skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I mispoke, and should have said 'more-than-double what they pay in taxes', rather than talking about the net.

In a max-tax scenario (high-tax state like California, expiration of the Bush tax cuts in 2013), the bulk of a large exit would be taxed at about 53% if ordinary income, but only about 33% if long-term capital gains treatment can be obtained. So they'd be netting about 30% less due to the 'bonus' approach rather than equity.

(I'm counting medicare tax, which no longer phases out any income, but not social security, which isn't collected on income over ~$107K.)
So the dispute is partly over the similarity of aspect ratio?

No.

The accusation is that Apple's image makes it look like it has the same aspect ratio, and that that falsely makes them look more similar. But the actual text of Apple's complaint does not say anything to the effect that the proportions are one of the distinctive features they think were copied.
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I agree. Different strokes for different folks. When you go to work at a YC company, you are betting on the upside. The salary is a good 'pay-my-bills' perk. But the real sweetspot is the 15% tax you pay on a liquidity event.

Whereas with 37Signals, you are getting a 'regular' job - where you can do everything to excel and become better at what you do and earn a nice living.

If you want to save your own money and invest in companies, then that's up to you. But it's not the same type of math.
I didn't grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth, and I think noduerme's comments were spot on. In fact, I wish I could give his comment ten more points, and downvote your arrogant screed by the same amount.

It really isn't that much more complex than people being "illiterate idiots". Believe me, I've seen it with my own eyes.
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In default configuration for mysql and postgresql daemons, these benchmarks don't do anything to make full use of the hardware cited.

Here are guides for the respective db configs.

http://www.revsys.com/writings/postgresql-performance.html

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/09/29/what-to-tune-...
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No complaints at all.
It makes sense when you look at other industries from car manufacturing to IT. In the west people moved to more and more specialized, cutting edge stuff (Tesla, developing new dbs) while the bread and butter moved to places where it was more economic. Makes sense that the trend would continue in science as well.
Interesting and true (if sweary) rant on G+'s naming policy
> So, the relevant question is whether increasing taxes on capital gains will have a change investors behavior making the economy less efficient.

This presumes that we currently have an optimally efficient economy. You're not allowing for the possibility that increasing the capital gains tax will make the economy more efficient, seeing as how, in your own view, the system is plenty distorted.
Before the crackdown, the Chinese government was willing to wait out the protests until people had their say and it was all over with. Except the protests went on, continuously, for months. If they had turned violent, they would have likely been able to overrun the central government entirely.

I'm not going to justify what the Chinese army did in Tiananmen Square, but what they did, they did as a last resort. If they had been a little more proactive and arrested the first few hundred people before it blew up, or impeded access into the square, or did anything to prevent that critical mass of people from assembling all in one place, it would be a different story.
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Thanks - was wondering what class this matched too. Will probably do this instead of the Norvig AI class.
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Nice!

Is there any logic that notices when a number in the filing that isn't normally included in the summary is surprising, so should be included, or is the summary template static?
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Ha! Being obvious to you does not mean you truly understand it.

At the start of my PhD my argument was obvious to me, but it's taken many years of hard work to turn that implicit understanding into an explicit, proper understanding (and I'm not fully there yet).
In my 10 person company, stuff like finance / cash management, distribution, statistics, operations, marketing, and sales are pretty crucial.

Probably more so than the cleaning of the office (which is handled by the building).

Maybe we are an outlier though.
I don't actually think just covering their ass and not getting sued is the BART admins' motivation. I think they honestly believe it's the right thing to do.
I ended up taking the Norvig AI class after this one and felt that a large majority of the material was also covered in the ML class, but usually more rigorously in the latter and as a means to more interesting stuff. If you feel like covering the material with a definite mathematical bent, I would recommend checking out this class.
Well let's think about who actually needs IPs? Hosting services do need as many IPs as they have customers and Amazon EC2 is an extremely popular, awesome service. Who doesn't need IPs? I'm sure Apple, and Microsoft own IP addresses that just sit, as well as other older companies that bought block IPs because they were dirt cheap, such as what used to be Sun.
I have no idea what they are outsourcing. Could someone explain?
What "norvig AI" class?
Sure, here it is:

name | current_setting

-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

version | PostgreSQL 9.0.4 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc-4.4.real (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) 4.4.3, 64-bit

external_pid_file | /var/run/postgresql/9.0-main.pid

lc_collate | en_AU.utf8

lc_ctype | en_AU.utf8

log_line_prefix | %t

max_connections | 100

max_stack_depth | 2MB

port | 5432

server_encoding | UTF8

shared_buffers | 32MB

ssl | on

TimeZone | localtime

unix_socket_directory | /var/run/postgresql

(13 rows)
It's not only Databases but Machine Learning and AI as well. I'm really looking forward to these Stanford classes and hope to take them successfully while doing my actual studies.

