skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, I don't have any good cross-national comparison that includes capital gains, if anybody has that I'd be grateful if they could post it. My guess would be that the effect would be pretty much the same from nation to nation, but of course I can't be sure of that without data.
It's true that the correlation is weak, but the reluctance to actually do the studies is due to the implications of them.

Atheists are, by nature, less violent. Not because they are somehow enlightened, but because there is at least one major grievance removed from the equation. Atheists don't tend to burn down other buildings because they are different, or ravage an entire community because they aren't secular. This wishy-washy approach to making sense out of violence is why it exists at all. If it's not true that atheism promotes less violence, then let's see why countries with higher atheism are less violent, shouldn't we? I'm all for making an argument concrete.
Yeah, I think some salt needs to be applied. Any discussion of energy density needs to involve the manufacturing process (because how small you can make something depends on more than just the active ingredients). And this was just done in a lab. They're probably extrapolating from the film thickness or somesuch.

But until someone finds a way to package an actual component into something that looks like a supercap or a battery, no one will care.
About 25 years ago I had a co-op job with a defense contractor, working on a radar system for military aircraft. Part of the obstacle to having interns or people like me do "real" work is the security bureaucracy. It's just not worth the expense of going through the security checks for somebody who won't be working there very long.

I remember working on a simulation of one aspect of the system. I wasn't allowed to know the real operational parameters of the system, which makes testing difficult. So when testing my code I could only guess, plugging in numbers that seemed reasonable to me. Then I'd give my code to my team lead, saying "I think it works now. Want to try it?".
One can argue that USSR had state religion of Marxism-Leninism, quite strictly enforced.

It was complete with prophets like Stalin, saints and martyrs like that boy that denounced his parents (I forgot his name), or stachan-workers, mythology, holidays, rituals, etc.

Not that I think religion is the source of all evil. It's just the source of power, and power correlates with evil.
Unfortunately Mauritania isn't the last stronghold of slavery. Modern slavery exists in a number of places - including:

The Ivory Coast - cocoa farming. Child slaves are an exploited part of the labor force in cocoa production (yes, your chocolate's main ingredient, cocoa, may come from sources that employ forced labor). Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_in_cocoa_production

The Unites States: there are an estimated 50,000 people trafficked into/out-of the US every year. 2.8 million children live in the streets, with over 30% exposed to the sex trade in some capacity. Source: http://www.gchope.org/human-slavery-statistics.html
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> less than 10% of it spent on shifting your meat.

where does that figure come from?

> Extra luggage is more work for the airline

Extra pieces: maybe. Excess weight: nope.

I've been charged up to E100 for 3kg of luggage overweight (23kg allowed, my suitcase had 26kg). That didn't make sense to me when I looked at the guy behind me in the queue, who easily had 40kg more than me on his hips.

It's the pricing structure that is completely out of proportion and that needs to be brought back to something reasonable.
Right now, it is free. You should give it a try. Within about 5min you will know if you like it or not.
Good advice. I do have a few jobs in progress right now and have been working with a small but established local design firm to pick up more clients.
That's true for things with a static supply, like famous pieces of art or Manhattan real estate.

But all that new wealth out there bidding against you also represents new wealth out there available for purchase, driving costs down.

Under a stable currency, increasing wealth and productivity leads to steadily falling prices for most goods. This means that other people getting richer can actually benefit you even if you don't. But this process is swamped by monetary inflation.

Lots of people look only at nominal price levels and conclude that inflation hasn't been bad. But when you consider the major productivity gains of the past decades, we should have been seeing falling prices. The real inflation is the difference between these, and it's big, and it makes it harder and harder for the poor to stay above water.
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PyPy's memory usage up until now has been quite a bit higher, which makes it unsuitable for some server workloads.

Still, I assume this is fixable, and it's getting more and more competitive in terms of the megabyte-second cost of computation (i.e. if you use twice as much memory but run four times as fast, that can be OK depending on the circumstances).
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this was blindingly obvious to anyone that does anything with compilers and reverse engineering. there are some really big clues: the access to C functions from win32 is direct, with no visible FFI. the generated code has a lot of qualities shared with C code, in terms of control flow and stack usage, and it had a lot in common with the MS C compiler based on how it uses the stack.

that it deceived kaspersky this long is frankly disturbing.
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Thanks for the advice. I'll probably go see a therapist.

Since you dropped out your senior year, did you already have significant internship experience and contacts by then? Did that help you succeed?
Any guesses on the minimum number of (known!) patents that must be violated to implement an H.264 decoder? I assume the answer must be greater than zero, otherwise someone would have written an clever/convoluted H.264 decoder that sidesteps known patent issues.
Lisp has been having all these for five decades now and those features are done fast.
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=al...
Forced Child Labour remains a problem in Central Africa

(http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94721/AFRICA-High-cost-of-chi...)

