skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" The free time issue is a big one."

I have four kids, a career in software (after almost 20 years that included hardware design), a couple of outside activities but the reality is that software is (and has been) my hobby. And I pursue my hobby instead of watching television, I read software books more frequently than fiction.

You could probably say my life isn't very balanced, but my kids and wife haven't complained that I don't make time for them. It's a matter of sleeping less and not filling my time with other hobbies. I'd hate to call this racism (not that racism doesn't exist) when it might just be cultural differences?

I realize that there are definite economic barriers to even having time for a hobby, and that put having a suitable computer out-of-reach, so I think I'd rather see this particular issue framed as one of SES. Racism, as well as a variety of other factors can definitely affect SES ... and there's often continuity within a family.

So what can we do? Since it's the season of giving, I'll start with an offer. If you believe you're being kept out of the software field, you're truly passionate about software as a career (not just because the pay tends to be good) and if you're in the Central Pennsylvania area, please contact me via the e-mail in my profile. I'll do what I can to get you connected into a community and set up with a used computer that should get you started.
Sounds like the typical case of a poor nation.

There is no incentive to stay, the country is in a dreadful economic state, a large socio-political diaspora is present and so forth.

In times of desperation like this, it's usually the same everywhere: parents strongly guide their children into entering fields that are profitable and flourishing in academia. Their intentions are benevolent, but the way they accomplish this is often forceful, egocentric and driven not by the virtue of knowledge and intellect, but rather the expectations of prosperity.

Very often, although there is a superficial appearance of high intellectual culture, the reality is that many of these people are doing it to appease their parents and are actually mediocre in their fields. Also societies which insist on formal education this much tend to teach in a very flawed manner: mere rote memorization with no immersion.

In the end, you breed soulless parrots who can recite lectures and academic papers, but show no passion or intimate understanding and desire to refine their skills. This is how you get dull, 9-to-5 code monkeys who can write instructions in PHP and Java in a sort of cargo cult way with no sophistication.

Drug was never the problem because even carrying drug is capital crime.

Aye, when will people learn prohibition never works?
When the someone questions my resolve, I question their aims.
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My point is this: the concept of a larger government is very murky, so we should be very careful when we're talking about it. The stereotypical libertarian will propose universal, strict enforcement of violence used to protect people to whom the State has granted monopoly access to material goods. I don't recognize that as a smaller State than someone who proposes that except annually taking some proportion of it and redistributing it.

One state may be better than the other, but it's still all pile of violence, configured in a different way.
The ability to filter by more specific skills, rates and locations (including possible future locations...) would also be very useful
So the former is a case of the blind leading the deaf, and the latter is a case of the dumb leading the blind.
You are ignoring that there are competing providers. In a competitive market, no one provider can maintain a price that is designed to "empty" an HSA account.
Also, some twitter links are broken

e.g. http://availability.is/for/sebinsua links to http://twitter.com/http://twitter.com/sebinsua
As a non-American, I see him as a hero but I am frankly more outraged by the revelations of how complicit European governments have been, and how unwilling the press have been to follow it up.

The shocking level of quiet acceptance and resignation is to me indication we need many more like Snowden, not only in the US. And frankly, I've come to think that the most important form of political activism is not to agitate for change at this point, but to build up support structures for whistleblowers and find ways of actively encouraging whistleblowing. Not just technical infrastructure for anonymous leaks, but physical protection, escape routes, and support networks.

Not just to get leaks, but to destroy morale in these organizations by making everyone worry about whether their co-workers will turn. Make these agencies consume themselves.

I do recognize that states needs intelligence to protect their interests, but that does not make it right. In fact, I see it as a symptoms of a fundamentally broken system, and yet another reason why the state can never avoid becoming a tool of oppression.

One thing that makes me happy about recent developments though, is that while I used to be far out on the fringe when it comes to my views on the immorality of US foreign policy (I used to regularly face people who refused to accept that CIA actions that past CIA directors had publicly admitted to in broadcast TV interviews ever happened, that's the extent of the trust the US used to have with the European right), here in the UK I now meet people far, far right of me politically who now agree with me or even are more negative to it than me where they'd previously have refused to acknowledge it even as a possibility.

The view of the US as "land of the free" is rapidly disappearing amongst the type of people I meet, and it is more and more common to hear people across the political spectrum refer to the US a police state or complain about increasing authoritarianism. It's not long ago since the idea of meeting Europeans who refuse on principle to travel to the US would be utterly bizarre - now it is relatively commonplace.

