skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have definitely thought of going the 'interstitial' ad route (show one ad only at the end of every N rounds). But the reason the game is so addictive, is at the end of a round, the scores are shown for all players playing (hence the need for a Cloud connection) and then the next round starts without any user interaction. This is key.

There are no higher game levels. Each round is different.

Can't do a premium version, since there are ongoing server costs. I want those covered by advertising. I don't want to have to fund the servers from now till forever with potentially no future income.
Simply google "steve jobs death certificate" and you'll find copies of it everywhere.
I think there's a very real minimum speed limit necessary to keep a highly connected system like your brain, an AI, or the Internet operational. Does anyone seriously expect 'TCP over Carrier Pigeon (RFC1149)' to work in practice at scale? Or that your own wetware would've developed properly if it plodded along forever below 13 Hz?

Given that biological examples of a minimum speed limit for cognition exist, and that the behavior of computational networks at various speeds seem to follow the same behavior (slower=worse), then it seems reasonable to assume that a similar lower limit for cognition exists for silicon-based networks.

Therefore, faster devices such as memristors might be just the thing necessary to get our machines thinking, and moreover, that we may never see intelligent behaviors in slower simulated environments.
Love the product shot covered in greasy fingerprints.
> Honeycomb's source was and never will be open.

Honeycomb will be in the git repo since it is what ICS was developed from. The question is if it will be specifically tagged.
As sovereign, countries can change their policies --as Western Europe did after WWII to attract a workforce to rebuild --and in the 70s once that workforce was no longer necessary.

Every country has a carrying capacity --the limits can be economic, resource-bound, land-bound, political, etc. Why would the US be any different?

The Statue of Liberty is a statue expressing an ideal albeit a bit troubling in that it assumes a world of poor huddled masses --but it's not a national policy.
(LEAKED) Internal Google Staff Video Of The New Gmail Look Demo
> The only thing that matters to me is I can continue easily subscribe and read RSS feeds.

Yep. I don't really care about Reader's own UI since I started using Reeder though.
Yes, I am constantly reducing complexity, but only after first writing tests that cover the reasoning of the program so I know that it won't change. Without some of the "cottage industry" of testing tools, it would take me multiple times longer to write tests, and I would do less reducing of complexity.

And yes, I have seen developers make large changes in their code towards simplicity because it was hard to test.

If someone is going to write complex code, they are going to do it with or without tests. If someone is going to write simple code, tests are a wonderful tool to have in that endeavour.
I integrated http://saasy.com/.

It seems a bit pricey compared to other options but they handle things like charge backs and locale specific tax. Whether that justifies the higher commission rate is debatable.

Some things I didn't like about it:
(1) For new / low volume users there's a mandatory telephone number field.
(2) Once the transaction is complete it's not possible to automatically redirect back to your site.
I love this idea; I hope to see it spread to other locales as well. Anyone for a Finish Weekend Portland?
That was three years ago. One company. Can you name any others?

Meanwhile a hundred technology companies have received VC money and remained in Atlanta.
To those who say "someone can do two jobs and make more" and such... These stats are compiled on SSN basis by the Social Security Administration. Thus, I think they include any number of jobs a person may hold at any time over the course of the year.

Further, this data does not include dividends, capital gains or interest. Should be fairly obvious which end of the curve gets the lion's share of that.
I prefer the Asus Zenbooks.
The actual raw data is here:
http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/netcomp.cgi?year=2010

My first thought was to think, Wow this really provides a strong counterargument to people who keep touting the fact that 47% of US citizens don't pay any income taxes (other than FICA). Also I was shocked to see that "The 1%" included essentially anyone making over $200K. [edit: i originally made a mistake and said $100K]

But in looking more closely, I can't tell if the numbers are based from individual W2s (meaning a single individual with two jobs might contribute two separate data points), on individual taxpayers, or individual tax filings (maybe a family).

I suspect it's one of the first two. And if that's the case, these numbers can't directly be applied to stats about poverty levels or the "99%" and the "1%" and the "47%" figures being slung around these days.

For instance, these numbers include part time workers, such as teenagers with after-school jobs. At minimum wage, working 4 hours a day for 6 days a week for 50 weeks, this person might earn ~$8K.

So it's likely that some part of that first 25% on the chart are part-time workers.

That's not to say that there aren't some families doing everything they can to make just $8K in a year, but rather that the percentages would sound different if we built the chart using only data from tax returns (not W2s) and stripped out everyone who was not attempting to work full time to support themselves or a family.

Can someone provide insight that would either debunk or validate my assumptions above?
Aw c'mon, Apple products don't count as "conspicuous consumption". They're fairly small and unobtrusive. Sure, they're a bit self-marketing (white earphones and big illuminated Apple logos on the back of your laptop) but that's not conspicuous consumption.

