skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask the World Bank/IMF for advice. Then do the exact opposite.

More seriously, historically it has required a strong industrial policy with selective and targeted trade barriers / industry support. With poor governance this is incredibly difficult to pull off without it devolving into kleptocracy.

Unfortunately, the n for countries that have gone from poverty to OECD level wealth is very small so history might not be a useful indicator. Frankly, I think Malawi is probably just screwed. Limited resources, landlocked, difficult neighbors, extreme ethnic diversity, etc
Yes. Burying the current one as a duplicate.
Photos of the Commodore production line in Hong Kong
I don't think "Point and Shoot" is the correct term. Those refer to cameras with fixed zoom lenses.

This has interchangeable lenses and therefore is within the "mirrorless" category.
>as a class, we are downtrodden, disrespected, and disenfranchised?

Oh, please. If any of you ever want to know what this actually feels like, take a job in retail, customer service, food prep, or low-level hospitality. There are many more jobs out of the limelight that are underpaid and under-respected (in the USA, which is my perspective) and take just as much of a toll on you as building a ridiculous system to please some suits to make the thingamajig do the fancy voodoo.

Should engineers get more respect? That's a valid and fair question, and companies will pay more respect or start seeing loss when your core team leaves.

But don't play this off like you're some kind of victim in life. At the very least this is just terrible word choice to describe the problem.
Yea. Leica makes jewelry. They are great cameras. But they are also jewelry.
http://flashbackr.com
There's job fraud and social status inflation.

Job fraud is claiming you can do something that you're objectively unqualified to do, usually by counterfeiting formal certifications. For example, if you claim to be a doctor but never went to medical school, you're guilty of job fraud and should go to jail.

Social status inflation is something that everyone does, and that everything has been doing for hundreds of thousands of years. It's ethically OK. Don't get caught, because high-status people tend to be protectionist over their pedigree, but there's nothing morally wrong with it. Generally it's best not to put inflations in written form, for practical reasons. The answer to "Should I lie on my CV?" is almost always "no". Write a truthful CV and keep the inflations in verbal form as much as you can.

In truth, moving one's title to the management track is a demotion in a way, because it's so much harder to make "X-equivalent engineer" than X on the management track. Take Google. It's ridiculously easy to make the Director level on the management track. The main requirement is a pulse. It's extremely hard to make Principal or Distinguished Engineer.
This sound fun, and there is an awesome Famo.us+Mapbox implementation somewhere. Shoot me an email and let's make it real quick!
Unreal Engine marketplace now open for early submissions
So do you actually know any other language, apart from C and C++ that will actually be compatible with all the existing needs? That means, among other things, being really fast, not using garbage collectors and being linkable to the rest of the software written in C.

I know that Rust can be used once it matures, nobody knows when, but the question is for now?
http://www.minimallyminimal.com/blog/issey-miyake-to-by-toku...

($1400)
Fuji's X cameras are also great in this regard. I ditched my DSLR setup for the X system and haven't regretted it for a second.
That's really what makes me fear about how far we can push our processors. I don't think Moore's law will hold a lot longer for CPUs, unless we manage to get very good quantum computers very soon.
The M series is Leica's defining camera series. These offshoots are just more revenue streams.

Sony has really come out strong. I still shoot film but if I made my way back to digital I would go with a A7.
I'm curious about what you mean by the theatrics of learning to code.

I like to present coding as "a thing you could do right now if you wanted", but I also think it's important to not describe it as easy, because that's frustrating to those trying to learn.

Your Morlock/wizard comment is what scares me about the traditional office environment, because I suspect that's the actual situation.

I had a friend who said I should come work at the phone company because "I'd be the smartest one there".

First, I wouldn't be, and second, "you're the smartest one there" sounds like a succinct description of hell.
Yeah. BigCo bureaucracy and management is killing me. If you don't mind me asking, what smaller company did you go to, or what does smaller company do?
Arguably the spirit of EU corporation tax law is intended to drive it to zero. That's why a corporation can designate its headquarters as being absolutely anywhere regardless of where its actual workforce or assets are. It's the only sane way to do things, otherwise you end up trying to arbitrarily slice a company up between jurisdictions even when it doesn't make any sense.

Good article on this here:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/25/tax_and_tech_biz/

BTW the notion that "taxation without representation" is bad is pretty fundamental to modern societies. So if we tax corporations it makes sense that they'd be able to vote, as in the City of London, otherwise perhaps we should not be taxing them.
Hacker News Virus
Ah, thanks! I tried a reverse image search, and Googling various versions of "watch with chrome face", and looked around the site, but nothing.
Well, there's that nice new data center in Provo...
As a MacVim user, I find this intriguing. It seems to work very well for my needs. I particularly like the built-in Markdown preview.

