skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is a point about fairness as well. Taxes are progressive for a reason. Those with the broadest shoulders should bear the greater burden.

Warrent Buffet is perhaps giving away a lot of what he maybe would have given in taxes but plenty of billionaires or super rich just spend it on their spoiled sons and daughters, some who end up in rehab, spent a tremendous amount of resources to create a parallel society where meritocracy applies only to some people and/or just waste it in obscene luxuries such as a 10k bottle of champaign, etc and to boot it all, at the end of the day, they are rich only because they are in many ways not paying the working people the proper wages so that they can pay themselves obscene amounts. I mean, how much more smart are the bank CEOs who got us in this mess to start with to justify a salary 100 times more than others working there.

But even on a practical rather that political level, for most of these supper rich, the difference between 1 million or 2 million does not mater but in some silly psychological keeping up with the jones nonsense and for many even the keeping up with the jones does not apply because they are the jones. But for a lot of "working poor" lowering the taxes from 25% to 17% makes a real difference, a difference of a kind which may mean that their children will properly be looked after and have all the support to say study and do well in school.

Finally, you say you want Warrent Buffet to keep the money and you don't want people to take it away from him. Well, I don't want people to take my money away through taxes either. No one does. Its not about want, or even opinion, its about fairness. Some of the deficit was built up because the rich pay so little and to ask the non rich to bear all the burden is a double wammy. No wonder you have 250k people protesting in Israel and kids burning chain stores in London.
u mad https://github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/commit/59cbec719e9e02d4d...
> The best Android phones still don’t match the iPhone (and as I said on Friday my next phone will again be an iPhone), but with the scale advantages Android now enjoys I think it will only be a matter of time before their phones are the best

I don't understand what he means by scale advantage.
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Ok, so the urban leftist elite don't get "Joe Six Pack". Then why don't the working people go left on their own?

Here's the thing: they did. They just don't know it. The rural populace gobble all sorts of government programs, from farm subsidies to electric power generation. Most of the solid Republican states receive more federal spending than they pay.

And the GOP knows it, so it keeps Farm Subsidies off the table while it takes pot-shots at NPR.
A checklist is supposed to be like that.

Remember you are not making the checklist only for you. If you work for a company they need to have prove that the checks have been done correctly. This is a form of auditing.

Also, if you reduce the text on that list then you have a checklist. So basically you generate 2 separate documents. One is the checklist, other one explains it.
That doesn't seem to answer anything. If human beings procrastinate to feel in control, what of soldiers? They can be happy and fulfilled, work damn hard, and be only doing exactly what they are told.

The next question, for you perhaps, is "what do you fear so much about the idea of not being in control of your life?"
Those problems are opportunities if one knows how to solve them, and Apple might.

- Apple knows how to pull strings at FCC (e.g. appearance of Apple's products of FCC's website seems coordinated with official announcements). Apple isn't scared of patent battles and is well armed in this field. They can make their own hardware and work with 3rd party vendors.

- Apple keeps high margins on their computers, while PC manufacturers are in the race to the bottom. Perhaps a "premium" carrier could pull that off too? (especially if they could do more innovations like visual voicemail).
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He is clearly presenting his opinion. You are clearly nitpicking for no good reason other than to nitpick.
Unfortunately having your PI spread over the internet is now an inevitability, if not through your banking then through your shopping or through your social interactions. We all have our PI smeared out over the web to varying degrees, just look at how many sources of information can be used to start profiling someone with a unique username they reuse: http://www.google.com.au/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

So we protect our online interests as best we can because we have accounts on Hacker News / Twitter / Stack Overflow / You Tube etc. and even if not exposing PI via the registration process, we expose it via our activities and we want to retain control over that important aspect of our lives. But really, how much information you divulge about yourself is a parallel discussion; I want to protect ANY accounts I create onlne, regardless of how little information I provide.
It's more of an encouragement to think about the choices you make than a blanket "don't go doing good directly" warning. Trash collecting for an hour is easy to value compared to an hour of legal overtime, but an hour of "high powered leading a social movement" is much more nebulous.
Neither do I. I think he's implying that if more people will buy android then android will get better because of it.
Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion
It can be totally irrelevant to this discussion, but I think the screenshot is from Word 6. 5, IIRC, had flat controls.
A citation is not needed.

