skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As yuhong pointed out, pollution is not really comparable to discrimination; but I still think it's worth asking the question: who allowed the pollution to take place in the first place? The "market place"? Or some government that nudge, nudge, wink, wink, allowed the polluter to pollute?
Thanks guys, it's apparently a problem with how parse.com handles SSL certs.
If you think it's unfair, I'd appreciate you saying why.
Thanks, something with how parse.com handles SSL certs generates this crap. :(
> The network covers only a third of the city, focusing on the police districts with the most violent crime.

That's refreshingly novel. Usually police coverage is concentrated in the less violent but wealthier districts.
I do.

(I can't believe the one night I decided to go out with friends, this is the thread that shows up on Twitter--my wheelhouse!)

I built and bootstrapped a tech company from the ground up in the Valley. Sold it in 2007 for 7 figures. Then took my personal blog and grew it into one of the top entrepreneurship blogs online. Now running a funded startup and just completed Techstars Austin.

Now that I think about it, my blogger friends and my tech CEO/CTO friends do run in different crowds. Most of the blogger types end up writing books (Tim Ferriss is an example I think HN'ers would be familiar with.) I turned down a book deal to go back and do another tech company because that's what I love to do.

There is a trend amongst bloggers to start software companies. Clay Collins' LeadPages is a good example; he's a crossover blogger/Internet marketer turned software company CEO. He just closed $5M in funding for LeadPages led by Foundry Group.

There are a few more up-and-comers in the blog world who are crossing over into software, but so far very few have made the leap--I think because the skillset is so different.

Weird to think that I'm rare, but it's an interesting viewpoint to hear from the tech community.
That's a fairly arrogant statement. You might know LINQ but does the consumer of your IEnumerable<T>? Not all team members are equal.
What about the standard of living for women, whose wages were legally a fraction of men's wages? The ostracism women had for being single? Even being pregnant in public was a taboo. Medicine wasn't available to everyone, and things like pain management had yet to really hit its stride. Social issues like wife-beating were verboten to discuss, and there was little in the way of escape for the victims. Workplace OH&S laws made factories and similar much safer. Vehicles are safer, and accidents less life-destroying. The fear of MAD is gone. There is no conscription - soldiers in today's wars are volunteers. There's a much wider variety of food available. The same is true of music. Travel is far easier. Even shopping is easier - wider choices, easier to carry stuff home. Then there's the internet, for pity's sake.

Life now ain't perfect, but it sure as shit is better overall than it was in the 60s.
exact presentation definitely looks like the major reason for using pdf. I think I need to find an app that does pdf parsing similar to Pocket/ Instapaper and makes the pdf adaptable to smaller screens.
I understood his point to be that successful CEOs don't have time to blog about how to kick ass, or lessons learned running a company, or the usual self-promoting topics we see so much of here.
My condolences to anyone reading HN who works for one of these organisations.

The iex [remote-script] probably will run in that case actually, just not the 'scoop' command. Which shows what a farce the PS execution policy is.
“The whole purpose of RetailRoadshow is compliance,” Mr. Hammond said. “The S.E.C. kind of said, ‘Hey, we need to do this, you need to do this.’ So we’re doing it. It’s not the bulk of the business.”

Mr. Hammond’s company is paid by an I.P.O.’s underwriters to record and host their roadshow — either by filming on location, say, or recording audio over the telephone. NetRoadshow charges around $10,000 to $20,000 for the average roadshow, which comes out of a given transaction’s marketing budget and is usually split among its underwriters.

== From the link.
http://reddit.com/r/fifthworldshibe
Sheesh. Balaji here. Clearly this touched a nerve, so will be writing on this at some length. But this is the bit I don't get:

But when I asked him what harms techies faced that might
prompt such a drastic response, he couldn't offer much
evidence.

He pointed to a few headlines in the national press warning
that robots might be taking over people's jobs. These, he
said, were evidence of the rising resentment that
technology will foster as it alters conditions across the
country and why Silicon Valley needs to keep an escape
hatch open.

But I found Mr. Srinivasan's thesis to be naive. According
to the industry's own hype, technologies like robotics,
artificial intelligence, data mining and ubiquitous
networking are poised to usher in profound changes in how
we all work and live. I believe, as Mr. Srinivasan argues,
that many of these changes will eventually improve human
welfare.

But in the short run, these technologies could cause
enormous economic and social hardships for lots of people.
And it is bizarre to expect, as Mr. Srinivasan and other
techies seem to, that those who are affected wouldn't
criticize or move to stop the industry pushing them.

