skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are responsible for doing that for Internet purchases as well. See orev's comment above:

Everyone is required to pay sales tax for purchases made over the Internet, there's just no way for the states to enforce it. That's why most state tax forms now ask you what purchases you've made online so they can add that into the tax. If you don't answer this question truthfully, then your liable for tax evasion.
how come he included the entire jquery library just for that one use of $.ajax?
A set of video lectures of the corresponding MIT course are available at

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...

I just started watching them for fun the other day. They're really fascinating.
you can use proxies with market samurai (admittedly, the way they handle proxies is awkward, but overall, you can avoid google issues completely with a handful of proxies)
Embedded GPU: what are they hiding?
The saddest part about this story is going to be the people who will rationalize it, even though if it were 4 years ago and the opposite party, they would be raising hell.
http://github.com/Marak/translate.js/issues#issue/3
By that logic, they also "know" that if they want a smartphone, they should buy an iPhone, and if they want a tablet, they should buy an iPad.
...Somalia, where no one ever has to pay any taxes.

Wrong.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201004190409.html
Your points are excellent, but number 2 seems a weak: why think of it as a single "machine"? If that's the metric, dual- and quad-processing machines would counter any advantage.

Plus or minus some overclocking, a GTX280 and a Core i7 960 both consume roughly the same number or watts (130 for the processor vs 200 for the card?) and cost roughly the same (at least they did when I bought comparables). So while you can stick (and probably should) stick multiple cards in the same machine, it seems a little silly measure this in terms of multiples of single CPU performance.

NVidia's blog response is interesting, and the some of the comments are actually worth reading:
http://blogs.nvidia.com/ntersect/2010/06/gpus-are-only-up-to...

To me, the interesting question here is the degree to which the code has been optimized in each case, and the difficulty of doing so. A while ago there was a competition to attempt to generate SHA1 hash collision: http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/programming-contest-and-...

The GPU's trounced every other approach. I participated in the contest minimally (running slightly tweaked versions other people's code on both an Nvidia GPU and a Core i7) and I was amazed at how much more efficient the GPU solution was. I don't recall the exact ratios, but 'orders of magnitude' was definitely not an exaggeration.

But that's sort of a contrived example. So what I'd love to see here is a framework that incentivizes each side to come up with their best solution to some real world problem. My instinct is that there are definitely problems for which 100x is realistic. Knowing which problems these are (and aren't) would be a more effective 'debunking' than a one side proclaiming an 'average' result.
I've got a B.S. in Comp Sci, and like you, heard that engineering would be a more valuable degree, so when I had the opportunity to get my masters, I got it in E.E.

I don't think there are many aspects of EE, if any, that prepare you more for "problem solving" than CS. That's not to say it's not worthwhile. EE is more difficult and broader than CS; it's also expensive and time consuming to learn it all on your own.

The nice thing about engineering is that the math is extremely similar between fields. Mechanical engineering uses a lot of the same techniques that electrical engineering does, as many of the principles are the same (stability is important in both).

You can use a lot of your CS skills to do engineering experiments. There are a lot of EE fields that are nearly all done in software now. Software Radio is a big one and Digital Signal Processing is another.

So, get an introductory Circuits textbook and learn the math. Learn differential equations. Play around with robots and try to get them to do things extremely accurately; this will introduce you to control systems.

Also, learn to love math and be able to read and understand formulas and equations with a lot of Greek letters.
WTF? This is anti-science. Nothing but noticing a correlation and assuming that it represents causation. The failure to consider any alternatives (like, maybe taxo infection rates correlate with something else that might actually matter) boggles the mind.
While the VAT is the least distorting tax, I really dislike the extensive documentation required throughout the economy to implement it.

I would prefer a tax on the easiest to audit things -- real estate, maybe a poll tax, and heavy taxation or fees for the use of public property for private purposes (oil and minerals leases, aquifers, ...)
I disagree, we can use the past to inform the future so it's not the same as religion. I think it's a much better bet to say that devices like the iPad will be more popular 5 years from now than to bet that they're going away. Sure it's silly to put specific numbers to it, but we can estimate the broad strokes to a better than chance accuracy.
Hollow Men of Economics: The Problem with Energy
I just don't know, that's my opinion, maybe we're going to be using something like Futurama's eyePhone.
After reading the complaint, I think its pretty clear the reason the Feds thought it warranted this much investigation:

"In November 2009, two victims from the Charles Smith/YPDP fraud scheme contacted the United States Attorney's Office in the Northern District of Georgia, indicating that they were still receiving fraudulent Yellow Pages solicitations..."

