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> For me, once I understood the (technological, economic) reasons for the difference it became less of a moral issue and more of a practical issue.

keywords: "For me"

Everyone seems to lose their empathy for the poor and unfortunate once they become successful themselves. But I bet before you landed your sweet coffeescript gig, that you were pretty empathetic.

It's not a practical issue. It's purely a moral one. We all enter the earth on unequal footing. The system rewards luck and pedigree more than it rewards effort and hard work. The very conditioning brought upon youth by poverty makes it so unlikely that they'll ever aspire to the heights of the upper class, or even the middle class. Access to education is still not equal, neither is access to food, clothing, or shelter. Try getting homework help from your parents when they are on drugs.

Don't forget it's a moral issue, just because you've experienced some relative prosperity. Society is selfish to boot.
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I am owner of startupforstartups.com domain name and had a business around it. Now I am looking to liquidate all my assets to focus on new startup. Posting on HN as there might be users here interested in it. My co-ordinates in profile. Thank you.
Doesn't that rely on the assumption that gains are uniformly easy to generate across the income spectrum?

As a thought experiment, imagine you had a million dollars and wanted to use it to make more money. Then imagine you have a thousand. Isn't it much easier to make money, when you already have money? Things like diversification, favored rates on investment and economies of scale/scope only appear at the upper end of investment. While we may be able to tweak things, the fact remains that gains may just be easier to come by at the upper end of the spectrum.
Or ask an informed group of readers for clarification?
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Most savings accounts pay under the rate of inflation, and rely on someone (usually a bank) being willing to pay you that rate to get you to give them your money. Presumably the utility they derive from this makes it profitable for them.

BTC on the other hand, if we reach a steady deflationary state, beats the rate of deflation by definition, and just by you sitting on it. Slightly different situation.

--edit-- Also see here - http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/584.pdf
It seems the ~80% of bitcoin are long-term dormant, so people are just holding on to them, regardless of the reason.
Mark Phillups of Basho has a good list here: https://github.com/PharkMillups/killer-talks
That's their problem. There are tools for fools. I'm glad I don't have to use them.
> Herein lies the problem with the job creators argument. It is not fundamentally wrong, but it is wrong for the current level of inequality. We are past the optimum and, for society and the economy to gain efficiency, inequality must be reduced.

Are you suggesting we get rid of the unemployed? That would certainly increase "society efficiency", I think (not sure how we measure that again). But if we want to reduce society to numbers, its easier to get larger swings in variables if we have smaller population sets to work with. We don't have to get rid of everybody to meet optimal efficiency numbers, because the process of getting rid of people will definitely provide job opportunities for others.
This alone is awesome.

I've had the opportunity to write a small interpreter on the job before. Trust me: I know it is no small task to bite off something like this! Tip of the hat to you.

I'm currently stuck in the .NET world and one of the things I've been working on lately was to have a program fix certain aspects of a medium-to-large code base, but done via semantic parsing of the code base so that I know I'm typesafe and such.

In C# there are open libraries like NRefactor, of course Mono itself, and in the Microsoft world they are working on their own compiler as a service product named Roslyn. Do you think any of these efforts would even help an effort such as your are doing?

I'm asking not so much for C# stuff, but because I feel a momentum coming up that could enable stuff such as a live coding environment (my code is in execution as soon as I write it), and the idea of the debugger is the same as my production run-time (not sort of the same, but really the same). I wish up and coming languages would tackle this stuff head on today.
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This is great. Any support for other languages planned at this point? Or just waiting to see what the community comes up with?
I think the biggest problem of incentives can be summed up as:

It's much more profitable to do a mediocre job in banking than to do a world-changing job of actually building things. Proximity to money is worth more than actual ingenuity.
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it was an honest question and i don't think your reaction is appropriate behaviour for this site.

If most think my comment is worthless, the voting system will make it enter the void. If others think it isn't it will be upvoted. That's how this site works.

Just responding with "Shut up" adds nothing to the discussion and is something i am shocked to see on this site :(
> The primary difference between the US and other countries is that the US constitution provides a means for the citizens to fight back against the most outrageous of offenses.

What way does the US constitution provide that other countries don't (besides the firearms shenanigans)?
> This is the case in every country. Those at the top will take an inordinate amount of time to make rules that benefit themselves and their friends.

