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At the risk of putting yet more political news in HN, here are some news in English. I'm not sure how accurate these are as I just skimmed over them.

[Edit: I don't know how accurate these are, but they are from 'reputable' sources I think, but I guess that depends on your personal opinion. It's not the HuffPo though.]

I live in Mexico so I have access to news coverage and even YouTube videos of the self-defense group's leader himself, which I will link below, but it's in Spanish. Maybe if a couple of people ask for it I can do a transcription in English.

So here:

The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/28/mexico-drug-car...

WaPo: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/in-the-hill...

WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230400750...

Interviews with one of the leaders of one of the groups, in Spanish. (there are different groups in differente cities/town which don't have any connection between them. They are all independent as far as I know, not organized toghether yet).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9S1FMJ6NX8

Here, the leader of the group in Tepalcatepec, Michoacan, Doctor Mireles (he's a surgeon) explains how things started getting so crazy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9S1FMJ6NX8

It's heart-breaking, but one of the most impressive and wicked things he says is, if you forward to minute 6:57, he explains how, even when the cartels where in the area since a lot of years already, civilians got fed up when this happened, and I'm quoting:

"The problem blew up when they [cartel members] came to your house and told you 'I like your wife, I'll bring her back in a moment. But in the meanwhile go get your girl a bath [girl meaning your daughter, around 10 to 13 years old] because I will be taking her for several days' and then they would not return her to you until she was pregnant. THAT was the reason the situation exploted in Tepalcatepec".

Some minutes before, at 4:28 he explains why he joined the movement. He says that in the month of December only (of 2012 I believe) 14 girls between the ages of 10 and 11 were raped. And all this on top of things like, for every cow that you sell, you had to pay X amount of pesos to the cartels. For every kilo of tortilla, same thing. Basically it was a form of cartel taxes. The thing is he says that even when they had that extorsion thing going on, things were relatively "in peace", meaning that executions and such were just happening between cartel members, and not with the civilian population. And then he explains the quote above, of what made everything blow to pieces...

Now, this Mireles guy is just the leader of the groups in one of the municipalities, namely Tepalcatepec. But other groups are already active from other places as well. Also, you have to take into account that, at least Tepalcatepec, in 2005, it had around 22,000 people. So it's not a big city but it's definitely not just a collection of houses.

That's why I said that things are also quite dark and siniter down here.
However, I have never worked more than 40 hours a week.

Strange that people keep harping on the 40 hours a week thing. Passion != long hours. Everyone can read into it all they want to try to eek out their own hidden meanings, but my experience has been exactly the opposite -- the passionate people are the ones who usually have the greatest flexibility and put in the least hours.
Shoprunner is not even remotely the same kind of site as Amazon. Comparing the too seems like comparing Walmart with a tiny boutique.
I'm not sure if I've ever actually paid $80 for prime.

I got it originally for free as a college student, then they kept giving me half off discounts when it was time to renew. I don't know what I paid last time I renewed.

Even at $120 I'll still pay for it. It's an awesome service and I get way more than $120 value out of it. I never watched their videos either, but Betas and Alpha House are actually pretty good.
I agree with you, but with reservations. Despite significant evidence to the contrary, there are those who, far from extracting wealth, actually create it by their brains, hard work and luck. If we can acknowledge that, we can still argue that the shared commonwealth through which they worked was indispensable to their achievements. From each according to his/her ability may be thought of as Marxist, but the idea predated Marx by at least 1800 years and still makes sense.
I just wish it wasn't written in PHP. Makes me not entirely trust it.
The government giveth and the government can taketh away. Property rights, money, laws are all government constructions without them you can only keep what you can forcibly defend. so, "theft" has no meaning without a government to back it up.
> That is already what happens. e.g. the top 10% by income already contribute >70% of the total federal income tax revenue.

Which would be meaningful, if "federal income tax" was the only federal tax, or even the only federal tax on income.
Have you considered the AeroFS (https://www.aerofs.com/pricing)? I have not used AeroFS, but it would be on my list to evaluate for your use case, especially if external storage is undesirable. Pricing seems in line with Dropbox for Business, although this does not take into account the cost of maintaining your own storage.
All software is janky.

At my first internship i saw all these problems with their code base. Documentation was nonexistent at best, or lagging way behind the code at worst. Tons of hacks and larger structural issues. "No way these guys will last more than a few years, I thought."

That was 2006. They're still alive now.

