skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only ask because it seems like the only barrier to entry. I know the math is easy, but it still is math for the user. Are you comfortable sharing numbers about how many users are repeats? It seems like a very sticky system.
Why, because they quit spending it?

The US spends 4-5% of its GDP on defense every year, year after year, without end.

When you fund gigantic science projects and then kill the funding as soon as they show any success, well, surprise! They stop. So don't do that.

Maybe we could drop defense spending to a mere 3% of GDP (still more, in absolute terms, than any other country in the world, and a level seen as recently as 2001) and spend the leftovers on space and other science research.
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Came to say this. As a poor Supply Chain student with a sluggish windows desktop, I installed Ubuntu in my desperation to finish a paper I was writing. It introduced me to the world of Linux, Free Software, and programming in general (starting with R in my first job as a supply chain analyst).

I just installed Arch. It pains me to say it, but I can't put up with Ubuntu's "My way or the highway" antics any more. It is a shame.
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Interestingly it doesn't seem to talk about this case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Company

"The Court held that a business corporation is organized primarily for the profit of the stockholders, as opposed to the community or its employees. The discretion of the directors is to be exercised in the choice of means to attain that end, and does not extend to the reduction of profits or the nondistribution of profits among stockholders in order to benefit the public, making the profits of the stockholders incidental thereto.

Because this company was in business for profit, Ford could not turn it into a charity. This was compared to a spoliation of the company's assets. The court therefore upheld the order of the trial court requiring that directors declare an extra dividend of $19.3 million."
It seems to make a bit more sense now. A reconfigurable store that can be dragged in and out of high-rent areas like NYC and SF.

Others have done this before, like Target's holiday-season barge that they parked at Chelsea Piers in NYC:

http://money.cnn.com/2002/11/15/news/companies/target_boat/
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Thanks anyway for you comment. It motivates me to push the physical issue :-)
Signed up to agree.

Canned 6 Ubuntu machines (servers) and replaced with OpenBSD 5.3 recently. So much goodness ships with openbsd it's unreal. Bar Theo's sharp tongue (which is usually spot on), you get pf, opensmtpd (so much cleaner than postfix), nginx in base, miles better manual pages than Linux, no horrid gnu info, small and simple base system, absolutely no surprises, no bloated crap like dbus/upstart, tmux in base and what I can only describe as a warm fuzzy "why the hell isn't everything like this" feeling.

Also, it's just about the only thing I've found that can work adequately entirely offline without having to use google to fix obscure problems and decypher documentation.

I've got a bootable USB stick that contains the base packages, entire FAQ (main documentation source outside manpages), all normal binary packages I use, WiFi firmware and its less than 2Gb.

Thanks as well.
If that was not your intention then, upon re-reading the thread, it seems you had no point in responding to any of my posts in the first place. I originally spoke that it could lead to an undesirable situation if one is given the power to shut down an opposing viewpoint. If you had nothing to say about that particular concern then I'm confused as to what your issue with my statement is, it would seem that you agree with what I have been saying all along.

Please explain to me how I said anything that disagrees with your last statement.
> Aside: I don't think it's healthy to be as invested as you are in random Internet comments.

Probably :) Of course though, I do think we should all be aware there are people on the receiving end of these comments we casually fire at frameworks that have worked crazy hard on those projects. (Listen to this episode of The Changelog with the maintainer of Capistrano if you want to hear some evidence of the effects of this [1]). Vague, dismissive comments can sometimes be the hardest to hear.

And yeah, I suppose sweeping generalisations are a massive bugbear of mine. At my previous job whenever I heard one heading my way I knew I was usually in for a ton of work to correct them so that we could _just do sensible work_. I think I have PTSD from that experience. :)

I physically shudder when I hear the word 'bloat', for instance. (It's usually followed by some amount of ignorant tosh from someone who hasn't learned what that 'bloat' is there for).

[1] http://thechangelog.com/110/
>> Exactly which part of investing billions of dollars acquiring and developing a technology and giving it away for free, lowering the price of consumer devices, needs to be prevented?

The part where it ends up eliminating competition and results in a mono culture?
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Makes sense to me. You run the store on the lower decks, then invite VIPs and clients to the party area on top. You write the entire expense of the barge off on your taxes as "marketing expenses".

