skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In 2006 the U.S. government replaced “hunger” with the term “food insecure” to describe any household where, sometime during the previous year, people didn’t have enough food to eat. By whatever name, the number of people going hungry has grown dramatically in the U.S., increasing to 48 million by 2012... "

There are lots of people in the US in terrible situations, and we should try to help them, but that does not give reporters a license to make up facts. "Food insecurity" does not mean that people are going hungry. It means people who are "at risk of" going hungry, a much broader group. From the Texas Food Bank Network (http://tfbn.org/food-insecurity/):

"What does “food insecure” NOT mean?

Food insecurity is not “the government’s definition of hunger.” It is a broader term that captures outright hunger and the coping mechanisms that households use to avoid hunger.

Food insecurity is a household situation, not an individual situation. While food insecurity affects everyone in a household, it may affect them differently. Therefore it is not correct to state that specific individuals in a food insecure household (such as children) definitely experience outright hunger or specific coping mechanisms. Rather than describing these individuals as being “food insecure”, they should be referred to as “living in a food insecure home.”

Food insecurity is a year-long measure. Therefore, it is not correct to assert that every food insecure household is experiencing food insecurity “right now,” will experience hunger “tonight” or “does not know where their next meal is coming from.” Research shows that food insecurity tends to be episodic and often cyclical.

Food insecurity does not mean that a household lacks access to grocery stores, lives in a “food desert,” or does not have time to shop/cook. It only refers to lack of food access based on financial and other material resources."

A much better, but less pageview-generating, term for the problem a large number of Americans face is "malnutrition". If you are malnourished, you may not be going hungry (and may actually be overweight), but still don't get the nutrients you need to be healthy.
I'm curious, what were their objections to not buying?
I'm not sure what you mean by "the level of education available to them." In my state everybody gets the same level of sex education in 7th and 9th grades, and you're legally required to attend until 10th grade. In general, anybody over the age of 15 should understand the consequences of unprotected sex. Yes, even here in the south.
Basically: We shouldn't regulate banks because people will still dislike bankers.

Likability isn't really what we're going for.
To provide a counterpoint:

Enron collapsed under massive fraud and GE would have been bankrupt if they had to mark-to-market their debt during the financial crisis.
Ok, thanks. We added "Benchmarks" to the title.
> Credit cards vs. debit cards typically have no difference in fees for the end consumer; the one notable exception in suburban NY being gas stations.

Thanks for clearing that up; I'd wondered if that was the case.

> Tipping is only expected at a sit-down restaurant

It's interesting; that's what I was led to believe. However, even takeaway/fast food places have tip jars at the front, and I feel pretty rude not biffing a dollar or so in. Which is probably a perception thing; I'm in a position that I can do so freely, and I'm more than willing to accept that those who aren't may be less obliged.
Facebook does indeed have a very efficient corporate structure (whether that will last is another question).

Perhaps 7,000 to 7,300 employees (assuming some pickup the last quarter or two), and $8.9 billion in sales.

Microsoft by comparison had roughly 15,000 employees when they had that level of revenue (adjusting for inflation), circa 1993 / 1994.
An alternative to corporate income tax is Georgism, a land value tax that is design to encourage productive use of land and other resources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
I used my local rates which are $1.50-$3.00/lb for heads of Broccoli depending if organic or not. A pizza by the slice place here is huge NY style
It sounds like you're trying to fit the ideology of your diet to observations.
> Up or out strategy

I think that 'up or out' is slightly different than 'deliver something of tangible value.' It's possible to keep delivering value without wanting to be promoted into (e.g.) management.
User Experience is Integral to Winning App Design
Is it obvious that you need threads instead of CSP ?
But, ma'am, I swear these mirrors on my shoes aren't for looking up ladies skirts. I just have them because I'm in a gang and I need to check underneath my car for car bombs every morning.
Same here. In fact I just had an interview today where I completely stumbled through explaining what I did.
Look at maps showing availability and locality to family planning resources and abortion clinics - plus abortions stopped being fun a few years ago.