My only gripe so far is that I'd like to be able to configure additional filtering for the fuzzy file find to, for example, make it automatically ignore node_modules folders.
The article makes interesting claims. Some of them ring true. But there is very little backing for the claims in the article. Therefore I'm surprised to see it still on page 1.
How Much of Your Company Should You Give to New Co-Founders?
The author of the SP is using median income as a proxy to estimate how affordable the housing is to someone like himself. If there are no people at his income living there, then the type of housing he is looking for is not available.
NSA Observer
Islam isn't a monolith. It's also not a country. You should observe your locale, inquire politely, and behave respectfully, as is true with interacting with any culture you're unfamiliar with.
> while 95% of people could use an extra 10k, the real cost of welfare comes from those few who have major medical needs, and that 10k would do nothing for them

> Are large per-person medical expenses a significant portion of total US welfare spending?

> I don't have the data, but I would be quite surprised if it were not the case. Having your appendix taken out cost on average $33,000 (and up to $180,000) in California.

And then I said:

We can't say "10k wouldn't cover costs for the 5% of people that will incur huge medical bills" because those huge medical bills only happen today, in a time where the government has the health system set up in such a way as to make all their proceedings exceedingly expensive.

In a free market, goods are cheaper than in a heavily regulated market.

So what I am refuting is the anachronism of considering the current costs of health care in a future where health care would operate in a free market. And I'm refuting it by saying, it's expensive now because of regulation that wouldn't exist in a free market.
I often see watches (mostly in movies) and I kind of wish there was a good site to get wardrobe info from.

Include the female wardrobe information; and affiliate links.

A quick search shows the desire for this kind of site, but nothing that does it well.
Oh the irony. Those that you mention are also safe until proven otherwise.

I remember before Heartbleed was discovered everyone was raving about how secure OpenSSL is because it has been around for so long yadda yadda ... Heartbleed was discovered and everyone's suddenly acting "haha I knew it all along .. it was shit".
Perhaps 10% of managers and executives are talented and worth a damn. The other 90% are really good at playing politics and externalizing costs. Technical debt is a great way to externalize costs, because the ones who suffer are usually late-coming maintenance engineers (who tend to be juniors, with no credibility).

Middle management (MacLeod Clueless) used to be the bilge pump system of the company. It cleaned up messes made above by self-dealing executives (MacLeod Sociopaths) and from below by checked-out subordinates (MacLeod Losers). Now, that function is being pushed increasingly to tech. We're what self-dealing HR thugs and narcissistic executives externalize their costs into.
Looking at the archives of this blog is amazing. It's the ultimate Connoisseur Consumer in action. Every new product differs in only the minutest details from the previous, bit it's all oh so important. Until the new version arrives and obsoletes the previous one...
This looks very promising. I use MacVim daily and being able to extend the GUI (like the markdown plugin) sounds awesome.

I already see tons of possible plugin. A simple one would be to have a webkit window which reloads the page when working on a web project, with javascript bindings on the webkit window there is a lot of potential.

Or an OpenGL shader preview for real time GLSL editing.

Could also be simply a documentation browser.

There are many tools I'd like to integrate more with my editor.

To all the haters, use your imagination, it's much more than just vim in the terminal. And I'm well aware that I can have a gazillion window open (web browser, doc browser, shader preview, game window...), but this kind of integration can improve productivity and reduce frustrations.
Yeah, force them to take you to court and show that they own the debt. None of this "passing the paper" non-sense, there has to be a legal contract or some document saying that your debt was given to someone else. Otherwise, it's just some guy claiming you owe him money, because of "paper".
Firstly - to be the next something, you don't have to be exactly the same. If you are exactly the same, you are not the next one - you are the previous one, but late.

Secondly - as far as Google is concerned - their services ARE their platform. The browser/device used to be a "thin client", but once you start doing shit like putting remote desktop functionality into a browser, there is nothing "thin" about it. So now they have a server-side platform, and a client side beluga whale browser that makes their platform "work best".

Google's tactics in general terms are similar to Microsofts. They use their position in the market to (attempt to) introduce technologies that they control. Their continued (ab)use of the term "open source" is fairly standard for them now:

create/buy <something>. announce/change it as "open source". nerds rejoice. release actual closed source product "based on" the open source version, with no way for user to verify the differences between the two.
Thanks for the recommendation! It's been on my radar for a while, and I find the analysis of it as more of a puzzle game than an RPG compelling.

I'm in the same boat regarding time commitments, especially now that I commute in a car instead of on a subway again. The names escape me, but I know that plenty of 4-10 hour RPGs exist. The really-short RPG market seems very under-served, though.

