skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, it's so ridiculous that people act like suddenly there would be a dearth of people "willing" to work for $400k salaries. Like raising the tax rate would suddenly dry up the pool of people wanting to be millionaires. Gimme a break!
The lack of taste is not a problem of when the fruit is shipped. Its a indicator for a lack of stress. The plant is not attacked by insects, fungi and deer. Thus it does not produce the aromatics we expect.

Unfortunately, many people are okay with this and expect it. I honestly can not imagine Netherlands farmers and engineers unable to simulate that stress.
So its a purely lack of customers knowing the difference.
This paragraph makes no sense to me:

> First, some context. Before 1928, countries had the legal right to wage war. If one state claimed to be victimized by another, international law permitted it to use force to right the wrong. International law also gave countries the right of conquest, meaning they could benefit from war by keeping its spoils, territory and, in some cases, people. The right of conquest did not depend on whether the conqueror was in the right. As long as it claimed to have been a victim, no matter how flimsy its argument, the conqueror became the new legal sovereign. It’s easy to see how the right to wage war could be, and was, abused.

First, it's saying prior to 1928, war was OK if the initiator was victimized or it simply wanted to annex a new place. Then it says the victors needed to make up a "flimsy" pretense of victimization in order to keep its winnings. They used to make up flimsy arguments for why they were doing the right thing before 1928, and still do after 1928 (cf. Russia "protecting" its people in Crimea). What part of the "law" actually changed?
HN isn't always hostile to women.

The last time I made the front page under my real name,[0] I got a very encouraging comment about how it was nice that I had just started programming and was already thinking of hard problems.

Thankfully, it's simple enough to add an nginx rule to bounce anyone from news.ycombinator.com right back to where they came from.

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[0] For some reason HN comments are much more respectful when I use a pseudonym. I must have a silly name or something. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>Does money exist? If not, how are workers compensated for the full value of their labor?

The workers own the products that they make, and if made in join production then I expect some calculation to be made in terms of socially necessary labour time to be used for calculation. Another option is labour vouchers, which are distinct from money because they are non-exchangeable with others and one cannot accumulate more than 365*24 per year (as they are hour based). This puts an end to the function of capital accumulation which is found in money.

>Does a central bank exist?

Probably not. I expect there to be multiple communities each maintaining their own banks of extra produce from which people can either withdraw freely (higher stage of Communism) or with labour vouchers (lower stage). Many would disagree with me on this point, and I'm by far the most well read in terms of distributive aspects.

>externalities

The absence of the state does not preclude collective action or sets of rules. In the same way that if someone appropriated means of production and forced people to work the machines for wage, I would encourage revolution against them, even in an anarchist society.

>trash collection, research, maintaining

Undesirable jobs would probably be allocated on a rota-like system, or some other democratically decided way. Research and maintenance doubtlessly people find motivating in themselves, so I think that would be covered by self-interested parties. I know a few people who would likely be interested to do one or the other. Education would naturally focus around the fulfilment of jobs which are short in supply.

>Who pays the laborer who produces capital?

There is no payment, this is the whole point of Communism and anarchism. Wage labour is off the table.

What kind of capital production are you talking about? If talking about the development of constant capital (materials, machinery, tools etc.) then the allocation of people to make these resources is probably allocated such that each person needs to do the minimal amount work, either in exchange for labour vouchers or a share of the products made with the materials, machinery and tools that were produced. The same goes for the maintenance of that capital, as a machine degenerates by its labour content leaving it into the goods it produces, and it is repaired by supplying it with new labour. This seems difficult to calculate.

>I get vastly different, mostly non-answers to these questions from different leftists.

That's mostly because "leftism" is a massive variety of tendencies, factions, parties, individuals, theorists, ideologies. They (like mine I assume) are non-answers because most people don't don't devote much time to think of this when they have more motivation to study the critique of capitalism, or just do other things. I have to say that most people are simply unmotivated, and I am one of them. People like the original anarchists, Zizek, Badiou, the Marxian economists etc. have much more time to devote.
Before I moved to SV, I saw a lot of companies that gave COLAs. You might go easy on the insults, in addition to not generalizing from your personal observations to an entire country's economy.
WhatsApp's success here in Brazil can be attributed to very few reasons:
1) Worked in every single smartphone (I started using it on a very resource constrained 2010's Nokia running s60)
2) SMS was and still is very expensive here.
3) Zero friction to use: it uses your phone number as your ID and your catalog list as its own.

It was a killer combination, almost everybody here in Brazil uses it, no matter how young or how old, no matter if it is a rich kid with the latest IPhone or the poor with the cheapest phone. Even the telcos had to bend to WhatsApp strength by offering "unlimited WhatsApp usage" on very limited data plans.
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> Just remember: the FDA is also the organization that keeps homeopathy from marketing itself as legitimate cure to every disease out there.

