skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At some basic level you have to decide whether free flow of information is morally desirable or not. It’s somewhat axiomatic, you can argue it’s a good thing for efficient markets, but that is actually circular reasoning as someone who prefers inefficient markets would argue against the free flow of information and in favour of information asymmetry.

So I guess I’m saying that some people simply believe the world is a better place if there is more information going around, less secrecy, and fewer private deals between shsadowy figures.

Many of those peole are also in favour of fewer restraints on people’s right to make choices. That seems to capture much of the place where the hackeer ethos overlaps with the startup culture: "Let people does at they like without patents and other restrictions, but give everyone the information they need to decide what to do for themselves effectively.”

If I could sum it up in a phrase, I would borrow from Doctors: Informed Consent. To make an informed decision, you need to know the relevant facts and have a basic understanding of the likely actual outcomes that your chocies will create.

Shadowy syndicates cutting deals with corrupt regimes do not create an environment of informed consent.
Not if x were a regular old Fixnum.

The reason is that x would be referring to a number like 1, 42, or whatever, and numbers are immutable in Ruby. You can't "change" a number in-place. If you could change Ruby's concept of 1 into 2, then 1 would cease to exist and that would be a Bad Thing™ :-)
However the speed of the organization of "events" is reduced from near instantaneous to days or weeks. It's the speed of the message delivery system that makes it attractive, and it's most exploitable resources.
I will let others give you health advice. Just remember that nobody else will take care of yourself except for you. That said, here are some areas I have seen ex-programmers succeed:

- Finance - May require another degree but it's an easy transition. The math shouldn't be too hard. It can be in the treasury dept, risk, anything with modeling.

- Marketing analysis - you would be surprised how much Math is involved in getting a tube of Crest to your cabinet.

- Teaching - most cs folks know enough math to teach it. Many states are so desperate for math teachers that they don't require an education degree.

In the end, don't worry. Programming is one of the hardest intellectual tasks out there. Other fields will seem easy in comparison.
Unlike social media, would people miss the 24/7 news channels as much?
I don't have much more info than this, but it looks like they're both generated with Sphinx (http://sphinx.pocoo.org/), going by the footer from flask, and the common source (both have `<div class="sphinxsidebar">`).
Good point, plus doesn't the study end in 2009?
"Budget Cuts and Social Unrest in Europe, 1919-2009"

It just addresses growing media penetration? How on earth can this study address social media with a data set that is mostly pre-2000?

I think the best we can say now is that the jury is still out. I have no idea how citing a study where the bulk of the data is from the 20th century can say anything useful about social media. Thanks for posting the link to the study though - always glad to see folks trying to back up their assertions with evidence.
If health is your true concern, then lookinto making yourself a healthier office. Check out spolsky's offices for instance -- much healthier than typical
I'm not sure that this is appropriate for HN. Reddit, yes, but HN?
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Yes, that's my general reaction to Friedman too. This article is a bit better than his usual thin gruel though, it mostly points out the obvious but does time things neatly together. It's worth a quick read if you're trying to procrastinate which is apparently my main goal this evening.
"For your netbook, download Wubi (http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/windows-installer). It's a Windows installer for Ubuntu. It's incredibly easy to use."

It's also unreliable.

I used wubi to install Linux on my Windows 7 machine, and it worked well...for a while. At some point, Ubuntu installed some updates, and then told me it needed to reboot. I rebooted, and Ubuntu never successfully booted up again.

The culprit, I think, was an update of grub, but I'm not 100% sure. Be careful with wubi.
It's like you didn't read the article. Your points aren't relevant here. Party A, using your labels, is speaking up, I'm sure, they just are powerless.
And how sad it is that those edits are going to google maps instead of OSM.
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Step one: Do something.

Step two: Just take it from there.
I see two problems with this:

1) This study concerns mass media, not social media nor new technologies

2) It is very specific about the effect of media on social unrest due to budget cuts. I read the article quickly, but as far as I can see the reasons the author suggests for the mobs are unrelated to budget cuts.

