skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He is making it so.

But that is interesting. The 80's system creators, probably let the authentication (rate and money counting) on the backend. And didn't filtered input probably because they thought anyone willing the cheat would just cut the wires and bypass any filter on the phone to send the tones... so in the end, the whole system was based on the tones being secret.

The 90's system assumes anyone cheating would be deterred by the sofware on the phone, and leaves an open line? So it is based on everyone using the phone? what happens if someone bypass the phone and go to the wire directly? is there a tone?
well, to me it was expressed in the phrase i read somewhere "the year Magna Carta was signed <something about state of my old country 800 years ago>"

And curiously enough, 800 years later, my old country still hasn't reached the mental state that "the power of the king may be limited by the people". When i read about Latin/South America a lot of things sound familiar. The article compares AngloSaxon world against Spanish when it is basically AngloSaxon world against any other - i mean pick any place in Africa or Eurasia ...
The money is given to the government because the government levies taxes. The government could also choose to reduce the levies so that there's no surplus to distribute, and avoid choosing how to distribute the surplus.
Maybe noone knows the answer. I certainly don't.
Outlook may not be irreplaceable, but from what I've seen nobody has come close to making its replacement.
> The quote included specifically addressed that point: “you'd be limited to the operations which the GPU can perform without the browser seeing the bits”

It doesn't matter if the browser can see the bits directly. If the browser can supply GPU operations that manipulate the bits, the browser can infer the contents of the bits in umpteen different ways.
A perspective doesn't have to be false for it to be myopic.
Being here for 2.5 years and knowing a pretty good amount of people in the startup world all I can say is money. There is money to be had here. It is the new gold rust. I came from North Carolina with nothing to lose and everything to gain. I am not looking for capitol. I want knowledge. There are so many amazing engineers here in a verity of fields. I love the inspiration and the conversations I have. You never know who you will meet or what VC's house you will end up having a few drinks at. I love the bay and I have no plan to move anytime soon.

On a side note, the weather is not bad. The beach and mountain hiking in the redwoods is a short drive away. A little further and you have some of the best snowboarding and ski in the winter.
>If the anglosphere's special sauce is being diluted, what can we do about it?

It's quite obvious that the author is proposing you vote 'Whig' in order to stem the dilution. Unfortunately I, personally, don't think that any of the conservative parties in the Anglosphere are of much use (if they were, at least a potential solution would be much easier!).
Little factors of 2-3x are not the issue here. It's the ten years with a thousand developers that really drive the cost.
> Look at the size of the war memorials outside Europe. Consider the sheer number of volunteers. During the Second World War, 215,000 men served from New Zealand, 410,000 from South Africa, 995,000 from Australia, 1,060,000 from Canada, 2,400,000 from India. The vast majority had made an individual decision to enlist. What force pulled those young men, as it had pulled their fathers, half way around the world to fight for a country on which, in most cases, they had never set eyes? Was it simply an affinity of blood and speech?

Slipping India into that list is just bizarre and tantamount to distorting the truth (not the number, perhaps, but certainly the argument he bases on the number). These 2.4 million "volunteers" were not so much pulled by any affinity of blood and speech as grabbed by the scruff of their neck. Meanwhile countless millions more were struggling at home to overthrow the oppressive rule of the British.[1] The vast majority joined the relatively peaceful struggle for freedom led by Gandhi, but many took up arms against the colonizers and an Indian army even fought against the British and alongside the Japanese in WWII.[2]

So excuse me if I find that rosy picture about the loyal Indian bleeding for the "dear government" a little hard to digest. It would be a lot more believable if the dear government hadn't been massacring and looting the country for two centuries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_independence_movement

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_National_Army
I seem to remember that some review system allowed the use of pseudonyms or anonymity. In fact, here is a random example from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/AG48K5RA3M4FK/ref=cm_cr...

Who is Joe? I have no idea. I still find Amazon reviews useful though. I've long refused to rate or comment on apps in the google Play store because of their real name policy. I would do so anonymously though.

For me, it's simply that I don't feel comfortable with the world knowing so much personal information about me. What sorts of hobbies I have, restaurants I frequent, etc. It's really a massive privacy problem. So I no longer review products in Google's system.
> But somehow, the major publishers have been browbeaten into believing that Word is the sine qua non of document production systems.

Is this actually true?

I accidentally checked just a few days ago, and amazon's self publishing platform allows using a simple html file.

Also I clearly remember that D. Hofstadter's books were typeset with latex, and at least in my country they are published by one of the biggest publishing companies.

So, maybe the stranglehold isn't so tight?
They seem like a step up from paper to me. You can still convert them to paper, do not need to drive to the DMV to get them, and have the option of filling them in with the keyboard if your handwriting is terrible (like me).