On a related note, why are pharmaceutical companies allowed to market drugs through television and print advertisements? Clearly, most of the target population doesn't have the necessary knowledge or resources to make an informed decision regarding whether or not they should be on the advertised drug as part of their treatment.
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That is such a simplification of income tax though. For example a family of 4 making $50k/yr pays about $40 in federal income taxes. If that same family make $75k it goes up to about $2500. Both of those as a percentage of income are far below 15%. Hell, I made more than the SS max last year and my effective tax rate was below 15%. See Mike Pence as another example, guy made over $100k and had an effective rate of something like 12%.
Maybe I, like all my predecessors, am not yet 'evolved' enough to give up on eating meat. In the meantime I like the fact that the animals are growing up disease free in relatively humane conditions.
what about having a blank retroreflective tape and just getting vinyl lettering to stick on and change it when you want a different one?

My "James Bond" idea was to have a car with cameras front and back that could read the plates of the vehicles to either side. Then, the plate would be a retroreflective panel with an active LCD overlay.. you could change your plates to whatever you wanted, and the car could have a 'stealth' mode, where when you drove behind a car, your rear plate would match theirs.. and from the front, your plate would match the car behind.
Here[1] is a 802.1x proxy you can use to hide your incredibly vulnerable residential gateway behind a firewall of your choosing. It allows the eap packets to pass through.

I honestly knew this was going to be a problem when I first port-scanned my residential gateway and saw exposed who-knows-what ports, but for symmetrical 1Gb internet for $79.99 a month what can you do?

[1] https://github.com/ShadwDrgn/eap_proxy/blob/master/eap_proxy...
I think that last part is important, and it's a big reason why I dislike UTF-16. It's much harder to notice an inadequate implementation when you're using UTF-16. Note that most of Chinese is still in the BMP so even then it will probably work fine. You'll get failures on more obscure Chinese characters, most emoji, and really obscure scripts like linear B and cuneiform.
> even better: tomatoes grown in people's backyards.

Best tomatoes I've ever had were indeed grown in a backyard. In volcanic soil.
This is so wrong. The real reason why wars of conquest mostly ended after WW2 is that the United States has positioned troops and weapons in all the hot spots. That, and all the major powers now have nukes.

This is actually a great example of the bullshit quantitative analysis that is sweeping through academia. That something was signed in 1928, and then that the world experienced extraordinary peace after WW2 (the Pax Americana), is NOT evidence that the former led to the latter.
So, basically no non-certified programmers because Apple, etc. will just not give you a developer certificate because of a possible lawsuit.
What really ticks me off about this is that for FTTN access around here, you have to use their crappy routers. This is true even if you go through a third party like sonic.net.

Worse, their routers seem to do something to defeat attempts at two-level NAT setups.

I thought one of the network neutrality principles said you couldn't discriminate against compatible network hardware. Too bad Pai is in now.
For the most part, you should though.

http://www.seriouseats.com/2016/10/why-you-can-and-sometimes...
Agree. I have been lucky to have been schooled in these matters by a wonderful guy who we happened to pick years ago to be our business attorney. I can imagine having done some stupid things and passed on some great deals without his sage advice.
Yes! This is another huge misconception about raising taxes: The American government is massively wasteful in spending! We get so little value for the taxes we pay! People don't want to contribute even more money to the wasteful spending, which I can totally understand, but it doesn't have to be that way! In Sweden for example, you get tremendous value for the taxes you pay. The tax rate is higher, but you really do get quite a deal in exchange. Americans are completely unfamiliar with this kind of benefit.
I started on: https://github.com/y2038/y2038-list

PRs welcome, not sure how much time I have to do the research.
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Something like passive voice was used in that comment.
The issue isn't as simple as what quality of service do bots provide. Instead, it's what service, at what price. Bots are cheap, and customers have long bemoaned the quality of human alternatives.
The SPARCbooks (and the SPARCstation Voyager) were all made by Tadpole
Article stated that his rights were revoked, not that he was fired. Not sure if I misinterpreted it or not
In fairness, comcast (big US ISP) allows you to buy your own cable modem. However, they are terrible for multiple other reasons that would not fly in Europe (data caps, lobbying to resell browsing history, opaque pricing schemes, etc)
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This thought experiment isn't about looking at your neighbors plate, it's about incentives for us as a society. I think the question to answer for yourself is whether you think everyone should start with a fair playing field or not and the implications such a tax would have on how you structure society to ensure that everyone gets the same shots at a good life.
This is one reason why I really like FiOS. I get ethernet straight into the house. Sometimes you get coax instead, but you can use a MoCA adapter to convert it to ethernet. And their provided modem is actually pretty decent! I had planned to bypass it when I signed up for the service, but after using it for a bit I decided to just keep it in place.
You can put a firewall behind it, which will at least protect you from the inexplicable open proxy.
You'd have to be incompetent to trust autoexposure during an eclipse.
But at least they have the freedom to do so, unlike Europe where their right to screw over their customers is unfairly infringed.
We don't have a capital problem. Capital is available, it's cheap, and it is flowing.
Jobs used homeopathy for cancer?

