skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this is quite a pet peeve of mine. Every other site nowadays seems to do this, even ones that I thought should know better (arstechnica is one that comes to mind)
I love the classical "he said, she said".

The fact is, Piketty's numbers appear to be incorrect. It is no longer remotely close to clear that wealth inequality is going up, particularly at the top, at least from what we see in Piketty's book. The FT corrections show that inequality has not increased in the UK, and different weighting schemes (e.g. population weighting across countries) can completely make his effects vanish.

Krugman showed that income inequality, particularly below the 99'th percentile, is going up. Income (including capital income) != wealth.

Now maybe other sources prove him correct. If so, this response is far from convincing - why not just cite those other sources? And if that's the case, why did anyone care about his book to begin with?

In any case, Piketty is to be commended for releasing his data/methodology. Just think - if he didn't do this, it would have taken years for his errors to be discovered.
There's a gender element too. Women have been found to be more aggressive than men in crowds. http://psp.sagepub.com/content/20/1/34.abstract
"is as strange as its title suggests. It is one of those books that is either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius, nothing in between! Probably the former, but I'm hedging my bets." -- Richard Dawkins
Then the educator should ask.
The lack of data migration tooling would be a critical problem for me.

The traditional problem that ORMs are supposed to solve is change. Changing your database schema means you have to change all your queries. So instead you have a a system whereby the program that executes your queries also understands your schema and can make that change for you.

Data migrations are similar to this, only much harder and more time consuming.
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ok, that's a point...
I will put the original files also into the git-repo so everyone can see what's happening.
"What does that mean? It means that Amazon can set any price they like for your book"

It means nothing of the sort. The MatchBook program is a special deal that you have to enroll your book in yourself (it lets people who've purchased your paper book get the ebook at a discount). What it actually means is that if you have voluntarily signed up for MatchBook, you're only going to get 70% of the discounted price, not 70% of the list price.

If you're not signed up for MatchBook this doesn't apply at all.
As others have noted, there are scaling issues with moving every single transaction out into the blockchain.

Luckily, this is not needed. An exchange can prove that it holds all the bitcoin it claims to, and each induvidual account holder can verify the proof as it pertains to their own coins. See this for example:
https://iwilcox.me.uk/2014/proving-bitcoin-reserves

Hopefully users will start to insist on these kinds of things in the future.
The fastest way to remove crap from your system… Is to put no crap in
That captures it very nicely.

In my experience religion/spirituality felt very much like controlled schizophrenia (or my experience felt like an unconstrained version of it to be precise.)
It is too easy for teachers, and maybe yourself, to mistake correlation with causation. "a student is struggling because they are not doing nightly reading". There is no other measurement to determine whether the student is unmotivated or uninterested in the subject, or whether their home environment prevents them from reading nightly, or an unlimited number of other factors that could cause a student to struggle in school.

Perhaps if the student is struggling, the teacher could talk to them 1-on-1 to diagnose the problem. This could reveal that they aren't doing nightly readings as well as any other unknown factors at play.

I do support more measurement vs. less in general, but it requires a lot of responsibility to ensure you're being unbiased in choosing what the measurements "mean". In school, I've seen that measurement does not always lead to better policy.
Yes, I observed the same thing. And they keep using this image for several articles.
"One of the great strengths of Python 2 is the long tail of 3rd party libraries" does not imply it is the "only measure"
Bring it on, there's money in selling mouse macros to kids.
Why can only "larger" publishers retail their own ebooks? Is this the 1980s again? I see new small businesses and even individuals retailing their own works every day, why is it so hard for them?
I'm not "giving up 85% of my money in perpetuity".

Yes, authors get paid a royalty of 6%-25% of the cover price. However, the biggest cut of the cover price goes to the distribution/retail chain. And when I say "biggest" I mean "50-70%".

In general, the publisher spends about the same amount as the author royalties on production and manufacturing overheads. And reaps the same again as their profit share.

Between us my publishers and I typically end up getting 20-30% of the price of each book sold, with another 10% going on production costs. Amazon then take 50-70%. They may choose to pass half their share on to the consumers, but they're still trousering more profit than my publisher and I get, combined.
Yup. But if you're doing both at the same time, you are not maximizing your gains. You could be increasing strength much faster, then cut much faster afterwards.
That's not at all what it's saying, though?
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In order for income inequality to not lead to wealth inequality, we need to believe that poor people save more of their income than wealthy people - which seems rather difficult.

I think it is clear from other sources that wealth inequality is going up, and the FT is pushing its findings too far.
I lost some money there too, I've been their customer since 2011.

But if the main reason for the April and November bubbles is Willy, than the current (amazing) state of bitcoin is thanks to him.
Python 3 isn't killing python. If you're one of the guys who isn't going to jump ship, siyonora. In a few years your python skills are going to be legacy only. Django, Pyramid, SQLAlchemy, all support it... it's time for web developers to switch.

