skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having a maid/gardener etc is fairly common in most 3rd world countries. Often the wage is a bit on the dubious side, but I think most of our 1st world country hn people are misinterpreting this as intentionally malicious. The process usually involves asking some close friends/relatives what they pay & then paying similar amounts. The end result is that its market forces driven.

As for minimum wage - certainly. However it must be set according to the country. e.g. If you set the minimum wage in my country at what an American might think appropriate then you'd double unemployment overnight. "Living wage"...sure but one has to be realistic too - at some point you push people out of the formal economy & that point is very very low for 3rd world countries.
I consider that I live day to day in a very average technical social scene. I don't know a single person that wants to have to wear smart glasses, myself included.

There isn't a scenario under which a company can convince me to frequently wear glasses. You couldn't pay me to do it, I hate the physical annoyance.

I have an alternative prediction: while the tech people predicting smart glasses or smart watches are the future, the smart phone will simply roll on dominating the 'smart' category, overwhelmingly. Five years from now, smart phones will still dominate, to such a degree it'll be viewed as a joke in hindsight that anybody thought smart watches or smart glasses would replace or even meaningfully compete with smart phones. This will befuddle all the experts, because they don't actually understand the larger consumer market.

I'm not a big Apple fan, but I believe the reason why the best consumer electronics company hasn't been in a rush to dive into smart watches or smart glasses, is because both are borderline irrelevant side markets and will remain so. It would have been like Apple feeling the need to dominate the LCD picture viewing device segment that was temporarily the 'thing' seven or eight years ago.

Another prediction: smart glasses will be useful enough beyond what smart phones offer, in about another decade, to justify some independent category success. In the meantime the failure of the category to catch sustainable consumer traction, is, again, going to astound the 'experts.'
'specialist' should really be measured in comparison to how well the average person or perhaps 85th percentile person can perform the job, not whether they're better than their employer.
Chris, && and || are short-circuited operators that create sequence points. They are exceptions to that rule.

except where noted [e.g. special rules for && and ||], the order of evaluation of operands of individual operators and subexpressions of individual expressions, and the order in which side effects take place, is Unspecified.

This is basic stuff Chris, let's not debate the obvious, this kind of code is all over the place in the Linux kernel.
It's astounding that an article like this is published in 2013 anywhere but the dark corners of supremacist sites and the memoirs of fading British lords, where it belongs.

This is nothing more than moaning that the modern predominantly-white, predominantly-male, virtually entirely rich elite are too "new money" for the old predominantly-white, predominantly-male, virtually entirely rich elite.
Well he may well have been conducting official business when the crash occurred, meaning it would be quite justified to claim diplomatic immunity. Underpaying a worker in a domestic situation has nothing to do with official consular business.

The US is taking a very strong stand that it will not tolerate abuse and exploitation in its borders, even under the guise or protection of diplomatic activity.
> big data is more about a form of non-relational data that updates very quickly, doesn't need joins, needs high availability

You're talking about NoSQL actually. Interestingly, I find that big data is normally synonymous with the unstructured data that updates very frequently, doesn't need joins, etc that you speak of. Structured data in large businesses, such as general ledgers, sales orders, purchase orders, etc. is generally quite fast. The only problem in that area today is getting that data out into complex reporting. It requires a lot of processing (either routine or manual) to get it into an optimized format. Big data came about because companies like FB, Google, Twitter, pretty much any online analytics company, AirBnb, etc. are crunching large sets of behavioral events. (user clicked this button) Outside of those use cases, data just doesn't grow as fast as the marketeers of Big Data claim it is.
The surrounding countries are significantly poorer?

Thailand: GDP: $701.554b, Per Capita: $10,849

Myanmar: GDP: $111.120b, Per Capita: $1,711

Cambodia: GDP: $36.540b, Per Capita: $2,395

Laos: GDP: $19.158b, Per Capita: $3,004

Vietnam: GDP: $358.889b, Per Capita: $4,001

What's more interesting is the poor coverage of South Korea (which BTW, has pretty good street view equivalent coverage from domestic google map alternatives)

http://map.daum.net/ (hit the little web cam looking icon in the upper right to see where you can street view
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure :)
I assume they would call them servants, nannies, or au pairs. The later two would be hard to get away with if they were retirees (no children I assume), they would be calling them that just to avoid calling them servants.

Just because some retirees retire to developing countries so that they can pretend to have old-money and have servants does not mean that having servants is viewed by Americans as normal.

I had a middle-class upbringing, (certainly not upper-middle, but money was rarely a source of stress or unease in my family, so not really lower-middle either). One of my aunt/uncles were very solidly upper-middle though, and had for several years a series of "au pairs" who were ostensibly in the US first and foremost to study. Even this wasn't "normal" to my family, the entire arrangement made us very uncomfortable.
Moving your arm a bit isn't much of an imposition compared to fishing out, unlocking, and returning a phone.