Direct links:

- Databases: http://www.db-class.org/

- Machine Learning: http://www.ml-class.org/

- Artificial Intelligence: http://www.ai-class.com/
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The effective_cache_size and shared_buffers settings from the revsys link are good, but thats generally older guidance ( max_fsm_pages is gone now )
If r17 doesn't use fsync.... Well. Perhaps you could show a postgres benchmark with that off. That's "Eat my data" mode. I don't recommend that mode, but it is faster, and might be more apples-to-apples.

MAINTENANCE_WORK_MEM and WORK_MEM could also help. Maybe. Thats a big dataset.

On SSD, random_page_cost may need tuned closer to sequential_page_cost.
Surely it should be the other way around too. Compiling code then modifying it seems impractical. :)
I haven't actually tried this new Ruby library but numpy/scipy and even more so Matlab are widely used in the ML/AI community. You can find tons of sample code, books, blogs etc that use these tools so it's a lot easier to get started. Numpy is also pretty fast so you may actually get away with pushing your exploratory code into production depending on your scale.

Also, the graphing capabilities of Numpy or Octave can be extremely helpful in exploring your data and figuring out what your code is doing.
I read the wikipedia article - thank you. However, I think we are speaking of different things! Maybe, maybe not. I speak of true happiness. I look at the people in my life that live "a good life" and the people I see succeeding are those with very little. I don't question, for one moment, that higher IQ leads to more opportunity, more money, more things. When I look at people who are happy, by the values upon which I place importance, the things that high IQ bring to the table aren't relevant. Maybe I have it all wrong, and I certainly don't have a statistical sampling to prove my point - just an observation!
http://www.ai-class.com/ - the equivalent of Stanford's CS 221.
this is either the smartest thing Google has ever done, or the dumbest.

I've said that to myself many times. I've never had it (whatever "it" is) be the smartest thing I've ever done. To be fair, it is rarely the dumbest, either, though it tends to favor that.

If you find yourself thinking a choice will be this polar in outcome, you are probably making the wrong decision.

For the record, I don't think MG is right about this being the (binary) smartest or dumbest decision for Google.
Let's hope this results in a move by Samsung to adhere more closely to the stock Android UI.
Best idea ever or worst idea ever?
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Hi Jess - Science Exchange allows scientists to outsource individual experiments to specialist labs and facilities. For example gene expression profiling can be outsourced to specialist microarray providers. This is becoming a bigger and bigger issue as technology advances and scientists are forced to become more specialized.
Excellent, I hope it works out well, the rest of the thread seems to be of a similar opinion.

You've got my £5.50 anyway, I'd feel bad if I told you what I'd pay, then you set it to that and I didn't. Also, it means I can finally clear some of the localhost cruft out of my /etc/hosts that I'd forgotten about.

Everyone else seems to be clamouring for more features too, so I'll add one that would be useful: the ability to select multiple .app bundles at a time from the finder/select-file dialog window and add them. The Adobe tools I blocked required about 7 click-navigate-click-click operations alone.

The ability to toggle blocks without add/removing them would be nice as well, but (imho) anything else starts to smell of feaping creatures, and they should just buy Little Snitch.
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I'd suggest you start with Python. It's widely used in the ML/AI community and in computational biology so the libraries and documentation are quite good. I'm a big fan of Ruby but it's got a lot of catching up to do here.

I'd leave C++ alone for the time being. Once you've explored the concepts in a simpler, higher-level language you can start to think about making them fast.
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I was really excited that they'd figured out a way to cull balance sheet data out of the filings. Doesn't appear so though, "XYZ Corp filed their annual statement today, you can view it here"
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I gotta admit this was a good read, I always wondered about this, I read the whole thing on my iPhone and it was a good experience
1) You'd be better off with Python most likely due to library support. (numpy etc...)

2) Why would it? I won't say I'm fluent in c++, but thats mainly due to not having to use it daily. That and I prefer straight c normally, I tend to dig into kernel source and drivers often so c++ isn't a big deal most times.

