatically (specifically, the combination of a first past the post voting system and single-representative districts)[1]. The Founders were not aware of these effects and could not compensate for them, so their vision of a party-free democracy did not prove relevant to how the system actually functions in practice.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
Assoc: Paul Erdős a mathematician who used amphetamines most of his career.
Is antivirus dead?
Go (stdlib + gorilla/mux) + Postgres + React/Vue/Vanilla depending on need
Globalism isn't an "attempt" to do anything. It's just markets naturally tending towards efficiency.

> but if you're part of rural America you're getting hit very hard by globalism.

i.e. if you're part of rural America, you're being out-competed by superior market participants located in poorer countries.

It's not that unfair. It would be much more unfair to apply protectionist policies to subsidise the rural Americans at the expense of the truly-impoverished people in poorer countries.
Cold war wasn't such a lame thing. As a third-worlder (Finland), I'm quite happy that the US was there to help with the "cool kids".
Anyone knows if they plan to deprecate V3 (which is likely) and when?
What do you call a stack when you just send a simple post and wait for replay and get back answer in static html? Just like we used to have the web? I would like to go this route.
Most of the mistakes the author did has been covered in Startup School Videos by YC.

https://www.startupschool.org/
Whether or not the Constitution says anything about political parties, it establishes a "winner takes it all" voting system that has the effect described above. The Republican party should long ago have split into a loony Tea Party fraction and a conservative fraction, and half of the Democrats would politically be more at home in the Green party.

But these things are not realistic with a first-past-the-post system, so there are two large, internally divided, dysfunctional parties that "represent" a lot of people whose voices are ultimately not heard and whose interests are not represented by anyone.
Yeah, I asked for a reduced position without luck. (a development/programming position)
I don't think I really grok :symbols, which is also the main thing that puts me off ruby. What's the point? What are they useful for?
You know exactly why he's getting downvoted. Saying positive things about Microsoft is very unpopular here on HN.
Zimbabwe, Venezuela, North Korea.
For Python I'd use Sanic.
Database depends on your needs, but for me it is MySQL mostly.
Cloud Hosting from Google.
India and China beg to differ
> You can only stage all changes in a file

If I'm understanding you correctly, this is wrong. You can add individual lines in a file to your commit. That's one of the main uses I have for the app: it's easier to split up file changes between commits than on the command line. See this screenshot: http://imgur.com/a/4CQG7 You have to click on the line numbers to add/remove individual lines.
Zimbabwe, North Korea. And of course many poor African nations where global capitalism doesn't operate that much and which are therefore largely in a subsistence economy.

Venezuela wasn't a poor nation to start with, but is becoming one in its urge to fight global capitalism.
> By co-locating them all in Washington we enable destructive lobbying while keeping them away from the people they are supposed to represent

Representatives do spend time in their own states. They also need a central place to meet. No country or system does this differently.

> The party system is also destructive - I advocate against any legal recognition of political parties and against campaign ads funded by anyone outside the state a person is running in.

I think rolling back Citizens United, which allowed corporations to donate unlimited amounts to candidates' [unaffiliated] campaigns, would be a big practical step in this direction.
Django has a lot of nice things that come with it and you can get a project setup in a flash using CookieCutter-Django: https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django
I don't have any data on hand to back this up, but I don't think younger people are necessarily averse to monitoring their own health. I think personal health monitoring devices fit well with the devices the younger generation already uses to help maintain their identity and concept of self.

I agree if it's poorly implemented or marketed it won't be adopted, but Apple probably has a shot at getting it right.
I suspect presenting content in bite-sized chunks can help people focus rather than skim.

I think Medium layouts are a great way to get people reading just the content without sidebar ads and interjections to read a related article - that stuff wrecks so many news websites.
The vast majority of education funding comes from the states, so cutting federal funding won't really have much impact.

"That means the Federal contribution to elementary and secondary education is about 8 percent" - https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/role.html

It really makes me wonder what we need the Department of Education for...
Backend: Django as soon as you want an admin interface for your models. It just saves so much time, and nobody enjoys writing those dumb CRUD routes. If you don't need an admin interface and want to stay in Python, I'd recommend Flask. Else I'm also enjoying Node.js.

Frontend: Vue.js or React.
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I think the fundamental problem you have here is that you're assuming you're on the unemotional side of the argument. Actually, you're proposing the anti-science, knee-jerk cruelty of the American system, which is as far from a rational prison system as a first world country gets.

Ultimately, everything needs to be judged on results. There are definitely groups that benefit from the US prison system, but the public at large and taxpayers are not among them.
On point. He says some ok things. But I have no indication he really gets it, so not who I would listen to advise from.
I have, a lot, and when I could only GET kinds of hierarchical data instead of lumping nested queries, I turned to graphQL (or a, er, homegrown subset of it - it had just been announced) to fill in the gaps. It turns out that most software doesn't, really, care about asking for or updating 'state' per se, and the amount of awkward munging you have to do interpret every kind of query as 'asking about state' is, in my opinion, largely pointless.

The REST philosophy is so conceptually big that it's useless for actually building a system; what I meant by 'in practice' is that REST in practice is 'how do I stuff what I want into the http verbs and make it seem plausibly like state transfer' and that's an exercise that I can't see myself doing 'for purity' again. (in a simple app that actually is just asking about and updating state, sure, it's fine. But when you have to make ten queries for different records because you can't ask the server to join things for you dynamically, it's less fun.)

(edit: especially when you need the results to be an atomic picture of the underlying data, gathered in a transaction. Do I invent a GET resource for every tuple of values I might want to query directly? Or do I stop blindly following an architecture and do the practical thing and implement real queries? A: Always the latter.)
Ghettos, the projects?
It's called Patreon.

It's the only choice. Or they will be blocked, period.
You think visible medical equipment is a sign of good health?
I'd love to be able to recommend ASP.NET Core, but there have just been too many changes and U-turns. I have spent too many hours shaving the yaks of changing project formats, features missing from the old ASP.NET stack, warring dependencies, and half-finished implementations of related projects like Entity Framework Core.

I _do_ believe they'll get there, but it's been painful maintaining apps built with these technologies over the past couple of years.
right - there have been massive improvements in poverty in developing countries as a result of globalization. But that doesn't mean that Rosling-style improvements in life outcomes for people in the poorest nations were a goal of globalization; just a side effect. And benefits have accrued to wealthy nations too - cheap gas, cheap electronic devices, expanding investment markets. If policy supporting globalization had a goal it was probably more driven by those outcomes.
Not quite there yet... but ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint,_Michigan
developing is good no? rich and developing should be a goal