skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article focuses on the same things have been hammered on for a while now (other countries do health care better, other countries do education better, other countries do education better...), but I think there's another reason to get out of America: other countries have different cultural strengths.

Antonio Cangiano wrote a post a while back about why Italy doesn't do enough startups (http://programmingzen.com/2011/11/10/the-real-reason-italy-s...). In that post, he has a chart (http://programmingzen.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/does-su...) that shows that Americans, more that the citizens of any other country, believe that their success or failure is a direct result of their own actions. This is a blessing and a curse, as it means that Americans are willing to work harder to get what they want, but they are also willing to believe when a politician says that there's no need for universal health care or help getting people jobs because "anyone who wants it enough can work harder and get it for themselves".

Regardless, I would argue that this is America's defining cultural strength.

I recently moved to Turkey. Turkey has "hospitality" as its defining cultural strength. If you go to a little shop and look around for more than 10-15 min, you can expect to be offered a drink (free of charge, of course). When I go to the bakery, the woman who works there frequently slips me a cookie or pastry after I've already paid. Most of the malls in Turkey have systems in place that tell you exactly where there is an open parking spot so you don't have to spend 15 min driving back-and-forth.

In America, people celebrate blog posts about pricing tricks that will convince customers to part with a few extra cents. In Turkey, cab drivers regularly round fares down to the nearest lira (well, assuming you aren't a tourist in Istanbul, which is a whole different issue). Now, you could do extensive studies to show that hospitality leads to customer loyalty over the long term, and greater profits blah blah blah...but Turks don't need that. Hospitality is second nature, and my anecdotal experience is that it makes for a generally happier populace, even when all the objective metrics indicate that Turks should feel worse-off than Americans.

What really strikes me, though, is that I have experienced Turkish-like hospitality from one company in the US: Apple. So, now you have every MBA student in America racking their heads trying to figure out what Apple has done to become the most valuable company in the world, where if they had only spent a couple of years living in Turkey they might already have their answer...
The future for digital storage is constant migration
The Russian Pussy Riots
> Would consumers be better off if Microsoft could have puked out an iOS/Android clone instead?

No, and I'll tell you why: if Microsoft felt they could have made an UI that followed the new design language that is about to become canonical for smart phones, more consumers would be tempted to buy Windows Phones. If Microsoft were to make a comeback and become a dominant player it is 100% guaranteed to result in zero innovation. Microsoft NEVER innovates when in a dominant position.

So in a sense, Microsoft condemning themselves to irrelevance by having to desperately invent new designs that don't actually work IS good for the consumer. In a roundabout sort of way.
no his post is actually 100% true.
again, that's only for the timeline. You are still tagged.
I was talking about integer values (with floating point representation) being multiplied and added (and divided and floored, I suppose).
Poland s also depending on Russian natural gas (primary source of natural gas in Poland)
The actual website: https://autoref.com/
Lawyers creating jobs for lawyers. Google's lawyers and Apple's lawyers have a vested interest in keeping each other in business. Extend to all lawyers for tech firms.
Cybercrime and Hacktivism
Yes just try comparing Detroit public schools with that of the suburbs and you'll realize no one can make general statements about how crappy US schools are.
Cinemagraph's experiments with animated photos
Stop trying to make D happen. It's not going to happen.
"As long as there's anything worse than X in the world, you're not allowed to worry about X?"
One area where we lag behind the rest of the world is our voting system. In 1992 Clinton was elected with 43% of the vote because Perot split the Republicans. In 2000 Bush was elected with 48% because Nader split the Democrats.

This kind of voting system has been mathematically proven to create a two-party system (Duverger's Law). In many other countries they use runoff voting, so if no one gets 50%, they hold another round of voting with the top two candidates. This way you can vote for whoever you want without worrying about letting the wrong guy win. And it works - check out these numbers from France's 2012 election:

- 29% Hollande
- 27% Sarkozy
- 18% Le Pen
- 11% Melenchon
- 9% Bayrou

That could never happen in America. Our voting system is rigged to favor the Republicans and the Democrats. It's like choosing between DSL and cable - one may be better than the other but they both suck. How much brighter would our future be if we had more choices?
I may misunderstand your reply, but this article only excludes using epel for two packages: git and perl.
It seems to have emerged that:

1) Microsoft has a cross license deal with Apple. Samsung's license 'offer' from Apple included discounts when using licensed OSes and the example was MS provided OSes.

2) Said deal include terms requiring Microsoft to make products that aren't too similar to the iPhone although I'm not sure how that is defined.
Libyaml is not a requirement, the installer will fallback to a pure python yaml library if libyaml isn't available. It does report a rather confusing error, however, before completing the install. If this wasn't the case for you please shoot me an email at support at backlift.com so I can investigate. Thanks for catching the upgrade/update error.
Much of what he lists here as weaknesses I consider strengths, especially the electoral college. Maybe it's because of length, but he doesn't give more than casual support to any point.

