skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Utility is only defined for individuals. It sounds like you're trying to talk about how some sum of citizens' utility functions changes as a result of a change in government spending.

Response to your edit: you haven't defined "better". And I'm still waiting for a real world case where $x+$epsilon has been dominated by $x.
It's not that subtle. Just don't try to wrap it really tight, which would put a constant strain on the wire where it enters the brick that would last until you completely unwind the cord again.

Frankly, everything in that document just looks like common sense.
It doesn't take a brilliant mind to sell them, though, so in that respect it's a waste.

You need brilliant people if you want to fan the flames of emotional need in your customers, pursue deliberate brand segmentation and diversification and other stuff like that which takes traditional commodity goods and mutates them into the Swiffer Max Wipes Mop Pack EX Refills or whatever but culturally soap on its own sells itself at this point.
No, please DO forget your logged out users. They logged out for a reason, respect their decision.
A catalogue of non-relational data store
I like this, but it feels hypocritical after the recent domain seizures and bullshit internet and digital media laws, and past censoring / banning of documents. It's OK to break other nations' walls, but not your own, apparently.
Startups are about Passion - ac
I use a 2008 MBP's brick to run my 2010 MBP much of the time. Haven't had any problems with it. Nor have I had any trouble with the 2010 brick.
The point (in my mind) is to make it entirely bitcoin from the merchant perspective. They can set prices in bitcoin, buy stock in bitcoin, etc.

The other option is the less radical add a bitcoin payment option. This is basically just using bitcoin as a payment method rather than a currency.
Yes, that's what I'm talking about.

So wait, you're looking for a case where $x+$epsilon government revenue has greater utility than $x?

Because that's the opposite of what you were asking for before...
A video introduction to the Digi-Comp II
If your floor isn't conductive, how is it different than wearing rubber soles? Also, odds are your equipment has a grounding plug.
I sell 64MiB VPSs and there has been a lot of internal discussion on the subject; should we continue selling them? As the article says, if you are willing to put in the work, even 64MiB can be useful.

On the other hand, more ram gives you a lot more breathing room. It is much easier to do useful things if you get the 128MiB service instead of the 64MiB service. (I charge $4 per account, and $1 for every 64MiB ram, so 128MiB is only a dollar more a month than 64)

Nick, an employee of mine, points out that the 64MiB guests are still useful because they force people to learn about every process running on the box, and to only run what is absolutely required. And he's right; that is a great thing to learn. But it is also a lot of work.
First of all, you are conflating tax avoidance (taking actions to avoid tax liability) with tax evasion (lying to the tax authorities about your liabilities).

In the real world, one efficient "tax shelter" is Amazon locating itself outside of CT. If Amazon were to pay taxes to CT, then CT would produce the public services necessary to support Amazon. Since Amazon is not located in CT, this would be wasteful. Thus, Amazon locating themselves outside of CT and avoiding CT taxes is A Good Thing.

[edit: you appear to have edited your post extensively after I responded to it. It's generally polite to indicate when you do this.]
1. Post Wikipedia Link

2. Collect Karma

Is it too much to ask for a semi-descriptive link title?
That is a quite nice feature yes.. and I like open source more! :-)

My mistake.
Well, I have an irrelevant college degree and I'm doing exactly this at 28 yrs of age. It's been about 4-5 months and I've done enough in this period to join a web development company as an intern. So, YES, it can be done if you're passionate about it.

You can check out my blog for some ideas on what to build/read to get started. I started with Python though not PHP. pragmaticstartup.wordpress.com
This has been discussed a bunch of time before (though I'm sure the answer changes!) Here's my favourite answer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1758554

And I'm sure there was a related blog post where he discussed title lengths (< 40 == good) and such, but I can't dig it up... anyone?
VirtualBox is a much better way to get the same effect.
If you want a specialized device like a digital camera, then Facebook is not the place to look for advice from high school buddies, but for advice on what phone to buy, it could be. I asked my FB friends for advice on that very topic, and it was very helpful - and knowing the people giving the advice helped greatly because I was able to decide whose opinions to give weight to, and they knew my circumstances - they advised me on which phones are robust enough to withstand a toddler at home without me explicitly asking about that.