It's obvious that he is expressing an opinion. Those who disagree with him can express an opposing opinion. Just because someone says something, doesn't mean that they need to back it up in any scientific way, especially in a community based around discussing ideas and sharing opinions.
Not that I'm advocating this as a good authentication solution, but the worst sorts of exposures you list (i.e. the ones that aren't restricted to the authicatee's device or the authenticator's server) don't apply if you use SSL. Which of course you do.
Whether or not he correctly estimated the size of the difference between them, his points stand.
Google to acquire Motorola
There is a colon where a semicolon belongs, and a semicolon where a colon belongs.
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My strategy for passwords (that's been working well so far) has been to have an easily mentally appliable password function that I use to generate/remember passwords and change that every year.

For example, if it's my google account, the sites name is 'google'. I take the first two characters 'g' and 'o' and think of the first animals that come to mind, (for me it's giraffe and ostrich) then replace all obviously changeable vowels with numbers (so they become g1r4ff3 and 0str1ch). I then concatenate them with a % symbol, prefix with a _ and suffix with a #, giving me a password of:

_g1r4ff3%0str1ch#

Which I think is a fairly strong password. It also means I have a unique password for every site I jave an account with. Of course if you figure out my function then you know all my passwords, which is the reason I change it every year or so.
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I can honestly recommend Scrivener for both technical and non-technical writing. I use that application regularly and have nothing but respect for the developer. From an engineering point of view, it is a great example that demonstrates the developer's understanding of the problem domain. Little things that make all the difference.
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What's the point when you have the built-in firewall that provides everything your app does and more? http://i.imgur.com/GL31H.png

Minus the $19 price tag.
Google to acquire Motorola mobility for about $12.5 billion
That's a very good deal for Google:

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a total of about $12.5 billion, a premium of 63% to the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares on Friday, August 12, 2011. The transaction was unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies.
The acquisition of Motorola Mobility, a dedicated Android partner, will enable Google to supercharge the Android ecosystem and will enhance competition in mobile computing. Motorola Mobility will remain a licensee of Android and Android will remain open. Google will run Motorola Mobility as a separate business.
Larry Page, CEO of Google, said, “Motorola Mobility’s total commitment to Android has created a natural fit for our two companies. Together, we will create amazing user experiences that supercharge the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of consumers, partners and developers. I look forward to welcoming Motorolans to our family of Googlers.”
Sanjay Jha, CEO of Motorola Mobility, said, “This transaction offers significant value for Motorola Mobility’s stockholders and provides compelling new opportunities for our employees, customers, and partners around the world. We have shared a productive partnership with Google to advance the Android platform, and now through this combination we will be able to do even more to innovate and deliver outstanding mobility solutions across our mobile devices and home businesses.”
Andy Rubin, Senior Vice President of Mobile at Google, said, “We expect that this combination will enable us to break new ground for the Android ecosystem. However, our vision for Android is unchanged and Google remains firmly committed to Android as an open platform and a vibrant open source community. We will continue to work with all of our valued Android partners to develop and distribute innovative Android-powered devices.”
The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of regulatory approvals in the US, the European Union and other jurisdictions, and the approval of Motorola Mobility’s stockholders. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2011 or early 2012.
Buffet famously said that his receptionists paid a higher tax rate than he did. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/tax/article1996735.ec...
I think this ties in closely with the dopamine hypothesis of Schizophrenia and Amphetamine being the chemical model for said disease.
Google to Acquire Motorola’s handset business for $12.5 Billion
Wow, not any of the tech blogs saw the smoke before the fire? Could be a hardware + patents play...
Who cares, and why? (Honest question.)

He certainly doesn't; he's dead. And everyone knows who we're referring to, so there's no ambiguity. Everything seems to indicate "it doesn't matter", and yet apparently it does to some. So why?

A nice example of how people are inherently illogical...
Rob Weir has pointed out a lot of OOXML-problems over the years:
http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/07/formula-for-failure.html
http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/05/fractured-yearfrac-and-d...
Not just business practices, but also the public perception of the store.
That's interesting. From my subjective observations while traveling in Louisiana and in Switzerland I'd say people in Switzerland are living much better. Where does all that GDP go?
I've been looking at this for a while and there really isn't a good solution, in my opinion. So, inspired by a Bruce Schneier post about writing down passwords, my solution is to keep site passwords in a bcrypt encrypted text file, which I print from time to time.