It's actually a bit simpler than that. Any set of rules will allow certain segments to rise to the top. Once there, they have great interest in keeping the rules in their favour, but they don't have to take all that much time making the rules favour them in the first place.
"It takes a special sort to see all the gains in wealth go to the investor and manager class and argue that this is the proper order of things."

I don't think anyone sees it as the proper order of things. For one thing, only central planners even think in those terms. For another, there is no obvious policy that will have a better overall result in a large country like the US -- remember, every policy has unintended consequences and doesn't always turn out like you plan.
>> Git gives some very stupid hints “branhc is not a git command, did you mean branch?” it should also warn me when I defined an invalid alias.

This is the thing that really infuriates me - having a message from my tool that tells me there's an error is one thing, but offering a (frequently incorrect) correction forces me stop and try to figure out why this suggestion was offered, since it frequently has NOTHING to do with what I actually (mis)typed.

Lets put it this way - if this autocorrection feature is so great, then it should prompt you Y/N after giving the error message. Would it then be a better feature? Or would it make more people want to stab it in the eyeballs? Or if this suggestion feature is so great, then it should just DWIM in the first place.

Someone needs to take gits levenshtein algorithm away.
actually people have been posting google searches to find exposed home ip camera systems and the like for years.
Dude, what the heck?
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You're an armchair critic of armchair critics, how meta of you.
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I was led to believe that there were huge water tankers (like gas tankers, but full of water) sitting idle for lack of leadership. But I could have misunderstood.

I agree though that the loss of power (and lack of backup power) to the pumping stations was probably the biggest problem. I remember hearing that a number of people saved the private high school "CPS" from burning down using the water in the pool to keep the fire at bay; I'm not clear how they did this, though (if fire fighters were involved, I'd imagine they would be able to use their trucks to pump the water, but the story as I heard it was a bunch of teachers and/or students fighting the fires back). So yes, if you've got water, it's easier to fight a fire.
Most businesses will optimize for profit within the parameters they are given. That's why workers need to have unions.

Supply-side economics do have a grain of truth to them, a very small one. The problem is they are "trickle down" and there are a lot of people who need a bit more than a light sprinkle to happen.
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I'm really interested in finding some articles about Go language and its main differences with others, for non-programmers i mean.

May it enter on the same league as Haskell, Erlang?
> I would respectfully submit that the common American assumption that the government cannot be trusted to do anything right is self-fulfilling.

Americans do not actually think this. The highway system, environmental protections, labor laws, the military, Medicare, and Social Security are all extremely popular.

What Americans actually believe is that government actions should not be trusted merely because they are government actions.

The fundamental concept of American governance is that the people are sovereign, not the government. This was a radical notion in the 18th century, and I would argue that is remains so today, given the number of folks who can't seem to wrap their heads around it.

For example, gun ownership is not based on the right to rebel--no such right exists (see: the Civil War). Americans have the right to own guns because Americans want to own guns, and Americans are in charge. We get to decide what we want to do and when we want to do it. The role of government is not to rule the people, but to adjudicate peacefully between the many different opinions that people freely hold.

The 2nd Amendment is still in force today not because it is old, but because the American people, today, want it to remain in force.
PHP and Python are supported now. I have a friend who is going to add Ruby support. Other than that up in the air.
Look at the username - likely a purpose built troll account. Not the first I've seen on HN, but it's happening more than it used to.
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I used to be able to tell people like you to go back to Reddit. Unfortunately the quality of HN has declined far enough that your content-free insulting of a decent question is not immediately recognizable as something with no place here.

I consider that fact a sad commentary on how far HN has fallen.
Hm, returns a 502 now.
What in god's name are you talking about?

To suggest there is even a such a thing as being "like a man" is as inherently sexist as suggesting that all women are "too emotional" for any real position of power.

Goldman's argument is a version of the "No True Scotsman" fallacy. Uchikoma is correct to discount it for what it is.
I believe the original title for the link was something along the lines of "IE6 usage is under X% worldwide" but one of the HN mods changed it.
If I'm using it for hobby projects on my local machine, should I be using stable, weekly or tip? I'm guessing stable will be fine after 1.1 is pushed there (which sounds like it'll be soon)?
So your position is the world exists as a comic book, where a person is all good or all bad, and there are no in-betweens? Can't a person just be a person who does some good things, and some bad things, some deserving of respect and others being reprehensible perhaps (and others still being neutral or up for debate)?
As long as they treat cancer as a profit center, a cure will never surface in the US of A. "Treament" is a multi billion (trillion?) business, a cure would reduce that to dust.