Friend groups and the newsfeed do a good job of controlling awkward oversharing - I see updates mostly from people who I care about, and this seems to be constantly improving. This has added immensely to the value of Facebook for me, and a time saver. The effort Facebook puts into this is very valuable and certainly not a waste of resources.
Making Scala (The Language) Scalable (package objects)
Where are the people that estimate how much of the population classify into level 1, 2, 3 ... and pick choice of the people in the level with the most people.
Note that this is probably (not that I've read any details on the implementation) not sufficient to hide the fact that you have known copyrighted files in your SecretSynced DropBox storage.
Depends, I'm guessing you want to target the valley?
Perhaps around 3 EST for a nice geographical spread (much later and much of Europe is hugging their teddybears).
Instruction List (IL) on PLC & other microcontrollers is widely used in automatic controls, My engneering course had some odd classes of PLC assembly-like programming (and some 8086 and useless PXA assembly, a 1st gen. PocketPC processor, aswell)

Anyway, writing machine code from scratch might still be readable, looking at compiler-generated code could be really complicated, as lots of redundant information is added.

I remember dealing with x86 assembly only when.. ermm.., 'bypassing' some software restrictons. It's amazing how much money a single JMP instruction, surgically replaced in an executable file, can save you :)
http://www.amazon.com/Learned-Optimism-Change-Your-Mind/dp/1...
Here's why the average Joe should use Linux instead of Windows: it's $200 cheaper.

Except that it's not true. We had Windows Vista Home Premium (IIRC) + Works refunded once from Dell, because Ubuntu was used. The refund was 80 Euro.

In fact, they say it inflates the price of PCs barely, because the relatively small OEM Windows fee is compensated by installing tons of adware, browser bars, etc. from 3rd party vendors.
This strategy worked out really well for C# as a response to Java. At first it seemed just like a spoiling move but somewhere a long the way c# turned into the better language.

So you can't blame them for giving the strategy another whirl
What are "useful" jobs?
What's your point? "You dont like something? Well I don't like somethig else!" Well, other than demonstrating you don't know what you're talking about? "Viagra" was originally developed to treat heart conditions. Human testing subsequently demonstrated it was ineffective, but uncovered its tumescent properties.
First you have to define what "better" means since there are O(300 million) utility functions in the U.S.A.

Second, I want a real-world example of a "negative marginal utility" of taxation -- which tax rate was raised, who it affected, how they evaded it, and why it was good for the society at large.
The question then becomes 'why would/ what would make merchants want this?'

If merchants are using btc themselves, it becomes trivial for people to want to use btc to trade with them. Are there any non shady reasons for preferring btc though? Why would you want to accept a volatile new currency when all your expenses are in a different currency?

The more I think about it the more I think that btc will need to bootstrap from some sort of tangent: goofy investment medium, payment processing technology, gray markets...

Might become the currency of the underworld.
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In modern times, many well-developed private television in the country or abroad, many competitors vying to offer its products in the field of broadcast television program and you can select products based broadcast service that we want.
I'm a longtime fan of LowEndBox too. I've found some pretty good deals though there. If you bother to read the site you'll find that the author slams quite a number of hosts as being bad - or at least doubtful.

He also doesn't make money via affiliate deals (only banner sale ads). See http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/advertisement-situation-at-low...

I hope you'll find my account acceptable from the "shill" point of view.
Facebook or twitter didn't overthrow anyone. Those are just communication tools and there plenty of those.

Also Facebook sucks privacy-wise. You write something and everyone sees it. You don't want your police and ruling-party friends see your pics at a protest and criticizing your government.

