skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing that matters is your relationship to the means of production: 'middle class' people are proletariat just like 'lower class' people are. It has absolutely nothing to do with your positioning in the table of income.

I understand what you mean. I can see how that relationship might be important to the theory. But what I said about "classes" (bad word: s/classes/quantiles/) is actually true. So if we're going to discuss whether, in fact, workers lost more wealth than capitalists (or, s/capitalists/correct terminology/), those empirical issues should still be addressed.

For example, I may be a "worker bee" consultant at IBM, but holding stock factually altered my exposure to wealth shocks.

You wouldn't even understand an answer I'd give you, because it'd be in Marxist terminology. Maybe Oscilliscope will be willing to explain their comment, I don't care to at this time.

Fair enough.
I would be interesting to do a similar study on some Factor code.
"To be clear: it is not our intention to sell your photos."

Weasel words. What's so hard about saying "we wont sell your photos, promise, fingers crossed", unless they actually do want to keep that option open.

I imagine a rock solid guarantee that users photos wont be used without their consent would go a very long way in appeasing people.

"If your internal heuristics say..."

No, when the company TOS say they will appropriate my property for their financial benefit, it is reasonable to assume that they may in fact act accordingly.

The right words can and do go a long way in rectifying mistakes. Weasel words that create even more uncertainty and appear to be hiding an agenda tend to infuriate people.
I read somewhere once that we tend to think of our mind in terms of whatever the current most complex technology is. At one point we thought of the brain as a fantastically complicated plumbing system, and later as a telephone switchboard. I wonder if in another decade or so will the idea that our brains work like computers seem as wrong as the idea that they work like plumbing systems.
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Definitely. One of Flickr's biggest problems was it's lack of mobile support, and now, their iOS app is awesome, so I can only imagine good things from them.
I've run a Jekyll site from S3 with no difficulty, at a satisfactorily low hosting cost. Cloudfront takes only minutes to setup, and the costs are competitive, so I imagine it's a promising route.
I forgot to add, I would also be interested in seeing this for photographs and paintings!
go christ! for the icons you can try putting them into font which may be faster
> But what I said about "classes" (bad word, s/classes/quantiles/) is actually true.

It is true within the framework you have set up to analyze the situation. One of Marx's theses is that that analysis is not adequate to explain capitalism's tendancy towards crisis, the falling rate of profit, the alienation of the worker, and many of its other features.

You're saying "but no, it's true that you can measure things in degrees" and Marx is saying "my theories and equations are all using radians."
great job guy ;)
I can't program worth a lick in ruby or any other language (I'm somewhat proficient at copy & pasting jquery snippets). I had very little trouble installing it and once it's running, it's great. I basically only use it for simple includes, blog list pages and SASS.
I think that commenter meant that the family members with the home were the ones who had those problems (I've edited my comment to be clearer) -- but you raise a good point: sheltering a homeless family member with such problems wouldn't necessarily help them, and it may be significantly detrimental to your own situation.
Why do you think you're smarter than he is, and not just luckier?

Did you read his entire comment? Assuming he didn't edit it after your post (and it appears he didn't, since he starts off admitting that half of him feels that way,) he concludes that "maybe I was just luckier."

He admits being torn on the subject, but that doesn't change that many able-bodied, mentally sound people can do more than they're necessarily capable of realizing while in the throes of despair.

"Pick yourself up by your own bootstraps" may not be the sort of advice that someone is able to grasp while depressed, but on the off chance they are able to hear it, it's sound advice. There's little doubt that many people, if not most people in the world could be trying harder than they do. It's also easy to get carried away with being down on your luck.

I don't disagree with many of the points you've made, but they also don't necessarily discount the points of the poster you responded to either. Self-teaching from a library might be a poor substitute for a proper university, but it's still miles and away better than sitting on your ass waiting for your situation to change.

Anyway, I'll apologize as well, because your knee-jerk reaction spurred one of my own, and I don't mean to seem harsh, but I think the criticism to the parent was unnecessary, and I feel like perhaps you missed the part where he bares empathy.

Edit: I completely blew my cool there. I don't think my narrative-voice was yelling, but it was definitely speaking in harsher tones than I like to, and for that, I owe you another apology.