Gucci is conspicuous consumption. Bugatti is conspicuous consumption. Diamonds in your teeth is conspicuous consumption. Personal electronics are just plain ol' regular consumption.
>Canada has free health care, blunting the impact of a low wage job without benefits

Health care isn't free, it's just heavily subsidized. Depending on your province, you can expect to pay about $750 a year to cover your end of basic coverage. Vision, dental, and prescriptions aren't covered, and most people have supplementary coverage for them.

Of course, for low wage earners and students there are various programs in place that can drop the amount you pay to basically nil. There's no deductible for most things (doctors, er, surgery, etc) either, which is handy.
Luckily, the recession is causing the wealth disparity to decrease.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/the-1-ai...
The legal minimum wage in Australia is $15.51, about $16 USD. I realise Americans are poor, but I had no idea it was so bad.
Since it obviously doesn't come with OS X, in a very important way the IdeaPad doesn't match the Air at all. I know I'm not alone when I say I'd gladly pay a lot more than $100 for OS X over Windows.

I understand Lenovo can't just include OS X, so is that why we are so willing to give the product a good review? Why is this the consumer's problem? The bottom line is that for most consumers, the Air with OS X is a much better buy than this IdeaPad. Isn't the point of writing reviews to help consumers make the best decision for them, not to assign "effort" grades to OEMs?

Edit: Here is an example to illustrate what I mean by "effort" grades. In at least some parts of the US there is a practice of assigning grades in physical education classes based on how much effort the student has given in the class, instead of how well they actually perform. The rationale is that it isn't fair to penalize someone for not being born with certain physical gifts.

If you review laptops this way, then you won't penalize Lenovo for including Windows instead of OS X, since that is beyond their control. [1]

My point is this doesn't make sense if you are actually trying to help someone pick the best product. If you're picking players for a professional sports team, you don't want to use those "effort" grades alone to do it. So I have a problem with all these reviewers who grade PCs on a curve, as Gruber would likely describe it. Granted, that would make a lot of review sites pretty boring as Apple wins comparison after comparison, but isn't it more important to be accurate than exciting, especially when you're trying to help someone decide how to spend $1000 or more?

[1] Then again, shouldn't Lenovo be penalized for not having a good OS of their own? Or is that expecting too much of them?
Thank you for licensing this - when I checked earlier, it was "I'll figure it out", but thank you for putting it under an open source license.

Nice stuff!
> Really confused as to why "read the original site" is a feature.

Because the reader does not display images or resizes them, because it's an interesting blog post which probably has interesting comments, because the blog tends to be very well formatted, because there's a video or a slides deck embedded which simply does not appear in the reader, ...

I quite often make use of this feature in Reeder.
DDG is not new.
The logic, such as it is, goes something like: Pogue once did a bad thing, therefore he is a bad person, therefore he is presumed guilty of all future bad things.
Designing mobile APIs
Providing material support to a revolution isn't the same thing as an assassination. Due process doesn't apply on a battlefield, but it should apply to a prisoner in custody.
I don't. I refer here only to their use in that context.
It seems to me that Kurzweil is on rather strong grounds when he argues in effect that 25Mbytes is a safe conservative upper bound on the information needed to specify a human infant brain.

This is the best I could do: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050111115721.ht...

I can't find the actual scientific papers. Anyway, form the article above:

The lack of correlation between genome size and an organism’s complexity raised a question – how do complexity and diversity arise in higher life forms?

Or to rephrase that, why is there no correlation between source code size and application complexity? Why are mice with 24.99Mb of DNA so much less than humans with 25Mb of DNA? Why is there not a linear relationship between the complexity of the animal and the complexity of it's DNA? Well...:

RNA editing involves the process by which cells use their genetic code to manufacture proteins. More specifically, says Maas, RNA editing “describes the posttranscriptional alteration of gene sequences by mechanisms including the deletion, insertion and modification of nucleotides.”

RNA editing, says Maas, can “increase exponentially the number of gene products generated from a single gene.”

Increase the number of gene products from a single gene exponentially, that says.

The paper I can't find describes how this process, as it takes place in the brain, is an almost exact match for the complexity difference between mice and humans.

And yes, posttranscriptional alteration is much more fragile than good old double helix DNA. And no, evolution doesn't care.

...hard to see how we'd've overlooked all the machinery that would accomplish that.

We didn't overlook it for long, shortly after the human genome project raised the question, we spotted it. See above.

the relevant uncompressable complexity of what computer scientists need to design for general AI is likely no more than 1M bytes.

What do you base this statement on?

How many uncompressable bits of design information you are talking about?

