skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No script to reproduce this image? We would all jump down sjoerd's throat if he asked us to "curl | sudo sh -", but this is almost equivalent :)
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Working for change from within the system is definitely a legitimate position to take.

That said, the objections I'm reading here are centered around supporting a government that actively tortures political activists and captured enemies. I think the phrase "if you [disagree] with their political views" trivializes that position.
No, he advocates for a selective pressure of sorts, but of course the problem is, you don't really know when something is made in a fair-shop or in a sweat-shop.

The certification and transparency NGOs and their programs are helpful, but not as cost effective and thus a friction on capital transfer. (However, as others have hinted at the important things, such as increasing equality and promoting internal redistribution - better domestic markets, which are things that should be practically forced out of the situation, because that's not really a natural outcome of the blind capital accumulation race.)
The feature is rather useful for record-keeping purposes (also known as CYA).
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You can build a slow product and when you make it normal-speed you say 5x faster!
Wow. I am surprised too. However, the site is display responsive. Shrinking the browser width to mobile device proportions reduces impact of the shocking color scheme - maybe non-desktop access was the designer's intended primary audience?

Who am I kidding - this is garish!
I agree. My explanation is that numbers like "$1,000" and "$999" seem like opening bids--so not only are they arbitrary, they're higher than what the seller is willing to accept. Whereas "$1,012" at least seems like it's already done some negotiating with market forces/demand.
I agree this announcement is dripping with hype, but all the same I'm excited to get my hands on this. Seems like they're trying to address (some) common pain points.
Given that most black Africans (AFAIK) were sold into slavery by other Africans, it's not a given that their lives were better in Africa than they were later in America.
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IMHO the biggest mistake and "the root of all evil" of marxist and capitalistic countries was that people with:

- capitalistic mindset were not allowed to get out; (marxist countries)

- communist mindset were allowed to stay in. (capitalistic countries)

This created discontentment and abuses, undermining the system and his initial followers: "If they are taking advantage, I am stupid if I don't do the same"

[edited]
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29846539
Also, government is made of people and if good people stop coming into government and try make a difference, you end up with a government-enemy.
Self-driving cars is mostly a software / data problem, not a car problem. Google is much better positioned for that than car manufacturers.
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And it's even bigger in the more Catholic parts (ex-pagan symbols often didn't sure survive the Reformation and its sola scriptura ideal). Although there's more larceny and alcohol involved than dancing with ribbons.

But while we're talking about stealing things, I think this went in several directions, with lots of Norse views and figures being influenced by other religions, including Christianity. Vikings and their sagas aren't exactly ancient.
This is hard to enforce. This is supposedly the rationale already used to farm out massive IT contracts to contractors - that they can attract better talent, etc. But in reality, the contractors often don't really care about quality and instead just want to put butts in seats.

So unless you've written a really solid contract with solid, quantifiable high-quality deliverables, you're out of luck.
You need to produce wealth before you consume wealth, at least on the scale of a country.

Only after there is enough wealth available (in form of schools, hospitals, infrastructure, social security system, businesses, know-how, reliable supply chains, etc.) you can jump the poverty barrier by borrowing wealth, through the credit money-creation system. But the prerequisite is a healthy economy.
As a programmer I already find most of my job consists of making better tools to do my "actual" job with. Directly implementing business functionality is <20% of my time. I'm much more productive than I was 5 or 10 years ago - but my job gets more interesting, not less, as I move up the parts I do "by hand" to a higher and higher level.
84% market share is a loss if you don't make any money on your product.
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Its a similar story to the industrial revolution in America, a countries people will go through hardship to reach prosperity. Hardships and a revolution or two...
My bad, I thought you were referencing the OWASP site specifically.
Apple's profits from the iPhone alone in the last quarter exceeded the total profits of Google and Microsoft combined.
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Why should the people on this show be held to any higher standard than anybody else ? I don't feel any more ill will towards these people than I feel to myself, for the same reason : I wear clothes like these.

Do you ?
Average wages in China have tripled over 8 years. http://www.tradingeconomics.com/china/wages Whatever they are doing, they should keep it up.
>it would have been priced like Google Glass.

Glass was purposely priced out of the range of consumers. It was meant as an experimental platform only.
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That has been tried too, in Britain in the 1960s the govt introduced punitive taxation but didn't close the borders. What happened next was the origin of the phrase "brain drain".