It sucks to realize in some ways, but the code most companies produce and use is crap. Don't worry about it; if it works and has the features they want, they know there'll be bugs.
It's a mistake to call progressive tax systems "institutionalized theft," one predicated on misunderstanding the nature of the benefit the rich derive from civil society.

The very title "Atlas Shrugged" exemplifies the mistake. Your typical "Atlas" in modern society does not look like this: http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131015180238/monster.... He looks like this: http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Lloyd-Blank....

The rich do not pay taxes to keep the masses from using violence upon them. They do it so the masses will suppress the "men of war" that would otherwise dominate them. In reality, John Galt is not in charge once he shrugs off the yoke of society. Instead, men skilled in violence and war take advantage of that power vacuum and subjugate him, and he works to serve them. This state of affairs is not unprecedented. You only have to look back to Europe during feudal times to see it in operation. The technologists of that time didn't run the world. Barons and Earls and other military men ran the world. The technologists served the military class.
There's a different takeaway here. There are lots of other companies that are using the i- prefix for their products and yet Apple continues to thrive.
You have to demonstrate the reality of the situation to them before they'll come to see it your way. In this case, the most effective thing would be to go get yourself another job offer, print it out, and bring it into your department head's office. Say you kind of like it here but you can't ignore the $X000 extra you'd be making over there.

Then negotiate. The job offer is your leverage. It says, directly and to the point, that you're an undervalued asset, and the fact that you're in their office states that you're willing to deal with them to make sure all parties are satisfied.

Until you bring this document to them, then there's no reality anywhere in the equation and all that matters is what's being perceived. Since they're paying you, they will rightly believe that their take on the situation should be considered the correct one. Right not because it better reflects reality, but right because the balance of power at the moment favors them.
The reason you're successful is because no one rational will compete in this space because of the legal liability. I've seen that many times, segments which are profitable until you realize the legal quagmire you've wandered into and appreciate very well why no one else is doing it.
Is there anything specifically wrong with the hyperref package? It seems to work rather decently for me.
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Like so many things, I have mixed feelings about this.

I don’t have a problem with the word “passionate” and I could understand an employer who genuinely desires that.

Problem is, I don’t think most people actually want anything of the sort. More likely, I think they’re just following the fad of grandiose overblown adjectives and mimicking the motions of “only the best” interviewing of companies whose trajectories they’d love to emulate.

The typical 201X boilerplate sums it up nicely:

“Are you passionate about technology? Do you write beautiful code? Come help us change the world.”

I’d wager most organizations shouldn’t want much less need someone with passion in more than a handful of positions - more like competent, hard workers who will execute the vision put before them.

In my experience, unless the stars have aligned, passionate people are a horrible choice for most roles. Their passion is not some simple resource that can be redirected efficiently into whatever management cares about, it’s an intense, consuming, emotional drive with all the massive potential negatives those words suggest.

Good luck getting even average performance out that passionate someone on a project they don’t believe in and duck for cover when they deem the CTO / founder is a fool driving the organization in the wrong direction.
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That's not the same, YC has never provided follow-on investment and this doesn't change that.

This policy affects investments made by individual partners. I'm sure 500 startups does not stop it's mentors from investing right after demo day, or does it explicitly do that?
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They should offer(3) packages ... Free shipping prime, video only prime and a package with both
That's definitely true, but I think it can be quite challenging to find those high-paying clients. I've heard plenty of horror stories from consultants who end up working far more than 40 hours a week for various reasons. By all means, though, go for it if you can find those opportunities and don't mind the work.
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I would say shipping on most items is about 5 to 10 dollars. So averaging a little less than two packages a month and you break even. Not too bad. For me, the holidays shipping season will easily cover any month I didn't average 1 package from amazon.
I can't speak for the other partners, but I love that we're willing to do whatever it takes to help our startups succeed. I don't work at YC for the money. I work there because they are the best at what they do and are always trying to do the right thing for their founders. It was my experience when I went through the program and it's reinforced by actions like this.
Dito... I already have hesitation about the $80/year. I don't care about the 'free online movies' piece at all.
As a client, I am hiring you because I don't have time or knolwedge to do the project. So the ideal response is to lay out the plan that solves my problem, and all I have to do to make it happen is sign the contract. That is so much more compelling then "let me know what I can do". You're supposed to be telling me what you can do!
reStructuredText (http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html) seems have all those qualities. It's simple and IMHO more consistent than Markdown, math and include directives, cross-references and can be compiled to almost anything with tools like Pandoc (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/).
If the US gave all the money to people below the poverty line (46.5 million; 15% of the population) $175 Billion we would have zero poor in US. That is a 1% of our GDP. Military budget = $700 billion in comparison.