When people are already on the streets - then its on Facebook. Which is an effect not a cause.
No they are not necessarily deceiving us on the outstanding debt in Italy. But they certainly weren't sounding the sovereign credit alarm or MBS/CDOs alarm when the money was rolling in, even though they had direct access to data & probably knew what was coming down the line. 120% of GDP is concerning but not end of the world. The USA has a higher ratio. Italy's credit rating has actually been lower before. If we were extremely concerned about GDP/debt ratio & credit ratings then perhaps we should all adopt a model like China.

Italy didn't get to where it's at entirely because of MBSs but the crisis certainly didn't help any country's financial situation & many countries had to shore up banks & took a credit hit.

There are definitely some issues with how Italy operates. Having a philandering-media-monopoly-owning-billionaire tyrant in charge certainly doesn't help.

While changes probably need to be made, the fact is that changes always need to be made. Radically switching to a pro-corporate/anti-worker strategy because shady rating agencies might downgrade you a point is silly.
It does undermine it as a useful currency though. Can't set prices in bitcoin, can't safely hold money in bitcoin, can't safely sign future contracts in bitcoin.

I'm not sure how much of that was going on in the first place, but isn't it the goal?
Which miner did you buy? And how much did you pay for her?
Here is a list of other companies you may want to consider boycotting: http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/Boycotts/CurrentBoycottsList....
"On my minimal Debian box, you point your web browser at http://localhost:631 and click shit and then the printer works."

I just learned something.
DIY Rescue-Time / How I block unwanted sites while working
Incidentally Apple Inc. now owns the Apple Corps trademark and the Granny Smith green apple logo.
I've always imagined Herb Sutter as a Gandalf-like figure and here he is looking like a partner in a New York law firm. I guess it is possible to achieve guru status without a beard.

I can't wait to get support for the "auto" keyword in XCode.
Homeless people paying sales taxes.

Do have any other questions?
Short answer: 5 months with my new startup (to reach about $1500/mo revenue).

Longer answer: I've completely immersed myself in startups for around 3 years and spent a full 1.5 years on a startup which never reached ramen profitability nor got funding. I don't think I'd have been able to reach ramen profitability in 5 months without the learning I did in the previous one.
> The interesting thing about steel is that the tiny grains that make it up are immensely strong, far stronger than any other material we have.

That's not true, there are many materials stronger than steel:

1) Graphene

2) Titanium

3) Spider silk

4) Carbon nanotubes (buckypaper for instance)

5) IsoTruss carbon fiber

6) Metallic (palladium) glass

7) Transparent aluminum
People have always been saying stupid things. The only difference now is that if you say it online, it's saved forever.

Yes, it's quite possible most would withdraw their statements if they were publicly confronted -- but, does that make it better? If I am feeling anger/hatred toward a race, but does not speak up in public, is that not "real racism"?
The inspiring story of Cuban cyclist Damian Lopez Alfonso
It seems at this point it's more or less impossible for Apple to launch a new product using the iNoun naming scheme without stepping on somebody else's trademark. Even if Apple decided to convert their stores into delicious taquerias, they would find iBurrito already taken[1].

So it makes sense that they've stopped caring, announcing their products regardless of trademark status. The iPad and even iPhone [2] trademarks were owned by somebody else at the time of their announcements, and it doesn't seem to have caused any major trouble to Apple (aside from a likely lucrative payment for the other party).

[1] http://www.pancheros.com/iburrito

[2] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2082362,00.asp
This is a very simplistic view on development of societies.

Freedom must always come accompanied with responsibilities. In the West, we learn that early in school and (hopefully) life.

I have lived many years in countries where people have not learned that. As a consequence, they all still want freedom (for themselves), but when you start talking about responsibilities, you are not so popular anymore.

But it's very popular at home (i.e. in the West), so who cares about the victimes of all this simplistic "development aid"...
Looks like a good resource, cheers!
It's worth recognizing that buying USD is also a bet highly correlated to the United States economy.

