skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read your own chart? It clearly shows that tax revenues as a percentage of GDP vary a lot. Between 1942 and today, it ranges from ~14% to ~21%. I don't know if you're aware of this, but 7% of GDP represents over a trillion dollars. Incidentally, the same chart you point to shows how tax income is about as low of a share of GDP as it's been since 1950.
Tying these together, it seems the manager assumes all is well unless alerted otherwise. This, at an extreme, could be a "set and forget" style management: once tasks are given if you hear nothing you expect the job delivered on time. I think if this is communicated fairly it can be a useful approach, although its a wise manager who occasionally checks up on progress :)
I just got a Thinkpad T420s and almost everything worked right out of the box (Ubuntu 10.04) despite some people having trouble on the forums a few months ago.

Sometimes I have problems getting the display connected to the docking station to detect if I suspend while not connected, then connect, then resume. This is a pretty minor flaw that is fairly easily worked around.
I think you guys are over-arguing this.

Governmental logistics aside, imagine the US sent a billion dollars in aid to a nation. Now imagine California also did the same. Did the US (the federal government) send two billion? No. They are clearly two different entities in this exchange, without trying to explain the nuance.

That said, the reason why they're separate is very important politically, but that can be best described with a link to simple.Wikipedia or something.
So Anonymous wants the power to fabricate — or destroy — history, facts, ideas, and so forth? Welcome to the dystopia!
if you're looking for a mac book like experience with Ubuntu you should buy approved hardware, or from vendors that offer pre built machines like http://www.system76.com/ or http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x
I use Bing as my primary search engine. At some point, I decided that today's Microsoft somehow seemed like a nicer company than Google. And I was hardcore anti-Microsoft for over a decade.

Also, the pretty pictures every morning are nice and the search engine performs well.
This will probably give the wrong answer for some integer. I have tried something similar in Java. Since it was three years ago my memory is a little hazy. I was working on a parallelizing compiler written in Java (but not for Java) and I saw that the other programmers had used a method similar to yours, it used log anyway. I knew about #9 and #10 and worried that their method was potentially wrong (and also inefficient). To check if it was wrong I coded up something that compared the log-floating point method against #10 for all non-negative integers and the log-floating point method gave the wrong answer for one value (out of 2 billion).

That was Java and your example is in Python, there could be some difference. If you try and compare in Python, please tell us the result.
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In some organisations I feel that #2 is pretty much all the day-to-day work of the manager. Once the team is assembled, functional and given a goal (these might involve #3 and #4) then the rest of the project is letting them do what they're capable of by protecting them from everyone else.
Scrape.
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Perhaps not as easy as it used to be, it's always encouraging to see that there are still apps in the app store that can pull huge numbers on release.

On a side note, I wonder which Lodsys patent this one violates? :)
Give some numbers when you make such statements. Just what kind of performance gains (comparing gain to overall runtime) did you get? And what Moose version was used?
IO Nice will just affect the io scheduling (obviously), but you can also do the same thing to the CPU schedulers.

schedtool -B -e ionice -c3 make -j10

That's the idiom I commonly use on long large compile jobs. means that anything else will always get the cpu or io time (maybe with some increased latency, which usually isn't too bad) that it needs while all idle time is taken up by the larger compile job. This makes for a very happy desktop system when upgrading (gentoo user here).
Who writes this junk? A bank takes deposits and makes loans. Will Google+ do that?
Hammerfight is an excellent game, very fun and beautifully rendered.

I hope they make a sequel.
Even given to everyone it could still be beneficial.

I personally simply forget there's a /new/ much of the time, having the option to have new posts passively presented while I'm skimming would be tremendously helpful.
Best way is to use Google Reader with Post Rank plugin. They have one for Opera and Chrome but not for Firefox. It filters your stream based on how the article has interacted in real time; I think it is a measure of social metrics.

Despite constant emailing, PostRank has not released an add on for Firefox and now they have been acquired by Google; I doubt whether Google would even care for the "other browser"
It depends on what you mean by rich. If you want beaucoup dollars (millions) it does help to own the cardiology clinic.

However, my dad hires physicians for a rural health care system. A cardiologist in this area can get paid a salary of $350,000 per year, guaranteed three year contract. This is in the middle of nowhere, where a nice house can cost $100K and a king's mansion costs about $400K. That is "rich" by most of the world's standards. The option to throw a dart at a map, move there, and make a $300K+ a year without running a business is simply not available to programmers (or any other profession.)
Ask HN: Please suggest angel investors or VCs I should contact  to raise money?
I have done some research using AngleList and The Funded trying to find good angel investors or VCs to contact for raising money.