Who's to say that these people were in their present state since the choice to follow through with a pregnancy? The one kid looks like 6-8 y.o. That's pre-crash. A lot changes in 7 years. You can have bankruptcy discharged in 7 years.
That is true, i don't understand y some one changed the tittle
I saw the chart of "more than half a mile from a supermarket," and I recalled that for as long as I have lived in my current neighborhood (since mid-2001), all my children have known how to walk along with me a mile out and a mile back to shop for groceries and carry them home. I have been doing something more or less like this most of my adult life. Sometimes I would walk for a while before catching a bus home from my grocery shopping, or sometimes share rides with friends who had cars and go on shopping trips together at especially inexpensive discount grocery stores, but whether traveling farther or nearer, I always preferred buying food in grocery stores and preparing it at home to buying fast food. Always. My children have grown up into slim and athletic adults, perhaps because for them eating is something they do after engaging in exercise. Yeah, some places in the United States (and some of those are featured in the article kindly submitted here) are a lot lousier even than the Near North Side of Minneapolis for taking walks outside or for finding any access at all to a grocery store, but for the most part the first thing to change here is the trade-off of how far to travel by what means for what kind of food. That will promote better health, even with very low incomes.
Are you asking questions to which you actually want answers, or are you just trying to whip HN toward a good ol' eugenics fervor? Your entire comment is nothing more than the expectorant of a right-wing radio host. I guess it's fine to rag on poor people though, since we're all Randian captains of the tech industry in here.
Mysterious giant hole suddenly appears in Siberia
> Whole foods is a REALLY bad example of the average cost of food in the US--it's well known for being expensive ...

Thus the nickname "Whole Paycheck". :)
This exact thing happened to me last week. I asked for a reference number and then called the bank on their official number. Quoted the reference and they transferred me to the person I was speaking with.
Java has JCP.
As someone currently with the company, this description of some mid-level management really resonates with me.

I am incredibly skeptical, however, that any round of layoffs attempting to get rid of these people will have a good hit rate. Plenty of really talented engineers and engineering managers will end up losing their jobs too.

I a lot of my older peers from university went to work for IBM for a couple years right after school, where layoffs occurred pretty regularly. The culture they've described to me, that was present as a result of constant layoffs, isn't something I think many current Microsoft employees will want to be a part of.
I find it interesting, that the article seems to view the fact that the family has to supplement their SNAP assistance with visits to a food pantry as a problem, rather than something to be happy about.

Indeed, poverty, hunger and food insecurity are awful, but why is it more attractive for amelioration of these conditions to come from the Federal government, than from non-governmental actors?
I have begun wondering lately if the reasons for the inevitable death of living things has any anologue to the dynamics you describe here for corporations.
You must not go to parties with bored people.
This is one response, and I could add that for flying business class it's not the same sort of standing-in-line tedium that the general public is subjected to. But even then, Sam Walton (of Wal-Mart fame) was famous for flying coach, and I doubt anyone questioned his executive productivity.

But I'm not saying corporations shouldn't ever use private jets, just that their use often seems optional rather than a matter of business necessity, which has implications for how such expenses are taxed.
OpenSSL doesn't handle it any better. As per Matthew D Green "It's like asking whether the crew of the Space Shuttle should have parachutes to protect them in the event that the shuttle explodes. OpenSSL says 'yes,' LibreSSL says a better idea would be to prevent the shuttle from exploding in the first place".

LibreSSL isn't even production ready yet, getentropy_linux.c is still in the tree getting worked on, and the sysctl method works (for now) with (most) linux kernels as a failsafe API to gather entropy while inside a chroot/file descriptors exhausted.

For all we know next month kernel.org could roll out a new failsafe API for entropy collection and finally kill off sysctl.
The irony in your post is that the vast majority of adults are also trapped with basically no money or independence. You're given just enough as a wage slave. Perhaps the problem isn't in schools, but how we structure society today.
Companies need to be taxed to pay for the percent of the commons that they use. Roads, emergency services, courts, etc.
I think pinning this one on the developer is a pretty hard argument to make.
I exactly agree. But the reality of our free market laissez-faire policies mixed with increasingly effective, data driven marketing, results in a portion of the population who we are essentially leaving hung out to dry. They do not have your intellect and understanding of expenses as well as the prior knowledge to avoid and deal with addictive food additives and sophisticated merchandizing techniques. Just to name a few of the issues at play here. Its a shame that you cannot understand and have some sympathy for them.

When are the smart people of this country going to start taking some responsibility for the rest of the US?
Does it mean that any browser extension which is modifying CL web page(s) violating their terms of use?
Also, to support my point regarding wastefulness, look at this article from the Washington Post that cite a report made that found that out of $1.3 trillion collected, $616B was found to be wasteful, that's 47%!

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/14/editorial-wh...