Scientists have already discovered that posttranscriptional alteration (a part of epigenetic information) adds huge complexity. How much more? I am absolutely not comfortable guessing at numbers of Mbytes because I know how little I know.

And what about the actual cell machinery. As the egg is being formed inside the mother how much complexity does the way its machinery work add the what will happen after the egg is fertilized? Again, I dare not guess.
"I don’t find that using Clojure making the overall process of writing new code faster. My thinking/typing ratio is much higher though. I think the reason is that I have a huge confidence in Java refactoring tools and my abilities to morph the code towards where it should go. In Clojure, if you start writing code there is no ceremony and within two minutes you realize that your first idea was dumb and your data structure should be totally different and it drives you back into the thinking phase."

I'm not sure that convinces me to try Clojure. To me less typing is great, but only if it still makes sense and I don't have to come at it a few ways before I get it right. That is probably why I never took to Perl. It just looks like garbage and I couldn't get past that.
Right, I get that. So when they say they're going to retire "friending, following and shared link blogs", presumably that means that the link above will no longer exist.

My question, then, was whether or not we'll still be able to share within Reader and see items shared by other people. Based on what I've read on this post and elsewhere, it seems that the answer to my question is no - instead that functionality is being moved to G+. Which seems to me to be a rather strange interaction.
Sure, I agree. But the problem is, what about the people who are on Reader to read about souffles? They don't want to read about quantum tunneling. But you sometimes post about both.

You're describing a distinction that exists on a service level now, that's basically arbitrary and inconsistent. With everything pushed to Plus and pulled back out of Plus, you can define not only social contexts like 'friends,' 'co-workers,' and 'family,' but also subject matter like 'souffles' and 'quantum tunneling.' This is a good thing.

N.B. I think this will only be truly useful if they add public circles as I describe earlier.
That's because the hot dog stand can refuse business to anyone....
Minimum wages vary per state in the USA. States with higher cost of living (e.g., California) typically have higher minimum wages.
But by doing that, you have an inherit risk of potentially getting a worse return than the bonds you issued. The government shouldn't be in the investment management industry. They already have enough issues trying to manage the country.
I suspect if you were black in America you'd have a much different perspective. Or Mexican.

There are marginalized, abused groups everywhere. The West fares no better, though it does make it look cleaner (e.g., rampant discrimination is codified by law instead of remaining unwritten).
If Apple products were a conspicuous consumption item, they'd have diamonds embedded, and gold plating. And they'd cost enough in order to not be owned by practically everybody, because conspicuous consumption loses its appeal when you have the same phone as the fourteen-year-old ghetto kid on the bus.
You can install Linux on it, though, which can be superiour to OS X. On the other hand, it's a very irritating that one is forced to buying an OS that one is never going to use on the machine.
He was faced with the choice of:

roll a D20, if you don't get 20 roll again to see how many years you live.

Or

Roll a D8 to see how many years you live.

He chose the D8 and then tried the first choice when he realized he had rolled a 3
Couple differences: Skeleton was designed as more of a boilerplate than a full framework, and Skeleton focuses on being responsive through breakpoints (specific sizes at which the layout shifts) rather than a percentage-based grid system.
We don't want the 1% to solve the 99% problems.
Problem: Computer security experts are discouraged from reporting flaws
You'd be hard pressed to find a piece of legislation regarding the tax code (or anything, for that matter) that has made its governance simpler.
There are a number of things your need to consider, not least that without a contract if your thing hits big time he'll want his 5%, and it'll be worthless.

What I'm trying to say is that a notional 5% is actually worth nothing unless you have some form of company set-up.

Here's where it starts to get tricky, because the set-up costs of the company are something that both of you should carry equally even if he's leaving. At the end of that process you'll have a value for each share based on the actual worth of the company. I'm not sure what the rules are in the states (or wherever you are) but in the UK at least the company is worth the sum of it's assets, at the start of it.

He'll be selling you 45% of his 50%, but you'll find that the sum of the assets to be far lower than the 17K that you have now. You may also want to consider what type of shareholding he has and what are his options for selling the 5% to someone else. That's just the tip of the iceberg of possibilities.

What you might be able to do, is agree a smaller payment now with a larger payment should the company meet certain targets, and nothing if it doesn't. That might give your partner the feeling that he still can benefit, and it gives you the flexibility to take control.

Honestly speaking the legal and accountancy fees in setting this whole thing up may just eat into the whole budget.

EDIT: On reflection, you could just say "here's 10K (if you're feeling generous) for your 50%, I'll set up a company worth 100 dollars that owns everything and give you 5% for which you pay 5 dollars."

Let us know how it turns out!
That depends on how much you value right now.

A risk of going immediately, or the guarantee of a few more nows with the potential of going sooner than "normal" later?

