skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The not-poor are only not-poor because they receive money through some already existing mechanism of distribution. If that mechanism ceases to operate, they will likely become poor by spending all their money.

> Probably they think so because they have an unconscious and implicit belief that the currently existing mechanisms of distribution are somehow "natural". Frankly, that is a bizarre proposition.

That strikes me as an un-natural way of looking at things. If a farmer grows potatoes and sells them for money, he's not "receiving" money, he's trading for it (he's receiving money as much as the other guy is "receiving" potatoes"). That seems very natural to me (you give something, you get something).
Even in situations where this trade is illegal, it still happens; for example, drug dealers. They sell you heroin/cocaine/marijuana, you give them money. That transaction is highly illegal, yet it still happens because addicts want drugs and dealers want money (that they then use to buy other stuff with).
On the other side of the spectrum, you have the completely legal and moral transactions, like the potato example I gave. Laws have some impact on the basic natural tendency of people to trade for what they need, but they can't make trade go away (look at alcohol prohibition for another example).

I think the main cause of poverty is that poor people don't have much to trade (skills, labor, resources, even ideas or art). In other situations, trade is simply made difficult (for example, if you live in a warzone, it's pretty hard to be a hairdresser or grow potatoes).
This sort of thing is why I have a hard time taking Glenn Greenwald at face value. He's a well-educated person who clearly knows that such statements are nonsense.
I like this. It's very well done. Thank you for sharing this code. It allows someone like me, who is not that good with javascript to play around with what you've done, understand it and start to make changes on a playground where I know it started out working, and can backpedal when I break things.
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> I think India needs to adopt an archive and extinguish policy with its many regional languages

Do you have a reason why this is necessary?

> Finally but not the least, Hindi needs to be turned into a language of the arts and sciences

Given the many advantages of learning science in a global language, what would be gained by trying to rewrite everything in a regional language? Is it really easier to rewrite textbooks, and translate scientific papers into Hindi, than it is for children to learn a language (English)?
From TFA, one has no rights in this situation. Failure to cooperate with questioning is a crime.
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I personally use [0] since it adds on top of collapsible comments threads the highlighting of new comments.

To reply to a few of the posts below

AndrewDucker

> I don't want it often, but when the top comment is a tangent that then leads to hundreds of comments that are all about that tangent and not the link, then being able to minimise it would be nice

I prefer to bail out of these early. As was commented below, I potentially miss out on good comments made in replies, but I also save a lot of time for doings things I enjoy a lot more, like programming.

DanBC

> If a comment is bad enough to need collapsing it's likely there are going to be other lousy comments that need downvoting.

I collapse good comments just to get them off my screen when I'm done with them. The extension I linked too has a [collapse whole thread] that I can click on when reaching the last reply it will collapse everything off my screen and automatically scroll to the right place for me.

I am very grateful for the people who do downvote low quality comments and any children that are equally low quality. Everyone browsing how I do this wouldn't be ideal. If I ever get the ability to downvote, I can at least target my minor moderations to topics I particularly enjoy seeing high quality commenting in, not every thread. That would get tiring quick. Again, I much prefer to bail out of tangent or low quality comments quickly.

The point about excellent replies is valid, and I do wish individuals would considering posting them more visibly (but still on topic) instead of under troll replies, etc.

I have recently got into the habit of opening good comments by their permalink. I can continue going through the thread looking for good content, and them come back and go through the good comments and replies.

[0] http://hckrnews.com/about.html#extensions
Thanks! I get it now. Good explanation.
Also, the more dollars and the more professors on the grant, the more hyperbole. Thus, a $5M DARPA contract has to promise more than 10x what a $500K DARPA contract promises.
Was this movie meant to be a documentary? I was under the impression it was supposed to be more like The Social Network. Some facts but mainly just entertainment.

The Social Network may not be factually accurate but I enjoyed it and watched it again. I'm guessing this will be similar.
k-mcgrady wasn't making distinctions about spying, he was making distinctions about who decided to detain someone in a British airport - the fact that the UK has been affected by the NSA leaks means they have as much motivation here as the US does.
Why? In most European countries, there are no endless wars on stuff.. Maybe it's Anglo-American culture? But even then, the culture can be changed, and over a generation or so.

So I wouldn't say it's inevitable. The same goes for surveillance. Many people think that due to technology, surveillance is simply inevitable. But 50 years ago, there already was a technology for suppressing free press, which was exercised in totalitarian regimes around the world. Still, democratic countries didn't have censorship of the press.