Ref:

Further, we examine if the spread of mass media changes the probability of unrest. This is not the case. If anything, higher levels of media availability and a more developed telecommunications infrastructure reduce the strength of the mapping from budget cuts to instability.
It's pulling in a copy of the css file the flask site uses.
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I've been thinking about whether photography could ever be my day job; it appeals to the same obsessive/perfectionist traits that coding uses in me. I think you'd have to be wealthy already to pull it off, though..
Pipe Viewer dramatically increased my productivity for large scale data processing. In particular, it lets you quickly know whether something will take 5 minutes, or 2 hours, so you can plan accordingly. It's painful watching people try to do this without pv.
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I definitely think that an artist should be able to relate to the idea of creating things. Its quite possible that her statement of finding what is under the hood to be "uninteresting" is actually a way of saying that she finds it complex and intimidating. I think that rather than showing her complex beautiful code that does crazy things, I'd have her actually try something simple so that programming is no longer some complicated abstract concept. Maybe get her to do tryruby.org, or even help her create a basic HTML site.

While I agree with someone else's comment that you shouldn't force her to do any of this if she isn't interested...I do think that as your girlfriend she should be interested in learning more about what you do all day and what you are passionate about.

Just my two cents...
That is over-dramatic in my opinion. Google Maps is a good tool: it works well, and is already more complete than OSM is. Therefore I would rather see one extremely complete map than two half complete maps. In my opinion there is nothing sad about a good map getting better.
Do the health issues stem from being in front of a computer, or sitting at the computer?

Even if you transition over to a career as a bike messenger[1], the odds are pretty good that an alternative career will require you to spend a significant amount of time sitting, either in conference rooms or in front of a computer.

Although I have yet to take the plunge, I hear nothing but good things from people who have transitioned to standing desks (one example: http://lifehacker.com/5735528/why-and-how-i-switched-to-a-st...).

[1] I'm sure sitting on a bike is better for you than sitting on a chair, discounting potential concerns like being run over by a car.
You'd have to be wealthy to be a photographer who wasn't concerned with making ends meet, but otherwise I doubt it.
So he can't even find work that he is overqualified for?

I hear this a lot, but it's not that simple. McDonalds hiring day got an order of magnitude more job applicants than it's available positions. Whenever unskilled or semi-skilled positions are open, they get flooded with applications, and someone with three degrees is simply not going to be hired, for plenty of reasons.

From the article, though, he's only been out of work since November. Any number of economic factors could have led to his becoming homeless since then.
Here is the document:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/62248736/DP8513

I'm not sure if it's free to read or not since I may be behind a university proxy. I think it is though, it's more or less a draft.
Most western nations wouldn't consider shutting down the major broadcasters during something like London. The media is firmly entrenched as part of the establishment, and is more than happy to provide spin that's in favor of the politicians in a time like that. And they needed the spin - the negative public sentiment about the riots was probably a real factor in thinning out the crowds.

Of course they're worried about social media. US/EU actors have been practicing the twitter and facebook provocateur thing for more than two years now - Tehran '09, Bangkok '10, .cn #jasmine '11 and of course MENA this spring. The IRGC similarly had a pretty good run at it in Bahrain. They are pretty worried about the same thing happening at home, because they know it works. The US doesn't want an Internet kill switch for nothing.

So, I guess it's unfair, but what else is new? It's a pretty impractical idea anyway, it's not like the UK would have any success blocking traffic - and any US company that voluntarily did it voluntarily would likely see a substantial backlash world wide.
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Similar to how Larry & Sergey were shopping their search engine around for $1 million [0]. They certainly weren't looking to organize the world's information at that time.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google#Financing_and_initial_pu...
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The "Fork me on Github" is pretty common on a lot of sites (Github made those graphics), but that aside I agree -- I was thinking it was another Pocoo project until I saw the author.

Looks like he just co-opted the theme (Pocoo might have it available somewhere, but I couldn't find it). Nothing wrong with that, it's a great theme.
The government of Zimbabwe is run by Robert Mugabe. It's pretty hard for even a secret police force to be worse than him.

Moreover, the governments of many of these countries are extremely rickety and unstable. They are in the main kleptocracies and certainly not capable of running any indigenous drilling operations.

So, it's not necessarily obvious that involving local politicians/warlords to a greater degree would produce better outcomes.
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Not hugely likely, but interesting to explore.

There are also things like neutrinos which wouldn't fit.
I worked at a building site for a year in a remote place. That was non-profit actually (I also didn't have to spend money for being there) - building a meditation center with friends, but it was great time of my life. I got healthy and had a change to just think of some ideas without rush. I returned to the business with savings somewhat reduced , but with new energy to do stuff.

I think with some courage any physical job will do (edit: the one actually curing not worsening your health problems), because as hackers we learn to not give up and not be distracted by failures. Thus, I'd choose an occupation usually done in a nice healthy environment - like carpentry.

