skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen quite a few posts like this that make it sound like running a country can be bought for the price of land. I'm curious (as I really don't know), how many new countries have been created that didn't happen because of war, bloodshed or some other violent conflict?

It seems like this is almost a requirement any time a new country is created as people & especially governments are very likely to sell you land, but not sell you control.
I write to process my concerns, and usually come to a set of solutions from it. Some people talk for the same reason, and they need an ear for it.
> It's nothing to do with genetics. It's that people who would board a wooden ship to head to head off into the unknown were predisposed towards taking calculated risk

As JetSetWilly pointed out, this lack explanatory power. For instance, it does not explain why the USA is a global power whereas Agentina, Brazil and Mexico are far from it. So while this may be necessary, it cannot be sufficient.
Full disclosure - I'm American and have lived here since birth, as is my entire family as far back as it matters.

America was founded by political dissidents, religious nut bags, criminals, and paranoid sociopaths who couldn't cut it in civilized Europe.

Today, America is controlled by billionaires that profit from and exploit that same paranoia and fear. Yes, America is a nation that is nearly entirely crippled by fear. Originally, we were afraid of spirits, and later we were afraid of werewolves, and then witches. Now, we're afraid of terrorists, gays, education, and essentially anyone who is different than us.
For me, the worst part is two years in the industry doing small part time gigs and the author thinks he is smarter than most of the other people there. And after one year of 'debugging, refactoring and getting the build to work' he quit cause he didn't know how he could fix the project.

Seriously? And he has the guts to say Enterprise is broken with his so many years of experience.

What is with this trend where people with 1-2 years of experience think they know more than 100s of people with more years experience than they have been alive shouting this bullcrap? And I have nothing against youth, I started my career at 18 after dropping out of school, but I had the good sense of not being an arrogant know it all that wanted to rewrite complete systems on my first real job.
He got so many things wrong, it's hard to even start criticizing him. Well, I won't. I had the same ideas when I was 16. Then I started reading books.

Also: Why in Xolotl's name is this on Hacker News?!?
You're both welcome:)
I think you misunderstood him. He was referring to the fact that America used to be the "promise land", because of the freedom it used to have, and why so many people wanted to flee there, and create their own opportunities thanks to that freedom. It has nothing to do with genetics.
While he's at it with the Zed-ing he could have made a z. module or even prefixed all functions with 'z'+CamelCase. '$' is cute as a root wrapper for chains but $map($filter($each.. $siblings, $http(..))) gets heavy quick IMO.
This also only really works on IE9 and maybe IE8 or better, but honstly IE6 and IE7 users users can seriously go fuck themselves with a dirty brick. I may add a function to detect these two bad browser so people can start forcing them to use a real browser for a change.
> Also likely to be from a wealthy or otherwise privileged background: wealth offers opportunity and permits risk-taking.

Maybe likely - but not required. It sounds nice, but until you have a source for this, I'm not likely to believe it.

If anything, especially with these types of endeavors, where there's not just money, but life to be lost - I'd presume that the wealthy would have more to lose than someone with nothing.

In other words, with a wealthy person taking risks has a much higher opportunity cost than someone with nothing to lose.

As an aside, you can move abroad to asia & live for a fraction of the cost that you'd require in the states. International travel & work isn't just the domain of the wealthy anymore.
The Myth of "Public" Schools: It's not public if you can't go
Zepto really aims to match the jQuery style and the majority of methods while trimming the fat and sacrificing browser compat, and weighs in at 9.2k min gzipped.

I'd say the only thing this has in common with jQuery is the use of the $. Most of the methods here can be found in many homegrown toolboxes. There is no chaining and no relationship to any of the methods here.
We need new countries as much as spaces between sentences and question marks.
Welcome to Russia.

Even army, schools and universities use quackery like polygraphs and Voll/Schimmel EAP to "detect drug users."

- http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=...

- http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=... (no direct link to paragraph, search for "Voll")
> fewer countries

> more decentralization

Pick one. More countries means more decentralization.
It also doesn't explain why countries such as Germany, Switzerland, and Sweden are so successful. I'm sure you could pick something common to the history of all three and make a completely speculative story about why certain Europeans are the most successful people in the world...
wouldn't fewer countries make government _more_ centralized?
;)
The reason jQuery (and _.js, and others) do this is so that you minimize the number of global variables/functions used.
I too was caught by surprise by that kudos button. It seems to be a very poor design choice if your aim is to measure the amount of "genuine" kudos you get...
Screencaps for Basecamp
I'm from Europe and have absolutely no problem with this statement. I myself think that argument is valid.
Although later immigrants had to take far less risk, and would argue they are the majority now.