So there are optimistic precedents - existence of technology doesn't always mean that government is going to misuse it. Though probably not without a fight, anyway. I would end with modification of the famous slogan: "Think optimistic, act pessimistic!" We should assume better future is possible, but act under assumption that it's not going to happen (by itself, that is).
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I think it is quite possible that it was clerical.

Some nameless official put anyone plausibly close to Snowden on one of however many "people of interest" type lists the UK has. It might even be a trickle down from some list in the USA. The original list may not even be intended as a "detain this person" list, but the way these secret lists work sourcing from other lists with different intents means the end result isn't necessarily the intended result.

Tyranny through bureaucracy basically. A little bit ironic what with the guy being Brazilian and Terry Gilliam's opus Brazil dealing with basically the same theme.
And for people who want to "level up" their programming skills and get an excellent language for writing servers in with a great faculty for safely concurrent semantics:

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Ask HN: What mobile framework do you write your apps in?
Me and my partners are planning on starting our iOS/Andoid app. We only have two requirements. One, we want to be able to code once and push to both iOS and Android (Win8 and WinPhone8 would be nice as well). Two, we want to have nativeUI elements, or less specifically we don't want it to look like a shitty HTML port. What mobile framework do you write your apps in? Thank you for taking the time to read this.
McNeel (Rhino and OpenNURBS developers) was ex-Autodesk, is that who you're thinking of? I'd be interested in knowing if the Sketchup team was too.
Electronics have gotten miniaturized, but that doesn't mean that a mechanical device that generates sound vibrations can be miniaturized. For example, an iPhone contains the computing power that used to take up a large room, but we don't have loudspeakers that are 0.01 inches in diameter and deliver the same sound output as conventional ones.
It's easy to come up with a monocausal explanation of all that's wrong in today's society. But that doesn't correspond to reality, and propagating it does nothing but encourage people to build strategies on false premises.

Those "sociopath banksters" might have a long list of sins and villainies, but that doesn't mean that they're the ones at fault here. Oppression is a system, not a rational order directed by a single person or group. I would not be surprised if a poll of your "banksters" revealed a far higher level of personal support for civil liberties than the average citizen. There's no reason to suppose that they want or have any interest in living in a world where the State can seize and steal the property of someone with no trial or opportunity for appeal.
Anybody can sue for anything. Google won that lawsuit.
So what do you propose as a solution? (And you're not obligated to have one. I agree with what you're saying here, and I don't know of any solution.)
Are you saying that the webviews for some reason feel less native in the newer OS versions, or that the latest native OSes are so fast that the webview's shortcomings stand out more?
I also love GAE. ITS FREE, for sizeable usage (if you profile your DB). It does push and pull via channel API. SSH configuration is easy as it gets.

I have not really had a problem with speed. I have a game on it that does 400ms client -> sever -> client.(authentication done in parallel thread)
You can put Django on it. ITS FREE!
to see how bad thing is, because its was the UK government abusing its use of force to a brazillian citizen.. so.. the point remains.. things are very much out of control just because a bunch of red necks dont understand what civil rights is, and became puppets of a terrible president..

if you guys did want to burn your constitutional rights, what the rest of the world got to do with it?! we value civil liberties, civil rights and freedom..

i know half north-america also do.. but you must put these guys under control, at least until their IQ raise a little bit, so they cannot push the buttons if your country machinery..

but anyway, now it was also the UK.. we could see this one comming from the US, but UK? as sex pistols would say: nevermind the bollocks

All of our contries has its own bad apples, but its a pretty bad thing when they are running our governments.. shame on you UK!
"Bob, what button did you push?"
There should, as that would lead companies into hiring fewer jerks. Or at least fewer jerks in direct contact with customers.

I also think the converse is true. Companies should go public with customers who are also jerks, as long as their identities are hidden.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3eeC2lJZs
That's the beauty of a fresh summer, right? I'm meeting new people all the time, making new friends, etc. Even if I socialize with people I already know, there is always an adventure to be had. I'm about to start my thirteenth week ever in California, and I'm very fortunate and privileged to be able to explore all that the Bay Area has to offer with friends, old and new.

All of this breaks the monotony.

Plus, there's something to be said for human interaction and contact comfort and whatnot. So what if I see an old friend and we reminisce about old times, maybe crack some inside jokes? Being with others is psychologically healthy.

I'm not arguing that everyone should pull a Walden. I myself will be moving into my fraternity next week, which has a television and an Xbox 360 (the horror!) and a beer pong table. But I'm certainly living in one extreme this summer, and if I had to choose, I'd definitely choose this one.
Although I tend to agree with the author's sentiments here, there is one important distinction that ought to be made here: more features/capabilities != more code != more complexity.

