skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I currently live in Santiago, Chile, which to my opinion isn't a third world situation... but I was born and lived in Tucumán, Argentina, one of the poorest parts of the country, and a place I usually return to. On the other end of the scale, I've lived in the Netherlands, and I've got family in Switzerland.

One of the most importants things you realize when living in the third world, is that happiness is really something that doesn't come with money or luxury. People in Tucumán are usually happier than the guys I've known in Chile, even though Chile is usually presented as one of the most succesful Latin American economies.

The problem with Chile is that growth is only measured by GDP growth, and inequality and quality of life isn't really taken into account. As a country, it is trying to "fake" the being a first world country via metrics, instead of via quality of life. Even though Chile's economy is better rated than Argentina's, public services: education, transport, health, etc. are usually better in Argentina than in Chile... and cheaper!

In terms of hacking opportunities, I think that e-commerce and delivery is still not 100% solved, with very high costs for shipping, and not enough variety of products.

There's a big market for people who would love to have products like the ones from ThinkGeek, but are too expensive to ship. E.g: A t-shirt from thinkgeek costs 15 USD + 45 USD shipping!
You're lucky you haven't gotten accused of "hacking" yet.
You'll find a lot of them at http://www.r-bloggers.com/
Man, I wish vectorize was part of the stdlib.
All of which is irrelevant to the fact that the best option for many children (again, revealed preference) is to work, and depriving them of that option is likely to lead to a net worse condition.

But to your point, I'm quite certain that "China" would prefer to have an economy sufficiently productive and wealthy that child labor is no longer a choice parents feel they need to make. Banning the effect does not change the cause.
"Furthermore, the data is being uploaded to the Internet Archive, which PlainSite then re-downloads. Anyone can use it. If you don't like what I'm doing with it, you can do something else."

Excellent idea (UK resident so the actual information is of no use to me but the model is good)
It's brutal and tedious to add non Google things to track to their Tag Manager. Feels like an engineering written tool, Segment.io's "flip the switches" is way better for the people that use these types of tools, ie marketers.
Along the way, your comment went from the collective "we"/"our" to "you". So I have to ask, do you have any idea?
The mix of inflation and low wages alone have stopped the advance of the country for at least 25 years:

* "Minimum wages lost 79.11% in the last 25 years":
Article link: http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/869263.html
What this means: With current wages mexicans only can buy a THIRD of what they could buy 25 years ago.

* Gasoline: Up 36% in six years.

* Oh, and the usual is a 45 hour workweek.

* Bank interest rates: 46% is usual. 107% is not unheard of (WalMart).
link: http://www.apestan.com/cases/walmart-ciudad-de-mexico-distri...

What specific policies?
Honestly, it all starts with corruption. It's all over the place.
This makes me feel old, because the first thing that came to my mind was Kiss Army.
You can find a lot of open machines and sensitive information using Google, this one for the HP printers was submitted to the Google Hacking Database[1] in 2004.

[1] http://www.exploit-db.com/google-dorks/
Go southward and look for lodging in San Mateo or farther south. Make sure it's near a commute channel (bus or rail) the neighborhoods are nice and the fees are more down to earth.
Microsoft Research India announces a Nationwide Social Gaming Competition.
Once you start doing things alone (or at least being willing to go alone), you'll find yourself shifting your activities to things you truly enjoy. In a social context, you often do a lot of things you don't intrinsically enjoy just because you enjoy the company you're with.

Specifically in the context of hiking, I've always told people who are interested in backpacking with me - if you wouldn't do this alone, you probably won't enjoy it even with a group.
Sad to be brazilian this days :/
Also, with publicly funded systems, there are always questions about alignment. Some local rep wants it to go thru her neighborhood, another thru theirs so they end up all sinuous/cicuitous (ala Seattle) whereas private entities don't have this issue.
> The nail that sticks up gets hammered.

Thank you.
Good question!

Software testing, online research, and high-quality writing correspond directly to marketable technology and professional skills development.

It's important to remember that these individuals often come from a low-technology background, and are training to develop foundational technology skills -- not highly-specialized skills.
would love to see it for enterprize-level tools, like webtrends and omniture.
I lived in Bristol, UK for a couple of years ...
No, and I don't pretend to. Unlike too many in this thread.

No one here can have any idea what those poor people are going through.
I guess I'll point out that if you want to play "golf", the replace command was shorter in every single one of your examples.
If you have any court documents you'd like uploaded you can e-mail them to help@plainsite.org.
It doesn't have to be fraud against the consumers, does it? If consumers were equally complicit, that just means it wasn't the consumers who were being defrauded. It's conspiracy to commit fraud against whoever they were making misrepresentations to.

