skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I have to work 80+ hours a week to have the absolute financial freedom to live the rest of my estimated 40-50 years on this planet in any way I chose, nevermind ensuring similar benefits accrue to my family, then I think that's a pretty good deal. I still have down time and plenty of fond memories -- you just have to plan how you spend that time a bit better.

I live in a part of the world where a lack of financial resources is death. Every single day I pass by people begging for money and for work, and I live 5min away from my office. My crappy little second hand Fiat is worth more than combined net worth of every person I pass on the street. I remember seeing a documentary once where a labourer said something to the effect of: "I work like a horse so that my children can work like dogs, so that their children can live like people, and their children can be free."

And before any says your children should take care of themselves: try telling that to a child born with severe autism or down's syndrome, or some other disabling birth defect. If you're not planning for your family so that you can enjoy your younger years a bit more fully, you're taking a huge, selfish risk.

I'm much more fortunate than that guy was - my parents worked like dogs.
Interesting. I used to download and unpack zip files manually from the gnuwin32 SF project until I found mingw-get[1] which downloads and installs packages from the MinGW32 and MSYS projects. Problem with that was it lacked packages like curl which I still had to get from elsewhere.

It seems that quite a number of apps in Scoop pulls from these projects.

[1] http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started
And yet the smartphone I have in my pocket would be worth billions back then. Even the poor today are much richer in many ways than the richest people alive in 1967.
I've long since thought that the relation of peace to war is that of the absence and presence of violence. Whereas the relation of art to war is also one of opposition but along a different axis, that of creativity and destruction.

Looked at this way war has at least two 'opposites'. I put opposites in quotes because I think there are far fewer actual binary dichotomies than people make out.

While I'm on the topic. Same for love. They say the opposite of love is hate. But whereas love draws people together fear keeps keeps them apart so you could also say that fear is the opposite of love. Looked at in this way love has at least two 'opposites'.

I wonder how many other traditional binaries could be broken?
It's even worse than that. There is Russian army that occupied a portion of Moldova called Transnitria. Time to time they are trying to escalate the situation, like trying to take control of neighbour village, or killing some local people when some of their military is getting drunk on new year eve, this very scary for us. [1] [2]

[1] http://www.rferl.org/content/moldovan_man_shot_dead_at_check...

[2]http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/3899861-new-t...
wikipedia.org was unreachable in Shanghai one week ago whether blocked or not. Wikipedia is incredibly useful, I can understand blocking individual articles (as they do in Saudi Arabia, for example) but not the site as a whole.
Also useful: "man iso-8859-1" (aka latin-1, the most common Western charset if not using UTF-8). For the Windows version, you'll have to visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252 -- non-UTF encoded files are more likely to be that instead of latin-1 (fortunately either is just a s.decode('cp1252') away from Unicode in e.g. Python)

There's a surprising amount of data files still being moved around in either of those. If your shell is in UTF-8 mode, you'll learn to recognize either encoding (a single funny character) or the UTF-1252 "encoding" (2 or more chars, where Ã is often one) where both utf-8 and cp-1252 were used.
Challenge for the month, persuade your boss to use this in production.
Why SASS doesn't support LESS
yup that's also the amount of taxes amazon's paying in europe
Professor Clifford Nass has died of a heart attack. [Stanford Daily]
I see people in this thread discussing efficiency brought by technology, however people are missing an important factor for the drive to automation - employment taxes.

Given our economic crisis, the IMF for example is forcing governments to raise taxes to insurmountable levels. In our country, many companies have to resort to tax evasion just for survival and now the government is trying to shove new taxes down our throats (because hey, let's not target the big tax evationists, but rather the stupid fucks that paid their taxes until now).

So when the taxes you have to pay for producing goods or services exceed your other operational costs, what do you do? Well, governments aren't taxing the usage of robots yet. Bingo.

I think we should be glad that automation happens. Because it's better for a factory to remain in your own country, even if fully automated, then it is to be outsourced to China. Even an automated factory generates local jobs, either directly (engineers, cleaning people) or indirectly (connected industries).
Your values are not universal to all humanity. Sometimes I work an 80 hour week. I do this because I'm engaged with something and I don't want to be doing anything else. When I don't want to do that, I work normal hours. I live how I want to live.

I have friends, family, and a life. I'm also naturally introverted, and sometimes I just want to put my head down for a week and jam. This is something I like doing.