When they investigated and realized that the solicitation came from a company owned by Charles Smith's brother, I'm sure that was enough to launch a full fledged investigation.
Why New Financial Regs Won't Fix Anything
My loss
This has been done before, there was a bus i read about on boingboing that used only kinetic energy to power it, if i remember the wheel was some 20tons.
Fairly Unremarkable Backgrounds
Is it fair to call this an AI library? It looks like a nice, graphical way to put together control flow statements. But this description doesn't mention features you might find in other cognitive architectures, like keeping a working memory or any kind of learning.
I imagine (not being the original poster) that the general principle is that the benefits of increased government revenue should be weighed against the cost (to businesses and consumers) of increased taxation.

But we're talking about a situation where people used new technology to avoid paying taxes. This seems very different from a world in which the government introduced a radical new sales tax.

purchasing an item from another state uses very little in the way of state services, far less than purchasing from local retailers

Do you have a cite for this claim?

I see sales tax as an implicit headcount tax: everyone needs to buy a certain amount of stuff every year to live so everyone ends up contributing a minimal amount to the state government. If one group of people manage to get their stuff without paying sales tax, that's a problem because their usage of state services hasn't decreased significantly: they still send their kids to school, they still use libraries and parks, they still benefit from state courts and prisons and environmental regulators.
Generally speaking, it's just best to keep government out of the economy where you can - if you give them an inch when it comes to taxation, they're going to take a mile. The state and federal government(s) of the United States do not have an income problem - they have a spending problem. New taxes aren't the answer.
Canada, Saudi Arabia and Mexico are unfriendly?

The only unfriendly countries which supply a significant amount of oil to the US are Venezuela and Russia.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publicatio...
Yep. Flagged...
What!? You're joking I assume.. What % of the market does Opera have again?
First, you need a mathematical definition of intelligence. Leave the problem aside that you will probably not find a common definition which will be generally accepted (mostly because people have different understandings/interpretations about intelligence). It will still be very difficult to find a mathematically definition at all (which somehow matches what at least some people might consider as intelligent). And that mathematical definition of intelligence must be measurable.

Once you have sth. like this, I would like to see a graph plotting of it with some of the research results of the last 50 years or so. And then I probably can answer your question. :)
If you think that I'm not aware of the fact that warlords and terrorists extract protection money from anyone they can, then, um, you're very confused.

The larger point should be clear to everyone though: people with money always end up paying a portion of it to those with power. If they're lucky, they pay a small portion that is used to benefit them in a democratic society. If they're not so lucky, the money is extorted to fund warlords and terrorists and they get nothing in return. The inability to differentiate these two scenarios is a principal indicator of political and economic ignorance.
When did Froyo become available?
The HN take-away:

Behind what looks like a success could actually be a failure. (And probably vice-versa.)
"The real question is: what will biology be able to do that computers arn't able to?"

Biology "apps" could give you the ability to jump higher, run faster, grow stronger and live longer. They could even make us smarter.

Personally, I find all of that very compelling.
You should read up on the historical development of the use of language and linguistics to shape culture and society, both from the advertising industry and from the feminist movement.

The contemporary labeling of citizens as consumers is no accident, and not just an artifact of the mainstreaming of the economics field.
Isn't that exactly what I said?
What has complex got to do with the editor? Maybe it would help a bit. But if you design the codebase to be modular, you have only a little part of the code to worry about at a time, so you can use your current editor setup. :)
He ignores the fundamental problem- the American worker is overpaid. Why would anyone work at the wages of a Chinese laborer when you can make as much money as a Foxconn production line worker ($1.25/hr x 60hr week) in about 10 hours per week at minimum wage here, about 6 hours per week at factory job? We need to find a way to avoid the sticky wage problem, and it will likely involve inflation.
Full story:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_to_publish_shop...
Yes, step by step. I find post its with the new commands work great.
Nothing gives him permission to say that; the U.S. was founded on the idea that you don't need anyone's permission to do things that don't harm other people. It's an inalienable right; you can't take it away.

Our entire short history is a narrative of how the government erodes the Constitution and that basic idea at every opportunity. Hardly a model of restraint.
Or we could just redefine 'leading' to mean avoiding doing the right thing and instead trying to guess which way the prevailing wind is blowing and positioning yourself to both exploit it and retroactively take credit for it.
This just sounds like the usual protectionism. Despite the rhetoric about free trade, the US has historically been highly protectionist.

The situation is of course going to become much more complicated, as telerobotics is going to make it possible to outsource physical labour to just about any location on earth. With enough hardware and bandwidth you can pipeline human intelligence on demand to where ever it may be required. The scope of jobs which can be outsourced will also widen considerably, as changes in technology and pressures on energy and resource scarcity increase the need to maximize efficiency. "Knowledge workers" will not be exempted from technological unemployment either, and white collar workers will be subject to the same displacement or replacement forces as blue collar workers have been over the last 30 years.
I've really enjoyed using Textmate with various JS bundles like Javascript Tools (comes with jslint, js beautify, and some snippets).

