skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI, we couldn't tax the super rich enough to end poverty let alone give everyone a comfortable living.

Income equality is not about solving all problems. It's just trying to rectify one of the most egregious ones.
Given the visceral reactions to the syntax, perhaps Erlang could be boosted via a CoffeeScript-esque language that compiles down to it? No idea how practical that is with Erlang's idioms but CS helped some previously JS-shy folks get on board.
Node is popular not only because it's very fast (yes, it's still pretty darn fast even if there might exist faster alternatives), but because it's JavaScript.

That's an enormous advantage for startups as (a) the JavaScript hiring pool is much larger than most other languages (particularly in comparison to nascent ones, like Go), and (b) the ability to write client- and server-side code in the same language means small teams can be far more integrated and collaborative than otherwise (and if the startup has a single coder, the point is even stronger).

Assuming these benchmarks are accurate and translate into similar results for more complex applications, I'd gladly pay the 10-20% performance penalty to get the above benefits. Node is fast enough for most startups.
You may not care, and I certainly wouldn't care, but the desire for absolute socioeconomic equality is extremely common. There's a word for it: "egalitarianism." Egalitarianism is a fundamental principle behind many political systems, from socialism to modern American liberalism.
I understand the concern, but I don't think the intention of the site is to connect you with "your advisor" but rather provide manageable access to advice, from willing participants.

I have used it, on both ends of the service.
Though I support the idea that wealthy people should pay high taxes, perhaps even higher taxes than they do now, I think it's also worth noting that the US already gets 70% of all its taxes from the top 10%[1].

As long as we're keeping capitalism, I don't buy the argument that simply being rich is wrong. I'm also fairly skeptical of set limits on income, as setting those limits is very hard. What goes into it? How much money per year is the limit of a "Just" income? I don't think those questions have a definitive answer.

I think repealing the bush tax cuts is a good idea. I think we should keep the estate tax. I think the "buffet rule" isn't bad, but it's no solution. I just wonder when people will say it's enough. Rich people pay less tax today than they did a decade ago - but they're making massively more money as well. If we add all those taxes, and there's still a massive income imbalance, what then?

I think it's in everyone's interest to live in an equal society, for reasons that I don't want to get into right here. However, I'm dubious that can be achieved through targeting one social class or another. It seems like the American right is targeting the poor, while the left is targeting the wealthy. Everyone feels like a victim and just wants to keep what they have now. What a crappy situation.

Edit: I missed some words.

[1] http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html#table6
Don't forget nine months for gestation.
Thank you so much. I've waded through plenty of unformatted RFCs this week, and this is everything I've hoped for.
This is completely unrelated to the subject, and I have not used mongodb, have no idea if it's good or bad, and I don't even know how to spell it, but isn't it ironic that this post shows up on the day when the top HN post's title is "Please learn to write"?

As I said, no idea how good or bad mongo is, but I'm guessing, if you are as sloppy in your code as you are in your English, I'll be happy to give mongo the benefit of the doubt...
Netflix clocks 42B API requests per month
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(i'm on the chrome dev relations team, btw)

We have a few people looking at the ticket now.. looks like its within our websocket implementation and not at the SSL layer. Still reducing though..

We could use some crash IDs if you have any. To get those: Assuming crash reporting is enabled, head to about:crashes and grab any crash ID associated with this event. And drop them in a comment on the ticket. Thank you much.
That's 100% correct. Investing by consuming products of companies scales a lot better than invest-betting on startups and financial instruments.
So, when does one prove causation? Because by any economic metric, the times when we've been fiscally strong is when the top marginal tax rate was higher than 36% currently. When they lowered it in 2001 from 40% while going to war, it created net zero jobs during the entirety of the Bush administration (and starting leaking jobs en masse during the crisis in 2008).

One could argue that Reagan's administration saw some powerful growth, adding 15 million net jobs; but, again, he maintained a >50% top marginal tax rate average through his tenure.

The Clinton administration growth rate was even more powerful (arguably) than Reagan's, seeing 23 million net jobs during his tenure, and that was when top marginal rates were nearly 40%.

An outlier, and a very powerful one, is when we saw the largest uplift from post-war growth phase to absolute juggernaut boomtime, was during the 50s, when top marginal tax rates were 90%. Somehow, I doubt we'll ever go back to that time (both in growth and taxation), but we can see that the times of growth was when top marginal tax rates were over 40%. Dip below, no room to grow.

IMHO (with evidence), of course.
Is it "out of spite" when the government fines someone for speeding?
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If I have a comfortable standard of living, what do I care if Bill Gates has a million times more money than me?

