skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument is that the "status quo" of people randomly handing out food on occasion just reinforces the status quo. And I think we can all agree that the status quo is not so great. So, what types of things do you want to encourage? Well, we'd want to encourage homeless people to do things like get actual healthy meals that are appropriate for their medical needs, get involved in jobs programs, get health screenings, and have safer places to sleep at night. How do you get these things? Well, you do it by encouraging the homeless to get involved with institutions that provide these programs on a wide-scale basis. When you do that you get information about how effective or ineffective the programs are about improving the quality of lives of the homeless as well as potentially even moving them out of homelessness altogether. It would be nice if people could all be rational actors, have this explained to them, and when they see a homeless person they could perhaps direct them to the local facility that is best equipped to handle their specific needs. But you know what? Experience tells us that isn't going to happen. That's why the law gets involved and does things like make panhandling and giving out food in city parks illegal. You say you don't have all the answers, but what you are saying is that you do have an answer: the status quo. It may not be perfect but it definitely stands to reason that getting the homeless directly involved with professional organizations that intend to help them is likely going to be better for everyone in the long run than putting the homeless in the very precarious position of having to panhandle for money or food from complete strangers who generally will have no idea how to actually help homelessness.
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You hit on something interesting here.

With a few exceptions, everyone on this site experienced childhood without the barrage of information and sensations that is the Internet.

It is scary to imagine how children who from birth have been trained to always look for entertainment through iPad games and the need to always be connected - how that might affect them. I suspect this is an overblown concern, people probably said the same when the television became a staple in society and human beings are adaptable. Still, children are especially malleable at that age, the impact modern technology will have on them is...interesting.
Assuming their life expenses were paid (hard to imagine they weren't - how would they survive?), what's wrong with that? It's illegal, but that's it.
Your assuming everyone who read a book did so for fun. Scroll down on your first link and the percentage is 55% of adults and 52% 18-24 year olds. Compared to 64% of americans watching an NFL game. http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/10/14/no-surprise-64-a...

Further, football goes beyond the supper bowl and beyond the NFL. Including collage, high school etc, and an estimated 200+ million people watched at least one football game last year.
I know what I am about to say sounds melodramatic but: How isn't the CIA going after the US Senate not a Constitutional crisis?

Effectively you have what the CIA were doing EXTREMELY close to treasonous in the true sense of the word. They were trying to subvert one of the branches of government which are meant to oversee their operations.

Let's ignore the torture report for a second, how isn't this alone reason enough for the CIA to be overhauled? They're clearly happy to subvert the US government and it will only get worse if nothing is done.

Honestly it wouldn't shock me if the CIA has or will blackmail US senators. They're clearly rogue at this point.
Just so you have some background -- I know homeless people, and I buy food for the homeless on a regular basis. I sit and eat and talk with them, give them rides, take them to hospitals, etc..., and I consider many of them friends. I'm not a therapist, or any sort of expert, but I have some experience.

It's just not street-food that's making or keeping people homeless, and it's a gross mischaracterization to claim that street feeding is what keeps people homeless. I just can't see how that contributes any any significant way to their issues.

The homeless people I know have serious physical and/or mental health issues. People aren't exactly lining up to give them food and money. Many of them simply can't manage a budget and afford enough to eat through most of the month, so they supplement their diet however they can.

They know that there are programs out there to help them, but they don't take advantage of them now. Making it illegal to give them food isn't going to somehow force them to get help. It'll just make it worse for the homeless.
> Like it or not, Ubuntu or whatever your OS of choice is does have root access to your machine. Not literally of course, but it's effective access given that their code is running with root privileges on your machine and chances are you haven't reviewed it lately. You trust your distro to make sure that code is secure, stable, and acting in your best interests.

Actually, I trust that of the millions of Ubuntu users, there is at least one person who would sound the alarm if Canonical had slipped spyware into their distribution (as, of course, people did about the absurd Amazon lens). Free software means trusting the public at large to audit the software rather than trusting the software's producer.
I'm well aware of that, which is why I was pointing out the pointlessness of punishing people but not reforming their behaviour.

