skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's debatable, to say the least. One can make the argument that British colonialism was primarily (no surprises here) extractive, not developmental. And apparently to some extent it shows in the empirical pattern[1].

None of these arguments are 100% proof of course, but they should at least weigh in on one's priors, I think.

[1] http://www.people.hbs.edu/liyer/iyer_colonial_oct2004.pdf
Because you don't spend time driving in traffic, you get from A to B way faster, and if properly designed you pollute much less.
Except that no politician anywhere truly wants transparency. They want in that game specifically for the privileges.
I'm a "frugal millionaire" with liquid, investible assets of approx 1.2m USD (does not include my home, car, etc.) I saved and invested my way to this after about about 15 years of working. My highest yearly income was approximately 160K while my lowest was around 50K. I drive a 10 year old car (which I bought new, in cash) and my mortgage is fully paid off.

I still go to work everyday (unfortunately.) I'd rather work part time, 2-3 days a week as a contractor/consultant, then work on my own projects the rest of the time.

I often wonder how many others out there are like me... "working millionaires."
PD shows up as one of ten examples of traps in that long article. Note too that not every local minima is going to be a PD, or even close! Equilibria are sometimes now confused with PDs, due to the publicity given to Nash's Equilibrium, but that's a popular confusion.
How does it improve the network, but not provide cover? That is bass ackwards reasoning.
Bangalore seems one of the safest. Astonishing how troublesome some residential places in Delhi are than some others in the same city.
Yeah! So create a folder called "reference" or something on your computer and do the same... so helpful!
I think what tech companies do with information collected is absolutely no different from identity theft. They help themselves to quite a lot more than what any of their terms of service statements regard, and seem to be using said datum for increasingly nefarious aims.

In that respect, terms like "stolen", "lie", "heist", etc, are wholly apropos.
It may be easier to program a Qt application, but it's not easier to program and distribute a Qt application.
Flee the United States as Fast as You Can
Yes the air in Delhi is a Disaster.
The pollution & uncontrolled trash burning accompanied by a foggy climate with extreme heat/cold seasons all contribute. It is a very real and complex problem and the people & the Govt. of India & Delhi have not done nearly enough to tackle this.

None of this is a secret. People have been screaming about this for the past innumerable years, it is featured in the frickin Wiki about Delhi.

But you gotta wonder about the priorities of the author.
He brought a sick asthmatic child to a City known for its horrible air quality. What the f* was he thinking?

Then he writes a rambling article decrying the open defecation & air quality (mixing two tangentially related issues) after his son has an entirely predictable attack. A bad parent and a worse author, playing off the sympathy factor to decry known evils after putting his child in this situation himself.
I agree with you completely. I get that its hard to find a decent way for Google to monetize YouTube without being blocked and throwing ads in the users' faces. But when I have to watch a 30 second ad for a popular video that may only be a few minutes in length, I get pretty frustrated and just wait for the skip button without even taking in the ad. If most users are like this, which it seems so, then Google would be better off trying to come up with a different scheme because this isn't even effective advertising anymore.
All civilized people that look down on 'warriors' can thank the 'warriors' for the privilege of acting civilized.
I still have my hardcopy of Phrack from HAL. I showed up with just my sleeping bag and some clothes with the expectation of staying in the shared tent. After wandering around the campus for 2 hours with the map in hand I couldn't find it and while wandering around had a random conversation with some Dutch guys that recognized my name from some of the old alt hack or hacking newsgroups and invited me to stay with them.

Seeing Emmanuel Goldstein being followed around by like 20 people(Seeing those 20 people follow him right up to the outdoor urinal then stand around awkwardly waiting for him to finish). Sitting in the back of the room watching him introduce a documentary about Phiber Optik then looking to my left and realizing he was sitting right next to me. Gosh I could go on for hours. Such a great experience.
I would want very much to go back to "native apps for everything", but it seems we went too far to be able to turn back. So this idea is for some better world where communism wins and everyone lives happily. Or whatever.

Let's recap what was there in the previous series…

1. Some folks made a network out of several computers and saw that they can now exchange information without sending mail and picking up a phone. Cool.

2. Some guys invented a simple protocol to assign address to every piece of information we would like to exchange. They invented HTML, to be able to put these addresses in the body of the document. Also, why don't we make several keywords to make that information a bit more structured? We'll use SGML as a base, because it's trendy.

3. More programs to use these protocol and markup language appear, markup transforms further to be able to add images to the body of the document and so on.

4. Somebody comes up with the idea that markup should give a structure to the information, and there should be another document — stylesheet — to describe what that stuff should look like. It also has to be cascade, because he's smart.