I think I'm generally fed up with how unnecessarily mean HN has become lately, and how knee-jerk everything seems to be. This is me adding on to that, and for that I am genuinely sorry. I would like to ask though (of myself as well), in the future, if you could take 10 seconds and re-read a post before blasting its author, it would make a huge difference over all.
Indeed. To put it another way: when your income variance is high, averaging (smoothing out expenses) seems pretty important -- at least, it would be to me. Calling a cavalier lifestyle intrinsic to entrepreneurs (in general) seems misplaced. It sounds more OP's individual choice.
I never understood what was so great about Flickr. I can only upload 300 MB a month of photos? And only view my last 200 photos? What's great about that?

Instagram is a huge hit and is the defacto standard for taking and uploading photos to social services. No monthly limits, no limits on viewing photos...

Flickr needs to free people's photos more than Instagram does.

(Great service though to the OP. I am actually trying it now too despite Flickr's limits!)
In fact for low traffic sites hosting a static site on S3 falls into Amazon's free tier.
I don't understand your radians/degrees analogy. I'm saying that richer people hold more equity. It has nothing to do with a framework of analysis.
I too would also like to know this. At first the ternary operator seems difficult to comprehend but after a little bit of mucking around with it it really seems more natural to me. When I'm thinking about a binary question rarely do I ever utter if/else in my internal monologue. I ask myself the question and the response is either a yes or a no.
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I finally dropped my Blackberry and took Android. I was cautious while I moved on and use a $140, unlocked phone from a company (Karbonn) nobody knows. But Gingerbread works fast and it is responsive for my 1000+ contacts.

I just want to ask if there is a community (like HN) dedicated to Apps. With half a million apps it is a daunting task to select a right app. I wanted a return key for SMS and searched, installed, removed a number of keyboard apps before settling with Swiftkey.

With OS adding tweaking functionality ( I rooted the phone in just a week) every new version, taming the mo'bull' is a fun and need a community for active discussion. I know there are forums like XDA-developers, but forums are not as great community as HN.
The Flickr API has some fun quirks, but it was a good experience overall. I'm glad you liked the app :)
"It's about not having to live in fear."

Is this something that is even attainable by exterior forces? I don't just mean as it relates to gun-crimes, but anything. Everyone has fears — from fear of failure to fear of heights. They are personal and, as such, are yours to conquer personally.

Laws do not necessarily automatically assuage your fears — many people, as you point out, have irrational fears based on emotion rather than in fact / statistic probability.
It's funny, the article doesn't really even contain anything about threading. It just has a bunch of band-aid solutions to tack on immutable message passing on top of global mutable shared state.
It really all depends on your preference. One of the great things about Flickr was always their ability to handle the full resolution and large photos, and the ability to keep the angles and crops you wanted, whereas Instagram resizes them to down and crops them all for you, losing the original photo.

With Flickr's lack of mobile support, they've always had somewhat separate target audiences. I'm guessing that in the future, these targets will become more aligned with the way both companies are moving.
In the period 1947-1970 where wages were increasing, I don't know. Perhaps it had to do with legislation like the G.I. Bill, which increased human capital during that period and could have helped trend wages upward:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gi_bill

America is not a pure capitalist society. We have free public education, for instance. Capitalism also has obviously good effects, such as increased productivity and relatively efficient distribution of goods and services without central control. Profits from these effects can be distributed in the form of wages, if that's what employers choose to do.

In terms of the crisis, again I'm not sure. You'd have to consider not only the losses of the crisis, but the gains of the boom. Who benefited from the boom, and did those gains survive the bust?

19th century Marxist theory doesn't have the answer, but it frames these issues in an important way. Rather than crises and falling wages as abberations from normal steady growth, they are considered part of the capitalist system.

For a more modern perspective in the Marxist tradition, check out Max Weber or Georg Simmel. There are even radical, almost psychadelic strains of Marxism like Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari.
FWIW, 'EMACS' referenced here is not the 'GNU Emacs' which we are familiar with today - but from Gosling/Unipress.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3427495
After a journey that long, it would be a bit of a downer if the planet turned out to just have been noise!
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"I'm not looking forward to the coming months. It's going to be a political circus, with each side clamoring to push or protect their already strongly held beliefs and positions."

I think regardless of your position we can all agree on this.

It would be useful if we could all see that we really are on the same side of this — everyone wants to prevent another tragedy like this. We just have very different beliefs about how best to go about that.
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This ranting was in a professional environment, or some kind of open source project..?
http://www.facebook.com/pages/India-Coding-Challenge/5150403...
Came here to say this.