Weak.
You could potentially narrow it down a little bit by taking Express out of the equation. As far as I know, Express doesn't play on the browser. You could use Express to serve static content or a blog or an API but you would need to supplement it with something like Backbone or Ember on the client to build something like gmail or trello.

And while you could use Meteor (or, I'm sure, Derby) for a static website, that's obviously not what it's designed for. I've never tried it, though. I'm sure it would be a real beautiful experience.
Wow I'm impressed - App.net 3rd Party Apps
Hmmm. What the author fails to acknowledge is the 'bakelite' phenomenon. When bakelite was first used all those years back, it's sales tanked because it looked like the proto-plastic it was. It wasn't until it was made to look like wood that it became accepted, then the consumers of it were taken on a journey back to the original aesthetic. Put simply, sometimes people aren't ready to accept the intrinsic properties of a thing unless they've been led along a path towards it.
This is awesome. App.net is not yet launched yet!. But see the number of 3rd party apps it has.

Amazing.
That is such an excellent point. I don't know if this is an issue found in other countries as much as here, but I find (especially during election times) people take such pride in what they achieve, but blame the government for what they don't. It doesn't help when politicians are publicly using this attitude as a major part of their strategy.
They're acting like big companies with huge legal war chests that will do what it takes to succeed in a very lucrative and important market.

The broken patent system has created all the wrong incentives here. Hopefully lawmakers will take notice and fix the problem and we won't have to go on bickering about the symptoms.
Shirky 2003, about habitat, 1990. Nothing new here, really. Same issues, same lines of thoughts for solutions.

A Group is it's Own Worth Enemy:
http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
In the Motorola-Apple lawsuit saga, Motorola sued first. This is their second lawsuit, after Apple's retaliation.
Twythm: a new kind of startup
No, the thought experiment didn't mention or imply SSL/TLS.

Your claim also only applies to the f'd up CA bundle that browsers ship by default, it's not a property of SSL/TLS.
What languages are supported right now? I keep forgetting and all the images are showing clojure.
Anyone know if there's any plans for haskell?
http://khamphukhoa.com.vn/
So the difference is Mozilla expect current phone vendors to always provide these licenses but the desktop vendors not to? Isn't the whole point of Firefox OS to disrupt the current lack of openness in mobile? Do Mozilla not hope the mobile industry will become as open as the desktop one?
Magnetic Tape and Tape Drive Storages.
The original - Swift, 1729: A Modest Proposal For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland,
from being a burden on their parents or country,
and for making them beneficial to the publick.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm
Check `about:support` and see if webgl was disabled because of the driver version. That might be it.
Absolutely not. Solutions implemented by people from other countries work because they've been implemented by people from different cultures, cultures which are compatible with those solutions. Attempting to implement a culturally-alien solution within America would likely fail, but not before wasting a lot of everyone's time and money and not before fouling up what's already working.

To 'make America great' would require a deep cultural understanding of Americans and how American culture both helps and hinders them. It would then require solutions tailored to American culture - or if no culturally-compatible solution could be found, a plan to alter the culture before implementing the solution, fully appreciating that by altering the culture we may weaken some of America's real strengths.

This isn't easy at all to do and get right - which is why our default stance should be 'unless there's a really, really compelling reason to change things, don't tinker with it.' The Constitution's checks and balances are in place to enforce this stance, so people like the author can't rashly tinker with things on the strength of a single election, and cause more problems than they fix.
Dropping that much supply in price-inelastic fields like energy is a pretty big deal.
Yeah. One of the key lessons I have learned about software testing is the idea of layered unit tests. A given unit test will often fail to find a significant problem so you get around this by having a bunch of low-level unit tests, followed by ever-increasing levels of tests which test how the various layers work together. You still won't find that critical bug that is discovered later because someone somewhere is doing something you aren't thinking of at the time, but it ultimately gives you a better understanding of the whole system.
Poland produces itself over 70% of the primary energy it uses. So it's not much import-dependent at all. But yes, since most of the energy it produces is coal, it imports about 2/3 of the natural gas it uses, and most of that, about 1/2 of the total use, from Russia. Anyways this isn't a big deal since it has sea gasification terminals, and gas market is going global because U.S. needs ways to export lots of cheap natural gas they have. Right now LNG is cheaper than Russian gas.
The things this author likes about NaN are also properties of NULL in many environments (that NULL cannot be compared to NULL, that operating on NULL returns NULL, etc.); so while you might not see many languages default initializing things to NaN, you do see them default initializing things to NULL with similar effect.
In addition, to deal with the issue that programs others than vi may require the use of arrow keys, I use Autohotkey on Windows to map Caps Lock + hjkl to the arrow keys! Thus, both in vi and outside(, in Word, say), I just use Caps Lock + hjkl to navigate. Thus, I never have to move my hand away from the "home" position to use the arrow keys.
It is not in the interest of anyone's eyes. Nobody knows of Second Congo War in Russia, either.
HN usefull http://www.phongkhamdakhoaathena.com/
And our nascent dynamic fabricator pipelines? Robo-knitting definitely by 2040?
The fascinating thing about this article is that it legitimizes the "Atlas Shrugged" response of many entrepreneurs from a progressive perspective. While there is much to be quibbled with in his analysis [1], the simple fact that we now have rationales from both sides for leaving the US and striking out abroad is extraordinarily important. Look for more people to repeat these arguments, to flee taxes, crime, and regulations while claiming they are fleeing inequality, provinciality, and an inadequate level of government control over the economy.

