skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3. Implement Electrolysis (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis). From my observation, the real problem with Firefox is not the memory usage but its slowness.

Electrolysis does nothing to solve this, which is why it was abandoned.

I'm thinking that if Firefox has Chrome-like multi-process architecture, the interface would be more responsive and memory management would be even better.

Memory usage is far worse with multi-process, it's one reason Firefox uses less memory than Chrome.
In niche MMOs it's not unusual for users to spend over 20 real dollars/month on micro transactions. I don't know what an average multiplier in terms of in-game transactions would be but 3x doesn't seem out of the question.
This completely depends on the type of business. For us, all tech support calls are considered sales calls because we charge for tech support.

"People get aggressive or aggravated; people are depressed or crying. It’s just hard talking to customers" - these people tend to be the ones happiest to pay tech support, because you solve their problem and prove that you care. If you are a small business, especially one selling higher-priced services, make it a core part of your business to provide personal service.

This is also one thing I love about new start-ups: I can call/skype the founders and have the most interesting and insightful conversations while testing out their product and this has sold us on many services.

Having said that, with my ISP they provide a chat app so I will always use this instead of calling them, as it keeps a historical record of our conversations and technical problems so I don't have to repeat myself.
My one experience with this server was quite bad. The web group we contracted used it, but would constantly run into issues us developers could have helped them with had they used Apache. Things like needing to return certain headers in the request, or return certain status codes, or do certain things handled easily by Apache's large ecosystem of modules became very grueling trials full of meetings with the contractors running the thing.

Just like Java is sometimes the best language to use because it has huge mind share despite the warts, sometimes Apache is the right server to use just because that's what almost everyone uses and it makes things so much easier than using something more rare.
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The last thing people would want to do is apply for a job using a personal profile. This would be worse than applying with a foxydude84@hotmail.com address.

Edit: Also, I think they've really lost the plot now and seem to be desperate for the "next big thing".
> Unfortunately, being one of the biggest charities means it's already well-funded, so additional donations won't do much good.

Why do you say that? There are plenty of charities whose impact scales linearly donations. Just because some charity might be getting a billion dollars a year to feed children in Africa, doesn't mean that an extra 100 dollars won't feed MORE kids in Africa. The difference is that that charity has proven its method and probably has all of the infrastructure in place already. So it's often a safer bet that your money will be doing good.

Also, he didn't actually say they choose the biggest charities, he said they selected from each of the biggest charity categories.
Also, the string literal syntax for arrays, dictionaries, and numbers, and automatic property synthesis added in LLVM 4.0 - most welcome additions.
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No no no. If capital gains tax is less than income tax, then of course the IRS stats show most income comes via capital gains.
Wise decision to extract out browsers and environmental dependencies into Engine.IO. Apart from decoupling concerns, both these libraries become simpler and can attract more contributors with relevant experience. Socket.IO can now focus on important features like JSON encoding / decoding, custom events, automatic reconnection with exponential backoff and multiplexing etc. It would have been nice to show some before and after code examples and stats on performance under websockets, long polling etc. scenarios.
http://signup.face-alt.org launchrock-site Up!

Meanwhile, I'm already working in the first REST API iteration for face detection using OpenCV.
I think Apple might want to switch to Ruby in the future. Some Apple employees are still actively working on MacRuby and it is actually possible now to create iOS apps with Ruby through RubyMotion.

http://www.rubymotion.com/
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What the author is describing here is just standard human group-identity stuff. It goes by many names - tribalism, ethnocentrism, nationalism, othering, and so on. I like tribalism[1], because in my (not as informed as I wish, but still somewhat studied) opinion this phenomenon is something that has been with humanity forever. "civilization" and modern life has perhaps allowed people to be able to identify with several tribes at once, but the general structure of tribal membership is still the same - strong loyalty/fealty to the group you are in, and lesser consideration for other groups in the same sphere. Lesser regard is true of both "friends" and "foes", with the former being someone to help but after "my tribe" is taken care of, and the foe just being "wrong" or some sort of inhuman.

Sometimes these are nested and complex, but the pattern is still the same. For example: my startup is the most important. Other startups in the same space are bad for me. But at a higher level, SV startups are the good ones, we need to get all the good programmers from big companies and startups in those "lesser" places like Michigan or New York, those poor folks are just deceiving themseselves.

