skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had the opportunity to drive a luxury model car - and I can say it is definitely better than my junker. Having a large mansion is definitely better than a shared 1-bedroom apartment for an entire family.

Your argument about taste is missing my point: luxury brands and luxury class products only available to the rich exist and are different than a Coke.

Think of it like having a Coke or having a $4,000 Coke that tastes more or less the same. The argument was that it was the same product and that if you go to the store and buy a Coke, you're drinking the same Coke that Taylor Swift drinks when she goes to McDonalds, where she eats the same McDonalds you eat.

But if she buys a $14,000 bottle of wine - regardless if you think 2 buck Chuck tastes exactly like that bottle of wine - it is not the same. It's a different product. One marketed as more luxurious. Something outside of your reach.

A watch is a watch is a watch. Unless you have a Rolex.
Hosted some guests the other night and made steak. They were amazed by how well it tasted. I took that as a compliment, because they regularly eat luxurious and expensive food (they work high up in the Cruise Line Industry.) Was asked what I put in the steak to make it taste so good.

"Salt."
Your Application, Robin-The Siri Challenger, Suspended from Google Play Store
Our Robin app, the popular Siri alternative for drivers, has just been suspended by Google, without a single warning. The application, all binaries, tens of thousand of reviews, all gone overnight. That included the our own developer access to the app profile: there is nothing we can do about any of this.

OK Google: How do you shoot down a product downloaded by thousands of people daily? And more importantly, why? And why like this?

Google offers little explanation, all we got was a generic email that sounds as follows.

"REASON FOR SUSPENSION: Violation of the spam provisions of the Content Policy. Please refer to the keyword spam policy help article for more information... If your developer account is still in good standing, you may revise and upload a policy compliant version of this application as a new package name. "

The email also includes a bunch of generic "don't"s with absolutely no indication how they apply to our case. We are confident the app is legitimate and contains no spam. And do be clear, uploading a new version with a new package name actually means losing all the ratings and reviews the app has been accumulating for 3 years!

We feel Robin is a really, really fair product.
It's free and has no ads, no click bait, we don't sell user data to advertisers. The app has got a strong following been praised by thousands of enthusiastic users. And we genuinely took a stand with Android: thinking it would be an open and just ecosystem, we went Android-only. Only to be shot down one day without a warning, just because the almighty Google algorithm says so.

Google - we feel really betrayed by you.

If anybody can offer advice on how to resolve this situation, please pitch in! You can also reach us on Twitter at @robinlabs.

Ilya Eckstein
Robin Labs cofounder/CEO
Chrome just got a hell of a lot better and Firefox more or less stayed the same.
In the original blogpost, they (FogCreek) say they're going to go over and open source at least some of it in a follow-up post.
Because the poor never lead the charge; the middle class do, once their status is sufficiently threatened.
The why and how of landing rockets
i beg to differ. whether or not it's worth $500 is another matter entirely, and totally subjective, but a bottle of cristal champagne tastes a hell of a lot better than a middling $30 bottle of bubbly you can buy at the supermarket. and fwiw, a bottle of cristal (or any $500 restaurant bottle) doesn't cost nearly that much if you buy it yourself. the real price is like $150-$250.

same goes for the steak. the last expensive steak i had was $120 menu price, a grass-fed wagyu-style aged tomahawk ribeye - it was significantly better tasting than a $50 'good restaurant' steak which is just a standard usda prime or lesser steal marked up by 2x.

a bottle of cristal or a high end aged steak - these things are unquestionably better than their downmarket alternatives - but where this value spectrum goes off the rails is when you get into the really expensive stuff, the stuff that only very rich people are competing to buy.
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thats because you're a peasant.
Handy tip: If you ever have a really large file to edit, Textwrangler is awesome. I've opened 1GB SQL dumps in there, and it happens almost instantaneously -- with syntax highlighting. Strangely, BBEdit and Sublime Text took longer to open the same files.
WingIDE from Wingware is really nice
We call this "begging the question".