Please suggest any angel investors or VCs you highly recommend (in addition to Y Combinator).

Thanks
I did some googling, and while Facebook has sued small fare (like individual researchers) those researchers have pointed out that all the public profiles have been cached by Google's webcrawler, and they haven't sued Google (yet).

If Google can do it, why can't the little guy?
No offense intended.
Perhaps it's because medicine is way more academic then programming. I think programming has more in relation with a skilled trade then with an academic based career, and the skilleds trades are notoriously male dominated.
"He said Color Startup will make advertising more relevant to consumers since it will know where a person is, who they are with, and what kinds of behaviors the person demonstrated in similar situations."

Utterly horrifying if it's true. If this is an indication of what's to come I'll be avoiding any offerings from Color like the plague. Is it out of the question that someone could base a software company on a service that doesn't involve marketing or invasion of privacy? Is that too much to ask?
The most compelling feature of the skimmer is that it circumvents the paywall!
There is such a thing as too much contrast when it comes to text. When typesetting it is advisable to never use pure black for text because it simmers on the page. I normally design the base text on the page to have between 15% and 30% brightness because it makes it more pleasant to read.

There is a place for light gray text. It is all about maintaining a hierarchy of information. Some text should be hidden away and harder to read because it is less important than the copy around it.
It seems quite unlikely to me. Without any affirmative evidence, I would assume not. It certainly wouldn't come from Genesis, as that book not particularly relevant to the vast majority of the world's population. (Even among Christians, few have the kind of familiarity needed to even know about that passage, and most people don't actually know that 120 is the age that both Genesis and modern medicine agree on.)
Ask HN: Opinions on new project
doingtonight.com is a site that allows users to make and broadcast plans for tonight. “Tonight” is the keyword and an important differentiator. We would love your feedback on what we have so far. Thanks in advance!

This is our first iteration of the app. Prior to making this public, we had a large private beta group testing it out. We learned a ton from that group and have already started making changes for the second iteration. We wanted to collect some more data so we opened the site up while we build the second product.

The second iteration will concentrate on native mobile (we only have a very basic HTML5 mobile app for now). We have also started to rethink some of the social mechanics of the site and plan to expand use cases to beyond just going to restaurants and bars.

Also, we are looking to grow the team as well. Specifically, we’re looking for mobile and Ruby developers. Details here: http://blog.doingtonight.com/looking-for-mobile-developers/595
LOL ... well played.
Irrespective of context, I second the recommendation for Red Queen.

As to the question, since my college years are in the "drought" years described in the OP: there is no way I would have done a CompSci degree in those days. The CompSci programme was in the mathematics department, and was primarily a pen-and-paper discipline (very algorithmic). In the meanwhile, the physics department had Vaxes! And Internet (well, DECnet at least). Nobody in their right mind who loved computers would have chosen CompSci over Physics.

Obviously things have changed now.
Really? I've mentioned MapReduce for years without mentioning Coherence or Tangosol.

Or was I missing a joke?
vvvvvvv is awesome by the way. You can try it here (assuming you have flash installed/enabled): http://www.kongregate.com/games/TerryCavanagh/vvvvvv-demo
Clickable link: http://doingtonight.com
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Though with gcc and tail recursion it wouldn't make a difference to the generated code.
Why should it be a big deal if you interrupt your career for a few years (whether to have a family or to travel the world...somehow I bet the second would be seen as ok in tech circles)? A good programmer can pick up a new technology in a couple of months.

If you are hiring based on candidates winning resume buzzword bingo, you are going to get crappy candidates anyway. Hire for intelligence and capability and five years off to have a couple of kids is meaningless.
> I don't think a change in the genetic makeup would necessarily mean the death of the Western civilization

A change in the genetic makeup of Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria from Christian ethnicities to Arab certainly lead to the death of those cultures. You don't understand that races and cultures are two very intertwined things.
Oh, I totally would have fell for that!

I got the scenario that janzer posted, and I opted for $5 since I wasn't too excited about any of the games and just wanted to support the cause. I felt a little cheap because the cheapest example was $10, but felt justified based on the selection of games. If $5.81 was the default option with "above average" label, I would have went with that.
Have you tried YSlow for Firebug?
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"Also, it would be good if posts that have made it to the front page were removed from the new page freeing up even more space."

I would really dislike it if those stories were removed. If it's only been an hour or two since I've gone through the front page then it's unlikely that there will be more than a couple of new stories there. Instead of rereading every title on the front page I can just go to the new page and scan for articles with scores above whatever threshold I'm in the mood for until I recognize one of them. Giving some indication that a post has been flagged might be nice but I don't see why having the new front page stories on the new page is a bad thing.
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Very odd, because for regular methods, Moose does not wrap anything.

