skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not actually one of the most expensive.

Yes it is true, they are more expensive than others, and if I were starting a new company I might not use them from the start, but they offer us one thing that no one else seems to be able to handle -- the ability to spin up a lot of heavy iron quickly to absorb sudden changes in traffic.
There are a lot of ways of avoiding this,

EX1: you can give your wife unlimited assets without tax implications.

EX2: Let's say you and your wife have a 7 million$ 50% of which is appreciated assets, and 2 million in life insurgence and 3 children. Each of you can give 1 million to each child, so 6 million is exempt, as is all life insurgence thus only the last million is taxed at 45%. Resulting in a 0.450 / ( 7 + 2) = 5% effective tax rate.

Note: If they actually sold their appreciated assets they would pay more in taxes.

EX3: 1 billion in assets. Set's up a blind trust = zero direct taxes on death. Money can compound tax free in the trust and is only taxed on disbursement.

EX4: 1 billion donation to the red cross = zero tax.

PS: If you do nothing and leave 5million to 1 person the effective tax rate is still only 36%. You really have to have huge amount in assets and stupid tax advice for this to be a major issue.
The legal argument isn't that bizarre. :)

Our lawyers fear foreign laws and will not deal with them.

That being said, we are working on expanding into some of the other English speaking countries.
http://sucuri.net is a good one :) (by fellow HN members)
My first thought was "oh wow, some rich people who want to participate in the gaming industry, how cute".

But when I saw the team, wow. The creators of Braid, Fl0w and world of goo are all among the partners it seems.
I wouldn't mind seeing single sentence google adwords in the comment sections, perhaps 1 for every 30 comments. Bonus points if they got worked into the pun threads.
If you use a wrong algorithm, that can be a case. For example, when you use bilinear interpolation to "down-size" image, for large image, you can end up interpolating between two far away pixels whereas if you use a smaller image, the two pixels you use are already averaged (interpolated), thus, can get a more pleasing result.
I like symfony as well but as of late I've found several things in the documentation to be segmented - such that you need to read around in several parts to find the secret recipe that actually works. I'm planning to contribute to the docs soon hopefully but with a brand new baby boy I haven't had a tremendous amount of time.
This doesn't seem very sinister.
Sounds like NSA providing managed IDS to their clients just like private security firms that provide managed network security.
We actually moved from a datacenter to EC2. The problem is we all live in the Bay Area, where data centers cost a lot of money. We can't afford to hire a hand on person in a cheap place, so it turns out EC2 (and other cloud solutions) are just cheaper.

Also, one thing that is nice with EC2 is that we can spin up a lot of big iron when we need to absorb new kinds of traffic. I can't do that in my own datacenter.
Downvoters, yeah he is harse but he still has a point - Python is famous for coming with batteries included so it is not unreasonably assume that the people whom it attracts are those who want a language like that.

But he is wrong with those people not wanting to learn Clojure: since it runs on the JVM, you can use any Java library to do what you want. I doubt there are as many libraries for Python as there are for Java.
I'm interested. Berkeley / North Oakland preferred, but anywhere nearby would be fine.
I live in Oakland, but Cafe Med is nice enough that I won't bother rooting for the home town.
once they got adapted to reading and maintaining
their site, it may really be a burden to change it to something else without promise of significant gain. What they would gain by changing it to another design style?

For users: Readability? hardly because they have already adapted to current design.

For author: Ease of maintenance? highly questionable.
Well how did Metafilter end up with paid membership?
Actively answer all questions that you can in #python for two weeks. 6-pack if you can do it without groaning to yourself.
>I've never written a VM, and I don't think I'd be very good at it

Don't be so sure, there are a lot of research in this area and it is not black magic.
You should really get a Flattr button too, it's starting to get traction now.
45% tax after the first million, right?

Denmark has a top marginal income tax rate of something like 60%. Why is a 45% marginal tax on estates “insane”?

If you think about it instead as descendants get a completely un-earned windfall of $1 million + 55% of whatever is left after that, while only 45% of everything after the first million reverts to the general society, then the tax might just as easily be characterized as insanely low.

Of course, this is just a legal agreement, hashed out in congress, and so “insane” is a pretty silly label either way. The legislative process may be messy, but I guarantee you the vast bulk of the people arguing on each side of inheritance taxes are perfectly sane, and there are compelling mutually incompatible arguments (compelling for some number of citizens anyway) on both sides.
That was actually one of the things we already tried.

I think in a month we made enough for a cup of coffee.
Another vote for POET.

I'm currently reading another of his books - Things That Make us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine. Recommended. (http://www.jnd.org/books.html#40)
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We could meet up tonight. A bunch of East Bay redditors are getting together tonight at Jupiter in Downtown Berkeley, right next to the BART stop. Some people will be getting there around 8:30pm and people will be trickling in all night. I'll be the nerdy looking 24 year old bearded Indian kid. Email me if you want my phone number.