So lets pretend you know of a fool proof way to figure out who is making honest mistakes, and who is being deliberate, now you can your retribution, but you won't change their behaviour.
Thank you for your efforts on this guide. Hopefully, it will help those who want to preserve what's left of their privacy.
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That's weird. Nobody I know has ever made a successful Ubuntu version upgrade. There was literally no case where nothing broke.
I resigned; I will make a clean new install if I want a new version.
The problem with this juxtaposition is that it leads one down the path of thinking each topic is a mutually exclusive all-or-nothing affair. From the perspective of an upper middle class software developer who is paid six figures to create cutely-named CRUD websites and reload Hacker News, it certainly feels like we're primarily victims of distraction. From the perspective of someone else who isn't an economic sure-bet and can't simply throw money at problems, the ever-invasive systems of control they run into are much more non-voluntary and absolute.

I'm certainly not arguing that the world should be viewed solely through the eyes of the lowest classes - I think this can result in focusing on zero-sum solutions that invariably invite more tentacles of control into our everyday lives. But looking at such perspectives is a good way to get over the initial "soft controls" and see that there definitely is a system of "hard controls" backing them up.
I worked as salary accountant, I think big part of story is missing, and it is essentially click-bait.

> dilemma-style trap where the equilibrium is at or just below the amount needed to not starve

That ship had sailed long time ago. In California I would be more worried about housing cost and expenses in general. I bet many people would gladly accept $1/hour position which would cover insurance, rent (in real house), food, car.... Steve Jobs worked for $1/year!

Ireland has strongly enforced minimal wage with long tradition, yet it surprisingly just does not work, even government is now forcing people to take unpaid positions.
That's a mean way to treat somebody. Please don't be mean on HN.

The interface here isn't always easy for newcomers. The last thing we ought to do is pile rudeness on top of that.

All: please give others the benefit of the doubt on HN. That's part of being civil. It's too easy to seize on whatever details make the other person look worst.
Firstly with minimum wage laws you deny them opportunity to earn their living. Then you deny them food. Well done America.
Can you provide any details about the internal app? What features does it have that need javascript? Also, since it's internal only, does it even need any extra compatibility, since all the configurations are known? The "web" and the "intranet" are quite different situations.
You mean the in addition to the company the government approved of this too?
And you don't know Soma, do you? Work and pass out, rinse, repeat. Yeah, no, thank you.

>(myself not included)

You are not per chance paranoid or subconsciously ashamed?
Judge in Silk Road case gets threatened on Darknet
It's a curious set of things you've chosen to communicate to users about the security of mobile phones. For instance, it's important to your page to tell users that phones make it harder to "replace the operating system". That's true, but from the vantage point of security, operating system replacements are mostly a tool for attackers, not defenders.
Monism is one philosophical end of a historically infamous set of beliefs declared as 'clearly distinct' Christian heresies for which people were executed in gruesome fashion. For instance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monophysitism
I think we're on the same page.

However, I don't think your first solution solves your first problem. I don't have a good solution for it either, though.

I like your second solution, but I would prefer a progressive capital gains tax + a carbon tax. Basically you only get taxed on your wealth if you earn about a certain yearly amount.
The only advantage Hipchat has is that you can run it on your own servers. Slack is so much better for users it's not even funny.
Fair. I haven't tried rendering server-side with React. I'm sure it's as much a maintenance nightmare as much as any major feature.

But I do have apps I maintain that started as traditional Rails apps and have been progressively enhanced to a point where they perform a lot like more modern client-side apps. And an interesting property I've discovered to be true of such an app is that it's really quite easy to convert that traditional view-rendering pipeline to React, because there is almost no JS-soup being relied on for core pieces to function.

On the flip side, I also work on a couple apps where most of the functionality exists as JQuery DOM manipulation or as Bootstrapified data binding, and these are nearly impossible to port to a diff-based rendering library like React without rewriting most of the functionality.

So while I haven't exactly tried rendering React on the server, I've found that the more traditional server-side rendering flow still holds up quite well on the modern web. It's a good way of thinking about how your app should look/behave given a set of states, and it holds up well even in places where Javascript is required. The fact that it can be accomplished without Javascript is more of a side-effect, but also a good indication that it's not any particular bit of Javascript that is holding it all together.
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We just started using it at our company. We have a lot of remote workers.

I think part of why it's so good is because it's "just" a modernized IRC. It seems like most other other communication tools fail to deliver that feel of community that IRC does and as a result fall short. Slack despite my initial misgivings seems to be delivering though.
If you do know people who smoke it goes both ways. There's a lot of people that marijuana really does just kill their desire to do anything productive (though I can say the same thing about videogames or a number of other things).

On the other hand, I don't know too many people where pot has had the reverse effect, and increased their drive. It does seem to have a numbing effect, broadly speaking.