Or take for example the classic plot device in military movies: Our unit is the most important to us. The rest of the guys in our army are people we help, but when it comes down to it, we worry about our own first, you can't fully trust the Army. Then, if it's convenient, worry about the allied units, and the enemies just aren't human, so don't bother.

Similar tribal behaviors can be seen in Politics, religion, intra-corporate divisions/units, sports, sciences, hobbies, operating systems, and on and on.

It is useful to be aware of this, because it seems to me a lot of the more effective people seem to understand this, at least intuitively, and know how to break down or take advantage of such "tribes" to get things done. It also helps to understand this when dealing with seemingly illogical behavior, when looked at in light of "What tribal lines/mores/etc are being violated here?" these behaviours start making sense, and can be dealt with. Similarly, I find that when I am opposed to something, or pro- something, but can't necessarily place why, it comes down to tribal issues frequently (and I try to avoid these things! Other times it is just preference or some actually good reason I just haven't quite figured out yet... the good old hunch, but I'm wary of those too). It seems to be something built into humanity - be it just a common social structure, or a stable emergent behavior, or something built into the human understanding via brain structure or whatever.

[1] Unfortunately the wikipedia article still seems to reflect an older definition of tribalism, that hasn't quite caught up with usages of the term in the last 30-50 years, hence my discussion of other names for this pattern.
FYI, the notes only need to include the EURion constellation; the software doesn't need a database of currencies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation

Still the litas seems to be unprotected, as you said.
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Oh, I agree. The point was even if you don't get caught you're not doing that much better than someone with a job.
I remember reading some article about how a private banker had a ultra-high net worth family who wanted to name their latest blind trust, 1066 - as in 1066 - the year in which their family acquired most of their wealth.
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No. Retina means that you can't distinguish pixels at your normal reading distance. A number is meaningless without understanding the technology.

And I wouldn't downplay Apple's involvement in the Retina displays. Their prepayments allow for companies to do R&D/production.
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why is the return on capital, versus say the return on labor, so high?

Because labour, by and large, isn't particularly mobile, whereas capital is highly mobile, despite governments' best efforts. It's simply cheaper to enforce labour taxation than capital gains taxation.

A second reason is stability: in a recession, employment drops by a few percent, whereas consumption (sales taxes) typically drops much more sharply, and capital gains even more so.
What makes a door better than a normal desk?
I'm in the same boat as you. I would like to have a safe a thief couldn't open easily with the tools in my garage.

On the other hand, my guns aren't rare or particularly high quality. A reasonably good safe will cost more than the contents.
- Only detect faces
- OpenCV implementation HaarClassifierCascade (initial)
- REST service
- NO Business Model (PayPal donate for maintenance)
- GPL code in GitHub
- Feel free to parcipate
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Pro tip: the 'email' field is not publicly visible on HN, if you want to publish your email here add it to your 'about' field. Stupid UI, I know.
Two things:

1) Buying capital is much, much riskier than earning wages. If we suppose people who are good at being capitalists are also approximately as good at earning money, the economic equilibrium will tend toward capital being then much more profitable. Us being "awash" in capital is a red herring; in your garden variety market equilibrium model it's the incentives that matter. The returns are exponential, which just makes things more unequal when your actors are risk-averse.

2) The current tax treatment of capital gains rewards what I call "super-capitalists", people who get one tax-sheltered blob of capital and grow it and grow it. It's a compromise between the need to tax income and the need to not tax capital, but the downside is you get all these Mitt Romneys that only pay 15% taxes.

#2 is why there's bipartisan support among economists for progressive consumption taxes, not income taxes, but you don't hear much about it since it's currently in the "pipe dream" category of economic policy.
I think it's more like you want Apple to want to switch to Ruby.

But it ain't going to happen. They need the drop down to C without the run around.
So now it's closed, but I'm curious: what were the questions?
>It's obvious that the U.S. will never try to wrest sovereignty from a stable Western-style representative government, so countries are willing to let the U.S. solve the so-called "Security Dilemma" for them.

You must be kidding! Do you not know about the dozens of civilian leaders elected by majority of the citizens which the US assassinated or kidnapped to install a puppet client dictator?

You mean when we had to destroy the villages in order to save them?