There's also an AVC meetup tomorrow in Berkeley. http://www.meetup.com/AVC/11501/
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If I had to point to just one thing, it would be that you succeeded. When I joined reddit, I think there may have been more sockpuppets than real users. A great deal of what was posted there satisfied my intellectual curiosity, and when comments were finally added, they tended to be well-reasoned and insightful. The community was small, and mostly populated with people who had interests similar to mine (many came from comp.lang.lisp).

Today's reddit is pretty mainstream, and, aside from a few subreddits, the content doesn't interest me much. The subreddits that do interest me have similar content to HN, and I already find myself spending too much time reading and discussing stories here when I should be working on my product.

I don't think reddit can be "fixed" so that I would return to be a heavy user again, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
I use advanced task killer as well and I must say it makes little difference in my battery life (maybe adds an hour or so as grooveshark and a few others like to start up randomly) but it is nice to have it to kill apps in an easy way if I want to.
Those kids might not be able to bankroll their own space ships.
There was a parallel case a few years later with CentOS. (Not strictly a web server, of course, but it was the branded default Apache page that led to hacking accusations.)

http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=127
I hate to say it but yes you have too much time on your hands if you are getting all spooled up over news articles. Most of what you mentioned is headline grabbing which panders to the extreme left and right. My advice for peace in life don't get involved in politics.

As far as where to live, I would list the 10 companies / people you admire and see where the majority live. Then focus on your web presence so that when you try get a job at company X that when they search you online they find good stuff. If the CEO has a blog comment on occasion when you have something interesting to say and if you get an interview be sure to showcase your comments and web presence.

Best of luck
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Sounds like a really good idea however who got the screens to support that much resolution?
I really can't approve of this notion more.
Http://BorderJump.com

We are already helping companies sell to Latin America. I am working to make it easier for us to do it.
...then there was the incessant demand to download and install drivers.

First, the display would not go above 800x600. Talk about ugly! He called his friend and his friend said he had to download and install the correct video driver. After googling and following a lot of bogus links, he finally figured out who made his video chipset, found the manufacturer's web site and installed the proper driver. Whew, proper resolution for his LCD screen! Why wasn't the driver included on the CD? His friend said that XP was originally released 10 years ago and the hardware didn't exist back then. If he weren't so cheap and paid the 599 euros for the latest version, Win7, it would have included the driver. Probably.

Then he plugged in his printer. Nothing. Call the "friend" again. Sigh, another driver needed. His friend asked about the CD that came with the printer, said the driver was on it. Oops, didn't need it to make the printer work with linux, threw it away. More googling, found the driver. What the??!! Why is a driver a 347 Mbyte download?!!! Oh well, install the driver and the printer works again. Hmmm, now it is popping up prompts to buy more ink from the manufacturer. Bloody annoying, that.

...
Scientists Criticize Study on Genetics of Old Age
"And science journalists, competing for space with political and sports news, welcome astounding claims without always kicking the tires as hard as necessary. These factors sometimes combine to give substantial publicity to scientific claims that may not fully deserve such attention."

That's an important point, and of course is why I am so fond of linking to Peter Norvig's webpage on evaluating scientific research

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

when we see links to news stories about science discoveries here on HN.
May I ask why you don't use another cheaper provider for fixed base load and reserve EC2 for peak load capacity? Is it that the overhead of running on two different providers not worth the money you'd save? Or is this something you've considered doing but haven't had the time to implement yet?
"Oh, and for people saying "use multiple processes" have never really had a problem where the process has multiple gigabytes of state that it needs to do its work. The state that can be easily shared in multithreaded mode, but can be only shared with a great deal of manual work in multiprocess situation."

Doesn't python have fork with copy-on-write semantics?
It's fucking pathetic that both banks and homeowners look for a bail out from the tax payers who were fiscally responsible. Why is there no punishment for people being stupid and why should responsible citizens help you keep the house that's bigger and better than theirs with a government bailout? Does anyone have any integrity or pride in themselves anymore?

Walking away from a mortgage you signed is about as responsible as the banks asking for bail outs!
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FB Connect has a reclamation process or something to deal with this (theoretically), but the website has to support it.

As someone using FB Connect, we don't support it, and I'm guessing most small/medium sites (like mine) don't either. It's such an edge case that most people that fall in that bucket are SOL.
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FWIW, Canada has no estate tax [1], but from what I recall, it scores better than the US in terms of wealth division and social mobility.

[1] There is no estate tax, but death does trigger the capital gains tax. So the estate pays tax as though its assets were sold on the day of death. Capital gains work differently here than in the US, but they will usually be (much) lower than 44%.
As with all these funny little arguments I'd like to ask a simple question.