Didn't get past the line: "I am not a designer... and I don’t mind Comic Sans."
That is not how I read it at all.

The scientists took a lot of measurements over a long period, and carefully tried to remove as much noise as possible. After this, they think the remaining perturbation can be explained by a system of smallish planets. One of those planets looks like it could support life in a similar way to how Earth supports life.

There is a chance this perturbation is just noise, but the authors obviously think that the planetary system hypothesis is strong enough to ask the community for collaborating or contradictory data.

The title could have hedged its bets by adding 'might be' or similar terminology, but I honestly don't think that adds much to the conversation.

[edit]

I was going to include the famous "title ending in '?'" rule of thumb, but missed the fact that the actual article and the title here differ. The actual title is of course "Another Earth Just 12 Light-Years Away?" which makes much more sense given the content.

The submitted title, I thus agree, is linkbaity.
I think you are right. There are two rights involved with this: copyright and model releases. Only the person in the photograph can sign away the rights to their likeness. I'm not sure how they'd be able to use these photos in a commercial manner without model release for each person in the photos.
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While we're at it, his AI warning from 2000:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html
My annoyances with Jekyll from (http://substancehq.com/why-substance)

I used to be a happy jekyll user for a long time. But, bloggin using jekyll
is frustrating when you have to make a lot of minor edits. The commit → push
dance is too much while making small edits. Also, I don't know a straight way
of doing jekyll redirects and allowing the use of tags/categories.
Substance fixes those issues because it is dynamic I sometimes wonder what age
we are living in, when we (the tech bloggers) use a static site generator for
our blogs. Jekyll's main strength has been that it's very very flexible,
I've tried to build Substance to give the most flexibility to the users
without complicating things.

Substance (http://substancehq.com/) is a simple blogging engine / site builder without any fluff. I created it to replace Jekyll for myself. Hope others find it useful.

Also, it has ability to add custom data collections easily. If you want to build a simple site, this comes in very handy.
Yeah, it's good to see a new iOS app from them. Looks like they're starting to get the attention they deserve within Yahoo. I just hope that it remains a photo site with a social element, rather than the reverse.
You mean how the ToS of Flickr, Picasa, etc don't include such terms?
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Not sure why somebody would downvote you? You seem correct to me.

The ability to spawn new global contexts and communicate only immutable objects between them is fundamental to actor systems. (message passing)

Unfortunately most modern scripting languages do not make it easy or cheap to spawn new global contexts. I hope this changes in the near future. (Lua is an exception, I believe)
These limits only apply if you don't value their service enough to pay for their product (which is especially true given that Flickr does not commonly show ads for random products, certainly not intrusive ones; at worst you see "sponsoring groups" in some contexts).
More than that -- how is Instagram getting model releases for everyone in the photos?
Have you done anything else ? Any track record doing things ? Have you even done an app ? If you are not really a developer perhaps you are missing the fact that some of the technical bits may be tough to implement.

I would go for two options
1) Can you do something small on your own to test the market, or test the technology
2) Jump in with another technical team's start-up, and do their biz dev, and get your start that way. Maybe after idea is done they may need a pivot idea.

If you are having trouble starting, and you don't have cash (esp. from investors) then I'd personally drop it until I was in a position to either do it myself or had a team.
Before reading article: "Earth-like, eh. This is going to be yet another one of those link bait articles identifying a gas giant closely orbiting some sun as being earth-like."

Article: "slight changes in Tau Ceti's motion through space suggest that the star may be responding to gravitational tugs from five planets that are only about two to seven times as massive as Earth"

After reading article: "I was wrong, there wasn't even a confirmed planet involved."
Right, but you have a chart that only takes into account wages which ignores things like 'wars' and 'embargoes' and 'happiness index' and doesn't even cite its numbers, and a vague hunch about relative values of securities. Really, all of this is far too muddy on both of our sides, combined with said terminology gap.

I really should be coding, not typing on HN, so I'm going to gracefully bow out of this conversation, but thank you for continuing it, you've been great. Two thoughts as I leave you: 1. the fact that many people have things like stocks in their 401Ks is one of the reasons that I think Marxist theories need updated, though I think of them as generally sound. Luckily, many people have since Marx's time (First Lenin, then Mao, and many, many others) and 2. Marxism is really about a methodology than a strict set of answers: you use the tools of dialectics and historical materialism to produce a scientific analysis. That applies to Marxism itself as well, and like any science, its theories will come and go, be made stronger or weaker as history marches on. That's not a flaw, it's a strength, and it's why Marxist analyses have been used across a variety of fields, not just economics.