So what if an obscure library on PyPI doesn't? Port it already. Or don't use it? The other day I removed a 'module' from my project by substituting 1-2 lines for "import lxml" and etree.fromstring(xml) instead...
You could always buy a computer without a Microsoft license. What you could not buy was a computer minus the price of that license (small independent shops excluded).

You can sell your books through Amazon. But you can't sell your books anywhere else cheaper than Amazon.
Yes, but it's not the default and it does require special considerations. This means that code written by inexperienced developers (or even more experienced developers who aren't familiar with the ins and outs of Unicode and internationalisation etc) will be more likely to behave incorrectly when presented with anything in a foreign language.
If I did that, I'd be foregoing all sales through channels other than Amazon. Amazon are a big channel, but just about under 50% of total, although in my US ebook editions they're about 80% of the 50% of my sales that are ebooks.

Also note that Amazon have the right to drop your price on that scheme to anything they think will ship more copies -- including zero, by pushing it as a promotional freebie, or $0.99, as a daily deal. Which means I don't get $6.99 a copy; I get $0 per copy, or $0.69 per copy.
Syntactically better SQL CREATE statements
I am not dismissing Python3 outright and neither is the OP. But rewriting millions of lines of code to satisfy an artificially imposed requirement is probably not a good idea even if the libraries are "abandoned"

Python3 ranks high on the list of engineering failures. Python3 itself is fine, Python3 the deployment and migration is a disaster.
Though I'm unaware of empirical studies, wouldn't attempts in Chinese medicine be precedents here - particularly could the sending of electrical pulses through acupuncture needles inserted at various places to "stimulate the immune system" be some kind of primordial theory connecting the nervous system and the immune system?

In other words, I'm rather surprised that when we can think about and exploit the fact that regular exercise can result in good health, it has been considered a stretch to imagine that the nervous system can be more intimately connected to the immune system. 1998 is disturbingly close in this case.
Union might not be the best example. Maybe a "writers' cooperative".
The conclusion of "As a result, there is no clear performance improvement with SPDY in cellular networks, in contrast to existing studies on wired and WiFi networks." is rather different to "current SPDY implementation has negative impact on Mobile performance."

Of cousre as SPDY is only using a single connection then it's more vulnerable to issues with that connection.
Daimler makes lots of stuff other than Mercedes-Benz cars:

http://www.daimler.com/brands-and-products

Even Mercedes-Benz do a few models that I would exactly describe as "luxury" - e.g. the A-class.
Unfortunately every market is highly manipulated... And in any market you deal with people who have more information than you. The game is trying to understand the manipulation.
" However, the biggest cut of the cover price goes to the distribution/retail chain. And when I say "biggest" I mean "50-70%"."

Unless you put it in KDP, in which case you get 70% and the retail chain gets 30%.

With respect to perpetuity, maybe your contracts are better than most people get but "term of copyright" is quite common.
You're missing out. Lying is an incredibly useful social tool that society would maybe fall apart without.
Book Depository is also owned by Amazon though their worldwide delivery is awesome.
Ask HN: what provider do you use for SSL certificates?
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I think Armin Ronacher has the best overview: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/1/5/unicode-in-2-and-3/

But it's basicly Python three killing of the byte-string and ignoring the fact that in some cases it actually makes sense to work with string that are specifically not unicode, rather than resorting to have a bytes type instead.
> In a few years your python skills are going to be legacy only.

If the trend continues then in a few years your python skills are going to be legacy only and you will program Go or something.
Yes, most Android devices don't have that feature as far as I know. And it is possibly a bad time to introduce it, because by now users may have already learned that tapping the status bar (on recent Android versions at least) shows the time and date in bigger fonts, as if starting to open the notifications screen.
>In order for income inequality to not lead to wealth inequality, we need to believe that poor people save more of their income than wealthy people - which seems rather difficult.

Yes, but that's actually what the FT refutes (center of 3rd § of the article):

> The newspaper concluded there was little evidence in Piketty's original sources to bear out his theory that the richest were accumulating more wealth
He and others (including critics of his work) have, as far as I can tell?

> While the available data was "imperfect", it did not undermine his central argument about widening inequality, he said. "Where the Financial Times is being dishonest is to suggest that this changes things in the conclusions I make, when in fact it changes nothing. More recent studies only support my conclusions, by using different sources."