Because people by their nature are jealous. Many people even hate when their friends do better than them for some reason.
I typed "semen", "goat cheese" and "monkey wrench" expecting a serious answer. Not disappointed.
Patagonia Maps Out Its Supply Chain For Even More Transparency
Also worth mentioning that their API test console is awesome. Anyone making an API should take a look at their console - super easy to test different calls.
Nope - databases cache chunks of ready to serve but not yet processed data, not precalculated business logic outputs and resolved rules.

Every time you hit them, they cost cycles, IO (the real killer) and RAM.

The database is very restrictive which is why our domain model lives outside it.

We put stuff in the OLTP store when we're done with it and take it out when we need it, or most likely from our ORM L2 cache and/or our service layer cache.

DB does f-all apart from keep our caches hydrated.

Its bad architecture to put all your eggs in a black box, particularly an expensive one.
Ah, Social Darwinism. Still alive after so many years.
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That model does work reasonably well for use cases like roleplaying game character sheets, where individual players may want to tweak the scripts for their specific character.

It is incredibly useful in general, but definitely not news.
"Taxing rich people "
I'm guessing you're not implying not taxing rich people entirely?

How about taxing all people at the same rate, regardless of how they earn their income? I think that's what the bigger discussion is about.
> In fact, 78% of total test execution time is spent by only 20% of the tests.

The Pareto Principle manifest yet again.
I call bullshit on your malarkey.

I get not liking "the 1%" but you do the exact same thing by using the word "handouts". You swapped one co-opted term for another. One can only assume you really mean "welfare" when you say "handouts", and that to me means you have no idea what welfare is or what it does for the families and people that need it.
It seems people are very sensitive about someone renouncing his citizenship, as if it's a big crime that's being committed here.

The guy has decided to go live in another country, for reasons none but his own, so why should he hold on to his US citizenship? Oh, I see, it's a US citizenship, given to you by the grace of God himself. You don't just throwaway a precious gift like that. Now do you?

To me it seems there is quite some spite about this with various overly patriotic people out there.
Right, don't back up. Just diss.
It doesn't need to be rich text. It can just be the way the editor does syntax highlighting. Say, for example, underline all function names. The compiler won't know anything about this style and will therefor not choke on it.
Google is not the current generation. In 1998, hardware was not fast enough to make dynamic languages feasible.
Any profit he stands to make in the years following will be taxed according to the laws of his new residence.
Here's one disgruntled customer who doesn't miss Netflix at all. Redbox fills the void nicely and it's way cheaper for my viewing habits.
I don't understand the attitudes either. While I enjoy writing Javascript for Node, when other Node users tell me they hate Perl, I can do nothing but give them a blank stare.

So you want an environment that is easy to program in a functional style with closures and first class functions. Has a large ecosystem, including hundreds (thousands?) of packages to do asynchronous IO. Is easily extensible and can fall back on code written in C. Finally, has a large and active community ( Madison NAPC is sold out )?

And Perl isn't even on your radar?
You'd think, but as it turns out, inequality has strong negative effects to the point that even the rich in an inequal country do worse than the more poor in a more equal country.

TED talk about it: http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html
Inequality of wealth means inequality of power. High levels of inequality mean a small number of people have vastly disproportionate power to shape society in their own interest, at the expense of the majority. Now whether or not you think that is a problem depends on whether you care about things like self determination, democracy and social justice.
Yes, Go will do that automatically. Plus, you can write your code in a completely linear fashion, instead of the typical Node.js code with lots of callbacks.
It seems odd to me that we had Javascript as pretty much the default server-side scripting language back in the Netscape days, then JS on the server pretty much disappeared as IIS and Apache took over, and now with Node Javascript on the server is "new".
Actually, it was not clear to me from reading the description whether the code is supposed to be based on the GNU Emacs source ("Extracts the kernel of Emacs" may imply that it is). If it is, I wonder how relicensing the GPL Emacs code under LGPL is supposed to work.
if you put the book's source in github you can get typo fixes etc as pull requests.
That's nice, when I need to chill I often put on http://www.rainymood.com and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECyfX1OR_nk at the same time.
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Because he has million times more power than you, power over things you hold near and dear. It is fortunate that Gates/Buffett are using their influence for good but not everyone is doing the same.
Uhhh.....

Time to throw your hands in the air and say "only in Japan"
I think you misspelled "inherited." /s
The reality is that developers are maturing in their understanding of different technologies and they are learning how to apply them in correct use cases.

There continues to remain a "golden hammer" syndrome where white horses and unicorns run free, but it doesn't exist.

Instead, the vision of "NoSQL" was to tell developers that they did not have to use relational data for everything, but could, instead, use the right tool at the right time. Why is this such a hard concept?

If you are a developer and you don't understand the tool you are wielding (it's pretty clear the author of this blog didn't), then you will incorrectly use the tool and experience pain.

That is the fault of the developer, not the tool.
> Taxing rich people means punishing someone for his success.