There is a compile time penalty for Moose overall, but for instance, the Moose generated accessors typically benchmark very well in comparison. They will start to slow down when you add type constraints, but this is essentially extra code you are asking Moose to execute so you can't expect to get it for free.

I highly suspect you have been using MooseX::Declare or MooseX::Method::Signatures, both of which have a high performance penalty for method calls. These modules should not be looked at as being Moose, they are optional extensions.
You are right it's incomplete. Here it goes.

One might argue that it's a bad thing at the DNA level for your DNA, not for you as a person. If you make the distinction between you as a person and your genetic makeup, then there is nothing bad, since whose genes live on Earth in a thousand years is irrelevant, it could be elephants and you would be as happy.

If you go down to the DNA level, one might say that it's a bad thing, because DNA's objective is to survive and spread. Just like life itself. If the genetic makeup that makes you European disappears or is less prevalent than it was, then you could say that the DNA you carry did not reach its objective or was less successful in doing so than other groups. Even if the difference between your DNA and that of the group that succeeds is just 0.5%, your European DNA branch split from the other tens of thousands of years ago.

You could say now that whatever mutations were acquired during those years failed. Those tens of thousands of years wasted, your most recent ancestors that went through: famines, wars, disease, ice ages, etc.. might just as well have committed suicide and saved themselves the trouble (assuming you're nothing but a thing that carries DNA).

Sex is there to help the offspring of two organisms survive. If they replace themselves with 2 children, then that's 50% and 50%, even and fair. What the projection says though is that the DNA of Europeans won't be 50% European in Europe and 50% in immigrant's original countries. It would be much less than that in Europe with current trends and nowhere near in the immigrant's original countries. So you wouldn't be getting that fair share.
There's a reason there are so many dashboard ads in MSDN magazine. Enterprise devs are one of the few classes of devs that actually pay for dev software.

MSDN ads cost money. So the only people who post ads are those people that can make a return on investment. Open source dev tools generally don't have a substantial income.
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Well if you use a ton of tabs in Chrome, you can try Vertical Tabs. You would have to add the following to your Chrome shortcut:

-enable-apps -enable-vertical-tabs

Open Chrome, Right Click on a Tab and check on Use Side Tabs.

It eats up a little of your screen real estate but I guess that should be okay as you have a 27" iMac. And you will be able to see the names of every tabs then !!!
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This is true, but I'd contend that people who already know how to program are a lot more likely to enter a CS program, so you still get an imbalance.

The situation I'm describing is based on my experience in the U.S. In other countries it might well be the case that hardly anybody male or female, learns to program before college. If my theory is correct, then there should be less of a gender imbalance in CS programs in those countries.
Registered nurses at Ontario's public hospitals can make $100k+. http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/publications/salarydisclosure/20....

Paramedics can make $125k+. http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/publications/salarydisclosure/20...

Doctors can make $200k+. See both of previously mentioned lists.
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In a perverse way I think that all the recent patent law-suits and general trolling is a good thing. The more egregious the behavior and the law-suits (lodsys, IV etc) the more attention it will get from the media till finally we will do something about it. I hope that the trolls unchecked greed will be their undoing.
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Bloody hell. I guess I didn't realise they could make quite that much. Yep, that outpays all but the most exceptional programmers all right, I stand corrected.
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Of course the BBC doesn't have to deal with advertising. I'm assuming why their site is so "clean".
Yes. It seems to work for much larger numbers than this on my version of Python, but going via doubles leaves a bad taste.
n.b. I upvoted that recommendation and am quoted on the cover of the book as saying something like "This is the book I wish I had when I started my business."
He just said that doctors deal with people more the software engineers, which is pretty much universally true. The only specialty where you don't deal directly with people is radiology.
I see the author catching some crap, but I think it's undue. Well, potentially. The clearer you are with your manager, the smoother the machine runs. The only problem is that, in the hands of the wrong boss, trying to do the right things gets you fired. This really only works for the worker if the manager is equally honest and pro-active. And the only way to find out is to put your job on the line and gain that trust the hard way.
It's pretty funny to be told you're white.

