skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don’t forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything.”
– H. L. Mencken, Baltimore- Evening Sun, June 12, 1922
I miss out more about people relocating to live in Thailand, finding some source of income to support them, than about valuations and business success.

Physics is in crisis, the world becomes angrier and less capable, I don't see bright future ahead anyway.
Oracle is S&P tech sector job listing leader
Agreed. I'm a 20+ year emacs user. A couple of years ago I switched to using the VI bindings (evil). It really is the best of both worlds. I was using VI regularly before the switch -- it was available on servers and co-workers machines, and emacs generally wasn't. (Well, maybe it was on some, but the customizations definitely weren't). Now I have much lower switching costs, gain the quick access of VI bindings, and the huge number of emacs plugins. win-win-win.
Nope, no other reason.

As I said, there's been decades, the process and culture so is obviously skewed in favour of men.

Pretend otherwise all you like. One day you'll realise that deep down you honestly thought men were better than women at business. Which is utter bollocks, it's simply corporate culture is heavily biased and needs a good kick up the ass.

That Scott Adams post is stupid by the way, he even starts talking about the gender bias at the end but frames it as 'societal'. If a woman takes a break from her career to have a kid and then cccomes back 2 years later, why has her career stalled? Societal norms, says Scott Adams, not gender bias at all!

Do you get it yet? The whole of business is set up to favour men. Until the 'societal norms' change to be fairer to women so they can actually have a chance to become leaders and senior management while still being allowed to have a family, it won't be a fair society.

We're seeing it happen in the UK parliament now women only short lists have vastly I creased the women MPs, the working life of an MP is changing to become women friendly because it's been forced on them.

The same thing has to happen in business.
The game is played again and again and again: How to suck out the common man and make him dependable. "We the people" are silent. Mostly.
In most companies currently offering minimum wage, raising wages to $15/hr without changing anything else would wreck the company immediately. They would likely have to do some combination of firing people who can't do $15/hr worth of work and raising prices and hope they still have a market after that. So no, it's not so easily "in their power". Further, a lot of companies aren't run by the "mega rich", but by regular people who are just trying to get by. These are not people you want to screw over.
Did you make data protection requests to all the shops and businesses in the location? Some criminals have been caught by people doing their own detective work.
> In a perfect market system, it's impossible to pay below-subsistence wages, because you can't work if you've starved to death.

You might not starve to death if you start committing crimes on the side though.
Hacked by GameOver Girls
Raising minimum wage increases unemployment.
Persistent "inability to feel it" w/r/t/ achievement and performance level you used to summon for your work can also be an early sign of depression, which is something you might want to be vigilant and proactive about.
Well similar to the Bay Area, government is restricting supply: "local authorities are very reluctant to grant permission for new parks"

So the landlords are using their natural oligopoly to rake in cash. A truly free market is supposed to prevent that kind of situation.

I agree though that raising the rent on a disabled pensioner who then has to walk around collecting cans for small change is pretty disgusting. If there's a good argument for rent control, it's for people in exactly that kind of situation.
If Uber drivers are classified as employees, not contractors, then Uber does actually taxi you. That's the issue at hand.
Yes – every day. By most metrics, my startup is going great, but it's taken years of all-nighters, working weekends, and skipped vacations. I love what I'm doing, but I'm also cognizant of all the friends, relationships, family-time, and other experiences I'm not investing my time in as much as I should.

Whether things work out or not, I'll always wonder what the counterfactual was, all the unknown-unknowns I chose to miss out on.

Regardless of what you read, what you feel like you're missing out on, know everything comes with a sacrifice. My only advice would be to think carefully about what you choose to invest your time in.
> You may need to make a “do I want to put mashed potato on this lasagne?” leap of faith, and you’re going to have to actually go with it if you want the app’s full benefit.

