skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good jobs are essentially highly paid office jobs with good benefits

Where do you get this? Take a look at the median-salary multiple for buying a house 50 years ago vs. today. Used to be you could be a grunt and buy a house.
Much more troublesome, to me, are companies that operate in some country (with staff and buildings) but which are registered in some other tax haven, thus avoiding the need to pay taxes.

While legal it's sleazy.
Would be nice for a cheap carputer. Although audio out might be an issue, I'm assuming it does audio over HDMI?
From the responses, it seems many people misread my comment, so I'll clarify:

I'm not opposed to choice. I love it. I myself went to an out-of-catchment school so I could participate in the challenge program there (3 years of certain classes in 2, makes AP easier to take in gr 12). My point is that, as implemented, you guys borked it.

It's far too simplistic to say, "let's reward the good schools and punish the bad ones, and the market sort itself out". It results in schools in disadvantaged neighbourhoods getting even worse, and the least well-to-do segments of society being put even further into a hole from which they can't escape. It results in idiotic "teach to the test" systems, instead of good teachers teaching creatively.

It might be possible that a truly free market school system would give better results than the norm, but we've seen what your first forays into it have brought: unmitigated disaster. The US seems particularly poor at political innovation, so why not simply imitate those countries that do education well like Korea, Finland, and the like?

Take a look at this list [1] (pdf, pg8) and tell me which of the top scoring countries have achieved educational success by adopting policies that share the same principles as NCLB.

[1] http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/34/60/46619703.pdf
There has to be a better term than Ponzi Scheme. The point being made is that (in theory) a bunch of customers will buy ads on facebook, see poor returns, and not renew their ads. In the early days, this pattern will look like impressive growth, and people will think that growth is for the long haul.
For the time being, you could just check to see if window.scrollTo != null
As opposed to the gender-neutral 'they', which is the Best Thing (that few people seem to realise).
What would the difference be between a market correction and a bubble bursting? Is it just a buzz word or a quantifiable difference in size?
Why console emulation is important to software preservation
As a Mines alum I can say I damn good first step to becoming a programmer is surviving a school as tough as Mines (if you're academically minded). I graduated with a chem degree but decided to switch to web development about a year and a half ago, and if there's one thing that school really taught me how to do was be a good learner which ended up being an awesome asset in trying to get hired.
What's the appropriate way to ask a DJ for a request?
So arguably investment activity can merrily continue with low capital ratios at the banks (assuming they can effectively manage the securitisation of loans and/or the market stays hungry for them), but what happens when you reach an economic crisis? Such as in Greece right now where there are runs on banks. That's where having more deposits helps and where the potential downside is catastrophic rather than merely non-optimal.
Yeah

Because Eduardo is not paying any exit tax based on capital gains he would have by selling his stock at the moment. Oh wait he is!

"Oh but the value of the stock may increase!" Yes, but it can also decrease.
Shit, everything that does not involve direct transactions on the web is a big Ponzi Scheme.
So for a layer 2 packet, the routing table does not get consulted..
In effect, the time to forward a layer 3 packet is = time to forward layer 2 packet + time to look up routing table (no matter how quickly). ie Layer 3 packets take longer to forward than Layer 2 packets
The best places are our forums ( http://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/webmasters ) and our regular webmaster office hours ( http://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/office-ho... ) where a webmaster support Googler (me and a few others) have a hangout on Google+ that anyone can join and ask about their site. We do them in many languages and time zones to cover the world as much as possible.

Obviously we can't be everywhere and we can't answer every question, but we try as much as possible to help when we can.
I think the author is wrong

It doesn't take a 3000mhz machine to emulate a ricoh 5a22

Look how Nintendo has virtual consoles working on a 730 MHz power PC - the wii
I think this is somewhat over-simplified. A lot of people have great design sense and love vintage stuff. Creating good products is necessary but not sufficient to make a business. Not too many people have a forum like Coudal to sell from.
What I want to know is, what kind of business service do I need to build on the upswing and downswing to hedge the risk - anybody ?
Idea: Airport designed for convenient travel
Read the post you replied to, where I said I delete stuff I downloaded that I dislike.

I pay for the things I keep. Why would I keep things I don't like? That's just wasted disc space. Why assume I don't pay for things I download? You say they're perfect flacs or mp3s but ripped content is often far from perfect, so buying has the advantage of keeping me legal, giving money to people I like and getting me a better copy of the file.
time for an OpenTED
Yet taxes on the rich are indeed cut in real life via this exact rationale.
AT&T, Verizon look to further squeeze subscribers as earnings soar
The U.S. has a citizenship-based taxation system, so citizens must pay taxes regardless of residence. The U.S. shares this policy with exactly one other country in the world, Eritrea.