Here's an idea: RPGs with a "Skip this battle" option, for those more interested in the story.
You don't just see how you invoked "intellectual property" to serve your own policy goal here?

My point is that the rubric of intellectual property is unhelpful in defending privacy. To the extent that society demands privacy, privacy must be an intrinsic goal, orthogonal to IP. And yet right now it isn't; significant privacy rights seem to fall out of happenstances about who "owns" what data.

Which is my critique of this article about Wyden.
Germany intercepts Hillary Clinton phone call
How much gold can we get from mobile phones?
For some reason, every time I read "as a designer" and appeals to some magical designer "auctoritee", I cringe. If I can't tell you're a designer from the terms you're using and the points you focus on, well, don't club me over the head with it. As a pedant, I notice details like this.

As for the camera, two programmable knobs seems like a nice feature.
It would be awesome if you could add in some kind of package manager like sublime text has.
Ask HN: What to do on a gap year?
Tuesday would have been the day I left home and moved to college. But after thinking for a while, I realized that I was rushing a bit quickly into things. Going from high school to college within the span of 3 months was a bit too quick for me so I requested for my admission to be deferred.

I now have a year to pursue the things that I want to pursue. The thing is apart from web development and developing Android apps, I don't know what else to do. I just started a part-time job as a developer which has the option of becoming full time in the future. I should say I took the job mainly so I could gain experience for future purposes because I really want to be a software engineer but without experience, it's kinda hard to be.

I know an existential crisis is inevitable. I was wondering what HN suggests I should do. People I've talked to said that I should travel but traveling is really enough for me. I have no idea what to do to be social.

So what do you suggest I do during my gap year HN?
I think there's too much focus these days on what you can get for the money, and not what you can get.

You have one life, why fill it with particle board and Chinese plastic smell? Why not save up and buy things that last. That bring joy to your life and enrich it. Why buy a three dollar Chinese screwdriver with an imprecisely cut point that strips every fifth screw, when for ten dollars you can get a precision cut, tempered, and coated american made screwdriver that feels weighty and good in your hands. That doesn't strip those screws and makes your job a little more joyful.

America needs to bring back the craftsman and the appreciation for craftsmanship. The LVL1 hackerspace in Louisville just moved into an old factory and I am constantly stunned by the workmanship that went into that old building. The architect filled the place with light using angled windows, but it doesn't get hot. Even the wood floors are beautifully made (and this was for factory work).

Surrounding yourself with crafted things allows you to think on a higher plane. You know what is possible because you are surrounded with it.

If you surround yourself with cheap replaceable junk you become capable of crafting and expecting only cheap replaceable junk. That's why I can buy so much expensive furniture off craigslist for pennies. People have lost the ability to tell that that slightly scuffed up dresser couldn't be purchased for under eight grand new.
That sounds really good. The only possible way that would be bad is if we insist on keeping society in a state where not having a job is not an acceptable state. But why would we insist on everyone working, once we can automate most of what people do?
Smartphone stress: Are you a victim of 'always on' culture?
Looks good, the landing page could be a bit clearer - some more screenshots would be good. At the moment all the images just look like GitHub screenshots.
"Having education, specialized training, and/or progressively responsible experience that is equivalent to the completion of a U.S. bachelor’s or higher degree in the specialty occupation, and having recognition of expertise in the specialty. through progressively responsible positions directly related to the specialty. In general, 3 years of work experience or training in the field is considered as equivalent to 1 year of college."
Learn enough to make going back to school irrelevant. Seriously, you've delayed the inevitable (Getting a CS degree) which is almost certainly required to reach your goals (becoming a software engineer). School isn't going to be any cheaper next year, and the education probably worse.

I'd leverage the time to get experience. Whatever that means to you.
HostGator deletes my website, demands to see my passport
Facebook is Face-cist Blacks don't get Squares as Whites do In Pictures
Notice in some crowd shots the algorithm to put a label box around a face in a picture doesn't work as well or at all for black faces on Facebook in crowd shots. Is this a service for blacks or FACE-ISM?
For a somewhat similar look, try the Eone Bradley watch ($275, titanium quartz).

[1] http://eone-time.com/

[2] http://shopna.eone-time.com/
The Leica T is simply a rebranded Sony in a tighter package. If you look around at these guys, you'll see its even a Sony sensor and guts. Hassleblad does the same thing - simply look at the Lunar series. It's basically a Sony RX100 and NEX-7 w/ a wood handle. (http://www.hasselblad-lunar.com/). Don't be impressed by this, from a technology perspective. Be impressed by its machining and "re"-design of the Sony consumer brands (by now well under 1,000$ USD). I think they are junk, but when you have two lambos you want bling at the party.
Installing Nvidia CUDA on Mac OS X for GPU-Based Parallel Computing
Rise and shine: the daily routines of history's most creative minds
What I'd tell my younger self about web design
Do the ones that exist really rely on a CS degree? Or might a smart, dedicated hacker be just as useful, if not moreso?
Not sure what I said was false?