I'm not sure it's really fair to say that consumers were equally complicit, though - the people being paid to understand this stuff probably had more intent.
Hehe, yeah. By that standard astronaut Mike Melvill already beat those SpaceX astronauts by more than 10 years...
StackOverflow is simply a tool that I do not need.

It is not a community site, it is a Q&A site. Too formal. I find it far better to ask a question on a specific mailing list and not on SO. It causes fragmentation and I prefer to have one canonical source of information. Rails question? Ask the mailing list. A community site for developers would be welcome.

Another big problem that I have with SO is moderation. I do not want anyone editing what I have wrote. It would be fine with the occasional editing of egregious errors, but SO moderation is out of control (IMHO).
To me, the definition of a person that is good at multitasking isn't the person that sees the least reduction in overall productivity when task-switching. To me, the person that is the best at multitasking is the person that knows where that reduction is irrelevant to the metrics that matter.

In this respect, your post indicates you are an excellent at multitasking.

To add to your point. I've worked in a call center environment where there were two schools of employee: those that documented their interaction with the customer as it was happening (the multitasker) and the employee that did it after the call had ended (the single tasker).

Now, all things being equal, the employee that was not multi-tasking probably didn't make spelling mistakes in their call documentation and might have had marginally better engagement with the customer. However, none of those things were metrics that actually needed to be optimized. So the employee was choosing to optimize one dimension (documentation quality / engagement) at the expense of another (duration).

On the other hand, the multitasking employee could handle 10% more call volume at the end of each day which reduced customer hold time and call abandon rates, which improved a metric our customers (and management) actually did care about.

I'm not making some universal claim. I'm just saying in this particular anecdote, multitasking produced outcomes more aligned with objectives given by management.
I am replying to this question sitting in a remote village in India (and it took more than a minute to load this page)

Most of the third world problems are already solved by developed countries, IMO. The problem is accessibility - due to cost, language and literacy barriers.

This is especially true for physical products and energy (due to purchase parity) and less to do with software (due to zero distribution & cloning cost). That's why it is easy for us to thrive in software consumption/services and not in other areas.
I think Winston was sporting them 50 years ago.
Very sound reasoning. By the very same reasoning, the debate about whether to abolish slavery (in the US) should still be in full rage. After all, who could definitely predict whether those poor people would be able to survive without their masters providing them food and shelter and protecting them from the harsh reality (with hardly a benefit for themselves)?

But I'm sure you will be able to demonstrate why this is not an appropriate analogy.
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Those are different kind of multitasking. They are done behind the scenes. The problem starts when you try to multitask on conscious activities, like programming and having a conversation, or texting and driving. Those tasks compete with each other for high-level processing power, which humans have barely enough for one task.
Places like LA, Chicago, etc? All of those places aggressively police poor (predominantly minority) neighborhoods.

Those neighborhoods are where crime happens. A map of violent crime in Chicago (a city that's 65% black or hispanic): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Chicago_v....

A map of Chicago by race: http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?chicagodots

What do you want the police to do, patrol around Lincoln Park and Lakeview where all the wealthy white people are?
Here's the flaw in your argument against the necessity of deterrence:

If a policy effectively prevents a targeted category of people from becoming criminals, then most criminals won't be from that targeted category.

Say p ~ 10% of people either don't think about the consequences of their actions or don't care whether they go to jail. Say q ~ 90% do care about the consequences of their actions and do care whether they go to jail.

Under a system where deterrence is a strong element, most criminals will be from p. But remove the deterrent, and you'll start seeing more criminals from q.
Bootstrap-switch is the new Bootstrap-toggle-buttons
I don't understand how Apple could do that if they completely fired the company. If they are still doing business with them then they could make such demands, but if they outright sacked the company why would that company continue to do what Apple tells them to?

Is the local government providing enforcement?
I think that's completely fair.

The main problem with analytics/metrics is that they're all useless - or very close to it. Each of them is horrible about getting data out in order to correlate it with other services.

If segment.io can consolidate metrics data, provide uniform interfaces for getting data in/out, and can start partnering with other services that should be using this data but can't (there are several dozen), they can turn useless metrics data into immediately (possibly automatably) actionable data.

Just a personal vision, and I have no idea if that's where they're goin or not, I just know that needs to happen, and the team behind segment.io has the chops to pull it off.
lol, someone's taking an exam
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36739

awesome resource, connects you to the world in a weird way :)
70% believe themselves to be above average, which isn't surprising.
This is why we're storing important user credentials on a user's phone instead of all on a central server! (https://clef.io)
Yup. They are still around and pretty ruthless. They get the printer models on the first call from a receptionist or someone "I'm calling about fixing the printer... that's a... HP... right? No? Konica, yeah, that's right we have that change in our forms."