You have decided Firefox is broken. I have zero complaints about it, it is my default browser on Android, Windows and OpenBSD, all three of which I use daily without issue.
No more CPU upgrades for me: I stripped the heatsink screws again
I think the poor don't rise up because they don't have time. When they aren't working/taking care of children they are probably relaxing. Ironically, poor people value their leisure time much more than rich people I would argue.

source: hanging out with broke artists for years
Not to be confused with Arc: http://arclanguage.org/
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He used the Rastafarian community specifically (rastafarians != reggae). Snoop probably got involved with them and realized that it's a pretty fundamentalist mystic offshoot of Christianity. Sure, they smoke a lot of weed, but there's a dogma there as well that is harder to swallow.
Private gun ownership isn't a safeguard against "if things get too bad".

It's also unrealistic and implausible to imagine that the .gov and .mil are going to make "things get too bad".

That is no more likely to happen than a return to some sort of monarchy or crowning of an American king/queen.
I'm surprised this is so heavily downvoted, as this was my first thought too upon reading the headline. Hell, that would be my first answer to that question in any society in any time period in history.
It would be awesome to turn it into an extension that makes it a single toggle.
Do you have a smartphone or a computer, or does anyone in your family?
Apple will change directions on this and fix the historical games and such that are taken down, they always do. It will probably be a non-issue within a week or two.

This is just the quickest, laziest, and a relatively ham-fisted way to get rid of the actually problematic apps, so that's what they did. Sadly thats kinda status-quo for Apple dealing with this kind of stuff.
You are right; I don't know bko was not around in the 1950s. I should clarify, however, that comparing adult life in the 2010s and adult life in the 1950s is different from comparing adult life in the 2010s and child life in the 1950s. It is possible, but unlikely, that bko was thinking about income and career stresses and managing a family and so on both in the 1950s and in the 2010s, in such a way as would allow an apples-to-apples comparison.

It's not that I want to say life in the 1950s was actually better; I just take issue with the soundness of this kind of argument to dismiss concerns about trends in income inequality, etc. My general point is something along the lines of what Matt Bruenig expounds on here: http://www.demos.org/blog/6/16/15/people-arent-better-income...
AWS Lambda definitely seems like the way to go. It looks like hosting the service yourself gets complicated very quickly when you have to factor in things like authenticating the requests. [1]

I'm also not sure how it would technically work, but I do wish there would be some way to run this locally. I would love to get more access to some of the hardware on my local network, but I would be hesitant to open the same up to the public internet. I guess Amazon is (smartly) targeting more consumer focused developers and not hobbyists working on their own pet projects.

[1] - https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-sk...
This is a fairy tale.

> ...in order to compete in a free market...

The entire point of Uber is that the taxi industry is not a free market, therefore the things necessary to compete in a theoretical "free market" are not relevant and can't be assumed to be why Uber is successful.

Uber uses roads that were designed to comply with government safety regulations and their drivers drive cars designed to comply with a different set of government safety regulations. Those regulations exist because experience has shown that they need to.
I like the idea. But why do we fixate on the tools? It is like lumberjacks sitting around discussing axes for hours instead of actually chopping the trees. Yes you need to find a tool that works for you, and you should take time to sharpen your ax. But a tool alone doesn't solve any problems.
There's also MindMeld--https://expectlabs.com/docs

With Alexa, you have to bet on Amazon winning the IoT game. Amazon is great at ecommerce (mostly because they don't care about making money), but it's not clear they're great at platforms.

But if all you want is the functionality of an Echo that you can customize, then go with a well-funded startup staffed by some of the best AI engineers in the world offering similar and often better capabilities, and build your own so you can integrate it wherever you want.

That's MindMeld.
Not really important but.. "nine gravities (88/m/squared)"

I don't get it, the scientificamerican blog that they are quoting has the right units, where did they come up with this?
You might be interested in Neil Postman's Technopoly: http://www.amazon.com/Technopoly-Surrender-Technology-Neil-P...