Why is taxing seen as punitive? Is it punitive when we tax middle class people? It's just a mechanism to collect funds for things that are better done with public money than private money. Since the rich stand to gain more from many of the investments, they should pay more. All those companies that make physical widgets? They have to be shipped, largely via roads. Their business and their continued success relies on well constructed roads, of course they should pay for them in the proportion that they use them.

> There is no argument that could justify such Robin Hood's behaviour. In fact that's what was (or is) happening in the communism. So regression at it's finest. I think that someone hasn't had his history homework done.

Please, if you think the only options are state-socialism and laissez-faire capitalism then it's you who hasn't done their homework. Reading Atlas Shrugged doesn't count.

This is all boilerplate American-libertarian thinking. You don't understand evolution beyond "survival of the fittest", so don't use it to justify your arguments. Cancer is very successful at reproducing, it sucks up resources and bullies around the "weaker" cells, that doesn't mean it's a positive thing or something that will lead to long-term system-wide prosperity.
And that's where Wolfram Alpha became useless. It was just a matter of time after all.
"Never mind that the Buffet-rule (minimum 35%) would net $31 Billion over the next 11 years versus $7 Trillion in estimated deficits."

Yes. Tony Robbins did a great deconstruction of this in a video, "Is taxing the rich enough? Will that solve our problems?": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jboTeS9Okak

(Regardless of what you think of Tony Robbins personally, this is an excellent video. I love how he breaks down exactly how much money it would take to really solve our financial issues.)
The case for a progressive tax scheme is that it, may reduce one incentive for the most financially successful monkeys to plunder the less financially successful monkeys, including those monkeys who may be just as smart; but, maybe got started later.

To those of you who are pretending that you've done it all on your own without nobody's help and get your hands off of mine it's all mine mine mine! You're deluding yourself.

I can understand why TED don't want to touch his talk. It would be interesting to note how consistent TED are in this respect.
If you saw a 'hello world' benchmark on shootout.alioth.debian.org you'd laugh and ignore it, so why is there yet another post debating the relative merits of threading models using this dubious criterion?
So what exactly do you think is awkward about Go's way of working with JSON? Here's a code example from one of my current projects:

type UploadProgress struct {
Progress int `json:"progress"`
}

//...
// variable progress is of type Progress
if json_data, err := json.Marshal(progress); err == nil {
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
w.Write(json_data)
}

json.Unmarshal works the same way. IMHO, not exactly more awkward than using JSON.parse and JSON.stringify.
Eh, no. He agrees with the idea, and exactly because it's too partisan, doesn't want to distribute it. As he should.
Thanks, the cool thing about this is that it's meant to be published (therefore reused by anyone else). For example, this rainy might be of interest to you: http://daydream.fm/places/a83101fc3 I've added a dozen tracks to it and will be adding more as I come across more. Just click next to check out the other tracks I added to the rainy night. Hope you enjoy :)
Are you saying we should let the poor die off? Sure natural selection could help create "better" human beings. I really do agree. However, I don't agree on your choice of selection pressure. The economic system as it stands also creates a lot of negatives. Pollution and generally screwing people over are some obvious examples. These do not make healthier smarter people. I hate seeing economics compared to evolution, and I'm not sure you understand either.
Yes but they won't be US taxes, which are the only taxes US immigration law cares about in this context. He's still avoiding US taxes.
Is it possible that by not publishing the talk they'll draw more attention to it? He should re-record and publish the talk on his own and use the "Streisand Effect" in his favor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Actually the rash is probably some type of bacterial or fungal infection that will live on the arm for quite a while regardless of whether or not that arm is connected to your body.

Most other causes of rash would allow that rash to reappear on another appendage. Only if the rash results from contact with something (poison ivy,etc.) would cutting off the arm 'cure' it.
Should we get rid of the “=” sign in mathematics?
> Why don't you ship your money to starving ethiopians?

We do, actually.
http://www.voanews.com/content/ethiopia-is-top-uk-aid-recipi...

Also, you posed a false dichotomy "Whether you got your money through savvy investing or hard work" and when you were called out on this by having other options for people's money sources pointed out, said that you "don't see" and changed the subject to something emotionally charged.
RFC 2119 all the things. I write all documentation touching any subject, using the definitions for RFC 2119.

Avoids a zillion of misunderstanding, and makes reading easier too.
> Call them "projeclications" or "applijects"

Really?
What's the problem with Kickstarter posts, as long as the project being promoted is technically interesting?

If posting links to interesting technical projects that try to gain mindshare with an eye on eventual VC backing is appropriate to HN (and that seems a fairly uncontroversial proposition to me), why would posting links to interesting technical projects that try to gain mindshare with an eye on kickstarter backing NOT be appropriate?
> So is the fact that you have a home as a child.