You can critique this policy (and many do), but this new Schumer proposal is an extension of it, not a change in direction.
I was under the impression that it was an acceptable short-hand for distinguishing which culture/ethnicity is being referenced when either is equally likely. Do the PC-police now disagree?

It's (basically) acceptable, but most likely not if used by you. It's not that sensitivities to the phrase have changed; it's that you're not a "safe" speaker in this regard.

To briefly recap the positive aspect of "PC" norms: speech which disparages or generalizes about racial/sex groups communicates to others a willingness to disrespect the members of those groups categorically. This creates a sense of acceptability[1] for outright oppression. Oppression continues to happen, routinely, though generally it is secret.

Compare PC-norms to the Byzantine Generals' Problem[2]: racial minorities and those who seek racial harmony are in the middle. The attacking generals are attempting to coordinate with each other to attack the harmonists. But if the generals are inhibited from coordinating attacks using public speech forums, the harmonists stand a better chance of success. So even "coded" or minor messages should be stamped out, because they are the foundation of coordination.

Now, if you're a member of the minority in question, your use of offensive generalizations does not usually suggest an attack, which potentially changes the acceptability and meaning[3]. "Feather-not-dot" is a particularly interesting example, since it symmetrically stereotypes two groups. I've heard it many times and it generally gives me pause. When spoken by a Native American or East Indian, it's generally fine, but really only when a high level of mutual regard is quite clear.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reappropriation
There's No Such Thing as a Brogrammer
I think this is more of a meta-level write-up on being a programmer. For example, take a look at the "How to Know When to Apply Fancy Computer Science" and "How to Talk to Non-Engineers" sections.

Furthermore, I think that the writing is clear and succinct. I wish I had this when I started programming.
I just sent a letter to Sen Casey, one of my senators.
I want to know why he is wasting his time on this crap.
I can think of a lot of other issues that he should be spending his time on.
Exactly. Plus, classic example of actually "buying low" and maybe down the road selling high.
This Maguire & Malmstad translation is what I read:

http://www.amazon.com/Petersburg-Andrei-Bely/dp/0253202191

And I found it pretty tolerable. The footnotes are in the back (I think?) which kind of stinks for your first read. Unless you're a serious student of Petersburg history, the footnotes are requisite for understanding half of the nuance. Bely is doing all these tricks shifting the geography of the city and playing off places and events, and that's lost to the modern reader without help. I'm eager to read it again without paying attention to the notes though.

I'll take a look at Moravagine, it looks great. It's in line after Volume 3 of Gulag A. and Orlando Figes's history of the Russian revolutions. I need more context for all this pre-WWI stuff!
Yes, (social) media would crush the brand, if they found out something like that. However, many controversy issues have successfully been kept hidden from the public, even when they were related to a company that might have 30000+ employees (no examples at this time).

I'm keeping open the possibility that some people (not just one), who work with the cargo (logistics), hardware components and software (project managers, coders, etc.) could make it happen that devices with bypassable security features end up into the stores.

Device itself was bought (buy me) from the webstore with all the wrapping and package unopened.
The TED Talk that was "censored"
It's surprising that, you well educated folks do not know what inflation is.
It depends on what you're building. In our particular case. When I started with the idea of building a startup for the first time, I did all of those things. Built a network, looked for mentors, investors etc. While trying to keep our equity with us.

After a few months I concluded it was all a waste of time. Having a good product overshadows everything else by a huge margin. If you have a great product, you'll have better leverage for negotiating equity, you'll find it easier to find partners, mentors and networking. Everything magically gets easier.

Now I understand that, for our product, our priority should be 99% to build something awesome. Everything else is so little it's insignificant. We don't even waste our energy with those anymore. If we do build a great product, then the other ones will come.

But of course, it depends on what you're building. Not everyone is trying to build something complex. Maybe your product relies on getting a few key clients you depend on, then go after them. Maybe you didn't even validate your idea yet, so go make sure you're building the right thing before wasting time with it. There are too many "ifs" and I don't anyone will give you a good generic idea without knowing exactly what you're doing. So if you are on that stage where you're not sure what to do and you need help. I'd say networking and look for mentorship that will guide your team. Then just build something awesome.
Have we hit a wall on increasing high temperature superconductors or is their graph out of date?
Essiac Tea
Rene Caisse's original ESSIAC formula is made only in Canada. Essiac Canada Intl. is the only manufacturer to have the rights to Rene Caisse's ESSIAC formula.
I don't think you're understanding the point of the article. Yes, emulators have been around for quite a long time, but none of them are perfect, which is the purpose of this guy's undertaking to create this emulator requiring a 3GHz CPU.