I'm not aware of any capitalist society that erected barriers to members wanting to go and live in a communist country. Weirdly, they didn't want to. Take the late Eric Hobsbawm for example, wouldn't stop banging on about how great the USSR was. But for himself, he preferred the life of a wealthy author in the West...
Can we see this as an advancement in the use of free software? (free as in freedom)
Well, you don't hear that too often from right wing people, either. (Except caricatures, perhaps built by left wing people).

(Yes, there are similar or mirror caricatures built by right wing people about left wing people. However, even as a right wing person, I might admit that not everyone in the left wing is Pol Pot).
I believe parent was balking at the appropriation of "tour of duty" to describe taking a government job for a couple of years.

The phrase carries strong connotations for a certain subset of people and it would be pretty tone deaf of us as a community to repurpose it to mean "writing instructions for computers the government owns."
And then all of them could not go to college due to immigration status and lack of money. They do manual labor now. Great American Underdog Story.
Why do you want to turn the internet into cable TV?
That's a great question. At 18F, we <3 APIs[0][1][2][3][4][5]. Not only are we big believers ourselves, but we strive to help other agencies improve their API practices.

[0] https://github.com/18F/api-standards

[1] https://github.com/18F/jekyll_pages_api

[2] https://github.com/18F/API-All-the-X and http://18f.github.io/API-All-the-X/

[3] https://github.com/18F/api.data.gov

[4] https://github.com/18F/fbopen

[5] https://github.com/18f/?query=api etc, etc
I don't know that Google has a disadvantage to Uber on data: they likely already have your credit card number (Google Play or Google Checkout) and they also likely have your location history.

Car service apps like Uber are headed towards commoditization. My local taxi company has one; it works almost as well as Uber but at half the price. Throw in self-driving cars (where Google has a technological advantage over Uber) and brand value becomes really important. The market will be completely commoditized if anyone with money can go buy a fleet of cars and build an app for $100k (replicating Uber would not be complicated).

Branding is the biggest differentiator in commoditized markets. CPG companies are the masters of this: Tide doesn't actually get your clothes any cleaner than the store brand, but you pay for it anyway. They may adjust the packaging too (pods versus powder versus liquid) but fundamentally, it's the same product. I would expect similar segmentation to happen in the car-on-demand market: one company will specialize in cargo, another in short-distance trips, another in trips to the airport, etc. There will likely be very little difference between these services other than branding/positioning.
Wait - average wages a decade ago were like a dollar a day. So tripling that sounds like something I guess. I'd like to see something like parity for wages doing the same work anywhere on the planet. That would be progress.
For me, this screams "don't trust these people". I feel like I'm being sold a used car by a sketchy salesman.
I'm not a fan of bundling up "government" like that. After all, it is a huge, huge organisation, and the torturers occupy a space entirely different from those who help you file your tax return.
So you don'd administer it yourself, but use a managed service. Which is exactly what I suggested as an alternative, because it means that you have someone monitoring it and taking care of it and don't have to take care of quickly installing updates and stuff.
I am of two minds here. On the one hand making the onerous task of complying with government regulations, paying taxes, and receiving benefits is all good. It even has the potential of reducing the overal burden the government imposes on our everyday life.
On the other hand, anything that reduces the frustration of dealing with the government puts off the time when there will be fewer government bodies, regulations, and inefficiency.
I hope that the smart people employed by US Digital Service ask the question: "Do we really need this?" Before they set about fixing particular inefficiencies.
Going backwards is ok – why Somewhere went back down the adoption curve
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Yeah absolutely. I'm going to try to work this weekend on some demos. Still trying to figure out a good solution for over-fetching. It's a tough problem... which is why Relay looks so, co cool.
This is emotionally confusing for me. It seems like the general consensus on HN is that this is a necessary evil. I can get on board with that, but it still feels wrong.

I guess the only way to think about it is progress is progress, so if sweatshops are an improvement for these people, then there is good in it for them... for now...

We have seen China over a few decades transition from textiles, to tech manufacturing, and now developing IP products and services. Is this the norm? Or the exception?

I just have questions at this point, but I guess for the time being... back to work.
Bloomberg's moving graphics are extremely distracting while trying to read text
My point is that there are probably plenty of Indians who, if they had 53,000 to spend on a phone, would choose a high end Android. Some iPhone fans try to make the argument that "everyone who could afford it would buy an iPhone", and that is just not true as evidenced by the large number of high end Androids which are sold. Some people just don't like iOS.
The salary schedule for civil servants is available on the Internet: http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-...