But don't let language preferences of anyone guide you, evaluate what works best and use it for your problems. I like ruby in general but sometimes python is a better choice, other times perl, other times c, or even shell. Don't optimize code you haven't written yet. Explore the domain with ruby if you want and write a faster version in c once you understand the problem. Or java or whatever.
thanks! I think first few days of losses (3-5lbs for me) were water weight. but i think i would have lost more if i wasn't exercising a lot.
lc_collate | en_AU.utf8

lc_ctype | en_AU.utf8

server_encoding | UTF8

Does r17 use utf-8?

shared_buffers | 32MB

Thats mean! :D

Should be 3GB on that machine. effective_cache_size ought to be 10-12GB ish.
This doesn't just bug me for URLs that are shorter than the t.co URL, but also when I'm posting a link to a website and I want people to see the full URL.

e.g. It is often sufficiently descriptive to tweet "This is a great site: http://actionfiguresridingkittens.tumbly.mil
From a customer perspective, it's one of the first times I've had a painless purchase experience whilst having NoScript enabled (and not having to greylist some random mirror of JQuery halfway through the procedure and lose all state). Everything seems to fall back to Plain Ol' Forms just fine.
Just imagine Gruber gets objective and starts sometimes criticizing Apple or doesn't spin things so much as he does for Apple. Or actually praise the other companies for good things they do. He will lose readership and growth of it. Apple will cut his access to Apple events which will make his articles further worthless. That's a huge monetary loss and strong incentive to keep spinning things and dissing competitors. hypocritically. Same with a a paid shill... stop toeing the party line and you stop getting paid...
Walk up to the student council president, offer to buy him or her coffee, and calmly explain what you need help with. You'd be amazed what just talking to people can accomplish.

If that fails and they're just being obstinate, either go through the process or scrub the event. Either way, then go bug the student council to put clarifying this rule on their agenda. Governing bodies like that almost invariably have bylaws that allow you to pester them endlessly. Then it's in their interest to fix the problem to your satisfaction in order to get you out of their hair.

But the coffee thing will usually work, in my experience.
We are in the midst of the intellectual property Cold War, and it's fascinating to watch. If Google can use Motorola's patents to balance the power in patent suits and avoid $20/device in licensing fees... well, they're activating 550k devices per day, so that's $11M/day in savings. Roughly 3 years to break-even on that basis alone.

Google can use Motorola to force the issues that have plagued Android for a while. Motorola devices will probably become "pure Android" devices like the Nexus series, pushing carriers to abandon the crapware and carrier-specific UIs they're infatuated with.

Most people I know with Motorola Android devices say the build quality is for crap. I hope Google can improve this, but if not, I hope they can at least get the carriers to quit layering garbage on HTC's nice hardware.
I hate it when people do this.

If you look at the script it's only three freaking commands, one of them a git clone.

We're not bumbling idiots who can't type (or copy & paste) into a terminal.
What is the Paris startup scene like? Can a native English speaker with a little French get a job there? (Especially one with an EU passport ;)
> And note: Buffett didn't say they should pay more. He said the rates should be raised. These are two completely different concepts. You could raise the rates and have people move their money in such a way as to not pay any more at all. From Buffett's position, simply talking about rates, this would be an acceptable outcome.

He said that a rich individuals' total tax burden, by percentage of all income, should be brought more in line with what the middle class pays. I am reasonably sure you're being purposefully obtuse here. The only way for a person to "move their money in such a way as to not pay any more at all", and still meet Buffett's criteria is to make less money, on purpose.
Well, I went in and submitted a pull request that'll at least give it undo as a binding and [count] args on the existing commands that it's appropriate for.

https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/pull/381
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Whatever you do, just don't read the source!
Why is it that designers have managed to make this the accepted (and expected) reaction to this kind of exploitative stunt, but not writers?

There was a small kerfuffle over HuffPo's treatment of volunteer contributors back when Aol bought them, but it seems to have fallen completely off the radar.

Is it just a matter of publicity and convincing everyone in the field not to do free work? Or do we as a society really value the written word that much less?

(For the record I support both designers and writers getting paid enough to make a living on their work. To borrow from Mike Monteiro: "Fuck you. Pay me.")
I wonder how the assignments will work? Will they all be automated grading (based on some sort of validated output?) If the users gets to thousands, hand-grading is out of the question...
I wish I could buy futures on the amount of sales this will get.
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I hear you, and I would have preferred to use the SQL (or any other well-understood) syntax. Some of the reasons are:

1) I want the query writer to be in complete control over what happens first, rather than a query optimizer. The r17 syntax makes this explicit.