Please do not start a race-war, this was a solid reasoning, anyone could have moved to America back then.
Trade one bureaucracy for another that has even less accountability? No, thanks.
Recently I was wishing for 'fat' borders, instead of thin lines. Under some kind of U.N law. To avoid or at least reduce friction between people.
FEMA teaching its employees that the founding fathers were the "first terrorist organization in the United States":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPg9MdN9Gio&feature=youtu.be...
I wouldn't say it 'inherited', but the 'culture' was one of people willing to get rid of their old stable lives for one of 'unlimited' opportunity, freedom, risk and adventure.

I actually see much of the early immigration as the reverse: people who wanted to maintain their old stable lives, but for various reasons were finding it difficult to do so in Europe, due to religious or political differences. So, they left to found a new society elsewhere, where they could keep and enforce their traditional community norms. The Puritans were not looking for frontier living or risky fortune, but rather for the opportunity to maintain a very communalist, strict, religious community in keeping with their faith. Early Puritan communities were not some kind of individualist libertarian society, but more like religious communes, with strict rules on what you could do on which days of the week and in what manner. The Hasidim might be the closest modern-day analog: they moved to places like Brooklyn not out of a desire for adventure, but because it was somewhere they could maintain their traditional way of life, which was becoming impossible to do in Eastern Europe. Within the U.S., the "Mormon exodus" westwards from Illinois to Utah had a similar motivation.
"Maybe I'm one of the typical young people. I don't know. But when I come to a Company and see thing that can be improved why not improve them?"

Maybe because you don't know jack shit about things are and why they were done like so, and think you are smarter than the other people?

Sorry to be mean but I had to deal with a few people like you, and I ended up being responsible to clean up the fuck ups they did because they had all this shiny ideas on how to improve the code, or how to rewrite components of the software or use a different framework/language because "Java is dead man!" ideas and fucking it up for the business and leaving the team to clean up when they eventually leave because 'company is broken, I tried to fix it, but couldn't because X, but it wasn't my fault'.
I had thoughts about the topic once, and my Mom had a pretty solid counter-argument. That country would have too many haters and would be too easy to attack. Innovation better stays decentralized.
Took me a couple minutes to find a link to a demo site: http://gitbucket.herokuapp.com/

EDIT: credentials are root/root
Depends on the structure of the government.
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He might have some of the reasons wrong, but more countries would be better. Big nations are unmanageable and too easy to corrupt on an institutional scale. Americans don't seem to see this, except maybe seeing California as a state that's too big to manage. Setting Silicon Valley free as a separate nation might be, as another commenter here wrote "a libertarian pipe dream," But several smaller groups of united states would be more politically coherent, and, by the same mechanisms as the EU, retain free trade.

Smaller Americas would be less likely to go to war, implement TBTF bank policies, or engage in other follies. Congressional districts would become too small to gerrymander. Buying five Congresses would cost five times as much.
It isn't less loaded than an American, in the stream of American history calling the system of servitude in Rome "slavery" as if it is the same thing as the American slave trade.

My point is, servitude that can't be just walked away from (whether it was entered into initially voluntarily or not) covers a huge spectrum of institutions and these have a wide variety in terms of capacity for abuse. A system which takes people from another continent, frees very few of them, and has essentially no rights to them (and few rights to freed slaves or their descendants) is ripe for abuse in a way that "revolving door slavery" of the sort the Romans had was not.

Several important points about Roman slavery are worth repeating:

1. The largest source of Roman slaves (at least from the surveys I have looked at) appear to have been debt slaves -- people being sold into slavery by their parents or selling themselves into slavery to pay debts.

2. Children of freed slaves were citizens (the United States, OTOH settled the question with a "no" in Dred Scott v. Sanford, categorically barring not only slaves like the petitioner, but also the descendants of freed slaves, from citizenship status).

3. Freedom was a transformation, not a total release from, the mutual obligations to the former owner. Consequently, freed men in Rome were an important source of political support, and a fairly large percentage of slaves could expect freedom in their lifetimes.