But that was actually exactly my point: as Farhad states, people may indeed "move to stop the industry", so we need to keep an escape hatch open. A huge chunk of the people here in the Valley are first or second generation emigrants who picked up stakes from their home countries and currently work from a laptop. They left their N home countries because those locales weren't favorable to technology. Is it impossible to think that backlash could make it necessary for us to leave an N+1st, as our ancestors (recent or distant) did?

I can only speak for myself, but the motivating emotion here isn't arrogance. It's one part apprehension, knowing what happened to the Chinese in Malaysia, the Indians in Uganda, and the Jews in Europe. And it's one part hope, thinking that we can build something better with a clean slate, without 230 years of legacy infrastructure and cruft.
That sounds like a great plot for a sci-fi movie. Not sure if it would be a utopia or dystopia though ...
...Are you actually arguing that every single would-be murderer, premeditated or otherwise, has the forethought and resources to organize a city-wide conspiracy to shoot guns into the air at the exact moment of their crime?
Yes. It works well for a while, then randomly crashes.
The barriers I'm referring to aren't Jim Crow but instead the standard barriers to entry: required initial capital, brand recognition, the economies of scale and existing position of the firm currently in the market, etc.

I am suggesting that when entering the market is already difficult (which is true of many American industries where discrimination might be a problem), a new firm being nondiscriminatory is unlikely to be a sufficient competitive advantage to displace existing firms.

It is possible for nondiscrimination to be beneficial for already existing firms but not an immediate, substantial, and sure-fire competitive advantage.
Fortunately, it's much easier to write packages for Scoop (aka "app manifests"). You only really need to know JSON, whereas with Chocolatey you need some Powershell and Nuget chops.

There's a simple example app manifest here:
https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/wiki/App-Manifests
The problem with Debian Testing is the relatively long freeze periods before a release. Wheezy was frozen for over 10 months.
He's infinitely more intelligent than me, but I fail to comprehend how a world without human labour could possibly lead to a richer experience.

My understanding is that humans are limited. For a robot to function, you need to build and maintain it (minimal maintenance). Humans requires lots of effort, though. They get sick, they have to go to work, they can't work long hours, they get tired, bored...
I'll concede on semantics. It's smarter to speculate on the currency itself than invest in mining hardware. To be fair, there's disagreement over the difference between investment and speculation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculation

I disagree that Bitcoin's value is nebulous, or beanie-baby-esque. I believe Bitcoin can become valuable in 3 distinct ways:

1. Store of value

A universal store of value not controlled by governments. This isn't merely a hedge against USD inflation—it's a global means of protection against currency devaluation. Bitcoin is attractive to anyone living in a country with an unsound monetary base. This is already happening.

2. International money remittance

Existing players in international money remittance charge exploitive fees. Western Union often charges more than 10%. Bitcoin offers a viable low-fee alternative. Bitcoin remittance services like http://buttercoin.com are now starting to come online.

3. Programmable money

The true value of money as a protocol is difficult to predict today. I believe this could be absolutely massive. At minimum, this means native cash for the Web. Merchants have an incentive to adopt it — they bypass Visa/MC/Amex's 3%+ transaction fees. But the ease-of-use isn't there yet. The margin on many consumer goods is very slim — an additional 3% profit could be huge for many online retailers.

At Bitcoin's extreme, we could see self-sustaining profit-seeking algorithms. Corporations that don't employ people — algorithms providing services and collecting profits. We've never been able to wire up software so directly with the flow of money. I think that could lead to exciting things.

Dismiss Bitcoin as get-rich-quick speculation if you want. But I think you'll find most Bitcoin fans aren't just in it for the money. They realize Bitcoin can be massively disruptive to the financial industry — an industry begging for disruption. I think that's worth investing in.
High real interest rates means that capital is scarce. Lots of capital around is good for your standard of living: roads, factories, houses, trains, etc.

(Of course, low real interest rates mean that opportunities are scarce relative to capital.)
This comment and a few others really surprise. This is such a level of naïveté that is really dumbfounding. I want to attempt to be charitable ...

What evidence do you have that humans would reach this lollipop level of appreciation and understanding, even in geologic time? Genocides occur even today between peoples for reasons that many even educated people have difficulty deciphering. As well, go look at the comments on YouTube and see if humanity is advanced. I mean really ...
It is more like an ignorant way to say that.

"Unfortunately, we are unable to consider ..." would be more appropriate for HN.

Not that I'm interested in your particular job posting, but I'm one of those HNers who is interested in keeping the HN personal feel as it was before...

Thank you for your understanding.
Let's circle back to this.
Robin Hanson and Tyler Cowen have the most well reasoned visions of the future of the global economy.

