skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of this is really cool, but why even bother running this in a web browser when a desktop application will run it without turning my MacBook air into a jet engine?
I doubt anybody expects artists would dissappear overnight. People just think it's fair to reward creators for the entertainment value they provided, and unfair to rip it off without paying a dime. And copyright is the best, simplest way to protect fairness in this regard.

Not everything has to be 'for the greater good' or for the 'long term benefit of the new age economy' or whatever in order for people to support it.
Many studies show that actually, money is not that important. So I'm wondering what would happen if say, those 5% were invested in team events, office improvements, better food or hardware. Or, even, how would employee feel if they'd be paid 5% under market value, and this difference would be invested in work environment.
I don't understand the commentary about B&N possibly spinning off the subsidiary or selling it to Microsoft. Nook is B&N's only hope of survival.
The supermarket pays the companies and people who produce the products they sell. When it comes to piracy, people consistently come up with the worst analogies.
Individuals rarely do lobbying on their own, but I often see groups of farmers, homeowners, small business owners, or whatever forming groups to lobby congress for their own benefit. They're solving a harder coordination problem to do so, but it doesn't seem that different.

Likewise, when a person devotes some small fraction of their resources to tax avoidance and a corporation devotes the same fraction, the corporation's results are going to be much more impressive and complex than the persons. But I'm not sure that's a reason to condemn the one and not the other.
> Almost all of the complexity arises from the allowance for deductions and the related regulations necessary to prevent abuse of those deductions.

Unfortunately, that complexity also applies to taxpayers who are not trying to game the system. And while they might only be, say, 5% of the population, they vastly outnumber the outlaws for which these regulations were made.

e.g., if you have control of any asset outside the US, you can spend weeks trying to satisfy the documentation and tax requirements, and still fail because they are ambiguously worded. And you are automatically assumed to be in the wrong and avoiding taxation, even if you overpaid. How is that for simple? That is regardless of any deduction you may or may not be able to take.

> However, getting rid of the Irish structure would require (a) a change in other countries' tax policies or (b) a tax code even more complicated than the one we have right now.

Neither is true. The tax code for persons already enforces that - no matter how many entities you have in the middle, if you are ultimately in control of a company or a bank account, you have to report it and pay taxes on the profits.

It just takes the addition of one clause "Company X pays US taxes on every cent it makes in itself or a company under its control (in proportion to said control, ultimately determined by agency). Violation of this is considered lying under oath w.r.t sarbanes oaxley reporting"

(or 10 in legalese, with this underlying meaning), and all of a sudden it becomes the company's issue to prove it is not in control if it doesn't want to pay taxes. Just like it is for your "real person" taxpayer.
ctrl-v opens it in a vertical split.
Opera Mini Now Has 169 Million Users, 56% Of Them Only Use The Mobile Web
How do you do that on Unix / Linux?

Don't you have to set the size when you map the file?
Writing the story of an application - The Hashrocket Blog
> The reason companies have the power to put their thumb into their employees is because workers have let their dignity and pride go, just to get a paycheck.

Another reason they have more power is because of the steady decline of unions.
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I hate fb://. It's not a real url and thus it's just as silly as me://firstname.lastname as if it were a valid URL for people to type in their browser.

Further, who wants employers to see their Facebook? I understand that not everyone has pictures of them drinking on it, but I can't say I've ever seen a personal profile be used as anything that would be relevant to random members of the public, let alone an employer.

That having been said, I just noticed Preview behind Chrome here and the words "social network analyst", so I suppose it makes a bit more sense for this particular persons' CV.
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Of course it makes technical sense to just log everything. Especially at a company with the culture of google.
For more research in this topic, I highly recommend Latitude's "Robots @ School" report, which investigates how children perceive robots on a number of points:

http://latd.tv/Latitude-Robots-at-School-Findings.pdf
Since the original article mentioned redundancy and planning for failure, I think we have to factor in the cost of parts when discussing launch costs. After all, it's the cost to launch a replacement. (Notice my $50k figure included the cost of parts for our backup flight unit plus the launch costs.)

I think you're right that automated factories in space will reduce the actual launch costs (just the cost of getting your junk into space). The rest of the cost reduction has to come from reducing the cost of manufacturing. Accepting additional risk can certainly help here. That's a big change of mindset for the aerospace industry.

In my example, the cost of materials and manufacturing was a fraction of the actual launch cost. I don't think that's typically the case for traditional spacecraft, but I'm not positive about that. Adding more or heavier parts increases the mass, which requires more energy from the launch vehicle to reach orbit. I find it entirely plausible that adding redundancy increases launch costs as well as manufacturing costs, but I don't know how the big boys arrange their launch costs. (At PolySat, our satellites were so small that we paid per kilogram. Other satellites can be the size of a van or even a school bus.)