2) Similarly, I want it to be clear which things will be executed in parallel and which won't.

3) I agree that SQL is "completely easy and logical" if your query is small but for large SQL queries I find that I need to understand the query as one big mass. With r17 you can take it one clause at a time. It's a bit like a stack-based language in this respect. You can keep adding clauses at the end of a pipeline, eg WHERE (or even multiple WHEREs) can come after a GROUP BY, ORDER BY etc...contrast this with SQL's need for a special HAVING clause.
some feedback:

- the text appears way too slowly. made it painful to read.

- "In 1978, the world was a different place." ...well, that's not really saying much of interest, I'd consider removing or changing it.

- "There was no Google yet. Or Yahoo. Or News.ycombinator, for that matter."
umm, I get the feeling this site was written with younger people in mind, because to someone born in the 70s or earlier these things seem so new that it feels ridiculous to have to explicitly point out they didn't exist then.

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Excited to see what comes out of this program! I believe they're putting out applications for their 2nd intake around November
Google is a company that has done very few foolish things so it could easily be the dumbest if it doesn't work out.
If it came down to a choice between 'demo for 30 days then buy' vs 'buy, and 30-day refund NQA', I'd always go for the demo.

I'm not sure there's an entirely rational reason for it, but I don't think I'm alone there.

Incidentally, what happens if I ask for a refund, then use it block itself so it can't phone home for the revocation? :)
this 'feature' works even with http://bit.ly or http://t.co, lol
Is there going to be a stream or videos of talks released after?
>Our technology was so good, it was only a matter of time before everyone found us.

Google...
Sent.

Thanks dekz.
I wonder if this will be available for the Kindle...or iPad only for a certain period of time.
True on Jruby/rubinius, its highly dependent on what the code does. I've seen 2x faster runs on rubinius over 1.9.2. And on the other end of the spectrum, I've seen some of my unit tests take over an hour. They take 10 minutes on 1.8.7 on a slow day and cache.

And agree on the python bit, ruby may win for a web language/system administration bits, but python definitely has the leg up with support and use in the sciences.
I wonder if you could ask if the old problem sets for CS 229 could be made available without requiring a Stanford id?
ext3 and ext4 both support b[h]tree directories, which I guess is what you're thinking of, but that would only matter for creating/deleting/looking up a particular file, not listing them. The fact the system didn't slow to a crawl creating the directory suggests that's not the problem.
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Has outsourcing really revolutionized IT?
r17 doesn't run on Windows, and I don't have any plans to make it work on Windows at this time.

Apart from that niggle, I agree...more bakeoffs needed. There's not much statistical power in r17, it's more a brute force thing. If you want more finesse the idea is to hand off to a fancier (and most likely slower) language like R.
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I can vouch for the agreeableness of this system. I received a bonus from a similar pool when the company I was working at was sold. It came across to me and everyone else who received it as a genuine and thoughtful act.

That may have been ameliorated by the fact that there was no expectation ordinary employees would get anything -- we just found out about this bonus at the same time we got our "Welcome to [Acquiring Company]" letters. The founders also had a very generous profit-sharing-equivalent project bonus plan as well, but as has been mentioned, this is in an industry where bonuses are more prevalent than equity.
How do these suits work? Presumably, Cisco has done nothing wrong in China and therefore isn't liable.
Somewhere upthread someone mentioned an adblock-style collaborative/hosted block list. Having it follow one (or more) RSS feeds would allow anyone to offer a list, and any user could choose whether to use it or not, without any additional effort for the dev.
Stupid and whiny article.
Assignments and exams in the public course will be similar to the Stanford ones and they will be scored automatically. 1:23 in on the intro video.
Cool, thanks!

Will alter and re-run in a few minutes.

r17 supports only UTF8 strings but compares with strcmp/strcasecmp/memcmp depending on the situation. Would you like a different collation for PostgreSQL too?
The author has a great tip for kernel/filesystem developers:

"Perhaps the buffer should be dynamically set based on the size of the directory entry file"

This would eliminate the readdir() bottleneck.
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I get the strong impression you have a very specific area or areas of science in mind, but you seem to speak in generalities. One can't outsource, e.g., physics, anthropology, or geology. So what specific fields typically run experiments which can be outsourced? Is it just biology?