Regarding a "more full development environment," my good friend said the following to me:

IDEs can be nice, as they help you handle complicated code. On the other hand, they don't prevent you from writing complicated code in the first place.
doesn't work for me. It only offers to open the .epub file in Stanza or GoodReader. iBooks is not shown as a possible choice.
I don't have a cite for my claim that out of state purchases uses less state services, but I do believe it is pretty obvious. My reasoning:

An in-state retailer uses police/fire protection for the entire time the item is sitting on the shelf, local roads to move the item to the store, police/fire protection at the production site if the item was made in-state, and assorted local regulatory services depending on the specific business (e.g., health inspectors).

An out of state retailer only uses local roads as the item is shipped to the customer.

I don't see any plausible way that an out of state retailer could use anything remotely close to the same amount of state services as an in state retailer.
That show Titus said, "You know why divorces cost so much? They're worth it."
> When I see features like Android's cloud-to-phone messaging APIs, I long for them to be in iOS. But then iOS 4 has nothing of this sort.

Isn’t that exactly what push notifications are? Apps like Notifo, and Boxcar for that matter, allow you to implement push notifications for anything (c.f. Github integration) without even a dedicated iPhone app.

> users don't care about [fragmentation].

While Joe Consumer may not grok fragmentation, it definitely impacts his experience. E.g. the official Twitter app not being available on Droid or the Incredible, last I heard.

I don’t see Apple as missing the boat so much as taking their time to do things right. Just like copy-paste and multitasking. Patience for the polish, or yeah, go to Android.

To answer your question, iPhone will, yes, always lack features Android has, for the foreseeable future, but the experience is smoother and more consistent. Strictly in this sense, it it Android that will never catch up.

(This is pretty much what Gruber has been saying: http://www.macworld.com/article/151235/2010/05/apple_rolls.h...)
Disagree that peanut butter is to be considered "shit." It's high in calories, yes, but contains plenty of protein and good fats plus a bunch of useful micronutrients. As long as you buy a brand without added sugar + vegetable oils, it's quite healthy.
"Patients" would be a better word for a hospital to use, but in the economic context Obama was using, "consumer" is the general term.

Parenting and governance aren't purely economic interactions. The producer/consumer roles don't exist per se, which is why we have words like "parent", "child", "state", and "citizen." (I certainly don't want to become Microsoft's "citizen" just because I have an Xbox Live membership--I'm happy to be their "consumer"!)
I believe property taxes make up much of the school, etc. budgets in most states.

Sales tax might have once been a convenient way to tax people by locale, but it meshes poorly with the internet. If there must be a per-sale tax on internet goods, it should probably be a new type of tax which reflects the fact that the internet isn't related to geography. If anything, it should be a flat tax.
> After watching the complete Google I/O keynote and WWDC '10 keynote

I was at WWDC. There are a lot of things I saw there that I'm not supposed to talk about. Suffice it to say that the cool stuff was NOT in the keynote.

I came out of WWDC thinking that Google may very well never catch up. They don't seem to care about Android like Apple cares about the iPhone. Apple cares enough about the iPhone to learn how to do cloud services (see Push) and advertising (see iAd) better than Google, things that Apple has no experience doing well. But Google doesn't care about Android enough to invest into build quality or UI, things that Apple does well.
I think of the GPU as an 'extra', not in place of, so whatever advantage a regular CPU has you always get more bang for the buck by adding one or more GPUs to a machine, assuming your workload is a good match. If not then it's money thrown away.

True that dual and quad processor machines would work even better, but there too it is extra, and especially quad machines are not nearly as cheap as adding GPU cards, CPUs get more expensive quickly as the number of CPUs on the motherboard increases.

Personally I'd like to see research like this come out of different corners than either Nvidia or Intel.

For those jobs that I used GPUs for (image recognition) they outperformed the CPU on the same task better than 50 to 1, the trick is to keep communications down to a minimum and maximize your use of GPU memory. And that's a lot easier said than done, not all of it is intuitive.
Wow. That reminds me of last year.

My ex made up phony charges to the police so she could keep more of my money (which the crown had to drop).

After work found out they threatened to fire me to negotiate themselves a better position.

Lost most of what I had to lawyers fees, lost the rest of it to the market.

What I did in response:

Lost 60 pounds

Met a great, funny, vibrant, intelligent, much thinner and younger woman

Told them I quit and ended up negotiating a better position

Blew what little I had left on a trip to Burning Man, met some great friends and gained a lot of perspective.

Grew my side biz into the point where it might survive the next 6 month, and lined up financing.