(fwp acknowledged)
If you were asian? Yes, absolutely. This is a woman asking how many women are on the team. It's completely relevant to her interests.
eh... Bombay is Mumbai - and since the author referred to her life growing up in Bombay / Mumbai - the comparison applies. That said - Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Chennai - are all comparable to a reasonable extend to Bombay.
The example you use is Google Analytics. I've no idea how big that dataset is, but I imagine bigger than anything I've encountered before.

That said, I'd do everything you mention in a relational database. SELECT COUNT(fieldname) FROM {tablename} and all that.

Are you ok with eventual consistency as a price for partition tolerance and availability? The data sizes I typically work with allow me to go with availability and consistency at the expense of partition tolerance. And that's ok because my data replicates, and my response time objectives and recovery point objectives are set to something appropriate. This is worth it to me if the benefit is an operational data store that I can query in real time without impacting writes.

Still haven't heard of a scenario which would compel me to go a NoSQL only route (a scenario that isn't Google or Facebook or similar).
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Thank god. I'd rather live in a world that represents everyone than to have a ruling class consisting of a single type.
Higher level I guess. Higher level than CUDA or OpenCL. But Accelerate is pretty cool. I've been meaning to learn Haskell, so I might take a closer look at it some time. We were aiming for a different niche. Vector is basically just "Coffeescript for CUDA", in that most of the syntax is a one-to-one mapping, but annoying details like memory management are abstracted away.
You're right, the root cause here is jealously, boredom, and a typical bully attitude.

However technology is a core feature of the root cause that the protesters claim. They are not angry at moderately wealthy workers in general, they are angry at moderately wealthy workers from technology companies in particular. They make this excruciatingly clear.

And do not even think of telling me that the only wealthy people in SF are those working for technology companies. That is bullshit, and you know it.
It's not straightforward hypocrisy when the legal system or jail system in the other country is substandard to the US's. That may be unlikely nowadays but it's something to consider.
I found David Brooks' book "Bobos" to be very informative about our new elites.

http://www.amerika.org/books/bobos-in-paradise-the-new-upper...
This was an undergraduate project? Props.
I'll take not shaking Jesse Owens hand and harsh treatment of Japanese over what could be our world today...Nazis, Communism. Cmon.
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I wonder if Google is going to get around to doing Canal view and river view? (I know they've done some, but it'd be good to have everything).
What a child like view
I don't have a horse in this race, but have you ever been around drug dealers?
right - then maybe the US should take a look at California where Mexican agricultural workers are severely underpaid. That's just one example. But then again - someone has to harvest those avocadoes right?
Either that, or there's a sea change coming.
They're completely different.

Susskind won't teach you things like friction, drag, or elasticity. But, he will teach you some of the most profound theoretical insights of modern physics.

Lewin won't teach you Euler-Lagrange Equations, or Noether's Theorem. But, he will teach you how to think about solving practical physics problems.

They also have different sense of humour:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApUFtLCrU90#t=49m27s
Thank you For sharing. I wanted to learn symfony framework.
> Where did I do that?

by saying "even Arnold Schwarzenegger". What does the "even" mean, then?

Another interesting thought is that he actually stole the shirt to demoralize, so for Zersetzungspurposes.

> what was my point about harassment?

That's it's "natural", and therefore not Zersetzung. Not really much of a point if you ask me.
Are you saying that harassment like this is not one of the reasons the Stasi are maligned? Of course it is...
Maybe we should have a system in place to prosecute "immune" diplomats ourselves after they flee.
Although I don't think you were commenting directly on my post (your grandparent), I'd like to point out when I say a "SQL database" or "SQL server" I'm talking about Microsoft SQL Server.
It's a meritocracy because anyone can grow up to be a banker.

Edit: not 100% sure why this
Got down voted but I was being serious. Meritocracy fits as long as the basis of assignment is merit. Just because the system is broken doesn't mean it's not a meritocracy.
Nice list! I see a few things I already have, and a bunch more that I'll check out.

A question for those who spend more time doing front-end web development: What do all of these much-touted Firefox development plugins like Firebug do that Chrome developer tools doesn't do?
> all of Indias middle class didn't get together one day and decide to manipulate that rate!

What do you think the caste system is?
> reverse-engineer it

Or bribes to get the command
There would be no feasible way to implement such a system, even if it were desirable to do so.
A non-cheating solution, 79 points.