Also, you should look up the agony, people would rather shoot themselves than take the "treatment"
So is cruelty to animals...
>Lost your piece of paper? Send the device back. No more trivial hacks.

and pay for the millions of dollars worth of un-installation, shipping, and re-installation?
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The root problem seems to be that Oracle and Samsung want WebKit to continue allowing Nashorn and V8 integration without actually providing any developer resource to the problem.
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Ask HN: Is a Bitcoin ASIC miner a good investment for now?
Is an ASIC miner a good investment right now?I mean, I was checking the websites that are selling them and many are out of stock.

Or should I say, are these miners a sure investment at least for the moment?A friend bought an ASIC miner a month ago and he sold 100 or something BTC for 16-18.000 $.I'm not calling my friend a liar but it's kind of too easy.I mean you just buy the ASIC, you wait for a month and then sell it for a sum like that.Sounds...interesting.

It's just I am having some doubts about this.Sounds too good to be true.Buying an ASIC and getting rich...It can't be that easy to make money even though I see the word "bubble" in the BTC topics.

By the way, I don't know much about BTC so if I am off the road, correct me.
I watch very few technical talks but Ryan Dahl's introduction to Node.js is one of my all time faves.
Zencoder removed WITHOUT any notification their 20% discount on multiple outputs
I signed up at Zencoder about 3 years ago and I've used it occasionally for some side projects, everything always worked great.
About 2 years ago Zencoder added a 20% discount on multiple outputs ( http://blog.zencoder.com/2011/03/09/lower-price-for-multiple-outputs/ ) and as I encoded in various formats I was very happy.

During the last year (when they were acquired by Brightcove) I had to shutdown those projects because they weren't growing as expected.

Now I'm in the middle of another project that uses videos and so I went back to Zencoder to see what changed, and a part some new features I've also seen that they removed from their pricing page (and any other page) the reference to that 20% discount on multiple outputs.

I don't want to criticize that choice (although I think it was a great thing for Zencoder's customers), but what I criticize is that they haven't sent any notification about that change to any of the accounts I have with them. I've checked their blog and there is no post telling about this removal. I don't know if they notified by email just active-paying customers, but I don't think it's correct even with not paying customers, as when I was paying customer I payed them few hundreds dollars each month.

If you are a startup, or a big company, please, please, please stop pissing out your users with these changes, or at least send an email saying why you do such changes..
Yeah parent would have been precise referring to the low volatility rather than the inflation of fiat money.
been looking around for this kinda thing.. don't know how I've missed that
Clojure support would be nice. I'll take a look at that at some point.

Also just realized you're the mousetrap guy. Thanks a lot for all your work!
You didn't address the WWII memorabilia. Also, are you free to say that the holocaust didn't happen?
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The fact that Greg Wilson's talk hasn't been mentioned is troubling.

Greg Wilson - What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It's True

http://vimeo.com/9270320
Oh, absolutely. As a Canadian, I live in hope that the US will invade and replace our system of government.
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That does exist: http://theie8countdown.com/

Not backed by Microsoft though.
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"By the way, I don't know much about BTC so if I am off the road, correct me."

Then no. It is not a good idea to buy anything related to BitCoins. If you don't understand the technology, don't invest in it.
This is a great question. I'm in basically the same position as you - no formal cs background but learning RoR and looking for resources to help me take it to the next level in terms of my coding and development skills.

Have you heard of jumpstartlabs? They have an awesome series of tutorials on their site covering stuff like common design patterns to use and how to use workers for background jobs etc.

Also, the project is open source so you can contribute to help improve the tutorials: http://tutorials.jumpstartlab.com
hahaha my window size pushed the smiley to the next line and I missed it
No, I strongly disagree with that statement that it's the same in every country. US supports and openly agrees with lobbying. Actually, I have read opinions saying it's a good thing - companies can have a direct effect on laws by pouring money into the government,so it kind of is democratic, right?

Well, not every country is like that. In many others lobbying is illegal and people who do it are severely punished. Any connection with a business is strongly frowned upon, and if the laws a politician is voting for turn out to support his/her company or his family's business, the negative press will pretty much destroy their career as it has happened many times in the past.
Meanwhile, in the US, politicians are very well known for making money thanks to policies they themselves wrote, and it has been a plague of both senators and presidents of the United States.