In my experience developing both in net-new codebases in addition to large legacy codebases, there certainly are cases where better abstractions/paradigms equate to less code, and ultimately to less complexity. Yet at the same time, these improvements tend to yield more flexibility and capability, potentially providing additional features (sometimes entirely by chance). I find that in these such cases, it actually becomes easier to reason about what your code does, because you have come to a point where you can clearly generalize about your software.

On the flip-side, I can also greatly empathize with the author, as even in my attempts to generalize the functionality of software, there often exist ugly one-off bits of critical business logic that invariably dirty the water. In these such situations, it seems to become harder and more complex to build generic code, and you are much better off just sticking to the straightforward implementation without allowing for any of the bells-n-whistles that a more generalized approach might offer.

TL;DR--It really depends on the situation, in my opinion, but this shouldn't prevent you from trying to find a generic solution that is less complex yet offers more.
Some would argue that one of the biggest things wrong is that this movie exists at all, and there's not one for people who had a much bigger influence on the world:

On the one hand, I can imagine where the computing world would be without the work that Jobs did and the people he inspired: probably a bit less shiny, a bit more beige, a bit more square. Deep inside, though, our devices would still work the same way and do the same things. On the other hand, I literally can't imagine where the computing world would be without the work that Ritchie did and the people he inspired. By the mid 80s, Ritchie's influence had taken over, and even back then very little remained of the pre-Ritchie world.

Taken from https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/posts/dfydM2Cn...
And this time around, let's hope we are a bit more curious about the "change" we are voting for.
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According to the article, there were a couple hundred kilograms of plutonium available at that site. The situation was obviously scary enough to scientists with expertise in that field.
"I think it is fairly clear," she said. "Without someone's permission, videos are not to be taken."

When will the same courtesy be applied to "We the People?"
I don't think it was a coincidence that Greenwald was contacted as soon as Miranda was detained.

He was not, it was 3 hours later.
I love Woz's honesty. I actually think the issues he brings up would have made for a better film - because they illuminate all the ways Jobs failed early in his career... and ultimately learned from his failures to realize the success of his later iYears. Real conflict and real resolution. But that's a different film, it sounds like. (The one I wish they'd made).
Europe has its problems, but it's not that bad off either, in the grand scheme of things. It's slightly larger than the US and has a large variety of languages, including many countries with their own linguistic diversity. Italy, for instance, has regions where French and German are accepted, as well as a slew of regional "dialects/languages". Belgium has three official languages. Spain has several. And so on...
First, who starts a sentence with the word "ok"? Second, "we have paid out over $1 million..." to "hundreds of reporters..." true that would be 1000000/500 = 200.

How hard can it be to have an algorithmic approach to report submission? That is, please make sure your report is reproducible and/or give a link to video or other media for demonstrating the bug.

Also, given the resources of FB, can't they receive bug info in the natural language of the submitter? Why force everyone to use English? Its not like the FB company suffers for a lack of resources.

And yeesh, not paying out $500? Wow that is cheap.
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The up-to-date Go Users page is at http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/GoUsers
Every language and culture is important to its people. If you love Hindi, use it, but don't try to shove it under our ass. In South India, we study English and don't need Hindi for anything. So get lost with your language of illiterates! Hindi is only one of the official languages of central government of India - India has another 22 official languages. So you have no right to decide what language we use. Indian union is the result of a pact, a pact to preserve our culture and language. The minute that is violated, there is no union. By the way, how about archiving and extinguishing your favourite language???
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Clerical for an hour, /maybe/. Not clerical for nine hours, that's planning.
I'd rather see these powers as an institutionalized state of emergency. They're permanent -- there's no concept of "taking them away".

And I'm not so sure about the role of the population either. It's not exactly them who can either accept or not accept the call for such laws.

If you had someone, on a national ticket, who would openly call for their abolishment, matters would be different, of course.

But then -- how do you get onto a national ticket? A hysterical, broken democracy is a hard thing to fix from inside.
I seriously encourage you to watch this documentary: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Ken_Burns_Prohibition/7019.... The veneer used to be a lot thinner.
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How is deployment with clojure? I haven't used either, but deploying golang programs looks incredibly simple, whereas JVM wrangling (which I last did years ago) was never fun for me. Does either one support erlang-style hot code swapping?
Mobile gaming start-ups - creating a more optimized Skinner Box one derivative app at a time. Run and Don't look back.
I completely agree. I felt she wanted a certain answer to some of the questions. When it became clear that he wasn't going to give her that answer, she would cut him off and ask another question. I felt she was rude, but also indicative of the current mainstream media.
No worries. I hadn't even seen the other article - you did me a favour.
I was expecting an utter disaster, but I don't really agree she did this. Woz is always a great interview subject, but he tends to ramble and go into odd-ball directions. I'm not an interviewing expert, but I can't imagine it is easy to steer an interview with someone like Woz.