I didn't try it, but I don't think it so strange. Here in Argentina we eat something slightly similar: "pastel de papas" http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastel_de_papa . I really like it. (It's very similar to "cottage pie" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottage_pie )
Elliptic Curves:Finite Fields and Discrete Logarithm
The big surprise for me in this article was that housing sex offenders was such an effective way to get rid of drug dealers. Sex offenders bring attention from the police, media, and ordinary citizens, and drug dealers don't want to be near all that attention.
Housing can hardly be the poster child of free-market: there's a lot of information asymmetry, barriers to entry, it takes a lot of time, even in the best conditions, to get a project built... It's highly cyclical: supply can take years to even start to address demand, whereas projects can be killed very quickly when the economy goes down. This is why housing needs regulations if we want it to function properly. We need the right set of incentives to make sure we have housing for everyone.

I fail to see, however, how actively restricting building, i.e. supply, is going to alleviate tensions in the market. Anti-development people use an argument that is very similar to "build it and they will come", only in reverse: if you don't build it, they won't come. Believing that they will be able to deplete demand by restricting supply.
i'll tell you why you're being downvoted, it's because your reading comprehension is subpar and you don't have a grip on reality with your hyperbolic claims.

20k for a 3-person household is a lot different than an individual earning under 20k which is where your numbers come from. in fact it's about 200% different.

39% or 125 million americans do not live in poverty.

the real number is still shitty, but it's not nearly half, it's closer to 20%, or in statistical terms the bottom quintile, which is pretty much what you would expect given the nature of the US economy/politics.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/16/news/economy/48-million-amer...
Here you go: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/hardware/z13_specs.html

And the microprocessor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_z13_(microprocessor)
Your analysis misses a fundamental point: workers add value to an organization. The basic argument I have is that they are not sharing adequately (i.e., sustainably) in the rewards for their labor. Rather than dividing up the finite resources of a few ultra-rich, lets try to estimate how the rich have fared in comparison to...basically everyone else.

I'm going to look at 2003-2013 for the somewhat arbitrary reasons that (a) full records are available for all years in question, and (b) a decade is a reasonable and convenient length of time. The effects we'll see are somewhat emphasized from the last 3-5 years, so the effects would be diminished if you looked at, say, the last 30 or 50 years, but the trends would still exist. (That is to say, this isn't a new problem.) I'm also going to use an inflation factor of 1.27 so the analysis can be done in constant calendar year 2013 dollars. (Numbers may not add or work out exactly because of significant figures and rounding error.)

- According to the world bank, US GDP grew 14.7% from 2003 to 2013 from $14.62T to $16.77T. [1]

- The total net worth of the Forbes 400 grew 89% from $1.21T to $2.29T. [2]

- Total payroll tax receipts (which is a good proxy for total wages paid by average folks, since they phase out at higher earning levels) grew 4.6% from $0.905T to $0.947T. [3]

- Meanwhile the total workforce grew 6.1% from 146.5M to 155.4M. [4]

Based on this data, it seems fair to conclude that nearly all of the growth -- i.e., the new value created in the US economy from 2003-2013 -- went to very rich people, and very little (in fact, a negative fraction when adjusted for the growth in the workforce) went to the people actually doing the work of creating that value. Now, there isn't anything inherently wrong about that...but it a) probably isn't sustainable, and b) has created a social burden because delaying the effects requires public assistance to take up the slack -- the number of food stamp recipients rose 214% between 2003-2013.

[1] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG

[2] http://www.forbes.com/2003/09/17/rich400land.html

[3] http://taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=4...

[4] http://www.dlt.ri.gov/lmi/laus/us/usadj.htm

[5] http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/pd/SNAPsummary.p...
I guess I can see how you got that impression from my reply to sarreph. My emphasis was on the "presumptive analysis" part, not the "self-reported anecdotes" part, but there is no way for anyone to know that since I didn't indicate it. I hope my first reply to you made my intended meaning clear because it's too late to edit now.

In case not: reproducibility is a major concern with psychological studies in general. Drawing broad/subjective conclusions will make the results easier reproduce, but it also leaves more room for confirmation bias, so it's not a valid solution to the problem.
Come now, you've dropped the context for that quote.

he sent a letter to every tenant at that park in Grapevine, Texas, telling them the rent was going to more than double but was still below the market rate of $325.