Note what they're doing - sometimes mining oil and minerals, or being sex-slaves for other people who are involved in mining. How many of those minerals are used in the tech devices we use everyday?

Laws might exist in some countries, but there are suspicions of corruption; and some legal systems are overworked.

(http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95013/UGANDA-Women-trafficked...)

Really, IRIN is a remarkable source of thoroughly depressing information about all this kind of stuff. I could dump thirty URLs and summaries here, but I'll let you look at IRIN in your own time.

They do also cover good news and positive stories. The photo archives are remarkable too.

Another good source is the UNHCR.

$2.5billion per year from Human Trafficking:

(http://www.unhcr.org.uk/resources/monthly-updates/september-...)

More relevant to the OP:

Anti-Slavery activists in prison while no-one has been convicted for slavery offences:

(http://www.irinnews.org/Report/91528/MAURITANIA-Activists-tr...)

And to finish, a "positive" story about an escaped slave.

(http://www.unhcr.org.uk/news-and-views/news-list/news-detail...)
I really dont get huge downvote on this one. I dont see anything wrong in being a businessmen like Elon. Sure he is betting on future and thats great. It was emotional moment, I get that as well. Still he is not in policy making process, which I think is good.
Why is this a problem for Mozilla but not a problem for VLC?

I've found the VLC firefox plugin more stable than flash, downsides being it doesn't always get detected by javascript feature tests and UI integration isn't the greatest.
The binary argument of Russia is an old one. Tried and true, but completely
removed from a full understanding of what makes people violent. Russia and
atheism are orthogonal relationships at best.

> Suddenly telling people that their culture is no longer accepted and that they should convert or get the fk out is exactly what Christianity did in a lot of places.

Allowing people to think for themselves and come to their own conclusions stomps
out ones abilities to use that belief as a way to herd people into a specific
direction. That's it. No one needs to uproot their culture or how they go about
their lives. These ideologies start with an indoctrination that carries people to
their own demise without evaluation. That's what needs to stop.
Not quite there yet financially, but close. And I agree, finding another job should be an easy task if freelancing doesn't work out.
They're riding a hit. I know this borders on heresy here, but the iPhone/iPad ecosystem is really just one very good product that hit an amazingly lucrative sweet spot in an emerging market. They're printing money with it because they got there first and best (c.f. Microsoft), not because their "leadership team" is reliably able to produce hit after hit.

Even Jobs only really got one money-printing-quality hit like this in his career. Most of "his" other stuff was great, sure, but mixed with equally great competitors (Pixar -- Toy Story was huge, but so was Titanic) or never managed to break into the market due to bad timing or market conditions (Mac OS).

Seriously: if all that Apple can do with that $100B is produce a top flight movie studio or a distant-second competitor to an established monopoly, it's not enough. They should give the cash back instead.
Or we could take all that money and dump it directly into R&D.

If the government shit canned NASA tomorrow, and took that money and pumped it into the project Google is doing on self-driving cars wouldn't the world be a better place? Space is great, but how many lives could be saved by implementing self-driving cars nationwide?

Or took all that money and pumped it into computer science R&D. Or biotech R&D. Or nanotech R&D.

The argument for NASA often boils down to an argument for R&D, and there are a lot of more efficient ways to fund R&D than spending a bunch of it on non-R&D type stuff.
Check the local hospitals? This post currently says nothing about checking hospitals which is the most likely place "missing" people turn up.
My brother would disagree with you. He got a Samsung phone and he's stuck with it for years for the simple fact that it's the only phone he's learned to use and he doesn't want to learn a new one. If Samsung was running a stock version of Android, he'd probably be able to switch to any other Android phone.
* "So you will never code a constructor directly [in C++]. Instead, the compiler codes the constructor for you [and] basically you lose control of the whole thing"*

Utter rubbish. One wonders how he got to be "director of Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team" if his knowledge is so limited
No car, Berlin.

Never had a problem in the city. Holidays are a different story (I like to visit remote regions in the alps), but then I can rent one. When I visit other cities, I go by train or plane.
Same advice I've been hearing from a number of sources. Having two clients plus a fulltime job feels like I'm close to overloaded already, but I guess that's not a bad thing.
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Hindsight is 20/20.

It may have seemed obvious in hindsight, but some pretty bright people were looking at it, including compiler people at MS.

If it were truly so obvious, it's a shame you didn't end everyone's troubles when the mystery was originally posted here.
The best part of this is that it is leadership for the rest of S&P 500 to start paying a dividend when they can't effectively invest parts of their income stream.