I think 20 years is a bit optimistic for space-based factories to reach the point where we can dramatically lower the costs of launching a spacecraft. I think a kilogram of aluminum mined in space and a kilogram of aluminum mined on Earth would not be fungible, and would thus have very different costs. Initially, I think the aluminum available at the space-based factory would cost significantly more than ground-based aluminum. (The company that builds the factories will have to recoup their costs, as will the companies that mine the raw materials. And at least initially, they're going to be paying to launch those spacecraft from Earth.) Eventually, we could reach a scale that the cost of materials in space is low enough to seriously discount traditional launch costs. I just think there's a lot more than 20 years of work to get there.
Putting 10,000 hours to the test
I dislike the rah rah USA tone, but the facts are certainly interesting.
"NSAIDS such as asprin" (wddty.com). So that means that 20,000 is ascribed also to ibuprofen, naproxen, ketoprofen, ketorolac, etc. While there is risk from all of them, the risk is dose-dependent.
If you look at his archive, his other posts (at least the few ones that have words) are that way too. I guess it's a standard thing with him.
Here's Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next 5 Years
*THE Unix developer.
I don't understand this sentiment. What am I supposed to do? Even coming into college, my list of significant (and/or self-launched) projects and work experiences were too many to list on a single page alongside my education and list of "skills" (languages mostly). I spent a loooot of time making it look great and utilize space efficiency and I feel like a Chinese foot-binder whenever I get a new job or publish a new project and want to put it on my resume.

Are we finally to the age where I can put "Please check out http://mypersonalwebsite.com for a detailed list of skills and projects"? I feel like my Resume would be a fluffy arbitrary list of skills with no ummph to back it up and frankly I don't trust the recruiters at high profile tech companies anywhere near enough to do something like this. I've had recruiters doing phone screenings that didn't know what "Windows" vs "Windows Live Services" meant.
The critical reader would be well served to observe the "really is" and "wonder drug" lexical red flags and read Jonah Lehrer's "Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us" in the January issue of Wired: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/12/ff_causation/all/1
If its buggy, how did it get approved for the app store? Not sure what difficulties you guys had with providing push notifications via Urban Airship, but I've had it up and running in about 30 minutes in the past (including the time it took to generate the certs)
Damage can definitely be done, but it's still not as big a deal as many people like to think it would be.
"Conventional wisdom deems smaller classes superior. Mr. Boyer, a self-described 'Podunk instructor,' calls that 'poppycock.'"

In the West and in the East, there has always been wisdom contrary to the conventional wisdom that small class sizes are always better. Indeed, the Roman author Quintilian, writing about rhetoric, derided teachers who insisted on small class sizes. In Quintilian's view, the true test of a teacher was being able to engage and enlighten a large class. Quintilian described teachers who could only handle small class sizes as no better than baby-sitting slaves. He wrote, "all good teachers like a large class and think they deserve a bigger stage" while it is the "weaker teachers, conscious of their own defects, who cling to individual pupils and seem content" (Book I of his Institutio Oratoria).

http://www.newfoundations.com/GALLERY/Quintilian.html

East Asian schools, which are still plainly superior to those of the United States in the view of informed observers,

http://educationnext.org/the-common-core-math-standards/

have characteristically large class sizes, the better to ensure that teachers are more stringently selected and that they have work hours during the school day to confer with master teachers of their subject. More details of how schools are organized in some of the conspicuously successful countries can be found in

http://www.amazon.com/The-Teaching-Gap-Improving-Education/d...

and

http://www.amazon.com/Knowing-Teaching-Elementary-Mathematic...
Stephen King: Raise My F***ing Taxes Already
Ask HN: Is the concept of Ridejoy new in the US?
I've recently heard about http://ridejoy.com/ and think it was really brilliant, some years ago. But isn't the concept of paid and organized hitchhiking an old hat? Or is this totally new to the US market??

I've personally used services like that, often enough to tell that it's awesome. But anyway, this looks like a waste of ressources, when there are many other big players in the same field, no?

You'll find these services in Germany for the term "Mitfahrgelegenheit" => "to get a ride":
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=mitfahrgelegenheit&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t
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How we bootstrapped early revenue for our startup
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I have a problem with the censorship of child porn. 1) because it will and has been used as an excuse for more censorship 2) because a lot of non CP has en censored by the filters. They could censor virtually anyone with little to no risk.
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Reye syndrome affects children under 19 (some say under 16) with a median age of 6 who ingest aspirin after a (typically) viral infection. It is not something that adults should be worried about.
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Ask pg: I know the HN algo is secret, but can you explain something to me?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3909868

This story I submitted hit the front page, was starting to blossom into an interesting discussion, and suddenly dropped to #1204 (yes, I went down several pages to find it).

What gives?
Appeal to authority can be a perfectly valid inductive method when used as a statistical syllogism. It is only a fallacy in the realm of formal logic, where the truth or falsehood of a statement is independent of its source.