4. The revolving door had a tendency to revolve so fast that at one point Rome restricted the practice of selling one's children repeatedly into slavery, by insisting that if a father sold his son into slavery three times, the son would be emancipated from the control of the father. Livy mentions this was very controversial.

As for prisoners of war, what you have to understand is that if captured (whether a combatant or not) there were very few legal rights one had. That meant effectively that slavery, compared to freedom without family, actually meant some degree of protection. This protection would not go away on freedom, but neither would an obligation to support politically and otherwise the former master. This meant, effectively, that slavery was an institution by which prisoners of war achieved a degree of protection otherwise not available and, should they later be freed, a degree of economic support.
I hope Firefox will implement multiple accounts within the browser, similar to Chrome multiple accounts. If it is backed by Persona, then I will be able to have web sessions based on email accounts from different providers.
I wrote a similar essay a few months ago. http://tricorder.org/eric/newny.html
What I said applies to every single country in the history of the world. Is your point that light looting is better than extreme looting + torture camps? Sure, but it's still looting.
Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia were liberated from outright annexation to the Soviet Union, though that was not recognized by the US and other countries. The Czech Republic and Slovakia parted amicably. Do you think a Republic of Texas would cause a war?
Why not tie it to an e-mail you can more easily filter (or choose not to look at)?
Your assertion about the salt is wrong. That's not what a salt is designed to prevent. A salt is to prevent pregenerated tables from being meaningful, therefore 32-64bit is plenty.

'good probability' is a little dramatic too. The birthday paradox would only apply if every user had the same password to begin with. With 32 bits, you would need about 77000 users with the exact same password to get to 50% probability of two having the same salt/hash. 2000 users with the same password is 0.1% probability of two being the same.

If you are concerned about equalities because you have thousands of users with the same password, input the username into the hash generation function as well. Don't waste space with needlessly large salts.
> toll roads represent great skimming opportunities for officials and their families

Okay, provide some evidence government officials are 'skimming' from (all) toll roads. That's a pretty big claim, and as far as I can tell, the tolls are either private companies or government run tolls, that isn't corruption, that's taxation and enterprise.

So they don't have affordable housing because they don't allow enough things to invest in?

All truck drivers have to overload their trucks, and hope they don't get fined?

China's a big place, are you sure your statements apply across the whole nation. Or are you pretty much referring to domestic problems in a particular city?

Housing is not affordable in the Bay Area (SF)... is that also because they don't have enough to invest in?

Truck drivers the world over, are over worked, under paid, and have to resort to drugs, over loading, and sleep avoidance to make it... Is that because of corrupt toll road owners?

China has (some) the highest logistic costs in the world? Are you sure about that? Can I see a chart of 'world logistic costs'?
I imagine these kind of articles/blogs being written by people somewhat removed from the fact we live in a physical world.

Land/property is only in one's possession for as long as an opportunist is deterred from seizing it from you. The author should take a good look at eastern Europe to see how "new countries" are a bad idea.

The whole thing is largely irrelevant for another reason though: the continuing emergence of the market state. Corporations increasingly do not give a single hoot about borders, and they're gaining more and more power by the minute; mercenaries already exist en masse in the U.S. and are taken for granted in even less stable countries.
The most interesting thing I notice about this announcement is that LinkedIn is using an Oracle product to do their customer support. I'm getting tired of sites that don't allow my back button to navigate away from them.
IIRC hovering over them again used to take the Kudo away. It looks like that feature has since been eliminated.
Please, use the right words.
America is not a country, it is a continent.

America != United States
We know that an "United Stater" is also an American, but there are Americans who are not "United Staters".
> America inherited the best ones in the world, and I think this is one of the reasons why America is the wealthiest country, according to several measurements.

If you want to explain the current state of the USA with history you have to mention the indian genocide, slavery, every American war and the absence of any kind economical compensation or balancing of the wealth distribution.

American history is shaped not by freedom but self-righteousness.
And this, dear reader, is why we need bitcoin micropayments built into a browser.
> The library is tiny. Seriously, just go read the code. It's good education

Thanks, Zed! I really appreciate what you have done for helping in education in other programming languages. Reading a small library which does much the same as Jquery is a great addition to your materials. I may not use this as a Jquery replacement, but I will certainly be looking through the code to see what I can learn from it. I spend far too little time in the front-end and it's time to change that.