It's not a trivial decision.
Wish this was closer to me (SF). Nice to see Twitter bootstrap in use!
You're injecting the term "someone" as if it has some sort of meaning. What is this "someone" who isn't me? Define it, precisely. How do I determine whether some neuron in my brain is either mine, or this "someone"'s?

I'd contend this "someone" is an artifact of your thought processes, not a real thing that you can actually define, and furthermore when neuroscientists disprove the existence of this "someone", it is their own artifact that they are disproving, not anything that corresponded to reality in the first place. This is an interesting result, just as in the gravity example I gave earlier, but it certainly seems to be very common for scientists to get a little too expansive about the artifact they have disproved.
I use paypal, along with IPN (Instant Payment Notification) to automate delivery upon purchase.
Rationality says that this is a pretty good chance, infinitely better if you include the probability of dying from cancer.
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This is much better than coming into the office and futzing about on a whiteboard or trying to estimate how many ping pong balls will fit in a 747. One hour, remote work, easy peasy.

Do you know a better way of finding great developers (outside your own circle), that is as painless for both the interviewee and interviewer, and simultaneously productive?
In spite of the recession, US debt is still considered the safest asset in the world.

That's the challenge. How would you replace such a secure asset? After the US, Japan and EU used to be pretty solid economies, but not anymore.
Solution: Update the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986
I would say that's OCD causing them to program badly. That there's some underlying condition behind the erroneous pattern does not excuse it's presence in the code base.
That the author of this comment needs to learn the difference between evidence and innuendo.
Opendata, socialmedia, cloud, money, politics
Thas what I think.
Based on the arguments presented here, I agree that using the contexts that users set up in G+ makes sense. Having said that, I think the part that isn't clear to everyone (well, myself anyway) is whether things will be "pulled back out of Plus". I really hope they will, but...
I think that should make you think about how there is a systemic failure in the global monetary system.

Many crazies advocate abolishing the Fed as they see it enslaving and controlling the entire economy without much supervision and control by the citizens of this country. Not saying they are completely right or anything, but it this is basically a warning or a symptom that something is perhaps fundamentally wrong (I sure don't know well enough how it works, it is just a feeling).

Think of it as what would the drug companies do if all of the sudden there were cheap easy un-patent-able cures for all the chronic diseases. Would they start selling herbal supplements? Go into homeopathy business? Would they invent more 'restless leg syndromes' type diseases. I think it is a bit like that. It shows perhaps there is something wrong with the system & the constraints and incentive are not working they way we'd expect.
None of my talents matter if the office building I work in wasn't maintained.

None of my talents matter if the electricity that powers the servers I need wasn't generated and the systems of delivery weren't maintained.

None of my talents matter if the roads and public transport I rely upon to get to work weren't maintained.

None of my talents matter if the hardware I work with wasn't assembled and quality checked.

Etc, etc.
A fixed and certain obligation to pay money or some other valuable thing or things, either in the present or in the future.

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/_/dict.aspx?wo...
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But if nobody had debt you couldn't have savings - well you could but the bank would charge you for storing them rather than paying you interest.
I had to double check to see it was Bootstrap, looks great.
Here is data on part time workers. About 1/4 of workers are part time (about 34 million people).

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/lf/aat19.txt

About 3/4 of those who are part time are voluntarily part time (i.e., not because they can't find full time work).

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/lf/aat20.txt
Ron Paul's chop-govt plan savings normalized vs military spend
The data only includes the types of compensation that are subject to FICA. This includes only salaries, wages, bonuses, profit sharing and tips. It does not include dividends, capital gains (includes things like options) and interest income.

The data does include part time workers, including students. There aren't that many teens and college students in the US (only about 10% of the population). It also includes some retired people working part time jobs.

I think the IRS and the US Census publishes similar data but uses total compensation. IIRC, the median moves up a bit (but still under $30k) while the top end skews upwards dramatically.
Well, the finance industry does seem to have a backlog of repoed houses, no?
Agreed, the 13" Lenovo has the same resolution as the 11" Air. There are a number of other minor differences which leave the Air still likely being a better buy.
You're forgetting people in with houses to offload and banks with foreclosed $1M homes that they might want to make 50% return on.
Facebook rioters who 'incited others' court appeals rejected.
Readable fonts, thank you.
I like Lua, but it does lack Ruby's elegance and expressiveness. Its best trait may be that it's simple, and therefore performant.

On my list of gripes: Lua's attempt at OO, being implemented as hash tables, is even more pitiful than JavaScript's. Also, arrays are implemented as hashes (just like PHP!), which is just one notch below JavaScript again. I also wish for a more expressive regex syntax, but then that's the text processing talking.