skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
patio11 has a long history of making snarky comments about how outsourcing to India should not be a concern to Western IT workers because the quality of Indian IT workers is much lower than that of Western IT workers and clients will ultimately recognize this and hire a Westerner instead. This is presumably something that is quite near and dear to him, as he is an American expat who lives in Gifu, a tiny, rural Japanese town. Since his primary income source (outside of Bingo Card Creator and Appointment Reminder) is doing consulting work for Western customers, it's very important to him that they pick him over Indian consultants based on how good he is, since hiring him presents all the same issues with respect to time zone, distance, etc. that hiring an Indian would.

He probably experienced a lot of difficulty initially in acquiring customers (who opted to go with the much cheaper, Indian consultants), which is why he has such an oversized Internet presence, including on Hacker News - it has helped build a brand for himself that isn't location-specific.
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Okay, but what is "very weak"?

Also, I remember you - you did adonomics back in the day for facebook apps :)
I believe that Software is the new literacy. As such software will / is becoming a vital operational part of all parts of modern life, from drone operating systems to 911 call centres.

The new literacy has the capacity to bring marvellous new benefits - mostly if it comes with the attitudes that foster that literacy (most literate people do not advocate burning books, most software-literate people advocate net neutrality). (see pg (http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html) thx to Temporal)

Like it or not, what we do for a living will impact everyone, and carries with it a political overtone for maximum success.
That means hackers have a political role to play (not in the partisan sense, but in the broader life of a polis.)

And so we should do what HN does best - demand evidence.
Agitate, vote for and lobby for empirically driven politics.
Demand a law that requires every national or federal political decision to have a 95% confidence value of working. Seems simple :-)
Why is everything flat :-C
> Bootstrap 3

It's a release candidate. The first of at least two.

If you want discussion, check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6112141 (disclaimer: my submission).

@mdo jumped in for a bit of commentary, too.
Nothing wrong with that, just as there is nothing wrong with me taking my copy and distributing it for a lower cost/free. (That's called arbitrage).

Or are we talking about using Copyright to be limited to geographic location? (i.e your U.S Licensed Photoshop can't be used in Australia)... Because that would be a serious misuse of laws. (in my opinion)
Discussion from 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6110398
This exists in Bootstrap 2 too: http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/2.3.2/examples/fluid.html
Pope Francis: "Who am I to judge gay people?"
What are some of the things worth being angry about?
These slides from Brad Fitzpatrick himself on the subject were a lot more informative:

http://talks.golang.org/2013/oscon-dl.slide
It's still on the second page of HN, was on the frontpage for a while.
Can somebody please answer the first question "What counts as a political post?"

- Is "Snowden" = politics?

- Is "NSA" = politics?

- Is "War machine" = politics?

- Is "Poverty" = politics?

- Is "Unemployment" = politics?

Let's first try to see if "everybody" has the same definition.

Then "HN management" can update their manifest so we actually do have a tangible result after this discussion.

EDIT: As of now, we still don't have an agreed-on definition for what counts as "a political post". Or am I taking this discussion too seriously? Please downvote if you feel it was a bad idea I signed up on this site, I'd like to know...
If having children is a basic human right, isn't the capability to be able to raise them also a necessity (a human right of the child's fulfilled in proxy by the parent)?

One of the points in the article is the disparity of pay between lowest income workers and executives.

So really, aren't we subsidizing executive's pay?

It appears that it is easier to squeeze the poorest than the richest. The richest have more power to protect their interests.
I fail to see anything new. China has an outstanding claim of sovereignty over Taiwan and the US has entered into treaty obligations to defend Taiwan. China regularly holds military exercises in which it fires shells and missiles into the sea just off Taiwan. This situation has been in place for many decades. Over the last few decades China has greatly increased it's GDP and it's military spending, escalating the level of threat to Taiwan e.g. by buying or building submarines and an aircraft carrier, experimenting with stealth aircraft technology, etc, so the US has responded to that in step. Bear in mind it's the PRC's territorial claim and standing claim of a right to violently enforce it that's the driving force here.
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> I would say most people are just as opinionated about language, hardware and software choices as they are about politics.

Err... go into a bar, in, say, Iowa, and ask whether people prefer PHP to Python. Then ask what they think of Obama.
Ask HN: What can I do with vast amounts of text? 
I've started collecting a lot of data in Arabic. the thing with arabic is that there's Modern Standard Arabic that's used in formal communication and then each country's dialect that's used in informal communication. I have a lot (like tens of millions of sentences) of each and I'm working on tagging them as either MSA or dialect (and which dialect it is).