“If you don’t like this or you think you can do better, here’s a list of all the other parks in Grapevine and a list of the owners,” he said in the letter. “Go ahead, call them if you want to move. How many customers do you think we lost? Zero. Where were they going to go?”
There are various working implementations of this idea, such as quitenet (python) [1] and sonicnet (javascript) [2].

1. https://github.com/Katee/quietnet

2. https://github.com/borismus/sonicnet.js
The Paradox of Meritocracy
No, swap your alt-gr and ctrl.
I guess this is if you use your pinky to hold down CTRL? I try to mostly use the knuckle below my pinky fingers[1] to hold down CTRL. This can be harder on certain keyboards, and I guess especially laptop keyboards. I think I learnt this from some kind of ErgoEmacs article/webpage.

I also use god-mode, and one of the tips is to swap ESC with CAPS-LOCK (ESC is used to toggle god-mode).

Nonetheless, I guess most of us can agree that CAPS-LOCK is in a too convenient position compared to its normal utility. :p

[1] I use my left hand to hold down CTRL when it's more comfortable to press the next key with my right hand (like in C-u), and vice versa.
It's clear that regulation is the problem. There aren't enough mobile home parks to meet demand, because authorities don't allow new ones to be built. It says it in the article.

Allow them to be built, supply will meet demand, rentors will have options, and the prices will go down.

But, in typical Amero-European fashion, when you see a problem caused by regulation, your go-to solution is more regulation.
If a mortgage was a good plan for them, they probably wouldn't be in a trailer park...

Renting has value that is appropriate for some people. Ownership is not always the answer.
What do you mean by "toy"? In this example GCC takes 3+ minutes:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1WlUivCnXhyRVk0LUl6akxVU2s...
Upvoted. Yes. And I agree: As long someone is producing value she is contributing to the society.
The Big Challenges in Big Data
Nope, don't do that. Learn to proper touch-type instead. Use your palms to press the ctrl keys. See: http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/swap_CapsLock_Ctrl.html .

You can then use Ctrl+m instead of Enter at the command line, as well. Save both pinkies from the extra effort.
Probably a whole lot worse than custom mining hardware. The custom ASICs are crazy optimized for mining. Unfortunately I don't have access to a modern mainframe to try it out.
I also build a product Configurator for my company that is used by hundres of thousends of customers every month.

I really like SVG. But because of some performace issues, I sometimes think I want to recreate the rendering engine in Canvas.
> Foreign money is a convenient bogey man. It's the same in Canada and the stats do not bear it out.

Actually, no one knows, because stats are (deliberately imo) not kept.
I like this! I'd love to see it done for other fonts like Source Code Pro, Consolas, Inconsolata, etc. The only possible problem I see is the == ligature; I think it only invites more mistakes of missing assignment vs comparison.
One of the elements that enables the perpetuation of this system is the food-stamp program. The landlords are counting on it. If some of these people did not get food stamps they would starve to try to pay the rising rent. People would leave or violently rebel, not starve for the sake of a landlord who decides to raise the rent 50%.
"Error!No IPv6 possible yet"

Call me back when I can test the IP address that actually originates my traffic.
Source? I managed to find this site that'd done an analysis of past increases, and the results seem far from clear cut.

https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/...
I'm with you. I have a wife and a son. I live in my childhood home, which is completely paid off. My parents, grandparents, and most of my siblings live within a 5 mile radius. I don't have an 8-figure net worth, but I have enough money to do the things I want to do in life, none of which involve being famous or working 80-hour weeks.
Or not taking the cure.
"Disrupting poverty" is a mostly solved problem in e.g. the Nordic countries. The solution is a strong social welfare net - which means the poor never fall into absolute poverty - and high taxes to fund that net - which means the rich don't become as rich (doctors for example don't earn that much more than baristas, but medical school is free). Unfortunately most Americans wouldn't support the high taxes part.