The Wii isn't going to be around forever: those will start to fail in a number of years. In addition, not every single NES game is available on the Wii virtual console, anyway.
If Facebook credits had a decent percentage fee instead of the crazy 30% they currently have, they'd instantly rule this market completely.
Even if he's wrong on that point does it invalidate the basic premise that other businesses suffer at the expense of the companies which are overvalued?

(at least thats how I read it)
Still number 1 in the UK too
None.

It took Western civilization something like 4000 years to write an equation for gravity, a phenomenon exemplified by millions if not billions of examples, each of systems consisting of one moving part. And that was just a description, Newton didn't begin to say _why_ it worked.

Economics necessarily depends on subjective judgment, which doesn't exclude rigor, but does include the possibility that any given set of experts is vulnerable to distortions in judgment from their own political preferences and personal ambitions.

Which means anyone leaving it to these experts is doomed. If you don't understand the basics of the methods and theories well enough to detect when things aren't adding up, you'll just go wherever they lead. And, surprise! most politicians, lacking understanding, discover that the most convincing economists happen to have the prescriptions most convenient politically. A review of the policy sustainability of the world's industrialized economies shows how well that model has worked out. Not convinced? Ask yourself how well Congress would do writing an operating system, an undertaking conceptually much simpler than managing the US national economy.

The problem isn't evidence, or even theory. It's the generally low level of understanding and the dishonesty of the discussion, on all sides.
Active black hole consumes stars
There's not such thing as 'No Such Thing'. This pseudomeme has reached heights.
IPhone Engineer and Gmail Designer Team Up on Electric Imp
Saverin turns 30k into 3 billion
I love it, but I'm really curious about taxes/export-import-duties/regulations, FDA, etc. I guess I always assumed there'd be some strict rules that would make starting this kind of business kind of hairy. Not so?
Nine Meditations on Complexity
The most dangerous place in Washington is between Chuck Schumer and a camera. (I got that joke from one of his Hill staffers.)

But yeah, this seems like something that is both extremely rare and Not A Problem.
If the server is more up-to-date, your push will get rejected and a Growl-style notification will reflect that. Simple.

I could see adding an option automating pulling before pushing, in which case a local conflict could occur. In that case, restoring the local HEAD to what it was before the pull would probably be the best behavior.
It really depends on the stage of the company. But generally I think engagement is first, then distribution, then monetization.
This is kind of ridiculous... someone has a positive ROI on FB. If no one does, then CPC/CPM prices will drop until they do.
Sorry, I've waited a day before this reply since I think the mods didn't like that I seemed a bit like an infomercial. I don't have one single idea, but rather a whole collection of ideas which can be executed by a single company with rigor.

They're all based on the premise I've outlined. Kind of like there are a whole lot of different alarms (and strategies, like - for me - placing the alarm across the room) that all 'do something' beyond waking you up long enough that you turn the alarm off before falling back asleep for good. There's not one strategy here.

To me, diet and exercise-based books are like strategies for waking up: they think that having a strategy like "When the alarm wakes you up enough that you turn it off, do turn it off, but don't go back to sleep!" Well, yeah, that's the "super-strategy!" All strategies are equivalent to this, just like all strategies are equivalent to "use more calories than you consume". It doesn't help someone who wakes up just long enough to turn a 'naive' alarm off.

If there is some way to reach you I'm happy to share a complete list.
The emulators on the wii virtual console are not accurate at all, not in the way that byuu is talking about. Also the games get heavily patched for that purpose, as well as the emulator being patched per-game.
Short story collection:
This is not your city, by Caitlin Horrocks

(http://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Is-Not-Your-City/dp/1932511911)

"The Psychopath Test" by Jon Ronson - he's really good journalist and writes well. This is an interesting read about the newish "psychopaths everywhere" meme.
Many people still like to claim that 'they' can only be used as a plural.
He argues that position by repeatedly making the assertion that consumers create jobs and businesses do not:

> only consumers can set in motion this virtuous cycle of increasing demand and hiring.

>the true job creators are consumers

It's a tad nonsensical, all economic exchanges definitionally require the existence of two parties to occur, both parties are essential regardless of the good or service being traded. One can easily take the opposite position to the speaker, that production precedes consumption, because in the state of nature man must first produce and labor for his or her own survival before surplus exists with which to trade. Either way, it's not a sufficient basis for asserting normative proposals in regards to tax policy.
And that's where the real money is, so you'll never hear anyone proposing bills to address that. Enforcing decency is left to understaffed and underfunded national collection agencies.

Repeat after me: the problem is not personal income tax, but rather corporate tax, especially when abused to mask personal income.
Sorry, I've waited a day before this reply since I think the mods didn't like that I seemed a bit like an infomercial. see sister post, you may also be interested.
Have you seen the CPM's on Facebook? They have dropped. They're about as close to zero as they come...for a reason.
Now, it is possible that some extremely niche businesses have found limited utility from ads (for example, BustedTees and social games may be the lucky few)

Woah, wait, stop. It was jarring that the author glanced over this. You can't dismiss the exceptional just because it's exceptional. You can dismiss the exceptional when you understand why it's exceptional and can make an argument for why it is irrelevant.