This is a common but quite annoying misconception. The following is a perfectly valid deduction:
1. Authority A is correct on matters in subject X p percect of the time.
2. A claims Y regarding a matter in subject X.
--> Therefore, Y is correct with probability p.
Turns out removing the top million results from a search for Google... still returns google. Or google.com.au to be precise.

It's a cool idea, but I'm not sure it's working. I tried "american history" but it wouldn't return anything at all if I changed the "Remove the Top" dropdown.
Hasn't aspirin been shown to cause tinnitus too?
>I have no idea why you quote that text related to the Laffer Curve.

then our discussion is over.
I thought Cadillacs were already self driving

At least you never see any driver behind the wheel, perhaps a pair of hands or the top of a hat but never any driver.
Why Red Beans And Rice Are Good ... But Not With Coffee
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Personally I feel this is a result of the Results-Oriented style of business that originated when MBA's started becoming ubiquitous in businesses (a fairly recent phenomenon, starting in the 1970's).

The problem is that even for a talented hard working passionate person who Gets Shit Done, it feels like you are Conan pushing the wheel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVI9MULtv8g). When you falter, you get the whip, which means you always have to be on your game. When you go above expectations, you get a pat on the back and a thumbs up. After a while you realize that the rewards are simply not worth it. This leads to unhappiness.

I want to be a part of an organization that feels like its a family; like its us vs the world; like everyone has a role to play and that role is vital, meaningful and important. I think this is partially the reason why going to work for a startup is becoming more popular. (I left my old company to start my own business)
I'm not sure things are as simple as that, in most cases. Not everyone can switch jobs in a blink - most people can't even afford risking their jobs, for whatever reason (mortgages, families, lifestyles, parent pressure, etc).

It's easy to lose sight on that when you're in the "top 10%" of the pyramid. Most people aren't...
Much as I'd love to see our tax code simplified and to have less deductions in it, there's not need to tackle (1) to solve (2). Just scrap the idea of taxing corporations themselves, and tax their profits when they're paid out to executives or shareholders. Corporations can move and subdivide and such. People can't.
Oh my lord I'd maybe be okay hearing that at a club but couldn't imagine coding in one. Give me downtempo to work to any day. R.I.P. DJ Dusty's Afternoon Nap.
I don't think he means lean as in (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing) ... but lean as in the literal definition: thin - meagre - meager - skinny - spare - gaunt - scraggy
Ahh, the hipsters dilemma: your sensibilities are offended when something you cherish sell out and go mainstream, yet you wear the hard earned "I liked them _before_ they were popular" badge with honour. It's hard growing up and having your sense of identity and place in the world challenged when you peer behind the curtain. There is something real to be mourned there, yet we are better for it.
Why Red Beans And Rice Are Good... But Not With Coffee
This is absolutely right from the perspective of a primary prevention task force. Individuals might have slightly different values, so perhaps they would accept some tradeoff. (E.g., reducing a 20% lifetime cancer risk down to 10%, while increasing a lifetime fatal bleed risk from 1% to 5%, might be acceptable to some.)

Unfortunately, I readily admit that (1) we can't yet do a reasonable job of giving people their lifetime risk of X; and (2) people (doctors included) aren't great, generally, at statistical thinking.

So yeah, the goal should be to reduce total morbidity and mortality.
Two recent personal aspirin anecdotes.

Late 2011, I contracted acute idiopathic pericarditis. The medication was fairly simple - a ton of aspirin. 4x 650mg Aspirin daily, to be precise, along with colchicine. It healed after a couple of months.

This month, I recently had a cardiac catheterization in my right radial artery (wrist) - my (now healed, but thickened) pericardium likely was constricting my heart. The wrist pain got worse during the healing process - apparently my whole forearm was clotted. 2x 650mg aspirin was the recommendation due to both the blood thinning as well as the anti-inflammatory nature. Pain became manageable the next day, and my arm seems to be healing. Not clear if I've recovered my radial artery yet, though.

I was an Ibuprofen fan for a long time, but Aspirin for me seems to have been what the doctors keep recommending, and has been indispensable these past 4 months. No stomach bleeding, as they usually prescribe Pantoprazole along with it to reduce acid buildup.
"The only exception is when the lines do not exist, or are not visible, in which case the driver will have to take the old-fashioned route and drive with both hands."

That sounds like a severely limited AI.

I wonder if some of these half solutions won't actually be worse for safety. Is someone a great deal more likely to completely shift attention from the road if the car is driving? Maybe even by dozing off? When that happens, how long will it take to regain sufficient focus if the white lines disappear on a stretch of road? How robust is the AI for a car that could be fooled by deceptively-painted lines?