Remember when class mobility (i.e. not being poor just because you had poor parents) was the American dream? That dream is now far more alive in Denmark than in America.
Yes, that was from ErgoEmacs. Very nice info in there.
From their test cases, Qt 5 to be specific:

>Initial compilation took 28.53 seconds in Zapcc, and 41 seconds in Qt Creator.

>Thereafter, re-compilations took 1.15 seconds in Zapcc, and 12 seconds in Qt Creator.

This doesn't fill me with much fate in their other statements. Qt Creator is not a compiler, it is an IDE and can be set up to use a variety of compilers.
"But ALWAYS trust your gut on NOT to do something."

Having learnt that lesson the hard way, I whole-heartedly agree. Our "gut" is the equivalent of a supercomputer against the hand-held, battery-powered rational part of our minds. And it is there for a reason. If your "gut" screams at you to just run, you should at least seriously consider walking away. Every time I failed to do so, I came to regret it.
"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming." John Wooden
Really glad to see anthropomorphism like this becoming justifiable in everyday life. The move away from anthropocentrism will usher in a new era of understanding of our surroundings and fellow beings.
SmartIcons, the easiest tools to customize SVG icons
people becoming instantly rich & famous in tech

Those guys are lottery winners, seriously. Now I am not saying they didn't work their asses off too, but for every one of them there are 100 or 1000 or 10000 people who were just as smart and worked just as hard and their companies went up in a puff of smoke anyway. Wishing you were them is pointless because they are not them either.
Yes, I do. Sorry, I didn't intend to be a smartass!
Complaint in Total Recall's trade-secret lawsuit against Oculus Rift [pdf]
One law and process for the biggest banks and another law and process for everyone else. That poor sucker currently rotting in a London jail for allegedly being the cause of a flash crash probably wishes he had worked for a big bank.

It is a farce to call this a criminal act when waivers remove all punishment beyond a fine.
> You'll have to spell this out for me, because I just can't see it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
const logicGates = {
nand(a, b) {
return !(a && b);
},
not(a) {
return this.nand(a, a);
},
and(a, b) {
return this.not(this.nand(a, b));
},
or(a, b) {
return this.nand(this.not(a), this.not(b));
},
nor(a, b) {
return this.not(this.or(a, b));
},
xor(a, b) {
return this.and(this.nand(a, b), this.or(a, b));
},
xnor(a, b) {
return this.not(this.xor(a, b));
}
};

Object.keys(logicGates)
.map(gate => {
return [
{ gate, a: false, b: false },
{ gate, a: false, b: true },
{ gate, a: true, b: false },
{ gate, a: true, b: true },
];
})
.forEach(x => {
x.map(y => {
const desc = JSON.stringify(y).replace(/(gate)|:|"|\{|\}|,/g, ' ') + '=>';
console.log(desc, (({ gate, a, b }) => logicGates[gate](a, b))(y));
});
});

http://blog.shawndumas.com/post/119694815258/logic-gates-es6...
I haven't read this, but from the contents it seems like you can learn everything there is in the book from the official Emacs GNU documentation:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/in...
Creative Thinking Can Inspire Unethical Behavior
Ask HN: Burnout from filling accelerators applications?
Seriously, there is no end to it.
You finish one, 10 more are there waiting for you.
You use your time to fill them, the same time you should use to develop your product.
Countless blog posts talk about giving this duty to one founder, but in reality all founders have to contribute.

How do you cope with it?
My two cents:

If you can develop a game in a garbage collected strongly typed language with a [mostly] cross platform run time that sometimes allows you to forgo porting when moving between platforms and minimizes the amount of porting when it is required, then that seems like a good way to go.

Selecting a "faster" language only matters if there is a performance bottleneck and the "faster" language happens to be faster in exactly a way that removes the bottleneck. Most performance bottlenecks are IO or algorithmically based.

