skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider instead the scenario where the elephants don't really enjoy how smelly and messy the monkeys are and replace them with nice clean robot monkeys, who actively discourage the bio monkeys from climbing back up. That's a lot of trampled monkeys.

That's the "very drastic job-displacement effect". We're moving into a future where elephants just don't need monkeys anymore.
Vote. Vote, and volunteer for the politicians who will do right by you. Convince others to vote for said politician. If you can, donate to their campaigns.

You can ratchet it up even more. Move your 401k money into funds that invest in very specific companies, companies who align with your morals. Convince your friends and family to do the same. Get involved in your local community and government to raise awareness of what you consider evil.

It's really not terribly hard to get started, if you feel so strongly about these issues to call them "evil".
is it just me or i find it really hard to read/look at it. reading speed reduced like more than half.
I'm amazed that you would think mine is an extremist view.

If you have a major flood in your garden you don't rush to sort out a dripping tap. First you tackle the flood then you investigate the tap. Anyone shouting 'the tap, the tap!' would be quite rightfully lambasted as unhelpful.

Nursing & childcare are statistically women-only due to sexism against women, not due to sexism against men. These are low-paying, low-power jobs where only the bosses tend to be male.

If some women are protectionist about men joining their ranks (which, by the way, I highly doubt until I see some evidence — I have met many of both) it is probably due either due to fears of pedophilia (almost certainly unfair) or due to fears that men will be promoted over them (very real).

Anti-male sexism in the work-place is a red-herring. It is a minuscule problem compared to anti-female sexism and, to my ears, carping on about it sounds as misplaced as white males going on about being discriminated by ethnic minorities.
how do you figure out who is choosing not to work, versus disabled? Who gets to choose this moral standard on behalf of the whole state?
I think you must have glossed over the bit where he said "Based on the number of contacts I've received in the past day," [I've realised I can pick and choose my next position and here is what I'm looking for]
Not sure about anywhere else, but where I am (Midwest USA), I can pay $800/mo for a nice 3+ bedroom house, a nice plot of land, 2 car garage, etc in a nice neighborhood, or I can pay $700 for a 2 bedroom apartment. Sure I'm saving $100 a month, but in the end, the house is worth more and goes back to what was stated earlier. After 30 years you own a house.
I know - that one was just a rant. :) But it is frustrating nonetheless.
This post should be titled, 'The Dark Side of Work That No Ones Talks About'. Having worked in the accounting / tax field for years, before switching over to programming, I fail to see how these generalized statements don't apply to other fields. It applies to work in general.
Government isn't some abstract being - it's people. Some of whom were elected by the majority of other people. So as usual, people did this to people. We are all accountable. The question is, do we really want to change things? Or just keep on arguing on the Internet?
It's really distresses me whenever I read economic discussions on HN because basic economics is relatively simple and objective and because most folks on HN have the chops to understand this stuff, but it seems like many don't. In particular, one big facet of economics is equilibrium as it pertains to markets and most discussions here completely gloss over this (even though everyone here is completely comfortable with the concept of equilibria in other domains.)

I think a lot still needs to be done, and can be done, to educate the public about basic economic principles. I hope to do my part to help by creating quality online resources for this in the near future.

To give a more concrete example of what worries me: It should be obvious to everyone here that an idea like "minimum guaranteed income" is a very dangerous idea. Yes, there are credible economists that believe these things are a good idea (and it might even be a correct idea) but they believe this for very different, and much better informed reasons than the arguments being bandied about in this forum. Many of the arguments made here in favor of "minimum guaranteed income" are wrong and even the Economists who support these things would agree that your arguments are wrong.

Anyway, as I said, I hope to create some online resources soon that will show more clearly what the difficulty is with these types of ideas.

EDIT: For those asking me what the precise problem is with "minimum guaranteed income", I can't give you a satisfying answer, because I can only make an obvious qualitative argument right now (i.e. people will stop taking minimum wage jobs if they can get the same income without working, or by working in some less efficient fashion prescribed by a "guaranteed minimum income" scheme.) What needs to be done is to bring this discussion into the realm of mathematical "economic models" so we can quantify these things and ask questions like "How much will a guaranteed income help people?" and "How much will poor people be hurt indirectly by putting such a scheme in place?" (and of course ask additional meta questions such as "Is this model appropriate?") But these types of questions can't be addressed in an HN thread and require a more in depth treatment.
I'm quite partial to Liberation Mono, myself. But in looking at it side-by-side, it's very similar to Ubuntu Mono.