i was able to find this Scientific American article about Jobs, which mentions dietary changes and acupuncture, but it doesn't mention that he used homeopathy.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alternative-medic...

is that documented somewhere else?
I totally agree with this. Not many people realize this and will continue to blabber about big bad usa but nukes are not the only thing keeping everyone in check. It is fat uncle Sam doing the job. I fear the day of more assertive China or EU acting retarded.
The importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes (1999)
We have a bank (Rabobank) that is extremely good at financing agricultural investments.
My thought exactly, but it's always nice to see people push the status quo on what an "acceptable" use of a language should be.
I mean, great exercise. But let's stop and think, is PHP the right tool for this job? :P
Have you seen The Big Short? It's on Netflix and is pretty good. The CDO manager in it claims that society must value what he does very much because he has an extraordinary net worth [1]. I'm trying to express the point expressed in that scene. You can get very rich and have high net worth while actively hurting most people. Things with high rates of return may be good investments but they may also be massive frauds, as we all learned in 2007.

Banks want people to take out loans because they collect fees and offload the risk via MBS. They give people loans who can't afford them and that's not good for anyone, but then they know they'll get bailed out again if something goes south. None of this is sustainable, healthy, or productive.

[1] https://youtu.be/A25EUhZGBws?t=331
The real problem though isn't wealth inequality, it's income inequality. If someone has a billion dollars that's invested in various stocks, and never tries to withdraw that money, leave him alone. The day he decides to sell his investments and start buying private jets, that's the time to tax him on his income.

The argument against a wealth tax, is that it penalizes savers, and rewards spenders. Which is not what we want as a society. It's better for both the individual and for society if people invested their money into productive enterprises, instead of spending it on luxury goods.

If the goal is to provide a more egalitarian quality of life across society, this can be perfectly achieved through an income tax alone. Specifically, by treating capital gains the same way as salaries, and by increasing the marginal tax rates for high earners.
Flesh of an unstressed animal tastes better.

I can dig the exact page from On Food and Cooking for reference if needed.
I don't think this article is very good. It seems to make the "newbie unicode error" of assuming that strings "have" an encoding (or that strings "are" UTF-8) and thinking of bytes in string. For example in the JSON paragraph, it makes the cardinal sin of referring to "... creating UTF-8 strings".

No such thing! Strings are an array of integer unicode code points. Stop thinking about bytes at this level. The internal representation of strings and chars does not matter, because you as a programmer ever only see integer code points.

Encoding only enters the picture the moment you want to convert your string to or from a byte array (for example to write to disk or send over the network). The encoding, such as "UTF-8", then specifies how to map between the array of abstract code points to an array of 8bit bytes.
I'm sympathetic to the small idea thing (I wrote a long comment to your original reply). But that doesn't seem true in the case of the web and the PC.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

This project is experimental and of course comes without any warranty whatsoever. However, it could start a revolution in information access.

- (19 August 1991), the announcement of the first WWW hypertext browser on the Usenet newsgroup comp.sys.next.announce.

TBL knew that the WWW would be "world wide". He explicitly designed it that way.

So I would say the web is small TECHNOLOGY, but not a small idea. It was a huge idea.

Although honestly, I don't think the tech was that small for the day either. GUIs + networking was not super easy in 1991. There were still a lot of unsolved problems (e.g. DOS wasn't even a multi-tasking OS, I remember you had to download WinSock or whatever to use NetScape on Windows 3.1).

Likewise, Wozniak wanted to "own his own computer" so he built one. I don't think that's a small idea either. I guess you can say that it is one that most people wouldn't understand the utility of though.
Hmm... wouldn't that just result in people transferring the assets to their heirs before they died?
So... lisp with optional parentheses?
Ecosia – The search engine that plants trees
So, are you a Schindler, a Stern or a Göth?
Most farmers do literally bash the animals before slaughtering them[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_bolt_pistol
It's not about being evolved enough, whatever that means. Eating meat is a conscious choice. Humans can do without meat. We are omnivores, not carnivores.

I mean yes, in the grand scheme of things, treating animals well before slaughtering them is better than treating them poorly, but it misses the forest for the trees.
> I’ve got 1400 init scripts my systems, each over 800 lines long, before I switched to systemd

There is something wrong with those numbers. Can you upload them somewhere or let me know what distro it was? I am curious to take a look.