Of course, you will start from a zero level and will earn funny small amount of bucks. But I guess it's not the point (and you will probably don't need much, assuming you don't have a family dependent on you).

I really think physical working is so underrated. It builds your constitution slowly but in a way that cannot be achieved in a gym, because it happens in a natural way, not artificially.
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The irony of "changing the world" is that the ones who've pretentiously bastardized the phrase as a way of hobnobbing with the Web 2.0 elite never do.

The few that actually do change the world don't usually set out with that goal in mind. Either that or they don't go out proclaiming they'll do it. They just do it.
While I think notes to remember who to follow-up with are good. I am actually a bit put-off when someone emails me on the spot. That email contains no value, except contact info, and pretty much puts the onus on me to create the follow-up conversation. It also makes me feel like you think you'll forget me the minute you walk away, so you better do this now before you move on to your next target. My recommendation would be to follow-up after the event, with an email that provides some additional context and shows me you are still interested, that it wasn't just an impulse thing.
Yes. They're both created using Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/

Requests is hosted on a site called Read the Docs, which does documentation hosting for Sphinx projects: http://readthedocs.org/

Sphinx has become the defacto documentation tool for Python projects, and a lot of other projets as well. Notably a number of PHP projects, and Varnish the web cache use it also.
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I don't know much Python, but I'd likely be correct in assuming there are quite a few proven http client libraries in existence.

This looks like another reason to believe that if you build a better solution, even when the space is well-covered, that you can still win adoption, so maybe, a lot of people can stop worrying about being second.
There was a reddit AMA a while back from a guy who went from programming to being a lumberjack.

I guess that might also be affected by real estate prices.
The most obvious advice is to choose from the infinite careers that leverage a technical background: project manager, business analyst, business development, sales, and anything else further in the leadership side of a technology company.

That is actually a natural progression for a lot of people in our field. I, personally, don't want to be a developer when I am 35, and I am already being tasked with more and more of the duties of the roles I mentioned above, and I like it. Have you been tasked with of the duties of other roles that are less development-oriented? Did you like it?

If your sole reason for wanting to switch really is your health issues, find out what professions leverage your previous technical knowledge, and further refine that list depending on which roles will work with your health issues. On a side note, it seems that most professional careers these days require that you sit a computer for long periods of times: lawyers, engineers of all fields, accountants, and finance professionals, etc. So keep that in mind.

Ultimately, you get one body, so make your health your first priority. And you only get one life so make sure you're doing what you want to do. Good luck.
Maybe it could look like Python, but for damned sure it wouldn't have the same semantics, unless by statically typed, you really mean "trivially typed".
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People will rightly tell you that it does not. But I must admit that this did get me to thinking about a few small changes to WebOb along with the integration of WSGIProxy, at which point there would be some real similarities.
:)

OK, either someone didn't get the sarcasm, thought I wanted to ban fire, sticks and cell phones during unrest, and disagreed with me. Or, someone did get it, and thought that yes, it's OK to ban fire, sticks and cell phones during unrest. Or maybe you don't like sarcasm.

To be explicit: banning cell phones, Twitter and other technologies during unrest would be as futile and nonsensical as banning other technologies like fire and sticks. Not to mention totalitarian. And if I got trapped in an area of unrest, I would dearly love to be able to call my family or the police. Or twitter them. Or fight someone off with a fiery stick.

Either way, I'm really interested to know your reasons why you believe what you do.
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Thank you for your feedback!

I'm one of those people that posts links to updates on my blog. Advertising, in and of itself, is not a bad thing in my opinion. If you cured cancer but forgot to tell anybody nobody would stand to benefit. But yeah, some advertisers really go too far to grab your attention.

As for Daring Fireball, it's really great site and I learn a tremendous amount by visiting it, even if John Gruber's just linking to something. The traffic his site gets goes to help those to whom he links and the readers get introduced to new apps and blogs. It's no different than HN in some regards, only more curated.

In any case, thanks again!
You should take a look at "Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism" by Muhammad Yunus. He won the nobel peace prize in 2006 for his groundbreaking work on Grameen Bank. I really like the idea of social entrepreneurs, applying a non-loss structure and energy to solving social problems. In my experience a lot of non-profits struggle by underfunded and not living up to their potential.
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The problem with any "art-related" work is that it's not something practical / useful / necessary for anyone. People need programs, but no one needs photos, most often they want one, but could do perfectly without it. (There are some photos that people will really need done, but that's the worst kind of work, and not really profitable, so I assume you that's not what you want to do.)

