skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) I meant global capitalism in the context of shrinking working class. It brings lot of benefits to consumers and creates competitive businesses. But, that competition/cost cutting drives outsourcing and leads to job losses in developed world. In turn, outsourced labor will be replaced by technology once it becomes viable/cheaper, leading to job losses in the outsourced destinations as well. Hence, no winners in working class.

2) If you want to preach globalized capitalism to other countries, you have to support outsourcing in the same spirit. Otherwise, it is a one-sided argument that turns a blind eye when technology (like skype) takes away jobs in the developing world.

BTW, you don't have to be leftist to point out problems in capitalism. Any healthy system needs criticism from within.
Not necessarily disagreeing with your intuition here, but that doesn't appear to be what happens - pretty much everybody reports on that same U3 measure. Certainly there are articles and discussions about other measures as well (for instance, the OP), but I never seem to see them in the "mainstream".
Related:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/11/28/maximizi...

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/why-the-maximizing-sh...

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/01/myth-maximizing-share...
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Share price is up. Granted, on the back of share buyback plans partially funded by increasing debt, but shareholders are seeing the value of their shares rise.
I guess the author meant version fragmentation. Not the best title, for sure.
I can't speak for FreeBSD, but for OpenBSD at least, I've had decent experiences with my Dell Latitude D830. Good hardware support, though networking and power management were a little iffy (the Intel wireless required a firmware download, and it was really touchy about hibernation, though that might have been a configuration issue on my part, seeing as this was the first of many OpenBSD installs I've done).

I've since been using it for other OS experiments (Haiku for awhile; now I'm venturing into MINIX), but it handled OpenBSD (and Slackware before it) rather nicely, and I don't imagine FreeBSD would be any worse.

Now, that's not modern at all, but I'm willing to bet that a more modern enterprise-like Dell would be similar in build but with newer components.
No that is a myth told by all investors to the people they invest in.

However, good luck when the shareholders sue you to try to recover their loses. That's the real meaning of that threat.
As someone who has done Windows driver development, I can assure you drivers run at ring0, kernel context. Not in userland (except maybe some USB device and printer drivers).

At least this was still true in Windows 8.1.
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Are you building really cool stuff?
Are you paying enough that a programmer could afford an apartment close to your office?
Free snacks, free lunch, free dinner, gym membership?
Private offices (with doors!) or noisy, chaotic open plan?

Are you building really cool stuff?
FreeBSD running in a VM on Linux on a Macbook.

I argued that you can install Linux on the MacBook, which gives you the advantage of good hardware support and a non-Apple and open-source OS, on which you can in turn run FreeBSD using a VM.
And since MacBooks support Intel's VT-x which Linux KVM uses, virtualization actually works very well with this setup.

Obviously, when possible, buying a laptop with good FreeBSD driver support is the superior choice.
Ah, I see what you meant. There's still the Strand, but perhaps thats the kind of thing that can only exist in nyc.

While I buy math books in paper, for fiction I only buy ebooks. The backlight for reading in a shared bed without a lamp on is a killer feature for me and probably many others.
My reaction: not GNU Bison, that's for sure.
Rape is a problem. However false rape accusations are also a real problem and not just an imaginary one.

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/09/false...

It varies by country but in the US, it's estimated that 8% of rape cases are false accusations.
I had never heard of "benefit corporations" until you mentioned it. Thanks.
The Linux kernel is a good example of just how far you can push C (plus GCC and Sparse extensions), including type system enhancements (__user and __kernel), pseudo-OO (kobject, many structs of function pointers), and other safety features.
Your analogy is hard to follow.
Except for the small fact that the NYSE suspended trading on stock RSH yesterday?
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>Simply because something works when it's built for a piece of hardware (think embedded systems) doesn't mean that it will work when running on something that it wasn't designed for.

No one is advocating doing that. And no one gives a shit about how hard it was for the engineers.

You should buy a Macbook precisely because it is a reference implementation that works as a consumer product. Let OSX deal with laptop-y details like WiFi, screen brightness, battery/power management, suspend/resume, and device drivers. Let VirtualBox abstract away those details so FreeBSD behaves like it does on its reference implementation - server hardware.
My first thought was: some old guy or girl who worked at Bletchley in the war is probably about to get a knock on their door and a questioning under the official secrets act for their failure to properly dispose of classified documents, because they had the bright idea of using some of the loose papers they were supposed to take to the incinerator to make their hut a little more cosy during the winter of '44...
Some Windows drivers run in user space, but many run in kernel space (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff... shows Windows has kernel drivers; the some/many distinction is my guesstimate, based on the fact that anything that needs to process data fast benefits from being a kernel driver)
They aren't (as explained by others), but while it's a myth the fact itself isn't that significant - the corporations don't have to maximize shareholder value and yet they mostly tend to. How this happens? bduerst explained it nicely upthread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8993907
Some companies are already doing that. True Fit is the one I've seen when shopping for an Arc'teryx jacket. I think I've seen it elsewhere, but I couldn't tell you where.