(I chose bcrypt because it works in the command line, which I favor, and it runs in Linux, BSD, or Windows. I would have chosen scrypt but there isn't a Windows binary for it yet.)
yeah, like netbooks versus macbook air :-)
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Two interesting thoughts here, that are general to application development.

1 - The reason Windows lost it's way was a lack of simplicity. This is a broad comment about software in general. It is tough to be everything for everyone. And most software starts this way.

2 - There was a great line hidden in the footnotes. This speaks to the importance of collaboration amongst great programmers.

"As Scrivener’s creator relates, he emailed Jesse Grosjean, Writeroom’s author, wondering how he did the block-cursor thing; very generously, Grosjean just gave him the code, and even recommends Scrivener on his own website."

Very good read!
That's not really a counter argument. You stated republicans stand for small government, not democrats. You were given concrete examples which disprove what you stated. Arguing that the democrats are just the same is simply stating that republicans do not stand for small government.
Only part of Motorola, and not generally the part considered the "original". :)

Motorola mobility was spun off of the main company in January - I think at the time there was commentary on the stock markets that it was done with the aim to get someone to buy it.

So Motorola will exist still - as Motorola Solutions (it is the bigger & more profitable part of the company anyway) and Google get a phone manufacture division under their control.

Interesting move.
63% premium...insanity. This is all about patents, isn't it?

Instead of spending $4billion for patents, spend 3x as much, get a huge portfolio (I don't know how large, but it's supposedly quite large)..and a part of a company as well.
MOTOROLA
Launch Date: 1928

GOOGLE
Launch Date: 7/9/1998
Which would make sense if Google got more income for every copy of Android sold. But they don't.
Next task - start listening to the way I talk to myself. I'm going to get to it right after I check the twitter. Honest!
> If your editor is Emacs, congratulations: that's the MS Word of text editors -- kitchen sink included, but not everything ideally placed unless you do a lot of customization

I won't deny Emacs has everything, but the analogy to Word shows you don't use it. By not being an IDE with all the fluff that comes in IDEs, it allows me to focus on the code I write (I use Eclipse and NetBeans when writing Java code because so much of the work is boilerplate code generation) and nothing else. My hands don't need to leave the keyboard and there are no overlapping windows to shuffle around. And it's endlessly customizable - the "configuration files" are executable programs and, while its dialect of lisp is somewhat anachronistic, it's much better than writing Eclipse plugins in Java (or Word macros in VBA).
> a flat percentage rate of tax with an exception for very low incomes

That's not a flat tax, then, is it? It's progressive with two bands, 0% and x%.

There is a real case for tax simplification, but the progressive nature of income tax is probably the simplest thing in the entire tax code! It's the classification of different kinds of income and capital gains, exemptions and penalties for particular uses of money/assets that makes it challenging and is the reason there is real money in tax avoidance. Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.

Finally, a progressive tax means higher earners pay a larger proportion of their income than lower earners. It's hard to gauge the validity of your argument when your assertions run contrary to the definitions of the words you use.
Maybe Google did this partly to acquire patents from Motorola mobility (I don't know if they have any, but they must).
> George R.R. Martin still uses WordStar on a DOS machine.

So that's why it takes a decade to turn out a new book.
Larry Page via the google blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/supercharging-android...

"Motorola’s total commitment to Android in mobile devices is one of many reasons that there is a natural fit between our two companies. Together, we will create amazing user experiences that supercharge the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of consumers, partners and developers everywhere"

and

"Our acquisition of Motorola will increase competition by strengthening Google’s patent portfolio, which will enable us to better protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies."
I wonder if Motorola's patent portfolio will be enough to keep the lawyers at bay?
Anything that we perceive as hard or boring is a task for procrastination. We simply don't want to do it because it isn't fun. I am not a games tester; therefore video games are still fun. But when I was first starting as a programmer, I did it because I was having a blast, and it made me successful. It has nothing to do with being told to do something, and it has everything to do with our brains - especially creative people - being bored and only wanting to satisfy our ID. We really do want to dream all day. But as I've gotten older I've learned to reign that in and also how to balance it out.