Not saying I completely agree with the OP's sentiment, though.
> Religious zealots always get mad when facts ruin their ideological narratives.

Couldn't have said it better myself. You would do well to consider your own criticism. I will not be holding my breath waiting for the penny to drop for you, though. You have that self assured idiocy I instantly recognise from hackneyed talking heads spinning nonsense about topics they don't grasp purely to make those more questioning abandon their pesky skepticism and critical analysis about all things conventional.

Keep it up, your attacks serve merely to convince me I'm on the right path.
Slack is a great case study in b2b apps. They built a
product essentially used like a consumer product, but
for business purposes. The interface is targeted at
people, not businesses.

And yet they have ~15k customers [1], but massive investor
hype and potential valuations. The equivalent consumer app
would require more on the order of 15 million customers
to achieve the same.

[1] Read it somewhere.
The problem I have with this is that a historical maximum in the prescriptions for behavior controlling drugs doesn't seem to imply that society is any closer to BNW. Obtaining complete control over society through the use of drugs is significantly more challenging than simply giving every citizen a prescription.
A client, not, The client.

Say you were writing a client in a different language or for another platform.
On Linux, if you're using Docker, then it runs it natively without a VM.

VirtualBox is not "preferred" as much as its the default, because its the easiest to acquire. For example, on Windows 8+, Hyper-V is actually the default for Vagrant because its built in to almost every installation of Windows (Vagrant checks).

Vagrant really just chooses whatever appears to be available on your system.
With a UI like that it is going to need a phone to back it up.
The issue is the realization that feeding the homeless in unstructured environments is a net negative. It makes people feel good because, "Look, I helped that guy eat today." But the reality is that guy could've likely eaten a meal more appropriate to his specific health needs in a location best suited to help him with medical aid, psychiatric help, and job skills/placement. So we have this terrible predicament where people feel good about something that actually hurts people because they don't know better. It would be nice if education programs worked and people wised up and stopped feeding the homeless randomly, but you know what? It just doesn't work. We've tried that. So now the law is involved. It may sound crazy, but we have to get people to stop hurting the homeless by encouraging terribly unsafe behaviors like panhandling.
I understand the necessity of Javascript if you have a web app, but a lot of sites fail to display a page of text or a list of links if Javascript is disabled [1]. In my view, this is poor practice. What seems to be happening is that more and more people are using Javascript frameworks to build web sites (not web apps). This probably makes things easier for the developer. I'm not convinced it always makes for a better experience for users.

[1] Some examples of sites that won't display anything if Javascript is disabled (even though they're most displaying text):
http://googlecommerce.blogspot.co.uk/
http://googleandyourbusiness.blogspot.co.uk/
> It's interesting that others in the thread have implied that I'm not spending enough time on my startup and will be out-hustled.

I think this is kind of the point though. It seems that running a successful startup rarely allows enough time to spend with our family.

In other words:

- Good work/life balance
- Adequate money for current lifestyle
- Running your own business
- Sustained success

Pick three.

If you're saying you've got the first three nailed down, it may be too early to tell if the fourth one will pan out, at which point you have to swap one of the other three in order to sustain the success.

Not saying it's impossible, but it seems very uncommon (at least, I've not seen too many examples of it).

But maybe this is anecdotal. Curious to hear if others know of examples.
How is your definition of "slavery" different from the experience of literally any other person under a capitalist system? Getting a job for most people in the world is not a matter of want, it is a matter of do or die.
I receive hundreds of useless mails everyday (not filterable spam, just thing I don't care about or have no valuable information), so dealing with each of them to empty the inbox is a waste of time.

Most mail that matters come from specific people (close family, project members, current client...) so it's easy to search, the unexpected important mails and things that needs to be done later just need to be starred.

I feel it's really efficient when the signal/noise ratio is very low.
It should be illegal to make this illegal unless such city at least first setup a free food program for the homeless that is easily accessible for all homeless in that city. They only want to drive them away to different cities so that the city look better?
You did have luvmonkey¹, and spidernode².

1: https://github.com/creationix/luvmonkey

2: https://github.com/zpao/spidernode
Is criticizing Magic the Gathering as being evil, vindictive, manipulative and profit oriented a way you've invented to 'pump' your Kickstarter project?