It wasn't particularly accurate, in my experience. It told me to get a medium when a small actually fit better, but it also didn't have my favorite shirt in its database, so I had to go with something that had a decent but worse fit as a comparison.
Just to clarify: this is OpenID 2.0, not OAuth 2.0. OpenID never really went anywhere with consumers, most of whom had no idea what their openID URL was (I think mine had an 8 in it). HN got rid of it years ago.
If success is measured by page views, sooner or later sites like this will converge to cheap measures. It's sad and one of the reasons why I consider online advertisements and all their tracking to be a threat to our cultural society.
I don't know if you can call it a minor adjustment. More like implementing a new method, like adding facebook connect. It's a completely different api, also you have to register an app on cloud.google.com.
At least they still provide backwards compatible tokens.
Me neither, so I join in thanking the GP. Something interesting to Google tonight.

EDIT:

TL;DR from Wikipedia for the lazier of us:

In the United States, a benefit corporation or B-corporation is a type of for-profit corporate entity, legislated in 28 U.S. states, that includes positive impact on society and the environment in addition to profit as its legally defined goals. B corps differ from traditional corporations in purpose, accountability, and transparency, but not in taxation.
Perhaps your computer might be older. Its blazingly fast on my machine. as people move to newer machines then speed is not going to be an issue.

Compared to Sublime, Atom developers can build much richer interfaces.

my own supercollider IDE in Atom:

https://atom.io/packages/supercollider

this is a full repl with a debugging call stack

haskell IDE:

https://atom.io/packages/ide-haskell

preview your development work in a web pane:

https://atom.io/packages/mobile-preview

but yet I think the packages are still young and there is much more that can be done. its early days.
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Well I do think Oakland California is the most populous and well-known city of that name so it's a resonable assumption that's what the article is about. I dont disagree that it's a good idea to be as clear as possible in titles. But if I saw an article about Madrid, I'd probably assume it's the one in Spain even if I happened to live in Madrid, Iowa.

I guess the question is whether Oakland, CA has enough prominence to be known widely outside the region. And I do think it's a major city in its own right, not just in its relation to San Francisco.
I keep getting "No results found" for an NYC zipcode.
Would make sense for Amazon to do this, they could stock a limited inventory and expand their quick-delivery option for a limited set of products.
We are rapidly moving towards a world where political dissent equals terrorism. People that create movements that carry momentim, outside the traditional political corridors of power shall be watched and persecuted. Should the trend continue, do not be surprised when people start to go missing.
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Why is there a 2MB limit anyway? Is it because the document is rendered to HTML? In this case, why don't they render only the part currently visible on screen?
>what's qualitatively different between 70% of the population working with 30% on welfare, and 10% of the population working with 90% on welfare?

The government receives less tax revenues because 20% of the population is no longer working (and paying taxes). At some point if enough of the population is no longer contributing, unless there are massive changes in how we manage the economy, the country will become insolvent and won't be able to afford the welfare payments as tax revenue decreases.
Sun didn't have Azure.
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It's a cool idea, but I'm not sure I would want to start one of the projects when none of the outlines are actually finished. Looks like there are 4 different courses but each one is only 25% done, so there's not a lot of meat there yet.
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When you jump from the stratosphere, and are wealthy, returning the same desktop you've had for a decade may seem underwhelming.
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I'd probably want another system to replace the current one as fast as humanly possible.

It's sad that for all the progress we've made we have to say "If these people don't spend all day doing something mind numbing and tedious all day their families will suffer!".

Is that how we want people deciding to do what they do with the bulk of their time, avoiding suffering with their family's survival at stake? It seems like a way to bake terrible exploitative inefficiencies into the system.

Then again, I am in a very 'hopeful for humanity' mood today. Perhaps there are a lot of people for whom, even in the best of circumstances, can only hope to contribute just that much to society.
The biggest issue with Sublime is that it's been unchanged for over a year. I think that's the big problem that Atom is solving - Sublime + active development.
On the other hand, I'm sure they've made you think a time or two about buying your brand of kitty litter from them....
I'm not sure if you linked to the license you intended to - the license at that link doesn't seem to include any of the limitations you mention. If it did include those limitations, I don't think if would qualify as an open source license, either.
I was just wondering today when this might happen. specifically because I want to use generators in a plugin (supercollider ide). great job guys !
The psychedelics weren't offering him a pain-free cancer treatment. Their purpose was to get him prepared to die.
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Crazy, but not out of the question. I use Sublime to edit conflicts in .xcodproj files. These brutally detailed XML files - necessary to iOS/OS X development - can be huge. At my previous job one was 7mb.
...To ward off wild animals in case the re-entry vehicle lands in the wilderness and rescue takes awhile.
I think this happens a lot when huge, mature companies are pressured to grow. Management becomes desperate to make the company into something it isn't to stay on top of the earnings treadmill and keep the board/investors happy. At some point it seems it's just about squeezing earnings out of the firm and claiming to be developing a great product and a winning environment while not actually doing that at all. It would be interesting to see how employees view a firm over time during periods of beating earnings expectations and earnings misses.