It reasons along a similar vein.
You and I drink a Coke that was $3.99 for a 12-pack.

The richest consumers drink a $7 Coke out of the minibar. Or they drink a $10 kale smoothie because Coke isn't the healthiest thing you can put in your body.
This kind of reasoning is exactly why we have even more bloated, crap software these days
Background processes don't block the main thread, the extension points are better thought out and the development experience in working on extensions is a LOT better, js/coffee are better languages than vimL, and display is not limited to a fixed grid of text cells.

The downsides are that it's comparatively slow. The vim keybinding emulation isn't great but I can now use it without getting frustrated using ^[ to get back to normal mode.

I still use Vim for most things but I do Clojure/Clojurescript in Emacs evil-mode, and Typescript in Atom.
I don't, but I also don't feel the need to.

If, however, some other tech blogger I liked started writing about "kill the gays," well, I don't need to overlook that just because I like their tech writing.

Like I said elsewhere, none of these folks has a monopoly on good engineering writing/technical thinking.

I can read, and ultimately promote, writers whose writing I wouldn't be ashamed to share with all of my friends.
Poor people don't make 100k a year. Consider your hypothetical again for 20k a year and even 5 dollars a year.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/12/com...
Yup, thats right. Sorry for lame landing page. We have a prototype ready but before deciding to formally put it out, quickly wanted to run it down with a few people to see if there is actually some interest. Its largely inspired from the Buffer guy experiment to validate before he decide to finally build it - https://blog.bufferapp.com/idea-to-paying-customers-in-7-wee...
wait, you don't like putting your List<> inside your Arc<> inside your Cell<> ?? ;)
Virtualenv is really not complicated. I think your time would be better spent learning how it works than just hacking some crappy workarounds to skip the problem.
When I see the never end complaints about object-oriented programming, I'm reminded of Bjarne Stroustrup's quote "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." I think that applies equally well to software design concepts.
It certainly is not just about the tools. Building a successful startups involves a ton of things. But every lumber jack loves hanging around in the tools shop. We need our little man-cave as entrepreneurs :)
The only way I see to circumvent this "problem" is to have the ads as integral part of the content, indistinguishable from it. I'm not sure if this will make "better ads" though.
Overlocalization (and censorship) happened much more in the much earlier days of English anime (like the time when Pokemon came out). There isn't a real lot of that now because the fanbase wants true to the original translations. I have been out of the anime loop for a while now but that is my understanding. The NA release of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind comes to mind - it was released as Warriors of the Wind and was a total bastardization of the story. Miyazaki was incredibly dissatisfied with it so he adopted a "no cuts" policy for any future translations of his work. Apparently (so the rumor goes) when the English release of Princess Mononoke was being worked on they requested permission to change it in some way. The response from Studio Ghibli was a package containing a katana with the message "No cuts".
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I don't think the issue is material comfort as much as it is worsening conditions and insecurity around employment.

A 1950s employee wasn't subjected to credit or other background checks to get hired, zero-hour contracts weren't around, and neither was the culture of working 60+ hours a week just to keep up appearances.

I see the rise in income inequality primarily as a reflection of the power dynamic between the wealthly and those that work for a living. The lower quintiles are getting the screws put down on them, and they're just taking it.
This already exists in Amsterdam for years, it's called Scooter Bob here because the guy arrives on a little foldable scooter and Bob was the name of the government's anti DUI campaign.

The trip is slightly more expensive than an Uber, but because you drive the way there yourself and only use it for the return it is still quite cost effective. Especially when parking in a free spot such as the office parking garage (which is where I use it most)
The method was named after him for a reason. :)
California’s Drought Is Part of a Much Bigger Water Crisis
Why don't the rich rise up? It's not like they can't notice injustice too. Unless they are all evil. Is that the tl;dr? Man that's really stupid, because its really poor thinking, poor thinking that encourages more poverty.