As for a "tendency to treachery", I find that description disgusting. Anyone going into public service has a duty first and foremost to the people. No matter what they might sign or what other promises they might make. In that respect he did his job far better than most other NSA employees, whether or not the public are grateful for it now.
I haven't been to any Scala events yet though I did watch a number of the videos from Scala Days 2013 and I'm hoping to attend 2014 in Berlin.

What exactly made London so bad?
and even post employment saying that you had worked for the NSA you can see the crap attitude to protective security that let snowden happen.
Sacha also created a very decent course (Discover Meteor) that goes through the process of building such a site using meteor.

// No affiliation.
You are talking about areas where often the only (semi) viable form of income is the drugs trade, and the education system does not work.
Missing 4x swipe up and down?
It would seem to me that it's two orthogonal questions, where the probable harm is related to their product. They shouldn't be mass collecting data; they should be competently protecting data they collect.
Like the Arab spring, this is an Indian monsoon.
To me with us means whether I care about my extended families - city, state, nation, World - and how they are doing. Not just taking the view that everybody fends for themselves alone.
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This doesn't follow. AirBnB does what it does. The laws in each and every area do what they do. There is no need for them to overlap, nor does a legal entity taking a position against AirBnB's potential customers make them a 'bad actor'in the general sense.
I hope they continue being simultaneous for a long time then ... Not being in the Ruby community, I've never seen either of them but I'd love to tell them "live long and prosper".

One caveat though ... I'm horrible with names and faces. This includes plenty of white people who happen to look alike. Fortunately I'm to the point where I can pick my wife and kids out of a crowd. Is this a common affliction among people who pursue software?
I believe you were being rhetorical jpttsn; but in any case, Simon assumes no one would ever debate his collectivist query.
Here's the thing you don't understand: Yes, conservatives do want the poor to suffer, because they think the poor are poor because they're too lazy to work hard and overcome their poverty. Making them suffer is the only way to make them contribute to society, in their view.

Also, yes, as a liberal, I do want to take money from the rich and give it to people who don't deserve it. That is exactly what I want to do. What do you think social welfare is? If you only give money to people who meet some arbitrary moral standard, you aren't helping everyone who needs help. I believe in universal income, universal healthcare, universal education, universal pensions, etc, etc. It has nothing to do with deserts.
> I'd love to meet the "sensible people"

uh, okay.

it would be better if you simply just stated your case and/or evidence because that is what HN is for.
The article does mention and debuffs it. Its the difference between 32 and 40% Its based off one study of small sample size and is not biologically plausible.

>The incidence of what are known as serious adverse events — a catchall category that includes hospitalizations for any reason — was slightly higher in the Avastin group: 40 percent vs. 32 percent. The adverse events included broken bones and urinary tract infections.

“The majority of the adverse events would be difficult to imagine being caused by the drug,” Martin said. Martin noted that while small, probably random effects favored Lucentis in some cases and in others they favored Avastin. Neither should be viewed as conclusively related to the drug, he said.
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If you're implying that we need to madly slash all government operations, I think that's pretty misguided.

We're actually running a secondary surplus right now, given that the rate of inflation is higher than the extremely low interest rates on our national debt.
> I already know that hypocrisy is not mutually exclusive with being correct

Then you already know that TheZenPsycho's hypocrisy was irrelevant? Not merely "not mutually exclusive with being correct", but basically a non-sequiter. So tell me, why bother bringing it up? At this point, I really am curious what you were thinking.

> trotting out logical fallacies doesn't make you look smart

But fallacies are useful for stating my position succinctly and accurately. If you're familiar, then the chance you'll misunderstand me is negligible. If you're unfamiliar, then the chance you'll misunderstand me (upon reading wikipedia and my example) is at least reduced. The alternative is to concoct an explanation which leads us to speak past each other. I give you Example A:

> The point is that the parent seemed oh so saddened by the lack of constructive discourse here, yet he has at least two similar comments.

No, that's not your point. That's one of your supporting arguments. Your actual point is "Therefore, TheZenPsycho should not have criticized me." I agree, fallacies don't make me look any smarter. But I imagine they avoid making me look as dumb as someone who can't defend their own position properly.

Furthermore, my comment was a Refutation of the Central Point. As a fellow HN user, surely you recognize this from How to Disagree [1]. Your point was predicated solely upon double standards (and vitriol?). And then I stated not only that double standards are noise, but also why I actually disagree with you by referencing HN's guidelines.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Do you have a permit from the EPA to burn all of that straw?
> "Do you really think they just let people access these systems without rules? You really believe that?"