The alternative is something like Microsoft, which couldn't invest the money but still tried with all sorts of terrible acquisitions. This is a better alternative for shareholders.
My understanding is that go still provides a lot of tools to indicate when you want memory allocated and where the memory will go (which can optionally be left out). If these were used, wouldn't that make it easier for the go gc to perform better?
Munich, no car.

It has never been a problem so far: public transport is quite good, decent bike infrastructure, a handful of car sharing and car rental companies with a lot of stations, lots of groceries.
It would be, if standard procedure involved blowing up the delivery truck in your driveway.
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Beautiful Peek at Coral Bay....
Where Go fits in seems very clear to me. It is a less memory hungry and less verbose replacement for Java, fit for the age of fine grained parallelism.

Go will never replace C/C++ for embedded systems and operating systems. Go will never replace JavaScript in the browser. And Go will never replace Haskell, Lisp, ML, Scheme, etc, for those who have a very deep interest in programming languages themselves.
How would your dream compare and contrast to an efficient freight rail system?
It's really too bad that people don't reason about small share lots as if they are very risky loans.
Companies are unwilling to do it because sometimes it means jettisoning people, which is hard to do. Its difficult seeing people who have been with you for 30 years become obsolete, and you have to tell them, "sorry, but you're no use to us anymore." Sometimes you want to try and make the old way work, or just place your head in the sand and let the whole ship go down together.
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Fair point. Or for a more recent example, Microsoft hiring Simon Peyton-Jones and yet showing no interest in actually using Haskell for anything.
No, but he could introduce a new topic (Currying), and then instead of showing how it's "just like Haskell" (something his target audience might not care about), he could instead show how it's another way of thinking about something that most programmers probably already do.
From your signup forms, it seems like you guys are limited to the US as well...?
Without either dividends or a stock buyback plan, stocks are no more an investment than baseball cards. The point of not paying dividends is so you can reinvest your cash to increase the dividends you can pay later, and Apple's dividend is so low that they're clearly planning to reinvest the vast majority of their cash even with these dividends.

I don't get the criticism that Apple has no better way to spend its money. It's been building a cash stockpile for years, so obviously they've had this "problem" for years. They're a public company that has to report the size of their cash stockpile every quarter; having a growing cash stockpile already signals they haven't found a way to somehow reinvest their cash. Paying a dividend, especially such a small one, hardly lets the cat out of the bag at this point.

Furthermore, interest rates are still rock-bottom. If Apple suddenly needed a whole bunch of cash to invest, it wouldn't be at all difficult for them to borrow at much, much lower rates than their rate of return. It might be more risky and costly than simply spending a war chest, which is a good reason to keep 55 billion around (plus whatever they pull in over the next three years) while distributing the other 45 billion.
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The linked paper on the arXiv is pretty bad. The idea as it stands appears to be very mundane -- that we define some new number, which he calls ① and I'll call m, to denote the size of the natural numbers N = {0, 1, 2, ...}. Then m² is the cardinality of N × N, you see. And we could say things like m + 1 > m, surely, and everything would be peachy keen.

Well, not so fast. That sort of mathematics is fraught with difficulty. So, for example, the set of pairs of natural numbers is called N² = {(0, 0), (1, 0), (0, 1), (2, 0), ...}. How many of those are there? The arXiv paper very distinctly says that there are m² of these numbers. In doing so he's apparently unaware of the huge breakthrough that Hilbert made: that in a deep sense, there are only m of them. For every pair, you can associate a number. It's not even hard, the function is:

def n(x, y):
return (x + y + 1)*(x + y)/2 + y

It's only a little tougher to invert this mapping, which is not strictly necessary, but is always nice:

from math import sqrt
def pair(n):
row = int(0.5 * (sqrt(1 + 8*n) - 1))
col = n - row * (row + 1)/2
return (row - col, col)

Mind you, that's just with examples that he uses. The whole mathematics is poorly defined. Supposing that you remove one element, like the number 0, from the natural numbers, he wants to say that there are m - 1 numbers in the set {1, 2, 3, 4, ...}. And if I take away 2, then presumably there are m - 2. And if I remove 2n for each n in N, I have performed m 'remove' operations, and you would presumably say that the set {1, 3, 5, 7, ...} has m - m elements, no? And even if you say that the resulting set of odd numbers has a size "something like" m/2, how do you know it's not m/2 + 1 or m/2 - 1? Suppose we define the sum of all the odd numbers up to the n'th one as {1, 1+3, 1+3+5, 1+3+5+7, ...} -- this surely has m/2 elements, correct? No -- those sums are {1, 4, 9, 16, ...} and this has sqrt(m) - 1 elements. Wha...? Does sqrt(m) even exist? His other publications suggest that he usually expands calculations in terms of (positive/negative) integer powers of m; there is little discussion about fractional powers, but presumably they must exist.