The free publicity of "OMG parties going on at the GoogleBoat!" can't hurt either.
I did it, therefore everyone can do it? This kind of thinking is completely counter-productive to working towards a solution where no-one has to do it. Unfortunately such a myopic self-accountability for one's own situation is deeply ingrained in the American mythos. Ironically, this conception leads to some of the lowest socio-economic mobility amongst developed nations. After all, if anyone can get to where I am, anyone who isn't where I am is in their position because they're too lazy. No need to look at education, incarceration, safety net programs and healthcare.

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What's your point? She didn't say she wanted every laptop ever made to have a numpad. Wanting a Lenovo TrackPoint doesn't mean you want it on every laptop ever made, nor are you imposing it on anyone. Do you think it's wrong for Lenovo to put it on their laptops? Do you think they should stop so that they don't impose it on anyone?
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I'm a pragmatist at heart is all. I look for the action that leads to the outcome I want, and I don't believe outcry against companies will ever have any impact on the patent system, outside of resultant legislative action.

> Every system has its exploits, will you blame those systems for their failures?

The system is responsible for maintaining the most beneficial incentives possible. In some cases, it is difficult or even impossible to remove those exploits, and in those cases I look to blame individuals to the maximum extent possible. But in this particular example, there is little to no apparent benefit to having (the current) patent system in place, and only perverse incentives. While it doesn't absolve the companies of their behavior, I don't see how it can be viewed as anything other than an inevitable outcome (given the system design). In that light, I may avoid Apple products for instance, but am generally uninterested in any complaint or action that isn't targeted at the root cause which for all intents and purposes can be fixed!
"As bi-partisan as you can get" is intended to be in the context of health care reform. Sure, you can get bi-partisan support for funding veteran death benefits or whatever, but that's not what I'm talking about.

The Republicans created the current plan. The most recent Republican candidate for President supported and passed this plan in his home state when he was governor. It's a Republican plan.

The Republicans have no serious alternative proposal. They pretend they do only to the extent needed to convince people who aren't paying attention that they really mean the "replace" part of "repeal and replace".

Sure, Obamacare isn't exactly the Republican plan in 100% of every detail. It's still the basic Republican plan overall, and the Republicans are not wrangling over details anyway.
>Until we have that ever elusive world peace, we're probably going to continue to spend a fortune.

We spend 10x what China does. We don't have to spend as much.

>people would probably just want lower taxes

Heaven forbid I have more cash in my wallet. More for me to invest to help fund companies that do interesting things, perhaps even go to the moon with. I personally don't mind my tax load if it gave us things like universal healthcare and cheaper higher education and better infrastructure. I do mind it when it just powers the various killing machines at our disposal and wars based on clear lies like "yellowcake" and "WMDs." How many Mars missions did Iraq cost us?

>and the research does get done.

Locked away as classified or patent encumbered via Lockheed or whoever is developing $expensive_weapons_system? Yeah, we can do better.

edit: The list linked on spending doesn't include all the special spending bills that paid for the Iraq and Afghani wars. Yes, we are close to spending 10x what Russia spends and probably closer to 5 or 6x what China spends. I mixed up my countries, but we are GREATLY overspending. NASA's annual budget is about a month in Afghanistan.

We've spend at LEAST 2 trillion in Iraq and Afghanistan. 4 is you count actual expenditures and future commitments like medical and disability.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/14/iraq-war-cost-more-...
I've google wayland and mir but still does anyone with a little more insight know was to why technically one is better than the other ?
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> Until we have that ever elusive world peace, we're probably going to continue to spend a fortune.

Perhaps it can be a smaller fortune, like half, or a third.

Nobody on the planet except the US can cross an ocean to fight a war. Nobody is withing decades, maybe more than a century of being able to do that. Every weapon the US has will be a museum piece by then.

With the end of the Soviet Union, the "come as you are" war is also obsolete. Any emerging threat will emerge slowly enough that a military build-up can take years, if needed.
You can't measure the ROI, and honestly the ROI argument is as rhetorical and handwavy as the "TSA makes us safer" argument. It only feels somewhat plausible, but is so utterly vague and unmeasurable that there's simply no way to make it not an empty statement.

Also, I'm as anti-warmongering as everyone else here, but it's a patently false claim to say that the industry of war doesn't drive massive leaps in science and technology. Silicon Valley itself was birthed out of massive military research funding post-WW2. The Internet started as a DARPA project. The foundational technology we built on top of to get the moon was reversed engineered in large part out of deadly German V2 rockets captured during the war.