The future:

Quit my job last month

Taking the side biz full time

Life is indeed better on the other side. The funny thing about life is that to have the freedom to do anything you need to first lose everything. Courts, jails, and lawyers may be able to take your money, but they can't take your friends. Likewise they can confine your body, but they can't confine your mind. Going through all that gave me incredible perspective. I've always been a very caring and charitable person and it paid off in spades going through that whole ordeal. I never realized what an incredible social network I had developed through my character until I had to call on it. I left the ex with literally the shirt on my back and within a week had a fully furnished, albiet modestly, apartment and more importantly friends to fill it with cheer and laughter (to be honest a few tears as well, but mostly laughter and cheer).
You say that governments restrain themselves and then say to look at history. When I look at history, I see a massive graveyard of failed states and empires. Even the surviving, "successful" states have had long, unpredictable periods of tyranny and suffering.

Therefore I am concerned about government growth and encroachment, because it takes decades and the blood of heroes to recover lost freedoms, and by then I'll be old or dead. Better to be concerned now and look foolish than to dismiss concerns and be proven naive.
But why does every language need its own system? They aren't that different from package managers view that a generic solution wouldn't work.
"The good life" means different things to different people.
Is not the story worse on every other mobile platform?
True, although I'm betting the local phone companies' distribution model more accurately fits the traditional definition of "the Yellow Pages". When people think "Yellow Pages" they think of a free telephone directory distributed to all residences and businesses in the area being advertised in.

According to the complaint, United Directories published 27,626 copies of the book in 2009. Exhibit A of the complaint is an advertisement they sent to a small business in North Las Vegas for the "National Business Edition" of the "Yellow Pages". I don't see how, with 27,626 copies printed, the United Directories' Yellow Pages could possibly meet the traditional definition of "the Yellow Pages" in a "National Business Edition".

So yes, while probably not illegal, its deceptive to use the term "Yellow Pages" when you're just publishing a lower circulation business to business directory.
If you think that I'm not aware of the fact that warlords and terrorists extract protection money from anyone they can, then, um, you're very confused.

Silly me. I interpreted "[...] Somalia, where no one ever has to pay any taxes" as indicating a belief that in Somalia, no one ever has to pay any taxes.

We all post in ignorance. Just say "oops, my mistake". You won't be kicked off HN for making a mistake, I would have been gone long ago if pg did that.
I'm not perfect I finally said it.
That's a complete non-sequitur. "Consumer" denotes an economic role, and if the president is discussing a solution to a socio-economic problem that benefits people in that role, "consumer" is the correct term to use.
And the first is a problem with anything that stores energy. Gas can explode. Batteries can explode. Etc.
Wow, an article raising a topic that the author finds interesting, relating it to something which it has nothing to do with, trying to correlate the two but ending up dismissing the correlation.

Most interesting thing in the article, there is a parasite which reproduces in cat's stomach, and to be able to get there changes the behavior of mice to be less careful of cats.

Everything else is bullshit.
> But Google doesn't care about Android enough to invest into build quality or UI, things that Apple does well.

Build quality, probably not, especially since Google doesn't really do hardware. But it's been widely reported that they're making a big UI push. I expect them to do well on usability: they've got the talent to catch up to Apple on that. Aesthetics are another matter, however.
Side note - anybody thinking about getting married should look into the financial implications of getting divorced. It shouldn't stop you, but you should at least understand you're putting at least half of everything you own on the table and potentially more. I think you don't completely understand marriage unless you've been divorced.

It may just be confirmation bias but I've been thinking about heading off in a much less conventional direction myself so articles like this are welcome.
For those who understand German:
Podcast about biohacking: http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre143.html
Keep it; a decent income would've made grad school significantly less painful. 500 hours a year is not a full time job; I think your odds of selling it at the price it's worth to you are very low.
No screen can render all colours properly, and from what I've read the AMOLED screen on the Nexus One has a far larger colour gamut.
Some states, such as California, already have a use tax. Although they cannot directly tax out of state businesses, they can push that burden onto its residents.

You are supposed to track all out of state purchases and pay the tax when you file your normal income tax.

In fact, software such as Turbo Tax, will automatically prompt you for it.

http://www.boe.ca.gov/sutax/faqusetax.htm
Would you like it if you weren't the author, director, and performer of the script?

DI does have it's merits — it does keep bright assholes like us from dominating the classroom as students in a mixed setting. You can also get through the material a lot faster without getting mired in repetitive interactivity, but the script has to be perfect, or you can skip past a crucial facet without noticing, and there's very little opportunity to get back on the rails, especially because from the lecturer's perspective the resulting complaints are difficult to distinguish from the usual whining.

Part of the problem with curriculum design is that trials generally only occur with either uniformly high-achieving or uniformly delinquent students, both of whom can abide nearly any method if it's intentionally delivered.