Liberation: http://cl.ly/image/2y2E3m211H1V/Image%202013-09-09%20at%2010...

Ubuntu: http://cl.ly/image/000u0s3E2b2V/Image%202013-09-09%20at%2010...
My god, that was easy to misread (not your post, GP). I realize he was referring to the immediately preceding sentence, where he inverted the order from the much more prominent list. Sorry GP.
Actually, the Luddites in the current conversation are the ones decrying technological advancement itself. On the policy side, they tend to favor propping up old, inefficient industries (essentially subsidizing them at the expense of the rest of the population).

A basic income has been considered common sense in economic theory for a long, long time (as in, it's been discussed by economists for at least a century). It has less to do with the obsolescence of human labor than it does to the fact that it's simply grossly inefficient to tie "the ability to take entrepreneurial risk" to "I was born middle-class or higher".
Looks good to me but I think I would prefer if the cross bars (eg: on t and f) actually crossed the vertical lines a little bit. Also that upper hook on the f looks somewhat comical.

Great job though. I could definitely put this font to use without feeling a strong urge to change it.
Wow, that's a boring attitude. I think it's great this guy is interested in typography and crafting his own fonts, and that the results are quite nice, professional or not, with the right principles or not.

Just don't get why it's on the front page before release though. I guess for comments, but add a place where I can sign up to be notified when it's done or something...
The U.N. is a way to keep a thumb on the little countries, not a way to enforce anything against the major powers (i.e. permanent members of the security council).

As for the WTO, international surveillance is not a trade issue, it's a security issue. It's totally outside the domain of the WTO. One country's maneuverings for its security interests impinging the citizens of another country is the classic use-case for war.
This is why I'm still not able to wrap my head around some developers' fascination or love for iOS. Or actually apple at all, since the Apple ][ tbh. Especially when it is becoming more clear that they target the "consumer" range. Unless it's only for profit. But love? Off topic, sorry. Android intents.
It's mostly speculation at this point what will happen to the labour economy over the next few decades. Certainly it has gone through upheavals in the past and yet there's still a demand for labour today. It's even possible that Jevrons' paradox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox) may come into play, whereby increasing the efficiency with which we use labour will actually increase demand for it. I think that is at least a partial explanation for the labour boom of the industrial revolution. We could see a similar thing happen again.

Or it could cause the value of labour to drop dramatically. But whichever happens I think basic income is worth exploring, because it offers other, immediate benefits:

1) It replaces the existing needs-based social assistance with something that's less intrusive and paternal, and that doesn't leave welfare traps: working more always means you take home more and do not risk what you currently have.

2) It adds financial security for the unemployed and students, which means that more people may pursue higher education and job training. That would help people adjust to a changing labour market.

3) It makes the labour market voluntary. In order for price discovery to work properly in a market, transactions must be voluntary for both parties. If the seller (i.e, the worker) cannot exit a market because they or their family will die or become homeless, then the price (i.e, the hourly wage) will be driven to zero.

(Aside: The same logic applies to patient-pays private healthcare systems, except in this case the buyer cannot exit, which means that the price is driven to infinity. This may explain the insane cost of healthcare in the United States.)

4) Relatedly to point #3, basic income would remove the need for minimum wage laws. Currently, they're necessary because the value of unskilled labour may be less than the cost of living.
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It doesn't need to be through the logical inanity, surveillance by itself is benign. If you choose to self-censor your online activities because you worry about surveillance then that would be your prerogative (the government didn't force you to change your expression of opinion to something less politically sensitive).

The inanity you're referring to is this: surveillance of the communications of any individual American would reveal that all Americans are under regular surveillance. It's not really as inane as you think, however that doesn't make it any less ridiculous.
Ron Conway, one of the more powerful investors in Silicon Valley, today defended his position of not getting involved in issues around national security and consumer privacy, saying that he was already busy with too many other causes like gun control and immigration reform

== Wow.
Is this really a viable option short of "internationalizing" yourself to a country like Russia, China or Iran? I've seen very little evidence that any of the countries you would normally want to be an American ex-pat in won't bend over for the US government when push comes to shove (especially when it comes to protecting someone who is an American to begin with and not a native citizen), and plenty of evidence that they will.
Ick, don't remind me. Looking at the source control browser in VS2012 makes my eyes want to bleed.
It's fine if you don't want to create a startup, I'm pretty sure this is article is directed toward people who have a startup idea, but are too afraid to commit to it. As for what arguments against 'You should be more productive' or 'You have to contribute something to be a worthwhile human being', that is pretty much trying to answer the meaning of life, and is sure beyond the scope of this article.
It's a fallacy that the every-day user doesn't want or need a filesystem.