Here is a tiny snapshot from the list of coups by US against popular elected leaders of the world:

https://www.google.com/webhp?q=We%20had%20to%20destroy%20the...

https://www.google.com/search?q=1953+iran+coup+cia+mi6 (a brutal puppet dictator King Raza Shah Pehlvi was installed in 1953, the Iranians overthrew the tyrant in 1979 and they have been under sanctions since then, Saddam was given weapons in 1980s to kill the Iranians, i.e. before Iraq was the target of sanctions in 1990s)

https://www.google.com/search?q=1954+guatemala+coup+cia

Remember when Vietnam was denied the right to democracy and instead 4 million Vietnamese bombed and killed, to solve their "security dilemma?"
1954 Dwight Eisenhower: "80% of the population in Vietnam would have voted for the Communist "Ho Chi Minh" over the Emperor Bảo Đại"

https://www.google.com/search?q=1955-1973+Cambodia+laos+bomb... <--roughly half million peasants killed to solve the "security dilemma"

https://www.google.com/search?q=1960+patrice+lumumba+assassi... <-- first elected President of Congo

https://www.google.com/search?q=1962+guyana+riots+cia

https://www.google.com/search?q=1964+brazil+coup+cia

https://www.google.com/search?q=1973+chile+coup+cia <-- that was 9/11/1973

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1084/
"Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it.

--60 Minutes (5/12/96)"

Just imagine someone saying, "3000 American civilians died on 9/11/01 but the cost was worth it." When it's half a million brown / non-European white kids the cost was definitely worth it.
They add every year new features to the language like blocks and a lot more which is currently under NDA so I can't tell.

Why do you assume that Apple isn't working on his language? They are heavily developing it!
Slightly off-topic, but could anyone give a good modern C reference-book or tutorial? I have read through K&R, but all the modern approaches are of course lacking.
For millionaires (defined as people with >$1MM of capital goods that can be easily reinvested), Capgemini claims that "only 16% of high net-worth individuals inherited their stash"[1]. I'm not sure what the precise definitions are since it's not defined in the article.

The Millionaire Next Door claims that 80% of millionaires in the USA are the first generation in their family to be rich.[2]

I also did my own research looking at (non-Forbes) biographies of the top 10 richest people in the world according to Forbes in 2009. 3 out of 10 came from millionaire or richer families (Eike Batista, Bernard Arnault, Stefan Persson).

If you trust Forbes, you can simply go through their website[3], it classifies each billionaire's wealth as self-made, inherited, or inherited + grown.

[1]: http://www.economist.com/node/17929057

[2]: http://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0810/7-Millionair...

[3]: http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/10/billionaires-2010_Carlos...
Incidentally, the same mindset goes with pretty much every other programming language I've seen. The long regexes exist because a short one was "debugged" and "enhanced" into the long one. The same goes with full programs; that five line Java class is now 1000 because all of the bugs were fixed and features were added. You can't blame Perl for the programmer that won't way "we're not shipping that feature today, we're going to split this regex into its own module."

(There is also a skill level issue; regexes are much easier to understand than parser generators, so a lot of people try to implement a parser with regexes.)
During my (admittedly brief) research into this topic, I began to wonder if perhaps there isn't a self-reinforcing process at work. Lawyers make the laws (because lawyers make up more of the law-making bodies in the US than any other profession by a huge amount), determine who is qualified to both prosecute and defend, determine the restrictions on who can compete with them, and determine how complex the laws will be. The people making the laws thus have a vested interest in them being too complex for the layperson to understand.

I'm genuinely not anti-lawyer. But, I can't help but think the system we have has many unintended consequences, and contributes to a legal system in which only the very wealthy can participate in a meaningful way. This may explain why, for example, polluters always seem to end up in the neighborhoods of poor people. If they set up shop next to a billionaire, they'd be sued out of existence; poor folks simply don't have the funds to fight a big legal battle like that. I'm pretty sure the bar is not the biggest cause of any of this, but it does seem obvious to me that disallowing anyone other than members of the bar from participating directly in the legal process definitely manipulates the market.
Your comment on timeframe reminds me of Bill Gates' observation that people overestimate what will change in two years, and underestimate what will change in 10.

So I'm guessing that you and the article are both right. They don't mention a timeframe, and you mention a reasonable timeframe. Essentially, "never mistake a clear view for a short distance".

We think of the internet as a fast moving medium. But
It's fascinating how long it has taken for so much old world functionality to migrate to the Internet. It has been 20 years, and we're only now seeing banks and other companies trying to restructure their physical locations around Internet services.
My true story of the door-desk is that it made me think, "Wow, they're making everybody use desks that look like they were built from things they swiped from a dumpster behind Home Depot...how much are they going to nickel and dime me when it comes to compensation?"