Do you mind sending me some money that you have since it somewhat belongs to all of us? I mean really, like cut me a check and mail it? Or instead are you going to be like every other person sane person out there that says, I earned it, I keep it?

Your argument is invalid because during the accumulation of wealth by people, there are taxes at each stage where society claims it's cut. In essence, a death tax is double taxation.
Metafilter finds unique articles, but the comments are terrible. Non-threaded comment sections only work for 4chan.
Now that the parent has been deleted and only this reply is left, I am amused to speculate what the parent could possibly have said about raping peasants and lobsters in buckets.

No no, don't tell me, I'm having too much fun reconstructing it in my head.
That SlideScreen app they reference right up front uses an Autechre track for the demo video:
http://slidescreenhome.com/

Did they get permission? Has Ae been used in a commercial before?
Bah anything that is legally sold in the US has the cocaine removed. What's the point?
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And that what taxes are. Your money, my money, and everyone's money. It is not paid, it is taken.

You don't buy government services or products. They get provided for you.
All intensive purposes

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try Atutor http://www.atutor.ca .Its free and open source with lots of modules and a complete social networking integration using Open Social.
No, we aren't at the point where we can stop counting Facebook registrations.

That point is when Facebook has convincingly shown the ability to hold and monetize its users. Since it hasn't reached that point, registrations is the main thing that makes it hot. If it were to start shrinking before it was monetizing, it would be in serious trouble.

Google doesn't need to grow faster than the Internet. Facebook does.
What's up with the whois spam for google.com?
I only have a couple of email addresses. I'm not worried about someone knowing my email address... Why would I be? I comport myself online the exact same way I would face-to-face. If anyone is sending me annoying/abusive emails I can simply block them. But that has never happened...
I agree! I'm actually in the process of writing my first VM right now, and it's not as hard as you would think...
Have you looked into outsourcing some your advertising space to a service like http://buysellads.com ?
OT: anyone have a spare Flattr invite lying around? would be most appreciative. th AT uvic.ca
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Why did you do this as a batch job? Do you run batch jobs instead of resizing them when a user uploads the pictures? Thanks for sharing.
I'm in the same boat, if you find anything suitable, let me know....

@beilabs
"Our four engineers are working full time just to keep things going. Perhaps we're doing it wrong: there might be ways to optimize our code, or technologies that could allow us to work more efficiently, but we're too busy to investigate these things, or to migrate to the ones that look promising. It becomes a vicious cycle."

If Reddit had not abandoned Lisp for Python, could the team have dodged this vicious cycle?
Someone mentioned give free @reddit.com email addresses (even if not a full mailbox, just a redirect or alias to other email account).

I will pay for that.
In theory, the maximum speedup you could achieve by making Python perfectly multi-threaded on a 4 core machine is 4x. In comparison, rewriting the critical section in Haskell (a very Python-like language), you'll get a 50x speedup. On one core.

The "dynamic language" family is not for high-performance number-crunching. It's for gluing together extremely complex applications, at which it excels. A 2x speedup just doesn't matter much.

(You can use cooperative multitasking to scale out anyway; I can write a Perl application that easily handles 30,000 open TCP connections each with its own thread of execution; a stack, C stack, etc. And 30,000 is an OS limit, not a Perl limit... if I had more sockets, I could serve many more connections. Remember, most things that are hard to program are complex systems. Writing the performance-intensive-but-simple parts in a different language is easy and effective. Why waste the Python core developers' time making it good at something it's going to be bad at, when they could be spending the time making it better at something it's good at?)
I send "you" a check every time I do any work, in the form of an income tax, paid to the government. I can both believe that you have a partial stake in the portion I send to the government, and also not see the social benefit in sending you personally a check.

What's your point?

> every other person sane person out there that says, I earned it, I keep it?

These naive and self-important “sane” people have not thought very hard about the problems of running a society, or at least don’t have much experience with its practical constraints (and I would guess also have little close experience with non-functional governments/societies such as those in most of the developing world).

> Your argument is invalid because [inheritance tax] is double taxation.

There is no "law of the universe" which prevents our duly elected representative government from deciding to tax both income and inheritance. My "argument" is that we make these essentially arbitrary decisions about how to organize ourselves (our economies, our property systems, our governments) via a process which involves agreement and compromise (and a fair amount of disagreement and controversy too, of course; no one ever said governing ourselves would be easy).

Since you haven't addressed "my argument" at all (as far as I can tell from your response you didn’t even read/comprehend it), I do not understand the basis by which you have decided that it is invalid.
its not the apps, its the multitasking-killing-the-battery i still don't understand.

a phone that needs to be charged even once (let along 3 times) in the middle of the day is simply not usable. end of story. i dont get it.
I believe humans will eventually be able to live forever.