Are they a dream borne from an angel? No. Are they better? I think so.
Since it took me an absurdly long time to figure out how to read this in a non-awful format, here's a link for others:

http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2013/10/11/elaine-wherry-w...
> That sounds like a "no true scotsman" argument.

I don't see how this is a "no true scotsman". Maybe a non-true "no true scotsman"?

> If comments were added to the spec then normal tools would support them just fine.

Plain comments, sure. Comments with custom annotations in them, not so much.

> Besides, JSON has already become a common format for config files. Config files that don't allow comments are truly a step backward.

Maybe this wasn't such a good idea in the first place?
It's really difficult to say whether the replacement for outlook will be a piece of software for the desktop, a web-based solution a la gmail/google calendar, or a powerful iPhone/android/bb app
> the number of Indian soldiers in WW2 -- 2.4 million, more than the other countries combined

That's a bald-faced lie.

The British alone had over 3.5 million. [1]

8.5 million Soviet soldiers died in the war. [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army_during_the_Second_...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the_...

> Not a single mention of the fact that England with all its stated commitment to freedom ruled India and dozens of countries around the world against their will for two hundred years, systematically stripping them of their wealth for the benefit of the mother country.

Look at what a dishonest shitfest the political system is in India, and the whole culture of corruption.

It seems likely that without the British having brought "Anglo civilization", India today would be like most of Africa today.

Indians should be thankful for the British influence. As an American, I certainly am thankful for their influence on us.
This situation has reminded me of the Perl Success Stories booklet that O'Reilly used to spread around. And how, for example, the Bank of Scotland or some such institution ended up keeping the Perl prototype for production, it worked so well.

I can help thinking that a few good Perl programmers, and a few high-level bureaucrats to force open the maws of the respective agencies, could have had this sorted in much shorter, and more cost-effective, order.

Also, as I commented elsewhere before, first make it work. Then make it pretty.

I guess I'm being a bit snarky. But I'm also being more than a bit serious.
At home? False premise: It has replaced Word (for me.)

That it has not for everyone or as a whole doesn't strike me as odd in the slightest. There are plenty of reasons to use Word. Aside from the fact that it's solid itself, it also has a metric ton of inertia. Those using it already have the license or pirated copy, already know it, have legacy documents using it, and are generally otherwise are left with very little reason to switch to something merely because it's a "solid alternative."
I'm glad that you've researched the history of salt as payment from monarchs to their soldiers.

I'm not sure how that's supposed to support your point. Pretty sure it supports mine.
Big Corp doesn't want its trade secrets on Google's servers, and phones don't have enough interface real estate to contain the full functionality. They work best as satellite devices, in my experience.
I feel exactly the same. I think many others on YouTube have similar use patterns.
The assault was evil enough, but the vilification of Justine in the comments by some makes my blood boil.

The best antidote to fight darkness is to bring it out into the light. Thank you, Justine, for your ongoing courage to speak out. I cannot say I understand what you're going through, but I'm sure there are (too many) others out there who do. Surround yourself with friends and supporters who will stand with you.

You are not alone.
I would be careful with "even in China there is now an elite that dresses in suits and engages in trade unencumbered by rules and regulations that protect the millions that are pressed into working in their factories under appalling conditions".

The adoption of suits is just a fashion thing. China hasn't really developed its own sense of fashion coming out of the Mao era. It's not a sign of wholesale embrace of Western culture and ideals. On the contrary most Chinese are quite proud of their history and culture. What China has embraced since Deng Xiaoping was the pragmatic parts of Western society, i.e. methods of doing business, trade, and manufacturing.

China never really had a system of laws and regulations to protect its workers because it was never in a situation until now where it had millions working in dangerous industrial situations. Until recent decades, China was still largely agrarian.

In short, China didn't cast off its old ways and embraced Angloculture as much as it borrow bits and pieces it found useful. It remains to be seem if it can borrow pieces without taking everything and still have it work.

China is a dangerous counter to the narrative of the superiority of Western or Anglo ideals. If China is indeed successful in the long term with its mix of traditional Chinese authoritarianism and Western style capitalism, then other people and countries would see essays like this one as nonsense.
Why, I wonder, did you choose to completely mischaracterize the content of the article?

That's a little unfair. The article's title frames the story in reference to the glass ceiling. That the grandparent comment used the word "immediately" does not change the fact that this entire article is about sexism; even if it was only explicitly mentioned at the end, it is the author's point that sexism caused these events. It's not as though she wrote an article detailing these events and then threw in what her coach said because it's thought-provoking -- she actually believes it, factual or not.

Backing out of an accepted job offer is a bit different from 'turning down a job'.

While this sentence is true, it doesn't answer what the grandparent said. You can turn down a job, back out of a job, quit a job - whatever, for whatever reasons you want, and they don't have to remotely involve the glass ceiling.