5. At this point things are pretty bad already, because there are many programs to interpret this protocol, and they are fighting with each other over the audience. But if back then people would make HTML and CSS "good enough" the idea of separating content and representation would have worked out and we'd have what we are talking about now…

6. …But something more interesting happens, and instead of plain simple document-exchange system we now have plugins, then applets, then javascript, then web2.0, ajax, interactive applications right in the browser. It isn't possible anymore for markup to be content and for everything else to be representation, because both are changing in real time, as user pushes buttons. And there're even more browsers to interpret this madness, and they are fighting with each other as never before.

7. Also, now we have some major evil corporations, that have lots of money to shape the technology world as they want, and they want to own all our data, which means making as many useful apps as possible server-side: which means moving all major client-side apps to the browser.

8. Now every site is fancy app, drawn by designers in Photoshop, then painfully re-created in html, css and js. Thousands of libraries and "frameworks" are made to make this "creating app in the browser" process comfortable, but they don't succeed. Although it's now somewhat easier than making native apps, because hardly anyone cares about them anymore.

We achieve a point when HTML — no longer actually relevant thing in this world of interactive madness — seems to be "good enough" to stop evolving. We look back at #5 — browser as an app to show simple documents — and sigh. It would be good, but the whole world uses our in-browser-apps now. It is what customer is used to. We can't make our "simple" stuff, because nobody cares about simple.
In which case you're looking at 5-25% fee on either side so its still two middle men and they are even greedier than the old ones. But I think he was actually talking about things like ATMs in MX and TH which allow you to enter a code without having a card and it'll spit out money. The remittance company gives the bank money, they give them a code and you get the code and get your cash. It's meant for personal transfers though generally. I don't see banks offering it at a commercial scale for free.
"The US lacks really good rail"
You mean lacks really good passenger rail.
Thank you thank you for posting this! This really inspired me and made my day...
People do in general prefer trains over buses. This article is basically just saying that as you make the buses more train-like by giving them dedicated lanes and more reliability, people start to like buses more. Make them longer (articulated), faster, with dedicated lanes, and basically they start to become like a train with rubber tires. I think that is in fact, confirming people like trains better.

Titles do matter and I have an issue with the title of the article. It's like saying people prefer lobster soup over pea soup, but as you start to add more lobster to the pea soup... people start to like the pea soup... and therefore, it's a "myth" that people prefer lobster over peas. People prefer faster, reliable service with fewer stops - duh.
Part of my belief now is that I have all of the work without the responsibility. If I was tasked next week with architecting code for the other teams, it would not be a huge shift.

How do employees usually transition up into roles such as architect, vp, etc etc?
I take the train in Japan every week for work between Kansai and Kantou, and it takes about 3 hours. A plane takes one hour, and it is 40% cheaper. Remind me why we need trains there?

So, you take the train despite having a cheaper and faster option, and you're asking us why the trains are needed? We should ask you why do you use the train, if the planes are so much better.
Another recent engineer turned manager here. I can attest to losing touch, as I've had to work extra hard to see where things are trending in my spare time. If development wasn't also a personal hobby, this would be exceedingly difficult.

Fundamental shifts occur in development all the time, and if you're not actively coding while these are going on, you can definitely get left behind and be out of your element when it comes to decision making.

I have peers that cut their teeth on Enterprise Java and Oracle and now they are managing engineers doing Native Mobile, JavaScript Apps, Ruby on Rails, DevOps, Distributed Databases, and deploying on public clouds like AWS.

It's very easy for them to get lost in the jargon and they end up leaning on and trusting senior engineers to guide them a lot.

While this can be a good thing, it's very easy for the wrong senior engineer to lead them astray and start pushing their own agenda (rewrite all the things, resume driven development, etc).
Ahhh, this was sort of hard to decipher.
This is cool and it's great you are getting into it while you are still in high school! I think bring someone on is a great idea. I have started a few micro/small businesses, and generally it's more fun and good to have someone to bounce ideas off of / help with the ups and downs.

Is the company making money, or is it a free service? Co-founder could be a good idea if you have a friend that you think could be helpful. If not, you could hire someone reliable (maybe on commission?). Or offer a % of company, base on performance. Just a few ideas - for what they are worth - best of luck!
I think one of the worst advertisements is the Bank of America ads played before any video on the BBC app. It's always that one German lady singing "Dankeshon"...very annoying.
Sure. Are they still going to be the relevant useful standards 40-50 years from now? Will software/hardware for working with them still be readily available?

Well, my computer can still decode wav files, and that format is close to 25 years old now. What does it matter if the standards now aren't "useful" standards in the future? Why would projects such as VLC (which plays pretty much every format that has ever been created), etc. go away?
3 years ago they had "100+" AWS instances(so knowing when ops guys use 100+ I'm guessing like 125 tops) so thats what like a handful of racks for ~100 million users. So not much for the number of users they support would be the answer I guess.
"Kids can travel in trains alone."