I agree that GC and memory safety are orthogonal -- see rust. But there aren't a lot of options if you want safe and non-GC, which was my point.

And GC is just not an option sometimes. GC has been around forever but it just hasn't proven itself in a lot of domains. I don't think it's for lack of trying, I think it's because sometimes you want to manage the memory.
Given the amount of free-of-charge choices, I really fail to see why someone would want to pay anything more than a domain-name for a blog, professional or otherwise.

But that's just me.
Sarcasm does not further a debate. If you want to froth at the mouth and show your agenda, sure, but not actually having constructive discussions.

Posting enormous gripe lists is not useful on any board, relevant or not, even minus the comically skewed narrative provided with them. In this case it wasn't even original but instead is a "create a puppet account and paste the complaint list again" tactic, which is just boorish and cowardly.

Go make a "whygoogleisevil.com" site and casually reference that in a legitimate post, sure, but not this.

And your whole "it's a cult" angle is ridiculous. If you convince yourself that people who find this strong polarization unconstructive must be in awe of Google, you have a very binary view of a complex world.
I dunno, I've thought about getting a Leica every once in a while, then I see reviews like this with pictures from the camera and I'm always so "meh" about how they look. Everything looks like there's a 2-5% grey filter on it, and anything with any kind of luminescence always looks blown out. Most of the sample galleries I've seen on the have the added minus of all looking just slightly out of focus.

There's a definite "Leica look" for certain, I'm just not sure I've ever liked how it looks.

On the other hand, the B&W photos I've seen taken with it look fantastic.

Looking at other reviews, this is a heavy camera and really slow and clumsy to work with. If I'm going to lug around this much, I may as well just lug around a regular old DSLR and a decent lens.

Online reviews are pretty scathing for something in this price range

http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/30/5755088/leica-t-mirrorless...

http://reframe.gizmodo.com/leica-t-review-a-camera-should-no...

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2460584,00.asp
Some more sample galleries

http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/reviewsamples/albums/leica...

http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/30/5764700/leica-t-sample-pho...

http://www.gizmag.com/leica-t-review-sample-images/31990/

It seems like this is something people buy only because they want to be seen with a Leica, not because they like photography.

edit I shoot mostly with a now ancient and well worn D60 that appears to outperform this Leica in almost every measure despite being 7 years old.
Right. Thanks for pointing this out. So at least an additional "lookup helper" such as a username would be needed.
> "re"-design of the Sony consumer brands (by now well under 1,000$ USD)

The review is comparing it to the Sony RX1[1]

[1] http://store.sony.ca/cyber-shot-rx1-digital-camera-zid31-DSC...
I'd go even further and say don't say more than you have to ever.

There's a great point/counter point of the issue from a law school class. It's a bit long, but well worth a watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
Vacuous truth
If it seems they haven't actually read the article past the title, it is safe to discard their comment and don't even consider it.
Surprisingly, the obvious and fairly fool-proof "If you're going to go protest, leave your phone at home" didn't seem to be among the advice given.
I don't disagree with your main premise - in fact I very much agree with it. Beautiful tools are inspiring to work with.

But this doesn't actually seem to be that good of camera no matter how you look at it and looking at other serious reviews it doesn't seem to be all that well crafted either.

There's a difference between good, but sometimes funky, craftsmanship and gimmicks. The T seems to be more on the gimmick side of things.
Probably possible to do, however what's up with just using Last.fm's API?

http://www.last.fm/api/show/artist.getSimilar
Armin for BDFL!

(Just a joke, people. Just a joke.) Anyway, I wonder why Armin's not more involved with core Python things, his perspective should be valuable. As someone doing some Python stuff on the side his articles are always worth reading carefully.

The Python community has always been the best part of the language, but the important subcommunities like NumPy, Twisted and PyPy has always seemed like they are a bit outside looking in. I don't know why. Perhaps the language would have evolved differently if these projects were a bit more involved in the actual language development.
Rockstar Productivity
Looks pretty neat. Good work folks. I wrote a blog post sometime back to setup macvim that looks exactly same as your projects. Good thing is that I don't have to do all that hard work to set it up and just use yours instead. :)
Here is that blog post. http://vinitkumar.me/articles/2014/01/03/Setup-Macvim-for-ma...
So it dosent matter if product is viral, unique and possibly game changing? Is becoming successfully also pure luck? What else in your opinion is pure luck?

I agree that some submissions are lucky to get to the top. But stating most submissions or all of them is just luck is just nonsense.