Edit: For example Paul Fussell, a rich kid with anglophilia, rose up and fought in WWII.
At least you found the wiki page for soy sauce. :)
Fullstack web dev?
I want to start learning full stack web dev. I know html, css, and basic javascript. I was wondering if i should pursue rails, django, or continue with javascript. if js, which frameworks should i be using?
Although some bits of syntax are reminiscent of Rust, semantically it's not Rust in the slightest:

"Ark is not a garbage collected language, therefore when you allocate memory, you must free it after you are no longer using it. We felt that, as unsafe as it is to rely on the user to manage the memory being allocated, performance takes a higher precedence. Although garbage collection makes things fool-proof and removes a significant amount of workload from the user, it inhibits the performance we were going for."

https://github.com/ark-lang/ark-docs/blob/master/REFERENCE.m...

This is the usual false dichotomy that languages subscribe to, where they presume that manual and unsafe memory management is the only alternative to dynamic and safe memory management. But Rust's secret sauce is that memory management is static and safe, thanks to linear types and the borrow checker. Rust is still the only competitor in the space of zero-overhead memory-safe languages.
I personally think all those things are overrated and more of status symbols. Think about technology, design, ideas, entertainment, coca-cola formula etc. Those are infinitely reproducible and are catered to the masses. On the subway I see all walks of life with the best cell phone(s) money can buy which is kind of great when you think about it. It's funny when companies like Vertu try to make cell "premium" technology items that are obviously inferior to your standard Samsung phone despite the little bit of leather and concierge service. But they get away with it and charge up to 12k for their phone. But I honestly don't think I'm missing out.

Also, I can't express how much satisfaction I get from beautifully made TV series. World class entertainment all for about $10 a month to HBO or Netflix.

http://www.vertu.com/us/en/home
Yeah. No need to discus gun control, the issue with SC is clearly racism.

And how do we get rid of racism? Remove the symbol. We'll get rid of the symbol and the racism will be fixed.

We took action! We did something! It's solved! Time to move on. What's the point in discussing complicated issues of housing development or law enforcement and making changes that might not have a positive and noticeable effect for a generation or two?

It's good we did something now. Now it's solved.
Correcting for that only makes is sound more ominous:

> In other news at least half the population lives below the median income.
Genuine question. Can you give me an ELI5 version of your statement? I don't quite follow the point you're making.
Seems like a bad idea turning off phishing notifications and browser warnings

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.safebrowsing.enabled
Firefox 2.0 incorporates the Google Safe Browsing extension in its own Phishing Protection feature to detect and warn users of phishy web sites.
How exactly does reader.parse-on-load.enabled leak privacy? Isn't everything parsed locally?
>> Data centers need a lot of infrastructure to run 24/7, and there’s a lot of potential in redeveloping large industrial sites like former coal power plants.

I can see rust-belt cities like Detroit being prime for this kind of development. Real estate would be cheap or nearly free and local governments would love to get a big name like Google into a tax-free zone.
You have to try pretty hard: the compiler and runtime are available in closed-source form for FogBugz For Your Server installations, in the Accessories directory.

I'm also planning on open sourcing the new Roslyn-based code generator. I don't currently have any plans to open-source the rest of it.
Yeah, the 50s were great. Unless you were black, gay, female or an immigrant.
You're reading more into the question than can be supported by the wording of the question or by the article itself.

The assumption is that conditions were once such that popular movements or uprisings of the poorer classes were relatively more frequent in the past than in recent years. The article explores in perfectly sober terms how these conditions may have changed.

You may have ideological leanings that predispose you to find the discussion inherently inflammatory, but there are plenty of reasonable people who do not see it that way.
Well, a decent way to differentiate these would be to put the phone in airplane mode, and then you'd see what RF was significant and not.

And then after that, a further level of differentiation would be to take the phone out of airplane mode, but remove the SIM card.