In other words, why are social games and Busted Tees successful? There's really not a lot of obvious crossover in what they're selling. One possible explanation is that they're "impulse" purchases which mesh well with a social environment. Social games mesh because Facebook connects you to people and once you're connected you would like to do something with them. T-Shirts seem to be a similar sort of social sharing, à la Pinterest. This seems to imply a lesson: if you wish to market on Facebook you should probably be marketing with Facebook. GM probably didn't have success because what they were doing was really orthogonal to the Facebook experience.

One thing that people tend to forget is that most ads are really bad. Just because naive advertisement doesn't work on Facebook doesn't mean all advertisement doesn't work on Facebook. I wouldn't count Facebook out so quickly -- they just need to pivot their advertisements to make them more lucrative for all involved.
So why would this be a good option over the many A10 + Mali based tablets around? Take the Ainol elf, not that much more but with its own screen etc?
This is my strategy. Contract and stash during bubble, then try and start my own thing in the lull.
Please do not submit links like this. See the bottom of the "article" for its source, that one is so much better. http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/05/17/74-usd-allwinner-a10-...
The point is that these are small markets (funny shirts) compared to stuff that actually makes lots of money (cars).

Funny shirts do not a $100 billion company make.
Can run the code straight from GitHub (if you dare) by creating the function described here:

http://tonybreyal.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/source_https-sour...

Then running the example is as simple as:

source_github('https://raw.github.com/ezgraphs/R-Programs/master/github_fol...)
I think you're right. English doesn't have the right term (does another language?). Paul Graham used the same term in another essay.

Should we make one up right now?
I'm not saying I like this, but I find it to be true:

You are only right if being moral and ethical is more important than actually effecting change. Experience turns people into straussians (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/stephen-harper-... (it's about the Canadian PM but has a wonderfully concise description of the Straussian philosophy)).

Basically you can try and teach the general public how to think so that you can then convince them with facts or you can just be better at spin. One is practically impossible, the other is always some level of evil.
Put simply, people who can and do build stuff. Notice the emphasis on do. There are lots of smart people out there. Some percentage work at large companies in a relatively stress free job doing lots of things with maybe some building. Some other percentage get by just by being smart.

When talking about talent what all these companies want are the person who is smart, experienced, and can execute. That person who can build something from nothing. That person who actually works.

If you can get 2-3-4-5 of these kinds of people together on the same project amazing things can happen. It's very hard to hire these people because they are usually off building something...for their own startup.
[Obligatory disclaimer: I am not a lacemaker, but my very geeky SO is (and a knitter and weaver and so on and so forth) and often delivers discourses on the subject and several of my friends have been similarly inclined math geeks who knit & such.]

To a first approximation a lot of them are - simple geometric/topological rules applied in a loop, a small number of branches, occasionally recursion. There's a huge amount of technique and no small amount of technical knowledge in making them work with a relatively high friction material with variable tensile strength & stretch. Execution on this stuff often involves keeping more mental state than most of the programming I do so clearly it's not always as simple an automata as it might seem, but there's a kinship.
Well I guess this means that all major television networks are ponzi schemes, seeing as how their major revenue source is advertising. The bottom line is that eyeballs are worth money. Facebook is made up of great content, even better than CSI or the Superbowl. Essentially - all your friends and family.

It also goes without saying that ads are not their only revenue source. They take a sizable chunk of Facebook credit purchases, and have shown that they are dedicated to expanding their platform. I don't think that Mr. Holiday is looking at the big picture.
I specifically note that Google's ads are quite effective. They are not direct transactions.
Expatriating upon IPO may be somewhat uncommon, but renouncing citizenship for various money-saving reasons is more common than we may expect. One prominent example would be George Soros, similarly moving to Singapore a few years ago. (I believe his excuse was that Asia will be the center of the world in the future, and he wanted his children to be educated there, or something along those lines).

As Federal Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax, and Qualified Dividend Taxes increase, we will most likely see more of these flight-from-tax acts, not fewer.
I'd have to agree. By that definition, most startups are Ponzi Schemes. If you grow faster than the GDP, you're most likely cannibalizing other businesses. Eventually you'll run out of competitors to cannibalize and your growth rate will flatten to approach the background growth. If your stock price is predicated on the unsustainable growth rate, it will collapse. But that's not a Ponzi Scheme. If Facebook took in revenues from new customers and used them to buy fake click-throughs for existing customers to inflate their ad rates, then THAT would be a Ponzi Scheme.