[1] for example, did the mass immigration of millions of unskilled immigrants without high school educations contribute to income inequality? And is bankrupt France really a country to emulate, or should we cast our eyes to the Pacific Rim?
As another one wrote, apple threatened them to sue, so they sued back first.
20 Free and Premium Vector World Maps
However, some of the free versions of Vector World Maps offered in the market may not be good quality. They can be of great help in infographics especially.
No, no, another forum running SMF.

But solid software, really? I give them one thing: it works. Can't recall encountering any real big bad bugs either, so yeah in that sense, quite solid.

But given that you contributed to it I assume that you've seen the code? I've had to make some modifications/hackery here and there myself and the amounts of time I've cursed at it for being a tangled and obscure mess... combine that with the childish language in the comments, urg.

I guess that's one important thing it taught me: never be flippant or rude in your code comments because it'll invariably end up making you look like a fool. Kind of like that "Muphry's Law[sic]" someone quoted in another thread. In "production code", but I found it easier to change my habit to "in general" because you never know who's going to see your code, and even your 3-months-future-self might as well be a different person when reading code is considered (except future-me does tend to share my sense of humour).

Because of that, all my own modifications ended up looking like rather ugly hacks as well because there was simply no "coding style" to join in step with.

(and the templating system (that is neither). and the amount of semi-duplicate subroutines and their names!!. "post", "post2", "message". And trying to guess in which of the five "/∗ probably the most important module of SMF ∗/" giant includes you're going to find a certain routine is about as predictable as trying to guess the name of a PHP library array function without reading the docs ... I really should stop, sorry :) )

It does work very well, I must repeat that. But only as long as the original magicians are still there taking care of it I'm afraid.
You are contradicting yourself. Whatever you say makes no sense - First you claim Google abused FRAND patents, and when your claim was proved invalid, you make a fool of yourself? Nice strategy. Lulz.
On the same network? Assuming you're running a server can't you just got to your local IP:port? (or bazookaBen.local:port on a Mac)
>What fraction of the parts on a car do you think that a 3d printer can produce?

Today? None, or next to none. In 5, 10, 20, 30 years?
I never thought about it until now, but the best IRC networks I hung out on in the 90s were ones with really good net admins who enforced the rules. Even when I was younger, I didn't belong on certain IRC networks, and I was quickly banned from them. That same rule applies to all the other communities (mostly gaming) that I was involved with.

One problem with banning users is that they're not difficult to prevent from returning. At least on IRC, you had to pay for a BNC to change your IP address because whatever your dynamic IP resolved to, the hostname was fairly easy to reliably ban.
I would like an alternative approach but I don't see anything in the links here that "just works" in the way that the fake-leather thing in OP just works. I also see stuff that seems nice-looking but not-functional.

If this sounds harsh or dogmatic, sorry.

But any image that falls off the edge of screen is broken as a far as usability-at-glance goes no matter esthetically pleasing it might be. Looked at from the point of view of static beauty, the Metro stuff is indeed far superior. Looked in terms of an app I would use, I see massively wasted real estate and texture that distracts from the task rather than helping it.

I'm just a programmer pretending to be a designer but who really is creating a Facebook client.

It feels like Metro copied really-world typography that works well for situations where people simply read/consume information but I can't see it translating to interaction.

The last quote in your links: "Fantasy User Interfaces in movies are your best friend." Sadly, it seem more Metro is a fantasy user interface. The fantasy user interfaces only exist for the one-way communication from the show-writer to the viewer. They work great for that. Total fail for something people use on an ongoing basis.

I know few will care about this rant but I am honestly a discouraged at how much of failure as an interactive interface Metro seems to be.