It is fair to point out that it's wrong to claim race doesn't exist. It does. But it's just as wrong to say that it's somehow immutable or a scientific concept (though, as pointed out above, human genetic clustering is a real phenomenon).
There is a fun Michael Crichton book (and a subsequent movie) that captures the "fretting" quite well IMHO. It's called Rising Sun.
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Smartphone and Tablet Rundown: What Developers Need to Know
Single page version:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6440/smartphone_and_tablet_rundown_.php?print=1
Also agree about Boxee, though I still love it. Not least because it's the only device in the UK (PS3 with US PS Store account excepted) that offers access to MLB.TV subscription.
Load average is an easy number to monitor, so lots of people focus on it. However, it doesn't provide you with much information. When your load is high, you have to examine other values (e.g. CPU time spent in user mode, system mode, and iowait) to determine why the load is high before you can start to resolve the problem. If you monitor and alert directly on those other values, you'll save time.
agreed, do both.
How were you accessing the lookup table? In a linear or random way? If you did it in a linear way, locality and prefetching will help performance for your lookup table. The great thing about #9 and #10 is that they are just as fast when the sequence of numbers is random. I know you weren't serious about the 2GiB lookup table, but if a lookup table in general should be used as a baseline, the benchmark should probably use random access. Do you agree? (Special applications could use a linear access pattern, of course.)

(Also, you can shrink the size to 1/8 by just using 1 bit instead of one byte, but that would need some more code of course.)

Edit: You can simulate random access by using a stride great enough to avoid the cache. I guess that would be slightly worse than random, but close enough.
The seniors will get less than they expect, and that's the sad truth of it.
Windows 2000 upgrade is the best. :)
Our mobile SDKs are native and do not require another framework.
I already have three out of five of those games on steam, and I bet a lot of other people do too; they've been on sale enough times. It's also very early in the campaign; as I recall there were a number of 'high rollers' that donated very large amounts (IIRC, Notch donated over $10,000). Once they come in the average might go up a bit.
Five years ago, I started a forum that's since grown really large with a really young userbase. Members I remember as 13-year-olds are now turning 18 and realizing that their pseudonyms can be Googled to reveal 5 years of their awkward youth documented on my forum.

I've been getting a steady wave of kids asking me to delete their accounts/posts to start with a blank slate.
How would you know what you are? Race doesn't exist...
So I suggested one kind of contract to write which would ensure payment of that sort, rather than the usual.
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Single page version:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6440/smartphone_and_ta...
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Hogwash. iTunes isn't just a place to listen to music. It's a place to buy it, retrieve it, find it, and more. It has better selection and is backed by a bigger company, with more weight to throw around when record companies try to get pushy.
Wow! A simple no would have been fine.
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Much of the overhead can be attributed to Moose::Util::TypeConstraints, which is part of the base package.
'HTML5' is losing all meaning and just becoming a buzzword.

"HTML5 is not just going to be big, it’s going to be huge — and it’s coming fast.

More than 2.1 billion mobile devices will have HTML5 browsers by 2016, up from just 109 million in 2010"

No, more than 2.1 billion mobile devices will have web browsers. Yes, they'll use HTML5 but the figure is significant because of users gaining access to the 'full web' on fast 3G connections- that has nothing to do with HTML5.

"Much of this growth will be thanks to Apple’s massive support for the HTML5 platform, according to the study. And Apple is also likely to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the technology’s wide scale adoption. "

Actually I'd argue that Apple has done some of the biggest damage in harming HTML5 adoption. Their refusal to make HTML5 a first-class citizen in the app-writing world (and Android is equally as guilty of this) means that people are still being funneled through Objective-C pathways, locking their apps into the iOS platform.

"Because Apple has so much control over its software and devices, it will be most poised to take full advantage of HTML features as they emerge in the coming years."

Or, they'll be poised to take full advantage of their market position and make it very difficult to write any kind of cross-platform app. We'll see.
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> Do you feel that solving the life extension puzzle is tantamount to intellectual nirvana?

Not at all. I'm talking about biological reality. Right now we're not really a part of nature anymore but we're not yet independently functioning entities either. By developing intellect and the deeper consciousness that goes with it, we stopped being a mere collection of genes. In fact, in quite a few respects our genes and our minds have opposing interests now. In order to grow and embrace the aspect that we have minds, we need to totally master the biological substrate that gave birth to us or maybe we even move completely beyond it. In practice, it's probably going to be a combination of the two.

When I say we're hanging in a weird half-state between nature and intellect I'm referring to this kind of existential identity crisis. A lot of people do believe we're first and foremost genomes walking around. A lot of people do believe that this discourse is irrelevant because they have religious views that already have a monopoly on the meaning of life. But at the same time, there are some people who would like to keep moving forward towards a far horizon that we can already glimpse. In fact, for some of us it is an ethical imperative.

In the end, it simply boils down to the value that we assign to a mind, to a consciousness, soul, whatever you want to call the complete essence of a human being. Tell me how valuable a human mind is to you and I can predict your stance on the future development of mankind.
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