Then they call back again and ask for the person in charge of ordering toner and reference the exact model. Sigh. Almost as bad as the "yellow page" people.
Vine and Corporate Twitter
A contract clause withholding outstanding payments until certain conditions are met would do the trick.
Valve releases Counter-Strike 1.6 for Linux
Ignoring the fact that this is a huge post with absolutely nothing of value in it...

> And not a single one of these game is using that "Component Entity System".

That's plainly wrong. The idea that this person could know the internals of every game being made right now is silly enough. But, having myself worked on AAA games in the recent past that used component-based architectures, I can say with authority that this guy is Full Of Shit.
> Lots of people don't know of % works.

God, really? But they know what a multiple is?
What happens if your phone gets stolen?
A spreadsheet is a far cry from a warm email every 3 days saying either "Whoa, you need to save more!" or "Woohoo, good job! \o/"
Ha! I'm all about teaching beginners how to use Ruby, which is painful in itself. By the time they get to Rails, they had better be used to typing in commands at a text prompt :)

No seriously, though...So many things can easily go wrong with basic Rails...not because Rails is bad, but because Rails has so many features...that if people haven't mastered the art of Googling lines from debug-output or command-line install instructions...then the time they've "saved" by having a push-button solution will be more than spent in the time trying to get off the ground.

But I'm obviously speaking from hindsight...as I've gotten more experienced, I've seen that writing script for minimal apps is more efficient than launching a full-fledged Rails app. However, I may have lost interest in the whole web-app game long ago if I didn't have the chance to play around (clumsily) with Rails 2.2
Riak on Engine Yard
So many wasted IPv4s...
Antigua could hit U.S. with copyright-free downloads
Why Canada is beating the U.S. in startup visas
"I don't want to be mean here"

"ChromaShift is terribly bad"

"it's freakin' ugly"

"finger quotes quality of the finger quotes text editor"

You certainly sound like someone who has an open mind and is respectfully putting forth constructive criticism!
^This sums up the situation pretty well.

Trying to do good does have unintended consequences. If pressure works, it will mean that underage workers will have one fewer avenue towards self-sustenance, or ability to help their destitute families. If I were underage I would want the option to work at a factory rather than combing the garbage dumps ofr scraps --at least there is a future on a factory floor, for the time being.
> This is a tiny city, and you can walk from any one point to another in 45 minutes most of the time.

as someone who has walked around sf a lot, this is patently ridiculous. for instance, from embarcadero to outer noe valley (a walk i do fairly regularly when the weather is warmer) takes me well over an hour, and that's a bit less than halfway across the city.
I'm using two data sources. Toshl for knowing how much I'm spending (and for certain types of income), Toggl for tracking my freelancing with an attached hourly rate.

The fact that I can see my income as a daily thing and not something that happens every X weeks is really what makes this thing useful and cool because it can essentially turn each day of the month into a simple number saying whether it's a positive or negative day (and by how much).

Then it's just some playing around with rolling averages and some other stuff to get a prediction that is surprisingly good.
And again - so many wasted IPv4s...
The newest technologies look most likely to vanish
That reminds me of a co-worker who was weirded out by my using "modulo" to mean "except for" or "ignoring" (which is, to my understanding, perfectly ordinary English).

They did, thankfully, fully understand it in a mathematical context - to my knowledge I've never worked with someone who didn't, although this and nearby comments are leaving me wondering...
I mean, in storybook land this is how things should work.

But in the recent past, the most recent decade especially, companies have infamously been using temp jobs as a means to get around paying full-time salaries and benefits perpetually. Same with internships. For lower level white-collar workers, the progression isn't from temp job to permanent job but temp job to temp job to temp job to early underfunded retirement.

Not that I see an easy way out of this--companies of all sorts are driven to this behavior inexorably by the market--but people genuinely interested in transitioning to a better economy for everyone have to look at this fact head on.
Then wouldn't that be the user's fault/problem?
TuF: A Framework for Securing Software Update Systems
> I get what you're saying, but the thing is that it's really not difficult to get running. Especially on a Mac. Especially now that we have bundler and such. The only thing one really has to manage is ruby versions, and that can be done with rbenv/rvm.

I'm not interested in Rails.app, but I must correct you on that: it isn't difficult to get a Ruby environment running in most cases.

When you've spent half a day puzzling over why your colleague's new Macbook Air won't build Ruby despite everything seeming to be in order you'll never be so sure of how long setting it up will take.
Tables have turned on 'slut shamers'
Big data and R
Thanks for this -- I think I'm your target audience here. CS student, entirely aware of APIs, but not a clue how to interact with them. Yet I now have tweets flying left, right and center. So thanks!
Facebook Blocks Twitters Video-Sharing App
The prospect of it taking _hours_ instead of _weeks_ is still too steep of an ask.