If we just gave $3,000 to each person below poverty we would have 23 million people above the poverty line.

Please tell me that this can't even be a question on inequality of the super rich and the poor? Next thing Global Warming is a fraud?
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Granted, I was only an intern there, but I never got the impression from Google that they really wanted people to stay all day. By 7 at night, my floor was a ghost town (suitable for intern Nerf wars).
Maybe this is a "Show HN" item, but I created http://www.shippingfiller.com to scratch my own itch of finding filler items to meet Amazon's free shipping minimum with items I might actually want. And I'm too cheap to buy prime.
Another prime member here, totally worth it even if they double it. Most of the time, I get things next day as it seems that distribution center is nearby.

The reason you are annoyed by add-ons, is because you came to rely on Amazon for things you can and probably should by in neigbourhood store. I would buy thumbtacks and such things in dollar store acros the street.

I am similar in that I buy common things from Amazon, I like how it is organized and it makes sense to me when I order.
Thanks again. I did fix the Gini issue, which was my fault in trying to get something posted without sufficient editing.

I was surprised by how confusing the statistics were about the trend of income disparity. How the numbers varied widely by source, and how much definitions mattered. I think we both agree that the trend of this is not important.

I'm not sure if we agree or disagree on whether relative status is important or not. I would argue it is not important, except to the extent someone else pointed out that it provides political influence (which I do think I have a solution for). I prefer to look at absolute measures of improving the standard of living (life expectancy, health, food, entertainment, etc).
Add on items wouldn't even exist if it were not in fact for the add-on program, so having them listed is actually giving you more selection than you would get without it.
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My position would be to fix the bugs as swiftly as you're able to deliver a product you're proud of, even if the core of it was not yours.

Rather than totally sabotage the situation, suggest testing. Bugs found in testing allow the company to make informed choices while you and your CS department have an opportunity save the relationship by fixing the issues in development level software. (After all, we are all humans and bugs happen, even if the best of code.)

There is a world of difference between development software and production ready software. Demo software is rarely the finished product. Now, if it was presented as 100% complete, tested and ready for production... that is a different story.
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Russians often ask this question but... (And i heard this thesis two times yesterday said by russians only btw)

- Don't forget about Crimean Tatars who live there and i really doubt they would like to either join Russia or be separated from Ukraine. Why? Lots of them were banished from the island by Russian Empire. Though still a lot of Crimean Tatars are living there now. Also they supported Maydan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Tatars .

- WIKI says the number of ukrainians living in Crimea - 24.32%, russians - 58%, Crimean Tatars - 12 .

- But russians usually don't remember Dagestan(Russia) or the Chechen Republic(Russia) where the number of russians is less than 5%. Or Belgium with german speaking people .

- Ukrainian regions were a part of the Russian Empire for quite a long time. Why would they not join Russia?

- Crimea is an autonomy, but even now people stimulated by politicians say that they want Ukraine to be a federation. Do they know what is the difference between autonomy and federation?

And in addition. Knowing history of the country is crucial here.
If you look at the Russian Imperial Census of 1897 you will see that people living in the eastern part of modern Ukraine were 80-90% ukrainian speaking. And now if you go to the country area of eastern regions you will see lots of ukrainian speaking people.There were 3 man-made famine in Ukrainian SSR conducted by Soviet regime and lots of repressions killed more ukrainians than ukrainians died during the 2 World War. And now guess what Stalin does? He invites russians to the industrial western part of Ukraine. This region required a work force at that time.

So the question is not that simple and clear if you are looking just at big cities like Kharkiv or Donezk.

PS. The myth that Maydan is a question of ukrainians - russians to live in one state is stimulated by politician i believe. It is a question of corrupted government and people who don't want to live in a state with USSR standards.
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>There has been a lot of press recently about income inequality diverging recently. There are two issues with this. First, it isn’t a metric that should matter.