Parents can't even let their kids walk to school alone. I seriously doubt they would allow their kids to ride a train alone.
None of these systems fit anyone's personality or situation perfectly(or, if they do, you're the lucky one). All of them are ultimately about getting small stuff right, and so they complement you where they give you ideas for changing your process.

But if the problem is "I'm doing something fundamentally wrong, I'm unmotivated, and I don't want to live life this way," they don't do a lot.
> We almost never phase anything out, and that's a problem

Is it though? HTML etc started as a way to publish and link documents. Phasing shit out makes old documents less accessible. Nobody is going to install a creaky old insecure copy of Netscape Navigator to go visit perfectly good HTML documents authored in 1996
I think their is definitely a market for this. My question is, isn't Uber doing this already & has much more sophisticated logistics infrastructure in place? Uber Pool (future potential) = efficient pickup of parcels / deliver - on-demand.
None of those problems apply to proper BRT systems. That's the author's point.
and Oslo is so far it doubles if not triples cost of your cheap plane ride (30 bucks for train ticket between city and airport)
As always, it depends. Some transit systems are better than others, and some routes are better than others.

I've recently started taking the bus to work and have found that most of the routes keep to their schedule quite well. The local transit system is also rolling out smart bus technology which, among other things, provides real-time location information on each bus. This is available online and through the transit system's app. It's also used by a third-party app, Transit, which is quite good.

Based on my experience, the bus always arrives within a minute of its schedule in the morning. It tends to fall behind near the end of its route in the evening rush hour, though the most I've seen has been 10 minutes (according to the operator's console [when the bus has the smart bus stuff]). This is at the end of a cross-city route, so 10 minutes behind when the bus is passing through at least two construction zones is actually really good.

I should note that the route I take is an express route. I used to take a non-express bus that followed the same path (up to where I got off anyway) and it was a nightmare - usually behind schedule, too many people, too many stops and starts. I decided that the express bus was worth the longer walk.

As for mapping, this is true, but only because there are so many routes relative to rail. Google Maps helps immensely, but it is not perfect.

As for talking to the operator, it's not strictly required, usually you can just deposit your fare in the box and he hands you a ticket. That said, I always thank the operator when I get off. This is the guy that is driving through the traffic so that I don't have to, the least I could do is say thanks. I also make it a point when driving to do what I can to make things easier on the buses, for the same reason.
> people have just used "trains" to mean "good transit" and "buses" to mean "bad transit." If that's the case, then marketing better buses as something like trains (or, at least, something other than buses) should weaken this automatic association.

> But such efforts will fall flat without meaningful investments in well-designed service: dedicated lanes, reliable peak and off-peak service, off-board fare payments, comfortable stations or enhanced shelters, or reconfigured routes, to start the list. A pretty picture alone isn't enough.

I wish the author had taken this further. It's not a "myth" that people like trains over buses, it's true and for really good reasons.

Buses / BRT are "bad transit", and Light Rail (or trains / subways / etc) are "good transit" the vast majority of the time it's actually deployed today. That's not "perception", it's truth. You can use marketing to hide that, but the fact will still remain.

This is intentional -- BRT intentionally comes full of big compromises that Light Rail typically doesn't have. These compromises are what makes BRT cheaper than Light Rail in the first place.

Transit authorities want to have their cake and eat it too. They don't want to pay for good service, but they want to pretend BRT is "like Light Rail" to make people think they've gotten good service -- that a route hasn't been shortchanged. It doesn't work that way -- claming BRT is "like Light Rail" is like slapping wheels onto a tent and saying its "like a RV".

The article is right to promote actual investments in transit. But if your going through the investment of making BRT as good as Light Rail (such as 100% dedicated grade-separated routes that can't be impacted by traffic) then your going to incur most of the costs of real Light Rail anyway, so you might as well make the service real Light Rail and get the full benefits of that investment (such as faster transit, smoother rides, much larger carrying capacity, less local air pollution, etc)
Hash histories are more light when you have an unbounded number of replicas.

https://oceanstore.cs.berkeley.edu/publications/papers/pdf/h...
Thank you for the counter argument.

Regarding making a strong case, I of course know that this is a business, but how can someone go about negotiating an extremely large raise without damaging the relationship? How does an employee get around the anchoring of their current salary?
You're thinking too much.