If there is 1400 of them, each over 800 lines long then you have 1.1M lines of init script code, which doesn't seem right.

How many of them did you use daily? All 1400? 5? 10? Because checking sanity of ten of them, even if they are whooping 800+ lines of code (I'll have to see that) can't be compared to over 300K lines of monolithic systemd.
You can't always easily tell when someone is going to be a pain to work with on an interpersonal level.
Gym Shoes. Or if you're my Dad: Plimsolls.
Google is famous for having made its early cooks and massage therapists into multi-millionaires by giving them stock options.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/technology/12google.html?m...

Remember that this NY Times article is designed to push emotional buttons. Their entire story revolves around comparing Apple against Kodak. There aren't really any deeper studies or figures provided. You could as well compare a contractor who worked at Kodak with a masseuse at Google and reach the opposite conclusion.
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I can recommend Code Complete by Steve McConnell. One of the primary aspects of this book that makes stand above other best-practices books is how much of it is sourced from software engineering research, although not the entirety. If nothing else, the bibliography is full of articles similar to the OP.
For as long as there have been humans, they have made every effort possible to get away from nature.

(I didn't come up with that joke. Gaiman and Pratchett did.)
My FB account's gone dormant since I've found a much better community on Instagram. You don't need to follow everyone you personally know like Facebook would expect you to. It's much more positive (not in the Black Mirror way) and there's a lot more substance in everyone's posts.
Rats, foxes and dozens of other meat eating predators would thoroughly enjoy the 10.000 unprotected henhouses.

Bird flu has been a big problem historically because of the large amount chickens in urban areas, although it had different names then. It's still a problem now, but it's now only spread by migrating birds.

When it comes to diseases. Do you think 10.000 amateur farmers know all ins and outs of chicken diseases as well as the professional chicken farmer?

And do you think they are more exposed to diseases in a farm with hygenic corridors or in someones backyard?
We're talking about the water equivalent of having the feed to your house that first goes through an open rain barrel at the front of your house, something anyone passing by could lob cigarette butts or other garbage into.

You'd ask the water company "can't I provide my own connection to the water" and they'd say "No". Then you'd want another water company, but no such company exists because they're a monopoly.

At that point you'd be better off collecting water from your roof and filtering it yourself. The water company is not helping.
I've had just about 0 social media activity as well. My wife deleted her account and I meant to as well, but only remember when I get a new friend request, which I promptly ignore.

I guess my question is: do you use it minimally or not at all? I stopped using FB before I could get a sense for the feeling it gave me. I gather that it gives people the feelings you describe, but I wonder if that is the reality or just what people say.
Reductio ad absurdum. I'm not arguing for zero or even few janitors. Just that they're more interchangeable and thus have less negotiating power.
I think we already are. The Dubai artificial islands are being made by Dutch companies. When Katrina hit New Orleans, Dutch experts were sent there. I assume the same thing will happen with Houston.
Well, Elon Musk is so wealthy has no excuse for not being (or at least looking) productive.
Close. Except absolutely no parentheses. The important thing is that your words are laid out according to geometric rules, not via character delimiters. This has big implications for static tools, as well as future hardware that can execute trees directly (right now prototypes with FPGAs).
Sure it does. Each type of social media appeals to a different type of person and determines the content you see. Yeah, the descriptions are a bit brash, but there's no need to squash discussion with accusations of offensiveness.
I've written small command line scripts in PHP before (without any helper libraries). Using PHP for such things is nice when interfacing with web services (JSON parsing, SimpleXML, etc).

Perhaps Peachpie, when it reaches production quality, will also help with that, as then calling .NET (and maybe, through that, WinRT) APIs from PHP code will be made easier.
> The next big idea invariably seems to grow out of the next small idea;

Spot on and the key words here are "grow out". It seems that most Big Things simply slowly grow.
Someone who (at the time) was senior enough in an IBM/Red Hat joint role told me the plan was that IBM would buy Sun, essentially for their Telco and a few other key market segments. To avoid any anti-trust risks (which IBM was still institutionally paranoid about) that might come from owning AIX, Solaris, WebSphere, Java, and various other overlapping properties, they would spin much of the software division (including Java and Solaris) off to Red Hat.

Unfortunately for the free software world, IBM's lawyers got cold feet when it turned out that Sun were mired in bribery claims. Oracle didn't care. Pity, because actually having Java properly open sourced, and likewise with various other Sun technologies (e.g. an OpenSolaris that didn't rely on a couple of binary-only libraries, for example) would have been quite a net win.
Can someone please use this to lift the EAP certificate so that any individual can authenticate themselves with AT&T instead of having to put the gateway in the very entrance to the home network?