We must push ourselves if we want to improve. We must ask ourselves the hard questions. I have often called this 'throwing myself to the wolves' when I embark on a new endeavor...I know it will be hard. I know I will fail, badly. I know the established community will tear into me. But I will push myself and keep fighting and eventually, what was once hard will become easy.
The other day I tried to use "LazyMeter". I got a few things done using it, but I felt extremely uncomfortable. The feeling was familiar: the same feeling I had in my previous job. I felt suffocated and deprived.
You gotta think this is about the patents more than anything. But I could be wrong.
A small HTML canvas drawing app (and embeddable widget) I did so I could use my (non-iPad) tablet for drawing quick sketches. A few people suggested I add collaboration, which was a nice excuse to play with node.js :)

Tech used: node.js/nowjs for synchronising the drawings, jquery/canvas for the frontend, flask for saving/posting the images.
Writing clean HTML is about a lot more than performance. It's about compatibility, maintainability, future-proofing, accessibility, and so on.

History has shown us repeatedly that these sorts of wysiwyg programs write really bad markup, which is a symptom of their pretending that HTML is capable of things that it is not.
I think the implication is, that increased market share means that third party developers will pay more attention to the platform and develop more and better apps.
You can use your mind to control your adrenal glands, the most productive years of my life were the years I spent not drinking one cup of coffee. Coffee is a drug.

If you are drinking more than one cup of coffee a day, you need to get some help.
Video games industry: Rise of the 'bedroom' developer
At the risk of exposing my considerable ignorance, provided this is done over ssl, how is it different from a reset password link or any other information?
I wonder how other Android manufacturers will react to this. Maybe it'll boost MeeGo?
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Apologies, but this attitude is quite annoying: "As long as you're healthy and a hard worker, you too can be a genius! It just takes time!"

If anyone bothered to try to answer the question "do genetics matter much?" by examining real-world prodigies, they would be forced to conclude "Yes, genetics are equally important to upbringing/environment".

Read through this, then claim genetics don't matter:

"This was Richard Feynman nearing the crest of his powers. At twenty-three ... there was no physicist on earth who could match his exuberant command over the native materials of theoretical science. It was not just a facility at mathematics (though it had become clear ... that the mathematical machinery emerging from the Wheeler–Feynman collaboration was beyond Wheeler's own ability). Feynman seemed to possess a frightening ease with the substance behind the equations, like Albert Einstein at the same age, like the Soviet physicist Lev Landau—but few others."

— James Gleick, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

Fun fact: Feynman mastered Calculus by age 15. He didn't just learn it; he derived it himself.
On one hand, other Android based phone manufacturers are clearly going to face an uphill struggle if Google are going to release new versions of the OS on their own devices first.

On the other hand, it will hopefully provide some protection against being sued by Apple+Microsoft.
Whoa. You know what would be even more interesting than this would be Google going after ARM and it's slew of licensing.

I wonder if this will make better or worse Motorola mobile phones. Will phones be pushed into retirement more early without upgrading their version of Android? Or will they have a longer software update cycle to keep them up to date in features?
Maybe what's really going on is that iPhone users are more likely to buy full version, non-ad supported applications than Android users are?
Google to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion
Wow, I hope we don't see too much vertical integration, part of the promise of Android was that the handset makers could compete.
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Not at all. In fact I'd say most DSP these days is done entirely in software.
I think the rich can do both. They can pay taxes and give to charity like most ordinary people do. What is so special about them?
Patents are probably part of it. Another motivation may be that Google wants to avoid the Android ecosystem to spiral out of control. Android phones vary widely in quality, both with respect to hardware and software (thanks to vendor 'extensions'). Maybe they are hoping to produce an Android phone under tight control, to set a benchmark for the rest.

Also, Apple has shown that piles of cash can be made on good, though slightly expensive margins.
Assuming they spent the money for patents, is this the best way to resolve this issue? Would it not be easier to throw 1M a thousand time over and let developers create solutions around these patents and open source the projects?
Ask HN: What is your AWS backup strategy? 
The latest AWS outages made it apparent that we need some backup strategy for AWS services. So how is your AWS backup strategy? Do you maintain a different stack on a different hoster? Is there a way to boot Amazon Machine Images somewhere else?
There are state-run organisations that are fairly efficient - the UK NHS, which is pretty much the epitome of a large socialistic undertaking, is actually pretty economically efficient. The fact that it has problems being largely because we don't spend much money on it, not because it isn't efficient in using what money we give it (at least in comparison with other healthcare systems).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/aug/07/nhs-among-most...
So basically Google has acquired Motorala because they want to strengthen Android and build up a better patent portfolio. Funny how they don't mention users, better mobile experiences, etc all that much. I'm surprised how frank Larry Page is in his blogpost http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/supercharging-android...