But now what? Natural language processing? Something else? Any low hanging fruits I can work on?
Assuming no new disruptions, then yes, economic conditions in the two countries would eventually equalize and prices would differ by at most the shipping cost if one of the two countries happens to have much better natural conditions for producing beer than the other. It's because disruptions are now becoming (have become?) the norm that equilibrium never has time to come close to manifesting itself.
On why removing features makes people unhappy
This is all kind of meta, but I think that, to prove anything, he would need to fix a system in which he could operate, and prove it in that.

Kind of reminds me of the following proof I have that something in this world is indeed absolute.

1) "Nothing is absolute" is self contradictory.

2) Therefore, something is absolute.

Neat, huh?

By the way, one needs to elaborate a little bit about the above proof. The reason (2) follows from (1) is because the negation of 1, "something is absolute", is not self-contradictory. However, if both (1) and (2) were shown to be self-contradictory, then you wouldn't have the excluded middle.
Well, I just chipped in 100$ myself 10 minutes ago and the site did not update yet.
Actually I'm not seeing any increase on the pledged sum over the last two days... Now I wonder if they might have reached the goal already and the site is just not updating.
> Is the equation 'success in life as measured against everyone else,' or is the equation 'success in life as measure against yourself'? If the question is the latter--which is the only question a person should care about--then hard work is very close to 100%. This isn't an emotional claim, it's a rational and evidence based claim.

I can't agree here. Success is measured in terms of what you accomplish, and that's not solely a personal measurement. Life is not subjective.

Then again, success isn't entirely external either.

However, I can't agree with the notion that "hard work" (a conveniently vague term) is 100% of anything. If it is, that means the work is robot-work.

More likely, it's a lot of careful thought, applied by the amount of work required to make the idea come into reality, and then the missing "fourth wall" of creation, which is: is it actually useful?
It's not really a tax - it's Econ 101 price discrimination. which works as long as it can't be easily debased by arbitrage.

Australians have very high standards of living and the prices reflect that. This is just supply and demand and I don't see a problem with that.
There's no national curriculum in the US, but religion most certainly is "banished" from state schools. Not even excepting religious classes - there aren't any such classes in state-operated schools, at least not any that I've ever heard of.

Treating school systems as the primary mechanism for transmitting cultural memes, and attributing social attitudes to its functions, seems a very bizarre position.

In fact, if anything, the exact reverse may be the case: by not permitting religion to have any state-supported expression, it ensures that religion is sustained and advanced by civil society itself, which yields a much more vigorous and energetic religious sphere in American culture than you'd see in countries where religion is mediated and subdued by politics.
White clouds aren't opaque, they're translucent. Opaque clouds are the dark grey/black clouds you sometimes see.
check out http://gate.ac.uk/ but I'm not sure wheter it supports arabic
"Western Europe" is a sort of Americanism historically used to distinguish European NATO states and allies from Soviet-bloc states ("Eastern Europe"). Many states to the south and even far to the east (e.g., Greece) fall under the geopolitical concept of Western Europe in this context.
what if you have a need, and that need can only be filled by a product with a loaded price... you don't really have the option to "not buy it"...
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Smart TV most certainly is not a gimmick. Among all the parents I know, including myself, we all bought smart TVs to have the built-in Netflix streaming without an extra box or anything to think about. The price difference of TVs with and without apps is almost nothing at this point - we bought a 60" Vizio for around $900 - they don't even offer a version without apps as far as I know.

But I do agree with you about 3D. :)
Not even that. Even games on Steam are routinely priced at retail and left there for years. Civ V, for example, was still $70 last time I checked.

And no, I didn't buy it :)

Update: Just checked - Released 24 Sep 2010, $69.99
If nothing else, it's easier to override with your own styles.
I like the muscle analogy. If Mozart had languished and not applied himself, he never would have been a great composer. But not everyone can be Mozart.
Another question: why don't Indian doctors just import themselves to the US and earn much higher wages and profits by offering American customers something like the average of the Indian and American price?