Even deeper, I'd consider prototyping in a scripting language because scripting languages make it easier to iterate quickly than enterprise class compiled languages. For a game, gameplay rules and a fast game with gameplay that sucks still sucks. And the scripting language game may be good enough.

Carmac used C++ for Doom. It was the first game I stayed up all night playing. My rig had a 160 megabyte Hard drive, 5 megabytes of RAM, and a 25 megahertz AMD CPU. These days I download 160 megabyte files without a pause and there are webpages with 5 megabytes of JavaScript...and Quake [not Doom] can run in a Browser.

Focus on shipping. Choose tools for that purpose.

Good luck.
honestly speaking, I lived in both and I'd rather walk through a trailer park any day than an area of 'social housing'.

there was no 'giving hundreds of billions to gamblers' going on that I am aware of. The financial bailout was necessary, though not implemented terrifically, but the US/tax payers did make a healthy profit off the whole thing.

trailer parks aren't as profitable as made out to be in the article. sure, a few success stories. a high % of people in them do not pay their rent, and its very hard to make them leave when they do not - especially since you'd have to kick out half the park.

don't believe me? the number of people living in trailer parks is down significantly from the 1970s, when the rates were over 10%. In fact, had their 'financial crisis' story held up, there would be more people living in trailer parks today than in 2000, that's not true.

lots of trailer parks began drying up with access to FHA loans and low inflation. There's really not a good reason to own a trailer @350/month + paying real estate taxes (yeah, cities tax them AND the land under them) when you can buy a home and pay around 300-500/month in mortgage.
Lyrics to Unplug by Dual Core
Eh... a federal appeals court ruled the Patriot Act illegal:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/appeals-court-rules-nsa-phone-pr...

Why is Congress even considering extending an illegal program?
Americans got their ass kicked in Vientam; that's why they can never get over it. Instead they have been supporting dictators, nazi affiliated parties (see Ukraine) and islamist extremists who destroy 2000+ years of civilizations (see Syria). Then they talk about democracy as if it's part of their culture. Democracy was never a part of America. Capitalism is: Let's make a million dollars no matter who dies. So much hypocrisy prevalent in American culture is disgusting.
Counterintuitive rule: When the founder has had a successful startup in the past. They tend to be both overconfident and under-motivated.
Rent control is also something corrupt local politicians can do to increase the value of their own properties in the neighboring districts outside of where the rent is controlled, because the prices in those districts will go up even higher than they would have otherwise.
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” - Dr. Seuss
There's an awful lot of assumptions in your whole harangue.
I haven't heard him say anything like "I hate America" or "I'm opposed to America" so anti-American, no. Fringe, oh yes. Kook, I don't need to apply such a vague pejorative.

Fortunately, most Americans recognize that most of his policies, if enacted, would only make life worse for the vast majority of us--the stopped clock is right twice a day, but we don't rely on it the rest of the time.
Celebrity worship. Musk is favored on HN, Jobs / Apple not as much. Both companies can be considered successful, but are not given similar critiques.
"The root of all of our problems is our inability to let go" Leo Babauta
Because that was the Democrat approach (USA FREEDOM Act) to doing this. Most of the Democrats naturally voted against the Republican approach:

http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/114/senate/1/195

It's less about policy than politics, as you'd probably expect.
Well here is some info on Canada:

http://www.greaterfool.ca/2015/05/14/the-tipping-point-2/

Vancouver not even in the top 10 yet we are told endlessly HAM is the cause.
HN Discussion with a LOT of good comments regarding Spacemacs [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9394144
True, and it raises an additional point, which is that an isolated consideration of economics generally overlooks the willingness of people to cooperate with the myriad of written and unwritten rules that govern civil society.
One of the reasons why I use Python 3.x exclusively is for the new function annotations, which allow use of this: https://github.com/prechelt/typecheck-decorator

This allows me to write Python in a design-by-contract style with full, rich runtime type checks. My bug count has gone down dramatically, and when I do find a bug it's virtually always via a typecheck exception.
It's never too early to teach your kids about the numerous advantages of schematics printed on dead trees.