Hanson predicts virtually all human wages moving to near zero in the long run.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2013/05/robot-econ-primer.html

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2013/07/me-on-pbs-off-book.htm...
Wow, this is just as awesome as brew on OSX. I had no idea that there was an alternative to the hideous command prompt. I installed Windows 8.1 on a desktop last week, and this has finally convinced me that it is feasible to use as dev machine.
Yeah, this is one of those infographics that have been circulating for quite a while. More interesting and in-depth are these stories where you learn about the interconnectedness of large corporations:

> "Three systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have taken a database listing 37 million companies and investors worldwide and analyzed all 43,060 transnational corporations and share ownerships linking them. They built a model of who owns what and what their revenues are and mapped the whole edifice of economic power."

The 147 Companies That Control Everything

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2011/10/22/the-147-co...

Original source, but site is currently down: " Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world" http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed-...

Full research paper here (36 pages) http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.5728v2.pdf
There was probably more than one, but http://www.dogpile.com/ was the one I remember (which I'm quite surprised to see still exists/works).
Thank you very much for your answers. They were interesting and helpful.
It's worse - the 147 corporations on the top all own each other in a circular manner, and in significant (50%+) amounts. None of them are actually independent.

That is an incredible paper. Everyone should read it.
It doesn't work like that in the medical profession, MD's in general don't have the professional mobility of programmers, nowhere in the world, and surgeons have even less such mobility.

You can have very skilled guys at "provincial" hospitals, either because they are stuck there or because the small town hospital actually gives them special incentives to stay there. It's less likely, but the probabilities have a very odd distribution varying from country to country so it's nothing near as easy to reason about as programmers.

And at a university hospital, your life can end up in the hands of a very very smart surgeon-researcher with tens of published papers that may have revolutionized the entire field he works in and got him very highly ranked, but that super-surgeon-researcher might actually have quite poor surgical practical skills (think dexterity/speed) and although you may get a lower chance of complications in the end, you will mostly get it because of a better hospital with better post op care.

DON'T compare healthcare with programming, or even with other "normal" professions where you can easily rank professionals... everything is complicated and "opaque" and medical professionals make as much as possibles to prop each other and "leak" as little information as possible to the patients and general population.

Also, in surgery "a better surgeon" != "a smarter surgeon" != "a better educated surgeon". It's a complicated function of "natural talent", "capacity for performance under heavy workload", "motivation", experience, education and IQ (and unlike programming, here the last two factors tend to be least important imho, at least if they are above a certain threshold).
Great! That should keep Ubuntu/Mark Shuttleworth honest, in the mobile space.
A Docker Dev Environment in 24 Hours
Hadn't commented on Garnett, would've preferred he stayed at the Wolves and guess he was traded anyway (for a decent project piece). Not too excited about the inequality in the league that starts to happen when stars clump for championships and smaller market teams are left overpaying for more mediocre talent.
Author here. I use Chocolatey too, although not so often recently.

Scoop is more focused on open-source command-line developer tools. I expect Scoop will appeal more to cross-platform developers, those who appreciate a bit of Unix philosophy in their spare time, and those who feel 'stuck' on Windows.

Chocolatey does a lot of things that Scoop will never do, like install Web Platform Installer apps, and built-in Windows features.
Minecrafted
the most popular notion in the western world is a mostly-free market with some regulation

No, the most popular notion in the western world is a nominal "free market" with massive regulation. For example, here are the rules that a "free market" business in the US has to abide by:

https://www.federalregister.gov/

Note that this is a daily journal: in other words, the "current issue" is just the rules that got issued today.

Not to mention that we have central control of the financial system (the Fed and other countries' central banks), education (in the US there is at least some control still at the local level, other developed countries control everything at the state or national level), and trade--here, for example, is the current list of US tariffs:

http://hts.usitc.gov/
Can anyone summarize? I do not read linkedin articles.
People also lived much more pragmatically. They had smaller houses, only one family car, and rarely went out to eat. If people made the same choices today, one income would suffice. Most families don't like living in 1400sqft houses with no cable, and no a/c. Most parents don't like spending 12hours a day cooking food from scratch while providing childcare.
A "better way?" Oh my. I bet you think there is a TechCrunch style "disruption" to be made here. :)

Forcing others, particularly at the barrel of a gun, as libertarians are fond of saying is what laws are. Perhaps you believe we shouldn't force people away from murdering or robbing others? If restaurants poison the food of customers, the market will work it out? This straw man is no sillier than the idea that preventing discrimination is as reprehensible as the discrimination itself.
Which is why state intervention was required to change the norms in place.
http://pastebin.com/9x9r2Nwb
Mendeley could be a good start. :)

http://www.mendeley.com/
Your argument is from WSJ?

No, the article that started this thread was from the WSJ, and I was asking a question about it, not endorsing it. Please read before knee-jerk reacting.
> If I added up the sum of everything my family spends on every brand appearing in this infographic, I would be surprised if it exceeded 2% of our gross income.