This doesn't even start to look at the cost of foreign adventurism or the war on drugs, and all the programs to attempt repairing the damages caused by these efforts.
Yes, youth unemployment riots in Paris are great; let's keep things just the way they are.
A Robot With a Little Humanity
20 years for language X do not bring the same amount of benefits as 20 years for language Y, as can be clearly seen if we compare Javascript and OCaml.
I'd like to see a proposal more along the lines of "lower rate and simpler".

The two examples don't strike me as that compelling. Carried interest seems like income. Depreciation is just a question of timing, not amount (time-value of money notwithstanding; which is marginal).
That depends on what you think the problem is.

Sure, if you think it's "people don't like Google Glass", ditching the camera is one option.

If, on the other hand, you think the problem is "people don't like being recorded when they don't know it", Glass is just a symptom. Even if Glass made recording super-obvious or ditched the camera entirely, someone would just make "Black Glass" that didn't or stick a tiny cameras in other things (watches? baseball caps? ...).

Personally, I think the real problem is the latter. All the excessive focus on Google Glass just distracts us from that. And that's unfortunate, because the real problem is much thornier than the Glass problem.
From Microserfs maybe?
Because cell phones are discrete fashionable accessories that serve as status symbols displaying varying wealth and disposable income, while Google Glass is a lopsided glowing deformity on the side of your head.
What does it mean that they would have been bankrupt? I thought (wrongly perhaps) that you were only bankrupt if you couldn't pay your bills. So no matter their true debt back then, doesn't GE's current existence prove they weren't bankrupt?
What's the advantage of accessing O'Reilly's library of technical books via an Amazon app vs. an O'Reilly app, other than O'Reilly losing money that would otherwise go to improving their technical books?
Distrust of bankers is deep-seated and centuries old. In times past, usury was a sin.

Obviously there are important advantages to society from having a modern financial sector, but the public is not entirely wrong to be suspicious of the ill-gotten gains of financial wizards who conjure profits by shuffling numbers around rather than performing more obviously useful work.
Same here. DigitalOcean can't verify if a document is real (vs photoshopped) so the requirement might as well be sending a letter head. I'm glad I got access to all levels of VMs early by asking nice (for legitimate adhoc large data processing that required lots of RAM).
Because there are no libraries for concurrency...

Not built in does not mean not possible or available...
If you know how to use Amazon's interface it's possible to see the list of books online so you don't have to do all the browsing on the Kindle, but you still have to 'buy' it from the Kindle.

It's sort of a hidden link or a special way of narrowing search results with the criteria on the left side of the page. If you google I'm sure you can find instructions.
Tips for building an open source community around your product
"The right of the employee to earn the full value of his or her grant shall not be limited by unreasonable vesting terms."

The problem with statements like this is that "unreasonable" is different for everyone. For me, it's anything under 10%, for the VC, 1% might be perfectly "reasonable".

Instead, get a lawyer to read over any contract you might sign. Chances are, your equity will be worth $0 when the company folds in 2 years..and it's better to get your full market value in the form of a paycheck.
I think greyskull's questions are rhetorical, but his tone is understandable given the tone of TFA, which relentlessly beats on the drum of victimhood at the hands of an unfair system. I think the article could have been could have made the same point with less appeal to sentimentality.
Is the royalty structure public?
> When are the smart people of this country going to start taking some responsibility for the rest of the US?

When the country starts listening to them.
What are the advantages? What are the disadvantages?
Most people’s understanding of mathematics, astrophysics, chemistry, biology and plumbing is much lower than their understanding of banking. They are, indeed, largely “ignorant” of these topics. But I’m not aware of commonplace hatred of mathematicians or plumbers etc.

There’s a big world out there, and the term “renaissance man” exists because it is no longer possible for anyone to have excessive knowledge outside of a few chosen interests; thus the notion of a connection between ignorance of a topic and hatred of its masters is quite ignorant indeed.

People hate bankers because they are individuals who have chosen to master a field whose intellectual demands are only barely above-average, but have a very large window for disproportionate rewards.
Meqanic – The physics-based puzzle game that matches you against the Universe
The main difference, I think, is that it's way easier to avoid bullies as an adult.

If there's a bully among your friends, find new friends. If there's a workplace bully, find a new job, or better yet take it up with HR and make him find a new job. If there's a bully who works at a store, don't go to that store. Even in a really bad case, like the bully is on the local police force, you can move to a new city.