Sure, the work sounded interesting and the people seemed competent and friendly, but the view of an open floor plan filled with those desks really dampened any excitement I had about working there.
Can you give concrete examples of what you couldn't do?

Here's the wiki on how to set headers: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpHeadersModule

Here's the wiki on returning a particular http code: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRewriteModule#return
I've never understood why people like frontal return types. It seems to me that the most important piece of a function is its name, which 50% of the time will make it obvious what its return type is anyway. Also, certain languages such as C++ (and occasionally Java) have a habit of involving incredibly long return types that push the actual function name far off to the side, if not onto a second line.
I'd rather be on the subway...
At least, it could make the UI more responsive. Even though multi-process may use more memory, I think it's easier to reclaim/cleanup unused memory when for example, closing a tab.
Great thought.
I literally just finished a hardware project based on the face.com API. I want to be furious but I guess you cant blame them for creating such a great product. I knew it must be too good be true, and free forever. It sucks though because this was just a side project for me and I'm not sure it's worth the time to develop my own OpenCV system.

I'll be checking out the alternatives and resources you guys are posting though, HN is great!

Fuck you facebook...
It could have something to do with what we mean by "value". Apparently Marx derived his thinking from an assumption that value of something is more or less proportional to the amount of labor put into producing it [1]. What he missed is that if you're putting labor into making something nobody wants (the classic example being toothless combs for bald men), you are not only failing to producing any value, you're arguably reducing the overall wealth present in the market. The labor theory is no longer a part of mainstream economics, replaced by marginal theory [2], but I suppose many people still imagine value of things as equal to the labor put into them.

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

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginalism
I wonder why on that labs page they have stolen Apple's 'settings' icon. It's exactly the same as the one used on the iPhone and iPad. Kind of sleazy of bittotrrent, although I suppose it's culturally consistent with their protocol.
That is really quite convoluted for what should be a simple process
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> circa 2011 my dev machine was a Celeron 1.5GHz.

Of all the negative anecdotes I've read about Amazon, this is the most effective.

> glad to have graduated out of both Amazon and Seattle,

care to elaborate on Seattle?
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I signed up for your beta. What features do you plan on offering? Even if you give your code away for free, I bet you could charge some money for access to an easy to use REST API for whatever you come up with.
So which (if any) of these do you suggest for someone willing to give SL another look?
It gets to the journals ... Perhaps you're right ... the abstracts would be plainly available as well as valuable.
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This is great thanks - I've got a book on R that a friend found at their work and gave to me. Been meaning to dip into it for a while now.
Sorry - progressive consumption tax - the more you spend the greater the % of sales tax? So buying a toy boat hits me for 8% but a 200ft yacht gets 80% added on.

Surely, that will really really encourage tax jurisdiction shopping

I still prefer focusing taxation on companies - if you want to base yourself in cayman islands that great. You just can never ever do business in any of these western countries...
Definitely, great idea. I'll add some sort of email sign up widget to the website, thanks!
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All the capital gains statistic tells us is that of the top 400 tax payers in 2009 capital gains represented 45.8% of their earnings. These 400 are the winners in the capital market. They're earnings aren't likely to reflect the risk associated with all capital investments. The overall markets shows us that there are a lot of losers and capital losses are common.
The impressive thing there is keeping and growing the wealth for a thousand years. Quite literally the family of William the conqueror did not do that so this family really pulled a trick
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The tedious way would be to go through the Forbes 400 list and attempt to categorize. Eyeballing the top 20, six are clear mega-inheritances (3x Waltons, 2x Kochs, 1x Mars).

For the rest, it depends on where you want to draw the line for "modest backgrounds". For example, which side does Bill Gates fall on? He's certainly more self-made than Christy Walton, in that he inherited only millions, not billions. But having a multi-million trust fund from your bank-founding grandfather, and a mother who's on several boards of directors, is still considerably above the median in terms of winning the birth lottery (http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/).
Not so sure. I've met enough people whose only wish was to make a lot of money, yet who failed to achieve it. In a competitive environment, you almost certainly have to be ridiculously good at something else (anything from programming, I suppose, to brain surgery to dealmaking to leadership) to make a lot of money.

Also, Rockefeller's quote applies in the sense that, once you make a lot of money, your definition of what "a lot of money" is changes.