Most engineering types I've met in the gov't have been in the 10-14 range, depending on seniority. 15's are usually dept heads or the like.
There's also buildroot (http://buildroot.net/). The noobs distro installer for RPi is based on an older version of that.
In the US, debt collectors generally can't tell anyone about a debt other than the debtor, their spouse and their lawyer. Whether the original creditor can publicize the debt varies state by state. That, along with the defamation/libel claims this kind of site would attract, makes building it legally onerous. It's probably not worth the hassle. The way to avoid not being paid by clients is with up-front and milestone payments, and a good contract.
Even if that is true, that does not make the forced migration and continued subjugation of slaves in the American South through the 19th century any less deplorable. Slavery is slavery. Your implicit acceptance of the "lesser of two evils" for something as serious as slavery is disturbing. We aren't even talking about the "hidden" conditions of working poor in foreign countries, we are talking about institutions that have visible cultural, economic, and social ramifications in present day America.

EDIT: I hate to use Wikipedia [0] as a substitute for substantive discussion, but your point seems to toe the line of being a false dilemma. The power/money elite in both the 19th century and the 21st century clearly have more options then just: leaving slaves in Africa/having very bad working conditions in Asian fields and farms on one hand, and bringing slaves to America/having marginally better working conditions in Asian factories, on the other hand.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
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What's wrong with regression? Adults that speak like children might find it easier to also think like children, accept institutional father figures more easily, do what they're told without talking back, etc.

Language is what we use to think so it is very important to what and how we think.
> Mostly though I feel very cynical and depressed by what appears to be the cultivation of ignorance as a virtue. I am convinced that we are fucked, barring a massive breakthrough in photovoltaic efficiency or nuclear fusion.

I share that. I actually suffered a short-term deppressive period because of that (as weird as it sounds, for few months I felt guilty and afraid whenever I turned on the gas stove). We have maybe 50 years to fix worldwide energy usage if we want to maintain a technological civilization, and so far every attempt at that seems to be torpedoed by a combination of lobbies and ignorant fear-mongering.
That's what I was afraid of. The thing is, the government seems to have been happy enough in the past to throw hundreds of millions of dollars to contractors, who could then parcel it out to employees and bank the rest.

I'm all for cutting out the middleman in that case, but I think the government needs to determine the price point at which they actually get the talent they need.
This is both true and completely irrelevant.
> Self-driving cars sharing the road with the morons I deal with every day is not going to happen any time soon

It's already happening, and they seem to be working pretty well. The most difficult issue is going to be politians.
Not necessarily in the eyes of certain people, and it happens in the corporate world, too. If you're only in charge of the project for a period of time (no longer in that political role, promoted, whatever), then "it doesn't need to succeed, it just can't fail" is a term used widely.

You don't want to be seen having failures in your project (even small, agile failures that are for the good)... but you don't care if the project succeeds.

If you can plan out a waterfall project that won't complete until you're "out of office", then there is no negative consequences for you... even if you KNOW it will fail once you're gone, that's the next guy's problem.

Sad, but true.
As far as I knew, the submarine air "metabolism" was chemical in nature: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_oxygen_generator#Uses
I believe that the free market decides what kind of profit sharing is fair.

You are always welcome to raise money for poor people, as well as help them in any other way. Even Bill Gates does that, with quite a success.
What does HN think about the UI of this app?
Valid points.
Another interesting example - skills like riding the bike, can you ever forget how to do it? I was not riding the bike for 20+ years and still I could do it when tried without falling on my butt. Such skills seem to be hardcoded into your brain and never vanish.
"We will continue to push the envelope in data interaction semantics, by implementing a transaction system for the distributed document model."

So...Mongo "can be the new DBMS standard for any team, in any industry", and they don't even support transactions yet?
> We could and did do something. We opened up trade. That improved and continues to improve their situation immensely.

One problem I see here is that people like to analyze things in terms of absolute conditions, but there is plenty of research that the subjective experience of suffering is more driven by relative conditions within an environment than absolute conditions. This is important in this context, because neoliberal trade definitely has improved aggregate economic measures in many LDCs, has in many cases improved the absolute condition of even the worst off, but has pretty much everywhere vastly increased the gulf between the rich and the poor, and in many cases done so in a way which reinforces pre-existing ethnic and class divides.
I think there's a lot of potential for van-sized automated transit systems. Carrying 4 people gets you most of the fuel efficiency savings of a bus but without the big inefficiencies when you've only got one passenger on an unpopular route.
>That's so much less than, say, Bare Bones does in an equivalent time frame with BBEdit[2], that it is laughable.

And yet, BBEdit is nowhere near as capable a programming editor as ST2/3 + plugins is.