I don't have any real data on this but I've got a hypothesis that once a firm misses earnings a few times they "get serious", lay people off, and get rid of parts of the culture that made the firm great in an effort to expand margins for shareholders and say, "Look! See? We're getting better!". This really creates a toxic culture that causes a negative feedback loop and makes it even harder to be an innovative firm that grows like shareholders want.

This is probably a huge challenge for firms that do have excess employees, or need to change their employees to pivot strategies, and it would seem to be hard to do this without inducing the aforementioned effects.
Is it OK if I bring a part of that thread into this one?

You said:

> It is irresponsible and inappropriate to promote drugs (LSD or whatever). And off-topic for Hacker News. There are people who unstable, who have internal emotional conflicts, etc. For them drug use may be a catastrophe.

I would agree with the latter, and only half of the former.

Yes, you are absolutely right that for some people in some circumstances drugs like psychedelics can lead to real harm.

But that is true of virtually all drugs. Let's dive deeper into the first sentence:

> It is irresponsible and inappropriate to promote drugs (LSD or whatever).

If you meant that literally, then you also believe that it is irresponsible and inappropriate to promote aspirin and caffeine.

Do you believe that? If not, you are not being consistent, and what you really meant to have said is that it is irresponsible and inappropriate to promote some drugs.

Well, which ones and why?

Think about this in a larger context, and maybe actually consider reading the article. I read your post and the article both, and I think there's a lot in the article that, if you read it with a clear mind, you will find yourself agreeing with.
This might be the answer, but it's going to become part of distributions so I could run .NET on Linux on AWS or on my own VPS hosted anywhere. I can't see any reason why Amazon won't provide a Linux .NET image to boot from. Obviously MS can try to provide better and faster images for their Azure servers, maybe even their own distro. I can't wait to see Microsoft Linux Server 2018 :-)

Prices for cloud servers are falling, so do they really plan to take part to a race to the bottom? I remember this discussion from November https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8582096
Back in the old days anything they could stuff in a wall was insulation. I was a volunteer firefighter years back. We had a call in the old part of town, with buildings dating back to the 1700s (George Washington slept here!). We had to open up the walls in a few spots and really cool old bottles, papers, and other stuff came out.
Allegedly one of the forces working against LSD research is the popular narrative about how SSRIs work: the idea that higher serotonin is good. The primary mechanism of LSD appears to be serotonin agonism. In a hand-wavy way you can argue that elevated serotonin numbs a mammal and dulls perception of the world, and that reducing it makes thought and senses more vivid. An LSD trip is arguably the experience of removing the filters.

The idea that SSRIs even boost serotonin levels is probably wrong. The mechanisms of action are more complicated than that. But the serotonin narrative is well established and in use by a multi-billion dollar industry.
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Using this app wastes less time than the official ways to pay the ticket. That alone is valuable. Automated contesting is also good too.

Also if you've read the article you can see cities are not angels either. If you have seen what happens in traffic court when judges don't even want to hear 3 sentences of your evidence and just declare you guilty anyway. The appeal process after that is expensive. You waste a ton of time and money going to that court, while you have a job. And maybe needing to hire lawyers just so you can get heard.

It's an exploitive system that takes advantage of asymmetries and it deserves to be challenged.
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She/He probably has a GPL "comment header" in every source file, that might be a little bit more tricky to remove :)
I never tried C# but I did code in Java with vim and emacs. Not a nice experience. Java more or less requires an IDE. I assumed C# would be the same but I could have assumed too much.
Germany in the 1700s/1800s had similar shoulder poles for carrying water:
http://static3.akpool.de/images/cards/65/655879.jpg
They added a thicker, slightly regressed bit in the middle to avoid the some of the pressure on the shoulder/neck area.
Just to plug ALFRED, you can get the numbers as they were released in real time as well:

Unemployment: http://alfred.stlouisfed.org/series?seid=UNRATE

U6: http://alfred.stlouisfed.org/series?seid=U6RATE

One strong reason to prefer U3 is that the series is available much further back in time.
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In this case their predictions are of the "look at the trend and extrapolate over a few years" kind which I am familiar with, and have a reason to believe.

There's a HUGE difference between extrapolating a trend which shows no signs of slowing, and "predicting" that it will in fact be no problem whatsoever. Extrapolating a trend requires no particular expertise.

But judging the impact of a particular cashflow on an economy as a whole, well, that's a much bigger deal. How do they "know" that it won't be a problem? Can they assure us we won't enter yet another war and have to print money even faster? Are they confident that inflation will never get away from us? Have we already dodged and will we continue to dodge the liquidity trap? What happens if deflation takes over in the US -- like it has in Japan -- despite heroic levels of QE?

Given that economists are unable to answer those questions plausibly (i.e. they can't accurately predict the future) it stands to reason that their assumption (which is what it really is) that the level of debt service is OK is a bit questionable in my mind.

Remember, extending a trendline on a single metric (US debt or interest payments) and doing the same on a million metrics (everything that makes up the US economy) are two WILDLY different things.
exactly. soviet space craft always land on the ground. why is this news?
Yup, it was different and it was worse. And full of bugs, particularly w.r.t. focus-handling, which even Sun's own (presumably correctly written) Swing applications were afflicted with.