They do need a filesystem and interoperable components. What they do NOT need is a hierarchical based filesystem that limits you to a directory trees. It's an organizational nightmare, and unless you've ever used git before it's a literal hell for the average user.

Instead, a flat filesystem with smart names, tagging, and metadata is the way forward. Subdirectories will be relegated to those who want them.

As for security, that excuse is nonexistent when Apple has the final authority to application interoperability and analysis. If an implementation is flawed, they can reject it at will and tell the developers to improve it.
It sounds like you cared more about being right than from seeing it from his perspective. Even if you ARE right (keep in mind that right is often incredibly subjective), it's far more important to understand why someone is taking the "wrong" stance. Now, I'm sure you felt quite a bit of frustration over this and possibly other arguments. I'm not trying to dismiss your feelings, but once you understand someone's perspective, you can often turn an "asshole" into a colleague you can work well with. Believe it or not, being "right" all the time doesn't actually garner respect as much as being able to work well with others.
I do still think there's the possibility that it's a metaphor.

As much as I don't like the recent news that's come out about the NSA, I also don't like to falsely manipulate people's words to give them a negative connotation. I don't like when it's done to me, so I try not to do it to others.

As an organization the NSA seems to have some issues, but I still hold that individuals are mostly good. I don't believe the person who wrote that had a mindset that most people are zombies.
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I remember when you were only maybe 5 or 6 years old. I was maybe 21 and I used you to get a MySQL database in shape so that I could create a submission tool for programming contest. One of my first web apps! Congrats PHPMyAdmin on turning 15!
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You're not disagreeing. The first step in a startup (as far as my read on this world is concerned) is to identify and validate a real problem that you can solve.
For an interesting counterpoint : http://www.technologyreview.com/view/519016/stop-saying-robo...
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Great point. I agree.
There are two separate issues:

1) You can't ship your own browser engine
2) If you use the built in engine, you don't get JIT on (but Mobile Safari does)
Screen DPI varies widely and usually isn't correctly configured if it is at all. My main coding desktop is a little small at 14pt and probably should be a big larger. This is a pretty small monitor holds just a little more than a piece of physical paper and is driven natively at 1280x1024.

Someone with a "living room TV" sized mere 720px monitor is going to have a completely different perspective on what is too big or too small.

This is aside from the "my classes are 5000 lines long" problem which may or may not exist and may or may not be required by peculiar exceptional business needs anyway (required as opposed to being a style "problem")

And to add yet another orthogonal dimension to the problem, I code full screen using awesome as a WM... I use all of my screen for code except two text line equivalents at the top. I can see how someone who is tab bar'd menu'd windowed down at a tiny little fraction of a monitor might need a smaller font just to see anything. I've seen screens decorated up to the point that the actual content only has a post card sized space to work in, surrounded by massive unproductive clutter. They're going to need a tiny font indeed...
http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/28-17913&scode=GS401&C...

http://elinux.org/RPi_Expansion_Boards (search for relay)

I've done it on an RC car, works great.

And what's with your attitude?
No.

I mean, I would. But there still needs to be someone to work those jobs. Also, a lot of times people gain a sense of self-worth from doing work that is appreciated. Whether they are getting it or not, or whether it's right or not, I believe this continues to hold true.
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Here's the post while it's still up:
http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/09/on-nsa.html
Posts like this, which are very common leave me with the impression of a false dichotomy based on a very narrow point of view based on the author's limited experience in a small part of a large field.

I don't mean this as an attack or insult. It just seems to me that people in this sort of situation are very prone to knee-jerk reactions and generalizations that certainly sound good based on their accounts -- and often have some merit -- but that don't quite cover what ought to be the underlying lessons, or take into account larger views that might not fit their argument.

Is it wrong to sell equity? Is it unsustainable, is it fundamentally flawed, is it stupid? No, it's none of these things. It's a specific choice made in specific circumstances that can be good, bad, or (more usually and over the course of time) some combination of degrees between those two virtually worthless extremes.