>And, significantly, it is also much (much!) less than Textmate 2 does currently[3]

And yet, Textmate 2 is an immature software that doesn't improve much upon Textmate even.
Buildroot[1] is another good tool for rolling your own rootfs. If you have ever built your own kernel (i.e. ran make menu-config) you will feel right at home using buildroot. And their documentation is fantastic[2].

Buildroot is a lot simpler than Yocto or OpenEmbedded. I found it a lot easier to quickly understand how Buildroot works and get something working with it than I did with Yocto. Of course Buildroot's simplicity means that you give up some nice to have features that you would probably want for more serious projects.

They have specific instructions for getting started with RaspberryPI v1[3].

[1]: http://buildroot.uclibc.org/
[2]: http://buildroot.uclibc.org/downloads/manual/manual.html
[3]: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/tree/board/raspberrypi/re...
Since you only copied the navigation menu and you don't claim to be a designer, I think you fall under the category of inspired rather than copy cat :)
They were already in hardship, just the hardship of the impoverished villager or laborer is romanticized or ignored.
It allows for much faster typing in compare to these inconvenient right-Alt shortcuts.

This is really interesting.

As a late-comer to Polish (native British), I've only learned on the right-Alt layout, and the typewriter layout initially gave me The Fear just looking at it.

Then I tried to see how quickly I could type Łódź, and yeah, I think you might be right about the pain - the typewriter layout looks like it should work much better.

For what it's worth, I'm an unconventional - yet effective - touch-typer, and use my left ring-finger for both the Z and X keys. Typing my ZŻŹs isn't too painful.
Like what? Haven't found any in the 2+ years I'm using it for Python, PHP, JS and Go.
Maybe the better word for such people is 'practical'. Here in Iowa I see these boondoggle wind turbines being put up every day. They don't break even for decades. This 'sustainable' energy source is only sustained through federal subsidies. Makes you weep.
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Brackets also feels slow compared to ST. Switching tabs has a visible delay (up to 1s) for me.
If you argue that "any right in any patent claim of Facebook is invalid or unenforceable" you lose the patent grant. So you can indeed argue the (patent) suit is invalid or unenforceable, and you'll probably win, but by doing so you'll lose that right in the future: you'd need to immediately stop using react.

In effect, the license is revocable by facebook, without cause. In short; it's not a patent grant; it's merely an agreement not to sue over past infringements.
Zero people are working with it in the way proposed by Reddit.
>I've used ST in the past, but due to slow release cycle, I switched to Vim.

You do know that there can be like decades between major Vim releases, right?
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I am depressed that significant part of collective intelligence of the most intelligent and influential tech communities on the internet is advocating for sweatshops because the alternative is worse. False dichotomy, if I ever seen one.
You should probably be going on more than just AFAIK. The Atlantic Slave Trade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa#Atlantic_slav... was a complex issue that evolved economically as a consequence of agriculture demands.
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I'm an American with a Bill Buckley-type of conservative upbringing which made an interesting combination considering both my parents were born and raised Californians. I mention this because one of the phrases I heard long ago was, I guess, a selfish perspective about globalisation: "It's not about bringing the rest of the world up, it's about bringing down our wages and standard of living here in the USA."

Frankly, as I've grown up and worked in several industries, one of which was at a Wall Street firm, I see that outlook to still be valid. In the USA, productivity is at its highest levels. Wages have stagnated. The tax system has been calibrated to serve those with the most to protect and it chokes capitalistic market forces because hoarding and paying 15% on carried interest is not a practical or sustainable model to have a diverse society of low-middle-top class members. Statistics show that the largest population of jobs in the US following the 2008 recession have gone to workers age 55 and over. They have no savings, they have to work, and because they work, they take up low-level jobs young people could occupy to get started becoming earners and taxpayers. Could but right now, to me, can't even if they wanted that leg up.

Many people in the US can afford large TVs, advanced mobile phones, or "buy" a car on a 60 month loan plan; however, many of these items are built in places where wages are extremely low and quality of life is, well, not something I'd really wish on anybody. My quality of life is amazing by comparison, and yet I can see how hard it has been for me to achieve upward mobility in the current and foreseeable market conditions.

To put it another frame, the internet and poor regulation allows numerous firms in China to make IP infringing "Chibson Guitars" - they are, frankly, not very good but allow the buyer to feel special. There is an emotional and economic dynamic that is hard to quantify, but is definitely present. Should every guitarist be able to afford a genuine Gibson? I'm not sure. Should economic sniping, exploiting developing nations for simple economic benefit, and disrespect of natural preservation be tolerated? I certainly don't think so.

These are just counter-points to contextualize the phrase I heard long ago, and one I think has played out with eerie prescience.