I could be wrong. I will keep my eyes open going forward.
No. Germany is to emulate.
About the same here. I'm a member for ~3.5 years and don't comment very often, not to say very seldom (my karma is at 23 points). When I write down my thoughts, I really want to add value to a thread, which I also feel isn't very often. Humble or shy - don't know.

I do frequently vote up good articles regarding programming, hacking, startups, and such things. That's the things I'm interested in since I was a young boy and that's my daily life. I'm a freelancing coder (yes, I see that term as positive, same way as hacking) since '96 and tried my own startups since then over and over. That said, I value good and constructive and sometimes also funny comments and being able to upvote them I frequently do so.

Are my upvotes even counted? I don't know, I don't really care. But I admit it gives a bit of a strange feeling to be "less worth" in a community where you participate - we can argue about that - daily.

Nevermind, just wanted to say.

Small addendum: After submitting this comment I remembered that I wanted to add that I'm from Europe and people not being from the States and therefore in a different timezone often experience to comment on already discussed topics (this also happens on Reddit a lot). Maybe this is also a part of why I'm not commenting that much.
France isn't bankrupt because of it's healthcare system, which provides excellent value for money (around 7% of GDP vs 17% in the USA). The point is to look around the world and select the best of each area to emulate.
It is very relevant that it is Google suing here. Many people believe that Google bought Motorola mainly for its patents. So if Motorola's new CEO, a long time Googler, decides to bring a patent case against Apple, the headline would be outright misleading if Google wasn't mentioned.
Mind the context. People under oppressive regimes do not have the luxury of messing with the thugs just to confuse them.
It is factually right, they are separate entities.

It's just that one entity is under significant influence of the other. Doesn't change the fact, that yes, they are separate.
Minus the whole "rounding down" thing.
We also assume pipelining in http://human.io because the UI at each stage is pretty minimal.
How does this actually work?

They're diff-ing the images and only acknowledging significant changes throughout sequence? Or is it just manual?

It works perfectly.
> Now the entire world is participating

The entire world has been "participating" for centuries, long before the US even existed.

You may have picked up on that in your life outside the US.
FRAND does not mean that everyone pays the same absolute amount.
So, this is why you top-load the crew compartment, and not side-load like the shuttle. There's no eject-system that could have saved a space shuttle in a situation like that since it would be engulfed by flames together with the rocket itself. This is also how SpaceX are doing it and for exactly this reason iirc.
Push Mou markdown files to Scriptogr.am from within the app
You both realize you're only emphasizing one of the main reasons why the US educations system isn't well regarded?
Keep in mind, however, that Apple is not suing everyone else.

No, they're only suing their only serious competitor, which should tell you all you need to know about how much this is about protecting innovation vs locking out a legitimate alternative and reducing consumer choice.

I'm sure they could find plenty of bogus patents to use against MS and WebOS if they felt threatened by them at all.
Apple does not sue Palm/HP or RIM, because they are not threat. They are almost non-players.

The only lawsuit Microsoft had against Android vendor was Barnes and Noble. Which was settled out of court (by investing into B&N to shut them up). Other vendors license things like exFAT and ActiveSync. Some vendors (notably Motorola and Sony) do not pay anything to Microsoft.
> but I won't be using it if it doesn't have Ctrl+c and Ctrl+v

I would use an editor which makes copy&pasting a thing of the past very happily.

In my experience copy&pasting is a big part of the problem. Some people use it to think less about the given structure and duplicate code, others use it to re-arrange code. Both are tasks which an editor like light table might handle better.
Honestly, I think this is kind of much adieu about nothing. On the original thread, one commenter looked at the OP's original submission and found a lot of praise etc. Similarly, wheher I see ShowHN posts with projects that seem trivial or even frivolous to me, there are usually many well wishers offering a lot of praise.
One thing that really bothers me about the whole war on child porn is that there seems to be no difference in gradation to people: people seem to think that a pedophile is the worst kind of human that can possibly exist no matter the circumstances. I think the following three scenarios are very different:

A. An 18 year old falls in love with a 14 year old girl, they're completely comfortable with each other and have some sexual experimentation.

B. A 35 year old captures and rapes a 14 year old girl.

C. 35 year old is attracted to young and innocent, cute-looking girls, and sometimes feels attracted to 10 year old girls on the street in bikinis. He does, however, not deliberately go to swimming pools in order to spot them. He deals with his fetish by watching animated cartoons of young-looking people engaging in consensual sex and dating petite women that have cute manners, well above the age of consent.

Our strategy for dealing with child porn should be aimed at reducing the number of actual children harmed, and turning as many pedophiles from group B into group C as possible. A support group where you can anonymously exchange stories could definitely help.

So long as we, as a society, hold the position that pedophile C is no different from pedophile B, we may pressure people that really don't want to rape children into feeling a kinship with people who do think it is normal to rape children.