That's what we should be asking IMO.
Judging from Japan a serious recession and growth slowing will stop it and it will be followed by 20 years of deflation. Australia is probably near the end of the 20 year boom, price elasticity will shift at some point. Good time to start businesses based on this perhaps.
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I have no problem with political issues on HN if they're issues inherently relevant to technology: US immigration, censorship, secret spying, DRM, CALEA, CISPA/PIPA/SOPA, etc. Things related to startup financing (JOBS Act and equivalent) are cool too.

Borderline are probably general education (edu tech or tech specific education are fine), maybe investment tax laws to the extent they influence startup investments. Healthcare is generally not relevant except as there are tech solutions (which is highly relevant); healthcare for startups or individuals working in tech is maybe borderline.

Unrelated political issues (gun control or gun rights, politicians in general, tax policy, war, ...) seem better suited for other forums.

What we really need is "meta headlines" where the ~10 daily articles about Snowden can get consolidated into one post with shared comments. Same thing happens whenever a new product is launched, too -- it's not specific to the content.
> HN is currently the best site I know of for quality political discussion.

That's indicative of just how horrible political discussions are on the internet, because frankly, a lot of the discussions here are rehashing stuff you can find in usenet postings in the 80ies. There is little that's new, interesting or thoughtful in a lot of them, and a lot of inanity. "The US is just like Russia and China!". Given that it's way cheaper to pull stupid statements out of one's ass than it is to do the research and careful argumentation to refute said statements, it's easy for cheap, junky commentary to surpass the more thoughtful, expensive kind.

Here's a theory: a lot of HN users are in their early 20ies, and haven't grappled with many of these issues before, so perhaps to them they really are new and interesting, and they appreciate seeing them hashed out.
The problem being that acknowledgement is what these crazy people are looking for and RS just gave it to them.

Keep in mind, the best form of censorship is a market based one. When a company does wrong, I'd rather a boycott than have some government do-gooder step in.
I live at university accommodation in Australia which houses a large proportion of international exchange students. Every one of them, from France, the UK, Canada, Sweden, the US etc. has been shocked by the prices here. Some of them have even said that if they had known how expensive it was, they wouldn't have come.

(This is in general, not just software.)
Awesome find, this also helps to program for other devices that run the z80 processor (TI83 anyone?)! :-D
Whilst I agree with your objectives and would love a tool that does this. I have not done so myself because of security problems with having .git in the website folder. I'll continue to use git's hooks to copy the files as I push them to the server.

Right now, your source is potentially downloadable via the web, if a developer accidentally places a password in the code and then later reverts the change, its still in the history for someone to find. Plus they get the ability to rip off your work because you've made it public. Or perhaps just scan it for flaws to exploit.

I know what your going to say, that you can mitigate these problems with a simple configuration change. However is everybody that you give the code to going to do that on every server they deploy?
As others have said, Evil's emulation is really good. I've ran into the same problems you have mentioned in other Vim emulation layers so I had the same suspicious with Evil. Evil didn't disappoint. Very good so far.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need
I think it's flat because it's easier to add CSS and build up widgets as opposed to having a stylized widget, then trying to override the CSS to re-customize each widget. Foundation, the original front-end framework which Bootstrap emulates, works the same way.
There is not different pricing for Australians, there is different pricing for people who are located in Australia. Big difference.

Comparing regional pricing schemes to racial discrimination is quite a leap.
Arnold Kling has developed his "three-axis model."

The three axes are:
- Civilization/barbarism
- Oppressor/oppressed
- Freedom/coercion

The idea is that people will have different attitudes on issues and that these attitudes can be "plotted" on these three axes.

It is only a model, but I think it is a good one.
I run hackerjobs.co.uk and for the last year or so we've been providing free job listings. Despite that, we only get employers sign up as and when they need to post a job.

We get relatively decent traffic considering we haven't paid a penny for marketing or advertising and ultimately, our most successful technique to get new employers to sign up is to personally email them directly when I see them advertising elsewhere.

One of our biggest traffic sources come from aggregated job boards such as indeed.com and we find twitter to be surprisingly effective when we post new blogs or tweet about new jobs.

All that said and done, onion2k's 5 points are very valid too.
If code doesn’t receive constant love it turns to shit,

I would prefer "If bad code doesn't receive constant love it turns to shit"

I am aware of thousands of examples of heavily used commercial software that hasn't been touched in 5, 10, 15, even 20 years because it just works and always has. Properly designed and written scalable software can last indefinitely with little or no modification, even through geometric changes.