> Scott Winship, an economist at the right-leaning Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and notable critic of Piketty's analysis, said the FT's allegations weren't "significant for the fundamental question of whether Piketty's thesis is right or not". In an email to Bloomberg news agency, he wrote: "It's hard to think Piketty did something unethical when he put it up there for people like me to delve into his figures and find something that looks sketchy … Piketty has been as good or better than anyone at both making all his data available and documenting what he does generally."
The best would be to have Kickstarter to port the remaining major libraries to Python3. Python3 is obviously much better than Python2 and helps in writing cleaner and better code. Progress is made looking towards the future and by continuous improvements.
A lot of teachers give an effort grade as well as an achievement grade.

One of my high school teachers gave a whole lecture on how even though Usain Bolt is the fastest man alive, he probably isn't the one who trains the hardest. He believed the person who does try the hardest still deserves an award for their effort. Applying this idea now to students, some are able to not study at all, yet get an A. At the same time there are others who study all the time and get a C. At this point the students grade is based largely on talent, which can only get one so far in life.

Looking at this from the school's perspective they are only trying to measure what they want to measure. Does the student have the necessary skills to help them succeed in life. While spyware may not be the best way to go about it, it certainly makes sense to the schools.
In order for income inequality to not lead to wealth inequality, we need to believe that poor people save more of their income than wealthy people - which seems rather difficult.

Or that wealthy people achieve diminishing returns on investment as their wealth grows. I.e., my startup might grow 10-fold, but Facebook is unlikely to.

Even if you assume Piketty's "r > g" macro-level hypothesis, there are a lot of microeconomic theories completely compatible with it. Not all of them result in increasing inequality.

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/piketty_and_inequalit...

(But now we are moving into the topic of Piketty's theoretical weaknesses, which are supposedly irrelevant because his data is so great.)

I think it is clear from other sources...

[citation needed]

And if other sources prove this point, why was Piketty's book such a sensation?
Chrome on Android doesn't.
Óh, you're right... I wonder what I was thinking about then... SciPy maybe, but that's been ported as well.
I'm 100% behind this view.

I think there are times when you really do need to rush. E.g., major production issue, or major world event that needs immediate response. In that case, I'm willing to take on technical debt with the explicit commitment that the debt gets paid down as soon at the emergency is past.

The problem with that approach is that so many companies run in a state of permanent emergency. Supremely important urgent thing A is immediately followed by B, C, and D. Of course, those are all just normal requests that people are freaking out about. Which means that when a true emergency happens, everybody's too mired in fake emergencies and technical debt to respond well.
The set of posts at Melting Asphalt was where I was first introduced to Jaynes. It's a great exposition of his ideas and had me pondering consciousness for weeks.

http://www.meltingasphalt.com/mr-jaynes-wild-ride/

http://www.meltingasphalt.com/accepting-deviant-minds/

http://www.meltingasphalt.com/neurons-gone-wild/

http://www.meltingasphalt.com/hallucinated-gods/
Are students families aware of this?

That's kind of scary because kids are learning to be policed from a young age. Might be easier to convince them in the future that it's an acceptable behavior to be officially profiled by third parties. Even if this third party is a school teacher, it's absolutely NOT okay.

I understand the eagerness to monitor and try to help the student as much as possible, but a teacher or a school committee should understand the repercussions of this kind of monitoring, no matter what the results are.
There are people complaining that it will break things because it's binary, that they can't have mandatory encryption, and that it's just too complex to fit in limited resources. There are probably other complaints that I didn't see.

I've never read it in enough depth to verify those claims, but the response from the standard group is always "then use HTTP 1.1", what is as a non-solution as it gets.

SPDY was great exactly because it was not the standard, it was an extra option, available if everybody agreed to it. Call it HTTP 2, and it will become mandatory in no time. IETF calling it optional won't change a thing.
"If I did that, I'd be foregoing all sales through channels other than Amazon. "

No. Amazon does not require exclusivity.

"Which means I don't get $6.99 a copy; I get $0 per copy, or $0.69 per copy."

No. If Amazon discounts your book, you still get paid based on the retail price.
gevent is ported to python 3. I guess a proper release would be soon. See here: https://github.com/surfly/gevent/issues/38

If the libraries are used by people, they tend to get ported. Like most of the most popular packages, and 4799 packages listed on pypi.

Any others you depend on? I'm prepared to roll up my sleeves and help.
You're right that he doesn't mention that Amazon's revenues dwarf the publishers' revenues, though this [1] Guardian article suggests that Amazon's book revenues may be as low as 7% of the revenue figure that Stross cited.

At any rate, the most interesting points in the blog post were that firstly it's not clear that Hachette aren't playing some shenanigans of their own with delivery times, and secondly that there's this whole background of court-ordered deal renegotiation that Stross didn't mention.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/23/amazon-esc...
It's not so much that it's hard, but it's a lot of work, without tangible benefits. On top of that, it's desirable to have a code base that is compatible with both 2 and 3, which requires awkward workarounds.
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The OSSI page explains that "If [public domain seeds] were available only in a traditional commons, people could obtain them, breed with them, and restrict their use through patents or licenses", whereas seeds with the OSSI pledge cannot.