Nobody forced the candidate to accept the job offer before backing out of it on a rather flimsy pretext. He hadn't even started work yet, so I wonder what basis you think he had for deciding that his then-future boss was 'an asshole.'

Similar to how rejection letters from a company are almost always form letters and not personal details about your interview performance, I don't see why you'd expect anything other than a flimsy excuse from a candidate turning down the job.

And the grandparent wasn't saying the author is an asshole, just that it is an equally plausible explanation to her being a woman, young, gay, a dominatrix, diseased, whatever.

I get what you're saying, anigbrowl, but I have to disagree. I fully believe sexism exists in tech, and most of the stories on HN about it are probably the real deal. But this doesn't have enough evidence to give me that impression. If anything, I'd say it's more that he didn't want to be the subordinate of an unassertive young person (ageism), not a female.
He actually talks about this in the final 6 paragraphs.

The demise of freedom in the former Anglosphere is due to the abandoning of the original patriotic principles and the adoption of the way things are done everywhere else.
By whose definition is it the best and healthiest? Most powerful != best or healthiest.

Anglosphere. What a load of crap. If the center of gravity of this article's definition of "civilization" is currently in America and previously in Britain, it's an artifact of history, not of "Anglo". The center was once in Italy, and before that in Greece. If you've read Russian literature you'd see the democratic spirit was there too.

And then there's India, a piece of this so-called "Anglosphere". What did India do? It threw out the tyranny that was the British Empire. You'll probably argue that this somehow proves the beauty of the "Anglosphere".
I read that CGI Federal developed the site, but did they get the contract to maintain it? I can imagine that, compared to a non-gov't contract, they have to go through a lot of red tape to fix the issues and build up capacity.
Better to be a middle class American than a Latin despot.

(Back when America had a middle class. Now, we have our own despots.)
if we multiply the population of alaska for that sum, we get 731,449 * $120 = $87,773,880/mo

then we get Alaska oil production of 2mi barrel per day (it is much lower now than a decade ago). Assuming a very conservative $100/barrel = 200,000,000/day = 2,400,000,000/mo

That's 3% if you tax on top of gross profit (no idea how oil is taxed. it is probably much less than my income tax if i know how the world works...)

And I am not counting fish, gas, lumber, minerals, etc.

That sound like the citizens are doing a much worse job than the gov in setting the rent for the oil companies.
Don't read the comments.

Repeat: don't read the comments.

Fuckin' people. Ugh.
Did we just get trolled? (read the comment threads and see)
Justine is leaving the comments on:

"I am leaving comments on exactly because of that. Although they hurt me, they are a prime example why victims don't speak up."

https://twitter.com/SaltineJustine/status/388908504209047552

I cannot believe the courage of this woman.
Netbeans gives me live feedback of JsLint, the code completion engine is quite good, type inference, refactoring, popups with information from JsDoc, outline navigation with inference from most AMD patterns.

CSS editing allows me to see the styles graphically.

HTML editing allows for easy navigation between CSS, JavaScript and HTML elements on the page.

The current beta version allows for 2 way editing between IDE and browser (chrome).

Can I do all of this in vim?
Touch interface that will work even after getting trimmed into different shapes
Mine is modern, not retro. I can do multicore stuff Linux and Windows can't do.

64-Bit ring-0-only identity-mapping: ultrahigh performance.
Why paternity leave is good for the whole family
Exactly. I did something similar a couple of years ago. I saw a great idea on a marketing forum, came out with something better, and now make a living from it.

The original poster has moved on from it.

Talking about any great idea in a public forum will bring competition. If that competition has more resources than you, they may even beat you to market. This is why I don't talk about any of my ideas like this.
Uber had the marketplace problem when they started but they figured out ways to punch through it, as has Lyft (our investment). Both companies have a range of clever techniques for how they did that. Drivers are not full time employees for either company so it's not as straightforward as just hiring them but money certainly helps in both cases.
Hello guys. Thanks for the comments. The next things which I'm going to do is to start packing components. One of the big problems which I have for a long time, is the fact that I have to deliver html, css and javascript. Usually they are placed in different places and I have to take care to put them in the browser. With AbsurdJS I could send the javascript logic and the css together.
> Typical self-congratulatory anglo-conservative clap trap. No one outside of a very small group of wealthy Britons and Americans (and, alright, some wealthy educated descendants from the former colonies) could possibly share such an immensely bowdlerized narrative of anglo history.

I couldn't agree more. I have immense regard for the development of the British political system over the last millennium but an account that distills out this fairytale narrative from the immense oppression - of Britain's own, poor and working people, of the colonialism and slavery - that accompanied it is a dishonest and blinkered view of history.
Peer pressure body shots? I don't know, guys.
> that have no problems in sharing their comment on G+ publicly

Specially now that giving in to G+ means showing up on ads.
Thank You guys for the feedback. We'll definitively take a look to leaflet api soon; I know that google terms of use aren't good: pay for >25K loads/day for 3 consecutive months sound really scaring to me. In the other hands such limitation doesn't exist on mobile platforms (android/iOS), that are our final target.