But I like OP's quote. I think it should become part of every code reviewer's checklist:

Will this turn to shit without constant love?
No: Pass.
Yes: Then fix it now.
that's an empty set. it'll happen anyway, though.
If the alternative is price fixing ill take the free market approach any day. Governments should not be meddling with the prices of software.
Then free trade is out and protectionism is in. There is no cause for treating multinationals better than they treat human beings.
That's a really odd comment to make. Surely automating the steps to deployment is a good thing.

Git has hooks for kicking off processes, its extensible, deployment scripts don't alter the core of git. What's the problem with evolving something?
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Yes, but yareally's post was made in the context of HN discussions, I don't think the point was to be taken as a statement about the whole humanity.
I really wanted to learn functional programming when my university offered it, but unfortunately it's crunched in a horribly busy term and I'm not willing to risk core modules for it if I end up struggling.

That said, I really do want to learn it and find MOOCs a really useful tool, if anybody has any suggestions for any they've used (or the one linked, I'm unclear if that's for students at that university only) that'd be awesome!
For me it would be, I have much more rage with trying to type with a remote control than I do finding a device with battery left (you can use a phone, tablet or computer and I don't foresee a time when all three are out of juice and my power isn't out).

The Apple TV is the worst of both worlds because the remote is required but is smaller than any other remote out there so that it's very easy to lose.
> The first supposed fact thrown around in the medical costs argument like this is, "Well in India their cost of living is lower, so they charge considerably less, yadda yadda..." but it's obvious the price difference goes way beyond any cost of living gap. That's over $100,000 in price difference, while it is true the cost of living (salary, prices of every day items) in India is considerably less than that of the US, the gap certainly isn't 100k+

Well, the article says 2/3 of people live on $2/day, implying this surgery is $1600/$2/day = 800 days worth of work.

Taking the US median income of $45k (since I don't know the 2/3 number off the top of my head), that implies the equivalent price in the US would be ($45k/365) * 800 = $98,630. So, right about the same as at the Cleveland Clinic.
Of course it is. I've worked in sales in Consumer Electronics and boxed Software for about 7 years now, and I know the actual cost prices of most things. It's good to have proper confirmation, at least.
Note: Sweden does not have total darkness for half of the year. Firstly, 85% of Sweden is below the arctic circle, and does get daylight every day. Secondly, the 15% that is above the arctic circle is the most remote and least populated part of Sweden. Thirdly, even above the arctic circle in wintertime, it seldom actually gets dark as you might imagine; the sun is just below the horizon much of the time, and you merely get a sort of twilight/early morning light.
"A doctor trained in India is no less qualified than a doctor trained in the US"

Perhaps you are correct, but I doubt this assertion. U.S. graduate schools are generally the best in the world, I am not sure why that should be any different for medical schools
In Australia? The neo-racist obsession with excluding asylum seekers would be a great start, although it's just one part of the toxic state of public discourse. Another might be the horrific waste of public money that is the long-dead-but-still-artificially-twitching car manufacturing industry. And don't get me started on transport policy.
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He's just speaking colloquially and I don't know anything about the system of logic he's describing. He means something like "weak relative to all the other ones we'd consider on a day-to-day basis" or "so weak we'd never seriously consider it except as a specialized tool."

That's not really the point, though. The point is that "strong" and "weak" are well-defined terms in mathematical logic and he was almost certainly using them in that sense. :)
What do you want to do with the data? That can alter the tools/software one wishes to use with it.
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Agreed. This is one of the best ports of magazine feel while leveraging the web that I've seen.
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No jQuery plugin for app dev?
:)
Just as there are roles specified by society for women - there are roles specified for men. Actually nowadays I think men have much less choice than women if they care about society opinion at all.

Nobody blinks an eye when some women doesn't have kids and choose career. On the other hand being a "house husband" that doesn't work and "only" deal with house and kids is still considered weird and people think you are "not 100% man".

See the whole "real men" stereotype. There's no "real women" stereotype. We have one sex that have a choice, and one that doesn't. It's even visible in fashion. Women wear what they want. Men doesn't wear dresses.

BTW at least part of the differences in salaries is direct consequence of that. People expect men to keep working no matter the family situation, because "man should work". With women there's significant probability that they'll eventually choose kids, and salary reflects that belief.

Feminists try to deal with the salary gap by regulation - I don't think it will work. You need to change society so men have same choice women have. It will be even harder.
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