If you are someone who makes stuff people want, but don't really need you'll be hit much worse by budget cuts, recessions etc. because your work is one they can do without easily.

I draw (and do some design stuff). I get some money out of this once in a while, but it's not much. I know that I could get more out of it if I tried harder. But that wouldn't mean doing more of what I like doing, I'd have to take work that I enjoy much less than programming. And I'd probably have trouble making ends meet, even if I was successful It'd wouldn't be a very dependable source of income.
I was expecting an article on how Bill Gates has donated so much money that he has to save to be able to afford a Lamborghini. I must say I was quite disappointed.
I don't know of anything in particular, but this is a topic I have been interested in as well. I've recently been thinking that the training new developers around the world might be the best approach. Don't try to make the apps or programs yourself; train the locals in developing software and then let them apply those skills to solve their own problems. I would really be interested in something like this.
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My Blogspot blog is blocked which is not exactly a shock. I imagine most Blogspot blogs would be. This is very cool.
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Okay, you can't screw up the whole system, but you can install a keylogger (X has got to be the most insecure windowing system out there), and you can use the system for a DDoS botnet.

Also if you use sudo or su in X, they now have root thanks to the keylogger.
Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. ;)

On another note: There should be some filters you could be apply so you'd minimize risk of exposure to such movies as the highest recommended to that one titled "Sorry, Steve Jobs, But Business is Business".

It's so cliche that people who use the phrase "Business is Business" are just incomprehensibly [insert awful adjective] tools that aren't actually "in Business" themselves but really, really wish they were.

Nothing should be off topic but it doesn't take much to at least show a little respect.
When public figures doesn't share their personal life aspects perhaps they have their reasons. This celebrity dehumanization is spiteful.

Even worse is his ignorance really comes to show when he goes judgmental on Jobs' belief, only to project his own idiotic misconception of buddhism.
Buddhism has nothing to do with righteousness such as most other religions. Buddhism doesn't say you shouldn't be angry because of something as made up as being "wrong". Buddhism tells you that anger is poison but that it's a part of being human to be angry. One shouldn't suppress it but acknowledge it.
The company that employs me creates devices that help make electric power safer, more reliable, and more economical. We're not a startup, though. :-)

In my immediate memory, we've been working with electrification projects for two different Third World countries. Our technology has helped bring electricity to places that never had it before.

I'm proud to be a part of that.
I don't think there is significant influence from cliques. Things just stream down the new page too guickly, in part from lots of posts (as noted by benologist), and in part because it's annoyingly frustrating to try to skim downstream before the infamous HN Expired Link (which Hubski seems to have solved).

As for too many posts, that's not much of a problem, you can skim pretty quickly (notwithstanding expired links). Crap has its own smell and is easily avoided.
By your logic, I should be able to make my own Craig's List.
Funny that the two ipad models are dead even considering they've shipped more than twice as many original ipads. It would seem a full 50% of gruber's readers replaced their ipad's with the ipad 2. No wonder apple is crushing tablet sales.
Construction is a very local thing. Where I am for example, there are more roadwork projects and construction projects (apartments/residential and commercial) going on right now than I can ever remember seeing.
>I hope that iOS 5's OTA updates we could get to the point where iOS versions older than a few months are considered obsolete.

While a very nice idea, I'm not convinced it much will change due to old hardware being incompatible with new versions of iOS. It's rarely the x.y versions which are the barriers to progress, but the x.0 versions.
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You appear to be assuming there are no clauses regarding unforeseen production difficulties, associated supply problems, and penalties in said contract.
So you're saying we need a cloud of clouds?
I think international photojournalism is practical/useful, and sometimes even world-changing if you can get the right shot. Quite the opposite of a computer day job, and probably not the sort of thing you want to try and juggle with having a family..
Working in Education doesn't always have the same instant gratification as other projects, but if you can help people learn then you're going to have a very strong and lasting impact over time. And imagine if you created a product like, Khan Academy, that would increase the knowledge of 1% of the population by 10%. I think that's a worthy goal.
>It would seem a full 50% of gruber's readers replaced their ipad's with the ipad 2.

What does Gruber have to do with this? Do you mean Marco?
How do those handle SSL and user authentication? I skimmed your links but didn't see anything.

Python's urllib2 isn't that bad for the simple stuff shown in your links, but it's a mess when you have to try to log in somewhere. Seeing in the example that logging in is as straightforward as

requests.get('https://api.github.com', auth=('user', 'pass'))

just blew me away.