Perhaps she was still doing damage control for them?
Accelerating serendipity
BeeTalk - An App that combines all the messaging apps into one.
And would give Snapchat and LINE a run for its money.
Everybody knows Elite, so I won't say much about that. But Exile really was a spectacular game for the time. Actually, I didn't realise it was procedurally generated - which probably explains why I spent many hours as a teen trying to work out how on earth they made it all fit in ~20k of RAM.
Thank you for this! As someone with mostly liberal friends and mostly conservative family, the willingness of both sides to judge and belittle the other while making no effort to understand their perspective drives me batty.
I don't think that the word atom here refer to the usual physical object (which shouldn't be called that way btw), but rather to indivisible objects (ie. the original meaning of atom) in the game data model, iow every actors (passive or active).
what ever a NSA employee has done or not done saying that is the same as a war crime for example the Srebrenica massacre is just childish hyperbole.
maybe i just don't know what i'm talking about, but i feel there is a disconnect, but its not clean - its because of the intrinsic value that it is such a 'tradeable' thing.

the prices of many things are driven by supply and demand, and i'm not going to disagree with that, but the article gives far too much weight to that side of it imo and poisons me against it with sloppy wording.

without the intrinsic value there would be no demand...

its not like, e.g. bank notes, EPNS or copper coins, whose value is almost entirely due to trading and very nearly completely disconnected from their intrinsic value. even then they inherit some of their value from their durability and utility in that arena...

tbh, i've only ever bought gold for cosmetic reasons... i know very well that gold contacts and radiators are generally a sales gimmick rather than beneficial.
Just a minor thing: You could replace the "tick" icon with Font Awesome [1] icons so they wouldn't look pixelated on retina displays.

[1] http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/
... if one was trying to grandstand and spout meaningless platitudes.
My morale would be low too if I had just deprived billions of people of their rights to privacy. It could be said that suicide would be a good option for anyone suffering from especially low morale regarding their complicity in the largest breach of trust in US history. They aren't sorry, they're sorry they got caught.
Its not really to do with trade surpluses. They have not always had trade surpluses, indeed they mostly had huge banking and deficit crises a while back, the surpluses are more recent (Finland's started with Nokia, which at one point dominated the economy and trade).
Fun fact: Engels actually wrote a whole book about this: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-famil...
“Anybody who publishes stolen info should help catch the thief”
Stealthy Peer-to-peer C&C over SMB pipes
Contrived example time?

What is the political system on the spaceship that allows three of the four to hold a vote and kill off the least popular guy on the spaceship?
The LLC can be taxed as a pass-through/partnership... meaning no double-taxation. Any income taxes are only on net income, while I believe the hotel tax is on gross revenues.
Yeah I actually posted that from inside a masonic Lodge ironically (dinner party that was basically a throw back to 1970). I'm not a mason but one of my relatives is. Have escaped now, thank fuck.

Masons still tend to be well connected in traditional professions if they admit it or not and they do leverage their connection regularly. The appearance I get is that they are downplaying themselves as a "happy little drinking club" rather than a formal organisation.

The basic promise of the masons is that they will always put another mason first. That first means before the law and before ethics.

I've witnessed this (with respect to the law). They can make your life very difficult if they want to so I'm keeping out of their business past the formality.
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Hardly. We make clear distinctions between the State and society. But also know that "government" isn't always a State.

A State exists if there are class divisions, with the more powerful class holding the power of the State.

Since the resources and infrastructure to begin a society without want exists, we support taking control of the State (still a State but with the class holding the power reversed) to use it for those goals.

End goal being no State due to no classes.
I am not in this together. I am here for myself and my family. To use the famous example of a pencil: no one knows how to produce a pencil. It takes expertise (and infrastructure, i.e. private property) to cut and process wood, to mine graphite and iron for a band, etc etc etc. If some social engineer like David Simon comes in and says "we need to produce pencils together", nothing is going to be done. Because inevitably social engineering means that he (or the bureaucrats that share his ideology) will decide how to shift resources and someone's private property to better produce pencils.

Let's also not forget that founder fathers consistently looked at this and came to the conclusion that an attack on private property is an attack on liberty. That's the reason for a limited gov't.