Different strokes for different folks man. I think your life is sad if you can't understand that some people are different than you are.
reddit is owned by Advance Publications, who own a lot of properties:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications
Pollution happens just fine when there isn't a government to allow it; mostly, it happens when there isn't a government to stop it.
How did you get the idea for your startup?
Staying at home with the kids sounds like the preferred economic opportunity to me but I'm a white male so what do I know.
> If Aliyun does not pass CTS, it's good enough to run those stolen apps.

I don't think we know that. Just because APKs were listed in a store doesn't mean they did anything useful when installed. I don't recall any evidence one way or the other about how well the various pirated apps actually ran on an Aliyun device. If you know of any, I'd appreciate a pointer.

Separately, I agree that Aliyun's sleaze is relatively common, but so what? I'm not suggesting Google should (or even can) proactively police every app store out there. I'm just saying Google is well within their rights to come down hard on one of their partners working with a store that pirates Google apps, wherever it happens to be. Honestly, I'm still puzzled about why Google leaned so much on compatibility in their response. I'd have thought that the issues with unauthorized distribution of Google apps were simpler and more clear-cut.
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I'm saying that the Internet is defined by being an internet. An internet is a network composed of multiple independent networks with independent low-level protocols which share data using a higher-level protocol suite. The higher-level protocol suite for the Internet is TCP/IP, so, yes, TCP/IP defines the Internet.
There's a nice parable about working hard to have free time later: http://www.protolink.com/MexicanFisherman.html
More importantly, pg's essays are marketing for YC. Without knowing the man, I would guess this is probably more a happy side-effect than a goal of his writing, but nevertheless the economics are clearly in favour of him writing.
So the entirety of English society helped pay to make Rowling incredibly wealthy. That seems like a pretty massive concentration of wealth for little benefit to society as a whole aside from some nice pablum to digest.
Poll: Do you miss iGoogle?
And what alternative have you found?
I didn't use iGoogle
The problem with wiring money is that it's oftentimes very cumbersome and difficult to do without involving all sorts of different parties. For instance, where I am from, most wire transfers get audited by the tax service and our local banks will often freeze funds until you can prove the source of the money and what it's for.

Here in Japan it's not so bad but when you get audited they generally have a list of all your inbound international wires and ask you to prove that the money is not taxable... otherwise you can get fined heavily.

It's a sad state of affairs when free people are not allowed to move their money as they see fit without explanations and justifications. It's yet another proof that fiat is not really your money and that it needs to go. Can't wait till Bitcoin becomes more ubiquitous.
Do you really think that people have become that much stupider? Moore's Law has been going for decades. Multiple Nobel prizes have been awarded for discoveries that made its continued existence possible. The fact that you don't understand the accomplishment does not make it less significant.

I am typing on a small device whose internal electronics exceed in complexity all electronic devices that existed in 1940. Combined. Yet this is a commodity item.

Stop and think about that. And then you might recognize the absurdity of claiming that a few tips and a can do attitude would have created the results of decades of modern technological progress in 10 years.
> Two weeks before the class was over, the head of the deployment team asked, “Steve, are you single?” Yes. “Do you like to travel?” Sure. “Why don’t you come to Korea with us when we ship the system overseas.”

The first of those questions was completely unnecessary, and invited a potential employment discrimination lawsuit; it fairly directly implies they might not have made the offer if he wasn't. It would have sufficed to find out if he was willing to travel.
That can't be 20 years old yet can it? I loved how AYBIBTU was used to torment many talk shows, like Love Line and Tom Green. Good times.
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Because a large part of life is competition for a mate. This tends to manifest itself in American culture as the pursuit of material wealth and social status through employment.
> It is disturbing that a city of 50,000 would need something like this.

It's sad that a police department of a city of 50,000 is using the purchase of such a system to justify their budget.
Not in my experience: The lack of versioned libraries is still a problem and trying to dismiss it by calling me a fanboy is not logically sound.
I coded on Plato in the mid 80's ("Tudor" language). I was paid minimum wage (about $3.25 per hour), and had various tasks maintaining courseware. I was brianb@udel

What everyone says is true: with the forms of chat and email that were prevalent, and things like the friday afternoon dogfights, the future of massively connected computing became "obvious". Based on what I saw then, I worked in computer networking after graduating from college, moved to silicon valley, and recently founded my own company building high speed distributed databases.

I bought my first computer over Plato: I found a guy in Illinois who had an older Xerox CP/M machine, we agreed to the price over email, I sent him the check and he sent me the machine. This would have been about '83.
This blew my mind:

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=avail+etymology&client=ub...
Transferwise operates a very similar model for currency exchange: you send them Dollars to convert to Euros and they match you to people who need the opposite. I guess their model is a bit different in that the exchange only happens once a second party is found, but I think a peer to peer system makes even more sense when converting between currencies, as there is literally no way to turn actual Pound Sterling into Euros, so physical transfer is out of the question.
Okay I'll try to make an example: these companies are based usually on other peoples invention.