It's analogous to how public domain software is not Free Software (by Richard Stallman's definition). Maybe it would be more technically accurate to name the OSSI something like the Free Germplasm Project.
Preach it.

I haven't seen anything that actually requires a new OSI layer, only people trying to reinvent lower-level layers poorly to address gross incompetence.

The Internet is more than the Web, and the Web will eventually be replaced.
Mobile sites should ONLY serve you text for an article. I don't understand how people don't understand this when created UI/UX for products.
Nine year old kids are getting sent home from school with notes saying they are fat, even if they are just one pound over what the BMI charts say they "should" be. Weight is easy to measure and there is obviously an obesity problem, so the natural response is to give kids eating disorders by shaming them over their weight at incredibly young ages.

I have no confidence in our prison-style education system to be able to use this information in a positive way. Common sense flew out the door two decades ago, and it isn't coming back any time soon, and providing "obvious" correlation data like this is just one more tool to use to whip kids with, to ensure they know who the masters are.
I agree, like to call this firefighting development :D
Its important to note as well that "unlocking" and "rooting" are very different with very different end goals. One allows you to move between phone carriers (unlocked phone), the other allows you full software control of your phone (rooting).
The first quote is exactly the kind of vagueness that could be avoided by specifically addressing what the FT said, which other studies support his conclusions, etc.

The second quote is similarly vague, and the part on ethics is irrelevant.
If I understand your argument correctly, you are opposed to oppurtunistic encryption as there is no identity validation, as it does not improve privacy.

But an active man-in-the-middle attack at least has a chance of being detected, as opposed to the current passive sniffing being done on a wholesale basis. Do you not see any value in that?

(I have not followed the HTTP/2 development closely enough to comment on other areas of concern.)
This might come close. Anecdotally, I know people from that part of the world who are quite functional and yet occasionally tell me quite matter of factly what gods or demons say to them.

http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/the-creepy-walking-dead-of...
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It is news because there used to be a large auto industry in California. Ford operated a huge factory in Milpitas, for example. The real news is that to some extent, manufacturing is coming back to California.
Off the top of my head: Twisted and gevent. It was actually the lack of a Python 3 gevent that lead my to create one crucial piece of software for my startup using NodeJs communicating with the main Python application passing messages via Redis.
Does the FT maintain a firewall between the editorial board and the reporting of news staff? The Wall Street Journal, historically (though not as sure now that Rupert Murdoch owns it), has had such a distinction...a predominantly rightward editorial staff but relatively even-handed news reporting.
No, you're not alone. I almost always choose desktop mode where available, primarily because mobile sites disable zoom and choose settings for margins and font sizes that make their text almost unreadably large - frequently only two or three words per line, with masses of whitespace all around.

Reading such articles feels claustrophobic, because you're stuck in this long tunnel of text, with little visual indicator of how long it lasts, inducing anxiety about wasted time. If you're somewhere in the middle, it's a long trip back up to the top.

The close to optimal mobile browser for me was the original (AOSP) Android browser around 2.3. It rewrapped text on double-tap to fit in the visible page area, meaning you could choose what effective font size worked well for you. And zoom still worked, so you had a good handle on where you were on the page, and an easy way out of it.

Neither Firefox nor Chrome on Android are as good a browser for me. Unfortunately, getting the AOSP browser back is awkward, unless you want to use Dolphin or similar, and besides, it no longer has the rewrap functionality.

PS: Google are the evil people here. They deliberately removed this feature from Chrome and AOSP browser, and are punishing sites that don't serve mobile-specific content - i.e. content that is less usable for people who prefer zoom-based navigation.
>They're a model corporation as far as I'm concerned

I think we must have a very different idea of 'model corporation'

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/23/worse_than_wal_mart_amazons_...

>The series revealed the lengths Amazon was prepared to go to keep costs down and output high and yielded a singular image of Amazon’s ruthlessness—ambulances stationed on hot days at the Amazon center to take employees suffering from heat stroke to the hospital. Despite the summer weather, there was no air-conditioning in the depot, and Amazon refused to let fresh air circulate by opening loading doors at either end of the depot—for fear of theft

>On June 2, 2011, a warehouse employee contacted the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration to report that the heat index had reached 102 degrees in the warehouse and that fifteen workers had collapsed.

>On July 25, with temperatures in the depot reaching 110 degrees, a security guard reported to OSHA that Amazon was refusing to open garage doors to help air circulate and that he had seen two pregnant women taken to a nursing station. Calls to the local ambulance service became so frequent that for five hot days in June and July, ambulances and paramedics were stationed all day at the depot