Now you're getting it. Educational opportunities, nutrition, etc. It is exactly these institutional inequalities which lead to the un-meritocratic wealth distributions which are causing such instability.
I might be weird but I find the RFC-editor font easier to read.
"(See the Department of Education, TARP, Medicare, war, etc.)"

TARP money has been paid back almost in full, depending on who you talk to. The DoE budget is like an eyedropper full in the wake of an ocean, compared to the DoD and elderly entitlements. And, if you want $FAVORITE_CANDIDATE to touch Medicare and Social Security, you go right ahead. I'm quite positive they will smile and move on, knowing where their constituent bread is buttered come election time. Believe me when I say that the elderly are the most important lobby in the US, and they don't even have to spend a dime to influence almost every branch of government.
This plugin[1] looks like what you're looking for.

[1] https://github.com/tobyhede/lein-git-deps
Grand Theft Auto - WebGL tech demo
This is cool! Worked fine in Google Chrome, after waiting some time until it was loaded.

"The tech demo by Niklas von Hertzen works by loading in the original GTA map files (which are now freely available), parses all of the data out of them and re-creates the city in WebGL."

http://experiments.hertzen.com/webgl-gta/
(only works on Google Chrome/Firefox)
Your position is correct, but nonetheless fails to account for human nature. It's all fine and dandy to have a system where, through 100% morally justified means, 1% holds all assets. Then you get an uprising of the other 99% and the whole country/system falls on its face. Morally, I don't agree with income redistribution for the sake of egalitarianism either; but pragmatically, one cannot but acknowledge its importance for the stability of a social system. And in the end, that trumps dogmatism.
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I'm not an expert in CPython's internals either, but import lock does not need to equal global interpreter lock. I do agree though, that this behavior isn't intuitive at all.
I dig your post, but honestly didn't really believe the message would sound as professional as you described... so I called the number on your site to listened to it, and whatdya know, it's pretty darn good!
Nicely played Andres!
Absolutely loved contextIO when we built our Email Analytics feature at Wishery - great API, and great dev support.
You found a great solution.. I know what you mean, I also like simple outside-the-box solutions, and we have so many resources nowadays!
In France, they only seem to have automatic fuel pumps and they only accept local credit cards. They don't take cash and there is no staff to appeal to. As a foreign tourist (not even from the US) I had been reduced to begging the natives to fill up my car for me in return for cash and had been looked at like a bum (hobo, scammer). Oh well, I guess 'tat fiiil tiiiich zi roasbifs!' :)
Not sure where did you post the message for help?
MochiWeb is a web server, not a web framework. People use nitrogen(1) and webmachine(2) over it. Nitrogen is a pretty fully featured framework, and webmachine is a really light layer that bakes in http/REST semantics.

I pretty much exclusively use webmachine with ErlyDTL (an implementation of the Django templating system) on top.

There's also erlangweb, and a few others. Both nitrogen and webmachine are pretty well documented. I think it's still all of the periods and arrows that are scaring people off.

(1) http://nitrogenproject.com/
(2) http://wiki.basho.com/Webmachine.html
It is a figurative use of "extracts" rather than literal. No Emacs code is used in Emacsy.
Your car breaks down, your cellphone gets no signal. You'd be pretty happy for a "handout" you'd self-describe as "assistance" or "help" or a "good deed."
“the government’s compelling interests to identify arrestees, solve past crimes, and exonerate innocent suspects] far outweigh arrestees’ privacy concerns.”

And therein lies a fundamental problem with the court system. At the end of the day, our hopes for "checks and balances" aside, the courts are part of the State, and they are going to - on average - protect the interests of the State over those of the individual.
Interesting, I am definitely going to look more into this google tool
I love this a lot.

Minor formatting issue, perhaps. The braced formed of reference ends up losing something in the current parsing. Seeing something like "reference in RFC 1234 <a>RFC 1234</a>" jars me out of reading the document. It would be pretty neat in those cases to collapse the string so it was simply "reference in <a>RFC 1234</a>". In the cases where you can't collapse the string, to preserve reading flow, it might make sense to leave the braces surrounding the link.
It's a great way to quickly validate your idea. See if anyone would use it, then fix the shortcomings later.
Everybody should be free to do with their money as they please. This includes that one should be free to give money to their children as they please. The side effect that this creates a bunch of children who are rich without having earned the money, doesn't take away from that.
I think you are seeing this through European eyes. This is the kind of thing that gets you yelled at, threatened and told you're the "kind of [people] ruining america" if you talk about it in the US.

It's not controversial among people who are educated in the subject, but among the general amerian public it's incredibly controversial.
If I can buy "power" over somebody then that's the problem, not the income inequality.

Furthermore, I don't see how fixing the income inequality fixes the root problem there.
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... this is impossible, so it instead means ...

The lack of engineering rigor in that statement taken with the inherent security issues in re-broadcasting messages from a public client to other public clients would make me very leery of using your product.