Tutorials are under heavy development, with IA controlled troops too!

We are considering to make tax-office configurable in terms of payout time.

Good idea the universal radio tower!

The black square is the box in which You'll play, you'll receive updates from enemy troops and so on...
I agree that trying to force open source alternatives on your workflow after using Microsoft Office for a long time can be difficult. I tried to switch from Microsoft Office to the other open source alternatives and while I did like Open Office, I found I couldn't use it beyond 'average' tasks. As soon as I needed advanced analysis I had to go back to Excel. I find that switching between R and Excel 2013 works well for me. Also I feel that Microsoft has done a good job with Office 2013 and I like what they've done with PowerPoint animations on the ribbon. Frankly though Office is expensive so if you need the features not available in open source alternatives you've just got to pay.
You could compensate for that by braking harder.
It is actually possible if you turn of combineSelectors. Or you may create two different instances of AbsurdJS and at the end merge their output.
Sexual assault is a crime, and she should report this to the police and press charges.

A blog post isn't going to get justice, but the courts might.

Internet mob justice isn't justice.
Welcome to my community, apparently. :'(
"Because Valve's first effort doesn't completely replace a mouse? That seems a bit defeatist."

The mouse was patented in 1947. Since then is has not been bettered. Valve are not the first to try.
Cool. But the way I imagine it, it should definitely be a smooth transition rather than all/nothing.
> the number of Indian soldiers in WW2 -- 2.4 million, more than the other countries combined

That's a bald-faced lie.

THat comment could have been clearer, but it was clearly in response to the number of "Anglosphere" soldiers quoted in the article. For context the article says:

During the Second World War, 215,000 men served from New Zealand, 410,000 from South Africa, 995,000 from Australia, 1,060,000 from Canada, 2,400,000 from India.

In that context, Indian soliders did outnumber the other listed countries.

It seems likely that without the British having brought "Anglo civilization", India today would be like most of Africa today.

I'm old enough to remember the 1970's and 80's where India was like Africa[1]. I'm not drawing any conclusions from that except to say that colonial influence isn't as simple as you may believe.

[1] http://www.gapminder.org/world/#$majorMode=chart$is;shi=t;ly...
I see several commenters attacking Daniel Hannan, so let me share the best links I found as I researched him:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hannan

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/4555/DANIEL_HANNAN_hom...

http://www.votewatch.eu/en/daniel-hannan.html

P.S. Wouldn't comments be more interesting if they scrupulously avoided attacking the messenger?
Apparently you are not familiar with this topic, or you would know that going to the police almost never does anything in this situation.

Posting a factual account of events is not an "internet mob."
Funny, I've read the exact opposite.
This is apples and oranges because she doesn't allow her latest releases to appear on streaming services.
I don't disagree, but a prosecution is unlikely to undo the damage that was done.

Google is more powerful than you may think. This is not an empty gesture.
Two things,

First. I was set off by the complete lack of evidence for the sexism case. The setting that assert sexism is in play is limited to:

[...] and she continued: “Right, well, it’s because you’re
young and female.”

And that's it, from there on, the author says It was because of sexism, because her coach said so.

Second. Although the storyline is not a convincing anecdote, it still has value. It is interesting to see that:

* It's not necessarily people higher in your company that will prevent a women from
getting promoted.
* It's not necessarily that women won't get hired for a higher position.
* If it seems the problem of sexism is solved for many, older individuals still form a
majority in the senior/execs layers, and their older generation may have sexist ways.

Although the story was not strong enough to make an convincing example, the idea is still plausible and motivates a new way to look at it.
I know I tried to switch to LibreOffice for a few weeks and then ran back screaming. I know some others who have done the same.

I haven't yet met a single person who is happier with OOo/LO than with Word; if that's true for you you're the first such person I've heard of.
The article is very particular to note the origin of the word "Anglosphere."

Which of Stephenson's novels is your favorite?
i agree. I imagine it works like this - a brick layer might have "hidden" knowledge about the building process that could mean improvement to efficiency. And yet, he would not be able to put it into practice, because the investigation/research will take resources that he does not have, and his employer is not going to pay for this because they don't believe in him (ala, he is a "labourer").

If there was a basic income, he could become someone who could advise how to build better, and thus make use of a higher order knowledge process where as labouring is done by automated means. The end result is a house gets build faster, and cheaper.
Some Googling shows that Medicare spending per enrollee is around $10k per year, and average Social Security benefits are around $15k. So a guaranteed basic income, paid to each adult and that maintains current benefits for seniors, would cost around $5.8 trillion.