Sure, let's just leave it at that then...
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It actively encourages mentors to invest. The reason is because a) there are so many that most companies can raise a little from at least one mentor, b) all companies in a batch are encouraged to raise a small amount of money prior to demo day, and c) mentor investment isn't typically seen as a signaler as they aren't 500 partners. It helps, as any outside investment helps, but 500 following on is the real signaler, at least in my experience.
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Is this a common policy in the VC world in general (prohibiting personal investments by general partners in the firm's companies)?
You can create that 'meritocratic rep' by creating something that not many other people can do, with software. As you become involved in the community providing value, people would want to work with you more just by the results of your work. That is what is meant by 'meritocratic'.
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The way I look at it is that arguments are either factual or normative. Facts can be easy to test even if they are counter-intuitive. Normative, since you can't derive "is" from "ought" alone, means you are ultimately resting the conclusion on moral or value-based axioms. While people can reasonably disagree on the value axioms themselves, there might still be logical errors in the implications that flow from it, so it can still be useful to engage in a dialect to test for that.
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That's only income tax. When you include all federal taxes, the top 10% by income gives a still considerable 54%, but much lower than the 70% that is generally claimed.
> Another glaring issue with the Gini coefficient is that it tracks income inequality and not wealth inequality.

Well, people more frequently cite the Gini coefficient of income, but you can take a Gini coefficient of any measure, including wealth [1].

> It's well known that the rich don't make their money via income but rather through ownership.

The money made through ownership is income -- making money is equivalent to income. Its true that source of that income is different for the richest than most other people (most of the richest derive most of their income through capital, while most of the rest derive most of their income through labor), but its still income.

[1] Gini coefficients of wealth are, e.g., presented here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_distributi...
I'm always wondering why gevent never gets the same attention other concurrency frameworks do. From my point of view it looks like a very sweet library with useful tools and should work just fine in combination with gunicorn or uwsgi. I never had a chance to test it with some real work load though.
In terms of pure mathematical typesetting, it's great, and, as they mention, Mathjax does a fantastic job of handling equations in webpages. Yes, TeX takes some learning, but it's a let less verbose than MathML for the same equation, and being distinct isn't necessarily an issue: there is precedent within HTML, such as CSS and Javascript code being embedded within pages. A browser with native support for (a subset of) TeX would allow for a lot of technical papers to be presented in a fully searchable, device agnostic manner, and would avoid the additional learning curve or conversion to MathML.

For layout, though, HTML with CSS is the way to go if your prime target is web.
this seems really smart, although I worry that it could affect many startups ability to raise the initial $500k.
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I'm no human-resource expert, but as far as the policy to escort terminated employees out of the building, I think this is one case where you need to trust the manager of the employee and hope for the best. If the manager knows that the employee is prone to outbursts or seems to have anger issues, it's likely best to do a more restricted process. But if the manager knows the employee well and is otherwise on good-terms it obviously would be better to do the termination without involving the humiliation of a formal security escort. I've seen both processes in the same company.

In the situation I described earlier, perhaps this employee's odd behavior (not showing up the very first day without even a phone call???) was a clue of larger issues that his manager should have heeded and keyed him to call in security when the time came to end his employment.
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Absolutely agree, having a single worldwide standard would put ALL US residents in the 'wealthy' category when compared to places like Haiti.
> 1. Is anyone worse off because Mark Zuckerberg is very rich?

Mark Zuckerberg? Probably not directly; Facebook's employees are treated well, as far as I'm aware. But that's an awfully narrow example to cherry-pick. How about the Waltons, or Jeff Bezos? Employees in Wal-Mart stores and Amazon warehouses go without benefits, unemployment compensation, a living wage, and sometimes basic climate control, so that the wealthy can line their pockets.

The wealth of CEOs does not descend upon them from heaven as a divine reward for good management. Every million dollars they get is a million that is not being spent on compensating employees. (Or on growing the business, etc.) Obviously CEOs deserve compensation for their work just like anyone else, and I haven't done the math on how much the Waltons and Jeff Bezos are worth vs. how much it would cost to treat all of their employees decently; but when a boss is worth billions and their employees can't afford food or medicine for their children, it's obscene.

> 2. If policies to reduce income inequality made the poor worse off, would you be in favor of them?

No. Obviously. I favor policies in general that aid those who need it most. Reducing income inequality is only one obvious way to help do that.

You've got a "gotcha" planned here, I assume?
There is recent work on a TeX engine with a Lua interface:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36/differences-betwee...

But still LaTeX sits on top of that, so it probably doesn't move you along very much.
I absolutely agree, and in that sense I'm sort of living the dream already. But even skilled people don't always know what they don't know, and that can show though somewhat more easily in this field.