The originality most people see in Apple's products doesn't lie exactly there. The big thing about the iPhone was the battery life and the hard disk. Not the touch screen interface. A touch screen interface was easy to make and copy for Google, that's why he did so quickly.

Indexing large amount of information (what google does) was or would be a requirement in the years to come. A solution that would be begging for an answer. At the time, no one could foresee how a good indexing vs bad indexing will shape the internet. But a few years later it was clear that we're heading towards big data.

Now, I firmly believe that stopping starvation all over the world, with today's technology is entirely possible. I also believe that this would change the world for the better in a much more meaningful sense. Technology today allows to create abundance, but our society chooses to create virtual demand, where possible.
Is it the iwl4965 driver? For me using 11n_disable=1 makes it work more reliably.
Can't help but notice Costolo touting stuff that used to be good about Twitter but that they've since messed up.

"Users can follow only the things they want to follow."[1] But now the mobile app shows push notifications for irrelevant events, like 3 people you follow following another person. Can't turn it off. So no, users are no longer in full control of what they see.

"The 140 character limitation means information flows at a high velocity." Except now with auto-expanding pictures you only end up seeing like 2 tweets at a time on a phone screen. This change is a serious compromise to the core Twitter experience, giving images undue extra weight and making it harder to scan.

He even brags about having third-party clients! Yup, which they have deliberately forced into providing a second-rate experience[2], and sucked the oxygen out of that market completely by capping number of users.

What all these changes have in common is that they make Twitter more like Facebook. I understand the reasoning, of course: More events shoved in users' faces = more engagement. Auto-displayed pics = improved discoverability for new users. Killing third-party clients = can claim tweets look and work the same everywhere, as Costolo also mentions. But what does it all add up to? A streamlined, embeddable Facebook with a smaller length limit?

Maybe I'm too annoyed with Twitter's devolution to see this rationally as an investor. Or perhaps I'm reading too much into the first two changes I mentioned, which could, after all, be reverted. But to my jaundiced eye, they show the company's on a clear path of tossing out its unique strengths, becoming just another social network also-ran.

1. Quotes paraphrased since the video player won't let me rewind to check exact wording.

2. https://twitter.com/manny_neira/status/300437233993912320
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Seems like the guy has a point. Title's been changed. And the meta-data of the source publication (http://steveblank.com) is lost in the process. About par for the course. Linkedin is a needless re-direct.
Just for a person who doesn't have an iPad. So, can one modify this app and then share it to others via internet? Or is it only possible to do via AppStore?
If you have git on the command line in Windows a lot of the most common programs are already there (see https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/tree/master/bin).
Milwaukee uses this system too, unfortunately there's not a map of just ShotSpotter results.
The parable is nice, but it certainly does not apply here. To quote the GP:

> I live in a part of the world where a lack of financial resources is death

In that setting, any cent that you can accumulate on you bank account is a life insurance. I can totally understand that the GP wants to spend some time in his life working like crazy so that for the rest he can work less while still enjoying a moderate amount of safety. It certainly beats working part time all your life and worrying about how to pay today's food, heating or rent.
That's just kind of silly. We have so much silly thinking in HN. So in this robot magic land people are just living with basic necessities and that's? Sounds like the robot utopia worked out great ...

Why does money make sense?

Do your magic robots work on perpetual motion? And the robot owners are going to provide all these necessities ? Why ?
Makes me think about the guys who built the atomic bomb -- people doing [potentially] amoral things because they find the problems they're solving more fascinating than the practical implications.
Except, of course, for the fact that the attempt to create the New Capitalist Man has been every bit as much a failure, but we all pretend it's been a wild success because that's the ideology our rulers demand.
Segregation was a government policy.
I have no idea why you were down-voted. I think you're right.

For example: The Wikipedia article claims that the Hawala system is unusual in that no promissory notes are exchanged. However, directly after that, the article explains how extensive notes are kept on how much the brokers owe each other, and that there are some forms of final settlement between brokers. These notes on mutual indebtedness appear to play an identical role to promissory notes.

This is really no different than the final settlement between banks in the Western system, except that - as you wrote - it appears to be less regulated.
If the 10% believe the marginal product of the 90% is precisely 0, they will provide nothing to the 90%. They might as well wall themselves off from society and ignore them. It's as if the 10% simply don't exist and the land they live on is impassable mountain.