Regardless, I disagree with the veracity of using either term in that sentence but, apart from people like myself, you'll find much more solidarity in denigrating "finance" over "economics."
LulzSec claims responsibility for Bitcoin Flash Crash - dumps 17,000BTC
> you are conflating tax avoidance with tax evasion

Fair enough. I meant to use tax evasion as an extreme example to prove the inner case, but I can see how it would look like conflation.

> one efficient "tax shelter" is Amazon locating itself outside of CT

Petitio principii.

> Since Amazon is not located in CT, this would be wasteful.

Does not follow. Where is the dead weight loss?
Not only are they oversold to the extreme, but majority of them only offer OpenVZ. As opposed to prgmr's pure Xen approach.
That sounds like an interesting approach, it would certainly be cool to play around with some actual hardware - I'll certainly think about trying it out of I have success with the software implementation.
LulzSec: "Spot the Lulz": http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/79689574313492480
> My phone works as a modem out of the box in Ubuntu. I can do internet connection sharing to my Xbox in less than 5 clicks (it required registry editing and manual editting of UNIX files in use in OS X), and I've yet to get my phone working as a modem in OS X, period.

And you still can't watch video without tearing on multiple displays setup :(

(You have to disable one of the displays in driver settings)

You can't have photoshop or any decent image editing software on linux (gimp is, well, a cripple).

Arguably, font rendering is still awful, and so are default fonts in all the distros.

You still have to watch out for what you upgrade and in which order. E.g. if you update X with non-repository video drivers (e.g. binary AMD drivers), your system might not even load after reboot.

Speaking of AMD drivers, they are plain horrible.

Arguably, GNOME / KDE / XFCE are all worse than Windows Explorer or OS X default window manager.

Whenever it comes to something being easy to use or well-designed visually, linux desktop experience is so much inferior compared to windows and os x.
This response does not answer either question.
Tomate: a very simple productivity applet
Excellent - thanks for posting that.

I ironically moved from FreeBSD to Debian about 10 years ago. Perhaps it's time for another look.
Some days ago a friend asked me if I could work on Apple, Microsoft or Google, which one I would choose and I stopped for a while thinking. Then he said "oh and Facebook" and my answer got out in a microsecond. It's pretty much the only company in the world where you work with people (as a whole, their life) and not with a user or a buyer.
Linux is a server operating system. The attempts to shoehorn it onto the desktop have always felt hacky and cumbersome compared to commercial products. After a few years, I just accepted this reality.
>Hot tip: whenever anybody writes "I am in no way suggesting <X>", the chance that they are suggesting <X> approaches 100%.

Rather, the chance that they unconsiously percieve <X> approaches 100%, but they, at the same time, are sane enough to realise that there is a distinct line between truth and perception.
I'll be the first to ask... do you have a blog post with the lessons learned that enabled your current success? (congratulations, by the way!)
I'm sure if you're dissatisfied to my answers then you'd have no problem coming up with some of your own examples.

Edit: Wait, you want me to define a utility function for people? That was your first question? That's just a stupid question. Define your own utility function. I don't care what it is. And your second question is stupid too. Sorry, I'm not a keeper-tracker of tax evasion. So let's say "any time a poor person evades taxes." Or many of those cases. If you want a specific example, too bad. If the lack of a specific counterexample of the kind you specified is actually the barrier preventing you from changing your opinion about this, then you shouldn't bother trying to have opinions about things. The fact that some people get more value in government services than they pay in taxes is proof that there are people whose tax evasion would benefit society at large. This is a simple mathematical truism.
I find the "gather" functionality especially intriguing.

APL and J have "transpose" instructions that let you rearrange the dimensions of a multidimensional array. I figured out awhile back how that could be done without having to move all the individual elements in memory; basically, keep track of the 'step size' between elements on each axis, and you can shuffle them around as much as you like. Of course, once you've done that, you're jumping back and forth all over the array to pull in each element when/where you want it.