I feel like those different states would be worth comparing...
I grew up in the 80s as well. It's a complicated question, but all in all I think technology has made things worse.
I totally agree with you, but poor people aren't drinking $30 bottles of wine or eating $50 steaks. At least not the poor people I know. They'd drink <$5 bottles of wine and they would eat whatever steak was on sale at the grocery store for a few dollars a pound.
Accuracy and information retrieval.

The best systems--Siri, Google Now--have 95%+ ASR accuracy AND can find the right answer among millions of possibilities once they've broken down the utterance.

Combining human-like ASR & NLP with super accurate search capabilities is hard.
spoiler alert: interface unusable on retina macbook pro
While visiting google every 30 minutes or so is a way of leaking, you aren't leaking much more than ip and the fact that this up is in Firefox.

Isn't reader an offline functionality?
But this is exactly what virtualenv does...

1. You create a virtualenv
2. You enter the virtualenv
3. You install dependencies in it

Redo these steps for every isolated set of dependencies you want.

The solution proposed here does not solve anything. It only provides some half-working equivalent of virtualenv that works with a hidden directory to run your scripts...
You also missed the huge transition from one-earner to two-earner households.
I wouldn't use it since it:

- Disables the malware and phishing lists/warnings.

- Disables HTML5-video DRM (even if this has nothing to do with leaking data).

- Geo location already brings up a popup (and thus disabling it seems petty).
BINGO! We have a winner.

"Rising up" individually causes harm to oneself with no benefit to anyone. Rising up with others requires organization. Joining an organization that is planning to rise up when it hasn't already reached a certain size/certainty of actually carrying through with its mission carries many of the same risks as rising up individually, so no-one does that, either.

And that's putting aside the efficacy of even a popular and well-attended revolt that's the end goal of this—for the sake of argument let's say it might actually have some meaningful effect, if not actually manage to topple a significant portion of the power structure. Even assuming it's a good idea and all the poor want to revolt, it's still unlikely that they will.

Collective action and coordination issues are everywhere. They're fundamentally why we have governments, and why unions aren't usually very effective without mandatory membership.
Well, the rhetorical device conveys the wrong thing, so it's not very good:

- Being contracted is a way to be employed.

- The contractor can still be an employee of the contracting agency

- It can mean "employee vs out-of-work" [1] just as much as "employee vs contractor"

To often, journalists fancy themselves novelists and sacrifice clarity for flourish. In this context, that's the wrong choice.

[1] What I and the sibling thought.
The whole point of smart pointer types like Arc and Cell is that they give you fine-grained control over the capabilities of your data. If you don't need such fine-grained control, then Rust probably isn't the language you're looking for. :)
Well, I'm not sure there is reliable data that suggests culture fit actually improves innovation. Given that those terms are even well-defined in the first place. It comes off very much like rationalization, not rationality.
Looks like it's basically Rust without the ownership, borrow checking, and a few other things. Think of C/Go(?) with a rust syntax, and a few more higher level things like boundary checking, unicode support, etc (I'm aware Go has unicode support, I mean C).
I can't speak for the parent but I would say the most commonly seen effect of complexity is stagnation. Change becomes harder, promised features take forever, the developers lose motivation and significant new releases grind to a halt.

Atom exists because ST3 was seen to stagnate, ST3 exists because TextMate was seen to stagnate etc. They start as simple but incomplete tools that are moving fast and blah blah - its just the software circle of life.
music was better in the 80's
This is what discussions like this remind me of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmZRLxnXamM
Applause for your cherry picked quote to make yourself seem insightful.

The author, in the sentence before, pointed out: "For those in the bottom quintile, household income in inflation-adjusted dollars has dropped sharply, from $13,787 in 2000 to $11,651 in 2013"

He then calculates the concrete number to convey to the reader that for 64 million americans life has gotten harder.

But hey, you earned some internet points so thanks for the contribution.