Then nothing prevents the 90% from forming their own economy.
I'm posting this here for 2 reasons:

1) The idiocy of employees posting really stupid things to social media.

2) Creepiness of law enforcement tracking people over Facebook and other social media.
I don't know what she and her creations have since paid in taxes in the UK, but I'll wager a dollar that it exceeds the monetary cost to the country. Hell, compared to some uses of the tax payers money, I'd say that a lot of value was gained.
> Wadhwa began by launching into the myriad recent sins of the financial industry: credit default swaps, a housing bubble, and widespread economic meltdown, for starters.
The "financial industry" may not be a brotherhood of saints, but someone who is going to claim that CDS is inherently bad and the housing bubble and economic meltdown were the sole product of the "financial industry" clearly hasn't done his or her research.

Sorry, but I see that as entirely true. When they say the industry I understand, the industry's giants along with smaller players. And the Industry Giants were the ones that gave Triple A to Lehman Brothers (Moodys, Fitch, S&P). Lehman was owning on toxic assets, Goldman Sachs made a hostile take over with the help of the US Gov, who choose to go against all sorts of neo-liberal preaching to save GS because it's too big to fail. I see that industry as inherently bad for the USA and our planet!

And GS might be the worst example of corporate bullying, unethical acting and government infiltration (by far), but European banks are acting with the same disregard about anyone else except themselves.

So I don't think it's not far-fetched to say that: The financial industry is the root of today's world trouble.
In a market, the polluter has to compensate those impacted by it's pollution.
Maybe here they don't, but I think generally people see things your way.

I don't, and I didn't, even before I got into 'tech' and started reading HN. For me, the statement 'life outside of work is more meaningful than work' just doesn't make sense.

While I do treat 'work time' slightly differently than 'free time', the difference is not so great for me. It's mostly to keep some ritual and prevent weeks turning into long blurs.

In fact, I've never really treated 'work' as something so discrete. In high school, as soon as I figured out the 'tricks' to not getting kicked out of school and not failing classes, I spent most of my time doing what I wanted. I could skip many classes and engage in the few that interested me. And I had loads of time and energy left to learn stuff that I wanted to learn. Often I could make a deal with teachers to not go to class because when I was present, I was active and engaged, and I treated them like, well, just people, not bosses.

In university, there were less hoops to jump through, and there was more freedom, but once again I skipped classes I didn't care for (while making sure that I'd still have a decent grade and participate in group work), and actively engaged in the fun classes. Despite my absence, my targeted interested usually meant that I was one of people that the professors 'knew', rather than just a a face in the crowd.

And now, as a freelancer, I do make a point to set aside blocks of time for work, but for the most part I primarily try to make sure that I enjoy whatever I'm doing. Every once in a while a project feels like a chore, but for the most part I can choose the projects or the parts of projects that I enjoy or that I learn from.

Most of the time 'work' doesn't feel different from 'life outside work'. I love talking about my work and I'm baffled by my friends who make a point of actively avoiding the topic on a Friday pub night. I occasionally work in the weekend, but it doesn't feel like I'm 'losing' any of my weekend because of this. I occasionally take on projects that pay shit but are fun or helpful, and 'subsidise' this with bigger, often less fun projects.

Meanwhile throughout high school and college I saw classmates go to every class no matter the value, diligently do all the exercises 'just because', and complain about how it all sucked. Working as a contractor, I see colleagues drag themselves into work on Monday after a rough weekend of 'outside work life', and joke on a Wednesday about how it's almost Friday. And complain about how much work sucks.

I do get that not everyone has the freedom to find work that they enjoy, but what I don't get is that so many people do have that freedom, and quite a good safety net (especially here in Europe), but don't exercise it.

The happiest people I've known were generally the ones that didn't make a strict separation between work and 'life', but instead found work that didn't feel like work most of the time. It took a lot of creativity, effort and uncertainty to get there, but the results were worth it.

EDIT: I do realize that OP acknowledges this, so perhaps this should not have been a reply. apologies.
And generalities are relative to the generalist.
Not sure that it is very different from Christianity and many other religions who banned charging interest, but then changed their minds/their definition of usury. The wikipedia page makes an interesting read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury
Why would you think waste is necessary? I understand that it's utopian to avoid, but it's a necessary evil in that case. You seem to suggest that it's a necessary good. Why?
"Robotics, technology, etc. sure haven't led to more jobs in America the last 50 years."

Well, the thing is: IT HAS.

Now more people work than ever. People continue working instead of retiring like they did in the past, and women work(almost doubling the jobs).

Also the population has grown, a lot. So yes, there are lots of more jobs.
Clifford Nass [Wikipedia]
wow such question