^((xx?|xxxx)(\2{7})?)(\1{63})?$
Maybe not faster to write, but it'd be less repetitive. I've written a bit of CUDA code, and having to put in a bunch of cudaMemcpy calls everywhere got pretty old. Also, reduce is pretty annoying to implement properly, and I'd rather not have to do it again for every possible reducing function.
Meritocracy?

What a load of garbage!

http://www.ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/v21/merit.htm

"According to the ideology of the American Dream, America is the land of limitless opportunity in which individuals can go as far as their own merit takes them. According to this ideology, you get out of the system what you put into it. Getting ahead is ostensibly based on individual merit, which is generally viewed as a combination of factors including innate abilities, working hard, having the right attitude, and having high moral character and integrity. Americans not only tend to think that is how the system should work, but most Americans also think that is how the system does work (Huber and Form 1973, Kluegel and Smith 1986, Ladd 1994).

In our book The Meritocracy Myth (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), we challenge the validity of these commonly held assertions, by arguing that there is a gap between how people think the system works and how the system actually does work. We refer to this gap as “the meritocracy myth,” or the myth that the system distributes resources—especially wealth and income—according to the merit of individuals. We challenge this assertion in two ways. First, we suggest that while merit does indeed affect who ends up with what, the impact of merit on economic outcomes is vastly overestimated by the ideology of the American Dream. Second, we identify a variety of nonmerit factors that suppress, neutralize, or even negate the effects of merit and create barriers to individual mobility. We summarize these arguments below. First, however, we take a brief look at what is at stake. That is, what is up for grabs in the race to get ahead?"

http://www.law.umn.edu/lawreview/v85n2.htm
That's not true.

Let me give you an example from mobile app development. As many of you know, Amazon's CloudFront lets you make an in-app connection to cdn.example.com, which may be a DNS alias for something like drj6nl5tupx60.cloudfront.net. Amazon will generate a cache hit or miss and, if not cached, connect to your example.com servers.

The ideal way to do this is to generate an SSL certificate for the CloudFront distribution, but Amazon charges you $7,200 per year for that privilege: http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/

So if you want to load non-private images, video, etc. content via HTTPS from cdn.example.com via SSL without giving Amazon $7,200 a year, there will be an invalid certificate chain error.

Some app development environments (not pointing any fingers right now in hopes this gets fixed quickly) do not support bypassing SSL certificate checks. So in some cases the answer is not to deploy HTTPS. :(
It's feasible. The US prosecutes Americans who molest children in Thailand.
Prostitution in the Netherlands went through a similar transition a few years ago, it's now fully decriminalised.

The results have been mixed however. It has created a new market of prostitutes, typically illegal immigrants forced into it by human traffickers, who are willing to do more for less than the legal ones. Meanwhile the legal ones are forced to pay taxes with all the paper work that comes with it, since they are now first class citizens, and they are understandably unhappy about that and typically try to evade taxes, making their activity illegal again.

I don't think criminalising it again would be a good idea, but there is no easy solution for this issue.
I think the best example of this shift can be found in the Supreme Court: not a single justice is a WASP, but they all have degrees from Harvard or Yale.
If they're making 10x as much as a farm worker, including benefits, then doesn't that mean they're already making a living wage? A minimum wage probably wouldn't affect them significantly in that case.

But is the article wrong then? Why would someone with 10x the income of a farm worker villager live in a shanty town without water?
The fundamental issue of C+= is the line between legitimate political discourse and offensive material is very subjective and political, and yet it is treated like it is an objective matter by the companies who censor C+=. They are basically saying "you can have any opinion you like, but if the left deems this opinion to be offensive, then it is no longer legitimate political expression".

Furthermore, some people on the left add a completely wrong notion that if you criticize group X, and someone else harasses or threatens someone from group X, then all criticism of group X is complicit in this harassment.
StartSSL has free certificates, or you can pay $60 for validation for a year which gives you unlimited certificates on unlimited domains with a 2Y expiry, so if your set of domains is reasonably static you only have to pay every two years.

You can also get alt names on your certificates, so if you want to support IE on XP or Android 2.2 then you can put several domains on the same certificate.

I have no interest in StartSSL, just a happy customer :).
But anyone seeking valuable info might want to stay unnoticed: no need to alarm/alert others — Applebaum, his allies, or other security services — prematurely. Peek first, then decide whether what's discovered is best known secretly, or not.
Right, but that's repairing damage that has happened. Preventative means something else. It means taking preemptive action. Preventative healthcare would be something like paying for your vitamins and gym membership.
Not a bad place for a Bitcoin miner. There's cold Arctic air for cooling and cheap geothermal energy for power.
I did this on a client project recently, but ended up moving away from it. I Found it falls down when you have different devs working on the same features from different ends. Instead, I used JSON files that the back end would just serve from the routes I expected.