Why aren't you also criticizing MTG for blatantly promoting Satanism, or does your card game to that too? ;)
http://church-of-illumination.com/mtg-satanic-evidence
I'll think some more about how we talk about that issue. If you have other comments on that page, I'd be happy to hear them too.
It's launched in the UK as well. I suspect for all those seeing 'unavailable' it's just taking time to propagate through Apple's systems.
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Is open source really a security concern?
We are talking about people disabling JavaScript in their browser. One in several thousands is still a large over estimation.
I hate to be "that guy" but this comment is much more pretentious than the blog post. I'm a normal guy with a normal job yet I too can only spend 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM with my daughter (she goes to bed) on the weekdays.

I'd love to work 4 hours a day and spend the rest of my time with her but I work hard to provide for my family. What % of families these days doesn't have at least one spouse working 8+ hour days?
I think it is, and I have to disagree with you. I think it is a very interesting puzzle for candidates. The array is basically a tree A[K] and the jump is a pointer to its parent node. If the jump is out of the array, A[K] is a root. Your task appears to be to find the max depth of the graph or return -1 if it contains cycles.
Agreed - Century of Self is fantastic.

Along the same lines as Noam Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent". The book is great, and there's a documentary from 92: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzufDdQ6uKg
Their overall point stands, though.

If people can get this addicted and consumed to World of Warcraft or Facebook games, imagine what will happen when that's literally at eye-level.
Struggling IBM pays $1.5B to dump its chipmaking business
I'm on Verizon and got "did not receive X-UIDH header" message from uidh.crud.net. Possibly because it says "1x" at the top of my phone and that means it's on another network?
You must be an expert in the Dunning-Kruger effect, so I defer to your superior knowledge.

I got my misinformation that "highly skilled individuals tend to rate their ability lower than is accurate" and "skilled individuals tend to underestimate their relative competence, erroneously assuming that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others", from the wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect . Maybe you should correct that erroneous article with your competent, highly skilled insights.
Thank you for the thoughtful response. I can understand the difficulties in trying to support a hardware platform that doesn't want to play, especially when firmware updates could make it a moving target.

I went through the Ubuntu Certification list when I purchased my current laptop about a year ago. At that time (and now), there simply aren't any options that appear to be in the same category as an MBA 11". I would like to somehow signal the market that supporting Ubuntu is important, but the hardware manufacturers need to make hardware I want. You guys make software I want--it's a hardware problem now.
Exactly. It doesn't matter how strong your password is when there is a gun in your face.
http://safe-mail.net/ has a good javascript-free webmail interface. Remember to select the "fast (no scripts or icons)" interface when you sign in.
How can I detect programmatically whether the /3GB switch is enabled?
> The fact that, through history, people create novelty & discovery without the "incentive" of ownership, invalidates the "need" for patents to provide an "incentive" of exclusivity.

But are they creating at an optimal rate? Without patents, would they still create nearly as much stuff? It's a fascinating question. My view is that it's all a bit of a messy compromise, and neat, clean answers like "abolish patents" are probably a bad idea. I'd be in favor of some major reforms, and severely limit them in some fields.
Yep, and exactly that is why I completely moved away from US companies for my hosting. Will I be a target for 'surveillance'? Probably not. Do I want to do everything I can to make the US fuck off from my data? Hell yes.
Regardless of what the web once was, it now is an application environment, for which one application is documents ("browsing".)

You already have what amounts to a "browser just for browsing" when you turn off javascript in the one you're using now. But a browser which only interprets html and css and not javascript is just a broken browser.
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Is it because of that, or is it implemented that way because they wanted to ensure that TouchID couldn't be accepted after a fresh restart? I think you may have the causality backwards, since they could have easily stored things in such a way that your fingerprint worked after a fresh reboot if they wanted to.
Satire is humorous in mind.

Edit: Maybe It is funny if you get the message and I just don't get the kind of dark humor, though.
Kudo's to them on branding. The name was so good even Apple decided to keep it!
I just run Ubuntu on a retina macbook. It's pretty easy to set up, if you use http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ as a boot manager (the Linux kernel has built-in EFI support these days), and the hardware support has been quite good in my experience.
I think the reality is a combination of the two. Most of the world (including the media) is so distracted by the entertainment trivia of Brave New World that almost no one cares about the 1984 surveillance/censorship world that is being constructed all around is.
> Depends on what you consider a city. Ants, bees, termites, naked mole rats all live in densely populated 'buildings', with specialized division of labor between their inhabitants. Also, bat, bird or seal colonies can get incredibly dense.

I think that there is no better way to learn interesting facts than to make confident assertions on the Internet. :-)