The problem is, that the US is calling our approach socialist. The first question we always ask is - how is this going to affect people? Most of the time the people's interest is put before companies interest. Media companies lobbying for making breaking ToS criminal offence? They can piss right off, this does not benefit people in any way. Monsanto wants to grow GMO crops in our country? Sure, but only after they show the documentation that its safe for people and does not affect local businesses. I can't imagine Microsoft ever being given a fine in the US for monopolistic practices - in the US it's probably just how you do business and no one sees anything wrong with it. In the "land of the free" you are also free to exploit your employees, because they being "free" can just change jobs,right? Well, in most of the EU you need to guarantee decent working conditions, health insurance and you can't work more than X number of hours per day. Is that bad/socialist? Maybe, but I know for certain where I would prefer to live and work!

And sure, its very,very far from perfect, but I am pretty sure its nowhere as corrupt as the US government. Mostly because in US it's not corruption, it's legitimate business.
Oh, interesting. What protects them from libel suits and the like, then?
I'm not an expert in it by all means, but from what I've seen it is like having Google log all the http headers and servers connected to requested as well. This means that it is incredibly easy to, for example, track down certain servers with a certain exploit that you know about [1], or complete systems that shouldn't really be attached to the internet in their current state [2]. Not sure either of those are possible with Google.

[1] - http://erratasec.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/shodan-scares-me.htm...

[2] - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/shodan-search-exposes-ins...
Pointing at lack of firearms regulations in the US correlating to higher firearm violence does not imply causation. We had an assault weapons ban for 10 years that did nothing, and given that 98% of murders are from handguns (in 2011) and DC banned handguns for 30 years, you would expect DC to have low handgun violence, but it does not.
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Is there a farm cruelty map? One where locations can be tagged with media, info about the farm and the farm product buyers? There should be...
looks like it could be really useful
That would make the devices more costly to produce and would raise prices. I know that ISPs do this with their devices sometimes, but some companies will cheap out and will just ship with a generic username and password since they only have to flash one single ROM image.
IMHO, unless you target China, I think you shouldn't be caring for IE6 anymore at all. Personally I don't test with IE6 and I'm fine with it.
Weekly releases were a thing before Go hit 1.0. Right now your choice is between 1.0.3 (current stable), 1.1-beta2 and tip. I'd go with the beta if you want precompiled binaries, or tip if you don't mind the 2 minutes it takes to compile the Go toolchain and standard libraries yourself.
Yeah, named branches in hg are just weird.
From what I've seen all websites work on the MTGox API

https://mtgox.com/api
I'm giving it a shot right now. It's not down, but very slow. Site's been loading for two minutes now.
It could also be explained by increased organic non-speculatory demand as Bitcoin shows up in the media more frequently, and more people begin to use it - against a relatively fixed supply.
This is one of the main reasons that I moved from loose vegetarianism to strict veganism. For the longest time, I convinced myself that dairy cows and egg laying hens didn't have it so bad. But as long as animals are seen as replaceable parts in a machine, they're going to be abused.

When you hear people throwing around terms like "humanely slaughtered beef", you know that we've hit a point of exceptional self deception as a society.
I think when you ask everyone to get together to institute a society to create an environment in which business can exist, then reject the idea that it matters how the production of that society is distributed, that's a special sort of person.
How does one make sure that their code isn't used in a closed source project though? What's to stop them from using it if no outsider will see their code?
I could be wrong, but I believe Shodan actually portscans the entire internet, whereas Google only crawls known URLs. They also index HTTP headers, which Google doesn't do.

It's run by our very own achillean: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=achillean
Out of curiosity, do a lot of people use CLI git?

I personally am much happier losing a little functionality (and all these fancy flags) for a much clearer visual interface - I'm using GitExtensions btw.

Am I alone on this?
The improvements in tip can be very important for large applications (for example in some HTTP realted benchmarks tip is 20-40% faster), tip also has better garbage collection leading to lower memory use. Tip also supports around 128 GB of heap on Linux/amd64 versus 8 GB for stable.

All that being said, if you are just writing small programs on your machine using 1.0.3 until 1.1 is out is probably not a big deal. Just don't judge Go on performance until 1.1
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I'd say it's a bit more like Google walking out and leaving Apple with the kids. I doubt Apple will be able to sue for maintenance.
This story has nothing whatsoever to do with Hacker News. It's a recapitulation of basic economics trend stories that serves no purpose here other than to start Reddit-style flame wars about politics. Not every good blog post is a good Hacker News submission. I flagged it, and you should too.