Firstly, it provides a clearer and more obvious contract with the back end, one that you can see in the network traffic.

Also, when the endpoint is actually implemented on the API, it all Just Works. There's no intermediate step of pulling out the mocks and letting the real data flow through. It also provides a simple smoke test path during development of the endpoint.
Is there much evidence that large criminal organizations care about the standard themes of intelligence / counterintelligence?
how about neither? It's possible to not be a racist and still lead a country, especially a country built on the backs of immigrants.
Central Europe, except Austria, Slovenia (and most of Germany) - I love it
Double edged sword. Once your prospect learns with virtual certainty that you have access to all their internal communications, the prospect must assume that they are your bitch, regardless of how good the deal may appear.

They may also feel they've been treated more like an adversary or enemy than a potential trading partner.

If I learned that the Ford dealer had been looking in my bank account to adjust their negotiations, I'd walk.
Well, he jumps back a little bit in these but don't tell me you don't see the difference. It's pretty big.
Not the kind of banker that makes up the aforementioned kleptocracy.

I mean, we're talking about high-powered investment bankers. Those come almost exclusively from Ivy League schools, and it's definitely not the case that just about anyone can get into them.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment - the coiner of the word weighs in
If I offer Joe a job at $2.00 an hour, which is less than the minimum wage, and Joe wants to accept the job, then I have forced Joe to live close to poverty or to work multiple jobs?

The offer is voluntary. Joe can either accept it or refuse it.

Why doesn't Joe get to say whether he's willing to accept the job or not? I'd say that the government is the entity introducing the use of force into what was otherwise a voluntary situation.
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>India's problem is poverty, not inequality.

I would agree, but life in a city like Kolkata is very different from a place like tribal Odisha. Sheer numbers (as opposed to percentages) are more important when you get in the hundreds of millions.
Might want to invest in some linebreaks. (fold --spaces --width 60)

According to the ideology of the American Dream, America is
the land of limitless opportunity in which individuals can
go as far as their own merit takes them. According to this
ideology, you get out of the system what you put into it.
Getting ahead is ostensibly based on individual merit,
which is generally viewed as a combination of factors
including innate abilities, working hard, having the right
attitude, and having high moral character and integrity.
Americans not only tend to think that is how the system
should work, but most Americans also think that is how the
system does work (Huber and Form 1973, Kluegel and Smith
1986, Ladd 1994).

In our book The Meritocracy Myth (Rowman & Littlefield,
2004), we challenge the validity of these commonly held
assertions, by arguing that there is a gap between how
people think the system works and how the system actually
does work. We refer to this gap as “the meritocracy
myth,” or the myth that the system distributes
resources—especially wealth and income—according to the
merit of individuals. We challenge this assertion in two
ways. First, we suggest that while merit does indeed affect
who ends up with what, the impact of merit on economic
outcomes is vastly overestimated by the ideology of the
American Dream. Second, we identify a variety of nonmerit
factors that suppress, neutralize, or even negate the
effects of merit and create barriers to individual
mobility. We summarize these arguments below. First,
however, we take a brief look at what is at stake. That is,
what is up for grabs in the race to get ahead?
#2 is mostly in case you want to make sure the tool is released to the general public and not just absorbed by the employer into their own IP.
Sure, and this is what HTTPS certificates from a CA are for. If your users are willing to click through the "warning: self-signed certificate" popups, then they're vulnerable, of course. But if they don't make that mistake, then your DNS result is reliable unless someone compromises the CA. Of course, CAs do get compromised.

Or did I miss the point of your comment?
I suspect he had no official business crossing the line in the road. Using your logic, if you are tasked with delivering official documents from point A to point B, is it covered under diplomatic immunity to stop somewhere between A and B and murder someone?
Oh my god, dude. I honestly didn't understand what you were getting at. I read more into the extra commentary than you intended.
One of the most objectionable parts of this whole story is that an Indian court put out a warrant for this woman's arrest for quitting her job ("absconding") and then took her husband and child into custody!

Complaining about barbaric treatment when you have legally enforced indentured servitude and punish family members for alledged crimes, is real chutzpah.
Instead of S3, it may be possible to do "small computer with harddrive hidden inside the house (furniture, walls, ceiling, etc) tapped into a power-line and connected over wifi.

Their options for finding that would be limited if they did not bring equipment to triangulate wifi devices with them. Limited to methods that would certainly leave a trace of their presence. If you set the camera up correctly, it might not even be immediately apparent that they had to look for the storage device (give the camera plenty of storage of it's own, so that it seemed likely that the images were being stored on the camera.)

Sure, they might come back next week with the equipment they need, but in the meantime you'll have your photographic evidence and a few days to go public with it.