She did better than I would have. I'd probably be interviewing for 30 minutes, end up with almost no good TV points, and have something that would need to be edited down to 3 minutes.
rffinnegan:
am simply thrilled to find someone who works for facebook in a dialogue. I am certainly glad that his issue was resolved, but I have been trying for months to find a route of communication other than your many multiple forms to communicate what has happened to my wife's account that was apparently hacked- who or how can I communicate about this?
Do you really not like reading, or is it just easier to maintain your bad mood that way?

It is the reading, or rather the reading-between-the-lines, that makes my mood bad.

Now get off my lawn.
The mere fact that it's becoming possible to make comparisons between a Western government and a criminal organisation, even if it's just to get a message across, is worse enough on its own.
I will be writing to my MP about this disgraceful incident. I will be encouraging others to do the same. In fact I will door step them at their surgery and let them know that this is a line that's been massively overstepped.
Ask HN: socket.io vs sockjs for my new project?
I am working on a real time game and planning to choose the right library. I have used nowjs previously, had some issues and now the development has stopped. Would love to hear your suggestions and experiences
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>> "anyone arrested in relation to Northern Irish terrorism could be held for 48 hours without charge"

This I understand due to the threat level here. Bombs are discovered on a regular basis (I've linked to just one example[1] but if you take a look through the news in the last 2 months you'll find more) and the threat of terrorism is real.

[1]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-23735805
>the UK authorities primarily demonstrate, to themselves, >that they still hold certain powers

yes. the power to be subservient to the US twisted domestic politics.. (a US colony perhaps??)
"This isn’t a language for use in UIs or game clients, but it is an extremely competent language for making servers, infrastructure or parallel/distributed processing systems."

Golang has a GUI tool kit: the "net/http" and "html/template" packages. While I personally hate EcmaScript with a passion, I have to admit every single GUI tool kit or windowing system I've worked with had serious fundamental design flaws not unlike JavaScript and the DOM.
The entire scenario is not unlike the Tcl\Tk days. People will bitch and whine but will do so while using it until something better comes up.
People did not catch that joke. I think the issue was that you didn't go far enough. The internet has people who would say something like that and mean it. It wasn't absurd enough to be dismissed.
> Another thing is that the author himself states that the function doesn't actually makes sence, hence the ugly name.

That's the point — using callbacks you end up with functions which do not make sense...

Edit: spelling
The government should use already established OSS. It's not agile to make a document reader from scratch, to increase the credibility of your work, when it's already created.
People have always made comparisons. The mere fact that they're making them does not necessarily have any bearing on reality.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5518156
Misleading statement. They did not "increase" the price so to speak. The platform came out of beta and into normal pricing mode. The low prices were introductory prices to get developers to use the platform.
I've honestly never used Oracle spatial stuff directly, and begin a huge fan of PostGIS, I've never felt the need to. However based on talking to people I've worked with, at least a few years ago, Oracle was better when dealing with huge amounts of data.

That being said, PostGIS seems far more popular among practitioners from what I've seen. And it's quite common for the first step in any new GIS project to be to copy the relevant subset of data you're interested in from the Oracle database into a PostGIS database and then use that.
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Your post is misleading. You're not providing counter-evidence for the 'failure for decades' claim, and are in fact confirming the 'one of the first' part.

Yes, it has been approved, but only very recently, in late 2012. It is also the first such drug that has been approved (and to date, the only one), and this happened under 'exceptional circumstances'. The usual standard of supporting evidence was forgone because the disease it treats is so rare. The company is explicitly required to supply further supporting evidence, and the rules for its use are very strict.[1]

[1] http://www.drugs.com/uk/glybera.html
I realize this is about a post on Mr. Zukerberg's page, but I am simply thrilled to find someone from faebook in a dialogue. I have been struggling for months to find a way to communicate about my wife's difficulties after her account was hacked. Who- not what form- do I communicate with about that, PLEASE?!
The attention this guy is getting is worth dramatically more than the $500, whether he intended this impact or not.
Especially when what you're competing with is a conventional power supply that costs less than $10 to make, is small enough to carry in your luggage and can be used wherever there's an electrical outlet. (The device in the article is going to require an unobstructed path between the charger and the device to be charged, so it won't work very well in a place like a coffee shop where there are lots of bodies and furniture in the way.)