Hell, one of the biggest chief architects of the US space program was Wernher von Braun, whose rocketry expertise came out of Nazi Germany. The Russians weren't exempt either - all of their early satellite and manned mission launch vehicles were derivatives of ICBMs - Sputnik, the first satellite in orbit, launched from a R-7 ICBM.

I wish it weren't the case, but there is tons of evidence, all around the world and all throughout history, that the waging of war drives a shitload of science.
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From the repo: "Riot is a manifesto for vanilla JavaScript and jQuery."

I think that's really the point. Rejecting the idea of these big frameworks and promoting vanilla JS.. Rejecting the myth that without big frameworks your code is unmanageable.
You can break any web app with a single line of javascript.
Seriously, what is the point of making such a pointless statement like "meh, this would take an hour in Meteor"?

Is it because "Meteor will kill Rails" is the buzzy headline of the week on HN, and you felt the need to be trendy and throw that into the discussion in this thread? What value does a comment like that add to discussion about a developer releasing a project he worked on for a few months to the open source community?
I couldn't find any open source projects when I looked before I started the project. It's a good point that the internet is filled with trip planning software. I found many web apps but I didn't love any of them. Hopefully this will bring us a closer to a trip planning webapp that actually works.
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The title gives you the impression that the U.S. is getting rid of food stamps, but the article clearly states it's lowering the amount a family receives.

Misleading title and just bad reporting.
Yes, but how many people is that actually an issue for? Most of the preexisting condition demagoguery you hear about seems to stem from people who were going w/o insurance until they found out they had a medical condition. There were already limits on preexisting condition exclusions in a number of states. You also have to wonder if that in and of itself is worth a doubling in costs?

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According to Wikipedia [1] an ecosystem is

"a community of living organisms (plants, animals and microbes) in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment (things like air, water and mineral soil), interacting as a system."

I wish bloggers can find a better term for referring to something specific to software development. An ecosystem is a specific term in ecology.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem
interesting suggestion, why firefox OS?
Wow, thanks a lot Martin, Haxe looks very very promising :)
I don't think that's a fair comparison. OS X doesn't rely on Windows developers to make it better, Ubuntu needs other developers from across the Linux community to get better.

You can't really do "closed" Linux, because you (the closer) need everyone else. And, as seen with Intel's rejection of a mir patch, everyone else can shut you out.
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Depends on a few things. what you are looking to achieve in your career and how far along are you ? Let me explain further. In my opinion and experience, if you are entry level or about <5 years of experience, changing jobs a couple of times may not be a bad idea. It gives you exposure to a new environment and you could learn a different set of things which you may or may not at the same company. Not to mention that in the initial few years of your career, job change will get you a decent raise which is almost nothing these days if you stay at the same company (even less than inflation for majority of us).

Once you have reached a certain level of experience or no. of years (say average 7+), then the question becomes: what is your goal now ? If you want to be a manager/executive/director/VP etc at a company, then you need to be able to show some stability in employment history otherwise you are getting into the territory of "job hoppers who are not good fit for the senior level roles". But if you instead want to become a consultant/contractor/SME in your field, then you can keep hopping from client to client of course and sell yourself as the guy who comes, solves problems and leaves while making a good chunk of dollars.
I am personally in the second category and even though at times I have considered the stable option, it just does not cut it for me.

One final advice (been in professional industry for 10+ years), most employers are not loyal to employees anymore. Gone are those days when employers actually invested in their employees as assets and not cost/headcounts/resources. So just like you are considered job hopper, I consider many companies "Candidate hoppers". They will get rid of you without any remorse (well may be a sorry from a nice manager if at all) and will just officially say "we are cutting down on budget so need to get rid of you". Always remember that hopping is two way.
I think it might be a bit early to draw that conclusion. Whether by coincidence or not, it did coincide with Samsung's rise as the biggest rival to iPhones. Granted other Android manufacturers around the same time started to compete head to head as well, I think that even if that case isn't at the forefront of people's mind, it was a brick in the wall.

It's important to remember how unassailable Apple felt before that. Any kink in their armor hurts them, and that was a big one.
Apparently this person doesn't understand that we can't just get rid of time zones..... The reason we have time zones is purely based on the rotation of the earth and its size.
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I talk well over 300 minutes a month but I get your point