There's no adult situation comparable to being forced to spend every weekday in the same building as hundreds of people whose company you don't choose. Except joining the military, I suppose, but that just reinforces how different it is from regular adult life.
"People shouldn't hate bankers because it is their fault they accept misleading information."
That's not true. In law, "person" is an abstraction in the same way a file descriptor is an abstraction in UNIX. The whole point is to carry along with it a built-in set of intuitions.
Issue tracker and open source hardware for my house
But 9 kids at 31?
I ran a system that was a back end for craigslist for many years, and I never stopped even after getting a cease and desist from them. What really got me was after they started charging people to post ads... that really killed my business model. Generally its not a great idea to build a business model around the availability of a third party... I think the whole concept of craigslist sending a 'cease and desist' over what is generally considered public_html is a laughable joke in my opinion, and good luck trying to restrict public html from crawlers and robots.
For a more in-depth list of reasons to use OCaml, I recommend “OCaml: What You Gain” at http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/02/13/ocaml-what-you-gain....

It is part of the series of posts linked in “Python to OCaml: Retrospective” at http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/06/06/python-to-ocaml-ret... (HN story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7858276). I learned a lot about OCaml from that series of posts.

For more comparisons between OCaml and other langages, see the first two posts in the series. In the first post, http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2013/06/09/choosing-a-python-r..., the author compares OCaml to many languages, including Python, Go, and Haskell. The second post http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2013/06/20/replacing-python-ro... summarizes his conclusions about the languages – he decided that either Haskell or OCaml would meet his needs best. (He chose OCaml after that, obviously.)
In principle, the main advantage is fast and efficient allocation of capital.

The disadvantage is that human beings are greedy, fallible creatures and they're often more interested in enriching themselves.
Everyone please help Jason Scott and Archive.org and JMESS. Spend some time and help them out. #archiveteam on EFnet is a good place to start. They're a great organization, and JMESS is kinda a lynchpin to the future of the software preservation efforts there.
I'm shocked. Most of these comments have to be from a corporate lobby group.

"of the Fortune 500 companies... companies studied paid just 18.5 percent of their profits in U.S. corporate income taxes... Thirty of the companies paid less than nothing and had negative corporate income tax rates"

The following article will explain it much better than I could.
http://ctj.org/ctjreports/2013/04/bernie_sanders_is_right_an...
Using a credit card in the US is cheaper and more convenient than using a debit card, especially for poor people who may not have enough cash until payday for what they need to buy today.

Of course, it requires the discipline not to spend more than you can pay back at the end of the month which some people seem to have difficulty with.
For the cabin, if I may suggest, http://hexayurt.com
Corporations receive hundreds of millions in direct public subsidy:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-11-12/boeing-grabs...

Corporations benefit greatly from costly American military efforts abroad:
http://money.msn.com/investing/10-companies-profiting-most-f...

The Federal government negotiates international trade deals on behalf of corporations:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/12/11/e...

Corporations make massive profits based on the findings of publicly-funded scientific research:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1008268

Corporations pay their employees so little that regular people have to subsidize their income:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-w...

This is not a question of being "taxed twice". Corporations are the recipients of incalculable public welfare, and they generate billions in profit. Of course they should be taxed. They should be taxed progressively according to their income.

And the idea that the United States doesn't provide an "attractive climate" for corporations is just completely insane.

Also, this article is poorly written. Next time, use http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
I did that once (don't remember what book) but in the end I didn't like it. While I don't like to re-read books it kind of annoys me that the book is gone from my list of stuff I've bought/read. Plus the limitation of 1 per month means you can't switch to reading something else unless I buy that something else.

I don't like losing access to things. If it was "you can download one per month and keep access as long as you're a subscriber" sort of the way Playstation Plus works that would be OK with me.

But the rental program feels more like a cruddy crippled library than a real service.

I'd rather pay the $5-$10 for the eBook and not have to deal with it.

This new service is interesting. I don't read enough for it to be useful, but I could see it saving my dad quite a bit of money (or trips to the library) if they had enough books.
It's true this doesn't represent the end of a company. But layoffs of 1/20 of a large company's entire workforce are not regular occurrences, and are a cause for concern. It's the kind of thing you can do once, but not again for a long while; two layoffs of that magnitude within a short period, and you trigger a death-spiral where anyone who's left is looking for the exit.
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My bad, I am confusing with the Federal Reserve Act, which was drafted in secret meetings and passed into law three days before Christmas. Yet, one cannot ignore that when the 16th amendment was passed, federal income tax was 2% and required 2/3 of the votes to pass, subsequent increases only required >50%. A 35% rate for middle class incomes is a far cry from 2%.