Same here, probably less. Not a huge fan of things that come vacuum sealed. Vegetables, fruits, meat, dairy, etc. that's the bulk of the grocery bill.
Just curious: why are you using a mailinator account?
Alex Shinn's Chibi scheme, weighing in at 50kB (but with a dependency on the Boehm garbage collector, which weighs >1 Mb ...), might fit the bill.

Some links

1. Andy Wingo (main Guile implemetor)'s "buyer's guide" to Scheme implementations -
http://wingolog.org/archives/2013/01/07/an-opinionated-guide...

2. Chibi Scheme homepage - http://synthcode.com/scheme/chibi/
You're going to have to set-execution policy yourself—I highly recommend it though for a useable shell ;)

So far there are 59 apps in the main bucket:
https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/tree/master/bucket

There are 17 more apps in the 'extras' bucket:
https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop-extras/tree/master

To use the extras bucket, you just need to run 'scoop bucket add extras'.

Any requests for more dev tools? Feel free to add an issue or pull request on GitHub.
Glad someone is pointing this out. Most herbal supplements are basically powdered weeds being sold without any verifiable effects.
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Per capita homicide rate is around the same today as it was in '67, the GP's reference year.
I did not realize that today was the 100 year mark for the Haber process until seeing this link on HN. But since I saw it, I wanted to translate its importance as an algorithm in industrial chemistry into terms your average software geek would understand. The Haber process is the B-tree of the chemistry world; we build an extraordinary amount of application chemistry on top of it. While I made my name in theoretical computer science, I actually went to school for chemistry and chemical engineering.

The difference between chemical process design and algorithm design is the difference between bits and atoms, the operands. In the abstract, they are identical. As a chemical engineer, you learn the core algorithms, as those are the building blocks of much of what you might want to do. In computer science you might learn the B-tree algorithm, in chemical engineer you learn the Haber process -- they have similar importance. Like with the B-tree, the original algorithm has been improved in various ways; the Haber process has been improved similarly. But the influence of both are readily apparent in their respective disciplines. The Haber process was one of the most important chemical algorithms ever invented and the world is a much richer place as a result. Most people have no idea how important ammonia synthesis is to just about everything but much of what we view as modern civilization has its roots in Fritz Haber's invention.
Story time: Three years ago, DDG had an image-only ASCII table which meant you couldn't copy any of the values. I emailed Gabriel with a link to a pure HTML version that I had compiled[0], and within a few days, he had added to the site. Glad to hear you like the table, and a huge thanks to Gabriel for being so awesome.

[0]: https://github.com/kyleconroy/ascii-table
Yum is an independent company since spinning off of PepsiCo in 1997. While it has ties to PepsiCo, it's nothing direct and there are even Yum own restaurants that don't even serve Pepsi products.

This chart is enlightening for sure, but they leave a lot out. For instance, all your Keebler products are now owned by Kellogg's, and doesn't it look like PepsiCo is much more diverse in it's holdings than Coca-Cola?
"Good for business" is a broad term and (in this case) a political one. It's going to be more true for bigger companies than smaller ones (because bigger companies will be hiring more often for a broader set of positions) and for long-lived companies than fresh startups (because over time, your chance of either making or missing at least one really good hire increases). But if it's generally beneficial to some companies and not detrimental to others, it's "good for business".
Oh stop it. It wasn't your precious market that ended segregation or created an environment where people felt safe from lynchings. Lets just get back to reality for a minute.
Well, you have to forgive them - the TVs in the 60s were crappy little things, black and white as often as not, whereas today they're giant affairs full of colour and motion, and you can't get a B&W one. You could tick off a checkbox saying "Has TV?", but that's missing part of what standard of living is about.
Why is A&W listed under both Kraft and PepsiCo?

And I don't think that it's because of the fast food stores - those are owned by one of the Berkshire companies I thought?

One last thing - are the little "$$$"'s everywhere really necessary?
Nudge nudge wink wink? In your view, there should be no need to nudge or wink. Let market have as it will. You can't have both ways here.
Google's Being Sued Over Search Patents, Not Just Android Or Smartphone Ones
The people who make that claim usually base it on average hourly earnings rates, inflation-adjusted, for some class of (male) workers.

On the other hand, if you look at "median household income", that's grown a fair bit since 1967. We have more dual-income families today where instead of one high-earning male and a housewife we have a couple who on average work maybe a little less and gets paid a little less as individuals than that single-earner male did, but their combined income is higher than the single-earner salary of old.

(We also have smaller households today than in the past due to higher divorce rates. And a lot more salary taken in the form of "benefits" which makes comparison of the raw dollar rate misleading.)