Why? I believe our knowledge of biological systems will advance to the point that they can be accurately simulated on a computer within 10-15 years. That will greatly reduce the time it takes to perform experiments (e.g., from months to hours) and take advantage of the knowledge they provide.

At that rate, it's highly probable that a method to prevent--and reverse--biological aging will be discovered.
What were the key decisions that Page and Brin made in the early days of Google
>I count myself among the "Android crowd" and Advanced Task Killer has nearly tripled the battery life on my T-Mobile MyTouch slide post-installation.

And eating cheerios for breakfast makes your hair grow faster.

You are suffering from the placebo effect. You are deluded.
Nothing compelling to switch from the iPhone. A slightly more advanced navigation app? Woohoo. Tight integration with google apps? There's a big surprise, Google trying to take over your life is an ever increasing threat/normality that is rapidly pushing it into Microsoft levels of people hating it.

Most of the rest of it is actually negative points, bad touch screens, poorly monitored app store allowing spyware through (who'd have thought it? defending the app store, wow), low default storage capacity (but extendable, wow, ever think I just want it to work?), bizzare button implementations.

He doesn't sound convinced himself that android is even worth it.

As a Brit who doesn't have to put up with AT&T, all this did was reinforce my belief that the iPhone is so, so much better.
I'm digging into jQuery and jQuery-UI to make the look-and-feel of my current project easier to build and maintain.
I don't really understand the notion that people hate Ads. People hate irrelevant ads. I'm stoked when an Ad reminds me of a new CD that came out of a band I like, or the latest book that people have been talking about, etc.

I really think targeted Ads are the way to go. Hell, I wouldn't even mind filling out information to help target ads.
Would normally be !HN, but posted in reference to earlier discussions had here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1428890
> That's forcing artists to tour more, and to keep their ticket prices high, despite the weak economy.

... and then Ticketmaster doubles it.
I think you hit the nail on the head there. "Context-free" is more of a requirement than LALR or LL. The author clearly isn't a parser writer. I am, but I've yet to try a PEG grammar because ANTLR does such a great job.

But this doesn't change his point (or mine): languages should be created that are easy to write parsers for, so that its easier to write good tools.

And I think this applies to the grammar too: ANTLR's .g files are a good grammar language because its easy to write tools for - hence AntlrWorks.
I would like to know the source of this as well. I'm not to big on large quantities of cilantro, but I'm game if it can remove heavy metals from the body.
Machine Learning with Quantum Algorithms
Could you provide some research supporting the "find its level" claim? I always believed the opposite -- without an estate tax, it's too easy to end up with an autocratic elite.
Haha, I'm sure you're actually very paranoid. Ignore the news stories. Don't forget there are millions, probably billions of people who would KILL to be in your position, to have the opportunity that you have.

Don't forget that once you leave the US, it might be significantly harder to get back in.
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Reddit I will pay you whatever it takes to keep those nasty adds off of your website. Please do not sell our attention to people who do not deserve it.
The Rising Threat of Deflation
Well either I'm stupid and/or completely inexperienced, or I have a really good system. I take it you assumed the former. :-) Thank you for answering. I initially thought you were saying that the "go for money vs go for open source" question was a joke.
But for someone to say that the very concept of broader societal input into inheritance is "morally repugnant" is in my opinion a pretty narrow and socially destructive morality, and I’m glad I don’t live in a country where a small elite has enough power and influence to impose such cultural definitions through force.

Do you really believe that your country don't have snotty brat elite politicians who thrive on greed and corruption?

You make me laugh.

Never mind the fact that libertarians are just a bunch of weak ideologues who have no power anywhere on the planet, let along being capable of enforcing some kind of so-called elitist classist ideas about wealth allocation.
To counterbalance the tone of impending doom in some of these comments and the article, it's worth remembering that the article is from WSJ and might bear the slighest hint of bias. J
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Indeed. The problem is that the original Android devices (Dream/Sapphire/Hero) were shitty hardware with barely any RAM. So the GC algorithm killed peoples' homescreens when they loaded a big app, and they assumed that background tasks were causing that. They killed something like "Maps", switched to a tiny app, and noticed that their homescreen didn't get killed anymore, so clearly Task Managers are necessary.

Oh well, sometimes a feeling of control is enough to make you feel less bad about having shitty hardware, so I guess task killers are good for that reason.
Really? Can you post some profiling data?
Good points. As it is with many approaches, responsive design is a technique that should only be used when it makes sense.

Responsive design is still a great concept but it requires a lot of careful work. In an environment where just getting a site look the same across browsers takes major effort, approaches like this simply don't have much priority. At least from my experience.