Edit: Edit: Okay, you guys didn't like my joke. So I removed the joke and expanded on the first part of my comment.
You correctly note that I said likely, not required.
So, we're not in disagreement.
I agree with you about the risk to life having some effect, but this obviously doesn't apply to people alive today.

Anyone can move to Asia and have a better quality of life, perhaps, but it sure as hell helps if:

* you can afford regular plane tickets home to family/possibly at short notice,

* you have support back in your home country until you get settled,

* you are wealthy or privileged enough to have access to whatever visa in whichever country you prefer. (e.g. sufficient education and experience to meet the requirements of a skilled work visa)

With respect, if you think intercontinental travel & work isn't primarily the domain of the wealthy, we may have different definitions of wealthy.
I'm also thankful for non existing information on non existing technologies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin#Uses

https://github.com/FellowTraveler/Open-Transactions-old/wiki...
3D Printed Moon Base,Coming Very Soon
NASA and the ESA are working hard on concepts for a 3D printed Moon Base. Using Contour crafting techniques they could built the bases with 90% material already found on the moon.
Silicon Valley as an independent country? That's a great idea! I'd pay to see twentysomethings build a nation on cat 5 cables and bright rectangles. Now, where did I put my popcorn pan...
Your time is never "free".
He still had a 4.3 so they haven't gotten too soft!
rufusjones cannot possibly have typed that with a straight face
Finnish pitching competition. Startups pitch from inside an ice-hole.
I like the idea, but the tone of the docs is a little too rough for me (although I don't consider myself a functional snob).

http://www.snapbugz.com/p/98f1d5a6
Mozilla is an independent non-profit organization. Yes, they do get a lot of revenue from Google - but they do not control Mozilla.
Work on your best idea (2010)
Although there are quite a few hints that allow an educated guess about the censored parts of the order to be made.

> and the very real misapprehension on her part that the
> later visa denials are traceable to her erroneous 2004
> placement on the no-fly list

The judge's choice of the word 'misapprehension' implies that the visa denials were not related to the original mistake, and were for some other reason.

> Plaintiff’s counsel became cleared to receive SSI,
> but never tried to become cleared to read classified
> information

> Everyone else in this case [except the plaintiff] knows it.

This implies that in the case, 'Security Sensitive Information' was presented about the real reason her visa was denied - and part of the order is that the plaintiff should be given this information.

> One might wonder why, if Dr. Ibrahim herself is
> concededly not a threat to our national
> security, the government would find her inadmissible
> under the Act. In this connection, please remember that
> the Act includes nine ineligible categories. Some of them
> go beyond whether the applicant herself poses a national
> security threat.

This strongly hints that the section the visa was denied under was this one: "is the spouse or child of an alien who is inadmissible under this subparagraph, if the activity causing the alien to be found inadmissible occurred within the last 5 years".

Therefore, it seems very likely that the information that the government was ordered to hand over (but was censored) is that the government believes that her husband or one of her parents meets the criteria for exclusion under the terrorist activities section.
We definitely have too much regulation for companies here, but on the other hand you cannot really gain much with lawsuits as everyone does kind of act to what is common sense. Unless you did something which is obviously wrong (defraud taxes, steal actual money), no matter what comes out of court usually doesn't impact much / anything for companies. Unlike the US I believe.
I have no problem with Mozilla doing this so long as its not pushed down my throat. I have no desire to use a cloud service.
Listen to everyone and do what I find best, this has been my philosophy in life. I hate self-helps, I think you are better off not trying to tell people your way of live thinking them to follow. Crap!
Android Teleportation (or silly location restrictions)
I don't know about your country, but in some countries there are private race tracks where you can speed legally for a few thousand bucks.
I just slapped it on my server works great. Easier to maintain than GitLab, though with way less features.
Probably not something for a company to use, there i'd go with gitlab, but it's just perfect for your own private server, instead of using the ugly cgit or something.
It seems pretty stupid to have a multi-point rating scale that doesn't distinguish between the driver that gave you polite, timely and safe service and the driver that did all that but additionally gave you fantastic advice about the city and insisted on carrying your luggage up a flight of steep steps at the end.

It's even worse to have a points scale where not awarding the first driver the same as the second moves him a few percentage points closer to losing his livelihood.
What makes this library functional?
Don't like to much the name, is so "egoista", but i love the functional approach :).
Sure. I was merely discounting the genetic explanation.
That's like saying the president is responsible for all crimes in the country.