Well, looky what those "gather" instructions do! Promising. Very promising...
There's a difference between a theoretical impossibility and a practical impossibility. The latter can be overcome by technological inventions; the first requires new theory. There hasn't really been any new fundamental theory in the last 70 years. Everything has been expansion, deepening, explication, detailing of what was already known, suspected, possible within the conceptual frameworks.
There's no way to value the contribution or potential contribution of a technology to society, nor the damage done by granting a monopoly. Not by an eminent scientist or humanist, and certainly not by a clark in a patent office.

You used the word repay - there's no way to be confident that a temporary monopoly will come within an order of magnitude of repayment.

Further we need to consider the destructive side-effects of these flawed attempts at compensation. Patents create an environment that stifles innovation: consider the threat of being taken down for inadvertently doing something that has a monopoly has granted on discourages both innovation and communication. Imagine applying for a patent, publishing, and only through that process discovering that you were infringing an existing patent! You need to pay lawyers lots to protect against that. And many inventors couldn't even be bothered with applying for a patent even if it were easy - many are inventing technologies because they have a problem to solve, not because they're aiming to create something thaqt will milk repayment from society.

The net beneficiaries of the patent system are business processes that are dedicated to playing that system.

Given the choice between something very complicated, expensive and unreliable (patent system), and something simple, free and also unreliable (the default - absence of patents), I opt for the latter.
If you think living free of DRM and lock-in are major concerns in the minds of most desktop users, you spend too much time on Slashdot and other Linux forums. What good is no DRM if your sound card doesn't work?
> But if you look historically at most major open source projects, they aren't innovative.

Most software isn't innovative, and open source samples from the same intellectual gene pool.
Cassandra, ha ha ha.

Gotta love how inconsistent that thing is.

HipHop, have you tried it? I think that technology only works for them.
If a company gives holidays on people's birthdays, how many people will it hire?
Apple seems to have filed 11 trademark applications for icloud, in sectors ranging from storage, streaming, telecommunications, social networking, entertainment, clothing, footwear etc. So it's not surprising that they will receive tons of objections for their applications from anyone who owns a bussiness with "cloud" in it. I think these are usually settled.
Sorry, but Linux drivers are often poor-quality, and there are too many package managers and sound APIs and desktop environments. If you think connection sharing to an Xbox or using your phone as a modem are things the mainstream public even thinks about, you don't have an accurate real-world perspective. They just want to watch YouTube without the sound chopping up.
Americaaaaaaaaaaa, fuck yeah!
Facebook just doesn't have many engineers. "Over 2000 employees" (wikipedia says) just isn't that many. Compared that to Google (~20,000 to 30,000?), Microsoft (~90,000), or the IRS - over 100,000, or the Pentagon - 757,000.

Facebook has an order of magnitude less than just about any other similarly sized organization. It's bigger than Wikipedia, though.
My dead simple standing desk: laptop on top of a storage box on my kitchen table. Great for whenever I have a sore back and don't want to sit down.
Tethering is easy on Windows.
It might not be everyone, but I can say for certain that most market participants are NOT value investors.
Could we maybe use that Shadow internet to circumvent the the censoring and shutting down of networks in the US?
You might also say that Windows treats you as if you have a life and don't spend your free time setting up sound cards and installing multiple desktop environments. We also no longer hand-crank automobiles to start them.
"No bandwidth cap" doesn't actually work, though.

The average user (and even the average programmer) wants to use the internet for 1) entertainment, and 2) information. Those tasks don't require sustained, maximum bandwidth usage.

The only people who actually need that kind of bandwidth are either bittorrent... um.... addicts, for lack of a better word, or infected computers, and consist of about 1-2% of the customers.

Their usage patterns degrade the service for everyone else.
All bootstrapped:

1 year for ramen profitable for 3 founders;

3 years for full-time job for 3 founders;

4 1/2 years for hiring 1st and 2nd employee;

5 years for hiring 3rd employee;

5 1/2 years for hiring 4th, 5th, and 6th employee (present day).

Re: http://carbonmade.com