Basically, if it's going to be me just checking each analytics service in its own tab vs. needing to dedicate hours of development resources to pool everything together, I'd rather just stick with what I have.
Rollcall- Website to help improve student attendance in schools.
I'd say similar in intent to those funds, but starkly different in terms of execution and associated risks.

A target date fund approaches your goals by varying the percentage of the portfolio invested in bonds and cash.

My approach doesn't rely on those fixed income instruments to mitigate risk, so isn't exposed to rising interest rates as directly.

In short, it's a new kind of target date fund (in a sense) that is smarter in the present environment.
What About the Insiders? A Second Proposal To Change the Computer Crime Statutes
Exxon Overtakes Apple as Biggest U.S. Company by Market Cap
You are either trolling or grossly misinformed about a number of things.

Your belief is that by intentionally misrepresenting yourself to a bank and obtaining a loan you otherwise would not have been able to obtain, that is, willfully and knowingly entering into a contract in bad faith -- you are the victim of a crime. That is ludicrous at its face.

If someone issues you a loan in good faith, and you cannot repay, it is indeed their loss. They have not committed crime however.

In the case of a personal loan if you fail to repay, the bank can go to court and get a judgement against you. With that judgement they might be able to make a claim on such assets as to make themselves whole. They cannot "take all of your material possessions" let alone send you to prison. This is very far from what happened...

In the case of a mortgage, the can foreclose on the property, liquidate it and use the proceeds to make themselves whole. Note that anything collected in excess of the loan must be passed back to the borrower. (This rarely happens, because if the property were worth more than the loan, the borrower would just sell or refinance.) After a foreclosure and sale, if the bank is still not whole, in many states they may not come after the borrower for the balance (this is called "no-recourse") in other states they can ("recourse"). In the industry so called "subprime" loans were often referred to a "home equity", because there was an acknowledgement that these were borrowers were greater risk, but the loan was guaranteed by the value of the home, and as long as home prices did not drop significantly they were of little risk.

It is almost never advantageous for the bank for the not to repay a loan, as the most the bank can do is be made whole by recovery, and almost never is.

Finally that is not how loan sharking works.
I don't think all prosecutors are as idealistic as you suggest. It seems that some of them are more concerned with scoring points for their political career than they are with who or what is causing actual societal harm. Of course, that might have something to do with how their incentives are structured.
The use case I have thought of so far is providers who work with multiple companies (providing web interfaces for them), and therefore are required to integrate with those companies' analytics services. When you are on boarding new clients, or adding analytics to existing ones, a service like this could be extremely useful to cut down on development time.
In surveys like that, it's also good to give examples, so the respondent can gauge their own experiences against the survey scale; otherwise you are measuring their self-ranking on their own value scale, which hasn't been registered with the survey's scale.
Thanks for letting me know! I think this is a rare bug, and I'm pretty sure it's caused by the audio element not properly loading. It's definitely on my todo list!
Sure, but designing around the inherent riskiness of user behavior/forgetfulness is an important part of security systems. Users want to be protected, not for blame to be shifted to them.
Sadly, ROOT is generally-speaking the best part of physics code...if it were me, I would ask that all software used to derive a result be made available. It's far too easy for scientists to make stupid errors in their coding and it cannot hurt to be open.
"Yeah... that selective quoting alters the meaning of my words beyond recognition..."

The point I was aiming at is that using yourself, as a sample size of one, and extending the conclusions you draw from your own behaviour to the behaviour of others is prone to error.

On a personal note, I thank you for, and congratulate you on, your civilised response and your amenability to considering beyond the knowledge and beliefs you have at the time; an attitude I hope to present myself. Either I'm getting too old, or internet discussion has gone downhill in recent months.
Wow, thanks for pointing me to that. I fear it describes me a little too closely...
Good call - I'll see what we can get together for the big day.
More of an antonym really but you're right that the meaning of the phrase is a little confused these days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipszh14WPFY
I suppose such a contract would work provided the cost of fulfilling those obligations did not exceed the outstanding payment. Otherwise I would expect the company to just cut their loses.
Homeland Security's Napolitano invokes 9/11 to push for CISPA 2.0
Nagare is my favorite - http://www.Nagare.org
I think sometimes the creative solutions end up being better than the simple "obvious" solutions that were apparent before the limitations were put in place.
Generally really like your post, but I have to correct you about PG's essay.

It's people who work at normal jobs that he calls caged animals, and founders are the wild animals.

"In fact, getting a normal job may actually make you less able to start a startup, by turning you into a tame animal who thinks he needs an office to work in and a product manager to tell him what software to write."

http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html
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