Google's car is much more sophisticated. Given what Google has demonstrated, I'd rather we skip any intervening generations of half-self-driving cars. These pseudo driving cars seem just as likely to give the whole AI vehicle concept a black eye and set the industry back 10 years.
On the other hand a pair of bikers could start a new sport of Volvo-sniping.

Assuming the algorithm is something like - steer away from another vehicle that appears in your lane - your could 'herd' lines of Volvos into each other.

Ob biker joke - what's the 2nd most dangerous thing on the road? A Volvo driver in a hat.

What's the most dangerous ? A Volvo driver without a hat - because he is driving around trying to remember where he left it.
It’s pretty common to have several papers on the same topic.
We don't know how much space Dropbox saves by having the dedupe feature. For all we know it could be something as small as 5%, or even less.
Oh, message board legal debates; how would we occupy our days without you? I love you most of all, "If I just did X, they couldn't charge me with Y" argument!

18 USC § 2 - PRINCIPALS

(a) Whoever commits an offense against the United States
or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures
its commission, is punishable as a principal.

(b) Whoever willfully causes an act to be done which if
directly performed by him or another would be an offense
against the United States, is punishable as a principal.

Net net: I'd burn that stupid "DRUGS R HERE" sign.
Basically cost-cutting, if I understand correctly. Mass layoffs were a management fad at one point and aggressive cost-cutting has been a staple of US corporate philosophy ever since.
This is a very legit counterpoint, but I think both sides could have been made happy if a little prompt had popped up saying "this is non-free software, press Y to get the debian free fork, F to get the non-free Firefox, and n to quit"
> However, since these ISP, in particular Virgin Media, cover by far the largest broadband users in the UK, for most intents and purposes this affects the whole UK.

It will cover the majority of non-piratebay users. The piratebay users will just switch to one of the ISPs that is not one of those five.
I find your analogy absurd in every respect.
The facts would like a word with you - http://www.heritage.org/federalbudget/top10-percent-income-e...

The rich do not get taxed at a smaller % of their incomes than the middle class. Tell your good friend Mr. Buffett he is welcome to send a big check to the treasury. They will accept it.
In Google's Moon Race, Teams---And X Prize Foundation---Face a Reckoning
I always find that study very funny. A great deal of people DO consider money a very good incentive (and an ever-increasing number consider "team events" an annoyance and would trade it all for more time for themselves/their families)...

What would you rather have given to you as an incentive: a raise, more free time or a weekly barbecue with the blokes from the office?
The ruling is mostly full of shit:
Sites like The Pirate Bay destroy jobs in the UK and undermine investment in new British artists
I'd like to see evidence to back this up, innocent until proven guilty and all.

FTA: "Sites like The Pirate Bay destroy jobs in the UK and undermine investment in new British artists," the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) said.

That's the BPI's comment on the ruling, not the ruling itself.

This [1] is the original opinion in the case, to which this ruling refers, and which will take some time to read. It shouldn't be necessary to remind folks that the UK doesn't have a constitutional guarantee of free speech like the US constitution odes, and commercial speech is thus subject to regulation. Kudos to ZDnet [2][3] for including a link to the court's opinion in their story; any media site that reports on a court case without linking to or identifying it by name is likely not worth your time.

1. http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2012/268.html

2. http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/tech-tech-boom-10017860/uk-isps...

3. http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/intellectual-property/2012/02/21...
How to build hybrid mobile apps combining native UI components with HTML5
Raising taxes on the Rich will do precisely zero to alleviate anything.
My nephew and I have had some success with "Hello World! Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners". Many parts of the book direct the student to try out the examples in the interpreter, which I think is a nice way of demonstrating the concepts immediately. It starts with strings and other basics, and gets gradually more complex. By the end of the book you will have "written" a basic skiing game with pygame.

http://www.amazon.com/Hello-World-Computer-Programming-Begin...
Gosling: Sun was "wronged" by Google re: Android. Oracle right to sue Google.
Aspirin is an irreversible ('suicide') platelet inhibitor, whereas ibuprofen is reversible. Basically, you don't want those platelets in that thrombus to ever become active again.
Oh you mean like the one that the government spends millions and ruins lives over every year that is being turned into yet another expensive prescription drug?

Yeah. http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/01/23/pot-based-prescript...
He could just give the money to a cause that matters, instead of expecting others to buy weapons to enslave the weak and luxuries for the banksters.
"Lean" has a lot of meanings, but usually, it means "low in fat". The idea is that a company with a lower management ratio (say, 3-5) is flabby. The 1980s change in corporate structure was to "trim the fat". People are still debating whether this was good or bad, and certainly there were companies that had (and still do have) useless people in management, but the long-term verdict has been negative on the new structure. Managing people properly is too time-intensive for one person to have 20 reports.
How a startup starts with why
On the Simon Sinek's book: Start with why, a startup choose it's path.