The big question is why at a time when we have unprecedented size and reach of gov't, and liberty is tramped, we hear these desperate calls that things are not working well?
Well, I think you're into another extreme. Developing, yes. Poor? Maybe. Desperate? I'm not sure. At least our school days are full of fond memories. And my classmates seemed happy, and I was definitely happy. More importantly, we did enjoy learning.
article refer to famous political figure of ex-ruling party(INC) in Delhi , a person who challenged Arvind Kejriwal 1 year ago to come into politics and win , Arvind did win his first election . No one give ears to such speech and articles of such politician(Kapil Sibbal) .
to clarify:

they are using one of the drugs moreso than another as a profit center.

IE, given no other constraints, I'd expect a pharma to distribute its R&D cost over its drug profit centers weighted by the drug's profit margin, and that all the drug's profit margins would be roughly equal: naively, I'd expect them to raise the price of Avastin and lower the price of Lucentis, assuming the costs of producing them truly are similar.

The reality is, likely there are proprietary reasons we're not privy to that causes the cost differential. They could be technical (maybe it does cause much, much more to produce Lucentis), or the could be business (maybe increasing the price of Avastin could cause it to sell poorly against another drug from a competitor)
"... user installed root CAs are given the authority to override pins."

This is the answer I was seeking. Thank you!
Ask HN: Is it possible to start of as a programmer at almost 40?
I am almost 40. I have been programming as a hobby so far because I could never get a job as a programmer. I am ok with Java and now learning Go which I totally love now and some JS. Is it possible to start of as a professional programmer at almost 40 ?

Update: Thanks everyone for your honest and insightful feedback. It helped me truly to stay upbeat about starting as a programmer at 40.
The world’s wind patterns, with temperature, fire, rainfall, and dust
I'm not a libertarian, so I can't speak on OP's argument, but in NYC the ability for renters to sublet their apartments is enshrined by law, and technically any contract that doesn't allow subletting is breaking said law (which, if I remember correctly (and IANAL), makes that clause of the contract void, but not the rest of the contract).
There is no such thing as society - Thatcher
Germany considers arming police with Nazi music identifier app
The US as it exists today simply is not capitalist. The Great Depression and 19th-century industrial slums can reasonably be blamed on capitalism. American problems today cannot.

This isn't the fallacy of "no true Scotsman". It's just simple arithmetic. Look at a pie chart of GDP. About 40% of it is outright owned by the government (public spending). Another 40% of it is nominally private, but is extremely heavily regulated License-Raj-style, like real estate and medicine.

For example, if you want to build a new apartment tower, this is almost everywhere illegal because of zoning codes. The government has to give you permission to build anything, and then once you get permission, they dictate what you can build, how high you can build, what the building can be used for, how much parking there will be, how much of the land has to be building vs. landscaping, how far your building is away from the street, etc. etc. etc. It's literal central planning - a government committee takes out a map and draws lines, and then dictates at each spot exactly what kind of buildings there will be. None of this existed prior to the mid 20th century.
It's a contrived analogy, mainly because - as Simon points out in the article:

> Their eyes glaze...It's too much. Too much to contemplate the idea that the whole country might be actually connected.

It seems to me that people struggle to deal with this issue when scaled out to a population beyond their immediate social circle. That's one of the problems.

The other is, as soon as you scale it back to a comprehensible size, people shout "straw man!" and the debate goes nowhere.
Not sure why, but instinctually, I really do not like the man who does not exist. Perhaps it's because I am an Ayn Rand hating libertarian. Or perhaps it's because he is the kind of man who takes advantage of the market with little to no regard to externalities, and when someone questions his actions, he wraps himself in an American Flag and screams about his god given rights.
Appealing to the Constitution isn't really a valid line of argument, though. The Constitution isn't the Bible. It cannot, and should not, prescribe morality, which is what should drive law-making; nor should any part of it, including the Bill of Rights, be sacrosanct. The Constitution, and its derivates the US Code and state constitutions, are authoritative only to the point that they usefully represent their constituents' morality.

> it should be encouraged at every step, though never forced

I think you'll find that most of your "wacky libertarian" buddies don't see the distinction between these two methods.

> Probably, the answer is somewhere in the middle, and I don't claim to know where it is.

I'd recommend reading this book: http://www.amazon.com/Talking-Strangers-Anxieties-Citizenshi... One of the things it helps do is explain how and why we should negotiate the middle.
People convince the government to defund public schools, they then complain public schools are failing in order to get more private schools built.
* Crowd funded startup , common people donated money unlike other parties funded by Industrialists and lobbyists.
You're not butchering it at all, that's exactly correct.