In short, we must accept that the mathematics of m has no correspondence (or only ad-hoc after-the-fact correspondence) to the natural numbers M. When you do this and uncouple the two, you'll probably discover that his "Infinity computer" is just a normal computer which can represent polynomials, and his ① is just the polynomial's 'x'.
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That's not view source. You are looking at the current state of the DOM. Usually, it will be similar, but what you're looking for is the source that your browser received from the server. Inspect element won't give you that.
Apple came pretty close in 1997 when they had $380 in cash and a market cap of 2.2B but their LT debt was growing fast. ~1B at the time.

Source: http://www.businessweek.com/1997/34/roster34/aapl.htm
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Here is the source code to friendblur.com
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The original statement could be interpreted in this way: the former operation 'returns a function' and in the latter, it 'bind[s] [...] arguments' - suggesting a form of destructive updating of the original function. But I agree with you that in this context, since both return functions it's an implementation detail.
All of those plug computers have massive heat problems. Also, although they are frequently rated in the GHz range, their actual performance is absolutely terrible. The Apple A5, on the other hand, is a real workhorse with no heat issues.
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the 'wallstreetification' of apple is complete
I'm so sick of people who think that wealth is a zero sum game. It, unequivocally, is not.

It doesn't have to be a zero sum game for income disparity to be a problem. GDP typically grows at less than 5% a year, yet average income for the top 1% has grown at 10% annually over the last 20 years (http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/what-does-econo...).
Great idea, I have noticed that office space is hard to find though the standard outlets (realtor.com, zillow) however I wanted to see what was available in Mountain View and Palo Alto but it seems it only works in San Francisco at the moment? Keep up the good work guys/gals there is defiantly a market for this.
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I wrote Friendblur last week. It was my first backbone.js application. It's a game that requires you to guess three friends, at random, based on their profile pictures. The pictures are blurred out using blur.js, which was posted here on HN last week. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3682365)
For many applications, we can get the equivalent of fast recharging by swapping batteries. Yet, we still want long battery life because swapping is inconvenient.

Fast recharge is also inconvenient. Just as you must have a set of batteries to swap, you must have the means and opportunity to fast recharge. Note that a fast recharger is probably at least as big as a set of batteries. And, I can swap batteries in places where I can't plug in the recharger.

Yes, fast recharge is less inconvenient than slow recharge.
I get into friendly arguments with family and friends on the conservative and liberal side of things over this. While I believe that paying taxes partially to support people who can't work or can't get jobs is simply part of the cost of living in a (reasonable) civil society, I also believe that there has to be a strong incentive built into the system.

I believe that able bodied people and their families who don't have means of earning money should be supported in clean and safe tent cities and incentivized to put effort into accepting and working with training programs and education. Incentives might be things like cable TV, etc. in their housing.

No one should starve to death or go hungry in our country. People who simply don't want to work or accept training and education should get fewer perks in life, but should still have enough to be happy if that is the lifestyle they want.

All children should have good educational opportunities, including free meals at school if they need them.
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Just as a counterpoint that illustrates the patent upgrade treadmill, you say that nothing has come close to displacing MP3 for distributing audio files, yet if you're distributing that audio as the soundtrack for a video then MP3 has been quite firmly displaced by AAC due to bundling by the MPEG group (even though pirates held out with MPEG-4/DivX & mp3 for years).

You could even argue that the fact that it always comes with such (relatively) large size video files makes the improvements of AAC over MP3 even less relevant, but still the "standard" has moved on and everyone needs to keep up. I also believe that 3G phones needed to support AAC but I could be just making that up.

I've seen one "mp3 player" that dropped AAC support, but I can't see that happening for any device that also wants video. The direct result will be paying separate royalties on two mostly overlapping audio formats.
$500 on exercise could cover multiple bases as entertainment, socialization, and dating if you add in stuff like climbing, dancing, surfing, etc.
looks like it :)
And, they've previously raised ~17M in funding.
Wouldn't you expect an exploit to be written in a low level/system level language on the very platform(and associated tool-chain) it is targeting?
haberman said "The #1 priority should be making sure that no institution is "too big to fail"". That is what martythemaniak was saying was oft called socialism.

If you have means other than government interaction to control the size of business, I'd love to hear it. (Unless you're saying that huge, pivotal companies failing and damaging the lives of all those around it should be encouraged and welcomed. But that's what these two are saying needs to be avoided.)
I've been building this in my spare time over the past 3 weeks.

I had the idea after many experiences of having difficulty trying to find good startup names with various co-founders. I always thought a central place for us to log suggestions would help tremendously.

I finally decided to build it after attending my first Startup Weekend and experiencing the same problem again.

Hope you like it.