Is it right to sell products/services? Is it superior, morally, ethically, financially? No. It depends on your business model, your goals, your resources, and a million other things that even themselves vary from situation to situation.

The article isn't bad or wrong. It's just taking a very small view of a very large topic.
Frankly, I am still waiting for a good introduction to general economic principles. I literally feel like an idiot when following economic discussions: it seems to me like it's all a long infinite chain of valid arguments and counter-arguments that are perfectly valid, true and completely opposite.

Hope you get something online soon.
Per Martin-Löf was instrumental in extending type theory to dependent types, although the first version of his dependent type theory was impredicative with Type:Type and was shown to be inconsistent by J.-Y. Girard. Subsequent versions of Martin-Löf type theory have been predicative, but other dependent type theories (such as the calculus of constructions) stuck with (more benign forms of) impredicativity.
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In a prior life I used a lot of VBA to process some scenario modeling Excel spreadsheets. Python would have been much better. Python is also becoming more and more common in Financial Services.

I haven't used DataNitro, but it would have helped me in the past, and it fills a very real need. I think the niche may be bigger than you give it credit for.
PGadmin also crashes often, and blocks on many database operations (eg modifying schema, adding indexes etc). How you can write a database GUI and make such a basic mistake as doing DB operations on the UI thread is beyond me.
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You are possibly correct -- but people have said the same about other disorientations and grown used to them given no other choice.

I hope I am right for your sake (or that you never have to change your method of transportation of I am wrong!) My comment was meant optimistically with respect to your human ability to adapt to something new.

I hope you understand my "gall" extends to speculation on an Internet forum only; I would certainly not want to subject you to such sensations in real life.
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>It will certainly result in many more people avoiding the TSA.

There is another interesting way of thinking about this. They might be more inclined to use air travel than road because the 'element of control' is lost from them in both modes of travel. So they would then compare the time it takes to reach the destination and since air travel is faster, they might even end up sucking up the TSA pat-downs.
There's a lot of great free lectures provided by Yale. If you have the time, I highly recommend it.
Here's a basic fact: what matters in life is that you're happy.

It's a simple idea (figuring out what makes you happy is the actual hard part). If you're happy, then you're already thriving; it doesn't make sense to say "I'm happy, but I'm not thriving." What's the point of thriving, after all, if not life satisfaction?

I think your friends have a narrow-minded view of what makes life worth living. I'm not saying they're wrong about their chosen path; they're just generalizing from their experience to everyone else, and that seems foolish. Everyone has to find their own happiness. For some, it's building a company. For others, it's learning, writing, etc. Neither way is objectively "better" than the other.

There was a great Onion article recently that parodied the fallacy of assuming others are failing if they don't share your goals:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/unambitious-loser-with-happ...
Very few people consider themselves jerks, or go out of their way to be that way. You could argue that I'm wrong in Finance, but I think I'm right in Software. A lot of the solution is getting inside of other people's heads, especially those who may not have great social skills. Being a jerk isn't the same as less developed interpersonal skills.
It literally looks like a font designed by an engineer for a plotter, not something designed for the human eye or legibility.

Plotter fonts are intended to exactly communicate important technical information. They are designed to be highly legible, irrespective of whether you think they look nice.

It's the same with old-school pixel fonts, which had to exactly communicate easily confusable glyphs, instantly, on a low-bandwidth communications channel (an 8x8 or even 9x16 monochrome character cell is very low bandwidth). So a lot of them looked butt-ugly. But they were easier for a programmer to read than if he had been doing all his code in Helvetica Neue.

That's why I do all my hacking in Glass Tty, Terminus, or good old 7x14. As for this font -- it's nice, but not Terminus nice.
They would need to be located outside of the U.S. to have any resistance to U.S. spying, which would complicate the money issues immensely, and also go against the supposed major benefits of hanging around Silicon Valley.
Yeah, sorry, all of that is irrelevant. You use somebody elses UI on your kickstarter. That is a terrible, terrible idea.

It's an idea terrible enough that it will make people doubt your competence. For me, personally, "building strong crypto" and "lifting the twitter UI because too lazy to whip up some visualization of a simple roadmap" don't go together.
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There were also quite a lot of hijackings in the US during that period. But none of them ended as badly as 9-11, so it's not a terribly meaningful comparison.
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