Far easier to just break into an expensive house, grab jewelry, and fence it. In and out in minutes, none of this potentially traceable internet crap.
As a French who lives in London, my limited experience (London - Brighton mostly) is that they're fine, reliable, and cheaper than the French TGV (which is generally awesome and uncomparably faster, but ridiculously expensive)

I have a feeling the question might be linked to some common myths about the UK being spread by the French left for ages (evil privatized Thatcherite trains crashing into each other, third-world healthcare with people dying in droves in hospital corridors, etc). Right ? :)
True, but built-in replication is still the whole installation or nothing. I believe Slony doesn't have this limitation; though, being trigger-based has some other quirks of it's own. Pgpool is another solution I've also used for a while. All have quirks which I don't recall running into with Mysql's replication.
To Write a Great Essay, Think and Care Deeply
Some states tax both goods and services (ex. Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota).
French here : monopolistic, state-run services don't bring you any more compassion from the staff if there's a problem. Quite the contrary !
I guess you've never tried to navigate and understand a web page made only with div and a elements in a screenreader.
I like the application.

- The demonstration video is very helpful and aesthetically pleasing

- Tabbing to indent is awesome

- Easy learning curve

This would be excellent for:

- Meeting notes (as demonstrated)

- Many little busywork tasks or shopping lists

- General tree structures

These tools help you remember a bunch of small things.

However, that is generally not my problem. I need to focus substantial brain power toward solving a handful of problems. In that case, I find todo lists useless. I often realise I've chosen too many tasks; many of them stupid, unachievable or now irrelevant given new information. Furthermore, having lots of tasks written down is a red flag for me. Lots of tasks means I need to invest more time into problem discovery. If I just pull a list of tasks off the top of my head and get to work, I make a serious mess.

I have lately taken to reflective practice while programming. I enter a task and a time estimate into a Google sheet. Later I return and the sheet calculates the actual time and estimation error. Then I write a reflective comment. Sometimes I realise the task was too large, not well-defined, my own bad design made an easy task hard, etc... I think reflection generates insight and improvement. This is infinitely more useful to my everyday life than a todo list.

Google sheets works for this, but it just works; it’s not nice and it’s overkill really. Consequently, I think an expertly crafted, reflective todo list could constitute a worthwhile productivity application for problem solving.

We have had so, so many todo list apps over the years. I've tried and ditched more than I can count, because the process of mere todo listing has very limited usefulness in my life.
Not necessarily. Driving a regular sedan, you can easily smash into a person, car full of people, or even a building and do $500k+ worth of damage.

If you have a few packages in your car, each worth a few hundred bucks, you're not significantly more risky for the company underwriting your insurance policy.

So I doubt that a commercial policy for parcel delivery is going to be much more expensive than a personal policy. It's just that the driver would need to get one.

Also, a company like Uber or Fleetzen would be able to keep it cheap by insuring all of their drivers, who would be screened and immediately fired upon having an accident.

When you have a personal policy and never get into an accident, your premiums stay really low. It's when you get into an accident that they skyrocket because people who get in accidents tend to account for a disproportionate share of total accidents. Put another way, if you have never been in an accident, you're unlikely to ever been in one.

Uber and Fleetzen would immediately remove accident-prone people from the risk pool, which would keep the premiums down.
Uber's only UI is their app. Their app will never be optimized for renting trucks. Thus, fleetzen will have a permanent advantage here that will only increase if reinforced with an advantage in terms of the availability of drivers.
I don't even know what to say about this comment.

The definition of colonialism, according to Google: "noun: colonialism --- the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically." http://i.imgur.com/3wQbW11.png

A blessing you say? Until now I didn't even know anyone considered colonialism much different from an invasion. The definition that I just posted seems to fit "invasion" pretty well imho. And how do you even move a culture forward? It sounds like you're implying that some cultures are better than others. Please tell me you're not saying that. Please tell me there's some other definition of colonialism being used in this thread.
> To be honest I always thought that these kind of books
> (i.e personal growth / motivational) were BS

I feel I've had a huge amount in my life out of self-help books, on a real variety of subjects. There's a lot of obvious bullshit out there (like The Secret), but also plenty of gold. Scanning through my notes, and in no particular order, I have extensive notes from (and thus enjoyed):

* 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

* Beyond Chocolate

* Driven From Within (Michael Jordan biography)

* Get Altitude

* How To Make Friends and Influence People

* Iron John (Robert Bly)

* Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)

* Never Eat Lunch Alone

* Psychocybernetics

* Pulling Your Own Strings

* Ready For Anything (same author as GTD)

* The Dip

* Ten Days to Self Discipline

* The Power of Now

* Personal Power (Tony Robbins)

* Warrior King Magician Lover

Some were easier reads than others, and I suspect I am unusual in that I have a pretty rigorous system for making sure I regularly review my notes, and implement exercises and ideas in the books, but I feel I'd be a very different person for the worse without the value these books have added to my life.
With emacs, this actually an ideological choice.