Thank you for this break as I work on the documentation for the impending Rails 4 release.
>It seems absolutely obvious to me that Instagram has no interest whatsoever in doing what people are all afraid they'll be doing

The same question is raised: Why have it in the TOS if it's not going to happen? At the very least it shows a great lack of care for the operation of their business (in which case you should think twice about using the service), at most it shows a complete disregard for their users (also in which case you should think twice about using the service).
How is this "much better"? Once you understand the syntax of the ternary operator it's easy to read and easy to use.
How does Wikipedia deal with a mass shooting?
Honestly, I often think the same sort of way. Blaming the economy doesn't do anything useful, even if it is at fault. The thing you can control most is yourself, so often you whip that. It does seem really strange to me sometimes when I see people having trouble finding work, but they won't relocate or other things that are simply meaningless to me. They do often have less resources to make themselves valuable, though. I had a computer and lots of free time to program constantly my whole life. Someone working fastfood who likes to socialize and smoke in their free time would have to give a lot up, or not even be able to afford to spend time learning even if they wanted to. Most of them don't want to give up their going out at night, or watching TV or whatever anyway. Oh, well, everyone has their own values. You can try to explain to them that they have extra variables and knobs they can spin when they get desperate enough to want to change at least.
> America is not a pure capitalist society. We have free public education, for instance.

Surely Marx would still say that, because the means of production are privately owned, resource allocation is provided through a market, and wage labor is dominiant, that the states would be still absolutely captialist, no? "Free public education" doesn't really matter.

> Capitalism also has obviously good effects,

Certainly, and I think this is something that we should keep repeating to people who don't know Marx.

> There are even radical, almost psychadelic strains of Marxism like Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari.

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Saying that "maybe I was just luckier" at the end is a pretty lame cop-out after spending the remaining 90% of the comment belittling the person for not being so lucky.

Personally, I see someone who is constantly applying to jobs and working as much as they can in the jobs they are able to get as having hoisted their bootstraps as high as they can reach.

Frankly, if you're looking for mean posts, look at those belittling people in dire straits before blasting those that have the temerity to rise to defend them.
The difference is that stores can't preemptively detect I'm going to steal something and bar my entry. Websites can.

As far as I'm concerned anything you send to my web client I can display or choose not to display in any way I want. If you don't like that then do not send it to me - block me. Is it also "theft" if I am blind and use a screen reader?

I also take issue with your use of the word "steal" in the same way people equate piracy to theft it is flawed.
Might be related to that security update from Microsoft that disables OpenType fonts http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-w...
Are you referring to this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_abi...

The problem with Marx, for me, is that he relied on the growth of industry to create an abundance of wealth that would satisfy everyone's needs, but he did not take into account that some resources are not material in nature, such as time and social status. Capitalism can quantify abstracts into material representations (money -> time and social status), whereas Marx had no way, as far as I'm aware, of creating an abundance of intangible satisfactions. In fact, that may be impossible where the desires are hierarchical in nature, since there can never be an abundance of top performers due to the relative nature of the rankings.
And ironically, while you have a degree and express your opinions about education, your wording makes you sound like you are in high school. While I agree with the sentiment that there are other more in demand degrees, calling humanity studies 'arcane trivia about the past' or saying that 'such knowledge is not useful to solving any pressing problems that exist currently' reminds me of all those people for whom news are dumbed down to a 14yr old level because they don't understand any context anyway. To add more to the irony, AFAIK your country is quite overflowed with IT graduates who end up in call centers or other technological slave labor just like their buddies from commerce. So in the end, your enlightening gospel kind of invalidates itself.
Cool :)

As ballpark figures for SSL session cache timeouts, Apache defaults to 5 minutes, F5 load balancers default to 1 hour and JBoss is 1 day. So it really seems like a wide range of values get used out in the world.

Upping to an hour should cause no problems. With SHM cache that will use a bit more memory, should make no practical difference for DBM.

The other thing to watch out for (mentioned at link) is that lots of cheap SSL certs have a cert chain like 4 or 5 items long, bloating startup.

See, e.g: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=zxc.mx&hi...

That shows that 5983 bytes of intermediate certs are being sent over and above the actual server cert. That's going to eat a bunch of RTTs during SSL setup.